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FRIDAY MAY. 18,
INTIMATIONS.
NOTICE.
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THE Public are hereby informed that Jackson Road between Queen's Road Central and Des Voeux Road Central, will be closed to Vehicle traffic from FRIDAY, 18th fast., until further notice.
E. D. C. WOLFE, Captain Superintendent of Police. Hongkong, May 17, 1923,
SAO
CLUB LUSITANO
AVISO.
10 por cete melo convidados todos os membros das asacciacoes portuguesas e os demais membros da comunidada portuguesa, para se
INTIMATIONS:
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE THIRD GYMKHANA I fixed for SATURDAY, Jime 2nd 1923, Draft Programmes and Entry Forms may be obtained from the Race Course, Hongkong Club and Causo way Bay Stables.
Entries close Saturday, 19th May, 1923,
Hongkong, May 19, 1023,-
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE. WHIT MONDAY AND EMPIRE DAY.
lot all tha This apartment wit be epun
12 Apo en MNDALS of
perposes it will be optirel Tint kay, 10. THURSDAY, the 24th May, 1923.. Litsmed Ware bouser will be entirely closed in those dates.
J. D. LLOYD, Superistemical
sports And Krys
Jonghong, May 16, 1073.
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Mr. Joshua James Foster, the authority on miniature painting, died at Sutton, Surrey, aged 76.
The resemblance between a Labour member of Parliment and a marquis has caused some confu- sion in Abordeon/Salvad
Fishermen who were on strike wished to interview Mr. Frank Mr. Massey, the Prime Minister Rase, the Labour member for North of New Zealand, has guaranteed a Aberdeen He replied that he reduction of £2,000,000 in taxation could not receive a deputation as for the next financial your. he had to leave for London.
A little later, when the strikers' Finding half a bottle of whisky, leaders were conferring, they saw a 10-years-old Glasgow boy dranic sitting in the lounge of an hotel a some of the liquor and had to bel man whom they took to be Mr. ken to the infirmary for treat- Rose, but who was really the ment
FRENCH LESSONS Marquis of Aberdeen. They
paper,
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16, Morrison Hill Road.
NEWS FROM THE OLD COUNTRY, Hend 12 and we will mail you rexterly every wook of 1912, the EXCHANGE BANKS for 5 w Lloyd's, People. Tit Biw, I
cies, sic. Heparade of papers on our mig reunirem na Sala "Luiz de Camoes" IN accordance with Ordinance No. 5
Mans pablication 61 wake. 13 pays for year's do Club Lusitano, na Sexta-feira, 18
wahsenipuan, including prelaga. So vique and do corrente, ás 5.30 p.m., afim de sa will be closed for the transaction of
up-to-date service, sreally appreciated by die Laronghout the Empire Sand 25/- toulay. 18
Periodical Fosting Cor., Plymouth, England
promptly announced that, since
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It is now known that Benjamin, Mr. Rose, as they thought, could the Metropolitan Archbishop of not find time to receive their de- Petrograd, who was sentenced putatlon while he was still in the to death a year ago, was murdered city, their thousand members would in the blood cellar" of the Che in future withdraw their support Ka from the Labour Party
tratar d'um projecto que se acha | PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY called fres, A differat paper seat weekly, or the now been made clear that the man than in 1921, and. 759,846 babies
exposto no vestibulo do mesmo Club, the 21st jostaut.
P. A. ROSARIO,
Secretario.
Hongkong, 16 de Maio de 1923,
THE HOLLAND PACIFIC TRADING COMPANY. LIMITED.
TAKE NOTICE that JAN HENDRIK VAN GENNEP LUHRS has resigned from the office of Managing Director of the HOLLAND PACIFIC TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED,
Dated this 16th day of May 1923. By Order of
THE HOLLAND PACIFIC TRADING
Bongkong, May 18, 1923.
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Saddle,-Young On Yuk,
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The incident war brought before the local trades council, and it has whom the strikerholieved to be Mr. Rose was reall the Marquis of Aberdeen.j
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Butcher Meat.
