HEW ADVERTISEMENTS
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TO LET,
From 1st May, 1916.
URNISHED OF UNFURNISHED, CRAIGMIN EAST, 100, PEAK. Five
PUBLIC COMPANIES
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAKEHOLDERS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 23ED, 1910.
Rooms, remi detached. Moderato rent: Year MEETING SEVENTH ORDINARY
or longer.
Apply-
T. K. DEALY, 160, Pesk,
Hongkong, 23rd March, 1916.
WANTED.
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EUROPEAN ASSISTANT for Cont's
Outfitting Store. Apply
Box 30,
Curn of "Daily Press" Offico. Hongkong, 23rd March, 1918,
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The Steamship "ARAKAN," From SAN FRANCISCO.
"YONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informac that all Goods are being landed at their sisk into the hazardous and/or extra bazardon: Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whar and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may to obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andollvezed wit or the 29th, inat. will be subject
to rent
All Claims against the Steamer must te presented to the Undirsigned on or before ile 1st April, or they will not he recognized
All broken, chafed and daranged Goods are to he left in the Golowne, where they will be examined on the 20 h ivet. by the Company's surveyors, Merars. Goddard & Douglas,
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned he
JAVA-PACIFIC LIJN, York Buliding..
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Hezekeny. 22nd Barob, 1916."
THE ASSOCIATION OF EXPORTERS AND DEALERS OF HONGKONO.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING THE
of the Members of the ASSOCIATION OF EXPORTERS AND DEALERS OF HONGKONG will be held on THURSDAY, the 30th March, 1918, at 356 2. precisely, In the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDING, for the following purposes:--
(1) To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committee for the year ended 31st December, 1915.
(2) To elect a New Committee. (3) To tramatet any General Business.
By Ordar,
E. A. M. WILLIAMS, Secretary Hongkong, 21st March, 1016,
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UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND JUNIOR EXAMINATIONS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the N
MATRICULATION, SENIOR and JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS will be held on the following dates
JULY 10TH-16TH, 1916. Arrangements will be made to hold the Examinations at any town where a sufficient. number of candidates offer themselves.
Camlilates must send in their entry-forme, with the fue, to the Registrar, University, Hongkong, not later than May 2nd, 1918.
Forms of Entry may be obtained from the Registrar, to whom enquiries, should be addressed.
The following Scholarships will be awarded on the result of the Matriculation Examina tion, provided that there are candidates of suflicient merit-
Two King Edward VII. Scholarships of £40 a year each, for five years, tenable only by British subjects, who must be under the of 21 the 10th July, 1916. A candidate who wishes to compete must deliver to the Registrar, on or before the first day of the Examination,, certificate of eligibility in the fora specified by the Regulations, cuite Faculty
Scholarship
of Arts, the other in any Faculty.
One President's Scholarship of 800 (Peking Currency) a year for live years, touablo by students of Chinese Nationality, who must be under the age of 21 on the 10th July, 1916, A candidate, who wishes to compete must deliver to the Registrar on or before the first
of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned at NOON on TUESDAY, the 28th instant.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 28th instant, both days inclusivo.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LT,
General Managers, HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO, LTD. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1916. 1370
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU- FACTURING CO., LTD.
THE 32ND ORDINARY ANNUAL MEET- ING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Company's Office, St. George's Building, Chater Itoad, Victoria, on SATURDAY, the 25th March, 1918, at 11.30 o'clock in the fore noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1916, and clecting a Consulting Committee and Auditors
Tho TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com. paay will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 20th March, to SATURDAY, the 26th Murch, 1910, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TONES & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 11th March, 1916.
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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
A DOLLARS
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of FIVE per Share has been Declared and will be Payable at the Hose BONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION on or after MONDAY, the 27th instant.
CLOSED from FRIDAY, 24th, to MONDAY, The REGISTER of the Company will he 27th instant, both days inclusive, during which days no Transfer of Shares can be. made,
DIVIDEND WARRANTS will be ready obtained on application. on MONDAY, the 27tt instant, and may be
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managora. Hongkong, 20th March, 10:0 [436
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU
FACTURING CO., LTD.
