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IG. P. LAMMERT.

ADUTTONESR, Arrasse

AND SURVEYOR.

-Public Auctions-

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG POLICE

THE HONGKONG POLICE VIC- TORY BALL will be held at the CITY HALL, on WEDNESDAY, 17th December; 1919. Dancing to coza-

9.

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W HENDERSON, Sgt.,

Hon. Secretary. Central Folies Station.

Hongkong, November 24, 1919

NORTH CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

THE OFFICES of the above Com- pany have this day heen removed to No. 3, Queen's Buildings,. (Chster Road).

Blogkong, December 8, 1918.

THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER

* COMPANY (1919) LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

MEETING of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the Company, B. George's Building, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, od SATURDAY, che 20th December, 1919, at 11.30 o slock, in the forenoon, for the purpose of receiving a statement of accounts and the Report of the General Maragara for the 14 months ending 30th September, 1819, and electing a Consulting Com- mittee and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MON- DAY, the 15th December, 1919, until SATURDAY, the 20th December, 1919, both days inclusive,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Manageri. Brugkong, December 5, 1919.

CHINA BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVES that

EXTRAORDINARY GEN- ERAL MEETING of the above Com- pany will be held at the Offices of MESSES. GIBE, LIVINGSTON AND COMPANY, St George's Buildinga, Victoria in the Colory of Hongkong, On MONDAY, the 29th day of December, 1919, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon for the purpose of considering and, if thought Rt, passing the following Resolution as an Ordinary Resolu- tion:-

1. That the conditional agreement *ectored into by the Directors of the Company in the cams and on "behalf of the Company, with * Harrisons and Crosfield Limited "dated the 10th day of December 1919, for the sale of the "under- ** taking property and assets of the Company as existing on the 31st day of December, 1918, subject to ita liabilities, for the sum of. *3828,000 (Eight hundred and "twenty cight thousand dollars) cash which has been submitted to this meeting be and the same is hereby ratified and approved and that the Directors be and they are hereby authorised and "directed to carry the same into effect with full power to "aesent to any modifications in "the Agreement which they may "think" expedient and in the "interests of the Company." Copies of the above mentioned Agree- ment can be seen at the Bagiatored Office of the Company, St. George's Buildings, Chater Road, Victoria afore said or at the Offices of Johnson, Stoke- & Master, the Solicitors to the Com- pany, at Prines' Building, les House. Btreet, Viatoria aforesaid, at any time before the said meeting (except SAT- URDAYS and SUNDAYS) ́between the bourn of 11 A.M. and 4 F.M.

And subject to the passing of the above Relation to consider and if thought it, to pass as an Extraordinary Resolution the following

That the Company be wound up voluntarily and that Ernest "Alfred Mountford Williams of "the firm of Lowe Bingham and "Matthawa of Chartered Bank "Building, Queen's Road Central, "Viatorin aforesaid be appointed Liquidator for the purposes of sach winding up, at such remu. "peration as may be arranged between the said Elarrisons and " and Grosfeld Limited and the *Liquidator.

INTIMATIONS

Niakolplated & White Ware

BATHROOM FIXTURES New Stock Just. Unpacked.

C. E. WARREN & Co., Ltd,

30 & 31, Dm Vaux Road, C..

* R * * *

JUST RECEIVED ·

from AUSTRALIA a large shipment of LACTOGEN, UNSWEETENED CONDENSED MILK, STERILIZED NATURAL MILE, MALTED MILE and SWEETENED 0000A-and-

· HSLK, sold at very reasonable prices owing, to the present high rate of Exchange, especially for Retailers.

Should the Second. Resolution bel pared by the requisite majority, it will be submitted for confirmation ne a Special Resolution to a Second Extra- ardinary General Meating to be held at sho abere address at twelve o'clock Boo on TUESDAY the 13th day of January 1920.

Dated this 10th day of Documber, *1910,

By Order of the Board, (UN) HIRE, LIVINGSTON 00:

ACTO

SHIU FUNG TAI & 00.,

Mele Agents for Hongkong and South. China. Nos. 47 & Al' Cornsaght Road Central, Hongkong. Telephonse Mon, 1239 & 1:30.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

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Our present stock consists of specially selected Birds which are in prime condition and should give every satisfaction,

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THE "KEY" INDUSTRIES

EMBARGO.

TEST OF LEGALITY.

ENGLISH CHARACTER.

A GERMAN READING.

In a further article on England and English thought the German The validity of restrictions on im. Gazette describes the Celtic charac ports imposed by proclamation undertec as being typified by fancifulness, sprightliness, and musical talent, the Customs Consolidation Act, 1878, mixed with a certain amount of un is being tested in England.

trustworthiness and malice; the Anglo-Saxco as being stay-at-home | and middle class; the Norman as conquering, pugnacious, aristocratic Lloyd George, Asquith, and Churchill are named as typical representatives of three categories.

Pyrogallic acid, imported to the order of a Manchester chemical manufacturer, has been seized by the Customs authorities, and the manufacturer has challenged the right of seizure. The case was men- tioned in the Vacation. Court.

It will be recalled that Sir John Simon, informed the Government that he was going to challenge the whole system of import restriction by bringing with him on his retura from a holiday in Spain goods the importa tion of which was forbidden. But the Prime Ministër, in his declaration of policy on the adjournment, ao- nounced the withdrawal from, Sep tember 1 of the embargo system, except as it affected "unstable key industries," and Sir John Simon's plan fell through.

