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INTIMATIONS

VICTORIA THEATRE.

TO-NIGHT!

TO-NIGHT! TUESDAY, 31ST JULY.

FAREWELL PERFORMANCES

OF THE

CAMEOS.

TO-DAY

AT 5 PM

SPECIAL MATINEE!

AND AT 9.15PM. FINAL PROGRAMME-

BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S. Prices $3, $2 and $1.

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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL- AGENCY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL TGENERAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS will be held in the Offcon of Messrs. DopeLL & Co., LTD., Queen's Build ings, TO-DAY (TUESDAY), the 31st July, 1917, at 11,804, for the purpose of receiving the Eoport of the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounts to the 31st May, 1017, and for the election of an Auditor.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will to CLOSED from the 17th July to the 31st July, both datas inclusive.

DODWELL & Co., LTD.,

General Managers

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Hangkosg, 13th July, 1917.

THE HONGKONG COTTON SPINNINGF WEAVING AND DYRING COMPANY, LIMITED

(I LIQUIDATION).

TOTICE IS HEBEBY GIVEN that n

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the alive Damer Compang will be held at the Office of Momre, JanusE, MATHESON & CLTD Hongkong, on MONDAY, the lath day of August, 1917, at Youn.

AGENDA.

1.-For the pupose of having in paraunnes

of Section 188 of Ordinance No. 58 of 1911 of Hongkong an account laid before the Members showing the mannor in which the winding up has been conducted and the property of the Company disposed of and of bearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator.

To propose un

Extourdinary Resolution sanctioning a Final return to the Mein- here as follows:-

by the That a return

of Nine Cents Hongkong Liquidator Currency per Share to the persons. who are legistered as Members of the Company, on the 7th day of August, 1917, be and the same here hy is sanctioned. 3-To determine by Extranslinary Resola

Lion the manner in which the books and accounts of the Company and of the liquidator thereof shall be disposed of,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 7th August, 1917, to TUESDAY, the 21st August, 1017, both days inclusive,

Dated the second day of July, 1917.

C. BERNARD BROWN, Liquidutör.

THE

AUCTIONS

PUBLIC

AUCTION.

THE HONGKONG DAILY TRESS TUESDAY, JULY 31st, 19177.

THE Ludewigned has received instractions from the Liquidators of Mosers. Jensan

& Co, in pursuance of an order of the Hong

AUCTION

For Sale

by

INTIMATION

Long Government, to sellby Fallo Jogia Public Auction. WATSON'S

(TUESDAY)

19 o'clock (Noom

TO-DAY

Shin Salou ths 3lat day of July, Room, Daddall Street

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD THE PROPERTY into at The Peak, Hongkong, and being RURAL BUILDING LOT No. 19. to time by Ordinances, 1 of 1916, XIX 195 PRICKLY HEAT

IN ONE LOT,

The Property Consists of

The piece or parcel of ground and promises known Lyshols" 104, The Peak, stunto

Las

naar Menut Gough, in the Colony of Hongkong, with an area of 124,039 square feet and register ed in the Land Office as Bars!

Building The Lot in hold for the unexpired residue of teria of 76 years created therein by sn indenture of Crown Lease dated the 23rd day of April, 1896

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

All that land known as THE BATU LIMA ESTATE consisting of about 1,016 acres, 1 rood, 88 perches held under East Coast Country Grant No. 49 for 999 years from 1888, RENT FREE. About 276 acres of the land is culars and conditions of sale planted with rubber (150 neres METERS. WILKINSON & GRIST, in bearing) and 50 acres with

Solicitors for the Liquidators,

coconuts 3 to 4 years old.

The Annual Crown Bent is $86.00. For further particulare nudi. apply to

or to the Undersigned,

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer,

PUBLIO AUOTION,

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DY direction of the Government of

Bongosfa TUOHER

HOUGH Lave received instructions to seil-by-Public Auction,

O MONDAYT, the 13th day of August, 1917, AL E RE, at their Bales Room, Ion Home Bireet, Victoria, Hongkong, The Following VALUABLE

LEASE HOLD PROPERTY situate at Victoria, Hongkong sin

All THOSE pieces or parcels of ground situate at Victoria sformssid and known and registered in the Land Office se SECTION & OF MARINE LOT NO. 101 and BECTION “B” OF MARINE LOT NO. 101. Together with the massuages, erections and buildings and buildings thereon known as No. 7, Queen's Road Central, Victoria aforesaid. Term 999 years created by a Orown Lease dated The 8th day of April, 1936,

Ares in respect of Beetion of Marine Lat No. 101-8448 80 ft. Pro portion of Annual Crown Bent $84.15.

