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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,

TEL HONGKONG A WHAMPOA DOOK COMPANY, LIMITED.

WANTED.

TO LET.

TO LET OR FOR SALE-3 storied houses in Granville Rond, Kowloon. For particulars apply to

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MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.

THE CHINA MAU

Mr. J. R. A Stroyan, a member of the Sunning-dale Golf Club, won the Bar Tournament at Rye, defeat- ing Mr. F. S. A. Baker, of the same club, by 3 and 1,

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In the course of a speech at Staffordshire, Mr. Bickhulf, F. Hodges, secretary of the Miners' Federation, described the situation in the coal-industry as grave in the extreme. He strongly urged the

on concentrate Berienced lady FRENCH LESSONS-Ex-minors to

the teacher is Parliamentary method to secure willing to take a few more puplis. I justice rather than by means of Reply Box No. 1445, c/o "China strike. Mail.

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The War Office denied a report that secret. wireless, code-books had been lost.

Rome prepared proat celebra- tions for the 2676th anniversary of the foundation of the city.

M. Japy, secretary at the French THE PROPOSED CHINESE Embassy in London, has been

CONFERENCE. appointed Chargé d'Affaires in Bucarest (Rummanfa).

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RIVER DIVERTED.

£5,000 SPENT TO RECOVER A BODY.

With the departure of many of Three electrically driven steam-the voracious and volatile members ers for carrying fruit are being of Parliament from Shanghai, in

To recover the body of a twelve- constructed at Birkenhead for a search of payments elsewhere, and

with the agreement between the year-old boy, who was acciden- United States company.

military commanders that there tally drowned, a construction

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Owing to a severe outbreak of cholera at Basra and Abadan After travelling more than 12,000 Mesopotamia, intending visitors to miles for her wedding, Miss that country are postponing their Mildred Peters, a classical dancer, departure from India has been married in London to Dr. Robley H. J Browie, a ship's

During a bull fight in a village surgeon, formerly sures captain square near Salamanca, Spain, the K.N. She came from New Zealand, roof of the church collapsed and a where for a year she gave dancing number of the 80 persons inside

unification the bullding were killed or injured.is exhibitions.

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observers.

The boy was the only child of a widowed mother. She was eye- witness to his death, and tried to

was restrained.

Mile. Lenglen was among the auccessful finalists in the World's Hard Court Championships at St. Earl Beauchamp, Lord Warden shall be no hostilities in this Cloud,

of the Cinque Ports, has appointed neighbourhood, normal conditions company, at great expense, altered the Earl of Ypres as Captain of have been ruling more or less of the course of a river. The bay, At Sotheby's on July 2 the last but

The Victorian wheat yield Deal Castle, an office Lord George late in this commercial centre. But Clyde Patnoc, by name, says a by the arrival during the past week San Francisco correspondent, fell one, still in private hands in Eng-

of two celebrated guests, political Company will be held at the Com WANTED--Young Lady able to land, of the famous Latin Vulgate amounted to 35.700,000 bushels, a Hamilton has resigned.

take

interest has been again revived, into the Yuba River and was swept in proposed Bibles, issued from Guttenberg's decrease of more than 8,000,000 part pany's Town Office, 2 Lower Albert

Dramatic production.press at Mentz between 153 and bushels.

and the local situation once more overn thirty-foot fall. Because of 1455, will be put up to auction.

bristles with possibilities. The the rush of water it was impossible day of October, 1923, at Noon, for Apply, Box 1451 c/o "China Mall."

The volume comes from the col-

first arrival was Sir Robert Ho

to recover the body. the purpose of presenting the Report

lection of the late Lord Caryfort.

Tang, whose nane is closely associated with the proposed plan of a "round-table" conference of all parties, to seek and find a cure for China's ills--a proposal throw herself into the river, but which commends itself to must Hif idea outside

by peaceful Engaged in hydro-électric deve- methods, as opposed to what is topment work along the river were called the" disordered dream" of General Wa Pei-fu, of unification engineers, and working crews of by force. Wy is reported to be the Pacific Gas and Electric Cor- urging the arsenals to supply him poration. They were preparing to with more munitions with which to hamess for electrical power the compel Szechwan and Hunan to follow the Northern party, in pur- sanie falls over which the boy was swept. They child had played suance of his scheme; we see no

among the workmen, and hardly hope of success along that line.

The more sensational arrival has a labourer or engineer but had been that of the ex-President, Li known him. When Mrs. Patnoe Yuan-hung. This has been talked knelt before them on the riverbank of as a possibility for weeks past, and prayed that God might permit and it might have been more her once more to hold the broken. there were more M.P.sat Shanghai reached a decision to divert the than there are now; it remains to river's course. t

Engineers quickly planned the be seen whether the delay until so many members had returned to feat, and the men worked night Peking was a wise or a mistaken and day with steam shovels, His arrival dynamite, picks, and wheelbarrows move on Li's part. has caused a flatter of excite to carry out the plans,

was warmly ment received as an individual, and also

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the Share Register and Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 1st to 8th October 1923 (both days fuclusivo).

