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HE Steamship
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~TJIKKMBANG". hasing arrived from Java and Macassar. Con- signes of Cargo are hereby potilled that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the basardons and for extra hasardens Godowns of Wharf and the Hongkons and Kowloon Godown Co, Ltd., whoare and or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
No Clainis will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowo, and all Goods remaining undelivered after Boon the 30th inat, will be mabi
tenant.
All elsim against the steamer must be resented to the Undersigned en or before the 30th inst, or they will not is recognized.
No Fire Inenanou has been allonted. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
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KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART
MAATSCHAPPY,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
THE Steamship
'*' JACOB "
having arrived from the above port, Consignees of Cargo by her are notified that all goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong- keng and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Idd, whence and or from the wharvos delivery may be obtained,
Goods not cleared by 26th inst. will be subject to rent,
All broken, obafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Gedowns, where they will be examined by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas on the 24th in. at 10A.M.
Claims against the steamer must be presented in writing within 10 days after arrival of tencer, otherwise they will not be recognized. No Fire Insurance will be offected by the undersigned in any case whatever.
Bill of Lading will be bountersigned by
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN, Agents,
[962 Hongkong, 18th August, 1917.
KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART
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FROM SINGAPORE,
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THE
"VAN WAERWYCK "
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THESDAY, AUGUST 1er.
PUBLIC COMPANIES
THE HONGKONG
ROPE
MANUFACTURING CO, LTD.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE
Z DOLLAR (81) per Share for-Account.
AUCTION
For Sale
1917 will be payable on FRIDAY, the 4th Public Auction.
August, 1917. Bhareholders are requested to the apply for Dividend Warrants at Company's
Office, St. George's Building, Hongkong.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 20th August, 1917, to FRIDAY, the 24th August, 1917, both daya inclusive TOMES & CO.,
SHEWAN,
General Managers. Hongkong, 10th August, 1917. [955
HONGKONG AND BHANGHAI
Subject to the conditions prescribed by the Straits Settlements “ Alien Baemics (Winding- up) Ordinance, 1915, as amended from time to time by Ordinances, 1 of 2915, XIX of 1915, XI of 1916 and VI of 1917 and on adopted in this State:
INTIMATION
methodical and carefully defined before hand." Then follows the warning which cannot be repeated too often:
There is
Captain 8 Mead, R.G.A, former Instructor of Gunnery in Hongkong, has been promoted Major.
trays
no expectation of obtaining overwhelm
Captain C. V... Skrimshire, who was ing results suddenly. It is a a bitter
Adjutant to the local Volunteers at the struggle over ground honeycombed with outbreak of war, has been promoted
Major.
WATSON'S defensive works. Every hedge in thickly
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All that land known as THE THE PREMIER SCOTCH BATU LIMA ESTATE consisting
OF THE FAR EAST
of about 1,016 acres, 1 rood, 33 perelies held under East Coast BANKING CORPORATION.:
Country Grant No. 49 for 999 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that N°C to Note Boy has years from 1888, RENT FREE. 19th February, 1900, for 50 Blares numbered About 275 acres of the land is 54219 to 54243, 10203 to 10207, 62840 to 62849, 4188 to 4180 and 55811 to 55816 and Provisional planted with rubber (150 acres Certificate No. 43/371 dated Hongkong, thin bearing) and 50 acres with
1907, for 25 Shares numbered 88206 to Jubo, al Registered in the name of Sir DARE coconuts 3 to 4 years old. MEYES, Bart, have been LOST or STOLEN, and should this Certificate and this Provisional Certificate not be produced to
Ito the Bank before the 2nd September, 1917. new Carlilicatos for the Shares will be based and the aforesaid Certificate No. 3482 and Provisioun Certificate No, 43/371 will thereafter be treated by this Corporation as Null and Void.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
N. J. STABB,
Chief Manngor. (001 Hongkong, 1st August, 1917.
NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED
`(IN LIQUIDATION}
(INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND).
Unredeemed Bank Notes."
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that any
OUTSTANDING NOTES will be paid on presentation to the undersigned on or before SATURDAY, 29th September, 1917, at Noon,
AFTER THAT DATE, bolders will find it necessary to claim repayment IN STERLING from the BOARD OF TRADE, LONDON, to whom the necessary fuude will be remitted.
Situated on main read within 5 miles of Sandakan Wharf.:
The following buildings in good condition are on the Estate:
(a) 1 bungalow (40x30) containing 3 bedrooms, dining room and veron- dah. Corrugated iron roof, plank walls, tiled floor.
