TUESDAY, AUGUST 2. 1921.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERŇMENT
AND ADMIRALTY,
Coal ContractorE
General Brokers.
NOTICES.
HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LIMITED,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GEN; ERAL MESTING of the above] Company will be held at the HONG-| KONG HOTEL Pedder Street, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong. on WEDNESDAY, the TWENTY-
PUBLIC AUCTIONS SEVENTH DAY OF JULY, 1921,
INTIMATIONS
AT NOON, for the purpose of con sidering, and, if thought fit, approv ing the draft new Memorandum of, Association of the Company which
print of such draft new Memorandum
THE CHINA MAIL.
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS,
$1. PREPAID. Every additional word 4 Cenis
for 3 insertions.
TO LET.
REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.
"I FIXED HIM WITH MY EYE":
CAN EYES RADIATE ENERGY?
CHINESE CURIOS.
TOURISTS AND FAKES.
STREETS FILLED WITH CURTO STORES-
A remarkable instrument is shortly Fesing, July 20-Headed by Mr. to be shown at a forthcoming English Wu Lat-hsi, formerly editor of the medical" congress, which appears to Peking Daily News, and a number of show that rays proceed from the eye other prominent Chinese of the which are capable of being registered capital," an innovation in curios just as wireless messages are detect-establishments has been started TO LET-LARGE GODOWN AT ed is there more than the old in Peking with the opening of the
odorn) Apply to LES HAT SAN&?
WANCHAL (kaown as Mody meaning in the phrase, “1 fixed him [Peking Art Gallery. It is to Co, 202, Queen's Road Central.
be a one-price shop, at which only The instrument is somewhat in the genuine curios will be placed nature of an electroscope the delicate on sale, and purchasers, who have so apparatus which is usually used to often been victimised by greedy Chin- dealt with by physicists. On con-unity of taking articles they desire LET-GODOWN at Yumati.measure the minutest electric currents ese dealers, will be given the opport- centrating the gaze upon the electro home with them for one week for scope a movement takes place which indicates that there is something in sight which radiates outwards and can cause mechanical movement.
will be submitted to the Meeting. AT For particulars apply to Tes MARINE ENGINEERS GUILD OF of Association and a print of the ex- HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION Co.
CHINA.
Hongkong Branch.
MEMBERS are informed that the REGULAR MONTHLY HEET. ING will be held at the Guild Ofc Sailors Home, on WEDNESDAY, 3rd August, 1921, at 5.43 p ru. sharp.
Northern Members are Cordially Javited to be Present.
W. J. STOKES,
Branch Secretary. Hongkong, August 1, 1921.
HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR per Share for the six months ending 30th June, 1921, will be PAYABLE 0ĎTUESDAY, August Oth,
which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, August 2nd to TUESDAY, Angus: 9th, both days inclusive, during which period to Transfer of Shares car be Registered.
isting Memorandum of Association of the Campany may be seen at the Company's Registered Office in the Hongkong Hotel. Pedder Street aforesaid, and a comparison of the 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? difters from the
existing Memorandum of Association. Should the
of Meeting approve
such new Memorandum of Association with or without modification, the subjcined Resolution will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resolution, namely:
(1) That the provisions of the Company's Memorandam 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 purposes, namely:
For the purpose of considering, and, if thought fi. approving the draft new Articles of the Company which will be submitted to the Meet ing. A print of sph new Articles and a print of the existing Articles | may be seen at the Company's Re- Acting Secretary.gistered Office in the Hongkong Hotel,
By Order of the Burd of Directors,
G. E. ELLAMS,
Hongkong, July 15, 1921.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED.
(Incorporated in the United Kingdom
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE SHILLING per share on account of the year 1921, has been declared.
The DIVIDEND will be payable on and after WEDNESDAY, the 24th day of August, 1921, to Shareholders on the Register on TUESDAY, the 9th day of August, 1921, and will be 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.
Hongkong, July 25, 1921.
FOR SALE.
New and Used.
