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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

LADIES' GOLF,

T has been suggested that a Ladies' IT

Committee should be formed in con- nection with the Golf Club.

A meeting of Ladies will, therefore, be held in the Happy Valley Club House on Wednesday next at 11,30 m. All lady players are invited to attend.

By order

GENERAL COMMITTEE.

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P. & O. 8. N. COMPANY.

NOTICE.

THE Uniersigned has been Appointed TBURBLINTENDENT for THE PENINSULAR

AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

at this Port as from the lat instant.

By Order of the Managing Directors,

E. V. D. FARE,

Superintendent.

Hongkong, 8th January, 1917.

INTIMATIONS

G.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY

PUBLIC AUCTION. ARTICULAES and CONDITIONS of PAR Clay Publie Avetion Sale, 20 be held TODAY (MONDAY), the ath day of January, 1917, at 3 P.M., at the Ofices of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of Oso Lot of CROWN LAND at Kennedy Road, term in the Colony of Hongkong, tor of 75 years, with the option of renewal si &CROWN HENT to bed by the Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY THE KINu, for van further terms of 75 year

Hp of Bala

Registry No.

INTIMATION.

PER S.S. “SOMALI."

We Have

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Just Received

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plan 11,526 78 2,246

[(about)]

An Assortment of

HONGKONG AND CHINA GAS

CO., LTD.

THE COMPrice GS will be REDUCED

THE COMPANY begs to notify the Publi

by TWENTY CENTS 1er 1,000 cubic feet as from the 1st February next.

By Order of the Directors,

GEORGE CURRY,"

Local Secretary. Hongkong, 6th January, 1917. (159

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

HONGKONG

ELECTRIC LIMITED.

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COMPANY,

8 already notified, this COMPANY'S

GENERATING

4

is

now wad

carrying in the vicinity of the waxE ZA and no further installations can be made for the present Consumers and Wiring Contractors are warned against the danger of making additions to existing installations and aro reminded that under the Regulations for securing the Safety of the Public contained in the Schedule to the Bhotricity Supply Or dinaneo 1911 (as siuended)" Any person taking. addition to any electrical installation cor-

THE COMMITTEE-hs decided that the ad to the Company's main.

following shall be the SETTLEMENT

DAYS for the year 1917--

MONDAY, 28th January, FRIDAY, 23rd Febranry. THURSDAY, 29th March. FRIDAY, 27th April. WEDNESDAY, 30th May. THURSDAY. 28th Jun FRIDAY, 7th July,

WEDNESDAY, 29th August.

TRURSDAY, 27th September. MONDAY, 29th October, WEDNESDAY, 28th November. FRIDAY, 21 December. By Order of the Committee,

EDWARD M. RAYMOND, Hon, Secretary, HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE. Hongkong, th January, 1917.

TO LET

TOLYROOD,"

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Semi-detached, Six

**Ho Chatham Road, Kowloan; Closed Verandahs facing Tyeman Pars.

Apply

AITCHIE, DonWELL & Co., LTD. [161

LIFE INSURANCE.

E. P. HENDERSON, lato of the

shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Dollars for every such addition." By Order of the Board,

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents,

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Hongkong, 5th January, 1917.

UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG,

WANTED.

CADBURY'S

MONDAY, JANUARY 8TH, 1817.

moment, give them a transient notoriaty gard as their peculiarities? Anyone who and provide an eager audience. Then, again, there were even before the war a whole army of clairvoyants, soothsayers, occultists, palmista and other people who ekod out a precarious existence by prey ing alternately upon the fear and the crodality of not only the uneducated but also the moneyed classes. It was clearly to the interest of such a class to magnify and exaggerate any rumours which dealt with the supernatural.

some

at Aberdeen on Friday, and, when near Wanchai Gap, were set upon by four men, two of whom were armed with knives. The fishermen were bound with cloth, and were carried up the hillside, They were not able to extricate them- selves for half an hour, when they imme- dintely reported the matter to the Police.. The robbers got away with 815.

