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FRIDAY, JULY 18 1924
INTINATIONS.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP,
CO., LTD..
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that an Extraordinary general Meeting of The Douglas Steam- ship Company, Limited" will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, 20; Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 18th day of October, 1924, at Noon, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, approving the draft new Articles of Association of the Company which will be submitted to the Meeting.
A print of such draft new
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Made to order. ROYAL & CO.
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INTIMATIONS.
NOTICE.
Mr. THOMAS GARNER PATERSON as a Partner in our Firm, The business will be carried on as heretofore under the firm name of Anderson and Ashë,
Articles and a print of the exist-Apply E. T. H. Bunje do WE have This Day admitted, ing Articles of the Company may H. M. H. Nemazce, Prince's be seen at the Company's said Building. Registered Office, and at the office of Messrs. Deacons, 1. Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria aforesaid, Solicitors for the Company, and the portions of the proposed new Articles which differ from the
existing Articles are indicated by being underlined in red.
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Should the Meeting approve of such new Articles of Association with or without modification, the
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subjoined Resolution will be pro-CHINESE Gentleman with thorough posed as an Extraordinary Resolu- tion, namely:
"That the new Articles already approved by this. Meeting and, "for the purpose of identifica-
tion, subscribed by the Chair- man thereof, be and the same are hereby adopted as the *** Articles of the Company to the ""exclusion of and in substitu- *tion for all the existing "Articles thereof."..
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that a Further Extraordinary General Meeting of the said Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Com- pany, 20, Des Voeux Road Central, aforesaid on WEDNESDAY, the 5th day of November, 1924, at. Noon for the purpose of receiving) a report of the proceedings at the above mentioned Meeting, and of confirming, if thought fit, as a Special Resolution the above men- tioned Resolution.
Dated the 14th day of July, 1924.
By Order, DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
General Managers.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
knowledge of English, English customs and manners, desires ext change English or Chinese for French French gentleman. Apply Box No 30,"China Mail."
lessons, with
FOX
FRENCH TUITION
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Wine to
G. MOURSION clo "China Mail" office.
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION.
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on
per
interim dividend of £3 share subject to deduction of Income Tax has been declared for the HALE YEAR ending 30th June, 1924 at rate of 2/4 5/8 per dollar.
The dividend will be payable on and after MONDAY the 11th August
of 1924, the Offices
the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
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The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corperation will be closed fram MONDAY the 28th July to SATUR DAY The 9 August 1924 (both days inclusive) during which period
of shares can registered
no transit"
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be
TICKETS will be issued for Round Trips during the months of July to September, from Hongkong to Foochow (Pagoda By Order of the Court of Directors. Anchorago)-and-return, calling.et
-AH BARLOW Swatow and An oy on both the
Acting Chiel Manager. upwaid and downward Voyage,
Hongkong, 8th July, 1924. by the Company's new, fast, well appointed steamer "Hal Ning" at the reduced rate of $80 for the round Voyage, including Meals while the steamer is in port.
These Special Tickets will be available for return only by this steamer, either by the Voyage for which it is issued or by her following sailing from Foochow
Duration of stay at Foochow 48
hours."
and the
CHEFOO HARBOUR
COMMISSION.
TENDER FOR GRAB DREDGER.
HE Chefoo Harbour Commis
sion invites tenders for a Grab type self propelled Hopper Dredger.
The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days Approximate dimensions: Hop- steamer will leave per capacity 80 tons; Length 80 Hongkong from the Company's feet O A; Beam 20 feet; draught Wharf at 5 p.m. arriving at loaded 6 feet; speed 5 knots; daylight on her return (Weather extreme working radius of crane permitting).
20 feet; 1 Sand and 2 mud grabs The Company's Steam Launch and usual warping winches; wind; from lass; 2 suitable mooring anchors will convey passengers
Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow with 45 fathoms of cable on each;' City, if required.
For further particulars and dates of Sailing-----
Apply to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers DOUGLAS STRAMSHIP CO. LD. Hongkong, June 17, 1924,
THE BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED HONGKONG
REMOVAL NOTICE.
THE BANK OF CANTON LTD. beg to announce the removal
new
of their office from No. 6 Queen's Road Central to their premises at No. 6 Des Voeux Road Central-on-the-14th-July-1924.-
Hongkong, 14th July, 1924.
WING HING.
TAILOR
FERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. Specially Selected Woollen Sultings Just Arrived,
Orders executed at Shortest Notice.
"Price-lowest.“
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Hongkong
Telephone 1437.
crew space; latrine; galley; etc. etc 4-1 cwt, warping anchors; necessary fairleads, etc.
