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·IMPRESSIONS IN LIGHT AND SOUND' The dark lagoon. Dawn.
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Booking at MOCTRIES. Tickets: Drusa Cirche and Stalla 23, Pit
82 Gallery $1. Suldiers and Sailors in uniform Half-price to Pit and Gallery.
In aid of the Cathedral Organ Fand.
Hongkong, September 10, 1912. 1138
HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
„New York, Aug. 20, Evidence to disprove Dr. Quine's charge The mile-a-minute motor boat is at last that the bath is a mrs indulgence with reality. Sue, at laut, is the boast of English people is piling up steadily. There in no doubt that the English cation feels Commolere J. Stuart Blockton, of the itself maligned, and is up in arms against Atlantic Yacht Club, who has spent the savant of the Sanitary Congress. the nods of pound in the effort to own It is pointed out on all sides that Dr the fastest motor boat affont. Cmmodore Quine's statements are founded on fallacy. Blockton claims that his baby Reliance In taking the bath statistics in hotels un II. « little 2-foot hydroplane, covered general indication of the native's washing habits, the doctor confames economy with measured wile on the Mississippi River, apciennliness. That people who are stay.THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING on July 5 in the remarkable time of 67ing at an hotel for a few days fail to use of the above Society will be held in seconds, which is at the rate of 54 satate the hotel bath room dose not prove that the CITY HALL, THURSDAY, the miles per hour. The record is said to be they have never had a bath and never will 26th September, at 6.15 ... for the per- pose of receiving the Annual Report and oficial, as it was made over a Government Water and soup are cheap, and the level-Statement of Accounts for the year onding mesured mile, wd was officially timed by hended Englishman does not relish paying 31st August. of plesting office-bearers for seven members of the Mississippi Valleya shilling, or perhaps two, in a hotel for a the ensuing year, &c.
The Report and Accounts are now being j privilege which costs him practically no-printed, a copy of which will be forwarded The Baby-Reliance II, is of the "ond thing at home. So he bas his bath before to each member previous to the Mecting. ENGINEERS & this establishment in guanatved.
NGINEERS OG SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER-MAKERS, BRASS and IRON Pure Drugs, Patont Medicines, &tep" hydroplane type, and is fitted with be goes to the hotel, and, unless his stay
B. D. F. BEITE, 'Acting Hon. Secretar). 62A, QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGKONG.twelve cylinder motor of 230-bp. Only is for more than x for the a. it in usually
Hongkong, September 13, 1919. single propelles is used, and C. W. Van adequate to last him until he returns, Hongkong, July 20, 19157
932 Nastrand, who piloted the boat in her But Afton as not the question of
Mimissippi heats, rays that she only turned | expense does not enter into his calculations | Just over 800 revolutions per minute, as at all. People who take their bath serious. «gainst 1720, her maximum power. Likely often refuse to use hotel baths because niany of the Western-hullt type. the boat their condition is not always desirable." If } <1'HE
HOLDERS in the Company will he held her plint and engineer have to wear particular shout, it is that his bath shall he clean. Even in big hotels he frequently at the Office of the Company, St. George's face masks to escape the fumes. TRONG TARPAULINGS, MOST BELIABLE QUALITIES, FROM Building, No. 6. Connaught Road, Vic-
tulike mt bydimplanes, the Baby and cause for offence-and he prefers to toria, on SATURDAY, 28th September, Relianca III. is win well binticed that she wait. In this cocnection there is an ad. 1912, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving does not lift her bow out of the water andditional reason for the neglect of the hotel A Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending skip along on her tail, but rides on a fairly and boarding house tab." As pointed 31st July, 1912, and electing a Consulting even keel, neither lifting her bow nor out by several correspondenta, ladies have Committee and Auditors.
attling at the stem. Motor experts here way of washing their pet dogs in it. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com pany will be CLOSED from WEDNESre emowhat sceptical regarding the This is good for the pet dog, but is roba DAY, 25th until SATURDAY, the 28th boasted achievement of Rehy Reliance III..the visitor of any eagerness to succeed it› September, 1912, both days inclusive. and declare that no such speed is possible Eren "free changes of water may be in
fon a bout with only a twenty-foot hull, sufficient to render the bath 'wholesome
Commodore Blockton, however, insists again. that the boat has done it, and will do is
by thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and can aconmmodate any craft of no Fest long.
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The commodore, incidentally, has order- ed a 20-foot boat from the same builders, which will r present America in the trial HE SIXTEENTH ORDINARY races to select a defender, for the inter- TEARLY MEETING SHARE nation trophy, and if she shows the HOLDERS in the above Company will be spoed of her smaller sister there will be held at the Company's Town Office, only one boat in it at the finish in the Co. Lower Albert Road, Hongkong, on MON
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HONGKONG ~ GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
ASSOCIATION OF EXPORTERS AND DEALERS OF HONGKONG.
