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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, :

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ma

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL

17.

AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY

ARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of

the letting by

HOUSES TO LET

TO LET.

EVONIA, No. 9. Peak Road SIX-

DROOMED BUNGALOW, with Garden

wud Tennis Court,

HOUSES in Shamsen, Canton, No. 31

Apply to

MEETING of the BRITISH TRADERgij be held on MOYANSITtion Bale, so and 63,07

the Lotic day of INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, will July, 1917, at 8 P.M., at the Office of the PUBLIC WOLLS DEPARTMENT, by Order of be held at the Hend Office of the Company HIS EXCELLENOY THE GOVERNOR, of One No. 3 und 4, Queen's Buildings, Ice House

Los of CROWN LAND above Bowen Road, Street, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, in the Colony of Hongkong, for terra on THURSDAY, the 18th day of July, 1917, 75 years, with the option of renewal at at 12.30 o'clock P.M., for the purpose of pro-CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor. posing, considering and, if thought fit, passing of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one farbbor the following Resolutionı, viz. :—

torm of 75 yeare, ja

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT,

the provisoas of the Company's Memoria of Association with respect to its objects be altered so as to read as shown in the print signed for the purpose of identification by the Chairman of this! Meeting"

Should the

the

e above Resuiation be missed by

•roquisite umajority, it will submitted for continutiout so a Special Resolution to Seoul Extraordinary toneral Meeting

which will be subse,umily convencı!.

Aptint of the Memmeandam as proposed: to be altered can be seen at the Head Dilee of the Company.

Dato this day of July, 1917.

C. II. P. HAY,

por pro. General Manager.

NOTICE.

Mdmitted Fortner in our Firm.

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E. E N. RAYMOND has This Day been

BENJAMIN & POTTS.

Prince's Building,

Hongkong, 1st July, 1917.

NOTICE.

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177E HAVE This Day REMOVED our WOFFICE to the FIRST FLOOR, YOBM

BUILDINGS. CHATER ROAD (above Messrs. Kelly & Walsh. Ltd., and next to Messra, Java- China-Japan. Liju).

FURUKAWA & Co. Hongkong, 1st July, 1917.

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NORWEGIAN LLOYD INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

HAVING bem Appointed AGENTS for the abovo Company, we are prepared to socopt FIRE and MARINE RISKS for Hongkong and Canton at current raton.

THORESEN & Co., Agents

WANTED.

(800

OULD any lady travelling to Australia or Canada and requir ing a nursemaid communicate with X.

c/o Hongkong "Daily Press."* [820

THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

8% FIRST MORTGAGE DEBENTURES (KAILAN BONDS).

AYMENT of the HALF-YEARLY will be made on presentation of Coupon No. 10

Belatry No.

د السومة

·Boundary- Nessorements.

(Approximate)

feet

fest

-foru

fest

per mde {piso, #2, 159 254)9,000

(about)

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THE CLUB HOTEL, LIMITED,

ક

IN LIQUIDATION.

JNO. W. HALÍA

has received instructions from"

G. O. HEATH, Esq.,

Liquidator,

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

at the Sale Rooms, No. 81, Yokohama, ON TUESDAY, the dist JULY, at 2 PM

ALL THE VALUABLE

SETTLEMENT PROPERTY

known as

THE CLUB HOTEL

LOTS No. 5 A AND B, BUND

DAVID BASSOON & CO, LTD

TO LIT.

FIVE.ROOMED HOUSE, with Tennis

Court, in Minden Villas, Kowloon.

A FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon,

Apply to-

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCÐ

Alecsandra Bulidings.

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TO LET.

FFICES at %, Conaught Road Centrali

OFFICES

"OFFICES in King's and York Buildings, HOUSES to Let, Wongneishong Boad. HOUSES in Clifton Gardens, Conduit Bowli HOUSES in Brosdwood · Anil Moreton

Temos

HOUSES on Shaungon,

Apply to Mo

Canton

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT AND AGENCY CO, LTD. [28

TO LET.

TO, 12, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE,

No. 8. BELILIOS TERRACE,

No. 7, BELILIOS TERRACE.

BOOMED FLAT ■t, the Peak (reparate entrance),

No.

BELILIOS TERRACE, with entrance on Condals Road,

TWO GODOWNS, in Duddell Biroet. Na 2, DES TOUX VILLAS, 51, PRAK (Unfurnished),

Apply to LINSTEAD & DAYIB,

3rd Floor, Alesandr Balking

WANTED.

