GENERAL NEWS.
Scarlet Fever at Dalren.
There is an epidemio of scarlet
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1918,
NOTICES,
Take home some
faver at Dairen, according to the VICTOR DANCE RECORDS
Manchuria Daily News. Twenty osses occurred in the latter part of February and the disease is re-i ported to have assumed great virulence.
Prohibitiva Cost of Coal. The Nagoya Chamber of Com- merce has set about studying ways and means of regulating the price of egal which is steadily advancing, and seriously imped. ing the development of industries. It has already sent if maüifestoer to various Chambers of Commerce and expects to present some con- crete measure to the authorities. The Tokio Chamber of Commerce, which supports the movement initiated by the Nagoya institu tion, proposes to appoint a epecial Committee to study the problem.
Returning Iron Crosses. London, January 15 Ao ap- peal in being circulated among mutilated German officers and soldiers having the Iron Crose, asking them to return the crosses sa a protest against the fast that' a number of "bame warriors" and leaders of the Fatherland Party are wearing the esme ia: signis, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Am. sterdam. There had been a large response, thirteen hundred crosses from Berlin alone being esat to the War Minister the first day the appeal appeared.
A Warning to Chian, The N. O. D. Ha strongly re- commends the Chinese authorities to watch carefully all outgoing Birangera from Tientsin se it has heard of several enemy subjects trying to book railway tickets to → Petrograd.... They ought to be most carefully watched se no doubt there are still plenty of fsked passports to be obtained from Sommer's Passport Factory, These Germans, the Ma s078, have the impertinence of Satan bimself. A number of them speak Russian and try of course to puss themselves off as Russians.
Big Shanghai Claim,
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A case involving over a million
franos is at preeent pending in
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Labour Unrest in Japan.
The labour norest is becowing
the French Consular Cari at general all over Japan, eccording Shangbai. The plaintiffs are the to the Kokusai Nama Agency. French Tramways Company and A Fakushima, 1,CCO hands em- they are seeking reimburement ployed in the Spinuing Mille have
NOTICES.
HONGKONG HORTICUL- TURAL SOCIETY.
from the French Municipal Ceared work. They demand en THE ANNUAL SHOW of
Flowers and Vegetables
Gardens,
THURSDAY
the 4th March, at 2 to
6 pm. Admission $1.00 (children
half price) Mrs. Looker will present the prizes at 5 pm.
Council for losses alleged to have increase in their wages of twenty to be held in the Botanical
Too aarest showe been suffered dae to the council's per cent. refusal to grant a permit for sigue of spreading in that pari increasing electrio light and of Japa water rates in the Concession, Popular Spring Resort Ruined: Its reported from Nagenobars. The complainanta ask for three cents per kilowatt hour indemnity Gauma Ken, that a fire broks cat on electricity supplied to residenta Shikazia Bot Spring in Ken in the French concession, and Gonma Gan, Gunma reimbursement for losses sustain recently. Nearly all of the hotels ed in the water supply. The and other houses were destroyed losses are Faid to have been and the place was entirely rained. cansed by the recent rises in The damage is expected to re.cù the cost of cosi,
Action by the Hongkong Bank.
The cses of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Teraua three German antiota
an enormous amount.
NOTICES.
R. Landt, Mrs. Martha Batch CHINESE Y. M. G. A.
and Mr. Bateck-was concluded before the Shanghai Mixed Court resently. The claim is to enforce a.judgment of the German Con- sular Court which had sabae. quently been upheld by the Court of Appeal at Leipsic.
At a pre- viona hearing before, the Mixed Court an order was made that the
COMMERCIAL NIGHT
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COURSES OFFERED.
Bookkeeping,
Typewriting,
plaintiffs should be empowered Blind Touch method, Business
FRIDAY
the 15th March, at 2 to
6.p.m......
Admission 30 cts.
The Band of the 18th Infantry will play on both days.
Tea will be supplied at 50 cents per head by the Hongkong Hotel (who have generously offered to give half the proceeds to War Charities.}
H. B. L DOWBIGGIN, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 8th March, 1918:
HONGKONG CLUB.
Management THE
Mandarin. Animal Husbandry.
FOUR CLASSES
. NOTICE.
THIRTY - SECOND- YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the. Members of the Hongkong Club, will be hald in the Club House, on MONDAY,
to sell German Consular Lot Na Training Office 185 registered in the name of R Landi and that the bank sborld recoup themselves to the extent of their claim, Tie. 40,000. The order naked for wae granted. Japanese Supplanting Germans. night, five nights a week.
London, February 23.-A cer
E. DES VEUX, The term opens Monday, Hongkong, 2nd March, 1918. respondent cf the "Fall Mall
March fith Particulars on Gazette gaye that be supposes that! everybody has noticed the recent application. increase in number of Japanese
in English, meeting two hours a the 18th March, 1918, at 5.30 P.M.
CHINESE Y. M. "C, A.
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IMROD'S
in London and doubtlees their Tel. 460. presence has been duly reported to Berlin. It must provide a cause for hard thinking among] those distinguished Tentone who' are laying plans for the German trade after the war. Many of these Japanese are concerped, of course, with what used to be the German trade. The Corres- pondent has already bought two! or three articles bearing the words, "Made in Japan." They are better in every way and far mois artistic than similar warsh that used to be made in Germany,
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100
$5.30
100
4.65
50
2.35
10
.50
Extra Fine (Grand Formal) Néctar Yildiz
50
2.35
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.40
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75
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50
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SOLE AGENTS --
HE committee beg to notify
the Show will be held sometime during March. on a date to be notified later,
It has been decided to include Poultry provided that sufficient entries are forthcoming.
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NOTICES.
THE HONGKONG. & SOUTH CHINA WAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.
APPLICATION fotos for Membership of the above Association may be obtained from all the Banks or from the undersigned..
THE UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD., Honorary Secretaries d Treasurers. Hongkong, 15th January, 1917.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY
CLUB.
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PURCHASERS OF PARI- MUTUEL TICKETS on the -fifth-Raro,~Second Day, for and Cash Sweeps. - Placos winners, also Cash Sweep tick- et holders of following Races can obtain a refund on pro- duction of their ticket at the Office of the Hongkong Jockey Club, on the Ground Floor of the HONGKONG CLUB ANNEXE, Chater Road, be- tween the hours of 3.30 P.M. .and 5.30 P.M. on MONDAY, 4th March, 1918' until 29th Match (SATURDAYS and 'and SUNDAYS excepted). HOLDERS OF UNPAID WIN- 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.
NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
the Firm of AR,
Marty. Rene Salle Successor, has from the 12th February, 918 sold to Messrs. P. A Lapicque & Co., the 8 s. "Hanol" which ineures, the Postal Service, ba tween Hongkong and Haiphong, and also the right to use the name of A. R. Marty, Compagnie de Navigation Tonkinoise.
The business will hereafter be carried on by Messrs. P. A Lapicque & Co., 4, Queen's Building, Telephone No. 950.' :-
P. A. Lapicque & Co. · Maison, A. B. Marty,
Rene Salle. Bucer, 5th March; 1918,
Hongkon
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DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO, P. O. Box 431.
THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
THE TWENTY-NINTH OR- DINARY ANNUAL MEET- ING OF TAE SHARE- HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offices of the
Company. St. George's Building,
Chater Road, Victoria Hong kong, on SATURDAY, the 23rd day of March, 1918, at 10 d'clock in the forenoon for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of. the Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1917, and declar- ing a Dividend.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 14th March, 1918, until 8ATURDAY, the 23rd March, 1918, both days inclusive,
By Order of the BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Hongkong, 5th March, 1918.