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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE

THE OFFICES of CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS for Kowloon and District will be CLOSED to PUBLIC BUSINESS on THURSDAY, the 16th instant, and THURSDAY, the 93rd instant.

on

C. THORNE, Acting Deputy Commissioner in charge, temporarily.

York Buildings, Hongkong, 13th September, 1916,

HONGKONG CLUB,

NOTICE.

NHE TWENTY - EIGHTI

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HALF- YEARLY

DRAWING

65 DEBENTURES (1398 issue) of the HONG- KONG CLUB, Payable on THURSDAY, the 30th September, 1915, will be held in the Club House at 11 o'clock. A.M., on MONDAY, the 20th September, 1916.

Bearer of Debentures are invited to sitend the Drawing,

By Order,

E. DES VORUX, Secretary. Hongkong, 10th September, 1915. [941

** GLEN" LINE OF STEA MERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEED.

FROM

IMMING.

MIDDLESBROUGH, HAM, LONDON, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.

THE Steamship

“GLENLOCHY,"

Captain 0.0.Simpson, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowne of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Gedown Company, Limited, Kowloos, and stored at Consigness' risk and expense.

All broken, ohafod and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on Saturday, 18th Sept, at 10 A.M.

All Claims must be presented within FIFTREK Dare of the Biesmer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized,

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods Lave left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 18th Sept, will be subject to rent

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Agenta.

Hongkong, 11th September, 1915,

1942

8.8. "PAUL LECAT.” COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES

MAKITIMES.

P

NOTICE.

TONSIGNEES of Cargo from London

in connection with above Steamer are hereby informed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being lauded and stored at their risks into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and GodownI Co., Ltd., at Kowloon, whance delivery may be

obtained immediately after landing.

Options! Cargo will be forwarded on unles intimation is received from the Consignees before Noga To-Day requesting it to be landed here.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after the 16th September, at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.

All Claims must be sent an to me on or befor the 24th September, or they will not be recognised.

All damaged packages will be examined on Thursday, 16th September, at 10 L.M. No Fire Insurnace has been efforted.

Р. ТНОМАЯ, Hongkong, 10th September, 1915,

Agent.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEFS.

THE P. & O. 8. N. Co.'s Steamer

"NANKIN,"

Arrived Hongkong on 12th September, 1915, FROM LONDON, MALTA, PORT SAID, SUEZ, AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named #essel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godcwas at Kowloos, where esab Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.

Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary within é kouza.

Goods not cleared within 8 days including date of arrival will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be elected by me in

any case whatever.

Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consigne and the Company's surveyors, Mamre, GODDARD and Dovers, at 10 am, on MONDAYS and THUESDAYS. All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised

THE

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 1015.

ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT

CLUB.

NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY

N

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,TO-DAY(MONDAY), the 13th day of September, 1915, at 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon when the snbjoland two Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions:

1.

That it is not for the comfort or conveni- ence of the Members of the Club as a whole, or of the Subscribes or Visitors thereto, that any Member who is the subjost of a Nation between which and Great Britain a state of war existe should continue to be a Member of the Clab.

2. That the Articles of Association be

accordingly altered by the insertion of the following additional paragraph at the end of Article XXXII, namely

"Any Member who is the subject of a Nation between which and Grost Britain state of war exists shall, ipso facto, cease to be a Member of the Club sud shall no longer be entitled to any of the privileges of the Clab."

And Notice is hereby also given that i Further Extraordinary General Meeting of the above Club will be held at the Club House aforesaid, on MONDAY, the 4th day of October, 1915, at 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings at the above-mentioned traordinary Goners! Meeting of the 13th day of September, 1915, and of confirming, if thought it as special resolutions, the above- mentioned resolutions.

Dated the 2nd day of September, 1915. By Order of the General Committee,

REGINALD BROWN,

Hon. Secretary,

Ex-

THE ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB. NOTE: If he 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, coate to be a Member an from the date of such altoration.

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HONGKONG COTTON SPINNING, WEAVING & DYEING CO., LTD. (IN VOL. LIQUIDATION).

NOTICE IS HEREBY Golden in he

HOUSES TO LET.

TO LET.

TO. 171, MAGDALENE TERRACE, THE PRAB. Nos, 1 and 0, TORRES BUILDINGS, Kowloon. Moderate rent Ready for occupation.

...Apply to

SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION, Hongkong, 10th September, 1915. [963

TO LET.

SË

Premise No. 88, SHAMEEN, B.C.. HOUSE, GODOWNS and OUTHOUSES Canton, comprising DWELLING lately occupied by Alesere, F. BLACKHEAD & Co.

