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TUESDAY APRIL 22 104
INTIMATIONS.
NOTICE.
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
that scrip No. 4227 for 500 shares Evo Cotton Mills Ltd., in
of name the
. Mr. EZRA ABRAHAM of Hongkong to- Kether with
a
duly executed
transfer deed purporting to assign the said shares has been lost.
The said shares are the property
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. Every additional word i Cente
for 3 insertions,
WANTED.
of the undersigned and appli-WANTED-Furnished or unfur
nished house or Portion of a Issue of a house at Peak with 3 large rooms
extion has been duly made to the Company for the
duplicate scrip.
and bathroom. Reply Box No 1483, The public is therefore wamed care of "The China Mail. against dealing with the said shares without reference to the dersigned. Any person having any knowledge as to the where abouts of the said scrip is asked to communicate with the under. sigued.
FOR SALE.
3,000 B.H.P. POWER PLANT
Messrs. ELLIS & CO. THIS plant consists of the following.
Hongkong, 9th April, 1924.
NOTIFICATION.
No
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
all in working order, having just recently been in full use
(A) Four "Mond" gas producers
that Public Auction will be held at the Treasury Offee оп THURSDAY, the 15th May, 1924, at 11 am, for the sale of the opium monopoly in Macao, for a period of (B) three years exlanding from 1st July,
1937, 1984, to 30th J
Particulars as to the euxlition of sale may be soon at the Portuguese Consulate in Hongkong and at, the Treasury Ofice.
Dated at the Treasury Ollice of the Province of Macao, the 31st March, 1924.
ANTONIO DE MEIRELES,
Director.
NOTICE.
THE Interest and Responsibility of Frederick Brougham Marshall
in the Firm of Tait & Co, Formosa, ceased as on 31st December 1923,
The Interest and Responsibility of Francis Caird Hogg in the Firm of Talt a Co., Amoy, ceased as on 31st December 1923.
The Interest and Responsibility of Tait & Co, Amoy, in the Firm of Talt & Co., Formosa, ceased as on 31st December 1923.
TAIT & CO., AMOY.
17th April, 1924.
HAWTHORNE & PEARSON. (IN BANKRUPTCY)
COMPULSORY · SALE WHOLE STOCK
OF
Evening Gowns, Wraps, Cotton Dresses, Trinkets, Hats and Veils Sult Lengths and Made Up Sults.
CARPETS-MIRRORS
SEWING MACHINES
At Market Prices-Terms: Cash.
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN' & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
TWENTY-SEVENTH ORDIN TARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offices of the Com- pany, St. Georgo's Building No. Connaught Road, on WEDNESDAY' the 30th April, 1824, at 11 c't'ok m for the purposs of receiving a ment of Accounts and the Rope General Managers for the v 31st December, 1923, and es ting Consulting Committee and Aud
erdha
ra.
The TRANSFER BOOK3 the Company will be CLOSED from Wednesday, the 23rd April 19.4 until Wednesday the 30th April 1924, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 10th April, 1924.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE FORTY-THIRD ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers,・・ Meara, Jardine, Matheron & Co, Ltd, Fedder .Street, Hongkong on TUESDAY the 6th May 1921 at 11 o'clock in tha morning for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directora, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Auditora.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 39th April to 20th May both days Inclusive,
By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON &.00. L,TD.
General Managers. Hongkong, 16th April, 1924.
WING HING
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*PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. Specially Selected Woollen
Suitings Just Arrived. ©
«Orders executed at Shortest Notice. Price lowest.
64, Queen's Rd, Cti...
Hongkong.
Telephone 1417.
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capable of generating 400,000 cubic feet of gas per hour of 140 B. T. U. per cubic foot com. plete with washers, cooling tower, scrubbers, "centrifugal cleaners, blower, motors, piping. etc., coal elevator and charging plant.
Two "Cocker!”
horizontal
cylinder tandem double acting type gas engines, 1,000 B.H.P. ́each and two same type 2-cyclinder engines of 500 B.H.P. each, all the above made by Richardson Westgarth & Co.. England. Engines complete with air starting plant, electric ignition, water cooling pumps .and' motors, turning gear,
motors, 'etc.
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(C) Two dynamos by Dick Kerr & Co., England, having an output of 750 K.W, each at 250 volts. when driven at 120 revolutions, also two similar dynamos of 375 K.W. each, complete with switch-boarde, and instruments,
etc.
For further particulars, apply to Messrs, Butterfeld a Swire,
Agents.
