NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
TO LET AT THE PEAK.
AHAN LODGE, No. 4, Peak Hond,
Apply to
BROOMS
V. F. V. RIBEIRO, Care +1 W. G. HUMPHREYS & Co. Hongkong, 22nd September, 1915. [1005
FURNISHED
WANTED.
ED HOUSE at The Peak. Reply with particulars to-
"S. B.,"
Care of Dally Fren" Ofico. Hongkong. 22nd September, 1916. ₤1006
WANTED.
NGLISH LADY, thoroughly reliable E
and experienced, offers her services as NURSE to 1 or 2 Children, Peak District preferred. (Livo in.)
Address
"NURSE," Care of "Daily Press" (fitce. Hengkong, 22nd September, 1915, 1007
G.
R.
LICENCE UNDER KING'S REGULA TIONS No. 10 or 1912
WHEREAS under the provisions of the
I
INTIMATIONS
R.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22xD, 1915.
CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS.
T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on and after FRIDAY, the 24th instant, and until further Notice, the Supply of Water by means of Houss Serviam to Heuss connected with the RIDER MAINS will be DIS- CONTINUED,
A Supply of Water will be given by Strect Fountains in the Rider Main Districts,
W. CHATHAM,
Water Authority. Pabllo Works Office,
Hongkong, 18th September, 1915.
TRADING
R.
[993
WITH THE ENEMY SECOND AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1915.
I EXCELLENT GUVERND that bea
TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that His
plored to appoint the Calental Treasurer to act is CUSTODIAN OF ENEMY PROPERTY, for the purpose of receiving, holding, preserving and dealing with such property as may be paid to or vested in him in parausnce of the Trading with the Euery Sesond Amendment Ordinance, Hongkong, 15th September, 1918. (1000
1915,
TRADING
G.
F.
TREASURY.
WITH THE ENEMY SECOND AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1915.
PARTICULARS REQUIRED BY THE Custodian
WHICH HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY THE GOVELNOR,
ALL persons whose duty it is under this
name, the present
in hold or managed. A separate list (in duplicate) should be sent in respect of arch class of property, eg, deposits on current account, fixed deposits, title deeds, share scrip produce, etc., etc. In respect of each clean of property separate liste must be made of property over which the holder or manager has a lien.
King's Regulations No. 10 of 1915, probibiting trading with the enemy all persons subject to the jurisdiction of His Majesty's Supreme Court for China were prohibited from doing certain things save so far as licences might be issued enabling them so to do AND WHEREAS by paragraph XI. of the aforesaid King's Regulations it is
pro vided that nothing in such Regulations shall be taken to prohibit anything which shall expressly permitted by the King's licence or by the licence given on his behalf by a Secretary of State or on the like behalf by Hia Majesty's Minister in China whether such licence be specially granted to individuals or be announced to classes of persons of
A Ordinance to notify the Curlodian of THEREFORE, I, His Britannic Majesty's property held or managed by them on behalf Minister in China, hereby announce that ali of enemies are requested to send in lists of such British subjects, firms or corporations are property to the Treasury in duplicate. Such permitted to trails with the following persons lists should show the or bodies of persons of Ottoman nationality residence, if known, or mapped present residing and doing business in China, residence, of the enemies' on whose behalf tha namely Jacques AZADIAN, “Import and Export Merchant, B. A. SOMEKH, Import and Export Merchant, S. S. SOMERH, Import and Export Merchant, D.S. SOMERH, Sharebroker S. E. and E. E. SHAHMOON, Import and Export Merchants, J. H. JOSEPH, Member of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Import Merchant, ELLIS Joser, Director of Joseph In the case of payments under section 4 of Brothers, A. E. Covet, Pearl Merchant and the Ordinance the particulars required are:- Director of Racha & Company, and N. 8. The names and present residences, where known, Levy, Shanghai Brokers' Association and of the persons, tirme or companies, to whom the former Director of S. J. David & Company, dividends, interent or share of profits would J. A. FREDERICES, Shanghal Share Broken otherwise be payable, the date at which such Association and Import Merchant, F. AAHON, dividends or interest became dus and payable, S. J. SOLOMON, formerly in the employ of and the amount and description of stook, shares, Messrs. E. D. Hassoon & Company. A. Jlowus, etc,, on which such dividende and interest SUDKA
M. NATHAN, Sharebroker aud Coruraission Agent and Member of Shanghai Share Brokers"Association, M. MYER, Share- broker and Commission Agent, and N. E. 11. EZRA, Secretary of the Bank of Territorial Development of China Limited, all of Slang," hai, and J. S. Bros, partner in the firm of Spant & Rosenfeld, of Tientsin, and with any other persons or bodies of persons of Ottoman nationality residing and doing business in China whose names may hereafter from time to time be published at the public Offices of His Britannic Majesty's Consulates in China, and all such persons or bodies of persons shall not be considered as coming within the definition of the word enemy as given in the said King's Regulations No. 10 of 1916.
