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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

BANK HOLIDAYS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

PUBLIC COMPANIES

INSURANCE SOCIETY THION

CANTON, LIMITED.

The

"N accordance with Ordiusuce No. of 1912 EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the transaction of Public Business on TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY," the 23rd and 24th instant.

{197 Hongkong, 18th January, 1917,

NOTICE.

OF

TWE CERTIFICATES, Nov. 243, 244, 25 and 244, for Five Shares onah, $25 paid ne, No. 2001/2620, siending in the Register in the name of ABXDBOY HABIBBHOL, having bees sinclared LOST, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Certifiate TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the produced to the Society on or befor the Twelfth NOUNEN TRADING COMPANY Lay April, 1917, new Certificate for

NOTICE.

No.3, Quan's Bnildings, Hongkong, that on and after this date and until further notice Mr. 8. M. CHURN and Mr. C. HONKEY are the only Maungers of the Firm and no person except them has any authority to sign any instrument or document on behalf of the Firm.. The Public is requested to bring to the Firm' notice any Instrument or document parportal to he made by the Firm whether before or after this date which is not signed by either the the said S. M. CHURN or than al C. HONKEY

THE UNION TRADING Co. Hongkong. 19th January, 1947.

BROADW

FOR SALE.

the id Share will be ined and the old Certificaten will rereafter be held by the Society su aoll and voll.

By Orter of the Board of Director,

C. MONTAGUE RDË, General Manager.

176 Hongkong, 126 January, 1917.

NOTICE.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED:

(19TH Share, Nos. 1537615580, standing în

ROADWOOD GRAND PIANO. DRAWING - ROOM CARPET 15 x 12 (Treloar, Londoni,

CANTEEN OF CUTLERY (Mappin & Walib).

All Loady ww nud in excellent condition." No reasonable offer rofused,

Reply-

BROADWOOD," Care of "Daily Prom" Offoe,

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ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

LADIES COMPETITION.

CUP has been presented by a Member o

the Clab which will be played for ever the Relief Course during the CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. January 23rd and 24th, under the following conditions:-

9 bolos Bogey.

As many Cards may be taken out as

Competitor wish. There will bus a Pass of 50 cents per card, the

proceeds to go to War Charitler. Men's Tees only to be usel Three-eighths of Handicap for the 9 holes. Strokes to be taken per Bogey scale. Competitors to arrange their own matches. Cards to be signed by a Competitor, or Member of or Subscriber to the Golf Club.

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ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

AMERICAN CUP,

*HE American Members of the Club have kindly presented a Cup for Competition during

CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.

CONDITIONA-18 holes Bogey orer Fan Ling Entrance Fee $2.00 PER CARD to be given to a WAR CHARITY.

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R.

WAR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS. SEALED, TENDERS will be received at

PUBLIC COMPANIES

THE WEST POINT BUILDING

COMPANY, LIMITED.

*TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-NINTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS » 1 Company will be held at the Officer of Mcoin. JARDIN, MATHON & COMFANT, LIISED, ON MONDAY, 29th January, 1917, at 11.80 for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1916.

The REGISTER « SHARMS at the

DAY, 18th, to MONDAY, 24 January, 1917 Company will be CLOSED from THURS (beth days inclusive), during which period, no Transfer of Shars can be Registered. By order of the Board of Directors,

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary to

Heneroso Land InvestmÜNT & AOWROT COMPANY, Limitas,

General Agents for the West Poixa Büilding. CO, LTD. Hongkong, 11th January, 1917. 178

THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LIMITED.

HE CERTIFICATE, No. 858, for Five the Register in the name of AHMEDBROY HABIBSHOT, having been dealared LOST, NOTICE I HEREBY GIVEN that wules the said Certifiente be produced to the CompanyTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the N THIRD ORDINARY MEETING «I or before the Tweith day of April. 1917, a now Certificate for the sail Shares will be issued SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be and the old Certificate will thereafter be held by held at the Offices of

MATHESON & COMPANY, LIMITED, the Company as onll ́and void.

MONDAY, 28th January, 1917, at 11.45 a.EN By Onder of the Board of Directors,

C. MONTAGUE EDE, for the purpose of receiving the Repark of the GeLeral Manager. Diretorn together with the Btatomans

[177 Accounts for the year anding 31st Dommber; Hongkong, 12th January, 1917.

