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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 29, 1928

INTIMATIONS !

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED

(Incorporated in England),

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to

Shareholdes in the above

named Company that the Special

INŽIMATIONS.

THEATRE

ROYAL

HONGKONG, AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB.

presents

Resolution to wind up the Company The Famous Robot Play

and the Extraordinary Resolution providing for the distribution or valo 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 OR 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 said Extraord.

hary Resolution.

W. F. SIMMONS,

For and on behalf of EDWARD RITCHIE MORRISS,

Liquidator.

Hongkong, 5th November, 1923.

HONGKONG BOXING

ASSOCIATION.

Second Tournament of the Season.

SATURDAY, 1st December, at 9.15 pm, at the

THEATRE ROYAL

MAIN EVENTS.

Fifteen round contest for Light- weight Championship of the Colony and the Gedge Belt.

A.B. CHADWICK v. PIE. FLYNN. H.M.S. "Marazion" 2nd Batin.

The King's Regt.

Ten round Lightweight Con'est,

V. PTE. SCOTT.

A. B. EARDLEY H.M.S. Ambrose”

2nd Batta. The King's Regt, Also One Featherweight, one Middle weight, one Bantamweight, one Heavyweight and one Welterweight contest each of six rounds,

Booking at Moutrie's; Members on the 29th November: General Public from the 30th November.

USUAL PRICES,

HUNGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE Half-Yearly General Meeting

of Members will be held on WEDNESDAY, 12th December 1923 at 5 p.m. in the Jockey Club Room, Hongkong Club Annex.

By Order

C B. BROWN,

Secretary, Hongkong, 27th November, 1923.

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$3, $2 & $1.

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Kings v. Interport

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Saturday, Dec. 1st

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WANTED: Cookboy, Housecook, Wash-Amah must speak English. Good wages to right people. Apply P. O. Box 259.

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TO LET:-Dices in Prince's Build- ing. Apply Secretary, Prince's Building & Land Coy., Ltd.

TO LET-Ground Floor and rooms on Firat Floor of 5. Duddelf Street, suitable for shops, offices, etc. | Apply ---SUNG TAI, 1; Queen Street.

PRIVATE BOARD RESIDENCE with British Family, 1. Victoria Gardens, Kowloon. Next door new Hotel. Terms from $4 per day.

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FOR SALE-One Saxophone by For particulars. please apply. No. 30, Ice House Street, ground floor.

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FOR

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MR. FREDERIC MASON,

ORGANIST AND CHOIRMASTER ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, HONGKONG.

(Associate of the Royal College of Organists; Licentiate, Trinity College

of Music, London; Ex-student and Bronze-Medallist, Royal Academy of Musle; some time Organist to the Duke of Bedford and Deputy- Organist, St. David's Cathedral) is prepared to receive pupils in Singing, pianoforte and Organ.

Further particulars can be obtained from

MR. MASON, -

c/o THE ANDERSON MUSIC Co. Hongkong, 27th November, 1923.

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

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MEETING will be held (weather permitting) at Happy Valley, SATURDAY, 1st Decambor commencing 2.43 p.ta.

1923

The Charge for adnyission to the Publio Enclosure will be $1.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform ball prico.

Members are advised that they must

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MAIL WEEK NEWS

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAB

- CHRISTIAN HOME}

BISHOP OF LONDON AND he shela DIVORCE. TH

Mrs. Mary Ann Bowles, of Swan-at sen, celebrated her 101st birthday.

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The Pope has received a party of 85 English pilgrims headed by Mgr. Brown, of London, at the Vatican.

Mr Dickens, of Llanfairisay Hall, Llanfair, Merionethshire, was seri Dusly gored by a bull in his paddock.

The White Star liner Homeric," of 35,000 tons, has arrived at the Harland and Wolff yard at Belfast to be converted for burning oil instead of coal.

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VESSFIAPODE

The Bishop of London, speaking Church House, Westminster, at a mass meeting of the London Branch of the Mothers' Union, sald Doo. that when he looked down on them he felt that if he had that body wholly with him he could change Nov. 28.-B.. the face of London. They had be.

come

FROM BANGKOK.

- A. Banka, 10.--E. A

Bintang- FROM BINGAPORE.

Takada 29.-U.S.S.D West Prospoot.

FROM JAVA.

