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GENERAL NEWS.

The No Pesce League. Badges are now being distribut- ed to members of the No (Premat are) Pesos League-consisting, în the cise of new members if an ensmelled portrait of Captain. Fryatt, end of women members a similar souvenir of Narse Carell, | A big meeting is in contempla tion to usugurate an actre projaganda., All particolare of the Secretary of the Leagoo 8; Bread Court Chambers, Bow Street, W.O.

Honour Among the Huas. Two German zon-commisioned officeis and twɔ airmen, who ware interned in Holland, were allowed out of camp on their signed pro- mire to return, but they got to Germaur and are

DOW again wrying in the racks of the Har. When Holand complained, Germany refused to return the meo, "in the ground that men telow the rai k of ficer have no word of hot our, and therefore c&D neither give it nor breakit." The result is that Hune interred in Holland will no longer be allowed | — cut on parole, oven for a walk We knew, of ocuree, that German eoldiers had very little sense of honcu, bat it is interesting to be officially informed that they have none at all.-John Bull.

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Japanese in Boraco.

One Mr. Yasataro Ando is re- ported to have been coltivating cotton in Sandakan in North

Bararo with good results. He formerly served in the Tokyo Electric Barean. On retiring from his post be travelled in China and hen visited the Baath Sea Lalande. Since last spring be has beca staying in Sandakan raising cotton. Quite recently he seat some cotton of his own prodne in to Mr. Toyoji Wado, Managing Director of the Faj Gassed Yarn Spinning Company. It is reported that the cotton can be gathered four times a year and is in no way inferior to Indian cotton. With the support of Mr. Wade, Mr. K. Inouys, and several others, Mr. Ando intends to plant cotton ons large scale next year. Kobe Herald

Trade Relations with Russia. Mr. F. A. Bayley Hodgett, apeiking ander the auspices c, Bassc-Scottish Socity, at Elia- bargh, said that the reason why Bassia had not been able to develop betself was that out of her population of 180,000,000 only

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, URSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917.

NOTICES,

WE WILL DELIVER À

MOUTRIE" PIANO

FOR

$50.

Prepaid Advertisements.

ONE CENT PER WORD

FOR EACH INSERTION..

TO BE LET.

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THE

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STEER

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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. with wharf. åres 58,030 sq. fr. suitable for coal storage erection of godowns.

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HONGKONG HOTEL BUILDING, QUEEN'S ROAD. The Leading French Jewellers and Doslers in Farey Go.da

JUST RECEIVED AN ENORMOUS STOCK OF ENGLISH GOLD AND SILYER WARE,

Great Stuek of Xmas Presenta Jæst Arrived,

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that Merting of the Green Island Cement Company Limite will be held at the Office of Mesire.

an Extraordinary General

SHORTHAND CLASS.

EVENING CLASSES for

Young ladies in Pitmans. Shorthand are now in progress

at St. Mary's Convent, Kowloon, will cominence on the 9th Jan- A. CLASS FOR BEGINNERS

ary, 1917,

PRIZE SCHEMS examina"

Shewan Tomes & Co the tions will be held in June, for General Managers of the Com elementary, Theory and speed pang, St. George's Building. Certificates, under the guidance

15 per 1,000 belonged to what Le GOVERNOR OF BENGAL, UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. Chater Road, Victoria in the of the Phonetic Institute, Bath,

raight call the upper classes.

Lord Rotaldshay's Post.

There were not enough educated men to go round. It will be the mission of Britons after the war to show Rossians how. Lo manufacture and make the bast of their country, British firme dauiting to enter into business the King has been pleased to It is offici lly announced that with Busein should consult savor- al Russian legal authorities who approve the appoiurment of the had arrived in London from Governor of Bengal, in succession Earl of Ronaldshey, M.P., to be Russia for the purpose of giving to Lord Carmichael of Skirting, such advice es was nece-sary. whose term of effi will expire There was no nation which had so much sympathy with the Russian

in April next. nation as the British, and more especially that section which lay

north of the Tweed.

of ourse, the immediate resigua Acceptance of this post means, tion by Lord Roaldshey of his Best in the House of Commode Xe Ceram'c industry in Chosen. representative of the Borneey The Seoul Press says it is] Division of Middlesex, and last expected that some day is the night's London falare the manufacture of porcstimated, that the Chacoallor of Iain will be undertaken on a the Exoh qer had appointed him grand scale is Chosen, because to be Steward and Bail. of the the best potter's clay is obtainable Three Hundreds of Obiltern. in various parts of the peninsula, In going to Indis ne Governor

:

Eastern Fxtension, Australasia & China Telegraph Co.

Aweby, from Bradford. Barretto, from Adelaide. Chenpothiam Ri, from Bato.

eroesa.

Voeur Road, from London.

Cheunglei Chuen. 165 Des

House, from Kualalumpur.

Chonghong Chan Lodging

Hongles, from Bangkok. Kwang hengtye, from Bangkok. Leinam Chan, from Singapore. Mengsoonseng, from Bangkok. Schoo Lawyer Office Des Vœux Road, from Sir gapore.

Warley, from Boston. Winghui 26 Stanley Street Top Gazette ingor, from Manila.

Mandalas.

Yitheshin Nanbayhan, from

Young Froach. Hospital, from Chemor.

