NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
BONGKONG CRICKET CLUB. VISIT OF AMERICAN TENNIS PLAYERS.
WEATHER EREMITTING TO-DAY AT 4.15 p.m.
H. 8NODGRASS + T. HONDA. B. & H. KINSEY
O. H. D. O'CALLAGHAN & NG SZE KWONG.
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THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
FORTY-FOURTH ORDINARY
TGENERAL MEETING OF SHARE
HOLDERS, will be held as the Offices of the Undersigned on THURSDAY, the 14 MAY, 1925, at Noor, for the purpose of receiving the Baport the General Agents, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1924.
of
The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 1st to the 14 Mar, 1995, both days inclusive,
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
General Agents.
Hongkong, 27th April, 1995..
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HONGKONG AND TERRITORIAL ESTATES LIMITED.
ן.
FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL
T MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, ST. GEORGE's" BUILDING, No. 6. Connaught Road, on WEDNESDAY, the 20
MAY, 1915, at 19 n'clock Noor, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ended 15th January, 192%, and
nd elect- Consalting Committee and Anditors, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 9TH MAY, 1925, until Wansassar, the 20TH Mar, 1920, both days inclusive..
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong, th May, 1995.
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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE IS BEREBY GIVEN that
NOTIFY SECOND ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be hold at the Head Office, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 916 MAY, 1925, t Noch, for the purpose of reeving the Report of the Directors and the Risements of Account to 31st December, 1924, and of declaring Dividends, atc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from MAY 16TH to May 29th both days inclusira.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. [2191 Hongkong, May 8th, 1925,
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAXEHOLDERS.
TOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN that NOTIC
the FIFTY-NINTH ORDINARY YEABLY MEETING of the Company, will be bell at its Head Office, Uriax BUILDO, Fongkong, on FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 1925, at 12.15 x for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 81st December, 1924, and of declar ing Dividende, etc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company RL be OLOSED from MAY 153 to MAY 29, bath days inclusive.
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By Order of thBoard,
PAUL LADDER,
General Manager.
Hongkong, May, 8th 1925.
12191A
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE -COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTH-SIXTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will. bé lelu at its Head Offer, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 29 MAY, 1995, 12.20 for the purpose of receiving the Beport of the Directors and the Statement of Account to 31st Lesember, 1924, and of declar ing Dividenda, etc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MAY 16ra to MAY
r, both daya, inclusive.
By Urder of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager.
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Hongkong, May 8th, 1925.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB
DRAFT PROGRAMMER ENTEY
FORMS for The FIFTH EXTRA RACE MEETING to be held on SATURDAY, 30TH MAY, and MONDAY, 1st JUNE, 1925 (weather permitting), may be obtained at the RACE COURSE, HONGKONG CLEs and Caterway BAY STARLES
Entries will Close at 12 o'clock Noer on SATURDAY, 16TH MAY, 1925.
NOTICE.
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THE MANUFACTURERS LIFE INSUR ANCE CO., OF TORONTO, CANADA.
THE Codersigned
They Have THIS DAY RESIGNED the AGENCY for the above Company,
-BRADLEY & CO., LTD, *-12192 Hongkong, 8th May, 1925.
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY IT, 1925
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA
INTIMATIONS
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING CO., LTD.
ہے
DOCK CO., LTD.
PAYMENT OF INTERIM. DIVIDEND OF SHARES. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Ax
TOR THE YELL ENDING 30TH Juxa, 1825. GENERAL EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of the above Campany will be
THE Board haring declared An INTERIM held at the Registered Offes of the Company, DIVIDEND at Ons Shilling per Share for the Year QUEEN'S BUILDING, Victoria, Hongkong, on
Free
Income Tax.
Holdere of MONDAY, the 18TH DAY OF MAY, 1925, sting 30TH JUNE, 1925, 11 o'clock in the Foscow, when the subjoined Bearer Shares and Holders of Dividend Resolutions will be proposed sa Extraordinary Warrants received from London on account of
11 be
their Dividends Registered Shares, Resolutions, viz ---
on presenting Na 28 Coupon of the Borer. Shares, and Dividend Warrants on Registered Shares, to any of the following Banis
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"(1) That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in manner following that is to say by the deletion of Article 17 and by the substitution therefor of the following Article namely ---
17-So long as the issued capital of "the Company
shall not
shall Member
be +$6,000,000, no "entitled to be registered as the Holder more than 8,000 Shares of the "of
Company. Should the issued
exceed
bayang of the Compaar be increased beta the 96,000,000 the Number of Shares in of which Member shall be
wed to be
entitled be registered
but "increased proportionately, b "Member shall be entitled to be of m
be
No
"ed in respect of a fraction of cater
(2) That the authorised Capital of the Com- pany (which is new $3,000,000 consisting of 60,000 Shares of
THE HONGIORG SEAFORAL BANKING
·CORPORATION.
