NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
SS
CARMARTHENSHIRE,” FROM UNITED KINGDOM AND INTERMEDIATE PORTA.
WING to an entbreak of fire on board this Tessel at Port Sweitenkam a General Aromage Contribution of 10 per cent, will be
collected
to
The General Average Bond will require be gned and deposits made before countersignature of Bill of Lading can be given.
The "CARMARTHENSHIRE" je de kore about 16th December.
For further particulars apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD,
Agents for
THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET CO., Owners of the "Shire" Line of Steamers,
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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Office of Messrs. SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., the General Managers of the Company, St. George's Building. Cluter Road, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the Fifteenth day of December, 1916, at twolve o'clock Noox, for the purpose of considering and, if thought it, passing as Extraordinary Resolutions the following Besolutione, that is
to May:-
(1) That the capital of the Company ba reduced from $4,000,000 (Four Million Dollars). divided into 100,000 (Four Hundred Thousand) Shares 810 (Ten Dollars) each, to $3,000,000 (Three Million Dollars) divided into 100,000 (Four Hundred Thousand) Shares of $7.50 (Seven Dollars and Fifty Cents) each, and that such reduction be effected by returning to the holders of the 400,000 (Four Hundred Thousand) Shares that liste en inel paid ap capital to the extent of 82.50 (Two Dollate and Fifty Ceuta) per Share and by reducing the nominal amount of each of the said Shares from $10 (Ten Dollars) to 87.50 (Bevon Dollars and Fifty Cents)..
(9). That application be made to the Suprime Court of Hongkong to confirm the reluc tion of the capital of the Company in conformity with the foregoing Resolution. Should the shore Resolutions he passed by the. requisite majority, they will be submitted for confirmation as Specist Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary General Meeting which will be sulmequently convened.
Thated this Fifth day of December, 1916.
By Order of the Board,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers.
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INTIMATIONS
THE
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DEOBKBER 11TH, 1916.
KISMET "
A.D.C. Production
on behalf of the
STAR AND GARTER FUND for Soldiers and Sailors totally disabled in the War.
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET.
TO.1, CANTON VILLAS, Kowloon,
A HOUSE in Kantaford Terrace
Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AND AGENCY Co, Læri [1924
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING.
TO LET.
No
【0. 42, ELGIN STREET.
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DEC. 15TH.
16TH
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18TH.
20TH
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GALA NIGHT-FRIDAY, SECOND NIGHT-SATURDAY, „ THIRD NIGHT-MONDAY, MATINE E-WED'DAY, H
PRICES: Gala NightCentro Dress Circle Seats 8101 and all remaining Seats 85.
The Seats for the following nights are:-
Dress Circle
Stalls
Pit...
3.
1.
Boldiers and Sailors in uniform Half-Price.
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JUST RECEIVED.
FURNISHED, 3, Stewart Terrnos.
H. E. POLLOCK,
Princos Buildings.
1918
TO LET.
HOUSE, 1 Observatory Villas, Kowloon,
With Tennis Court, -- Apply
ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co., 14, Des Vox Road Central.
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From Let November next. FILATS in “EWO' MESS," No. 8, ra Apply, Property Office,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Lrð.. (1085
Larga and New Consignment of
ORIENTAL SATINN, GEORGETT'S CLEPEAT PERSIAN PLAIN and FLOWERED CREPES,
An inspection is earnestly solicited. INDIAN CARPETS and Ruos.
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BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCILS, TIENTSIN, NORTH CHINA.
TWO MARINE ENGINEERS with Bhop THE COUNCILS are prepared to receive
Applications from British Subjects for perience to Act as Workshop Foremen, the post of MUNICIPAL ENGINEER.
Candidates will be required to pass a modica! also a FOREMAN MARINE BOILER MAKER and a FOREMAN SHIP PLATER examination as to their fitness for the position.
Applications should state age, qualifications, to take up duties in Shanghai. Address all salary required, etc., and should be forwarded, communications to→ together with copies of testimonists and parti onlars of previous employment, to the Under. signed on or before 31st December, 1916,
By Order,
J. B. LYNESS, Becretary.
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Connoils Offices,
Tientsin, 6th November, 1916.
