NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HEATHER DAY OFFICIAL SOUVENIR
PROGRAMME.
ON SALE TO DAY
at the Principal Hotels and Sores,
PRICE: ONE DOLLAR.
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SALE BY AUCTION. COMPLETE ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANT (PH. Potter's Oil Engine), on SUNDAY, 2nd December, at 2.30 F.M., at BOA VISTA HOTEL, Macao,
· TO LET.
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'OP FLAT, NATHAN ROAD Kowloon Furnished. Enamelled Bath, Geiser,
Apply to
"XYZ
Care of" Daily Prous Offic.. (1326
WANTED.
AN EXPERIENCED STENOGRAPHER
sad TYPIST open for Engagement. Apply Box 28,
Care of Daily Press Ooo. [laže
ST ANDREW'S FAIR.
Walt Cakes, Scones, Puddings and
TILL the Ladins, who have offered to
Sreets, dc, Lo the "HEATHER DAY" STALL kindly let Miss Arrox have them in the Fair Grounds on the morning of November 30th, between the hours of 10 A.M. to 12 Noon.
Το will facilitate matters if other articles Are sent before that date to the Conveners
of the several Districts, vir:
MRS MILNOY... West Point.
MDS SHAW
East Point
MRS. TEMPLETON. Quarry Bay.
MIR NEAVE
Kowloon.
MRL CHATHAM... The Pesk
R. BLACK
... Central District.
NOTICE.
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THE MOTOR UNION INSURANCE
CO. LTD.
(FIRE AND MARINE)
AVING bosn Appointed AGENTS to Hthe store Company, we are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS and issue Policies af Carrant Bates, Ma
UNION TRADING Co., Agents
Queen's Buildings,
Hongkong, 12th November, 1917. (1871
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S
DEPARTMENT.
IT IS BEREBY NOTIFIED that I
SEALED TENDERS in duplicate which should be clearly marked TENDER FOR QUARRIES, will be received at this Office until Noon on MONDAY, the and of December, 1917, for the letting of the andermentioned Granite Quarries at Houg kang, Kowloon, and the New Territories,
one year from the 1st January, 1918. Each tender must be accompanied by receipt to the effect that the tenderer has deposited in the Colmaal Treasury a sum of 850 as a pledge of the bond fides of his offer, which zum shall be forfeited to the Crown it the tenderer refuse to carry out his tender and comply with the conditions hereinafter contained, should the tandlur be accepted.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the highest or any tender
Forms of tender can be obtained from the Director of Pab ic Works
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28r8, 1917.
4% FRENCH LOAN.
(RENTE PERERFULZIM 4%).
THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE beg to announce that they are prepared to receive and forward to Paris, free of commission and telegram charges, at the selling rate of TT on Paris, applica tions for the above which will shordy
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
JOINT SERVICE
"NEDERLAND" AND "TOTTERDAM LLOYD BOTAL MAIL LINER.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
NKE Biumship
GROTIUS
be open to ponto Lotion he CLOSED Lying, arrived from SAN FRANCISCO.
The list of applications
INTIMA PION
WATSON'S
IN PARIS ON DECEMBER 16, 1917 Consignees of Cargo are hereby od COLD and those intending to sul scribe are invitoday into the hurdous and/or extra hamardona that all Goods are being landed at their to apply Price: 08.00
without delaye
Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Fall particulaes will be applied on appli-Warf and Godown Co. Ltd, whenes and
dollyexy may be obtained the No Claim will be simulated after the Croods
the Godow
all Goods remaining undelivered after noon of the 50th inst, will be subject to
to rent or
cation to the
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE,
6, Chater Road:
[1200
4% FRENCH GOVERNMENT
LOAN 1917.
Price of issue Frs. 68.60 Hearing interest from the 16th Dec., 1917, payable quarterly.
Free of TaxCH.
