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INTIMATIONS

¡THE WEST POINT BUILDING

COMPANY LIMITED

INTIMATIONS

F

NOTWENTY NINTH ORDINARY

TOTICE IS HEHERT GIVEN that WAR DEPARTMENT, CONTRACTS.

MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this

Company, will be held at the Offices of at the Headquarters Ofice, Victoris CEALED TENDERS will be received

Barracks Hongkong, for the under mentioned services, until 12 o'clock noon on the dates stated:-

Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co. Ltd. on MONDAY, 20th January,

1017 at 11.30 . for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1018.

The REGISTER of SHARES of, the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY 18th to MONDAY, th Janiwy, 1917 (both "days inclusive) during which perind no Transfer of Shares can be Registered..

By Order of the Board of Directors.

A. SHELTON HOOPER, ... Secretary to the

Hongkong Land Investment & Agency

· Co. Lut, fieneral Agenta fær the West Point Building Company Limited. Hongkong, Jan. 11, 1917. - 1413

THE HONGKONG CENTRAL.

NOT

ESTATE LIMITED.

Fuel and Washing, 18th Februry, 101", Foruge and Indian Supplies, 20th

February, 1917.

เ

Mout and General Supplies "A" anıl

February, 1917. Hospital Supplies, 1st March, 1957. General Supplies "B", 2nd March, 1917. Forms and other particulars may be obtained personally at the above Office between the hour of 10a.m. and I pm. up, signed and dated, and

Tender Forms must be properly filled

delivered

în sealed envelope marked "Tender for Forge, etc." Tenders entertained unless accompanied by a must be and will not be deposit 8100, as a guarantee of good

faith, such sum to be forfeited to the Sunte if the tenderer fails to attend at the Headquarters Oics after wenty four

bours notien in writing Being left at the t tenderer's address, or fails to send in samples within twenty-four hours of written application being left at the said address or refuses to accept u

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRD ORDINARY MEET ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Com-contract alluted to him."

pany will be held at the Offices of Megers. The right to reject all, or any, tenders Jurlina. Matheson & Company Limited is specially reserved.

on MONDAY, 20

20th Jan 1917

11.43

Об

At

receiving for the purpose the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December 1916.

th

TN

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will CLOSED from THURSDAY 19th to MONDAY, January, 1917 (both days inclusive) during which period no Transfer Shares can be Registered.

By Order of the Board of Director

THE HONGKONG CENTRAL

ESTATE LIMITED.

A SHELTON HOOPER,

Secret wry to THE GENERAL MANAGERS. Hongkong Jan. 11 1917.

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THE HONGKONG" BAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thi

AE TWENTY NINTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Company Limited on MONDAY, 19th January, 1917 at Noes, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the for the year

IN December, 1916,

REGISTER & SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY 18th to MONDAY, 29th January, 1817 (both days_inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.

By Order of the Beard of Directory.

A. SHELTON HOOPER

Secretary.

WHongkong, Jan. 11, 1917.

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THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA. TION COMPANY LIMITED:

the SIXTEENTH "ORDINARY

BANK HOLIDAYS.

[1428

accordance with Ordinance No. 3 will be CLOSED for the Transaction of 1019 the EXCHANGE BANKS of Public Business ou TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY the 43rd and 4th instant.

Hongkong. Jan. 19, 1917.

KN

142T

WANTED.

ECRETARY (Lady or Gentleman) wanted to generally assist the Deputy Superintendent of the Hongkong Police Reserve. (Hours, roughly 10 am. 12.30 pm, 9.30 to 5.30 p.m.)

Apply to

Hongkong, dan 1017.

"

PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.

NOTICE,

the following changes will be made TROM 1st February till further notice in the Company's Time Table.

SUNDAYS..

From 3 to 5.37 PM. every quarter of sa hour instead of every ten minutes. From C.30 PM to 7 P.M. every ten minutes instead of every quarter of an bour.

THE CHINA MAN.

