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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, AUGUST 80 1918.

POST OFFICE.

WEATHER REPORT.

W.D. & H.O. WILLS

HIGH GRADE

"Embassy"

NO. 77. CIGARETTES

THE CIGARETTE DE LUXE

Embassy'

N:77

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

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Are made by scientific processes. from scrupulously selected and perfectly matured Tobacco of the Highes: Grade only. They are "for that reason preferred and demanded by Sporting sien of all kinds...

Their World Wide Popularity is based

upon their unquestioned excellence. ^,

CAN BE OBTAINED OF ALL HIGH CLASS TOBACCONISTS_IN_TISS OF

25 AND AND BOXES OF 19,

W. D. 2 1.0. WILLS, BRISTOL 20;LONDON.

ON SALE AT ALL STORES.

This Advertisement is

GEO, P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER AND SURVEYOR.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

MR.

ON

THURSDAY

samund by Drikh-Azzeriena Tubasco Co, Lt

NOTICE.

THE CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE is hereby given that

en Fxtraordinary General Meeting of The China-Borneo,

By Order of the Mortgagee.

R. GEO. P. LAMMERT has Company, Limited, will be held received instructions to the Offices of Messrs. "Gibb, Bell by Public Auction

Livington 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.

the 5th day of September, 1918, at.3 P.M. at his Sales Room Duddell Street, Victoris,,

. Hongkong. The followitg Property situate at Hongkong vi

Lesseboid Victoria

All these pieces or parcels of ground situate at Victoria afore-

-said and known and registered

in the Land Office as Subsection

And in the event of the approval

No. 2 of Section D of Marine Lot, thereof with or without modifica-

No. 6 and Section B of Subsection tion

No 10 of Eection B of Marine Lot No. 6 together with the meseuage 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 1 th December 1863. Area 718.06 Square Feet. Prom 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

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Solicitors for the Mortgagee

or to ***

MR. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneez.

MARTIN'S

VAPIOL ÖSTEEL FCEPILLS

ARTIK

(2)

To consider, and if thought fit, to pass 30 Extra- ordinary Resolution to the effectThat the new Articles already approved by this Meeting and for the purpose of identification thereof subscribed by the Chairman there:f, be and the same are hereby ap- that such proved, and 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 majority they will be submitted for con. firmation as Spécial 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 jurmpany at the Company's Officer in Hongkong, or at the Offices of Messrs. Johnson, Stores & Master, the (Company's Solicitors) at Prince's Building, Victoria, aforesaid, on any week. day between the hours of 10 am.. and 4 p.m.

Dated the 27th day of August, #198

GIBB LIVINGSTON & CO.

NOTICES.

ASAHI BEER.

ASAHI BEER

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COMPANY

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TOKYO, JAPAN

Mitsal Bassan Kalsha

MASSAGE HALL

A QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL KAL KOUPELGU STREET)... “MENTATAKAYE,

MES MORITAM SACERTIFICATED SAMASSEURLÉS

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„Aurut 30d- 19h. @Zim-No-returna Communication with. Waglan Light- route's restored this morning at 10.25 pas increased slightly at the majority from Japan and Vladivostock. Pressurs "of stations reporting: the depression, which appears to be shallow, remains ever the Gulf of Tongking.

Taleg aphic Communicatos with Wag. | Ian Fighthi nae la interrupted.

The parcal post servies to Cuba, lề. sampanded.

Hongkong. Halmill for the 34 hours anding at 10 am. to-day, 0.01 inches. On and after May 1st 1918, Imperial Total snow January 1-77.83 Inot ea Postal Orders will be cashed in Ladia atat an average of 65 56 Inches. the rate of 1ị6 to the rupesi

The amount of the charge per parcel is Ezed at 5 sen per day after the sxnization. of the period stipulated.

Registered and Parcel Maliwalow 15 | minutes-sarlier than the time given below

unless otherwise stated.'

No unofficial lette addressed to |'Abadan; Abws; or Mohammarsh in the Persian Gulf may exceed sight vundet in weight.

The Parcel Foxi Service to the Fortu- gueis Colonies in West Africa and to Spanish Offices in Morocco (erapt for. Prisoners-of-War) is suspended.

Correspondance addressed to enemy sakjecta in China. Siam, Siberia and | Portuguese East Africa, Perzia and-Mor-

occo cannot be transmisted. .:.

Parcels for Gresca caonai be accepted for transmissios uslem sooompanied by a special permit issued by the British Minister și Athere.

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Until further not ce parcels for civil addromes in the provinces of Udine, Vicenza. Trevise. Padua. Venice and Baleno in Italy will not be accepted for transmission unless parted under, the British War Office Permit.

FORECAST FOR THE 14 HOURS INDING AT NOON TO-MORROW,

Forecast

Distries

5. winds, |1.Bongkang to Gap Book.... Įmoderate;

faic.

3 Formosa Channel

N.E

winds, moderate.

