NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
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COMPANIES (WINDING UP)
No. 8 or 1925.
Ix Tax MATTER OF THE COMPANIES
ORDINANCE 1911
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AND
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAXTM 1918, 1925)
MONGKONG AND TERRITORIAL
ESTATES, LIMITED..
THE FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Ouice of the Company, Sr. Groner's" BUILDING, NO. & Connaught Road on WEDNESDAY, the 20 MAY, 1925, 6 12 'CLOCK Noom, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts IS THE MATTER OF THE CHEN KWONG and the Report of the General Managers for and acet the year ended 15th January, 1985, and CO., LTD.
ing ConANDRE BOOKS of the Com-
Committee and Auditors, The pany, will be CLOSED 10m, BATURDAY, ther OTR MAY, 1935, until WEDNERDAY, the 20 MAY, 1925, both days inclusive.
HEREBY that
Natition for the Winding Up
the
where named Company by the SUPREME COURT a Howexane was on the 4TH DAT of MAY, 1925, presented to the said Court by HONGLOK TRADING CO., LTD, JOHN D. HUTCHLION & Co., HABAT WICK
CKING &
& Co., W. G. HrY PRZYS
C. Lar & Co, HATTORI TRADING CO., LTD., Co B & Co., FRANCO-CLY TRADING Co
Kun: Woo, Griz" BROTHERS & Co. LTD., LAVINE BRO, LTD., SHING KEE, MING KEX 88rse, all of Victoria in the Colony
and Yu
of Hongkong
af
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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO..
„General Managers.
(2172 Hongkong, 8th May, 1925
INTIMATIONS
DEWAR'S
WHITE
LABEL
.FINEST
Mr. K D. F. Baith left the Colóny by the an. Faiyo Horn on Sunday.
MAILS "VIA SIBERIA,”””
The Home mails (letters and papera
The Americam. Minister;, Mr. Edward"] from London," dated April 24th); and · E. Brodie, Mia. Brodie and family, have sent the Siberian route, arrived in official left Bangkok en route for Home.. Prior the Colony yesterday morning by the
«8,8. Elberfeld. The time in transit wa to the arrival of a successor to Mr. Brodie, Mr. Samuel Dickson will be Chargé d'Affaires..
The general principle of the arrange- ment is by no means novel in China, It existed for centuries before Europeans came out to the Far East. It was, and stillis, rampant in Chinese circles. In the days of the Maochu dynasty the art or science of "squeeze" The was the one thing that mattered. Governor of a province was either a success ON # Lailure according to his ability to extract the maximum amount of money from those over whom he raled, without causing, rebellion. A great deal of the "loat"
tranmitted to those who had secured for him the
WILN
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF SCOTCH WHISKY aveted governorship, but there again,
CANTON, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
And that the said Petition is directed to beOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court sitting at the Courts NFIFTY-SECOND ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at the Head Office, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 1925, at Nocu, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1924, and of declaring Dividende, etc.
haard before Justice,
Victoria aforesaid, on the 26TH DAT 10.30 A., and any Creditor 1925 t or Contributory of the said Company desirous to support or oppose the making of an Order the said Petition may appear at the Time of Hearing by himself or his Counsel for that purpose; and a copy of the Palition will be farmished to any Creditor or Contributory the said Company, requiring the same by the Undersigned on payment of the regulated charge for the same.
Dated the 18th day of May, 1925.
GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON &00, Solicitors for all the Petitioners,
St. George's Building.
Hongkong. NOTE. Any Person who intends to appear on the hearing of the said Petition mast serve on or send by Post to the above- named notice in writing of his intention No to do,
The Notice must state the Name and Address of the Person, or, if Firm the Name and Address of the Firm, and must be signed by the son or Firm,
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from Mat16 to May th both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER
General Manager. Hongkong, May 8th, 1925.
T2191
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE. COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN hat
FIFTY NINTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Offer Uxios BUILDING, Hongkong on FRIDAY, MAY, 1925, at Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1924, and' of decisa. ing Dividends, etc.
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OF GREAT AGE.
AWARDED 50 GOLD AND
PRIZE MEDALS.
DEWAR'S
"VICTORIA
VAT"
THE VERY FINEST OLD
or his or their Soncitor (if any) and mur: 12.18 M, for the parpons of mesiring the SCOTCH WHISKY
be servel, or, if posted. must be sent by post in sufficient time to reach the aborenamed Not Later Than 6 c'CLOCK in the ArrzaNoos of the 2x DAT or.. MAY, 1925.
