NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE
TE beg to inform the Public that wo use.
W the only Agents in Hongkong and
South China for Man HUILERIE &
PUBLIC COMPANIES
THE HONGKONGLAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENOT CO
LIMITED.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 20TM¤, 1915.
NINTEBIM DIVIDEND of Tires and
INTIMATIONS
HONGKONG JOOKET CLUB. NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY
KERTING,
SONNERIE 02 L'EXTREME-ORIENT A Hat Dollars per Share for the six months NOTICE TRAORDINARY GENERAL
Haiphong.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. (775 flongkang, 18th July, 1915.
WHANGPOO CONSERVANCY BOARD. NOTIFICATION No. 58. TENDERS FOR TUGB AND BARGES. TENDERS are hereby invited for the Tolering Steel Venzels;
A. ONE TUGBOAT for Towing of Drod-
gers, Dredging Burger, eto, with Eagine Developing about 400 IUP.
1. ONE TUGBOAT for Towing of
Koglo with Dredging Barges
Developing about 250 LH.P.
ending Ruth Jane, 1915, will be Pay ble on THURSDAY, the 29th July, on which date Dividond Warrants may be obtained on applica tion at the Company's Offer
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Cmpany will be CLOSED from TUESDAY. 1 20th Joly, to THURSDAY, the 29th July (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Rațialerol,
Dy Order of the Board of Directors.
MOWBRAY S NORTHCOTE, Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 13th July, 1915.
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THE WEST POINT. BUILDING CO., LIMITED.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND & Two Bollam per She for the six months
C. THREE HOPPER-BARGES (to bending 30th June, 1915, will be Payable on emplied by pamping caly) of a loading THURSDAY, 20th July, ou which dato capacity of about 30 cubic yards of Dividend Warranin may be obtained on
application at the Cmpany's Office. sasa. Each of the above items should be tendered for soparately. Sealed Tender for any or all of the above Vessels, addressed to tho "WHANGFOO CONSERVANCY BOARD, Shanghai," and marked "TENDERS FOR TUGS AND BARGES, must be sent in so as to reach the Board before Now on. MONDAY, September 27th, 1915,
General specifiertions for the above Vessels will b
on application to the Engineer ing 1 lakiang Road,
The Band do not bind themselves to accept the lowest or nov tender,
WHANGPOO CONSERVANCY BOARD.
Shanghe, 15th July, 191.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
1776
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND
SINGAPORE.
THE Steamship THE
"SANGOLA,"
baving arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby luformed that their Goods- will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed at onco, at Consignees risk and
expense.
board on the 21st Cargo remaining inst, at 1 ex., will be lauded at Consigness' risk and expense."
No Fire Insurance bas basu effected, Bills of Lading will be counteringaod by the Vudorsigned.
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD.,
Agents
Hongkong, 19th July, 1915.
WANTED.
{29
SHIFT ENGINEER (31arine Engineor AFIFTEN NOU
Campany's Generating Station. No objection to married 8.
First application, in writing, accompanied by details of experienes and sating to Station Saperiatardeal, Generating Station, Wanchai.
(749 Hongkong, 13th July, 1915.
FOR IMMEDIATE SALE. OAN Pony Ideal Dahlia, winner and placed Rtwice last meeting, sound, very good pace;
should win a race. -
Apply
LT-Com WYNDHAM-QUIN. Hongkong, 10th July, 1915,
G.
NOTICE.
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THEN the Government Dredger "ST. NOCHis working in the Harbour she will fig by day a RED BURGUE at the fore and by night carry a RuD LIGHTS Ons at each
masthead.
All Craft ara warned to pass Outside-150 yards from bow or at and steamom sro to. ouse their aggiues to slow when passing within. 230 yards of the dredger when working.
C. W. BECKWITH,
Coasmander, R.N.,
Harbour Master, ko,
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Harbour Department, Hongkong, 13th July, 2016.
Q.
R.
TRAVELLERS RESTRICTION
ORDINANCE.
THE
THE PUBLIC are informed that the PERMANENT PASSES: issued by the PROVOST MARSHAL will not be available after August 7th next. Any persoa desiring to renew A PERMANENT PASS should give Notice to the CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE stating in full the reasons for his request, the place to which he desire to proceed, the average number of journeys made out of the Colony month, and at the same time return the Parmangoat Pass in bis possession.
If the application is granted it will be necos ry for the applicant to forward two copies of his photograph, and call "personally at the Central Police Station.
The size of the photograph should be about
3."
