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TO-DAY'S

THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH

LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,

HEROIC AFFAIR IN AFRICA.

BRITISH DRIVE OFF OVERWHELMING FORCE.

[Router's Service to "The Telegraph."] ·

Four Guns Captured.

September 10, 9.15 p.m. M. Lewis Harcourt announces a heroic affair in Nyassaland, The main British force advanced to drive the enemy, four hundred strong, across the frontier. The Germans however eveded them and Attacked Karongs at sunrise yesterday, which was defended by one officer, filty African Rifles and eigh: oivilians, who resisted for three hours until help arrived.

The British had to make repeated bagonest charges to dislodge the enemy and captured two field guns and two machine guns.

The enemy fled to Songwe but the British were too exhausted to pursue.

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The enemy's casualties were seven officers killed and two wounded and those of the British four killed and seven wounded.

VICTORIA THEATRE.

A-Record Night.

OPIUM PRICES.

New Government List Issued.-

The following regulation has Last night's benefit perform-been made by the Governor-in Council under the Opiam Or dinance:-

SECOND

EXTRA

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1914,

COMPANY MEETING.

The Hongkong Hotel Company. Ltd.

the extent of $125,000, after AN IMPORTANT NOTICE

giving the necessary six months notice, but owing to the prevail. ing financial uncertainty, they thought it better to hold the mat- ter over for the present.

To those Leaving the Colony.

Before moving the adoption of the report and accounts, I shall

Any European desiring to leave The ordinary half-yearly meet-be pleased to answer any ques the Colony should apply in writ- ing of the shareholders in the tions to the best of my ability. ing for permission to do so to the Hongkong Hotel Company, Ltd., There being no questions, Provost, Marshal, Head Quarters was held at noon to-day at the gentlemen, I beg to propose the Offices, at least 48 hours before Hotel, when those present were adoption of the report nad the intended hour of departure.

Mr. F. Maitland (in the chair), counts as presented.

giving name, age, sex, height, Messrs. Ellis Kadoorie and J.W. Mr. Gibbs :-) have great complexion and occupation of the C. Bonnar (directore), . T. pleasure in seconding the adop-applicant and stating the name Lloyd, Lai Chan, E. M. Raymond. tion of the report and accounts. of the steamer or other vessel or The Chairman:-It has been the hour of the train by which L Gibbs, She Po-sham, Tung Tar-bang, P. O. Potts, J. E. proposed by myself and seconded the applicant wishes to leave. Raymond and W. Logan (share by Mr. Gibbs that the report The applicant must attend in holders), and Mr. J. B. Taggart and accounts for the half-year person to receive his or her pass. manager and acting secretary. ending 30th June 1914 as set The Chairman;It now being forth be adopted. Those in pam the hour for which this favour kindly signify in the usual meeting is called, I will request manner. Against.-Carried un- the secretary to read the notice animously, convening same.

The Secretary read the notice convening the meeting-

The Chairman Gentlemen, the next business to deal with is the election and re-election of

Directors, Mr. J. Scott Harston having resigned his seat on the Board, Mr. Ellis Kadooris was

fill the vacancy thereby created. Mr. Kadourie's appointment requires your on frmation. Mr. J.W.O. Bonnar retires but offers himself for re-election."

The Chairman said Geatio men, the report and accounts have been in your hands for some time and I will with your permis- iarited to sion adopt the usual course and take them as road. The profit on working account for the six months under review shows a reduction as compared with the corresponding period of lest year, caused chiefly by the falling off of tourist traffic at the latter end of the winter season. The transient trade as you are no doubt aware pays the hotel much better than the monthly boarders,

Mr. Lloyd:-I beg to propose the confirmation of Mr. Ellis Kadoorie and the re-election of Mr. Bonnar as directors.

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram quoted below was received by the American Onn Bolate General, Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory, dated 12.30 p.m. September 12.

Cyclone OF. Typhoon-140 degrees Long. E. 22 degrees Lat. N. moving N. W.

Tenders.

Tenders are being invited for the supply of winter uniforms for Revenus Officers, for clothing for the use of the Sanitary De- partment, for labour and stores required by the Botanical, and Forestry Department, for the supply of headstones, burial of infectious

slaughter

FOR THE LADIES.

OUR WEEKLY CAUSERIE ON WOMEN'S MATTERS.

THE LATEST DICTATES OF FASHJON-VELVETS FOR THE

AUTUMN-CHANGING STYLES IN HATS—SOME

DAINTY RECIPES.

