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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

IT IS HERERY NICHFIED that the late

for th DECEMBER SETTLEMENT is fixed for TUESDAY"DscEMBER 23RD, and not December Such as previously ulvertised.

For the Committee of the

HONGKONG STOCK EXCRANE

W. LOGAN, Secretary. Hongkong, October 1st, 1918",

TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

NOTICE.

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THE INSTITUTE will RE OPEN E

MONDAY, OCTOBER 618.

"Students will be enrolled at the Education Otice only, and should apply at once for entry forma.

Hongkong, September 20th, 1918 (1384

WANTED.

FURNISHED FLAT of whale conse

URNISHED PLAT or inall House for

Apply-

THE

Box No. 1325,

Care of Daily Pres" Office.. [:1395

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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THE Undersigned have received instrac- tions from THE AMERICAN CONSUL GENERAL to sell by Public Auction,

On TUESDAY, October 7th, 1919, az 5.15 P.M., off Ab King's Slipway.

The Motor Boat

MASCOT,"

1

Soid tenkwood hull, finished in specially selected polished teak, has electric light and "»lectric starting "outit: convenient galley, shower bath, two master berths. roomy cockpit. teak wardrobe and drawers and ather modern fittings;

Length

Bram *** Dentt

35 feet

www. » 3 inches.

4

Motor 15 H.P. "0" Speed 7 Knots.

In good running order.

Un view day of sale säd, can be seen, by

appointment

Terms:-Cash.

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THUR-DAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 19

VICTORIA RECREATION

CLUB.

NNUAL AQUATIC SPORTS will be Laid on THURSDAY, 2ND, FRIDAY 3RD, and SATURDAY, 4TH, OCTOBER, 1919, Commencing on the first two days at 4.30 P.X. and on SATURDAY, 25 3,30 PM.........

Admission":-Members 50 Cents pach day

or $1.00 for three days. Non-Members :-81.00 each day or $2.00

for three days.

Ladies, 50 Centa each day.

FL

Soldiers and Sailors 25 Cents each day. Band will be in attendance OR SATURDAY an Refreshments for Ladies provided

Principal events:--

440 Yards. Club Championship.

220 Yanis Club Championship.

100 Yards Club Championship

100 Yards Ladies Championship.

Length team Race open to any unit Corps or Clab..

Water Pola

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The other caces open to Ladies, Girls, Boyu and the Army and Navy all post antries, full particulare given at the VR

R. H. B. MITCH ALL Hou. Secretary:

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COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE

MR.

COMPANY," LIMITED.

EDWIN LESTER GILBERT ARNOLD has

been appointed Assistant Manager for Chins of the above Company.

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W. H. TRENCHARD DAVIS, Manager for China. Shanghai. September 24th, 1919.

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B.

SANITARY BOARD OFFICE, HONGKONG.

To the

OWNERS OF DOMESTIC BUILDINGS.

INTIMATIONS

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

the

COMPANY, LIMITED,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of RUMPREYS ESTATE & FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED, will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL on the 10th day of October, 1919, at Noon, when the resolation, which was passed at

• Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company bell on the 24th day of September, 1918, will be submitted for confirmation as a Speci

Resolution. Thas the

Now Articles already approved by this meeting and for the purpose of "identification subscribed by the Chair- man thereof be and the are are *hereby adopted the Articles of the "Company to the exclusion of and in "aubatitation for all the existing 11. Articles tasreol.

Dated the 25th day of September, 1919,

Hongkong. By Crder of the Board,

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G. RAPP,

Secretary,

THE DAIRY FARM ICE AND COLD STORAGE CO., LTD

NOTICE

TO SHAREHOLDERA

[THE TWENTY - THIRD ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE HOLDERS in the above Company will be hald at the Company's Town Office & Lower Albert Road, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, 11th day of Ocrouxe 1918, at 12.30 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st Juls, 1818

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be ULUSED from October 1st to 11th, 1818, both days inclusive.

By Order,

1.

M.. HANCK, Secretary.

