NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
WE beg to notify the Public and all our customers that our TELEPHONE NUMBER has sincs CHANGED from No 1918 to No. 9730.
BRITISH CHINESE TRADING CO.,
e. Des Vieux Road Central. Hongkong, 17th September, 1918. 12424
WANTED.
OF
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Arent
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Brax No. 2425, Care of Daily Preis" Office. (9435
WANTED, FOREIGN NURSE to take charge A of two little Girls (age 4 and 2 years) in Peking.
Write and end references to-
MADAME SAINT PIERRE,
INTIMATIONS
THE BUNGKUNG DAILY PRESS.
HONGKONG.ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY,
be hold in the CITY HALL THE ANNUAL MEETING of the above TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) 15th Sap tember, 1918, at 6.30 P., for the purpose of receiving the Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st August, of slecting office-bearers for the ensuing year, &c.
J. M. GORDON, Acting Hon. Secretary. Bongkong, 12th September, 1918 (2406
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MESTING of the INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Offices of Messrs, JARDINE, MA HESON & COMPANY, Lamired, No. 6 Feilder Street, Hongkong. on THURSDAY, the 19th day of september, 1918, at 12 o'clock Noos, when the subjoined Resolation will be
INTIMATIONS
LOST.
DIAMOND and PEARL PLATINUM
C. EDGCUMBE will be rewarded on returning came to
SNOWMAN & Co.,
York Buildings. (2491
NOTICE.
MOW FUNG & CO. LIMITED,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Business heretofore carried ou at 10, Dea Yorax Road Central, Hongkong, by FREDERICK HOWELL and FREDERICK CHARLES Mew Fuso in co-partnership under the stylu of Mow Fung & Co., has been converted into a Private Limited Company, and will I henceforth, and as from the 1st September, 1918, be carried on as before and at the same address under the style of MOW FUNG & COMPANY, LIMITED.
to All contracts relating
Panque de l'indo Chine, Peking ordinary Resolution posed as an Extra-merchandise entered into by the firm
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HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE, CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL.
NEW CLASS for BEGINNERS" will commence on MONDAY, 3rd September. 1918, if sufficeat support be @forthcoming.
Application for enrolment and enquiries regarding hours of School, Fees, etc., should be made to the undersigned as early as possible.
By Order,
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A. R. LOWE, Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 16th September, 1918. [9497
THE ROYAL HONGKONG
GOLF CLUB.
Víz-
"That the regulations contained in the printed document submitted to the meeting and for the purpose of identifi- cation subscribed by the Chairman there of be and the same are hereby approved and that such regulations be and they Me bereby adopted the Articles of the Compnay in substitution for and to the exclusion of all the existing Articles thereof."
Should the above Resolution be passed by the requisita major.ty it will be submitted for confirmation Special Resolution to a farther Extraordinary General Meeting and such Meeting will be held on TUESDAY, the 8th day of October, 1918, at the same of considering purpose time and place for the And if thought fit confirming such Resolution As & Special Besolution accordingly,
Copies of the proposed new Articles and of the present Articles can be obtained at the Offices of the Company or at the Offices Of Messrs. DIACON, LOOK, DEACON & HARSTON.
By Order of the Directors, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lab,
General Managers. Dated the 7th day of September, 191?
$400
THE CHINA-BORNEO CO., LTD.
Mow Fuxo & Co. will be carried out by
& CO. LTD. MOW FUNG
All debts due to and all liabilities of the Firm of 3 FUNG & Co., ap to and including the 31st August, 1918, will be rospectively collected by and paid by the saidi FREDERICK HOWELL and FREDERICK CHARLES Mow Feso.
The Company will be managed or con trolled by a Board of Directors, the first Directors
FREDERICK being
HOWELL FREDERICK CHARLES MOW FUNG, and Sze To Yezy.
By Order of the Directors,,
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CHOW U TING, Secretary. Hongkong, 16th September, 1911. [2418
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. MATRICULATION,
AND
SENIOR JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there
NEXAMINATIONS will commence on
MONDAY, December 9th, 1918.
