NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE
COMMITTEE of Ladies, under the
presidency of Lady Mara, have organised a Bazar in aid of and to procure comforts for wounded on the side of the Allies. This Bazaar will be held at the Public Gardens in Macao on the 10th instant.
Braides the Bazaar, there will also be laminations, Band Performances as well as other forms of Amusemenila.
There are already more than 600 gift for the Bazaar, some of which are of Silver and of great value.
Macao, 21st October, 1915.
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ROBERTS RIFLE CLUB OF HONGKONG.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the above will be held in the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, Post Ofoe Building, at 12 o'clook (Noon) on SATURDAY, the 30th. instant
SH. DUTTON, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer.
[1100 Hongkong, 23rd October, 1915.
T
AMERICAN ASIATIC 8.5. CO. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM NEW YORK ·
HE Steamship.
"SI, BEDE," Captain J. Fortay, having arrived from the above Poris Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whorf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and stored a Consignees' risk and expense.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined Од TUESDAY, 26th Ocb,
at 10 A.M.
All Cisims must be presented within Fray DAYS of the Steamer's arrival kore, after whlob date they cannot be recognized.
No Claims will be admitted after the Good have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 26th Oct. will be subjec to reat
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Agenta. Hongkong, 15th October, 1915.
11098
THE PENINSULAR AND ÖBIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON AUSTRALIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS AND LONDON.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED FOR BATAVIA, AMERICAN, CONTINENTAL, AND SOUTH AFRICA PORTS,
THE Beamship
"NOVABA"
Captain H. R. Hetherington, .N.B., carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this port 001 07 about the 5th November, 1916, taking Passengers Lad Mails for the above Porta, Donnection with the Co.'s 8.0. "MEDINA,"
from Colombo, passengers accommodation in which persal is secured before departure from Hongkong
Silk and Valuables and Tea and Cargo for Italy, France and London (ander arrange ment will be transhipped at Colombo inte the Mail Steamer proceeding via Bombay to Maresilles and London. Other Cargo for London, ste, will be conveyed via Bombay. and transhipped to the as, "KAISAR-L-HIND, due in London about the 18th Dec., 1915.
Parcels will be received at the Ofos until 4 P.M. the day before sailing. The contents and value of all packages are required.
For further particulars, apply to
E. A. HEWETT,
Superintendent. Hongkong, 23rd October, 1915.
0.
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NOTICE.
dent
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asistio or Indian
|
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29BD, 1915.
ITALIAN CONVENT BAZAAR, TO-DAY (SATURDAY), 23RD OCTOBEL, 1918, and following days, Commencing each day at 10 A.M.
LADIES' DRESSES,
CHILDREN'S FROCKS,
TABLE COVERS.
HANDKERCHIEFS,
BOYS' JERSEYS,
BABIES BOBES,
In a large variety of styles,
N.B.-No ticket will be interchangeable for Souvenir if presented after 30th October, 1915, when the Bazaar will be closed.
CHILDREN'S BAZAAR! A Special Feature of this year's Sale. Sweet Stalls: Dainty Chocolates and Maroone. great variety and at all prices.
Refreshmont Stall. Hengkong, 18th October, 1915.
Toys in
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
FOURSOMES COMPETITION will be
A bold or the Fen Lizz Course for a Prize kindly presented by H.E. THE GOVERNOR, CONDITIONS.
Members with Woodfcaps of less than 7 to be drawn by lot with Members with Handicaps of 18 or more.
Members with Handicaps of 7 to 12 inclusivo
HOUSES TO LET.
TO LET.
RAVENSHILL EAST, Park Road, containing 6 Beams, 3 Bath Rooms, Servants' Quarters, &c. Vacant 1st November.
Apply
DEACON, LOOKER, DEACON & HARSTON, Hongkong, 19th October, 1915.
TO LET.
INTIMATION
though there are districts of Kwangtung in which the Government prohibition has been repeatedly and persistently defied by cultivatore and smokers alike, I Canton itself, however, the Government has hitherto pretty effectively enforced
Two divores cases are pending in the Tieutrin community, one of them being that of a British lady who is seeking legal divorco from her Germsa husband.
