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GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC. TENDERS for SPECIE and MEXICAN
TEN
DOLLARS, carnnt in this Colony, for Telegmphis Transfer, on the Lords Commissioners of HIS MASTY'S TARASURT, Loudon, up to and for the sum of £50,000, will be received by the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, ARMY PAY DE-
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AUCTIONS
B.
PUBLIO AUCTION,
THE
PARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of
the lotting by Publio Auction Bale, to be held TÔ DAY (TUESDAY)," "the 6th day of August, 1918, si 8 F.M., at the Ofen of the Fume. WORES DEPARTMENT, by Order of HIS FICELLENT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND ■ Battery
10 11 d'elock A. on the Street in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term
The tenders to state the total amount (in Pounds Sterling). No Telegraphie Transfer will be made for less than £100.
The tenders to be in duplicate and in mealexi covers, addressed to the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, ARMY PAY DEPART MENT, and endorsed "TENDERS FOR GOVERNMENT BILLS, Etc."
The right to accept or reject any or all of the tenders in reserved.
Copies of Forms of Tender can be had on application.
any
Parsons tendering-for (Bills) are hereby notified that having regard to the provisions of the Acts 22 George[i1, Cap. 45 and 41, George II. Cap. 62, he acceptance of such Tendor is subject to the express condi tion that no Member of the British House of Commons shall be admitted to any share or part in or to any benefit to aris from the Contract thereby mads for the allotment of
(Bill)"
Was The
provisions in question do not apply to Contracts entered into by any incorporated Company in its corporated capacity and made for the genul beneft of the Company
FJ. THURSBY-PELHAM, Lt-Col,
Treasury Chest Ufhear, A.P.D. His Majesty's Treasury Office,
Hongkong, 6th August 1918..
NOTICE.
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
HAROLD
Partnership hitherto oxisting between LATHAY and CHARLES REGINALD CHRISTOPHER LATHAM, both of Singapore, trading under tho Firm. and Style of LATHAM & CO., has been dissolved by mutual consent a from the 30th of June, 1816.
All Debts due to or by the above- mentioned Firms of LATHAM & CO. will bo collected or paid by the said HAROLD LATHAM who will continue to carry on the Business under the same Style and Firm as heretofore,
HAROLD LATHAM, C. R C. LATHAM. Singapore, 16th July, 1918. THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING CO, LTD.
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N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR ($1) per Share for account 1918 will be Payable on THURSDAY, the 15th August, 1978 Shareholders are request to apply for Dividend Warrante at the Company's Offices, St. George's Build- ingy, Hongkong.
The TRANSR BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 10th August, 1918. to THURSDAY, 15th Angust, 1918, both days inclusive
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
General Managern.
[3975 Hongkong. 30th July, 1918.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LTD. (Inourporated in us United Kingdom.),
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that A NOM DIVIDEND of SEVEN PENCE per Share for the year ending 31st December, 191, hàbeen declared.
The DIVIDEND will be Payable on and after WEDNESDAY, the 21st day of August, 1918, to Shareh lder on the Register on WEDNESDAY, the th day of August, 1918 and will be pai 1 to Shareblers on the tho Colonial (Hongkong) Register at exchange rate of 3/3) per Doilar.
By Order of the Board,
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INTIMATION
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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "RENGKORA
DAILY PRES."]
SIR,Your contributed article
ATH
THE CONSCRIPTION ALLOWANCE.
(TỶ THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]
Sin,With reference to the scheme. F
Unspeakable Crime," published on Satu. monthly subsistence allowances to the. day, speaks of Mill and Malthus as dewives and families of those enrolled in precating anything emotional or sentithe, General Military Service Force I Hongkong, I wish to protest against the
mental
by | penetration:""It was carried on
unfair methods for political ends, and nt the outbreak of war Great Britain, in common with Fer Allies, found that she was dependent for many necessaries upoa Germany which had actually obtained (control of "the sources of supply oven when they were situated in British terri tory. This was notably the case in regard to Burmese volframite from which is
obtained tungsten cssential for harden- This, so far as John Stuart Mill is con difference in the allowances granted to ing the steel used for heavy guns and earned, is hardly correct. Without being the wives and families who are not of amour-plate-Australian lead and zinc, unduly emotional himself, Mill's writings pure European descent and those who ara asiline, dyes, and chemical and optient are lit up here and there by the most of pure European descent. In my opinion glass. We have now freed ourselves frour beautiful sentiments, and his life's work the difference and distinction made a most unfair. If the men are worth con- German toils, and when peace is signed was given in the service of mankind.. it would be as foolish to remove the safe. How Mill could be accused of deprecat- scripting then their wives and families guards which have been devised to pre. ing anything emotional or sentimental ought to receive the same allowance as The wives of non-European vent Germany from regaining control of cannot imagine, unless it is because of the others.
his theory that instinctive impulses should descent have to pay the same taxes and essential rav materials within tho
not be exalted at the expense of reason, also maintain and pay school fees for Empire as it would be unjust to exp., . 44, Life could not go on if it their children the same as the wives of
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were not admitted that impulses must-bo controlled, and that renson ought govern our actions "Mill.
