NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
TO LET
INTIMATIONS
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JULY 18TH, 1918.
PEND your Holiday at Maple Bay (36E Undersigned's Business address as miles from Victorin, B.C., and four SHARE AND GENERAL BROKERS miles from Duncan Binti a), ROOMS Tos at No. 6, Des Voeux Road, Central, Let with Board in House on Sea, Bathing, Boating and excellent cod, fat fish and akon fishing within stone's throw, ju
Apply
M. R. SPRINGETT, Maple Bay, B.O.,
Canada
[9223
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST: MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of THREE AND HALF DOLLARS per Sharo for the six months ending 20th June, 11 will be Payable on FRIDAY, 28th July, 191 on which dace Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.
The TRANSEER ofBOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 19th, to the 28th July, 1918 (both days inclusive), dering which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Bocretary.
Hongkong, 10th July, 1918,
THE WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LIMITED.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of TERSE
A DOLLARS por Share for the six months ending 30th Juno, 1910, will be Payable on FRIDAY, 28th July, 1918, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.
The TRANSFER of BOOKS of the Com pany will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 19th, to FRIDAY, the 26th July, 1918 (both daya inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Bharca can be Registered." By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 10th July, 1918,
[2291
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION.
TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that en
I INTERIM DIVIDEND of £2.3.0 per
Bhare, subject to deduction of Income.ter, bas been declared for the HALF-YEAR ending 30th June, 1918, at rate of 3jak per dollar.
J. S. DOBIE & Co.
Hongkong, 8th July, 1918.
BEWARE OF FORGERY!
15809
Undersigned has recently seized in Carge Boat alongside & Hongkong Steamer in Canton 40 cases of Firecrackers bearing forged labels of our Chop and Trade Mark which had been Registered in the Hongkong Registration of Trade Marks. It is found that the seized goods were forged and sold to a concern of Hongkong by
NG SHEUNG, an Export Merchant of Canton, The forged goods are found to be exceedingly. inferior and are now stored in the Chamber of Export Commerce of Canton for reference
We have neither Branches nor Agentä, and any sale of goodta of our brands other than from us is a forgery or infringement. Boware of it!
YUT SHING, Export Merchants,
Sai Hing Street, Canton.
[2323
NOTIOR.
ANY EUROPEAN, Non-Adatto o olabia desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the CENTRAL FOLIOR STATION between the hours of 9 AM to 1∙PM and 9 r.1. to 4 r.3, dally,
Applicants will be required to produce Passports or Identification papers who All persons with certain exceptions who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under
REGISTRATION
PERSONS
ORDINANCE 1910. 200
Forms of Registration giving the parti inlors required may be obtained at the
G.P.O. and at all Police Stations.
The Fonalty for non-compliance la a fine not exceeding $50
G.
INTIMATION
· EVERY CAKE OF
WATSON'S
PURE CARBOLIC SOAT
the incentive to economy which obtains
His Majesty the King of the Belgians in private enterprises, and where the bas conferred the Croix de Guerte on
political organisation is more or less on abasis of favouritism, the expensca are liable to be largely increased perhaps to the extent of only a moiety of the loan
IS IT MURDER? INQUIRY, INTO STRANGE DEATH, Lieut. Colonel W. Loring, D.SO. RG.A, who a few years ago was an Artillery A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, Staff Officer in this Command.
At the Hongkong Magistracy, yester. Lieut-Colonel W. B. Anley, D.5.0. (day, Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, in his capacity
being directed to its original and pre-R.G.A., who, a few years ago, was a as Coroner, hold an inquiry into the scribed purpose. This is the case with Captain in the 87th Company at Stone circumstances surrounding the death of Chinn. She is increasing her expenses cutters, afterwards returning to England a Chinese boatman, who is believed to without improving her income, and is and then coming back to Singapore, has have been murdered on May end. bringing nearer the time when she may been awarded the Croix de Guerre by His possibly have no means to miest her Majesty the King of the Belgians. indebtedness. To borrow more money to
The Siamese Minister visited Myrtle pay off the interest overdue on old loans grove, Youghal, on May 17th, in order is a suro road to bankruptcy, and if the to convey to Lady Blake the condolence Powers would not allow China to go
of the King of Siam on her irreparable bankrupt they could hardly prevent the
loss. His Excellency, on behalf of the foreclosing of mortgages and the practi-Blake & wreath of roses, lilies, and mauve King, Inid upon the grave of Sir Henry
carnations.
