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G. P. LAMMERT.

:AUCTIONEER,ӁFFRAISER AND SURVEYOR

-Public Auction-

INTIMATIONS

BANK HOLIDAY.

accordance with Ordinance No. 5 1974 the EXCHANGE BANKS ill be CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINEs on the 25th and 26th Instant.

Hongkong, December 21, 1918.

NOTICE.

R

THE PUBLIC are requested to notify the Police Department when arranging entertainmente which will entail the provision of additional CHAIRS or RICKSHAS in particular localities Unless such notice is given it is probable that the usual supply af Chaire or Vehiclse at any particular point will be found inadequate,

L. D. C. WOLFE Captain Superintendent of Police. 20th December, 1918.

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.

None

TOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above Company will be held at "she registered office of the above Compsay, St. George's Building, Custer Road, Victoris, Hong Kong.on FRIDAY, the 27th day of December, 1918, at 12 o'clock Noos, when the aqbjoined resolutions which were pass- Med at the Extraordinary General Meet

of the Company held on the 11th day of December 1918 "will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolu- tions:-

INTIMATIONS

THE CHINA MAIL,

METEOR CARAGE IDEAL XMAS

Sole distributors of

(1) That it is desirable to recous-

tract this Company, and accor dingly that this Company be wound up voluntarily and that Hugh Frank Campbell of St. George's Building, Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, Merchant, be appointed Liquidator for the pupose of such winding up at al (2) That the General Managers of this Company, be authorised and requested to form and pro. cure to be incorporated,, a_now; Company to be called the China; Light & Power Company (1918) Lid," (of which they shall be appointed by Agreement General Managers) with the objects (inter Lalis) of acquiring the undertaking,

business goodwill, machinery plant, book-debts and all other ass whatsoever of this Com pany, and of carrying on business in or near Kowloon and/or else- "whore if thought desirable with Messrs, Shawan, Tomes & Co. Hongkong, and their successors

MAXWELL CARS.

Automobiles for Hire and for Sale

at reasonable Prices,

'Phone 2500.

65 De Var Road Central

XMAS

GIFTS.

KODAKS

of every description.

A. TACK & CO.,

26, Des Voeux Road Central

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

CHRISTMAS ORDERS

FOR"

OWN FED TURKEYS

J

should be booked with us early to

2) avoid disappointment.

Birds supplied alive or killed and dressed as required.

YOU

are invited to inspect par Quad DAŽAAK

Great Assortment, Tays from 10 cents to $15.

DOLLS THAT ARE DURABLE, SANITARY, WASHABLE.

GRACA & CO.,

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

P. O. Box 620.

Hongkong-

i in business as General Manager PATELL & CO.

so long as the General Managers for the time being (il a corpora tion) or (if an unincorporated firm) any one or more partner -or partners in the firm of the Gen- oral Managers individually collectively shall bold not less than one thousand shares of the, Company

or

(3) That the proposed Memoran- dam aud Articles of such new Company submitted to this-mest. ing, be and the same are hereby approved and that the Liquidator be authorized to consent-to-the- registration of such new Company with such Memorandum and Ar- tibles accordingly) #2? (4)."That the draft Agreement sub- mitted to this "Meeting (marked And expressed.to be mads between this Company, and the Liquidator of the one part and The China Light:&Power Com pany (1918) Ltd of the orber part be approved, and that the Liquidator be authorised pursuant to Section 185 of the Companies Ordinance, 1911, to enter into a Agreement with each new Com- pany (when Incorporated) in the terms of the said draft and to carry the same into effect, with Satch (1! any) modifications either before or after the execution. thereof as fio with the approval of the General Managers of the Dew Campany thinkaʼat.

(5) That the Liquidator besuth-

Aurista to obtain (advances from, the General Managers", of "Lany, monics, requisite apan duck tërme as he thinks fit

Dated this 12th day of December, 1018 WSHEWAN TOMES & CO.

„General Managers. Hongkong, December 18, 1918.

TO LET

SHOP in Nathar

S-ESTA

ORIENTAL PRODUCE

EXPORTERS,

SILK MERCHANTS, COMMISSION AGENTS.

Agencies in

*NEW YORK,

SAN FRANCISCO, USA,

Branches :---

--GANTON-****

SHANGHAI, BYÖKÖHAMA.

BOMBAT.

HEAD OFFIC

KI'S BUILDINGS

HONGKONG."

JAPANESE MAKERS

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO

ORDER

CHERRY &00,-

PZOLEE STREET, Opposite Hoogkong Hobal. Telephone No. 491....

