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THE, HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20m, 198
THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOT
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that TWO HOUSES in "STONEHENGE
No. 5, Robinson Road. Newly deze-up and remodelled.
Each House contains downstair. Two Good Rooms and upstairs Throp Bedroomm, etch with Bathroom,
the TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will do held at the Oilio's of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, Lyfires, on TUESDAY, 1st February, 19:07 st 11.30 AM, for the purpose of receiving the Itsport of Directors together withi Statement
of December,
EMPRESS OF JAPAN Accounts for the rear ending 31st. 1
will bo dospatched from Hongkong at Noon on
WEDNESDAY, 2ND FEBRUARY. 1916,
For VANCOUVER via the Usos! Ports of Call,
For Passage Fares, Freight Ba'ee, eto, please apply to
D. W. CRADDOCK,
General Traffic Agent. Hongkong, 20th Janu ry, 1910 [191
SCOTTISH UNION AND NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. OF EDINBURGH
AND. LONDON.
Invested Funds Annual Income
...
$10,000,000. £1,800,000
AVING been Appointed ACENTS for HAVING buen Hongkong and Macao we are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS at Current Rales.
J. M. ALVES & Co. Hongkong, 18th January, 1916. (190
191K
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Coin- pany will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 30th January, to TUESDAY, 1st February, 1916 (hoth days inclusiya), eduring which prind no Transfer of Shares can Registered.
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Outhouses and Grass Tennis Court Shortly available for occupation, Apply to PA,
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 22nd December, 1918
TO LET
eFFICES in Queen's Building.
Apply
By Order of the Board of Directors,
MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE, HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO.,
Acting Secretary to the
LIMITRI,
General Agents for the War Point BUILDING CO., LIMITER Hongkong, 13th January, 1916. |- [170
THE HONGKONG GENTRAL ESTATE, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
SECOND ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Utficca of Messrs, JARDINE, MATHON & CoaPANY, LIMITED, On TUES
[112
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 8th December, 1915, (106
TO LET.
NO. 11. GAGESTREET, from 1st January,
Apply to
J. VINCENT BRAGA, Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Hongkong, 16th November, 1915.
TO LET.
100
DAY, 1st February, 1916, at 11 AM for NOS 9 and 10, MOUNTAIN VIEW, ate purpose of receiving the Report of year ending 31st December, 1916.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com pany be CLOSED from THURSDAY, soth January, to TUESDAY, 1st February, 1910 (both days inclusive) during which period no Transfer of Shares can Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THE HONG KONG TRAMWAYS CO., THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE,
LIMITED,
NOTICE.
HEREBY GİVE NOTICE in accordance
I will section of the Trennway Crummetice 10 of 1902 of my intention to apply to the Governor-in Council for power to construct an additional CROSSOVER TRACK between
the two existing TRACKS in YEE WO STREET at its junction with CAROLINE STREET and opposite Inland Lot 1000.
J. J. STODART KENNEDY, General Manager, HONGKONG TRAMWAY Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 17th January, 1918. 1183
NOTIOR
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiatic or India A desiring to leave the Calogy should apply. in writing for permission to do so to the Captain SUFERINTENDENT OF POLICE at leat 48 hours before the intended hour of departure, giring name, nationality, age, sex, height, and occupation of the applicant, and stating the name of the steamer or other vasal or the hour of the train by which the applicant, wishes, to leave. Appliosats should apply in person for their pass at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION
but wonu the hours of a amM. to 1.F,M. nod 2 PM, to 4 P.M. daily.
Hongkong, luth July, 1915,
NEW CARTRIDGES.
Bla Bore and Sises,
popular English
Lrn.
MOWBRAY'S NORTHCOTE,
Acting Secretary to The GENERAL MANAGERS. Hongkong, 13th January, 1916. [176
TEB HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
TWENTY - EIGHTH
ORDINARY
| MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Ofices of Mesars. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., on TUESDAY, 1st February, 19:6, at Nooy, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Sistement of Accounts for the year ending 21st December, 1915.
be
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, 20th January, to TUESDAY, 1st February, 19.6 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 12th January, 1916.