(6) 1 Store (0322) Corrugated iron
roof, plank walls.
(*) 1 Smoke-house (24' 20). Corrugated
iron walls and roof, earth floor. (d) 1 Factory (3216) Corrugated iron roof, plaask walla, cement-toor. Contains 2 hand machines, 28 latex pails and over 9,000 caps.
(e) 15 Coolie houses (each 18 x 1).
Plank walla attap roofs, The above property will be sold by Public Auction in the Court House at Sandakan at 12 o'clock Noon, on SATUR- DAY, 20th October, 1917. RESERVE PRICE $100,000 (ONE
THE BOARD OF TRADE make a charge for payment of claims out of monies deposit- ed in the "COMPANIES LIQUIDATION | HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) ACCOUNT" at the Bank of England.
A. & LOWE
Liquidator.
Chartered Bank Building,,
Hongkong, 10th August, 1917,
NOTICE.
(956
having arrived from the above port, Con signees of Cargo by her are notified that all goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardANY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiatic or Indian dosiring to leave the Colony should uus Godowns of the Hongkong and apply in person at the CENTRAL POLICE Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. STATION between the hours of 9 AM to 1 r..
daily. 4 P.M.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS CURRENCY. (NOTE:-This reserve price has been based an a report on the Estate by the Honourable Mr. F. E. Lease, Manager of Sapong Estate).
The sale is subject to the follow- ing conditions
FOR 25 YEARS.
WATSON'S
TROV OLD LIQUI
POPULARITY MAINTAINED
BY IT'S
EXCELLENT
QUALITY
* NOT BY EXPENSIVE
WORLD-WIDE ADVERTISING.
(1) $30,000 (Bingapore Currency) to be paid A. on purchase and the balance by monthly. instalments thereafter of $10,000. Interest at the rate of 7% per annum will be charged on instalments overdue and default for 30 days will invalidate the sale and render the deposit and all instalments liable to forfeiture. (2) Upon payment of the deposit an agree undertaking to complete the transfer of the estate, free of all incumbrances, on payment of the final instalment of the purchase money.
whence and/or from the wharves delivery and 2 P.M. W will be required to producament will be executed by the liquidstor
Applicants
may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by 28th Aug. will be Passports or identification papers. subject to rent.
All persons with certain exceptions who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under or PERSONS the REGISTRATION ORDINANCE 1918.
All broken, chuted and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas on the 24th August,
at 10 AM
Claim against the steamer must be presented in writing within 10 days after arrival of ateamer, otherwise they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by: the undersigned in any case whatever.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned
by
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Agents Hongkong, 19th August, 1917.
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The Penalty for non-compliance is a fine not exceeding $50.
HOUSES TO LET
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TO. LET. MMEDIATE entry, Four very desirable SHOPS, eituated in Ice House Stroes, apposite the Grand Hotel, recently recon structed.
For rent and other particular apply to
Tax MANAGER, HONGKONG fox Co., LTD., 48, Connaught Road Central. [900
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TO LET.
No. 43, PRAX 146 JJ OMESTEAD,"
Unfurnished, immediate possession, for 3 months.
FLATS, "Will Doll Buildings," Wanchai. HOUSES and FLATS, Gap Road.
Apply to-
SANG KEE, Care of Compradors DPT., HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI Banking
COBTOBATION.
TO LET.
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And to the following special conditions :-
(1) The purchaser must be a British subject and not under any foreign influence; he will be required to satisfy the Governor that no person of enemy or foreign origin is directly or indirectly interested with him in the pur chese, and he must make such statutory declaration in that behalf as may be required
the
Governor.
(2) For the purposes of this sale any person entitled under the Land Laws of North Borneo to rank as a Native shall be deemer to be a British subject.
(8)
In the case of a Company formed for. the purpose of acquiring the business is Memorandum of Association must contain special provisions, to be approved by the Governor, to exclude the possibility of the falling under foreign control. Speaking it will be necessary to
Cerally
one-fourth of the shares prevent more t or the voting rights being held by, or subject to the control of, foreigners.
WINE
wired, and the cellar of every farm- house is converted into a fort. These Lieut. Colonel I. B. F, Currie, R.G.A", positions, moreover, are being defended who left here for home a short time ago, with what appears to be the courage of being then a Tempy, Lieut-Colonel, has despair, for while we hear in some cases been promoted substantive Lieut. Colonot- of Germans refusing to go over top," it must be admitted that the majority of our enemies are still ready to face death bravely. Whole divisions
the
have been used up in vain attempts to retake lost ground, and their attacks are likened to out-going waves, each one collapsing behind its predecessor- The Canadians beat off no feway than ten counter-attacks in one day, and it is hard to withhold a tribute from the Prussian Guards whom duty called upon to march over open ground in the face of our massed artillery and machine-guna.
hilated."