BUME & REIF
T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED th M,
BERTHOLD REIF will no longer nee Firm name of BUME & REIP, but will carry Jusiness in future under his own name.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agenta. Hongkong, 5th December, 1916.
NOTICE.
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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
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"Z. T. X.," Care of "Daily Press," Office.
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W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD., Kowloon
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MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA (MITSUBISHITM Co)
COAL DEPARTMENT.
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BOLE PROPRIETORS OF TAKASHIMA, OOHI, MUTABE KISHIDAKE, YOSHINOTANI, HOJO, KANADA. SAYO. Original NAMA UTA,
SHINNAW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBLI AND OYUBARI COLLTWINS. AGENT FOR SAKITO Coate.
HEAD OFFICE ----- MARUNOUCHT, TOKYO
✔THE CERTIFICATE for Four Shares,
No.3389/3302 of the Denomination of $500.00 per Share, to thi Company, standing in the name of NICOLAS ALGTIS IVANOFF (since deceased), of Hankor, be been LOST, and if at the expiration of One Month from the date hereof the above document be act forthcoming another Certificate for the equivalent thereof in the present denomination will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be soknowlądgod.
C. MONTAGUE EDE,- General Manager. Hongkong, 17th November, 1916.
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SECOND 51% RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1918.
for Bbls. 3,000,000,000.
TH
THE Subscription to the above IOAN wis be Oponed tromi 14th November to 20th December, 1916.
The price of issue is B5 per cent. The Loan is entirely free of Income Tax and other taxations.
The Los is redeemable at par on 14th October, 1926, without option for the Russian Government to convert it at an earlier date,
Coupons are payable half-yearly on the 14th April and 14th October.
As interest on the above Loan runs from 14th October, the interest acorned on date of suiscription must be taken into consideration mad is to be added to the price of issue.
ready
The Russo-ABIAZIO BANK in Hongkong is to accept applications for the above-named Loan
Special favourable rates will be quoted for Russian Exchange
Payment may also be made in Roubles.
Applications will be wired to Petrograd free
of telegraphic charges and commission.
40 per cent, only of the evet of the Bonds
assy be paid on application, the balance to be
paid on receipt of the Bends,
The Bank is also ready to give every facility de subscribers in the shape of advances against ého sorips.
G. TISDALL,
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MOFARLANE & Co, Lavo
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FO LEA
LODOWN La Daddell Street. Light and Airy Offices overlooking Statue Square. Moderate rent.
For rent and other particulars apply to- Care of "Daily Prae" Office.
TO LET. From 1st May,
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WINES AND SPIRITS
ASSORTED CABES FOR XMAS..
CASE NO. 1-$22.
1 Bots. St. Estophe Claret.
2 Bota. Sherry, Light Dry.
2 Bote Port, Superior Light Invalid. 2 Bota, Glm.
1 Bot. Superior Old Liqueur Cogner. 1 Bot. Very Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky
E” Quality. 1 Bot. Dewar's Scotch Whisky.
CASE NO. 2-$28.
1. Bot. St. Marceaur Champagne.
1 Bot. Burgundy "Besune."
3 Bota. Claret, Bt. Estopho.
1 Bot. Port, Superior Light Invalid. 1.Bot. Superior Old Liqueur Cognac.
1. Bot. Very Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky
"P" Quality. 1 Bol: Dewar'e Scotch Whisky. 1. Bot. Gin.
Bot, Creme de Menthe.
Tet
of more vigorous, war policy. there is nothing really inconsistent in the two attitudes. Like many others, Mr. LLOYD GEORGE was, no doubt, deceived by Germany's blandishments and, sincerely anxious for peace himself, credited the
Ken and his Ministers with similar
aims. It is easy to understand his desire, upon discovering his mistake, to adminis
ter to the Germans such a lesson as would teach them by painful experience the orror of their ways and re establish peace upou a firm foundation. There is only one way of doing this, and that is by
is marshalling the whole of the forces of the Empire for the purpose of crushing as speedily and as completely as possible Germany's powerful military organim tion. The hope of bringing about the enemy's downfall by economic stran gulation Tades further into the back ground as new and fertile territories are added this list of conquests; only by
Mr. M. C. Macgregor, of Hongkong............. has been appointed local Secretary of the Marlburian Club,
In and of the Blind Soldiers and Sailors Fund $28,000 nett has been realised by "Nurseryland" basaur at
Shanghai,
On the occasion of the jubilee of the- Club Lusitano, on the 16th inst., there will be a reception, for which a pro- gramme of festivities is being arranged
Among those who left the Colony for Home by the Ketori Maru yesterday were Mrs. Glaister and her two children, and Mrs. Grant Smith and child,
Dr. and Mrs. Wu Lieu Teh arrived: hore by the s.8. Luchow, and will be the guests of Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung, at "Idlewild," Seymour Road, during their stay in this Colony.
