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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

LUN SHING. HOTEL CO., LTD. (IN LIQUIDATION},"

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 181 of the Companios Ordinance that a MEETING of

OREDITORS of the LUN SHING HOTEL

CO., LTD., will be held at the Premises of the Company, Nos. 12 and 13, Yu On Terrace Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, OR WEDNESDAY, the 17th day of May, 1816, a63 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purposes provided for in the said Beotion

Dated this 3rd day of May, 1916. |

CHEUNG KUPP,

Liquidator.

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THE CHINA-BORNEO · · COMPANY, LIMITED-

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS THE THIRTEENTH YEARLY MEET

LING of SILAREHOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Company's Office, St. George's Building, at 11.30 on MONDAY, the 22nd May, 1918, to receive Statement of Accounts to the al st December, 1916, and the Report of the General Manager Consulting Committee and to eleet a Consulting Committee and Auditor,

The "RANSFER BOOKS of the Company

PUBLIC COMPANIES

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAT 4rm, 1916,

INTIMATIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES situato at being KOWLOON MARINE LOT No. 83. HUNG HOM, in the Colony of Hongkong, and.

to be sold

152.00 per Share disclared at the Forty- and KOWLOON INLAND LOT

DIVIDEND of 87.00 and BONUS of seventh Meeting of Shareholders held. This Day will be Payable at the HONGKONG do SHANGHAY BANKING CORPORATION on and after FRIDAY, the 28th April, 1916.

Shamholders are requested to apply to the By Order of the Board of

Office of the Company for Tirectora B

C. PEMBERTON,

Secretary Hongkong, 27th April, 1916.

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CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Head Office of the Company, No. 4, Connaught Road, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, TO-MORROW (FRI- DAY) the oth day of May, 101 which

NOON, when the subjoined Resolution passed as an

IN ONE LOT TO-DAY (THURSDAY),

the 4th day of May, 1918, at 3 p'élook na,

Mathis Auction Rooms in Duddell

R. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer, Street.

The Property consists of

All those pieces or parcels of ground situate at Hang Hom in the Dependency of Kowloon and Colony of Hongkong and rogistered in the Land Office respectively as KOWLOON MARINE LOT No. 83 and KOWLOON Lot No. 83 contains an area of 139,800 INLAND LOT NO. 1178. Kowloon Marine SQUARE FEET and is held 75 years from the 16th May, 1904 (renewable for the term of for another term of 75 years), created therein by a Crown Lease dated the 11th day of October, 1906, and made between His late Majesty King Edward VII of the of the other part subject to the paymont and DONALD MACDONALD and JOHN WILKIE ∙one part

of General Meeting of the perfonnance of the Lessee's covenants there Raid Company hold on the 18th day of April, in

d contained submitted for confirmation as a 1916, will bo Special Resolution

Inland Lot 1175 is situato on "That the name of the Company behoorth-west side of Kowloon Maring Lot No. 83 and contains an area of 27,073 changed to BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE SQUARE FEET and is held for the term of COMPANY, LIMITED. Dated this 18th day of April, 1916.

76 years from the 16th May, 1904 (renewable for another term of 75 years), created therein By Order of the Board,

by a Crown Lease dated the 19th April, 1811, C. MONTAQUE EDE, and made between His Majesty King George General Manager. V. of the one part and the said Donald Mac.

Donald and

John Wilkie of the other part subject to the payment of the Crown rent and to the observance and performance of

will be CLOSED from the 8th May to the the Extraon Extraordinary Resolution at the Crown rent and to the observance and

22nd May, 1918, both day's inclusive

THE CHINA-BORNEO Co, L,

·W.-G. DAKBY,

General Manager.

Hongkong, 4th May, 1918.

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OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

i

WE beg to inform the Public that the INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

Company's Telephone Numbers

COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE THIRTY-FIFTH ORDINARY

have been changed TO DAY from 246 and GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General 1280 to 744 and 745.

Managers, Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Lrr, Des Voeux Road, Hongkong, on Hongkong, 2nd May, 1916.

