NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS DEPART-
MENT.
NOTICE.
THIS DEPARTMENT will be Open
purposes till Noor MONDAY, AUGUST ITU. Licensed Ware- houses will be entirely closed on that day.
UW. BECKWITH, Buperintendent. Imports and Exporta.
₤1066
Hongkong, July 31st, 1919.
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
THE
HE BIG COURSE at FANTING will be Open for play on SATURDAY next, AUGUST 2ND.
BY ORDER OF THE COMMITTEE. Hongkong, July 31st 1919.
(1050
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB. THERE will be MIXED COMPETITION
n the Deep Water Bay Course on SATERDAY, SUNDAY and MONDAY, AUGUST 2ND, "BR and T. Medal play under handicap. Players to arrange their awn opponents. No entrance fee.
WE
NOTICE
пока
"E ARE REMOVING or OF÷es as from AUGUST 4TH, from No. 1, Decidall Street to 41, WYNDHAM STREET.
CURRIMEHOỸ CÓ ETD. Hongkong, August 1st, 1919." (1061
A. 8. WATSON & COMPANY, LTD.
WING to the GREATLY INCREASED Price of Sugar, the price of all our SWEET waters will be advanced Five Cents per duzen, as from this date, until further
A. 8, WATSON & CO, LTD. Engokong, August 1st, 1919 {1087
'Notice,'
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
A EXTRAGRDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED, will be held at the Office of Messrs.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., Na & Pedder Street, Victoria, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the Sorg day of AUGUST, 1919, at 11.30 o'clock in the forenoon, when the subjoined Resolu tion will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resolution, viz:-
than
INTIMATIONS
DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 181,
THE HONGKONG
INTIMATIONS.”
HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO
STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
N INTERIM LIVIDEND OF ONE
A DULLAH SIDES ONE
M
A. G. DA ROCHA. AUCTIONEEE, SURVEYOR AND
GENERAL BRUKEL
i
Queen's Road Central Telephone No 1931.
months ending 30th June, 1818, will be AVOURED with instructions from H.
TUESDAY, AUGUST OR, FF OF CARTESIN, ET All sell by on hias da e Dividend Warrants may be Public Auction, TU-DAY (FRIDAY) Angust obtained on application at the Company's, 1918, at 2.3) P.M., at No. 6, Morrison Uthee
Bill
Comprising
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, EXCELLENT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE | July 30th to TUESDAY, August stb, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Hegistered.
By Order of the Board of Directors, JOHN ARNOLD,'
Acting Secretary. Hongkong, July 22ark, 1019.
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Blackwood Furniture, Iron Bedsteads. Tables, Carpets and Rugs, Brass Fenders, Overmantels, Brass Ornamenta, Sofas, Exy Chairs, Occasional Tables, extension Dining Tablo Bevelled Mirror Wardrobes, Standa, Dining Chairs, Silver Ware Cabinet, Teak Bookcase, Dinner Crockery, Glassware,
HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, Ornaments, Pictures, Curtains, Bed Sheets,
LIMITED.
(Incorporated in the United Kingdom.) NOTERIM DIVIDEND of NINE TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVER" that an.
PENCE par Share on account of the year '1913, has been declared.
The DIVIDEND will be payable on and after MONDAY, the 25th day of August, 1919, to Shareholders on the Register on. MONDAY, the 11th day of August, 1919, and will be paid to Shareholders on the the Colonial (Hongkong) Register at exchange rate of 3/6 per Dollar.
By Order of the Board. "
W.E ROBERTS,
Secretary, -Hongkong, Jaly 28th, 1918.
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SHELL TRANSPORT AND TRADING
COMPANY, LIMITED.
WE
TE have been requested by the above Company to announce that new shares will be imed at par to shareholders on the 15th June, 1919, in the proportion of ONE-new share for every TWO old shares, tractions being disregarded.
Holder af
Warrants should depot their holdings, not later than the 9th August, 1918, Loompanied by payment of the equivalent of £1 Sterling for each new share claimed, with their Bantors who will stamp the warrants on the face thereof with the words "RIGHTS CLAIMED 1918.
