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NOTICE.
THE THIRTY-FOURTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS of the above Company will ha held at the Ottie of the Gandral Agents, Pedders Street, Hangkong, on FRIDAY, the 31st March, 11.20 aar, for the purposa of receiving the Repot and Statement of for the year ending 31st December, 1915.
Acecunia
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pazy will be CLOED from the 18h.to 31st March, both days inclusive.
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THE ANNUAL MEETING will be held MEER WEDNESDAY, 20th inso, ut 5, 13 r. a. --
B. L. FROST,
Hon. Secretary..
Hongkong. April 27, 1918,
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NNUAL GENERAL MEETING #Dll be held in the Institute on FRIDAY SI-1 MARCH, at 9.
THE TWENTY-FIFTH
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'HE TWENTY-NINTH HALF TEAR-
THE ORDINARTHOUDERS WET Day, the 31st March
THE ORDINART YEARLY MEET-(1808) of the HONGKONG CLUB,
held in the Ofice of the Company, will be held in the Czer House at 11 Queen's Buntings, Connaught Kond, eelnek a., on FRIDAY, the 24th. Aiarch, Hoogking, on MONDAY the 3rd April1010.
1916 A 19. Noox to the perpos of Bearers of Dihestures ars inräd to receiving the Report of the Directory and attend the Drawing
Statement of Lebauts for the yose pading
31st December, 1913,
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paar will be. CLOSED is to the Sich
By Order,
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nclusird,
By Order of the Board of Directors.
R. M. DYER,
Chief Alunager.
Bongkong, March 21, 1918.
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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACNESDAY. the 5th April to MONDAY the
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Extraordinary General Meeting of THE HONOKONG ROPE MANUFAC TURING COMPANY, LIMITED will be, beld at ST. GromE BOLLDING, bater Rund. Victoria in the Co'sar of Hongkong on MONDLY the 10th day of April, 1916 a 11.30 o'clock in the forenoon when the Subjoined Relutibe which was passed
the TRANSFER BOOKS of the COMPANY will he CLOSED from WED.
10th April, 1916, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMEŠ & CO.
General Managers. Hongkong, March 27. 1816.
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the story" upon the tablet in the Univer sity of Pennsylvania,
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THE STORY.
A NEWLY DISCOVERED „Suma
A brief outline of the story í sa Some years ago among the plak or follows-Enki, the god of the seo, and Nineveh there was found a cylindrical, his wife or daughter Ninella, füled over stone seal engraved with the Bgures of Mankind in Paradise. Paradise was the aman. a worn, and a serpent gathered land of Bilman, "or the modern island of In Paridine sickness was about a tree. At once it was suggested: Hahrein."
has the anciens Babylonians were unknown. Sin had not entered, Though
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Extraordinary Resolu icn : 1h RADECKER & Co of Rexinst the firmamiliar with the old Seraitic story of the years passed, it was a land of SHONIW and KAMIYAMADA
Extraordinary General Meeting of the Compaar bold on the 25th day of March, 1915, will be submitted for confirmation As a Special Resolution:-
That the Articles of Association pethe | Company be altered in manser following
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(3) That after the word "Company" a Hongkong, March 24, 1918,
the 16th Ene of Article 10 the;
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The Opera Managers-may-BH):
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(b) That the wards." Boans ar Bor, aeg" hall be inserted immediately after "the word "Dividend "in the 18th line
of Article 110.
(c) That the words "and bonuses shall bineerted immediately after the word"Dividend" in the art line of Article 115.
Dated this 37th day of March, 1918.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
General Managers.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED
ANNUAL
THE "ORDINARY
MEETING of Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, ST. GEORGE's Br-LDING, Chater Hand, Victoria, Hongkong on MONDAY, the 10th day of April, 1916 at 11.43 AM. statament for the purpose of recairing
Account and the report of the Directors for the year ending at December, 2015 and declaring a Dividend.
1916, both day! inclusive.
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INTRIES for abovs League close
April 8th.
be
If saticient entries there will
& 2nd. Division. Secretaries are asked to state which division they enter for.
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Actg. Hon. Becretary, Hongkong, March 25, 1916.
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND JUNIOR EXAMINATIONS..
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MATRICULATI W. SENIOR TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN "that and JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS will be held on the failowing dates tume
JULY 10a-1578, 1918. "Arrangements will be made to hold the Examinations at "say towa
aficient uumber of candidates offer themselves.
where
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden,petual th
No wild beasts Calleries.
DOALA
or the story of the Fall of Man. Also destroyed the focks, and ne storms) aurong the gues of Nineveh, was dis raged. Enki, the med, decided to destroy AGENTS or SAETTO, & OLUBARI
vered a large collection of clay tablets, mankind with a fond, and be revealed his hundred thewand in number inscribed purpose to Nintirl, the goddess who had with the literature of the Babylonians created mankind. Epe nine months and and Assyrians.. When the tablets were nine days the flood raged, and men were Asyrians. When the tablets were read dissolved in the water like tallow and The world was surprised ta-And-among But Sluted, the mother goddess, the "the story of the Creation of the deteriniaed to sare a king. Tagtug, and World, and as a story of the Dange so him the add to the shore and embarked similar to the biblical story that it was evident the Hebrew and Assyrian stories
a bont. Taging, who was thus saved, responds to the biblical Noah. It was the enstont of the Babylonians to deity For sevend seas an expedition, from their kings after death. The goddess the University of Pennsylvania carried Nitad explained to the god Enk how
were the samTED.