J. N. JORDAN, His Britannic Majesty's Minister. Peking, 8th September, 1197.
[1008
THE NATIONAL LOAN OF THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA. TWENTY-FOUE MILLION DOLLARS
(324,000,000).
UBSCRIBERS to the above LOAN are hereby notified that, in accordance with Article V. of the Loan Regulations, the full amount of Dollars One Million Four Hundred and Forty Thousand (81,440,000), being the amount of interest on the Loan for one year, has been duly raised by the Ministry of Finance and has been deposited by the undersigned in the following Ranks, namely, THE BANK OF CHINA und THE BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS, as a permanent guarantee for the interest on the Loan.
F. A. AGLEN, Inspector General of Customs, and Vice-Chairman of the Bureau of
National Loans.
·Inspectorate General of Customs,
Peking, 11th September, 1915.
聘
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
TWENTY-EIGHTH
[1003
HALF
|
Bore Separate liste of particulars (in duplicata) should be sent in of dividends, interest and shares of profits, respectively,
Payments may be made by forwarding to the Treasury cheques in favour of the CUSTODIAN OF ENEMY PROPERTY" or by sending a bank receipt for money paid to credit of the Custodian's account at the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAL BANKING CORPORATION. Further information may be obtained during the usual hours at the Treasury.
"A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Treasurer, Custodian of Enemy Property. Hongkong, 18th September, 1915. [1001
G.
NOTION.
R.
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asistio or Indian
A tesiring to leave the Colony should apply in writing for permission to do so to the Captain SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, nå Tenet 48 hours before the intended hour af departure, giving name, nationality, age, sex, height and occupation of the applicant, and stating the name of the steamer or other vessel or the hour of the train by which the applicant wishes to leave. Applicants should apply in person for their passes at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of 9 AM to 1 P.M. and
P., to 4 PM. daily,
1788
Hongkong, 10th July, 1015.
ESTATE OF W IMHOOF
DECEASED. REDITORS of the above Estate are requested to send details of their Cisiras to the French Concalato at Canton within one month from this date, and all monies due to the deceased should be forwarded within that time. Hongkong, 21st September, 1915, [1003
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
A free lecture on Christian Science will bar given by
VIRGIL O. STRICKLER, C.S., Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Solentist, in Boston, Mars,
in the
TEARLY DRAWING OF SIXTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, CITY HALL
FIVE DEBENTURES of the HONGKONG. CLUB (1896 insie-$100 each) was held in the Clab House on MONDAY, the 20th September, 1915, when the following Debentures were drawn for Redemption.
3. 400
887
1960
1527
83
431
926
1302
1637
137.
487
954
1305
1584
138
453
956
1329
1628
376
401
1002
1334
1669
184
600
1006
1388
1637
196
591
1145
1413
1773
285
631
1148
1441
1775
997
637
1179
1464
1786
299
630
1221
1486
1787
310
643
1004-
1400
1974
356
681
1227
1400
1915
380
788 1265
1002
1930
02
and will be Payable at the HONGKONG AND *SHANGHAL BARKING CORPORATION
THURSDAY, the 30th September, 1915, in -exchange for surrender of same
By Order,
E. DES VIEUX, Secretary. ... Hongkong, 20th September, 1915. · [1004
OR FRIDAY, September 24th, at 3.30 P.ax.
The public is cordially invited to attend. Hongkong, 18th September, 1915.
WANTED.
(892
THE Services of NURSE or good travelling THE Schiren in den for
class passage to England.
Apply to
"C;" Care of "Daily Pross" Office, Hongkong, 7th September, 1915. [044
TO LIT From 1st March.
GODOWN, No. 8, Duddell Street,
Apply
A. E. AVASIA.
Care of E. PARANDE,
No. 1, Daddell Street Hongkong, 2nd February, 1915. [244
HOUSES TO LET.
TO LET
PARTLY FURNISHED for Six Months
from 1st November, FLATS in EWO
MESS," No. 8, THE PEAX,
Apply Property Office,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., L. Hongkong, 16th September, 1815, [984 -
TO LET-AT THE PEAK.
AURNISHED or UNFURNISHED,
3, Mountain View.
H. E. POLLOCK,
Princes Buildings. Hongkong, 15th September, 1015. 1880
TO LET
NTHE PRAN, NOB, 1 and 6, TORRES
Moderate rent.
