NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
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NOTICE OF REMOVAL"
N. WEDNESDAY, OCTÓBER 19TH, we are removing to our new premises
No 25, DES TERUX ROAD CENTRAL REMOVAL will be completed by lat November next.
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKUNG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24TH, 1918.
NORTH CHINA INSURANCE CO., LTD.
HONGKONG BRANCH.
MRS. J. CHINCHEN RESUME charge of above Branch from
Hongkong, October 27th, 1819. [1440
New Stocks of Machinery, Office Equip-TO-DAY ment and Applicances will be exhibited in our main showroom on the ground floor, and with more extensive premises we shall aim to give our customers increasingly efficient .service.
ALEX ROSS & COM
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DIOCESAN BOYS" SCHOOL, HONGKONG.
DURING the oberce uc leave of the Rev. W. T. FEATHERTONE, Heads master of the above School, the Acting Head Master will be the Rev. A. J. S. STEARN, M A. (Cantab).
The Appointment will date from October 30th, 1919.
Rev. H. C. MOYLE, Hon. Scretary
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THE ASSOCIATION OF EXPORTERS AND DEALERS OF HONGKONG,
NOTICE
N EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL
A MEETING of Members will be held A the Secretary's Office, Chartered Bank Building TO-DAY (TUESDAY), OCTOBER.
HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLIZE,
THE FIFTH GYMKHANA MEET.
ING of the Sonson will be held at HAPPY VALLEY, on SATURDAY, NOVEMBE IST, commencing at 2.45 PM
The Charge of Admission will be #1 for other than Members of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB or GTMKHANA CLUB
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Free
The Committee invite the Ladies of Hong- kong to be present.
Hongkong, October 24th, 1919.
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"HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. ‚' ..
NOTICE
EMBERS are reminded of the HALF MEARLY MEETING called for on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, at 11.30 P. at the Offices of the JOCKET CLUB, on the Ground Floor of the Hongrong Club Annexe, Chater Road...
Q. W. GEGG, Acting Clerk of the Coursa Hongkong, October 17th, 1812.
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24-for-the purpose of discussing A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
the rise of freight rates by the Homeward
Freight Conference.
By Order,
È A. M. WILLIAMS,
Secretary,
Hongkong, October 28th, 1918. (1447
WANTED.
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 10 EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of A. 'S. WATSON & C LIMITED, will be held at the HoRGEONO HOTEL on the 5th day of NOVEMBER, 1918, at Noor, when the subjoined resolution, which was passed at the Extraordinary Generi Meeting of the Company held on the 20th of October, 1919, will be sub- mittod for confirmation 18: 2 Special
EUROPEAN CLERK with experience Resolution.
in Imports and Exporta. Good opportunities. Write stating qualifications, ant salary required, to-
Box No. 1448 Care of "Daily Press* Oños.
"WANTED
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HROFF WANTED. Local firm require capable and energetic 8BROFF with ge.urity. Goon salary to right man.
Apply
Box No. 1418 Care of "Daily Press Office."
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LOST. вом в
Broadwood Road, Young Pomeranian POPPY Dog, sable colour. Fioder please notify this address.
SPECIAL NOTICEBE
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MS from New York. Ladies' Evening Gowns, One-piece Gowna. Tailor made. Millinery, etc. Dus week only, - ctober 25th to November ud, KING EDWARD HOTEL, Room 42.
HS. SADIE PIAN will exhibit the
Hongkong, October 24th, 1819.
WANTED.
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WIRE-HAIRED TEREIER Advertiser
desires to obtain a young dog, wire haired English terrier; must be at good shape and breed.
Reply
Box No. 143", Care of "Daily Press" Office.
WANTED.
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ECOND ENGINERB for British Steamer
SLATMAN,
Apply-
GERMINAL CIGAR STORE, -18, Nathan Road, Kowloon.
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G.
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WAR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS.
EALED TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Officer Commanding Royal Victoris vice Corps, Headquarters, Barracks, until 18 Nook, on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1878, 1919, for the supply of HOUSEHOLD COAL to the War Department for the period December 1st, 1919, to March 31st, 1920
Forms of Tender and other particulars may be obtained personally, or by letter, from the above-named Office between the hours of 10 AM, and 1. P.M.
Hongkong, October 24th, 1919. (1431
Q.
B.