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BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGER.
PUBLIC AUCTION
or
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY.
ITUATE at YARMAT in the DEPENDENCI of KOWLOON and COLONY of HONGING and known as the Remaining Portion of Kow
loon Inland Lot No. 639, together with the fis Massuages Erections and Bailling thereon
dia course of constraction.
Area: 7,175 Square feet. Annual Crown Rent: $34.25. Term of Orown Lasse :75 years from the 25th day of December, 1894-
IN ONE LOT
эт
M. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA, Ancticaner,
THE CHINA AUCTION ROOMS, Okina Building.
ON TUESDAY,
THE 26TH DAY OF MAT, 1925, .in
AT 3 O'CLOCK P.M.
For farther Particulars and Conditions of Sali, Apply t
M
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Mortgagee's Bolicitors.
Prince's Buildings,
Ice Hanne Street, Hongkong:
or to
Mn. E. V. K. B. DE SOUSA,
The Auctioneer,
China Building,
Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.
WANTED.
2200
WANTED Rome Old Second Hand CARPETS for Packing Purposes, No Matter How Old but Must be Clean.
Apply to-
Ma. PERCY SMITH, 6, Des Voeux Road Contral *(2117
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THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company As supplied to the Houses of will be CLOSED from MAT 16TH to MAY 29TH, both days inclusive.
iDK
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER.
General MacAQUI. (21914
Hongkong, May, 8th 1925.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE.
COMPANY, LTD.
Lords and Commons
SOLE AGENTS
A. S.
WATSON
& CO., LTD.
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BIRTH:
WAS
an opportunity for subtlety and financial genius. The modern method in China is much more crude; it is an more nor less than impolite brigandage. The officials of the old days were always well
M... D. De Saint André, accountant of the, Banque de "flado-Chine, 'at Sloga pore was killed, and "M. A.. Vène, net- ing assistant maanger of the bank, was injured in a motoring accident which occurred on the Kota Tinggi. Road in Johore on the morning of May 10th:
Mah Jongg, anys a.New York message, Graars.. It has has gone the way of all felt the "east wind" of cross-words, and now sets are selling at give-away prices. The last word is the bankruptcy of the $40,000 Fung-Chow Company in New York, the makers of Mah Jongg sets.
versed in the Chinese classics and had exquisite manners, which must have The Hongkong Club will mark the southed the unfortunate victims of their King's Birthday (June 3rd) as usual; by extortionate methods. It has even been opening the Club premises to the wives and lady friends of members.. The health suggested that, in the good old days
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Fifty years' service as
a volunteer. first in England then in Shanghai, must
days. A full mail was received, 'in- cluding soven bags of nOWS matter, which had accumulated it previous do
The mail totalled liveries from London. 170 bags, and included 33 bags from the United Kingdb. four from Switzerland, two from Holland, nine from Vienna, four from Italy and 18 from Germany-
Ther
The following notion was issued by the Flongkong General Post Office, yes- terday, in connection with the posting of letters for transit "via Siberia”---- Maily for Europe via Siberia are dig- patched from Shanghai every Tuesday" at 9 p.m. to ponnect with the weekly Siberiin express, leaving Harbin on Monday of the following week. weekly mail from Hongkong for the Siberian route is forwarded by the latest ateumer to leave here, which will enable connection at Shanghai to be made. Let ters superscribed Via Siberia" and marked for transmission to Shanghai by other steamers will, however, be for warded by such steamers"
PROPERTY SALE.
..
At the China - Auction Rooms Yester- in China, it was possible to purchase of His Majesty will be drunk in the main day afternoon, Mr. E. V. M. R. Do hall at hoon. A special tiffin will be Sousa, Auctioneer, by order of the first nenderaie honours. In a most entertain-served and a band will be in attendance. mortgagees, disposed of three valuable leasehold properties. Bidding was very ing and amusing-volume of Chinese
slow and in each instance, only one hill, -was-made-above-the-upset-price. steries, entitled The Wallet-of-Kai |----
The properties sold were as, under.— Lung." there is related the story of a
bo if not actually a record: "at least 940. Queen's Road East and 53. and 65,. candidate for the official examinations
Shanghai Street, Yaumati, KowloonY? Such is the service of Marine Lot No. 31.. very neat ones.
