NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 218T, 1918
THE CHINA-BORNEO CO., LTD.
NOT 80 EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN' that HAREHOLDERS are reminded of the
GENERAL MEETING of THE CHINA-BORNEO the EXTRAORDENARY
Victoris, MEETING of the COMPANY, to be beld COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at t on TUESDAY, the 8th day of October, 1918, Ofices of Mears Gras. LIVINGSTON AND of the the Registered Office Hongkong at 12 o'clock Neos, at the Uffices of Messrs. COMPANY, St. Georg Building,
the JARDINE, MATTESON & COMPANY, LIMITED above-nated Company, on TUESDAY
Resolu No. 6. Pedder Street, Hongkong, for the purpose of considering and if thought He 1st day of October, 1918, as 11.30
n the forenoon, when the subjoined Realty tion which was passed at the confirming as a Special Resolution the Resolution set out underneath which was passed as the Extraordinary General Meet General Meeting of the Company held on submitted for confirmation, as & Special ing of the Company hold on the 19th day of the 13th day of September, 1915, will be Septembor, 1918
the regulations contained in the Resolution: printed locament submitted to the for the purpose of meeting and identification subscribed by the Chair- man thereof be and the same are and that such "hereby approved
to the
regulations be and they are hereby "adopted as the Articles of the Company
in substitution for and axcasion of all the existing Articles "thereof."
Dated the 20th day of September, 1918
By Order of the Directors, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.;
General Managers.
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KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.
MEMBERS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held in the Club House on MONDAY, September 30th, 10:8, at 5.30. P.BL
Bustyrss:
Report and account for 2017-1918. Election of Others for 1918-1919. General
L J. BLACKBURN, Hon. Secretary. Kowloon, 19th September, 1918.
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- KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.
OPENING OF NEW GROUND.
MEMBERS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
the OPENING of the NEW
GROUND will take place on SATURDAY, September 9th, as 3.3 P.
Member, Friends and Members of other 'Sporting Clubs are cordially invited to
"That the new Articles already "approved by this Meeting and for the thereof purpose of identitiention subscribed by the Chairman thereof,
at the Faine *be
are hereby approved, and that such Articles be and they are hereby adopted as the "Articles of the Company to the "exclusion of and in substitution for "all the existing Artides thereof."
A copy of the new Articles referred to may be inspected by any Shareholder of the said Company at the Company's Offices in Hongkong, or at the Offices of Mours. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER (the Company's Solicitors), as Prince's Building, Victoria, aforesaid on any week-day between the hours of 10 AM. and 4 P.M.
Dated this 13th day of September, 1918. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Agents,
[2416 HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUR.
THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of Tembers will be held on TUESDAY, the 1st October, 1918, at 12.30 P... at the Offices of the BONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB on the ground floor of the HuNGKONG CLUB ANNEXE, Chater Roach.
A Report will be made at this Meeting as to certain proposals to sahatitute spectators
stands for some of the Matsheds hitherto created on part of the JOCKEY CLUB property anl the adjoining Land,
By Order,
T. F. HOUGH,
of the Course. Hongkong, 16th September, 1918. (2420
THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
AND
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD., CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA. TION CO., LTD. YONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer
"EURYLOCHUS "
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are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kow- loon, where it will lie at Consignee's
risk. The Cargo will be ready for de September. livery from Godown on and after 18th
Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.
All broken, chafed, and damaged, goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tresdays and Fridays between the bours of 10.45 AM. and Noon within the free storage period.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining, undelivered after the 5th Sept. will be subject to rent.
All Olaims against the Steamer mast bo presented to the undersigned on or before the 9th October, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong, 18th September, 1918.
JAVA-PACIFIC LINE OF THE JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
• NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
THE Stowmahip
"NIAS
INTIMATION
We, have just received
a fresh consignment of
COMPANIA GENERAL
DE TOBACOS DE
DEPORTATION
CASE. LEAVE TO APPEAL TO PRIVY
COUNCIL GRANTED.
