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G. P. LAMMERT:
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER.
AND SORVEYOR.
Public Auctions-
"AE Undersigned has received in Tatractions to tell by Tablic duxition,
ON
SATURDAY, May 3, 1919,
commencing at 11 am,
at his Salus Rooms, Dullell Street.
300 SILVER WATCHES. On view from Friday, the 2nd May, 1919.
Torme-Cash on delivery,
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer:"
Hongkong, April 29, 1919.
OX
WEDNESDAY, May 7, 1919,
conmancing at 3 p.m.
at the TAIKO Docks,
Five Boilers salved ox 2.9.
CHIYO MARU,”
Diameter over all 16
Length
Four Furnaces, "
'S'
Weight about 55 Toni cach.
Term-Cash on delivery,
Inspection orders on application.
GEO. P. LAMMERT, " Auctioneer.
Hoogkong, April 26, 1919.
NOTICES.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC
CO., LTD.
NO
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the THIRTIETH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Oens. St. George's Erildings, an SATURDAY, May 17, 1979, at 11.30 A., for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors. together with a Statement of Accounts to February, 1919, and electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from May
3 to May 17, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Roard of Directors,
GIEB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
Agents,
Hongkong, April 28, 1919.
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.
KUPICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
HE THIRTY EIGHTH ORDIN.] THE
ARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the fees of the Undersigned on AVEDNESDAY, the 21st May, 1919, at 1.30 AM.
The TRANSFER BOOKS and REGISTER A Members of 'the. Com- pany will be CLOSED „from the 7th | May to the 21st May, 1919, both days
plosiva.
hnmediately after the above men- fional Meeting the General Agents in pursuance of Articla 17 of the Comi
ye Articles propose to ask the Consulting Committee to sanction a call of $50 per Share in respect of the monies unpaid on the shares held by members of the Company.
At the same time the General Agents ill also ander Article 104 (p) ask for zhu sanction of the Consulting Com- wittee to the payment of special dividend of 250 per Share (payable immediately after the call out of the Reserve Fund.
Should these "unctions be obtained the Transfer Boka aid Register of Member's will he CLOSED for an ‚a Iditional 14 days, ie ontil and inclle-
ing the 4th Jane, 1919.
JARDINE MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
Generus Agents. Hongkong, April 30, 1913.
NOTICE.
ALL PERSON with the exception
A of those of Chinese races desiring to
love, the Colony should apply
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and for Sale
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Kodak Catalogue Free on
"
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SAVE YOUR CLOTHING, FURS & CARPETS by storing them in our Cold Stores for the mmer months where no moths. or vermir can altack them.
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Hongkong.
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Io House Street.--
All Photo goods supplied
Films, plates,
Self toning. popors,
Velox papers.
Just arrived.
:
Brunch Opposite City Hall.
THE CHINA MAIL.
CARRICK
Selected Virginia Cigarettes
CIGARETTE
VIRGINIA
· BLEND
SOLD ONLY IN
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OF
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OBTAINABLE
AT
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This Advertises is i-and by British-American Tobacco Co. (China) Lul
TROUBLE ON THE FULTALA.
Kia, and repay by ingratitude her sacrifice of our mullion,dend: We
"TIN DREDGING.
A passenger, "who arrived at Singamist give Russia, both autoriel ernst | pogo by the Fattila on April 20,ond w states that there was a ther gly invident on and while the vessel was lying of Negupatian waiting for the bone mails, owing to bad feel- ing between four hundred Chinese labourers returning from Mesopo alia to the Straits and China and
-
At the annual meeting of the Tong kah Harbour Tia Dredging Co., held Hobart at the end of Deccinber it was stated that one of the English
e contingent of Malays, returning bait dredgers had put up a record frena East Africa, At on stage one which, it was believed, was unbeaten
COMPLEX WOMAN.
THE BRITISH INDIA SERVICE.
PROFITEERING.
