NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
TO LET UNFURNISHED. From 1st October, 1916.
ROOMS at Seymour Terraco..
3
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TURSDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH, 1918,
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION.
HEREBY GIVEN that
NPROVISIONAL CERTIFICATE NO. 48/713, dated Hongkong, 17th February, 1008, for One Bliare numbered 92518 Registered in the name of Miss SARAR DUNCAN FISKE has been LOST or STOLEN, and should this Certifiente not be produced to the Bank before the 30th September 1916, a now Certificate for the Share 1l be issued and the aforesaid Provisional Certificate No. 48/13 this Corporation will be thereafter treated by as Null and Void.
By Order of the Court of Directors
N. J. STABB
FOR SALE. NOTICE TO INTENDING PURCHASERS. ENDERS for the purchase of the HULL TENDE MACHINERYX of a Steel Twin Screw River Steamer built in 1904, recently damaged by fire, and now lying in Shanghai. Harbour as per advertisement in this paper on 9th, 11th and 12th inst, must be lodged with Messrs. GrBE, LIVINGSTON & THE HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY Shanghai, not later than MONDAY, 25th September, 1916.
[1165
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
JAVA CHINA-JAPAN-LIJN.
JAYA PACIFIC LIJN.
THE
HE Steamship
"KABIMOEN," haring arved from SAN FRANCISCO Consignent of Cazgo are hereby notified that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hasardons Godown of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Lid., whoose and/or from the wharven delivery may be obtained.
Chief Manager.
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Hongkong, 1st September, 1818.
COMPANY, LIMITED
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE SIXTH ORDINARY YEARLY
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Company's Office St George Build Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 30th 1918, at 11:30 AL for the purpose
the presenting
Report of the Goneral Managers and Statement of Account to Managers tot
of the Company The TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 15th to the 30th- September, both days inclusive vitis
GORDON & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong 16th September, 1916. [1145
HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
No Claim will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Good: 17 THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING penalting undelivered after the 24th Sept: will of shy abore Society, will be held in the be subject to rent.
MA CITY HALL on MONDAY, 25th September All Claims against the Steamer must be · prw wanted to the Undersigned on or before the 28th 1916, at 6.30pm, for the purpose of receiving Sept., or they will not les recognized, and the Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for the rear ending 31st August; electing office-bearers for the ensuring year, &c.
All broken, obafed, and damaged Goads arof be left in the Godowan, whore they will ba Yamined on the 23rd Bert. at 10, by the Company's surveyors, Moses. Goddard & Donglan
No Fire Insursos kas been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by JAVA-CHINA JAPAN LIJN. Hongkong, 18th September, 1918.
NOTICE
B.S. "AUGUST BELMONT.”
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NEITHER the Captain nor the Owners will be Responsible for any Debts incurred by the Officers or Crow of the above
-vessel.:
Hongkong, 12th September, 1016. [1133
NOTICE
beg to inform the public that I have This Day Established myself us Watchmaker, Repairer, etc
All work done on the Premises and all orders will have my careful attention.
JAMES STEER
(late of Cus, J. GAUTP & Co.), No. 4, D'Aguilar Street.
[1080
Hongkong, Tat September, 1818.
NOTICE.
SIEMSSEN & CO. HA. SIEBS.
O. STRUCKMEYER.
F DANIELSEN R. STUTZKE
ANY persons having Claims against the A above who have not already lodged same with the Liquidators are requested to present same to the Undersigned before 30th September, 1918
ALEX. ROSS & Co, Liquidstors of the above. [1083
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HENDERSON, Hon. Secretary....... Hongkong, 16th September, 1916, [1151
HONGKONG CLUB.
-NOTICE.-
THE THIRTIETH and FINAL HALF-
TYEARLY DRAWING of 115 DEBEN-
TURES (1898 issue) of the HONGKONG CLUB, Payable on SATURDAY, the 30th
September, 1816, will be held in the Club House at 11 o'clock AM on FRIDAY, the 22nd September, 1918.
Bearers of Debentures are invited to attend the Dmwing
By Order.
