THE HONGKONG TE
TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1917.
PCST OFFICE.
WEATHER REPORT.
ENTERTAINMEN
GOLD BAND
old Bang
IRGINIA Jarettes
CIGARETTES
IRGINIA CIG
There's a Difference
BETWEEN
COLD BAND
ฟ
AND OTHER
CIGARETTES.
Where nothing could please before "GOLD BAND" brings pleasure
and satisfaction in a measure.
difficult to describe.
Westminster
London
IMPORT PROMIBITIONS.
On the 12th at 11:30-Ño returns. És, m' Japannes, stations. Promene, bas des The public are informed that the uncressed soosiderably orer the lower!
Yangbin Valley, which, le now covered by dermentioned articles sze prohibited from imports into the United Ling-modecately deep depression. dm, eik.r byʻlectez post or by parcel Presene has decreased moderately to port.-
slightly in other districta.
Gold manufactured or unmanufactured, including gold coin and articles coursting partly of or containing gold. All ma 1- factures of Silver other than silver watches and silver watch cases: Jewel- lacy of any csiption?
Lestern and Parcels containing such {artiola cannot therefore be accepted for.
tran.mission by the Poms Office.
1
FRENCH PARCEL REGULATIONS,
The depression over Indo-China has deepened slightly.
Hosting Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am to-day, 0.01 insž. Total since." January 1st, 1175 inches, against an arsings of 29.63 taches.
FORECAST FOR THE 14 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW
District
| S. to 8.W.
winds,
1. Hongkong to Gap Roch} moderate
The Public are informed that the new regulations adopted by the French Customs: insist that senders-of parcels addressed to France, Gorvies and Algația must fill in the columns of the regular Furmons Channel Custana Declaration particularly and sxactly, omisting none of the headings Draped tharmL
It is furthermore absolutely necessary to show in the aforesaid declaration (1) The full name andaddram of the addressee (2) A statemontasto whether the contents are intended for state suj›plies or dot.
Particulars of outgoing and ine ming Mails will not be overtised in future, The Post Office will forward all corres- pondence posted by the fastest routes.
enemy
| fine to
showery.
The same
Na L
3 douth's of China be- } The same tween EL. and Lamooks as No. 1.
4 Bouth soset of China be-) The same
twaen H.E. and Hainan...jas No. 1. t
China Coart Meteorological Beguntur.
Statics.
`Correspondence addressed to subjects in China, Siam. Siberia and Porturae East Africa. Persia and Mor- Nemuro Deco cannot be transmitted.
June 1o, n.
flour.
Barometer.
Temperature..
Humidity
Vorteck 6a
Hakodate" Toko Koah!
Winds
}{
D'tion.
Foros.
Weather.
THEATRE
ROYAL
FOR
ཤ་
NIGHTS ONLY
& 14th
June. 12th 13th
FAREWELL VISIT.
Maurice E. BANDMAN Presents
THE BANDMAN OPERA CO.
TO-NIGHT!
Tuesday June 12th
Wedanaday Jane Th
"Phyuwelay
(1917.)
TO-NIGHT!!
in the following London Sacoses.
I
4
The Phenomenal Success
'THE HAPPY DAY."
From Daly's Theatre.
THE MERRY WIDOW."
THE CIRL IN THE TAXI.”
Booking at MOUTRIE'S. ·
Prices as Usual
Qmmincing at 9:15 PM.
FALL IN PROPERTY VALUES.
Sixty Per Cent. Drop in Sales
by Auction.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
GEO.
War conditione bave brough about a serious dimination in the volume of business done on the London Property Market, and
P. LAMMERT.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Services to Germany, Austria, Bul- garia and the Ottoman Empire are Oshima
THE Undersigned has received scended.
"instructions from the Liqui- dator of Messrs. WITZKE & CO. in pursuance of an Order of the Hongkong Government to sell by Fublic Auction at
12 o'clock (NOON).
MONDAY
ON
Uninsured parcels for the United Kingdom will in future be forwarded from Hongkong in bags and the Public are therefore advised to pack such parcela very carefully.
Naha
Boals I
Whalwe 8a 29 62 64 93 se
Hankow Ishang Kiukiang Changsha Shanghai GUSSAR
Sharp
siso in the prices obtained for the AUCTIONEER. APPRAISER the 27th day of August, 1917. from London that the mails despatched t
comparatively few properties tha
* have changed bands.