Hongkong, September 2nd, 1919. [less

WISEMAN LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE

FIFTEENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE; HOLDERS in the above Compang will be held at the Company's Office 14, Des Your Road, Central, Honkong, on SATURDAY, 18th day of OCTOBER, 1919, at 1230 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of present- ing the Report of the Directors and State- ment of Accounts to 31st July, 1918.

INTIMATION

WATSON'S

THE

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suffered, being very like romantic gush, and "bis wisdom, when examined, has so many opposite faces and contraries that long passages of his works cannet be dis tinguished from sentimental nonsense. Russis, in his Crown of Wild Olive,' which has been a favourite work with very many, taught that great art came from war, not peace. Well, we know that art comes from strife, but not front the literal bloody struggle and ruin which Ruskis had in mind. It is from a strife wholly of the mind; from the undaunted fforts of lonely souls sure that some where in the world their efforts will be

porter on

veals from within. He was, there is no doubt, a naturalist of genius, but only well towards the end of his short life did he excupe from his employment as'a re- a provincial newspaper to that which, he thought, would be a fuller existence in the British Museum of Natural History; and there be discovered that originality is unhappy when cor- forming to any work which segiety is. likely to provide for it. Occasionally, as when he is describing a dark quarry pool in Devan, or his sensation when listening to BerovE's' Fifth Symphony. Cor when watching Sir HENRY WOOD Cun-

PREMIERnderstood, against evil and surpidity inducting, or idling while tear men who

SCOTCH:

1

OF THE FAR EAST

WATSON'S

ISTABUSHES

FOR 25 YEARS.

POPULARITY MAINTAINED

describer at his experience, of considër- able power and subtlety. Among the younger novelists, mention must be made, of Miss DOROTHY M. RICHARDSOF, reader may not like her method, but is forced to confess that Miss RICHARDSON has had the genius at least to work out a new means of expressing the reactions of Her consciousness to outward thinga. triology of novels Pointed Roofs

¡gontrol of men, against the powers of are driving piles for a pier at Ilfracombe, darkness and of principalities. It is the dianist shows that unkind fate has mere nonsense to suppose that misery, not only "deprived us by his untimely pain, rain and sorcow, all so dẹẹp that death of a man who would have been an they may go down to atter despair where observer, of nature of, perhaps interna- hope dies in the mind, are the true betional consequence, but of a writer also, getters of the children of light. They never were; they cannot Be-that the war has proved. What really happened, was avterly different.

As one admittedly great English novelist expressed it.my pen dropped, literally dropped, from my hand. He and the few whose work does count in monicrn English letters were paralyzed, by the calamity. They became dumb They had no words to address to this apparently uneasing and tumultuous uproar of insanity of their fellows. They got out of it, stunned and horrifed. Only now are they wming back to life. We may exjeet two new novels from JosEPH Cos this year or finished long before the war, and another only just completed. THOMAS HARDY, except for a little pen- sive poetry has been silent throughout RUDYARD KIPLING has recently published a collection of his later verse, The. Years Between," which has been variously reviewed; ba good judges, who know The Hongkong Stock Exchange Decem- that in any collection of best English ber settlement has been fixed for Decem

Honeycomb and The Tunnel "—"has ' drawn the intent regard of the older prities, like Mr. EDWARD GARNETT, who have confidently announced a new writer of "considerable importance,"

The Technical Institute will re-opeń un Monday.

Not a single case of communicable dis- VAN notified in the Colony 01 Tuesday.

Ca

short stories and narrative KIPLINGber 23rd. BUGHES & BOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, October 1st, 1918 (1396

A. G. DA ROCHA,

· AUCTIONEER,

SURVEYOR

GENERAL BROKER

AND

Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2932.

FAVOURED · with

instructiona

FAVOURED The Col.cerned,

TO

NAKE NOTICE that under No. 3 of the DOMESTIC CLEANLINESS. and VENTILATION BYE-LAWS (as amended), every Domestic Railding or part of mach Building within the EASTERN Division of the City of Victoria, and the EASTERN of Kowloor and New Kowloon, Division occupied by Members of more than one family, except those within the European Reservation or in Kowloon South of Austin Road or those p

„parts of a Domestic Building ned

from LED

will wll by Public Auction TO-DAY (THURSDAY), Uctober 2nd, 1918, at 2.15 ...

at his Sales Room, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND

EFFECTS:

Wardrobes, Desks, Chaira, Chest, of Drawers Dressing Tables, Bookcases Arm chairs, Curice, Crockerg and Glassware, Brass Ornaments Vases, Pictures, Ice Boxes Bedsteads, Clocks, Typewriters, Overmantels, Sideboards, Napkins, Tableclothu, Hat stands and a long line of Sundries.

