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TIONS No. 10 or 1815. WHEREAS under the provisions of the Regulations No. 10 of 1918, prohibiting 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
might be issued enabling the B far licencos so to do AND WHEREAS by paragraph XI. the aforesaid King's Regulations it is pro of vided that nothing in such Regulations 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 China whether such His Majesty's Minister licence be especially granted to individuals
ON HONGKONG OFF this Com be taken to prohibit anything which shall be
N and after 1st October, 1915, the only pany will be at No. 1, RUSSELL STREET, BOWRINGTON, and all communications should be made to that address.
W. E. ROBERTS, Secretary.
(1020 Hongkong, 27th September, 1016.
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THEREFORE, I, His Britannic Majesty's Minister in China, hereby announce that all British subjects, firms or corporations are permitted to trade with the following persons or bodies of persons of Ottoman nationality residing and doing business in China, namely JACQUES AZADIAN, Import and Export Merchant, B. A. SOMEKU, Import and Export Merchant, S. 5. SONEKY, Import and Export Merchant, D. S. SOMEXB, Sharebroker, S. E. and E. E. SHARMOON, Import and Export Merchants, J. H. Josera, Member of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Import Merchant, Eats JOSEPH, Director of Joseph Brothers, A. E Coust, Pearl Merchant and Director of Bacha & Company, and N. S. former Director of S. J. David & Compass JA. FREDERICKS, Shanghai Share Brokera Association and Import Merchant, F. AaRO S. J. SOLOMON, formerly in the employ of Messrs. E D. Sassoon & Company, A. J. SUDKA, M. J. NATHAN, Sharebroker and Commission Agent and Member of Shanghai, Share Brokers Association, M. MYER, Share- broker and Commission Agent, and N. E. B. PUBLIC AUCTION.
Eza, Secretary of the Bank of Territorial DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of Development of China Limited, all of Shang- the letting by Public Auction Sals, hai, and J.S. SPUNT, partner in the firm of to be held on MONDAY, the 4th day of Spunt & Rosenfeld, of Tientsin, and with October, 1918, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the any other persons or bodies of persons of PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of Ottoman Bationality residing and doing HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOE, of Two business in China whose names may horeafter Lots of CROWN LAND above May Road from time to time be published at the public and
of Ship Street respectively, Offices of His Britannic Majesty's Consulates the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of in China, and all such persons or bodies of 75 years, with the option of renewal at persons shall not be considered as coming CROWN RENTS to be fixed by the Surveyor within the definition of the word enemy as of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one farther given in the said King's Regulations No. 10
of 1915, term of 75 years,
J. N. JORDAN, His Britannic Majesty's Minister,
[1008 Peking, 8th September, 1195.
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IVIDEND WARA NTS Edated London
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HONGKONG CLUB.
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TWENTY EIGHTH HALF
TEARLY DRAWING OF SIXTY.
FIVE DEBENTURES of the HONGKONG CLUB (1896 insan-$300 each) was held in the Club House on MONDAY, the 20th September. 1915, when the following Debentares were drawn for Redemption
THE NATIONAL LOAN OF THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA. TWENTY-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS ($24,000,000).
QUBSCRIBERS, to the abovò LOAN are feat, in accordance with Article V. of the Loan Regulations, the full amount of Dollars One Million Four Hundred and Forty Thousand (81,110,000), 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 Tanks, namely, THE BANK OF CHINA and THE BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS, as a permanent guarantee for the interest on the Loan.
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1269
1527
83
131
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1584
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1447
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1788
290
639
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1787
310
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and will be Payable at the HONGKONG AND
CORPORATION BANKING SUANGHAI THURSDAY, the 30th September, 1915, in exchange for surrender of same.
. By Order,
E. DES VIEUX, Secretary.
(1004
Hongkong, 2011 September, 1915.
THE DAIRY FARM CO., LIMITED NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NINETEENTH ORDINARY
TMEELING of the SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will bo leld at the Company's Town Office, 2. Lwer Albert Road. Hongkong, on SATURDAY, 9th October, at 12.30 P.M. for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 21st July, 1915.
The TRANSFEE BOOKS of the Company- will be CLOSED from the lat to 9th October, 1915, both days inclusive.
By Order,
M. MANUK Secretary.
[1014
Hongking, 24th September, 1915.