Tim nook. Viitaroam.

political power, and the one set of the people of whom the House of Commons were afraid of Nov. 30-10.J.L was the Mothers' Union,

They did not want any extension of the grounds of divorce, he con

Doc. 4.-J.0.J.T.

FROM MANILA. Doc. A.-U.S.A. B. West Marwah. THOM SYDNEY AND MELDJUREN

Dec. 1.-E, & A. Jan. 7.-E. & A. Feb. 1.-F. & A.

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Apr. 4.-E. & AL

Arafura.

St Albans. Eatters. Arafura

St. Albana,

FROM VANCOUYER.

Yarmouth fishing boats are strik-tinued. They were defending the Christian home, and the Christian ing heavy shouls of herrings, mak- ing hauls up to 200,000 fish.

home was the greatest safeguard Ex-

and the greatest treasure a woman portation to Germany has begun.

had. The Church had never sanc The Executive of the Australian Lord's words there was only one tioned divorce. In reading our Labour Party has decided by 16 ground for divorce, and that was votes to 9 to expel members of the infidelity. The monent they began Communist Party from the Labour

to spread it to cases of husbands movement.

drinking or in lunatic asylums, or who had been convicted, they Dao. 13-B. F. were simply giving our Lord's Jea. 10.-B. F

30.-B. F. words an impossible rendering, and they should oppose it is Feb. 21.-B. F. Christians and church-people. He Mar. 30.-B. F. hoped the Mothers' Union would | Apr. { 9-B, F. Mr. J. Harron White, for 23 years of safeguarding the marriage laws.

help him in this most difficult task | * town clerk of Mansfield, Notting-He had carried on for twenty-two hamshire, has been selected as the years the fight that no one should new mayor. He will have to resign be married in a church in London Dec. 5.-A.OL his town clerkshin.

who had a husband or a wife alive. They were maintaining in the Mr. Willium Tyler, 75, has won heart of the Empire the indissolve the uloughing championship can atbility of matrimony. (Hear, hear.) the Chobham Surrey Agricultural and Horticultural Show, the next oldest cominetitor being 63.

to

recent

Philoctete- Tyndarcda. Probesilaus. Achillos. Philoctetes. Tyndareus.

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FROM PORTLAND, Doc. 9.-U.9.5.B. Wort Rents.

FROM SEATTLE.

Wand Montana, ' 13.-R. F Philoctatas.. fan. B. F Tynderoas.

3.-B. F. Protilaus

Fab. 27.B. P.

Mar. 19.-R. P. · | Apr. 9. --B, F.

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Achill Philostetes. Tendarous.

FROM EUROPEAN PORTS.

-B. L. 50.-J.C.J.L. 28.-PLAT

Bousrty. Odekerk. Rheirdland. Vortland. 13.-J.O.J.L Siparon

FROM LONDON.

Dec. 3-0. L.

he had been a tectotaller for forty Continuing, the bishop said that

years, and he honestly attributed his extraordinary good health at 65 Doc. A proposal has been submitted years of age not only to being a

the Wandsworth Borough

non-smoker, They still had to Council for the making of a golf-fight a battle in Parliament with Jan. -H.A.L. putting course at King George's regard to the drinking hours. They Park. Southfields, S.W., at a cost had men of the world and the of £650.

whole strength of the drink trade, 30.-P. 40. against them, and unless they Notwithstanding the

13.-G. L. were very careful they would go 14.-P. $0. Russian undertaking to cease back to the old days. "It was the agitation against Britain, anti-difference between heaven and British propaganda in Persia is hell," an East-end clergyman had being intensified and is directed said when referring to the old and from Moscow and Baku.

the new hours. Concluding, the bishop said that it was the business of the mothers gently and quietly to acquaint themselves with the facts of human life, and to tell them to their daughters.

If the fathers would not tell their boys, they should.

The French Government has authorised the return of about 120,000 Germans to Alsace and Lorraine on All Saints' Day, so that they may visit the cemeteries where their dead lis buried.

14.-G.. $7.-G. L. 28.-P. & 0.

Jan-P. 40.

Feb. Mar.

Khiva Qientars. Glenifer. Macedonia.

Carnarvonshire. Gloviffor. Kashgar,

Similia Romberg

Karmals. Soudan. Naldera.

10.-Q. L.

11.-P. 20.

Morea.

23.-P. & O.

31.-P. £0.

--P. 40 12.-P. & D. 7-P. 40. 19.1.0, 21-P.&O.