ICEBREAKERS FOR THE
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Success of a Shanghai Firm.
There remains the question of the cold
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THE TWENTY-SECOND HALF.
YEARLY DRAWING of Sixty-Five PRINCIPAL BANKS Debentures (1808 issue) of the Hongkong September, 1912, will be held at the Club Club, Payable on MONDAY, the 30th
House at 11 o'clock ... on WEDNES DAY, the 25th September, 1912,
Bearers of Debentures are invited to attend the drawing.
By Order,
J. S DOBIE,
Acting Secretary, Hongkong. September 18, 1913. 1164
HONGKONG HOCKEY CLUB.
"THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Pavilion of the Hongkong Cricket Club on TUESDAY, October Int, at 6,30 1,31,"
By Order,"
B. K. FIELDER..
Acling Hon. Sec. Hongkong, September 23, 1812 1196
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. "....
dip." There is the highest sanitary and medical authority, for stating that the cold dip is a stimulant, and, a stimulant only. To give weight to the highest sanitary and medical authority there is the unsolicited testimory of Mr G. Bernard Shaw, who stated some time ago that he regarded his sold bath simply as a stimulant, and that to a man who drank alcohol s dog of gin would serve the same purpose. Gin ans nu intimate connection with cleanliness. HE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of Neither has the coldsith. There can he
shore Club will be held on the SATURDAY, the 5th October, 1912. at 12.30 r., at the Offices of the HowGKONO far cleaner person theng the
A JOCKEY CLUB, on the Ground Floor of the colddipper" who disesheph "tab."
HonOKOJO CLUB ANSELE, Chister Rond.
By Order,
no doubt that the man th self for a good hot bath
Finally, the university
play
in the English, bonus is Against Dr Quine. A hoone witbont hath room is hopeless spemulation," said prominent house agent to a Standard représentative. The result of the tenders for the two Prospective toute metented, but
room for granted, icebreakers required by the Haibo Coo rovision of a servancy Board has now been made they are very particulse as to what sort of -roum it is. Io: many parts of known, and once more Shanghai ship London-Kennington
gton and Chelson, for
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buildom have to be congestulated on gull | Daarup there are substantial houses built
ing fit place in an international com- in the era. They all here to have bath moins put in, or petition, the successful tenderers being the
after-thought
would not lot it is the same in the Kiangaan Dock and Engineering Works. flats with one of London's old inne. There were thirty tenderers for the larie Teams will acrifice a room, even in a icebreaker, and twenty-three for the small flat, for the purpose rather than have NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a smaller. Five tenders were received from no hath room. No, the Englishma and NOGENERAL MEETING of Dodge in and Exporters of Chinese and others in China and Hongkong, four from his bath are inseparable.", Producs will be held in the Old Chamber Japan, and the remainder from Europe.
3rd
of Commercs Room, CITY HALL, ON TUES- The Eactors which decided the Conservancy DAY, Oct 8th, 1912, at 4 o'clock Board to award the tander to the King-| precisely.
BUSINESS:
nam Dock, apart from the price, were excel- (1). To approve the Rules, Regulations tenes of the design nubmitted, completeness and By-Laws of the Aerociation as of the specifications, and the fact that the drafted by the Provisional Com- four raking tugs built by the same establish- mittes elected for the purpose atment in 1910 bavo proved so satisfactory the General Meeting held on. July, 1912.
As your readers will ramember, saYS: A (2) To elects Committee to act until correspondent of the N. C. Daily News, the Annual Meeting of the Associs the Haiho Conservancy Board brought cut tion..
an expert from the Elbe last winter, to Draft Rules and By-Law ay be had on stady the conditions on the Taka Bar, who application to the Secretary,
reported that it was quite feasible to keep Applicaticum for Membership may be sent in hefore or after the Meeting the river open up to Tongku, and suggested Forms can be obtained from the the purchase of two icehaksers of a particu- Secretary,
Mer.
Chines Dealers; Exporters Paint type. If the plan proven successful, pa |
elante interested in the Export Trade ar specially invited to attend this Metting.
By Ordered an ant
generally anticipated will be the case, vasels trading to the port will load And discharge cargo at the variou. Tako and Tongku wharves, and Tieubala will no longer be out of from aus communication Hongkong, September 19, 1912, 1183 for three months, as is the cisn at prament.
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NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that SEALED TENDERS will be received at the COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Office until Noon on MONDAY, the 30th September, 1912 for the letting of CROWN LAND apposite the Central Market, for 2 years from Ist November, 1912. Forms of tender an
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Further particulars of Jetting as publish ed in the Government Gazette of 20th instant can also be seen at the Public, Works Office.
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- J. HENNESSEY SETH,
iquidator. Hongkong Septoinber 20, 1912.
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