PRIDAY OCTOBER 5, 1998
INTIMATIONS.
NOTICE.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD]STORAGE CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.;
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ORDIN ARY ANNUAL MEETING of above BHAREHOLDERS In the Company will be held at the Com- paar's Town Office, 2 Lower Albert Road, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 6th 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.-·
reminded that ENTRIES for the FOURTH GYMKHANA to be held on the 6th and 8th October, 1923, close on BATURDAY next, the 22nd fast.
Hongkong, 18th September, 1923.
MEMBERS are
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NOTICE..
THE Institute will re-open ол
TUESDAY, October 9th..
Students will be Enrolled at the Education Department only. and should apply at once for entry forms.
Dongkong, 3rd October, 1923.
BANK HOLIDAY.
TN Accordance with Ordinance No.5 of 1912, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be closed for the transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS on MONDAY, the 8th October 1923.
Hongkong, 3rd October, 1923.
Turen. AYR.EXRANITY?
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OFFICE Bill in for all purp Train. 10 12 Sein al MONDAY, 196
Sth Ortber. 1821, Leetent Wrebamo will to entirely placed in Hist slev,
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pendiculare
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ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
North Sea trawlers report shoals of tunny fish near the Dogger Bank.
Margate is to spond £$2,842 on new roads, street widening, and a bathing pavilion.
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Two workmen have been killed In a collision between two goods
trains at Jemelle (Luxembourg), -
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The Communist riots at the Piraeus (Athens) resulted in the arrest of 300 persons, who will be tried by courtmartai.
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West Ham Corporation during the year ended March 31 last lost £24,690, on tramways, but made a profit of £40,775 on its electricity undertaking
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The Swedish birthsrate last year foil to 19.55 per 1000 colpared with 21.38 In 1921 and 23-57 In 1920, while the number of divorcos slow- ed a big increase..
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without being registered in accord For having practised as a dentist ance with the new Act, Mr. John Stewart Veitch, of Ainthorpe, was fined fro at Gulsborough, York- shire.
FARMER'S INVENTION.
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AMERICAN CULTURE.
THE PERSISTENCE OF THE EUROPEAN TRADITION.
CODES AND. DECODES. "Mr. Mervyn. L., Tew, of Alton (Hants), Solicitor Generalfor for Nigeria, has been appointed a cognised by the Chinese Govern- ventions at an exhibition at the writes Mr. Kannoth Brooke in the Latvia, has been officially re- One of the most interesting in- The thing I cannot understand judge of Supreme Court of Nigeria.ment, and a commercial treaty Instituto of Patentess, Great Russ
between the two countries will be sell-street, W.C., was is coding and American Bookman) is why we The Wern tinplate works, at negotinted in London.
decoding machins produced by Mr. should expect America to develop Briton Ferry, have been purchased
Sidney Hole, a fariner, of Albourne, some. distinctly un-European art by the Briton Ferry Works, Ltd.,
Immigrants Into Canada from Sussex after 20 years of experi-expression. Fighting the same Young holly trees have been which are owned by Baldwins, Britain in July totalled 7,040 com- ment.
pared with 4,305 in July of last year,
wars, selling the same goods, rend- Finding electricity misatisfactory. sold in Kingston market for trans planting in South Africa.
while the number from the United he has adoptod pneumatic prining the same books, seeing the States shows a decrease of 176. ciples. Two typewriters are consume plays, houring the same music nected by rubber tubes. An opens it alzost seems incredible and the machine instantaneously for writes in code on one typewriter that, in the face of such a ner-nál reproduces the translation of the interchange, there are critics who can go on trumpeting the birth of a code on the other typewriter.
new culture. For military purposes messages founded on political ideas develop- Our Republic is can be decoded by the operator ed in Europe; our whole tradition without his understanding them in of expression is European our the least, kecause the machine can peuple is composed almost entire be so arranged that the franslation ly of. European blood, for the appears on the second typewriter two bloods which might have offer out of sight of the operator.
ed some rejuvenation-Indian and The inventor chilies that its speed Negro--have had no opportu vitiy exceeds any known method of end to affect us in any deep-seated ing and decoding and it is quick manner because there has been no onough to he used as an adjunct to transfusion. Thus, the real poss wiroless. Finally, the minber afbilities which lay in the influx of different ways that a 100-word mor- new blood have not been deve sage may be written is and to beloped, and will not be developed. approximately 1,000 decillions (a) As to our language, after all has decillion is a unit with 60 cymbers been said about its distinctness, it [attached).
does not differ from that of Eng-
During a thunderstorm a house known as Ruschcliffe, at Farndon (Notts), was hadly damaged by lightning.
