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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

SANITARY BOARD ELECTION.

To the Electora GENTLEMEN,

I had the honour of being annoliaet your, and

serve on the Sanitary Bused during the few months for which I served did my atmest to farther the interests of the Community. I have boon asked to offer myself for election on this occasion and now do so.

Primarily, I may say, I am asked to stand

PUBLIC COMPANIES

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21st, 1915.

THE WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

TWENTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be hold at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, LIMITED, on TOESDAY, the 2nd February, 1915, at the 1180 m for the purpose of receiving Report of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December,

Tho

INTIMATION

& CO., LTD.

representing the interests of Kowloon and the 1014 aroma of SHARES of the WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

Mainland, but I trust that I have shown during my former short tenure that my energies will

Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY,

be devoted to sil parts of the Colony 22nd January, to TUESDAY, 2nd February

Should you honour me by electing me on this occasion, you may rest assured that I shall work interests without fear and without in your favour.

I am, Gentlemen, Your Obedient Servant, PHILIP W. GOLDRING. Hongkong, 20th January, 1915,

NOTICE.

1915 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered. By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the

My Co., LTD.,

WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LTD., Hongkong, 13th Janoary, 1915.

beyond all precedent." An Exposition on the gigantic scale contemplated as a great international celebration of the

Canal opening of

possibly be postponed for an indefinite period. six short.

could note Panama

ແ

B

A. S. WATSON months before the date fixed for the Forty-two foreign opening ceremony. natione are participating and all will be in readiness for the opening on the schedule date February 20th. One can not resist the impression on reading all these assurances that it is case of protesting too much, though a full conception of the immense amount of money which must have been spent on making this Exposition the greatest show on earth" enables us to understand Par Bot. and appreciate this extreme anxiety to let the world know that, in spite of the war, $2.65 early promises will be more than adequate ly fulfilled. It would be foolish indeed

BRANDY.

HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY.

1180

General Agents for the

A. SUPERIOR PALE

Per Case af 1 dez,

830.40:

1160

B. SUPERIOR

OLD

COGNAC

33.70

WATSON'S

XXX

COGNACIMA

04.80

WATSON'S

XXX

COGNAC Half bottles 2 dos

87.00

L'UNION FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD., OF PARIS.

TE HAVE taken over the Agency of the above Company formerly held by Mesto, SIEMOSEN & Co., and are prepared to ACCEPT RISES from this date.

CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME ORIENT,

Prince's Buildings,

Hongkong, 20th January, 1915.

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SOLIGNUM

TOE

WOOD WORK, BRICK WORK,

ETC.

Absolute death to the White Ant;

Manufactured by MAJOR & CO., HULL. Supplied in

BROWN, RED AND GREEN COLOURS OF VARIOUS SHADES,

Sole Agents:-

THE CHINA IMPORT AND EXPORT LUMBER Co., LTD.

Telephone 1710. Hongkong, 21st January, 1916,

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DIRECTORY

PROTESTANT

THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE LIMITED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the No

FIRST ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Mr. JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANT, LIMITED, TUESDAY, the 2nd February, 1916, at 11.45 AM, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the State ment of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1914

оп

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, 22nd January, to TUESDAY, 2nd February, 1915 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered. By Order of the Board of Directors.

THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LTD.

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

THE GENERAL MANAGERS. Hongkong, 13th January, 1916A(159

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO.,

LIMITED. ANA

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS In this Company will be held at the Ofices of Messrs. JANDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, LIMITED,

C. BUPERIOR OLD

LIQUEUR COGNAC," Gold Capsulo

D. VERY FINE OLD

40.30

PALE LIQUEUR COGNACI 48.90

BOUTELLEAU'S CHAMPAGNE LIQUEUR 32.40

E. FINEST OLD BROWN

BRANDY... de

$9.50

MARTE BRIZARD d ROGER'S TEINE PALE COGNAC F... 31:50

8. V. V. O. COGNAC 78,70

V. O, L, 10 Yeira Old...119.30

UNITED VINEYARD

~ PROPRIETORS, 757)

Years Old...

157.50

200

4.03

· 4.66

write at least one letter to

CORRESPONDENCE.

