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INTIMATIONS

TH. HONGKONG ELECTRIC

COMPANY, LTD.

OTUR IS HEREBY GIVEN that

te TWENTY SEVENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS will be hel at the Company's flees St. Teres Buildings on SATURDAY the 20th May, 1916, at 42 o'clock Sous for the purp of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a Statengng of Accounts to 29th February, 1918, at eleting Diretors and Auditars,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from the 6th May to the sich May, both days in hive

By rder of the Board of Directo1874.

GIRA LIVINGstox & co.in

Agents.

Hongkong, Mag 22-1010,

HONGKONG ELECTRIC

COMPANY, LTD.

"REDUCTION IN PRICE.

FROM LE MAY 1916, the price f Current for Lighting and Fans will

be educeri to 20 cents per unit. -

Discotties will remekh as Before,

SGIBK LIVINGSTON & CO.

Agents...

Hongkong. May 1, 1916,

ROL

THE CHINA-BORNED COMPANY

LIMITED

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE THIRTEENTH VBAREY

of the above Company will be held at; the Company's Office, St.

Build.

sing, at 18.30 AM. on MONDAYudhe 22nd |

May, 1918 to receives Statement Accounts to the 31st December 1915,

M

INTIMATIONS

WOOLLINS, WORSTED, STUFFS. AN COTTON TISSUES. BRAD. FORD (ENGLAND)MEROHANTE HAVING EXCELLENT COM NECTIONS WITH MANUFAC- TURERS OFFER SERVICES

AS BUYING AGENTS. HIGHEST REFERENCES.

Apply BRADFORD";

o China Publicity Baren, 42.Great Russell Street,

London, W.C

NOTICE.

GAINS wishes uz inform the

Ladies of Hongkong that she is new offering a few Evening and Afternoon Gowns in laces, nët and taffatas at gasŤ, prices to clear. All this seasons gols.

Alexandra Building, Hongkong, May 8 1016.

CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITELÄ

NOTICE.

This Date and daring the

F

absence of the Undersigned fr the Colony, 31. C. H.P. HAY, will perform the duties of the Cineral Mannger of the Company and sign per i procuration.

By Order of the Board of Directors

CL. MONTAGUE EDF.

“General „Manger,

Hongkong, May 6, 1916.

is

and the Report of the General Banger UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

and Consulting Committer and to elees

a Consulting Committee and Auditoṛ...

The Transfer Books of the Company

will be closed from the 8th May, th the

9 May, both days includve

THE CHINA-BORNEO CO, LTD.

W. 1. Darby, Gemend. Maxapr.

Hongkong. May 3, 194

61

""LITTLE WONDER'

5-inch RECORDS.

The MARVEL of

The Musical World.

30 cents each, 4 for $1.00 cash.

Where the River Shannon Flows Tenor Soler My Wild Irish Rure ...

"The old Folks xt Home

The Romary

Promise Me

The Next Dance One-Step

tar and Stri, ez March

'Madley No. 5

Martikka-

+

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Blend

ASK TO HEAR THE LATEST,

THE ANDERSON

MUSIC CO., LTD.

Des Vaux Road,

Trt. 1322.

CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE

ROM This Daw and during the

absenes of the Uralemigned from

the Colony Mr. CFL P. HAY. W perform the duties of the (train). Simger of the Nery angl sin pe procuration

By Order of the Pewt

C. MONTAGUE EDE.

Hongkong. May 9 BIG

THE WISHING CẤP”

CHARMING OPERETTA, will

A performed by the Papil of the

Anglo-French School at St. Paul's Institute, Causeway Bay, on May porn. IT and HTH, commencing at 5 PM..

ADMISSION -Adults

Children

Dress Rehearsal, May oth at Children only. Admission 20 cents

Hongkong, May 4, 1910.

vents,

ma

62.

THE CHINA MAIL.

HIGHEST GRADE.

CIGARETTES and TOBACCO

45mokers of GARRICK

SMOKING

MIXTURE

are always sure of a cool and refreshing. smoke,

Acknowledged by the connoisseur "to stand alone for purity and charm of Bavour.

GARRICK CIGARETTES »

are always the same, always good, always satisfying.

They possess a most pleasant favour and are unquestionably the finest Virginia Cigarette manufactured.

GARRIC

OBTAINABLE AT ALL LEADING TOJACCONISTS

CRIME OF LUXURY,

COPOLOGAÇO A YEAR SPENT ON

PRESS

MUJALIAN moit LANDUL SHOWS,

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INTIMATIONS

YOUR EYES

SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECT EL,

At the first symptom of eye strain you should consultus,

We "test

eyes scientifically and fit glasses to individual re-

quirements.

Co

B OBIICIANS.

