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THURSDAY SEPTEMBRE 20 1923

INTIMATIONS.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT

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NOTICE.

INTERIM DIVIDEND of

A Filty conts (50 conts) or share

has been declarod for the half you: ending 80th Juan, 1923,

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Club-Houses as Houseboy-Clean, Clever and Quiet. Please address Box No. 1449, c/o "China Mail."

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be closed from the 7th 18h September, 1923 until the September, 1923 (both daya inclusivo), during which period no transfer of ahares ein be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managora Hongkong 20th August, 1923.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOT!

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Share Register and Transfer Books of the Company will be obsod from the 1st to 8th October 1923 (belb dave inclusive),

Warrants for the Interim Dividend can be obtained at the Office of the Company, 2 Qasen's Buildings, Hong- kong, on au aftor the 9th prox.

By Order of the Board,

E. COCK,

Acting Chief Manager. Hongkong, September 17, 1923.

NOTICE.

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE TWENTY-SEVENTH ORDIN- ARY ANNUAL MEETING of the above SHAREHOLDERS in Company will be held at the Cam- pany's Town Office, 2 Lower Albert Road, Hongkong. on FRIDAY, 5th day of October, 1923. at Noon, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st July 1923.

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from 27th September to 5th October, 1923, both days inclusive.

By Order,

M. MANUK,

Secretary. Hongkong, 19th September, 1923.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

MEMBERS are reminded

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ENTRIES for the FOURTH GYMKHANA to be held on the 6th and 8th October, 1923, close on SATURDAY next, the 22nd inst.

Hongkong. 18th September, 1923.

RATTAN GOODS.

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DARTICULARS and Conditions of the Balo by Public Auction to be bold on MONDAY, the 24th day of Eeptember, 1921, nt 3 pm, at the Office of the Public Works Departement, by orderal His Exculloney the Governor, of uno Lot of OROWN LAND at Shamshuipo in the Colony of Hongkong. for a term of 75 years, commencing from the toy. 1899, with the option of renewal at a Crown lent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King for one further term of 24 years, less three days,

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Having heard the evidence in THE FALL OF NINEVEH. the action brought by Mrs. Gray, claiming damage from Miss God for enticing her husband away, the jury found for defendant, and jlgment was entered accord- ingly with costs,

HOW HISTORY MUST BE

RE-WRITTEN. ·

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The annual general meeting of

stantlated Iir full by other passages in the chronicle."

History also had to be re-writ from the chronicle in that the fail of Nineveh did not result in the Immediate fall of Assyria, A sortie was made that broke through the ring of besiegers and re

The Wrexham, Denbigh, Guar dians have at present no anem-

At the annual meeting of the the British Academy was held in established Assyrian authority at ployed to provide for in their area. Shakespeare Chib at Stratford-on-mail week in the rooms of the Harran. Harran, that lay upon the

Avon the governors announced a Royal Society. The Earl of Balmain route to the Mediterranean The Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr.new scheme for an endownient

capital, and in it was the residence elected being Messrs. of the commander-in-chief, Percy' Stratford Allen, William dignity second only to the King. Crooke, H. J. C. Grierso, W. Egypt as far back as 616 had Ernest Johnson, John Lynton started co-operating with the King Myres, and Louis Claude Purser.

of Assyria in a campaign on the

fall of Nineveh, by Mr. C. J. Gadd, founded the new kingdom in The first paper read was on the Euphrates, and it was doubtless for this reason that Ashur-uballit of the British Museum staff.

J. E. Watts-Ditchfield, was operat-fund for the Shakespeare Stratford four was re-elected president, the had long been a sort of provincial

Menorial Theatre. A sum of fellows ed on for appendicitis in London.

£100,000 is required to extend the activities of the theatre.

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One horse

was burst to death and two others were injured in a fire at Queen's mews, Folkestone.

The Queen's Hall Promenade Concerts, conducted by Sir Henry Wood, will be held every week- night for 10 weeks, beginning on August 11.