Latest news from that Mecca oft ecems to be a hybrid weavU, all fashion interests startles as producing neither a panne veivat into wild conjectures by the aor a crepe, but a charming com- statement that the new gowns are promise which will be wonder requiring from eight to tan yards fully successful. It would require of double width materials for po wizardry to forecast this fact, their making.

for in pastel shades it is shim- This is news, of a verity, which maringly silvery, colourful and possesses significance of very far- lovely beyond words. reaching character.

Imagine this material in a soft Whether the coat of materials grey-green shade trimmed with a per yard will be reduced slightly, wavelike white froth of silver and in view of the fact of the inpre teoryatal bouded fringe. Yet this ed purchasing requirements in is exactly the combination which order to insure relatively easy may be achieved, and a probable buying, or whether the prioos will remain at their present rate, one as well.

..

is a fascinating problem to un- With eating, lace in the more ravel. Whichever way the pen- dulum ewinga, it will affect us probable trimming especially in very seriously.

a return to favour of the lovely To the average woman and the Spanish effects and the chantillys, extremista who follow every bat particularly true of this last, pulsation of style rulings it will in black spider-web fineness, to not matter so greatly. One takes be used for mounting over white what is provided with slight ailk, satia or creped ander bodies. protest and with the know-

New Modes in Millinery. ledge that protests will avail ber not at all, and the other does not

Millinery vogues are entering consider the cost. To her "the

apoo their solstice period. style'e the thing.".

As manufacturers pat up the First we so widely-brimmed yardage price of materials to meet hats with low crowns faringly the shrinkage of income which trimmed with high-standing resulted when but four yards of fantasies or with their brims. goods would make a dress, one entertaining groupad trimminga Carried unanimously.

Company business and the con- naturally supposes the cost will of fowers of patent or oil-aloch The Chairman:The last bu-sequent succession of judicisl be lowered pro rata when tea manufacture. sinese before us is the election of decisions in connection therewith become the dressmaking limit. Auditors. The accounts for the past have shown it is advisable to This question, however, only Again, there comes into view. half-year have been audited by provide for these.

time will determine, bat if a series of small hats more tiny Mr. A. O'D. Gourdin and Mr. E Your Directors have accord-precedent is of any value, it would than any seen this season. 4. Mountford Williams in place ingly caused new Articles to be of Mr. A. R. Lowe (absent) prepared, a more eatisfactory Messrs. A. R. Lowe and A. OD. method than that of making a Gourdin offer themselves for re- large number of alterations in the election."-

present Articles,

Mr. Potte: I beg to second, The Chairman: It has been proposed by Mr. Lloyd and Improvements: The extension seconded by Mr. P. C. Potts that to the Grill Room has been com- Mr. Ellie Kadoorie's appointment pleted and has added considerably be confirmed and that Mr. J. W. to the revenue of the Hotel, the O. Boaoar be re-elected a Direc-. cost ($4543: 81) has been placed tor. Those in favour.-Against. to Property Account. All other improvements including the glass dome at the entrance to the ladies' dining room have been met out of

Repairs and

Repo wala Account." The upkeep of the

ance at the Victoria, on behalf of the Prince of Wales' fund, was, The regulation made by the we should imagine, a record in Governor-in-Council under Seo point of a crowded and enthus-tion 62 (e) and (f) of the Opium astic h ouge. A large number of 4 of 1914), on the 20th March, Ordinance, 1914, (Ordinance No. people could only find standing 1914, (Government Notification room, and some could not even No. 115 published in the Gazette get in at all. The amount raised of the 3rd April, 1914), is hereby for the Fund was no less than ropealed and the following sub

stituted therefor $541. H.E. the Governor, 1. Prepared opium shall be Lady May and the Misses. May sold in Hongkong, Kowloon and were present for a little while, as the Southern District of the New were also H.E. Major General Territories in the packages and Kelly with Mrs. and Miss Kelly, at the prices shown below Commodore Anstruther, the Quality. Weight. Price. Hotel will always be a large item French Consal and Miles. Liebert 3. 1st quality. and a large number of officers 2. 2ad quality. of both Services. The theatre 3. was becomingly decorated with 4.

the flage of the Allies, and pro- 5.

coedings were opened with a fine 0.

*36 Taels.

+18

*06

·03·

3 Taels. $30.75 and we shall be compelled to 1 Tael. 10.00 spend a desl of money on carpeta 3.15 and forniture in the near future. 1.90

Including the sum of $38,258. .65 72 brought forward from 1913, we 33 have in all. $149,081.03 to deal 20 with, and your Directors recom- .16 mend the following apportion

mont To pay a dividend of

831% per share on.. 20,000 shares To transfer to Repairs

rendering by the 25th Punjabia' 7. 3rd quality. '03 band, under. Mr. Newman, of the 8, DrossOpium *04 national anthems of Russia, Nos. 1 and 2 are payable in Belgium, France and England.

bank notos.

