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SHAMEEN NOTES,

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

SHAMPEN, Naу 25th.

EMPIRE DAY, Empire Day was observed at Shamen on more patriotic lines than in former yours. The Bunks were closed and must of the officer closed for the day at the tiflio recess. Almost all the business houses, flow the Union Jack, and

many Residences were decorated with this emblera of liberty and freedom. At tho British Consulate the new silk flag prosented by the ladina of Shameen

waved in the breeze.

In the afternoon at 4 n'clock there was a parade of the Shameen Defence Corps, Advantage was taken of the opportunity to hold a drill competition for a Cup presoated by Capt. Hector, Commandant "of the Corps. All the four sections com- peted, and No. 2. Section (Portuguese) secured lite verdiet by the unanimous decision of the three judges, namely, Consul-General Jamieson, Capt. Hector and Lieut. Kitching. No. 1 Section,

splendidly, was placed a good second, having lost premier honours by a very narrow margin.

THE TONG SHUN CASE.

APPEAL TO BE MADE TO PRIVY COUNCILS

At the Full Court yesterday Mr GC Alabaster made application for leave to appeal to Privy Council against the judgment of the Court of Appeal in the Tong Shan case. The Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Chief Justice setting aside a mortgage from Tong Shan to the appellants.

Mr. Alabaster said that the only ques tion which their lordships had to decide in considering the application was the question of stay of judgment pending the appeal to Frivy Council;

ne. The stay, he

contended, should be granted, as the plaintiff was a resident of California and might leave the Colony at any moment. As a result of the judgment of the Court of Appeal appellant had been paid the costs of the Court below, and had also been allowed to collect the rents of the property concerned in the mortgage. If the appeal to Privy Council was success ful they would have small chance of re covering the rents collected, and he sug- gested that the indemnity hitherto given

citors for the defendants in the original astion, that they should hold the-money so collected, should continue.

Burch

Prior to the announcement of the Mr. Potter opposed the application verdict and presentation of the trophy for a stay, for two reasons one on tech- Consul General Jamieson delivered anical points and the other on the merits of the ease. Dealing with the merits, eloquent address on the significance of Empire Day, after which he called upon that the demands made by the other side

counsel pointed out that they were Privato Lay of No. 1 Section, to step out of the ranks, and landed him the

were preposterous. The plaintiffs (ap pellants) were entitled to be secured in Shield Challenge Cup, for individual

only three things; security for their shouting, which he won at a moving

arity for principal lent $12,000, which was money target contest recently. He next called lent on the mortgage; security for inter upon Corporn} Mei, Section Commander. of No. 4 Section, to step forward, and twelve months amount to 813,000 and est accrued, which might in the next handed him the "Hector Challenge security for the $8,000 coasts paid to Cup won by this section, as stated above Messrs. Hastings & Hastings. That was Both the presentations were made with the maximum amount they were entitled a fow complimentary remarks.

to be secured in total of $21,000. If

MACAO NOTES.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

MACAO, May 25th.. OVERCROWDED WITH REFUGEES. Owing to the constant fighting that

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 27 1916

AMOY AND THE ALLIED RED HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.

CROSS FUNDS.

Messrs Vernon & Smyth, in their weekly share report dated the 20th May, 1916, state

A SUCCESSFUL ENTERTAINMENT

the Amoy Club Theatre on Saturday A successful entertainment was given in

night, 20th inst, in aid of the funds of the allied Red Gross,

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market mferred to in our report of the The quieter tone of the local share

18th instant continued until late yester

when It was at first intended to hold the

an improvement in; the speculative section set in, and we now side, the Deputy Commissioner's re close with a strong demand for Docks. entertainment in the gardens of “ Hill-

sidence, on the 11th, and considerable pre-ouglases, Indus and Sugars for both parations to this end had been made by cash and forward delivery. In the in Mr. and Mrs. Weippert and their will. Yestment department, apart from Banks ing helpers, but unfortunately rain in and Unions which have appreciated in tervened at the last moment and all hope sympathy with the fall in sterling ex- of an out-of-door function had perforce change, the market has continued qužot to be abandoned.

but steady at about last rates quoted. The first half of the programme Rubbers have received little or no sisted of a rendering of the clown scenes attention during the interval, and Wo from

Shakespeare's Midsummer this connection. Bar Silver has declined have nothing of importanen tu report in Night's Dream, and for the best part to 343-16d for spot delivery and Sterling of an hour the audience was highly enter exchange to a/13 TT, at which rate, how tained by the histrionic efforts of ever, the market closes firm: Shangbai Snog," Bottom Shout, Starve Bank's buying rate for 3 d/s bills on T.T. is quoted at 101 nominal, and the ling,” “ Flute,” “Quince, Theseus, that port at thout 711⁄2

