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TUESDAY MARCH 18, 1924

INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG & WEAMPÓA

DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

“ADVERTISEMENTS

AS WORDS-S INSERTIONS,

111 PRÉPAYD Every additional word & Cleats

For 3, insertions 1

WANTED.

that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be, held in the, Office of the Company. 9, Queen's Building, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 20th March 1924, at NOON, for consideration of the WANTED Two or three-roomed Directors: Report and Statement of furnished flat, in Kowloon or Accounts for the year ending 31st one double room for two bachelors. December, 1923.

Apply Box No. 1478 "The China Mall."

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

By Order of the Board of Directora,

R. M. DYER

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 4th March, 1924.

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI

"OTELS, LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the Ordinary Yearly Meet Ing of Shareholders of the Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Limited, will bet held at The Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 22nd March, 1924, at 11.30 o'clock am, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounte and the Report of the Board of Directors, for the year ended the 81st 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,

PĚRCY H. SUCKLING,

Secretary, Hongkong, 6th March, 1924.

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,

WANTED

Bachelor requires

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

TO LET.

TO LETOne

well-lighted

OFFICE ROOM on top floor 6, Queen's Road Central Apply

Gande Price & Co, Ltd"

FOR

FRENCH TUITION

Write to

G. MOUSSION c/o "China" Mail" v 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 uniti

Discounts will remain as before." GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Agents

Hongkong, 10th March, 1924, ©

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

T. A. ROBERTSON,

Secretary.THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Hongkong, 15th March, 1924.

HONGKONG CLUB.

NOTICE.

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, City Hall, for the following purposes:

AN EXTRAORDINARY 1. To receive the Report and

GENERAL MEETING of the members of the Hongkong Club, called in pursuance of a re- quisition by more than 20 resident 2. members, w.ll be held in the Club 3. 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,

THE FIFTY-FIFTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Shure holders' will be held at the Offiour of the undersigned on THURSDAY, the 27th March, 1924 at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with s Statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December 1923.

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

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.;

General Managere. Hongkong Fire Insuranoo Co. Ltd. Hongkong, 8th March, 1994

CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY.

NOTICE

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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 m. for the purpose of

Accounts of the Committee for the year ended 31st December, 1923,

To elect a New Committee. To transact any General Buai-

dess.

By order,

D. K. BLAIR,

Secretary, Hongkong, 12th March, 1924.

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NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

E have THIS DAY removed our offices to China Building, 7th

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

No Corn Too Tough for "Gets-It"

It's fast wonderful hog "Detail"ORTO" and chloeman,Į Put a few dopest "Geta={1%

but for corn god Prusted The pain storm att Tanca, forever, Soon the coga Jonsson from De TERLİNİRDE you i wt in the corn off with the

receiving the Report & Statement man, Conte jet

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, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

General Agents. Hongkong, 10th March, 1924.

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HATS CLEANED A SPECIALITY. ·

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MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR

A Hwanzen dessert service minted with flower sprays fetched £81 188. At Christie's.

STRANGE DIVORCE CASE.

CAPTAIN EUSTACE TO PAY £2,500 DAMAGES

Cap. Francis Fustace was co- respondent in the Divorce Court: in London on February 26, when a Ludlow gentleman farmer, Mr. Guy Coldwell, obtained a decres:

A savings bank account is opened with 5s. for every baby both to nisl against his wife on the ground member of the Women's Institute of misconduct with Capt. Eustace, who is a son of Major-General Sir at Bourton, Dorset,

Francis Eustace.

The Canadian Geological Survey announces new discoveries of high. grade silver ore in the Boarer River district of the Tukon territory.

Mr. Marshall Hall, for the peti- tioner, stated that Mr. Coldwell married in 1922 and had four chii- dren. Capt. Eustace, whom Mr. Coldwell met serving in Italy,

In a farm fire on the Manar es- stayed at his house in 1920 tate, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, ten Respondent left shortly after with. cattle were burned including a podi-two children and secretly went to Ireland. Plaintiff followed her to gree bull and five valuable cows.

Grenanstown House, Nonagh. Mr. Charles P. Markham, of She refused to return, and her Ringwood Hall; Chesterfield, chair-husband then took proceedings in man of several iron, steel, and cool the Irish Courts and obtained the companies, has given £10,000 to the custody of the children. The wife"

returned to him in 1922, but left Chesterfield Hospital.

again in 1923 when she wrote from Nenagh, saying that she had returned to Grenanstown for good.

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Three nun his' imprisonment was imposed at Glasgow on James Cur. rie, who ont 21 angravings from hools in the Mitchell Tibmry and sold them.

