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THE HONGLONG DAILY PRE WEDNESDAY, JUNE

"NEW ADVERTISEMENTS THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

NOTICE.

HAPPY VALLEY COURSE is Closed

antil further Notice Two Days Notice of Re-Opening will be given.

BY ORDER OF THE COMMITTEE. Hongkong, 6th June, 1910

URNISHED ROOMS, with or wilboat

Board. Every omvanlence. Apply

NOTICE.

1770

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

HONGKONG BRANCH

EING transferred to the Head Office,

Brave This Day handed over

the Management of this Office to MR. BENJIRO MORI

TAKETOSHI KUSUMOTO.

I have Today ASSUMED CHARGE of

this Dilice

BENJIRO MORT;

Hongkong, 6th Juac, 1916.

NOTICE

BOARD

Care of Daily Pro

Orice. Th

TO LET:

AUCTION

PUBLIC AUCTION; DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of the latting by Public Auction Bale to be held on UESDAY, the 19th day of June, 1916, at 8 PM at the Olies of the Order cu PUBLIC WORKS Department, by HIN EXCELA HOT THE GOVERNOR, of One

PREMI

REMISES at prosent occupied by CHBot of CROWN LAND A Tet Tis Mol, J. GAUPP & Co, Alexandre Building in the Colony of Hongkong, for term Chater Road,

of 78 yours,th the option of renewal at a Apply on premises or to

CROWN RENT to be fired by the Surreyer of His MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of 75 years,

LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,

Liquidatora.

TO LET

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FFICES on 1st Floor, No. 3, Queen's Hood Central, at present in the occupation of The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd,

Apply to

CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

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Begistry:

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Boundary

Messtiramente, (approximate.)

INTIMATION

BY AFPOINTMENT.

WATSON'S

DRY

GINGER-ALE.

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malo płaz28,000+ 174 1,680

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TO LET

10

FFICES in Princes Building.

Apply to

Hongkong, 3rd June, 1816.

709

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Liquidators, REUTER, BROOKELMANN & Co 1672

THE Connection of MEK SETHNA with our Firm having CEASED, the Power given togling to ign our Firm is hereby revoked

CAWAR Hongkong,

LANJEE&Co.

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NOTICE.

TR. H. S. ABDEALLY having retired

M From our Firm, his: Interest heroin

Ceasas ns from the 31st May, 1916. The Firm will be carried on by Mas Z ABDULKYUM

the and MR. T.. A. TYEBKoning Partners.

& Co., H. HIPTOOLA & Milliners and Drapers, 13 and 15, D'Aguilar Street. [756

Hongkong, 1st June, 1916

NOTICE.

REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co.

(IN LIQUIDATION).

REDITORS are required to send in their

signed, St. George's Building, Chater Road, on or boform FRIDAY, the 30th June, 1

SHEWAN, TOMES &

Liquidators

Hongkong, 1st June, 1916.

NOTICE

WM MEYERINK & Co

H. TIMCKE

TO LET.

FFICES on 1st Floor, No. 9, Queen's"

Road Central (Lt Ice House Street). Apply to S

WILKINSON & GRIST,

TO LEP RAVENTRANT' Bath Road DAVENSHILL RAST, Pak Bead Servants Quartert, &o. Vacant Isi November

Apply

DEACON, LOOKER DEACON & HARSTON

TO LET

190

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

8.S.NAGELLAN COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERLES MARITIMES.

A NOTICE.

YONSIGNEES of Cargo from London in connection with above Steamer me hereby of Opium, Trensure and Valuables suption Liformed that their Goods with the exception

Isnded

and stored at their risks into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Ltd, at Kowloon, whence delivery may be Co obtained immediately after landing.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless Sveintiuntion is received from the Consignees before NOON TO-DAY, requesting it to be tersigned by the PBill of Lading will be counter

Undersigned Goods remaining unclaimed after THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE THURSDAY, the 8th Jone, at NOON, will be.

A SMALL GODOWN PRINCE'S nded here

BUILDING.

For partionlara, eta, apply

MAXLTD

TO LET

From 1st May

·065%

FFICES, 2nd Floor, St. George's Build

subject to rent and lending charges..