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Mr. Hugh Sullivan Brooke, nephew of the late Sir Arthur Sullivan, and for 14 years con- ductor of the Lyceum. Theatre orchestra, has died, aged 37.

Registered unemployed in Great Britain on July a numbered 1,191,400, 2,341 more than in the preceding week, but 294,478 fewer than on January 1.

A

body recovered

from

TOLD BY THE PARISH PRIEST.

I Washington public opinion in favour of American participation in the Supreme International Court at The Hague is steadily growing but at the same time it is felt that

A clay tablet, he explained, had Harran. History has again to be there are serious technical diffi- been found inscribed with a chioni-rewritten in the sense that it was culties, which are now being con-cle of the chief events during no part of Egyptian policy to al sidered by the authorities.

eight years of the reign of Nabo tempt to secure a share of Assyrian polassor. King of Babylon and spoils, but aimed at supporting at leader of the Babylonian forces in any cost the toitering empire, the sea at Brighton

was the siege of Nineveh, and includ-Egyptian help came too late, and identified at the Inquest as that of ing the year in which Nineveh was Harran fell to the barbarous Sey- Arthur Douglas Gray, 59, a fish captured and destroyed.

This thians in 610. clerk who lived in Whittaker-placed the date of the fall of the street, London, SW. The widow city at 612 B.C., instead of the stated that he left home on July 3 generally accepted date 606. It to go to work as usual and was showed that four- years be- never seen again. A verdict of fore Assyria was already be- Found Drowned was returned.

set by enemies and gradually sinking under their converging The Naval Committee of the At the resumed meeting of the l-attacks in a series of battles and French Senate has reported favour-ternational Congress of Maitres de sicges. The southern defences ably on the Bill ntifying the Danse, a special belt for lady danwent first and Nineveh at last was Washington Treaty for the limita cers was produced. It is christened captured and destroyed. tion of naval armaments.

"the Princess Lily" and has in

But the chronicle showed that the front a metal plate with three studs,Kingdom did not perish with the which it is claimed will tend to pre King, but was transferred to the serve due distance between western capital of Harras, where a new King ascended the throne of partners. The instrument is a sort

Assyria, maintaining his existence against the attacks of the Scythians anci Babylonians by the help of the Egyptian alliance until 610.

Mr. Omusby-Gore, replying to a question on the imports of spirits into the Bahamas, sald the value of such imports in 1918 was £6,370, while last year it was £1,003,721. He thought practically the whole of the increase was due to prohibi- tion in America.

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According to French Officers in the occupied area, life has become much more agreeable for them since the conviction and sentence The Prince of Wales, presiding of the Krupp directors, the explana- at the festival banquet of the Royaltion being that force, the only the Society of St. George at the Guild-argument which appeals to hall. took for his theme "England German mind, is telling its tale, as Home." "We know thot there At the same time an increased is no better place," he declared, activity on the part of secret

and we know that if we have to societies is recorded. leave it we are never really happy till we get back again."

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At Canasi, in Cabes lives the Reve rond Fatzer Teodora Villanung, a pricat who, like so many others of his cloth, is "father" in dood as well as in name to the members of his flock. Hance it aross that he became interested in the affairs of the family Store, with what result be hos cinco narrated as follows

"Some time ago when I was parish priest of Carlos Rojas there lived in the village a family of whom I was ad intimate friend. Thaldest daughter, • beautiful child twelve your of ag looked as if har lita wore fading away She was so very weak and so depressed in spirit that she felt no datire for anything but nolikudo.

"I loved this family, and therefore wont into consultation with several phy. dicians deserving of all my confidence, but no one seemed to know what to do jin 8ɔ strange a case, usual treatmeale to overcome the weakness having proved unavailing.