EDES VIEUX, Secretary, Hongkong, 14th September, 1910.1144
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION
No S. 192
TT 18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that SEALED
INDERS in duplicate, which should be clearly marked TENDER FOR MEDICAL DEPARTMENT CONTRACT, will be received at the Colonial Secretary 4. Office until Noon of SATURDAY, the 7th October, 1816, for the Supply of Aerated Waters Bedding and Clothing Beers,
Wines eter Spirit of Wine: Spirits Chemicals, Drugs, Surgical Instruments and Sundries: Furniture, etc. Milk, stel Pro visions; Sundries; and Washing. (Schedules Nos. 1 to 10) required locally by this Department for the period of one year from the first of January next inclusive.
Application should be made to the Colonial Secretary's Office for the necessity forms of Tender. All other information may be obtained from the Principal Civil Medical Officer at the Civil Hospital
J.T. O. JOHNSON, Principal Civil Medical Officer. Medical Department,
[1138 Hongkong Rih September. 1916.
NOTICE.
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OFFICES IN HOTEL MANSIONS.
10 LET, from 1st October 1918, Four Largo Connecting ROOMS on the Third Flcor of Hotel Mansone, faxing Blake Pier At present occupied by the Com BIBBOLAL UNION ASSURANCE COMPANY.
For particulars apply to
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TO LET
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PEAK, from 1st November, 1916.
LINSTEAD & DAVIS
[1109
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XTOS. 0 and 10, MOUNTAIN VIEW
·PEAK GODOWN, No. 111, Prays East, Storage
900 tons
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M. J. D. STEPHENS,
18, Bank Buildings.
1007
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From 1st November next.
LATS in EWO MESS, No. 8, THE Apply, Property Office,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.
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ingu, Apply to
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It has been reported to the Police that a woman aged 3 years, living at Shall Pek village, Lautoa Island, attempted suicide by hanging herself on Sunday, Sho has been taken to the Government Civil Hospital,
The General Managers of the Douglas. Steamship Company have declared final dividend of 4 per cent. for the year ending 30th June, 1916, and a Bonus of $8 per share to shareholders, and will write off BUS, 150.85 for Dipreciation of steamers and properties of the Company, and transfer 878,000 to the Ieserve Fund, subject to confirmation at the General Meeting to be held on the 20th of September
generous recognition, and when, after the war, labour problems have to be solved, it is certain that the oppor Sunities which will undoubtedly arise of paying this just debt will be welcomed by the country as a whole. It is now generally recognised that there will have | to be some re-adjustment of our fisen! policy to meet the sitered conditions brought about by the war. Our nation, al scourity demands that some con trol shall be exercised by the Government in the development of our trade. Occupa tion will have to be found for our soldiers when the armies are disbanded, and the thousands of workers who have been loyally carrying on at Home while the men of fighting age have been engag During the week ending September. ed in the trenches cannot be removed 10th, a non fatal Chinese case of bubonic from the work in which they have been plague was reported. In the same period engaged and for which, in many instances, there were two non-fatal Chinese pages of they have shown special aptitude. The enteric fover, a non-fatal Chinese case of puerperal fever, and four fatal cost of living has increased considerably,
Since Jat and the standard of wages will neces-Chiness casca of small-pox. sarily have to be revised, if only to meet this._ Tentative efforts are being made to provide land for those men whose in- elinations lead them towards an out-door life, and the Duke of Sutherland hos given 12,000 acres in Scotland to the Government for this purpose. The
ry 1st there have been 33 cases of laguo in the Colony (seven being im- Forled) and, with the exception of one case, all proved fatal.
Money and jowellery valued at 2512 was stolen from a lock-fast box at 91, Wellington Street, between the 14th and 10th inst. A theft of 380 and a bank deposit draft for 81,200 on thổ Chartered Bank are reported by an Indian watch- men, who 15 employed by Messrs. Will. & Jack, to have been stolen from the store at 12, Praya East. The watchman states that the thief camo down the chimney and broke open the box containing the money.
Colonies, also, ure making arrangements to welcome new settlers and will doubt leas absorb many thousands, despite all the efforts which may be made in the shape ofcounter-attractions to prevent that anticipated exodus of enterprising manhood from the Mother country, the prospect of which is viewed with concern in some quarters. But these are merely palliative measures, touching the fringe
There was a large gathering at St. of the problem before the nation. It is John's Cathedral Inst evening, when Mr. inconceivable that the men of KITORENER's Denman Fuller gave another of his ens army, will be content to return to the tertaining series of orgau recitals - on grooves out of which the war has lifted behalf of the Navy League War Fund. them, nor will they be satisbed with the The soloists were Miss Vera Crees fe and prospects of the farm labourer as | (violinist) and Mr. J. Dowar. The latter ho existed under the old régime. A new made his fira appearance before a
& broad policy covering the whole relation Hongkong audience, but his rendering of
ERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS
TILEPHONE 438.
