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INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

NOTICN

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INTIMATIONS

LOST.

NETTER DOG, black and white, black and tan head. Finder will be

ON and lich transaction of rewarded on returning to

HOURS for the

business by the Hongkong Savings Bank

will be 10 13 to 12-Nõox, Saturdays included.

For the HONGKONG & SILANGFLAT

BANKING CORPORATION.

IN, J. STABB

Chief Managers

Bongkong, March 8, 1917.

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E. G. HEGARTY

Hongkong & Shanghai Bank. Hongkong, March 9, 1917.

NOTICE

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THE EXCHANGE BANKS beg to intimate to Shippers that, in view of the delay of Mails to Europe and the necessity for utilizing three routes" |BILES and all relative documents sont

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED & REDUCED.it

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tha:

the TRANSFER BOOKS, of the

Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, 1st March to SATURDAY, 31st March, 1917, both days inclusive.

The retum of Capital of 89.50 per share will be paid to Shareholders on and after the 13th March. 1917, on presentation of Share Certificates for Badorsement

By Order of THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hoogkook, Feb. 22, 1017.

1523

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU FACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED

TELE. THIRTY-THIRD ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at St. George's Buildings Charter

·Bonth

Victoria on SATE

RDAY the 10th March, 2017 at 11.30 o'clock in

the forenoon for the purpose of resiving Statement of Accounts and the Report

of

the

the General Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1916 and electing Consulting Committee und Auditors. The TRANSFER BOOKS of Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the ath March, 1911, until SATURDAY, the 10th Magch, 1917, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. General Managers. Hongkong, Feb., 28, 1917,

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WAR LOANE INVESTMENT TRUST OF MALAYA

-ÇLSCORPORATED IN THE FEDERATED,

YALAY STAN).

CAPITAL $15,000,000. ---

In shares ut $10/- each (Straits currency)

fully paid

for negotiation must be drawn in TRIPLICATE instead of in duplicate as beretofore.

Hongkong, March 3, 1917.

1548

QUEEN MARYS. NEEDLEWORK GUILD.

ADY MAY, "President of the Guild in this Colony, invites all Ladies interested in the organisation of working parties for war work-whether in connection with the War Charities Committee or not-to attend a MEET- ING at GOVERNMENT HOUSE on WEDNESDAY, 5th March at 10.30 AM. for the discussion of matters of general

interest

Hongkong, Feb. 28, 1917.

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THUESDAY,

the 8th March, at 2 to 6 pm

Admission $1.00.

LADY MAY will present the Prizes at 3 p.

FRIDAY, the 9th March, at 10.30 to 3 p.m. Admission 50 cents.

at 3. to 6-p.m. Admission 20 cents. The Band of the 18th Punjabía will

ably on the Ground.

pany on both days. Ten will be obtain

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TRE Shurts bear interest at the rate DAIRY FARM NEWS,

of 6% per annum which together with repayment of capital in fall on quidation is guaranteed by the Govern ment of the Federatel Malay States.

Interest accrues from the 1st day of the month following the date on which sabarriptions are received and will be paid half yearly on 1st January and 1st

on

of the prospectus and forms of applications for shares can be obtained from and subscriptions will be received by, any of the following Banks.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF L.A. & CHINA, THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING

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Hongkong, Jan. 9, 1917.

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The compulsory militia system is in force, and exemption from service has Leen minimised rigidly since the out break of war. The period of annual training varies from 30 to 15 weeks, according to length of service and qualifications.

Pre-war figures gars the affective permanent strength of the Portuguese army as 32,000 of all ranka, with

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British Henifquarters in the bring the total up to 150,000. A

reserves which, on mobilisation, would TAKASHIMA, OCH MUTALE, KISHIDAKI YOSHINOTANĮ, Field, France, Jan. 6.

Fortugniese division, on war strength, BOJO, NAMAZUTA, SAYO.KANADA, Today I have been in the company consists of three brigades of BHINMEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBAI of some of the officers of the Portuguese battalion ch, with a regiment of

KOYUBARI COLLIERIES- Expeditionary Force in France, and vary, engineers, and 48 feld guns of the 75m.m: pattern. The heavy artillery came away particularly impressed by, is aseparate organisation. The Divisional the soldierly startness and remarkable Commander is a lieutenant-general zeal, as well as the excellent physique Reuter. of all the members of the group.

The party belonged to the artillery branch and were attending a lecture- or I might more correctly describe it as archatty description dealing with some of the special features of trench warfare on the Western front. The lecturer, who was a British liaison oficer, spoke in French, and it was easy to see by the manner in which his hearers followed him, with maps and notebooks. spread before them, frequently interjecting queries or exchanging comments, that they very clearly grasped all that was said.

