NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
LOST,
DIAMOND And PEARL PLATINUM
and GULD BAR BROOCH Finder will be rewarded on returning same to -.
C. EDGCUMBE
SNOWMAN & Co.
NOTICE.
York Buildings, -
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MOW FUNG & CO, LOITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Business heretofore curried on at 10, Des Virus Road Central Hongkong, by FREDERICK HOWELL AT FREDERICK CHARLER Mow Fusa in co-partnership under the style of Mow FUNGE Co., has been converted into a Private Limited Company, and will henceforth, and as from the Lot September, be carried on as before and at the same adeleine unter the core of NOW, FUNG & COMPANY, LIMITED,
ог
ontracta relating to goods merchandise entered into by the Firm of MAW FONG & Co. will be carried out by MOW FUNG & CO., LTD.
All debts due to and all inbilities of the Firm of Mow Fexo & Co., up to and including the 31st August, 1918, will be respectively collected by and paid by the
FREDERICK HOWELL and FREDERICK CHARLES MOW Fuso.
The Company will be managed or con- trolled by a Board of Directors, the first Directors being FREDERICK HOWELL FREDERICK CHARLES Mow Fesa, and Sz To YUEN.
By Order of the Directors,
CHOW TING,
Secretary. Hongkong, 16th September, 1911. [2418
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.
NTAMINATIONS will commence on TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that these
MONDAY, December 9th, 1918.
Arrangements will be made to hold the Examination at any town where a sufficient number of candidates offer themselves. Candidates who wish to be examined at any other place than Hongkong or Shanghai must apply to the Registrar on or before October
1018.
ms of entry and all particulars can be obtained on application to the REGISTRAR, The University, Hongkong.
The entry form duly filled in, must reach the Registrar, together with the fee (Ten Dollars, Hongkong Currency) on or before October 9th, 1918.
The Examinations will be conductedl according to the "Regulations for the Senior and Junior Local Examinations and for the Matriculation Examination 1918.*
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. Hongkong, 14th September, 1918. [2410
HONGKONG JOCKET CLUB THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of Members will be held on TUESDAY, the 1st October 1918, at 12.30 P.M., at the Offices of the HONGKONG Jockky Ctta, on
the ground floor of the HONGKONG CLUB
ANNEXZ, Chater Road.
A Report will be made at this Meeting as to certain proposals to substitute spectators' stands for some of the Matsheds hitherto erected on part of the JOCKEY CLUB property and the adjoining Land.
By Order,
T. F., HOUGH, Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, 10th September, 1918 [2420
THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
IN accordance with the Provisions of the ne Articl- of Association of the Company, the Board of Directors have This Day declares an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the First Half-Year ended 30th June, 1918, of THREE DULLAKS (83) per Share.
Dividend Warrants may be nhtained on
application at the Company's Office on and
after the 23rd September, 1918.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 18th to 23rd instant, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Director,
J. H. TAGGART; -Manager. Hoogkong, 12th September 1918, 19410
NOTICE.
INTIMATIONS
G.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE HONGKUNG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1918.
PARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of the intting by Fablis Anction Sale, to be held TO-DAY (MONDAY), the 16th day of September, 1913, at 3 P, at the Offices of sas, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT,
by
Order of His ExCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR,
of Que Lot of CROWN LAND 1 Tokwawan,
INTIMATION
FRESHLY
in the Colony of Hongkong, for term CONCENTRATED of 75-years, with the option of renewal at, a CROWN RENT to be ired by the Surveyor
HIS MAJESTY THE KING, fer one further snem of 75 yeste
Registry No.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Locality.
Bount
sering mengh
(Approxima)
Square Int
v*a 1mtury
Upact Pria
L
+
T
Leat
Sout
For the
instant
per saleplan. 51,010 384 9,230
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G.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION."
DARTTOULABS and CONDITIONS of
PAROLA by Public Auction Saio, to be held TO-DAY (MONDAY), the 16th day of September. 1918, at 3 r., at the Offices of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of BIS BIGXLLINCT THE GOT EXOs. of Two Lots of CROWN LAND at Laichikok, New Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July 1893, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of Ars MarEaTY THE KING, for one further term of 24 years, less I days.
