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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24, 1928
INTIMATIONSTM
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR
· LIMITED.
Incorporated in England). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to
Shareholders in the above nimed. Company that the Special Resolution to wind up the Company and the Extraordinary Resolution providing for the distribution or sale of the Company's holding of Shares In the Hongkong Tramways Limited Incorporated in Hongkong) of which -notice has been given to the Share holders having been confirmed and passed the REGISTERS OF SHARE- HOLDERS in the above named Com- pany both in London and in Hong- kong WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL THE 30th DAY OF NOVEMBER 1923 for the purpose of registering transfers of Shares after which date the said Registers will be closed and the Liquidator will proceed to a distribution of the assets of this Company among the persons appear ing as Shareholders upon the said Registers in accordance with their rights and with the sald Extraord- hary Resolution.
W. F. SIMMONS,
For nad on behall of EDWARD RITCHIE MORRISS,
Liquidator. Hongkong, 5th November, 1923.
HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE OF MEETING.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
On
the FIRST ORDINARY YEAR. LY MEETING of Shareholders of The Hongkong Engineering and Construction Company Limited, will be held at The Hongkong. Hotel,
Street, Pedder
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 days Inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
S. COURTNEY COOK, Secretary. Hongkong, 15th November, 1923.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
AN
THE FREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEET
TING of the above Society will be held by kind permission in the Board Room of Motors, JARDINE MATHESON & COMPANY (Jardino's Ballding Top Floor) on THURSDAY November 20th at 6.30 P.M. Business.
1. Presentation of Raport & Accounta for the year ending October 31st
1933.
2. Any other S.F.CA, business that may be brought before the meeting.
3. Election of Officers and General Committee for the ensuing year.
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MAIL: WEEK - NEWS.--
ITEMS FROM FAR, AND NEAR.
Our highest annual National, ex- penditure was in -1918-19, -when it stood at £3,146,475,568.
The average size of family in the County of Kent has decreased from 4.24 in 1911 to 4.09 in 1921.
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Cigars, eighteen inches long, weighing half a pound, and priced at 355, were recently exhibited in London.
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TOST-On the 22nd inst; at 10:30
AM; between Glenealy & Italian uncrowned head of Queen Victoria The copper money bearing the Convent. Platinum Bar Brooch is being called in by the Bank of Opal Heart surrounded with England. At the conclusion of this meeting, an Diamonds. Substantial reward offer- Extraordinary General Mosting willed for recovery. Fielder, B. & S. he told to consider proposals to amend Nos. 4, and 9 of the Society's Rules as follows- Rule 4.
fleading and Silo nute for "Dico" substituto "Personnel" After Members" in the last lino, insert Donating Membert."
Rule 5.
Rule
Healing for "Constitution" sub- stitute Management." Line 2
after "Committee " add
"of
which the President, Vios President, Hon. Secretary and Bon. Treasurer shall bo members ex officio."
For the present rule substitute the following:-
"Any person may become a Mem bor of the Society by paying to the Hon. Treasuror an annual subscrip tion of $2 (Two dollare), or a Dona- ting Momber by paying annual subscription of 85 (Five dollars), or
TO LET.
TO LET Ground Floor and rooms. 1 on First Floor of 5, Duddell Street, sultable for shops, offices, etc. Apply SUNG TAI, 1. Queen Street
TO LET.-A well furnished Flat
on Shameen, Canton. Apply to
THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO. (S.C.) LTD., Shameen, Canton.
FOR SALE.
Valuable Leasehold Property.
FFRRS will be received up to the
7th December 1923 for the pur- chase or less of a modern equipped nino room, fire proof, briak and concrete
Mr. Heaslip, a Newry farmer's wife, has given birth to her twentieth child."
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Viscount, Cave, the Lord Chan cellor, resumes duties of his office iext month.
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* National Savings Certificates will still-be-sold at 16s. each, but will mature at 245 (natend of 259, in ten years.....
Mr. George Lambton, the New market trainer, who has been fil in London, is now well agala.
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Powell Duffryn Colllery Co. have found No. 3 Rhondda seam in new sinkingrat Llanharan..
The Duke and Duchess of York
from returned
Scot- land to White Lodge, Richmond Park.
