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FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1920,
INTIMATIONS
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION.
Hughes & Hough I Interim Dividend of 23. per Share,
INTIMATIONS.
NOTICE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Mer of Attorney given to P. N. COOPER of Messrs. Cooper Co. of Hongkong to Sign per pro has been revoked.
S. D. SETNA & CO. Hongkong, July 13, 1920.
MR. S. D. SETNA has returned, and
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that a AUCTIONEERS TO THE VENT subject to deduction of Income Tax, hast
been declared for the HALF YEAR ending 30th Jane, 1920, at rate of 3/8! per dollar.
General Auctioneers® Share, Coal
and General Produce Brokers and Commission, Agents.
PROPRIETORS To-wa-Wau* Goal Storage
(lodes wad "Reatley's 44th & 8th Editions A 1 Telarraphic Code.
Telegraphic Address***
* MEIRION'
BONGKONG.
-PUBLIC AUCTIONS_
G.
11.
THE Undersigned base-received in structions from The Crags EXAMY PROPERTY, to sell by Public Auction,
SATURDAY July 17, 1920, at 10.30 ani, at their Sales Booms, No. R. De Verax Road, Corner of Ice Horse Strect,
Sundry Furniture,
Glass and Crockery Ware,
Carios, &c. &c...
Also
A number of Silver Articles }
*And
A quantity of Jewellery.
On view day of sale. TI-Cash.
BUGRES & BOUGH, ¿uctionser?,
Hagkong, July 8, 1921.
G.
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The Dividend will be payable on sind after MONDAY, the 9th August, 1920, at the Oices of the Corporation, where Sharebelders are requested to apply for Warrants,
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED TO MONDAY, the 26th July to SAT DAY, the 7th August 1940, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
N. J. STABB,
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Chiei Maniger.
Hongkong, July 15, 1920,
THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LIMITED.
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A INTERIM DIVIDEND of Four Dollars per Share for the six months ending 30th June. 1920, will be rayable on WEDNESDAY, 28th July
on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Com
•pany's offer
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUES DAY, the 20th to WEDNESDAY, the 9th July (both days izduzire) during which period no transfer of shares can be registere
"
By Order of the Board of Directors. MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE
Secretary to
The General Managers
Hongkong, July 13, 192).
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NOTICE.
THE interest and responsibility of MR. HERBERT WILLIAM LOOKER, in our Firm ceased on the 30th June 1920.
DEACON, LOOKER,
DEACON & HARSTON.
Hongkong, July 1, 1920.
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V. R. C.
NIGHT SWIMMING FÊTE.
TUESDAY, July 20the
commencing at 9 p.m.
String Band in attendance. The following events will be open
to Ladies of the Colony.
50 yards Handicap 50 yards Girls."
R. IL B. MITCHELL,
Hon. Secretary
WÄNT ADVERTISEMENTS
ES WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID.
Esch àdditional word 4 Conte for 3 lasertions.\
WANTED.
FOR SALE.
WANTED. A complete ses of the FOR SALE-No. 1 Stewart Terrace
latest edition of the Encyclopardin 87, The Peak Apply to Hum, Britannica. Reply stating cost, condiphreys Estate & Finance Co., Ltd. tion, etc. Apply Box No. 115. c/o Alexandrs Buildings, "Chica Mail
TO LET OR FOR SALE LENSHIEL No 141 The Peck, near Barker Road Tram Station. Apply to Linstead and Davis, Alexandra Paildings.
TRANSFORMED GEMS.
KEM.RKABLE DISCOVERIES.
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NEW USE FOR RADIUM.
FOR SALE-The GOODWILL and TRADEMARKS of well-estab shed Import and Export Business, for farther partientars apply to D'ALMADA
Road
del, Hongkong.
Squerors, 33, Queen's
INFLUENZA AT SEA.
A GRUESOME STORY.
SHIP'S FURNACE A CREMATORIUM.
Particularly gruesome detai's con ceming the treatment meted to the mission, steamer "Southern Cross" on her last voyage are contained in
London, May 20th-Discoveries concerning the action of radium on gems by which it is said that sapphires can be transformed into rubies and the ordinary precious mission staff, to the secretary of the a letter written by a member of the stones can be invested with the brilli- Australian Board of Missions Not ance of the diamond are reported by
'Sauthern Cross" aaly was the Dr. T. Coke Squance, of 'Sunderland, ordered to leave the baboor at Vila whose researches in radio-therapeutics when she arrived there, with 15 in
fuenza cases on board, but Dr.