LARK & SCIENTIF

HONGKONG'

AK BLOGS, CHATER RÖ▼

HONGKONG & MAÑILA

MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA

(MITSU BISHI 00.)

meas su restaurants are absorbing an

· aboming proportion of our income,

There semething very disgusting in theen revals at a time when, for us, men ne bdag slagkterol by thousands, and women work night and day in tCOAL DEPARTMENT. eliststing toif af fine diell fantasy The

Mrs. Sulley Webb, montang can The petitions of these Intelė, restaurants and openital mutuuseduenis urs takiâg up the dire when bake wo hard and gente nun and the

The rherg of amething like walag se poladut gris, spending on the

oh pa en mads wanted elsewhere... Putere feu fut tow they could afford

as resulte an diis emergency ro food but a nigin “to do what they

maar strength in work, and mor

service.

HINOTANI, KISHIDAKS, HOJO, SLPROPRIETORS of TAKA. SIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, YO-

KANADA. NAMAZUTA. BAYO, SHINNEW. and KÄMIYAMADA

AGENTS or SABITO, A OYUBARI

COATS.

band with their "wal time wise, if in rest, in Fiose simple" Colleries.

at the trade and gave emping ment

This expenditure never ratione bill wat neither money tim sleg we can did it withdraws most t_gió laptyships and the trenches, and im tinklug unia rug and shells, with one which one droite beannot be

take de

On a lie drink we have been in the leasht De spending over 2150gkak,000 "a

ABIG EXPLOSION:

MAGAZINES AT SLAM NAVAL STATION WRECKED.

SHOCK FELT, IN BANGKOK.

The thigkok Tines of the 19th ult. maga

eg In the vort majority of cases to Majaran bolalar must character,

But it is the rion who spend you an Alsak, dh le mine, daughters, sisters, ette theatre, have thër owen failie

The magazines at the naval station de aquep is water if we spend between Bang Na exploded last night at a fo Tap and he handed mailan putus a

mitgeres ledogu midnight. The explosion |

HEAD OFFICE:~~~TOKYO.

BRANCH OFF06 — Nagasaki, Moji Karatai,

Wakamatsu, Otaru, Murgran, Hakodate Hote. Osaka, Kure, Tokyo, Yokohama, Näguys.

Truruga, Shanghai, Hongkong, Hankow, Peking.

LOYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUR

enjars which the big drapers par toplo in Bangkok were generally aliran Code:-A1, ABU 5th Ed., Western Unles. was it over a very wide ares and peu-Tec. ADRECxa for above:** [VASAKI." EARLY MORNING GOLF. si delismo basvivide by every posts Houses were shaken and the cogununity BALL played on to why portion of the past by the newest patterns

very, thoughly"amused. The explo- Sand Track, Gr Tmek, in

in ft eina tees, ofght govas increp tbo Ditches on both sides of the said Tracks de bine, French kit and Fishel sous were followed by a deep red giure.

2

AGENCIES:

rin nations, trimmed with in the sky which alternated in intensity. CRINKIANG: Mesare Gearing &

Valencies have an "ition, the People living at Klong To said tha

Coun

Co.

must be lifted and dripped in the fairway not nearer to the hole, under pensity of one stroke..

This Turcal Rule applias only to Early dery indies with ribben bending light given off from the burning mag- Morning Gell, and has been introduceri tó

at waist, haud inde," the high qualed the best pyrotechnic MANILA Messrs Macondray & avoid annoyance to riders and ponies or

hecked bouta, veramping our toes, for play, they had seen. Happily there

MIES NO LOW Hf life. the trick.

„išne vullethargit- and skirts rushing *1*$1- magazines, as is customary, were SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo Co. Playera aro receded to keep their ran the strong of constrictions to an of light construction-Singapore wood eddies of the rails when ponies are endurra ele falak, just to warrant our and corrugated iron. The outbreak

Ltd. pasking.

The shove Local Rule is applicable infotrelcasing new outfit every few nails, started in the cordite magazine and this was me, by fire. At the height the Par Cup when competd for ith We women must stomiy way to purselves of the fire an eye-witness puts it that In this Anni and memory that, whether the times set up into the sky for By Orr of cut de grøn, we will not spend another, it losest a modre feet. No

explosion pety dress beyond what is imperatured here, and the brick piers i tively required for warinth or cleanliness. intret this morning. When the flames which the building stool were standing

kary morning.

"

A. SCOUT IN

FAIRYLAND "

THE COMMITTEE. Hongkong, April 11, 1918.

598

**JOHN IN HONGEONG"

1

..

local Fairy Story anticsly produced in DAIRY FARM NEWS.

Longkong, with topical illustrations

for the beneft of War Charities.

ON SALE AT

MESSA. W. POWILL, LZD.,'

MESSEN. WICHMAN, IH,

Ms. KELLY AND' WALSH, LTD.

MERL WHEELWAT,

LAIDLAW & Co., LTD. AND THE "CHINA Mail, Leo. Price 50 Cents.

JAPANESE MAKERS

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

ΤΟ

ORDER

OHERRY & CO.

FEDDER STREET, Opparte Brugkong Hotel.

·No. 1914 Hongkong, Merch 90.914.