THE CHALTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA
CHINA
Tum Russo-Astatio Bank,
THE BANQUE BELGE YOUR L'ETRANGER.
Payments will be made in Dollars at
buying rate of Exchange of the Day.
E. J. NATHAN,
Acting General Manager. KAZAN MINING ADMINISTRATION/
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MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, DECEASED.
LL Claims against the Estate of the
of $50 each the the Nominal Yue abore Deceased mast te Brat to the of which are Undersigned forth with. been isrned) be increased to.ditions!
have to. $10,000,000
by the creation of 140,000 Shares of the nomins) value of $50 each ranking (subject as bersinafter mentioned) for dividend and in all other respects pari pass with the ShamS constituting the Company's present issued Capital
(3) That 60,000 of the said 140,000 New Shares be offered in the First instance (in the proportion of one new share for share held
(4)
(5)
purely
by
them to the Members of the who on the 10th day of Jane..
1926 are registered in the Company's Share Register as the Holders of the said
DEACONS,
Solicitors,
Hongkong, 6th May, 1925.
Hongkong.
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BY ORDER OF THE FIRST MORTGAGEES.
"PUBLIC" "AUCTION-
M
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTIES.
60,000 Old Shares at a Fremium of $101.-Situate at VicTonia in the COLONY of
Share. That the aforesaid offer be made to Mem- the number of ber by Notice specifying
shares to which & Member is entitled- now shar That member whose registered ad- dress is Nitoate in the Far East or his nominee shall pay for such new shares
by two instalments, a. One
Hosexose had known as Subsection 6 of Section A of Inland Lot No. 411, together with the Messunge cr Terement Erections and Buildings thereon known as No. 240, Queen's Road East,
Area: 967.40 19. ft. Crown Rent: $19.85. Term of Crown Lenses 999 years from 15th day
July of
1855.
accent of $30 per New Share to be 2.-Sitnate at KOWLOON in the said COLONY
bofore paid on or the 15th of July,
day 1995, and a further instalment of $30 per new share to be paid on or before the 15th day of October, 1925, and such Member or his Nomines who has not accepted sad inlged with Company's Bankers the first instalment due on such new shares on or before the 15th
day
and known as Kowloon Inland Lot No. 354, together with the Menensge or Teno- ment Erections and Buildings therepa known as No. 55, Shanghai Street, Yaugsti
Area: 750 sq. ft. Crown Rent: $19.00. Terma of Crown Lease: 75 years from 19th- day of Norember, 1888.
INTIMATIONS.
WATSON'S
Celebrated DRY GINGER
ALE
Its unique dryness' delight- ful aroma and rich flavour are give this features which
IMMENSE thé beverage
· POPULARITY it deserves.
It has been repeatedly de- clared by travellers, tourists and others, that WATSON'S DRY GINGER ALE is
by. UNEQUALLED
any similar product throughout. the world.
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PYERIS
SPARKLING MINERAL WATER
A Delicious Table Water, refreshing. healthful and
quality thie Surpassing in
Spa celebrated Europent,.. Waters
Blends excellently with Wines and Spirits, especially Whisky.
IN QUARTS, PINTS & SPLITS
of July, 1925, will be deemed to bare Situate at KOWLOON in the said COLOST A. S.
sad known as Subsection 4 of Section B of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 31, togather with the Messusge cr Tenement Erections and Buildings thereon known as No. 65, Shang- hai Street.
Area: 716.66 sq. ft. Crown Rent: $1.64. Term of Crown Leass: 75 years from 2 day of Jane, 1875.
declined. That a Member whose regia. tered old-2 is situate outside the Far Bast of his Nominee shall pay f
for such дет shares acepted by Two Instal ments, ie, one instalment of $30 par new share te be paid on or before the 15th day of September, 1925, together .of with interest calculated at the rite.
the total per cent per annum on amount thes payable for the period from the 15th day of July, 1915, until the by the Com date of receipt of payment by
farther
Fr Instal. pany's Bankers and a ment of $30 per Now Share to be paid on or before lefors the 15th day of December, 1925, together with interest alculated at the rate of 5 per cent per
tots! amorat on the payable for the period from the 15th day of October 1943, until the date of by the Com- actual receipt of payment by Bankers and such PART'
them
Member
ران
IN & LOTS
RY
Ma E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA, Auctioneer,
AT
THE OBINA AUCTION ROOMS, China Beilding.
