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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1921.

Hughes & Hough

LUUTIONEXES TO THE GOVERNMENT

AND ADMIRALTY.

Coal Contractors-- General Brokers.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS

THE Undersigned Pabllo Anction

THE Undersigned have received Instruo

(Fer account of the concerned) ON

TUESDAY,

May 10, 1921, at 10.30 am, at No. 1, Cox's Path, Cox's Road, -

Kowloos,

SUNDAT Vainable Household Furniture,

&C

therein contained. Indalias Pantry and Kitchen Utensils, A., (Pull Farticulars from Catalogue). Termon:-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, May 3, 1921.

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

- י

OK

TUESDAY,

May 10, 1921, commencing at 2.30 Pim at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Vex Road, Corner of Ice House Street,

AN ASSORTMENT OF

Superior Household Linens, do,

-Comprising →→→ Hemstitched and Scalloped Pillow Cases, Bed Sheeting 72-in. and 90-in wide, White Satin Quilts, Eed Valances, Damask Table Cloths and Serviettes, Turkish Towels, Bath Sheets, Hacks back Towels, Crochet and Drawnwork Doilies, White Calico, Ladies' and Gent's Handkerchiefs..

And

- A number of Marble Statuettes, Terms -Cash,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Bergkong, May 4, 1921.

(FOR ACCOMET OF THE CONCERNED),

TUESDAY,

May 10, 1921, commencing at 3:30 pm at their Bales Booms, No. 8, Der Your Boad, Corner of Ice House Street,

TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNI TURE, BRACE AND TEAKWOOD ** BEDSTRADS, CARPETS,

Cy

te

&ic, comprising Dining Suites, Mirror beck Side bou, -Dining Table, Chairs, Chesterfield Sofas, Arm-chairs (new), Card and Occasional Tables, One Up-1 bolstered Suite, Bedroom Furniture comprising Teakwood Twin Bedsteads, large and small Wardrobes, Dressing Tables and Chaire, Washstands, &c. Dinner Services, Crockery, and Glass Ware, Cooking Stovai, Cutlery.

Electric Reading Lamps, Screens, Sundry Blackwood Furniture, Side Tables, Chairs, Cabinets, Pictures, dec

Alto

Several New Heavy Brass Bedsteads. Full Particulars from Catalogue). Terms Cach

W

HUGHES & HOUGE, Asuctionaert. Hongkong, May 4, 1821.

All the mess Beautiful Women use

CREME

SIMON

For Beauty,

Whiteness,

Preservation,

of the Skin.

Agstest Chape

and erftatione

of the Epidermala

eansed by the sun and wind.

Absolutely unrivalled."

-Dons Nos produće Hair.-

of all Chowniste, HairdresserS

· Perfumers and Stares

MUMEYA.

56a, Queen's Bond, 0.3

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

35 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS,

31. PREPAD, AN Every additional word: 4 Cents

for 3 insertions.

TO LET.

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE CHINA MAIL

INTIMATIONS.

CHINA COAST OFFICERS GUILD

WAND

CHINA

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM ASSO- CIATION OF HONGKONG.

NOTICE

A MOVING PAVEMENT.

PARIS INNOVATION.

SECOND MEETING Will be held ther

GYMKHANA MARINE ENGINEERS GUILD OF THE FOURTH ORDINARY AN permitting) at the HAPPY VALLEY, TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), May 7th, commencing

at 3.30 F.M.

$1 for other than Members of the The Charge for Admission will be Hongkong Jockey Club, Soldiers and Sailors

BUROPEAN HOUSE, No. 7, Middles

Road, Kowloon, 7 large and airy price.

rooms, Eathrooms. Apply Yu Kam Hirg. C/o Messrs. Johnson, Stokes

& Master.

ONE LARGE GODOWN, (known as

the Mody's Wanchai Godown). Verandah Two Large Rooms with

situated Queen's Road East, suitable for Earope Residence. Apply to Las Hrus & Co., 202, Queen's Ford Central

WANTED.

BRITISH FINCA

for EXPERIENCED CLERE. Must be conversant with bookkeeping, ship ping, export and imports, Good writer and able to type. Apply Bar No 1286, c/o "CHINA MAIL"

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

G.

R.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

DARTICULARS and Conditions of

the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be beidÓNDAY, the 9th day of May. 1521, at 3 pm at the Offices of the Public Works Department. -byOrder of His Hrcellency the Governor, of Cee Lot of CROWN LAND t Coronation Road Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 15 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be fired by the Sarveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Registry No.

Juality,

Boundary

1ment.

