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gkong, August 12, 1908.
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JEWELLERS, WATCHMAKERS & OPTICIANS,
Cakes
WEISMANN'S
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Intimations.
MITSU BISHI COSHI KWAISHA (MITSU BISHI CO.)
GOAL DEPARTMENT.
THE CHINA MAIL
COLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA-
KIMA, OCHI MUTABE, HOJO, KANADA, - NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW and "KAMIYAMADA Collories,
BOLE AGENTS for KISHIDAKE COAL
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AGENCIES: YOKOHAMA; M. Asada, Esq. CHINKLANG: Messrs Gearing &
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for particular, apply to
H. DISH,
Manager,
No. 2, PruDen Examet,
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, January 9, 1909.
816
CO.,
TWENTY-THIRD ORDINARY
CONCERT ACADEMIE
BY KIND-PERMISSION OF
CAPTAIN CICOLI AND OFFICERS
THE
ORCHESTRA OF SMS. FRANZ JOSEPH I,
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
HERR RODULF, CEPELAK.
WILL GIVE A
CONCERTAGADEMIE
IN
ST. PATRICK'S CLUB,
(GARDEN ROAD),
ON
SATURDAY, 14th January, at 8.30 p.m. sharp.
IN AID OF
The Orphans of St. Lewis. Industrial School...
PROMINENT VOCALISTS
will contribute to the ProgramMG.
PRICES OF ADMISSION...DOLLARS 3, 2 AND 1,
Tickets may be had at ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH and ST. PATRICK'S CLUB, or at the Door on the Night of the Concert.
Hongkong, January 12, 1911
THE LIGHT SIDE OF PARLIAMENT.
BA
Torrington, afterwards Duko of Albemarle, took part in debate when he was only 14, and at that aga addressed the House 1687 on the subject of Clarendon's
well able to look after themselves. When, impeachment. The infant Members of that day were singularly precocious and for instance, someors urged that Lord Falkland was too young to sib in Parlia
FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1911.
Intimations.
TORIC LENSES
REPRESENT the greatest improvement in spectacles tint has beeh usada in your life-time,con
Y. THE OLD STYLE dat lens gives a restricted, field of visions-you must look thưaugh thủ con-i
of the lars to son correctly.
tro
WITH THE TORIC LENS, on the con- trary, you have wirect vision looking through any part of the longs. You more your eyes instead of turning yourshond from side to side.
TO THE TENNIS PLAYER, trap shooter, the cricketer, the billard player, in fact in all fields of sport, the TORIC LENS means a better score because of quicker and botter vision.
THE TORIO LENS corrects the error of vision better than any other-it comes nearer making the eye natural. "Wearers of Taric leasen Dover go back to the old style.
WE GRIND TORIC LENSES to any pro- scription from dlar or pinted optical glass of first- quality. We absolutely guarantee overy pair mado
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ment, he had not yet sown his wild TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS. EXPORT AND IMPORT MERCHANTS.
A vast literature has gathered around Some of it is deep, ponderous, aradite, the inner lite of the House of Parliament. concerned with ancient precedents, high themes, groat principles, and the gravity of history. Some of it is intensely human, treating Parliament as an arena of personal oats, that young nobleman rudely replied rivalries, where there is the perpetual that he could inngise no more suitable pince clash of conflicting ambitions and the for sowing them than the House of Com- axciting sword-play of the gladiators of debate. Some of it is occupied with mons where there were so many geese to pick them up. By the Act of 1695 infants lighter topics the fashions, maar were formally excluded from Parliament, foibles, and excentricities of the Members but for a long time they continued to it in of this angust Assembly. Mr Harry Graham's book, The Mother of Parlia the House, though they most probably. ab- stained from yoting. Extreme youth was monta," cannot easily be classified. belongs to the lighter rather than to the considered n har to Parliamentary heaviar category, but to its lightness there success in days when it was possible for w is a serious side, and its flippancy plays on politician to become Prime Minister, as the surface of a genuine reverence for the Fitt did, at the age of 24. Both Fax grest Assembly of which the British people Chesterfield) delivered their ninidan speech. and Philip Stanhope, (afterwards Lord
cy a manth or so before they came of age
Parliament when he was still a minor."