Registered shareholders should pay to their Bankers the equivalent of £1 Sterling for each new share claimed, not later than the 8th August, 1913.
For the HoraKONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION, N. J. STABE,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, July 4th, 1919.
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AMUSEMENT CONCERN FOR
SALE
Known as
THE LUNA PARK,
A BIG MONEY-MAKING
PROPOSITION.
Formerly run by Mr. Baxis.
CONSISTING of a Modern Carousel or
That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered as follows-
(1) By inserting in Article 31 after the "apon all the shares" in the Words
line thereof the words "other" Se paid shares," m (2) By adding, at the end of Article 28 the following works "but any director so appointed shall bold office only until they next following Ordinary General Meet ing of the Company, and shall then be eligible for selection."
(3) B adding the fol owing new Article to
be numbered 998.
viz
Merry-Go-Round to carry Sixty-four persons, including Automatic Organ, worked Electricity, Ocean or Circling Wave with Organ and Motor, Joy Wheel with Motor sad Magneto, Base Ball or Dell Hitting Amusement Show Dart Gallery, Laughing of Quaint Wirrors with Automatic
trically worked Fiano, Shooting Gallery The Company may by a Special with set of diverse Targes, Punching or
Resolution remove
Testing
Machine, One Marshall and
Clocks, Marble-top Warn-stands, Cooking Stove, Catlery, Toilet ets, Electric Reading Lampe, Cabinets Side boards and long line of Sundries.
Catalogues will be issued. Traxa-Cash on Delivery. Hongkong, July 4th 1919.
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A. G. DA ROCHA AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR -- AND GENERAL BROKER
INTIMATION
DEWAR'S
WHITE
LABEL
Indeed, Mr. R. M. Dran: holdà, out the FAR EASTERN CABLE prospect that those invited to the next launching ceremony will see something
NEWS.
much larger than the War Bamber" | [By oorwTRY OF THE "HONGKONG CHINESE
One thing we have learned during' the
¡ posą few years,"" he says, "is that we can build anything in Hongkong." The shipyards are rapidly extending their
COMMERIVAL HAŴs"]
THE NEW CABINET,
SHANGHAI, July 31st
A meeting of the Cabinet Ministers was held to-day. It was decided to order the Military Board to pay the wages of the soldiers under General Lung in Sin-cham, usar Tientsin, and to disband them.
facilities for new construction, and, as The Chief Northern delegate, to arrange constant inquiries are being received from" | pence with the South, cannot be appointed Home. it certainly seems probable.. that until the new Cabinet has been formed. the day is not far distant when a regular
GENERAL LUNG'S TROOPS. stream of this class of work will flow to them. It has been demonstrated beyond All question that ships can be built is successfully in this Colony ns in the United Kingdom, and the determining factor, we suppose, will be relative cost. There is an unlimited supply
THE GERMAN TREATY of Chinese labour
that available produces excellent results under Euro-
Luk Tsing-chang, the chief delegate at peaa supervision, and before long the the Paris Conference. has telegraphed to Faculty of Engineering at the "Hong the Peking Government that there is still kong University should furnish men soma hape, of a settlement of the Shan-- thoroughly qualified to share this re† cung question,
sponsibility. At present, apparently, the The Cabinet telegraphed back to hin students do not appreciate the truth con- to deal with the question carefully. tained in the old saying that," an ounce. It is also stated that Luk Tsing-chang of practier is worth a ton of theory."and will sign the German Treaty having.
Queen's Food Central, Telophones No. 17. FINEST SCOTCH consequently they neglect to take advan-ceived instructions from Peking that be
AVOURED with instractions
RATOUR The Concerned.....
from
will well by Public Anction: TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), Aug, 2nd, 1812,
ut 2.15 PM.
athis Sales Room,
FURNITURE - AND
HOUSEHOLD
EFFECTS, Wardrobes, Deaks, Chairs,. Chest of Drawers Dressing Tables, Bookcases, Arm- chairs Curios, Crockery and Glassware, Brass Ornamenta, Vases, Pictures, Ice Boxes, Bedsteads Clocks, Typewriters, Overmanteis, Sideboards Napkins, Table Cloths, Ha Stands and a long line of Sundries.
