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TO BE LET.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WILLIAM POWELL LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS]
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
"THAT THE TWENTY- THIRD ORDINARY GEN- ERAL MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS will be held at the Hongkong Hotel on Friday 23rd. May 1924, at noon, for the pur- pose of receiving the report of the Directora and Statement of Accounts to the 29th February
'O LET FOR 6 MONTHS.-1924. To
The Transfor Booke of tho Poak roidance-253 "Tho Falls" unfurnished, with garden Company will be closed from tho and awimming tank. PORSGEBion 14th May to 23rd. May, both days 1st April, 1924. Apply BANG, inclusive. KEE, Now Bank Building.
PRIVATE HOTEL, 1 Victoria
Gardens, Kowloon, 1 minute from forry, next door new hotel, Terms from $4 por day, full hard special rates for families. Tolo- phono K. 357.
10
O LET. Centrally situatel ground floor prominos sult- able for a Bank or Shipping Offico. | Also few office rooms, P. O. Box 259,
Apply
TO LET Ellenbud Villos. Apply E. T. H. Bunjo. c/o H.M.II. Nomazoo, Prince's Bldg.
TO LET Portion of Ground
Floor in "St. George's Building" promises at present occupied by Mossrs. Hawthorne and Pearson. Immediato occupa- tion. For Porticulars Etc. Apply to HONGKONG & TERRITOR IAL ESTATES LTD.
FOR SALE.
JUST unpacked a few hundred yards High Grade Quality SILK EMBROIDERED VOILE, beautiful designs at specally low pricos. SPLENDID OPPOR TUNITY. "MARGURERITE" 1 Rose Terraco, Kowloon,
By order of the Board,
11. O. HOLT, Managing Director. Hongkong, 9th May, 1924.
CAFE WISEMAN
Popular Cold Tiffins $ 1.00 Fish
Roast Beef, Lamb or Poultry. Salad or Pickles, Sweets or Cheese.
All meat, poultry, milk and the cafe butter used in supplled by the Dairy Farm.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
Fourth Extra Race Meeting.
THE
THE Conditions for RACE No. 2 on the First Day and
RACE No. 3 on the Second Day have been cancelled and the foi lowing substituted thorofor:- SATURDAY, 7th June 1924.
2-GRANDVILLE STAKES:- One Mile-For China Ponion. Griffins of this Season. Weight for inches as per scale. Winners of not more than two races 7 lbs,
EVERLITE Pocket Lamps, no extra; winners of three or more batteries. no refille. Mutor- races 12 lbs. extra. Subscription cycle or cyclo lamps from 10 Griffins of this Season allowed 5! rotail. Reduction for wholesale. s. Unplaced runners allowed 5 Lights for over; we guarantee. lbs. Jockeys who have not won Firat conf lust cost. Invaluable more than four official Racos to all. Telephone: 4630. EVER- allowed 5 lbs. Entrance Fee $5.- LITE ELECTRICAL CO., 1st. Prize $400. 2nd. Prizo $150. Des Vaux Road.
LOST.
3rd Prize $100.
THE STAR
5.30 TODAY 9.15
Paramount Picture
Jessa Li Lasky
presents
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1924.
THE CANTON INSURANCE
FICK LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS THE Forty-third Ordinary
FORTHCOMING
General Mosting of Sharo Lammert
holders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Friday, the 23rd. May 1924, at Noon, for the purpose of recolving the Raport of the General Agents, togother with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st Decem- ber 1923,
The Share Register and Trans. for Books will be closed from the' 9th to the 23rd. May 1924, both days inclusivo.
JARDINE MATHESON.
& CO., LTD. General Agents. Hengkong. 5th. May 1925.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB
RAFT Programmes
DRA
and
Entry Forms for the Fourth Extra Race Mooting to be held on Saturday 7th and Monday 9th June 1924 (weather
AUCTION SALES.
