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For BOSTON AND NEW YORK YIA SUEZ CANAL

THE BS... “INDRAKUALA will be despatched for the share pors about the beginning of Ostober.

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LIM & HUNT and YEE KEE HONG,

(917 Hongkong, 31st August, 1915.

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er Bookkeeper. Experience on Accounting Staff of Bank and as Clerk of Shipyard. Full investigation courted. Salary to be settled after trial

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KINO'S REGULATION No. 10 of 1915.

THE Undersigned, His Beitsanio Majesty's THE Undertraordinary and Minister

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Hongkong, 1st September, 1915.

PUBLIC COMPANIES

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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU. FACTURING CO., LTD.

INTERIM DIVIDEND

ANDOLLAR I DEND of ONE months ending 30th Jung, 1925, will be Payable

on MONDAY, the 6th September, 1915, on Plenipotentiary, publicly notiles all whom it may concern that it has been dǝelded by Hiswhich date Dividend Warrants may be obtained

at the Company's Office. Majesty's Government that delivery of goods already sold to enemy Arms in China must be

bed by the following time limita: Not Intor than Augnat ath10k fully Lil Block To China;

Not later than fro days after arrival in the port of discharge in Caino in respect of goods which left the United Kingdom prior to Jaly 25th, 1915, but which have not yet arrived in China;

Not later than Sptember 20 h, 1915, in

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Compa will be CLOSENDAY, the 6th September, 1915, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Manageru.,

[913 Hongkong, 30th August, 1915.

reptet of goods which left the United Kingdom DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, after July 5th, 191, but which had been handed

to an inland irrier for shipment before July 26th, 1915.

Delivary of goods to enemy firms in Chins will not be permitted after the dates mentioned abore,

J. N. JORDAN. His Britannic Majesty's Minister, Paking, August 14th, 1913. N.B.-Ia accord snee with instructions dated

August 20th, from His Majesty's Minister at Peking; it is hereby notified in reference to the above that goods from any British Colony or Dominion will be accorded treatment precisely similar to goods from the United Kingdom.

E. C. WILTON, Anting British Consul General, Canton,

Exhibital 26.8.15.

E. C. WILTON,

Acting Consul General;

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NOTION.

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ANY EUROPEAN, Non-Asistic or Indisu desiring to leave the Colony should apply in writing for permission to do so to the Captain 80FESINTENDENT OF POLICE, at least 48 hours before the intended hour of departure, giving man, tonality, age, sex, height I occupation of the applicant, and stating the me of the steamer, or other vessel or the hour of the train by which the applicant wishes to leara. Applicants should apply in person for their passes at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION batwaen the hours of BA MH. to 1 P.M. Bad 2 P.M. to P.. daily,

LIMITED,

HOUSES TO LET.

TO LET.

QUARNDON," No. 15. THE PEAS,

two minutes from Trom, Furnished, SEVEN ROOMS. From 1st November, 1015

Apply...

G. TISDALL, Russo-Asiatto Bank,

Hongkong, let September, 1915,

[918

TO LET.

INTIMATION

WHISKY

mementoes of the luxuriant groves in

At Honolulu a Chinesa morchant, who which the buildings originally reposed in has arrived there, and who is proceeding the depths of magnificent forests,

to San Francisco, says that he' has been Wherever the rebels encamped forests, commissioned by Chinese capitalists bo small in extent but the growth of purchase two-liners to form the muelena centuries, where they existed, were of a subsidized line to America,

ruthlessly destroyed to afford fuel and timber to the marauders." And Mr. NORMAN SHAW, the author of a book on

A correspondent of the N.-O. Daily News writing from Kuciyang, (Kweichow). suya:~A foroign friend living at Tsungi - "Chinese Forest Trees and Timber Ave days north) writes me that so Man Supply," dealing with the same subject much opium was gathered this year in "It is true that the enormous the Wachuan district (still futhor to the destruction of human life by the Taipings north-east) that farmers in Tsungi declaro

the and Imperialists · during great that they will sow upiunt this year. On rebellion operated to some extent 39 a

a recont visit to Kiachow (three days check oa deforestation by depriving whole north) I heard that many in that district-

Is a thing the Average

H Kowloon. Cheap rental.

[OUSES in "TORRES BUILDINGS" knows less about than he thinks

Apply to-

SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION. Hongkong, Seth Angast, 1915.

