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INTIMATIONS

NOTICE.

THE

THE BUSINESS hitherto carried on as Nos. 5 and 6 Beaconsfield Arendy of dealing in Sporting Arms and

INTIMATIONS

·ST. HILDAS GIRLS' SCHOOL,

CANTON, -,

EAST PARADE GROUND. “ CCHOOL RE-OPENS (D.V.) Septem Ammunition under the style or firm ber 18th. Entrance examinations

anie of WILLIAM SCHMIDT COMPANY will in future be carried on by the undersigned under the style or Br name of THE HONGKONG SPORTING ARMS AND AMMUNI TION STORE

HENRIETTA "BRANCH, Proprietor, Hongkong, Sept. 3, 1918.

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THE HONGKONG ROPE „„MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR (81.-) per Share for Recount 1918 will be payable on THURSDAY, the 15th August 1918. for Shareholders are requested to apply

vidend 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, 1018, to THURSDAY, the 15th August, 1918 both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

* General Managers. Hongkong, July 30, 1915.

September 18th. Chinese Course, eleven years; English Course, thirteen years.

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

Principal: MTSS RENDELACK,

MA, DE

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THE DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL

NEXT TERM begius on MONDAY.

September 9th. Parents and New Scholars can see the Headmaster on September 7th from D. P..

REF. W, J. FEATHERSTONE. M.A., (Osos),

Headmasters Hongkong, Sept. 3, 1818.

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ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.

URING the School Year 1936-1919 beginning on MUNDAY, 9th Sep tember, Classes &, and 6 will be taught in the new Building, Robinson Road, 139 and Classes 6-1 in the new premises.. Kennedy Road, which also be the residence of the Teachers and Boarders,

DR. AIMAR,

Director. Hongkong, Sept. 2, 1918. „..

THE CHINA BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

an EXTRAORDINARY GEN ERAL MEETING of THE CHINA- BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED, Will be held At the Orlices of Messrs. Gins, LIVING- TON AND COMPANY, St. George's Building, Victoria, Hongkong, the Registered Office of the above-named Company on FRIDAY, the 13th day of September, 1918, at 11.30 o'clock in the forenoon when the subjoineri Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions.

viz:-

(1) To consider, and if thenght fit. approve the draft ng articles which will be submitted to the Meeting.

And in the event of the approval

therof with or without modifica

tiga

(t) To consider, and if though; fit, ta pass an Extraordinary Resolution to the effect:-That the new Arti cles already approved by this Aleting and for the purpose of identification thereof subscribed man thereof, be and by the Chairman The same are hereby approved, and that such Articles be and they afe hereby adopted as the Articles

of the Company to the exclusion of and in substitution for all thei existing Articles thereof.

Should the above Resolutions be passed by the required majority they will be submitted for confirmation s Special Resolutions to a Second Extra- ordinary Meeting which will be sub- sequently convened.

A copy of the new Articles referred to may be inspected by any Shareholder of the said Company at the

Offices in Hongkong, or at the

Messrs. Johnson. Stokes and Master, (the Company's Solicitors) at Prince's'. Huilding, Victoria, aforesaid, on any weekday between the hours of 10 a.01. and 4 p.m.

Dated this 27th day of August, 1918,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,

Agenta

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

JUNKET

Cannot be excelled with tinned or fresh stewed fruit

COULOMMIER CHLEST.

COTTAGE CHEESE, Nourishing and ideal food DEVONSHIRE CREAM Can always be bad. We supply Janket Tablet on application.

ASAHI BEER

PILSENER BEER

GRAND PRIZES

ASAHI

DAI NIPPON BREWERY

BEER

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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE CIGARETTE OF DISTINCTION

OWLEDGED BY THE CON- NOISSEUR TO STAND ALONE FOR PURITY AND CHARM OF FLAVOUR

CAPSTAN

NAVY CUT CIGARETTES

Sold by

ALL LEADING TOBACCONISTS

THURSDAY SEL

INTIMATIONS

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS,

Hotel Mansons.

Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery

FRUUSTRIAL

PACKETS

OF 10's

Navy

Cut [Cigarettes

TINS OF "50's

COAL

Capstan Cigarettes are now sold

in the following Packings:-

Packets of 10,

Packets of 20,

Air-tight tins of 50, also

MAGNUMS in Air-tight tins of 50.

This vegtisement is issue) by BritishAmerican Tobaan; Cói, Lul

KAIPING

FOR ALL

AND HOUSEHOLD PURPOSEL

FOUNDRY AND

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European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughont.. Best of Food and Service.

