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INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG "DAILY. LEER, MONDAY, JANUARY
UNION INSURANCE BOUIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
HE CERTIFICATE NA 4100 for Fourteen Shures Nos. 12/04/13412 in the name of MARY BAMUEL PEELY has been LOSE or STOLEN, and if at the expiration of Une Month 1m the date hereof the above documents not forthcoming
* MAG another Certificato for the ashi: tshares will be issued by the Society and thereafter no other will be acknowlegedly
12 MONTAGUE EDE
General Managers Hongkong, 16th December, 1917 (1888
TEW YORK CORPORATION, whose Representativi is: tuw in Hongkong, desires Agency for Hongkong and Straits Tin. Best banking references
Apply to
TIN Care of Daily Prose Offre
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned lave revived instrus.
sell by Auction
on FRIDAY,
NOTICE,
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE CERTIFICATE NO. 421 for Twenty
Shares Nos 13 3:12085 in this Com pany registered in the name of WILLIAM ALEXANDER PARRUNS MARTIN has been LUST,
the 11th January, vi, at 3 P., on the sputarul if at the expiration of one month from
The Several Lots Num æred Utols on Flan to be boen for scatine Auctioneers Ufic
BOOTHS AND MATSHEDS, on the Government Uround adjoining the Race Court, Norte of the Grand Sil Enclosure.
TERMS Cash
For Fiar and Conditions of Sale, apply to
BUGHES & HOUGH;"
Anetsonveni
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NOTICE TU CUNBL DENS
THE
THE Sekshiri
GLENAVY
Cargo by
having arrived her are hereby informed that all doous are being landed AT THEIR RISK to the Ansardom and for extes hazardous todowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Grodowi Company
Limited, whenos and/or troim zde wharvas delivery may be shtazurde
Groues not cleared by 12th Jan, at 5 PM will be subject to real.
All brown, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the todowns, where they wile AKKAILLIZ) be. “Mosure: Godiast & DocGLAB,
on the 1 th Jan., 10
Cimais against the diamer met be presented within 10 days of arrival, therwin they will not be ronggleed.
exfected by na In
My Fire Insurance will do
any case whatere
dii of Lading will be sountersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., let th
Agent.
Hongsong, 6 h January, 17 8
JOINT BERVICE:
OFTER
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. HR Steamship
THE
"OPHIR ring arrived from SAN FRANCI800, “Consignees of Gazgo nes hareby notified. that all Goods are being landad" at their risk into the hasardona and/or extra kamions. Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whemes and/or from the wharros delivery may be obtained,
Bo Clolm will be admitted after the Goods
the date hereof the above Certificate be not farthcoming, another Certificate for the said Shares will be ined by the Company, and therafter no other or others will be acknow ledged.
C. MONTAGUE EŊE,
General Manager Hongkong, 1st January, 1918.
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CANTONOME GIRLS BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL
T. HILDA'S East Parade Ground. Principal M188 BENDELACK, MA, Dip. Ed
School Re-opens January 10th, 1918. Thorough English and Chinese Education. Fees moderate,
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kire left the Godowas, and all Goods (
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FFICES in York Buildingy
HOUSEJ on Shameen, Canton Apply to E
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AND AGENCY Co., LTD.
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TO LET.
All broken, abafad, and damaged Goods are i be left in the Godowns, where they will be samined on the Bih Jang at 10 And, by the Dompany anresyon, Memes, Goddard à
whatsoever has beenMMEDIATE entry Four very desir.
Douglas
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JAVA CHINA JAPAN LEIN,
Hongkong, 4th January 1918 (1487
KONINKLIKE PAKETVAART
· MAATSOHAPPY:
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM SINGAPORE..
THE Steamship
VAN WAERWYCK”
Lable SHOPS situated in Ice House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, recent- ly reconstructed.
to
INTIMATION
WATSON'S
THE
E
7TH, 1918.
other factors, such na insuffi, A fire broke out at Wong-Sha, Canton, cient
nourishm
and enervating on the 4th inst., destroying over 300 climatic conditions
important houses before it was got under control..
