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FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER - 14,' 1929)
INTIMATIONS.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT
CO., LTD.
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NOTICE.
AN INTERIM
DIVIDEND of Fifty conts (60 cents) per share has been declared for the half year anding 30th June, 1823.
Such Interim Dividend will be pay ablo on and after TUESDAY, the 18th September at the officer of the Company, where shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
The REGISTER of GHANES of the Company will be closed from the 7th
1993 until September,
the 18th September, 1993 (both days incluive), during which period to transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 20th August, 1923,
THE SANDAKAN LIGHT & POWER CO., (1922) LTD..
THE FIRST ORDINARY GEN-
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ERAL MEETING of Shareholders will be held at the offices of the Com- pany, St. George'a Building, Chator Road,
Victoria, Hongkong, TUESDAY, the 18th September, 1923, st 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General i Managers for the year ended 30th April, 1923, as alceting a Coulting Committee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will to CLOSED freta TUESDAY, the 11th September, 1923,
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INTIMATIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION
JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE
DISASTER.
HONGKONG RELIEF FUND,
"NOTICE.
the
SUBSCRIPTIONS LISTS for
above Fund are open at the following places:
Hongkong General Chamber of
Commerce. Hongkong & Shanghai Banking
Corporation. Chartered Bank of India, Australia
& China.
Mercantile Bank of India.
International Banking Corporation. Netherlands Trading Society. **Yokohama Specie Bank,
Hongkong Club.
Cheques should be made out to the Order of the Japanese Earth- quake Disaster Hongkong Relief Fund.
By Order,
D. K. BLAIR, Societary,
HONGKONG ERLIEF COMMITTZE, Hongkong, 10th September, 1923.
JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE DISASTER: HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.
.NOTICE.
| SUPPLIES OF SECOND HAND CLOTHING.
antil TUESDAY, the 18th September, A SPECIAL COMMITTEE of Local 1923, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Goneral Managers, Hongkong, 6th September, 1923,
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE ORDINARY
GENERAL
Ladies under the presidency off Mrs. E, DC. Wo'z has been formed for the purpose of receiving and handing over to the Relief Committee for despatch to the devastated areas in Japan parcels of second-hand European clothing of all descriptions for adults and children
The Committee will be in attend. ance at the City Hall dally from to Saturday, Monday, 17th inst.
T MEETING of the above Company 22nd inst, between 11 am and
will be held at the Company's Offices, 20, Des Voeux Roal Central on TUESDAY, the Zed of October, 1923, at 11 3. M.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed ta the 22nd of! September to 2arl of October both days inclusive,
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.. General Managers. Bungkoog, 13h September, 1925.
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE.
THE THIRD YEARLY DRAWING
of Twenty Debentures of the HONGKONG CLUB (1920 issue- $500. each) was held in the Club House SATURDAY, the 8th September, 1923, when the following Debentures were drawn for redemp.
tion -
Qu
14
144
170
191
282 483
215 313 536 218 408 568 238 454 BRI 756 288 191 855
198
and will be payable at the Hong-
12 Noon.
Parcels sent by messengers should | be addressed to the Japanese Earth- quake Disaster Hongkong Relief Committee.
By Order.
D. K. BLAIR,
Secretary, HONGKONG RELIEF COMMITTEE.
Hongkong, 12th September, 1923,
NEWS FROM THE OLD COUNTRY.
Sta zand we will mals you requk chokery show for 52 weeks ingy et quý British Werlly. "Nirm jojos, such as Aloyd's, Elgte Tai BIG MAN MENG al, edu eta, Emaireads of propensson au 1982 LàN mallest drug, Alferent propia, send Workly, or Thes sebesi Pipit tout, burlundinių palače, blast third uplandatu sanding, manuals (gepoetsted aggamanather w tamghout the Rapite, sent an
Perledical Posting Day. Plymouth, Eugland.