Telernors $73 Ektaggartig ÁSBRERF

'VICTORIA'

J. WIT(BELI, Manager.

VICTORIA CAFE LTD.

244 Des Voeux Road Central.

Telephone No. 2007,

We guarantee the quality of our Hread and Caltes.

We use the highest grade of materials in their Manufacture.

PLANTING

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PAKRO SEEDTAPE

is very simple matter: Make a shallow trench, lay the tape in it. as you walk along; wet the tape thoroughly, cover lightly. That all there is to it, exceps gathering the luscious vegetabin and handsome flowers short time after.

GRACA" & Co.;

BONGKONG BRANCH

67 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

OPTICIAN

The only OPTICAL HOUSE

in Far East. Awarded an Efficiency Diploma

at

Panama-Pacific

International Exposition.

SOLENTIFIC EYE EXAMINATION

All sorts of

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ABOUT SILVER."

INTERESTING FACTS.

Perhaps the folowing short notes on the popular aspect of silver may interest some of your readers, says & writer in the Rangoon fiacette,

In England and in many of its col nics the unit of money is the gold sovereign. Elver and bronze coins are only tokens. Fy daw silver shilling

by scraping, or cottion so as to obtain a representative portion of the metal bi which they are made and the samples are subsequently essayed. If the ware after testing is found to comply with one of the various recognised standards” the marks prescribed by statute for that respective standard are then struck *10 the event of any ware upor it. failing to pass the official test, fine is imposed, and the article is broken "P and returned to the manufacturer. Every wars submitted for assay must bear the mark of the manufacturer before it can be accepted for hall- This mark consists of the marking pasen as the one-twentieth part of a water's initials, or in the case of a com sovereign, and the value of the silver in pany the initials of the

name of the the shilling depends on the market firm. The mark must be approved duly price of silver. The market varies by the assay authorities, registered before being used. hrace the reason that in receiving pay- ment of a debt no one is legally bound to accept in silver coins more than forty shillings. Their value in gold is about fifty per vent. of their nominal value.

Silver coins become a legal token, and when much worn are received back at the mint at their norains! value. Stivereigns, however, cease to be legal tender when less than 1225 grains in weight. They should weigh 12347445

A complete hall-mark on any single piece of plate will therefore consist of four separate marka, viz. 1. The maker's mark, 2. City mark. 3. Standard mark. 4. Date letter.

Foreign silver imported for sale must first be submitted for assay and if of the required standard is stamped with dia tinctive marks to denote that it is of foreign manufacture,

The only marks for foreign plate are as follows:

London, sign of the constellation Leo. Birmingham, equilateral triangle. Chester, acorn and two leaves. Sheffield, Libra.

"

Dublin, boujet Edinburgh, St. Andrew's Cross. Glasgow, double block letter F inverted."

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GOVERNMENT CONTROL"

FORESHADOWED.

The hall marks struck upon the wares are usually placed quite close to the TOBACCO SUPPLIES FOR ALLIES. maker's mark, and are designed to show: 1. The hall or assay office at which the ware was tested 2. The standard or year quality of the silver. 5. The in which the ware was ball-marked.

as the

The U.S. War Industries Board - an- | Formerly another mark, known es duty mark, and consisting of the nounces that investigation into tobaeed soversigt's beat, was struck to denote requirements indicates that conservation the payment of duty, but this was dis contínued in 180

Offices for hallis necessary, and Goverment control may The 1817 crop was We have the silver rupee coin here as markina are at London, Birmingham, be ordered ster.

Stoffeld. Deblin, Edinburgh, 1,196,000,000 lbs., of which 830,000.000. Formerly existing is available this year for United

grains.

the legal unit of money. The market Chow. Officesle, Norwich and

other places, have now been closed.

The marks to denate the place of assay are as follows:

values of commodities of all kinds are and here measured by the silver rupee. If at Exeter, York, you buy £15 worth of goods in England, and the exchange rate between England and here were 1s. 9, for each silver rapes, you buy 19. ed., in gold, for wbien we would have to give 171.4 rupees instead of Rs. 150, our ustial £70 value when at Is. 4. At the present moment silver is worth say 41. (4s. Id.)

an ounce.

STEALING OLYER,"

The silver alloy know: sy standard or sterling silver is by far the most import

"It ant' of the industrial alloys of silver.

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London, a leopard's head (the arms of the Goldsmith's ompacy).