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A lunatic. Tolin Jackson, aged 54, who caned from the West Sussex Mental Hospital at Chichester was recaptured Infer on a road near Pul- borough, 15 miles from Chichester

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Police-Sergant Henry Morti- more, sintioned at Woolwich Arsen, al, was found dead, shot in the head, in the police office at the Har row Manorway gate of the Arsenal.

David Hookin John, a tax officer at Port Talbot, Glamorgan, was sentenced to six months' imprison ment on charges of stealing £110 of Inland Reveine money...

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Petitioner's brother, Major Cold- well, went to Ireland, but failed to

Major persuade her to return. Coldwell, while in Ireland in the company of the co-respondent, was attacked by armed robbers, who stripped both of everything": they possessed, and only gave the Major his half return ticket, saying that, if he did not leave Ireland, he would be shot. Major Coldwell, while in Ireland, found a letter that Eustace wrote the respondent beseeching her to leave her hus band, saving inter alla "Just wire me and I will come. Shoot the whole damned house if they won't let me see you"Eustace's wife. had obtained a judicial separation and hence Eustace was unable to respondent. Petitioner marry sought damages on behalf of respondent in the event of Eustace tiring of her.

Respondent Was the lady

The Greek Republican deputy General Panzalo, assaulted by the Royalist deputy, M. Tzonis, as he was leaving the Parliament build-accompanying Eustace when the inge, levelled a revolver at his latter was arrested on a charge of sallant, but was disarmed.

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Due to the temporary discharge on suspension on seconrit of the milway strike, the registered unemployed on January numbered 1,,284,700, | being 60,019 mgre, than in the pre-

ceding week.

robbery.

The Jury awarded £2,500 against the co-respondent.

Earlier messager stated :-- Captain Francis Eustace, who is a big landlord and Master of the Tipperary Fox Hounds, was: formally released by the King's Bench at Dublin today, under At Oakham, Entland, licensing a writ of Habeas Corpus. He sessions it was reported that no re-left the Court and was warmly sident of the county was convicted congratulated by many friends, of drakenness last year, the only two cases of insobriety being against non-residents...

but was immediately re-arrested and later charged before, the Dublin Magistrates with feloni ously breaking into a warehouse Still captain, at the age of 81, of at Kilgaivan quay, Tipperary, on the Southng (Warwickshire) Fire December 15, and stealing and Brigade. Mr. William Cardell has receiving goods. He was re- just celebrated his dinmond wedd-manded on ball. ing. A son and a grandson of his are in the fire brigade also.

Captain Francis Eustace, who was sentenced some months ago

The Hungarian Roman Catholic by the District Judge of Tipperary to twelve months' imprisonment bishops, alarmed by modern facili- for an offence under the public ties for divorce, have united in issu-Safety Act, successfully appealed ing a long pastoral letter emphasis to the King's Bench at Dublin, ing the holiness of marriage and the where Chief Justice Maloney o national importance of clean morals. February 4 quashed the conviction, but did not grant costs, recognising messu from Copenhagen that the Judge had made a mistake states that the name of the great while honestly endeavouring to do Russian naval feqtress at the head of his duty in difficult circumstances. the Gulf of Finland is to be changed When the case was first heard, from Kronstadt to Kropot Ilitine, Captain Eustace pleaded that. mcaning Lenin's fortification."

while driving a motor car, he was. the stolen goods in his car. held up by armed 'men, who placed

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A fire at the church in which they were married, seven years ago in Russia, having destroyed all marri age records, a Russian physicina and his wife who live så Hampstead have been re-married in a London register office.

A report issued by the Mexican Legation in London stated that in the fighting for the town of Esper- anza, which the Federal forces have captured, the Mexican rebels lost more than 2,000 killed and 1,000 |prisoners.

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Middlesex County Council bos agreed to make representations to the Government with a view to bringing pressure to bear on the mil. way companies concerned to effect the early extension northwards of the tube from Finsbury Park.

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PARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.

The fares prescribed for public vehicles ro se follow -----

-In the land of Hongkong, Oxina

Road and Lower Levels, and in Kowloon, and New Kowloon

five minutes. Ten minutes, Zaart hour,..... fait hour, 's

as boarmām va !ary Bubsequent hourier

6 cents

if the flakshe be engaged thin the Ulty of Victoria, and be dile harged outside the Western part of the of Victoria After. 9 pm or be dis harged to the ach at Hay View Police Iation on the Eastern side of the City

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The 1.80 p.m. G.W.B. non-stop at Victoria ter name, an osten kal Worcester expresa, delayed by fogare shall be chargeable.

at the start from Paddington, cover-

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1923

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