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INTIMATIONS
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
INTIMATIONS
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT OMPANY, LIMITED & REDUCED,
WAK SAVINGS CERTIFICATES THE VALIGHTH ORDINARY
"Applications may be made through the undernoted Banks from whom fall information and the necessary forms may be obtained --
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
ACSTRALI AND CHINA, HONGKONG AND SHANGHAL
Banking CorpoRATION, MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD.
War Savings Certificates
Value 5 years
after purchase
£500
MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the Company will be bald at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Buildings, hater Road, 27th day of Mar. 1917 at 11.3) 4 Victoria, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Acounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1018, and declaring Dividend."
By Order of
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hongkong. March 8, 1917.
1556
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED & REDUCED.
JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TRANSFER BOOKS of the, Company will be CLOSED from Purchase Price THURSDAY, 1st March to SATURDAY,
31st March, 1017, both days inclusive.
£387 100 15s. Od. FREE OF INCOME TAX. For every 155. 6d, Jeat now £1 will be paid la 5 years' time. equivalent to 5 per cent. oam pound internat. No Lacome Tax will be payable.
Anyone, whatever his or her fecome may be, can bay War Bavings Certifientos up to maximum of 500 £1. Certifontes Į In all or their equivalent..
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Meanwhile the money may be withdrawn in fail any time, with an addition after the first year.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS. (1) A Certificate.entitles the purchaser to receive £1 for each tas, on the fifth anniversary of the rate of purchase, free of income tax in respect of the accumin- lated interest.
(2) A Certificate is a transferable exempt by permission of the Festinaster eneral's fe of t. will be charged in respect of each transfered In the event of death, the same rules will be applied as in the gase of Savings Bank Deposita,
(3) Du write application for as form elstunable at any Post (tie) being nude to the Controller. Money Order Department, London, the purebase price, or jurt thereof in uiultiples of 158. tel., will be qued at any time, with an sddition of 31. for enth on the first anniversary of the date of purchase
The return of Capital of $150 per share will be paid to Shareholders on and after the 15th March, 1917, on presentation of Share Certificates for endorsement.
Яr Order of THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Hongkong, Feb. 1917.1 $1500
THE EONGKONG A WEAPO
DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
held
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEET ING of SHAREHOLDERS will be in the Office of the Company, 2. Queen's Buildings Hongkong, on TUESDAY 87th Aarch, 1917, at 12 Yoox for consideration of the Directors Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1016.
The SHARE REGISTER and TRANS- FER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 21st to the 27th instant, both days
elusive.
*
By Order of the Band of Directors,
R. M. DYER Chief Manager.. Hongkong. March 17, 1917.
15877
THE ASSOCIATION OF EXPORTERS AND DEALERS OF HONGKONG.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEET.
ING of the
of the and with a farther milition of 1 per ASSOCIATION OF US AND DEALERS OF HONGKONG will he held on TUESDAY, the 27th March, 1917, at 4 PM. precisely, in the CHAM- BER OF COMMERCE ROOM, Now. GOYEEMENT BUILDING, for the following.
Is. ft. for each month thereafter.
(4) No person ay hole more than 5 Er Certifientes their equivalent.
The Certificates furchase price
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15%. (d.) are issneti in book form. The Certificates for £12 (parebist price 49 Gs.) and (purcluse price £13 7s. are saved without books. The £1, £1 and £45. Certificares are ori sale at local Post Offices and at isust Binks.
Single Chrtificates for sumns from £100: to £500 may be obtained on application the Comptroller and Accountant
General Fost Office, London: application forms are available at all) Pont Offices and at most Banks.
Certificates be lost, and the serini numbers can be fumiished to the Controllor of the Money Order Depart ment, new. Certificates will be issued at
charge ut la
GENERAL POST OFFicy, Los dos,
June, 1918.
(For examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates, so the other side.)
Examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates
469 35 —
981 5 -
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3 17 0
NB-The Investment may be skuitiple of 15s. 6d. up to 2827 10%,"
HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY
LIMITED.
purposes
(1) To receive the Peport and Accounts
of the Committee for the perc ended 31st December, 1916.
(3) To cleet a New Committee. (3) To transact any General Business.
By Coder
E. A M. WILLIAMS,..
Secretary Hongkong, March 17, 1917-
HONGKONG" IUE 'COMPANY,
LIMITED.
1888
THE CHINA MAIL
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NEW SENSATION FOR, CINEMA PATRONS.
VITID SCENES FROM, DATTLE"
FIELD.
Over andred picture theatres" - in London showed the Sale of the Anere film--including the advance and return the Tank-to packed horses recently. Writing pt the Mr H Mardin, in The Chronicle y-So those up the Tanks!
Thone
#juns, blisure peripatetic dustbinet As soon, expect, aur hygiene friends of the hickyard to start douling
| dvach and Jengu¿tion. Of course the Tommies laughed, of course they invented raplimentary name for such fatons lumps of old iron: but ece doubts at first if they ever sully compared them with antediluvian monsters, They look minch ten incompetent for an ichtbaanu. rus, or a megatherium for that matter.
But they more. Our Galilees were right. A scout thrusts its way serox the
It has the distinction of invigorating the nerves and brain of the business man.
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Does not burn or
irritate the
throat.
Tommies as all cherting as she crawls-
INTIMATIONS
BATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1917.
INTIMATIONS
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansione.
Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS
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YOUR EYES
SHOULD NOT BE NEOLECTEL,
At the first symptom of eye strain you should consult ' us. We teat
eyes scientifically and fit glasses to individual re-
quirements.
ARK & Co.
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shame janmily--down addy defile. MITSUBISHI GOSHIKWAISHA
We want to cheer tev, We are caught
up into the after he-babil tider f emotion. Amir" I try to get into that blistered, peripatetic dustbin (more : blistered now than ever), among the mon, and forther that, that into the men's
mindy
•
Buy grasp what they have gone through Der nayone realise an emo tionstil it is well on the way to History" And we actually see the men, if not their minds, a few minutes later. Theres connot be far short of ity of theus jolly" cheering crowd.`just "ordinary, rumbustions young Englishmen to look at, hot in the least Jules Verna-y or 1. G...Mela-ish.
Tuit is what strikes one about the whole of this great film. No amount of mechanical marvels-tanks, or huge
hiswitzers, or what set-con smothar the workaday, do your-duty, keepsmiling. sentiment. From beginning to end-and it is a long span, for the film takes an hour to showthere is not one theathjeal
sture, not one pose.
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Scottish troops are standing, to knins awaiting the signal to go over the top. You see each Ince, large and clear, and have time to study it. None of the faces looks tense or distraught en look the same at peace mamruvres-interested but a trile casual. The word comes and
THE THIRTY-SIXTH ORDINARY top left-hand corner of the series, and they an over. It is all so very cool and
ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the Offices
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The thing is no longer a dustbin but a
of the General Managers at 113) AM | Eunst, You catch sight of the beast's
WEDNESDAY, 28th instant, "to receive a Statement of the Company's
nate, which happens to be "C-I-Say!" Accounts to 31st December, 1910 and and immediately the beast makes another the report of the General Managers.
evolutionary bound and becomes The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
distinct U wemid, Amazon, as Company will be CLOSED from the 14th by 28th instant, both days inclusive. personality as a ship of war. And so
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LAT.
avyone here in peaceful London gets General Managers.
the chance of understanding how the great Tank folk-tala.was born on the battlefield, fathered and mothered by the humour and pluck of the army.
Hongkong, March 8, 1917.
1562.
