NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
$2,000 REWARD.
HEREAS at about 10 p.m. on the
With September, 1915, two mon,
aged between 20 and 30 years, dressed in dark clothing and armed with dagger", attacked and stabbed a Chinese gentleman named SIU UN in St. Francis Street, Wanchai, A REWARD of TWO THOU SAND DOLLARS (82,000) will be paid by the undersigned to any person who shall give such information as shall lead to the arrest and conviction of the said two men.:
(38) C. McI. MESSER, Captain Superintendent of Police, Hongkong, September 9th, 1915. [904
TO LET.
TO, 171, MAGDALENE TERRACE, NO MATAI and 6, TORRES Moderste rent BUILDINGS, Kowloos. Ready for occupation.
Apply to
SPANISH DOMINICAN
PROCURATION.
Hongkong, 10th September, 1915.
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10mm, 1915.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS.
MEETING of Members interested in Subscription Griffins for the 1016 Rave 1fecting, will be held at the JoOKEY CLUB OFFICE TO-DAY (FRIDAY), the 10th instant, at 5.15 P.1.
H. P. WHITE, Aating Clock of the Course. Hongkong, 7th September, 1915,
HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB. THE FOURTH GYMKHANA MEETING
of the Season will be held at HAPPY VALLET TO-MORROW SATURDAY), tho 11th September, 1916, commencing at 3.30 P.1. The Chargo of Admission will be $1 for others than Members of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB or GYMKHANA CLUB.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Half-Price. The Committee invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be prosent,
Hongkong, 8th September, 1915,
1063
THE
EMPLOYMENT WANTED. NGLISHMAN Raks disployment....35 Storekeeper, Godown Keeper, Warehouse Man, Overet er or any almiler capacity.
Apply
Box No. 10,
Care of "Daily Pres" Ofies. [962 Hongkong, 10th September, 1915.
WANTED.
1050
ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT
CLUB.
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL MEETINGS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB will be held at the Club House, North Point, Hongkong, en MONDAY, the 13th day of September, 1915, at 5.30 o'clock In the afternoon, when the subjolsed two Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions:--
1. That it is not for the comfort or conveni
of NURSE or good travelling THE Services Children in return for free end of the Members of the Club as a whole, or class passage to England.
Apply to
"C" Care of "Daily Preas" Office. Hongkong, 7th September, 1915.
WANTED.
(914
Married, JAPANESE 31 years of age,
Seeks position as General Work Assistant or Bookkeeper. Experience on Accounting Staff of Bink and as Clerk of Shipyard Full investigation courted. Salary to be settled after trial.
Write-
O, SAKAI, No. 11, D'Agullar Street. [871 Hongkong, 18th August, 1915.
of the Subscribers or Visitors thereto, that any Membor who is the subject of a Nation between which and Great Britain a state of war existe should continue to be a Member of the Club.
2. That the Articles of Association be accordingly altered by the insertion of the following additional paragraph at the end of Article XXXII, namely
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET
THE Premises No. 88, SHAMEIN, BO.
Cantor
comprising DWELLING HOUSE, GODOWNS and OUTHOUSES lately occupied by Messrs. F. BLACKHEAD & CO.
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co., L Hongkong, 24th August, 1916.
Bion.
TO LET
(891
NORMAN COTTAGE, No. 3. Peak Road, 4 GOOD ROOMS. Immediato posses
Apply
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, [876 Hongkong, 20th August, 1915.
TO LET
INTIMATION
BY APPOINTMENT.
WATSON'S
STONE
One more game has been played in con neation with the second round of the Hongkong O.C.'s Men's Doubles, A. H. Crow and Hill (rec. 3/8), defeating de Rome and Reed (owe 2/6), 7/5, 3/6, 6/3.
A reward of $2,000 is offered by the Captain Superintendent of Police for information leading to the arrest and conviction of two man who stabbed Mr. Siu Un in St. Francis Street, Wanchai on the 8th instant.
ROBBER OR REBEL?
