NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
BILLIARD
MATCH
THE VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB. Sorgt, PITT, GE. LORD, ROA,
in 600 up
On FRIDAY, 11th inat, at 9 p.m.. Admission: $2 and $1.
Reserved Scats, 82.
Booking at ANDERSON'S MUSIC STORE.
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GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC.
497
SHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1938.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED. SIX PER CENT FIRST MORTGAGE DEBENTURES (KAILAN BONDS).
The drawn Debentures, with Coupons Nos. 12 to 20 attached, must be left four clear days for examination.
By Order,
ALFRED WBERRY,
Countersignedcretary.
N. JAURALDE
Notary Public,
99, Austin Friars, London, E.C.2.
31st October, 1917.
1408
FIFTH DRAWING.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, in conformity with the conditions andorsed
the upon the Debentures, undermentioned numbers of Debentures of the total value of £24,000 were drawn. on the Thirty-first day of October, 1917, at the Offices of the Austin Friars,
of London, in the presence of WALTON
FITZJAMES TURNER one of the Directors, ALFRED WILLIAM BERRY, Becretary of the Com pany; and NICIO ROBERT JAURALDE of 7/9, Great Winchester Street, London,
The said Debentures will
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
in Company, No: 122 CERTIFICATE No 4100 for.
Fourteen Shares Nos. 13464/13477) in the name of MARY SAMUEL FERRY, has been LOSE or STOLEN, and if at the expiration of One Month from the date hereof the above documente he not
forthcomin another Certificate for the said. be issued by the Bocisty and thereafter no other will be acknowledged.
ENDERS for SPECIE and MEXICANTE.C. Notary Publicid of C. MONTAGUE EDE.
either of the following places
at
In London-At the Transfer Office of the Company, No. 5, London Wall Buildings E.C.2
DOLLARS, current is this Colonynt pas on the 31st December 1917, for Telegraphic Transfer, on the loads Commissioners of HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY, London, up to and for the sum of £100,000, will be received by the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, ARMY PAY DE PARTMENT, until 11 o'clock A.M. on the 10th January, 1918,
The tenders to state the total amount (in Ponuda Sterling). No Telegraatio Tester will be made for less than £100.
The tenders to be in duplicate, and in sealed covers, addressed to the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, ARMY PAY DEPART MENT, and endorsed TENDERS FOR GOVERNMENT BILLS, Et.*-
The
right to accept or reject any or all of the tenders is reserved.
Copies of forms of Tender can be lad on application
for (Bills) are bereby Persons tendering notified that living regard to the previsions. of the Acts 9g George 111. Cap. 45 and 11, George ill, was the acceptance May ruch Truder in mujer to the express conds tion that no alsver of the British House of Commons shall be admitted to any share or -part in ur to any benefit to arise from the Contrast thereby mado for tue alios
allosment of such (Bills)*
Thu provisions in question
not apply to Contracts entered into by an incorporated Company in its corporated capacity and made for the general beness of the Company
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General Manager. Hongkong, 15th December, 191721888
NOTICE:
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
HE CERTIFICATE No. 421 for Twenty Shares Nos. 12038/12055 in this Com- Fany registered in the use of WILLIAM ALEXANDER PARSONS MARTIN, has been LOST, and if at the expiration of one month from the date hereof the above Certificate be not forthcoming, another Certificate for the said Shares will be issued: the Company and thereafter no other or others will be acknow
·ledged,
C. MONTAGUE EDE
General Manager. Hongkong, 1st January, 1918.
INTIMATION
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a Government institution, but it derives material assistance, as well as manage ment, from the local Government.
We were particularly pleased that the local University, yesterday, bestowed the highest compliment in its gift upon an old Hongkong resident who has unspor ingly devoted his life and his learning to the Chinese The Reverend TW PEACE is well known throughout China for his scholarship, and it is only fair to the London Missionary Society to say that he has fully maintained the high
The Right Rev. Bishop D Poszoni lefti the Colony yesterday on an urgent visit to Hoi-fung and the surrounding dis-. trict,
killed, near Monmouth Path Kennedy A Chinese, aged 56, was accidentally
Road, on Tuesday, through a quantity
of earth and stones sliding from a new building site, and burying him. The man debris by coolies, who were working on was immediately extricated from tho
the spot, but life was found to be extinet.
