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[OTICE is bareby given that the TWEN TIETH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Comply's Offices, Victoria Build- (eg, on TUES JAY, the 28th January, 1903, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the year ending 3151
THE OPIUM QUESTION.
A correspondent writes to the Shanghai Times on and instit-in view,
view of the universal; Interest that attaches to the present agitation to persuade Chids to give up the babit of opium-smoking, as a means of awkening and civilizing her, I beg to ask you to grant me spice in your widely read jourent to express my humble opinion on the subject
I desire to state at the outset that I have no axe to grind, nor have I any commercial in- Do thiest At stake that obliges me to speak
Intimations.
The same
IT WILL DO
machies for what it buys a lowɔng will bf hdi ha un article of furniture. A man carries a watch to tell him the time; not av än investment of surplus capital, .... principle when one is ill. We want the medi cine or the treatment which will relievo and cure. The friend, in need must be a friend Indeed something, or somebody, with a reputation, with a good record, with a history no guesswork in treating disease. People have the right to know what a medicine is, and what it will do, before they take it. It must have behind it an open record of bedefit to others for the same diseases,-a series of cares that proves its merit and inspires confidence. It is because it has such a record that
| December, 1907. As of the Comslightingly of the efforts of the promoters of that justifies our confidence. There should be
The REGISTER OF SHARES pany will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 17th January, to TUESDAY, the 18th January (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered."
By Order of the Board of Directors,
́ ́A.-SHELTON' HOOPER,
Secretary,
Hongkong, 19th January, 198
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THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED. [OTICE in hereby.given that the TWEN NTIETH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's Ofices, Victoria Build ings, on TUESDAY, the 28th January, 1908, at 11.32 o'clock A, for the purpose of re ceiving the Repon of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the year end ing 31st December, 1907.
The REGISTER or SHARES of the Com pany will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 20th January, to UESDAY, the 28th January (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Sbares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the lougkong Land Invest
mest and Agency Co, Ld, Central Agents for the West Point Build.
ing Co., Ld, Hongkong, soth January, 1908.
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Notices of Firms. INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING JAB
and
EXPRESS TRAINS CO.
(THE
GREAT TRANS-SIBERIAN, ROUTE TO EUROPE:)
HAVING been appointed AGENTS for the abort Company, we shall be pleased to give any information as to rates of passage, kc, to connection with abore.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.
Agents.
Hongkong. 31st July, 1009.
NOTICE.
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THE Business that has been hitherte carried on by the Undersigned, will benceforward, be carried on under the Style
such an ambitious scheme. But I love cos sistency, sincerity, and fair play and thess qualities fail to find amongst those who eppouse the cause of China in this master. I doubt very much whether they are prompted by bumanitarian considerations in urging this country to abandon the habit of opium-smoking, It is strange that such brotherly advice should WALPOLE'S PREPARATION emanate from those who could find so much la bought and used without hesitation or doubt. to do nearer home. Instead of asking China Its Good Name in the solid basis for the faith to remove the short beam from her eyes, it If the people have in it and a good name has to high time that we should remove the huge be earned by good deeds. For the purposes beams from our our own.. Instead of asking for which it is commended it is honest, tree and the City Fathers to close the opium dens is practical. It does what you have a right to the Settlements and thus sacrifice a large expect it to do. It is palatable as honey and revenue, it is high time to ask them to contains all the nutritive and curative properties close the public liquor "deax" in which many of Pure Cod Liver Oil, combined with the of our people fall into bad and immoral lives. Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Our Cours of law are always deluged with Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry, In Scrofuls; cases against those who are drunk and die. Anemia, Nervous and General Debility, In orderly. I have yet to learn that'a Chinaman. Buenza, Blood Impunities and Wasting Com
· has been arraigned before the Mixed Court for plaints, it is to be thoroughly relied upon. Dr. similar misbehaviour on, account of opium. L. Carrick says: "I have had remarkable smoking 1" Just think of it for a while, Mr. success with it in the treatment of Consumption, Editor, and see whether we are consistent with Chronic Bronchitis, Catarrh and Scrofulous ourselves in asking China to set ber house in Affections. It is of special value in nervous order when our own dwelling houses are upser prostration and depraved nutrition; it stimulates and topsy-u. What does all this anti-opium the appetite and the digestion, promotes agitation amount to? To put it briefly it is this: assimilation, and enters directly into the The anti-opium society, no doubt engaged in a circulation with the food. I consider it a mar praizamosky baille, in utter disregard of the velous success in medicine." Every dose danger threatenlig our own people from the use effective. "You cannot be disappointed in iL" of alcohol, engager in civilizing China by help. Sold by chemists. ing her to give up what is termed a national curse, for reasons which 1 do not think anyone has so far dared to fathom. The main object,
I believe, that is influencing the anti-opiums
society is to seek the conversion of China to Christianity by strategical mentis, After baxing accomplished the abolition of opium smoking in China, the missionaries would then urge the Chinaman to accept the Christian faith.