These buildings which were held at Canton. It is really Mr. J. H. Carry," of the Artillery: Co., were sold together with certain parcels
tale of extended squeeze," 'From S.V.C.. who celebrated his jubilee as
of ground comprising part of the pro perties put up for auction.. the mengest door-keeper upwards to the a volunteer at the time of" the "unnual" The first lot with an area of: 987.40 Mandarin in charge of the examination, inspection on May 3rd:
square feet, and with Crown Rental: of $19.33, and & Term of Crowa Leang. come continuous and thinly-veiled hinta
On April 19th (Primrose Day) a num-of 920 years from July 18th, 1853, wak. that difficulties will disappear if evil
ber of beautiful wreaths were hif at This Sum
put up at an upset figure of 815,000.
was increased to 815,500, an spirits or more exalted oficiais
are the base of Lord Beaconsfield's statue, which figure it was knocked down to Mr. propitinted by presents. Finally, or the in London, among them being a shield Tng Shui Kid.
Ta second lot, with an area of 250 night before the candidate caters the of primroses from. the representatives of square feet, a Crown Rental of $10.00 examination hall, there arrives at his the well-known longkong patriot, the and a Term of Crown Lease of 75 years late Mr. R.. E, Belilios, upon which were from November, 1988, started with an the words, Pence with Honour.?
house a stranger who discusses for hours the health of the Emperor, the unexpect ed' appearance of a fiery dragon outside:
The death Kar occurred at the Bangkok the city, the insupportable price of opium Nursing Home of Mr. Friedrich Kunze, and, at long last, alludes to the object Czecho-Slovakian subject. He was of his vixit. After's polite reference to for "many years technical representative the candidate's preternational wisdom," of "Agfa e Berlin Anilin Works. He the terrors caused to candidates of evil first visited Siam in 1910-11, and paid spirits is outlined. Finally, it is suggest later visita in 1922, 1993, 1924, and his
.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that N
the FIFTH-SIXTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be, halds its Head Office, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 29 MAY, 1925 | 122 PM for the purpose of receiving the Beport of the Directors, and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1924, and of declare
Dividends, etc. THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company CARVALHU-At Shanghai, on May 12th,ed by the stranger that he should not final visit this year. During the war will be CLOSED from MAT 16ng to MẤY
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. CARVALHO, a as substitute, för the candidate next day years he was stationed in Shanghai. 29TE, both days inclusive.
-for consideration. He explains that With effect from April 14th. Lieut- MARRIAGES. .,
he has often done it before. The candi- Commander (E.) B. W. Greathed, until DANSON GREY.-At Shanghai, on May
12th, Otiz, daughter of Captain and date is indignant, whereupon the stranger recently serving in the battleship Ajra, - Mrs. LAWRON Gäry, of Shanghai, to
GEORGE. eldest son of Mr. and Mrs, says " It is obvious that your dispareat ship at the Nore, is appointed
DANSON, of Shanghai,
tinguished confidenes in yourself is Assistant to the Chief Engineer of MARY-WHITE-A Shanghai, on Mayerely a graceful endeavour to obtain Hongkong Dockyard. Lieut-Commman- der Greathed entered with the third batch of naval cadets at. Osborne in May, 1004, and during the war he served
By Order of the Beard,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Ecogkong, May.Stb, 1925.
(2191m
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
.
AND
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION GO., LIND.
CONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer
BARPEDONA
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be dia. sharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will be at Consignees risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo *
will be ready for Delivery from Godown on and after 15th May.
landed, anless Notice Optional Cargo will be has been given prior to Steamer's arrival.
All broken, casted and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on
Tuesdaynod Fridays between on any the hours of 10.45 ..and Noon within the
son.
12th, Gilbert JOSEPH MARY, only son
Hongkong Office: 14, Chater Road. London Office: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.
The Baily Press.
HONGKONG, MAY 19, 1925.
""
Police reports of yesterday show that four men, two armed with revolvers, entered 47, Wing Lok Street. where the premises of the Man Pak Cheong' shop are situated, on Sunday, and after threatening the occupants, decamped with $770. There were three men in the house
upset price of $7,000, and was knocked down to Mr. Fong Po for 87,300.
The third lot. with ac area of 716.66 square feet, a Crown Rental of 81.6a, and a Term of Crown Lease of 75 years from June 25th, 1875, started with an," upset price of $6,000 and was secured by: Mr. Fong Po for 88,500.
NUNNERY ROBBED).
SUNDAY NIGHT RAID
CASTLE PEAK.