HARDLEY DAVIDSONS. INDIANS.
HENDERSONS.
WOLFE.
and SMITH.
MOTOR CYCLES.
REEVES & CO., 100 114, Woo-Sung Street, Kowloon
most, farishing agreb sebol of admis
wing the sup
Laren or 1:aparece
kly adapun ke
I pack
Bin Bottjan
Pedder Street aforesaid. In such print the portions of the proposed new Articles which differ from the 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:
D
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-ONE or TWO LOTS of LAND, in Jordan Road, Kowloon, about seven minutes by Richa from Ferry. For plan & farther particulars apply Box 1998, c/o "Cena Mar.”
INTIMATIONS.
NOTICE.
WE have THIS DAY transferred the Agency of the Norwich Unica Fire Insurance Society, Ltd. to Mears. Reis & Co.
DAVID SASSOON & CO. LTD.
Hongkong, August 1, 1921.
NOTICE,
WWE have THIS DAY trasferred the Agency of the Lancashire Icsurance Co. to Messrs. T. E. Grifith, Ltd.
DAVID SASSOON & CO. LTD. Hongkong, August 1, 1921.
NOTICE.
E have THIS DAY taken over the Agency of the Lancashire Insurance Co. from Hesar. David |
Susscon & Co., Ltd.
T. E. GRIFFITH, LTD. Hongkong, August 1, 1921.
st Kowlook.
NOTICE.
(3). That the new Articles al- ready approved by this Meeting and for the
purpose of THE EMPRESS STORE and ON identification subscribed by the LEE are agents for WISEKAY LTD, 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! thereof
WISEMAN, LTD.
NOTICE.
laute investigation before making payment. Mr. Wu, who originated the idea, in a brief talk the open- ing of the gallery to-day sald:
This remarkable discovery and its possible significance can hardly between a curio dealer and several "A conversation I overheard be enlarged on until the instrument dealers gave me the idea. One of has been demonstrated, but it will the tourists said she liked a vase certainly cause something of a senss priced at $30 but feared it was a tion in the scientific world.
SIDELIGHT ON TELEPATHY.
It may foreshadow a time in the near future when it will be possible to register thought-indeed, it may be the fact that thought accompanies a concentrated gaze that causes the new instrument to make the regis train
If it can be definitely established that thought causes a wave motion in the æther, then it will no longer be wonderful that a person in India or Australia, for instance, is conscious of the induence of some other person's thoughts in London. These ather WAVER Vary So enormously in length; X-rays waves are so short that many millions of them are crowded
of
inch;
200
into the space wireless telegraph waves, on the other hand, are often five miles long Perhaps the thought wave is thousand miles in length-it is just as likely as not; in which case a wave motion set up by concentrated thought might easily travel across the world before it was dissipated and so find a response in a receptive mind.
NORTH SEA HYSTERY,
A GERMAN'S TRIP ALONE.
VESSEL CLAIMED BY WIFE OF -
MISSING MAN.
There has been a remarkable sequel to the arrival at Hull of a German ketch navigated by a man named Carl Fackel, who claims to have brought the vessel singlehanded across the North Sea?
The German Consulin London has, on behalf of a Mrs. Andresen, laid
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that claim to the ketch. Mrs. Andresen the HONGKONG DOLLAR says the vessel was owned and AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO from July 7th, 1921, by the undersign or about May 12, with his mate, a DIRECTORY has been acquired, as captained by her husband, who, on GIVEN that a SECOND EXTRA-ed with all rights and titles, and will Germian, left Amrum, off the coast of ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING hereafter be published by them. No Schleswig, with a cargo of coal for of the Company will be held at the claims against the Hongkong Dollar the island of Sylt, situated to the HONGKONG HOTEL, Pedder Directory incurred prior to this date north of Amrum. Street aforesaid, on SATURDAY, will be admitted by the undersigned. the THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE, AUGUST, 1921, AT NOON, for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings at the above mentioned Meeting and of confirming, if thought fit, as Special Resolutions, the above mentioned Resolutions (Nos. 1 and 2).
