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THURSDAY. MAY 8 1928.

INTIMATIONS.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

FIRST ANNUAL ORDIN ARY, GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL, on SATURDAY, 5th May, at Noon.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company, will be closed from 25th April, 1923 to 5th May 1923, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

S. J. JORDAIN,

Secretary, Bugtong, April 23, 1023:

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

15 WORDS 8 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. Every additional word"Cents

for 3 insertious.

TO LET.

OLET-For 5 months or one year, One Fiveroomed House on the Peak, nicely furnished. Moderate rent from 15th May Apply Box | No. 1428, c/o “ China Mail.”

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THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. LET-Seven-ropmed detached

house with tennis lawn and garage for two, cars, Apply to THE SECOND GYMKHANA PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. T MEETINGS will be held (weather- permitting) at Happy Valloy, SATURDAY, May 5th, commencing

3.15 pm.

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The Charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform half price.

Members are advised that they must show thoir Badgos to obtain admission to the Member Enclosure.

Each member has the right of in troducing 2 non-members to the members' enclosure, tickets for whom to be obtained from Messrs. Limatond Davia at $5. each up to FRIDAY 4th May.

TO LET.-Kowloon, from Lat, May.

Charmingly furnished two-room apartment, kitchen, bathroom, ser vants quarters. All modern con-, venlences. Apply D. Cowen, la, Armand Building,-9 to 10 a.m.

110 LET. Two Airy Office Rooms

Central. Apply to Gande, Price & on top floor of 6, Queen's Road

Co., Ltd.

TOLET-One European flat in

"Lee Building" Wanchai Gap The Stewards invite the Ladies of Road. Apply to No 32 Kennedy

Hongkong to be present:

Hongkong, April 24, 1023,

THE BANK OF, EAST ASIA, LTD.

LOST.

THE share certificate Nos. 2100 for fifty shares numbered 18925-18974 standing in the register in the name of Kan Wong Tak Yin (MENA) Hongkong, having been lost.

Road.

FRENCH LESSONS

NOTICE is hereby given that unless the said certificate be produced at the office of the Com- pany, 1b Des Voeux Road Central,... Victoria, Hongkong, on or about the 25th April, 1923, a new certi ficate for the shares will be issued and the old certificate' will there- after be held by the Company as wall and void.

KAN TUNG PO,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, March 23, 1923.

SUZUKI AND COMPANY.

NOTICE.

NOTI

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the business heretofore carried on by SUZUKI & CO, has been Laken over by SUZUKI & CO., LTD., a Company established and registered in the Empire of Japan, with a capital of Yen 80,000,000 (Yen 50,000,000 paid up).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that

SUZUKI & CO., LTD., will manage and continue all the business entered into by SUZUKI & CO., and will be responsible for the due pay- ment of all abilities of that firm.

SUZUKI & CO.,

By their Attorney..

ICHIRO KAWAGUCHI, SUZUKI & CO., LTD., By their Attorney,

ICHIRO KAWAGUCHI

Hoogkong, May 2, 1923,

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

THE FORTY-SECOND ORDINARY

GENERAL MEETING of Sharo holders will bo hold at the Offices of the undersigned on THURSDAY, the 10th May, 1923, et Noon, for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1922.

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The SHARE REGISTER AND TRANSFER BOOKS will be closed from the 26th instant to the 10th May, 1923, bath days inclusivo.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

General Agents. Hongkong, May:19, 1923,

NOTICE.

COM- THE TRUSCON STEEL

PANY of Youngstown, Ohio, U.S.A-formerly represented by the American Trading Co.announce that they have opened their owns branch offices in China, under the general management of E A. SILAGI, M. Ain. Soc, C. E, M. Am. Assi, E

Head office is located in Shanghai 612, Robert Dollar Building, No. 3 Canton Road:

Telephones: Central 4779 & 4780,

NOTICE

As from TODAY'S DATE and Auring the absence of MR. FREDERICK CHARLES HALL. we have authorised MR HENRY WILLIAM MOON to SignInsurance Policies, as Manager. of our Insurance Departmental) W

JARDINE MATHESON & CO, LTD,

Hongk It May, 1823:14

G. MOUSSION

16, Morrison Hill Road.

THE KWONG KWUI CO. PHOTO SUPPLIES.

50 Queen's Road Central Telephone No. 2170.

Photos of H. R. H. Prince of Wales landing on sale.

SWAY HOUSE

HAT MAKER.

No. 18, Wyndham Street.

TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS

OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENT.

THE CHINA MAIL.

May 3-Coronel Theatre; at 5.15 and 9 p.m. sharp, "Intolerance.

May 3-World Theatre; Mollie King and Creighton Hale, in Her Majesty," also Snub Polland in "365 Days"

May 3-Star Theatre; Clara Kimbali Young in “The Forbidden Woman."

