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FBIDAS—AUGUST 17 1928
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG PHILHARMONIC
SOCIETY.
GENERAL MEETING of the Society will be held at the St John's Cathedral Hall, on MON. DAY, 20th August at 5.30 p.m.
It is hoped that all members will endeavour to attend-others inter ested in music are cordially invited,
E. BULLOCK,
Hon. Secretary. Boogkong, August 7, 1023.
'THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
MEMBERS wishing to subscribe
for Subscription Griffins for the "Annual Race Meeting 1924 will And lists posted at the Hongkong Club, Jockey Club Stables and Race Course.
Hongkong, August 11, 1923.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
TESSRS, HOLYOAK, MASSEY & CO., LTD. have This Day been appointed Sole Distributors in Hong- kong and South. China for the Products of the WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL COM- PANY. Our Representative, Mr. W. M. VERNOR, will make his head- quariera in the offices of the Distribufor, Queen's Buildings.
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL CO,. E. L. MCCLOSKEY,
Manager for China.
Hongkong. August 8, 1923
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR (81-) per aharo for account. 1923 will be payable on THURSDAY the 23rd, August 1923..
Shareholders are requested to apply for Dividend Warrants at the Company's Office At. George's Building, Hongkong.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from TUESDAY the 14th August 1923 to THURSDAY the 28ri - August 1923 · both ́ ́ days Inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers. Hengkong, August 7, 1923.
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
WING to the receipt of numerous complaints from patrons as to the incivility of various members of the Staff of the Hotels under tho Management of this Company in Hongkong, such complaints being to the affect that "Cash" has boon demanded in satisfaction of Liquers supplied, and patrons theroby faronvenienced by not being allowed to sigu “chita,” we beg to draw the attention of our clientele to the terms of the Liquors Ordinance, 1917, an extract from which is heroby given
2. In this Ordinance.....
(a)Cash" menns any coins or notes current in the Colony, (b) Salo" includes any transaction in which intoxicating liquor is. supplied for any consideration whatssover, direct or indirect.
3. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) of this section, no person shall sell any intoxicating liquor for consumption on or at any licensed promises except for cash.
(2) Sab-section (1) of this section shall not apply to the following:
(a) any sala by the proprietor of an hotel to a person residing at
the hotel;
(b) any sale by the proprietor of an hotel of liquor to be consumed in the dining room of the hotel at one of the regular meals of the hotel or of liquor to be consumed in conjunation with any other book fide meal for which a change of at leset thirty ceo can be reasonably made;
(c) any sale in accordance with the conditions of his licence by
the bolder of a restaurant adjunct licenco.
4. Where any intoxicating liquor is sold by a servant or employee in contravention of section 3 of this Ordinance the employer, whether a ristural person or a body corporate, shall be deemed to be guilty of on offence against this Ordinance unless he proves affirmatively that the sale was against his express orders and without his consent or
connivance.
5. Every person to whom any liquor is, to the knowledge of such person, supplied in contravention of this Ordin- ance shall also be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
The co-operation of our Patrons, with a view to aasiating is to carry out the provisions of the Liquora Ordinance, is respectfully requested.
FOR AND ON BEHALF OF
THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LTD..
WALTER J. HAWKER, SECRETARY.
Hongkong, 15th August, 1923.
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
The Russian Government offers some concessions. It is prepared to conclude a convention on the question of fishing of the Russian coast; to pay compensation in regard to the seized trawlers; and} also in the cases of Mr. Davison and Mrs. Stan Harding.
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The movement of Turkish troops in Eastern Thrace has reached such proportions that the Allies can no longer regard it with indifference.
Were the Lausanne Conference to break up without reaching a con- clusion, our Diplomatic Correspon- dent points out, the consequences might be very grave.
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Pope Pius XI. held a secret Con- sistory In the Vatican, and, after delivering a short allocution and preconising several archbishops and bishops, who had already been appointed by brief, created two new Cardinals, Monsignor Luigi Sincero, and Monsignor Nasalli Rocca, Archbishop of Bologna.
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Serious labour troubles are re- ported in occupied Germany, and In a conflict between police and strikers at Scharnhorst several persons were killed and a number wounded. The trouble is due to the fall of the mark and high food prices.
Presiding at the luncheon given before the dress rehearsal of the Royal Tournament. Major-General G. D. Jeffreys, General Officer Commanding the London District, recalled that this was the fortieth tournament of the series, and gave some interesting details of the growth of the scheme.
At the resumed meeting of the Tenth Philatelic Conference of Great Britain, Mr. George Robey, who is a collector, was billed" to speak. He took for his theme "The Stimulus of Stamps," and while paying earnest testimony to the value of stamp-collecting. interlarded his speech with many amusing sallies.
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Dr. N. M. Butler president of the Columbia University, New York, who is shortly giving a series of lectures
'Building the American Nation," was the guest'at luncheon of the American Society in London. In his speech he expressed the view that Britain and America were drawing nearer to a better understanding of each other's problems, and that the stars were fighting to bring the two peoples more closely into co-operation.
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