1914 Hongkong, March

ODEFATE:

Hocakong, July 17, 1918

Consultation frse:/

GIFTS:-

CIGARS:

GOLOFINA PERFECTOS

$5.00 per box of 25.

CIGARETTES:

COMMANDER VIRGINIA

$1.00 per tin of 50.

TOBACCO:

DIE VOI

GARRICK MIXTURE

$1.60 per lb. tin.

OBTAINABLE AT ALL TOBACCONISTS.

M

This advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacco Co, Ladi

The Highland Light Infantry, were cordially hated by the Huss long before the seven men of Moeuvres-these harces

ORGANIZED.

KAISER'S FATE.

Cader the leadership of Mr. Yu Ho-teh, Bishop Wellon writes to the Daily Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mail from the Deanery, Durham, a of imperishable metnory-taught them to the Chinese General Chamber of Coin follows - torpect the tartan. In the early days of merca of Shanghai, Chineas shipping

There is one event perhaps one only

the war, when Fritz saw the kilted lads company has been formed under the--which will exhibit before the eyes of of the Lomion Scottish some swatingame of Hungan Küngaze" or Grand all the world the final victory of the oser the top, he christened the The

ladies from hell, but ramour has it that Safety Company with a capital of Allies

$1,000,000 chiefly for running stasaarera.

In the great war. It is that the

for the I. he reserved the appella in the Yangtze Valley independently of Kaiser should surrender himself a pri-

tion Hell's latest invention. Not to

4.

be outdone, the H., call themolyeste 1.8.N. Company The new com Harry Lauder's idiots. No German, Pany has purchased the nine river steam howover, has yet boon found brave enough written and gods and it but

with wharves, godowns busi- ness will be extended to foreign ports in future years.

to call them that.

ELECTRIC SPURS.

As several jockeys have been suspected

of using an electric spur,*Me. M. J.

Hogan, chairman of stipendiary stewards,

A NEW KIPLING POEM.

From the latest received copy of "The

during the recent race meetings in Ade: Times we extract turo stanzes of a new laide, gave a demonstration of how is poem by Rudyard Kipling- affected horses. The spurs, with a bat. Before we loose the word

That bids new worlds "to birth, tery attached, were tried on one horse and he won a two furlong gallop against Nerds must we loosen first the sword" another saimal. They were saddled Of Justice upon earth; again, and the battery was pnt, on the Or else all else is vain. other borse, and this time he won. Aș soon as the jockey made the creuit the

horse flinched, became" excited, and at once exerted himself much more then when hand-ridden with hands and heels.

GERMAN IMPUDENCE.

Since life on earür began, And the spent world sinks back again

Hopelesi at God and Man.

+

*

That neither schools or pefcets, Nor Kinge may build again A people with the heart of beasts.

Made wise concryning, men. whereby our dead shail kleep............

In honour, üzbetrayed, And we in faith and bansur keep

That peace for which they paid.-

LORD KITCHENER'S

pos

soner, at the Emper Nayeon III. surrendered himself in 1870.

Then at fast will Germany know that militarian has failed; then will she be tree to enter upon the long, painful task of national repertance and regeneration." The irony of Fate wild be compista if the Kaiser should end his days in St. Helens. (But would that not be an insult to Napoleon ?)"

HARD TIMES IN VLADIVOSTOCK.

Aue following extract from sletter from an English me lately arrived at Vladivostock speaks for itself, says the

N.C. Daily News

arrived bero

DECEMBER 243

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Mansions,

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,

SHING KEE CO.

SODA MERCHANTS, IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS. OF

Cauatio Soda, Sods Ash. Mariste, of Ammonia, Silicate" of Boda," Reinad Bloarbonate of Soda," Mineral Water, and Boda Crystäi, Hloaching". Fowder.“ Sulphur-Acid, Hulphate of Ammonia, Stó., “ató,

ALWAYS IN STOCK.

No. 32, DES VOLUI ROAD WEST, HONGKONG."

MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI

AND ALL KINDS OF SOUP STUFFS.

LE our Pastes bear the "Rooster" label and are made from Flour of the Best A Quality containing a large percentage of Glatan Starch and Ginton are the principal components of Flour Gluten is easier to digest and contains more antriment than Starch Manufactured under the most maitary conditions.

Large quantities have been exported to various important cities in the World.

Terms moderata, especially for Agencies. Orders executedipromptly. THE HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. Fend Office: Ko. 47 sad 48, Connaught Road, Central Hongkong; Telephone: 1239, Principal Factory No. 71, North Soochow Road Shanghai, Chur, Telephone 2385. Branch Factory: Wing Hing Street, Causeway Bay, Hongkong. Oable address : ** HINGWATE

A

SENNET FRERES.