Apply to

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 24th August, 1916. 1891

Bion.

TO LET

NORMAN COTTAGE, No. 2, Peak Road, 4 GOOD ROOMS. Immediate posses- Apply-

PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, -Hongkong, 20th August, 1916. [876

TO LET.

BLM Jet September rozt, desirable 91X and EIGHT BOOMED Beidouses in Broadwood and Wong-Noi-Chong Roads, the latter commanding a Fine View of the Race Course,

For terms and particulas, apply to

MENT & AGENCY Co, LÆD. Hongkong 16th July, 1915.

INTIMATION

BY APPOINTMENT."

WATSON'S

STONE

GINGER-

BEER.

The only fermented Stone Ginger- Beer in the Rur Bast

THE HONGKONG MIND INVEST. The real charm of Stone Ginger. Beer is the Bavour produced by

Kowloon,

NOTIUS. ~

1707

TO LET A HOUSE at Observatory Ville partial fermentation without this no Stone Ginger-Beer can be said to be genuine.

Apply to

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

[799

TO LET.

WHOLE or PART SHOP in Chater

CLARK & Co., Opticians,

(706

190【Ora Per Doz.

Apply.me

Hongkong, 29th June, 1915.

TO LET. FFICES is 8T. GEORGE'S BUILDING Second Floor, Overlooking Harbour immediate pommession,

Apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & O Hongkong, 3rd December, 1814

TO LET. HOUSE in

persons who were Shareholders in the above Company on 26th October, 1014, and who have not yet applied for the corresponding allotment of shares in the YANGTELEFOO COTTON MILLS, LTD., Shanghai, to which they were entitled under an Agreement dated 26th October, 1914, that unless application for an allotment is made to me on or before 17th A Roleon. September, 1915, the said shares will be sold without further notice.

Apply C. BERNARD BROWN.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Qơ, LÆD Liquidator, Alexandra Buildings,

Hongkong, 1st March, 1918

146 HONGKONG.

Hongkong, 3rd September, 1915.

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$2,000 REWARD. WHEREAS at about 10 p.m. on the 8th September, 1015, two men, aged between 20 and 30 years, dressed in dark clothing and armed with daggers, attacked and stabbed a Chinese gentleman named SIU UN in St. Francis Street, Wanchai, A REWARD of TWO THOU SAND DOLLARS ($2,000) 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.

(sd.) C. Mol. MESSER, Captain Superintendent of Police, Hongkong, September 9th, 1915. [964

MESSRS

NOTICE.

JARDINE,

MATHESON & Co., LTD, have DISMISSED, their Piece Goods Broker-AH SUN (YEUNG SUNO) and he no longer representa them for the Bale of sny Goods."

Hongkong, 11th September, 1916, [968

NOTICE.

THE Master of the se. "MANAFOURI" TH sible for any Debts incurred by any Member of hereby notifies that he will not be Respon- his Crew.

F. A. MAXWELL, Master. Hongkong, 10th September, 1915. (900

WANTED.

THE Service of NURSE or good travelling

class passage to England.

AMAH for Children in return for first- Apply to

"C"

Care of "Daily Press " Office, Hongkong, 7th September, 1915. [944

WANTED. TAPANESE, 31 years of age, Married,

No Claims will be solmitted after the Good position as General Work Assistant

Hongkong, 12th September, 1915,

MARK

189.

Knutsford Тепия

A. S.

& CO., LTD.,

TO LET.

Mr. A. H. Barlow, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, returned to the Colony yesterday by the P. and O. ' steamer Nankin.

Mr. A. E. Griffin, senior partner in the firm of Messrs. Leigh & Orange, of Hong-

should have been called upon to take this diplomatic post." He confessed that he was surprised himself. The choice of the Government, however, proved fortunate in many respects, and no reminder is needed of the fact that Sir CLAUDE's military training came in extremely useful on the occasion of the historic seige of the log, na volunteered for servies at the Legations in the Boxer rebellion of 1900.

front with the Royal Engineers, To those who know something of Lega- tion life in Peking, with its rival interests and international jealousies the mannor in

Sir which

CLAUDE Successfully and without friction carried out the duties of Commander of the Defending chun and Mr. Li Po-kwa have been ap Mr. Ch'an King-wan, Mr. Mok Ts Forces could not bat evoke the propointed to be Members of the Permanent foundest admiration." This from one

Board of Direction of the Po Loung Kuk.

