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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONGKONG JOCKEY OLUB.
THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of Members will be held on SATURDAY' the 13th October, 1917, at 12 o'clock Noos, at the Offices of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB, on the ground floor of the HourGNG CLUB ANNEXE Chunter. load.
By Order,
T. F. HOUGIL,
Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, 29th September, 1917, (1988
H
PUBLIC AUCTION.
of
PARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on TUESDAY the 9th day of October, 1917, at 3 r., at the Offices of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order HI EXCELLENOY THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CHOWK LAND Nathan Itead, Kowloon, in the Lelong of Hongkong, for a term of years, with this option of rosewal at a CROWN BENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one furtier
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
73
term of in yesTM.
No of Balt,
Legality.
*
Boundary
Measurement
(Approximate).
*
い rent
L
Annual Rest.
Upisi Pries
N. 7.
it feat
Ar
per male 17,000 30,000
MILITARY LOAN.
(1089
THIRD DRAWING FOR REDEMPTION. NOTICE IS HEROY GIVEN to the Paso that the Thied Drawing for the Redempting the Military Lou will takes above-In Peking on 2nd October, 1917, the total
to be drawn being Fot $1,237)
The sial ombers of Drawn Bouds will i puldishid in the Gaverament Geerlin
THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE Pezing, 8th September, 1917,
11084
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
· LADIES SECTION, -
CAPTAIN'S CUP OCTOBER.
THE and 27th October, THE above Competition will be played
inclusive.
[1085
INTIMATIONS
} UR HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH,
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED
GENERAZ MEETING TSHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Company's Offices. TO DAY (SATURDAY), the 29th of September, at Noos, for the purpose of receiving the Heart of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts to 30th June, 1917.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 1st to 2n Sapiensier, both days inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co,,
General Managers. Hongkong, 6th September, 1917. ··{1000-
THE
HONGKONG, AND WHAMIOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that DIVIDEND WARRANTS for the INTERIM DIVIDEND of 8200 per Share payable to all Shareholders or the Company's Register at 30th September, 1917, may li obtained at the oice of the Company, 2, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on and After tim sth October 1917.
Nutice forder given that the SUARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED) from the 1st to the 8th October, 197, but clays inclusive... By Order at the Board of Directors, R. M. DYER Chief Manager.
fiote Hongkong, 8th September, 1917.
NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED. `(IN LIQUIDATION).
INCORPORATED, IN. ENGLAND),
Unredeemed Bank Notes.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that any
NOGTANDING NOTES
paid on presentation to the undersigned on or bolors SATURDAY, 20 September,
17, at Nooi.
AFTER THAT DATE, holders will find it necessary to claim paymont IN STERLING from the BOARD OF TRADE, LONDON, to hom the necessary funds will be remitted. THE BOARD OF TRADE unke a charge for payment of claims out of nouies deposit- ed in the COMPANIES LIQUIDATION ACCOUNT" at the Bank of England,
A. R. LOWE,
Liquidator.
1956
Chartered Bank Building,
Hongkong. 16th August, 1917,
NORTH POINT HOTEL. SHAUKIWAN Road. Tel. 907.
HE BAND of the 8. "KOREA Manu" will play Selections on SATURDAY, the 29th instant, on the grounds of the above. Hotel, from 8 P.M. to 1E P.M. .......
ST. PAUL'S INSTITUTION.
CAUSEWAY BAY.
(1079
INTIMATION
thirteen vessels, ander the brilliant coul and of an Irishman, the renowned Almirante Win Bows, up to that time the skipper of a merchant vessel
1937,
The half yearly meeting of the members" HONGKONG DAILY FRESS." of the Hongkong Jockey Club will be held
DIAMOND JUBILEE. on October 13th.
The Hongkong Daily Press, which cele- Capinin D. G. T. Sneyd, M.C., R. brates its Diamond Jubilee on Monday, trading to the Plute, swept the river clean formerly 24th Hazara Mountain“ Battery | October - Ist, hs dreided to mark the
of the enemy's ships, blockadeti Monte Video, and shattered the last, bulwark of Spanish colonial power in this part of THERE IS NOTHING MORE Antica. Brown subsequently placed
REFRESHING
IN YOUR BATH
THAN
the country under a further doht of graff- tude by conducting very successful'
bas bren promoted Major.
vccasion by presenting a special illustrat Major H. D. Crawford, formerly of theed supplement free to every purchaser of K.R. ROA. at Kewicon, has been the paper on that day, mentioned in Salonika, despatches.
