NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
ROYAL HONGKONG GOET
Fo
CLUB.
EASTRE COMPETITIONS.
On the Coming Holidays the following
Competitions Bave been arranged FOR MEN
GOOD FRIDAY 6TH APRIL. POOL COMPETITION.
Medal Play over 18 holes.
Entrance Fee 31 per card.
SUNDAY, BTH AFZIL TOMBSTONE COMPETITION over 18 holes for Prize presented by the American Members,
Entrance Fee 81 per card, CONDITIONS:-A player is allowed the Bogey Boors plus his bandicap. When he has played the total number of strokes allowed peg with his name thereon' must be fixed at the spot where the ball bea.
has strokes If at the 16th hola a player has in hand he must continue from the first tee. In the case of a lost ball, another may be dropped on the fairway, not nearer the bolo, the hole, under penalty of two stroken.
The player who reaches the farthest point in the number of Strokes allowed him wins the Prize.
A Prize will also ba given to the player. whose peg or Tombstons" Hea nearout to a selected spot which will be disclosed after the round is complited.
FOR LADIES,
SATURDAY, 7 APRI
9 holes Medal Composition over Relief Course,
Entrance Feo Bl.
There will be a let and 2nd Prize and a Small Scratch Prizo. Competitors must drive off from the 1st tee bafore P.M.
SUNDAY, éru Ari. TOMBSTONE, COMPETITION ever Relief Coured 18 holes. Entrance Fee #1.
CONDITIONS: A player is allowed the Bogey score plus his handicap. When he has played the total number of strokes allowed a peg with his name thereon must be fixed
at the spot where the sillins.
If at the 18th hole aayer has strokes in land he must continu, from the first teu, In the case of u lost ball, another aus Lu dropped on the fairway, not noterm andor penalty of
Prayer who reaches the furthest point in the umber of stroken allowed him wins the Prize.
A Prize will also be given to the player whose peg or "ombatone" Lies Bearest to a selected spot which will be disclosed after. the round is completel
In the two above Competitions Competitors
many play ius holes ki' a time.
MIXED
SATURDAY. 7TH APRIL.
MIXED FOURSOME COMPETITION,
9 holes Modal Play over Relief Couran,
THE HONGKONG DAILY
PUBLIC COMPANIES
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY LIMITEDA
NOTICE
MEETING OF THE SHARE- (TAHE THIRTY-NINTH ORDINARY
HOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the loss of the Geral Agents, Pedder's Street, TO-MORROW (FRIDAY), the 50th instant, at Kous, for the purpose of receiving the Heport aut Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31it Deebr 16
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED
March, both days inclusiv from the 16th to 30th Marc
JARDINE, MATHESON & | General Agents. Hongkong, 9th March, 1917,
Do., LTD.
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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
· LIMITED, AND REDUCED. JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that BOOKS NS the Company will be CLOSED from THURS DAY 1st March, to SATURDAY,
81st March, 117, both days inclusive.
The return of Capital of $2.50 per Share will be paid to Shareholders on and after the 15th March, 1917, on presentation of Share Certificates for endorsement,
E By Order of the BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hongkong, 22nd February, 1917. (329
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
DOLLARS per Share has been Declared AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of FIVE
and will be Payable at the HONGKONG and SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION on or after.
PRB33.
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MMEDIATE entry, Four very desirabla SHOPN situated in Tos House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, recently recon- BUL,
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TO LET—AT THE PEAK
TURNISHED and newly painted inside, FS Stewart TorracO
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TO LET
NO. 42, ELGIN STREET.
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From 1st May
WEDNESDAY, the 4th April. any will be OFFICES, 2nd Floor, St. George's Build-
iage. Apply to-
THUESDAY, MARCH 29TH, 1917.
INTIMATION
WATSON'S
OLD BROWN
BRANDY
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QUALITY.
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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
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TO LET
The REGISTER of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, ist March, to WEDNESDAY, 4th April, both days inclusive, during al
of Shares can be a mon may no made:
DIVIDEND WARRANTS will be ready on WEDNESDAY, the 4th April, and may be obtained on application,
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co. and Salisbury Avon Kawinan, COUR-BOOMED HOUSES in Gordon General Managers, ⠀ Hongkong, 31st March, 1017,
A SIX-ROOMED HOUSE in Minder Row, [431
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HONGKONG CLUB
NOTICE.