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23
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19
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40
16
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Pig'i Chitings,-Can Chong
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18
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Oranges, (Canton), Sweet-
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18
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12
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PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOT
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE- BOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY the 23rd May, 1923 at 11.00 AM, for the pur pose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 30th April 1923.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from FRIDAY the 18th day of May to THURSDAY the 24th day of May 1923, bold days faelusive.
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.
Hongkong, May 15, 1023,
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
No
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTIETH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at its Elead Office, UNION BUILDING, Bongkong on FRIDAY, 28th May, 1929, at NOON for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of the
the Statementa Directors sad Account to 31st December, 1922, and of declaring Dividends, etc..
of
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Boetery will be CLOSED from 11th May to 25th May, both days inclusive. By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER, Acting General Manager.
Hongkong, May 4, 1923.
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE 18- HEREBY GIVEN that OR-
NOTICE FIFTY-SEVENTH
DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Hood Offce, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong on FRIDAY, 25th May, 1923, at 19.15 p.ta. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the State- ments of Account to 31st December 1922, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 11th Ma to 25th May, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER, Acting General Manager. Eongkong, May 4, 1923,
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
The FIFTY-FOURTH OR DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be bold at its Boad Ofice, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong on FRIDAY, 25th May, 1923, at 12.20 p.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report al the Directors and the State- mente di Account to 31st December, 1922, and of declaring Dividende, eto,
The TRANSFERT BOOKS of the Company will be OLORED Trom 11th May to 28th May, both days isolativni
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER Asting General Manager,
May 4, 1923
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In France last year there were 383,220 marriages, or 73,001 fower were born alive, a decrease of 550 as compared with the pre- vious year.
Bowood, one of the King's four- year-old horses, won the New Stands Handicap at Pontefract by ahead. His two-year-old Mosaic finished second in the Lingfield Spring Plate.
Professor John Wilson Marshall, Vice-principal of the University College of Wales, who had been on the staff of the college for nearly 40 years, has died at Aberystwyth.
The British Chamber of Com- merce in Paris has unaniniously passed a resolution urging the British Government to abolish passports for travellers between France and Britain.
An 11-years-old Cardiff boy, Lesli Hancock, has died from telanus (lockjaw), caused by his eardrum membrane being pierced by a dried daisy stalk when he fell from a garden wall.
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Reports from the Newfoundland sealing fleet indicate the probable. failure of the fishery owing to the unusually stormy weather and the massive ice-through which the ships are unable to force a passage.
Officers are already being re- ceived in Sarawak from Singapore for the purchase of the surcharged I cent on 10 cent stamps. As is well known, there is one error in each sheet-cent has been printed as "cnet" and doubtless this will. enhance their value.
The
Japanese
Ambassador,
Baron Hayashi, has written to Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, chairman of the British Labour Party, denying that the Japanese Gaverament has armed refugees from a Siberian anti-Bolshevist army so that they might reopen hostilities.
At the Kensington Registor Office Dr. Phillip Norris,, 42, of Philadelphia, was married to Misa. Sarah Jane Kelly, of Scarborough, a trained nurse. She was refused permission to land when she accompanied him to the United States to be 'introduced to his relatives,
"
So bad has a crocodile plague become in the neigbourhood of Japara, Java, that the field police have been put on a crocodile, hunt for the past week, says a Java con- temporary. They have bagged one specimen about 15 feet long which is supposed to have carried away a native bather.
The
police at Cettinje have dis covered four big cases of jewels and several cases of archives, be longing to the late King of Montenegro. The cases
were
buried two metres deep in a private house during the flight of the Royal -family in January, 1916. The archives, disclose King Nicholas's secret dealings with Austria during the war, **
The undue publicity given in a certain section of the Press to indecent detalls in recent law cases, especially in divorce suits, was the subject of a debate in the House of Lords. While all are agreed in regarding the publication of these details as an evil, opinion is divided as to whether legislation Is necessary or whether action is possible under the existing law.":
According to newspaper repre sentatives who have just left Russia; the Bolsheviks are exercis ing a most drastic censorship on all Freze micasages leaving the country. Bolshevik anxiety and suspicion are regarded as the best proof that their position at the pre sent moment is most uncomfort able, and that they anticipate serious dangers to their rule in the near future.
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