SEW ADVERTISEMENTS
INTIMATIONS
FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF THE HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY
HONGKONG.
BANK HOLIDAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all NOTARE INSURANCE OFFICES WHITE CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS TO-DAY (MONDAY), the Lat. Joly, 1918.A
By Order,
A. R. LOWE, Secretary. Hongkong, 29th June, 1918. [$191
MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF HONGKONG,
BANK HOLIDAY.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all
NMARINE INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Tremaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS-TO-DAY (MONDAY), the lat July, 1918.
By Order
A. E. LOWE, Secretary, Hongkong, 29th June, 1816. 2102
NOTICE
ATÓTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
Partnership heretofore
existing between the undersigned FRANK SMYTH and JOHN SOMERVILLE DOBIE, carrying on Businne an Sharobrokers at No. 4, Dos Vous Road Central, Hongkong, under the style of Firm of "VERNOS & SMYTH," has boen dissolved by mutual consent, es from thà 30th June, 1918-
Dated the 1st day of July, 1918. F. SMYTH.
J. SOMERVILLE DOBIE..
NOTICE.
·₤2195
B from the 1st day of Joly, 1918, I shall
· continge to carry on the Businem of
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a Eharebroker no No. 4, Des Vœux Road Central Hongkong, under the style of
VERNON & EMITE.”
Dated the 1st day of July, 1918.
NOTICE
F. SUYTH.
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6 from the lat day of July, 1918, I have established myself in Business 28′ 5 Share and General Broker under the Firm Bame of T. 8. DOBIE & Co,
Dabed the 1st day of July, 1918.
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COMPANY LIMITED;
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS THE EIGHTH ORDINARY YEARLY the above Company will be held at the Company's Office St. George Building, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the and July 1018, at 1.30 for the purp se of presenting the Report of the General Masagers and Statement of Accounts to 31st MAY
1918. 120 TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 24th June to 3rd Jaly, 1918, both days inclusive
GORDON & CO.
Genoral Managers. Hongkong, 24th June, 1218.
WANTED
[2170
YOUNG OFFICE ASSISTANT, TYFIST
preferred.
Apple in own writing with copy of references to
W. S. BAILEY & Co., LEE,
Kowloon
FOR SALE.
12100
THE HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 1sr
INTIMATION
WATSON'S
ticle To-day electric power is con- sidered more suitable for the work; but for tighty or ninety years the giant steant was harnessed to the printing mzchine, and made possible that extra ordinary dissemination of ideng which has caused the world to be so uncomfortable for people who cultivate the outlook on life of a century ago. For steam power has been the arch-enemy of autocracy. It has often been said that the introduction
1916,
[BY COURTESY OF THE "OSTEO, NGOI
DAN WOL!
THE ATTACK ON KWANGTUNG.
powerful sponsors. When we contem CHINESE TELEGRAMS. plate the astounding growth of scientific knowledge since the meeting a hundred years ago of the six young men in Fleet Street we can surely be sanguine that the meetings of the Premiere of the Empire in London to-day will be memo rable in the annals of humanity. It marks the beginning of a federation, of the Anglo-Saxon race, and that will be the key stone of the arch built by a
PULVOSMIDROSIS. of powder into Europe brought about League of Nations.
AN IDEAL DUSTING
POWDER.
the downfall of the Feudal system. The historians of the future will probably attribute world-upheavals, such as the Russian revolution and the democratic ideals of the Anglo-Saxon race to-day, to the application of mechanical power to printing.
We call attention particularly to this centenary, which has recently been quiet- ly celebrated by the Institution of Civil Engineers In London, because it is Keeps the feet and armpits characteristic of our race that we are ignorant of the great achievements of our own countrymen in the past. We accept modern inventions, such as steamships,
NE 79 HP HARLEY DAVISON ONE Ran about 1,000 miles,
MOTOR CYCLE and SIDE CAR cool and sweet in the warmest telegraphs and aeroplanes, as a matter Apply tome
Box No. 2171, Care of "Daily Press Office.
FOR SALE.
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weather and
removes
any
WE have always on hand large lots of
WOLFRAM ORE for Sale Buyers unpleasant adour. are cordially invited to apply to
FOOK YORK, 77, Des Vaux Road West, Hongkong or Foor Wo Cazona, Tobacco Firm, the Wai Lan Bridge, Canton,
For particulars, and home
THE TUNG NAM MINING CO.,
Hongkong, Hongkong, 10th Jung, 1918,
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NOTICE.
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NY EUROPEAN, Non-Adation, elabin A dariring to leave the Colony, should apply in person sb the Central” POLSON STATION between the hours of 8 AM to 1 PM sud SPM to 17.35 dally, gene
Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papera parta
All persons with certain exceptions who
Cures sore and blistered toes.