TENERAL MEETING of the Members of the HONGKONG CLUB will be held in the Club House, TO-DAY (THURSDAY), the 20th March, 1917, mt 5:30 r.
THIRTY - FIRST YEARLY
By Order,
E DES VŒUX, Secretary, Hongkong, 16th March, 1917,
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,
LIMITED.
NOTICE
First and Bosuud Prize and Small Seaton Prize.THE Special Attention of the Pablle in
Ladies to arrange Partners, Couple to play with,
and time of starting.
Entrance Fos 61 por Couple.
MONDAY, 9TH APRIL MIXED FOURSOME COMPETITION, 18 Mola Medal 1'lay over Big Course, First and Second Prize and Scratch Prize. Gentlemen to inake the necessary arrangements.
re partners, &o.
Entrance Fee & for Couple, Driving and Approaching an! Patting Competition will be held in the siternuoti.
50%
of the sam realised from Entendo Fres to all Competitions will be huden. W Charity.
On Easter Monday the Main Club House will be ap a to Ladies
Tifles must be ordered beforeland'
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THE HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA WAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.
BRANCH of this A-so-lation has dra formed in Canton, the Committee bing MESERS EAGER, O. W. DARCH, EH NMYTH and Q, A. PEEL (Hon. Secretary); ^et
Applications by residents of Conton and district for enrolment as Membra of this Association may be made to the Hon. Secretary, C. A. PEÉL, of Mesam, DooWELL & CO., Canton, who will supply anyone with fall particulars, or from the
to ta Arrangements have been aged
take up Five Lakhs of Straits War Loan yielding Opor sent for the use of Members, and it this probably the last opportunity of obtaining WAR LOAN fat so high a rate of interest -as Six per
the chance should not be
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
CANTON, LTD., *-
Hon. Becretaries.
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SWEPT CHANNEL EASTERN
ENTRANCE, HONGKONG. CHIPB se puntioned that they should approach and lose the Harbour by the Swept Uhannel and that deviation from it le with tiek The Channel Swept attended between the hours of suuriso and 7.50 M. And should not be used between those times
In the event of Ships arriving in the Bwept Channel before the sweeping la completed they
warned that it i daosermos to approva tessels employed sweeping the Swept Chaznel or to attempt to pass between pairs of reade
romping,
balt the
The Vowels areplug Ostry marthend and another ball in a position whee the yard would be and on that alde on which
it is dangerous for vessels to pass,
All signals made by the vessel superintending
the sweeping are to be strictly obeyed.
CW BECKWITE,
Comm
Har
Hougkung, 20th us eh, 1917,
Harbour. Departs
tions which form part of the Regulations made
directed to the uncermentioned Begals..
by the Governor in Council under Section 5 of the Electricity Supply Ordinance, 1911, on the 15th March, 1917.
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Any person making any addition to any electrical Sastallation connected to the Company's main without obtaining the written consent of the Company thereto shall be liable to a penalty
3100 for every such addition,” exceeding 34:---"Any consumer upon whose premises Any such addition shall be found shall
not
ha liable to s spensity not exceeding $100 for every day or part of a day doring which such addition shall have been in existones. In this regulation con sumer means the person in whose name the contract for the supply of electricity to such premises was made with the Company, or if thers be no such person,” the principal tensat or. person in actual ocupation of the
in which
whall be
A FLAT in Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon.
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OFFICES
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LOOD BECOND HAND TYPE
WRITER preferenss visible model. Reply to
Care of " Daily Press" Office.
WANTED,
YOUNG MAN is required by Shipping
Office'ss a Stenographer and Typist. For farther partion ars refer to
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25 YEARS IN WOOD.
HONGKONG MAGISTRAGY.
MORE HASTE LESS SERED.
A Chinese was fined 38 by Mr. Mol hourne for bringing eight unstumpedt lettors into the Colony from Yokohama by the Shingo Maru The defendant'e excuse we that he was in too great a
SMOKING IN THE NAVAL YARD.
A Chinese employé in the Naval Vord was charged with smoking while engaged in working in a store in the yard.
Mr WA Barnett, Inspector of Stores, spoke to seeing, the defendant amoking, he was smoking a cigarette or pipe.