BALE BY TENDER OF
H.M.S. "WHITING" AND HM. TORPEDO
BOATS 036, 038, 037 and 018,
TENDE
ENDERS are invited for the purchase ut the stove-named Torpedo Craft with Engines and Boilers and Varions auxiliary machinery and fit ings on board... The vessels will be sold for breaking up
to the
Particulars of the Ships, Conditions of Bale, Forras of Tender and Permits to inspect the Ships, may
bo obtained on application undersigned, A deposit is required reforms of tender can be issued. bet re
The vesis will be sold
separately, and Tenderers ng
for all or may quote The vessels wil be on view in the Naval Camber, Kow oon, between the hours of
in end an of the vessel.
10 AM. And 4 V. from auch October to 8:
A
ovember inclusive (Bunday excepted) sed
Tendera must reach the ommoderna Office not 1.ter than 12 Noor on the 16in NOVEMBER
NAVAL STORE OFFICER Hongkong, October 25th, 1918.
"That the new Articles already sp "proved by this Meeting, and for the #purpose
AUCTIONS
BY ORDER OF THE OWNERS.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE
VERY VALUABLE BUILDING SITE Situate at
KOWLOON POINT,
ISIMTSATSUI,
WITH LARGE FRONTAGE. ON KIMBERLEY ROAD,
KOWLOON,
RIPE FOR IMMEDIATE DEVELOP. MENT
To HR SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON
THURSDAY,
The 30th day of October, 1918, at 12 o'clock NOON by
MR. GEO P. LAMMERT
at his Auction Roo in Daddell Street, The Property consists of :-
All that piece or parcel of ground situate towloon in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office THE REMAINING PORTION OF KOWLOON INLAND LOT NO. 1154.
Toe Property is situate in a very desirable position ready for immediate building
рагровое
Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be obtained from
MESSER. DEACON LOOKER DEACON
& HARSTON,
1, Des Voeux Road Central,
Hongkong The Vendor Solicitors
Or From
MR. GEO P. LAMMERT,
The Auctioneer.
PUBLIC AUCTION
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BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES-
15
GO. P. LAMMERT Ess received
of identiscation dabecribed by Minstructions to sell by Public Auction
"the Chairman thereof, be and the same are hereby adopted as the Articles of "tr Company to the exclusion of and "into"
for all the existing " Articles Dated this 1st day of October, 1910.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.
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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
CANTON LIMITED.
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Society will be held at the Registered Office' of the Society, Nos, 3 and 4, Queen's Building, Victoris in the Colony of Hongkong on FRIDAY, the Seventh day of November, 1919, at 19 o'clock Nook, when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed:
1. That the fusion of the interests of the Union Insurance Society of Can- ton, Limited, (in this and the follow- ing Resolutions referred to "the Society") and the North China Insurance Company Limited (in this ad the following Resolutions re ferred. to 35 "the Company") be approved of and agreed to on the basia following:-
(2) That shares of the Society of the nominal value of £10 each whereaf £4-per share shall be credited as paid up, be allotted to the share- holders of the Company in exchange for the shares of the Company in the ratio of one and a half shares of the Society for each one share of the Company.
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On FRIDAY,
the 31st day October, 1918, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at bis Sale Room in Duddell Street, Victoria Hongkong The Steamship “ASIA " 1001 tons now lying in Kowloon Bay in the Harbour of Hongkong together with all the furnitures, Store equipment and apparten- ,ances now on board
IN ONE LOT This ship is a Chinese ship registered in. Canton and is constructed of stoo! She bas feet, Breadth 33 feet 6 inches, and Depth 18 the following dimensions namely, Length as feet 9 inches, and her speed is about 10 knots
Bale and for orders for inspections of the For further particulars and conditions of vessel please apply to-
ME, KUNG YUEN,
123, Wing Lok Street, Mesra DEACON, LOOKER, DEACON
& HARSTON,
CT
1. Des Vaux Road Central, Vendors' Solicitors
For
to MR. GEO, P. LAMMERT, The Auctioneer..
