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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

N

TO LET.

0.6, STEWART TERRACE, FEAR, Furnished or Unfurnished, imme diate possession. Apply to-

DENNYS & BOWLEY.

KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART

MAATSCHAPPY.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM SINGAPORE.

ME Steamship

TH

"VAN WEARWYCK." having arrived from the above port, Con: signs of Cargo by her are notified that all goods are being landed at their risk

into the hazardous and/or extra hazard. Our Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon, Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

Goods not cleared by 23rd July will be subject to rent.

All bruken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 21st July, at 10 AM.

Claims against the steamer must be presented in writing within 10 days after arrival of steamer, otherwise they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by the undersigned in any case whatever.

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 17TH, 1917.

UNDER the Patronage of His Excellency

the Governor, the Official Pictures of the British Army in France.

THE BATTLE OF THE ANORE

AND

THE ADVANCE OF THE TANKS

will be screened at the VICTORIA THEATRE.

TO-NIGHT!

TO-NIGHT!!

TUESDAY, 17TH JULY, THURSDAY, 19TH

AT 9.15 EACH NIGHT.

AUCTION

For Sale

by

Public Auction.

Subject to the conditions prescribed by the Straits Settlements" Alien Enemies (Winding- up) Ordinance, 1914" un amended from time to time by Ordmanom, 1 of 1915, XIX of 1915, XVI of 1916 and VI of 1917 and as adopted in this State:

INTIMATION

BY APPOINTMENT.

WATSON'Sings. The Commission, it must be pre-

All that land known as THE DRY

BATU LIMA ESTATE consisting

of about 1,016 acres, 1 rood, 33

The Pictures were taken on the actual Battloperchies held under East Coast

field and contain nothing whatever in the

nature of “Faked" or made up Scenes. Soats may be hooked for Stalls as well as Dress Cirole.

Booking Now Open at MOUTRIE'S. PRICES:-

DRESS CIRCLE $3, STALLS 82, PIT 81.

PROFITS WILL BE DavorED TO WAE FUNDE.

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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

de under ding will be countersigned I INTERIM DIVIDEND 4 £2.50 per

by

Agenta.

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

1826 Hongkong, 16th July, 1917.

COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

FROM

ROM this date until further Notice MR. GEORGE FREDRICK DUM. BARTON has been Appointed ACTING LOCAL MANAGER of the Hongkong Branch of this Company

W. H. TRENCHARD DAVIS, Manager for China. Hongkong, 18th July, 1917,

1948

HE NATIONAL LOAN OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA (1934) $18,000,000 AND SUPPLEMENTARY ISSUE OF $8,000,000 AND

THE NATIONAL LOAN OF THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC

OF CHINA (1915) $24,000,000.

UKSCRIBERS to the above two LOANS are hereby notified that in pursuance of arrangements recently made By the Chinese Government with me for te tuture service of theme Loans, interest payments are and will be adequately secured by cash funds in my hands and at my sole disposal.

F. A. AGLEN, Inspector General of Customs. Inspectorate General of Customs,

Peking, 6th June, 1917.

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TT 18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that an

Share, mbject to deduction of Income Tar, haa. been declared for the HALF-YEAR ending 30th June, 1817, at rate of 2/63 por Dollar.

The DIVIDEND will be Payable on and after MONDAY, the 13th August, 1917, at the Ofice of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Cor poration will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 30th July, to SATURDAY, the 11th August, 1917 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Sharon can be Registered.

By Order of the Court of Director,

N. J. STABB,.

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 12th July, 1917.

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

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of THREE AND A HALF DOLLARS per Share for the six months ending 20th June, 1917, will be Payable on THURSDAY 26th July, on which dato Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 18th, to THURSDAY, the 26th July (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be r istered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary:

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Hongkong, 10th July, 1917.

THE WEST POINT BUILDING

COMPANY, LIMITED.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of THREE A DOLLARS per Share for the six months ending 30th, June, 1917, will be Pay Dividend Warranta may be obtained on application at the Company's office.

Country Grant No. 49 for 999 years from 1883, RENT FREE. About 275 acres of the land is planted with rubber (150 acres in bearing) and 50 acres with coconuts 3 to 4 years old.