J. M. BECK.

Superintendent,

Great Northern Telegraph Company, Ltd.

Ellison, from Amoy. Lichingcheung, from Shanghai. Tongtock, from Amoy. Blsak, from Yokohams. Mellee, Lampakhongkal, from

Swatow.

Kway, from Osaka,

▲ B. SORENBEN, Act. Superintendent.

The industry, however, is not as of Bengal, the Earl of Ronaldobay Hongkong, December 28, 1916. yet being carried on

very in returning to the East to pick prosperously, the few porcelain up the threads of his previous factories now in existence being studies of Eastern problems which far from complete in point of have made him one of those Eng. equipment. At present there lishmen really competent to speak are four factories worthy of with authority on the questions mention under private manage | affecting the Indian Empire. The meut; at Seoul, Chinnampo, elder surviving son and heir of Pyongyang, and Taiku. The the Marquis of Zotland, he was wared, turned; out by the Seoul born in 1876, and educated at and Chinnampo factories are im- Harrow and Trinity College, itations of those of the Koryo Era Cambridge. Boon after lasting and the demand for them is the University, he "heard the Essi Hongkong, December 29, 1916. steadily on the ingresos. These a-calling," and spent the next low manufactured by the factories at years in Ceylon, India-where Taika and Pyongyang ara mostly he was for a time A.D.C. on for use by Koreane. The fastory the Viceroy's staand Parsis, published: "Sport and Polities at Taika is now in a state of From 1903 till 1907 he farther ander an Eastern Sky sarpension on account of some extended his experiences as the Outskirts of Empire in Asis"; internal complications, while that traveller by prolonged journey A Wandering Student in the at Prongrang had it ospital inge in Asiatic Turkey, Tarkas Far East"; and "AD_Esstern sugmented last year and it in a so, Biberia, Manchuria, China, Miscellany." fair way to become prospects;

After unsucceDS- Japan, and Burms. He took fall fully contesting the Richmond advantage of the opportunities Division of Torkabira, he was sfforded him of studying on the returned in 1907 for Hornsey, you have lost your appetita spol the problems which confront which he has since represented. me of the big variety of the Gorsenments of the poun- He married, in 1907 the second dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- tries he visited, and his observa. daughter of Colonel Marwyn DEA CAFE sure to sempt, time and oocolumions are set out Arohdale, and has s son sad thres you.

· in the hooks he

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Colony of Hongkong, on Friday Somerset, England.

LARS.

Apply SUPERIOR.

the Fifth day of January FOR FURTHER PARTICU- 1917, at twelve o'clock noon when the subjoined Resolutions which were passed as Extraordinary Resolutions at the Extraordinary General Moeting of the sc Company held on the Fifteenth day of December, 1916, will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions:-

A

(1) That the capital of the

HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD,

THE

GENUINE

ASPER

[CAIRE EGYPTE T

FELUCCA

§ EGYPTIAN

CIGARETTE

MASPERO FRERES

CAIRO

to

the MOTHER

Y/FIDIS' EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES,

7

Crown Prince

Imperial Bouquet per

100

$5.30

100

4.65

"

50

2.35

10

.50

Extra Fine (Grand Fenual)

SO

2,35

Nectar

50

2.35

Yildiz

25

LIO

Club Size

10

40

100

3.60

50

1.85

ལ

.75

100

50

2,40 1,20

Company be reduced from NOTICE IS HEREBY given

$4,000,000 (Four million that the demand for Elec- dollars) divided into 400,000 |tricity has almost reached the (Four hundred thousand) limit of the capacity of the pro- shares of $10 (Ten dollars)] sent Generating Plant, and as a each, to $3,000,000 (Three result no further applications for taillion dollars) divided new connections can be accepted into 400,000 (Four hundred as from 1st January next, until thousand) shares of $7.50 completion of the New Power (Seven dollars and fifty Station at North Point, It was cente) each, and that such fully expected, that the North reduction be effected by Point Station would have been returning (on such date as completed and running before the Company's Board of now, but owing to The War work Directars shall appoint) in respect of the new plant has to the holders of the been very considerably delayed, 400,000 (Four hundred By Order of The Board, thousand) shares that have GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.

Agents,

been issued paid up capital

dollars and fifty cents) per

to the extent of $2.50 (Two | Hongkong, 14th December, 1916.

share and by reducing the

nominal amount of each of

Non Plus Ulira

Superfine

SOLE AGENTS:~.

HONGKONG CICAR STORE,

SMOKE THE

HOTEL MANSIONS.

POPULAR CIGARETTES

M. C. C.

CORK GOLD PLAIN.

TIPPED.

M. C. C. SPECIAL

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PLAIN TIPPED Per. 20, 35 canta.

BOLD KVERYWHERE.

$1.50 $1.25

the said shares from $10 DIRECTORY LONDON. SOLE AGENT:-CRAECO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE.

(Ten dollars) to $7.50 (Seven dollars and fi ty cents). (2) That application te made to the Supreme Court of Hongkong to confirm the reduction of the capital of the Company in con- formity with the foregoing Resolution.

Dated

..

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this Nineteenth day of

December, 1916, By Order of the Board, SHEWAN TOMES & CO. General Managers,

TSANG FOOK.

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