726

M

1,254 == || Upssy Pelea,|

PUBLIC AUCTION,

)ARTICULARS and Conditions of the letting by Publia Auction Sale, to May, 1921, at 3 pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Lugard Road Extension in the Colony of Hongkong. faca term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Speyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 yours.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. –

Lot 24. 170.

Registry No.

Hond, Extereon.

Locality:

Th

BoundarT

Measurements.

42

As per le pian

St. John's Cathedral

MONDAY, May 9th,

at 9.15 p.m.

Coatentu se

10,576

Annual Rani

ORGAN RECITAL

Vocalist:

Upest Price,

/Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith

THERE'S A

LONG, LONG TRAIL

Bugs, Fleas, Flies, Beetles, Mosquitoes,

"killed by

KEATING'S

uniforms Half

www.

purposes

PERILS AND DRAWBACKS.

report on technical, adminİSTE KİM and financial details. Some time is clearly to elapse before we all go down the Strand or the boulevards on z trattoir realit.. To demonstrate: NUAL GENERAL MEETING of

that what was found, popular zi zir the Copstitutions? Reform Association

exhibition is not, necessarily adaptáci fof Hongkong will be beld in the old

to the streets of a great city would be Chamber of Commeres Room, City Hall, EMBERS of BYTE GUILDS are

The old logicians seeking a Kornel superfluous." At the exhibition, we requested to attend Combined WEDNESDAY, 11th day of May,

overhead. M.- Desvaux inclines for Hume, on SATURDAY, 7th May, To receive the Report of the Comcooking animal ? :) and a Mesting at the Guilds Offices, Sailors 1921, at 5.30 pm, for the following definition of "map" invented several believe, the moving footpath moved curious aliases for him, such as a vote for an underground trottoir rot- 1921, at 3 r. Sharp.

"tool-lant in the streets.? We are not well mittee and Statement of Açœcunts to:

subterranean 31st December, 1990).

making animat. It our civilisation quainted with the To consider the following resolu- develops on its present plan it will geography of Paris, but we suspect that the difficulty and expense of soon be more accurate to describe making shallow subways will be found (1) That all the non-Chiness members him as a riding animal. Already, we as great there as in other cities. The

of the Legislative Council be are told that no Londoner walks aroute proposed for the first experi elected.

hundred yards if he can find any ment is along the great boulevard That a larger electoral body be, means of conveyance, and it appears from the Madeleine to the Place de adopted in the case of all such that in America this dependence ou la République, which may certainly non-Chinese members with the traction is becoming national In a be called the main stream of Parisiar exception of the Representative of few generations the human legs mayi kle. •No one who has been borne the Hongkong General Chamber of have become as superfluous and abdown its eddies on a fine afternoon.

•Commerce.

surd as the penguin's wings. The will dispute that the side of traffic:

1

The Stowards invite the LADIES received. of Hongkong to be present.

**

Hongkong, May 4, 1921,

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI

BANKING. CORPORATION.

..BUSINESS.

Ts consider certain propositions

For CC:0. G. & M. E. G. C W. J. STOKES, "Brunch Secretary, M., E. G. C. Hongkong, May 5, 1927.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,

An EXTRAORDINARY MEET. ING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAT BANKING CORPORATION will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 28th day of May, 1921, at NOON, for the purpose of considering and if though fit of passing the following

resolutions:-

LIMITED.

it

"NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY SECOND ORDINARY GENERAL MESTING. will be held

the Company's Offices. St. George's Building, on SATURDAY, 21st May, 1921, at 11.30 am. for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a Site- ment of Accounts to 28th February.

inclusive...

By order of the Board of DirectorS,

GIBB. "LIVINGSTON & CO..__

LTD.,

Agents.

Hongkong. May 4, 1921.

tiona:-

Council

·

(3) Tast there be an Unofficial majority latest blow at the has been struck if by no means too fall for sound on the Legislative Council with by the Municipality of Paris. The or foam," is much too fall for swift. such safeguards as are provided in Parisicas, like ourselves, suffer from movement. It would be an impertin the Constitution of Ceylon. (1) That a petition be sent to the proposes to relieve it by the construc- Paris as to the needs of their city,” congestion of traffic. M. Desvaux ence to advise, the City Fathers of Boase of Commons asking for the fion of trottoirs roulants. The French but we cannot help wondering whether support of the Members in securing phrase has to an English car a dizzy swift movement is what the throng the above change in the Legislative sound, which, to be fair, is not neces- in the boulevard wants. The gentle. To consider, in coufunction with the sarily inherent in the thing. There art of watching your fellow-creatures Members of the Kowloon Resident's reason why a moving footpath is, after all, dependent upon retaining should be more subversive of dignity control of your own movements... To and self-control then a moving stair- criticise other people's clothes, com- case, upon which most Londoners can plexions, figures, to book into shop remain

sufficiently perpendicular, windows, to chat with a casual friend, Moreover, the moving footpath is not is not comfortably to be done upon merely an inventor's project. It was a trottoir roulant. So we may still rried and not found wanting ar the have some hopes of the human leg. Paris Exhibition of 1900. The Muni- Even an urban population may pre- cipal Council, at any rate, think it serve it from atrophy, as indispensable sufficiently practical to approve the to the sweet' and dear delight of leaf- proposal in principle and call for a ing.