In tlas 50 cts. each.
PREPARED ONLY BY
remain in this Colony for more than 7 days A. 5. WATSON
J. SOMERVILLE DOBIE, are required to Register themselves under
the (210
PERSONS ORDINANCE
Forms of Registration giving the
part colars required may be obtained at the G.P.O, and at all Police Stations."
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The Penalty for non-compliance is a fine not exceeding 450
PUBLIO AUCTION.
My
DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of DAIRY FARM NEWS
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the letting by Publie Anotion Halo, to be held on MONDAY, the day of July 1918, at 5 PM, si the Offices of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOS, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Huppy Valley, is the Colony of Hongkong, for a term
76 years, with the option of renewal #3: GROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty THE Kisa, for one further term of 75 yearY,
Registry Bo
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
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Happy Valley
Boundary
Memeurements.
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W.
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fees
As per te plan,,245, 172 3,183,30
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
From KOBE AND MOJI,
THE Seamanip
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"TJILIWONG," having arrived from the above parts, Consiguses of Cargo by her are notified that goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous stil/or exte hasardom Crocowan of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Kade whence and or from the whares delivery may be
be obtained f Goods
not cleared
bo rabject
by the 7th July, 1810, will
All broken, chafed and damaged packages art
to be left in the Godown, where they will be
Cannot be e
JUNKET!
excelled with tinned or fresh stewed fruit. COULOMMIER CHEESE!
COTTAGE CHEESE
Nourishing and ideal food. DEVONSHIRE CREAM Can always be had. We supply Junket Tablet on application
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET
HOUSE
OBSERVAPORY
flags
VILLES
Kowloon. Apply bo
ABRATOON V. APCAR & CO. Den Vong Road Central.
12100
TO LET HOUSE on Shameen, Canton. No. 57. THE PRAK, LUSTLEIGH,
Apply tow
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
AMENT & AGENCY Co., Ian.
TO LET.
xamined on the 8th July, 1918, No. 7, STEWART TERRACE, No. 83,
must be pre-
Vi Claims against the sented la writing within 10 days af arrival of steamer, otherwise they will not be cognized
No Fire Insurance will be affected by the Endersigned in any case whatever.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by BRIAN JAYA CHINA JAPAN LLIN,
Hongkong, 30th Jove, 1918,
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THE SHELL TRANSPORT AND TRADING COMPANY LTD
ACCORDING to telegraphic advices
received from London THE "SHELL" TRANSPORT AND TRADING COMPANY, TID, have declared SECOND INTERIM DIVIDEND on the Ordinary Shares of the Company at the rate of 5 per bhare free of Income tax payable Ju
July 6th, 1818 (Coupon
FOR THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO.
(SOUTH CHINA), LTD,
NL WATSON,
Honghong, 26th June, 1918,
ROOMED FLAT, No. 18 THE PRAE "STANTON LODGE, Mount Parrish, Kennedy Road level.
Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVES, ard Floor Alexandra Buildings,
TO LET.
Разна
A FLAT in Nathan Boad, Kowloon
CO., LTD.,
HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
All Marine and Fire Insurance Oficer will be closer for the transaction of public business to-day
Mr. J. H. Oxberry is applying to the Licensing Board for a publican's licence for the Palace Hotel, Kowloon,
PERING, June 30th. The Premier has instructed the Minis ter of Finance to pay the first instalment of the sum granted for the attack on Kwangtung.
The Propier has permitted Generar Lung to lead personally five regiments of Northern troops to Kwangtung. General Lung has deputed about 180 officers from his staff to go to Peking to take command of the new recruits.
The Japanese Minister visited the Premier and wiked about the expedition Mr. Chan Kai Ming to be a member of that he had given orders for Kwangtung H.E. the Governor has re-appointed to yangtung The Premier replied the Sanitary Board for a further term of to be captured within two months. three years.
Legation, has been appointed Consul
Mr. E. W. Wilton, of the British
W. H. Wilkinson General at Hankow, in succession to Sic
The total output of the Kailan Mining
The following cases of communicable diseases were notified on Friday: Cerebrospinal fever, 1 (1 death); bubonie pingus, 1 (1 death); puerperal fever, 1.
of course without troubling to inquire about their origin. Naturally we have a hazy. notion that someone in Greas Administration's mines for the week Britain had something to do with the ending 10th June, amounted to 49,698 invention; but, before the war especially, tons and the sales to 48,584 tone. we did not take any very great national pride in the fact that a fellow country man of ourg had conferred some supreme benefit upon the world. It is exactly forty years since HUXLEY wrote: "I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potentiel WATT, or Davy, or FARADAY, at the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt cheap at the money. The work during the last century of WATT, STEPH ensör, Kelvin, WHEATSTONE (inventor of the telegraph), FARADAY (father of electrical machinery), BESSEMER and PARSONS has benefited the whole world, No other country has produced such a galaxy of practicṇ) genius. At the
&ent the demand is for some inventor
THE 16,
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BIRTH. JACKSON-On June 30th, to Mr. and Mrs.
