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INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

NOTICE OF MEETING,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the Second Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of the Hongkong Engineering & Con stroction Company, Limited, will be held in the Offices of Messrs. Shewan,

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

95 WORDS '8 INSERTIONS, 91. PREPAID,

Every additional word Chate

for 8 Insortions.

TO LET.

well-lighted

Tomes & Co, St. George's Building, TO LET: One Chater Road, Hongkong, on THURS. DAY the 10th day of April, 1924, at 1200 Noon for the purpose of re ceiving the Report of the Board of of Directors

Statement and a Accounts for the Half-year, ended on the 31st December 1923, and of electing Directors and Auditors.

OFFICE ROOM on top floor 6, Queen's Road Central. Apply "Gande Price & Co., Ltd."

The Transfer Books of the Com-" pany will be closed from the 4th to

FOR SALE.

3,000 B.H.P. POWER PLANT

the 10th April, both days inclusive.THIS plant consists of the following.

By Order of the Board,

S. COURTNEY COOK, Secretary. Hongkong: 27th March, 1924,

OFFICIAL NOTICE.

PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME.

WE THE SHUN TAI SS CO.

(HONGKONG) LTD: at 114, Wing Lok Street, Hongkong, hereby give notice that in consequence of change of Ownership, we have applied to the Board of Trade, under Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, in respect of the ship NIPSI" of Manila. Official num- ber 153537 of gross tonnage 2163.19 tons, register tonnage. 1293.77 tons, heretofore owned by MADRIGAL & CO. of Manila for the permission to 'BORNEO " change her name lo

and to hive her registered in the new name at the Port of Hongkong owned by THE SHUN TAI S.S. GO. (HONGKONG) LTD.

Any objections to the proposed change of name must be sent to the. Registrar of Shipping at Hongkong. within seven days from the appear. ance of this advertisement.

Dated at Hongkong this 29th day of March, 1924.

THE SHUN TAI S.S. CO.

(HONGKONG) LTD. (Signed) PANG KOKSUI, Secretary.

PUBLIC DINNER

to

$ William Ress-Davies, K.C.

It is proposed that a dinner should

be

Foreign be given by the

of the Community to honour

at the departing Chief Justice Hong Kong Hotel, on Saturday, rath. April, at 8 p.m.

wishing to Gentlemen present should notify on or before th. April, their intention to Colonel Robertson, Hong Kong will supply all Club, who particulars.

Hongkong, 22nd Match, 1924.

NOTICE.

HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD.,

P. CURRY having retiral Mrom the Company's sorvica on completion of his agreement, notice is haraby given that Mr. L. J. BLACK- BURN, the Resident Engineer, has been appointed, as from this date, to hold all powers pertaining to the office of Local Secretary.

(S) JARDINE, MATHESON &

CO., LTD,

Local Agente Hongkong, 31st March, 1924.

NOTICE.

all in working order, having just recently been in full usa- (A) Four "Mond" gas producers

HIGH CLASS BOOTS AND SHOES

Made to order. ROYAL & CO.

No. 1, Agullar Etro

MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

Gravesend residents are very indignant with the local justices for deciding that all dances in public halls shall cease at 11 p.m.

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A small box of English-grown, strawberries reached Covent Garden market, and the fruit was sold for £2 8s, a pound,

for War, visited the Royal Arsenal Mr. Walsh, Secretary of State

at Woolwich and saw the men at work in the various departments.

capable of generating 400,000 cubic feet of gas per hour, of 140 B. T. U. per cubic foot com plete with washers, cooling tower, scrubbers, centrifugal cleaners, blower, motors, piping, etc., coal elevator and charging plast. (B) Two "Cockerül" horizontal 4-cylinder tandem double acting type gas engines, 1,000 B.H.P.

The Lard Privy' Seal, Mr. J. R. each and two esme type Clynes, has appointed Mr. Arthur 2cyclinder engines of 500 Hayday, M.P. for West Notting- B.HP. each, all the above made ham, to be his parliamentary by Richardson Westgarth & Co.. private secretary (unpaid). England. Engines complete with

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air starting plant, electric For the first time. "Hamlet" will Ignition, waler cooling pumps be produced by a university and motors, turaing gear, dramatic society when the Oxford motors, etc.

