GENERAL NEWS.
Singapore Government Appointments.
SHANGHAI EXPORTERS'
раво,
MEETING:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1913.
Prepaid Advertisements
ONE CENT PER WORD.
TO LET.
FOR EACH INSERTION.
TO LET,
F1st February, MEI-TO LET LARGE substantially
RION, No. 10, Peak, furni- shed or unfurnished. 6 Rooms. No. 21, SHELLY, STREET. No. 2 Mountain View, Peak, from 1st July
To let or for sale, GLEN- SHIEL, Barkor Road, No. 124, Peak, 5 rooms from 1st March, 1913..
A Hint Taken from Hongkong.
The following appointments A well-attended meeting of the Are announced in the current Association of Exporters of issue of the Singapore Govern. Shangbai was held on May 28 ment Gazette:-The Hon. R. for the purpose of approving the T Young to be a member of the Rules and Regulations and By Education Board for 1913; Mi C. Laws which had been drawn up I Carver to be temporarily a for the government of the asso- member of the Legislative Counciation by a provisional executive cil, vice the Hon. E C. Ellis; Mr committee elected for that pur R. Scott to not as senior district officer, Province Wellesley; Mr
Mr L E. Canning occupied the O. V. Dyson to act as die chair, and, after expressing regret trict judge, Singapore, Mr J. O. for the absence of the President, Sugars to act as deputy public Me Hoerter, who had left for prosecutor, Singapore; Mr. Maun-Home, said:" drell to act as assistant Colonin! "You will remember that the Secretary and Clerk of Councile: first suggestion of forming an Lieut. H. G. Garter to act as staff association of this kind came from officer to the local fores: Messrs. our friends in Hongkong, and it J. Mitchell and Quah teng Kee, was their idea that the formation to be members of the Penang of an association similar to this at Committee of the Tanjong Pagar all the Treaty Ports in China and Dock Board Mr. H. A. Stall-Japan could not bat help to im- wood, chief draftsman, P.W.D., Penang, to ba architectural as sistant, P.W.D., with effect from the 13th ult.
An Unidentified Disease.
prove the conditions of the export trade. As a baby learns to walk, so rust we gradually feel our
way, but I do not think it will be
out of place if I refer to certain A Calcutta wire says:-The qn stions which have been raised
* CRAIG, RYRIE,' No. 4, tho Peak to let; fine situation; 8 rooms; tennis and croquet lawns. FOR SALE. HARTING and ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In- land Lot No. 1154.
built Godown, situated on water front, East Point. For further particulars apply Proper- ty Office, Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd.
(380
TO LET from 1st July. The
premises, including the Silk Godown, in Canton on Shameen
Lot 19 known as "THE RED HOUSE" now in the occupation of Mr. T. E, Griffith. Apply to.-- DAVID SASSOON & Co, Ltd.
"FOR SALE. LADBROKE."TOLET-OCCUPATION from 1st proximo, the premises No. 9 Conduit Road. Fino Viow of harbour; 8 Rooms, 3 Bathrooms, No. 6 Dee Voux Road Central, comodations for 30 Servants. Garden and Tennis Court. Ac- now nearing completion, Suitable for Banking and other Offices etc. Apply to.-DAVID SASSOON & Co, Ltd. Hongkong, 15tä May, 1913. [377
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Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Building
Hongkong, 25th Feb., 1913 [211
LET:--A House is. Kontsford
COMPANY, LIMITED,"
Civil Surgeon of Darbhangah bas during the meetings of the pro-T THE HONGKONG
Que of the proceeded to enquire into the visions! committee. outbreak of an, at present, un- first questions was that of draw- LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY identified disease in Khajouli, mg up a nuiform contract for Headache nad high fever are, fol-bolt the buying and selling of lowed by blackoning of the body produce. We have been in and death. Over one hundred cases are reportel, all fatal.
Vacant.
The office of supervisor Government Monopolies Depart ment, Singapore, recently held by Mr H. Welldon, is declared to be vacated on account of the
absence of the holder without leave or reasonable excuse.
Gone to America.
Harry Thurber, the Manila contractor who recently appeared at the Hongkong Police Court, sailed on May 30 on the steam- ship Minnesota for the United States.
engkong, 27 Mar, 1913.
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munication with the Kobe Haciuda Et,.74 Mont Kellet Band of Tentle regarding a con-
Rod CHKE HONGKONG rpot adopted by them, but the NDINVESTMENT&ADANG latest from that port is that 0.3D. Yokohama shippers have not accepted the proposals from that
Το Buard, and the same kind of things happened in the south Canton has not soen ita way to accept a form of contract put for ward by the Hongkong associa tion. This is a matter to be pursued by the Committee which
"O. LET-UNFURNISHED, from JULY 1913: "Myrtle Bank," 51 The Peak, Mt. Kellatt. 2 Reception Rooms, 3 Bed-rooms, Drying Room and usual offices; monthly rent $175 exclusive of Taxes; Gas and water laid on. Apply
to
T NEW MODERN 3. ROOM
LET-AT KOWLOON,
ED FLATS with Two Bathrooms, Quarters. Bathrooms fitted with Pantry, Kitchen and Servants' English Baths. Kitchen has En- glish Cooking Range and Hot Water Boiler. Electric Light throughout. Immediate Posses- sion. Also NEW FIVE ROOMED TERRACE HOUSES WITH TENNIS COURTS. Now roady for occupation. Apply tor HUMPHREYS ESTATE FINANCE Co, Ltd.
Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 22nd Moy.. 1913.
COMMISSIONER, W
Kowloon Customs, York Build-
I shall ask you later to elect. inge, Chater Road.
I have said we have got to
(897
WANTED.
S
887
JANTED.-A GOOD MANA. GER for first class local Hotel. Married man profërred. References required. Salary no
graph.
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1395
feel our way gradually, but my TO LET-2 Airy, Furnished object for right man. Only com idea of the ideal will be when we
Rooms, Board optional. petent men need apply. Box have established, at all the shipp-Central. Brighton House. 10 B.B.B. c/o Hongkong Tele- ing centres of the Eist, associa-Arbuthnot Road. lions of this kind which collect. Mungkong 29 ↑ May, 1913. -
vely will be able to have their intereste watched over in the TO LET on 2nd Floor Home markets by an inspector who knows the conditions of the meat to Chief Officer Nelson f East, and has had experience of
A. Contradiction. Miss Flore Laelia Limine, of the Manila Bureau of Customs, flatly denies the statement of the "San Francisco Chronicle" of April 23 announcing her engage-
电压
the Mongolia. There is absolute-
the export trade from this ead--
ly nothing in the report," said oue who would ordinarily ba
Miss Lamme "and, I wish you
WANTED experienced No. 2. Chinese Office Clerk and
Pedder Street.
Typist. Must be able to read and One roomed Office. Apply write English correctly, None Property Office, Jardine, Mathe-but educated men need apply.
son & Co., Ltd.
Post Office Box. 463." 1985 Hongkong, 2nd June, 1913. (345)
THE NIPPON.
to Additional men to do the Salving formation of
termed an Old China Hand.
"Referring to the term would publish a denial of it."- Old Chine Hand calls
my mind the
"Cablenews."
He will return in a few daye, says the "Cablenews American." The puraps installed on the Nippon are working full force, draining Closed to Indian Oplum. the Far Eastern section of The Basilan left port last Thurs out the water. The rotten copra has Beuter's Peking correspondent the London Chamber of Com- day for Scarborough reef with 50 created fumes which have been s stats that as the report from nece, with an Old China Hand a more men to carry on the salving which great hindrance in the un- Shantang with regard to the supits chairman, although probably of the Nippon. This makes over loading of the vessel as the men pression of opiam is also favour that gentleman would resent 200 men working on the wreck working in the holds were soon able it has been decided to declare being called old-who is well and with the additional pumps overcome by them, necessitating Shantung, Hunan, and Anhui known not hers but in all the and wrecking gear. sent out on working very short shifts. closed to the importation of Ia-Treaty Porte, Hongkong and the Basilan, Messrs Erlanger and All the copra brought by the disu opium.
Japan I refer to Mr. Henry Galinger hope to burry the work. Vizcaya has been sold by the col- A Salutary Sentence.. Keswick. In print somewhere the Bringing 2,000 sacks of copra lector of custome, the good, dry Los Angeles, April 27-Mrs. other day I read of the work that from the Nippon, the Corregidor copra, to Germann and Company Edna Louise Adams, & Chicago this Far Eastern section had taken arrived at Manila on the some at P18.62 per picul. The balance, with Captain Taylor was sold at public nuction on pier society womsa, who passed fic-in hand, and mention was made day
it had been decided aboard. Captain Taylor has 5. Chinese buyers were on hand titions cheques here, after abe had that
that action should be taken been in charge of the salvage and gobbled all this up. The first joy spent vast sums in cafes and rides, has been sentenced to live with a view to obtaining standard operations for Messrs Erlanger lot of 110 sacks was sold at P9.10 in a bungalow in a Los Angeles samples of Chinese products. Be and Galinger but had to return per pical and the balance, 1,000|
fure concluding I would like to to Manila on account of illness. sacks broagh P9.70. suburb under the following re- striction:" She
visit ask you all to use your influence the city uenccompanied, take in persuading firms to join, for I am sure you will agree with me when
cannot
night Buto rides, have .1
cheque account unsupervised, say that matters taken up by on
188ociation of this kind are more leave the county for two years; entertain former companions, lease likely to receive consideration from: Home associations and the bungalow without permission, neglect to report to the probation Chambers of Commerce than if officer onus a month, drink intoxi- the matters were taken up by cants or smoke cigarettes. She is individual firms."
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Against Oplum in France.
Blickle of Messrs. Slevogt and Co.; G. P. Forster of Messrs, Jar-
dino, Matheson and Co.; W. Kien of Holland-Obina Trading Co.;
M. Felix Chautempe has intro duced into the French Chamber O. Lorioz of Mesars. Racine, Ac-- a Bill which would forbid the kermann and Co.; A. Petersen of sale, transport, and smoking of East Asiatic Co. Ltd., and A. opiam in France and her colonies, Widmann of Messrs. Melchera as well as the sale, transport, and and Co.
use without medical prescription
of morphine, cocaine, and all an-
alogous
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