Bros. Lammert Bros. HUGHES
PUBLIC AUCTIONS
ed instructions to sell, by THE Undersigned have rocoÍV. Public Auction
Friday, the 23rd. May 1924. commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at the promises of the Hongkong
`PUBLIC AUCTIONS THE Undoreigned have recolv. ed instructions to soll by Public Auction on
Friday the 23rd. May, 1924. commencing at 11 a.m.
at their Bales Room, Duddoli Stroot
& HOUGH
LIMITED
IMPORTERS, E
'EXPORTERS AND GENERAL AUCTIONEERS.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
& Kowloon Wharf & Godown A Quantity of Voluable House. instructions to soll by Public
Co., Ltd. Kennedy Town (for account of the concornod)
One Gas Engine
Torms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
CECIL B.DEMILLE'S 18(dr Pointing) THE Undersigned have receiv-
sduction
"Something
To Think About By Jeanie Macpherson
UNUSUAL PICTURE USUAL PRICES
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
MONDAY, 9th June 1924.
3.-MAIDSTONE PLATE-One Mile-For China Ponies that huva startod in Hongkong since OST IN KOWLOON.
1st, January 1924, and provious
that the Second Annual Whito-&-Bluck.fox terrier
to-this-Meeting-and-have_not dog answere to the nama of.
won a race since lat. January Ordinary Gonoral Meeting-of Bobby $10.00 reward apply Box 1924. Weight for inches as per Shareholders will be held at the 1128 c/o "Hongkong Telegraph". scale. Jockeys who have not Hongkong Hotel, on MONDAY,
won more than four Official 26th May, 1924, at noon.
The Transfer Booke of the WILL LADY who took by Races allowed 5 lbs. Entranco
mistake DARK NAVY Foe $5.00 1nt. Prize $400.00 2nd. Company will be closed from WATERPROOF from Ladion', Prize $150.00 3rd. Prizo $100.00 | 19th May, 1924 to 26th May 1924. Cloakroom, Lower Peak Tram Amended draft Programmes will both days inclusive. Terminus kindly return samo to bo obtainable on 22nd, inst. Tram Office, Peak.
THE SOHO REFLEX
BRITISH CAMERA
3 Double Plate Holders, Film l'ack adapter and Leather Case $385,00
The KWONG KWUI CO. 60, Quoon's Road, Contral Telephone 2170.
THE
HONGKONG JOCKEY
CLUB.
NTRIES for the Fourth Extra Race Meeting will close ut
12 o'clock noon on Monday 26th Muy 1924 stead of Saturday 24th May 1924.
By Order,
HONGKONG
3. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
JOCKEY CLUB
By Order of the Board of
Directors,
3. J. JORDAIN,
Socrotary. Hongkong, 7th May, 1924.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the power of attorney grant-
ed to Mr. John Ryders Hind- marsh has this day been revoked. THE ASIATIC TRADING CORPORATION LTD.. Hongkong, 16th..May, 1924.
NOTICE.
THE Third Extra Race Moot- ing will be held (weather permitting) at Happy Valloy on Saturday 24th May 1924 com- mencing at 3 p.m. The first bell, wil bo rung at 2.30 p.m. The charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1.-Soldiers and Sallors in uniform half prico:
Members are advised that they Street. must show their Sonson Tickets! THE EASTERN TAILORİNG.
the
Hongkong, 16th May 1924.
to
obtain admission, to
Members' Enclosure
Each member has the right of introducing 3 non-member to the Mombers'. Enclosure, tickets for whom can be obtained from Messrs. Linstead & Davis at $5.-each up to. Friday May 23rd. The Stowards Invite the
We have this day started busi- ness, under Miss L. E. Lindblom, as MILLINERS and DRESS- MAKERS, at No. 64, Wellington
Mrs. SEKAI MASSAGE
Tol. No. 4489, 2nd, floor.
ladion of Hongkong to be prosent: No. 2, Duddell Street, Hongkong.
"Virginian"
Marks Epoch
Better than Book & play
in Screen Art QUEEN'S THEATRE
Courbo..
