NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
EXHIBITION AND SALE
OIL PAINTINGS Executed by E. BELSITO, Esq.. IN AID OF
WAR CHARITIES,
Under the Distinguished Patronage of
LADE MAY;
AT THR
CITY HALL,
From AM to 5 PM:
WANTED.
LESSONS in Spanish.
Apply...
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Care of "Daily Press," Office.
"A. P. C.,"
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WANTED.
YOUNG STENOGRAPHER
A GENERAL CLERK
Apply stating salary required to
And
M. K. LO, Care of EWERS & NEEDHAM.
WANTED.
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OR Ostport in February, 1917, NURSE, Portuguese or Eurasian proferrol, for two Children aged 7 and 4. References required.
Apply to
Box No. 42, Care of "Daily Prom" Office [1412
_PUBLIC_AUCTION.
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH, 1916.
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET.
TO. 1, CANTON VILLAS, Kowloon,
Apply
DEC. 2-10. 1916,
No
National
Mission
Repentance
Hope
AND
MISSIONER: BISHOP NORRIS.
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"KISMET "
A.D.C. Production
on behalf of the
THE Undersigned how wood instructions "STAR AND GARTER FUND
to well by Public Auction,
TO-DAY (MONDAY).
the 27th November, 1918, commencing at 3 P.M., at No. 19, Queen's Road Central, 1st Floor, above Aling's Furniture Store,
ONE BILLIARD TABLE, by Hening Bros., London.
With 2 Bots of Balls, Marking Board. Cues,
and Resty.
On View Now.
TERMA-Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
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KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART
MAATSCHAPPY
OF BATAVIA-JAVA.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEER
FROM BELAWAN. DELI, FENANG AND SINGAPORE.
THE Steamship
"g* JACOB" haring arrived from is above ports Consignees of Cargo by her so noted that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godewas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company, Ltd., whence sud/or from the Wharves delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by December 3rd will be subject to rent.
All brokas, chafed and damaged prokages ure to te left in the Gedoror, where they will be examined by Mesure. Goddard sad Dongiss on Deosmaber ind, at 10 a..
Claims against the Steamer must be prevented in writing within 10 days after arrival of Steamer, otherwise they will not be recognised.
No Fire Ioʻpranes will be effeated by the undersigood in any case whatever.
Bulls of Lading will be countersigned by
JAVA CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Agenta. Hongkong, 26th November, 1916. 1414
WODEHOUSE CUP, LADIES' COMPETITION AT FANLING COURSE.
LADIES Foursomes 18 holes Nodal Play on big Course at Fanling. No matches will be played on SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS or PUBLIO HOLIDAYS.
18 Holes Handicap Modal Play entries close at Fanling and Happy Valley Club Hones ou December th.
W. D. KRAFT. Acting Hon. Secretary.
LADIES
CHAMPIONSHIP.
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CUP has been kindly presented for the above Competition, for the Ladies' Championship of Hongkong, for Members of 16 handicap or under-to be the property of the Lady who wins it three times.
To be played on the big. Course at Failing on week days during January and February The Final to be played on a SUNDAY.
The Winner each year shall play through in the following year.
Players are allowed to pick out of anywhere in the Course under penalty of one stroke.
Entries close December 15th, at Fanling and Happy Valley Club Houses,
W. D. KRAFT, Acting Hon. Secretary.
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BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCILS, TIENTSIN, NORTH CHINA. THE COUNCILS are propared to receive applications from British Subjecta for the post of HUNICIPAL ENGINEER.
Candidates will be required to pase a mundical examination as to their fine for the position.
Applications namuld state age, qualifications, sal required, etc., and should be forwarded, together with copies of testimonials and parti- enlars of previous employment, to the Under aigaed en or before 31st December, 1916
By Order,
J. E. LYNESS, Boeretary.
Comments Office,
Tintin, 6th November, 1916.
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for Soldiers and Sailors totally disabled in the War.
& A LA NIGHT-FRIDAY, SECOND NIGHT-SATURDAY, THIRD NIGHT-MONDAY, MATINE E-WED'DAY,
PRICES:
ES
HONGKONG LAND INVESTY MENT AND AGENCY Co., LTD.
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TO LET.
FO. 42, ELGIN STREET.
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING.
Apply to
TO LET.
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FFICES in HOTEL MANSIONS-Four
OFE
large rooms (communicating) facing Blako Pier and the General Post Office. No. 9, 10, 11 and 12 on the Third Floor of Hotel Mansions
For particulars apply-
MANAGER, HONGKONG HOTEL.
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TO LET-AT THE PEAK. FURNISHED, 3, Stewart Terrace,
Apply
H. E. POLLOCK,
Princes Buildings.
