NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
TO LET
THE Premise No. 86, SHAMEEN, B. O., Canton, comprising Dwelling House, Godowns and Onthouses latoly occupied by Mesars. F. BLACKHEAD & Co.
Apply to-
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 24th August, 1815. (800
G.
B....
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
love
that the TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that the
to suitable tenants, ROOMS Nos, 5, 6 and 7, on the Top Floor of the POST. OFFICE BUILDING (Now Government Offoes) in Pedder Street on a YEARLY tenney,
Farther particulars and conditions of letting may be obtalood on application at the Ofạo nf the Director of Public Works.
W. CHATHAM, Director of Public Works Hongkong, 23rd August, 1915,
PAS
FOR SALE.
(487
PACIFIC MAIL 8.8. Co.'s GODOWNS,
Nos. 1 and 2, connnated by....covered" alleyway-located on Section B Marine Loi No. 243, Kondedy Town, Crown Rent $160,00 per annum, together with parament STEEL PIER opposite Godowns, and upon which the Crown Hent is $300.00 per annum.
STEAM LAUNCH AMERICA" in first clan condition, having been stripped and thoroughly overhauled in 1914.
2 BUOYS WITH THEIR MOORINGS, both in first class condition, baving been recently thoroughly overhauled and relaid with new mooring "chains,
For farther information apply to
PUBLIC COMPANY
HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE.
HE ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY
MEETING
of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Company's Hotel on SATURDAY, the 28th August, 1915, at NOON, for the purpose of recolving Statement of Accounts of the Company to the 30th June, 1915, with the Report of the Directory, and to discuss any matter that may be competently brought before the Meeting,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 21st to 28th August, 1915, both date inclusive,
By Order of the Board,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24TH, 1916.
HOUSES TO LET".
TO LET.
NE ROOM, Seymour Road, suitable for a
Lady of Bachelor. No board, Apply to
"B.." Care of " Daily Press" Offloo Hongkong, 23rd August, 1915.
[00%
TO LET.
on.
JORMAN COTTAGE, No. 3, Pink Kosd, 4 GOOD ROOMS. Immediate posses- Apply-
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong. 20th August, 1915.
[875-
[869
J. H. TAGGART,
Acting Secretary, Hongkong, 16th August, 1915.
TO LET.
ARPERVILLE, Garden Road, SEVEN
HA
ROOMS, Very Large Dining Room,
FRENCH LESSONS immediate possession, house in excellent order.
G. MOUSSION.
16, MORRISON HILL ROAD.
Tennis Court and Garden.
Apply
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th August, 1915.
1876
1794
A LING & CO.
19, Queen's BoaD CENTRAL.
G
FURNITURE AND PHOTO GOODS
STORE.
Photographic Goods of Every Description
In Stock,
TO LET-FURNISHED.
FOREBANK EAST, No. 100, THE PEAK.
Court. From September. Apply--- .
No. 18, Care of "Daily Prose" Offline. Hongkong, 18th August, 1915.
[870
OFFICES TO LET
[886.
Developing, Printing and Enlarging. Canton Marbles in Various Bbados. FELEPHONN 1219.
No
Hongkong, 4th February, 1915.
(516
O. 6, DES VŒUX ROAD, 1st Floor, Apply
JOSEPH BROTHERS, Hongkong, 17th August, 1915,
[807
R. C. MORTON, Ágéné. Hongkong, 4th August, 1915,
THE NATIONAL LOAN
OF THE
THIRD YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA. SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS (816,000,000)
AND
SUPPLEMENTARY 18SUE OF EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS (38,000,000).
NUBSCRIBERS to the above LOAN are herby notified that the Interest Instalment for the month of August amount- ing to Dollars One Hundred and Twenty Thousand ($1,000) has been duly received by the Undersigned and brought to Loan Service Account.
FA. AGLEN,
Inspector General of Customs, and Vice-Chairman of the Bureau of
National Loans.. Inspectorate General of Customs,
Peking, 16th August, 1915,
WANTED.
