NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON
WHARF AND GODOWN CO., LTD. |
THE SHART CERTIFICATE NO. 6,013
for TWENTY (20) SHARES numfored 68162/81, in the above Company standing in the name of Mre. LAUBA MCINTOSH, having been Reparted LOST, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
the ORIGINAL that moles' CERTIFICATE is produced within one month from date hereof, it will thereafter be held by the Company as NULL AND VOID and NEW CERTIFICATE for the mid Sbasen will be issued..
W. 9. DROWN, Secretary.
[417 Hongkong, 10th March, 1915,
NOTICE
TRANSFER OF DEALERSHIP FOR REMINGTON TYPEWRITERS.
beg to announce that Messrs.
PUBLIC COMPANIES
THE HONGKONG DAILI PELESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24TH, 1915.
CHINA SUGAR REFINING CO.,
LIMITED,
NOTICE
THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE. HOLDERS of the abore Company will be held at the Offices of the General á vente, Fedder's Strait, TO-DAY (WEDNESDAY), the 24th March, at Noor, for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the
the yout
31
Decombor, ending The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11th to 24th March, both days inclusive.
1914, A
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Ltd.,
Goseral Agents.
NOTICE.
ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE-
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET
HOUSE in Macdonnell Road.
Apply to→
A. BO Cam of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 17th March, 1915, [397
TO LET-FURNISHED,
FILAT in Queen's Gardens,
Apply to
"O. 2, “ROSE TERRACE," Nothan Road,
Kowloon.
No. 6, TORRES BUILDING, Kowicon.
Apply to
WSTEMISAN & Co., in Liquidation, will now discontinue the handling of Remington Typewriters and Supplies, and that from thisHE THIRTY-THIRD ORDINARY dnse we have Appointed MEERS, MUSTARD & Co.. Hongkong, as exclusive Remington dealers for Hongkong and South Chine,
MEBERS. MUSTARD & Co. have for many years soted, and are still acting, as Remington dealer for North Chins with Head Offices in Shanghai, and in extending their Dealership to South China we give one Customers the benefit of being able to draw from local stocks Which wil be carried at all Important Points,
HOLDERS of the above Company will be held N at the Offges of the General Agents, Pelder's Street, TO-DAY (WEDNESDAY), the 24th March, at 12.15 r., for the purpose receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1914.
MESSES MUSTARD & Co. will shortly open an Office and Showroom in Hongkong for the Sale of REMINGTON TYPE WRITERS and Typewriter Supplies, with a staff who will give their undivided attention to the Typewriter Business.
All contracts for the sale of Typewritera and for Typewriter Rapsira entered into by Messrs.
SIENSERN & Co. will be daly carried out by
Messrs. MUSTARD & Co.
Announcement of the location of the Now Remington Offices will shortly be made. The present address of the new dealers is:-.
MESBES, MUSTARD & Co. Care of BarrisH AMERICAN TOnacco Co.,
18, Bank Buildings, TELEPHONE 355,
REMINGTON TYPEWRITER Co., LTD.,
New York. Hongkong, rd March, 1915,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
P.M. 8.S. "CHINA"
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Faon SAN FRANCISCO, JAPAN PORTS AND MANILA
THE Vessel
HE above-mentioned Yes having arrived,
to send in their Bille-of-Lading for counter.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11th to 24th Marob, both days inclusive,
SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION. Hongkong, 22nd March, 1915,
TO LET.
INTIMATION
man's progress in the direction of giving Mesars. Mustard & Co. of Shanghai, to him a greater command over those whom the agency for Remington Type- mechanical appliances which play to writers in Hongkong and South China large a part in modora life. War is thus has boon transferred, announce that they not a disease bub a natural accompani intend to shortly open an office and show ment of progress--without which, indeed, room in Hongkong.
It will he A. S. WATSON progress would be impossible
noticed that this argument implies that while there can be, and is, human pro- & CO., LTD.
gress, there is no progress in the means of progress that the methods which brought about the present conditions must neves
As will be seen from our advertising columns, the 37th ordinary annual macot ing of the shareholders of the China Sugar Refining Co., Ltd. is to be held at the offers of the general agents (Messrs.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, sarily be the methods which will take as Jarding, Matheson & Co., Ltd.), at noon
BRANDY.