3 douth coast of Chinx de-) The sare

tween. H.FL and Lamooks) as No. 1. 4 Bouth coast of China be-) The same

twaen HK., and Hainan... } – as No. L

China Coast Meteorological Registar.

Button

Aug. 30, a.m.

Wlads

Hour.

Barometer.

Temperature.

Humidity.

Weather.

I'tion.

Force.

Vostok Sa Samuro Exkodate Forlo

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"The importation Into the Common- wealth of Austrália of tea, other than that grown or produced in British Fomer- sions is prohib:ed, unless the content in Nagasaki writing of the Commonwealth Minister & ima for Trade and Customs has been retur

Oshima Naka obtained.

Jahi'iims

The Parcel Post Services to British East | Bonin Is.

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Somall Coast, Calling Somaliland, Portu. Kinklang guess East Africa, Zanzibar and Russia Changaba have been, suspended.

Africa and Egypt (except for member | Whatga 61 29.83. 76 91 ow of the Expeditionary Forces), and to "Abyminia," Bagdad. Erithroa; Franch

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The charge for customs duty on type. Sharp P. ramples of unmanufactured tobacco mot | Amoy exceeding 6 oz. in gross weight, and on Swatow samples of spirits (except pe famed | Talhoku spirits) not exceeding 12 ozs. In gross Talchn weight imported in the United King-Tainan dom by post has now been increased to | Koshua £5/6d and 15/id/respectively.

The importation by post into Japan of foreign rice, except auch sɛ may be | Gap Rock imported by the Midister of Agriculture | Macao and Commercend the persons designated | Wo by him, is prohibited.

Fathol

This prohibition isn't applicable to Holbow Ece Imported Into Talwan (Formosa) and } Phulian Karabuto (Japanese Saghalien.)

Poutane

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Tacloban

From the 1st May 1918 there will be three General delveris daly from the DaguDINA

Mania District Post Offices except on Sunday and Holidays when there will be ons Legasp! delivery only.

The hours of delivery 'll be Surigao follɔwn :-Week days 9 a.m. 1 p.m. and 5 pat

Sundays and Boličays noon.

Information bas been received from the Director Genoest of Posts and Telegraphs Tokio, that on sad after Lat

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C. W. JEFFRIES--Chúsť Assistant. Hongkong Observatory, Aug, 30, 1918. 1 Barometer, reduced to 37 degredá

shoe, tenths and hundredths, -

ENTERTAINMENTS:

VICTORIA

THEATRE

AUGUST 29th, 30th and 31st, 1918:

THE LABYRINTH."

British Gazette, No. 460,

"LUKE'S

HONEYMOON.'

SUNDAY, September 1st. 1918.

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THE LIGHT THAT FAILED"

AFTER THE WAK.

When our Swords turn "to Ploughshares......

The New Orleans Itam notes the statement of Mr. Lane that the public lands of forty, thirty, and even twenty-five years ago arg gone, and considers that the settling of the soldiers ca reclaim- sd land is one after the-war pro- When Johnny comes marching blem in which the South is vitally home victorious and lays aside interested. The South should be bis ride and uniform, s plaos exceedingly active in its solution, must be found for him in the for "it affords the South opport- : rank of civil life, eays the unity for settlement and develop Literary Digest and now is the ment similar to that enjoyed by time to prepare for it, our newc-the West after the Civil War." papers are saying. Some of them Far Northern-born men the find a partial solation in the plan corthern third of Minnesota, rf the S-cretary of the Interior Wisconsin, and Michigan would K. Franklin K. Lee, to settle be "vastly preferable toanything those who wish to farm on lands the South could offer," according prepared by the Government. It to the Minneapolis Jouraol, which is noted that if the war is a long tells us this section is destined war, five million men must find by nature to be the greatest dairy” a path back to ordinary life when region in America." it is over, and though a large part The Wichit Beason points out may return to the work and even that there are fifteen million the positions they had left, a very acres of irrigable territory in the large proportion will be more or Weet, much of it in the western In Mr. Lane's part of Kansas. These reclaime

less at res.

plan, set forth in a letter to the able areas most be taken in hand President and in several speeches, anw, for if the war is to end in- we are reminded that the nation 1920 or 1921, which seems prob Atill has million upon millionsble, if all goes well, work will of audeveloped saree, dezert land have to commence now in order that must be irrigated, swamp to provide sufficiently large trac's land that must be drained, cut of usable land for the soldiers over timber land that must be who are coming back." The stamped out and made arable. Spokede Spokesman Panew thinks The question of reclaiming aridir. Lane'a projek is of and swamp land, the Syracuse deep and particular interest Journal roalis, has been before to the Pacific Northwest with its Congress in one form and another extensive irrigable areas and its for many years, but no serious constantly increasing expences of consideration was ever given to logged off lands. It reminds us, it Events sm to show that moreover, that his estimate of out- Mr. Lane has brought it op over timber-landa st.200,000,000 at the psychological moment, and acres is more clearly comprehend. it trusts that the note he sounds ed when it is considered that thi

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April 1918, the Post Office of Japan will Fahrenheit on the level of the ses in in-will not be ignored by the wise area approximately equals the

collect a demurrage charge from the addressees of parcels on which Customs duties or inland taxas are imposed Japan, not withdrawn from the Post

Fahrenheit.

men in Congrése. In Mr. Lane's combined areas of New York, #Temperature, in the shade, in degresi letter to the President wel Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin,

read t

Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Office within 20 days from the date of the Humidity of air saturated with misappropriated now, will put this Hampshire, Delaware, Connecti "A million or two dollars, if Vermont, New Jersey, Nw

the notice of their arrival to bé sens tó the addromes.

