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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.

THE

SPEECH DAY-TO-DAY.

THE CHAIN will bo taken at 7 o'clock this evening by the Right Reverend the Bishop of Victoria. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Hongkong University will address the Meeting und distribute the Certificatos won during the past year in the University Local Examination

All Olduys are cordially invited to b present.

ΟΝ

WANTED.

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N SHAMEEN, an experienced Por- tuguese Office Assistant; junior clerks need not apply. Write stating references.

"S. L. R.," Care of Daily Press" Office. Hongkong, 22nd December, 1916. [1487

LOST.

➤LACK Dnsehund answering to the name

BLACK Bat will be suitably

rewarded. Return to -

J. W. BOLLES.

Standard On 05. [1483

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.

CHRISTMAS EVE. TABLES and Private Rooms for

NABLES and Private Rooms for Private

$2.50 per head.

2.

A Band will play during and after Dinnor, and, if possible, Dancing Partiesean bearmaged.

MEXU:

Hon d'OcarTEN Portage la Crème Bouchées aux Huitres Poisson Froid

Chateaubriant Macedoine Aspic de Foie Gras

Asperges glacées à la Créme Dinduns rotis Truffées

Salado de Coleris,

Charlottes anx Fruits Gatean. Moko Xmas Cakes

• Fruit

Coffee

Hongkong, 2nd December, 1916.

NOTICE:

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"OLEN LINE (MCGREGOR, GOW & CO.), LTD.

NERTAIN Cargo S "GLEN ARTNEY" loving arrived hero per 8.8. **SUI SANG," Messrs, GODDARD & DOUGLAS will attend at the HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY'S GONDOWNS. Kowloon, on FRIDAY, 22nd inst, at 10 AM. to survey all damaged packages.

Consignets of cargo arrived are requested to have representatives present.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,~

Agents. "GLEN” LINE (McGridón, Glow & Co.). Lrs,

Hongkong, 21st December, 1916.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

JAVA CHINA-JAPAN-LIJN.

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JAVA-PACIFIC LIJN. THE Starship

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

WINTER "BISLEY.”

SERVICE OF LAUNCHES. MURRAY PIER and STONECUTIKRA ISLAND. BOXING DAY, DEC. 20гH, 1916,

OUT.

MURHAY PIER (dept.) 8.45 AM.Army

HOME STORECUTTERS (dept.) 4.30, T.-Army

Service,

3.40 P.M.--Victoris.

Service Lannch). 9.00 A.B.--Victoria. 9.15 A.M.-Navil

Launch. 9.30 4.31.-Police

Lanbeli. 9.45 4.31,-(Army

Service), 10.30 AM.(Victoria,

Service. 2.00 p.m.-Victoria. These Launcher will run mainly for the convenience of Competitors and Officials on the Bange. They may also be used free of charge by any person in sorvies uniform, and by Ladies.

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INTIMATIONS

"KISMET "

A.D.C. Production

on behalf of the "STAR AND GARTER FUND

for Soldiers and Sailors totally disabled in the War.

TO-MORROW (SATURDAY),DEC. BRD,

5.19 P.M.-Naval

Launch.

FOURTH, LAST NIGHT-

5.30 PM-Army

AT 9 P.M.

SHARP.

PRICES:

Drem Circle

84.

ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

BOXING DAY

IXED FOURSOME HANDICAP

M MEDAL FLATS Players receive half of their aggregate Handicaps Post Entries. Player may start at any time during the day.

An Express Train will leave Kowloon at

W. D. KRAFT. 10.08 .3. First-Class Passengers only,

Acting Hon. Secretary.

Stalle

PH...

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Half-Price.

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EXHIBITION

INTIMATION

JUST ARRIVED

22ND, 1916.

A CONSIGNMENT OF

JACQUIN'S

PARISIAN

CONFECTIONERY

BY

M. KINSEN,

WELL-KNOWN LANDSCAPE FAINTER

Hand-Embroidered

OF

11468

WATER COLOURS

and

Hand-Painted

CASES.

