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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1,
THE "GARRICK"
Tobacco and Cigarettes.
ABSOLUTELY
UNEXCELLED
THE GARRIS
G
MOKING TOBACCO
LAMBERT & BUTLER.
ENGLAND
·MANUFACTURED
BY
LAMBERT & BUTLER
ENGLAND.
ALWAYS RELIABLE
GARRIG
SOLD BY ALL TOBACCONISTS.
THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS ISSUED BY BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. LTD.
NOTICES.
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE I IMITED.
ΤΗΣ
NOTICE.
THE DAIRY FARM CO., LTD.
THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING of NOTICE is hereby given that "SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the rffices of the undersigned on FPIDAY the 17th May, 1918, at NOON.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 3rd May to the 17th May, both days inclusive.
JARDINE. MATHESON
& CO., LTD.
General Agents,
Hongkong, 29th April, 1918.
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KEROSENE OIL.
Wa guarantee all kerosede of sold by us to be pure and unadulterated.
Present price-
"WHITE ROSE," $5.55 per case ex store. "COMET."
$5.35 per case ex store: CHING CHEONG
168 Des Voeux Road Central 2 blocks West of Cent. Market.
KWONG YUEN.
19 Des Foux Road, West.
A. S. WATSON & CO. LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Dairy Farm Company Limited will be held at the Company's office. No.2 Lower Albert Road Victors in the colony of Hongkong on TUESDAY the 7th day of May 1918 at 12 o'clock. noon when the following re- solution will be proposed as an extraordinary resolution:-
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"That the capital of the "Company be increased to $555.000 by the creation of "54,000 new shares of $7.50 "each and that the directors be "authorised to issue and allot "such
new shares in 20- "cordance with the terms of 'the Agreement dated the 26th "day of March 1918 made be- "tween the Hongkong Ina "Company Limited of the one "part and this Company of the "otter part."
And the following resolutions which were passed at the Ex- traordinary General Meeting of the Compary held on the 15th day of April 918 will be submitt- ed for confirmation as special resolutions:-
1That the new Articles con ̈
that the THIRTY THIRD ANNUAL "ORDINARY GEN ERAL MEETING of the Com pany (since its rexistration) will be held at the Hongkong Hotel Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 4th May, 1918, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report] of the General Managers together with a Statement of Acrouata to 12. the 31st December, 917
The Register, of Shares of the Company will be OLO ED from MONDAY, the 29th day of April, to MONDAY. the 6th day of May, 1918, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS
& SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 24th April 1918,
"tained in the printed docu- "ment submitted to the meet- "ing and for the purpose of "identification signed by the "Chairman thereof be and "the SAZDe... are hereby "approved, and that such "Articles be and they are "hereby adopted 23 the "Articles of the Company "in sub itution for and t the "exclusion of all the existing "Articles thereof," "That the name of the Com. pany be changed to Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Shortage Compary Limited." Dated the 16th day of April, 1918.
The
By Order of the Board,
M. MANUK.
Secretary.
NOTICES.
WAI KEE,
FLAG & SAILMAKER - No. 129, Des Voeux Road Central Top Floor, HONGKONG. Telephone No. 1833
ASAHI BEER.
ASAHI BEER
SHARD
4SAHI
FIPPON.
BREWE
EWER
LAGER BEER
STOKALLY BREW20
FOR EXPOPET
COMPAN
LINITE
Mitsul Bussan Kaisha
POST OFFICE.
On and after Way 1st 1918, Imperial
·Portal Orders will be cashed in India at the rate of 1/6 to the rupes.
From the 1st May 1918-there will be three Gereral deliveries daily from the District Post Off except on Sunday and Holi3ays, when there will be cas delivery only.
The hours of delivery w'li'' be an 1llows:-Week dayalam: 1p.m. and
Sundaya aïd Holidays noon
The Director General of Posts and Telegraphs, Irdia, adview that: "The Parcel Port Service to the Indian Civil Postal Agencies at Abul Khasib, Amara, Bagdad, Basra, Bars City, Fao, Kut, Nase-iyah. Quiat Saleh Sek-th-Sherakh and Zubair in Mesopotamia is suspended.
1918.
WEATHER REPORT.
May 11th, 17-No returns from. Japan, Vladivostock and Indo-China, Freeware has decreased slightly over the Fhilippines and increased slightly to moderately bimwhere: a weak antley. olone is lodicated over N, China.
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours. ending at 10 am. to-day, 0.95 inch Total, since January lat 357 inch against an Sverage of 11 84 inches.
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FORECAST FOR THE H HOURS. ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.
