OLD HONGKONG.
More Stories From the Past.
PRISONERS-OF-WAR FROM TSINGTAU.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 19.5.
PUBLIC COMPANIES,
Clvillans Déported; Some Placed UNION WATERBOAT Co., Ltd.
Under Arrest.
The steamer Neissi-Mara NOTICETO SHAREHOLDERS." arrived at Moji from Tsingtan recently with 159 prisonera-oi- war on board. These prisoners
The Tenth Annual General
a Statement of Accounts to 31st! December 1914.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 2nd February to 9th February, 1915, both days inclusive.
(Continued from Thursday). The story of crime which has to be told of this period would not be complete without recount were next day to be taken to Meeting of Shareholders will be ing the story of the successful Osaka, where they will be zocom-held in the Offices of Messrs. attempt on the Central Bank of modated in the Datention Camp Dodwell & Co., Limited, on Western Indie, whed thieves or in the Oaska Garrison Hospital. Tuesday, the 9th February, 1915, broke into the strong room sad Seventy-three of the "number at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of got away with about $115,000 have hitherto been under. treat-receiving the Report of the worth of notes, gold and silver,ment at the Taing tau Hospital, General Managers together with The thieves gorked from a drain while eight-six were arreated ou and firat tunuolled a distance of the 13th ult. twenty yards, and then drovė, a shaft upwards of sufficient diameter to enable a man to climb it. This brought the operators to the granite rocks on which the for rented. Those sank down official land and Iuildings were Hongkong, 29th January, 1915. and all that was necessary at the registered after the fall of proper time was to fores one of Taingtau as private property;" the elabs up and then enter the that some German residenta were THE KOWLOON LAND and
- BUILDINGS CO., LTD. vault. Apparently nine men did Į guilty of violation of their solemn that among the the work and of three arrests two oth; and
Notice is nureby, given that the went to prison for four youre ron residents there hard labour. This instance of the mený who took an actual part in Twenty Sixth Ordinary Meeting crin in luleverness of the Chinese, tho recent fighting at Taingiau. of Shareholders in this Company even fifty years ago, goes to show A strict domiciliary search was will be held at the Company's that the police of to-day have alandaefed on the morning of the Offices, Victoria Buildings on
Lientenant Shimods; who has charge of these prisoners, is quoted by the Hochi as stating that full investigations have. revealed the fact
that some
were
DODWELL & Co., Ltd.,
General Managers.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
FISH.
WE HAVE RECEIVED A NEW SHIPMENT OF
SELECTED
FINNAN HADDOCKS,
FILLET HADDOCKS
AND
KIPPERS.
HONGKONG CICAR STORE,
HOTEL MANSIONS
their work cut out to cope with 13th ult. on varioue premises, and Wednesday, the 10th February (Lately occupied by KRUSE & Co.)
men who had even anticipated a large quantity of important 1915 at Noon for the purpose of methods used in bank-breaking evidence was seized. On the receiving the report of the Direct- in England only a few your strength of this evidence, 244ors together with statement for later. If this might be called Germans were summoned to the the year ending 31st December,
the
most artistic. side
via
FOOTBALL CHALLENGE SHIELD: IST ROUND,
of headquarters of the Japanese erime, an event of sheer ghast troops and examined." The ex liness which occurred a short amination was concluded on the time after might rank as the most following day, when 37 Germans dreadful. In a terrible case of were set at liberty. On the 15th, piracy which took place outside these who were found guilty were Lyemun Pass a whole junk crow,quartered in the Molike Barracks as piisoners-of-war. On the 18th numbering eighty in all, were put to death by the crews of two ult. thirty German women and
Seven piratse children left for home, piratical craft, were afterwards captured and Shangbai. About 100 German *till in suffered the fall penalty of the law, prisoners-of-war ers
Teingtan. They are either sick or British Jurisdiction. "The law a ass" was the wounded, and are under medical immortal remark of Bumble, but treatment Japan Gazette. it only mean that it was a stupid "huss" it was not calle 1 the greatest nuisance in the East, as the Supreme Court was once. It then had jurisdiction over the whole of Chins an far as British subjects wore concerned, but by an Order-in-Council the with the first round of the Hong- Court was confined to Hongkong and its dependencies. Since that time it has improved considerably, while the administration of justice at the various purta by consular authorities way u muve in the direction of simplifying the affairs of the British scattered along the coast of China. At the cams time, however, Hongkong was then, as it is now, the centre of British power and authority in Uhins.
