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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
HAVE This Day REMOVED our
W Offices to the Second Floor of ND. QUEEN ROAD CENTRAL (formerly the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank Buildings)
THE HONGKONG MERCANTILE
* Co, Lanz Hongkong, 1st June, 1916.
NOTICE
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HE Connection of M. D. K. SETHNA with our Firm having CEASED, the Power given to him to Sign our Firm is hereby revoked
CAWASJEE PALLANJEE & Co. Hongkong, 1st June, 1918,
NOTICE
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R. H. S. ABDEALLI having rotired
MR Shis. Interest therein
Ceases us from the 31st May, 1910, The Firin will be carried on by MRS 7 ABDULKYUM
PUBLIC COMPANY
AND HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1916.
THE "STAR FERRY COMPANY LTD,
ARY
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVE that the
EIGHTEENTH O ANNUAL MEETING of this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs FARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD, TODAY (THURS DAY), the let of Jane, 1818 at Noor for the purpose of receiving the Reports of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to both April, 1910,
The REGISTER or SHABES of the Com pany will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 27th May, to THURSDAY, the 1st Juno, 1916, inclusive
By Order of the Board of Directors
PHILI R. WOLFF Acti Secretary. Hongkong, 20th May, 1918.
1722
HOUSES TO LET
and Ms. T. A TYLBKHAN, the remaining Gated, stable for 4 Moen
Partners.
H. HIPTOOLA & Co. Milliners and Drapers, 13 and 15, D'Aguilar Street.
(756
Hongkong, 1st June, 1910..
NOTICE
REUTER BROCKELMANN & Ca
(IN LIQUIDATION),
REDITORS are required to send in their Claims against the alsove Lucha Unner signed, St. George's Building, Claxter Road, on or beforn FRIDAY the 30th June, 1916. SHEWAN, TOMES L. Co.
Liquidators. Hongkong, lat June, 1916, 7
NOTICE
WM. MEYERINK & Co HTIMCKE
TO LET
LENSKIEL, 141 PRAL Partly For all details apply to y
GLENSHIEL,” Care of Dally Pro Offos,
TO LET
$749
OUR ROOMS and Servante Quarters at FW THE PEAR, Immediate possession.
Apply on the premises or write to
Cars ofDaily Trees" Office, 1740
TO LET FURNISHED.
No Com Within 10 minutes of TO. 5. THE PEAK SIX ROOMS and
(757)
Tran
Apply
ALL regarded to send
in their Claims to the
or before 30th June, 1916, Be
ALEX ROSS & Co.,
4, Des Voax Road, Liquidators.
(758
Hongkong, 3188 May, 1916.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
on
admitted as a Partner,
WERNEST ALFRED MOUNTFORD WILLIAMS, Incorporated Accountant and Chartered Secretary, into the Business carried on by us at Hongkong, Shanghai
0
HA LAMMERT
17209
TO LET.
FFICES un 1st Floor, No. 9, Queen's
Rond Central (In Ine House Street);" Apply to
WILKINSON & GRIST.
TO LET
(691
OFFICES on 1st Floor, No. 3. Queen's Road
Central, at present in the occupation of The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Apply to
CHINA FIRE INSURANCE Co., LTD
TO LET
Singapore and London, under the style ofFFICES in Princes Building«
LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, ander
which name we shall continue to practice as
Public Accountants and Auditors
AR LOWE
EBINGHAM
·N. MATTHEWS. Hongkong, 1st June, 1910e
VACUUM OIL COMPANY
1750
HAVE This Day handed over the Hong
I MR CONGDON,
who will Assume Charge as General Manager of the Company, I having This Day Resigned my position as General Manager of the and Company's Business in Hongkong adjoining Territories
W. A DOWLEY:
INTIMATION
JUST
ARRIVED.
FRESH CONSIGNMENT
OF
GIN
heights of VE and self ifice than at ordun The name will
SUPREME COURT INTERPRE-
TER RETIRES PRESENTED WITH VALUABLE GIFTS
ALLEGED CLEVER FRAUD.
