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FRIDAY JANUARY 18 1924.

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

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THE ONE HUNDRED & FOURTH

of (ORDINARY MEETING SHAREHOLDERS in the Company - will be held at the Office of the Company No. 4. Des Voeux Road, on FRIDAY, 1st February 1924, at 12.0 clock NOON for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts, declaring a Dividend and electing Directors and Auditors.

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Saturday 19th January to Friday lat *February 1924. both days inclusive, darinia which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

JOHN ARNOLD,

Secretary. Hongkong, January 8th, 1924,

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.

No

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY-SIXTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEET- ING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this. Company will be held at tho, Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHE- BON & CO., LTD., on MONDAY, 28th JANUARY, 1994, at 11.16

INTIMATIONS.

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THE HONGKONG. JOCKEY-CLUB,

ANNUAL RACE MESTINO 1924.-

UNTRIES for the FORTHCOMING

RACKS close on SATURDAY. 19th instant at 3 pm, and must be seht to the Jockey Club Rooms, 3AJ Chater Road on this date.

Entry, Forms are now ready and can be held at the Jockey Club Stables, the Tockey Club Roonis (Hongkong Club Aunex," Chater Road) or Mestrs, Linstead & Davis, Alexandra Buildings,

Hongkong, 3rd January, 1924.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB!

DRAFT PROGRAMME OF 1924 RACE- MEETING.

THE attention of Owners is called

THE CHINA MAIL.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

85 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID

Every additional word Cents

for a insertions

FOR

EARLIER TILEGRAMS.

(Renter's Service to the China Mall. MEXIRAN IMBROGLIO.

TAMPICO, January 16. The blockade ordered by Huerta did not become effective as the Rebel ships have disappeared and

MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND

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Hainault-Forest golf course'is to. be improved at an outlay of £500. Lord Bathurst has been appoint

trait Gallery.

BEETHOVEN.

AS PLAYED AT WILLESDEN.

STARTLING EFFECTS OF . THE

"MOONLIGHT" SONATA LA

RICH MAN IN CAST

LABOUR COUNCILLO "OBJECTS TO A HYMN

Members of the Bath Educ Committee are studying they school hymn books issued by county authority, in order to do Bath schools.

shipping of all classes entered 'anded a trustee of the National Pur magistrate that his woman tenant whether the hymns are suitabl

leared yesterday unhindered. Rail-eng bags

FRENCH TUITION way trafic also is unimpeded.

Write to

G. MOUSSION- c/o "China Mait" office..

INTIMATIONS

DANCING.

FALACE HOTEL KOWLOON.

to an alteration in the conditions THE POPULAR JAZZ BAND of the eighth race on the first day, the Chater Cap

The Inst. sentence, should read as follows Poles that have started and never, BEEN PLACED in an Of ficial Race allowed 10.lbe."

By Order

C B. BROWN,

Secretary, Hongkong, 9th January, 1924.

a'clock in the forenoon for the pur-TUNG SANG

poee of receiving the Report of the

Directors together with a Statement

of Accounts for the year ending. 31at DECEMBER, 1929.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will bo CLOSED from FRIDAY, 18th January to MONDAY, 28th January, both days inclusive, during which period no

transfer of shares can be registered. By Order of the Board of Directors.

L. 8. GREENHILL,

Acting Secretary.

Hongkong, 11th January, 1924.

THE HONGKONG LAND

RECLAMATION COMPANY,

LIMITED,

Nor

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-THIRD ORDINARY GENERAL MEET- ING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Mesars. JARDINE, MATHE BON & Co., LTD., on MONDAY, 28th JANUARY, 1924, at 11 a'clock in the forenoon for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of accounts for the year ending

DECEMBER, 1929.

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The REGISTER of SHARES- of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, 18th January to MONDAY, 28th January, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.. By Order of the Board of Directors,

L. S. GREENHILL,

Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 11th January, 1924.

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BHENANDOAH" ADRIFT.