John Gay, a Swansea blacksmith, In-was fatally burned through falling
on the smithy fire in a faint.
The largest towns in Kent are Gülingham, with 54,026 habitants; Margate, with 46,480; and Chatham with 42,013.
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About 18,000,000 tons of coal are consumed in London annually, 5,000,000 tons being used for domestic purposes.
Cabinets of cigars, containing as many as 10,000, and costing up to 1,000 guineas, are luxuries pro- curable by millionaires.
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The Post Office, on April 1st. had a staff of 181,173; it is the only Civil Service department with a smaller staff than in pre-War days.
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To provide all men and women in Great Britain with a pension of
Swansea Corporation proposes to spend £47,000 on a new marine drive between Mumbles and Lang- land Bay.
Mr. McAlister McCormick, of Chicago, was married at the Em bassy Church, Paris, to Miss Jean
Stevens.
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Mr. H. Judd, of Chaucer-road, Acton, cut from his allotment a cabbage weighing 1431⁄2 lb.
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Mrs. Ellen Turner, forty-nine, of Halifax, died in her husband's arms on Blackpool promenade.
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& Life Membar on payment of a sum residence at Pak Hook Tong, Canton 20s. a week, at 65 years of age. been offered the Governorship of
of not less that 850 (Fifty dollace). To avery euch porson the Hon. Treasor will fasues Card of Mom bership."
Hongkong, November 22, 1923.
THE CATHEDRAL HALL
TUESDAY, November 27th, 1923.
THE HONGKONG MALE VOICE CHOIR.
Mrs. Clements-Soprano.
Mrs. Mathieson-Contratto. Mrs. Aubrey-Violinist..
Mr. I. A. Zellensky-Humorous.
Impersonations;
At the Piano-Mrs. Stanley Collett Conductor Mr. Stabley Collett. Proceeds in aid of Charity. Admission: $2 and $1.- Tickets at Moutrie's and Ander
EXTRA GYMKHANA son's. MEETING will be held (weather permitting) at Happy Valley, on SATURDAY, 1st December 1923 commending 2.45 p.m.
The Charge for admimion to the Public Enclosure will be $1.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform haif price.
Members are advised that they must show their Badgas to obtain admission to the Mambers' Enclosure.
Fach, member has the right of in- troducing 3 non-membera to the members' enclosure, tickets for whom an be obtainail from Mesars. Linstand Davis at 85,- cach up to FRIDAY November 30th.
The Stowards invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be present.
Hongkong, 19th November, 1923.
DANCING.
PALACE HOTEL
HONGKONG WOMEN'S
GUILD. and MINISTERING
CHILDREN'S LEAGUE
GRAND FETE and SALE OF WORK
In aid of local Charities and other Children's Funda.
To be held in the grounds of GOVERNMENT HOUSE SATURDAY, Dec, 8th, at 2 p.m.
WA VOTRL Wavy Hair, the representation of Youth
THE Dematch will play at Lize and the of in-
HE Popular Jazz Band of H. M. S., Greos, that always remains the ideal of
abave Hotel on SATURDAY, the treat to lose of a new preparation, which 24th November.
DANCING 9.15 P.M.
THEATRE
ROYAL
MONDAY, Brd Encember 1023, at 3,15 p.m. Pianoforte Recital
by
Mr. Harry Ore
kindly assisted by
Mrs. R. Sanger (Soprano)
N. (Alto)
is most tally employed, prosaring for the hair ersa qalta plain and straight, the most beautiful natura! curls--The product has the ELTAG 0175 romló with ladles and children, besides it is absolutely harmless. The name "Wavcarl" and the price retail ljo, Whole- sale 9-per Dox
Paper money, of all Countries will be accepted.
Henry Michhols & Co. 14, Badweltkatto Priedenau-Berlth› (Qozziany).
TATTERSALL'S SWEEPSTAKES.
TICKETS in Tattersall's Sweep stakes, Hobart. Tasmania.
Mr. Ni Mathisant (Piano) can be bleed through W. Watt
Unital Proc.
Booking at Andersonia.
