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NOTICE,

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IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that in

Iance WA PEGULATIONS published under GOWERMENT NOTI PICATION "No. 514 of 3rd November. 1917, commencing from 1st January next, all PRIVATE RICKSHAS have to be LICENSED at an Annual License Fee of $10, payable in advance.

Ricksha-drivers have to be Licensed

at a Fee of 30 cents half yearly.

C. McL. MESSER

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Captain Superintendent of Folice.

Hongkong. Dec. 17, 1917.

HONGKONG HOTEL

TEA DANCES.

9390

THE MANAGEMENT beg to anounce

that in future the CHARON FOR TEA INCLUDING THR PRIVELEGE OF DANCINGO will be $1 per head 25% of which sum will be donated by the Hotel Company to War Charities

J. E. TAGGART,

Manager.

Hongkong, Dec. 19, 1917.

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC “

COMPANY, LIMITED.

DEFORE PURCHASING ELEC BTRICAL APPLIANCES for use in connection with the Company's supply, Consumers are recommended to com- municate with the Undersigned with a view to ascertaining :-

1. If the Appliances, and their use, are in accordance with the Com- pany's Regulationa.

2. It tho Wiring "of the premises where it is intended to instal such Appliances is suitable.

It is important that the foregoing. information should be obtained from the Company, as not only does the ne cleat to do so endanger property by

fre but in addition may lead to a con- travention of the Ozdiranco.

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO.,

Agente.

Hongkong, Dec. 15, 1917..

£356

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

NO_IFICATION.Į

TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the 8th January proximo, at 3 p.m. the Public Works Department, and before a Committee presided by the Engineer Director of the Public Works, TENDERS will be received for the enntract of"

"ERECTION OF A BUILDING for the Colonial Secretary's Office.

The conditions of the tendering, the specifications and the plans of the build- ing are open to the public at the Public Works Department and in the Portu guese Consulate in Hongkong, where they can be examined all week days.

Masa Pablic Works Department

6th December, 1917.

RAUL M. DE FARIA & MARIA,

Engineer Director. Hongkong, Dec. 14, 1917.*** 2301

In the Matter of THE COMPANIES CONSOLIDATION ACT 1905.

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In the Matter of NATIONAL BANK

OF CHINA, LIMITED.

(IN LIQUIDATION).

CITES

THE CHINA MAIL

A Quarter Deck Council Unanimous decision in favour of

FELUCCA EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES

Possess an individuality and distinction that never fails to charm.

THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., LTD.

SHIPPING SUBSIDIES.

MONSTER GERMAN BILL.

It will be remembered that the essential feature of the Bill is the making of direct grants to the shipowners, the amounts

Government mono- be true that two-fifika of Geacao tonange shipping to form & poly, and that the effect of a Government bad heen lost, but the ralne of the manopoly would be to threaten German remaining three-fifths had been trebled. trade with the loss of the international Moreover, many new ships. had been possibilities of expansion upon which its ordered and would be completed. It was It appears untros that the position of the German greness has been bayad." The important Bill for the restoration from this and other statements that Ges- mercantile marine was extremely bad. of the German Mercantile Marino, lins many seriously expects enemy countries and although it would not be so large Dow passed the second reading in the to adopt a differedt attitude towards this after the wat so it was before, there would Reichstag. The Bill has undergoes very tremendous scheme of Government sub-be plenty of tonnage available. The pre few considerable changes, but the report sidies from the attitude which it would sent gift to the shipping interests of the Reichsing Committee on its secret sdept towards an arowed Government amounted to at least as much as the whole debates, and the second reading debate monopoly of shipping.

of the capital originally invested in in the Reichstag itself, shed. fresh light The Government successfully resisted German shipping, and this gift, which on the ambitious German plan.