May 7.-Concert at Government House in aid of welfare work 9.15

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p.m.

SPORTING EVENTS.

May 5-Second Gymkhana at Happy Valley.

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COMPANY MEETINGS.

May 5-First annual ordinary' general meeting of Lane, Crawford, Ltd. at the Hongkong Hotel at noon.

May 10-Forty-second ordinary general meeting of the Canton In surance Office, Ltd. at -Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Co., Ltd., at noon.

MAIL WEEK NEWS,

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR

Glass-lined tanks are being built in America for carrying milk on the railways.......

SHOVE HA'PENNY.

2,000 PEOPLE WATCH COM- PETITION.

the Corn Exchange at Reading to Nearly 3,000 people squeezed into play "shove ha'penny" and to sco it played.

For two months 128 teams of five In the final of the Army Rugby players each, Cup, at Aldershot, the Welsh licensed houses in Reading and dis

representing 05 Guards beat the 2nd Welch Registrict, struggled to qualify for the ment by 6 points to nil.

seu-final and final in the compéti tion in aid of the Royal Berkshire

way.

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A cow ran ainok at Heathfield, Hospital Sportsmen's Fund. Sussex, tossed a boy, knocked

At one end of the hall a space was down a woman, charged a heap of roped uft for the finalists, and down buckets, and then turned on its rach side of the hall was a row of keeper, pitching him into the road-little shove-halfpenny tables, eccli presided over by a "proprietor" ex- tending a sheery invitation to Joseph, Chatfield, a retired buil-spectators to "Come and have a der, of Barnes,, was seated with a shove and make your fortune}" friend in a Hammersmith cinema The proceeds of these tables were when he suddenly fell back dead, also for the Royal Berg's Hospital. Just previously he had been seen langling at the film screened.

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There were a silver cup and gold medals for the victorious tean, and silver medals for the rinners-up.

A 14-months-old Bridlington The silver cup will be held for 12 child named Lena Mary Stabler months by the licensee who puts swallowed aninch-and-a-half forward the winning team. screw. After much suffering the screw was recovered at Hullonlookers reached a tremendously The feelings of the great crowd of Infirmary, and the baby is apparent-high pitch in the final, which re- ly as well as ever.

solved itself into a tense struggle | between The Truro and The King's White Bud, a six-year-old mare, Arma. In the last of the five games Invel and Storage of water in reservoirs belonging to a Glasgow book-Truro led right through, and won

maker, won ihic Lincolnshire by 3-2. the les April 1953-

Handicap, at 66 to 1, Mr. N. Bering's Roman Bachelor (100 to 8) being second, and Mr. Frank Curzon's Soval (50 to 1)third.

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Each "above" was watched as critically as though it was a putt on the last green in a golf champion- ship. When the coin failed to pass the 2 line there were groans of des An interesting wedding took pair from the "shover's" support- place at Blackpool, when Mrs.èta, and frantic clicers from the Elizabeth Field was married to Mr. hundreds who formed the backing, Rodgers. The age of the bride of the opponent. was 84 and that of the bridegroom 86. The best man Mr. Thomas Waring, was 73 years of age.

The silver challenge cup won by the Truro team will be held by the licensee of that house for a year. Each of the five members of the

winning team received a gold medal, and each of the runners-up a silver | modal.

"You may do what you like with me, I am fed up with life. I never had anyone to help me, so I helped myself." So said Alfred CW. Jackson (58), of no fixed abode, who was sentenced to one month for stealing a hand mirror at Guild-INCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. ford.

nd H District in millions and deofmals f wallons during the month of March.

Et vid population... Un peu

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Constant apply in all districts during March 1927.

Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main districts daring March 19 3

Lady Cook, well known under her maiden name of Tennesseè Claflin, left an estate valued at £149,546 Her husband, Sir Francis Cook, died worth £1,600,000. The will of the Hon. Richard Clere Below ovat o Parsons. has been proved at

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the quality of the water is satisfac.

ALL preliminary notices of forth-

coming meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in the news colowns of the China Mail, zic charged for at the rate of $1 each. (as announced in May and June of last year) providing that they do not occupy reore than four lines. In future if this space is exceeded they will be placed in the advertising columns at the prevailing rates

Our 60 years' ex- perience in mak- ing low prices, in selecting worthy serviceable goods, and offer ing them atasaT- Ing, his gonalo- to the making of this big 1993 Catalogue.

1923

tory.

Total Rainfall lo sist Starch 1173 in. 1'78 in.

T. L. PERKING.

Water Authority Public Works Department.

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Cause of Despondency.

Despondency is often caused by in d'gestion and constipation, and quickly disappears when Chamberlain's Tablets are taken. Those tablata strongthen the

digestion and move the bowels. For sale by all Chemists and Bton keepers.