HONGKONG HOTEL,

PECIAL DINNERS will be serval in tho

SPOOLAL ROOM DINING ROOM

on the following days:

CHRISTMAS DAY. BOXING DAY. NEW YEAR'S DAY. BAND in attendance. Plan of tables can be neen at Hotel Office,

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UNION INSURANCE BOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

THE CERTIFICATE NO. 1904 for On

Share, 8100 paid up, numbered 14118, standing in the Register in the name of Rev. M. A. DA SILVA, having been declared LOST, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that walore the said Certificate be produced to the Suchty on or before the 19th March, 1017, A NEW CERTIFICATE for the said Share will be Issued and the old Certificate will thereafter be hold by the Society as naill sud void.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

General Maniger. Hongkong, 18th December, 1916.

AT

KOMOR & KOMOR'S ART GALLERY,

Open on MONDAY, the 18th, Dec., For Five Days Only.

Mr. KINSEN is on a tour of the world and gives Hongkong a chance to see and purchas his wonderful paintings at Messrs. KOMOR & KOMOR from 8 A. till 5 r..

FOR FIVE DAYS ONLY!

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SECOND: 51% RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1916- for Rh 3,000,000,000. THE Subscription to the above LOAN will be Opened from 14th November to 26th December, 1916.

The price of issue is 95 per cent. The Ln is entirely free of Income Tax and other tarations.

The Loan is redeemable at par on 14th October, 1926, without option for the Bassian Government to convert it at as earlier date

Compots at payable half-yearly on the 14th

Dotober, April and 14th

As interest on the above Loan rhus from 16th October, the laterat accrued on date of sabription must be taken into consideration

20. MONTAGUE EDE, and is to be added to the price of isanie,"

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The RUSSO ASIATIC BANK in Hongkong is ready to accept applications for the above-named Losh.

Special favourable rates will be gusted for Payment may also be made in Roubles. Applications will be wired to Petrograd free of telegraphic charges and commission.

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, Russian Exchange,

LIMITED (Incorporated in the United Kingdom). LOST.

TRANSFER RECEIPT Nol. 1277 issued to Messrs. LOGAN & BASTO for Transfer "TJISON DARI,”

of 100 Shares in this Company into the name of having savived from SAN FRANCISCO, H. RERA WR18, having been MISLAID, Consignees of Cargo are hereby roufied LOST, or DESTROYED, NOTICE IS that all floods are being landed at their HEREBY GIVEN that unless this said rick into the hazardons and/or extra hazardowe Boceipt is produced at this Office within 30 days Godowna of the Hongkong and Kowloon from the date hereof, the Certificate for the said Wharf and Gadows Co., Ltd., whense and for shares will be delivered to the said MrE, REDA from the whare delivery may be obtained. WELLS, and the Transfer Receipt will thereafter

No Claim will be admitted after the Goolsbe bold by the Company us null and void.

and all Goods have left the Godowns,

maining undelivered after the 27th Dea. at

Noon will be subject to rent.

the Steamer must be pre All Claims against sented to the Undersigned on or before the 20 à Des, or they will not be recognised.

All broken, chafed, and dansgod Goods are to -be laft in the Gotowns, where they will bo saamined on the 27th Deo. at 10 M., by the Company's surveyors, Mears. Goddard & Donglas.

No Fire Insurance )ar beam effected. Billa of Leding will be contersigned by JAVA CHINA JAPAN LIJN

11488 Hongkong, st December. 918

BANK HOLIDAYS.

40 per cent, only of the cost of the Bonds be paid on application, the balanse to be paid on receipt of the Bonds,

The Bank is also ready to give every facility to subscribers in the shape of adrances against the scrips.

G. TISDALL,

Manager, Russo-ASTATIC BANK.

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A. S. WATSON

CO., LTD.,

HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

TELEPHONE 16.

A special menu has been arranged for Entente would enter any Conference. If he imagined that his success in Roumania Christmas Day and Boxing Day at the Astor House Hotel. A band will play had disheartened the Entente be has now discovered his mistake. We rather suspect, during and after dinner, and there will however, that he was never under any be facilities for dancing. delusion in the matter, but chose this as

tion is now beginning to assume more normal conditions.