3.00
3.45
Holding that Dr. Nishigaki, a Japanese assistant to Dr. Stafford in St. Luke's Hospital, Manila, was probably the principal in the illegal importation of nearly P1,000 worth of silke, satine, and embroideries, Judge Campbell last week imposed a fine of P.400 on Nishigaki and subsidiary imprisonment in the event of non-payment of the fina
A Manila contemporary referring to the sale of the Ruby and Zafire to the firm of Andrew Weir & Co. saye:–“ Captain James Miller is to retain command of the Rubi. As the vessels are to fly their American flag on the voyage to Great Britain, it is believed that complications will set in should the vessels be attacked by German ships or mines."
further on the road. Yet there is much to-day. to be said against this contention. How eam wo define any particular method of progecss ng artificial, seeing that all methods arise from Nature? The produc tions of the horticulturist are no less natural than the flowers that grow wild in the fields, since they are produced by the methods provided by Nature. Thus, 200 even if we grant that war was at one time an unavoidable means for producing the best races of mankind, it does not nees- sarily follow that it still remains the best method. - If the pacifists can show that 160 progress can be made without war that a proper balance between physical and mental powers can be preserved without recourse to forco, and that the locs suf fored by war far outreaches any rent good achieved, even if such good exists, then wo may consider that they have
proved their case and that war has now become a
On Monday evening the Women's discaso which requires to bo extirpated. Catholic League of Hongkong presented Now it in a fact that modem war serves addresses to Mrs. Maitland, who is to destroy rather than to preserve the shortly leaving for England on holiday, balance between the moutal and physical and to Major -Bowen A.P.D., who is powers, owing to the fact that the in- leaving the Colony on transfer, as a token mense losses suffered rob the nations of n of their appreciation of the valuable help good proportion of their finest specimens they have rendered to the various activi- of manhood. The purely physical side is ties of the Longue. His Lordship Bishop 6.65 thus wrakoned, and the mental sice pro Pozzoni referred to Major Bowen's do portionately strengthened. A state of narturo na a loss to the Church in Hong- 9.95
peace, on the other hand, servca to main- kong and a personal loss to himself. tain the balance, for whatever pessimists may say as to the degeneracy of the human racs, our acquaintance with the "noble savage," does not lead us to share
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 17th March, 1918,
1398
Hongkong, 4th March, 1915, 2
834
TO LET
LUZON SUGAR BEFINING CO.,
LIMITED.
HOUSE at Observatory Villas, Kowloon.
Apply to
ARRATOON V AFCAE & Co. Hongkong, 10th March, 1915.
1393
Fer Case of 1 dos,
A. SUPERIOR PALE $50.40-
Fer Bot
82.65
* B. SUPERIOR
OLD
TO LET.
COGNAO
WATSON'S
83.70
COGNAC
WATSON'S
* $4.80
XXX
COGNAC Half bottles
37.00
1394
C. SUPERIOR OLD
LIQUEUR COGNAC, Gold Capsule
40.30
• D. VERY FINE OLD PALE LIQUEUE COGNAC 46.90
BOUTELLEAU 8.
CHAMPAGNE LIQUEUR... 62.40
4,00
4.55
* E. FINEST OLD BROWN
BRANDY MANN, 53.50.
MARIE BRIZARD and ROGER'S FINE PALE COGNAC
4.65
81.50
2.85
8. V. F. V. O. COGNAC 79.70
Y.O. L., 50 Years Old...119.20
UNITED VINETARD PROPRIETORS, 75 Loars Old 107.50.
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JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
Goperal Agente,
(365 Hongkong, 4th Marob, 1915.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED.
SHAREHOLDERS in the Company
THE FORTY-SIXTII MEETING "of
will be held at the Company's Office, No. 3, Queen'e Road Central, Victoria, TO-MORROW (THURSDAY), 26th March, 1915, at 12 o'clock NOON, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1914,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will bo CLOSED from the 12th to the 25th March, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors.
O. PEMBERTON, Secretary. Hongkong, 4th March, 1915,
1366
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD."
NOTICE.
THE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING
signature and take immediate delivery of Cargo of SHAREHOLDERS will be bold in
from alongside. Cargo impeding diesbarge. will be landed immediately at Consignees risk and expense.
Cargo remaining undelivered TarsEDAT, 25th March, at Nood, will be subject to landing charges, and if undelivered MONDAY, 29th March, ab 5 P.M., will te sabject to bothlanding
No Fire Insuranne
and storage charges. whatever will be effected. All chsted and athorwise damaged Cargo will be eerumined at the above Campsay's Godown Saturday, 27th March, at 10 À žr.