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
NOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN that an MEETING of THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD will be held at St. George's Building, Chator
INTIMATION
Road, Victoris, in the Colony of Hongkong THORNE'S
on SATURDAY, the 25th day of March, 1918, at 11.45 o'clock in the forenoon, when the Suljoined Extraordinary Resolution will be proposed
That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in manner following
(a) That after the word "Company" in the 10th line of Article 10 the following words shall be added-
The General Managers may also "with the consent of the Consulting "Committee pay such bonus or "bonuses as the General Managers "shall think it.".
(b) That the words "Bonus or Bonusca" shall be inserted iramediately after the word "Dividend" in the 18th line of Article 110.
(c) That the words "and bonuses "shall be inserted immediately after the word
Dividend in the first line of
Article the requisite majority, it will be submitted
115. Should the above Resolution he passed by for confirmation as a Special Resolution to a further Extraordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently convened,
Dated this 11th day of March, 1818.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
General Managors.
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HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
OLD
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VAT
SCOTCH
The Bandman Opera and Comedy Comis pany is announced to visit Hongkong af the end of this month with an attractive repertoire of plays which have met with great success in London, ་!་
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linked up the provinces with the capital just as much as it compelled the District Magistrales to recognize the supremacy of the Prefecture. It is gonorally recognis ed that this examination system was one. of the causes of China's stability. MEA-
Somo officers and some men on some ships Dows wrote: "In ovory case the institu- tion of Public Service Examinations
in some port desire to tender hearty thanks (which have long been strictly competi
to some ladies in some place for some ten tive) is the cause of the continued endir.some day last week. (The rest of
the mon ance of the Chinese nation,"
sage is expurgated by the Censor.) BLAND, again, says: "The value of the competi-
Brigadier-General H. G. Fitton, C.B... tive examination system as an enduring D.S.O., A.D.C. to the King, who was in cause of national coherence and stability command of the Royal West Kents when con bardly be exaggerated. Bearing this they were stationed in Hongkong in 1905, fact in mind, the suddonness with which died in France of wounds received in action, the ancient classical examinations were
He had a distinguished record of war ser- abolished in 1904 and the failure to replace vico in Egypt and South Africa. them by something equally satisfying to An American named Joseph Griffin, third the soul of the people must be a cause of engineer on the Taksong, was arrested for disquiet in the present and widespreading violent and threatening behaviour in the unrest in the years to come." We scarcely Grand Hotel. As the result of some words think that the re-introduction of the old with another man he become exceedingly system of examinations means that the excited, and, pulling, a kugo automatic pis tol from his pocket, flourished it about threateningly, Mr. Grant called the polico and tho man was taken to the Station, The pistoj, jis said, contained five bullets, 44. bore, is the magazine The Magistrate Sinod defendant $30, and confiscated the weapon.
WHISKY examinations themselves will take the sans
form, and that students will be tested safely their ability to compose a formal essay on some abstruse clause from the classics. THIS VAT WAS STARTED BY THE San-Kar who, with CHANG CA-TUNG,
It will be remembered that it was Year
memorialized the Throne in 1904 in favour OF of abolishing the old classical examinations
and substituting examinations in modersing for the front on Sunday, was last night Lance Corpl, W. H. Viveash, who is lear knowledge, and we do not think he has
LATE ROBERT THORNE
GREENDOR AND HAS BEEN SOLD reversed his opinion on that point. We do Presented by his colleagues in the Centro
THE THIRTIETH YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the HONGKONG CLUB will be held in the Club House, on MONDAY, the 27th March, AS NO. 4 SINCE 1831. 1916, 5.30 pr.
By Order,
E DES YOUX, Secretary. Hongkong, 10th March, 1910.
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HONGKONG CLUB
NOTICE.
T DRAWING OF 65 DEBENTURES
THE TWENTY-NINTH BALF YEARLY A.
(1800 issue) of the HONGKONG CLUB, Payable on FRIDAY, the 31st March, 1016,
HONGKONG. 10E COMPANY, LTD. will be held in the Club House at 11 o'clock
THE THIRTY-FIFTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the General Mariagers at 11.30 AM. on TUESDAY, the 28th instans, to receive a Statement of the Company's Accounts to 31st December, 1916, and the Report of the Qeneral Managers.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
A.M., on FRIDAY, the 24th March, 1ma
Bearers of Debentares are invited to attend the Drawing.
By Order.
