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NOTICE.
T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on Act of the War the Cousuf-General for the Netherlands will not be "AT HOME" on the 31st August, the Auniversary of the Birthday of ILER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS.
HAMEL, Consul General, Hongkong, 30th August, 1917.
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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY (BRITISH SECTION).
NOTICE.
TIFF IN TRAIN. THE PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED
that on and from SATURDAY, 1st September, and on each succeeding Saturday, until further Notice, Tittins will be served on the Train leaving Kowloon at 1.2 P. to First-Class Passengers only. The charge for tiffin will be $1.25.
To assist the Management and for their own personal comfort, passengers are requested to book their seats in advance by Telephone or letter, which may be done up to Friday night
By Order.
H. P. WINSLOW,
Manager.
Telophone No. K. 201.
Kowloon, 31st August, 1917.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31st, 1917.
HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
HALF YEARLY
AUCTION
For Sale
by
THE ORDINARY be held at the Company's Hotel, on SATUR DAY, 1st September, 1917, at 12.15 P.M., for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts of the Company to 30th June, 1917, with the Report of the Directors, and to discuss any matter that may be competently brought before the Meeting.
MEETING of SHAKEHOLDERS will Public Auction.
The TRANSFEIL BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 26th August 1917, to 1st September, 1917, both days inclusive.
By Urder of the Board,
J. H. TAGGART, Manager and Secretary.. Hongkong, 20th August, 1017.
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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Certificate No. 3482 dated Hongkong 19th February, 1900, for 50 Shares numbered 54219 to 54243, 10208 to 10207, 62840 to 52849, 4185 to 4190 and 55811 to 55815 sud Provisional Cortiloste No. 43/371 dated Hongkong, 6th July, 1907, for 25 Shares numbered 88206 to all Registered in the name of Sir CARL Mars, Bart., have been LOST or STOLEN, and should this Certificate and this Provisional Certificate not be produced to the Back before the 2nd September, 1917, new Certificates for the Sharee will be issued and the aforesaid Certificate No. 3482 and Provisional Certificate No. 43/371 will thereafter be treated by this Corporation sa Nell and Void.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
N. J. STABB,
Chlef Manager. [001 Hongkong, lai Auguri, 1917.
NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION),
(INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND).
Unredeemed Bank Notes. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that any Tfrom 1st September.
THE BIG COURSE will to OPEN for play N OUTSTANDING NOTES will be paid on presentation to the undersigned on or before SATURDAY, 30th September,
K. M. CUMMING,
Hon. Secretary.
LOST.
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AFTER THAT DATE, höldera will find it necessary to claim repayment IN STERLING rom the BOARD OF TRADE, LONDON, to whom the necessary funds will be remitted.
THE BOARD OF TRADE make a charge. A by sinbly rewarded on roturning same for payment of claims out of moniss deposit- od in the "COMPANIES LIQUIDATION ACCOUNT" at the Bank of England.
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Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identification papers
All persons with certain exceptions who romain in the Colony for more, thin 7 days. are required to Register themselves under the REGISTRATION OF PERSONS. ORDINANCE 1916.
Forms of Registration giving the par ticulars required may be obtained at the GEO and at ali Police Stations...
The Penalty for non-compliance is a fine not exceeding $60.
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Subject to the conditions prescribed by the Straits Settlements" Alion Enemies (Winding- up) Ordinance, 1914, as amended from time to time by Ordinances, 1 of 1016, XIX of 1915, XVI of 1916 and VI of 1917 and an adopted in this State:
All that land known as THE BATU LIMA ESTATE consisting of about 1,016 acres, 1 rood, 33 perches held under East Coast Country Grant No. 49 for 999
INTIMATION
COMPANIA GENERAL
DE TABACOS
FILIPINAS.
years from 1888, RENT FREE NUEVO
About 275 acres of the land is planted with rubber (150 acres in bearing) and 50 acres with coconuts 8 to 4 years old.
