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TUESDAY APRIL 8 1924
INTIMATIONS.
BONGKONG ENGINEERING AND
CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
NOTICE OF MEETING.
OTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
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that the Second Ordinary
JEWELLERY
JADE &
PRECIOUS STONES
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OF
CUPS & SPOONS.
Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of Also A Large Selection the Hongkong Engineering & Con struction Company, Limited, will be held in the Offices of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., St. George's Ballding, Caster Road, Hongkong, on THURS- DAY the 10th day of April, 1924, at 19.00 Noon for the purpose of re- ceiving the Report of the Board of of Statement and a Accounts for the Half-year ended an the 31st December 1923, and of alecting Directors and Auditors.
Directora
The Transfer Books of the Com- Sany 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.
NOT
NOTICE.
TOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN that FRANK RONALD SMYTH has as from the First day of April One thousand nine hundred and twenty four been admitted as a partner in the firm of Vernon and Smyth carrying on business as share. brokers at 4A Des Voeux Road Central Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and that the Grm 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,
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4A Des Voeux Road Central,
Victoria, Hongkong.
SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE. HONGKONG..
THE Annual General Meeting of
the Society will be held in the City Hall, on Monday, 14th Aprik 1924 at 5.15 p.m.
For the following purposes:-
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SUITABLE FOR SPORTING TROPHIES
obtainable at
SHERIFF BROTHERS.
89, Queen's Rd, Cu.
HIGH CLASS BOOTS AND SHOES
Made to oriler. ROYAL & CO. No. 1, D/guilar Stree
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WANTED. WANTED:-Competent Lady Stenographer. Must be British. Apply Box No. 1481,
USTRALIAN SOPRANO bas
(a) To receive the Report of the A vacancies for a few pupils in
Committee and Statement of | VOICE production. Box No. 1479. Accounts for the past year.
Officers and
(b) To elect the
well-lighted Committee for the enusing TO LET One
OFFICE ROOM on top floor Apply 6, Queen's Road Central. 'Gande Price & Co., Ltd."
year.
(c) To consider the mander in
which St. George's Day shall be celebrated.
(d) To transact any other business-
of which due notice has been given.
TO LET FURNISHED.
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
THE CHINA M
The German political police have made 70 arrests in German Uppes Silesia on charges of high treason.
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Sir James. Agg-Gardner has been re-elected chairman of the
Kitchen Committee of the House
of Commons,
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MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
PASSENGERS.
DEPARTURES.
For P. & G. as "Khyber" on Apr. 6-Min M. D. mith, Me and Mrs R. Smith, Mr P. Grieve, Mr W. 1. Hinds, Mr and Mrs F. &. Dinsdale, Mr and Mrs land-P. E. H. Walter, Mrs K. W. Tribe. Mr
of 820 tons of white fish landed at Aberdeen, 418 tons were ed by German trawlers.
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Dr. T. O. D. Dunn, Director of Public Instruction for Bengal was drowned while crossing
the Hoogly River near Naihati.
G. E. Noltheming, Men J. F. Bristor. Mr and Mrs H. A. Bastable, Mesum Wong Kin Wo. Aa La Tin, H. Roberts, Bir Joseph Lowesy, Mr G. Parker, Mr and R. A. Campbell, A. R. P. Davis, J. B. Mra Ng Sai Wai, Mears W. T.
T. Phillipe Spiore. Me and Mrs P. Klaver, Mis R Kalver, Mr and Mrs J. R. O. Twoodie, Mr and Mr G. Harlen, Mr A., Morti To raise funds for a new church more, Mr O. 8. Gond, Lt. Sandle, Mr & in a poor district of Southampton, G. A. Jamison, Mr Dodds, Mr G. M
Billings, Mes T. Jones, Me F G. non-a penny garnering procession, Memes C. H. 7. Booth, A. E. Seddon headed by the mayor, took place, E. A Webster, A. H. Phillips, 4. James, W. Mumford, Mins Barr, Masses W. Ellott, A Paics, J. Fodge, A. longar, Corporal Rolgaon, Masura L. Barnett, D. Thorale, I. C. Lamport, W. H. Shapp.rd, P. L. Hutchinson, Capt. B Faunders, Mr and Mrs N, Denison, Master Denison, MrR A
The King has appointed Baron Herschell to be a Lord-in-Waiting during the present Administration, the appointment to be of a political character.
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Berlin houseowners have just decided that all tenants of their Bats who set up apparatus for listening-in will have to pay a tax of £14 a year,
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Captain Jan Fraser, chairman of St. Dunstan's, and himself a blind man, has been chosen as prospec- tive Conservative candidate for North St. Pancras
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In Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C., armed and masked bandits robbed messengers of the Imperial Bank of bags containing £6,400.