Delivery at Chefoo, complete and ready for immediate use before acceptance...
The Commission does not bind Itself to accept the lowest or any of the Tenders submitted
Tender and drawings should be sent to the Treasurer, Chefoo Harbour Commission, care of Commissioner of Customs, on or before the 1st day of August, 1924
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ANDERSON & ASHE; Hongkong, 14th July, 1924.
MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS.
MONIES up to $425,000 are avail-
able for investment on first class Mortgage security subject to a trustee valuation.
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Apply to Messrs. DEACONS. 1, Des Voeux Road Central,
Hongkong. 11th July, 1924.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB..
MEMBERS are hereby notified that
the lists for next season's sub- #cription griffins will close on the 31st July."
Hongkong, 8th July, 1924
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ITEMS FROM FAR AND
The system of regulating Paris street traffic by coloured signals is to be tried on a larger scale,
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Ons person was killed and several were injured pear Almeria, Spain, in a collision between a goods train and a light engine.
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Dr. Richard Emmett, 66, of Portsmouth, died while sitting at his desk writing. During the war he was a licut-colonel in the R.A.M.C.
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At their conference at Leeds thei Tailors and Garment Workers Union decided to cancel on Jane 30 their agreements with the Wholesale Cloth Manufacturers Union.
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Thieves broke into the workshop of Marson and Jones, Ltd., silver smiths, Spencer-street, Birming- ham, and stole 2,000 ounces of unfinished silver articles valued at about £400.
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CRIME.
Further developments are taking place in the case of Nathan Leo pold, jup., and Richard Losh, the two "gilded prodigies" both sons of millionaires, both "Intellectual- ly emancipated," students of the University of Chicago, one with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy and the other that of Bachelor of Arts. There is just a prospect to day that America may witness an other spectacular murder trial, in which high-priced lunacy experts will clash as in the Harry Thaw case, and very great wealth" In dollars be putted against the machinery of the law. Both are accused, and both have confessed that they deliberately murdered the fourteen-year-old boy Robert Franks for adventure, experi ment, sport, and ransom," and the Public Prosecutor at Chicago.
A PAINTER RECLUSE,
© CHARLES JOHN COLLINGS"
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BIG GAMBLE,
PLAY STAGED WITHOUT
· CAPITAL
HOW THE PIT PAID.
If Mr. Charles John Collings were not a recluse, living and. working in the solitude of the Canadina Rookies, shunning rather Quite one of the best books of than seeking publicity, and paint-memoirs for a long time is "The ing for his own satisfaction and Truth at. Last (Butterworth, for that of a few discerning 21s.), by Sir Charles Hawtrey patrons who have " und him that amusing prevaricator" on out, there can be little doubt that the stage-whose death less than he would rank with the greatest a year ago was such a sad loss to water colour painters of all times-the gay world. the corapeer, of Turner, with whom "He was by passion a racing he has so much in common, both man," his editor. Mr. W. Somerset as regards vision and technique. Maugham, says, "and only by
In some respects the exhibition necessity an actor." of Mr. Collings's water-colours of "The Canadian Rockies," ut the! Carroll Gallery, in George-street, is examining naw Hanover-square, charges against the "intellectually modern artist to be even superiorhazard manner in which he went
proves this
flowing
emancipated youths, involving the murder of Freeman Louis to Turner. Tracy, a University of Chicago Thanks to his highly developed student, last November. Tracy sense of design, the Three persons were killed and was shot dead, and it is alleged arabesque of his contours, and the 12 injured near the spot where the that his arssilauts, previous to the alternating tenderness and rich armistice was signed; at Pierre- death, "stole bla gland "hrough a accentuation of his colour, these crude operation. So far, however, water-colours far exceed· Turner's fonds, near Compiegne, when a the couple have not bee charged as regards decorative effectiveness, private motorcar came into collision with a motor-coach, with the Tracy crime, and there is enough human interest in Franks' death for the moment to absorb Two Lowestoft trawlers collid
the attention of the American
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Mr. Collings, in his landscapes, knows how to find and to aren fuate decorative rhythm without falsifying the colours and forms of nature.
No living painter could have in- vested the tree trunks of "The Pillared Forest" with such rich- ness of hue and energy of growth without appreciably depurtingi from truth beyond the point of legitimate emphasis.
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I think that he forgot the. name of half the characters he played, but never that of a horse ho backed. The hap-
on the stage and his desultory training are astonishing when you reflect that he was the most finished "comedian of his gen- eration...... His real interest was in life for him acting was. always little more than a means of livelihood. He took neither life nor himself with unbecom- ing gravity.