CHINESE EXTRADITION CASE.
adoption in all but name as the standard ourrency of the Colony, trade has been diverted from some of the outports to Shanghai, where the note still corr ponds to the value of the ailver dollar for which the Banks engage to redeem it. The merchant in Swatow, for example, has found that it pays him better to replenish his stocks from Shanghai than to sul to Hongkong for the purpose, because, though the importers in both places quote the same figures, it requires fower Swatow dollars to pay the bill in Shanghai than in Hongkong. In time. of course, this discrepancy will disappear, because, as the dollar is lower in Shang-. hai than the note in Hongkong, it will be necessary for our northern competitar to pay a correspondingly greater number of dollars to meet his future liabilities to the maufacturer in Europe. In the mean-charges of murdar, is at lant reaching its time, however, he has been reducing his closing stages, Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton The only fermented Stone Ginger-stooks rapidly in anticipation of the opened his final speech on behalf of she de- restrictions with regard to Trading with fondant yesterday, and reviewed in the Enemy, and producing a state of detail the evidence brought i stagnation in this Colony. If this were fondant by the prosecution, all it would be bal enough. But the out- port trade, having once, found another market, may not return in its entirety Hongkong when normal conditions are restored, and so the damage done may in part be permanent,
1975 GINGER-
HARPERVILLE, Garden Road, SEVEN immediate p section, house in excellent order ROOMS, Very Large Dining Room, Tennis Court sad Garten.
Apply
PERCY SMITII, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th August, 1915.
FROM
TO LET
(870
ROM 1st September natt, desirable BJX and EIGHT ROOMED Residences in Broadwood and Wong-Nei Chong Roads, the latter commanding & Fine View of the Race Course.
For terms and particulas, apply to--
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENUT CO., LTD. Hongkong, 16th July, 1916.
(767
10
NOTIOR.
TO LET-A HOUSE at Observatory Villu
Kowloon. Apply to
ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co. [720 Hougtong, 6th July, 1915.
"Any Member who is the subject of a Nation between which and Great Britain a state of war exists shall, ipso facto, cosse to be a Member of WHOLE the Club and shall no longer be entitled to any of the privileges of the Club.
And Notice is hereby also given that a Father Extraordinary General Meeting of the above Club will be held at the Club House aforesaid, on MONDAY, the 4th day of October, 1916, at 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving a roport of the proceedings at the above-mentioned Ex- traordinary Geners Meeting of the 13th day thought it, sa special mentioned resolutions.
TO LET.
HOLE or PART SHOP in Chater
Apply—
CLARK & Co.,
Opticians. S.. Hongkong, 29th June, 1816, [705
TO LET.
BEER.
Fast
Beer in the Fur Bast.
The real charm of Stone Ginger-
Beer is the flavour produced by partial fermentation; without this no Stone Ginger-Beer can be said to be genuine.
90 CENTS PER Doz.
TRADE
肉
JARR
THE SHANGHAI BUILDING AND sial resolutions, the above Second Floor, Oraclocking Harbour A. S. WATSON
INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 32 in the rame of CHEUNG TRUNG CHI (2) lata of 41, Connaught Road, Hongkong, for Forty (40) Partially Paid Up Shares Nos. 1701. to 1740 in this Company, has been declared to bo LOST, and the publo are warned against norotisting sama,
In the event of the above-mentioned Corti fiesta not being recovered on or before the 11th September, 1816, a now Certificate will be Issued, and the above-mentioned Certificate will be cancelled forthwith.
By Order of the Directors,
J. A. WATTIE & Co., LTD., Secretaries and General Managers,
HONGKONG COTTON SPINNING,
Dated the 2nd day of September, 1915: By Order of the General Committee,
REGINALD BROWN,
Hon. Secretary,,
THE ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB. NOTE: If the proposed alteration in the Articles, as above, is made, the immediate effect will be that any present Member who is the subject of a Nation now at war with Great Britain will, ipso facto, cease to be a Member as from the date of such alteration.
[857
SAVE YOUR BLADES
75 Ota
per Dozen.
WEAVING & DYEING CO., LTD. (IN VOL. LIQUIDATION). TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all persons who were Shareholders in the above Company on 26th October, 1914, and who have not yet applied for the corresponding allotment of shares in the YANGTSZEPDO COTTON MILLS, LTD., Shanghai, to which they were entitled noder an Agreement dated 28th October, 1914, that unless application for an allotment is made to me on or before 17th September, 1915, the said shares will be sold without further notice.
