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MONDAY MAROH 17, 1984

INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE.

THE HUNGKONG & WEAMPOA

DOOK COMPANY, LIMITED."

NOTI

[OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the ORDINARY YEARLY

· MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be. held in the Office of the Company, 2. Queen's Building, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 20th March 1924,

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

25 WORDS & INSERTIONS, #1. PREPAID. Every additional word & Cente for 8 insertions.

WANTED

Noox, for consideration of the WANTED Two or three-roomed, Directors' Report and Statement of furnished flat tin-Kowloon-or- Accounts for the year ending. 31st one double room for two bachelors. Apply Box No. 1478 "The China December, 1923.

Mail,"

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

By Order of the Board of Directors,

R. M. DYER.

Chiet Manager. Hongkong, 4th March, 1974.

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI

TELS, LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

WANTED. Bachelor requires

slugle room with bathroom and full board preferably in Kowloon. Apply Box No. 1479 "China Mall,"

..TO LET.

TO LET:-One well-lighted

OFFICE ROOM'on top floor

that the Ordinary Yearly Meet-6. Queen's Road Central. Apply Ing of Shareholders of the Hongkong."Gande Price & Co., Ltd."

& Shanghai Hotels, Limited, will be

held at The Hongkong Hotel. Pedder

Street, Hongkong, on SATURDAY. TO LET-Top and first floor the 22nd March, 1924, at 11.30

No. 9 Jordan Road, 3 ROOMS,

o'clock a for the purpose of hall and servant quarters with flush. receiving a Statement. of Accounts ing system, Vacant from 1st April. and the Report of the Board of Apply Koon. Tai & Co., Nó. 24. Des Directors for the year ended the Voeux Road Central... 31st 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.

hin

HONGKONG CLUB,

NOTICE.

THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR-

LY GENERAL MEETING of the members of the Hongkong. Club will be held in the Club House on TUESDAY, the 25th ∙March, 1924, at 5.30 p.m. By order,

T. A. ROBERTSON,

Secretary, Hongkong, 15th March, 1924.

HONGKONG CLUB.

NOTICH.

N EXTRAORDINARY A GENERAL MEETING of the members of the Hongkong Club, called in pursuance of a re- quisition by more than 20 resident members, will be held in the Club. House on TUESDAY, the 25th March, 1924, immediately after the yearly, general meeting.

BUSINESS :-

As set forth in the notice post- ed in the Hall of the Club.

By order,

T. A. ROBERTSON,

Secretary.

Hongkong, 15th March, 1924.

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSUR- ANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

FOR

4.

FRENCH TUITION

Write, to

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

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.

REDUCTION IN PRICE,

FROM 1st 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.

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Agenta:

Hongkong, 10th March, 1924.

J

HONGKONG PHILHARMONIC

SOCIETY.

GRAND.. CONCERT. under the patronage of H: E. The Governor. by the Society's Chorus and Orchestra

THEATRE ROYAL SATURDAY, 29th March, 1924,

at 9.15 p.m.. Booking opens on 17th March at Anderson Music Co. Prices

• $3, $2, $1.

BILLIARDS.

HO KAM TONG CUPS.

PALACE, HOTEL.

ANTRIES for the Annual Billiard THE FIFTY-FIFTH OR Handicap, Ho Kam Tong Cups

GENERAL MEETING of Sbare- bolders will be held at the Office of valued at $500 will close en 25th

March, 1924. the undersigned on THURSDAY, the 27th March, 1924, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of-the General Managore, together with a Statement of Accouate for the year ended the 31st December 1923.

The Share Register and Transfer Books will be played from the 15th to the 37th March. 1924, both days in. ciunira. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

General Managers.. Hongkong Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. Hongkong, 8th March, 1984.

·CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY.

BARAN

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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 receiving the Report & Statempat of Accounts for, the year ending 31st December 1923, 11000910

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

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

General Agents. Hongkong, 10th March, 1924.

MASSAGE HALL MADAME RASA OTANI

And, Wellington Winder, Ini Woer,

1st Prize Cap Valued...$175.00 2nd do. do. do.

75.00 da. 3rd do, do.

... 50.00 Entrance Fees $3.00 to go to Local Charities.

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

Hongkong, 6th March, 1924

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

WE bare THIS DAY removed our offices to China Building, 7th floor.

DE SOUSA & CO., LTD. Hongkong, 15th March, 1924.

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER

OF COMMERCE.

'HE ANNUAL MEETING of the Members of the HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE will be held on MONDAY; March 24th, 1924, at 4 o'clock pre cisely, in, the OLD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROOM, Chy Hall, for the following purposes

1. To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committen for the year ended 31st December. 1923 To clect & New Committee. To traiact-apy: General Bust ரத்தம்.

