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CURRIMÉHOY & CO., LTD.
DIN FOOJUB HASSUM is in charge
URING my beance from the Colony
this Office.
R. AVASIA
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AMERICAN RED CROSS ANNUAL
MEETING.
THE ANNUAL - MESTING of the * HONGKONG CHAPTER of the PERICAN RED CROSS will be held at "HoNoLose Horn at 3 r.M. WEDNES AY, OCTOBER ID.
Mi thin Mesung Bys-Lawx will be adopted » new Executive Committee will be
S. E. HODGE Becretary.
"Hongkong, October fìth, 1813.
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GYMKHANA CLUB SWBEF·
0.3
**OUR DAY DERBY"
to be on OCTOBER 24TH.
of the total amount will be given, 25ithout deduction for expenses to the "OUR DAY RED CROSS FUND,' and, the remainder will be divided ar follows:-
70% to the winner.
20% to the second. 10% to the third.
The drawing will take place at the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB Rooms (Chater Bond) at 5.30 FM on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23RD. Subscribers are invited to be present.
The naine of the Drawers of ponies and particular of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes ill be published in the morning papers of October 24th
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, NATURDAY, OCTOBER 19TH, 191.
THE TALE OF
HONGKONG.
WISEMAN'S DINNER
AND
WISEMAN'S
NEW ORCHESTRA
EVERY EVENING
AZ 7.30
INTIMATIONS
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the Company's Officos si Noor TO-DAY (SATURDAY, OULOBER 191, 1918,
The TRANSFER BOUKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 5th to the 19th of October, both days inclusive,
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co. General Managua Hongkong, September 29th, 1918, [2469-
HONGKONG - TRAMWAY 'COMPANY, LIMITED
(Incorporated in the United Kingdom). LOST.
TRANSFER RECEIPT Nod. 250 issued to ME CHIP HONG PING for Transfer of 250 shares of this Company into his name having been MISLADD LOST OR DESTROYED, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
thas maless the id Receipt is produced at this Office within 30 days from the date hereof, the Certificate for the mid Shares will be delivered to the mid Ma CHIU HONG PING, sad the Transfer Receipt will thereafter be held by the Company as null and void.
By Order of the Board
..
W. E. ROBERTË,
Hongkong, October 1st, 1918
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PUBLIO AUCTION, THE Undersigned have received instrne- tions from Massa. F. W. SMITH¡& Co. CHEFOO, to sell by Public Auction, TO-DAY (SATURDAY),
OCTOBER 19TH, 1918, commencing at 11 AM and ontinuing at 1:20 PM, *t_their Sales Rooms, No. 8. Des Voeur Road, corner of Ice House Street,
A LABOR AND VALUABLE CONSIGNMENT. OF TABLE LINEN, DRAWN THREAD. WORK, LADIES: UNDERWEAR,
ka, kc,
These articles are of exceptional value," equal to the best convent work, being made of high-class material with exquisite modern signs in Bichelien can work and drawn thread embroideries,
Comprising
Double Bedspread of heavy Irish linen with Richelieu style medallions, a large variety of beautifully embroidered Irish Hinem Tes Cloths and Tas Serriottes, Tes Cloths and Serviettes of the Mosaic work, only produced by quality Ladies
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Subscription List will be Opened on OCTOBER 20th, 1918, and Closed on November 20th, 1918. Further particulars on application to the
latest paterns, also a fine assortment of BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE, DE CHINE;
Petticoat Flounces, hand embroidered; fine voile and lawn Blouses, Collars, etc.
Also
A quantity of bent quality Shanles Silk
(heary pongee),~,
Coloured Crepe de Chine for dresses,
A quantity of superior quality Longcloth
In 15 yra, lengths.
