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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 26TH, 1916.
DREMISES at present occupied by CHS.
TAHAR LODGE" No. 4, Peak Road, P. GAUPP & CO., Alexandra Buildings,
BA
5 ROOMS.
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V. F. V. RIBEIRO, Care of W. G. HUMPHRETH & Co.
1828
TO LET.
Chater Road.
Apply on premises or fa-
TOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
Liquidators,
[70%
TO LET.
ODOWN, No. 103, Prays East.
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.
(817
Fo
OUR ROOMS as the Uppar Terminus G
with unaal Servants'. Quarters. Very convenient. Electric Light and Water Carrings System.
PEAK TRAMWÀY Co.
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WANTED TO RENT.
(829
NE 5-ROOMED or TWO BROOMED
ONENFURNISHED FLATS to be used
for both Office and Private Rooms. A FLAT on the Kowloon side not too far from the Hongkong Ferry will be preferred. Please state monthly rental nad all particulars to--
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THE COMPANTES' ORDINANCE 1911.
IN THE MATTER OF THE "NILE" STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LTD.
IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION).
to Section 18% of The
PURSUANT, UPS, 1911, NOTICE
E HEREBY GIVEN that a MEETING of the CREDITORS of the above-named Company will be held at my Office, Queen's Building, at 12 o'clock Noos ou SATURDAY, the 16th day of July, 1936,
NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that the CREDITORS of the above-named
Company are required, on or before the tate aforesaid, to send in their names and airesses and particulars of their Dobts or Claims, and the names and addresses of their Solicitors (if any), to 1.ST.O, HUNT, of Queens Building, Hongkong, the Liquidator of the Company; and, if so required by Notice in writing from the said Liquidator, are, by ther Solicitors or Personally, to come in and prove their Debts or Claims, at such time
and place as shall be specified in such Notice, er in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution maile before suel Debts are proved.
Datel this 21th day of June, 1016.
J. SẺ Q· HUNT, Liquidator.
(831
NOTICE.
CARLOWITZ
& CO.
(IN IQUIDATION).
REDITORS are required to send in slicir Claims against the above to the Undersigned. York Building, Chater Road, on or before FRIDAY, the 30th June, 1916. W. R. LOXLEY & Co., Liquidators.
[822
Hongkong, 22nd June, 1918.
FERD. BORNEMANN & €0.
(IN LAQUIDATION).
REDITORS are requested to send their Claims against the above to the Undersigned on or before the 30th June. JOHN D. HUTCHISON & Co., -Liquidators. Hongkong, 20th June, 1916. (819
CALL BODIKER & CO,
(IN LIQUIDATION).
REDITORS are requested to send their
Undersigned on or before the 30th Juno. JOHN D. HUTCHISON & Co., Liquidators.
[881 Hongkong, 20th June, 1916
NOTICE.
KEUTER, BROOKELMANN & Co. (IN LIQUIDATION).
"REDITORS are required to sent in their
Claims against the shove to the Under signed, St. George's Building, Chater Road, on or before FRIDAY, the 30th June, 1916. SHEWAN, TOMES & Co, Liquidators. Hongkong, 1st June, 1916.
NOTICE.
WM. MEYERINK
H. TINCKE.
1787
LL CREDITORS are requested to send
Ain their Claims to the Undersigned on
or before 30th June, 1918.
ALEX. ROSS & Co,
4, Des Vieux Rood, Liquidators.
Hongkong, 31st May, 1916.
WANTED.
MOREIGN ASSISTANT for Book Office of Local Shipping Company. Previous
experience essential,
For particulars apply to
BOOK OFFICE
Care of "Daily Press" Office.
Hongkong, 10th Jun, 1916,
FOR SALE.
[785
SE PETTER PATENT OIL ENGINE. Alan ONE
HORSE- POWER:
CROSSLEY'S VERTICAL GAS ENGINE.
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R.G.A. Mineral Water Factory, Victoria Barracks.
Hongkong, 24th June, 1018.
TO LET
HOUSE, in Observatory Villas, Kowloon.
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ARRATION V. APCAB & Co.,
14, Des Voeux Road.