LAKEHURST, January 16. The Blionandoal" has ridden out the storm and is returning

homo..

A wireless from the Commander, when over Keypott, says that all six ongines were working against thirty-mile gale and preparations were being made to land in two hours.

Plans are being completed for the sending of a Canadian bowling team to England.

The Transport Ministry propose cutting a road from Tilbury via Shenfield to Ongar.

After a brief illness the Dowager Countess Stanhope died at 20, Grosvenor place, S.W.

A fresh outbreak of foot-and mouth disease has occurred in the

A landlord told the Willesden

had obtained a summons against him for threatening her because she played Beethoven's Moon light "sonata until well into the night.

This is the result of a discar at the city. council. When in Tocal council schools, Counc hymnal was recommended fo

Cook, one of the Labour mem He asked for a summons against said that if the book contained her for annoyance, and mentioned hymn, referring to "The rich

in his costle. The poorman that he had read that even Bee-gate," he would ohioct to t

thoven himself, when composing the sonata, was threatened by his neighbours.

LATER. The "Shenandoah" was safely Melton Mowbray district. housed at 4.10 this morning. All sboard are well and the airship is] undamaged except for rents in the the Thomaby Ironworks are recalled in a police-sergeant and

outer bag where the nosecap was torn loose from the incoring mast,

· BRITISH PARLIAMENT..

LONDON, January 16. Party leaders are urging their followers, if possible, to remain in London over the week-end to ensure their presence at the House of Commous division on Monday. -

Closed down since the summer,

starting two blast furnaces.

L.C.C. Fire Brigade is to be equipped with a "fire-foam" wag- gon for extinguishing petrol fires.

Leading Stoker Beal, victim of the explosion in Submarine Lil, was buried at Sheerness with naval honours.

Accused of anti-Soviet pro paganda among the workers, 120 Moscow students have been

HOME FOOTBALL.

LONDON, January 18 expelled from Siberia. The football cup replays resulted as follows

Southampton, 1; Chelsec, 0. Brighton, 1; Barnsley, 0. Gillingham, 0; Cardiff, 2. Bolton, 4; Hull, 0.

RAILWAY-STRIKE,

::

An elderly millowner, named Crawford, was caught in his com mill machinery, near Cookstown and killed instantly.

い

For selling milk containing per cent, of added water, Harry

Wren, of North Woolwich, was

LONDON, January 16.fined £50 at East Ham. Bicycles and motorcycles, are The recent Constantinople re- undergoing an overhaul in anticips-

tion of the beginning of the railway pert that a republic had been declared in Persia is contradicted strike on Sunday at midnight.. by the Persian Legation in Paris.

The milway...companies express confidence in their ability to run a good carvice with drivers who do not belong to the affected union.

LABOUR POLITICIANS.

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important

The situation is ucturally embar rassing political Labourites on the eve of taking over Government.

Average earnings of each family This explains Mr. Henderson's occupying the municipal houses of activities yesterday, which, it is Hythe, Kent, is 405. a week, and understood, were in the nature of they have to pay nearly £t in rent sounding opinion as to the possibility and rates. of a settlement. In a subsequent atatomont Mr. Bromley said he

'did not see a ray of hope.

JAPANESE POLITICAL GRIS16.

TOKYO, January 16" A new situation in the political

The applicant declared that the woman's playing of the sonata had reduced his wife to a state of hysteria, and when he pointed this out to the tenant she merely

offered to play it to him; but the officer refuted to hear it, and went off hurriedly.

As a matter of fact, said the applicant, the woman could not. play the Moonlight" sonata. although she had practised it daily for two years.

The result was "most funereal," and had already driven the next- door neighbour mad when he came home on leave from the P. and O service, rendering him wholly unfit to continue his employment. The clerk told the applicant that he would have to go to the High Court for an injunction.

The Magistrate. They say that music has charms to soothe the

savage breast, but this seems to be an excentional case. He told the landlord to state his side of the case when the summons was heard

TIPPERARY CURE.”