Philostrate,” “ably

represented by Messrs. W. Greenhill, J. Hartley, V. Lanning, J. C, Sibley, F. E. McHugh, W. H. C. Weippert, P. J. Mayers, and

BANKS Hongkong and Shangliais, after further sales at $735, have advanced available to 8760 at which rate a few shares are

Following the play--the first Shake sperian effort of its kind in Any as far as the records show-refreshments were dispensed and button holes disposed of at a moderate charge, by Mesdames Tisdall, who were daintily clad in quoted hominal at this rate. Farrow, McHugh, Nicholls, Orr and

MARINE INSURANCES -- Unions have been sold at from 8590 to 3010, the market closing with buyers at the latter rate Cantons remain at $100 nominal, with no sales reported, North Chinas are nominal at Tis 175 and Yangtszes at

280 with exchange 73

propriate uniform.

nominal quotation of $156. Hongkong FIRE INSURANCES-China Fires have a Fires, after some sales at 8370, are now

__SHIPPING-Douglases, until yesterday,

The second half of the progranime com Mesdames Frikke, McHugh, and Nicholls prised, rousical contributions by

wore a very dull market, with sales at receding prices, down to 8123, but DOW deraand for forward shares. Indo- close with buyers at 127, and a good

INTIMATIONS

כרז.

LANE ORAWFORD & Co.

SUMMER

FURNISHING

FABRICS.

JUST TO HAND

CASEMENT CLOTHS

WITH COLOURED BORDERS.

INEXPENYAINTY, EFFECTIVE. PLAIN CASEMENT

CLOTHS

IN A VARIETY OF SHADES.

FULL RANGE OF BORDERS TO MATCH.

CRETONNES LINENS

and Messrs. Kendall and Weippers, all Chinas, after touching 9110 for Deferred SUN

of whom were enthusiastically encored.

of $1,600 for the bencft of the allied Red

The proceeds of the « entertainment, amounted to the very satisfactory sum

Crosa.

Mrs. Weippert for organizing a highly: Considerable crédit is due to Mr. and successful ontortainment Thanks are also

have been the medium of business at $110| up to 8113, at which rate there are still

Ferries have a nominal quotation of $16. buyers. The Preferred have been cleaft in at $45. Steamboats have been very quiet and close with buyers at $23 Star

Langsats have been done at Tis. 26%, and and there are further buyers at 95/5. -OILS--Shells have been booked at 9

are now quoted Tis 27 nominal. Ural price is nominal 33/

the other side had got judgment $12,000 due to Dr. Hartley, whose persuasive spians have not conse to business and

eloquence drew forth liberal contributions Hartley and Tisdall, who at very short Chinese friends to Mesdames

from.

AND TAFETAS.

ALL ABOVE MATERIALS ARE

FAST AND TUB FAST.

PATTERNS ON APPLICATION.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

would have Snished the whole thing. The property y concerned was valued at $20,500, buit that was its valuo six or seven years ago, and surely no-one would contend that notice transformed the Club Theatre into but at the close of business the market

REFINERIES-China Sugars have been HONGKONG, were reported early in the week at 9104, a quiet market until today. Small salos

the value of property had decreased. It had increased to an enormous extent. But it had to be borne in mind that the

a veritable garden of Eden to Mr. Mayers, who placed his large staff of servants at the disposal of the Commit-

Luzons are unaltered with sellers at $31 is decidedly stronger with buyers at, $107.

MINING-Kailans are quoted 27/~*

with

buyers, with no business reported ant dose without change.

is going on in the different Chinese Property could not be bought without tecto Mrs. McHugh, who made up the hands and Troughs have been neglected

villages, there are a large number of refugees in this city. Most of the Chinese houses are crowded, every avail. able space being utilised to accommodate families and their belongings, The Sanitary Board sits with crossed arms, instead of making a house to house visitation to see that these houses are not overcrowded and are clean.

A QUERY."

Will the Chinese recognise the good work that our Government is doing in ministering to their wounded! No fewer than 14 are under treatment at the Mili- tary Hospital. Only one has died; the rest will soon be discharged These men have been under treatment more than a

monta

MOTORS AND THE REGULATION). In this city motor cars are known as Dog killers. In November very elaborata. rules and regulations were made con- sisting of hundreds of articles and chapters, but so far they are a dend letter A little more simplicity in word ing and vigour in execution would prove more effective.

SPARE THAT - TREE 1.

The Senado should put into force art. 100 of the regulations forbidding the damaging of trees. It seems that, ts firewood is dear, many people are freely breaking off tree branches, and taking advantage of the vocasion the youngsters are clumbering after the birds bests. few fines would prove salutary.