Should the first of the above Re- solations (No. 1) be confirmed as a Special Resolution by the requisite majority, the alterations in the Com- pany's memorandum of Association) corsequently involved will be sub-
kong for confirmation.
KEATING'Smitted to the Supreme Court of Hong-
WORM
TABLETS.
Progeleber, THOMAS KEATINA, Laudemu
FEELIAHED_AYNEALLY. THE
X
LONDON DIRECTORY
with Provincial & Foreign Sectieras, enable traders to communicate direct with
MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS in London and in the Provincial Towns and Industrial Centres of the United Kingdom and the Continent of Europe. The bames, addresses and other detalls are classified under more than 2,000 trade headings, including
EXPORT MERCHANTS
with detailed particulars of the Goods shipped and the Colonial and Foreign Markets supplied;
STEAMSHIP LINES
arranged under the Ports to which they ail, and indicating the approximate Sailings.
Unelach BUSINESS CARDS of Firms desiring to extend their connections, òr Trade Cards of
DELLEES BEZEING AGENCIES can be printed at a cost of EL. 101. Dd for each trade heading under which they are laserral Larger advertisement from ki to
A copy of the directory will be sent by «parcel post for £9, nett caali with order,
THE LONDON DIRECTORY CO., LTD.. 25, Abéhurch Lane, Londay, 10.4
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the said SECOND EX- TRAORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING to be held as aforesaid
will be continued for the purpose of considering, and, if thought fit, passing the following further Resolu- tions as Extraordinary Resolutions, namely:-
#STABLIRANO IN 2016 - X*
LTD. 5, Wyndham Street. Hongkong, July 7, 1921.
Mrs. Andresen has informed the German authorities that since that | date all trace of her husband and the mate has been lost, but she alleges that the ketch which put into Hull, pavigated by Carl Fackel, is her husband's.
fake. Her friend said it looked too genuine for a fake: that a Chica Lung stamp on it undoubtedly was The third tourist suggested that the genuine and that if was a bargain. dealer be offered $10 for it. After plenty of bargaining in which the dealer insisted he was ruining himself by selling the vase at so low a figure be finally consented to let it go for $16 and everybody was happy, the tourists because they thought they had secured bargain and the dealer because he had sold for $16 a fake worth but $3."
curies is now done so well that even Mr. Wa explained that faking of curio dealers are themselves caught at times and instanced the case of one Peking dealer last year who lost $10,000.
"The ordinary buyer has
Do
chance of being protected," he said. and that is why we have opened this gallery. We are not buyers. We sell only on commission and nothing but genuine articies. There is a label giving the dynasty in which is but one price and on each article it was made and guaranteeing it. If in twenty years from now the article is found to be not as represented the, money pald will be refunded.”
The success of the new venture will mean something to tourist who dock to Peking every year. The hutungs and the streets are now filled with curio stores, to which - they throng once they get the travel stain from them, and almost invariably they "get stung," paying ridiculous prices for palpable imitations but realising how they have been de auded only when it is too late.--- Shanghai Times.
YELLOW RIVER PERIL.
PROTECTION WORKS,
DANGER OF BREAKING ITS BANES
AND MAKING A NEW CHANNEL
TO THE SEA.
Peking. July 21.-Following að inspection of the bank protection works of the Yellow River in Shan- tung. Mr. 2. Y. Chow, Chief Technical Expert of the Ministry of the Interior, has submitted a report upon their pre- sent condition and the improvements required. He estimates that the An official at the German Consul expenditure of $400,000 will be Company in proportion to the ate in London said that all necessary, in order to render-the ehares in the Company's present inquiries have failed to discover any banks only temporarily safe. This Capital of $1,000,000 held by trace of Andresen or the mate, and sum would be devoted to the re them respectively on the date how Carl Fackel became possessed of|pairing of dykes, reconstruction of hereinafter referred to, and that a the boat is a mystery. In the mean-grains, and construction of new bonus be declared accordingly.time Fackel, who has been trying Fruins, and would include the cost And further that the Company's to sell the ketch, has been detained of both labour and material. Board of Directors be and they Regulations for failing to be in through Shantung, the report ex- by the local police under the Alien That portion of the river flowing are hereby authorised to satisfy possession of a passport or a German plains, consists of a series of curves such bonus as far as possible by shipowner's licence.