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THE HONG KONG LAND RECLAMA-
TION COMPANY, LIMITED, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
FIFTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE
MATHESON & CO., LTD., on TUESDAY, 1st February, 1918 at 12.16 r., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1016.
The REGISTER of BHARES of the Com- will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, pany 29th January, to TUESDAY, 1st February, 1916(both days inclusive), during which period Manufacturers, no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directora,
E. BRUCE SHEPHERD, Hongkong, 19th Jaunai Secretary.
SMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLED" SHOT, From No 10 to 88SG, at 56, #7 and 37.50 par 100.SPORTING REQUISITES and AIR GUNS in Variety.
Inspection Tarlied.
WM. BOHMIDT & Co.
Hongrong, 411 Febrasry,11918. 189
A LING & CO..
19, Queen's Road Central
FURNITURE
AND PHOTO GOODE STORE.....
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HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LTD.
HARE CERTIFICATE No. 5122, dated 18th July, 1904, of One Hundred Shares numbered 85001 to 85100 inclusive fully paid- up, standing in the Register in the name of MR ANTONIO JOAQUIM BASTO, of Macao, having been LOST or DESTROYED, Notice is hereby given that unless the said certificate be produced at the Offices of the Company, Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong, on ur before the 8th day of February, 1910, Now Certificato
Apply to
M. J. D. STEPHENS. Hongkong, 12th November, 1916.
TO LET.
(97
THE KENNELS," 168, Magazine Gap.
Thoroughly renovated and repaired, APPE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
SMENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Hongkong, 10th November, 1916, 1705) [95
Apply
TO LET.
Rontaining 6 Booms, 3 Bath Rooms, AVENSHILL EAST, Park Road, Serrants Quarter, &o. Vacant lat November.
DRACON, LOOKER, DEACON & HAESTON, Ilongkong, 18th October, 1915.
TO · LET.
[90
66 ʼN LENSHIEL," No. 141, Plantation Road, Posk, from 1st November, 1918 Apply
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, -Hongkong, 18th October, 1918, bg (85
TO LET.
HOUSE in Knutsford Terrace,
Kowloon Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 24th October, 1915,
· [37·
Apply
BHEWAN, TOMES & Co. [33 Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914.
INTIMATION O
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THE PREMIER SCOTCH OF THE FAR EAST
FOR 25 YEARS.
WATSONS Scotch Whisky
„VERY OLD LIQUID
POPULARITY
MAINTAINED
EXCELLENT QUALITY
NOT BY EXPENSIVE
WORLD-WIDE ADVERTISING.
tom as that which obtains in this Colony is an anachronism and stands self condom ed. What, it may fairly be asked, are the peculiar conditions obtaining in Hongkong which require.
Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai are The General Committee of the British considering questions relating to the China Homeward Freight Conferener and while they can hold cut little hope of a marked increase in the tonnage available for the
the Colony as soon as he sets fost in European trade, hupa to obtain some .
Englishman shall be demodifications of the present Conference.
Rales which will be of assistance to ex prived of those elementary rights of citizen
porters and shippers generally, hip which ho is accustomed to exercise at
Mr. J. R. Wood committed to the Home Does he cease to bear the burdens
Criminal Bessions yesterday a Chinese, of citizenship-to provide by his industry who was charged with robbery with the funds for carrying on the public ser- violence. Inspector Brazil told the vices. Is he less enterprising, less intelli. Magistrate. that a woman visited
Jessie money changer's in Queen's Road-and-way- gunt, or less trustworthy than his stay-at-weading her way homeward, having over ☀ home brother in Great Britain, who is con
$60 in her possession, when two men seized her from behind and stole the money. Both men ran off, and the defendant was caught by a constable of the Police Re ||
sidered competent not merely to manage his own domestic concerns but also to con- trol Imperia) policy? If not, why should he not be permitted to have a voice in any thing at all? It is surely strange that the Imperial Government, which always shows such a very punctilious regard for native customs, should be so unwindful of British customs, and that a readiness to introduce attr representative institutions, as fast as circumstances permit, to peoples previous
serve.
p
Gaston Liebert) has been appointed The Consul General for France (M.