THE WEST POINT BUILDING
LBIITED. Nor
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company
will he held at the Company's Offices. Victoria Buildings, on FRIDAY. the Orth January 1911, ab-11-40-4 for the purpose of receiving the Report the are justly proud. Directors together.. with Statoment of
It
Widely as Mr Graham has rend, in the
HAVE JUST RECEIVED NEW SHIPMENTS OF
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HUMPHREYS ESTATE -AND- FINANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED
ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that MEETING of the above Compory will be Yan EXRAORDINARY GENERAL
Accounts for the year ending 81st Decem- literature of Parliament, he weara hind Lord John Russell was returned to held at-the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong,
ber, 1910.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from TUES. DAY, 17th January to FRIDAY, 27th January, 1911 (both days inclusive), during 899 which period no transfer of Shares can be
registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary,
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ENO'S 'FRUIT SALT'
A HOUSEHOLD REMEDY FOR All Functional Derangements of the Liver, Temporary Congestion arising from Alco~~ holic Beverages, Errors in Diet, (Eating or Drinking,) Biliousness, Sick Headacha, Giddiness, Oppression or Feeling of Melari choly, Vomiting, Heartburn, Bourses of, the Stomach, or Constipation. It is a Befreshing and Invigorating Beverage, most Invaluable to Travollars, Emigrants, Bailors, and Residents in Tropical Climates. cerca Beum. Sazy" Anglete the Terations of the Zivér, Bowels, Skin and Kidneys by Natural Mogna ¦ this the bloor, ia treed tsen polacoats or other hurtful waiters, the foundation and great danger of Carlin, Terary Worry, Blood Pousons, do. There is no doubt that, where it has been taken in the earlices stages of a diacono, it has in tumorable instances, prevented's serious times. POAUTION=Phocaina Pha Corpenia and won, that it te marked EnÏU'S FRUIT SÅLT,
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knowledge as lightly as a rose in his button holo, and, like a rose, it exhales a pleasant fragrance. He has given us a gay and sprightly book, which contains much sutious knowledge, and a fine collection of Parliamentary anecdotes. It is not learned or pretentious work, and the style is very free and easy, as though a man had Hongkong Land Investment & Agency written it in his shirt sleevee, but it has
sort of negligent grate, and to read it is a General Agents for the
sheer delight. WEST POINT, BUILDING COMPANY,
LIMITED. Hongkong, January 11, 1911:
Norr
Co., Id.
51.
TWENTY-THIRD ORDINARY
&WAY time
GRAVE AND DAY
a
TEARS AND CHAMPAONEL
on FRIDAY, the 27th day of January, 1911, at 1130 o'clock in the forenoor when the subjoined Rasolutions which In old days the House of Commons was GENERAL MEETING of the Company were passed at the EXTRAORDINARY
CHINESE IMPERIAL RAILWAYS
CANTON-KOWLOON RAILWAY."
"UHINESE SECTION,
PUBLIO TIME TABLE
IN FORCE FROM 10m January, 1911;
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. ;
very emotional "Assembly. Members held on TEURSDAY, the 12th any of often broke down and wept. In 1620 January, 1911, will be submitted for Cou CANTON (TAI SHA TOU) TO SIEN TSUK. when, by the King's command, no discus.firmation as Special Resolutions:
was permitted on the question of That Article No. of the Articles Buckingham's impeachment, a lachrymose of Association of the Company, which now Milos Speaker led the whole House of Commons Leads
in a chorus of weeping Two years later that great lawyer, Sir Edward Coks, wel- comed the introduction of the Petition of Right in a voice choked with sabs. Coke was one of those lawyers who, na M Asquith proudly recalled last year, suved the liberties of England.
The Directors shall have power from "time to time and at any time to appoint -“any other persons, to be Directors, but so that the total number of Directo *shall not at any time exceed seven and so that an appointment under this "clausof shall have effect unless, two- thirds at least of the Directors concur therein
10.
CANTON
Daily Passenger
STATION..
msins.
No. 1 No. 3
"A.M."
P.M.
2.30
2,00
7.30
2.09
dop
2.19
FAIT
17403
2:23
dep
7.57
6.08 2.38
dep 8,11-
2.41
252
2.56
3.08 3.08 8.41 3.11
8.46
:3.16
(Tai Sha Too) dep 9.63 SEX PALT
-7.00 CHE PI
1053 W CHONG Word 17.00 NAM KONG Las
amanded by climinating the seren" in the third line of such Article
and by substituting the wordfira " therefor, and also by alihinating the words ch Article and by substituting the words two-thiris at least" in the fourth line of a majority" therefor...
dep 8.26. 8.38 21.67 SUN TOxu.