Arrangements will be made to hold the Examination at any town where a sufficier.t number of candidates offer themselves.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17m. 1918.
INTIMATION
We have just received
a fresh consignment of
money be derived through the Maritime CHINESE TELEGRAMS Customs service we may rest assured that
these important considerations will not be overlooked..
Canton and Hongkong, so far as their geographical situations are concerned, may be compared with Manchester, and Liverpool. That fact reminds us that
COMPANIA GENERAL steamers.
DE TOBACOS DE
» FILIPINAS.
NUEVO
CORTADO ·
[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG, NGOI SAN PO"!
PEACE CONFERENCE
"PERING, September 10th, Saum Chun-buen and Luk Wing-ting.
THE VICE PRESIDENCY,
The Peking Senators propose to elect Shum Chun-huer as Vice-President, but the militarists intend to elect Link Wing. ting.
the more prosperous Canton becomes the | have agreed to accept Hsu Shib-chang's better for Hongkong. There can be no peace terms. A peace conference will ben question of Canton competing with opened in Nanking. Hongkong as a port for large ocean-going However much money might be spent upon improvements at Canton the Empress, boats, "for example, neither could, nor would, call there. Hongkong must remain in the absence of anex pected catastrophes, the great distribut ing centre of South China. When the Chamber of Commerce was discussing the exclusion of the Germans after the war
CANTON GOVERNMENT AND RECOGNITION.
The Péking Government has denied that the American "Government has re
Canton.
there were mysterious whispers of the steps which our enemies would take to cognised the Military Government in. divert trade from this Colony unless wo allowed them to come back again on the old terma. Fears of that sort may affict
EXTRA.thoughtless, people, but there was no
$3.00
per, 100.
A FIRST-CLASS CHEROOT AT A
CHEAP PRICE.
Candidates who wish to be examined at any A. S. WATSON other place than Hongkong or Shanghai must apply to the Registrar on or before October 2nd, 1918.
Forms of entry. and all, particulars can be obtained on application to the REGISTRAR, The University, Hongkong.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tha an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Club will be held in the Board Roon of Messrs. JARDINE MATHESON & COMPANY, LTD.. Des Veux Road Central, Hongkong, on" FRIDAY: the Twenty-seventh day of September, 1918, as half past five o'clock in the afternoon when NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL the subjoined Resolutions which were passed MEETING of THE CHINA BORNEO at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the COMPANY, LIMITED, will be bold at the
The entry form duly filled in, must reach above Club held on the Sixth day of Sep-Offices of Messrs GBB LIVING, the Registrar, together with the fes (Ten sember 1918, ill be submitted for con COMPANY, St. George's Building Dollars, Hongkong Currency), on or before frumtion as Special Resolutions ----
Hongkong, the Registered Office of the
be conducter (1) That the Articles of Association of the above-named Company, on TUESDAY, the October 9th, 1918
Claby be amended by striking out the 1st day of October, 1918, at 11.30 o'clock
Benior and Junior Local Extimistions and words "Naval Member or Visitor in the forenoon, when the subjoined Eesola-accnerling to the "Hegstations for the
AND
The Examinations will
3 of Articletion which was passed at the Extraordinary for the Matriculation Examination 1918.
the 3rd line of PEMBER" and the 18th day of September, 1918, will be
General Meeting of the Company held on
Subscriber
I under the heading substituting therefor Subordinate Naval Officer or (2) That the Articles of Association of the Clab be amended by adding after the word Clab in the 8th line of the form of application for admission to the Club set out in Article 9 the words "and at any time called upon by the Committee so to do take up and pay for one Debentare of the Club (3). That the d Articles of Asociation of the
Club be amended by adding after the word "Cinb" at the end of the amend ment to Article 33 the words "or by the Committee."
sabunitted for confirmation as a Special
Hesolution:-
a
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. Hongkong, 14th September, 1918 (2410
NOTICE.
