NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
G.
NOTICE.
CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER. WORKS.
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Cu and I
After MONDAY, the 15th pistant, and antil Further Notice, The SUPPLY of WATER by means of HOUSE SERVICES
To HOUSES connected with the Rider Mains
will be DISCONTINUED.
A BUPPLY OF WATER will be Given by STREET FOUNTAINS in the Bider Main Districts.
HAROLD T. CREJSY, Water Authority. Public Works Department, Hongkong, 11th March, 1926,
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GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC.
MENDERS for SPECIE and MENCAN
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INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 12rx, 1926
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,
LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Offices, P& O. BUILDING, on FRIDAY, 12TH MARCH, 1926, må 12 A.M., for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to Bist December, 1925, and electing Directors and Auditor.
INTIMATIONS
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE
HE Following is the Provisional List of Dates upon which EXTRA MEETINGS will be held This Besson
3RD APRIL, 187 MAY, žrá JUNE, LED OCTOBER and Eazi NOVEM BER.
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By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERİES
· MARITIMES.
The TRANSFER. BOOKS óf the Com- pany will be OLOSED from 1 MARCH to 19TH MARCH, 1926, beth days inclusive.
URING My Absence from the Colony By Order of the Board of Directors,
DR MIOLAMS will Take Teme GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO, LTD.,porary Charge of This COMPANY'S ·
Agents.
AGENCY Until Further Notice. Hongkong, 23rd February, 1926. [3231
E. RODENTUSER, Agent Hongkong, 10th Marob, 1938.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LIMITED.
Beceived by the TREASUB Mill HOLDERS of the Company will be held at |
VOLLABS current in this Colony, for Telegraphie Transfer, on the Lords Commis- Honer of His Majesty's Tressary, London, up to and for the Sum of
CHEST OFF 100 AM, on the 19 MARCH, OFFICER COMMAND PAY OFFICE,
The Tenders to state the Total Amount (in Pounds Sterling). No-Telegraphic Transfer will be made for less than £100.
1998.
The Tenders to be in Duplicate, and in Sealed Covers, addrected to the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, COMMAND FAY OFFICE,
TENDERS
FOR GOVERN MENT BILLS, Etc."
endorsed
The right to scoopt or reject any or all of the Tenders is reserved."
Copies of Forms of Tender can be had on application,
Persons tendering for (Bus) hereby Notifed that, having regard to the provisions of the Acts 21 George IIL, Cap. 45 and 41, George III., Cap. 59, the acceptance of ruch Tender is subject to the express condition that no Member of the British House of Commons shall be admitted to any share or part in or to any benefit ic sri
srise from thereby made for the allotment of rach
"The provisions in question do not apply to Contracts entered into by any Incorporated
Company is its corporated city and made
the general benent of the Company."
H. G. RILEY, Major, Treaty
Chest Officer, B.A.P.C. His Majesty's Tremury Ofce,
Hongkong, 11th March, 1926. [3303
AMERICAN SELLING AGENTS Now
Lad
Successfully Representing JAPANESE EUROPEAN ACCOUNTS in the
AMERICAN Maxxer „would be Interested in Connecting with. Príncipals, preferably Foreign, on An Exclusive Agency Basia, in "Belling their Lines of CHINESE MER- CHANDISE Are equipped to Handio Al CHINESE RAW PRODUCTS, FURS, SILK PIECE GOODS, MATTING, RUGS AND SUNDRIES. Beferences Exchanged," Address BURE AND PALMER, 303, FzITH AVENUE, NEW YORK, U.8.A.
THE THIRTY SEVENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE-
BUILDING, Chater Rond, Victoria, Fong the Offices of the Company, ST. Grozer's kong, on WEDNESDAY, 17TH MARCH, 1926, at 11 o'czocx in the FOREROON, for the purpose of receiving & Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ending Sist December, 1925, and declaring a Dividend.
The TRANSFER. BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from WEDNES DAY, 820 MARCH, 1926, until WED NESDAY, 17TH MAROH, 1926, both days inclusive.
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By Order of the Board of Directors,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers.
HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD,
NOTICE OF MEETING.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that The FOURTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of the HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CON. STRUCTION COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held in the Offices of Megars. SITWAN, TOYEN & Co., St. George's Building, Uhater
Rod, or MACH, 1926, at 11.00 AM., for Road, Hongkong on WEDNESDAY, the the purpose of receiving the Report of the
Bear
consta
of Directors and ■ Statement of AB- for the Year ended on the 31st Dier- 1925, sad of electing Directors and The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From the 18 To the 24 MARCH, bath daye inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
8. COURTNEY COOK Secretary, Hongkong, 9th March, 1826. [3200
THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.'
