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ST. ANDREW'S FAIR SCOTTISH WOMEN'S STALL
TILL the Ladies who have
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Above Stall at the Fait, kindly send their gifts to the following Convener on or before November 29th-
Mrs. Satberland... ...Peak District.
West Point
Mex. Milroy...
Mrs. Show
Mrs. Templeton Mesdames Black and
Urmiaton
East Point Quarry Bay": Central
Mrs. C. Forsyth... ...Kowloon »
All perishable goods should be sent direct to the Scottish Women's Stall at the Fair Ground early on the morning of November
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ICE PLANT FOR SALE ECOND-HAND belt-driven CO: Ice- making Plant in first-class condition, complete with Distilling Plant Capacity 8 Tons of Ice per day with Circulating Water at 85 Fah. Owners buying larger plant being unsold This plant is offered subject to b on receipt of acceptance. For price and detailed specification refer to
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BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE,
6, CHATER ROAD,
M. ROUET DE JOURNEL.
Manager. Hongkong, October 18th, 1918.
(3835-
'INTIMATIONS
HONGKONG POULTRY ASSOCIATION. AMEETING in connection with the above will be held in the "MUSIC ROOM of the CITY HALL at B.15 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER SOTH.
BUSINESS:
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To form a Poultry Association and to arrango to bold a Poultry Show-at an carly date.
N.B-All interested are invited to attend.. Hongkong, November 16th, 1818. [2677
SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL. will hold
TRER 3TH ANNUAL “AL FRESCO FETE"
in the Compound of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL,
ON SUNDAY,
DECEMBER STE, from 9 F.M. to 11.30. PM
TH
Admission"...
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$1
Each ticket of admission carries with it the right to a souvenir if presented at the Souvenir Stalls on the evening of the Fete only.
Tickets can be had from MasUES, KELLY
4% FRENCH GOVERNMENT & WALSH and Mesas. GRAÇA & Co.,
LOAN 1918.
Price of Issue Frs. 70:80 Bearing interest from OCTOBER 16th, 1918, payable quarterly-" Free of Taxes. Not to be relcemed for 25 years. Subscription list will he closed- on November 20th, 1918. Bills and Bonds of the "National Defence"
before bought... October 29th, are accepted in "payment. Applications will be received by:
1h
THE BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE, TRENGE BANK)
Princes Building, Charter Road, where full particulars may be obtained:
A. SIRE. Acting, Manager..
(2067 Hongkong, October 19th, 1918.
An allowance of 20% will be made on all 4 ticke (dog tickets and charges for goods excepted) for such time as the Cars are running the shortened distance.
SEASON TICKETS.
These will be charged at usual rates. The allowance of 20% will be made ab the expiration of the period for which the ticset was issued.
PUNCH TICKETS.
Special punch tickets at reduced rates will be issued Old panch tickets may be held over until the Cars are running the full distance or, if returned to the Company's Ofice, pro rata refund will be made for the unused portion."
Every effort will be made to complete the work as soon as possible in order to minimise the inconvenience to residents of the Peak and Upper levels,
JOAN U. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, November lath, 1918, [2885
G.
B.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS and CONDITIONS & the lasting by Public Auction Bals, so be held on TUESDAY, the 26th day of November, 1918, at 3 P.M., st the Offices
TUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMEST. by Order of His SKOKLLINGY THE OFFICES ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT, of Two Lots of OROWN LAND st Hang Hom in the Colony of Hongkong, form of 15 years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN LENT so be tzed by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY Tas King, for one furlar term of 75 years..
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT,
Losably.
Boundary
Asemrements,
прекос
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bet
dat per salapina, $90,000 (24) 25,124
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12888
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,
SCIENTIST, HONGKONG.
announces a free lecture on
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
BLISS KNAPP,- C.S.B.
at the
THEATER ROYAL,
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH,
1918, at 5.30 PM.
FRENCH GOVERNMEN
LOAN 1918.
PRICE OF ISSUE FCS. 70.80.
Admission Free.
In the afternoon from 3 to 7 PAL Children's Stalls will be opened and Tea and Cakes will be herved.
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NEWITON COLLEGE,
STANMORE, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA Founded 1863.
Head Master, Rev. C. J. PRESCOTT, M.A.(0x01) Assisted by an Experienced Staff. ·
1. Classical Side, for the University and
the Professions.
9. Modern Side Commercial and Scien-
tifie.
3. Boarding School. Twenty acres of land, with Cricket Ovals, Gymnasium, Siming Bath, Carpenter's Shop,
Drill, ste
INTIMATION
SPEY
ROYAL
SCOTCH
WHISKY.
