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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

~KOWLOON CANTON KAIT

(BRITISH SECTION).

NOTICE.

Alteration of the timing of the last Up Local Train from Kowloon and the last Down Local from Shum Chun to Kowinop,

THE PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED

first on and froin SATURDAY, Ith Normobav. 191d, and on each succeeding- SATURDAY and SUNDAY and also ou, PUBLIC HOLIDAYS the LAST UP LOCAL TRAIN will leave KOWLOON st 4.20 3. lostead of .18 ... stopping at all Stasions to SM CHUN, and the LAST DOWN LOCAL will leave SHEM CHUN at GPM. Instead of 6,25 P... calling at SHEUNG SHUI 507 P.M.. FANLING 609 PM. TAIPO MARKET 6.10 Pist. and Tarvo 6.18 P.M. an arriving KOWLOON 6.44 P.M.

By Ordm.

H. P. WINSLOW,

Manager. Kowloon, 8th November 1930,

*NOTICE.

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GLEN LINE (McGREGOR, GOW

& CO., LTD.

ERTAIN Cargo ex. M. S, GLEN

ARTNEY having arrived here per SOLENIFFER Messrs. GODDARD & DOUGLAS will attend at THE HONGKONO. AND KOWLOON WHARF AND. GODOWN COMPANYK GoDOWNS, KOWLOON, on SATURDAY, 11. Naromber, at 10 AM.. to survey all ausged packages. Consignees of Cargo arrived ar requested to have representatives present.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.. Agents,

GLES" LINE(McGREGon, Gow & Co.j, LTD. Hongkong, 8th November, 1916.

NOTICE.

S., O. A. E. 0.

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THE Undersigned beg to notify that the Agency of the FAR EAST OXYGEN & ACETYLENE Co., LTD. (Socists d'Oxygono et d'Acetylane d'Extreme Orient) will be trans“! ferred from A.B. THE SWEDISH TRADING COMPANY IN CHINA. LIMITED, to Mesam, FLOQUET & KNOTH (1. Princes' Buildings. Telephone 2082, Works 1033), as from the 16th November, 191H, KT

A.B. THE SWEDISH THE FAR EAST TRADING COMPANY OXYGEN & IN CHINA. LIMITED, GUNNAR LUDIN,

ACETYLENE

„CO., LTD., F. PERNAUT, Technical General Maunger. Hongkong, 31st October, 1918. (1352

NOTICE.

UNDER instructions from Head Office

have handed over the Agency of REUTER'S TELEGRAM CO. LTD., to MB, J. P. BRAGA, of No. 9, Pedder's Hill, to whom all communications should be addressed in future,

P. SMYTH. Hongkong, 2nd November, 1916. [1341

RELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD, LIVERPOOL.

HA

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

TAVING been Appointed AGENTS_for the above Company we are prepared to accept FIRE risks at current rates.

W. A. HANNIBAL & CO. Hongkong, 6th November, 1916: ₤1850

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

LOST.

THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 161 for 50 Shares numbered from 6820 to 5369 inclusive, standing in the Colonial (Hongkong) Register in the name of Mr. Woo YUK CHO, having been LOST, NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that unless the mid Certificate be produced at the Office of the Company No. 1, Russell Street, Hongkong, within 30 days from the date hereof, a duplicate Certificate for the said shares will be issued and the old Certificate will there. after be held by the Company a null and VORL

W. E. ROBERTS, Recretary, Hongkong, 96th October, 1918, [1307

AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 911 1916.

Thunder Pomer. WITZKE'S THE Undersigned Lave received instractions

& Co. to sell by Public Auction, 2

TO-DAY THURSDAY). the 9th November, 1916, commencing at 10.30 A.M., on their proaníses, No. 1, Ningpo Street, Yanmatí,

A QUANTITY OF METAL &., &c.