Hongkong Club and Cauroway Bay Stubles.
ed instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Wed., the 11th. June 1924. coinmoncing at 3 p.m.
Entries cloro on 24th May 1924 at the premises of the Hongkong
The
QUEEN'S
THEATRE ¡PRESENTS
A 1924 PRODUCTION
The Great American Romance:
EVERYBODY KNOWS THE VIRGINIAN
NOW ITS ON THE BOWLENT
Tingling with theilla suthand with ** geneuleut, warm with human
Lympathy-
And himal with the perfect cast;
I can ser mond and jaar by Frame When and
.D. P. SCHLABERG pruun
Virginian
ALTOM FORMAN Production
PREFERRED PICTURES
COMMENCING
May 23rd. to 26th.
Tramway Ltd., Bowrington
Canal Road East.
The Steam Driven Electric Generating Plant. consisting as- .Bollers
hold Furniture Comprising:-
Toak dining table, dining chairs, teak sido board with mit ror, Toak bodstoads, singlo and
The Undersigned have received Auetion. (For Account of the Concerned),
.on SATURDAY, the 24th May, 1024, at 10.30 am, at their Sales Rooins, No. 8, Des Vaux Road, Corner of Ice House.
Extension dining tables, chairs, aldeboards with bevelled mirrore, dinner waggons, Chesterfield sofa and armchairs, hatstand, drossing tables, wardrobes, bedsteads etc. etc., also 1 wardrobe trunk, 1 onamal bath, 1 sewing machino, perambulator etc., etc.
double iron bedstoads, singlo and Street, double teak wardrobe with glase
A quantity of Household fur- doors, dressing tablo, marble topniture removed to Sale Rooms for wash stand, toak, chest of drawers, writing desk and book-convenience of Salu, Comprising: caso, toilet not, brass ornaments, pictures, carpets, oto., etc.
One Cottage Plano by Crowley and Son
One Cottage Plano by Challon Two Bots Ma Jong One Oliver Typewriter One Musical Box Catalogues will be issued. On vlow from Thursday, the 22nd. May, 1924.
Terms: Cash on delivery.. LAM MERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
THE Undoraigned lave receive od instructions to sell by Public Auction on Tuesday, the 27th. May, 1924.
Two Babcook & Wilcox Boilers (completo) each having approuimately 3,654 square foot of heating surface, ovaporating under normal
conditions 12,000 lbs. of at water per hour.
Working pressure 160 lbs. per square inch.
Both Poilers fitted with chain! grato atokers.
Engines
Two 420 B.H.P. Horizontal com
pound condensing steam ongines by Messrs. Yates & Them of Blackburn, coupled direct to two 300 Kilowatt Direct Current Dick Kerr Generators.
Volls 550, R.P.M. 100.
Completo with steam piping
etc., atc..
One 150 B. H. P. Vertical Com- round condensing steam en- gino, by Messra, Bollies and Morcom Ltd, coupled direct to one 200 Kilowatt Diroet Current Dick Kerr Gonerator
Volts 550, R.P.M. 250. Complete with steam piping etc.,
etc.
Auxiliary Plant Ono-W-H--Allen-Tandem.comt
pound engine, coupled diroc-
commencing at 2.45 p.m... No. 5, Amal Villas. Kimborloy
Road, Kowloon.
A Quantity of Valuable Household Furnitare,
comprising
And
1 Boot sewing machine. Torms: Cash on delivery.
HUGHES AND HOUGH,.
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 20th May, 1924. The Undersigned have received, instructions to sell by Public Auc-
tion.
(For Account of the...