[880
TAPANESE. 31 years of age, Married. Soak position as General Work Azzistant or Bookkeeper. Experience on Acocuating Staff of Bank and as Clerk of Shipyard, Full investigation courted, Salary to be settled after trial.
Write-
O. SAKAI, No. 11, D'Aguilar Street. Hongkong, 18th August, 1915,
G.
NOTIOR.
B
[871
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asistio or Indian
A desiring to leave the Colony should apply in writing for permission to do so to the Captain SUFERINTENDENT OF POLICE, a lemah 48 hours before the intended hour of departure, giving name, nationality, age, sex, height and occupation of the applicant, and staking the name 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 their passes at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of A., to 1 P.M. and 2 F.M. to 4 F.M. daily,
Hongkong, 10th July, 1815.
SAVE
YOUR BLADES
75 Cls.
por
Dosen
1738
GIVE YOUR RAZOR A NEW LEASE OF LIFE,
Remember we do all kinds of
grinding and edge making. We sharpen Clippers, Shoam, Scissors, Pocket Knives, Surgical Instru ments, etc.
WE SHARPEN EVERYTHING. CAMPBELL, MOORE & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1915.
JUST RECEIVED:
SEEDS.
GRACA & CO.
No. 11, CLINE ROAD, Hongkong, Hongkong, 18th August, 1915,
NEW CARTRIDGES.
popular
DRINK
ALLSOPP'S
BRITISH PILSENER
BEER.
SOLE AGENTS
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR&C..
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
15 Quwen's Road Central,
香港中外新缀
115
HUNG NGO SAN PO (Chinese Daily Press),
O
PUBLIS
DAILY
( the oldest and still Immeasurably the boot Advertising medium among the
Native Community.
Established for over FIFTY YEARS
Jirculaten largely throughout Bouthern Chins
Indo-Chins ete
Terms for Advertising (Tranalation free) cau be obtained at the Ofios, 10A. Des Vosar Road Central, Hongkong, 151, Flest Street, London or from the different Agents
Documents translated from or inte Classics! or Colloquial Chinmu.
TO LEE
OFFICES la Br. GROBGE'S BUILDING
Second Floor, Overlooking Harbour immediate pozzzsealon.
Apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & O Hongkong, 3rd Desember, 1914.
(725
TO LET
HOUSE in- -Kantford-
Kowloon,
Terzins
Apply
English Manufacturera.
Ball Bores and Sinos.
SMOKELESS POWDEE and CHILLET
SAOT. From No. 10 to 888G, at $6, #7 and $7.50 per 100 SPORTING REQUISITES and AIK GUNS in Variety.
Inspection Invited,
WM. SCHMIDT & Co.
Hongkong, 4th February, 1915. 1600
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD, Hongkong, 1*1-Mareb, 1915--
WRoad
TO LET.
HOLE or PART SHOP in Chster Apply
CLARK & Co Hongkong, 28th June, 1915,
[705
* Optiolana.
TO LET.
Fuilding own as STONEHENGE
ROM 1st September, that part of the
No. 6, Robinson Road, now in the occupation of the Nippon Yusan Kaisha, particularly suitable for a Boarding House.
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co. LTD. Hongkong, 10th August, 1915, [847
TO LET.
RRITISH CONCESSION, SHAMEEN.
NE THREE-ROOMED FLAT, niso Good
Office and Godown accommodation. Apply-
T. E. GRIFFITH, LTD.,
Canton. Centor, Bih July, 1916.
(708
TO LET.
FROM 1st September next, desirable SIX EIGHT ROOMED Residences in Broadwood and Wong-Not-Chong Roads, the latter commanding Fine View of the Race Coarse.
For terms and particulas, apply to ...
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Hongkong, 16th July, 1915.
[787
TO LET.