THE BLIND

A

Along the streets of faring lights Move restless crowds on summer nights, And through those narrow, stifling ways The blind folk grope with vacant gaze.

dreary warning noise they

make,

Men stand aside for pity's sake, Recurrent on the hot, dead air Thai dismal sound asks thoroughfare.

So sad and void their faces ar

are

That they have surely travelled far Along the road of death to have About the darkness like the grave.

And in a side street, lonely dark, To those who-care to pause and Lark, Two bind old women stand and sing Within a sounty, staring ring.

The while a third her fiddle plays And with a fived and awful gaze Invokes for all the helpless three The food and alms of charity.

YIMETR

purchasing with it the whole of the lin

kong and Whampoa Docks close very

DOCKS, WHARVES AND GODOWNS.-Hong-

firm, with buyere at 115, after sales a the last few days, at varying prices from: 8107 upwards. Kowloon Wharves are wanted at 873. Shanghai Docks could be placed at The 72 and Hongkow Wharves are quoted at Tls. 90 nominal

bilities. It could only he bought liable charming buttonholes to Mr Fowler, Teach to the mortgage. The security mentioned for making the candies; to the performers he considered sufficient, and contended

one and all and to the various helpers, that the only thing their lordships, could buted in one way or another to the suc too numerous to mention, who contri

do wes to refuse the application for B

cess of the undertaking stay, by insing that the other side were smply secured. Mr. Potter than addressed himself to the technicalities of the case. pointing out that there was no parallel in law to the application which was being inade. He had no objection to the appeal to Privy Council, but he strongly opposed the application for a stay on the grounds stated.

BIG FIRE AT SHANGHAI, CARLOWITZ'S GODOWN BURNİ

OUT

20th inst. at Pootung when a godown and A big fire occurred on the night of the its contents, the former being the prop erty of Mears, Carlovite & Co were Subsequently their lordships granted o'clock the fire burned furiously through

completely destroyed, Starting at nine leave to appeal to Privy Council, but reout the night and was still burning next fused the application for a stay, remark ing that they had found nothing in law to support such an application.

CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO FUND.

The following is the subscription list

to date:

Acknowledged to May 4th, 1916, 312,71208 Since received:

Collected by Mrs Pentreath

(List No. 6) Mr. F. G. Becke, Whampoa, for

Lusitano Recreation Club: February, March and April

Proceeds of cash sweeps and sale of programmes at the Members Kowloon Customs

Club's

i sports, 24th April Staff for April, 1916, per Mr. O. D. Gander Hon. Treasurer War Chari ties Fund amount ear marked for Cigarette and Tobacco Fund

Per Mrs. Jordan, Victoria Lodge, from Ladies' Bridge Book NE

Mr. G. C. Moxon, April Por British American Tobacco Co. Ltd. excess realised on sale at public auction of Three Castles Cigarettes Collected by Mrs. Pentreath

(List No. 7)

$12,458.78

Expended to May 4th

3910 Since expended May

25th 400,000 Wood- bine Cigarettes

1,207.55

LANDA, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-Cen- tra? Estates are unaltered with sellers at 898 Hongkong Lande are wanted at 8100, with no shares offering. Hongkong Holcls are on offer at $112. West Points are nominal at $87 and Humphreys nominal at Estates after business at $6.90 are

COTTON MILLS-No business is report red and prices are nominal, except for Sharghat Cattons, for which there are buyers at Tis. 813

been done at in cum dividend and close with sellers at 6 ex dividend. China Lights are wanted at $4.30, with no bust- ness reported since our last. Electrics have been done at 244) ex dividend. Hongkong Trame are nominal at 86.30. Cements have been a fluctuating market

MISCELLANEdts ~China Borneos have

building destroyed is a brick gedown of says the V-6. Daily News. The four storeys, measuring approximately 250 ft. by 80 ft. The building itself 16 said to be valued at from Tla 50,000 to Tis. 90,000, while a valuation of the con- tents, which was largely cotton and hides, has been placed at Fla. 500,000, but this is thought to be rather excessive, and a fair business has been done at from

The large building was stored to capa- city with loose unpressed native cotton, and it is reported that nearly all of it was Chinese owned, and that Messrs. C

Car lowitz, by reason of restrictions imposed by the war, heing unable to send the cot-videnta are on offer at $8.

ton to market had sold it to Chinese It Was covered by insurance, it is stated, 13760 placed with German companies for which

Messrs. Carlowitz are agents. 45.00

84.00

26.00

32.60

THREE BOMB OUTRAGES AT

HANKOW.

89.75 up to $9.50, the market closing it gazo Watsons have sellers at $7.70. ̄ ̄ Ropes, after business $32, close with further buyers at this rate. China Pro-

MEMO Next Setting Day, May 30th

CHINA NAVIGATION SHIP

AFIRE

WIRE A TOTAL LOSS.

