NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, IN
LIMITED.
Bad.
WING to ALTERATIONS
REPAIRS at the Power Station the IN Supply of ELECTRICITY will be SHUT OFF on SUNDAY, the 16th inat, from 7.30 AM to 1.30 PM.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co..
Agents
PUBLIC WORKS
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY DECEMBER 14ru, 1917,
THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIEST CONSOLIDATION
JACK, 1968, THE MATTER OF NATIONAL
BANK OF CHINA, LTD. __________(IN__=_LIQUIDATION.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
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I SEVENTH AND FINAL RETURN OF CAPITAL AND DIVIDEND at the Rate of FORTY CENTS (Hongkong Cur DEPARTMENTrener) per share will be paid on and after SATURDAY, the Sind day of December, 1917, at Noon, to registered holders of a and B Shares upon Application to ---
In the case of
the Messre, LOWE, Register
NOTIFICATION.
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the 8th January, at 3 PM, at the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, and before a Lommittee presided by the Engineer Director of the Public Works, tenders will be received for the contract of " ERECTION OF A BUILD- ING FOR THE COLONIALSECRETARY'S OFFICEULUNIAR
The conditions of the tendering, the and the Flans of tire Building. specifications Are open to the Public at the PUBLIC WORKĀ DEPARTMENT and in the PORTUGUESE CONSULATE in Hongkong, where they can be examined all week days.
Macao, Public Works Department, eth December, 1817. § (
HAUL, M. DE PARTA ® MAIA,
Engineer Director.
WANTED.
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HE PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that DELIVERY ORDER No. 39in
دیا
to our order covering two hundred steel plates ex 8.3. "THORDI&," arrived from Seattle on the 7th day of November, 1917, has been LOST and is now Cancelled,
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD." Hongkong, 13th December, 1017, ₤1379:
BANK HOLIDAY.
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BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, Thorner's Chambers, Ingram Coart
167, Fenchurch Street, LONDON, EC In the case of Shares on the
"on" the Colonia) (Hongkong) Register Messrs LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
Chartered Bank Building
3 Queen's Road Centrál HONGKONG. endorsement.
Share Certificates must be produced for
A. R. LOWE
* Liquidatón Hongkong, 8th November, 1817.- †1967
IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES" CONSOLIDATION
ACT 1908,
IN THE MATTER OF NATIONAL
BANK OF CHINA, LTD. (IN-LIQUIDATION)
NOTTO IS HEREBY GIVEN that a
FINAL GENERAL MEETING of the above named Company will be held at the Office of the Liquidator, Chartered Bank Building, 3, Queen's Hoad, Central, Victoria,
ris, in the Colony of Hongkong, on SATURDAY, 22nd DECEMBRE, 1917 NOON the precisely, for the
docount of the Liquidator, show having showing the manner in which the Winding up has been conducted and the property of the Company disposed of, laid before such, Meeting, and of hearing any explanations that may be given by the Liquidator, and to pass his
his remunera tion, and also to pass the following Extra- ordinary Resolution, vizitat
That the Books, Accunts and Documents of the Company and of the Liquidator
INTIMATION
DEPORTATION ORDINANCE CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
(BY: COURTESY OF THE CHUNG AGOI
SAN FO
the ex-Fremier that ultimately he con- sented to accept the post temporarily. Official after offcis refused a seat in thes
UESTION OF JURISDICTION.
Cabinet before the PRESIDENT was able to Yesterday the Chief Justice (Sir get together the present combination, William Reen Davies) delivered judgment
THE QUESTION OF PEACE. which is probably the worst that has on the petition of Li Hong Mi It will
SHANGHAI, December 13th. advent of the Republic. It is clearly on È Varrant, issued under, the Des
Tang Chi-ya's representative visited! only a stop-gap. Neither the Chiapu-portation Ordinance of 1917, and was the President requesting. His Excel- Lang hos the Southern party is admitted to bail by the Magistrate, pend- lency to issue a mandate stopping waz
WINES AND SPIRITS undertaken the administration since the be recalled that petitioner was arrested
ASSORTED CASES FOR XMAS.
Case No. 1. $22.00
3 Bots. St. Estephe Claret.
represented. It is composed almost ing the consideration of his case, by the fare. entirely of pro-Gerniana and ex- Governor in Council. Through his coun
The question of peace being discuss monarchists. One of the most surprising sel, the Hon. Mr. H, E, Pollock, KC, ed between the President, and Luk Wing appointments is that of General YIN and Mr. G. C. Alabaster (instructed by ting and Shen Chun-haun by telegram : CHANG as Chief of the General Staff. He Mr. C. D. Wilkinson (of Mesara, Wilkin- | direct. is one of the most strongly pro-German son & Grist), he petitioned the Supreme Bot. Superior Old Cognac,
officials in China. He was educated and Court for his immediate release. Very Okt Liqueur Bootch Whisky in Germany has held official
pl Quality Dewar a Scotch Whisky.
