JISORIM
GENERAL NEWS.
New Japanse Park.
In May last the work of laying out a new park st Nakanoshima, Oaks, was commenced. The park will be shortly finished, and will be opened to the publis from March 15 next. The new park is 6,500 tsuba in ares, and i fitted with many modern sppliances.
Accident in Kare Harbour La the harbour of Kare, recant ly the funnel of a naval launch was carried away by a wire cable which it tried to pass under. The destruction of the fannel asused an explosion in the engine-room, injaring two blasjsokets vavurely. One of them soon succumbed, while the other is in a precarioas condition.
Britain's Trade Rivals. What broadly distinguished American from English society was the sbeence of tradition, asid Mr. Gordon Selfridge, presiding on Deo 5th at a meeting of the Aldwych Club. Lack of edua3- ) tional
*tests was mainly re- sponsible for the contempt in- which commerce -wan beld.
and he s8 glad to hear! that a University degree in -commerce was given in Birming- ham and Edinburgh. A similar practice was adopted in America' aome time ago, and Harvard and Columbia had organised remark. ably fine commerical courses. This should be borne in mind in England, for England after the war would have to meet the rivalry of Amerios and Germany, two aggressive countries that held commerce in high bonour.
A Chinese Discovery. According to the Chinese Press an interesting diecovery has been made by the Chinese police, who recently found concealed in a house near Langhua a complete wireless telegraphy outfit. It appears that" ite OWDER of, the property, а paper marahant, living in the Inter national Settlement, purchased four years ago about 12 - mow of land for the purpose of establish- ing there a tomb and shrines for the reception of ancestral tablets. In one of the room of a honio was discovered a wire- Jane installation concealed in s wooden case, while from another. room projected a pole bearing the aerials. The place has been scaled by the authorities who have placed a guard over it and it is reported that the matter will be brought before the International- M'red Court.
Alleged Unsealing of Private
Letter.
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fature, for many thousands of families have been using thres pounds a month or less for the whole family. To the excessive Twenty men is esilor uniforme candy, manufacturing most be and two civiliane, recently raided jasorïbed a large part of the enor- the shop of the Pigott printing mone sugar consumption of the concern, 83, Pike Street in Beattle. United States. held up the employees and in 10
100 ton Telescope.
TO BE LET,
TO BE LET.
TO BE LET-EUROPEAN TO BE LET. From 1st April FLAT (Bottom Floor) No. 565-ROOMED HOUSE, Apply Box next. 14A MacDonnell Road, Kennedy Road, with bath room, 40 o/a Hongkong Telegraph." detached servants' quarters, and electric lights already installed. Apply, Young Hee, Tel. Nos. 551; and 900.
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THE
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TO BE LETA FLAT in
Nathan Road, Kowloon FOUR ROOMED-HOUSES in Kowloon.
Apply to:- HUMPHREYS ESTATE FINANCE CO., LTD., ·
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at
WANTED-AN ELECTRI CAL or MARINE EN GINEER is required-as-a-Shift Engineer the Generating Station of the HONGKONG & ELECTRIC CO., LTD. Wanchai.)
Apply in writing accompanied by details of experience and copies of testimonial to The Manager. HONGKONG ELEC- TRIC CO., LTD., St. George's
TO BE LET-From 1st April Buildings.
pext, Ground Floor Flat- CALDER," 14 MacDonnell Road, 3 large rooms, spacious verandah, bath and dressing rooms, kitchen, pantry, etc. Apply FOR
FOR SALE. SALE-TUSCULUM, Barker Road, 155 Peak
Lane, Crawford & Co.
Box 420 c/o Hongkong Tele-appir DUNCAN CLARK, c/o graph."
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STRAW HATS
TEL.
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NEW STYLES
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forms for Membership of the above Association may be obtained from all the Banks or from the undersigned.
APPLICATION
NOTICE.
SURANCE CO., LTD. (Incorporated in the United
*Kingdom)
HAVING
been appointed MARINE AGENTS to the above Company, we are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS and issue Policies at Current Rates."