TEMS:-Cash on Delivery, Hongkong, July 24th, 1919.
A. G. DA ROCHA AUCTIONERE, SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER.
Queen's Road, Central, Telephone No. 2931
LAVOURED with instructions from The Concerned, will well by Public Auction on TUESDAY,
Ag,"6th, 1818, at 215 P
at his Bale Foóm
A QUANTITY_OF
MISCELLANEOUS GOODS & EFFECTS ALBO
20 cases Tackey's Liqueur Whisky 12 years old.
20 cases Medoc, qts. Lalande & Co. 40 Dozen Playing Cards.
25 cases Neilly Frat & Co. Vermouth. .5 years Old Bed Port
10
+
10 Dozen Tobacco Pipes.
2 Cigarettes TransCash on delivery, Hongkong, August 1st, 1919.
WANTED.
any Director Strange Engine, two Gasolens Motors knowledge of English also for keeping
before the expiration of his period of Bour
As at
the word "forfeited" in
(4) Br
the
line of Article 135 and insert
ing in plaer of such word the word
24
until
" utilized" and by omitting the full stop the end of such Articls and by adding
the end
sch Article the words of | claimed.” (5) By inserting in Article 141 after the word served in the sixth line thereof the following words and two copies of each of these documents shall at the time be forwarded to the Secretary SAM18
Loan
of the Share and
and & Cinema Tent.
The Above is to be seen in Singapore and to be sold as a whole" for "immediate delivery,
Price $50,000 or nearest Offer.
Offers and Applications for fall particulara to be addressed to TAN CHENG KEE & COMPANY, 67, Waterloo Street, Singapore.
AGENCY WANTED.".
Department, The RAW SILK for LYONS.
Stock Exchange, London!
939
Old and serious Firm désires to net as Agent
Should the above resolation be peased by for Firm of CARTON and SHANGHAT Raw the
will be submitted
majority
for conmmation as a Special Resolution to a further Extraordinary
rdinary General Meeting and auch meeting will be held on Wednesday, the 10th day of September 1910, at the same time, and place for the purpose of consider- ing and, thought it, confirming such resolutica AS
Special Kesolution accordingly.
By Order of the Directors, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, LAD,
General Managers. Detel Tat day of August, 1918.
BANK HOLIDAY.
"
Silk Exporters. Very good connections. Highest references and guarantees (Hong- LONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
and others).
MUGGIANI & BERTHOLON,
14, Rue Désirée, Lyon.
TO LET
(1008
Nt the Peak.
IN accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912,
the EXCHANGE BANKS will be ULOSED for the transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY, AUGUST 47%, 1919.
Hongkong, July 30th, 1818.
G.
NOTICE.
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TO. 10 Tux PEAR, 8-Roomed House
Apply to
PERCY AMITH SETH & FLEMING
[522
TOLET
MURNISHED at the PEAK, No. 4 Stewart-
Terrace. Apply--
ĦE POLLOCK, Supreme Court.
P
(937
TO LET
DURNISHED for 12 months, No. 87; THE
F
CHINESE ASSISTANT with good
accounts. $1,000.00 casa guarantés required. Good salary to mitable man,
Box No.1053, Apply -
Care of Daily Froes" Office.
·· [1053
WANTED.
"
OMPETENT TYPIST, STENO-TYPIST
preferred. Apply atating salary required.
W. S. BAILE & CO., LTD., Kuwloon.
(1017
WANTED
GODOW
to lease with option to purchase Give price, size, location and other particulars
Answer
Box 1054. Care of " Daily Press Office.
₤1054
WHISKY
OF
GREAT AGE.
SOLE AGENTS :
may sign, the Treaty if it is not dia- graceful to China."
