WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 · 1900,
Hughes & Hough
AVERTON HEL TO THE (OVERNMENT.
General Avationsszs Share, Comi and General
Preduce Brokers and Commission. agents.
PROPRIETORS *To-Kwa-Wan' Coal Storage
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PUBLIC AUCTIONS-
Undersigned have received Instractions 30 *ail by Public
Azation
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,)
#10
MONDAY,
February 9, 1928, at 10.30 20. st The Hongkong & Kowloop Wharf and Godown Co. Fremises, Godown 17. Eight Colls Steel Wire Rope. Term:- Cab.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
from 10COURT OF THE CONCERNED),
ON.
THURSDAY.
February 19, 1920, at 10:30 am, It
No. 10 Knutsford Terrace, Top Flat,
THE
Taluable Household Furnitura,
tbarcin postained.
comprising:
Fumed Teakwood Hallstand and Dinning Room Furniture, Morocco Leather-covered Chesterfield Sofa and Armchairs, Pictures: Ornaments, and Sundry Blackwood Furniture; large and small Teakwood Bed steads, Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, &c., Bed and Table Linen. Cutlery and Plated Ware including large Dinner Service complete, New Ahminium Cooking Utensils, Bath Room Utensils,
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
SE WORDS & INSERTIONS, #1. PREPAID. Hach additional 5 words 4 Conta.
WANTED.
WACHINESE BOOKKEEPER, mu
VANTED At Once, Competent understand English. Apply stating experience to PracT SMIT, SETE & Fir, 5, Queen's Road Central.
TO LET.
THE CHINA MAIL.
TO LET-No. 3 Seymour Terrace
from middle February,
NOTICES.
THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
WORDS AND THEIR MEANING.
A PLEA FOR EXACTNESS.
Is language, with other arts, going the THIRTY FIRST ORDINARY stray towards the meaningless for MEETING of, SHAREHOLDERS in the sake, we may put it. of ascaping this Company. will be held at the sterility, or of emphasizing the COMPANY'S OFFICES, VICTORIA necessity of freedom at any cost. BUILDING on/THURSDAY, 5th with the most pernicious of all de February. 1920. at 12 o'clock Noon, stres, the passion for novelty?" for the purpose ofreceiving the REPORT of DIRECTORS together with Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1919.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the No. 8 Campany will be CLOSED from Central Wednesday 28th, January to Thurs O. Eday 5th February, 1920, (both days inclusive), during which peried no TRANSFER of SHARES can be Registered."
5 ROOMED furnished Bungalow at The Peak from early March. Apply LANTRAN & DAR.
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ANTED—A EUROPEAN LADY TO LET-1st Floor, to teach a Chinese family at Des Yeux Road, their house in Robinson Road, 2 Suitable for Office. Apply hours every week day, afternon. Wax & Co., Ltd. “ State salary expected. Apply W.T.Y.P. P.O. Box 100. clo" China Mail"
TO LET.
LET-A SHOP in Kathen fold, Kowlock. Apply to Humphreys Hamis & Finance Co. Ld... Alexandra Buildingo.
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TO LET-A GODOWN at Yaumati. Apply to The Hongkong Land Reclamation Ltd.
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Princes Building, fully farnished, from April 1st to October an IBM). For fall particulars apply to GILMAN & Ca., Les.
TYRES
TYRES
TYRES
Un account of recent large arrivals at favourable exchange we
are
able to offer the well-known
U.S. CHAIN TYRES at great reduced rates from 1st February as follows:-
+
TYRES TrnEs
B.A. 2
28 × 3
22.10
E...$.
8.15
TYRES
K.I.
TUBES
MK. &
34 x 42
74.30
15.95
30 × 3
24.25
7.40..
35 x 4
60.00
30 x 3
31.50
8 20
35 × 4
75.50
10.45
31x4
49.70
9.75
&a
&B.
36 × 41
76.00
16.95
Also
32 x 3
36.40
9.65
Pot
Plants, Electric Fittings,
32 x 4
50,80
11.10
785 x 105
47.35
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Singer's Sewing Machine, and one
Large Hall Clock.
33 x 4
53.20
13,30
"815 x 105
(Fall Particulars from Catalogue).
31 x 4
54.40 11.00
880 x 120
Tarms-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGE,
Hongkong. February 3, 1820.
A uoblommer s..
49.45 14.40
66,90 17.15
Subject to change without notice.
Confidential Discount for quantities apon application..
ANDERSEN, MEYER & CO.,
HONGKONG:
"Everything for Motoring"
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
TEL 1990 & 1991.
AMPION
Lamps and Horna
Good Year Tyres
ALEX. ROSS & CO.
Phone 2457.
96; Der Your Road Central.
LTD.
CANTON: MISSION BUILDING.. TKL 3197,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
• MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary to the "HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD. General Agents for the KOWLOON-LAND AND BUILDING Co., LTD:
Hongkong, January 21, 1920.`
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The painter, seeking to schiave something new, takes refuge in distortion and the misuse of colour: turaan flesh shall become the crim son of beetroot and hair the green of the fields; whilst the eternal green of the fields shall be scarlet and all the shapes of men and women seem like those of fabulous beasts. The fantastic endeavour is, in the hands of genias, interesting with the rest a fashion for what else can such a schoot be but a fashion, in aspiration: not different from a woman's delight in a novel contortion of dress?:
There seems to be a tendency at present, not less demoralizing than the decadent tricks of the painter, to make use of outrageous verbal expressions, not rew epithets born of new circumstances, which do indeed enrich the language, but misapplied. words, the grace and beauty of which have served a real purpost;
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD. and the disfigurement of which may cause eur losing the very mearing of valuable master-pieces. The loss comes irreparable. There is no such fact as an old truth or old beauty-these things are always of to-day, only that which is not true, not beautiful, retreats into the limbo of the past, which is nothing.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that NOT
the FIRST ORDINARY YEAR LY MEETING of Shareholders of the Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, No. 2. Queen's Road Central, en SATURDAY, 7th February 1920, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directora together with a State ment of Accounts for the Year ending 31st December 1919.