University Dramatic Society play

Two dynamos by Dick Kerr & Co., England, having an output of 750 K.W. each at 250 volls when driven, at 120 revolutions, also two aimilar dynamos of 375 K.W. ench, complete with switch-boards, and instruments,

etc.

For further particulars, apply to

Messrs. Butterfield & Swire,

Agents. The Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co. of Hongkong, Limited, Hongkong, 21st March, 1924.

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FOR

FRENCH TUITION

Write to

G. MOUSSION. c/o "China Mail" office,

STAR THEATRE, KOWLOON.

GRAND CONCERT

by

THE HONGKONG PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA.

on

THURSDAY, 3rd April, 1924, at 9.15-p.m.

Prices - $3, $2, $1. Booking at Moutrie's and

Star Theatre.

NOTICE.

it at Oxford.

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A young man smashed a side window of Messrs. J. W. Robertson aud Company's shop at 91, Aldersgate-strect,. E.C., snatched a diamond ring valued at £100, and escaped.

Fulham Council has appointed a sub-committee to conduct a ballot for selecting local teams to play on the public cricket pitches, as the applicants outnumber by near- ly four times the available pitches,

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Keeping her promise to revisit a Brooklyn grocery store she robbed three weeks ago, New York's [bobbed-hair bandit drove up in. a motor-car and kept watch while male confederates. stole another £50.

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The Duke of York made his first acquaintance. with an up-to-date bacon factory run on Danish lines when he inspected the plant at Kidlington, Oxfordshire, establish- ed as a result of the co-operative effort.

Reports received in London of the weather conditions prevailing at the French winter sports resorts show that the snow is 4 feet deep at Megève and Mont-Revard, and the weather is fine at Cauterets and Font-Romeu.

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KOWLOONITES

WHY HAVE YOUR CLOTHES MADE IN HONGKONG?

Come and see its

MODERATE PRIOR-FIT GUARANTEED. PERFICTION IN STYLE.

THE INDIAN TAILORING CO. KOWLOON HOTEL BUILDING,

NATURAL MINERAL WATER FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S Øprings

VICHY CELESTINS

in bottles, hair and splits

Goat, Diabetes, Rheumatism, Gravel, Arthritis

and EilisnanOSE.

VICHY GRANDE-GRILLE For Liar rouble VICHY HOPITAL or Indigestion.

Refuse substitutes. -- Mention name of Spring required.

GRAND

SALE

20 DAYS ONLY

Ending April 19

EXCEPTIONAL REDUCTIONS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT.

GRASP THIS OPPORTUNITY.

THE WING ON CO., LTD.,

EASTERN STORE

GENERAL

STORE-KEEPERS EAST VIEW BUILDING No. 6, Nathan Road. ROWLOON. TELEPHONE K. 25. PASS BOOKS ISSUED.

SPANISH ORANGES

CROPS AND THEIR CULTURE.

to the walling ships by the primitive system of row boats) send out more than 300,000. large cases of oranges and more than 9,000,000 half cases, most of them to England.

At a Camberwell. inquest on William Bugby, 73, of Sumner road, Peckham, a Camberwell

Especially in Valencia, where Vestry pensioner, who died of 'The exotic tide of the orange starvation, it was stated that £432 season is now nearly at its height

exported, the busy season con- in securities, bonds, and Treasury in Valencia. The crop is a record the majority of the oranges are Some 4,500,000,000 orang tinues throughout the winter and notes was found in his house.

add 1 will be shipped to touch of southern sunlight to spring. Then Valencia resembles British tables between now and one vast fruit bazaar. Easter,

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The American Ambassador and Mrs. Kellogg were, present, and the King, the Prince of Wales, Queen Alexandra, and the British Government were represented at a

one.

