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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of THREE and HALF DOLLARS per Share for the six months ending 30th June, 1016, will be Payable on WEDNESDAY, 26th July, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 19th, to WEDNESDAY, the 20th July (both days inchisice), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be legistered.

By Order of the Board of Directory

A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary.

Hongkong, 11th July, 1016.

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HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED

UNCORPORATED IN TI UNITI Kisenomi

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an INTERIM DIVIDEND at the Late of 7 per cent. for the Half-Year ended 30th Juny, 1916, has been declared. The Dividend will be Payable on and after WEDNESDAY the 18th day of September, 1916, to Share holders on the Register on MONDAY, the 31st day of July, 1910, and will be paid to Shareholders on the Colonial (Hongkong) Register at excluange of 2/11 per Dollar.

By Order of the nuc

W. E, ROBERTS, Secretary.

Hongkong, 17th July, 1916.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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MESSRS HUGHES & HOUGH have

received instructions to

Public Auction,

Os FRIDAY,

self by

the 28th day of July, 1916 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at their Sale Rooms, Ice House

Strent. Victoris, Hongkong,

The following very desirable residential Property at the Peak:

situate in Chamberlain toad, 100 yards from the Peak Tran Station and adjoining the Peak Hotel.

Being RURAL BUILDING LOT No. 78. and known by the nano of "TREVERBYN."

The property is held under Crown Lease and contains an area of 44,604 square feet.

For further particulars and conditions of sale upply to:-

Missus. HASTINGS & HASTINGS,

Vendors Solicitors, No.5, Des Voeux Road Central,

or to Mess, HUGUES & HOUGH.

The auctioneers.

Hongkong, 10th July, 1916.

FOR SALE.

HOUSES TO LET

TO, LET.

"AC KONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 24x¤, 1976.

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OFFICES OF 1st Floor, No. 9. Queen'e THE P. & 0. 8. N. Co.'s Steamer

Road Central (In Ice House Streef), Apoly to

WILKINSON & GEIST.

TO LET.

691

TWO-STORIED EUROPEAN HOUSE at No. 10, Kennedy Brad East, Consisting of Four Roos with Bathrooms and Oathouses Complete.

Apply

YOUNG HEE,

10, Des Vaux Road Centrul.

NOVABA,”

Arrived Hongkong on 16th July, 1916, FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO ND

STRAITS.

Consignees of Cargo by the above-named

rsenal are hereby informed that their goods

are landed

This

From

being landed and placed AT THEIR BIGK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown. Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each Comignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods

resep brings

on Cargo

&e, er 40 Kaitar" 1.Hind." From Persian Galt, er så. B. 1.-8. N.

and. B. & P. S. N. Co.'s Steamers. Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the sentiary within Goods not cleared within 8 days including SMALL GODOWN in PRINCE'S date of arrival will be subject to rant. A BUILDING

TO LET.

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6 hours.

No Fire Insuranse will be effected by me in any case whatever.

Damaged packaged must be left in the Go-

For particulara. atc., apply THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, downs for examination by the Consignees, and

OFF

LTD.

TO LET.

From 1st May,

685

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

Inge. Apply to-

SHEWAN, TOMES & €5.

[$18

TO LET.

**ROOKLANDS, No. 7. Robinson Road,

IV from 1st August, 1916, or curlier.

Apply-

M. J.D. STEPHENS,

18, Bank Buildings

TO LET

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the Company's Burveyors, Mosera GODDARU & DOUGLAS, at 10 am on MONDAYS end THURSDAYS. All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here. after which date they cannot be recognised, No Claims will be admitted after the Goode bave left the Godawas.

E. V. D. PARR, Acting Superintendent. Hongkong, 16th July, 1916.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNSES.

THE P. &. O. 8. N. Co.'s Steamer

"SOMALI,"

Arrived Hongkong on 17th July, 1916, FROM LONDON, MALTA”, PORT

SAID, SUEZ, AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named Fostel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed ar ruera KIER in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each Consignmant will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are

Optional Goods will be landed here unles instractions are given to the contrary within S tour.

date of arrival will be subject to rent.