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A. G. DA ROCHA,
18 THE AUCTIONEER.
A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER,
SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER
Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2331.
instractions from YOURED with
(b) That the Society in addition make, payment to the shareholders in the Company of the sum
£5. (Five pounds) Sterling in cash for each will well by Public Auction TO-DAY
The Concerned. (TUESDAY), October 9th, 1918,
one share in the Company 'beld by auch shareholders exchanging their shares in manner and upon the basis mentioned in clause (a) above.
at 2.15 p.m.
at his Sales Rooms
A QUANTIST OF ALBO
2. That for the purpose of carrying into MISCELLANEOUS GOODS & EFFECTS.
effect Resolution No, 1 (a) above, the Society do issue 15,000 shares of the nominal value of £10 each (whereof the sum of £4 per share is credited na paid up) out of its unissued capital of 104,000 shares.
Very best quality Woollen Blue Berge, in good condition, 7 yards or 8 yards, sait lengths
3. That the 15,000 shares referred to in Resolution No. 2 above as and when issued to rank for dividend and in all respects pari paar with the exist ing Ordinary shares of the Society and that the balance (if any) of such 15,000 shares be dealt with in such manner as the Board of Directors of the Bociety shall think most beneficial to the Society. Dated this. Twenty Fifth day of October, 1919.
C. H. P. HAT, Deputy General Manager.
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WE HAVE
Great Varieties of awd and unused
POSTAGE STAMPS
Singh, Set, Fackets, Bags,
and
on Approval Books
FOR COLLECTORS.
GRACA &
Dendera in
Postage Stampe, Post Cards, Beeds, Toys, etc... etc.
No. 30, WYNDHAM STREET,
HONGKONG.
1144
PO Box 630,
20 cases Silk Hand Soap. by Peet Bros:
Co., San Francisco.
20 cases Crystal White Soap, Peet Bros.
Co., San Francisco.
10 cases Life Guard Milk
20 chees B. &
Κ. Best Australian Jams. 40 cases Laundry Soap. 60 Red Blankets.
15 Bes or Motor Car Bugs.
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3 cases Sand Cloth.
4 cases Band Paper.
60 doz. Bose Bosp
10 cases Tackey's Liqueur Whisky. 50 cases Heart" Brand Salamander
Brandy
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5 cases Echweppe's Cordial Lime Juice And a long line of Sundries.
Also
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3 Bales Superior quality Canadian Leather. Terms: Cash on delivery. Hongkong, 24th October, 1919.
A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER, BURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 1923, ⠀
HAVING been Favoured with instruc
from Meas. DAVE CO., LTD. will sell by Public Auction on FRIDAY October 31st, 1918, at 2.30 p.m. at The Hotel Mansions 4th Floor, Room No. 16.
SUNDAY FURNITURE AND EFFECTS.
Comprising.com
INTIMATION
WATSON'S
FINEST
OLD BROWN
LIQUEUR
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BRANDY
25 YEARS IN WOOD
SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR
German scholarship has undoubtedly Mr. N. L. Smith is now acting, as shown its greatest brilliance. The com- Assistant Postmaster-General.
· plaint was that' while German methods had beca introduced into England by English philologists, in many cases Eng
lish researches founded an these methods had been re-exported to Germany and
products.
This, of course, means that
Professor, G. Warren's lecture at the
Helena May Institute has been postponed until November 10th, ab 5.15 p.m.
The entries far the Autumn Race Meet-
then imported again as orginal Germaning of the Shanghai Race Club consist of
90 stables, which include 188 ponies. the German idans had been painfully Captain A. F. Gimson, M.C, has re- disengaged from their surrounding verturned from war service to the Shanghai bosity and clarified by English thinkers Public Works Department.
He voluh-
their subsequent re-importation au Certeered for service in 1914. man products being due to the German Frosts in Japan have done considerable fetish. It must be remembered, also, that damage to mulberry farms.
The result
the best work in German philology was has been a strengthening of the market for
raw silk, which remains high.
done many years ago, while the brilliant generalisations of MAX MULERE, the last of his school, have been shown, by newer Bands, to be more or less unsonad, Turn-
The total number of prisoners sentenced in connexion with the Korean indepen- ing to another branch of science in which Press as 880, including 21 girls..
dence movement is given by the Sout
he Germans have made their name- biology--one is again struck by the im
The rise of freight rates by the Home
mense amount of painstaking researchward Freight Conference will be discusa- and the inability to make sound generali.Pd at an extraordinary" general meeting antions from the result of all this labour. of the Association of Exporters and HALKEE the most popular writer on this Dealers of: Hongkong. branch of science, leaves upon the reader the same "impression as is obtained from a perusal of PLATO-that the writer is too often playing with words; thinking
When charged at the Magistracy. pes- terday, with stealing a pig, a Chinese said: "I saw the pig lying sick on the road. and took him away to be doctored.”