___ EX-GOVERNMENT SERVANT
CHARGED, Z
to
of 1916 Leinous zu history:: something so entirely, now experience that it will go
A Chinese formerly employed as a clerk for centuries as a word to be spoken Mr Wong Kong Tin, Second luter- With ing approaching awe We preter to the Courts of Justice, who has in the Harbour Department and also at resigned his position after 18 years the Shankiwan Police Station appeared who
wall that the future of this
service to take up an important commer before the Magistrate yesterday Colony, the future of our British Empire,
cial posi
was yesterday presented answer charges of obtaining monics by the futur of mankind depends upon the
with severa costly and beautiful gifts, false pretences. The story of the prosec11- ultimate 1990s of this war feel profound
på en gaan kaubscribed for by members of the uption, if true, shows that the scheme was ly grateful to the nation which has pro-
at once daring and ingenious, Defond sented the wall of brass to the
ant on torrent of German steel at Verdun. Wo
Way2rospect and esteem The gifts consisted take this opportunity of telling our
of a silver tea service, silver ten tray French visitors that wherever the Union TEENAG
silver; sweet basket, pair of silver sweet
Jack flies to day there goca out a bomage to the glorious dead in France and prayer for the living
reme Court staff, civil servants, and other
friends to show in tangible form their the 18th May visited No. 3 Robin:
Stage, on Road, and, representing himself as. a clerk in the Secretariat for Cliness
dishes and an illuminated address, with Affairs. said he had learnt that the the names of subscribers, on a handsome premises had not been registered, and the occupants were therefore liable to a fine, silk scroll beautifully painted and em
A He asked how many people were living in It is difficult to take our thoughts from
broidered. There were also gold pendants
the house, and on being told there were the battlefield in Europe, but we must
for Mr. and Miss Wong look beyond the carnage and the blood-
The CHIPS INTERPRETER (Mr. N 0.20, said the principal tenant must pay shed to that now
him 22 registration fee. The man car- now world, the freedom of
Nolan) expressed the pleasure it gave BURNETT & CO.'S which is costing so many tears and so his to make the presentation on behalf ried in his hand a piece of white paper.
SIR ROBERT
OLD TOM
AND
DRY.
A. S. WATSON
CO., LTD.,
much pain. We are as confident as our French friends of the ultimate issue. A few years ago Lord, RoBEDERY warned. us at a great Press dinner in London that Europe was rattling back into barbarism. We may be sure that even Lord ROSEBERY failed to appreciate the details of the barbarism that was to come In his most gloomy moments he could never have pictured tuch crimes as those associated with the names of Nurse CAVELL and the Lusitania. This genera tion has experienced a bitter lesson in &ded. It will, wo are convinced, build,
WINE & SPIKIT MERCHANTS,
HONGKONG AND CHINA.
BADS
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Apply to
SHEWAN, TONES & Co., Liquidators, REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co.
TO LET RAVENSHILY BAST, Pak Load, containing 8 Booms, 3 Bath Room,
Quarters, &e. Vsount 10% Herember, DEACON LOOKER DEACON &
(HARSTON,
TO LET
180
生肉
ESTARLISHED AD. 1841.
TELEPHONE 616
DEATH HUMMEL Killed action in France RAYMOND HUNKEL, aged 29, Tat-Font 19th Batt Prince of Walee. Own W Yorks. Regiment, fifth son of the late Prol J J. HUMMEL, and brother of B. URE HUMMEL and GMW de HUMMEL, of Shanghai.
HONGKONG Orton:, 102, Des Your Hoan, C.
on wolid foundations, o new Europe; in which the horrors of to-day will be mado impossible. Unless we despair utterly of the future of the human race, we must believe that these things can never bap- pen again. We must lift our eyes beyond Europ The world is daily becoming more interconnected.
Even the polities
of China affect the money markets and the trade of other parts of the earth The steamship and the telegraph have
The tenant was a trifle suspicious, and "said he would accompany the man to the.
of the recipient's numerous friends ns à token of the high esteem and grost respect they had for him He would yemen. Defendant than took him to a building, outside whieli was a bronze have much preferred, however, to endear your to induce him to remain in the figure, which he said was a bank, und. service rather than hand him these pre-asked for the money, which was to be, de
e, after all, mere rifles posited in that bank. The money was sent which were, after when compared with the great value of handed over, defendant asking the other Mr. Wong's services, which they were to wait a while. Subsequently he cama about to lose During his (Mr. Nolan's) back, and gave the tenant a blue paper, 26 years' experience in the service he had which was an exchange-broker's contract never seen a more industrious and pains form, on which were written, in Englisli, taking worker. His rapid promotion to the words, ... Full man ! I seo you like a
the post of Second Interpreter to the cat!" The tenant apparently still per-
Courts of Justice one of the highest sisted in being taken to the defendant's positions open to Chinese in the service master, and defendant contrived to still and his subsequent appointment for 18 his victim's suspicions by taking him months as Chief Interpreter, went to to the compound of the Central Polico show how the Government appreciated Station, where there were a number of and rewarded him for his honesty and mon drilling. He told the suspicious onst integrity Mr Wong had also gained to wait a bit, and then returned, saying vast experience in clerical work, includ that the officer was engaged in drilling, ing the keeping of the accounts of the and could not see him; he told him to Department, and this experience would be return the next day. Defendant did not of great use to him as Becretory of the
renew his profitable acquaintance with
mado such a change that what happens I Company which he would be going his victim on the following day?
in Africa or Asia affects Europe, America and Australis. After the end of hostili ties in Europe, mankind will demand an era of peace and international quiet It will never again tolerate the rattling of the sabre and such phrases us that about shining armour Attention will be directed to wo ts of construction, not of Destruction,
When peace comes again France and Britain will possess the largest Colonial
nsibilities. Both countries very seriously appreciate what, that means. In all parts of the world our interests will overlap. The friendship which has
Hongkong, 1st June, 1916. DD A SMALL GODOWN is PRINCE'S LONDON OPFIER: 181, FREE STREET, EC. been sealed in blood can never contain
VACUUM OIL COMPANY.