отсор
No Claims will be entertained unless accom panlod by short delivery moto or list of tions taken at the time of delivery to Consignees and signol for and on behalf of the Pasific Mail S.S: Co. ví
All Claim must be filed on or before 7th April. otherwise taey will not be recognized.
E. C. MORTON, WeArent
Hongkong, 23rd March, 1915.
ORDER AT ONCE.
THE
DIRECTORY
AND
118
CHRONICLE
FOR CHINA, JAPAN, ETC.
FOR THE, YEAR
1915.
INDISPENSABLE
TO EVERY
BUSINESS MAN.
TO BE OBTAINED FROM THE
HONGKONG DAILY PREBS OFFICE
And
LOCAL BOOKSELLERS.
1,850 PAGES PRICE $10,
The alterations this year are nonsually heavy, oving to changes incidental to the War.
Hongkong, 16th March, 1915..
NOTICE,
LL Parsons applying to the PROVOST MARSHAL for Passes are requested in future to apply between the hours af 9. ta 1 PM, and 2 to 4 PM. daily.
Hongkong, 16th February, 1915,
WANTED.
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the Office of the Company, 2, Queen's Boldings, Connaught Road, Hongkong, on WEDNES DAY, the 31st March, 1816, at 11 o'clock 4.31,, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts for the rear ending 31st December, 1914
19 The TRANSFER BOOKS of the. Company will to CLOSED from the 24th to the alat March, 1915, both dors inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
GEO. A CALDWELL, Secretary!! Hongkong, 17th March, 1915.
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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU- FACTURING CO., LTD.
FREE 316 ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
in the above Company will be held at the
GODOWN, No. 04, Prays East.
by
Appl
KWONG SANG HONG, LTD,,
No. 248, Des Voeur Road Central. Hongkong, 18th February, 1915, [805
TO LET
VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, occuplad Madame Galne, etc.
Apply to
THE GROUND. FLOOR of No. 6, DES
DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD. Hongkong, 10th February, 1915. 1973
TO LET-AT THE PEAK.
No. 2 STEWART TERRACE,
Furnished and newly done apsi Apply
HE POLLOCK,
Prince's Building Hongkong, 20th January, 1915.
A Kowloon.
Apply
TO LET
HOUSE in Knutsford
13.15
These Brandies bottled by ourselves
are guaranteed Grape Torso Spirit and of Pot Still Distillation.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD Hongkong, let March, 1915,
-[45
TO LET.
From 181 March,
DOWN, No. 6. Duddell Street. Apply
A. B. AVASIA,
Care of E PABANHY,
No. 1, Daddell Street, HongLong, 2nd February, 1915. [244
TO LET.
No. 168, THE PEAK, THE KENNELS
Appl
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AGENCY CO., LTD. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915.
[54
TO LET FURNISHED.
DISHOP'S LODGE NORTH, No: 12, THE
Company Offos, St. George's Building, B PRAK From 1st May next.
Connaught Road, Victoris, on WEDNESDAY, the 31st March, 1915, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Ascɔanta and the Report of the Gezamal Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1914, and electing s
Auditors"
58 Committee and
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 39th
For further particulars, apply to—--
PALMER & TURNER, Alexandra Buikdinga, 3rd Floor, Fongkong, S0th January, 1915,
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QUEEN'S BUILDING.
NO LET, the South-West portion of the March to WEDNESDAY, the 31st March,FIRST FLOOR, including Treasury -1915, both daya inclusive, settin
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 16th March, 1915,
(400
HONGKONG CLUB
NOTICE.
on Ground Floor, lately in occupation of the Garman Bank,
GODOWN, No. D, Lee House Bhrosket Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
·MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915,
TO LET
DILATS in Nathan Rend, Kowloon.
FILATE
18
TAKE TWENTY-SEVENTH HALF.
YEARLY DRAWING of 65 DEBEN- "PENYRHEW': Minden Row, Kowloon, CLUB, Parable on WEDNESDAY, the 31at1 and 2. MINDEN VILLAS, Kowloon, TUBES (1896 sau) of the HONGKONG 8.Eomed House with Tennis Court March, 1915, will be held in the Club House 5-Hoomed House with Tennis Court,
at 11 o'clock a.M. TO-DAY (WEDNESDAY), FOUR-ROOMED HOUSER in Humphrey's the 24th March, 1915
Besrars of Debentures are invited to attend Ave, Gordon Terrace and Salisbury Avenue,
the Drawing.