Mr. T H. King, A.S.P., appeared on behalf of the Police and Mr. Leo. d'Almada watched the proceedings on behalf of a person who is suspected of in the death of the man. being concerned
The following wore the jury:--Messrs. D. K. Blair, John B. Nicolson and J. M. Victor.
cal partitioning up of the country.
The Coroner stated that the deceased's China, in return for the severance of
body was picked up near the Bay View relations with the Central Powers, has
Commander Alfred Edmund Godsal, Police Station on May 9th of this year. been allowed to discontinue the payments B.N., when in command of H.M.S. The body had evidently been in the of the Boxer indemnity. With this Vindictive, was killed as he successfully water for some time and was very much money it should have been possible for placed her across the fairway at Ostend decomposed. The Police were trying to her to meet all her extra expenses, if not Harbour as a blockship on May 10tbring evidence to show that the man bad to engage in the development of some Monmouth, and for a time commanded the been shot in the chest. Early this month,
productive activity. Instead, however, she is plunging further and further into debt. In these circumstances the question Brises whether it would not be the best policy for the foreign Powers to close their OF
purses and allow China to work out her own salvation. The question has already been raised in Japan, where it is argued that the reconciliation of the North and South will never be effected so long as foreign money flows into China.
IS GUARANTEED TO CONTAIN THE CORRECT AMOUNT.
PURE CARBOLIC ACID
I SPECIFIED. SUPPLIED IN 3 STRENGTHS
VIZA
He served on the China station in H.M,S,
Kinshe on the Yangtze River.
The balance shoot of the China Society fied by for the year 1917-18 shows that the amount in hand on April 30th last was somewhat larger than at the corresponding date of 1917. The subscriptions to the Chinese Labour Corps Comforts Fund totalled
10s, all of which, without deduction, went to the object for which it was col lested.
the Polico reported that the clothes found on the body had been identi- # wonian as belonging to her husband, who had been missing for some time. So far no arrests båd been made in connection with the crime. There were two facts which the jury had to consider. One was whether the body of the person who was found in the har bour was that of the husband of the
If the Powers tied their purse-strings killed in a shooting affray in a Neapoli. also whether the deceased was murdered. Baron Vitale, who was accidentally woman who identified the clothing; and tan café, was a Professor at the Oriental evidence he wished to states the facts as Mr. King said that before calling
and told China there would be no morg
5% FOR TOILET USE. foreign loans until complete order was
PRICE $1.20 por box of three oakes. restored in the country, then, it is claim Institute, and was a great authority on for us the Police knew them. On Ma
speedily. Even afte
10% FOR THE BATH., reconciliation between the North and the South would be effected very PRICE 81.75 per box of three cakes.
that it might be MEDICAL BATH advisable to require China to show how
SOAP
far she was able to meet the loans maste in the past--in other words, to set her
E.
20%
PUBLIO AUCTION.
The D VIDEND will be Payable on and after MONDAY, the 12th August, 1918, at she Offices of the Corporation, where thate. Pe biting by Pabllo Auction Bale, DARTICULABS and CONDITIONS of holders fre requested to apply for Warranta to be held on MONDAY, the 15th day The REGISTER of SHARES of the July, 1918, at 3F, this Office of the Corporation will be CLOSED from PUBLIO WORK DEPARTMENT, by Order of MONDAY, the 29th July, to SATURDAY, HIS BYOPILENOT THE GOVERNOR, of One the 10th August, 1818 (both days inclusive). Lot of CROWN LAND at Conduit Road, daring which period no Transfer of Shares
In the Colony of Hongkong, for termi can be Registered.
