NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
M
WANTED.
FERCANTILE ASSISTANT, Britishor preferred, with knowledge of Exports, Capable of taking charge of Coast Port Branch Ooo. Good salary and prospects,
Reply-
"EXPORT."
·Care of "Daily Prosi" Ofoe. [1032 Hongkong, 29th September, 1916.
GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF MACAO, ORDINANCE No. 199. ACQUISITION OF A MARITIME
- DREDGER.
MAKING into consideration the growing diffenities of access to the inner harbour due to the constant silting up of the roadstead ohannel, the depths to which the dredging is proposed to be carried, the sature of the mud to be removed, the circumstances of weather and son in the places of operation and also the argency of doing the necessary dredging, the
INTIMATIONS
THE NATIONAL LOAN
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH, 1815.
THE
OF THIED YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA. SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS ($16,000,000),
AND
SUPPLEMENTARY ISSUE OF EIGHT MILLION DOLLAES ($8,000,000).
HOUSES TO LET.
TO LET.
HELTONDALE, No. 97, THE PRAX
Fully Furnished.
(1011
Apply
LINSTEAD & DAVIS. Hongkong, 23rd September, 1015.
TO LET
MESS" No. 8, THE PEAK.
Apply Property Office, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. [084 Hongkong, 16th September, 1915,
UBSCRIBERS to the above LOAN are
hereby notified that the Interest Install 1st November, FLATS in "EWO DARTLY FURNISHED for Six Months ment for the month of September amounting to Dollars One Hundred and Twenty Thousand ($120,000) has been duly received by the under- signed and brought to Loan Servios Account.
F. A AGLEN, Inspector General of Customs, and Vice-Chairman of the Bureau of
National Loans. Inspectorate General of Customs, Peking, 20th September, 1915.
}
TO LET-AT THE PEAK.
TURNISHED (1025
3, Mountain View.
HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
Governor of the Province of Macao, dulyHE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Bathorized by His Excellency the Minister for of the above Society will be held in the The Colonics, having beard the Harbour Administration Board, orders as follows:
1. Within the period of 120 days from the data of Publication of this Ordinance in the Government Gazette, Tenders will be received for the supply of ONE MARITIME SELF. PROPELLING DREDGER, of STEEL HULL, for the use of the Macao Harbour Works.
UNFURNISHED,
[$80
H. E. POLLOCK,
Princes Buildings. Hoogkong, 16th September, 1915.
TO LET
LYEEMOON VILLAS. CITY HALL, on MONDAY, 4th October, 1915, No. 7 and 8, TOREES BUILDINGS, at 5.30 p.m., for the purpose of receiving the
Ready for Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for Kowloon, the year ending 31st August, of electing ofloccupation. bearers for the ensuing year, etc.
R. HENDERSON, Acting Hon. Fecretary. Hongkong, $8th September, 1915.
rent. Moderate
(1026
Apply to
SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION.
[883 Hongkong, 29th September, 1915.
TO LET. TORMAN COTTAGE, No. 2, Peak Road, 4 GOOD ROOMS. Immediate posses-
Apply-
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. [875 Hongkong, 20th August, 1918.
TO LET.
FRENCH CONVENT BAZAAR.
2. The Tenders minat be sent to Macao in nealed cover, addressed to the Governor of the Province, President of the Harbour Adminis tration Board, not later than, 3 P.M. of the th January, 1916, and made out in accordance withHE FRENCH CONVENT ANNUAL
the conditions stated below and which aro also on view in the Harbour Master's Office, Macao, in the Portuguess Consulates in Hongkong, Shanghai, Kobe, the United States and the Dominion of Canada.
3. In the acquisition of the above Maritimo Drodger, the conditions annexed to this Ordinance, and forming an integral part thereof, shall be observed.
Macao, Government House, 10th September, 1915.
(Signed) JOSÉ CARLOS DA MAIA, Governor of the Province of Macao. Conditions for the abors Dredger can be seen
will- BAZAAR
take place on WEDNESDAY, th October, in the New Convent at Causeway Bay. One Part of the catablishment being Completed, LADY MAY as kindly consented to Open this part of the building at 10-30 A.M. on the eth of October, after which she will proceed to open the BAZAAR
Rev. Mother Superior begs that all good friends and those who have always shown such a kind interest in the work of the Convent will consider this Notca as an invitation and will kiedly attend on this cocssion.
There will be a great variety of beautiful and useful Work, Underclothing and Fanoy Work
sion.