HOUSE or WHOLE FLOOR with

Please apply to-

covering as per Title Desis 1527 Tsubo of Land About 10 Booms in a central location. with three frontages, to Buad approximately 215 fees, Biwa cho 250 feet and Water Street 260 feet, together with all the BUILDINGS thereon.

The PURCHASER of the PROPERTY to have the option of taking over the HUTEL FURNITURE it studs at valuation.

For Cards to view and further partienkars apply to

THE AUCTIONEER,

No. 61, Yokohama.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

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THE Vndezeigned has received instruc

T tions from the Liquidators of

Mears. Jay & Co. in pursuance of au urder of the Hongkong Government tu Ball by public aaetion as 12 o'clock (Noo) on TUESDAY, the 81st day of July, LEASEHOLD THE VALUABLE PROPERTY situate at The Peak, Hong- Rong, and bring BURAL BUILDING LOT No. 18,

Q,

Box No. 1, Care of " Daily Press" Offlos

MOTION.

767

ANY EUROPEAN, Non-Arials or Ladiso desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the CENTRAL POLION BZATION between the hours of 9 A.M. to 1 p.a. and 2 P.M to 4 P.M. dally.

Applicat will be required to produce Pas port or identification papers.

"ALLT

All persons with certain exceptions whe remain in the Colony for more than 7 day are required to Register themselves ander the REGISTRATION or PERSONS ORDIN

1916.

INTIMATION

9TH, 1917.

We are informed that the annual meeti

to send troops to fight against Germsoy, that he ordered all the lamaseries to 125 of the subscribers to the Hongkong recite sutras for the success of British Church Missionary Association will be orms, and that ke had Lhusa, decorated hold at St. Paul's College on Tuesday sa in celebration of llana's conquest of 12 noon. German South-West Africa. – But, amus. ing as Clermany's opinions, ur pretended opinions, on the status of Tibet may be,

WATSON'S they have not the slightest bearing on

FORMAZONE

(REGISTERED),

the real issue, which, we feel confident,

will be satisfactorily solved before long by the three parties concerned –Tibet,

Mr. U F. Wintour, whose report en army contracts appears in a recent tele gram, was formerly in the Chinese Mari- rebellion in Peking. time Customs, and was through the Bozer

About forty men of the Royal Navy China, and Great Britain. An article had a very enjoyable outing last Thurs recently published by Dr. C. C. W day to Deep Water Bay. The Chaplain

Chancellor of the Ministry of Affairs at Poking, throws a

light on the present state of Oren of the Dockyard was in charge of the

clear negotia-

party. After a bathe, all as down to

an excellent tea provided by the Services! tions, and also shows the possibilities of Entertainment Fund. Mr. Dowley very arriving at a modus vivendi that will he kindly supplied cigarettes and tobacco. -

Under the Sale of Food and Drugs Ordi examined during the quarter ended June, nance, 1880, the following samples were

1917 Eight samples of milk, one of

satisfactory to all parties. Dr. Wu BŁYS China wants nothing more than the re- A Refreshing, Invigorating and establishment of Chinese suzerainty over Tibet, with recognition of the autonomy of the territory immediately under the control of the Lhat Government; she is which was found to be adulterated; six agreeable to the British idea of forming samples of beer all of which were found an effective buffer territory in so far as

Palatable drink particularly suited

for Tennis, Shooting and Bathing

Parties.

PINTS $1.20 PER Doz.

SPLITS 70 Ors.

WATSON

CO., LTD.,

ÆHATED WATER. MANUFACTURERS.

TELEPHONE 436

DEATHS.

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it is consistent with equity and justice; to be up to standard; two aampica of she is anxious that her trade interests bread which were found to be up to should be looked after by her trade

standard, and one sample of fieur, which an do the British, a point which is agree.

was also ap to standard.