10 Years Old,
Mr. Ernest Crewdson, of Burton, Derby, chartered accountant, left. £300 to the China Inland Mission.
for all the supremacy of the seas. Britain has always been eager for the encounter, but her enemies shrank from the test, and now quietly
The monthly meeting of the Mothers' surrendering their ships not primarily Union at the Halona May Institute this because of the successful strategy afternoon at 5 o'clock will be conducted Marshal Foch in France and Belgium but as the result of the close watch main- tained by our battleships and battle- cruisers, with their attendant craft, in 50,000 Chinese coolies employed in trench the North Sea and the Mediterranean, digging, road making, and sanitation A greater victory than Trafalgar has work in connection with the present mili- been won, but because it has been won tary operations.
by Mrs. Kemp.
It is estimated that there are some
A shop-keeper of 28, Wing On Street his reported to the Police that butween 8.30 p.m. on the 15th instant and noon on the 16th, some person entered his shop and stole two $500 notes from his safe by means of ä duplicate key.
over a period of years and with com- Second Lieutenant Alexander Kenneth paratively little blood-shad, owing to the Mackenzie, Seaforth Highlanders, whu admitted superiority of our sea-forces, was killed on September 18th," aged 90, it is possible that the names of JELLICOR was a nephew of the late Dr. J. Kenneth and BEATTY will not rasound through Mackensie, who founded the Government history as the name of NELSON has done. Medical School at Tientsin. This is no reason, however, why wo, who have the facts before us, should fail in our appreciation of those who, by their untiring vigilance, their daring, enter- prise, and initiative have upbeld all the glorious traditions of sea-power which are the proud bosat of our race A fow
Lieut.-Commander V. J. Bowden-Smith, weeks after the outbreak of war the Admiralty reported that the seven-sea who was recently killed on service in the were clear of enemy shipping. Then the North Sea, was in China in 1908-10, as a junior lieutenant on the river gunboat blockade began, and, once the hamper Kisha. He was also for a time torpedo ing restrictions of the unratified Declara-ligutenant of the Euryalas when that Saudaration of London were removed, it was
vessel was in the Eastern Mediterranean. maintained with increasing severity. The Allies do not know 'fully yet the Mr. F. E. Taylor, so well-known as the influence which this has had upon mili-Statistical Secretary and Senior Commis. sioner in the Customs Service, arrived in tary events, on "land or the extent to Hongkong from Shanghai by the d'inliang which it has been responsible for the en route for Tasmania. Mr. Taylor re revolt of the masses in Germany against tired from the Customs at the close of October after more than 41 years spect their military oppressors, but obviously in China, and more than 43 actually in it has been a very powerful factor. her service. Indeed, in the opinion of "Admiral SIM of the United States Fleet "Ger. many's defeat was largely accomplished by the British Navy." A few Ger
warshipe which escaped from Tsingtas met and sank of Coronel the gallant little squadron commanded by Admiral CRADDOCK, only one gmail British cruiser escaping. It is possible that the British Commander might have saved his ships bad he decided upon flight but in spite of great inferiority. In speed and gon-power, he preferred to bance, such as the rattling of window panes, the sudden movement of suspended The success of lamps, etci, were quite plain bat in mest engage the enemy." the enemy, complete though it was; parts they passed annoticed. There is no information to hand regarding the brought but little respite todamage done in Swatow but it is supposed them and Admiral VOS SPEE, dur ing the rejoicings of his compatriots in Chile, expressed the conviction November 9th of Mr. J. E. de C. Davy, that he would never again see the of the Tientsin staff of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, to Mr. Fatherland. Even as he spoke, British Harry Stewart (nie Forbes). The civil cruisers were steaming rapidly towards ceremony was performed at the British Consulate General, Tientsin, and the religious ceremony immediately after- Core-Accidentally killed while dying at few days later the battle off the Falkland wards at All Saints' Church, the Rev. Mr. W. M. 8. G. Teakle officiating. Balisbury Plain, on September 7th, Islands swept the German war-ships Weston carried out the duties of "best Captain GORDON COPE, BA.., former..
SOLE AGENTS:
Three Wigram Allen and Schofield A. S. WATSON
Scholarships and
Scholarships.
Four Open
Every attention given to the welfare
and, comfort of Boarders.
Prospectus on application to Messrs.
DAVID FELL & Co, Accountants for the Trustees-350, George Street, Sydney..
References permitted to the Hon. the Minister for Education-Sydney."
FLANT FOR SALE
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NET INTEREST PRODUCED 5.65%. A COMPLETE AERATED WATER BUNNING FROM OCTOBER 16TH,
· 1918..
