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THURSDAY, MARO. INTIMATIONSBORO,

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSUR-

ANCE CO., LTD...

MOTIVE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

THE...

ORDINARY FIFTY FIFTH GENERAL MEETING of Share- bolders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on THURSDAY, the 7th March, 1924, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Manager, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December 1923.

The Sharo Register and Transfor Books will be closed from the '15th to the 27th March 1934; both days In- -clusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & 00., LTD.,

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

CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY.

NOTICE,

THE FORTY-SIXTH ORDIN- THE

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 & Statement of Accollits 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 & 00, LTD.

General Agents. ́--

Hongkong, 10th March, 1924.

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PUBLIC DINNER

Sir William Rees-Davies, K.C. tis proposed that a dinner should be given by the Foreign Community in honour of the departing. Chief Justice at the Hong Kong Hotel, on Saturday, 12th. April, at 8 p.m.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

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LET-One well-lighted OFFICE ROOM on top floor! Queen's Road Central Applý "Gande Price &Co., Ltd.

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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE"Bangour", 192

Mount Kellet, Four-roomed Bungalow with Hall. Recently reconstructed and entirely moder- nised. Site area 37,500 sq. ft. Possession Ir April 1924. For permits to inspect, apply in writing to AR Lowe, Special Manager. Reiss Brothers Ltd. Un Liquida Hon)

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Hongkong, 17th March, 1924.

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FRENCH TUITION

Write to MOUSSION '

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INTÍMATIONS

NOTICE:

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THE THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the BRITISH LEGION will be held in the Board room of Messrs Jardine Matheson Ltd. on Thurs day 27th. March, 1924, at 5.30 p.m. for the purpose of receiving the REPORT and ACCOUNTS for the year 1923, and of electing OFFICERS and other MEMBERS Gentlemen wishing to be of the COMMITTEE for the present should notify on or before ensuing year, and of appointing 5th. April, thair. Intention to HONORARY AUDITORS, and Colonel Robertson, Hong Kong of dealing with any other

all business! Club, who will supply particulars.

By order of the General Committee

12 RE: Cable:

Hon. Secretary Hongkong, 24th March, 1924

Hongkong, 22nd March, 1924.

BILLIARD.

HO KOM TONG, CUPS,

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THE Entry for the Ho

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Hongkong, 25th March, 1924.

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Naiz THE FIRST EXTRA RAGE

MEETING will be held (weather pormitting) nt Eppy Valley, on SATURDAY, 291 Marok, 1921, commencing' at 8 pm.go

The Churge for admission to the Pablo Enolbiure. will be $1..

Soldfors and Sailors' in uniform hall

pride.

Members are advised that they must show, their Season Tickets to chtain admission to the Member Enclosure

Each member has the right of in- troducing 2. non-members to the Members' Enclosure, -tiaketa for whom Boobtained from Mesars, Linstead Davis at 88.5 sach unto FRIDAY March 28th.

The Stewards invité the Ladies of Hongkong to be prosent. - ".

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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB

EXTRA RACE, MEETINGS 1924.

MEMBERS Season Tickets are now

ready and may be obtained by those Members who have not already received them from Messee. Linstead, & Davis, Alexandra Bulidings.

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Secretary. Hongkong, 18th March 1924-

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NEW MAIL WEEK NEWS.,

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR

Blinded by a flash of lighting Reggie Clark, 18, of Tokingmill, Cornwall, has not yet decovered his sight, t Bath Fabens

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In's fire at cold-atorage promises, Oldwynd, Glasgow, 12 firomen were temporarily overcome by smoke.

The Chancellor of the Exobequer. has promised to receive a deputation: from the Entertainment Tax Aboli- tion Dengue

The Rockefeller Foundation of New York has given £50,000 to es Mrs. Sarah Broomfield, of Taun-tablish a Chair of Obstetrics at ton, received a lotion of congratulaHongkong University. tion from the King and Queen on her 100th birthday.

Mme. Cecile Sorel, one of the leading dramatic netreases on the French stage, is to give performen ves in London in June,

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GOLD BUDDHA

A PRECIOUS CURIO FOR SALE

TINY STATUE WORTH FORTUNE,

FARKS FOR PUBLIC

The fares prebrilijeci for publio vehiclen

le the island of Longka Road and Lower Levels,

Howloon, and New Koreloom,

Wrapped in a red and blue cover, handled only with fingers guarded with wadding, there is a

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five minutes.

theart of every collectoviin Shanghai

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Four human skeletons have been on auctioneers safe in unearthed two feet below the surge Bond which will make the narter hour face by workmen levelling a piece double its bents. It is one of the 1ry Snbanquet hou of ground at Church-down, or most trecinus curios offered for sale15abe juriskabe be Gloucester.

in Shanghai for years, says the ithin the City of Victoria and be ille Shanghai Times.

"harged outside the Western part of the Jity of Victoria after. 8 pm.. or ba đầu:

1sation on the Eastern, side; of, the, CL of Votocie titer op, the catre d fare shall be charronble grac

For 3 or 3 drivers the fare is double or rable respectively.