"PARTICULARS OF THE LOT,
No. of Sale
Beglatry No.
Locally
Boundary
• Memanta.
41
Borkaula
Bquare fack
Annual Rent
L.
→
feet laws
feet
leplan. 456 000131
[165,000) 3,122
per
[2395
HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the above
Society will be held in the CITY HALL, on WEDNESDAY, 18th September, 1918,
at 6.30 P., for the purpose of receiving the Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st Augast, of electing office-bearers for the rouging year, &c.
"
J. M. GORDON. Acting Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 12th September, 1818. (2408
THE CHINA-BORNEO CO, LTD.
preparation
of delicious JUNKET.
NEWS.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] PRESIDENT AND PEACE.
mischievous activities. Then will come The Chinese who was reported in our FAR EASTERN CABLE 'considerations of fur wider importance, Saturday's issue to have been seriously and the re-formation of a solid Russian stabbed in Queen's Road West win the Front may be realised. The Allied land- [course of a business dispute died in Hoe: ing on the Murman coast secures control, pital, on Saturday. It is stated that, in friendly hands of Russia'a paly ice-free one of the deceased's assailants has been port in the North, ind, with the Balsber- arrested. ists driven back far beyond Vladivostock, Russia's means of communication with the outside world are assured. There are signs that in many quarters large sections
The
Depatched from Peking, Sept. 11th. Delivered Sept. 14th.
Hsu Shih-chan is not entrammelled by the Militarists. but the divided South- erners have no representative who will assume responsibility.
THE SIBERIAN SITUATION.
To maintain military connections Gan- erals Horvath and Stevens are confer- ring with a view to a new Railway Ad-
ministration,
It is reported that Horvath has accepted the commissionership of the Siberian Gov. ernment similar to that which he held under the Frovisional Government.
For the following month. Mrs. Hay- President-elect is working quietly ward and the Misscs Grimfile, will be in and assiduously for peace with the South, charge of the Wool Departments of the which will probably be achieved on the Peak Club and City Hall Working exit of Tung Chi-jan, assisted, perhaps, of the Russian people are ripe for revolt Parties, respectively. Parcels will be re by foreigners.. against 'their oppressors". When discuss. [ceived and wool given out at the Peak ing the question of intervention some
Club on Thursday mornings and at the the City Hall da Tuesday mornings only. țime since, a correspondent of ESSENCE OF RENNET.rimes pointed out that it was desired' The long summer
vacation of the specifically
" to scotcb the German Supreme Court will commence on Sep- microbe in the Far East, to insure that|tember 20th and terminate on October the immense grain resources of Western | 17th. The offices will be open from 10 Siberia should not become available form. top.m. daily, except on public the Germans, and to secure, if possible, and general holidays, when they will be & diversion of German power from the closed entirely, and on Saturdays, when Western Front by initiating a movement they will be open from 10a.m. to noon. in the German rear." The first aim is The Police have received a report to too well on the way towards accomplishment; effect that a robbery was "attempted on the second requires the establishment" of Friday night at the residence of Mrs. J., a force in the Urals strong enough to M. Xavier, No. 16, Macdonnell Road. A maintain a long line of communication; Chinese entered the house by the back the third needs an army. None of these way and seized an anah by the throat. objects could be attained without the The amah called out for assistance, good-will of the people, but this, it and one of 'Mrs. Xavier's sons came to her In bottles containing sufficient believed, the Allies have obtained by their rescue and secured the thief, who was barovsk have, managed to join the Red clear and unequivocal pronouncement found to be in possession of a gag and a that they
desire only to assist the packet of pepper. Russians to reorganise the Government, Mr. Jose Maria de Sena Fernandes and have no intention of interfering with Basto, who was a resident of Hongkong internal administration.
