SATURDAY,
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JANUARY -19 - 1924.-
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THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE ONE HUNDRED & FOURTH
ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company Will be held at the Office of the Company No. 4A, Des Voeux Road, on FRIDAY, 1st February 1974, at 12.0'clock NOON for the purpose of receiving a Report, of the Directors; with Statement of toge:her Accounts, declaring a Dividend, and election Directors and Auditors.
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BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION,
THE TONGKONG & KHAMDA DOOK COMPANY, LIMITED.
MODELS constructed by this
Company which are, shortly to be despatched to the British
Empire Exhibition, will be on view at the Kowloon Docks to the public on WEDNESDAY the 16th instant, and daily thereafter until WEDNESDAY, the 23rd Instant, between the hours of 9.30 a.m. and 5 p.m.
THE CHINA MAI
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Concrete, fireproot, Old Post Office Bulding, ie,, the whole southe eastern section of the sixth, floor, accessible by seven lifts, with adjoin- verandahs and can be separated Into smaller offices.
A launch will leave Blake Piering THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the för Kowloon Dock daily at 9.30 Company will be CLOSED fromm, 10.30a.m., 11.30 am., 2.30 p.m., Saturday 19 January to Friday 1st 3-30 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. andreturn to Hongkong at 10.15 am., II.15 February 1924 both days Inclusive, during which period no transfer of am, 1.00 p.m., 3 15 p.m. and 5.30
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By Order, ahares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors
JOHN ARNOLD,
Secretary, Hongkong, January 8th, 1924
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the THIRTY-SIXTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEET- ING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Mesers. JARDINE, MATAR
•WON & CO., LTD., on MONDAY, 28 JANUARY, 1934, at 11.15 o'clock in the forenoon for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement
af Accounts for the year ending flat DECEMBER, 1923..
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from FNDAY, 18th January to MONDAY, 28th January, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
R. M. DYER,
Chief Manager. Kowloon Docks,
15th January, 1924.
TUNG SANG
TAILOR
11 A Peel Street
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By Order of the Board of Directors. HIGH CLASS TAILORING
L. S. GREENHILL,
Acting Secretary. ·
Fongkong, 11th January, 1024.
THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION COMPANY..
LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the TWENTY-THIRD
SERVICE.
EX-ACTIVE SERVICE. MEN'S ASSOCIATION (1914-1918).
SMOKING CONCERT.
ORDINARY GENERAL MEET A SMOKING CONCERT will be held
ING OF SHAREHOLDERS, in
at the Club Rooms at 17 Queen's
this Company will be held at the Road on SATURDAY evoning next, Offices of MossIE, JARDINE, MATHE. the 19th, inst., at 9 pm. The Concart BON & Co., LTD., on MONDAY, Party of the H. M. 8. "Diomede." have 28th JANUARY. 1994, at 11 kindly converted to assist.
o'clock in the forenoon for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement
of Accounts for the year ending
81st DECEMBER, 1929.
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TORA INOKUCHI QUALIFIED MIDWIFE.
The REGISTER of SHARES No. 2, 1st Floor Chee Wo Street,
of the Company will be CLOSED
Kowloon,
Telephone754 K..
from FRIDAY, 18th January, to (Facing Diocesan Girls' School.) MONDAY, 28th January, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of sharos can be registered. By Order of the Board of Directors.
L. 8. GREENHILL,
Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 11th January, 1924.
WAVOURL Wavy Hair, the representation of Youth sad Orsos, that always remmning, the leal of i Altzort any woman. Hauce will bo of in- Born to learn of a now preparation. which la moet early employed, prosuring for the hair oven quito plata and straight," the mos beautiful nature curls.The product his the same kuro rosult with isdier an children, beside it in absolutely harmless. It sme "Wave" and the price retail 1B, Whole. als 9-per Dor
Paper money of all Countries will be accepted.
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the FIFTH ORDINARY Lcal and General YEARLY MEETING OF SHARE Social and Personal HOLDERS will be held at the Regis-Movia Films Barat.. tered Office of the Company No. 10. Now Building Law. Des Voeux Road Central, at 3.00 u m., Your Pet Club... SATURDAY February the 2nd 1924, Ode On "Sight". for the purpose of receiving the Re- port of the Directors together with a Commercial Notes Statement of Accounts for the year Bente Fuzzle... ending 31st December. 1923,
The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed from MONDAY,
Bank Morgar... Theatra Stars.. Kowloon Fiat:....
21st January-to- SATURDAY, 2nd Yaumati School February 1924, Choth days inclusive) Boxing
during which period no transfer of Plaintiff ar. Pirate ?. shares can be registered.
By Order of the Beard of Director
KAN TONG PO.
Chief Manager:
Hongkong, 15th January, 1924.
WING HING
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1 China's Only Hope.
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Royal Sanitary Institute... Shooked]
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Japan's Barthquake.
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.10-11 The Philharmonio.
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Canton Custome
Freemasolry
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Kongmoon Pars
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A Now Bank..
13:
Peking Cabinet.
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Arma Beizure..
A Franconian
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Curse of Babal,
14.