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MR. HONDA, Frained male Mamamo Elevou years experienos. Formerly of Tokyo: Kliday Hospital, WILL VISIT PATIENTS; RESIDENCES
IF PREFERRED MOR: No. 2JB QEEEK'S ROAD, EAST.
Will permeate the atmo sphere of your rooms, and kill all flys, mosquitos and disease germs. Harmless THE UNION INSURANCH and of pleasant odour. Outfits SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.Consisting of atomizer and Honorary Secretaries & bottle of fluid, price the legal proceedings to keep
[$6.00 net. minutes almost completely wreck. The 100 inch mirror of the
Treasurers. Miller out of the go. Another Hongkong, 15th January, 1917. ed the plant. The Seattle DailyCall, as Mount Wilson telescope has
iejanction.03ae was filed at Val a Somialist paper, the Industrial safely completed its perilous nine
Religious Society in Trouble. paraiso and s transcript of pre- Mr. C. Weston, an Indian mer-Workers, an I, W. W. publication, mile ascent of the mountsin side. Trouble bas arisen in the man-vious proceedings is to be certified chhot residing in Umede-cho, and other papers are printed in and is now securely installed in agement of the Korosomi-kvo, a to Governor Goodrich with a view Kita-ko, Oaks, has filed a com- the shop, bat their editorial the observatory, says the San religious society, the besquart to having the Governor appoint pisint in the Minami Police cffices are maintained elsewhere, Francienn correspondent of the tere of which are eltasted at a judge to bear one of the injano THE UNITED BRITISH IN- Station against Mr. T. Hiroi, the Squads of detectives, polica and Daily Express. The priceless Omoto, Bizen Provizors Theon csees. It is claimed that proprietor of the Eogen Shokwai, members of the naval patrol were mirror, which took twelve years to asolety recently ran into debt to Miller's alien citizenship debaze @basinesa firm in Kodzo unable to find the raiders among cast and shape and cannot be the amount of over 300,000, him from serving as Mayor, and 4-bancho, Minami-ko, also of the crowds of blarjsckets on duplicated in the rough, owing to and the devotees of the cals bave also that he was not legally Ozaka, on a ohs-ge of un- leave in the city.
the war, is expected by many in beld a mass meeting to vote selected. ceiling a private letter on the Pledged Against Hoarding. ite explorations of the abysses of reorganisation of the present.j 18th instant. The complainant The 75,000 members of the space to solve at last the mystery management. states that be ia the O-aka agent 317 women's organisations whiob of the casale of Mare; to bring no of Mesure, A. C. Cessis & Oc., are affiliated with the New York fewer than 100,000,000 new suns John S. Sargent's portrait of Calcutta, India. On the 8th inet City Federation of Women's into the observer's ked to ad- President Wilson for which he act a letter was addressed him in Clubs have pledged themselves vance materially the solation of received $50,000, was placed on care of the respondent'a firm by not to board food themselves, and the mystery, of the origin of view at the Metropolitan Museum the Indian firm. This letter it is to try to persuade others not to the universe by determining of Art in New York. It will scon alleged, was unsealed by an hoard table supplies. This action till farther the nature of be sent to the Dublin Art Gallery, employee of Mr. Hiroi without any is timely, now that the new crop the gasey nebulae, whiob, as the money came from the will
THIRTY SECOND authority, and then was sent to of sugar is about to come science is cenerally agreed, are of Sir Hago Lane who was the
THE
YEARLY GENERAL into the market, The food anboro worlds-aupe and placets director of that institution and MEETING of the Members "of THE HONGKONG JOCKEY boy. The complainant adds that administrators say there will be visibly in the making. The mirror was lost with the Lusitanis. Mr. the Hongkong Club, will be held the letter in question contained a a reasonable amonat of sugar weighe four and a belf tone, end Sargent asked that price so that in the Club House, on MONDAY, draft, and that he would reserve for every family, with a con all sorts of remarkable mechanical he might contribute the entire the 18th March, 1918, at 5.30 P.M. a doubt as to what else had been tinacu supply in eight, if no precautions have been adopted to sum to the Red Cross."
By Order, enclosed in it. Investigatione pereen crosede his three ponude sprevent any climatic or other in- General Goethals' New Position.