Comprising pe

Copper Plate Cuttings, a large quantity of Copper Pipes, Mantz Metal Bois, Buss Pistes and Rods Line Crernirates. Souttle Port Frames. Patent Automatic Lubricator. Cant Iron Bice Boilers. Brass Bushes. Valses. Phng Oil Cups, Served Bent Cock, Straight Brass Wire. Pusting Grupes, Weighing Flauged Stop Valves, Brass Locks, Colls of

Machine, &c., &c.

On View from WEDNESDAY, 8th November. TERMAT Co.

HUGHES & HOUGH. Anctioneerd.

£1378

· PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersignedd have received instructions from the Liquidators of Messrs. WITZKE'S

T

& Co. to, sill by Public Auction,

PO-MORROW (FRIDAY).

the 19th November, 1916, at 11 A.., at the Breakwater, Yarmati.

The Sten Lamel

Во

*META" Coustmeter of Teakwood.

Length overall....

J ft. 10 ft.

Depth moulded

7 ft.

One ent of inverted Compound Condensing Engines.

Burfice

Dia, of H. P. Cylinder

7 ft.

L P

14 ft.

10 ft.

Length of Stroke

One Cylindrical Multitubular Boiler Dia.5 ft., Length 6 ft 6 in..

A Launch will leave Binke Pier at 10.30 AM. day of sale to convey intending purchasers,

On view from WEDNESDAY. 8th Novembor, TERME-Cax).

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers,

₤1354

INTIMATIONS

REMEMBER

INTIMATIONS

The List will be Closed on or before 5th 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 LOAN WILL BE HANDED OVER TO THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT AS A WAR CONTRIBUTION FROM THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.

THE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST OF THIS LOAN ARB GUARAN- TEED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF HONGKONG AND ARE SECURED BY THE REVENUES OF THE COLONY,

PRICE OF Issos $100 PER CENT.

Interest payable-1st May and

1st November.

First Coupon for full six months interest payable 1st May, 1917.

Principal repayable at par on- 1st November, 1928, or, at the option of the Government of Hongkong, principal may be

INTIMATION

SPEY

ROYAL

SCOTCH WHISKY

There are signs that in the activa, pre- parations for trade after the war the reform of the British system of coinage, woights and measures will be taken in hand.

At the recant incetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science the subject was actively de bated, and some

A mail for Europe eid Siberia claseë to-day at 3 p.m.

A Chinese amali omployed at 31, Leighton Hill Road has been taken to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from multiple injuries sustained by falling from a window she was cleaning.

of the adoption portant advocates She fell from a height of 12 feet...

of the metric system

appeared. The managing director of one

Mr. Denman Fuller's recent piano-

It is announced that on and from Saturday, November 11th, and on each also on public holidays, the last up local succeeding Saturday and Sunday, and train will leave Kowloon at 4.20 p.m. instead of 8.18 pm stopping at all stations to Shum Chun, and the last down local will leave Shum Chun at 6 nm. instead of 6.25 p.n.

of the most successful modern "stores" forte recital in Shanghai realized the in London, Sir RICHARD BURUIDGE-sum of $1,200. This amount has been man who bas given a new meaning to the given to the British Women's Work Association, with the exception of $200, term "Captain of Industry, because he which was given to the fund for blind has shown that organising ability and soldiers and sailors. imagination can be applied to the buying and selling of furniture and groceries, as well as to the building of ships and the management of railways--brought the matter before the seientists assembled at Newcastle, and it was Dr. HESTER, of one of the largest shipbuilding firms in the North of England, who agreed with his conclusions. Moreover, Mr. CERALD STONEY, who is actively associated with so many industrial schemes in Britain, most strongly supported the suggestions to introduce the decimal system into the British Empire. An Australian delegate stated that the countries of "the Anzacs" were only waiting for the Mother Country to move in the matter, and then they Obtainable from all Compradores would willingly follow. Everyone seem

10 YEARS Old.

and Stores.

SOLE AGENTS :

A first performance of the En- tertainment to be given at the Ministering Children's League Bazaar will take place at Government House by kind permission of His Government) to-morrow (Friday) at 6 Excellency the Officer Administering the p.m. Entrance, 30 cents. There will be a second performance as the Bazaar on Saturday next at 5:30 p.m. Entrance $1.