1026. NOTICE.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED

HE CERTIFICATE for One Share, T No. 5401 in this Company, stand- ing in the name of Misa Joss DE JESUS, of Marso, has been LOST, and if at the expication of one month from the date hereof the above document be Dot forthcoming another Certificate for the said Share will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be weknowledged.

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

General ManAKOT. Hongkong, 19th December, 1916. [114

NOTICE.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

Memes, Jardine,

OR

The REGISTER A SHARES đ the. Company will be CLOSED from THURS |DAY, 18th, to MONDAY, 2911 January, 1917 (both days incluire), during which period as Transter of Shares ona be Registered,

By Order of the Board of Directous, THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE,

LIMITED

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary to THE GENERAL MANAGERS, Hongkong, 11th January, 1917.

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THE HONGKONG LAND. INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-NINTH ORDINARY

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19TH, 1917.

INTIMATION

GILBEY'S

SPEY ROYAL

ww

SCOTCH WHISKY.

IS GUARANTEED TO BE HADE

PROM PURE MALTED BARLEY

IN A POT STILL.

10

YEARS

MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this A.

Company will be held at the Offlces of Memes. JARDIN, MAturion & CoMPART, LTD., on MONDAY, 29th January, 1917, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1916.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com- paay will be CLOSED from THURSDAY,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

SOLE AGENTS:

Y.M.C.A.

The new recreation grounds of the several sub-divisions, each requiring. special study, and it is inevitable that, Chinese Y.M.C.A. Taanis Club and the in the natural desire to obtain distine G.P.O. Recreation Club, on the Leighton tion, something more than the absolute Hill Road, are to be opened on Saturday, minimum should be attempted. When 3 p.m. by Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Poet our correspondent reminds us that, be-master-General. On the occasion of the fore the Hongkong University was catab opening eremony, there will be a tennis fished, Chinese youths set for the Oxford match between the G.P.O. and the Local Examinations he would appear to imply that the standard required for

At the Hongkong Criminal. Sessions those tests was as high as that required yesterday, the case was commenced in now for matriculation. We venture to which a Chinese revenue officer is charged doubt if that be the fact. There is not, with obtaining $100 by threats, and au however, any need to pursue this matter old Chinese wharfinger is charged with further, for we did not charge the Uni siding and abetting the revenue officer. versity with being the sole cause of over- The Attorney-General (the Hon. Mr. L. loading the school curriculum; we sugH. Kemp) appeared in promento san hø gested merely that it might be found to half of the Crown, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin be one of the contributory causes. Cer-defended. The same evidence was tokan tainly we do not believe that the School-as was given at the Magisterial hearing, masters are to blame, for they are and this had not been concluded when the subject to a superior authority. For this Court rose. The case will be continued reason we doubt, whether any good would to-day, ensue from the Conference of Teachers; which our correspondent recommends as a solution of the problem. An exchange of ideas between the Director of Educa tion and the University authoritics would

HONGKONG MAGISTRACY. THEFT OF RICE.

Three Chinese coolics were

charged

bo likely to prove more fruitful. One before Mr. Wood with the theft of

quantity of rice from the ship's stores important point to be borne in mind, aš

of the ss. Hang Bee in which they were we said before, is that the Chinese yonthengaged discharging cargo. The defen- is handicapped by having to learn dants were caught in the act of carrying off the rice in three bags. The deženos

thoroughly two languages, both of which

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was that two of the defendants had been authorised to take the rice, which had broken bulk, and the third said a man had asked him to carry it for him.

are admittedly exceptionally difficult. OLD.

It is idle to suggest, as Mr. A. H. HARRIS did at the Diocesan School the other day, that in this respect the Chinese youth is at no greater disadvantage than the English youth, who usually has to take at least two foreign languages when he sits for an examination. Surofy it must bo obvious that the English boy, who has to acquire just enough Latin and French

8. WATSON & to be able to answer a few questions in

CO., LTD.,

Grammar and to translate a passage or two from a set author, does not encounter anything like the difficulties of the Chinese boy, who is obliged to pursue all his studies in a foreign tongue. In the

A fine of $10 was imposed on each, with the alternative of fourteen days' imprisonment.