Adep 23.61 Toxo MET
dep 8.50 3.20 26.54 Na Yo......ar 8,55 3.36 That Article No. 72 of the Articles Association of the Company, which now 29.00 SIEN TSUN ALT
dep 8.58 3,28 9.07 3.97
of
reads -
"The Directors other than the General "Managers shall be paid outofthe funda
Mr Giliam gosipa pleasantly on all sorts of toples connected with the Houses of Parliament. Ho pictures to us the poet THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST Chaucer acting as clerk of the works when MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Westminster Hall was rebuilt in the raign
of Richard IL; he reminds us that the Drunkenness wis common among MF,'s TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Lord Chancellor can be a Commoner; he in the sighteenth century, and intemperance MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this shows us King Charles II lounging of language continued well into the Company will be held at the Company's down to the House of Lords, to while. Vieterian era. Charles Townshend, whom Offcos, Victoria Buildings FRIDAY,
un
that hung so heavily on Burke called the daight and ornament of the 27th January, 1911, at 12 o'clock Noon, the merry monarch's hands; he tells the House, and who was offered the for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directers together with Statement of us that George IV when Prince Chancellership of the Exchequer by Pitt, Accounts for the year ending Stat Decem Regent, bot Sheridan a hundred guiness seems to have been far more eloquent in ber, 1010,
The REGISTER of SHARES of the that he would introduce the words, his cape than at any other time. He Company will be CLOSED from TUES. bas, black sheep into King's Speech in chiefly famous for making what is DAY, 17th January to FRIDAY, 27th without arousing comment or surprise and, known as the Champagne speech" of January, 1911 (both days inclusive), during what is more, won his bet; he shows us May 19th, 1767 peach which, as which period no transfer of Shares can be registered.
Westminster Hall in the seventeenth Walpole declared to a fricud, nobody but By Order of the Board of Directors, century a busy centre of tinde where books Towlined could have made, and nobody A. SHELTON HOOPER, sellers, stationers, and fruiterers carried on but he would have made if he could.. It
Secretary. Hongkong, January 11, 1911.
52 business; he tells us that the old House of We at once a proof that his abilities were Commons, burnt down in 1834, was infested superior to those of all men and his judge-
eliminating there-from THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & with rate; and he has sympathetic words for men below that of any man. "He bent be
Bir. Charles Barry, the gifted architect of Chathans in language, Burks in metaphor, the words provided the such profits Grenville in presumption, Rigby, in im the present noble Parlament buildings, pudence, himself in folly and everybody in who in the execution of his great work was good humour." Half-a-bottle of champagne, harassed by perpetual squabbles with the
na Walpole said, poured on genuine genius officials. Even the contract for the au kindlad this wonderful blaze.-Deity at the OFFICES of the COMPANY, St. fans of the dock gave rise to an
Chronicle. George's Building, No. 6, Connaught Road; nerimonious controvery. It may be noted. on SATURDAY, 28th January, 1811, at that Barry'a original design included the en 11.30 .., for the purpose of receiving x Statement of Accounts and the Report of doing of New Palace Yard and the huikt
MORTGAGE COMPANY,
LIMITED.*****
THE FOURTEENTE ORDINARY
ANUAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in the Company will be held
The Island of. Tires is being put up
the General Maragers for the year endinging of a huge gate-tower at the angles. Ho for sale by the Duke of Argyll. When 31st December, 1910, declaring a Dividend also proposed to make Victoria Tover the advertised some ten years ago the upset and electing Consulting Committee and chief feature of a big quadrangle, whence a price mentioned was £130,000. At that The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com. Splendid processional approach should time the Duke-of-Argyl's sister, the inte pany will be CLOSED from MONDAY, extend to Buckingham Palace The cost Lady Victoria Campbell, lived much in thecord January: 1911, unil SATURDAY, prevented the carrying out of thin bold Tire, and took the deepast interest in the the 28th January, 1911, both days in cliente,
Improvement of the condition of the people. Oce industry which she established on a permanent footing was that, of wood-eazy-
clusivo.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Manage Hongkong, January 11, 1911.
LORDE AND COMÏIONS.
Off and on for centurier, the relations 48 between the two Houses of Parliament
have boom strained. The House of Com mona me always been sensitive to its
ASAHI BEER
STATION.
Dally Passenger Trains.
of the Company by way of remunera-SLEN TSUN TO CANTON (TAI SHA TOU.) "tion for their services a commission of Five percent. of the net profits of the **Company for each year provided that
ench pronte amount to Seven por. cont.. Miles of the capital of the Company i And auch “remuneration shall be divided among them in much proportions and manner as the Directors may determine and in default equally amended
No. 2 No: 4:
F.K.
