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FRIDAY JULY 29, 1921.

Hughes & Hough

APOTIONKERS TO THE GOVERNMENT AND ADMIRALTY.

Coal

Contractors

Brokers.

Ceneral

PUBLIC AUCTIONS

THE Undersigned have mesired instrze

slose to all by Pablle Auction, (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED) ON

TUESDAY,

Augcst 8, 1931, commenting at 2.30 pm, at their Bales Booms, No. 8, Dce Vaux Road, Corner of

Ice Home Street-

A Consignment of

WHITE GOODS,

Comprising:-

Ladies and Gent's Handkerchiefs,

WANT

THE CHINA MAIL.

INTIMATIONS

ADVERTISEMENTS HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO

25 WORDS 2 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. Frey additional word & Cente for 3 insertions.

WANTED.

WASTED Competant STENO

TYPIST (male) with knowledge of filing, coding, etc, requires immedi ste position, no objection to outports. Apply 1304, to " CHINA

WANTED-POSITION WANTED

by BOOK-KEEPER, with good knowledge of Shipping, and Import & Export and able to speak Chinese Buently. No objection to Out ports Apply to Bez 1305, co " CHIA MAIL"

FOR SALE

FOR SALE-ONE or TWO LOTS of LAND, in Jordan Bond, Kowloon, Damask Table Cloths 60 and 65 faches about seven minutes by Riosha from wide, Serviettes, Turkish and Hucka-Ferry. For plan & further particulars back Towels, Bed Quilts, Bed Valances, apply Box 1288, co *CHINA MAT.” Bedspreads, Pillow

Cases, Cotton

Calico, Doilies, Tray and Glass Cloths, Shirtings, Sheetings 72 and 9 inches wide, Bed Sheets.

&c.,

&c. & Terms:-Cub ou delivery.

KUOHES & HOTGB. Auctioneers. Hongkong, July 27, 1921.

-

[FOR 1000CNY OF THE CONCERNED),

OD

TUESDAY,

August 2, 1941, commencing at 2.30 pm, at their Bales Booms do. 8, Des Tax Road, Corner of Ice House Strat,

WOOD TWIN BEDSTEADS,

ke.

TO LET.

For particular apply to Tyr LED-GODOWN At Yumali. HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION Co.,

LD.

O LET-LARGE GODOWN AT VANCHAL GOD Mody Godown) Apply to LEE HAY SAN & Co. 202, Queen's Road Central.

HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,

LIMITED.

!

STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR per Share for the air months ending 30th Jane, 1921, will be PAYABLE TUESDAY, August 9th, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the

Company's Dffice.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Compary will be OLOSED from TEESDAY, August 2nd to TUESDAY. August 9th, both days inclusive, during which period na Transfer of Shares csa be Registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

G. E. ELLAMS,

Acting Secretary. Hongkong, July 13, 1921.

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED. (Incorporated in the United Kingdom)

NOTICE.

NY MEMBER of the BRITISH A. LEGION who is dourous of attending the Inauguration Dinner at The Horo Laso Her, on THURSDAY, 4th of August, 1921, if he has nox already done so, is requested to notify the undersigned of his intention to be

present.

Q. LAMPLUGE,

c/o Union Intürazes Society

of Canton, Hongkong.、 Bangkong. July 29, 11.

BANK HOLIDAY

Accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1913, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS MONDAY, | the 1st August, 1921.

Hongkong, July 27, 1921.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that T

Noon of

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE.

GENERAL HOLIDAY. OFFICE W be mar a INTERM DIVIDEND of MONDAY, the 180 Angum, 1993. Licentred Wire

houser will be entirely closed on that day.

N. 1. SMITH, Superintendent, ONE SHILLING per share on account of the year 1921, has been declared.

Imports and Exparts The DIVIDEND will be payable on and after WEDNESDAY, the 24th day of August, 1921, to Shareholders 9th day of August, 1921, and will be on the Register on TUESDAY, the paid to Shareholders on the Colonial (Hongkong) Register at the exchange rate of 2.7 per Dollar.

