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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION...

AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION,

THE Undersigned have received instruc THE DIVIDEND DECLARED for the Tous from the Liquidators of Cas THE

Half Year ending 30th June, 1916, at GAUFF & Co., to sell by Public Auction, the Rate of TWO POUNDS THREE TODAY (MONDAY), SHILLINGS STERLING per Share, is Payable on and after MONDAY, the 14th the 14th August, 1918, commencing at 10:30 day of August, Current, as the Offices of the A., on their Premises, Alexandra Buildings, Corporation, where Shareholders are request. ed to apply for Warrants.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

N. J. STABB,

Chief Manager.

· [1011· Hongkong, 19th August, 1916. HOYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB, NOTICES.

роля.

Dogs are not allowed in any of the Club-houses, or on any of the Courses. Deep Water Bay frequenters please note,

CHILDREN...

Children are not allowed in the Club- houses at Happy Valley and Fan Ling, but are allowed at Deep Water Bay on all day's excepting Saturdays, Sitadays and Holidays,

Hongkong, 12th August,

THE

1016. [1012

PENINSULAR ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION 00.

STEAM

*Cinter Road, alon VALUABLE STOCK IN TRADE,

Comprisiwellery

English Gold and Gem American and Swiss 18ct and 14ct. Watches: Silver and Nickel Watches; Diamonds: Steer Pearis; Marine Chronometers, Liquid

Sinkers ing Compasses; Log Rotators: Thomson Compass Cards; Board of Trade and Standard

Barometers Mercurial

T Squares Megaphones Anemometers; Set Squares

es: Curves; Microscopes; Thermo- meters; Spirit Levels; Surveying Chains and Arrows; Admiralty Charts, Nautical Books; Optical Sundries,

&c.,

&c.

(Full Particulars from Catalogue.) On View from 10th August, TERMS-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers

[984 Hongkong, 7th August, 1916.

AND

G.

FOR STRAITS. CEYLON AUSTRALIA, BOMBAY, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTE AND LONDON,

THROUGH BILLs of Lading Lanugd vo

BATAVIA, AMHBruan; CONTINENTAL-

·AND SOUTH AFRICA PORT,

THE Sisamiks

THE

"NORE."

merying

H Captain

D. Arbury, Majesty's Malls, will be dispatcted from this port on or about FRIDAY, the 251 Aug, 1816, taking Passengers and Carge for the above Ports, in oonvection with the Colombo, Co't Be "MOOLTÁN," from passangers' nocommodation in which vented is secured before departure from Hough ng

Sik od Valuables and Tes and Cargo for

Francs and London (andar arrangement) be transbippṇt” mű “Colalabo into the Ma Stener prooding direct to Maillesand London Other Care for London, ste, will b conveyed y'a Bombay per

KHYBER

due in Londea about the 8th Oct., 1916,

Parools will be revelred at the Q unti-3 r.x. the day before calling. The contents and value of all packages are required. For further particulars, apply to

EVO. PABR Acting Superintendent

Tourkong, 14th August, 1916,

S.S.'"ARMAND BEHIC

MATTIMES,

NOTICE.

NONSIGNEES of Cargo from London in Coton with above Bloomer are horoby

informed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their rists. into the bazardons and/or extra hazardous Godewes of

PUBLIC AUCTION.

ARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of

Pin Cottag by Public Auction Sale, te

be hold on MONDAY, the 21st day of

"HE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 141a, 1916.

HOUSES TO LET

OFFICE TO LET

NE LARGE ROOM on the Top Floor of

No. 2, Queen's Building. Apply

THORESEN & Co. Hongkong, 11th August, 1916..

TO LET

(909

ODOWN in Duddell Street Light and Airy casoverlooking Statue Square. Moderate reut

For rent at other particulara apply to- Care of Daily Press" Office. (340 Hongkong, 25th July, 1916,

TO LET,

OFFICE OF 1 Floor No. 3 Queen's

Road Central (In Ice House Street), Apply toom

WILKINSON & GEIST.

601

TO LET

A

SMALL GODOWN in PRINCE'S

BUILDING.

For particulara, sto., uppfy➡

THE HONGKONG UENTRAL ESTATE,

LTD.

TO LET.

From 1st May.

INTIMATION

WATSON'S

PRICKLY HEAT

LOTION

18 NOT ONLY A

CERTAIN CURE

·FOR

PRICKLY HEAT.

