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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6rn, 1916.

INTIMATIONS

RELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE THE SWANKS The List will be Closed on or before

H

CO., LTD., LIVERPOOL

FIRE DEPARTMENT,

to

KING GEORGE'S HALLp.

TTAVINO been Appointed AGENTS for SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE,

the above Company we are prepared accept FIRE risks at current rates.

W. A HANNIBAL & CO. Hongkong, 6th November, 1916.

Name

Cheap.

WANTED.

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PIANO: Second-Hand; in Good Order: Stato Price and Maker's

Bat No. 489, Care of Daily Press" Offles. 1350,

WANTED.

TINGINEER, Br, abetaizer, for Harbour or

Epps on writing with cop

refs, stating aga and salary required to--

W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD..

Kowloon,

FOR SALE.

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GRIVES LIFESAVING WAIST- COATS, dalt size, and one child's nire. Apply

Box No. 6, Caro of Daily Press" Ofles. (1849

FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF

HONGKONG.

BANK HOLIDAY.

VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all

NFIRE INSURANCE. OFFICES wil

be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business TO-DAY (MONDAY), the 6th inst.

By Order,

E. A. M. WILLIAMS,

Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 3rd November, 1916.

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MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION

OF HONGKONG.

BANK HOLIDAY.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business TO-DAY (MONDAY), the 6th inst.

By Order,

E. A. M. WILLIAMS,

Acting Secretary. Hongkongi 3rd November, 1916,

UNDER

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TO-NIGHT (MONDAY), NOV. 6re, 1916, AT 8.30 EE. ADMISSION FREE

An invitation is given to Men of the Mercantile Marine, the Navel and Military. COME AND HEAR "THE SWANKS"

COME AND SEE THE INSTITUTE.

₤1930

REMEMBER

KISMET

"

MID DECEMBER,

A.D.C. Production

on belulf of the

"STAR AND GARTER FUND

for Soldiers and Sailors totally

disabled in the War.

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MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE SALE OF WORK

IN AID OF Local Charities for Children and CHILDREN OF THE EMPIRE FUND for DISABLED AND BLIND BOLDTERS AND SAILORS BELGIAN ORPHAN IN and the BELGIUM.

To be held in the grounds of Government

Permission of

of His Excellency House, by kind F. SMYTH.

the Governor, [1341

Ox BATURDAY, 11TH NOVEMBER, from 2 to 8 PM.

NOTICE. TINDER instructions from Head Office I have handed over the Agency' of BEUTER'S TELEGRAM CO., LTD, to MB. J. P. BEAGA, of No. 8, Peller's Hill, to whom af communications should be addressed in fature.

Hongkong, 2nd November, 1910.

SHIPOWNERS' COMPOSITION COMPANY, LIMITED

THE Advertisement which has been appear-

TE

Our authority, M CHAS, A. MUTTON Conses from this date to represent na for the

ale of this actiole..

W. A. HANNIBAL & CO., Sole Agenta, HONGKOSO AND SOUTH CHINA. [1320

HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LIMITED (Incorporated in the United Kingdom).

LOST.

#TÍHE SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 1630 6390 to

5360 inclusive, standing in the Colonial (Hongkong) Begister in the name of Mr. Woo YUX CHO, having been LOST, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Certificate be produced at the Office of the Company, No. 1, Russell Street, Hongkong, within 30 days from the date hereof, duplicate Certificate for the said shares will be issued and the old Certificate will there- after be held by the Company as null and

W. E. ROBERTS, Secretary Hongkong, 26th October, 1916. [1307

WANTED

void

NE PORTUGUESE and ONE CHINESE JUNIOR CLERK with Good Hand- writing and knowledge of English.-

Apply personally to the Undermigned with writton application.

Tás MANAGER, NIPPON TUSEN KAISHA.

WANTED.

15th November, 1916.

HONGKONG

GOVERNMENT SIX PER CENT. WAR LOAN OF 1916.

Issue of $3,000,000 Hongkong Currency six per cent. Bonds to Bearer authorised by the War

Loan Ordinance 1916.