F. A. AOLEN, Inspector General of Customs, and Vice-Chairman of the Bureau of
National Loanis. Inspectorate General of Customs,
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A two-days' sale of porcelain anð all points, that her leaders were the best possible, whether on sea or land, whether decoration furniture has brought Messri. in the Geld of battle or in the council Christie's season to a olos A pair chamber. This excess of optimism it was of cups and saucers, Kang Ho, realised! which finally gave the pessimists their 278 15s. (Wright); a pair of famile-vertig chance, and had the pessimists been a dishes, Kang-He, £71 68, (Huggins); d clean-harded as they might have been, hal dinner service of Chinese faimilo ross they not been under so strong a suspicion porcelain, £78 15%. (Dickinson), of being more desirous of creating a songa- tion than of serving their country, their position would, at least, have been and not without respect. At the first sign of the war-machine not working amoothly they jumped in, but if the optimists, in their have given notice of their intention to with draw from the Commercial Trosty con excess of real, had gone too far in one
It is notified in the Gazette that infor mation has been received from the Sec
retary of State for the Colonies to the effect that the Government of Uruguay
direction, the pessimists, in their desirecluded with that Government in 1988 and that the Treaty will accordingly expire on December 17th, 1915,
Kobe and for many years married on busî- ness there na en exporter of curios and Japanese manufactures. He retired frotă business about thirteen years ago: Mrs
fer sensation, went too far in the other. They did not desire to warn: they wanted- to destroy. They discovered a real defect
A special telogram to the Japan in the machinery, the occurrence of which Chronicle announces the death at St had not been foreseen, and they immediate-Leonard's-on-Sea of Mr. Ambrose de Athy ly wanted to smash the machine altogether who was for thirty-five years a resident ol instead of reconstructing it. The moru. they prophesied evil, moreover, the more. relish they nequired for their task and the legs their ability to see the actual facts. A good example of this is to be found in the question of conscription, the battle de Ath died at St. Leonard's about a year round which is still raging. In this congo, and Mr. de Ath died on the 10th ins acction it may be noted that had Great after a short illness. Old residents of Kobo Britain during the last twenty or thirty (of whom there are many in Hongkong and the China coast ports), have the kindest years attempted to follow the-continental. THE CORRECT AMOUNT OF PURE lead, and to form a conscript army of any recollections of the deceased gentlemen, and will regreț to learn of his death, proportions, she would, so far from post- CARBOLIC ACID SPECIFIED. poning the present conflict by a day, have though he had attained to the ripe age of
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great military as well as a great naval Power would never have suited Germany's book, and the necessity of striking in time 10% FOR THE BATH. would have strongly appealed to her, since to lose her military superiority while still unable to attain naval supremacy would of music had been arranged by have been fatal to all her hopes. To lament Britain's inaction in this matter in tho past, therefore, is to shut the eyes to facts. In regard to the present, some
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P.-C. Grimble. The Band of the 18th In- fantry gave well-rendered selections from "The Arcadians,' "The Mikado," " Out Miss Gibbs, etc., while the Police Re- serve Orchestra provided items from the "Bohemian Girl," and several other popu- lar pieces: The soloists were Mrs. Villiers Smyth and Mr. H. I. Jones. The former,
script system than she is now doing undor a voluntary system, the efficiency of which
was again in splendid voice, but the fear. the pessimists refuse in acknowledge—in spite of the satisfaction felt in its workingture of the evening was the charming dued by all who are in the best position from the Tales of Hofmann, "Night of
Stars, and - Night of Love," which was. to know. Even if it is pressed as a afe
feelingly given by Mrs. Buyth and Mr. Jones, the number being loudly applauded, Mr. Jones' baritono solos were also most pleasing. Tt is th intention of the Special Police Reserve in hold these concords frequently, and in doing so they, oan be assured of much support by a public
guard for the future, grave doubts must be expressed. We have seen where German militarism has led Germany, and we are not unmindful of the position into which militarism once led France. Britain has no desire to save Germany's soal at the expense of her own. To crush German
militarism on the one hand and to establish whe yearn for the class of entertainment
militarism in her own land on the other, would be a work of madness. The
OPTIMISTS AND PESSIMISTS, Į pessimissts, in this, as in other directions,
in
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of the applicants should apply in person for HROOMS, Very Large Dining Room, said or done in the way of self-deprecia- course between optimism and pesimism is semi-finalists are due to play off to-day.
their passes at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of 9 AM to 1 P.M. and ? P.M. to 4 r.x. daily,
Hongkong, 10th July, 1315.
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HAZELDENE," No. 59, Hobinson Road, 5 ROOMS with Garden and Tennis Court:
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ONE GODOWN, No. 8, Bus rows Street, Wanchal.