(811
TO LET-FURNISHED.
INTIMATION
CIGARS
connoisseur knows that a good
Cigar in bad condition is no better than an indifferent. Cigar in good
condition.
"
It is therefore of the utmost Importance that Cigars should be kept in a specially prepared place which will aid them to mature, and
augura well for the success of the Ent Fund which has now been opened by the War Charities Committee.
HONGKONG HUT" FUND. DONATIONS ON SATURDAY.
& W. W.
A
J. R. Michael & Co.
E. Wood
AMOUNT OVER-SUNSUMIBEN. Of course, our action in bringing this project before the public has not escaped
Hongkong Daily Press J. Owon Hughes. consure. In an article which was obvious
E: Pabaney ly inspired, our senior evening, contem. Nuttall porary drew attention on Friday to the Wm. Danbar iniquity of the proceeding, and admini-Sympathiser!
Eldou Potter tered a rebuke to those members of the Moscu & Taylor war Charities Committee who had sent us subscriptions, pointing out that the war Charities Fund was designed to pre-A. He
Tharne C. vent the issue of separate appeals to the Clinck community. Our contemporary's eriti A. E. Crapnell cism would have been equally effective J. Bryan
D. Macdonald and less liable to misconstruction, G. R. E. it had been postponed until the sum for which we asked was subscribed. issued the appeal because we believed that it was the right moment to do so, and we consider that we are fully justified by the result. To have hung back over
Ho Kwang WA. V. Apcar
Mrs. CA. Hooper J. M. Mellutchon J. Duncan I. J. White (Canton) Baby Betty M. I Y.
D. R. Mansfield
́DDESLEIGH," 5, Bowen Road, for or at the same time protect them from empty formality when our help Mac."
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MOWBRAY B, NORTHCOTE, THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
F803
TO LET.
66OCKLANDS,". No. 7, Robinson Road,
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1st August, 1916, or earlier.
M. J. D. STEPHENS,
18, Bank Buildings.
(800
TO LET.
ĦUROPEAN OFFICES, from 1st July, comprising the First Floor of No 20, Des Vox Road Central.
Apply to
ALEX, ROSS & Co. (796
TO LET
OFFICES on 1st Floor, No. 3, Queen's Road
Central, at present in the occupation of The China Fire Insurance Co, Ltd,
Apply to- CHINA FIRE INSURANCE Co., LTD. [622
TO LET.
OFFICES in Princes Building.
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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Liquidators, REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO (572
TO LET
Brand for brand our Cigars, besides being the Cheapest in the Market (as a reference to our Price List will show), are the best.
Was
have been.
to
F. A. Perry J. Macdonald
Bought would follow the example of the man who re Trifle......
A. C Franklin fused to save another from drowning be. Syme Thornson cause they had not been introduced. At Highy the time we embarked upon our campaign W. Logan the War Charities Committee had not- included the provision of Y.M.C.A. Huls Front amongst the objets
th
C. A. da Roza
JU"-
Amours previously acknow
ledged
Total:
War. Charities. Commoittre.
100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00
BEAUTIFYING THE LAND- SCAPE AT FANLING.
WORK OF THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT.
In his report for the year 1915. Mẹ W..
J. Tutcher, "Superintendent of the Botini 100.00 cal and Forestry Department, shows that 100.00 much is being done to improve the land- 100.00
100.00 Scape at Fanling.
100,00
In addition to the broad-leaved trees 76.00
planted on the hills upwards of 4,000 60,00 50.00 flowering trees and shrubs were planted 50.00 in various places. They consisted of 753
50.00
25.00 Poinsettia, 1878 Hydrangea, 409" Al- 25.00 lamanca, 561 Mussaerida, 651 Callistemon, 25.00 25.00 322 Bauhinia variegata, 80 Bauhinia pur- 25,00 purea, 40 Ruuhinia Blakeana, 8 Acacia, 25.00 20.00 80. Lagerstroemia 310 Hibiscus. 77 Ery- 20.00 thrina, 20 Cassin Fistuld3 Poinciana. 20.00
Over a thousand bulbs de Pycoris huren 35.00 10.00 were planted on the low hills between the first and second greens The Cannas in 10.00 the beds were taken up, divided and re- 10.00 plasted after the beds had bem manured"
10.00 10.00
10.00
10.00 10.00
5.00
10.00 A new Canna bed was made near the four. 10.00teenth green:
The Allamandas near the second and ninth greens flowered profuse- 10.00 ly and continued in fower throughout the summer. The Cannias did not do so well $1,525.00 ns in the previous year, and they were constantly attacked by insects which were 4,677.00
vary difficult to keep in check. Russlias 48,202,00 near the fifth, green gave a great deal of bloom and are promising well.