W Bood.
"HOLE or PART SHOP In Chatar
CLARK & CO., Apply
Optinians
[705 Hongkong, 29th June, 1915.
TO LET.
at the Portuguese Consulate at the hours of made by the Orphans, also Small Articles at OFFICES In or Orandang Bubong
10-12 and 3-0 F.M.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
f1033
T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that we
I bare This Day REMOVED our Office,
to the First Floor of QUEEN'S BUILDINGS (south-west corner), with entrance in Chater Rond
BRUNNER, MOND & Co., Lrv. (1010 Hongkong, 27th September, 1915.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY. LIMITED.
NOTIQE.
N and after 1st October, 1916, the only HONGKONG OFFICE of this Com pany will be at No. 1, RUSSELL STREET, HOWRINGTON, sad all communications should be made to that address,
W. E. ROBERTS, Secretary. Hongkong, 27th September, 1915.
WANTED.
[1020
YOUNG PORTUGUESE with know. A lodge of los mutino sosks exployment in a Morcantile Offee. Poseossing excellent referenco.
Please address to
"WILLING," Care of Daily Press" Offs. [1013 Kungkong, 24th September, 1916.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY LIMITED.
DIVIDEND WARRANTS dated London, 24th July, 1815, may, be had on Applica tion af the Offices of the Undersigned.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltd.
General Managers.
(1022 Hongkong, 25th September, 1916.
THE DAIRY FARM CO., LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE NINETEENTH ORDINARY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in the abors Company will be held at the Company's Town Oflce, 2, Lover Albert Road, Hongkong, en. SATURDAY, 9th October, at 12.30 p.m. for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st July, 1915.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the lat to 9th October, 1915, both days inclusive.
By Order,
M. MANUR, Secretary.
[1014
Hongkong, 24th September, 1915.
THE
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
HALF.
TWENTY EIGHTH YEARLY DRAWING OF SIXTY- FIVE DEBENTURES of the HONGKONG CLUB (1806 Jeru~$100 each) was held in the Club House on MONDAY, the 20th September, 1915, when the following Debentures were drawn
Moderate Prices, and Toys and Sweete for the Children.
Vinitors will have an opportunity of viewing the transformation that the Cotton Ms of Hongkong are undergoing.
INTIMATION
WATSON'S
Judging
AN APPEAL FOR FUNDS. The telegram printed below has been received by H.E. The Governor from Lord
unwounded Germana in a couple of days | BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY. is in itself suggestive of the thought that the spirit of the German troops is not what it wig a year ago, from German letters and diaries which from time to time have fallen into the possession of the Allies, the conditions Lansdowne, President of the British Red in the German trenches have boeri far Cross Bociety.
It is proposed to hold an open-air Con worse than in the British trenches. Prugsian officer in bis diary wrote of his cert and Fete in the Public Gardens of the night of the 21st of October in aid at there much a treach: "Never. was madhouse, such a hell, such a charnel, the funds. Particulars will be advertised
later.
A
EUMINTOL such an abbatoir, all mixed together."
This Prussian Officer showed in his diary that he had no "stomach for the fight" its "I would not deny the cannon
A Liquid Dentifrice having all the food nor grumble at the shedding of our
Characteristics of Odol.
Applied directly on the brush it
cleanses the teeth and
prevents their decay.
When mixed with Water it forms
a pleasant antiseptic Mouth Wash, which purifies and
refreshes the whole mouth.
new
As
In the meantime subscriptions and invited by His Excellency towards the funds of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Ang suns however small will bo gratefully, accepted and may be sent to Mr. N. J. Stabb at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank who has kindly consented to not as Treasurer.
[Felegrum:]
swent and blood for the Fatherland in a proper war," he wrote; "but this war is not a proper war; at bottom it is not a war waged on foreigners, it is, in its heart, a war waged by arrogant placement on every German home."
