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BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
Applications may be made through the undernoted Banks from whom Full information s the necessary forms may be obtained :—
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. Hoyagoso AND SHANGHAT
BANKING CORPORATION,
INTIMATIONS
THE WEST POINT BUILDING
COMPANY LIMITED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the TWENTY-NINTH ORDINARY MEETINGSHAREHOLDERS in this Compang will be held at the Offices o Mesers Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd.
13.30 .. for the purpose of receiving MONDAY, th, January, 1917 at the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the
anding 31st Deceraber, 1818. The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY 13th to MONDAY, 29th
MERCANTILE BANK OF INqLL, LTD. | January, 1917 (both days inclusive)
War Savings Certificates
Value 5 years
£500
£1.
after purchase
@luring which period no Transfer of
Shares can be Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors. A. SHELTON HOOPER
Secretary to the
Hongkong Land Investment & Agency
Co. Ltd.
Beneral Agents for the
Purchase Price West Point Building Company Limited,
Hongkong, Jan. 11, 1917...
£337 10 0 155 04.
TREE OF INCOME TAX.
For every 15s. 6d. lent now £1 will be paid in 5 years' time. equivalent to 5 per cent. com- | pound interest. No Income Tax will be payable.
Anyone, whatever his or her Income may be ena bay War Savings Certificates up to a maximum of 500 £1 Corticates In all or their equivalent.
Meanwhile the money may be withdrawn in fail any time with an addition after the first year.
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THE HONGKONG CENTRAL
ESTATE LIMITED.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the THIRD ORDINARY MEET ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Coo- pany will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Company Limited on MONDAY, 29th January, 1917 at 11.45 for the purpose of receiving
of the the parts of Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the
ending 31st December, 1918.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY 18th to MONDAY, 29th: (1) A Certificate entities the purchaser January, 1917 (both days inclusive), to receive £1 for each 155, 61, on the Afth during which period no Transfer of anniversary of the date of purchase, FreeShares can be Registered. of income tax in respect of the secuina- Inted interest
(2) A Certifieste is not transferable; cent by permission of the Fortmaster General; afro of ts. will be charged in respect of each transferee. In the event of death, the same rules will be applied as in the case of Savings Bank Deposits..
(3) On written application (on a form obtainable at any "Pont Office) being mule to the Controller, Money Order Department, London, the purchase price, ar part thereof in multiples of
of 158. Gd... time, with an dition
for wich 15s. Ed on the first anniversary of the date of purchase and with a further addition of Id. per 16. B. for each month thereafter.
(4) No person may hold more than 500 £1 Certificates or their equivalent..
be 31.
A
The £1 Certificates (parchase prier
1.
By Order of the Board of Directora
THE HONGKONG CENTRAL
ESTATE LIMITED.
A SHELTON HOOPER,
Secretary to THE GENERAL MANAGERS. Hongkong Jan. 11 1917..
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY COMPANY).
. LIMITED..
THE CHINA MAIL
ASPER
RE
FRERES
EGYP
FELUCCA
CIGARETTES -
BEAR THIS HALL MARK OF DISTINCTION
N°33
IS THE MOST POPULAR
TUNNEL COMFORTS.
GERMAN EXCAVATIONS AT
BEAUMONT HAMEL
AN UNDERGROUND VILLAGE.
Describing a visit to the underground town the Germans constructed at Pea minos Hamel, Heuter's corespondent at
ritish Headquarters in France, iz telegram, says:—~
1
We had lunch in the remains of Beau mom amet. Our dining-room was a cave deep in a hillside, and the lighting was the wax candle on the top of
colabelled cigarette tin. The baug
coverings, camp washing brains of pala
INTIMATIONS
YOUR EYES
SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTEL
At the first symptom. of eye strain you should consult 119. We test eyes scientifically and t glasses to individual re quirements.
@LARK & CO.
SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS
CHATER RQ
HONGKONG"
RK BLOGS.
HONGKONG & MANILA
green canvas. kit bags, and such things MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA
(Mitsubishi C6)] COAL DEPARTMENT.
