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SATURDAY MARCH 15, 1924

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD..

NOTICE OF CALL

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

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Final Call of $2.50 per Share on each of the 95,000 Shares

allotted on the 8th day of November,

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS.

* WORDS S'INSERTIONS,

$1. PREPAID.

Evory additional word 4 Cente

for 3 Insertions.

HIGH CLASS BOO78 AND SHOES

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WHY HAVE

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MODERATE PRIOK-FIT GUARANTEED PERFECTION IN STYLE.'

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SERVICE

CROOKET & · JONES'

"HEALTH" SHOES

FOR- QUALITY

COMFORT

TO LET.

Made to order. ROYAL & CO.

No.1, D'Agulle. Street

TO LET-One

well-lighted

·OFFICE ROOM on top floor

1922, has been made by the Com 6, Queen's Road Central Apply pany, and that such call-will-be-Gande-Price-&-Co., Ltd."

payable to the Company's Bankers,

The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking

Corporation, in Hongkong, on the

15th day of March, 1924,

LET-Top and first floor

No. 9 Jordan Road, 3 ROOMS,

The Transfer Books of the Comhall and servant quarters with flush. pany will be closed from the 8th to ing system. Vacant from 1st April.

15th March, bath days inclusive.

For and on behalf of the

Hongkong Engineering &

Construction Co., Ltd.

S. COURTNEY COOK, Secretary.

Apply Koon. Tal & Co., No. 24 Des Voeux Road Central.

MOTOR CAR FOR SALE.

Dated this 22nd day of February, SCRIPPS BOOTH 3-seater in per

1924.

NOTICE.

TEE HONGKONG & WEAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be beld in the Office of the Company. 2, Queen's Building, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 20th March 1924, at NOON, for consideration of the

fect running order. $850 only. Owner going home. Apply D. Burlingham, Police Headquarters.

FOR

FRENCH TUITION

Write to

G. MOUSSION c/o "China Mall" office.

INTIMATIONS.

Directors Report and Statement of HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB. Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1923.

The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER Books will be closed from the 8th to the 20th March 1924 (both days Inclusive).

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By Order of the Board of Directors,

IL M. DYER,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 4th March, 1924.

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the Ordinary Yearly Meet- ing of Shareholders of the Hongkong Shanghai Hotels, Limited, will be held at The Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, Hongkong, of SATURDAY, the 22nd March, 1924, at 11.30 'clock a.m., for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors for the year ended the 1st December, 1923, confirming the appointment of Directors, and re- electing a Director and the Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from Friday' the 14th March 1924 until Saturday the 22nd March 1924, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board. PERCY H. SUCKLING,

Secretary- Hongkong 6th March, 1924.

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSUR- ANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

HE FIFTY-FIFTH ORDINARY THE

GENERAL MEETING of Sbare: holders will be held at the Offices al the undersigned on THURSDAY, the 7th Marab, 1924, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December 1923,

The Share Register and Transfor Books will be closed from the 13th to the 27th March 1924, both days in- clusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

General Managers. Hongkong Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. Hongkong, 8th March, 1994,

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Com pany will be held at the Company's Offices 20, Des Voeux Road Central on SATURDAY 29th of March 1924 at I am,

The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed from the 15th of March to 29th of March, both days inclusive.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.

General Managora Hongkong, 8th March 1924.

CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY,

NOTICE.

THE FORTY-SIXTH ORDIN- ARY. ANNUAL MEETING of the Shareholders of the above Com pany will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Pedder Street, on MONDAY the 31st March 1924} at 11:00 am. for the purpose of i receiving the Report & Statement of Accounts for the year

ending 31st December 1923.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the -Company will be CLOSED from the 17th to 31st March, 1924, hoth days inclusive

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD

eric General Agents Hongkong, 10th March, 1924

THE ANNUAL DINNER will be held in the Hongkong Hotel on MONDAY, 17th March at 7.30 p.m.

Price per person.$4.50 exclusive of Wines.

All those wishing to attend please send their names to the undersigned before 14th March, 20

H. M. MCTAVISH, '..

Hon. Secretary. CHINA SUGAR REFINERY, Hongkong, 4th March, 1924.

BILLIARDS.

HO KAM TONG CUPS.

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PALACE HOTEL.

INTRIES for the Annual Billiard Handicap, Ho Kam Tong Cups valued at $300 will close on 25th March, 1924.

75.00

1st Prize Cup Valued...$175,00 2nd do, do do. 3rd do. do.-do. -50.00 Entrance Fees $3.00 to go to Local Charities.

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Intending Competitors will kindly send in their names with Entrance Fees to the Proprietor, Palace Hotel.

Hongkong, 6th March, 1924

GARLAND STEAMSHIP

CORPORATION.

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WE beg to advise that we have been appointed Agents for The Garland Steamship Corpora- tion operating a bi-monthly service. between San Francisco and Port- land, and Japan, Shanghal, Hong. kong and Manila.

Particulars of sailings, rates of freight etc. can be obtained from the Undersigned.

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IN 2123 A.D.

