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PREMISES TO LET.
TO LET. Nos. 4 & 5, Fung Fai Terrace, Happy Valley. European Flats with all modern Conveniences. Rental Moderate. Apply to The Wing On Co., Ltd.
TO LET.
TO LET.-Large double airy room with bathroom and verandah
NOTICES.
KOWLOON BOWLING GREEN CLUB.
CLOSING DAY.
THE CLOSING DAY and DIS.
PRIZES WIL
18th February, at 8 p.m. take place on SATURDAY FIRST,
A. CHAPMAN,
Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, 16th Feb., 1928.
LECTURE.
R. VAUGHAN-FOWLER Mwill give an address in the
THEATRE ROYAL on Tuesday, 21st February, 1928, at 4 p.m.. under the auspices of the HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, on
"The Prospects of Commercial Aviation In the Far East" Members of the public are cor dially invited to attend.
Hong Kong, Feb. 17, 1928.
NOTICE.
the undersigned declare that attached. Suitable for two or three Mr. C. Y. Woo is no longer bachelors or married couple. Ex-employed by me in the St. cellent culine and good attendants. Francis Hotel.
Terms $150 for one person per month; $200 for two persons per month. Apply Box No. 529, c/o -“China Mall,"
FOR SALE.
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Mrs. F. C. CAMERON,
St. Francis Hotel, Hong Kong 17th Feb., 1928.
PEREJME ASSUALLY. THE
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Owner with Provincial & Foreign Sections
offer. Trade-Headings in Five Languages, Build-enables traders to communicate direct
with
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In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care X and attention. For Particulars apply to:
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AUCTIONEERS. APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS,
-Public Auctions—
THE
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
MONDAY, the 20th February, 1928, commencing at 2.45 p.m.
at No. 196, The Peak (No. 2 Fint). A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.. (Particulars from Catalogue.) On View on Day of Sale. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, Feb. 16, 1928.
THE Undersigned have received
Tinstructions to sell by Public
Auction
ON
TUESDAY, 21st February, 1928,
commencing at.280 p.m. -
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street, A VALUABLE COLLECTION.
OF CURIOS. Comprising:--
Porcelain Bowls, Plates, Vases, Ivory Figures, Amber Beads, Table Screens,, Blackwood and Forcelain Screen, Old, Bronze. Ware, Chinese Handpaintings, Lacquer, Jade Articles and Embroider atc, etc.
Catalogties will befasued.
Ware,
On View from Monday, the 20th
February, 19281
Terms: Chahi on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, Feb. 15, 1928.
BUSINESS STABLISHED IN 1863.
Having Returned from Japan MRS. INAGUCHI
MASSEUSE
HAS RESUMED PRACTICE AT 6 ASHLEY ROAD, KOWLOON. Telephone K. 754.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO, LTD.
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The following Unclaimed Tele grams are lying in the E. E. Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:
Allactico, from Saigon, Lauhon, from Perthwa. Mrs. Lawless, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, from Lowestoft.
Munrolebas, from Barnes.
E. A. LEGGATT.
Superintendent. Hong Kong, 16th Feb., 1928.
NOTICES.
THE CHINA MAIL,
"NOTICES.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
RACE MEETING, 1928.
13th, 14th, 15th and 18th February.
be run at 12 o'clock noen.
each day.
year.
will
The
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members have the privilege of introducing two non-members to the Members Enclosure.
N
A
HONG KONG & TERRITORIAL ESTATES, LIMITED,
CHANGING TIMES.
1:
KIND OF TRIANON EXISTENCE.
FEES FOR AMATEURS.
BIRTHRATES,
STILL FALLING AT HOME
-
ADVERTISING.
ITS POWER, HONESTY AND CHEAPNESS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NINTH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
A 40,000 DROP. will be held at the Registered
ALL SUBCONCIOUS.. Omce of the Company, No. 10. Des
The "smart-eet" life in any Voeux Road Central, on SATUR- Western capital is a kind of weakly and quarterly returne, it is cial honesty because it does not pay Extracting the figures from the "Advertising has made commer- The First Race on each day 8.80 p.m. for the purpose of receiv- ous private luxury, and borrow-bers of last year's births and deaths sell itself a second time without ad. DAY, the 18th February, 1928, at Trianon existence, lived in fabul- possible to give approximate num- to sell an article which will not Ing a Statement of Accounts and first bell will be rung at 11.80 a.m. the Report of the Directors for the ing Bohemian mannera to disarm some weeks in advance of the vertising." said 8lr Charles
MEMBERS' BADGES.
year ending 81st December, 1927. the envy of the man in the street, authoritative figures of the Regis Higham, addressing the members of
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the who smiles at its antics as those trar-General. Members Badges of Admission Company will be CLOSED from of "illum" artists, lucky dogs! able for London and 107 great sociation, at the Cordwainers' Hall, Returns are avail the Incorporated Secretaries' As- are now ready and may be obtain. SATURDAY, 11th February to Had the same roystering been in- towns and county boroughs (with Cannon-Strest. ed by those members who have not (both days inclusive) during which would have provoked curses, pos- subject to correction before the theory or experiment, but it was. SATURDAY, 18th February, 1028, dulged in by the old order it a population of 19,540,000) and are already received them, from Messrs. period no transfer of shares can sibly pelting. All this hedonism final figures are issued.