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Mr. William, Morgan, who had been 50 years coroner for Stafford and retired some years ago, died at Stafford, aged 88.
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At the funeral service of Mrs. Brown, aged 102, at Hendou, N.W. Owing to a misunderstanding in the organ was played by Leonard dates a Tealby (Lincolnshire) Blake, 16, with whose parents Mrs. couple have had to postpone their Brown was living when he was marriage. They arrived at the born.. church a week too early,
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The coal 'output for the week ending February 16, was 5,821,000 tons, compared with 5,803,800 in the preceding week and 5,559,600 n the corresponding period of last
year.
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The British and Danish Govern- have agreed ments
thai visas passport'
will
not
be
required by Danish subjects travel- lag to England or British subjects travelling to Denmark.
When the Irish Free State Holland's most famous poet, Army was reorganised one batta- Peter Cornelius Boutens, was the lion would consist of men speak guest of honour at a literary dinnering Irish only, said General held by the P.E.N. Club at Gatti's Mulcahy, Minister of Defence, at Restaurant, Strand.
Balbriggan, CS: Dublin.
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Was
"Corporal George Conderton, RN.S.. aircraftsman, aged 34._of_
Brighton, Park Street, accidentally killed at Calshot Air Station, when he was struck by the propeller of a machine,
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Senator Bergamini, part-owner of the Giornale d'Italia, was attack- ed, beaten, and stabbed by twe arned burglars who broke into his house near Rome. He was saved froni death by his chauffeur.
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A conference will shortly be held between the police and the Westminster and Marylebone Councils to consider the offer of
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Mr. William Burrell, a shipowner of Rozelle, Ayr, Is lending his collection of about 150 modern French and Dutch paintings to the Tate
S.W., Gallery, Milbank, where it has be on view since the end of March.
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been received which
have.
in London show that the depth of the snow varies from 48 inches at Mont Revard to 8 inches at Cauterets. 、
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The War Compensation Court Sir Alfred Yarrow to build an has granted the Colne Fishery overhead bridge for traffic at Board £6,000 for loss and damage Oxford Circus,
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Sound amplifiers were fitted in the great hall at Euston Station, so that the speeches at the first annual meeting of the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway could be Deep Water Bay with 4 bed-heard by everyone present. rooms drawing and dining room and library. Hot and cold water. laid on.
All Members are requested to FROM 1st June, New House at
attend.
G. H. PIERCY.
Hon. Secretary,
Hongkong. 5th April, 1924.
WING HING
TAILOR
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When George Wilson, 46, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to 18 months' hard labour for possessing diamorphine, it was stated that the drug was sold in small packets mixed with boracic powder in the West End at 7s. 6d. to 155. a sniff.
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The National Fine Arts Com- mission, which will advise public authorities on art, have appointed Mr. H. C Bradshaw, A.R.L.B.A.,
to be their secretary. The office of the Commission is at 2, White hall-gardens, Whitehall, S.W
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Orders executed at Shortest Notice.THIS plant consists of the following, all in working order, having just recently been in full use:- {A} Four "Mond" gas' producers
The Earl of Aylesford was fined capable of generating 400,000 cubic feet of gas per hour of £s and £s 5s. costs at Coleshill, 140 B. T. U. per cubic foot com- Warwickshire, under the Foot-and- plete with washers, cooling Mouth Disease Order, for allowing tower, scrubbers, centrifugal deer to stray from Packington cleaners, blower, motors, piping, Park through gaps in the fences. etc., coal elevator and charging for him, gave notice of appeal.
Lady Aylesford, who appeared plant, (B) Two "Cocker!" horizontal The Federation of British In- 4-cylinder tandem double acting dustries have appealed to the type gas engines, 1,000 B.H.P. Chancellor of the Exchequer to sach and two SALC type abolish the corporation profits Tax, 2-cyclinder engines of 500 reduce the income tax this year, if B.H.P. sach, all the above made only by a small amount, and set by Richardson Westgarth & Co. up a Royal Commission into the England. Engines complete with acidence of central and local air starting plant, electric taxation and the possibility of ignition, water cooling pumps simplifying the existing system. and motors, turning gear,
The
of the British Museum have appointed Dr. H. R. Hall, deputy-keeper, to be keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian antiqui ties in succession to Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, who retires on April 9, and Dr. F. A. Bather, deputy-keeper, to be keeper of geology in place of Dr. A. Smith Woodward, who retires in May.
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