1918-08-28 — Page 10

THE HONGKONG TELEC

WEDNES

POST OFFICE

W.D. & H.O. WILLS

HIGH GRADE

"Embassy

NO. 77 CIGARETTES.

THE CIGARETTE DE LUXE

Embassy's

N77

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

Are made by scientific processes from scrupulously selected and perfectly matured Tobacco of the Highest Grade gly. They are for that reason preferred and demanded by Sporting, men of all kinds.

Their World Wide Popularity is based upon their unquestioned excellence.

CAN BE OBTAINED OF ALL HIGH CLASS TOBACCONISTS IN TINS OF

25 AND 50 AND BOXES OF 107

W. D. H. O. WILLS: BRISTOL 2 LONDON.

ON SALE AT

ALL STORES.

This Advertisement is based by British-American Tobacco, Co. L

/CEO. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER

· AND SURVEYOR.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

•

By Order of the Mortgagee.

R GEOP LAMMERT has received instructions to sell,by Public Auction

MR

ON

THURSDAY

the 5th day of September, 1918, at 3 PM. at his Sales Room Duddell Street, Victoria,

Hongkong.

The following Property situate at Hongkong víz-

Leasehold Victoris

NOTICE.S

THE CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE is hereby given that

an Extraordinary General· Meeting of The China-Borneo Company, Limited, will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Gibb, Liviarton and Company. St. George's Building, Victoria, Hongkong. the registered office of the above named Company on Friday, the 13th day of Septem- ber, 1918, at 11.30 o'clock in the forenoon, when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions. viz

(1) To consider, and if thought fit, approve the draft new Articles which will be sub- mitted to the Meeting and in the event of the approval thereof with or without modifica-ļ tion.

All these pieces or parcels of ground situate at Victoria afore said and known and registered in the Land Office as Subsection No. 2 of Section D of Marine Lot No. 6 and Section B of Subsection No. 10 of Section B of Marine Lot No. 6together with the!" messuage or buildings erected! thereon known as No. 9 Jervois Street. Term 982 years from 25th June, 1860 created by a. Crown Lease of the said lot dated the 1th December 1863. i Area 718.06 Equare Feet. Pio- portion of Annual Crown, rent $9.27,

For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to:"

MESSES, JOHNSON STOKES

MASTER,

Prince's Building, Ice House

Street, Hongkong," Solicitors for the Mortgagee or to MR. GIO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer

MARTIN'S

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#8 STEEL CLOPILIS

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(2) To consider, and if thought fit, to" pass an Extra" ordinary Resolution to the effect:-That the дем Articles already approved by this Meeting and for the purpose of identification thereof subscribed by the Chairman thereof, be and, the same are hereby spe proved, and that such Articles be and they are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Company to the exclusion of- and - in substitution for all the existing Articles thereof. Should the above Resolutions be passed by the required major ly they will be submitted for con frmation as Special Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary Meet" ing which will be subsequently convened.

• A copy of the new Articles ¡referred to may be inspected by¦ any Shareholder of the said; Company at the Company's Offices in Hongkong, or at the Offices of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master, the (Company's Solicitors) at Prince's Building, Victoria, aforesaid, on any week- day between the hours of 10 am. and 4 pm.

August,

Dated

19:8.2

GIBB

TON & CO

NOTICES.

ASAHI BEER.

ASAHI BEER GRAND PRIZE 2

SAHI

*DAI NIPPON BREWERY

BEER

SAHI

LAGER-BEER

SPECIALLY BREWED EXPORT

TOZ!

COMPANY

TOKYO, JAPAN

Mitsui Bussan Kalsha

Metaphone A 100..

MASS

HALL

WRATHER REPORT

Telegraphic Communication with WAR" — August 23d. 12h 15m-No =retnina, Jan Ighthouse-in interrupted”

am: parcel “post surries to Caba in suspended. T

Os and after May 1st 1918, Imperial Postal Orders will be cashed in India at the inte of 1/6 to the rupen..

The amount of the charge per parent is fred at 3 ar per day after the expiration of the period stipulated.