I think is Estimate of Bentham
| pure European descent, so why should the Government make such a distinction, especially at the present time when differ. ences of this fatüre ought to be buried
As the PRIME MINISTER ad.hrows soine light on Mill's inner views and left alone?-Youra, etc.,
"TAXPAYER." Hongkong, oth August, 1918.
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
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to merciless competition those British manufacturers, who, at the invitation of the Government, have sunk capital in industries formerly monopolised by our enemies though essential to our national defence.
on emotion and sentiment, and I give an mitted to the deputation of manufac.
extract herewith. 75., p. 386," It (Ben- turers, that waited upon him at the
tham's error) is that of treating the moral! House of Commons the other day, indus-view of actions and characters, which is trial dislocation may be expected when
unquestionably the first and most import. SHELDON'S peace is restored. Two of the greatestant inode of looking at them, as if it difficulties will be to obtain raw material were the sole one; whereas it is only one and transport, and it is only natural of three, by all of which our sentiments that the Empire and its Allies should towards the human being may be, ought study their own needs before those of the to be, and, without entirely crushing our
dissolve the partnership cemented with influenced. Every human action has thres blood" which has been formed during the aspects-its moral aspect, or that of it to fight till the two Kwangs (Kwangtünk. past four years. Even if its continuation right and wrong; its aesthetic aspect, or and Kwangsi) and Yunnan, have "been
captured: were to inrdve some financial sacrifice that of its beauty; its sympathetic aspect, |
Large numbers of uitval forces and four it would be worth, while but when we or that of its lovableness. The first- remember the Allies, including America, addresses itself to our reason and con- torpedo-boats have been sent to Fukier, control between them somthing like two science; the second to our imagination; thirds of the world there does not appear the third is our human fellow-feeling, to be much reason to fear that they can- According to the first, we approve A. S. WATSON & not afford to dispense with the nidrot disapproves according to the second, we amira or despise; necording to the third, we love, pity, or dislike. The morality of an action depends on its foreseeable conse qurces its beauty and its lovableness,
GIN PILLS It would be a fatal mistake to own nature cannot but be, materially
BOLD BY.
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PEKING, August 8th.
The Tuchuns in Tientsin have decided
GENERAL LUNG.
General Lung Chai-kwong has returned to Peking from Tientsin. Lang will not return South at present.
Chang Cho-lain, the Tuchun of Fung- tien, has promised to supply Lang with considerable quantities of ammunition, and to send a number of regiments of Fungtien troops to the Hunan front.
A TASK FOR THE FUTURE VICE- PRESIDENT..
the Central European Powers during the period of reconstruction. Our enemies, on the other hand, will find both the sources of supply and the markets open to the extremely limited. That their the reverse, depend on the qualities
which it is evidenc of.” economists realise the serious conse
17, p.38" It is not possible for any queners to be apprebended from this state sophistry to confound these three modes of affairs is shown by Dr. HELFERICH' of viewing an action; but it is very
The Tuchuns in Tientsin have decided recent, address to the German Imperial possible to adhere to one of them exclu to elect as Vice-President the man who can Chion, in which he painted out the ively and lose sight of the rest. Senti suppress the South-west provinces. "unspeakable convulsion and suffering," mentality consists in setting the last two the '' enforbled misery ” which must be of the three above the first; the error of the lot of the nation unles penec restores moralists in general, and of Bentham, is uf least the intus quo ante bellum. The to sink the two latter entirely. This is militarista muly is that these evils can pre-eminently the case with Bentham; be KRUGER-GRAY,As St. Cuthbert's Church, be averted by the armies in the field, hut both wrote and felt as if the moral
Philbearh gardens, W., од Jone 4th, GEORGE EDWARD KRUGER, son of Mr. LLOYD GORGE warns the enemy that standard oight not only to te paramount late E C. KRUGER, St. Heliers, the longer the war lasts the sterner (which it ought) but to be alone; as if Jersey, to FRANCES AUDREY GORDON, daughter of the late Ten. ArCH DRACON must be the economic terms imposed it ought to be the sole master of all our
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CANTON, August 5th. A serrel letter, alleged to have been senty by the Committer of the Canton-Hankow tailway, to certain prominent financier has been published. The letter suggests that a lown should be raised of ten r twenty million dollars and offers the -whole railway-as-sexurity.
HOUSE RENT-TAN,
The House Rent-Tax not having yielded surer has called the police officers toge as much as was anticipated, the Trea
actions and even of all our sentiments; is if either to admire or like, or despise or dislike, person for eny action which neither dos good nor har, or which LLOYD GEORGES MESSAGE does not dóu good or a harm proporties
led to the sentiment entertained, were anther again with the object of devising The injustice, and prejudice. You some means of securing the money.
Police, however, could offer no suggestion as to the best method of procedure, as they PLEBIS.
alise that this tax in particular will always Be strongly resented by the people.
TO THE EMPIRE.
