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MONDAY QOTOBER - 15 - 1923.

INTIMATIONS

NOTICE.

WE bave

LTD.

appointed Mestre, ANDERSEN, MEYER & CO., our distributing agents for China for our METAL LATHS, HY RIB, EXPANDED METAL PRO- DUCTS, also for Corner Beads, Edge Protectors, Rolled Channels and Inserts, as manufactured plants in Youngstown, Ohio, USA.

in our

TRUSCON. STEEL COMPANY,

E, A. SILAGL General Manager for China. Hongkong, 9th October, 1923.

ON

ANNOUNCEMENT.

we

N September 1st, 1923,

secured the exclusive distribut- ing agency for China of the follow- ing steel products manufactured by the TRUSCON STEEL CO.

Matal Lath, Hy-rib Expanded Metals,

Corner Beads, Edge Protectors, Cold Rolled Channels, Also Tapped Inserts and

Slotted Inserts.

We carry the above products in stock at Shanghai.

ANDERSEN, MEYER & CO., LTD.

Hongkong, 0th October, 1923,

JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE

DISASTER.

HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.

NOTICE.

UBSCRIPTIONS LISTS for the #bove Fund are open at the following places:

Hongkong General Chamber of

Commerce. Hongkong & Shanghai Banking

Corporation.

Chartered Bank of India, Australla

& China.

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG ENGINEERING. & CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD.

NOTICE OF CALL.

ISSUE OF 95,000 SHARES OF THE NOMINAL VALUE OF $10 RACIT (35.00 PAID UP),

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Share on each of the 95,000 Shares allotted on the 8th day of November 1922 has been made by the Company, and that such cal; 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 Third Call of $2,50 per

The Transfer Books of the Com

any will be closed from the 8th to 15th October, both days inclusive. ・・

For and on behalf of the

HONGKONG ENGINEERING

& CONSTRUCTION

CO. LTD.

S. COURTNEY COOK,

Becrotary. Dated the 21st day of Sept. 1923.

BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.

NEW ISSUE OF

FRENCH TREASURY BONDS 6% 1923.

PRICE OF ISSUE: FRS. 98.50 FOR FRS. 100-OF NOMINAL VALUE,

Free of taxes, no prizes,

Coupons payable twice a year on the 20th of May and 20th of 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 the 20th of May 1929.

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

Mercantile Bank of India.

International Banking Corporation.

I

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,

1933.

By Onler,

P. K. BLAIR, Secretary, HONGKONG RELIEF COMMITTEE. Hoogkong, 10th September, 1923.

NAVY LEAGUE BALL Under the Patronage of Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, K.C.B. (In ald 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 Mouirie's, Anderson's and The Enginecr's Institute.

NAVY LEAGUE BALL.

NOTICE.

The List of the Ladies' Com- mmittee can be obtained from Mrs." D. J. LEWIS. Telephone, Peak, No. 126.

DAISY O'KEEFE Qualified Teacher

PROM MISS BELLE HARDINGB ACADEMY, LONDON, PARIS.

·BRUSSELS. THE HAGUE. And Madame Judith Espinosu'e Academy of Stage and Oporatio Dancing, Loudon,

Miss O'Keefe gives leasons in the latest Ball Room dances, including The Bluca, Old and New Tango, Exhibition Work, Ballot, Classical Eurythmics, ste. Candidates pro- pared for the London Technical Byllabus Exame. Correct Tochnique taught.

Station Hotel, 10 to 12 a.m. King Edward Hotel, 3 to 7 p.m. daily.

Tel. K120.

MARTIN'S

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Belders Jette to the hosen by thai an còn Met

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`FOOK BUN FOR SALE, Panama Hats, Felt Hats, Straw Hats and all Kindn of Hata HATS CLEAKED A SPECIALITI. No. 80, Wellington, Streek,

SUBSCRIPTIONS will be received up to the 1st of November 1923 by the BANQUE DE L'INDO- CHINE.

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

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,

THE next Gymkhana will be held on the 10th and 12th November 1923 and

not 35 previously advertised.

TO CLUB SECRETARIES.