RATTAN GOODS.
two undermentioned guilds beg to anounce that the prices hitherto charged have re iogined the same for years. Owing to the increased cost of living all manufacturers, stores and workinen are reluctually compelled to raise their prices. At a meeting of employers aut employees it was un-
kong and Shanghai Banking Coranimously agreed that prices of paration on SATURDAY, the 20th September, 1923, in exchange for
surrender of same.
By Order,
A. H. ABBAS,
Secretary. Hongkong, 8th September, 1923.
NOTICE.
A DANCE will be held on FRIDAY,
September 14th, by H. M. S. "Diomede" at R. N. Canteen Theatre. "Diomede" Jazz Band will be in attendance.
Admission 50 cents. Ladies Free.
PARTICULARS AND CONDITION
07 JALE of the
STEAMSHIP "CHEKIANO"
as she now lisant Stone Cutters Island
to be sold by
Order of the Mortgages
by
PUBLIC AUCTION
GP
FRIDAY
the 21st, day of Septembar, 1823
at 3 o'clock p.m.
IN ONE LOT
by
Mesara. Lammert Bros., Auctionserà
at their Auction Rooms in Daddoll Street
The abip is of 185.2 tons gross and
535.4 matt tonnage. Her length is 100)
goods be increased by ten per cent. and that workinen's wager he raised by seventeen per cent. This was ratified by the delegates appointed to the meeting.
The Wise ING Tow
Rattan Masters' Guild). THE OF KWON GENBRAL GUILD (Manufacturers' Masters'
& Workmen's Guild).
Hongkong, August 28, 1023.
LEE KEE
ESTABLISHED 1896
BATHS & BATH-ROOM
ACCESSORIES* ̈ ̈
Estimates furnished
free of charge.
Office 21, Wellington Bt.
feet or thereabouts, Beam 33 foot or Stylish Ladies' & Gentlemen's Footwear
"thereabouts, draft 18 fost U inches or
Abareabouts and horsepower 252.
For orders to view, apply to Mr. Lammert Brus, the Auctioneers
For further particulara apply to:--
Mearse. JOHNFON, STOKES
& MASTER,-** Prince's Buildings or to Mesra. LAMMERF Brea, the Annuvers,
Daddell Street, Hongkong, September 11, 1823.
THE TIN YIN HONG Co.".
Shoe Bidro.
ir Poteles de Central
1 Lower Invacar Bond,
-Kenry purchaser will be entitled to sow at
our brain and abos ersão gratis,
PUBLIC AUCTIONS,
THE CHINA MAIL.
PARTICULARS and Conditious of the folling by Public Auction Bale, Lo beteta en MONDAY, the 17th day of September, 1924, st:3 p.m., at the Officon of the Public Works Department, by fedor
of His Facellency the Governor of five Lots of CROWN LAND at Poklulana Itoad in the Colony of Hongkong, for a renewal at a Omen Rent to be fixed by form of 76 years, with the option of one further is Majesty the King, for | one further term of 75 your.
Registry So.
palexville
Baral Building
Baral ning
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
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An per sako pfune
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Annual Rent.
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121,50
TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND
OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
ALI- preliminary notices of forth
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coming meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in the news columns of the China Mail, | are charged for at the rate of $1 each, (as announced in May and June of 1922) providing that they do not occupy more than four lines. In future if this space is exceeded they will be placed in the advertising columns at the prevailing rates.
WANTED ADVERTISEMENTS
95 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. Every additional, word ₫ Conta for 3 insertion
POSITION WANTED
RECOMMENDING rellable
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
Women are said to be better at |learning foreign languages than
are men.
Theft from a person, with violence, may be punished by ponul servitude for life.
A Southend woman wheeled into Japanese Boy to Private Mess, or court in a Bath chair obtained a Club-Houses as Houseboy-Clean, separation order from her husband, Clever and Quiet. Please address to whom she was married 11 years Box No. 1449, c/o "China Mail."