Mais position as General Manager of rit. W. A. DOWLEY having Resigned this Company Business in Hongkong and rdjoining Territories, no longer holds the
Company's Power of Attorney.
BUILDINGS ADDIN
For particulars, steŭ apply ( THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE,
LTD
TO LET.
From 1st May
065
I have To-day Assume Charge of thisFFICES, 2nd Floor, St. George's Build-
Company's Business in Hongkong and in
adjoining Territories
"...J, H. CONGDON,
General Manager.
Hongkong. Ist June, 1916.
761
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Apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. 018
AVTO LET
First Floor
The
Daily Press
HONGKONG, 1ST. VU E, 1916-
the possibility of misunderstanding In the Far East, as in Africa, there arð many problems demanding solution French Indo-China is each year being drawn, by trade and international pol tics, nearer to Hongkong. We are de lighted to know that the representative THE WORK OF FRANCE
of the gallant French, nation who is with Tar Colony is being honoured by the
us now is pleased with his vint of His Excellency M. Rore, the hope that it is the forerung Governor General of Indo China. In others......... Professional and
of many.
mercial
antage
Two or three days afterwards, however,
the trickster went to No. 31, Caino Road, and, adopting similar methods, relieved the principal tenant of $12.50 The lattör- Amb was taken to a shop in Wing Lok Street,
and was handed another exchange brokers.contract form, on which was
ritten a number of figures
to-day During his 18 years service he had not only mastered all the various Cantonese dialects, but had also passed and obtained certificates in Hoklo and Hakka, and had taken up Fukien, Mandarin, and Chiuchon, in which he was thoroughly efficient, and would have obtained certificates for them had Hə chosen to go up for examination. These three additional dialects would prove to be of great value to him in his futurs
career.
The police got on the track of the mam and ultimately arrested him. When searchod & 810 was found concealed in mis It is not generally known," continued stocking and 8.50 was taken from his Mr Nolan, that your feelings
of pocket loyalty as a British subject roused you to form a Chinese Volunteer Corps, to assist in the protection of this Colony against our enemy at the outbreak of war. Your suggestion was submitted by you, with the signatures of other loyal Chinese, to the Government, who, in reply suggested the formation of a
an-
ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.
At the Magistracy yesterday elderly, benevolent-looking Chinese was
5,000 Lelonging to the Sze Hop firm, charged with embezzling a sum of over
contractors. The defendant, whose name Chinese Police Reserve instead. On re-
is Chan Taz Ping, was, the prosecution ceipt of this proposal from the Govern
alleged formerly secrotary to the com ment you immed tely set to worl and Agwith the assistance of. number of other papy and hold the keys. It was alleged gentlemen, wers successful in forming the that he had made a fraudulent entry in the excellent Chinese sections of the Special books of having paid a sum of $1,500 to Police Reserve, which the popular and a pereon unnamed about the 14th May A. 8 WATSON & CO, LIMITED NO DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, addition to the personal gratification of men in Hongkong might, with
energetic DSP (Mr. FC Jenkin) his last year, and on going through the books THE COMMODIOUS DWELLING meeting such a distingolabed Colorist visit the nearest possession of our ally TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
brought to such a high standard of a shortage was found of 21 692.77 This THIRTY FIRST ANNUAL HOUSE, with Omoeg, Servants, Quarters, &'c.acnsinistrator, it is peculiarly pleasing Already the Allies are making i
eficiency Besides being the promoter of amount should have been in the anto, but ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the No. 14, SHAMEEN, CANTON, from 1st June to be reminded of the close bonds which
arrangements for the rebuilding their
the Chinese Police Reserve, you have also defendant attempted to explain it by say Company (since its registration) will be bold present in the cecupation of the Imperia
now encircle the friendship of the French
trade If these contain as is not at the HONGKONG HOTEL, Hongkong Resin Corsalate,
with aid of your colleagues, approacheding that he had lent the money to a per FRIDAY, the Pth day of June 1918. at Noor
and British nations or weeks the sible, some profezential clauses between for the purpose of receiving the Report of
whole civilised world has watched with the Allies, they will affect both Indorinin nese gentlemen ongkong son whose name he was not able to give. the General Managers together with a
who, as a result of your persuasive power, anxiety, and yet with confidence, the China and Hongkong. Britain and supplied complete outfits of uniform to Statement
ement of Accounts to the alat December.