When it is for many years, before he moved to Macao
LONDON, September, fath remembered that the Czecho-Slovaks, who about two years ago, died on the night A Japanese communiqué from Tokio surrendered in such great numbers to the of the 11th instant after an illness which states that the captures at Khabarovsk Russians in the early days of the war, confined him to his bed for some months include a hundred and fifty prisoners, are now probably the most formidable He leaves a widow, two sons and a daugh-some German officers, 17 river gunboata force in Russia, that they have the assisttar. The funeral was well attended. Mr. and 120 guns. ance of the Allies, and that the best Basto having made many friends during clements of the country are preparing, his short residence in the Colony.
to make 32 Pints..
60c. -each.
PREPARED ONLY BY
A. S.
WATSON
CO., LTD.,
HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
TEL. 14.
&
-19
Hongkong Orion : 304, Dan Voruz Road, C. LONDON OFFIzn: 181, Fire Benwer. E.C
The Daily Press.
HoxÓLONG, 16TH SEPTEMBER, 1918
JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that THE TRANSFORMATION
SIBERIA
IN
an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of THE CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Wire "interest concentrated almost ex Offices of Messrs GIBB. LIVINGSTON AND
COMPANY, St. George' Building, Victoria, Hongkong. the Begistered Office of the
bove-named Company, on TUESDAY, the ist day of October, 1918, at 11.33 o'clock
до
with their help, to wrest from the Bolshev ists that power which they usurped and have 80 wantonly abused, it is exaggerated optimism which leads us to believe that the great Republic has passed the worst hour of its trävail. Only a few days ago the new came that Petrograd was on fire in twelve places and that an indiscriminate massacre was proceeding, but these orgies of rioting and bloodshed are symptoms of the death-struggle of anarchy and lawlessness. Locally, we are particularly concerned with the fortunes of the British contingents landed at Vladivostock. We know that they have been actively engaged with the enemy, but for some mysterious reason definite news has been withheld from ́us. Now the situation has altered so radically there can surely be no sound reason for continuing the policy of secrecy. Many are in suspense regarding the fate of friends and relatives, and a plain official etirment of the facts might relieve a
good deal of unnecessary anxiety.
struck off the Register of Companies.
The name of Grose & Co., Ltd., bas been
clusively upon the Western Front it is, perhaps, only natural that recent events in Siberia should have failed to receive the forencon, ben the subininel Besela that attention from the public which, tion which was passed at the Extra'dinary General Meeting of the Company hd on under other conditions. would have ing the existing road from Shaukiwan to submitted for confirmation as a Special has changed with dramatic suddenness she 13th day of September, 1918, will be ben bestowed upon them. The situation "Tytam Gap. Resolution:
RECENT RAIDS IN THE CITY.
THREE GANG ROBBERS ARRESTED.
The Polien have arrested three Chinese who are believed to be of the gang that committed two daring robberies at money. changers' shops in the city during the past month.
Inspector Sim, who produced the pris oners at the Magistency, on Saturday, before Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, utid- these were among those who robbed the money- changers shop at No. 23, Queen's Road East on August 23th and carried out a similar raid on a money-changer's shop at No. 42, Cross Street, on September 5th. Their booty on the first occasion was 8630, and on the second $300,
A revolver and several rounds of a munition were found in the possession of the second defendant, and an addi tional charge of unlawful possession of these articles was entered against him.
inspector Star asked, that the case be renlanded for a week, as he hoped to get soute of the prisoners' accomplices
(THROUGH AITTER'S AGENCY.]
BOLSHEVISM'S LAST STAND.
VLADIVOSTOCK, September 7th. Numbers of Bed Guards. from Kha-
Guards and war prisoners at Blagovest- chensk, where Bolshevism is making its last stand in the Far East.
JAPANESE CAPTURES.
CHANGE IN THE EASTERN CZECH COMMAND.
LONDON, September 14th. The Daily Mail correspondent at Har bin states that General Dietrichs, the Commander of the Eastern Czechs, has resigned. He is being "succeeded by Colonel Garda, who is a Czech.
||
[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NGOL SAN PO."]
THE PRESIDENT AND VICE
PRESIDENT. ·
Li Yuan-hung has declined nomination for the Vice-Presidency.
The Southerners have requested Feng Kuo-chang not to hand over the Presi- deney when his term of office has been completed.
The President's residence is strongly guarded by the 11th Division.. CIVIL GOVERNORSHIP OF FUKIEN.
