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BECOND 54% · RUSSLAN · INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1018 for Rbis, 3,000,000,000.

THE Subscription to the above. LOAN will be Opened from 14th November to. 28th December, 1916.

The price of sss is 15 per cont.

The Loan is entirely free of Income Tax and other taxations,

The Loar in vedouble at par on 14th October, 1926, without aption for The Russian Government to convert it at an earlier dinte.

HOUSES TO LET

TO LET

TO.1, CANTON VILLAS, Kowloon

No

A HOUSE in Kantaford Torice.

Apply

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT AND AGENCY: Co., LTD.

TO LET.

Coupons are payable half-yearly on the 14th NO. 42, ELGIN STREET April and 14th October

As interest on the above Tan runs from 14th October, the interest accrued on dats of Bulcription must be taken into consideration aad is to be added to the price of issue.

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BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCILS, TIENTSIN, NORTH CHINA.

THE COUNCILS are prepared to receive applications from British Subjects for the post of MUNICIPAL ENGINEER.

Candidates will be required to pass alcal examination as to their stress for the position.

Applications should state ago, qualifications, salary required. eto, and should to forwarded, together with copies of testimonials and parti cals of previous employment, to the Under- signul on or before 31st December. 1916.

By Order,

Councils" Offices.

J. R. LYNESS. Secretary.

Ticutain, 6th November, 1916:

PUBLIC AUCTION,

HUGHES & HOUGH.

By Order of the Mortgagers,

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Raselan Exchange,

Payment may also be made in Rombles. Applications will be with to Petrograd free of telegraphic charigen and commission.

40

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TO LET.

11825

OFFICES in HOTEL MANSIONS :-Four

large rooms (communicating) facing Blake Fier and the General Post Office. Non. 9, 10 11 and 12 on the Third Floor of Hotel

Mausions.

For particulars apply--- per cent only if the cost of the Bonds be paid on application, the bubuco to be paid on

The tip of the Bouds

Is also ready to give every facility to subscribers in the shape of advances against the strips.

G. TISDALL.

Manager. Russo-ASIATIC BANK,

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NOTICE.

WF hordly annomen that the CANTON

SAMSUI RAILWAY, after the Board of Communications having bought four- sevenths of its interests from the Provinces of Hanan and Hüpeh, still has three-sevenths of its Shares belonging to the KWONG TUNG YUEH-HAN RAILWAY COMPANY, LIMITED.

It was agreed with the Board that the Government, as a shareholder, should appoint à Director while the undersigned should designate |& Mauager to co-operate with the Director to

́ESSRS. HUGHES & HOUGH have administrate the affairs of said Railroad.

MANAGER, HONGKONG HOTEL (1892

TO LET AT THE PEAK.

FURNISHED, 3, Stewart Terrace,

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Princes' Buildings,

1219

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demand for increased representation in The sale by auction of Inland Lot No. the government of the Colony and that 930, a valuable leasehold property at the agitation is artificial. They would Monk Kok Tsui, Kowloon, is announced be quick to do so if the opportunity to take place at Messrs Hughes and offered. The records of the past show Hough's sales rooms on the 23rd inst.- that dissatisfaction with the Constitu- tion dates from the very foundation of the Colony, and the modest measure of popular representation which we enjoy to-day has only been won by persistent effort. If our predecessors had been content meekly to accept rebuffs, such as

Mr. J. R. Brenton, inspector of ship- wrights, and Mr. C. E. Tucker, inspector of electrical fittings. Hongkong Dock yard, on returning home, have been posted to Rosyth Naval Base for similar

duries.

The following gentlemen have been elected non-resident fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute:--Lieut. J. C. Bosus- ton. Shanghai; Mr. H. B. Jephson, Hongkong; and Mr. Robert Thomson, Bangkok

TROUBLE that which bas recently been administered by Mr. Bosan Law in his capacity na Secretary of State for the Colonies, it is tolerably safe to assume that the Execu- tive and Legislative Councils would have been composed to this very day solely of Civil Servants. Surely in this more

As the result of his recent pianoforte democratic age we are not going to show recital at the Peak Club Mr. Denman less spirit and determination than those Fuller has sent (after paying the charges. whose tenacity of purpose in years gone in connection with the Club and defray- by wrong from a reluctant Governmenting the cost of printing, etc.) 8104.20 to Department one concession after another the Blue Cross Fund and $140.10 to the

It will be remembered that when the Prisoners of War Fand. recent petition was being prepared for

The death has taken place at Crouchi submission to the Secretary of State

End of Mr. John Camming, who was a objection was raised in some quarters to-member of the editorial staff of the West- the limited nature of the proposedminster Gazette from its foundation in olectorate. It was felt-and with good

1803, antil a few weeks ago. Born 67 reason that the Chamber of Commerce

Years ago near Aberdeen, Mr. Cumming and the unofficial Justices of the Pease was for a time in Hongkong, and them were not sufficiently representative of the joined the London Press, on which he community, and H. E. the GOVERNOR, in worked for over 35 years.