FOR
FRENCH TUITION
Write to
G. MOUSSION c/o "China Mail' office.
There is Health for your Baby in a tin of
Allenburys
Milk Food No. 1
The first food in the 'Allenburys Progressive System of infant Feeding. It resembles a closely as possible. baby's natural dietary-mother's milk: The casein which is present in tow's milk or ordinary.dried milk, and which forms hard, indigestible masses in baby's stomach, is removed by a unique process of manufacture, making the Milk Food No. 1 ideal for bottle fed babies from birth to 3 months. Write for funther particulars and free cony of 'Allesbury' book on Infant Feeding and Manageinen."
Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
40 Canton Road, SHANGHAI.
SWAY HOUSE
HAT MAKER.
No. 16, Wyndham Street.
ago.
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Amy Dawes, a
woman beak-
maker, fined £20 at Willesden for street betting, had 174 slips on her, mostly handed in by women and children.
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Certain members of the former board of directors of the Industrial Bank of China, which failed in: 1921, including Senator Andra. Berthelot, were brought for trial before the Paris courts on May 31- charged with fraud. --
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MARRIED TEACHERS.
COLLEGE PRINCIPALS
PLAN.
1. The hearing was continped of. As Mr. John Robertson, joint the action between Mrs. Elizabeth general manager of the Moorgate, Price, of Clydach, Glamorgan, and office of the Northern As-57 other married women school surance Company, was walking a Urban Council, asking for a declam
teachers, against the Rhondda narrow street of Tangier, Morocco, a large cask of wine fell on him tion that the notices dismissing
them were illegal. tearing off one ear and injuring his head.
The Rev. D. J. Thomas, principal of the Home and Colonial Training College, Wood Green, N., called for the defence, stated that nearly 1,000 qualified teachers were turned
Twelve passengers, including the two Britons, Mr. Line and Major Spring, are now presumed to have perished in a missing boat out each July in the country. It was important there should be of the Portuguese liner "Mossanie-openings for them in the schools. des" which
stranded and abandoned off Cape Frio, To get out of the difficulty his
suggested:
was
South-West Africa.
A tame fox escaped from a Fred Phillips, ex-captain of Pontypool Rugby Club, was talk-naturalist's collection at Llandrin- ing to other patients at Pontypoolhen roasts, fought with dogs in the dod Wells. It visited several hotel Hospital, when he had a seizure and died.
streets, and was subsequently re- captured in the kitchen of an hotel after having been chloroformed.
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A cat belonging to a Margate resident has a white face with black markings, which give it a striking likeness to Charlie Chaplin,
even to the moustache,
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Mr. G. Vickery plunged into a mill stream at Uxbridge to rescue the son of a local police constable. Before he could get the bay to the bank he was seized with cramp in the arms, but held the boy's coat with his teeth until assistance arrived.
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Talking machine records of the voices of leading men are being made on copper discs, said to last 10,000 years, and stored in the Prussian State Library,
To white away the time of wait- ing for pit and galley patrons of Panch, as the name of a bever-"Aren't we All" at the Globe age, is derived from the Hindu Theatre, the London broadcast word "panch," meaning five, there entertainment is being given being originally five essential in- by means of a loud speaker from gredients in the mixture."
the time of the opening of the doors at 7.50 p.m. until the play starts.
Among our Prime Ministers, two created records. Sir Robert Walpole held the position for twenty-one years, and W. E. Glad- tane occupied it four times.
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Lady Llangattock has bequeath ed to the town of Monmouth (to be placed in the Rolls. Hall. which was built by her husband) £5000 worth of Nelson's relics, including Nelson's sword.
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The Association of Retired Naval Officers, of 21, Old Bond-street, W., have appealed to all M.P.s to assist them in obtaining the pay- ment of their pensions while serving in the war, pointing out that no other ranks or classes of State pensioners have been de prived of their pensions when on service except themselves.