C. Mol. MESSER Captain Superiċtandent of Police, Hongkong, 19th July, 1915.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 20th July, to THURSDAY, the 20th July (both days inclusive), during which parlod no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
MOWBRAY 5, NORTHCOTE,
Acting Secretary to the HONGKONG LAND INTESTMENT & AGENCY Co., LTD., General Agents for the WEST POINT BUILDING CO., Lrn.
[769 Hongkong, 13th July, 1913,
HONGKONG AND
SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION,
IT IS BEREDY NOTIFIED
that
T INFERIM DIVIDEND of £2.3.0
per Share, subject to deduction of Income Tax, has been declared for the Half-Year ending 30th June, 1915, at reto of 1/9. 5/10 par dollar.
The Dividend will be Payable on and after MONDAY, the. 10th August, 1915, at the Oilces of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for War acts.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the End August, to SATURDAY, the 14th August, 1915 (both days laclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can Le Registered,
By Order of the Court of Directors,
N. J. STABB,
Chief Managor. 1259 Hongkong, 13th July, 1915. INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the above Company will be CLOSED as from 19th instant to 5th proxime, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lava
General Manager. Hongkong, 18th July, 1915.
NOTICE.
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Ebeg to say that our late father, WAS BIO, altas LU TAX SING, alias Iu Tsux SHAU, a native of Ping Yuen district, Kwong Tung, who was poor when young, and who prosseded to Ipoh, Perak, and Seremban, in the Straits Settlements, to work minas for many years, succeeded in obtaining a native country and invested in real estate, i.6. large sum of money, which was sent book to ha
ever Sixty Houses for Shops in Swatow and
стет
IS HEREBY GIVEN that MEETING of the Mombora of the above Club will to held at the Offices of tho HosoxONG JOCKEY CLUB, situate on the Ground Floor of the HONGKONG CLUD ANNEZE, Chater Road, Hongkong, TO-DAY (TUESDAY), the 20th day of July, 1015, at Noon, when this subjoined Resolution will be preposed as an Ex raordinary Resolution--
INTIMATION
BY APPOINTMENT.
WATSON'S
for months. There is good reason to
During the absence of Mr. F. H. Unwin, suppose, therefore, that the advertise Commissioner of Customs, Kr. R. H. R. ment quoted in the telegram to which we Wado, Acting Commissioner of Customs refer foreshadows come new infamy which is taking over femporary charge of the is being projected by the Germans. We Shanghai Customs, saw it stated in a Washington dispatch recently that no such shell is being made
The body of a 14-year-old-Chinese boy
in America by the Cleveland firm, or by was found oarly yesterday on the rond any other firm, and the official contradic near Mount Austin Barracks. The boy En- tion now given to the advertisement bad apparently been murdered. confirms that statement at least so far quiries are being conducted by the polico" as it relates to any orders placed by or on behalf of the British Military authorities.Police in Canton, who was just been-ap- Tang Yai Kwong, Inte Commissioner of From one of the Washington telegram pointed Civil Commissioner in Kwangu,
round thy Rates and Regulations of the FORMAZONE. appearing in a recent London paper we has placed his services at the disposal of
"HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. Us altered in the
manner following
"That the following Clanse bo inserted after Clanga 33, víz,
234.-Aoy Member who is adjudicated a Bankrupt, or who compounds with his creditors andor the provisions of suy Ast relating to Daakraptoy, or whose name. is officially published 16 an outlaw. "or who is the subject of a nation between which ard Ghost Britain a state of war
(Registered.)
exists, or who shall be imprisoned-for-a-A Refreshing Invigorating and
"aimin-l offence or shall be dismissed
from the Public Service with diag Palatable drink, particularly suited
"shall, ipso fact, cease to be a Member "of the Club, and shall forfeit all right to
"the use of, or elsim upon, any property for Tennis, Shooting and Bathing
"In the Club; but it shall be lawful for the "Stenarde, on the written application of
sach Member, after enquiry, to rostors
of "bir name to the books the Club and "the Member so ro-admitted shall not be "called upon to pay any Entrance Fee."
the Should the above Resolation be rassed by required majority it will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Resolation to a Second Extraordinary General Mesting which will be nabsoqnently convened.
By Order,
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course. [746 Hongkong. 10th July, 1918.
THEATRE 2009 ROYAL.
RETURN VISIT OF THE
Charles Howitt A. Phillips Co.
FOR FIVE NIGHTS ONLY With four new and popular Plays. WEDNESDAY, 28th July:
The Great American Mining Drama, THE BARRIER,”
By Rox Beach,
THUESDAY, 29th July
The Screaming Farcical Comedy, “WHY SMITH LEFT HOME,”
Mr. Smith
Charles Howitt.
