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INTIMATIONS

THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN &

MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

THE TWENTY-FIRST ORDINARY TANNUAL MEETING SEARE HOLDERS in the Company will be beld at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Buildings No. & Connaught Road, on THURSDAY, the 28th Febru

1918, at 11.30 A., for the purpose of receiving & Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers far the year ending 31st December, 1917 and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors,

The TRANSFER BOURS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAT, the 50th February, 1918, MAYI TEURSDAY, the 25th February: 118, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

Genwal Managers, Hongkong, Feb. 16, 1018..

EONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

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THE ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY HEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Company's Hotel FRIDAY, the far March, 1915, ** 1215 F. for the purpose of receiving Bimtement of Accounts to 31st December, 1917, with the Report of the Directory and to discuss any matter that may be mpetently brought before the Meeting. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 22nd February to 1st March, 1916, both day" inclusive

By Order of the Board.

J. H. TAGGART,

Secretary. Hongkong. Feb. 15, 1918.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

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THE FINAL DIVIDEND DECLARED for the Year ending 31st December, 1917, at the rate of Two Pounds Three Shillings Sterling, together with u Bonus of Une Pound Sterling per Share, is payable on and Alter MONDAY, the 25th day of February, Current, at the Offices of the Corporation, where -Bhareholders are requested to apply fer Warrants.

By Jrder of the Court of Directors,

. J. STAEE

Chicy Manager.

Hongkong, Fab. 13, 1918.

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THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

NOTICE ORDINARY GENERAL

ON

INTIMATIONS

LOST.

CHOR DOG, sre

SUNDAY 14th, in Peak District months. Reward if returned to

R. YLOQUET, 1 Princes Building. Hongkong, Feb. 15, 1918.

N

WANTED.

ELECTRICAL or MARINE ENGINEER is required as a Shift Engineer at the Generating Station of the HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Wanchai.

Apply in writing accompanied by details of experience and copies of testimonials to.-

THE MANAGER HOXOXONO ELECTRIC CO., LTD..

81. George's Buildings. Hongkong, Feb. 20, 1918.

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* DIOCESAN · BOYS'S CHOOL AND ORPHANAGE.

SCHOOL DUTIES WILL BE

RESUMED on 1st March.

For Terms Sc apply to

THE HEADMASTER. Hongkong, Feb. 25, 1918,

NOTICE

PEAK HOTEL.

MIXTURE

YOSHO

CAPS

173

TOTICE is hereby given that Me. NOTICE is her Bonnection with

the PEAR HOTEL, as Manager, censes As from the 28th inst.

It is desired to balance the accounts of the Hotel as from that date. All persons to or from whom monies are duo are therefore requested to send in their claims or pay the sens due from them forthwith.

A..FINDLAY SUITE, Proprietor,

PEAK. FOTEL

Bongkong, Feb. 25, 1918.

HONGKONG HOTEL. -

HO

THE CHINA MAIL.

To make sales is not enough you must make friends?

CAPSTAN

NAVY CUT

TOBACCO & CIGARETTES

HAVE BEEN MAKING: FRIENDS FOR YEARS

WD&HO WILLS

Capstan Navy Cut) and Mixture

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Capstan

Cigarettes

RACE WEIE, INNER DANCES will be held on De following nights, open to

Residents and Diners in the Hotel :-

MONDAY, 25th February, TUESDAY, 18th February, WEDNESDAY, 27th February,

and

SATURDAY, End March.

Table d'Hôte Menus will be served ne follows:-

.

GRILL ROOM $3.50 per head. DINING ROOM $2.00 per head. (The Ordinary Grill Boom "à Is Carte" Menu will be withdrawn on each of the above evenings), a

The usual bi-wookly Tea Dances WILL NOT BE HELD on the follow- ing days-

FRIDAY, 2nd February,

and TUESDAY, 28th February,.

FRIDAY, 1st March.

MEETING of the KowLoos LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED will be beld at the Registered Odice of the Company, Victoria Building, Hongkong, but will be RESUMED on

on FRIDAY, the 8th day of March, 1918, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon which Resolution when the subjoined was passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 30th day of February, 1918, will be submitted for confirmation as Special Besdiution-

J. H. TAGGART, Hanager. Hongkong, Feb. 19, 1918.

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"That the Articles of Association be KING EDWARD HOTEL altered in manner following —

(4) That the word "two" be substituted for the word "three" in the definition of "The Board" in Article . (6) That the word "two be substituted

for the word "three" in Article 72 f) That the word "one" be substituted for the word "two" in lines one and two of Article 78 and that the word shell be substituted for the word "others" and the word "his" for the word "their" in line two of Article 70 and the word "member be substituted for the word "mem- bers" in line three of Article 76. That the word "Director" be sub stituted for the word "Directors" in Article 77.

uther

(That Es word "Director" be sub-

stituted for the word "Directors" in fine four of Article 79.