Situated on main road within 5 miles of Sandakan Wharf.

The following buildings in good condition are on the Estate:

-(a) 1 bungalow (40' x 30') containing 2 bedrooms, dining room and veran- dah. Corrugated iron roof, plank walls, tiled floor.

(4) 1 Store (03' x 22). Corrugated iron

roof, plank k walls.

GINGER-

FRAGRANT,

AROMATIC,

ALE

DRY.

(c) 1 Smoke-house (24' x 20') Corrugate Ite "Dryness" is a feature which

iron walls and roof, earth floor. Factory (32′ x 10'). Corrugatari. iron roof, plank walls, cement floor.

(d)

(e)

14 Coolie house (cach 18 x 14).

Plank walls, attap rocks.

Contains 2 hand machines, 28 latex

pails and over 9,000 cups.

has helped to give this drink the

popularity it so well deserves.

PINTS $1.20 PEx Doz.

SPLITS 70 Crs.

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"

The above property will be sold by Public Auction In the Court House at Sandakan at 12 o'clock Neon, on SATUR- DAY, 20th October, 1917. RESERVE PRICE $100,000 (ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) STRAITS SETTLEMENTS CURRENCY.

(NOTE:-This reserve price has been based A. S. WATSON on a report on the Estate by the Honourable Mr. F. E. Lease, Manager of Sapong Estate).

The sale is subject to the follow- ing conditions:

&

CO., LTD.,

TELEPHONE 436

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RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

Within a few months the tortuous Taipo road will no longer present any serious difficulties, in the shape of a succession of hairpin turns, to motorists, for the Public Works Department is working wonders along this beautifully

a real torror. to motorists on account of its

sharp turns, and more than one "joy- rider has returned from a jaunt along it in a very chastered mood,

cabe

they will be removed from positions in which they have shown themselves. in- capable of meeting the demands inade upon them. Their mistakes, it must be remembered, cost thousands, of lives and caused untold misery to the wounded, who, at least, had the right to expect that every preparation humanly possible would be made to alleviate their suffer- situated highway. The most acute angles

have already given place to stretches of straight level road, and many. other awk- amed, earried through their enquiry thoroughly and impartially, and it would ward bends are now receiving attention appear to be the duty of the Government at the hands of the transformers. to act upon the opinions which the Com- Formerly the Taipo road was missioners expressed with practical un- animity. To appoint another tribunal to go over the ground afresh would simply. mean the unnecessary prolongation of the whole "miserable business," and fruit-

The shopkeepers of Old Kowloon City less discussion at this stage of the war

are enjoying a joke at the expense of the must lead inevitably to waste of time

Government. Recently the meanest- which could be profitably employed in other directions. The majority of the looking shop in the "main-street public will, we believe, understand and

into line with its neighbours by installing this electric light, and the occasion was sympathise with the PREMIER's exaspera tion at the delay of the House of Com-made one for great jubilation. Is the mons in dealing with what, after all, course of a speech at the "opening are unessential factors in the one great ceremony," the shopkeeper in queation re. task which confronts us, and his phrase ferred to the fact that the Government "For Gob's sake, let us get on with the police station, which

the was war is likely to find an echo throughout palatial building in the city," still the Empire. It is satisfactory to know adhered to the primitive system of that the administration of the Meso- kerosene oil lamps for lighting purposer, potamia campaign to-day is everything while immediately in front of the build- that can be desired. There has been sing there was a huge are lamp to demon- fair and impartial investigation" into strate the superiority of electricity. "So the blunders which occasioned disasters of the past, and nothing now remains but to pronounce the penalties which must be paid by those who have been found unequal to the responsibilities entrusted to them. The hesitation and uncertainty shown by the House of Commons in disposing of the matter is calculated to create a feeling of distrust and under- mine the confidence of the nation in those to whom the direction of the ship of State is committed.

most

much" said Jolin, "for the progress of the European." The Inspector at the station has to sit tight and grind bis teeth while the villagers make merry at the Government's need of enlightenment,