FRIDAY, 20th July –
The Amusing Comedy, DON,
TALE OF A PARSON'S MOST UNUSUAL BON, A SMILE, A LAUGH, A Sigs, A Tai, SATURDAY, 31st July-
The Latest London Success, MILESTONES.
Moxnar, 2nd August ----
55
LAST PERFORMANCE, The Famous Comedy, MESSAGE FROM MARS," Horace Parker • Charles Howitt
COMMENCING AT 9.15 P.M. PRICES: 83, 82 & $1. BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S. Hongkong, 19th July, 1916:
Mui Yuen district, and over Twenty Houses, Shops and Schools, together with over Three Lazd Thousand Mow of Agricultural These properties were all registered in the *A Magistrate's Yemen of Ching Hol Mai-yuen sod Ping-yuen, title deeds being held for them
of them. and tax regularly paid in respect
Unfortunately, our late father died on the 23rd day of the Eleventh Moon last year in his native country, Ping-ynen district. There are seventeen sous of the deceased and each of us entitled to a share of the said property, first nou, named In Yenk Hon, died somet previonaly and left two sons named In Hin Wan and In Yau Was; the second son was named In Yeak Leung alias In Kat Pang; the third In Youk Ko, alias In Fair Ngom; the fourth In Teak Ngo, alias In Yam Sam; the fifth Iu Yook Kai, alias Shing Chai; the sixth In
The
time
IN
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(WINDING UP) THE MATTER OF THE ALIEN
ENEMIES
ORDINANCE, 1914,
AND
Parties.
PINTS $1.00 PEE Doz.
SPLITS 60 CTB.
TRADE
MARK.
the Tung Wah Hospital and will aorist in the distribution of rice.
learn that the German-American publi. estion The Fatherland ostentatiously reproduced the advertisement under the heading "Did the Lusitania carry cargó The weekly return by the Medien! like this?? The answer to that question Officer of Health showing the cases of is to be found in the judgment just given | communicable disease reported in the by the Court of Inquiry which has Colony shows that last week there were investigated the circumstances of the five cases of plague, all fatal; two fatul "destruction of that great passenger Huer
cases of diptheria, two cases of enteric over clevon
fever, one-fatal-and-one-fatal case-t- Jumdred lives of non-combatants. Not
involving the loss of
The London correspondent of the Y.-C.
only did the Lusitania carry no such perperal fever. All were Chinese cares. explosive shells as these, but it married nothing whatever in the way of gun Daily New writes:-"I happened to be ammunition or gins, savo some five speaking this week to a well-known Lon- thousand cases of cartridges which were don solicitor, who said that he had been. duly entered on the ship's manifest. making the will of an elderly lady who, The allegations of the German Govern having no relatives, had left ali her money ment that the ship was equipped to Sun Yat-sen. I suppose his venerable with masked
that she gins,
was client still has a touch of the romantic in supplied with trained gunners, and was her and had been reading about Swi's tratisporting Canadian troops, thus adventures in London:”
violating the laws of the United States, aro charactorised in the judgment
The China Times says:—We are authen
of the Court as "baseless inventions," tically informed that several British firms. "Convincing proof is presented in the Tientsin have notified German_em. findings of the Court for the vordiet that ployees that they must be prepared to the submaring attack was made not merely resign their positions. It is also rumour. with the intention of sinking the shined that several British empyees have but also with the intention of destroying been notified by German firms that they the lives of the people on board. must relinquish their posta. It is rumour- the Deutsche that, acveral little inconveniences are
ngo-a full meditated in some Concessions.
destruction It was
six
paper,
J1
A German Tageszeitung, month
the weeks after of the Lasilania-wrote:: only after all other means had proved}
A. S. WATSON futile that we resorted to the declaration of February 4, In the meantime, nothing has been changed, nothing has happened that might justify a shifting of the adopted standpoint What has cecurred to the Lusitania may occur to-morrow to the Mauretania, should she wish to repeat ÆRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS. the venture of her sister ship. Bo lang
& CO., LTD.
HONGKONG OFFICE:10, Des Voux How LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, EC.