THE PROCEEDS OF THE

INTIMATION

SPEY

ROYAL

THE CHOICEST

them for decision. So far, it must be Lieutenant-Colonel A. V. Alexander, confessed, the results are disappointing, 74th Punjabis, has been appointed though the latest advices indicate that Inspecting Officer of

the Hongkong the majority which the first returns gave Volunteer Corps and of the Hongkong to the anti-Conscriptionista is falling Volunteer Reserve. daily, and it is probable that it will dis- appear when the votes are received from the soldiers in the trenches. Nevertheless, the situation shows how strong is the feeling entertained by a large section of the population against anything in the nature of military comprision. Mr. Huanes proposals fall far short of the stepa which have been taken in Great Britain No demand is made upon ninrried men, or upon gingle men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, or upon only sons or those who are support-

LOAN WILL BE HANDED SCOTCH WHISKYg dependents. Yet, even so, many of

OVER TO THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT AS A WAR CONTRIBUTION FROM

THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.

THE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST OF THIS LOAN ARE GUARAN. TEED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF HONGKONG AND ARE SECURED BY THE REVENUES OF

THE COLONY.

PROCURABLE.

his erstwhile colleagues have repudiat- ed the Premier's action, and the country is sharply divided. This is the more surprising when we remember thust Australia readily adopted military com- pulsion fifteen years ago in order to en sure its defence. The Labour Party, however,

The Hongkong police have received a report to the effect that two men with choppers, and another with a dagger, attacked on old man while he was asleep in a cockloit at Chung-shu-wan. The men seized him, and when he showed, fight the man with the dagger struck him on the head with the weapon, and felled him. The robbers took from the man's wrist a jade bangle valued at 3.50 and also decamped with clothing worth about $0.

ASSISTANT CROWN SOLICITOR RESIGNS.

MR. P. M. HODGSON LEAVING THE COLONY,

We understand that Mr. P. M. Hodg son, Assistant Crown Solicitor, has. is uncompromisingly op-esigned and intends to leave the Colony...

10 YEARS OLD. posed," in the words of one of its leaders, The news will be received with general

to the conscription of human life for regret, for both Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson foreign service," although Mr. HUGHES have a wide tircle of friends and are has pointed out, in the clearest possible highly esteemed. manner, that the fate of Australia, equally with that of every other part of the British Empire, hangs in the balance

Mr. Hodgson came to Hongkong in 1907 and was enrolled as a solicitor of the Supreme Court. He received his

PRICE OF ISSUE $100 PER CENT. Obtainable from all Compradores until victory crowns the arms of the present appointment in September, 1911.

Interest payable-rst May and

1st November.:

First Coupon for full six months!

interest payable--1st May, inter

1917.

Principal repayable at par on-

1st November, 1928, or, at the option of the Government of Hongkong, principal may be wholly or partially repaid at any time after the fifth year by drawings of Bonds.

and Stores.

BOLE AGENTS :

Allies."We are part and parcel of the On two occasions he was for some time:: Empire," he says, "but we fight not for Acting Crown Solicitor, namely from Britain but for ourselves." We fight not March to November, 1913, and again merely for material things but for liberty, from March, 1914, until a few months What is the future of democracy to be ago, when Mr. JH, Kemp, who bud": if the foundation atone on which it rests been acting Attorney-General, was con“. crumbles beneath it? What boots it to firmed in that office, and Mr. G. H. plan the topmost storey of a glorious Wakeman was appointed to the Crown edifice when the foundations are threaten- | Solicitorship, thus rendered vacant. ed by a deadly peril, which, unless we

A. S. WATSON & divert it will bring the structure

CO., LTD.,

toppling about our ears?" To this unanswerable logic the Labour party turn a deaf ear. In proportion to population, they argue, the Common- wealth has done much better than any

The HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI CORPORATION, Hong BANKING kong, are instructed by the Govern-

of Hongkong to invite WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. other British Dominion, and, in relation ment subscriptions for the above Loan.

The Bonds will

Entrance only at the Garden Gate in Upper denomination be issued in

Albert Road, Dunfer

Adults 30 cents PRICES OF ADMISSION: Children 10 All Members and Associates wearing M. C. I Badges, free.

Come to see the SWANKS and “TABLEAUX 5.30 PM. Tickets 1,00.- Toys and Fancy Articles, Lees, Sweets, Tea, Lucky Wall, Tally Garden, Maypole Dance.

No Carre TAKEN,

NOTICE.

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NY EUROPEAN, Fon-Asiatic or Indian

A desiring to leave the Colony should apply

the

between the hours of 9 a.m. to 1 pm and 2PM. to 4 PM. daily.

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of $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000, payable to Bearer with half-yearly interest coupons attached payable 1st May and 1st November, at the Office of the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Hongkong.

