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"BEN LINE OF STEAMERS. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
88. "BENAVON,"
FROM MIDDLESBRO, LONDON` AND
STRAITS.
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform
ed shat all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf
AT 4,30 PM..
PRICES:
Gala Night-Centre Dress Circle Seats 310.
Stallk Kemaining Seats
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The Sunts for the following nights aro' :----
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and Godown Co, Ltd, whence and/or from the GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY wharves delivery may be obtained,
No Claims will be admitted after the Goodi
to rent.
haru left the Clodowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 18th inst, will be subject All Claims spalast the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned at or before the 26th fun or they will not be recognised.
All brokon, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be loft in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 18th ins)., at 11.
.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.
Hongkong, 11th December, 1916.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. HE P. & O, S. N. Co.'s Steamer
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"NOVARAT Arrived Houstong on 10th Dec., 1916, FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.
Consigases of Cargo by the shore-Remed vensal are hereby fatoimed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR BISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each Comignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed,
LIMITED.
GIVEN that an
NEXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Office of Hours SHEWAN, TONES & Co., the General Managers of the Company, St. George's Building, Chater Road, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the Fifteenth day December, 1916. at twelve o'clock Noon, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit. passing as Extraordinary Rosointions the following. Resolutions, that is
to say
(1) That the capital of the Company be
reduced from 84,000,000) (Font Million Dollars) divided into 400,000 (Four Hundred Thousand) Shares of 810 (Ten Dollars) each. to $3,000,000 (Three Million Dollars) divided into 100,000 (Four Hundred Thousarkt) Shares of 87.50
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CASE NO. 1–$22.
8 Bots. St. Estephe Claret.
9. Bots. Sherry, Light Dry.
Bots. Fort, Superior Light Invalid. 2 Bote, Giu.
1 Bot. Superior Old Liqueur Coguac.
1 Bot. Very Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky
"Quality 1 Bot. Dewar's Scotch Whisky.
H. E. POLLOCK,
Princes' Balldings
1919
CASE NO. 2-$28
1 Bot. St. Marceaux Champagne.
12 Bot. Burgundy "Beaune.
3 Bola. Claret, St. Estophe.
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From 1st May,
1940
Very much the same sort of thing Among the forthcoming marringen. applies--though, perhaps, in a smaller arranged to take place in the Colony degree--to the manufacture of flour. In shortly are Mr. Cyril Champkin, noting, the mills in England the waste from the manager of the Mercantile Bank, and" what is sold as offals, and the revenue Miss Constance Gwendolen Wilson, from that yourco is very appreciable. The Pakefield, Surrey, England; and Mr. Chinese still eling to primitive methods Peter Todd, mercantile assistant, Ewo not only in the milling process but in Mess, and Miss Elfrieda Nancy Lennox the field as well. Yet agriculture is the Sachse, Kingsclere, Kennedy Road, Hong- greatest industry of China. It is true kong. that the Chinese have carried out inten- sive culture of their and for many generations; but the entire absence of temple with gifts valued at $0,20, a coolig- reports that when near the Hongkong. modern appliances for handling the crops Jockey Club stables at Causeway Bay ho
completely neutralises the results. There
While on his way to the Tong Au Wan
has been a great change, during the last was set upon by five men. Two of the few years, in connection with agriculmen caught hold of him by the throat, furai work in some parts of Eastern Asia and the other three relieved him of money, two bamboo baskets, clothing and cooked- The steam plough is now to be seen in Manchuria, and a recent American Con- food. Three men have been arrested in sular report mentions the import of rice connection with t'e affair, and some of
the stolen offerings have been recovered. machinery into Siam. The subject does not provide very cheerful reading for
1 Bol. Sherry, Superior Pele Dry "D" Britons, as the report points out that SMALL-POX IN HONGKONG..
Quality.
