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G. P. LAMMERT.

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AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER

AND SURVEYOR. :-

-Public Auctions-

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE

HE THIRTY-THIRD ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON &

, LTD. on FRIDAY, February 5, 140, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for thei year ending 31st December, 1919.

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUES. DAY, January 27, 1920 to FRIDAY, February 6 1020 80TH DAYS INCLUSIVE.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

W. & BROWN..

Seoratory. Hongkong, January 23, 1990 FAB HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF ★ GODOWN CO. LTD: LOST

this:

PPLICATION has been made Anpany to issue to HR NEWMAN MUMFORD, Duplicate Certificate of ONE HUNDRED (10) SHARES in this Companyyor othur Certificate or Certifientes. in list thereof apa statement that the Original Certinente

.. 8250 st1 Septeraber 17th, 1919, for 100 Share numbered 18,735:18.739. 36,78238.500. 4326:573, and 71,1$8.71,295, has been LOST DESTROYED; and NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that it within 20 days from the dass bevent no CLAIK er REPRESENTATION in spect of such Original Certificate is made to

e Company, it will thereafter be held to he NULL AND VOID and the Company will proceed to deal with euch application for a Buplicate Certifiente,

Hy Order of the Board of DireR.

F. S. BROWN, Secretary, Hongkong, January 8, 1920.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the TRANSFER BOOKS of the: above named Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY. the 6th day of February, 1920, to MONDAY, the 18th day of February, 1920, both days inclusiva.

Dated this 29th, day of Jazuary, 1920.

By Order of the Board,

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO.,

INTIMATIONS

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Hongkong, January 28, 1920.

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WILD BEASTS.

GREAT CALOUTTA TRADE HIT BY THE WAR.

ALAZNA JED

SECRET OF NE, RUSSIA.

UNNANED, POWERS BIG BID FOR. 2,500 SQUARE MILES

OF GROUND.

At a Savoy Hotel luncheon recently Colonel Johor Ward, MP, made a remarkable statement, which would almost suggest that adige world Power has the secret of vast wealth unexploited in a remote corner of the wilds of north-east European Russia.

There can," he said, "be no peace in the world until we have secured internal order within the late Tsar's dominions.

You cannot allow 180 millions of people to be the prey of our recent enemies. I was a sort of amateur ambassador in Omsk, and Admiral Koltebak and his council had such confidence in me that they put before me documents which were simply astounding.

It is not generally known, says the Englishman tirat Calcutta before. the war was the greatest centre in the world for the trade in wild animals. There were several collectors, with stocks in Entally and elsewhere in the suburbs, who had agents not only in various parts of India to trap and buy animals but throughout the Far East and every where in Africa. So complete was the system directed from Calcutta that people like Hagenbeck, Janrach and Bostock preferred to send their buyers to Calcutta to deal with the Calcutta merchants than to hunt for their animals themselves in the wild corners of the globe. The reason why Calcutta becames centre was because to begin with in India

"One Power was prepared, to my were to be found at moderate prices own knowledge to undertake the task the three classes of animals which of securing, order in Russia if she were most indemand, tigers, elephants, were only given absolute possession and monkeys. Then one or two of the of 50 miles square of a particular Calcutta dealers began to send their region in the North Ural territory, own trappers to Africa and Straits, and Java and Sumatra, and discovered to their delight that the Indians they employed were better experts than the natives of any other country in catching wild animals, and subduing eld and new. them. Even in the case of animals And this country: is to be left the that were new and strange it was happy-bunting ground of the Hun found that Bhil and Southah trappers for the future! British influciste is knew more about their habits than the natives living amongst them, The natural result was that buyers

from Europe and America found it cheaper and better to come straight to Calcutta for their animals and birds than to wander over half the world They found here not only all the Indian birds and beasts,

otes too.

This Power even offered, if she could get hold of another concession, which involved merely a small part of Si' eria, that she would undertake to frank the entire debt of Russia,

to disappear!"

A PARROT'S LANGUAGE.

5 dae was beskatted INDICATION OF CHARACTER

IN THE POLIJE COURT.

but all the African and Far Eastern A green parrot was a witness in a case at the Thames Police Court The war, however, dealt the trade when a seaman was charged with a severe blow. The Germans and stealing the bird from a man aboard Austrian buyers, of course, no longer the same ship. came to India, and, owing to the fact

SOLDIERS WILL ON A PHOTOGRAPH.

* 1. LEAVE ALL TO HER—

FRANK A. KIRKLEY,

What is probably the shertest will on record has just been proved. It is that of Lieut. Frank Robson Kirkley, of Sunderland, who died ori active service in Italy.

The will is made on the back of a vignette photograph, autographed Muriel," and measuring 2ția. by 3in. On the back is written in indelible pencil

I leave all to her: Frank R. Kirkey. 13th July, 1917.

This will, belay that of a soldier on active service, has been held to be valid, but affidavits were required family to identify the lady referred. from-members- of Lieut. Kirkley's

to, and, eventually probate was granted to the original of the photograph, Miss Aanie Muriel Kyrke Smith, of Durrington Camp, value of the property at £320. Salisbury Plain, who returns the

TRADE: SIGN-BOARDS.

ENGLISH AT BITE 15

MURDERED A

In "The Mastery of the Far East." the author, Dr. Judson Brown, gives kome amusing examples of the results of the efforts of the Japanese, by! means of sign-and-name boards, to

help the English tourist in Japan. The examples are almost too good to be true. We are told that one rarely sees Russian, German or Frenh signs, but English are numerous, but their No Wordings are often quaint, admission to Enter might puzzle a new comer, but be soon grasps the meaning. More amusing, are the struggles of the Japanese shop. Keepers to attract the English" custo- mers. One shop bears the legend, "Printing" is”, dóns,” “while another

bunces that inside". “Drugs. Ap other Sell A tailor'Falop funts

• the mylfation" to respectable ladies and gentlemen to come in and have files." " Baggage is sent every direction is what one would expect

Prisoner said: he had been under

but having ascertained that it talked he had changed his mind, as his bird

that the kind of shipping required the impression that the bird was his, was no longer available, there were no purchasers from the Allied count tries. However, there is always was mute. very fair demand in India itself for "Indian animals, owing to the number

When the parrot, in a cage, was taken into court, Mr. Rooth, the

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of wealthy Indians who keep zoos magistrate, said that if it used bad and menageries, and the Calcutta language it would have to be taken the express office to do; albeit, it dealers having tided over the war out, but the prosecutor, addressing it might have daid it differealty: A fur are now looking forward to a briskas. Laura," it answered with the dealer starlles the tourist by "trade,

Pay same word..

There has recently been formed at Prisoner again expressed himself uicing) Rurs are made from home a concern, known as the convinced that he had been under World's. Zoological Trading Commisapprehension, and was discharged. pany which is designed to secure The magistrate observed that the into British hands, the retail trade parrot left the court without a stain in birds and beasts which was once on his character

almost entirely termina. This company intends to employ its own trappers and agents in Africa and ^elsewhere and has engaged a number of demobilised officers and men who have been sent to the Congo and ather parts of the world. Then cutta" dealers", assert that the Com Dany must, sooner or later take the

ourkin yours? A curio dealer has the honesty to affirm (publicly); Antique! Curiores Bought, told and made A Japanese journalier, applying to "al London, newspaper for a position as correspondent from Japan, wrote, As for: my know Fledge of Enclinar and: capacity of journalistic work. I cannot say myself much for them, but you may perhaps be able to roughly estimate them by {these lines).+With regard to my per- and honest characteri

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