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HONGKONG
for
TRAMWAYS LIMITED
Notice To Shareholders
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that an INTERIM DIVIDEND of Fifty (50) cents per
Share has been declared payable in MON- DAY, 18th AUGUST next, on and after which date Dividend War- rants may be obtained upon ap- plication at the Register ofice of the Company, Canal Road East. Hong Kong
NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO 'GIVEN that the Register of MEMBERS of the Company will De
4th closed from MONDAY, "AUGUST. to MONDAY, 18th AUGUST. 1941, both days in- clusive.
By Order of the Board,
WF SIMMONS. Secretary & Assistant Manager. Hong Kong, 25th July. 1941.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS
The Undersigned have received nstructions to sell by Public Auction on
SATURDAY, the 26th July, 1941.
commencing at 10.30 a.m. at their Sales Roum, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, Room No. 205, 2nd Floor, ONE FULL SIZE ENGLISH BILLIARD TABLE AND ACCESSORIES also
2 Sets Utility Air Conditioners.
3 Pces Ply Hose 2.1/4" x 3-173
feet.
2 Samson's
Fans.
2 Samson's
Autofans.
Rubber
Rubber
Bladed
Bladed
3 Samson's Coffee Makers.
1 Samson's Combination.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
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NOTICE
R
Drivers of Motor Vehicles and Owners of Private Motor Vehicles are reminded that their
BRIDGE NOTES
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 25, 1941.
ALLEGED BRIBE
CONSPIRACY
Ng Chau-lam, 32, telephone operator, Cheung Hon-wah, 25, broker, and Yip Po-wai, 25, tele- phone clerk, were charged before this morning, with conspiring to give a bribe of $50 to a Public Servant.
CRIME DOESN'T PAY! Mr. G. T. Lowry
NO. 53
By The Four Aces
The Crime shown to-day is licences were due for renewal on very easy to miss, for most play- automatically stray 1st July. 1941,
straight and path in actual play:
As from 4 p.m. on TUESDAY. the 20th July, police action will be taken against drivers and own- ers who have failed to comply with the licensing requirements.
Sd. J. P. PENNEFATHER-EVANS,
Commissioner of Police Hong Kong. 25th July, 1941.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that £2.10/- an Interim Dividend of per share, subject to deduction of! Income Tax, has been declared for 30th the HALF YEAR ending June, 1941, at rate of 1/2,7/8 per Dollar.
THE DIVIDEND) WILL BE PAYABLE On and after MON-
DAY, 11th August, at the offlers of the Corporation, where Share holders are requested to apply for Warrants.
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed | from MONDAY, 28th July tu
SATURDAY, 9th August (both Ruys inclusive)
which during period no transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 15th July, 1941.
WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE-
Without Calomel
And You'll Jump out of Bed in the Morning Full of Vim.
The liver should pout out two pounds of Liquid take into your bowels daddy it this tale is not flowing herly, your lood doesn't digest 1 just decays in the bowels Wind flouts ug your stomach You get constipated Your whole system is poisoned and you feel sout, tired and weary and the world looks blue
Lasatives are only makeshifts A mere bowel movement doesn't get at the cause. It takes those good old Carter's Little Liver Fills to get those two pounds of bile flowing freely and armless, gende, make you feel "up and yet amazing in making bile flow freely.
Ask for CARTER'S Little Liver Pille by nume. Stubbornly refuse anything clượ
FOR NURSING MOTHERS
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South, Dealer Both sides vulnerable
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HIGH CARD VALUES
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and
Ng was also charged with giv- Ing a bribe of $50 to Chinese Sub-Inspector Lam Yung-hon at No. 134, Caine Road, yesterday.
Mr. Li Hon-chi appeared for second accused, while first and Mr. M. A. da Silva was for Yip.
Mr. E. C. Luscombe, A.S.P., ap peared for the prosecution and the case Wils adjourned for 72
hours.
Bail of $2.500 euch was allow- ed.
NO HINT OF HALF MEASURES
In General Demand!
As a reliable, convenient liver and intestinal regulator. Pinkettes are "in general demand" amongst all who have once experienced their merits.
Tiny, pink, sugar-coated, all- vegetable laxative pilules, Pin- ketles gently and painlessly cleanse the food tract, dispel con- stipation. tone up the liver, ban- ish biliousness and sick headaches. aid digestion, purify the breath. clear the skin, relieve piles. Fan Yun. 32. Wong Kwok, 48. Try them to-night, you will be and Yeung Yim-fong. 23.
the to- more than pleased with were remanded for three days by Mr. morrow's feeling of internal corn- D. J. N. Anderson
and well-being, at Kowloon fort thus morning on a charge of con-everywhere spiracy. The
to have trip are alleged conspired to steal 200 rolls of cloth, 300 bean cakes, 200 bags of fertiliser, 800 baskets of matches
100
bags of four, 80 bags of
cakes, 20 ground-nut
cases of torch batteries, three cuses bicycle parts and 30 tins of vase- line, the property of the
Lee Hing Firm.