CHARGE AGAINST A REVENUE OFFICER,

A Chinese Revenue Offeer named Fung Cheung was charged befoto Mr.. Wood with having accented a bribe of $3, which was offered him with a view to inluence big conduct as public servast.

It appeared that defendant was search- on hoard &

fragmentary; in the other, it must be

sbeamer, which had arrived, when he was intimate and complete. To obtain a pre-appruched by a boarding-house runner,

THE CERTIFICATE for Two Shares, No. 5414/5415 in this Company, standing in the name of Min FELINBINA Noaunia, of Macao, has been LORT, and it at the expiration of one month from 18th, ko MONDAY, 29th January, 1917 (both WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, one case the knowledge is superficial and ingangers en the date hereof the above document belays induxire), during which period no Transfer not forthcoming another Certificate for of Shara can to Registered. the said Shares will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be acknowledged.

C. MONTAGUE ‘EDE,

General: Manager.

{116 Wongtong, 19th December, 1916,

NOTICE.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED

NE for 25 Shares

the Headquarters Office, Victoria Barracks, CHRTIFICATE CERTIFICATE Hongkong, for the unfermentioned Services, antil 12 o'clock Noos on the dates stated :---

Feel and Washing. 16th February, 1917. Forge and Indian Supplies, 10th Feb., 1917 Mest and General Supplies "A,"22nd Feb,

1917. Hospital Supplies, 1st March, 1917.

General Supplies B." 2nd March, 1917. Forms and other particulars may be obtained personally at the above Offer between the hours of 10 4.M. and 1 P.M.

Tender Forms must be properly Alled up, signed and dated, and delivered in a sealed envelope marked TENDER FOR FORAGE, eto.'

for 5 Shares Nos. 1403/51407 in this Company rading in the name of Mr. TANG LAN KOOK, ate of is, Queen's Road, Hongkong, have been LOST, sat if at the expiration of One Month trom the date hereof the above documente be net forthcoming, sther Certificates for the said Shares will be issued by the Company and Hareater no other will be acknowledged.

A. H. WATSON & Co., LIMED. Hongkong, 11th January,

1917,

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NOTICE OF DIVIDEND.

BLUERUT & SCHLUTER IN LIQUIDATION.

FIRST DIVIDEND OF 27. REDITORS of the above Firm are hereby aired that a First Dividend. of 20 per on the amount of their Claims will be paid on application to the Undersigned on and stier THURSDAY, the 1st of February, 1917,

Tonders must be, and will not be entertained unless, accompanied by a dopast of $100 as a guarantee of good faith, such sum to be for- Fiton to the State if the tenderer fails to attend at the Headquarters Office after twenty-fourant hours' antios in writing being left at the ten- derer's adlness, or fails to send in samples within twenty-four hours of written application being left at the said address, or refuses to accept a contract allotted to him.

The right to reject all, or any, tender in specially reserved.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

AUCTION KEKL

PUBLIC AUCTION

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W. G. HUMPHREYS & Co.,

No. 16, Queen's Road Central,

Liquidators.

£170 THE HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA WAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.

PPLICATION forms for Membership of

A the above Association may be obtained

·BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE. || from all the Banks or from the undersigned

THE UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON. LTD., Honorary Secretarics and Treasurers,

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COMPANY,

of

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY;

attuate at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong HONGKONG to be sold by Order of the Mortgagee by Public Auction on

TUESDAY,

the 9th day of January, 1917, at 3 o'clock .M.,

By

Mr. Gro, P. LAMMEET, Auctioneer,

at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street. The Property Consists of --

ALL nice

et Victoria in ska Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as HABLE LUT No. 25 Together with the messunges and premises thereon known as Now, 6 and 7, Praya Fast and Nos. 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58 and 80 Queen's Road East, Victoris, aforesaid.