District
Forest,
Easterly or variable winds
cloudy generally.
and Hongleng lö Gap Book.light;
and that piece-good, haberdashery and similar articles, except these intended. For the
parcossi ues of the addresses and
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not for sale, catnot be sent to those offices or to Abadan, Ahwaz or Mohm merah by the letter post, and that such articles if received will not be delivered and will be liable to cor fiscation."un" | 1`Formosi Channel
Information bas been revered from the Director Gsceral of Posts and Telegraphs Tokio, that on and after lat April 1918, the Post Office of Japan will colect a demurrage charge from the zddressees of parcels on which Customs duties or inland taxes are imposed in Japan, not withdrawn from the Fest Office within 20 days from the date of the notice -f their arrival to be rent to the séd ́omeo".
The amount of the charge per parcel in fed at 5 sea per day after the excitation of the period stipulated. -
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Registered and Parcel Mais closs 15) minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated.
The importation into the Commen. wealth of Australia cften, other than that grown or produced in British Posse
sions is prohibied, unless the content in writing of the Commonwealth Minister fr Trade and Customs
obtained.
The Parcel Post Services to British East Africa and Egypt (except for membera
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doeth coast of Chias be} The same tween HK. and Lamocke) -No. 1 South scart of China be- The same tween ELE. and Hainan. } No. 1.
Chins Coast Meteorological Register.
Station
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May 1,
Winds
Bour.
Barometer.
Tampersiure.
Kumidity.
D'tion.
Vostock on Nenuro 53 Harcdate
Tokio
Nagamaki
K'ygima Ushima Naba
Bonia I.
of the Expeditionary Forces), and to Bo
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Wasther.
Abyinin, Bagdad, Erithres, French Whaiwal 6 29.97 45 56 wuw 6 b Small Corst, Italian Somaliland, Portu- Hankow: guese East Africa, Zamitar and Russia Lebang Kinde have been suspended.
1: Changsha Correspondence addressed to enemy Shanghai
Gutzlaff subjects in China. Siam. Siberia and Gut 2 Portuguere Esat Africa, Persia and Kor-Sharp occo cannot be transmi·ted.
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30.01 48 100
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Алеу Swetow The Services to Germany, Austria, Bul- Talhoku waria and the Ottoman Empire are Taichu suspended.
Tainan Koahun Uninsured parcels for the United P'dores Kingdom will to future be forwarded auto from Hongkong in bags and the Public Ho are therefore advised to pack such parcels | Gay Book very carefully.
Fucho Letters franked at the 4 cents ratę kathol addressed to Turanfu and Meagi and other other places in the Province of Yunnan Phallen should be superscribed with the words Touran *For delivery by the Chinese Post Offion.
OBLJ
Parcels for Grease cannot be accepted
Aparri for tranmission unless accompanied by
Dagupan s special permit issued by the British Legipt Kinister at Athens,
Manila
Tacloban
ENTERTAINMENTS.
VICTORIA THEATRE
ONE NIGHT ONLY.
IN AID
.
ITALIAN
WAR CHARITIES.
"A" MAGNIFICIENT WAR" FILM:
OF THE
ITALIAN FRONT
(TAKEN UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE ITALIAN ARMY),
ENTITLED:
"FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA,"
IN 5 PARTS.
WILL BE SCREENED
ON
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1ST, 1918.
DRESS
AT
9.15 P.M. SHARP..
$3. CIRCLE
ཀ་ཡ་དད་ཡོ
STALLS $2.
PIT $1.
PRICE,
SOLDIERS & SAILORS HALF
Booking at MOUTRIE'S.
VICTORIA
THEATRE.
Tuesday 30th April & Thursday 2nd May.
(1
A NOBLE ACTION"
A stirring drama in four parts," full of interest and emotion featuring the celebrated French Actress, MOLLE VERA SERGINO.
American Gazette No. 46.
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29.18 77 89 n 40
420 29.82 75
帱 Lioilg Arrangements have been made for the Barigso
transmission of parcels to the United Gu Kingdom via Canada.
The rates of postage are as follows:- Parcel not over Sibe... 90 centa
Dai Do.
Zibs...$1.80 31lb... 2.70
No insurance canbe effected on parcela esnt by this route.
OUTWARD MAILS.
TO-MORROW.
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0. W. JEFFRIES--Chief Aexistant.
Hongkong Observatory, May 1, 1918.
1 Barometer, reduced to 32 degrees Fahrenheit on the level of the sea in in- ches, tenths and hundredths....
'A Brigand Unwittingly.'
A Professional Amateur.”
Etc.
Etc.
Booking at ANDERSON'S.
2 Temperature, in the shade, is CEO. P. LAMMERT.
Fahrenheit.
