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THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928:

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that

IT

an interim dividend of £3 per share, subject to deduction of Income Tax, has been declared for the HALF YEAR ending 30th June, 1923, at rate of 2/3d, per dollar.

The dividend will be payable on and after TUESDAY the 7th August,

1928, at the Offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants,

The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from MONDAY the 23rd July to SATUR DAY the 4th August, 1923, (both days Inclusive) during which period go transfer of shares can be re- glstered.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

A. G. STEPHEN.

Chief Manager.

Hongkong, July 10, 1923.

THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR per share for the six months ending 30th June, 1923, will be PAYABLE on WEDNESDAY, 8th AUGUST, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on appli- cation at the Company's Office.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Thursday, 25th July to Wednesday, 8th August, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directċts.

JOHN ARNOLD.

Secrotary.

Hongkong, July 10, 1923.

NOTICE.

WE are selling a small stock of

below-mentioned goods in whole or half piece lots (50 yards per piece) :-

Finest quality WHITE COTTON

DRILL 27/8" @ 62 cis, per yd. Finest quality COLOURED ALPACA 54′ @ $3.35 per yard. Finest quality PROOF UNION SILK 54' @ $3.00 per yard. IMPORT DEPARTMENT,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

Bangkong, July 11, 1023,

PUBLIC AUCTION

THEretions from the Registrar of the HE Undersigned have received in- Supreme Court to sell by Public Auction.

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MONDAY, July 16, 1923. commencing at 11 a.m.

st: their Balos Hooms, Daddell Stroet,

4 Largo Quantity of ........... Wines, Spirits and Malt Liquors of well-known Brands. Comprising:→→→

Champagno (Mumm, Pommery and Grono, Moot and Chandon, Heldspk, Louis Rooderer, Duc de Monsoo, Monopole, Clioquot; etc.).

Sparkling Burgundy, Sparkling Motelle, Sauterne, Claret, Port, Sherry, White Wines.

Gin (Gordon, Old Tom, Holland, .etc.).

Whiskey (Joba Dewar, King George, Black and White, Napier Johnstone, Halg and Haig Canadian Club, American, etc.

Brandy (Hennessy, Martell, etc.). French and Italian Vermouth, Creme .de Monthe Cacao, Benedictine, Char treuse. Apricot Brandy, Curacao, Absinthe, Dabonet, Blackberry Brandy, Kummel, Amar Picon, ste

Bitters (Angostura, Omoge Koosh,,, Lash, etc.).

Ban Miguel Boer, American Bear, Bar Alo and Stoat, eto, etc.

On view from SATURDAY, the 14th

Jaly, 1999,

Terpan:-Cash on delivery.

‚LANNERT BROS.

Azstītsoore//

Hongkong, July 11, 1923.

THE KWONG KWUI 00, PHOTO SUPPLIES.

60 Queen's Road Geutral, Telephone No. 2170,

Photos of H, B, H. Prince of WALES Jánding on gala.

WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE BUITOARES.

When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases?

They are Cheaper and More Durable

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK CO. (Oppoeite Yagnati Forry, Fraya)':

SWAY HOUSE

HAT MAKER.

Ha, 16, Myndham Street.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

25 WORDS & INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID,

Every additional word Cente

for 8 insertions.

WANTED.

1.

WANTED-Furnished Apartment (without board) near Race Course. Replies to Box No. 1437, c/o "China Mail.".

To

*. TO LET.

TO LET-European flats in Lee Building, Wanchai Gap Road. Apply to 32 Kennedy Road.

FRENCH LESSONS

G. MOUSSION

16, Morrison. Hill Road,

ROSE'S

DELICIOUS.

WHOLESOME,

REFRESHING.

The Standard

for Purity and

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Prepared solely

from Pare

SAFEGUARD

AGAINST

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West facien

Lime Juice

and the

Finest Refined

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE CHINA MAIL.

DARTICULARS and Conditions of

thefotting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 18th day of July, 1997, at 3 p.m., at the Office of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Broellency the Governon of One Lot of CROWN LAND st Tai Kok Teui in the Colony of Hongkong, for La term of 75 years, with the option of renowal at a Crown, Kent to be fired by the Surveyor of His Majsety tho

King, for one further terms of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF 2.3 LOT.

