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WEDNESDAY,

JANUARY 23

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STRAMBOAT CO, LTD,

....

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

THE ONE HUNDRED & FOURTH

of

... ORDINARY MEETING SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company No. 4. Dus Voeux Road, on FRIDAY, 1st February 1924, at 12 Orlock NOON for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, Statement of together with a Accounts, declatlag & Dividend and electing Directors and Auditors,

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Saturday 19th January to Friday 1st February 1924, both days inclusive, during which perlod no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

JOHN ARNOLD; Y.

Secretary.

Hongkong, January 8th, 1924.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY

COMPANY, LIMITED.

IS HEREBY GIVEN

1024.

INTIMATIONS..

BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION. THE HONGKONG A WEAPOA

DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. 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 Blake Pler for Kowloon Dock dally at, 9.30 am 10.30 a.m., 11.30 am,, 2.30 p.m., 3.30 p.m. and 4.30 pm, andreturn to Hongkong at 10.15 am., 11.15 am., 1.00 p.m., 3.15 p.m. and 5.30 By Ordor,

D.m.

R. M. DYER,

Chist Manager.

Kowloon Docks,

15th January, 1924,

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA,

LIMITED.

NOTICE THIRTY-SIXTH NOT the FIFTH ORDINARY TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

ORDINARY GENERAL MEET-

ING OF SHAREHOLDERS in YEARLY MEETING OF SHARE this Company will be held at the HOLDERS will be held at the Regis- Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHE-tered Office of the Company No. 10, BON & CO., LTD., on MONDAY, Des Voeux Road Central, at 3.00p.m., 28th JANUARY, 1924, at 11.15 SATURDAY February the 2nd 1924, a'clock in the forenoon for the par- for the purpose of receiving the Re pose of receiving the Report of the port of the Directors together with Directors together with a Statement Statement of Accounts for the year of Accounts for the year ending ending 31at December. 1923. 81st DECEMBER, 1923.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, 18th January, to MONDAY, 28th January, both days tolusive, 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.

THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION COMPANY,

. LIMITED,

The Transfer Books of the Com-

Dany will be closed from MONDAY, 21st January to SATURDAY, 2nd

February 1924, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

̈''KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager." Hongkong, 15th January, 1924.

NOTICE.

WHY not have a London addros for your

worserpondenes; interviews, and general representation Too $7, of 30fper month. We also unpply every form of service required by manufacturers, and merchants, appoint ROKEM SERVICE COMPANY, RENT HOU 233 RENT STRMET, LONDON, W

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN gas, collect accounts, etc., full particulace

the TWENTY-THIRD ORDINARY GENERAL MEET- ING OF SHAREHOLDERS in Whis Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHE- MON & CO., LTD., on MONDAY, 38th JANUARY, 1924, at 1 o'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 81st DECEMBER, 1923.

The REGISTER of SHARES

of the Company will be OLOSED

from FRIDAY, 18th January to

LEE KEE

ESTABLISHED 1896

MONDAY, 28th January, both days FATHR & BATH-RCOM

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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NOTICE.

ANY persons having claims against

the estate of the late Mr. Arthur.

J. Hobson, Chief Constructor, H. M. Dockyard, Hongkong, are requested to present them in writing to the Civil Secretary, H M Dockyard, Hongkang, not later than Monday, the 28th January, 1924

S. COLLETT. Civil Secretary.

H. M. Dockyard,

Hongkong, 21st January, 1924.

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MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM' FAR 'AND NEAR.

For selling leaves which were underweight Henry Goss, a baker,

of North Kensington, was fined £50 at Kensington,

A first edition of "Tom Brown's School Days the gift in 1857 by the author to Mrs. Arnold,the wife of the great headmaster of Rugby, fetched £50 at Sotheby's

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

Heuter's Service to the China "Mail:}"

RAILWAY STRIKE.

LONDON, January 22, All eyes are watching to see how the new Government will deal with the spike. which, although in nowise complete, seeme more serious than companies pre-strike statement foreshadowed. The N.U.R. men generally are carrying on d 'but littlo inconvenience to travelters 'is The first stage in the restoration reported in a number of centres, H.M.S. notably Birmingham and Meo- of Nelson's flagship.

Mzile everywhere are "Victory," at Portsmouth, was com-chester. pleted when the new figurehead being handled expeditiously, but was unveiled by Mr. Wyllie, R. A.N.D.R. defections in several dis- tricts upset the temporary schedules mid caused severe disorganisation, especially in the South of England.