Warrants for the Interim Dividend can be obtained at the Office of the Company, Queen's Buildings, Hong. kong, in and after the 9th prox.

By Order of the Board,

E. COCK,

Auting "hief Manager. Bongteng, September 17, 1923.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED.

HE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the Company's Ofico, Rose Contral on 20, Det Voanx TUESDAY, the 2nd of October, 1923, at 11 4.M.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 22nd of September to 2nd of October both days inclusive.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO., General Managers. Hongkong, 13th September, 1923.

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THE FOURTH GYMKHANA MEETING will be held (weather permitting) at Flappy Valley, SATURDAY, 6th, and MONDAY 8th October 1923 commencing 3.15 p.m. each day.

The Charge for admission to the Tublls Enclosure will be $1.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform half price!

Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain admission to the Members' Enclosure.

Each member has the right of in- troducing 2 non-members to the membore' enclosure, tekets for whom -can be obtained from Messrs. Linstead & Davle at $5. ench ap to FRIDAY October 5th.

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DISASTER.

HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.

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SBSCRIPTIONS LISTS for

above Fund are open at the following places:

Hongkong General Chamber of

Commerce. Hongkong & Shanghai Banking

Corporation. Chartered Bank of India, Australia

& China.

Mercantile Bank of India.

Some men pulling down an old

Inspector John Findon," Father" house at Naples have discovered two beautiful white marble co of Brighton police force, who is lumns, without capitals, on la about to retire, claims never to have The been absent from duty through sculptured base of stone. Returning to her cottage in columns are considered to have sickness during 30 years' service, Shetland after a short absence,originally belonged to a round Joan Ramsay, an old-age pen- sioner, found that her bullock had entered and set the dwelling on fire. She tried to save the animal, which perished in the flames, and she was found lying unconscious on the doorstep. Only a spinning wheel was saved.

Roman temple dedicated to the goddess Vesta. It is expected that other antiquities will be found in the basement of the building.

The two Roman Catholic priests, Fathers McHugh and Ward, who were the only foreigners in Tsaoshib, China, when it attacked by bandits, have arrived

Mr.

Wils

At the conference of the Nations/Child during the recent peram- steward) represented the King at effective if it had taken place when body in her arms, the officials

al Union of Clerks at Scarborough it was stated that between 1911 and 1931 women clerks in Lontion increased by 192 per cent. Compar ed with an increase of 12 per cent by men, andthere was now as many women RS men clerks in the

Mrs. Ida May Edwards, of Man-at Hankow safely, ཇཱ་ chester, summoned for ill-treating and exposing her 4-months-old

J. T. Warren (palace to the funeral of Mr. A. E. Allenby, from London bilator 'race Brighton, and her husband, sum the late telephone operator moned for aiding and abetting, Buckingham Palace, at Nunhead, again failed to appear at Brighton S.E. Police Court and the magistrates issued warra its for their arrest.

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Thousands of tons of earth were

falls.

Devereux-court gate and other gates in the Temple, EC., which Now that the London season were closed at the beginning of the metropolis.

has started, "Polly," Guy's melod-Long Vacation, are being reopened ious opera, is drawing most cosmo-by order of the Benchers of the as an opponent to the scheme moved, the Yuba's course was turn of the Cihli party to rush Tsao ed into a new channel, and the Adelayed message from Animan, politan audiences to the Savoy Middle Temple.

Kun into the Presidency. Friendly boy's body was recovered from be Trans-Jordania, records the British Theatre. Every night at large pro recognition of the full indepen-portion of the stalls is filled by The names of the green, the greetings and visits were exchang-tween jagged rocks just below the more or less estranged of late, and The river has gone back into its dence of the country, and in the American visitors, white most of copper, and the golden pheasantsed among notables who had been name of King George and the the principal

both have been added to the schedule this was all to the good. But when old channel, and the Pacific Gas Government Sir Herbert Sanuel hemispheres are well represented. to the Importation of Plumage Li Yuan-hung began to say that and Electric Company has set offered cordial congratulations to

"Polly" lovers Japanese

are (Prohibitios) Act, 1921, by virtue he still considered himself Presid-down an item of more than £5000 the Emir Abdullah and the people numerous.

of the Importation of Plumage ent, and expressed the hope of on the red ink side of its ledger. of Trans-Jordania,

(No. 2) Order, 1922.

being able to gathera Government That is what it cost to recover the to function at Shanghal, a coolness body of Clyde Patnoe. at once sprang up, and the wrang-

nations of

Lord Birkenhead left in the "Mauretanit" for the United States

Li is strong in his assertions

The Palestine Government has International Banking Corporation. issued a statement to the effect that Netherlands Trading Society.

it must not be assumed that there in mid-Atlantic. Smugglers waited and Canada, where he will lecture lings of the past were revived. Yokohama Specie Bank.

will be any change in the political Hongkong Club.

status of Palestine following the Cheques should be made out to announcement of the King of the the Order of the Japanese Earth-Hedjaz that he has concluded a quake Disaster Hongkong Relief treaty with Great Britain providing Bund

for the establishment of an Arab Confederation.