Dofendant, who denied the charge, and said he had a foki who could substantiate his story, was, fined $10
a member of the House of Commons, that Shanghai was not a British Colony, If, however, there is to be any change in the | Constitution of this Colony within- u reasonable space of time it will be neces sary for a great deal more activity to be shown by its advocates than has been. displayed up to the present. Covernment Departments are proverbially slow to hurry to post the letters move, and it requires a great deal of dynamic force to overcome their static resistance. The rejection of the recent petition from this Colony to the Score. tary of State was, therefore, only to be expected, but if every similar rebuff had bean accepted submissively by those who demanded reformn in the past the world would have stood still. When Mr. BONAR LAW's ourt refusal to grant the conces sions desired by the leading British residents of this Colony was received the
SOLDIER AND A WATCH. preliminary stops were taken to establish Constitutional Reform Association, for.
George Lloyd, a private in the the purpoes of carrying on the campaign.S.LL. who was remanded lose work but though some hundreds of members more quickly enrolled nothing has been on a charge of stealing a watch valued at $10 from a second-hand deser in Queen's benrd of the organisation for several months, Anyone with experience of these Road West, was again brought before matters knows the importance of strik Mr. Wood for sentence. Tae Magistrate, who had ordered the man to be placed ing while the iron is hot." As soon as
under observation for a week, said that the nucleus of the new Association was formed a second circular should have beek sent to every person who omitted to reply to the first, and, finally, a systema -tie canvass should have been undertaken, A meeting of members should then havo been called to discuss and determine a
Mr. Preston appeared to proacoute a second petition to the Imperial authori-
Clinere named Lam U Sang, the possessor ties. The people of Hongkong are fre
of three alumser, who was charged, with quently accused of apathy that is an
aldiug and abetting another Chinese, not inevitable characteristic of communities
în custody, in defrauding the Bank of who are excluded from any participation
Canton of $10,032,80, The defendant pre- in the conduct of their own affairs but if the easy-going methods of those who tended that he was someone else, and, as have undertaken the organisation of the result of this, and with the assistánco Constitutional Reform Association were of a man not in custody, the sum men- to be adopted by a Parliamentary ortioned was drawn from the bank as far Municipal candidate in Great Britain back as October, 1913 Defendant was farrested in Des Yeux Road Road Central his defeat would be a foregone conclusion,
on Tuesday by a Chinese detective.
A. S. WATSON & There is no doubt that the thinking suction of the inhabitants of this Colony have a settled conviction that they are entitled to a more representative form of
CO., LTD.,
the defendant was convicted of stealing the watch, and he would be sentenced to three months hard labour, the sentencé to date from March 21st,
BANK OF CANTON DEFRAUDED.
Mr. Preston applied for a week's res
mand, stating that there was a likelihood
of more arrests being made,
A week's formal remand was granted,
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Boverament, and would warmly suppo defendant being remanded in custody.
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Borozano Urrica $201, Das Vaux ROAD, O LONDON OFFICE: 181, Fiat Strant, EC,
The Baily Press.
HONGKONG 29TH MARCH, 1917,
A STRANGE DELAY.
IN rendering an account of his steward ship during the past year to the Chamber. of Commerce, the Hon Mr PH HOLYOAK complained of the difficulties which an unofficial member encounters in
a vigorous movement to obtain it. When his case arises out of the civil retion their demand us, been formulated, the in which a poor Chinese widow succces
co-operation should be enlisted of those
fully claimed, ou appeal $10,000 from Members of Parliament who, by their Hy Bank of Canton, it being proved that questions in the House of Commons, have she had been the victim of an ingen ausly evinced an interest 12 Hongkong. If c
conec ved conspiracy The defendant is inilar course had not been adopted alleged to te one of the conspiratory, quarter of a century ago after the Mars: -quess of EIPON'S dispatch was received our position, to-day would be worse than it is.
We understand that Mr. C. G Alubne ter has been nominated for the vacancy on the Sanitary Board His proposer is the Hon. Mr H E. Pollock, K.C., and his sreonder, Mr Montagu Ede.
THE BEGGAR'S FEAST.