NEAR
For the second time within a month roblers have found it to their advantaga to break into a Chinese nannery
At 10 o'clock on Sunday night, four men forced their way into the Cheung Chuh Nunnery, at Công Tsan, Hil Castle Peak.
After threatening the nuns, they kept them. quiet for nearly, an hour while, by the aid of torches, they searched tha majority of the rooms.
By some means, not yet disclosed, two of the nuns managed eventually to escmpo the vigilance of the robbers. and sound
The robbers at once cleared off, taking with them so dollars in notes. and smal coins, and clothing valued at $900,
CAUGHT A TARTAR..
WELL-DRESSED. PASSENGER IS "FORCED OVERBOARD.":
of M. and Mme. H. MARY, of Nice, my services for a less amount of taels France, to FRANCES HELEN WHITE, than I should otherwise bave demanded. third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. WHITE, of Shanghai.
For half the usual sum, therefore, this as Beutenant (E.) of the battle ships person will take your place in the Formidable and Neptune, the cruiser the alarma by blowing police whistles. examination "cell," and enable your Penelope, and in charge of the machinery Versatile name to appear in the winning of the destroyer Trenchant. lists, while you pass your momenta in irreproachable pleasures elsewhere."
Whether the above story was founded on fast or was, just a satire on the pre- valling system, must be left to the
On Sulay evening, a well-dressed tres storage period.
"SQUEEZE." | reader to decide. Suffice it to say that at the time, one of them the secretary of admitted after the Good. THE PROBLEM OF No Claims will
the shop, whom the robbers forced to Chinese hired the motor-bazt. Fo. Ping, have left the Steamer's Godawn, and all Goods
all of us who have any knowledge of hand over the keys of the safe. One of telling the coxswain, Wong Tai, to Lake remaining, undelivered after the 21st Mar, How can a dollar pass through my Chinn know that " squeeze "is a thing the fukis managed to gain bis freedom him to Stonecutters, as he wished to When the journey was nearly will subject to Rent.
and rushing onto the verandah gave the bathe. ill be able inst the Steamer must be hands without leaving something be- that has existed, and still exists. It alarm, with the result, that three of the completed, the pazenger suddenly threw
pepper into the eyes of the coxswain. ODOWNS in ALEXANDRA BUILD-rented to the Undersigned on or before the hindi" is sometimes quoted as a Chinese cannot be judged by Western standards. robbers were subsequently arrested.
4th Jane. or they will not be recognised.
A struggle ensued, which resulted in When mentioned to anyone It is an age-long custom. It might be A group of students of the Provincial the unwelcome passenger receiving &
"commission." who knows the Far East it produces a called
no Technical College at Canton visited bath earlier than be anticipated. The Hongkong last week, for the purpose half-blinded coxswain did not wait to smile which means agreement with the Corrupt Practices Act" in China, and of making practical observations in the ascertain whether the well-dressed pas"
They were senger reached shore, according to a suggestion that
is always if it depended on a popular vote, it big industrial squeeze expected in China whenever favours are would be hopeless to attempt such travelling under the guidance of their story current in Chinese circles" lust
principal and instructors The party night.
The police are alleged to have institut shown. Just now the Chinese seamen are legislation. We are not surprised that was split into three sections; the first
was composed of students of mechanical ed an enquiry with regard to Wong Tai's trying to gain public sympathy because the seamen and the artisans par engineering; the second, of chemical alleged version of the incident, which they feel the squeeze" to be, morb "queeze "that is, after all, "elo manufacturing; and the third, of taxtile tends to show that the passenger "s than he manufacturing. The places visited in forced overboard than they can bear. Their complaint in custom." What is surprising are the clude the Hongkong University, the Elec-anticipated. not against the shipowneri; the allega public protest. They are the signs of the tric Powers Supply, the Gas Works, the Chment Works, the Dockyards, the Nan- cannot be
Bros. Tobacco Co. Factory, this tions are against those more immediately times. In theory,"squeeze
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TO LET.
INGS (Basement).
Apply-
SECRETARY, A. S. WATSON & Co, Ltd..
TO LET.
FFICE in UNION BUILDING~TWO
ROOMS IN FOURTH FLOOR
Apply UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LED.
(2173
*GLEN" LINE, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO. CONSIGNETS.
FROM UNITED KINGDOM AND
STRAITS.
THE Steamship
T
CARNARVONSHIRE"-
fering arrived from the above Ports, Consignor of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the kardons and/or extra hazardous Godowns of Wharf and Godown
No Fire Insurance will be effected
·BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, 15th May, 1925,
re 209
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
PENINSULAR & OBIENTAL STEAM
NAVIGATION COỨ'S STEAMER.
