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INTIMATIONS

G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER AND SURVEYOR,

Public Auctions-

Nickelplated & White

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BATHROOM FIXTURES

New Stook Just Unpnaked.

INTIMATIONS.

THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY (1918) LIMITED.

NOT

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the first ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the Company, 84. George's Building Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 20th December, 1919, st 11.30 ablook, in the forenoon, for the purpose

of receiving a statement of accounts and C. E. WARREN & Co., Ltd..!

the Report of the General Managers for

tha 14 months ending 30th September, 1919, 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 Managers. Rongkong! December 5, 1919%

THE CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHARËHOLDERS,

THE

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the COMPANY will be 'CLOSED. frem SATURDAY the 20th December, 1919, until MONDAY the 29th Decem

bar. 1919, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

GİBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.

Agents.

Hongkong, December 13, 1919.

HONGKONG BOXING

ASSOCIATION.

NOVICES COMPETITION,

TANTRIES are invited for a NOVICES

COMPETITION (all Weights) t

be held on or about the 10th day of January, 1920, to be conducted under the Competition Rales of the National' Sporting Club, subject to such varia- tions therein as may be made by the Boxing Committee of the above Associa tion

Weights to be N. S. C. Standard Weights.

Entries will not be accepted from any man who has (1) won any Open Novices Competition, or (b) taken part in any Couteat or in any Open Ucmpetitice other than one for Novices.

tries must be made at or before

12 Noon on FRIDAY, Decembar 24 and be addressed to the undersigned.

J. C. WILDIN,

Manager. O/o Imports & Exports Ofice,

Hongkong, Hongkong, December 17, 1919,

NOTICE.

TO ALL WHOM it may concern. I

SAMUEL JOHN CLAYE at present residing at the Hongkong Hotel, Pedler Street, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, hereby give Notice that I have expressly withdrawn all and every authority which my wife GLADYS ARELENE CLAYE may have at any tima either expreely or by implication or otherwise, syaired to contraet for me or in tay name or as my agent or in any way to pledge my credit-1 baring expressly forbidden het so to do and abe being sufficiens applied with all Recessaries and that I will not be responsible for her debts when soever or however incurred.

Dated this 17th day of December, 1919.

8. J. CLAYE,

NOTICE.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

Order to enle the Contractors to complete the work in connection with the above Hotel at the saliest

possible date without interruption, and In order to avoid all possibility of dam. age to the Flooring, Tiles, Paint Work, ato. The public are roquested to Kindly abstain from visiting the Ectel

on and from this date until ́its ompletion and formal opening on Which due Notice will be given by advertisement in the local newspapers.

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THE UNWRITTEN PEACE INTERNATIONAL SAVINGS A VICAR'S UPHILL FIGHT.

POEM.

AMERICAN SYMPATHIES WITH DR. BRIDGES,

The question of a peace poem raised some time ago in the House of Commons by Mr. Bottomley, who suggested that as part of the Poet

Laureate's official remuneration con- sisted of cash payment in lieu of a supply of Canary wine, the Govern ment might furnish the wine on the chance of the Laureate getting an inspiration," has been commented upon by some of the American papers. Sympathy with the Laureate is expressed by the New York Evening Mail, which says:***

SOCIETY,

NEW BUILDING AT SHANGHAL.

WIFE BECOMES WAITRESS.

A sad story of a vicar's fight to The N. C. Daily News of Dec. 10tive on small incomes and his wife

says

is that which will be formally opened An interesting and artistic building by the International Sayings Society

VII this morning. Carried out in an at their new offices in Avenue Edward application of the Renaissance style and deriving some inspiration from the Pallazo Valmarena. Verona, the new building, which was designed by Mr. R. A. Curry, of Shanghai, is a further striking departure from the which has only recently been depart

compradoric" style of architecture

have been recently erected on the ed from in the buildings which Band and in some of the other thoroughfares.

presents a Corinthian pilaster effect Of a splendid simplicity the facade with a shield in the centre bearing in incised gold characters the Chinese

in London was, told in the Bradford, being driven to work as a waitress

Bankruptcy Court, says the Daily

Chronicle.

Chaplin, vicar of Hubberholme, Buck, The debtor was the Rev, J. B. den, whose estimated liabilities were £906 and estimated assets £39.

After several years scent in Bur- and secured a curacy at Warrington mah, he said he returned to England,

a home he obtained furniture by in at £140 a year. In trying to furnish stafments, but unfortunately resorted to moneylenders.

Swinton (Yorkshire) at £169, at Stoke He held curacies afterwards at for £120, was chaplain at a work house in the Isle of Wigh: for £120. and house curate at Buckmill and Hagnall at £150.

