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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

8.8. "PERSIA MARU" F■OM SAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS AND MÅNILA, CONSIGNEES of Cargo por above mention- fire having occurred on board at Manila, before Carge can be delivered, their signature to an citemente must be furnished. also provision must be made for payment of General Avaraga Deposity

will be landed Immediately into the CATRE Hongkong

and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.'s Godown and Consignon are further antifled that delitery mast be taken thorefrom,

Damaged Cargo will be earveyed on Hat Januszy, 10 A‚M.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 2Dxm, 1917.

PUBLIC COMPANIES

THE WEST POINT BUILDING

-COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

PUBLIC COMPANIES

UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TWELFTH ANNUAL GEN- ERAL MEETING OF SHARE. HOLDERS will bo beld in the Oflies of

TWENTY-NINTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in thisHE Company will be held at the Office of Mosure JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, LIMMED. 11.3.. for the purpose of rocelring the Raport of the Directors together with a Statement of 1918.

LIMITED, on SATURDAY, the 3rd Feb- tuary, 1912, at 11.30 A., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General accounts to 31st December, 1916.

Average Bond will be required and valeation Accounts for the year ending 31st December.Maragers together with a statement of

No Fire Insuranse whatever wül be affected, and stomge charges will be assessed on all Cargo undelivered on 2nd March, at Noen.

Na Chim will be toognised after the goods have left the Godown.

All Chime must be filed on or before 16th March, otherwise they will not be recognised.

T. DAIGO. Agent, Hongkong, 47th January, 1917.

ST

HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING A HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY will be held en WEDNESDAY next, the 31st of January, at 12.30 r.m; in the CIFT HALU,

All Subscribers are invited, The Hon. Mr. P. H. HOLTOAK has kindly

consented to take the Chair.

WANTED.

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The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLO-ED from THURS DAY, 18th, to MONDAY, 29th Jany, 1817 (loth days inclusive), during which period, no Transfer of Shares can be Registered By order of the Board of Directors.

`A, SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary to the

Hongkong Land IntiSTMENT & AGĦNGY COMPANY, LIMITED

General Agents for the WEST POINT BUILDING CO, LED. Hongkong, 17th January, 1917.

THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LIMITED.

178

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

THIRD ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, RESON & COMPANY, LINITED, TO-DAY (MONDAY), 29th January, 1017, at 11.45 A for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December,

1016.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOBED from TRUBS DAY, 18th, to MONDAY, 29th January, 1917 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registereil.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

|

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com

pany will be CLOSED from the 27th January to 3rd February, both dates inclusive.

LODWELL & CO., LTD.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 22nd January, 1917, (913

UNION

THE

INSURANCE SOCIETY OF QANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

THE CERTIFICATES, No. 243,344, 265. and 246, for Five Shares sch, 25 paid. ap, Nos. 2001/2620, standing in the Register in the name of AHMEDBWOY HABIBHO), having bean declared LOST, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unlem the weld Certifosten be

produced to the Society on or before the Twelfth

bay of April, 1917, new Certificates for the said Sharwe will be issued and the old Cortifletes will thereafter be held by the Society as null mod

By Order of the Board of Directors,

C. MONTAGUÉ EDE, General Manager. Hongkong, 12th January, 1917. 176

NOTICE.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

HE CERTIFICATE, No. 858, for Fire

British Qualified Medica! Mau, AT HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, T Share, Nee 1657813580, standing in

appointment as a SURGEON on Board

B

Steamer sailing for Singapore.

Apply

"MEDICO,"

Care of "Daily Trees" Office,

WANTED.

LIMITED.

A. SHELTON HOOPER, Soretary to

THE GENERAL MANAGERS.

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Hongkong, 11th January, 1917.

Epi in own writing with oepy ▼NGINELE, Bt., abstainer, for Harbour or vedo, shaving ago and lary required to

W.S. BAILEY & CO., LTD. Kowloon.