The following message to the people of faithfully, the Enapige has been received by cable from Mr. Bloyd. Georgs by H.E. the: | Governor :--
Hongkong, 5th August.
THE SIBERIAN SITUATION.
VLADIVOSTOCK, July 27th. The Czecho-Slovaks occupied Schma. kovka, 200 verets northwards of Nikolsk, on the 25th, capturing overal maxime, numerous shells, hand-grenades, a poison us apparatus and 200,000 rounds of Major Werne, M.C. (Reuter's Corres hondent), has arrived in Vladivostock from Harbin. - Reater.
small-arm ammunition.
A CONFESSION.
"The menage which I read to the (TO THE EDITOR OF THE BONGSONⱭ people of the British Empire on the fourth
DAILY PRESS."] anniversary of their entry into the war
Sin-Though not claiming any super is. Hold fat, irresistible!' We are in
human powers, I feel that unintentionally this war for no selfish ends. We are in may have been partly responsible for Er is ecoming increasingly evident that.it to recover freedom for the nations the awful week of rain and fog which as a result of the war, Great Britain's which have been brutally attacked and has just clapsed. A friend of mine gave despoiled, and to prove that no people, me a sun-dial some time ago with which fheal polior is destined to undergo con-
TORIO, July 26th... A message from Vladivostock states i HUMPHREYS ́ESTATE & FINANCE siderable modification. Only a few days however poserful. can surrender itself was very pleased; it was a copy of an
igo Mr. Box Law reads the important to the laws ambitions of militarism old one fruit home, and had on its face that since the Siberian railways have bee
placed under American control there has, Co, Ith
without meeting retribution, swift, Alexandra Hafidinge.
amongst other things a representation been ceaseless friction between the Bol announcement that the Imperial Govern,
certain, and disastrous, at the hands of of the sun. I had a pedestal made for practically has not been used except for sheviks and the Czechs, and the railway. ment had accepted the principle of Im
the free nations of the world. To stop it, and looked about for a suitable inscripuilitary purposes, ordinary traffic hav perial Preference, of which the late Mr
tion floms non aumero, nisi serenang been suspended. The American con- JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN was the
trollers are powerless and the Chief of greatTM
(I only crint the guany hours ") seemed the American Railway Commission, Mr. apostle. The Dominions have always
to me harmless, whilst conveying a pretty the authorities in Moscow on the matter.
Emerson, has been in correspondence with bren in favour of closer economic unios and have given proof of their sincerity
sentiment, so this was duly inscribed on
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The main force of the Bolsheviks np.
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of manufactured articles from the ruler of Germany deliberately rejected much consultation with cautical experts at Ussuri railway-station.
many Austrians and Germans in the Hotherland. The difficulty of showing the just and reasonable settlement pro as to its bearings, it was fixed up vicinity and the young men there and st Any reciprocity lay in the fact that posed by the Allies. Throwing aside the on a little square of brokes flag-stones, Blagovestchensk are being conscripted.
The Czechs are welcomed everywhere.- wider the systems of Free Trado Great last mark of moderation. they partitioned
Russia, enslaved Roumania, and attempt and all seemed well. The next morninger. Britain had left herself nothing to give,ed seizure of supreme power by over- it started raining and I went out and
HARDIN, July 26th. and the nation bad grow se prosperous whelming the Allies in a final desperate looked at the dial and said:
General Skipetroff, the Chief of Staff attack. Thanks to the invincible bravery
to General Semenoff, states that the latter by buying in the cheapest market and the Allied armies it is now evident mind, to-morrow you chall tell this now patrolling the front, but he has selling in the dearest that it naturally to all that the dream of universal con hours." Tuesday I was less amiable, and tions until he has been reinforced with felt reluctant to change its method, quest, for the sake of which they wanton THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST however attractive from a sentimentally prolonged the war, can never be the face on the dial seemed less genial Allied support. His troops gen wary of Wednesday things were worse. Thurs battle after fighting against very heavy MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.
point of view the alternative might But the battle is not ret won. The day and Friday I could hardly be civf odds.. 128
General Skipetroff is going to Vladivo appear. It is now realised, however, that great autocracy of Russia will still endes to the thing, and the face wore an evil the question at issue is not merely one vour by violence or guile to avoid defeat smirk. Salarday and Sunday I left stick to urge unity of action among the
and so give militarism a new lease of alone, but this morning when I thought various Russian parties. of pounds, shillings and pença. There life. We cannot seek to escape the of all the holiday-makers and their spoilt
Among recent appointments to the Mod our future security is be considered, horrors of war for ourselves by laying excursions I could stand it no longer.
them up for our children. Having set Rushing madly at it, with a stupendour Excellent Order of the British Empi and that can best be sured by cour hands to the task we must see it effort I thaw it over the khud," shout were. Mr. E. H. Steele, Acting Traff solidating and strengthening the Empire through till i just and lasting settlementing after if decisively "Next stop ConManager. Chinese Government Railway line, and Hyl by every possible means. The revelations is achieved. In no other way can we duit Road"--and immediately the sun Peking Makden
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