SATURDAY, the 6th May, at 10 o'clock A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and Auditors.

passing the Accounts, and electing

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HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

REDUCTION IN PRICE,

[VROM_1st_May, 1910, the Price of Current

to 20 cents per unit.

Discounts will remain us before..

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.

Hongkong, 1st May, 1916.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I hare This Day REMOVED my Odice

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLUSED from the 1st May to the 20th Miny, inclusive

By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.

General Managers

Hongkong, 28th April, 1916.

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,

LIMITED

NOTWENTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the SHARE HOLDERS will be held at the Company's Offices, St. George's Buildings, on SATUR

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

to No. 10, Des Voux -ROAD CENTRAL (DAY, the 20th May, 1916, at 12 o'clock Noon, Floor)

OTTO KONG SING, Solicitor.

Dated the 30th day of April, 1916.

NOTICE.

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IS HEREBY NOTIFIED, that I have

I this Day established myself as a Stock

and SHARYBEOKEE, and will carry on Business on my own account at this address.

E. M. RAYMOND.

Alexandra Buildings,

Hoogkong, 1st May, 1016.

NOTICE.

1045

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the No

heretofore subsisting between GEOFFREY CHARLES HOXON, JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR, and EDWARD MAURICE RAYMOND, carrying on Business at Victoria, Hongkong, as SHAEZ BROKERS under the

he style or Firm of Moxor & TAYLOR, dissolved by the effluxion of time s

1916, so April

fur as concerns the said EDWARD MAURICE RAYMOND, whe has retired from the said Firm. The said GEOFFREY CHARLES MOXON and

has bo 200

from

30th

for the purpose of presenting the Report of

the Lesser's covenants therein reserved and

contained.

Crown Rent of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 1178-9248 per annum. No. 83-1384 per annum,

Lot Crown Rent of Kowloon Inland

Particulars and conditions of sale bad from Page Pre may be [ESSES, DEACON. LOOKER, DEACON

HARSTON

1, Des Voeux Road Central,

and

ME, LEO D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Old Supreme Court Building, Vendors Solicitors,

"and also from

MR. GEO. P. LAMMERT, The Auctioneer- Hongkong, 25th April, 1978,"

814

THEATRE ROYAL.

HONGKONG.

THE

HUMPHREY BISHOP

AND

the Directors together with a Statement of LONDON STAR COY. Accounts to 20th February, 1910, and electing Director and Auditors,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company

Present a

will be CLOSED from the 6th May to the CONCERT 20th May, both days inclusive,

By Order of the Board of Directors

GIBR LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.

Hongkong, 1st May, 1918.

(649

64% RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1916 for Rhis. 2,000,000,000. ĈUBSCRIPTION to the above LOAN will be Opened from 28th March till 5th May inclusively.

The Frice of issue is 157. The Loan is entirely free of Income Tax and of other taxations,

The Loan is redeemable at par on 1st February 1928, Russian style, without option for the Russiau Government to convert it at an earlier date.

Coupons are payable half-yearly on the Ist February and 1st August, Russian style. As interest on the above loan runs from 1st/14th the interest accrued of

INCLUDING

INTIMATION

DEWAR'S

WARD

MEET

JOHN DEWAR & SOUSE

(DISTILLERS)

Extra Special ULD SCOTCH WIE

OF GREAT-AGE Grand Prix {Parés[900-5) Louis 199

SOLE AGENTS :

A. S. WATSON

CO., LTD.,

CENSOR

DETAINING LETTERS, Ching Yat Sang, a Chinese postal censor employed by the Hongkong Government, was charged ni the Magistracy, before Mr. R. Wood, yesterday, with detaining certain Chino letters,

Defendant, did not appear, and was re- presented by Mr. J. H. Gardiner, who said he did not know why his client was not in Court Arrangements had bocu unde for the attendance of his witnesses, and he had seen the man the previous day' and taken his statement. Defondant was released from gaol on Saturday, he (Mr. Gardiner) having paid the 8500 bail Defendant cer tainly knew he had to attend that afternoon. He might have been provented by illness or he might have "skipped it. If his wor.

communication' with the man.