WEI HAI.WEI

BONGOL FOR GELE

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HOROUGH EDUCATION combined

terms with home life,

THORO

Moderate

Romidant GovBIM85).

Hond Mistress,

Mrs. BRUCE SHEPHERD.

NOTICE.

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[R. TSUI YEUNG SHAN ( 10 )

Mhas been appointed to not as our firm's

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

'OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

· INTIMATION

WATSON'S

OLD BROWN

BRANDY

the Begister in the name of AxEDEMOTE I PARLA HARIANTOT, having be declared LOST, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ank

the wald Certificate be produced to the Company an or before the Twelth day of April, 1917, 1 new Certiflete for the said Shares will be isoned and the old Certificate will thereafter be hold by the Company a null and void.

By Order of the Board of Director,

C. HONTAGUE EDR General Maniger. Hongkong, 19th January, 1917. [177

NOTICE,

TWENTY NINTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Officer of Messrs.

A. 8. WATSON & CO., LIMITED JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, ·Lao., TO-DAY (MONDAY), 29th January, 1917, at

NE CERTIFICAVS for 25 Shares No NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report 24007424 25 ONE OBRTIFICATE of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending Sist Desember, er bares Nos. 51403 51407 in this Company, 1916.

E

QUALITY.

Brown Brandy

A

observed another by seroplane "in The Gazette notified that, at the ex sinking condition." While admitting piration of three months, the Hông Oạ that one of their torpedo-boate was ren- | Marine and Fize Insurance sad Gedown dered unseaworthy and had to run into Company, Limited, will, unless case in Ymuiden, the enmy add: "All the other shown to the contrary, be struck off the ships returned. There wete alight | Register, and the Company dissolved. losses," There is thus, not for the first

A Gazette notification states that a time, a direct conflict of evidence between

the two official parts, 'We can, how-trade mark belonging to Abraham and ever, accept our own as condusive in Gebruder Frowein, Elberfeld, Germany, regard to the British loss, and it errs expired on the 24th inst., and that « if it err at all-on the side of caution Trade Marks on the 24th day of Febru

will be removed from the Register of

in describing the demage inflicted on the

enemy, who are described by eye-witnesses ary, 1917, unless the prescribed fee for renewal of registration is paid before as having heen "eurrounded and

that date." dazzled by the British searchlights." For the full details we shall probably Mr. Denman Fuller's last lecture on have to wait. In the meantime we can | Musical Appreciation was well attended, rest content with the gratifying know and the collection amounted to $70. The ledge that our ever-vigilant Fleet was "in final lecture of the sonics will be given the right place at the right time, and out to day at 5.30 p.m. at the Helons May manmuvred and routed the enemy in Institute. As has been stated before, waters which the iter claim to comthese lectures are open to all who are trol,"

Experts express the opinion interested in music, and at the concla- that the experience will provo a salutary sion of each a collection is made for the lesson and prevent, for some time, much Blind Soldiers and Sailors' Fund. The use being made of Zeebrugge, which has lecturer will to-day mention Bome been the base of operations for many of further common faults of interpretation Germany's channel raide. That the and will speak especially of how to make enemy were caught unawares is evident; the most of simple pieces such as the indeed, the survivors of V60 declare that average amateur usually plays. He will "there must have been treachery, be illustrate his remarks by playing piccon cause every precaution had been taken which have been sent to him during the to avoid an encounter." In the hope week for that purpose. As these lectures of discounting, the effects of this roverse have met with a great deal of support Germany has had recourse to her favour-and interest, it is hoped that the attend- ito "tip-and-run tactica by sending aance to-day will be such as to encourage. ship-presumably a submarine to shell an extension of them at some future dato. the Suffolk cosst under cover of dark-

The annual report and balance-shoot ness on Thursday for three minutes of the Union Church, Hongkong, for the The incident, though described in the year 1916 shows that the debit balance usual grandiloquent terms with the which was incurred a few years ago has idea of bolstering up the claim that the been considerably reduced. In addition command of the North Sea is still in to the ordinary receipts, which fully, dispute, is not likely to impose upon covered the genersi expenses of the

Church, 8700

деле contributed to- outside objects, and further donations amounting to $2,500 were received for the Organ Fund.