For at least twenty years it has been
The total output of the Kallan Mining Administration's mines for the week an integral and important part of
mending 2nd December 1817, amounted to ime of abour to astiand an
68,559 tons and the sales to 08, tane.
eight hours' day, or a forty-eight hours work There has been a great deal ef "peeding up" since the demand was first made, and, as we 667 we live at a Digher pressure then did our fathers, We have witnessed the Americanization of some of our industries and there is
A memorial to the late Cant. G. 8. Thorne was unveiled at the British Consulate General Canton, on Saturday by Mr. J. W. Jameson, C.31.G.. in the presence of a large gathering, which included goreral visitors from Hongkong. PREMIER intensification of toil. Competition was keen before the war, but it will be
It is notified in the Gazette that the SCOTCH.
even keener when the war is over, How terta of olice of the Hon. "Mr. H. E. are wo to balance any concessions to Pollock EC, representative of the labour with the fact that there must be Justices of the Peace upon the Legislative increased production One suggestion Council, expires on the 16th inst, and is that, instead of a working week of that he has expressed his willingness to six days of eight hours each, there serve again. In the event of another. should be & working week of ive days Justice of the Peace being dominated an of ten hours each. Wo have now he election by the Justices, other than Goy gome accustomed to such violent changes ernment officials, will be held at the that we must hesitate to condemn any Magistracy on Monday the 28th inst. scheme simply because at first sight it appears impracticable. The proposal is that there should be no work on Satur. day mornings, so that there would be a clear week-end from Friday evening to Monday morning. The suggested in- aovation is for workshops and factories, but no doubt if it became general in such places its application would gra dually be extended. From the point of view of the worker there is much to commend it.
DISTINCTIVE IN
FLAVOUR,
WELL MATURED,
A
MELLOW.
DEATH OF MR. UN KAM WA A PUBLIC SPIRITED MEMBER OF
THE LOCAL CHINESE COMMUNITY..
In the death, which took place auddenly at Canton on Friday, of Mr. Un Kam- wa, the local Chinese community has lost one of its most prominent members and Hongkong one of its most public-spirited benefactors... The deceased was educated at Queen's College, and, after spending some time sa techer at his old school, acted us interpretce at the Supreme
then Court for two years Ho entered commercial Life in which he attained considerable success, becoming.
It is not very long ago that the lato Mr. WILLET advocated – a reform which has since been embodied in the Daylight Saving Act Very few, at fire, thought that the idea would com- mend itself to the British people, and in many quarters it was greeted with ridicule, but practical experience has shown that the advantages obtained prietor of the Wah Hing Yung firm of under it are very considerable. A
8. WATSON & more CO., LTD.,
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS
Lekarstons 618.
similar measure has been suggested for Hongkong, and we think that there is is great deal to be said in favour of it The conditions of business life, especially since the outbreak of war, have become strenuous Practically all the Brim are working with depleted staffs, and there is the inevitable post of leave. The Denjar men, pore also, have given up valuable time for military or police service. We believe tent the effect of these things is he gining to be felt more than
generally realised All over the world there is DEATHS.
evid
that the intent ication of "Urambera.—Diod of wounds in France, effort caused by the war cannot be on December 20th, 1917, Alfred Bat continued indefinitely. It would be WI (Fred) CHAMBERS London Boot tish, aged 18 formerly of Shanghai, foolish to dogmatise about the boars of And son of Mr. and Mrs. P. A labour, because new conditions of work Chambers. (By cable)
pro
HONGKONG'S ROLL OF
HONOUR.
We heard the names and slow, in sad!
~Tho four and thirty souls who went to
fight!
Those four and thirty souls whots proudří
confessiori
Or
loyalty bas swelled the grout procession Df men who died for triumph of the Right.!!
a little band, the seeds of honour sowing
In Death's rank garden, ploughed by gun
and sword,
But righty girings the plant, in lusty grow-
ing
With blossom's pure and stainless, whitely
glowing,
Their proof of fabour and their Great
Howard.
And by-and-bye, when War and Time aro
ended,
And vast Eternity begins her reign... The workmen who so well the seedling
tended,
So well our little Island's fume defended,
Shall have their names read boldly forth
again.
But not in man's dim halls of worship ring-
ing Shell sound each name in grand, majestlo
calm
And as they march, where Victory's choirs
are singing
The fair, white blossom of Earth's Honour
bringing,
The great Head Gardener shall bestow the
palm 1
Hongkong, January 6th, 1918.
exporters, director of the Fuk Wa Bank CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
ing and Insurance Company, chairtean of the Ying Lee Co, Ltd, and director of the Star Manufacturing Co. He was interested, also, in one of the leading piem-goods firms."