"That the new Articles already. "approved by this Meeting and for the identification thereot purpose of "subscribed by the Chairman thereof, ba. and the sams are hereby "approved, and that such Articles be and they are hereby adopted as the
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asunto de Indian "Articles of the Company to the desiring to leave the Colony should "exclusion of and in substitution for
spply in person at the ChurTRAL POLIOR "all the existing Articles thereof"
STATion between the hours of 9 alm. to 1 EM | copy of the new Articles referred to may be inspected by any Shireholder of the and 2PM to 4 P.. daily. (4) Thap the Articles of Association of the said Company at the Company's Offices in Club be amended by inserting the Hongkong, or at the Offices of MARETS. words after "month" in the seventh Joansor, STOKze & Maarzz (the Company's line of Article No. 37 "or aach other Solicitors), at Prince's Building, Victoria, sum as the Committee may from time aforesaid, on any week-day between the to time determina. (5) That the Articles of Association of the hours of 10 A. and 4 PM.
Dased this 13th day of September, 1918,
GIBR, LIVINGSTON & C
Agenta
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Club be amended by striking out the worla "A Treasurer" and "all" in the second line of Article No. 47 and sub- for the word "all" the word stituting "both and adding to the end of that Articl the words "and shall be elected by a show of hands at the Annual feneral Mesting."
(6) Than the Articles of Association of the Club be saya-led by striking at the word of figures 31st" in the fourth line of Article No. $4 and substitut ing the words of figures "30th" and by striking out the word "Decamer*
HUNGEUNG JOCKEY CLUB.
HALF-YEARLY MEETING of Members will be held on TUESDAY, the 1st October, 1918, at 12:30 PM, at the Offices of the Hongroso Jockey Clup, on the ground floor of the Hexukose Club ANNEXE, Chater Read
in the fifth line of the same Article sad to certain proposals to substitute spectators
substituting the word "September."
A Report will be made at this Meeting as stands for some of the Mat-heds hitherto
(7) That the Articles of A ion of the erected on part of the JourEY CLUB property
Club to amended by striking at the and the adjoining Land. word March" in the second line of Article No. 87 and substituting there-
for the word" December
(6) That the Articles of Association of the Clab be amended by striking out Article No. 81 and substituting therefor: "Accounts of Members
By Order,
Applicants will be required to produce Рашароти ст
or identification papers.
All persons with certain exceptions who remain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves ander
REGISTRATION 150
PERSONS
ORDINANCR 1916
Forms of Registration giving the part!. aslars required may be obtained at the OPO and at all Police Stations.
The Penalty for non-compilaner is a fine not exceeding 150
WAI REE
FLAG & SAILMAKER."
BA
No. 12, Des Vour Boad Centra), "
T
Top Floor,
HONGKONG.
Telephone No. 1883.
T. F. HOUCH, Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, 16th September, 1918 [2420)
HOUSES TO LET
Subscribers and Visitors shall be made THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY,
up 8
and sent in at the beginning of
rach month and should any accounts
be unpaid at noon on the fifteenth
day of the following month the name
the
Member,
Subscriber or Visitor
LIMITED.,
NOTICE.
'887
TO LET.
GODOWN. Central District.
Apply to THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- KENT AGENCY Cɑ., KAD,
[20]
owing the same bhall be posted in the N accordance with the Provisions of the A Club House at Happy Valley and other of the Club promises that the
any
one
new Articles of Association of the Company, the Board of Directors have This Committee may from time to time for the First Half-Year ended 30th Jane, Day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND direct and if at the expiration of month thereafter his account shall be 1818, of THREE DOLLARS (3) per Share Member. angaid he shall cease to be Subscriber or Visitor, but the Com mittee may in their discretion for good cause shown reinatate such Member, Subscriber or Visitor."
By Order of the Committee,
JOHN DE B LANCASTER,
Bon Sreretary. Date Hongkong. 17th September, 1918,
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GRACA & Co.. No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET, HONGKONG, Dealers in
POSTAGE STAMPS, VIEW
POST-CARDS, FLOWER SEEDS, TOYS, &c. Just received a Selection of MAMA DOLLS. ITALK!!
