&
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY OF
HONGKONG.
THE following telegram has just been
Ten the Mayur of Lover
President St. George's Sxiety, Hongkong. “Erecting memorial contemerating "gkrivas work Admiral Sir Roger Keye and Dover Patrol. May 1 mld Hongkong Sakety to list of subscribers 7
PAELEY, Mayor, Dover."|
Britans who may wish to participate are invited to sored in their subscriptions to the AND Hon. Treasurer of the Society-Ma. P. 8. CASSIDY, care of THE BONGKONG SHANGHAI BANKING CORVATION RE MARTI as prasible. List will be elysed on February an nekwladgment sent to 28th, 20 Subscribers in due course.
A. WELLS,
Hun. Secretary.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
Between
ACTION NO. 30 or 1919 THE YUEN WO
And
Plaintiff
THE TUNG SIING, Defendante CHEUNG MAN BING
of the dui Kat Bank of
No. 19, Queen's Road Content, Victoria, ling
kung-
Garnishee.
NOTIOR SHERRY GIVEN that
a WRIT OF FOREIGN ATTACH. MENT was issued herein on the rat, day of February, 1918, returnable on the 5th day of March, 1919.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
21ST, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
1919.
INTIMATIONS
INTIMATION
have
of
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
RACE MEETING 1919.
MONDAY,
TUESDAY,
WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY (OFF-DAY), FEBRUARY 24TH, 26TH, 26ru and MARCH 167.
of ADMISSION to the GRAND TICKEN ADESS) in obtained from Mosers. RELLY & WALA, Limited, or at the late. Price $10 for tho Meeting (excluding the Off-day, 83)
No one adwitted without a Tickel, to be shown to the Ticket Inspector al the inte.
T. F. HOUGH, Clark of the Coursa. [347 Hongkong, February 19th 1919,
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB
DASSES for Servants will be issued on SATURDAY, the 22 February
No Servants will be allowed inside the ENCLOSURF of the Race Course during the Race Days WITHOUT TICKETS, which can be bad on application to the adersigned. These Tickets are only available for Hervant while in attendance on their employers or when on duty at the various Stands.
Any Chinese found loitering about with Survants' passus in their pussession will for- feit them, and the holdors thorof will be removed from the Enclosure.
T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Course, Hongkong, February 18, 1919.
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HACE HOLIDAYS.
will THE EXCHANGE BANKS
transaction CLOSED for the
WEDNESDAY, and TUESDAY EXCHANGE BUSINESS on MONDAY, 26TH nt FEBRUARY 24TH, 26TH and 11.45 A..
of
Hongkong, February 19th, 19183.
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1368
HONGKONG HOTEL.
WANTED.
Dated the inth day of February, 1919.
LO & LU, Solicitora for the Plaintiffs
ARCHITECT
WANTED IN SHANGHAI A FULLY
CRAFTPED
ARCHITECTS BE ABLE TO TAKE REPLIES PRACTICE CHARGE GIVING FULL PARTICULARS OF WITH TERMS EXPERIENCK, SPECIMENS OF WORK, IF POSSIBLE, TO BE FORWARDED TO
1 E. STEWARDSON, A.RL.B.A, ARCHITECT
22, YUEN MING YUEN ROAD, SHANGHAI, CHINA.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
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8.8. COLOMBIA" VOY 9-OUT FROM SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS AND SHANGHAI.
RACE WEEK. DINNER DANCES
will be held on TUESDAY, FERMUARY 25re.
AND
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH.
PECIAL Table d'Hate Monus will bo servod in the MAIN DINING ROOM at $2.50 per head and in the GRILL ROOM at $3.50 per bowl.
TABLE BOOKINGS AT HOTEL MAIN OFFICE
J. H. TAGGART, Manager.
(342 Hongkong, February 17th, 1819.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LTD. HAREHOLDERS ARE
HEREBY NOTIFIED that the DIVIDEND OR Account of the year 1818 of SIXTY CENTS (60 Cents) per Share is now Payable at the BANKING AND SHANGHAI CORPORATION, Hongkong, on Warrants to bo obtained at the Company's Offico, Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road, Contral, Hong- Hong.
THE above-mentioned vessel having arrived
above-mentioned por HONGKONG the from consignes of cargo are hereby informed that their Cargn will, be landed their riek into the Hissardous andfor extra Hasar dous Godowns the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, and stored at consignees' risk.
Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified thai they must produce an Import Permit, signed by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports Hongkong, before Bill of Lading can be countersigned.
All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on February 24th, 1919, at 10 A.M.
All Claime must be presented within a mouth of the Steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have of the Godowns and all Goods remaining andelivered after February 28th, 1919, wilt be cubject to rent.
No Firs Insurance whatever will be effected. Consignees are requested to send in their far of Lading BAL
counter-signature immediately. PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
Alexandr Buildings.
1300 Hongkong, February 2, 1918,
F
LOST, STOLEN OR STRAYED.
WOM "Crowenast" No. 162, the Peak, SEALYHAM TERRIER DOG rough haired, white with black markings; nged about one year. Last seen on Barker Road. A suitable roward will be given. Com- wunicate above address.
LOST.
BLACK SPANIEL PUPPY
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Asked about 1 month White Bitch on chest. A reward will be given on finder returning same.
D. J. LEWIS,
Lauristen
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A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER. AVOURED with instructions from
FAVOURE The Concerned,
will nell by Public Auction on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2167, 1918, at 2.80 V.M.,
at his Salve Room, Queen's Hond Contral, EXCELLENT HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-Chesterfield
Couch Atad
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers.
[338 Hongkong, February 17th, 1919.
SHANGHAI HONGKONG
BANKING CORPORATION.
AND
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Unt the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 22ND day of FEBRUARY, 1819 at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending the 31st December, 1918.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MON Tu SATURDAY, DAY, February 10th, February 22nd, 1919 (both daya incluafve) | during which period no Transfer of Shares
can be Bgistered,
By Order of the Court of Directors,
N. J. STABE,
Chief Manager. £295 Hongkong, February 4th, 1919. HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
GENERAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that au
EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of the above Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company Pedder Street,
in the Colony of Victoria Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 28 FEBRUARY, 1919, at Noon, when the sub-joined resolution, which was passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Com
AUCTIONS
TUBLIC AUCTIONS.
BY APPOINTMENT.
G.
R.
HUGHES AND HOUGH, SPARKLING
AUCTION RERS 3 THE GOVERNMENT AND
ADMIRALTY.
General Auctioneers,
Share, Coal and General. Produce Brokers
and
Commission Agents.
PROPRIETORS
"TO-KWA-WAN COAL"
STORAGE.
CODES USEU
A b
BENTLEYS
ath EDITIONN A Telegrapalo (oda Telegraphic Address *MEIRION."
Hongkong.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
{
The Undersigned have received instruc tion to sell by Public Auction,
(For Account of the Concerned), TO-DAY (FRIDAY), February 21st, 1919, at 1080 A.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 6, Des Voeux Rond, Corner of fen House Street, VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, CURIOS, ORNAMENTS, eto, atc... removed to salerooms for convenience of sale. Terms:--Cash.
MINERAL
WATER.
Pyeris
REPRODUCTION
AN
EXACT
OF A WELL-KNOWN SPA
AT
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
HALF THE
PRICE.
BLENDS
PERFECTLY
WITH
ESPECIALLY
WHISKY.
ON THURSDAY,
February 27th, 1918, at 9.3 P.M., at their Sales Rogans, No. 8, Des Yeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,
A LARGE QUANTITY OF
USEFUL HOUSEHOLD LINENS, DRAWN WORK, AND EMBROIDERIES,
Comprising
HOUSEHOLD LINENS Single and
SPIRITS.
Черня
The Dockyard
Club Are
Rverention send holding their fortnightly dance in the
in only resulted
grave
life. Now H proposes Lo delegates to Europe and, is ki, Royal Naval Theatre tomorrow evening Ali visitors to the Club's fubctions are cordially invit ed.