Major F. A. S. Morgan,,R.G.A., form-
The applenient contains a number of articles describing the wonderful progres
cunpaign at sea against Brazil, and big erly of Hongkong, has been mentioned in of the Colony during the past sixty yeLIS,
menery is held in affectionate retem. brance to-day as that of the creator of the Argentine Navy, As on sea so on land our fellow-countrymen pinyeil. an important part in the way of liberation. 11. is, however, ia the pursuits of pesco that they have laid the country under the chiefübligation. During the first quarter of the last century, she British residents yere more numerous than these "of "ang fer nationalug, and of dighty-ávě trade
WATSON'S licences issued in 1926 they took out an
HOUSEHOLD
AMMONIA.
In Bottles 75 Cts. Each.
ONLY FROM
fewer than thirty-syon. The high esteem in which they were held is attested by The fact that the first naturalisation papers granted by the National Executives were in favour of an Englishman. The British, were mongst the pioneers of the gmat pastoral and agricultural indus- tries, which are the bases of the Republic's present-day prosperity, and they estals fished the first foreign bank in 1883. The (first external loan which the nalien contracted was from the firm of Hsiung, BRON, in 1825, a time when other foreign financial homes considered the risk Loo great, and though of recent years, singe the Republic's stability has been
-and discussing many questipus of current
despatches for-services at Salonika.
Major H. P. Garwood, a former Ad, ent interest. We trust that it will be jutant of the I.G.A. in Hongkong, received with approval and will be found
in despatches "From | to serve a useful purposé, been mentioned
Included in the table of contenus are the Salonika.
following Captain R. H. Fitzroy, R.G A., who
was with the surd Company at Lyman Hongkong Di Press,___4_Irief history The Homance of Hongkong," and at the British Legation, Peking, hàs | |
The Pinguess of Sixty years; “Constitu- · byen [romoted" Major.
gional Reform in Hongkong,“ by the Hon. Sir Charles Eliot K.M.CH.D., Mr. H. E. Pollock, R.C.Some Observ who is on his way back to Hongkong Irani tions on Constitutional Reformy" by C Peking, stopped cremate with MG. Alabaster, Barrister-at-Law" Educa- A. 8. P. White Cooper at Shanghai.. tion in Hongkong during the Half-Cen-, Aury, by the Rev. Thomas W. Pearce;
Major, T. Leah, R.G.A., who was stationed hi the Colony previous to the Land Development in. Hongkong, by outbreak of war, has been mentioned in A. Shelton Hooper, $.8.1; * Indast rial despatches from Lieut. General G, Wealth of Santh China," by C. A. Middle- Mibie at Salonika.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals ac knowledges with thanks a donation of 800 the Funds of the Hospitals from the Pawnbrukers' Guild.
tan Smith, M.Sc., Taikoo Professor of Engineering in the University of Hong- "Kong, Development of British Trade, in, Sutli-China," by Dennis K. Moss, Author of "Britons Germanan. China 75. Some Notes on Shipping and Shipbuild. ing (Contributed); Progressol Sanita- Major, D. Pudsey, R.F.A. who wasium in Hongkong," by Dr. W. W. Pearse, formerly an officer of the RUA Hong Medion Officer of Health!" Public Works kong, ins beef mentioned in despatches-A Sketch of the Department's Activi- Lient, General G. F. Milne, .B. ties," by the Hon, Mr. W. Chatham, D.S.Q., from Saloniko.