That the word "signature" be sub- stituted for the word "signatures in lines 1,3 and 4 of Article 69 and that the word "one" bo sabatituted for the word tend the word "Director" for the word Directors" in line one of Article 80

That the words “band of que of the Director be Aubertitated for the words" hands of two at the Directors in line of Article 10. Dated the 10th day of February, 1918.

By Order of the Board,

A BHELTON- HOOFER, Semetary to TEX HONGLONG LAND INTECHENT &

DULUXcy Co., LD, Comaral Agents for the Company.

NOTICE

Central Location,

LL KEITEN TRAX Pam Entrance, Electrle Lifts, Fans and Lighting, Europeas Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water Sytem throughout Best of Food and Service,

· TELEPHONE 573. TELEGRAPHIC ADDEEN,

VICTORIA.

J. WITCHELL,

Manager.

ALFRED HYNDMAN 43 Wyndham Street Has for tale

"Constant growth signifies constant.

merit

Sold in Mild, Medium and Full Strengths.

Sold in Medium Strength only. Packed in packets of 10 and 20 and in tins of 50 Cigarettes.

This advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.

With the coffee, the cloud rolled awSY

RETURN OF THE CHIKUZEN MARU,

THE SIMPLE DINNER.

not on the cocking power of the house.

[EY GEORGE EDGAR IN THE

DAILY NEWS."]

A FEW TRACES OF THE MISSING HITACHI MAEU FOUND.

and Mix Jockin sighed as one does

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY S

INTIMATIONS

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TIEXTEN, NORTH CHINA,

YOU

YOU will see the mark of Montgomery Ward and who knows that anything worse cannot Company on boxes and crates of quality merchandise in ports

happen.

Always one remembered that Jerking, the world over. For more than fifteen years we have exported to One valuable lesson the war is teachitha mighty effort. And delightful manifestly at his ense, was being easy

a

them, was not showing signs of mental

Owing to the rapid growth of our business in the Far East, collapse. She was simply playing the and the greatly increased demand for our Catalogue, we zow smiling hostess with a mind on the temperature of the fish, the progres of keep a supply of our latest issue at the following Offices: the sauces and the appalling risks being run by vegetables.

"

All the time one had visions of the tzwill, whons, duty was to wait at table,

T. B. TOLMAN, 911 URBIZTONDO, MANILA

AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY WELLS FARGO & CO. EXPRESS

The Chikusen Mara, which went in search of the missing Eper Hitachi ing with inexorable paraistenes day by Mrs. Jorians, when she started stories consumers and merchants in nearly every corner of the globe, Mary, has returned to Kobe from day-the lesson of simplicity. The or "conversation, and never finished Singapore. The Chitan Mari loft war is altering a habit of mind. Whereas Kobe on 27th November, and, after in 1914 the people of this country were making a close search in the locality where it is supposed by some parties always wondering what more they could that the Hitachi may have disappeared, have, now they are preoccupied with proceeded to Colombo. After a short much aaner problem of living what can stay there she went on to the Maldive we do without! The simplified dinnar

MANILA Lalande and Lacundive Islands. On the southermost of the Laceadive of today are making thousands of The dinner, by a pleasing action, was

HONGKONG, Irlands, vix, Sethalipar Island, news small hostesses happier and their being dished by the rest of the staff- was obtained that some fietssm had happiness is breeding a new content-non-existent. And curse by course,

SHANGHAI. been picked up by the natives. These cat in the kitchens of houses where the tired maid came up with the pluck of an old-tima prizefighter, breathing articles were 3 pieces of foton, 20 pairs only a single servant in kept.

Before war broke out I hesitated to bard, but determined; battling courage.

Write to-day to the nearest office for a free copy of our of zori, and a case containing 130

of Articles pounds of cocoanuts marked "F. Los- dine with Jorkice. Jorkins is an excel-ously, but losing power round by round. don," which was identified as having tent fellow with delightful wife, but Partial failure with a course was success handsome Catalogue, illustrating Thousands o been taken on board by the Hitachi at somehow he had a fixed notion, with A cold potato was a compromise, its Colombo, and placed in the upper which his wife agreed; that if he asked non-appearance only a confession of American Manufacture at money-saving prices. In it we part of ber No. 3 hatch. According to me to dine with him at home I expected utter breakdows.