Not to be redeemed for 28 years. Subscription List will be Closed on the 12th December, 1917. Bills and Bonds of the "National Defence” bought before the 1st November, 1917, are accepted in payment.
Applications will be received by:
THE BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE,
wher full particulars may be obtained
L. BERINDOAGUE, Manager. Hongkong, 8th November, 1917.
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET
E1909
OX MONTHLY TENASÓI,
ODOWN, HOUSE, So.. situated on
All Claims against the Biosner musk be pre nuted to the Undersigned on or before the 43 1
Dec, or they will not be roongal med
CURE
TABLETS
All broken, chudad, mad damaged Goods are to left is the Godowns, where they wat be Pained on the 29th Int., al 10, by the CURE A COLD IN Company's Ferveyors, Moses, Godduct &
SHORTEST POSSIBLE TIME. No Fire Iurarum
DAMP been
muis of Lading will be counterwig mal by!
JAYA CHINA JAPAN LUS.
Hongkong, 24th November, 1917. - (1316
THE WATERHOUSE ~ STEAMSHIP:
LINES,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM SEATTLE AND JAPAN.
THE Steamship.
THE
STORVIKEN nacing arrived fri is the nbatan qir, LonniPT ONE of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at THRIE KIDK táto the hasardous and/or extra hasardósa. Godowns of she Hongkong soð Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, whence and/or from the wharvem delivery may be obtained
Goods not cleared by the 28th Nov, at S
will be subject to rent
All broken chafed sud damaged oxige are to be left in the Godowns, whom they will szamlued br Mestre GODDARD & Douetis, on the 28th Nov, 04 9.39 ▲ M
Clair against the Stamer mal by
AN EXCELLENT REMEDY FOR
very persistent attempts lately on the
A Chinese living, at Cook Streek, part of some Chinese to acquire property Hungbom, has been sent to the Kwong- in the district, and it is this, we suspect, Wab Hospital, suffering, from injuries which has led to a recognition of the stained through being knocked down flaw in the existing Ordinance, Mr. Lo's & motor car in Bulkeley Street, opposition, however, is chiefly directed Monday. at the racial distinction, which, he declarea, is the basic principle.'” of the
A Chinese porter, employed at the
Bill. In the eyes of the British Con- Hongkong Hotel, has been admitted to stitution,” ho reminds us, “all subjects the Government. Civil Hospital, gaffering of His Majesty the KING, so long as they from a compound fracture of the ler conduct themselves according to law have caused by a trunk from the luggage cart equal rights and privileges," and there falling on him. fore it is wrong to forbid by, legislation law-abiding British subjects, of whatever race, from residing in certain prescribed areas in a British Colony, We gather from this that he is not pleading on behalf of all the moneyed Chinese in Hong kong, but only on behalf of those who
The Official Souvenir Programble of Heather Day," will be on sala to day at the Principal Hotels and Stores. On Thursday afternoon a number of boys and girls in costume will offer it for sale in the lounge of the Hongkong. Hotel.
THE can claim to be British subjects. The remainder, being merely guests, have no
A motor cyclist, travelling along the loeds standi und are not, therefore, con- Praya East on Monday afternoon, knock- cerned. We hope this is clearly undered over a Chinese woman carrying some stood by the Chinese Chamber of Com empty baskets. Luckily the women did merce Now if we examine Mr. Lo's claim, not fall under the cycle and so escaped we find that equal rights and privileges serious injury. The cyclist took no notice are limited to those British subjects who and did not stops in fact, he did not even conduct themselves according to law, turn his head to see if he had done any The law, however, is not the same for all damage. British subjects, and certain customs
NEURALGIA AND MALARIAL
HEADACHE.
Copy of repeat order recently which Asiatics are permitted to follow are
forbidden to Europena under very severe silver cup, now being exhibited in A generous donor hus given a handsome received from England
penalties bath by the laws of the realm Messrs. Tak Choung's window, in Queen's Road, as a prize for the correct, or mearest guess, of the aggregata weight of certain animals, exhibited at the Zoo at St. Andrew's Fair. Those who are keep.