1+
ON
MONDAY,
THE 18TH DAY OF MAY, 1925, AT 3 O'CLOCK PM.
Lieut.-Comdr. Ta M. Stack returned
muscular effort by about twenty per cent. and probably aids in prolonged mental work?", he enquired on a recent ecca aioa. En said that the Germans gave it to their shock troops during the war and As a result thera W13 no reaction. of a number of experiments carried out
The opium 'revenue in the Straits in Turin wa are led to the conclusion that the cause of fatigue is conscious or Settlements for the first quarter of this voluntary effort. In other words, if they was 62.804,999 as against $1,266,183, for the corresponding quarter of last effort is unconscious there will be much year. less fatigue. This is the gospel with which the famous Monsieur Cors start- led the world. The simplicity of his
with his family on board the Empress of Canada yesterday, after spending a brief holiday at Baguio..
A Chinese was arrested by the police" on board the as "President Fox Buren on Monday in possession of one revolver, and 900 rounds of ammunition
The manager of the Asiatic Petroleum Company has reported to the police thas Juring the week-end a Hemington type... writer, valued at $200, was stolen from
He told his officit..
Among the Hongkong residents who returned to the Colony on board the 3 President Taft were Mr. and Mrs. D... M. Bernard, Mr. M. J. Cox, and Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Haslam
statement caused amusement. his audience that if they wanted to escape fatigue they must think that the task apon which they were at work was an easy One. "One" volunteer." is worth twenty
A Chinese was sent to the Government pressed men" is an old adage. The late Lord Levenue and other modern em-Civil Hospital on Monday suffering from severe wounds on the forehead, hend and ployers have studied the problem of in-body, inflicted by a chopper by a clans.
In allan, who. has since absconded. "creasing the worker's" output
WATSON
& CO., LTD.
AXEATED WATER MANUFACTURERS.
ESTABL 1841.
DEATH.
*50
Lavargus-On April 2nd, 1925, at Sables d'Otonne, JEAN LAPARGUZ. (By cable.) Deeply mourned by his son, Captain Lafargue, French gunboat Argus, Canton,
Hongkong Office: 1, Chater Road.
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For further Particulars and Conditions of London Office: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.. ottede the Far East or his Nominee Sale, Apply to:-
who has not accepted and lodged with Ms. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER. the Company's Bankers the first
zent
Instal.
due on such New Shares on or before the 15th day of September, 1925, together with intareat as aformaid will be deemed to have declined. The Dirsc
Lord
shall have the right to reject any
guch of the said 60,000 New Sharen As shall be accepted by Members both in and cutside the Far East shall
- the xaid 60,000 Old Blares
for dividend as from the 15th day
rank for
of July, to the extent of one half.
of
Mortgagees Solicitors,
Prince's Building,
Ice House Street, Hongkong;
or to
MR. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA, The Auctioneer,
Chins Building, Queen's Hoa Central, Hongkong.
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WANTED.
Some Old Second Hand nominal valus of such New WANARPETS or Packing Turposes, No
Matter How Old but Must be Clean. "Apply to
har and s8 from the 18th day of October, 1925, equally with the waid 60,00 Old Sbarck,
(6) That any of the ssid 60.000 New Shares be taken up by the Com-
which shall not
pany's Shar
By's Shareholders in manner aforesaid
and the remaining 80,000 gaissed new
sheres may be issued and disposed of in
such manner at such time or times and
upon Much terms a to ranking for
Ma. PERCY SMITH, d, Desi Vanx Road Central.
TO LET.
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The Daily Press.
Hayozone, May 137, 1995,
FATIGUE AND TABLOIDS.
·WAY.
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Mr. J. R. George has taken charge of the Singapore branch of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China at Singapore in place of Mr. A. W. Vick, who is proceeding to England on lease.
Two village women and girl who were walking along the railway track were run over and killed by a passenger train bound for Canton from Sanshui, near the station of Samyenkiu. on Satur
cases they have tried to make a man con- tented.. Very much more attention is now given to the provision of healthy surroundings for workers than
The spread of educa formerly the case. tion has led a much larger number of people to appreciate the fact that first wealth is health. Despite these farts, day it is true that the pressure of the modern life produces "a great deal of nervous. tension Tabloid sures are popular Many men and solace, in times of anxiety
It has been announced in India that Sir Paul Chater, who recently gave mix lakhs to La. Mariniere, Calcutta; has made a further munificent donation of five lakhs to the rndowment, turek of the achool.
