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GENERAL NEWS.
Startling Graveside Scene.
At Bethlehem Chapel grave. yard; Haverfordwest, recently, among the mourners at a funeral. was an aged and infirm wat in a donke art. While the minister
ading the service the donkey. e some leaves from a yow trea and then dropped dead at the graveside.
Device to Defeat Germans,
Mr. Thomas Edison, America's į greatest inventor, who bas practi- cally isolated himself since the war began, is devoting his entire time to study a device to defeat tbe enems. He bar a big ataff of experts and about 4,000 men working for him at New Jersey. For military reasoDS it is not permitted to divulge the projects which Mr. Edison and hia aapistants have bøgn labouring | with, and which he believes may have a far-reaching effect apen warfare, on the sea and in the sir. It may be stated, however, ...that he has already turned over to the Navy Dapartment one inven- tion which officers believe may be adapted to naval manges with ex -cellent results. Only a few naval officers have had the opportunity to see the tests of the invention, and they are satisfied that it will prove valuable ifite nature is kept éécret until it is taken into action. As the result ofa recent con- ference with the President a board of naval officers inspected Mr.. Edison's other inventions.
A Lincoln Statue.
Amerion, according to cables from Washington, is simmering| with controversy over the Repub- lio's gift to Britain of a statue of Abraham Lincoln. The statue is by the scalptor Barnard, nod a bronze cast, intended for a site near Westminster Hall, is now awaiting shipment. Some Ame- rican opinions of the status are KA follows: *** Benator Lodge.-It seems to me inartis. tic and very bad, almost grotes- que. The late Mr. Oboste-A horrible thing, and a gross libel apon Prezident Lincola. Mr.
· Robert"-T. Lincoln (son of the
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dormer President).-A monstrons THE TIENTSIN FLOUDS. many have contrac ed dyfenters.
figure, grotesque as a likeness of
President Lincoln and defamatory
se an effigy. Official opinion in England is that the British
Sufferers Without Clothes.
Is the Chiomin College of Hopei, there are 150 tents put up, Thess 8:0 font plices and within each tent there are no
less than 50 men and "women
Government hee nothing to do Tientsin, where the Ta Bo bae crowded together. If the seoitary
with the athetic qualities of the to the latest report to hand aaye
overkowed its banks, according condition is act immediately im statue. That question having been decided favourably by the Ameri- the Peking Daily News of the proved, pligne may break out at can Committee, it only remained section of the river which over of the Hai Bobrich bas ingressed
lat inst. The length of the firet any time.
With the exeption of the water for this country to say "Thank yan" through the nenal diplomatic owe its banks at Tanglia Ching all the time, the water of all other channels. A Daily News repre- feet of water both on land and in The roads south of the site of, the is 65.fest, with a depth of four
rivera bas gradually subsided. sentative who had a glance at the bed of the river; the second .some photographs of Mr. „Bernard's effort states that it be section, 110 feet, with a depth old oits, are still under water.
of 8 feet of water; the third
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longe to the school of the uncom section, 550 feet, with depth promising resliate. It emphasises of water cf 10 feet in the those bodily characteristics of bed of the river and GEO. P. LAMMERT. gaunt strength and hardihood feat on land; and the fourth sec- which bed their counterpart in Lincoln's mentality. In short, with a depth of water of 7 feet in
tion at Tachingchan, 250 feet, AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER there is nothing pretty about the
the bed of the river and more status, which account for some of the trouble.
to
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30TH NOVEMBER 1917
NOTICES
IN THE MATTER OF THE
COMPANIES' (CONSOLIDA-
TION ACT 1908)
AND..
IN THE MATTER OF THE
NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION)
NOTICES.
AUSTRALIAN
PRINCE
BRAND.
THE
PRINCE
SECOND
BEST
TO
BRAND
NONE
HAMS.
IN THE MATTER OF THE OBTAINABLE.
COMPANIES' CONSOLIDA-
TION ACT 1908,
IN THE MATTER OF THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED. (In Liquidation)
OBTAINABLE AT ALL THE LEADING COMPRADORES.
NOTICES.
