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THE CHINA

INTIATIONS

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

** COMPANY, LIMITED.

DIVIDEND NOTICE

NOTICE IS BEREBY GIVEN

that an INTERIM · DIVIDEND has been declared 'in respect of the Wilkócial year ending on the 31st December 1923 sħid will be payable On the 1918 NOVEMBER 1923 ni to SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS per Share

the "OLD" shares and as to IXTY CENTS per share on the *NEW” shares (1922 Issue).

The Transfer Books of the Com. pany will be closed from the 12th to the 17th November 1923 both days Inclusive.

For THE HONGKONG HOTEL

COMPANY, LTD.,

WALTER J. HAWKER,

Elecretary. Hongkong. 31st October, 1923.

Note:-

The above-mentioned Interim Dividend

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

#5 WORDS,8-INSERTIONS, $1.. PREPAID. Every additional word # Cepte

tor, insertions.

WANTED.

YOUNG MAN with good references before April, in return, for services desires passage to England during voyage-Reply Box No. 1460

"China Mail.” c/o

HARFORD, 169, THE PEAK (Magazine Gap)

SONGKONG HOTEL.

Now, Mar 3.

1005

Mr R.T G. AltkänDr and Mrs Loovy Mr J. Aroold Mr &Wra O Marx Mr A. Banks [Mr__T.M&Cafferty Mrs R. E. Bolilios Way Mashara Wr rul_Werk 19 Miss Middiahurat pra Ballan-M¢‚H.D. £_ Milles

Mr A. M. Birabell Me O. H. Moptagon Mrs E. Blackburn D. J. Morrison

Mr P.T: Newman Me L.. A. Blok

Mr A. Newton Mr and Ms U, Mr W. Brown

Mr Burdia

Bahlata

Mr H. Burch Mr 1, Conning Mr Jaa. Christie Mr W. Cuddy Mr and Mrs R. Mc.

Cone

Me & Mrs Nicolaisen

Mr E. J. Norman Mr. and Mrs S.

Wand

WEEK

ITEMS FROM PAR-AND-

NEAR

Trotsky is on the list of invited 'speakers, för, the Chicham miners

galiènext year.

Queen, Marjo of Rumania is in- disposed, the doctors · stating, hår Ipswich Corporation report a de-pulso is normal and that she needs

a few days' rest. fcit for the year of £3,000 on their tramways.

M. Pierre Deschamps, one of the pioneers of golf in Paris, and a former diplomat, has died in Paris.

Waterloo Hospital, Waterloo-road, The secretary of the Royal

H.S.E., is appealing for old toys,

books, and cards for the children.

Mi El A: Patluh Me 8'S. Ferry Mr and Mrs B. 1. Pie. ropont & maid Mr J. Pilcher Mr and Mrs P, W. Mr B. Prozott

Mr JARəbbitt Mr W.-H. 9. Dont Mr.T. Carr Ranibey Mr and Mrs F.. R.MES, BGN FO

Dodso

Mrad. O, Board. Mr WA R. Douglas so Mr W. J. Ennoyor Mr J. Fo/enfold Mid K. HEobaver.Mr R. Bagers Mr and Mrs QMr R. R. Boxburgh

Fergasson

Mr and Mrs. 0.

TO LET-Furnished for 9 months,IDAYOY

from March, 1924, next Motor | Road & public garage. Apply H. E.

GOLDSMITH, F. W. D.

To

TO LET.

of 76 cents per share on the OldTO LET.-Ground Floor and rooms shares will be paid also to these persons

on First Floor of 5, Duddel! 10he shall, in accordance with the Street, suitable for shops, offices, etc. Scheme for Amalgamation with The Apply SUNG TAI, 1, Queen Street. Shanghai Hotels, Limited, come Shareholders in this Company,

It is intended, by reason of the difference not made between the is Ola” il the "New" shares in the amount of Interim Dividend, to place the "O" and the "New" sharts on the same footing as in future Dividends.

LIMITED.

FOR SALE.

Valymble Leasehold Property.

Capt. F. C. Gamrill Rowell

and Mrs Gibeonldiss Dora Rowell Capt. H. E. Gilroy DFT E. GI Mire Barbara L. Me A. H. Ginian Master J. H. Rowell

Rowell Mr Giraud

Mr D. Russell Mr & Mr J. Gould - Kr J. #chindler Bie and Mrs Orafg Mr F. A. Soidler MWJ. Gry Mr G. Sérvadlo Miss Margaret Mr Ft Roo

Grimes

Mr W. H. Sparka Mr. B. A. Vandler

Btadt

Kiss Lucy Grimes kir R. E. Gruber Capt T P Bal Mr W. Vander Staen Mr 3. Scott HarstonMt and Hre J. G Maria Or. E. Hill, 'Ai th

Mr J. G. Sutton, chase or lease of a modern equipped J. E. Joroph Mr K. K. Sntton uine room, fire proof, brick and concreto Mr A. Kening Mr A Tutaudjisu

FFERS will be received up to the OFF7th December 1923 for the pur-borne

Pourparters are about to begin

RIT rebels in Morocco have at acked a column of Spanish troops a Tisiasa, a colonel and one soldier being killed.