The Right Hon. Lord Carnock, for merly Sir Arthur Nicolson, who has been elected a director of the London Cify and Midland Bank, in his earlier carenr served at the Legation, Peking.
Among
1 Bot. Sherry, Superior Pale Dry "D" exhausting his reserves of man-pewer are
Quality
we likely to achieve that complete victory at which we aim. Rightly or wrongly, the impression seems to prevail widely
those who returned to the at home that we are proceeding in too leisurely a manner and are not taking Colony on Saturday by the Katori Mary full advantage of our opportunities. It were H.E. the Governor Sir Henry May.. is this feeling, reflected in the House of K.C.M.G., Mr. H. J. Gedge, Mr. G, A. Commons, which explains the present Hastings and Misa Hastings, situation. Mr. LLOYD GEÓNGɛ hos, ap-
The King has granted authority to Mr. reassure the
W. E. L. Sweet, Professor in the Tokya- pareatly, been able to Labour Party as to his motives, and, as Higher Normal School, to wear the Fifth Sarnest of his sympathy with their Class of the Order of the Rising Sun, aspirations, is reported to have promised | conferred by the Emperor of Japan. their representatives three four Ministerial positions. Mr. A. HENDERSON,
CASE NO. 3-$32.
2 Bots, St. Marceaux Champagne.
I Bot. Sherry, Superior Pale Dry "D"
Quality
2 Bots. Fort, Superior Light Invalid. 1 Bot. Very Finest OLD BROWN Brandy
Quality.
1. Bot. Very Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky
"E" Quality.
1 Bot. Dewar's Scotch Whisky.
8 Bots, Claret, St. Estophe.
Bot, Creme de Monthe
or
The Gazette antiqunces that the Officer-
who was lately President of the Board Administering the Government has been of Education, and Mr. G. N. BARNES,pleased to appoint Mr. Anton, pro- M.P., Secretary of the Amalgamated visionally and subject to His Majesty's during the Legislative Council SPECIAL CASES PUT UP TO ORDER. Society of Engineers, will, it is said, be pleasure, to be an unofficial member of included in the Ministry, the former probabsence on leave of the Hon. Mr. D. rably being given a seat on the War Coun
cil, The announcement that Mr. BALFOUR
OFFICES, and Floor, St. George's Balld. A. S. WATSON & is to succed Viscount Grity at the Foreign
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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.
TO LET.
1618
FFICES on 1st Floor, No. 3, Queen's Road
O Central present the compation of
The China Fire Insuranos Co., Ltd,
Apply to OHLÍNA FIRE INSURANCE CO., Int.
TO: LET.
OFFICES at 2, Connaught Road Central,
OFFICES in King's and York Buildings, HOUSES in Clifton Gardens, Conduit Road. HOUSES in Broadwood and Moreton Terraces.
No. 2, WONG NEI CHONG ROAD. HOUSES on Bhamoen, Canton.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT AND AGENCY, CO., LTD. 199
TO LET.
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon.
TO LET OR FOR SALE. KOWLOON MARINE LOT 48 with wharf area 58,000 sq. ft., suitable for Col Storage or erection of Godowns.
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
T1371
Co., Lab Alexandra Buildings.
TO LET.
NO.5, MOUNTAIN VIEW, PEAK.
No. 3. CAMERON VILLAS, No. 6, THE PZAX, Furnished.
&ROOMED HOUSE at Mount Kellett. Farnished for 5 or 6 months.
No. 25, SHELLEY STREET.
SHOP.