HOUSE, in Observatory Villas, Kowloon. anded

· Apply to

ARRATOUN V. APÇAR & Co., 14. Des Voeux Road.

1811

TO LET.

OFFICES on 1st Floor, No. 3, Queen's Road The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

Central, at present in the occupation of

Apply to- CHINA FIRE INSURANCE Co., LTD.

1892

0

Olins, NEW TYPE TAPPET STEAM

ROCK DRILLcomplete with Numerous. Spares, also ONE STEEL VERTICAL TUBE BOLLER, with all Fittings, Working Pressure 8 lbs. per square inch, mounted on trolley.

For fall particulars apply→

GILMAN & Co.

BOARD AND RESIDENCE.

Bcouvenience.

BAUTIFUL

SITUATION.

SELECT.

Apply

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Every

Came of "Daily Press" Ofoo. 1908

TO. LET.

TODES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL,

First Floor HOUSE, with Offices, Servants' Quarters, etc., No. 14, SHAMEN, CANTON, from lat June, st present in the occupation of the Imperial Rassian Consalate,

Apply to--

THE 'COMMODIOUS DWELLING

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. (415

TO LET.

TO, 5, MOUNTAIN VIEW. Pinz:

N

No. 12, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE. SHOP.

No. 8, BURROWS STREET, WANCHAI, GODOWN.

ROSENEATH," No. 4. Hanker Rost,

Kowloon

No. 3. CAMERON VILLAS, 63, PRAX, CRAIGMIN EAST, 180, T PAK, Unfurnished.

4-ROOMED FLAT to let at the Prax. KELLETT CREST, 66, PRAK.

No. 141. WANCHAI ROAD, Large and Spacions Godown.

"SHORNCLIFFE", Garden Road, to let Farnished, Room,

"WOODBURY, No. 4, Hanko. Road. Kowloon, from 1st May, 1916.

GLENSHIEL No 141, Plantation Bond,

Peak.

**STARTING.” ARstiu Road, Kowloon. Na 6, BELLION TERRACE No. 25, BELILIOS TERRACE with entrance on Conduit Road.

TWO GODOWNS, in Daddell Strook No. 2, DES VEUX VILLAS, 61, PEAT, Ontornished)..

No.58, The Pax (5 CAMERON VILLAS, Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

3rd Floor, Alexander Baiklingt,

$5

ON SALE TONGKONG BANSARD HEPORTS H

the of the NEETINGS of

for the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Sex.ion, 1918.

RET THE MEMBERS.

-PRICE

201

DAILY PRESS OFFICE Bonekoiz, 2h. Fábruary, 1912.

TO LET...

FFICES in Princes" Building-

Apply to-

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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Liquidators, RECTER, BROGENLMANN & Co

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TO LET.

OFFICES at 1, Conaght Hord.

INTIMATION

WALKER'S

BLOCKETTES ”

Registered.

DISIN-

"CARBOLACENE". (PATENT

FECTING PERFORATED BLOCKS.)

1-They ensure Healthy Homes

and a pure, pleasant and beneficial atmosphere.

2-They purify and sanitize the air,

at

referred to comes

an opportune moment the moment when the natural reaction from extreme gratification at succoss achieved sets in, assisted by the dispiriting invitation of the croaker to "count the cost." The cable assures us that though our casualties have been numerous, a large proportion of them. are so light that the injured men will be ready to take the field again within a month. It adds, moreover, that we are gaining on balance all the time in ground, and enormously in man-power and morale. Of that trinity of elements. of progress the last is by no means the least important. It is, indeed, indis pensable to success, and to be told that our men have gained enormously it is tantamount to saying that ultimate and conclusive victory has been brought Appreciably nearer. The crescendo of beezy hopefulness and cheery optimism reaches a climax in the closing so tences, wherein we are assured that, on

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Dr. Koch, of the Government Civil Hospital, Hongkong, who has been spending a pleasant holiday, in Peking. leaves next week for Tientsin, thence to Japan to join the "Empress" ateamer for Hongkong.

Mr. Beilby Alston, C.B., has lefti

London For Peking, where he will again. take up the position of Counsellor of the British Legation. Sir John Jordan, the Minister, is expeclod home in the early autumn.

