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GODOWN,

PUBLIC COMPANIES

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, JANUARY 31st, 1918. E

THE WEST. POINT BUILDING MAMMA COMPANY, LIMITED.

6,300 sq ft. Situnted No. 99, PraysOTICE 19 HERGHTH ORDINARY

LET, GODOWN, approximate area

HEREBY GIVEN that MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Mesars JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, LIMITED, TO-MORROW (TUESDAY), 1st February, 1918, at 11.30 A. for the purpose of receiving

Repert the

with of Directors together Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1815.

W. G. HUMPHREYS & Co.,

Liquidators for JeDans & Co. [221 Hongkong, 31st January, 1916.

BANK HOLIDAYS.

N accordance with Ordinance No. 6 of 1912 the EXCHANGE BANKS will be -CLOSED for the transaction of Public Business on THURSDAY and FRIDAY, "the 3rd and 4th February

Hongkong, 31st January, 1916.

REMOVAL NOTICE

HOUSES TO LET

FURNISHED FLATS.

THE Undersigned are prepared to furnish

son of their Tregunter. Ma

Mansions Flats have Brat-class appointments which Road) Flate to mitit intending tenants. These include English Baths and Kitchen ranges, hot water supply and water-closets. They are of two kinds, viz.: Flats with 2 Bedrooms and 2 Sitting Rooms and Flats with 3 Bed- rooms and 1 Sitting Room. The latter are

Arrange aspecially suitable for Bachelors.

ments could be made if desired for the use, in common with certain other tenants, of the adjoining frash water swimming bath.

Apply to NOTANT

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE Co., LTD., Alexandra Buildings Hongkong, 26th January, 1816.

be

The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Com- any will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, TUESDAY, 1st February, the 20th January, to 1916 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares CLE [222]egistered.

By Order of the Board of Directork,

MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE, Acting Secretary to the HOWOKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY Co.,

WB have This Day REMOVED our Offices to Third Floor, QUEEN'T BUILDINGS (late premises of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd.)

THORESEN & Co. Hongkong. 31st January, 1916.

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ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

LIMITED,

General Agents for the

WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LIMITED. Hongkong, 13th January, 1916,

[175

THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LIMITED.

TO LET.

[205

TN CANTON for Indiate Possession, FOUR-ROOMED FLAT with Spaolous Offsen on Ground Floor,

Apply to

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO

Co, LTD., Hongkong or Canton. Hongkong, 29th January, 1916.

TO LET.

in

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CHINA NEW YEAR COMPETITIONS, SECOND ORDINARY MEETING of TWO HOUSES IN STONEHENG

FANLING..!

FEERUARY 4TH, 1916.

Mandicap for a Prize presented by TORNING:Bogey Competition under

the Club.

AFTERNOON: -Tombstone Competition, CONDITIONS::

A player is allowed the Hogey score plus his handicap. When he has played the total

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, LTD, TO-MORROW (TUESDAY), 1st February, 1916, at 11.45 A.ME, for the purpose of rece

receiving the Report of the party will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, year ending 31st December, 1915.

20th January, to TUESDAY, 1st February, 1916 (bath days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com

and remodelled,

Bach House contains downstair Two Good Booms and apataire Three Bedrooms, euch with Bathroom."

Outhouses and Grass Tennis Court Shortly available for occupation, Apply 10

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 2nd December, 1915,

TO LET.

number of strokes allowed a peg with his THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, OFFICES in Queen's Building,

name thereon must be fixed at the spot where the ball lies.

If at the 18th hole a player has strokes in band he must continue from the first tee.

In the case of a lost ball, another may be dropped on the fairway, not nearer the hole, under penalty of two strokes.

The player who reaches the furthest point In the number of Strokes allowed him wins. the first prize.

A prize will also be given to the player whose peg or "Tombstone lies nearest to a selected spot which will be disclosed after the round is completed.

VISITORS CUP.