No. 12 BEACONSFIELD AECADE,
No. 3, CAMERON VILLAS, 69, Peix. KELLETT CREST, 65, PEAR
HARTING" Austin Road, Kowloon No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, with entrance on Conduit Road.
TWO GODOWNS, in Duddell Street.
(Unfurnished),
No. 2, DES VEUX VILLAS, 51, PEAK No.56, THE PEAK (5 CAMERON VILLAS), Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildi.gs.
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the
Landale.
The Gazcite notifies that certain trade- Office will be received with relief and marks belonging to Arnhold, Kurberg & universal approval. In his experienced Co. of Hongkong have expired and that hands the many delicate and com- they will be removed from the Register- the 3rd day of plex international question that arise of Trade Marks on incidental to the war will be dealt January, 1917, unless the prescribed with La skilfully as they were by fee for renewal of registration is paid his predecessor, His Parliamentary before that date." career has extended over a period of forty. BIRTH
two years, and during most of that sime DIxos.At Ealing on October 31st, the
wife of Charles Dixon, of Shanghai, he has held a commanding position in the House of Commons. From 1978 to MARRIAGES.
1680 he served as private secretary to CREERY-BROWN-At Christ Church, Rad-
lett, on October 31st, by the Rev. Lord SALISTURY, who was then Secretary Arthur P. Du Cane, Vicar, Andrew of State for. Foreign Affairs, and aceom- Creery, Captain, R.G.A., only son of Lealio Creary, Lisnalurg, Shankill, panied him and Lord BEACONSFIELD OF Co. Dublin, to Agues Lilian Lockhart, flair special mission to the Berlin Con older daughter of George Brown, H M. Consul in China (retired). Tai ference. In 1891-2 and again from 1885 Yuan, Radlett, Hertfordshire.
to 1906 he was First Lord of the Treasury JOSELAND-MACDONALD At the English
and Leader of the House of Commons; Presbyterian Church, Wallasey, Cheshire, on the 7th November, by the from 1892 to 1895 he was Leader of the Revd. Matthew Mair, Lieut. ALTHUS
& Bon
..
JAMES
NOEL JOSELAND, Nigeria Begt., son Opposition; and from 1802 to 1995 he was of the Revd. J. P. Joseland, Mel Prime Minister. Eventually he retired bourne, to AGNES CAMERON, elder from the leadership of the Unionist daughter of Mr. and Mrs. MACDONALD, Hongkong, [1444 Party in deference to a demand for a more WARD-GOODWIN.-At Londou 011 Nor-
ember 1st, A. B. Ward, Sarawak spirited policy, but when the National Civil Service, to Dorothy Lucy Good-Ministry was formed last year, after the
win.
DEATH.
FITTOCK. At Putney on Getober 30th, Matilda, widow of W. H. Fittocks H.M. Consul, Ningpo, aged 84:
HONGKOSE OFFICE: 101, Des Vaux ROAD, C. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FASET STREET, E. C.
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exposure of the shortage of munitions, he was invited to accept the portfolio of First Lord of the Admiralty relinquished by Mrr CHURCHILL Lord DERBY, whose Recruiting scheme met with such success is mentioned as the new Chief of the War Office. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE's difficulty seems to be an inducing any of his former Liberal colleagues to accept office, but Mr. Asquith's patriotic speech at the Reform Club should help to smooth his path, The ex-Prime Minister explained that neither be nor Viscount Grey toota The task of reconstructing the Govern usefully join the Government, because, if ment has not proceded quite so rapidly they did so, the carefully-engineered cam- as expected. The latest advices indipaign which had been carried on against cate that Mr. LLOYD GEORGE has decided them would continue and they would be to reduce the Cabinet to twelve members
HONGKONG 11TH DECEMBER, 1916.
CABINET
RECONSTRUCTION.
At u meeting of the Hongkong Sanitary Board, to be held to-morrow, Mr. F. B. L Bowley will ask: What steps, if any, are being taken by the Government to abate the nuisance caused by the time- kilns opposite the public dispensary at Samsuipo!" The remainder of the items on the agenda are purely furnal.