MACAO'S SILTED HARBOUR.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,""]

SIK, Financially, Macao is at the present time in a flourishing state, but if Portugal is faithful to her undertakings the opium trade by which she at present largely profits will become extinct in a few years and thus the largest item in Macao's revenue budget will disappear.

What is Macto doing by way of pre- paring for that time? Is the Government of the Colony doing anything to encourage the trade and commerce of

of the place!

About $150,000 was spent on dredging a channel 111 feet wide and 11 feet deep at low tide, to unable steamers trading between Hongkong and Macao to enter. with facility, but this channel, left to the mercy of the wash of the sea, has slited up, and though there are buoys to mark the place, there is now practically no channel at all.

DISAPPEARANCE OF $1,000. CURIOUS CASE WITH MYSTERIOUS

FEATURES.

At the Criminal Sessions yesterday, before the Chief Justice (Hon. Sir W. Rees Davies, K.C.), a Chinese woman named Chan Bin I was indicted on twʊ counts charging her with the fraudulent conversion of a sum of $1,900, and the larceny of the same amount as bailce, the money being the property of one Fong Tin San, of 45, Queen's Road West,

Prisoner pleaded not guilty, and the following jury was empanelled: -Mezers. W. J. Crawford (foreman), A. R. Kinross, H. F. Bunje, A. H. Abbass, A. McDougul Black, F. P. Shroff, and L. G. Cordeiro.

The Attorney-General (Hou: Mr. J. H, Kemp) prosecuted, and prisoner was undefended.

The Attorney General said that this was curious case, with several rather mysterious features, and it would require very careful attention on the part of the jury--which he was sure they would give and very careful sifting of the evidence. On the evidence for the Crown, and on the broad features of the case, he thought

to imagine that the Exposition has not suffered at all by the war, but it must 9.00 be extremely gratifying to the promoters and to all the nations participating to have the assurance that the aim to make 1.60 it the greatest ever known in Exposition history has been achieved. The main concern of the promoters now is to remove, 3.45 wherever it may exist, the impression that the war will entail & postponement of the opening of the Exposition and as one means of doing this a million letters were posted in San Francisco on Thanks giving Day last month. Every resident of the State of California was asked to a friend 4.55 outside of California assuring him that the Exposition will open on time and that the European ver will not harm the 965 success of the Exposition or its attractive contraband. A gentleman who crossed cubine of a man named Fong Tin San, 6.65 ness. But for the war, there can be no from Hongkong in the steamer called at who was a merchant, and the money

doubt that crowds of people from all parts the Harbour Master's Office the next day,

prisoner was charged with stealing belong. 9.05 of the wide world would be attracted to Sunday, but was unable to obtain any

the Exposition, but it is to be feared information; he asked to see the Harboured to him. The money was that, as it is, the Exposition will have to Master, who resides on the Harbour Office rely almost entirely for support on the premises, but was told that the Harbour peoples of North and South America, Master does not like to be disturbed when attract a considerable number of people great difficulty ho succeeded in having an from China, Japan, the Philippines, interview with the Assistant Harbour and other Asiatic countries which will be Master, but was unable to obtain from represented by exhibits at the Exposition him any information.

I can quite understand that the Harbour Master would like to have his rest on a

On Saturday last the Japanese steamer Taman Maru Yo. 5, carrying about a thousand tons of salt, was unable to enter there was no altenative but to chargo the harbour, and had to return to Hong the prisoner with stealing the money, and kong to discharge her cargo. The he thought the jury would be satisfied that steamer was lying off the lighthouse, about the woman was concerned in the abstraes three miles away, and though the Salt tion of the money The Attorney-General Monopolist tried his hardest to obtain explained that the charge of fraudulent lighters to go and discharge the cargo, conversion did not mean that the prisoner actually used the money herself-it might he was unsuccessful, the lighter people have been shared with an accomplic alleging, in the first place, that the state Larceny by bailce meant the stealing of of the weather made the work dangerous; money or goods which had been lawfully and, secondly, that the steamer was in received from somebody cleo for safe Chinese waters, and salt in Chins in

Custody

The prisoner was the first con-

13.15

These Brandies bottled by

on TUESDAY, 2nd February, 1915, at Noon, ourselves are guaranteed Grape though we have no doubt that it will he is in his private apartments. With what was clearly a very carefully

for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Spirit and of Pot Still Distillation Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December,

191REGISTRAS

The

of SHARES of the

Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY AS. WATSON & CO.. 22nd January, to TUESDAY, 2nd February, 1915 (both days inclusive), daring which period. no Transfer of Shares can be Registered, By Order of the Board of Directors.

