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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29,
INTIMATIONS.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT
AN
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Fifty cents (50 cents) per share on the Old Shares (Fully Pald) and Three cents (3 centa) per share on the New Shares ($1.00 Paid) has been declared for the half year ending 30th June, 1924,
Suchi 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 the Company will be closed from the 19th September, 1924 until the 23rd September, 1924 (both days inclu sive), during which period no trans. fer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO...
General Managers.
Hongkong, 3rd September, 1924.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
TICKETS will be issued for
Round Trips during the month of October, 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 appointed steamer "Hai Ning" at 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.
steamer
The Trip occupies 8 to 9.days and the
will leave Hongkong from the Company's Wharf at 5 p.m. arriving at daylight on her return (Weather permitting).
The Company's Steam Lanach will convey passengers from Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow City, if required.
For further particulars dates of Sailing
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
BE WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, (1. PREPAID,
Every additional" word @ Cent. for 8 insertions.
TO LET.
TO LET-Two Godowns, or
shops, in DUDDELL STREET For Particulars apply to H, Rut- tonjee & Son, 16, Queen's Road..
FOR
FRENCH TUITION
Write to
G. MOUSHIOK c/o "China Mall" office.
INTIMATIONS
NOTICE:
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD 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- kong. on SATURDAY, 4th day of OCTOBER, 1924, at Noen for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st July, 1924.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from September 27th to 4th October, 1924, both days inclusive.
By Order,
·M. MANUK, -
Secretary, Hongkong, 19th September, 1924.
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL
··MEETING will be held in the
on and Pavilion
MONDAY, 6th October 1924, at 5.30 pr.
AND
Apply to DOUGLAS 'LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. DOUGLAS, STEAMSHIP CO. LD. Hongkong, June 17,-1924.
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN on MONDAY, the 6th day of October 1924, immediately after the holding of the General Meeting, a drawing for the redemption of Forts (40) De- bentures will be held.
The numbers of the Debentures drawn will be published in the Hongkong Government Gazette,
the
notice to which they are intitled, apply, on the 31st October 1924 to the Treasurers Messrs PIC Smith, Seth & Fleming, for pay- ment of the principal and interest to the 31st October 1924.
Made to order. ROYAL & CO."
No. 1, D'Águilar Street.
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OUR OLDEST ENGLISH
PUBLISHERS.
WHAT I'VE SAID
WHAT OTHERS SAY
I'VE SAID."
(By Jack Jones, M.P.)
Our Old English publishers, the |Longmans, this year colebrate Jack Jones, M.P. His Book"}} their second centenary, and they which is just published, contains are in the peculiar position of not many of the cholcest gems of the knowing the precise date of it. member for Suvertown, both inside They do not know the day on and outside the House of Com which Thomas Longman the first mons, says the "Evening News" of hung out his Signs of the Ship and August 12. the Black Swan, emblems which
In a foreword Mr. Will Thorne, are still the crests of the house. M.P., General Secretary of the All they know is that it was National Union of General and founded some time in the year Municipal Workers, remarks: "Of] 1724, and that it has gone on course, I am fully award that all prosperously ever since, under the sayings of Jack Jones will not eight English monarchs."
be regarded as priceless by all What is known is that Thomas who have heard or read them. But Longman bought the small, busi then, would not the same remark Bess on which he built his big one, equally apply to the utterances of for the sum of £2,282-98; 6d. Hə on-Thames polica, water carnival fortune, and he found it in the
One of the events at Kingston-had come from Bristol to seek his almost everybody else ? s
September 17 is to be a heart: of the daughter of a City swimming race in full uniform bookseller to whom he was
apprenticed.
on
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
- ITEMS FROM FAR AND
NEAR,
Four Sierra Leone natives, found as stowaways in а steamer's bunkers on the high seas, were each sent to prison for 21 days at Hull
Over 2000 of the temporary wooden crosses from Flanders war graves have been collected by the Church Army for relatives of fallen men.
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The body of William Stratford, farmer, was found hanging from tree at Coaley, Gloucestershire, by his nephew, who was searching"
I a wood for nuts,
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In addition to the official candidate, Captain W. J. sholl, a local newspaper owner, will stand as Conservative at the next election at Harrow.
Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, Governor of Nigeria, is to be the new Governor of Ceylon in place of Sir W. Manning, retiring shortly.
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war devastated greas of Northern France have been the guests of Exeter, Southampton, Southport and Blackpool.
The second Thomas Longman offered Thomas Moore £3,000 for "Lalla Rookh" before a line of it was written. The third Thomas Longman visited Walter Scott in 1802 and bought the copyright of the "Border Minstrelsy."This Mr. Longman was also interested in "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," for which, after the first edition had
viewpoint, and just as one man's "After all, it is a question of meat is another man's poison so also the wit and wisdom of Jack Jones according to his friends may be easily regarded as mere folly by his opponents-I was going to say enemies only that he hasn't any. For however bitter his words may sometimes sound certain "it is that there is no malize in the back- ground."
THE IMPECCABLE HANSARD. Under the heading What Han-
been exhausted, he offered £500. sard says I've said-Iaside the Scott accepted the offer, and after-House," Mr. Jones gives a selec- wards, as he has recorded, the tion of some of his caustic com. publishers added £100 more in ments.
their own unsolicited kindness," "Hansard, as everybody ought contains to supply the loss of a fine horse to know, he remarks, which broke down suddenly while the official report of the Parlia the author was riding with one ofmentary debates and, like Caesar's the worthy publishers."
wife, is therefore 'above suspi The personal touch is vital in a cian,1" great publishing business, and, in Here are some selections from the case of the Longmans, it was the book --- continued by Macaulay. He pub-INCREASE OF RENT RESTRICTION llshed the "Lays of Ancient BILL, MARCH 11, 1919, Rome" with them, and he thought I live in a house where, in order so little about the 'verse that he to get your trousers on, you have made them a present of it. Of to open the windows of a morning course, the work was given one of those brick boxes with back to the author, and it became state lids on that have been re- very valuable beth to him, and to cognised all the way through as the bug-bear of every housing his family.
reform. They are built in rows because they cannot be trusted to stand separately.
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Macaulay seems to have had a modesty which does not always shine to-day, for in 1843 he was doubting whether his "History of WAR EMERGENCY LAWS, England" would be of any per-
MARCH 1, 1920.. The average workman cannot One thousand 20-ton all-metal manent value, and he was pretty coal wagons, the first 50 of which sure that a selection, which he afford to buy a bit of English have left the builders, are to be prepared, of his essays in the home-killed meat. He has only used in South Wales by the G.W.Edinburgh Review," had none. got the smell of it. We are fold He was wrong, because the essays something about the ninepenny Railway.
became famous, and the history mutton we are going to get: That was such a success that on March mutton will never reach the home Highgate why he
Asked by the magistrate at 13, 1856, the author got a cheque of the ordinary workman unless it was not a from the Longmans for £20,000 as is in an advanced stage of decom. teetotaller, a man charged with his share drunkenness, replied: I did yield profits of the third and fourth It will be crying to Heaven for
'on account" of the position.
the ninepence.
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to teetotallism once.
At Bradford the
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volumes.
-One might go on picking_out National"high points" of the story. Just
SAFEGUARDING INDUSTRIES,"
MAY II, 1912. These resolutions were conceiv- in Birmingham, born in Bedlam, christened in Maidstone, and they may be buried in Westminster.
BOARD OF TRADÉ REPORT, JULY 26, 1923, " When I have listened to them
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN and the local Newspapers, and trade accepted the employer fler another need be mentioned, and
trade accepted the employers offer that is its association with Benjamined that the Share Register and holders of drawn Debentures may, to continue present piece and time Disraell. He received for his
to giving notice Transfer Books of the Company will upon
"Endymion" a cheque for £10,000. be closed from the 1st to 7th October Treasurers waiving the 6 months rates till May 31 next year.
and it is doubtful if any English 1924 (both days inclusive).
By agreeing to pay. 18. per year writer, since then, has got as large to Lord St. Levau, Maraziona cheque in immediate payment (Cornwall) has acquired the right to of a single novel, though, of course, Convert WheatVirgin disused there have been novels which (honorary members) and have ultimately have earned greater gone home I have said to the sums than that. How many of the missus and she is in the gallery publishing houses started within now" Kate, what is the price of our time will live two hundred stuff?" and she says "I see no years and have as good an account reduction." She has not been able of their stewardship to give as the to discover it when she goes out Longmans of Paternoster-row? into the market, and I understand her to say that if honorary mem- bers opposite, who may be better.