SPERO

FRERES

FELUCCA

CIGARETTES -

BEAR THIS HALL MARK OF. DISTINCTION

N°33

IS THE MOST POPULAR

SPY HUNTING ON GERMAN-SWISS

FRONTIER.

men who were probably commercial

INTIMATIONS

YOUR EYES

SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTEL,

At the first symptom of eye stram you should |consult us. We test

eyes scientifically and ft glasses to individual re quirements:

@LARK

LARK & Co. SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS

RK BLDGS, CHATER RO

HONGKONG

HONGKONG & MANILA

travellers, and the inevitable American MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA

THE GIRL WHO STUDIED MUSIC. The Chief of Police and two or three subordinates walked up and down beforeTM the travellers eyeing each of them keenly. Once or twice the Chief stopped with a jerk, tugged his moustache and icoked very grave. All The correspondent at Busle of the the passengers were allowed to enter Daily News, writes as follows:

the Customs house except three-a giri,

THE ORDEAL OF THE BATH

about 20 years of age, young man, and a man who might be fifty.

"What were you doing in Berlin 1" "Studying.maic," she said. "Why could you not study music in Switzerland?" asked the chief, severely...

"I suppose I could; but you know it's the thing to go to Berlin or Leipzig."

What school did you attend I" he added "Yes, it's the thing," he repeated. sharply.

."

"The Conservatoire, of course." fessor 1

"What was the name of your pro- She named a distinguished German violinist..

(Mitsubishi Co.) COAL DEPARTMENT.

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF

TAKASHIMA, OCHI, MUTASE,

KISHIDAKE FOSKINOTANI | HOJO, NAMAZUTA, RAYO, KANADA, SHINNEW KAMIYAMADA, BIBAI

*OYUBARI COLLIERIES

AGENT FOR SAKITO.COAİn

Head Office ! MARUNOUCHI, TOKYO,

BRANCH OFFICES: Nagasaki, Moji, Karatan, Wakamataa,

Otaru, Murora, Hakodate, Kobe,,

Osaka, Aure, Tokyo, Yokohams, Nagoya, Taurigs, Vladivostock, Hankow, Peking, London, New York, Shanghai. Hongrong, thaiphong

L1

I have just passed a morning at Otter bach, a suburb of Basle, situated on the Mr. F. C. JENKIN German-Swiss frontier, watching the chief

Your passport, Fraulein," said the Prince's Buildings, exodus of Germans from the Fatherland.document closely, his eyes paasing from politely. He studied the Ine Hotise Street.

Before the war the German trains cross- the photograph to the girl and back 1432ed the frontier at this point and stented again.

into the Baden "railway station, a mammoth building erected in Swiss ter- ritory at a cost of nearly £4,000,000 by the German Government and owned, of course, by Germany. At the cutbreak

raway trains would no longer be of war the Swiss politely but firmly told the German Government that German allowed to enter Swiss,, territory; and to-day, the station occupied by Swiss soldiers. Teutonic and neutral travellers leaving Germany alight from the train outside Otterbach, where they are seached and examined, sad having passed through the Swiss Customs house on the other side of the gate, drive in taris or omnibuses to the Swiss railway stations in Easle, where they resume their journey. A barbed-wire fence Sarded by elderly Lardaturmers separates Swiss territory from the kittle yard in which the preliminary ex- amination of the travellers takes place, and when the express arrives cach morning from Berlin a crowd, of Swiss nurse-maids and children and a few night, workers invariably assemble to watch the proceedings.

The travellers stand in rows and the German special police survey them the fccuracy of the girl's statement; SINGAPORE: Mesare Borneo Co. closely. In the Customs. Louse the and, having taluted her, be signalled to officials search principally for gold and her to enter the Custom House. The

Ltd.

SUNDAYS & WEEK-DAYS. The 8.10 p.. car will be discontinued. Hongkong, Jan. 13, 1917.

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SECOND 51% RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHOET TERMED LOAN OF 1916.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that AQUGH the subscription lists were closed on the 26th December, MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the RUSSO ASIATIC BANK, Hong this Compang will be held at the Offices for this propere do A Cr to the Era Matheson & Co. Ltd. above. Loan up 137

FEBRUARY on the subscription terms

wn MONDAY, 29th January, 1917 str. as previously advertised."

of receiving

1215 P.. for the purpose together Hongkong, Jan. 19, 1917.

the Report of the

with the Statement of Accounts for the

ending 31st December, 1918.

year

The

1348

"Bring me the latest musical direc- tory," said the chief to one of the sub- ordinates. Next, "Where do you lire, Fraulein 1

She gave an address in Zurich. "Which floor!"

What is the name of the person on the Ecor below yours, and the profession of the occupier of the flat above?"

She answered promptly. directory of the City of Zurich," said "Now bring me the latest official

and Canton.

Cable Address:-"IWASAKI Codes:-A1, A. E. C. 5th Ed Western Union, and Bentley's.