PREMIER traditions of the pioneers in the study of A Chinese woman, employed on a Oriental languages which it has sent out large fishing junk at Tai-O has reported SCOTCH.
to the Far East. It is only necessary to to the Police that, on the 5th instant, recall the names of MouLSON and LEGOs while her junk was lying near Ping Hoi, to European students of Chinese to show Chinese territory, a launch, containing what good work has been done. The other about thirty men, came alongside. The two recipients of the honorary degree-Sir | men, who were armed with rifles, and JANES. H. Stewart Lockhart, K,C,M.G, knives, clambered on board and forced His Majesty's Commissioner for Wei-hai: the crew into the cabin. They then ran- wei, and Mr. J. W. JAMIESON, C.M.G., racked the boat for nearly an hour, and British Consul General in Canton-are carried away with them property to the distinguished Civil Servants who have value of $280. Several shots were fired. passed many years in China. Both have The owner of the junk and another man. acquired among the Chinese a high re- were killed, three men and a woman were putation for learning and fully under injured, and one man was kidnapped. stand the characteristics and methods of the people with whom they have been brought into such long and close persons contact. It will be remembered that last year two distinguished French savant Professor FIROT and Captain PELLIOT-- were admitted as honorary graduates to the membership of the University, and we hope that from time to time other
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HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
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/ THE COMMITTEE has decided that the following shall be the SETTLEMENT DAYS for the year 1918--
27th March.
26th
99th
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29th January
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J. THURSBY-PELHAM, Lt. Colonel, Treasury Chest Ufheer, A.P.D.
His Majesty's Treasury Office
Hongkong, luth January, 1918
G
GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC.
TENDERS for SPECIE current in
SHANGHAI, up to and for the mof"" #200,000-current in Bhanghal will be received by this TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT, antil 11:30 am, on the 11th January, 1918.
The amount accepted te to be placed by the senderer to the credit of an Roceans with the HONOLONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION, Shaughal, so sa to be available
-15th January,
Person tendering to state the amount of Dollars, current in Shanghal per £100 for Telegraphie Transfer on the Lords Commi sioners of H.M. Treasury, London
A
The tender to be in duplicate, and in sealed wavees, addressed to the THEASURY CHEBT ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICER and endorsed "TENDERS FOR GOVERN- MENT BILLS, EMo”
The right to accept or reject any or all of the Sanders is reserved.
Copies of bonus of Tender can be had on application.
dons tendering for (Hilis) are hereby thst, having regard to the provisions of the Acts 23 George II., Cap, 46 and 41, George 1L, Cap. 52, the noceptance of any ruch Tandse de mubject to the spress condition that no Member of the brian Hours of Commons shall be admitted to any shars or part in or to benefit to arise from the Contract Shureby mands for the allutasns of sich (Ella)
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The provisions in question do not apply to Contracts entered into by any incorporated Company in Ita for the general bunds af capacity and made
of the Company AGA Any further Information can be obtained by personal applisation "so the THNASURI OHEST OFFICER, APIL
ZEL THURSHY PELHAM, EA.-Colonel,
Share Tremancy Chest Officer, A.P.D., His Majesty's Phonoury Unice,
Hongkong, 10th January, 1918,
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the 11th January, 1918.
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28th November.
97th December.
By Order of the Committee,
AH G JACKSON.
Acting Secretary,
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
Hongkong, 28th December, 1917, ₤1405
DISTINCTIVE IN
FLAVOUR,
WELL MATURED,
MELLOW.
representatives of our Allies will visit
the suure purpose
learn that Edgar Warwick's sparkling, Local theatre-goers will be pleased to.
little combination, "The Court Cards and their Joker," are returning to Hong- kong. They will commence their farewell season on Saturday night, January 10th,
at
the Theatre Royal in an entirely new Programme. Edgar Warwick, the oli favourite of the Merry Pack, will appear during this season as the incorrigible.
titis anno to me with a hearty welcome, Ho has kindly offered to con tributs five per cat, of the gross receipts of the season to the Red Cross Fund. The bocking, as usual, will be at Moutrie & Co,
The young men who received the hall mark of a superior Westen oducation yesterday may account themselves fortun ate that they have been able to prosecute their studies in this British Colony undisturbed by the great war that has
At the Supreme Court, yesterday, Mr. held the world in its paralysing grip for 0. G. Alabaster moved for the enrolment the past three years and a half, although of Mr. James Malcolm Hall na n. Bolici- in the motherland and in nearly all the tor and Proctor of the Supreme Cour countries where a University training is of Hongkong. Mr. Alabaster mentioned
CANTON CM.S. GIRLS BOARDING A. S. WATSON & obtainable those who, in normal times, that Mr. Hall left for England, in 1912
AND DAY SCHOOL,
OT. HILDA'S—East Parade Ground,
CO., LTD.,
Principal: Mrss BENDELACK, MA, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, Diy, Ed.
