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SATURDAY APRIL 14, 1923
· INTIMATIONS.
NOTICE."
SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE GERANCE
DE LA BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE
(Etablissement Franco-Chinols)
- (Incorporated in France) Subscribed Capital ...Fcs. 10,000,000 Pald up Capital
2,500,000
Working Fund provided by the Banque Indus- trielle de Chine......
50,000,000
The above Company will com- mence exchange and general building business at No. 5 Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, en MONDAY, 16th April, 1923.
The Consent of the Supreme Court of Hongkong has been obtained per- mitting the Official Receiver to lease te the above Company the premises occupied by the Banque Industrielle do Chine.
The local assets of the Banque Industrielle de Chine will remain as before in the custody and control of the Official Receiver.
A. L. SEITERT, Manager, SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE GERANCE
DE LA
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE (Etablissement Franco-Chinois) Hongkong, April 11, 1923.
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LTD.
MR THOMAS
1
ANDREW
BARRY has been appointed Assistant General Manager of the above Company as from the 11th April, 1923.
By Order of the Board,
J. SCOTT HARSTON,
Chairman. Hongkong,-April 12, 1923
NOTICE.
HONGKONG REALTY AND TRUST CO, LTD.
MR.
R. JAMES SHAFTO AGAS- SIZ has been appointed. Secretary of the above Company as from the 15th April, 1923.
By Order of the Board,
I. SCOTT HARSTON,
Chairman.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION
CO., LTD.
FREDERICK JAMES
MASTERBROOK has been appointed Acting Secretary of the above Company, as from the 15th April, 1923.
By Order of the Board,
C. P. CHATER,
Chairman,
HONGKONG WAR MEMORIAL.
A Meeting of Subscribers will be
held on MONDAY, 16th April, 1923, at the Board Room of Messrs. Ltd, at Jardine. Matheson & Co., 4.30 p.m.
All Subscribers are invited to attend.
Hongkong, April 13, 1923.
·VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.
THE 21ST ANNUAL ATHLETIC MEETING of the Colony under the auspices of the Victoria Recrea tion Club will be held at the Hong- kong Football Club Grounds on SATURDAY, the 21st April com. mencing at Noon. Entries close on the 14th instant at 6 p.m. Entry Forms can be had from the Secre taries of Clubs, or on application at the V.R.C
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, `LIMITED.
TOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY-FOURTH OR DINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Officos, St. Gorgo's Building, on SATURDAY, 21st April, 1999, at 11.30 AM. for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Asconate to 28th February 1923, and leoting Directore, and Anditor: The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED. from the 14th to the lat April, 1923, both days inclusive, By Ortler of the Board of Director GIBD. LIVINGSTON & ̈DO., LTD. Bongbong, April 4, 1928,
SWAY HOUSE
INTIMATIONS
NEW GARDEN CITY SPORTS, (HOMUNTIN).
THIRD ATHLETIC MEETING. THE Committee has much pleasure
in inviting the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Colony to their Sports at Homuntin on SUNDAY, the 15th April, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
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FOR SALE!
THE CHINA MAIL.
By courtesy of the management FOR SALE MOTOR BOAT 25 there will be special trains leaving feet. Perfect condition. 9/12 Kowloon at 2.30 p.m. and return at "Universal" motor, 4. cylinders en 6.45 p.m. from Homuntin.
bloc. Bosch magneto, reverse gear. E. P. HYNDMAN,
Exceptionally well fitted with electric light, ice boxes, life-belts, cushions, Hon. Secretary window curtains, brass-work, dinghy, Hongkong, April 13, 1923.
etc., eta "China Mail,"
· HOUSING - COMMISSION.
THE Undersigned would be glad to receive in writing on or before the 20th. inst. suggestions frein members of the general public fa regard to
1-(1) The standardisation (with the object of reducing the cost of buildings) of
(a) Designs for houses,
(b) Fixtures and fittings for
houses.
(2) The reduction of the cost of
building materialı,
(3) The use of cheaper or more suitable kinds of building materials,
Box No. 1423 care of
A Bargain For Sale Dinner suit only made in Jan. Cost $100 will sacrifice for $70. Apply Box 1424 c/o "China Mail."
