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THURSDAY OCTOBER 11, 1923'
INTIMATIONS
ST. PAUL'S GIRLS' SCHOOL.
74 Calne Road
SALE of WORK
in aid of
THE BUILDING FUND
will take place on
Oct. 11,12 & 13 from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Mrs. A. G. M FLETCHER has kindly promised to open the Sale at 2 p.m. on Thursday.
IN THE MATTER OF THE COM- PANIES ORDINANCE 191-1921
AND
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
98 WORDS 3 INSESTIONS, $1. PREPAID.
Every additional word & Conte for 3 insortions.
WANTED:
WANTED.-Light Sidecar in any
reauomble condition if cheap. Box No 1453 c/o "China Mail."
WANTED.-Six or eight-roomed House-detached if possible. China
IN THE MATTER OF THE HONG-Apply Box No. 1452 cle KONG HIDE & LEATHER CO. Mall."
LTI (Is LaquaDATION). DURSUANT to Section 181 of the
Pairs Orfilatos 1911, matice
heroly given at a Meeting of Creditora of the shovaname Company will be haki at the offices of Messrs. Percy Smith, eth Fleming, at Queen's Row Central Hongkong, 5, 12 o'clock woon, # FRIDAY, 19th October, 1923.
At this Moering the Chuditors will be nakal to determine whether un application shall be made to the Court for the appointment of any person 38 Liquidator in the place of or jointly with myself the liquidator appointed by the Company, or for the appoint. mont of a Committeo of Inspection.
Notice is also hereby given that the Creditors of the aboveamed Company are required, on or befora 30th Nora bor next, to send in their moves and address and particulars of their dabis
FOR
FRENCH TUITION
Write to
G. MOUSSION
c/o "China Mall" office.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
G
PUBLIC AUCTION
1.
DARTICULARS and Conditions of the Sale, by Public Auction to he held on MONDAY, the 8th day of October, 1921, at 8 pm, at the
or claims, and the mes and addresses ces of the Public Works Department,
of their Solicitors (if any) to Sydney Hampten Ross, of Mesars. Percy Smith, Seth & Floraing, the Liquidator of the Company: aul, if an required by notice in willing from the said Liquidator, are, by their Solicitors or personally, to com in and prove their debi ne claims at such time aut place as shall bo spoitind in such notice, or in default. thereof her will he oxcluded from the beneft of any distribution made such debts are proved.
foro
Paled this 9th day of October, 1923,
A. HAMPDEN ROSS,
WE
Liquidator.
NOTICE
Messre. E have appointed
ANDERSEN, MEYER & CO., LTD. on our distributing agents for China for our METAL LATHS. HY RIB. EXPANDED METAL PRO. DUCTS, also for Corner Beads, Edge Protectors, Rolled Channels and in our Inserts, as manufactured plants-in-Youngstown, Ohio, USA.
TRUSCON STEEL COMPANY,
E. A. SILAGI. General Manager for China. Hongkong, 9th October, 1923.
ANNOUNCEMENT,
1923, We nicured the exclusive distribut- 'ing agency for China of the follow- ing steel products manufactured by
ON September 1st,
the TRUSCON STEEL CO.
Metal Lath, Hy-rib
Expanded Metals,
Corner Beads, Edge Protectors,
Cold Rolled Channels, Also
Tapped Inserts and
Slotted Inserts.
We carry the above products in
Block at Shanghai.
ANDERSEN, MEYER & CO., LTD.
Hongkong. Bib October, 1923,
BANQUE DE L'INDO.CHINE.
NEW ISSUE OF FRENCH TREASURY BONDS 6% 1923.
PRICE OF ISSUE:
FRS. 98.50 FOR FRS. 100-OF NOMINAL VALUE."
Free of taxes, no prizes. Coupons payable twice a year on the 20th of May and 20th of November.
First dividend of Frs. 12.-to be paid on the 20th of November 1923, BONDS OF FRS. 500.-AND- FRS. 5,000.- CAN BE REFUNDED AT THE OPTION OF THE BUYER: at par on the 20th of May 1926.
at Frs. 103 on the 20th of May -1929.
of Fra 108-on the 27th of June 1933.