[FROM OUR FEKING CORRESPONDENT-]
INCREASE IN MARITIME CUSTOMS REVENUE
The deceased prominently identified The Maritime Customs ravenue shows himself with public institutions. He was an increase of Haikwan Taels 400,000 over a member of the Committee of the To that for 1910. The totall collection re Leung Kuk, the Permanent Committee of ported is 38,177,000, equalling £8,241,867 the Chinese Cemetery, the Committee of compared the Exporters Association in the British £8,284,496. The rate of exchange in 1917 with 37,704,000, equalling Chamber of Commerce, and the Executive was 4a. 13-10d, against 3 13-180, în thọ - Committes of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. He was also President of the
previous year. All foreign obligations Bocured by the Customs were fully met Chinese Club. In the Chinese Company
at the end of the year of the Police Reserve he took a warm præsical interest, contributing 83,000-
towards the cost of the uniforme and un- dertaking to raise whatever further sam was needed. For this he received the thanks of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Of the Headquarters Club he was a founder member.
ceremonies.
make changes necessary. In the Far GALLETLY-At the Isolation Hospital, Het the tendency among Europeans
Shanghai, on "December 29th, 101. JOHN MENZIER CAMPRET CALL has been to extend business hours The (Mesers, Dodwell & Co, Ltd.), aged good old spacious days, when sailing 49 years
ships brought the mails, left more LEAVER At Aldershot, England, on
Christmas Day, 1917, AMELIA M leisure to people engaged in commerce. The body of the deceased was brought ......BETH, Robanje, beloved wife of H. In the native industries the working to Hongkong yesterday, for the funeral
LEAVER, 0. M. Customs
At 623 East Yuhang Road, Shang week is seven days long. Of late there hai, on December 29th, 1917 3.6. has been a small agitation in Hongkong Naw, aged 56, Secretary off Kingin favour of Sunday closing. Nothing
surprises the new-comer from Great Bri
INAUGURATION CEREMONY fain more than the sight of native shops British open all day on Bunday
A new Recreation Club, for the Colony, but it is doubtful whether the employes of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, wag inaugurated at Hunghom last even ing. The grounds were gaily festooned
nan Dock.
For rent and other particulars apply Hamakone Ospiơm: 104, Dan Yang Rola,
THE MANAGER HOKORONG Ier Co., Lro.,
40, Connaught Road Central.
TO LET.
1000
The Baily Press
FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloom.
FOUR-BOOMED HOUSES in Kow-
Apply to
having strived from the above porte, Can- | leon, alguses of Cargo are hereby noticed that all Groods nen being landed st thefe risk Into the hazardona andfor: exten: kufardous Godowns" of the
Godom and Kewlong Wharf and
Co, Ltd, wheden mad or from the
whazvec delivery may he obtained
Goods not cleared by the 9th Jan, will be subject to r
o rent
All brezen, skafed and dank aan
and damaged packages are
to ho left in the Godowns, where they vill ba
examine
on the 8th Fyn. at 10 ▲x.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., L., Alexandra Buildings
TO LET.
Clone against the steamer must be pro- No 38, BELILIOS TERRACE.
sented
writing within 10 days after arrival stram o berries they will not be
reengaled.
No Fire Insurance will be fooled by the Unders gued in way case whatsoever,
Bills of Ladin will be countersigned by
**** JAVA CHINA JAPAN LIJN,
Hongkong, 2nd January, 1918, [1471
NOTICE.
E HAVE This Day admitted. MR. P. WNOLASCO DA SILVA RA Partner in our Firm which in futura will be carried on under the style or Firm of WORCESTER, LAMMERT & SILVA FOR WORCESTER & LAMMERT. Hongkong, let January, 1818,- K [1472
NOTICE
Sfrom the 1st of January; 1818," the Business heretofore carried on in Hongkong under the Style of E PABANEY will be carried on by CDBRI-Roy & Co. Lito
RP PABANEY,
ABAVASIA. Hongkong at January, 1918, ACZNE
Faoxona, ZIK JANUARY, 1918
A FIVE DAYS' WEEK
The problem of human efficicy has dosely studied during the past two or three years, - Bad written about indutrial wallare work in c output of
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-nation
industr
that
will be cenènde
med for
fastured
there will be n
of civil
No. 15′′ BURROW STREET. Wanchai. ONE GODOWN.
LEWKNOR No. 16, Tar Prax, from Let April, 1918,
No 12, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, SHOPE
No. 37, WHITFIELD HOUSE and GODOWN, Shankiwau Houd,
Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVER, Bed Floor, Alexandrs Buildings.
GALESEND 109,
rooms.
90
TO BE SOLD.
THE PAK Six scheme
Jabour. It is now CH GALE! Public Works Department, Hongkong, hours do not nece
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output. Recent
prolonged. It
the contrary,
FOR SALE
MUSCULUM, Barker Road, 155, Poult,
Apply
DUNCAN OLARK, LANT, CRAWFORD & Co.