TO. 171, MAGDALENE TERRACE, BUILDINGS, Kowloon. Ready for recupation.
Apply to
SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION. Hongkong, 10th September, 1915. [903
TO LET. TE Premises No. 88, SHAMEEN, B.C., TH
Canton, HOUSE, GODOWNS and OUTHOUSES comprising DWELLING
lately coompied by Messrs. F. BLAORREAD & Co.
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co., Lim. Hongkong, 24th August, 1915, (801
N
sion.
TO LET, TORMAN COTTAGE, No. 2, Peak Road, 4 GOOD ROOMS. Immediate posses- Apply
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th August, 1915. [876
TO LET.
WHOLE OF PART SHOP in Chater
Apply-
CLARK & Co., Opticians. Hongkong, 29th June, 1815.
[705
TO LET.
INTIMATION
BY APPOINTMENT.
WATSON'S
PYERIS.
(Registered.)
An exact reproduction of a well. known Spa at half the price. Blends
perfectly with Spirits, especially Whisky.
"A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or touch not the Pyerian Spring There shallow drafts intoxicate the brain And drinking deeply sobers us again.Pope,
PINTS 85 CTS. PER Doz. SPLITS 50 CTS.
TRADE
MARK
OFFICER I ST. GEOSONS BUILDING immediate possession.
Second Floor, Overlooking Harbour
A. Apply low
BHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914
TO LET.
HOUSE
Kowloon,
Kantford
A
Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., Lav Hongkong, lei Marels, 1816
[45
TO LET.
FOUR-ROOMED FLATS in Hanoi Road, Kowloom, Immediate possession; and FOUR-ROOMED FLATS in May load, Hongkong, with possessium on or about 15th October next, English Baths and Kitchen Bages, Hot and Cold Water, Electric Light. First Clear Modern Appointments throughout, including Water Carriage. System.
FOUR-BOOMED HOUSES in Gordos Terrace and Salisbury Averus, Kowloon, FLATS in Naikan Road. Kowloon,
A FLAT is Humphrey's Buildings. Kowloon. TAN MOR, 18, Peak Road, 7-ROOMED HOUSE, possession November 15th.
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., IZD Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 6th September, 1910,
TO LET.
[868
HARPERVILLE, Garden Road, SEVEN ROOMS, Very Large Dining Room, immediate possession, house tu excellent order. Tennis Court and Garden.
Apply
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th August, 1915. [876
TO LET.
Coupation of Messra, Dennys & Bowley. FROM 1st October next, OFFICES at 2, Connaught Road, at present in the HOUSES in Broadwood TerraGO. HOUMES In CLIFTON GARDENS, Condull Bod
Hongkong Club wad Port Office
OFFICEE, fasing the Harbour between the
58, THE PRAK "THE RETREAT." 21, WONG-NEI CHONG ROAD. GODOWNB, New Prays, Kennedy Town. GODOWNS, ó Wanchai Road, Apply, etc.,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LD, Hongkong, 13th September, 1915, [89
TO.
TO LET.
At the meeting of the Sanitary
Board yesterday, over which Mr, D. W. Tratman presided, Mr. P. W. Goldring said he had been offered a bribes to withdraw his objec- tion to an application for an offensive trade license. No business of public interest was transacted at the meeting.
Banks and others as to the formidable: abstacles to be overcome between Teng yuen and Talifa had been accepted by engineers as effectually placing the route beyond the pale of praction politics, and, BB Mr. AINECOvan says, it was not until the survey of the Bhamo-Tengyweb section in 1604, and the finding of a feasible routa between Tongyueh and Tali in 1907, that the fact impressed itself on all observers stationed at the back of the that there is, after all, no insuperablesions at Hankow, for patrol duty. They obstacle to the construction of a meter arrived from Peking last month, and, after guage railway from Bhamo to Talifu,
a careful study of the locality, commenced city which is described as by far the most their duties of booking after the area important centre of commerce and indus adjoining the five foreign concessions. try in the province of Yannan. Mr. AINSCOUR discusses the amount
Ꮧ
Sixty well-trained Peking gendarmes aro
foreign conoce
The
The Ministry of Finance has decided to foreign trade which passes along the trade mint nickel subsidiary coins for the cour route from Burma to Talifu by way on try The Ministry will order the Yun. Tengyuch, and the conditions under which nan Government to mint the coins, which this trade is carried on. He shows how will be of five cents denomination. enormously the import trade of Tengyaoh first consignment of the new coine is has increased, especially since the revóla- expected to reach Peking for circalation tion. The jumpërts in 1912 were vnlued at in November. Tis. 1,800,000 and consisted mainly of Bombay yarn to the proportion of 61 per cent of the total, the balance being made up of Manchester piece-goods and sundry articles. In this corner of Asia" writes Mr. Ainscouan, "the great rivers for in deep troughs lying almost due north and south, and traveller proceeding to or from Burma crasses one divido after another with sometimes a steady rise of six to eight thousand feet in a day's
WATSON miles of line, including rolling stock, is
& CO., LTD.,
ÆRATED WATER ĮMANUFACTURERS.