Loin- settias did not do so well as expected, but they gave a fair amount of colour at th ninth green.
At the fourteenth tree the Acacias flowered well. Most of these are. Acacin Pennata, which flowered in July. and the remainder, Acasia Farnesiana, which flowered at the end of the year.
Mails for Europe via Siberia close to-inorrow at 9 a.m. and at 3 pan.
the damaging effects of a humid atmosphere such as prevails in this Colony during the Summer Months. We have recently constructed a Large Drying Room for Cigars | at which ensures to Customers buying which they were prepared to
port, and we take leave to doubt from us Cigars in First Class whether it would have occurred to them to The sum of £600 will be remitted to Condition.
do so but for the practical demonstration Capt. R. J. Barclay, Y.M.C.A. National which they were afforded of the popu-Headquarters, 12, Russell-square, Fondon, larity of the scheme. This doubt is ea W.C., to-day. The surplus remaining over will form the uncleus of a fund couraged by the fact that, though we drew the attention of the Committes to the for the provision of a second hut by the beneficent purpose of the Star and Garter Hospital in a long descriptive article some weeks back, it was not until the Local Secretary of the Navy League bad collected several thousand dollars on behalf of the project that it found a place in the Committee's programme,
We believe therefore, that those who subscribed with such alacity to the first Hut from Hong kong may take to themselves the credit of having set an example which will now bef followed by others, some of whom may have been- deterred hitherto by the non- siderations which weigh so heavily with odr contemporary Be this as it may," we are quite impenitent, for we have been actualed, not by any desire for kudus. but by the feeling that it was a duty and a privilego to do anything that lay in our power, however little it might be, to ameliorate the lot of our brave solliers. at the Front. We believe that we have been instrumental in securing many small subscriptions which would never have goue to the War Charities Fund, and we hope that the attention which has been drawn to the matter will continue to bear fruit for some time. It is no small
We keep a varied assortment of Brands of the following Factories always in Stock ›---
LA CONSTANCIA. LA COMMERCIAL. 'AQUILA DEL MUNDO. COMPANIA GENERAL. LA INSULAR.
FFICES on Jet Floor. No. 7, Queen's A. S. WATSON
Loud Contral (In los Hones Street). Apply to
WILKINSON & GRIST.
091
TO LET.
"DAVENSHILL EAST. Park Hond,
R
containing 6 Rooms, 3 Bath Rooms, Fervants' Quariam, do, Vaosat laf November.
Apply
DEACON, LOOKER DEACON &
HARSTON.
TO LET.
100
SMALL GODOWN in PRINCE'S
A BUILDING.
CO., LTD., CIGAR MERCHANTS,
HONGKONG,
TELETHOXAJ616.
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BIRTH. STABB-On June 24th, at The Cliffa,"
117, The Peak, to Mr. and Mrs, N. J. Srain, a daughter.
[827 DEATH. Tonsagun-On 19th Jane, at the General THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, ¦ Hospital, Shanghai, Cesare TORN
Azul, aged 58 years, Kosakowa Oriten: 10a, Das Vœux Rean, C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FL
For particulars, etc., apply
605
LTD.
TO LET.
A Kowloos
HOUSE in · Kantsford
Apale-
Tarenes
THE BONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co., Lan
(87
STREET, E.C
The Daily Press.
satisfaction to us to be able to annowie".
A meeting of the Sanitary Board will be held terday. The agenda contains purely formal business.