Statex manufacturers, while 348,000,000 lbs. will be available for export to the Allies...

Tbs. yearly. England and France each! act 0 per cent. of the entire consump- garbertion to the army and navy, while Itely

allows the military forces 45 per cent. The total yearly consumption by the entire population in these countries is estimated at 387,000,000 lbs., or

The tobacco issued to the military London. a lion's bead erased (ie.,forces by England, France and Ily without the body) for silver wares of mounts approximately to 175,000,000 | u684.

Birmingham, an

Anchor. Cheater, sword between three Sheffield, a crown for silver waren; & York rose for geld wares. Dublin, a harp crowned. Edinburgh, a castle. sists of 99.5 per cent. of silver and 7.4

Glasgow, & treo with a Ash across the Preot of base metal, generally copper trunk, a bell hanging from one of the

41,000,000 lb. more than and is the alloy fixed by Act of Paris brancos and a bird on the top, branch. ment as the legal standard for the silver The standard or quality macks for States in able to export, annage, and also for the manufacture of silver are 0253 (sterling or standardi wares. Another legal standard silver silver), a lion passant. 9384 (Britannia alloy, for silver wares, exists but is sol silver), a figure of Britannia. desen usod, as it is softer than sterling The date mark to denote the year of

so dar and not

assay consists of a single letter, of special shle. This alloy of higher standard con design, and different for each asy tains 90.8 per cent. of silver, and is office, which is used throughout the known as the Britannis standard, owing year, and in changed every year..

T

silver, less serviceable

to the fact" that silver wares of this standard must be hall-marked, with the figure of a woman, commonly called Britannia, instead of the lion as in the case of sterling silver. The silver stand- vin employed for coinage, and for plats in other countries, are also fixed by law. The alloy 200 Ene is more widely adopted especially for coinage than any other silver alloy. The silver is usually alloy ed with copper, but standard silver silaya are also use in which the silver is alloyed with zine, cadmium and-tin. Nickel ir all quantities is aloo present sometime Silver alloys 900.fine.and are in use for the manufacture of jewel lery and articles which are exempt from half-marking

Frames Lenses, and I'rotection glasses. niso of lewer dineness down to 600 fine,

METALS

ALE-MARK

2

BILATERALA

British law requires that the quality of the metals of a i gold and silver wares with certain exceptions, including of all kinds, specially for slipbuliding jewellery, shall be determined by any

ut ofice or halls" in various parts and engineering works. Target and the Kingdom; duly authorised, for that bort, asorted stook in the Colony, purpose, and if the article be found equal to the required standard it shall be

SINGON & CO. stamped at those offer as the perica

reets

HINGELUNG #2)

marky, known as the hallmark entliest of the hall, rking.

for all markin, art, caref

of

LOSING WEIGHT

BY THE POUND

Under Welght, a condition of 11-Lealth, hows your assim

lative powers are decreasing.

WATERBURY'S

17 METABOLIZED

COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND.

Supplies the blood with the wanted nourishing and healthy Besh building matethils

palatable; pie

LES OF ALL CHEMISTS

PRICE CL36 end $2.25

the United

HORLICK'S MALTED MILK

(Full-cream milk enriched with harley and wheat)" The Ideal Food-Drink for all Ages.

Science affirms its superiority. Experience confirms, Gives strength and maintains it. Generates bear and conserver it. 'Billjét Bone, Brala & Brawn. Refreshing and delicious. Easily digested and quickly absorbed. Brads to an sustant do the simple additon ďď but ne quid water. IMPORTANT NOTICE.. ORDINARY MILK is not always pure ;

HORLICK'S i guaranteed uniformly 10. ORDINARY MILK is unsafe unta:s cooked :

HORLICK'S is sadaland, stada no smoking. ORDINARY MILK olan dasgries ¦

RORLICK'S naver dots." ORDINARY MILK deteriorates quickly g

HORLICK'S.keeps fudafinttely, *.* ORDINARY MILK is seldom available when Wa

HORLICK'S Lɛ always at hand. HORLICK'S may be used in Pudding Brand, . Cake. Custards, etc., in place, of ordinary, unlik

Sold by Chemia and stores..

HORLICK'S MALTED MILK CO., SLOUGH, BUCKS, ENE.

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Codes Used : A1, A.3.0. Fifth Edition, Engineering First and Second Editions, Western Unica, and Watkin's.

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All classes of light steel work manufactured by the abore prod

Tanks, Drums, Ventilators, Pipes, &,.dc.

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