SUBSCRIPTIONS will be received up to the 1st of November 1923 by the BANQUE DE L'INDO- CHINE.
*C. E. GOY.
Manager..
Hongkong, October 1, 1923.
TO CLUB SECRETARIES. .
TN future, the "China Mail" will
publish the teams for weekend
by Order of His Excellancy the Governor, of fine Lot of CROWN LAND at Pokfu lam in the Colony of Hongkong, for
torm of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Survuyor of His Majesty the King, for one farther term of 76 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT-
P {m -༄{kaཎྡŲ
pirate.
El.
11.
Sq. feet.
Yanual Heat.
per sade ples,99,000 1999. §
R
Price.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
DARTICULARS and Conditions of the
Saaby Public Auction-to- bo held on MONDAY, the 16th day of October, 121, 3 pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Qaverar of ung Lot of CROWN LAND at Shaukiwan in the Colony (of Hotakon. for a terra al 20 years, with the option of resowal st & Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King. for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Bale:
Registry No.
Jumality:
Boundary Measuremente.
K.
5.
31.
per sade plan. 5.440
JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE
DISASTER.
HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.
NOTICE.
SUBSCRIPTIONS LISTS for the ahove 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, Scorelary, HONGKONG RELIEF COMMITTEE. Hotigkong, 10th September, 1923.
NAVY LEAGUE BALL Under the Patronage of Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, K.C.B.
(In Aldof War Charities)
Will be held at
The CITY HALL on
IIA 7, 2nd Unyamber. 1973,
menes Saturd9:30pm,
taries of all-ngita clubs; including
Tegimentel tenmarezireguested
Tickets 45: each. ce ORI
kindly to help in the matter by Obtainabledzam the
sending in the names of players nof later than noon each Friday.
Hongkong, October 10, 1923.
Ladies Committee Moutrie's, Anderson's and The Engineer's Institute.
THE CHINA MAIL"
NOTICES
THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that nu Extraordinary General Meeting of the abova Company will be held at the Hongkong. Hotel, Pedder Street, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 16th day of OCTOBER, 1923, nt eleven o'clock in the foronoon, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, pasing the following Resolution as an Estraordinary Resolution, namely:---
That the Conditional Agreement submitted in the Meeting for the Amalgamation with this Company of The Shanghai Hotels, Limited, upon. the torms (inter alia) of the acquisition by this Company of the complete "undër- taling, business, goodwill and property of The Shangini Ilofels, Limited, in return for the issue to men hers of flat Company (other than this Conqany) of Two sures of this Company of the nominal value of Ten Dollars ($10,00) uach credited as fully paid up for each and every complete share held by such members respectively in that Company in and the sine is hereby approved and the Directors lee and they are hereby authorised to carry the Agreement into effect with such of any) modifienfions either before or after the execution thereof as they may think fit." N.B.--A copy of the said Conditional Agreement may be inspected at any time during dusiness hours at the Registered Office of The Company, Powell's Building, Des Vans Road Central, Victoria Hongkong, and also at the office of Mesare. Beacon, Harstin & Shenton, No. 1. Des Vaux Road Central aforesaid, the Solicitors to the, Company. Dater this 24th day of September, 1923.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD,
WALTER J, HAWKER,
Secretory:
THE SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Medting of the above Company will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 15th day of OCTOBER, 1923, at 11.30 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering and, if thought, fit, passing the following Resolution as in Extraordinary Resolution, namely:
1.Thal it is expedient to effect an amiguration of this Com- pany with The Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited, whose Registered. Ofice is situate at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and with a view thereto that this Company be wonul up voluntarily and that Walter John Hawker, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, be nad he is hereby appisted Liquidator for the purpose of such winding up with full power.to delegate all or any of his duties as he in his absolute discretion may think it for the purpose of appanting a person or Corporation in Shanghai in the Republic of China to act in conjunction with hini and under his control and as his Agent for the purpose of carrying out smét liquidation
That the Conditional Agreement submitted to the Meeting for the Armalgamation of this Conjany with The Hongkong Hotel Company, Timited, upon the terms inter alia) of the aquisition by The Hongkong Hotel Company, Limitel, of the complete undertaking, business, goodwill and property of this Company in return for the issue to members of this Company (other than The Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited, of Two shures of The Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited, of the nominal value of Ten Dollars ($10.00) each eredited as fully paid up in respect of each and every complete share hold by such members of this Company respectively, be and the satre is hereby approved and that the Liquidator be and he is beruby aulhoffsed, parsamnt to Section One handred and eighty-five of the Companies Ordinance; One thousand nine hundred and eleven, to adopt the said Agree- ment and carry the same into effect with such if any; modifications either before or after the execution thereof as the said Liquidator may think, expedient. "
N.B.--A copy of the snid Conditional Agreemont may be inspected at any time during business hours at the Registered Office of the Company, Powell's Building, Des Voeux Road, Central, Victoria, Hongkong, and also at the offer of Mesars. Deacon, Hurston & Shenton, No. 1, Des Virus Red Central aforesaid, the Solicitors to this Company and also at the Shanghai Office of the Company, No. H, Kiukiang Road, Shanghai.