The first coupon will be attached to Scrip Certificates, which will be exchanged later for definitive Bonds.

TELEPHONE 816.

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HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.

OPIUM ON A SAMPAN.

A Chinese who was arrested on B sampan with $192 worth of opium in kis possession, was remanded by Mr. Hase land until Thursday. Mr. J. H. Gardiner

defends.

to resources and facilities, better than any of the Allied nations, and had Mr.

LARCENY ON A WARSHIP. Hvanes devoted his energies to volun- taryism, instead of hastily adopting con- ·Two months' hard labour and four scription, the results would have been hours' stocks was the sentence imposed better still. Apparently, rather than by Mr. Hazeland on a Chinese charged submit to "the compulsory deportation" with stealing four packing rings from MARRIAGE,

of their citizens "to foreign battlefolds," one of the warships in the harbour DOVEY - MACKENZIE - AL

Church, Hongkong, on the 31st Oct., they are prepared to hand over the share yesterday. by the Rev. J. Kirk Macouschie, of fighting which the Commonwealth has ERNEST ROADLEY DOVEY, ARC.Sc, borne in the past to the conscript armies Government Analyst, to JESSIE MATHESON, elder daughter of Mr. of the Allies, or, alternatively, to rednes and Mrs. Ales. MacKenzie, Duno- the pressure of the present offensive and din," Barker Road.

thereby protract the war and all the loss, (1338)

suffering and misery which it entails.

the Union

.....

HOUSE-BREAKERS.

For attempted house-breaking at Wan- chai two Chinese were sentenced by Mr. Hazeland to two months hard labour. The men were beard twice to take off a

This loan will be free from any HONGYONG Office: 10a, Des VIEUX ROAD, O. The true explanation of the matter seems lock on the foor of 33, Praya East, "and" local taxation as regards both LooN OFFICE: 131, FLEST Brazer, É‚C, principal and inferest.

will be received by Applications the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, 6TH NOVEMBEE, 1916.

the occupier of a shop on the ground. floor went up and caught one of the mes, and the second was arrested by a watch- man after a chase,

to be that Australia is at such a come fortable distance from the scene of the conflict, and, thanks to the protecting arm of the Navy, so secure from attack in writing for permission to do so to the Captain BANKING CORPORATION, Hong-

that some of her sons are unable to 9UPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, at lonst

VEHICLES REGULATIONS. 18 hours before the intended hour of departure, kong, from whom the necessary

appreciate the fact that it is upon those giving mme, nationality, age, sex, height and printed forms can be obtained.

The following regulation has been foreign battlefelds, which they vion occupation of the applicant, and stating. Same of the seanier or other vessels of the hour Such applications must be for $100 AUSTRALIA AND THE WAR. with such repugnance, that her future made under the Vehicles and Traffic of the timini by which the applicant wishes to

is being decided. Happily, there are also Ordinance Every truck or trolley loare. Applicants should apply in person for or any multiple thereof and be their passes at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION accompanied by a deposit of 25 who were inclined to ancer at the hundreds of thousands of others gifted shall be constructed so that the

measure per cent. of the amount applied for British Government for hesitating to in-with greater perspicacity and patriotism

troduce compulsory military service until, They know that this is not the moment | Applications may be accepted in

by the employment of every alternative, to enter into nice calculations i as to what whole or in part, and in the event

the nation had been brought to realise the each member of the Imperial family has of partial allotment the surplus amount paid as deposit will be appropriated towards the payment of instalments due on allotment. conscription. The Rt. Hon. W. M. The Government has the rights, the Commonwealth Premier,

The Gazette contains the following re-of opinion that such permission may be fresh from his visit to the Western Front,gulation inde by the Governor-in-Coun- properly granted. Every such permis to refuse any application,

and realising fully the grim nature of No person shall sell any tobacco by sion shall be endorsed on the licence the struggle which is being waged between retail except on the premises named as granted in respect of such truck or Militarism and Freedom, is determined the licensed premises in the Retailer's trolley and may be cancelled by the

NEW CARTRIDGES.

Y

English 134B 1o all Bors and Sises.

Manufacturers

SHOKELESS POWDER and CHILLED URSE or NURSERY GOVERNESS on SHOT. From No 10 to 88SG, at 66, 37 and

the Peak for little girl aged 6.

87.50 per 100 SPORTING REQUISITES Apply

and AIR GUNS in Variety.

Inspection Invited.