He will take a Chinese house in the East City, and work on new books.
Than Memory of Past Lives" will be the subject of this week's public lectura of the Hongkong Lodge, The Theosophical Society, 18, Queen's Road Central, this evening at 5.43 p.m. The public are in-
"
Among the passengers who arrived on the Empress of Canada yesterday were Messrs. R. and H. Kinsey, H. Snodgrass (the U.S. tennis cracks") and Mrs. Knodgrass, and Mr. A. Scott, manager of the Manila branch of the Chartered
or worry, in the soothing influ-ner of a
Mr. Somerest Maugham, the well pipe or cigarette. In this part of the
known English playwright, has deter world most of us feel the effect of fatigue mined to go to Peking and reside thern in the summer. Shall we finil ourselves for a year. made more energetic by taking the dose of seven grummes of acid sodium pros phate with Dean ISOs recommends i We suggest that some of our local doctors might investigate the problem. There is something very attractive in the idea of vitel-ADVT.
effort by taking u tabloid. The fatal attraction of al increasing one's stimulants. is that, while under their in- fluence, we imagine that we are working much harder. There is always the re- action which follows the use of stimulants. Bank: Perhaps there is also some effect, which
Mrs. Murray Frame President of the is not desirable, as a result of introduc-Women's College of Tenching University ing the sodium phosphate into the human in Peking, has just sailed for the United States, where she will revive an honorary system. Perhaps, after all, the com- plete indifference of the Chinese coolie degree from Holyoak College in recog
nition of her services in the interests of as to the future is the secret of good the higher education of women in China. The Rockfeller Foundation has present health in this part of the world. He is invariably good-tempered and it seemed to the King Edward VII, College of
Singapore the that he can rest imself whenever the Medicine at chance ofers. Efficiency is a modern 350,000, for the purpose of endowing a word and when we hear it used on a chair of bacteriology and bio-chemistry, conditional on the foundation by the hot day we long for the spacious times Singapore Government of an extra, chair of the good old days."
in biology.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Ålves returned to the Colony on board the ss. President Grunt yesterday.
The H.K.V.D.C. has entered a team in Tux twentieth century will probably be the local baseball league. Mr. Eddie remembered in history as the period Shank has kindly consented to train
them. when the word "Sciene?" first enamas inter general use. In all parts of Europe
men.
sum of
Mr. Maxwell H. Hamilton, American. Vic-Consul at Canton, who is at present on a mission to Hainan, in connection with the killing of an American mission- ary there last year, has been promoted to Shanghai, where he will serve as Junior Assessor of the Mixed Court under nomination of the American Legation.
Friends of the Rev. J. Romanis Lea in Singapore are sorry to hear that ill- Bister Miss A. L. Plimsaul, R.R.C.,health compels him to retire alingether Q.A.I.M.N.S., left the Colony for North from the East, and that he will be shortly and North American learned
China on sick leave on the sa Kucichow going home from Hongkong via America
Before his transfer to the Hongkong are explaining how we may increase on May 1st....
University he was the "Principal of the and mental energy.
Mr. Hynem, of the Holland Pacific St. Andrew's Mission School at Singa- our physical According to the journal Le Temps Company, No. 5, Duddell Street, reports pore.
the theft of five raincoats from his office two Frenchmen, Messieurs. LIVET and during the week-end.
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dividend and otherwise as the Company GOWNS in ALEXANDRA BUILD RODER, have discovered certain drugs
Directors shall in their absolute discre- tion think fit
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that A Further EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at ita Registered Office storesaid on TUESDAY, the 2ND DAY OF JUNE, 1925, at 11 o'clock in the FenzxOON for the purpose of receiving a Raport of the Proceedings at the above mentioned Meeting and confirming if thought fit an Special Resolutions the above mentioned Resolutions.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be QLOBED from WEDNESDAY, the lexu DAY OF JUNE, 19 to WEDNESDAY, the 175 DAY or Juxz, 1925 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of shares can be registered.
tha
Thated the 4th day of May, 1925.
By Order of the Bower of Directors,
R. M. DYNE, 2162]
Chief Misanger.
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HONGKONG TECHNICAL
INSTITUTE.
N. View of Proposal to Open EVENING CLARE in Kow similar to those held by the Institute in Hongkong, it is requested Prospective stadents will communicate the Undersigned, the in which they desire. Cluster to be formed.
B.. BALPUR, Inspector of English Schools,
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.
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Apply-
A. B. WATION & CO, LTD,
SECRETARY,
2032
TO LET.
FFICE in UNION BUILDING TWO
ROOMS on FearH FLOOL
*Apply- UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
TO LEI..