The Hon. M. E. R. Hallifax, Secretary for Chinoso Affairs, is returning fron Hours leave by the s.s. Katori-maru, which left London on Saturday.

Mr. E. T. C. Werner, fate of the Consular Service, has arrived in Peking where he intends to devote some time to the collection of further data in the field of Chinese sociology.

of the leading British residents in China at the time was in itself fie tribute to the tact and urbanity invasi- ably shown by the Minister. But his qualities as a diplomat had been put to a very severe test long before the Legation Quarter was besiged, It was not long

Myrtle Nicholas, 19 Hollywood Road, after his appointment to Peking that Ger

was fined $5 or seven days' imprisonment many took posscasion of Kianchow, aut by Mr. Wood at the Police Court on Russia, to balance matters, occupied Saturday morning, for being drank in Port Arthur and Dalny, whilo Great Carnarvon Road, Kowloon, in the early

Britain, for the same reason, took Weihai-hours of the morning,

wei. Then there followed what came to be s

known as the "Battle for Railway Con cessions," an episode which cast a heavy

burdon of work and responsibility upon the Minister. and the Cantou-Kowloon railways, con- The Shanghai-Napking

structed with British capital and by British engineers, are said to owe their existence to a certain historic thump"

The Envoys of eighteen Treaty Powers at the forthcoming Corenation (probably the Ambassadors and Ministers in Tokyo) will be accommodated in the Kyoto Cham- ber of Commerce, the Kyoto Hotel and Mr. Muria's villa, says the Japan Gazette.

The Rev. John Ross, a Scottish mission- ary, died in Edinburgh on the 8th ult., on the table of the Tsung-li Yamen by Singod 78. Going to Manchurie in 1972 fr CLAUDE MACDONALD, occasioned by the bad the United Presbyterian Church, Dr. Ross faith of certain high Chinese officials in established missions in various centros, connection with the Hankow railway. A He translated the New Testament into the glance at the official correspondence relat Korean language. Dr. Ross returned fice ing to affairs in China during the four years ago and settled at Edinburgh. years Sir CLAUDE MACDONALD wax at Peking will leave no one in doubt as to the exceptional heaviness of the burden which fell upon the Minister im those times. His transfer to Tokyo after the Boxer rebellion gave him much-needed relic after his strenuous and trying

WATSON experiences in China. He remained in

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the Japanese capital for twelve years, and it may be doubted whether any British Minister hus over

bear more popular there. It was during his time in Japan.

OUR BOOMED FLATS is Hanoi Boad, RATED WATER MANUFACTURERS. that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was

Kowloors, Immediate possessions and FOUR-ROOMED FLATS in May Road, Hongkong, with possession on or about 16th October next English Baths and Kitchen Ranges, Hot and Cold Water, Electric Light. First Class Modern Appointments throughout, including Water Carriage System.

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES In Gordon Terrace and Balisbury Avenue, Kowloon,

FLATS to Nathan Road, Kowloon.

A FLAT Hamphrey's Buildings. Kowloon. HOUSE, possession November 15th.

IAN MOR, 16, Peak Road, 7-BOOMED Apply to-

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Co., LTD Alexandra Buildings Hongkong, 6th September, 1915.

[950

TO LET.

oconpation of Mears, Dennys & Bowley, FROM 14 October next, OFFICES st 2. Connaught Road, at present in the

Conduit Road,

HOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS,

OFFICES, facing the Harbour between the Hongkong Club and Post Office.

68, THE PRAX THE RETREAT 21, WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD. GODOWNS, New Praya, Kennedy Town. GODOWNS, ni Wanshai Bond, Apply, etc..

BIRTHS. LECKIE. On September 7th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. W. E. LECKIE, daughter. SMITIL-At Eilandonan, The Peak, on Sunday, 12th September, to Mr. and Mrs. NORMAN L SMITH, a daughter.

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MARRIAGES.

ELDRIDUE-WOOD.-On: September 4th, at Shanghai, JOSEPH HERBERT ELDRIDGE, to MADD ELIZABETH JEAN WOOD, of Woolwich, Kent.

DEATH.

The Daily Press.

The rainfall for the month of August at the Botanical Gardens was 9.35ins. on 16 days; at the Matilda Hospital, Mount Kel- Jet, it was 7.18 ins, on 11 days, and on the Police Station, Taipo, it was 10.45 ins, on 15 days. The observations taken at the Observatory during August showed that thero was a mean temperature of 83.5; 205.3 hours of sunshine and 10,520 juches of rain,

Charged by Inspector Kerr with being. in possession of ten tacks of opium, and with exporting the same, a Chinese sakt he had just come down from Canton and had been sold the opium by a friend in a restaurant when he was arrested. In- spector Kerr said the opium was tied in a bag round his waist. Mr. Wood imposed a fine of $760 or an alternative of three months' imprisonment on the first charge, and an additional 8100 or a month on the second.