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on excavations in the Babylonian city of Tugtig had escaped the universal destrne! Nippur, where something like a tion, and had become a god. He the
In be a gardener. Enki revealed to inscribed objects were discovered. tive actum of 1012 Profesor bephey him the secrets of trees, and plants, Langdon, of Oxford, while visiting the Tagtog was permitted to eat of the fruit murin of the University of Pennsyl. of all the trees. excepting that of the vanin, noticed a fragment of a tablet Castia But he ate of the fruit of the bearing un ipscription which sugested Cassa tree, and it once the goddess CHINELANG: Mesars Gearing &
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the story of the Garden of Eden. The intud took from him immorality. He fragment was brought to Oxfords and was compiled to labour and suffer until
lled, and it last a few the gods took pity on him and taught him MANILA Messia Macondray & a disynes story resen poe Weekly Flerald." line of a Babylonian story resembling The Furious arts to confort bim “Glasgow
next visit Profesor Langden's Philadelphia search was rauda for other figments of the tablet. Two were found
to
fitted together; and the tablet came nearly complete? The tablet is of bakeri elay, of a light brownish colour, mersur-
THE DOME OF ST. PAUL'S.
Candidates must send in their entry-ing 7 inches in length and sin. in width of St. Paul's Cathedral are rapidly pro- The repairs to the piers of the dowe The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-forms with the fee to the Regist, One side is flat; the other is slightly seeding, despite the fact that only half. pay will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, University, Hongkong, cot later than convex. Upon each side are the the 170,000 needed for carrying nut the 1ST APRIL, to MONDAY, 10TH APRIL, May 2nd, 1918.
Forms of Entry may be obtained from columps of cuneiform writing, containing work has been received. Canon Alexan-
Registrar, to bum
quiria, should be about 273 lines; originally it contained, the treasurer of the cathedral, who addressed.
about 300 lines. Scholars are agreed that is collecting the money for this fund, The following Scholarships will be it ecies from about 1,000 years before awarded on the result of the Matriculation the biblical story was written in its pointed out to a Prass representative toat Examination." provided that there are
no time could be lost in carrying out this candidates of sufficient mexit :-
present shape.
By Order of the Board of Directors. Hongkong. March 28, 1816,
the
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K. HATO,
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work, as the subsiding of the piers might|| SILIMPOPON (SEBATEIK) prove disastrous to the dome. When the
COAT.
ENorth
Two King Edward VII Scholarships of £10 year clich, for ve years, tenable only by British subjects, who must be
The story is written in the Sumerian cathedral was built iron wedges were, und r the age of 31 on the 10th July, 1916, language. The Sumerians were, the Arst inserted in the stones of the supporting à candidate who wishes to completo must cultured people to live in the lower piers, with the result that these wedges THE Undersigned having been appointed Auzes for the COWIE HARBOUR del rer to the Registrar, on or before the Mesopotamian valley to the north of the have rusted and split the founding COAL CO., LTD., are prepared to quote first day of the Examination, & certificate Persian Gulf. To just what race they stones, causing a subsidence. The west prices for best quality BILIMPORUN, of eligibility in the form specified by thelonged or where they originally lived, ern and south-west piers have arendy COAL trimmed inte Bunkers at SEBAT Regulations. Ona Scholarship will be
HANDAKAN (British I tenable in the Faculty of Arte the other no man knows. We are only sure ant been repaired in the crypt, while it is TIK or
Borneo Jo any Krait by
sta vart early timu "probably about hoped to finish the work at the base ofSTLIMPOPON COAL.compares farour- Competitors with arrange their own One Prevident's Scholambip of 8100 4500 B... they came to Babylonia the south-east pier in the crypt by Easter ably with the better grades of Japanese partners and apponents and are requested (Peking Currency) a year for fire bringing a high civilisation with them. It is interesting to note that a good deal Coal and gives good results on a very to send their names to the undersigned, er 1 tenable by students of Chinese Nationality, to post aame on the boards at Happy, he must be under the age of 21 on the They rate their language in cunekorin of the most critical work has been com moderate commumption, m
Steamers calling a BEBATTIK or Valley, Fan Ling or the Hongkong Club 10th July, 1918. A candidate, who wishes characters upon tablets of ciny and stone pleted, this including the solidifying of bef se the 5th April.
to compute must deliver to the Registrar They had a highly developed religion, the support of the dome. All the PON COAL (either cargo ne Bankers) on or before the first day of the titeriture and art., Focus and legends ironwork is being removed, and cement tion, à a' stutory of dealation of eligibility and historien inscriptions have grounting-formed in behind the facing as required by the Regulations.
Five prizes of $100 each will be awarded from them. They were the world's stones, by which means it is hoped to to the successful adidates who obtain the cultured people-al 6,000 years ago, just top subsidence. Canon Alexander asks highest marke. The winuava of the prizes as were the Girocks of a later period. that all subscriptions should be sent to may enter any Faculty but mast join, the After the University on Bep embor 11th, 1918.
Summerinas had ocupied him as the cathedral.
T. W. HILL, Acting Hon. "Secretary. Bongkong, March 22, 1916..
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Semitic Babylonians, from whom the fows descended, entered the valley. They 467 conquered the older civilised Samarians, ponsessed their cities, and adopted their culture. The Semiten had no written Innguage, but soon they began to write their spoken language in the Sumerian characters: They adopted many of the Sumerian religious customs, and " made that earlier civilisation their own. It was these cultured. Sumerians who wrote
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