:
The Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co. of Hongkong, Limited, Hongkong, 21st March, 1924.
FOR
FRENCH TUITION
Write to. G. MOUSSION c/o "China Mall" office,
FOR SALE,
To be sold-Small Tannery at
JEWELLERY
JADE
&
PRECIOUS STONES
etc.
Also A Fine Belection
OF
Cut Glass Pieces
from
America.
obtainable at
SHERIFF BROTHERS.
69, Queen's Rd, Ct.
HIGH CLASS BOOTS, AND SHORS
THE CHINA MAIL.
Made to order. ROYAL &.CO. No. 1, D'Aguilar Blit
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FOR REAL FINE MAJONG SETS. MADE OF IVORY AND BONE.
SOLD AT Lowest Possible Prices
SUNG SAN CHAN, 10 Wellington Street.
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
About 300 Macedonians, members of revolutionary organisations, have been arrested by the Bulgar authorities.
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'Two, Iroquis Indian chiefs have been sent to prison In Montreal, for stealing an historic wampun treaty belt valued at £6,000.
LOST GOLD MINES.
SCIENTIFIC SEARCH FOR FABLED TREASURES.
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Accompanied by guide, an exploration party with scientific equipment has left for the old settlement in Arizona
Gold" named by the pith-finding where lies the fabled "Canyon of Spaniards of the sixteenth century.
This expedition bases its faith; apart from the persistence of the legends of the past, on the stories Mr. Willian Carter, of Wilden, still current among the Indians of believed to be the oldest inhabit-Papago Reservation, which ant of Bedfordshire, has reached borders, on the Tucson country. 103 and received congratulations There is visible evidence of from the King.
treasures of gold-now of even greater historic than Mr. J. A. Fibelly, agent-general intrinsic value--still preserved; in London for Queensland, has in the San Xavier mission, resigned and is to be replaced by one of the most notable relics of Mr. P. J. Dillon until a fresh agent Is appointed.
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Gross education costs of the London County Council for 1924 25 are estimated at. £12,517,480, a reduction of £81,242 on the current year. Teachers' salaries are to be £116,950 less.
Owing to the shipyard workers' strike at Southampton, the White Star Line postponed until April 9, the sailing of the "Majestic," fixed for March 1
early Spanish church architecture, and in authentic documents of exploration and discovery, which go back to the earliest times within the knowledge of white men when gold was mined in the fabled canyon.
There are said to be about thirty old gold mines lo Arizona and Northern Mexico which have disappeared with the overlaying of nrimitive landmarks by the civilisation of the white settlers.
One reason given for the loss of |actual physical traces of the mines is the probable shifting of the rock Reports from the Lofoden formation of the mountain ranges, Islands, which lie within theby which former openings of the Arctic Circle, state that the present mines have been shut off or cover- any within living, memory winter has been more severe thaned over by new mountain walls.
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A gas burner having been left on, four inmates of Alverstoke Hampshire Workhouse were poisoned and one of them,. Henry King, aged 80, died.
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A nephew of the ex-Kaiser, Prince Wolfgang von Hessen, arrived in New York in the liner 'America" travelling incognito as Herr Wolfgang Wildhof.
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Khalsa College, the chief Sikh institution in India, has been closed by the managing committee as a result of protracted disputes of control.
SOCIETY OF ST GEORGE, with the students over the question
HONČKONG.
It is proposed to hold a TIFFIN in the HONGKONG HOTEL
04
ST. GEORGE'S DAY.
WEDNESDAY,
April 23rd, at 1 pan. Price of Tiffia $2,50 Ma Tau Kok, Kowloon, toge-
(Exclusive of Wines). ther with Plant & Machinery and
Membora, desiring to attend are Stock of Chemicals. Ares appro-requested to forward their names to Mr. ximately 26,000sq. ft. also a plot W. A. Dowley, Hongkong Hotel. of land adjoining the tannery area approximate 18,000 sq. ft. Apply PERCY SMITH, SETH & 22nd, FLEMING, 6. Des Voeux Road Central (Bank of Canton Build- ing).
Hongkong, 19th April, 1924.
A BALL under the Patronage of LADY STUBBS,
in aid of
ST. DUNSTAN'S will be held at THE CITY HALL
on
at
:
FRIDAY, April 25th, 1924,
9.15 p.m. Tickets, at $4.00 each, can be had from:
Messrs S. Moutrie, Chater Road, The Anderson Music Co.,
Ice House Street, The Hongkong Hotel, The Kowloon Hotel.
