NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
TO ALL TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
MOTHER SUPERIORESS in the Colony of Hongkong of the Society of the Daughters of Charity of the Canossian Institute, by which the institution known as the "Daughters of Charity of the Canossian Institute and
the "Italian Convent" is carried on, intends at an early date to apply to the Legislative Council of Hongkong for a Bill for the incorporation of the Mother Superioress of tho, said Society, for the vasting of the Heminining Portion of Sub. section 3 (or remaining portion) of Section A of Inland Lot No. 69; the Remaining Portion of Section B of Inland Lot No. 58; the Remaining Portion of Sub-section 1 of Scotion A of Inland Lot No. 148; the Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 148; Inland Lots Nos. 578 and 1370; Kowloon Inland Lots Nos. 168, 169 and 617; Sowkewan Lot No. 106 and Aberdeen Inland Lot No. 77, and nil rights in connection therewith in the said Mother Superioress of the Society when incorporated and for the other purposes in the said Bill mentioned.
A Copy of the proposed Bill can be inspected at the Offices of the Undersigned.
Dated the lat October, 1815.
STEPHENS & WILLSON, Solicitors for the Mother Superioress of the Daughters of Charity of the Canossian Institute.
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GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC.
RENDERS for SPECIE and MEXICAN TOLLARS, current in this Colony, the Lords for Telegraphis Transfer op Commissionera of Hia MAJESTY'S TREASURY, Loadon, to and for the sum of £20,000,
up will be received by the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT, antil 11AM. on the 2nd October, 1915.
The Tenders to state the total amonat (is Pounds Sterling). No Telegraphie Transfer will be made for less than £100,
The Tenders to be in duplicate, and in sealed Dovers, addressed to the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT, and endorsed "TENDERS FOR GOVERN MENT BILLS, etc."
The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is reserved."
Copies of Forms of Tender can be had on application.
Persons Tendering for (Bill) are hereby notified that having regard to the provisions of the Acta 22 George III, Cap. 45, and 41, George III., Cap. 52, the acceptance of any such Tender is subject to the express condition that no Member of the British House of Commons shall be admitted to any share or part in or to say benefit to arise from the Contract thereby made for the allotment of such (Bills)."
"The provisions in question do not apply to entered into by an Incorporated
INTIMATIONS
BATHS HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 1915.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE will hold their third PROMENADE CONCERT
in the
BOTANICAL GARDENS,
oh
TO-NIGHT (SATURDAY), OCTOBER 2ND
ATÚ P.M.
Entrance at Main Gate and Albany Gate at 8.30 P.M.
M188 CAMILLE DE CASTRO (Soprano). MR. A. J. ENGLAND (Bass). MR. E E DE W. ABNEY (Tenor). ORCHESTRA OF THE HONGKONG
POLICE RESERVE. BAND OF THE 74TH PUNJABIS. Accompanist:-P.-c. GEORGE GRIMBLE
ADMISSION 20 CENTS. Mombers of the Naval, Military and Police Forces in uniform will not be charged,
[1037
CHINESE IMPERIAL GOVERN." MENT 7% SILVER LOAN OF 1889, E.
T
58TH HALF-YEARET DRAWING. INTEREST das And DRAWN BONDS of this LOAN will be Payable at the Offices of the Corporation on and after the 30th September, 1815,
List of Drawn Bonds oan be obtained on application to the Undersigned.
For the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI Banking CORPORATION,
Agents issuing the Loan,
N. J. STABB,
Chief Manager. [1036 Hongkong, 30th September, 1815.
THE DAIRY FARM CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE NINETEENTH ORDINARY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Compaey's Town Offor. 2, Lower Albert Road, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, 9th October, as 12.30 P.M. for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st July, 1910.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
HOUSES TO LET.
TO LET.
HELTONDALE, No. 87, THE PEAK
Fuly Furnished. Apply
LINSTEAD & DAVIS. Hongkong, 23rd September, 1916. [1011
TO LET
DARTLY FURNISHED for Six Months
PARTLY PLATS IN "EWO
MESS," No. 8, THE PRAK
Apply Property Offce.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 10th September, 1015. [094
TO LET AT THE FEAK.
URNISHED
FU
OF
3, Mountain View.
UNFURNISHED,
H. E. POLLOCK,
Princes' Buildings. Hongkong, 15th September, 1815. [1046
No. 8
INTIMATION
A clear, clean healthy skin means
a good complexion.