AROMATIC.

DRY.

Its "Dryness" is a feature which has helped to give this drink the popularity it so well deserves.

PINTS $1.20 PER Doz. SPLITS 70 CTs.

TRATE

生肉

私が函館

All Claims must be sent in to as on or before A. S. WATSON &

the 9th June, or they will not be recognized whe

All damaged packages will be examined on THUESDAY, the Stu June, at 10 AM

No Fire Insurance has been affected.

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O

PTHOMAS,

Agent.

Hongkong, 3rd June, 1918.

12

Apply to

SHEWAN TOMES & CO

$18

LL CREDITORS are requested to sond

in their Claims to the Ondersigned on A on 1000

or before 30th June, 1010,

ALEX ROSS & Co,

4, Des Voux Road, Liquidatora

Hongkong, 31st May, 1916

758

COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE

Appip

THE BONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co., Lan. E

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES TO LET

HOUSE is

Knutsford Terrace, P.&O. 8. N. Co. Steamdr

NAGOYA FROM BOMBAY COLOMBO AND

STRAITEM Consigcem of Cargo by the above-named renal are hereby informed that their goods. se being landed and placed AT THE IK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each will be sorted out Mark by Mark be obfined on the Goods

TO LET

ODES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL

COMPANY, LIMITED NDH YOU

REDWIN LESTER GILBERT

THE COMMODIOUS DWELLING HOUSE, with Offer, Servants Quarters, etc, No. 14. SHAMEER, CANTON, from Lat Jane, at Russian Consalate.

MARNOLD has been Appointed from present in the nocaption of the Importa

the 1st June, 1910, Local Manager in Hong kong of the above Company, in place of Mr. PERCY TESTEE, Resigned

W. H. TRENCHARD DAVIS,

Manager for China, Bhanghai

Hongkong, 1st June, 1910

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9. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NITY FIRST ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company (since its registration) will be beld At the HONGKONG HOTEL, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 9th day of June 1918, at Noor, for the purpose of receiving the the General Managers together Statement of Accounts to the 31st December. 1915

of

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com pany will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 6th June, to SATURDAY, 10th June, 1916, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers,

Hongkong, 31st May, 1916

WANTED

1789

Apply home de

DAVID SASSOON & Co. Lan

1415

KONTOTO LET.

AWO ROOMED FLATS is Nathan Road THREE FOOXED FLATS ta lamphrey's Buildings, Kowloon

FOUR-ROOMED FLATS in May Hosd

modern convenienes, Inaladies With English Bathi and Klichen Range, Hot Water and Water Carriage Bytom & Low Fiata specially designed to socommodate three halors resonable rentals. Immediate

potion HOUSES in Gordon

FOUR BOOMED Termce and Salisbury Avans, Kowtoon.

Apply to

HUMPERETA ESTATE & FINANOR Alexandra Buildingı

TO LET

TICES at 1, Connaught Boud.

69%

OLIFTON GARDENS,

DR

d delivery can be

leaded,

This vessel brings on Cargo

From London, &o,

L

Medina."

From Peralau Gulf, or .. B. L8 N

and B, & P. S. N. Co.'s Stam Op'ional Goods will be landed here unlew

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within be the contrary

Groodann aleared,

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$ hoditi ypu ythin

hóa 8 das iraluding

dats of strival will be subject to rent.

CO., LTD.,

AERATED WATER ANUFACTURERS.

TELEPHONE 436.

BIRTH

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mic so

mediate govern-

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE WATER SUPPLY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG

DAILY PRESE

S18-May I be permitted through the medium of your paper to ventilate a

the twentieth century It was this failure cognise the need of making changes Coss of transition that led to all the mour for the Inauguration of parliament went that finally culminated in the revolution it was the same impatience of compromise and moderation that led to grievance against the Water Authority. China's sacrificing her national reputar I have the misfortune to reside in a tion for good faith in order to tear up street the majority of houses in which are the Opium Agreement. We are, of course, occupied by Chinese, and for several aware that China's railway system was months now I have had to get my water instead of by not, in the beginning, designed for econo- from the street fountains,