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Arrangements have been made for the transmission of paresis to the United Kingdom via Canada.

The rates of postage are as follows:- Parcel not over Jibe... 90 cents. Do. Tibe $180- .. Do. 11lb... 2.70 No insurance can be effected on parcels seat by this route.

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OUTWARD "MAILS.

TO-MORROW.

Sharghai, N. Hu, Jazan via Nagasaki, Herolola, Canada, United States, Cant al 8. America *Earote vi fan Francico- 31 Aug. Rezistration 9.45 am Letters 10.30 a.m.

Amy

3 Humidity, in persantage of saturation

tore being 100,

-4 Direction of Wind, to two pointă. 3 Forse of Wind, sosording to Bunfort Beals.

State of Weather, b blue sky, o de tached cloud, d driskiing rain, ffog

gloomy h ́hali, | lightning, o overcars, p passing showers, a aqunly, z rais, e mów, § thunder, v visibilty; w dow wel

METEOROLOGICAL.

Previons

Form via Keelung-31st Barometer Aug, 1a.m.:

Tamperstars, -- Pakbot & Ha'phong-Siat Aug,, noon. Humidity

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29.37 29.76 29.77

81. 78 *4

work well under way.

eat, and Hasanobusetta" Says This plan does not contemthe Portland Oregonian;" "The plate anything like charity to the varied work of realstation. aldiers. Hee not to be given will have to be done on so bounty.. He is not to be made large a scale, and will employ to feel that be 18 s dependent, such vast capital, that it can be On the contrary, be is to condone only by the Government, or tinue in a sense in the service of ander government direction. the Government. Instead of Most of the land in question being destroying our epsmiss, he is to in private ownership, it will be develop our resources.

necessary for the Government *The work that is to be done, either to buy it outright for resale other than the planning, should to the settler after it has been be done by the soldier himself. reclaimed, or to arrange terms on The dem or the irrigation pro which the owner shall pay for the. ject should be built by him, the reclamation and shall sell to the Day On date on date. Canals, the ditches, the breaking settler.

of the land, and, the building of An emential part of the plan. houses, should, under proper is that the farmer shall own his direction, be his or capation. As farm. That would go far toward: should be allowed to make his stopping the prevalent tendency own home, csred for while he is toward tenscy, which is introdão- doing it, and given an interest in ing into this country the evils of the land for which he can pay Earopean landlordiam, By at through's long period of years, tracting a large number of former perhaps thirty or forty years, urban dwellers to agriculture it This same policy can be ourried would do much to cofet the out as to the other classes of land, balance between erban sud rars! so that the soldier on his retorn population, which has been would have an opportunity to swinging strongly toward the make a home for himself, to build cities." a-home-with-money which w Would advance and which he would repsy, and for the repay- ment we would have an abundant

Zeebruggy Relics, ecogrily,"

Among a number The forma 'should not be relics of the Zeebru turned over as the prairies were Osteal rains-deposited with

unbroken, anfenced, without Imperial War Museum sccommodations for men or an Relief map made fri imale. There should be prepared tions. A Vindiati homes, all of which can be con-Stem of motor structed by the men themselves, damaged in takin sad paid for by them under Brilliant. Large p system of simple devising by of Zebragas tag which modern methods of finance lenders will be applied to their needs. retorn

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The Farcel Mal fő- United Kingdora) lig op wie Zumpreneurs au shka will be clasd on Saturday 31st August, Lowaar“ at 3pm

ELE. Obeervatory, Aug. 30, 1918.

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30th

SUNDAY, 1st September. Swatow, Amoy and Formboss"via Keelong ist Bert, 9 am Shanghai and North. China. lat. Hopk

Ja...

Weihaiwel & Tia:tain-Let Seph, 9am.

MONDAY, 2nd September. Swatow 2nd Sept, 5 pm.

TUESDAY, 3rd September. Sandarard Sept, fl .m. Formous Tim Kaslong; Ska-phal," N. C

T. 7. VLAXDUN, Dinotek,

TIDE TABLE,

From 26th Aug. to 1st Sept.

Canada, Unit,d States, Central && Americs, Europe via Vio- toris, B. 04 Sept., Regie tration 1145 am. Letters 19.30 AK AZ

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Japan vis Nacara-Sed Bapt. 3 p.m. - WEDNESDAY, 4th September. Shanghai and North China-4th Sept., Wed.

THURSDAY 5th September

High Water

Hongkong Maa Time

Dow Wate

Hongkong