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MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 1923

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD.

NOTICE OF CALL.

FOUR OF 95,000 SHARES OF THE KOMINAL VALUE OF $10 BACHI ($5.00 PAID UP).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Share on each of the 95,000 Shares

the Third Call of $2.50 per

allotted on the 8th day of November 1922 has been made by the Company. and that such enli will be payable to the Company's Bankers, The Hong. kong & Shanghai Banking Corpora tion, in Hongkong, on the 15th day of October 1923.

The Transfer Books of the Com pany will be closed from the 8th to 18th October, both days inclusive.

For and on behalf of the

HONGKONG ENGINEERING

& CONSTRUCTION

CO. LTD.

S. COURTNEY COOK,

Setrotary.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

HE WORDS & INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID.

Evory additional word & Coats for 3 insortions.

TO LET.

TO LET-GODOWN No. 153, Praya East. Apply GANDE PRICE & Co., LTD,

FOR

FRENCH TUITION

Write to

G. MOUSSION

c/o "China Mail" office.

INTIMATIONS

Dated the 21st day of Sept. 1923. BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.

JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE

DISASTER.

HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.

NOTICE.

UBSCRIPTIONS LISTS for the

above Fund are open at the following places:

NEW ISSUE OF

6% 1923.

FRENCH TREASURY BONDS

PRICE OF ISSUE!

FRS. 08.50 FOR FRS. 100-OF NOMINAL VALUE.

Free of taxes, ne prizes. Coupons payable twice a year

Hongkong General Chamber of on the 20th of May and 20th of

Commerce.

Hongkong & Shanghai Banking

Corporation.

Chartered Bank of India, Australia

& China.

Mercantile Bank of India. International Banking Corporation. Netherlands Trading Society. Yokohama Specie Bank.

Hongkong Club,

Cheques should be made out to the Order of the Japanese Earth- quake Disaster Hongkong Relief Fund.

By Order.

D. K. BLAIR, Secretary,

HONGKONG RELIBF COMMITTEE. Hongkong, 10th September, 1923.

Uoal Selling Agent Wanted

in Far East, une speaking

fluently English and well

acquainted with the Pacific Market. Write giving re-

ferences to: Sciontia. 20 rue

Troyon, Sevres (Franice.)

November.

First dividend of Frs. 12-to be paid on the 20th of November 1923. BONDS OF FRS. 500.-AND

FRS. 5,000.- CAN BE REFUNDED AT THE OPTION OF THE BUYER, at par on the 20th of May 1926. at Frs. 103-on-ther20th of May 1929.

at Frs. 108-on the 27th of June.

1933-

SUBSCRIPTIONS will be received up to the Ist of November 1923 by the BANQUE DE L'INDO- CHINE.

C. E. GOY. Manager. Hongkong, October 1, 1923.

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NAVY LEAGUE BALL Under the Patronage of Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, K.C.B. (In aid of War Charities) Will be held at The CITY HALL on FRIDAY, 2nd November, 1923, at 9.30 p.m. Tickets $5 each. Obtainable from the

Ladies Committee Moutrie's, Anderson's and The Engineer's Institute.

MARTIN'S

APIOL&STEES Takes PILLS

French Mamady for all DryNETLAASUT- Therande of Latios, always kas n deck

Apr 12 407 Togesingy at the hyttan

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MARTIN'S

IDIOL&STEEL HTTPILLS

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THE

MAIL WEEK NEWS,

ITEMS FROM PAR AND NEAR.

Thieves who failed to find money in a Newcastle public-house turned on the taps of three beer barrals, allowing the contents to run to waste.

Three brace of "grouse shot and given by the King were sold by auction at a garden fête at the King George Sanatorium, Bramshott place, Hampshire.

Mr. H. FM. Munro, of Edin- burgh, formerly of the Royal Irish Constabulary, who is 39, has been appointed Chief Constable

of Herefordshire in succession to Capt. the Hon. E. S. Stanhope, who

has resigned.

Ter

NA MAIL..

hy officers arrived ] The coal output for the week en- ded August 18, was 5,124,000 tons compared with 3,550,400

the previous week and 5,158,400 in the corresponding period of last year.

at Penzancerowall, after a walk from Bradford, in which they have | covered 500 miles in 11 weeks and

3 days.

Rebecca Thompson, 34, a widow, was sent for trial at Salford on a charge of housebreaking at "West- field," Prestwich Park, Manchester, and of stealing £1 and wearing apparel.

The Orient Line announces that from October 13, when the Ormonde sails-from London, the mail service to Australia-which now takes about five weeks-will be accelerated by two days.