The Committee of the Territorials' En- tertainment
Fund acknowledge with
thanks a donation of 875 from “a few friends,"
Around the bill where the Ladies' Bungalow stands Hibiscus Lambertianus was in flower, for the greater part of the Hydrangeas near the frat greeni year, lowered fairly well. Near the ninth and tenth greens Mussaendas made good pro- grass and furnished abundance of flower well into the autumn, A bed of Eiliu
longiflorum was planted near the first green in October. The broad-leaved troen which were planted near the Club House and on the hills near the Relief Course
Lint. J. A. Gaimes, R.N., has been ap- Tinted Officer-in-Charge of the Examina-made satisfactory growth. tion Service, rice Lieut.-Commander -F C. Hanning-Low. Dette
Sir Charles Elliot, Vice-Chancellor of Hongkong Eniversity, is staying in Shanghai as a guest of Sir Havilland and- Lady de Sausmarez
-MODEL GARDENING AT FANLING,
The report of the Botanical and- Forestry Departament of Hongkong for 1015 contains, also, the following pas sage--
Through the courtesy of the Imperial The total output of the Kailan Mining Commissioner of Agriculture for the West. Administration's mines for the week end-Indies a quantity of onion seed was ro,
sewn on the Fanling Garden. The seed
that, without exception, every corresponing 10th June, 1916, amounted to 42,904 erived from Teneriffe, purt of which was: dent who wrote to us apposing the toss and the sales to 39,076 toes. Y:M.C.A. Building scheme has sent his donation, large or small according to his means, to the Y.M.C.A. Hut Fund, there
| by proving that his opposition was not due to the unworthy motives which were so freely ascribed.
A "HONGKONG HUT” · IN FRANCE.
TO LET.
From 1st May.
HONGKONG, 26TH JUNE, 1915.
HONGKONG HUT NO. 1.
£575-
€550--
OFFICES, 2nd Floor, St. George's Build. Tus morning we are able to make the
£525-
£500-
Apply to
SHEWAN, TOUMES & Co. [618
£475
·£450-
£425-
£400-
£37.5-
£850
£925-
TO LET.
■FFICES at 5, Connaught Road.
21, WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD. OFFI'ES in King's Bulidings. HOUSE
CLIFTON GARDENS, in Condalt Road,
No 1, HILLSIDE.” THE PLAY. No. 1, and 2, WEST END TERRACE, CANTON. appi...
"THE HONGKONG LAND, INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.
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very gratifying announcement that the goat which we set out to reach with some misgiving last Wednesday was passed by midday on Saturday, and the Fund for furnishing and equipping a Y.M.C.A. Hut. in France to servo 10,000 men at a cost of 2000 closes with a surplus of sono, 200 which, together with any further aums that may reach us, will go towards the provision of a second Hat from Hong. kong by the War Charities Committee, The success of our appeal far exceeds our most sanguine expectations and must be ascribed to this excellence of the object. on behalf of which it was made and to the patriotic spirit of the community. It is eloquent proof of the readiness of the people of Hongkong to support gen-. erously any practical scheme which may be placed before them for promoting the success of our arms or alleviating the suffering and distress amongst those who SHORNCLIFFE," Garden Road, to let | are fighting our battles. Indeed, the most Furalsbed, 6. Room
gratifying feature of the effort has been the spontaniety of the response to the appeal. Nobody has been badgered or obliged to contribute; the cause has mere ly been stated and the public have given freely of their own volition. The sub
No
TO LET
TO, 8, MOUNTAIN VIEW, PRAL.
No. 3, CAMERON VILLAS, ́63. PEAK.
CRAIGMIN EAST, 160, THE FRAX, Unfurnished.
4-BOOMED FLAT to let at the PHAL. KELLETT CREST, 65. PEAK.
No. 141. WANCHAI ROAD, Large and Spacious Godown.
WOODBURY, No. 4. Hankow Bond, Kowloon, from 1st May, 1916.