Hau
Shih-chang bas proposed to appoint Sha Chin-ping as Civil Governor of Fukien.
CANTON NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE CHUNG 3001'
BÁN PO.
September 15th.
AFFRAY BETWEEN CHINESE Tenders are being invited "for improv.
AND PORTUGUESE AT MACAO THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT.
TWO CHINESE WOUNDED.
The Military Government has appoint- ed Sze Kar-lon Assistant Superintendent As a result, of an affray between some of Customs in Canton. Sze has held many Chinese villagers and the Portuguese
important positions in the Customs in guard at Macao on Thursday evening two various Provinces. The rumour regarding Chinese were shot.
the seizure of Custom revenue arose from
One case (one death) of diphtheria and che case (one death) of enteric fever were reported in the Colony on Saturday.
A Chinese woman, living in a house of ill-fame at West Point, committed suicido on Friday by taking a dose of opium.
that Mr. O. E. Owen, late proprietor of the Carlton Hotel, is doing very well in Fresno, California, where he has settled down permanently.
"That the new Articles already A few weeks ago the position of the "approved by this Mesting and for the "purpose of identifention thereof Czecho-Slovaks was regarded as almost "ubscribed by the Chairman thereof, hopeless." Now those in Siberia have
be and the zame - arU bereby
According to. one version, a few this appointment. "approved, and that such Articles fought their way through and joined be and they are hereby adopted as the hands with their friends in Manchuria.
Chinese were going into Macao along the road leading from the customs station It has been decided that the South-West "Articles of the Company to the
when a Portuguese guard halted them provinces cannot negotiato peace with the "exclusion of aud in substitution for Telegraphic communication with Irkutsk "all the existing Articles thereoË” and beyond has been restored, and His many frinds will be glad to learn and examined their belongings. The Peking Government without the consent of
Chinese were abusive, and one of the UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
A copy of the new Articles referred to Bolshevism over a very considerable
offenders received a slap on the face from the elected representatives. CANTON, LIMITED, “
may be inspected by any Shareholder of the extent of territory has been put to fight,
Portuguese soldier. The Chinese went The Kwangsi leaders have agreed to pay Bid Company at the Company's Offices in
into a hut close by and, arming them- ERTIFICATE NO. 4100 issued in the Hongkong, or at the Offices of Mesare. The Siberia front" has disappeared over
selves with poles, assaulted the Portu- ten thousand dollars to the Military, name of Miss MARY SAMUEL PERRY, JOHNSON, STORES & MASTER (the Company's night," or, in the words of an American
guese sentry, who thereupon turned out Government monthly as a contribution. dated the 27th day of January, 1918, for 14 Solicitors), at Prince's Building, Victoria,
the guard. Bhares Numbered
towards its expenses. 13481/77 has been aforesaid, on any week-day between the military authority, it has moved 4,000
A: Portuguese sergeant scized Ę Cancelled and is no louver negotiable, sud = || hours of 10 am, andi 4 P.M.
miles westward". The enemy have been
rifle and fired two shots, wounded two AMOY CRISIS. now Certificato in the name of Miss MART Dated this 13th day of September, 1918.
men, while the others were arrested.. A message froid Amoy states that except SAMUEL PERRY has been issued in lieu
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., scattered, and it is considered probable Works, during the absence on leave of An hour later another batch of Chinese, thereof.
Agani
that they will dissolve into non-combatant the Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G., or with firearms, arrived on the scene to for the departure of residents and mer- [2416
groups with the object of seeking an until further notice. amnesty rather than make any serious endeavour to reform themselves into an
Dated this 11th September, 1918.
C. H. P. HAY,
per pro. General Manager.
·12407
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
י
!
FACULTY OF MEDICINE."
FPLICATIONS are invited for the post
of Acting Lecturer on Pharmacology.
CONSULADO DE PORTUGAL, EM ¡HONGKONG."