E. DES VOUX, Secretary. Hongkong, 10th March, 1910.
will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 28th THE LUZON SUGAR REFINING 00, instant, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,.
General Managers. Hongkong, 8th March, 1910
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CHINA SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE.
"THE THIRTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY
ANNUAL MEETING of Las SHARE HOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Pedder's Street, on WEDNESDAY, the 20th March, at 11.30 A., for the purpose. receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1915.
of
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 29th March, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., General Agents. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1016.
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day of the Examination, a statutory declara LUZON SUGAR REFINING CO., LTD,
sion of eligibility, as required by tho Regula- tions.
Five prizes of $100 each will be awarded to the successiul candidates who obtain the highest marks. The winners of the prizes may enter any Faculty but must join the University on September 11th, 1916.
Holders of Scholarships and winners of prizes must reside in one of the Hostels
directly managed by the University.
Hongkong, 2nd Afarch, 1918, [443
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
A COMPETITION will be held over
the FAN LING Course commencing en 1st April for a prize kindly presented by HE the Governor. CONDITIONS. Match play under handicap. Limited to handicaps of 12
and over.
Entrance fee 30 cents per round, the proceeds to go to the War Charities Com- mittee,
Intending competitors are requested to
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NOTICE.
THE THIRTY-FOURTH ORDINARY
HOLDERS of the above Company will be ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE-
Pedder's Street, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the held at the Office of the General Agents, 31st March, 1916, at 11.30 AM., for the purposo of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1015.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will bo CLOSED from the 18th to 31st March, 1010, both days inclusives
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., General Agents. Hongkong, 12th March, 1916. [413
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA. DOCK COMPANY, LTD;
NOTICE.
HE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING
sign their names on the boards at Happy SHAREHOLDERS will be held Valley or Fan Ling er to send sam in writ- in the Office of the Company, 2, Queen's ing to the undersigned, c/o Messrs Bradley Buildings, Connaught Road, Hongkong, on & Co., Ltd., pot later than the 25th inst.
T. V. HILL,
MONDAY, the 3rd April, 1916, at 12 Noox, Acting Hon. Secretary,
for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts. Hongkong, March 14th, 1910.
for the year onding 31st December, 1915,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company DEET WATER BAY COURSE. will be CLOSED from the 27th March to the
3rd April, 1916, Loth days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
R. M. DVER,
Chief Menager Hongkong, 21st March, 1910,
ATION will be held on SATURDAY
MIXED FOURSOMES COMPETI-
and SUNDAY, 8th and 9th April
CONDITIONS:-27 hole against Bogey under handicap.
The Bogey score rind table of holes at which strokes are to be taken will he fixed later.
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HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LTD.
(Hongkong)
Entranca fee $2.00 per couple. Competitors must arrange their own part. N° org and opponents and are requested to. N COLONIAL (HORSE) REGISTER send their names to the undersigned, or to of the Company will he close from TUES. port saine on the boards at Happy Valley, DAY, 21st March, 1916, to WEDNESDAY, Fau Ling or the Hongkong Club before the 19th April, 1916, both days INCLUSIVE. 5th April.
By Order of the Board of Directors, T. W. HILL. Acting Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 2nd March, 1916,
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W. E ROBERTS
Secretary. Hongkong, 13th March, 1918.
IN
VALIMITED
AT OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that. an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above-named Company will be held at the Office of the General Agents, Messrs. JARDINE, MATHE. SON & CO., LTD., Hongkong, on FRI- DAY, the 31st day of March, 1916, at 11.35 o'clock in the forenson, for the purpose of considering and if thought fit passing a Extraordinary Resolutions the resolutions following, namely:
(1.) That it is desirable to re-construct the Company and accordingly that the Company bo wound up volon tarily and that Arthur Rylands Lowe, of Victoria, in the Colony, of Ho gkong, Chartered Accountant, be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding up and that Article 124 of the Company's Articles of Associa tion be cancelled accordingly.
SOLE AGENTS:"
S. WATSON
CO., LTD.,
not suppose anyone would advocate a re- turn to the old system in all its details, but we think that the re-introduction of that system on a modern basis will be pro ductive of an imense deal of good to China bath directly and indirectly. The primary object is to obtain men to Gil official posts; it is hardly probable that the mere fact of obtaining a certain degret will now be regarded as giving a man
& claim, ipso facto, to an appointment-it will more probably be inoked upon as a qualification only, and officials will be selcoted from those who possess it, It is customary in some comps to decry a syston under which men are given posts solely as WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, the result of a literary examination. It
TELEPHONE No. 616.