Sentence of twelve months' bard labour was passed upon a Chinese by the Chief Justice at yesterday's Criminal Sessions, for throwing corrosive finid over a girl at Yaumati on July 3rd,
At the Hongkong Criminal Sessions yesterday, three Chinese who were charg ed with returning from banishment were each sentenced, by the Chief Justice, to three years' hard Jabour.
The weekly religious meeting of the Helena May Institute will be bold towing (Tuesday) at 5 p.m., and will be com ducted by the Rev. C. L. Cooper Hunt, C.F. The meeting is open to all women.
Major C. G. Pritebard, D.8.O., who was in Command of the 99th Company, R.G.A. ut the commencement of hostili
They came on," we are told, in bat talions, marching in fours." but they nøver seemed to get any nearer to our line. These Prussians certainly marched when to their death like soldiers, and they at last halted and retired there was so little loft of the Division that it may truly be said they were virtually sanities, bas been promoted Lieut. Colonel. No wonder correspondents He has held the appointment of Tempy. declare that the blood bath is worse Lief Colonel for some time. than at the battle of the Somme, and it is not to be anticipated that our progress can be anything but slow in the face of great natural obstacles, hold with such desperate tenacity. Our hope lies in the fact that the advance is being steadily maintained, that we have more men and more mapitions, that our aeroplanes are successfully directing the overwhelming fire of our guns and forcing the enemy observers away from our lines, and that, one after another, points of vantage are being gained by the irresistible dash of our troops.
:
Mr. E. Stainfield, a clerk at the hongkong Supreme Court, was bathing at the North Point beach on Sunday morning and whilst he was in the water
stole a pair of gold sleeve links; valed some person entered the matshed and
at $12.
KONTA
case
During the week ending August, 18th, there
J WAS fatal Chinese
A diphtheria in the Colony. In the same period there were nine cases of enteric fever (one British and the rest Chinese), There was four of which proved fatal. also a fatal Chinese case of puerperal
Fully to appreciate the importance of the fighting in progress it must be remen- fever. bered that the offensive movement is not
When a Chinese went ahoard He ss. directed against one small portion of the Narkoi on Sunday he was searched by
in unly. The French on our left are
S. WATSON
attacking astride of the Zuggschoote- one of the ship's guard, and tied round LTD., CO..
Dixwoude road. In conjunction with his neck was a flat tin, which was found them we are advancing on a line stretch-to contain six tack of prepared opium. The man was charged before Mr. J. R. AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.ing front Bixschoole to Wytsclicte, con
centrating out
attacks chiefly to the Wood, at the Police Court yesterday, and, HONGKONG.
north of the Ypres-Menin rond, where we have curried Langemarck and Polygon of Zanneheke. To the sooth also, wa The coxswain of the Toi On steam ferry are advancing around Lens, where the launch, ranging from Hongkong to Sham Cabadians have particularly distinguish-Shui Po, has reported to the Police that, ed themselves; and, further south again. owing to the wash of his boat, a small
DEATHS.
£12
uses-At Shanghai, on August 18th, FREDERIK ANDRRAS ALEXANDER NIE SEN, fute Captain of the s... Wha-tor, 36 years.
was fined $500. or six months' hard labour.
ROBERTS.-At Tsingtao, on August 7th French armies are active. From one end; sampan, in which were a woman and two DAPENE ANNE, aged three years and of the line to the other, therefore, it may children, capsized. He went to their seven weeks, elder daughter of Mr. be said that a constant pressure is being rescue and succeeded in picking up the and Mrs. R. J. ROBERTS.
maintained on the German positions. woman and one child, but a four-year- The cables which are coming to hand old child was drowned. The body has reporting progress are more encouraging not been recovered. than they have been for some time past,
HONGKONG OFFICE: 18a, Dan Vævi Boad, C. LONDON. Orice: £91, Fuser St, EC
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, 21st August, 1917.
PROGRESS ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
on
ip-
The Hon. Rufus H. Thayer, former
during their residence here, and there
were general expressions of regret” when
he retired in 1913. At the time of his death Judge Thayer was serving as a member of the Schcherie-Shandinken, Con- demnation Commission.
