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interest and responsibility Ceased as from 311 December, 1916. ME THOMAS BENEST PEARCE will
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castions to carry on the business in Hongkong,
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The tenders
state the total amount (in Pounds Sterling). No Telegraphic Transfer will be
be made for loss than 100. The tenders to be in duplicate, and in sealed covers, addressed to the TREASURY CHEST OFFICEE, ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT endorsed "TENDERS FOR GOVERN MENT BILLS, eto,"
and
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of
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INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 20TH, 1917,
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
NOTICE.
GENERAL MEETING of the Members Al be held TO-DAY (TUESDAY), the 29th May, 1917, at 4 o'clock Pat, in the Chamber Room, Chartered Bank Building, 3,moon's Road Contra, Hongkong, for Chaiber on the
the purpose of nominat ing a Representative of Legislative Council daring the absence on
loave of the Honourable Mr. P. H. HOLYOAK.
Notice in writing of the names of Candidates and of their proposers and seconders to be lodged
INTIMATION
GIANT
General in Hongkong described the other day se the Allies reserves, and, os time
passes, they will be increased and extended until they become not so much, perhaps, the decisive factor in the war 18 Mr. BALFOUR expressed it-an a meals of shortening its duration. Complete naval and military co-operation was foregone conclusion, but the Mission has TALCUM.complished for more than this, and, although many of the plans which have The latest addition to our fine been discussed and approved need legisi
LAVENDER
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
HONGKONG MAGISTRACY,
BLAKE FIER
Dyer Ball with a breach of the regula
Two Chinese were charged before: Mr.
tions of Blake Pier. It appears that the men were seen by a lukong sitting on the rails of the pier and when requested to move refused to do so. They were fined. 81 cach.
THEFT OF SHOES.
A Chinese who arrived by tho 6.9.
The financial result of the St. George's Day Celebration exceeded expectations, for it amounted to.ng less than 233,000 odd. When it is recalled that "Our Day last year realised only $8,000 more than this aum, and that Heather Day yielded only about half as much, those who organised the effort are fairly entitled to pat themselves on the back," espoot. ally if it be true, as the Hon. Mr. Holyoak declared at the inaugural meet Taishan from Macao was found to have tive sanction, there is no reason to fearing, that Englishmen are greatly outs. authority. The effect of these plans, when not let it be supposed when I say this before Mr. Dyer Ball, when it appeared they are put into operation, will be that it is not fully recognised that the that he had stolen them from a lady. world-wide and permanent. America
success of the day was due to the genero who was packing hor belongings. Ho will help as far as possible in maintain sity of all the sections of the community,
was sentenced to two months' hard labour ing the British blockade, and whilst she Indeed, in recognition of that fact the end four hours' stocks.. will participate, through her Consuls, in money has been distributed amongst four rationing Holland and Scandinavia, steps | War Charities not one of which is oven are to be taken to reduce still further those leakages of supplies from neutral countries to enemy territory which
a pair of shoes in his possession which.
with the Secretary at least 48 hours before the series of Lavender Toilet Articles that Congress will withhold the necessary numbered by Scots in the Colony. Do | did not belong to him. He was brought
time appointed for the holding of the General Mosting
By Order.
AR LOVEY
Acting Secretary. N.B-In view of the Whitsundide holidays, nominations will be received up to 10 on TUESDAY, 29th instant. Hongkong, 22nd May, 1917.
HONGKONG CLUB,
NOTICE.
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N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
A MEETING of the Member of the HONGKONG CLUB will be beld in the Club Hours TO-MORROW (WEDNESDAY), the 30th May, 1917, at 5,15 P.M.
BUSINESS-As set forth in the Notice
posted in the Ball of the
By Order
is a powder of exceptional merit.
DURE
E. DES VEUX,”
Secretary Hongkong, 22nd May, 1017.
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FOR
OILETAS NET
shall be admitted
itted to any share or part in or RUSSIAN 5% INTERNAL LIBERTY any benefit to arise from the Contract thereby reade for the allotment eh (Bills)."
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"The Puntered into by incorporated
in queion do not apply to
in
Contracts Company
ite corporated capacity and made for the general benelit of the Company.
