FRIDAY AUGUST 31 1923.
INTIMATIONS.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT
AN
CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
INTERIM DIVIDEND
of
Fifty cents (50 cents) por share has been declared for the ball year
ending 30th June, 1923,
Such Interim Dividend will be pay- able on and after TUESDAY, the
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID.
Every additions! word 4 Conta for 3 lusortions.
WANTED.
18th September at the offices of the WANTED-General Office Assist Company, where shareholders are ant, (Chinese), with experience reuuated to apply for Warmants. of Imports and Exports preferred. Good prospects for the right man, Apply P. O. Box No. 96,
The HEGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be closed from the 7th September, 1923 until the 18th September, 192 (both days inclusive), during which period uo transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers,
Hongkong, 20th August, 1923.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
MEM
'EMBERS are notified that the lists for Subscription Griffins for the Annual Race Meeting 1924 close on FRIDAY the 31st inst.
NOTICE.
OWING to the inclemency of the
weather the Lusitano Recreation Club's Aquatic Sports are postponed to a future date to be advertised later.
M F. BAPTISTA,
Hon. Secretary.
Hongkong. 10th August, 1923,
NEWS FROM THE OLD COUNTRY.
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TO LET.
TO LET-European flats in Lee Building, Wanchal Gap Road. Apply to 32 Kennedy Road.
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INTIMATIONS
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HONGKONG TECHNICAL
INSTITUTE.
SHORTHAND,
LASSES in Shorthand will open
on MONDAY, 3rd September.
Applicants should attend at Queen's
Hapas, which Honda People Bits Per College, Room 7 on that date, at All the rods of pupils per cater RE: LASE
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Periodical Posting toy.. Plymouth, England.
RATTAN GOODS.
THE undermentioned guilds beg to announce that the parestherto charged have re-
Only those can be admitted who have a good knowledge of English.
Hongkong, 30th August, 1923,
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
A woman at Tottenham sajd she allowed a dog to sleep in her bed.
By a utotoring accident at The Prince of Wales received Whetstone, Middlesex, Mr. Short, the members of the Anterican an official of an aircraft company,amateur golf team at St James's was seriously injured, and his Palace. daughter; aged 12, was killed.
The Army Committee of the House of Commons have just erected a memorial to the late Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson elected president of the British in the chapel of the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst, Academy,
The Earl of Balfour has been re
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By the crashing to earth of a new aeroplane at Lec-on-the-Solent, Pilot Officer Guy Wake killed.
was
In accordance with the decision to substitute garrison for regiment- a shops for the repair of clothing and lots in the Army, garrison tailors and shoemakers' shops are to be established at Colchester, Shorncliffe, Tidworth, York, Ber- muda, and Gibraltar, as an experi-
Mr. Norman Wright Kemp, When William Edwin Oakley and barrister, bas leen appointed Jose Landau, precious stone deal misne judge of the Bombay High ers, were sentenced to 4 months Court.
imprisonment in the second divi- sion at Birmingham for conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue authorities, it was stated the whalement. amount involved, £12,585, was paid last March
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"Please keep the door closed to prevent swallows building inside the church," reads a notice posted on the church door at Granleigh.
An engagement ring lost at Frinton-on-Sea a year ago, has just been returned in perfect condition to its owner at Finchley by the Clacton Police.
The King's yacht "Britannia" e turned to Cowes from racing at Clyde and Belfast, flying nine prize flags, six firsts and three seconds, won at cleven races.
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Sir Thomas Lipton has fixed a contract with a Southampton firm Stated to have a fonduess for to bring his 23-metre Shamrock roast wing of chicken and péche over from America. In the Melba. Aifted Iles, 26, an account- spring of
year she will sentenced at London be fitted out for racing, and will ant, was Sessions to 9 months' imprison take part in the regattas round the ment in the second djvision for coast. Some time during 1924 John Barker and Co.'s restaurant, will be issued by Sir Thomas for fraud by haying meals in Messrs.a challenge for the America Cup Kengsingtoji, and not paying for a contest in 1925.
them.