NOTICE TO SEABKHOLDERS..
HE FIFTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY (3804TGENERAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned en FRIDAY, the S&TA MARCH, 1926, at Noor, for the purpose of receiving the Beport of the General Mana-. gers, together with a Statement of Accounts for the Year ended the 31st DECER, 1925.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES.
PUBLIC AUCTION
FOUR LOTS OF VALUABLE LEASE. HOLD PROPERTIES,
#
NAMILY> LOT No. 1 ALL THAT Fiece or Parcel of Ground situate at TAI KOK TSUI in the Dependency of Kowloor and Colony of "Honox"NG sad Registered at the LAND O11:03 as KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 181, Together with the Messages or Tens- ments and other Erections and Building. thereon now known sa Nos. 91 AND $3, KREMER STREET;
LOT No. 2 ALL THOSE Pieces or Parcals of Ground situste at TAI KOK TSUI storesnid and respectively Registered at the Las OFFION SECTION À AND THE REMAINING FORTION or KOW- LOON INLAND LOT No. 187, To- gether with the Messages or Tenement and other Erections and Buildings there" on respectively now known as Nos. 115 AND 117, KREMER STREET;
LOT No. 8
The SHARE REGISTER and TRANS- FER BOOKS will be CLOSED From the 12ry to the 25 MARCH, 1926, both days *inclusive.
G.
R.
1926-1927.
F3301
~BALED TENDERS 50l be Received st B.N. HOSPITAL Until 10-an, on the 20TH MARCH, 1996, from Persona dekirous of
INTIMATION
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AMERICAN
It has been divided, to bald the Alk China Athletic Meet at Canton this year.
Amongrel dog bit Albert Mathits, a small Portuguese boy, residing at No. 29, Daries Street, on Wednesday. The boy was taken to hospital and the dog was sent "to Kennedy Town for obser- vation.
defended against constant assaulta for. upwards of three months. It required & | very large international force to relieve them, and it fortunately managed to do so just in time to avert a tragedy of unexampled magnitude, for a deep mine had been de under a portion of the students quarters, and boxes were in
An unusual sight was witnessed by position ready to receive the powder passengers on the Kowloon Ferry about which was intended to breach the defences ve o'clock on Wednesday evening, when two large schools of porpoises were men so as to admit the savage hordes to wreak sporting in the water just off HM.S.
CHOCOLATES inside the Legation Quarter the same Durban.
OF THE FINEST QUALITY
FROM
H. D. FOSS & Co.
WAN
blood-thirsty purposes that they had so abundantly revealed elsewhere,
The Protocol that
afterwards signed not only specified the punish ments that were to be meted out, and the heavy indemnities to be paid to the various Powers (a great proportion of which the Powers have in recent years so magnanimously, decided to devote to cultural purposes in China), but it'ax- pressly registered the fact that China had consented to raze the forta at Taka
SUPPLYING Beef, Mutton, Fowls, Fork, FRESH SHIPMENT JUST RECEIVED. and those, which might impede free com-.
Bread, Cheese, Pare Cow's Milk, Aerated Waters, Ice, and other Provisions, and Nece aries for the Year ending 31st MARCH, 1927.
Printed Forms of Tender and further Farticulars can be obtained at the R.N. HOSPITAL
The Right to Reject the Lowest or any Tender is Beserved.
H. J; CHATER, Surgeon Captain, E.N. R. N. Hospital, Hangkang, 11th March, 1996. [$299
G.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received Instruc TH
tions to Sell by
200
PUBLIC, AUCTION
FRIDAY, 12TH MABOE
KOWLOON NAVAL DEPOT,
COMMENCING AT 9.30 A
OLD and SURPLUS VIQUALLING
STORES. Comprising --
1
NEW
STYLES
AND
NEW FLAVOURS.
In Elegant Boxes which
munication between Peking and the sea It was a safeguard against ever again being trapped as the Legations were in the summer of 1900. Yet in this year of grace 1996 we are not only being told of the interruption of railway communica- tion with the Capital, and of mines being laid in the Taku Channel, but also of the forts at Taku firing indiscriminately on all craft attempting to navigate the Peiha River. Whether the Government at Peking is able to exercise over the war fords the measure of authority necessary to ensure a due observance of the provisions of the Protocol in regard
make a Charming Present. to these important matters remains to be
Table Linen, Intent Serge, Flannel, da. A. Remnants, Blankets, Sundry Articles of Mess and Table Gear, (including Electro Plated Poultry Feeding, etc. Ware), Clothing, Condemned Provisions for
Terms of Sale:-As detailed in Cata- logue.