Mr. Denman Fuller will give a series.. of lectures, to which all are invited, on

The Hongkong Police have received a has paid even a little attention to meta-report from two fishmongers to the effect physics no longer seriously denies that that they wore on their way to buy fish some people possess this faculty of acting as a medium. They describe accurately, others whom they have never seen, and they talk of the charactor, habits and in terests of the individual with whom they claim to be in touch. It is possible to believe in a sort of auto-suggestion which induces them to realise things which they have been foretold, or of which they have the impressions from When all that has been granted, and gained

A very when we indulgently smile at the foolish. minds of their interlocutors ness in human nature which allows the large number of practical people incline |quacks to prosper, we are still compelled to such an explanation of a series of Musical Appreciation" on Mondays, to consider certain other phenomena, phenomena which bos attracted the atten Jubusry 8th, 18th, 22nd, and 29th, at the which have, during the past fifty years, tion of many educated and clever people. Helena May Institute. A collection will cung very definitely before the notice of They dismiss the spiritualistic theory, be made at the conclusion of each lecture the public. A few days ago we published which implies the intervention of the on behalf of the Fund for Blind Sailors. contributed article upon the remarkable dead or of disenrnate entities, because and Soldiers. The object of the lectures enable those present to hock recently written by Sir OLWER nothing has adequately confirmed it; bit will be to Lopar, in which he claims to have had very few people refuse to believe that obtain a deeper knowledge and apprecia communications with hip dead soldier one mind can influence another. In mak-tion of good music, particularly of the Bon The book has attracted widespreading new experiments, however, it is well type less seldom heard. The compositions - A little knowledge is played and explained at the first lecture attention wherever the English language to be cautious.

strong-minded to-night will be Ballade in F minor only is spoken, and it is extremely probable dangerous,

minar (Bach), Sphinx (Cyril Scott). At that it will be translated into many people can bear the strain of a deep (Chopin), Prelude and Fugue in C sharp Our contributor said, very study of some subjects, for, indeed, the last lecture Mr. Fuller will desk languages,

much study is a weariness to the flesh." frankly, that, great as was his respect

with pieces suggested to him by the for the learned scientist, the evidence Mental effort, is exhausting, and the pecu-nadience. By kind permission of H.E. produced by Sir OLIVER Loper was not, liar action and reaction of mind upon Sir Henry May, Mr. Denman Fuler will in his opinion, entirely convincing. Yet mind seems to contain the possibility of give a Pianu Recital in the Ball Room he evidently approved of this new method danger to physical health. Some unfor- at Government House at the end of

the experimental tunato

January; and at each of the four lectures.. of attempting by method to gain a knowledge of that through amateur chemists mixing up he will refer to and speak of the prin- which we commonly call the supernatural, constituents, the real nature of which cipal works he will play at that Recital. During the last hundred years there has they were ignorant. Discords can be pro-

HONGKONG MAGISTRACY. been a very great change in the attitudeduced by the untrained upon any musical of our intellectual leaders upon all ques

AN EUROPEAN'S BOARD AND tions. The tendency nowadays is to say about anything new "Give it a trial." Many schemes which, ca paper, appear & certain to succeed fail miserably when

CHOCOLATES

MECHANICAL ENGINEER required A. S. AMCHANGANY OF HONGKONG, to

act as workshop instructor and foreman in the University workshops and engine rooms, Commencing Salary £220 and quartos.

Applications to be made in writing to Profesor MIDDLETON SHITE, The University, Hongkong from whom further particulars may be obtained.

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THE SEATTLE-VLADIVOSTOCK LINE OF STEAMERS.

Mossrs. FRANK WATERHOUSE & Co., La., Seattle, Managers,

FROM date the Undersigned will. Act as

MANAGING AGENTS in the Exet for Messrs. FRANK WATERHOUEL & Co.'s BRATTUR-VLADITOSTOCK LINE OF STEAMKEJ,

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,

Tel. Na Phú, anh và 10. Hongkong, 1st January, 1917.