TERMS:-Cash on Delivery. Hongkong, September 17th, 1919.

A. G. DA ROCHA. AUCTIONEER, "SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKEŁ,

Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 233

AVOURED with instructions fro

·FAVOD The Concerned,

will.

sall by Public Auction BATURDAY, October 4th, lola, at 9.30 P.M.

at his Sales Room, Queen's Road Central (Old Post Office Building).

EXCELLENT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE Comprising:-

Chesterfield Couch and Arm Chairs, Black- wood Furniture, Brass and Iron Bedsteads, Tables, Brussels Carpets and Bugs Overmantels,

Covered Sik Tapestry Drawing Room Suite, 3ofas, Eary Chairs, Occasional Tables, Extension Dining Table, Bevelled Mirror Wardrobes,

Pictareth Bed Sheets, Crockery, Glassware, Cabinet Teak Bookcase, Dinner Chaira, Silver

WELD

Wagons, Clocks,

Toilet Bet, Electric, boardi and a long line of Sundries Catalogues will be issued. Tas-Cash on Delivery, Hongkong, October 1st, 191a'

Store200 Washstands, Cooking

A

WANTED...

248

SMART Young Clerk thoroughly experienced in Book-keeping. Also Junior Clerk with good knowledge of byping

Apply in own handwriting stating age and salary required to

X.YZ.,

Care of "Daily Prem" Office. 11300

9.8. "WAR PUFFIN,”

Undersigned "invite Tenders, in

most

Offco

God WASHED End THROUGHOUT by the owners during the months of October sad November,

NB-The word "throughout used in this Notice means that the House should be Lime washed in respons Stair Casings and Bisl

of all the Walls of each Boom, Cablak,

ali Ceilings and the Undersides of Roof in Main Building, Offices and, Barrante Quarters and inclusive of Verandahs.

The Backyard must have its containing walls Limewashed up to the level of the First Floor,

Carred, Painted or Polished Woodwork, in good condition, however, seed not be Lime. washed, but must be Ckmused.

The Board is prepared to limowash FREE

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 11th 18th October 1918, both days inclusive.

By Order

D. EKHARAS,

Secretary. Hongkong, October 1st, 1819,

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GULA KALUMPONG RUBBER-

ESTATE, LIMITED,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

SHARE REGISTER of the above Company will be CLOSED from 19th September to 17th October, 1818, both days" inclusive.

LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,

Colonial Register. Hongkong, September 20th, 1919. [1317

OF CHARGE a limited number of Buildings H

In those Divisions. OWNERS who desire to avail themselves of this offer should apply in writing to the Secretary on or before the 7th of October.

Choice among applicante will be in the absolute discretion of the President.

The EASTERN Division of the City of

TO LET.

INI

10, Doa Vaur Road

"ALF SPACE of STORE, may be used as Office at moderate "rent. For

28, Ice House St.

terms etc.

Apply-

TO LET, FURNISHED.

is bounded on the West by Gilman No.

JO. 3, MOUNTAIN VIEW,

Street and Peel Street

Kowloon is divided into the EASTERN and WESTERN Divisions by Nathan Road and a straight line drawn from the north end through the Yaumati service Reservoir to the Northern Roundary of Kowloon

G CM. W. REYNOLDS,

Becretary. Dated this 1st day of October, 1918,

G..

R.

NOTICE.

Apply

11871

Bor 1814, 'Care of "Delly From" Office.

1318

TO LET (UNFURNISHED), "O. 48; “STOWFORD, No. 1 Bonham

Hoad, in excellent condition. Address-

A.B' Care of "Daily Fresa" Office.

N

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T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on and after OCTUBER 187, 1919, RICKSHAS

will run on Caine Road and Bonham Road. Stands will be at the following places:

1. University

2. Junction of Bonham Rad and Centre

street.