9.25 4.00 9.31 4.09
Sien Trun
3.46 Nga
6,59 Tong Mei
7.33 Sun Tong
9.37 A.12.
dap
0.42
4,17
T 9:46 4.21
dop 9.61-
4.20
9.64
dap |:10.06
4.11.
10.10
4.40
dep 10.21.
56
mount to Suven per cent of the capital lines thereof and by substituting in lieu [** of the Company in the third and fourth
thereof the words :-- p
provided that such commission shall 11.91 Nam Kong **not in any one your exceed the sum of
85,000.
likes. Wu Chung một (3) That Article No. 82 of the Articles
•
of Association of the Company, which now 21.10 Che Pi rends
The res
remuneration of the General 20.37 Shick Par **Managers shall be 88,000 per annum to
cover office rent and salaries of Secre- 20.00 CANTON tary and clerks and a commission of
#5 per cent. of the net profits of the Company for each year that such - umount to 7. per cont, of the Capital of the Company
H
be amended by eliminating the words "that such profits amount to 7 per cant.
"of the capital of the Company contain ing. The Island, which is 30 square miles Article in question..
ed in the fourth and fifth lines of the area, In very fertile. It has marble of (4) That Article No. 100 of the Articles fins quality, and contains quite a series of of Association of the Company he struck Scandinavian fonts. Its oblot attraction out and that in liou thereof the two follow
10.94
450
Lep 10.30 5.10.
• AIT
10.39 5.14 dep 10,605.26 10.53 5.28
- (Tai Sha Tau)'any -|- 11,02 |· | ~.37
This cancels previous Time Table
By Onter,GES
THE ADMINISTRATION. Hongkong, January 12, 1911.
NOTICE
FR LI HON FAN, à Chinese graduato
dignity, and has jealously maintained itate the sportiman is its excellent snipo ing further Articles boʻnddeu, zaniely Bevarned in literature, has boin a teacher
superiority over the Lords as tho apoial orgüií andl izálvument of the people. Bonic- Ftimes the Lords were guilty of discourtesy, and on these occasions the Commons blazed with resentment, In 1777 Barko was kept waiting for three hours with a Bill which he was carrying from the Lords, When he subsequently reported his El- treatment to the Lower House their indig. nation know no bounds, and they proceeded"
shooting.
YEE SANG FAT.
OPPOSITE POST OFFICE.
to ravenge themselves in no what TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS.
puerile manner. The very pext Bill that
the House of Lordssent down to them was
Fejected unaoimuusly, and the Speaker STYLE AND FIT
thraw the offensive measure on to the floor of the House, whence it was kicked to the door by a manber of indignant Members.
No one can now be elected to the House of Commons who is not 21 years of age, OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE,
but up to the nineteenth century minors SOLE AGHINTS
sat in the House without let or hindrance. MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA.The poet Waller sat in the Com
Hongkong, December 17, 1910, 1522 ions before he was 17, while · Lord
GUARANTEED.
NEW STOCK Leather Leggings,
No.. 105. g Notice of the Declamation of any to European officials and merchants in, this
whether interim or otherwise Colony for over lan your dividends
hall be given to the holders of regis He has a good method of terol shares by advertisement in peans to pass intho Chinese examination, and manner hereinafter provided and no spokessed of a first rate cortilicato sa s dividend shall bear interest sa against Chinese teacher. He has also a good know the Company and a dividend shall not ledge of Mandarin be deemed a specialty
No. 100A
Hongkong, December 24, 1010.
Those who intend learning the Chinco All dividends unclaimed for one-year China Idail office or direct to 31, Holly
language are requested to write care of Hafter having been declared rays bewood Road, 2nd Hoor, "'invented or otherwise made use of by "the Directors for the benefit of the Company until claimed and all divi dend unclaimed for five years altar having been declared may be for feited by the Directors for the benefit of the Company has
(That the aber
aboye Resolutions shal).
bo retrospective in their effect and that the
SINGON & CO.
alterations in
lons in the Articles of Association of TRON STZEL METAL and HARD of the Company, thereby effoobed will be WARE MERCHANTS Wholemler deemed to have heen effented and to come and Retail Lroomongers, Pig Iron-and into force as on and from the Lst day of foundry Coka Importon General Staro
Sultanuary 191
Cases and Trunks. Boogkong, Sept. 20, 1910),
移
1148 $3
Dated this 12th day of January 1911
By Order of the Board, JOHN D. HUMPHREY & SON
* General Afannyri
keepers and Shinchandlers. Nes? Strandt,
37, HING LONG STRIKT, (2nd Street, Fost Couteal Market) Telephone No. 615- Hangkang, September 4, 1907