Of course I much as for military and political the usual house supply purposes, so that Peking could be in know that until the retent torrential fall closer touch with the provinces and of rain the storage in the reservoirs was by no means great, but surely, now that despatch troops there speedily it occasion arose Even on this basis, however, the reservoirs are completely filled it will roads should be altractive; had China be possible for the Government to give taken up the construction of roads, at the us back the convenience of house supply. same time as her railway system was I think the Government exercise a good taken in hand her trunk roads would by deal too much caution in the distribution. now probably be so far advanced that of water, and there are many more than the Central Government would have been myself who think that there is no neces able, at the end of last year, to despatch sity for these street fountains, except in troops by motors to Yunnan on the first the denser and wholly Chinese districts. mutterings of disaffection, with, for As a matter of fact I don't know that better or worse, a far-reaching effect on they do cause a saving of water, for the subsequent political developments. Prob waste that one sees at the fountains evory ably one of the obstacles that has been day is enormous →Yours truly, most effective in hindering the installation of roads has been the difficulty of providing

for the money bor rowed for the cost of construction. A railway loan can be raised on the security. of the railway itself, but to raise a loan on the security of a roadway would he to hypothecating a portion of the soil of China, which would inevitably rouse à storm of protest. It would be difficult, too, to raise money from the tion. traffic on a roadway in the same way that

RATEPAYER.

A SEAWEED STORY. VILLAGERS AT LAW. Villagers appeared as litigants before- Mr. Justice Gompertz at the Supreme Court yesterday, when a claim of $1,000 was made for alleged malicious prosecu-

The parties concerned were from the

it is yielded by a railway, Still, these village of Ma Wan Island, Capsuimun,

obstacles

PROCAMIDE be allowed to stand.

in the way of an absolutely necessary development. China cannot remain inde finitely in the ataurb condition of having a dozen or so of railways' scattered over the country while immense areas have no better means of communication than exiguons foot-tracks. We are therefore glad to see that there is some prospect of the matter receiving attentionA Nr. DENBY of an American motor-car com- pany, is, we are told, in Peking negoti at big with the Government for road- building conces long, including trunk roads to Tientsin and the Yangtze Valley, and, in the general interests of China's commercial progress, we can only hope that he will succeed in convincing

the authorities of the need of doing some-

BULLOCK-At Hongkong, Mrs. E. BUL-ting to drag the country out of its fear

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fully backward state in this respect.

LOCK, & Son.z

HONGKONG OFFICE 104, DES VOUX ROAD, O. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, EC

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, 7TH JUSH, 1816

CHINA'S NEED OF ROADS.

No Fire Insurazios will be effected by my his report on the Foreign Trade of in any case whatever

China for last year, the Secretary of EDs the Damaged packages must be left in the Ge downs for examination by the Consignees, and the Maritime Customs indicates t the Company's Surveyor, Mesum GODDARD VANS Ways in which the European was

& DOUGLAS, at 10 C MONDAYS 100 THURSDAYS. All Claims to be presented within te dave of the steamer's arrival her aftesich cafe they cannot be recognised. No Clems will be admitted after the Good

EV D. FARR,

have left the Grodowis

Acting Superintendent. Hongkong, 5th Jane, 1916

Various

his interfered with the commercial development of China. In his previous report he sounded an optimistic note in dealing with the future of railways, but the shortage of money, and the practical impossibility of raising a loan for the parpose, has nullifed, for the time being

Mr. W. B Hind appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. W. E. L Shenton defended.

Mr. Hind said the case arose out of

alleged the plaintiffs had stolen. There me seaweed which the defendants. had been friction between the parties previously. On the day in question, the defendants were drying some seaweed on the shore and the plaintiffe also had some The defendants seaweed in, a matshed. came across and accused the plaintiffs. of stealing some of their seaweed, and sent for the polico, subsequently giving them in charge. The police arrested the plaintifs and they were detained at the Water Police Station for the night and brought before Mer A. Hazeland the next morning, and the case was dismissed.

He (Mr. Hind) would prove that the police warned the defendants that if they persisted in bringing the charge and demanded the people to be arrested, the

A mail for Europe via Siberia closes police would not accept any respon- to-day at 3 p.m.-

Four landslides are reported to have occured on the Taipo Road, between the sixth and eighth milestones.