The new organ, which some time,

selves.

has been on order for standing in the same of Mr. TANG LAW KOOK,

S. WATSON CO., LTD.,

25 YEARS IN WOOD. anybody but the German poople them It appears, however, from the state ment of the American Ambassador in & Berlin that the Yarrowdale, which was captured by the enemy, has succeeded in roaching Swindmunde with 480 members of the crews of the ships which she has sunk. Presumably the followed a similar course to the Mogue, which got back to Germany after her raide on merchant man off the Canaries a year ago by call

Sharos will be issued the Company and WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com-late of 15, Queen's Road, Hongkong, have been pany will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, LOST, and if at the expiration of One Monik 18th, to MONDAY, 29th January, 1917 (both from the date hereof the above documents be days inclusive), during which period no Transfer

mot forthcoming, ether Coriffonten for the said of Shares can be Registered.

thereafter no other will be acknowledged. By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. 8. WATSON & Co., Lovinga til A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary,

Hongkong, 11th Janmry, 1917. Hongkong, 11th January, 1917."

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Compradors in Hongkong, and will take up THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA- duties as such from this date.

ABDOOLALLY EBRAHIM & Co.,

79, Wyndham Street.

Hongkong, 23rd January, 1917.

NOTICE.

212

NUNION TRADING COMPANY of TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the No. 3, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, that on and after this date and until farther notice Mr. B. M/CHURN and Mr. C. HONKEY are the only Managers of the Firm and no person coept them has any anthonty to sign any or document on behalf of the Firm. instrument

The Public is requested to bring to the Firm's nation sur

instrument or demment parportod to be made by the Firm whether before or after this date which is not aigad by either the the mid 8. H. CHUEN or the said C. HONKEY

THE UNION TRADING Co. Hongkong, 19th January, 1917. [198

NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. ULDERUP & SCHLUTER an LIQUIDATION, { FIRST DIVIDEND OF 20%. REDITORS of the above Firm are hereby notifed that First Dividend of 20 p wart, on the amount of their Clairas will be paid on application to the Undersigned on and after THURSDAY, the let of February, 1917.

W. G. HUMPHREYS & Co.

No. 16, Queen's Boad Central,

Lágaikatorn.

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SECOND 5 PER CENT. RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED IOAN OF 1916.

LTHOUGH THE SUBSCRIPTION LISTS were CLOSED on the 28th BANK, December, the EURO-ABIATIO "Hongkong, is prepared to accept orders for the above Loan up to the 13th Feb Tuary, on the Subscription Terms, ie, me previously advertised.

Hongkong, 19th January, 1917. [201

HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LTD.

No

TION COMPANY, LIMITED,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTEENTH ORDINARY MEET ING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Ofices of Meware JAEDINE MATHESON & COMPANY, LIMITED, TO-DAY for the purpose of receiving the port of the (MONDAY), 20th January, 1917, at 12.15 Directors together with the Stat-ment of Accounts for the year ending 31st December 1918.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com-

pany will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, 16th, to MONDAY, 29th January, 1917 (batt days inclaire), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE, Sacrotary. Hongkong, 11th Javuary, 1917.

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HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAC STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE NINETY-SEVENTH ORDIN ARY MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS in the Company will be held at

PA

£175

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PUBLIO AUCTION. DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sala, to be held on MONDAY, the 29th day of January, 1917, at 3 PM, at the Offices of the Patio WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Nathan Head, fears with the option of renewal at Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for form CROWN RENT to be fed by the Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY THE KIRO, for one furiker

form of 7ă yours. ·

Begletry No.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

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QUINN At Broadwood Road, Happy Valley, on 28th inst, MARION HAR- RIET QUINN, dearly beloved sister of J.W., G.W.; C.H.W., C.T., F.H. and IW. Kow. (Australian papers please copy.)