135

MRAT Civil Service, Leinster HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY,

Gardons, London, W.. who has been consulted over 21,000 times and placed aanusily for many years Life Policies exceeding three-quarters of million sterling in amount, offers his advies ABSOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE on all matters of LIFE INSURANCE, on his conditions, a copy of which can be had on APPLICATION TO THE MANAGER OF THIS NEWSPAPER,

HOLDERS OF DOUBLE ENDOT: MENT, DEFERRED (OR TONTINE BONUS POLICIES in any OFFICE, BRITISH OR AMERICAN, should at once communicate with Mr. Henderson, who ca Show them how to strengthen their position

under there Policies.

SPECIAL SCHEMES of ALL OFFICES compared

and criticised.

SPECIAL TERMS FOR TREATY ARRANGED FOR

PORTS.

HOME RATES

HONGKONG.

Those who wish-

(1) To Make an EDUCATIONAL PRO-

VISION, or

(2) TOIMPROVE their INCOME AFTER

RETIREMENT, or

(3) To Make & good INVESTMENT by

INSURANCE, or (4) Toefect an INSURANCE TO COVER THE RISKS OF THE VOYAGE HOME, should write to Mr. Henderson for his advice, which will be sent to all persons who state their occupation, are believed by hit to apply in good faith, and agree to his conditions.

"GLEN** LINE, LTD.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEER.

FROM LONDON, COLOMBO, xa

SINGAPORE

HE Steamship

GLENTURRET," Captain W. E. Baker, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are bereby informed that their Goods are berug landed at their risk into the Godowns of the lunghong and Kowlour Wharf and Godowe Company Limited, Howison, and stored at Consigne risk and expense.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowe, where they will be ermined on Fridat, lab inst“, at 10 AM.

All Claims must be presented within FITEAT DAYS of the beamer's arrival hare, after which Rate they cannot be recognized.

No Claims will be admitted after the Gooda have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 13th inst, will be subject to rent.

Consignees of Cargo uro heroby nodified that they must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of Imperts and Exports, Hongkong, before Bill of Lading can be countersigned,

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

Agente.

LISB Bangkang, 6th January, 1917.

LIMITED (Incorporated in the United Kingdom).

LOST.

TRANSFER RECEIPT Nod, 1277 issued

to Mesaro, LeGAN & BASTO for Transfer of 100 Shares in this Company into the name of Mrs. ERA WELLS, having been MISLAID, DESTROYED, NOTICE IS LOST, HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Receipt is produced at this Office within 30 days from the date hereof, the Certificate for the said

or

Sharos will be delivered to the said Mrs. RHRA WELLS, and the Transter Receipt will thereafter be held by the Company za null and void.

W. B. ROBERTS,

Secretary. Hongkong, 19th December, 1916,

NOTICE.

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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

in Fancy Boxes.

WATSON

CO., LTD.,

HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

TELEPHONE 10.

BIRTH.

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put into execution. On the other hand, there are ideas which, at their birth, scem to be impossible of realisation; and yet they have been demonstrated as not only practicable, but useful and admirable.

statement To illustrate this latter

and

"accidents "

have

occurred

LODGING.

It seems unlikely that much instrument. good will result from very amateur ex- periments in the delicate and difficult subject of telepathy. As yet we do not seem to know much about its rudiments, with chtaining board and lodging by

Mr. R. E. Lindsell has been appointed to be ⇓ member of the Board of Examiners.

11

Frank Carlyle Castlefield was charged.

false pretences.

st

:

The evidence given went to show that Castlefield went to Mrs. Allen, Mama- geress of the Seamen's Institute, and represented that he had been reinstated the Asiatic Petroleum Company, where he was formerly employed, and Aliss Blizz Aun Butlin, of Leamington, that the Company would be responsible we need only refer to two of the who died on October 5th, left £200 to the most remarkable branches of engineering China Inland Mission. work which still fascinate the general public, namely, wireless telegraphy and aerial flight. When CLERKE MAWELL stated that it was quite feasible for the atmosphere to transmit unseen ripples, like those sech on the surface of a pond after a stone has been dropped into its

The

A meeting of the Hongkong Sanitary Board is to be held to-morrow. agendo contains only formal business,

Mr. G. C. Moxon has been gazetted » 2nd-Lieutenant in the Hongkong Volun-

ANDIS.At G, Primirose-hill-road, Lon- still waters, scarcely anybody believed teer Beserves, with effect from December

don, on December 1st, the wife of Sir CHARLES ADDIS, of å son, ·

DEATHS.

