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ANNUAL MEETING of this CompanyT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that will be held at the Otices of Messrs in consequence of the continued JARDINE MATHON & Co. LTD., on absence of an in suficient quality to THURSDAY, the seth May, 1915, a replenish the gravitation resarvolra, and NOON, for the purpose of receiving the one of the new pumping engines st being unavailable for Report of the Directors together with Taita Tuk Statement of Accounts to Suth April, 1918 service, it is nesemary to curtail the Company will be CLOSED from Friday. District after the sath instant and The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Supply of Water to the Rider Main the 24th May, to Thursday, the 30ta May, 1918, INCLUSIVE
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HOW TO PRONOUNCE MARGARINE.
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The eternal question-hew to pro- nounce margarine 7-was being vigor ourly discussed, and the "gin" gol analogy had been urged with vehemence, when new-comer arrived. The companyigreeted him with the question: "Is the'g'in margarine' hard or soft Without hesitation and with wise smile be settled their doubts, with the answer, "Ob. aarely it's hard in winter and soft in summer."
THE SWING OF THE PENDULUM.
ACUTE PAPER, SHORTAGE.
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There a acute paper shortage. The man in the street imagines that the Marshall Hall and Sir Desmond O'Cal bulk of the goods goes to farnish the laghan Letters were read from Fi daily Press. The fact is, before the war count French and Lord Jellicoe which That work.. 10 per cent. of the total samoed for were warmly appreciative of Mr. Rebey's the newspapers of the country.
Sir William Dunn, in proposing the amount is now out down to one-sixth of health of Mr. Robey, referred to him as pre-war-quantities, and the price has the "Master of our mirth and the lord
of our laughter." one up 400 to 800 per cent. Books, then, you would say, are eating up supplies But the president of the Publisher Association shows that all the volumes issued are responsible for but 5 per cent. of the whole. Commerce, munitions, and reduced imports are re- sponsible for Fleet Street's famine.
THE DOUBLE-EDGED PEACE TREATIES..
The double game which Germany is We are witnessing on astonishing just now playing of making peace awing of the pendulum. The rise of the treaties serve as a shield for war and Turks in Europe first severed the over annexation against those with whom land route to the East. Bo Columbus the treaties are signed, is a development. of Bismarck's specialised diablerie. sailed to the West to find the East by Familiar as we all are with the story of way of the sea-and discovered America the forged telegram at Eas which made Today the spread eagling of the para- the Franco-Prussian war, we forget the mount confederate of the Turks threat corollary of that act. We forget bis. fictitions peace policy. There at Ems, ens the same land areas. Now sons of while Roon and Moltke watched him, he Colonibus's new world come steaming committed forgery and high treason, and from the West, while a Russian Govern his vils associates acclaimed his villainy mens, established in the land of Kublai with thanks to God, as the Kaiser ac Khan, is to march back from the East claims the perfidy of bis minions to-day. in armed as ciation with the island Power against which Coleridge's hero made such bitter war by sea.
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THE NUMEROUS TIME-ZONES.
What a winding up of watches there will be, if they bring home "time" with them. when the
Brazilian Aging sailors Join ours. Some of the Brazilians will find themselves three hours, soms
good financier,"
am not really a explained Mr. Robey, "but I am desperado when I want money. When I received my first income tax paper I was naked to give my occupation. I did not understand it, so. I wrote 'Adventurer across it. The authorities saw the comic- side, and I heard no more. (Laughter.)
IN BRIEF.
Eat less breathe more. Talk less think more: Ride less walk more. Cloths less'; bathe more. Werry leas; work moran- Waateless; give morus”, Preach loss; practise more. (From the Ohio State Journal.)
Thanks to God for a crims against humanity-then an act to save his face. The war, which he had rendered irrevoc able, must seem French made withe designs, says the Rangoon British connivance. After hir outrage
had been wrought, Bismarck actually Gareth, have been received for the had the effrostery to complain to our Australian monument to be erected on Ambassador, Lord Augustus Lofton, that the banks of the Suez Canal, two "Great Britain should have forbidden Australian and ene Lalian. By the France to enter the war. He said it as tarms of the competition the monument so sa his trick had matured he re-is to reprosent an Australian mounted peated it later when all was smiling for trooper, and it is to be placed
apponite four hours, some five hours slow accord Restan arase. Lord Morley has shows De Lesseps statue at Fort Baid. The ing to Greenwich-for they have three time zones at home. With Americans how overwhelming would have been the estimated cost is 25,000 which has the position is still more complex. They discomfiture of Bismarck had his mock already been subscribed by the men in
the field. have fire different standard times plen for intervention succeeded.
Atlantic (or maritime), Eastera, Central, Mountain and Pacife. And then the Paciso Islands! What the people in England call noon to lay will be mid-
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