The advantage of making special efforts occasionally on behalf of war objects is demonstrated again by the result of the recent appeal for another neroplane from Hongkong. The office-buy calculates that

there were in all 991 subscribers to the Fund, which opened on April 4th and In this he is not

A small fire occurred in the basement closed on June 26th.

of King's Buildings on Saturday about 5.30 p.m. It appears that a quantity of rubbish became ignited. The fire brigade were quickly on the scene, and extinguish

donc,

[A Japanese officer apprentice, from the Koreų Muru, has been sent to the Govern. ment Civil Hospital suffering from some- what severe injuries to the head and

(1) $30,000 (Singapore Currency) to be paid ERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS.ed the flames. Very little damage was on purchase and the balance by monthly instalmenty thereafter of $10,000. Interest at the rate of 7% per annum will be charged on instalments overdue and default for 30 days will invalidate the sale and render the deposit and all instalments liable to forfeiture, (2) Upon payment of the deposit an agree ment will be executed by the liquidator undertaking to complete the transfer of the of the final instalment of the purchase intiny. And to the following special conditions:

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strictly accurate, as the Hongkong Volun teer Sergeants' Mess, which was respon“ į sible for $212.30, and the Masonic Club, Kowloon, which gave 9975, are only counted as two persons, but the figure is as nearly correct as possible. The sung contributed ranged from $1 to $500, and included 253 subscriptions of $10 each and no fewer than 472 of 85 enob. It is safe to say that u large proportion of this

for war purposes unless energetic mea- sures had been taken to obtain it.

RUSSIAN 5%% INTERNAL LIBERTY able on THURSDAY, 26th July, on which date estate, free of all incumbrances on payment PARR. At Craigkyrie, The Peak, Hong-hody, which were caused by his falling money would never, have been available.

LOAN 1917.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE

that the RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK, HONGKONG, IS READY TO RECEIVE FURTHER SUB- SCRIPTIONS TO THE ABOVE LOAN UP TO THE 28th JULY, 1917.

G. TISDALL, Manager, Russo-Asiatic Bank.

FOR SALE.

YEAKWOOD MOTOR BOAT HULL condition, bottom sheathed with Muntz Metal

..35'-0" 86" 3'-**

Tand FITTINGS in good order and

Length Beum Depth Teakwood Deck House 18'-0" long. fitted with venetian shutters. Completely equipped with Stern Gear, including Brass Propeller Brass Rudder, Steering dear, Telegraph and Usual Accessories.

Vessel may be seen at Tue KOWLOON ENGINEERING WORKS.

No reasonable offer refused.

Apply

SHIP CHANDLERY, LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

TO LET

TO LET

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 18th, to THURSDAY, the 26th July (both days inclusive), during which period no Tramafer of Shares can be Registered,

By Order of the Board of Directory,

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary.

1829 Hongkong, 10th July, 1917.

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NOTICE.

(1) The purchaser must be a British subject and not under any foreign influence he will be required to satisfy the Governor that no person of exomy or foreign origin is directly or ind

indirectly interested with him in the pur- chase, and he must make such statutory declaration i in that behalf as may be required by the Governor.

(2) For the purposes of this male any person entitled under the Land Laws of North

Borneo to rank as a Nativo shall be deemed

to be a British subject.

BIRTH.

kong, on the 18th instant, to Mr. and Mrs. E. V. D. Pan, a daughter (still-born).

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HONGKONG OFFont, 101, Des Vœux Bold, C. LONDON, Orfics: 181, First Szuar, E,C.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, 17TH JUŁY, 1917.

down the hold of the ship while engaged in covering the hatches. The accident occurred on the 14th inst.

The death of the Rajah of Sarawak

calls to mind says the . and C. Express

tha: Miss Zona, Dare, who has often enough interpreted the East in musical comedy, may come to see it yet in real life. Her husband, Lord Esber's second son. is the brother-in-law of the new

It is gratifying to find that at least. une Magistrato realises the seriousness of

the offence of wing faulty seules. If Mr. Dyer Ball contianes his practice of im- posing substantin fines on shopkeepers who buy

"arranged" scales from friends," he will soon see the good result in a diminution of such cases

THE MESOPOTAMIA, MUDDLE Rajah of Sarawak, Mé. Charles Vyner The need for imposing heavy penaltion

Brooke.