This is the fiew of Mr. J. C. Head, as stated in a lec'ure which be rently delivered be for
be
AND SURVEYOR.
Telegraphic advice has been received
Bwatow from Hongkong via Siberis te London on | heralds
Talbokn March 13th 1917 and so Londen Forward | Taichu on March 13th and 15th 1917 a o pre-
Tainst med lost.
Monday, June 4. being
Koshua
a General Bikong
at his Sales Rooms, Duddell
-Street, Hongkong. ALL the piece of ground THE Undersigned has received situats at Yaumati, Kowloon, in instructions from the L qui-gistered in the Land Office as be Colony of Hong oog and
dators of Messrs. Jebsen & Co- KOWLOON INLAND LOT NO. Holiday, the Post Offic, will be per Gap Book in pursuace of an order of the Hongkong Government, to sell! by public auction at 12 o'clock (K003) on TUESDAY the 31ṣu day of July. 1917, at his sales rooms. Duddell Street,
Institution. Surveyors Consistent realte ob aiced, ve an area of "investigation, shower the following decline with regard to different kinde of properte :-
Per Cent Sales by suctir a or private“
'treaty...
80% 20
Freehold ground rente Shop nad dwelling housee, principally for occupa
...20 25
tion
Following was the position with regard to lettinge of house pro-
perty:- Lugshoteer... Sharp decline. Hediom bouses A'most stationary Small bcasos... Let readils.
In the case of shope the position
**********
Large and medium Normal
209.
In One Lit The property consists of a piece ground abutting on Bat- tery Street and Fourth Street (near the Prays) in Kowloon and contains an area of 4500 Square Feet.
from 8 to 9am.
There will be oce delivery of ordinary correspondence and one collection of lettera from spe Pillar BuxOS,
The Money Order Office will be entire ly clured
2
29.47 13 87
29.46 70 95.
29.74 78 8t a 29.75 32 w 29.74 78 31 D
50 29.75 73 92.
29:78 75
29.80 75
29.80 81
29.80 79
5 29.74 100.
29.13. 79 91 29.74
Macao reho Pakbol
1
Holbow Faulien Toursne
C. St. J.
29.72 79 92 a
7 29.68 79 87
29.69 77. 29.72 73 £99.76
Aparri
Dagupan
Manils
Legaspi
99.76 99.76
Tacloban
29.74
Surigao
The Lot is held for the unex- pired resi lue of a term of 75 years LOCAL AND REGULAR MAILS Doo created therein by an" Indenture
+
of Crown Lease dated the 4th day of May 1888.
THE VALUABLE "LEASE HOLD PROPERTY situate at The Peak, Hongkong and being Rural Building Lot No. 19.
In One Lot. The property consists of:—
The piece or parcel of ground and
known premises "Lysholt." 104 The Pe k, situate near Mount Gough in the Colony area of f Hongkong with an 124,032 square feet and registered] in the Land Offices 39 Rural Euilding Lot No. 19.
The lct is held for the un- demand.expired residue of a term of 75 Smill shope ... At a discount. years created therein by an Factories found ferants without indenture of Crown Lease dated difficulty, and rentals followed the 23rd day of April, 1896.
The Antual, Crown Rest is che dimand.
$85.10.
NOTICE.
GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD. NOTICE is bereby given that
an extraordinary general meeting of GANDE, PRICE AND O, LIMITED wil he held at the registered Office of the Company, No. 6. Q een's Road Centra!, on TUESDAY, the 11b day of Jane, 1917, at 12.30 o'clock in the afternoon. when the sub- journed resolution will be pr posed
extraordinary resolution:**
∙AS
an
That the regulations cen
The further particulars and conditions of sale apply to Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist, Solicitors for the Liquidators or to the undersigned.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
FOR SALE.
MOTOR CARS, MOTOR CARS 1917 Overland Touring Cars. 6 Cylinder. 7 Seater,
"GEO. P. LAMMERT,"
Luddell Street.
*tained in the printed Hc:
++
document submitted to
the meeting, and for
the purpose of identi
fication subscribed by
two of the Directors.
