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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, MACAO

NOTIFICATION."

THEREBY NOTIFIED that during tw months, counting from the date of publication of this Notification in the "BOLETIM OFFICIAL

tenders for ASTUDY OF WATER SUPPLY" in this Colony will be received. The tenders addressed to the Council of Administration

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE

THE

HUNGRON DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 16TH, 1918.

HOUSES TO LET

TO LET.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF G4800 square fest, mederate rentak

CANTON, LTD.

TYRE

RE CERTIFICATE NO 1051 for 26 Bhares Nos, 11410 to 11445 standing in the books of the Society in the name of FRANCISCO DE PAULA CEMBRANO late of Wimbledon, Middlesex, England, has been declared LOST and if at the expiration of one month from the date hereof the above

Shares will

ODOWN in Wanchat district, ares

Apply

INTIMATION

Box No. 403, Care of “ Daily Press“ Office, [(1891:

OUR GIANT

LAVENDER

TO LET

fetish-worship

ourselves that the Chinese race is pro from the verbially unscientific in its out! and, custom. Wo sincerely hope that this, therefore, however hallowed by olo obvious lesson of the matched inquiry custom a practies may be, it will cer

will not be lost in our eagerness to con- upon any scientific sider more personal matters or in our tainly not rest foundations. Yet practical men such as natural gympathy with the victims of Colonel JoHN WARD and Mr. DENISON those who have perished. The finest and an academic expert such as Professor memorial to those poor unfortunates will MIDDLETON SMITH, agreed, në lar na it is be precautions founded as far as

TALCUM Possible to gather their views on the sub-possible upon definite date, to guard thought the Chinese builder was a dar rendered in posible failures cannot lo our well-known Lavender Water. was a impossible. It is easy to recall

ject from the evidence which they gave against reurrence of such a catar

Departassut within the above-specified time. Certificate for the said the brother 0.64, PEAK, FURNEHED, from July 1s rapidly becoming as popular as

The conditions of the work are open for Inspection in the Portuguese Consulate all wook days.

Puh.ia Works Department, Macao, 5th April, 1018.

FARIA E MAIA, The Engineer Director. [1802

HONGKONG LAWN TENNIS

LEAGUE,

N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above League will be held in the BORGEONG CRICKET CLUB PAVILION, OR MONDAY, April 22nd, at 6.15 PM, to confirm a resolution passed at the Annual General Meeting held on April 11th, 1918

Entries for the above League, close on April 20th. Club Secretaries are requested

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by the Society and thereafter no other will be acknowledged. Arka

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manage Hongkong, 10th April, 1918. [1879

THE DAIRY FARM CO., LTD.

1st, for four months. Tennis Court. Apply to

CE H. BEAVIS,

9, Queen's Road.

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PPLICATION has been made to the 14 Building.

Directors of this Company to issue to WALTER DOUGLAS GRAHAM of Hongkong (deceased) a duplicata Cartificate or Certi ficates la lion thereof upon the statement that the Original Certificate No. 1909 for Shares numbered 28775 28334 mod dated 11th January, 1903 has been LOST of DESTROYED, AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that if within 30 days from the date hereof no claims or representation in respect of such Original Certificate is made to the Directors they will proceed to

TO LET

ESIDENTIAL FLAT in Prince's

Apply tom

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- VERMENT & AGENCY: Co., Lim.

1875

TO.

TO LET

to forward the satrance foes with their application for a Certificate. such 3 CANTON VILLAS, Kowloon.

entries, namely, 85 per team.

E. LINDSAY WOOD,

Hon: Secretary Hongkong, 18th April, 1918.

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M. MANUK Secretary. Dated <th day of April, 1918.

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THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY,

NOTIC

LIMITED.

★ TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on

· EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING · of the HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, Fedder Btreet, Victoria, Hongkong, ou TUESDAY, the 18th day of April, 1018, at 11 o'clock in the forenoou, for the purpose of considering and if thought fit passing as Extraordinary. Resolutions tho resolutions Tullowing Bamely:

(1) That it is expedient to effect an amalgamation of this Company - Ita the Dairy Farm Company, Lunited, and that with a view thereto ihts

Company be wound up voluntarily and that Messta Jardine, Matheson & Co., Limited, be and hey are hereby appointed Liquidators for the purpose of such winding up.

