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INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

TOF MEMBERS will be held on HE HALF-YEARLY MEETING

· SATURDAY, the 11th May, 1919, at

12 o'clock Yoon, at the Offices of the

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE.

JOCKEY CLUB on the Ground for of NORTH POINT PUBLIC BATHING

the HostRoko CLUB ANNENE, Chater

·Hload.

By Order,

T. F. ROUGH, Clerk of the Courm.

Hongkong, May 4, 1918.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC "COMPANY, LIMITED.,

BEACH.

THIS BEACH 14 NOW OPEN for the use of the GENERAL PUBLIC, The Accommodation is free, with the exception of the RESERVED

387 | FORTION for which a Chargo ci Tan

Cents per Person is made..

NOTICE IS BERFRY GIVEN that

of

the TWENTY-NINTH ORDIN ARY GENERAL MEETING will be hald at the Company's Offices St. George's Buildings on SATURDAY, the 11th Day, at 13 o'clock Noos, for the purpose of prestating the Report of the Directors together with a Statement Accounts to 28th February, 1918, and electing Directors and Auditors The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be ULOSED from 19 o'clock hoop April 7th to 12 o'clock noon May 11th. By Order of the Board of Directors. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.

Agents

Hongkong, April 26, 1918.

See

THE CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAKEHOLDERS.

THE

HOLDERS of the THE FIFTEENTH YEARLY MEET

above, Company will be held at the Company's Office, St. George's Buildings, at 17 AM, on FRIDAY, the 17th May, 1818 to receive a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December,, 1917, and the Report of the General Manager and Consulting Committee, and to elect Consulting Committee and Auditor.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 4th May to the 17th May, 1918, both days inclusive.

THE CHINA-Bornzo Co, LTD. |

W. G. DARBY,

General Manager,

Hongkong, May 2, 1918. *.

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CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHULDERS.

THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDIN ARY MEETING OF SHARE FOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned on FRIDAY, the 17th May, 1918, at Noon.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 3rd May to the 17th May, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Len.

General Agenda. Hongkong, April 29, 1918.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted free to the reserved enclosure.

KENNEDY. TOWN PUBLIC BATHING BEACH.

This REACH is NOW OPEN for the use of the GENERAL PUBLIC.

The Accommodation is free.

W. CHATHAM, ` Director of Public Werks.

Public Works Department, Hongkong. May 6, 1918.

LOST.

THE CHINA MAT

"EMBASSY"

$89

A

N KOWLOON, a LIVER and WHITE POINTER DOG, answers

to the name of "MAX" Finder will be suitably rewarded on returning same to

Mr. E. V. M. R. Dɛ SOUSA,

No. 1 Ormaby Villa: Granville Road, Kowloon..

Hongkong. May 1018.

WANTED.

High-

Class

$83

Mixture

TWO MARINE ENGINEERS with Shop experience to act as Work- shop Foremen, also a Foreman Marine to take up duties in Shang Foreman Ship Boiler Maker and a

Address all communications to

bai.

X. Y. Z C/o CHINA MAI' Office Bongkong, April 10, 1918.

319

WANTED.

TROPEAN LADY, resident or daily, to look after 2 children of 7 and 8 years.

Apply-

KIRI. GALE,

100 The Peak.

Hongkong Mar. 28. 1918.

ASAHI BEER-

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winter clothing have it DRY-CLEANED to prevent damage from moths, silver- fish, grease spotting, etc. The trifling cost repays itself in the economy effected.

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AND

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NETTING A SUBMARINE.

HUMAN CREDULITY.

BIBLE.

THE ROADMEN IN FRANCE.

J

GRAPHIC STORY OF PATROL WORK. WAR PROPHECTES BASED ON THE

We'm workin'pon the Blankeourt Road

wi' shovel an' wi' pick; The Liverpool Journal of Commeres, contains the following article: A ses The credulity of the average person is An' Coryl Giles from Baterleigh direct-

ing w his stick. plane spotted a submarine iring on the amazing. At least halt a dozen people rea one long line o' traffic ap, another ats bed. Instantly the observer's finger have assured me, writes correspondent, cumbrenced to tap a key, and ten miles that the war is going to end in February, long line down for all the world like away a long lean destroyer and four asked for their reasons they reply, “It dstached themselves anya so in the Bible." The source of squs trawlers from a pack of bounds working a covert their knowledge is the Book of Reve

is made and hastened to the kill Meanwhile the lation, in which a statement seaplans circled round, but when the sbont a certain Beast whose number surface ships arrived, her instructions 668. This Beast, the sum and subate delivered by wireless,

curt of all that evil, is proved by an Acting on and precise.

them the ingenious calculation to be the Kaiser. trawlers stationed themselves at the It could equally well be proved to be four corners of a wet quadrangle, while anybody else. At any rate he is to be the destroyer kept her guns ready overthrow on the legendary field of

were

is

streets in London town. Horses an' marchin' infantry an' batteries

OR ALL

HOUSEHOLD

COAL

FOUNDRY ·AND SMELTING COKE

FIREBRIOK AND

י.

FIREOLAY

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KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

TIENTUIN, NORTH CHINA,

YOU will see the mark of Montgomery Ward and Company on boxes and crates of quality merchandise in porta the world over. For more than fifteen years we have exported to consumers and merchants in nearly every corner of the globe.