The Manila Observatory yesterday re
its orders; indeed, only about a week ago ported a cyclone or typhoon E. of the a warning was issued over the signature northern Visayas, or south-eastern Luzon, direction unknown. A later massgo. of Superintendent
Opium
of the
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If your hair is brittle;
If it lacks life and gloss,
LENSHIEL." No. 141. Plantation
"God, Peak, from lat Novombor, 1915,
Apply-
LINSTEAD & DAVIS. Hongkong, 18th October, 1915. **1089
ATO. G,
TO LET.
LYEEMOON Nos. 1 and & TORRES BUILDINGS, Kowloon. Moderate rent. Ready for occupation.
Apply to
SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION. Hongkong, 29th September, 1815. [903
TOLET.
to be drawn with Members with Handicaps of PARTLY FURNISHED for Six Months
13 to 17 inclusivo.
Competition to be under Club Handicaps.
Intonding Cempatitora ara requested to enter their names on the boards in the Happy Valley or Fan Ling Club Houses, or to send same IN WRITING to the Acting Hon. Secretary, care of Messrs. BRADLEY & Co., LTD.
Entries will close on FRIDAY, 21st inst.
CHAMPIONSHIP. The Competition for the above with hold over the Fan Ling Course, commencing on SUNDAY, the 31st inst
Limited to Handicaps of 6 and under. Intending Competitors are requested to entor their names on the board in the Club House at Happy Valloy before WEDNESDAY, the 27th inst.
T. W. HILL, Acting Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 16th October, 1915..
HONGKONG CLUB:
NOTICE.
(1082
N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL ANMERTRAG the Members of the HONGKONG CLUB will be held in the Club House on FRIDAY, the 29th October, 1915, m) 8.15 P.M.
BUSINESS-A sat forth in the Notice ported in the Hall of the Club. By Order,
E. DES VEUX, Secretary, Hongkong, 15th October, 1915.
£1096
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of
from 1st November, FLATS in "EWO MESS," No. 8, THE PEAK
Apply Property Office.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 16th September, 1915, (884
TO LET AT THE PEAK.
TURNISHED
UNFURNISHED,
or
Fain View
H. E POLLOCK,
Princes' Buildings. Hongkong, 15th September, 1915.
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Inspectors threatening any who reist stated that the typhoon was cast of the search of premises for opium Southern of Luzon moving W. or W.N.W with the severest punishment known The Bishop of Victoria will to-mYOCTOW,
to
evon the law,
death. What, (Bunday) proach at the Harvest Thanks- then, it will be asked, does the giving service at St. Peter's Church West Government intend to do with the 1,100 Point, at 11 am., and at the Peak Church. or 1,200 chests of opium bought from the
at the 6.30 p.m. service. This will be the If there is dandruff or it is merchants in Hongkong? Is it intended Last of the Sunday evening services at the
to make a huge bonfire of it in Peak Church for this year, Colebration of the final success of the anti-opíum movement? On the contrary,
falling out,
OUR
RESORCIN HAIR
WASH
Lady Main (wife of the Governor of
it is intended, we understand, to retail] Macao) has promoted a grand Baza
to
and officials
Ovor
it as medicinal opium," A new Opium on behalf of the wounded soldiers at the Monopoly has been created and grinted front, to take place on the 30th instant
in the Public Gardon a Maono, 600 gifts have been subscribed so far, and more are exported from the inhabi- tants of acno
syndicate of merchants" who have put up a capital of $1,200,000. Reports current in Chinese circles in Hongkong represent that half this capital has been provided by the
Among the passengers that left Yoko- Military Governor, two lakhs by the Civil Governor and four lakhs by the ama u San Francisco recently was Mr.
