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Intimations.

BABY

LIKES

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Everyone Takes Cuticura Resolvent.

It is so pure, sweet, and wholesome that young and old may take it with equal pleasure and benefit. Its mission la to cool and cleanse the blood in eczema and other torturing, disfiguring hours, rashes, and irritations, while warm: baths with Carriena Soar danse the surface of crusts and scales, and gentle anointings with CUTICURA Ointment, the great skin cure and purest of emollients, soothe and heal the itching, Inurning skin, and speedily complete tho cure.

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Dentistry.

THE CHINA MAIL.

AMERICAN SYSTEM

DENTISTRY

39, QUEENS ROAD CENTRAL,

O HAD WICK KEW, (LATE OF POATE AND NODLE.) Hongkong, July 12, 1897.

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DENTISTRY,

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MELICAN XYSTEM,

Intimations.

THE CHINA BORNEO COMPANY;. LIMITED,

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

TH

MI First Ordinary Yearly MIGTING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above

Entertainments.

THEATRE--

CITY HALL

ROYAL,

Company, No. 4 Queen's Buildings, on Company will be hekk at the Ollives of the HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC WEDNESDAY, the 28th day of February,

at 12 o'clock (Nor), to receive a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1800, and the Hoport of the Mangor and Con-

CLUB willgiro

TWO PERHERMAN, ES

*THE YEOMEN. OF THE GUARD,"

sulting Committee and to clest a Consult; | "THE MERRYMAN AND HIS MAID, Fing ( Committon and Auditor.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from this 14th to the 28th February, both days enelasive.

J. WHERLEY,

Manager. Hongkong. Folgsary 12, 1904.

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THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF & CODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED.

• WONG HO-MI, SURG. DENTIST,

Truss MODERATE,

CONSULTATION FREE,

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5, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, October 3, 1899.

DENTISTRY.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE THIRTEENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE

W. J. GILBERT & ARTHUR

BULLIVAN

THIS EVENING (SATURDAY), 24th February, 1000 Under the Patronage of the Stawards of

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1900.

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.gmappened fire, but a fow shots suffoed to prove that the enemy had trukkod during The night, and thousands must have made midnight march. Wo ascertained Inter private that the entry greatly fear-

WITH LORD METHUEN'S FORCE By Surgeon O. BABAH BEADNELL, B.N. Gimp, Madder Rice, South frien, November 30th, 1890.

THE RATTLE OF MODHUR RIVER,

On Tuesday, November 28th, 1800, was fought the battle of Bolder River. It commouced with an interchange of shots between our scouts and the enemy's front line, at 53104, and the fring, both atillery and tile, continued strast without Lintermission till one hour and a half after stinsot, who our troops retired about half

mile.

We, the Naval Brigade, stopt in the train the previous night, with our guns in the trucks. At daybreak wo detrained, and got our four 12-pounder long range guns into notion on the left of the railway, facing N.E

THE KATAL ERHADİ.' I love roughly indicated our mutual positions in the annexed sketch. The nar

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ed a night njeck with the bayonot hones This barrid retreat. They left at their tillery hehind them; but shortly after midnight, dieuvering that walad mot cross- ed the river, they returns and rouwel the gans to pytontein, where they are Why, the exter my well ask, did we th How encamped. What chance we lost. push home our attack at the close of thu fight or shortly after? Beous tho men were so long by the hof the day, the fatiguo of the hang and hard day's fight, scarcity of water, and wrint of food, dant they were barely able to pusong leg before the other. This was lystone of the best chanicus wo have had this campaign of cap- turing the enemy's game with at last of Next morning I went up and down enemy's ins on both sides of the river, expecting to count the Boer dead by hum dreds. After three hours careful neuroh I was able to erunt 13 dead Boers and 75 hores; so that, unless they buried a curri- ed away chuir dead, their fes would appear to have been marvellously enl. It is im pegilde,ut present to forms even an estimate of the number of their wounded.

life.

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HOLDERS in the above Company will i Ofice of the Thendre, City Hall, and suns enderronted to, silence the Beer 1 to bo to underestinzatu ar losses mil to

held at the Company's Office No. 2 Connaught Road, at Noon, on `MONDAY, thu 6th farch, for tits purpose of reiving Intely Practising with Dr. I. SAKATA the Rupart of the Dir ctum, with a State.

SUI SANG,

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grassly vingerste the loss of the onemy; on who delight to start taboy that strat cher-bearers and ambulance warns are fired

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artillery directly she of them, shell after shell apparently exploding right on their The Booking Office will by Opon daily BUAS, but each line, to our great distry apon by this enemy. ele, 1 foil to nudar- from that date Erinn 10 u. to 4 p.m.and dieppointinent, this enemy again opened stand their motives. Broad-minded sul- ment of Accounts to 31st December, 1509

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Con-except on Race days, when it will be Open fire. They work, however, eventually diors must that stretcher-bearer cannot silenced anal 4 P. On guing over thelp being shot Boers world purpose. ted Cross party, is my belief. pany will be CLOSED. from the 23rd Feb. from 10a.m. to 12 Noon. 3 to 5th March, both days inclusive.

