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will be CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS on FRIDAY, SATUR. DAY and MONDAY, the 8th, 7th and Dih instant.
Bongtong, Apill 3, 1917.
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ST. GEORGE'S DAY.
APRIL 93RD, 1917.
SCENES FROM
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THEATRE 'ROYAL,
NOTICE.
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AT 8.15 F.M.
Hongkong, April 4, 1917.
1631
Notes is hereby given that P DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
authorised to enter into Share Contracts or our behalf.
MOXON & TAYLOR
"Hongkong. April 2, 1917.
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NOTICE.
bereby give notice that I have from to-day's date severed my connection With MA FUNG CHU, and that he has e authority to sign my name or to ollect accounts due in respect of my business.
Date, Hongkong, 31st March, 1917.
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J. CAER CLARK, Architect and Surveyor.
NOTICE.
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THE Interest and Responsibility of
Me SOLOMON SASSOON BES JAMIN in our Firm in Hongkong.ceased en the 31st day of March, 1917.
Ma. PATRICE CUMMING HUTTON POTTS and MR. HERBERT RICHARD BUDD HANCOCK have this day been admitted PARTNERS in our Firm" in hongkong.
BENJAMIN & POTTS."
Hongkong. April 2, 1917.
NOTICE.
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N the ESTATE of MARY SYDNEY ANN DALTON wametimes known As Mary Oliver D'Alton, ate of Pudding- ton, State of New South Wales, decessor, in testate.
HENRY GEARY D'ALTON otherwise known as Phillip. Courtney hit Anoka, son of the above-namel deceasel, requested to communicate with the undersigned respecting his share of the
J. W. GARRETT,. Public Trustee
above estate.
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N INTERIM DIVIDEND of FIVE A DOLLARS per Share has been Declared and will be Paruble at the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpor tion on or after WEDNESDAY the 4th April
The REGISTER of the Company will March to WEDNESDAY, 4th April be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 31st
both days inclusive, during which days no Transfer of Shares can be made.
DIVIDEND WARRANTS will be ready on WEDNESDAY the 4th April, sad may be obtained on application."
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The Cinemagraph Commission of Inquiry established by the National Council of Public Morals resumed its sitting recently at the Central Hall, Westminster, under the presidency of the Bishop of Birmingham.
Mr. Jobs D. Tippett, managing directer
Area CHS.
the Transatlantic Film Corupany Limited), the distributing agents in Eunups of the Universal Film Manu- facturing Company of America, giving evidence, snid the talking pistian hui, so far, not met with any Several attempts had been made te per- fort a marine (generally a small photo graph placed behind the centre of the sorren and worked electrically from the operator's hax) to get the people acting in the pictures to present the illusion of talking: "The object was to make the phonograph voice synchrotize with the porresponding movements on the screen, but this had an for proved a failure, because it was impossible to create the illion that the voice was proceeding from the people gering on the screen. When the time mg, that a picture could be projected on the screen the size of the average stage proscenium, 20ft. to 30ft. wide, and the voice epuld be thrown fron ane character on the extreme left to another on the extreme right, probably a great advance would he made in talk- ing pictures.**
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many ill-founded aspersions cast upon it by narrow-minded bigots and busy. bedies that it behoved them to be parti cularly careful not to lay themselves open to the charge of presenting anything which might be construed into evil by prejudiced folk. Of course they must not he debarred from presenting a power" ful story, or facing sex problems of vital impors to the future of the mce; but it was certain that all this could be done with propriety decency, and proper dignity.
Mr. Cecil Repworthy, who gave evidence last week on behalf of the Cinematograph further examined on the output of Eng Manufacturers was again called, and
Eshims. He strongly emphasized the present unjust and indiscriminate agita, tion against the 'einema, which, te said. was calculated to injure the remaining English business unless the Commission was able to clear the atmosphere and to
they were all waiting. There had been lay down a constructive scheme for which
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Having sketched the history of the rise. of the motion picture industry in the United States, "Mr Tippett said the difficulty abort making a success with zaything that pertained to edreation was
"The ruthless submarine threat is t that, as the shornmaal declared, "there growing military strength of the Allies confession of Germany's failure. The is no money in it." The objections faces the declining strength of the Cen- raised against the cinema for school par mana bave steadily dropped behind in tral Powers. For two years the Ger 'pree on account of the defective ventila. material resources despite the grows tion and doubtful hygiene of the picture of thousands of war prisoners and de illegality of their employment of scores kcases would not hold water. They com-
ported civilians as munition producers. pared favourably with other public places all fronts has forced Germany and "The co-ordinated Allied pressure.on -indeed, they were more comfortable Austria to draw upon inferior material. and healthy than most theatres. In New Germany is foching severely the strain of bolstering up ber steadily weakening York no children were admitted to the allice, such as the Austrian army on the TRON STEEL METAL and HARD Russian front, and the Bulgarian army picture houses unless they were acco-in Macedonia, which would collapse but and Retall Ironmongers. Pig Iron aud janied by an adult, but the children for German stiffening. The date of the Foundry Cake Importare. Gener 1 Btore- would stand' outside with the money in end of the war cannot be fixed, but it keepers and Shipehandlers "Nos. 35 and will inevitably extinguish the Central 87, Hime Loans Brar, (2nd Stene: west
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