BRAGA MARJORER BLAINE STENBRIDGE, aged one year, clove daughter of

J. VINCENT and GLADYS BRADA, on 5.8 Shinyo Mara at ca un 16th December.

27th.

The Hon. Mr. Claud Severn will

deliver a lecture on British Malaya at the meeting of the Union Church Guild at 9 o'clock on Wednesday evening.

him. Had he made the statement in the days of the Inquisition, he would most certainly have met the fate of BRUNO, who was burnt at the stake for daring to assert that our earth is not the centre 157 of the Universe. What would have hap

Mr. E. V. D. Parr, who, has been acting CLEMENTI-SMITH-At Baguor, on Novem-pened to any man who claimed to have

as superintendent of the P. and O. Com bor 29th, DAME TERESA CLEMENTI SMITH, widow of Right Hon. Sir Bent a message with or without the

aid of wire at that time can easily pany since the death of the Hon. Mr. CECIL CLEMENTI-SMITH, G.C.M.G.

be imagined their blind desire to bolster up their own position.

Religious zealute, in Hewitt, has now been confirmed in that fanatical notions of the Creator, would

HONGKONG Pion: 101, Das Vœux ROAD, C. LONDON Orion: 131, FIRST SET, E.C.

The Daily Press

Hongkond Gr¤ January, 1917.

The Hongkong, and China Gas Co., who have, certainly need the burning faggots, raised the pruce of gas carly last year, or the torture chamber, for such a now anounce that they will reduce it by 20 cents per 1,000 cubic feet as from the 1st prox.

Art. No. professor of the Black body doubts that our present outlook

On

such matters is much more sane than was that of our forefathers. So long as

The engagement is announced between

THE CERTIFICATE for One Share, THE SUPERNATURAL IN WAR people do not seek to force their opinious Mr. Cecil H. B. Joly, Chinese Maritime

THE No. 5401 in this Company, stand-

ing in the name of Miss. JOSE PL JESUS, of Maro has been LOST, and

it at the expiration of one month from

TIME.

down our throats, or to interfere with Customs, Ningpo, and Miss G. E. M. our private life or with public morality," Edio ") Bradgate, eldest daughter of

ernment Railways, Hsinho.

DURING the progress of the war there they can, for all wo care, think what they Mr. W. Kerap Bradgate, Chinese Gov- the date hereof the above document be have been many recorded cases of visions, like. All that we ask is that they shall not forthcoming another Certificate for the said Saare will be issued by the accurate prophecies, and communications not be a danger to the State. It is unfor Company and thereafter no other will be with those who have died.

cknowledged

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager, Hongkong, 19th December, 1916. - (174)

NOTICE

The first

account which attracted public attentiontunate, but it is true, that some laws was the phenomenon commonly known must be made for weak-minded people, the "Angels at Mons." It cannot be who seem to be unable to protect them- Haid that when the matter was fully in selves. Therefore, the credulous are vestigated it had any secure foundation, saved from one of the dangers which The explanation most generally accepted clever and unscrupulous people might was that the whole business was a very otherwise prepare for them. But, after THE CERTIFICATE for Two Sbares, THE

It was making such limitations, we are quite greatly exaggerated rumour, Nos. 5414/5415 in this Company, standing in the name of Mis FELISBINA like the stories of the Russians passing content to say "Well, if you believe it, NOQUEIRA, of Macas, has been LOST, and through Great Britain to the relief of give it a trial." if at the expiration of one month from

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

O. MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager." Hongkong, 19th December, 1910,

WANTED.

A

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Nobody who has studied the subject of intuitions, communications and similar phenomena can suppose for one moment that all the people who believe in such things have moreenary or other ulterior objects for so doing: In many cases they have braved public ridicule, which is, Perhaps, the last form of persecution left toe in connection with such matters. We lastinctively call things which we do rot anderstand “

for the payment of his board and lodg ing. It was arranged that he should

Не pay the sum of $65 per month. also presented the manageress with a chit as a guarantee that the money would bo paid..