The P&O Homeward mail str. Huoltan, with the Hongkong mails of the 2nd April last, arrived in London on Friday, the 2nd inst

At the Magistracy yesterday a Portu

Green Island Cement Works, was fined guese foreman named Luz, employed at $10 for assaulting a coolic

cd

gibility.

Mr Shenton said his case was that bis clients, seaweed was drying on the shore in the sun and the other parties Went across and stole some and carried, it into their matshed: In the mafshed was found seaweed exactly similar to their own. The plaintiffs were brought to Hongkong and charged before Mr. Hazeland, who, after bearing only one witness, dismissed the case. He thought MT Hazeland's opinion was that it was for only a village trouble and not a case

as going to prove that there was larceny, crimal proceedings He (Mr. Shenton)

and the by reason of the complaint the plaintiff were entitled to be arrested and charged. He was going to attempt to justify his clients' actione. The case was adjourned.

POLICE SERGEANT CHARGED

A European named Suiter was charged at all, events, any progress that might at the Police Court yesterday with beep- VESSELS ON THE BERTH have been hoped for from the fact that ing two dogs without licences. Defend CANE WAY &

"the importance of improving means of aut admitted the offence and his worship

tion had been to clearlynflicted a fine of 10

RE communication recognised that great extensions had been decided upon,

upon, and much was being done. A Special Police Constable summoned to carry out quite an imposing pro C. Barnard, a chauffeur emp gramme of construction. The possibility the Exile Garage, at the Magi

Lad 1, WEST END TERRACE STEAM FOR STRAITS

AUSTRALIA, BOMBAY,

THE PENINSULAB

ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION.CO.

AND

CEYLON EGYPT.

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HB HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

KENT & AGED CY Co. LTD

LONDON.

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CHINESE CLERK with dgo of Chrdees Character, of English roatal gaired mainly for translation

Hongkong 29th M#

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TRIOLA

TO LET

NO. 5. MOUNTAIN VIEW, PRAL

CRAIGMIN EAST, ten Tn Pux, Unfurnished

ROOM FEAT to let at the PRAK KELLETT CREST 66, PRIZE No, 141, WANCHAT ROAD Spacious Godowns

SHORNE 1FFF" Garden

ODBURY

trom Lit Mit 1916

HIELE No. 14,

EDITERRANKAN.

PH AND BODER AFHWA Pokerstar

NAGOYA.

Garwood)

yed by

of extending the railway systems to an terday, for driving his car on the wrong adequate degree being thas remote, Mr. side of the Bhankiwan Road. A fine, TAYLOR enters a plea for the provision 85 was imposed.

WITH ASSAULT. At the Magistracy yesterday the pro- prietor of the Chung Fa Mo Toy cinema- moned P.S. Macdonald for

assault on

27th 20 Mr. W E. L. Shenton, who appeared

for the prosecution, said the facts, as ho knew them, were that, on the evening in question, the Sergeant and complainant, were watching the pictures, the latter standing up talking to a gentleman who firm. The prompt arrival of the brigado was sitting down. They might possibl prevented the fire from spreading. There have bean speaking in loud tones, but,

in soy event, it was alleged that thes

of roads. It is indeed difficult to under BRD FO stand how it is that, with all the develop-

A Bre broke out at No. 90, Wing Lok ments that have taken place during the last couple of decades the Chinese Street, on Monday night in the premises Government has never apparently given occupied by a Chinese import and export a thought to the provision of roadways

be suitable for that wou

eeled trafic,

the yet we believe that it half the funds was nothing to show how the fire origin. that have been spent during that time sted, and the extent of the damage done

on railways had been devoted to the en Deder construction of roads the internal communications of the country would

been such more

ding benef

proved and a

WS ALTE developmen

One of the officers believed to have een aboard HMS.

red in the rece

given of the fume, and turning round, Bergeant could not hear, the explanation

Bbruck complainant on the elbow Cer tain words passed between them at the Baulb was then said to have taken place.

en had been inflicted, thes.complainant.

being

tside the!

buld put