Messrs. Edgar Pierce Allon, of Tisa- tsin, and John F. Jowell, of Chefoo, who left for America recently on the Empress of Russia, cach bore credentials as a dele- gate from the Far Eastern American Bar Assosiation to the National Bar Association which meets this year at Chiengo, on August 30th.

The unidentified body of a foreigner was found floating in the Huangpu just below the Point by the Shanghai River,

and are a safeguard against the present relation of gains to losses,palice early on the morning of the 17th

infectious disease.

even if our casualties were multiplied

ten-fold, the war would be over before. The deceased is described as a man the and of the summer and Germany of about 5 to 9 years of age, very 3They last MANY MONTHS,would by down and out." The men who stoat, with a heavy red moustache, dark hair, high forchend, an old scar on attered these werds were officers atraight

cost very little, and require back from the front, bearing tho scarsbridge of the nose, and the right uppez

no attention.

"BLOCKETTES.

PRODUCE

THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE

PINE FORESTS !!!.

and wounds of the fray fresh and pain-arm tattooed.. ful on their wearied bodies. Theirs is a

The third cinematograph performance voice from the battlefield, and there is under the auspices of the Entertainment no uncertainty about what it saya. We

Committee of the Peak Club will taka are winning, and winning in such a way place on Thursday next, commencing at.

Weather permitting, this pers that the inevitable, the glorious, end may 9.15 pm, come sooner than many of us dure hopeformance will take place on the Lower This rhould be a clarion call to everyone Tennis Court Tickets, 2 each, are prov in the British Empire to join, so far as his curable from the No. 1 boy at the Club. or her opportunities permit, in the big effort now being made to reach decisive and indisputable victory. The workers,

SOLE AGENTS FOR Hoseкong & Souтn CHINA, we know, have resolved to forego all

Goods not cleared within 8 days including A. S. WATSON

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever,

Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees and the Company's surveyors, Messrs. GODDARD.

and DOUGLAS, at 10 AM. on MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, All Claims manat be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here," sfter which data they cannot be recognised, No Claims will be mamitted after the Goods have left the Godowus,

EAV.DAPARE. Acting Bugerintendent, Hongkong, 17th July 1916.

8.S. "POLYNESIEN," COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES KARITIMES.

NOTICE.

ONSIGNEES of Cargo from London in Noction with abors Steamer are baraby informed that their Goods with the exception of Optum, Treasure and Veloables are being Janded and stored at their risks into the "OFFICES in King's Buildings.

bazardous and/or extra bazardous Godowns of HOUSE in CLIFTON," SARDENS, | the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Condalt Road,

Co., Ltd., at Kowloon, whence delivery may be Nos, 1, and 3. WEST END TERRACE, obtained immediately after landing. CANTON, Apply

iati

∙ation THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-be:

MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.

Aned here 32

TO LET.

TWO ROOMED-FLATS i Naiban Road

THREE BOOMED FLATSiz Humphrey's Buildings, Kow'son.

FOUR-BOOMED FLATS in May Rond with every modern convenience, Inolading English Baths and Kitchen Ranger, Hol Watar and Water Carriage System. A few Flats specially designed to accommodate throt bachelors at reasonable rentals. Immediate possertion.

FOUR-BOOMED HOUSES in Gordon Terrace and Salltbacy Avenue, Kowloon,

Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Co., LTD Aleranten Ballinge

(60%

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

JAVA-PACIFIC LIJN. THE Eteamship THE

"ARAKAN,” having arrived from SAN FRANCISCO. Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified

that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardons andjor extra basardons Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloor hard nad Godown Co., Lld be obtained. Wh

whence sudiar from the whores delivery

May No Claims will be admitted after the Good have left the Godowes, and all Good. remaining undelivered after the 31st. July will be abject to rent,

All Claima against the Steamer must be pre seated to the Undersigned on or before the 3rd Ang, or they will not be recognised

Ad broken, shafed, and damaged Goors are te be left in the Godowns, where they will be xamined on the 2016 July by the Company's surveyors, Mesra, Goddard & Douglas. No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bill of Lading wift he cominterrizned be

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,

My Managing Agents,

JAVA-PACIFIC LIJN.