A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary,

Hongkong, 19th January, 1915.

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THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA- TION CO., LTD.

NOT FOURTEENTH ORDINARY

MISSIONARIES JARDINE MATHESON & COMFANY, LTD., on

FOR

འབྱུང། ནཱ, གས

CHINA, JAPAN AND COREA.

On Sale at the

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in th Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. TUESDAY, the 2nd February, 1915, af 12 16 P.it, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of 31st December, Accounts for the year

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY,

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS OFFICE 26th January, to TUESDAY, 2nd February,

and Local Booksellers.

PRICE:

Cloth Cover TAR Paper

Hongkong, 21st January, 1915,

$1,00 0.80

1915 (both daya inclusivel, Caring which period no Transfer of Sharon can be Begistered.

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LIMITED,

HONGKONG AND CHINA, A

BIRTH. KENNEDY-On the 19th January, at No

33, The Peat, Hongkong, to Mr. and Mrs. JJ STODART KENNEDY, daughter.

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BONGIUNG Cwrion: 10, Dis Vaux Road 0. London Orten: 181, FLRY B, EO.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, January 21, 1915

By Order of the Beard of Directors,

MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE, Secretary, Hongkong, 15th January, 2015.

THE PANAMA EXPOSITION: HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO M

STEAMBOAT CO., LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TO THE ELECTORS FOR THE THE NINETY-FIFTH ORDINARY

SANITARY BOARD.

GENTLEMEN,

THE period of three years for which I was Telected to represent you on the Sanitary Board has expired, and, as I have been requested to staat again for the post, I venture to solicit Food at the SUPREME COURT on your vote at the forthcoming election which

FRIDAY, 22nd instant, from 4 to 6 P.M.

to day at 3 p.m.

A mail for Europe vid Siberia closes Sunday, but seeing that there is so little to do on any day of the week, I assumed that he would have gladly spamd a few minutes on a Sunday to attend to an important matter important, that is, to the commerce of the place.

Judgment in the case of the Man Shing Lee firm. The Green Island Cement Co. will be delivered on Friday morning.

The amail British community at Too chow has remitted to date a total of £441 108. 8d. to the Prince of Wales' Fund.

The Bishop of Victoria acknowledges 810 from the Sikhs of the 25th Punjabis, a

donation wllocated to the Diocesan Girls' Echool and Orphanage.

Mr. Goldring's election address as a candidate for a scat on the Sanitary Board appears among the advertisements in the first column of this page.

The Chinese Postal Administration has produced a Postal Route Map of Kwang

As I have said above, the result was that, unable to logo any more titue, the steamer

returned to Hongkong, The lesson this incident should convey to the Macad authorities, if they wish to save the port from being blocked up entirely by mud, is too obvious to need any more words on the subject-Yours, etc.,

J X. B.

|_ DEATH OF A CONVICT.

Yesterday, the Coroner (Mr. F. A. Haze- land) and a jury composed of Messrs, M. J. Wills, E: T. Siuger, and J. Gardner, held an inquest on the body of a convict

the Victoria Gaol on Tuesday. The man had been recently suffering from pneu monis, and Dr. McKenny (Medical Officer to the Gaol) deposed that that was the cause of death.

admittedly entrusted to her, it was admittedly gone, and it admittedly disappeared on or about the 9th December, Prisoner, immediately after the disappearance of the money, Colu

arranged and deliberate story, and that story she had since admitted to be false its material particulars. When morey was entrusted to a person, and that persou told an admittedly false story about its disappearance, it was sufficient for the jury to infer that that person had taken that ruoney for his or her own purpose. The first story told by her was to the effect that four armed robbers attacked the house, bound her and stole all the money, together with her Jewellery, and that they escaped. That was the story she told to the police when asking a report about the affair. The woman gave a description of two of the robbers. Inspector Terrett.

investigated the story, went to the house, and found no signs of the place having been ransacked. In consequence of information received, the police arrested a man named Wong Nau, of the prisoner. He was originally who turned out to be an adopted brother charged with the prisoner at the Alasis tracy, and committed with the woman for trial, but he (the Attorney General) had decided not to proceed with the case. against him. In answor to the charge at the Police Station, the woman said that Wong Nau stole the money. She blew a whistle, and he then ran away. A hawker would say that a man came down the stairs leading to the prisoner's dwelling on the 9th December, and that soon after- wards a police whistle was blown. There was one thing in her favour. The com

with money, and that he had always had occasions he had entrusted the prisoner it back. That did not prove her innocence in this case, because she might have fulleu to temptation in this instance.