Evidently the men slept in the pamaaga.
The colonel's tooth was further alonger ahandesno Ettle apartment by compa aun, and already lighted. The walls had Seen panelled by some German industri. mus hand in quite a pressing design, and salt, dark chintz, of pick roses on a black in places the walls had been draped with a ground. I remember having seen that TAKASHIMA, OCHI MUTABE,
SOLE PROPRIETORA OF
KISHIDAKE. YOSHINOTANI,
pattern years ago on copper role in a
Queen were visiting, mill at Accrington, which the King and HOJO,NAMAZUTA.SAYO:KANADA, SHINNEW. KAMIYAHADA, BEHAT & OYUBARI COLLIERIES!!
Stored in
TECTONIC INDUSTRY. 1 at this poins were boxes of explosives
The powage went further. bearing German marks and weeds.
One
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN this the TWENTY NINTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be at the Offices of inget shells outside was pleasantly box was filled with shining black eggs of Messrs. Jardine
Matheson & Company mutist by the thickness of the walls, and metal, each fitted with a time fase bear Limited on MONDAY, 29th January, though our habitation shook & little ating a red band on which were the words
Noex, for the
the
15. 6.) are issued in book form. The 1917 t of No ferving times, so that the wax guttered down dalis sekunden."
CertiEentes for £12 (purchase price the) tw.) and £25 (purchifau pricu_£19 7%. 6d) the Statement of the issued without books. The 1, £12
and £95 Certificates are on sale at local Post Offices and at most Banks.
The
де
wisk for the year ending GISTER of SHARES of the
31st December, 1916. Company wil be CLOSED from January, 187 (both days inclusive) during which period po Transfer of
·Shares can be Registered..
to the lid of the cigarette in zo one seemal to think it very extraordinary.
Whenever the door, opened a flash of daylight came in and eclipsed the candle
Singla Certificates for sms from £100 THURSDAY 15th to MONDAY, 29 light for an instant In those instante it)
to £600 may be obtained on application to the Comptroller and Accountant Geners General Pog Utice, London Application forms are available at all Post Offices. anda: most Banks
If Certificates be lost, and the serial numbers can be furnished to the Controller of the Money Order Depart ment, new Certificates will be issued at
■ cluarge of 18.
GENERAL PORT OFFICE, LONDON,
June, 1918.
· (For examples of investmont In War Savings Certificates, see the other side.)
Examples of Investment in
War Savings Certificates
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COLUMBIA
NEW
DANCE
RECORDS.
Mighty Lak & Bose
LA Pericer Day
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Meeting
The Magic Melody $65Gborgin Grind
Walta
One-Stop
For Trat
THE ANDERSON
MUSIC CO., LTD.
Dew Your Road,
By Order of the Board of Directors.
A SHELTON HOOPER,
Becrdory.
Hongkong, Jan. 17, 1817.
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THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA- TION COMPANY LIMITED
was possible to get a glimpse of blue sky ourside, and now and again you might watch the landing of a big shell on the crest of the hillside facing us.
AT TABLE.
The table. bills
We found to end of these," said my guide
They are the German egg nascrewed one and made it harmleen. bomb." I stood grimly by while be
My taste for hand-grenades has not yet Nice little thing, isn't it," be asked. been cultivated.
The industriacs Germans must have
Soon we came to a stout door, bolted. I asked where that led to, and he repiled: Fretty close that one," I said once"To the neighbouring dug-out." It seems to the young lieutenant on my right. Ha that all Beaumont Hamel was thus linked looked up carelessly. Oh.. en-yes. up undergrond.. Have some shrimps?