By Order,
E. DES VEUX,
Secretary. Hongkong, 13th March, 1915,
[391
FOR SALE.
ONE STOCK ANCHOR, about tone
and 150 FATHOMS of 31 inch CHAIN with Shackles Complete. Condition good as new."
Apply
ILOILO PILOTS ASSOCIATION,
Iloilo, P.I. Hongkong, 6th March, 1915.
₤370
Kowloon,
[290
Apply tom
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., LTD., Alexandra Baildings. Hongkong, 4th March, 1915.
TO LET.
TOUSES & CLIFTON GARDENS,
Conduit Road, OFFICES, facing the Harbour between the Hongkong Club and Post Office
20, WONG-NEL-CHONG ROAD, 1. HILL STDD, 110, THE PILK, GODOWNS, New Frayn, Kennedy Town. GODOWNS, st Wanchai Road, Apply, etc. SENTEN
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. BERSEMENT & AGENÛT Co., Lan,
Hongkong, 1st March, 1915.
their opinions. The fact is that wer tends rather to upset the balance than re- store it; that the natural fores at work are the most efficient means for maintaining that balance which we agree is necessary A.S. WATSON & CO.. for the existence of the human race. As
LIMITED,
HONGKONG AND CHINA.
MARRIAGE
[19
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE PRIVET NUISANCE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG
DALLY PRESS.
Hongkong, March 23rd, 1915. SIR-Referring to "Victim's” letter for the survival of the best nations in in to-day's issue of the Daily Press re tints of peace, it may be pointed out that garding the Privet nuisance, I can inform this greatly depends upon how we define him that to the best of my belief I am u the best nations In Savage times the further victim to the perfume" of the best nation might be the one that showed obnoxious shrub, I happened to pay a the greatest skill and the greatest cunning visit to the Peak district on Sunday, and in smaring or killing the wild animals in the evening was suddenly seized with necessary for food. In the more varied a cold, the symptoms of which correspond conditions of modern life such a nation with those described by previous sufferers would not meet the requirements of the from what I may call the Privet" cold. environment, Thus the best nation in I feel perfectly convinced that the cold time of war is not necesarily the best was caused through no other agency than nation in time of peace, and as place is the flower of the Privet, and the sugges- the normal condition, the endeavour to maintain a nation in a constant warlike that a thorough investigation should be tion made at about this time last year. LOON OPTION: 181, FISET STREET, E.O. condition can only lead to a delay in its conducted into the question now finds in
REYNOLDS-GREGSON.-On 22nd March, at St John's Cathedral, Hongkong, WALTER GRAHAM REYNOLDS, M.RO.S., Eng., L.RO.P. Lond., son of the late Frank William Reynolds, Landon, to LILIAN Atice, daughter THOMAS GREGION, Blackpool.
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HONGKONG OFFION: 101, Das Vaux ROAD C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, MARCH 24TH, 1915,
WAR AND THE SOCIAL STATE.
progrees. It is not necessary to look für
to see examples of this. Our material, me & hearty supporter. I am, Sir, yours if not our moral, progress depends upon faithfully,
the accumulation of the surplus of our
labour that is, the power of each person
ANOTHER VICTIM.
to perform more labour than is required A CHINESE FORTUNE-TELLER.
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE BECAUSE FORECASTS DISPLEASE
CLIENTS
for the maintenance of himself and thos dependant upon him. Now, war un- doubtedly tends to destroy this surplus-- in fact, without the existence of such a le war a concomitant of progress or is surplus the immense armies of modern it a disease? This seems to be a ques warfare could not be put into the field tion which is creating much difference of Thus war, so far from making for pro opinion in Europe On one side are gress, rather tends to produce a state of the pacifists, who regard war as destruc stagnation, the effect of which is felt long their custom to a crystal gazer who tive of the surplus labour of man and after the war has come to an end, as much predicts a more roseate futuro. Such a thus as leading to a delay, if not an actual by the victors as by the vanquished In
The life of a Chinese fortune teller is by no means a happy one, for should his clients be displeased at his forecasts they promptly take reprisals and transfer
of the fortune-teller of the Yanmati
setback, in progress. On the other side deed, it is possible for the vanquished to proceeding almost resulted in the death and the disciples of Machtpolitik, who make a quicker recovery that the victors. towards the physical development of the victory, inclined to overlook the material the result of his pleasent predictions. apparently claim that real progress is who are naturally, in the flush of their temple. For many years he had been able to retain a most satisfactory ofentele as human race, including in physical both sethack they have suffered. War is thus mind and body, without equal develop an anomaly, if not an actual disease afflict. Suddenly, his powers changed, clients ment of which it is claimed there can being the social state. In our unequal were told all sorts of horrible things, and no real progress. Unless the best rates moral progress it is perhaps inevitable their futures were all dark and gloomy. find their place in the sun, according to that it should remain to afflict mankind. The reprisal came, the fortune-teller these disputants the best races being tusse but that it should be glorified into a cans waited at the temple in vain, his finances who possess the highest average of mental of progress is a perversion of the truth and bodily powers-we shall arrive either | which should not deceive the world.