75 years, with the option of renewal nå a CROWN BENT to be fixed by the Burveyor of HI MATRONY THE KINO, for one further form of 75 years.
By Order of the Court of Directors.
N. J. STABB
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 11th July, 1918. [2223
NEWSPAPERS and PERIODICALS
FOR OVERSEAS.
GRINDLAY & CO. Bankers) 54, PARLIAMENT ST.,
· Agents,
ANNUAL
(62 WEEKS)
·LONDON, SWI
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Including Postage..
(Bubject to any alteration in present publisher's
price or poste e rates)
Amateur Photographer..
Answers or Tit Bita
Bystander...
Church Times or Record
Country Life
Cycling or Cycle Car
Daily Chronicle or Daily News
Daily Granbic or Daily Mail
Engineer or Engineering
or Queen
1:0:0
11 4
2 13 B
13 0
Begistry 50.
PARTICULABS OF THE LOT.
Boundary
Square feet.
# || Annual Bent
Upset Price
*
leet
feet
iget
feet
per
le plan. 27,101) 185: 5,074.12
[2912
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET.
NOMMODIOUS and Centrally Situsted
PRICE 75 Cents per cake.
TO BE OBTAINABLE ONLY PROM
AS.
WATSON
CO.. LTD.,
HONGKONG AND CHINA.
TEL. 16.
DEATHS.
&
MCDONNELL-At the General Hospital, Shanghai, ba July 6th JOHN MODONNELL, Chinese Customs Service,
aged 32 years, PLAYFAIR-At Kelvedon, Emex, on May
16th, rona WILLIAM FORBES PLAY FAIR, late of Hongkong, in his Gith
year.
Horakone OPTION: 104, DR Vaux Road, C. Landon Officy: 131, FLEW Srunt, E.G.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, 13TH July, 1818.
THE POWERS AND CHINA. YESTERDAY we pointed out that if the
finances in order None of the Powers, presumably, is desirous of the break-up of China; this would involve fresh truggles and renewed diplomacy of the kind that the war has wearied us of If such a break-up is to be avoided, how ever, Chine must be put on her feet in such a way that she can stand alone. It must not be necessary for the Powery to
stand round her and hold her up, doling out loans every time she threatens to fall, as is the case at present, Something like
China, having spent several years in Peking, where he was Attaché in the Italian Legation.
He was in Peking during the Boxer rising. He married a Japanese lady.
Ph tho buy was found on the foreshore at Tat Tae Mul. It was badly decom posed and there was one shot wound in
the chest. There was no chance of identi fying the body. On June 20th, through The engagement is announced between the arrest of a man certain facts camo, Captain M. Costiesca Chykn and Eileen, to light which showed that the body was daughter of the late Sir Nicholas O'Conor that of Chaa Kiu, a boatman. The and-Lady O'Conor Captain Costco Police, subsequently, traced his wife, who Ghyka is the Assistant Naval Attaché to the Boumanian Logation in London, Miss 'Conor is the daughter of the Into Bri- Lish Ambassador in Petrograd, who was formerly Minister in China.
;"
CORRESPONDENCE. THE TELEGRAM OFCON- GRATULATION TO THEIR
MAJESTIES.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “ HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.''].
self-denying ordinance should he pasted engaging the Fowers not to wake any fresh loans to China, at least indivi- dually This was practically the arrange- ment under the Six-Powers' loan scheme,
Sin As my telegram to the King and bafore the war, but there existed no
the war
Queen, seat in connection with the twenty formal agreement among the Powers ifth Anniversary of their Wedding, seems which permitted of this arrangement to have given rise to a good deal of mis being continued after the war started and understanding, it is, perhaps, well to the financial ability of most of the explain that the telegram was despatched Powers was absorbed by the exigencies of
the struggle. There is an old Hungarian hurriedly at mid-day on the day of the anniversary, and when there was no saying, God protect me from my friends; I can look after my enemies longer time for consultation if it was to
identified the clothing on the body as that of her husband whom she had last seen on May 2nd. A witness would state that on May 2nd or Brd the deccased and n man named Chan Tak and another man who was a stranger to the witness came to his sampan, lying off Salt Fish Lane, and asked him to take them to a ship- what ship he did not know. The deceased took charge of the bow of the boat, Chan Tack, the second oar, and witness was seulling. The stranger stood in the bow. While the boat was on its way the wit -now saw a small boat some distance away, containing several men, who asked what direction they were proceeding in, and Chan Tack got hooks and attempted to then passed along. The deceased and.