Bath City Council rejected a concerts in the Pomp Room during motion for the provision of Sunday

the winter season.

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Eighty billion roubles, stolen from a Bolshevik train near Tifis, in Constantinople for the rein Transcaucasia, were abandoned sumption of diplomatic relations by the robbers when pursued by between Austria and Turkey

Soviet militia.

Six persons trapped in an "attle, have been burned to death in a fire which broke out in a three-storey house in Brooklyn, New York:

The German Ministry of Posts will inaugurate broadcasting con- certs, lectures, and stories from the wireless station at Koenigs Wusterhausen.

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On September 1, 304,395 persons were employed on the Government staff, a decrease of 21 as compared with August 1. The Post Office employed 715 more; the Pensions Ministry 338 fewer..

The Australian canners have re- jected the bounties by the Govern«

Jr.ment, claiming that the removal of the embargo on sugar Imports is the only satisfactory solution of the fruitgrowers' and canners' difficul- ties.:

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, residence at Pak Hoor Tong, Canton-Mr W. M. Kimball Mr A. D. Tyler

Includes three bathrooms equipped with Mrs E. A. Kimball Mr and Mr. Ulmer modern Axtures, commodious basement, Mr&r Langston Mr W. M. Vernor kitchen and servants quartors Astraer D. H. M. Vanities D. Whooler

Mr R. Leigh Mr. HJ. Werschkal tive location-Excellent views-Sur- Lespon

Miss R Wilkins, rounded by about 6 mows of well laid Miss H. Lis

Mr. Wilkinson grounds with ten year old treas. Tennis court-Owner's family leaving

Eartly for bome.

Shareholders

in

Incorported in England). VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to No

the above named Company that the Special Resolation to wind up the Company and the Extraordinary Resolution Providing for the distribution or sale of the Company's holding of Shares to the Hongkong Tramways Limited Uncorporated in Hongkong) of which Notice has been given to the Share holders having been confirmed and passed the REGISTERS OF SHARE HOLDERS to the above named Com.. pany both in London and in Hong- kong WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL THE 30th DAY OF NOVEMBER

Particulars, plans and conditions of sale upon application to BANQUE DR LINDO-CHINE Shamean

FOR SALE 52 booklets dealing with the paramount questions of religion. Price $6. Apply Box 1459 c/o "China Mail"

FOR

1923 for the purpose of registering FRENCH TUITION

transfers of Shares after which date the sald Registers will be closed and the Liquidator will proceed to a distribution of the assets of this Company among the persons appear . as Shareholders upon the said Registere in accordance with, their rights and with the said Extraord- kary Resolution.

►

W. F. SIMMONS,

For and on behalf of EDWARD RITCHIE MORRISS,

Liquidator.

Hongkong, 5th November. 1923.

HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY,

No

LIMITED.

on

· NOTICE OF MEETING.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIRST ORDINARY YEAR. LY MEETING. of Shareholders” of The Hongkong Engineering and Construction Company Limited, will be held at The Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, Hongkong, WEDNESDAY the 28th day of November 1923, at 12.00 noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors, and a Statement of Accounts for the period: from 28th October 1922 to the 30th June 1923, and of electing Directors and Auditors.

The Transfer Books of the Com pany will be closed from the 22nd to the 28th November, both daya Inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

.S. COURTNEY COOK,

Secretary. Hongkong, 15th November, 1923.

DANCING.

PALACE HOTEL

THE POPULAR JAZZ BAND. of HMS.DESPÄTGA" will play

at the above Hotel an SATURDAY, the 17th November, 1928.

DANCING 9.15 P.M.

VOURL

'Wavy Hair; the ruprostatation of Youth and Graes, that always remains the ideal of

· NİKKORŠ SAY, FO and I will be pe 'ka- Sest to learn of `a new preparation, which ***old: wadily employki, počtiring for the

·Henty odik spalts yslain, and itriigit," she macés.

«bioratáky, haémland) · Itu märja klid prise metall 2/3, Whop-

of all Countrlen

ants & Co.

ATTERSALL'S

SWEEP:

Write to

G. MOUSSION

c/o China Mal" office.