BIRTH.
MARRIAGE.
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Captain Meyer-Waldeck, the lato Ge man Governor of Kinochow, and a nu ber of other German officers are reported t be under examination by a Military Court over which Major-General Kawachi is presiding. The case has referènce to an alleged distribution of German publiq funds amounting to yeu 1,480,000, which the Japanese authorities claim should have been handed over to them
deposited in the Bank of China and t Bank of Communications as a permane guarantee for the interest on the loan.
march.
It is over these terrible
The Inspector-General of the Chinese obstacles that British goods are transport-Maritime Customs notifies-subscribers to od on pack mules from the Burma frontier the fourth year Domestic Loan of twenty- to Hsiakuan (Tali fu), the great commercial four million dollars that, in accordance with centre of western Yunnan, the time occn- pied in transit being at least three wooks, $1,440,000, being the amount of interest ca the Loan Regulations, the full amount of
and usually one month, and the cosi
the loan for one year, has been duly raise averaging Tls. 3 per load of 100 lbs." by the Ministry of Finance and has bor According to an actual survey of the Bhano-Tengyuch line, the length would be 42 miles in British territory and 82 miles in China, and the total cost of this 124
A telegram in a Japanese paper stat estimated at. not more than £762,807." that the proprietor f the well-know Mr. AINSCOUGH estimates that a divi grocery store of Messrs. Sietas, Plamebe dend of 2 per cent, could be paid from & Co., and four other German residents a the very commencement, So much for Seitou (Tsingtao) were found involved it the local line. Connecting it with the
a secret attempt to report the prevailing Iarger scheme to extend the line to Talifa, conditions at Seitou to the German Govern- the total length would be 356 miles, and ment, A Chinese was charged to take the the total cost "not more than £4,500,000 secret written report to Kiaochow to mail sterling." Mr. AIN COUGH admits that it at the Chinese Post Office there. This the prospects of the Tongyueh Tali section missive was intercepted by the Japanese are not so bright as the first section of the gendarmes. Mr. Augustesen, the proprie line, and that we must look carefully insetor of the above-mentioned firm, was ardor- the political situation to obtain solded to close his store and leave the war wond reasons for its construction. But who is in 48 hours, The other quartetię are
ander trial,
MATTHEWS. On 27th August, 1915, at Charlbury, Oxon, to Captain and Mrs G. F. MATTHEWS, a daughter.
[1005
to provide the large sum of £4,500,000 for HOWARD-WILLIAMS-On September 18th,
at Yokohama, FREDERICK JOHN the construction of 380 miles of railway HOWARD, to GLADYS E. WILLIAMS, of mainly from political considerations? 'M Brighton.
AINSCOUGH says: Even from a political BROWNE-On September 14th, at Shang-point of view alone, I would suggest that. hai, ROBERT ALLAN BROWNE (China it is advisable for the railway to be con- Navigation Co.), aged 52 years, structed, but when one considers the Haramore Orion: 104, Das Vœux Boan C. LONDON Orion: 181, Fixer STazz, B.C.
DEATH.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1935.
A USEFUL BUT EXPENSIVE
RAILWAY PROJECT."
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
ARMED ROBBERIES.
At the Crimmal Sessions, which were resumed before the Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice Gompertz), yesterday three Chinese were charged with armed robbery at Honghow, Junk Bay. They all pleaded. not guilty.
commercial possibilities in addition, the whole scheme sees to be but the natural concomitant to the expansion of British trade and energy." The project un- doubtedly is a sound one from the political point of view, but there is little Mr. P. M. Hodgson (Crown Soliciter), prospect, we fear, of seeing such a line in outlining the case, explained how on built for many a year yet. It is recognised July 10th, when a piece-goods, shopkeeper that the day for foreign concessions is
was enjoying his evening meal, a Jan past in China-and even if it were not entered the premises whom he thought to we doubt whether the British Government be a customer. The men came towarda would now be induced to back an him, and immediately levelled a revolver THEEL has just been published by Messrs.enterprise designed to conflict with French at him, at the same time telling him to KELLY & WALSH LTD., in book form, ambitions in Yunnan and there is not under the title of Notes from e
the least likelihond we think of the Chinese Frontier" a collection of papers by Mr.
