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PUBLIC AUCTION.
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The fiftieth Ordinary Annual|tion, Meeting of the Shareholders of the ; above Company will be held at the General Agents, Offices of the Pedder Street, on Tuesday, 24th| April, 1928, at noon, for the pur- poso of receiving the Report "and" Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1927.
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HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LIMITED.
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By Order of the Beard,
FAMILY HOTEL.--Victoria Gar-clusive. dens. Quiel apartments Suites of rooms. Full board from $95, $110, $130, monthly. commodious rooms.
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Also daily rates; five minutes from ferry, next now Hotel, Hankow Road, Kowloon, Tel. K.357.
TUITION GIVEN.
MME. BARONELLI, ARTISTE— School of dancing for children and adults in character, classical, ex- hibition, fax-trot, and Charleston.
Special attention to stout Ladies who are desirous of regalning their Address.-31. youthful figure.
Ashley Road, Ground Floor, Kow- loon, (Buck of Star Theatre).
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-Boarding House for Bale quiet locality near Ferry, Kow- loon, rooms well furnished. Will let ro cheap. Apply for particulars to Box No. 361, care of "Hongkong Telegraph."
PREMISES TO LET.
TO LET-Fully furnished with, servants for six months from 1st June No. 191, The Peak, Mount Kellet, 5 roomed concrete house. All modern conveniences. Rain prrof. Apply Hastings, Dennya and Bowley, 8, Des Voeux Road Central.
TO. LET.-One European FLAT Wanchal Gap Road, Hongkong. Apply to 32, Kennedy Read.
COMMODIOUS OFFICES to let In No. 7. Queon's Rond Central, also two small offices in 1A, Chator Rond. Apply E. D. Sagason and Company, Ltd.
· FLATS TO LET.-At Cambay Bulidinga, Nathan Road, Kowloon, No. 2, Top floor, (Corner) No. 3, Ground floor, No. 4, Top floor. Apply to Kayamally & Co.
un-
то LET, Furnished furnished six room house on motor road at Pokfulum with every mo- dern convenience. Please apply Box. No. 352, care of "Hongkong Telegraph."
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Particulars and Conditions of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 16th day of April, 1928, at 3 pm, at the Offices of the Public Works De- partment, by Order of His Ex- cellency the Governor of one Lɔt of Crown Land at Pillar Island in the Colony of Hongkong, for a-term of 75 years, commencing: from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Survey- or of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 24 years less three days.
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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU. FACTURING CO., LTD.
on FRIDAY,
the 13th April, 1928, commencing at 2.45 p.m. at No. 8, Kimberley Villas, Kimberley Road, Kowloon, A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture.
Comprising:-
Tenk Hatstand, Chesterfield Couch and Armchairs, Bookcases, Pictures, Ornaments, Curios, Very Fine Carpets and Carpet Runners, Gramaphone, Grand Father Clock, elc., ote.,
Teak Dining Tablo, Dining Chaira, Sideboard with Bevelled Mirror, Dinner Waggon, Dinner Service, Glass Ware, Kitebon Utensils, Ice Chest, etc.
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Teak Bodstends with Mattrosses, Wardrobe with Mirror Deora, Dressing Table, Marble Top Wash- stand, Chest of Drawers, Tollet Sat, Chamber Stand, etc., etc.
and
A Quantity of Blackwood Furniture.
On View from Thursday, the 12th April, 1928.
Terms-Cash on Delivery. Catalogues will be issued.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers,
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the practice hitherto carried on by the. undersigned C. A. S. Russ as Lec and Russ, will from the 1st April, 1928, be carried on as RUSS & Co. Dated the 28th day of March, 1928,
C. A. S. RUSS, No. 6, Des Voeux Road Central,
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Sir. Douglas Hogg, the Attorney- General, said: "I am not sure that the people as a whole quite realise the task that confronted our com- mercial and industrial classes when the War came to an end. We found that our markets had disappeared, and our customers gone. Our merchants and manu- facturers were faced with the task
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Misa Dorothon Sharp, a vies' PICTURE STOLEN FROM AN president of the Society of Women Artists, told a Press representativo that they had not been able to trace · A small oll painting entitled alther picture. They were both "Blue and Pink" (delphiniums and small, four inches by six, and they peonics), which attracted the at, could have been quite easily taken tention of Princess Mary at the and concealed in anyone's pocket or Exhibition of the Society of Women handbag. It's rather unfortunate Artists at the Royal Institute of because Princess Mary had pur Painters Gallery, Piccadilly, and chased "Blue and Pink' and liked it was purchased by her, has been very much.”