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Jewellers, Diamond Marchants, etc.

Just to Hand:

Large Assortment of

XMAS NOVELTIES of all Description Call and inspect them.

· Agents for :—OMEGA WATCHES.

WE JUST RECEIVED A GREAT XMAS STOCK

TOYS,

BEST ASSORTED CHOCOLATES, XMAS CAKES, etc., etc.

We invite your inspection and kind orders,

BLUE BIRD.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

AND

GRILL ROOM

J. H. TAGGART

MANAGER.

THE PEAK HOTEL.

hungry for food and bath and very 1,500 Feet above Sea Level

shaky, to find there was no room for us! We have to sleep on the sitting room floor and have not a moment's privacy night or day. We bathe in tea cups of hot water very tough food-butter only allowed at breakfast. We are 24 women sleeping in a tiny space and about 10 men come in for meals. 11, is an ins height of bodily discomfort, but I would not have missed it for worlds. I have ↑ seen no British, “but I have been a lot DEATH.atnozget the refugees. The crying need

in clothes and no one in Shanghai shoul?

For wheer unblushing impudence it would be hard to beat s German enter. prise which is snnounced in Ueber Land und Meer “A number of German capi talists, shipping firms, and engineer have combined to form a company with a capital of 4,800,000 marks (nominally £210,000). Qur glorious U-boats Jave Mr. Henry W. Vaje Commissioner of possess a superfinons pair of bacts, or zuak at least £19,000,000 worth of Allied the Salvation Army in Russia, în a speech shows. If you could only see the awful shipping. This new war salvage com. declared that the Taurins had a private condition of the people. I feel ashamed pany, equipped with the latest products telegraph wire from her Water Palace of my clothes when I am among them smul of Teutonic genius in the shape of lifting at Petrograd to Potsdam, and that the the poer little kiddies hurt one. I was apparatus, will raise mapy of the vessels told the Kaiser, all the Allies pans asked five roubles for a tmell cake of and make them a part of the new Gerzian. When she learned of the late Lord hit chocolate here butter is Bis. § a prundi s Inercantile feet,

chener's contemplated visit to Russia, he gave the German Government the fullest details, which resulted in the stak

* A FRIEND OF STEVENSON.

ing of the cruiser Hampshire and then death was announced recently com death of Lord Kitchener,

THE GUY ON YOUR RIGHT.

AN INDIAN CLUB AFFAIR.

The East, neer in wartime, observes

Howlulu of Mother Superior Mary Ahre, home paper before the armistice

who for thirty years had been in charge affords te humours. Ats pertain club

of the leper colony on the island et Atolo a Draconian general noticed someone

iai,the scene of Father Damien reading a newspaper at lunch. Thi A member of the A.L.F. has collected labours, Robers. Locis Stevenson, spent nocording to mass etiquette, % deadly some of the alleged U. Army.com a week on the inland shortly after miz, a newspapór may be randi at breaks- umudu Here," says he, is one of Damien's death and made the acquainte fast butt, not at lunch. He, therefore, the Sammies" words of command: Atenes of the Mother Superior, for whom forgetting this was 'e club-though meatly the guy on right your cybel Chocks,

military and not a mess, sent his ADC. It's gold mounted. The order is ob quae conceived greas admiration for ber cars of the infortimate outcasts, cepoel, scross to the misguided member to point ly the equivalent for the British Bre

out the error of his ways. The meth- Rightly

beria surprise turned round, and I ~ Eritish:

regret to say remarked, Go to II i paz

(Heligoland) The A.1.C., returned with this information to his general,

whereupon that warmor being of the

cient, fery, magehed, scross and

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Are you Well, I am the Iddien Civil Service

Heitzoland

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lly of the children. Plays of their own arragement,

favourite

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employment

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in the laza

Mary Anns

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of--

Mrs. BLAIR.

KING EDWARD HOTEL

CENTRAL LOCATION

LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pass Entrance, Electric Liltz. Fans and Lighting, European Baths and Sanitary Fittings Hot and Cold Water System throughout Best of Food and Service.

Telepoons 373 Telegraphic Address:- VICTORIA...

J. WITCHELL, Manager,

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOONTES

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout and entirely under new management. Cuisine ander the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Boxma. Terms moderate. Special terms to families on application to

Telephone K. 3 Telegraphic Add

JEL OXBERRY Proprietor.

CARLTON HOTEL

APIE HOUSE STREEVÚ

Under American Mans walk from the Bsaki, and rerapulously alosa Mot application to the Pro riatt

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