·

Prince Arthur of Connaught, the retiring Governor-General of South Africa is on his way to Durban, where he will embark for home via the Suez Canal.

For the manuscript of Joseph Conrad's story The Duel," £320 was paid at the sale of part of the library of the late Mr. Frederic Harrison, the author and criti

M. Anatole de Krupenski, former Russian Ambassador to Italy, has died in Rome; he was a fanniliar London figure in the eighties, when an attaché in the Embassy.

To a man' at Willesden police court who said he never used his bathroom, the magistrate, Mr. W. B. Luke, said: "I think you ought to chance it now and then."

•

Liverpool Street and Waterloo closed down early ibis evening

An indication of erratic running is, provided by the Scotch express which arrived six hours late.

So for the Ministry of Transport considers it unnecessary to provide food trusport, although plans for it are prepared":

The strike caused 4,000 colliers in South Wales to be idle yesterday, and it is expected that 40,000, will shortly be idle unless means can be found to return empty waggons froni pts to the pits and maintain cleances.

Stoppages have already occurred in certain steel and tin-plate worke and three coal pits at Leigh.

The chief feature in the railway strike continues to be the conflict between the leaders of the N.U.R. the Locomotive Workers

Society.

Stated to be the cleverest pick-and pocket in the West End, William Davis, 36, was at the London Sess- foas sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for stealing a watch and chain.

Founder's Day was celebrated at Eton College when the first of the four war memorial tapestries from the William Morris loomis at Merton was placed in. the Lower Chapel.

Thomas Cramp, in a statement this morning. declared that the posi.. tion was even better than yesterday. Dwelling on the loyalty of the mem- bers of the N.U.R.; despite the offer of the Locomotive Warkens' Society to take N.D.R. men into immediate membership with fall benefits, he stated that the N.U.R. refused to accept into membership members of the other society. "It' seems a pity," he said,."that the Coal tippers in the South Wales pablis should be embroiled in Union docks owned by the Great Western jealonay over the question of mem- Railway Company, who have rebership, fused to work nightshifts, have received 2 week's provisional notice, to operate if they persist in their refusal.

.

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Leading Stoker Beal, who was

severely burnt in au explosion in

the submarine L. 11 at Sheerness has died; two other men, Wilson and Ellis, who were also burnt, are progressing favourably.

The death occurred at Tillyra Castle, Co. Galway, of Mr. Edward Martyn, the dramatist, one of the founders-of-the-Irish-Literary. Theatre, and president of the Sing Fein movement from 1904-8..

Mr. Bromley, in a statement, claims that the strikers' position is growing stronger hourly, and esti inates that at least 75,000 men will striko, including thousands of

N.U.R. locomotive workers.

Robert Williams, secretary of the Transport Workers' National Federation, denies the report that the Federation sent a telegram wishing the locomotive workers success.

HOME-POLITICS:

LONDON, January 22. Mr. Baldwin, the Prime Minister, hus resigned.

Edison's original phonograph and a plaster cast of an early Korean rain-gauge, are among the "It not a moment for clatión; it exhibits in the gallery, which has is terrible responsibility. Fail or now been opened to the public, of succeed, no Government responsible the new Science Museum building for affairs will more bonestly try to

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In these words Mr. Ramsay Mac A Moscow message received in

Professor Donald replied to congratulations that Paris states Schloffer, of Prague, has been upon the result of the division; and called to trepan Lenin's skull; it judging by the present attitude of is reported from Copenhagen that the liberals, as holders of the bal the need for the operation arises ance of power, Mr. MacDonald from the presence of a tumour on embarks on his historic adventure assisted by much sympathy and the brain.

goodwill.

LONDON, January 22. For stealing 24 diamonds worth 20 £440 from a Holborn Viaduct Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is the diamond merchant, Henry Charles new Premier. Russell, 23, a jeweller, was at the Old Balley, sentenced to six months imprisonment in the second division. He disappeared after obtaining the diamonds on sale or return.

DEULINE OF SHIPBUILDING,

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wist of December.

wark Cathedral by the South British shipbuilding yards in 1920 Metropolitan Gas Company's em- was thirty per cont lower than in 160ployees in memory of 386 of their any penco year since 1802 The Xull Supply in all distiche during fellow workers who fell in the tonnage launched was 646,000; abo

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haw Charles Carpenter president of with the returns for 1999. It popno Governmeng Análgate, reports aham mini the quality of the water in patialace the company, at a memorial sinted 39.9 per cent of the world

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