"SICILIA."
*
proverb
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There is
conceros,
ARRIVED: HongKong on 15th May, 1925.
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO & STRAITS.
ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above- named Vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at thes
in authority over them. Nor are the justified, but it is a practice that will. I, San Biscuit Factory and to ober of other places. By the kindness of the x in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowas at Kowloon, Chinese seamen the only wage-earners take a long time entirely to eliminate compradors of the river steamer Lung Shan, the students were accorded the where each Consignment will be worked out
privilege of travelling free of charge. Mark by Mark and Delivery can be obtained who are complaining about "squeeze."
the Goods are landed.
This Vessel brings on Cargo from Persian
Gulf
"
We have reason to know that..many of
The return of notifiable diseases in the BISN. B. PEN. Co.'s the workers engaged in the local dock Colony for the 48 hours ended on May optional Goods will be landed here malam yards accuses the" Number Ones who 17th shows I. Chiness case of cerebro
harres,mited, whence, and/or from the Instructions, have been given to the contrary are the sort 81. non-commissioned officers spinal fover.
may be obtained.
6 hours before arrival of the Steamer.
BooDer
GATES OF KAM TIN.
TO BE RESTORED AS REWARD FOR LOYALTY.
CEREMONY "NEXT TUESDAY. Shanghai's rainy season set in very much in earnest early on May 12th, Territories, which were removed as a The old iron gates of. Kam Tin, New the Daily News. Throughout the
day there was no mederation in sain nor punishment to the Chinese for resistanc the Hongkong and Kowloon Whar
wind, in fact the more it blew the heavier offered on our entry into the New Company
now to be was the downpour." If Shanghai is a Territories in 1809," are Goods not cleared within 8 days, including of the industrial army-of this practice not cleared by the 20th May, Floods
There are stories of these native foret was reported in the Chinese news great modern city, it is surely the worst restored as a mark of recognition of the 11925, at Noon, will be subject to Rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in
men, who, in some cases receive about papers of Shanghai last week that, have to be in during such rainsqualls as loyalty of the inhabitants of Kam Tin
drenched the central district" on that since that date. ing failed in his venture against Canton, day. Because the Settlement is built on any case whatever.
The ceremony of uuveiling the gates, Damaged Packages must be left in the one hundred dollars a month, becoming Chen Chiung Ming is paying a very a swamp the surface drainage cannot will be performed by H. E. the Governor More Goddard and Douglas, ou 18th May,
examination by the Consignees,
cope with the enormous amount of rain-on Tuesday next, the 2tb inst., at 4,20 1925, at 10 aziz Claims against the Steamer ad the Company's enrseyors, Mears, GoDAO property owners in a few months. It is secret visit." to Shanghai.
short delivered must
st 10 s.m., on Mondays and
water on roofs and streets. In places p., and the Elders of the Tang Clan, within the free storage period.
Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell M. Hamil the latter was almost ankle-deep in water representing the village of Kam Tia, while at a windy corner an avalanche will mark the occasion by the presente ton will arrive in Shanghai by the Pre- from roofs half drowned the unwary. The tion of a farewell address in Chiness sented to the Undeizigned on or before the
resident Grint on Saturday next, when structs had a thorough spring cleaning, to His Excellency
All broker, chafed and damaged Fackages are.
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be left in the Godowns, where they will be
.
examined in the presence of Consignees by
be presented na tan
of arrival will be subject to Kent.
Godown for.
cluding than fat Form provided, and | The inst the Steamer must be pre-artisans in Hongkong, untrained clans-
must also be submitted within 30 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognised.
All
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in 4th Jane, 1925, or they will not be recognized
way case
whatever.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
said that, instend of engaging skilled
men from
"Canton more far
No Gains will be admitted after the Goods employed at a skilled worker's rate, with Mr. Hamilton will assume his office na for there was one virtue about the rain. Meralers of the Executivo and Lazia-
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Bave left the Godown,
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
12210 Hongkong, 15th May, 1925.
Agents.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Lam
Agents: Hongkong, 13th May, 1923.
Mud which now-a-days is always plentilative Councils and others Interested in the arrangement that the Number Junior 'American Assessor at the Mixed fully admixed with motor cil was con- the New Territories' are being invited
to attend the function. One" obtain about half of the wages. Court.
spicuous by its absence.
f.