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INTIMATIONS

NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION). (Incorporated in England.)

UNREDEEMED BANK NOTES.

TOTICE 1 HEREBY GIVEN that any OUTSTANDING NOTES will be paid on presentation in the under- signed on or before SATURDAY, 29th September, at Noon.

AFTER THAT DATE, kolders wil And it necessary to claim repayment in STEALING from the BOARD OF TRADI LONDON, to whom the necessary furdis will be remittmi.

THE BOARD OF TRADE make a charge for payment of claims an af monies deposited in the COMPANIES LIQUIDATION ACCOUNT" "the Bank of Eligland,

A. R. LOWE," Ligulator.

Chartered Bank Building.

Hongkong. August 17, 1017

2010

THE HONGKONG ROFE MANU FACTURING CO., LTD.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE A DOLLAR (3 per share for account 1917, will be payable on FRIDAY, the 2h Angust. 1017. Share- holders ars repostal to apply for Dividend, Warrants at the Company's Ofice, St. George's Buildings, Hongkong,

TRANSFER BOOKS of the

The will be CLOSED, from;

MONDAY, the 29th August, 1917, to FRIDAY, 24th August, 19.7, both days inclusive,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. General Managers. "Hongkong, August 19, 1917. 2026

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON LIMITED. ESTABLISHED 1835.

Incorporate in Hongkong.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Union Insurance Society of Canton Limited.will be held at the Head Office of the Society Nos.. 3 and 4 Queen's Buildings, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong on SATURDAY. the 1st day of September, 1917 at 12 o'clock noon for the purpose of proposing, considering and, if thought fit, passing the following Resolution viz:-

"That the provisions of the Society's Memorandum of Association with respect to its objects be altered so as to read as shown in the print signed for the parpose of identi fication by the Chairman of this Meeting.

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Should the above Resolution be passed hy the requisite majority, it will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Resolution to

to Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be sub- General

quently convened.

A print of the Memorandum as pro- posed to be altered can be seen at the Head Office of the Society...

Dated this 18th day of August, 1017.

C. H. P. HAY, per pro. flenscal Manager,

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the State right to share in any larger profits, there would be much greater inducement for the investing public to widen their field of operations.

280 A SQUARE FOOT,

. .

A DEAR BIT OF LONDON,

Mr. H. M. Stanley of Threadneedie

Another after-the-war proposition The following suggestia article is

worth considering is the establishment street, EC. was successful in disposing taken from the Malay Mail:-

of a State Loan Bank which would be of the old George and Vulture, the "The Australian Federal Ministry are worked on the borrow and lend system: historic inn of Georgs Yard, Lombard Street, picco of Deutsche Bank pro- considering, according to the Melbourne The State would borrow on Bond issues,

from the public at six per cent. and lead at perty, which failed to reach the reserve at auction recently. The parchaser was Agr, a scheme providing for an expandi

6 and 7 per cent. The loans to planters a London bank. ture over a teria of years of at least would be taken over by the Loan Bank, £10,000,000 for the establishment of but this would be only one of its lines of

At present the man with ernment supervision.

HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY,actories under joint private and Gov-business.

hundred acres of first-class rubber in

LIMITED.

NOTICE.

MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS

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The German bank's sale," said Me Stanley, "coupled with other recent transactions, satisfies me that the value of City property with possession-that ready for immediate occupation is The scheme bearing who requires, say, $20,000 to as high dr possibly higher than it was Thetees the creation of a national build himself a house or to provide for before the war. Sty own view is that: industrial department. This form of relations elsewhere, can only obtain it by the Deutsche Bank at 2200,000 fetched THE ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY | State aid might well be adopted in the going to a chetty and paying chetty very good price. Property bought not will be held at the Companys Botel on F.M.S. At present the whole prosperity rates of interest. His estate is practically for occupation but as investment

valueless as security. The Banks won't selling so well as before the war. There SATURDAY, 1ST SEPTEMBER, 1917 at of the country depends on the price of touch it. There are sound ressons for is too much competition in other direc a statement of Accounts of the Company rubber and tin." There are practically this, but the State ought to stand by its the site value of City land," adderi to 30th June, 1917, with the report of no manufactures. Japan has established main industry. If the State is prepared the auctioneer is still £50 a square foot the Directors and to discuss matter that may be competently brought before rubber factories for the manufacture of to risk its money on non-productive in the best position, but increases rapid the Meating

rubber goods. Why should there not station it may reasonably be expected ly as the distance from certain markets to advance on developed estates, rather and runs increases. Ten yards may The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

be such a factory on the spot where the than allow such properties to be valueless make a difference of $15 a foot; land. will sell at £20 a foot within an eighth Company will be CLOSED from "25th

of a mile of land worth £80.