During the months of Fobre try and March an ECLECTIC Competition will be held over the 18 hole course for a Cap kindly presented by a visitor.

DEFINITION.

MOWBRAY'S. NORTHCOTE, Acting Secretary to The GENERAL MANAGERS. Hongkong, 13th January, 1916. (178

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

pply-

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THE HONGKONG LAND IN VEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.

11015 Hongkong, 8th December, 1915.

TO LET.

NO.11, GAGESTREET, from 186 January,

1916. Apply to-

J. VINCENT BRAGA, Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Hongkong, 18th November, 1815,

[100

TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, LTD., TO-MORROW (TUESDAY), 1st February, 1916, at Noos, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with ORAZ the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1015.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com pany will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, 20th January, to TUESDAY, 1st February,

Au Eclectic Competition is played under stroko conditions. The Competitors play any

of rounds over n given period, and196 (both days inclusive), during which number the eclectic score is the choice score of each period no Transfer of Shares can.

Registered. holo in all the rounds.

Competitors will return their cards, and the best score each player has achieved at each of the 18 holes will be selected, the lowest aggregato winning the Cup.

A charge of 50 cents per card will be made, the proceeds to be given to a War Charity.

T. W. HILL. Acting Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 31st January, 1916. [224

THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

CHAREHOLDERS desirous of making inquiries in respect of the DEBEN-

By Order of the Board of Directors,

MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,

Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 2th January, 1916

be

TO LET

and 10 MOUNTAIN VIEW,

Apply to

M. J. D. STEPHENS. Hongkong, 12th November, 1916.. [07

TO LET.

46 (THE KENNELS,” 108, Magazine Gap.

Thoroughly renovated and repaired.

APP

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THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the N

FIFTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, LTD., TO-MORROW (TUESDAY), 1st February, 1916, at 12.15 P.M. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of

HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

·MENT & AGENCY Co., Lab, Hongkong, 10th November, 1915.

TO LET

AVENSHILL FAST; Park

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Boad, Rontaining 6 Booms, 3 Bath Rooms, Servants Qustars, &o. Vacant lat November,

Apply

DEACON, LOOKER DEACON & HARSTON, Hongkong, 19th October, 1915. [90

TO LET,

INTIMATION

WATSON'S

· FINEST - OLD

BROWN

adyanço an infallible sign of progress; bat in China the attitude of the country towards its wealth of cool and metals is a very good test of the extent to which she has divested "herself of her cobwebbed cen- servatism and has assimilated the spirit of modern life,

Thore can be nothing done in the way of developing China's mineral resources until the obstacle of prejudice has been cleared away; when the obstacle has been removed, one of the first signs of the change that has taken plaon will be activity in mining BRANDY It has been hoped in the past that the more

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QUALITY.

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Brown Brandy

25 YEARS IN WOOD,

A. 3.

It is announced: in Great Britain' that parcels are now accepted for transmission to Russia by a new route vin Canada and Japan, in addition to the service via Sweden and via Norway und Sweden.

Special competitions at Fanling are advertised for Chinese New Year. An eclectic competition also, will be held during the months of February and March for a cup kindly presented by a visitor."

mosting

A meeting of the Licensing Board will be held on February 7th, when an application will be considered from Nellie Babbage for restaurant keeper's adjunct licence to sell by retail intoxicating liquors at the Alexandra Café.

A donation of £500 from the British, Allied, and friendly residents of the Yangise Valley has been received by The

meg Red Cross Fund, to provide a motor ning expenses of the same, ambulance and contribute towards the run.