1 Bot. Port, Superior Light Invalid.
1 Bot. Superior Old Liqueur Cognac.
1 Bot. Very Old Liquor Scotch Whisky
E Quality
1 Bot. Dewar's Bootch Whisky.
1 Bot. Gin,
Bot. Creme de Monthe.
CASE NO. 3-S32.
Hots: St. Marceaux Champagne.
1 But, Sherry, Superior Pale Dry "D"
Quality 9-Bots. Port, Superior Light Invalid. 1 Bot. Very Finest OLD BROWN Brandy
"F" Quality.
1 Bot. Very Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky **Equlity.
1 Bot. Dewar's Scotch Whisky. $ Bots, Claret, St. Estephe. Bot. Creme de Monthe.
practically all the cice-milling machinery TWENTY-NINE FATAL CASES LAST
WEEK.
The report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hongkong for the week end-
taken into Siam during the two fiscal years ending March, 1914 and 1915 was sent from Germany. For the preceding six years only one-third of the machinery used in that industry was made in Bring December 9th shows that during the tain. It is probably a somewhat similar weck no less than 36 cases of smallpox were reported (one British and the rest story in Manchuria and Siberia, Modern
Chinese, two being imported), and 28 of these cases proved fatal. machinery is gradually coming into use for agricultural work in those huge coun- tries, but we fear that comparatively little of it has been of British origin.
There are some who believe that changes will come to China with great rapidity
as soon as the war is over in Europe. The wealth-producing possibilities of the coun- try are so great, and the destruction of wealth in Europe has been on such a SPECIAL CASES PUT UP TO ORDER. colossal scale that it is inevitable that the economic resources of the Far East will be developed. The most superficial
O WATSON & study of China shows as a land of enorm
(Sovon Dollara aml Fifty Cents) each, OFFICES, 2nd Floor, St. George's Build-A. S.
and that such rediction be affected by returning to the holders of the 400,000 (Four Hundred Thousand) Shares that have been issued extent of $2.50 up capital to the Dollars and Fifty Cente) por Share and by reducing the nomian) amount of each the said Sharcz from 810 (Tea Dollars) to $7.50 (Seven Dollars and Fifty Conta).
inga.
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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.
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(2) That application is made to the Supreme FFICES on let Floor, No 3, Queen's Road
Court of Hongkong to confirm the reduc- tion of the capital of the Company in conformity with the foregoing Resolution. Should the above Resolutions be passed by the requisito majority, they will be submitted for From Persian Gulf, ex . B.. L S. Neonfirmation as Special Resolutions to a Second
This vessel brings on Cargo --
From London, &n, ex ss.
Kashmir and Nellore,"
Mooltan,
and B. & P. S. N. Co.'s Steamara Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions de given to the contrary within 6 hours.
Goods not cleared within 8 days including date of arrival will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any see whatever.
Damaged packages must be left in the Go. downs, for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's Surveyors, Marsz. GODDARD & DOUGLA, at 10a.m., on MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, All Claims must be presented
hule to days of the steamer's arrival here, aitar which date they cannot be recognised, No Clams will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns.
E.V. D. PARK, Acting Superintendi er fa Hongkong, 11th December, 1916
NOTICE.
THEN CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
HE CERTIFICATE for Four Shares, THE
of Nos. 3389/3202
the Origins! Denomination of $300.00 per share, in this. Campany, standing in the name of NICOLAS ALEXIS IVANOFF (since deceased), of Hankow,
Extmordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
Dafed this Fifth day of Docenter, 1816.
By Order of the Board,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers.
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JUST RECEIVED.
New Largo and
Consignment of A ORIENTAL SATINS, GEOKOUTT'S CREFE PERSIAN PLAIN and FLOWERED CHEPES, INDIAN CARPETS and Rues.
An inspection is earnestly solicited.
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s been LOST, and if at the expiration of One Mouth 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 essential. ao other will be acknowledgest.
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General Manager.
Hongkong, 17th November, 1016.
SECOND $1 RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1916 for Rbls. 3,000,000,000.