HONGKONG WOMEN'S

GUILD and MINISTERING

CHILDREN'S LEAGUE

GRAND FETE And

SALE OF WORK. In aid of local Charities and other Obildren's Funde,

To be held in the grounds of GOVERNMENT. HOURR SATURDAY, Dec, 8th, at 2 p.m.

RADIO

Listening in" with a MAGNAVOX RADIO, The Reproducer Supreme. No Wireless Receiving Set is complete withont, the MAGNAVOX RADIO,

DE SOUSA & CO., LTD.

..Distributors.

St. George's Building. 2nd Flo

Cbater Road

Tel No: Centrál 1264:4

MARTIN'S

APO

BEPULAN BAY ROTÉL. Mr & Mra Bahiberal Mr G. 2. Lygott Mr and Mrs Bonas Mr and Mr. G

Miskin Mr and Mrs Borns Mi F. M. Crawford Mrand Mrs Parkór My Edwards Mr & Mrs W. H. Mr and Mrs F. M. Plant Mr Mrs

Fetterley

Gandosi

Mr & Mrs J.

Geare

His Gosre

F. Ste 2 B. Phauk

Mr Rahton

Me E.D. Shank

H. Mc G. Bisak

Me J. M. Walker Mr and Mrs Wilcon

Mr & Mrs E. Land Mr G. Fatos

PEAK HOTEL.

November 10.

Me H. E. D. Adams Mr & Mrs R. Horne Capt, and Mrs Mo-Mr. Jangumin'.

Anosh

Miss O. 0: Jenkin MW-Armstrong bir. G. Johnson He and Mr AM W. A Jordan

"Arthur

Mr F. Bagot MF 0. W Barton

Miss Barton

Mr V. Benjamin Mr R E.D. Bird Mr and Mrs P. W.

Blackwell

MT., M. Kaye Mr H F. Köy Mr J. D. Kinnaird Mr & Mrs A. Late Mr E. G. Layman: Mr J.D. Ulard M. L

Mr & Mr. Martin Mr & Mrs J. W.C. Mr R. P Mattingly

Bornar

Mr R Mer-gur

Mr A. O. J. Bowker Lt Col & Mrs H R

Brinker

Mr E. Buis Mr and Mrs E.

Chubb

Lt and Mrs H.

Clark

Miss.O. E. Clark Mr F. Clemes Mr J. R. Collis Miss M. Cooper

F.

. H. F. Mo Vista-

News his reached Johannesburg of a reported find of gold 25 miles north-east of Springs. The theory is that this is a continuation of the Main Reef

2.

Sir Thomas Barlow, Physician Extraordinary to the King, has. given £1,000 for the Edgworth (Bolton) branch of the National Children's Home and Orphanage.

20

Forty persons, including (women and children, are believed to have been drowned as they were going to their homes at: Havre, through the sinking of a dredger in the recent Changel gate,

It is reported at Washington that President Coolidge has offered the Ambassadorship in London to Mr.

M. Beck, the Solicitor-General. Mt. Harvey, the present Ambass ador, retires at the end of the year.

General Sir Herbert V, Cox, who The Swiss Government has pro- commanded the 4th Australian Div posed to France that the questionision in Egypt and France in 1916- of the free Customs zones on the Franco-Swiss frontier,

17, died at Camberley, Surrey, which France proposes to abolish, shall be aged 63. He was formerly Military

Secretary at submitted to the Hague Court of

the India Office. International Justice.

-A motor-coach, while taking in petrol at a Folkestone garage was suddenly enveloped in flames which shot up 30ft., and although the fire brigade were working on the coach within four minutes, it was destroyed.

•

The Board of Trade has appoint- ed Dr. A. T. de Moullpied, of the British Dyestuffs Corporation, Ltd., to be a member of the Dyestuffs Industry Development Committee, in place of Dr. Herbert Levinstein, resigned.

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When William Rider was fined £2 at Reading for possessing

A sentence of one month's im- detonators without a firearms cer- prisonment in the second divisiontificate, it was stated that through for being drunk in charge of a boys exploding detonators given to motor car, passed at Bostreet them by Rider,at a football match a on Cayetano Bethencourt, was reman lost the sight of an eye, another duced to 7 days on appeal at the had his hand severely injured, and London Sessions.

Soveral persons suffered from ahock.

› Major-General" Francis Downes, late RA, formerly Secretary of Defence and Commandant of the Forces in Victoria, a Crimean veteran, who was born at. Dedham, Essex, has died in Melbourne, Australia, at the age of 89.

•

The Turkish newspaper Tanin Ms. McCallura

states that all Armenians and Mr J. Greeks who rendered service to

Mr' and

Findlay Millor

Miss A. Muller H-Me1T: Mizorell

Mr J. M. E. Nikkola Miss Me Nowaholme Mr and Mrs B, A.