013
BIRTH BRYSON At the Government: Civil Hospital, on the 18th inst, to Mr. and Mrs. A P. Burson, a son
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1976.
LABOUR AFTER THE WAR,
THE war has made unprecedented de mands upon practically every section of
OFFICES on 1st Floor, M., Comm's Boad the British people-exent, perhaps.
Central, at present in the occupation of The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
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the few whose lot has been east in the Crown Colones--and it is to the glory of the Empire and to the credit of the race that those demands have been invari ably met in spirit of willing self- sacrifice. From none has the response to
s'ip of Capital, Labour and Government | The Lost Chord," and also his perfer- control will-have-to-be-initiated, and mance m a duct for violin and voice will what more favourable opportunity could make him very popular when next he there lo for this than the present, when | figures upon a local programme, Miss all classos have learned to understand | Vern Cress is a young violinist who mude one another better and the whole of her debit, before-a Haugkong audience our national organisation is being about a year ago, Miss Creus has made
Abonmarked unprovement since passo under review?
then, and announced in the House of Com- this was especially notictable in her mone, when *ntroducing the Paris Con- rendering of Schumann's beautiful ference resolutions, that the Goverankent. Dreaming." Mr. Derman Fuller was consider themselves under an obligation responsible for some delightful organ to see that the benefits which result from pieces, and he gave a particularly fao the contemplated changes are fairly interpretation of The Storm (Lem- apport oned among all sections of the mens). The recitals are becoming increas- community Herein lies the germ of the ingly popular, and Mr. Fuller's efforts in this direction are much appreciated by hope for a botter understanding between the two forces which have so often been the really musical public. The collection
farandi amounted to $160, in conflict in the past. To maintain our national trade at the highest possible level in order to defray the enormous cost of the war in the face of the keen competition which is expected, it will to nccessary to avoid industrial disputes and to eliminate Trades Union rules re- stricting output. This can only be dono by making it clear to the working classes that there is no desire unfairly to exploit their efforts, and that it is in their own interest to give of their best solution of the difficulty seems to lie in the extension of the profit sharing
When the Kwangsi banknotes Chae Wes system, which has already given good resumed at the Hongkong Magisterey
Under this system the workpeople speedi Assistant Superintendent of Police, íu- hearts that their interests are identical timated that Li Sai Fan, of Wing Om with those of their employers, and Both Street, a well-known broker, had been benefit. We want the happy relationship arrested in Court that afternoon on a which exists between offers and men in warrant, in connection with the same
Onc
TYPHOON WARNING.
The following telegram was received by the American Consulate General Hong- kong, from the Manila Observatory ---
Sept. 18th, 4pm-Cyclone or typhoon E of Balintang Channel, moving NW. DEN.N.W
POLICE REST VE HAUL. DEVELOPMENT IN KWANGSI BANKNOTE CASE.
CERTIFICATE, is open for employ A desiring to leave the Colony should apply ment as MASTER on China Coast or in writing for permimicní to do so to the Capture NTO. 4, DEB VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL the call of duty been made with greater results where it has been introduced, yesterday afternoon, Mr. T H King, Foreign-going steamer
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THE STRAITS TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED
(Incorporated in Singapore)..
N connection with the proposed increase
The company's Capital the holders of bearer share warrants desirous of claiming an allotment of the bonus shares are notified
that they will be required to exchange their abers warrants for registered share certifi cates, and the attention of shareholders is drawn to the fact that the bonus shares issued will rank for dividend proposed to De
from 1st October, 1916, and that therefore no
dividend will be payable in respect of them
until about June, 1917.20
By Order of the Board,
IL. A. E THOMSON, Secretary.
Dated at Singapore, the 29th August, 1916.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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THE Undersigned has received instructions
To sell by Public Auction,
ON THURSDAY,
the 31st September, 1918, commencing at
A, at his Fales Rooms, Daddell Street, ex 63. FERNANDO Po" from Lisbon, 188 Cases WINES and PROVISIONS Ito be sold in lots to smit or basers)
**Calton delivery
GEO P LAMMERT, Auctioneer,
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SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, "E funst
THE COMMODIOUS DWELLING 48 hours before the intended hour of departure, giving name, nationally, age, cara beigh's and HOUSE, with Olloon, Serrano Quarto, Doongion of the applioso, and stating the No. 14, SHAMEES, CANTOn, from 1st June, så name of the steamer or other vessel or the hous present in the occupation of the Imperial of the train by which the Applicant waher to Russian Consulate, leave. Applicants should apply in person for Their passo at the CENTRAL POLICE Stazion between the houm of 9 am, to 1.2.5. Raich I P.M. fo 4 F.M. daily.
