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"THEATRE A ROYAL,
HONGKONG,
LAST NIGHT!.
TO-NIGHT!
AUCTIONS
PUBLU AUCTION:
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 161H,
1HB Undersigned has received instrnc-
tions from the Liquidators of Mesara, Jasa & Co. in pursuance of an order of the Hongkong Governmens to sell by publio suction at 12 o'clock (Noor) TO-NIGHT! on TUESDAY, the 31 day of July, 1917, at his Bales, Rooms, Daddel! Street, THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY situate at The Peak, Hong kong, and being BURAL BUILDING LOT No. 19,
Is One Lot
FAREWELL VISIT.
MAURICE E. BANDMAN
Pronta
THE
The Property Consists of:-
The piece or parcel of ground and premies known Lysholt, 104, The Peak, situate bear Mount Gough, in the
BANDMAN OPERA CO. Colony of Hongkong, with on arm of
(1917).
In the following London Success:
TO NIGHT!
Jun 15th.
LAST AND FAREWALI, PERFORMANCH
HIGH JINKS.
Booking at MOUTRIES.
PRICES AS USUAL. COMMENCING AT 915 E.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONGKONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
Estate of IN THE MATTER of the
AHMEDBROY HABIBEHOT, Late of Bombay, in the Empire of India,
OTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtus of Section 56 of The Probates Ordinance 1897 (No. 2 of 1897), mads an Order limiting the time for sending in Claims to or against the above Fatats to the 25th day of June, 1917
All Creditors and Claimants are honsby required to send their Claims to the Undsraigned by the
above date.
Dated the #th day of June, 1917.
G. A. HASTINGS. Administrator,
S. Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.
NOTICE
£733
NATIONAL CASH REGISTER
ARCHIE WONGWAI, expert mochanlo
from its factory, Dayton, Ohio, is now
in charge of the Cash Register basinos in Sonibern China.
AMERICAN TRADING CO.,
General Agents, HONTEZ & Co., LTD.,
Representatives,
144, Des Voeux Road Contra!,
Hongkong.
1666
194,032 square foot and registered in the Land Vilcotas | Burnt Building Los No, 18.
The Lot is held for the unexpired rend- dus of a serus of 70 years oreated therein by an indenture of Crowo Lase dated the 23rd day of April, 1896.000
The Annual Crown Itens is 88.00. For further particulars and conditions
sale apply to demand
MOR WILKINSON & GRIST, Solicitors for the Liquidators,
or to the Undersigned,“
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
PUBLIO AUOTIUN,
HE Undersigned has received instruo- THE
tions from the Liquidator ..of Mosars. Wirzna & Co. în paruance of an order of the Hongkong Government to sell by public auction at 12 o'clock (Noo) on MONDAY, the 27th day of Augurt, 1917, at his Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, Hongkong,
All the piece of ground situate st Yaumati, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, and registered in the Land Office as KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 909,
IN: ONE LOT.
The property consists of a piece of ground abutting on Battery Street and Fourth Street (near the Praya) in Kow- loon and contains an area of 4,500 aquare feet,
"The Lot is held for the unszpíved re- side of a term of 75 years created therein by an Indenture of Crown Lease dated the 4th day of May, 1888
The Annual Crown Rent is $60.
For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to
MSSZE. HASTINGS & HASTINGS, Bolicitors for the Liquidator, or to the Undersigned,
GEO"P."LAMMERT. Hongkong, 23rd May, 1917.
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
THE FRANK WATERHOUSE STEAM- SHIP LINE
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM BEATTLE AND JAPAN PORTS.
RUSSIAN 5% INTERNAL LIBERTY HE Steamship
LOAN 1917.
fabscription to the LIBERTY LOAN 1 Opened a THE RUSSO-ARLATIC BANK, Hongkong, from date to the 28th June,
1917
The price of Isans la 85 per cent. The Loan is free of Income Tax and other tations.
The Loan is sued for 55 year and will be redeemable at paz by yearly drawings beginning
December, 1922
The Loan may be reimbursed at par after the 29th March, 1927.
Coupons are payable half-yearly on the 19th March and the 29th September,
Intemet on the loan runs from the 29th Marsh, 1817 interest from that date to be added to the price of HauŠ,
Special favourable rate will be quoted for fustian Exchange.
Applications will be wired to Patrogund from of Melegraphic charges and Bonde will be for Popied free of portal expennan,
Bank is ready to give every facility to animeribers in the shape of advances against the
G. TISDALL,
Manngue,
копов
1609
EY EUROPEAN, Nún-Azisile or Indian desiring to learn the Colony should apply En purran af Le Caweraz: POLIOR. STATION between the hours of 9 aat, to 1 p.m. and 2 P.M. to & P.M. dally.