Entries close on SATURDAY,Jnly 17, to have been of the greatest value. "I have succeeded in transforming a sapphire of faint pink hue is a beautiful ruby," said Dr. Squance in an interview, "and during the process the lustre was increased to such that extent
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MITSUBISHI SHOJI
MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Three
A. Dollars and Fifty cents per Share for the six months ending 30th June, 10:21, will be payable on WEDNES THE Undersigned bare received it- DAY, 23th July, on which date THE
structions from Tur CraDividend Warrants may be obtained on EXENT PROPERTY to sell by Public application at the Company's Office. Anction.
SATURDAY, July 17, 1920, at 10.30 am. at their Bales Rocas, No. 8 Des Voeux Road. Corner of
Lee House Street,
One Baragraph.
One Typhoon Barometer.
One Sextant.
Terms: Cash,
HUGHES & HOUGH, Anctioneert.
THE Undersigned have received instraç- tions to sell by Public Auction. (FOX 1000GHT OF THE CONCERNED),
on "
TUESDAY;
July 20, 1920, commencing & 2.30 p., at their Sales Booms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice Horse Street,
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A Small Consignment of WHITE GOODS, &c., &c., Comprising:- Pillow Cases, White Satin Quilts, Turkish Towels, Bath Towels, Bath Sheets, Double Bed Sheets, Battenberg and Drawnwork Bedspreads, Table Covers, Crochet and Drawiwork Doilies, Table Cloths, Linen Damask Serviettes,
..
Also
A few lots of Bellow Valises, Kit Bags, Suit Cases, and Attache Cases. And
Two Pairs Prismatic Binoculars. (All new goods and in small lots.) TIME:~~Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH,"
Auctioneers
Hongkong, July 14, 1820.
(SOM ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),
פט
TUESDAY,
July 20, 1920, commencing at 2.30 pm, at their Sales Booms, No. 8, Des Voeux Bosd, Corner of Ice House Street,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Corps, will be CLOSED from TUES de 2010 to WEDNESDAY, the 28th July fboth days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares an be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors
MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary
Hongkong, July 13, 1920.
THE WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LTD.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of One A
Dollar and seventy Eve, cents per share for the six months ending 30th June, 1920, will be payable on WED. NESDAY, 28th July, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office:
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUES DAY the 20th to WEDNESDAY, the 26th July (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary to
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT
& AGENCY Co., Ltd. General Agents for
TAZ WEST POINT BUILDING CO, LTD. Hongkong, July 13, 1890,
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
THE Management beg to announce
that, until further notice, the USUAL TEA and DINNER DANCES will be held on WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, also is from the 17th of July. (in addition to these regular dances) the Repulse Bay Hotel Orches tra will play daily from 5 to 6.30 PM. and from 8.30 to 11.30 ..
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager.
Hongkong, July 12, 1920.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.
have installed an additional
TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNI. WE TELEPHONE and clients, can
TUKE, BRASS AND BRASS-MOUNTED BEDSTEADS, TEAKWOOD TWIN BEDSTEADS, CARPETS, &c. &c.
comprising
Chesterfield Sofas, Arm-chalra (n vw), Folding Card and Occasional Tabla, One Upholstered Suite, 'Bedroom Facultore, comprising Teakwood White Enamelled Twin Bedsteads, large and small Ward- robes. Dressing Tables, and Chairs, Wash- standa, &c, (fumed Teskwood), Bide- boards, Dinner Waggons, Extension. Dia- ing Table and Obaica, &c. Dinner Bactices, Crockery, and Glass Ware, 1 Cooking Stower, Cutlery, đc., Bath Biom Utenalla, Electro-Plated · Wars, “Klectric Beading Laurpe and Fans Blackwood and Teakwood Screens. quantity of Blackwood Furniture, Bide Tables, Chairs, Cabinets, Pictares, Carpets, new and second-hand,
-Also
One Good Piano, I Enamelled Bath, American Ice Chest, and 1 large Ricsin. (Fali Particulars from Cataloguej,
HUGELS & HOUGE, Auctioneers, Hongkong, July 14, 1920,
nok ring up No. 482 or 2552.
KAISHA, LTD.
(Mitsubishi Trading Co., Ltd.) COAL, GENERAL IMPORTS and
EXPORTS.
SOLE PROPRIETORS OF
TAKASHIMA, OUHI KUTARE KISHIDARE YOSHINOTANI HOJO, KAMARABACA VA NEW, KANADA. BIBAL, KAMIYA MADA, and OYUBARI.
AGENTS POR SAKITO COAL
-Head Office :-TOKYO.
Branches and
+
Representatives — Nagasaki, Karate, Wakamatsu, Moll, Kare, Kobe, Osaka, Targa, Nagora, Yokohama, Tokyo. Hakodate, Muroran, Otaru. Viadivostock, Pelting, Tientsin, Dairen, Tsingtao, Tainantu, Hankow, Shanghai, Hongkong. Canton, Manila Singapore, Boershaya London, Paris, New York and seattle.
