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JG. P LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEEN, AFFRAISER

AND SURVEYOR

Public Auctions-

INTIMATIONS.

FONGKONG POLICE

THE HONGKONG POLICE VIC

TORY BALL will be held at the CITY HALL on WEDNESDAY, 17th December, 1919. Dancing to com- mence at 9 F.M.

W

HENDERSON, Sgt,

Hon. Secretary. Central Police Station. Hongkong, Narember 3, 1919.

NORTH CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED;

NOTICE OF REMOVAL,

THE

THE OFFICES of the above Com- pany have this day bean removed

to No. 3, Queen's Buildings, (Chater - Road).

Hongkong, December 8, 1919.

THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY (1935) LIMITED,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the first ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Starebolders will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Building, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 20th December, 1919, at 11.30

lock, in the forencon, for the purpose, of receiving a statement of accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the 14 months ending 30th September, 1919, and electing a Consalting 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 Managers. Hongkong, December 8, 1918

CHINA BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

EXTRAORDINARY GEN

ERAL MEETING of the above Com- pany will be held at the Office of MSRS GIBB, LIVINGSTON AND COMPANY, St. George's Buildings, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkon MONDAY the

29to day of December, 1919, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon

for the purpose of considering and, if thought it, passing the following Resolution sa an Ordinary Resolu

tion:--

1. That the conditional agreement "entered into by the Directors of

the Company in the name and on "behalf of the Company with! "Harrisons and-Crosfield-Limited;

"dated the 10th day of December

FL

1919, for the sale of the "under- taking property and assets of the "Company as axiating on the 31st

day of December, 1913, subject to its liabilities, for the sum of *$328,000 (Eight burdred and "twenty eight thousand dollars) "cash which has been submitted to this meeting be and the same " is bereby ratified and approved "and that the Directora ha and "they are hereby authorised sand "directed to carry the same. "into effect with full power to

ent to say modifications.în "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 Registered Office of the Company, St. George's Buildinga, Chater Road, Victoris afore maid or at the Offices of Johnson, Stokes & Mastar, the Solicitors to the Com Fany, at Prince's Building, Tea Hous Btrest, Victoria aforesaid, "at, any time before the said meeting (except SAT- UEDAYS and SUNDAYS) between the hours of 11 A.x, and 4 P.M.:

And subject to the passing of the Above Rulation to consider and if thought fir, to pass as an Extraordinary Resolution the following:-

INTIMATIONS

Nickelplated & White Ware BATHROOM FIXTURES

New Stock Just Unpacked.

"

C. E. WARREN & Co., Ltd., 30 & 82, Das Your ROAD, C

* * * * *

JUST RECEIVED

from AUSTRALIA a large shipment cf LACTOGEN, UNSWEETENED CONDENSED MILK, STERILIZED NATURAL MILE, MALTED MILE and SWEETENED COCOA Jand- MILK, sold at very reasonable prices wing to the present high rase of Exchango, especially for "Retailer.

ACTOGEN

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Sale Agonta for Hongkong, and South Chlum ||Nus, 43 & 48. Commnaght Hond Central, HempkOEK-

Telephone Nos, 1933 d. 12g3..

" That the Company be wound up "voluntarily and that Ernest Alfred Mountford, Williams of the frm of Love Bingham and Matthews of Chartered Bank Building, Queen's Road Contral, "Victoria, aforesaid be appointed Liquidator for the purposes of auch winding up, at such, remu "Duration as may be arranged "between the anid Harrisona, and "And Crosfield Limited and the "Liquidator.

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Should the Second Resolution be passed by the requisite majority, it will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Resolution to a Second Extra- erdinary General Meeting to be hold at the above address at twelve o'clock Boon on TUESDAY the 18th day of January 1920.

Exted this 10th day of December, 1919

By Order of the Board,

(86) BIEB, LIVINGSTON & CO.

St-Géorge'n Buildinga, Hongkong

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

OWN HOUSE FED POULTRY.

We are now able to supply our Customers with own fed poultry And to meet all demand.