Gopinaban Saha, the Bengal Ernest Day on January 12. in Cal1.800 years old. and gold, silver. cutta, has been found milty madal and copper tem smelted to brofile It. Once it inv in the coffin of a famous Prime Minister in old of Poplar, E., were seriously injur-sentenced to death. Lod."[24

A train ran into a rator-lorry at who was accused of murdering Mr. This curio is a Sinha buddha, dvor skarged to thờ that of Fey View Police

Purfleet, Essex, and the driver, Al bert Smiths, and a hoy named Fillis,

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After being closed for repairs the at the end of March in readiness for Brussels eir next will be reopened the intuguration of the Rotterharn Bâle airway on Avril '1',

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M: Venizelos uzy assume the portfolio of the Interior during the period of the Creek plebiscite on the question of a monarchy,pe

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Lancashire Education Commit- Korea; now it is offered for sale

If the Hi!! Districi. Ten minutes, severa Quarter bour,..........

too's estimated expenditure on elevers. W. Funder and Company,hote ing year is £1.402,817, compared with the trocious trees which br mentary education for the forthcom Although not making in antiquity

have been recovered in the tomb One hour with £1,877,152 for this year.

The village sexton of Virneuil Loir-et-Cher, went into the belfry of the church to tell the bell for the death of one of the inhabitants, but died before he could begin ringing:

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of Tutankhamon, and which have :ija ellionin the Naw ZarrGories-

By arrangement with the proprietor aided world's taste in curios and art treasures, it is one of thorough the Police, most representative treasures. It is only a few Inches high and to the evo of the tyro it is not much better in quality than one of the metal

hddhas that one picks un fora

As he was going along Bond the sitting at the Colonial street, W., to sette a warrant, Mr.Office of the conference to fix their or two in Chinese shops, Com

"2-Lower Lasala, With 2 Bearers With

Arrow Butcher, 73, for '51 years boundaries between Northern, and "fident that its venc of grace a Ti muutos 10 t

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Aimilar Sinla bud, but much all hour,

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stgaller in size, them, the one, and the board berries Ba also suffer the impediment of Kyrey Babeoquent ating & plens broken from the

An officer at the Westminster So thom Ireland, it was agreed to

hold another meeting in a month.. County Court, fell dead.

The National Association of Theatrical Employees, necting the Holon Empire decided on more forward pohoy on the subject of general conditions of employ

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hottom, wie sold in Osaka in 1916-85, IL „Hill Distelet,

With #Bearers With & Baras for Yen-250.000

ten minutes, 35 cm #harter hoofyserinë? Half bour CoPOR

hd hour

What will this larger and perfect specimen of Siula dynastia art fetch? That is a question for the purchasers to settle. but judging by subsequent from the previous figure, its value should be about $300,000.

The auctioneers announcement

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ed over 1.800 years ago when the sent by the King as his gift to the states that the buddha was fashion. national law held that a biddha deceased. Not until 260 years AKÚ should be buried with every member was the buddhia unearthed, the Prime Minister's descendants find ing it in the grave

Of the 94,960,000 persons, ex- cluding senson-ticket holders, who of the Royal family, or eminent off

religion.

No tickets have yet been printed or issued for the Football Cup Final * 980s, add Hotupi Wembley on April 26 and the Stadium cuthorities eny that any NEW NATIONAL FLAGS that are now being sold are forger

SCORES OF DESIGNST

RESULT OF WAR Professor Clair, of Ekaterinburg An early meeting of the Consul

University has been sentenced antive Council to the Minister of There are scores of new flags in 10 years imprisonment by t. Soviet Health is to consider how to provide the world since the divisions pre-tribal for giving French ennital- the additional funds to meet the cost scribed by the various peace ists information about the platinim of the recent 9s award to ponei doc:

Itors... treaties have taken place/it would industry in the Umis puzzle all but one in every den, and

The death, as ocoured at St: thousand to describe, the national flags of Lebanon and Lithuanis, of George's Tresbytery, Hendon. of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Groats Canor George Carter, who was 82. travelled by rail during last Novem-cial, Buddhism being the national and Slovenes or of Western Samoa, He had been rector of the Roman ber, only 504.126 took second class

Anew flag that has recently Catholic. Church of Our Lady of fund 1,704,401 frst-class

1871...

While at the Aberdeen war-v been added to the Flag Book uses Dolours since by the King's ships, however, I

Mr. Robert Jaines Jones, a magisings depot Sergt. Richardson, who British We knew some time ago that the Ministry of Transport had te, was remanded at Corn, on the V.D. in South Africa in developed its own flag(presumably Merionethshire, without evidence 1900 and served in Franca with the

lied from hont disease.j for use on the Grand Junction being taken, or charge of making Gordon Highlanders, collapsed and Canal), but now the Fishery Board false inconie-tex returns. for Scotland has butted in, and the unhappy officer of the watch. In future will have to remember the proper salute to order when he sees a flag with a blue-ground badge bearing yellow thistles and the letters RB, in white.