C. BERNARD BROWN.
Liquidator, Alexandra Baildings,
HONGKONG,
Hongkong, 3rd September, 1915.
THE
[931
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE
will hold their First
PROMENADE CONCERT
in the BOTANICAL GARDENS
од
SATURDAY, September 19ra, ar 9 P.M.
MRS. VILLIERS SMYTH.
THE BAND OF THE 74TH PUNJABIS, under Handwaster CHRISTIAN (By Courtesy of the Colonel Cmmanding and Offloors of the Regiment),
THE POLICE RESERVE ORCHESTRA, under Orchestra Conductor F. GONZALES. Charge for silmission (required by the.
Authorities) 10 cents.
[923
GIVE YOUR RAZOR A NEW LEASE OF LIFE. Remember we do all kinds of grinding and edge making. We sharpen Clippers, Shears, Scissors, Pocket Knives, Surgical Instru. mente, ota.
WE SHARPEN EVERYTHING. CAMPBELL, MOOnn & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1918:
DRINK
ALLSOPP'S
[647
BRITISH PILSENER
BEER.
'SOLE AGENTS:
CALDBECK,
Members of the Naval, Military and Police MACGREGOR&C.
Forces in uniform will not be charged.
G.
NOTICE
1940
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiatis er Indian
A desiring to leave the Colony should apply in writing for permission to do so to the Captain SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, at least 48 hours before the intended hour of departure, girin. name, nationality, age sex, height and occupation of the applicant, and stating the name of the steamer or other veerei or the hour of the frais by which the applicant wishes to leave. Applicants should apply in person for their passes at the CENTRAL POLTON STATION between the hours of 9 AM, tol pis, and
PM is 4 PM. daily, Hongkong, 10th July, 1915.
1728
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
15 QUEEN'S Road Central.
TO LET.
From 1st March,
DOWN, No. &, Daddell Streck
Apply-
A. B. AVARIA,
Care of E. FARANNZ,
No. 1. Duddell Shreek,
Hongkong, Ind-February, 1915,
FFICES
Immediate possession.
Apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES à 05
109 Hongkong, Sri December, 1914-
HOUSE
Kowloon.
TO LET.
in Knutsford
Farnde
APPE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCY Co., Ltd. Hongkong, Ith March, 1915
TO LET.
OUR-BOOMED FLATS in Hanoi Road,
& CO., LTD.,
Tha long Chinese extradition case, it which the surrender of Hung Shiu Lung is requested by the Canton Government on
against the do-
Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C, having mention- ed that the last two of the three charges of murder had been definitely withdrawn, Mr. Brutton dealt with the evidence of the alleged murder in the Yu Tai oil-shop at Samtochuk.
He said that all the wit nosas had absolutely denied that there were any occurrences or disturbances in They alan Samtechuk except rubberies. denied that there was any meeting of the Guild, and in fact denied every singla point except that there were robberies an! some looting, but in all the Canton Guvern. ment Gazettes, which were before the Court, there were reports of robberies ant looting at various villages in the Waichow district right up to the 10th November, Although but no mention of Santochuk. the witnesses for the Crown said that thero was one specific murder at the Pu Tai
The whole trouble is attributable, of course, to the inflated value of the bauk Today the noto note in Hongkong. stands at a premium roughly of ten per cent. over subsidiary coinage and of ning per cent, even over the silver dollar. The obvious remedy, in the circumstances, would appear to be for the Government By itself to take over the note issue
double this means it could achieve a purpose; it could control the value of the note and, at the same time, withdr W from circulation such a number of suh eidiary coins as would suffice to establish a state of parity. For this latter purpose it could keep a portion of the cash reserve shop, there were several murders or that held against the note issue in subsidiary | date, but Samtschuk was not mentioned coinage, purchasing this at a discount in the Gazettes in connection with rob- from to time whenever favourable oppor- beries, although it was mentioned in oilse tunities offered. To guard againgb any connections. All this threw doubt on the
inent could pass am Ordinance providing Hung Shiu Lung was specifically mention. possibility of subsequent loss the Govern. story told by the witnesses for the Crown. that in case of need-such, for example, ed by name ju the Gazette as sú robol leader, "@ on the Banks"-the note should and the Gazettes corroborated the evidence be redeemable as to four-fifths of its of the rebellion at Samtochuk The Crown ÆRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS. face value in silver dollars and as to witnesses pooh-pooked the story of a re- one-fifth in small coins. In exchange ballion, but the Gazettes were full of it - for its notes the Government would, of The case was remanded. course, receive cash or its equivalent, and part of this might be kept in London in gold to avoid the uncoessary ship-
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 10TH, 1915.
