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SATURDAN SEPTEMBER 22,” 1923.

INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE.

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

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ORDIN

ARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Com- 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, baih days inclusive.

By Order,

M. MANUK,

Secretary. Hongkong, 19th September, 1923,

THE HONGKONG & HAMPDA

DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

NOTICare Register and Transder Books of the Company will be closed from tho 1 to 8th October 1923 (hath dars inclusive).

Warrants for the Intern Dividend can be obtiner at the Office of the Company, Queen's Buddings, Hong koog, on mul after the rà prox.

Be Order of the Bird,

E. COCK,

Acting Chief Manager. Songkong, September 17, 1923,

KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY.

BRITISH SECTION.

NOTICE.

DURING suspension of the through

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

BU WORDS S'INBIRTIÓNS,

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POSITION WANTED.

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FRENCH LESSONS-EX-

THE CHINA MAIL.“.

MAIL WEEK NEWS:

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.

A Australian rifle team will) shoot at Bisley next year.

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The 1,700th performance at the Paris Opera Comique of Bizet's "Carmen" has been given.

A revival of folk and morris dancing by him dreds of school children was seen at the Wiltshire Musical Festival.

1 Three bodies, the last of the eight victims of the Apedale mine fooding nt Chesterton, Stafford- shite, on April 15, have been re- covered.

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Mr. Harry Weldon, the comTM edian, who was taken 1 when performing in Manchester at the end of March, is in a serious con- dition at his home at Maida Vale.

LONDON NIGHT LIFE

AMERICAN BISHOP'S

CRITICISM.

"There is more temptation for the average middle-class man in London than in any city of the world which I have visited with the exception of Paris."

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For striking a member of the opposing team and breaking lis

This Is the opinion of Bishop jaw during a football match on James Cannon, of the Methodist April 21, John Jeffery, 19, of Episcopal Church (Smith) of the Sandgate, Kent, was fined £z at United States, now this at Hythe.

twentieth visit to this country.

"The night lift of London," he Spanish political circles are TwoL.C.C. tramway-cars collid-j said "does not for surprised that in the Madrid elec-ed in Vauxhall Bridge-road SW., vice compare with the conditions. tions five Socialists were returned, one passenger being severely which prevailed during the war compared, with two Liberals and bruised and six others compaining period, but it is much worse than fone Independent.

of shock and cuts from falling before the war." glass.

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Miss Marie Tempest, the actress, is about towrite herreminiscences, according to "Quex"in his "Diary of a Man About Town" in the London Evening News,

perienced lady teacher is There were 12 strikes of co- willing to take a few more pupils. operative societies' employees last Reply Box No. 1445, co

"China year, Sir Montague Barlow, Mail.

Minister of Labour, stated in the House of Commons.

FOR

FRENCH TUITION

Write to

G. MOUSSION

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INTIMATIONS

JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE

DISASTER.

HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.

NOTICE,

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Parties of elementary school children are to be allowed by the London County Council Education Committee to visit adopted towns in France on the invitation of the French Government.

open

Another thing which impressed the bishop was the freedom with John Hope, a Glasgow solicitor which women enter public-houses. and ex-member of the town council,

Turning to his own country, the was sentenced at Glasgow to 18 bishop said that there is more open months imprisonment for embezzl-loose living there than before the ing trust funds' amounting to

war. This he attributes largely £3,272

to the demoralising effect of the 'French environment on the the war. 2,000,000 young Americans during

The King of Spain, who, with the Queen, is visiting Brussels, called on Cardinal Mercier at the Brussels Art Galleries and the Malines, while the Queen visited cathedral.

street, S.W., brought the large total A jewel sale at Christie's, King

of £33,652 a dozen of the items being sold for more than £1,000

It was stated at a Retford, Not-cach. An emerald and brilliant tinghamshire, inquest on Caroline ornament brought £3,000, Wilmott, a single woman, that she had swallowed at different times Heads of schools under the Lon two darning needles, one ordinarydon County Council are to be needle, two safety pins, and two table fork hands.

The Melbourne Evening Sur states that it has specially engaged Mr. W. M. Hughes, the former Prime Minister of Australia, to write two or three articles a week dealing with Australian, imperial,

express service, an additional SUBSCRIPTIONS LISTS for the and international affairs.

local train will leave Kowloon on Sundays and Public Holidays at 2.52 pm. returning from SHUM CHUN at 6.30 p.m.

ROBERT BAKER, Manager. Kowloon, 19th September, 1923,

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

MEMBERS ME

are

that

above Fund are open at the following places:

Hongkong General Chamber of

Commerce. Hongkong & Shanghai Banking

Corporation. Chartered Bank of India, Australia

& Chino,

Mercantile Bank of India. International Banking Corporation. Netherlands Trading Society. Yokohama Specie Bank. Hongkong Club. Cheques should be made out to and 8th October, 1923, close on the Order of the Japanese Earth SATURDAY next, the 22nd inst. quake Disaster Hongkong Relief

Hongkong, 18th September, 1923. Fund.

reminded ENTRIES for the FOURTH GYMKHANA to be held on the 6th

WILL

NOTICE.

ILL Mr. GEORGE F. OBER: kindly communicate will'

P. O. Box 213 Hongkong?

HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEET- ING of Members will be held in the City Hall on FRIDAY, 28th inst, at 5.45 pm.

By Order,

D. K. BLAIR,

Ilon. Secretary. Hongkong, 17th September, 1923.

KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.

CONCERT

IN AID OF JAPAN DISASTER FUND.

SATURDAY, Sept. 22ad.

A GRAND VARIETY PROGRAMME

ADMISSION :-$1,00

RATTAN GOODS.

THE two undermentioned guilds

By Order,

D. K. BLAIR, Secretary, HONGKONG RELIEF COMMITTEE. Hongkong, 10th September, 1923.

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Annie Ward, a postman's wife, who was bound overis to policit Court after attempting to commit suicide by jumping into a dock, was found by her son next morning with her throat cut in two places, necessitating the insertion of a tube with nine stitches.

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As an inmate of Lambeth Infirmary pleaded that he

was convinced that he would be cured, of his neuritis if he could get to Lourdes, the guardians agreed to give him back most of the money he had on admission so that he could make the pilgrimage.

invited by the Education Com mittee to consider whether facilities should be given once a year for parents to see the schools at work.

Opening a parcel sent on April 23 from a south coast watering- and marked "To be called for," place to Tonbridge Station, Kent, a railway clerk found it contained the body of a newly born child.

In the week ended April 21, the coal output at the mines of Great Britain was 5.824,900 tons, as against 5,775,600 tons in the pre vious week. The wage-carners numbered 1,152,600, as against 1,149,400,

Tramways and light railways in Great Britain carried 4.256,268,692 passengers during the year 1921-22, a decrease of nearly 9 per cent as compared with the previous year, but net receipts increased by £1,335,544 to £5,688,047.

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A perfect copy of the mare second A Norwich firm of boot and shoc edition of Bacon's Essays, publish- manufacturers, Messrs. P. Haldin- ed 325 years ago, from the library stein and Co, have started a sun- of Betley Hall, Staffordshire, where mer experiment of a 5 days' work- it was found on the floor, anding week. The usual number of which at one time changed hands hours will he worked, but work will at a penny, was sold for £470 at cease oa Friday night instead of Hodgson's, Chancery-lane, W.C. Saturday noon.

FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

The farms prescribed for pubile valrick sie as follow!-

1--try tha Juland of Fiangkono, Caine Read and Ir Levels, and in Karloos, and New Kowloon

Ave miasta. Juarter hour Ten minute.

Talf hour,....

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RI-LOKAL.

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30 the jinricksba bo engaged ithin the City of Victoria, and be dis narged outside the Western part of the Aty of Victoria aftor 9 pm.. or be dis harged to the East of Fay View Police tation on the Esetorn side of the Oity Victoria after 9 p.m., su extra half are shall be chargeable.

reble repetively,

For 2 or 3 drivers the fare is double or

the Hill District.

Fea minuter. Quarter bour.

all boar, ........... 30 One koor

40 III-In the New Territories By arrangement with the proprietors through the Police.

ORLIES.

Lancer Levels.

With 2-Bearers With 4 Beurert. fen minutes, Quarter bear... lỗ

...... 10 centa fall bour,... Jee hour.......... 35

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Ten minutes....... 15 conta Jusrtor bout... 20. Half hour. 30 Jao hour. Every subsequent

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