Registered and Farcel Mails clone 15 minates earlier than the time gives belky anlean otherwias atutes.

from Japan and Visdivostoch Presare has decreased slightly at the majority of reporting stations; it 19, lowest orez Tangking. 19" DEN

Hongkong Balhfall for the $4 hours ending at 10 am to-day, 161 imoles | Total" #inca -laquary 1st 17.79 Inches

at an average of 54.81 inches. FORECAST JOR THE 14 HOURS INDING AT NOON TO-MORROW?

Dietzfah

E

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RE ▼loda.

soderate;

No anofficial letter addremted to 1 Hongose to Gap Book aloudy

Abadan. Abwiz on Mohammoral in the

Persian Gulf may exored eight ounces in

weight.

The Farcal Port Service to the Porto-

gusse Colonies in West Africa and to

Spanish Offices in Morocco (sxcept for Forman Channel Prisoners-of-Waz) is suspended.

Correspondence addrowed to enemy zabjects in China, Siam, Siberia and Portuguese East Africa, Persia and Mori occo.cannot be transmitted,

- Parosis for Greets cannot be accepted for transmission unless sècompanied by a special paruit iamond by the Britiká Minister at Atheos,

Until farther notice parcels for civil" addraws in the provinces of Udine. Vicenza. Travise, Padua, Venice and Belluno in Italy will not be accepted for transmission unless posted, under the British War Office Formir

16

and

showery generally.

The same as No. 1

Bouth coast of China be-) The sauw tween HK and Lamocks No. 3.

# Bouth Bourt of China be? The sains tween H and Hainan.....). x No: 1.

China Goset Meteorological Register.

Statica,

Hakodate Narro

The importation into the Common-ostook wealth of Australia of tes, other than that grown or produced in British Posse micas se prohibited, unless the consent in writing of the Commonwealth Minister Tokio for Trade and Customs has been first obtained.

The Parcel Fort Services to British East Oshima Africa and Egypt (except for members Naha

of the Expeditionary Forces), and to

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Abyminia, Bagdad, Erithres, French Bonin i

Aug. 25) am

Winda

Hour.

Barometer."

TemperaturS,

Humidity,

Weather.

D'tion:

Force.

Seraali Count, Italian Somaliland, Fort Whaiwel Sa 2981.78 95 av shest East Africa, Zanzibar i

and Rumia | Bankow:

have been suspended.

Ichang"

The charge for castoms duty on type ramples of un sana stared tobacco not Shanghal exceeding & ou in grou weight, and on ta

Gutalas sampine of „spirits . (except pe famed | Sharp P. spiri's) not. exceeding 12 oz. in gross Amoy weight imported into the United King. Swatow don, by post has now bee increased to Taiboka. Sa 29.80 15/6d and 15/4d respectively.

ឌ ឌី ជ

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→

1:6

2 b

16

1 b

89 ⚫

Taichu Tainan

*9.80

29.875

The importation by post into Japad of Koshun foreign rice, except such as may be P'dores. imported by the Minister of Aaricature Canton and Commerce and the persons designated 'kong by him, is prohibited

29.79 77

17

29.79.79

6a 29.27 76 95

·

09,76 78-91 €

Gay

Book

29.75

Macão

Wachow

1his prohibition le not applicable to zica imported into Taiwan (Formbes) and Karabuts (Japanese Baghalien)

Holbow

Information has been received from Phalien. the Director General of Posts and Tourans Telegraphs Tolin, that on and after 1st C. 8t, J. April 1918, the fost Office of Japan will parti collect a demurrage-charge from the Dagupan addressees of parcels on which Customs | Manila duties or inland taxes are imposed in | Légnapi Japan, not withdrawn from the Post Tacloban Office within 20 days from the date of Dalle the notice of their arrival to be sent to strigao the addresses.

Grua.c Labuan

-29.74 79 93

96 an

29.59 75

29.13 75 98 aw 93.72.75 96

29.73 29.74

*

40.28.68

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VICTORIA

NTS

THEATRE

August 26, 27, and 28, 1918. Francois Coppee's Masterpiece

THE CULPRIT."