Consul-General at New York, and leaves Hongkong on the 15th February by the Tengo Maru, to take up the duties in his new responsible position. M. Liebert has been in charge of the French Con- sulate in Hongkong for about 19 years. Thony friends of the Consul General and Miles. Liebert, while greatly regre ting their departure, will offer their. sincere and hearty congratulations to M.
THE PASSING OF THE HUN.
Oh Wilhelm, how we miss you! We took you to the Empire!! Was it but yesterday
And watched you sail away 7. The Thatched House Club stauds
empty; g
No more the crow's-nests feel Their flimsy planks vibrating Beneath an iron hee!.
ly subject to despotic rale should | Lichert on a promotion that is most as- exist side by side with a reluctance to suredly merited. withdraw a bureaucratic farm of govor mant from people who have been nurtured in the lap of democracy: While we are denied a proper share in the management of our own affairs our only safeguard against abuse or injustice lies in an peal to the Colonial Office. But that is a very citeumlocutory method, only to be re- surted to in extreme cases, and then not at ways successfully, as, for example, when the resolution of a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in favour of an in- quiry into the coinage question was ig nored because the then GOVERNOR sent a covering despatch to the SECRETARY OF STATE repudiating it. It may, of course, be argued that in such a case the public are to blame for submitting to arbitary and contemptuous treatment, but, save in very exceptional circumstances, when pas sions are aroused, there is a disposition, fostered by the patriarchal form of government, to regard protest as hardly
worth while.
As a community we are entitled to ask for some more direct means of making our
A. B. WATSON bes known and respected. The first and
& CO., LTD.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, HONGKONG,
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simplest method would be to elect the British uudicial representatives on the Legislative Council by popular vote. It would not be a very revolutionary change, but it would ensure the faithful expression and due consideration of the views of the commercial community, create a healthy
No more our beauty-lumbers Are unto us denied; Nay, more, we sleep inside.
get to bed each evening:
We
Yet, in the midst of gladness, When prisoner-guards are done. We mourn a thing sc noble, So priceless as the Hun, Oh Wilhelm, how we missed you ! You cost a pretty bill
For ammunition wasted In front of Gun Club Mit.
Yes, Wilhelm dear, we miss you; And, though we've extra drill, We're hoping most sincerely We'll go on missing still
D.S.O.
Hongkong, 180 January. 1916,
LOCAL BRITONS" AND ACTIVE SERVICE. IMPORTANCE OF FURTHTRING BRITISH TRADE
SIN EVERARD FRASER'S VIEW,
In view of the discussion which took BIRTHS. TO LET.
GOULBOURN,-At No. 27, Haskell Road, interes, in public affairs, promote adutais place recently in our columns under the Shanghai, on January 13th to Mr.trative efficiency, and develop our corpor-following letter, which has been addressed FFICES is ́ ST. GEORGE'S BEILDING,
title of The Hongkong Hundred," the Second Floor, Overlooking Harbent, R. and Mrs. W. Good bang ate sense. It must not be supposed that in by H.M. Consul-General in Shanghai to
GOULBOURN, a son, fa immediate possession.
bai, on January 18th, to Mr. and saying this we make any charge against the the management of one of the leading Mrs. Hugo Reiss, a daughter.
present administration except that it is institutions in that part has a peculiar MARRIAGE, CAR.
interest; b, Even good govern- BREWER-WHEENAt H, B. M. Consulate, wrong in principis
H. M. Consulate General, Shanghai, and afterwards at Holy ment, it has been said, is not always a satio-
Shanghai, Trinity Cathedral, on January 14th, factory substitute for self-government.