F.J.THURSBY.PELHAM, L.-Colonel, Treasury Chest Oficer, A.P.D.
His Majesty's Tray Offee,
Hongkour th May, 1917.
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ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY.
PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE HELD on THURSDAY, May Slat, at 5.15 F,M., in CITY HALL,
for
the purpose of Forming
ST. GEORGES SOCIETY in HONGKONG.
Result of St. George's Day Celebration will also be announçad.
ALL ENGLISHMEN INVITED
LOAN
Subscription to the LIBERTY LOAN is Opened at THE RUSSO ASIATIC BANK, Hongkong, from data to the 28th Jane, 1917
The price of issue is 65 per cent.
The Loan is free of Income Tax and other taxations,
The Loan is issued for 55 years and will be
redeemable at par by yearly drawings beginning
December, 1942
In
The Loan may be reimbursed at par after the
29th Mashable hall-yearly on the 19th
Coupons are Interest March, 1917 Interest from thai date to be added to the price of issus.
and the 2945 September, kit
оп
ASWATSON OP!
It has real antiseptic properties
the loan ms from the 29th and is wonderfully sothing to the
Bpecial favourable raton will be quoted for
Austin Exchange be wired to Petrograd free
Applications will
of telegraphis charges and Bonds will be for- Towardod free of postal expenses.
ATTEND. Chairman, His Honour Mr. H. H. J. COMPRENZ
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SHAMEEN, CANTOR, under the style of HOGG & KARANJIA, LIMITED, where we shall carry on business na Import and Export and General Merchante-Raw and Waste Silk and also Oriental Produce.
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DEATH PAGE-At No. 63, Carter Road, Shang- hai, on May 19th, Isabel, the beloved wife of EDNEY PAGE.
Bonnerxo Office: 10s, Das Vœux Road, Censor Orica 181, Flawy Szarm, B.C.
The Daily Press:
HOROKORO - MAY, 1917,
THE BRITISH MISSION
AMERICA
nominally English.
Had it not been for the celebrations
DESTITUTE INDIANS,
At the Folico Court yesterday, before
with being destitute. The two men, Mr. Wood, two Indiang were charged
caretaker's quarters at the Mohammedan Cemetery. The first defcodant stated. that he had been in the Colony, ten years and his last employment had been on the Peak Tramway. Since then he had been at the Sihk Temple and at the Moham- medan Cemetery. The second defendant said he had only been in the Colony for about two months, after working in Tientsin and Shanghai Ho had spent all the money he had saved. Mr. Wood sent both of them to the house of deten-
hitherto have very sensibly lightened the organised by the dongkong Club and the Inspector Sim stated, vere found in the pressure which our naval supremacy has been able to impose upon Germany. Those firms which deal regularly with Germany will no longer be provided with American products, and the difficulties which the Central Powers are now encountering in obtaining foodstuffs will be correspond ingly increased. On the other hand, the Allies will pool their own resources and assure uniform prious and the scien. tific distribation of supplies through the speration of a joint buying commission In addition, it is suggested that the United States shall give the Allies pre ferential treatment in commerce, and, although the details of the scheme for carrying this proposal into effect have not yet been presented to Congress, the more possibility of any such development
deepen that mistrust regarding Gex-
Police Reserve, Empire Day in Hong kong would have passed unobserved. The gathering at the Club will be a red letter day not only in the history of that Institution but also in that of the Colony. Rarely, I think, have the representatives of four great nations spoken at one meet ing in Hongkong; never, it is safe to say, have they done so in sunilar circum- stances. The speeches provided plenty of food for thought, especially that of the Consul General for the United States of America. But why was the toast of the British Empire, coupled with that of the women war-workers, which was so gallantly proposed by the Consul-General for Russia, not becomingly honoured.? Was it due to modesty following upon Mr. Anderson's jocular allusion to the
self-assurance of the Briton |
many's future which has already found
A correspondent writes: The excuses expression in soms of her principal finan. offered for low scoring by some of those cial organs, and will strengthen the who took part in the shooting competition desire, now becoming articulate, to secure at King's Park on Empire Day are not pence upon any terms which will leave very convincing. The Indians won, say her free to carry on trade under pre-war
some of the unsuccessful shots, because conditions. There was some conversation the weather wae so wretched that we upon the feasibility of maintaining a could not settle down to the conditions.