The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY 26th January to 7th Feb ruary 1920 (both days inclusive) during which, period no transfer of shares can be registered.
Was it Johnson who declared that "words mean what they mean and no other sort of thing"? If so, those who love words would insist with him that the misapplication of language, however cunning in its wit or apparent fitness, is a cankerous growth, and withers where it attacks, Words that "mean what they mean". remain for ever in a vocabulary through the ages, making explicit for generation after generation in
By Order of the Board of Directors.every language the significance off
KAN TONG PO,
Chist Manager. Hongkong, January 10, 1920,
UNION WATERBOLT COMPANY, LIMITED.
All things beatiful and valuable to the soul and heart of man. The most ancient philosophies.reach us from far down the ages still alive still wonderful by reason just of this quality of exactness. The dressings of language, the construction, the pronunciation, the colloquial idiom. and the meaning of epithets, not af fundamental importance, change, so that the writers who used these as their primary medium, often for satiric or humorous purposes, become will be held in this Offices of Messrs.intelligible and cease to be read. Dodwell & Co., Limited, on MONDAY Language may change, language the 9th February, 1920, et 11 may be enriched, but the isolated for the purpose of receiving the report word of primal significance remains, of the General Managers together with
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL GEN TERAL MEETING of Shareholders
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the End to 9th February, 1999, both datos
inclusive.
-DODWELL & CO, LTD.
General Managers... Hoogkong, January 28, 1996
a Statement of Accounts to 31st Decem-new or old, meaning "what it means and no other sort of thing." A ber, 1919
hundred new comenclatures' never oust the true designation. We can find no better synonym for fove, hate, mother, child, joy, evil, ship, land, flowers, home, and, indeed, the devil. In fact, words in themselves are beautifully comprehensive. No sen- tence need accompany the rich mean- ing of some. The phrase may cheat as to an acquiescence, never the word. Nothing that we can add to the utterance God can enrich the significance of its meaning, and much can be little it. Who can quality "horror" by any epithet that could intensify its power, or encumber
HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD. TARP MEETING OF ORDRE "love" with more than it holds it
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Caaka of 3T5 lbs. zet.
In Bags of lbs. nek
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
GENERAL MANAGERS
ROSE'S
LIME JUICE
Delicious, Wholesome, Refreshing.
Prepared from the pure juice of the finest West Indian Lime Fruit, grown on our estates in Dominion, West Indies.
·Insist on having ROSE'S.
OF SHARE itself? Yet the infinite meaning of HOLDERS in the Company will be held
at the Office of the Company, Hotel one word does bring us the delight Mansions, on TUESDAY, the 10th of language, the inspired message, FEBRUARY, 1920, at 12 o'clock Noom, the embroidery, the art, the explana for the purpose of receiving a Report of tion, the emphasized. assertion, the the Directors, together with a Statement detailed description
of Accounts, declaring Dividend and alecting Directora and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS ofte Company, will be CLOSED from Jan- uary, 27th in February 10, 1930, both days inclusive. -
By Order of the Board of Directors,
JOHN ARNOLD,
Secretary. Hongkoạt đạng 1 1990
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO. LTD.
that become poetry and prose, enabling us to live more intimately with the significance of those symbols.
Both in literature, and common parlance special words take to them- selves, it would seem, a sudden im portance. They appear for some mysterious reason elected, as it were, to dominate and to give new quality to all they touch, and this so often for only a time, after which they return to file whilst some other ranker is out for honours, "Charm:: ing" is one of these, and during its reign the world of letters, men and women, and, persons of quality, to NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that put it in the old way, found it possible the ORDINARY ANNUAL GEN. to be charming more often. Wit ERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLD. and good manners were part of its ERS in this Company will be bald ingredient and became prevalent. at the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, on Beautiful houses and graceful clothes WEDNESDAY,, the 18th February, followed an era of ugly architecture Religion 1920, at Noon for the purpose of and hideous ornament. receiving the Report of the Directors went out into the slums to carry its together with a Statement of Ac message, whilst young men from the counts for the year ending 31st Dec, universities lived soberly in the East. End that they might give some of. 1919...
the charm to those who lacked any opportunity of touching even the hem of its garment. It reigned won derfully for a decade. Nothing quite universal followed, till the Ameri- can invasion of epithets that did riot mean what they mean," but any other sort of thing.
"
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11th February to the 21st February (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be | Registered, '.'
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers.” Hongkong, February 3, 1920.
Isay
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Authors often have some predilec- tion for a certain word. Through their works you will find such dominate without giving any sense of repetition. Meredith had a fond ness, for eminently. In a living auther we find in each separate book a word that seems the initial qualifica- tion of the story, as it were, as if he hed brooded, like a bird upon its egz and hatched the wonder of his work from it. These single words.come back to us as the hold all of the
KEATINGS any, and one's mind plays upon
FLOZENGES
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their extension into phrase and their reabsorption, with a consciousness of the oneness of space and the move menit of eternity.
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