Late Trams will sun & hour after the full enemy's position on the other side of the The Boer Hospital here was struck by shell more than ease, and all our nambulanco wage EDWARD OSBORNE,

of the curtain.

river on the following day, one could sea HC, NICOLLE,

goveral of our shells and hundreds of sons were struck by their misslos, a pre

and avoidsido actuluit on both s kles. Acting Mariyer.

shrapnel bullets in the midst of the encan myself give an instance in which this Hongkong, Feb. 24, 1000.

closure ihat protected the Baer guns, but sick-berateward of my ship was dressing a wounded in-ring whilat the dressing was be unfortunately for reasons to be given latering put on the patient received a second ballet on, the enemy got away with the whole of in the other leg, but with bullets dropping all round one it would be unfair to say that their artillery. The gunners, also did the Buers ried at gither the Red Cross or collent work shelling the town and the the wounded in. This particular incident

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HE HONGKONG AMATEUR DRA- other guns; so heavy was the fire that not

ANTIC CLUB,

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And on MONDAY, Dth March. ̈ Positively the last portoranaces. The Borking Office will be opened at And Notice is also given that in the City Hall on TUESDAY, 27th ink, dance with Article 24 of the Campany's at 10a.m. Articles Association, interest will b charged us from thu said 3rd day of Biarch, 1990, ar the rate of $10 per centou per annus, upon all Calls remaining unpart after the mid 3rd day of March, 1900, up

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was set on fire,

occurred during our last battle at Gran.

THE MAUSER AND THE LOS-METFORD, The next morning we quietly marefied into the town and occupied it. The day was spent in burying the dead. The Hell hospital was very crowdest this morning, over 400 dead and wounded. The wounds produced by the Musur bullets aro all that practically of the sandize and very suinte Most of the untients make an uninterrupted recovery. It is a more humano bullet than our evil Lee-Metford for two reasons: its calibre is loss and its valocity is considera. bly bigher. I must have seen some thou saut bullet wounds by now, including those Isaw in the Filipino-American campaign. My experience includes also conio expori-

daki be desired; the antrenes and exit aro

To give the render cone iles of the heaviness of the fire I took the following notes: A small stable built of and walls inches thick, and covered outside with galvanised iron, the front wall that is to y, the one directly oppoood to our fire 20 feet long and 10 feet high, contained the following apertures: (n) 10 produced by unexploded shells; (b)3 irregular shaped by burst shells (c) 571 by bullets-7 are the exits of Mauser bullets fired by the nemy, 31 ate entrances of Lee-Metford bullets fired by our troops, the retininder sets made this year at Wei-hai-wel, in 533 are all shrapnel. Most of theas latter the course of which I fired over 1,000 rounds. 417 lay erbedded in the mud wall; that is to of Remington brass-cuated bullets and any, they penetrated the iron but failed to nechef.conted Lee-Metford at all sorts of penetrate the mud for more than half an ariante objects, including their penetrating inch All the Lee-Metford pierced the wall power upon various metals, a series of ex- and entored that on the other side bat fail periments I hope to publish later on. My cd to piares it The Manner, in like experience has led me to the conclusion that manner, pierced the front wall and failed those wounds which heal up most rapidly

trouble aro

pro- tu pierce the second. The soon tint 7 and give the least house-that is, the wall facing us as the fact that the rear wall of the house contain ed an open door, and the bullets that camG through it, had only one wall is traverse The pabarst shells passed through both walla, entered another house 50 yards hoyou, and than explixted. These facts give a good idea of the heavinces and os Treme accuracy of our fire, also of the great penstrative power of the Lee-Mutford and Mauser bulists, and the feeble penetrative power, at all events in this particular case, of the shrapnel ballets,

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1. Mauser

Krig-Jürgens is.

3.

3. Lee-Metfor

4.

Man-stopping Lee-Matferd (hollow-

6. Duin-dum.

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After about two hours fighting, finding that it was extremely improbable that wo Bhould have any casualtion, thanks to our GENTLEMEN'S SHIRTS, COLLARS, NECK-long-ranges, Iobtained permission thenced nickel-sheathed).

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TAUL BRENIT", Agchunear, Hongkong, Fobrusy 22, 1900. Intimations.

KANG ON, CONTRACTOR,

30, D'AGUILAR SINEET, HONORNO,

410

tri erens the

7. Romington brass-doatail, as used by the Filipinas

Bewington led bullcia, or the Mar- tip-Henry

9. Romington Urges bullet, with brand unthing removed so as to expose the lead

10. Shrapnel ballete.

11. Shell or thuir Ignate

I have no nequintunes with explosive

Blue Fusiliers and 9h | bulloss; it is wid The Bobra hayó -tod

Brigado made a

similar attack, ani sauceed

1 in

od in erasing; two Bien we drowned i

Now, and not till now, did wo

them, bas I think this to be exceedingly dobila?

Most thoughtfal

men will agree that tho

Strongly

the oney wore Beer bare prosed themselves to be brave

in fact, Their position was on, instatrices of a violation of the hwa of civilis, d warfare' are few and far

alimst impregnable, and it seems a MOLIVU

that we were ever able to persuade the between

Bus to leave it.

Practically the whole of our attacking" [force was unrobing across an open plain în

Post full view of the enemy, whilst they wer

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their position on both sides of the river with slip ist absolute safety from our fice. The river was stelded with boats used fordion, and within easy range of tho ferry when to and fro, and to convey enemy's in fire. The Boer kases it is summunition as required. On the other gaits issible to calculate, as the Kaffir

Faster- unf the river the grond gently selived that cane fu frm their cupp after upwards, and here in staring Losiuens wore day's battle tell the most widely divergent

1 placed their Hedelikiss and other gunstain-frum 6 dent and 40 wounded to The memy's position was, a far as 149,000 dead and wounded. Judging from non-combatant, could julge, az ideal onest hatiles, I do not think their losses are 276 - in crury repat, but not a way of us kuwa tentu part of our own.

as far as I aware, what a veritable hernet's nest we had got into,

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bugler to catch tha umre, and found it had jackets hibi fortunately for us, however, Mauser hallet wound bring the hear theje artillery was soon silenced and they Tuzo CorroN SPANNING TABLES

probably MITKE COTTON UP Nyo Boas, I forde, and there was blood on the bridle, retired. The second theory, therefore, is

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