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Hongkong, 12th March, 1924,

1.

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TENDERFOOT'S TALES OF

COWBOYS.

IF the late R. B. Townshend's memories of The Tenderfoot in New Mexico are not such good reading as the adventures of the same tenderfoot in Colorado-and that perhaps is 100 much to expect -they are very readable, in parts, says a London: paper. For they are still of the seventies, the time when the Wild West was really wild; and they are concerned with prospectors, bears, Indians, mules, and all the proper adjuncts of such adventuras

Not that, the, Indians were the scalp-hunting red, men of earlier Ct.days The Navajos, who roamed over New Mexico were allowed to do so by the United States Goverments only on a promise of good behaviour. Their industry and peacefulness caused them to.. be despised by other Indians, who had no idea of turning the tomahawk lato a hon; though "when it came to fighting the Navajos braves, if not quite such warriors as the Utes, were no slouches at that either, as the United States has found a few years before when they had tackled them.".

LEE KEE

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ACCESSORIES.

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KINKERING CONGS. CANON SPOONER TO RETIRE THIS YEAR.

Dr. W. A. Spooner has decided to retire this year, from the office of. Warden of New College, Oxford.

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But his fame to Oxford men and to the general public has been, gained on account of his alleged origination of the "spoonerism." Even dictionaries have defined this artless craft..

#

spoonerisms" Many alleged. are, doubtless, attributable to the fertile minds of irreverent under-

"Thus, the Daily graduates. Chronicle divides them into three classes:

Spoonerisms actually made by Dr. Spooner:

Kinkering congs their tikles

tate."

"Repeal of Lord Port," for Report of Lord Peel.

Spoonerisms possibly made by Dr. Spooner

'Camels passing through the knee of an idol,” ****

"Wife stealing at the door." "Half-warmed fish" "Spoonerisms certainly not made by Canon Spooner:

Two bugs and a rag,” "Tasting twp worms."

Kistomary to cuss the bride."

Where he remembered open

AN EMBARRASSING MOMENT... And among the Jemez Indians, shend, with such vivid memories oven inore peaceful and civilised of his ploneer days as he has put down in this and his earlier book, they had even given up horse should have felt a little sad when, and cattle stealing the most exciting entertainment provided twenty-five years later, he want, for the tenderfoot, was a fabbit back over the old trall, and foun hunt with boomerangs. It proved, that civilisation and progress had for him, not only exciting but been before him. embarrassing. For a rabbit which teased was bowled over, by an prairie, he found the methods of Indian squaw which meant, he the up-to date rancher

Here was a branch with found, that he and the Indian girl |

capital good buildings and a great had to change clothes l

"You've got to be "correct" (he aermotor whirring round to raise was told). She's killed your rabbit, water for the Irrigated lands. Here so you've got to put on her clothes, were well fed horses in a paddock, and she is to put on yours; and and all looked rich and prosperous, then you've got to hunt in petticoats On top of the house roof was an till you've killed a rabbit yourself, upper chamber of wire gauze, and then you take your rabbit to doubtless to sleep in during the her and she gives you back your summer heats, but through the gauze I also detected gymnastic things."

The tenderfoot protested in vain apparatus

A rich English company owns. that he had a feeling of modesty this he was told, by a former about showing his nice white

comrade, now old and shrunken.. legs The tribal custom was oneThey have, a Scots man and an much too strong to be broken on Englishman to manage it. account of such squeamishness. In place of the wild cowboy Only the timely capture of an comes the practical business man other rabbit by his dog, and its from across the sea, who irrigated acceptanca by the squaw saved his lands by the most new-fashion- him from 'Carrying out the swoped apparatus and keeps up his But we cannot help feeling, that Mr. Townshend escaped and muscle in a private gymnasium robbed the "hunt” of some fun, on a technicality,

ANY BACK TO THE TRIAL,

It is no wonder that Mr. Town-

Cramps in the Stomach

But the most ironic touch of all came at the beginning, of the war, when Mr. Towashand, an old mar living peacefully at Oxford, was not too old to join the University.. volunteers. With other recruits he went down to the ring range, To him came a tergeant who, Innocent,

LL preliminary notices of forth A coming meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in the news columns of the Clara Afall, are charged for at the rate of $1 bách. (as announced it May and June of

te No need of centuring, from crampsia jasked," Have you ever handled a 1922) riding that they do not the stomach or Intestinal pigs Obam180 conila kada sam

Tore than four lines. In Sachin's Colls and Diarylines Remedy. No wonder there was a laugh uture it this space is exceeded they never falls to relire the most severe from those who knew something will be phased in the advertising cases Got it to day; thats wil no coltimas at the prevailing rates. time to send for it after the attack comes of the elderly volunteer's life In

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