3 Humidity, in perbentage of saturation
the Humidity of hår saturated with mols-
tare being 100
4 Direction of Wind, to two puinte.
5 Force of Wind, according to Beaufort
Strait, Ceylon, India wa Dhanushkedi | Scale,
and Evropo 2cd May, Regis- Biste of Weather, b bins sky, o do
tration 9.45am. Letters 10.30
B.
tached aloud, d dziggling rain, ffos, s gloomy, h hail, 1 lightning, o oreznas, Shanghai and North 'China-2nd May, passing showers, a squally, r rain, a spow
10.
„ë thunder, v viibility, w daw WEL ·
Saigon-2nd May. # p.
Hothow and Haiphong-2nd May, 5 s.m.
FRIDAY, 3rd May.
Philippine Islands-3rd May, 2 p.m.
SATURDAY, 4th May.
Shanghai and. North Chins 4th May,
2 pm. Straits. Cerios, India, Aden, Egypt and
Europe-4th May. Registra tion. 5 pm. Letters 5th, 9.,
SUNDAY. 5th May. Bwatow, Amoy and Formosa via Keelung
--Sch day, 9 3.0.
MONDAY, 6th May. Sandıkan, Australia, New Zealand vis
Sydne-Sibay, Registra
METEOROLOGICAL.
Previons
Barometer" d Temperature Humidity
Day On dati Un date.
29.90 29.89 1988 78
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER
AND SURVEYOR."" PUBLIC AUCTION.
E. GEO. P. LAMMERT 138 received instructions to
sell by Public Auction
ON TUESDAY
NOTICES.
100 LUCKY NUMBERS. AT KOMOR & KOMOR'S ALL COMMENCING WETH
SEVEN
ACTING upon the advice of the
great Chinese Sage, TO
the 14th day of May, 1918, atQUA, we have ⠀⠀ secured" 100 3 o'clock in the AFTERNOON, at his Sales Room in Duddell Street
Victoria, Hongkong.
Lucky Numbers) tickets for the War Bonds Drawing beginning with the figure SEVEN. We will FIVE YOU the opportunity of obtaining a Lucky War Bond Ticket if you contribute fen cents to the Tobacco and Cigarette Fund. Get one as soon as you can
THE VERY VALUABLE. LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, situate in Barker Road at The Peak and compr sing those pieces or parcels of ground registered in the Land Office As. RURAL BUILDING LOT NUMBER 70 and CARDEN LOT NUMBER 2 together with the attractive residential house thereon known THE
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Force.
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tion 9.45am Letters 10.30a.m. „sligasin span ska vrangwan Philippine Isandapan via
ELL, Observatory, May 1, 1918
Moj Canada United Stater, Contrat America and and South Europe via Victoria B.Q-6th May. Registration 11.45 am. Letters 12.30 p.m.
m
TUESDAY, 7th May.
Swatow, Amoy and Focchow-7th May,
Nood
Shanghai and North China-7th May.
2 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, 8th May, Philippine Islands, Randakan, Australia, New Zealand via Port De win and New Guines via Thatsday Talend-8th May Registration 9.45am. Letters 10.30 22.
THURSDAY, 9th May. Tiente'-9th May, 11 am
Swatow, Amoy, For oss via Takao-and-
Anping-9th Way, 7am
FRIDAY, 10th May.
Bwatow, Amoy and Focchew--10th May,
Hoon
Philippine Islands 10th May, 2 pm.
Мон
Wad
T, F, CLAZIUN, Ireoter,
TIDE TABLE.
From 29th Apr. to 5th May.
High Water EFRELOGE
·Moen Tita
TH
Low Water
"TUSCULUM **
and warden tennis court thereto attached
IN ONE LOT
at
KOMOR & KOMOR'S,
Des Voeux Road.
HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY. LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-NINTH ORDINARYGENERAL MEET-
Rural Building, Lot No. 70 ING will be held at the contains an area of 29 90 squareompany's Offices. St. George's fest and is held under a Crown Buildings on SATURDAY, the 1th May at 14.0oleck 500N:for Lease for 75 years,
Garden Lot No 14 contains the purpose of presenting the an area of 7800 square feet and Report of the Directors together in held under a Crown Lease for with a Statement of Accounts to 28th February, 19 8 and 21 years.
For further particulars and electing I frectors and Auditors. conditions of sale apply to
MESSES. DEACK N LOOKER DEACON & HARSTON, 1, Des Voeux Road, Central, Vendors' Bolicitors.
or
to MR. GEO. P. LAMMERT,
The Auctioneer. Hongkong 22nd-pril, 1918,–
The TRANSER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 12 o clock Noon April 27th, to the 12 o'clock Noon, May 17th. |--By Order of the Board of
Directors, A
GIBE, LIVINGSTON
Agenta Hongkong. 28th April, 1918,
Printed and Published for the Cada Burnett at 11 Los House
Bong Kon
by Cheory
in the City of