Our present stock consists of

specially selected Birds which

in prime condition and should give every son..

CHRISTMAS GIFTS.

Stockings,

XMAS BASKETS, ZAG-Zaw PUZZLES,

STAMP, BAGS AND PACKETS, DOLLS! DOLLS !! DULES !!!

PICTURE BOOKS,

FISH FOND, QUOIT GAME, ERECTOR, LUDO,

&c.

GRACA & 00, "No. 10, "Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620,

Hongkong

JAPANËSE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

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are

THE CHINA MAIL.

MASPERO

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THE CIGARETTE O DISTINCTION

PRE-EGY

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There is an instantly recognisable flavor to "Felucca" which distinguishes it from other Egyptian Cigareties. This flavor, which is only obtained from the finest selected leaf, has secured for "Felucca” by far the largest sale of any Egyptian high-grade in the Orient.

A new stock of "Felucca” Cigarettes is on sale at all leading tobacconists. Send for a tin today,

Manufactured in Cairo by Maspero Freres

This Advertisement is issued by British-American Tobaco Co, (China) Ltd.

A NOVELIST'S BUDGET.

my lady gardener, who started dur- | UNDERGROUND LINE FOR ing the war at 30s. a week, discovers.

the existence of a union which for

THE LIFE OF THE NEW FLOK. | bids her to work under £3.

BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM.

" Howww

There was once upon a time in this country a class of people known as the deserving poor." They vanish ed, to all effects and purposes, with England's last decade of industrial prosperity before the war.

Their place, it is becoming increa singly obvious, will very soon be occupied by that section of the com munity which comprises all profes sional men with a more or less fixed income.

TOKYO.

D

Da July 15, 1917, an application

Added to these itens, a careful analysis of my housekeeping ex- OFFER OF FOREIGN CAPITAL. penses for the last six months shows that the cost of provisioning the household, boarding the servants, and supplying all such necessaries as are dealt with from the feminine standpoint, amounts to exactly 80 per cent more than before the war,

was filed by Mr. Havukawa Tokuji and others with the Government for permission to lay an underground railway in Tokyo. The plan has My position, therefore, is bricily received careful study at the hands this if I were to continue to live in i-of-the Railway Board, and the desired the same way that I did before 1914, permission was given on the 17th instead of saving £750 in a year instant. The new enterprise is cap- my expenditure would exceed my italised at Y25,000,000. It is said that overtures have been made by income by something over £2,000.

It is no longer a question of giving British and American capitalists to Labour to-day has only to open its up a servant, relinquishing, luxuries; supply the necessary fund, but the mouth and it receives practicaly wha: making economies here and there. intention of the promoters is accord- it asks for. The aristocracy have No such ordinary means will meeting to the Mainich, to accomplish taken to selling their land, and have the contingency with which we are the work with Japanese money ex-

clusively.Japan "Chronicle. been able to do so at an enormous pro- confronted. We can't increase our income. we spend our savings. fit. There is scarcely a merchant or manufacturer in the kingdom who has there nothing but the bankruptcy. not made money by the war, some of court for our old age. Either we which has been taxed and some of must break up our homes and start which never will be. The only class life again under altogther different left absolutely without compensation conditions, or else pack up and seek or consolation is the class on whose some country which has not yet suc. behalf I write the professional man,

ceeded in winning a great European whose earnings are subject to-day to war. the same income tax as the inherited At the risk of seeming prolix, I wealth of the non-productive person. must epitomise this very grave situs

My excuse for the egotism of this tion.

TATTOOING IN INDIA.

There are very faw parts of India says a writer in the Times of India in which the art of 'tattooing is not widely practised. Even in the days of Asoka we have evidence that it was a custom greatly practised, for the art is frequently depicted on the bas-reliefs; Marco Polo states that

diatribe is that I can deal best with Labour is coming into its own and the situation by Illustrating one par- can more or less look after itself Hicular case, and that case naturally The great commercial class has had in his day people used to come from my own. I claim to belong to the its opportunity of making money out Upper India to Zayton; now Chinhew, professional middle-classes, and of the war- and has taken it. The Fekten, to be tattooed; Nicain Conti,

ORDER re the war was earning the landowners have found a value for writing of the Irswaddi Valles in

CHERRY & CO.,

PIDDER STREET, Uppal a Hongkong Hotel, Telephone No. 491,

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.-

MUMEYA

Japanese Photographers.