18
STEALING ELECTRIC
CURRENT.
EXEMPLARY SENTENCE.
The Hongkong · Electric
prosecution brought another
Company
at the of
Hongkong ÜFICB: 101, Des, Vaux Road, C. LONDON UFFION: 181, Flat Braakt, E.C.ment of bullion. The Indian Government, follow this plan successfully under circumstances of far greater difficulty, because it has to maintain the value of the Rupee at or about one shilling and fourpence, whereas, as we know to our Magistracy yesterday for larceny cost, the Hongkong dollar fluctuates daily electricity from their mains. The defond- with the price of silver, and requires ante were a partner and an employee in an no artificial support. By having its own sectrician and electric wiring contrno- note issue the Government would be able tor's shop at No. 12, Elgin Street, For SINCE we firet dealt with the matter in to save interest on money which it now the prosecution W was alleged that when FOUE-BODIED HOUSES in Gordes the early part of the year, the unomaties borrows and
the neter-reader visited the premises he found an electric fan working, but tho moter on the premises showed no reading. When the previous occupiers of the floor left the installation was taken away and
Kowloon, Immediate possession; and FOUR-ROOMED FLATS in May Road, Hongkong, with possession on or about 15th October next, English Baths and Kitchen Rangos, Hot and Cold Water, Electric Light. First Cinta Modern Appointments throughout, including. Water Carrings System,
Terrace and Ballabary Avenus, Kowloon.
FLATS in Nathan Road, Kowloon. A FLAT In Humphrey's Buildings. Kowloon, TAN MOR, 16, Peak Road, 7-ROOMED HOUSE, possession November 15th.
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., Iru Alexandra Buildings Hongkong, 6th September, 1915,
FR
[858 -
TO LET.
AROM 1st October next, OFFICES at 2. Counsaght Road, at present in the occupation of Messrs. Daunys & Bowley
HOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit Bond.
OFFICES, facing the Harbour between the Hongkong Club and Port Omnes
59, THE Pax "THE RETREAT.” 81. WONG NEI-CHONG BOAD, GODOWNS, New Froys, Kennedy Town. GODOWNE, si Wannual Road, Apply, etc.,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST..
TUNT A AGE NƠI ĐÓ, TA Hongkong, let August. 1915
TO LET.
TO. 4, "FAIRVIEW," Nathan Bood
Kowloon ONE OFFICE or SHOP in Duddell Street, Ground Floor.
CURRENCY REFORM.
earn
A revenue on any
in Hongkong's currency have continued surplus remaining over for investment, to occupy the attention of the public, and This, of course, would have to be set various suggestions have been made for against any loss of revenue which may now eliminating the loss and inconvenience be obtained from the Banks for the which the existing state of confusion privilege of issuing notes in soos of entails. How far these suggestions and the amount specified in the Ordinance, the conditions that gave birth to them We commend the idea to the Government have received the consideration to which as worthy of early consideration, they are entitled from the Government
we are not in a position to say, but the absence of any apparent attempt to free. local commerce from the difficulties that now environ it indicates either a failure to appreciate the gravity of the problem or an inshility to solve it. Yet it is pre- eminently a problem to which it is the duty of the Government to address itself. For
The moter
the wires to the main cus The Jo
was, however, not taken away. fendants, it was alleged, connected private wires with the Company's main and obtain- ed their electricity for lighting and for the
A mail for Europe via Siberia closes Lan, Mr. Preston prosecuted. The first to-day at 8 p.m.