ALEXANDRA CAPE. YSTEKS VCity Feind or Sława"

*Finden diifícka, Sfonare:

FISH

We Have Received

A NEW SHIPMENT 4F SELECTED FINNON HADDOCKS FILLET HADDOCKS

KIPPERS

SMOKED BLUE. COD.

EUROPEAN AGENCY.

W

HOLESALE Lodents promptly executed at lowest cash prices

BAR TO RANT SERVANTS KETT.

affected magazines number two and three explosions occurred which shook Alter dress, cure servants. We are huises all over the Bangkok area. Of moupolising the thuis of over a billion these two nagazines not a vestige thes und wenew th the army of domedije, remains except some twisted pieces of ervants that we stoplay. These must rated in and bits of charred wod. The foundations-everything, is cost ats, in feel ani sagot, between sixty gone, and in the place where the middle and seventy million pounds a year. In agazine stood is a hole in the ground so far as they are tending young eldren, which was probably caused by the or the inßgn, they are necessary." This

explosion. does not justify the kokeholds la which there are actually won servals than pople to bo waited un-even them. DE four times as mung bebote Stairs as in the drawing-room.

Let un shut up our superducus room. put away the multitude of things, that need dusting and polishing, simplify our Jamly, wait on ourselves; and this set free several hundred thousand additional

GLASGOW: Mesars A. R. Brown, McFarlane & Co., Ltd.

For partieniars, apply to

K. KATO,

Manager.

No. 1. PEDDER STELET,

HONGKONO.

SINGON & CO.

Estanternes A.D. 1880.

TRON STERIJ METAL and - HARO

and Betall Ironmongers. Pig Iron and Foundry Cake Imperatore. General Store- force

37, Hire Looxe Bar, (2nd Street, wast kaspers and Shipahandlers of Central Marked) Talephone No. 515.

WARE MERCHANTS. Wholemie

Not a builling in the compound escaped. All suffered loss of tiles, and broken gutters, and doors and, windows were started and in some cases blown in. The bulk of the force of the explosions way experied vertically, ton high banks

inutedly helping to confine the let loose. Chea it was over the top of the embankment the other buildings suffered. The workshops were partially unroofed and the walls of corrugated run partly ripped open. The workshop nearest the magazine suffered worst. Much of the material fell inside and it Then there is the wild rush of all classes is not possible at present to say if the after vacant-minded amusement. "Millions gachiuery is damaged or not. The fence of pounds are still being spent on pe side was blown flat and the drygm

budding the property on the southern petually recurring visits to cinema running to the railway line-set alight. siws, music-halls and theatres, Sunday

Outside the naval compound there is excursions, holidays at the seaside, trips a small settlement of people who cater for the men at the station, and these, as

workers,

for all British and Conticental goods, by motor car,' week-end golf, aml' coswell na the men tot on duty, were across

including

Books and Stationery,

Boots, Ebon and Lather.

Chemicals and Druguists' Bundries, China, Earthenware and Glassware, Cycles, Motor Cars and Accessorica Drapery, Millinery and Pisse Goods, Facoy Goods and Perfumery, Hardware, Machinery and Metais, Jewellery, Plate and Watches,” Photographic and Optical Goods, Provisions and Oilman's Stores,

...etc., etc..

Commission 21% to 6%

Trade Discounts alteredi. Special Qusictions, en Demand A Pample Utsts from £10 upward... "Dunsignments of Produced on Accoun WILLIAM WILSON & SONS (E#TAKEISTIED 1834),

95, Anchunon Lane, Laos, E.0. Cable Address PA Arxuania, Lone ON.

"FOR"a" "good solid meilea lá curta” of

Back Table.

e & Ligour

COUGHING INTO CONSUMPTION "Only a Cough, but you stop it while. It is ONLY a cough.

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL. COMPOUND

The Sucat popszation madi for combating severe coughs, CURES any congn nat Fooly'

palatable.

the long watching a theatrical per formance in the grounds of a temple. The explosion was immediately followed by a storn of, imali pieces, of charred wood, rocket and flare cases, and then everybody made fur shelter. The furce of the various explosions can be well, seen to-day There were three lightning Candiactors by cach-magazineThat by the cordite magazine stands, charred hut: erent. Of the other two not e estige remains. A steal rope used, on one of them was found some distance away partly embedded in a tree. The trock was very curiously twisted although not netrally-moken ... No. building excepting the magazines WAS wholly destroyed, but weather boards bits of guttering, etc, were driven all ovor the placeA MENSA The pyrotechnie nature of the display seen from Bengkak bedroom windo sceninted for by the stick of flares, rockefa, etc, which ignited as the flames reschow It is astonishing 'with so%

idebris in thead and

was no os of life. Only

Grs recorded to hien outi

ALL CHEMISTS

minor

31.25 and $2.25

the outbreak last nig

For., 35 and

Hangrong, September 4, 1913.

BRAD DELIVE: KOWLOON.

TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1916.

INTIMATIONS

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