Advertising was no longer a Linstead & Davis, Alexandra Build-be registered. inga.
is in a sense a dream-come-true,
the most powerful and 'the cheap- Mombers are reminded that these By Order of the Board of Directors, and our philsopher sarcastically fewer than in 1996, both in London there were hundreds of firms lack- In each quarter births were est force for selling known, and yet Badges will also admit them to all
KAN TONG FO, wishes that Morris, or other and in the great towns, although nig trade who had not commenced the Extra Rose Meetings of this.
Chief Manager. Tolstoyan and Utopian dreamers, the population increased by 4,000 to use it. All advertising was sub- Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1928. would return to see it.
in the former and 100,000 in the conscious. Times have changed, and we latter. Total births registered in through the subconscious mind. It was "pat over" must all be doing something the great towns were 389,047 last The fraternity with which he was Everyone is a genius of a kind, year, compared with 355,195 in associated was responsible, through and everybody must have scope to 1926, 364,810 in 1928, and 879,048 the use of advertising, for the em- A limited number of tickets are
develop his personality. Cabinet in 1924; in London the numbers ployment in the British Isles of available and may be obtained from HE FOURTH ORDINARY AN-erals, engineers, professors desert 1926, 82,401 in 1925, and 85,147 in lion people, who would be out of Ministers, Civil Servants, gen-were 70,284 last year and 78,825 in not less than one and a half mil Masars. Linstead & Davis, Alexan-NUAL MEETING OF SHARE their jobs, and hurry into the city 1924. dra Buildings, on or before SATUR-HOLDERS in the Company will be to draw the fantastic fees that are DAY, 11th February; 1928, at a cost held at the Office of the Company, offered to amateurs.
work but for advertising. There of $10 each per day or 880 for the "St. George's" Building, No. 7,
Deaths in the great towns num-were to-day probably at least one Meeting.
bered 239,281, as against 228,327 in hundred entirely different occupa- The charge for admission for 24th February, 1928, at 11 o'clock anciers open antique shops, or
Young guardsmen get away 1926, and London A semnared tions in the advertising business. Connaught Road, on FRIDAY, the with deals of millions, while fin- with 52,481. Ladies' to the Members' Enclosure
Eighty per cent,” of advertising will be 34 per day. Each member for the purpose of receiving run night-clubs. Audience and
Comparative rates of births and passed through the offices of the can obtain upon application to the Statement of Accounts and the actors become merged in semi- deaths in the two years were: agents engaged in it, and at least Secretary, badges for the admission Report of the General Managers professionalism; and the only Birth rate in great towns 1926 1927 one hundred and fifty millions a of two Ladies free of charge. On for the year ended 31st December, thing in which this age of ama- Birth rate in London
18.20 17.55 year was spent in the British Isles no protext will children be permit-1927, and electing a Consulting teurs agrees is that the profes-Death rate in great towns 11.6
alone in advertising, in one form ted in aither enclosure during the Committee and Auditors.
sional is a dull, incompetent dog. Death rate in London
or another, with twenty thousand first three days racing..
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the for whom the modern romantic
people engaged in it. There were Company will be CLOSED from has no use, and who may be left
six advertisers in the world who THURSDAY, 16th February, 1928, to his dark necessities of the
cach spent one million a year for until FRIDAY, the 24th February, bread-and-butter order. Natural- 1928, both days Inclusive.
FRANCIS BIRTLES.
that purpose, the British Govern- ly in the midst of this enthusiastic
ment being one of the six, while amateurism there grows up the
there were stores in London alone Absence of News. child-cult, the Pater Panism,'
spending half # million pounds started by Barrie, carried on by
yearly in the same way. Landon, Jan. 8. Charlie Chaplin and Anita Loo8.
Though at present there is A. A. B. in "The Evening Stand-cause for real anxiety, interested ard,"
person in England are troubled at
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE, Tickets of Admission to the Public Enclosure, price $8 per day for all persons including Ladies, may be purchased from Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., or at the Gate.
admitted to the Public Enclosure at Soldiers and Sailors' in uniformi
$1 per day..
Admission by ticket only.
Bookmakers, Tie Tas men; etc.,) will not be permitted to operate! within the precincts of the Hong Kung Jockey Club during the Race Meeting.
SERVANTS PASSES. Posses for Servants will be issued on application to Messrs. Linstond & Davis, Alexandra Buildings,
Employers are requested to dis- tribute them with discrimination, and to endorse their names on the Pusae8.