The said

I premises are held for the term of 999 years from the 9th day of July, 1844, «reated therein by a Crown Lexus of the said Loi dated the 14th day of July, 1882, and made between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria of the one part and Læs Yun WA of the other. part subject to the paymont of the Crown Rent and to the obsermace and performance of the

ELECTRIC LIMITED

8 already notified, this COMPANY'S

AJENERATING PLANT

ja bow Crying in the vicinity of the maximan load | mod no fariker installations can be made for the present Consumers and Wiring Contractors. are warned against the danger of making addition to existing installations and arg reminded that under the Regalations for omring the Safety of the Public contained in

the Boisdale to dinanes 1911 (as amended) Any person making any addition to any electrical installation con neoted to the Company's main Supe shall be liable to a penalty not sareeling Dadars for every such addition. By Order of the Board,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Agents Hongkong, 5th January, 1917. [155

PHAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LTD.

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary. Hongkong, 11th January, 1917.

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THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED.

AJOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that th SIXTEENTH ORDINARY MEET ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Office of Mesars, JARDINE, January, 1917, st 12.15 P.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December. 1916.

Marumon & Co., Lrn., on MONDAY, 2Hà

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com-

pay will le CLOSED from THURSDAY, 18th, to MONDAY, 29th January, 1917 (both daya inclusive), during which period nu Transfer of Shares can be Registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE, Secretary. Hongkong, 11th January, 1917.

R.

NOTICE.

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NY EUROPEAN, Non-Anistic or Indian desiring to leave the Colony should apply. in person at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of 9 A.. to 1 P., sud 2 P.M. 404 r.. daily.

Applicants will be required to produce Pass gerts or identification papers,

All persons with certain exceptions who

remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Begister themselves under the REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDIN. ANCE 1916.

Terrenown)616.

per parallel we must imagine an English boy receiving all itis instruction and writing all his papers in Greck. To our mind this constitutes an excellent reason why some consideration should be given to the young Chinese when arranging

· Londen Offiem: 131, Frane Bruzzi, 8.C. | the school curriculum.

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HONGING OFptom: 101, Dan Vaux Road, C

The Daily Press.

Hongkong 19th January, 1917.

EDUCATION IN HONGKONG

It is announced that the Exchange Banks will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday next.

who offered him a bribe of $3 to allow a certain passenger's luggage to pass unsearched, and, it is alleged, he accepted the money.

Inspector Gorden,

who prosecuted. said an essential witness had not turned ap, and the case was adjourned for tho. attendance of the witness.

AN EARLY STROLL

A Chinese was found walking in Queen's Road yesterday morning at two- o'clock, carrying a sunshade under his arm The circumstance excited the euricity of a constable, who detained nightly dance in the Royal Artillery him. Subsequent inquiry elicited that

The R.G.A, Sergeants hold their fort

Theatre to-night, commencing at 8 p.m.

Mrs. Sandemann, wife of Commodore Sandemann, R.N., will distribuío the prizes at St. Stephen's Girls' College at 3 p.m. to day.

In the letter which he contributed to our issue of yesterday's date on the subject of "Education in Hongkong?'. Mr. J. D. WRIGHT, of the local University, at- tributed to as opinions more pronounced than those which we expressed. It has been alleged and we are satisfied from our own observation that the allegation The total output of the Railan Mining is well-founded that the teaching of Administration's mines for the week end- English in the schools for Chinese leavesing 6th January amounted to 64,382 tons a great deal to be desired The Hon, Mr. and the sales to 42,340 tons, LAE CHO-PAK attributes this to the over“. crowding of the school syllabuɛ, and H.E, the GOVERNOR, who shares this view, ap-

The lecture on "Ruskin," which was to have been delivered by Mrs. Ralphs at

pears to hold the Schoulmasters respon the Helenn May Institute to-day, has sible. In our leading article the other been unavoidably postponed until further day we merely suggested that the pos- notice, Forms of Registration giving the particularssible influence of a University is our required may be obtained at the G.P.O. sad si

Police Station,

midst should be carefully borne in mind The Penalty for non compliance is a ane nok ceeding $50,

JUST RECEIVED.