TO LET.

(501

THE Premises No. 38, SHAMEEN, B.C., Canton, comprising DWELLING HOUSE, GODOWNS and OUTHOUSES lately occupied by Messrs. F. BLACKHEAD & Co.

Apply th

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 24th Augast, 1015..

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TO LET.

NORMAN COTTAGE, No. 2. Peak Rond,

ious

4 GOOD ROOMS. Immediate poeson-

Appis--

PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th Angust, 1915,

TO LET.

(875

TARPERVILLE, Gardou Road, SEVEN

H

he does...

RECOMMENDATION.

any's:

| say the same and for the salpe reason,

FASHION IS ITS GENERAL districts of their inhabitants and return" ing them to a state of nature, but these areas were soon filled up by new settlers who knew and cared little for the sacred character of the groves and ore long completed the work of devastation on the hillsides". They wanted the wood for fuel and building purposes, and the great mountain ranges being no man's lands, unde

Comparing

- with

At the Magistracy yesterday a Cana- dian somnu named Charles Charters was charged by Inspector Gordon vagrancy. The Inspector, told the Magis trate that the defendant deserted from the Afterwards he sailing-ship Drumeltin

camte

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WATSON'S |they simply took-it-And-the-results-of-1-buck on the Muila, from which ship he

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WHISKY

trip to Japan and

also deserted, He had been living for the The past three months on his wits." Magistrate ordered the detention of thi

this wholesale destruction of trees, this removal of Nature's covering of the earth, are to be seen, as we have said, in the increasing frequency and greater defendant in the House of Detention, In- gravity of the calamities due to floud or | specter Gordon undertaking to endeavour drought, Mr. PURDOM, a botanist who to find a ship for him,- has travelled extensively in Chine, has

William. Ezra, of Ashky Terrace, Kow. published some interesting observations on the serious effect of this loss of kon, agair appeared at the Magistracy forests air the ofimatic conditions of the yesterday un a charge of violently assault- country and on the progressive dessicu-ing a coplie employed by the Secretary of Delend- tion which is now going on in the loss the Kowloon Dock Company,

The effet un ant was fined $5 and ordered to pay 83

ROOMS, Very Largs Dining Room, with other brands will convince you provinces of the north." immediate p ́ssession, house în excellent order. Tennis Court and Garden.

Apply

PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th August, 1915.

876

TO LET-FURNISHED.

MOREBANK EAST, No. 166, THE PEAK,

Tennis Court. From September, Apply― -

No. 18. Cate of "Daily Presa" Office. Hongkong, 19th August, 1915.

TO LET.

Fond HIGHT ROOMED Resideness in

TROM 1st September next, desirable BIX

Broadwood and Wong-Nel-Chong Roads, the latter commanding Fine View of the Race Course,

For terms and particulas, apply to

of its

the general contour of the land from compensation to the coolie. The Magis erosion," he writes, "the depredationstrate remarked that the story put forward made by extension of river beds from by, the defendant that he was chasing silting, mad the exposure of crops to fill another man and was caught in mistake HIGH STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE. climatic conditions should engage tho was most incredible. The complainant serious attention of those interested it could not have made such a mistake as the welfare of the agricultural populat there was a strong glare of light near the

Furl is notably scare in China,

café but even this does not excuse the whole- sale scraping from mountain sides, of

tion.

A. S. WATSON very particle of vegetation, a matter of

& CO., LTD.,

TYPHOON WARNING, compulsory daily occurrence in mary The telegram quoted below was received, provinces, which results in the extinction Pat the American Consulate-General, of all soil-binding plazas, to say nothing Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory of the many fine species of trees and at 6.10 p.m. pesterday:-

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, shrubs thus lost to the world.” Mr.

HONGKONG AND CHINA.

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENOT Co., LÆÐ, Hongkong, 16th July, 1915.

NOTIUM.

NO LET~-A HOUSE ni Observatory Villas

Kowloon. Apply to--

ARBATOON V. APCAR & 06. Hongkong, 6th July, 1915,

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THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET W

LING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Company's OBees, on FRIDAY, the 17th of Septembar, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with

Statement of Ascounts to 30th June, 1915.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the ard to the 17th of September, both day inclusive.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co..

General Managers... Hongkong, 27th August, 1915. (003

FOR SALE.