Situated on main road within 5 miles of Sandakan Wharf.
The following buildings in good condition are on the Estate:
bedrooms,
(a) 1 bungalow (40′ x 20') containing 2 room and veran- dali. Corrugated iron roof, plank walls, tiled floor.
(6) 1-Store (63 x 22). Corrugated iron
roof, plank walls.
(c) I Smoke-house (24' x 20'). Corrugated
iron walls and roof, earth floor.
Corrugated (d) 1 Factory (32 x 16)
iron roof, plank walls, cement floor.
A Containe hand machines, 28 latex paily and over 9,000 cups.
(6) 10 Coolie houses (coch. 18 x 14).
1
Plauk walls attap roofs
The above property will be sold by Public Auction in the Court House at Sandakan at 12 o'clock Noon, on SATUR- DAY, 20th October, 1917. KESERVE 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 Honourahis Mr. F. E. Tense, Manager of Sapong Estate),
The sale is subject to the follow- ing conditions --
(1) $30,000 (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 charged on instalments overdue and default for 30 will invalidate the sale and render the
days
deposit andall instal menta liable to forfeiture
DE
CORTADO
EXTRA
$3.25 per 100
FIRST-CLASS
AT A CHEAP PRICE. -
A. S. WATSON
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. L. Bowley and family have left for a short holiday North China.
Refreshments will be obtainable at the Police Band Concert, North Point, to morrow (Saturday) night, Messrs. Wise nan having been engaged as caterers.
Owing to the war, the usual
to refer to Members of Parliament generally. He would also point to the tendency among the influential not to enter Parliament themselves but to sup port some "carpet-bagger." He would Jinte the almost entire absence of .control by Parliament over Ministers,
and the ineffectiveness of any protests that might be made owing to lack of
at the Dutch Consulate in support, which, again, suggests a general | Hume" lowering of the mentality of the House celebration of HM the Queen of of Commons. Only recently one member Holland's birthday will not be hald succeeded in persuading the Government today.
of trade and commerce
Was
attend
toll corres
that a procedure on which they were about The Bishop, of Victoria" has left the to embark for the supposed furtherance clony for Weihaiwei. He will return grossearly in October. During his absence the eneronehment on private rights; that the Rev. W. T. Featherstone, St. Paul'e corporation, or whatever it was that the
Collego, will
·Govorament propised to create na its colo
pondence, agent, would, so far from encouraging trade, interfere with it. But for the A whist-drive was held in the Dockyard onergy of this one member, who received on Wednesday night by the Dockyard hardly any support, the Government Recreation Club. Mr. Stannard handed to the following successful would have embarked upon a policy prizes utterly aubversive of all the economic players -Ladies-1st, Mrs. Cousins; 2nd, principles which have made of a few small Miss Goodall; 3rd, Mrs. Focks. Meu-- islands off the coast of France the greatest 1st, Chief Writer Smith, R.N.; 2nd, Mr. trading nation in the world. Again we Churcher; 3rd, Mr. Crocker. Mr. Budslen have the Government calmly introducing acted as: M.0. a Bill the result of which would lead to British subjects in China and Japan being conscripted into the State armies
There was a parade of the Hongkong Police Reserve last evening. The Corps was inspected by Mr. F. C. Jenkin,
THE SERVICE DOLLAR TELEGRAM TO THE NAVY LEAGUE. The following telegram has been dis patched by the Hongkong branch of the Navy League to the parent Society in Londen:
of those countries, and arousing only a D.8.P. (R.), who has recently returned mild protest against á procedure which | from a boliday which was rendered neces. obviously would inflict great hardshipsary by the condition of his health. The CHEROOT on the conscripts, The only alternative men fell in at the Central Police Station, which the Government agreed to prcept and, headed by the bugles and drums, was that those who were willing to pay marched to Statue Square, where ther
should be allowed to D.8.P.. took the salate. their passage receive their training in the homeland. After spending money so lavishly that even the meek and mild House of Com- - mons is moved to demand a Commission of Inquiry, the Government grudges the small amount required to transport con scripts to the homoland. Our future his- torian would also, no doubt, note how a complacent House of Commons consented to the expense of establishing a Ministry of National Service when it was obvious that the tremendous nature of such a task was beyond the powers of any Minister. The Minister appointed did his best, but the only result accomplished was the trans. ference of people from work they could do to work they could not do. The already historic instance « an "organiser "whe was put to work at the docks because
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(2) Upon payment of the deposit an agreo. HONGKONG OPPIOR: IUA, Das Vatx Roud, C.