TO LET.
INTIMATION
WATSON'S
FINEST OLD
BROWN
Thirty Japanese policemen, the employ
is none that offers such possibilities as It is interesting to observe that H.E.. Szechuan, so it is no wonder that, for the Governor's oldest daughter, Mrs. de- years past much attention has been de- Foublanque, is at present working in No. voted to the question of providing means
2. General Hospital, Chelsen, of communication with the outer world. The phase that has attracted most atten- tion has been the railway question, went of whom was authorized by the especially since the unhappy experiences Shanghai Municipal Council of the Chuan-Han Railway Company, months ago, arrived in Shanghai last the Railway Loan of 1011, and the agita week by the Kumuno Marn... tion and rebellion against the nationali- zation policy which finally culminated the revolution. It is, however, open to
in BRANDY doubt whether a railway to Chengtu or
E
QUALITY.
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選
Brown Brandy
Aalboratory Villas, Kowloot.
With Tennis Court.
Apply
ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co., 14, Des Van Road Central
TO LET.
From lab November next.
(1918
TALATS in "EWO MESS," No. 8, Ta
FLA
PEAK
Apply Property Office
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.
(1088
DEC. 15TH,
16r.
18ra. 20TH
TO LET.
ODOWN in Daddell Street, Light and Moderate rent,
Gala Night-Centre Dress Circle Sests 810 and all remaining Senta $5.
The Seats for the following nights are:-
Dress Circle
Stalls
Pit...
$4.
3.
I.
Goverlooking Status Square.
For rent sud other particulars apply to--- Care of Daily Press Office.
TO LET From 1st May.
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25 YEARS IN WOOD.
Chungking, which must necessarily we very costly and must, consequently, in ply very heavy freight charges, will
ever
some
Saturday by the Karen Mary were Mr. Anong the passengers who arrived on and Mrs. Ho Took, Sir Paul Chator,
C.M.G., and Messrs, R. A. Gubbey, H.
Beth W. B. Kennett, G. H. Potts, and H.
Another instance of confidence abused. Four hundred dollars were given by shopkeeper of 44, Wing Lok Street to a Chinese employć to change. The money has not since been seen nor has the employe
Dr. H. H. Lowrey, president of Peking University, and one of the oldest Ame rican missionaries in the Far East, has returned from America, accompanied by Mra Lowrey. He has lived in China more than fifty years.
prove a satisfactory means of opening up the province. The natural highway to West China is the Yangtze River; and, although its claims have been somewhat overshadowed by the more strik ing railway issue, it is probable that it will in the long rau prove the more im- portant factor. In spite of all its dim-
HE. the Officer Administering the culties and dangers, this has for con-
Government has been pleased, under iù- structions from the Secretary of State- turies been practically the sole means of access; the late Mr. A. J. Larne first Takahashi as Acting Consul General for for the Colonies, to recoguise Mr. Shinji demonstrated the possibility of steam Japan' in Hongkong, traffic to Chungking, but, although dur--| ing the following years, river gunboats found no insuperable difficulty in going to and fro, between that city and Ichang, it was for long a moot point whether steamers would be a commercial auccess, and no real effort was made to answer that question until the advent of the Shitung in 1909. The immediate emocess of this experiment was so pronounced Hoching, Lee Ying-you, Chiu Bin- that a number of other steam vessels young, Tam Cheung-wa, Luk Chuen- have since been built or purchased for hauen, and Wong Cheung-lam-have boon the run, until now there are some half-appointed public vaccinators under the dozen plying on the Upper Yangtsze, Vaccination Ordinance, 1800, The majority of these, however, are little more than passenger launches; the largest has a registered tonnage of under 500 tous, and this would acent to be the limit under present conditions. It has thus been demonstrated that it is possible for small steamers to run to and from Chung-
A. S. WATSON- & king during the greater part of the year;
Messrs, Ho Toming, Hon Shi-ü, Lì
Board is to be held on December 1st, at A meeting of the Hongkong Licensing
noon, for the purpose of considering au restaurant. keeper's adjunct licence al application by Tokutaro Ishiyama for a Wanchai under the sign "Troho.”
Mr. Reuben M. Ellis and Mr. J. R. it has also been demonstrated that the Dixon. Vice-Presidents of the Tobacco journey is always hazardous, that it Products Corporation, New York, are on bo accomplished only by small a tour of the East. This arm is enter- FFICES, 2nd Floor, St. George's Boi WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Į stompers, and that even for them thoing into competition in China with the
Ings. Apply komm
CO., LTD.,
0o
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Soldiers and Sailom in uniform Helf-Prioo.