all proposals that it should secure the wis to be taken from the German tax- right of purchase of eubsidized ships, or payers, workmen, and soldiers, would that it should secure a share of the ulti- amount to more than the levy on capital. mate profits on subsidized ships. The in the year before the war. The present, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a being graduated from 80 per cent. to 20 Government, whose arguments throughout concessions to the shipowners would only. Seventh and Final return of Capital per cest, of the pease raise of the parti. wenn to has been those of the Hanbury excourage them to make fresh demands, and Dividend at the rate of Forty Cents (Hongkong Currency) per abare will be cular ship. according to the speed with Amerika Lip, said that the old mail in order to meet the competition with the paid on and after SATURDAY, the 22nd which the particular ship is put into steamer subsidies bad not been a success, mercantile marine of other countries. day of DECEMEX, 1817, at Nook to commission. The Goycrament and the and that schemes for the division of profita Berr Henke declared that the policy of registered holders of A and B Shares upon Application to

shipping interests have defeated all between the Government and owners were subsidies could only be ended, like the the case of Shares on the London objections, and the Gorman Empire will not really practical.

expansion of armaments, by international Messrs. LOWE, shortly be pledged to expenditure of an Fhere was a great deal of discussion as agreement. BINGHAM & MATTHEWĒ, unknown' amount—the smallest estimate

Thorners' Chambers,

is £50,000,000 for the reconstruction of Ingram Court,

German shipping. 167, Fenchurch Street, LONDON, EC.

The Committee Report to the Reich In the case of Shares on the Colozial (Hongkong) Register —

sing anye that the Government insisted Messrs LOWE,

upon the urgency of legislation, on the BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,

ground that the shipbuilders must be Chartered Bank Bailding,

3 Queen's Road, Central, enabled to make all their plans and to

Hongkong

conslade contracts with the building Share Certificates must be produced yards. The Government said that it was for endorsement..

AB LOWE,

Liquidator.

Elegister :-

Hongkong, Nov. 8, 1917.

In the Maller of THE COMPANIES CONSOLIDATION" ACT, 1908

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aware of the seriousness of the new financial burder but that direct grante

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2278 without any provision for repayment, would alone be satisfactory, It was suggested that the immediate conse quence of the prasing of this Bill would' bé a food of similar demands from other industries. To this, the Government replied that the position of shipping was quite peculiar, that its restoration was an absolute necessity, and that without mercantile mazine the whole German

In the Walter of THE NATIONAL ·

BANK OF CHINA LIMITED,

(IN LIQUIDATION).

to the probable expenditure under the Eill. As already explained, the lowest estimate is £50,000,000, and this figuze was accepted by the Imperial Treuwary.

A GIFT TO THE SILPPING INTERESTE In the second reading debate the Government upheld all the arguments of the shipping interests; a National Faberal said that the grest object must be to make Germany independent of. British shipping after the war; and the argument was freely used that the there ships Germany

can build the more she will save through the fact that the vast quantities of raw materials that Germany will need will be imported in German ships.

The only real opposition came from the Independent Scialista. Their spokesman a Bremen Deputy named Henke, He expressed the utmost scepticism about the Government estimates of probable expenditure, and said that the whole Bill

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a

Final General Meeting of the people would be unable to recover from above-named. Company will be held at the consequences of the war. Derman wan the work of the shipping Interests, the office of the Liquidator Chartered shipping had been peculiarly unprotected, The Government was making them an Bank Ballding & Queen's Bond, Central, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong on because there was no immunity for absolute gifs, although it red nothing SATURDAY, 22nd December, 1917, st

private property as sea, and the losses of about the workers in the textile and Noon, precisely, for t

, for the pur

purpose of having

the

count of the Liquidator, showing German whipping had been incgely due the manner in which the Windg up the measures of the German Cover

and the property

In reply to the sous

had been condoned of

the Company

before

making wires gift to the very str the German pass the following Extra Felnimed that the Bill is ko ordinary Resolutio

organized „German, sasmen

melt meeting, and explanations that may be given by Liquidator, and to pass bis remunerations,

Documents of the Com1

Liibid tor thereof

extred

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that the

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We are all interested in the fatċ Tipperary," that most tragic song in "British history, to the strains of which the old army marched to its death. Major Corbett Smith, in his new book, thus describes its position to day,

It seems now almost on a par with the National Anthems of the Allies. For it is oftam song at the end of a con- cert with "God Save the King" and very frequently the men rise to their feet for the singing of it. Several times I have seen it noted in the Press that Tipperary is daad. That is incor- rect. It has become canonical, if one may use the term, by reason of its alsociation with the men of the old army, and so it is sung on special occa- tions culy

Little did the composer dream that his tone, written for an hour, would become

landmark in British history!

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