John Prussia, who has for some Commissioner for the Suppression of been in the employ of the Pacific Maik Opium, It is further said that these shares Co The Japan Gazette states he is the have been sub-divided among subordinate sole survior of the confederate craiser will restore it to a healthy state officials of the Government and others, Alabama, which figured so prominently and some significance is attached to the the U.S. Civil War. 1o joined the circumstance that among the large holders Messel in Birkenhead, and left her when
she was sinking off Cherbourg,
killing the dandruff germ.
of
one
years
by invigorating the scalp and of stock now in the syndicate are two wealthy Yunnan men. It is confidently
A Tientsin contemporary says: - -Every- expected, according to current rumour, that the syndicate will make enormous will be glad to learn that the
from the profits
monopoly. Since Chinese government has decided that the the establishment
the monopoly new subsidiary coins of 10 cents, 20 cente the price of this medicinal opium and 50 cents shall be exchanged for the has already been advanced in Canton by silver dollar at the proper rate of 100 twenty-five per cont., but unless there is cents to the dollar, without any devia. suine idea of adding to the stocks from tion. This, of course, will knock out Hongkong. the very mach larger of business all the anal exchange shops. native opium which are who, naturally, will object to the change,
Prepared only by
TO LET.
4 GOOD ROOMS. Immediato posses- Elon.
Apply
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th August, 1915. [875
A. S.
TO LET,
OFFICES IN ST. GEORGE BUILDING,
Second Floor, Overlooking Harbour, Immediate possession.
Apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914.
[39
HOUSE
TO LET
Knutsford
Terrace,
Members will be held on SATURDAY, Alon the 30th October, 1915, at 12 o'clock Noov, at
Apply the Office of the JOCKET CLUB, on the Ground Floor of the HONGKONG CLUB ANNETE, Ühater Road.
By Order,
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, 16th October, 1915.
(1095
HONGKONG COTTON SPINNING,
WEAVING & DYEING CO., LTD.
(IN VOL. LIQUIDATION).
AKE NOTICE that a MEETING of TAKE
Members of the above Company will be held at the Office of Mesura JARDINE MATHESON & Co., LTD., Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 22nd day of November, 1915, at 12 o'clock Noox.
AGENDA.
1. To lay before the Meeting an Account of the acts and deslings of the Liquidator and of of the Moeting.
2. To propose an ex'raordinary resolation sanctioning an interim return to Members as follows:-
That an interim return by the Liquidator of
A desiring to leave the Colony should apply the conduct of the winding up up to the date in writing for permission to do so to the Captain SUPERINTENDENT OF POLIcz, at leasi 43 hours before the intended hour of departure, giving name, nationality, age, so, 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 POLIO STATION between the boars of 9 A.M. to 1 P.. and 2 PM to 4 P.M. daily,
Hongkong, 10th July, 1918.
FOR SALE.
1738
ONE 104 B.HR, HORNSBY ACKROYD
OIL ENGINE complete with and coupled direct to one 6 KW. Continuous Current Shunt Wound Dynamo of 50/70 volts with shunt regulator.
for
ALSO ONE SWITCHBOARD- ACCUMULATORS, DYNAMO, &c., complete. with instruments for 100 Amps.
For farther particulars apply tom
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Alexandra Balldings. Hongkong, 18th September, 1915. T485
NEW CARTRIDGÉS.
popular
English
Bin all Bars and Sizes.
Manufacturers,
SMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLED SHOT. From No. 10 to SSSG. at $5, $7. and $7.50 per 100. SPORTING REQUISITES and AIR GUNS in Variety.
Laspection Invited.
..
WM. SCHMIDT & Co.
Hongkong, 4th February, 1915,
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One Hongkong Dollar per share to the parasna who are registered as Membara of the Company on the 18th day of November,
1915, be and the same hereby is sanctioned, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 15th November, to MONDAY, 291 November, both days inclusive.
Dated Hongkong, the 14th day of October,
C. BERNARD BROWN, Liquidator.
[1080
1915.
FRENCH LESSONS
G. MOUSSION,
"THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.
[45 Hongkong, In October, 1815.
TO LET.