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.
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L. S. GREENHILL.
Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 27th Sept., 1924.
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Ten pounds a week for life has been given by Sir Alfred Mond, (L), M.P. for Carmarthen, to Mr. W. J. Crocker, his political agent for 13 years at Swansea West.
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While trying to secure a short- horn bull which had broken its chain, Mr. Alfred Boffey, a judge of cattle, was crushed to death on his farm at Nautwich, near Crewe.
Caroline Toon, 38, a married woman, of Stanton Hill, near Mansfield, was fatally burned when her clothes took fire while she was putting a kettle on the fire
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Chronic Indigestion Bays "Thanks To Dr. Williams' Pink Pilla I Am Now In Perfect Health.”
UNEMPLOYMENT (VOTE OF 2 Lots of people worry themselves with CENSURE), NOVEMBER 15, 1923. the thought that they Eave beart trouble when all that is causing their House may be surprised to know Sir P. Lloyd-Greame: The palpitations and pains is pressure of gas in the stomach. The reason for the that these particular concessions presence of this gas, or wind, is weak (Treaty with Spain) were obtained digestion, and as soon as the digestion because we threatened that if we has been strangtheaed and restored to did not obtain them we would normal activity gua no longer forma,
pres-ure is taken off the heart and the put a tax upon Spanish oranges. Tufferer becomes well.
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They Like manently got rid of indigestion by eyes.
Yes, we have no mondsey, January 1922, kas taking Dr. Williams Fink Pils. These
I am fed up with Baldwin's if they take half a teaspoonful of bananas. all parti The following anclaimed telegrama cured poople are to be found
Balsam and Lloyd George's Li-Blaurated Magnesia in a little TWO MEN AND A DOG. are lying at the office el The of the world. or exemple take the
water immediately after eating. quorice... 0156 of Mr. Harry
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The man who will go on, strike last election I have been four times that I dreaded eating suything My for fun would also go to Hades for chucked out of the House of Com-g88, flatulence, or acidity--no mons. I am called a stormy petrel matter how many medicines you sleep became broken; I always had pleasure. I do not believe in and have had to apologise. But I may have tried without success nasty taste in my month and my breath striking for striking's sake, bot became very, offensive. I was low if the liberty of the subject is did so with my temper in my don't give up hope. Thousands spirited and thin, lost strength and had threatened I favour any legitimate check, and often the apology was he once suffered as you now walking the pain caught me and would end to defend it. Wands worse than the offence Silver suffer who had tried everything Vandtown, November, 1922, without obtaining relief-now from double me up. I used to imagine my worth, March, 1920.
heart was affected as it would palpitate We do not come before you When I first spoke in the House enjoy perfect health, and can get with tears glistening on our shirt of Commons I called the Members almost anything without the from at the slightest exertion.
I tried many medisines but only got fronts telling you the interest we called upon to apologies. I did not can do the same if you will go gentlemen," and I was promptly. slightest pain or discomfort. You temporary milial until a friend, noticing take in you, and not the faterest how ill I was, persuaded me to try Dr. William Pink Pills. After a few doses we take out of you by labour. *I. know why at the time; but have to-day to any good chemist and® since learnt that the Speaker knew get a package of Bisurated the past we used to stand at street Members better than I did lagnesia, Take as directed above of this I began to eat wall. Now thacks to Dr. Williams Pink Pile I am comers surrounded by two men Silvertown, November 1923. and you'll soon forget you ver in perfect health.”
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The green, motorist had bought content and enjoyment will fin also post free $1.60 per bottle, #3./for was always barking the most in- & Loction from Dr. Williams Medicion telligent member of the audience a second-hand car, and, as usual, your life. But be quite sure you Elab of unclaimed telegrams lying is Co,00, Biangse Road, Shanghai.
many? things: were; wrong with it. | yet the right thing...for your pro- Now we are respected instead He had doven only a few milesfection heroval BISMAGUKTERO of deplsed and wjected. We have on a country road when a hallmark is prominently displayed on members ‹ going - to Buckingham reached its cars
E. V. JESSEN,
#Kuparintendent. dongkong, 25th September, 1924, .
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