per mauent commission in London, compris. Of course I can understand that unfav mg representatives of all the Allies- ourable atmospheric conditions would including, of course, America-charged have a depressing influerice upon the scor- with the duty of controlling and co ing, but that would be a disadvantage ordinating all war measures. Thus we common to all. The idea of training
tion.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL CELEBRATIONS.
i
The Roman Cathedral. was gaily. decorated on Sunday with palms and
flowers, and the pillars were draped with red cloth, large bouquets hanging between each arch, in honour of the feast of the Holy Ghost and the closing of the month of May consecrated to the
Blessed Virgin Mary A. High Ponti fical Mass was celebrated by Bishop Pozzoni, assisted by the Sanctuary staff and all the clergy and seminarista. In the evening the Litany of the Blessed.
of the Virgin was sung by the choir, after which there was a grand procession round the Church compound accompanied by the Band of the Sociedade Philhermo- mica. A beautiful status of the Imma- culate Conception was borne by the Confreres, the Bishop, in his Pontifical robes, with a Deacon and sub-denen followed. The congregation was very large and the churchyard crowded with
approach gradually nearer to that condi. | markeinen, I presume, is that they may tion when all the energies of the nations be of service in warfare, and it cannot engaged in the grent task of crushing be supposed that the men at the front Prussian militarism will be directed by choose their weather; they are probably
spectators Previous to the Benediction one impulse, and when the immediate expected to carry on,' wet or fine.
of the Blessed Sacrament, the Very Rev. object is achieved we may hope that the Aperture sights and all the other para Dr. Gomes, Vice Rector of Macao Col- lessons learned will have prepared the phernalia employed in rifle contests
may|lege, delivered an eloquent sermon based": way for that League of Nations which be all very well in their way, but the on the text Beatam medicent omnes President
Wilson has cisualised for main noun who can lie down and shoot straight generationes." The Vent Creator was taining the World's peace. The sympathy from the rifle without any of them | intoned by the Bishop and responded to which has been born of personal co-adventitious aids and in all kinds of by the choir. The celebration, concluded with the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
operation between the British anal adventitions net more nicful than one
can officials cannot, we are informed, be
TO measured in words. Each nation has obtained a truer perspective of the situa tion. The Mission has tended to lengthen the British view from a necessarily near sighted absorption in immediate needs to
wider consideration of world-construc tion afterwards, and has foreshortened the American view-point from shsorptina in
who has to adjust this and that, have a clear day without too much sun and wind, and fails badly at snapping and rapid. 1 morely offer these remarks after hearing some of the explanations why this or that team did not win"
THE Germans will be able to derive little satisfaction from the results achieved by the British Mission to America. All those
Newcomers are perplexed with wnny who do not wilfully blind themselves to
queries soon after their arrival in the NEW HOUSE le Condali Boad. Ready the situation must see that the cordon is
Colony. One of their number submits for occupation. NOSSERWAN BOMANJEE KARANJIA Daddell Street, DE GODOWN in being drawn slowly but systematically the future to the pressing emergencies of
the following, which have been troubling tighter, and ibat, whether the war ends the moment. The result has been a closer. "Great this Summer or three years bence, there basis of relationship between his mind: Why do people always ride in rickshas or chairs when they have but Britain und Aerica than has been can wo no possibility o of their escaping
a few yards to go! Why is it considered without making full reparation for the possible since their separation a century.
the thing by those who do not usually crimes which they have committed. In and a half ago. No wonder it is believed dress for dinner to dress for every little taking his farewell of the American that the outcome of the Mission will vital.