Be Sure to Get a Copy of This

This big Book of Bargains will be sen't promptly upou zoodpt of Twenty-five centa(American) ...or its equivalent, In' money or stampa. Uothe coupon below.

Big 1923 General Catalogue No. 98

́It is truly a Buyer's Guide":"

Everything for the Home, the Office and the School

Everything thist goes into the horse to make it more modern, comfortable

We Want You to Have This Book

Our customers have received their catalogues as usual. We want you, the

and complete, from kitchen utensilstoreaders of this mesange, who do not

curtains, Bghting fixtures and rugs everything at Honey Sating Price

For Women Fashions, Wearing Apparel, Rugs, Carpets. Curtalna, Pare allure, Groceries and Home Furnish ings of all kinds of standard quality

buy at Ward's, also 'to have a copy..

But, to prevent these books froya being requested by cutious and in- sincere people who not make good use of them, wo make the nominal

at prices that menumaoy dolluskered, o charge of twenty-five cents.” -

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Send all orders and letters direct to Chicago

We have ckend our beach ofices to Ehanghai and Manila. They were estaČIL lified in order to permit us to make an extensive first hand study of conditions In the Far East, that we might better understand your requirements and thus improve our service to you. Now that we have compicted cor lavistigation, Uienh offcén have been nimmbined with our general headquarters is Chicago, U.S. A...”

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At the inquest on a 13-year-old Rochdale schoolgirl, Vera Regg, who, after committing a petty theft, and when told she would be thra shed, ran out of the house and was not seen alive again, a verdict of. suicide while temporarily insane. was returned.

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Mr. Registrar Hope, in the Bank-. ruptcy Court, gave his reserved judgment in the case of Gerard Lee Bevan's partners in the firm of Ellis and Co. He held that the bank- rupts had not contributed to their

position by culpable neglect, and he granted their discharge.

seem, are still on the up grade. The London Corporation is just securing £145 a year for one room on the first floor of a building in the narrow but much-favoured textile thoroughfare Old Change, overlooking the Cathedral.

City rents in London, it would

Two little girls in Dundalk made

a plaything of a live bomb which they found in the street. They. pulled out the pin aad in the explosion that

followed the younger one, Rose Hamill, aged eight, was blown to pieces. Her sister, aged ten, was terribly injur ed.

Speaking at a meeting in support of the National Alliance of Em- ployers and Employed, Mr. J. H Thomas said the great majority of industrial disputes were brought about because the two sides did not trust each other. The creation of a mutual feeling of trust was the real work of the Alliance.

A will made by John Wesley,

dated April 27, 1768, when the great divine was 65 years of age,

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE- GRAPH,COMPANY, LTD.

The following unclaimed telegrama are lying at the office of The Great Northern Telegraph Company: Limited):--

Roxburgh Hongkong Hotel, from Yokohama

Pepe Kaulani, from Manila. Mr. Bowlaisheang Pingon Eletal, from Shanghai.

Chenkwaysoon 38--Bonham West, from Nice.

Tongmow & Co., from Ehangbai.- "Wangleaynan, from Amoy.”

2650, from Tientsin. 3769, from Ningpo. Sangales, from Kobe.

N. LUND, Act. Superintendent. Hongkong, April 26, 1923.

EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL- #BIA & UBINA TELEGRAPH CO.

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List of unclaimed telegrams lying in E. E Telegraph Office, Hongkong. from Seathbendind.

Wilson Hallsway Navyship Helena,

B.H. MACALPINE,

Saperintendent Boogkong, April 26, 1923

IF YOU ARE PALE TRY THIS EXPERIMENT.

· The Results Will Agreeably Surprise You.

had been presented to the Wesley- If you are pale, have lost appetite and an University by Acting President feek work and depressed, take after each Stephen H. Olin. While the will is not the final testament of Wesley, it is probably the only one written in the methodical handwriting of the testator,

meal, one of Dr. Williams Pink Pills. in a very short time you will be agree ablysurprised at the improvement in your mith and spirits. You will realize that now blood, rich and rod, is Howing through your velas, and you will my, *I actually, foal hungry," while your friends will say to you, How much better you look! The reason is that

The Moss House, an historical retreat in the Evergreen Gardens, Bothwell Castle policies, and ad DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS, joining the Old Ferry, has been make the rich red blood of health, and found burned to the ground. this good blood restores the appetite, Whether it is the work of in-1 Sve rosh strength to the digestion, rivitilises the servos, împsite new lito cendiarios or accident is not known to the whole

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Medicine rezidors everywhere sell. Dr. studded with acorns, and was very sms. Pink Tilla for Pale People, or popular with visitors..

Possibilites of aircraft being used in conjunction, with the mall- boat services were discussed ́ in a' paper read by Sir Eustáce, d'Eyn- court at the annual me tings of the Naval Architects, Such scheme," it was conten

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