Delta

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Otios.

- Sicilia.

Apr. 3.-P. & 0. 9.-P. & D. 1*.-P. & D.

Kalyan Kasbenir. Sopian.

Khiva

FROM LIVERPOOL

Dec. 4.-R F.

Lewis Arthur Jones, 37, a farmer, HYPNOTISED TO MURDER. May 1.-P.&O. of Ffyronwared. Talybont, was sentenced at Cardiganshire Quarter Sessions to a year's imprisonment for stealing sheep from neighbour ing farms.

The Oxford University debating team at Toronto, Canada, defeated McGill University, taking the Laffirmative side on the question

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bow their Badges to obtain admission £1,000 from a total stranger

On receiving a tempting offer

to the Members' Enclosure.

on

whether the League of Nations is worthy of universal support.

The equestrian statue of Earl Haig given to Edinburgh by Sir Dhunjibhoy Bomanfi, and unveiled three weeks ago, has already suffered damage, the sword hay ing been wrenched off and the horse's reins twisted.

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HOROSCOPES OF

INTENDED VICTIMS.

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MOTEMENT OF SZELIDE

The P. & O. . ** Soudan“ left Han porn for this port on Nov Mas noome Swan terbaru EDITOR, POCIEMAAIL

The C.P.8. M.S. Entrebe d Rutria" Capt A. J. Hoaken, RAET Commodar, left, hors dary. Vichuria and Vanconer, 10% vin (foonpano Nagasaki, Kobo and Yokohams at DONE. to-day.

The P. & O. 6.a. "Kalyan", løft Sid bal for this port on November 27, $3.3 p.m. and is due here to morrow at aboul: Bat.

The A.Q...President McKinley will call for Roxitle and Victoria vie Shanghai, Kobo, and Yakhs to-morrow.

Tha A.O.Là 9.9. “President Jackson” which is dun here on Don, 1, arrived að Yokohama on Nov. 23. This stormor has ha 426 Racks UV.9. Mail for Hongkong.

40. L. 8.5. "Whostland Moso sailed from Seattle an Oct. 11 and is due here on Dre. 2.

The B. TA 8.8. "Renarty" from Mid dissbro, Antwerp and London lott Bing apore for this port (vis Manils) on Nov 95 and may be expected to arrive here on Doc. n.

The GPS, RM.S. Empress m Canada" arrived at Yokohama on Nov. 24 at n.m. loft Yokohams on Nov. 25 nà a.m. and is due at Vancouver on Dec. 8. The B. F... Titan" left Liverpool on Nov. 1 for Ringapore, Hongkong. Shanghai and Japan and la duo here ou or about Dec. 8.

The B. F. Patroclus" left Livar pool en Nov. 16-for Shanghai and Hong kong and in dus here on Tree. 10.

The 4.0.L. City of Spokaos" Railed from Seattle Oct. 21 and is due here on or shout Dec. 13.

The B F. # *omedon "left Liver pool on Nov. 17 for Sintapre, Hong. Long and Shanghai and ís dae hero on o abt. Dec. 92.

The B. F. "Byen left Liverpool on Nov. 16 for Singapore, Hongkong. Shanghai and Japan and is due here on or about Dec, 0

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE,

Goods par s.3. "Oity of Athena" rai maining delivered aftor to-day will be subject to reat. Agents. She Bank Lion Ltd.

Jonda por Rs. Mancaster Castle" remaining undelivered after to-morrow will be subject to roat. Agenta, —-

Dodwell & Co., Ltd.

Cargo arrived per "Dacho D'Aosta" not taken delivery of attor December 3, will be subject to ret Agents,-Dodwell & Co., Ltd.

Cargo per & Pressen" remaining I undelivered after December 3 will be subject to rent. Agents-Arnhold ♫ Co. Ltd.

Cargo per s.a.** Kilcredano" remaining undelivered after December 4, will be anbject to rent. Agence, The Bank

Lino Ltd.

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10.-B. F.

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Atreus. Pyrrhus.

FROM HAMBURG.

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People of Oregon are deeply stirred by a remarkable murder charge brought against a 16-years- Jan. 6. B. F. old youth, Alton Covell, and his uncle, Arthur Covell, popularly known as "The Astrologer."