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Box 23,

Came of “ Dair Press," Offloo

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WANTED

NASSISTANT SECRETARY for the Marine Engineers' Guild in Hongkong. Engineer Preferred. Reply to

17, NANKING ROAD, Bhanghai.

WANTED.

Clas

TALF of FURNISHED HOUSE, Paak

H District,

Moderate rent.

M. 8.

near

Tramway Station. F

Bor 15 M., Caro of "Daily Preis" Office.

GLENARTNEY.”

WING to this Steamer having been on Fire at Singapore the voyage has been abandoned and part of her Cargo has beezi transhipped to other Steamers for conveyance to destination

The first lot will arrive by the 85 *OLENIFFER” ou MONDAY, 6th look, and farther pertigalara will be notified

më possible."

-A. General Avenge Bond vill require to be signed and a deposit of 50% made before countersignature of Bills of Lading can be giren

SHOWAN, TOMES & CO.. Agents, “GLES " LINE (MCGREGOR Gow & Co.). Ix

Payment will be required sa follows, viz.--

25 per cent. on spplication,

allitment (4th Dec, 1810

WM. SCHMIDT & Co.

1268

H

20th December, 1916. 17th January, 1917.

100%

A LING & CO..

-19- Quin's-ROAD CENTRAL

MURNITURE AND PHOTO - GOODS.

STOBE.

Photographic Goods of Every Description in Brook Developing, Printing and Enlarging.

Canton Marblea in Various Shades, TELYPHOKE 1919.

580

JUST BEOZIV29

Supply of FLOWER £nd VEGETABLE IKEDA

PIARAH

cessity for it, would do well to glance done for the common cause, but rather to

for a moment at the results of the Reconsider what each may yet do. ferendum in Australia on the question of

that, so far as his personal power

Licence."

and influence go, Australia shall bear her due share of the common burden.

A number of members of the Institu In case of default in the pay. The

part of Australis in this

tion of Engineers and Shipbuilders of ment of any instalment at its due

wor " he told a large audience which

Hongkong paid a visit to the Taikos date, the deposit and instalments met in the Town Hill, Sydney, to wel-

Dockyard on Saturday. They inspected previously paid will be liable to me him back to the Commonwealth, forfeiture.

“is to press on, not relaxing its efforts; the various plant and work in progress, and, from an engineer's point of view, Scrip Certificates, with coupon to continue along that path blazed for us attached for the first half year's by those men who have immortalised the "Pent & most interesting afternoon. interest due on lit May, 1917, asme of Australia on the peninsula of issued after Gallipoli and covered themselves with instalment due on allotment, and fresh glory at Pozieres. To this end be such certificates, when fully paid, desires to keep the Australian Force in will be exchangeable for Bonds Europe up to its strength of 100,000 men when received. Notice will be by having another 100,000 ready to fill the given when Bouds are ready for gaps in its ranks, Compulsion, in his opinion, is the only means of obtaining these men, or, at least, of obtaining them in time. Tet, ardent patriot though he is,

delivery HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI GRACA & CO. BANKING CORPORATION.

Hongkong, 25th October, 1918.

The B.G.A. Sergeants Mess held their first dance of the season in the RA. Theatre on Saturday evening. In spite of other attractions there was a large number present, and an enjoyable even- ing was spent. Master Gunner May, assisted by C.S.M. Youngman, acted as M.C., and the success of the evening was due to the hard work of the Committee, the members of which were, Master Gun-

ho has not committed the Indiscretion of ner May, Sergeant Major Wilson, C.8 M. attempting to force his views upon the Allison, C.8. M. Youngman and Bergeant people, but has submitted the question, to Bunt.

mont between the inside edges of the tyres of opposite wheels is not at any time less than four feet, two inches. Pro vided that the Captain Superintendent.

of Folice may grant permission for such

measurement to be less than four feet two inches in any case where owing to the state or construction of such truck be i

Captain Superintendent of Police at any time without notice.

HONGKONG BANK NOTES. The returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specie in the month reserve in Hongkong, during th ended 31st October, as certified by the managers of the respective banks, tre as follow

- Average Specia Banks Amount, in Reserve. Chartered Bank of

Tridia, Australia and China... - 8,018,383 § 5,000,000* Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation. 29,651,963 20,000,000 Mercantile Bank of

India, Limited 1,080,813 650,000

Total $32,230 304 30530,000 Sterling securities deposited with the Crown agents valued 5 2150,000.

Securities at the Crown agente 650,040.