"be and the same are
Long, 18th February, 1917,
NOTICES.
berely approved, and THE HONGKONG & SOUTH
that such regulations
be and they are hereby
adopted as the Articles)
"of the Company to the
exclusion of and io
CHINA WAR SAVINGS
ASSOCIATION..
substitu ion for ll the APPLICATION forms fo existing Articls there- Membership of the above
* of."
Association may be obtained
A copy of the above mention-from all the Banks or from the
ed printed document may be undersigned.
seen and perused by any member
THE UNION INSURANCE
of the Company at its registered BOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.,
office, or at the office of Messrs.
Wilkinson & Grist).
Should tt a resolution be pass-
Honorary Secretarios &
Treasurers.
ed by the required majority it Hongkong, 15th January, 1917.
will submitted for confirmation
* A special resolution to a
second extraordinary
meeting
which will be subsequently con- FREE TO ALL SUFFERERS
Fened.
Dated this 9th day of June. 1917.
By Order of the Board,
C. BOND, Secretary,
KyleACT OF SOLIS" "RUNDOWN" "GOT LÊN BLCAN' KRONEZ, BLADDER, SEXVOLS DISEASES,
About SLCZELSKUS FAUPTION=„PILAR.-
KIUS 100 FREE GUAR BOČND SEPTICAL HİGH GAE these diseases and WaxORI PUT, SUKda võscued by THENEW FARSON REMEDIZINA KIZ NAJ
and decade
THERAPION
the Trials for TOUROWN ailment. No Velów uz' de exers Send scampañārem et volade is DK. LE GLENG.
The Annual Crown Rent is
$60.
OUTWARD.
Tai --Wesk, days, 5 pm.
G zm Lavisn
29.82 79
86
"433
85 д
29.73 83 05 #w
* N
T. F. CLAXTON, Director. Hongkong Observatory, June 12, 1917.
ard 9.30 .
Tai Po.—Week days, 10 a.m.; Sundays,
à Barometer, reduced to 22 degrees Cheung Chow-Weeka days, 2 p.m.
Fahrenheit on the level of the ses in in- Shatauick, whatar and Sheungahut,ches, tenths and hundredths.
2 Temperature, in the shade, in degree a Aberdeen, Autau, Ping Shan, Sải Kung, | Fahrenhalt. Santin and Stamey. — Wank days, 4.30 p.m. Humidity, in percentage of saturation Canton, Samabui and Wuchow,-Week the Humidity of air saturated with mols- days, 7.30 am, Hegistration 5 pm, Les-tars being 100.
For further particulars conditions of sale apply to MESSRS. HASTINGS & HAS- TINGS. Solicitors for the Liqui-Week daya, 4 p.m. dator, or to the Undersigned:
GEO. P. LAMMERT. Hongkong, 23rd May, 1917.
DAI NIPPON
ASAHI BEER,
ASAHI BEER GRAND PRIZE
ANTIEN DORATION
ASANT
BEER
LIMITED TOKYO, JAPAN
ASAHI
LAGER-BEER
SPECIALLY BREWED
EXPORT.
GFOR
COMPANY
BREWERY
BOLE Mitsul-Hassan Kaisha.
tor 6
p.; Judaya, 5 pm Macao.-Weekdays, 7.15 a.m., 1.30 p.m.; Sundays. 9 a..
Kungmoon.—Week daya. 5 pm. Except Saturdays; Bundays, 3 p.m.
4 Direction of Wind, to two points,
$ Force of Wind, according to Beaufort Boals.
Naartau and Sanmen-Week days; tached cloud, d drizzling rain, ffor, s State of Weather, b blue sky, o de- 5 p.m.; Sunday, 5 pm.
Shamchan-Week days, 10 a.m., 4 p.m.; passing showers, o squally, r rain, s snow. | gloomy, by hall, 1 lightning, a overcast, d Sundays, 9 am
|t thunder, v'visibility, w dow 'wet.
FLOM SHEUNGWAN WESTERN
BRANCH P.O.
Macao.-Week days, 7.30a.m., 1.30 pm.;
Sunday, 8.30 am; Holidays, 7,3 a.... 130 Pin
Canton-Week days, 7.30 a.m., 9.20 p.m.:
v.30 p.m.
METEOROLOGICAL.
Fevious
Sundays, 9.30 pun.; Hulidays, 73 ani. Earometas 29.78 29.73
Tai Ping Tung-Werk days, 9.30
p.m.; Sundays, 250 p.m.; Holidays, 8.39 p.