A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place very quietly, in London, between Lieutenant Basil C Doning, M.C, Royal Engineers, second Son of the late Mr. Walter Deming, of Sendai, Japan, and Mrs. Dening, Queens- land, Australia, and Ruth, twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace C. Henderson, Crediton, Devon.
The Gazette announces under the Im-.
portation and Exportation Ordinance, Rulo 37 is repealed and the following rule is substituted therefor:-37: No person the Superintendent of Imports and Ex- shall, without the special permission of ports, export or attempt to export, or procure for the purpose of exportation, any silver dollars or silver bullion,"
with the National In connection Mission, a Children's Meeting was held in the ball-room at Government House
There was on Saturday afternoon crowded attendance of children, who were addressed in a most interesting, manner by the Rev. N. C. Pope, of St. Andrew's .of. The Bishop Church, Kowloon. Victoria took part in the proceedings and Lady May accompanied the hymas on the piano.
M. Albert Sarraut, who has been re- appointed Governor-General of French: Indo-China, occupied the post with dis- tinction from 1912 to 1914. In August, 1914, M. Sarraut joined the new French Cabinet as Minister of Public Instruc tion, and on the formation of the Briand Ministry he left for the front as a sub- lieutenant in an infantry regiment. He a source of weakness rather than strength was mentioned in the Ordre du Jour in connection with bis services in the defence or about half its former number, and to
Ho acquitted all his colleagues in the of Verdun accord ive seats in it to the Liberals,Cabinet, including Mr. Love GRORGE,
The following students of the Kans of five to the Unionists, and two to the of any complicity in this campaign, and Court have passed in the subjects name Labour party. At first it seemed likely urged his followers to give their utmost at the Michaelmas Examination of the Council of Legal Education. Roman that the Labour party would refuse to
lend the new Prime Minister their co-support to the new Ministry for the pur-Law, Class, 3, Chen and Khoo Boon,
a few
of
་་་་་
pose of winning the war. By taking this Gray's Inn; Constitutional Law, Class operation, in order to show their loyalty
course, Mr. Asquith has shown & nobility 3 Chan Sin Kok Middle Temple,
Tai and
Chun, Inner Templé to Mr. ASQUITH and to mark their dis of spirit which his long and honour Real Property and Conveyancing, Clans trust of a man who threatened to bringable public career have taught us to 3 Tai Chun Inner Temple, Mom Chow. Middle Temple, and Yong and Shook about the fall of the Ministry a year ago expect. He has exhibited the best traits Lin, Inner Temple. In the Final, Class in his impatience to see conscription in-
English character, and added to 3, appears the name of Mr. Chow. troduced. Strange as it may seem, when
The death occurred at the Yokohama General Hospital on November 6th of 3pm-Auction of Crown Land at Paliewe remember the Socialistic legislation the great respect in which he is held by
some years a resident of Yokohama, Captain E. Prior Bishop, ENR for
Eastern ports, as he was for many years well-known to shipping oiralesa, and in command of P. & bosts running to Japan The Japan Garette says that Captain Bishop, who was By Laut Dec- ember, had been in ill-health for some considerable time, having suffered from a Alan Bishop), who is with Mesars. Jar- dine Matheson & Co, of
On
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Best ports for consignment în dimied.
KEIHEE BÓN & CO. (Import Dept.) Whilefrings,London Tylgerama, “Korman, London. Eat. 1864
for which he was, responsible only years back, the Labour party evid ently doubted the sinserity of Mr. Loss Friday, 15th Dec
GroBar's Liberalism and regarded him as Noon-Green Island Cement Co., Ltd,
Extraordinary General Meeting it, the aiming at a dictatorship. Certainly it may Office of Messrs. Bhuwan, Tomes & Co.
appear a little curious that the Minister Entries close for Ladies' Championship who headed the opposition to Mr.
BHK Golf Cind.
CHURCHILL's demand for a strong Navy should stand forth to day as the champion
9.15 p.m.-A.D.C. Performances of “Miami'
in aid of "Star and Garter" Fand
his fellow-countrymen. The peerage and the Garter which were offered him by his Sovereign in grateful recognition of his
services and declined-could add lustre to his name.
no
A mail for Europe vid Sheria closes stroke. He is survived by a son (M
at 3 pm