Colota Y Cymro
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Wook End Crime!!!
Company Mesting.
Ying Wa Progress.
Chineas Chop "Query
Alleged Trespass....
Hongkong University.
Biebop Pozzoni.
Buggar Hagginge:
Our Taria..
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In the Valley
Ricaha Squeeze
15'
A Dog's Life...
Central British Bohool.
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Bignalling Exercises.:
Bon Voyage.
A Woman Scorned:
Boatch for money:
A Prava Murder.
In Canton..
Too Busy
A Foking Diary:
|HA.P.8.
A Kowloon Epidemic
Cheerful Chefoo
SportKIECKI Arms Evil!
St. David's Bod
Hongkong Harbour Government
New B. 1. Ship. Correspondence Obituary Local Wedding Cost Pillage. 4 Jook
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99 Who's Who
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DON'T ENDURE
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Let ZAM-BUK Sootha & Cura.
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Don't Experiment with Fatty Salves & Dressings which are always liable to do your
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
Sir James Reckitt, head of the large blus and starch firm of Hull, who has been actively associated with philanthropic work, is 90.
It was reported to the Roscom- mon County Council that the bank account was overdrawn by £26,000, and rates outstanding amount to £64,000. •
In the deep sea, trade three out of five British sailing ships are laid up, it was stated at the annual meeting of the British Sailing Ship Owners Association.
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'A number of high Mogrish nut- ables have prayed in the principal mosque at Tangier that the port shall become international and not be handed to the care of a single nation.
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The Cardiff stipendiary dis- missed a charge of manslaughter against Frederick Dix, 19, who accidentally shot Leslie King, 14, while they were shooting seagulls.
The Unemployment. Grants Committee has notified Lowestoft Corporation that Belgian cement, though cheaper than British cement, must not be used in the new sea. wall scheme.
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When Edward Cain, 59. * labourer, was sent for trial at Birmingham on a charge of bigamy it was stated that he went through the marriage ceremony in 1915 with a woman of 80.
For smuggling whisky and cigars Archibald McPhail, captain of the steamer "Onyx," was fined: treble duty, £10, at Neath and Robert Brown, the second officer, £3, for a similar offence.
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The grand jury at the Old Bailey found no bill in the case of Thomas Percy Mutton, 33, a tramway-car conductor, charged with the man slaughter of Herbert Parker, and he was discharged..
After three days' debate the Isle of Man Legislature decided to offer £200,000 to the British Government as a contribution to the war, ex- ponses, but that the money should not be raised by taxation of food.
Appointments for ex-officers and men are being found at the rate of 100 a week by the Appointments Department of the Ministry of Li- bour, Sir Montague Barlow stated. The number on the register is 5,109.
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M. Midol, the Paris Communist, who went to Switzerland in 1920, when warrant was issued for his arrest or taking part in a railway strike and returned to Paris when he
elected was
a councillor, was arrested outside the City Hall,
An injury received 29 years ago, when he burnt his foot, was stated to have accelerated the death of William Abbott, 64, of Middles- brough, on whom an inquest was held. He died from acute bron chitis.The verdict was Death from Natural Causes
It was announced: at the annual festival of the Newsvendors'. Benevolent and Provident Instita. tion at the Mansion House that £4715 had been subscribed in re sponse to an appeal made. by Sir Charles Wakefield, a former Lord Mayor of London, who presided.
The Earl of Balfour, at the an.
skin more harm than good. Zam-Buknual Raleigh Lecture on History
- contains no animą) fat, but onlyake purest and 'most curativa, herbal extracts which Nature herself provides for this healing and regeneration of the human skin.
These rested herbal astracts are readily absorbed by the tiny pores and they extend thelr, germicidal curailva ection far below the surface, mothing al purifying the 'whole tissus, quickly uprooting the most deep-wal, discRM MA
Zam-Bilk, which is essentially a real our- ative skiji medicina, has proved sinccessful 'in' thatnandi bf cases of eczema, psoriasis; ringworm, Dhoblem”. Itéh, wipers, abscessor, heat sores, poisoned wounds, sorafect; piles. cuis, burns, scales, olc. Zam Bak which is
FREE FROM ALL ANIMAL FATS
held by the Royal Society at Burlington House, Piccadilly, announcedạy donation of £2,000 from Mrs. L. Mond, which would enable the society to hold a Shakespeare lecture on English literature yearly, ·
Described as an executive officer In the office of the Controller of the London telephone service, Percy Medcalf 43, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the second division at Marlborough
- ZAM BUE," "la" obtainable of climate street for offering a bribe to a
and disponeries overywhere. Dienos trous
agonte Mewark Waketeld. Co. (Uhina), county court official and for obtain- Lit, 00, Kiszgae Boad, Shanghai
Zam Buk
The
Real Herbal SKIN, MEDICINE &
jpg 30s by false pretences.
An Army Council Instruction was issued abolishing the Geneva Crosa hitherto worn on the sleeve hr the rank and file of the Royal Army Medical Corps, who will in future wear the carps badge only Axcent on active service, when a white brassard, bearing a red cross, will be worn as in the past.
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