Trans appears to be a great deal of, uncertainty as to the action which the During the week ending July 14th, a

for light weight will be appreciated when

it is mentioned that last week a Chinese shopkeeper was found in possession of

between the hours of 9 a.m. to 1 s.. and 3P.Movernor, to exclude the "proved by the British Government will take in regard fatal Chinese case of plague was reported scales which went against the purchaser

(3) In the use of a Company formed for A desiring to leave the Colony should apply the purpose of naquiring the business for Memorandum of Association must contain

provisions, to be

possibility of the Company falling under foreign control. Generally speaking. it will be necessary to prevent more than one-fourth of the shares or the voting rights being held by, or subject to the control of, foreigners.

NT EUROPEAN, Non-Axistia or Indiau

in person at the CENTRAL POLION STATION

to 4 P.. daily.

Applicants will be required to produce Pass

or Identification papers. poris

All persons with curtains exceptions whe remain in the Colony for more than 7 day are required to Register themselves ander the BEGISTRATION or PERSONS. ORDIN ANCE 1918.

Forms of Registration giving the parifonlars senired may be obtained at the G.P.O. and si

all Polloe Bistions,

The Penalty for non-ccrapliance is a fine not saeeding $50,

WANTED.

58

HOUSE or WHOLE FLOOR with A a central location,

Please apply to-

DETONIA, No. 8 NCAA Bowd, 81X-

ROOMED BUNGALOW, with

Garden and Tennis Court,

HOUSES in Bhameen, Canton, Nos. 31 and 63.

Apply to

T

· 767

Box No. 1, Care of "Dilly Prees" Ofice.

PUBLIC AUCTION, THE Undersigned has received instruc tions from the Liquidatora of Mears. Jussex & Co. in pursuance of an order of the Hongkong Government to sell by public suction at 19 o'clock (Noox) on TUESDAY, the B1st day of July 1917, at his Hales Rooms, Daddell Streck THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD tral.

PROPERTY situste at The Peak, Hong OFFICES in King's and York Build-kong, and being RURAL BUILDING ings,

LOT No. 10,

In Ons Lot The Property Consists oft

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD.

TO LET

OFFICES at 2, Connaught Road Cen

A HOUSE, Knutsford Terrace (Kow-

loon).

HOUSES in Wongneichong Road.

to the Report upon the mistakes cont-in the Colony. In the same period there mitted in the Mesopotamin campaign. was a non-fatal Chinesacasa of diphtheria, When the Commission first published the five Chinese cases of enteric fever, one result of their investigations there was a of which proved fatal, and a non-fatal general outery for the punishment of British case of paratyphoid fever. Since wore responsible for the Jan. 1st there have been #4 cases of plague, those who lamentable breakdown in the organisa- of which number 31 have proved fatal. as to exclude the possibility of the Company tion of the Expedition. That the failure falling under foreign control, and the Dime

Amongst the recipients of the Royal May 21st, was Mr. E. C. Wilton, CMG Geographical Society's awards, made on

In the case of a Company already in existence,

stence, if the Articles of Association do not already so provide, they must be altered in a manner satisfactory to the Governor so

tors must furnish så undertaking to use their of the first advance on Baghdad was duc best endeavours to have the provisions to inefficiency in high places seems to be referred to above inserted in the Memorandum

approve

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to the extent of 15 per cent, I He was only a small shopkeeper, but he was fined 325, and very properly so, for those whom he was robbing of nearly half their pur- chases belong to the class that could least afford it...

The new typhoon signals had an oppor-. tanity of "showing their paces came out of the ordeal with credit. Aí Friday afternoon and evening, and they

of Association if legislation should be unquestioned, in spite of Mr. Asquita' on whom the Gill Meinorial Medal was night-time the signal, three white lights, introduced enabling the Memoranduin of condemnation of the manner in which conferred. Mr. Wilton is a well-known could be read with greater ease than was Association to be altered by the insertion of the report has been travestied, per-member of the China Consular Service, the case when the old system was in auch provisions.