Tanel leading ∞ They're jolly tunnel had made one fast underground good."
warrento underlie the whola village. ITundreds of people might fire here below plain boards, was ground. Bedrooms, living rooms, kit- nearly covered with a cloth. The walls chens, storerooms and armament rovina-—- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that were solid planks against the yellow clay.all were provided.
the SIXTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in
The four, too, was planks. and also the his Company will be held at the Offices roof. It is not often one sees an apart spent days and days completing that of Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd. mens se uniform se to wails, foor, and wonderful system. Even the timber used an MONDAY, 29th January, 1917 at ceilings all planks. There was a steady represents hundreds of loads, all of which 12.15 P.M. for the purpose of receiving drip of water from one seam in the ceil had to be brought from afar. En places the the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the ing, but this had been provided for.
Alizka between the systems hsa bean stove year ending 31st December, 1916.
tin helmet had been placed conveni-in by our gunfire, and to get from work of SHARES of theently underneath to catch the droge. REGISTER Company will be CLOSED from
ing to working the enemy must have THURSDAY
Seven of us had our meal together in emerged into the open air, and crawled 18th to MONDAY, Sath January, 1917 (both days inclusive), that cave roem, and whenever the orderly over holes and rounds teamed up by our during which period no Transfer of came in to charge the plates cae had, as shells. shares can be Registered.
my he said, "to concentrate," for one extra person made na crowded. His journeys to and fro were to the kitchen, which was also underground.
By Order of the Board of Directors. HOWERAY, S. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary.
Hongkong, Jan. 11, 1617.
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UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY· LIMITED.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE
THE Twelfth Annual "GENERAL, MEETING of Shareholders will be held in the Ofces of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Limited on SATURDAY the 3rd February, 1917 at 11.20 .. for the purpose of receiving the report of the General Managers together with a state- merit of accounts to 31st December, 1918.
Here, by the light of a lamp, a born genius of a cook was solemnly plying his craft about a little iron range; his mind was much more occupied with such things as the exact shade of brown to which the gravy should be toned than with the noise and hullabaloo of the explosions outside. He sent us in some beef, piping hot and excellently cooked, and to follow it a milk pudding and some fruit. As there were not quite glasses enough for all to drink at once, turns were taken with the glasses available.
$122,000,000 IN-BOND.
ENEMY CAPITAL IN PUBLIC TRUSTEE'S CUSTODY.
About 22 millions of enemy capital is of property in this country held and in British companies, about 71 millions managed on behalf of the enemy and about 19 millions of debts over £50 and bank balances due to the enemy, making
total of £132000,000.
This was stated by the Public Trustee, C. J. Stewart, addressing the City of London Tradesmen's Club recently.
AGENT POR NAKITO COAL
Head Office:→→→
MARUNOUCHI, TOKYO.
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BRANCH OFFICES :- Nagasaki, Mojl, Karatı, Wakamatsd, Otaru, Maroran, Hakodate, Kobe, Osaka, Kure, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Tauruga, Vladivostock Hankow, Peking. London, New York, Shanghai. Bonglong. Buiphone
and Canton
Cable Address :-"IWASAKI Code:-AL, A. E. C. 5th Rd, Western Union, and Bentley's..
AGENCIES:-
CHINKING: Messra Gearing &
Co..
MANTLA. Messra Macondray &
Co.
SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo Ob.
Ltd. GLASGOW. Messrs A. B Brown, McFarlane & Co., Ltd.
For Particulare, apply to
К. КАТО,
Manager.
No. 2, PEDIA Szmaze,
HONGER.
SINGON & CO.
· ESTABLISHED A.D, 1880.
RON STEEL METAL and HARD FRON
WARE MERCHANTS... Wholesala and Rotsil Ironmongers. Pig Iron and The best of pulpit oratory i often koopers and Shipchandlers No. 35 and Foundry Ocks Importers. General Store. responsible for lapses into unconscious, EKG LONG STREET, (2nd Street, weak A little contretemps wäre caused by the humour,
an American Univer Bity President made the following
TUKOWGH THE TUNNEL.
'
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-arrival of two visitors from 8, neighbour.scrmon on the deirvery of a of Central Harkot) Telephone No. 516.
die.".
pany will be CLOSED from the 27thing case in the village to see the colonel dramatic attemnce: You have blind Jezuary to 3rd, February both dates but it was overcome by the quick wit of faith in the physician. He gives you inclusive.
