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THE LITTLE GREEN TIN.

Time Obvious,

I'm a poor old bach, and I live aloos

In a hole back room feall my own,

And him for the would be no joks.

If had's Thrca Cuatles" Cigarettes to smoke.

Hauba, you and me,

CHORUJ

1in Green Tia. don't I love thee, the-ba, you and we

··Little Green Tin, don't I love thoa..

(2)

When I go down to work each day

I've got to smoke upon my way,

¡I smoke the bent in all the land

Which means Wills' "Three Cu the " brand.

Cherus

ů

(3

I can't afford to smoke cigars, My slender pay that habit bars, Hut Ems as plensed, it's common sense, With a little Green Tin at 60 cents.

Chorus.

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:

Chorus.

(^)

If a tree that graw such leaf

I'd pluck the foliage by the stent;

Then lay me down with spirits light And smoke "Magnums" all day and night.

CHORUS

Fla-ba-ba, you and me,

Little Green Tin, don't I love täse, - Iha-ba ha. you and me, Little Green Tin, don't I love thee..

TRAFFIC IN BOYS IN KIANGSI.

THOUSANDS SOLD "HI"

The Takutary correspondent of the N. 0. Doily News writes as follows

During the just your or so I have seen proaching and learing Jacbow boat loads of young boys. Their cheery animated spirit kept me from inquiring their destination. Their outward appear- Ance.vn one the impression that they were leaving what was bitter, and

hopefully looking forward to what was spect. They resembled a jolly lit the picnic party. They ed and fr licked with each o her as the

up the river, Their BIG bonts passed

lives certainly seemed happier than they had beer, and a sense of unbranded feedom pervaded their manner and

K. KATO,

Manager. No. 21 Satz,

BONGTONG.

CHRISTMAS

behaviour.

FIG

to be parted with and forever. There was little or no demand for girls, but yang women were sold for a good price.

For fathers to part with. their boys was hard indeed, and yet it had to be done. Sometimes it would be a struggle between the fields, the house, and boys. Yet poe had to go, rice had to be bought. Those who know Chinese life can readily imagine what such a parting would be. "It meant an innocent little boy going out into the Ipat unknown and forever. He was entirely to his home and parents.

THOCEANDS OF BOYS SOLD..

During the past year thousands of such boys have come into the north-eastern part of Kiangai. To many of them it has been A decided

for the good change for

They have come to brighten up some childless home; they have been employed as active little fut co young labourers; they have been

different spheres. The majority of the boys een engaged in have been brought to Chisteheherg, the grant Chinese pottery centre. Here in this wealthy city they have been well However, my suspicions Lime and cared for. Good homes have been provided again a cused concerning the transportation for them and they enjoy a measure of com- of as many hoys Frequently when fort and happiness. In a large mana- sering at farcis just at day-break I had facturing city like Chiutehcheng thero in seen several bost-loads push of from the employment for all who are willing to shore. No one seemed to notice, and to work: Many of these Benin boys are one seemed concerned. A best lost of pige learing for some other place would Tthe request of several patrons of the Thair, wild scream for freedom hare chased no small agitation on the A Hotel the Management has arranged shore. A series of dances to be held daring Christines Week open to residents and diner in the Hotel. These will tako place on the following night

AT, THE

HONGKONG HOTEL.

CHRISTMAS EVE. FRIDAY, 24th December, 1915.

BOXING DAY MONDAY;27th December, 1915.

NEW YEAR EVE FRIDAY, 31st December, 1918 By kind permission of Liest. Colcnel L.

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and hardy and work has been readily found for laent.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1915.

INTIMATIONS

"INTIMATIONS

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby givan that en EXTRAORDINARY OKN KRAL MEETING of The Union Lasurance Sainty of: Canton, Limited, will be hald at the Head Office of the Society, No. 2 Queen's. Buildings, los Hows Strvet, Viatori, in the Colony of Eongkong, en BIONDAY the 20th day of December, 1916, asik o'clock in the foranorn when the subjoined Resolutions which were passed as batra- ordinary Resolutions at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the said. Society held| on the 4th day of Doconsher, 1915 will be

YOUR EYES

submitted for confirmation as Sp cial SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTED,

Rasolutions

1. That the Capital of the Society Bo

ua maats a hard ano. In athme as they From what one can hear their life is by have entered wealthy homes and should festano favour them the way rise to phares of influence. The Housa boy is a firm, well-limbed little fellow, and giver 3. an ordinary chance he will make his mark wherever he goes. Being sold

From Away home in no way damped his young spirit

would have made the pissor-by panse and listen. Not so these little boys.