885

AN

August, 1910, at 3 px.. at the Offices of the OFFICES, 2nd Floor, St. George's Build-

WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of Dus Lot of CROWN LAND The Peak, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a ferm of 75 years, with the option of renewal at CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surreyer of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one farther term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale.

Registry

Lokality.

Above Findlay Ruas),

Boundary Merensonte (Approźimate),

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Contents

Square feet. -

Annual Bent!

Upset Price

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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. 1618

"RO

TO LET.

OCKLANDS," No. 7, Robinson Road.

Apply

STEPHENS,

18, Bank Buildings

[800

TO LET

HOUSE, in Observatory Villas, Kowloon:

1. a.

foxt feed.

fret

Apply to

As per

Hale plan. 18LAPO

1,973-

(about)

ARRATOON. V. APCAR & Co.,

14, Des Vœux Road.

(811

TO LET.

Hongkong, 11th August, 1916

(1004

0

SPEND YOUR

VANA

IN

BAGUIO

(PHILIPPINES).

FFICES on 1st Floor, No, B, Queen'e Road Central, at present in the occupation of The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

Apply to

5

CHINA FIRE INSURANCE Co., LTD. TO LET.

FFICES in Frinçës” Building,

Apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Liquidators, REUTER, BROoirlmans & Co 141672

the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown CITY Built on Pine Clad Hills Swept by NADIA TO

Co., Ltd., at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unlem intimation is received from the Consignees before NOON TO-DAY, requesting it to be landed here,

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned Goods remaining unclaimed after MONDAY, the 21st Aug, at Noow, will be subject to rent and landing charges.

All Claims must be sent in fe ma on er before the 24th Ang, or they will not be recognized.

Ali damared packages will be examined on SATURDAY, the 19th Aug,, at 10:3.34.3 No Fire Insurance has been effofed,

P. THOMAS

Agent. Hougkerg, 13th Angust, 1916.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES THE P. LO 8. N. Co. Chartered Stonmor

"SANGOLA,”

Arrived, Hongking on 11th &ng, 1916, FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND

STRAITS.

Consiguess of Cargo by the above-named Wessel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed ar ramin KISH in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each Consignment will be sorted ons Birk by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods ar landed.

This

vessel brings on Cargo pla

From Persian Gulf, or ua B, LS N.

and B. & P. S. N. Co.'s Steamers Optional Gooda will be landed here unless to the contrary withle

instructions are given to the mutton

6 hours,

Gods

not cleazed within 8 days including date of arrival will be subject to reat.

No Fire Insurance Will effected

and

in any care whatever must be left in the Go-

Denisged packages downs for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's Sarveyors, Messrs. GODDARD & Dopolis, at 10 AM. on MONDAYS. THURSDAYS. A Claims must be presented within ten days of the steainer's serival baro after which date they cannot be recognised, No Clans will be admitted after the Goods bere left the Godowns

EV. D. PARE

V.D. Acting Superintendent

Hongkong, 11th August, 1916°

ON SALE

Hot the

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TO LET.

NTOL, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL,

THE

DWELLING COMMODIOUS BOUSE, with Offen, Serrauts' Quartem, eta.. No. 14. SHAMEES, CANTON, Inrum lab Jude, at present in the occupation of the Imperial Bundan Consalata.

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BUT IS ALSO

A mail for Europe i Siberia closes to-day at 5 p.m.

The next Criminal Sessions are to be held on August 21st.

The P. and O. Mail steamer Medina, with the Hongkong Mails of the 30th June, arived in London on the 10th inst.

The Gazette publishes an additional list of firms which are being wound up Of

under the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1910.

Mr. Harold Green has been appointed to act as Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Department, during the alserice on leave, of Mr. W. J. Tucher..

Mr. C. A.-D. Melbourne has been up

as Registrar of the pointed to act Supremo Court, Registrar of Companies - Official Official Administrator, and Trustes, during the absence on leave of Mr. H. A. Nisbet

The sale by auction of jewellery, eles, which opened on Saturday at the pre- mises of Messrs, Chs. J. Grupp & Co,, will be continued by Messrs. Hughes.

wit really formed a part of the policy of the country in times of peace. Above all, they fail to see that to rail at militarism in the case of Germany and to advocate it in the case of Great Britain is to show an intolerable lack of common- sonse. Militarism is either a good thing or a bad thing. It cannot be good for one country and bad for another; it