FOR SALE-Buick five seater.
perfect running condition. Guarantee for six months $1,200. Apply Box 1425 c/o "China Mail."
TO LET.
(4) The greater employment of
labour saving machines ar LET.-One European flat in devices.
The Building Wenchai Gap (5) Improved me bods for the Road. Apply to No 32 Kennedy
transportation of building Road. materials,
(6) Procuring an increased sup-
ply of skilled labourers, (7) Reducing the number of mid-
alemen,
(8) Other methods for reducing the cost of house construc- tion.
2.-Measures which should be taken by the Government for promoting any of the above objects 3.Measures which should be -taken by-the Gorerament
(1) To increase the quantity of housing accommoda- tion and in particular (2) To facilitate the build- ing of more houses for occupation by
(i) Persons of moderate
means
/
(i) The working classes
II. E. POLLOCK,
Chairman, Housing Commission.
Prince's Buildingo, 9th April, 1923.
NOTICE.
SMALL Investors, Share and Real
Estate Co., will buy or dispose of shares from $100 and over. Temporary office, 8- Des Voeux Road, Telephone 4306.
MONDAY NEXT
at 6.p.m.
ORATORIO SELECTIONS.
UNIVERSITY, ANTHEM
ST. JOHN'S
CATHEDRAL
THE CHINA INDUSTRIAL
CO'S STORE.
35. Wing Lok Bleach
Opposite World Theatre
15
DAYS
TRIM
You Money
מותזיר דיש
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
£10 For Blood, ›
beating the vacant sky. At one time the phenomenon took the form of an inverted picture of dozens of vessels of all sizes mov-| ing in different directions."" Then suddenly all the ships merged into The governors of the Bradford one, Reuters! Royal Infirmary are inviting ag- More Stamps Than Letter. plications from healthy men who A Philadelphia woman has re- are willing to give blood for transceived a letter from Russia bear fusion. A payment of £10 is ing 1,625 stamps. They were fixed offered for cach operation. It was to both sides of a sheet 16ft, long stated that though there is no by 7ln. wide attached to the letter. immediate call for supplies of Each stamp was of the face value blood the medical staff are anxious of 250 roubles (the total value be to compile a list of persons, whose ing 406,250 roubles), and each of blood has been tested, who will be the 1,625 stamps had been con
scientiously cancelled. Their readily available in emergency.
nominal value was nearly £42,000. Woman Saved by Hairs
Through her hoga The letter was sent at the Russian woman visitor to
Uge, special delivery rate, but it took 30 Yorkshire, was thrown as the days to reach its destination. It animal attempted to jump some contained a pitiful appeal for ald railings, suxpounding a garden. for the relatives of the recipient in The woman was suspended by the Ukraine.. The writer, an aunt, once wealthy, was now working all her hair catching in the spikes.
The bridle of the horse also be day in a market-place earning came fixed in the railings, and both barely sufficient to pay for half a horse and rider were thus prevent-loaf of bread a day, and then the ed from falling into a low garden. bread 'contained,straw and mud she earned 250,000 They were rescued by workmen. She said
roubles a day.
The only injury the woman rider Bustained was a scalp wound. Earth's Energy.
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Girls and Bad Language.
There is no doubt that the An eminent physician has esti- passing fashion for using bad mated that the power developed by, language is rampant in the upper a million Niagara in a million years classes, especially among young would not equal the energy expend-women, writes Ella Hepworth To TO LET-Two Airy Office Roomsed by the earth in a single second Dixon in the Westminster Gazette. on top floor of 6, Queen's Road as it circles around the sun. And It began in the war (we all know Central. Apply to Gande, Price & yet so perfect is the mechanism the phrase "to swear like a (according to the New York Herald) trooper"), did not cease with the Co., Ltd.
Armistice, and has grown 'some- that, flying around its axis at what worse in the harassing anxious equatorial speed of more than a
years of the so-called Peace. Girls thousand miles an hour, and around who took on men's work in catas its orbit at more than 1,100 miles trophic times also borrowed their minute, all the mundane influences turid phases, and find it hard to of which astronomers know could discard thent. It is staggering to not change the length of its day hear some dewy-eyed young crea- much as a second in a hundre ture, swathed in furs and roped thousand years.
with pearls, uttering epithets, as she "Silver Leaf."
lights her Turkish cigarette, which we used to associate with navvies. powerless; their masculine contemporaries smile or ignore the habit, and unseemly language goes on. No doubt it is an ephemeral trait. Let us hope for the best.
