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hill districts nearby. Botanical Garden ONE

preferred.

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MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTH Hongkong, 16th August, 1918,

NOTICE.

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"PING inting arrived here per . 'AGAPENOR " - Mesars. GODARD & DOUGLAN will attend at Holt's Wharf. Kowloon, un WEDNESDAY, 16th inst, at 10 A.M., to survey all damaged packages. Consignees of Cargo arrived are requested. to have espresentatives present.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents,

OCEAN STEAMSHIP Co., LTD.,. CHINA MUTUAL S.N. Ca.

(1015

Hongkong, 14th August, 1916.

"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMEES

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM SAN FRANCIS ̋O, SEATTLE,

AND JAPAN

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“KIFUNESAN MARU” haring arrived from the above Ports, Consigno of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowes f Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godors Co., Ltd, whence, Kadjar from the wharves delivery may

te obtained.

Goods not cleared by the 21st Aug., at 5 P.X, will be subject to rent.

All brokes, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowos, where they will be examined on 21st Aug. at 9.80 M. Chims against the Steamer must be presented within 30 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be resogniesd

No Fire Insurance will be effected by no ir

say whatever.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., ro

Agents.

Hongkong, 14th August, 1916.

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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

THE DIVIDEND DECLARED for the Half-Year ending 30th Jane, 1916. at the Rate of TWO POUNDS THREE SHILLINGS STERLING per Share, is, Payable on and after MONDAY, the 14th flay of August, Current, at the Offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are request- ed to apply for Warrants.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

N. J STABE.

Chief Manager,

· Hongkong, 1201 August, 1916,

Q.

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OFFICE TO LET.

NE LARGE ROOM on the Top Floor of

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THORESEN & Co. Hongkong. 11th August, 1918,

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Airy ces overlooking Statue Squars. LODOWN in Duddell Street Light and

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[940

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

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Offroad Central (La lee Home Street).

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881

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

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[518

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DOCKLANDS," No. 7, Robinson Road.

166 RO

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Plotting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY. the 21st day of August, 1916. at 3 P.M., At the Offices of the i PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at The Peak, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term. of 15 years, with the option of renewal at CROWN RENT to be tired by the Surreyor of His MAJESTy rue Kiso, for one farther. term of 75 years.

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HOUSE, in Observatory Villas, Kowloon,

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14, De Voux Road.

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

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NO.4 DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL,

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INTIMATION

WATSON'S

and suspect TAGORt's division of Eastern On the arrival of the s.8. Tacoma on and Western civilizations because it sug-Sunday morning P.-c.. Pincott boarded gests a confusion between the abstrak the vessel and discovered 185 taels of and the concrete aseg of the word. When prepared opium. The ship's carpenter we speak of the civilisation of any parti.has been arrested in connection with the chlar country we use the word in its con- haul. crete sense, meaning thereby the degree |of adaptation to the surrounding condi- tions that has been renched by a nation.

PRICKLY HEAT civilisation in its abstract, sense can-

LOTION

IS NOT ONLY A

CERTAIN CURE

FOR

not be measured by degrees. Like other abstract Terms, it implies an ideal per haps unattainable, but nevertheless taken As existing. In this sense, civilisation admits of no division into Easteru and Western, yet TAGORE, while arguing one minute about comparative civilizations in the concrete sense, will, in the next, apply those arguments to idea! civiliza tion in the abstract sense, where it is one and indivisible. Ideal civilisation is that perfect adaptation of moans to ends in

Two Rassians and a Finn were charged at the Hongkong Police Court yesterday with vagrancy in Kowloon. Inspector Gordon, who applied for a remund, said he had reason to believe that the de- fendants were stowaways on board the American ship Howick Hall from Vladi- vosfuck and in consequence more enquiries would have to be made. A remand, was granted.

HONGKONG ⠀⠀ MAGISTRACY.

BANISHED EX-LUKONG.

