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INTIMATIONS

BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES

Applications may be made through the andernoted Banks' from whons full information and the necessary "forms may be obtained :----

CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. HONGKONG

BANKING CORPORATION. MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LTD,

AND

SHANGHAI

War Savings Certificates

Value 5 years

after purchase

£500

Purchase Price

£397 10 0 159. €4.

TALE OF INCOME TAX.

"

· For every 15s. 6d. lent now £t!" will be paid in 5 years' time equivalent to 5 per cent. com- pound interest. -No Income Tax will be payable

Anyone, whatever his or her. iscoms may be, can buy War Savings Certificates up to a maximum of 500 £1 Certidoates in all or their equivalent.

Menawhile the money may be withdrawn in fail any time, with an addition after the first year.

INTIMATIONS

THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY LIMITED

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-NINTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this * Campany will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd. on MONDAY, 29th January, 1917 at 11.30 3. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending atat December, 1916, S

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY 18th to MONDAY, 39th January, 1917 (both days_inclusive), daring which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.

By Order of the Board of Director. A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary to the

Hongkong Land Investment & Agency

1

Co. Ltd.

General Agents for the West Toint Building Company Limited.

Hongkong, Jan, 11, 1917.

THE HONGKONG CENTRAL

ESTATE LIMITED.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRD ORDINARY MEET- ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Com- pany will be held at the Offices of Messe Jawline Matheson & Company Limited, on MONDAY, 29th January, 1917 at 11.4343, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year unding 31st December, 1918.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Company will be CLOSED from (1) A Certifiente entitles the purchaser January, 1917 (beth days inclusive). THURSDAY. 18th to MONDAY, th to receive 1 for each lad on the Sith during which period no Transfer of Anniversary of the date of perehuse, freeShires can be Registered. of income tax in respect of the accuinu- lated interest

By Order of the Board of Directors.

THE HONGKONG CENTRAL

RESTATE LIMITED:

(2) A Certificate is not trumferably except by permission of the Postmaster Denerals fee of 1s, will be charged in Respect of each transferee. In the event. of death, the same rules will be

Applied

at in the case of Savings Bank Deposits. (3) On written application (on'a form obtainable at any Post Office) being pude to the Controller, Money Order Department, Londori, the purchase price,

*

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Everetary to THE GENERAL MANAGERS. Hongkong Jan. 11, 1917.

TAN

THE CHINA MAIL

QUALITY is the point

which is necessary in an enjoyable

Cigarette.

"Embassi

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

WD CHOWD

BRISTOL BLOND

That's why "EMBASSY". VIRGINIA No. 77 has been justly described as

THE CIGARETTE

GERMAN COLONIES

DIVIDED BY ALLIES.

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TOGOLAND AND CAMEROONS.

The Bras step toward az apportionment between France and England of the territory of former German colonice in

or part thereof in multiples of last THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-West Africa is deribed is a report to the

will be repaid at any time, with an sddition of 38. fse auch 154. 6d. on the first anniversary of the date of purchase and with a further addition of Id. per

each month thereafter.

1) No person may be sure than

5001 Certificates or their equivalent.

MENT & AGENCY COMPANY

*LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

Royal Geographical Society of London, printed in the journal of the society for November. Under the arrangement now

The.maps printed by the society indi.

cote that England has jurisdiction st present over bous 40,000 of the 190,000

DE LUXE.

shipping allowed, this was done, but

INTIMATIONS

YOUR EYES SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTEL: At the first symptom of eye strain you should consult us. We test eyes scientifically and fit glasses, to Endividual re- quirements.

CLARK & CO

OPTICIANS

SCIENTIFIC

RK BLOGS, CHATER RO

HONGKONG!

HONGKONG & MANILA

(Mitsubishi Co.)

necessarily many were left The scene MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA on the departures of the last steamer from the Kribi was tragic, as many people. taking transic efforts to board the ship, were drowned by the swamping of their cunod.

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That their fear of the Germans wit justified has been amply proved by the official reports since drawe up, detailing atresities of every sort practiced by tho ecemy upon the helpicse nazive inhabit as in all parts of the Cameroon during

the campaign."