Public Works;" Barking and Currency," by WJ, Hin
the ton, Professor of Economics in University of Hongkong; and Hovgkong N Contribution to the War in Men and Money
“assired, there has been no lack of credit facilities from other quarters a return issued in 1905 showed that of the
Captain (tempy. Major) E N. totul foreign obligations contracted by the Willyams, D.C.L.1, who was with the S. WATSON & Republic from the date of its emancipation D.C... when that regiment was station
no less thin 92 per cent, was with Grow in Hongkong a few years ago, has heen
mentioned in despatches from Salonika. Britain. Today it is computed that scarcely less than five hundred millions of · Captain" T.' E, Bisdee, D.C.LI, who British money are invested in the Republic was stationed in this Colony with his re in one form or another.
er. This money ja giment on the outbreak of war, his ber employed in practically every sphere of mentioned in despatches from Lieut. Gen
CO., LTD.,
HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
TELEPHONE 16
ne
BIRTH.
G.M.G., “Director
NEW ISSUE OF BRITISH WAR BONDS.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
following telegram from Weir London
:།
the nation's activity, but chiefly in rail-cral GF. Milne, C.B., D.8.0, inform us that they have received thọ
Salonika, ways. These have a mileage of 21,000 and a capital value verging on two hundred milliona sterling. Great Britain owns and manages three-fourths of the entire system and claims a corresponding proportion of the money invested in it. The benefits which this enterprise has conferred on
the wilderness canant be over-estimated. While the British capitalist and engineer
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, THE REVEREND MOTHER Superior BLAVES. On the 28th inst., at dd, The the nation by carrying civilisation into
SCIENTIST, OF HONGKONG
Auneries a free lesturs an
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
WM. R. RATHVON, CS.B.
ht
THEATRE ROYAL.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4TH, 1917,
AP 520 F.M.
LADY MAY
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6th
"OUR DAY.”
LADIES willing to Sell ROSES on "OUR
18th October, are requested to
sad in their names by SATURDAY, October, to-
Government Rouse.
Writers are requested to stats their prefer nace, if any, for a particular district, which will
be considered as far as possible..
ENVELOPES SHOULD BE MARKED "OUR DAY.
AL FRESCO - FETE.
In Aid of the Funds of
11080
SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL, to be held in the Compound of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CATIEDRAL, TO-MORROW (SUNDAY),
30th Sept., 1917, from 9 r.. to 11.30 P.M.
UND
INDER the Distinguished_Patronage of His Excellency Sir F. H. MAY, KOM.O.
Admission Ticket, 31, which is sutitled to a Souvenir on its presanta tion at the Souvenir Pavilion on the orening
of the Fête only),
Tea, Cakes, and Refreshments will be served Jaring the afternoon and night
Tickets can be obtained from To-day at Mosera, GRACA & Co. No. 4, Wyndham Street, and at the RoMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL COMPOUND on SUNDAY, 3011 September, from 9 A.. to 7 P., and at the Gate on the night of the Fête.
The various stalls will be opered for inspection of the public from 3 to 8 P. 30th Sept
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Captain (Acting Major) F. W, Thick-
On and after 2nd October applications Desse, RG.A,, who before the war was will be received for a now issue at par of an officer of the H.K.S.B. R.G.A. at Kow5 per cent, National War Honds in loon, afterwards joining the Staff, has denominations of £50, £100 £900, £500, been mentioned in despatches from Field - £1,000 and £5,000, repayable in Eve, seven Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
and ten years at 102, 103 and 103, respec- abroad (will, be) Lively, Residents exempted from tax as on former ocel be an Exhibition and Sale of Wark every day LALEN. At the International, Hospital, have thus united to place the Republic night. The pria winners were: Ladies sions. Also 4 per cent, tax compounded Hankow, on Beptember 10th. Lewis is touch with itself, British shipping hasat, Mrs. Carrod; 2nd, Mrs, Alderman ten-year Bonds, repayable at par... In- payable half-yearly (on the Ist April (and) 1st October. Allotments ob tainable in registered or bearer - forms,
of the French Convent begs to inform
the Public and all kind friends of the. Coarent that from the 1st of October next there will
son.
Peak, the wife of C. E. 1. BEAVIS, of
[1000 DEATH.
at the Convent.
A large quantity of useful Articles suitable for Christmas Presents, including Underwear, Children's Frucks, etc., may be had at Moderate,
Prices,
The REVEREND MOTHRU hopes that all kind friends will patronize the Work of the Poor Chinese Orphans and thus bolp the Sisters to continue their Charitable Works.