B, CHATER ROAD,
M. ROUET DE JOURNEL, Manager. Hongkong, October 16th, 1918.
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Subscriptions to Lady May's “Bono. Fund should be addressed to Governmens House. The Fund will be open for a few days more, and it hoped that those wish- ing to subscribe will do so at once. Each subscriber will receive a special rose,” “
**The Stunts," organised by Mr. P. A. Rosario, will appear in farce and musical medlay at the Victoria Theatre on Tues- The proceeds of the
standing disgrace to the Colony should both be pulled down and replaced by something more worthy of Hongkong either on a site at Kennedy Town, which could be made easily accessible for stratcher cases by motor-ambalance, or on the site that will be available when Morrison Hill is out down to provide the Alling for the long-delayed Fraya East reclamation scheme. As we pointed day, October 22nd. out a couple of years ago, the Govern-entertainment will be given to "Our Day"* ment Civil Hospital is situated in a Fund. Booking is low-lying, squalid, and insalubrious Ca
at the Anderson Musia" quarter of the city, and the land could probably be sold fer à sum that would go a long way towards defraying the cost of erecting an up-to-date hospital in a more suitable locality. We may mention, in passing that attention was drawn by the Hon. Mr. P... HOLYOK to the grievance which the European communi- ty feel at the exclusion of maternity, cases from the Victoria Hospital on Barker Road, which was erected partly by publis Lieut. R. A. Edwards, West Yorkshire subscription, and he warned the Govern- Regiment, who was wounded on July 14th ́ment that, unless they took steps to see in a successful áttack, and died in a field that the institution was restored to the ambulance the same day, was the young- purpose for which it was intended, he est son of Lieut. EH. Edwards, would move the appointment of a Com-RA.M.C., and the late Mrs. S. Florence
General Sir Alfred Gascice, Q.C.B., G.C.I.E., of Grove End, Guildford, who was in command of the British Expedi tionary Force in China in 1900, and who died on March 29th, aged 73, bàn left. estate of the gross value of £12,tit, in- cluding personalty of the net value of £7,768
will keep you in remembrance all mittee to inquire into the question. By Edwards, of Rochdale; and formeris of
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
No. B. 875.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED
that
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21, PRAYA EAST, HONGKONG.
LL DEPARTMENTS of the above are
now OPEN after extensive repairs. Reading and Writing Rooms, Billiard Boom (two tables), Restaurant, Concert Hall and Meating Room.
Sleeping Accommodation-33 Cabins and 70 Beds in Dormitories.
All men of the Mercantile Marize, HM. Navy and Army are welcome to use the Institute.
Manageress-Mas ALLEN. [1539
WANTED.
SEALED TENDERS, in duplicate, WANTED youth JUNTOR which should be clearly marked TENDER FOR MEDICAL DEPARTMENT CONTRACT will be received at the
Colonial Secretary's Ofles until Noon of THURSDAY, OCTOBER 318 1918, for the of Aarated Waters; Bedding and
Clothing: Beers, Spirits, Wines, etc.; Spirit
Wine: ments unicala, Drugs, Surgical Instru
Furniture, etc; Mil
eta; Provisions; Sundries; and Washing
Schedules No. 1 to 10) required locally by this Department for the period of one year from the First of January next inclusive.
Application should be made to the Colonial Secretary's Office for the necessary forms of tend All other information may
obtained from the
Oficer
at the Civil Hospital Civil Modical
CALCEMI. TRON JOHNSON,
Principal Civil Medical Officer. Hongkong, October 15th, 1918.91
NOTICE.
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DEATHS. CLARE-Killed in action, in France, on
October 2nd, JASPEK CIARK. **[2352 HARI TAYLOR-Killed on the fight of August 10th, Captain HAROLD HARSH TAYLOR, Chinese Labour Corps, late of Shanghai, aged 41
Taiyuanfu, China.
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It is announced that Mr. G. P. Paton, mercial Attaché in Tokio, has gone, to assistant in the office of the British Com- Vladivostock to assist Sir Charles Eliot, High Commissioner in Siberia, and has been au counded by Mr. B. D. Butler. Tho latter's place as assistant in the British Consulate-General in Yokobama is taken by Mr. H. A. McCrae, recently attached to the British Embassy.
an oversight, no doubt, no reference was made to this in the Government's reply. When, however, complaint was "made of
A Chiness woman, aged 40′ years, at- s the failure of the Government to pro tempted to commit suicide on Thursday vide a wholesale poultry market, as sugovening by jumping into the harbour at gested by a Committee of the Sanitar Kennedy Road. A boatman immediately Board, in order to do away with the fabed her out and took her to the Police existing nuisance in Ko Shing Street and
Station Thence she was removed to the Li Shing Street, HE TER Orvices Government Civil Hospital and subsc- ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT prompt quently to the 'Lunatic Asylum, as sho ly answered: "If you want a poultry is believed to be insane. market, you can have it at once." He also expressed the hope that some arrangement might be reached whereby the same code of storm signals would be employed by the Hongkong Observatory and the Meteorological authorities in China, as urged by the Hon. Mr. D. LANDALE on behalf of the shipping com munity. Another important admission made by the OFFICER ADMINISTERING Tr GOVERNMENT Was that he was particu larly struck by the suggestion that the estimates for the Public Works Depart-firm of Messrs. F. X, "d'Almada & Mason, ment should be submitted to the Public solicitors, of Hongkong, has been award Works Committee enlarged so as to com-ed the Military Cross. Lieut. Mason, prise all the unofficial members of the Council-for consideration before being presented to the Council To the Chinese Members the assurance was given that the Confucian and Tung Wah Schools would be brought under the Grant-in-Aid scheme, and that the Government would Consider the question not only of improv- ing Vernacular schools but also of making them free or reducing the fees to a merely
Lieut. C. Farebrother Mason, of the
who was formerly Chief Inspector in the Police Reserve, is serving in France with the Machine Gun Corps. The news of the distinction which he has won will be warmly welcomed by his old colleagues and by his many friends.