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MASSAGE HALL MADAME ASA OTANI Тарасово Ивасю Faco Mamago $5, Wollaston Birsot, lat Bloor.

FOOK SUN FOR SALE,

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC

COMPANY, LIMITED,

REDUCTION IN PRICE,

ROM Est April 1924 until further

notice the price of current for Lighting and Fans will be reduced to 16 cents per unit.

Discounts will remain as before. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Agente. Hongkong, 10th March, 1924-

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The following unclaimed telegrams re lying at the office of Iraat Northern Telegraph Company Limited):-

Lambert Gascorgn Kowloon, from Shanghai.

Booca Koroloon, from Nice. Sakyoki, from Wakams!31, Shimodayaku Ryakaiboro, from Nagasaki.

Chotasian ojo Lan Shing Co., No. 4 Arsenal Street, from Heijo,

Bukyoki, Des Vosuz Road Central,

from Wakamatsu.

Tang Wai Fek 35 Koo Tob Tees, from Bhanghai.

Law Yian Nion Nathan Road, from Shangbai.

Tang Yum Chan and Chick Bang 11 Bonham Road, from Peking,

E. V. JESSEN

Superintendent. Hongkong, 21st February, 1024...

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WIND AND SUNLIGHT.

Dean Inge-discusses-in-the Evening Standard a paper which a brilliant young Cambridge biolo gist. publishes. In the Century Magazine.

The editor has called it "If you were alive in 2123 A.D." Assum- ing that the moral control and social use of the results of science is the outstanding issue of our generation, the writer prophesies what kind of place the world is likely to be after two centuries of scientific sociology.

problem will be solved within the next hundred years or so. Before the end of the present century, says the author of the article in the

sugar

and Century Magazine starch will be almost as cheap as sawdust.

This will supply us with an abundance of carbohydrates.

The proteins may be obtained from coal, or atmospheric nitrogen, in the fixation of which the Germans made strides during the war.

considerable

NO MORE RURAL LIFE.

A great cheapening of food by chemistry would not necessarily be at all an advantage. In the "How many persors in England absence of some rational control of know that a dose of seven population, the only effect would grammes of acid sodium phosphate be that the country would be com- Increases a man's capacity for pro-pletely urbanised, or suburbanised. longed muscular effort by about 20 There would be no more agricul- per cent, and probably aids in ture, and no more stock-raising; prolonging mental work?" asks the whole of England would be Dean Inge,

covered by sprawling garden A group of coal-miners in cities and garden suburbs—a truly Germany took it for nine months appalling prospect.

on-end, with very great effect on But a limited population, with their output. (What would our abundant food almost literally trade unions say to this?) The dirt-cheap, would no doubt be Germans gave it to their shock-liberated in an extraordinary de- troops in the war, and it may be greer. It would have more than come a normal beverage, as it is half the day free to spend in doing said to be followed by no reaction-good-oravil. Finally, our biochemist says?. "The Conserva-. CITIES OF NO NIGHTS.

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In fifty years, we are told, light-tive has but little to fear from the ing will cost only one-fiftieth of man whose reason is the servant of its present price. (Having lately his passions, but let him beware of settled a bill for electric light dur-him whose reason has become the ing the summer months which greatest and most terrible of the would have been extortionate. for passions." Buckingham Palace, I regret that I IMPREGNABLE INSTITUTIONS. shall not live to see this welcome But why should he shake his change.) Almost all our present fist at the poor "Conservatives"? sources of light are hot bodies, 95 We are not the anti-scientific per cent. of whose radiation is party. We should be delighted invisible. To lighta lamp is about to see the dry light of science as wasteful as to burn down ones' turned upon the economic fallacies of the Labour Party, upon the house to roast a joint of pork.

In the future, with new methods sentimentalism of the doctrinaire of illumination, there will be no Radical, kind only to be cruel, and more night in our cities. As for upon various other nostrums of developments in transport and self-styled progressives. comunication, they are limited only by the velocity of light.

We are not the stupid party now, whatever we may have been called The writer agrees with other a hundred years ago. But all rem authorities that our coal and oil formers, whether socialistic or will all be gone in the few centuries. scientific, had better make up Waterpower may to some extent their minds that there are three take their place, though hardly in Institutions, closely welded to

The England.

disillusioned gether, which are the basis of all American who has travelled to see civilisation, and which cannot be how the waters come down to abolished. These are religion, the Lodore, has a well-justified con family, and private property. tempt for the best we can do it Whosoever falls on that stone List of unclaimed telegrams lying in waterfalls, Our essayist has

shall be broken; and on whom E. Telegraph Ofion, Hongkong.

hopes that we may tap two fusoever it shall fall, it will grind Namyegiwa, from Bruxellee

exhaustible sources of power, the him to powder.” Paramount, Fooobow

wind and the sunlight. A storage Wasco, from San Francisco,

battery may soon be Invented BAKE YAIREY

which will transform the Inter- geetha Superintendent':

mittent energy of the wind into. Hongkong Bath February, 1994

Continuous electric power. Our towns will then be smokeless, and our industries decentralised.

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