The case for the prosecution had not concluded when the court rose for the day and the hearing was, accordingly adjourn ed fill today

No nation on the face of the tung showing all Chinese Post Offices named Chan Lam, aged 08, who died in plainant would say that on previous

earth

excels the American in "boosting" national undertaking. Few better illus trations of this can be afforded than the -and very successfully endeavoured to

established up to and including the 31st October, 1914. Unmounted copies are for sale at all Chinese Post Office, price 15 cents per copy (postal currency).

TEARLY MEETING of SHARE manner in which they have endeavoured By & Tientsin paper,

HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, Hotel Mansions,

In a week or 20,

will be circulated the new dollars with 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving Pacific International Exposition project the portrait of President Inan on one

Report of the Direstora, together with Statement of Acounts, declaring & Dividend at a time when the thoughts of the whole side and felicitous grains on the other world are daily concentrated on the great in the centre of which are two small characters, One dollar" in Chinese. and electing Directors and Auditors. A

tragedy which is being enacted in Europe. The dollars are now being coined at the When

the war broke out it was widely assumed that the Exposition would be Government Mint at Tientsin.

on TUESDAY, the 9th February, 1915, at sustain public interest in the Fanama will be

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company

will be CLOSED from the 26th January to

the 9th February, 1915, both days inclusive,

By Order of the Board of Diretora.

WE CLARKE, Secretary. Hongkong, 19th January, 1916.

As I have resided and practised in the Colony for 29 years and for more than half that time. held the Office of Crown Solicitor, my profes sional duties have brought me isto contact with erary section of the community in all parts of the Colony, and I have had considerable experi- ence in Arafting and enforcing the law and HONGKONG FOOTBALL CHALLENGE mentally affected by it, but the idea of

To postponed because so many nations were The marriage will take place in Hong-

regalstions dealing with matters connected with the Public Health, and opportunities of observ ing the effect of such regulations on the welfare of the community.

All my interests are bound up in the prosperity of the Colony ass whole, and I have always endeavoured to support to the best of my ability all such measures as appeared to be conducive to the Pablin Health without inflicting unnecessary expense or hardship on any section of the community,Sa

The present is not the time for a

advocating 4x Jensive structural improvements or radical alterations of any kind, but, if elested, I shall do my atrast to promote the Public Health by the efficient administration of the existing lawa

Your Obedient Servant,

F. BL BOWLET Mengkong, 20th January, 1916.

NOTICE.

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THEREBY GIVE NOTICE in accordance with Section, 7. of the Tramway Ordinance 10 of 1092 of my intention to apply to the Gorstner in Consell for power to constract su additional frack curve, 45 feet in length. joining the present tramway track in Russell Street, Bowrington, and

Company's म J. STODART KENNEDY,

General Manager, de Hongkong Tramway Company, Hongkong, 19th January, 1815.

premies, Lots 718 and 7 MONTAN

L178

SHIELD.

INTRIES for the above Competition will.

Close on FRIDAY, 22nd Instant

A Meeting will be held that evening at 5.30 in the Offices of Messrs TARDING, MATHESON & Co., LTD. (top floor), to make all necessary arrangements. Each leam entered is invited to

end a representative.

JC, TAYLOR,

Hon. Secretary,

Hongkong, 16th January, 1915,

D70

were

kong shortly of Mr. Walter Alfred Stephens to Miss Elizabeth Mary Long, who is a passenger on the P. and O. amur, Mr. Stephens was at the local office of the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Milk Company but was recently appointed to take charge of the Company's interests in

the Amoy district.

A verdict of death from natural causes was returned:

Deceased was committed to prison in Desember, 1964, being convicted of defiling a girl under twelve years of age and ventenced to imprisonment for life.

HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Legislative Council The business and will be held to-day. Th orders of the day are as follows:-

Amendment of the Cemetery By-laws. First reading of a Bill intituled, "An Ordinance to amend the Stamp Ordin- Lace, 1901,

First reading of a Bill intituled, “An Ordinance to remove doubts as to the power of the Governor to appoint Deputy

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

HONGKONG LEAGUE FIXTURES FOR SATURDAY.

Club Police, Club Ground, 4.15 p..

Referes. Mr. F. W. Wright. Confucians. Lam Leong, Military

Ground, 2.43 p.m. Referee Mr. F. W. Enger

Lusitano Queen's College, Cinh Ground, 245 p. Referee Mr. J. L. McPherson:

Goals. \P. W. L. D. FAA, Pis

630 3:10 69

DIVISION 1

Olab

JEGA,

NSYS

Club

Polios

6 1 232 6 5

4 3 2 1 3 3

4 0 1 3 3 4 3

DIVISION JL.

directly involved in the war and the com- morce of the rest was more or less detri postponing the Exposition does not seem to have been even considered by the organising body. A statement issued by the President of the Committee of doscribed Management some six weeks ago

The Band Committee of the Shanghai the Exposition as being ninety five per cent, completed"; the exhibit space had been over-applied for; participation Municipal Council has been becking to arrangements by the States of the Union obtain the release of the assistant conduc-Oficial Receivers and as to the validity of

the

greatest ever known in tor and three members of the Public Band the acts of persons appointed to be Deputy Club. Exposition history”; and, notwithstand who took part in the defence of Tsingtau Official Receivers or to act as Deputy ng the European war, the President was and are now prisoners of war in Japan. Official Receivers or attached to the office Confucios mencement of this Ordinance. Lam Leong able to say: We shall still have with The Japanese Consul General has replied of the Official Receiver before the com- St. Joseph's College us as active participants as many foreign that the Japanese Government is unable First reading of a Bill intituled, "An Ordinance to amend the Military Stores nations as have ever been represented at to entertain the petition,

(Exportation) Ordinances, 1882 and 1914,"

First reading of a Bill intituled, "An Lusitano any Exposition. All

All transportation

The Rev. EJ. Hardy, Army Chaplain,

Ordinance to amend the Alien Enemies Second reading of the Bill intituled, Married," who was stationed in Hong- this surely must have been intended to kong & few years ago, has now produced "An Ordinance to provide for the levy of mean the attendance of the people of a supplementary volume bearing the title Estate Duty payable in respect of the estates of deceased persons." TY America. The loss in exhibits by Still Happy though Married Committee on the Bill intituled, "An

President of at war, the

reviewer says it is a book which every Ordinance to amend and consolidate the O the Exposition affirmed, will be bride should cherish and every husband Law relating to Chinese Passenger negligible. It is sure of being the would be the better for sampling Mr. Ships as tuned by the Chinese Passen gers Act, 1855, and concerning Asiatic greatest and most importent Exposition Hardy has divided his back into airty. Emigrants generally, who fr in history and promises to-day, regardless nine chapters, which he calls the This

Will not be proceeded with at this bus meeting. of the war, to have a commercial influence nine Articles of the faith in Matri

GARDEN FETE Organized by the STUDENTS' UNION will be held

IN THE GROUNDE OF THE UNIVERSITY,

on

experts, it was said, agree that the war

GOTH, I will actually increase the attendance; but the author of How to be Happy thoug(Winding up) Ordinance, 1014.'” (

SATURDAY, JANUARY

FROM 3 TO 7 P.M. NDER the Distinguished Patronage of HIS EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR and Tady MAY

Proceeds to be given to the PRINCE OF WALES NATIONAL BELIEF FUND.

ADMISSION... 50 CENTS, Hongkong, 4th December, 1914

nations:

Victoria Rovers Queon's Ullege Diderana University

PAM Goals

P.W.LD. FA, Pt. 4211 10:4-5)

2 2 0 0 6 04 3-21 07:54 5 1 1 1 4 2 3 8111453 311 12 53 2 08:00 4 0 20 3 0 0 8 0

THE HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO,

for

“LIMITEDATO

The following are the Company's figures

week ending January 16th- Receipts

Decrease compared with corres ponding week last year .....

on

Aggregate to date

No of desks A

Decrease to date f

$1,907