You may not agree with me, Mr. Editor, in
this surmise, but I defy anyone to prove that I have in any way exaggerated the fundamental principle underlying the motive of the anti- opium society.. Now, Sir, let us be straight. forward. Before asking the City Fathers to close the oplam dees, let us ask them to close the liquor dess licensed by them. As a rate. payer, I shall certainly oppose the moton at the forthcoming Ratepayers' meatlog' to close the opium, dens in the Settle - ments........A1.1. said at the outset, I love con. sistency and sincerity. I say to the anti- opium society. Abandon your personal agitav
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Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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•HE Undersigned have received instructions
10 Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
ON
THURSDAY,
the 16th January, 1908, at Noon, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street,
'A QUANTITY OF STORES AND PROVISIONS, TERMSA usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH, .. Auctioneers, Hongkong. 13th January, 19 8.
THE
it is supremely difficult to right two national ∙curses at one and the same time, Charity begins at home; let us put our own house în order before rushing to interfere with the in- ternal affairs of anoit er nation. The day in short; the labour great; therefore let or put our shoulders to the wheel and labour for the perfection of our modern civilization.
KORBA IN 1907,
The year 1907 was one of the most eventful
A LECTURE ON HRISTIAN SCIENCE
CH
BY
FRANCIS J. FLUNO, M.D., C.S.D., Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship,
AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, DE THURSDAY, January 23rd, at 5.30 P.M.
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tragic culmination of a career of silly, and incorrigible intrigue such, as has saldom been the misfortune of a crowned ruler to parsus. Thanks to the incurable folly of the late oc- cupant of the Korean throne, the country was on the very brink of "utter" destruction-a fate from which it was only saved by the inexhaustible patience .and boundless sympathy of the distinguished statesman whom [2it has been its rare "fortune to have as its supreme adviser and protector. To him and him alone it owes the national entity which it still claims "as its own. Under any other Resident-General, Korea would have had a short shrift, and nobody could have contended The Beat FRENCH CONFECTIONERY with justice that Kores did not deserve such treatment. The chance, which Korea still bas for proving its worth as an autonomous nation, must, therefore, be regarded as a gift and a favour bestowed upon it by an indulgent friend and overseer.
PUBLIC AUCTION, Undersigned will Let by PUBLIC
AUCTION,
on
FRIDAY,
the 17th January, 1928, at 3 P.M., on the spot, The Several Lols Numbered to 19 op Fles to be seen at the Auctioneers Office,. for erection of
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on the Government Ground adjoining the Race Course, North of the Grand Stand Enclosure,
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Intimations. LEE YEE
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'AND
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NOTIDE
The year which has just closed, dissatROUN as it has apparently been, may possibly prove the means of Korea's salvation, if the bitter lesson it has taught be not wholly lost upon Korea's undoing In recent years, but her. more especially in 1907, is to be found in the fatal propensity which its advisers have shown of being guided, or rather misguid- ed, by the pernicious certain. Occidental adventurers and busy
suggestions of
who, bodies,
from
motives of as the result of their in- self-interest and Pailly
grasp the broad significance of contemporary history, have tried and are still trying to persuade the Koreans that they Can accomplish the impossible task of turning back the tide of time. Were it not for the baneful infla-nce of these
down to the might long ere this have allerlopers, Kores of the benefits quiet and contented enjoymentic of a new and reformed administration.
Time and again we have warned the Koreant against their so-called friends who have never- lost, an opportunity of poisoning their minds against the nation with which fate bas joined them by bonds that nothing short of a miracle can under. These men, we repeatedly point- ed out, ware the worst enemies of Korea. Our
Gasolve are af mið, fell upon pare which were.
not to listen. The bitter experience of the past year ought, however, to have at lau opened their ayes as to the real character of the friendship professed by the men la question. The latter, we are sorry to say, are still much in evidence, but we hope that, after the hard experience of the year just closed, their activity will be vain. At all events
have the Korenda Do excuse now for any failors to distinguish tree from false friends, It is the earnest hope of all their true friends that they will profit by the dearly bought experience of 1907 and offer
*T*HE Pablic, are hereby informed that no THE
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Tuig in the age of rosen chandraperiisei), wban all maturi, du là speak, istanaikɗd by shocton, effort onfort and baj pines of man, Belença, has indeed made giani suides during the past century, and among tuby no messi liss'imə pertas duertes in adigine comum that ve
THERAPION.
Tulipiparation (sunquestionably one of the most genuina and raliabio l'atent Madicinen prér in1701 duced, and bar, we understati, been shed in the Cesena Hoglializy Hicond, Koslan, Jobert, Vripras, i alsomnemve, she well-known Chamal Bac, and indoed by all who are regarded as author ritira in such mattert, including the emiziskied Lallemand, and Rous, by whom it was abmA SİNA since uniformly adopted, and that it is worshy the allation of those who regstro suck'n sondy, wa Link they be no desiůst, From the time of Artikolle downwards, patent agent Se the removal, et theso danase has Eliku The famed philosopher's Kate) Dere the object of jearts of some hopefully generoa minde; náð far bbyond the ratero power If such could ever have been discerened—of trans muting the bar matala into gold it surely the dis - povery of a seavad sam potuni autoreplenish the fail. Ang energies at the coefisted ever in the son cases sad in the other po offertually, spordity and műdly. lo es pel from the system withọn thu nid, me arena the knowledge, of a second party; the polisens of acador fakineliad disease in all shot #Cia: Sorteve no falatre:trapi bchiwki
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THERAPION
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