TUNE WHICH MADE DUMB,

_SOLDIER_SING.........!.

the

Finding that "The rich man his castle" verse was in the be Alderman Bush obtained peri hymnals in the schools until sion to suspend distribution bers had perused the hymns

The verse referred to is: hymn, "All things bright beautiful," and is as follows:

The rich man in his castle

The poor man at his gate God made them, high or lov

And order'd their estate

MISSING CLOTHES.

"FELL OFF HIM

Wearing only his trousers. shirt, George Thompson, RSE cashire man, appeared at High for the third time in a fortni charged with drunkenness

He left prison on a Friday m ning and was found later. Ini Highgate Grammar School with day lying on the steps of coat, waistcoat, boots, or stockin

He said his clothes fell off L the war and had apparently co His sister said he lost an armi to London to see her.

The magistrate asked the COL missionary to find the smal clothes and to see him cơ la train for Lancashire.

EX-PORTER'S GIFTS.

MONEY SURPRISES FOR

HOSPITALS.

Shoeburyness, an garrison town. has successfully Sir Frederick "Mott. petitioned for its police force to Deathologist and neurologist lectur increased from one constable to ing at Hamilton House, Mabledon- three.

ple, WC, said he had a soldier

nder his care who had been Mr. Samuel Thendore Banofa wounded in the head by a bullet. of (Borrowash,near Derby, who The bullet had destroyed the organ given £1,000 to the Royal Infirma of speech in the brain and also had at Derby aid £6zafa the Railwa struck the opic nerve, thus destroy- Servants Orphanage in the tow ing the sight. The man could its reported to be going to gh understand, but could only make £3.000 to the Leicester Infiends sounds which meant "no" or and £1,000 to the Blind Institut "yes"

there. He stood next to him one day Starting as a norter on the Mi and hummed the air of "It's a land Rallway, Mr. Bunning beca long, long way to Tipperary." station-master at Beeston, Nottin The soldier immediately sang the ham. Dissatisfied with this” po whole song through, and ended un which only carried a salary of z No!" He then asked him to say the Beeston Brewery Company an "Tinerary," but the man could eventually became the manage notsay it.

He retired a few years ago.

A special staff of about 500 expert telegraphists was engaged in the C.T.O., St. Martin's-le- Grand, in dealing with the election results.

The fares prescribed for public vehicles crisis has developed as a result of English pilgrimage to the Holy hy'saying, "Are we down-hearted? Ja week, he entered the service),

sra as follows:-

-the land of Hongiang, Caine

Road and Lower Levels, and in Bowloon, and Neto Kowloon.

#LAKOELAS.

diva míastes......sisers

Tan minutes,,

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Quarter bour,

the

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na boar,

...30 11 ery Subsequent hour. SC

the jinriekska be engaged thin the City of Vistoria, and be dis harged outside the Western part of the City of Victoria after 0 p.m.. or be dis THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOAharged to the East of Bay View Police Itation on the Eastern side of the City DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED..

Victoria after B. p.m.; an extra bal are shall be chargeable.

For 2 or 3 drivers the fars is double or reble respectivaly.

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MODELS constructed by this Company which are shortly to be despatched. to the British Empire Exhibition, will be on view at the Kowloon Docks to the public on WEDNESDAY the 16th instant, and daily thereafter until WEDNESDAY, the 23rd instant, between the hours of 9.30 am. and 5 p.m.

A launch will leave Black Pier for Kowloon Dock daily at 9.30 a.m., 10.30a.m., 11.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m., 3.30 p.m.and 4.30 pm and return to Hongkong at 10.15 am., IT.IS a.m., 1.00 p.m., 3.15 pm, and 5.30 p.m,

By Order,

R. M. DYER

Chief Manager. Kowloon Docks,

15th January, 1924.