School Bo-opens January 10th, 1918.
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Horozora, Ken JANUARY, 1918
and was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England on November 1st, 1918. He returned. to.
would be at College bave been called upon to leave their books for the battlefield. Probably many who have witnessed one or other of the two degren ceremonies this Colony in December and before his which have taken place in Hongkong departure from England he made ar- have asked themselves-What is to in the rangements with Mr. Bailey, of Messrs. future of the young Chinese endowed with Gibson & Weldon, of Chanoczy Lane, Western learning Surely, we may expect with whom he was articled. His papers them to take a prominent part in the were on their way from England, but development of their native land. Their he was, anxious to practice without wait- knowledge of Western law, economics and ing for their arrival. Mr Hall had science must prove an invaluable asset joined the firm of Mars, Wilkinson in a country so rich in possibilities, as & Grist The Chief Justice (Sir Wil- China, So far se our own observation liam Rees Davies, K.) said be under- of the medical profession can guide us,
stood that the Law Society had no ob- the demand amongst the Chinese forjection, to the course proposed. Recen Western science grows year by year. Ne ho had the pleasure of permittingi är.
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me Court here. He knew their father very well. He congratulated Mr. James Hall, and expressed the hope that he would be successful in practice,
YESTERDAY the University of Hongkong in the number of Chinese practitioners practice as a solicitor in the beld its second Degree Congregation, and in this Colony, and doubtles, a similar formally admitted to its zull of graduate increase is observable in Singapore, three distinguished gentlemen, who re- Penang and Shanghai. We do not know ceived the degree of Doctor of Laws with what measure of sucess in the (honoris cause), and twenty-two students matter of employment the graduates in -0, as a result of their application the other Faculties have met, but we examinations and graduated either in business or have entered government and perseverance, passed the prescribed imagine that they have been absorbed in
medicine, engineering, or arte. A refer- offices.
THE WAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION. The Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd. writes as follows:-It is In offering our congratulations to the with much pleasure that we are able to members of the local University upon its announce that, arrangements have bæra second Degree Congregation, we desire made whereby members' further subscrip- to add an expression of appreciation tions to the Hongkong and fouth China concerning the athletic records of the War Bavings Association will, until fus- institution. It is a happy coincidence ther notice, bo invested in the "War that this week the University is at the Loans Investment Trust of Malnya,” head of the league cricket table for the yielding interest at six per cent, instead Colony. In tennis, also. No £zz Awona of în 5 per cent. National War Bonds, and other of his fellow-studente have established a high reputation, and in course of time, no doubt, the University will attain proficiency in other sports and pastimes. Though the main object of s centre of learning is study and the
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FOOD
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Bay the signatories, that no way has yet been found to inter- rupt the vicio circle which operates. every time an advance in wages in We are driven to press.
and by engaging in friendly rivalry with | Trades Committee. other beams in the Colony the students learn many valuable lemona. Nor must we overlook the improvement in physique which results from indulgenes in open air exercise. We are glad, therefore, that obtained. the great importance of genes in the for a still further reduction in prices. training of young Chinese comes due if this cannot be done without rationing recognition, and we hope that the success owing to a real world shortage, then let of the University, especially at tennis and rationing be resorted to for rich and poor
ket will serve to stimulate the in-alike terest of the schools in sport.
portant positions in their own country. owe their education to Queen's College in this Colony, For many years it has been a part of the definite policy of the local Government to provide education for Chinese in the English language, and it is a policy which has proved of great Memorial value to the Chitesa nation. As long as the money is spent wisely, no one grudges expenditure upon such instruc tion. The University, it is true is not Kang)
The Hon Treasurer of the Alice and Affiliated: Hospitals acknowledges with thanks a donation of 500 to the lands of the hospitala from Chinese Entertainments (per Mr. Chan
This would be preferable to the pre- sent methods of enforcing economy by increasing prices, thus robbing the very poorest, including soldiers and milor dependenta, in whom we are purticularly interested.
In the meantime, whilst this is being done, or some other remedy adopted; for reducing price to the pre-war level, an ownership, in piece of control, would go extension of the principle of real State
a long way in the direction denred.