ANTI-CHOLERA LAW
Chemists the
sell Pinkettes, popular little laxatives.
PINKETTES
For gentle laxative aid.
EDUCATIONIST
After several years' principal of Su
School,
service as
Tung Middle
Medan. Sumatra,
Mr.
this
in the Colony Mr. Ching intends to himself to educational work in China.
Ching Teh-ren, B.A.. former Pre West opened the King of clubs Four persons were fined $10 by❘sident of the University of Shang- and then shifted to the Queen of Mr. H. C. Macnamara this morn- hearts. South won with the Kinging for a breach of the Anti-hal, arrived
of hearts and Cholera Regulations, collecting morning. cashed the Ace mussels at Cheungshawan Beach | devote
King of yesterday. spades, sighing dis- appointedly when the suit failed to break. The King of diamonds held the next trick, but the Queen of dia- monds forced out West's Ace. West led the Queen of clubs, dummy ruffing; and North led the Juck of diamonds, East ruffing.
FACE 3 KINCAZI QUEEN JACKBE
East hopefully returned a heart, but South put up the Ace and led the three of spades (carefully saved for this purpose) to dum- my's seven. And then the ten of diamonds allowed South to dis- card the remaining heart.
We assure
you a crime in the play of this committed hand. See f you can spot it before you read on.
was
East was the criminal, and his crime took place at the very first trick! Correct play is for East to overtake the club King with the club Ace! Then East can return a heart through South. The de- fenders could then plug away at hearts persistently and would win a heart just have time to trick in addition to one trick in each of the other suits.
*
Oswald
Yesterday
you were
Jacoby's partner and with both
side vulnerable, you held:
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A MELLOW BLEND OF CHOICEST EMPIRE AND
EXOTIC PIPE TOBACCOS
INGENOMES
STANDARD MIXTURE
Extra Mild, Mild, Medium and Full
INGENOHL'S
ANDARD MIXTURE
- Oz
2 oz $-.90
4 oz $1.60
8 oz $3.00
I lb-$5.80
Also in canophane packets of 1 oz at $-.45 each.
Obtainable at all
C. INGENOHL'S CIGAR STORES "La Peria del Oriente"
and at other tobacconists.
OFF THE RECORD
By ED REED
1 Samson's Waffle Iron,
1 Samson's Curling Iron,
1 Samson's Stove,
1 Neptune Outboard
1.1/4 H.P.
1 Lejay Electric
1.1/4 H.P.
and
5 Pieces Spun Rayon
Motor
Outboard
2 Pieces Black Velveteen.
(more or less damaged). On View from Friday, the 25th. July, 1941.
[Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 24th July, 1941.
The Undersigned have received instructionis from The Marshal in Prize, Courts of Justice, to sell by Public Auction on SATURDAY, the 26th July, 1941. at 11.a.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, Room No. 205,
Second Floor,
760 BOTTLEG BAYER'8.ULER.
ON TABLETS.
300 BOTTLES BAYER'S GAR-
DAN TABLETS,
200 BOTTLES VERA MON
TABLETS.
and
1 PARCEL ARTIFI CIAL SILK RIBBONS.. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,, Auctioneers, Hong Kong, 24th July, 1941.-
The scientifically balanced food-tonic that helps mother and child.. Supplies valuable Calcium andTM VITAMIN D and other food essentials.
Cocomalt
NEW STOCK
ARRIVED
AT
SINCERE'S
The bidding: Jacoby Schenken
1A 20
Pase Раза
Топ Maler 1NT Paga (7)
ANSWER: Bid three hearts. Since your hand is a maximum for the response of one notrump, you must make another bid to show your extra strength. The only question is whether to bid three or four hearts.
Score 100% for three hearts, for 70% for four hearts, 20% two notrump.
Question No. 777
To-day you hold the same hand, but the bidding is different;
Jacoby Bebenken
201
1A 20
Pass
Pass
Mater
INT Pass
(2). What do you bid? (Answer
| tomorrow.)
(Released by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
BURNING JUNKS
Five burning derelict Junks were reported yesterday, floating. about two miles south of, Lintin Island, near Macao.
•
Was
The position then given. „Laf., 22, degrees, 22 mins, north, Long. 113 degrees, 48 mins, east,
TEED
5-1
IL TO LET
and Tribune Mediasia
"I always alt here to reduce-He makes me so nervous' I can't eat!”
Here's Luck
EWO BEER
Tel. 30311