Owing to the rapid growth of our business in the Far East, o' gura Goin' up to teach good manners to the and the greatly increased demand for our Catalogue, we now

nasty-minded Uus; Lorries an wains an moty cats, fer keep a supply of our latest issue at the following Offices:

miles an miles, an' miles, "Tea like a year of market deya," says I

Giles.%

to Corp

II.

to talk to Fritz should be appear above Armageddon in forty and two months. We makes the roads, an' meads the the surface. The trawlers at the corners Dating from August 1914 the forty-

"roads, an' makes them all again.

good shower o'rain).,

of the quadrangle got out their sweeps, second month-the end of the tyrant's(The trath: tears 'em all abroad, wi' one long wire haweera of an incredible stout tether as the Daily Chronicle, fall near with a heary kite in the centre to on February 1918.

bell

keep their bights down the sea bed, It says something for the fertile im- and commenced to stesin towards each agination of the person who first con- other. As the pairs met their cocted this war prophecy that be haa wires simultaneously engaged them-been able to convinces great number of authenticity people, too, selves ander the U bont's bow and people of its

to work who do not appear to rely, in any mea. &tern and commenced thair sinuous way between her

It was then on the Bible in their ethical er spiritual difficulties, sad would probably and the ses bottom.

Two

wag their heads in disdain at the idea that a strange thing happened. round black objects seemed to detatch of say, the miracles chronicled in the themselves from her shall and flost same Testament. surfacewart's to hover a second and then to commence bobbing down the tide towards a lane much frequented by those ships which brought food, muni- tions of war and hundreds of other England's aborc. Minelayer," things to

BAGDAD LINE'S PLICHT.

We

scrapes of mud, an strows out stone bapeath the grindin' wheels.

(The sweat runs down behind our ears

we'n muck from caps to heels). Ween deal, an' bat, an' some's belt

blind an' Corp'l Giles, he's

(The

smart young gunner, laughs at

seems me a shame).

"Bet Lord; who winds'm laughin'!

If 'twant for such as we, How would em ge: their guns to front!"

says Corp'l Giles to me.

III.

They goes up sweatin' in the run, or

singin' through the rain,

t

T. B. TOLMAN, 911 URBIZTONDO, MANILA AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY MANILA,

HONGKONG, WELLS FARGO & CO. EXPRESS SHANGHAI.

Write to-day to the nearest office for a free copy of our handsome Catalogue, illustrating Thousands of Articles American Manufacture at money-saving prices. In it we explain full details of our favourable shipping arrangements and low carload rates to the Orient,

In addition to our large freight shipments, we export mon

very day.

An' when they change Divisions some than five hundred Parcel Post packages

comes singin' back again.

called the seaplane's observer. That's IN URGENT NEED OF FINANCIAL An some stays where the wooden

minute

it, lad, came the answer, but her eggs The trawlors, can wait for still steaming towards each other, now crossed and their dependent cables held

HELP.

The Bagdad Railway Company held the boat in a kind of wire cat's cradle. its annual meeting on February 1st at She seemed suddenly to wake to her Berlin under the chairmanship of Derr bound she tried von Gwynner. The accounts showed danger for with to disentangle herself from the meshes that the receipts for 1918 were less by which held her. But it was no use. The nearly £60,000 than the of the previone to 1917 trawlers had been too long at the game year. The report was silent as to leave any loopholes and the and as to the future prospects of the

Got him compon aubmarine was doomed.

The chairman said that the position of signalled the seaplane. "Thanke, ropli- ed the destroyer, "we'll give hire five the company was bad. They had with the minates to come up and breathe, but no denounced the contract longer. The time passed and still Fritz Türkish-German company which had mado no further move At a signal been entrusted with the building of the in from the destroyer the foremost trawiar line. The Bagdad Company was and the starboard after one clipped & urgent need of financial help, as the small red tin of high explosive to the Turkish Government bad not paid them wire and allowed it to slide downwards all the money that they owed. till it touched the U-boat's hell. It was the seaplane's turn to wave a flag and immediately there followed the crashing of two fista upon two firing, keys, the grising of two grey mounds of wateren i rumbling mufied explosion: The wirs" snapped in the middle. The seaplane circled twice above the patch of rising oil, ascertained that Frits had been destroyed and notified the destroyer of the fact Then with her obeezyer slip ping

cfcartridges into his machine-gunahe sped off after these objects babaing down the tide. A borst of rapid firing and the first of the devil's eggs, its buoyancy chamber punctured, sank with a gorge The second gave better show for it exploded grandly and harmlessly as the bullets reached it. The seaplane, well content, alowed on her tall and headed for home

NOW IS THE TE

than

The Man Who Gets There

Is the man who has blood--

rich red blood and plenty of it. Iz kis body.

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LEVER OIL COMPOUND

makes blind-

„giving, brdo vmourial

sffength replenishing blood.

crosses mark the last advance.

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

our cate (There's lines of little crosses all acrologue and place a trial order. We absolutely guarantee

the North France).

An past the singin muddy boys the

Red Cross motora ga, pedal delivery, Packed full o quiet bandaged forms, so

milin' very slow..

It makes eu sad

An' yet, you knows, if warn't for such as we. The rounded worldn' ride so smooth,"

aaya Corp'l Ciles to me.

MONTGOMERY WARD AND COMPANY,

CHICAGO, U. §. A.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., ED.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, MANIFESTO" HONGKONG

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