R
PUBLIC AUCTION. ARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of
the
of
PARTICng by Pablit Auction Sale, le be held on MONDAY, the 1st day October, 1917, at 3 p.m., mi the floor of the PUILIO WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of HIS EXCELLENOT, Tas GOVERNOR, of Que Lot of CROWN LAND at Nathan Road," Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal i CROWN BENT to be fixed by the Burveyor of HIS MAJESTY TE KING, for one further term of 75 year.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No of Sale
Registry o
Between Kowloon
Locality.
Boundary
festaremesla,
(Approximate.)
*
T
Square feet
Anna Bent
L
fost
fast foot
28: 13,200 233 7,93
150 1158
*
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PUBLIC AUCTION,
BY OLDER OF THE MORTGAGEL ESSRS. HUGHES & HOUGH have received instructions to sell by Public Auction,
M
оп
WEDNESDAY,
Laved
the 10th day of October, 1917, at 3 P., at their Sales Room, Ice House Street, Victoris, Hongkong.
PETER LARSEN, of Dekalb, U.S.A., age) 36 years
Whist Drive was held by the Dock On Wednesday yard Recreation Club
3rd, Mrs. Black. Men-1st, Mr Wright; always been the principal link between the Republic and the rest of the world. Mr. Clayforth; 3rd, Mr. Greet The Before the war the British tonnage engag
"Booby" prizes were awarded to Mrs.
Hererowe Orpıçı: 101, Don Vanox Bord, C. Lowman. Open: 181, Frari Brann, E.C.ed in the overseas trade of the Republic Deano and Mr. Barclay. Mr. V. Stannard
The Daily Press.
Honarono, 29ru Sarremner, 1017.
ARGENTINA AND THE WAR-
excerded that of all the other nations was M.C.
CHINESE EDITOR AND ALLEGED MENACES.
payment of Death Duties and EXCESH The Bonds (will be available at par in
profits. Holders of 5 per cent. Bonds added together, and was six times as A grand al fresco file will take place may convert at the rate of £95 for £100 great as that of its açarest rival, Ger- to-morrow (Sunday) in the Compound of 5 per cent. War Loan, Holders of 4 per many. Great Britain, also, has long been the R.C, Cathedral. Entrance will be cent. Boads may convert into 4 per cent Argentina's best customer, taking nearly free from 3 to 7 pan., but from 9 to 11.30 War Loan at par. Nasional War Bonds one-half of her total exports. Germany... fee of $1 will be charged, and this will be nocepted at par for subcriptions has made rapid strides in recent years, but will give a title to a souvenir. H.E. then the event of any future long-dated-- is still a very poor second. It will, there Governor has expressed his intention of War Loan. fore; be seen that Argentina's interests being present. As there will be a full 17 says huch for the influence of German were closely bound up with the success of
moon a large attendance is expected. propaganda that a people so jealous of the Allies. With the aid of heavy sub.
A: the Hongkong Police Reserab their national dignity as the Argentines sidies, however, the Germans established
At the Hongkong Magistracy For- should have tolerated the submarine out well-equipped newspapers in the native last evening, two presentations were made rages of which on several occasions their tongue which attained considerable cirouto Trooper Sergt. Relph, of the mounted terday, before Mr. Dyer Ball, the editor section of the Reserve, who is shortly pro of the Mardo Daily Press, a Chines very limited mercantile marine has been intions, and, by presenting Germany's seeding Home for service at the front. The newspaper, was charged with demanding the victim, When the war broke outside of the case and glorifying her achieve presentations were from the senior Officers money by menaces from a Chinese doctor. Argentine sentiment was overwhelmingly eats, they gradually influenced public and the Troopers respectively, and con
Mattingley prosecuted and. Mr. Davidson defended in favour of the Allies. For this there opinion in her favour. Recently it is sisted of a handsome silver flask and a Mr. Mattingley explained that the were many reasons. The Argentines have reported that, in order to counteract the gold wrist watch, both articles being suit-allegation was that on several occasions defendant wrote: complainant threaten- always been in close sympathy with the growing ill fooling created by the U-boat ably inscribed. The presentations were ing that unless be was paid the sum of French, with whom they have much, be- campaign, the German Bank, taking ad-made by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, D.S.P. (B) 8200, he would insert in his newspaper, sides their democratic ideals, in-common,vantage