Ares in respect of Bection "B" ol Marine Lot No. 101-675 g t Pro portion of Annual Crown Hent $6.75.

and conditions For further particulars and con of sale apply to

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,

Prince's Buildings,"

Ice House Street, Hongkong, Bellators for the Liquidator of THE DEUTSCH ABLATIBORS BANK,

MESSES. HUGHES & HOUGH, The Auctioneers. Hongkong, th May, 1917.

HOUSES TO LET

TO LET

EVONIA, No. 9 Peak Road, DROOMED

BUNGALOW. Garden and Tennis Court.

Talt

Situated on mala road within 5 miles of Sandakan Wharf.

The following buildings in good condition are on the Estate -

(0) 1 bungalow (40 x 20) containing 2 bedrooms, dining room and veron. dah Corrugated iron roof, plank walls, tiled Dor

(6) I Store (63 x 92) Corrugated iron

roof, plank walls.

(c) 1 Sinoke-hours (24 x 20). Corrugated

iron walls and roof, earth floor, (d) Factory (32 x 101

I

Corrugated

iron roof, plank walls, cement flour, Contains hand mischines, 28 latex pails and over 9,000 cups.

(e) 15 Coolie houses (each 19 x 10)

Plank walls, attap roofs. The above

will be property sold by Public Auction In the Court House at Sandakan at

SATUR

12 o'clock Noon, DAY, 20th October, 1917.

RESERVE PRICE $100,000 (ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) STRAITS SETTLEMENTS CURRENCY.

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

The sale is subject to the follow- ing conditions

on

(1) 880,000 (Singapore Currency) to be paid on purchase and the balance by monthly instalments thereafter of $10,000 Interest at the rate of 7% per annum will be charred instalments overdue and default 30 days will invalidate the sale and render the deposit and all instalments liable to forfeitare.

(2) Upon payment of the deposit an agree ment will be executed by the Equidator undertaking to complete the transfer of the eatate, free of all incumbrances, on paynient of the final instalment of the purchase money And to the following special

BIX-conditions

LOTION

AND

POWDER

are certain cures

for Prickly Heat.

Can be used either in conjunction

or separately,

They will also be found invaluable

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice The first two of these have, we now learn, been dropped, and it would be idle to Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals a regret them. The line lato Kansu and knowledges with thanks the following Turkestan would have swallowed up about | donations to tho Funda of the Hospitals: half the total mileage provided for in the contract, and had little to commend it. It would have been purely a military strategic railway, and would have done

or nothing to further the comme Little cial development of the interior of the country, and, as we pointed out at the

great

Compradores' Guild (1918), $400, Au Chak Man, 8100; Cheung Sum Woo, 8100; Chan Kit Bhan, 8100; Choa Po Sien, 8100; Lo Shin Hoi, 850, The Sun Co., Ltd, $25; and Brass and Iron Dealers Guild, 860.

Capt. A. C. Robinson, brother of Mr. B. Raworth, of Hongkong, has just been awarded the Military Cross for good.

the

e, Chinn cannot at present afford to spend large sums of money on works of purely military utility. The Hangchow- Wenchow line, too, held out no prospect of justifying its construction, as work in East Africa. He is a regulär, it would have been a costly undertaking and, after going all through

Cameroon Campaign, was transferred to East Africa Another brother of Mrs. Baworth, Lt. F. H. Bobinson, who re signed his position with Messrs. Butter- field & Swire, of Hongkong, in September, 1915, in order to go home and join up, was wounded at Fricourt last summer in the big push and is now his brother's subaltern in East Africa.

and could do comparatively little in the way of opening up new trade areas, though it may be remarked en passant that, if previous contracts did not stand in the way, it would have been useful in the extreme had the Biems-Carey agree ment included the completion of the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo line. No thing is said now about the line across Hainan the proposed line from Heng- chow to Nanning is to be carried on to Yamchow, on the Kwangtung sea const; and provision is made for a new line from Chowkiakow, in Ilonan, to Siang yang, in Hupeb; while further develop

for preventing and relieving Sun-ments are hinted at in the suggestion

burn, Freckles and all Skin

Irritations.