The Daily Press
A Chinese charity performance in aid of local Chinese charities will take place at the Taiping Theatre today, Already $30,000. lins been subscribed towards the performance, and the whole of the expenses of production are being defrayed by Mr. Li Wing Kwong. As a consequence all the proceeds will represent profits and these are to be dispensed as follows.---40 per cent, to the Tung Wah Hospital. 30
saries.
as things remain as they are, our naval per cent. to the Kwong Wah Hospital, 20 [18 warfare remains unalterable The Per cent, to the Alies Memoris), and
negotiations with America may therefore per cent, to the varicus Chinese dispen- To assist the charity performaPro BIRTH.
proceed in harmony with the good old
Mr. Ho Ngok Dau will close the Cockin MOODIE-On July 13th, at 525, Avenue lines: Swiniter in modo, fortiter in rej
Joffres, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. but our parole is, Torpedoing continues Theatre for the day. All the best artistes JOHN R. MOODIE, & Bon.
as before." It is true that "torpedoing have been secured and, despite the West- River dister much success is anticipated. continues, but with results that com
The scarcely be satisfying to a great Noval
"popular educator" in many Power such as Germany had claimed parts of China, is the picture seller, A to bc. Under pressure from the correspondent writing from Shansi to the Government of the United States N...G Daily News says: The waste- Germany appears to have recently given paper dealer is the custodian of vast piles the assurance that, there would not bof mandates, proclamations, newspapers another Lusitanic disaster; yet on the and other documents intended to enlighten heels of this promise comes the news that the musses. The popular educator.in a German submarine has made an attempt Shausi is the picture seller who comes to destroy, without warning, another before new year. One of his latest Cunard Liner-the Ordung,on which masterpieces represents the Wealth 977 passengers including Deities of all nations mot in conference The only inference to be in China. Other highly-coloured cartoons represent the
prowess of a magnificent
HosexONG, JULY 20TH, 1916.
BASELESS GERMAN
INVENTIONS.
A FOREIGN Office cable which we publish
mendacious advertisement which has there were
another column to-day, refuting a appeared in an American technical Americana. journal, alleging that poisoned shells of drawn from this is that Germany is not
Teak Wab; the seventh In Yenk Fook, alis IN THE MATTER OF BEEN MEYER an extraordinarily deadly character are disposed to take very seriously the Chinese armny sweeping the soldiers of the & COMPANY, LIMITED, AN ENEMY being manufactured by a Cleveland firm Protestations of a divided America, or to foreigners into oblivion, while Chinese
Iu Kai Mi; the eighth In Yeak Chow, alias Ia Chic Ping; the ninth In Youk So, alias Lon Chai; the tenth fu Youk Hing, alios In U Mie, the eleventh fa Yeak Ching, alias In Sut Ting: the twelfth Ia Yeak Thof; the thirteenth In Yenk Yeung; the fourteenth In Yoak Kwai, the fifteenth in Yeak Wong; the sixteenth In Yenk Cheng; the saventeenth In Yent Ming; and there are also six or seven grad-
is
As we have so many near relations, feared that among them there may be one or two who might secretly contract debis. All we brothers, therefore, had a meeting and decided that no one allowed soretly to sell or mortgage the said property. We therefore beg announce publicly, as we fear that our distant relatives or friends are ignorant of the fact, that the said property cannot be mortgaged or employed sa security for obtaining loans of money secretly, and if any of our brother the creditors should demand the repayment of should have secured any loss on such security it from the one who is responsible for it, other wise we will not be held responsible for any debt contracted.
COMPANY WITHIN THE MEANING
OF THE SAID ORDINANCE. NOTICE OF SALE
OF
FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD LANDS AND HOUSES. SITUATS AT Collyer Quay, De Bours Street, Prince Street, Robertson Quay, Kanisah Mariean Road, Mohamed Saltan Road and Grange Road,. Singapore
TO BE BOLD
BY
PRIVATE TENDER.
The Sist August, 1915, has been fixed as the last day for the noceptance of tenders
Copies of the Particulars and Conditions of Sale and form of Tender can be obtained on and No. 4, Collyer Quay, Singapore, or from the after the 25th Jane, from the Liquidstor at Undersigned.
SIBSON & DELAY, 1189, CHANGE ALLEY, Singapore, Solicitors for the Liquidator.
[766 Singapore, 1st July, 1915,
wilea
The Chinese cruiser Naush in shore last week at the lower end Pheasant Island in the Yangtase.
The Japanese super-dreadnought
engines and ships of weird shape and pro portion outclass all competitors The inns by the wayside, as well as the homes in the villages, abound with these cartoons and in long conversations with the people their psychological effects can be traced."