+

demonstration of the wealth available to China Ing the trouble of stretching out her hand would prove a sufficient in centive, but China, having done without this wealth since the days of Yao and Snus,

The intest foreigner to win the coveted saw no need to be precipitate in her requisi

"black belt which indicates the attain tion of it in those latter days. The appeal ment of shodan rank in the study of judo to cupidity having failed, it has been is Mr. Allan Smith, of the American Trad- Mr. Smith is a hoped that education would effect the ing Company, Tokyo. change. This hope will probably be realis.coman who has been about nine years în

Japan. ed in the end, but for the present although

"It is notified that during the Chinear, it is no longer universally believed that the

New Year vaention the offices o the opening of mines will cause such con- Supreme Court will be open daily from 10 tortions of the subterranean dragons that am to 1 pm, from 3rd to 7th Febru

a widespread cataclysm will be the out-ary (both days inclusive), except on public and general holidays, when the offices will come, the foreign-educated and enlighten be patirely closed.

ed officials are no les obstructive than. were those who had a most implicit belief in jeng-shui. Diplomatic action has been tried; the Alcock Convention adumbrated the passibility of foreign assistance in ex- pluiting China's minerals, and the Mackay Treaty brought the matter to a head, on paper, by providing that China will, with all expedition and earnestness, go into the whole question of Mining Rules, and .

Captain Francis Gainsborough Lane Poole, Royal Marine Artillery, who died on December 23rd at Shoeburyness as the result of an accident, was the eldest son of Mr. Stanley Lane-Poolo, Litt.D., of Donganstown, Wicklow, the biographer- of the late Sir Harry Parkes, 1

The Chinese. Government has tele-

graphically instructed Ministore in foreign countries to ascertain the number of Chinese emigrants abroad who have gra- duated from a university or a high school in will recast her present Mining Rules in * foreign country and to submit for record such a way as, while promoting the interests | propgratory to employing them in Govern- of Chinese subjects and not injuring inment service,

any way the sovereign rights of China, A market report states that geese in shall offer no impediment to the attraction Great Britain were fewer in number this Christmas, but the market was unexpect of foreign capital or place foreign capital-edly reinforced by a large consignment of ists at a greater disadvantage than they Chinese birds. They came over in cold would be under generally accepted foreign quite a good price considering that English.

storage, and were selling for lid. per lb.- regulations. The fact that, fourteen years birds could be bought for Is. and 1. Id.

WATSONter, it is just as difficult to apply por lb. & CO., LTD.

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. HONGKONG,

BIRTHS. EVANSA Bedford on December 21st, the wife of G. J EVANS, M.R.C.S., Eng, L.R.C.P. Lond., of C.M.8. Hospital Hangchow, a daughter. FECE At the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, on January 24th, to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Peck, a son, VOYOL-At Swatow, on January 19th, to

Mr. and Mrs. Voyez, a daughter,

MARRIAGE.

TURE ISSUE should apply to the Company's Accounts for the year seiding 31st December. 66 Road, Peak, from 1st November, 1915 LANB-URAVEN.—At Kensington, on Decem

Office in Hongkong.

All applications for Dobentures must be sent in before the 20th February, 1916 Forms, may be had on application.

K., DYER,

Chief Manager.

Hongkong, 31st December, 1918 £118

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE | CO., LTD.

the

1915

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, 30th January, to TUESDAY, 1st February, 1916(both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered. By Order of the Board of Directors,

E. BRUCE SHEPHERD, Acting Secretary, Hongkong, 13th January, 1910.

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HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

Said THE

N LENSHIEL," No. 141, Plantation

Apply-

-LIJSTEAD & DAVIS, Hongkong, leth October, 1915.

-Kowloon

Apply

TO LIST.