Applicants will be required to produce Pam- pork or klenillestion papers. UNATA
All persons with certain exceptions who main in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the REGISTRATION or PERSONS ORDIN ANCE 1916.
Forms of Eeglibation giving the partionary required may be obtained at the G.P.O. and si all Polios Bail come.
The Penalty for non-compliance is a due not exceeding $50.
WAFTED.
58
CHINESE CLERK with good knowledge
of English and Office experionoa Apply stating salary required to---.
XYZ
Care of "Daily Prem" Offee.
BANKOKU MARU," having serived from the above Forts, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hasardous Godown of the Hongkong and Kowloon Waarland Godowns Co., Ltd., whence and or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Groods not cleared by the 13th inst.
5th inst. at 5p. will be subject to rent
be
All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns, where they will examined by Mesars: Goddard and Douglas, on 15th inst. as 10 AM. Olsims against the steamer must be presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LT, Agents. Hongkong, 8th June, 1917.
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KONINKLIKE PAKETVAART
MAATSCHAPPY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
FROM SINGAPORE AND PENANG.
THE Beamship
YAN WAKEWYCK" having arrived from the above parts, Con dignes of Cargo by her are notified that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hasardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf - aSTA Godown Co, Ltd, whenos and/or from klup wharven delivery may be
obtained Goods not cleared by the 18th Inst, will be abject to rent.
All broken, chafed and damaged molage B to be loft in the Godoway, where they will be examined on the 16th inst. at 10 AM.
Clabus
against the Steamer must be present- od in writing within 10 days after arrival of Steamer, otherwise they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by the undersigned in any case whatever
Billa of Lading will be countersigned by ma
JAVA CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
Hongkong, 11th June, 1917.
ON BALE,
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BWEERLY PRESS, JULY to DOMEAR
1918.
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET.
NHOP to Let in Alexandra Buildings
Apply to-
BECRETABYTE A. 8. WATSON & Co., Lin, 1708
TO LET.
NOS 3 A & B, ROBINSON ROAD
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON & CỎ L
TO LET.
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NEW KOUSE in Conduit Bond. Raady for occupation. Alio 1 GODOWN L Daddell Street.
"For rent and other particular zonte Pi
EMIL VEMAZEE.
1 Den Voeux Hand
TO LET.
*MMEDIATE" entry, Two very desirabla SHOPS alinated In Ice House. Strack, opposite the Grand Hotel, recently recos-
For muf and other particulars apply toww
THE MANAGER, HONGKONG IC# Co., LTD., 48, Connaught Rond Central,
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TO LET
A FIVE-ROOMED HOUSE, with Tomat
Court, In Minden Villas, Kowloon.
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co. LTD,
Alesandrs Buildings.
TO LET.
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OFFICES 1 2, Connought Road Central
INTIMATION
WATSON'S
OLD BROWN
BRANDY
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QUALITY.
Brand
25 YEARS IN WOOD.
1917.
mor
Singapore Battalion and the 67th Com- pany respectively, have been promoted noting Majors, while commanding Siege Batteries:
BATHING AT NORTH POINT.
FACILITIES TO BE PROVIDED. FORTHWITH
With reference to the question naked by Mr. Pollock at the last meeting of the Legislative Council, the Colonia) Secro- tary (the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, C.M.G.), informs us that facilities will be provided forthwith for bathing at North Point..
Mr. Pollock has been asked to associate himself with an officer of the Public Works Department for making the neces sary arrangements.
Turkey would have received L
Gan-practico will be darried out from tal wound, Russia could have been Stonecuttore, in a S. W direction, on Sunday next, betwoon the hours of 10 kept supplied with munitions all the yoar
a.m. and 1 p.m., by the Volunteers round; Bulgaria would not have ranged herself against the Allies, and Germany's Captain H S. Thompson and Captain Berlin Baghdad schiene would have colitch, formerly of the Hongkong Inpsed like a house of cards. Further to did the plans of his brother-in-law, the KAISER, King CONSTANTINS permitted the surrender of two forta in Greek territory with their arms, ammunition and troops, to invading German-Bulgarian foress, and prevented the advance of Grineral SARRAIL'S force in Macedonia by threaten- ing it from the rear. The guarantees of good faith which the Kive then promised, on the understanding that Greece should be allowed to maintain her “neutrality, he subsequently evauc on the plen that the Government declined to sanction them, though the members of the Government at that time were merely his puppets A small force was, therefore landed at the Piraeus and marched to Athens, where, despite the KING è assurance that no disturbanes was to be apprehended, it found itself surrounded by 20,000 Grocks and fired upon with machine-guts and rifles. The outrages committed in Athens were repeated in the provinces, and strenuous efforts were made to
KILLED IN ACTION." assemble a strong royalist army in the
Official intimation was received yester. Larissa region with the object of falling day of the death on active service of un the rear of General Santail's Army another. Hongkong policeman, P. R simultaneously with a German-Bulgarian Edwards, who left Hongkong with the attack. Amends corresponding to the November contingent The late P.-. gravity of these outrages were demanded Edwards was in the Royal Flying Corps, by the Allies, and, ultimately, under and it is not yet known whether he was. the pressure of a blockade, they were killed in action or as the result of an reluctantly conceded. The usual evasions, accident. The cable announcing his death however, were practised, and the measures merely states:Regret to inform you which the Allies deemed necessary for death of Police Constable R. Edwards în their future security were only partially action, April 30th.” carried" out. The Government, we are cold, haggled over questions as if the Allies and Greece were two high contract ing parties discussing the details of treaty. Above all, the Government did not take the least step against the Ger mans and Germanophils in the kingdom.