(8) That the conditional Agreement sub- mitted to the meeting for the amalgamation of this Company with the Dairy Farm Company, Lunited, upon the terms (inter alia) of the acquisition by that Company of the businers, good

complete undertaking, Company

will and property of roturn for she issue to this

at 52,000 shares of the Dairy Farm Company Limited, of the nominai value of 81.00 each credited as fully 87.50 paid up being sight share of each of that Company for each share of 826 each of this Company) and of the issue by the Dairy Farm Company, Limited, to Mossis, Jardine, Matheson

NOTICE.

NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asistioo. Indian desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of 9. to IPL and PM to 4 P.. daily.

Applicants will be required to produce

or identification papera, Passporta or

sone with certain exceptions who Au

persona remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under PERSONS the REGISTRATION or ORDINANCE 1916.

· Apply bom THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.

TO LET

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IMMEDIATE entry Four very desirable airuated in Ice House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, recently recon- structed

for rent and other particulars spply

THE MANAGER HONGKONG ICE CO., LTD. 40, Connaught Road Central.

[000]

to-

TO LET

Buildings.

Farms of Registration giving the parti: OFFICES in York Eni

culars required may be obtained at the G.P.O. and at all Folice Stations

The Penalty for non-compliance is a fine not exceeding 850.

WAI KEE

FLAG & SAILMAKER,

No, 123, Des Voeux Road Central, Top Floor, HONGKONG. Telephone No. 1833.

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DAIRY FARM NEWS.

& Co., Limited, the Gexoral Managore SAUSAGES!

the

of this Company (upon their entering into restrictive covenants which have boon agreed upon acd by way o

--of- bonus a compmastion for their loss of office as General Managers of this Company) of 8,000 shares of the Dairy Farm Company, Limited, of nominal value of $7.50 each credited as fully paid up be and the same is hereby approved and that the Liqui- dators he and they are hereby authorised pursuant to Section 185 of the Companies Ordinance 1011 to adopt the said Agreement and carry the same into effect with such (if any) modification either before or after the execution thereof as the said Liqui dators may think expedient. Should the above Resolutions be passed by the required majority they will be submitted for confirmation to a second Extraordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently convened,

Dated the 20th day of March, 1918

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Lang

General Managers,

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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

NOTICE

THE HALF YEARLY MEETING of Mambers will be held on SATURDAY,

the 27th April, 1918, at 12 o'clock Noox, at the Offices of the JookEY CLUB on the Ground Floor of the HoxGKONG CLUB ANNEX Chater Road.

By Order,

T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, 13th April, 1918,

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THIRD LIBERTE LOAN.

THE Subscription List for the THIRD LLIBERTY LOAN of U.S. $3,000,000,000 carrying interest at 4 1/4 per cent. per annum closes in America on 4th May, 1018.

THE INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION la prepared to receive applications up to 25th April, on the following terms —

5% on application.

20% on Sist May

86% on 11th July, a

40% on 8th August.

will also grant loans against this

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WANTED

VTENOGRAPHER, Male or Fensale, State experience, mlary required and ferences. Apply-

Box No. 100 Care of "Daily Press Office.

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SAUSAGES!

Variety

to suit all taster OXFORD BAUSAGES. CAMBRIDGE

PORK

"BEEN

LIVER

THE

BOLOGNA, HEAD OHKESZ. BLACK PUDDING. WHITE

No. 1, MORETON TERRACE. HOUSES on Shameen, Canton.

Apply to- MAR

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD, B [28

TO LET.

A FLAT in Nathan Boul, Kowloon.

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Kowloon,

Apply to

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

FOR SALE.

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TUSCULUM, Barker Road, 166, Peak.

Apply

DUNCAN CLARK Care of Lasz, CRAWFORD & Co.

[171]

FOR SALE.

VALESEND," 109, The PRAK

GROOMS

[2042]

Apply

PENINSULAR AND

ORIENTAL STREAM NAVIGATION CO.

STEAM FOR STRAITS CEYLON, BOMBAY EGYPT, NEDITER RANEAN PORTS AND LONDON.

THROUGH BILIA OF Lanixa Lesten saj Batavia, Aukxican, ContinuitaK,

AND BOUTH Arnican PoRTE.

THE Homeward Mail Steamer, carrying His Majesty & Mail, will be despatched from this port as usual, inking Passenger and Cargo for the above Forks. Passengers accommodation in the connecting vasal secured before departure from Hongkong. ***Silk and Valuable Cargo for Italy, France and London (under arrangement) will be conveyed by this Steamer proceeding to Bombay and there transhipped to the opcarrying Blesier for

for Marseilles and

Landon Sp

Parcale will be received at the Office untāl 2. the day before exiling: Tas contents and value of all packages are rygaired.