Revenue Officer Wilden yesterday after nock seized 12,000 rounds of ammunition on board the San Yui, as she was about to leave for Wuchow.
several years past the The total output of the Kailan Mining
been striving to
Government has
Administration's mines for the week end-
réhabilitate îte subsidiary coizage ing 28th August, amounted to $1,809 tons,
by withdrawing millions
and the sales during the period to 44,709
toms,
bomb
defendant was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on the first of two, charges, and fined $50, or six weeks' imprisonment in default, on the second charge. The second defendant was discharged, the Magistrate exonerating him from respon sibility on account of his being merely a
Gervant.
TYPHOON WARNING,
The telegrama quoted below was
General, Hongkong, from the Manila received by the American Consulate
Cyclone or typhoon west of Balintang Observatory, at 1.20 p.m. yesterday
Channel moving south-west,
of dollars
of:
and it from circulation
by excluding competing coins of Chinesa
In some quarters in Japan a curious origin... Just when the effect of these measures adopted after much con-objection has been raised to the participa anxious thought was tion of Count Okuma (the Prime Minis troversy and beginning to make itself felt, a new ter) in the coming coronation ceremonies. factor bas boen introduced which plunges About a quarter of a century ago a us back beyond the point from which we was thrown at Count Okuma, and, as a 6. ROOMS anh, from 1st November.
The silver dollar the $0- result of the injuries he received, a leg The obi- No.3, DES VEUX VILLAS, 52, THE PLAK.
amputated.
aut "HAZELDENE" No. 53, Robinson Road, called standard coin of the Colony had
bis to
presence has been superseded by the bank-note, jection
is that this physical and, as a result, subsidiary coinage has coronation fallen to a discount varying, at different defect is an “impurity." "In the cere seasons, from 10 to 18 per cent. The mony of the coronation of the Emperor, silver dollar is rejected on all sides, and, tradition enjoins that any form of pollu-Ordinance to amend the Evidence Ordi in defiance of all the generally accepted tion
No. 1 and 2 COLLEGE GARDENS,
5 ROOMS with Garden and Tennis Court,
No. & "THE ALBANY ROOMS, in Daidal Birock, "ROSENEATH, 2, Hankow Rd, Kowloon No. 8, BELILIOS TERRACE. No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, with
entrance on Conduit Road,
[tu Wanabai,
ONE GODOWN, No. 8, Burrows Street, TWO GODOWNS, in Daddell Street. "WOODBURY," No. 4, Hankow Road,
WESTWARD HO,” Bonham Boad. MERION," No. 6, THE PEAK, Unfurnished (6 Rooms).
Kowloon
"BOGATH" Austin Road, Kowloom. No. 2, DES VEUX VILLAS, 51, PRAK (Unfurnished)
No.69, THE PRAX (5 CAMERON VILLAS. Apply to LINETEAD & DAVIS,
Bed Ploor, Algrandes Buildings. Hongkong, 10th September, 1976,
started.
#0
be to
for
"the
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Council is called for this afternoon.
The orders of the day are:--
First reading of a Bill intituled,
Au
must be scrupulously avoided. na 1899."
First reading of a Bill intituled, "An rules of business, the purchaser who Count Okuma is therefore disqualified, Ordinance to amend the Land Registra
tion Ordinance, 1841." it is argued,
First reading of a Bill intituled, “Av buys, say, five articles at 40 cents each.
ceremony
Ordinance to amend further the Trading
connected
conducting of coronation. A
is called upon to pay the equivalent of the at least 44 cents each for them, or ten per custom established of old does not with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914, and to
therewith." cent, more than if he were content with pormit any person with any form of effect only one Could anything be more deformity to participate in the ceremony grotesque?
ceriain purposes First reading of a Bill intituled, "An of coronation, and it is combended that Ordinance to amend and consolidate the this usage should specially apply with law relating to Chinese Passenger But there is another, and more serious, all its strictness to the person inting the Ships as defined by the Chinese Fassen- aspect of the question. Owing to the principal part as the highest officeholder gera Act, 1855, and, concerning Asiatic
Emigrants generally,' Ectitious value of the note and its of the Blast
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