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The annual sermons at the Cathedral, by the Committee which has been appoint-St. Andrew's, Kowloon, and St. Peter's,

ed to inquire into this question, and we West Point, will be preached on Sunday

the added that,

matriculation next on behalf of the Church Missionary examinations are the goal which every Association, which exists for the purpose secondary school has before it, there is a of intercating European residents in the tendency to crowd subjects into the school Colony in the Chinese Church in the Large New Consignment of curriculum which it would be wiser to Diocese of Victoria. The Diocese, though exclude." - Our correspondent replies that called by the name of this city, extends Latest Fashions of the

the subjects for the matriculation exami-

over the whole of South Chinn 'and' in-. cludes even the distant Provinces of ROYAL, PALACE, MANDLEN,|nation are only îve iu number, but wo

Yunnan and Kweichow. The Anglican think he will admit that it is desirable

Church has a band of devoted clergymen, BRILLIANT, FRENCH

that candidates should always take more doctors, and ladies who are carrying on AND WATER- than the bare minimum in order to GEORGET'S

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the sunshade was the property of a passenger on a steuner which had arrived that morning, and that defendant, who was also a passenger, had appropriated it. Inspector Brazil said the police hard spent shout five hours discovering the owner owing to the lies the defendant had told about the matter. Defendant. when asked what he was doing out with the sunshade at that early hour, said he was "giving it a walk."

Defendant was sentenced by Mr. Mel bours to fourteen days' imprisonment and four hours' stocks.

FALSE EXPORT STATEMENT.

Chinese

WRS

Mr. Lloyd, of the Imports and Exports Department, prosecuted in M Lasc before Mr. Melbogme in which

junkmaster charged with presenting an export state- ment which was false in that it did not contain a full list of goods which he was about to export in his junk.

Mr. Lloyd said the statement repre- seated that defendant had only coal on board his junk whereas bo had a quantity

of oil and 50 dozen pairs of socks, Thero was a further charge against defendant of not having obtained permits for the oil and socks. A permit bad been ob tained for the oil by the Hung Kel coal firm, who had kept it in the shop.. SHADE CREPES FOR DRESSES ensure that they shall not be ploughed it very extensive evangelistic, medical and but that did not monerate the defendant

educational work, at the following con-

From the offence of falling to include they fail to satisfy the examiners in

tres: Victoria (Hongkong), Kowloon it in his statement. In the case of the WRAPPERS, OPERA one of the optional subjects. In this City, Canton, Shekke, Taai Leung, Shui socks the offence was more serious, as CLOAKS of all Styles, INDIAN, respect is not the Chinese student at some Hing, Nanning, Fu, Pazhoi, Liemchow, ao portuit had been taken out for them..

A special He asked his Worship to impress upon Leserseit covenants, and conditions therein EOK Let February till further notice the PERSIAN AND SILK CARPETS disadvantage as compared with a Portu: Lingehan, and Yunnan. Fu

guess or Filipino in that he cannot effort is being made, chiefly by the Chin: the public that these export statements derive any benefit from the knowledge of

eve themselves, to build a Church at Can must include everything being shipped his native tongue, though to the attain ton, the treasurer for the fund being Mr.

and should accompany the goods when mont of proficiency in this the Education A. II. Harris, Commissioner of Customs.

they are put afloat. Authority very properly insists that he There are now nine Chinese ordained shall devote a considerable portion of his clergymen and a large band of Chinese

reserved and contained

Ares 27500 square foot or thereboats. Annual Crown Rens †184.84.

For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to

DENNYS & BOWLEY,

6, Don Vaar Road Central, Solicitors for the Vendor,

or to.. Ma. GEO. P. LAMMERT.

Auctioneer, Duddell Street.

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NOTICE.

following changes will be made in the Company's Timo Table:-

SUNDAYS.

From 5 P.. to 5.30 P., every quarter of a hour instead of every tan minutes.

From 6.30 ., to 7 PM. every ten minutes instead of every quarter of an hour.

SUNDAYS AND WEEK DAYS. The 10 p.34. Car will be discontinued,

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earnestly

An inspection is solicited,

D. CHELLARAM,

My Melbourne imposed a fine of €30- for both offences and warned the repre

be more careful in future were ordered to be confiscated,

38 & 40, Queen's Bd. CENTRAL time? Moreover, of the obligatory sub- Catechists, Biblewomen and Schoolmas-sentative of the Hong Kei coal firm to

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jects English and Mathematics contain torn.

The socks.