Sher Kl-week days, 9.30 pm; Sun- days, 90pm; Holidays, 9.30pm
Keugmoon-Week days, 6pm.; Sun, days, 6 pm. Horidaya,
P.m Kunenak.-Wook daya, 6 p.m.; Bun days, & p.; Halidays, 6 p.m.
Kauk ng Week days, op. Except Saturdays; Sundays, 6 pm; Holidays,
Young Man's Sad Death, The Singapore Free Press of May 31 announces that the death took place in the General Hospital. on May 29, of Mr. A. S. Baiker, Besistant in Mesare, Gurbrie and Co. The deceased, who was about 26 years of age, had only been in -Singapore siLce the and of Inet year, coming at afler service on the western front, where he wES "guaser', and was discharged from
Day On date on date
DE Á GUL DE # pome
Temperature Humidity Wind Direction....
Forc Weather ---en van ver с Bala
36
79
29.*3 86
65
91. 71
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15th 53
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ELL. Oboervatory, Juize 12, 1917.
T. F; CLAXTON, Director.
TIDE TABLE.
From 11th June to 17th June,
High Water
Hongkong
20
Moa,
Tees.
We
Thur.
的
**
Mean Time,
ft. in. 1
Low Water
Time.
VICTORIA THEATRE.
Tuesday, 12th June, 1917.
The Run of London for over forty Weeks.
The Great Triangle Drama
in 6 Parts
"PEGGY."
THURSDAY, 21st JUNE, 1917,
GRAND BENEFIT MATINEE 5.15 P.M. BENEFIT NIGHT 9.15 P.M.
An enormous Programme will be staged in aid of the
PORTUGUESE SCHOOL FUND."
Under Distinguished Patronge.
BIJOU THEATRE.
Entitled :-
The Colest Theatre in Hongkong.
" LIBERTY.”
Third Epizode in Two Parts.
"AMERICAN BLOOD." "HIS GUIDING STAR." A Beautiful Diama in 3 Parts.
WAR GAZETTE.
and "YOUTH MUST HAVE ITS DAY." (Comic).
HONGKONG THEATRE.
(OLD LAND OFFICE BUILDINA).
Commencing SATURDAY, 9th JUNE, 1917.
Showing
"THE BRIDE OF MYSTERY." Featuring:-LUCÍLLE LOVE and HUGO. (complete, in 3 parts).
"A PAGE IN LIFE.”
in 2 parts. Festuring
Ansa Little and Herbert Rawlins of the "Master Key.
and COMEDIES.
NOTICES.
STOCK TAKING SALE,
A GOLDEN opportunity for securing general bargains at enormous reduction in pice.
D. CHELLARAM offers his]' Hongkong entire stock in trade of Oriental 8úka, Ciepen, Tafatts, plain fancy Voiles, stripped and check cotton 14 Crepes, Kab oidered Voiles, Or- 75535 gandy Ivory wares and Gold Jewellery AT GREATLY RE DUCED PRICES, FOR 15 DAYS
$ 27 33
23 ONLY.
m morning. a afternoon.
49 - 3,0
"the army suffering from the effects of the German gar. Bis healin was considerably impaired, and Sa "residence, in the East did not im
prave it. When he amendmitted into bospital a fortnight go he was in a serioas condition; and his chaloes of recovery were 10- mote. Mr. Barker was siman of
For the best Meals, Refresh--| Lessant temperament, and despite ments, Bread, Cakes and Cop his indifferent health he took a fectionery at before the grest interest in military mettere prices for TEKANDE
and
Indian-Persian-Tientsin Velvet Carpets reduced 20 %-
We have just received a new consigament of Silk Stockings.
D. CHELLARAM.
38 and 40, Queen's Road Central
Printed and Pablished for the Cade Burnest at 11, Ioo House
CAST IRON
RAINWATER PIPES
AND FITTINGS. FRANK SMITH & CO. YCHIX ROAD, "CENTRAL. TEL. 2010. HONGKONG.
4. DES
MANGANESE ORE.
Alags stock of MANGANESE ORE, on hand, FOR SALE at a∙MODERATE
SALE PRICE For Further information,
Please apply to Kang Woo care Chu Laikai, Kwong Enzy to de Bonham Strand, Telephone No.