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HOW SHE LOOKED AND RERAVED. Oh-I-Say!" nowes her way diagonally
tethodical,
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Then, the arrival of the wounded. Some CHINEIANG: Messrs Gearing & of these incidents are extraordinarily moving. You know you must be approaching the threshold of dents, but MANILA. Messrs Macondray & thar authorities very rightly. I think huve, not permitted more; there are no obvious corpora Apart from any ques tion of decency, if there were the emotion would be too choking, for I repeat) these are the actual men who went through it, this is how they koked.
***Oh, poor boys!" lady sitting by me keeps on saying. And she saya it, I believe, about the German wounded scross the short till her whole carcase, with just as much grieving as about our THE FORTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS with its absurd wheeled tallreminiscentown lids. They come by en stretchem, will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned at Nook, OR WEDNESDAY of eae of those pictures of fat-tailed sheep or limping, with bandaged heads, almost done. One German, wearing immense the 28th instant
in foreign, travel-books-comes into view spectaries, and gazing always straight The TRANSFER BOOKS of the This, I keep saying to myself, is precisely into the camera, keeps on getting into Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 28th instant, both days bow she looked and how she behaved the picture. The face haunte que; 'ita, inclusive.
when at dawn on September 15th, 1016, eyes hurt. The man is suffering lika"s she crawled beyond our front line on the Ancre and out into the unknown, among the barbed wirs and the shell-holes and the hundred guessed-qt danger. This is not an impression coming through another night. man's brain. Time anil space vanish; this is she! I find myself struggling to imagine the emotions of the men inside, half succeeding, falling.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Ltd.
·General Managers. Hongkong Fire Insurance Company Ltd. Rongkong. March 8, 1917.. 1559
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY LIMITED.
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NOTICE
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dog.
But the film is well contrived, for it carries the tale on to the end of the day to victory, and beyond that into the
"Our tireless army knows no rest, All night long transport and troops ove up to the line to continue the great fight for freedom."
She's among the barbed wire out thera Freedom! Only that could justify it on the right. It vanishes like cotton all
THE THIRTY-NINTH ORDINARY threads of spider's web across 3 101d
ANNUAL MEETING of the any pany will be held at the Offices of the Songs are planed out. The mud we were SHAREHOLDERS of the above Com-when a motor-cer goes by. Trees go. General Agents, Pedder's Street, on seeing so much of ion minutes ago, FRIDAY the 30th instant at Now for much butter to ber. Shell-bales she the purpose of receiving the Report and
anerzai ab, though rolling bit, like Statement of Accounts for the yo sip, at eas. São grows smaller and anding alst December, 1018.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the smaller, crawling on to where the shells Company will be CLOSED from the are bursting, crawling on with these men 18th to 30th March both days inclusive. inside, crawling on with a perfectly
JARDINE MATHESON & Co., Lith.
sbeurd indifference to all the evident lawn General AgentM
of nature, to everything except ber Hongkong, Marah 9, 1917.
waprèmely absurd and fantastic mission in lite, or death, why
(Incorporated in the United Kingdom).
TOTICE
is hereby given that the COLONIAL (HongLong) REGIS. || TEE of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, 27th Manch, 1917, to WEDNESDAY, 28th APRIL, 1917, both days inclusive
By. Order of the Board of Directors. WE ROBERTS, Secretary, Hongkong, March 10, 1917. 1001
HONGKONG OLUR
THE
NOTICE
THIRTY FIRST YEARLY
1360
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP QUMFANY LIMITED
NOTICE
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of FIVE A DOLLARS per Share had been Declared and will be Payable at the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpora tion on or after WEDNESDAY the
April
The REGISTER of the Company will CLOSED from SATURDAY, 31st GENERAL MEETING of the March WEDNESDAY, 4th April, MEMBERS of the BUNGKONG OLUB both days fnclusive, during, which days
l be held in the CLUB HOUAR on no Transfer of Shares can be made THURSDAY, the 20th March, 1917, DIVIDEND WARBANTS will be.
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Mar 13 1927.
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