THE Subscription to the above LOAN
bo Opened from 14th November to 24th December, 1916.
The price of issue is 95 per cent. The Loss is entirely free of Income Tax and ether taxations.
The Loon is redeemable at par on 14th October, 1928, without option for the Russian Government to convert it at an earlier date.
Coupons are payable half-yearly on the 14th April and 141) October.
As interest on the above Loan runs from 16th October, the interest veraed on date of Bubscription must be taken into consideration and is to be added to the price of issue.
The RUBND-ASIATIC BANK in Hongkong is ady to accept applications for the above-named Loan,
Special favourable rates will be quoted for Russian Exchange.
Applications will be wired to Petrograd free
Payment may also be made in Roubles.
of telegraphic charges and commission.
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OFFICES in King's and York Buildings, HOUSES in Clifton Gardens, Conduit Road. HOUSES in Broadwood and Moreton Terraces.
No. 21, WONG NEI CHONG ROAD, HOUSES on Shameen, Canton.
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The Baily Press.
HONGKONG 12th DecembER, 1916.
FLOUR FROM CHINA.
The
Tax problem of wheat supply in Europe is becoming increasingly serious. latest returns show a curtailuent of the export of wheat from Argentina, and neither Russian nor Roumanian crops are likely to be available next year. Consequently new sources of supply must,
ous area, immense rivers, a wide range of climate, and a huge industrious popu- lation. There are vast tracts of land
quite suitable for wheat-growing. The problem is one which demands solution, for the price of wheat affects the scale of living in Europe, India has shown that an Oriental country can export the cereal so much in demand by the white
In the same period there was one fatal Chinese case of plague, two Chinese cases of diphtheria, one of which proved fatal, and four non-fatal cases of enteric fever (one British, one Indian and the rest Chinese).
HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.
OPIUM.
For having five Iba and five taots of opium dross in cigarette tins, a Chinese was fined $50 by Mr. Wood.
CHARGE WITHDRAWN.
When a Japanese was charged with sketching defences, Inspector Sim asked evidence was taken and the Japanese was
for the charge to be withdrawn. No.
discharged.
WASTING WATER.
THE LODGER.
Inspector Roylanco, of the Sanitary races, though complaints are made by the Board, charged a Chinese with wasting English millers that the wheat went from water. The man went to a street foun India is dirty. We hope that the Euro-tain and filled a basket, but wont away He was pean advisers to the Chinese Government without turning off the tap.. will point out to the officials in Peking, hued $3. and, when possible, to those in the Pro- vinces, the great advantage to China of
A boiler maker's coolie, lodging at 7, an extension of the wheat growing area, and we trust that most of the modern Dock Street, Hunghom, was charged with of household contrivances used for sowing, harvesting the theft of a quantity
place. It seems goods from the same that the man has been out of employment for some time, and he was living in the
and milling will be supplied by Great Britain,
A mail for Europe via Siberis closes house at the time the goods were missed. tomorrow at 11 am.
Mr. Justice Sercombe Smith, late of British Malaya, has been doing war work at the Colonial Office since his retirement (says The Straits Echo).
The total output of the Kailan Mining if possible, be tapped. Not long ago the Administration's mines for the week end-
Suspicions were aroused, and the man was taken to the police station, where pawn tickets were found on him which related to some of the missing articles. He was sentenced to fourteen days hard
labour.
IMAGINATION.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE American Consul-General in Hongkonging 25th November, 1916, amounted to ring valued at $15 from a fellow
Co., LTD., Alexandra Buildings.
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MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISBA (Mersunient Co)
COAL DEPARTMENT.
SOLE PROPRIETORS OF
in one of his excellent reports, had some
For stealing a $10 note and a gold
ployee, a Chinese was sentenced to three weeks hard labour.
