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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1924.
INTIMATIONS.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT
COMPANY, LIMITED. “
NOTICE.
AN
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Filty cents (60 cents) per share on the Old Shares (Fully Pald) and Three cents (3 cents) per share on the New. Shares ($1.00 Paid) has been declared for the half year ending 30th June, 1924.
Such Interim Dividend will be pay. able on and after TUESDAY, the 23rd September at the Offices of the Company, where shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
The REGISTER OF SHARES. of
ADVERTISEMENTS
BE WORDE WINRHKTIONS,
-G±-PREPAID..
Every additional word & Cente
for 8 insertiona.
TO LET.
TO LET-Two Godowns, or
shops, in DUDDELL STREET For Particulars apply to :-H. Rui- tonjee & Son, 16, Queen's Road.
the Company will be closed from the OFFICES TO LET-2 Ground
Floor rooms facing Harbour, 13th September 1924 until the 23rd next door to Telegraph Co's build September, 1924 (both days incluing. Apply:-The Hoogkong Land sive), during which period no trans Investment and Agency Co., Ltd. fer of shares can be registerad...
By Order at the Board of Directors, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers,
Hongkong, 3rd September, 1924,
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
4.
TICKETS will be issued, for
Round Trips during the months of July to September, from Hongkong to Foochow (Pagoda Anchorage) and return, calling et Swatow and Amoy on both the upward and downward Voyage, by the Company's new, fast, well
FOR
FRENCH TUITION
Write to
G. MOUSSION
c/o "China Mail" office.
INTIMATIONS
NOTICE.
*ppointed steamer "Hat Ning" at THE DAIRY FARM, ICH & COLD
the reduced rate of $80 for the round Voyage, including Meals while the steamer is in port.
These Special Tickets will be available for return only by this steamer, either by the Voyage for which it is issued or by her following sailing from Foochow
Duration of stay at Foochow 48
hours.
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STORAGE 'CO., LTD...
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDIN
ARY ANNUAL MEETING of Shareholders in the above Company will be held at the Company's Town Office, 2, Lower Albert Road, Hong- The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days OCTOBER, 1924, at Noon for the kong, on SATURDAY, 4th day of
and the steamer Hongkong from the Company's purpose of presenting the Report of Wharf.at 5 p.m. arriving at the Directors and Statement p daylight on her return (Weather Accounts to 31st July, 1924. permitting).
will leave
The Company's Steam Launch will convey passengers from Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow City, if required.
For further particulars dates of Sailing-
and
Apply to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP Co. LD, "Hongkong. June 17, 1924.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB..
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the be closed from Company will September 27th to 4th October, 1924, both days inclusive.
By Order,
J
M. MANUK.
Secretary. Hongkong, 19th September, 1924.
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.“
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Share Register and
OWNERS are reminded that Entries Transfer Books of the Company will
for the FIFTH EXTRA. RACE MEETING close on SATURDAY. 27th September, 1924, at 12 o'clock Noon.
Hongkong, 22nd Sept., 1924.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
BY ORDER OF THE ADMINISTRATRIX
Valuable Lanachold Property Eituste at and being No. 11, Hart Avenue, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong,
To be sold by Auction,
Without Reserve
on FRIDAY,
the 26th day of September, 1994,
at 3 p...
In One Let
by
MR. A. G. DA ROCHA, Auctioneer,
at his Anction Room at No. 2, D'Aguilar Street.
The Property Consists of:-
All that piece or parrel of ground registered in the Land Office as Baction D of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 573 together with the mepage and premises thereon known as No 11, Hart Avenue.
Particulare and Conditions of Salo
may be obtained from
Messrs. WILKINSON & GRIST,
Solicitors,
No. 9, Queen's Road Central,
Hongkong,
or from
Mr A. U. DA ROCHA,
The Auctioneer
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All kinds of Indied and Chinose Silks, Shawls, Embroideries, ota,
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TERME VEBY MODERÁTE Consallation Fo
be closed from the 1st to 7th October 1924 (both days inclusive).
Warrants for the Interim Dividend can be obtained at the Office of the Company, 2, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on or after the 8th prox. By Order of the Board,
R. M. DYER,
Chief 'Manager. Hongkong, 15th Sept., 1924.
G.
R.
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WITLEY PARK...
THE CHINA MAIL.
SOME REMINISCENCES OF
WHITAKER WRIGHT.
