THURSDAY AUGUST 30 '1928)
*INTIMATIONS.
GREEN ISLAND ÇEMENT
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CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
INTERIM DIVIDEND
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
36 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID.
of
Every additional word Conte
for 3 insortions.
A Filty conte (no conte) per share
Its been declared for the hall reac eading 30th June, 1923,
Such Interim Dividend will be pay able on and after TUESDAY, the
WANTED.
ath September at the offices of the WANTED-General Office Assial- Company, where shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be closed from the 7th Soptember, 1923 until the 198 September, 1923 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of sitates can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers, Hongkang, 29th August, 1925.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
MEN
EMBERS are notified that the lists for Subscription Griffins
for the Annual Race Meeting 1924 close on FRIDAY the 31st inst.
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HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE,
HE THIRD YEARLY DRAWING of 20 Debentures (1920 Issue- $500. each) of the HONGKONG CLUB, Parable on SATURDAY, the 29th September, 1923, will be held in the Club House at 11 o'clock. AM, on SATURDAY, the 8th September. 1923.
Rearers of Debentures are invited to attend the Drawing.
By Order,
A. H. ABBAS,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 28th August, 1923,
RATTAN GOODS.
THE onderzentioned guilds
beg to anonnier that the prices lutherto charged lave, re- toamed the same for years. Owing To the increased rust of living all manufacturers, stores and workmen are reluctantly compelled to raise! their prices. At meeting of employers and employees it was un- ! animously agreed that prices of goods he increased by ten per cent. and that workinen's wages be raised by sprouteen per cent. This was ratified by the delegates appointedl to the meeting.
The Wise HING TONG
(Hattan Masters' Guild. The Of KweN GENERA. Gritt
Manufacturers' Masters & Workinen's Guild), Hongkong. August 26, 125,
ant, (Chinese), with experience of Imports and Exports preferred. Good prospects for the right man, Apply P. O. Bux No. 96.
TO LET.
TO LET-European flats in Lee Building, Wanchai Gap Road. Apply to 32 Kennedy Road,
TIE CHINA MAIL.
NOTICE.
THIS PROSPECTUS HAS BEEN DULY FILED WITH THE REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES.
The subscription Tist will open on WEDNESDAY, the 29th day of August, 1923 and close on or before SATURDAY, (he 1st of September, 1923.
THE HONGKONG TUG & LIGHTER COMPANY, LIMITED.
(Incorporated under the Companies Ordinauers 1911-1921)
Capital $2,000,000 divided into 200,000 shares of $10 ench. Of the above slurus it is only intended to isme at the present ti 100,000 sdures, and of these 80,000 have already been subscribed for cash by the tieneral Managers, Members of the Consulting Committee and their friends.. On these $1.25 per share will be paid on application and the balance when called up on the same fasis at the remaining capital.
The remaining 20,080) shares (Being the balance of the sail 100,000 shares intended to be ised at the present time), ranking equally with these, ufready subscribed, are now offered for publis due on earth share, namely, $8.75 will be called up on subsequent demand as and when further capital is required.
FRENCH LESSONS substriptan payable as to $1.25 pet share on application. The balance
G. MOUSSION
15, Morrison Hill Road.
LEE KEE
ESTABLISHED 1896
FATHS & BATH-RCOM
ACCESSORIES.
Estimates furnished
free of charge.
Office 21, Wellington St.
SWAY HOUSE
HAT MAKER.
No. 16, Wyndham Street.
HONGKONG HEIGHTS.
For the information of visitors 61 following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainlan I ir pablished --
ISLAND.
Foot
Signal Station Mt Parker
1774
1734
Mountain Lodge
1725
&
1725
Peak Hotel
1305
Taikoo Sanatorium
1000
Mt. Davis
877
Bowen Rd. (filterbeds
893
KAINLAND.
Taimoshan
3124
Kowloon Peak
1971
164/5
Shatin Pass
1000
Custom Pass:
730
Devil's Pask
WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES,
When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?
They are Cheaper and More Durable.
CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO. (Opposite Yaunati Ferry, Praya)
The Eyrie
Liu Bock
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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 Stall of the Hotels under the Management of this Company in Hongkong, analt complaints being to the effect that Cash has been demanded in satisfaction of Liquora supplied. and putrons thereby inconvenienced by not being allowed to sign "ohits," we beg to draw the attention of our clientelo to the torms of the Liquors Ordinance, 1917, au extract from which is hereby given :----
2. In this Ordinance.
(a) "Cash" means any coins or notes current in the Colony. (b) Sale" includes any transaction in which intoxicating liquor is supplied for any consideration whatsoever, 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) Sabsection (1) of this section sball not apply to the following:-- (a) any sale by the proprietor of an hotel to a person residing at
the hotel;
(b) any asla by the proprietor of an hotel of liquor to be canmmed in the dining room of the hotel at one of the regular mania of tho kotol or of liquor to be consumed in conjunction with any other bona fide neal for which a charge of at least thirty cents can be reasonably made;
(c) any sale in accordance with the conditions of his licence by
the holder of a restaurant adjunct licence.
4. Where any intoxicating liquor is sold by a servant or employoo in contravention of section 3 of this Ordinance the employer, whether a natural person or a body corporate, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance unless he provos affirmatively that the sale was against his express orders and without bis consent or eounivance.
5. Every person to whom any liquor is, to the knowledgo 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 Patrone, with a view to assisting us to carry out the provisions of the Liquors Ordinance, is respectfully requested.
FOR AND ON BEHALF OF
·THE HONGKONG HOTEL-COMPANY, LTD.
WALTER J. HAWKER, SECRETARY.
Hongkong, 18th August, 1923.
The whole of the above issue of 100,000 shares (including the 20,000 shares now offered for public subscription as above) has been underwritten by the General Managers, the Members of the Consulting Committee and their friends for à comunission at the rate of 21 per cent. on the nominal value of the shares so underwritten upon the terms of an erwriting Tetter bearing date the 24th day of August, 1923 adilised to the Company and Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Company its General Managers by the Underwriters above mentioned, a copy of which can be inspected at the offices of the Solicitors to the Company, Messrs, Deacon, Hurston & Shenton, No. 1. Des Vœux Rond Central, Hongkong, at any time during business hours.
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The unissued capital of the Company consisting of 100,000 shares of the nominal value of $10 each will be issued at such time or times and upon such terms and conditions as the General Managers shall determine.
MEMBERS OF THE CONSULTING COMMITTEE. WM, ADAMSON, Esq., St. George's Building, Chater Road, Hongkong, & nuber of the fit of Shewan Tomes & Co, Merchants. NEMAZEE, Esq., Priner's Building,
M.
1. Des Vaux Road Central, Hongkong, Merchant. La Tse Fox. Esq., Bank of East Asia,
Des Virus Road Ceutral, Hongkong. Bunker.
W, J, CARROL, Esq..
HI, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, Broker....
(1. B. Brooke, Esq., Alexandra Building,
Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong, Produce Broker and Commission Agent.
GENERAL MANAGERS.
Messrs. SHEWAN TIMES & Co., St. George's Buikling,
Cluster Benul, Hongkong.
BANKERS.
THE HONGKONG AND SHANESİM BANKING CORPORATION.
AUDITORS.
Messrs. Panes SATTH. SETH AND FLEMING,
No. 5, Queen's Risud Central, Hongkong.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. DEACON, HARSTON AND SHENTUS,
1. Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong." REGISTERED OFFICE OF THE COMPANY. St. George's Building, Chater Road, Hongkong.
SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY (Pro Tem).
Andrew Lusk Shiehls,
PROSPECTUS,
(a) This Company fots been formed to require and operate a Flect of Tags and fighters with a view to handling cargo in und around Hongkong and River Ports. Substantial Shipping Agents, Shippers and Dealers in Commodities such as Flour, Sugar, Ries, ete,, consider that such a Company, properly organised and managed, Will be of great benefit to them and to the general trade of the Puliny, und Invve expressed their willingness to support this Company, and part of the present issue of shares has been taken up by persons who it is anti- cipated will be able to give the Company substantial support, Similar Companies in other Far Eastern Ports have been very successful.
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
Summer time became effective
in Ottawa on Sunday the 20th June.
The death is announced of M. de Freycinet, a former French Prime Minister.
A girl with a tennis racket was seen in West London church on Sunday, recently,
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Lord Newton's Advertisements) Regulation Bill passed Committee stage in the House of Lords.
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Great havoc has been wrought by food and fire at Hot Springs, Arkansas, the well-known Ante- rican health resort.
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has unveiled tire memorial erected to the 386 men of Brentford who lost their lives in the war.
Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes
At the annual conference of the Railway Clerks' Association at Yarmouth, Edinburgh was chosen as next year's meeting place.