PRICKLY

·HEAT

in Bottles at

50c, and $1.00 PRICKLY HEAT

A.

in Boxes at

$1.00

POWDER

Air Vers William Lane Blake--younger brother of Sir Henry A. Blake, who, for some jours, was Governor of this Colony died at Grey's Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, on June 23rd, aged es, Mr. Blake was born at Killenaule, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. His father was the late Mr. Peter Blake,

that a link may be built from Siangyang to Binyung to connect this line with the Pukow-Sinyang Kailway, and even that County Inspector of Irish Constabulary, arrangements may be made with the Briand at one time Stipendiary Magistrate tish and Chinese Corporation for the of Kilkenny. When a young man, tho construction of the Pukow-Sinyang line docensed enlisted in the 17th Lancers, and, LOTION by the American syndicate. A glance at after service in India, fought with tho the map will show what an uninense step Death or Glory Boys" in the Zulu towards the realization of a network of War, and took part in the overthrow of railways in Central China this would | Colywayo at Ulundid on his 28th birth- mean The Chowkiakow-Siangyang hino day, July 4th, 1879. Settling in Natah would

provide Leders east and west for Mr. Blake entered the Colonial Civil the Poking-Hankow Railway on the east Service, and, after a term in the Customs its extension to join the transvers, Tine Department of Natal, beaune in 1804 between Hsuchovfu and Kaifengfu would Goutisman Usher of the Black Red in the he in easy and obvious stop; while, New Legislative Council, established un according to the American Commercial the assumption by the Colony of Respon➡ Attaché, it is already understood that it sible Govorament in 1894. He held tho is to be extended west from Siangyang office until 1910, when the creation of up the valley of the Han River into the South African Union superseded the Shensi and possibly thenee into northern

Natul Parliunient, Szechuen, following, presumably, the vid Imperial post road from Hanchung to Chongto, These latter developments are TYPHOON WARNING. scarcely within the field of practicnl politics at present, though we believe

PREPARED ONLY BY

WATSON & S.

CO., LTD.,

HONGKONO

DISPENSARY.

TELEPHONE 16

DEATH MCKINLEY-AL St Marie's Hospital, French Town, Shanghai, on June 20th, ELISE MCKINLEY, aged 51 years

HONGKONG OFFiat 101, Des Your Read, C

with(1) The purchaser must be a British subject LONDON Ornica, 19), Fuar Sramar, E.C.

and not ander any foreign influence; he will

HOUSES in Shameen, Caston, Nos. 31 be required to satisfy the Governor that no

and 63,

0

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HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY,

LIMITED

(Incorporated in the United Kingdom). TOTICE IS HEREDY GIVEN that an

NINTERIM DIVIDEND at the rate of 9 per cent, for the year e

rending B1st December,

Dividend will 1917, has been doclared The be Payable on and after WEDNESDAY the 18th day of August, 1917, to Shareholders on the Register on SATURDAY, the 4th day of August, 1917, and will be paid to Share- holders on the Colonial (Hongkong) Register at exchange of 2/0 per Dollar. By Urder of the Board,

VE ROBERTS, Secretary

Hongkong, 23rd July 1817

KULANGSU

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MUNICIPAL COUNCIL

SAMOYE

PPLICATIONS are invited for the

of

•position

- "INSPECTOR OF POLICE to the KUZANGO MUNICIPAL Couson, Amoy

Applicants should state their whether

age, married or single, and should give full on the subject of their previous particulars experience.

A knowledge of Pulics duties and Hin- dustani ard essential qualifications. Copies of testimonials nerd be sent in with the

1 Bucces-ful

I coudidate will neume

on the 1st November, 1917.

The maximum salary to be paid to such

"INSZTOR paid to och

Yndirectly interested with him in the pur

of scemy or foreign origin is directly

ehase, and he must make such statutory declaration in that

in that behsif as

half as may be required

Apply to

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. 1808

or

TO LET.

by the Governor.