The Screaming farce

"SALAMEC."

NEW WOODEN

Etc.

SHIPBUILDING.

Less Timber Needed.

of the ship has flour of solid timbers, laid three deep, and tofalling 36 inches in thickness. The keeleon in a steel plate 5 feet wide ranning the entire length of the vessel, and on which is mounted & fore-and-aft wood girder 18 inches deep. The bottom As outlined by Mr. B. H. Darn of the ship is further reinforced in the Pacific Marins Review, the with additional keelsons of wood, recently commissioned War 15 inches equare, one at the larg Mystery, built at Orange, Texse, of the bilge and the other midway by the National Shipbuilding between the bilge timber and the Compsay the first of several metal kesleon. The heavy timberw hips to be bait there on the same in the vessel are fantoned with plane is quite as revolutionary screw bolts instead of clinch bolta. of wooden ship construction 8 The largest single sticku ra are the new types of ship built of quired in the constraction of this concrete and of welded steel. vessel are the deck beams DX- Shipbuilders who are familiar tending from side to side. These with the limitations of woodes are 18 feet long and 15 inches construction and Hsine experts square.

not intended to

long since claimed' that it was The reszel will be driven by a impracticable to think of fabricat 1,450 horse-power triple-expan- : ing wood into a ball of more than aion reciprocating engine, with 3,000 tone-claim that if the water tube boilers. Another Mystery and her sisters prove all variation from the Fertia ship tbst is claimed for them (they are type is the location of the 10 of 4,700 tona carrying especify) machinery, which is well toward they will establish new ideale in the stern rather than smidships. wooden shipbuilding. The War This arrangement leaves the

ratery is the largest wooden cargo bold as one unit, steamship ever built. She is the The vessel is z first of two vessels contracted for carry asil, and the epars are

Freder with the Texas firm by the Cansad rick masta 45 feet higb, built to Steamship Company. The second fold down upon the deck, so s is practically complete, and will to lessen the visibility of the by christened the War Marrel.ship. The War Mystery and On the ways in the yards of the ber sister vessels have been given National Company are six other so Al rating by Lloyd's. The vessels of the same type, which officers of the National company are being rushed to completion esy they can produce s ibip- ander the Government contract, within 30 daya siter construction oslling for a total of twelve ships. begins. And since the company

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C. W. JEFTRIES,—Chief Assistant.. Hongkong Observatorý, Ang. 25, 1918, Fahrenbait on the level of the sea. In in- 1 Barometer, reduced to st degres as, sautha and handredthe

The Director General of Posts and Telegraphs, - India, “advison that: The Parcel Post Service to the Indian Civil Postal Agencies at Abul Khaaih, Amira, Bagdad, Borra, Burra City, Fao, Kai, Naseriyah: Quint Saish, Bak-esh-Sherakh and Zubair is Mesopotamia la suspended and that piece-goods, haberdashery and similar articles, except those intended for the parsons) mas of the addresses and | Fahrenheit, - -

༥.བས not for sale, cannot be sent to those

offices or to Abadan, Ahwaz or Mohms marah by the letter post, and that such articles if received will not be delivered and will be liable to emfimation."

Arrangements have been made for the transmissio parcels to the United Kingdom via Canada

2 Temperature, in the shade, in degrees

the Humidity of air saturated with mods

3 Humidity, la presentage of saturation ture being 100.

4 Ditation of Wind, to two połata, #Force of Wind, socording to Baufort Banaesth

Blate of Weather, b blue sky, ode tached cloud, d- deinding rain, for s The rates of postage are as follows:-gloomy, hall, I lighting, o erercams, p Parcel not over.

passing showers, a squally, rrain, a snow, á thunder, v viniblity, w dem wes

Do.

Da..

90 cants. Fibe

..$1.80 11lbs... 2.70 No insurance can be affected on parcala cant by this route.

OUTWARD - MAILS. -

TO-MORROW,

| Swatow, Amoy, Fordoma via Takao-29th

| Avg, Š.Botha..