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3. That the aforesaid shares of The Hongkong Hotel Company, Tsimited, shall belofted to such aforesaid members who are the Register of Snreholders of this Company on the date of the confirmation by this Company of the Special Resolu tion infirming the said Conditional Agreement, N.B.--The shares of The Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited, to be allotted under the said Conditional Agreement to suck aforesaid members of this Company will participate in all dividends declared by The Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited, in respect of the furial year rusting 31st December, 1993, pati passu with the wisting issued shares ("Old") of The Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited. 4-That the Tiquidator be and he is hereby authorized to give such consent as may be necessary to the mure of The Hongkong Hotel Company. Janited, being changed to
The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited." SHOULD THE ABOVE RESOLUTIONS he passed by the requisite majority they, will be subtitted for confirmation ns Special Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary Gonemi Meeting to be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Pesider Street aforesaid, on WEDNESDAY, the 31st day of OCTOBER, 1923, at 11 o'clock in the forenoou, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, confirming such Resolutions as Special Resolutions accordingly.
NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that Registered Share- holders of this Company may attend the above mentioned Meetings and vote therent in person or by Proxy provided that all Proxies and the Powers of Attorney (if any) under which the same are signed are deposited duly stamped at the Head Office of the Company (namely, the Registered Office of the Company at Powell's Building, Des Vaux Road Central, Hongkong, aforesaid) not less than Twenty-four hours before the time fixed for holding the said Meetings.
Any Proxies or Powers of Attorney not deposited in accordance with the above provisions will not be available for use at the said Meetings.
Dated this 24th day of September, 1923.
M. Y.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD,
WALTER J. HAWKER,
Secretary.
SAN & CO., LTD.
M NUFACTURERS
BISCUITS
ANDI.
BEST PRESERVED.
EM GINGER."
HEAD, OFFICE: Now, DI to ich," "Quöön'í'Thad Coďtraléri FACTORY: Canton 'ɔd, Kowloon,
BRANDS AT: Mi volim, Sinestore. Shanehii, Cinton, Orla
MAN TRIED ON A STRETCHER,
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
There were 123 deaths from cancer in London the other weck.
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19 YEARS IN BED.
A man who has been in bed for 19 years was brought to the Assize
Latest figures show that practi- Court at Lewes and sentenced to six months' imprisonment in thecally no unemployment exists in
France. second division, He was Frederick George Tebbatt, 53, of Ranelagh. terrace, Hove. Lost Arigust, at a police court held in his bedroom,
Sir Pope Alexander Cooper, Chief Justice of Queensland from 1903-1922, has died at Brisbane,
aged 75,
he was committed for trial on two charges of obtaining eredit while
Ex-Inspector John Syme was un undischarged hankrupt.
released from Pentonville Prison 'Tebbalt was conveyed to court after an eight days hunger and
Red Cross motor-um-thirst strike. bulance. In the ambulance he
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Councillor J. G. Plummer nod Mrs. Plummer, of Jamaica-road, Bermondsey, both aged Br, lave celebrated the sixtieth annt versary of their inarriage.