Light Dry Sherry. Port, Fall Bodied
Case No. 2. $28.00
1 Bot. St. Marcosur Champagne,
1 Burgundy a petion
3 Bota
Bot
1
1
Batophe
Light Dry Sherry, Ssadensa't. Port, Superior Light Invalid. Superior Old Biqueur Cognac.
Very** Quakty
Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky
Dewar's Scotch Whisky.
Gin
Orange Curacao.
deal
The Attorney-General, instructed.hy the Crown Solicitor,, appeared on behalf of the Crowa and the Captain Superintend ent of Police,
positions in Germany and Austria, is married to a German wife, and has been involved in nearly every monarchical
In bis judgment His Lordship said: restoration scheme. Admiral Liu Kuan-
This potition has been served on the HSIUNG, Minister of the Navy, is also suspected of pro-German sympathies. Superintendent of the House of Deten tion-the applicant being, as be supposes, is he who has been conducting a
subject to his custody-and also, on the with a Danish firm, which is alleged to Crown Solicitor. The Attorney-General be controlled by German money, for the has appeared and has taken, a prelimin- construction of wireless stations through ary objection to the petition, alleging out China TBAO JULIN, Minister of that no such procedure as is raised by tha Communications, is married to a Japan-petition is known to law, and he claims ese, and his conduct of the financial, that the petition is a nullity. Now the arms and mineral negotiations with Japanese firms was mainly respon.
1. Bot. St. Marceaux Chaan pague.
sible for the recent Cabinet crisis. It Old Brown Sberty E.E." was he engineered the notorions
7 Bota Superior
perios Old Port ** D** Quality shipping deal, degotiated the arms con- Very Finest OLD BROWN tract, and was prepared to relinquish the Brandy Quality, major portion of China's iron reserves Very Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky
Quality
The PRESIDENT represented that it was Kility Liqueur Whisky (guaranteed
Uyears old). Bots. St. Julien Claret. 3 Bot
Case No. 3. $82.00
Orange Curacao.
who
with the object of removing from offles this ursial and others, working with him that he sided with the Yangtare military Governors against 10AN
TGAN CHI- JUI and thus brought about the down- fall of his Cabinet The Yangtare
It is rumoured that Hsi Shing-chuan has cancelled independence, CHINA AND THLALLIES!! ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.
At & Diplomatic Conference it wass decided to enter the Paris Economic Cons ference.
CANTON NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE CHUNG NGGI
BAN POT]:
CANTONS December 13th..
AN ULTIMATUM,
The Tuchun, Mok Wing-son, bas cent aplicant is on bail, and it is conceded an ultimatum to the Tuchun of Fukien that proveedings by Habeas Corpus, are announcing that unless he make, the not applicable, the alleged illegal de- samo protest us the Southern Provinces a largo body of troops will approach tention having ceased before the applica tion for the writ could be made. It is Fukien very soon. also contended by the counsel for the PR WE WELCOMED. applicant that probably no other pro- cedure is applicable, and that the Courting yesterday to welcome Dr Wu Ting- has an inherent power to hear and fang and Mr. Tong Shui-ye............. The determine the petition.
authorities also sont representatives. to"
The Provincial Assembly held a meet
The only question now before us is the meeting. Dr. Wu made an amusing: whether the Court has jurisdiction to speech. Tong was not present, as he had entertain the petition. The procedure gone to his native village.
thereof be retained by the Liquidator, SPECIAL CASES PUT UP TO ORDER. military Governors declared that adopted in Sprigg v. Sigean, 1867 A WINES FOUND.
he undertaking to destroy the same st the expiration of five years from the Dissolution of the Company
AR LOWE, FOA.,
Ma Liquidator. U Hongkong, 8th November, 1917. [1238
N accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912, CENTRAL BUREAU OF LIQUIDATION
the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the transaction nt PUBLIG BUSINESS TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), the 15th instant.
Hongkong, 11th December, 1917. [1377
OF THE DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK IN
CHINA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
HONGKONG GOVERNMENT 6% WAR of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign
LOAN 1016
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that SCRIP CERTIFICATES may now be exchanged for definitive Bonds Scrip Certificates should be handed in at the Hongkong Office of the HONGKONG AND of the same denominations will be issued in exchange.
* under instructions from the Ministry
Affairs of the Republic of China, the business in Chins of the DEUTE A
BANK
Allied and Calma egrinst
yo
boon placed And all Tarties of Neutral nationalities having Claims the paid Bank- in Canton are hereby 1 to notify the Canton Enreas of required Liquidation of their
Kas because they were determined to prevent the country's resources from being handed over to Japanese intereste
238, was relied on as a procedent. It was an appeal from the Supreme Court of Cape Colony which had ordered the imprisonment of the respondent, under a
Several mines, were discovered in the Koon-Yum mountain and ware brought. to the Tuchun's yamen the other day.. They are said to consist of powerful.