SUBSCRIPTION LIST CLOSING NOVEMBER 20тz, 1918. SPECIAL FACILITIES FOR FRENCH EXCHANGE, ADVANCES GRANTED AGAINST SURIP.
FULL PARTICULARS ON APPLI- CATION TO THE-
RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK, R. A. RODGERS, :Manager. Hougkon, October 28th, 1918.
12508
SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE,
21, PRAYA FAST, HONGKONG.
LL DEPARTMENTS of the above are.
A now OFEN after extensive repairs
Reading and Writing Rooms, Billiard Boom (two tables), Restaurant, Concert Hall and Meeting Room.
Sleeping Accommodation-33 Cabins and
70 Beda in Dormitories.
All men of the Mercantile Marine, E. Yavy and Army are welcome to use the
Institute
G.
MANAGERESS. ---
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MACHINES are made by Messrs Bratby & Hinchlife, Ltd., Manchester, and guaranteed in perfect working order. This complete plaat will turn out 2,400 dozen Aerated water per day, purchasers to take over about 6,000 dozen bottles at cost price."
Apply by letter-
AERATED WATER PLANT,” Care of Hongkong Daily Prosa,
Care of General Post Office,
Rox No. 320.
or 1
TO LET
'TO LET.
From January 1st, 1918
(98
DESIRABLE &-ROOM RESIDENCE,
4Broadwood Road.
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GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON & Co.
Chater Road..
(2670
GROUND TOLET.
ABAX ner to our Glass. Factory, T WHITFIELD ROAD, CAUSEWAY consisting of 16,000 Square feet, suitable for storing Coal, de. From January 1st, 1918.
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KWONG SANG HONG ID. $48, Des Vaux Road Central.
WAR DEPARTMY CONTRACTS. A Kowloon
EALED TENDERS will be received at the Headquarters Victoria Barracks autil 12 o'clock Noox on TUESDAY
of NOVEMBER 26ra, 1918, for the supply FORAGE for the period January 1st, 1918, to March 21st, 1910.
Forms of Tender and other particulars may be obtained from the office of the O.C, A.8.C at the Eeadquarters Offices
Hongkong, November 17th, 1916 (2073
HEATHER DAY.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN.
WANTED: Elephants, Lions, Tigers for the "Zoo"; also Geese, Turkeys, Poultry, Figeons, Duck, Rabbits, Dogs, Cata, eta, the latter to be sold. Com municate with
AK TAYLOR,
4, Government Quarters,
Park Boad
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ZUUNG .“ CAPABLE NURSE for Child of 4 years-Apply Box 84,
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$9000
12610
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MARRIAGE.
WOOLLEN-RICHES.-At Ipswich, on Sept. 21st, Captain J. J. WOOLLEN, General List, to MINNIE FLORENCE, widow of HANEY GABKIN RICHES, of Tientsin.
DEATHS.
man
the east coast of South America and
The wedding was solemnized at St. George's Church, Penang, on November 4th, of Frank Bryce Rickett, of the Hong- kong Bank, and Audry Drake Laing, younger daughter of W. D. Laing, Super intendent of the Eastern Telegraph Co. The Rev. Keppel Garnier officiated and the bride was given away by her father. The bestman was Mr. G. B. Fitzgerald.
A severe earthquake shock was expori- enced in Swatow yesterday morning at 11.27 and two minutes later tremors were felt in Hongkong, These, according to information supplied to us from the Observatory,
for three seconda.. In some places the indications of the distur
to be serious.
The
marriage
solemnized
сп
ly of the staff of Mesars Lane, Craw- from the open sea. These two engageman," and the bride's little daughter was
bridesmaid. ford & Co., only son of Mr. and Mrs. ments were the only ones fought away.
There
WAS
numerou
W. C. Cope, of Carson House, Finch-from the protection of the German forts gathering of friends at the Church.
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ley, aged 27 years. GRUNDY. A No. 30, Route Pichon, and mine-fields during the whole four
Shanghai,
November
12th, years and a half. In the battle of Jat REGINALD GRUNDY, aged 55 years. Hr-At Camberley, on September 21st, and the enemy scuttled back to the HENRY J. HUNT, formerly of Yoko shelter of their coast defences when they hama, in his 8lat year.
saw the British battleships approaching, and there, except for isolated raids on
Mr. A. Garibaldi, who was at one time connected with the building of tho Chinese Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, and Mrs. Garibaldi arrived in the Colony on Saturday. Mrs. Gari- baldi, who is a sister of Mr. U. C. Galuzzi, the Vice-Consul for Italy, is making a short stay in Hongkong, but
Hongkong Orvica: 104, Das Vœux Road, C. LONDON OFFICm: 181, Fran Stam, EO| English watering places, they were forced Mr. Garibaldi, who, by the way, is a
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 19TH, 1918.