FOUR-ROOMED and THREE-BOOMED
27
WATSON stocks of
held in the province of Yunnan, which will be, however, aust beneficial
& CO., LTD.,
HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
BIRTH
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FU
thesc
in
A the Magistracy yesterday a charge against Mr. A. David of permitting his car to be driven at 6.45 pm. without a rear-light showing was dismissed by the Magistrate, The defendant said he was not driving the car at the time, and knew nothing about it. He came back a little after 7 p.m. The Magistrats looked up the time of sunset, in the Directory and Chronicle, remarking that lighting-up time was generally an hour afterward. He said sunset was there given ag 6.02. p.m., and therefore dismissed the cust
it is difficult to Bee how enormous for the whole State. profits are to be reaped by the syndicate. That
remarkable developmentá are viewed with dismay and alarm by all who have supported and encouraged the authorities in their efforts to rid China of opium goes without the saying The danger of a recrudescence of opium smoking
is Kwalogtung keenly apprehended, for it is manifest that the interests of the Opium Farm are in direct conflict with the declared policy of the Government. That policy aim at total suppression of the trade at the earliest MACKIE On October 16th, at Shanghai, possible moment: while the main object
to Mr. and Mrs. J. MACKIE,
of the Farm is to sell the drug, and to doughter.
continae selling it, as long as possible Hence, CORNABY-MACGREGOR-On October 10th, at at the greatest possible profit.
have said, thore Shanghai, HoBERT ARTHUR CORNABY as to JESSIE MACGREGOR.
deeply rooted suspicion that the heavy DEATH.
stocks of native opium held in FABRIS-On July 5th, ad Johannesberg, Yunnan may find their way inte. the EPOELL SUMMERS STILWELL, eldest son Canton godowns; and that opium of the late E. A FARRIS, of Shangha, smoking in the near future will become aged 47.
much more general in Canton, than is It would be scandalous the case to-day. indeed if an Opium Farm financed by high officials were allowed to defeat the declared policy of the Government, and, assuming the current reports to be true, it would be instructive to know in the first place whether a full statement of the facts has been
MARRIAGE.
FLATS in Humphrey's Balldinge, Kowloon, with every modern convenience. HONOLONG OFFICE: 104, Das Vœux ROAD, C.
OUR HOGHED LONDON OFFICE: 151, FLEET STREET, E. Immediate possession.
FLATS in May Road, possession on or about 1st November next. Moders appointments throngbook, including English Baths and Kitchen Bauges, Hot Water and Water Carriage System. A few Flats specially designed to accommodate three bachelorst reasonable rentals.
FOUR-BOOMED HOUSES In Gordon Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon.
TWO-ROOMED FLATS in Nathan Bond.
Kowloon,
Apply fo
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
CO, LAD., Alexandre Buildings. Hongkong, 19th October, 1918.
[850
TO- LET.
HROOMS, Very Large Dining Room, FARPERVILLE, Garden Road, SEVEN immediate possession, house in excellent order Tennis Court and Garden.
Apply
FEROY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th August, 1915. [876
TO LET.
OFFICES st 2, Connaught Road,
OFFICES in King's Buildings. HOUSES in CLIFTON
15, MORRISON HILL ROAD.
(191
Conduit Road,
GARDENS
NEW HOUSES in Broadwood Terrace. HOUSES at the Peek.
No, 21, WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD.
The Daily Press.
Hoxerone, October 23rd, 1915.
** MEDICINAL OPIUM” FOR
CANTON.
we
forwarded
is
&
Central Government, and if so whether this grand money-making scheme has its approval and sanction:
INDIAN POLICE-SERGEANT PROSECUTED.
An Indinar Lance-Sergeant of Police who had served His Majesty's Govern- ment for 25 years as a soldier und E policeman and who possessed a medal for active service in Central Africa, was charged at the Magistracy yesterday with the larceny of 20 cents' worth of vegetables, said to have been stolen from the Wing Wo wharf.