A stabbing affray took place on Thurs day afternoon on the first floor of No. 124, Third Street, West Point, a Chinese receiving three severe wounds-two on
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persons with certain exceptions whe the Colony for more than 7 days required to Register, themselves under
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or less definitely in agreement with the immediately removed to the Government, Unofficial Members. There were many
Civil Hospital, where his condition is other matters in regard to which the reported to be critical. The police have Government adopted
arrested the alleged assailant who was asympathetic atittude, such, for example, as the subsequently charged at the Police Court. encouragement of house-building, dere The case was remanded for a week. lopment of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, At an extraordinary general-meeting educational facilities for Europeans, October 10th, the following resolutions improvement of the barbour, provision of of the Singapore Cricket Club beld op revision ofalaries paid to Civil Ser were to have been put before the meet- ants, and administration of the Widowsing:(a) Any member who is or was on and Orphans' Fund. As it is impossible August 4th, 1914, & German, Austro- to discuss these within the limits of a Hungarian, Bulgarian," or Tarkish sub single article we shall reserve our com-ject shall cease to be a member of the
Clab and (b) No German, Antro Hungarian, Bulgarian, or Turkish sub- ject shall be eligible for election as a
One case of enteric fever was notified member of the Club. in the Colony on Thursday,
The drawing for the sweep on "Our Day
Derby will take place on the 23rd' instant
An auction, sale of especial interest to Ladies will be held by Messrs. Hughes & Hough this morning
At the suggestion of the American Minister in "Peking, says the Chinese Press, the Chinese Government has authorized the Inspector-General of Mari... time Customs to instruct Mr. Wade, Com- missioner in Shanghai, to issue 75 big balls of Indian opium, 25 catties of small- three pounds of cocaine and 30 pounds of packet opfùm, 390 pounds of red opinn," morphia, from the Custom's storehouse for confiscated goods, as a contribution to the American Red Cross Society, for the king of drugs for the use of the Ameri- can Army
THE BUDGET DISCUSSION. Tur Legislative Council meeting on Thursday was remarkable for the interest and variety of the topics discussed, Indeed, H.E. THE OFFICE ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT stated that the debate had traversed more points, and had been more satisfactory in every way, than any to which he had listened, on the secondments upon them for a subsequent issue. reading of the Supply Bill, during his six years' residence in the Colony. An equally striking feature was the atmos phere of toleration and goodwill that pervaded the proceedings. There was no lack of criticism but, instead of resenting this, as they have frequently done in the past, the Government welcomed it as an evidence of interest on the part of the anofficial members in the affairs of the Colony. I am glad to see that hon. members have asked for information on certain points" said His Excess "and have brought forward & number of most Interesting and most useful pro Posals, to which the Government, will
The annual meeting of the Hongkong undoubtedly give their best considers Chapter of the American Red Cross will tion." We can only hope that the result be held at the Hongkong Hotel on Wednes In H.M's. Supreme Court, Shanghai, on will be the early introduction of measures day, October 23rd at. 5 p.m.
October 11th, an application was made designed to secure some of the mors
for the admision of Mr. F. C. Jenkin A Chinese woman, aged 31 years, bas barrister-at-law, to practice before the urgently needed improvements sought been sent to the Government Civil Court Mr. H. P. Wilkinson, Crown As an earnest of his good intentions, Hospital, suffering from injuries to the Advocate, in making the application said H.E. ZER OFFICE ADMINISTERING THE bead as a result of being knocked down Goyescort declared that he was in entire sympathy with the demand for a suitable hospital for Europeans and if be could do anything in the matter he certainly would. This promise was made in murwer to a ples by the Hon. Mr. H. W. Bran that the Government Civil Hospital and the 7 Lonatio Asylum
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week and
5th October amounted to €1,575 tons and the sales to 44,858 tons.
by a motor-car in Praya East.
that the applicant was a barrister of Uray's Inn and was now practising in The death occurred of Captain B.
Hongkong His Honour, Judge Bie Nakano, master of the Uraga Maru, much pleasure in admitting Mr, Jenki
Havilland de Saumarez, said he had while his ship was entering Hongkong He had had the pleasure of hearing him harbour on Wednesday, The deceased in another place, and had no doubt he was 65 years of age. The cause of death would be illuminated by hearing his is not known.
addresses in that Court.