AGENCIES:- CHINELANG: Messrs Gearing

Co.

the chief, die the subordinate reared MANILA. Mosery Macondray & him the musical directory. investiga- tions into both volumes seemed to prove

DE REGISTER of CLOSED of the WAR LOANS INVESTMENT TRUST file is found the ofending traveller in two men speedily proved their bonid jdes,

will be from

THURSDAY 18th to MONDAY, th

January, 1917 (both days- inclusive), during which period no Transfer of shares can be Registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors..

MOWBRAY 3. NORTHLOTE

Secretary. Hongkong, Jan. 11, 1917,

NOTICE.

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OF MALAYA.

(INCORPORATED IN THE FEDERATED

MALAY STATE).. -

CAPITAL $5,000,000.---

11

In shares of 610/- each (Straits currency) fully paid.

THE Shares bear interest at the rate THE

of 6% per annum which together with repayment of capital in full on

either is traveller is and the chief disappeared also into the at orce arrested." From the Customs Customs House. No spies were caught house the travellers pass into the this morning. investigation. "department, where each

.

..

HOW THE GERMANS CROSSED-

(

THE DANUBE:

One of the war correspondents had this to say on the subject ș

Co

GLASGOW. Messrs AE Brows McFarlane & Co., Ltă,

Fa Particulars, apply to

K. KATO,

Manager. No. 2, PEDDER STEEZE,

KOKOISEG.

SINGON & CO.

person undergoes a cross-emmintion much evarer and-more thorough than that which he may have had to under go in the yard. This ordeal over, the meh pass to the right into a searching room, the ladies to the left into another.

THE HOT BATH. German thoroughness also charac The astonishing facility with which the liquidation is guaranteed by the Gore-terises this part of the procedure. There Danube was crossed by a German army ment the Federated Malay States. is no half-hearted searching. The between Sisters and Zimmiten is to be Interest accrues from the 1st day of woman searcher always comba the hair of explained-liks most German successes. the month following the date on which the ladies in cass written messages or since the beginning of the war-by techni subscriptions ara received and will be documents are concealed there. Whilst eal superiority. Powerful long-range paid balf

Copies of the prospectus and forms of bath is prepared for the person searched, applications for shares can be obtained and he or she, as the case may be and these presented the bussian and or document on behalf of the firm.

on the right bank and on several islands, The public is requested to bring to the from and subscriptions will be received proceeds to the bathroom. The comRumerian gunboats from navigating the 87, HING LOONG ÖTBÉRT, (2nd Birset, weat firm's notice any document or instrument, any of the following Banks.

pulsory bath, I was told, has only purported to be made by the firm Tar CHARTERED BANK OF LA. & CHINA, whether before or after this date which THE HONGKONG, & BBANCHAL BANKING is not signed by either the mid 8. M.

CORPORATION, CHURN or the said C. MONKEY:

MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA LTD. Hongkong, Jan. 9, 1817.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVES by the NUSION TRADING COMPANY of No. 3 Queen's Buildings. Hongkong that on and after this date and until further notice Ma 6. M. CHURN and MR. C. HONKEY are the only Managers any authority to sign ahy instrument

FRON STELLA, Wholesale

ESTARLIHID A.D. 1380.

of the firm and no person except them 1st July yearly on lat January and on the searching is taking place, a warm batterica were established at many power and Retail Ironmongers. Pig. Izon and

UNION TRADING COMPANY. Hongkong Jan. 19, 1017.

COLUMBIA

1430

GRAFONOLA

WILL COMPLETE

THE FAMILY CIRCLE

DURING THE

FESTIVE SEASON.

PRICES TO SUIT ALL

THE ANDERSON

MUSIC CO., LTD

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

POULTRY.

OUR HOUSE FED "APONS

CHICKENS Are the best in the East Tender eating, delicate flavour. TRY THEM.

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. THERAPION NË..

VEZEKA DIGRAREREJITORS VALAMITMENT INFROZIORA

THERAPION No. 2

ÇORUM BLODU PRIOR, KAD ZEGS, RATH SHEPTIONS

THERAPION NË 3

"TIARKA

• CHRONIC I

CUPOM.