3. Nethersole Hospital."

(1268

FOR SALE

FOUNT GOUGH”

Large Garden.

Apply-

MPAK 8-Boomed House with No. 131, THE

BY ITS

EXCELLENT QUALITY NOT BY EXPENSIVE WORLD-WIDE

the Governor (Bir Reginald Stubbs) is attending his first Executive Council meeting in this Colony this morn... ing.

would have an unchallenged place, have H/E. not commended his last verses, but as the expression of a provincial opinion which is of less consequence in England to-day than it was before the war, and it was

ADVERTISING.Talmost obsolete then.

A most obvious boom in minor poetry of which the publishers have taken full

A. S. WATSON & CO., advantage, is new declining. There is no

LIMITED.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

HONGKONG.

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The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, OCTOBER AND 1919.

WAR'S EFFECT ON

LITERATURE. ***

By

Commodore V. G. Gurner, is paying his first official call at Government Houses this morning. H.E. will return the call later in the day.

The Chinese, who was sentenced to death for killing hir elder brother at

Taipo, paid the extreme penalty yester- day at 5 am, in Victoria Gaol.

The Rev. H. Copley Moyle will con- duct a Bible Study at the Helena May Institute on October 7th, at 5.30 p.m. The meeting is open to all woman..

The Autumn Race Meeting of the Shanghai Race Club will take place on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Satur- day. November 10th, 11th, 12th, and 15th.

A course of journalism has been opened at Moscow in order to train Bolshevik propagandists for their world organiza tion. The course will last for six weeks.

The local manager of The Meruantile Bank of India, Ltd has received cabled advice that the Bank has declared an in- terim dividend for the half-year at the rate of 14 per cent. per annum, less tax.

At the Magistracy, yesterday, a Chin- ese was fined $750 for being in unlawful possession of 82 tecls of raw opium. The drug was concealed in a box which the defendant was taking away to the roun try.

doubt the war did move many young men, nearly all soldiers, to song, and it is not easy for contemporaries to appraise the best of their work. "ROBERT GRAVES, SIEG FRIED SASSOON, W. J. TURNER, FRANCIS Hongrong Uffice: 104, Des Vœux Road, C. LEDWIDGE, J., C. SQUIRE, WILLIAM Hope- LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STRAIT, EC. SON, RICHARD ALDINGTON, OBERT SITWELL, RepERY BROoxz, and Julie and FRANCIS GREVELL have all engaged the attention of an appreciative públic, and have been seriously discusard by the critics though more, perhaps, as a nebola, a faintshaze of light discovered or the night of the war, than as new and distinct stars of varying magnitudes. Of the English war narratives it must be confessed that they MANY deliberately hopeful people in have been signally disappointing. There England imagined during the war that has been nothing so good as "Le Feu " out of the great disaster, which was con-

and La vie des Martyres." One, how- suming the bodies of men and their ever. which unconsciously typifies the material wealth, would come, somehow, in ihood and outlook of the young English impetus to art; from death would come volunteer officers, deserves attention. On the breath of the life of the spirit The the whole, it is the "best we have pro war would move artists to fine, or ever