For further particulate, sailing dates, eto, apply to

E. V. D. PARK,

Superfintaimat

NOW ON SALE.

PONGKONG HANBARD REPORTS of the MEETING of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS for the Bession, 1917, ~*~

REVIRED BY THE LAKERS.

PRICE

C. H. GALE P.W.D.

GRACA & 00.. No, 4, WINDHAN FERNET, HONGKONG, Desters in

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POSTAGE STAMPS, VIEW POST-CARDS, FLOWER SEEDS, TOYS, &c Just roooived a Belection of MAMA DOLLS

1 TALK!!

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NOW READY.

THE

DIRECTORY

AND

CHRONICLE

Fos

CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITH BETTLE MENTS, INDO CHINA, PHILIPPINES, ITO

1918

FIFTY SITZH ANNUAL ISSUE.

PRICEL

Large Elition - 811.00

Blended with the Purest and So test Powder, is the Sweat Fragrance of Lavender, and the Effect on the Skin is Delightfully Cooling and Soothing.

ATSONS

LAVENDER

SUPERIOR A

Tolcun

FOR

ZURE

TOILETONUESE

ASWATSON & CLE

GLOTENING CHINA.

1-ib. Size Price $1.00.

better judge than anyone else of the strength of matsheds.

disasters of structures in Europe wak America the collapse of the Quebec Anyone who comes out to the Far East bridge was one of them, but in that case for the first time sees so many things it was possible to trace the cause to a which surprise him that after a time he mistake made by an individual. In the ceases to wonder. As a prominent wit case of the matshed disaster it is difficult ness said: "When I spoke about it I to binme anyone for the actual collapse. was told, Oh, those Chinese have done We can, indeed, blame only those who elo custom," the things for years. They know. And had such confidence in that settled it! Experience ought to and that includes, more or less, the decide a thing of that sort." And yet entive population of the Colony. It is this is an age in which even the most a dangerous attitude of mind and one sacred and ancient beliefs and statements that we must guard against. are being continuously examined for the.

M. AD, Copeland, of the Chinese purpose of testing their truth and suitableness for the present time. If Customs, Tientsin, has died as the result. there is che thing which seems certain of an accident with a motor cycle now-a-days it is that nothing is so fixed

Lieut F. G. W. Newbery, R.N.R., that it cannot be questioned. Especially formerly of the China Merchants' 8. N. during the last four years we have Bren. Co., has been promoted Lieut. Com the starchlight of criticism and inquiry mander

turned upon all sorts of laws and customs which were supposed to be almost

The weekly religious meeting of the

as rigid as those of the Medes andelena May Institute to-day at 5 p.m.. will be conducted by Mrs. Dewstoc, of Persians Before the war nearly every-

Canton one laughed at the proposals for day light-saving, but now we find that both

but now we

During the 24 hours of Saturday, 6 Europe and America have adopted them. cases of cerebrospinal fever were notified The spirit of research and investigation in the Colony, all of them Chines. There is considered to be so essentially the were four deatht foundation of scientific work that train- The 1917 dividend of the Shanghai ed engineers might have been expected to Gas Co., Ltd., has been fixed at Thr apply it instinctively to every problem 2.50 per share, being at the rate of liya. which faced them. We have before us the per cent, of the paid-up capital, undeniable fact that they did not do so

Lieut. A EH. Parrott, son of Dr. when they considered matsheds. Wo do and Mrs. A. G. Parrott, and formerly not wish it to be understood that we of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., han members of a very honour-been reported missing, presumed cap- judge harshly able profession; or that we fail to reared." cognise the extraordinary difficulties of

A. S. WATSON & obtaining data or doing the necessary An

An extraordinary general meeting of.

CO., LTD.,

HONGKONG DISPENSABT

TEL: 16.

DEATHS.. BEST-Died of wounds, da April 5th, 2nd Lieut. A. H. BEST, R.F.A., aged BERASTIAN-Died of wounds in France,

20 years, N

experimental work in a country like the Hongkong Ive Company will be beld China, but we do think that out of this at the offices of the Company (Messrs. matshed calamity there emerges the same Jardine, Matheson & Co.) to-day at 11 lesson that has been taught to the Home o'clock. Government by the troubles and difficul-

Information has been received by the ties brought about by the disasters Colonial Sdcretariat from H. B. M. of the war,

namely, that more Consul, Ningpo, that quarantine whe encouragement must be given to the declared there against Hongkong on the accumulation of knowledge upon scienti.