Calls Addres:--IWASAKISAL
Codes:-A.1, A. B. C. 8th Ed.,
Western Union and Bentley. Agencies for: The Mitsubishi Marine & Fire Insurance Co. The Osaks Marine &
Fire Insurance Co.
For Particulars, apply to-
S. KOMURA; Manager. No. 1. Pepney Staxit. HOCTONG.
EUROPEAN AGENCY.
WHOLESALE Indente promptly created at lowest cash prices for sil British and Continental goods, rinding
Books and Stationery, Boote, Shoes and Leather,
Chemicals and Druggists' Sundries, China, Earthenware and Glamware, Cycles, Motor Cars and Accessories, Drapery, Millinery and Piece Goods Fancy Goods and Perfimary. Hardware, Machinery and Metals, Jewellery, Plate and Watches, Photographic and Optical Goods, Provisions and Oilmen's Stores,
etc. etc.
Commission 21% to 1%. Trade Discounts allowed. Spacial Quotations on Drond Bample Cases from £10 upacards. Consignments of Produce Bold on decount
WILLIAM WILSON & SONS- (Estakad 1814),
25, ANCHURCH LANE, LOFTGK, E.ON Cable Address: * Amsyar' 'LOYDON,
HORLICK'S MALTED MILK
Pure full-creams milk, enriched with choies maltad barley and wheat in powder form." Keeps indefinitely,
THE FOOD DRINK FOR ALL AGES.
A refreshing and sustaining beverage, ready in an instant by the addition of hot or cold water. - only. No cooling. Nourishing and convenients
SOLD BY ALL CHEMISTS AND STORES.
ENGL
ar has
the almost
the sick only
NOTICES
PRIVATE CAR OWNERS!
WE CAN GARAGE YOUR CARS FOR
4.
$70 PER MONTH.
EXPERT CHAUFFEURS - SUPPLIED
AT SHORT NOTICE. -
ALL KINDS OF REPAIRS UNDERTAKEN.
PETROL, OILS, GREASES, TYRES, ETC., ALWAYS IN STOCK.
UP-TO-DATE SCHOOL" OF MOTORING FOR TRAINING PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS.
FOR TERMS APPLY:
THE HONGKONG MOTOR CO.
141, PEAYA EAST.** --
TELEPHONE 1036.
Bicycle Riders
Now
you
The Johnson Moter Wheel makes. any bicycle fato a rwo cylinder motor- cycle in 30 minutes. Strong enough for any man, light enough for women and children, Speed 6 to 33 miles an bour, 150 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Magneto and electric light geaerator. Built of the best materials
to give thousands of miles of reliable service.
And dutinarr bley
"Motor Wheel in
plage
coast
up ыш
Don't Push -Just 'Coast
Come in tud let va donoosi rate the ende vastué
Two Cylinders
Hoggarth was allowed to come on board to attend on condition that he promised faithfully that he would see that the dead were cremated, instead of being the" stopc
committed to the deep. The engine brilliance of
ers protested that as the furnaces of the diamond. Twenty years ago I the "Southern Cross" were very began a series of experiments with small, the engines being merely auxi- X-Rays as a test for precious stones liary ones, this would mean a slow These have resulted in the discovery and gruesome business, but the of the transformation of one kind of doctor regretted that such would jewel into another. The rays easily have to be done if he was allowed proved the diamond Couple of on board. The result of the seconds serving to tell a genuine Southern Crosa" having to leave, stone from paste or white sapphire. Vila and return to Auckland before Burmese rubies were also easily anyone was it enough to work the distinguished from African, though by boat was the death of Arthur Buffett. all other tests they seemed the same. He was a man of about IS stones and While experimenting with X-Rays as his body could not enter the door and radium in the dark," continued Dr. of the small furnace and he had died Squance. "I noticed that a diamond of the very worst type of plague LONG HING & CO., in a ring that I had laid dewn near the there was nothing left but to put out apparatus glowed with a beautiful and bury the body at sea and return green. This led me to experimenting to Auckland. The letter continues in phosphorescence, and I discovered that, furthermore, although Dr. that both X-Rays and radium make Hoggarth offered to sterilise each the diamond glow with this green sheet of paper separately for some light. Besides the diamond only one time, the British. Commission refas other substanice so behavesaed to give permission even for a mail mineral called kunzite found in to be despatched and it was not till America, which glows with a lovely the French Commissioner agreed that ruby hue. I submitted the sapphire the former gave into this. The two to the radium rays for a long period engineers were untiring. It rested and it turned to a glorious redip on them alone to take the ship back fact it had become a ruby, for the to Auckland, as the boys who were well sapphire and ruby are chemically the enough were too weak to be of much same. I have similarly transformed assistance. During the night watches other stones, a faint green sapphire, these engineers had to do the entire for instance, turning into an oriental work of stoking and firing as the emerald.