The Council-General of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul acknowledge with thanks the following donations towards the funds of the Society during October:

ed to urge that the Anglo-Saxon world. Sir F. M. May, K.C.M.G., $26 should almost immediately act in unison de Souza, 825; Mr. A. F. B. da Bilva Chev. J. M. Alves, 225; Mr. E. V. M. R to bring about this much-needed reform. Netto, 325, Sir Robert Ho Tung, $25; For many years the change has been (pupils' contribution) 880; Mme. Pint The Director of St. Joseph's College advocated by scientific men, who are in (sale of medals) by Miss P. d'Almada the habit of employing the decimal Castro, 4; and Anonymous, $50, system in experimental work and calcul Last night, at the fortnightly meeting cations. We have seen so many remark of the Guild of the Union Church, Mr. able reforms, including daylight-eaving,Queen's College, delivered a lecture on L. Forster, B.A., assistant master at

and the suspension of what are called

wholly or partially repaid at A. S. WATSON &"the rights of labour, made possible by

any time after the fifth year by drawings of Bonds.

The HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

"KISMET BANKING CORPORATION, Hong-

MID

DECEMBER.

A.D.C. Production

on behalf of the

**STAR AND GARTER FUND”

for Soldiers and Sailors totally

disabled in the War.

NOFICE.

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CO., LTD.,

TELEPHONE 616.

the war that we are convinced there is every possibility of the general adoption of the metric system into the British Empire, despite the objections which have previously been urged There has

kong, are instructed by the

overn. WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, been a strong movement to persuade the ment of Hongkong to invite subscriptions for the above Loan.

The Bonds will be issued in denominations 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

This loan will be free from any local taxation as regards both principal and interest.

BIRTHS.

DAVIDSON-At Kenlis, the Peak, ou November 8th, to Mr. and Mrs. E. DAVIDSON, & 100.

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HABECOST. At the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, on November 3rd, to Mr. and Mrs. ALEXANDER HABECOST, a daughter. Move-On November 7th, in London, the wife of Rev. H. COPLEY MOYLE, a daughter.

[1361 DEATH MARQUES-At 6, Albury Lane, Shanghai, on November 3rd, Mrs. JOSEPHINA MARQUES.

China Government to accept officially. what is often called the Continental system,” and we cannot be

be surprised if the authorities in Peking favour it. Many years ago Germany and Austria Hungary recognised the advantages of a carefully thought out and simple system of weights and measures, and by its adoption, they have enjoyed a great advantage over us in many important foreign markets. We hope that when peace comes they will have lost this advantage. It is essentially a matter for commercial men, and we may hope that those in China thoroughly alive to its importance. It is not too much to say that their interests are inenaced by an adherence to the almost indispensable system of coinage,

are

Shakespeare, the. Man." On the prin of the artist are revented by his art, the ciple that the character and personality

lecturer delineated the characteristics of Shakespeare as disclosed in his works by lecture was scholarly and interesting, and exhaustive and skilful analysis. The the lecturer was cordially thanked at the fair attendance. close. Mr. C. B. Cubey presided over, a

HONGKONG MAGISTRACY, FALSE PERMIT, Revenue Offer Lannigan charged a Chinese shopkeeper of Des Youx Road with passing bottles of wine with a false Mr. Wood, and the wine was ordered to permic. A fine of $30 was imposed by be confiscated.

OPIUM

was charged by Bergt; Wills with being Eighteen hundred dollars was the fine imposed upon an old boatwoman who. in possession of 18 taels of prepared opium. The drug was concealed round the woman's waist.

ALLEGED BANK-NOTE FRAUD.

Applications will be received by? Hongkong OFFICE, 10a, Des VœUX ROAD, C. Weights and measures which now obtains at the Hongkong and Shanghai Hank,

the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI,

LANDON OFFIOR: 181, FERET STARET, EC.

