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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB,

THE FIFTH GYMKHANA MEETING The Season will be hoki at HAFFT VALLEY on SA'FURDAY, the 20th November, 1915, commencing at 3.15 P.M.

The Charge of Admission will be $1 for others than Members of the HONGKONG JOCKET CLUB or GYMKHANA CLUR.

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18ĩa, 1915.

GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF MACAO.

ACQUIBITION OF A WOODEN HULL FOR A SEA-GOING STEAM TUG.

ORDINANCE No. 257.

TAKING into consideration the manifest

ers and Bailors in uniform Half-Price.Trossity of a third stone tug to masure The Committee invite the Ladies of Hongkong lo bo present.

Hongkong, 17th November, 1915.

· [1200

CANADIAN

PACIFIC

STEAMSHIP LINE.

the service of the new lighters lately ordered for the works of the

The Governor of the Province of Macao, having heard the Harbour Administration Board, orders as follows:

Within the period of 15 days from the date of publication of this Ordinance in the Government Gazette, Tenders will be received

for the Supply of a WOODEN HULL FOR A SEA-GOING STEAM TUG for the use of the Macao Harbour Works, utilising Boiler and Engine which are in the Naval Workshops.

NIE Steamship THE "EMPRESS OF JAPAN"sented cover addressed to the President of

will be despatched from Hongkong at Noon on

WEDNESDAY, 8TH DECEMBER, for VANCOUVER via Usual Ports of Call. For passage fares, freight rates, etc., please apply to

D. W. CRADDOCK,

General Traffic Agent, Hongkong.

[1209 Hongkong, 18th November, 1915.

CANADIAN

PACIFIC

STEAMSHIP LINE.

THE Steamship

MONTEAGLE

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The Tenders must be sent to Macao in a Harbour Administration Board not later than 3 P.M. of 22nd of November, and made out in accordance with the conditions stated below, which are also on view in the Harbour Master's Office, Macao, and in the Portuguese Consulates in Canton and Hongkong.

In the acquisition of the above-mentioned Wooden Hall the conditions annexed to this Ordinance and, forming an integral part thereof shall be observed.

Mucao, Government House, 6th November, 1916.

(Signed) JOSÉ CARLOS DA MAIA, Governor of the Province of Macao.

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NOTICE.

I, called and known by the name

of

FRANCESCO » CANEVA, heretofore FRANCESCO DI WEIGELSPERG, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Doctor of Commercial and Economic Science, Baron, an Italian Subject of Italian parentage, hereby give will be despatched frm Hongkong at Noon on public notice that on the 11th day of Novem ber, One Thousand Nine Hundred and WEDNESDAY, 1ST DECEMBER, Fifteen, I formally and absolutely renounced, relinquished and abandoned the use of my said surname of Weigelsperg and then assumed and adopted and thenceforth on all occasionis whatsoever to

for VANCOUVER via Vanal Ports of Call

For passage fares, freight rates, etc., please apply to

D. W. CRADDOCK,

General Traffic Agent, Hongkong. Hongkong, 18th November, 1916. [1908 PUBLIC AUCTION

of VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY situste at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong in Six Lote,

To be sold in pursuance of an Order of the Supreme Court of Hongkong,

оту

THURSDAY,

the 2nd day of December, 1915, at 3 o'clock p.m, by

MR. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer,

at his Sales Boom, Duddell Strest.

The Property consists of:

LOT 1-All that piece or parcel al ground intended to be registered in the Land Office as Subsection No. 4 of Section F of Inland Lot No. 600 together with the messuage and buildings thereon known as No. 400, Queen's Road West.

Area 650 square feet or thereabouts.

Annual Crown rent $8.70.

Lor 2-All that piece or parcel of ground intended to be registered in the Land Office as Subsection No. 5 of Section F of Inland Lot No. 800 together with the message and buildings thereon known as No. 108, Queen's Road West.

Area 690 square feet or thereabouts, Annual Crown rent 89.10.

Lor --All that piece or parcel of ground intended to be registered in the Land Office as Section J of Inland Lat No, 500 together with the messuage and buildings thereon known as Ne, 23, Sam To Lane,

Aren 1.022 square feet or Annual Crown rent $13.50.

thereabouts.

Lor 4-All that piece or parcel of ground intended to be registered in the Land Office as Section Kof Inland Lot No. 800 together with the messuage and buildings thereon known as Second Street

No. 141,

Area 783 square Feet or thereabouts. Amuat Crown rent $10.35.