All Saints Lodge,
Howley,
Blackwater,
*Hants
Mrs. will be much obliged by Monars WATSON sending to her by post 10 bottles of their "Cold Cure. She will be glad to have these as soon as possible, as she is to-day ending her last bottle to her son
present d within 10 days of arrival, otherwin | (Capt they will not be recognised.
of the Buffs, who is at the
and the laws of society There is no need to specify these customs feesuse they are well-known. While, therefore, we do not interfere with those whose mode of living is antipodal to our own, we are surely justified in asking that English, Irish, Scotch and
Welsh
residents of British Colony which their forefathers founded should be at
liberty to exclude from their midst, in
ng suimals for exhibition or sale at the Zoo are requested to havo, them on the
Murray Parade Ground by § p.m. on Friday
The amual hasar of the Italian Con-
one district at least, conditions which are not tolerated in their own domestic vent will commence on Saturday morn GL. Shankiwat, known as Biseks lateron
No Fire Inmrasco will be affected by na to/frout and finds the Tabloids excellent for reles. Do Mr. Lo and those who thinking, and be continued on the two follow-
head's Sony Works
Apply to LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
TO LET
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■OUSES in Moreton Termsan and
HBroadwood Terraces
OFFICES in York Buildings, HOUSEN on Stamech, Cautions Apply to
All is Lading will be countersigued by ¦ JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Ltd.
Agenta: Hongkong Zist November, 1917, (1300
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD. AND CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION CO., LTD.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT AND AGENUT Co., LTD CONSIGNEES por Company's Steamer
TO LIT
MMEDIATE entry, Four very domirablo
opposite the Grand Hotel, mostly moon rkranted 20
For rent and other particulars apply 10-
THE MANAGER, Homanowa Its Co., Irp., 46, Cousinghi Hoad Central, (900
TO LEE
FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
FOUE-ROOMED HOURES in Kowloom.
MApply to--
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & PINANG
Co, LTD, Alexandra Buildimen
TO LET.
Conditions of letting and plans of the No. 26, BELILIOS TEERSOF
Quarries can be seen on application to the Principal Land Surveyor, P.W.DAM
PARTICULARS OF THE QUARRIES.
Quarry Lola No
That Tax Mui No. Z Shaukivan Nos. 3 & 4. Hok Un No. 8
Ma Tan Kox No. 7.
No
Road No. 10,
Jordan Yaumasi.
Approxi
„Ác és
Lipnet Crown:
Pent
5 1302 $ 500
73003,200
844 2100
460
200
1,800 1,000
1,000
200
10-12,800
500
Nga Rote No od 208
Faz Kok Nus 1-5, 7,
Ngan Tin
Chs Key Ling Nos. 1-3)- Sal Tax Wan Nos. 11 557 Legata Nw 1-234
Fur Taxi tuig No. 12
WANTED.
800
390 24:56 $2,700 1663.
60% 26413,000 | 19 | 12,00
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NEXPERIENCED ASSISTANT to take charge of Export Department. Aptly, stating experience and salary seguired, to
PO. Bax 250, Care of Daily Prom * Offen.
WANTED.
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(1973
GODOWN D. 8 Daddell Street. No. 87 WHEFIELD HOUSE and
GODOWN, Suauifwan Boud.
From 1st November, 1917, TOP FLOOR 7 Daddell Streek, now used a lestry. Kelly & Wash's Printing Ollos.
ONE GODOWN in Dudiall trust. HOME TO BE BOLD,
"GLENSHIEL, No. 140 and 11,
Apply Som
PEAL
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Bed Moor, Alexandra Buildinga.
KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART
MAATSCHAPPY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM-BELAWAN DELL PENANG AND SINGAPORE THE Steamship
AMR JACOB": having arrived from the above ports. Con- agnes of Cargo are hereby nothied tank all Goods are being landed at their rink into time bardous and/or extra hatardou Godown of the Hongkang und Kowlacin: Wharf - and whomon_nad/or from khy Godown Co,
Goods not cleared by the Dec will be subject to reat
damn god packages are
ensuined on the and Dec 410
Claims gainst the store must be pro- sented within 10 den after Brrival of steamy
British Qualifed Medical Man, antherwise they will not be resignbed Bppointment SURGEON on Bord No Fire
Stemmer alling for Singapore,
Appy-
2003
Undo algued in any cate wha
Ville of fading wilt be countersigned
JAVACHIRA JAPAN LIJTA
Hoogteng, 28th November 1917
EUMAEUSZAN
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kow- loon, where it will lie at Consignes's rink The Cargo will be ready for de
Godown on after
November
Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamere arrival,
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10,15 AM. and Nocy within the fren storage period. No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, und all Goods remaining undelivered after the 3rd December will be subject to rent,
All Claima against the Steamer: mjast" be presented to the undersigned on or before the 17th December, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
A Astente, e Hongkong, 28th November, 1917.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEER.
88. ECUADOR
1399
FROM SAN FRANCISCO HONOLULU, JALAN FORIN SHANGHAI AND MANILA.
from the
NHE above-mentioned vessel having anived above porte, Comnignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Cargo la being landed at their risk Into the Hanisions and/or extra Hasardo Godown of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and
bo Kowloon, and stored
Godown Co, Ltdr
of Cargo are hereby notified that Consigneem they must
must produce an Import Permit signed by the Baperintendent of Import and Firports, Hongkong,
bafors Bills of
All brolan, okatel and damaged goods are to be taft in the Gedowns, where they will be samined an SATURDAY, 1st Dec, at 10 L
All Claizu must be presented within a month of the Stemmer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized. =
* No Claims will be admitted are the have left the Godowns and all Goods ruma undelivered after 3rd Dec. will
No Fire Insurance whaterer will be efinsted. Consignees man rogu to mend im. thei
Lading
FACIFIC MAIL SP00
CA MORTON,
General Agend Hongkong; 28th November, 1917.
FOR BALT
OSTAGE STAMP CATOLOGUER 44
stopping Cold"
PREPARED ONLY BY
S. WATSON
CO., LTD.,
HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
TELEPHONE 16.
BIRTH.
FORSYTH. At Peak Hospital, on 27th
November, 1917 to Dr. and Mrs FORSYTH, & 8011
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Mozakone Urnion: 104, De Vaux Rold, 0. lowson Unrecs 1, 181, Mane Stam, 10.
with
The Bishop of Victoria has been spend.
with him seriously contend that thing days. The transfer of some 150 Chinese are entitled to claim a dual little Chinese children to the orphanage nationality, and enjoy all the privileges in Hongkong has entailed a considerable of British citizenship without its limita addition to the expenditure, and the tions or obligations! It is probable need for Baancial assistance is further: & that in many cases Chinese who have been
increased by the fact that, owing to the educated in British institutions follow war, the grant-in-nid from Italy has been
reduced to a negligible quantity. strictly English customs, but, although We can understand and sympathise their feelings in this matter, it would The Hongkong and South China War not be practicable to frame a Bill with Savings Association call the attention of exemptions based on any such ground. members to the danger of sending money After all, the Poak district has been in bank notes for investment in the developed solely by Europeans, who, Association in sealed packages by ordi accustomed to a more bracing climate than nery chit-book All money should either Hongkong enjoys, found it
more con be paid in personally by the investors or ducive than the lower levels to the health by somebody deputed by him, or sent by of themselves and their families. They crossed cheque. In futuro sealed packages have thus acquired something in the which have the appearance of entaining. nature of a prescriptive right to the bank notes or coin will not be accepted. district. Certainly no such plea can be advanced by the Chinese. Mr. Lo's asser tion that the English middle-class cannoting the last week at Canton. He has afford to live at the Penk is incorrect but
visited the Church Missionary Society and several other institutions He re- it would very soon become a fact if wealthy Chinese were permitted to com
turned to the Colony yesterday and will pete with them for dwelling-houses take part in the service of intercession THE PEAK RESERVATION.