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Mr. H. S. Ronse, of the P.W.D. is which not only retard the process leaving on holiday in England, by the of fatigue, but which supply new energy Empresas of Canala on Friday. He ex- pects to return to the Colony by the to the body. These substances are ap-middle of December. plied as ointments to the skin. Profesor
2
A. Minjor
M. Pollard, D.S.Q., R.A.M.C.. who arrived in the Colony from "North China on board the sa Huichum on May 2nd, has been placed
charge of the European military familie, Kowloon, and is also in com- and of the Military Hospital, with the medical charge of the European troops in Kowloon.
Dr. C. Wu, who is head of the
While thus Leung Shun was on its way K. NEVILLE Mose, in London, is reported to Hongkong from Canton on Monday to have said that by persuading minera night, a young Chinese lady who wan
in the third class is reported to have Foreign Affairs department at Canton. to drink a solution of salt twenty per given birth to a child which she is stated is going to Manila for a fortnight. He told a reporter that the fact that ha could leave Canton for a holiday ́should cent can be added to the efficiency of to have thrown overboard. those working in heated atmospheres.
serve to re-assure the public and silence Miners who work in hot places drink
the rumour-mongers. "If the position of the Government were in the least large quantities of water and perspire
uncertain, I should not be sailing away post of duty here," he added.
At 11 am. yesterday, in Wing Lok Street, a truck collided with a ricksha in which a foki of the China Dispansory was riding. The fali, by jumping out,
Private Bath Boom and
badly daamged. The two men in charge with Private Verandah with Good Boards
of salt in water eliminates fatigue. We of the track were taken to the police Sulphur Batha, Wei-hal-wei. Houses stand in
are told of a miner whose life at home station, Wai-hal-wei, Grounds
this treatment. was entirely changed by this
MOMFORTABLY FURNISHED ROOMS freely. It is suggested that a solution escaped injury, though the ricksha was for a holiday, but would be found at my
iti
our the Best Positions reaching down to the
with Good Beach and standing next to the, Mainland. Goil Course Rooms with Board for One Faraon $220,00 Oper Month, Two in same Room $320 00 per Month, Rooms in Mat Bungalows with Malthoid Boof, ise with Private Bath Booms. $185.00 Boom Honth with Board. Two in same.
$280.00 per Month. A deposit of $100.00 in required on the Large Booms and $50.00 on the Mat Booms when booked.
Apply for same to
Telegraphio Address: NI
PREPAID
Mas, NIVEN, ·-
Wei-Kai-wei.
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WANTED"
ADVERTISEMENTS
Letters, are lying at this "Othes for BOXE, XL, IS, XYZ, YL, 39, 40, 880, 279, 1609, 1890,"
Comdr. W. AL Quixano Henriquer who death has occurred at Huish
At 3.39 a.. yesterday, six robbers, Newton Abbot at the age of 74, saw a arted with daggers, gained admittance good deal of active service during his Formerly he returned from his work lazy into the 3rd floor of an unnumbered career in the Navy. Whilst a midship- and sleepy, but after the salt-in-water houss in Tin Liu Street, Sham Shui Po, man in the Pelarus, in 1888," he assisted treatment, he became alert and full of from neighbouring house, the occupant in the destruction of several piratical
of which is Chung Kai Lung, account-villages and junks in the Lyemun Pas energy. It is stated that the solution ant of Tai Kwang Pok The inmates and, with other officers, received, the should contain sodium chloride and were aroused from sleep and called out special thanks of the Governor of Hong-
for help, which scared the intruders, who kong. potassium chloride in the ratio of three mads off without stealing anything.
During the week ended on. May th
to two.
The strategical importance of Singa-3 Chinese died of small-poz; out of 4 -No less personage than Dean pore is obvious. She is far better placedenses recorded,, 1 out of 3 Chinem died death occurred from than Hongkong, which has answered of diphtheria, and IsGr. the gloomy Dean," is his British requirements for the China route, enteric fever out of 3 reported cases (2 popular title-has given advice on this and has been the headquarters of the Chinese, Annamite, and 1 Danish). China Naval Squadron for many years. Three reported Chinese cases of cerebro- material problem. "How many persons Hongkong, moreover, is now in a vulner spinal fever all ended fatally. There was in England know that a dose of seven able position, owing to the increased 1. death from influenza, a non-notifiablo range of modern guns and its proximity complaint. The return for the 2 hours grammes of acid sodium phosphate into the mainland-Army and Nary ended on May 11th shows 2 Chinese cases
of enteric fever. creasce a man's capacity for prolonged Gazette.