The above-mentioned premises are held from the Crown for the residue of a term of 099 years from the 30th day of June,

1862.

determined

HOUSES TO LET

TO LET.

08: 11 and 18, GAGE STREET, from

Apply to

Net Jannsry, 1916

J. VINCENT BRAGA, Toyo Kisen Kaisha. Hongkong, 16th November, 1915. 1190

TO LET.

OS, 3 and 10 MOUNTAIN VIEW,

PEAK. Apply to

· M. J. D. STEPHENS. Hongkong, 12th November, 1916.

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INTIMATION

PHOTO

XMAS CARDS

PICTURES OF CHINA IN

A

EIGHT.

CHARMING SETTING.

TO LET.

BRITISH CONCESSION, SHAMEEN, CANTON, TAROM 1st December, ONE FROOMED HOUSE.

Apply-

T. E. GRIFFITH, LTD. [1167 Hongkong, 11th November, 1915.

TO LET. 46HE KENNELS" 168, Magezine Gap.

Thoroughly renorated and repaired. Apply

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.

Hongkong, 10th November, 1915.

[1102

TO LET-FULLY FURNISHED,

BERGELDIE," 136, Tem PRAK.

66

Apply-

SEPIA

The Gymkhana meeting, postponed last week-end on account of the weather, will

agreements, Burely this was a position which called for denunciation from all Powers, both great and small, not only be held at Happy Valley on Saturday, for the sake of international morality, but afternoon.

also for the preservation of national Friends, of Mr. Christopher Willson existence. Yet no Power beyond those will be pleased to hear that a letter has boen received from him, writion from. Flanders, saying all has gone well with his Brigade.

An important sale of leasehold pro- perty in Hongkong, by order of the Supreme Court, is announeed for the 2nd prox. Particulars will be found in our advertising columns.

At the Magistracy yesterday P, 0. (Reserve) J. Arnold charged a hawker

which were then, or later, involved in war The with Gormany made any protest. United States, which has earned a well- deserved reputation as the protestor of small nations, remained silent in common with the smaller Powers of Europe, who It would were specially interested.. almost seem that the crime was not a matter that touched them in the slightest. This is not a case of weighing different degrees of turpitudo; it is merely a matter of uscertaining facts, for the German excuses with causing on obstruction in Connaught that French troops were a'ready in Bel-Roud Central, on 16th inst gium, or that Belgium had herself arrang ed for the country to be occupied by the Allies, cannot be accepted seriously. The Allies, had made no preparations to occupy Belgium, while Germany, it is now plain, had been planning the occupation for years and had made all preparations in

BROMIDES readiness for the event.

"Yes," may reply the noutrals,

"that

is all very true, but necessity knows no Jaw. Germany was in a difficult position.

Prisoner

pleaded guilty and was fined $3 or søyen days.

Mr. J. C. de Obaldia, Consul-General for Panama in Hongkong, is staying at the Astor House Hotel, Shanghai, whi- her he has gone to meet his family who have been spending the last month or so in Japan.

The Canadian Pacific Steamship Line, it will be observed from our advertise-

About March, or sooner if convenient GREEN AND BLUE-TONED BROMIDE She was expecting attacks from two sides; merit columne, is resuming its service

A. RITCHIE,

Care of Messrs. DODWELL & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 10th November, 1915. [1168

TO LET.

AVENSHILL EAST,

Road,

Raising & Rooms, & Bath Rooms, Servante Quarter, do. Vacant let November..

Apply

DEACON, LOOKER, DEACON & HARSTON, Hongkong, 19th October, 1915. [1094

TO LET

LENSHIEL," No. 141, Plantation

HAND-COLOURED PHOTOS.

To be obtained from--

the and subscribe the nine of FRANCESCO LENS, Feals, from 1st November, 1915. A. .

DI CANEVA instead of the said name of FRANCESCO DI WEIGELSPERG, AND I GIVE FURTHER NOTICE that by a Deed Poll dated the 11th day of November, One thour- and Nine Hundred and Fifteen, duly executed and attested I formally and absolutely renounced and abandoned the said surname of Weigelsperg and declared that I had

Apply

LINSTEAD & DAVIS. Hongkong, 18th October, 1915.

*1080

TO LET

ATOS. i and 8, TORRES BUILDINGS,

openpation.

fod and adopted and intended thenes. Norloom Moderste ant Feady for forth upon all occasions whatsoever to use and subscribe the name of FRANCESCO DI

instead CANEVA

of FRANCESCO DI WEIGELSPERO, and so as to be at all times by thereafter called, known and described the name of FRANCESCO DI CANEVA exclusively.