magniscent display of our gallant Alliance have a great mission in develop the different sections when they were frst Tarraco, at Vordun. She is a wall of brass
ing the natural resources of Asia. We organised, thereby saving considerable derman, you shall not pass, you shall ensure our visitors that Hongkong expense to the Government. Your rapid not, shall not pass writes Mr. HAROLD will be only too pleased to make addi
pational links in that great shein of fri Begdie in his stirring poem on this bis-
P ship which draws together the French faric battle. France, has, indeed, beep and British people wonderful at Verdun. hundreds of Tears the British have appreciated and admired the, dushing national, churac teristics which were suppose to reveal themselves only during th
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com-
Apply to
D DAVID BASSOON & Co, Ltd.
TO LET
HOUSE
pany will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the A Li
b June, to SATURDAY, 101 June, 1916,- hoth days inclusive, during which period no
Transfer of Shares can be registered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, By General Managora. „
Hongkong, 31st May, 1016.
WANTED
₤415
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENDY CO, 140,
TO LET
762
TWO BOOMED AT:
FLAABIS
ROOM
We for July 1st, 1918,
/ ELL-Established Import and Export
the Services
English-Speaking
COMPRADONE, with Staf. 850,000 Becarity Must be active well-connected, able arc willing to push the business.
Address with particulars fo→
COMPRADORE” Care of “Daily Press " Office. Hongkong 3 th May, 1916
BRITIS
WANTED
Thres
Mails for Enro today at 9am and
Biberia close.
promotion likewise in the Police Reservo from constable to the envious rank of
Inspector sŁOWE YOU
MINATION to adva sion trust that
astion of those
Mr. W A Dowler (General Manager capti of the Hongkong office of the Vacuum aba Oil Company) has resigned. He 1 succeeded by dr H. Congdon, an
mbition and dater In conclu
or you lenarture.
can ill afford to lose such excellent.
Defendent said that he had nothing what over to do with the accounts. He was the manager of the firm, and was partner.
He dealed the offence, and said that sines
the 18th October complainant had been in charge of the accounts When he hand- cd the books over to hum they were correct The def int was released by consent Ka personal bond of 8100, and the hear-
used next week" Mr R ifull appears for complainant
was so popular among you as to deserve this
& Matthews at Hongkong, Shanghai, your good sell, all of whom, after serving to tame selected Singapore and London
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FOUR BOOMED HOTALS, La Gordon.
Apply to="
Lowbors
BUMPHREYS ESTATE & SINANOS
Alexandra Buildings
(603
unfortunate events of 1870 hate evinantly Teen taken too much at the German valuation. This nation, which during the past
two months, has revealed every depth of deceit and cr forty years insisted upon ness of their superiority in the milit affairs which culminated in the sieg Paris Possibly the history of which have now brought such
p
Wong Tak Kwong he Der
carried on by Feasta, Lowe, Bingham, and interpreter to the Registrar, and
Mr EA M. Williams has been Translator), Mr. Wong Kin Wo (elerk dited as a partner into the business
tame
Sir William: and. Lady were am
Rees Davins ho left the
Your
or six, Len, and 18 years respectivelys have resigned within the past six month
most duusual thing to occur in any rtment in the service in spet & short time in asking you to accept you and
258 and prosperity
always tried to
bodr
charg
the dut those
feel effort
have been so
'am" exceedingly
to
the fut
RITISHER Seoks Employment, tempor- ary on otherwise, alany years' experi- in the East. Excellent references and testimoniala. No objection to cut ports. ****
Apply
Care of "Daily Freas Office Hongkong, 30th May, 1916.
WANTED
748
Foldgent Chinese Chamele
FOR Bingapore CHINESE CLERK with
thorough knowledgo of English oue! would be required mainly 4 or tran Work
Apply — ABC
Care of Daily Press. Hongkong, 29th May, 1918.
TO LET.
FACES & Connanght Road.
OFFICES in Kinoy Hallding. HOUSE CLIFTON GARDENS Conduit Rowd
No. HILLSIDE. THE PRAL
ad WEST END
HONGKONG
Whirlwind over Lur
We can apprecis
lity of these,
that France, ID:
has never retched)
Colon
The
Among those who Homs yesterday were WC Bounty and
A G. Coppies, and
And Mrs. E. 3: Chapman
The Local branchi Kazba inform us that of telegrap
For your
«Conissued on rent Golumn.)
to have to part w
tou
ends with whom
haven
am, much rindness and thank Those splendid resti-
preservo, and. life in remem