By Order of the Board.

W, E. ROBERTS, Secretary. Bloghong, July 25, 1881.

mitted to the Supreme Court of Hong- kong lor confirmation.

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN GIVEN that the said SECOND EX- GENERAL that an EXTRAORDINARY GEN. TRAORDINARY TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD ERAL MEETING of the above MEETING to be held as aforesaid FURNITURE, BRASS AND TEAK-Company will be held at the KONG will be continued for the purpose of KONG HOTEL Pedder Street, considering, and, if thought it, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, passing the following further Resolu CARPETS,

on WEDNESDAY, the TWENTY- tions as Extraordinary Resolutions, &c., be

SEVENTH DAY OF JULY, 1991, namely AT NOON, for the purpose of con- Comprising:- Dining Suite, Chesterfield Sofa sidering, and, if thought fit, approv Arm-chairs (new), Card and Occasional ing the draft new Memorandum of Association of the Company which Tables Teakwood Twin Bedsteads, will be submitted to the Meeting. A - large and email Wardrobes, Dressing print of such draft new Memorandum Tables and Chairs, Washstanda, e, of Association and a print of the er- (fumed Teakwood), Sideboards, Dinner isting Memorandum of Association Waggons, Dinner Services, Crockery, & of the Company may be seen at the Glass Ware, Cooking Stores, Cutlery, Company's Registered Office in the &c, Bath Room Utensils, Electro-plated Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street aforesaid, and a comparison of the "Ware, One American Ice Chest,

print of the existing Memorandum of Association with the print of the draft new Memorandum of Associa- tion will show wherein the draft new Association Memorandum differe

the from existing Memorandum of Association. Should the

such Meeting approve of Memorandum of Association with or without modification, the subjoined Resolution will be proposed as #0 Extraordinary Resolution, namely:- (1). Thas the provisions of the Company's Memorandum of As- sociation with respect to its objects be altered so as to read as shewn in the print signed for the purpose of identification by the Chairman of this Meeting.! and also for the following further

Electric Reading Lamps, Screens, Sundry Blackwood Furtiture, Chairs, Cabinets, Pictures, &c.

معنه

Enamel Bath & Ceiling Fan Electrolier. (Full Particulars from Catalogue). Terms: Cash on delivery.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, July 27, 1921.

INTIMATIONS

KOWLOON OR CKET CLUB

M

USIC purposes, namely:

AND

new

For the purpose of considering, and, if thought fit, approving the draft new Articles of the Company which will be submitted to the Meet-

IRTHg. A print of such new Articles

at the above Club on

SATURDAY, JULY 30th,

at 9 p.m

THE FULL BAND OF THE new Articles which differ from the

WILTS REGT.

by kind permission of Lieut.-Col. Wyndham and Oncers.

VOCAL & INSTRUMENTAL NUMBERS

by Ladies and Gentlemen.

Refreshment

Buffet.

Illumina-

tions.

Admission: ¿$1.00.(by permission of the forerument) A limited number of Reserved Besta ný

$1.50 BOOXING AT Mora's D

CLUB. DON'T MISS

IT.

LEE YEE'S

HAIR DRESSING SALOON. 12,, D'Aguilar Street, (opposite Hongkong Theatre,)

Razora Ground and Bet, Children's Hair Cuttin

Novels, Magazines,

Tollet Requisites,

and a print of the existing Articles may be seen at the Company's Re- gistered Office in the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street aforesaid.. In such print the portions of the proposed

existing, Articles are indicated by underlining in black ink and by marginal notes. Should the Meeting approve of such new Articles with or without modification, the subjoined Resolution will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resolution, namely:

(2). That the new Articles al- ready approved by this Meeting and for the purpose of identification subecribed by the Chairman thereof, be and the same are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Company to the exclusion of and in substitution for all the existing Articles thereaf