feature of the renewal of activities in THE RECENT this theatre lies in the assurances from responsible quarters that the attack is by no means one which has been undertaken simply with the idea of gaining some purely local advantage. Mr. BALFOUR. who, before making a public state- ment,
The Chief Justice (Sir William Rees' Davies, K.C.) granted an application
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would carefully consider themade in Chambers at the Supreme Court. on Wednesday, by Mr. C G. Alabaster, construction likely to be placed on for special leave to appeal to the Privy his words, bas announced that the success Council against the judgment delivered is only a prelude to greater triumphs in by the Supreme Court recently, in the which the British and Greek troops will action brought by Mr. Li Hong Mi take an equal and glorious part; while against certain Government officials. the Greck Minister for Agriculture, after It will be remembered that the deporta expressing his conviction that the tion of Mr. Li Hong Mi was ordered by
Being Governor-ja-Council.. Salonika front is far more important the
British subject, Mr. Li than is generally realised, forecasts natural-born "big developments." There is" every Hong Mi brought an action to have the reason to believe, therefore, that the now order. quashed, and claimed damages offensive is to be continued with vigour against the Attorney-General, the Captain in accordance with the broad scheme of Superintendent of Police and the Secre the Allies to keep the man-power of the tary for Chinese Affairs. The action was Central Empires fully engaged at all dismissed, hence the application for lenve points. With, the British, French and to appeal to the Privy Council. American forces steadily drawing nearer On June 1st this year, when the Chief to the Hindenburg Line and the situa-Justice granted provisional leave EXTRA. tion in Russia becoming critical, the appeal, the solicitors for the appellant
FILIPINAS.
NUEVO
CORTADO
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$3.00 per 100,
A FIRST-CLASS CHEROOT AT A
having arrived from San Francisco, Co- signess of Cargo are hereby notified that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
No Claim will be admitted steer the Goods A.
and all Goodat bare left the Godowal
Amsining undelivered after Noon the 25th September will be subject to rent.
Au Charms against the stems must be pre- ented to the Undersigned on or before the 29th
attend. There will be Cricket, Bowls and accordance with the Provisions of the September, or they will not be recognised.
Tennis matches.
LJ. BLACKBURN, ..
Hua. Secretary.
2443 Kowloon, 18th September, 1918.
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THE DAIRY FARM ICE AND COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
"
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE TWENTY-SECOND. ORDINARY HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Company's Town Office, 2 Road, Albert
Hougkong 00 Lower SATURDAY, the 5th day of October, 1818, at Noox, for the purpose of presenting the Beport of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31 July, 1918.
TANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE-
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new Articles of Association of the Company, the Board of Directors have This Day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the First Half-Year ended 30th June, 1918, THREE DOLLARS (83) per Share.
Dividend Warrants may be obtained on Application at the Company's Office on and after the 23rd September, 1918.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 18th to 23rd instant, both days inclusive.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods will be examined on the 24th September st are to be left in the Clodowns, where they 10 A by the Company a Surveyors, Maasra Goddard & Douglas.
No Insurance whatsoever affected.
bean
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
JAYA CHINA-JAPAN LLÍN, Agrala. Hongkong, 19th September, 1918. 2437
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE FROM NECHÁPATAM EX SS "FAZILKA
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager! Hongkong, 12th September, 1919. (2410 HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL
THE
• BEGIVNERS" 'NEW CLASS. for
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company A will commence on MONDAY, 23rd leamship will be CLOSED from 27th September to September, 1918, if sufficient support be 5th October, 1918, both days inclusive.
By Order,
M. MANUK,
Secretury. Hongkong, 20th September, 1018. [2444
NOTICE.
MOW FUNG & CO, LIMITED. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
NOT Business heretofore carried on at 10,
Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong, by FREDERICK HOWELL and FREDERICK CHARLES Mow Feyo in co-partnership under the style of Mow Fura & Co. has been converted into a Private Limited Company, and will henceforth, and as from the 1st Septembar, 1918, be carried on as before and at the same kdress under the style of MOW FUNG & COMPANY, LIMITED.
merchants relating to goods or
Mow FUNG & Co. will be carried out by MOW FUNG & CO., LTD.
All debts due to and all liabilities of the Firm of Mow FUNG & Co, up to and including the 31st August, 1918 will be respectively collected "by and paid by the Said FREDERICK HOWELL and FREDERICK CHARLES MOW FUNG
The Company will be managed or con- trolled by a Board of Directors, the first HOWELL, FREDERICK Directors being FEEDERICK CHARLES MOW FUNO, and Sze TO YUEN.
By Order of the Directors,
CHOW U TING, Secretary. Hongkong, 18th September, 1911. [2418
for booming
Application for enrolment and enquiries regarding hours of School, Fees, etc., should he made to the undersigned as early as possibl
By Order,
A. B. LOWE, Acting Boaretary. Hnogkong, 19th September, 1918. [2428
WANTED AT THE PEAK. TURSE for child "yeir all. European
"preferred.
Ma, R. SUTHERLAND, 199, The Peak.
WANTED.
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FOREIGN NURSE to take charge A of two little Girls (age 4 and 2 years) in Felta ad wend references to
Peking.
MADAME SAINT PIERRE, Banque de l'Indo Chine, Peking
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HOUSES TO LET
TO LET
GODOWN. Central District.
Apply to~~-
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY Co., Lm."
(2261
TO LET.