(930

HONGKONG OFF: 104, Dan Vaux Read, C. Lownow : 181, Fam SEBE, B.C.

The Baily Press:

Howowowo 29th January, 1917.

NAVAL NEWS.

THE daily record of outrages committed

1,000) 60 2,690, 997? aboal

906

GEO. P. LAMMERT, AUCTIONEER.

PUBLIC AUCTION

of

is due to arrive shortly, and it is hoped that before the instrument is installed the amount required to pay for it will have been completely raised. The work of Sunday Schools, Guild, and Christian Endeavour Society has been ably carried'

ing round Iceland and bugging terrin, and the Pastor has continued the ser torial waters along the Scandinavian vices at the Peak Church throughout the const. We need not be surprised if these year. The annual meeting of seatholders. exploits are occasionally attempted with will be held in the Lecture Hall of the Church on Wednesday next at 9p.m, for the purpose of electing Secretary, Treasurer and Committees,

HONGKONG MAGISTRACY.

A BANISHEE.

success, for experience with the Emden shows how difficult it is to round up even a cruiser on the high seas, and the task must be much more, formidable in the case of a merchant ship, which can more easily disguise her true character and avoid suspicion. Consequently it was with great satisfaction that announce ment was received in the Colony through from banishment. It was stated that the- A Chinese was charged with returning. the Havas Agency on Friday morning man has been working in the Colony as destroyed a German pirate ship-presum his identity was discovered. Sentence a street soolie for about a year before. ally the interned vessel which the Ad of six months' imprisonment was passed..

that the British cruiser Glasgow had

A ZINO FUNNEL.. When a Chines was charged with

The charge was withdrawn and the

by German submarines upon defenceless

miralty reported recently as "beving merchant shipping of all nationalities

erraped from น South America has been varied during the past week by port off Para,

the mouth of more exhilarating nature. news of

the Amazon. Unfortunately, how- There has been a certain liveliness" ever,

this news still lacks confirma stealing a zinc funnel, Inspector Sim In the North Sea, as the Admiralty tion. A Reuter's telegram on Saturday, said that he believed the defendant was. kere wont to report in the carlier from Pernambuco, on the north coas mentally deranged, days of the war. Our light forces, of Brazil, referred to the "aptured S while off the Dutch coast last Theodore." This appeared, at first sight, defendant sent to the hospital for breat

A division. of to support the previous message, but in ment, {enemy: destroyers, and, es, the result of reality it merely records the fact that a a short engagement, sank one and stattership which had been captured was dia ad the rest after inflicting heavy "punish patched on

A Chinese woman was charged with a raiding expedition on ment upon them. During the same night December 28th, under the command of abandoning her few days' old child, by Inspector thers was a sharp encounter between the officers many of whom were decorated leaving it in the street.

O'Sullivan said the child had died since. destroyers of both Fleets in the vicinity with Inn Crosses for their services on

the mother's arrest. "Death was due to of Schaumen Bank, One of our vessels the Hade. Ti presumably means that WAR torpedoed, and the destroyer which there are now two raiders at large instead inability to take nourishment, which

seemed to have existed from birth. was responsible for this was, in turn, of one.

The woman was sentenced to three sent to the bottom.. That is all the

months' imprisonment. official account tells us, darkness prevent-

the Office of the Company, Hotel Man BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE, Monday night, met sions, on TUESDAY, the 13th February, 1917, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts, declaring a Dividend and electing Dires TALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY tors and Auditore,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Commituste at Victoris in the Colony of Hongkong pany will be CLOSED from the 31st to be sold by Order of the Mortgages by Public January to the 13th February, 1917, both days inclusive..

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W. E. CLARKE,

Becretary. Hongkong, 20th January, 1917.