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however, aro, hardly to be taken seriously, Ir the subject-matter were not one of
In a semi-final game in connection with They may one day he found' cheering in such tragic import, amusement might be the crowd and even shamelessly declaring the Hongkong C.C. Men's Doubles, Mis
·derived from the controversy which!" I told you so," and in the meanwhile kin and Amory (owe 4/6), beat Sewell and has boen going OTI England they may be allowed to dissemble their Stark (vec, 1/6), 7-5, 2-6, 6-2. The winners between the optimists and the pessimists, love, as long as the kicking downstairs be will have to meet either Abraham and When the war storted there was an politely bút firmly resisted. Perhaps the Viroash (own 3/6), or Walker and Maltby immediate outery that nothing must be moral of the whole dispute is that a middle] (res. 3/0) in the final. These last two
tion. Why the cry was raised it is diff the most satisfactory. It is true this cult to say.
There has been no recent not such an attractive attitude. ng that of campaign of self-depreciation, unless we the optimists, nor as sensational as that tako Mr. BERNARD SHAW seriously, and of the pessimists, but it affords saler CARLYLE, who was fond of chiding his ground. MEREDITH has somewhere said countrymen, has long been dead, There, that if you scratch the optimist you will therefore, stems no reason to think that the find the pessimist underneath. If optim- British hold themselves in lower estimationem. be, indeed, the last refuge of the British Consul than they deserve. Moreover, it is not at pessimist, as MEREDITH would imply, then all plain that self-disparagement, even if it would be wiser to refrain from either
DEATH OF A FORMER CONSUL INE JAPAN.;
The death took place at Edinburgh on 16th ult. of Mr: Frank Willian Walter Playfair,
formerly In Japan, Born
in April, 1859, he was the eldest son R.A., and he married in 1899, Jane, of the late. Gen.. Elliot Minto Playfair, daughter of the late Major-Gen. J. Orr, and leaves one daughter.
After being educated privately, Mr. Playfair joined the Foreign Office in 1880, and became Acting-Consul, Nagasaki, 1881.
He was Horo and Hakodate, and filled the, same office at Tokyo, 1891-2. Thereafter he was Acting Consul at Hyogo at intervals to 1898; Consul, Hakodate, 1898, Shimonoseki, 1901; Tamsui, 1903; and Nagasaki, 1905.
A mail for Europe vid Siberia cloges subsequently acting at tu-morrow at 3 p.m.
Mr. Eric William Hamilton has been ap pointed to act as Assistant District Officer, with effect from September 23th, 1915.
He retired in 1909.
at all widespread, would affect British and follow the advice of the poes: Hope action. If the British people, as has been thon not much, and fear thou not at all" said by their critics, are not gifted with a high imagination, is defect brings one compensation-it prevents them from any sudden revulsion of feeling. It prevents them from being either too hopeful or ton despondent. The result is that among the inust Famous of British characteristics is a sort of stolid equanimity-the origin of the nick-name of "Joux BULL" and the foundation of the idea that the British are supposed never to know when they are beaten. Is this characteristic, so far a thing of the past that the leaders of public
A new regulation respecting the port opinion insist upon the necessity of prof Penang requires that no ship shall enter
The Governor of the Straits Settlements serving public confidence? For this, it
amounting
£91,974 bad been must be noted, is the only logical ground the limits of the port between the hours arts that to June 30th, 1915, as of 6.30 p.m. and 6 2.m. of the next day that Colony and by the Federated and subscribed to various war relief funds by for the objection to any self-depreciation.without previously obtaining the permis Protected Malay States. In addition By whatever motive the optimists were sion of the harbour master.
£4,702 has been subscribed mainly in the Federated Malay States towards an actuated,
result on however, the
Some 1,200 cases of themselves
what might have H.E. the Governor has been pleased to Aircraft Fund.
pineapples have been sent for the North were approve Engineer-Lieutenant Frederick Sea Fleet from Singapore, and many safely predicted--they
heen
...
was
According to a Gazelle notice, Robinson Road and Seymour Road have been added to the list of roads which may be used by motor traffic.
FAR EAST AND THE WAR
STRAITS SETTLEMENT AND MALAYAN CONTRIBUTIONS.
to
led into an excess of self-praise almost as William James, R.N.R., being attached to other gifs in kind have also been for
painful as the supposed evil against which they were guarding. They advanced the position that Great Britain could make no mistakes, that she was invulnerable at
the Ecgineer Company of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, with the relative rank of Captain, with effect from September 14t', 1915.
warded. The Colony has paid £4,400 for the passage to England of 256 recruits passed as medically fit for enlistment, and some £700, together with various gifts, was given by the public to help. these amen on the voyage and on arrival