agents,

able to the Tibetans though apparently

The rainfall for the month of June at

not to the British." China's suzerainty over Tibet has never been questioned by the Botanical Gardens was 10-7 inches the British Government; it is admitted on 28 days, at the Matilda Hospital, in Sir JOHN JORDAN's Note of August, Mount Kellett, it was 12 78. inches on 29 1912, which also recognizes the right of days, and at the Police Station, Taine, the Chinese Government to station it was 19:36 on 26 days. The wind representative, with a reasonable escort, velocity, 84 miles per hour, was the at Lhasa This Note further insisted on lowest on record for June, except in June, the internal autonomy of Tibet, and pro- 1015, when it was eight miles per hour. tested against Chinese attempts to incor. There were 1678 hours of sunshine, the porate it into the provincial system of

mean average temperature was 818. the Republic. In the proposals presented to the Simla Conference, Mr. IVAN CHEN formally stated that China engages not to convert. Tibet - into a province," and Dr. Wy now says that the Chinese Govern. ment is willing to recognise the autonomy of the territory immediately under the control of the Lhasa Government, so that, excluding the minor point of the trade agents, which should present no great obstacle, the only important master to be settled is the definition of the territory immediately under the control of the Lhasa Government,"

It is not to be won

BETON at No. is Rur Montauban,

Shanghai, on July 2nd, GEORGE GUT dered at that, in a country embracing a BURTON (Mesars, Lowe, Bingham &

number of feudal States under their own Matthews), aged 60 years. CHISHOLM --At Chefoo, on June 28th, tribal government, this definition: presents. JOHN CHIBBOLM (Engineer, China some difficulty; indeed, it would not be Navigation Co.).

The funeral took place at Happy Valley on Saturday of Mr. W. Reed, chargeman of shipwrights, in the Naval Yard. Deceased, while at work as usual on Friday afternoon, collapsed and was removed to the Naval Hospital, where ho died from heat apoplexy. He had only been in the Colony ten weeks and leaveS a widow and children at Home. Mr. Reed, was a retired Warrant Officer of H.M. Navy Amongst those present at the funeral were Mr. C: Bell, Chief Com- structor, Naval Yard. Messrs. Rodney, Beane, and nearly all the European Staff. There was a large collection of wreation,

A recent issue of the London Gazette

INTEREST dan OD 1st July, 1917, 1927, at his Bales Rooms, Daddell Bereet, of Regisiration giving the particular FRASER.Suddenly, at Hunkow, on June an easy task just now to define the terri-states that H.M. the King has granted

at any of the undermentioned Banke, viz.

HONGKONG AND SHANGRAY)

BANKING CORPORATION, CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA, RUSSO-ASIAtic Bane.

A+ Tientsin, Shanghai

or

BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.

YOKOHAMA SPRCIB BANK, Y

LTD, BANQUE BELGE Pour

L'ETRANGER.

Hongkong. Tientain and Hongkong only.

A Tientsin and Shanghai oaly,

The Interest, less Income Tax at b-in the £,

will be:

ON 220 BONDS.

E. d.

Per Coupon (Gross)

12, 0

Lass Tax at 5/- in the

£

3. 0

Not smoant payable

9. 0

ON £100 BONDS.

£

d.

Pe. Coupon (Gross)

3.

0. 0

Less Tax at 5/- in the

£

15 0.

£2, 5,

0

£ 5.

Net amount payable

ON 2500 BONDS.

Par Coupon (Grosa) Less Tax at /- in the

0

15. 0. 23. 15. 0

Not amount payabls £11,0

Payment will be made in Taels at the Demand Buying rate of exchange of the day the Coupon ☐ presented,

By Order,

THE KAILAN MINING

ADMINISTRATION, W. & NATHAN,

General Manager.

"FOR SALE.

TERY, in good condition

HE following LAUNDRY

2 BOLLERS

1 STEAM ESOLNA 14 H.P.

2 WASHING MACHINES,

2 EXTRACTORS.

1 WATER HEATER.

2 BTBAM BOARDS.

1807

In One Lor. The Property Consists of:-

The piece or parcel of ground and premises known as Lynhnii, 104, The Peak, situale near Mount Gough, in sho Colony of Hongkong, with an Aren of 124,029 square feet and registered in the Land Office Baral Building Lot No. 19.

The Lot held for the unexpired resi. dus of a term of 75 years created therein

Forma

required may be obtained xf the G.P.O. and ai all Folios Statio

The Penalty for man-mompliance is a ́Ens noi exceeding $50.

58

THE WATERHOUSE STEAMSHIP

LINE,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM SEATTLE AND JAPAN PORTS,

by an indenture of Crown Lease dated | STIHE Steamship the 3rd day of April, 1896.

The Annual Crown Rent is $85.80.