TORA INOKUCHI QUALIFIED MIDWIFE. No. 2, 1st Floor, Chee. Wo Street,
(Facing
Kowloon, Diocesan Girls' School.) Telephone K.-754
HOP SING & CO.,
TYPIWRITER DEALERS & REPAIRELS, Supplies and Ribbons for all Makes:
of Machines
22, Pottinger Street. Tel. 0.9212.
BRANCH OFFICE :^.
130, Tak Hing Kai, CANTON.
Stops Neuralgie Pains and Headache
Tormenting mouralgia is eased and
stopped by Chamberlain's Fain Bahn.
Blog ponotrating! it roadies the co-
List will close at 4 p.m. on April
7
HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.
SIXTH TOURNAMENT OF
THE SEASON.
SATURDAY, April 26th. at 9.15. p.m. at the
K
THEATRE ROYAL
MAIN EVENTS.
Several people have been wounded in the Province of Bari, South-Eastern Italy, in the course of disturbances which are attri- buted to the present election campaign...
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The estimate for the current year for salaries, wages, and ex- penses for the Treasury and subordinate departments is £316,495, or a net decrease of £8,457 on 1923-24
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The Aga Khan will be the chairman of the Indian Committee which is coming to England to discuss with the Colonial Office
the
Indian objections to the Kenya.Immigration Bill.
President Coolidge has in- formed the Philippine Independ ence Mission that in his opinión the time has not yet come for the separation
of the Philippine Islands from the United States,
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Ships of the Atlantic Fleet are leaving Malta for Pollensa Bay, Majorca, and the whole Mediter- anean Fleet is going there on the same day for five days' combined
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maneuvres,
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According to the Echo de Paris, a gang of from 100 to 150 swind- Fifteen Round Contest for the lers, mostly British and Belglans, Heavyweight Championship of have duped many persons in the the Colony and the Hongkong Ex- Nantes district. They pretend change Brokers' Association's Belt. that they are representatives of
C. P. O. Callaghan
British firms.
Bombardier Barton. Also
One Bantamweign, Two Welter- weight, Two Lightweight, One Featherweight, contests, each of six Rounds.
BOOKING at MOUTRIE'S Members on the 24th April 1924
General Public from the 25th April 1924.
USUAL PRICES.
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Officers of various garrisons throughout Greece have signed a protocol demanding that the Government shall give an imme- diate decision on the question of the downfall of the dynasty, with out waiting for a national plebis-
cite.
Leonard George Hughes, 44, a clerk about to be promoted after 24 years' service with the Brighton Corporation, admitted that he had stolen £313 from the corporation and was sentenced to six months' hard labour.
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Granting one hour's licensing
TUNG SANG extension for the Peterborough
TAILOR
11A Peel Btreet
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EXPERT FITTERS'
gested spets start the circulation, re- HIGH CLASS TAILORING
moring the pressure and inflammation that causes, the pain. Balpa hodachos, boknolies, stiff, swollen feints, bruises spralus" and some muscles: Bold and recommended, everywhere.
SERVICE.
Corporation's jubileo banquet on March 17, the magistrates said that they had made no similar conces sion since the war and would pro
bably not do so. for 50 years.
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At Weymouth licensing sessions It was argued, in favour of renew- ing the licence of the Boot Inn, that sailors liked sleeping there be cause the bedrooms had a st' to port and they thought they werb on board ship. The licence was renewed.
How It Galood a dood Ropulation
The way to gains good reputation fa to be what you appear. That is precisely gained its reputation a curd for bow Chamberlain's Cough Remedy bas Doughs, colds, croup and bronchial trouble. Every balde of this valued medicine is fully spin the high-standard of excellence claimed for it. For sale | everywhere..
The "Mine with the fron, door," the first objective of the present expedition, is thought still to be-ing existence in a mountain range in view of Tucson.
The old Spanish document in the San Xavier mission which describes the mine shows that the aperture of the mine was through a natural formation of iron deposit.
The exact location of the mine is said to be a tribal secret of the Indians of the San Catalina Valley.
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The only good corn is
dead com. & tew
drop of "Gein-Ji's will quickly start any com
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tell you why millions dented It. L. Laves & Co., M., Chicago. Sold in the city by
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{
OF
WILLYS-KNIGHT.
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2. Requires no adjustment
8. It is more powerful
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remains so
and
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complicated parts
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SOLE DISTRIBUTORS.
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Solo Agents: 15 Wyndham Street.
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