F

to

(3). That each of the existing 20,000 fully paid up shares of $50 each constituting the Com- pany's present Capital of $1,000,000 be divided into 5 fully paid up shares of $10 each so as to make such Capital $1,000,000 consisting of 100,000 fully paid up shares of $10 each. (1). That after the division afore- said, the Capital of the Company be increased from $1,000,000 consisting as aforesaid, $2,500,000 divided into 250,000 shares of $10 each by the crea- tion of 150,000 new shares of $10 each—such new shares (subject as hereinafter mentioned) to be issued at such time or times and and on such terms and conditions in every respect as the Company's Board of Directors may think it. (5). That it is desirable to capital- ise the sum of $1,000,000 being part of the undivided profits of the Company standing to the credit of the General Reserve, and accordingly that for the purpose of effecting such cap- italisation such sum of $1,000,- 000 be distributed as bonus. among the shareholders of the Company in proportion to the shares in the Company's present Capital of $1,000,000 held by them respectively on the date bereinafter referred to, and that a bonus be declared accordingly. And farther that the Company's Board of Directors be and they are bereby authorised to satisfy such bonus as far as possible by the distribution in manner afore- said of 100,000 shares of $10 each credited as fully paid up among the persons who are re- gistered as the holders of the shares constituting the Com

of pany's present Capital $1,000,000 on such date as the Company's Board of Directors ball decide-anch last msitioned shares to rank pari pan with the shares constituting the Com- pany's present Capital of $1,000,000 in respect of all pro- fits of the Company earned since the 31st December, 1920, and -such distribution to be in satia- faction of the aforementioned bonus.

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that a THIRD EXTRA- GIVEN that a SECOND ́EXTRA ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the of the Company will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL, Fedder HONGKONG HOTEL, Fedder Street, aforesaid on WEDNESDAY, Street aforesaid, on SATURDAY, the THIRTY FIRST DAY OF the THIRTEENTH ... DAY OF AUGUST, 1921, AT NOON, for the AUGUST, 1921, AT NOON, for the purpose of receiving a report of the. purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings at the above mentioned proceedings at the above mentioned Meeting in so far as regards. Be Meeting and of confirming, if thought solutions Nos. 3, 4 and 8 thote and fit, as Special Besolutions, the above of confirming, if thought fit such mentioned Resolutions (Nos. 1 and Last mentioned Resolutions as Special

Resolutions,

Dated this Fourteentà “day of

By Order of t

Should the fit of the above Be acikumana (No. 1) be confimed a ̈à Special Besolution by the requinte 1921. |majority, the siterations in the Com-

pany's - tnemorandum of Association: sily Envolved. "will be subs

NOTICE.

* MY DEAR SIR!"

DEFENDANT WITH 4D. WHO

WAS FINED 10s.

A voluble little man, describing himself as a musician, was charged at the Thames police court with disorderly conduct. After offering several excuses, he said to the magistrate (Mr. Rooth)

I

leave it to you. When I do

•

WONDER AGE

PROBING NATURE.

J

SCIENCE MAKING NEW HISTORY.

The new electric force discovered by the Danish enfisfeers Johnsen and Koud is just a milestone in the new read^which is being traversed by science to-day.

The war forced every country con- cerned to concentrate its scientific

The new X-rays, on the other hand, will penetrate and lay, to view the minutest flaw in the heavy case of a large shell.

Work now going on with the I- rays is giving wonderful information about the structure of matter-it bas only recently shown that all sub...... stances are composed of the mother. ubstance of which hydrogen is form ed-negative electrons "cemented" together by charges of positive electricity. transmutation of one element isto another may be found ultimately to be as feasible as the old alchemists dreamed it hundreds of years ago.

SHALF OFL. «.

