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WEDNESDAY ZAUGUST: 29 1923.

INTIMATIONS.

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE,

Bonham Road.

THE Next Term will begin on MONDAY, 10th September, ENTRANCE There will be an EXAMINATION for New Boya at 9.30 a.m. on SATURDAY, 8th Sep- tember. For Information please apply to

THE WARDEN. Hongkong, August 28, 1923.

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,

MEMBERS are notified that the

lista for Subscription Griffins. for the Annual Race Meeting 1924 close on FRIDAY the 31st inst.

RATTAN GOODS.

WANT

ADVERTISEMENTS

94 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID.

Every additional word Cents

for 8 insertions.

WANTED.

WANTED--General Office Assist.

ant, (Chinese), with experience of Imports and Exports preferred. Good prospects for the right man, Apply P. O. Box No. 96,

FOR

FOR SALE.

OR SALE-by private Treaty valuable land at Kowloon with sea frontage having a total area of upwards of 97,000 square feet upon which are erected godowns and four Chinese house3. For particulars apply to JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors, Prince's Building.

TO LET.

THE

13455 Avo umderimentioned guilds beg to ammoned that the prices hitherto charged have re- mained the same for yours, Owing to the increased cost of living all manufacturers, stores and workinen are reluctantly compelled to raise their prices. At a meeting of TO LET-European flats in Lee employers and employees it was m Building, Wanchai Gap Road. animously agreed that prices of Apply to 32 Kennedy Road, goode be increased by ten per cent. and that workmen's wages he raised by seventeen per cent. This was

ririñed by the ddegules appointed FRENCH LESSONS

to the meeting.

THE WING HING TONG

Halan Mastors' Grill). TRE OF KWIN GENERAL GELD!

Manufactmers' Musters' & Workmen's tíuildt,

Hongkong, August 28, 1929,

LEE KEE

ESTABLISHED 1896

BATHS & BATE-ROOM

ACCESSORIES.

Estimates furnished

free of charge.

Office 21, Wellington St.

SWAY HOUSE

HAT MAKER.

No. 1, Wyndham Street.

THE KWONG KWUI CO. PROTO SUPPLIES.

60 Queen's Road Central. Telephone No. 2170.

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

G. MOUSSION

15, Morrison Hill Rond,

MARTIN'S

PIOL & STEEL NAJPILLS

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Stylish Ladies' & Gentlemen's Footwear

THE TIN YIN HONG

CO.

12 Poltinger St, Vruttal,

Inwer Bray muchoses will be entitled to van vl Bar Youshies Autü situr eFOOD FLAT) •,

THE CHINA INDUSTRIAL

CO'S STORE.

36 Wing Lok Street,

Opposite World Theatre.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

WING to the receipt of numerous complaints from patrons as to the incivility of various members of the Staff of the Hotels under the Management of this Company in Hongkong, such complaints being to the effect that "Cash" has been demanded io satisfaction of Liquors supplied, al patrons thereby inconvenienced by not being allowed to sign "chita," we beg to draw the attention of our clientele to the terms of the Liquora Ordinance, 1917, an extract from which is hereby given :--

2. In this Ordinanco.

(a) "Cash" means any coins or notes current in the Colony. (b) Sale" includes any transaction in which intoxicating liquor is supplied for any consideration whatsoever, direct or indirect.

8. (1) Subject to the ovisions of sub-section (2) of this section, na person shall sell any intoxicating liquor for consumption on or at any licensed premises except for cash.

(2) Sub-section (1) of this section shall not apply to the following:-- (a) any sale by the proprietor of an hotel to a person residing at

the hotel;

(b) any sale by the proprietor of an hotel of liquor to be consumed in the dining room of the hotel at one of the regular meals of the hotel or of liquor to be consumed in conjunction with any other bona fide meal for which a charge of at least thirty conte can be reasonably made;

(e) any mie in accordance with the candi ions of his licence by

the holder of a restaurant adjunct licence.

4. Where any intoxicating liquor is sold by a servant or employes in contravention of section 3 of this Ordinance the employer, whether a natural person or a body corporato, shall be deemed to be guilty of on offence against this Ordinance anlass he provos affirmatively that the a'c was against his expross orders and without his contest or connivanco.

5. Every person to whom any liquor is, to the knowledge

The

of such person, supplied in contravention of this Ordin- ance shall also be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

operation of our Patron, with a view to assisting us to carry out the provisions of the Liquara Ordinauce, is respectfully requented.

FOR AND ON DEHALF OF

THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LTD.

WALTER J. HAWKER, SECRETARY.

Hongkong, 15th August, 1998.

THE CHINA MAIL.

NOTICE.

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THIS PROSPECTUS HAS BEEN DULY FILED WITH THE

NEGISTRAR OF COMPANIES.

The subscription Jit will open on WEDNESDAY, the 20th day of August, 1923 and close on or before SATURDAY, the 1st of September, 1923.

THE HONGKONG TUG & LIGHTER COMPANY, LIMITED.

