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SATURDAY APRIL 5, 1924:
INTIMATIONS.
WANT
HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND ADVERTISEMENTS
CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
NOT!
NOTICE OF MEETING.
[OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Second Ordinary! Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of the Hongkong Engineering & Con struction Company. Limited, will be held in the Offices of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., St. George's Building, Chater Road. Hongkong, on THURS DAY the 10th day of April, 1924, at 12.00 Neon for the purpose of re- ceiving the Report of the Board of Statement of Directors and a Accounts for the Half-year ended on
20 WORDS B-INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. Every additional word & Cente
for 3 insertions.
bo vacancies for a few pupils in VOICE production, Box No. 1479.
AUSTRALIAN SOPRANO
POSITION WANted.
POSITION WANTED by exper
enced Children's Nurse. Excel- the 31st December 1923, and of lent. references. Peak preferred. Immediate engagement. Apply Box electing Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Com-No. 1480 e/o "The China Mail" peny will be closed from the 4th to the 10th April, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board, -
S. COURTNEY COOK, Secretary. Hongkong, 27th March, 1924,
PUBLIC DINNER
to
Sir William Rees-Davies, K.C.
TO LET.
TO LET First Floor No. 9 Jordan
Road. 3 rooms, Hall and ser- vanta' quarters with flushing system. Apply KOON TAI & Co. 24, Des Voeux Road, Central. 'Phone C..417.
IT
well-lighted LET:~One OFFICE ROOM on top floor.
'Gande Price & Co., Ltd."
It is proposed that a dinner should 6, Queen's Road Central. Apply
be given by the
Foreign
Community in honour of the departing Chief Justice at the Mong Kong Hotel, on Saturday, fath. April, at 8 p.m.
wishing to. bè Gentlemen present should notify on or before' their intention to 5th April, Colonel Robertson, Hong Kong Club,
supply particulars.
who wili
Hongkong, 22nd March, 1924.
NOT
NOTICE.
all
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that FRANK RONALD SMYTH has as from the First day of April One thousand nine hundred and twenty four heen admitted as a partner in the firm of Vernon and Smyth carrying on business as 'share brokers at 44 Des Voeux Road Central Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and that the firm of which the partners now are ROBERT THOMAS MATHESON and FRANK RONALD SMYTH will continue to carry on business as heretofore under the style of "Vernon and Smyth." Dated the 1st day of April 1924, VERNON & SMYTH, 4A Des Voeux Road Central,
Victoria, Hongkong.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD.,
MR. GP.CURRY having retire Mi from the Company's Hervice on completion of his agrosmout, notice in hereby given that Mr. L. J. BLACK. BURN, the Resident Engineer, has been nopeintal, as from this date, to holl all powers pertaining to the flice of local Socratary,
:
(SL) JARDINE, MATHESON &
CO., LTD,
Local Agents. Hongkong, 31st March, 1924.
NOTICE.
WE the undersigned hereby give
notice that we have resumed
business as share and
FOR SALE.
3,000 B.H.P. POWER PLANT
THIS plant consists of the following, all in working order, having just recently been in full use
(B)
to
JEWELLERY
JADE
&
PRECIOUS STONES
Also A Large Selection.
OF
CUPS & SPOONS.
SUITABLE FOR SPORTING TROPHIES
obtainable at
SHERIFF BROTHERS.
€9, Queen's Rd, Cl.
HIGH CLASS BOOTS AND SHOEA
Made to order. ROYAL & CO.
No. 1, Aguller Stro
SECRET SOCIETIES.
GENERAL BOOTH AND THE U.S.
(A) Four "Mand" gas producers capable of generating 400,000
The dissemination of orders cubic feet of gas per hour of approved by General Bramwell. 140 B. T. U. per cubic foot com. Booth in London, calling upon all plete with washers, cooling Salvation Army officers to sever tower, scrubbers, centrifugal their connections with any secret cleaners, blower, motors, piping, societies of which they may be etc., coal elevator and changing members, has created a profound
sensation in the United States. plant.