Dated the 11th day of November, 1915.

FRANCESCO DI CÁNEVA:

THE CHINA

NOTICE.

Apply to--

SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION. Hongkong, 20th September, 1016. [963

TO LET.

ATORMAN COTTAGE, No. 3, Peak Road, 4 GOOD ROOMS. Immediato posses- zion.

(1175N

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE CERTIFICATE No, 597, dated 10th

Tatry, 1884, of the Share No. 18105 in this Company, standing in the name of MR. THOMAS BROWN, of Shanghai, has been LOST, and if at the expiration of One Month from the date hereof the above document he not forthcoming another Certificate will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be acknow ledged.

Dated 11th November, 1915.

GREEN

C. PEMBERTON, Secretary

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CEMENT

ISLAND COMPANY, LIMITED.

LOST.

PPLICATION has been made to this Company to issue to Mr. LAU SAI TUNG of Hongkong Duplicate Certificates of 200 Shares in this Company or other Certificate or Certificates in lieu thereof upon statement that the Original Certificates Nos. 8664-100 shares numbered 246039/240138 dated 10th November, 1908, Nos. 8803-- Oshares numbered 107703/197727, 251686/251710; 25th March, 1909. LOT 5. All those pieces or parcels of Nos 9786 50 shares numbered 6901/0950 ground intended to be registered in the Land Office as Section C. of Inland Lot No.,759 and Section C of Inland Lot No. 75s, both held for the residue of a term years from the 7th day of January of 199 1862, together with the messages and buildings thereon known as Second Street.

Area 68 square Feet or thereabouts. Annual Crown reut $10.14.

LOT 6-All that piece or parcel of ground intended to be registered in the Land Office as Section Dcf. Inland Lot No. 759 held for the residue of a term of bod years from the 7th day of January. 1862. together with the messange and buildings thercon known as No. 50, First Street.

No. 65.

Area 192 square feet or thereabouts. Annual Crown rent $10.47.

For further particulars and conditions

of sale apply to

DENNYS & BOWLET.

6, Des Voeux Road Central.

Solicitors for the Vendor,

or to

MR. CEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer. Hongkong, th November, 1915.

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between

NOTICE.

dated 27th May, 1910, have been LOST or DESTROYED, and Notice is Hereby Oiven that if within 30 days from the date hereof no Claim or Representa. tion in respect of such Original Certificates is made to the Company the Undersigned will then proceed to deal with such applica- tion for Duplicates.

For the GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD., SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Managers.

[1101 Hongkong, 23rd October, 1915.

G.

R

ARCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING.

Hongkong, 20th August, 1915.

TO LET.

(675

FFICES in ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING,

WATSON

& CO., LTD.,

HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

and also from

THE VICTORIA

it was absolutely necessary for her to strike between. Hongkong and Vancouver with quickly and effectively; to smash one the tangle on the 1st prox., followed of her opponents before coming to close by the Empress of Japan a week later. quarters with the other." The fallacy here lies, not in the matter being an absolute necessity, but in the absolute necessity of the course taken to accomplish the object. As a matter of fact, by taking what was said to be an absolutely necessary course, Germany did not accomplish either

A farewell dinner and concert to the members of the local police force, along with the Naval Police, who are about to leave for the Front, is being given this evening The dinner will take place at the Astor House Hotel, to be followed by

concert at the Naval Police mess..

of her objects. She committed a orime for no purpose. It may be denied that she

No small amount of excitement was was compelled to invade Belgium, Hor caused ou change yesterday by a report armies are as strong now as they were in that Indo-China shares had been ex- 1870, and if the French frontier protection empted from the Home Budget taxes. has been made more effective the increas0 An inquiry at the local agents clicited in the power of the German attack has the information that no official intime. been greater in proportion. The nåvântion of this nature had been received at tages of an invasion of Belgium, even..in the Hongkong office. the face of resistance, lay elsewhere: As

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice for the argument that Belgium brought her punishment on her own head by not Memorial and Aliated Hospitals ac allowing the German armies to pass peace knowledges with thanks the following fully through the country, the answer is donations to the funds of the Hospitals:. that one State has no right to place-Ministering Children's League for cot. another in a belligerent position vis-à-vis | in Nethersole Hospital, $150; Congrega- a third Power. A peaceful occupation of tional Church (Chinese), 01.20; Tai Belgium by Germany would have meant Shing Paper Manufacturing Co., 893. hostility to France, and, in the event of

The Bishop of Victoria has returned the German forces being unable to attain

While their aim of forcing France to submission, from Swatow by the Hatching. would have entailed as much suffering to at Swatow he held service on Sunday Belgium as the German invasion. From last in the English Church, and, in whatever point of view we regard Ger- conjunction with the Rev. Dr. Campbell HONGKONG OFFICE: 10%, DE VOUX BOLD, Omany's action the crime remains, and it Gibson, conducted a service of interces- is distinctly a crime which affects all other sion in connection with the war on

Monday last that

very largely nations.

attended.