on behalf Already Europeans have been squeezed out
of Missions which is It is greatly to be regretted, we think, of some of the lower levels by Chinese being held in the Cathedral to-day. that an attempt is being made to create refugees and retired Chinese merchants to be held in St. John's Cathedral at 19.
a kada gak
He will also officiate or a special service an artificial agitation amongst the local from other parts of the world who are o'clock on Thursday in connection with Chinese community over the suggested prepared to pay beavily for the privilege the special day of thanksgiving and Amendment of the Peak Reservation of living under the security of the British prayer appointed by the President of the Ordinance. Since 1904 a regulation has fog. We do not want to be ultimately United States of America, been in fores precluding the Chinese edged out of the Colony altogether. For from renting any land or building in the our part we should like to see the Ordin. Captain H. 8. Smith, one of the most, Peak district for the purposes of residence ance apply, not merely to Chinese but to popular and oldest skippers on the without a special permit from the all Asiatics, and, if they should develop Pacife, has just completed his 151st, overnor-in-Counch, and it is now pro-to for the hill-tops, there is no reason voyage across the Pacific Ocean, and at posed to make it impossible to evade this why they should not be granted a reserva regulation by the purchase of property tion of their own. There could not then, There is, therefore, no question of intro it seems to us, be the slightest, justifica during a new principle, it is sought tion for any complaint of unfair treating the service of the Toye Kisen Kaisha,
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, 28TH NOVEMBER, 1917:
merely to re-affirm one already accepted by providing that wealth shall no longer
be an open sesame. ‹Thu is a point which
ment
This evening. Prol. A G. Warren will give a popular lecture at the University, William Thomson, Lord
the same time gives up his post as com- mander of the Tenyo fare says the NC. Daly News Captain Smith is not leav
but will be merely transferred to another liner of that company. Some time ago the Japanese Government made a ruling MO that no foreign captain could command subsidized vessels. As the Shinyo Marie and the Tenyo Meru both came under this class, it was necessary for the company to substitute Japanese for the foreign commanders. It is very probable that Captain Smith will take command of the TK K. & Siberia Maru,alter his Intercession vacation.
should appeal strongly to Mr. M. K Lo, who hasaken up the edges on behalf
Kelvin, to which visitors are invited. of his fellow-countrymen, and, on grounds that he would find it impossible to es The total output of the Kailan Mining tablish, complaing that the Bill does not Administration's mines for the week even seek to protect the weak against the ending. 10th November amounted:
He admits that the Chinese, as 68.781 tons and the sales to 0.711 tona.
do not desire to live at the Peak but be denies that this is any
reason
hy they should not object to the Service for Missions will be held at the posed measure. On the contrary, ha Cathedral this evening at 8 o'clock The
The Bt. --Andrew-tide
it render By Fresh legis preacher will be the Rey RC Taylor) HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO. LTD.
of the West China Mission
the nature contemplated: “ un- necessary and gratuitous.” This is very Mr. Lauritsen of the Dragon Motor The approximate statement of trafic plausible but hardly convincing. The Garage, has reported to the Police that receipts for the week coding 24th November Chinese are so numerons in this Colony on Saturday night some person entered that it only a relatively small proportion the Garage through the ceiling of the of them were free to choose the Peak sa first floor, which is unoccupied, and stale vert of Tellier's 197,
a place of residence they could soon elbow, a quantity of
car and
inner Stanley Gibbons, 1917 (Fires part)
out all the European who already tubes, a bet of stenci soane electrin bulbs. GRACA & CO experience difficulty in fading accommo- and a woollen blanket, valued together
Bongbong
diation there. Moreover, there have been Jat 845.
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