Koa
Dr. Wellington Koo, Councillor of the Foreign Offos at Peking, has been- appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the | Republic of Mexico
DA secured his Ph.D. degree in Columbiu. was University of New York, in, which of institution he studied for a number of years. Bogu after his graduation he was called back by the President to act, 24 English Secretary in the President's office Later, he was appointed Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from which office he was soon promoted to the Councillorship. He was the Vice-Chair- man of the Commission for the Settlement of Revolution Indemnities, and Chairman
to
for the British Army, affords but regard her promises to America as more sacred or more binding than those she -another- illustration of the employed by the German agents in made to Belgium and the whole world United States to win the sympathy of prior to embarking on this awful war. the American people for Germany by the Germany remains indifferent not only to process of caluminating the British. her international obligations but even to We shall doubtless learn in time that this ordinary considerations of humanity. advertisement was also intended to serve
Mails for Europe vid Siberia close another purpose, namely to enable the Germans, after producing their next form to-day at noon and at 3 pm. of scicatific savagery, to offer the excuse that these shells were. Erst made for the British. Very likely we shall see this advertisement which a Cleveland firm is can journal quoted as incontestible proof which is now being mounted with guns represented to have inserted in an Anuri- of British iniquity. We need scarcely will be given a trial run in August of remind our readers that before the Küre. Gormans began to
Cable communication in the Pacific use poisonous gas against the British and French with America, both by the direct route trenches, they gave out in
their and by the route via Japan and the Boniu wireless communications to the world islands, is interrupted, but restoration of ths lie that the British were using the direct route is hoped for within two poisonous shells against them, and that
or three days. they were in consequence contemplating reprisals. The story puzzled Sir Jos Mr. E. C. Wilton, C.M.O., Opium FRENCH at the time, as it was utterly Commissioner attached to the British dismissed for Legation, Peking, has been appointed baseless, and it was
merely part acting Consul-General at Canton, and of the campaign of lying misrepre- has come down to find the Con- sentation which the Germans have been sulate untenantable owing to the floods.
M. Y. K. de Reus, Netherlands Consul- carrying on against their adversari-
Members of the Hongkong Jockey Club General at Hongkong, has been appointed and especially the Britishsince the very are reminded of the extraordinary gen- to succeed M. von Zeppelin Obermuller on beginning of the war. But we know now eral meeting of members which takes the latter's transfer from Shanglui to -harper than and make the FRENCH LESSONS that is an excuse invented by place to-day, at noon, for the purpose of the Netherlands Legation in Brazil.
Bigned-In Year Ngo, In Yeak Leang,
In Yoak Kai, In Yeuk
Ko, In Yank Chow, La Yeuk Wah, In Youk Fook, In Yenk
Sa. Ju Yank Trot,
In Your Hine, fu. Yonk Ching, In Year Yeung, In Yenk Cheong, In Teak Krai, Ia Tonk Wong, In Yeak Ming.
4th June, 4th Republican Year. Hongkong, 24th June, 1815.
JUST RECEIVED:
Stanley Gibbon's
POSTAGE STAMP
CATALOGUE.
First and Second Parts completo.. GRACA & CO..
No. 11, CANE BOAD. Hongkong, 23rd June, 1913,
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the
time being
of the Committee for making prepara tions for The Hague Conference. He was a member of the Commission, appointed by the President to study Constitutions. and is now Director of the Translation Bureau, and a member of the Office of the Master of Ceremonics, He is also the President of the Amociation of Returned Students from Europe and America. CONSUL-GENERAL FOR THE
NETHERLANDS. TRANSFERRED TO SHANGHAI.
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G.
E.
NOTICE.
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asistio or Yadise A desiring to leave the Colony should apply in writing for permission to do so to the Captain SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE at least
SAVE YOUR BLADES
IF YOU SHAVE WITH A SAFETY RAZOR
SAVE YOUR OLD BLADES.
We can re-now thole uzsfultons
per
Dozen.
like new. WE SHARPEN EVERYTHING. CAMPERLL, MOORE & Co., LTD.
•1607 Hongkong, 24th Jane, 1915.
the
in
the
G, MOURAION,
of the world.
their
18. Monitor HILL BOAR
[691
to justify Germans
amending the rules of the Club with a The eyes
contem view to expelling alien enemice. plated open defiance of the laws terms of the resolution will be found in of warfare by using poison gas for which the advertisement pppearing in another we now know they had been preparing
column.
M. de Reus, who has been in the Nether lands Consular Service for about twenty years and has been stationed at Hamburg, Yokobama, and in Venezuela, has been in Hongkong for five years,
48 hours before the intended hour of departure, giving name, nationality, age, sex, height 75 Cla and boeapstion of the applicant, and stating the Eame of the steamer or other vessel or the hour of the train by which the applicant wishes to leave. Applicants should apply in person for thele passes at the CENTRAL POLICH STATION between the hours of 9 AM to ) P‚N. and 2 FX to 4x, daily,
Hongkong, 10th July, 1915,
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