The uncle is a bedridden man of 47, who, it is alleged, hypnotised his nephew, to impel him to kill the latter's stepmother. Mrs. Fred Covell, after she had threatened to expose the cripple's plans for the murder of Mr. E. J. Pressey, a rich dairyman, his wife, and three children, and of two merchants of Bandon, Oregon.

According to an alleged confes- Nearly 13,000 applications for sion, the hypnotised youth on Sep- men for farm, bush, mining, and tember 2, while the stepmother was railway construction work are now at work in the kitchen, crept behind

Each member has the right of innote of hand only." troducing 2 non-members to the members onclosure, tickets for whom My dear good pilanthropic friends,led with the Canadian Immigrater and smothered her with a cloth

This letter offering to lend; Twas kind fadeed of you to sendtion Department in connection soaked in ammonia.

can be obtained from Messrs. Linstead

& Davis at 85.- each up to FRIDAY November 30th.

The Stowards invite the Ladies of | Tfengking to be present.

Hongkong, 19th November; 1923,

JUST RECEIVED

A New shipment of McEwan's Sparkling Beer.

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with the effort being made to obtain winter employment for British harvesters.

At Sheffield Sessions the Re- corder said he was informed that owing to the number or people unemployed in the city it was impassible to police the district thoroughly enough to prevent offences such as burglary and warehouse breaking.

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In September. 1,132 men were finally approved for service in the Territorial Army, total of 34,662 having calisted during the last twelve months for the period of four years. The total Territorial strength is now 149,625.

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Sir Herbert Samuel, the High

| WITH MINORS," and I'm not, you Commissioner for Palestine, visited

see,

Yot twenty-one i P.S. My postscript's just to state That touts like you I simply hate, And that your note has met the fate

Of all such trash,

I've rainmed it well into the grate,

And now it's ash!

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BACK HOME AGAIN.

Alica: "Have you written to that wonderful man you became engaged to at the spaside?"

Virginia: "I've intended to all along, but I can't think of, his name."

THE TIME TO GET HIM.

the Turkish tobneca monopoly's establishment in Jerusalem, which this year for the first time has bought 30,000 kilogrammes (about 32 tons) of Palestine tobacco.

The case has been investigated by a prominent criminologist nam- cd L. S. May, on whose evidence the Covells were indicted.

He tells an extraordinary story of finding hidden in the bed of the cripple a series of elaborate horos- copes revealing dates when various neighbourhood families of the would be under unfavourable Planetary, influences.

astro-

With the aid of a typewriter, the type of which could be changed whenever necessary, the loger, it is alleged, had drawn up a number of wills, with forged signatures, of his intended victims, making him their sole heir.

The astrologer's scheme, accord- ing to May, was to manipulate the murder of rich neighbours and the burning of their residences by the hypnotised nephew,

Idiam.

TRUE.

The other Friday evening an excited foreigner in Collins Street, Melbourne, rushed up to a police-

At Wimbledon Henry George man stating that he had been Kearsley, a painter, was fined £2 robbed. He explained volubly: for acting as a member of the "She is the young girl what you Kingston, Surrey, Board of Guar-say who flaps, and she does have dians although distulified through the hair with a bob on it." having received Poor Law relief within a year of his election.

In a Good Cause.

There was a rush, scramble and. A crowd of sighicers watched push, and we were in the last train the destruction in King's Bench home. During the shuffle, colns walk, Temple, EC., of the fast elm dropped; another shuffle, and p tree in that classic enclosure. The beery-eyed Digger cried "Who tree, which had become dangerous, and Old Lady Figits cried out that lost two-bob?!" Another shume, probably dated from soon after the he had. Shuffle again, then the" Great Fire of London in 1656,

Dig. cried, "Well here's a penny afit,mistus?

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The tennis players in the park haussonsplained that they-goannes play in comfort owing to the smoke,

A shop in Ryde (N.S.W.), which Perfection in Style and Fit Guaranteed Visitor: "Can I see that motorist; sad the parks superintendent has was until recently an estate agency. was who brought here an hour had to wipe the soot off the with life insurance as side-line is ago?"

tomatoes before he could sell now a refreshment room. Over he Nurse: "He hasn't come to his them," sald, Mr. G. C. V. Cant, ontside of the verandan is the senses yet."

deputy town clerk of Stoke-on-following notice: While Here, Vietor: "Oh that's alright. Trent, an alleged smoke Take Out A Life Policy. It Will only want to sell him another car" nuisance prosecution.

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