I beg to inform you that the British Rod he says, he would be shot if his diary were read, but I would be shot by the Crass Society and the Order of St. John in view of the growing demands upon their so die a soldier's resources both in France and the near East real enemy and death. These are certainly remarkable havó decided to make an appeal throughout views to be held by any Prussian Officer the Empire by street a d other colicctione and it would be interesting to know topon Our Day" which has been fixed for the 21st October. The Memey received from what extent these sentiments prevail this appeal will be devoted entirely to amang his comrades in arms. In view relieving the sufferings of our wounded of the part which appears to have soldiers and sailors from home and overseas. at the various scats of war. From all ports recent the been played in
success of the King's dominions we have already. by the
this British Army,
received generous assistance in our work further extract, too is worth quoting from but with the increase of British and Over- aens Forves at the front there is a corres- of the diary: the concluding page
ponding increase in our expenditure and we "There is no army at all to be compared shall be truly grateful to you if you will to an army of citigens and untrained help us by organising an appeal sending the mon once they have got their fair train-proceeds to us for the objects which I have named I shall be greatly obliged if you ing; then they are newbaked bread, not
will kindly convey the foregoing to your PRICE: $1.00 PER BOTTLE.old rolls heated up. Military life long Government. Their Majesties the King and continued in peace time kills the real Queen end Her Majesty Queen Alexandra military spirit, blinds perception; and are giving us their gracious patronage and I trust that you will also be able to see your nation eternally it is same with a
way to help us.
LANSDOWNE. thinking war. The divine spark is
-President, British Red Cross Society, extinguished, gléassurance, arrogance,
83. Pall Mall, London. stiffness, and brutal obedience to the out and dried kills the fighting spirit of a nation does not reduce it but kills it by making it heavy, stiff and cumber- It becomes a body and ceases to Should the English make be a spirit. CHINA.
big armies of citizens they will be a terrible foe, and that is what I foresee. The Russiaus too, have many of these terrible untrained men, and the French." He refrained from adding that all at Germany's resources in men had been
Besond Floor, Overlooking Harbour Immediata pozosalon.
Apply lo
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. [89 Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914
Hongkong, 28th September, 1915.
[1020
TO LET.
Prepared only by
WATSON A. S.
& CO., LTD.,
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
A Kowloon
HONGKONG · AND
MATRICULATION, SENIOR
AND
[45
No Chits will be taken.
JUNIOR EXAMINATIONS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the MATRICULATION, SENIOR and JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS will be held on the following dute.
DECEMBER 18TH-18TH, 1915. Arrangements will be made to hold the Examinations at any town where a sufficient number of candidates offer themselves.
Candidates must send in their names to the Registrar, with the fee, not later than October 31st, 1915.
Fee $10,00 (Hongkong Examination Currency).
Forms of Entry and all particulars may be obtained on application to the Registrar, University, Hongkong.
His Excellency the President of the Republic of China has been pleased to endow Acholarships nach oben
of Chinese students University 8400 (Poking Currency), tenable at the
by Nationality who pass the Matriculation Examination. The first of these Scholarships will be awarded on the result of the Examination mentioned above.
Five prizes of 3100 each will be awarded to the successful candidates who obtain the highest marke. The winners of the prizon may enter any Faculty but must join the University on January 3rd, 1915,
Holders of the President's Scholarships and winners of prizes must reside in one of the Hostels directly managed by the University.
[1027 Hongkong, 28th September, 1915.
0.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION. ARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of
PARTIOuting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 4th day of October, 1915, at 3.M., at the Offices of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of HIS EXCELLENOY THE GOVERNOR, of Two Lota of CROWN LAND above May Read and At Ship
Street respectively, in
the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at CROWN RENTS to be fixed by the Survoyer of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
No. of Sale.
Registry Ko.
south-west of and
203, Whip Street Lot
Above May Road
ocality.
....
Boundary
Measuremente.
(Approximate.)
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feet feet feet
per
sate plan. 20,43% 1404,
(about)
15
Ünart Price.
per
sale plan. 7,190 50 12,136
*bout
for Redemption:-
3
400
897
1269
1527
83
431
927
1308
1537
137
407
954
1305
1584
138
483
956
1320
1628
175
401
2002
1334
1669
184
506
1006
1388
1687
199
191 1115
1413
1773
26%
031 ..1148
1441
1775,
637- 1172 1464
1780
290
639
1221
1486
1787
Hongkong, 27th September, 1915.
(1021
310
643
1224
1490
-1874
356
601
1227
1409
1915
380 788 1265
1502
1930-
and will be Payable at the HONGKONG AND CORPORATION on BANKING SHANGHAI THURSDAY, the 30th September, 1915, in archange for surrender of game.
By Order,
E. DES VEUX, Becretary.
[1004 Hongkong, 2011 September, 1915.
HOSPITALITY.
YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE, Gorera-
Yment Service F. M. 8, Musical, Sporting. dislike hotel life, want hospitality for ten days around X'mas, when visiti Hongkong. To be recipiomated later. References if required
"HOPL." Care of "Daily Prosa" Öffen
(1023 Hongkong, 7th September, 1913,
HOUSE la Kautaford Terras
APRITE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
MENT & AGENCY Co., LED, Hongkong, 1st March, 1915
TO LET.
OUR-ROOMED
(3D FLATS in Hand Road, FOUR ROOMED FLATS in May Road, Hongkong, with possession on or about 16th October next, English Baths and Kitchen Ranges, Hot and Cold Water, Electric Light. First Class Modern Appointments throughout, including Water Carriage System.
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon Terrsos and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon, FLATS in Nathan Road, Kowloon. A FLAT in Humphrey's Buildings, Kowloon. Apply fo
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., ID, Alamandra Buildings. Hongkong, 8th September, 1915. -
TO LET
[858
"ARPERVILLE, Garden Road, SEVEN
ROOMS, Very Large Dining Room, immediate possession, house in excellent order Tennis Court and Garden.
Apply PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. [870 Hongkong, 20th August, 1915.
TO LET.
ROM 1st October sort, OFFICES st 2. Connaught Road, at present in the occupation of Messrs. Dennys & Bowley.
HOUSES in Broadwood Terrace.
CLIFTON GARDENS HOUBER in Conduit Road,
58 THE PEAK "THE BETREAT.” 21, WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD. GODOWNS, New Praya, Kovaly Town GODOWNS, si Wanchai Road.. Apply, etc.,
ROBERTSON.On
£18
BIRTH.
28th September, ROBERTSON, SOR.
[1031
JAHN
HONGKONG Ommon:10s; Das Vaux Boan C. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLET STAKET, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER Jöra, 1915,
THE RISING TIDE,
B010
ير أ
1
THE TRANS-PACIFIC TRADE, FIVE STEAMERS TO BE ADDED TO
THE T.K.K. FLEET. We are offcially informed that the str Persia, formerly belonging to the Pacifo Mail 8.8. Co,, has been purchased by the Toyo Kisen Krisha and will join the Com pany's trans-Pacific Beet of steamers:
already to their fullest.
The str.. Persit will leave Hongkong for extent, and that Time is entirely on the
San Francisco on her first voyage in the of the Allies. Though unex- vaid
Company's telivics about the 3rd Novem thought
evidently was pressed the
There never has been her, calling at Manila, Nagasaki, Kobe, in his mind. the least doubt about the courage and Yokohama and Honolulu, en route,
We are also informed that in order to bravery of the men whom the German
War Lords sought to overwhelm, and now | meet the great demand of freight and pag- that the initial disadvantage as regards songer traffic the Toyo Kisen Keisha will guts and minitions has been adjusted provide four additional steamers to oper the tide is beginning to turn and the ate on the Hongkong-San Francisco ruc general character of the latest reports from both fronts strengthens confidence that the tide will rise until Germany is overwhelmed.
A mail for Europe vid Siberia closes to-morrow at 3 p.m.
Te public has learnt by this time to understand that in the unprecedentex wr which is being waged on the ontinent of Europe, the capture of a dy or a few miles of territory and ever the capture of twenty thousand nwounded prisoners in a couple of ays are merely reat struggle. Hence we are told in August.
Twenty-two cases of dysentery were re-
BOMB-CASE IN A TABLE.
ALLEGED FORMER CHINESE MILI TARY OFFICER ARRESTED.
The discovery of a bomb-case, a quantity, of black powder, and certain documents in the hollow pedestal of a large round table led, to the arrest and prosecution at the Magistracy yesterday of Chinese, who, it is said, was formerly a Commander -in-Chief of one of the Chinese Armies, under Chun Kwing-ming.
A "incidents" im the ported in Shanghai 'during the month of
po of the telegrams to-day that hope it is announced in Japan that the mail Áther han jubilation is the feeling
Mr. E. L. Agassiz defended, the prosect- will go through to Japan, being duo ation being conducted by Chief Detectivo Yokohama about the 9th and 23rd October respectively.
At
tho
OFFICES, facing the Harbour between the iced in the comments in London and steamers Mattu and Novare, from London, Hongkong Clab snd Port Ofiles.