IN future, the "China Mail” will

publish the teams for weekend matches in Saturday's issue. Secre- taries of all sports clubs, including regimental teams, are requested kindly to help in the matter by sending in the names of players not later than noon ench Friday.

Hongkong, October 10, 1923.

Building a Baby

Mother your baby's body is being built how for life. To-day you can influence his future health, in a way you can never do when once the muscle and nerva tissues are developed and the bones are set. The material out of which the body is built is food and food only, but it must be suitable to the infant's power of assimilation.

Virol is a food that has been specially designed by Medical Experts and Food Specialista to meet the particular requirements of growth. It contains just those vital principles which play so mysterious A part in transforming food into living tissue.

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CHINA MAIL.

COCKATOOS,

LAND OF BEAUTIFUL BIRDS..

The north-west coast of Aus- tralia is one of the least explored portions of the world, and in "A Land of Opportunities (Lano, 10s. 6d) Mr. E. J. Start has given a graphie account of an expedition along its shores.

this wonderful scene. The dawn is heralded by the screech of thousands of cockatobs, which feed on the Islands..

It was in such a spot that the author once witnessed a curious sight.

MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.

The will of Sir James Dewar, been proved at £129,555. D.Sc., the famous scientist, has

I saw a bird in difficulties on one occasion when I was out shooting | back to the schooner with a good formerly a well-knows boxer and

snipe and was wending my way

Mr. Joseph Taylor, cotton broke', bag. The bird had its wings spread all-round sportsman, left estate of and was apparently tugging at £290,882. something on the ground.

It

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Mineral wealth, land capable of proved to be a saipe which had

Mr. J. M. Hanbury, chairman of been caught by the bill by a live vast farming developments, and a sea teeming with fish were en caught the bird and tried to extrixton, brewers, left property of cockle when the tide was low. I Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, and countered, to say nothing of strange cate his beak, but I had to carry him the gross valite of £138,725. natives who wear no clothing and whose friendliness was some-attached, where I cut the hinge of

on to the schooner with the cockle Lord Robert Cecil his accepted į times not above suspicion.

the bivalve. On releasing the bill an invitation to join the Cabinet, Life is everywhere abundant, I found that it was badly bent, and will probably become Chan- and the author is constantly re-but straightened it with my cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. ferring to the multitude of fish fingers and then dipped the beak in that swarm everywhere along the water, which was greedily drunk. Sir John Robinson's colt Roger The bird then walked along the de Busli created a favourable im- deck, shook himself and flew away.pression by the nature of his According to Mr. Stuart, de victory in the Payne Stakes at Rougemont, whose accounts of Newmarket. wild Australia were greeted with derision 20 years ago, was by no means the liar that has been sup- posed.

comat.

The water on the reefs secthes with fish and shell-fish, and the coral here is exceptionally fine. On a fine morning large stingrays can be seen flopping about in all direc- Hons in the shallows, and white and blue cranes walk daintily over

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Constance Lytton, daughter of the The death is announced of Lady first Earl of Lytton. She was onc of the prominent leaders of the militant Suffragist movement.

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The Association of Conservative Clubs is starting a fund to support Conservative working-me. candid ates at the next general election.

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The Italian destroyer "Audace," which called at Tangier, the Moroccan port, and landed. 12 Carabineers to act as consular police, left there without the police,

on the River Nidd at Knares

In changing seats when boating borough, near Harrogate, Mrs. Jane Dover, wife of a steel worker of Middlesbrough, fell into the water and was drowned

The Championship at the sheep- dog trials at Castic Forbes, Aber deenshire, was won by John Hendry, aged 15, with a 16-months- old dog the youngest shepherd and dog competing.

Several champions competed in

a series of international boxing contests at Olympia. Jack Binom field, the British Empire cruiser- weight champion defeated Dive Magli, the Irish champion in the thirteenth round.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, in his presidential address to the Canterbury Diocesan Conference, dealt with three matters of im- mediate interest to the Church- reunion, religious education, and clerical incomes.

In deference to views expressed

Sir Harold Arthur Stuart, G.C.M.G, a distinguished Civil servant, left estate of the gross value of £49,696. The will of Sir William Thorburn, C.B., specialist on the surgery of the spine, has by Mr. Max Beerbohm the director been proved et £33,009

of a Leicester Galleries have decided to withdraw from the exhibition a few drawings to which exception had been taken.