Tue Straits Fines"sbys: A gentla- ma, the bad of a local firin, we leaving for home a short time ago, and the Chinese resistants desirous of presenting him with some token of their esteem and resport, up- proached him to ascertain what form of prusent would be acceptable With becoming modesty, and spare the assistunts going to un- necessary expens, he suggested that
LAND FOR SOLDIERS.
to
for two of the Malays drew cut, their in any part of the tin-dredging world. he would like a nice scurt, is Tre penings and with carderable en 12 months this dredge bad, in the would possibly feel the cokla Sight the skipper wirel for assistance deepest part of the harbour, won 5-10 poaching Europe. One was pur and the Bilimbe, which was in the true of tin oxide, which realised, used from a leading fina, which be neighbourhood, cie w and tore after payment of royalty, 404,132,ognised as part of na onler tit of the 3ays, the Chinese coningosting web depreciation £22,466, had been execited through his owy on to the Straits by the Paitain,
and having a net profit of £71,866, office, at a cost of $36 per dozen andĮ These dredging operations bad ex-on enquiry, laurned that the assist- | seeded the boring results. The com-ants had paid $50 for it, a modest
pany has now produced 11,081 tom proft of 117 per cent.
Is this pro- An uitian legend counts thus of tin oxide, realising £1.217,808, and fiteering? for the creation of Woman: When distributel 497,500 in dividends. the Creator of the Univery was equal to 658. per share, which were about to crate a weapon, He issued at £1. Horched ther all the material at His
One of the Government schanove disposit dund already been employed
for settling diselurgedecktiers on the is the creatia of an, Thereupon
lani is to be carried out at Chepstow, He took the tortuous windings of the Srpent, the dinging" enquicity of the
The British India Steam Nuvigu- outside which town the Monmouth- orchid, the tembling of the grass, Company's service, for whichshire County Council have just ne the lightness of the leaf, the plance Messrs. Muckinnon, Mackenzie and ped a number of farms represente, for the gatêter the brine of the Company ure the local agent, has a total area, of 1,600) acres & sun, rays, the tears of the clouds, the heen well maintained, even during annber of large farts are included |tricks of the wind, the tenderness of
war time, between India and the in the purchase. The hord was very te romelwal, the sweetnes of honey. Straits, though the taking off of such arefully selected and the neces the cruelty of the tiger, the confine vessels in the Tara, Teesta and try notices have already been
Torobus and replacing ther
by served.
The arei is bounded by [string beat of fice, the stiffening ORDER ingple. Having mingled." all
cell of jee, and the cluttering of smaller ships like the Fallala, Fuziled main rods and within easy 'ha und Eurgulus, to meet the exigent distance of two railway station. these eleinents, together He created
cies of war, has been felt to some Another reason for selecting this the female sex.
degree by the travelling public. It locality for the settlement is its will "he good news, therefore, to nearness to the town of Chepstow, many, to learn that the Tara will shipbuilding centre, which promises soon be remuning the run between to become one of the largest uni Mudius and the Straits, and that it most important towns in Monmouth- Mr. Wickham Steed, the new should not be long before the Tecate are. The purchase will be divided editor of the Times, in an interview and Tarehe also replace the smaller into small holdings with suitable with a representative of "La De-vessels now running between India housing and other cominciation. mocratie Nourelle," is reported. to and Singapore.
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MAKERS
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
X
TO
parson betwem un bours of ARCHERRY & CỠ, F
1.M. and P.M. 4.. daily as the PASS OFFICE, Fust Off Building.
Applicata will be repaired to produce Fassports or identification papers. All persoon with cortain-exceptions, whe Femain in the Colony, for more than 7 days are required to Register them selves under the RECISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Fortne of Registration giving the particulars required may be obtained at the G.P.O.. and at all Police Stations.
The Penalty for non compliance is a
dao now bruce line cao.
MASSAGE HALL.