at a stage where the mental development has quite outreached the physical, ending. in a kind of raca suicide, or at a stage where the physical development has and valuable collection of antique china Another three days auction of a large swamped the mental, and rebarbarisation and curious is announced by Mr. George is an accomplished fact and retrogression Lammert for next week. Particulars will inevitable. This last probabilify is so be found in the advertisement on page 9 very remote that only the first need ba considered Putting this aside for the moment, let us consider how these prin ciples affect the attitude of the disciples B THE PRAK Unfurnished, & Rooms. A CONVENIENT OFFICE tade of the two sides may be briefly sum
of Nachtpolitik towards war.
·TO LET.
66 WISHOPS LODGE SOUTH," No. 11,
"N
TO LET.
$8
BUILDINGS. ROOMS in BEACONSFIELD on a three- monthly tenancy, and 55, ELGIN TERRACE. and ROOMS. Including a Fine Commodious
No 1, GOUGH HILL, No. 100, Tas PEAK, Suile. Farnished or Unfurnished, from 1st April, 1915. Apply * SECRETAEY,
“HOGATE,” Austin Road, Kowloon, an
AS. WADON & Co., Len. Hongkong, 23rd October, 1914
TO LET.
Y European Firm doing large business in" EILANDONAN," No 64, Mount Kellett
B'Imports and Exports, COMPRADORE Road. 5 Everus, anfurnished.
Security of 350.000 required by Mortgage ofNo. 2, DES VEUX VILLAS, SI, PEAK
Louded Property in the
Apply fo
Colony.
Sleiton.
Prince's Buildings, ma
Ice House Street. Hongkong, 30th March, 1015,
(418
(Unfurnished)Bed Be
BOOMB, mitable for Ohloèr, on the First
FFICES in 81, GroESS'S BUILDING, Meenas, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Floor of No. 3. Deddell Street, Oecond Floor, Oraloiting to
komediato possession.
Apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Hongkong, Sad Deneanber, 1814,
No.69, THE PEAK is CAMERON VILLAS). Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS
Bed Floor, Alexandra Buildings, Hongkong, Card March, 1915,
The atti
$20
dwindled and then melancholia followed.
In a fit of desperation the old man attempted to take his life by cutting his throat with a razor, and he now lies at the Government Civil Hospitel.
BIG FIRE IN MANILA. big fire broke out on Saturday even- ing at six o'clock in the large brick bodega The Hon, Treasurer of the Alies occupied by E. Shulz & Company, the Memorial and Afiliated Hospitals begs Pacific Commercial Company and the to acknowledge with thanks the following Manila Button Factory at Manile. donations to the funds of the hospitals: — The loss from damage to goods stored
Hongkong Cigar Store
in the bodega, which is situated at the luft hand corner of the block near the Binondo lift bridge, going toward the custom house is estimated at approxi building, which was completely gutted, muste P.150,000, and the damage to the has been placed at P.50,000, a total of P20,000, the greater part of which amount is covered by insurance.
Messrs. Shulz & Co, had approximately P.100,000 of hemp and tobacco stored in the building.
At the Magistracy, yesterday, a Chinese was charged with stealing 70 cants
med up by saying that while the pacifist. regard war as so absolute evil, the other side regard it as only a comparative evil. or even, under certain circumstances, as
positive benefit, in preventing that from another Chinese in a manner which stagnation which must lead to extinction, is becoming very common. He hustled Tu, adempting to strengthen this arga his man, slit hin pocket with a knife, add ment they even go 80 far as to the money had changed hands. A claim that the preparations for war in sentence of two months hard labour was time of peace have materially assisted passed.
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