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INTIMATIONS
INTIMATIONS
BRITISH GOVERNMENT HONGKONG OYMKHANA OLUR.
WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
Applications may be made through the undernoted Banks from whom full information at the necessary, forms may be obtained :—
"CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. Ноликом AND SHANGILAD
·BANKING CORPORATION. A MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD..
War Savings Certificates
Value 5 years
after purchase
£500
Purebace Price £387 10"0
155. 64.
FREE OF INCOME TAX.
THE ANNUAL MEETING of Mom-
1549
bers will be held on MONDAY, March'ath at the Rooms of the Jockey Club Hongkong Club Annax, st 8.15 P
Hongkong, March 1, 1917.
QUEEN MARY'S NEEDLEWORK) GUILD..
TADT MAY, President of the Guild in this Colony, invites all Ladies interested in the arganisation of working. parties for war work-whether in connection with the War Charities Committee or not to attend a BEET ING at GOVERNMENT HOUSE on WEDNESDAY, 7th March at 10.30 ▲.M. for the discussion of matters of general interest.
Hongkong, Feb. 29, 1917.
HONGKONG
"1541
| HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
For every 18a. Ed. lent now £1] A NNUAL SHOW of FLOWERS and will be paid in a year me A VEGETABLES, to be bold in the
equivalent to 5 per cent" com- | BoTANIC GARDENS.. pound Intereat. No Income Tax will be payable.
Anyons, whatever his or her tvcome may be, can bay War Savings Certificates up to a maximum of 500 £1 Cerèlicates in all or their equivalent.
Mannwhile the money may be withdrawn in fulany time, with an addition after the first year.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
(1) A Certificate entitles the purchaser
THURSDAY,
the 8th March. pt 2 to 6 pm,
Admission 81.00.
19
LADY MAY
will present the Prizes at 3 pa
FRIDAY,
the 6th March, at 19:30 to 3 pm. Admission 80 cents.
at 3 to 6 p.m. Admission 20 renta
The Band of the 19th Panjabis will
to receive £1 for each 186. id. on the fifth Pay on both days. Ten will be obtain- anniversary of the date of purchase, freeble on the Ground.
of income tax in respect of the accuma- lated interest.
(9) A Certificate is not transferabl axcept by permission of the Postmaster Genemi; a fee of 18 will be charged in respect of each transferee. In the event. of death, the same rules will be applied aa in the case of Savings Bank Deposits. (3) On written application on a form obtainable at any Post Office) being made to the Controller, Money Order Department, London, the purchase price, or part thereof in multiples of 15s. 6d. will be repal at
At any time, with an addition of kl. for each tas in the first anniversary of the date of purchase and with further addition of td. per 15. 6d. for each honth thereafter.
(4) No person Dway uk more than WE Certifientes n their equivalent.
The Certificates (purchase price 15. Bd.) are issues in book form. The
A. NICOL
·lion. Becretary, Hongkong, March 1, 1917.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Smokers of discrimination always select
The
GARRICK
SMOKING
THE GARRICK
SMOKING TOBACO
"MARTIAL MUSIC.
TOBACCO
1543 A DEFENCE OF THE BAD-PIPES.
It has the distinction · of invigorating the nerves and brain of
the business man.
Does not burn - or
irritate the
throat.
in lise may be forgiven, There are tea Secttish regiments, and each of these
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SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTEL,
At the first symptom of eye strain you should consult 118. We test eyes scientifically and fit glasses to individual re- quirements.
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Each separato battalion, agafa, is usually plit into a first-line and a second-line battalion, and each battalion, Regular, Reserve, Territorial, new, Brst-line r second-line, possesses, at least, five sets of pipes. Let it be agreed that other units of Scottish origin prosessen sets to the modest estimate fifteen kindred sots the number of three hundred and thes on TAKASHIMA OCHI, MUTARE, of pipes can be laid to the charge of EOJO,NAMAZUTA BAYO, KANADA, Scotland. Canadians, Australians, Now BEINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBAI Zealandera, South Africans, all lead to this type of martial music; Irish regi
|& OYUBARI COLLIERIES" - meats, too, affect the pipes, and many a The number of sets now in commission sporudie whit of the various services. among the troops canont fall short of
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT A good Englishmen do, and should. COMPANY, LIMITED & REDUCED.profess to dislike the harbarous tunes of TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the bagpipes, writes "GRB in the the TRANSFER HOOKS of the "Globe." That is the corrcet stitude to Compang will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, 1st March to SATURDAY, adapt towards a type of music which baly 31st March, 1917, both days inclusive. the initiated can hope to understand and
The return of Capital of $2.50 per share wil be paid to Shareholders on appreciate. It is an art bedged round and after the 15th March, 1917, on with much pride and prejudice and many presentation of Share Certificates for technical diBeatties; it demands a point endorsement
of view and a standard of appreciation peculiar to an exiguous body of hillmen. Angio-Saxens, therefore, are well-advised to leave the question of virtuosity in three thousand., The streets of london
By Order of
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Himekong. Feb. 29, 1917.