CHINA WAR SAVINGS
NOTICE IS HEREBY given NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Final General Mest-)→ thats seventh and flosl ing of the above-named Company return of Capital and Dividend Coats will be held at the Office of the at the rate of Forty Liquidator, 'Chartered Bank (Hongkong Currency) per share Building, 3, Queens Road Central will be paid on and after BATUR THE HONGKONG, & SOUTH Victoria, in the Colony of Hong-DAY.the 22nd day of DECEMBER, kong, on SATURDAY, 22nd 1917. at NOON to registered December, 1917, at noon,precieely holders of A and B Shares upon for the purpose of having the application to :-- account of the Liquidator, show In the case of Shares on the Winding-up has been conducted ing the manner in which the London Register:-
and the property of the Company disposed of, laid before such Meeting, and of hearing any! 6000 Tungsten Lamps (5-50. explanation that may be given
of the trouble, then 10 feet on land. In the east THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
WEDNESDAY, the 21st November, 1917. commencing at I am. at his Sa os Rooms, Duddell For account of the concerned). Street,
A Large Quantity of Electrical Goods. comprising:
B
40 Desk Fans,
9 Ceiling Fans
Also
Messrs. LOWE, BINGHAM &
MATTHEWS,
Thorners Chambers, Ingram Court.
107, Fenchurch Street, London
by the Liquidator, and to pass E.C. his remuneration and also to:
In the case of Shares on the
pass the following Extraordinary Colonia: (Hongkong) Register:-
Resolution, viz :—
Messrs LOWE, BING HAM &
MATTHEWS. Chartered Bank Building, 3, Queen's Road Central, HONGKONG.
That the Books, ́Accounts and Documents of the Company and of the Liquidator thereof) he retained by the Liquidator, he undertaking to destroy the same at the expiration of five
Share Certificates must be years from the Dissolution of produced for endorsement. the Company."
and the north-east of Tientsin City the villages are not affected Strange Coincidence. "The long arm of coincidence" by inundations, but thos in the west, north west and the south seems to have been fally extended are now under water. Out of a when an escaped Germen prisoner total of 342 villages in the vicinity of war named Kanok was of the City, 320 of them have Captured later by the very man been flooded. who had originally · secured
According to the reports of him. In order to disguise his sufferers, who have arrived from identity the wily Tenton menaged the eouth of Tientsin Oily, the
appropriate French sufferings of the people in the c.p.) soldier's uniform, attired is affected villeges are indescribable. which
be roamed, anmoleat Housea and bats of farmers have ed and anearpected. Wish all been washed of. Some people ing, however, to visit other cen- have climbed up to the topa Silk Flexible cord. Lead fuse tres, Fate led the ranaway captive of
trees where they have and dynamo wire, strip fuses. to take train. The German was suffered starvation, and others porcelain cleats and insulators, evidently well pleased with him have lived ca
and button insulators, lamp holders ratis self and with the world generally, boste. Many of them are baked, celain pushes. plugs and sockets, and lamp locking rings, por- for be entered into conversation and are exposed to the icdemenc table lamps, brackets and fittings, with a fellow "poila" en route of the weather. They are left to meter boards. gauge for the cams destination. "I've their own fate, as the relief work fuse bodies, gauge rings and screws, met you before. somewhere," has not reached them. asid the latter, trying to remem
arc lampa, hand In Tientsin City most of the lamps, bulkhead fittings, globas, į Hongkong 8th November, 1917. bet ander what happy auspices offerers have been cared for by enamelled and glass shades, etc., he had previously conversed the Icoal officials and gentry. etc. with the stranger. A denial Food and copper cepta bare bana of acquaintanceship being re-distributed amongst them. The 19th inst. solutely maintained by Frits, doctors of the Military Medical
·light anddenly dawned upon his School and the Leolation Hospital companion, who, promptly seizing bare done their level bat to treat the pseudo poila by the collar, the patients who have contracted #handed him over to the authori disease from cold and privatione. ties at the first balt. In effect, Three thousand, sheria will be the astonished French. trooper conatracted for the acffyar, but had, in the course of an attack it has been found difficult to amoune months previously, captured secure sufficient clothing during *** Kaunk, who thus, for the second this cold son. On account of THERAPION
fell into the same hand.
the exposure to the raim and cold,
cartridges,
On view from Monday the
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UNION TRADING CO., Agents. Queen's Buildings .. Hongtong, 12th November, 1917.
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