The defendant put forward a remark-
thing to say upon the subject of wheat 69,100 tons and the sales to 62,470 tons. production in China. He pointed oať“
A shopkeeper of the Kwong Toi Hing that the wheat of China is of poor quality sandal wood shop, 260, Des Voeux Roadable story. He said that while in u und dirty. It is delivered at the mills West, has reported to the police that in such a bad rendition that the manu during the last three months his account- a native of Sanushni, embezzled facturers cannot sure from it anything an like su large a proportion of flour as is $7,800.37, and that be ab.conded, on the obtained from American wheat. Though oth inst the price of the raw material is low in China, it is very difficult indeed for the Chinese flour mills to make a profit. That is probably due in part to the fact that
TAKASHIMA, OCHI, MUTABE KISHIDAKE, YOSHINOTANI, HOJO, NAMAZUTA, SATO, KANADA SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBAI, the by-products are wasted. It is now
AND OYUBARI COLLIKKIES.
an axiom of modero industrialism that
AGENT FOR SAKITO COAL
HEAD OFFICE:-- · MARUNOBCHI, TOKYO
Seventeen tearns will take part in the shooting competition to be held at Stone cutters rango, under the auspices of the Hongkong Police Reserve, on Boxing day. The Alexandra Cafe will supply
a market must be found for everything tiffin on the range providing it is ordered which comes from a modern works. In on or before December 20th. the commercial aspects of the manufacture
At a meeting of the Ipoh (F.M.8)
Braxon OPPIORS ---NAGASAKI, MOJ of the gas used for lighting the streets "MUROHAN, “HAKODATE, KOBE
street at Yaumati three men seized bim; one covered up his eyes, another held hist arms, and the third burdened him with the $10 note and the gold ring, both ot which were found on him when searched at the police station. After he had been trested in this manner, added defendant, he was arrested by the complainant, that was how the things were found upon him,
Defendant also called his sister to say that she saw the incident recorded above
Mr. Melbourne merely credited the man with a vivid imagination, and im posed the sentence mentioned.
THE OTHER WOMAN.
A Chinese woman, who was charged KARATSU, WAKAMATSU, OTARU, and heating rooms a revolution has taken. Gymkhana Club xocently it was decided ORAKA, KURE, TOKYO, YOKOHAMA place. In the priiaffive plants every-by ten votes to six to hold the usual Shop. Apply in own writing with oopy | NAGOYA,TSUÈUGA,VLADIVOSTOCK thing but the gas generated way thrown Spring meeting, but it was agreed with with being in possession of six taels of
way station, out a division to devote to war purposes opium at Kowloon railway station, said sister away. While she was there an old SHANGHAL HONGKONG, | förred and sold but tar and other by everything over and above the cost of i that she went to the station to send her woman asked her to look after her basket. While the old woman was away the basket, was opened and she (defendant) why arrested. Although she looked for old woman several times she had not kat able to find her. Defendant adde if his Worship would allow her tød the
other woman. Mr. Wood farew, and she thought she might be able to look
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40 per caut, only of the use of the Bonds ARTISTIC CARDS with CHINESE
be paid on application, the balance to be
and on receipt of the Blonde,
The Hank is also ready to give every facility
to subscribers in the shape of advances against
the seripa
G. TISDALL,
Manager, BUSSO ASIATIC BANK.
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running the meeting and kooping the course going for six months.
products are obtained. Some of the most beautiful dyes are made from the black
The police have grave doubts as to the refase of the gas-works; it is even said that some of the ingredients of the scents authenticity of, & report made by a shop used by ladies are taken, by chemical keeper of 110, Shanghai Street. Ho re- That ports that $49kse has been taken from processes, from the same source.
lockfeet drawer in his shop, but in may, or may not, be correct; but it cer- taibly is a fact that some of the large view of the fact that the man was sleep companies in Britain now obtain aing near the drawer, and that there were greater revenus from the so-called "bye- no burglar clues, the police consider the products" than from the sale of the gas. report a questionable one.
matters from this point alterna imposed a fine of $200, Wisonent. tive of three months of Laels of
For being a posetation, was fined $1,500 isonment, opium, at Kowing au three months?
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