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ROUT OF THE ASSYRIAN. The chronicle confirms tradition as to the enemies through whom Nineveh fell, Kyaxeres having pro bably been the leading figure

"AL about this time a few booklets among the besiegers. Kyaxeres started his attack in 614, but in the regarding Dr. Williams' pink plile came following year the Assyrian King into my bands, and reading in them marched against him with success. testimonials of similar 010s I Rent for some bottles of the pills and took them The United States Government In 612 the Babylonians, Medes, and to Mr. Juilo Siere, father of the child. is gravely concerned over the Scythians combined for the last en truthfully say that the improvement At the concluding season of the liquor smuggling operations, and successful attack upon the city, was so rapid ths, in about fifteen days hild British Legion Conference a num-asserts that it is seriously handi-Between June and August three we had the pleasure of noticing the ber of resolutions were adopted, capped by the refusal of the Bri- battles took place before the walls, cheerful and happy, full of exbar and including one declaring that the tish Government to consent to the ending in the total rout of the life. Everthing in her seemol to have "King's Roll," or national scheme starch and seizure of merchant Assyrians under Galaemenes, the undergone clings; fastead of being Tale as before, she now bad a roxy com three-mile brother-in-law of Sardanapallus.plexion, sad har mind, before clouded for the employment of disabled ex-vessels beyond the Service men, was a failure, and limit. It is admitted, however, Unhappily the text breaks with the by her malady, was now clear.

At that time Sinshar- "In consideration of these facts I calling upon the Government to that the British and Canadian words

have not hesitated to recommend Dr. pass a measure to enforce the em- authorities are willing to co-operate ishkuma, king of Assyria.

The break was disappointing, Williams' pink pits in cases of ailments in Japan parcels of second hand TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS ANDployment of such men in duties in other ways to combat the evil.

but it is sufficient to show the rolling from impoverished blood or European clothing of all descriptions

they were able to perform satis-

identity of the last Ninevite king tico Ad in the different towas woskened norver which have come to my for adults and children.

factorily.

and to prove that he was not where I have ministers since than I Sardanapallus, which was a mere have seen many proafe of the excellent corrupted version of Ashurbanipel. rasulta obtained with this remedy."

The last Ninevite king was no The world-famous bload, and nerta besotted Sybarite, but a soldier tonis, Dr. Williams' pick pills for pale who long and successfully with people, so highly spoken of by Rev. Fa- ther, Villanueva, are obtsioablo from stood a world of enemies and a cheniists everywhere, also at 8.5" por statesman who knew how to con-bottle, 83/-for & busties, pat free from vert formerly implacable enemies the Dr. Williams' slicing Co, 49 into faithful allies, à claim sub- Kiangeo Road, Shanghai.

Ladies under the presidency of Mrs. E. D. C. WOLFE has been formed for the purpose of receiving and handing over to the Relief Committee for despatch to the devastated areas

The Committee will be in attend-

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Parcels sent by messengers should be addressed to the Japanese Earth. quake Disaster Hongkong Relief, 1922) providing that they do not Committee.

By Order,

D. K. BLAIR,

Secretary, HONGKONG RELIEF COMMITTEE.

Bongkong, 12th September, 1923,

JAPANESE. EARTHQUAKE

DISASTER.

HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.

NOTICE.

animously agreed that prices of SUBSCRIPTIONS LISTS for the goods be increased by ten per cent.above Fund are open at the And that workinen's wages be raised following places: by seventeen per cent."

This wag

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THE WING HING TONO

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THE OI KWUN GENERAL GUILD (Manufacturers' Masters' & Workinen's Guild).

·Hongkong, August 28, 1923.

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Sir George Fuller, Premier of New South Wales, announces that agreement had been reached with the Imperial Government on the main terms of the most ambitious scheme of migration and land set- tlement which Australia has yet attempted. It provides for the settlement of 6,000 selected British migrants and an expenditure of about £9,000,000.

Chamberlain's Cough Remely.

This remedy has no superior at a cure for colla, croup and whooping cough.

It has hean a favourite with moth es of song children for almost forty yours

Omborin's Cough Romely can ways a depended upon and is pleasant it nut only ouros colds and grip, but pravante their rosalting in paeumo in Cramblin's Cough Remsly cos in opium or other narcotic and may be pivon ay conf 'ootis to a child as in adult. For ge by all Chem sts and Starekeepers

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