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INTIMATIONS

UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY"

LIMITED.

NOTION TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE Twelfth

GENERAL Appital

11.

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE

RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER FLEET,

"HONG KONG AGENCY.

MEETING of Shareholders will be. Ofice of this Aucy has this day beon REMOVED to Sr. held in the Offices of Messrs, Dodwell Groncs BEILDIN Second Floor, & Co., Limited on SATURDAY the 3rd Room No. 5. (Entrance from Chater February, 1917 at 11.30 for the Road purposes of rovuiving the report of the Masumers together with a state-

ment of bounts to list December, 191

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Ulm- pany will be CLOSED from the th

Hongkong. Feb 1, 1017.

11

1460

Jajuary to 3rd February both dates SECOND 5% RUSSIAN INTERNAL

nclusive.

DODWELL & COMPANY LIMITEĽ

- General AlamIJETA. Bobgkong, Jan. 4, 1917.

SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1918.

1440ALTHOUGH the subscription lists

THE KOWLOON LAND & BUILD ING COMPANY LIMITED.

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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in

this Company will be held

were closed en the 28th December, the RUSSO ASIATIC BANK, Hong kong, is prepared to ACCEPT ORDERS for the above Loan up to the 13TH FEBRUARY on the subscription terms in; as previously advertised

Hongkong, Jan 19,-1917,

1309

at the WAR LOANS INVESTMENT TRUST

Campany's Offices VICTORIA BURPING* on SATURDAY, 10th February, 1917, at 11 o'ulbek A.M. receiving the REPORT,

The

the

OfTORS I

of Accounts

ogether with Statement of Ac for the CISTER of SHARES of the ending 31st December, 1918. Compay will be CLOSED from THURSDAY 1st to SATURDAY, 10th February 2017 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of

Shures car by registeres.

By Onler of the Punk of Directors, A. SHELTON HOOFER,

Secretary to the

Hongkong Land Investment &

Agency En, Ltd. General Agents for the Kowloon Land aut building

Company Limited.", Hongkong, Jan 23, 1917.

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HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the

ORDINARY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 10th February, 1917, at 12 o'clock Ncon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Dinctors together with a Statement of cente for the year ending 31st December, 1936.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the mpany will be CLOSED from the 8th February to the 12th Februry (both days inclusive). during which period no Transfer at Shares can be Registered.

General Managers

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON.

1434 Hongkong, Jan. 27, 1917.

A COLUMBIA

GRAFONOLA

WILL COMPLETE · ·

THE FAMILY CIRCLE

DURING THE

FESTIVE SEASON.

PRICES TO SUIT ALL

THE ANDERSON

MUSIC CO., LTD.

TIL 1399

LESSONS IN CHINESE

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UXILIARY YAWL "FEATHERS".

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STANLEY S. MOORE, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER.

1459 Hongkong, Jan. 31, 1917.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

POULTRY.

OUB

HOUSE FED CAPONS

.. AND CHICKENS.

Are the best in the East." Tender eating, delicate favour. TRY THEM.

SILIMPOPONI (SEBATTIK)

COAL

HE Undersigned having been appointed AGESTA for the COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO. LTD., are prepared to quota prices for best quality SILIMPOPON COAL trimmed into Bankers at SEBAT. TIE OF SANDAKAN (British North

HILIM POPON COAL comparsa favour ably with the better grades of Japanese Coal and gives good results on very moderate consumption.

are exempt from payment of all Port charges.

At Sebatzik Steamers ara berthed slotg vide the Company's wharf where there is a minimum depth of 27 to 28 feet at low water Spring Tides.

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Agents Cowie Harbour Cosi Company, Limited.

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"THAT WAS ALL."

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[BY "NOVICE" IN THE "PALL MALL GAZETTE."}

..

together, foiled by the lumps of mud

on the boots, and you awit orders.

All

morass

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YOUR EYES

SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTEL,

At the first symptom

of eye strain you should consult

118

We test

eyes scientifically and it glasses to individual re- quirements.

LARK & CO. SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS TAK BLOGS, CHATER RD

HONGKONG

HONGKONG & MANILA

MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA (Mitsubishi Co.)

COAL DEPARTMENT.

•

"Oh, Sergeant, your watch is pretty AN EXPERIENCE AT THE FRONT reliable, what is the Brigade tide 1 Five-

twenty t

that'll do!" You righty. stane plante la staring was that all 1 with & rush. of words to the mouth. W Had you toiled through the and battled with the storm simply be cause the Adjutant wanted the time

SOLE PROFALTORS OF Well, no words could do justice to the situation, not even soldier's words, and

AKASHIMA, OCHL MUTABE. it has been found unwise to allude to the

KISHIDAKS YOSHINOTANI undoubted ancestry of all Adjuta

Adjutants; 50 you salute vengefully in silence, stumble HOJO,NAMAZUTA, SAYO, KANADA, cut into the storm, and drag beck. Hero SINNEW, KAMIYAMADA. BIBAI you hunch yourself on the ground, sit-

It is a cat light, and word is brought that the Adjutant wants to see me. It is pouring with rein, and the Adjutant's tent is some four yards away, the other side of a muddy morass Wondering why any Adjutant was ever permitted to live. I peel off my water proof and struggle up in the downpour, making peering efforts to scramble auch of my effects as are not already soaked under my waterproof.