The same feverish activity goes on in the groves where the fruit is gathered, in the warehouses where

picturesque Valencia stations, in the villages, and along all the highways.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN service in memory of ex-President orange trade, but many others have it is packed, at all the railway

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It is true, of course, that many people have made fortunes in the

and General Brokers heretofore minster...

that the business of Share Wilson at St. Margaret's, West lost fabulous sums in it. Few Englishmen have any idea of the amount of hard and constant work

I climbed the rickety tower of carried on by the undersigned at Victoria in the Colony of Hong At

the Old Bailey Maurice and the high-intelligence req red kong under the style or firm of Friend, 29, of no occupation, who to cultivate this vast winter gar- the belfry of the old Moorish the sun set like a gigantic symbol WRIGHT & HORNBY will a from the Ist day of April, 1924 be held a commission during the war, den of eastern Spain (says a'writer church at Villareal, and watched carried on by them under the was sentenced to nine months' im in the Star.)***

each other, interlacing their green bosom of the plains of verting jewellery, the property of WE E the und signed hereby give style or firm of TESTER & Prisonment for fraudulently con- As the rows of trees cross of our orchards into the velvet

notice that we have resumed | ABRAHAM.

minable tangled jungle which roofs below there were orange. The change of name involves no Mine., Olga Serck, whom he met lower branches in an inter- Castelion. Beyond the immediate

at an hotel. business as "share and general

prevents the passage of all groves, nothing but orange groves, brokers under..the style or firm of change in the constitution of the at firar which will be continued as WRIGHT AND..COMPANY.

hmir. Arthur George Hollis, rond implements, scenes how many people palab With a bottle of lysol beside agricultural machinery and horse as far as the eye could reach. And ploughs, the ground has to be I wondered, watching this romantic Princes, Bulldings, Ice House Street, before.

.P. TESTER

assistant clerk to the Brighton wielded by labourers working als Third Floor as from the 31st March.

Guardians, was found dead in a

about anything more than måte " 1924.

Member of the HK Stock Exchange clump of bushes fa'' Surrenderways, in an irksome, stooping orange in half to eat it, ever thinkiş

position. Watering, manuring, road, Brighton. Nearly 6ft. 4in. In weed-burning, and pruning have sweetness and the number of its height, be was the tallest man in so to be done to this primitive Pipsupton bea Brighton.

way. Then, after six months' tail; when the hoped-for, fruit is borne Mr. Noyes, secretary of the at last in the one, bearing season Association, said his association

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Telephone No. 3519 Central.

J. F. WRIGHT,

T, W, HORNBY.

Hongkong, 31st March, 1924.

E. ABRAHAM.

Hongkong, 1st April, 1924.

“HONGKONG FÓRFARSHIRE TUNG SANG London Master Bakers Protection of the year, spring-like weather is

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ASSOCIATION,

Leis.

has been proposed to form a Hongkong Forfarshire Asso ciation. All those interceted are

requested to meet at

No. 2

Queen's Buildings, Ground Floor, opposite Star Ferry on Friday, April 11th, at 6 p.m."

Hongkong, 1st April, 1924-

WING HING

TAILOR

«PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. Specially Selected Woollan

Suftings Just Arrived, F

TAILOR

A CANT

114 Peel Street

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SW 17 IN DE R.

Orders executed at Shortest Notice.EXPERT FITLERS

Price lowest T

had decided to increase the price required to save it from ruin.

The first season, of the orange

of bread by d. a 4b, loaf (from business in Spain lasts binly from 8d. to 8 d.) and that the increase would come into operation in a fee the onsor of the winter unul Christmas or the end of the year. The second season, now in ful swing, begins on Twelfth Night

Born in Jersey on February 7 and lasts until Easter or spring-1 1824 Mrs. Jefferys, doctor's widow, of 36, Lewisham-road, Dartmouth Park Hili N, W.,

THE GOLDEN HARVEST. Throughout the winter the ports

of Castallon, Sagunto, Valencià; celebrated her hundredth and Gandia, and the flat and open day and received letters of shores of Burriona and Moncofar gratulation and good wishes where the oranges are still carried:

among others, the King and. ishop of London. Tegemi

SANAT DER AUS KRISpas moi

ARKES FOR S cá thu OSS CARLOTING, sim hay nha dep

64, Chicon's Rd,, Cal,

Hongkong. Telepbave fa172-slike

baigtow It Gained a Good

Reputation

FOOK SUN FOR SALE To appear That is precisely The way to gala's good reputation is how Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has guinei itz repatatios a curs for chide, crong and - Bronovial Nisfu congue,

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BEST PORTLAND CEMENT

SHEWAN TOMES & Co.,

General Managers.

HONGKONG,

PENINSULA

STORE

Armour's "Varybest”'

Frankfurter Sausage $1.00 per sin.

Do. 11.00 per doa. Vienna Style

Sausage 0.55 per tin. Do. 6.00 per don

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