Paris on the heaviest blow which the Allies have yet dealt the enemy since the establishment of the trench deadlock
monthis en
ngo." But the THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST which continues to come is extremely
MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
[38 ncouraging There are indeed many Hongkong, 13th September, 1915
jonsiderations which inspire the jope and belief that this excellent eginning is the prelude to much greater chievements in the very near future. the Russians on the Eastern front appear by keeping the great armies which
ΤΟ ΣΕΤ. From 1st Maroh LODOWN, No. 6, Daddell Street. Apply- A. B. AVASIA,
Care of E. PABANRY,
No. 1, Daddell Street
GLODOWN,
Hongkong, 2nd February, 1915.
TO LET.
[244
O_4, "FAIRVIEW," Nathan Road,
Kowloon. LEWKNOB," No. 126, THE PEAK, "HARTING." Austin Road, Kowloor. "HILLSIDE,"
Magistracy yesterday Chinese woman was fined $100 for being in possession of a revolver and fulty rouids of ammunition, which were concealed n an old stocking,
Inspector Murrison,"
Mr. Dovey, the Government Analyst, said that if the powder had been contained in the busb-case; and a fuss had been attached, the bomb would on explosion create considerahlo damage in a small
area,
The chief Chinese detective in the Hong- A Chinese carpenter who badly assaulted kong Police stated that early on the morn a fellow employee with a chisel was sening of the 8th September he went with two tenced to six weeks' hard labour by Mr. other detectives to Lun Fat Street, in the jermany and Austria have ou that front | Lindsoll yesterday, P.-. Ribeiro, of the Wanchai district, and he saw an informer
lly occupied, and in view of the Special Police, arrested the defondant. eddily growing strength and resolution
coming down the stairs of a house, bring- ing with him a round table. Ho placed t down in the road, and then pointed it out to witness, who thereupon searched if
the Russian Army, no large transfer of Admiral Tang Hsueh-heng, Director- cops can be made to the Western front | General of the Kwangtung Conservancy,
the enemy without gravely imperilling has submitted to the President a report finding inside the hollow pedestal the ustin R, CHE PEAK, is position in the East. The attacks made on the circumstances in connection with bomb case and powder produced,
as well as Roma Furnished, from 1st November, 1915. 1 along the Western front on Friday the relief work of that province, and the certain Secret Society" and military ONE OFFICE or SHOP in Duddell Street, aturday, and Sunday by the Allies have progress of survey work in the West
papers. The defendant himself was on Ground Flour.
River. The report has been referred to the heels of the informer, and he was carry. Nov. 1 and 2, COLLEGE GARDENS roved that the German lines can be
ierced and broken, and the great the Ministry of Interior and the National ing chairs. When asked if the furniture 6 ROOMS ch, from 1st November.
"BAZELDENE," No. 53, Kobinson Road,
ccess achieved in these attacks, thougli
Irrigation Bureau.
was his, he replied in the affirmative. 5 ROOMS with Garden and Tennis Court.
he cost of victory has doubtless been No. 3. "THE ALBANY."
feary, cannot but have given renewed ROOMS. in Daddell Street.
This the victors. Bafidence to "ROSENEATH "2, Hankow Rd.. Kowloon. No. 6, BELILIOS TERRACE.
No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, withhanced murale at the very beginning of entrance on Conduit Road,
In answer to Mr. Agassiz, wilnews said he did not know. if defendant was a secret
ton Government. service agent in the employ of the Can-
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce has decided, in order to pro ONE GODOWN, No. 8. Barrows Street ne offensive is an asset of incalculable ote the agriculture of China, to establish alue. On the other hand it is inevitable four model establishments, 'viz., one for cot.
It was explained to the Court that the Wenchai.
hat there should be a corresponding loss tan in Hsiaogan, Hupeh, one for sugar in TWO GODOWNS, in Daddell Street.. "WESTWARD HO," Bonham Road.
an oath taken by men joining the Revolu "MERION," No.6, THE PAE, Unfurnishedf-confidence on the other side, and in Kiangsi, one for cattle-breeding at Feng-papers found in the table wers forms et
particular, gang, Anhui, and one for forestry in the
The estiary party, while the other papers (6 Rocus).
be absence of fuller
No. 2, DES VEUX VILLAS, 51, PRIE nd having regard to recent reports Wufeng Mountains, Kiangst.
(Unfurnishe
No.58, TES PAX (6 CAMERON VILLAB f ́insubordination, in Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Sed Flats, Alexandre Buildings, He igieng, 22nd September, 19:5apture
rmy CHO
the of
the German mate for the whole amounts to $150,000 were incomplete military $10 banknotes, Western front,
the The Ministry of Finance has agreed to of which there was quite a bundle, thousand pay in advance $100,000. Over twenty
The case was adjourned,