UNION ENGINEERING CO., LTD Tork Balding, Chater Road.
NEW MECHANICAL HAMMER.
48,000 BLOWS A MINUTE.
The trial of a new rotary scraper machine that strikes 48,000 blows a minute in Chammell Laird's Birken-
superstitious nature of the Melanesian boys prevented any from approaching | the engine room, where the bodies had been cremated, after dark.
JUVENILE THIEVES.
KINEMA INFLUENCE AGAIN.
-The Asahi tells a tale of another
misconduct of these children is again head yard, has reawakened an old gang of juvenile robbers, and the controversy. It is said that the new attributed to the baneful effect of machine, will, in course of time. Linema films on young minds. -The supersede the present method of boys involved in the present case are scaling by hand labour.
As in days of early factory im School in Nagoya, and the charge
pupils of the Hananok provements, the workmen concerted against them is that they broke into fear that they will be thrown out of the house of Arako Chukichi at Employment and the National Union Hanasaki-cho, and threatening
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Primary
of Labour has decided not to use the Chakichi's wife, who was in charge mechanical hammer under any of the house, with toy pistols, robbed circumstances, and "to take
her of a purse containing about YIQ. drastic action should the
These boys are now undergoing same be adopted. Undoubtedly examination at a local police station, temporarily but in consideration of their youth, displaced if the machine were thrust they will be released. The eldest wholesale and immediately into the boy is eleven years old.
men
would be
shipyards and factories but the gradual introduction would release thousands of men from. monotonous
WHEN BABY IS CROSS
AND SLEEPLESS.
labours and free them for other classes of work. It is claimed that it would pay the ship repairer and the builder to put on the usual | .. gangs of men 500, 200, or 100, When haby is cross and sleepless there according to the size of the scraping is something wrong and the little one is job, pay thent full wages for taking the only mesas te has.of telling the time which would be occu- Under such circumstances the temp pied under old methods, and let them tation to administer sleeping draught, For opiate of some kind. isften great all stand idle except the few required but did it unless expressly ordered to work the rotary scraper.: This is by competent doctor who has seen based on the further claim that the the child. Instead give him Baby's job say that of cleaning a ship's Own Tablets, which are guaranteed to bull for repainting would be more contain no opistes; they send the child to sleep simply because they thoroughly done and would have a remove the causes of his sleeplessness cleaner finish, sp that the paint would and mate him feel good and com stick better when put on, and would fortable. last longer, because there would be "My baby was po feeling well and no hidden rust to take away, was cross and troublesome." I are her The new machine Is, a small several doses of Baby's Own Tablets and portable motor, with wires at they did her so intch good that I would nut be without them for many times the one end for connection with an amount they cost. I strongly advise electricity supply and a short length scery mother to give them fir: trial" of shafting at the other, which rewrites 17 F. Emery, of 8 Fare'sy Place, volves with the motor at the rate of Graad Kapids, Mich, UAB. A 4,000 revolutions a minute. The Balry's Own T-bleta are a remedy for motor is half horsepower and weighs simple forer, indigestion, constipation, colicy, diarrhoe. They make testhing only half a hundredweight. MAN easy and destroy, worms. Of chemista It reminds one of an exaggerated we post free cents the vial, froca dental drill says the Liverpool Echo Dr. Williams Medicine Co. of Srechten It will put a pollah on as fine as you Road, Shanghai. -
care to demand, on metal surfaces
of all kinds or even stone.
The new machine is adaptable for
beyond the particular purpose >to which the Trade Union objects.
WALLA-VALLAS ? Endoc
the harbour but never
croga yon, "Phone 35103
PHOTO SUPPLIES, Kodaks and Kodak Films, &c. &c DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No. 174. "Quizs's ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.
SWATOW DRAWN THREAD WORK,
CANTON EMBROIDERY. “ WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Co.,
S K. TSAN &
P. O. Box 564.
34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
CABLE ADDRESS" TSANG.
THE HOTEL ASIA
WEST BUND, CANTON.
The highest building in Canton affording a panoramic bird's eye view of the whole city and suburbs.
Large and airy rooms, Elevators, Electric Lights and Faas installed. Hot and cold water service fitted, Excellent Cuisine, Bar and Billiard room, Boof Garden, Cinematograph Theatre and every modern convenience provided.
Special monthly and family rates can be arranged on application to
THE SUN 00., LTD.,
Proprietors.
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Those Oigarettes are made of selected Mild leaf tobacco and quite harmless to those who are accustomed to inhale
NANYANG BROTHERS TOBACCO CO.
165, Des Voeux Road,
Hongkong.
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