BANKING CORPORATION, Hong- The

kong, from whom the necessary, printed forms can be obtained. Buch applications must be for $100 or any multiple thereof and be accompanied by a deposit of 25. per cent. of the amount applied for.

Baly Press.

HONGKONG, 9TH NOVEMBER, 1916.

A NECESSARY REFORM.

NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiatic or Indian desiring to leave the Colony should apply in writing for permission to do so to the Captain SECOND JAY RUSSIAN INTERNAL SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, at least Applications may be accepted in Ir is generally agreed among European

SHORT TERMED · LOAN OF 1916-

for Ebla, 3,000,000,000.

THE Subscription to the above LOAN will The Opened from 14th November to 25th

December, 1916.

The price of issue is 95 per cont. The Loan is entirely free of Income Tax and other taxations,

bernuak digle je The Loan is redeemable at parou 14th October, 1926, without option for the Russian Government to convert it nå yn cartier date.

Coupons are payable half-yearly on the 14th April laud 14th October.NAL

runs from

As interest on the above Loan r 14th October, the interest sccrued on data of anscription must be taken into consideration. and is to be added to the price of teens.

The Russo- Astan¤ BANK in Hongkong is ready to accept applications for the above-named Los

Special favourable t

Russian Exchange.

rates will be quoted for

Payment may also be made in Roublow.

Applications will be wired to Petrograd free

of telegraphic charges and commission,

48 hours before the intended hour of departure, giving name, nationality, age, sex, height and whole or in part, and in the event in China that one of the most urgent occupation of the applicant, and stating the name of the steamer or other vessels or the hour of partial allotment the surplus of the train by which the appliosat wishes to amount paid as deposit will be leave. Applicants should apply in person for their passo at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION appropriated towards the payment between the hours of 9 A., to 1 P. and 3P.M. of instalments due on allotment. to dr.m. daily.

The Government has the right to refuse any application.

Payment will be required ne followg viz.

25 per cent. dn application, m

allotment (4th Dec, 30th December 1916. » 17th Juguay, 1917,

£77

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A Chinese was charged before Mr. Wood with forging & cheque of the value of $196. The note was presented the bank officials became suspicious and the man was subsequently arrested on a charge of forging by means of a chop. Mr. Mattingley defended, and the case was remanded.

CAN A DEAF MAN PLAY TANTAN

N

within the British Empire. It is well worth a little temporary inconvenience to pass from obacs to order. If the reforms were carried out we should be astonished that we had been blind for so long to the advantages of the decimal system,p

When charged before Mr. Hazeland with We do not intend to recapitulate hereat Wanchai on Tuesday, a

gambling-playing fantan with matches. the many arguments in favour of metric delivered himself of the following

Chinese

man cannot play fantan, so I was not racasurements, because the ground has am a coolie, and am very deaf. A deaf

playing

Mr. Hazlood-Oh, can't he? You will

be fined. #3, or 8u to prison for seven

days.A

Other men who were playing got swOF, and the stakes, about 40 cents and Rome, matches, were seized by the Crown,

AT THE POINT OF THE KNIFE.

been well covered by many able speakers and writers during the last few years. reforms necessary los the material peo- But in perusing the latest expressions of gress of the Republic is in connection opinion, it has occurred to us that it was a pity the influential speakers at New A dollar of a castle did not persuado Mr. LLOYD with the currency system.

niforma value throughout China, and the GE to be present. The dynamic little abolition of the fuel, would be welcomed Welshman seeing to be the man to get by a majority of the traders. Incidental absurd state of affairs in the workshops things done He must have noticed the

ly, it may be mentioned that a dollar of uf Britain, which he controlled as Minis- the came gold exchange a the yen would inches to the English foot, a rod, which is of a report made by a Chinese servant. ter of Munitions. Since there are twelve The local police are very suspicious 1918)secin to have many advantages. But sixtyseven inches long, is five feet plus employed at 60. Caine Road. The report,