The
Vanity Fair Company were greeted by another large bouse last night. when the second edition--a pot-pourri of music, mirth and song was presented. There will be another change of pro- gramme tu-right.
in words and not in ideas. The riddle of He was sentenced to three weeks' bard the universe, does not seem solvcable on labour. these lines-if, indeed, it be solveable on any and again the brilliant generalisa- tions are unsound. Nevertheless, in spite of this lack of lucidity of intellect; it must be admitted thas German thorough ness has been strikingly"successful in the sciences akin to biology, more especially im therapeutics, the knowledge of which has gained the Germans world-wide fame and attracted students from all parts of the world to their country, Mankind is a doubt, much indebted to German scientists for the work they have done in alleviating and averting human suffering; yet we shoud hesitate to say they have done more than PASTEUR OF LISTER. In partments in Hongkong, "who used till the realms of pure philosophy Germany recently to attend office between 10 an
Mails held up in London for the period at the war by the censors at Home arrived in Hongkong last week on the .s. Towin a number of them, addressed to now defunct German" firms, have beent re- turned to London,
The Heads of several Government Dé
A. S. WATSON & CO. again occupies a distinguished place. It and 13 am, are now regularly arriving
LIMITED.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
TIL els
ΒΙΒΤΗ.
HAVELOCE-DAVIES-On October 24th, at Hongkong the wife of Captain F. HAVELOCK-DAVIES, RA., of a daugh-
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ter.
MARRIAGES.
The naval review which will be held off Yokohama to-day at the conclusion of the grand naval maneuvres will be on a larger scale than any that has ever been held in Japanese waters.
It will include 180 men-cf-war of various sizes, including 20 submarines.
is certainly a longery from KANT to between 9 and 0:30, in expectation of a ECCAEN through such names as SCHELLING, Surprise visit from H.E. the Governor, FICHTE, SCHOPENHAUER and NIETZSCHE, but if extreme volubility has been detri mental to work in other directione, in philosophy it has been no less felt. Ger maz philosophy partakes of the character of a people proud of their intellectuality, and a little inflated by it; it lacks restraint. If we were to compare it with
The two Chinese charged with receiving English philosophy from the days of fish steel-plates, well-knowing them to LOCKS to SPENCKE We should say that the have been stolen from the Kowloon-Can- FARNWORTH-BOOKLAR-At All Saints' Englishiner argued from facts and the ton Railway, were, discharged at the
Church, Tientsin, on October 8th, Germans from fancies. The consequence Magistracy, yesterday. CYRIL FAENWORTH, youngest son of is that German philolophy is more or less notto, the Assistant Crown Solicitor, who Mr. Leo Longi- the late William Farnworth, of
·Belton, to LILLAN J. BUCKLAR, metaphysical, while English philosophy submitted by Mr. C. E. H. Beavis for the prosecuted, stated that the legal argument youngest daughter of Harry Bucklar, is more or less positive." Nor can Ger defence was unanswerable. of Leicester, MACARTNEY-VAN-CORBACH. At H.B.M. man philosophy be said to have made pro-
Consulate, Shanghai, on October green, for, in spite of the passing popu from Germany after a period of nearly The first letters to arrive in Hongkong 18th, and afterwards at Holy Trinity larity of such men as Eucres, we cas Cathedral by the Rev. C J. F
five years reached, this Colony on Satur Bymons, THOMAS LAMONT, eldest son
hardly consider them as 'making say perare now being sent from this Colony to day per the Empress of Hussia. Letters of the late Dr. T. L. and Mrs Mamanent addition to the body of human Germany, through the London Post Office. artrey, of Liverpool, to HILDA MAY,
in the realms of pure litera youngest daughter of the late Mr. thought. H. W. D. and Mrs. Van-Corback, of ture recent years have not produced much Shanghai.
fruit German literature is principally DEATHS. ANDERSON.-At Shanghai, on October known to outsiders on the strength of
soth., HENRY GEORGE ANDERSON, aged three names-GoITHE, LOPES-At No. 39, Haskell Road, Shang- HEINE, the last being, perhaps, more
hai, on October 19th., MATHILDE MARIA, the beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. M. Lopes, aged 24 years.
years.
INGLONG OFFICE: 10A, Dze Vaux Road, 0, LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLET STEIT, E.U.