January 11th, 1018. Herbert Edney, second son of the late
SIR-I beg to acknowledge receipt of Walter William Brewer, to Con- Some reform along the lines which wo your letter of this date forwarding a list stance Isabel, youngest daughter of have indicated is long overdus, and the of the members of your staff who are of the late Percy Wheen and Mrs.
military age with a note of their qualifica- Wheen, of Shanghai..
public, will be glad to see that steps pro tions for military service being taken to secure it. Twenty years have passed since any modification was made in the constitution of our government. Since then political idem hayo undergone a pro- found change. Past
Past experience teaches,
TO LET
OFFICES at £, Connaught· Bond.
OFFICES in King's Buildings. OFFICES in Der Vænr Bond Central,... HOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit Road,
NEW HOUSES in Broadwood Torrson. HOUSES at the Peak.
No 1, MORETON TERRACE, Causeway GODOWNS, # Wanchs); CANTON, DIS
Nos. 1, 2 and 3, WEST ENDITERRACE,
Applp...
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 4th November, 1915, 32
Kowloon.
TO LET,
for the said Shores will be issued and the oldTWO ROOMED-FLATS in Nathan Boad, Certificate will thereafter be held by the Company as Dull and void.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. | Hongkong, 7th January, 1910. [156
Photographie Goodi of Every Description THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT
In Stock
Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
Canton Marbles in Various Khudou TELEPHONE 1219.
Hongkong, 4th February, 1812.
NOW READY.
DIRECTORY
OF
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FOX
CHINA, JAPAN AND COREA..
Hongkong DAILY PHESS OFFICE
PRICE:
140
81.25
*** 0,80
Cloth Cover Paper Hongkong, 21st December, 1915.
AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
LOST,
THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 4209
for Twenty-five Shares numbered 4901 to 4925 inclusive, standing in the Register in the bame of FRANK BARRINGTON DEACON, having been LOST. Notice is hereby given that unless the said Certificate be produced at the Office of the Company, 5, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on or before. the Third day of February, 1916, a New Certificate for the said Shares will be issued and the old Certificate will thereafter be held by the Company as null and void.
!...MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Acting Secretary Hongkong, 3rd January, 1916
FOR SALE.
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NE 101 H.P. ĦORNSBY ACKROYD
THREE-ROOMED FLATS in Humphrey's Buildings, Kowloon,
DEATH. Burz--Killed in action in France, on January 10th, while serving with the Royal Fusiliers, Empire Battalion, R. A. BUTT, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, son of the late Mr G. W. Butt of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
F192
Hongrond Orrica: 184 Das Vœux Road, O.
however, that nothing will ever he conceded which is not first demanded, and not a LONDON OFFICE: 181, FIANT STEINT, É.C. Ways the without delay and demur. The initiative is not likely to be taken by the official element in the Colony, and Hong- Long lies too far away from Downing Street to bulk very largely in the horizon of busy Colonial Secretaries or to indues them to ayish attention upon it unasked,
The Daily Press.
HOMOKORO 20TH JANUARY, 19168.
FOUR-ROOMED FLATS in May Hoad, with every modern convenience, insimling GOVERNMENT OF HONGKONG. English Bathe and Kitchen Ranges, Hot Water and Water Carriage System, A fow Flats specially designed to accommodate thres bachelors at reasonable rentals Imm possession.
FOUR-BOOMED HOUSES in Gordos Terrace and Balisbury Avenue, Kowloom.
Apply to
HUMPHERYS ESTATE & FINANCH
Co., LTD, Alexandra Buildings, Hongkong, 29th December, 198,
119
FOR EUROPE AND AMERICA,
EUROPE
INDIA, AUSTRALIA, O.,
and for
PRIVATE RESIDENON AT THE OUTPORIS,
A Comprehensive and Complete Record
of the
NEWS OF THE FAR EAST is given in the
I concur most heartily in your opinion that your institution has already depleted its staff to the utmost point consistent with due performance of its work for British trade and that now any mombers who leave that work, even in order to serve in His Majesty's Force, are in fact deserters from duty.LINDEBE desire to go to the Front, and a soldier's It is natural for men of deep loyalty to life in a great war for the right has a very special attraction but the interests of our country are equally served by the zealous on and, were all to throw over those performance of the duties of one's profes duties in order to go and fight, the sinews. of war would soon fail, the
keep up and to increase our business activi
Out here especially is it important to ty and I have no hesitation in declaring my opinion that the man whe denies him
A mail for Europe vid Siberia closes self the gratification of active service în to-day at 3 p.m.