Two lions raided road, a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya Ngong→
Colony, killed and partly devoured two oxen, and were later-seen breakfasting off an ox.
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The Dublin Sheriff's jury award- ed £1,500 compensation to Neal Traynor, of Dundalk, who was shot in the foot by Thomas Carroll, a Free State Army officer.
The Duchess of Sutherland, who was sworn in as a magistrate for the county of Sutherland in 1920, was for the first time called to sit on the Bench at Dornoch,
celles opened at Shipley, near
Princess Mary Viscountess Las- I Bradford, a maternity home which Sir Norman Rae. M.P. for Shipley, has provided at a cost of £10,000.
"Good Luck" is the title chosen was on a stretcher and was wear. for the new drama by Messrs. ing a mauve dressing-gown and Seymour Hicks and lan Hay to be long woollen stockings. He was produced at Drury Lane. wrapped in blankets, and his head
was in 1 heavy white Mr. John Walford Sixdox, aged woollen shawl. He wore kid gloves. 83, solicitor and head of
A crowd watched him being Birmingham funily which settled carried up the steps of the County there in the reiga of Richard Cardiff, has been refloated and Hall by his son and a policeman. has died.
OK SOLICITORS' TABLE.
The Lord Mayor of London (Alderman E. C. Moore), who re- reported to be making satisfactory cently underwent an operation, is
--He was conveyed into court, and the stretcher was placed on the solicitors' table between the Bench and the barristers' seats.
Weighing only five stone, Teb-progress. butt was extremely pale and par-
Gen. Sir Charles Harington, tially bald, and he lay with his commanding the Allied troops in eyes shut. When charged he replied "Guilty" in a whisper.
Mr. St. John Morrow (for the prosecution) said Tebbutt had twice been adjudicated a bankrupt. Nether bankruptcy had been dis-
charged.
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the Constantinople area, has speeded up the evacuation of the British contingents.
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The annual fair at Barast, Hert- fordshire, was spoiled by the rain. Detective-Lasnecter Adlam, of There were many cattle for sale, Hove, said Tehbut was formerly but buyers were few and prices an ironmonger at Northampton, ruled low.
He was married and had two sons
and two daughters. There was a large number of complaints against hin of obtaining credit, chiefly in the Midlands, the goods ranging from clothes to champagne' and chicken and books. Since his committal for trial he had sent out a large number of begging letters.
CUNNING LETTERS.
Mr. Justice Avory, addressing Tebbutt (who opened his eyes and turned his head in the direction of the judge), said he had succeeded for a considerable time in avoiding what he must have known was the inevitable result of his conduct. His letters displayed considerable cunning and were written on notepaper headed "Audaces for- turna juvat" la variation of Virgil's "Audentes fortuna juvat,”“Forin nợ favours the daring "1.
As Tebbutt was carried from the court he raised his hand and said in a feeble voice: 'Don't, my lord; my lord; it will kill me."
Later he was conveyed in motor- ambulance to Pentonville Prison.
There he will be treated as a hospital patient and will live on special diet ordered by the prison doctor. If his condition in hospital warrants it he will be given champagne and chicken, and he will five as any ordinary hospital patient would outside. Fish, eggs, and milk are expected to form the major part of his diet.
THE SAD EYE
that goes with Blundlearness is a sure Anaamio eign of misory and workness. girls and women have dull, bravy oro
A WONDERFUL· -NEALER FOR
DURNS
The Ellerman liner "City of which Shanghai" (5,800 tons), grounded off Penarth Heul, near
berthed. The main stcuppipe has burst and the bottom is slightly damaged.
Insane was recorded at a Hove (Sussex) inquest on Madeline Alice Gibbs-wife of a company director now in Buenos Aires, Argentina- who fell 70 feet from an open window.
A verdict of Suicide While
Following an outbreak of fire at | photographic studios in New Oxford-street, W,C., a girl who ran to pull the street alarm ininted be- fore reaching it into the arms of a policeman, who summoned the brigade.