The national flag of Tibet takes a bit of memorizing. The middle of the flag contains a gold sub rising about a white mountain; on the mountain there are two lions in white, green and red, and between the lions a jewel and a flaming gem. I do not quite know the difference between these, but that is the official description. And space left over in the flag is filled with alternate triangles of red and blue. vyd. by h

Two men were at Westminster sent to prison for thefts from houses in Chelsea and Kensington to which they had obtained admittance with orders to view from bouse rents who had the bonses on their books to let furnished. quoys

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The villagers of Bettwe Gwerfi Goch, in the heart of the Welsh rountains, 5 miles from Corwen Merioneth, are organising a bazaar to raise the finds neccesary to se cure the laving of a telephone line to this village

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Mrs. Barolini Naidu, the Indian potens, who has been visiting Ken- ya. Colony, has issued her compatriate in East Africa, that they are not yet in a condition to demand equality of treatment with the phito settlers, Crate me

The mimic representation of an it raid on London se it will be shown at the British Empire Ex- hibition at Wembley was carried out on a large scale model in the War Office. u dekana ba

Alleged to have offered a man in Dr. Thomas Bodley Scott, the the street a large tim of washing mayor of Bournemouth who died soda for £5, saying that it was o aged 72, was the medical adviser of caine, George Morland, 24, of Gros Robert Louis Stevenson, the su- venor-rond, Canonbury, N., was re- manded at Marlborough-street thor who he resided in the towned with attempting to obtain is a red rectangular flag, with a and was a descendant of the found-fl46 prefences,

After that, the national flag of Cambodia is simplicity itself. It

The famous "pipe line" laid from Hantara to Rafa across the Sinsi Desert to supply water to the troops! during the Palestine campaign has been bought by Moers. W Ward, of Sheffield. It contains about 8,000 tons of piping, which will be brought to England.

blue border,, and in the centre of or of the Bodleian Library at: Ox: Man # * #69/ Toom the red field a white pagoda, foramientas

An unusual colour for a flag is found in the new Belgian Royal Standard, which is purple, with a gold shield in the centre surmount ed by a crown. Next to this, the palm for originality probably goes to Trengganu, one the Federated Malay States, whose national far is plain black with a while band next the staff and no ornamentation of any soste

All the other nations are content to ring the changes on red, white; blue, yellow and black.

BURGLAR PATRIOT- SAFE RIFLED FOR HIS COUNTRY'S SAKE.

At & conference of labour organis whions at Bangor it was writmously decided that Labour should contest Carnarvon Boroughs at the next election. Mr. Lloyd George was returned by a majority of 5.176 over the Conservative candidate at the general election. RNA RAYVAN

The Minister of Transport hos fold the London County Council that its application for a grant to wards the oost, estimated at £6684 000 of reconstructing Lambeth Bridge will receive careful coneider ation as soon as the Council is in a position to start the work

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Mrs Spunt Longkong Hotel, from Kobe RGA SALE

Sukyoki Des Voeux Bond Cent from Wakamaten.

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Wildfire from Kobe. Marques Cusin's Boad, from Shikison Nippopsaka), from Karame Sankyo, from Ons kanto

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Me HDCancellor, the Maryle bone magistrate; hae been appointed to Marlborough-street Police Court The career of one of the most in place of Mr. B Tennyson d'Eyn notorious of French cracksmenis cat who has resignod. It is on- recalled by the death of Baptistan derstood that MG. Hay Ha Travall, at the Ile de Ré convict kett, now at Lambeth, wall succeed prison in the Bay of Biscay Mar Gancellor at Marylebones

An extraordinary feature of working w Travail's career. Is that, although his record was' such a black one, his greatest exple was carried out not for gain but out of patriotism. Dating the war, he was at Berne, 'Switzerland, where among his acquaintances were some German andy Austrain spies, as well as Allled counter espionage agents secking"" to i proba, the enemy's Who the schooner Muid of 5:1110, from Finkow.REA

Becrets.

Kian Kee, from Amor,

way Shitsufrou Bhanabai 10 Elgin Stress, from Shanghai. Chan Hong to Yes Fong Wing Shing Street, from Paris, p

According to a statement issued by the Spomish Embassy in London, politive lg the reported instability of the present régune in Spain, the Military Directory is working more stroothly every day, and is enjoying

greater eeteem on the part of the Upsalato No. 1. Now Western Street punian people, Refund danger Chuwwal Bay from Shanghai 20 biggr/magn#"

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Chan Ti Foo 65 Calus Bind, Erg Tientsin, aga

Ferers off the coast of New E. V. JESSEN,

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Bonghong, 20th March, 1924. 2- Crew The

Min Scotland was amk after Travail, learned in this way that collision at right with the am Allied agent was seeking an Important document which was locked in the safe of the Austrian Embassy Without breathing a HIGH CLASS TAILORING word to anyone he broke into the

Austrian Embassy yus night, his way into ber private

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