WAR CHARITIES.
WHAT. HONGKONG HAS
EXPENDED."
An Appeal for More Funds. In forwarding as the financial statement given below, the Hon. Mr. E. &. Hallifax, Hos. Secretary of the War Charities Committee,
writes:-
THE HONGKONG “TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1917.
pital for Foreign Barrios)...
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158 15 51
Emergency Committee of the Navy League Bumaian Prisoners of War Help Com-
Na opportunity has bean Icst of Soottish Women's How- doing what could be done for (Naval Charition; and the Dread-
Bought Hospital-which deals | Ladies with many men from the Mar- cantile Marine and the Mine- sweeping Fleet—was subatantial ly assisted. Barnardo's Homes, as institution of permanent value, has had much extra work thrown on it in consequence of the war, and has well deserved the sup Port it received.
mittee Soldiers and Sailors
ww
100 0 C
100 0 0
Help Society ... 1000 0 Indian Soldiers Fand
Sub Committee 100 0 0 County of London
War Hospital 100 0 0 Martouret Hospital (Fondation Allbu- 30D).
Committee worked in close touch In all these larger matters," the
The Hon. Treasurer's statement, but it was felt that there were with their London representatives, which is sent herewith, shows the total expenditure of the War many smaller charities,, of which Charities Committee to the 30th it would be difficult without delay Recuperative Hospital
for Deve to procure the necessary de- Jane, in concise form.. Every
tail bare; which subscribers eoldiers item of the expenditure cut of the
involv. would Colony bas
overlooked.
100 0 "0
sback
100 00
100 0 0
... 100 00
ed considerable correspondence decided to remit anma from time between our representatives in
to time to London for distribution London, and the representatives at the discretion of our repre of the charitable objects which we assisted; and very apprecia sentatives among what might be tive letters of thanks have been called the "smaller charities"; received in all qases. The volume 3,500 has been so remitted in ail from time to time, and covers of the correspondence makea it impossible to print it in ex-most of the emailer enbeoriptions tenso; but any available informs to the less prominent objects in tion will be given on appli- the list. The Committee Are sation, either by letter or in satisfied that this method and the
selection person, to the Hon. Secretary.
88 made in London will Syrian and Pat The one standing charge that meet with the full approval at
Dot.. like to have Shipwrecked Mari-
Union Jack Clob It was therefore Ders' Fand
French Wounded
Emergency Fand 100 0 0 Belgian Red Cross 100 0 0 Belgian Prisoners of
the Fand has to meet is the guaranired wobecription of £200
the subscribers.
While so much money has month to the Royal Flying bae not been forgotten that the been spent out of the Colony, it Corpa Hospital, Bryanstone
local requirements must have firet Square; and, alibough it was found impossible to establish a call upon the resources. The ex- Hongkong branch of this Bospit-cellent work of the local working al, is is still proposed to increase parties has been finasoed; and this subscription largely by at opportunities have been taken to least $1,000 a year-if the fande permit. The development of the aviators' side of the war has cocasioned calls in this direction which could not have been fore seen; and which are likely to become greater still. ~
+;
War in Germany... 100 0 0 Serbian Relief Fund 100 0 0 Montenegrin Red
Cros
100 0 0. Polish Victims' Relief
Fund
Relief Fund Marylebone Hospital
Supply Dapot Lord Mayor Treloar Russian Red Cross...
Cripples Hospital and College The Children' Aid
Commities Lady Victoris Her.
berts Fand for assisting friendless priacnere of war in Germany Pipe Fand
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upport Entertainment Funds and Begimental Fands of seversi with local men who have gone to kinde; while cases connected the Front have had pecial con- sideration when brought to notice. Soldiers Club Aero
It remains only to point out
ciation
Mine. Among the larger objects for that the balance in band in Peterhead the grant of fande the Committee London and in Hongkong is likely
sweeper and Patrol has no hesitation in thinking call of £200 & month on the Newspapers for the
very soon to be exhausted. The Flotilla Fand that the measure of support London balance for the Royal Fleet Committee given to St. Danetan'e Hostel meets with.. the
Soldiers general Flying Corps Hospital will ex-Roval
hanst it in some three months; Daughters spproval of the subscribers; and
Home it is pleasant to hear from Dr. Haraton ho visited the Hostel that Sir Arthur Peareon. spoke in very appreciative terme of the assistance Hongkong had been able to render him in his great work among the blind.