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obtained whe
long hours
Chinese coulis ara
slow rate at which čás
has
Chinese would take kindly -to ány violent alteration in their onstoma.
Whatever may happen in Great Britain ms cannot look forward in the immo- diate future to a five days week in the
RAILWAY HECREATION CLUB
PLAGUE SPREADING
PRING, January 5th The plague has spread 300 miles low ongehen, which is the terminus of the Peking Suiyuan railway Foreign medi cal men are apprehensive and urge the stoppage of traffic on the Suiynan Rail-
TAY
THROUGH RESTRE'S AGENCY.]
THE HARBIN TROUBLE
PEXING, January 4th
A telegram from Hatbin reports that order has been restored along the Chines Eastern Railway, where the Maximalists. have surrendered.
A thousand Chinesa troops have arrived
for the occasion, and a large gathering of at Manchuri neation Lainese employee and their families, was pressus sa well as several members of the European staff including Masers R Raker, G. A. Walker, and J. Morris.
The Club which has been in existence a month, has so far only taken up foot- HB the Governor has re-appointed ball, but intends to include tennis,
hockey, and swimming later on, Abr. Dr. G. E. Aubrey, Dr. O. Marriott, Dr. patrons of the Club are Messie F Win HH Kaw, and Dr. J. W Noble to below, and R. Baler while the President
is Mr. GA Walker, members of the Dental Board for fur
ther term of three years, with effect from
the 17th July, 1917 and has appointed Dr. E. Evans Jones to act during the absence of Dr. Noble or until further anda otice,
Gand
neral
BOMBARDMENT OF CANTON-
THE DEFECTION OF TWO GUNBOATE
As reported in our issue of Saturday the city of Canton wa bombarded in
The ormony last evening consisted of the early morning of the ard inst.. It wa
a football match between the Club and dark at the time and the authorities did
an outsids team. Mr. J. Morris kicked-
k off and the result was a draw. This was not know for certain where the tre carne-
followed by a tea party. Afterwards, Mr. Irem, or the reason for it. GA Walker, the President addressed those present. He said that that was an
It has now been ascertained (says the important day in the history of the Chung Nyos Sa Poy that the two gan- K.C.R. On every Railway or other large concern where there was a large staff the boate, Tung On and Fo Cheong, of the Ist desire for healthy outdoor sport was sure Squadron, had accepted bribes to turn to evince itself in the formation of against the Canton Government. More Recreation Club, Apart from the plen
A grave digger at Mount Caroline state cemetery has reported to the Police that, on the 4th instant, fire men, wearing wasks and armed with revolvers, entered hour and the his house. They pointed their revolvers nt him, his wife and children, whom they The
than geggið and bound, after which they Iargest
ransacked the house and stole money and jewellery to the value of $240.
and
the
bure and good health obtained from the then 100 shots were fred. They dropped indulgence in outdoor sports, there was mostly near the Koon Yean Mountain, the nothing which festared the feeling of
good comradeship more than, the mankar | Tachun's Tamen, and adjɛcoat hanser. ship of a chub where in the evenings all. Fortunately, nothing was damaged, and the little tritations of the day could be no loss of life has been reported. forgotten in the good-natured attempt to beat one another at some healthy game.
Admiral Ching Pikkwong, when in Therefore, the time spent together in that formed of the matter, at once ordered Club would have far-reaching and bene other chipa to chase the two gunboats, The Hongkong and South China War Geist effects on their daily work They
which were overtaken and are for Bavings Association, announces that all were very fortunate in obtaining an orgel. lent site without any cost to the Club, future payments by members will be in- Directly he first approached Mr. Winslow rested in sterling in 6 per cent, National about the piece of ground he found him War Bonds Arrangements have been extremely sympathetic. They had a very boats or troops did not participate
iceable and energetic secretary in Mr. To made whereby the interest accruing on the King Shim, and a very thorough assist investments already made in' Straits | ant recretary Mr. Li Un Mòn. Mr Chan Settlements War Loan will, until further Kwai In was Captain, Mr. Li Tu Sang | Vice Captain, and Mr. Li Fat, treasurer. the notice, be re-invested in the Straits Set- A few sympathizers had hanged him sub ourli w flements War Loan at § per cent;
scriptions to the funds, amounting to 840,
big
was soon restored, as other gunk.
bombardment.
The Tuchun Mok Wing-on- I leaders to consult togethe Dutch Felly, to guard ton of such occurrences in the