Branded Banishees.. Beatus the whipping post, that even Bome of the older residents can yet speak of, every lamp post appears to have done the same duty in its turn, and on one occasion a Chinese was lashed to a lamp-post in Hollywood Road and given thirty sirokes after bis bead had been shaved and after he had been exposed with a loird alating the nature of bis offence. Banishment, too, in those days| did not present the difficulty it does now, for the police were em- powered to mark a broad arrow on the ear of baniwbees, and so effective did this seem to be thut it would pay for its restoration to favour. At all everts, those man banished from the colony for all time should bear some such mark to enable their detection to be all the easier.
"The Hermit of the Hills." That a man could hide on
is
(1914)
The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Wednesday 3rd to Wednesday, 10th February, 1915 (both days inclusive) during which period no Transfer of Shares can be re- gisterod.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
:
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., Ltd.
Agents for
The Kowloon Land & Building Co., Ltd. Hongkorg, 27th Jan. 1915.
HONGKONG, CANTON and MACAO STEAMBOAT Co., Ltd.
Hongkong F. C. v. Police. The first match in connection NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
kong Football Challenge Shield Competition will be played on the ground of the Lougkong F. C. at Happy Valley to-day at 4.16 p., when the Olub oppose the Police.
The Ninety Fifth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company. Hotel The Club team will be:-R. O. Mansions, on Tuesday, the 9th Barlow; M. L. kailton and N. J. February, 1915, 12 o'clock noon,
W. C. Boad, J. for the purpose of receiving MoCubbin; Stalker and R. F. Long; A. N. Report of the Directors, together Other, J. Tod, W. V. Pennell, Jwith a Statement of Accounts, Stewart, and P. W. Wilkie.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
Eastern Extension Australasia "& China Telegraph Co.
Alex, M. Darwin.
Buyor Mail, Tonbridge. Cheongwaing Chop Manwah Gilmans Bazaar, Penang.
Cheongyuen, Haiphong. Fernandes Abordeon Road No. 7 Top Floor, Macao.
Fonglookyen, Darwin, Henry Victoria Theatre, Shanghai,
Lisongautow 198 Winglok, Habana.
Liechongloong, Bindjel "Manshung Yeesang Lavuka.
Yuen,
declaring a Dividend and olooting Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be Closed from the 26th January to the 9th February, 1915, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. E. CLARKE,
Secretary. Hongkong. 19th January, 1915.
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NOTICE.
THE EAST INDIA SEA & FIRE INSURANCE CO.
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Our Havana Cigars are specially stored in air-tight safes. Importers of MELACBRIÑO and DIMITRINO'S Cigarettes. Fresh Stock of ARDATH'S Virginia Cigarettes and Tobacco, Craven Mixture, Black Cat Mixture, and Grapael Mixture, received by every Mail.
Mail orders promptly and carefully executed.
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
THE NATIONAL LOAN OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS OTICE is hereby given that
REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
($16,000,000)
Sand
SUPPLEMENTARY ISSUE OF EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS
($8,000,000).
the ORDINARY HALF- the YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in. this Corporation will be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on batur- day, the 20th day of February, Notice is hereby given to Sub-1915, at Noon, for the purpose of scribers that arrangements have receiving the Report of the Court been made by the Chinese Go- of Directors together with a vernment to hand to the under Statement of Accounts to 3 lat signed each month the sum of December, 1914,
The REGISTER of SHARES Dollars One hundred and Twenty Thousand ($120,000) from the of the Corporation will be closed the from MONDAY, the 8th February, revenues assigned under Loan Regulations to the service to SATURDAY, the 20th Febru of these loans. Loan service ary, 1915, (both days inclusive), accounts have been opened in during which period no transfer the name of the undersigned with of Shares can be registered. the Bank of China'and the Bank By Order of the Court of of Communications, into which Directors.
these monthly instalments of interest will be paid as received,
N. J. STABB
Chief Manager..
and these accounts will be drawn Hongkong."3rd February, 1915,
on to meet the half-yearly inter-
ost Coupons payable through, the
intermediary of the above-named NEW MACAO HOTEL.