(Incorporated under the Companies Onlinances 1931-1921.)

Capital $2,000,000 divided into 200,000 shares of $10 each. Of the above shates it is only intended to isine at the present timo 108,000 shures, and of these 80,000 have already been subscribed for cash by the General Managers, Members of the Consulting Committee and their friends. Ou Huse $1.25 per share will be paid on application and the balance when culled up on the same basis as the reinsining capitul.

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The remaining 20,000 shares (being the balance of the mid 100,000 shares intended to be issued at the present time), ranking subscription payable as to $1.25 per share on application. The balance. equally with those already subscribed, are now offered for public due on each share, noly, $9.75 will be called up on subsequent demand as and when further capital is requirida

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MAIL WEEK NEWS.J

ITEMS-FROM FAR AND NEAR.

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Captain Efilot, M.P., Under Secretary for Scotland, visits Damfries 'to lay the foundation stone in the housing scheme, which is first in Scotland under the £6 subsidy,

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Nine hundred passengers have been lauded (Reuter's Monte Video Correspondent states) from the Hamburg-America liner "Rugla,” which went ashore in a great hurricane in the Río de la Plata.

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cock-fight at Glasslough, County Monaghan, during the week-end, attracted a crowd of upwards of 5,000 people. Many came in motor cars, while trains brought crowds from all the sur- rounding counties.

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Buxton and Bakewell ran over cyclist riding between

an adder coiled in the road- way in the sun. The colls twisted round the driving wheel, throwing the cyclist off the machine, but he escaped with bruises,

At Lewes Assizes Rev. Roger Owen Johns (58), vicar of Billing-

The whole of the above issue of 100,000 fires (including the 20,000 shures now offered for public subscription as above) has been underwritten by the General Managers; the Mémbers of the Consulting Committee and their friends for a commission at the mte of 2) per cont. on the nominal value of the shares so underwritten upon the terme ofhurst, Sussex, was found guilty of an Underwriting Letter bearing date the 24th day of August, 1923 addressed to the Company and Messrs. Slowan, Touter and Company its General Managers by the Underwriters above mentioned, a copy of which can be inspected at the offices of the Solicitors to the Company, Messts, Deacon, Harston & Shenton, No. 1, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong, at any time during business hours.

The anissued capital of the Company consisting of 100,000 shares of the nomínal value of $10 each will be isomed at such fine or times and upon such terras and conditions as the General Managers shall determine.

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MEMBERS OF THE CONSULTING COMMITTEE. WM. ADAMSON, Esq., St. George's Building, Chater_Road, Hongkong, à member of the firm of Shewin Tontes & Co., Merchants,

3.

NEMAZEE, Esq., Prince's Building,

3. Des Vieux Road Central, Hongkong, Mereliant.

La Tse Foxo, Esq., Bank of East Asia,

Des Vinx Read Central, Hongkong, Banker.

W. J. CARROLL, Esq.

11, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, Broker.

1. B. Brooke. Esq., Alexandra Building,

Das Vieux Road Central, Hongkong. Produce Broker and Commission Agent.

GENERAL MANAGERS.

Messrs. SHUMAN TOMES & CO., St. George's Building,

Chater Road, Hongkong..

BANKERS,

Tim HoxGkoxG AND SHANGHAI Baxking CORPORATION,

AUDITORS.

Messrs. Pary. Suur, Sern and Flemingi,

No. 5. Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.

SOLICITORS. Messrs. DEACON, HARSTON ANd Shenton.

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1, Des Virus Road Central, Hongkong. REGISTERED OFFICE OF THE COMPANY, St. George's Building, Chater Road, Hongkong.

SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY (Pro Tem). Andrew Task Shields,

PROSPECTUS.

attempting criminally to assault Rose Newman, aged 19, who was a bis service, and was sentenced to twelve months in the Second Division.

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Ex-Inspector Edmund --Hogan, Grangemouth, who'recently retired, has been presented by Bailie Sharp with a handsome silver salver and a wallet of Treasury notes, from the Two Council, Police Court officials, and business gentlemen, in the town.

The dim which supplies water to Salisbury, Rhodesia (a Reuter message states) has burst. There has been no loss of life.

Barry Roads, in the Bristol Channel, were the scene of a tug disaster, four men being drowned, while three were rescued.

It is announced in New York that the monthly quota of 15,468 immigrants from Great Britain bas been exhausted, as also the quota of 15 other countries, including Russia.

The House of Representatives (Rgiter's Melbourne correspondent states) resolved by 37 votes to 12 that the next Parliament should meet at Canberra, the new Federal capital.

The Hawthoraden Prize for 1933 has been awarded to Mr. David Garactt, author of "Lody Into Fox." The prize is £100, and is given an- nually to the author of the most promising imaginative literary work of the year by a writer under 40 years of age.

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On behalf of the nation, the Prince of Wales accepted the magnificent meftorial crected on the Thames Enbankment, Lon-

men of the Air Forces of the

Great War.