Western China finding so large THOMAS M. AINSCOUGH, Ꮇ . Сот.
capital, or of any foreign syndicate pra F.R.G.S., recording his observations on
viding the capital on the Canton-Kowloon a journey across Western China to Burma railway plan, unless it can be clearly shown in the Spring of 1913, during the course of which some four months were spent in
that there is a strong probability of the line proving immediately remunerative. a study of the conditions prevailing ja the tribal regions on the Tibetan border. The papers are well worth reproducing in this more permanent form, for they are extremely interesting and they embody views and suggestions which are likely to
NO FAIRVIEW, Nathan Road, command an increasing amount of atten
Kowloon,
"LEWKNOR," No. 125, THE PEAK.
"HARTING." Austin Road, Kowloon, "HILLSIDE, No. 110, THE PEAK, Rooms Furnished, from 1st November, 1915, ONE OFFICE or SHOP in Daddell Street, Ground Floor.
tion as time goes on. This applies parti cularly to Mr. AINSCOUGH's advocacy, of railway communication between Burma and China. It is a subject on which much Nor. 1 and 2, COLLEGE GARDENS has been written during the last forty
• ROOMS esch, from 1st November.
years. Mr. COLBORNE BABER, the mission- BAZELDENE, No. 63. Kobinson Road,ary who wrote so informingly of the con-
5 ROOMS with Garden and Tennis Court,
No. 3, "THE ALBANY." ROOMS, in Duddell Streek
ROSENEATH," 2, Hankov Ed., Kowloon. No. 8, BELILIOS TERRACE No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, with entrance on Conduit Road.
ONE GODOWN, No. 8, Burrows Street, Wanthi.
TWO GODOWNB, in Duddell Street. "WESTWARD HO," Bonham Kead.
MERION," No. 6, Ten Prax, Unfurnished (6 Rooms)
No. 2, DES VEUX VILLAS, 51, PHAX (Unfurnished),
No.66, THE PRAI (5 CAMERON VILLAS Apply to INSTEAD & DAVIS,
3rd Floor, Alamandas Haiklings. Hongkong, 22nd September, 1910,・ (6%
in
keep quiet on penalty of being shot. At that time offer robbers cama into the shop, the shopkeeper was gagged and bound, and the whole place was ransacked from top to bottom. When the robbers had left with their "booty" the villagers raised
alarm by firing rockets. These were seen by the police patrol launch, and responded to, and as a result the thre prisoners wero apprehended. All threa A mail for Europe má Siberia closes would be identified as being among the to-morrow at 3 p.m.
men who ransacked the piece-goods shop.
The case was adjourned. Another trio of Chinese were charged with armed robbery at a matshed t Pokfulum, According to the Crown' Solicitor the three men attacked the mat Mr. Bickford has been appointed Ameri- | shed, held up the family with threats, and ean Vice-Consul at Hankow. Mr. Romil- decamped with "booty." This was t lard, whom he relieves, has been transferred to Shanghai..
Mr. H. V. Wilkinson, who left Shanghai in January last, is now a Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers in the Dardanelles.
Mr. Lewis G. Murray Kidd, who went home from Shanghai a few months ago, has been granted a temporary commission as Lieutenant and has been posted to the 9th (Reserve) Battn. East Kents (The
Buffs).
Angust 24th, and three days later the bead of the family was walking along the Pokfulum Road with two Chinese con- atables when he saw the three men, identified them as those who had ransacked his matshed and they were placed under arrest. At the time one of them was wear- ing a pair of trousers which had been. stoles, while another was wearing a stolen jacket. In the men's matshed was found a collection of jewellery, etc., along with
ditions obtaining in Western China in his day, took the view that railway edm munication between Burma and Yunnan was a practical impossibility. But Mr. AIN COUGH reminds us that Mr. BABER- was not an engineer, and furthermore that the scope of engineering was much nar As China will probably adopt a gold rower in 1875 than it is to-day, and that standard at some date in the future, says "he never strayed from the main road, the Peking Gazette, the Central Govern- a formidable-looking dagger. which certainly does not answer his ment has decided to transfer the ownership i description of it." It is nevertheless a of all gold mines in Manchuria, Mongolia, recent Sinkiang and the Szechuan Frontiers, to COLBORNE the Government,
fact that dowa date, the conclusions
to
a quite
of
The jury found two of the men guilty and the other not guilty.
Sentence of five years hard labour was passed on the two men convicted,