Today I dine with Jorkins with explain full details of our favourable shipping arrangements and the natives of the island one of the two the elaborate service. I should get in the steamers that took refuge there for about West-end. I do not know whether pleasure. My friend is really at his aweek was a Germaucommerce destroyer, Jorkins developed the same ides in esse. My hostess, radiant with charm, low carload rates to the Orient. the other may possibly, have been the connection with all his guests, but I do never leaves the table. The real houss- Hitachi Mars. The later was damaged know he tortured his household by maid breathes normally, is not highly about the bridge and stern, and working it out before me, and, incident coloured, and smiles as the handles the appeared to have been undergoing ally, he tortured his guest. There repairs. The Botasm, the natives not much in the trappings of the table,

No matter where you live, it will pay you to get our cata- Boid,

on Senballpar for the sensible man, either way, as long སྐན་ཎཿbdtt several days after the two reedels left as the elementary decencies are observed. together. The officers of the Chikuren But one thing always does make me custard biscuits and cheese; coffee in flogue and place a trial order. We absolutely guarantee safe made the greatest efforts to obtain more uncomfortabla; and that is the pretent the drawing-room, any time after. A

four menu served in the restaurant meal well within the compass of a small delivery. manner in a small villa or flat, where housebold, and good enough for any the kindly mount one servant is kept, or two at the most. guest, it makes That is why I did not begin to enjoy suburban dinner pleasure to all, an evening with Jörkins until dinner including the maid, and not a long was over drawn out agony..

Borkins used to feel it his duty, to

CARBON PAPER at 1.00 per dosen particulars from the natives, "but

sheets,

wing to the difficulty of making then selves understood, in the absence of an BIBBONS at $1.80 cach

interpreter, they were not able to get INDERTAKES to clean and repair inch information About 7 days were Typewritem at $15.00 per machine spent there in apparently neeless toil. While the Chien was in the neigh aeroplanes manned by three Flying grand mannersherry and bitters"; 3276 Lieutenants assisted in the search, and hors d'ouvre, selection, or perhaps

For particulars apply to the above bourhood of the Lacendives two diepenae hospitality in the professionally

ddress

Hongkong, Nov. 7. 1917,

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

SAUSAGES.

BAUSAGES.2

Tariety to snif all Taster.

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OXFORD HAUBAGES,

CAMBRIDGE SALA

FORK!

OTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that NMP.G. LEUNG LEUNG in cho hs LƯỢNG NGOK 1 cô longer in our employment since the 11 Instant Henceforth, all money! for debts due to us by say-of in payment: Aur respostable customers should handed to the Undersigned and NOT

to the said P. G. LEUNG THE LEUNG

LIM CHO alias LEUNG NGOK

ha no authority to receive esiDO

receipts for payments should:

proper Cosh Heceipt Chop,

they shall not be treated a

cially notifiek so as ate in future:

BEEF

LIVER

BOLOGNE, HEAD CHEESE. BLACK PUDDING. WHITE

SAVARESSES

SANTAL CAPSULES

a destroyar also lent valuable help. On oysters, trying to disguise the length

In addition to our large freight shipments, wo export more plates. Menu A home-made soup from than five hundred Parcal Post packages every day. the stock, of the character of Scotch broth; matton, potato balls, and the inorit tion Brussels argouta; stewed apples and

MONTGOMERY WARD AND COMPANY CHICAGO, U.S.A.

her way home the Chismes left Colombo el time rings they are opened THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LD.

the fish shop i sops ready. for Singapore on 19th Jannery at arrived at Singapore, on the 26th, and made distillation from the stores thence failed direct for Kobe on the quite good and sometimes warm

fishsually turbos with a chill. 29th

Here the sauce broke down. A joint, probably cooked to a turn, but, also, the regetables and the since never quite bit it. It is surprising the troskis that can happen in cooking potate: Usually the entrée succeeded-time, both in the afternoon and during the dinner, was on ite sida And then onwards, Jorkin dinner was safets, cheese, fruit, collée, liqueurs only put a strain on the service and the tablo equipment, and

LOSING WEIGHT BY THE POUND

"Under Weight," a Condition of fi-kealth; shows your susitas Hativo powers are dreccssing

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED: COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND

BEWARE OF CULDA

CHILDREN are much more likely to thecontagious diseases when they have colds. Whooping cough

That

carlattover, and, con

ion are hisesses that are often

Swim the Chi

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