In Kartford

188

Terrace,

A HOUSE

PEHE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY CO; LAD. Hongkong, 24th October, 1915, Far

HARE CERTIFICATE No. $122, dated 18th July, 1904, of One Hundred Shares numbered 88001 to 85100 inclusive fully paid-

TO - LIT. up, standing in the Register in the name of MR. ANTONIO JOAQUIM BASTO, of

FFICER in Ér. Grozen's BUILDING, Macao, having bean LOST

NINETY-SIXTH ORDINARY

Floor, Overlooking Harbour, or DESTROYED. Notice is hereby given that unless

MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in immediate possession. certificate be produced at the Offices of the the Company will be held at the Office of the

Apply Foud, Body Bunge, Des the Company Batel langions, on TUESDAY,

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co Road, Central, Hongkong, on or before the the 15th February, 1816, at 12 o'clock

Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914. 138 8th day of February, 1910, New Certificate for the purpose of receiving a Report of the for the said Shares will be issued and the old Directors, together with a Statement of

TO LET Certificate will thereafter be held by the Accounts, declaring a Dividend and electing Company as null and void.

Directors and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company OFFICES at 2, Connaught Road. -will be CLOSED from the 2nd to the 15th |

February, 1816, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W. E CLARKE, Secretary, Hongkong, 28th January, 1916.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managere. Hongkong, 7th January, 1016." [160

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.

THE

LOST.

THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 4209 for Twenty-five Shares numbered 1901 to 4925 inclusive, standing in the Register in the nain of FRANK DARRINGTON DEACON, having been LOST. Notice is hereby given that unless the said Certificate be produced at the Office of the Company, 5, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on or before the Third day of February, 1916, « New Certificate for the sald Shares will be issued and the old Certificate will thereafter be held by the Company as null and void.

MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE,

Acting Secretary Hongkong, 3rd January, 1916.

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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.

NOTICE

T

HE CERTIFICATE No. 1040 for one share, $100 paid up, numbered 11018, standing in the Register in the name of WO BANG, having been LOST Notice is hereby given that unless the said Certificate is pro- duced to the Society on or before the 26th April, A NEW CERTIFICATE for the

1916, said share will be issued and the old Certifi cate will thereafter be held by the Society as null and void.

By Order of the Board of Directors

C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager. Hongkong, 23th January, 1916, ⠀⠀

(206

TO LIT.

NO. 5, MOUNTAIN VIEW, PRAK.

(207

EILANDONAN," No. 5, Des Voeux Vill, No. 54, THE PEAK, Fully Furnished, including Piano, fram 1st May to 30th November.

No. 7, STEWART TERRACE, PEAs, from 1st March, 1916.

“WOODBURY,” No. 4, Haakow Road, Kowloon, from

from 1st March, 1916.

No, ZETLAND STEELT, No. 25, SHELLEY STREET.

OFFICES in King's Buildings.

OFFICES in Den Vanx Bond Central. HOUSES in ULIFTON GARDENS, Condult Bord.

NEW HOUSES in Broadwood Terrnos HOUSES at the Peak.

No 1. MORETON TERRACE,

Bay,

"GODOWNS, ai Wanchai,

foreign capital to the development of M. Denman Fuller's piano recital Chinese mines is sufficient proof of the takes place this evening at 9.15 o'clock in the City Hal The programme includes expedition and earnestness" with which Chopin's Sanata in B at minor, and China has approached the question, Some Mr. H. E. Muriel will sing songs from thing has been hoped for, again, from Somervell's setting of Tennyson's "Maud," with Mr. Norman Peterkin at the pínuo, private enterprise, but no sooner did As has been announced, the proceeds are syndicato obtain a concession than local entirely in aid of war charities. opposition made it impossible to carry on work, and the only thing the concession naires could do was to allow the Chinese Goverment to redeem their rights. Finan.

mpted to command in November, 1882, and cial stringency consequent be the revolufinally retired from the Company's service tion also failed to have the desired effect; is 1911 He was for many years in com- mand of the str. Kuunglee, running be- every argument and inducement has failed,tween Shanghai, Hongkong and Canton.

and is becomes evident, in the language: of the theologians, that China needs to be converted.