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Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office on and after the 23rd September, 1918.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Compsny will be CLOSED from the 10th to 23rd instant, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors
JE. TAGGART, Manager. Hongkong, 12th September. 1918. (2410
NOTICE.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
CERTIFICATE Nn. $100 issued in the
of Mi MARY SAMUEL "PERRY, dated the 27th day of January, 1816, for 14 Shares Numbered. 13464/77. has been Cancelled and is no longer negotiable, and a new Certificate in the name of Miss MARY
therrof.
SAMUFL FERRY has been issed in lieu
Dated this 11th September, 1918.
CH. P. HAY, for pro. General Manager...
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CO., LTD.,
CIGAR MERCHANTS,
Tr. Cla
DEATH.
CANTON NEWS.
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CHUNG HDO
Bản Ph
CANTON, September 16th. SITUATION OF AMOT.
evidence at the time that anyone eater (BY COURTESY OF THE tained them seriously except the two or The three who gave expression to them. facts speak for themselves and require no argument. The tendency of modern shipping is constantly to increase in size' and speed, and after the war this ten- dency is expected by experts to become more marked. At the International Congress on Navigation in 1919 it was said that, with fifteen years' peaceful development of trade, ships with a dis, placement of 75,000 tons and a draught of 11 feet would be travelling on the Atlantic. The economical limit of size
It is reported that the taunton forces are now distance of about 15 miles from Amoy. They have occupied the Tung On city. Most of the officials and their families have left Amoy, for Shanghai, The Foreign Consuls in Amoy have asked that Amoy be kept uff the war zone so that the foreigners, and their properties may not be disturbed.
CONSULS' AND GOVERNMENT,
We are informed that the British and
& has not yet been discovered, and the American Consuls in Shameen visited
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the Military Government yesterday. They were welcomed by all the principals, but their visit was regarded as unofficial, SITUATION OF FOOCHOW.
above figures show the dimensions that Naval architects expect. As Mr. H. vox HEIDENSTANT Engineer-in-Chief to the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, pointed out in his report last year, the principal Foochow is endangered by the pressure ocean traffe lines will be focussed upon of the Canton forces. The Fukien leaders. irst-class harbours with proportionately are proposing to declare an armistico developed mechanical appliances for with the Canton forces, or to declare in handling cargo and facilities for distri.dependence, in order to avoid fighting. buting it, and there will be a general concentration of the corresponding trade and business at these plages. For Hong- kong it is only a question of providing the necessary berthing accommodation, STOCKHAUSEN.-On 14th September, 1918, and as local enterprise has never failed at the Victoria Hospital, Sanati to keep pace with the great developments MATHEW VON STOCKHACSEN, aged 69;
which have taken place in shipping since усати.
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the Colony was founded there is no reason to suppose that it will fag behind now.
We can, therefore, wel- come cordially any scheme for improving the port of Canton, secure in the know- ledge that it will not harm, but rather DEATH OF AN OLD HONGKONG benefit, the trade of "Hongkong, hope that when the details of the naw project are published they will be care- fully thought over, freely criticised, and quickly carried into effect;
Hongkonu UỶica: 10a, Das Vœux Roan, C. Laspon Orion: 181, FLAT START, EC.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, 17TH SEPTEMEEK. 1918
We
There were no cases of communicable diseases notied in. the Colony on
Saturday.
THE "TREASURER.
The Treasurer, Yeung Wing-tai, who
prosecuted by Tas
the Provincial Asserably, and has been worried by the Kwangsi lenders about their payments, has requested the Tuchun to allow him to resign.
fe. It is stated that Yeung is to &P pointed by Shum Chun-huen as a repre sentative to negotiate peace with the North, and that he will leave for. Shanghai shortly.
RESIDENT.
It is with regret that we record th death, which occurred on Saturday night at the Victoria Hospital, of Mrs. A. von' Stockhausen, relies of Mr. F. W. von Stockhausen, at one time Vice-Consul for Germany. The deceased lady had been ill for over a month.
The funeral took place on Sunday even- iny at Happy Valley, the Rev. H. Copley There were several
The 0.5. K. steamer Kaiju Mara willMoyle officiating. sail for Keelung vid Swatow and Amoy sympathising friends present at the grave-
side. nonn to-day, at 4 p.m. instead of ut to morrow, the 18th inst.
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The Chinese woman, who was reported in our yesterday's issue as having at- tempted to commit suicide by taking an overdose of opium, died at the Civil Hospital on Sunday.
The late Mrs. Stockhausen leaves behind one son, who is in France fighting for the Allies.
THE PORT OF CANTON.... We learn from a trustworthy source that a scheme for improving Canton as a port has been prepared by a European expert and will shortly be made public. Following so rapidly upon the proposal for the improvement of the port of Shanghai, this news is of more than local interest, for it furnishes additional evidence that there are some people, at any rate, in the Far East who realise the probability-if not, as we think, the certainty of an enormous increase in It is reported that, as a result of the the trade of China after the war, Even
iracas at Macao, a Chinese mob has been
A friend of the deceased lady writch:- if delay may be expected in carrying out endeavouring to stop the water supply Mrs. Stockhausen came to the Colony' the Canton, scheme it is a matter for which Macao draws from beyond the in 1875; hence she was one of Hongkong's congratulation that at least definite pro- frontier,
old residents. As soon as the Ladies' posals are to be submitted to the authori
Working Party was formed at the City tien. We believe, in point of fact, that
Hall for war-work, Mrs. Stockhausen nt the project will be carried out because
once became one of its working members the sum involved is said to be less than
and worked on continuously until ber three million dollars and the expenditure
health gave way. To all who had the promises to be very remunerative. It is
pleasure of knowing her show thoroughly highly probable that the customs service
An extraordinary general meeting of proved herself to be one of its most inde- will be asked to finance the scheme the Royal Hongkong Golf Club will be fatigable workers; and it is now only too probably by the imposition of some held in the Board Room of Messra, Jar well known that her illness was very much additional taxation on vessels running up to Canton. There is likely to be less difficulty in obtaining the money than
In connection with the Chinese Langu- tion to. contribute an increase in the in securing its application to the pur- pose for which it is raised." "For,-age School, of the Hongkong General weekly output of her strenuous work. In
and despite the revolutions
the Chamber of Commerce it is announced numerous instances the writer has had the pleasure of seeing the results of her weekly China, there that a new class, for beginners" will toil being packed and sent to the City counter-revolutions in
that changethnot, commence on Monday, September 23rd, if Hall on Mondays. It would be out of one custom and, therefore, unless the funds are sufficient support is forthcoming. placed under the control of Europeans A Chinese married woman, aged 27 we are not sanguine to results. yeare, living at No. 01, Shanghai Street, Moreover, the work of harbour improve has been sent to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from a severe injury ment is essentially a technical matter into her head, caused by being attacked which some considerable experience is with a bottle by another woman. necessary on the part of those who H
supervise it. Even with the utmost care THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.in keeping accounts, amateurs planning
MENT & AGENCK Co, Lan
or carrying out such undertakings can hopelessly squander treasure. Should the
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SHOP in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
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KOWLOON, MARINE LOT No. 48 suitable for Coal Storage.
Apply Do:-
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE | IN
Co., LED, Alexandra Halldings.
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TOUSES on Shamcen, Canton,
Apply to
1000
dine, Matheson & Co., on Friday, Septem-aggravated through her indoitable will-
power, sheer pluck and determined resold er 27th, at 5.30.pm.
The Chief Engineer of a steamer which is being renovated at the Taikoo Dock yard has reported to the Police that between the 14th and 15th instant some persons broke into his cabin and stole money and jewellery to the value of $343.
place here to mention the quantity of garments worked and finished by her own dear hands, the amount of work accom-
plished every week-apart from the work done at the City Hall-was to me little less than marvellous, and I fully believé that her many working friends at the" City Hill will agree. And now those two lines recur to the writer:
You loved me too little in life, You love me so much in death,”*
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