to entry on 14 persistent straggle comtesneing at 9.30 p.m for freedom. Korea owes her present) political status to her geographical posi- |tion und her incompetence, which made Members of the St. George's hiety of her the cockpit of the Far Ens! For a Hongkong nie invited to subseribs to the long time, both China and Japan regard memorial which is bean erected to con
ed the hermi, kingdom ♫
Vaseli
memorate the glorons work of Adn trad State, but by a treaty concludert with | Sir Hoger Keyes and the heroes of the Japan in 1870 the independent of Dover Pitral. the country was acknowledged, though Chinn, which assented to Korea's con- clusion of his and other treaties with foreigu Powers,
10 continued
claim
MUROTRIDT3 Later on, Russia sougly to
stablish
User protsedurade
Korea, which was so weak and so blind us i lend herself in intrigues, which Japan Eventually. regarded as a grava menace
tik
ils
Mr. Ralph, sporter of Schonis, returned yesterday. XHI the Cadromlaa from Vladivostock, where he actul as
British Red Cross Commissioner, util
Arrival of the
Brigadier General Sir Charles Powell from Hare
The death jonk place on Derender lat, at Belthoven, Holland, of Mr. 3 Roy
#L former president of the Jayasebe Hank Mr. Rysenbach went
in 1906, Japan took the country under setbach,
"protection" and enrried on great work of reforming the degenerate Netherlands India, first to the Neder- landsche Handel Maatsiz, subsequently administration with considerable success.
transferring to the Javascle Bank
Mr. E. Manico Glol), assistant editor
The Koreans, however, did not unke kind ly to the new regime, and it was officially preurted that down to the end of 1908] of the North China Daily Newa, who, for the Japanese army, gendarmaris and the past two years, has been of war ser- holic in Korea had killed off 14,000 vies with the Coolie Corps and at the insurgents, while nearly 9,000 others had Emigration Bureau in the north, has surrendered. Then, however, the Resid-| resigned his position to take up the post * organised | of Secretary to the British Chamber of eney General reported that
are to-day almost extinct, | Commerve in Shangbai. insurgents nothing remaining except bands of the highway robber class." Yet, two years later came the announcement like a bolt from the blue that the Japanese Govern- meat had decided, without waiting for the consent of the het, te anex the country for the reason, Aungst others, thin the existing system of government
The Commodore-in-Charge, R. N., and
the General Officer Commanding the Troups wish to mazey to the subscribers to the Services Entertainment Fund the grateful thanks of both Services for the many pleasant outings and other recren- tion which their generosity has enabled
in Korea has not proved entirely pal them to enjoy during the past four years,
mele dat
harts and and trangnolly, and, in additando, a Bank f India, Australia and China,
Double Plain and Hemstitched Sheets A. S. WATSON & suspicion or misgiving dominater who will act as Manager of the Hong-
Pillow Cases, Double White Satin Quilta, Linen Damask Serviettes, Olsss Cloths, Bath Towels, Face Towels, &c., &c. DRAWNWORK-Bedspreads, Pillow Cases,
Tray Cloths, &c., &c. EMBROIDERIES -- Bedspreads,
Table
Cover, Ten Cloths, Runners, 18 by 54 in.
A few lots of Attache Cases and Bellow Valises.
(All new goods and small Jote su muit purchasers). Termes:-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctione
ON THURSDAY, February 27th, 1918, commencing at 230 PM, at their Sales Roonis, No. 8, Desa Vaux Road, Corner of Ice House Stresi,
AND BLACKWOOD TEAKWOOD
FURNITURE, BRASS AND BRASS MOUNTED DOUBLE AND TWIN
CURTAINS, BEDSTEADS,
CARPETS. &c, de Comprising:-
Two Chesterfield Sofas and Arm-chairs
(new), Folding Ward and Occasional Tables, Une Upholstered Suite, Bxlroom Furniture comprising Teakwood Twin Bodsteads, large and small Wantrobes, Drossing Tables, Washstands, do (fumed Tenk wood), Side boards, Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, &c., Dinner Services, dc., Bath Room Utensils, Crockery, aud good Glass Ware, Cooking Stores, Cutlery, &c., Plated Ware. Electro-
Electric Reading Lamps, Black wood and Taakwood Screens, a quantity of Blackwood Furniture, including 1 Large Blackwood Screen Blue and white Panels, Side Tables, Chairs, Cabinets, Pictures, Severala Carpete new and second-hand.
Also Treadle Sewing Machine (nearly new) by Willcox & Gibbs with all accessories, Piano by Ernest Kaps, Dresden in very good con- Reliance" Typewriter dition had one (new),
(Full Particulars from Catalogue), Terms: Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneera.
On FRIDAY,
day of February 28th, 1919, at 11, at No. 2,
Humphreys Building, Kowloon,
pany held on the Eighth day of February
Special Besolution:-- 1818, will be submitted for confirmation as a
That the Articles of Association be altered in manner following, viz:-
"In Article 52, the word 'five' shall ba LU 'substituted for the word 'four ". The effect of this resolution will be to increase the maximum number of Directors from four to five.