HORS LION ULLAS Ind
TORRES BUILDINGS, ready for occupation from the 1st August next,
Apply to→
SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION. Hongkong, 16th July, 1916,
NOTICA.
[501
TO LET A HOUSE &t Observatory Villas
Kowloon. Apply to
ARBATOON V. APCAR & Co Hongkong, 6th July, 1918,
[729
INTIMATION
BY APPOINTMENT.
WATSON'S
PYERIS.
The omission of an official invitation of
been greatly exagerated.. On the The August issue of Religiai e Patria other hand, we cannot recall an instance announces that the family of Choa Po Bion, of a submarino being rammed by any Compradore of the China Sugar Refinery battleship, though a considerable number Co., Ltd. (nine" persons in all) toog of the enemy's submarines have been the vows of Christianity at the Roman destroyed by gunfire or by being sammed Catholic Cathedral recently in the presence by small craft, in some cases by merchant.
of the priests of the vicariate, the Spanish ships which had been attacked contrary and French missions and the Sisters of St. to the hitherto accepted rules of war-
Paul de Chartres. The ceremony was con- fare, Sir PERCY SCOTT apparently never
ducted by Bishop Pozzoái, and was "of dream that the submarine would be used by any civilised nation for any
great splendour.? other purpose than attacking ships of war, which shows that he, like most representativ Christians to the Coronation people, did not at that time know the ceremony, says the Japan Chronicle, bag mentality of the German Naval Staff. given rise to complaints among the Chris- Since the month of February, however, wetian, Icaders in Japan, though they have seen deliberate warfare carried on are expressed with discretion in deference by German submarines against defence to the close connection of the affair with the less passenger liners, peaceful archant Emperor's person, An exact reproduction of a well-withstanding the horror and dolestation with the explanation given by the Minister shipping and even fishing craft, and not- Shimpo, the Christians are not satisfied According to the Jiji
known Spa at half the price,
of Education, namely, that the invitation Blends perfectly with
was extended only to representatives of Spirits,
Buddhism and Shintoign because the especially Whisky.
leaders of those creeds are entitled to the special treatment due to officials chokunia rank.
(Registered.)
"A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or touch not the Pyerian Spring Three shallow drafts intoxicate the brain And drinking deeply sabers us again."-Pope,
PINTS 85 Crs. PER Doz. SPLITS 50 CTs.
MARK
TRADE
A. S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.,
AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS,
113
BIRTHS BRYSON-On August 17th, at Tientsin, to Mr. and Mrs, T. L. BEYSON, a 502. LITTLE-On August 12th, ot Peitsiho, to Mr. and Mrs E. S. LITTLE, Jun, a -daughter
DEATH. BEAUCHAMP.-On July 7th, at 51 Et. Helen's Gardens, North Kensington, London, W., ELIZABETH HAZELDINE, widow of ROBERT HALKED BEAUCHAMP, late of Shanghai, aged 64.
HONGKONG OFFION:10, DRS Vaux Roin. C. LONDON - OFFION: 181, FLEET STREET, E.C.
The Baily Press.
HONGKONG, Avgust 24th, 1815.
THE SUBMARINE AS A WEAPON OF WAR. ABOur two months before the outbreak of the war Admiral Sir Pency Scorr published in the Timer a letter in which he submitted that submarines and sea ND FLOOR NO.1, BUDDELL STREET, plates had become the premier weapons
for Office or Dwellings. Apply within Hongkong, ist Juno, 1915.
TO LET.
TO LET.