1932

Hongkong, 21st July, 1915.

onal Cargo will be forwarded on unless is received from the Consignees NOON-TO-DAY, requesting it to be

Bills sof Lading

ing will be countersigned by the Undersigned, Gids remaining unclaimed after SATURDAY, the "ead Jais, at Noos, will be

ST Babject to rent and landing charges.

All Claims must be seas in to me on or befors the 25th July, or they will not be recognised.

All damaged packages will be examines on FRIDAY, the 31st July, at 10 AN.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

P. THOMAS, Agent. Hongkong, 18th July, 1916.

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CO., LTD.,

HONGKONG,

A portion of the proceeds will be given. to War Charities.

Coy, Bergt. Major A. A. Ostler, Coy, holidays in order to support the Army Bergl. Major W. McColm, and Sergt. E. by providing a continuous and growing H. Mayers, all of whom served in Hong- supply of munitions. 11. now remains kong with the 2nd N.C.L.I., were re- for other sections of the community cently promoted 2nd Lieutenants, 2nd who stand still further behind the firing- Lieutenant F, C. Codyre; of the same. line to play their part by furnishing a Regiment, who was a Sergeant when constant stream of these indispensable the hattalion left the Colony, and sub- “silver bullets. The nation started the sequently received his commission, was war with a debt of £650,000,000, and in recently promoted Lieutenant. April last this had swollen to £2,140,000,000 Now a supplementary vote of £450,000,000 for wax purposes has just been announced. Not only, there STEWART-At the Peak Hospital, on 22nd

July, to Capt. and Mrs. F. Hfore, oes it behova every Briton through- STEWART, Indian Medical Service, aout the world to save whatever he can and Japanese Convention:-Marquis, Count

ROIL.

TELEFRONA 16.

BIRTH.

The EmperoF

bas awarded the following honours in recognition of services rendered at Tsingtao and in con- nection with the conclusion of the Russo

invest it in War Lon--which, after all, Okuma Count, Viscount Hasegawa j MARRIAGE.

is merely to practise a paying form of Viscounts, Barons Ishii, Motono and BONE BAKER.At Grosvenor Road Wes

leyan Church, Aldershot, on Jund thrift but it is incumbent upon every | Kato; Burons, Admirals Shimamura, 7th, by Rev. Colin A. Roberts, C. F., British Colony and Dependency to Yashiro and Kato and General Kamio; the Rev. Chas. Hong (father of volunteer, according to the 'mesure of Grand Collar of the Order of the Chry- bridegroom), and the Rev. W. Charits capacity, to share the burden of santhemum, Marquis Matsukata. lesworth, Licut: CHARLES WILLIAM

debt which is being piled upon the BONE, AO.D., elder son of Rev. Chus

The French police in Shanghai ar and Mrs. Bone, of Wesleyan Mission, shoulders of the Mother Country. To Hongkong, to Ebru, second daugh their credit, be it said, most of the hours of the 16th just the most desperate said to have encountered in the early

ter of Major A. and Mrs. Baken, of Broughton, Cargate Avenue. Alder colonies have already recognised, this shot.

DEATHS.

Alder

Carmichael.-Killed while flying on July 20th, Flight Sub-Lieutenant IAN Nru. CARMICHAEL, Royal Naval Air Ser vice, only son of Mr. II. F. Che BICHAEL Aged A1-grass.--

[036 MUSKETT At No. Duddell Street, un July 22nd, MARIE MUSKETT, wife of the late W H. MUSKETT, A. S. Watson & Co, aged 43 years. [07

Hoxerong Orion: Ha, Dun Verux Road, C. LONDON Orien: 181. FaRT STREF, E.C

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, 2ick July, 191E.

A CHEERING MESSAGE.

gang of robbers which they have had to

duty, and evinced an eager pride in dise

charging it. Hongkong still lags behind, but now that the unofficial members of the Executive and Legislative Councils have -approved of the principle, no insuper- able difficulty should be experienced la agreeing upon the best means of raising the necessary revenue to carry it into practice.

A meeting of the Swritery Board is to be hold to-morrow. The agenda con tains purely formal business.

Among the passengers who left the Colony by the Tongo Mara were. Sir: Paul and Lady Chater, and Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Gedge.