A. BUNE.
IN LIQUIDATION,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. -[018
TO LET.
REDITORS are required to send in their
Claims to the Undersigned on or belers OFFICES on lat Flour, No. 8, Queen's Road
THURSDAY, the 30th November, 1916.
Dated the 14th November, 1916.
W. G. HUMPHREYS & Co.,
No. 16, Queen's Road Central, "Liquidators.
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NOTICE
ber to notify my patrons and friends that I have establisfied myself as Cool and Shipping Merchant at No. 1, Dongles Street, the Firm's name of ITO BROS. & Co. having been Dissolved.
9. M. ITO & Co. Hongkong, 17th November, 1916.
NOTICE.
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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE. COMPANY, LIMITED.
Central, at present in the cooupation of The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Apply to CHÍNĂ FIRE INSURANCE Co., LTD. [022
OFFICES
TO LET. FFICES at 2, Connaught Road Central OFFICES in King's and York Buildings. HOUSES in Cufton Gardans, Conduit Road, HOUSES Broadwood, and Moreton
Terracen
No. 21, WONG NHI CHONG ROAD HOUSES on Sharmeen, Caton.
to--
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AND AGENCY „Co., LTD,
LET.
$2
NOUE-ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon
THE CERTIFICATE for Four Shares, Orrs and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon.
T
Noa 3389/3392 of Denomination of 8000.00 per Share, in this the Original Company, standing in the name of NICOLAS ALEXIS IVANOFF (since deceased), of Hankow, has been LOST, and if at the expiration of Ono Manth from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming another Certificate for the equivalent thereof in the present denomination will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be acknowledged.
C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager. Hongkong, 17th November, 1918. [1391
SECOND Y RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1918 for Rbla. 3,000,000,000.
T
TO LET OR FOR SALE. KOWLOON MARINE LOT 48
TELEPHONE 816.
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ON
can
route is not open all the year round
British-American Tobacco Company.
The Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher haa been appointed to act as Chairman of the Licensing Board, and Mr. R. O.. Hutchison has been appointed to be a member of the Licensing Board in sue- cession to the Hon. Mr. C. Mel. Messer, resigned.
in short, that the river will not be able to play its proper part as an artery of traffe until much has been done to im- prove its channel. The magnitude of BIRTH.
this task is fully recognized, but it may WILSON.At the Peak Hospital,
November 26th, to Mr. and Mrs. P. safely be asserted that if only a fraction DOUGLAS WILSON, & SON.
of the cost of the Hankow Szechuan
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Railway were devoted, to clearing away GEORGE-BRAUBURY.-At H.B.M. Consu- the principal-obstacles to navigation far
late General and afterwards at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on
more would be accomplished towards November 20th, HERBERT GEORGE. making West China accessible for foreign home to join the Army about two months third son of H. G. George of trade, and the result would be achieved ago, has obtained a commission in the Lewisham, Londen, and formerly of Shanghai, to MARION EMILY BEAD- BURY, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Bradbury, of Hove, Sussex,
DEATH.
MARRIAGE.
JONES At Hankow, on November 20th, HONGKONG OFFICE: 104, Des Vœux ROAD, C. at Hankow, PERCY DOUGLAS-JONES.
LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, EC,
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, 27TH NOVEMBER, 1916.
CHINA.
at
Mr. Lancelot Giles, H. M. Vice-Consul Messrs. Watson & Co., Ltd., and who went
in a far shorter time. It is, therefore, welcome news that the advent of number of steam launches on the Upper Yangtsze has stirred the Chinese autho rities to action in the matter. The Com-
Mr. Lancleat Giles, H. M. Vice-Consul missioner of Customs
in Tientsin, has gone home on leave, and reports the establishment of a
Chungking his duties have been undertaken by Mr.
River Conservancy Board, and as one of the Consul in Tientsin in 1908-1907, and H. F. Handley Derry, who was Pro members of the Board is Captain PLANT, whose last post was Acting-Consul at who has a long experienco and unequalled knowledge of the river, we can fairly
Ichang. hope to see some fruit from its labours. Already something has been dono
Gordon Highlanders, and is undergoing & training with the Officers' Training
Corps.
wharf are 58,000 sq. H., suitable for with FOREIGN TRADE AND WEST beacons and signal stations have been set Storage or erection of Godowns.
Apply to-
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., LTD., Alexandra Buildings.
·TO LET.
NO. 5. MOUNTAIN VIEW, PMK.
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No. 3, CAMERON VILLAS, No. 68, THE Subscription to the above LOAN will PEAK, Farished. December, 1916.
be Opened from 14th November to 26th-
8.ROOMED HOUSE at Monat Kellett. The price of issus is 95 per cent. The Load is entirely free of Income Tax and other taxations.