AVISO.
effective military force. The immediate object of the Allied intervention has, therefore, been accomplished, but there YUMPRINDO ao abaixo assinado faser remains, of course, much to be done,
cma comunicação á Comunidade A course of 59 LECTURES is required to be Portuguesa nesta colónia, é por este con-
before the "Allies can think of retiring, delivered during the academic year 1918-1918 at 4.15 F.M., two or three afternoons a week nu Club Lusitano, na Segunda-feira, 10 de mission is concluded the German idea. vocada uma reunião da mesma comunidade and we imagine that long before their Full particulars may be obtained from the DEAN, to whom Applications should be corrente, de 6 pin, afim de se lhe faser a
dita comunicação, made as soon as possible.
Pede-se a comparencia de todos.
O Cansul, EDUARDO V, M. Ri dz SOTHA Hongkong, 12 de Setembro de 1018.
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UNIVERSITY OF
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HONGKONG.
FACULTY OF MEDICINE.
FPLICATIONE are invited for the port
of Arting Teacher of Operative Burgery.
A practical course is required to be given.
WANTED AT THE PEAK
H.E, the Governor has appointed Mr. T. L Perkins to act as Director of Public
The Matriculation and Senior and Junior Local Examinations of the Univer. sity of Hongkong will commence од December 9th, Centres will be arranged wherever there is sufficient number of candidates,
exact reprisals. The guard was turned chants, nothing has occurred in Amoy. out again, and military reinforcements The Tächun Li How-ki is reported to
Three COM- were asked for by telephone. panies of soldiers marched towards the have gone to Shanghai..
Six Northern cruisers are now in Amoy Forta do Cerec, and the Chinese, deeming discretion the better part of valour, beat
waters. hasty retreat. Our Macao correspondent states that It is stated that the principals and the trouble took place owing to some men leaders in Fukien are proposing to dis- from the village of Passeleno causing an obstruction by stopping with a cart-load cuss peace with the Captan forces, or to of rice near the point at which meter-declare independence of the Peking cara turn back to the city. The sentry Government in order to avert attack by Hongkong Jockey Club on October 1st told them to move away as a motor car the Canton furces.
At the half-yearly meeting of the
was approaching, and, as they were that the exploitation of Russia, and the question of substituting spectators' abusive, he slapped one of them. They Siberia would be an easy task will be stands for some of the matsheds hitherto went off quietly, but returned shortly afterwards with bamboo poles and, hav-
ing knocked thoroughly exploded. The Czechs have erected on part of the Club property and
At the instance of Lord Bydenham, the down
the unsuspecting
attack
Unionist War Committee unanimously the saved themselves by their own indomit the adjoining land will be considered. Rentry, they commenced to
guard-house, whereupon the Sergeant in passed a resolution in July declaring that the only available means of giving able perseverance and daring. Their long
It is understood, that a new Chinese charge ared his rifle and wounded were effective asistance to the party of and dificult march through Siberia to Bank, to be called the East Asia Bank of the. The remaining four or five men in Russia, must be sought to on stor the Pacific Coast, fghting Bolshevists is shortly to be established in Hong was seen to be approaching, presumably operations from Vladivostock along th
guard
out and furtherly urging upon his Majesty's Governmet comparable with that of the immortal be situated in premises now occupied by military assistance was summoned by the necessity of caforcing such incr Ten Thousand. But large bands of a hotel in Queen's Road Central. It is telephone. A forte of eighty soldiers was vention by a forte provided by Jan Austro-German prisoners bave still to be stated that the hotel in question is ten ing themselves outnumbered, withdrew, resolution were ordered to be sent of the soon on the spot, and the Chinese, find and the Allied Powers" Copies of the rounded up and an end put to their porarily closing down.
and the incident ended.
Prime Minister and the Foreign Diffe,
were
UNIONISTS AND RUSSIA.
1919, at 1.30 AM. on TUESDAY, THURSDAY NURSE for child 3 years old. European and Germans on the way, is an exploit | kong. It is probable that the offices will for the purpose of effecting a rescue, the line of the Siberian Railway," and stron
A
during the Spring Term (January-March),
and SATURDAY. Full particolars may be
obtained from the DEAN, to whom applica- tion should be made as soon as possible.
preferred.
Ms. R. SUTHERLAND,
129, The Peak...
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turned