ment will be executed by the liquidator LONDON, OFFION: 18), FLN STM, E.C. the young lady who made up the returns undertaking to complete the transfer of the
estate, free of all incumbrances, ou payment
of the final instalment of the purchase money.
And to the following special The Daily Press.
conditions:-
(1) The purchaser must be a British subject and not under any foreign influence; he will be required to satisfy the Governor that no
HONOKONA, alar August, 1917.
INSTITUTIONS.
entered him down as an "ergui grinder" was sufficient in itself to kill the scheme with ridicule, and make Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN resign. Yet the honourable members assembled in Parliament did not say a word. Departments with large staffe of officials have been created for
person of an emy or foreign origin is directly DECAY OF PARLIAMENTARY purposes over very well defined, an that or indirectly interested with him in the pur- haradan in that behalf as may be required chase, and he must make such statutory by the Governor.
(g) For the purposes of this sale any person entitled under the Land Laws of North
Borneo to mank as a Native shall be deemed to be a British subject.
(3) In the case of a Company formed for the purpose of acquiring the business is Memorandum of Association must contain special provisions, to be approved by the Governor, to exclude the possibility of the Company falling
uador foreign control. provent more than one-fourth of the shares Generally speaking it will be necessary to or the voting rights being held by, or subject to the control of, foreigners.
In the case of a Company already in axistence, if the Articles of Association do not already so provide, they must be altered in a manner satisfactory to the Governor so of the Company
As to exclude the past the Dirce
WHEN some future instorian takes us his subject the great war, he may see cause to
"Hongkong Branch Navy League strongly supports (the) application (of the) Naval and Military Services for relief from (the) unbearable hardship caused by (the) high rate of exchange, which reduces local pay (in) silver cur-, rency by over one-third. Publish this (iz the) London newspapers, ~WILLIAMS. ***
HONGKONG POLICE ROLL
OF HONOUR.
ANOTHER MAN KILLED-
News has been received of the tenth of another Hongkong Policeman on active service.
A cable was received on Wednesday informing the Captain Superintendent of Police that F.-c. Edward Charles Sillis, who went home with the second other particulars were forthcoming, but contingent, was killed on July 1st. No it is assumed that Billis was in France at the time of his death, for it is known that he had been at the front for soMS time past.
DR. KOCH'S RETIREMENT. QUARTER OF A CENTURY IN THE COLONIAL MEDICAL SERVICE.
Yesterday Dr. W. V. M. Koch practi-
the activity of one department is con- stantly overlapping that of another, and the selection of officials is so made that devote one chapter to the decay of Parlia
we hear of gentlemen gravely suggesting police killed at the front up to eight, This brings the total of Hongkong mentary institutions in Britain. Obser- the removal of a shaft-tunnel on a steamer their names being Wakeford, Allchurch, Edwards, vers of political movements sometimes so that more cargo may be carriexi, and Jury, Painting, Gardiner,
Wilson and Billis With regard to obtain a truer perspective of events by other gentlemum ordering the mixture Wilson, his death was presumed last with flour of substaners so deleterious month, as he had been missing since early being fur removed from the centre, for, as the Japanese proverb says, the dark that a leading medical journal predicts in 1916, and no information bud been est place is under the lantern. So those a serious weakening of the race, and so received in connection with him.