Moroyed Chinese have not sufficient con

The death is notified by cable from England of Captain Lionel Lincoln, who joined the China Merchants S. N. Čo, in January 1877, as Chief Officer, was pro

The Gazette atates that the Government proposes to lease about 132 acres of Crown Land at Kowloon Bay, New Kowloon, comprising portions of the foreshore and sen bed. It is stated that the lease, will speci fy the purposer for which the lands are leased, whether for the purpose of reclama. tion building dwelling houses, factories, or godowns for the storing of coal or other goods, or whether for any other purpose, and will contain provinces for forfeiture in the event of the leases failing, at any time during the continuance of the term of the leases, to use the demised lands for the purpose so specified. Obviously a scheme tion to the 132 acres mentioned above, B of development is contemplated, for in addi- further area of about 92.6 acress is ear- marked for the purpose of forming roads.

ber 29th, Sea-Lient. J. LAME to ANXIE Howoare, daughter of T, CEAVEN, offidence in their own people to subscribe to Shanghai.

Chinese mining syndicate, so that, if the DEATHS.

unworked deposita are to be exploited, the BRXRETON. On December 25th, ANNIE,

daughter of the late W. H. BERTON, funds must come from abroad. Foreign barrister-at-law of Hongkong,

capital messs foreign supervision, and HARRIS-At Nanking, on January 24th,

ROWLAND HARRIS, of the Chinese China cannot reconcile herself to the idea Government Salt Gabelle

" of foreigners possessing valuable rights at LINCOLN.-At Exeter, England, on Janu a distance from the Treaty Ports, It is axy 24th, ROBERT LIONEL LINCOLN, possible to adduce argumenta in support of eged 08: MACKINTOSH -At Eastbourne, on Decem- this attitude: the Peking Government ber 27th, J. S. MACKINTOSH, formerly would my that mines are mostly in remote of Shanghai, aged 77, TINSLEY-At the Victoria Nursing Home, and mountainous regions and that they fear.

In reply to a question by Mr. Lundon, Shanghai on January 24th SAMUK it would not be possible to afford efficient an Irish member of Parliament, Sir J. HILTON TINSLEY (Messrs, Llewellyn & protection to foreigners and their property. Simon said there was no occasion for Lord Co.), aged 43 years.

Milner to take out naturalisation papers, THOMPSON. At the General Hospital, That a so-called Government should adduce since he was already a British subject. virtue of the statute of Shanghai on January 24th Far its own inefficiency as a reason for not per-By DERICK, youngest son of the late mitting something that would be to the 1778, the grandson born abroad of

2 grandfather who was AUGUSTUS FREDERICK THOMPSON, aged

British material benefit of the country is in itself subject born in the United Kingdom was 22 years WALSHAM—At Tioritain, on December 21st, a proof of the backward state of the bureau declared to a British subject, and the ro

FLORENCE LADY WALSHAN, widow of cracy. Real progress will not be possible Nationality Act, 1914, does not affect the peal of the statute of 1773 by the British Sir JOHN WALSHAM, Bart K.O.M.Guntil the ruling classes take a very differ status of any person born before the com of Kuil Court, Radnorshire,

Caryokong OFFION: 101, Das Vows Bon. C. LONDON OFFION: 181, FLERT STREET, E.0.

Nos. 1, 2 and 2, WEST END TERRACE CANTON,

Appl

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT & AGENCY (o, Lad, Hongkong, 4th November, 1915.

DES The Daily Press.

32

TO LIT. TWO BOOMED-FLATS in Nathan Road,

THREE-BOOMED FLATS in Humphrey's FOUR-BOOMED FLATS in May Hond

No. 25, SEYMOUR ROAD, WOODLANDS | Baldings, Kowloon, VILLA WEST

No. 68, PEEL STREET on Caine Road level

Peak, from 1st November, 1916,

GLENSHIEL," No. 141, Plantation Road,

• LEWKNOR,” No.. 198, THE PRAE,

น

"HARTING, Austin Boad, Kowloon, ONE OFFICE от SHOP in Duddell Street, Ground Floor.