Servants are not permitted in the Members Enclosure except for pass ing through on their duties, but must remain in their employers' standa,
Any persons found loitering about with Servants' Passes in their pos- session will forfeit the sams: and will be removed from the enclosure.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary: Hong Kong, 80th January, 1928.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managera. Hong Kong, 15th Feb., 1928.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN N
that the ORDINARY YEAR- LY MEETING of the SHARE. HOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at City Hall, Hong Kong. on SATURDAY, the 25th February, 1928, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court ment of Accounts for the year of Directbra together with a State-
ending 81st December, 1927.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 18th February: to SATURDAY the 25th February. 1928 (both, days, Inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
A: C. HYNES,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 6th February, 1928.
THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
and THE FORTY-FIRST ORDINARY
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
CHURCH NOTICES.
A CHARGE OF ONE DOLLAR IS MADE FOR ALL NOTICES UNDER THIS HEADING
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, HONG KONG,
February 19th, 1928, Quinquagesima Sunday,
Holy Communion (8 a.m.). Children's Service (10 a.m.) Matina (11 am)"
Preacher: The Dean, Holy Communion (12 aoon). Evensong (6, p.m.) Preacher: Rev. H. V. Koop.
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, KOWLOON,
19th February, 1928, Quinquagesima Sunday.
8.15 am, Holy Communion, 11.00a.m.
Morning Praver: Preacher, Rev. N. V. Halward, M.A..
DRAFT PROGRAMMES and THE FORTY- MEETING OF 2.45 p.m. Sunday Schools.
3.00 p.m. Young Men's & Young Women's Bible Classes,
FIRST EXTRA RACE MEETING SHAREHOLDERS will be held at to be held on Saturday, 25th the Office of Mosera. Jardine, February, 1928 (weather permit Matheson & Co. Ltd., on WEDNES 6.00 p.m. Evening Prayer: Pren- ting), may be obtained at the Race DAY, the 29th February, 1928, AT cher, The Vicar. Course, Hong Kong Club, and NOON, for the purpose of recalv- Wednesday. Causeway Bay Stables.
ing the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for the year ended December Sist, 1927.
Entries will close at 12 o'clock Noon on MONDAY, 20th February,
1928.
Hong Kong, 8th February, 1928.
LESSONS IN CHINESE.
MR.
[R. LA HON FUN Bega to state that he has been a teacher of Chinese, to European Officers and Merchants in Hong Kong for more than twenty years, that he has had considerable experience in training students for examinations in Chinese, and holds first-class certificates.
Person wishing to study the Chinees language are requested to communicate with him at No. 104,
Prayu East, first floor.
Terma moderate.
A REAL BARGAIN.
THE OLD ORIGINAL
CHEFOO STAMPS
UNUSED GENUINE SPECIMENS
$2.00 per set of 6 stamps
must be sent with urder to Bor No. 619
Mot
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 17th February, 1928 to WEDNESDAY, the 29th February, 1928, BOTH DAYS INCLUSIVE,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
F. H. CRAPNELL
Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th February, 1928.
FANLING
HUNT
STEEPLECHASES.
SPRING MEETING.
Saturday, 3rd March, 1928.
TINTRY FORMS to be returned
1928, Ash Wednesday,
February,
11.15 a.m. Morning Prayer, Litany & Sermon. dress.
6.00 pm. Evening Prayer & Ad-
Friday, 24th February, 1928, St. Matthias, A.M.
7.00 a.m, Holy Communion. 6:00 p.m. Confirmation Class,
WESLEYAN, METHODIST
CHURCH.
Queen's Road East, Wanchai, (near Royal Naval Hospital).
Sunday, February 19th, 1928, Morning Service, 10.15 o'clock, Preacher: Rev. J. C. Knight Anstey.
Afternoon 8 o'clock: Sunday, School.
Evening Service, & o'clock. Preacher: Mr. W. H. Smith. Sailors & Soldiers' Home, Ar-
to Dr.F. PIERCE GROVE, sonal Street. Alexandra Building, BEFORE Sunday: 8.00. p.m. Mr. May's NOON, Monday, 20th February.. [Bible Class; 8.15 p.m. Servicë
Hong Kong, 18th February 1928. Men's Hour.
INDIGESTION STOPS AT ONCE.
Monday: 8.00 p.m.. Ladies Church Aid Meeting.
Friday: 8.15 p.m. Fellowship Meeting
FIRST CHURCH: OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST
Road Tram Station,
[Branch of The Mother Church Whatever strides science may have made in combating diseases ne better. The First Church of Christ, Scienti remedy has been discovered for stop. 1st, In Boston, Mass, U.S.A.) ping Indigestion than "Hiemated". Mag- Hosia, which to-day. is used by, thou-{f} DE AULA DE UNGME.
Macdonnell Road, below Bowen sands of t
1 stomach sufferer with never- failing
Bisurated Magal treats
Baltion in the only logical way by instantly neutralning exter wolds, › preventing › fermentation, and Boothing, healing and strengthening the
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Wednesday Evening Meeting 5.80 o'clock
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of on Monday and Thursday 8 to 7p.m tind sanerers who have proved, again
adaraink bats Blounter Been The Public in cordially invited and visit the catised digestive' troubles,
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