The French have pushed their line for- ward to a natural front formed by the Judge of the United States Court for Jansbeck and Broenbeck rivers, and the China, died at Kingston, New York, on Les Lisjas redoubt-constructed of steel July 12th, several hours after an apoplec- Judge Thayer and Mrs. and concrete,which held up the advance tic seizure. for several days, has been shelled into Thayer made a host of friends in Shang-
hai and other ports in the Far East" submission. We have consolidated our (4) In the case of a Company already in
hold
the high ground round Lange existance, if the Articles of Association do
marek, which is regarded as the key to not already so povide, they must be altered. in a manner sati factory to the Governor so as to exclude the possibility of the Company ALTHOUGH the forward strides which the the whole defence position of Northern falling under foreign control, and the Dire Allied armies are taking on the Western fallen we dominate the eastern
Belgium; and although Lens has not yet tom must furnish an undertaking to use their best endeavours to have the provisions. Front are not long on-it is, indeed, proaches of the town and our guns can referred to above inserted in the Memorandum only upon a map drawn to a fairly how
render communication of Association if legislation should be introduced exabling the Memorandum of Kenerous scale that they are clearly almost to the point of being impos- Association to be altered by the insertion of perceptible-this does not mean that the sible." such provisions
(6) Should the Governor for any reason not successes gained are animportant, or message, are in a salient so small that it approve of the purchaser, the contract may that they may not have a far-reaching is out of the question for them to group be rescinded by the Governor and the deposit effect upon the campaign. As has will be returned without interest or expenses.
80 any artillery within it, and the Oppy-. often been pointed out, the fluctuating Maricourt line, which is the first regular fortune of the battle in Belgium and defensive system beyond Lens, is within Northern France cannot, at this stage, be easy reach of our new positions. Even measured by the amount of ground gained the Brocourt-Queant. line, forming or lost/ REUTER's Correspondent empha- sector of the Hindenburg line, comes, we sises this point once more when he says, are told, well within range of our heavy
Further particulars may be obtained on application to the FFICES at 9, UGRnaught Road Can undersigned. OFFICE in King's Buildinga,
W. W. SMITH,
Liquidbutor
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HOUSES in Broadwood and Moreton
Terraces.
HOUSES on Shamsen, Canton.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY Co., Lab.
RESIDENT'S OFFICE
SANDAKAN, NORTH BORNEO,
29th Juna, 1917. ;
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FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
- No O, WINDEN VILLAS Kowloon 5 ROOMS, with Tennis Court. From Iɛl Os ober next.
bộ
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FOUR ROOMED-HOUSES in: Kowloon,
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Co., Ltd.. Alexandre Buildings.
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CHINA AND THE WAR,
[BY COURTERY OF THE "CHONG NGOL SAN PO."}
SHANGHAI, August 19th. The King of England has wired Pre- sident Feng Ku-chang to congratulate. him on China's declaration of war.
The President replied on behalf of the
SIKH TEMPLE WAR SUBSCRIPTIONS.
(CONTINUED)
with reference to the German losech gun Wo many it seeing, confidently Cabinet
there are fewer Germans. 1 expect the fall of Lens within a resson- Belgium than previously " andit ably short time, and it is anticipated really does not matter whether we succeed that its capture will lead to extensive in destroying the military power of changes on that particular section of the Germany where we now stand or miles battle-front- further forward.". The British have appears to think that the day of the Sudda Singh Blade ve distinct attacks in force since regular trench system of fighting has Surain Singh, A., Watson's
Warehouse. January of this year, and on each passed, and that our troops are now most Jowala Singh. H.K. Club occasion they have wrested some dominat-likely to be met with loose, scattered Sunder Singh, Race Courtę...... ing ridge, some point of strategic or resistance, which will take advantage of Gujar Singh, Cement Factory
Banta Singh, tactical advantage, from the enemy. Now every bole and corner for the develop Nadhan Singh. the operations are gradually developing, ment of wachine gun and sniping poste. Hukan Singh, and, in the opinion of the military critic There is no doubt that constant and in Jhanda Singh.
Roor Singh, 9. Seymour Road. of The Times, we have reached the prin- portant progress is being made, and if Banta Singh, Soap Fgétory cipal stage of the summer campaign in we have sucessfully overcome barriers Dal Singh, the West "The enemy," he says, "is which were regarded by the defenders as being subjected to a pressure exceeding impreguable, there is no reason to fear Da Bale at the HONGKONG DAILY Pess anything ever known. Our advances are, the results of fighting in the open.
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