We have taken over the agency Banks.
The first interest. instalment of the above Company in Hong- kong, and are now prepared to for the month of January has grant FIRE and MARINE been duly received and brought Ngohpohhin, Penang. Surheimer Hongkong Hotel, polioles of insurance at current to account. Shanghai.
W. B. ELWES, Superintendent.
Great Northern Telegraph
Company, Ltd.'
Kwonghing, Kobe.
rates. "".
THE CHINA COMMERCIAL CO,
8, Duddell Street. | Hongkong, 16th January, 1915.
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NOTICE.
Subscribers to the Supplement- Issue of Eight million
Take notice that on and after Dollars ($8,000,000) are further notised that in accordance with the lat day of February, 1915, the Article II of the Loan Regulations management of the above Hotel the full amount of Dollars will be carried on by L. W. Mak and Eighty in place of 0. O. Moosa, and all Milner Victoria Ice House THE BRITISH DOMINIONS Four Hundred Street, Shanghai.
GENERAL INSURANCE Co., Thousand ($480,000), being future correspondence and orders Ltd., OF LONDON. the amount of interest on the must be signed by the said L. W. loan for one year, has been duly Mak. Nagasaki."
raised by the Ministry of Finance NEW MACAO HOTEL,
Macao.
Namsung Wobing Street,
Willington Tongwoo, Kobe. Yeohing,Wakamatsu Chikuzon. Kowmoon Tiongho No. 9 Yingkiat Street, Amoy
R. BLACK, Superintendent, Hongkong, Feb. 5th. 1915.
The Undersigned having been and the Ministry of Communica- appointed Fire Insurance Agentstions and has been placed on Macao, let February, 1915. of the above Company, are now fixed deposit in the name of the prepared to accept risks at our-undersigned with the Bank of China and the Bank of Com- rent rates.
munications; as a permanent guarantee for the interest on the loan,
W. G. WORCESTER & Co. Hongkong. 1st February, 1915.
Hongkong beigi's ban often been a matter of meje, talk, but it interesting to know that on one occasion it was actually doen by a European fagitive from justice. He was a soldier, with a bari character in his regiment, and some minor dereliction made him leave barracks and take to the bills. For two months he was missing, and apparently all hope Chinese palm matting, fitted had been given up of ever with a four-brick fire-place and finding him. At any rate, a larder containing beef, fowl the Police were looking for and potatoes. However, during someone else when they stumbled his return to the simple life the on a cave, which, to their com cave dweller had transgressed plata surprise, they found in some of the more serious laws of habited by a European soldier. the Colony and was arrested, His TRE The position of this hut is given health did not allow of his being as overlooking the Aberdeen side brought to trial and on his libera- of the island, but it is strange tion he again went back to the that a similar cave is to be found hills, raided sucking pigs and on the forestry path above the fowls and lived on the fat of the Bowen Rund leading to Tytam. land until the "Hermit of the
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NOTICE.
L'UNION
F. A. AGLEN, Inspector General of Customs, and Vice-
Chairman of the Büreau of National
bout thislew of Loans, INSURANCE CO., LTD. Inspectorate General of Customs,
Poking 27th January 1915.
OF PARIS.
We have taken over the Agency
SIMEON& GO.
of the above Company formerly Established A. D, 1880,
held by Messrs. Siemssen & ORON STEEL, METAL and HARD
1 AWARE MERCHANTS, Wholesala
I was about six feet squate and Hille as he was called, was and are prepared to accept risks and Retail Ironmongers, Pig Iron and formed by three rocks, one of arrested to serve a term of two from this date. which on the top of the other years' imprisonmaus for a series two, formed roof and walls. This of serious offences. the soldier had enclosed with
(To be continued.)
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