2. Prepared opium shall be The pictures were romarkably sold in the Northern District of good, and so were the variety the New Territories in the pack turns. Two items were con. tributed by amateurs, Mr. Alexan-ges and at the prices shown der Miller, who gave some fine below:- ragtime dances, and Mr. A. J. England, whose rendering of 2. Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory" called forth tumultuous applause and demande for an!

encore.

Mr. Williams' jodal song

decidedly "fetched the house,"

Quality. Woight. Price. 1. 2nd quality, "01 Taels. $0.44

*02 3. 3rd

'03

1

Food Prices.

Good Alc,

and Renewals Ac count.

To write of Furniture and Fixtures Ac- соца.

0.22 0.20 To write off Steam Launch Account.... To carry forward to

new Account" marri

70,000,00

*

сотравя,

house contracts, etc.

Mr. Raymond:I beg to pro- These new Articles have been poso the re-election of Marers. most carefully considered by Gourdia and Lowe au auditors your Directors and, as now sub for the coming half-year at a remitted to you, have their np. muneration of $200 saoh.

proval. They have been open for inspection since the meeting was

Mr. Fang Tot-hang:I beg to

second.

The Chairman:-It has been

first advertised.

appear that the cost of clothing like the cost of living, is to be na high as ever, and threatens to soar oven more.

Fashionable Materials. As for the materials themselves, elegance and regality spell them to a nicety.

Fashion degree in one breath big bats för inoming vogues and contradicts herself in the next breath by showing the daintiest, most convincingly chio hats of the most diminutive types seen for months. And so it gr89.

At the Grand Prix de Chantil-

With the revival" of ruffled, broadly sphered shirts and loosely 17, the majority of shapes worn caparisoned blouses come revivals, with frooks of an elegant severity, also, of elegantly woven fabrics and of perfect style values" 3 vanishing The most interesting phase of were small to this revival is the modernized point, nearly. Almost all of these touch given to the revivification bats were made of white satin, of old-style brocades.

white, velvet, white, shiny oil- Their patterns appear in all the cloth, such as is need for kitchen in most American table oqveringe beauty of bygone colourings, to which is added the inimitable households, and with or without artistry and subtlety of present very narrow hemp brama day designs. Superb combi-A tall interrogative looking propose:; ·

"That the regulations con- nations of colour are done on feather of single blessed loce tained in the printed document silks and satins of much less liness and of black, black and submitted to the meeting and weightier weave, but fully as white, or all white, would be the for the purpose of identification elegant and aristocratic in only decoration for the most subscribed by the Chairman appearance.

extreme-styled types, thereof be and the same "are The most notable of these Other trimmings used were of hereby approved and that such newly robieved materials are self materiale or of fraits and regulations be and they are those plain or two-toned damaaks foliage of weirdly appearing hereby adopted as the Articles and satine, also obarmense, which guise.. of the Company in substitution have their broosded effects pro- Lace and even fur trimmings: for and to the exclusion of all duced by jet or bronze or white were also in evidence, but the the existing Articles thoroof." crystal embroideries.

most peculiar, uncanny effect Mr. Ellis Kadoorie :-I beg to So cleverly are the effects noticed, and withal quite the new- contrived that the appearance of est in consequence, was the bet of The Chairman: It has the scintillating brocades from a bowler-shaped hemp covered with been proposed by myself and short distance is wonderfully white satin

the and with Mr. seconded. by

Ellis regal and indescribably beautiful crown encircled with an upstande Kadoorie, that the regulations The Vogue for Velvet.

ing piece of black monkey far. contained in the printed

Velvets will also be in a most document submitted to the prominent style position 68 A meeting and for the purpose fashionably chosen fabric for even

Bafore proposing the necessary proposed by Mr. Raymond and resolution adopting them, 1 seconded by Mr. Fang Tat hang shall be glad to answer to the 15,000.00 that Messrs. A. R. Lowe and A. best of my ability any questions O'D. Gourdin be re-elected audi- | concerning them which share. tora for the coming half-year at a holders may wish to pak." 20,000.00 remuneration of $200 each.-