Hawtrey had much of the non- chalance and good humour of the born gambler.
It must be remembered that if he had not risked his every- thing he would have achieved nothing. His producing "The Private Secretary" without any capital behind him was the big- gest gamble of his life, and it brought him great success! His palette, too, hus an infinitely
With a bad start at the Prince greater range than Turner show of Wales's, the famous "Secre tender and sweet, like the tur tury played to "very poor busi- ghoise, pale mauve and chryso-ness." Then Hawtrey resolved to prase of Spring in the Selkirks, back his luck. With haphazard now triumphant, like the pure loans from friends he carried it to lapis lazuli of the mountains in the Globe. It was soon playing to At the Head of Shuswap Lake, £850 a week. One night the pit or, again, sud and solen like the doors "gave way under the pres grey-green and olive of "Solitude," sure of the gathering crowd." or infinitely subtle and delicate, All passed in without paying like the topes of grass and earth but my brother John," with the making themselves felt under family resourcefulness, passed The Last of Winter Show round two plates-from the re freshment-bar-"as in church,"
ed off the Kincardineshire coast in a thick fog. One of them, the
In the case of Franks, the fathers Pevensey Castle," sank at once of all the principals are millio. the crew being rescued by the aires, all are socially prominent, other boat, the
"Girl Kathleen." and all belong to the first Jewish * •*
families of Chicago.
Na hait Peter Wood was sentenced to 12 Leopold, sen., was for years a months' hard labour at Glasgow commanding figure in the ship for assaulting his wife immediate ping business on the Great Lakes ly after she had given birth to alfred Loeb, father of Richard, child. She had to leave her beds vice-president of the largest and and seek shelter with a neighbour. most prosperous "goods by mail" concern in the United States. Jacob Mr. J. H. Springthorpe, an Franks, father of the murdered express tralo driver of the Great boy, has millions in land invest Western 'Railway, has retired ments. Although in possession after more than 50 years' service of a dozen motor-car between. with the company without athen, the plotters of Franks's serious mishap. He drove the death, who posed in hotels as royal train many times.
"travelling salesmen," used a hired machine for the purpose of their General Sir Charles Monro, the crime. It is alleged that they Governor of Gibraltar, attended planned the murder seven months а bull-fight at Algeciras (in ahead. We have banging cases Spanish territory opposite Gibral here," said the Public Prosecutor tar) in connection with the annual
at Chicago ** and fair there and at the invitation of technicalities will stay the ends But every touch he places on the
of justice. He asks for in paper is us precious as a jewel. dictments charging kidnapping for ransom-the youths said they wanted to get to Europe and their fathers would not advance sufficient cash-and for murder.
of the Governor of Algeciras.
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While 10,000 children were taking part in a festival at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, a bull charged at the procession. Mounted police kept it away from the children, but it dashed into a band and injured Sheppard.
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ANTIQUE REPAIRS,
LUCRATIVE TRADE FOR GIRLS.
and the admission was duly re- covered.
Of the famous Dr. Keate, the Headmaster of Eton, who thought flogging a sure recipe, for every fault, Hawtrey says
I builove, too, it is an absolute fact that when the list of boys who were to be confirmed was sent up to him, he flogged 56 of them before he found out his mistake.
He recalls that King Edward
was a "great disciplinarian in the
matter of punctuality":
I was once dining with the King when one of the guests was late. Presently the de- " faulter hurried in, looking very nervous, and stood like a school- boy in front of a master.
PRISONERS' OBSESSION. Both the youths when arrested displayed a brazen demeanour. They seem absolutely obsessed by the idea that money can do any Mrs. Reid, an Aberdeen woman thing-buy experts and news-
There are just one or two woulen who immediately after giving papers, jurors and judges. Young in London, and a few in the pro- birth to a baby was alleged to Leopold expressed his conviction vinces, who earn a first-rate living have murdered her two other that the thing can be fixed up by an experts in the repairing and children-with-a-razor and tried-10 squaring-a-few-jurors-and-in-a-
roaking up of antique cbint take her own life, died on June 3. written statement secured by the
Their names, unknown to the Chicago police in their. "third
are treasured by aru Tom Taylor, a Labour member deares" inquisition-no physical public, of North-leath Rural District violence is used in this ordeal, experts, who send them -ching, Council, Gloucestershire. was but it lasts for hours and is porcelain pottery and similar trea- sentenced to three months' hard always very exhausting-Leopold sures, badly cracked, er even in labour at Gloucester Assizes for said I wanted to know what a fragmente, rubbed and discoloured having handed in a forged murderer thinks about after he and chipped, and get it buck so nomination paper, at the recent commits the crime. Loeb and my cleverly repaired. and council election.
self have lately worked hard instructed that the work escapes any' psychological investigations and
but the expert eye.. During the Catholic Guilds' we wanted definite results."