Concerned),
on TUESDAY, the 27th May, 1924, commoncing at 2.30 p.m., at thoir Sales Rooms. No. 8, Des Voeux Read, Corner of Ico House Street,
Valuable Teakwood and Blackwood Furniture, and Household Sandries, comprising:
Toak Hat Ftand, Chesterfield Couch and Chairs, Overmantel,
Dining Suites, Chesterfield Sofas, Toak Extension Dining Table, Teak Chairs, Bideboard, Glass Arm-chairs (now), Tea Tables, Ice Chest, Carpet, Teakwood Beds, large and small Cabinet, Curtains, Glassware, Crockery Wardrobes, Dressing Tables and Brass Ornaments, Water Colour, Chairs, Washstands, etc., Side- Pictures, otc., etc.,
boards, Dinner Waggons, Dinner Double
Single
Sete, and Glass Ware, Cutlery, Bodsteads, Iron Bedsteads, Toak Carpets and Rugs, Electro-plated Wardrobe with Glass Door, Tosk Ware, Electric Randing Lamps,
of Cheet
Dressing
Table Tablo, Wash otc., etc.,
and
Drawers,
Stand,
also
Teak
One Cottage Piano (New) by Moutrio.
One American Oil Cooking Stove (Now).
Un Complete Sot of The En- oyclopedia Britanica 11th. Edi- tion (19 Volumes)
Catalogues will be lasuod
to a 20 Kilowatt Direct Cur-26th. May, 1924 ront Dick Kerr Generator.
Volts 110. R.P.M. 500.
One Dick Kerr Motor Generator
Bet.
+
On Viow from Monday-the-
Torms Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers.
0.
R.
Mator 550 Volts. Generator 110
Volts. R.P.M. 500 One Remington two cylinder
NOTICE. direct crude oil engine. coupled to a 15 Kilowatt
Particulars and Conditions of the Direct Current Chandeysongelo by Public Auction to bo
Generator.
Volts, 125. R.P.M. 400. Switchboard. Switchboard of highly polished slate completely fitted up for running Generators and Auxiliary Plant. Catalogues will be issued For further particulars apply
MASSAGE HALL to the Undersigned.
Mas. 8. UZUNOYE, Expert MassCLÁ Quein's Road Jantra)
Ficoc
Terms -Cash on Delivery..
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 10th. April, 1924.
"Something to Think About"
Sends you home with a determination and—
Something to Think About
At The Star To-day till Saturday,
“SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
alves you a peep into The Other World”:
and
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
day till Sate
held on Monday, the 20th, day of May, 1924, at 3 p.m. at tho Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Hia the Governor, of Excellency one Lot of Crown Land at Mount Cameron in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Ront to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further torm of
75 years.
Teakwood Screens, Blackwood Tea- poys, Marble-top Flower Stands, Side tables and Cabinets, etc., etc. also
New Carpets size 9 x 4,
1 Gramophone,
2 Typewriters
anil
A Quantity of
Okeh Records (new),
(Full Particulars from Catalogue). on view Monday.
ז'
Terms: Cash on delivery.
HUGHES & HOUGH, LTD. Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 20th May;1924.
THE Undersigned have receiv
ed instruction's from tho Executors of the late Mr. C. E Warren, to sell by Public Auc- tion on
Thursday & Friday,
the 29th, and 30th. 1824, com- mencing each day at 2.30 p.m. at the "Towers," 20, Broadwood Road, A'QUANTITY OF VERY VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, comprising
M.T. carved blackwood
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT tables, M.-T. side tables and.
No. of Sal
Registry No
Locality:
N.
Boundary
feet fees fast. fact,
a por sale plan.
SCHELDT NAVIGATION:
Brussols, May 21
!près - Prigs,
stools, M.-T. stands, chesterfield sofas & arm chairs, standard. lamps, bronzos, curlos, rugs, largo carpets, largo, enamel baths, por porcelain wash basins, ward robes, double and single Iron bade, crockery, linen, bookcases, meat safes, cupboards, tennis not and, polos, blankote, ornaments and general household sundries;
1 Steinway Grand PlaL), Aeolian Orchestrollo Organ and rolls, and about: 900 plants and pota
low: Tuesday and Wednes day (27th and 28th May
The Towers and NoM
21 Broadwood Road The Scholdt Commission has privately, conaldared two proposals, of which ohe favoured all the scheldt dr vices being controlled by one Minister and the other involved: the