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Cardinal Bourne will lead an the split in the Seiyukai Party, five Land, leaving London on February leaders of which announce their dis- 19, 1924. First-class tickets are

125 guineas. agreement with the President,

Viscount Takalınshi (leador of the Seiyukai Party) will organize a

French Government statistics

now party, which, it is understood, claim that Paris is now the third will support Mr. Kiyoura (Presi-largest city in the world. Figures; New York. 5,620,000; London, dent).

4,485,000, Paris, 2,906,000.

NERVOUSNESS IN TOKYO.

TOKYO, Jannaty 17.

Near

Fishing in the Military Canal at Ham-street (Kent) with an ordinary Reports coming in show that the line, a thirteen-year-old boy named earthquake situation is practically Charlie Youall caught a pike 3ft. the sime. as outlined in Reuter's din. tong, and weighing 14lb. 302. despatches of January 15. Nervous nesh was goneral throughout Tokyo during the night, owing to wide and wild rumours, but while there were a few mild tremors, nothing worthy of note has occurred since six in the morning of January 15. The death toll is about thirty, all Japanese,

Wallageburg (Ontario) two women and their five small a farmhouse through being tripped. children were burned to death in in a room in which an oil lamp had exploded.

The Executive Council of the none being notables. All communi- World Advertising Congress ind entions have been restored, though London state that the fund for the there is considerable delay in entertainment of the delegates has despatching telegrame.

SHIVERING WOMEN.

CRAZE FOR SLIMNESS.

Are women courting coughs and colds, bronchitis, neuralgia, and a With Bearers With & Rear. general lowering of health by Ten minutia. stav 16`panja 38 chola

the present craze for slimness, in Jaartor bear 20

which underwear is reduced to minimum

Half hour,

One hour.

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40

INVITE 25

Evary subsequent

hear

HONGKONG HEIGHTS.

For the information of visitors vi allowing lub of some of the higher point on the Island and Haimiahu inbished f

Bignal Station Hi Farker Konklain Lodge The Kyrie "Peak Hybel

Taikoo Sanatorium Hi Davisto Bowen Rd. (ilterbeds

Kowloon Pack

now reached £20.000.

A soldier having been killed by a Jewish merchant at Budapest, the Christian students at the unf

the versity attacked

Jewish students, several being wounded.

Said to have stolen a purse con- taining 5d. from Policewoman' Martha Swains at a bazaar, Mrs: Alice Cors, of Tendring, has been sent for, trial at Essex Quarter Sessions.

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company. has decided to give up its business, in Argentina after spending more than £1,000,000 ih prospecting work according to the Buenos Aires Herald.

Southwark

The question. was qut to a Lon don women's doctor, who said

It is curious that while women are far more sensible than men in dress for the hot season they com- mit every possible hygienic fault in winter. N

Women go about the streets A stained-glass window his with a quantity of fur around their been efected in necks but with the lower, part of Cathedral by the South, Metropo the body, and especially the legs, litan Gas Company's employees In dangerously underclothed. They memory of their fellow-workers pay the penalty in lowered health, who fell in the war. not actual disease which call for e doctor's nid, but a condition in which life is not at all happy.

***Slimness in summer is all very well, but in winter the stout man or woman has the best of it.tw

This way of producing alim nest is really destroying the beauty of women. The blood cannot come to the face, which con- sequently has a wizened look. AWomen's beauty, is always at

Wills. Mr. David Marr Hender son, of Hove, late, of the Chinese Imperial: Maritime Customs, loft £220,118; Mr. James Lord, of Nottingham, £69,489; Mr. Edward Walker Jackson, of Doncaster, £41,121,

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Wills-Mr William Henderson Walker, of Chorlton Hall, Back fordy Cheshire, left £217,233 Mr its worst in winter, and it is at its Robert Henry Collins, of Wer lowest ebb this fater because they caster down quit manufacturer pro sacrificing health to the absurd £174,057 Mr John Harvey

of alimness,

Malvern Wells! £56,140

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