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INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG JOOKEY CLUB

THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING

OF MEMBERS will be held on SATURDAY, the 11th May, 1018, at 1 o'clock Noon, at the Offices of the JOCKEY CLUB on the Ground floor of the HONGKONG CLUB ANNEXE, Chater Road.

By Order,

LI

T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Course.

- Hongkong, May 4, 1918..

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC

COMPANY, LIMITED. -

38**

NOTICE ENFEIN LOND

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

ARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Offices, St. George's Buildings on SATURDAY, the 21th May, at 12 o'clock Noos, for the

rpose of presenting the Repert of the Directors together with a Statement Accounts to 28th February, 1918, and keting Directors and Auditors. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company ill be CLOSED from 12 o'clock noon April 7th to 12 o'clock noon May 11th- By Order of the Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & LO,

Agents. Hongkong, April 28, 1918,

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HONGKONG CLUB

NOTICE.

MEETING of the biembers of the

INTIMATIONS

LOST.

'N KOWLOON, LIVER and WHITE POINTER DOG. BRSWEET to the name of "MAY" Finder will be suitably rewarded on returning same to

ME. V. MR. DE SOUSA,

No. 1 Ormsby Villaa", Oranville Road, Kowloon.

Hongkong, May 9, 1015.

WANTED.

393

TWO MARINE ENGINEERS with Shop experience to act as Work. hop Foromen, also a Foreman Marine Boiler Maker and a Foreman Ship Farpenter to take up duties in Shang- hat. Address all communications to

1. Y. Z. Co CHINA Mart' Offica Hongkring. April 10, 1918.

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WANTED.

UROPEAN LADY, resident or and daily, to look after 2 children of 7 and 3 years.

Apply-

Mrs. GALE,

100 The Punk.

Bongkong Mar. 25, 1919.

THE CHINA MAIL.

"EMBASSY"

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High-

DRY-CLEANING.

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

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL HONGKONG CLUB will be held in the LARGE DINING ROOM, on THURS-economy effected. DAY, the 16th inst, at 30 r.M.

Business-As set forth in the. Notice posted in the Hull of the Club.

By Onler

E. DS VIEUX,

Secretary.

Hongkong. May 7, 1818

$95

THE CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE FIFTEENTH YEARLY MEET

ING of SHAREHOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Company's Office, St. George's Buildings, at 11 AM on FRWAY, the 17th May, 1918, to receive a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December,, 1917, and the Report of the General Manager, and Consulting Committee, and to elect a Consulting Committee and Auditor.

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

THI CHINA-BORNEO Co., LTD. W. G. DARBY,

General Manager,

Hongkong, May 2, 1718.

CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

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352

THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDIN SING OF SHARE HOLDERS 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, MATBESON & Co., LTD.

General Agents · Hongkong, April 29, 1918,

NOTICE.

"CARVALHO

COMPANY.

387

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

M. HENRY ARMAND HEN RICKSON CASTRO has this Day CRASED to be the Manager of our Business at Hongkong and his authority to Sign our Firm Name has been with drawn.

Dated this 8th day of May, 1918.

CARVALHO & CO,

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CHINA'S MONOPOLY.

MUSK AND ITS MARKET."

Mask is one product of world com meres in which China practically wicys monopoly-not a large one, to be sure, since the annual output is at best only of the value of £20,000, but the product itself is worth many times its weight in

CHEMICAL IMITATION.

Owing to the great value of mask to the perfumer, the chemist early tried to solve the problem of making it arti Ecially od finally the odour w** accidentally imitated by linking the radicle of benzene and that of tertiary butyl alcohol. It is pot a true cuak, as. the natural product belongs to quite different clam of chemical compounds, It, however, enjoyed great popularity and sold for £s a pound as far back as 1900, the product so sold being adalterated

acetanalid.

silver, and for that matter, gold as well,¦ with 13 times its weight musks in the

in these days of high exchange.

THE NEW JERUSALEM.