No. 8 THE ALBANY.” ROOMS, In Daddell Street, "ROSENEATH,” 2. Hankow Rd., Kowloon: No. 6, BELILIOS TERRACE No. 26, BELILIOS TERRACE, with entrance on Conduit Rond

ONE GODOWN, No. 6, Barrows. Street, Wanchai

TWO GODOWNS, in Daddall Street,

HONGKONG 31st January, 1916

country, and when that happens we may Lord Milner, as some of our readers of the ent view of their responsibilities to the cement of the Act. The announcement was received with applause in the House. expect them to realize that the unworked elder generation will know saye the Z. & Express-is a half-brother of the mineral deposits are a trust to be utilized late Mr. Cromie, formerly of Shanghai. for the benefit of the nation. We hope It is one of Lord Milnere pleasures to recall all that Mr. Oromie was and all he that this may be one of the fruits of the now did for him and others. régime, but, in view of past experiences,

we cannot any that we anticipate the speedy fuißiment of our hopes,

Dr. and Mrs. G. E. Morrison of Peking, are spending a few days in Shanghai.

H.E. the Governor has appointed Fri-

MINING IN CHINA. The new régime in China will, we suppose with every modern convenienes, including he ushered in with the usual lavish promises English Baths and Kitchen Hanges, Hot of progress and reform, and one of the Water and Wales Carriage Byalam, A. Bew first things to be referred to will it is today, February 4th, to be observed as a gem Flats specially designed to accommodate thres bachelors af zonsonable raniala. Immediate pommession

FOUR-BOOMED HOUSES In Gordon Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon,

Apply tow

· HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Co., LED, Alexandra Buildings, Hongkong, 29th December, 1915.

TO LET. From les Marok.

No. & DES VEUX VILLAN, 51, FRARODOWN, No. 6, Dudiall Street, (Unfurnished)

No. 59, THE PEAK (& CAMERON VILLAS.

Apply to INSTEAD & DAVIS,

Brd Floor, Almandes Buddiaya.

Hongkong, 28th January, 1916.

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Apply

A. BAVARIA ----

Care of E. PARANEY,

No. 1, Duddali Bireci

2nd February, 1915,

The Hon Mr. Lau Chu Pak has been appointed to be a member of the Board of Examiners

The Gazette contains an amendment of the schedule of maximum prices for which articles of food be sold.

may

be expected, be the desirability of taking eral holiday. steps to exploit China's mineral wealth, The question has been threshed out so often, and the promises that have repeatedly been made have so invariably led to bothing, that it seems

ives almost a waste of time to re-open the matter. We still however, cling to the hope that some day there will be a genuine revolution in China Dr. H. G. Earle, M.A., M.B. (Cam that will sweep away all the old prejudices bridge), has been appointed to be Honorary and make real progress possible, Mining Visiting Physician to the Government Civil development does not necessarily imply Hospital during the absence on leave of Dr. form, or is even industrial or commercial G, E. Aubrey.

most successful social evening was held at the Engineers Institute on Baturday, this being the third of the series. Professor C. A. Middleton Smith was in the chair, and the attendance was much above the

average. The programme was thoroughly entertaining and delightfully varied, rang ing as it did from comedy to selections from grand opers. In the latter Miss C. Scott distinguished herself with a remark ably fine rendering of “The Flower Song," from Faust. All the other contributors. tive items. The Signallers! Orchestra, con were equally successful with their respec- ducted by Sergt. Č. D. Bilas, gare some choice selections, and among the others who entertained were the Kowloon Quartet, Messra. O D. Silas, A, N. Bootes W. B.

NC, Labrum, Staff-Bergt Thompson, Cawsey A. J. England 8. Grey, H Relph R.A.M.C., and Whampoa Sam" (Mr. C. D. Bilas), whose stump speech in pidgin English, with its witty topical allusions, was responsible for much amusement, Dur- ing the evening, also, the billiard eups wen during the season were presented to Mr. J. Stalker the winner, and Mr. D. Smith, runner. ap.