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FRIDAY, JULY'10,

INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE.

TO OWNERS AND DRIVERS OF

MOTOR VEHICLES.

THE Coastal Road between Castle

Peak and Tsun Wan is closed to Motor Traffic. The Coastal Road from the junction of the Tai Po Road to Teun Wan is now open to traffic.

E. Dr. WOLFE, Captain Superintendent of Police. Hongkong, July 18, 1923.

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THE PUBLIC are hereby informed that Queen's Road East between Arsens! Street and Wanchal Road will be closed to motor traffic from TUESDAY, 17th inst. until further notice.

P.-R. J. WODEHOUSE, Acting Captain Superintendent of Polico

Hongkong, July 16, 1923.

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NOTICE.

CHINA SEAS,

HONGKONG HARBOUR,

A From the 23rd July, 1923, and

until further notice two (2) funks will be employed in taking

Borings in soundings and Harbour on a line from Statue Pier to Holt's Wharf.

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Each of the said junks will #xhibit-

By day-On the foremast a Red Ensign and 4 feet below a Black Ball 2 feet in diameter.

By night-On the foremast 2 Red Lights in a vertical line one over the other, 4 feet apart; and at the bow and also at the stern one White Light, each of the White Lights is to be placed 6 feet above the gunwhale.

All vessels are warned to give these junks a safe berth and to proceed at slow speed when passing.

C. W. BECKWITH.

Commander R.N.

Harbour Master, &c.

Harbour Office, Hongkong, 16th July, 1923.

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

NOTIOR 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 Warranta may be obtained on appli. ention at the Company's Office.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Thursday, 26th July to Wednesday, 8th August, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors

JOHN ARNOLD,

Scoretary.

Hongkong, July 10, 1923.

PEAK CHURCH.

ON the remaining Sundays in July

and the Sundays in August there will by Evening Service at 6.30 at the Peak Church. The Preacher on July 22nd will be Rev. 1. Kirk Maconachie and on the following Sundays the Rev. A. D. Stewart. All Seats are free,

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THE CHINA MAIL.

MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND

NEAR:

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The cold weather has done,

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table..

Whatever laws he made respecting women and slaves were made with the view of Improving

The Duke of Cohqaught, the Grand Prior, has approved a re- serious harm to the plum and pear commendation of the Chapter crops, and unless very days, IN PRAISE OF THE MASTER-their conditione. His career

General of the Order of the have aw, fow warm:" - Hospital of St. John of Jerusalers other fruits will be con in England, that the life-saving siderably hampered," said Mr. S. The Queen has presented a. cot medal of the Order in gold be Emanuel, the Covent Garden Mer cover made by herself to be given awarded to Mrs. Lilian Agnes chant, to a Press Association re

Starr, In recognition of her bravery presentative. As a prize for this best baby in an assisting in the rescue of s beauty show at a fête at the Royal Ellis on the North-West Fron..er Infant Orphanago, Wanstead, of India. Essex.

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The annual appeal for gifts of half-crowns to aid the funds of Dr. Barnardo's Homes is now being made, and has been started by a generous friend of the movement. who has given 16,000 half-crowns.

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PROPHET,

is the best example that can. be given epf the influences of the "Ho nover frequented the wine single man created the glory of his Individual in human history. That shop, or looked at the dancing-girls, nation, and spread his language or talked abroad In the bazanra. He over half the earth. The words The investigation into building was more modest than a virgin which he preached to icering costs in Scotland, which forms part behind the curtain. When he met are now being studled by scholar

crowds twolye hundred years ago

of the terms of reference to Sir

"The Rescue," one of the most Halford Mackinders Committee children, he would stop and pat or by devotees in London, Parts popular of the pictures by Sir John on building costs, is to be carried their cheeks; he followed the bier and Berlin; in Macca, where he Millais, has, been purchased under out by Sir. Halford Mackinder that passed him in the street; he laboured; in Medina, where he the Felton Bequest for the National, himself and five other members of visited the sick; he was kind to his died; in Constantinople, in Cairo, in inferiors; he would accept the Damascus, in Bassora, in Bagdad, Fez, in Timbuctoo, in Jerusalem, in Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Committee.

The Home Secretary has ap-invitation of a slave to dinner; in Bokhara, in Cabul, in Calcutta, was never. the first to in Peking; in the steppes of Central pointed a Committee to inquire into he

Asia, in the islands of the

It shows a helmeted fireman carry- Ing three night-gowned children) through blazing ruins to their eager

The city of Bath honoured the mother, and holds a high glace the arrangements made to deal withdraw his hand when he shook Indian Archipelago, in lands which Ferry and Steamers. Cuisine under memory of Frederic Harrison, the among the work of the artist's mid- with abnormally largo attendances hands; he was hurable, gentle and are as yet unmarked upon our maps,

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well-known Fositivist, who for over ten years resided at Bath, by having a memorial tablet to him, erected at his home at to Royal Crescent, unveiled by Viscount Haldane.