The Hongkong Police Reserve Head- must be bad for all or none. If it be quarters Club has been exempted from claimed that the British are so constitut-registration under the Societies Ordis ed that the vices of militarism cannot

1911. nance, affect them, then, while acknowledging the compliment, we are forced to inquire, what are the virtues of militariam ?. late years many persons have been going about talking of the degeneracy of the British race, as though it was only on the parade ground that that physical fitness necessary for the preservation of the people was to be found. So strong was the criticism, however, that it actual- ly seems to have convinced those who direct the affairs of the German nation. The first step in disillusionment was the entrance of Great Britain with her contemptible little, army" into the INVALUABLE PREPARATION war; the second step was the unparallel- ed scenes which followed the call for volunteers. The degenerate inhabitants of the British Isles waited in crowds out side the recruiting stations, through sun- shine and rain, day after day, while the ereaky machinery of the War Office was slowly getting into motion. If anybody

The 5.8. Alantu Maru, which went was unprepared for war we cheerfully admit that it was the War Office, but this slightly aground in the Inland Sea and is not a point to the gentlemen who have was cubsequently refloated and drydook- €. now discovered that Great Britain shoulded at Nagasaki, a due to arrive in have had & conscript army, because so Hongkong on Saturday, 18th inst., and will sail hence the following day, at 11 euger were they to clothe everybody in khaki that they never inquired where the am for Europe. klaki was to come from, much less the guns and ammunition. It would almost seem as if they regarded such things as mere ornaments of militarism. The cry of degeneracy is now dead, however, and,

resurrection. The British have shown that, without being turned into machines, without laying aside, their individuality, thes are capable of showing as much courage, and as much endurance as any nation on the earth. What other virtues bas militarism that civic life cannot supply † Pernaps Luck hd it keeps a country prepared for war, and if war were the normal, and not the abnormal, condition we might grant the eugency of the answer, Bat you cannot MARRIAGES." AMES-LAMONT-At Perth, Scotland, on keep a country always prepared for war June 28th, SAMUEL GEORGE HERBERT without encouraging the war fever, which AES of Shanghai, son of SAMUEL

FOR PREVENTING AND

RELIEVING

SUNBURN, FRECKLES AND

ALL IRRITATIONS OF

THE SKIN.

50 OTS, AND $1 PER BOTTLE.

Prepared only by

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& Hough- to-day, from 10.30 am. until 12.30 p.m., and from 2,30 p.m. until the close.

Our Little Bit Workers" Society, has sent the following this week to Messrs.. Shewan, Tomes & Co. to be forwarded to RA.M.C., Hall, Colonel

Gordon A.D.M.S., Cairo District, Abbasin.

A. S. WATSON & we hope, decently buried with no hope of Cairo: 2,808 bandages. 30 suite pyjamas,

CO., LTD.,

HONGKONG

DISPENSARY,

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BIRTH. CAMPBELL -At - Worthing, on July 4b, the wife of H. E. CAMPBELL (Shang bai), a sun.......!=

26 dressing jackets, 18 pairs socks, 28 ́bilk covers and 55 cakes soup.

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Sir Fielding Clarke, Chief Justice of Hongkong from 1890 to 1995 and after- wards at Jamaica, woke up one morning recently and found himself appointed a Justice of the Peace for Southend-on- Sen in which popular seaside resort he is now living in retirement. Apparently he was not consulted as to whether he would care for the hangin -- for ⠀⠀

for he promptly tendered his resignation.

The funeral took place at the Old Cemetery, Tientsin, on the 3rd inst... of Mr. Heory teeks Stewart, Chief Engineer toy the British Municipal Council, whose death occurred on the familiar figure at race meetings, at JOSEPH BIRD AMPS, of Weymouth, has stricken Germany. If you give the preceding day at Tongshan. Decossed was Dorset, to MARGARET, youngest daugh-country into the hands of the military which he frequently rode. He was a fer of DONALD LAMONT, of Blairgowrie, authorities in times of peace, you may member of the Mounted Detachment of and was accorded a mili- the Volunteers, Scotland HAYES KELMAN. At Edinburgh, on July rest assured that the military authorities tary funeral.