BYMETAMP ADDREM AMYELOVE FOR.. FILER BOOK TO DR. LE CLENCHER.CA: :MATIKITOCK Ro... ESupurkan, Bytomis FOR YOU] JNT NEW DILUTRIJANTALDOS/TERMOT ZAST TO TAEK

SAFE AND ·· ZAFTON CUT SEE THAT TRADE WANNEER WORKERAMION IS ON

THERAPION.

figured in the programme during the river. At the same time other long-range that few weeks, but the Germans insist batteries crushed or drove back the on it because they declare, rightly or Buzonian batteries which, on the left wrongly, that much valuable information bank, bad tried in vain to dolent the written in invisible ink upon the bodies Garmas estacks. Then Austrian monitors, of travellers was previously conveyed havingthing to fear from the Russian. out of Cermady. The hot bath, in and Romanian boals, interlaced, and in which a chemical is dissolved, is protected that operation which in ong expected automatically to erase any jump brought the enemy" to the vicinity such messages.

A Swiss friend and myself reached the barbed wire fence this maraing before the nursemaids and the perambulators. We heard the distant whistle of the express, and five minutes or so later the passengers, who numbered about 25, were standing in an irregular Hine in the road. They were the usual. motley collection of wartime travellers -the woman with the baby, the woman with the pet dog and three large hat- boxes, an official-like personage, a few

SAVARESSES

SANTALA CAPSULES

Most Certain · Cure, Phyuciane recommend

of Bucharest.

The Man Who Gets There

Is the man who has blood

real rich red blood and plenty of it in his body. WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND

makes blood-lots of it-life giving, brain moorishing, strength replenishing blood,

OF ALL CHEMISTS:

PRICHS $25 and $2.76,

WARE MEROHANTS.. Soundry Coke Importers. General Store. zeepers and Shipchandlers Nos. 35 and

of Central Market) Telephone No. $18.

Hongkong September 4. 1915.2

AT JANUARY. 28, 1917.

INTIMATIONS

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS

A

& JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mangions.

Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,

--BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers. High Class English Jewellery.

KAIPING COAL

INDUSTRIAL

FOUNDRY

AND

AND

FOR ALL

HOUSEHOLD

PURPOSES

SMELTING

1

COKE,

FIREBRIO K AND "FIRE LAY

FOR ALL INFORMATION •AFFLE. DODWELL

KAILAN

To

a co.. LTO, QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, HONGKONG, OR

MINING

ADMINISTRATION,

“TIENTEIN, NORTH CHINA..

At Night..

After a hard day's work, or after unusual physical exertion, take Horlicks, it helps Nature to tone up your system. It is the ideal Food-Drink-in in- gredients are Wheat, Malt, "and Milk, scientifically * combinét, and put up in powder form in glass jars. Delicious to the Taste

A

HORLICKS

MALTEDMILK

Made in a

moment no cooking.

Of all Chemiste zod Šitures in 3 disau, 1/6, 2/6 and 11/- (in England).

HORLICK'S MALTED MILK

PRINTING

THE

OF EVERY

executed at the Office of

"CHINA

COMMERCIAL. FORMS SHIPPING FORMS CIRCULARS PAMPELETS

DESCRIPTION

MAIL "LTD.,

5, Wyndham Street.

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMIRS WINE LISTS

MENUS

INVITATION CARDS

BOOKBINDING.

HONGKONG & WHAMPA DOCK Co., Lt

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: MANIFESTO" HONGKONG

Codes Used: A1, A.B.C. Fifth Edition, Engineering First and Second Editions, Western Union, and Watkin's

Dock Owners, Ship Builders, Marius and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers,

Iron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians, ACETLYENE JUTTING AND WELDING FOR SHIP AND BOILER REPAIR

HEAD OFFICE, KOWLOON.

TELEzzora No. 45.

Modern up-to-date, plant operated by our own specially trained. workmen under expert European supervision.

All classes of light Steel work manufactured by the above process, Tanks, Drums, Ventilators, Fipes, to ac

THE DIMENSIONS OF DOCKS LAD SLIPS ABE AS FOLLOWS

DEPTH OVER

SILL AT

·LENITH

BLOJEN

ENTRANCE

İMAKS OF DOVE OR BLIP, ON KEEL BREADTH

“HOWLOON

Ma 1. Dock, Buelow.

Bo, Dask, Kowlass

· Paint' BUO, 10, 1, Kowlo

"PASITELE, NO. 1, Kastaan

MALEDE-MOI

BUJE OF TIDE

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OGDINARY SPRINGS) NEAPS

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TOWN OFFICE.

QUEEN'S BUILDINGS

TILLEUR No. [20 Horozoru

R. L. DYEE, E.50, M.LV.A., Loulour Dork, Boogkong.