running east and west, and is much
the distribution in manner afore- When Fackel brought the ketch narrower than in Honan. In many said of 100,000 shares of 310 into Hall it was stated that be had places the river-bed is silted up, each credited as fully paid up taken a cargo of coal to an island off while the velocity of the current is among the persons who are re-the Schleswig coast and that on the tremendous, particularly in the flood gistered as the holders of the return journey bis two companions season, and the river consequently shares constituting the Com-boarded a fishing boat, leaving him scours its banks, which are general- pany's present Capital of alcoe. He tried to sail back to Ham-ly of a sandy pature, rather heavily. $1,000,000 on such date as the hurg but lost his bearings.
The protection works csually Company's Board of Directors and made for the English coast.
He set his watch to catch the sun consist of stone or reed groins con- shall decide-such last mentioned slept about half an hour at a time beads to deflect the current, while Hestructed on the concave aide of shares to rank pari pasau with and was awakened by an alarm the banks are otherwise protected the shares constituting the Com-clock
pany's present. Capital of $1,000,000 in respect of all
pro-
THE FAR EAST
fita of the Company earned since FOREIGN CHILDREN IN the 31st December, 1920, and such distribution to be in satis faction of the aforementioned bonus.
by a double line of dykes, of which those farthest from the river banks have been allowed to fall into serious disrepair.
(3). That each of the existing 20,000 fully paid up shares of $50 each constituting the Com- pazy's present Capital of $1,000,000 be divided into 5 fully paid up shares of $10 each
The river has shifted its course in so as to make such Capital
various places, forming, new bends $1,000,000 consisting of 100,000
are especially subject to worms, some of whose banks are unprotected, while fully paid up shares of $10 each,
the indications of which are irregular the groins at other points are under- appetite, bad breath grinding of the mised or, cracked. The report re (4). That after the division afore-
teeth in sleep, pain and swelling of the said, the Capital of the Company
abdomen, irritation in the nose Baby's commends that these conditions be AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO Own Tablets, the Canadian children's Immediately remedied, as a break in be increased from $1,000,000 consisting aforesaid,
GIVEN that a THIRD EXTRA-remedy, given for a few days, destroy the dykes would bring disaster upos
worms, and “a marked forovement, hundreds of villages $2,000,000 divided into 250,000 ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING appetite and hosha spordi y follows. shares of $10 each by the crea HONGKONG HOTEL,
of the Company will be held at the As an example of their efficacy is mentioned is the river bank along One particularly dangerous polos- tion of 150,000 new shares of $10 Street, aforesaid on WEDNESDAY, Canada, is illuminating. She rites
Pedder cases of this nature the evidence of Mra
Morrison Didsbury, North the villages of Hotaoll Here the each such new shares (subject
banks have been eroded to within 20 as hereinafter mentioned) to be the THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF I can strongly recommend Baby's ft of the foot of the dyke, and it is issued at such time or times and AUGUET, 1921, AT NOON, for the Oz Tablets others whose children thought that the bank might easily and on such terms and conditions Purpose of receiving a report of the roubled with worms. I have never be washed away during a single day
used a better medicire for this trouble in every respect as the Company's proceedings at the above mentioned I base alaa. found the Tablas good at Board of Directors may think fit, Meeting in so far as regards Beathing time.
to
solutions Nos, 3, 4 and 5 above and
Hbies and young children need poopt yet imild in setion, and which
(5). That it is desirable to capital- of confirming, if thought fit such pal medicine of their own something
in the flood season. Should this occur, hundreds of villages would be fooded, and the Yellow River might
gain change its course to the sea
It is stated that more than 60 other
ise the sum of $1,000,000 being last mentioned Resolutione as Special can be gires withost the elghat fear points, along the river's course are in part of the undivided profits of Resolutions.