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The Weymouth pleasure steam- Empress," returning from boat Lulworth Cove towed to safety a small rowing boat with four seainen in it from a French tug lying in Weymouth Bay. The boat was be
FRENCH TUITION ing carried out to sea.
Write to
G. MOUSSION
c/o "China Mail" office,
THE
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE FOURTH GYMKHANA MEETING will be held (weather Formitting) at Happy Valley, nu ŠATURDAY, 6th, and MONDAY 8th October 1921. commencing. 3.15 p.m. each day.
The Charge for admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1.
Sokliers and Sailors in uniform half
price.
Members are advised that they must: bow their Balger to obtain admission to the Members' Enclosure.
Each member has the right of in- troducing 9 non-mombara to the members' enclosure, tickets for whom can be obtained from Mossrs. Linstond Davit at $5 each up to FRIDAY October 5th.
The Stewards invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be present.
Hongkong Santalahan 1
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Mr. William Roston Bourke, who was for more
than 40 years principal of Holloway College N., died at his home, Finsbury Park-road, N. aged 81.
Ground was broken on the site of the provisional Parliament House at Canberra, the new Australian Federal capital, situated in a tract of Federal land north-east of Melbourne.
PRODUCE IN
Rumsey House, Kidwelly, Car- marthenshire,owned by Mr. Harold Greenwood, a solicitor, who was acquitted on a charge of murdering his wife by arsenical poisoning. has been sold for £1,525 to Kid- wolly Independent Chapel for con-
versión into a chapel..
HONGKONG,
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By Order of the Mortgagees,
TENDERS are invited up to the Sixth day of October, 1923, for the purchase of the above nam vessel with Engines and Boilers and various Auxiliary Machinery on board..
Permits to view may be obtained on application to the Undersigned.
Tendars must be accompanied by s deposit of $50009 returnable after decision on the Tenders bas been reached.
The Vessal was formerly known as the **. "Hong Kheng" and previously
a the ..Oriental".
PARTICULARS
Port of Register - Haiphong.
A single screw steel steamer of 1.H.P. 4000 Atted with internal electric lighting
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500 Engines and Boilers made by Caird & Co. First Cabin accommodation..... 140. Troon Dock'accommodation...62N
JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE
DISASTER.
HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.
NOTICE.
SUBSCRIPTIONS LISTS for the 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,
Pork Chop,--Chu Fel Kwak ...
Log,-Cho Pel.
Loln,-Chu Has Ton
International Banking Corporation.step's Netherlands Trading Society. Yokohama Specle Bank. Hongkong Cilib.
Cheques should be made out to the Order of the Japanese Earth- quake Disaster Hongkong Reliet Fund.
By Order,
I. E. BLAIR, Secretary, HONGKONG RELIEF COMMITTEE, Hongkong, 10th September, 1923.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Ship is to be sold with all Life- boats, life-preservers and life buoys, deok stores, Engine room stores, Cem- mistory, Equipment silverware, cutlery, glassware, cabia fittinge, Mattresses, DARTICULARS and Conditions of pillows and linon as they now are on Salo, by Public Auction to board the vossal,
be hold on TUESDAY, the 8th day. All Tenderer shall be deomed to of October, 1924, at 3 pm, at the have inspected the ship and the Pur-Officon of the Public Works Department, chaser will take the ship, her tackle, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, Apparel and furniture and with all of Dao Lat ofCROWN LAND at Pokfulam faulta in the condition in which they Road in the Colony of Hongkong, for le at the time the Contract for sale is renewal at a Crown Rant to to fixed a term of 75 years, with the option of
by the Burveyor of His Majesty the
untered into.
Any error, miestatemusute or mis- King, for one further term of 70 years. description of particulars shall not vitiate any sale made in pursuance of any tender régeivel ·hotander or entitle the Purchaser to componention.
The Vendors shall at bo concorned to sa to the registration of the ship but will at the cost of the Purchaser, execute as Mortgages » Bill of. Salo
in favour of the Purchasor.