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PAN-ASIATIC MOVEMENT.

A NEW LEAGUE.

PEKING, Dec. 4. An interesting example of the ex- ploitation of unrest in Asia and the to create a... Pan-Asiatic ambition movement by the formation of an Asiatic League is furnished by a new monthly magazine entitled Great Asia, published at Mukden by Japan- ese, whose names are printed in the journal in Japanese, and Chinese. The avowed object of the publication is to endeavour to arouse the han dreds of millions of Asia to a sense of the wrongs and injustice they suffer in consequence of the oppression of the white races of Europe and America." Asiaties are admonished that if they are to be saved from this thraldom it will not be as the result of the efforts of non-Asiatic people, but by the enthusiatic effort of the Yellow races to win their free dom The October, and November issues of Great Asia have reached Peking. For unmitigated scurrility of abuse of the British and American Nations they are unequalled by the Several articles, published in Chinese most anti-foreign papers of Japan. and Japanese are entirely false in statement, and maliciously evil in sug- Eestion. The titles of a few indicate their nature: Danger to Asia," The Future of India," Aggressive

"Aggres policy of Great Britain." sive policy of the United States,"" "The "preservation of China from extinction," "The future of Asiatic countries,"

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It may be said that the broad mass of the English people is Anglo-Saxon its distinctive features are sobriety, integrity, tenacity, and love of freedom, all qualities whereon the main strength of the English national character is based. Such attributes as these have enabled the English man to win' and to retain his summer aus colonies, to keep his life from immorality and decay longer than most other white races, and finally to build up a state which other nations habitually, regard--and for over 100 years have regarded as The date of the seizure of the the ideal product of the history and pyrogallic acid in the Manchester the quintessence of a people. case is not given, but whether before Germans will find here most im or after September 1 is of little portant material for comparisons, for Importance, since this chemical is the qualities mentioned are Lower scheduled under the unstable key Saxon, and, therefore German ones. industries prohibition, which forbids Should we want to learn how glorious its importation. The Government gifts should be guarded and cherish have announced their intention of ed we have in the Anglo-Saxon type when Parliament reassembles next our true selves again, to find wast month.

are generally called the virtues of

While the articles are printed In The case in question came before our ancestors only a feeble copy of Mr. Justice Greer in the Vacation which existed in the superficial de. Chinese and Japanese the informak Court when he granted an application cades before the war, and exista in tion concerning the proposed League by the plaintiff in the action of Brown the insane materialism and inordin. is also set forth in Mongolian, Turki, Buckley for leave to serve notice ate love of pleasure at the present and what is described as Terter of motion on the defendant.

time.

though Arabic characters are" used. Mr. B. A. Wright, K.C., with

Anyone who knows England of The league claims 5,800 members. whom was Mr. Riley, said the ques to-day, and is able to distinguish be The officers of the League are prac tion concerned was of importance tween the large cities and the coun- tically all. Japanese," one of the four. not only to the plaintiff but to traders try, will find in the former the same peers who are named as presidents generally. The plaintiff carried on reckless, superficial standpoint of being a Korean. business in Manchester as a chemical Kultur, the same spirit of "Jazz" as The magazine boasts of a fiend manufacturer. He had imported ain the large cities of Germany and office at Mukden with branches at quantity of pyrogallic acid now lying other Continental countries; but in Dairen, Calcutta and Constantinople, enn at Manchester, where It was seized the citizen class, which in England and it asserts that branches will

ORDER introducing legislation on the subject an example that will help us to find

CHERRY & UD,

FELDSE STIREE, Uppoal⚫ Hongsong -Hobel: Telephone No. 491.

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

MUMEY A.

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THE NEW - FRENCH REMEDY,

THERAPION N0-1

HERAPION NË2. HERAPION NËS

· EKİN DİSSASOLLEN, I SW Gâroxis WeakHOONE. SOLD BY GRADEROMSTENTO, SPICE LE EROGANE.SE

WORD

by the defendant, who is a collector comprises the greater part of the so shortly be opened in Persia, Alghan- of Customs, The plaintiff contended called proletariat," he will not istan and Siam. The magazine is that the seizure was entirely upjuati-notice anything approaching the fied by law, and was in fact an act degree of moral degeneracy which of trespass. The defendant, added obtains among ourselves and other counsel, acted under a proclamation nationa-Times.

of the Government

His Lordship: It is obviously a case where a decision is necessary. A

Mr. Wright agreed.

Council. The plaintiff submitted that The point in dispute, counsel added, the section of the Act was limited to was quite simple. The defendant as arms, gunpowder, ampunktion, and & collector of Customs had acted similar goods named in the Act and under a proclamation prohibiting im not to this kind of acid. ports of particular goods except by The Court granted the application licence of the Board of Trade. The as stated

proclamation purported to be made au

under a asction of the Customs Con-

solidation - Act 1878, dealing with

issued only to members and is not registered for transmission by the Chinese Post Office.

There is no suspicion that Chinese- are in any way connected with Great Asia.-Reuter.

A GERM DESTROYER. THERE is as dearer whatever from kiosk ju nebland „tolen resulting from wound when Chamberlain's ain' BJms promptly applied: It is an an [în plió sus dostenys the garms akich senss these dine es. 15 also eius's kenanyakan | wounds to hoxl without thituration and In one-thiri the time required" hy">the

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