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RATURDAY-SEPTIMBER 1, 1923,

INTIMATIONS.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT

CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

INTERIM

DIVIDEND

of

share

Filty conte (80 cent) all your has been declared for the mading 60th June, 1929,

are

Such Interim Dividend will be pay- able on and after TUESDAY, 'the' 18th September at the offices of the Company, whore bareholdera requested to apply for Warrants.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be closed from the 7th 1924 until the 18th September, September, 1923 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of abaras can be registered.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

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WANTED.

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

TO LET.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR

Information was received in Nottinglinin of the death, ut Sheringham, of Mr. Frank Hamer Oates, Assistant Secretary of the Board of Education, and a J. P. for Nottinghamshire.

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At Sandown Meat Works, near Parramatta (Renter's Sydney Correspondent reports), much cost- Y machinery, thousands of car cases of multon, and enormous quantities of tallow and hides have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £250,000.

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By Onter of the Board of Directors. TO LET-European and Eireann, speaking at Kilkenny,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers.

Hongkong, 20th August, 1998.

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE FOURTH GYMKHANA MEETING will be held on SATURDAY the 6th and MONDAY' the 8th October 1923, weather permitting.

and Entry

Drift Programmes Forins may be obtained at the Race Course, Hongkong Club and Cause. way Bay Stables.

Entries will close on Saturday, 22nd September 1923,

Hongkong, 31st August, 1923.

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

ME

EMBERS are notified that the liste for Subscription Griffins for the Annual Race Meeting 1924 close on FRIDAY the 31st inst.

RATTAN GOODS.

HE two underimentioned guilds THE two

prices hitherto charged have re- mained the sine for years. Owing to the increased cost of living all manufacturers, stores and workmen are reluctantly compelled to raise At a meeting of their prices. employers and ouployees it was un- animously agreed that prices of goods be increased by ten per cent. aby that workmen's wages ho raised by seventeen per cont. This was ratified by the delegates appointed to the meeting.

THE WING HING TONG

(Rattan Masters' Guild). THE O KWUN GENERAL GEILD (Manufacturers' Mastera' & Workmen's Guild).

Hongkong, August 28, 1923.

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Mr. Cosgrave, President of Dail referring to recent negotiations with De Valera, said the Govern- ment was not empowered to give away an iota of the people's liberty.

The appointment is announced of Sir Robert Horne as a director of the Suez Canal Company in sitccession of Lord Kylsant, who har resigned.

The death is announced from Capo. Town of Senator Charles Gerhardus Marais, an elected re- presentative. of the Orange Free State, at the age of 72. During the South African War he was in charge of the commissariat arrange- ments for the Burgher forces, and was a prisoner for over two years.

Himrod's

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The Belfast Water Commis-

contract with A chicken with a duck's head, sioners Belfast W Messrs. 5. Pearson & Son (Ltd.), four legs, and two tails has been London, for the construction of an hatched at North Burton, Yorkshire. enormous reservoir in Silent Valley Mourne Mountains, for the purpose ¦ When it was stated at the Old of supplementing the present Bailey, London, that a defendant | water supply for the city. The contract is for £983.350, and the

was in receipt of the unemploy work will take six years to com- ment benefit but was able to go to plete.

the skating rink, Mr. Justice Rigby Swift remarked, "That is what the dole is for!"

FRENCH LESSONS They wanted peace quickly, but Golden Rose, a gift from the Pope,

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INTIMATIONS

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HONGKONG TECHNICAL

INSTITUTE.

SHORTHAND.

CLASSES In Shorthand will open

on MONDAY, 3rd September. Applicants should attend at Queen's College, Room 7 on that date, at 6 p.m.

Only those can be admitted who have a good knowledge of English.

Hongkong, 30th August, 1923

HONGKONG CLUB.

NOTICE.

THE

HE THIRD YEARLY DRAWING of 20 Debentures (1920 issue $500. each) of the HONGKONG CLUB. Payable on SATURDAY, the 29th September, 1923, will be held in the Club House at 11 o'clock, AM, on SATURDAY, the 8th September,

1923.

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Bearern of Debentures are invited to attend the Drawing. By Order,

A. H. ABBAS,

Secretary, Hongkong, 28th August, 1923.

wanted to be secure.

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The death occurred at Bally- castle, Antrim, as the result of an accidental fall from a cliff, of Mr. Hugh M'Calmont of M'Golowney, the noted yachtsman. He repre- sented Sir Thomas Lipton in the last international yacht race for the America Cup.

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Amidst much ceremonial, the

has been presented by the Papal Nuncio to the Queen of Spain. The Golden Rose, a beautiful piece of workmanship, valued at 50,000 lire, consists of a gold-plated urn, surmounted by a golden rose bush with several branches, on which are twelve roses and seven buds,

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At a recent meeting of the Scottish Board of Health Consulta The death has occurred of the tive Council on Local Health Ad- Hon. Mrs. Lucy Storrs, wife of the ministration and General Health Dean of Rochester. Deceased, Questions, Sir Henry Keith was who was mother of General Ronald appointed chairman of the Council Storrs, Military Governor of Jeruip succession to the late Sir Thomas salem, had been ill with pneu-O.BE, was appointed vice-chair- Munro, and Mr. W: E. Whyte, monia. The Dean himself has been ill for some weeks,

man.

Describing the situation in the coal industry as grave in the extreme, Mr. Frank Hodges,speak- ing at Biddulph (Staffs.) urged the miners to concentrate upon the Parliamentary method of securing! justice, and took the view that the Astional agreement should not be terminated.

When Mr. Lloyd George attends the Welsh National Eisteddfod at Mold in August, an invitation, sup- ported by leading United States statesmen, will be extended to him by the pastor of the principal church at Springfield City (Mass.), who is a native of Mold, to visit Springfield.

irk (Reuter's Christiania's corres At Holmegaardsmose, in Den-

prodent reports) an archocolo- gical discovery of immense interest has just beca Beneath several yards of made. thick peat the remains of a settle- ment, estimated to be at least seven thousand years old, have been unearthed.

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Ex-Lieutenant James Walters, who used a Service revolver brought from Russia when acting as starter at sports at Calne (Wilts.), was fined 10s. at Calne for having the revolver without a permit..

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Charged on remand at Kingston with stealing 800 rounds of am- munition from a rifle club, Stanley A detec- Pickett was bound over. five picked up a button near the shed where the ammunition was kept, and by this means traced the defendant.

Violet Rudd, an inmate of a ment al hospital at Gosforth (Northum berland), has died after forcible, feeding. She had refused food for: a fortnight, and resisted forcible feeding, so that particles of food, it is stated, got into her lungs and caused her death..

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Dr. Hofstede de Groot states in the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant that a picture of the famoi's painter Vermeer, of Delft, has been dis- covered in a private collection by M. Yves Perdoux, in Paris. The picture (the correspondent of the Morning Post and The Scotsman states) represents the bust of a boy of full size in a brown red mantle with white collar.

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William Townsend, a collier, of Llantwit Road, Neath, was found lying dead on his allotment. The

lower part of the body blown away, and lying near was a candle and a match. The man had apparently ignited some explosive beneath himself. He had told his landlord on leaving the house that he was going to fetch his daughter hoinc.

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