LAMMERT BROTHERS,
"
By Appointment Austioneers to the Admiralty.
[3914
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE.
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF
THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY Situate at HUNG HOM in the Dependency of Kowloos and Colony of HGLONG and Registered at the LAND OFFICE HUNG HOM INLAND LOT No. 175 (Elite of No. 103, WUHU SYKKY), Together with the Kesuage or Tonemest and other Erections and Baildings thereon in Cosme of Construction:
AND
THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Situate at YAUMATI in the Dependent
General Managers,
of KOWLOON and Colony of HONOLONG HONGKENG FIX INSURANCE CO., LTD. and. Registered at the LES OFFICE & Hongkong, 6th March, 1926.
KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 225
NOTICE.
[3875
S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.
HONGKONG DISPENSARY."
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Hongkong Office: 14, Chater Road, London Office: 181, Fleet Street, EO.
The Baily Press.
Korexore, Manch 12th, 1925.
"LEST WE FORGET.”
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A report has been made to the police by Mfr. Buxton, of Knutsford Hotel, that while riding his motor-cycle near Knuts- ford Terrace on Tuesday evening, ha waa attacked and hitten by a dog belonging to Capt. Finn Malm.
"A farewell dinner and concert is to de given at the Hongkong Volunteer De fence Corps Headquarters on Thursday, and Licut. Morrison, of the Scottish Co., March 18th. to Capt. Ross, Lieut. Adams
who are going home on leave.
The Water Authority notifies that on and after. Monday the supply of water by
continued until further notice, and a means of house services to houses con nected with the rider mains will be dia-
supply of water will be given by street. fountains in the rider main districts.
On a charge of having dutiable liquors on their premises, the Pochomull Silk Stores were fined 8100 at the Central Magistracy on Wednesday, on a state- ment being made by a revenue man that these liquors were imported in a case received from the Saigon branch of the
store.
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During raid, by revenue officers on the first floor, dl No. 64, First Street, on Wednesday night a Chinese fell from the verandah, when attempting to escape.. He received head injuries and was re- moved to the Government. Civil Hospital for treatment. He is not, however, con- sidered to be seriously hurt.
A Chinese, named Kwok Kwai, who has been employed as "boy" to a boats-
wain on the B... Empress of Canada, which arrived from the North yester- day, was arrested yesterday afternoon for the theft of a tablecloth and other small article. He will appear at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
From two sailing boats which were left in the Kowloon Naval camber sail to the total value of $170 have been
seen. There are probably few people now in the Legation Quarter who passed through the terrible ordeal of 1901, but probably none who have not read the tragic history of that time. On the wall of the British Legation, as a constant reminder of those days, are carved the words "Lest We Forget," and these words were probably well in the minds of the Diplomats when they sent to the Chinese Government their strong remon$10 strance against the present isolation of Peking by the operations of the fighting war lords, and the very plain intimation of foreign intervention if that remon- strance 'remains unheeded. --
THE LOCAL TELEPHONES. WITH reference to the article published in this column in our yesterday's issue,
stolen this week The yachts were the Vanda and Spratt, belonging to Com madder Birling, H.M.S. Vindictive, and Mr. Marsh of the Naval Yard. From the first boat sails valued at $150 were talin and from the other azils valued at
At the Central Magistracy yesterday. before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Edmond Douzak, a young German seaman, on the ma Fulda, was charged with being a stowaway. Defendant admitted that he was a stowaway on the vessel from Shang- hai, and said that after he deserted from the ea. Erinland, at Tsingtao, he was helped by friends with a passage to Shanghai. There his friends left him, and not wishing to be left behind he stowed away to Hongkong. Defendant was sentenced to four weeks' imprison. ment.
The R.M.S Empress of Canada brought two home mails yesterday, one from London vid Canada and one from the United Kingdom vid Siberia. By by the latter route 14 bags. The total the former route there were 23 bags, and
We have become accustomed to flagrant we are informed that the Hongkong violations of international pledges by the Electric Company have had a depart militarists warring with each other in mental automatic. telephone system in China, and it was almost a foregone use for about twelve months. It has so conclusion when the fatest great war in far given entirely satisfactory results and the North began that we should sooner enables communication, to be made prac-mail landed comprised 366 bags, the
letters and papers, apart from thos Company's sub-stations. The Telephone Japan and Shanghai. There will be an other mail from the United Kingdom vid Siberia by the 6. Ting Sang Today the ss. foundra is due from Home plá Negapatam (letters only).