Pending an appeal, Emile Clark, motor engineer, of Upper Norwood, S.E., who was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment for being drunk while driving a motor-car, has been released.

As an express to Plymouth was passing Bath, Able-Seaman David Frank Harrison an ex-police- K. Murray, 21, of H. M. Sloopman, was sent for trial at Middles- "Snapdragon," fell from the train brongh on two charges of house- which was going at 40 miles in breaking, it being stated that the hour, but escaped with minor for alleged offences took place when juries.

he came off police night duty.

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GIRL'S DELUSIONS.

"THE AWFUL VOICE."

A TRAGIC LETTER.">

Fallure of the wheels to grip the slippery metals was stated to have been the cause of a collision be- A tragic letter left by Mthet tween two goods trains at Barlby | Long (27), a machinist, whose body Junction which blocked the London was found in the Thames near to York main res.

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FARES FOR PUBLIC: VEHICLES.

The fam prodcribed for public veblake ara nafollow

fa she feta i of Hongkang. Chime Read and Lower Levels, and tu Koutoon, and New Kowloon,

Vauxhall Gas Works, was minutos.

missed a charge of manslaughter The letter read:-"I, Mabel Mar Milford Haven magistrates dis-read at the inquest in London.

against Stanley Dove, 20, who was Long, have decided to end my own firing a rifle in a garden, when a killed a boy of 9 on the other side. If only I had been good how happy bullet passed through a door and life. It is the only way out of it.

I would have been. I wonder why In the fate has been cruel! height of my happiness I had a dreadful breakdown

An agreement, Reuter reports, has been signed between Great Britain and Lavtia according to which the visa of passports of either country will cost one gold franc (about 92d.) and a residence permit to gold francs.

Wall hour,..........

Ten minutos,............10 Onarier bout, aamuin

ins bour,...

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barged outside the Wostern part of the If the indiaksha be nagaged within the City of Victoria, and be dis

Xty of Victoria siter 9 p.m. or be dis birged to the East of Pay View Police tation on the Esstorn side of the Ofty f Viatoria after 9 pia.. an extrs half are shall benbargoiḥle.

For 2 or 3 drivor the furs is double or roble respectively.

15 conts.

11-In the Hill Diawirt. Ten minutos... Qartor hour,ues

Ilf hour,... ne bo...

In the New Territorica By strangement with the proprietors

Dreadful delusions came on me and made me a perfect fiend, and changed my love to hatred. I tura- ed against my darling mother, the one who has been so kind to nie. Frederick Treadgould, a laun-Oh, how I have tried to battle. dry man, who was fined at Grimsby against the delusions, hut that for employing 12 women on night dreadful voice in my brain kept work, said the women did the talking, till it made me desperate.hrough the Police washing more quickly than 24 uo- I wonder whether Johnnie has for- employed men whom he employed gotten all about me I really hope as substitutes.

he has, as I do not want to wreck bis life."

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16

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The girl's father said she had been depressed about her sweat- heart, who had broken off the

engagement. On Whit Monday she made an attempt on her life by taking lodine. Since then her mother had been sent to an asylum,, and the girl thought she was the cause of it. She had been under observation in the Isleworth Infirm- ary for three days, but she came home a fortnight ago in good spirits. On Sunday week she went to see her mother, and was after- wards depressed.

Medical evidence was given that death was due to drowning, and the Coroner recorded a verdict of 'Suicide while of unsound mind.”

The Queen of Holland received members of the Diplomatic Corps with letters of congratulation, pre- sents, and decorations. from the various countries on the occasion of the celebration of the 25th auni- versary of her accession.

Sunshine and Common Sense..

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ISLAND.

Foot

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1774

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1734

Mountain Lodge

1720

The Eyrie

1720

Peak Hotel

1305

Isikoo Sanatorium

1000

Mt. DAVIE

877

Bowen Rd, (filterbois

599

MAINLAND.

Taimoshua

8124

Kowloon Pet

1971

Lion Rosk

1648

Bhatic Pass

1000

Custom Pasa

780

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THE CHINA YEAR

1923

BOOK

EDITED BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E.

PRICE

$12.60

AN ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF INFORMATION REGARDING CHINA.

J. T

SHAW

LADIES' & GENTS'. TAILOR.

TEL, CENTRAL 692.

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By S. S. NELLORE"

Just unpacked new shipment of Woollen Buitinge for the Autumn and Winter.

INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED.

No. 11 Peaconsfield Arende (Opposite City Hall)