Batería, Samarang, Sourabaya and Port More by ria, Batavia-29th

Fort Bayard. Hofhow and Haiphong-

29th Aug. 9.-17. -

Swatów-29th Aug. 11 am.

METEOROLOGICAL.

Shangbai and NorthTM China-19th Aug., Humidity

Exigon-29th Aug. 3 p.m.

5p.m

FRIDAY, 30th August.

Swatow, Amoy and Foochow-30th Aug.

papal p.m.

Philippine Islands-30'h Aug, 2 pan, SATURDAY, 31st August. Shanghai, N. "hins, Japan via Nagasaki Hol-in, Caza a United States, Cent al B. America * Europe via San Francisco- 31st Aug. Revistratim 9,45

Cettare 10.30 amig Shanghai and North China-Sat Aug

Philippine Islands-Sim Aur, 5pm

The Turcal Mail for United Kingdom will bee card on Baldrday Sat August,

SUNDAY, 1st September. Swatow, Amby and Formosa vis Kosiung

Shanghai and North Chins--lat Bopti Wethsiwei ✯ Tisutno-let Sept., 9.

TUESDAY, 3rd September

Jaran viu pemźkį: Consda United States, Central & Sơ Americs and Europe via Vic

By Letters:12.30

Previona

Day On date On dase

Bazszelez Temperatura

29.77 / 29.767 29.75

21

81

87

$1 80

Wind Direction

E

E

Winther

Bain

0.48 % 0,00 Kighest set, and Tampurnace sin cha iowast

.163

で

HL, Observatory, Aug. 28, 1913.

T. POLAXTON, Dizmetar,

TIDE TABLE,

From 26th Aug. to 1st Sept.:

High

|

There is a radical difference has ways for eight weels the Ferris type of wooden chip rate of 82 ships annually. On between the War Mystery and the future production will be at the adopted by the Emergency Fleet May 1 last year the site of the Corporation as the type of vessel shipyards was the beggy, reed- submarine menace. One of these it is fully equipped with every- heat adapted to conquer the grown shore of a river. To-day differences in fact the great thing needed in the way of difference is that the War My-machinery for modern shipbuild- story has a deadweight carrying ing, is already well on its way to capacity of 4,700 sons, as against the production of sight ships. the 3,500 ton of the Ferris complete, and has a trained work. model. In spite of this larger ing organisation of more than parrying ability toe War Hratory 900 men, exclusive of master requires less than 1,500,000 feet mechanics and directing super- of lumber in construction." while visors.

the Ferris model uses 1,750,000 feet,

Another feature which greatly

facilitates construction and rapid

"prodnation of ships of the War

NOTICES.

Mystery type is that they require PEAK TRAMWAYS 00, LTD.

no timbera of extraordinary size or length, leaving the demand such that the. Southern lamber mille are able to supply easily snd quickly any quantity of material desired. "

NOTICE

WING to restrictions on the

export of wire ropes from

England the TRAM SERVICE

Among the orignal features embodied in her chaetruation are: will be REDUCED as from Ist

Frames, of built-up timbers, September, 1918,

scarfed and tied together with

New Himetables can be obtained

machine-driven hardwood tree from the Ticket Collectors or at

nails. Directly upon the outside of

Company's

the framed and contioning unin-Buildings terruptedly beneath the hull on top

of the keel is nailed a double layer of diagonal strapping of material 12 inches thick and 9 inches wide. These disgonal non sen are laid at right angles to esch other and sre d-signed to aid in giving the +79anel extraordinary dity and strength, off ring resistance tension, compression, and atBIO from every angle,"

| planking proper varies in thick- ners from the garbourde, where it is 8 inches, to F† wohm on the Vessel's bottom, and 44 inchse on the sides The sheer straks in.7 Chen ja thickness. Inside the

coind thre hout

Office, Alexandra

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS

General Managers, Hongkong, 27th August, 1918

KERO We guar

sold by us to be

unadulterated

resent price

ROSE 16:05/pez 88 87

15.85