hook their boat to the other boat. The stranger suddenly called out to someone, probably his brother, not to do anything- One of the men in the other boat drew as pistol and fired five or six shots at the
Chan Tack jumped into the water, while witness remained hidden in tho campan After a little while he looked out of his
3140 NEW OFFICES, with lift, in the old present policy of raising loan after loan myself? This prayer might be fitly offer et home in reasonable time for the cele sampan. The deceased, the stranger, and
to Mercantile Bank Buildings corner of Queen's
Road Central aur len House Street.
Also in Capton House, No. 31, Shameen, British Concession.
380
Graphic or Illustrated London News 2-11.
Thustrated Sporting & Dramatic News 2 10 Fishing Gazette...
John Balll
Ladler Field
Lady's Pictorial...
Faucet
Hand and Water ...
Lloyd's News or Reynolds
Bendon Opinion
Mining Journal
Fation or Now Witness
News of the World or People
Punch
***
Eketch
--
Sphere,
Thin Ed £2. 100 Thick
Tailor
Timen, Wookly
Truth
Home Notes
Bassells or Little Folke
Captain or Chamber's Journal
Blackwood's or Contemporary.
Grand or Royal
London or New
Nash's or Storyteller
Nineteenth Century
Bed Magazine
Weldon's Journal or Fashions for All...
Windsor or Pearson's
17
Subscriptions being payable in advance,
For rent and for her particulate apply to-
DAVID BASSOON & Co., LTD, BA, Des Voeux Road
[2217
HOUSE
TO LET.
at
OBSERVATORY
VULLA,
Kowloon, Apply to
ARRATOON V. APCAR & CO., Dea Vaux Road Central,
(2109
TO LET
HOUSES on Shaper, Canton.
No. 57, THE PEAK, LUSTLEIGH * Apply tom
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
BO LET
85).
bration..
I sincerely regret that it was not worded members of the Hongkong
Mr. Liang Shih-yi arrived in the Club and the British Community." The place of concealement and noticed the Colony from the north yesterday.
The total output of the Kallan Mining Administration's mines for the week end- 15 22nd June amounted to 85,860 tons and the sales to $1,661 tona.
on the security of some portion of theed up at the present moment by Ching. national wealth be persisted in much longer China will awake some morning to find that she has nothing left, and that the country and the people and the Bubour of the people have been sold. If instead of being frittered away in senseless strife, the money were being used for exploiting the resources of the country, for the starting of new indus- The King has granted permission to tries, and for capitalising State -enter- Sir Robert Ho Tung to wear the Chinese prises the transections would be legiti-Urder of the Excellent Crop, Class 2, in matc. All these might be expected to recognition of valuable services rendered, prove remunerative, to leave a margin by recent rétirements and promotions over after paying interest on the money on the flag list, Captain G. H. Borrett borrowed from abroad, besides develop R.N., has become the senior of his rank ing the wealth of the nation. Prudence He was serting on the China station demands that every endeavour be made before the war. to reap the full benefit of a loàn, that it shall not be diverted into unremunera tive channels or absorbed in "expenses Japan, at the beginning of her career, had some unpleasant experiences in cor- nection with the development of the
"
remittances should be sent with all orders. NO. 7, STEWART TERRACE, NO. Hokkaido, where huge sums were wasted
FULL LIST CAN BE OBTAINED AT
THE OFFICE OF THIS PAPER
Pasinges booked to all parts of the WäNI.. Aeggsgo skipped, cleared and stored.