Mr. Orme said the greater part of the effective staff of the Post Office had como up to Court, and unless the Magistrate bod

rory good reason be hoped he would not pave the way for irregularities. Another difficulty was found in regard to the let- ter As long as the case was hold up; they would also be held up, and probably. they were of some importance to the people to whom they were addressed. The case was adjourned.

fied teachers necessary for the schools in CHARGE AGAINST A CHINESE every pity, town, and village of China? It is no doubt an excellent thing that the rising generation should be taught arith metic, drawing, and drill, but if there is no one available on instruct them in these sabjcuts is not better that they should be making at least song effort to learn to read and write their own language, even though at ba by shouting on the classics n the top of their voles? The incident is a striking illustration of the present -tate of China-an eagerness to accomplish reforms automatically, an impatience of delay compromise, or grndun trosition, and great haste to pull down the old with out considering what titre is to put up in its place. We are under no dofusion as to the merits of the old-fashioned schoo%; we known they macku no attempt to educate, in the strict wenning of the word; we are certain that it will ship adjourned the case until the follow- to a great step in the progress of Chining day he would endeavour to got into

ben she is able to sweep them all away But in the vest tanjority of cases the choics will not lie between an old-style: school and a modern ong; it will be between one of the old type and none at all. In these eld schools it may be that 90 per cent of the pupil's time and labour was wasted, but, none the less, there was a chance that he would require the arts of reading and writing, and it will not help him much to tell him that he could achieve ten times as much in a modern school if there is no nindern school for him to go to. We hope that some day every village in China wifl have-its-own clementary school efficiently conducted on modern lines, but before that can take place there has to be created a supply of teachers competent for the pur pose, and that will take some years ye Schools conducted on modern lines are much mare costly, too, and we doubt whether the establishment of such a school in every village would not prove too expensive an fndertaking for China at present. But until this has been done it is foolish to talk chout making a clean sweep of the old schools and levying a fing of 8100 un any one found conducting one, It would be a far more preolical proceeding for the cffeinks to reorganize that, until the now schools are in being, the old ones are better than nothing, and to endeavour to raise their general standa

This could be done by means of licensing and concentration. - Most of the okl hedgeschools!' had only a dozen or su pupils; if half-a-dozen or more of these school, according to the ze of the district, were compelled to amalga-royed over this portion. munte, control would be much easier. The licence would then be a useful weapon for keeping the school up to the mark and for ensuring that the best of the old-time tenchers were engaged. It would probably be posible by the same means gradually to transform the old-style school into a modern one, but for that pabenes would to necessary Patience, however, is the great quality in which present-day China is lacking, but she will have to learn that natura non fadit saltum applies also to the political and educational development

VINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

HONGKONG,

TELEPHONE 616.'

DEATH

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BANNERMAN-On April 30th in London, SABA ELEANOR. LOLITA, wife of G. H. M. BANNERMAN.

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REVUE HOONG OFFICE: 10%, Das VazoX ROLD, C. LONDON OPPIE 181, FLET Sramer, E.C.

THE FAMOUS WEDGWOOD CLASSICS. Direct from the London Palladiuin. Booking at MOUTRIES. PRICES AS USUAL OPENING NIGHT: MAY 9гa. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1918,

NOW ON SALE:

THE

JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR will continue satecription must be taken into considera DIRECTORY

to carry on the said Business in Partnership under the same style or Firm of Moxox & TAYLOR

G. C. MOXON,

J. W. TAYLOR, E. M. RAYMOND

Hongkong, 1st May, 1916.

WANTED

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UNION EUROPEAN ASSISTANT for Local Shipping Office, Previous experi- ence desirable but not essential

Apply in writing to

"SHIPPING Care at Daily Press Office Hongkong, 20th April, 1918.

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WANTED

a Firm Exporters, a

a competent

BASSISTANT (Britisher) for Canton, must have had some previous experience and be able to speak Chinese.

