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TUESDAY. MARCH 20, 1923.
INTIMATIONS.
"THE BONGKONG HIDE AND
LEATHER CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
an EXTRAORDINARY GEN- || ERAL MEETING of THE HONGKONG HIDE AND LEATHER COMPANY, Lord will be held at NOON on SATURDAY the 24th day of March 1923, at the Company's officeStephen's Buliding No. 67 and 69 Des Voeux Road Central, for the purpose of con- aldering the Report of the Investigat ing, Committee appointed on
the 29th November 1922.
Dated the 16th day of March 1923.
By Order of the Board,
F. CRUSH,
Acting Secretary,
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA, DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Office of the Company, 2, Cason's Buildings, Hongkong, on MONDAY, 28th Marob, 1929, AT NOON, for consideration of THE DIRECTORS REPORT and STATE MENT OF ACCOUNTS for the year ending 91st December, 1924.
THE SHARE REGISTER ard TRANSFER BOOKS will be closed from the 17th to the 36th Marob, 1923, both daya inclusivo.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
R. M. DYER
Chief Manager. Hongkong, March 12, 1928.
CHINA SUGAR REFINING CO.
NOTICE.
THE FORTY-FIFTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the Shareholdere of the above Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Podder Stroot, CD TUESDAY the 37th March at 11.30 am. for the purpose of receiving the Report & Statement of Accounts for the year ouding 31st December 1922.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the 13th to 27th March, bath days inclusive. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE FIFTY-FOURTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Share- holders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on TUESDAY, the 27th March, 1923, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1922.
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HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB.
A Supper Dance will be held on the
kong Hotel at 8.30 pm. All intending 23rd March 1993, at the Hong subeerfbers who have not yet sent in their nanice please forward same to the undersigned.
W. BROWN,
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Hon. Soc. Dance Committee. ofo TAIKOO DOCKYARD, Hongkong, March 19, 1923.
HONGKONG CLUB,
NOTICE.
THE Thirty-seventh Yearly General
·
HONGKONG CLUB, will be held in the Meeting of the Members of the Club House on MONDAY, the 26th March, 1923, at 5.30 p.m.
By Order,
A. H. ABBAS,
Secretary, Hongkong, March 15, 1923.
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DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES.
THE Annual Collection is now
being made. Donatione and articles of any description for The Sale may be sent to Mrs. Pollock, 128, The Peak,
BEGGARS OF CAMBRIDGE
SUBTLE APPEALS TO THE VANITY OF FRESHERS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
of humour. None but the staunch
adherent of the C.O.S. will refuse
Who could resist such a rogue? A subtler appeal is to one's two unversities are as alike as two In this one respect of beggars the vanity. Some young man has just won the most coveted prize of Un-Peas. An Oxford don, and Fellow "A Former Victim" writes iniversity life: a "blue" for rowing, of his college, was cycling some terestingly in the Daily News on or rugby football, or for cricket the beggar pesis of Cambridge.
His face is known throughont Cam Just now, when the new Lent bridge, for do not the photographers term is beginning, he says, the display the blues' portraits mount jolly beggars of Cambridge will be ed on an appropriate coloured card flocking to the town from the coun- in all their windows? He is try round. Their prey is the in-waylaid by the beggars ("touts" graduate. Many ate their wiles for cd on his distinction. Again the nocent and open-handed under in local parlance), and congratulat
the money out of his pocket. cozcaing the youth and charming shilling of self-satisfaction passes
into the palm of adulation.
ly demand money.
a
twelve miles out of Oxford, a week before the beginning of term. He met a dozen jolly-minded tramps singing their way towards the city. They hailed him, and asked him when-term began. He told them not for a week. They were pro- a week out in their reckoning, and fuse in their thanks. They had got he had saved them a twelve-mile tramp and a weary wait in Oxfoni their natural prey descended on the city.
A simple lay is that of the fierce
It is not necessary that the victim and bearded disreputable. Lurk- should have gained a bine. One ing in the byways of Cambridge is grateful for being mistaken for
So to-day from Royston in the man, not sure of himself or his One to whom this happened re- Turpington, from Ditton, Harston, he will see a timid, lonely Fresh-blue and pays accordingly.
far south, from Over and from the road towards him, and turculent-have I got my blue for?" whereabouts. He will stalk across plied: "That's news to me. What Shelford, Barton and Coten, from Madingley and Cherry Hinton, St. "Rowing, sir."
Ives and Babraham, the beggars "Never rowed a stroke in my are marching on Cambridge. They life."
are going into residence." They hope for more than crumbs from Dives' table. Some day they will form themselves into a limited liability company, a Camorra, or a Trust. Already the legend is bridge beggars has a son at Christ abroad that the king of the Cam
But if the fresher belies his looks and strong mindedly tells the beggar to go where a strong mindedfellow would tell him to go, the beggar will change his. tactics. Smiling, he will admit that "he approached you in the wrong way, sir," and such is his infernal impudence he will continue to beg. It is a strain on one's sense
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THE CHINA YEAR BOOK-1923.
THE New Issue of the CHINA massive volume of 1195 pages with a com- prehensive index and a portrait of and a message from President L YUAN-HUNG will be published on or The Sbaro Register and Transfer about March 31. It will be on sale Books will be closed from the 13th to in two editions, on bound in dark the 27th March 1923, both days blue cloth at $12.50 and the other inclufive.
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