The expenditure connected with the Star and Garter Hospital is completed with the building equipment and endowment of a "room;
the fundè required for the whole Iantitation have now been fully subscribed.
and the cutstanding claims gainst the local balance such bille for working party materi- will redace it to very small dimensions. Another effort is Committee are confident that the therefore called for; and the position has only to be put before the Hongkong public for a fitting response to be made to the appeal.
The Financial Statement. Below will be found details of the smoont remitted to various £3.000 has been subscribed by including the results of "Our Associations up to June 30, 1917, the Colony for the building of Day" and "St. George's Day" ·--- six Y.M.O.A. hats. The money for the first hat and part of the
second was collected through the British Red
initiative of the Daily Press :
the balance has been made up
from esr-marked - anbscriptions and the generat Fands.
Speaking generally, the "prin
ciple that has guided the Com-
£
B. d.
Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem ...8 207 14 1 Bliäded Soldiers and
Sailors Care Com mittee
...4,477 1 6
mittee in their allocations has been Central Prisoners of
to cover as wide a field of work War Committee...4,194 @ 8 with the least possible delay; Officers Families immediate relief must be brought
Fond
...3,981 18 3
3.400 0 0
....
Lady Lugard Hospi-
tality Fund Lady Roberts Field
Glass Fund Invalid Children As-
Earl of Lonsdale Char
sociation ...
ing Cross Hospital
Womens Catholic
League
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DAIRY FARM MILK
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THE YARN MARKET.
100 0:0
5
100 0 0
י
100 0 0 10000
Big Forward Purchases
Reported.
Messrs. Polish wolla end Kote wall, in their report Jaly 16 state-
Since our last report on the 4th inst,, neither the recent political 50 00 unrest nor the rising exchange has deterred the impulse of 50 0 0 Chinese buyere, who have made big forward speculative purchases of about 8,000 bales with a further advance of $7 to $10 per bale and there is still much excitement 38 17 10 in the market, as the buyers are 28 13 3 coming forward to take up sny lots that are offered at higher 25 0.0 rates.
In 20 yard, en azasual big rise bas taken place, owing to vary 2009 small stock, with keen inquiry in
this count
20 0 0
The present heavy transactions are mostly to the eco mons profite 20 0 0 made by the Chiness in their pre- vious purchases, which have to 1000 tasted them to plange desperate
ly, hence the prices have reached. 713 5 to figures unheard of and un- known in the whole bistory of 5.0 0
yaro trade.
Bates are also rapidly advanc- 5 0 0ing in Bombay, where foreign dealers have made forward con tracte in more than 9,000 hales
sad recent advices show that most
1 1 10
£44,581 17
2
of these parchsees are made by
Japanese firms, who are availing
58,316.47
The equivalent of the The Sab-Committee
above amount is... $288,798.01 have expended on materials for the local working parties ... Various sama bave been disbursed locally for supple menting pensions, entertainments, to- bacco, &c., for the troops, amounting The expenses of the fand, including cables, advertising, discounts and sun-- dries amount to...
Total amount expend-
to
5,339,77
1,726.62
5,825.20
12,837,47
themselves of every opportunity
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
instructions from Mr. H. T.
SINGLE and DOUBLE.
TERAI HATS.
IN) USEFUL SHADES OF GREY WITH SELF OR BLACK BANDS "OR PUGOAREES. PRICES RANGING FROM $7.00 each. THE MOST COMFORTABLE HAT FOR SPORTS WEAR.
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TELEPHONE YO 23...
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THE Undersigned has received Richardson to sell by Public Wm.
Auction on
MONDAY, the 23rd July. 1917.
commenting at 2.30 p.m. at No. 15 Knutsford Terrace Kowloon,
A Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.
Comprising:-
Tapestry covered drawing room suita teak sideboad, dinner
waggon, dicing chairs, pile and ware, teak ice chest, etc., etc. stair carpets, glass and crockery
Teak twin bedsteads, iron bed-l stead, teak wardrobes, wash- stands and toilet tables, toilet crockery, bathroom and pantry requisites.
Also
1 Billiard dising table with accessories.
་་
And
1 Upright grand piano by Heiktzman & Co, Toronto (in good condition).
view from Sunday, the 22nd instant.
Catalogues will be issued. Terms-Cash on delivery,
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
WANTED.
afforded them by getting special WANTED ASSISTANT facilities of tonnage through Japanese line of steamers,
BOOK-KE PER Engineering costs.
for Apply in
Total sales aggregats 6,000 own writing with copy referen balee.. Unsold stock 3,000 bilen, ces and stating salary required Sold but undelivered 25,000 to W. S. Bailey & Co., Ltd. bales,
As we go to press, a further advance of $7 has taken place in confirmity with renewed excite-
ment.