1523
Certificates for £12 (purchase price £HE HONGKONG ROPE MANU. (s) and £25 (purchase price £1976. 6d.)
THE THIRTY-THIRD ORDINARY
are issued without books. The £1, £12FACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED. and £5 Certificates are on sale at local Post Offices and at most Bankx. to £300 may be obtained on application Singlo.Certificates for suns from £100 to the Comptroller and Accountant
General Post Office, London
HOLDERS in the above Company will ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE. be held at St George's Buildings Charter
arter Road, Victoris on SATURDAY
Pipe-playing to the. Highlanders,
enter not into debate pe te its merits.
is voter far to daný that the art hits merits whatsoever.
TENERARIDOS CRITICISM,
It
any
Yet there are ever Aliens who will
Gene forms are available st all the Inth "March, 1917 at 11.30 o'clock in Persist in stepping into a sphere where the silver of the mointings bail from
Poet
"I
Offices and at must Banks.
I Certificates be lost, and the serial auribers can be furnished to the Controller of the Money Offler Depart ment, new. Certificates will be issued at
charge of la
·GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,
ין
June, 1916.
(For examples of Investment in War Savings Certificatas, soo the other side.)
Examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates
Value after-
3 years.
448 15 -
2016
177 .10 -
167 10 --
8 17 6
03 18-
9 7:6 18 15-
4 18 0
43 17
-21 68
17 15-
489
Π
N.B.The Investment may be any (multiple of 15s. 6d. up to £887 10.
BROADWOOD
PIANOS
NEW MODELS
JUST RECEIVED
SPECIALLY MADE
FOR THIS CLIMATE.
SULES AGENTS
THE ANDERSON
MUSIC CO., LTD.
Das Virus: Roid:
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of the General Managers for the year
will reel with wild music when they come back. The supply of bay-pipes come" almost entirely from Scotland. But it is worthy of note that few of the essentials. of their manufacture are found there. The ebony of the pipes,, the cane at reeds, the silk of the tartan ribbon, and
Statement of Accounts and the Report tread. We read occasionally in the reservoir of wind. The tartan cloth of the forenoon for the purpose of receiving sclipesting angels would besitate to foreign parte. as sometimes does the wheep-akin bag. That is the players ending 31st December, 1916 and electing despatches of a newspaper correspondent the lag is, perhaps, of native weaning. a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
in France how this company of the Array The music and the art, however, are Company will be CLOSED from Service Corps was encountered on the indubitably Scotish, and the Scots are MONDAY the 3th March, 1917, until Menig road headed by its pipers, and how pot ashamed to adhere to the pipes in SATURDAY, the 10th March, 1917, that batery of the anti-aircraft section the face of criticism. Have not great both days inclusive.
marched to its billets cheered by the musicians, Meadelmon among them, strains "The Barren Rocks of hearkened and approved? And if there Aden. Many Irish regiments boast be a sceptic who doubts if the Scots them -1534 | pipe-bands; but they are, in a sense, selves find pleasure in the weird cadences entitled to the privilege. Many instances that man is hereby invited to attend the of beherarious criticism of bagpipe music first Highland gathering after the war. occur in standard literature. Robert Highlander-ventures to devise a chapter Louis Stevenson, Simmelf a Scot-but no
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Gramni Managera. Hongkong, Feb. 26, 1917.
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
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MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS. of Kidnapped" to a description of a piping contest in Cluny Macpherson's
NOTICE is hereby given that these
Examinations will commence on MONDAY, July 9th, 1917.