(2) For the purposes of this sale:

any person entitled under the Land Laws of North

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, 31st July, 1917.

RAILWAY PROJECTS IN CHINA

FFICES at 2. Connaught Road Cen-Borneo to rank as Native shall be deemed (3) In the case of a Company formed for the purpose of acquiring the basins its long has passed since the contract was Meinorandum of Association must contain concluded between the Chinese Govern- special provisions, to be approved by the Governor, to exclude the possibility of the ment and the Sien's Carey Company for Company falling under foreign control, the construction of 1,100 miles of railway, Generally speaking,it will be necessary prevent more than one-fourth of the shares and in the meantime so little has been

the voting rights 1

s being held by, or

or subject

heard of it, that any news of the present to the control of, foreigners.

tral. OFFICES in King's and York Build ings,

A HOUSE, Knutsford Terrace (How loon).

HOUSES in Wongneichong Road. HOUSES in Clifton Gardens, Conduit Boad

HOUSES in Broadwood and Moreton Terrace

HOUSES Shazeen, Canton.

Apply to THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AND AGENCY Co., LTD.

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TO LET.

or

to

The following telegram quoted has been that the route, admittedly circuitous, maf the Han River and Hanching will be received by the American Consulate- General Hongkong, from the Manila found the casiest line of approuch to the

Observatory

345 pm, July 30th rich Red Basin of Szechuen,As to the remaining railway that from Hengchow

Cyclone or "yphoon South of Nah, on the Canton Hankow ne to Nanning moving NNE. or "N.E on the West River and thence to Yanchow →we fear that dificulties may arise owing to the fact that the Banque Industrielle

STORM DAMAGE. concluded an agreement, in February, 1914, for the construction of a line from The police have received a report to Yunnanfu through Nanning to Yamehow the effect that at 2.30 m. on the 99th and for the construction of a pori at the inst, about 15 square feet of the roofing lasted place. How the Ministry of of the first floor of 31. Queen's Rond Communications intends to get over the Central, collapsed. The premises, an fact that it has agreed with two separate occupied by Ah Fong, photographer.

There were my casualties. syndicates for the construction of the Nanning-Yamchow section we do not know apart from this, the line would serve a very valuable end in providing FATAL ENDING TO ASSAULT

now means of access to, and outlet for, the products of the province of Kwangsi.

(4) In the case of a Company already state of the undertaking is welcome, even Altogether, the revised scheme of the

in

altered

SCENE IN KOWLOON

provement on the original one, and, assault of an Indian Sergt.-Major of the on though there may be some consider Naval Yard Polive, in connection with able delay before it is realized, there 18 which three Naval Yard constables are in prospect of such, a development and

custody. scientific linking-up of China's railway

The assault took place on July 7th, and system as must immensely facilitate the tho Sergt.-Major was so badly effective opening-up of the country and about the head that he had to be taken injured

its commercial progress,

existence, if the Articles of Association do though it only takes the form of a pro Siens-Carey Company is a very great. There has been a fatal ending to the not already so provide, they must be in a manner satisfactory to the Governor so test at the delay. The recently published as to exclude the possibility of the Company correspondence between Dr. REINCH and falling under foreign control, and the Dime the Wai chiao Pu is not, at the first tors mest furnish an undertaking to use their best endeavours to have the provisions blush, very encouraging, though as the referred to above inserted in the Mecoralum Ministry's reply consists principally of n of Association if legislation should be series of complaints at the price that is

of with introduced enabling the Memorandum

Mention of asked for the loan, and does not is Association to be altered

altered by such provisions for any reason not way prejudice the general principle, wc

(5) Should the

to the Government Civil Hospital. The approve of the purchaser, the contract may may, perhaps, assume that it is more or bo rescinded by the Governor and the depont less a bluff designed to bring about fur

assault took place in Nathan Road, Kow- will be returned without interest or expenses ther negotiations on the financial side of H.. the Governor has aignified his loon, and the Indian constables have been

Further particulars may be

t several times in connec- the question in the hope of securing intention of being present at the launch-before the Court i obtained on application to the better terms. The obstructive tactics of ings of the se. Chak Sang and the 5.8. tion with the affair, but on each occasion undersigned.

which the American Minister complains Prosper at Kowloon Dock on Saturday the case was adjourned owing to the W. W. SMITH,

the same are probably also part of | huckštering process. The Ministry of

Communications is bound to deny any A Promenade

FIVE ROOMED HOUSE

Tennis Court, in Minden Villas, Kowloon.

A FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon

Apply to HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Alexandra Buildings,

A

£808

WANTED.

HOUSE or WHOLE FLOOR with about 10 Rooms in a central location. Please apply to

Ben No. 1, Care of "Daily Prem" Omos.

WANTED.

767

the PRAX, from beginning of October,

Amoy currency per month with an annual charge of one baby, Wages 850 a month.

increase of $25.00 per month to a final

maximum of $300.00 per month.

The term of Agreement will be three

years

Uniforms, Quarters, Fuel and Light and Medical Attendanco will be provided.

Applications must be en forsed APPOINT MENT OF POLICE INSPECTOR" addressed to the Churman, KULANGSU MUNICIPAL Counati, and should reach Amoy not later than Senatember 30th, 1917-

By Order of the Council

T. W. DOBINSON,

Secretary, KMC.

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Apply

Bar No. XX Cars of" Daily Prem" Ofen.

NOTICE. FROM and inclusive of To-day's dabe we have REMOVED our Offices from Queen's Buildings Chaler Road, to TORE BUILDINGS, Chater Bowl, mert to Messon Montris & Co, Ltd

Hongkong, 30th July, 1917 829

Liquidator

RESIDENT'S OFFICE,

SANDAKAN, NOZTH BORNEO, 29th June, 1917,

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KOTICH,

NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asistis or Indian domizing to leave the Colony should apply

at 10 am

Concert has been

critical condition of the man who was Assaulted. The latter became gradually

worse and died on Saturday, after his depusitions had been takes.

obstructive intention, but when, nearly arranged for tomorrow (Wednesday year after the signature of the original evening from 9 to 11 p.m. under the

The three Indians in custody will now contract, practically nothing has been auspices of the l'aline: Reserve, whose done to put it into effect, it is difficult Band will be in attendance. The concert have to answer the more serious charge.

They are defended by Mr. Leo to acquit the Ministry on this count, takes place at North Point.

d'Almada, and two Counsel are heing During the week ending July 25tb, two engaged. Chinese crece of plague were notified in

Of far more interest, however, than the bargaining over the finances is the fact,

La pension as the Gangmar Pony - BeATION Cereated in this correspondence and conthe Colony one of which proved fatal.

between the hours of 9 AM to 1 PJC and 2. firmed by a report by the United States.

Commercial Attaché, that the original In the ame period there was a non-fatal UNION CHURCH WORKING PARTY. 4 entred to prodess Applicants will be required to promesse scheme of railways has been considerably Chinese case of diphtheria, five non-fatal The Ladies' Working Party

or Mentiication pap

of the

All personi, with carlin Kreeptions who modified, and modified for the better. cases of enteric fever (one British, one Union Church have sent to the Senior ramain by this Colony for mohan 7 days The original list of lines to be constructed Canadian, one Chinese, one Japanese, and Medical Officer, Amara, Mesopotamia one are required to Beginier themmetron under REGISTRATION OF PERSONS ORDIN comprised, it will be remembered, one one Indian), and a non-latal Chinese case containing:-691 rolled bandages, 34 ANCE 1016.

extending the Peking-Kalgan railway into case of puerperal fever. The fatal plague many-tail bandages, 10 oye ban lages, 33. Kansu and Turkestan, a line from Hang-case occurred in Kowloon, Since January pyjama suits, 9 pairs of surgical stock. how to Wenchow, one across the island 1st there have been 36 cases of plague, ings, 9 wool caps, 38 handkerchiefs, 10 of Hairan and one from Hengchow in of which number 33 proved fatal, Two pillow-slips, 6 scrabbers, 1 pair of elippers, 1 parcel of games, a fly-catchers Hunan, to Nanning on the West River of the cases, fere imported..

Forms of Registration giving the parkdoari reguled may be obtained at the G.P.O. and a all Police Stationa

The Feually for non-compliacae la a Eno ugh

Y