■MMEDIATE entry, Two very desirable
SHOPS Husted in Ioe House Street, people, Mr. BALFOUR said: "I
"I camely affect the future of the World tin-pot show which comes along? Why should one magistrate pass sentence of opposite the Grand Hotel, recently recon- with high hopes, but they have been far The commen task will be pressed to etracted,
For rent and other particulam apply to surpassed by the reality." Already much completion with that increased efficiency six weeks hard labour for a petty theft
THE MANAGER, has been accomplished, quite apart
which will inevitably follow a full while another discharges with a caution HongKong Ich Co, Imo.,
a defendant brought before him for a 46, Connaught Road Central. From the financial aid which understanding between the peoples, and,
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being given unstintingly. Mr. Laovn
when success is achieved, we may look similar offence! If Hongkong is the bub GEORGE has publicly acknowledged the
forward confidently with Mr. BALFOUR assistance of the United States in dealing to the dawn of that happier day which with the submarine menace, and there is coming not merely to the kindred com,
BOHIE WONGWAI, expert mechanis from its factory, Dayton, Ohio, is now
in charge of the Cash Register business in Sorthern China,
AMERICAN TRADING CO.,
General Agents HONTSZ & Co., LTD,
Representatives,
14, Des. Vax Rond Castral, Hongkong.
WANTED.
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A reception took place in the Mission Hall, at which refreshments were de spenser The tasteful decorations of the Chure were carried out by Mr. J. M. de: Graca, and the arrangements for the procession were made by MỸ, A. M. Baptista.
BIG FIRE IN TIENTSIN.
A serious rois reported to have courred in the compound of Mackenzie & Co, Ltd., at Tientsin, on May ist. The loss is expected to be in the vicinity of four les of taels. It is reported that
and liquorice stored in the compound. the outbreak occurred amongst the hemp
quiries, was not dead but sleeping. The revised list of prices does not differ very
materially from that issued in the early of the universe' why doesn't the Home part of 1915. ▲ cent or two masy bo takers Government recognise the fact? Why off here and a cent or two added there,
fish, which should people who are qualified to have except in regard to
appears to
HIEF OFFICER, Manila, 8280 Philippine Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon seems little doubt that the appreciable munities but to all mankind who love voice in the direction of Imperial affairs he generally lower in price. The chief
Currency
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Notice is given that Mr. V. M. Watson has retired from the firm of John D. Hutchison & Co. Mr. J. D. · Hutchison and Mr. T. E. Pearce will continue to carry on the business in Hongkong.
diminution in the loss of merchant vessels liberty and pursue righteousness,
daring the past few weeks has been due, in no small measure, to the number of craft which America has placed at the disposal of the Allies. We have heard of the arrival in Europe of the first American medical unit, and a division of regulars has been ordered to follow it us quickly as possible, Bailway experts
Yesterday, being Whit Monday, Bishop are being sont to Russia to help in the Pozzoni administered the Sacrament of OFFICES si 2, Connaught Bond Central,
re-organisation of that country's com Confirmation to a great number of boys OFFICES in King's and York Buildings. HOUSES in Cirkon Gardens, Ganduil Road.unications, and nine regiments of ongi. and girls in the Cathedral of the Inna- HOUSES in Broadwood and breton nears are being rapidly recruited for culate Conception before a numerons con-
HOUSER CL
service in France These measures, how-gregation. Afterwards a Low Pontifical Shaheen, Apply to
ever, are only such as might have been Mass was celebrated, at which a general LAK HONGKONG LAND INVEST
expected. They represent the utilisation Communion was partaken of by the con- MENE AND AGENCY Cɔ, Lao,
198 | of that which the American Consul- · gregation.
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when at. Home be excluded from all par
increase is in sugar. At first sight this. ticipation in the management of local may seem strange in view of the Import restrictions in England, but, of course, affairs out here? Why does the Govern any surplus that may be due to this is ment adopt such a lukewarm attitude more than counterbalanced by the absence towards Empire Day! If people object of supplies from Germany and Austria. to the imposition of certain taxes why do It is explained that, in view of the they not make an organised protest prohibition of the export of certain How is it that an unofficial Justice of the foodstuffs from the United Kingdom, the Peace cannot be found to serve on the.
- prices of such articles cannot be fired, Licensing Board? Hongkong, I au
but the Committee are prepared to in- afraid, is a nest of queries; ons could go vestigate any complaints of profiteering on asking" why!" till the crack of doom.
which may be addressed to their Secretary at the Sanitary Board offices. As the Housewives will welcome the evidence which the Gazette affords this week-end Committes do not appear to have cut that the Food Prices Committee, shout prices too fice there can be no exense for which they made so many anxious in overcharging.
(Continued at our of next columns.)
RODERICK RÁNDOK