1616
expressed throughout the civilised world,
of
.On
these barbarities continue. While this piracy has brought every discredit on Germany in practising her blockade," it has not brought about the results that were expected, as the weekly returns of the shipping of the United Kingdom clearly attest. We do not know the full The death took place on 18th- ult, total of ships sunk to date, but a mouth at Edinburgh, of Mr. A. D. Provant. ago the figure was given as 200, and of Mr. Provand, who was 76 years of age, these seventy were neutral ships. Mr. was an old resident of Shanghai. CHURCHILL some time ago reminded as his retirement from China he was engaged that in the French war we lost ten ships largely in Manchester business, and was a week for a period of ten"
years. Com-
for some years member of Parliament for pared with this, the results of Germany's The Blackfriars and Hutchesontown submarine piracy are meagre indeed. division of Glasgow. He naturally But ships to-day are larger and the took great interest in all matters affect- cargoes in many cases, perhaps, more ing commercial matters in China, and his valuable, and no doubt when the values questions often dealt with this subject. of ships and cargoes come to be totalled He was a strong Home Ruler, and at up at the end of the war it will the General Election of 1580 declared be represent an important item in the was strongly in favour of the establish- indemnity which will be demanded, from ment of a statutory Legislative Assembly Germany.
in Dublin for dealing with distinctively Irish affairs." He was recleated in 1882 and 1893, but at the General Elec.. glotion of 1900 he was opposed by Mr. Bonar Law, and defeated by 4,140 votes to 3.140.
Mails for Europe wit Siberia to-day at 11 am, and at 4 pm.
At the Marine Court yesterday the Master of the steam launch ́ (Fing Hong was fined 825 for carrying 28 passengers in excess of those permitted by his licence.
PRINCE OF WALES. FUND. SECRETARY OF STATE'S APPRECIATION.
A jean-to sled at the Sailors' Home collapsed on Sunday, but fortunately caused injury to no-one. The shed was used as 'n shefter for seamen waiting at the ❘ for publication : --- Mercantile,Marine Offer.
The Great Northern Tekgraph Co., Ltd.. inform us that Chief Censor, London, noti- fies that combinations of plain language and Cole in one single word-e.g. Chiliap, meaning Chilj arrives--are not admissible.
During the storm on Sunday evening the flagstaff on the roof of the Peak Hospital was struck by lightning. A num. ber of bricks and a wooden grating on the roof were dislodged hit the darnage was not serions.
A San Francisco telegram to the Ashi states that the Japanese girls who expected to give dances at the Exposition have been refused landing and efforts by the Japanes Consulate seem to be of no avail. The party are to start a suit in the Conris.
The return of the number of cases of communicable diseases notified as occurring August 21st is as follows:-6 fatal cases within the Colony during the week ended
of Bubonic Plague, all Chinese ( im ported); and 3 of Enteric Fever (2 imported), 1 British, 1 American and I Malay. Only one of these cases was fatal,
|
The following despatch received by the Government from the Secretary of State for the Colonies has been forwarded to as
Downing Street,
15th July, 1916. the receipt of your despatch No. 215 of the Sin, I have the unge to neknowledge 4th June, reporting that further remittances of £7,000 and £2,000 have been placed to to request that you will convey to the sub- the credit of the Prince of Wales' Fund, and scribers an expression of my appreciation of the continued generosity of the community," |--I hare, etc.
(SI) A. BONAR LAW. Governor
Sir F. H. May, K.C.M.G.
Hongkong.
MACAO NOTES. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
MACAO, August 2nd, DEATH OF MR. SMOLLETT CAMPBELL. The news of the death of Mr. Smollett Campbell, Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs ut Lappa received here with much regretful sur- prise.
Was
THE MACAO VOLUNTEERB.
celebrate
On Wednesday the local Volunteers will their First anniversary, and it is expected that the day will be one of feasting and enthusiasm." Early of Government House, to be followed in the day the band with play in front of sea power in, place of battleships, and that battleship feets should record-
by the hoisting of the flag as the Volunteer At H. M. Police Court at Shanghaj last headquarters, where the band will also ingly be discarded in favour of an week, Charles Killeen, aged 31, described provide music. enormous fleet of submarines, airships as a commission agent, was charged for sentatives of the Senado will present the In the evening repre and aeroplanes and a few fast ernisers that, on August 17th, he did unlawfully Corps with a Standard which has been *provided a place can be found to keep and without lawful authority or excuse beautifully embroidered by the Sisters Fo
MOUE-BOOMED FLATS in Hanoi Road, ernisers in safety during war time." have in his possession certain forged bank of the Italian Convent. The Standard Kowloon, and MAY ROAD, Hongkong The Admiral's views were much discussed notes, to wit, 2,120 forged Hupah Govern is being presented by the Senado in the with possession
October nezi, English Baths and Kitchen Ranges, Hot and and criticised at the time. Cold Water, Electrio Light.