WATSON'S
bo · some
districts to prove their claim
The departure of the sa. Mongolia hal- special consideration and a postponement | been postponed. She will leave Hongkong of the new tax. Even now that the for San Francisco on Wednesday the 8th Government's mind is made up, and s inst at 1p.m., instead of Monday the 4th-
deaf ear is being turned to all these inst. petitions, there remains the difficulty that it is a tax levied and collected in Technical Indute will be resumed ou The evening classes of the Hongkong
hard of comprehension. quite a new way that many officials find
Monday. The subjects will be found It is a box that
advertised in the first Column of this admits of no manipulation and squeeze
or very little, at all events, for page. loopholes for that purpose would be found by a Chinese official anywhere, and with the strictest auditing, bo to juggle with the exchange, ati lesalet. The essential differences between the new ectakt system embodied in the Stomp Tax and the old
even
would find
room
The Post Office announces that ai mai of the 18th August from London to Hongkong, via the United States of America has been lost at sea. Presum ably the mail was on the Arabic.
It is notified by advertisement in
SULFOCREME haphazard methods that have been in another column that application is to be
vogue in
made, to are
China for centuries
the Legislative Council of illustrated in the President's Mandate, Hongkong at am early date for the incor which reprobate the practice, reported poration of the Mother Superioress of eczema, by the Ministry of Finance, of Forcing the Society of the Daughters of Charity of the Canossian Institute {Italian the people to buy the stamps when they kave
no documents requiring them. Convent. This is simply a touch of the old system; so long as it was impossible to keep an
TO LET
LYEEMOON VILLAS. Nos. 1 and 6, TORRES BUILDINGS, Kowloon, Moderate rent. Ready for accupation.
spots,
Banishes all pimples,
and other blemishes.
Apply to-
SPANISH DOMINICAN Allays
·PROCURATION. Hongkong, 29th September, 1915. [983
TO LET.
TORMAN-COTTAGE, No. 2, Peak Road, 4 GOOD BOOMS, Immediate posses sion.
Apply
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. [675 Hongkong, 20th August, 1915..
Bad,
TO LET,
ATHOLE or PART SHOP in Chaler
Apply
CLARK & Co., Opticians
[705 Hongkong, 29th June, 1918,
will be CLOSED from the 1st to 9th October, Besond Floor, Overlooking Harbour 1915, both days inclusive.
By Order.
M. MANUK. Secretary,
[1014 Hongkong, 24th September, 1915,
HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
Contractant in its corporate capacity and T ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
made for the general benefit of the Company.
J. O'HARA, Colonel, A.P.D., Treasury Chest Officer.
His Majesty's Tressary Office,
Hongkong, 1st October, 1915.
G.
₤1048
R.
TECHNICAL INSTITUTE.
VENING CLASSES in the following Subjects will commence on MONDAY,
The 4th of October:--
ENGINEERING SECTION →→
Building Construction.
Field Surreying.
Applied Mechanics.
Skenan.
Machine Drawing. Mathematics. SCIENCE SECTION :-
Chemistry. Metallurgy. Physion. Electricity. Sanitation. First Aid,
COMMERON SECTION :-
Ezgliah.
French.
Shorthand.
Book-Keeping.
TRACHERS' CLASSES FOX:-
Women (English and Verascular).
Mozi
( Da. }
Students should attend at Queen's COLLEGE
at 6 P.M., during the weak commencing on MONDAY, 4th October, for Enrolment.
E. RALPHS, Director.
[1049 Hongkong, tad October, 1915.
G.
R
SANITARY BOARD OFFICE, HONGKONG, To the OWNERS OF DOMESTIC BUILDİNGS,
#TAKE NOTICE that under No. 5 of the
DOMESTIC CLEANLINESS and VENTILATION BYE-LAWS (83 amended) every Domestic Building or part of such
Ballding within the EASTERN Division of the City of Victoria, occupied by Members of more than one family, except those within the European Reservation or in Kowloon Sonth of Austin Road or those parts of s. Domestic Building used as a Shop, Office or Godown, must be CLEANSED and LIMEWASHED THROUGHOUT by the owners during the months of October and November.