WM. JACKSON, a son (prematurely);
DEATH.
BLANEY. At Portscatho, South Cornwall, on May 7th, BLAMRY (née Munde Mae
gowan). Hongxeno OrFich: 10, Des Vœux Roan, C.
may be someone in Great Britain to-day whose name will rank with that of WATT, DAVY OF FARADAY in the history of our country.
kong University is paying his annual Sir Charles Eliot, principal of Hang visit to Peking. He is registered at the Hotel de Pekin. He was one of five knight, present at the Anglo-American dinner on June 18th.
Conference has decided in favour of An The Maritime Customs Tariff Revision early application of un effective five per according to the values of 1897-8-9, by cent, tariff instead of a specific duty fixed which "the present values represent less than three per cent.'
are
A certain Power has profceted against General Lung taking the mine, in Kwangtung as security for loans, on the ground that it is n breach of an old agreement.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] GERMANS IN CHINA QUESTION OF DEPORTATION NOT YET DISCUSSED.
LONDON, June 28th The Times Correspondent at The Hague says that Baron Kuchlmann's statement
China has been abandoned as a result of that the deportation of Germans" from the Prisoners Conference at The Hague
is incorrect.
The Conference has not dealt with the mattor.
CANTON NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE CHUNG NGOI
PO."].
SIN
CANTON, June 30th.
REINFORCEMENTS TO HUNAN
It is
are.
who will produce sonte device to md us
We understand that a telegraphic dis in bringing the war to a speedy canola-tary of State for the Colonies approv- still being sent from Kwangsi to the patch has been received from the Secre
ved that reinforcements: sion, but the output of genius does ing of the principle of paying separation Human front. Thirteen regiment, havo Ho come in anewer to a enll, however allowances to the dependents of men who already arrived at Chuen Chow (south insistent. Yet, for all we know, there
ing to the suggested minimum as too high. which are under training, will be dis
conscripted for the front, but object.
of Hunan) and another 14, regiments,
In connection with the dayhighs Tront have received orders far lengipi patched shortly. Northern troops on ing⋅⋅
"movement, the N. Duly News
fresh actions. appeals to the American and British One hundred years is much more than Chambers of Commerce to appeal, in their the life of thig Colony, which still must
turn, to the Hongkong Chamber and all wait twenty-three yeary before it can
together to appeal to the Inspector Gen. celebrate its centenary It was imposeral of Customs and the Hongkong Govits Martial law is declared, and the sible that the six young men who ruet ernment, from whom the change must be together in Fleet Street in 1818 to form directed. themselves into an association should
LONDON OPTics: 181, Fur Starit, E... bave had any idea of the final developdine, Matheson & Co., Shanghai) has re-
The Daily Press
Howazawa, 187 July, 1919,
A NOTABLE CENTENARY.
In the clash of the terrific struggle
can
ment of their efforts, but that is the history of the Anglo-Saxon race The same might be said of those other pione ts who came out to the Far East and laid the firm foundations of Anglo- Chinese trade. The little gathering in Ficet Street marked the commencement of a new erg Europe was worn and weary
with the Napoleonic wars the outlook
"Mr. W. Basil Cornaby (of Messra. Jar cently been promoted to a captaincy, and is now in charge of Chinese labourers in France. His younger brother, G. Ernest, has been a captain for more than a year, after long-continued service at the front, They are sons of the Rev. W. Artbur Cornahy, of Hanyang.
Swire, sedior, widow of the late News has been received of the death of
had devoted her time to war work for the John Samuel Swire. - Hrs. Swire, who last three or four years at Leighton Buz eard and in London, died at her residence, No. 27, Princes Gardens, W. She leaves
BANDITS IN KING CHOW.
Several districts on the east borders of King Chow have been occupied by bau-
situation is regarded as very serious.
HOUSE TAX.