who
live various that the bakers in learning how compelled to ¿14: Britons
to use then spoiled quantities of “bread " abroad, looking across the waters to the mother country, may see more than those which they were obligad to destroy in who, taking part in the actual scene them their own furnaces because the law pre- solves, have their vision narrowed by their bibited them from throwing it away falling urish au andertaking to use their
under foreign
own particular activities in the general or giving it to pigs. The compinint is tors must best endeavours to have the provisions movement Similarly, the future, his not that the Government has made miscally completed his term of service under referred to above inserted in the Memorandum torian, separated from the struggle and takes; all Governments are liable to make the Colonial Office, for he left by the of Association if legislation should be introduced enabling the Memorandum of hurry by a stretch of years, may get a mistakes, more especially under stress of Empres of Russia to take a short holiday our times then exceptional circumstances; but that the and, on his return in October, he will com- Association to be altered by the insertion of clearer insight, into Buch provisions
have, Buch future observer Members of Parliament should show menco private practice with consultation (5) Should the Governor for any reason not
rooms in Hotel Mansions.
It is a quarter of a century since Dr. approve of the purchaser, the contract may might find some difficulty in fixing slight a regard for their duties and so be rescinded by the Governor and the deposit
Farliamen little acuteness of intellect as to allow, Koch, who is a Master of Burgery as well the exact time when will be returned without interest or expenses.
wane in almost without protest, the constant as a Doctor of Medicine, entered the Further particulars may he tary institutions began to
This is the Colonial Medical Service Prior to that obtained on application to the power. He might be inclined to place repetition of blunders,
the South Yorkshire Asylum, Wadsley, undersigned,
it at the period when Mr. GLADSTONE PERSON why the future historian wil he had been Assistant Medical Officer to ia. the present year of grace near Shelfeld, and to to Hull Borough found it advisable, owing the obstruc-see- tion offered by a certain party in the the decay of Parliamentary institu: Asylum for four years. His first Govern meat appointment was to Trinidad, in House of Commons, to curtail the rights tions in full progress; why he will be the West Indies, where he was stationed of debate by empowering the Speaker inclined to compare the average intellect from 1889 to 1991, and during that period to accept a action for the closure of the Members of Parliament to that he was sent on special service to Grenada, In the latter year he held temporary of the discussion. Or perhaps he of the cfficial who announced" a rise in appointments in the Hospital for Diseases.
W. W. SMITH,
Liquidator
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of the Nose, Throat and tar, Golden Square, and the Royal Ophthalmic Hos-
pital, London. He was transferred to Hongkong in 1962 For the past twelve years his work has Jain in the Govern ment Civil Hospital and Lunatic Asylums, of which he was appointed Superintend ent at the end of 1914 after having acted in that capacity for a long term. Under Hongtong Univeraity re-opens on the his able administration the Hospital has been freely resorted to by all sections of the community, European and as well as 15th prox.
native, despite its inconvenient and in
might feel inclined to date it from the the official price of potatoes from a future time when it was at parliament the date and then wondered why the vegetable solemn resolutions of Parliament could in question suddenly became so scares on be set aside and rendered nugatory by the market clearly a case for u surgical well-planned agitation. From whatever
operation. time be fixed the beginning of the decay, however, ho would probably select the pre- sent as the period when the evidence of such decay was most clearly noticeable. He would refer to the contempt shown 2.50 for the private member of Parliament, as evidenced in the tone of the examina- as evidenced in castro BILLING
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A Gards Party was held at Mountain salubrious situation. The popularity Lodge yesterday afternoon
To-morrow the Baturday tifin train on
recent case, and the slighting expressions the Kowloon Canton Railway will be with which the Court thought it proper resumed,
which the institution enjoys in undoubted; ly attributable in large measure to Dr. Koch's deservedly high reputation as a skillful surgoon and able organiser. com. bined with his genial and sympathetic
manner.
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