THE ROLL OF HONOUR ANOTHER HONGKONG POLICEMAN
The deceased, who was quite a young man, was very well-known and highly. respected by his fellow constables, and the news of his death has been received with much regret.-
The roll of honour of the Hongkong Police Force now includes six killed, and
A. S. WATSON & an officers continued to frequent the one missing, prosumed killed.
CO., LTD.,
Palace clandestinely and to be received by the Heads of the Civil and Military administrations. Moreover, from Athens
OFFICES in King's and York Buildingu. HOUSES to Let, Wongusichong Boad HOUSES in Cufion Gardens, Conduli Kond. WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, irregular bands were organised" under HOUSES in Broadwood and Moreteral
LAR
HOUSEB on Bhamden, Canton,
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT AND AGENCY Co., Lev,
TO LET
198
10. 12, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE
SHOP
No. 2, MERION, No. 5, Tan Flax, No. 7. BELILIOS TERRACE.
ROOMED FLAT at the Peak (separate entrance)
KELLET OREST, 56, PRAK
No. 28, BELILIOS TERRACE, with entence on Conduit Read
- TWO GODOWN§, in Duidell Ströst, (No. 2, DES VOUX VILLAH, 51, PAK (Unfurnished) Fest
Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
3rd Floor, Alexandra Bullði s
WANTED.
OFFICE at the Central Location.
Apply to
FURUKAWA & Co, 20, Des Voeux Road Central. 1703
FOR SALE.
STAMPS.
TELEPHONE 8l8.
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HONGKONG OFFION: 104, DEB VOUX ROAD, C, LONDON. Drries 181, Finer Grass, B.C.
The Baily Press.
HONGKONG 15TH JONE, 1917.
EXIT KING CONSTANTINE
THE HONGKONG, HOADS. INTERESTING ARTICLE BY MR.
HE GOLDSMITH,
Mr. H. E. Goldsmith, of the Public Works Department, has contributed an article of considerable technical interest. to the Journal of the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers" for March upon the subjects of road construc- dealing, of course particularly with the tion and maintenance in the Tropics,
methods employed in Hongkong. the roads in the Colony consisted of red Until recent years the foundations of
earth, upon which was laid ordinary granite macadam for the main roads, and concrete or decomposed granite for the hill roads. The advent of mechanically propelled traffic, however, made a change necessary, and now" bitumen in some form plays an important part in the con- struction of roads not only in Hongkong
ties with which the road engineer in the but throughout the tropicsTRI
Mr. Goldsmith points out the dificul tropica bus to contend on account of the torrential rain-storms, heavy winds, and
addition to the
officers of the Regular Army, which, in order to maintain communientions with Albania, infested the neutral zone and had innumerable affrays with French troops. These matters were brought to the notio of the Grees Government, but no satisfaction could be obtained. The Allies were therefore obliged to insist on more complete guarantees for the safety of their Eastern Army, for the restora tion of unity in the Kingdom, which has been divided into two hostile camps for some time past, and for the proper observance of the Constitu- KING CONSTANTINE'S duplicity has cost
tion, which King CONSTANTINE as him his throne at last. No impartial trampled upon in order to serve his own observer who glances back over the events ends. It is obvious that under such con- of the past two years in Graece can deny ditions there could no longer be any room that the Allies have shown an extraordin-in Greece for King CoNSTANTINE. Happi- great heat which have to be taken into ary degree of patience, and forbearance
ly, he has been prevailed upon to abdicate consideration, in towards this royal hypnerite. Masking in favour of his second ap0. ALEXANDRUS,
ordinary wear and tear" He then his German sympathies under the pro who will attain his twenty fourth year periments made by the Public Works, proceeds to tabulate the results of er- fession of concern for the welfare of the in August. King CONSTANTINE'S reign Department in order to find the best country over which he ruled, he has been has been a short and troubled one, He describes the various methods of methods of surmounting these difficulties. guilty of innumerable nets of treachery for it was only in 1913 that he dealing with road surfaces in Hongkong, towards the Powers to which ho owed his ascended the throne upon the assassina macadam, then by sand carpeting, tar first with asphalte concrete or asphaltic crown. Circumstances, such as the devas- tion of his father, whose election took macadom alt tar-painting. The details tation by the enemy of Serbia, Mon- place in 1863 under the directing guidance of the processes form rather indigestible reading for the layman, but that experts tengro, and Roumania, unfortunately of Great Britain, France, and Eussia, appreciate them is shown by the conspired to enable him to offer plausible the three Powers which guaranteed the minence accorded them in the Engineers" journal. It might, perhaps be worth excuses for his attitude, but those circum- | independence of Greece in 1830.