of the Government's financial who referred in ealogistic terms to the a disparaging paragraph which had The educated classes are thoroughly con- needs and the difficulty of obtaining accom-services of Trooper Bergt Relph as a been published in a Kongmoon news- paper. He further went on to threaten versant with the French language and modation in Europe, made a confidential policeman, and to his popularity with that this publication would be followed literature, they follow French fashions in offer of an immediate loan of a very both officers and men, who wished him all by others more damaging, if the money dress, and they regard Paris as their substantial sum. The exposure, how good luck in his great-adventure nod Mecca. From Italy Argentina has receiv.ever, of Count LUABURG's treachery ap- safe return. Mr. T. F. Hough, AB.P. ed for many years a constant stream of pears to have destroyed the effect of these (R.) in command of the mounted section, If ultimately Argentina followed in a similar strain, Sergt. Relph immigrants, who now form a very large mazouvres, proportion of the population. Indeed, it should declare war against Germany she in acknowledgment, spoke of the pleasant has often been said that the Argentine of would be a welcome ally. From her Army, time he had spent in the Corps and said to-day has been created by Italian labour which is maintained by conscription and he hoped to be able to join the 17th and British capital. Great Britain has modelled on the German plan, it has been Lancers.
to said that she could furnish an expedition made very valuable contributions Argentine progress from the infant day's ary force of 200,000 men, while her Navy, of the Republic. It was the first though small, contains several powerful Power to recognise the independence of modern units which would be very service. Argentina and to celebrate a Treaty of
TYPHOON WARNINGS. The following telegrama ave been able in policing the seas. Still more im received by the American Consulate
was not paid. However, a trap was laid for defendant. The chief Chinese detective arranged to be present at an appoint ment made between complainant and defendent. Defendant was handed two marked notes, each of $100 each, and- they were taken from him by the Police. Defendant was caught red-handed. His (Mr. Mattingley's) firm, when they were nstructed, made the necessary arrange- ments for the Chinese detective to he present
The following Valuable Leasehold Property situate at Victoria, Hongkong, viz.
CL THAT piece or
ground parcel of Euate at Victoris aforesaid and known and registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 1855-Term 999 years created by a Crown Lease dated 16th February, 1917-Annual Commerce and Friendship with her, portant are the corn and cattle which she tieneral, Hongkong, from the Manila dicole, an ex-magistrate of the Fe Yuen
Chown rent $76.00--Area 100,110 square feet.
to
Prior to that Britons had done much to might then be expected to place un- assist the colonists to cast off the yoke of reservedly at the disposal of the Entente,
The complainant said, that the defend ant handed him a business card which contained the following announcement: Kwong Sun-wo, otherwise Kwok Wah, Province, a law scholar, headmaster of otherwise Pi Lit, a native of Kwangtung
District and then transferred to aet: 28 the magistrate of the Sun Or District, and in addition to this to act as the Chief ing hitherto been a Commander of the Republican Army, now Chief Manager of the Macan Baily Presa." bed w
Complainant also bore, out the state. ments made by his solicitor, after which the case was adjourned.
For further particulars and conditions of ale PONSON, STOKES & MASTER
Prince's Bazldinge, Ice House Street, Spain. When the River Plate was domin-To Germany the enmity of Argentins than 300 miles distant, moving N.N.W Jadicial, Military and Police Officer, hav-
Hongkong,
Solicitors for the Mortgagee,
or to
MESBRE. HUGHES & HOUGH, The Auctioneers. Hongkong, 24th September, 1917. [1069 |
ated by a feet of Spanish vessels in 1814 Would mean a very serious handicap after it was British commerce which furnished the war in an increasingly important
the funds necessary to improvise au market which the has been at great pains
The fleet of to cultivate. opposing naval forac
Observatory:
September 27th, & pita. Cyclone or typhoon E. of Luzon, more
or N.
September 29th, 12.30 p.m. Typhoon in about 130deg. Long. E. and godeg. Lat. Ni, moving N.
Typhoon in about 114deg. Long. E. and 15deg. Lat. N., direction unknown.