This means that the

so, I know I am leaving it to a gentle- man. No one has to look at you twice to see that you are cos.”

energies an discovering new Ways Fuel is one of the pressing quer The Magistrate: What do you think and means of providing raw materialt tions of the day. Chemists are work- you could leave with me?

and fichting appliances. The great ing busily on the problem of extract- Defendant: I have only fourpencetus has borne fruit, and to-day ing the sulphur from ahale, and, once in the world. (Laughter.)

the services of the chemist, the done, this would give us enormous The Magistrate: You are fined 10 physicist, and the engineer are fully supplies of shale oil for fuel purposes Defendant: What, out of fourpencelarecognised, and with every laboratory all which has been computed to be My dear sir !

agog with experimental work we of more value than all the gold to The Magistrate: I will give you shall see progress during the next the Rand. Fuel of every description seven days in which to pay.

few years made at a rate pever known is being sought, from the alcohol Defendant: Oh, many thanks! As | before in the history of the world. obtained by distilling wood palp to La Churchman and a Protestant- making the sign of the Cross-l assure you it shall be paid before that

time.

BABY'S GOOD DAYS After a Dose of Baby's Owens Tablets.

“One of Baby's good days" meani

Some of the unsolved problems on the rewer motor oila recently ex which the best brains of the world tracted from flowers in Indis and to are now at work include:

palm oil in Africa.

Secrets of the upper atmosphere. Everyday wireless telephony. Flying straight up (helicopter). The cause and mure of cancer and other malignant diseases.”

The world's fuel and power supply. Structure of the atom, Television-seeing

that your child is thriving and free telegraph wire.

or mare.

over the

The mystery of sunspots.

WIRELESS PHONEL.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the HONGKONG DOLLAR from javanlle disorders. Baby's Own DIRECTORY Bas been acquired, as Tablets bring all good days into a child's.

for this delightful preparation for | from July 7th, 1921, by the undersign Hulaones dispels constipation and

The great wireless problemi, on the ed with all rights and titles, and will stɔme disorders, reduces feverishness, bereafter be published by them. No stare darhos, and relieves teething verge of solution is that of really trouble magic. No other medicine practical telephony, where the house claims against the Hongkong Dollar, sots do tromptly or so gently as Baby', 'hold or office telephone can be directly Directory incurred prior to date On Tablets, and they are guaranteed connected to the wireless station, and to be absolutely as safe and sare for the will be admitted by the undersigned.

youngest infant as for the child of 6 by the two systems we shall be able to talk to anyone, whether at Fears old THE NEWSPAPER ENTREPIE W. J. Wright, of Brockville sea or abroad on land. The solution

LTD.

Cabrio, Canada, writes: "I have used of this problem is nearer than ́many - Wyndham Street. Faby', Own Tablets in testhing.in of us realise, but it is entailing a vond in cohe, indigestion sad in dis vast amount of research work and Hongkong, July 7, 1991.

onleft of the stomach and bowels, which hundreds of men are engaged on it. are usually accompanied with restlesa. nets and fever, and have always found We are on the verge of finding out them set satisfactorily. The children many of the most intimate secrets of never object to taking them, and their nature. The wonder microscope action has been Il that could be desired.” gives us a new power-photogra- Baby's Own Tab'eis regulate the sto phing with the ultra-violet rays mach and bowels expei worms, make through modern microscopic appara- teething eary and painless. Of chemists,

MASSAGE.

Mr. HONDA and Mr. HONDA 14 years' experience. So. 26, Wyndham Biruel (Opposite to the Chias Mail,

poet frue st 8 cents the vial from Deus can reveal such structures as Williams Medicine Co., 96, Szechate those of the minutest bacteria, never Hoad, Shanghai.

seen before.

They Satis

FOR SALE.

New and Used.

HARDLEY DAVIDSONS. INDIANS. HENDERSONS.

WOLFE.

and SMITH. MOTOR CYCLES.

REEVES & CO., 106 114, Woo-Sang Streek, Kowloon

by 4 Draggin,

KEATINGS

WORM

TABLETS.

You'll say

so too!

and the blend can't be copied

hesterfield

CIGARETTES 20 for 20 cents