SEVEN-MONEYLINDERS,

At the latter place he purchased a house on the instalment system, and when he left sold it at a loss, being now responsible to a second mort Rages for £120.

There is something to be said for the silent successor of the voluminous Alfred Austin. Masterpiece of song cannot be produced on order, a9 2 pair of shoes, or a beer barrel, or a piece of genuine Colonial mahog any furniture are made. Parliament is mistaken if it imagines for a mo ment that, for an allowance of £500 me of the firm, while the front a year, a poet laureate can soar influence with bronze doors harmoniz entrance shows & Greek classical in the empyrean or ride a hard bitteding well with the general scheme. Pegasus to the Olympian heights Inside the vaults are supported on just like that, on the spur of the half Doric columns the dark green moment But it is so long since a imitation marble of which is effective poet laureate has produced a mag-ly contrasted against the white walls. terpiece of song that the most exact.

There are in all three storeys, but ing Parliament could not expect a the principal offices of the Society reversal of tradition from Dr. Bridges. are to be found on the ground floor, The last poet laureate who produced including the banking room, book anything even approaching a master, keeping department, vaults, executive piece was Tennyson. The last

directors' offices, counters, etc. The great plece of verse that has woodwork throughout is of light oak been produced by a British poet handsomely carved in a style agree was Kipling's "Recessional," which able to the whole design of the build was published after the greating and this with dull bronze metal pageant of the coronation of Edward fixtures goes to make up a very VIL.. But Kipling is not a laureate. artistic whole. An interesting fea- He is just a common or garden poetture of the flooring is the black and out sick nursing, and is now engaged who wrote what he felt and happen-white figures of the Zodiac carried as a waitress in London to keep the ed to feel it at the right moment in out in a most attractive manner, bei pot berling that fatance. As to the saccessors ginning with the seventh constellation, I order to educate his children Libra, and running through Scorpio, he and his wife had had to safter Capricornus, Pisces: Aries Taurus, from the want of the bare necessities Cancer and Leon 190

of life. He had aold bis. furniture. practically without furniture. Occupying as it does a plot of land and effects, and had been living

of Tennyson, including the silent Dr. Bridges, the less said the better. The realisation of that fact is, perhaps, the explanation for the muteness

of Dr. Bridges official muse with a frontage on Avenue Edwand Parlament of no Parliament, victory VII of 56 ft. and the depth of 155 It.

or no victory. For his wise dechta the new offices are such as to deserve

thanks.

He became vicar of Hubberholme in 1916 at £200 a year. He had dealt with seven moneylenders, and during the last five years he had made himself liable for £530 interest. He had no extravagancea.

four children, three at Bury St. Mr. Chap'in concluded: "I have Edmands and one in London, and in order to keep them in a reasonable way my wife has been

NOT A BANKRUPT...

‚to refrain from smiting his bloomin""

At the conclusion of the examina- the warmest congratulations not only: lyre of mediocrity, Parliament gives for the Society but also to the arch tion the Oil Receiver sald: "I MUMEY A. him, not censure, but a vote of itect, for the effect obtained is not stand beside tuis debtor, who has only highly artistic, but again proves been faced with the alternative of The New York Globe sees the contention of present day arch starvation of his wife and his children real impertinence" in the assumption itects that it is possible to make use

or of resorting to mylondes If that poetry can be yoked to an of the old architectural standards the Church and her denominations institution, democratic or imperial, without in any way interfering with don't see that their clergy are better and called to pull in a given direc- the modern arrangements desired in paid, if Christianity does not compel

every new office building.

them to do it, then humanity ought, and we should not have people, of education faced with such a hor rible alternative.

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The Registrar said it was a most painful thing for a man in the pos

tion! The Globe sapa ny ole e The thing is impossible Poetry is not poetry when tamed, but a re- statement of accepted theories. And for us, but we are without a clear when it is real, as once in a hundred vision of what we want to do. De years it is, no money will pay for cidedly if we could get vision at the it, no man or institution can hold it prie of a hogshead of Canary or a tion of the debtor to have been taken. in check. It strikes like lightning, butt of Malmsey there would be no fato that court. It did not reflect to destroy and illumine. We need a excuse for hesitation. We could re well upon the condition of payment blinding flash nowadays to reveal deal prohibition without a qualm to the clergy. He &t heard nothing where we are and tellus where we Bit a prophet is not to be had for a to the relit of Mr Criplia, whom want to go. We have science at hand price, nor appet for way sort of he would not call bankrapt capable of realising all our dreams marketable prodace,

The examination was closed

ER 19, 1919

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