0183
BIRTH. RIGGE-At the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, on the 22nd March, to Mr. and Mrs. H. E. RIGGs, a daughter,
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, 23LD MAROH, 1916.
AN INTERESTING REVIVAL,
(2) That Messrs Jardine, Matheson & ONE of the most interesting revivals pro- Co., Ltd., the General Agents of this mised for this year in Ching is that of the Company, be autherised and request-
Section Machine-Gun Company with a
handsome gold luniinous watch as a mark of their esteem. The presentation was inade Captain G, G. Wood) in the Kowloon Dock by Lient. A. E. Wright (in the absence of
Recreation Club room during a smoking
concert, the programme for which had been arranged by Sergt. Cooper. Licut. Wright Corp), Vivensh was held by the section and spoke of the high regard in which Lance-
wished him good luck in lus venture. The
recipient suitably replied. Prizes were
presented for Company: musketry shoot to Lieut. Wright and Corp. Bolton, and Captain G. G. Wood and Sergt.-Majon Duncan received range prizes. The amok- ing concert programme was contributed to by the Kowloon Quarlette Party (Private rey, Corp. Brown, Corp. Smith and Private Allen), Priyato R. G. Soulberton, Private Bronu, Private W. B. Hind, Mr. J. L. Logan, and Mr. Pristen Privāto Uwed" "promatr zu accompan
cannot be denied that it is possible, and even occasionally happens, that a facile student of no practical ability does gain by this means a post in which he is useless. In the long rue, though, as our. Indian Civil Service hos shown, if the curriculum is made fairly comprehensive, it will be the On behalf of the citizens of Singapore, men of all-round ability who will best sur Mr. Frank Adam of the Straits Trading vive the test, and we think that the samo Co., presented the Malay States Volunteer will be proved in China. It is, however,Rifles Corps with a handsome silver cup the indirect fruit which will be the most. on the 12th inst, in recognition of the ser valuable. Since the revolution, centrifugal vice that it rendered when trouble in the force has been very aotive in China, and Fifth Light Infantry broke out in Febru the examination system, circling first roundary last year. There was the prefectural cities, then round the pro- vincial capitals and finally round Peking will be a valuable factor towards counter Bobing this fores,
&coremonial
parade on the padang at Kuala Lumpur before Their Excellencies the Governor and the General Officer Coximanding the Forces at the Straits. The trophy took the form. of a two-handled Roman urn, having upon ita obverse side the following engraved in-
A mail for Europe vid Siberia clases scription: Presented to the Malay States to-day at 8 pm,
The P. and O outward mail steamer Kashgar, with the London mail of the 10th
Volunteer Rifles by the citizens of Singa pore in recognition of their great services rendered to the Colony during the mutiny
ed to procure the incorperation in system of competitive examinations for instant, arrived at Port Said on the 20th of February, 1915." Upon the reverse sido
the Philippine Islands of a new Company to be called the Malabon Sugar Company (of which Messrs. Smith Bell & Co., Ltd., shall be
appointed by agresment General
Managers) with Arbicles of Incor poration and Bye-laws in such form General Agents ahall
ns the approva
publio posts Events have been gradually tending in this direction for a long time. The revolution put an end to the old bureaucracy and filled all the public posts
with soldiers or inexperienced students.
These have been gradually weeded, and replaced by men tried under the old
inst.