MRS. T. SUGITA
&
MISS HALU
4 Wyndham Street, Hongkong.
MRS. ASA IMASAWA.
JAPANESE MASSAGE:
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No. 38 Queen's Road Central,
Hongkong.
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FEDDERSTRÉST, Oppelte Rongkong Hotel. Telephone No. 481
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
CRICKET
SCORING
BOOKS
CAN BE OBTAINED
AT
BREWER'S
Price
$2.
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A NEW TRIPLE ENTENTE?»--
have said:--
"It is now more than ever essen-BORING THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. te that France and Great Britain!
should remain closely unitedso as
(i
THE F.M.S. LOTTERY WINNER.
Chud Chip Neoh, holder of the FMS. War lottery tichist, which to render each other mutual support.
Mr. John K. Hencken, civil en has won the first prize, amounting to France, still bleeding from her gineer Fifth Avenue, New York, is $125,650, lives in a lest Harle wounds receivel, in the great strug-l down a scheme, which certainly wooden hose in Tupai Taiping, gle, is unwilling for delay in the well, provided that his appura with her husband, Ooi Chang Sin, conclusion of peace, and would be for tunnelling is all that he claims assistant cashier, Chartered ok, eathfied with the solution of the pre-ste of a machine which he asserts are boys. She is a comely dime on for it. Brielly, his apparatus con- and her five children, thee of whi seat probleme, but it is elossary in cut through 100 feet of rocks the right side of 30, says the Taiping forder to grantee a durable
peaua! that the situation should be viewed per hour. The archite em corespondent of the Times of in the light of a more detant per moving at a rate of 500 feet per ung, where her father, a succesful braces a series of swinging hammers, Malaya, and is a native of Sumar [spective.
rapprochement exclusively cond, hupinging on the fose of the tender, resides, her gnother being Anglo-Surob between the United rock, and cruding it into powder at dead. Her rusband, an ad Penang States and England would not pre-l impact. The lammers Strike Free School boy, entered the Feral serve the world from the danger of a several thousand times per minute Ralway Department 15 years ago, new conflict; in the sunde way and ure advanced to their work on and left it after seven years wrvice allumice cristly Anglo-Saxon would the now well-known caterpiliar true in onder to join the Taiping bruch not be sufficiently strong in face of tion systein, and the debris powder of the Chartered Bank, in which he any Ruesin German, motor, a fragintats are cried away by me now served for eight years. The President Wiken wished to express.
belle. Four machines will cut winning ticket belonged to a book this in ir's recent clever political through four bunnels, leaving a sod at the Bank. Br. Ooi Chong: speech which in an attempt to interest onlinary truck for heavy waggons Sin, in buying a ticket for himself, Americans in the problems of world and another for lighter motor kaffic bought one for his wife too, in ust importance, and therefore it would work, Mr. Hencken calculates, of thoughtfulness which she now be the greatest mistake to abandon | could be dono in 80 days,
fully appreciates.
THURSDAY, MAY
NOTICES.
1818
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
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LL our Pastes bear the "Robstar" label and are made from Flour of the Best A Quality containing a large percentage of Gluten. Starch and Ginton are the principal components of Flour, Glaton is asier to digest and contains more nasriment than Sarob. Manufactured ander the most sanitary conditions.
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LADIES AND OESTLEMON,
Please notice The Breezy Garage is giving Special quotations with the latest and sewest design CARS ON HIRE for the coming Season,
CHANDLER
passengers 58.00 per Hour. $7.00 $8.00
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OUR MOTT)
Drink less patent medicine
and take more motoring.
Just landed a large stock of Goody we and Goodrith Tyres and Tubes at lowest prices. Sizes 34 × 4 and 39 x 4.
Please Ring, Write or Calle
Mr.
TANG TSUN,
Proprietor and Mausger
MOTORS
at present in. Stock.
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Tel 114.
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HOTEL.
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