JUST RECEIVED
RESA Supply of FLOWER
VEGETABLE SEEDS,
Bad
GRACA & CO.
No:4; WIKOLLAM DYRKEZ,
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DAVID BASSOON & Co., L. [415
TO LET.
OFFICES at 2, Connaught, Boed
OFFICER in King'a Buildings, HOUSE I CLIFTON GARDENS," Conduit Road
No 11, and 2 WEST END TERRACE CANTON
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY Co, Las als
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the trenches to be continued, when the
The Manager of the Bank at Wuchow, war is over, in our factories and wor Guy Haywood, who de suds. Witness de- was recalled and ero vniued by Mr.
shops.
Mr. Roger Culver Tredwell, at one time American Vice-Consul and deputy Consul General in Yokohama, has been appointed Consul at Rome,
of Finance ab- on dollars of Vitness added
bank since the
Republic and
clared that he did nomber the Chief Director of the Bun sconding with one Kwangsi notes about A mail for Europe za Siberia closes that he had been in
First-Year of the Chan tomorrow at 10:30a.m.
the Commissioner of a hanc at that timo was Yim Duen, and hɩ of hot abscond.
Mr. Haywood sa 15 in a posi tion to call the
Governor of The Acting Governo in his (Mr. Kwangaz to support we had said.
Haywood's) office only morning
The Bank Manage 60 asked by Mr. Haywood if his sued 10 cent notes
Kwei-lung-
case for the Fad intended
arrested
yalty than from the ranks of labour. and members of al political parties are agreed that the country owes them a special debt of gratitude which must be paid in some practical form when peace shall have been declared. Equally with the upper and middle classes, they have sont forth their best to risk their lives, and without their co-operation, as Mr. BONAR LAW has admitted, it would have been impossible to carry conscription. Rightly or wrongly, labour has been con- scientiously opposed to compulsion in any shape or form on the ground that it would strike at the root of those or ganisations upon the strength and vitality of which the working classes based all their hopes of industrial independence. When, however, they were convinced that TWO BOOMED-FLATS in Nathan Road more men were needed to win the war and THREE-ROOMED FLATS Humphrey's that those men could not be obtained by voluntary enlistmen; their opposition FOUR-BOOMED FLAT ₺ May Road with every modern convenience, Lesinding was withdrawn. Again, when the pr English Bathe and Kitchen Bangen, Hot Water and Water Carriage Bynum, & forgress of our armies was delayed by a Flats specially designed to accommodate the shortage in the supply of munitions and vachelors at ressonable rentals. Immediate it was realised that Trades Union regu
We are informed that owing to unfort- Terms for Advertising (Translation UR BOOMED HOUSE in Gordonations were restricting the output of free) can be obtained at the Office, 104, Terrace and Salisbury Armuss, Kowloon
our factories, it was agreed that those seen circumstances, it has been decisio Des Voeux Boad Central, Hongkong, 131.ply onli
regulations should be suspended, though to postpone the aquatic sports meeting Fleet Street, Londen or from the different HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANOP Agents
bu
they represented the fruit of years of in connection with the St. John's Continuous struggle, Buel sacrifices, ubulance Brigade Overeeas until 14th Zoubtedly deserve whole-hearted and Entries will close on the 30th inst.
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I Kowloon
Bulldings, Kowloon,OMN
1005
not at Wuchow
Witness "replied--~
The Bishop of Victoria has gone on a visit of inspection to Yunnanfu, where the Anglican Church has a Doctor and a Clergymen working. He will also visit Pakhoi, and expecte to be back in the Mr. Haywood-T Colony early in October
Mr. King said the prosecution. The calling as a witnes
extraordinary ond to be called The Sai Fan give defo: that the latter w We do not admiten forgeries
Pry Wood sugar should be tried fir This course was was then adjourns the police to consi regard to Li Bai F
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he ought
was that Li
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notes are
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