The Loan is redeemable at par on 14th Government to convert it at an earlier date. October, 1926, without option for the Russian Compone are payable hall-yearly on the 14th April and 14th October.
As interest on the above Loan runs from 14th October, the interest sccrued on date of subscription must be taken into consideration and is to be added to the price of issue.
The Busso-ASIATIO BANK in Hongkong is ready to accept applications for the above-named Loan,
Special favoursbis rates will be quoted for Busalan Exchange.
Payment may also be made in Rombles. Applications will be wired to Petrograd fres telegraphic charges and commission.
of
40
be pace on application, the balance to be per sent only of the cost of the Bonds on receipt of the Bonds,
The Bank is also ready to give every facility to subscribers in the shape of adrances against the surips.
G. TISDALL
Manager,
BUSSO ASTAZIO-BANK.
Furnishelf for 5 or 6 months. No. 58, PEEL STREET. No. 17 No. 2
QUE JUNCTION. SHELLEY STREET. No, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, SHOP.
No. 9, CAMERON VILLAS, 63, PEAK. KELLETT CREST, 66, PRAK
** HARTING" Austin Road, Kowloon. entrance on Conduit Road.
No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, with
TWO GODOWNS, in Duddell Street. No. 2, DES YEUX VILLAS, 51, PRAK (Unfurnished).
No.66, THE FEAX (S CAMERON VILLAS Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings,
THE MEDICAL HALL,
....
C. WITZKE & Co. TREDITORS are requested to sand in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before THUESDAY, the 30th November, 1916.
Dated the 18th November, 1918,
BENJAMIN & POTTS,
Liquidators.
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up-and, although many years must In any consideration of the problem of robbed of its difficulties and dangers, it elapse before the Upper Yangtze will be opening up the interior of China to is justifiable to hope that such immediate foreign trade, the question of finding improvements as the Board way succeed means of tapping the vast, undeveloped in effecting will show such results in the markets of Szechuan must be a matter form of R regular service throughout a of the first importance. Not only is greater portion of the year as will Szechuan the largest province of China, demonstrate to the Chinese Government but, potentially and actually, it cannot the desirability, from every point of be far short of being the richest. With view, of taking the task seriously in out speculating on what it might attain hand and executing adequate and
In view of his approaching marriage, Superintendent of the Kowloon-Canton Mr. W. G. Clark, Railway Traffic
Bailway, has been presented with a hand- silver-plated catlery by the members of some cabinet containing a double set of
the Kowloon Cricket Club: Mr. P. R. Wolfe, Vice-President, made the pre- sentation, and expressed the high esvern in which the bridegroom-elect is held and wished him every happiness and success in his married life.
kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown The invitations issued by the Hong-
Co., Ltd., and the Canadian Pacific Ocean. Services, Ltd., for the opening of the Wharf and the inspection of the
The Hon. Treasurer acknowledges with.M.B. Empress of Aria to-day, includo thanks 300 from the Ministering Child-adult members of the family. Guests are ren's League for the maintenance of a particularly requested to show their in- cot in Nethersole Hospital
vitation cards when going on board. By
74th Punjabis will be in attendance. kind permission of the Colonel and. Officers of the Regiment, the Band of the
The Hon.
to were its mineral deposits exploited, thorough improvements.
it is closely populated and includes what "it will suffice to mention that, although must be one of the most densely populat- ed areas in the world, the provinces self-supporting and has a surplus of have thus an extensive province, a large production available for export. We
population, and, even at present, exports that may be used to purchaa foreign, goods, while, without waiting for the opening of nines, there is no reason why the agricultural wealth of the pro- vince should not be speedily increased: by improved cultivation of, eg., cotton and rice and by the application of modern methods to the silk industry. Certainly, of the provinces that are, from geographical considerations, prac tically ent off from foreign trade, there
Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals Treasurer of the Alice acknowledges with thanks the following donation to the funds of the hospitals:- Sandal Wood Dealers Quild, $25; Vezzi- lion Dealers' Guild, 830; Fresh Fish Guild, $30.
TYPHOON WARNING.
The following telegram has been received by the American Consulate Gen- noon at
At the Helena May Institute this after-eral, Hongkong, from the Manila Ob- F.B.C.O..
5.30 Mr. Denman Fuller, servatory :-- will give a lecture
November 24th. 6 pm. "Musical Appreciation." All are cord-
Typhoon in about 113deg. long E. and ially invited to altend. Mr. Fuller has 15deg. lat. N., moving W.N.W. kindly consented to give a second lecture in January.
on
Cyclone or typhoon near or over the Palew Islands, muring W. or W-N.W_