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WEDNESDAY APRIL 26, 1922.

INTIMATIONS.

Hughes & Hough, No

LUZTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT

· AND ADMIRALTY.

Coal Contracters General Brokers.

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VERNON & SMYTH,

FOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN that the business heretofore carried on by FRANK SMYTH as a Share broker under the style of VERNON & SMYTH has been taken over by ROBERT, THOMAS MATHESON from the IST DAY OF APRIL 1912 and that as from the 1st day of April 1922 the said Frank Sarth cissed to be liable

css and that all liabilities of whatso ver nature incurred by the said Firm of Vermon & Smyth on and from the A Undersigned have reared in 1st day of April 192 have been and will be incurred by the said ROBERT, THOMAS MATHESON solely.

Duled the 20th day of April 1929.

FRANK SMITH.

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WANTED.

-PUBLIC AUCTIONS-in any way in respect of the sand bi-ANTED-YOUNG

fers to well. by Pabile Auction.

On

FRIDAY,

April 28, 1922, at 10.30 am.

at 10 Orient Build, Carnarvon Road, Kowloon,

(opposite Orient Tobacco Manufactory!

The

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.

ROBERT, THOMAS MATRESON,

CO. (1999), LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY, GIVEN that the above-named Company which Teakwood Dining and Pel Room it is intended to incorporate forthwith

therein contained. Comprising -

Service, Cutlery, Ice Box,

N

MAX, Britisher, ex tank "accountant and Government Official twelve years and three years experience, respectively, secks engagemen: with banking instite tion or commercial boase. Apply Box 1370 "Chips Mail"

TO LET.

TO LET-Immediate

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Semi

FOR SALE. Saites, Rues, Curtains, Half Pinner is issuing a prospectus dated the 18th Fami Diesel, 175 B.P., 3 cylinders, SALE-One practically new day of April 1922, a copy of which bas! heen filed with the Registrar of Co275 R. P.M.. together with complete set panies, inviting subscriptions at par for of spare parts-In perfect running 40,000 Shares of $10 each parable sa to Can be seen on application $1 per Share on application, 62 per THE FAR EAST OXYGEN AND Share on allotment, $2 per Share on i ACETYLENE OD... LTD. Lbe 30th June 1992 and S per Share

&c. jc, * Terms --Cash on delivery.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hon.kong, April 20, 1922.

(FOR LCCOUNT OF THE CONTINEN).

on

FRIDAY,

April 26, 1922, commencing at 230 -p.m., at their Fales Rooms, No. 8, Des Four Road, Corner of

Ice House Street, — Valuable Collection of JAPANESE CURIOS,

Comprising: Carved Ivory, Satsuma Porcelian, Screenk Cloisonne, Bronze, Em broideries, Lacquer and Water Color, Picture, Damascene, Ornaments,

Ac..

Lat

On view 27th instant "Term-Cash on delivery.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

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MADAME LOTTIE GORDON.

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HOW EXPENSIVE COUNSEL

ARE PAID FOR.-

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now an assistant at the cloakroom of than a few pounds are frequently defended by counsel or solicitors the Hotel Rabl. Nice. whose fees must, certainly be fairly stalwart young man named Brehim substantial, says a writer in the Times, Kathala Nercami, who arcived on the They are not counsel briefed in Court Riviera without a penny. to come to the aid of a poor prisoner, Prince Nengami was born 33 years but we have been proparty instructed ago at Bornu, in Nigeria. During the by solicitors. The secret of their great division of Africa his country appearance is the freema-onry which was so divided between Germany, exists among the regular crooks of France, and Great Britain that the London.

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To Immeline Ocennationals, with fixed rates of maintenance be educated. He paid oficial visits SANDAKAN LIGHT AND POWER Ice House Street Apply GODDARD & pay for the families members to te Pope. the Kaiser, and the temporarily out of business, but the Crown Prince at Berlin. The war same result is brought about in found him in Austria, and he escaped friendly whips-round in convenient internment with difficulty. He re- public houses, with the added ad-turned to the Riviers, where, after ing documents on record. The wives to dire extrerally. vantage that there are no inciminatan extravagant life, he was reduced

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on sabsequent demand.

The subscription list is now open and will be closed on the 29th April 1990. | Copies of the prospectus can be iuspected and forms of applicuiva cz be obtained at the Office of the Company's General Managers, Mostra. Shewan, Tomes & G, St. George's Victoris, Building, Chater Road, Hongkong,

This Notice is not to le regoled sa an invitation to the public to Subscribe for Shures, and application will only be received on the footing of the full prospectus and in the form issued therewith.

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Dated 9th April, 1929,

SHEWAN, TCMES & CO.,

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