Dated the Fourteenth day of February, 1019.
By Order of the Board,
J. H. TAGGART, Secretary and Manager. [334
HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
ORDINARY
YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will
THE SUNDRY VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
ko.
therein contained, including :- Large Chesterfield Sofa and Arm-chair (English make), a for pieces of Blackwood Furniture, oto.
Large Brass Bedstead, Wardrobes, Toilet Table, Washtand, &o, &
Electric Fittings and Sunblinds.
In view day of sale. Terms: -Coali
CO., LTD.,
the whole peninsula " In view of the kong branch when Mr. T. C. Downing fact that Japan already had a free hand goes on leave in April, and Mrs. Crockatt in Hongkong, yesterday, on and had apparently done so well, this arrived confession of failure occasioned consider able surprise. Upon this announcement ÆRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS, being made public, the "Korean National
TEL 430
BIRTH.
CLEMENTI-SMITH. At Clifton, on Decem bor 12th, to the wife of Major H. CLEMENTI-SMITH, RA.M.C., a daugh-
tor.
Association" of San Francisco declared
the Tanga Mara, from Australia, whither
COINUINGG
they had gone on a holiday from Saigon. St. Andrew's War Bond Drawing takes its intention of fighting for the independ-place at the City Hull at 5.30 p.m. to day. ence of the country. Shortly afterwards The numbers taken will be on oxbibition the Times' Special Correspondent who from 3.30 pm, from which hour the City visited Koren, came to the conclusion that Hall will be open to the public for the the majority of the educated classes felt purpose of examining their numbers. At very care about the loss of the indepe 1.4pm. the operation of transferring the ence "they had done so little to merit numbers to the mixing receptacle will or preserve," but there did not appear to be the slightest desire in any part of the country to raise a serious agitation, DEATHS.
It cannot be denied that Japan har ADAMSON.--At Highgate, N., on December proved her capacity for the task she has
12th, N JOUN ADAMSON, R.B.A.,
Bir William undertaken, for, under bes rule, great son of late fourth Adamson, C.M.G., and Dame Mar economic progress has been made. garet Adamson, aged 53 yeura.
arrested state u development under the few survivors of the P. & . linery NEY, At the Shanghai General Hospital,
on February 14th, Oscan Hugo Nry, the native administration is described Bokhara, which was lost in a typhoon in aged 6 years.
in the following passage from Mr. T. the Gulf of Pechili in October, 1892, aud, in recognition of this service, he was PIDELLO.-On the Mountain Grappa, Cowen's book on the Russo-Japanese war:
defending his country, on September
“Though the land has immense capabili presented with an inscribed gold watch 17th, 1918, SILVIO PIDELLO, aged 29, formerly in the employment of the Credit Foncier d'Extreme Orienttics, the Koreans do almost nothing with by the people of Hongkong. Shanghai.
it, for they may it is useless to acquire horticulturist, be discovered in the pro- vince of Fukien a foliage tree hitherto WALTERS-At the French Convent Hos wealth; the officials would rob then the unknown which was sent to Kew Gardena
pital, Hongkong, on February 20th, more, and it is easier to remain idle and named after him. KATHLEEN EILREN WALTERS, née Lysaught, aged 28.
Capt. A. E. Hodgins, of the s.s. Hacten, who has been in the service of the Douglas Steamship Co. for the past 34 years, has retired from the sea and left for Home, v Australia, yesterday. While in com- The mand of the Thales he picked up at sea
[366 than to acquire property and go to the trouble of stopping the robbery." Since
The Daily Press.
сод
A keen
The death occurred at his residence,
HONGKONG OPict: 10a, Dan Vœux Road, Ü. Lambon Unwich: 181, Fzam Star, B.C. those days peace and order have been No. 46, Range Road, Shanghai, on the established, the whole administrative 12th inst., of Capt. Eric Olsson Lind- good strom, at the age of 74 years. A native system has been reorganised, a
of Gofle, Sweden, be first arrived in educational system inaugurated. munications have been greatly extended banghai at the age of 22 years, o and improved, and industrial under. November 11th, 1844, since when he had takings encouraged in a very practical spent nearly all his time on the Yangteed. manner. Since 1906 foreign trade has trebled, and the products of the country
agricultural, mineral and
marine havo aubstantially increased. In these
Horotore, Feskuary 21st, 1919.