DISPENSARY.

DEATH,

$13

Second Floor, Overlooking Harbour, LAMEE-Killed in action in France on November 7th, 1915, PEROY LAMBE, Apply to-

1st Lieutenant The Buffs," aged 32 immediate passion.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.. Hougkong, 3rd December, 1914.

139

TO LET.

Knutsford Terrace,

HOUSE in

A Kowloon

Apply...

:

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., Lto Hongkong, 24th October, 1915. (40

TO LET.

TYOUR-ROOMED and THREE-ROOMED. FLATS in Humphrey's Buildings, FOUR-ROOMED

years,

LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STRAST, 2.0.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 18TH, 1915,

Kowloon, with every modern convenience THE SILENCE OF NEUTRAL Immediate possession.

FLATS in May Road, possession on or about

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NATIONS.

1st November next. Modern appointments HERBERT SPENCER had lived to throughout. including English Baths and Kitchen Ranges Hot Water and Wator witness the prosent struggle he would

A fow Flats specially Carriage System designed to accommodate thres bachelors at probably have seen in the attitude of the reasonable rentels.

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Gurdos neutral nations further material in sup- part of his theory of the re-barbarisation Terrace and Fallebury Avenue, Environ.

TWO-ROOMED FLATS in Nathan Road, of the human race. It is true, of course, Kowloon,

WINDSOR LODGE, Kowloon, Six-Roemed that a Briton must see matters more or less House, Tesnis Court. Immediate possession.

from the British point of view, However Apply to-

AUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCI careful he may be to preserve an unbiassed

Co., LTD..

judgment and however successful he may Alexandes Baiblings

think he has been in arriving at impartiali Rongkong 3rd November, 1915.

ty, there is bound to be a tendency, in TO LET.

doubtful cases, to decide in favour of the FFICES & 2, Connaught Roa

British side. This is the stock answer of the neutral Powers to all the reproaches OFFICES in King's Buildings. OFFICES in Des Voeux Road Central, addressed to them. They say in effect: HOUSES fa CLIFTON GARDENS

You see according to your lights; we see according to ours. Surely we are in a NE V HOUSES in Broadwood Terrace. HOUSES at the Peak.

better position than you are to form an impartial opinion. The argument is a strong one-o strong, indeed, that the POPE has not failed to adopt it; but when it is applied to questions of fact it loses a good deal of its strength. It is, for

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IN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S | Condeit Road,

CONSULAR COURT AT CANTON,

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

Canton, Thursday, the 25th day of October 1915 CITATION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION;

5-.........

In the Goods of SMOLLETT CAMPBELL,

Deceased.

N virtue of an Order of His Majesty's said Court, bouring date This Day, I do hereby monish and site all and all mauler of perenos

(with

No, 21, WONG-NEL-CHONG ROAD. No. 1, MORETON TERRACE, Couseway Bay.

"GODOWNS, af Wanchai.

GODOWNS, at New Praya. Kennoly Town.

Nes 1, 2 and 3, WEST END TERRACE, CANTON. Apply

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 4th November, 1915

WANTED.

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instance, a fact universally acknowledged

Why were the neutral Powers silent? KOSETTI once wrote a Sonnet to show that

on to Hongkong.

was

to the

The Portuguese steamer Sui Kei, when the callousness of the nations to each travelling between Mandarin Gay and other's troubles was an indication that the Nawfang island on the morning of the earth was growing old. We would rather 7th inst., picked up a Chinese junk,

has been made in international morality. crew of another junk which had been take it as an indication that no progress without mast or sail, and twenty of the The invasion of Belgium is Germany's sunk, all of whom belonged to Hongkong. greatest crime, but there are not wanting The disabled junk was towed others which also stand on a foundation shore, and the rescued crew were brought of foul methods of fighting, such as the use of fact. One of these is the introduction