An ex-lukong appeared before. Mr. Wood on a charge of returning from hapishment. The man had nude the at- tempt previously and served a term of six months' imprisonment as a conse qance. Yesterday he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with harở

in boyer.

THEFT AT HONGKONG AND

SHANGHAI BANK,

Two respectably dressed Chinese were cfurged before Mr. Wood yesterday with larceny from the person at the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank. Mr. Preston appeared on behalf of the two nier and Detective Sergt. pleaded not guilty.

Mr. Desman. Fuller will give another of his popular organ recitals on Monday. next ut 9.15 p.m., în St. John's Catle- Murphy' stated that none of the 85 dral. The progrenume will include which had a stolen had been recovered.

PRICKLY HEAT,' the cal organism which prevails in the veral well-known compositions, and A remand was granted, bail being fixed

BUT 18 ALSO

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physical organism of the healthy man. It cannot be split into Eastern Westorn. Yet, we repeat, there lurks be hind the pott's words an important truth, and that is, that true civilisation | cannot té confined to material progress. There must be a mental or spiritual dim behind. Take the

Casi of Germany, Spiritually, Germany has beer at standstill for some time, but materially she has minde enormious progress. Her SUNBURN, FRECKLES. ANDpiritual decline is charly evidenced. by the uses to which she is now putting her ALL IRRITATIONS OF

material advance. On the other hand,

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BIRTHS:

Mrs. W. J. Hill will be the vocalīsi, one of her numbers being Handel's famous "Largo." The collection will be in sid of funds for providing a Naval Wing to the Star, and Garter Hospital at Richmond,

Mr. Francistu X. Vieira Ribeir, an Old Portuguese resident of Hongkong,

passed away, suddenly in the early hours

Bt. $500.

TOBACCO ORDINANCE

PROSECUTION. 2009 FINE.

Two Chinese were seen coming from one of the steamer wharvest on Saturday, japparently from the Nam Hai, which had

just arrived from Wachow, and they had two well-filled sacks in their possession. of yesterday morning at Kowloon. The

A Revenue offer examined the sacks deceased was employed by the firm of

which, were found to contain bulbs, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. for

'tobacco un which duty had not been paid. tout 40 years. His genial and upright These men were charged with the offence character made him very popular and at the Hongkong Police Court yesterday. respected amongst both the Portuguese Another Chines was charged in connec

there have existed many magnificent iritual civilisations in ancient times in India. Persia, Greece, and Ronfend other numbers of the foreign Com-tin with the same case, he having banded

manity. He leaves a widow and aime, childrew to mourn his loss. The funeral took place yesterday at 6 p.m., at St. Michael's Cemetery. There was a mumer- ous following. which included the "res resentative of Messrs Jardine. Mathe- son & Eu., the deceased's colleagues, the Acting Portuguese-Consul, and a large

umber of friends.

Why did these sparks of spiritual fire fade and go out? The answer' would secry to Le-keca as they had no material basis. Both sides, therefore, are depend- ent on each other. TAGORE is right in insisting on, the neersity of spiritual civilisation, but wrong in regarding it as the sole condition. His Japanese critics call him uld-fashioned, and they are right in so far as his strictures on science and material progress are con-Canton,

over the tubace to the other two men. to carry to a certain address,

Inspector Brown said that he belieyed the tobacco had been brought down from Kongmoon. The third man's exense was that he told the coolies, to look after the sacks while bir web to the Customs Office to make a report.