Apply stating references to-

D.CH" Care of "Daily Press Office: Hongkong, lat May, 1916.

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WANTED by 27th inst NEUROPEAN SECOND ENGINEER for H.. Tag APTAS," Hate of pay $7.00 per day for seven days per week.

Apply to

CHIEF ENGINKER, HM: Dockyard.

Hongkong, 3rd May, 1916

FOR SALE

UNK Yacht "FLORA"

For particulars apply to

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REAR-ADMIRAL ANSTRUTHER.

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tion and is to be added to the price of issue. The Russo-ASIATIO BANK in Hongkong is ready to accept applications for the above- named Loan

Specia! favourable rates will be quoted for Russian exchange.

Payment may also be made in Roubles. Applications will be wired to Petrograd free of telegraphic charges and commission.

40% only of the cost of the Bonds may be paid on application, the balance to be paid on receipt of the Bonds.

facility to subscribers in the shape it The Bank is also ready to give, ove v advances against the scripa.

G. TISDALL, Manager, Busso-AMATIC BANK Hongkong, 20th March, 1916.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG,

PROBATE JURISDICTION

IN THE MATTER of the Estateof

NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, late of "OAKHURST, NETLEY ABBEY in the County of Hants, England

No

deceased TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of Section 58 of The Probates Ordinance, 1897 (No. 2 of 1897), made an Order miting the time for sending in Claims to or against the above Estate to the 13th day of May, 1916.

Creditore and Claimants are hereby required. to send their Claims to A. BERLTON HOOPER, Esq., No. 5 Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, the Administrator of the above Estate, by the aboro date:

Dated the lat day of May, 1916.

HASTINGS & HASTINGS, Solicitors for the Administrator, F, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.

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AND

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, TH May, 1916

EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN

CHINA

We have before commented on the lack of reality in China's educational reforms, and particularly on the fact that years after «lucation on modora lines was supposed to have been enfareed there were still to be found thousands of small private schools in which pupils were being taught to recite the classics in the old-fashioned way that had been in vogue for centuries, It would be surprising if it had been other. vis if these establishments had been all

of nations.

A mail for to-day at 3 pa

Europe vid Siberia doses

Hotel Co., Ltd;, has been called for Wednes. A meeting of creditor, of the Lun Shing day- May 17th at 3 pan

The annual meeting of shareholders of the China-Borneo Co., Ltd., will be held at the

CHRONICLE swept away automatically on the promulga Company's office, St. George's Buiding, on

FOR CHINA, JAPAN, ETC., FOR THE TEAR

1916.

INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY BUSINESS MAN.

TO AS DETALYED FROM-THE-aampon alita

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS OFFICU LOCAL BOOKSELLERS,

1,750 PAGES PRIOR $10. The sitemtions this year as amarnally howry owing to changes incidonisl to the War.

ON SALE

TABLE OF TE

RATES OF EXCHANGE AT BOMBAY

For Demand Drafts on London on the day of or preceding the departure of the English Mails; also Table of the Yearly Approximate Average

for 26 years, FROM 1874 20 1905,

PRICE Run $1 CME,

Munday, May 22nd, at 11.30 a.m

The

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Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals acknow Hon Treasurer of the Alice ledges with thanks a donation of o the funds of the Hospitals from J. Reid.

tion of the Edict introducing the new system. The now spirit in China is, how- ever, intolerant of anything resembling gradual transition and the educational authorities look upon the continued exist- ence of there hedge-school" as a serious hlot on the system that they have designed. A marriage has been arranged and will This view would certainly be justified if shortly take place between Mr. Edwin the educational system, with dis State Lionel Sim, youngest son of Mrs. J. control'ed, State-Inspected, schools, official Keith Sip, The Chestnuts," Kempston, curricula, and so on, could be said to have. near Bodford, and accountant of The Mer- teen set up throughout the land, but that, cantile Bank of India, Ltd., Hongkong,

Maru.

HARBOUR WORKS IN

FORMOSA.