PACIFIC MAIL 8.8. Co.'s GODOWNS,

and 2, camnected by covered alleyway-located on Section B Marine Lot No. 243, Kennedy Town, Crown Rent $160.00 per annum, together with permanent STEEL PIER opposite Godowns, and upon which the Crown Rent is $300.00 per annum.

STEAM LAUNCH "AMERICA," in first class condition, having been stripped and thoroughly overhauled in 1914.

2 BUOYS WITH THEIR MOORINGS, both in Brat class condition, having been recently thoroughly overhauled and relaid with now mooring chains.

For further information apply to—

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Hongkong, 10th July, 1915.

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WIRE BRUSI

FOR BOILER TUBE,

Manufacturers and Exporters of the

fellowing:

PAINT BRUSH.

WIRE BRUSH FOR BOILER TUBE,

BRUSH FOR SHIP'S USE.

Other Kinds of BRUSH

Catalogue sent on request.

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Dozen.

WE SHARPEN EVERYTHING. CAMPBELL, MOORE & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1915.

WANTED.

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RESIDENCE of ROOMS or more, with

LỪ Gaiden er Tennis Court, on an elevated position, excepting Wanchai or East.

Apply to

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HOLE or PART SHOP in Chater

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CLARK & Co., Opticians. Hongkong, 29th June, 1916.

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0

TO LET,

FFICES in ST. GEORGE'S BULDING Second Floor, Overlooking Harbour Immediate pressalon,

Apply to-

SHEWAN, TOKES & Co. Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914.

199

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HOUSE

In Kngleford Тели

A Kowloon,

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Tha HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY (»,, LED. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915

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TOUR-BOOMED FLATS in Hanoi Road Fowlon, and MAY ROAD, Hongkong.

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HONGKONG OPpion: 101, Dia Vœux Roan 0. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, E.C.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER END, 1915.

FORESTRY IN CHINA.

Typhoon cast of northern Luzon · Inord PURDOM has also pointed out how than 300 miles distant, moving N.W.

ariously this lack of timber will affect the development of the country in such matters as the extension of railways, | HONGKONG WOMEN'S development of mines and the building of -bridges, both from the point of view of ("Cost" and "zno" facility of carrying out

these enterprises,“

GIFT

TO THE ARMY.

SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR A MOTOR AMBULANCE.

subscribers for the motor ambulance:

Larly Mag sends us the first list of

Yes. Anstruther; Aune," Mrs. R.

In the account given in the Far Eastern Retic of Mr. MEYER's experiences as a plant collector in China it is incidentally mentioned that it was while looking over some pictures of China's deauded hill. Baker, Mrs. Barlow, Miss Baylis, Mra sides that President ROOSEVELT made the Boucher, Mrs. Burnie, Mrs. Chatham, remark that China could teach the world Mrs. Churchill, Miss Clark, Mrs. Crad- how not to do things, as well as how dook, Miss Kathleen Craddock, Mrs., A. they should be done. These photographs E. Crapnell, Rey-Mother Superior French | contributed largely towards the inaugu Convent, Lady Rees Davies, Mrs. Dealy, IF by Forestry is meant the art of ration of the conservation movement in Miss Margaret Dealy, Mrs. Dickson, Miss developing or mainnging forests, the the United States, which has led to the Agnes Dickson, Miss Joyce Dickson, Mrs. reader who knows his China will say at preservation of so many thousand square Edkins, Miss G. Fiddes, Miss Gains, Mra once that nothing of the kind exists in miles of forests, which are of value not! Goodbau, Mrs. Green, Mrs. H. Hancock, What is to be observed is only only to the future generations, but to Mrs. Brotherton Harker, Mrs. Ho Book, ruthless deforestation, and this has been the present as well. But what; it wil! Mrs. Ho Kom Tong, Lády Ho Turg, Mrs. William Humphreys, Mrs. E W James,

Chisn..

going on for many years, the results be asked, is the Chinese Government being reaped to-day in the greater doing in this direction? We fear it magnitude of the annually recurring cannot be said that the Chinese Govern calamities from either drought or flood. meat is at present doing very much, but In a very interesting descriptive account to the credit of the Republican adminis- of an American plant explorer's experi-tration it should be stated that the encre in China, published in the current seriousness and the magnitude of the evil number of the Far Eastern Review, the has been recognised, and the forestry writer in the course of his comments on work of more advanced nations is being