(5) Should the Governor for any reason notverted and exploited," and it was ré-

and it is interesting to note that the last vogue. On Thursday evening, however, be rescinded by the Governor and the deposit garded as certain that the resignation of member of the service to receive one of the signals gave at least one resident a

the purchaser, the contract may of will be returned without interest or expenses. those who had been found guilty would the Society's distinctious was the late

Further particulars may be be demanded immediately as obtained on application to the step towards satisfying public opinion. Mr. E. Colborne Baber. This was as far undersigned.

W. W. SMITH,

Liquidator RIBIDENT'S OFFICE

SANDAKAN, NORTH BORNEO, 29th June, 1917.

FOR EALE.

[$13

DO NOT MISS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY.

the Erst

back às 1883.

Viscount HARBINGE, whose chief fault appears to have been that while Viceroy TYPHOON WARNINGS. of India he trusted too implicitly to his

The following telegram has been military advisers, has tendered his resignation on three occasions, but it has received by the American Consulate been refused, probably because his respon General, Hongkong, from the Manila sibility was only nominal. Mr. AUSTEN Observatory:

July 15th, 6 p.m. CHAMBERLAIN has resigned because he Cyclone or typhoon E. of the Visayas found it impossible to remain at the Islands; direction unknown. India Office when his conduct might be

July 16th, 10.30 am. Cyclone or typhoon E. of southern

The picos or parcel of ground and EAN and Nut OQIL MILL PLANT in HOUSES in Clifton Gardens, Conduit premise known Lynch 104, The B perfect working order for Sale at zert to questioned by a judicial tribunal. Both Luzon, moving NW, or N.N.W

Road,

HOUSES in Broadwood and Moreton Terraces.

HOUSES on Shameen, Cunton.

Apply to

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

·TO LET

A FIVE ROOMED HOUSE,

with

Tennis Court in Minden Villas, Howloon ASTRONA

A FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE Co., T., Alexandra Buildings.

severe shock. He was having a last look round before turning in when the

signals on the Kowloon Station tower announced that there was a typhoon with in 300 miles approaching the Colony, A few minutes later even more ominous warnings were displayed in quick suc cession, until eventually came the dread signal:Wind may increase to typhoon force at any moment."" fact that it was a calm and peaceful In view of the

night the unhappy spectator began to wonder if all was well with him. While he

these statesmen have splendid records of

was still anxiously debating the point, the signals again went through the whole public service, and it is generally admitted that they have been largely the

gamut of indications, and finished up victims of circumstance. Of the others An interesting discovery was made with the information that the typhuon recently by Sir Arthur Lee, the Con mentioned in the indictment who were troller of Food Production. When was due to strike the Colony. This was more directly in charge of affairs, and stripping the wall of a room in Thetoo much. The poor man rushed to the upon whom the chief blame naturally Chequers, his country house in Bucks, telephone, frantically called up the Ob- he came across a small capboard in which falls, nothing has been heard. If success he found, strapped to the wall, the life servatory and learned that they were had crowned their efforts their reward mask, or cast of the face, of Oliver merely practising! Why, he asks, can 560 would have been great, and it is only Cromwell. The mask had been missing not public notice be given of the Inte

"belong The Chequers reasonable to expect that, in the interests ed in the seventeenth century, to Uliver tion to play such pranks! GRACA & CO,.

No. 4, WIRDHAN ÖZLIKT

of the public service and common justice, Cromwell's daughter. Hongking.

Peak, situato near Mount Gough, in the semp-iron price Colony of Hongkong, with an area of Please address enquiries to— 134,089 square feet and registered in the Land Chica Burs! Building Los No. 19.

The Lot is held for the unexpired red- due of a term of 75 years oreated therein by an indenture of Crown Lease dated the 23rd day of April, 180.

The Annual Crown Beat Is 385.00.- For further particulars

of sale apply to making

conditions

MR WILKINSON & GRIBT, Solicitors for the Liquidators,

or to the Undersigned,

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Care of Dally Press Office.

FOR BALEN

STAMPS in packets of

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10 Stamps for 20,50 | 60 Stamps for $2.50 13.00, *400*

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AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

for 250 years.

RODERICK RANDOM