Arrangements will be made to hold the Examination at any town where
fficient number of candidates offer themselves. Candidates who wish to be examined at any other place than Hongkong or Shanghai must apply to the Registrar on or before Apri 2nd,
1917.
headquarters. This chapter, do not
escape technical error. The example of writing on a national subject should have a Scotsman failing to accuray it, his
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verisimilitude told us in his." Bros más gostera
Highway" how a casual acquaintance of of
the hero stalked away playing a pih
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been simple warning to les qualified tish firms have offered in the past to The poor encouragement, which Bri- artists; yet Mr. Jeffery Farnal, thinking, research work was illustrated by the Rev. no debt that he had attained true. R. Wynne-Edwards (Leeds Grammar in his presidential address to the Incorporated Association Forms of entry and all particulars can
member of their own association, be obtained on application to the roch." A piper would no more, think of said the speaker, wrote that after REGISTRAR THE UNIVERSITY, BONGKUNG.
playing a pibre" when departing dating D.Sc. (2nd class honour in chemie- from a chance meating than the Palace work in Germany, he was offered a post and spending a year in research The cetry form duly filled in, must Orchestra would dream of performing the at £100 as research chemist to s reach the Registrar together with the Fifth Symphony to herald the entrance firm. (Laughter). The works manager a large feo (Ten dollars, Hongkong Currenty) on of Mr. Neison Keys in the Rat scene of of the firm was killed a or before May 2nd, 1017.
a few days after- will be awarded on the results of the neither the name of the instrument nor no hope of a rise for dom and Betail Ironmongars. Pig Item an
The folowing Scholarships and Prizes revue. A pibroch, be it anderstood, is Ward, and he was then offered the post TRON STEEL, METAL and HARD
at te princely salary of £160 with WARE MERCHANTS Matriculation Examination, provided the generic term for any pipe tone. It Another member of the association, Foundry Coks Importers General Store- that candidates of sufficient merit offer is a definite musical form skin to the who obtained first-class in both parts of sepers and Shipshandlers No 85 and themselves.
pizzoforie sonata, and ecposting, like the scienca tripos in his three years at 87, Ene Loore Bar, (End Stroe west Cambridge, was recommended to a great
Hongkong September 4, 1912.
ESTARASHID A.D. 1880, 11.
Whilensis
The King Edward VII.Scholarship that type, of a theme with variations. armament firm, who offered bim « port of Central Markéć) Telophone No. 516.
of £40 a year each, for five years, tenabile in any Caculty. A candidate for the scholarships must be under the age of 21 on July 1st and must before the Arst day of the examination, submit to the
Every Scotsman, of course, professes a Registras proof that he is a Britishve of pipe-musics-oven the Lowlanders subject.
who can claim the pipes as their national (D) Une President's Scholarship of instrument with no more justice than four hundred dollars (Peking Currency) they can the viol-de-gambore. These tien works a science experts at es s for five years, tenablu in any Faculty latter are eager in their appreciation of Week, while workmen in the same?works
might be earning £5 or £6,6 week.
Yes, it is dangerous to write of matters at "nothing-s-year for two years, with one knows naught of.
the prospect of being taken on at the end of that time at a salary. If they had offered him 235, or 30. & wook he would have risked it.
A candidate for this Scholarship mut the wild tones of the North; they are
enthusiastic regarding the simulating
bo under the age of
of £1 years on July 1st and mest before, the first day of the examination submit to the Registar power of Baile Innersoro," "* Anglice" proof that he is the son of Chince The Campells are Coming, and parentes
that he was not born: Athol High anders. But mark a British Possessior Protectorate; that
he has not adopted any foreign nation subtlety of Lowland criticises: those in ality and that bey is not Eligible to the movement will tell you" with sage compete for a Kink
Edward
VII emphasis that the pipes sound best at
Scholambip
A
Chines General Chamber of distance Bonest folks, they do not mence. Bcholarships of 200 delays mean that pipo-music near ab band • le }
esch, for 4 years, tenable in the
unbearable, but that distance lends
Faculty of Engineering. These schular
ships will be awarded to poor students
enchantment to the graces of the art.
Or perhaps it Is the fine, caller air of
the Univer
(d) Ρίνο
who would otherwise be unable to enter the Lowland hills. The Lowlander in Prizes of $100 each ever anxions to share the virtues of his Currency),
Highland neighbour. That Celtic glum King Edward VilarPrendent's Scholarship or
Pour l cash prizes must enter the University
Cantantes who secura)
on the day on which the
One still board, the speaker added, of graduates serving in Government mum-
COUGHING INTO CONSUMPTION
Only a Cough" but you.stop while. It is ONLY a cough.
WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED
COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND
THE PIPES AND THE WAIL Nevertheless, in spite of its exclusive
The firest sparation" "mas
far
University session opens and just reside in one of mess, fe spite of Sassenach disapproval. the lostels directly managed by the University
even, in spite of Iwland the popularity of the
The examinations will be conducted according to the Regulations for the extended over such Senior and Junior Local Examinations in the and for the Matriculation Examination
**Hongkong, Feb. 20, 1917
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