while to suggest that, when complaints are lightly made in future regarding the condition of the Colony's roadways, his own dishonourable actions. By his
a copy of Mr. Goldsmith's article "be shameful betrayal of Serbia, on the pro-
sent to the grumblers. It would occupy their minds, profitably for a few hours. text that the-Greco-Serbian treaty of There was & lurge attendance at the and, at the conclusion of their studio, defence did not contemplate anything. Whist Drive held by the Naval Yard they would probably be ready to admis more than a war amongst the Balkan Police in the Dockyard on Wednesday that they had not previously grasped all the intricacies of the subject, and the Stuten, he deliberately played into night. Mrs. Budden and Mr. Längfield necessity of combining economy with the hands of the Central European took the first prizes, Miss Goodall and efficiency. Powers, and when, too late the Mr. Crocker second prizes, and Mrs. the Goodall and Me, Buara third prizes. Allies came to the rescue. at
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
THE GIRL IN THE TAXI
invitation of M. VENEZELO8, the Premier Mrs Hill and Mr. Wright were awarded Last night the Bandman Company of Greece, he succeeded in seriously bam the booby prizes. Mr. A. B. Allen TO-NIGHT
pering their movements. Again, by his acted as M.-C. 9.15pm-Baudmin Opera Co., at the Thestre repudiation of M. VENEZELOS engagement
Royal" High Jinka."
to land troops in Gallipoli for the pur: pose of co-operating with the naval attack en the Dardaneller--a repudiation that
Tuesday, 31st July-
Noon-Auction of Valuable Lessebold Pro!
perty from the Liquidators of Mars ......... Jebern & Co, ni Sales Blooms, by Mr.
Gee. P. LammeTË, Monday, 18th Aug. ----
Bishop
gave The Girl in the Taxi, a piece which depends for its attractiveness more upon its amusing, if somewhat risqué, situations, then upon any quality in the music. Miss Marjorie Manners, of course, In clebration of the lease of the took the part of Susanne and Mr. Sacred Heart, which was initiated Fred Winn that of Baron Dapvray,"
the newly-elceted member of the Academy, on the 17th: June, 1689,
who airs his pet theories on heredity for as hased on the ground, first, that the Pazzoni will officiate at a Low Pontifical the benefit of his home circle. Mr. Ley- proposed force was inadequate and, thes, Mass in the Cathedral of the Immaculate | land Hodgson and Mr. Alex Kollaway when the number was increased, that Conception this morning at 7 o'clock, and worldly-wise nephew of the. Baron both did well as the inexpérienced son its withdrawal would expose Greece Previous to the General Communion & respectively. Mr. Billy Rex infused a solemn Act of Consecration to the Sacred good deal of humour into the second and Heart will be held by the Associates of third nots by his representation of the Head Waiter of the “* Jeunesse. Dorée."" support efficient to turn the scales in their lic Union, and there will be an At caused a considerable amount of merri-
ment, thus achieving its princiral object inroar and change the whole com- Home" in the same Club at 0 p.m., when Tonicht High Jinks will be pro Had the Dar the orchestra of the Sociedade Philhar sented as the farewell performance of the
Company been successful, monica will be in attendance,
8p.Anotion of Valuable Leasehold Pro-1
perty at Sales Rooms, by Mera Hughes to the danger of attack from Bulgaria-- & Hough.
he robbed the Allies at a critical moment
D'OUND VOLUMES 14 U, HONGKONG Monday, 27th Aug.
Noon-Austion of Taluable Leasebold Pro
party from the Liquidator of Mecers, Witzke & Co, að Sales Rooms, by, Mr. Ged, P. Lammert
With Innar, Fries $760-
On Sale at the Hongkong ULIT PĚK 100
to might have been the Apostleship of Prayers at the Catho The piece went very well indeed and
plexion of the war danelles operations