Inspector Brown said the tobacco should have been declared before it was Tang,taken off the ship. The man said he was

We have received a long letter from signed Ko Ming

cerned. But old-fashions sometimes beiticising the interview which Mr. carrying the tobacco on behalf of a ver tain shop, but the shop-keeper had denied come now again, ami we are aut sure Jamieson, the British Consul-General in

this. The duty on the tobacco was 10 that city, gave to 061 representative. that Japan would lose by listening to

cents per Th. So that the amount pay- the part's teaching. There is little, however, must of the letter is devoted duct that Japan had obstinately to the task of proving that Mr. Janies able was $600. closed her eyes and cars, to Western is incompetent to speak upon the situn-

certain ALABAETER.At Tientsin, on August 7th, teaching she would long since have her tion because in the interview

Mr. and Mrs. G. H. ALABASTER, daughter.

wiped off the map, as an independeni | trifling errors appeared such as "LG" STEARN.At the Victoria Nursing Hom,country. She would probably have fallen instead of Li, Yunuan instead of "Human," and "Kio Ming Tang" in- stead of Ko Ming Tang," we have nut thought it worth while to publish it. These errors were, no doust, due to the

Shanghai, on August 7th, Rey: and Mrs. A. J. S: STEARN, a daughter, '.

MARRIAGE. NOTTINGHAM O'SHA H. B. M. Con sulat, Nagasaki, on July 7th, E. A. NOTTINGHAM to E. O'SHEA, widow of the late J. B. O'SHEA.

DEATHS.

of the under the prufiction of one Western Powers which one we will not Lazard to guess. The wisdom of her statemen and the enterprise of her pub saved fur from such a fate. But haste with which the copy, which reached aw at midnight, had to be dealt with for Fin he hurry to adopt Western methods

The only passage and ways there is ertainly a danger the morning's issue.

-in-the-letter-worthy-of-reproduction-is- that six will forget the spiritual truths

Jamieson's view of the situation in Can- to is incorrect. Shin and L, our cor- respondent firms, do not want to get the city into their hands in order to

ELASER Killed in Fraser, on July 7th Captain Donan FRASER, Hoya! En gineers, 4th son of the late William which laas make material progress that which is designed to show that Mr.

raser, late of Annfield, and Wester Laing's, Inverness, and brother of worth having. A success gained at the Mrs. Grorce Mirnason, Shanghai, MAHER. At No. 894, Hanbury Rold.re of the moral qualities is failure W disguise. Thus Japan has founit; ax Shanghai, on August 9th, MARIA LUCIANA MABEL, aged 62 years England found many years ago, that an

HONGKONG OFFICE: 10, Des Voeux Ren, C. LONDON OFFICE: 191, FLEET STREET, E.C.

The Daily Press.

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HONGKONG, Brn August, 1918.

MATERIAL CIVILISATION.

Mr. Wood, Ibe Magistrate, said be thought the fast two men, being coolies, did not know what they were carrying and he discharged them. The third mus

would be fined $100, and the tobacco. would be confiscated.

FATAL QUARREL OVER A

SHRINE. VILLAGE ELDER CHARGED WITH

MURDER.

An old, grey-headed Chinaioan, said to a village, and who the elder of undoubtedly looked the patriarchal part, appeared at the Hongkong Police Court yesterday on a charge of murder. İfo idea that he was

increase of production at the expe of dictate terms. The whole province of } seemed imbued with 7~*

the health and well-being of the rising Kwangting," he writes, "with the ex- generation is not progress in the properemption of the city of Canton and a few sense of the word: It is in this direction fortified places, as Wirumpot, The Bogue, that Pague's teaching, is of value to Waicbow and Pola, is in the hands of the party who want honest good govern- Japan. I however wild and exaggerat-

ed a form it may be east, it contains thement." He then proveeds to chant the entral truth that material progress is praises of Shor,

human

racr

Hrs of enura,

FATAL PESTILENCE.

a set of village herd, for, when charged;

he wagged his head and smiled as if the circumstances ajipeated to him.