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THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILD

ING COMPANY, LIMITED.

TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDIN

toge

Austion on

TUESDAY, the 6th day of February, 1917, st 3 d'alock .P.M.,„,. By

Mr. Gro. P. Laxezer, Auslieneem, at his Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, The Property Consiste of 1-- LL that pivos or parcel of grozd zituste A

at Tietoria in the Colony of Hongkonging the observation of the full results and registered in the Land Office as MARINE of the action. From Dutch sources, LOT No. 15 Together with the mevasges and

The Gazells contains revised White Lists for China and Siam.

ABANDONED BABY

DISTRICT WATCHMEN IN THE DOCK.

Bishop Pozzoni has returned from his

The case was again remanded in which pastoral mission in the interior.

two Chinese district watchmen aro charged, the first with stealing one silver The prize distribution at the French dollar from No. 10, Moon Street,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that premises thereon known as Nos. 6 and 7, Prayn however, it is reported that the Fet was ARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS Dont and Nos. 48, 50, 53, 54, 56, 58 and 80 obliged to seek refuge in Ymuiden, badly in this Company will be held at the Queen's Bead East, Victoria, aforemié.

The maid premises so bald for the term of crippled. The crew state that a fotilla Company's Offices, Victoria Buildings, 989 years from the 8th day of July, 164 of eleven vessels left a German port on

SATURDAY, 10th February, 1917, at rented therein by Gown see of the said "RTOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that 1 o'clock a.31., for the purpose of receivTot dated the 14th day of July, 1881, and made Monday afternoon, end at three o'clock 1. Convent will take place on the 31st ins Wanchai, and the second with assaulting:

ther with Statement of Accounts for the between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria of the next morning discovered the British at 2.30 p.m.

the ane part and Lae Yu WA of the other year ending 31st December, 1918.

to the payment of the Crown Bant abesm. Eire was opened at long range, partsubject The REGISTER OF SHARES of the and to the observance and performance of the and the British marksmanship was most Company

CLOSED from THURSDAY, 1st. to SATURDAY, 10th February, 1917 both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

ERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS In this Company will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL. Hongkong, on BATURDAY, the 10th February, 1917, at 12 o'clock Noor, for the purpose of re iving the Report of the Directors toge ther with a Statement of Account for the year ending 31st December. 1916.

bo

The TRANSFER ROOKS of the Comni- pany will be CLOSED from the 5th Feb easy to the 14th February (both days Inglove), during which period Teler of Shares can be Registered.

JOHN D HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers, Hongkong, 25th January, 1917. [997

will

be

By Order of the Board of Directors, A, SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary to the

HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND

“Agenor Cò., Lan

General Agents for the

KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING CO., LTD. Hongkong, 20th January, 2017. [223

noo's covenanta and conditions therein securate. According to one cable, the

reserved and contained.

Aren 27,500 square feet or thereabouts. Annual Grown Bans 8484,84

öréw declared that seven German ships For farther particulart and conditions of sale were sunk; in another they are reported apply to

DENNYS & BOWLEY,

to have said that they did not know the, 6, Bet Vieux Hood Central, fate of the other vessels, but they must have suffered badly." The Germans, in ME. GEO. P. LAMMEET, an official wireless message, claim to have Antioneer, Daddell Staves.unk one British destroyer and to have

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Belicitors for the Vender,

or to

an inmate of the same house and ob

The oldest foreign resident of Chung structing a policeman in the perfor- king, Miss Ramsay, of the China Inland mance of his duty, was again before Mr. Mission, has just passed away after s Melbourne,

brief illness,

A proportion of the proceeds of the The death is announced of Dr. Henry Concert to be held at the Helens May Laning, who for shout. 40 years was Institute at 9.15 pm, on the 14th Febra house surgeon of St. Barnabas' Epspital,.. ary will be given to the Blinded Soldiers Osaka. He was the founder of that and Sailors' Fund.

institution.