For further particulam and sonditions of sale apply to –

MAS WILKINSON & GRIST, Holicitors for the Liquidators,

or to the Undersigned,

GEO. P. LAMMERT.

Auctioneer.

PUBLIC AUOTION,

THE Undersigned has received instrac

tions from the Liquidator of | Mosers: Wrtzea & Co. in pursuance of an order of the Hongkong Government to sell by public auction at 12 o'clock (Noo) on MONDAY, the 17th day of August, 1917, at bis Sales Rooms, Duddall Street, Hongkong,

Yaumati, Kowloon, in the Colony of All the piece of ground situste at Hongkong and registered in the Land Office es KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 209, BEDAV

b In On LOT

*KEISHIN MARU"- having arrived from the abovs Forts, Consignee. of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at Tarix RISK into the hazardous and/or astra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowe Company, Limited, wharoe wharvas delivery may be obtor from thi

Goods not cleared by the 12th July, will be mbject to rent

53 M

All broken, chafed and damaged package are to be left in the Gedowns, where they will is samined by Messrs. GODDARD And Douglas, on the 12th July, at 10 a M.

Claims araiset: the Steamer must di

presented within 10 days of arrival otherwise they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be enssted by un anyone whatever.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Iro

At

1814 Hongkong, 5th July, 1917

JOINT SERVICE

28th, WILLIAM ALEXANDER FLASER, son of the late George Fraser, Burn side, Glasgow, and brother of Mrs. A. S. Malcolm, Shanghai. Jouy-Killed in action in France, on or about June 28th, ALFRED DANIEL JOHN

(formerly of Messrs. Butterfield Swire, Ltd., Shanghai), son of "3. W. H. John, Chinese Maritime Cus toms' Service, Shanghai. REMEDIOS At the General Hospital,

Shanghai, on July 1st, F. P. PLACE REMED106, aged 50 years...

HONGKONG OFFion: 101, Das VŒUZ ROAD, C. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STEEST, EC.

The Daily Press.

tory in China proper inmediately under normission to the undermentioned gentle. the control of the Poking Government. men to wear the following decorations As illustrating the difficulty that arises which have been conferred upon them by in this connection, we may mention that HM the Emperor of Japan in recogni- : an English atlas in our passession putation of valuable services :-Third Class of the boundary of Tibet some 100 miles west the Order of the Rising Sun: Alexandor of Chengtu; when Sir ALESANDEN Hose Joseph Hare, Esq., Teacher of the Tokio visited the frontier in 1904 he was shown Higher Commercial School. Third Class a boundary sione a few miles west of of the Order of the Sacred Treasurer: Batang, and his Chiness escort regarded John Edward Foley, Esq., Director of this boundary as so sacred that he was the Trafic Section of the Peking-Mukden not, ulluwed to advance a couple of paces

Railway

Tientsin. Fourth Class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure: The the pillar; to examine the western face of

Reverend Williams Campbell, & Min four years later, when Chad Enh-reng was appointed Wurden of the Marches, his commission extended from Tutsieniu to Fiendah, about 180 miles east of Lhase and this idea of the position of the fron GERMAN SOCIALISTS AND THE

tier

was preserved m a Presidential LIBERATION" OF TIBET.

Mandate of May 29th, 1913 The fact of We need scarcely say that we never the matter is that the border regions are expected to find ourselves in whole largely a No-man's-land, inhabited by hearted agreement with any German peace autochthonous tribes owing only terms, yet this almost describes our feel- shadowy allegiance to either Peking or ings towards the proposal of the German

Lhasa The question can only be settled Majority Socialists' Delegation ‘urging by compromise. The Tibetan claim to all the "liberation" of Tibet. What strange the country as far as Tatsiculu is inad

erversion has led to this recommend missible, while the Chinese Lesertion of tion we cannot hope to guess--possibly it sovereign rights as fures Piendah is

HONGKONG, 9TH July, 1917.

sonary of the Presbyterian Church of England in Formosa. Fifth Class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure: William Hunter Steele, Ean, Assistant Director of the Traffic Section of the Peking Mukden Railway, Tientsin.

HONGKONG S WATER SUPPLY

The water return for the Colony shows that on July 1st the total storage in the City and Hill district reservoir was

reservoirs 414.88 million gallons, and that on the same last year the storage totalled 780.05

The property consiste of a piece of NEDERLAND" AND ROTTERDAM is ignorance of geography, and the equally impossible of recognition. Si million gallons. During June in the

ground abutting on Battery Street and Fourth Street (near the Prays) in Kow.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

LLOYD " ROYAL MAIL LINES.