Malava.
order to remain at the service of his em ployers whose business needs him, is worthy of commendation as a true patriot
Telegraphie advice has been received that Mr. A. Shelton Hooper leaves Londoning themselves are uneasy Test after the I have heard that some men, thus deny on the 23rd. inst, by the P. and O. steamer war they be despised for want of ardour. To any man who needs it, I am willing to give an official certificate that he did not go to the war solely because of his duty to his employers and because I was of opinion that his bourden service lay at his post in Shanghai,
Fantan, under the name of Paiken, has again been legalized at Canton, says Reuter's correspondent, despite protests, For the monopoly $400,000 has been padu.
(8d.) E H FRANBER,,
Consul General.
SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL
Ir must always be something of a shock to a newcomer, impressed with the many evi dences of moral and material achievement which Hongkong presents, to learn that the community to whose enterprise and com- mercial ability the Colony owes its founda tion and prosperity is still excluded from any effective participation in local govern ment. Yet, this is the simple fact. On both the Executive and Legislative Councile there is, it is true, an unofficial element but, as this is in a permanent minority, it can only express its views on the measures that come before it and hope for the best,
more than one-thud, even in the Legisla been effected. Revenue officers Wilden Moreover, of this unofficial element not
Another substantial haul of opium has tive Council, can be regarded, by say and Langley boarded the Daigi daru on stretch of the imagination, as represents her arrival from Haiphong and seized 330 tive of the general community, two memtaels of prepared opium, concealed in the GS Mackie WL Merriman, E. C
Mr R. J. Stevenson, of the Public Works Department, has informed the police that on Tuesday night a basket containing 14 chickens, value 830, was stolen from his chicken-houæ.
COUNCIL
TEN NOMINATIONS FOR NINE SEATS
nominated for the nine seats on the The following ten candidates have been Shanghai Municipal Council:Mr E. I. Bara, Baron Yoshiaki Fujimura, Count. L. Jezierski, Messrs. J. Johnstone C
O010 ENGINE compista Crill HONGKONG WEEKLY bees being nomiunted, respectively by the inise sides of a saloon cabin. The opium Pearce. C. Richards, C. Stepharius
ampled direct to ono & K.W. Continuous Current Bhant Wound Dynamo af 50/70 volts with shant roggilabor, an
for
··ÁLSO ONE SWITCHBOARD ACCUMULATORS, DYNAMO, &to,, complete with instruments for 100 Ampa
For further particulars apply to----
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Alexandra Buildings..
Hongkong, 16th September, 1913,
TOBEBS
with which is incorporated THE CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT Subscription, paid in advance,
$19 per annum. Postage 3 to any part of
World
Justices of the Pesce and the Chamber of is valued at $3,500. Commerce, while the remaining four are appointed by the GOVERNOR. In these days when every little village in England has its elected Parish Council and the humblestarinettural labourer grossesse the Parliamentary franchise, such a sys-
and A. 8. P. White Cooper.
The Chinese who was arrested when in old members have again been nominated,
Of the out-going Council, seven of th possession of 12lbs. of silver and Jos. the absentees from the list being Ma- of gold, which had apparently been melted A Hids and Mr. A. Ishii. The now- down, was discharged by the Magistrate comers are Baron Yoshiaki Fujimura, of yesterday. Inspector Brazil stated that the Mitsui Bussen Kaisha Mr. E C. an account book found on defendant Tichards, of the P. & O. B. N. Comand showed that be had bought articles off. C. Stepharius of Messrs. Buch- jewellery from various persons,
beister,