"GLENSHIEL," No. 141, Plantation Road,
Peak
HARTING." Antis Rend. Kowloom. No. 8. BELILIOS TERRACE. No 55, BELILIOS TERRACE, entrance on Conduit Rosl
TWO GODOWN8, in
En 1998. We, is Daddell Street Par,
Unfurnished'
No 59, THE PRAX (6 CAMERON VILLAS, Apply to LTSTEAD & DAVER
Brd Flour, Aiasmadre Busidy **.
scriptions which have flowed in to un
from our readers have averaged a total of $1,500 a day, and the stream showed no sign of slackening np to the hour at which bur office closed on Saturday. This
£300
£275-
£250–
£226- £200-
4175-
£150-1
£125
£100-
To furnish and equip a large Y.LCA, hut in France.
A notice states that at the ex-was sown on October 9th and germinated piration of three months from June 2ard, well and at the end of the year they were the Astor House Company, Shanghai, beginning to form bulbs. By the thir will be struck off the Register and the work in February of this year very ser Company dissolved unless cause is shown viceable onions were obtained. So far
as I kuw this is the first time that onions. to the contrary.
have been produced in Hongkong. Many pouple have grown them in the past, bub these are the first, hulbs, locally grown, that I have seen.
An Order by the Governor-in-Council provides that no person shall expert or attempt to export any article to Liberia unless consigned to such person as may be approved by the Superintendent of
poris and Exports
No further explanation as to the des tination of the warships which were being built in Austrian yards for China, when the present war broke out is forthcoming suys the N. & C. Express It may be. taken for granted that they never left European waters if completed, as mast probably they were.
A hawker is lying in the Government To furnish and equip a
Civil Hospital with a severe stab wound stall YMC.A. ut in in the stomach, and his condition in so Finnce.
To start and maintain two buikings serving a camp of 10,000 soldiers for three months.
To maintain a new build- ing serving a camp of 5,000 mon for three months.
HOW THE MERCURY HOSE IN
FOUR DAYSI
critical that his dying depositions were taken by a Magistrate on Saturday morning The affray occurred at the Central Market early on Saturday morn- ing and the hawker's assailant, a man of to occupation, has been arrested. He in
Aicted a deep wound three inches in length.
Several plants of Spineless Cacti were: received from the Agricultural Depart ment, Washington, and these will be trisd in the Fanling Garden. Those already there are in a healthy condition, but they have not made much growth.
MILITARY MANEUVRES.
When Clarence first accosted me. With aspect all severity, Regardful of his single stripe. 1ported arms and ordered hipe With that respectful zeal in which My nature is so very rich. Accomplished in these arts of war (I'd learnt them oft and oft before) By Mighty Ones it was decreed My education should proceed; (Upon
that ancient Army plan
Commander B. R. Bailey, just appoint-Treat as a babe the stranger, man.')
ed to the battle cruiser Lion, was no officer of the Centurion when that ship With accent loud and gestures free served with the China Squadron. He Did Clarence then expound to me took part in the march to the relief of Some curious, unfamiliar lore the Peking Legations and in the fighting Which was not what I'd learnt of yore.. round Tientsin. For his services he was Upon my heart there stole a doubt mentioned in despatches,promoted That Clarence here was badly out. Hieutenant, and given the China medal with clasp. He was promoted commander two years ago.
He
Now every private soldier kuoss The fire of discipline that glows Within Lance Corporals in their youth When taxed upon a point of truth. To my mild protest Clarence gavo A stare all sorrowful and grave.
On June 19th at H. M. Supreme Court, Shanghai, Mr. H. P. Wilkmeon applied that Mr. G. R. Haywood should be ad- mitted to practice in that Court. explained that Mr. Haywood had been We don't" he answered, "in Hongkong, admitted to practice in the Supreme Let privaten tell us we are wrong. Court of Judicature in England in 1912 Now do that movement thus and so." and for the past three years had been And as he stood, his face aglow practising in Hongkong. It was, he with earnest and compelling light.
believed, the first instance in which an A sergeant came and put him right! application of that nature had been made.
YIMKIN in absentio, but all the necessary for malities had been complied with. His lordship,--in granting the application, ordered that the Registrar of the Court should enter the applicant's name upon the House of Commons, said:--A consider- the register and that Mr. Haywood able quantity of fat-nosed bullets should sign it on the first occasion he been found in the ammunition seized in esme to Shanghai.
Dublin. from te rebols.
-
Mr. Tennant, in reply to Mr. Grant in
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