N.B-The word "throughout" used in this Notice means that the Hues should be Line washed in respect of all the Walls of each Hoom, all Cableles, Partitions, Stair Casings and Stair Linings, all Ceilings and the Undersides of Roofs in Main Buildings, Offices and Servants' Quarters and inclusive of Verandaks,
The Backyard must have its containing Walls Limewashed up to the level of the First Floor,
Carred, Painted or Folished Woodwork in good condition, however, need not be Lime washed, but must be Clenazed..
CITT HALL, OR MONDAY, 4th October, 1915, sta 30 r., for the purpose of receiving the Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st August, of electing office. bearers for the onetting year, sto, !
R. HENDERSON, Acting Hon. Secretary. (1026 Hongkong, 29th September, 1915.
FRENCH CONVENT BAZAAR.
THE FRENCH CONVENT ANNUAL BAZAAR will take place on WEDNESDAY, 6th October, in the New Convent at Causeway Bay. One Part of the setablishment being Completed, LADY MAY has kindly consented to Open this part of the building at 10-30 A.M. on the 6th 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 kind interest in the work of the Convent will consider this Notoo as an invitation and will kindly attend on this occasion.
There will be a great variety of beautiful and useful Work, Underclothing and Fancy Work made by the Orphans, size Small Articles as Moderate Prices, and Toys and Sweets for the Childron.
Visitors will have an opportunity of viewing the transformation that the Cotton Mills of Hoogkong are undergoing.
No Chấts will be takən,
Hongkong, 28th September, 1815. [3029
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND JUNIOR EXAMINATIONS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NOTIFICATION, SENIOR and
JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS will be held on the following dates:
DECEMBER 13TH-18TH, 1915. Arrangements will be made to hold the Examinations at any town where a sufficient number of candidates offer themselves.
Caudidates must send in their names to the Registrar, with the fee, not later than October 31st, 1015,
Examination Fee $10.00 (Hongkong Currency).
Forms of Entry and all particulars may be
TO LET.
FFICES in ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING
Emmediate possension,
Apply Tow
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914.
[39
TO LET.
A HOUSE
Apply
Fochford
Terrass
Kowloon.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co, Lan, Hongkong, let Marah, 1916
TO LET
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TOUR-ROOMED FLATS in Hanol Bosă,
Kowloon, Immediate possession; and FOUR-BOOMED FLATS in May Road, Hongkong, with possession on or about 15th October saxi, EnglishBaths and Kitchen Ranges, Hot and Cold Water, Electric Light. First Class Modern Appointments throughout, ineinding
Wafer Carriage System.
FOUR BOOMED HOUSES in Gordon Terrace and Balisbury Avenue, Kowloos.
FLATS In Nathan Road, Kowloon. A FLAT in Humphrey's Buildlags, Kowloon. Apply to “HUMPHREY? ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., LTD Alszandrs Buldings. Hongkong, 6th September, 1916.
HA
[859
TO LET. “ARPERVILLE, Garden Rond, SEVEN ROOMS, Very Large Dining Room, immediate posadon, house in sollent order Tennis Court and Garden.
Apply PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, [870 Hongkong, 20th August, 1915.
FROM
TO LET.
ROM_184 October next, OFFICES at 2, Connaught Road, at present in the occupation of Messrs. Dennys & Bowley.
HOUSES in Broadwood Terrace. HOUSES in Conduit Road,
instantly.
The
itching and prickly heat exact check on the amount of tax collected, the revenue was protected by requiring each province to contribute a certain quotum every year.
The Provincial Treasurer apportioned this tum, plus a liberal margin, among the various prefcetures, and so on. same thing has apparently happened in Bome provinces with the Stamp Tax; the Provincial Financial Commissioner has divided and subdivided in the same way the supply of stamps he received and required each town or district to
Gentlemen will find it a wonder-
fully soothing application.
after shaving.
it
SOLD IN BOTTLES AT 60 CTS. funds equivalent to the stamps allotted
AND $1.00.
Prepared only by
to it. This incident shows in such a striking way the difference between the two systems that we should not be surprised to see large results springing from it; there is no need, with a tux that automatically chocks itself, for assigning quota to the towns and dis. triots, and consequently the Central
A burglar paid a visit to No. 18, Mao.... donnell Road, the residence of Mrs. J. T. Thomson, and stole from the sitting-room table a gold brooch, set with pearls, valued
at $35. Mrs. Ponnefather, of No. 8, Observation Villas, has reported that a silk bed quilt, worth $100,-has-been stolen from-her-residence-
The dead body of a cook employed ab the Hongkong Club was found on Thurs day morning hanging from an iron bar in one of the lavatories. The man bod tied. a cloth tightly round his neck, and death is believed to be due to strangulation rather than hanging. The man, who was about 35 years of age, had been ailing for some time past.