The Prince of Wales and Mr. Lloyd George were the principal speakers at the banquet of the Medical Society of London.
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Sir William Orpen, the famous artist, is at present confined to bed, in his house at Chelsea, suffering from a form of blood poisoning,
Alderman Robert Preston, senior member .for Lancaster Town Council, and four times Mayor of the borough, died in his 68th year,,
Mr. E. M. Macdonald, who was recently appointed member of the i Canadian Cabinet, bas (Reuter re- ports) taken the Portfolio of Defence.
Mr. Joseph Devlin addressing a Nationalist Meeting in Ulster, urg- ed that a Boundary Commission should now he set up under the Irish Treaty,
A Reuters message from Washington says the appointment of Mr. Edward P. Farley as Chair man of the Shipping Board is; announced.
Increases of from 15 to 20 per cent. have been ordered in the wages of American seamen em- ployed in vesséis belonging to the Shipping Board.
Married 48 years, Mr. William : Banks, of Leicester Road, Preston, aged 76, and his wife, aged 74. died within three hours of each) other from pneumonia.
"Subject to the approval of the Ministry of Health," the Surbiton District Council is permitting the tenant of one of its new houses to install a wireless receiving set at his abode.
Much excitement was caused in Pall-mall when a Daimler саг caught fire near the Carlton Hotel. The blazing petrol collect- ed in the gutter. A number of fire engines were promptly on the scene, and the fire was put out by the use of a chemi- cal extincleur.
Mr. E. J. Bromley (40) Lans-! downe Road, Croydon, was serious-!
(b) The minimum subscription on which the General Managersly injured by falling from a wooden
may provved to allotnient is seven shares subscribed for on a cash footing and on which $1.25 per share has been paid up
# application.
(e) The slaces now offered for subscription have as above indi- cated been underwritten by the Directors and their friends for a comunission at the rate of 25 per cent, on the nominal value of such shares upon the terms of the Underwriting Letter above mentioned, which pan be inspected at the place and time above mentioned.
(d). No other commission or promotion namey will be paid by the
Company.
footbridge over the railway. In falling from the bridge Mr. Bromley alighted between the lines along which a tram, was approaching. The whole train passed over him, apparently with! out adding any injury to those caused by falling from the bridge.
(e) The Company is to pay all preliminary expenses of anding the Essex Otter Hounds at
incident to the foranation wal flouting of the Company (includ- ing the aforesaid Underwriting Contigission) down to the time when the Company becomes entitled to coinnonce business. and the estimated amount thereof is $30,000.
The Articles of Association provide that the qualification of a Member of the Consulting Conduittee is to be the holding of at least 500 shares in the Company, and that requuneration of the Members of the Consulting Committee shall be the sa of $5,000 per annum to be divided among them according to the number of attendances by thêm at the Meetings of sich Committee.
(g) The General Managers and the Members of the Consulting Committee are interested in the promotion of the Company. to the extent only that they or some of them are Directors of ather Companies with whom the Company rany do business.
(h) Copies of the Mermorandum and Articles of Association of the Company can be impected at the aforementioned offices of the Solicitors to the Company as any tivo during business hours.
(1) A copy of the Company's Memorandum of Association is
annexed to this Prospectus and forans part of it. Application for shares should be made upon the form attached to this Prospectus which should be defur:hed therefrom and sent to the Company's Bankers ('The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) together with a remittance of $1.25 per share the amount of the deposit.
Where no allotment is made the deposit will be returned in full and where the number of shares allotted is less than the number applied for, a proportionate amount of the deposit will be returned.
(b) Prospectuses can be inspected at and forma of application.
obtained from the Company's Bankers (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpontion and ut und from the offices of the Company in St. George's Building (First Floor), Chater Road, Hongkong.
Dated the 34th August, 1923.
My F. W. Bartlett, aged 6z, a wholesale potato and fruit mer- chant, of Hertford, while follow-
Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire. took a short cut along the railway line and was knocked down by an express train and killed. It was stated at the inquest that he stepp- ed from one track to another to avoid a goods train. A verdict of accidental death was returned.
ECZEMA ON SCALP HAIR FELL OUT
In Pimples On Child's Scalp. Cuticura Healed.
**When our little girl was three -years of age verema, broke out on her scalp in Hals pimples, which gradually kept getting worse until her bred was ona soro eruption. He hair fell out dreadfully, and she could not sleep or rest.
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