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INTIMATIONS.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD. THE THIRTY FIFTH ORDINARY

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Buildings, Charter Road, Victoria, Hongkong on. TUESDAY the 4th of March 1924, at 11, o'clock in the forenoon for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and Report of the Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1923, and declaring a dividend.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from TUES. DAY the 19th February 1924; until TUESDAY the 4th day of March 1924, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 11th February, 1924.

UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

28 WORDS,3 INSERTIONS, 81. PREPAID, Every additional word 4 Cents'

for 3 insertions.

LOST.

LOST at Volunteer Headquarters

on Saturday, 24th inst. one VELOUR HAT marked on inside band. A. G. Finder please return to Charge Room, Central Police Station.

TO LET.

TOLET.-New and, Alry Office

Rooms on Ground and First Floors, S. Duddell Street, Can be used as Bank or Commercial Offices. Rent Moderate. Apply: Room 10, First Floor.

TO LET.

THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL TO LET-Furnished. For term to

GENERAL of MEETING Shareholders will be held in the offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., on THURSDAY the 6th March, 1924, at II a.m. for the purpose of receiving the report of the General Managers together with a statement of accounts to 31st December 1923:

The transfer Books of the Com pany will be closed from the 22nd February to 6th March, 1924, both dates iuclusive.

DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 19th February, 1924.

HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

NOTICE OF CALL.

Lasue of 95,000 Shares of the Nominal Value of $10 each, ($7.50 paid up).

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Final Cail of $2.50 per Share on each of the 95,000 Shares allotted on the 8th day of November, 1922, has been made by the Com pany, and that such call will be payable to the Company's Bankers, The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Gorporation, in Hongkong, on the 15th day of March, 1924.

The Transfer Books of the Com pany will be closed-from-the-8th-to- 15th March, both days inclusive.

For and on behalf of the

Hongkong Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.

S. COURTNEY COOK, Secretary. Dated this 22nd day of February, 1924.

NOTICE.

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MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.

Progress," by Mr. C. K. Munro, was produced by the Stage Society at the New Theatre.

Thieves broke, into Mitcham Parish Church, and decamped with the Communion plate. They also

led the collection-boxes.

Clapton Orient were beaten in their replayed Football Associa tion Cup-tie, by Swansea Towa on the Tottenham Hotspur ground by 2-1.

The Earl of Athlone, the new Governor-General of South Africa,

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LIGHT AEROPLANE.

FREEDOM FROM STALL

AND "SPIN.".

In conclusion, Colonel Ogilvie aid that to be a useful every-day proposition an aeroplane required a speed of not less than 70 miles an hour, but 80 would be much better, and it would. not be long and Frincess Alice, Countess of An interesting, forecast of the, betore the light acroplane reached Athlone, were given a great recep-tight acroplane of the future based a speed range of 65 to 75 miles an tion on their arrival at Cape Town. on the results obtained at Lympne hour with a consumption of 100 to with, some reference to the most 350 miles to the gallon, and an of angle of climb sufficient to get out frequent and fat cause aeroplane accidents the stall and in a calm from a 150 yards field Once the spin-were made in a popular surrounded by trees. lecture given by Lieutenant stall and "spin," were eliminated Colonel A. Ogilvie, chairman of flying on an aeroplane which had the Royal Aeronautical Society, at no, massive weights and which the Scientific Novelties Exhibition could keep going at 25 miles an at King's College.

hour was a simple and safe pro-

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London papers record the death of Major-General Viscount Downe, He joined the 2nd Life Guards in 1865, and served as a colonel on the Staff of the lare Earl Roberts in the South African War,

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M. Vasey, of Doncaster, trained the winners of three races Leicester-Octabella's Pride in the Hinckley Hurdle, Baalbek in the Stayers' Hurdle, and Pickwell in the Novices' Steeplechase.

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ZR3. America's new giant dirigible is now practically-com- pleted, and will make her firat trial trip at the beginning of March. If this proves satisfactory, the flight to America will be attempted early in April.

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A meeting was held in Paris of Booking Anderson Music Co., Ltd the Second Experts' Committee, which is composed of bankers who $3, $2 and $1.

are investigating the question of German capital invested abroad. Mr. McKenna accepted the pre- sidency of the Committee.

1st PUBLIC RECITAL

MASTER EMIL DANENBERG.

(Age 61⁄2 years) Assisted by Mrs. D. R. Brown and Professor Danenberg. St. ANDREW'S HALL,

(CITY HALL) 1 March 11th, at 5.30 p.m.

Under the patronage of Lady Stubbs,

Collections in London and suburbs on Alexandra Day, last year produced a total of £42,281, and £37,522 has been distributed among the hospitals, dispensaries, and medical charities. June 25 has been fixed for Alexandra Day

this year.

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The lecturer contrasted some of position. Any ordinary young the performances he obtained person with instruction for an hour with his Wright machine from or two could then learn to fly with 1900 to 1913 with those secured little more danger and difficulty with the modern light aeropland than to sail a boat or drive a car, and stated that until the advent of the letter no machine had carried a greater load per horse-power But than the Wright machines, whereas the best he had been able to get out of the Wright machias, throttled down, was 561b per horsepower, the little Wren, throttled down, had carried 135lb. per horsepower-a very remark- At the same time able result. the performance had increased enormously and was 50 per cent better on top speed and 20 per cent better on the bottom speed, With regard to economy. he. believed 150 miles to the gallon could now be obtained.

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A table of comparative weights of the Wright machines and certain of the light aeroplanes down; at Lympine was shown. This brought DR. out that the percentage structure weight of the two types remained about the same, 43 per cent of, the

When influenza malaria dysentery, whole; but there were striking or other washing illness has laid you low drops in percentage of weight of the system is left in a debilitated condi The weight tion and requires building up for which the power unit. amounted to 33 per cent, in the porpose nothing exists better than Dr. case of the Wright machine and Williams' Pick Pills

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down with Pneumonia, and following ing the question of panel doctors proved very much. At a meeting My daughter Beatrice, was taken fees, the case for the approved recently at which a number of this did not seem to gain strength. She societies was submitted. This con- pilots were present who had flown continued taking the doctor medinine,

No defence was offered to the petition for divorce brought by Mrs. Kathleen Drinkwater against her husband, described as a poet and dramatist, on the ground of misconduct.' Evidence

having Tickets Andersoni Music Co., Ltd. been given, a degree aisi, with

costs, was granted. $2. $1.

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The stail and spin"-that was always, advise mothers with growing Athens, M. Venizelos has definite ly decided, with the unanimous the action of the machine on girls to give them these Pillo support of his Ministers advocate losing flying speed of sticking. the establishment of a Republic in down its head and coming down his statement to the Assembly more or less, out of control for The Government is not con- ] 200ft, or 300ft was still the most sidering whether the country deadly trick of an ordinary should

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