A man who appeared at Edio- Sir Monteague Barlow, Minister of Labour, stated that the number burgh Police Court charged with of ex-Service en registered as breach of the peace said his anemployed on April 23 was mother-in-law had hit him over the 360,000, of whom 84,900 were unhead with a poker, and he had der 25 and 22,400 over 59.
simply thrown a jam jar over the window to attract the attention of Judgment was reserved in the the police. The police came and Ulster High Court at Belfast in took him into custody. Builie case in which an injunction is M'Laren imposed a fine of 105. sought to prevent the council of the Royal Portrush Golf Club, County Antrim, from authorising play on Sunday,
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John Kersie, the Liverpool fire- T who was found guilty of plotting to murder his wife in order to get £500 insurance from a news- per, was at Manchester Assizes sentenced to three years' penal servitude.
THE TELEPHONE HANDBOOK
The Fourth issue of the TELEPHONE HANDBOOK will
be published in AUGUST, 1923.
The TELEPHONE HANDBOOK consists of an up-to-date and accurate index of Telephone Subscribers, the numbers being given in sequence.
SPECIMEN PAGE.
Contral 22 The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd, 5, Wyndham Street
22" China Mail" (Newspaper), 8, Wyndham Street
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22 The Dollar Directory Co., 5, Wyndham Street
22 Telephone Handbook, 5, Wyndham Street
Peak 2 Bridger, R. 1.. Residence, 120, The Peak
Kowloon-22 Green Island Cement Co., Cement Works, Hok.un
Central- 23 Jordan, Forsyth, Grove, Aubrey, Urquhart, Lyon
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23
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Brown & Masgown, Dra, Alexandra Buildinge
Brown, Dr. Lyun, Office, Alexandra Buildings
23 Forsyth Dr. C., Ollies, Aloxamira Buildings Peak 23 Brown, Mr. N. S, Residence, 76, The Peak Peak 93 Batterfield and Swira. Mr. N. 8. Brown's, Residence, 76,
The Peak
Kowloon-23 Ye Fong Chan, 136, Temple Street. Yaumati Contral 21 Tak Shan Bank, 165, Queen's Road, Central
„Peak- 21. Bail, A. Dyor, Residence, 51, The Peak Kowloon-24 Dizon, H., Residence, 4, Lysemoon Villas, Chatham
Road
Central 25 Hongkong and Whampoa Doak Co., Aberdeen Dock,
Aberdeen, ~
Peak 25 Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Chief Manager's
Residence, 156, Magazine Gap, The Peak
Paak
25 Dyer, R. M., Residence, 156, The Peak Kowloon-25 Shun Lai Sung, 33, Poking Road"
The TELEPHONE HANDBOOK has met a want which has long been felt amongst users of the Telephone, as it provides an easy means of ascertaining the name of the Subscriber without the necessity of a search through the ordinary al- plmbetical directory.
The TELEPHONE HANDBOOK costs $1 per copy and is sold on the strict understanding that on the publication of a new one the old one will be returned to the publishers. The proviso is made in the interests of Subscribers in view of the frequent changes that take place.
ORDER:
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CAN A SHADOW
HAUNT
YOU?
The dismissal of all married women teachers with the exception of widows and those whose hus- bands could not support them men and women teachers when adequately; the dismissal of both they reached the age of 60 instead of 65, the present pensionable ago and the giving of reasonable notico to all unqualified teachers.
and demand should apply to He thought the laws of supply teachers as to others.
Mr. Justice Eve: But this scems to be the case here. You say to an old man, "You have had a good innings and now we will strangle you or kill you."
The hearing was adjourned.
HONGKONG HEIGHTS.
allowing list of some of the highest For the information of visitors $1...
points on the Island and Mainland ts published +---
ISLAND.
Signal Station
The Eyris
Feet
1774
Hi Parker Mountain Lodg
1734
1725
1725
Park Hotel
1305
Talkoo Babatoriam
000
Mt. Davis
877
Bowen Rd, (ilterbei,
309
MAINLAND.
Taimoeban
$124
Kowloon Peak
1971
1645
1000
Costom Pasz
vil's Peak
780
724
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1923
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