Boundary

Locality,

Inland Lot No. 831.

¡. Xe of Sale.

Registry (

Mess

f. ft. ft.

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(As per sale plan.) 4,900 | Bu

ERUPTIONS ON CHILD'S ARMS

Back and Legs. Itched Terribly. Could Not Rest.

Cuticura Healed.

* little girl broke out in big red patches on her legs, back, und anza. They itsbed terribly and work. Izz- famed, and they formed sore trup- dons. The britation was so great that she could not rest at night, and I had to keep her home from school.

"Being an advertisement for Co- ticura Soap and Olatment at for

afice sample which gave greni relief so I purchased mose, and after using four tablets of Boap and four boxes of Dintment she was, healed." (Signed) Mrs. D. Arrow, 141, 018 Tows, Croydon, Surrey, England.

Use Cuticura Soep and Olzernent exclusively for all toilet purposes. Boap to cleanse, Ointment to heal. Soup J., Olatmapă 18, 3d. and 2a. 6d. Sold threeDeet the Kampire. For sample sich fremző. Zee Faery 1 DO 164317, Mariehamn wah prze les Soun sbaves whipeut mine.

TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

MAIL WEEK NEWS,

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.

A new motor lifeboat, the "H. F. Bailey," has been stationed at Cromer. It is the biggest and most powerful ship on the coast.

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While playing lawn-tennis at a Dulwich club Mr., Phillips, of Holmdene-avenue. Herne Hill, S. E., died suddenly: He was about 50 years old.

AMONG. CANNIBALS......

Stated to be secretary of the Fulham branch of the Irish Self- Determination League, Francis Kavin Lee, 200, a musician, one SAVED BY HER WHITE SKIN. of the returned Irish deportees, was bound over at Marylebone on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

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Mrs. Charlotte Cameron, the woman explorer, has returned to London at the end of a lengthy tour in the little-known regions of

collects some three dözón bird of paradise feathers, which ho fashions into a headdress; after that he annolats his body with com coantt oil, and polishes it until It.. glistons.

"Then, wearing his tuugnificent and many coloured head-dress, which is sometimes as much

Sir William Horwood, Metro-the Southera Seas. Mrs. Cameron three feet high, hes politan Police Commissioner, arriv-claims to have travelled more than ters casually among the wome fed at Queenstown from the United any other living woman. Since 1910 working in the plantations (for women do all the work in New States with Col. Wood, of the New she has travelled 171,000 miles.

Her recent journey took her Guinea) until he reaches the one York Police, who is staying for three months in London. He has through the Dutch East Indies, he desires to marry. He does not been attending an international, Sarawak, and many of the savage speak to her, but looks into her islands to the north of Australia, eyes fixedly for some time. After conference of police chiefs.

For many weeks she was the only that he cracks his figers and ap passenger in the coasting vessels, proaches her. If she smiles, he Mrs. Cameron is an authority on knows that he has found favour. South Sea head-hunters and can- Half-roasted pork is the chief nibals, Lots of people tell you," dish of the wedding breakfast, and she said "that cannibalism is each of the wedding guests is ex

most non-existent. In many of pected to eat five pounds of pork.” the islands which I visited the natives openly avowed that they AN EYE TO CHEAP LIVING/

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A Bolshevik military attaché who' is in Constantinople awaiting the At the inquest at Tottenham on arrival of Suritch, the Soviet Am-34-years-old Charles Henry Laws, bassador, has received several fèt of Asplin-road, Tottenham, who ters threatening his life.

was drowned in the River. Lea, it was stated that four men saw him struggling to the water and made no attempt at rescue. He was dead when taken from the river. The verdict was Accidental Death.

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were cannibals."

On one occasion the was captur- ed by a hostile cannibal tribe. “I There is no reason for anxiety was hauled before the big chief," regarding the eyesight of Sir she said, "and set in the middle of Auckland Geddes, the British his lesser chieftains who sat inat Ambassador in Washington (who circle in front of his mud hut. The is confined to a darkened room), whole tribe of courtiers looked pa according to cables received by his me, smacking their lips in antici a friends. Sir Landon Ronald, attion of a feast.