Defendant asked for a remand, in order to procure legal assistancey and this was granted:

FAILING TO REGISTER.

An Indian was charged with failing to register himself when landing in the Colony.

Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse (D.S.P.)

employed ag à fireman on aboard the explained that the Indian was formerly 8.5. Malta and when she was last in port. ha deserted. The matter was reported to the Police and the man was arrested, being put back on the boat when it came into port again. Apparently he deserted again, for it came to the knowledge of the Police that he was in the Colony, and on his (Mr. Wodehouse's) instiga and asked why he had not registered. tion defendant was brought up to him This case was the first of its kind in the Colony.

Mr. Wodehouse added that if a fine. wore imposed he did not think the man could find the money, and he would be kept in prison until such time as the Malta, came back, when he would he placed on board again.

His Worship imposed a fine of $25, month's imprison. or, in default, one

merit.

SAMPLES.

RESULTS OF ANALYSES.

The following return, prepared by the Government Analyst (Mr. E. R. Dovey). under The Sale of Food and Drugy Ordinance, 1896, for the year ended 31st December, 1816, Gazette:-

Lady Clementi-Smith, widow of Bir Cecil Clementi-Smith, formerly Colonial Treasurer of Hongkong, and, afterwards Governor of the Straits Settlements (who died in February last), died on Novem- ber 9th at Sefton Cottage, Bognor. She married Sir Cecil Clementi-Smith in Beer, 1889. There were seven children of the Bready marriage.

Description

Flour, Gin,

The Right Rev. Bishop D. Pozzoni, Milk,

Port Wine, D.D., left yesterday afternoon for the

Rum, Weichow District and the adjacent Sherry, villages for the purpose of administering Whisky, Confirmation to the baptized Christians,

and to bless a new Church built near His Lordship

the Young Fah Market, will be absent about three weeks on his

above district. Pastoral visit to all the missions in the

the date hereof the above document be Belgium in the early days of the war, not forthcoming another Certificate for The people were in a state of great excite the said shares will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be ment; national life had been suddenly jerked out of its usual routine into the acknowledged.

most amazing and ghastly war in his tory; emotional appeals were being made by statesmen, by the clergy, and by all the leaders of current opinion, to the young men of the country asking them to enlist; simultaneously parents and wives and sweethearts were abeeling them Belves to persuade their loved ones to a favourite adage in our language which of the dollar by the sura of ed., which makes the actual sum received smaller go to almost certain death. Nobody declares that "genius is akin to mad-

than before the war, is a substantial one, thought, talked or wrote about anything ness." Yet, upon all other subjects, some

and one that calls for immediate remedy else but the war. Small wonder that of these believets in mediums and com- rumours spread, that neurotic and unmunications with the dead are perfectly (says the London and China Express). hop. Apply in owa writing with copy balancer minds seized upon anything I sane and rational people. How can we The purchasing power of the dollar-now |

bordering upon the supernatural and reconcile ourselves to what at least added items which would, for the nicety-five per cent. of their fellows re-

of figures.

LADY TYPIST for a General Stors Experienced, and with a fair knowledge Apply stating Salary required to

*STORE." Caro of "Daily Press," Boa

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WANTED.

ANGINEER, Br., abstainer. for Harbour of

stating pa and salary required to-

W. S. RAUEY & Co.. LED,

Kowloon.

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The grievance of the troops at Hong- queer," and we have kong in connection with the appreciation

2. 1916d-is much less than when it stood at 1s. 8d. before the war

Number of

is

published

sampice.

Number

found

genuine.

in the

Number

found

adulter-

HONGKONG BANK NOTES.

The returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation

in reserve in Honghwag,d of specie certified by the Managers of the respec- tive Banks, are as follows:- month ended December 31st, 1918, as

Average

Specie Banko,

Amount. Reserve.

in

Chartered Bank of India.

and Shangbai Australia & China 87,765,117, 85,000,000 Hongkong

Banking Corp., 25,025,355 20,000,000 Mercantile Bank of India,

Limited,

950,577. 550,000+ Total

$33,741,040 25,550,000 Sterling Securities deposited with the

† Becurities with the Crown Agents Crowe Agents valued at $150,000,

£70,000,

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