A Gazette notice states that in exercise of

Ordinance, 1911, and otherwise, the Regis the power vested in him by the Societies

trar of Societies, having reason to believe that the Variety Entertainers' Society has ceased to exist, hereby calls upon euch Society to furnish him with proof of its existence within three months from the date of this notification. In the event of steps will be taken to declare than such such Society falling so to do the repssary Society shall be deemed to have ocased is

exist.

negotiated. As this Treaty was signed in London, it was currently reported at the time in certain foreign diplomatic circles that the whole of the negotiations were carried on in London unknown to Sir CLAUDE MACDONALD. The story on the face of it was absurd, but the publication a year or two ago of the reminiscences of Count HAYASHI, whose signature is append. ed to the treaty, authoritatively proved that the story of Sir CLAUDE MACDONALD'S ignorance of the matter was very wide of the truth. It was indeed while Sir CLAUDE TO LET.

MACDONALD was at home on furlough that HARPERVILLE, Garden Road, SEVEN at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, the idea of an Anglo-Japanese Allinace

ROOMS, Very Large Dining Room, immediate possession, house in oreollent order

HARRY NORMAN WINTER, of Malaca, began to take definite shape, as a result. Tennis Court and Garden,

to GRACE EVANGELINE SHEFFIELD, the of a conversation he had with Coast Apply...

eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. HAYASHI, and, as we know, it culminated PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING,

Aifred Sheffield, late of Hongkong, in a Treaty. In the opinion of no less an Hongkong, 20th August, 1915. (876

no wof Singapore.

authority than Sir EDWARD GREY-an OBROHNE-LESLIE HALL, Lieutenant et opinion expressed long before the outbreak

Batta. Lancashire Fusiliers, age 21

of the present war-that alliance has years. (2nd son of Mr. JOHN HALL worked nothing but good. "I believe," OSBORNE, formerly of. Tientsin and Shanghai). Killed in action at the he said, "that the Japanese Alliance is Dardanelles, August 7th, 1915.

more than ever to the mutual interest of

A Chinese sampan woman was charged Hosokong Orson:10a, Dan Vaux Road O.

the two countries; that they have worked by Revenue Officer Macmillan before Mr. LONDON ORTION: 181, FLEET STREET, EC. it with great and perfect accord, and that Wood at the Police Court-on Saturday it has been a great and beneficent factor with being in possession of 200 els of

opium, valued at $1,600. in keeping the peace of the Far East and

A lukong gave avidence of arresting the woman. She preventing all the disturbances which have had a very heavy parcel, which he was taken place in China-disturbances which informed contained opium. are due to internal forces-from giving said she had come over from Yaumabi. A rise to internal apprehensions between the man wearing a topes came over also, and THE LATE SIRCLAUD E

Powers which are interested." How when they landed together at the wharf greatly these happy relations between the he suddenly dropped a parcel near her, MACDONALD,

two Powers were assisted by the tact and and she was then arrested. A VERY wide circle of friends and urbanity of the Minister who occupied the

was remanded sill to-day. acquaintances in China and Japan will be British Legation at Tokyo for so many sorry to see the announcement of the death years immediately following the alliance of Sir CLAUDE MACDONALD, who spent six-it is easier to imagine than describe. Bir year 1914, [O._4,” “FAIRY IEW," than Rosteon years af his life in the diplomatic CLAUDE MACDONALD was certainly no less

service in the Far Rast-four as Minister at Peking and twelve as Ambassador at Tokyo. Peking las utways been a stormy and troublous place, but we think it may be said that no British Minister ever had. in the short space of four years & more Kowloon.strenuous nad trying time at Peking than fell to the lot of Sir CLAUDE MACDONALD, It was his first diplomatic appointment, and a's S18 CLAUDE himself said in a speech delivered in London's couple of years agĠ, the announcement of his appointment caused some surprise, and the ides of the diplomatic service being invaded by a soldier was received none too sympatheti cally in certain quarters. "It seemed funny to think," he said, that a com- paratively unknown man from the Army.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD, Hongkong, Isi August, 1915

138

TO LEN From 1st March.