The writer gave an account of one skirmish in which the patrols engaged on

N the TWENTY NINTH ORDINARY existing, by far the greater area is under both sides were put to fight by a large HEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this French administration, but the mcat herd of elephants which wandered into the Company

will be held at the Offices of The £1 Certificates (purchase price Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Company important ports are under British control. fighting and became stampeded. 159. Cd.) are issued in book form, The Limited" on MONDAY, 19th JanuOFT. Certifentes for £1 (purchase price the Report of the Directors together with 1917 at Noor, for the purpose of receiving 63) and 245 (purchase price £19 7 6d) the are issued without boues. The £1, £12 the Statement of Accounts for the year and tus Certificates are on sale at local ending 3 st December, 1916. Post Offices and at most Banks.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the uase miles of Cameroon, and over about Single Certificates for sums from £100 THURSDAY 18th to MONDAY, 29th Togoland. Lome, the principal port and Company will be CLOSED from 10,000 of the 33,700 square miles of to £500 may be obtained on application January, 1917 (both days inclusive), town of Topland, become British, tetr to the Comptroller and Accountant during which period 0 Transfer of porarily at least. Buen, Victoria. and Genera General Post Of London; Shares oen be Bezintered...

If Certificates be lost, and the serial

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

by the Zagbuk, but Dunis; the largest umbers can be furnished to the

town, is in the French section. Controller of the Money Order Depart

Becretary, ment, new Certificates will be issued at

Hongkong, Jan 11, 2017. 1413 a charge of da

GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,

June, 1916.

(For examples of Investment in War Savings Certificatos, ace' the other side.)

Examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates

157 10-

78 15-

201 -

41 17 6:

Valug after

448 15 -

855 --- ---

268-

24.78 AG 16 177 20

17 16

4 years. b yozṛs,

458 15 -

291 5- 378-

187 10 -

1 Year.

-- OT DAS

--18

8.17

68 7:

DI

332 10 ---

17 10.-.

38 15 ----

10 10-

7 15-

[4. 16--

7 17 6

8 7 4 16 15 mm

93 15 →

48 17

18 15

0 7 8

8 17 6

4 18

8 8-

27 8

· 11-

2 10 5

2 28 0

1180

118 @ -10 9-17 9.

- 18

85 15- 167 10

3190489

B. E

1.11, 8

.11.

N.B. The Investment may be any

multiple of 154, 5d. up to £897 10. ...

COLUMBIA

The conquered German territory is placed toder the government of the Eng- lish and French provinces adjoining it The Cameroop is situated on the Gulf of THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA- Guines, with the British province of Nigeria just north of it and French Equatorial Africa south and east of it,

TION COMPANY LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

ORDINARY

Tegoland, which is west of Cameroon oa the Galf of Guipes, will be ruled by the Governors of the Gold Coast. the British province, and Dahoney, the French.

purposes between the Colonial Govern MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in menta of Nigeria and French Equatorial this Company will be held at the Offices Africa. of Mesars. Jardine, Matheson & Cn. Ltd. on MONDAY. 29th January, 1917 at 19.13 P3, for the

purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the

31st December, 1918. PETER..

of SHARES of the be CHEERS Ville LOSED from January, 1917 (both days inclusive) during which period rd Transfer of shares can be Registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors, MOWBRAY S NORTHCOTE

The

Secretary,

Hongkong, Jan. 11, 1917.

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BIG EVENTS IN ADRIATIO FORECASTED.

ca big events in the Fundert fore he expects to see the Austrian feet) emergs shortly in consequence of Allied and successes. The situation bids fair to be of interest at any rate, for the Austrian newspapers have predicted the advent of "vigorous action" after a long of a sally such as was made by Admiral passivity, and discussed the probability

the

under

COAL DEPARTMENT.

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Head Office:- MARUNOUCHI, TOKYO.

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GLASGOW. Masers A. R. Brown McFarlane & Co., Ltd,

Fai Particulars, «pply to

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Manager.

No. 2, Prozza ST.)

Korerend.

the Commanders of the Allied leets CHINKIANG: Mesara Gearing & better. It is said that two projects have been: mooted. One is an attempt MANILA, Messrs Macondray & junction to push

westward in order to effect

with some portion of the victorious" High Sex Fleet; the an enterprise directed eastwards

other Wars The towards the Dardanelles and Constanti порів In either case, it must bo Both of the conquered" provinces are turn of events may oblige it, and signs of something of a forlorn hope, but the rich in agricultural resources, with more imusus, setivity are audig te or lues mineral wealth, only slightly out of military domination. They are explored. The Cameroon has a native population of 8,600,000 and

regarded merely as accessories to the white land forces, and if Hindenberg wills, population before the war of about 2,000. they may be used to create a divormon Since their acquisition of the country, in or attract attention from failures oc 1884, the Gormans had developed it.