DODWELL COMPANY LIMITED. sur host, who said Slip along to my medicine and tells you to take it. Yours.
General Managers.
bedroom" Whereupon the visitors, armed not to reason why yours but to do and with a feah lamp, opened a door in the of the minister who solemnly auroci has Hongkong, Jan. 22, 1017.
Almost equal to this is the story wooden wall and promptly, disappeared congregation that "Many persons have into the towels of the earth. To me in one eye on heaven while with the other that din candle light it looked like rome they are listening to the gossip l stage trick, but I found after lunch that earth."
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it was not..
THE KOWLOON LAND & BUILD ING COMPANY LIMITED.
Behind the door were steps leading NOTICE HEREBY ORDINARY lined with stout planks. The roof was [OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the below. At the bottom was a long corridor Company will be held at the All was pitch dar until my guide struck MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in supported at intervals by plank pillare
the
"Victorzā. BentDINGE
match and lit a series of candles that
Company's 10th Febrtiary, 1917, swers projecting from the wall on pegs
for the purpose of A.K.. receiving
REPORT of DIRECTORS stuck between the planks. Burning as ogether with Buatement of Accounts still and erect as a frozen flame, they shed for the year ending
ending 31st December, 1916.
s yellow light on low beds with dark The EEGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, let to SATURDAY, 10th February 1917 (both days incluarve), during which period no Trander of Shares can be registered..
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A SHELTON HOOPER Secretary to the Hongkong Land Investment
"Agency Co., Ltd.
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CURES DISCHARGES.KITTIER SEX WITHOUT INJECTIONS.
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LEE THAT TRADE MARKED WORD "THOPRANGAN” US (AM. FAST DATI STANKATUTAKO TO ALL SENESNE ZACKET HASANI MAVING. THERAPEUT
The Man Who Gets There
Is the mar who has blood-
Teal rich red block and: plenty of it-in his body.
WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND makes blood--lots of it life giving, brain nourishing, strength replenishing blood
OF ALL CHEMIST
PRICES: $1.26 and $2.25
Hongkong September 4, 1915.
HEAD OFFICE KOWLOON.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1917.
INTIMATIONS
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
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Hotel Mansions,
Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,
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* 1.820- still going strong-
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THE EVER POPULAR HOUSEHOLD REMEDY
Which has now borne the Stamp of Public Approval for
OVER FORTY YEARS.
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PLEASANT TO TAKE, REFRESHING AND INVIGORATING.
IT IS VERY BENEFICIAL IN ALL CASES
OF
Billousness, Sick Headache, Constipation, Errors in Diet-Eating or Drinking, Thirst, Giddiness, Rheumatic or Gouty Polson, Feverish Cold," with High Temperature” and Quick Pulse, and Feverish Conditions generally. It is everything you could wish as a simple and Natural Health-giving Agent.
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Prepared only by
J. C. ENO, Ltd.," Fruit Salt Works, London, England
SOLD BY CHRISTS AND STORES EVERYWHERE.
HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK Co. Ld
TELEGRAPHIC ADDERSS: MANIFESTO HONGKONG
Codes Cod: A1, AIB.Q. Fifth Edition, gering Firstand Second Editions, Western Union, and Watkin's.
Dock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boller Makers,
Iron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians, lak
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All classes of light Steal work manufactured by the above process,
Tanks, Drums, Ventilators, Pipes, co., &c.
DETTE OVESELE OF TIDE
ELLI AT DEDINARY SPERE TIDES
SPRINGE
THE DIMENSIONS OF DOUKI AAD SLIPS ARE AS FOLLOWS
LENOTH
HAWN OF DDOX OR SLIP ON KEEL
BLOGES
HOWLOON
Moj Dock, Kevloch
Ka. Dock, Kowloo
Patani Blit, Xa, 1. Kowloo
Paleun 1:17, 200, 1
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TOWN OFFICE.
QUEEN BUILDINGS
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