1918-08-28 — Page 2

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG 'ROPE MANUFACTURING CO. LTD.

ADSTER Shore for

DOLLAR (91)

ccount 101g will be payable on THUESDAY, the 14th August, 1918, Shareholders are requested to apply for Dividend Warrants at the Company's Office St. George's Buildings, Hongkong.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 10th August, 1918. "to THURSDAY, the 16th August 1919, both days inclusive."

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Hongkong, July 30, 1918.

INTIMATIONS

WANTED. WANTED TO RENT (from 1st

October) 3 or doomed House on

Higher Levels The Peak.

اوار

Apply to A. C.

Co "CHINA MALL" Ollico Bocetong. Aug. 26, 1918

WANTED.

100

RENT for six months from 1st

Toctober-HOUSE, with six of more

rooms, on Fligher Levels or The Frak. Furnished

unfurnished — latter

-833 preferred..

THE CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

EXTRAORDINARY GEN

ERAL MEETING, of Tax Cuis Bongo COMPANY, LIMITER, will be held at the Offers of Messrs. Gian, LIVINGS TON AND COMPANY, St. George's Buikling. Victoria, Hongkong, the Registere

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Address: MANAGER'S OFFICE,

P. O. Box No. 86. Hongtcar, Aug. 27, 1918.

PEAK" TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED):

NOTICE.

706

Office of the above-name Company;

pet of who pron gland

FRIDAY, the 13th day

101 at 11.30 o'clock th the forenoon when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolations,

(1) To consider, an "if thought fit. appror the druit new Articles which will be submitted to the Heating.

approval And in the event of theat

therref with or without modifica tion,

(2) To consider, and if thought fit, to pass an Extraordinary Resolution te the effect-That the new Arti cle already approved by this Meeting and for the purpose of identification thereof subscribed by the Chairman thereof, be and the same are hereby approved, and that such Articles be and they are hereby adopted the Artilis of the Company to the exclusion of, and in substitution for all the existing Articles thereof.

Should the above Resolations h passed by the required majority they will he submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions to a Second Extra- ardinary Mecting which will be sub- sequently convened.

may

WING to Restrictions on the the TRAM SERVICE will be REDUCED as from 1st SEPTEMBER, 1918

New Tiny Tabirs can be obtai from the Ticket 'ollectors ur at the Company's Cher, Alexandra Buiklings.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

Fiennial Managers-

707 Hoogkong, Aug. 25, 1918

ST. HILDAS GIRLS' SCHOOL. CANTON,

EAST PARADE GROUND. CHOOL RE OPENS (D.V.) Septem

ber 15th Entrance examinations September 16th. Chinese Course, eloven years: English Course, thirteen years

Boarders Fees: Sixty to One hundred and eighty dollar per annum.

Principal: MISS BENDELACK,

MA., DEL

(640

copy of the new Articles referred to THE CHINESE OPTICAL Gr.

ected by any Shareholder of

be inspected

the xairi Offices in

at the Company's

71747, r at the Oliers of!

-HONGKONG BRANCH

Johnson. Stokes and Master, 67 QUEEN'S ROAD Central.

Messny's Solicitors) at Priner's į

the

Buikling, Victoria, aforesaid, on an

weekday between the hours of 10a.m.

and 4 p..

Duted this 27th day of August, 1915.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & LO,

Agents,

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THE GOLD QUESTION.

The question of maintaining the gold production of the Empire was discussed by Sir Lionel Phillips in his speech at the meeting of the Central Mining and Investiment Corporation.

Bir Lionel pointed out that the min price of gold is fixed, but that the cost of obtaining it has steadily increased owing to the higher prices which the gold producers have to pay for the materials they use and to increased to pay As result, large quantities of wages which they have been called upon low-grade ore have become unprofitable

treat, and the production of gold has consequently decreased. In fact, a num- ber of the low-grade mins of the Rand are in danger of having to cease opers, tions.

Sir Liane! contended that the pro- ducers have received less than the full value of their gold from the British Gor

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"HELL HOLDS NO FURYHORSE THAN WOMAN'S SCORN.“

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It must inve been amusing... MAYK, S. London correspondent, to bear judge and counsel at the Old Bailey, chasing those two hackneyed lines from "Con- "Hell holds "Montning Bride. grave's no fury worse than a woman's scom," was Mr. Home William's lamentable effort which prompted the judge's inter- vertion with" Hell holds no fury like a rescue, but still a long way from the dramatist's: original words and meaning of thes

woman's scorn." A laudable attempt at

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred

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Nor hell a fury like women scorned.

AIRMAN'S SENSE OF BALANCE.

Without it, he said, the metropolis of the Empire would be side-tracked, for it was becoming increasingly evident that people" voyaging to another main land" avoided landing at an ishad onerament under the agreement made with

We have been reading how an airmen their way. They preferred to keep with the Bank of England for the purchase their ship until it reached its destination, the gold at the equivalent of the Mint may get his "Tegs" but there is one Measured by the rites of exchange quality he cannot negaire from outside Premisign the construction of the current abroad for sterling, the Cover sources: a sense of balance must be in- ment, be pointed out, mado a large herent. One of the rests sot him is to tonnel, Sir Arthur dwelt on the neces

agreement. also line, une behind, an sity of the building of a railway ter- rpiained that is was pot a dificult matsther, and with eyes closed and arms minus in London. from which trains to ter to demonstrate that the saw gold outstretched maintain unwavering Vladivostock. Calcutta, or Cape Town from South Africa was worth more than vertical position for a given time. After nightstart. He showed a lantern side the price paid for it is paper currency. that with eyes closed, he must pick up Bizt be added that it was extremely and, restore to its original position on reproducing a sketch, which had appear difficult to assemble the data required the ground something with a large top ed in The Daily Chrowie, of the proto prove the exact arrount of the in-and small base-Hikes bon-bon dish. If poser raw bridge and terminus on the creased value. That was the problem he succeeds he has the sense of

which awaited a solution.

equilibrium. south side of the Thames.

Sir Francis Fox, who presided, em phasized the point made by Sir Arthur Fell about the danger of England being eide tracked. Before the war, he said, the German steamers were cessing to call at Eritish ports.

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Baron d'Erlanger, the chairman of the Channel Tunnel Company, in proposing a vote of thanks to Sir Arthur Fell, said one of his earliest recollections was bearing de Lessapa and Pasteur discnas ing it at his father's table, and wondering United States, which is the rame said that the Hudson tunnel in Newing arrangement, greater precision and is more rapidly manipulated than the York carried' per cent of the passen-Mauser. On an average, the American gers crossing the river during the first could fire two shots, to the German year of its opening. Ten years after it one. carried 60 per cent, and be predicted u similar increase for the Channel tannel.

Mr. Juynson Hicks, M.P., said thei tunnel would have been constructed years ago, had it not been for the ob stractive obscurantism of the War Office Staff.

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