PHOTO XMAS CARDS

OF

CHINESE VIEWS.

ROOMED FURNISHED HOUSE, for The Cards are neat and tasteful and his covering dispatch, sought to make

6 or 6 months, Apply to-

LINSTEAD & DAVIS

(1972

TO LET.

Mreenived instructions to sell by Public Therefore, all cheques for payments receipts. A HOUSE. af Observatory Villas, Kowloon,

Auction,

ON THURSDAY. the 3rd day of November, 1916, at 3. P.M., at their Sales, Rooms, Ive Honso Street, Victoria, Hongkong,

The following VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY Fitnate at Mong Kok Tsui in the Dependency of Kowloon and Colony of Hongkong, vir.

All that piece or parcel of ground situsta, lying and boing at Mongkoktani in the dependency of Kowloon in the Colony of Hong- kong and registered in the Land Offro as KOWLOON INLAND LOT· No. 990, abut- ting on the North side thereof on KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 937 and measuring there 30 feet or thereabouts, and on the South sile theroof on KOWLOON INLAND LOT NO.

servements of purchase and other documents of the Director shall be countersigned by the Manager representing the interest of the undersigned, otherwise they are Null and Vold. The present Manageris ME, LAUKAMKONG.

By Order of Committes.

KWONG TENG YUEH HAN

RAILWAY CO., LTD..

Canton,

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·Canton, 9th November, 1916.":

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

LOST.

for 60 Shares numbered from 5820 to

935 and measuring thereon 30 foot or thereTHE SHARE CERTIFICATE NO. 1636 abouts, and on the East side theroof on a public road annamed and mesuring thereon 34 feet or thereabouts, and on the West side thereof on a public lane, containing a total area of 1,020 squo foot or thereabouts. TOGETHER with the mossenger and premises, therron known as Nos. 2 and 3 of the named public road aforemid (at the back of Nos.188 to 530

5369 inclusive, standing in the Colonial (Hongkong) Register in the name of Mr. Woo YUK Cho, having been LOST, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Certificate us produced at the Office of the Company, No. Russell Street, Hongkong, within 30 dafs from the date hereof, a duplicate Certificate for the said shares will

after be held by the Company as pull and void.

W. E. ROBERTS, Secretary Hongkong, 26th October, 1918, [1307.

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Shanghai Street, Mongkoktsuf aforesaid) and be issued and the old Certificate will there: Gr Airy Offices overlooking statne Square.

with all rights, easements and appurtenance thereto belonging.

The Property is held for the nusspired residue of a term of 75 years commencing from the 30th day of Marel, 1899, created therein by a Crown Lease dated the 1st day of Gotober. 1913, and made beton His Majesty King George V. of the one part and one It Lok SHAY of the other part, subject to the payment of the annual Crown Ront of $0.50 and the performance and observance of the covenants and conditions contained in the said Crown Losse.

For further particulars and conditions of sailo apply to:~~

GEO, K, HALL BRUTTON, Yock Building, Chuter Road, Hongkong

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MESSIA. HUGHES & HOUGH,

The Anctionsors.

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Applicants will be required to produce Pass O Central, as present in the occupation of

ports or identification papors.

All persons with certain exceptious who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDIN ANCE 1016.

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OFFICES in King's and York Buildings. HOUSES in Clifton Gardens, Conduit Road. HOUSES in Broadwood and, Moreton Terracen

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engineer in charge of location and con- course, that they had hitherto been en- trusted with the responsibility of choos-struction of the railways to be built in friends who receive them.

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HONGKONG, 16TH NOVEMBER, 1916.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.

and Canal Company. He will work with tficials of the Chinese Government

in deciding upon the lines to be bailt

dismissed so curtly by Mr. BONAR LAW, this consideration no longer possesses the

The London Correspondent of the Mau- ehme weight, and a wider franchise, we chester Guardian hears that Lord Kit think, may be substituted with advan- chener's famous collection of Oriental tage. This, however, is a matter for the china is now in the Victoria and Albert. new Association, when formed, to settle Museum, and it is probable that it will at a general meeting; indeed, it will be be put in public exhibition. It will be observed with satisfaction that in the remembered that by his will Lord Kit- circular, which is being issued to all these chener made the collection, which was who are on the Sanitary Board Voters'

one of the passions of his life, an heir List the public are not asked merely loon in the Kitchener family at Broome.. to register their approval of a cut-and