WEST RIVER COLLISION ACTION,

the Chief Justice and Commander Beck- The Admira ty uction was resinued before

with, BN, (Nautical Assessor), yesterday" in which the Bhuj On Steamship Co, claim $100,000 from the Standard Oil Company- for damages caused to their West River bont the Shúi On as the result of a collision with the Standard Oil lighter Ruth-

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The Chief Justion said he could not help thinking there was some mistake in the evidence concerning the convoying of the Shai On. He wild like to reenli Captain" McKeehnic and read over to him, thy evidence of Mr. Driscoll, There really a direct conflict of evidence on a not serious point. He wanted to be satis fied whether the plaintiff's evidency on the point was donû-fide or not.

was

Mr. Peltor said that the pilots claimed that they had been there the whole time'and they fatly deny that they were ever can-

His lordship (to Mr. Alabaster)~Your position that the course you took on this night was the proper and usual course... The answer of the witnesses of the other side was that they lind conveyed the

should like to see the Captain and hear stenner, and it took quite a different cours

what he has to say:

Mr. Archibald Fothergill, master mariner, with an extra master's certificate, said bo` was employed in the Construction Depart arrived on the scene on the evening after inent of the Standard Oil Company. He the accident occurred. On the following, morning he tried approach the wreck on the Comet, but touched ground, 150 feet. astern of the wreck.

The Comet drew about 7 feet. He took soundings on both get, and got an even 8 feet. Witness wens sides of the Huth as close in o as he could.

into detail to explain the difference betweer his figures and those arrived at by Captnic Arthur, and to show that the latter was

Thu hearing was adjourned,'

wrong

VETERAN'S OLUB

ASSOCIATION PROCEEDS OF THE RECENT CHILDREN'S PERFORMANCE.

The net proceeds of the recent children's performance at the Peak in aid of the funds. of the Veteran's Club amounted to $1,188.89. To this has been added a sum of 925 previ

tor, waking a total of $1,193,89. A draft

comparatively, a few large centres that the eldest daughter of Mrs. R. Nairn Aitkin, is far from being the case. It is only in and Miss Gertrude Agnes Mary Aitkin,usly received from, an anonyinous contribu system has been set up in its entirety, anden route for Hongkong per str. Batori that is really as much is could be looked for in the initial stages, but apparently, the educational authorities have decided that if they canney have schools after the song at all, for we rend that in one dis- begun at Naha, Loochoo Island, nine years offcis pattern it will be better to have Harbour improvement works which were trict of Chokiang 400 of the old style schools celebration was held there to mark the ago have been completed, and recently & Laye boon compelled to cose, and that any

event. Many Government officials from one conducting a school on these linca nali fonded the ceremony.

and various parts of Kyu-bit al- be fined $100 This zeal for an efficient The principal feature of the works is a system of education would be highly com

pier which can accommodate several 1.500 mendable bat for the fact that it is not in which

ton steamers. The cost was Y 320,000, of the Government contributed China's present state of development pracY720,000,000 PER

As improved steamship service has been ticable. It is easy to say that, no unquali- | inaugurated by the Osaka Kisen Kaisha, fied person will be allowed to conduct a

with a State subidy of Yen 40,000. Six

On Bale as the DAILY PREIL Chen school, but where are we to find the quale Voyages will be made monthly by 1,500-ton

Local Booksel forn.

steamers.

for £132 95, 7d., the equivalent of this sum at Ex. 2-9 11-16, plus stanip, has beer sent to Major Arthur Haggard, Chairman of the Association, who, in writing to acknow ledge with thank the receipt of subscrip Hongkong on February 16th points out tions amounting to £90 forwarded from

that, should the sum already received be increased to £100, it will enable the Club when the now promises are open, to name a bedroom as the "Hongkong" bedroom, d

de dieated in any way which may be desired. He adds: The sum subscribed will be of very material assistance to us in keeping this Institution going until the termination of hostilities and thereby towards the endow ment of the Institution on a permanent and adequate scale for the benefit of those of the sons of Empire now fighting for us who survive and of those who come after them,