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A
SHOP in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
AND
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. MATRICULATION,
SENIOR JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that these EXAMINATIONS will commence on MONDAY, December 8th, 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 cher place than Hongkong or Shanghai must apply to the Registrar un or before October 200, 1918.
Forms of entry and all particulare can be obtained on application to the REGISTRAR, The University, Hongkong.
The entry form duly filled in, must reach together with the fee (Ten the Regiongkong Currency), on or before Dollars, October 9th, 1018.
The Examinations will be conducted According to the Regulations for the Benior and Junior Local Examinations and for the Matriculation Examination 1018."
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. Hongkong, 14th September, 1018. [2419
KOWLOON MARINE LOT. No. 48 suitable for Coal Storage
Apply Do:-
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Ooh La Alexandrs Buildingé.
TO LET
HOUSES or Shameez, Canton.
A
Apply to-
2000
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY O, LAD.
WANTED.
N OFFICE in Centra Iccality. State
reat Beply to--
·Box. No. 2424, Care of "Daily Prena" Office.
“GREGORY APCAR” having arrived from the above Forts, Consignees
of Cargo by her are notified that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hasardens
and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong- kang and Kowloon Wharf and Godowe Co, Lid, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by 15th instant will be subject to rent.
All broken, hafed and damaged packages are
CHEAP PRICE.
S. WATSON
CO., LTD.,
CIGAR MERCHANTS,
TEL. 616.
to
Bulgarians can expect littls assistance and the Crown were unable to agree with from the Germans, and after their regard to the amount of security to be serious reverse on the Italian Front it is deposited before formal leave was granted, even less likely that Austrian divisions An agreement baving been reached, Wed- can be spared. It must be remembered,nesday's application to the Chief Justice
was of a formal nature. moreover, that we are fighting under very different conditions from those by which We we were confronted two years ago. are no longer, threatened by a treacherous "neutral" ruler in our rear; on the contrary, the Greck army is now co- This force operating with, the Allies. has been thoroughly reorganised, whilst, on the other hand, there are signs that the Bulgarians, grown weary of the war,
& have lost their former aggressive spirit.
DEATH. WALD-At the General Hospital, Shang- hai, on September 14th, FRANCIS
・WARD.
of the Electricity 6.M.C., aged 37 years.
Dept.,
OPIUM CASES.
$9,000 FINE.
At the Hongkong Magistracy, yester- day, before Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, a Chinesa was charged with being in unlawful possession of 83 tuels of opium. "
Mr. Leo d'Almada appeared for the
defendant.
Defendant was arrested on board the Kang How with the opium concealed in two boxes, and when charged at the Police Station, diselaimed ownership.
While deprecating,, therefore, any ex- aggerated hopes regarding the speed with which it may be possible to restore Serbia once again to its people, there is a practi: cal possibility that at no very distant date the Allies may be in a position to eut the railway line which provides the only effective means of communication, between Berlin, Sofia and Constantinople. Thus severed from Germany; Balgaria and Turkey's participation in the war would soon cease and the KAISER's dreams of domination in the East would manufacture of opium. shattered.
Mr. Wolfe aned defendant 20,000, with the alternative of nine" months' hard labour.
A message has been received from H.E. the Governor stating that according to a
OPIUM MACHINERY IN COURT.
A Chinese and his wife were charged belere Mr. J. R. Wood with being in unlawful" possession of 31 taels of opium the and a quantity of machinery for
Mr. F. X. d'Almada appeared for the defendants and contended that the woman should be discharged.
Sergeant Wills stated that he visited a house in On Ming Terrace and found the
Boxoxoxo Orsica: 104, Das Vœux Road, Ci LONDON OBRION: 181, FLAT 8:2332, E.C.cable at Kobe the condition of Miss Dione opium and the machinery concealed under. At Yokohama, how-neath a bed. The woman was lying on
The Baily Press.
HONGKONG 21ST SEPTEMBER, 1918
THE RENEWAL OF ACTIVITY IN THE BALKANS
two
Sears of weary waiting,
to be left in the Godowns, where they will be AFTER examined by Manera. Goddard and Douglas on during the whole of which time a large 14th instant, af 10 M.
.
Claims against the Steamer must be presented a writing within 10 days after arrival of army has been immobilised at Salonika, Steamer, otherwise they will not be recognised. "the Allies have commenced another offen- No Fire Insurance will be effected by the give movement in the Balkans. They are andarsigned in any case whatever
fighting in a roadless and mountainous Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DAVID BASSOON & Co., LTD..
country against positions which the Agents.
enemy have been able to strengthen at Hongkong, 18th Septimber, 1918 (24
their leisure, and, although after a long and gallant resistance Serbia was finally over-run with almost dramatic sudden- ness, it must not be expected that the
G.