(Bite of No. 572. CAXTON BOLD), Together or later hear. of Peking being isolated/tically instantaneously with any of the from Hong, being from Canada, U.S.A.,
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IN TWO LOTS MR. E. V. M, B. x SOUSA, Auctioneer,
THE CHINA AUCTION ROOMS, No. 4, DUDDELL STREET, HoxGKONG,
It has
Mr. T. Z Koo, the representative of China to the Opium Conferences at.
with the Massuage or Tenement and by these military movements. other Erections and Buildings thereon in Course of Construction.
actually come to pass this week that, the Company themselves have also a small railway service between Tientsin and the private automatic service and we gather Capital has been interrupted, and mines that the possibilities of extending auch have been laid at the mouth in the Taku service to the public have been under Channel, so that, as one of the cable consideration... Probably if any steps are Genera, and Secretary to the National puts it, both Peking, and Tientsin were taken in this direction they will be taken practically isolated. Apparently it was gradually. It may be found feasible, for quickly impressed on the military officials example, to establish an automatic system For further Particulars and Conditions of at Tientsin that in blocking the passagement with the object of ascertaining
in a certain defined area as an experi- the Chinese Y.M.C.A. Mr. Kod is to of One Month from the Date hereof the Bale, Apply tomm
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
ERTIFICATE. No. 3451 for 25 Shares, A Per Share Paid Up, Numbered 48751/48775 in this Society standing in the Joint Names of HARRY OLAEBURN PEARCE and JOHN HERMANN TEESDALE, both of Shangbai, Has Been Declared LOST, and if at the Expiration
THURSDAY, THE 20TH DAY OF MARCH, 1926, AT 3 O'CLOCK. P.M.
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were
Y.M.O.A. in China, and the Rev. RO. Hail, M.A., M.C., arrived in the Colony yesterday in connection with the work they are to carry qut here under the
lecture in the Great Hall of the Hong auspices of the Stadent Department of
kong University on non-religious and Sunday evening the Rev. R. O. Hall is
"ALL THOSE Pieces or Parcels of Ground above Document be not forthcoming the Messus, GEO. K. FALL BRUTTON & CO. of ships to and from Tientsin they deânitely the advantages and disadvan non-political subject this evening, and on
aituste at FUE TSUN HEUNG in the said Certificate will be deemed CAN- Dependency of Kowloon and Colony of CELLED and of No Effect, and A NEW HONGKONG and respectively Registered at the LAND OYZ SECTIONS A Certificate for the 25 Shares will be Issued AND BAND THE REMAINING POR in its stead by the Society.. TION 7 KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 111, Together with the Messunges or Tenements and other Erections and Buildings thereon respectively now known Nos 1, 2, 3 AND 4, NEWOLWANG STREET
LOT No. 4
OF TO
Mortgagee's Solicitors,
St. Georgs's Building, Chatar Road,
Ma E. V. M. E. DE SOUSA, Auctioneer. PAUL LAUDER,
No. 4, Daddall Street. 20 General Manager. Dated the 10th day of March, 1928 (3297 Hongkong, 23rd February, 1926. [8283.
"TO ́LET.
4ROOMED FLAT in. CARNARVON
BUILDINGS, KOWLOON.
Apply to HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
CO. LTD.
Alexandra Building.
FOR SALE.
SOUTHERN STAR" and "NOB- THERN STAR.”
For particulars Apply tom
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STAR FERRT CO., LTD,
KOWLOON.
ALL THAT Piece or Parcel of GroundUBLE ENDED FERBY STEAMERS
situate at SHAKSHUIPO in the Dependency of Kowloon and Colony of Homexors and Registered at the LAND Office as SECTION A OF NEW KOW- LOON INLAND LOT No. 189, Together with the Messungs or Tenement and other Erections and Buildings thereon now. known as No. 11, KI LUNG STREET.
IN FOUR LOTS
Ma, E. V. K. B. px 80USA, Auctionser,
THE CHINA AUOMION ROOMS. No: 4, DrDDELL STREET, Horexɑse,
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SARAWAK GOVERNMENT..