General Booth is now on the way borizontal
India, Two. "Cockerill"
Consequently it is 4-cylinder tandem double, acting type gas engines, 1,000 B.H.P. impossible for anyone in America to communicate with him except each and two same type
by wireless. Yet the issue which 2-cyclinder engines of 500 B.H.P. sach. all the above made his orders have broached is re- by Richardson Westgarth & Co..garded as so important that it may
not impossibly result in the seces England. Engines complete with sion of the American branch of the air. starting plant, electric Salvation Army. ignition, water cooling pumps
The New York World, which motors, turcing gear, maintains the closest touch with motors, etc.
Salvation Army officers in this (C) Two dynamos by Dick Kerr & country, states that they interpret Co., England, having an output the general's orders as a renewal of 750 K.W. each at 250 volts of the attempts to make the three when driven at 120 revolutions. great divisions of the army which also two similar dynamos of are under the command of 375 K.W. each, complete with switch-boards, and instruments,
and
etc.
For further particulars, apply to Mesars, Butterfield & Swire.
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ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The rates on the London County Hall for the year 1923-24 amounted to £21,666 13s. 4d.
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Melbourne gave Mr. Seymou Hicks, the actor, a civic welcome on his arrival.
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The offer of the London cle- mentary school teachers for the continuance of the voluntary reduction of 5 per cent, on their scale salarles has been accepted.
Mr. George Randolph Chester, the author of Get Rich Quick Wallingford," has died in New York.
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German buyers at Le Mans, Sarthe department, France, are buying up all the horses in the district at exorbitant prices.
The 10-years-old daughter of Mr. F. D. Acland, M.P., while bicycling at Exeter, callided with a motor-lorry and was killed.
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French imports of coal from Great Britain in 1921, 1922, and 1923 were 6,122,000, 12,507,000. and 18,501,000 tons; and. from Germany 9.676,000, 8,533,000, and New outbreaks of foot-and-3,758,000 tons.
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mouth disease have occurred at Rotterham, Denton, near New- castle, Glasgow, and Worksop Nottinghamshire.
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The Chief of Jamkhandi, one of the Bombay States, was crushed to death by an enraged State elephant almost on the eve of his son's marriage,
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A man named Sergio Carmine has been arrested at Niples in Connection with the attack there a month ago on Mr. Sauco Albanese. British Vice-Consul and Lloyd's sub-agent at Castellamare, near Naples.
For the third time since. The London Education Com-Christmas Mitcham, Surrey, Parish mittee reports that it cannot Church has been entered by recommend a proposal to insist thieves, and the other day it was. that school children should be found that four yards had been ent from a valuable carnet used provided with pocket handker
only for special services. chiefs...
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Mr. J.W. Muir, Parliamentary
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The National Council of the
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Independent Labour Party has Secretary to the Ministry of Per statement upholding | sions, has anpointed Mr. J. H. issued a the claim of Indians to Home Rule Hayes, M.P. formerly a sergeant and calling on the Government to in the Metropolitan Police, as his invite representative. Indians to parliamentary private secretary, consult with it regarding the unpaid. acceleration of full self-govern ment for India.
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A conference of Scottish muni cipalities on the restriction of methylated spirit drinking decided that retailers should register the names and addresses of purchasers of the spirit and that the vendor's name should be marked on the Evangeline Booth tributary to container together with the purpose Landon. This interpretation is and date of sale. disputed by Commissioaer Estill, of New York, who says that the. association of officers with secret societies has long been a source of anxiety here.
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In collisions at Barcelona between: Syndicalists and the police and Royal Guards, two Syndicalists were killed and several were arrested, two Guardsmen and two passers-by being injured.
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Lady Eve, chairman of the Parks Committee, nt a London County Council meeting statedi that the Ministry of Pensionsk hospital buildings at Ruskin Park would be removed before the end
of the month. Agents... *t.
The Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering
Co. of Hongkong, Limited, Hongkong, 21st March, 1924.
FOR
FRENCH TUITION
Write to
G. MOUSSION c/o "China Mail" office.
The Selection Committee of the Lancashire Education Committee have unanimously recommended Mr. P. E. Meadon, Director of Education for the County of Essex. as Director of Education for Lan- cashire, succeeding. Mr. G. H. Gater, who is to succeed Sir Robert Blair as London Education Officer.