There are other artificial markot now and the adulteration with Musk is a secretion of the male musk inert chemiesla has ceased. None of door. Three kinds of musk are distin; these, however, lisa the power that guished in commerce, the most import makes the product of Tibet so valuable.

that

of fixing the more fugitive foral ant and valuable being the Chizese or odour and giving the resulting perfume Toogkin musk, imported principally sting qualities that are lacking in from Shanghai. It is put up in small cheaper grades, bose odour is sweet tia-lined. silk-covered caddies, eachben moist bat vanishes as the solution

dries. "containing from two to three dozen poda. These are generally adulterated with dried blood, fragments of leather, leaden pallets, pens, &c, so that often little more than the smell of the original tenant of the pod remaina: The Chinese pods vary greatly in value according to quality and genuinenese Fame muk

Jerusalem must be rebuilt on linem collected from the Western Himalaya is exported from India. It is much less entirely different from those that prized than genuine Tongkin musk. The third variety, known as Kabardine, or were followed at Athens and Rome, Siberian musk, is exported from Central, said Professor Flinders Petrie as the Asia by way of Russia. It is in large Royal Institution. There must be pods, said to be yielded by a distinct no building on top of the ancient species of door, and is very inferior in city. Not only would this be con- point of odour.

THE RUNK DERR

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PLEA. FOR NEW SUBURBS BY

PROF. FLINDERS PETRIE.::

try to modern notions of sanitation, but the old associations would clash painfully with the growing needs of the new commercial city

The musk deer has a wide distribu- tion over the hightands of Central and Eastern Asia, including the greater part

Suburbs should be laid out on of Southern Siberia, and extends to Kashmir on the surth-west and Cochin either side of Jerusalem, about two Chins on the south-eat, always however, miles from the centre of the city, at great elevations-being rarely found

in summer below 901 feet above the swith which they would be connected level, and ranging as high as the limits by electric trams.

Let people be

of the thickets of hirch, chododendron, prohibited from building in the old and juniper, among which it concenis

itscif in the daytime. It is a hardy city and the whole population would solitary, and retiring animal chiefly move to the suburbs in a generation nocturnal in its habits, and almost or two. BAR

always found alone, rarely in pairs, and Ultimately public offices might be Dever herds. It is exceedingly active

MERCHANTMENT

All honour be to merchantmen,

And ships of all degree.. In warlike dangers manifold.

Who mail and keep the sea, In peril of unlitton coust

And death besprinkled faria, Who daily dare a hundred deather

To bring their cargoes home.

A liner out of Liverpool-a tanker

Irom the Clyde-

A hard ran tramp from anywhere-s

tug from Merseyside

A cattle-bout from

conler from the Tyne-

irkenhead-a

All honour be to therctantmen whije

any star shall shine!

All honour be to merchantmen,

And ships both great and avall, The wilt and strong to ran their race

And amite their foes withal; The little ships that sink or swin),

And pay the pirates' tall," Unarmoured save by valiant hearts, And strong.in nought but soul."

Ail honour be to merchantuen.

As long ma tides shall run, Who gave the nena their glorious dead

From rise to set of sun

All honger be to merchantmen

While England's name shall stand, Who milad and fought, and flared and

died,

And served and saved their land..

A sailing strip from Liverpool-s

tanker from the Clyde

A schooner from the West Countric-

atug from Merseyside

A fishing smack from Grimsby town-

a coaler from the Tyne All honont be te merchantmen whils

sury sed moon shall shine l

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“JOHN WALKER & SONS. LII. Scorch Werner Destilleen, Kézi

and cura-footed, having, perhaps, sepit up among the ancient buildings; THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LD.

to

equal in traversing rocks and precipitous and there might also be a rest house ground; and it feeds on moss, grass and for pilgrims, al'a hospital in which leaves of the plants which grow on the the Jews could die within the boun mountains among which it makes

daries of the old Jerusalem home.

Mest of the animals of the group which the must deer belongs have soms

peculi portion of the cutaneous surface erly sodified and provided with glands secreting some odorous and oleaginous aubetance specially characteristic of the Laperies. The situation of the specially modified portion of the skin is extremely various, sometimes between the toes, as in sheep, sometimes on the face

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