The Chairman:-There" being Those in favour Against ? no questions, gentlemen, I beg to 1,695.50 Carriad unanimously.That is all the business of the meeting, 42,385.53 gentlemen. Dividend warrante are now ready and may be $149,081.03 obtained on application at the which persistently called for A revised list of maximum

secretary's office. Thank you for an одоого On account of retail prices for which articles of the length of the programme food may be sold has been issued. and they hope that this distri-your attendance. he and La Belle Cora were in regard to frozen meat it is bation will meet with the approval Extraordinary General Meeting. An extraordinary general meet. obliged somewhat to ourtail notified that the Dairy Farm of shareholders. their joint torn. The biggest prices shall be observed and ap- Owing to the War, prospecting then followed, there being the success of the evening was La proved copies of the price list for the second half-year are not same attendants. The amount Belle's rope act. A cord was stret may be seen at the Treasury as good as formerly and for this of capital represented "equalled ched from the Circle to the stage, or at the Dairy Farm premises. reason we carry forward a larger $159,000.

The Chairman-It now being and this the artiste traversed, The price of cooking-salt is 2 amount than usual. For several

years to the end of 1912 it cost past the time for which the extra-second that. supporting herself solely by cents per lb.

us $96.000 per annum to pay our ordinary general meeting has her teeth, with which sho gripped a mouth-piece fixed to We have received from Messrs. dividend but on the present basie boon called, and there being B running palley-block. A. B. Watson and Co., Ltd., no less than $140,000 would be present, the necessary quorum; Needless to say the whole per-samples of Robert Porter & Co's required owing to the increase both se regards the number of" formance was received with con- celebrated Bull Dog brand light in rate of dividend and to the shareholders, and capital repra- tinued applaure. Mr... W. Blakesle. This ole is very light, whole fact that we have to pay on seated, I will request the Secret. made a very efficient stage man- some and refreshing. Being $200,000 additional capital calledary to read the Notice convening

brewed from the finest English up last February.

It is hoped that we shall ses The Secretary read the notice The Victoria Theatre will give malt and hops, it has that pleas spacial benefit night monthly ing taste only characteristic of some improvement soon for your convening the meeting.

The Chairman said :-Gentle- in aid of the Prince of Wales' fine English ale. It may be had Directors desire to maintain a War Relief Fund, as long as the infpints and splits. Mesars. A. steady dividend on present basis men, it has been thought desir war lasts, and arrangements have 8 Watson are sole agents for but I would warn shareholders that able that the Company's Articles been made for the next Grand this als

it might be necessary to reduce should be brought more into con same for the policy of writing down aonance with modera forma and Baneft Night to take place on

assets and paying for repaire and conditions than they are at pre- provements out of revenue must new Companies Ordinance has Those in favour of the Resolu- e continued. To the pursuance been enacted here thus bringing tion.Againat ?-Carried up of this policy for many years past, the Company Law in the Colony animously. Gentlemen, that is the Company in a large measure into line with that of England. all the business. A confirmatory owed its present, strong financial Modern Artioles provide for var meeting will be held at an early ious contingencies which the date of which shareholders will position.

Debentures:It was the inten- older forms did not take be duly notified. Thank you for tion of the Directore to repay to into nooount,

de evolution of

your attendance.

ager.

Friday, October 2nd.

same.

All proceeds from these month- We understand that the apparent non-productive im- aent. Since they were adopted, the ly benefit performances and all management are treating for new wubscriptions and donations pictures on a very large scale, will be passed on by Mr. and have commissioned Mr. L. B. D. Harvey to the official B. Horne, who left by the Sar. fund to be opened under the dinis to-day, to buy for them în auspices of His Excellency the London, and also to engage Governor.

vaudeville artistes,

ag

.

Is monkey fur to be 'society's op to the Audubon Society for

of identification subscribed ing as well as street wear, while use instead of osprey and other by the Chairman thereof be corded silka resembling the long aigrettes which are tabooed, so to and the same are hereby apago bengaline silke of lustrous speak? proved and that such re-appearance and · individuel The broadly, oddly curved gulations be and they are characteristics are also winging sailor was chosen by several well. hereby adopted the their way toward a vogue. ✨ known mondeines, who depended Artioles of the Company in Moires in metal weaves are upon black paradise plames for aubstitution for and to the showing within the confines of the trimmings almost to a exclusion of all the existing the wholesale house, and it is Black velvet-topped hats. Articles thereof."'...'

promised we shall see a wonderful seen and are evidently a showing of these in delicate factor to be reckoned with. colourings as well as in combina Later on black satin hats in a tions which shall exhibit satin derivation of the well-known tricorne shapes, will appear. But stripes and brocades

Taffetas and taffeta oharmeuse of these, more will be said later are also on the programme, toget on...

her with a reintroduction of paune Fashions for bata are in the urope, a lovely fabrio, which very flux of their man