Note

Mr E. H.R. O'Farrel Mrs H Cormack JN, Owas Mr W. A. Cornell Mrs A. J. Paterson Comdr. & Mrs Dow-Mr A. E. Pent

rling!

Mr and Mrs T. R.

Mr MJ. Cox

Col. C. W. Davy

Pérgy

Major & Mrs. F.

BA. V. T. Dosa Phillip

H.

La Cel R, A, Dob-Lt-Dol & Mes 0.

bin

Sander Mr & Mrs O). Eagor Mr and Mrs. L.'G.

Bett Dr O: Forsyth Lt. E, O Frederick Mr R. P. Fhaw

Bir D. Fitzgerald Mr W.F. Simmons Me P. M. Goldrich Capt. and 'Mre' Ivar Mr and Mrs W. D. Sigueland:

Goodfellow Major Hattersly Mr A. W. Grundy Smith

Mr A.. W. Stewart Miss M. B. Hall, Capt. &ro B.Hamil.Mrs And Miss Stub.

tori

bings

Mr J. Hancock MFP. T. Terrupt Mr and Mrs W. J.Mm J. S. Thomson

Hawkist

MD Thonley Mr.J. B. Hawker. Mr. A. W. Tokia HrG. Y. HomsworthOpt. Vidall,

Mr. B. E. Hować. Me W. E Wakeham Mr 8. Æ. _B]l': Cipt. B. F. Walker Mr J, R. Hindesarah vapë. A, E With Eng-Dom. 3, HM J. H. Way ): Hycken

PALACE, HOTEL...

November 9.

Mr and Mrs PAWONG EJ. ds H Vi Allison

Moore"! ***

† MedMesW: Austin He and „MrJ. C.

Mr Wm. A. Bennett, Baillou

Mr R.J. Racksal, de H. Smith

Mr D. Campbell It and Mrs./P.: W.

Mr PJ, Christofferson Southern 2

| Mis JC P!, SizsÒN HE WAS BOOTant Me: H. Hansons"--Bleu C. Stringer?” Chr. J. Jackie Heinod Men(3.

Mr B. L. D. TODDE

Solter Lid We M. A. KristensonMr H. Wilson Mr J. Lowrin

Mr. Burton, the South African Minister of Finance, stated that he hoped the British Government would make a concession w would assist. South Africa to fold a market for her maize which, has become a very large industry.

the Allied and Greek Armies of Occupation during the armistice of Mudania, which was ended by the Lausanne Treaty, will be expelled from Turkey,

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A vote of censure and a deraand for punishment have been sang. tioned by the Turkish National Assembly at Angora" against the Constantinople, authorities, who are accused of having failed to render adequate honours. to the parliamentary delegation which attended the re-entry of the Turk ish troops into Constantinople.

the A motor-car skidded on London road at Mitcham, Surrey, and came into collision with a steam tractor, as a result of which the petrol tank burst, and the flam- The Czecho-Slovakian Ministrying spirit, ignited by the fumace of Foreign Affairs, in conjunction of the tractor, set on fire the clothes with the Ministries of the Interior, of W. Underhill, in charge of the Finance, and Social Welfare, has tractor, and seriously damaged the laid before the Ministerial Council motor-car.

project for the abolition of pass- ports between Czecho-Slovakfá and France.

In a claim for damages for in- juries against the London County Council at Southwark County Court, For twenty minutes a number of Judge Sir Thomas Granger said customers were imprisoned in a the accident, like so many others, restaurant in Holborn owing to the arise from the fact that tramway- folding iron door shutter falling cars, and omnibuses tried to go into the closed position. It was faster every day, but he did not finally raised just high enough to believe the public desired such cnable the "prisoners to crawl out. extraordinary speed.

MADAME

FLINT

Desires to bring under the

NOTICE

of the Ladies of Hongkong that

MADAME LEMAITRE

has arrived from Paris with a consignment of the latest

PARIS CREATIONS

cluding Lace Frocks, Evening

Frocks and Winter Frockag

w

MADAME LIGJAITRE, who is well known in Hongkong, has spent Six Months in Paris devoting has tome! Đỡ

ady of the newest and most fashional creations as shown in the Paris salons, al will future be in charge of the Ladies Dressmaking Department

ADAME-FLINTS-

t

MADHOM

OROOKET & JONES

HEALTH"

FOR

QUALITY

SHOES

YOU WILL BE ASSURED OF SATISFACTION BY MAKING YOUR CHOICE FROM OUR NEW RANGE

OF THESE FINE SHOES.

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