By Order of the Committee,

L.M. WHYTE,

Bos. Secretary,

1. That the Directors of the Hongkong 1921, and electing Directors and Association, any resolation which may & Shanghai Banking Corporation Auditor. The Transfer Books of the be moved in regard to the increase of be and they are hereby requested Company will be closed from the 14th House Hatee, and say other Municipal and authorised by and on behalf of the shareholders of the Come to the 21st May, 1921, both daysmatlara

To elect the Officers and Committee pany to take the steps decessary

for the ensuing year. for the introduction of an Ordin- ance into the Legislative Council į. of the Colony of Hongkong and for the 'ensement of the same by the Governor of Hongkong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof to effect the amendmenta necessary to the Ordinances under which the Com- paar is incorporated and crying. on business so as to allow of the espital of the Company being 'from time to time increased from

20 millions of dollars the present"" authorised capital of the Company to 50 millions of dollars.

9. That the Capital of the Hongkong

Shanghai Banking Corporation

be forthwith increased from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 by the creation of 40,000 New Shares of $125 each to be issued at the price of £70 on the terms after. mentioned. Shareholders an the Eastern Registers to pay for their allotments at the rate of exchange

for the Company's demand Bills on London on the day on which the instalments are due.

3. That the 'caid New Shares it ià thạ first instance, in such manner as the Directors shall prescribe for that purpose, offered to share- holders in the proportion of one New Share for every three shares of which on the 28th day of May, 1921, Shareholders shall respec- Condithat any New Shares not accepted by Shareholders within. the time limited by the Directors *for that purpose be disposed of and allotted by the Directars in such manner and at such price sa in their discretion they shall think) bert in the interests of the Com- pany.

4. That the payment of the sum of £70 per share for each of the said New Shares be made se fallowS, TiL.--

1st instalment of £35 on the

1st of July, 1921.

2nd and final instalment of £35 on the 1st day of October, 1921

5. That the Directors issue to Sbare

holders, holding shares less than or not a multiple of three," a frac tional certificate in respect of each share less than three or in exces: of a multiple of three and allot one New Share to every person who shall produce three anch Fractional Certificates on or before the lat day of July, 1921, and pay the first instalment in respect thereof.

That after payment of the instal- ment, and pending payment of the remaining instalment, Scrip Certificates in such form na the Directors may determine be issued in respect of much" New Sharee entithng the bolders on payment of the remaining instalment, and subject to such other terms as to approval, date for lodging scrip certificates and otherwise as the Directors may prescribe, to be registered as the owner of the shares respectively represented by such Scrip Certificates.

7. That interest at the rate of 6 pér cent. per annum be allowed out of the profits of the Company ou instalments paid in advance of the dates when the same become dos, "and, that registered holders, of

•Scrip Certificates for New Shares be entitled in respect of such New Bhates to participate in futura dividends on su aquality with the old shares, in prapoction to the instalments paid up, and from die dates for payment of same w

8. That interest at the rate of 8 per centam par annam ba sharged on beach instalment not punctually paid, and be paid with sach sich Instalment.

9. Tait all monsys received from premium on the aid New Saras be added to the Sterling Reservať Fund

FOR THE HONOLENG & BRANGEAL

- KANKING CORPORATION,

Hongkong, May 4, 1991.

"That's right

I

-they do satistyr.

There's more to a cigarette than "pleas- ing the taste. Other cigarettes, besides Chesterfields, can do that.

But Chesterfields do more they begin where the rest of them stop! Because Chesterfields let you know you are smoking -they SATISFY!

There you have it SATISFY. It's all-

in the blend-a blend of fine selected TURKISH and AMERICAN tobaccos. And the blend can't be copied.

.

That's why you must have Chesterfields

if you want this new cigarette enjoyment.

Liggetthelyi

Chesterfield

20 for

20 cts.

CIGARETTES

of Turkish and American tobaccos--blended

They SATLSEY !

This is the

with the

iscket

feld's and Favori

Hongkong, April