**THE EMPIRE'S SURE
SHIELD."
war.
man-Chinees Trade League, of Berlin and Hamburg, which advertises that business men who desire to learn the colloquial commercial language of North China can now receive free lessons at the Oriental Seminary at the University of Berlin
Igrandson of the great liberator, is going to remain. The blocking of. Zeebrugge on to Peking, and thence to Vladivo and Ostend were brilliant exploits which stock. Both Mr. and Mrs. Garibaldi sre well-known in Hongkong Mr. Gari- continuous service in the I will live for ever in the annals of the baldi saw British Navy. They serve to show what present campaign and won the Military might have been done had the sincerely Medal. desired, opportunities beta vouchsafed,
It will be recalled that in connection bat, for the most part the Navy had to with the recent Anglo-German prisoner the Hague, Germany negotiations at watch and wait-perhaps the most trying demanded that German civilinas at large task of all. The submarines upon which in China should not be deported. The object (remarks the L. and C. Express) WHILE absorbed by the spectacle of the the enemy relied in their extremity were
is to keep alive the German commercial complete breakdown of Germany's great fought, by both the Navy and the Mer-organisation in China for trade after the
That
Germany intends to exploit military machine on the Western Front cantile Marine, with a tenacity of pur- the Chinese market on an intensified scale we are apt, perhaps, to forget the part puse and resourcefulness of which we can may be judged by the action of the Ger played by the British Navy and the form only a poor conception, and were Allied Fleets in bringing about the gradually being overcome. It is true debacle. H.E. THE OFFICER ADMINISTER they did an immense amount of damage, ING THE GOVERNMENT remarked at the but who could doubt that, if the post recent meeting of the Legislative Council tions of the belligerents had been reversed
Mr. Horses Hickling, who passed away that "a loss of five thousand combatants and Britain had chosen to adopt this at Woking, on September 18th, chate to out of twenty-two millions guarded in inhuman form of warfare, the sinister China in the capacity of a tea-taster in
He joined the firm their passage across the seas" summed weapon in the hands of the men of our 1805, after acquiring his experience, in
Mincing Lane
which up, better than any elaborate phrases Navy would have meant victory? Ger. Messrs Rusden, Phipps, & Hickling Apply to:--
could do, the achievements of our Navy many's nava' power has been broken as eventually became
Co., of Foochow He carried with him to HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE | The statement sums up adequately; and completely as her military power, and, China an Englishman's love of sport. devoting much of his spare time to in the precise and business-like language although there is no need to attempt to cricket, boating, racquets, and the un of the Navy, one part of the work that apportion the credit as between the Army ing of China ponies. He won many cups and Scylla, Grassgkong, where was successfully accomplished, but it and Navy, the record of the acnior ser- with his
both in Foochow and makes no reference to the many other vice deserves to be written in letters of On toturning, equally important duties which our gold. Eefore the opening of the war, after 15 years in China, to England, bis love of horseflesh induced him to become one of the Foochow Phipps, who made trio of whips, with sailors were called upon to perform an expert reminds us, it was almost an
and under conditions which would have axiom that fleets representing different G. P. Galton
his brother, Arthur, be been regarded a few years ago as rendor-nationalities and different methods of four-in-hand driving & pastime With ing their task impossible. We shall, training could not co-operate at sca. In firm of Horace Hickling & Co., in 1880. igure in Mincing Lane, and, at the time indeed, bo doing our Navy scant justics this war, however, no fewer than eight Since that time he has been a prominent if we imagine that it has simply pro- navies have been acting in concert of his death, he was chairman of the China Tea Importers Committee. He passed away quite peacefully, in his sleep, being NÄLESEND, 108, THE PEAK, Six Boome vided an efficient escort for the troops against a common foe Britain was GGrass Tenuis Grurt, immediats on their way to the battlefield. Behind admittedly in the forefront, and while active in his garden up to the day before. possesion
all the Allied armies stood the ships naturally our pride in the achievements He was buried at Brookwood Cemetery. His wife pro assembled at the grave.
His family con and the sailors rendering. casential of our own sailors fads Gret expresion when a large number of his City Iriends
There has been no great we would not withhold a tribute to our deceased him in 1914.
Laisted of eight children-four sons and. support.
Four daughters. naval fight to Establish once and Allies for their valuable co-operation.
Oo, Lath Alexandrs Rulidings.
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A HOUSE in Wongneichong Road."
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