THEATRE
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HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB. presents
The Famous Robot Play
“R. U. R”
Mon
KAYEL CAPER
8th Dec, at
6:15 #2
$8:15pm
and Co. Sandakan, British North Borneo. Price for Ss 5d tickets. $2.70 each, Singapore currency, which includes postage of tickets and winning lists.
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Two lines of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" spoken by the late Lord Tennyson, are recorded on a phonograph record owned by a South African.
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Although the personnel of the Army and Navy is about 40,000 less than in 1913-14, the annual cost to the country of these Services is nearly £60,000,0ão more.
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St. Kilda, Britain's most remote island, with a population of eighty souls. is cut off for about eight months in the gear by the stormy seas on its rooky shores.
Owing to the drained area and the artificial warmth of the City, London would be freer from fogs than the country, round it, if the Lsmoke nuisance could be cured.
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Over 300 blind people are being trained as gardeners by the "Guild of Blind Gardeners," which was founded by a lady, herself sight- less, who was a keen gardener.
For the use of the Metropolitan Police Force a new edition of the "Instruction Book" has been issued. It contains 650 closely printed pages, and weighs nearly 3 lbs.
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Girls who remain at elementary: schools till the age of fourteen are more apt to develop round shoulders than are boys, as they grow faster and do not take as much exercise.
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Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair has
New South Wales.
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The estate of Mr. James Walker Kennedy, bookmaker, Portobello, has been lodged at Edinburgh for probate at £174,280.
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Mrs. Elsie Wright, 30, of Purfleet, slipped between a train and the platform at Barking and was so in- jured that she died in hospital.
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Leslie Richard Davies, aged- eight, of Swansea, after riding ont the back of a wagon, jumped off, ran into a taxi, and was killed.
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Joseph Rees, repairer, Abert- ridwr, buried for four hours under a fall of coal, while being due out calmly shouted instructions to his rescuers. •
New styles of coiffure for men will be a feature of the Hairdres sing Exhibition to be held at Hol- land Park Han, W., at the end of the month.
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Dr. Watts Ditchfield, Bishop of Chelmsford, left £31, 996. He ex- plained in his will that this was largely the result of insurances effected by a friend.
Many U.S. visitors were among the 4.200 passengers for America who left Liverpool on the White Star Iners "Haverford," "Philadelphia" and "Baltic."
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As Samuel Wakeham, a man of seventy-eight, was leaving his home at 24, Smith-street, Chelsea, he was seen to collapse. At the infirmary he was found to be dead.
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On the Severan at Worcester as While a briar root was being cut eight from Worcester College for to make pipe bowls, a stone of fair the Blind raced a sighted crew over size was discovered; geologists saya mile course; the latter won by that this stone must have been three-quarters of a length. imprisoned in the root for 1,000 years.
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In order to record native tunes, a West African native of giant stature was invited to sing into a gramophone; so powerful was his voice, however, that it wrecked the machine.
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The three largest gas companies in London now supply more than three times as many gas-heating and cooking-stoves as twenty years. ago, when the figure stood at 623,185.
French novelists formerly wrote at great lengh; one novel, entitled "Grand Cyrus, ran to ten volumes, but this was extended by another, which filled no less than twenty- three volumes.
On a man convicted at Preston of burglary, the police found a diary containing full details of twenty- three houses and shops fato, which he had broken, with details of the stolen booty.
City clerks and other office workers are earning good wages as bricklayers in New York; they are being trained at the YMCA. where classes are also held in plastering and other building operations.
Accounts ofculos
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George Harris, aged three, died at Littlehampton Hospital from scalds sustained in overturning a bucket of boiling water which his mother had left under the table.
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Mr. Patrick Hastings, KC, M.P., speaking at Wallsend, said the. Liberal Party would never be in power again. There would be a Labour Government in 1926, with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald as Premier.
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The Home Secretary has agreed to receive, a deputation from the Early Closing Association, who are anxious to secure the extension of summer time next year to the first Sunday in October (as in 1922) and its permanent adoption.
A feeble old woman of 95 appli ed to the Willesden bench for a summons for alleged assault against a grand daughter. She said this was her first visit to a police court. Her grand-daughter, who had just come up from Somerset to be married, wanted to turn her our of her room, and because she refused to go she struck her. The magistrate asked the court mission- ary to see what could be done, ques
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