The China and Japan War Savings a favourable opportunity for attempting Association's membership for December to obtain an armistice without loss of numbered 707, or 983 more than in the-

The total subscrip prestige. Had he succeded in his design

preceding month." he would have gained valuable time in

tions amount to £21,009 109. 101, which to prepare for a vigorous renewal

The prizes won by the successful of the conflict. At the worst, he hoped to pose before the world as the angel of scholars at St Paul's College will be peace, and to reuse the flagging spirits of distributed at 7 o'clock this evening by his own people by proving the implacable the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Hongkong nature of the foc, whom he has alwaysUniversity (the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn). The Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Victoria will represented as menacing Germany's very

preside. auceed existence. Though he may

The Tsinanfu correspondent of tho in deluding his own docile subjects, whose independence of thought and X.-C. Daily News writes:-A recent action has been systematically drill traveller from Shantung to England has. ed out of them, he is not likely done the journey from Dalny to London able to in 17 days, which shows that communica to impose

apon neutrals form an impartial judgment of the situation for themselves. Nover for one

Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co. have for- moment was there any prospect that the Entente Powers would perch upon the warded five cases of articles made by the olive branch which showed such obvious Hongkong Working Parties to the Quee traces of having been limed. The trick Mary's Needlework Guild, and she to that was played by NAPOLEON stood no the O., R.G.A. Records, Dover, per ats. Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, chance of being practised again with | Cyclops. success by a nation which has proved itself to be utterly dishonest and unscrupulous anation which, on the eve of war,

The Medical Officer of Health for cynically described the guarantee of Bel- gium's independence as "a scrap of Shanghai, in his report for November, paper" and has since repeatedly broken says: The Settlement remains entirely the Hague Conventions, which it was free from small-pox and is a gratify pledged to observe, by strewing mines in ing result of the extensive campaign of the open sras, starving and cruelly free vaccination which has been under- ∙It' seems. neglecting prisoners of war, levying taken during recent years. fines upon occupied territories, carrying likely that Shanghai will be the first city & off the inhabitants into slavery and in China to stamp out this disease, which employing barbarous methods to force by intelligent co-operation of the com them to perform work designed to post-muity with the Health Office can certain- pone the date of their deliverance. The ly be accomplished."

The death is reported at Tientsin of great fact that emerges from the sum mary dismissal of these so-called peace Mr. R. Gaskin Riches, who came to the proposals is that Germany stands before East about sixteen years ago to join the the world branded as a perjurer in whose firm of Moutrie and subsequently trens sincerity it is imposible to believe. Until ferred his services to Messrs. Wooller she is prepared to make full reparation Vony & Co. The debased was formerly for the crimes of the past and to give ado quate security against the commision of similar crimes in the future we shall," in P.D.OW of the North China District the words of Mr. LLOYD GEORGE, "put our trust in an unbroken army rather than in a broken faith." Meanwhile new and

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HONGKONG OFFION: 101, Des Vœur Roid, O. LONDON OFFICE: 131, Fiasr Bramer, E.C.energetic steps will be taken to increase

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG 2ND DECOR, 1916.

in accordance with their custom in this connection, are generously carrying tho eases free of freight.

a member of Kingston R.C., for which he had rowed at Henley, and he was

Grand Lodge of Freemasons. His end, at the age of to years, came after a brief and sudden illnces. The deceased is sur- vived by his wife, who went Home last yeaT.

HONGKONG MAGISTRACY. THEFT OF HANDBAGS,

Before Mr. Melbourne yesterday al Chinese pleaded guilty to stealing a num-

the power of our offensivo in the field and to husband and develop our resources at Home In this task the aid of every serviceable unit in the country will be enlisted, and no sacrifice necessary to attain the end in view will be shirked. THE PREMIER AND PEACE. At the same time efforts will be made ber of handbags from a shop in Queen's to add to unity of sim greater unity of Road, West, and was sentenced to six ME. LLOYD GEORGE's first speech to action amongst the Allies, in order to weeks imprisonment, GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY Parliament since his clevation to the deprive our enemies of the great adran-

LIMITED.

Premiership 19 a notable oratorical tage which they have hitherto enjoyed in. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that un

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL achievement, whether regarded from the this respect and thus avoid a recurrence of MEETING of the GREEN ISLAND point of view of form or substance. To such a lamentable incident as that which charged before Mr. Wood with being in CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED, will be

"peace proposals thehas recently been witnessed in RoumaniaPossession of 530 tela cf opium at Des "There must be less of the feeling that not guilty, and Mr. Goldring, solicitor, each country has only its own front to and Mr. L. D'Almada, solicitor, who ap- look after, says Mr. LLOYD GEORGE.peared for them, applied for a remand,

The policy of a common front must which was granted.