There are August, 1917 to 1st September, 1917, raw material is produced! It would as a security. House building in a

country like this ought to certain districts in which s man must both days inclusive.

have the Indian, Australian and China new

receive every encouragement.Loans have his office if he is going to ena markets close at hand. The Dunlop for building advanced as the buildings living, and he will pay well to get there." people might be induced to start such progressed would do

1115 P.M. for the purpose of receiving

By Order of the Board.

́J. H. TAGGART,- Manager & Secretary,

2052

Hongkong, August 22, 1917.

SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION of the

PAPER PULP MILL.

Situated at VIETRY, (TONKIN).

much to

SAYINGS OF A WEEK.

a factory: Then take furniture. I encourage land owners to embark on Although there is much excellent this form of enterprise. Sanitary

Boards might also be accommodated I have no hesitation in mying that if timber in this country, most of the with money for pablic worka by State we all do our part, the German sub furniture in local use is made in SingaLoan Bank Judging from the F.M.S. marine will be almost as great a failure" pore of imported wood, and it may six per cent. War Loan and its present sa the German Zeppelin-Mr Lloyd take the best part of two months to price in the market, there is a strong. George.

I am not

the term to use propiared divine righ

right with regard to any insti- get an order fullled One or two probability that not only would all the Loan Bank capital for future business

Balfour. factories furniture

sound be supplied by the public, but that the WA establish in industrial life a BIS MILL is built upon a property

measuring 144,000 sq. meters, and basis ought to pay well in the Government money now on loan to system whereby both parties have n consists of the following buildings and F.M.S. Again, why should we import planters would flow back to the direct interest in the introduction of im- machinery-

vast quantities of cement, which ought Treasury as more and more Government proved methods-Ur. Addison

Up to the time of the war those of us bonds were taken up by the investing 1. EIGHT brick-buildings, with iron

a20 lived south of the Tweed were not pillars and beams. Corrugated iron to be made locally? If there is an

public, here and elsewhers.

nation-Lord Crewe. roofs. Two sheds with corrugated Industrial Department here,

Director would no doubt find out all, making industry, în

iron roof.

2. PLANT & MACHINERY of the

kind required for making Paper about the paper makin .pulp.

3 TWO European residences.

on

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the

India and Japan with a view to starting

a similar industry here if it was feasible.

The above Property will be sold by Carriage-building (motor car bodies) is Public Auction at PHU-THO (Tonkin, another line which might justify.one on the 1st day of September, 1917.

RESERVE PRICE $100,000 (One central factory. The Chinese only Hundred Thousand. Dolars Indo-China want teaching by European experts Currency)

Further particulars may be obtained Their railway carriage building work is on application to the undersigned,

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THE RENT FROBLEM IN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENT.

PROPOSED ORDINANCE."

A Bill has beert introduced in the Straits Settlements to deal with the rear problems that

bat a Bent

Assessment Board shall be established for exch excellent. With a primitive plant Municipality and Rural Area within the CH: DE LANBALUT, nikler cover of a few attap sheds Colony, consisting of auch persons, s Solicitor for the Liquidator, mccessful beginning has been may be appointed by the Governor by

notification in the Gastic and the follow Haiphong. gkong August 4 1017. 2012

made here, in the construction ofing is the leading provision of the nettor tile and concrete pipes.

With sufficient capital, plant, staff, and

Bill

Where the rent of any dwelling house

or part of a dwelling-house to which this

in the right position caar, 6 railway Ordinance applies has been increased line a fine business might be developed between the first day of January, 1918,

DAIRY FARM NEWS. But private enterprise alone cannot be and the commencement of this, Ordin

CORNED BEEF.

·AND

CORNED PORK.

PUT UP IN KEGS AND BELEA

STOR

EPORT OR BzzaMens Usta

within

·2.22

ance, the tenant or subtensht may Felled on, in a country like this, to three months after the undertake these now ventures Rub thecondlord de sub landlord, ne the

Board sand that his ber-locked upon as a certainty-and

hall refund to him the tin, which is • regarded as a gamble amount by which the rent: paid exceɔde with the chance of big prizes, Ars too the amount which would have been 1 Astable had the increas not been made. point

attractive from the retur view. There is little

for anything else unles food Goverax

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may be shal

The Board may order the refund of the

of any art of such excess rent se to it seems just, provided that in o

whale

be guarna case shall a total sum, of morn the 8500

be ordered to be refunded in respect of

house and may order och made either in cos sum o

I have never seen a rovue,

and from what I know of them I don't propose to Justice Darling,

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The two chief things in a boy's life should be to say his prayers and wash the back of his neck; the one would remind him he had a soul to save, and the other the reality of the unseen. The Ray, J. Glass-

the supreme necessity for bringing: ratisation of Germany.Herr Scheide war to an end is the thorough democ

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1917.

INTIMATIONS

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