[1892
WAL KEE.
FLAG & SAILMAKER, Ea 123, Des Veux Boad Central,
Top Floor,
HONGKONG,
Telephone No. 1833.
1887
Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVE, 3rd Floor Alexandra Buildings.
TO LET.
A FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon
【2006
hurry in which it was despatched in these days of severe strain on one's time, and the fact that I happened to be Chairman of the Club and President of the St. George's Society this year, must be my apology for tactlessly omitting the elder Society of St. Andrew's, or, in fact, distinguishing between any loyal British subjects.
I can say no more than that there was not the slightest intention on my part to wound the feelings of any loyal Patriot, and only the thought of rushing off loyal greetings and congratulations ers they were too late. Had I thought of it, car There was not a single case of cerebrolier I should naturally have consulted all spinal fever reported in the Colony on Thursday. The only communicable
the Societies with a view to a joint tele diseases notified were two cases of hubonic
gram. Yours faithfully, plague and one case of enteric fever.
P. H. HOLYOAK, Hongkong, 12th July, 1918.
THE SEPARATION OF IMPERIAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.-
Bey,
other boat soiling in the direction of Salt, Fish Lane. Mr. King went on to stato that the Police had been able to trac that sampan. The other man who accom panied deceased wat away in the country and could not be got at. The Police in- formant stated that from that time he had not seen the deceased. According to the descriptions given by witacas of the men who occupied the other boat and their names, the Police were able to detain a man bearing one of the names mentioned. Witness identified him as one of the man but could not state whether he fired the shots. That was the man whom Mr. | d'Almada was representing, and he would
bo brought into Court..
After evidence had been given by Dr. McFarlane and the deceased's wife, the principal witness for the Police went into the witness-box and was cautioned.
The witness then corroborated the statement made by Mr. King.
Mr. King further stated that he was
expecting a ship in the next few days on which was working a man who is sup- posed to have witnessed the whole inci-
dent.
The Chinese waiter has appeared in the with very little, to show for them, It West End. In many restaurants Chinese is partly for this reason that of cl servants have been for some time past foreign wondholders have demanded that employed in the kitchen, but managers they shall have control over the way that are now beginning to go a step further.
At a recent meeting of the Council of the money lent is spent and also, in most Major-General H. D. Watson, who saw
the Royal Colonial Institute, the follow- cases, control over the working of the much service in the China War of 1906, ing resolution was moved by Earl Bras activity which is mortgaged as security, retains his appointment of equerry to the KCG, and carried unanimously :-
seconded by Sir John Cockburn,
Mr. d'Almada stated that if his client This, though a more expensive procedure, King on promotion to that rank. He That the Council of the Boval was to be put into the witness box be
Colonial Institute is of opinion that the which deprived the borrowing country of won the C.M.G. in the present struggle.
CALG. in
separation of the control of Imperial desired an opportunity of seeing him. some of its anticipated profit, proved the Colonel Wintour, who commanded i matters from that of the Domestic affairs According to the evidenta given by the only way to ensure security in the case bettalion of the West Kents in the Far of the Mother Country is urgently neces previous witness, if his client was on the the Far sary, and that the settlement of the future boss he was just as guilty of the murder HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FIFANCE of countries, in which the political East just before the war, has gone on constitution of the United Kingdom is as anyone else on the boat,
organisation was so little advanced no in retired pay under the age rule, and has of the future government of the Empire an essential preliminary to the discussion Alexandra Bulidinga.
China to-day. State enterprises are apt been granted the honorary rank of at the special Imperial Conference, to be to be expenüz because there is lacking major-general
summoned at the conclusion of the Wer
FONR-ROOMED HOUSES £n Kowloon, A SHOP in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
* ABERTHOLWYN, No. 14, Peak Road, from Est August..M
Apply to
2000
be easily arranged.
Mr. King replied that the matter could Mr. Wolfe adjourned the inquiry until Tuesday afternoon
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.