Judgment was entered for the defendant, with costs, in the action brought by Mr. Oscar Callow, dealer in antique furniture, claim- ing damages from Mrs. Rosalie G. Gordan för alleged misrepresenta tion, or alternatively, for breach of warranty in regard to the sale of an Eglinton wardrobe.

Innovations at this year's Binley Meeting include the contest for the Best Shot in the Army' Medal, revived by the Ring, and to be com peted for by serving members of the Regular and Territorial Armics and Militia at home on July 10.

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Drastic penalties are suggested in the measures, introduced in the House of Lords by the Lord Capital Lovy upon the Fature Na-. Lecturing on "The Effect of a Chancellor, to give effect to the re-tional Reverie. at University commendations of the Royal Con- College, Sir Joseph Stamp em- mission on Honours. The object

of the bill is to prevent abuses in phasised the fact that a levy would with the grant of have certain automatic effects in reshcing the yield of taxes charged at the present rates, because if

connection honours.

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His Majesty has entertained wou'd reduce the fortunes and in- some eighty stamp experts at cones to be taxed in future. Buckingham Palace and allowed them to inspect his collection of

Viscount Lascelles, who was the stamps. The visitors were all pre-principal speaker at the annual sented to the King who moved meeting of the National Art Collec- freely among them, discussing tions Fund, made a strong plea to with them the merits of various prevent the breaking up of our specimens.

historic old houses. He gave a House and its chief objects of in- detailed description of Chesterfield terest, and also described Sion House,

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Two drivers in the service of the London General Omnibus Company were summoned at Lam- beth for having by wilful misbe- haviour, prevented the free passage of an opposition 'bus. They were each fined £5. A summons against the driver of the opposition 'bus was dismissed.

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In the King's Bench Division, Mr. Justice Swift held that the con- tract with a railway company that their liability should be limited to £ICO with regard to passengers travelling on workmen's tickets did not affect an executor or

magnificent success, and Queen "Rose Day" proved this year a Alexandra, in Duchess of Portland, chairman of lerter to the

the executive committee of Alexandra Day," expressed her warm appreciation of their efforts. "I am more than glad," Her Majesty wrote, "that the prosperity of

Alexandra Day' has in no way diminished."

Speaking at a luncheon in con- widow in the case of death, and innection with the Royal Tourna the action brought by Mrs. Nunanment, the Earl of Derby paid warm against the Southern Raitway, as tribute to Mr. Bonar Law. sessed the damages at £800.

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"His

is a character," he said, which will appeal to everybody, to Hitherto boys have been enlisted whichever political party they in the Army mostly as bandsmen, belong-straightforward, honest, trumpeters, buglers, drummers, with only one object in view, and and pipers, but a new War Office that was, at all sacrifice of his per scheme provides for the training of sonal health and convenience, to boys as electricians, wireless do what he could for the country operators, fitters, carpenters, and to which he belongs."

joiners. For the first course of training, which opens in Septem- ber, there will be about 250 vacan cies. Later, places may be found for 500 a year.

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British Cancer Campaign appeal for The King has given £100 to the £1,000,000 for research. His en- couragement of the fight against the

The Empire Theatre, Leicester-courge is received with special square, WC, was offered for gratification by the exécutive com sale by auction by Mesars. Knight, mittee. Donations are being receiv Frank, and Rutley on July 10, withed in a steady flow: An official ssíð the Queen's Hotel and the land they are of all amoants from 18. to adjoining at the corner of Lisle £1,000. Whatever the sun, any street, the area totalling about donation will be gratefully wol- 34,500 square feet. This property comed. Subscriptions to the fund last changed hands two years ago, should be sent to Sir Arthur Stan- when Mr. Hamilton Baines boughtley, chairman of the executivo com- it for about £500,000 on behalf of a mmittee, the British Red Cross Cardiff syndicate. The theatre was Society, 19, Berkeley-street, W. 1, subsequently refurnished and reor to Lloyds Bank, 71; Lombard- decorated.

street, E.C., or any of its branches.

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