TO LET.-Seven-roomed detached То
house with tennis lawn and garage for two cars. Apply to PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLAMING,
TO LET.-Flat in Kowloon with all modern conveniences, 4 minutes ferry, geyser, telephone, plate, linen, glass. Preference given to person taking over furniture. Apply Box No. 1426, cio
China Mail,
FRENCH LESSONS
G. MOUSSION
15, Morrison Hill Road..
MARTIN'S APIOL & STERL STOPILIS
Franck Eamedy formülIrregularités
ali dil Chumpta ved Brena jak pam
MARTIN'S TAPIOL STEEL RESPILLS
Stylish Ladies' & Gentleman's Footwear
THE TIN YIN HONG DO.
Shoe Stora
17 Foraizger B Central,
7 Lower near Zond.
Every purcher wit be entitled to one of
197 brushes and whos esesma gratis,
The spread of "silver leaf" dis- case among fruit trees in certain parts of Surrey and Kent, says the Westminster Gazette, is causing grave concern to fruit-growers, Plan treas, especially Victorias, are very badly damaged by the post, and big losses have been recorded. "Silver leaf" is a very comido and deadly disease and the only-known- method of effectively dealing with it is to cut off the branches affected and burn them.
The disease has exercised the [attention of the Board of Agricul- ture for the past few years, and it hon already caused considerable lasses in the fruit-growing districts. Ghosts of Ships.
An extraordinary sea mirage was witnessed recently in Spencer's Gulf, South Australia, by officers of the s.s. "Trevithick" (8,046 tons,) on her way to Fremantle, Western Australia
A mysterious ship appeared ahead, the smoke and funnels be- ing discernible. A little later on the horizon was the distorted form of a vessel like the creation of a mad shipbuilder, possessing neither lines nor any distinct type of construction, and standing up- side down with propellers madly
Himrod's
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INSTANT RELIEF
ASTHMA CURE
Oper #yaaraaroths LateLord BenemurBeidzyn, Asthma Cars, and every post brings simba
thad to the basalte ha received from Famsos's
lettere to-day
PÅMED FOR 50 YEARS Said in time by all Chamistaand Karis throughout the country BEWARE OF IMITATIONS-
or
Parents
are
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Will Take Care of It
If you make the Cuticura Trio your every-day toilet preparations you will have a clear, healthy akin, good hair, and soft white banda. Sarp to cleanse, Ointment to heal, Talcum to powder and perfume.
Bary I. Talam1.14, Cetené žu. 24, kad te så.
Devot:
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A Parent's Duty.
Your boy is always gattig sora'ched out or bruiser Beca236 these wound hver boxed s'l right is no sign they always will: Oat bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm and coe that every injury is cared for immediately. You esa get nothing better, and blood poison is too dinge o disease to risk. For sala by all Chemists and Scorekeepers.
NOW ON SALE.
The China Year Book, 1923.
THE STANDARD REFERENCE BOOK.
An Encyclopaedia of Information regarding present day CHINA,
Indispensable to the Business-Man: The Professional Man: and every Man or Woman who takes intelligent interest in things Chinese,
ON SALE BY:
KELLY & WALSH, LTD.
CAN I WEAR IT AGAIN NEXT SEASON 7
Of course you can, if you take proper precautions before storing "but be mire the cloth has been thorough. ly sterilized..
Think of the germe, dust,
and other dangerous matter which garments gather when worn, Our hygienical
Dry cleaning process will ensure your clothing being free from germs, which no other method can do.
TO
LAUNDRY STEAM LAUNDRY CO.
HEAD OFFICE and WORKS FAUMATI, Tɗl. K 32.' HONGKONG DEPOT, 18, Stanley Barost, Tel. Oʻ1270.⠀ *
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178, Des Voeux Road Central.
fanufacturers of Bdaki, Woollen Underwear, Hinglets. & Woollen Sweaters,
Telephone Central, No. 519, ̈ ́`· Cable Address:"Knitting.
Manager... WONG TÔNG.
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