The Baily
Press
HONGKONG, OCTOBER 28TH, 1919...
SCHILLER
stuffs can similarly, be forwarded from containing newspapers and "food- Hongkong through London.
the seriousness of the dwelling-house The Japanese Home Office, appreciating and shortage, has arranged to furnish the Kobe and Nagoya with capital, at a low cities of Tokio, Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama, rate of interest, for the purpose of con Usaka are planning to build 10,000 tener structing such houses. The authorities of ment bouses, which are to be under muni- cipal management, at Д
$10,000,000,
esteemed abroad than in his own country. It would be unfair, of course, to expect that Germany, or any other country, should show a constant succcssion of great writers and poets; the ebb and flow of gonius must be reckoned with here, a elsewhere. Yet it is certainly remark.
able that German' literature
carries
Cont
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The residents of the Peak are at pre- sent discussing the audacity of a thief who has become a frequent visitor at many of their houses. This man walks recent into a residence in broad daylight, and bands upon before anybody is aware of away anything he can lay bia what happened. A few days ago he enter ed one of the rooms at the Peak Hotel and stole 8200 in notes and some trinkets. The Police are keeping a sharp look-out for this individual.
must certainly be commended for its may not to a certain degree account for ed to order by the magistrate.
peared in court without them he was call-
years should have made so little impres sica outside its own borders. With the exception of a few covels of FRENNSEN THE GERMAN FETISH. and some of the plays of the new school of German dramatists, recent develop influence caused by the war is to some Tuz natural reaction against German
mente in German belles-lettres have re- extent justified by the fact that in many liant promise hus not been fulfilled and have declared war or if not war a strike ceived no foreign recognition. The bri) more. A number of British barristera' Nothing apparently, is sacred ans casce Gorman thought and German methods have had too much importance strain of activities in other directions stand them at any price.
one is inclined to wonder whether the one at Jerabagon, in India, who cannot -against the wig and gown. There in amigned to them: German scholarship
When he ap Nevertheloen; in spite of these human being,"
As at times
this
said this legal Bolshevik, thoroughness results in the pursuit of
strictures it would be unwise to cast aside like a vulture. Also the weather is warm, I have the strongest objection of looking trivial details with an earnestness far out utterly all that German thought and Ger- the wig is hot, and the gown is inartisti reaching their value.. The wood is too maa methods have done to deny that cally conceived,” often obscured by the trees, and the pain they have been of value in the past and
At the annual meeting of the Shanghai ful student emerges from the intricacy will be of value in the future. In pro- St. Andrew's Bociety on October with but little more enlightenment than testing against an over-estimation we joined during the year and 55 left
it was reported that 131 new members The when he entered it. An inability to must not fall into the error of an under general account showed a balance in hand decide between the important and the catimation. Nations, no less than indivi
The following officers were elected to serve during the coming year: animportant, between the vital and the duals, are prone to sickness, and when President, Mr. G. Campbell; vice-Presi negligible, permeates the whole of Ger- the illness from which Germany is suffer-
thoroughness, though
this
of 91.13.
Mr. D..
Blackwood Furnitures, Glass and Crockery * Wall Platos, kad Ware Tabice, Chairs," Sundries.
Also
which, moreover, is to some extent its resume her proper place among the One Parlour Billiard Table, in first class
own enemy. A curious instance of the nations condition with Balls Cues and Accesorios by results of this lack of proportion ie afford-
Į mair críticiom, the enormous volubility of J-ing has pazed away the will, no doubt HGA
The Brunswick Balke Colinder Co., Ued by the complaint of a late well-known shanghai on October 20th. from the war
Monarch Cushiana.
On view from Thursday, October 30th.
THEN-Cash on Delivery.
Hongkong. October 28th, 1819
Captain T. W. Hill. M.C., returned to English philologist, rendered the more He is proceeding to Hongkong to rejoin interesting by the fact that in philology the firm of Mesars. Bradley & Co.
I
M. B. du Committee. RG Dowiesba Couper Fatrick, W. Porter. A. G. Stephen, G. Dr. Bryson, A. Campbell, Scott and A. A. 1. Downie; hon. secre- tary, MR. A. Stuart; hon, treasurer, hall, which will be held on Friday. Mr. A. W. Macphail. It was decided to celebrate Bt. Andrew's Day by the nsual November 28th, as this year the Baint's day falls on Sunday.