We learn that Sir Robert Ho Tong has joined the Consulting Committee of the Canton Insurance Office, Ltd., and the Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memo-
(3.)-That the draft Agreement sub régime. Then last year camo the requirial and Affiliated Hospitals acknowledges
mitted to this meeting marked "A" zent that all District Magistrates who had and expressed to be made between not passed examination should forthwith this Company and ita Liquidator of
the one part and the Malabon Sugar do so. But the examination now to be re- Company of the other part be and introduced is very different from that the same is hereby approved and under which a man is tested with a view to that the said Liquidator he and bo
is hereby authorised pursuant to his appointment to some particular post. Section 185 of the Companies Ordi Such examinations are usual in the Civil nanço 1911 to enter into an Agree. ment with such now Company (wherervice of every country; the peculiarity incorporated) upon the terms of the in China's old system lay in the fact that said draft Agreement, and to carry the examination for a literary degree, was the same into effect with auch (if any) modifications as he thinks also the one and only examination (save expedient
that of the purse) for entry into the public (4.) That the said Liquidater be service; the mere gaining of a degree was
Buthorised to obtain advances from Mesars Jardine Matheson & Co., the one regular method by which a post Ltd, of any moneya requisite upon in the Civil Bervice could be obtained. such terms as be fees fit and to Austher important, feature of the old system make arrangements if he thinks fit for Messrs Jardine Matheson was the way in which it linked up the &Co., Ltd, to continue managing country by emphasising the importance of the affairs of the Company on suchte head of each division and sub-division. terus as he thinks fit until the
undertaking of the Company is The candidates from the various Magia banded over to the said Malabou tracies had to assemble at the prefectural Sugar Company pursuant to any
Agreement entered into by virtue city to be examined; those who survived. of Resolution No 3. this test were consened from the several Should the above Resolutions le passed prefectures to pass another examination at by the required majority they wil be sub-the provincial capital; and then the gra- mitted for confirmation as Special Resolu lions to a second Extraordinary General destes at the provincial examinations had Matting which will be subsequently to proceed to Peking for the final examina. convened, deve
fion. Quite apart from the literary value Dated the 16th day of March, 1910,
of these examinations there can be ni JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LED doubt that the system was of service as a
General Agents,
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with thanks a donation of 2100 to the funds of the Hospitals from Mr. and Mrs. Yeung
inforina us that ho has received ad Mr. W. J. Carroll, share broker, vico from Kempas, Ltd. to the effect that they have declared a second in terim dividend of 15 per cent, making 25 per cent, to date, on account of the year to 30th June, 1916.
The very decomposed body of an Indian (apparently a Mahomriedan) was recovered from the Harbour near Stonecutter's Island on Tuesday. The body was almost fully dressed with boots, khaki trousers, grey shirt, and heavy overcoat, and a piece of a turban was tied round the legs, The police Lavo received no report that an Indian is missing
was engraved the badge of the regiment, below that its orest, then the Union Jack and T.M.S. flag crossed, printed on enamel, forming a very effective centrepiece. Underneath that again was engraved a model of the regimental button, A hend some abany plinth supported the trophy,
4 most successful concert, organised by the Women's Catholic League in aid of war charities, was held at the City Hell fast evening under the patronage of Lady
The programme was nicely varied and was May and his lordship Bishop Pozzoni. most entertaining, the contributors and
their items being as follow-Overture,
"J
Bohemian Girl (Balfe) Members of the Sociedade Philarmonica (under the Directorship of Professor Gonzales); Song, Good-bye (Tosti), Mrs Maitland; Concerto in D minor, 1st movement, (Mozart) (Cadenza by Roinecks), Mrs. F. X. Ribeiro und Prof. E. Danenberg, Song, Fioro Gentile," Mr. E. Goulart 'Aquino, Piano solo, «Venezis e Napoli, (Liszt), Miss Bertha Xavier - Rusticana), Mrs. Hyndman; Violin Solo, Song,“Voi lo Sapete" (Cavalleria "Thiais (Maffenet), Miss P. Gordon; Selection, Cavalleria Rustican, Mem- when you come home? (W. H. Squire), bers of the Sociedade Philarmonica Song, Miss A Gordon; Morceau du Concert, (Chaminade), Miss E. Osmand and Prof. hearer of a letter from her husband in Singa Braga) Mrs. Hyndman, vio in obligato E. Danenberg; Sung, Serenade," pore, and that the letter comained money. Miss M. Gordon, Piano solo 4 Rhapsodio Hongfolse No 12," (LAs) Muse Esther She was persuaded to band over a gold Xavier Bag 11 Segato Mis ther finger ring and a gold barge, worth $75, as E. Goulart d'Aquino, Violin solo, a guarantee of teknowledgment, and the***Selected,” Prof. Gonzales. Then was mas disappeared. Needless to say, he was satisfactory in view of the laudeblo objest a numerous attendance, which we most
not the bearer of a letter.
for which the concert was arranged,
A Chinese married woman was walking ng Queen's Road Control when a man accosted her and slate that he was the