At half-past eight on the morning of May 18th, writes the Hankow correspond The str. Kinting, of the China Naviga- ent of the VC Daily Neuman expletion Co., which caught fire on the 18th sion took place at a house in No. 5, North Inst after leaving Chingkiang, was still Alley in the Japanese Concession. Liu

113.00 Moonsu, a Hunanese, was killed, and Liburning aft when she was passed by the Tsen-yu, ex-revolutionary Tutuh at Ta str. Poyang of the same company early tung, was seriously wounded. It is a BA learned that the house was one on the morning of the 21st inst. 5.00 where bombs were being manufactured The ship (say the NAC Daily News)

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thence distributed to other places will be a total loss, except possibly for Immediately after the explosion men were her bull. She is completely burned out, despatched to the house by the Japanese with all her supersifiicture gone, but her $30.00 police to make investigations. Five bombs funnel is still standing The cargo was

were found, and, fearing that explosions a general one with a fair

proportion of 571.55ght occur the Japanese

police threw such inflammable material as cotton, them into the river even

On the same day it 20 wood oil, and tobacco leat, and it is sup

in the oven nosed that it is the cargo that was still- ing a Clinese threw a bomb at the en burning when the Poyang passed nearly trance to the Hankoy police-quarters in three days after the fire started he the Chinese city One police guard, and cause of the fre is still unknown, but it a-penlar, were slightly injured. One by is supposed to have been started by stander, who has not been identified, was ciga careless) y thrown into the hold

$14,047.03

23.604.35 killed

Balence on hand $380.70 The Committee tender their thanks to Mr. Anthony Jenkins for keeping the books and accounts of the Fund. WA DOWLEY

Hon Secretary and Treasurer.

CANTON, MACAO &

WEST RIVER STEAMERS. JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MAQAO TEAMBOAT CO. LTD.., AND CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

HONGKONG-CANTON LINE.

Single Fare by Night Steamer Bahnen

* (available also for return

by day steamer) Single Fare by Day Steamer Eeturn

HONGKONG TO CANTON,

8 1m HONAME 10 pm, KINSHAN,

10 p.m. FATSIAN.

16.00

11.00

5.00

€9,00

CANTON TO HONGKONG.

SATURDAY, 27 MAY 1916.

8. HEUNGSHAN, (5. p.m. FATSHAN:

SUNDAY, 28TH MAY, 1916.

5 p.m. KINSHAN.

HONGKONG MACAO LINE.

8.8. TAISHAN, Tous 1,00%,

8.8. BUT TAI, Tous 1,661. HONGKONG TO MACAO.

Men Week days af 8 a.m. and 2 pm. from the Company's Wing Lok Siret : WIP) dondare si 9 am and 1 pan. from the Company's Wing Lak Street Wharf,

MACAO TO HONGKONG

Weak days at 7.30 am. and 2 p.m.. Sundays at 7.30 um. and 3 p.m. EXCURSION TO MACAO. SUNDAY, 28TH MAY 1916

The Company's Now Biosmship

TAISHAN

Will depart from the Company's WING Loz BIRINT WEALD KÍ 8 La,, and retera trom Macno A3 am

**** N.B. The Company will also razmer from Micso on Sunday at 7,20 um and from Hongkong si 1 p.m., from the Company's Wing Lok Birent Winds

FARES AS USUAL

MACAO-CANTON LINE.

B.B. JUI ANA

Deperinne from Maco to Canten on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at p.. Egeriarte Ermm Canson to Macao on Tues lay, Thursday and Saturday, st L.80 pana

JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD. AND THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

CANTON WUCHOW LINE

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8.8 SAINAM, 588 tons, and 8.8. NANKING, 569 on Ong of the shore Steamers Haven Canton for Wachow every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at about 8 m., and the offer leaves Wachaw for Canton on the was day $18.00 1.837 Round Tripe fake hont 5 days. Presengers can return to Hongkong or vice versa by Company Brest Shames LINTAN and BANDI The have asperior Calls *600mmodation and are Lighted throughout by electricity Electrio Fan in mich Cabine

Bearing Onion spon daily (Bunday snoepted) m. 59.30. Further parkkon azy many be obeained at the Oice of the

HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT O., LTD.

Hotel Mansions (First Floor), oppose the Blaks Pier

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As was to batospected there are reports CLARKE'Sons Pills also curo Gravel,

This morning (May 19th), at 141 three Chinese vere observed by the German of police: in suspicious attitudes One of DRES them anddenly threw a bomb into the their ofice of the Superintendent of Customs many Fortunately it did not explode. No ond; vet be Was injured The bomb-thrower who name is Tehen Ten hun was arrest Thy the joint efforts of the German-

French polica

among the hundreds of Chinesa aur that many of these lost. and jumped overboard. How bese passer görs

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