W. E. ROBERTS,

N Secretary

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NOTICE.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE CERTIFICATE for One Share, THE

No. 5401 in this Company, stand ing in the name of Miss JosE DE JESUS, of Macace has been LOST, and if at the expiration of one month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming another Certificate for IN accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912 the said Share will be issued by the

XCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the transaction of Public Company and thereafter no other will be

C. MONTAGUE EDE, Business on MONDAY and TUESDAY, the knowledged. 25th and 26th instant.

General Manager. Hongkong, 9th December, 1916.

Hongkong, 19th December, 1916. [1474

NOTICE.

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THE OFFICES of CHINESEMARITIME CUSTOMS for Kowloon and District will be CLOSED to Public Business on FRIDAY, the 22nd instant, aud on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd January, 1917.

A. H. HARRIS,

Commissioner of Chinese Custom

York Buildings. Hongkong, 20th December, 1916

***NOTICE:

H. K. W. W. W.

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THE BANDAGING at the PEAK CLUB THE

will be discontinued during Christmas week. The last Meeting this your will be on THURSDAY, December 1st, and Bandaging. will start again on THURSDAY, January 4th, when it is hoped new Members will join and that there will be a regular attendsuce of all during

NOTICE.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE CERTIFICATE for Two Shares,

held at the Office of Messrs. SHEWAN, TOMES the German

& Co., the General Managers of the Company, Premier has returned an answer which

and their hollowness St. George's Building, Chater Road, Victoris,

in the Colony of Hongkong. on FRIDAY, exposes

will

the Fifth day of January, 1917, at 12 o'clock be read with, intense satisfaction by Noor, when the subjoined Resolutions which Britons throughout the world. There is were passed as Extraordinary Resolutions at

be a reality. No longer must there be

the Extraordinary General eating of the probably not a single individual in any said Company held on the Fifteenth day of December, 1918, will be submitted is confirms of the countries which were reluctantly overwhelming guns on one side and bare compelled to take up arms by Germany's breasts gallant breasts--on the other." Special Resciations

tion as

(1) That the capital of the Company

reduced Zecan 84.000.000 (Four. Million wanton aggression who would not eagerly It is only by taking measures such as Dollars) divided into 400,000 (Far welcome the opportunity to avoid all the Hundred Thousand) Shares of $10 (Tea

AN OPIUM CHARGE,

Two Chinese-a man and woman-were-

Vaux Road, West. Defendants pleaded".

CHARGE OF MURDER DISMISSED.

A Chinese named Yay San Choi ap

peared before Mr. J. R. Wond yesterday, under remand, on a charge of murdering

Dollarsjach, to $3,000,000 (Three Million misery and suffering which a contions these that we can hasten the coming of Dollars) divided intú 400,000 (Fourtion of hostilities must involve if that victory and the dawn of a real and a Chinese Revenue Officer on the 7th

Hundred Thousand) Shares of $7.50

(Seven Dollars and Fifty Conta) each, were compatible with honour and safety. and that such reduction be effected by It may be said with equal confidence that, returning (on such date as the Company's Board of Dirocton shall appoint) in the present circumstances, there will

the 400,000

to

·Of.. the bolders (Four Hundred Thousand) Shares that be a no less general endorsement of the have been issued paid up capital to the Prime Minister's declaration that "Roy extent of 82.50 (Two Dollars and man or set of men who, from a sense of Certs) per Share and by reducing fa

nominal amount of each of the said shares weariness or despair, abandoned the from $10 (Ten Dollars) to 97.50 (Seven struggle without achieving the highest Dollars and Fifty Cents).

enduring peace.

instant.

At night on the date mentioned two. A mail for Europe via Siberia closes Chinese Revenue Offers boarded a boat in Yanmati Bay for the purpose of searching for opium, which they had rea- to-day at 11 am.

sou to believe would be found there. Those on board obstructed the officers in

A branch of the Navy League of the United States is to be formed in Shang-

hai

The total output of the Kailan Mining 1918, amounted to (2). That application be rade to the Supreme purposes for which we entered it would Administration's mines for the week and

Court of Hongkong to confirm the redoo be guilty of the costliest act of poltropning 9th Decemb

Nos. 5414/5415 in this Company, standing in the name of Miss FELCSBINA NOGUEIRA, of Macau, has been LOST, and if at the expiration of one month from the dute hereof the above document be not forthcoming another Certificate for the said Shares will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be. acknowledged..