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"A very brave act," was the New- port (Mon.) coroner's description of the rescue by Sidney Devon- shire, 50, a furnaceman's helper, of William Hall, 67, a mason, who died after Devonshire had pulled him from a lift Alled with steam,
At a farewell hanquet at Pretoria before his departure to attend the Imperial Conference in London, Gen. Saints, the South African Premier, declared that the Conference would focus the whole- strength of the Empire on the ideal of securing world peace.
Senor Gonez, the Portuguese President was received by the King at Balmural before he left England for Portugal..
Lucy Porter, 25, who had been reported as missing to the Hull
found at St. Pancras, London.
& SCALDS police since August 22, has been
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The Soviet Press states that in
ness out of burns and scalds, July there were more than 200,000
and protecting the raw damaged tissues against germ trouble, Zam-Buk is indispensible. It not only prevents suppuration and blood-poison, but it grows new skin in a wonderful way.
Zam-Buk derives its healing, soothing and antiseptic virtues solely from rich herbal oils and extracts. It contains neither repulsive animal fats nor poison- ous mineral compounds such as are found in common ointments.
Also for eczema, bad legs, ring-- worm, boils, abscesses, piles, ulcera, etc., Zam-Buk is the soothing powerful remedy. “BOUTON DEER ZAM-BOK. Me.Kasisekuuden Ganguly, 1.3.5., 20, Amherst St., Calculia, wrifen :—-” I had To with a very bad cras of scalda where the mourkis wera foul sad mappatung profusely. I atente cleansed the parts and saw to the inim zlate application of Zam-Buk. In a few days all the trimming and kicking had scased, and the sealda were refratly healed
CHILD OF FIRK, Mr. M. Haw, 12, Maung Khče St., Rastoon. writes:-"A YOUNG, PAPU of out Base Thongyi, Wis. Ab Terely trust about ilk lower part of his body that his parents garo
se for 10. Native medicines had be
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ONETANE IN ANIMAL, KAY,
cases of malaria in Russia and also numerous cases of Siberian plague,
Twelve women of the Windsor and Eton Bowling Club defeated, at Windsor, a women's team of the Maidenhead Thicket Club hy five shots.
Three successful Channel swim- mers-Henry Sullivan, Enrico Tiraboschi, and William Burgess gave an exhibition at the Chiswick (Middlesex) open-air bath.
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Lady Guillamort, wife of Viscount Guillamore, of Ingleside, Holt, Wiltshire, wou the first prize, a playful calf, in the skittles com- petition at the local flower show.
Strikers in some of the hard coal-
fields in the United States, where 158,000 men are idle, have reached an informal agreement with the owners and are urging the leaders of the national wiion to accept a wage increase of 10 per cent, and to abandon the demand that owners shall collect union subscriptions.
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With a double-barrelled gun between his legs and the muzzle in his mouth, Colonel Arthur Her bert Kenny, 67, who retired from the Royal Engineers before the war, was found shot dead in a bedroom
with dark lines undernasth, the cyalid, AGENTS: Wakefield & Co,,of his house in Preston Park
if pulled down, looks pr'o and blodshot 60, Kiangse Road, Shanghai
inside.
This is not all. Ansemin works havoc
through the systern: girls grow pain- fully won and irritable; they are breath. los and capable of much exertion. willy older women who ara anaomio complain of being "nover really well."
Thom is only one way to brighter. hitter health for pale, pining woman; that way to invivorate the oble body wth Now lol-the rich, healthy blood. that imparts strength, cleanses the My tem of -11 impurities, sud restores beauty, with the bright eyes and rod lipart perfect health.
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Not only Annemis, but Indigestion, Palpitation, Shin Cordias, Rheuma tam, Gino al Woskses and the many, other disorders that arise from Impure Blood sud Weak Nerves; have boor mured in countlass cares in both sexes by De Williams' Pink Pills for Fale People.
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avenue, Brighton, He had been receiving medical treatment for nervous breakdown."
J. T. SHAW
TEL, CENTRAL 692.
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