Though I have seen this transportation of boys going on for over one yese, it was only during the present month that I dis covered their destination. When travel ling recently along the borders of Asbat and Kings I lived for a few days with Thus I saw were full of life and to them company of Heman farmers. Throughout the whole affair seemed one long ending these border districts there are thousands pienie. The future, whatever it held, cant

of Honan farmers making a good livelino shadow over their young hearts. Buoy

hood. Compared with Kiangsi people they Are industrious and frugal.

Oae old farmer whom I stayed with had

A. WATSON and Officers the Band of thed his farm and was going home. Twelve 74th Punjabis under Bundmaster Christiaŭ will be in attendance.

Special ineous will be served in the Grill Room at 83.60 per head and in the Maio Dining Room at 32.50 per bend

antly they took each day as it came and had evidently much happiness in living one day at a time,

The majority of those boys were sold at yar ago be and his wile strived on the prices varying from twenty to sixty dollars. borders of Kings with a few dollars as The demand for boys enabled the sellers to their only artly posessions. A few years do their work quickly and quietly. The Istar he had anved suficient to purchase whole transaction takes place without, several Chinese acres of partly cultivated

Table' accomme dation can be reserved at land. With additiupal help fnm Ronnyonɑ knowing much about it.

the Hotel Main. Office.

This Hotel Launch will leave Blake Pine each night for Kowloon after the dance..

J. H. TAGGART,

1037

Maangor.

SILIMPOPON (SERATTIK)

·COAL.

this and soon yielded good and heavy harvests. He has no retired and goes home with three thousand dollars..

TAKEN TO CHIUTKECHENG, -1:

THE COCKNEY.

In the cause of conversation the pice His Particular Brand of Humour. of children was discussed. Some remarked

"Increased to 1,000,000 (Four

#3,600 (Three thousand six hundred)

At the first symptom

million Dollars) by the crest of of eye strain you should

Additional ordinary shares of 650 consult

*(Two hundred sad úfty Dollars)

asch (whereof $100 (Uns hundred

*Dollars) shall be credited as paid

us.

We test

eyes scientifically and fit

up) ranking for dividend and in all glasses to individual re- **other respecte, pari prasu with the

extating ordinary shares of the quirements "Society and that the said al-

ditional shares, "go-finna shalt be "necesary for the purpose, be immed to thoes Shareholders of thy China "Fire Insurance Company Limited **who have accepted or shall accept *the

Sciety's offer made them ca "the ith day of August, 1913 such

lik

isand being in accordance with the terms of a contr ab or memorandam writing made or to be made "pursuant to the said offer and to be

led with the Registrar of Com panies and that the balance any) of the said additions shares *bs disposed of by the Society's "Board of Directors in such manner *sa sash Board shall think most "beneficial to the Society".

That Article No. 9 of the Society's, Articles of Association which now "reads:

The Society shall have a first and paramount lies upon all the shares of any shareholder for all monies due to the Society either from him *slone or jointly with any other *person and where a share is held by more persons than one the **Society shall have a bet thereos

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SCIENTIFIC

FORK BLOGS.

CHATER AD

· HONGKONG

HONGKONG & MANILA,

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CHINA TRADERS" INSURANCE COMPANY, L'IITED

*OTICE is hereby Kiren They an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the China Traders' In ance Company, Limi ed, will be held at. the Hand Craf

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Company Nu Queen's Buildings, Ice House Street, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong on MONDAY the 20th day of December, 1815 at 11.15 o'clook in the forenoon when the subjoined Resolutions which were passed as Extrabediunry Resolutions at the Extraordinary General 31esting of the kid Company bold on the 4th Decembar, 1915

Special Resolutions

it from of all monies sò dun ́to I will be submitted for confirmation as

all or any of the holders * thereof ** **be eliminated in its entirety and * that in lieu thoroof the following aw article be inserted ss Article "No. :-

9. The Society shall have a first and *paramount lien upon all the shares registered in the name of each shareholder (whether solely or jointly with ethers) and upon the proceeds of sale thereal, for his debts, liabilities and engagements.