The presentation of the reproduction of poisonous gases, which, with other nations, Germany had agreed not to coun-of the Picture of Our Lady of Perpetual tenance. This rebarbarisation of the met- Succour, in Rome, will take place at the of the Immaculate Con- hads of warfare seems to have been under Cathedral consideration in Germany long before the ception, Hongkong, on Sunday next

9.30 a.m. There will be war broke out, but, at any rate, she set the at belligerents an evil example, which they low Pontifical Mass with General Com were forced to follow in self-defence, Still, munion, followed by the Benediction of During the no protest came from the neutral Powers, the Blessed Sacrament. although a protest would not have involved changing of the vestments the prayer for them in any difficulties and would have Peace by His Holiness the Pope, Benedict shown Germany that she was arousing XV. will be said aloud by the Congrega. opposition to her methods a circumstancntion. It is hoped that the whole of the which might have tended to restrain her Catholic community will attend. from sounding still lower depths. The

A pretty wedding took place on Satur- dropping of bombs from airships on unfor tified places-it is hardly possible that day Nov. 7th, at Holy Trinity Cathedral Shanghai, the contracting parties being Germany is not precisely informed as to Mr. Arthur Robert Scott, of the Munici the position of British forts is in a line pal Public Works Department, and Miss with the sinking of unarmed passenger Augusta Mary Notley, daughter of Mr. ships and the poisoning of water-supplies. and Mrs. Notley, Manor Farm, Leigh, In the old days, the bombardment of a Dorsetshire. The ceremony was perform-

that Germany entered into an agreement with other Powers to respect the neutrality city was preceded by a uvtification, and ed by the Rev. W. H. Price: The bride the sinking of on enemy's vessel by the was given away by Mr. W. F. Dearn, of Belgium, and it is, also, a fact that

no such preliminaries are deemed neces- Mrs. Deara was matron of honour, Mr. Germany did not respect that agreement. removal of the persons on board. To-day Miss Mabel Dearn was bridesmaid, and Now, if international intercourse is to con- tinue possible, if the growing bonds of sary; an enemy ship is an enemy ship, H. Fifigeorge was best man. After the trade and commerce are not to be severely and the people on board must take the ceremony a reception was held at No. 2 strained, if, in short, there is to be any consequences. The "noble crt" of war Monkham Terrace, Wayside Road, the trust between nations, the first necessity has developed into slaughter; the example home of Mr. and Mrs. Dearn. The knives and forks in case, the gift of the is a respect for international agreements of the Kilkenny cats has become the numerous presents included a set of fish Germany's action was thus an attack on highest ideal; and no ene says nay.

staff of the P.W.D, and a solid silver DAILY OF Tu sidang NURSE for international intercourse; it established

butter dish, subscribed for by the young the precedent that a weak neighbouring

ladies of the Shanghai Mutual Telephone Power has no rights or interests, and can- A mail for Europe via Siberia closes Company. Mr. and Mrs. Scott left later

for a trip up country. not be made the subject of international to-day at 3 p.m.

Care of "Daily Press" Office. Hongkong, 17th November, 1915.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the to appear in the said Court o; or ab at the 28th

Partnership hitherto Subsisting day of November, 1915, and show cause, if anyROM 1st Jonary. FURNISHED FLAT or HALF-HOUSE for Married Conple. Undersigned. DONALD they have, why letters of admin stration MACDONALD. and JOHN WILKIE,

the will annexed) of all and singular the goods, Upper or Lower Level. carrying on Business as: ENGINEERS, Sum chatte. rights, and credits of SHOLLETT Fall particulas, rent, elo. t BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS AND MACHINERY CAMPBELL, Lue of Macao, Chinx, who died at AGENTS at York Building, Chater Road, Victoris, Hongkong, under the style of MACDONALD & Co., has been Dissolve by mutual consent, as from the Thirtieth September, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifteen, so far as concerns the said JOHN WILKIE, whs retires from the said Firni Dated this 15th day of November, 1915.

D. MAUDONALD, JOHN WILKIE. 5 1197

401

Hongkong on August 20th, 1915, skuld not le granted unte ARCHIBALD SMOLLETT CAMPBELL, Attorney for Etta GRACE CAMPBELL of 48, Brunsw.ok Gaidens, Kensington, London, England, the widow of the aid testator and the quiversal legaten named in the will, ar, ir default thereof, the Court will preond to grast

he same scoordia ly.

(Sd.) E. S. PRATT, Vict-Consul and Additional Judge, [1156

WANTED.

Children at the Peak. Apply by letter encising copies of testimonials to

"E" Care of "Daily Press" Office. Hongkong, 10th November, 1916.

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