duced so far GRÖRGE GOODCHILD'8" Bei to great,, work. It might even create hind the Barrage. On the Naval artists to express its lessons. It was side several volumes by Taffrail" and obviously, a false hope. The casualties of "A. "Naval Lieutenant, 1014-18" by war are not all on the body. Its worst ETIENNE are among the best of the per wounds are inade in the mind. Thereonal narratives, but are artless, innocent, can be no doubt that the sense of solidari. and uncritical. Of the historical narra- ty, or the communion of the spirit, which tives, important solely because of their knows no boundaries, no natural barriers authors and their disclosing of hidden between men but the dark partition which evidence, Lord Jellacor'sTM" Grand Fleet separates the mean" from the magnanim 1914-6 has attracted a great deal of ous, the gentle from the cruel, the attention, as did Mr. ARTHUR POLLEN'S brutish from the high-minded-that sense The Navy in Battle," which may be is the first to go in war; and men by taken as Admiral BRATTY's apologia, Lord war are, therefore, banded together by FRENCH'A 1914, published in serial compulsory uniforms and outward sym-form in the Daily Telegraph, has already bols which often" do not correspond withdrawn to it so much attention from the the communion of the spirit. And art important and authoritative that, lay mark. Messrs. Skott & Co. receive 500 without the communion of like minds criticista may be withheld as unnecessary. bags as compensation, while the balance everywhere must perish. The artist most Nothing which has been published lately of 3,500 bags will be sold by auction by speak to his own kind'; but in war he in England comes nearer to that which is the Government after the mark on the may be killing his own kiad. We know rightly described as a good book than Mr. begs has been obliterated he has. That is why it was an illusion to N. P: BARBELLION R "Journal of a Dis A new political party has been formed suppose that out of war grent art might appointed Man." Mr. BARBELLION is in Tokio under the title of the Recon- be born. It may be that, in England, the dead, and his book was posthumous.struction Alliance, having for its objects calt of RUSKIN among the pseudo-literary From the age of 13 till his death he had the following:-1, Realization of univam was partly responsible for such sa been in the habit of secret confession to sal suffrage; 2, Abolition of class distinc illusion being so popularly cherished, and diary, and his confession was often that in as much as to say that the hope frank enough; ho did not try to disguise was never more than a miserable,délusion to himself that which was in his mind. to those who were writers and artists, The book, in fact, is a human document because to English artists RusKIN for in the exact sense of that over-worked and Dealers in Flower and Vegetable Seeds, long time past has been an over-rated, if generally inaccurate description. That Toys, Portage Stamps, Post Cards, etc.

not an utterly false, god. To these people which novelists can make of a character 50 10, WYNDHAM STELLE.

RUSKIN'S "

· HONGKONG.

'great prose style," as older only by describing its apparent reaction critics have called it was not easily from circumstances, Mr. BARBELLION JO

Junction of Caine Bond and Old Fr

Bailey.

*. At top of Glenoaly.

CAPT. SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.

Hongkong, September 28th, 1919. [1301

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NOTICE

LOKLEY & CO. York Buildings.

1235

FOR SALE.

UVE-ROOMED HOUSE at the PRAX

Apply to-

MEA HASTINGS & HASTINGS," Solicitors, No. 8, Des Voou: Road Contral

₤1219

45

ICHTHEMIC GUANO,

a really good manure for

LL Persons, with the exception" of FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES A persons of Chinese race,shing to leave the Colony muso have in their posses sign & VALID PASSPORT. Passengers not in possession of passports will not be allowed to leave the Colony.

All persons, with certain exceptions. who remain in the Colony for more than

Twriting, for the purchase of this days are required. Register aberr

vessel which is ashore at Longstone Reef, near the mouth of the Moulmein River Amherst--Burna. The vessel is « in » favourable position for

ship breaking operations. A copy of the Surveyer's report asn be seen at the office of, and fall particulars and terms obtained from,

GILMAN & CO., LTD. Lloyd's Agente.

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selves under" the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE, 1918.

Forms of Registration, giving the per ticulars required, may be obtained at the G.P.O. and at all Police Stations.

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

E. D. C.. WOLFE, Captain Buperintendent of Police. Hongkong, September ŝind, 1815.

of all kinds,

at 75 conta per packet.

GRACA

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F.O. Box 620.

Peking papers report that a party of technical experts have been despatched to Urga by the Ministry of Communications to inspect the local conditions there with a view to establishing an air service in that part of the country.

Mr. R.. G. Lindsell, at the Magistracy, yesterday morning, made an order for the confiscation of the 2,000 bags of flour, belonging to the M.B.K. which had been' Keized by Messrs, Skott & Co. in conse quence of the infringement of their trade

tions, samurai and heimis (commoners); 3, Abolition of bureaucratic diplomsey 4. Establishment of democratic political stem; 5, Fublic recognition, of labour hood to people; 7, Reform of tax system organizations; 6. Guarantee of a liveli- formal education: B. Reform of colonial alung with social policy; 8, Release at administrative system: 10. Purification of the Imperial Household Department; 31. 12, Freedom of speech and Press. Reconstruction of political parties; and