At West Point on Tuesday evening a Chinese.› beggar indulged
feast. despite the fact that his pockets" were devoid of the wherewithal to pay for his
accustund menu. With great bravado
entered a glittering, restaurant, and ordered a meal, along with samski and cigarettes. Having dealt with the menu to his satisfaction the bill was presented Mr. A, IL Crook, MA, has kindly to him. This amounted to 53 cents, but consented, to deliver a lecture on Animal the beggar's pockets, unlike his stomach,
Hering and to the outility of a true NOW READY, che ha duties of the taction and plant survivals and wilities in the wore empty. This resulted in wis being
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down ef the Company's present plant through unnathorised edilitions to existing installations the Public is earnestly requested to co-operate wils the Company by bringing to the Com pany's netice any contraventions of the above
Usted this 20th day of March, 1917.
-- GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
Agents
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HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE.
CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL,
Cisser "for Beginners” will commence A on MONDAY, and April, 1917.
Application for enrolment should be mado to the Undersigned as early as possible..
By Order,
E. A. M. WILLIAMS, Beoretary. Hongkong, 15th March, 1917;
ONBIO
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As this is no
Far East to-day at 5.15 p.m. at the brought before Mr. Melbourne, before Helena May Institute. All are cordially whom he at once knot exclaiming, I kneel before you," The beggar also a soldier at stated that he had been Kongmoon, and that he was invited to the restaurant
... A chair coolie has been sent to the Government Civil Hospita suffering
us
from jujuries sustained as a result of longing to the Exile Garage, near the being knocked down by motor-car 39, be
Wing Lok wharf on Tuesday.
MH Wilfred Kelly (Raymond & Whitcomb Co., Baston, U.S.A.), who had an exciting experience when the Chayo
tive Counci to his constituents. There is a tendency to regard him 2 meddlesome interloper who ought invited
new grievance, but has repeatedly heen voited by Mr. HOLYOAK's predeons- sors and by his elected colleague, it would be idle to pretend that it has a justification in fact, Mr, HoLYOAK, how ever, looks forward with hope to the time when it will no longer be possible for the considered and determined opinion of the mercantile community to be vetoed by an oficial majority on the Council who do not know, and cannot be expected to know, anything of commercial que tions. We are convinced that the pre seat system of government in this Colony, which carries 18. back to the midde of,
the last century doomed. It is im possible to believe that the British nat on will be willing to perpetuato indahnitely in a thriving entrepot of trade a system which is fundamentally opposed to all its political axioms though it may be
Kidd
urn went ashore, is again in Hong tong, being engaged in conducting a party of tourists throughout the Far East.
Inspector Brown remarked that the don fendant was an incorrigib'e, vagabond, and that he had been sent away from the Colony on six occasions,
A fine of 85, or in defat
seven days imprisonment, was the sentence passed.
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE ___________COUNCIL.
MEETING TO-DAY
A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative
The anneal sport of St. Stephen's Council is to be held this afternoon at the College will be held to-morrow (Friday) Council Chamber. The Orders of the Day on the Jockey Club ground in Happy are as follow; Valley, which has been kindly lent for the occasion,the band of the 74th Pun Jabis will be present. The prizes will be distributed a: 0 u.m. Chy Mrs. Ma Wing Chan
Full details of the Easter competitions arranged by the Royal Hongkong Golf Club will be found in another column, On Good Friday there will be a Fool com
Fire reading of a Bill intituled, “An Ordinance to amend the Merchong Ship- ping Ordinances, 1899-1913."
Second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to amend the Rating Ordinance, 1001.
Second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to protect certain Public Servants from Legal Proceedings in respect of certain Liabilities."
Second reading of the Bill intituled,
suited to a pastoral and primitive people, When the war ends with the collapse of the Central Powers, thie system will have no counterpart in Europe. We do not believe, Indeed, that it would be tolerated now if the Tritish people were aware of petition for men. On Saturday o mixed Its existence. Unfortunately, in the over-foursome competition and a nine holes * An Ordinance to amend further the whelming majority of cases they are medal competition for ladies. On Sunday Alien Enomics (Winding up) Ordinance, supremely ignorant of the conditions there will be tombstone competitions and 1914." which prevail ontside the British Isles, on Monday another mixed foursome.
fact which was illustrated not very Driving and approaching and puiting. Jong ago want Minister of the Crown competitions have ali) been arranged for
· found it necessary to point out, even to Easter Monday afternoon."
Second reading of the Bill intituled. Au Ordinance to smead farther the Protection of Women and Girls' Ordinance, 1897**