Detective-Inspector Watt, who pro- secuted, told his worship that cookies would say that while they were taking a! basket containing vegetables from the 10 the Kinshan the defendant extracted two or three catties of onions and walked away. with them. On the morning of the 10th Detective Lane, was sent to watch the Sergeant's movements at the whari. He the Indian approach the baskets containing fruit and vegetables, and come away with a couple of handfuls of the articles. The Ser- geant, on seeing the detective, walked up to a hut on the, wharf and came away, Detective Lane
THE recent sale to a Canton syndicate of the whole of the opium stocks in Hongkong, at a cost of about a million and a quarter dollars, and the arrange- The Shanghai Paper Mill, Ltd., has ments which have been made for retailing been taken over by Baron H. Iwasaki of this opium at Canton do not seem 00 have created the sensation that might
A mail for Europe vid Siberia closes would say that he saw to-day at 5 p.m.
have beats expected in the circumstances.
Tokyo,
bundle of
We are asked to state that entries for again empty-handed. Under the second Opium Agreement, the Foursomes Competition at Fanling went to the spot which the Indian bad concluded between Great Britain and will be received up to Wednesday, the just vacated, and found a
onions there. Chin in 1911, the British Government 27th inst. agreed that Indian opiam should not be
Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., was ›› sum- conveyed into any province in China moned for allowing a dog to be at large which can establish by clear evidence that while not wearing a regulation uuzzle, it has effectively suppressed the Sir Paul, for whom Mr. A. A. Fyfe
fined $5.
No. 1, MORETON TERRACE, Causeway | step OB GODOWNS, st Wanchai
香港中外新强
Bay
PO
C(Chinese Dusty Press),
PUBLIENTD DAILY
La the eldest and still immensnesbly the boa Advertising mediam among the Native Community.
Established for over FISTY Yaara Sirenlaten largely throughout Southern Ching Indo-Chinx ate.
Terms for Advertising(Translation Exes) onu be obtained at the Qilon, 104, Dan Voux Bond Central, Hengkong, 131, Fleet Strest, Lories or from the different á gante
Logamanta traiated Eren as into Clazzios ar Collognial Chissor
appeared, was
cultivation and import of native opium, and an addendum to Clause III reads:"
In the case in which two Chinese were "It is understood, however, that the closing of the ports of Canton and prosecuted by Special Police Sergeant Shanghai to the import of Indian opium McEwen for cruelty to birds by over- shall not take effect except as the final crowding them in crates a fine of $20 was the park of China for the imposed yesterday on each of the defen- completion of the above measure. We dants. have not beard ticat any public
The Secretary of the Church Missionary GODOWNS, at New Praya, Kennely Towa,
Botification has been issued to the effect Society begs to acknowledge with thanks Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESThat Canton has been closed, but as no
MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.
the sum of 15 from Students in St. Hongkong, 10th October, 1915.
138:
opium is now coming to Hongkong from John's Hall, and $0 from St. Peter's India for export to China, and as all?
Church, for the C.M.8. Hospital at local stocks have been bought by the
Pakhoi. Canton syndicate, Canton must be considered virtually closed to any further At the request of Mr. Hsu Shih-ying, import of the drug. The Canton Govern-Governor of Fukien, the Government has
has
pursuing withdrawn all the secret service agents certainly been ment
the
rigorous policy sent to that province after the second past for the suppression of the production, revolution, as Fukien is now quite free the transport and the smoking of opium, from rebel conspiracies.
WANTED.
A
FOUR or FIVE ROOMED HOUSE on Higher Level, Unfurnished, from beginning November, Moderate rent.
Apply
in
P. O. Box 45.
Hongkong, 21st October, 1915. -
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Evidence was given by two of the
too dark to recognise the defendant, tha vegetable coolies, one of whom said it was
European detective, and a lukong, and
the case was remanded.
A
COMMISSION TO
HAIPHONG.
In the ease in which the Société des Cimpats sued Law & Sons for $86, Mr. Shenton (for the plaintiffs) said that the defendants were not prepared to admit. the fros, so he would have to send a com mission to Haiphong.
His lordship-What! For 885 1 Mr. Shenton said that his friend (Mr.. Russ) had declared that he did not know what the facts were, but he refused to admit them.
His lordship—I do not know what you want a commission to Haiphong for when the amount is only $86. You had better
It would be. bring your witness here. cheaper. Come into Chamber, to-morrow...