"EAGER TO LEARN MORE.

Indeed, those of our officers who have come in contact with the Portuguese speak highly of their military training and efficiency. But it is man however thoroughly sokliers may have learnt their business ander peace con-

HEALTH OF FIELD ARMIES.

"

A medical correspondent points out that in his recent dispatch Sir Douglas Haig made a statement which is certain ly among the most sensational ever put He forth by a Commander in the fold.

aid: The health of the troops has been most satisfactory, and, during the period to which this despatch refers, there has been an almost complete absence of wastage due to diseases of preventable nature." That boast is unique in the history of the world The old wars were the starting-points of zil manner of plagues and epidemics. The bis- tory of war was also the history of disease. nor were these two ever separated. In the Spanish-American War thousands of Toung men were swept away by

typhoid

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of cent. the total casualties.

BINGAPORE: Mesra Borneo Co. The Japanese in their war with Bus- The uniformia very similar to that of sia, thanks to care and foresight, rever

Ltd. the French Army, but with a slighted that proportion. They lost but 20 elusive grey tint in the blue colour per cent to disease, but even 10

so it WILA schema Rank stripes are worn on the grievous loss. In the Balkan warn all cufa of the tunic in the French fashion, the lessons which Japan taught the days, and collars and shoulder straps. Overcoatsmall voice in those fierce days, and are of the British khaki pattern, and the ever, pestilence walked with the marching man and brought the strength. cap is very similar to that worn by our of the strongest to rain. The man who troops, except that it is blue. The has done this is the scientist-the man officers wore Sam Browne waist-belta, who has been accused of lacking the

ORDER I noticed a piping of red around the world were forgetten. Science had bat

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LESSONS IN ÜHINEAL. ME LI KON FAN, A Chinese gradiente versei la Berzine, bas been teacher to Europens

Officials and chats in the colony for ten years

He has a good method of training" Europeans to

with cross slings, and brown leggings. generous impulses of his fellows, who has I gather that the kit, and indeed the been reviled as an experimenter and tor- whale equipment of the Portugiese worthlom knowledge, who has often been tarer of animals, a callous seeker after

For Particulars, apply to

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Hanager.

No. 2 PRODJE SELLES,

Hospita a

Expeditionary Force, has been designed persecuted, has nearly always had to face SINGON & CO.

has almost invariably

with a special view to service require great ments on the Western front, and, from besad, sng as these things what little I have thus far seen, it are measured nowadays, has had only should prove thoroughly satisfactory. secendrate honours doled out, to him

PENINSULAR WAR MEMORIES. '**

when it became absolutely necessary to

ESTAKLISTING A.D. 1880,

Wholecals

honour him. He is the man who has TRON STEEL METAL and HARD I understand that the officers are saved battalions to the Army, preserved WARE MERCHANTS. bighly pleased at the cordiality of the countless bomes from bereavement, and Retail Ironmongers, Pig Irm ani reception they bars met with since husbanded the young strength of the Foundry Cake Importers. Gener 1 Store their arrival. They talk freely about country, and by so doing sharpened all keeper and Shipchaudler Sies. 35 and the Peninsular War, displaying a know- the weapons of war. One of the most 87, Erse Loose Braz, (Sud Stree", weat ledge of the fighting and incidents in the Medical Research Committee of the

agencies in this work has been of Central Market Telephons No. 515. potent that campaign which is surprisingly National Insurance Act. The War Office

Hongkong September 4, 1915... intimate.

has freely acknowledged the immense deht it owes to this committee, which, Fletcher, has risen at a bound to the under the secretaryship of Dr.

W.M.

very front rank of scientific organisa-

Although it is obviously impossible, particularsas to the strength and charac for military reasons, to give any

pant is the Chinese examination, and in posed tez of the force our Portuguese Ally is tions and become in a true sense the

of a test rate cortilicata se a. Chinese teacher. H

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JRES ABY

War economy has evidently made its need falt in the vicarage as well as in the private house. A clergyman's little BOD went to stay at a friend's house. The next morning he was asked to say gracel As he bentated, his hort, endeavouring to help, said,Say what father says before" hreskfast." Thus encouraged, the boy began: "Go easy with the bacon- it's eighteenpensa a pound."..

AMI Y NECESSITY:

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with Chamberlain's Fain Balm at al times. zins may be cured in much less time when promply treated Lamo basic@lame khonl

paine if the aids.

and cheet and rhéima no pains see some of the diseased, for which it is especially This atraent and became

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