Runweildy fraction called whatever the price-it is possible to twelfths of foot. But the inch itself out a man entered the house by way of u Devon is to the effect that while his master was agine it as high as the dollar of the is divided into multiples of two, so that verandah and held up the servant "at Straits Settlements or as low as one one hears of a sixty-fourth part of an the point of a knife. ! -Two other men In case of default in the pay.

shilling and ninepenca fixed value forech. In these days of accuracy, however, then entered the house and the servant a sixty-fourth part of an inch is a large was gagged with a handkerchief and ment of any instalment at its due the dollar would be conducive to the measure, and so we read about shells and also had his hands tied behind his back. date, the deposit and instalments extension of trade. A suggestion from Buges correct to one-ten-thousandth part The men remained in the house for i of an inch, which proves that, for very short time and then left, taking with America, which has recently attracted small menurements, a sort of a bastard them two old clocks valued at about $25, international coin of uniform value in workshops of Britain. Scrip Certificates, with coupon absolute gold. Each country in the attached for the first half-year's world would, of course, impress its own interest due on lat May, 1917, stamp upon its own particular coinage, WANTED.

will be issued after payment of the but the common value would facilitate INGINEER, Br., alatsiace, for Harbour or instalment due on allotment, and trade and make travelling very much

refa, and salary required to...

stating ago and lowering copy such certificates, when fully paid, simpler. We see diffcolties in intro-such awkward numbers. These absurd baskets on the ground, removed her

WAS. BAILEY & Co., LTD. will be exchangeable for Bondsducing this common coinage system, how when received. Notice will be ever, owing to the different credit of the mit given when Bonds are ready for various nations. We venture to make a further suggestion; it is that the Allies should discuss the matter at their next economic conference to see of it be not possible for them to introdure a common coinage to facilitate trade and travel between themselves.

*

40 per cent, only of the cost of the Bonds British Qualified Medical Man, an previously paid will be able to some attention, is the adoption of an metric system has forced its way into the and no trace of the "burglars" has been

may be paid on application, the Imance to be

paid on receipt of the Bonds,

The Bank is also ready to give every facility

to subscribers in the shape of advances agaărint the Boripe.

G. TISDALL

Manager

RUSSO ASIATIQ BANK.

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FOR SALE

O ENGINE complete wi

“NE 10). B.H.P. HORNSEY ACKROYD

coupled direct to om 6 KW. Continnom Current Shunt Wound Dynamo of 50/70 volts with shant regulator.

ALBO

for

ONE

SWITCHBOARD ACCUMULATOES, DINAMO, dog, exreplota

with instruments for 100 Arape, For further parkiemisen mogil

LINEARÁD & DAVIL Alezankiben Kuckingy.

appointment as a SURGEON on Board Steamer sailing for Singapore or Penang.

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forfeiture.

delivery,

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION ongkong, 26th October, 1918,

We have twelve pence to the shilling and twelve inches to the foot, possibly for no better reason than that we have twelve

discovered.

WASTING WATER.

months to the year. The figures twelve An old Chinese woman, carrying two and seven seem to haunt tu. Even the heavy baskets, was seen walking along. brightest and smartest of us instinctively Caine Road yesterday, and when she dislikes divisions and multiplications by reached a street fountain, she placed the

systems of weights and measures are in- shoes, and proceeded to wash her fect. deed vexation and a worry to young and So far the law had not been broken. old England. The gentle of the French However, when the ablutions had beetr astion not only created, but immediately concluded the woman walked away,, recognised, the great advantages of divid leaving the tap running and then the ins and multiplying bumors by ten. For law stepped in the sake of car trade in China we trust Mr. Wood, the Magistrate, said he did money to bring about this most Leet at street fountain, but of course that Britona in the Far East will usa all not see any harm in people washing their.

emential reforms. For we have not the they should turn of the top when her sfightest doubt that Chins will Himately had ↑ finished. He would impose the fly adopt the mito ayatein, like the nominal fine of 50 cents, and warned the Vnow countries of Latin Ameries

defendant not to repeat the odeno.

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