ASSIS TANT CONTROLLER, Govern ment Opiam Monopoly, Salary: $400 Per Month, Free Furnished Quarters, 8-Year Agreement with Prospect of Permanent Em `ployment with 3000, and Provlary Ricing to Maximum Fand Experience of FRIDAY, TH 1678 DAY OF MARCH, 1926, Chinese and Personal References Bacatial
Preferably Unmarried." -
Apply Box No. 3285,
c/o Hongkong Daily From Omos
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For further Particulars and Conditions of
Bale, Apply to:- ht
KEL GEO. E. HALL DEUTION & CO.,
Marigagons' Solicitors,
St. George Building, Chater Road,
Auctioneer
KIEV.LA SOUSA,
No. 4 Daidall Street. Dated the 19th day of March, 1926. (8301-
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TO LIT.
GLODOWNS in ALEXANDRA BUILD
(Badamrat).
simply inviting foreign naval action, and the blockade was partially lifted, to the extent that ships flying special signals are allowed to pass, in the day time only. Meanwhile the Diplomatic Body.address
ages. The humid climate of Hongkong presents some difficulties but they are not insurmountable.
in the Colony contained one case of Yesterday's return of notiɓable disease small-pox, one of diphtheria, and one of enteric lever all Chinese.
to occupy the pulpit at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloom.
Mr. Arnold H. Hollingsworth, Assist aat-Director of Public Works is retiring very shortly on pension. Mr. Hollings worth has spent just on thirty years in the Public Works Department of the the service having joined the service as Colony and has worked his way up in assistant engineer in December, 1806 For a few months in 1990 Mr. Hollings worth was Acting Director of Public Works, having previously acted tive appointment as Assistant Director First Assistant Director. His substan dates from January, 1921 Mr. Mrs. and Miss Hollingsworth are booked to leave the Colony for Hams on the P. & O. Meren on April 3rd.
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Mr. George Hogg and Mr. H. C. ed a very firm Note to the Chinese Resker returned to the Colony on the Government drawing its attention to the Empress of Canada yesterday. fact that this interruption of land and display of singing, dancing and sea communications violates the provisions recitations will be given by the pupils of the Protocol of 1901, demanding an of the Peak School at the Peak Club on
Tuesday, March 30th. immediate cessation of these acts of obstruction, and finally intimating that the Powers reserved to themselves the right to collaborate for the protection of foreign shipping and the maintenance of free access to the port of Tientsin should
There was a large attendance at the the Chinese Government fail-to take
musicale given at the Helens, Mar In- forthwith action to that end, in fulfilment
stitute yesterday evening. Mr. A Bowes Smith gave a brilliant interpreta o TIL From April 1st, 1925, for Six of the provisions of the Protocol of 1991.
Month, Well Furnished "Frar" Four
On Wednesday, three-years old tion of Chopin'e " Ballade in G. minor, Booms, Central District, All Modern Conven- For the information of some of our child came into contact with a broken and Mrs Bowes-Smith gave delightful iences including Elerstor Apply-Box No readers it may be explained that the the was removed to the Government Song," and Bizet's Pastorale Mr. electric meter on the Yuen On Wharf. renderings of Beraberg's "Hindoo 155 t/o Hongkong Daily Press,
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signing of this, Protocol by China and Civil Hospital suffering from shock, Edwin Gardner with his characteristic TO LET From API ZZ, for 6 Month eleven Foreign Powers was the outcome
ability was never heard to better advan TAIWO" Fully Furnished Six-roomed
The Little Muamers" (Kowloon tags than in Frederic Clay's "I'll sing Children's Dramatic Society) who on Thes Bongs" of "Araby."! Ho site sang.
9082
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SECRETARY, A. B. WATSON de On, Lan.:
WANTED-PRAK, MILITE, KOTLOOK, But Walk of Trans Station Star of the infamous Boxer emette when the
A Popular Lecture will be given at the Helena May Institute on Monday, March 15th, at 5.30 p.m. by Mr. A. H. Crook Subject: Our Local Seaside Plants Open to the public-Any
Wednesday evening presented new, and Maude Valerien Wave
HOUSE Court. Olenta Minuten of will Pay $200 to 3400 Bantal for Euilable Experience and Long Bervice, to the Adronte Legations, containing upwards of a original setting of Cinderella in aid Mr. B. A Green gave two items, Monk Face LATE Wanted in. Good Localities. ser will be left in the Hons Apply thousand foreigners of various nations. of Dr. Barnardo's Homes, will give an Gould'
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Vanite
and HOUSES and Building Lote for Disposal. HOLYOAK, c/o HOAL, MASSE 2000s, were closely beseized and had to be this evening at nine o'clock.
other performance at the Star Theatre | Sanderson's Beuben Ennzo:” Hm SMALL INVESTORS. T. 1830
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