A special meeting to discuss the house
Assembly yesterday. It was decided to "ent tax was held in the Frovincial
appeal to the Civil Governor to stop the sending of officers to collect such taxes before they have been considered and approved by the Assembly-
flu, Superintendent of Police, in vieW of the decision of the people to resist the authorities to abolish the scheme. house rent-tax, will request the superior
tung's AUPPORTERS,
Police and one of the chief supporters of Lung, has gone to King Chow. Tong, Taug Yew-kwong, ex-Superintendent of
it is said, will be engaged in connection
Va Tai, who was defeated in Heung Shaa during the present revolution, in in Macao. He has ordered several thou- sand uniforms and is recalling his staff in order to re-attack Heung Bhan dis triet city from the direction of Chin Sham as soon as he receives instructions from
into which the world is plunged we
was black; and the most gifted prophet are apt to overlook even the most inter could never have foreseen that the help so esting of anniversaries. It is, however, badly needed was to come from Nature well to be reminded of them occasionally. Yet the century which followed has been For many years no national recognition marked by the unrave of the as- was given to the genius of SHAKESPEARE tonishing secrets which have made the one son, Mr. Warren Bwiro, a partner with the fighting in Lui Chow. It is probable that at the first centenary communication of ideas all over the the firm of Messrs. John Swire & Sons, of his birth only a few Englishmen were world only a matter of reconds. In the Ltd., who served for two years in the
the fact. Altho aware of the fact. Although nothing enn Far East to day thousands, possibly Eastern campaign as a Major in the detach our thoughts for very long from hundreds of thousands, read the words of Buckinghamshire Yeomanry. our gallant armies in Flanders, France, Mr. Lord GeoRun or of President and other parts of the world where WILD, of the KAISE, a few hours after Italy, brave men are dying and suffering for they are uttered. At no very distant the Empire and the cause of civilisation, late millions will read in countless yet, we may take a little relief in con: Chinese newspapers of events which took templating the triumphs won by Great place in New York or London but a short Britain in peace as well as in war. As time before the page was printed in we glance back over the last century, we recall thankfully the fact that the One hundred years ago the world was grim reality of war was often absent from commencing a century notable for mecha our Empire. The victories of the days nical inventions. Are we to-day uncon- of peace consisted chiefly of scientificaciously witnessing the beginning of discoveries and inventions. Great Britain something even greater the birth-pangs took the lead in the struggle which of the Parliament of Mao?" The cynits
Chine
TYPHOON
WARNINGS.
3:30p.m., June 20th.
19 deg. Lat. N., moving North.
Cyclone or Typhoon 129 deg. Long. E., General Lung.
12.15 p., June 30th Cyclone or Typhoon near or over southern part of Fermosa, moving W-N.W. or N.W
THE COLONY'S FINANCES. The financial statement for the month wrested the secrets from Nature in the may point to the bloodshed and the suf- of March, 1919, issued by the Hongkong nineteenth century. Just one hundred fering, but we can derive encouragement Treasury, shows revenue and expenditure years ago there was born in Great from the reflection that the dreams
ns follows: of & Britain FOUR-HOOMED HOUSES in Kowloon,
& new profession. We may be few years ago are the facts of today. Balance of assets and liabili A SHOP in Nathan Road, Kowloon,
excused for mentioning, with some little Twenty years ago people talked vaguely ties on 31st December, 1917 83,288,081.9 pride, that it was in the centre of News about aeroplanes; no one thought to see
Revenue from 1st January to ABERTHOLWYN," No. 14, Peak, Road, paper-land that half-a-dozen young men the machine which is now more common
31st March, 1938 rom 1st August.
met together with the object of forming than a steam engine was a hundred years Apply to HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE world. Four years previously, in 1914, emerging the great idea of some central the first Engineering institution in the ago. Out of all of this weltor there is
the Times was printed for the first time authority, a League of Nations, to en- by machinery driven by steam power. forte law and order throughout the The event was celebrated by a leading world. It is an idea with the most
Alerand Buildings,
2000
Expenditure from 1st Janu
4,311,813.56
$7,579,875:38
SPORT.
LAWN TENNIS.
TENNIS LEAGUE DIVISION L CHINESE RECREATION AR
UNIVERSITY!!
Courts on Saturday and won by the home This match was played on the OR.C. team by 60 to 30 games Scores
Ng Sze Kwong and Wei Leo San beat Redmond and Ang, 65; beat Shann ant Wright, 7-4; beat Rumjaba and Gittios, 1-4.
M. K. Lo and M. W. Lo lost to Bed- mond and Ang, 50; beat Shann and Wright, 9-2; boat Rumjahn and Gitting,
ary to 31st March, 1918 2,163,094.10
Wong Po Kie and Yew Man Tsun best Balance 5,115,951.19 Redmond and Ang, 74, beat Shann and *Exclusive of Crown Agents accounts Wright, 110, beat Rumjahn and Giftius, January not receted
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