Last night Miss Glory Taft nad Mons. dried scheme, but are left for to threeb Duprez, the well-know entertainers, open- out among themselves the details ofed a short engagement at the Bijout the new petition which it is proposed Theatre. That their visit was eagerly

to address either to the Secretary of State anticipated was nifest from the crowd- for the Colonics or the House of Comed house and the enthusiastic nature mons, as may be thought, expedient. At of the reception accorded the artist, The same time it is suggested that steps demands for a re-appearance Hiss Taft whose every turn" was greeted with

should be taken to press upon the Home Authorities the claims of Hongkong to be represented in the promised-Imperial Conference which will readjust inter Imperial relations and shape our post War trade policy. It is obviously

has a voice of line quality and is equally at home in songs of a sentimental charact ter and those in a serio-conis vein. Sho was recalled again and again and was the recipient of numerous benquets from the audience. Mons. Duprez is a vocalist of the dramatic order, and, although his songs were for the most part in French. he succeeded in arreating the attention audience. Several episodes in the serial and eliciting the hearty plaudits of the

film "The Million Dollar Mystery' were successfully screened.

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION OF HONGKONG, The following circular-letter is being issued by the promoters of the above Association

You are invited to join the above Association, which has this following: objects:- 踐

LONDON OFFICE: 191, FLEET STREET, EC desirable that the Crown Colonies, which collectively form an important asset of the Empire, should not ise everlooked when these important questions are under discussion, and that, if any system of grouping be resorted to, it shall be carried out in such a way that the differ- ent circumstances obtaining in the vari- ous territories may receive proper con sideration. These activities do not by INVITATIONS are now being issued to

any means exhaust the possibilities of the British subjects in the Colony to join Constitutional Reform Association the Constitutional Reform Association which is designed, also, to serve

useful

1.The sending of a fresh Petition to and thus support the movement for very,

purpose in keeping a

the Secretary of State for the Colonies giving the public a more effective voice watchful eye upon matters of local in

or to the House of Communs upon the in the management of their affairs. We terest and importance and in stimulat ng subject of greater representation of this hope the respores will be general and the growth of a healthy public spirit, the Councils of this Colony. The details of public on the Executive and Legislative immediate, so that, with as little delay absence of which has so often bersuch Petition and the constitution of the

body of electors will be determined here as possible, steps may be taken in the deplored.

alter by the Members of the Association. proper quarters to show that the local

at & General Meeting. R community was really in carnest when it

2The pressing upon the Hom signed the recent petition

Authorities of the claims of Hongkong to the

A mail for Evrupa vid Siberia closes to be represented on any Imperial Coun Secretary of State. It is not, of course, to-day at m.

cil or Association to be formed, and also to be expected; that everyone who is

to exprese ita views now upon post-war trade policy. eligible will enrol himself as a member. There are doubtless some who will abstain Jaltan, with the London mails of the because, from their point of view, and inst, arrived at Port Said on the the existing order

der of things in th idem. perfectly satisfactory; others, because they are fearful of any change, matter what it may be, and others, yet again, because they will prefer to wait ending th November amounted to ALF at FURNISHED HOUSE, Peak and see what measure of success is like54,208 tons and the sales to 74,541 tous.

TO LET.

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·FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Gordon Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon,

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The P. and O. outward mail steamer

The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the wook

ly to be attained before identifying then-

The tender has been accepted for the selves with the movement. This is all the reclamation scheme which is to be carried greater reason why those in sympathy. out by the Kai Tack Company at Kow with the objects of the proposed Asso ciation should send in their names forth.oon, and the work will be commenced

in a week's time. NE 10 BEP HORNSBY ACKROYD with It is at cuce the least and the

OIL ENGINE complete with ⠀ and coupled direct to one & K.W. Continuous best which they can do to support those Current Shant Wound Dynamo of 50/70 volts who have been fighting their battle. and ALBO ONE V SWITCHBOARD for are prepared to continue the struggle 1 reached Numbers Koal count, and we do not want to put it within the power of the opponents of reform to argue that there is no general

FIRESH • Supply of FLOWER AND with shunt regulator,

VEGETABLE SEEUS.

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ACCUMULATOES, DINAMO, &c., complete with instruments for 100 Amps,

For further particular apply to--

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until the

Christmas and New Year Parcel Mail The public are informed that the to the United Kingdom will be closed at the General Post Office at 5 p.m. to-day This mail is due in London on the 24th

December

3-And generally the active support of all matters which are of general public interest and importance to Hongkong.

INDIAN

CONSTITUTIONAL

REFORM. GREATER POPULAR REPRESENTA TION SOUGHT."

A memorandum signed by 19 elected members of the Imperial Legislative Council has been presented to the Viceroy advocating constitutional changes after the war. It is understood (says, The Times correspondent at Simla) that the document advocates the early estab Jishment of self-government and the the case of the Executive Councils, with introduction of the elective principle in increased Indian membership, and a sweeping reduction of the representation of the Civil Bervice in the Legislative Councils. It is stated that the signatories include no representative of the prin cipal fighting casses or of the Funjab.”