NOTICE.
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiatic or Indian A desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of 9A.M. to IP.. and 2 P.M. to 4 г.. daily.
Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papers.
•
are required to Register themselves unrler
REGISTRATION of the ORDINANCE 1916.
Forms of Registration giving the parti culars required may be obtained at the G.P.O. and at all Police Stations.
The Penalty for non compliance is a fine
not exceeding $50.
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May was critical. ever, our readers will be pleased to learn, the bed at the time, and witness asked a cable came to hand announcing that where her husband was. She replied that
All
he was in another room, and witness then there was a slight improvement. residents in the Colony will join with us arrested them both. At the Police Station in the hope that this progress towards recovery may continue.
One case (one death) of diphtheria was reported in the Colony on Thursday,
We are informed that Lt. Commander Gaimes, until recently on this station, has been awarded the D.9.0.
An extraordinary general meeting of the Indo-China 8. N. Co., Ltd., will be held in the offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on October 8th:
On account of the weather, the C.R.C. "At Home" and the tennis league matches between the Champions and "The Rest" in Divisions A., B., and C,
conquered territory will be cleared of the fixed for this afternoon, are postponed invader without great difficulty. Pro to some other date which will be notified
later. gross must of necessity be slow, and it is. well to bear this in mind when reading aommuniquée giving details of brilliant victorics, for these are apt to raise hopes of such a nature that disappointment
TYPHOON WARNING.
The following telegram has been
Observatory:-
Bp., September 19th. Cyclone or typhoon west of the Ladrong Or or Mariana Islands, moving W. W.N.W.
** A: SPORT."
All persons with certain exceptions who follows. It should be sufficient satisfac-received by the American Consulate remain in the Colony for more than 7 days tion to us, for the present, to know that tieneral, Hongkong, from the Manila
PERSONS on a front of great strategic importance, the preparations, which have been quietly but assiduously carried out by the Allies for many months, now show signs of bearing fruit. It is futile to enter into a discussion of the old problem of whether the war will eventually be won in the east or the west. The Allies in the Balkans are attacking on-a line of approximately twenty miles, and, so far, have met, with complete success. centre of operations is regarded as the most important part of the Macedonian front. Strong Bulgarian positions, be tween four and five thousand feet above sea-level, have been carried, and 4,000 prisoners and considerable booty in the shape of guns and other material have FLOWER
been captured. This in itself, of course,
Well, then, sir" said the Tommy, GARDEN FERTILIZER, is a gain of considerable value, but, view-
ing the campaign as a whole, its influence earnestly, "I'll tone you fourteen days P. O. Eox 8.
is infinitesimal. The most encouraging or nothing!"
GRACA & CO.. No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, HONGKONG, Dealers in POSTAGE STAMPS, SEEDS. VIEW POST-CARDS, TOYS,
&c.
Just Received
AND VEGETABLE.
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the man admitted that the things were his Witness, however, had no alternative but to arrest both persons at the time; if ba had only arrested the man and left the woman done, she would have disappeared and the man might then have denied. possession of the opium.
Mr. d'Almada: I do not see how the woman could have been brought before. your Worship when, according to the Police evidence, the busband admitted possession. You cannot convict the wife. 1 I put the husband in the witness-box I" cannot put the wife. The statement made by a husband against a wife or vice perna cannot be offered as evidence. "That was the object of Sergeant Wills in bringing them both together.
The statements of the defendants were Á read by the Magistrate, who remarked that the woman also claimed possession of the opium. He decided to take the case against the husband first.
Bergeant Wills: The opium was not found in his room.
"ME ̈d'Almada: It was found in the cubicle underneath the bed on which the wife was lying. The bed belonged to the husband, and he rents the cubicle. I have consulted my client and be pleads guilty to possession. "The boxes really belong to a friend of his, who is in Annam at the present moment. My client did not know that they contained opium or that the "My man," said the CO. to the recruit, machinery was used for its manufacture Mr. Wolfe then examined the machinery "You are a thorough bad egg, a rotter. To call the sergeant a donkey-you which was displayed on a table and re- Seven marked: We are raising a museum The recruit! I must punish you.
And," continued the C.O., here" days C.B.
Finally the man was fined $1,600 and softening a little, "be an in future. Play the game. You're in the army now the woman was discharged. The opium and machinery were ordered to be con- be a sport like I am.”
"Are you a sport?" questioned the fiscated.
Mr. d'Almada made
an unsuccessful Tommy, apparently amazed.
"Yes, I am," replied the C.O., waxing appeal for the return of the machinery,
the Magistrate remarking that, as delend." indignant.
ant was not an opium-smoker and stated that the machinery belonged to a friend, defendant had no use for it
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