GODOWN, No. 6, Duddell Street,

Apply--

་

A. B. AVASTA,

Care of E. PABANEX,

No. 1, Daddell Street

[244,

TO LET.

or Bookkeeper, Experience on Accounting Staff Hongkong, 2nd February, 1915, of Bank and as Clerk of Shipyard. Fall

investigation courted. Balary to be settled

have left the Godowns.

"E. A. HEWETT,

Superintendent.

n

after trial..

Write-

O..SAKAI, No. 11, D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong, 18th August, 1016. [871

THE

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE

will hold their First

CONCERT

PROMENADE

от

in the BOTANICAL GARDENS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH, IT 9 P.X, MRA VILLIERS SMYTH,

THE BAND OF THE 74TH PUNJABIS,

noder Bandmaster CHEISTIAN

(By Courtesy of the Colonel Commanding and Ofloors of the Regiment).

THE POLICE RESERVE ORCHESTEA ander Orchestra Conductor F. GONZALER.

·Charge for admission (required by the

Authorities) 10 cents. Members of the Naval, Military and Poles Forces in uniform will not be charged.

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FOR SALE.

شگاه

THE Halk of the former Revenue Steamer

No

Kowloos. ONE OFFICE or SHOP in Duddell Street, Ground Floor,

Nos. 1 and 2, COLLEGE GARDENS * ROOMS each, from 1st November.

"HAZELDENE," No. 63, Robinson Road,

FELT in 8 ROOMS with Garden and Tesle Con

Harbour. Offers may be sent to the-

COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS, Canton, Canton, 9th September, 1915.

FOR SALE.

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PACIFIC MAIL 8.8. Co.'s GODOWNS

1 and 2, connected by covered No. 242, Kennedy Town, Crown Rent $160.00 alleyway located on Section B Marine Lot

per annum, together with permanent STEEL Brown Rent is $300.00 per annum, PIER opponite Godowns, and upon which the

STEAM LAUNCH AMERICA," in first slaes condition, having been stripped and theroughly overhauled in 1914.

For further information apply to

R. 4. MORTON, Agent. Hot gkeng, 24th August, 1918,

No. 3, THE ALBANY." ROOMS, in Duddall Street, "ROSENEATH, "2, Hankow Rd., No. 6, BELILIOS TERRACE. No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE, with

entrance on Conduit Road,

ONE GODOWN, No. 8, Burrows Street, Wanchal

TWO GODOWN8, in Daddell Street Kowloon

"WOODBURY," No. 4, Hanow Boad,

· * WESTWARD HO," Bonham Road, *MERION," No. 6, THEN PRAX, Unfurnished (6.Rooma);

ROGATE" Auriin Road, Kowloon, No. 3. DES VŒUI VILLAS, SI, PRAY (Unfumlahed).

No.58, THE FRAK (6 CAMERON VILLAL Apply 40mm. KINSTEAD & DAVIS,

Ard Floor, Alexandre Buildings Hongkong, 10th September, 1918,

HONGKONG, SEPTEMEKE IŠTE, 1916,

Defendant

The case

were shipped from Hankow during the It is estimated that 300 million eggs.

sioner of Customs at that pont, is based The figure, says the Commis-

a success at Tokyo than he was at Peking, and when he left the Far East two or three

on the number required for the manufac ture of 60,581 picats of albumen and yolk years ago, on retirement from the diphactual number (26 millions) shipped. and 92.191 pícula of frozen eggs, plus the mabic service, he was accorded many evid Large quantities of eggs nach Haukow ences of public appreciation of his labours,

from Honan, through the Peking-Hankow railway

The value per housand is which must have been to him no incon

He. Tls. 0.50 or 38.40, which makes the uggs oust Jons than one cent a picos (about five for a pehmy or 2 cents gold)...

siderable source of satisfaction in the few brief years which have remained to him in. which to enjoy a well-deserved pension

Mails for Europe vid Siberia close to-morrow at 11 am. and at 3 p.m.

Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Acting Colonial Treasurer, left for Weihaiwei this week-

end.

Lt. Col. A. 8. Vanrenen, formerly second.

on the coast of Africa, the land of death in command of the Malay States Guides. as it was sometimes called at that time, has been killed in action in Flanders

The Gazette announces the following ap- pointments:-

Mr. T. L. Perkin to be a 1st Grade Exo- cutive Engineer,

Mr. F. A. Bidon to be a 2nd Grade Exe cutive Engineer.

the Sanitary Department

Mr. D. W. Tretman to act as Head of

Mr. A. E. Wood to act as District Officer.

Mr. G. R. Sayer to not as First Assist- ant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

Mr. N. L. Smith to net y Postmaster General during the absence on leave of Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe.