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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE.

21, PRATA EAST, HONGKONG.

All Departments of the above are now Open after extensive repairs. Reading and Writing Rooms, Billiard Room (two tables), Restau rant, Concert Hall and Meeting Room.

Sleeping Accommodation-33 Cabins and Beds in Dormitories

INTIMATIONS

TAK HONAKUNG DAILY, PRESS

THE TALK OF

HONGKONG.

WISEMAN'S DINNER

WISEMAN'S 70

All men of the Mercantile Marine, H.M. Navy and Army are welcome to use the Institute.

Manageress MBS. ALLEN, Rev. W. T. FEATHERSTONE, Acting-Chaplain and Secretary.

SITUATION WANTED.

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JEWISH YOUTH (British), just

A bearing School desires a position in

Good Firm, willing to accept = nominal

Write Box 78,

Cara, of "Daily Prom Office. **2517

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE

NOTICE HONEY OF WHARES for

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all

December Settlement will be protisted on MONDAY, DECEMBER 1320, 1918, Instead of Friday, December 7th, as previously advertised.

By Order of the Committee,

QUE I. BAYMOND, „

Secretar HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE. Hongkong, October 11th, 1918 [9512

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held in the Parlion. TO-DAY 6.30PM to receive the Report and Accounts for the year ending 31st August, 1918, and to elect the Officers for the current

P. M. RODGSON, Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, October 11th, 1918

BORBON

1613

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED

FINAL DIVIDEND of Four per cent

A (12) (12.00) per Share and a Bonus of Ten per pent. (10%) ($5.00) per share has bee declared on the working of the Company for the year ended June 30th, 1918,

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CA

Grunend Manager.

Hongkong, October 10th, 1918.

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCEAN STEAMSHIF CO., LTD.,

Jan

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION CO., LTD.

ONSIGNEES per Company's Steamar

“EURYBATES”.

are hereby notified that the Cargo will |

discharged into Holt's Whart, Kow. loon, where it will lie at Consignes's risk. The Cargo will be ready for de livery from Godown on and after: 10th October

Optional cargo will be landed, uzlem notice has been given prior to teamAZ”E

AND

WISEMAN'S

NEW ORCHESTRA

FYERY EVENING

A Great Feast

Musical Treat.

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IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE.

PUBLIC HOLIDAY. » NEIS, OFFICE will be Open for all purposes from 8 to 12 Noom on

OCTOBER 14TH, 1918,

ised. Warehouse : cannot be open on

D. W. TRATMAN, Superintendent,

Imports and Exports.

October 9th, 1918.

TECHNICAL INSTITUTE.

NOTICE.

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THE INSTITUTE RE-OPEN

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18TH Students will be enrolled at the Education. Office only, and should apply at once for entry forms. ------

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All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45

PUBLIC AUCTION. and Noos within the free storage period.

No claims will be admitted after the DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of Goods have left the steamer's Godown, the letting by Public Amation Sal, sad all Goods remaining undelivered after the 17th October will be subject to rent.

not

All Olaima against the Steamer must by presented to the undersigned on or before the 31st October, or they will be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be affected. -

BUTTERFIELD &SWIRE,

Al Agents A

Hongkong, October 10th, 1918

JAVA-PACIFIC LINE

OF THE

JAVA CHINA-TAPAN LIJN.

Monthly. Bervice between

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NETH, INDIA, MANILA HONGKONG AND SAN FRANCISCO.

THE Steamship,

“TJISALAK”

due from 8 FANCISCO on OCTOBER 18th The Steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light and have accommolation for a limited number of saloon-passengers mi 7 All Steamers satzen

à duly qualified

Cargo Laken on through Bills of fading to all Overland Points to the United States

of Americs and Canada, A

For Particulars of Freight and Passage apply to the p

HP JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,

·General Managers,

Yo-k Buildio gal Telephone No. 1874,

Hongkong, October 11th, 1918,

BANK HOLIDAY

to be hall on TUESDAY, the 15th day of October, 1918, "3 r, så the Ottom of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, ¦ by Order of HiS EXCELLENCE THE GUTELNOS at One Lot of CROWN LAND at Yaumati, in the Colony of Hongkong, for terms of 75 yaz, with the option of renewal si a CROWN

"Elgo, for one farkaar

of His Mated by the Barveyor

PARTICULARE OF THE LOT.

NOTICE

LAZO"36" | 10,000

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INTIMATIONS

ST. ANDREW'S FAIR

10TH) NOVEMBER 1

LADIES' STALY will again be arranged A in connection with ST ANDREW'S FAIR, Fnd all Scottish Women willing to sonist are invited to attend a MEETING to be held at the Honorang Hore on TUESDAY, the 15th ins. Bb 11.30

ALLE DYER Hongkong, October 8th, 1918.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1918,

CHRISTMAS CARDS.

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DAINTY

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED.

(Incorporated in the United King-kam.)

LOST

TRANSFER RECETET Nol. 250 inued 1 tới Hà CHỊU TRONG PONG TA Transfer of 150 shares of this Com

me name having been MISLAIDA LOST. OR DESTROYED, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that blows the aid Receipt in produced at this Office within 30 days from the date her of, the Cercificate for she said Bhares will be delivered to the mind. Ka CHIU HONG FING, and the Transfer Receipt will thereafter be held but tha Company a null and voids

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Br. Order of the Board wide bement cW.E ROBERTS Hongkong, October 1st, 1918.

ON

LOST.

NE CAMPHOR WOOD BOX marked * GEARE HONGKONG discharged at Kowloon Wharf from the "MYK BE #IHARA MANU" on August 19th, 1918

Suitable reward to person supplying information as to its shemaborta

WILTED BL GEARE

"BOTTERDAM LLOYD" BOTAL MAIL LINE

THE Steamship

“KA WI

will this trip be despatched on QCTOBER

Kom 18TH-from-- Hongkong'

MANILA

and Japan Forte to Honolulu and San Francisco

For particular of freight and passage. please apply to

JAVA CHINA-

Hongkong

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TUESE for:

Apply to

LIED.

boy

ROOM 5, Sad Floor, Alexsader Building,

between 3 and 330 pan.

HOUSES TO LET

A Kowloon

HOUSE

132 Apply 362

TO LET,

500

Terrace

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST HOME BEEN PAGENCY O, LIBE

TO LET

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST WMENT &AGEYOT

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SHOP in Nathan Bond, Kowloon

KOWLOON MARINE LOT No. suitable for Coal Storage.

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· BUMPHREYS' ESTATE &

& lesbanidru, Palickinge.

2000

DESIRABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.. LENSHIKE and BUNGALOW, No

140 and 141, gun PRANADA, * Apply to

GEO. P. LAMMERI

BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME.

FLOWERS BEAUTIFY✅and

NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiatic or Indian make attractive THE HOME

desiring to leave the Colony should

apply in person at the CENTRAL POLICE nothing else can do, STATION between the hours of 8 AM to kra

CHARMING

1019

1913

1914

1215

1917

132,530 458,2 135:934 464,981 471.812

During this same period the eramated Department has done well or expenditure cupon

thes Public Works the community can

judge of that, for- Dogartradut has been

itself but simply to suggest that when

· Its' 'administration is under, review, the question of its economical working should. come in for some share of reasonablą criticism. It is perhaps, unfortunate for the Puble Works Department th the figures showing the cost of its main tenance and the expenditure upon public works should be made public in such as way sa to indicate so clearly the rate ai which its services are remunerated. Such is not the case with regard to the other great spending departments,:.but sta time when there are rumours of a general all-round increase of 10 per cent, upon official anlarins it is inevitable that the

Total

84,018,501

Daring this decade the charges for pen sions, for the whole, Service appears to have amounted to $3,840,849, of which a proportion-say 10 per cent; ie, $294,054-may be fairly added to the above figures, bringing the total cost of

PHOTO GREETING CARDS. the Department itself up to $4,309,335, inquiry should suggest itself Dosa.

similar disparity between the services rendered and the remuneration paid exist

From these figures we arrive at the some what astounding conclusion that the public works of the Colony-calculated throughout the whole Borries! over a period of ten years are carried out by the Public Works Department at CHINESE a cost to the community of about per

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PICTURES OF

LIFE AND SCENERY.

12 Cards neatly boxed.

Price $3.50 per box.

cent, upon the value of the works exc. cuted, as compared with the remuneration of a per cent allowed by the recognised professional bodies and adopted by reputable arebitents and civil engi- It is neers in private practice. probable that some proportion of the time and energy of the Departments staff is taken up with work of a routine nature; with the preparation of surveys; and with the administration of the Building Ordinance. On the other hand, it would appear that no allowance is made in the estimates to account for

Send them to your friends at home office rent, stationery, lighting, heating, etc, which are very heavy items in the office expenses- of those in private prac tice. How does it come about that there is this great discrepancy between the cost of designing and superintending public and private works in this Colony. It may be that there is some sufficient ex planation of the apparent anomaly, and, in that case, the public have a right to have it made plain to them; but, in the alternative, the inference is obvious either the staff is excessive, or the ad ministration is at fault

WATSON

LTD., CO.,

HONGKONG DISPENSABY

WARBIRTHS

(13)

The community might rest content with the existing state of affairs of it were able to feel that its public works were carried out better, or more expenditiously, than Bystem, they could be under any other but it is daubtful if it does take this

view; and it is suggestive that several of the most important works exsented in recent years notably, the Ball Room

Drea BALLAt the Peak Hospital, on October 10th, to Mr. and Mrs Dean BALL & 200

2511 Pinoy. At No. 891, Rue Ratard, Shang I hai, on October 9th, to Mr. and Mrs

B. S PIRACY, daughter

DEATHS510 ALUDA-At Foochow on September

Mrs. E. F. D'ALMEIDA, aged 49. HONKYAL Taikoo Dock, on 10th insti

JOHN HONEY, chief officer, as at Government House, the Law Courts, Huntball Funeral will pass the the Jubilee Road, Mountain Lodge, the Monument at 114 am, to-day.

Works, Kowloon Fail 8 Kovicon Water v SMITH-At Southheld, Chalmers: Road way Station, the new Government of aces East Ayr, Scotland, on August 8thete-have been handed over to private PALICE: ÁLzBiET "MACKENZIE, wile of

Dr. G. E. Morrison, Political. Adviser to the President of China is on a visit.. to Hongkong

The Hongkong Cricket Club's annual.` general meeting will be bald.in the pavi lion to-day at 5.30 p.m.

President Wilson has awarded the Dis- tinguished Service Cross for, extraordin ary heroism in action to Sing Kee, a Chinese whp was born in the US.A.

A final dividend of 4 per cent. and a bonus of 10 per cent. per share has been. declared by the Douglas. Steamship Co.,

for the year ended June 30th laat. ha

The following cases af communicable diseases were reported in the Colony on Wednesday-One case (pde death) of

(00 cerebro-spinal fever, two cases death) of enteric fever, and one case (one death) of diphtherin..

Miss Martha Hunter Hoa Hing, a Chinese woman doctor, has recently been fected house surgeon at the Alexandra Hospital for Children, Dyke road, Brigh ton. Miss Hoa Hing, who is ERCP. L.E.C.S., Edinburg and LRFPS. Glasgow, has been in England about seven years, and took her diplomas in 1916. She has a brother in the British Army

The death occurred, with tragic sadden. Tr.e. ca at the Taikoo Dock yesterday morn

of Mr. J. A Honey, chief officer of the sa Huntbally. who was superintending sorae work when he collapsed, death being instantaneous, Mr. Honey, it is inter- er ting to note, had been torpedoed four ines twice with Capt. Edwards, of the The funeral will pass the Monument at f.teamer on which he died so suddenly.

11.45 a.m.

by a reporter of this paper yester Seen day morning, Mr. E. Ralphs, who is going in charge of the Hongkong Red Cross unit to Vladivostock, said he was unable to furnish the names of the unit, as the arrangements were still incomplete. It is likely that the unit will be delayed more than was anticipated at first, because Hongkong is not able to supply all the fur required for the equipment of the party, and telegraphic orders have gone to Shanghai for furs. It is probable that Mr. Balphs will leave in advance of the

unit.

Boura M. SMITH, formerly of Naga firma Has this been done becase the qui WuMASAL bakiy Japan

Lieut Colin Blomfold Frost, R.F.A.,

TOUT-At No. 95, Broadway, Shangharf staff of the Public Works Departs sent who was killed on July 24th, entered tha

on October sell MARIA Lourd, widow Lucfficient or because it is in fcient

of the late Captain Jaxx Stop. In this connection it is intere ting to Hankow, and early beloved mother of Mr. Flation, aged 74 years

The Daily

HONGKONG, TITE OCICEKK-1918.

COST OF THE PUBLIC DEBARTMENT

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the

service of Meseri Batterfield & Swire, China, in 1915. In 1916 be resigned bis appointment at Newchwang and went compare the numbers engage

home to do what he Tels to be his duty., To public Works Department of this Colony his parents he wrote that he would never Honaxons Greich: 104, De Vaux Born, Ch those employed, in the of ice of the look back and never regret. Reaching London Orgien: 181, Kupe Azmi, E.G. Municipal Engimear at Shar ghai. An England in September 1915, be at once. rezived commission in the A.8.C and examination of the Burs ctory and shared the transport work, in France for two years. Then, at his own reqdest, he Chronicle of China, Jap ete reveals transferred to the RFA, and was sent to the fact that the staff here of more or Egypt, proceeding to the Holy Land: In

qualified⠀⠀⠀ Europear.

eers, May of the present year his battery was ordered to France, where he met his death Lookite superintending architects, etc, is thirty-six as compared by a chance bullet.

line, three days with twenty-nine at Sharghar We are some night work in

before his 29th birthday... ORKS not in a position to compare the expendi

A vary unusual crowd gathered at the ture upon public works n the two places,

Hongkong Magistracy yesterday after and the amount of wirk falling upon noon, when Lung Yeung King, Wong the respective staffs, but Bhanghai is a Kwong Wai, Hui Chak Po and Loung big place much tigger placa than Kan fin, said to be relatives of General Lung Chai-Kwong, were charged, on re- Hongkong--and we should have expected mand, with having been concerned in forg to and the engineering staff there larger, ing and the uttering a deposit receipt for $10,000 on the International Banking. rather than smaller than our own Corporation The Crown Solicitor.co

Again, it is instziactive to compare, na for a week's remand so if was LAYOUT far as possible, the volume of work important case and he wished to make the fullest possible investigations. Mr. M. K executed for the Government by the Lo, for the defence, in agreeing to the Public Works Department with the sagad, hoped that would be the lak

prosecution would require. The hear volume of work carried out for ing was fixed for Thursday next

Eldon Potter, instructed by Mr. La, individual clie ate by private firma

Lor the What this latter is cannot be stated dalinitely, but We should, suppose

As the drait of the Appropriati Ordinance for the year 1919 has now the Council, and been laid before the estimates of expenditure with regard i at least one of the departments namely, the Public Works Department- is likely this year to provoke more than the usual amount of comment and criticism, it may be of interest to call attention to one aspect of the matter. which reveals itself year after year, in the estimates but, so far, so we are aware has never been made the subject of serious public discussion. We allude to

Hoog

The funeral took place at Hampstead Cemetery, quite privately, cu August 18th, the cost to the community of the Public that taking into consideration works of the lute Wee James Ross Bachelo

carried out at Canton and the neighbour Smith, formerly Chief Mannger of the

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, ing Treaty portsit must be very con kong, who died, after a few weeks' illne aiderably in excess of that executed by at his residence, 187, Queen's Gate, South Kensington, to the deep sorrow of large the Public Works Department. Yet it sircle of friends, by whom he was held appears, from the local Directory again, the highest regard and esteem. The gathering at the graveside included Mrs. that this large volume of work is RMSmith (widow), Misis Sarders carried out by twelve Arms of architects (sister-in-law), Mas, Gatcokill, Bir Charles

Addig, Mr. Murray Stuart, and My and civil engineers whose combined staffs H. E. R. Hunter (representing the Hong- 81,042,800

108,320 amount in all to twenty-four more of Hiller, Mr. Boss, Mr. B. 5 Ha

and Shanghai Book), Bir Walter 940,820 080,400

1,406.000 less well-qualified Europeans that is to solicitor to the Bank), M. E. A Stanton 147,960 $1,577,080 27043days an

beautiful, floral tributes

Works Department itself. An examina- tion of the Government Gazette for the past ten years shows that the estimated expenditure upon public works recur rent and extr

inary during ? this, period has been as follows

Recarroat. Et

1909 ****** 427,500 $418,200 FLOWER

VEGETABLE 1910 1917 SEEDS. TOYS, POSTAGH

1919 261600 STAMPS POSTCARDS, 1918

£1,000 #1914

szid 2 2x to 4.2.x daily, GRACA & CO

Applicants

will be required to

Passport or identificatión papers

arg

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with

cortain exceptions who persons emain in the Colony for more than 7 days squired to Register themselves under REGISTRATION / not. Manger PERSONS ORDINANCE $1916 the parti

Forms

ms of "Registration enlare required me blond othe G.F.O.od at all Folice Stations

The Penalty for non compliance is a fine. not exceeding $50.

N socordance with Ordines No 5 of 1912,

TAROT BKB will

CLOSED for the transation of PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY, OCTOBER

[2:01 Hongkong, October 9th, 1918-

Dealers i

AND.

1908

No. 10, WYNDHAM STERET. HONGKONG

1916 1018

$1917

PO Box 620:

685.800

Total 81,475,000)

4,128,900 Bay, about two-thirds of the numerical etc Build sisters and other

of the Public Works Depart ments The comparison is certainly very

2.611,800 str 2,810,088 1,859,800

184,600 striking 294,500

"Total:..::$18,757,286

sent by his bers of the family by Mr. N. (Chief Manager of the Hongkong Shanghai Bank), members of the Foreig Staff the London Committee do not propose on the present kong and Shanghai Bank

rporation, Mr. and Mr H. D. Jones MrMarra xpress any opinjong to

Benart Miss Etta Addia, Household 24. whether the work of the Public Works ! and others. 3