All Hads of Photographic Work dans in Intent styles also Passport Photos...

Developing, and Printing for -

Amateurs « Spoddality.

No. 4, Queen's Road Central Tel. 254

VAPHER NEW BOLEHON REMEDY”),

THERAPION NË,1 THERAPION NË 2 THERAPIQN NO

says that

"All the inhabitants, men as well

very comfortable Income of, say, their possessions never before known the fifteenth-century, four thousand a year.

Fla history. It is the class represent On this I was able to support a ing the brains of the country (23-women, puncture their Gash with amali country house, allow myself a except writers of fiction) who faced, pins of iron, and rub into these Hittle shooting, occasional visits to with an income tax eating into the practures pigments which cannot be town, and put by regularly between very vitals of their earnings and an obliterated, and so they remain paint

· £700 and £800 a year..

exorbitant increase in the cost of ed for ever." The traveller, Tavernier, When the war came I fulfilled to living and wages, must langaith and writes of the Bauara people that their women, "from the waist upwards, the full extent of my powers the decline under an impossible burden. duties of a citizen, giving time, It is of no interest to us if we are tattoo their skin with flowers, like as

·labour, and money to the common to be crushed out of existence that when one applies cupping glasses, and cause. I bore the increase in the our children and grandchildren may they paint these flowers divers colours income tax and in cost of living have only a shilling income tax to with the juice of roots, in such a cheerfully, and by, rigid economy pay.. We did our best as good manner as seems as though the was able to get through without citizens to help to win the war, and skin was a flowered fabric." The breaking into my savings to any we want to see some prospect of subject is one full of interest, but living once more as we did before up to the present no errinus effort. those terrible daya. We cannot has been made to deal with it as a threaten, as Labour might, a revolu whole, though the Government dif in connection with the Census of 1901 tion if our burden be not lightened..

extent.

In common with a few millions of othera I shouted myself hoarse when armistice came, drew a long breath of relief, and settled down to find my What will surely happen, however, ask for information on the subject. way back again into normal life....is at least as harmful. There will The compiler of the Mysore Census, Here is where the vital part of this exist in this country a discontented, report collected statistics all over story begins. Some eleven months impecunious, and soured class, whose the State, and wrote an interesting after the signing of the armistice I depressing influence will extend into account of his work. In Burma the find myself la this position: N the day by day life of the country, custom is even more prevalent theo- Instead of income tax of, say, who will be incapable of giving of in India, for while in India itself the £440, I am asked to pay income and their best or of summoning up one tattooing of males is very limited. super-tax of £1,620. ~

single spark of patriotism for their practically every Barma boy is My chauffeur, content with 30s, a Motherland, If she should again tattooed from waist to knees, which week before the war, now demanda a demand sacrifice and service is equivalent to saying he has a pair weekly wage of £3 10. My Indoor At whatever cost, and in spite of of breeches tattooed on him. servant, to whom I paid a pound any influence which might be brought week, now requires two. The garden to bear, the income tax on earned boy, well content a year ago with 93. income should be halved, and the a week, accepts 15s, with reluctance, balance made up by a tax on war The three Imaidservants require at profits. This would be an act of feast 2 per cent, increase, and finally sheer and beneficent patice.

MONDAY

ER 15,

NOTICES.

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Buy "BOOSTER BRAND Macaroni, Vermicelli, Egg-Moodies, Paste Stars and other kinds of Soup Staffs from us." All our Past Products, made in a now, well-ventilated and modern styla Pactory, ses puro, wholesome and of excellent quality.

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Sample and Price List will be given free of charge en application to our Head Office

TRADE MARK.

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HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL, (To be opened 1st January, 1930.)

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