11th inst to subjects. In Hongkong, of course, neither the opportunity nor the resources are available that could be employed by on March 27th, Lieutenant-Colonel the Chinese Government, but it is SEINTER RAYMOND SEBASTIAN, M.O. (5th Ox. and Bucks, L.) obviously the duty of the Colony to sat an example in this work as well as in HongKong OFFICS: 10a, Dus Vooz Boán, U. LORDON OFFIUS: 183, Fzang Beaxes, E.C. so many other directions. As far as we An extraordinary general meeting of org able to discover, the Americans have the Hongkong Lawn Tennis League will more courageously tackled the problem by held in the Hongkong C.C. pavilion in Manila, and the whole world is aware on Monday, April 22nd. Entries for the of the admirable researches conducted in league close on April 20th. Japan. The Government of this Colony inaugurated the useful service of certifi-

The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, 16Tn Árnit, 1918

At the Sanitary Board meeting this the questions standing in his name re- afternoon Mr. F. B. L. Bowley will ask

lative to the construction of a wholesale poultry marketi

We are informed that it has now been finally decided to start the performance of The Witness for the Defence at the Theatre Royal on St. George's Day, at 9 or 0.15 pm, and not at 8 pm as announced yesterday.

DANGERS OF ** OLO CUSTOM cales in connection with the Government Chemical Laboratory, and, useful as this THERE is one aspect of the matshed, we should like to see the system Something beyond that, how catastrophe which may be overlooked, extended. though it is, perhaps, the most important ever, is necessary, and we hope the It is this: Government will very definitely encour-

y definitely point to be emphasised.

Tho nett financial result of the dramatic There is no European in the Colony who age new investigations which promise to entertainment given at the City Hall on knows anything at all about the design be of use to people in the Colony. We February 23rd, by Mr. and Mrs. A. P. or strengths of mataheds. That admission are not at all sure that, în pre-war days, Stokes, in aid of the Mercantile Maríno must have come as a shock to the general sufficient attention was paid to a study in England and Naval Prisoners of public. Those who have not had any of the diseases frand in South China War, is 8207801, for which amount a scientific training and do not know any- and therefore dangerous to the public cheque has been sent to the Hongkong thing about scientific work, might, per- health of Hongkong. In common with haps, be excused for a blind faith found all departments, the medical service now ed on ignorance. We have to rely upon is short-handed, but we hope that this such faith every day of our lives, if we point will not be overlooked when the would save ourselves the endless anxiety Colony is able once again in resume its which would otherwise encompass us dur: formal life.

ing every hour of the day. As a matter We should like to know that a thorough of fact, we seldom think about dangers study of the mineral and vegetable pro which are not so obvious that they make ducts of South China was being con. themselves unpleasantly noticeable, and ducted with a view to trade development. sometimes when we know about them Efforts have been made, with consider

familiarity breeds contempt." That is able success, but in a more or less casual especially so in the case of epidemics way to discover what plants can be intro of disease, for people quickly tire duced, from other parts of the world into of taking precautions which cause this locality. In that connection it may them trouble. We do, however, expect be recalled that the great rubber industry that the experts will always be ready to of British Malayn has grown out of the varo us of danger, even if we neglect original batch of rubber trees which ometimes to heed them. In this matter reached Singapore from Kew Gardens

War Charities Committee

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

The following telegramos have been re- ceived by the American Consulate General Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory

6 p.m., April 13th. Typhoon in about 197 deg. Long E. and 16 deg. Lat N, moving north.

1.30 p.m., April 14th Uyelme or "typhoon E of Northern I Luzon, more than 300 miles distant, re-

curving north-eastward.

HONGKONG ST. GEORGES DAY FUND.

The Committee beg to acknowledge with thanks receipt of the undernoted denu fully received by the Hon. Trenaurer tions. Further amounts will be grate

Corporation

of the mataheds the fact has emerged that There is, of course, a Commission con- c/o Hongkong and Shanghai Banking every European expert who has considersidering the problem of the development Balance as per last statement. $31,850.80 ed the subject at all has reposed implicit of the resources of the Empire, and no HE, Sir H May, KC.M.G confidence în the sagacity and skill of doubt, the results of their deliberations Mr. T. årnott .......

Collected at Football the Chinese metshed builders, and they will be valuable; but we can do a great (per Mr RJ Wilton) depended for their knowledge upon ✨ olo deal locally, and, after all, we can collect Proceeds of Halle (per - Miss

Square) custom." In order thoroughly to appre information which cannot be gained in ciate what this means we must remind any other way. We need to free ourselves

200.00

20.00

Match

334.00

82,074.80