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on athletic grounds, and to con sider what further steps, if any, should be taken to ensure the safety of the public. This Right Hon. Edward Shortt, K.C., is chair man. This is a sequel to the Wembly Park crush.

kind; he waited always on himself, in the cases of thirsty deserts, in pro-Raphaelite period.

mending his own clothes, milking obscure villages situated by un- Army duigible TC1, the largest

his own goats; he never struck any mad who did all this, for ho

known streams. It was Muham In the country, a Reuter's message From Dayton, Ohio, states, was

one in his life. When once asked uttered the book, which carried the to curse some one, he said, 'I have language, and he prepared the destroyed by fre during an elect-

not been sent to curse, but to be a Army who it WELS

carried the book. Sir Charles Wakefield, presiding. rical stone whilst

in

When His Three days torrential rain has mercy to mankind? at the jubilee dinner of the South moored to steel tower

disciples and successors Eastern Hospital for Children, said the Wilbur Wright field, where it resulted in the flooding of low-weegard him as a ruler and law were not made fanatics, but to giver we can only wonder and ad- solute and sagacious men, who it was a fact that people were living had landed after a test flight. It lying districts of the States of mire. In the moral life of his made shrewd friendship with the reliving is believed that the wind blew the Kansas, Oklahoma, and vas, countrymen he effected a remark- malcontent Christians among the directors of a great insurance com.bag against another steel tower, with the loss of at least five lives, able reform. He abolished drunken- Greeks, and with the persecuted pany, and they had put up their causing electrical contact, which while tho property (a Rester's

message says) damaged is valued ess and gambling, vices to which Jews in Spain, and who in a few annuities because they found that set the gas ablaze:

the Arabs have been specially years created an empire which at several million dollars. Three people were living longer.

longer. He was one

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A famous Gainsborough picture has been acquired for the nation, and will be on view at the National Gallery, Loadon. It is the portrait of the artist's two daughters, by Gainsborough, which at Christie's on the 11th May was acquired by Messrs: Knoedler for 2,900 guineas. The National Gallery authorities state that "after the sale it was ac-

thousand people have been render-addicted. He abolished the practice extended from the Pyreness to the of infanticide, and also succeeded Hindoo Koosh"-Winwood Reade, ed homeless at Arkansas City, and in rendering its memory detes-in The Martyrdom of Man. many hundreds at Winfield.

Conscience, driving Edward Birchinall, a fishmonger's clerk, from bis hiding place in Halifax, set his feet on the road to London, and drove them step by step for 200 miles. He walked into Mary-

"He has' experimented success fully in multiple wheatgrowing. If, as the wise have said, the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of his race, what shall we say of 'Willie Wright, who has produced 1,300 grains of wheat from a single seed," says the Dailyquired for the nation through thelebone Police Station and said he Herald of Mr. William Wright, courtesy of the purchasers, Messrs. Labour M.F. for Rutherglen.

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had stolen £8 from his ployer. He put the money on a cert" which lost, and then he ran away. "I will do my best to pay the money back," said Birchinall to the magistrate, who accepted to New York, put this condition and put him on Oporto the police were probation. called од board to rest an officer who is alleged to have shot and killed in mid-ocean the captain, a wireless operator, and a steward, and wounded a passenger and a sailor. The Reuter's message adds that the officer tried to commit suicide, and his condition is grave.

When the United States Shipp Professor Darroch has intimated his resignation as Chairman of ing Board steamer "Braze Coeue," Edinburgh Education Authority. on a voyage from Hamburg, Ger Professor Darroch wrote that as his many,

medical advisers had intimated into that it might be some months be- fore he could resume work, and that then he must limit his energies to what was actually necessary, he had come to the conclusion that he

must tender his resignation.

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FRUIT AND THE CHILDREN

A Word of Warning. Bound ripe fruit is good for children, but damaged or over-ripe frait is 'oxceedingly dangerous especially at this time of year, causing diarren, dyson- tery, colic, indigestion and worms.

When you bava reason to suspect that your child has anten frait of a doubtful character the best course is to administer dose of Baby's Own Tablets at once,

On the 53rd anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens, several In memory of the officers and members of the Dickens Fellow-men of the Argyll and Sutherland ship assembled round the tomb in Highlanders who fell in the war, a for theo Tablets quickly but gently Westminster Abbey to pay homage wreath was placed on the Cenotaph cleanse the stomach and bowels, and can to his memory. Lady Dickens, by the Colonel-in-Chief; Sir Alex-be given with absolute safety even to

the youngest or most delicate infant- daughter-in-law, with her children, ander Wilson, at a short ceremony,

Baby's Own Tablats, the Canadian were present, and laid sprays of in which Princess Marie Louise children's remedy, aro also a specific for flowers on the stone. The Society (Hon. Colonel-in-Chief) took part. touthing troubles, constipation, colds, contributed a chaplet of ivy and red A large crowd of ex-soldiers of the and croup: They bring calus, natural, geraniums. The New York branch regiment lined both sides of White-health-giving deep and promote rogolar Covelopment From chemists or direct of the Fellowship sent a cushion of hall to witness the ceremony, and post free at 60 cents the vial from ivy and geraniums, while a wreath which a number of ex-officers and The Dr. Withams Medicine Co, e came from the Vancouver branch. present officers assisted.

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The many varieties of water-bugs, usually

found: underneath kitchen sinks, stationary

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near cesspools and closets or whatever defective

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