THE COMMERCIAL TREATY, The Peking Government proposes to, amend the Commercial Treaty. The
matter is before Parliament,
¡BY COURTESY OF THE CHINA MAIL."] - SINGAPORE RECEIVING GERMAN
tage of the unique opportunities which the local dockyards offer them for com bining practical training with their sendemic studies. There is every reason to expect. also, that the deposits of coal and iron which are known to exist in Swangtung and Kwangsi will soon be mude accessible. That will remove-twa very serious disadvantages from which industry in this Colony now suffers in being so far from the source of supply of these basis requirements. To-day Hong kong depends for all the coal it consumes apon Japan. North China and Indo- China, and for all the iron and steel it ses upon America and Europe. With the raw materials lying close at hand the The Freiburg was handed over on the continuance of this state of affairs in sand, and is due at Singapore to-day. Absurdity. which should disappear when She will be dry docked for examination.
SHIPS.
SINGAPORE,, July 30th, The German ships that were internad in the Dutch Indies are being handed over a Batavia.
British captains and officers are arriv
A. S. WATSON & CO., normal conditions are restored in China Others will follow.
For years past foreign enterprise has bien ready to exploit the mineral re- sources of the Republic, but the official ing from England for the purpom of attitude has been discouraging. With the manning the vessela. spread of enlightenment and the increaSTRAITS GOVERNOR'S DEPARTURE.
LIMITED.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
TEL. 816
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Hongkong Orrier: 104, Dys Vœuz Bean, C. Lowdon Officn: „101, Frane Braxar, É.C.
The Baily Press.
Honorowe, August 187, 1918,
A RAPIDLY
1
DEVELOPING
ed need for developing the latent Wealth
"!
SINGAPORE, July 30th.
The Governor, Sir Arthur Young, sails
of the bountry in order to defray the heavy cost of civil war, it is probable that the -reforms in the mining laws recommended about the middle of August of the Pemr a couple of years ago by the Commission brokeshire. Mr. F. S. James, "Colonial which was ably assisted by a Canadian Secretary, will be Acting Governor. expert, Mr. G. C. Lindsay, K, C., will be withdrawn from the official pigeon-hole.
The big course at Fanling will be upea for play to-morrow.
t
THROUGH REUTER'S · AGENCY.|.
THE SHANTUNG QUESTION.
PARIS, July 99th. A Havas message siates :-- Unofficial utterances by the Japanese Delegation indicate that the Japanese- will make no statement regarding the Shantung secret pact, on the ground service on Sunday that they are not interested in ex-
There will be a mixed competition on the Deep Water Bay Golf course this week-end.
There will be ᏄᏓ
.1
evenings in August at the Peak Church at '6-30 o'clock.
Three cases (two deaths) of cerebro spinal fever were reported in the Colony on Wednesday.
LOCAL INDUSTRY.
Ir the local shipbuilding industry con- tinues to develop at the rate which has been maintained during the past two or threw years the forecast made by the Hon. Sir PAUL CRATER, C.M.G., Chairman of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co Ltd yesterday, will be realised before long, and the launching of big ocean-
A Gazette Extraordinary announces that Formosa (all ports), the Pescadores, going whips will become so ordinary an sccurrence as not to attract any parti- and Shanghai have been declared places cular attention. Already these ceremonies at which an infectious or contagious dis are following very closely one upon, case prevails,
planations to the American Senate.
It is also denied that President Wilson cabled to Baron Makino asking him to make a statement regarding Japanese promises.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE
CONDITION OF BARKER
ROAD.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG,
DAILY PRESS/I
another, for the reputation of Hoogkong An extraordinary general meeting of as a shipbuilding centre has travelled the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., far afield, and the confidence has been Ltd.,, will be held on August 20th to con- won of the greatest shipping authori-sider proposed alterations in the Articles
SIR, I should be glad if you could MARINE INSURANCE. [ties in the world. It is only two of Association.
find room in your esteemed paper for a months ago that the Taikoo Dock-
Shortly after 8 o'clock last night an maior plaint amongst the many grievances BRITISH yard turned out the War Driver, to armed robbery by Chinese was reported aired in the Press. The Authorities are AN Old Established
INSURANCE COMPANY desires sundard design, and, though bigger ships from a house in Wing Lok Street. The putting in a new drain in Barker Éoad, had been constructed in that yard, this details are hot available as the Police east of Victoria Hospital. They have been Eapresentation by Firm, ritiah American, that have or can infinence busineau.