Lover: "You are getting prettier every day."

living on brown bread and water Sweet Girl: "Just now 1 an to improve my complexion."

Lover: "How long can you keep that up?"

Mr. Frank Munsey, proprietor of the New York Herald, Suis, and Evening Telogram, and many other newspapers and magazines, has purchased the New York Globe... At Eccleshall, near Stafford, William Griffith, 57, billposter, was zemanded on a charge of murder ing his mother, a widow, aged 80.

Sweet Girl: "Oh, indefinitely!" Superintendent W. Moss, of the

the Music Trades Convention at The cannibal chief marvelled

Lover: "Then, let's get married." Lichfield, Staffordshire, police, was found in a field with a bullet Buxton, said the enormous im-at the whiteness of my skin. I

HER BURDEN. wound in the head, and died later.provement in the British plane was was the first white woman he had He was to have retired this month and it was senseless prejudice as to whether I was white all over, causing consternation in Germany, ever seen. He expressed a doubt

"Where have you boca, Mary Ann?” There are 374 cases, including which impelled the British artist to and I was told to remove my boots

I've been to the Girls' Improve and stockings that he might, be 286 undefended. suits, in the play foreign planos.

convinced. The moment he re-mont Class, ma'am," was the mald's divorce list for the Trinity term,

Father Martindale, who is eng-alised that I was really white all reply. less than a third of the number aged on a memoir of Father Bernard over he changed his attitude com-

"Well, and what did the curate entered at the corresponding period

say to you? Did you tell him who Vaughan, wrote a Life of Father pletely and became quiet. * last year.

your mistress was?" Garrold and a Life of Father Hugh with scholarship and, yet not too Benson, and both being written heavily for the general public they had large sales. Father Martindaleman contemplates natrimony he does not expect to get his memoir of Father Bernard Vaughan out be“ fore the autumn.

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The Government explosive store and refinery plant at Chester, which seven years ago cost £500,000, has been sold to the Anglo-Scottish Finance Corpora tion for £30,000.

Two platelayers, Richard Payne,

A tablecloth spread on the turf 25. of Jocelyn-street, Peckham, with a number of silver and silver- S.E., and T. Foster, 30, of High-plated articles on it were found in street, Peckham, were killed on the Gatton Park, Gatton, Surrey. There Southern Railway near Old Kent was also a servietto on which was road Station, S.E, by an express written in pencil: 'Good luck to train.

the flader. May it do the finder a bit of good." Each article bore a

crest and monogram, and it is believed they form part of the proceeds of a robbery and were in their luggage six loaded re-discarded by the thieves. volvers, a quantity of ammunition, and four hombs:8men and 4 other

The Spanish police have arrested a man and a woman in a train be tween Madrid and Bilbao who had

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The death has occurred at Ealing

ALL preliminary notices of forth we their were arrested near Madrid of Mr. Owen Thomas, a well-

coming meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in

the news columns of the China Mail, are charged for at the rate of $1 each (as announced in May and Juse of 1922) providing that they do not

occupy more than four lines.

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future if this space is exceeded they will be placed in the advertising columns at the prevailing rates.

as their accomplices.

car owners in the diocese lend him Under a scheme whereby motor their cars, the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich has during the past 12 months ing to:47 different people. Three made 74 journeys in cars belong owners drove the bishop on four occasions and five three times.

known horticulturist, and formerly head gardener to Queen Victoria he was given a pension by King at Windsor Castle. After her death

Edward. Before entering the Royal service Mr. Thomas was head gardener to the Duke of Devon. On the occasion of his golden wedding shire at Chatsworth. last August, he received a con- gratulatory letter from the King,

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PINT REFILLS

QUART

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1 GALLON

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$5.00

3.75

4.50

8.50

15.00

115.00

A substantial discount will be allowed on all

orders exceeding two dozen,

Bole Distributors for Hongkong :

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Also stocked by THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY,

THE EDWARD DISPENSARY,

THE PHARMACY,

THE QUEEN'S DISPENSARY, THE CHINA DISPENSARY,

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