Witley Park, Surrey, is again in the market. It belonged to the late Lord Pirrie, who bought it immediately after the death of Wifitaker Wright. It is one of the swiss Whitaker Wright, tho by Auction be Surrey.
then on MONDAY, the 29th day of September, at the zenith of bis prosperity, 1924, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the determined to build himself & Public Works Department, by order of His lordly pleasure house, and he suc Excellency the Governor, of one Lot of OROWN LAND, at Shamshuips teeded, though some of his devices in the Colony of Hongkong, for tens were novel; for instance, the build at 75 years, commencing from let July, ing of a ballroom with a glass roof, 1898, with the option of renewal at underneath a lake.
His Majesty the King, for ons further Crown Roat to be fixed by the Surveyor of The mention of Witley Park brings back naturally some, re- term of 14 years less three days.
inituiscences of Whitaker Wright, says the Rt. Hon. T. P. O'Connor,
No. of Bale,
PARTICOLARS OF THE LOT,
New Kowlook Inland Lo: Registry No.
Shamshuipe.
Locality.
-Boundary
Marurements.
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MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
Sir Robert Baden-Powell has arrived at Copenhagen for the International Boy Scouts Jam borse.
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The Rev. Arthur. Polhill, who went to China in 1885 as one of the "Cambridge Seven," is now po leave. In England. Mr. Polh!!! has It has been found impossible to been working in the city of Sulting hold any performances of the in Eastern Szechuan, and in his Empire Pageant at Wembley evangelistic-tours he has travelled Sundays. over in area 250 miles in length Dr. John Harrison, corner for and 60 miles in breadth, Mrs. Polhill accompanying him. This district has had its full share of civil war and brigandage, as the following interesting article which Mr. Polbill has contributed to the 'Bedfordshire Times and Inde pendent," of August-22, shows
Mr. Polhill writes
East Essex, who has completed 40 years in office, has held”, 4,000 inquests.
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While awaiting trial at Glasgow, John Veters, 50, strangled himself with a necktie in his cell at Duke- street Prison.
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As we gaze up into the sky and observe the changing clouds,|--The cattle-cake-and-oatment- wondering if they will change to mills of Thomas Corlett, Ltd., brilliant white cumulus or to dark Ramsey, Isle of Man, were severely threatening thunder clouds, so damaged by fire. with China. Civil war has been going on for about eight years, varying in place and intensity- North, East, South and West in turn. It began by fighting North against South; then the West joined with a policy sometimes pro-North, at other times pro-South; | moors were served at Paris hotels Szechuan, the big western pro- | in the evening, being sent by train vince which borders Tiber, with to London and
Sixty rallway wagons were used to take a 1,000-tons turbine engine for Chicage from Newcastle to Wallsend for shipment...
Grouse shot on the Yorkshire
its 60 million population, after the | aeroplane, overthrow of the Manchu dynasty
thenice by
twelve years ago, began. by Inde- "I should have stayed in the pendent leaders collecting bands workhouse, but, they took away and arming, then claimed certain my pipe and tobacco," pleaded a towns and districts and establish- | man at Bristol, charged with ed local government under milit.neglecting to maintain his wifer ary rule. At first fighting was on a
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small scale and the numbers killed- Mr. Samuel R. Thompson, of were also small, but during these Illinois, has been- appointed later years fighting has been fercer, | American Consul at Bristol to treatment of the people has been succeed Major Robertson. Honey, harsher, with looting, carrying of transferred to Hamilton, Bermud1. the rich for ransom, carrying off girls and women with growing lawlessness and violence, ......
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Samuel Swift, 60, who was found suffering from head injurios oft the_road__ between Chesterfield and Clay Cross, Derbyshiro, died later in Chesterfield Hospital.
Our city of Suiting with its population of 60,000, has been a large military centre, and for the last two years has been the centre of the Northern troops in Szechuan. A party of 20 British Labour These Northern troops vary, soms delegates, including Miss Dorothy being in touch with Peking Jewson, ̈ MP., has arrived in and a few of the Christian General Leningrad (formerly Petrograd) Feng's army But a section of to study Soviet educational Northern troops were of a very methods. different brand.
They entered
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after the defeat of Ex-Gov- Councillor J. W. Cain, of Salford, ernor Chen in Shensi. They fined £2 at Winchester for motor turned brigands, probably because Ing at 40 miles an hour, said he they got no pay from their head- was hurrying to the Wembley Ex- quarters, or because they found ithibition for the Salford Civic week more lucrative. Later they joined | there,
up
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ogain with the regular Northern Amy and had a bane- Mr. Andrew Bathgate Clarke, ful influence on the Northern the sitting member for North Army in general. Last year they Midlothian, has been adopted as threatened to murder one of our Labour candidate in the next Church leaders, and misbehaved election. Mr. Clarke's name was everywhere they went.
the only one put forward.