Apply in frst instance...
Bos 1048, Care of" Daily Press" Office.
(1048
Or
are investigating the matter.
was the first order executed for the
putting it in for months, and the road is British Government. At the moment
If A Suffering Man with a Family to
in a most digusting and dangerous condi- there are three sister ships on the stocks. Yesterday, the third vessel to be Boated Support" will werd as his name and tion. At the present rate of progress we from the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock address, in confidence, we will publish his see ourselves condemned to this state of annoyance for many months to come. Co.'s yards to the order of the Shipping letter; otherwise, we have no alternative Indeed, if the new drain is to be laid the Contraller since 1917 took the water. She but to consign it to the waste-paper whole length of Barker Boad, three of was christened the War Bomber, and will | basket.
four years will hardly see its completion. FOR SALE or TO LET on long lease.
earry a total deadweight of 8,000 tons Telegraphic information has been re One may, however, safely assume that during her trials. The progress which crived that Sir Reginald Stabbs, the new when the work approaches the vicinity of R CRNISHED of UNFURNISHED from
Octover 1st, 1919. No. 96, 1ur PEAK, has been made locally in the indus Governor, and Lady Stubbs will leave the residence of the Hon. Director of (End House of Stewars Terrace) Hot Water try is illustrated by the fact that England for this Colony on August 8th Public Works, it will be very considerably
Double Grass Tennis Court this Company's first serious effort at by the P. and O. Khion, which is expect expedited.—I am, air, throughout with Pavilion and large Kitchen Garden
Apply
shipbuilding was represented by thed to arrive at Hongkong on September. E A. M. WILLIAMS, LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, Kalia,& river stemmer of 3.207 tons, in 13th or th.
Chartered Bank Buildings 1904. On that occasion, as on the present, Bir PAUL CHATEN, who has been jocularly
The Roy, A. J. Stearn, M.A. (Cam), described by the Hon. Mr. FLETCHER as has been apponted Chaplain and Assist- The following telegram has "an incurable optimist," predicted that ant-Master at the Diocesan Boys' Bchool, received by the American Consulate fit was but the forerunner of greater Hongkong and will begin duty in Sepetierat-Hongkong from the Manila "FIVE BOOMED | WEEKLY PKE88, JoLY TO DC achievements, and, as he has bad the tember. From 1915-1918 Mr. Stearn was Observatory:-
satisfaction of seeing his prophecy ful- Chaplain of St. Andrew's, Shangħai, and
Prax (No. 1 Stewart Terrace) containing 3 Bedrooms and Bathrooms, Hot and Cold LL PERSONA, with the exception of water, Drying rim, Dizing Boom, Drawing
thome of Chinese race desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person between Room, Sitting Room and Usual Offices and the hours of P AM to 1 PM and 2P.M. Servant Quarers, also Large Garden daile, at the PASS OFFICE, POST OFFICE Pensiun July 16th. BUILDING.
will be required to produce Applicants Pamports or Identification papers."
All toweons, with certain exceptions, woo main in the Colney for more than 7 days. Are require) to Regining themselves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONB ORDINANCE, 1916,
Forms of Registration, giving the pott celars required may be obtained at the G.P.O. and at all Police Stations,
The Pensity for non-compliance la a fine not exʻodla? (50.
ADDIY DO-
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
CO. LTD. Alexandra Buldings.
THE PEAK
FOR SALE.
Breach.
For particular apply to.....
31
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UN BALI-
"UCND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG
133, 1618
- With Inzen, Príën 87.50.
Care of Thďty FromTM)dion.
VICTIM.
TYPHOON WARNING.
becu
2.10 p.m., July 31st.
On Bale at the Bona DALLY Pflied, we may repose confidence in his Assistant Chaplain at the Cathedral, Cyclone oz typhoon over or near Naha.
judgment as to" future development. Shanghai.
woring N.N.E.
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