It seems that a quarrel took place. between two of the small villages in the A Tau district. the causes of the trouble being a shrine and a boundary fener The old man in the dock. in the course of the quarrel, shot one of the inhabitants. of the opposing Village. He walked out of his house, went up to the man and fired two shots at hini at point-blank range. The man fell fummediately, and the old man stood over him in a thresten-

of little value without moral progress.entitled to bis opinion, and so are others If the discoveries of selenice, the bravery

to theirs. BIG RACINDRANATH Taoom, who was at of those who risk their lives in the cause first recived will furore in Japan, is of progress, and the labours of those now meeting with criticisms from all who bring the results to fruition are to directions on the ground that his teach put to. perverted purposes-for- the ing is decadent and subversive of pronggrandisment of one section of the SAD PLIGHT OF KOWLOON DOCK | ing manner. A son of the man who had Buildings, Kowloon.

former *

been shot caure and the destruction of

up, but the elder ex- FOUR-ROOMED FLATS in May Road gress, As we pointed out in with every modera covanience, including article, in the hutures which the Indian another; for the hurden and sorrow, not

elaimed that it he did not go away he English Baths and Kitchen Ranges, Hot

delivered before numerous the joy and comfort of mankind--then

would also be shot. Subsequently the Watar and Water Carriage Syskom.

A few poet has

accused went to a shop and asked the Flats specially designed to soocommedate ihre learned bodies in Japan the argument we inny agree with TAGORE that selence JUNIOR OFFICE ASSISTANT (British) bachelors at reasonable reniais. Immediate

The shop: has been advanced that the civilisation of is worthless, and a return to a simpler of the s.s. Widey were discovered by the people there to arrest hin the West is material and debasing, while mode of life would be preferable. But a that of the East is spiritual and up-passing phase must not prevent us trum 5.5. Telemachus on the 10th inst. at Cape people said they had no power to do this, police station. This advice was taken at HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANC lifting. As Japan has adupted so large seeing things as a whole. Germany going Barlia in a terrible plight. The Tele- and advised the old man to go to the a part of the material civilisation of the headlong to rain amid unprecedented muchas had called ut Cape Barilla to least, when the elder was on his way to. West, and is in the way of adoptinescens of bloodshed and cruelty inust not bring the workmen back to Hongkong the police station he was met by the

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Hongkong, 11th August, 1916.

ON SALE

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WORKMEN.

A number of Kowloon dock workmen who have been engaged upon the salvage'

was picked up by a small boy and buried,. "to" bo subsequently recovered by the

police.

much more, such an attitude is to her blind us to the fact that what Germany Apparently, sente time previous to the unaccountable, and the critics of the post has asd ill may be used well, that what ship's arrival, a pestilence had broken police and at once gave himself up. On ISITORS TO CANTON somewhat pertinently ask which among

Germany has turned to purposes of out among the workmen, several deaths the way he dropped his revolver, which Should Purchaos...

the nations show the greatest vitality-destruction way be used for purposes of had taken plao, and many others were "FROM HONGKONG TO CANTON those which have made materini,

BY THE PEARL RIVER,"

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progress,

. Fifty-eight of the 'meti embarked, but during the voyage to Hongkong four

Dr. Smalley, in the course of his icore men dies, and when the ship came evidence, said that of the two shot During the week ending August 12th to anchor at the quarantine anchorage wounds, the first was not a fatal one, but the two others had died, and eleven were in second one would have caused death very that mere material progress is of no avail a fatal Chinese case, of plague was re-

a bad way. The survivory were taken rapidly. In addition to the shot wounds If spiritual progress is lacking, but to ported. In the same period there were the Japanese-who, in spite of their high seven cases of enteric fever (one Parses to the Infectious Diseases Hospital, he also found a stab wound on the body, artistic temperament, are an unimagina and the rest Chinese, three being in Kennedy Town. Up to the present the but this would not have been sufficient to

have caused death. tiv race-sach a position is incompre-ported), fine of which proved fatal. There disease has not been diagnosed. It seems hensible. And yet it may be claimed was a non-fatal Chinese case of puer-that it commences with paralysis of the that, behind the port's words, lies an peral fever, and a non-fatal British case stomach and this works up to the heart

with fatal consequences. important and solemn truth. We dislike of paratyphoid fever.

After Dr. Smalley had given evidence. the accused suddenly exclaimed If away from here." 4. you gave me $100,000 I would not ru

The hearing, was adjourned.