One Nava!ment notes, knowing the same to have been First Class Officer, who poared ridicule on the views forged, contrary to section VIII. of the For-Colony,
name of the Portuguese community of the Modern Appointments throughout, including ventilated by Sir Pencv Scorr, declared
Speeches will be made, and Sr. Water Carriage System.
gory Act, 1913.
Maia will review the Corps. Minden Row, Kowloon, that in naval manœuvres perhaps the Newman, prisoner was remanded in cus On the application of Mr.
These functions will all take place on the 5-Boomed most acute of the anxieties experienced tody until Monday, bail being allowed
Longstin-chin's by the captain of a battleship was to himself in the sum of $250, and two British
ground, commencing at 5 p.m. FOUR-BOOMED HOUSES in Gordon avoid running down and sinking the sureties of $500 each.
When darkness arrives Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon,
the headquarters of the Volun FLATS in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
teers, and also this gardens of St. Francisco will be illuminated, and the HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCEmically discussed in the newspapers it another valuable haul of opium. On the band will discourse selections until a late
Co., LTD.,
was hardly dreamt that a war was so night of the 16th he approached in a motor. hour. Alexandra Buildings,
near at hand-in-which the value of boat a sampan which was anchored off „Hongkong, 17th July, 1915.
submarines would be put to a practical Wanchai The noise of the motor-boat
"PENYEith Tennis Court.
6-Hoored House,
2, MINDEN
House with Tennis Court.
A FLAT in Humphrey's Buildings, Kowloon. Apply to
[858
TO LEES TOUSES in CLIFTONH GARDENS, HR
Conduit Eond. OFFICES, facing the Harbour between the Hongkong Club sud Poek Once.
59, THE PEAK THE RETREAT," 21, WONG-NEY-CHONG ROAD, GODOWNS, New Praya, Kennedy Town. GODOWNS, af Wannaal Bead, Apply, etc.,
THE HONGKONG LAND' INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Hongkong, lai April, 1915,
133
"enemy's" aubmarino and torpedo eraft. When these questions were being acade-
test.
Revenue Officer Wilden has
made
In the course of the past twelve awakened the occupants of the sempar, months more than a round down of and one man jumped overboard. Two large warships-British, German, French and Italian-have been sunk by sub rushed to the hold, with the intention, women who were in the well of the boat
marines, but as against Sir PercY SCOTT'S
apparently, of taking off the lid and getting argument in favour of the absolute
down into the hold. The Revenue Oficor: superiority of the submarine, the fact
boarded the juuk, and in the hold discover. must
ba observed that no modern
battleship on either side has been toucheded 000 tacks of prepared opium. The two women were arrested, and appeared at by an underwater craft, and some naval experts are pointing to this as showing the Magistracy yesterday, the case being
that the value of the undersee resol has tremanded
FLYING
exhibitions at Porta de Cerco un the 28th An airman (Tom Gaun) will give and 29th, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the West River Flood Fund, days before the #ying takes place. The aeroplanes will be on view to the public in one of the cinemal theatres som
BIXTY-SIX YEARS AGO. Sixty six years ago to-day the assaggi- nation took place of Governor Amaral. The 25th, the day on which the Volun tears first anniversary takes place, is also the 60th anniversary of the heroic deca of Mesquita and his 36 cúmpanions in capturing the Pock-su-lean" The day Lis set aside 23 a public holiday.
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