or hesitation. Faby's Own blata, the Dated this Fourteenth day of July, shaw e sitia description, and are just the p
Canadian child's. Zemedy setly need of attention. Reuter, rirat remedy for infantil-indiation Clamp #lever, diarrhe
the Company standing to the credit of the General Reserve, and accordingly that for the 1931. purpose of éffecting such cap italisation such sum of $1,000,- 000 be distributed as boons among the starsholders of the
By Order of the Board,
KEEP IT-HANDY,
ACCIDENTS
-WILL HAPPEN!
KEEP 7am-Bi
HANDY
A WONDERFUL HERBAL HEALER
No matter how careful you see you cannot 19.id revasiazai e:1a, bruises, burn and walls. Children likewise seem to have a special weak- news for krocking, and scraping their limbs and faces and for catching any prevalent skin or scalp disease.
Whether for Bezems, heat rash, abcesses, boils, wcipnotes, nicer pla bad legs, poisoned wounds, rievorm or everyday injuries. Zam-Eakin always the dependable Skin Doctor," being safe, vore and swift in itx soothing, healing and antiseptic action.
A unique brim prepared from race herbel oils and extras. Zer-Buk contain NO ANIMAL FAT or any mineral drug.. In a natural way Zam- Bak takes be inflammation and scarting pain out of a wound or sore, and it kills and expe's disease and poison germ Having thoroughly clean sore and at rid of all corruption, Zam-Bak the promotes the speely growth of healthy new skin.
Nothing else can take the place of antheptie Zam-Buk, whatever your akin trouble. Zam-Bak herbal juices are so pare a highly refined that they penetrate into the underlying tisum and moot out skiz table Zam-Bak healing permanent healing however obstinate the wound
or more.
Of all medicine enters in Shangal Hongkong, Rangoon, Bia kok and throughout the Pur Est. If you have finity in obtaining, write The Lam Mfg. Co., Leeds, Eastand, for nama of nearest agent.
7am-Buk
"THE WORLD'S FIRST-AID"
Established
1872
Cable Address "Thornaerd" Chicago-
Montgomery Ward & Co.
CHICAGO, U.S.A.
CATALOGUE FOR 1921
IS NOW READY Describing a Complete Line of High Grade General Merchandise
Auto Accessories
Cream Separators
Clothing
Drugs
Mectrical Goods
Farm Implementa
Furniture
Groceries
Hospital Supplies
Hosiery
Household Supplie
Musical Instrumenta
Jewely
Notions
Sporting Goods
Plumbing
Gas Engines Dry Goods
Shoca -Underwear
Everything for Your Home, School, Office or FarES.
Prices Greatly
Reduced
Prices are redmond en sandy
1821 prices are more than GRO
· third below 18:20 estalog pulon. This new hande will give you the Langat pelene abin-banbin on high quality s
Sawchunden zod, the pešce, puta
greatest as actual noosačtion, much no
· dry goods, alunos nel claching.
For Free Copy of Our 1921 Catalog, Address: Montgomery Ward & Company
National Y. M. C. A. Bldg. « # 20 Museum Road, Stanghal We Guarantee Safe Delivery of All Orders
JULY 28th to AUGUST 16th
NOW IS THE TIME
to BUY and SAVI
SINCERE'S
SUMMER SALE.
Something Special This Year. Unusual Bargains. Come Early.
IMMEDIATE THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
se, tornin troubles any conds. Ob- IMMEDIATE n lief te zebrase: teinsbla friz chemix's “also post dres af
diar bons. Chamberl
Formele by All
H. TAGGART, echoes Bund, shangwys be on Blend
60 cents the vial from Dr. Williams' Colle- and Diarzbow Howody › should Manager
Chourists and Biotekstoma
HONGKONG SPORTTIM
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.