Miss A. d'Almada has reported to the Police that on Friday night some person gained, an

entraner to her house on

BEN LINE OF STEAMERS

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

*,, * BENLOMOND,” From MIDDLESBRO, LONDON AR STRAITS.

Waar a heartening and inspiring message CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informes

that all Goods are being landed at that. was that sent us by Reuter the other Prava East and stole the sum of $50 risk into the lusaedione and/or artra basardnerday as to the casualties in the recent

łodowns of

of the Hongkong and Kowloon What and Godown Co., Ltd. whence snd/or from the fighting on the British front! Experi- wharee delivery may be obtained.

CON

It is

in the Gazette that St. enco in this war has taught us to expect Anthony's Church, situate in Bonham No Claims will be admitted after the Goods" hare left the Godowns, and sil Goods remaining a heavy toll of life and limb in the ranks Road and Western Street, has been add- undelivered after the 26th inst. will be subjecf the attacking party in any engage-ed to the list of places licensed for the to rent.

All Claim against the Steamer must be ment. The inevitableness of this has been solemnization of marriages. presented to the Endersigned on or before the 30th inet, or they will not be recognised.

A broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be azamined on the 25th inst, at 11 am, No Fire Inarancs kas bean effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBE, LIVINGSTON. & Co., Hongkong, 19th July, 1916.

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demonstrated time and again in the Ger-

with For Wonic time. Fourteen

arrests, were made. The robbars had at tacked a Chinese village, which was sur- unded by a cordon of polier, and for

Reveral hours shots from revolvers und arbines were being fired. The territory in which the robbers were, and which -had-to-be-surrounded by the police, is- bounded on the north by Avenue Joffre... on the south by Ruo Lafayette, on th past by Avenue Roi Albert and on th west by Route Pichon, wherein is a larg village. Nearly all the men in custody confess that they are ex-soldiers.

LARGE OPIUM HAUL

Revenue Officer Wilden boarded the French steamer Hanoi on Friday night and found concealed in a fresh water tank 5,000 taels of prepared opium, the largest haul which has been made for some time. No arrests have been made,

ANOTHER TRAIN ATTACKED-

HELD UP ON THE SUNG NING LINE,

A serious train outrage is reported to have taken place on the Sung Ning Line:

of Hongkong, has been added to the ReIt seems that the train which left gister of Medical Practitioners.

Kongmoon on Friday morning at 8.20

The name of Cheong Che-hai, Tung. man efforts to break through the ring of Wa Hospital, Bachelor of Medicine and British and French steel in the West, and Bachelor of Surgery of the University the strong and well-selected Russian em- placements in the East. Against these the enemy have hurled their serried

with a ruthless disregard of cost, Ashop-kuper, of 162 Des Vœux was held up by robbers near Sanui. The and the result has been a holocaust of Road, Central, has reported to the robbere, who were armed, fred on the victims. The recent British attack would Police that he went to his shop on Friday train, the driver and two firemen being not, we may be esitain, be conducted in and foun 1 that his safe had been opened wounded. A postal official who was such reckless fashion or attended with with a duplicate key and the contents,ravelling, on the train received five

pected to recover. such appalling lossen, but it is also cer-consisting of about 32,100, were missing bullet wounds in his legs and is not ex- TO-DAY

When the train had been brought to a In connection with the attack on a junk tain that the forward movement could 3pm-Anction of Crown Land at Pabllo not be carried through and its end to far at Tytamtuk by seven men armed with standstill the passengers were robbed, and

Works Dept.

attained without serious gaps in the swords, as the result of which two per all the first and second class passengers TO-NIGHT

attacking forces. Bacrifices were inevit-sons on the junk were badly injured, it

were taken away to be held for ransom. has now been reported that a Chinese Two junka lay in the river, close to the able, and this fact has to be borne in wind in judging the price paid for the girl has died as the result of her înjuries, | railway line, in readiness to perove the advantage gained. The cheering message and that four men have been arrested

FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

916 p.m.- New Bandman Oper & Comedy C at the Theatre Royal The Belle of New York 9.15 p."The Falinde," at Kowlden.

loot.