land. Before that time it was for white men superiority of the Allies is incontestable. From the material standpoint, the nothing more than a geographical term At the outbreak of war in 1914, Austris and a spot on the map of Africa. The had thirteen battleships built and Germans instituted the production of palm building, with two armoured cruisers, pit, socoa, rubber, cotion, indigo, fine craft of all types, exclusive of aub- dozen light cruisers and 100 torpedo woods, and other natural products and mari business heretofore arried on in stations into reproductions of small Ger- ning armoured

service. Italy had fourteen bettled Hongkong, Foochow, and elsewhere,

cruisers, eighteen ander the style of GILMAN & CO. has man tons. They had built three mil. Cruisers, 140 torpedo craft and

BSTATED A.D, 1980. been converted into a private Company ronda sad were carrying forward large is that of the French battle feet which WARE MERCHANTS. Wholdasie

submarines. Added to Italy's with limited liability; and will bence plans for the development of the colony conflated at the hive built And Foundry Coks Importers General Store [BON STEEL, METAL and HARD forth, and as from the 1st January, 1817, with the purpose of establishing a model of some thirty

of the war and Beta Ironmongers. Pig Iron and carried on sa before, and at the

heason places under the style of GILMAN & colony. A zember of the West Africa building.. strategical conditions in ne per and Shipchandlers Nos. 55 and

expeditionary force into the Cameron

Your the 37. Hme LoanG STREET, (2nd Street, west the gazian Austro contracts entered into by the firm wrote in a report to the Boys! Geographi-operate

ps which ‚'can | of Conzal Market) Talephone No. 515. & Co. will be carried out by caf Society::-

from numerous points in the & Co., La, to which Company

long chain of Dalmatian islands and

Hongrong September 4, 1915. all debta due to the firm of GILMAN & Co.

These railroads were built at enormous coast, so helpful to submarines,

from the ebelter of the cliffs along the from that firm will be paid are payable, and by which all debta due expense, the bridges being exollant. On

the Mittellandbahn at Edes, crossing the we may expect some dramatic move The correspondent quoted considers MR. W. L. PATTENDEN, & Director Sanngs River, is an iron bridge, the ments if the Austro-Hungarian feet of GILMAN & Co LD. will continue in the management of the business. in largest single apon in Africa

farced to leave its protected, bases by Hongkong, with the assistance of the Eisenbahn there are several long inm

On the the pressure of military operationa staff of the late firm.

bridges, the biggest being at Bepele and

NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the built up Duala, Buca, Victoria, and other rines, of which only about six were in

Co

All

of GILMAN GILMAN

same

Dated this 11th day of January, 1917. | 1418]. :

Kake.

"The wealth of the country under the Germans, was entirely agricultural. It would seem, probable that there are

GRAFONOLA HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, minerale, in the north no any rate, to the

WILL COMPLETE

+1

THE FAMILY CIRCLE

DURING THE

LIMITED

same extent as in Northern Nigeria, but it is believed that no mineral survey hos been made by the Government, as the 8 already notified, this Company's policy, was to develop the agricultural side

Generating Plant is now carrying in the vicinity of the maximum load first. The richest omtre of agriculture and no further installations can be made is that around Victoris and Bnou. Here for the present Consumers and Wiring there are huge and splendid plantations Contractors are warned against the of cocos and rubber. Each plantation has danger of making adilitions to existing installations

of

The Man Who Gets There

aid are reminded and very good, European quarters, on a Plessy of

FESTIVE SEASON. Safety of the Pablic contained in the trolley linee down them.

under the Regulations for securing the traversed by broad ways moetly with light Schedule to the Electricity Supply The inhabitants extreme fear of Ordinazes 1811 (as amended any romaining in a place in German hands PRICES TO SUIT ALL person making any

to electrical installation

any Iation connected to the was only too clearly shown at the evacua Company's main

tion of the Eribl by the Allies. A huge

THE ANDERSON

MUSIC CO.LTD.

TEL 1321

all be able to a penalty not exceeding refugee camp had, baad lowmed at the Alty Dollars for every much addition".

By Order of the Board,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO

Hongkong, Jan. 0, 1917.

Anti, when it was decided that the place could be of no value in fature military operations, wherpupce a the nativer begged to be taker sway and remain 1346 under British profection. As hting the

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PRICES $120 and 32.26.

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SATURDAY VANUARY 18, 1917.

INTIMATIONS

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Codes Used: A1, à 30, Fi's Zdition, Engineering Fish and Second Editions, Western Union, and Waikin 17

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