SELF-
KOREA AND
DETERMINATION.
Tus demand for self-determination grows
Mr. R. E. Belilios returned to the Colony yesterday, on the Colombia, from Shanghai.
River steamer service. He first served under the flag of the old firm of Russell & Co., and later joined the China Mer- chants' Steam Navigation Co. when they took over the shipping business of the
JAPANESE PLEAD IGNORANCE OF THE LAW.
A Japanese, of Queen's Road Central, was charged before Mr. R. E, Lindsell, at the Magistracy, yesterday, with being in possession of various poisons without
licence.
space. According to our Peking cofres. circumstances, whatever may be maid of former firm. He was in the service of the pondent, the members of the Korean Japan's action in seizing the country, the China Merchants' 6:N. Co. thenceforward Independence Committee in China have League of Independence will not find it until his retirement two years ago. Ha appealed, through the American Minis easy to convince the world that Korea was a Past Master of the Cosmopolitan tor, to President WILSON to bring the would benefit, for the present at all Lodge of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, question of bettering the condition of events, by being left to her own devices. "our voiceless nation, containing two million oppressed people" before the A similar European Peace Conference. petition has been lodged with the Japanceo Diet by the Korean Young Men's Longue for Independence in Tokyo. This Longuo is one of three secret revolutionary societies which were formed to secure the rehabilitation of Korea 4 savoreign State after Japan assumed protectorate over the Empire in 1905. GERMINAL CIGAR STONE,
Nathan Road, Kotin^Its birth-place was Tokyo and most of
1970 its members consisted of Korean students of the sidings in the Kowloon Railway residing in that city, but since then its yard yesterday afternoon, and the 3 p.m. At an Investiturs of the Order of the membership has spread all over Korea express was delayed ahout ten minutes. and in other parts of the world. It has fought consistently for national inte. Companions of Honour in the Ball
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
[281 Hongkong, February 10th, 1018
WANTED.
be held at the Company's Hotel, Hongkong, CHIEF OFFICER for "Basimas,"ae
Armchair, Blackwood Furniture, Brass and on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, 1919, at Iron Bedsteads, Tabion, Brussols Carpets and 13.15 r., for the purpose of receiving the Ruge, Brass Fenders, Overmantels, Bill Report of the Joard of Directors together linod Bofas, Easy Chairs Occasional Tablos, with a Statement of Accounts for the year Extension Dining Table, Beveiled Mirror ending 31st December, 1918. Wardrobes, Hat Stands, Dining Chairs,
Apply
The BEGISTER OF SHARES of the
STAMPS BOUGHT. Bilver Wars Cabinet, Teak Book case, Dinner Company will be OLOSED from PRIDAY,
All Sorts of Postage, Rovenue and Telegraph Crookery, Glassware, Ornaments, Pictures, February, 1st, to FRIDAY, February 28th Ourtain, Bed Sheets, Clocks Marble-top 1019, (bol days inclusive) during which Stamps purchased in large quantities. Washstands, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet parlod mo Transfer of Bharos Bets, Electric Reading Lamps, Cabinets, Registered. Bilobon and a long line of Gandriön.
Catalogues will be und
TaCash on Delivery.
Hongkong, Fabeundy 19, 1919.
1994
can be
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager. Hongkong, February 15th, 1919.
Carli por return mail.
II. ROSS-SHIELLS & CO.,
(Bankers: National Provincial
Union Bank of England). :
Two cases (one death) of cerebro-spinal fever were reported in the Colony on Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Bouttie returned to the Colony, yesterday, after a short holiday in Australia.
Three carriages ran off the lines on one
It was stated that the defondant at first sold Japanese patent medicines, and, later, opened a regular dispensary. of poison were seiz Beveral bottles ed by the Police, some of these contala. ing most viralent poisons as strychnico, incrgury, eta
The defondant ploaded ignoranes of the law.
The Magistrate remarked that that was no excuse. If defendant wanted to run a dispensary, he should and out will conditions the law imposed for the sale of poisons.
The defendant was fined $250, Another Japanese of Queen's Road
4, Eldon Street, London, ECA Bogfand, pendenos throughout, the past fourteen Room of Buckingham Palaco, on Decem aut, was charged with a similar offendo, yente, buit is attempts, which have ber 17th, Sir Frank Battenbaum reived and pleaded the same excuse. He was 1300 not stopped short at masination, "the insignia of a member of the Order.
Aned $600,