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The Premier of the Province of
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Christina Jane Guntrip, a 17-year- old student at the Girls' High School, Sale, responded to a call
With the exception of a coastal Quebec states that no limit will be moter-boat for Siam no war vessel / set to the help to be offered to new that a boy had fallen into the canal. settlers in the agricultural sections for any foreign Goverment is be of the province. The latest Govern. She found a man already on the
ing built in Great Britain, said Mr. Amery in the House of Commons,
ent provision is to pay colonists at the rate of 4 dollars per acre for land cleared on their colonisation Herr Deutz, chairoum of the German General Electric Come lots. Since 1920 7,000,000 dollars has been voted for provincial pany, one of Germany's chief
colonisation. industrial concerns, was the guest! at dinner of a private member of the House of Commons.
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As a Food Control Order of 1921 requires that loaves exposed During the week ended June 30 an even number of pounds," the for sale shall weigh "one pound or
Great Britain was 5,400,700 tons 3b, loaves are illegal, and fined the coal output from the nines of Liverpool stipendiary ruled that compared with 5,588,200 previous week, and 4,530,000 in the £2 for exposing loaves of that the Messrs, Blackledge, a local firm, corresponding week of last year.
weight for sale, on the ground that even ramber must be inter- an preted as one which is not edd."
In the Cunard Hiner "Saxonia," which arrived at Plymouth from New York, were 350 professors. teachers, and students, who, in three groups, with tour Great Britain, Italy, and European art
centres,
At a Buxton inquest, a verdict of
Manslaughter was returned against
maumed the same for years. Owing THE THIRD YEARLY DRAWING
of 20 Debentures (1920 issue-James Swann, driver of a motor- to the increased cost of living all 8500, each) of the HONGKONG CLUB, van which knocked down and manufacturers, stores and work payable on SATURDAY, the 29th killed Sarah Jane Oldfield, 22, are reluctantly compelled to raise September, 1923, will be held in the
cotton weaver. It was alleged the their prices. At a moeting of Club House at 11 o'clock, AM, on yehicle was going at 30 miles an employers and employees it was unSATURDAY, the 8: September, hour. animously agreed that prices of 1923. goals be increased by ten per cent, and that weeknen's wages be raised. by seventeen per cent. This was ratified by the delegates appointed to the mwling.
The Wish Hing Posg
(Rstian Masters' Guild). The Or Kwey GENERAL GRID Manufacturers' Masters' & Workourg's Cuilib.
Hongkong, August 28, 1992.
Hearers of Debentures are invited to attend the Drawing.
By Order;
A. H. ABBAS,
Secretary, Bongkong, 28th Augas, P28,
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In a discussion on the proposed division of the diocese of Win- chester, at the National Assembly of the Church of England it was said the growth of London suburbs would soon make it necessary to rearrange the boundaries of other neighbouring dioceses.
Further particulara and copy ol
· Alleabuzia baak ng Infant Feeding and Management' will be Lent post free ca application
bank and asked whether he was going in. He replied that he was waiting for his bathing suit. The girl jumped in fully clothed, and found the body, but was too late to save the boy's life.
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At the Mansion House, London, P. L. M'Garry and J. S. Masters, sales experts, were summoned for trading as M'Garry and Masters,
and scheme for the sale of certain having published a certain proposal
ban Derby Draw contrary to the tickets in a lottery called the Dur-
Lotteries Act. M'Garry and Masters were each fined £10 and five guineas costs.
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The use of the Allenburgs" Foods gives com plete independence of doakilu! milk supplies.
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
ANNOUNCEMENTS,
CARNIVAL
SATURDAY, September 1st,
SPECIAL DINNER DANSANT
IN THE GRILL ROOM.
Fancy or Evening Dress Optional.
Full Jazz Orchestra (16 Instruments.)
Dancing 8 p.m. to midnight.
Special car to the Peak at 12.30.
Tables May Now Be Reserved,
REPULSE BAY HOTEL.
Owing to heavy landslides along the road, the reopening of the Repulse Bay Hotel has been postponed until further notice.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,
YOUR
LTD.
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SOON SOIL AND CRUMPLE.
They can be quickdy restored to
their newness by giving
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ESTABLISHED 1896
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