Mrs. Kemp, Mra, Looker, Mrs. Lowe, Mrs. Martin, Lady May, Miss Phoebe May, Miss Iris May, Miss Dione May, Mrs. Milroy, Mrs. Moxon, Mrs. Newall, Miss Nind, Mrs. Pattender, Miss Paulize Fattenden, Mrs. Pentreath, Mrs. Ralphs, Miss Mario Rozario, Mrs, Murray Boott, Mrs. Shellim, Mrs. Sidford, Miss Middle the intensive cultivation that is carried

studied. There is now a Bureau of on upon some of the mountain sides in

fon Smith, Mrs. Stabb, Miss Margaret" - Kansu Province observes:

Forestry al Peking with a foreign "Because of

adviser, and it is to be hoped that in Stabb, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Tutcher, "A. this intensive cultivation and the seem

the course of time it may succeed no W," Mrs. Wakoman, Miss Wilkinson. ing determination of the Chinese to turn only in checking the denudation which

Total, 2001. every inch of arable soil to some benefit is still going on, but in initiating also in has come about the deforestation of

overy province of China measures for China's mountains, under which policy forestry development on a scate commen- the farmer has destroyed in time not

surate with the noed.

with possession ia October naxonly the very fields for which the foresta English Bathe and Kitchen Banges, Hot and were removed, but has permitted the Cold Water, Electric Light. "First Class Modern Appointments throughout, including

torrential mountain streams to carry

A mail for Europe via Siberia closes Water Carriage System

dowa

large quantity of gravel, that to-day at 3 p.m. FOUR-BOOMED HOUSES is Gordos gradually has encroached on the Terraes and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon. FLATS in Nathan Road. Eowloom.

A FLAT in Humphrey's Bufflings, Kowloon. Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Co., LTD., Alexandra Buildinga. Honghong, 17th July, 1915,

TO LET.

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FROM 1st October next, OFFICES at 2. Connaught Road, at present in the occupation of Mesra. Denaye & Bowley.

HOUSES in ÜLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit Road

OFFICES, facing the Harbour between iks Hongkong Club and Fort Offee.

58, THE PEAK "THE RETREAT." 21, WONG-NEL CHONG ROAD, GODOWNE, New Prays, Kennedy Town. GODOWNS, «i Wanchal Boad, Apply, etc..

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST, MENT & AGENCY Co., Las, Hongkong, 1st August. 1915.

183

more

at the

fertile plains below." While it is Three mon charged with armed robbery doubtless true that the denudation of in the Wanchai district recently were

trial the hills which is going on to-day is to yesterday committed for bc explained on these utilitarian Criminal Sessions. grounds, it is not entirely owing to this that the deforestation of China's Mr. F. C. S. Jones and Mr. A. V mountains has come

The Davies, who went home from Shanghai about. provines of Kwangtung at all events early this year, and received 2nd Lieute OTES the destruction of its former nancies in the 14th Lancashire Fusiliers, luxuriant forests rather to the wanton have passed the necessary examination ness of the Taiping rebels which over-ram and are now promoted to be Lieutenants the country in the middle of the last on the Active Service list, century. Their war cry in Kwangtung

was "Destruction to the Temples," and

Private information has been received

the result is recorded by a writer of in Hankow that two French sisters of half a century ago in these terms: "In mercy travelling from Suifu to Kiatung many spots where monastic influence had under the protection of several soldiers for centuries preserved larger or smaller have been attacked by a gang of robbers, tracts of forest land from denudation of All the soldiers except one were killed, their trees, ruinous temples stand with but the sisters, though robbed of all their but a few isolated trees near, sparse belongings, arrived safely at Kiatung.

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

ASSOCIATION. FIRST AID EXAMINATION.

POLICE ABB.

Mr. E. Ralphs, Hou, Secretary of the Hongkong Centre, informs us that the. andermentioned Members of the Police Force have qualified for the Certificate in First Aid:-

Koaneth W. Andrews Edward John Ellis

Ernest James Field

Peter Boyd Gardner William Henderson Harry Kirkby Patrick Murplay Andrew Nicoll

Harry John Paterson Alexander Reid.

The Examiner reports that the candi dates displayed a very good knowledge of the subject, only one obtaining less than 80 per cent. of full marks.

The Hon; Lecturer was Dr. McKerny

and the Hon. Examiner Dr. W. Y. M

Koch.