E. DES VOUX, are now being made by the police month. Its a fair distribution of terference with the 100 'ton Major General George W. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1918. regarding the responsibility or sugar can be managed there relercope of which it forms the Goethals was recently appointed
should be no shortage in the most important part.
by Mr. Baker se arting quarter.
THE HONGKONG "ROPE master-general, to serve aleo an MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. director of the War Department transportation and storage Wide TBE THIRTY-FOURTH OR- eronomica in cars and in shipping DINARY ANNUAL MEET- charges are expected from thie ING OF SHAREHOLDERS in Cntralization in one agency of the above, Company will be held farctiona beretofore exercised by at St. George's Building, Chater five departmental Euresex in Road. Victoria on SATURDAY the 9th March,, 1918, at 11.30 dependently.
o'clock in the forenoon for the
the complainant through an office
otherwise of Mr. Hirsi.
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Black, overeme, and expel from the blood all impurtice (from whatever cause arxing), and by rendering it clean and pare, can be relied on to effect a completa and lasting care.
**richar Euzems, Scrofula, Bad Leg, 1 composed of ingredients which quickly
Abromsson, Bleora, Glandular Swellings, Bolls, Pimples. Bares Vofjeny Wadi Pilas, Blood Poison, „Abeumatism, Gout, eta. ?IT, 3don't waste your tímann money on
Jowa Sotions and rozwy, oltzzenia which cannot get below the surface of the skin... What you want, and what you must bare 91o be permanently'etand, la a medicine (Skat-will thoroughly free the blood of the Polacotta malice which alone is the tra POETAS DE SU VOR BEITRAG. Chita's BlocĀ.
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Allen Enemy Mayor Assumes Office,
"BONCTONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
purposes of receiving a State ment of Accounts and the Report In spite of efforts to keep him of the General Managers for the out of the office, Mr. Fred O year ending 31st December, 1917, Miller, alien enemy, who wse and electing a Consulting Com elected Heroz of Michigan City mittee and Auditors, p in November, was aworn into the The TRANSFER BOOKS of office recently. The incident the Company will be CLOSED WEA not accompanied by die from TUESDAY the 5th March order, Mr. Miller and his supath March, 1918, both days in- 1918, UNTIL SATURDAY the porters having entered the Mayor's office at a time when Martia Kraeger, the retiring magistrate, I was absent. This does not end
clusive,
"SHEWAN, TOMES & CO,”
General Managers. Hongkong, 27th February, 1918.
Queen's Buildings, Hongkong 1st February, 1918,
CLUB.
WANTED.
Names for 1918. issue of the HONGKONG
DIRECTORY DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO. P. O. Box 431,
PURCHASERS OF PARI- MUTUEL TICKETS on the fifth Race, Second Day, for Cash Sweeps. Places and winners, also Cash Sweep tick- et holdere of following Races can obtain a refund on pro- duction of their ticket at the Office of the Hongkong Jackey Club, on the Ground Floor of THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the AS50CTA- EXPORTERS AND
THE ASSOCIATION OF EXPORTERS & DEALERS
OF HONGKONG...
the BONGKONG CLUB ANNEXE. Chater Road, be-TION OF tween the Hours of 3.30 P.M.DEALERS OF HONGKONG will be and 5.30 F.M. on MONDAY held on WEDNESDAY, 6th 4th March, 1918. uotii 29th March, 1918 at 4.P.M. Drenisal March (BATURDAYS and in the CHAMBER OF COM and BUNDAYS excepted), MERCE ROOM CHARTERED BANK BUILDING, for the fol- HOLDERS OF UNPAID WIN-
lowing purpos→→ ING" TICKETS (Cash Sweeps, Places and Winners) will also be paid at the same place and between. the same hours, as stated above on production of tickets,
LOWE, BINGHAM.
& MATTHEWS Accountants to the Hongkong Jockey Club. Hongkong, 28th February, 1918.
(1) To receive the Report and i
Accounts of the Committee for the year ended 31st December, 19177
(2) To elect a New Comfaltee. (3) To, transact any General
Business
"By Order, EAM WILLIAMS,
Hongkong, 2nd
Sonetary