Arrivals. Steamers from Bom bay have brought in" 6,100 bales for Hongkong and 8,000 bales for Shanghai; Shipments from Hong- kong to Shanghai and comet porta mil.
Shanghai market has been very lively during the interval where
WANTED. Experienced
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the prices have considerably SAKURA BEER
and reports show increased brighter future prospects.
Japanese Yards have reached to almost prohibitive rates and business is done only in very small lot in selected chops.
to those in present need, while Royal Flying Corps
Hospital the more permanent arrange-a ments, which take time to T.M.C.A. Hut Fund 3,004 8 7 establieb, mast necessarily be The British Women's left for later effort. On this Hospital (Star and and Garter Build- principle, the Prisoners of War Fand has been largely assisted; ing Food) 2,455 9.8 ed to 30th June... $454,180.87 the War Charities are now com- French Red Cross 2,130 0 0 Balance of account in
Floe- 115] Dreadnought
London #680.14.3 pletely supporting some -prisoners through the Central pital
2,000 0 0 Balance of account in
Hongkong Committee, and letters of scknow- Lord Roberts Memo
ial Workshop 1,525 0 0 Total subscriptions to ledgment are beginning to arrive. The Officers Families Fand Dr. Barnardo's Homes 1,100 0:0
June 30, 1917, 8472,843.54 appeared to derive less aesistance Relief in Northern from the National Relief Fund France
...1,000 0 0 then other objects of the same British and Foreign
Ssilors asture, and to be in very pressing
Society 700 00 need. Babscriptions were there- Minesweepers' Fund 600 0 0 fore made to it, while the large National Committee
Far Eastern War Donations. balance in the hands of the for relief in Belgium 591 110
Farther donations received for The following is the approxi National Relief Fand (to which Hospital Auxillaire
"Our Day" include £505 as the mate statement of the Hongkong *113 Honfleur
result of a garden fete at Puket Tramway Company's Hongkong had made en betantial
traffo Fabeoriptions under the title of the The Blue Cross Fand 512 3 6 Siam, and an additional £302 receipts for the week ending Prince of Wales Fund) made Charch Army Fund 380 0 0 from the people of British North July 14, 1917 it unnecessary to assist those ob- Soldiers and Bailore
500 00
514
N. J. STABB, Hon. Treasurer.
Borneo. Included amonget the jects which more immediately Families Association 287 8 3 general subscriptions to the Rad participated in its benefits-sach Royal Patriotic Fand as the Soldiers and Sailors Fam-
Corporation
ilies Association, Boldiers and Queen Mary Royal
abled Military and
Raw Cotton.-No sales. Quots-- tions:-Bengal at $47 to $55 Chinese at $50 to $85 per pical.
TRAMWAY BETURNS.
Hecaipa Aggregats for week. Receipta for Croen Fund is a farther handsome This Year: $14,414-8375,141
28 wooka,
200 0 0 gift of £1,750 from the Hongkong Last Year:... 15,759 386,518
War Charities Committee. Per the ncrease:
Sailors Help Society and the Naval Hospital Fand 200 Royal Patriotic Kand Corporation Imperial Asecoistion (which' deals with widows, or. for assisting dis phans, and other: dependants, of soldiers and milors who have died during the war).
The English Red Crom Find... Children Rugby
0
0 Overs Club come a donation of Decrease:
£24 78. 8d. from the Newohwang.
Branch of the P.L.B.O., and one
of $25 from the Kores Branch. Bir
Naval Officers.... 200 0 0 Charles Dudgeon, a regular subs
Education of Offoern?
has been left to depend largely Arethuse
War Memorial 2000
Training
soïber to the Red Crese Fand, sends a further 810 from 8
1,345-11,377
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMBAT,
TO BE LET.
0 Remo, and “a lady missionary” of on the proceeds of "Our Day,"
Teinsa contributes £10 to the except for ear-marked sums; but
Ship:
200 0 0"Star and Garter Fond." The subscriptions have been made to Bailors' Memorial
sum of £1 17s. Elincent TO BE LET-Nd: the Bed Crows and Hospital Fand
200 0 0 from B... Malays, collect Peak, furnished or unfurnished, STEWART TERRACE Tands of our Allies, and zber : Lord Kitchener Nation
ad at service held on board.
immediate possession. DENNYS al Memorial Fund 164 10 4 L und O. Mmprese,
& BOWLEY,
**ot been forgotte
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