•and solaty or Jer with the

with cintly

ether person to or

Any

Society, whether the period the payment, fulfilment, or die charg

thereof shall have

Are actually arrived or not, and no juntame

in-any share shall be except upon the footing and condition that Clause 34.1 bereof is to bare full effect. And such lion shall extend to all,

· dividends from time to time * declared in respect of such |

That after Article No. 34 of the **Society's Articles of Association "the following rew Article be insert- "ed an Article No. 34

54 Save as herein otherwise provided the Society shall be entitled to *treat the registered hold or of any *share as the abeclato owner theri- 'of, and · Beengdingly shall

20%

except as ordered by Chart of

»

competent Jurisdiction, or as by "Ordinance required, be beand to

recognise any équitable or other 2. claim to or interest in such share on the part of any other pemon, fru, Company or Corporation. That the heading of Articlon Non **95 to 100 (inclusive) of the Society's Articles of Association reading the Secretary' be altered so so to rend **** the General Manager'; and that in the: last mentioned Articles (Nos. **05 to 100 inclusive) wherever the **word *Secretary" appenm Auch wurd **be eliminated and that in lisa thereof "the word General Manager" be **ipecrted."

that young boys were very cheap just now. Comparisons were made which showed they were che per last year. The subject of authority on Cockney humour, dealt with this discussing interested me very much, the subject in a luncheon lecture at the At is F. found my Janchow problem Trocadero last month. explained. The boys were being carried e the formost weaknesses of the from Honen to Chiatehcheng, ond of largest markets south of the Yangtze of a phrase and to work it into all bis the Coe

Cockory, he pointed out, was to take hold The frogment meeting of best-loads of boys speech but cuce such a phrane, was sup Aroused my curiosity and I was therefore planted it wae nerez ierussita ed in any glad of this opportunity to hear it discussed form. Mr Pett. Ridge related a story to amo g Henan farmers.

illustrato the constant repetition of these

t words and phrases.

" Mr Pett Ridge, the acknowledged

pt

5.

"That in the following Articles cf the Bociety's Articles of **Association, viz Articles No:2, **7. 25. 38, 45, 47, 53. 60 849 103 and 129 the word Secretary wherever it occurs be eliminated and that in lies thereof the words ****General Manster' be inserted. Dated this 4th day of December 1915. By Urder of the Board,

C. MONTAQUE EDE.

Secretary

THE Designed having been appointed AGENES for the COWIE HARBOUR COAL OU., LTD. Are trepared to ante prices for best quality SILIMPOPON CUAL trimmed into Bunkers at SEBAT FIK o SANDAKAN (British Netth Bomeo),

BILIMPOPON COAL compares favour.

THE SOFFERINGS OF HOMA.. ally with the butter grades of Japanese

1 At a wooting of the London County Duries the past few years Houan has Council the anbject being discussed was Ooal

KITUN

Kord rengit

egite un a very suffer dreadfully. Drought pestilence housing in the Last Find A well known mode

comsumption.

and uncontrolled robbery have done their Tory lord had given a long dissertation on 100 Steamers calling at SEBATTIE or crual work. The price of land makes it SANDAKAN exclusively for BILIMPO quite impossible for poor farmers to live wheee weakness it was to use the word Labour member acoso the matter, when HION COAL (either cargo Bankers) The high price of find consequent on seo exempt from payment of all Port drought and pestilence has forced many to

"practically ".in soon and out. charges.

**Mr Chairman," said the labour mam- At Sebastik Steamets are berthed along rich plains of other provine. In this whatever of the subject under discusion. leave their native farmecends and seek the ber. my nobia friend knows nothing side the Company's wharf where there is a way many, bars, migrated to /nhui and Now, I knew minimum depth of 27 to 28 feet as low Kiang.

the East End. I was

was practi water Spring Tiden

born in Stepney" Charta of Sibako Bay (Sobattik Har- | Wolf and his rotorious followers. For Felt Ridge ralated" of the melodrams took of Chinese Translater in the Sup emai

Hopan suffered severely from the White Another amusing anecdote which Mr Education, are invited for the racant post bour). Prices and other information their suffering there was little or to the audience back to the days when bir concerning the Port can he bad on redroms simply grin and bear it or move to Hory living was performing in Kinging to $2.400. Cndidates must have

The salary of the post in 91.090 year application to the &gents,

somewherə · else. They chore the lattar Lear at the old Lyceum. After the scene first rate knowledge of English and and came to Klangai That which the between King Lear and his daughter the Chiness. A good knrwledge of a 2nd and Palmer worm hach left hath the locust curtains fell, and, lady in sege box Sed Ch tese dialect besides Cantonsso in eater the destruction of the White Wolf was heard throughout the whole theatre to

BRADLEY & CO., LTD.,"

Agents Cowie Harbour Coal Company, Limited.. Hongkong, Dec. 2. 1915.