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager. Hongkong, 19th December, 1918. [1475

the coming year on MONDAYS and THURS HONGKONG DAYS from 10 AM, till ] P.M.

There are Bandages te sow or roll and wool is sapplied on THURSDAYS to those who knit. Work can be taken home by those who prefer

to work there.

All those who have attended during the past year are heartily thanked especially those who hare attended regalarly. The need is so great

ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED

demand for Electricity bag alufost resched

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

the limit of the capacity of t present Generat ing Plant, and as a realt on further applications for new connections, can be accepted sa from Ist Jaumry next until completion of the New

tion of the capital of the Company in m

47.527

tons

・

their search, and ultimately a scuffie opic place, in which one of the officere

his body was subsequently found. was struck on the head with a piece of

wood and thrown into the harbour where The other officer escaped by jumping over-

conformity with the foregoing Resolutionery ever perpetrated" The vague and | 68,325 tons and the sales to Dated this 18th day of December, 1916.

nebulous nature of the enemy's over-

A case of small-pox was discovered on board and swimming ashore. The defen tures and the arrogant tone in which they

board the Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner dant was arrested and remanded pending SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., By Order of the Board,

General Managers.

were made caused them to be suspect from

Yokohama Maru when she arrived at further inquiries [1476

the outset. In the sentiment of the Yokohama on the 13th instant (says the victory which you have gained by your Peking Daily News). The patient we bravery" said the KAISER in an Army Chinese steerage passenger, 17 years Order to his troops, and the old, was embarked on the ship at Hong monarchs of the three Allied States have kong. The Tokohama Maru was taken made the enemy a peace offer." Then, to Nagahama quarantine station. as if conscious that the offer was not

At & meeting of the Shanghai Ameri- likely to be acceptable, the message procan Athletic Club the following executive ceeded." It is uncertain whether the committee was elected to serve until the

JEBSEN & CO. (IN LIQUIDATION), REDITORS are required to send in their Claims to the Undersigned on or before MONDAY, the 15th Janta 1917.

Dated the 20th December, 1910

W. E. HUMPHRETE, No. 16, Queen's Head Central,

Liquidator.

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DROPOSALS FOR FROZEN FRESH

that it is earnestly hoped that everyone will Power Station at North Point. It was fully BEEF AND MUTTON. Headquarters | $150 We have in view will be attained first annual meeting to be held in the let

maka au effort to help, and it is pointed out that the Bandaging is open to all, whether Members

(Signed) HELENA A. V. MAY, President II.K.W.W.W

of the PEAK CLUB or not.

NINA SANDEMAN, President FEAK CLUB Brapel.

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expected that the North Point Station would have been completed and ratning before now, but owing to the War work in respect of the now plant has been very cosidombly delayed.

By Order of the Board,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agente Bong, 14th December, 1816,

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Yesterday Mr. Wood intimated that he had been informed by Inspector Gor- do that the police were satisfied, as a result of their investigations that the defendant had no connotion with the warder. The defendant was thereupon discharged.

Mr. Agassiz, solicitor, appeared for the defendant.

SPORT. CRICKET.

The following will represent the Rest

Philippine Department Office Department Yon have therefore to continue to resist ter part of January, 1917:-Messrs. G... H.K.C.C. on Amee Day, and Boxing Quartermaster, Manila, PI-Sealed Proposals defeat by the enemy." The Kate must F. Ashley (Chairman), O. D. Rasmussen, Day: Major. Robertson, K. Brayshay Witchell, W. Kanilion, J. P. Robin will be received here mutil 12m., Marah 7th, 1917, and then opened, for furnishing about have known that it was not in the characH. D. Rodger, C. E. Hall, J. E. Ponny JV Brasa, R. Pomionby Fane, E. 5,000,000 pounds Beef sad 100,000 ponnis Mutton, Further information on applicatio ter of the vanquished suing for clemency, witt, H. W. Squires, and H. A. Vanderson, W. IL Stapleton, P. A Redmond

FLATS

but as victor dictating terms, that the best.

B. M. Austinad R. E. O. Bird.