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Miss Lilian Harrison, the Ar- general attacked Suiting and drove out the Northern Army, but on genuine girl of English parentage, their being reinforced by some of who started from France in her these bandit soldiers he in turn attempt to swim the Channel, slip- was driven out. The sequel wasped on the rocks at Cape Grienez disastrous for the next day the before taking the water, and the re- soldiers got out of hand and began sulting injury to her leg forced her systematic looting of the city- to give up when six miles out. street by street, and shop by shop -the poor terrified people crowded J. Mason, Fell House, Barbon, into our compound to escape. A Westmorland, won the first and certain number who did not at second prizes for single dogs and once give up their money were first for pairs at the sheep-dog trials cruelly shot dead, even women at Lytham. E. Lucas, Skelsmergh, and children. Four windows of Kendal, was third and fourth for our house were penetrated by singles and second for pairs. bullets.--
T. Scriven, Worthorne, third Chuhsien, a city eighty miles for pairs. south of Sulting, was the scene of fighting last October. Here the A Scottish. feudal ceremony violence of these bad soldiers, will be revived When Lord was worse, and they entered the Dewar, a native of Perth, presents Mission premises held by three to the city Kinsoull Hill, which he ladies and pointed their guns point has bought and laid out, as a blank at them, demanding their pleasure ground at a cost of about money and naming a huge amount which they did not possess. So the soldiers opened all their drawers and boxes and simply carried off everything.
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£25,000. In ancient times property was exchanged by the symbolic handing over of earth and stone. In addition to presenting the title deeds, Lord Dewar will hand some of the earth and stone of the hill
twice, but he was such a striking the so-called New Army, or rather nephew, the Hon. John Dewar, són personality that I feel as if I had the New Army were marching on of Lord Forteviot. known him well. He really made the city a month after I arrived
Chengko, a highland town on the
I don't think I met him more than borders of Shensi, was attacked by to the Lord Provost, who is his
a very favounible impression upon with my wife and children. The our; and I feel even to-day that he Mandarin, who had been most
was quite as much sinned against friendly, came round and invited started a girls school some years as sinning. The story told me is me to go out and meet the New ago and- trained three lady that one of his agents, to whom Army, to intercede with their teachers, Miss Su, Miss Chen and Two years ago the he was giving a princely salary, leaders, not to fire on the poor Miss Shin: ruined him-writing to him to buy people in the city, promising to ladies were leaving for furlough simares while wiring to his other open their gates. It was not quite and school was about to be closed, aquaintances to sell and thus the work of a missionary, but I felt so these three teachers offered: to Wright found himself loaded up it was a humans, act to avoid carry on the whole work for three with an impossible number of bloodshed. So I want out with a years, as an experiment. Their shares and the market going white flag and met the New Army offer was accepted. After a year steadily against him.
and was able to arrange things the pumber of girls, rose from 100
TUNG SANG He looked an almost brutally satisfactorily, to the joy of the to 200 and more than half of them
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Babe 4.0.L. BAL $1.29 stration of his strength, of will.than Mrs. Wilson and Miss Fowle course, oplum. They are now led from Dollo on Beptan in the method of his death. A
- | having a splendid influence and People paid little attention, to if
are becoming, a powerful witness at the time; but, interviewed af
for Christ The secret of Feng's New York after his flight there, he
power over his men is his deep made the statement that he would never serve a tiny in prima. Thus Forblane and blue bruises, sprains Bynipathy and humility Ther during all those long days, when of wrists and ankles, straps of Cords Kay hoy dresses exactly like hi he was fightingthis case in the and mmol, stabbed too, hats, barna men and shares" everything with Law Courts this grim mun had this and other mabaps of childhood Cham them, their poor food, etc and he pr Inflexible purpose. And when the berlain's Pain Fals always gives fazeti erery day gives an hour with bis sentence was pronounced he got Does just a much for older people to main the workshops learning down to the basement of the court Eason their rheumatis paknay badache
on some preteft, and then coldly and neuralgia. „Just Faller på firmly unhesitatingly, he took the pobu. It is penetraties drug which sent him to swift but holes Bold and reeds Every tuinfüllende
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