NOTICE.
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13, Ice House Street
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Also
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BROS.
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Undertake all kinds of high
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At home work and wedding
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Call and see Specimens in our Studios (top floor 14 Beaconsfield Acade).
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BRANDING FOR CRUELTY?
Peer's Plan in Certain Cases,
Lord
NOTICE.
HONGKONG ENGINEERING
AND
CONSTRUCTION, CO., LTD.
NOTICE OF MEETING.
NOTICE is hereby given that
that the Second Ordinary Yearly Mooting of Shareholders of the Hongkong Engineering & Construction Company Limited, will be held in tho Offeos of Mosers. Shewan, Tomes & Co.. St.
Georgo's Building, Chater Road, Hongkong. on Thursday the 10th day of April 1924, at 12.00 noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors and a Statomont of Accounts for the Half-year ondod on the 31st. Docombor 1924, and of electing Directors and Auditors.
The Transfor Books of tlo Company will be closed from the 4th. to the 10th. April, both days (inclusivo.
By Order of the Board,
S. COURTNEY COOK,
Socrotary. Hongkong, 27th. March, 1954.
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD
Sanitary Engineers, Monmentalists, atc,
Offoon & Godowns.
Fol. No. 269
98A, Wanchal Road, Hongkong.
All kinds of Builders Requisites in Stock. Soil 8 Vent Pipes, Rainwater Pipes.
Floor & Wall Tiles Batha, Basins, bath Room Fittings, Water Heaters for Ga Oil or Coal Fuel, Also a ·Few Chip Heaters. Opin & Closed Grates-Cooking Ranges. ESTIMATES FREE FOR ALL SANITARY INSTALLATIONS - HOT
. WATER SYSTEMS; &c. General Repairs Promptly Attended to Specialists in Monumentat Work-Cut in Italian Marble or Hongkong Granite. Just Received a Shibment. of Italian Marble Floor Tiles-Prices on Applica
tion,
A Latge stock of Artificial Wreaths in all Sizes.
NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
FRANK RONALD SMYTH bas as from the First day of April One thousand nine hundred and Twenty four, been admitted as a partner in the firm of. Vernon and Smyth carrying on business as aharcbrokers at 4A. Des Vooux "Rond Central Lambourne (formerly Victoria in the Colony of Hong- Colonel Lockwood, M.P.), sug-kong and that the firm of which gusted a drastic remedy during ale partners now are ROBERT debate in the House of Lords, THOMAS MATHESON and the other-day:
FRANK RONALD SMYTH Lord Gorell had asked the Goy-business as heretofore under the will continue Lo carry on ornament to amend the law with respect to cruelty to children,i
Vernon & Smyth ".. stylo of and complained of inadequate 1924
Dated the 1st day of April penalties.
mor
Lord Lambourne said guilty of these hideous crimos should bo indelibly murkod sa that they should be known every- whore by thoir follow-men.
He hoped a Bill providing for corporal punishment for such! offences would be introduced and! passed.
Earl Do La Warr said the Government was not aware that the present ponalties were in- suffolent, but any evidence brought before thoir nötico would be considered.
Lord Buckmastor wes opposed to corporal punishment as bruta- lising and dograding. Viscount| Cool thought Rogging was ap propriate to certain classes of offonco, but it should be used with the greatest bato.
The Lord Chancellor said he ho would give the matter his con aldoration. But the real romedy In cases of this kind lay in the awakening of the public con sciença.
THE NEW VICEROY,
The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that thoro in Sa strong sub- terranean poltoy being OAT. riod
on in Labour ̈ciralon backed by Oriental democratajas well as western" strelea not on- ffroly, democratic on behalf of the elevation of Mr. Edwin Mon- tagu to the Vicoroyalty when Earl Reading retiros. It is as- sumal rightly or wrongly that Mr. Montagu favours the idea. of a round table conforance
VERNON & SMYTH, AA, Dos Vœux Road Central. Victoria, Hongkong,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1924.
ASUTRALIAN ORIENTAL LINE.
HONGKONG TO PHILIPPINES & AUSTRALIAN PORTS. SAILING (SUBJECT TO ALTERATION),
KUT
Stoamor.
Arrives Hongkong from Australia:
'4th April, d'light
For Freight and Passage apply to
Telephone Contral No. 36.
Leave H'kong, for Moji, Kobo, Osaka and Yokohaina. 7th April-
Butterfield & Swire.
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FOR STOUT PEOPLE
The action of those salts in reducing excess of fat or
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Tolophons 1877
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BOVO-LACTIN
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By reason of its tonic and stimulating properties CHOCOLATE has been volected as one. of the "vehicles in which to adminsiter BOVO-LACTIN. BOVO-LACTIN consiste essentially of animal protein, hæmoglobin and milk solida in a most easily assimilated and concentrated form. It necessarily follows that in BOVO-LACTIN CHOCOLATE we have a beverage possessing energising powers of an exceptionally high dogree. IT IS INVALUABLE in all debilitated con- ditions caused in the healthy by prolonged fatigue or in the sick by disease.
IT 15 SPECIALLY INDICATED for all children over one year,
OTHER PREPARATIONS OF BOVO-LACTIN :-- INVALID Boxo-Laction. The foot per excellence in acute ¡Hnose. Can be retained when all olso fails. -Bovo-Lactin-ESSENCE.. The food for anæmic children and
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