By Order,

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

DEAFNESS CAN BE CURED,

DEAFNESS, NOISES IN THE HEAD, AND NASAL CATARRI-

The new Continental remedy called LARMALENE" (Rogd)

is & simple parolers home-treatment Taich Absolutely csires deafpean, moleskin the

The Stawards invite the Ladies of NO EXPENSIVE APPLIANCES NEEDED for

Hongkong to be prescot.

Hongkong, September 24, 1923.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

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that MEMBERS are reminded AL ENTRIES for the FOURTH GYMKHANA to be held on the 6th and 6th October, 1923, close on SATURDAY next, the 22nd inst.

Hongkong, 18th September, 1923.

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,

Hon. Secretary.

tals new ointment, instantly operates upon the afected parts with completa and success 300353 OF WONDERFUL CURES RE PORTED.

RELIABLE TESTIMONY.

Mr. Wilkinson, of Bind Bozd, Stroud, Writes"Fukas yuld I troulds you to sond manniker box of the Ointment ít le net for zaysalf, but for a friend of mine who is as bad Ett any rest for the molas 111WAK, and new women, and co to in the hard.

do and get good night's rest, which I biid not bocaillat to do for many months. It i a wonderful remedy and am most delighted to

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remody must be very remarkDE FOT TEKTIV

been troubled with these

ten years, and have had some of the very beat medical advice together with other sxpensive ear instumena ali to no purposs. I need hand- ly say how very gratefull, for my life has

undergone an entire change.

Try ong box to-day, which can be forwanted tony fuldtes it receipt of money order for LL THERE IS NOTHING BETTER AT ANY PRICE.

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A shipment of drugs from Germany consigned to Montreal, valued at £100,000, has been seized with an aeroplane at Halifax, Nova Scotia, to take a portion across the American border. They vanished when the plot was foiled as the result of the arrest of Germans at sea through a clue furnished by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. No abatement is recorded of the Speaking at a London coa acute tension between Hindus and fercuce, Mr. R. L. Outhwaite, op- Moslems in Amritsar. The boycott posing the principle of compensa is now at its height, and each party ion, declared that Lord Howard! abstains from purchasing from the de Walden would receive in com- shops of the other. Another Akali pensation under the scheme pro outrage is reported from Hoshiar-posed in the Land Nationalisation pur, where the headman, a loyal | Bill, £13,687,000, and the Duke of servant of the Government, and his Westminster £50,000,000. Six coal hrother were murdered in cold owners would receive in compensa-

tion £25,000,000.

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to the American and Canadian Barthat he is seeking a peaceful is not likely to be agreement on Associations on European constitu solution of the present dificulties; appointment of a President or a tional development since the war his record enables us to believe Cabinet until there is an honest that he is sincere in this avowal.attempt to unite the country in At the long-wool rum sale at He will, however, find little sup essentials, and this must be done Lincoln, the best run

port from Chinese for his claim by constitutional means, and pici show was sold for 55 guine still to be considered President, hally if the work is to last. though a few years ago a similar and he would do wisely to waive

As Sir Robert Ho Tong and Li winner would have mide 1,000 that point in his quest for peace. Yuan-hang are both seeking peace- guineas. Fewer than a third of the In the present parlous state of ful solutions, it would be a brave rams exhibited were sold.

things, the presidency is not step in the right direction if they a matter of first importance; the could co-operate and become the At a Cardiff meeting the Rev. Jending of anarchy, a return to con- centre of the movement for unifica Philip Rogers, a Congregational stitutional government, and the tion by consent and arbitration. minister, in condemning gambling, establishment of a self-respecting Marshal Tsao Kun's ambitions have said he had heard that even the and serious Parliament, with mem-been dashed forthe present, and he boys in the galleries at Rhondda bers uncorrupted by the shameful would do well to join with others Valley chapels would bet on the venality so prominent of late, in the proposed Conference and numbers of the hymns given out.

these are the most urgent needs, plan for the good of the whole and anything which hinders serious country instead of working for the attention being given to them is to Chihli faction alone. Wu Pei-fu be avoided for the present. We must soon realize that his military venture to say that little real harm plans will not achieve the results has resulted to China by reason he hoped and that he is in danger

her being without a Pre-of being isolated; he, too, had bet sident for the past three months; ter come into the Conference. the lawless outrages, the chaotic Chang Tso-lin and Sun Yat-sen conditions, the political chfcanery favour the plan, and if we read the and ineptitude have very seriously signs rightly there is a general harned China's prestige and credit, weariness of deadlock and a rea- and it is these matters which sonable way out would be wel-

There demand first attention.

comed all round-Shanghai Times,

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