S. WATSON & that they opposed the Government, yet local Act. The procedure adopted was explosives.
CO.. LTD.,
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
TELPRONK 618
BIRTH CABYOn the 13th instant, at the Peak Hospital, to the wife of F: W. CARF, Naval Dockyard, a son, 11880.
DEATH.
the very man who was responsible for
by petition to the Supreme Court of the all this is retained. There are two reasons for this One is that the Colony. There is nothing in the report to show why the procedure was by peti. PRESIDENT, in his recept intrigues against, and it is probable that it was based TUAN DHi-Jui, attempted to all on the hand local procedare. It appears, lence, and being discovered in this however, that the English Habeas Corpus design, was shunned by both parties Act was not in force there, nor any with the result that he found himself andlagous local legislation with practically no following. The N Carour faction locked askance at him for chandoning their leader, and the Yang
It is contended on behalf of the appli-
GENERAL LUX'S MOVEMENTS
General Luk Wing-ting arrived at Nanning yesterday. He has ordered th Southerners not to stop their advances to Hunar or Fukion, as it is hopeless. to arrange peace terms with the Peking. Government.
SWATÓW BITUATION..
4 message from Swatow states, that
cant that remedy by petition is very Northern, troopa from Tukien have general in cur Courte, as is the case
recently, arrived. Numerous strongholds.
GRANGHAI BANKING CARPORATION and Bonda month from this date degrees at Vithin one | WENDE-At the Hed Cross Hospital teze military Governors were alienated under the Companies Acts and in applive bean contractes, and the trains
E. D. C. WOLFE,
Colonial Treasurer. Hongkong, 10th December, 1917
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4% FRENCH LOAN. (Rente Perpetuelle 5%).
THE BANQUE INDUS-
TRIELLE DE CHINE bers to announce that, to ensure the arrival of applications in Parts: before December 16th, they
AND NOTICE
IS HEREBY FULTHER GIVEN, that all Parties indebted to the said Bank must discharge sheir liabilities from this date, after which eriod the Central Bureau of Liquidistion will take such notion as may be neometry.
LOCAL HUKEAT OF LIQUIDATION OF THE DEUTSCH-AMATISCHE BANK, CANTON, Lanton, 1st December, 1972.
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LIFE INSURANOL
MREF HENDERSON, LCS, Retired,
of 43, Leinster Gardens, London, W., wishes to remind the readers of this paper
Shanghai on Dec. 7th BARSHID Wesor, aged 96 years.:
Monszone Urvice, 104, Dhe Veux Bou, Lanson, Device: 101, Flam B
The Daily Press.
Hosokong, 14TH DECEMBE 1817.
CHINA'S NEW CABINET.
2.0.
AFTER the resignation of TUAN CIJU, the late Premier, and his colleagues in the Cabinet great difculty was experi
cations for probate, and presumably in from Xwatow to Chui Chow have been divorce proceedings. These matters are, stopped, Wealthy and influential people however, regulated by Statute or by rules are leaving Swatow dally. expressly made under the Statutes
HONGKONG'S EXPRESSION OF
by his weakness in throwing all the blame upon them when he was charged with having betrayed TUAN. In these circum stances the PRESIDENT had to secure sup- port from somewhere, and, in his extre-creating them; and this statutory Pro THE HALIFAX, CATASTROPHE mity, threw himself into the arms of sedure cannot, I think, be called in sid TSAD JU-LIN and his coteric. This has unless it can be shown that the petition disgusted bis friends as well as bis in question has some statutory sanction. enemies in the political world. The It was further contended that on remainder of the new Cabinet are all general principles both at law old-time officials who have at different times been involved in the varicus monarchial schemes. The only official in whom the Allies can repass any condence is the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lu
and
Habeas Corpus and Mandamus, in inapplicable in the present circumstances the Court will exercise its inherent right
SYMPATHY
We have received the following contri-
equity there can be no right without a brutions amounting to nearly $2,000–in are, two days towards the Fund which is being the Lord Mayor of Lon- remedy and that as the usual pro
don for the relief of the many thon- sands of sufferers by the terrifio explo- sion which dealt death and destruction broadcast in Halifax, Nova Scotis, a few days ago :- Already acknowledged
wil telegraph a first list of that his advice is available, now us for the enced in securing successore. The sitpa CHENG-AŠIANG, From the beginning he has to entertain the petition
subscriptions from here on the fith Instant.
Intendlog subscribers are therefore Invited to apply with out delay.
Issue Price: 68,66 All applications from Foreign Countries will be allotted in full. Further particulars on application to the BANQUE INDustrielle de CHINE
5, Chater Road
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47. FRENCH GOVERNMENT LOAN 1917.