HONGKONG WEDDING,
HUMPHREYS PLOYE.
A. S. WATSON Government need no longer lose the Joseph's R.C. Church (Garden Road)
& CO., LTD.,
HONGKONG AND ÜHINA.
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BIRTHS. KEZELE --On September 18th, at Shang hai, to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. KEEL; of No. 8, Bart Road, a son, LITTLE-On September 26th, at Shanghai,
to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. LITTLE, a son,
DEATHS.
tax.
It
The marriage was solemnised at St.
liberal margins that each official
yesterday of Dr. Ployé, of Saigon, and collected beyond his fixed quotum. Miss Violet Humphreys, daughter of Mr. There is no reason why this method Henry Humphreys, of Hongkong. The should not be used even for the land bridegroom is a Surgeon in the French is in this tax that the Navy, and the bride is very well-known The Rev. Father Robert it is from this tax that the largest officiated at the ceremony. The bride, increase could be anticipated-various who was attired in a lave dress and economists have calculated thalt the wore a veil bordered with lace to match, amount of land tax normally collected was given away by her father. from the taxpayers' pockets is seven or
D. Martyn was "best"` man.”-
A recep- eight times as much as the amount re tion was afterwards held at "Ian Mor," mitted to the Government. It is as the residence of the bride's father, where
Dr. and Mrs. Ployé received the.congra
ulations of numerous friends. ·
greatest leakages take place. and locally.
easy to collect $100 or $1,000 by means of a stamp as it is to collect a couple MAURADO-On September 28th, at Shang of cents; if the land tax were collected bai, CARLOS MARIA, 80 of JULIO by means of stamps, the amount of MARIA MACHADO, age 23.
revenue paid in would have to be OSBORNE-On August 8th, 2nd-Lieutenant equivalent to the value of stains that
JOHN WILLIAM OSBORNE, 8th Battal lion Lancashire Fusiliers (oldest son had been disposed of, and if the tax- of Mr. JOHN HALL OSBORNE, formerly payere understood that if at any time of Shanghai and Tientsin). Aged their receipts were found to be insuffi-
Died of wounds received in action in the Dardanelles on August
years.
7th
Hoxunang Oprión: 101, Das Vaux Rown 0. Lobos Orvica: 181, Fanny Grant, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, OCTOBER 2ND, 1915.
CLIFTON GARDENS. THE STAMF TAX IN CHINA,
OFFICES, facing the Harbons between the Hongkong Club and Post Office,
68, THE PRAX "THE RETREAT." 31, WONG NEI-CHONG ROAD, GODOWNS, New Prays, Kennedy Towa. GODOWNS, at Wanchal Boud, Apply ela
THE HONGKÔNG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co. Izza, Hongkong, 13th September, 1915 (88
NOTICE OF REMOVAL, obtained as application to the Registrar, W No. 1, DER VEUT ROAD OHRA
E have REMOVED our Offices to University, Hongkong.
(Second Floor), over the Bank of Caston,
DENNYS & BOWLEY,
Solicitors and Notaries. Hongkong, 1st October, 1913,
His Excellency the President of the Republic of China has been pleased to endow 5 Scholarships ench of the annual valus of $400 (Peking Currency), tenable at the University by students of Chinese 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 $100 each will be awarded to the successful candidates who obtain the highest marks. The winners of the prizes 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. Hongkong, 28th September, 1915. [1027
The EASTERN Division of the City is bounded on the West by Gilman Street and Peel Street. Kowloon is divided into the EASTERN and WESTERN Divisions by Nathan Road and straight line drawn from the Neth end through the Yaumsti servic)
arvair to the Northern boundary of Kowloon. in -Dated this Jet day of October, 1915,
W. BOWEN BOWLANDS,
Becretary.
11047
WANTED:
YOUNG PORTUGUESE with know- ledge of Office routine seeks employment Meriantile Office. Postessing excellent reference.
Please address to
“WILLING,** Gare of "Daily Prom” Ossion. Hongkong, 24th September, 1815, (1012
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
(1040
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that we Ihare This Day REMOVED our Oleo, to the First Floor of QUEEN'S BUILDINGS (south-west corner), with entrance in Cher Road.