- A

1027

erill

.i

"NOTICE..

FFLICATIONS, which should.

addressed ◊ the Director of

Courte

was followed by the devastation of the remark to another lady in a neighbouring a desirable. locust Whole districts were swept by this box Rather as unpleasant family, thesa swfal plague. Like the destruction caused Lear

by the White Wolf the Locust devastation brought no help or sympathy to the poor- hard-working farto

The latter calamity, however, affected

DAIRY FARM NEWS. not only the farmer but the whole popols

-CAN ALWAYS GET FROM US- THE BEST QUALITY THE LOCAL BEEF-AND MUTTON

"AUSTRALIAN

FROZEN MUTTON, LAME, RABBITS AND HARES. OUR FRESH MILK AND OTHER DAIRY PRODUCTS

THE BEST IN THE EAST..

[GB]

DON'T Forges after the Show, Bopper,

Eight: Refreskamenter 2 MALEXANDRA UNSE, Open Til Midnight

tinn of Hozan, Marchantmen and artizan, official and scholar, man and beast, soffered alike. The locust affected overy sphere of life; no one saped the pinch of food. The

army of locusta loft, behind them a deselato wilderness. They attacked every Ebing green and saccolent and in short time every leat and blade had been destroyed. They say lead devastated by locusts takes years to recator: Howarar" that may ho, Hon suffered, sod unfared severely.

THE WHOLE COMMUSITY, AFFECTED, This latter catastrophe teabed the whole community in a very peculiar way. Starvi tion faced them in the face, clips in the bama-bad-been reached what was to bo done? Many valuable things had been partod with without affecting the life of the home Farents with a family now came to oriis Something had to be done, and omething priceless had in ba parted with. It has been ani Neccssity knows no Tối was so in Bona Sons had

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N:G. KÜLAN,"

3.

1.

"That Article No. 9 of the Company's **Articles of Association which now "rends --

The Company shall have a first * and paramount upon all the shares of any shareholder for all- muuies due to the Company either from him alons or jointly with any other porson, and where a share is held by more persons than one the Company chall bars

lian thereon in respect of all *monies so due to it from all or.

any of the holders thereof," be eliminated in its entirety, and *thab in lion thereof_the_followingTM "new Article be inserted an Artitle.

"No. 9:-

9. The Company shall havo a first and paramount lien upon all the *shares registered in the name: of *much bareholder (whether solely "pon are jointly with others), And

the proceed of sale thereof, for his debts, abilities and engage- *ments, and sales, or jointly with any other person, to or with the d for Сотраву, жи

whether the per the payment, fuldiment or discharge thereof shall have *actually arrived or not, nod * no equitable interest in any share *shall be created except upon the. footing and condition that Clause 934 hereof is to have full effect. And such lien shall extend to all dividends, from time to time declared is

respect of such share.

That after Article No. 33. ôf- the

Company's Articles reinserted Phe tollowing now Article

As Article No. 3

33. Have sa heroin otherwise provided *the Company shall be entitled to treat the registered holder af sny *share as the absolute owner there- of, and accordingly shall not, except as ordered by a fourt of *competent jurisdiction, or as by "Urdinance aquired, be bound to *recognise any equitable or other *claim to or intereat in such share on the part of any other person,

Company or Corporation." That the

heading

of Articles Nor 34. to 99 (inclusies) of the Com pany's Articles of Association road ing the Secretary be alt red * NO x to read the General Manager and that is the last mentioned ticles (No. 4 to 97 inclu ive) wherever the word. ***Secretary" appears such word, be eliminated and that in lieu thereof the words General Manager bo **inserted.**

4. Tht in the following Atticles of

the Company's Articles of Asocia tion, vix-Articles Now 1924, 85, 44, 46, 52, 54, 83. 93. 192

and 128. the word Secretary wherever it secure be eliminated *and that in Ues thereof the words" Tr1Guneral Hunger be inserted." Dated thin th day of December 1915.-

By Order of the Board,

1001

O. MONTAGUR EDE

Becretary

Chlet foterpreter SINGON & CO.

Supreme Court.

Bongkong, Dec. 14, 1915,

EIG MARTIN'S

APIOL & STEEL

MSPILLS

MARTINS SAPIOLA

ALEXANDRA CAFE,

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$1.25 and 32/95

1061

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THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.

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