Price of issué Frs: 68.60.
Bearing Interest from the 16th
- Dec., 1917, payable quarterly, Free of Taxes.
Not to be redcomed for 25 years. Subscription List will be Glosed on the 12th December 1917.
Bills and Bonds of the "National "Defence” bought before, the lat November, 1917, are accepted in payment Lpplications will be received by
THE BANQUE DE L'INDO-CUINE
J. BE
Hoogkong, 9th November, 1817,
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last sixteen years, to all those of known position who agree to his conditionE:
The war, which has pitilessly exposed the weaknesses of many Insurance Offices, has triumphantly vindicated the soundness of
Henderson's si vice..
tion was certainly not inviting. At the moment the Cantonese Provisional
Bir Robert Ho Tung
sympathised keenly with the Allies and ancient procedure known to the English she taunchly supported THAN CHI-JA1 in Courts. Further, that the procedure. Government was demanding one thing his war policy against the Central Euro anterior to the Judicature Act is express the Yangtze Military Govezuors wanted
pean Powers. Mr. Lu, who is married to ly reserved by Ordinanco 1 rule à sec Collected round the Dinner Table another, the Northern Military Parts Belgian lady, is nas extremely ables of the CC.P. As to the latter conten- The Hon. Mr. Lag Chu Pak were in opposition to both of them while official, in fact, he is the only capable tion, I may point out that the reservation The Hon. Mr. Ho Fook Out of thirty British Offices, whom valone General Lux WING-TING and the Hunan Chinose diplomat at the present moment in Ordinance 1 rule 3 is subject to these Mr. Chan Rai Ming tone took place during 1915, only five se had a programme entirely different
intained their pre-war bon rate: included from any of the others. The Yunnanese Foreign Affairs on several occasions, pre existing jurisdiction or power of the Mr. Lo Cheung Shiu
in Peking. He has been Minister of rulos, and in sec, 3 of the Code The Mr. He Kom Tong amongst these five are two and the Szechuanese, who generally take vicus to which he was China's representa. Court" is subject to what is berein WGL Frequently recommended Mr. HENDERSON, and, moreover, the bonuses declared by these potch of this description, were
tive in Enssia, Belgium and other xpressly enacted in that behalf Le.. Mr. A. H. Harris highest and
countries. For some tatoo past he has Now the text books to which we were
Bagtis Morcové
been Head of the War Council and will referred show that except with regard to « A Sympath
peditions of right the jurisdiction by M. A. Smith continue in that capacity concurrently eution is practically unknown in the with holding his other office,
King Bench Division, and a reference Tisito to Archbold Practios confirm it. It sems also that originating petition in the Chancery Divis are usually pre- sented under the statutory jurisdiction of the Court as, for instance, for a various offices soliciting com vinding up order under the Companies Acts or for any other purpose under the
two Ufices are reapes second highaef of the whole of neither of these DiFoon, ham ever once receded throughout
bonna rste
their
history since they were established in 1889 And 1820 respectively,
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The Very Rev, F. Walsh who comes Chins from Boston to investigate the with view to the establishment of orican Roman Catholic Missions in
Jete which be sed by Queen s tais country, was entertained at the numerous Acts of Parliament which
FANART provide for the exercise of the jurisdio place at Causeway Bay on the 28th inst., Astor House Hotel, Shanghai on the 9th tion of the Court by petition, in aid wounded soldiers. inst He stated that to-day there were
The petition, save for the precedent of
2,000,000 Boman Catholics in Chios, 1,700 Loare knows may be governed by some that no such file is in contemplation
a Colonial Court, which in so far as this formed by the Queen's College other civil procedure has I think, no and that no one has been authorized by And 200 authori
Whilst Agres that the urt should possess an inherent them to collect funds for any purpose.
ght to remedy
fiesta and 850 native priDĒKA,
with
Catholica, 20 pries
ittle
the work and
sad
«towards # ite buta
her Walsh, wo Lave 14 young Lioscies ready to come to the Oriente for missionary work and 16-18 ible that they will arrive next den. Fr Walsh will wait Hongkong, anton, and other Bouthern porte.
thority
of the
to meet an individual in- The Attorney-General stated at the stance, will give elect, to procedure
outset of the argement that the Crown unauthorized either by stat
deinste WELL gal precedent.
cady to
сонгве -16 the
CEKARIY To constitutional
cify it which abject are wou
right in the applicant to come to the Court on a writ of Habeas pus and further that he would, it
rad expedite the matter 80 18 6. nable the application to be heard at an sto If this course is adopted. tion of the Court cannot he
clusion, Lust may post pozer
cision on the merits of the app To acquisce, however Telied on may crea
reaching consequences (Continued at foot
speedy
the