Empire, who lost their lives in the

o This Company has beog, formed to acquire and openie a Flect of Tugs and fighters with a view to landing eargo in and around Hongkong and River Ports. Substantia! Slappingdon, in honour of the officers and Agents, Shippers and Dealers in Commodities such as Flour, *Sugar, Rice, ete.. consider that sets a Company, properly organised and managed, will be of great benefit to then and to the general trade of the Colony, and have expressed their willingness to support this Company, and part of the present issue of shares has been taken up by persons who it is anti- cipated will be able to give the Company substantial support. Similar Companies in other Far Eastern Ports have been very simeessful.

(b) The minimum subscription on which the General Managers,

nay proceed to allotaient is seven slures subscribed for on a cash footing and on which $1.25 per share has been paid up on upplíention.

The shares now offered for subscription have as above inli ented been underwritten by the Directors unk, their friends for a commission at die rate of 29 per cent, on the nominal value of such shares upon the terms of the derwriting Letter above mentioned, which can be inspected at the place and time above mentioned.

(đ) No other comunission or pronation money will be paid by the

Company.

(c) The Company is to pay all preliminary expenses of and-

incident to the formation and floating of the Company (includ- ing the aforesaid Underwriting Commission) down to the time when the Company becomes entitled to commence business and the estimated amount thereof is $90,000,

The Articles of Association provide that the qualification of a Member of the Consulting Committee is to be the holding of at least 300 aliares in the Company, and that renmneration of the Members of the Consulting Committee slull be thę sum of $5,000 per aunum to be divided among them according to the number of attendances by them at the Meetings of such Committee.

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(9) The General Managers and the Members of the Consulting Committee are interested in the promotion of the Company to the extent only that they or some of then sure Directors of other Companion with whom the Company way do business. (1) Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company can be inspected at the aforementioned offices of the Solicitors to the Company at any time during business hours,

A copy of the Company'a Memorandum of Association is annexed to this Prospectus and forms part of it.

( Application for shares should be made típon the form attached to this Prospectus which should be detushed therefrom and sent to the Company's Bankers (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporafion) together with a remittance of $1.20 per share the amount of the deposit, ⠀

Where ne allotment is inde fhe deposit will be returned in fall and where the number of shares alotted is less than the number applied for, a proportionate amount of the deposit will be returned.

(E) Prospectuses can be inspected at and forms of application obtained from the Company's Bankers (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) and at and from the offices of the Company in St. George's Building (First Floor), Chater Road, Hongkong,

--Daded the 24th August, 1923,

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At the invitation of the Canadian Government the British Forestry Conference will be held in Canada from 25th July to 7th September. This Conference forms a sequel to the Conference convened in Lon- don in 1920 at the instance of the. Forestry Commissioners.

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The paper industry in Canada continues to expand in keeping with the demand for high grade papers and sulphite pulp. The Provincial Paper Milis (Ltd.) have opened up a new plant at Port Arthur which is one of the most modern paper-making plants in Canada.

Lieut.-Col Lawrie Oppenheim, who was formerly British Military Attaché at Berne, and also acted as military representative to the Permanent Advisory Commission of the League of Nations, has been killed while mountaineering in Savoy (says a Reuter message from París.)

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Despite the unfavourable condi- tions at the beginning of the sea- son, all previous records of the output of strawberries in the South Already over three million baskets Hants district have been broken. have been dispatched. The season is now ending, and the remaining fruit will be picked for jam,

The sale of musical instruments at Messrs Puttick and Simpson's included 1 fine violin by Stradivarius, with original label dated 1700, which belonged to Mrs. E. Watkin, Onslow Gardens, Log- don. There was keen competition for this treasure, but failing to Freach the reserve it was bought in

at £2400,

Six persons were removed to hospital at. Guildford as the result of a motor collision. A lorry from Bournemouth, getting out of con trol, ran into a touring, car from Bournemouth, carrying the car against the wall of a church. Two children standing on the stops of the church ware unable to get out: of the way, and were badly injured.

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Our Dry Cleaning Department

Trial

STEAM LAUNDRY CO.

HBAD OFFICE and WORKS'YAUMATI, Tol. E 32. HONGKONG DEPOT, 18, Stanley Street, Tel. 01279. HONGKONG DEPOT, 62, Praya East KOWLOON DEPOT, 19, Canton Road. CANTON. 19, Bharki Central, East. Write or Thona for price list.

THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO. Head Office 79 Wyndham Stroct. 2nd Floor. (Opposite "entral Police Station.) Tel, Central 4166.

Dealers in all kinds of High-class Bilk Shirts, Collars, Neckties and Pyjamas for Gentlemen AND ALSO

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Manager: EMILIO LAU.

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Not for any limited period but FOR EVER, the

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THE DUNLOP RUBBER CO., (UITINA) LTD.

Ben Building, 23, Avenue Edward VII, Shanghai

ORDER FROM. YOUR

BOOKSELLER

THE CHINA YEAR BOOK

1923

EDITED BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E.

PRICE:

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