JUDGING from 直 Mandate,
The
Mr. C.
HUGE OPIUM PURCHASE.
HONGKONG MERCHANTS' ENTIRE STOCK SOLD.
www.com
The negotiations between Mr. Tani Nai ciently stamped, they themselves would Huang (Opium Suppression Commis- be punished, they would see to it that sioner for the Provinces of Kwangtung, the officials did not make up for lowes Kiangsi, and Kiangan), and the Hong in other directions by using stamps to kong Opium Combine have been successful- a less value than the amount of tax paid, ty concluded, and an agreement was signed
The officials would still be able to make a profit by juggling with exchange, but that, we fear, is inevitable until China has a unified currency. The present Stamp Tax may not be very important as a producer of revenus, but it should be found of very great benefit in so far as it introduces and familiarizes the
yesterday for the sale and purchase of 1,200 chests of opium at the following prices : ---
MALWA.... PATNA
89,300 per picul. 89,150 per chest. $5,950 per chest. The agreement provides that the whole.
·BENARES.........
recent Presidential people with a new and exact tax collect stock is to be cleared within eighteen
ing machinery which may, when it is months from the date of the signature to – great deal of difficulty, obstruction, and muddling is being firmly established, be applied to other the agreement. The amount to be deposited with very far as bona fides of the purchase is $500,000, encountered in the course of putting the sources of revenue
of which half was paid yesterday, the Stamp Tax Law into effect.
reaching resulta.
balance to be paid at the end of the month. enforcement of this tax is the only
Mr. Ho. Kwong was chosen by the contribution the Republican Government has made towards solving China's financial problems, but thay cannot legacy to them from the Manchus, who tish Legution, at Peking, left for home on the bonnte auf unterei word cons claim the credit even for it; it was
instituted it some six years ago, but never had the courage to put it into effect, The tax has had a chequered history from its first inception, It is the only
step that has been taken in modern China in the direction of broadening the
A mail for Europe vid Siberia closes Hongkong Opium Combine and by the to-day at 5 pm.
Opium Suppression Commissioner to undertake the negotiations. He proceeded, to Canton behalf of Hongkong,
Mr. E. C. Wilton C.M.G., of the Bri-
last week,
missioner Tsaj as well as the Civil and. Mr. Boy Scott Anderson, commercial Military Governors of Kwangtung. The and industrial advisor to the Chinese object of the mission was to secure, Government, is on tour through Central an undertaking on behalf of the Kwang-
China
basis of taxation and topping. fresh A cotton mill and godown situated at sources of revenue (tibir, to instituted the junction of Wuchow and East Yalu after the Taiping Rebellion, was only a Roads, Hongkew, were completely burnt development of the octroi duties that out last week, while a valuable stock of already existed), and it might well be timber was lost in an adjoining builder's mado to furnish substantial contributions yard. to the exchequer without disturbing pre- HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY.existing taxation, but it does not sem
BRUNNER, MOND & Co., Exo. Hongkong, 27th September, 1913. [1010
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
N and after 1st October, 1915, the only HONGKONG OFFICE of this Com pany will be at No. 1. RUSSELL STREET BOWKINOTON, and all communicatioon should be made to that address, n.
W. E. COBERTS, Bonuslary. Hongkong, 17th September, 1915. [1090
tung Government to take over the whole. of the stock in Hongkong, so as to faci». tate measures for the total suppression: of opium smoking in the Province within stipulated time. The negotiations were successfully concluded, and Commissioner Tsai came down to Hongkong and affixed: his signature to the agreement, the other signatories being Mesara, David: Bassoo & Co, E. D. Bassoon & Co., S. J. Dawid and the other members of the Opium, Combine.
The Bishop of Victoria held a confirma likely that it will be working smoothly tion at St. Stephen's Chinese: Church on for some time to come yet. Deferred, Wednesday afternoon last, when twenty. perhaps, by their predecessors difidence one persons were confirmed. The Bishop
It is believed that the next step by the about putting the scheme into effect, the will be the preacher at the Cathedral Republicans besitated long before they to-morrow morning,
Next week he is Canton Government will be the formation made an effort to apply it, and even now announced to visit the mission churches of a Commercial Syndicate, by whom the there are constant protests being made, at Kongmoon and Hoksham; where he will sale of the opium will be regulated and
supervised. and attempte by various cities and hold confirmations