The Vendite shall not be bound to desent the highest or any Tender
Tentiers will bs recoived at the office of the Untersigned, Prince's Buildings, Hongkong, un to the Sixth day of Mtober, 1923
JOHNSON, STOKES & MÁSTER, Solicitora for the Mestugees, Pongkong, 334li September, 1933.
NEWS FROM THE OLD COUNTRY. META MARIA RAM itu byder pool 1432 WD623 a topy any British Week As on piper, stelt aus Lloydą, Puente, 78 BUS, Pokanan's, shay mo, sto, Huatrode of/paper on our Big Li inalled Tren: "Acel Turnt paper wint weekly, or the anima prahllantlifordtraila, 13s pays for a pa aubription, fagla žlug pridge. "Monk unique and uptaļāte, service, weedy appreciated by mambara
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There are a mechanical mouse land to anything like the degree which is not stopped when it strikes which is found between. High and a wall but turns and rana on and a Low German. French politics in toy kinema of the peep-hole type. Africa equals English politics opented by a handle in which real in India, equals German pol- films can he used.
itics in Russia, equals Ameri can politics in Haiti. Music-Hall is the moral equivalent of varieties, ix the moral équivalent of vaudeville. The same compelling industrial problem is found in America as in Europe, namely, the necessity of foreign sales to insure full employment for the working classes at home. Williani James has adniirers indifferently in Eur ope or America, Bergson has detesters indifferently in America
ANT'S POISON SPRAY.
SUBDUES FEROCIOUS
ENEMY.
In the bottom of what looks like a miniature shell-hole in the Zoo's Insect House there lives a fine big savage antlion.
He had two smaller cousins of aor Europe. Politicilly, economical- different family, but one of thesey, socially, racitily, traditionally was eaten by the big chan, while [ in almost every considera-
the other just saved his bacon", tion we are intimately linked up in
by turning into a chrysalis from the great thought
which he will emerge as a small ¡ Europe. dragon-fly and so escape the de- vouring morister.
But the monster himself has bad a nasty set-back which has quite spoiled his appetite. He lives just under the deepest part of his sandy pit, and when ants stagger over the
the hazyes showers of minia-1 ture stones at theil
currents of
YOUTH AT 76:
SCHEME TO LENGTHEN
LIFE.
bewildered prey slips down to the body connasca ut urnantatives The National Health Council-a bottom of the trap and within reach of the leading medical and
of the ant-lion's jaw's,
health organisations in the United He has just had an encounter, Statos his started a campaign with a wood-ant who is gifted with which it predicts will result in the a most useful poison-spray of adding of 20 years to the average. formic acid, This particular ant
can shoot a jet of stinging stuff for span of life in America. about 12 inches, He crouches,he campaign has the endorse curls his tail-end downward and ment of the United States Public Health Service, which points out forward, and then brings his that the average life of Americans artillery to bear. The ant-lion did during the fifty years from 1870 to not approve of prey which shot, 1920 lengthened from 41 to 56, and back at him, and he now readds that it is possible now to en- fuses to touch this particular
sure that" fifty years from now the species. Ordinary ground-ants
average man will live to be 76, The keeper said that he has had instead of 56, and that he will feel one or two experiences with the spry enough to enjoy life at 76-
and for a good deal longer." poison of the wood-ants. Once it
i Doctors touched a scratch and was most overeating and too much mest are agreed that painful. Another time he went too the main causes of decay in middle
are still welcome,
age.
are
near the nest and was bombarded by the ants, who shot thefr acid at his face and blinded him for ten erican to submit during the next The council invites every Am-
minutes.
Children's Colds,
Why let the children rack their little bodies in nich distressing magner when you can a1 only end their ends with hottle of Chambariain's Clough Rom dy For sels by all Chemists and tore kvapore.
twelve months to a thorough physical examination by a com- petent physician. It aims at induc- ing people to have themselves thus examined annually on their birth- days, so that the first sig as of break- down may be detected and remedi- al habits of life and diet adopted.
ORDER FROM YOUR BOOKSELLER
THE CHINA YEAR BOOK
1923
EDITED BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E.
PRICE
$12.50
AN ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF INFORMATION REGARDING CHINA.
J. T.
SHAW
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TEL CENTRAL 692.
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