FTE Steamship

dr

Consignzan

PAN-BINDJANI”.

MACHIN-loon and contains an area of 4,500

square feet, by

The Lot is held for the unexpiced red sidue of a term of 75 years created

Domly Pamps, Water and Steam, Pipes,

Tanks, Tables, etc.

Apply in writing to

Box No 4, Care of "Daily Press " Office.

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FOR SALE.

DO NOT MISS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY.

EAN and Nut OIL MILL PLANT in

B perfect working vrier for Sale at next to

Plesso address enquiries to

Care of Daily Press. Oftes

1776

rap-iron priss.

therein by an Indenture of Crown Lease having strived from SAN FRANCISCO / that they have been tod astray by Mto China, would preserve to the Lhnan consumption per head per day of 19.3

dated the 4th day of May, 1888:

The Annual Orowa Rent is $60.

For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to

MEN HASTINGS & HASTINGS, Solicitors for the Liquidator, or to the Undersigned,

GEO, P. LAMMERT Hongkong, Brd May, 1917.

FOR SALE.

USED STAMPS in packets off

"SED BUITISH ASIATIC POSTAGE

50 Stamps for $0.00 | 110 Stamps for $2.50 1,30 120

70

80.

100

$1.80 140

9.00 150

3.00

$4,50 5.50

GRACA & CO.

NO. 4, WTADHAM STRIKE, Hongkong,

53.

Socialists have got it into their heads HENRY MACMASON's proposal for a dis same district the total consumption was that Tibet is a dependency of Cubs or tinction between Inner and Outer Tibet-

155.41 million gallons by an estimated some other of the latest additions to which, while ceding the Kokoner region population of 288,519, giving an average their country's hated: foes, or it may he

In June 1916, an estimated Government all the country up to Batang, gallons. of Cargo are hereby elif TOWNSEND' cartoon Tibet go bragb including Chiamdo, and Dergo would population of 285,919 consumed 185,60 that all Goods are being landed at their which appeared in Panch some years ago,em to furnish a reasonable basis for million gallons, or an average per head

into the hairdous and/or extra hazardous depicting Mr. Renown embracing &

1. per day of 20,8 gallons. Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon

further negotiations, on which, with a a Wharf and Godowa Tild,

In the Kowloon reservoir, the tom whenso tram de har daiter, may be obtained.

Peruvian llama (apparently meant to spirit of accommodation on both sides, a represent the DALAI LAMA) and express

settlement could be arrived at Wo are storage on July 1sh was 251.74 million - No Usim will be admitted after the Gond Te left the rode was, and all Good ing to it (or him) the greatings of one quite as one with Dr. Wo when he anys gallons against, 352.50 on the same date

after the 12th July complaing undelivered afte

oppressed nation to another. German that an early settlement in a reciprocal last year. During June an estimated Noon wih be subject to rentals

mentality is beyond us, but we do not think that the Socialista Delegation can have known that five years ago Sir Jos JORDAN, urged on the Chinese Covernment

All Claims against the steamer mass ho pre sented to the Undersigned on or before the 16. July

or they will not be recognised. -

be

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods see te bo ink in the Godowne, where they

mained on the 13th July, si 10 ▲x., by the Company surveyors, Meera Goddard Douglas, B.

No Fire Insurance 128 besir erected. Hilly of Tsing will be courterriszed by

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN. Agents.

Hongkang, 5th July, 1917.

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spirit of give-and-take and giving reason population of 100,100 consumed 0.45 able satisfaction to the legitimate aspira. million gallons, an average per head per tions and claims of all parties is extremely day of 123 gallons, and in the corres desirable, and we do not think such a ponding period last year 25,64 million gallons were consumed by an estimated

the necessity for recognizing the autonomy settlement should be dificult of attain of Tibet and that, ever since, Great ment. Britain has been pressing for its " libera tion. We wonder, too, whether the It is notified in the Gazette that the Delegation realized that at the commence name of the Oriental Hotel Ltd, has ment of the war the DALAI LAMA offered been struck off the Register."

population of 98,300, or an average con- sumption per head per day of 121 The Government analyst's report states that the water in all the reservoirs is of excr)- lent quality.