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On their golden wedding day on March 7, Mr. and Mrs. Foster, of Apley Park, Bridgnorth, Salon, were placed on the roll of Borough Freemen of Stourbridge, Worces tershire, of which they have been great benefactors.
The fact remains that a large percentage of American Salvation Army officers are either. Free masons or belong to the Elks or other societies which are describ- ed in the orders published in the
Corporations and public bodies Salvation Army "Staff Review" as
interested in a proposal, to give "openly worldly" and as condon-
Birmingham water access to the
A proposal is being considered ing habits, such as the use of in-sea, via the Bristol Channel, at an hy the Motor Cab Trade Protection toxicants, which are "too often at estimated cost of £2,500,000 are to Society and the Post Office for a variance with our teaching and make joint application to the new telephone exchange in Central standard."
Government for an indication of London to which all telephone These societies have been liberal the extent of financial support, calls for taxicabs would be switch- contributors to the funds and forthcoming if the scheme ised by direct lines from all the work of the Salvation Army in decided upon.
scneral ST. ANDREW'S HALL.America. During the war, their
brokers under the style or firm of WRIGHT AND COMPANY. at
Princes Buildings. Ice House Street, || MONDAY, April 7, at 5.30 p.m.
Third Floor as from the 31st March, 1924.
Telephone No. 3519 Central.
J. F. WRIGHT.
T. W. HORNBY.
Hongkong, 31st March, 1924.
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TAILOR . PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED, Specially Selected Woollen Suitlugs Just Arrived.
Orders executed at Shortest Notice.
Price lowest.
64, Queen's Rd., Ctl.
Hongkong.
Telephone 1417.-
DAISY O'KEEFE Qualified Teacher
PROM MISS BELLE' HARDING'S
ACADEMY, LONDON, PARIS, A
BRUSSELS, THE HAGUE
And Madame. Tulith Espino's Academy of Stage and Operatio Dancing, London.
Miu O'Keefe gives lessons, in the insest Ball Room dances, including Tha Blass, Old and New Tango, Exhibition Work, Ballet, Classical Eurythmics, etc. Candidates pra pared for the London Technion! Syllabus Exuma Cocroot Technique taught
"Station Hotal, 10 to 12 mm. King Edward Hotel, 3 to 7
daily
Tol K120
Mr. Harry Ore's. Grand Pianoforte Recital.
Also:
Mrs. R. Sanger, Professor Gonzalez, $2. $1.
Tickets at Anderson's.
TUNG SANG
TAILOR
11A Peel Street
TELE
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EXPERT. FITTERS
WAS
co-operation
particularly close. Buildings which have been erected in nearly 1,000 cities in the United States have been built with money largely raised by them.
American Salvation Army offi- eers contend that to antagonise them would fatally cripple the operations of the army.
exchanges,
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General Bramwell Booth is spoken of with the utmost rever- ence in this country, but there is Dometic Occurs ne a widespread impression that he Leading Articles fails to understand the peculiar problems of America, which are very different from those of Eng- Foul Play land. The best friends of the Philharmonia Socisty.. Salvation Army are convinced Local Colour that, the existing differences can China Sugar Co. only be healed by visit to the Pacific Trade. United States by the general.Wireless School. Without such visit it is feared Correspondence, that the cry of British domination "Cat" for Criminals. is destined to spread.
**Reang Bhan "Sold. At the Salvation Army head- Rents Riddle quarters in London Commissioner British Legion Higgins, the Chief of the Staff, The Long Long Trail,; said:
Music for All
The Sulvation Army has always, The Witching Hour."
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Piracy Evil
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18 Huge Shanghai Fire
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Wireless aud Piracy
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Still, They Come..
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Poiso in Pot.
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Motor Held-Up.
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Prophet Abroad...
Tea Cosy Becret..
The Seany Side.
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| St. Andrew's Fets
Kowloon Dook Trouble... Student's Conference Hage-Arms Haul.... Back: To The Skreftai..
| Mr. Edkins'. Farewell
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