6th, J. D. HAYES, B.A. son of Rev, will sooner or later get hold of the reins

George Newdigate Alison, W. M. HAYES, D.D., LD, of

Captain Tsingchow fu, to BARBARA MONTEATH and plunge the country into war, even former A.D. C. to H.E. the Governor of daughter of Rev. J. KELMAN, D.U. as they have in Germany. Great Britain Hongkong, whose death at the front wAS SEMNER LITTLE-At Bafferson Park, on

inst was 20 years of age He was the July 1st, PIERS SUBNER, to LOFISA Was Inckily able to effect a compromise. reported in the Daily Treas of the 8th SCOTT, daughter of late R. LITTLE, Being an island, she was able to throw second son of Sir Archibald and Lady Alison, of Possil House, Wimbledon, and M.D., Singapore. -. ́ ́)

all the strength of her armed prepara, great-grandson of Sir Archibald Alison, DEATHS.

tions on the sea. She saw that the de- the cininent lawyer and historian. reported wounded, in December, 1914, and June, 1015. He met his death ousJuly 1st last. His two brothers are serving in the Royal Navy

BEN-Killed in action, on July 15th,

in

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FFICES at 2. Conenight Bend.

1916, Mr G. A. BEN, 10th Roval fence of Britain-nay, of the Empire Iny 'Captain Alison was twice. OFFICES in Kloe's Brildings.

Fusiliers, and CLIFTON GARDENN HOUSE

un the waters. Here was the real source in action MONTGOMERY.-Killed Confult Road.

of the rivalry with Geniny. Grent. France in June, Now 1. and F. WEST END TERRACE,

1918, N. S. MONTGOMERY, 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Britain could afford to look on the in- CANTON

Guards, late of the Hongkong and crease of the German army without a &palvi

Shanghai Banking Corporation, Lot, but she could not unmoved wit-servatory during July show that the aver

Staff

1009 TWENTYMN-Killed in action in France

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CHIPS DOUTOR for immediate appoint. Fizz specially designed to accommodate three-

ment Apply to

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with some experience. Apply

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· 1988:

kachelor atrasonable rentals. Immediate possession.

FOUR-BOOMED HOUSES in Gordes Terrace and Balisbury Avenas, Kowlcon.

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Alaranden Brillisen

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FO. 8, MOUNTAIN VIEW, PEAK. NO

No. 12, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE,

SHOP.

No. & BURBOWS STREET, WANCHAL, GODOWN.

"ROSENEATH, No. 4, Hankow Rou,

Kowloon,

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ness the growth of the German Navy, on July 1st, 1916, DCT. TWENTY. She could not allow Germany to become MAN, Lute of the Hongkong and as strong on the waters as she wan Shanghai Banking Corporation, Lon don Staf

the land. To lose command of the seas. would be for Great Britain to lose all Suppose then, that, at the time of this

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Observations made at the Royal Ob- age meat temperature WHS 82.7, the highest point reached being 52.1, on the 24th, and the lowest 73,3, on the 9th. There were 977.1 hours of sunshine and The average 8.205 inches of rain. humidity was 70 per cent. The barome tric pressure and duration of sunshine were the highest on record, and the wind velocity and amount of cloud the lowest. on record. The relative humidity was the lowest on record except in 1897, when it was also 70 per cent.

HONGEONS OFFICE: 101, DES VEUX ROAD, C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.valry in waralıży building Britain had also taken in hand the formation

Besides Colonel Fitzgerald, another of of a conscript army would this have

Lord Kitchener's Jegatees passed away in been of assistance in keeping the peace ?

the person of Colonel Raymond Marker, For we take it that conscription is advo-who figured early on the Roll of Honour,

The Baily Press.

Hovarono, 14TH AUGUST, 1916.

CAPTIOUS CRITICS,

cated as a means of preserving peace and not as a means of risking war. We doubt very much whether Germany would have allowed Britain the time to get her army into shape. To have permitted

dying in hospital at Boulogne of wounds received in November, 1914. Colonel Marker was a favourite aide de camp of the Field-Marshal, who had a genume regard for this Coldstream Guardsmen, a splendid soldier, clever writer, and most delightful companion. Colonel Marker a daughter of the late Sir Thomas Jack- son, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank:

THOSE who are afflicted with what the Britain to become a powerful military was nephew of Lord Digby, and married

Scotch aptly call after-wit" are still

very numerous amongst us, raising their thin and peevish voices amid the din of battle in an effort to show the world that they, at least, know what ought to have been done in that past time of peace told

pay out.

cent: you

State while already a powerful naval state, would have been for Germany the dissolution of all her dreams of world dominance. She would have pre-

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