Then I set off, plugging my way through mud half knee high every step means a dugging strain before the rear bont is released from the gripping mud, and then it comes away with an ozy gasp, and seems to weigh fifty pounds before it is lifted high over the glistening surface, swung forward, and dropped, When it sinks deeply simply by its own weight. Then commences the drag, for the other leg. And so it goes on, what time the icy rain sleets between your turned-up collar and your neck, until a rivalet is gathered, and this descends in little for runs down our back,

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ting on your pack, with your back to the & OYUBARI COLLIERIES sheet closely around you, and just Jashing rain, eluteh

your waterproof | "thole" until six o'clock, when by some djinnétia the cook will have evolved some hot ten-the nectar of the gods- and this, with a piece of bully and ́a. bis- cuit, set you up for the day.

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OLD ARMY TOUCH.

DRILLING THE NEW ARMY.

WHAT THE NEEGEANT BALD.

"Squad -ahun-as-you-were! Bquad--shuż ...

Yard north-easter" laps your you were

overcoat

Right-dress

Squad-number-as-you-were

23.

Squad-number" „..

Squad-number. Squad-stundatexju. Wake up there, Number Three. I'm sorry they the made you get out of bed so early this

mornin' and Ill do my best to see that

ozi

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about your knees and Dearly sways you over, gets under the Under the steel helmet and awaing rim of your

kad back, exposing to slapping rain the little bit of thesat you have been able to keep warm, whilst the it don't occur again, but meanwhile you fastening strap, under your chin, strait must knock off the rest of your ed by the pulling helmat, cute sharply beauty sleep till I've done with you. MANILA. Messrs Macoadray

guns are roaring all round, and Why, blimey 1 Look at you) You ain't

and again the sir thump; every now

fol-

Co. What do you mean by coming dressed. lowing the explosion throws you for

Alf dressed Yes SINGAPORE: Mesare Borneo Co. parade ward on to

which your hands, sink till

153 you I'm

Number the mud reaches your elbows. Choking You

king to,

Three

Ltd. fit to

seen. Look with exasperation at the foolishness of

at-badge. it all, you carefully unstick yourself

No. don't take yer GLASGOW. Messrs A. R Brown. and

t of. Soldiers never takes their 'ats off plough on, the mud and water dripping for rothing nor nebody. Did you clean from your fingers, bufeted and that there badge this morning 1 No. 1

McFarlane & Co, Ltd, penting you labour forward euraing the thought not. Adn't time, adn't you! Kaiser, the war, the Adjutant, and the But what about last night I tell whole silly scheme of things, and won what it is, my lac

Jou You don't care. dering if you will ever fnd yourself in a

That's what it is. You don't'd

care whether Christian bed again, dry and warm, and we lose this 'ere war or pot. If a million listening snugly to the rush of the rain blinkin Germans landed on the East on the windows.

Coast to-morrow. I don't believe you'd | :

your at badze. Oh, you would, the quicker you remem- you Well, th

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All this time you are in a hurry, the ber to do itnow the more I shall love Steamers calling at SEBATTIK or BANDARAN exclusively for SILIMPO. Adjutant has sent for you, and the AC- Don't you never forget that if a soldier's FUN ODAT (either cargo or Bankets)jutant, like Independent Jimmy, is not a badge ain't polished be's filthy. Doesn't not the man, you think, despairfully, is badge is dirty, a's dirty, and dirt of "much blandishment; certainly matter 'ow clean 'is face and 'ands in it who would appreciate a merry quip, for is what we can't stand in the Army. instance about the weather. Arrived at What are you been doing to your face,

BETARËSHID A.D, '1987, the swaying tent that protects the Pre Number Fire! You don't mean to tell sance, you stand unsteadily and wait a me you've been a shavin' of yourself with FRON STEEL, METAL and HAKI few moments till your heart steadies an Army razor What You avel WARE MERCHANTS, Wholesale Charts of Sibuto Bay (Sebatti"Ear-down and your breath comes without & Did you wear a beard afore you joined and Retail Ironmongers. Fig Iron and bour); Prices and all other information geap, and then step in-you are aware Well, what did you shave yourself with Foundry Coke Importere. Gecoral Stores concerring the Port can be had on that you are not in the least like a clean, Why didn't, you bring it with you then repers and, Shipohandlers Nis. 85 and spplication to the Agents.

trim, clever soldier; in fact, you feel like Get the man that sita over a fire in the road one given to you 1 of comme ou 37, Erse LoomS STREET, (2nd Street, wek

gets one given to you, But that at for of Central Market) Telephone No. 518.5 st night. But you have got there. shaving, that's for kit inspections. You

Hongkong September 4, 171. write oms for your rator, can't lave been dooellin' with bread knives. That's recruita walkin'about lookin' as if they'd a German game, that is, and we don't want none of it 'ere.

That are you! grinnin' at Number Six? I don't 'old but orrible ain't the word for your grin. ith personal remarks as a general rule, If you saw it yourself you'd never smile again. You keep that grin for the 'Uns. I shouldn't be surprised if it won you a medal then. But you won't go winning

medals,

my lad, unless

ess you fixes

your puttees better than that. They took

like steel shavings ol'n than anything I ever aco...

They

got tacks in

too, like a baby's hib, and they hangs

Find of helpless like your grandad's

Blimey! I never sce such

I puttees. got very mach to fasten Javen't.]

'em pa to, but you mast do better than

that third tren tunic but ton, Number Nine? I know all about

True, the rain drops from the peak of your cap and from your nose, but there les faint glow of satisfaction at having done your daty, at having conquered the storm; you are solcher, and what with ever the upshot you feel that you have acquired merit. A dripping salute and LONDON DIRECTORY. [an attempt to click the heels smartly

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Part II-Reptiles, Amraíbia and

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to turn, their toes was made to geese trad

the

even when staring at eas but not so the 'uman being Band-Eyes

front, Number Two. There's one thing I want to warn you against, my lads,

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