It is not out of any iden of procession at Preston, the white In view of the fact that
no excuse could be adequate for horse carrying Joan of Arc (Miss both the youths have confessed deceiving their customers that: arti
such an offence. A Josephine Riley, 21) slipped and their crime the newspaper Press dealers employ the services of
full threw its rider, who was taken | gives
the those clever artists, says writer expression to
Hawtrey "had a very accurate home suffering from shock and a friends of democracy and in the Daily Chronicle. Many knowledge of the Scriptures. cut lip. Her attendant, Mr. James equality" who protest against the collectors gladly buy rare pieces, which he often quoted most Newsham, was also unhorsed and prospect of millions of dollars oven if these have been broken, so aptly. hurt his left arm. ^
being spent to cheat the law, as long as they can be repaired in in the Thaw case."" Death would.
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And this involves not only gen eral artistic understanding, but & geologist's knowledge of the pro- perties of different earths and clays from which the pottery or porcelai
Sir Alexander Grant, chairman be the most merciful and for them such a way that they resemble, for of McVitie and Price, biscuit says the New York WorldNa practical purposes, their original manufacturers, who received a doubt their families will fight stute. baronetcy in the Birthday to save them, but it would be an Honours, has made a gift of £5,000 additional tragedy if for years and to institute a benevolent fund for years on end the courts, familles, the Scottish Federation of Grocers doctors, and lawyers were to be and Provision Merchants Associ kapt in a turmoil over two lives atloos
than can never justify theft, ex-| Istence. The chances are that the legal proceedings will not run into millions of dollars, as predicted, and already the case has had sp ranch publicity that millions would
Mr. A. V. Alexander (Parlia mentary Secretary, Board of Trade) informed the Copperative Con- gress that a Government bill deal
Ing with trusts and combines had not be effective oved if spent. been prepared, but that legislation Chicago's honour is aroused, and
The Burden Of Indigestion.
Here are the facts about a real
of that type would have to stand the Public Prosecutor there seems remedy for indigestion ---and
over until next session of Parlia- anxious to allay any justifiable
ment.
suspicion of money's influence in this particular murder case. Y
weakness of the vital organs— that burden which makes life. à
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"So-and-so, you're late.” "Yes, sir, but →→ "So-and-so, you're late," "I'm extremely sorry, sir "So-and-so, you're late?" That was all, but one felt that
On Queen Alexandra's day, in 1923, he, as usual, bought his rose when he went out in the morning. That day, in the afternoon, he was walking` in Piccadilly when a rose-seller asked him to buy another flower. He pointed to the one in his button-hole, and said, "With a great price obtained I this free. dom."
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And the rose-seller just raised her tray of flowers as she re- plied. But I was free born."
He was so much pleased with her ready answer that he at once, bought another rose..
Arrangements have been made The question is raised, how could misery for so many. The remely articles were originally made. For by the London General Omnibus these two youths, both excep is Bisurated Magasin, a harmless it would be a pour art which re Company whereby 250,000 visitors tionally well educated, live for yet effective compound which paired a delicate piece of Dresden can be transponed from the British nineteen years without exhibiting since its inception, hes received Empire Exhibition. daily, and any sytsptoms which should have the written, endorsement of thou or Sevres with anything but the buses can leave the company's warned their families.and teachers bands of grateful people in all same paste in which the original new station at intervals of fifteen to be on their guard? In recent parts of the world as well as the artist moulded and baked his
treasure long" sgó seconds."
years bootleg "igin and whisky recommendation of doctors nursea have had much to do with crime and hospitals. Bisurated Magnesia The repairer must, of course, be After an absence of four minutes and vied amongst the young in stops stomach pain Instantly by an artist herself able to mix colours the jury at the inquest on Miss the United States, but in the case removing its cause, it is quite delicately, and apply them with | Emily Beilby Kaye, whose mutilat of the two gilded prodigies, in inexpensive, and either tablet or tonoh worthy of her predecessor. ed body was found in a bungalow tellectually emancipated as they powder form can be obtained from She moat aim at such a perfection. on the Crumbles, near Eastbourne, described themselves, there his
returned a verdict of wilful murder been no record in the proceedings any chemist. It is the one sure in recreating, a majolica plate out against Patrick Herbert, Mahon, so far of strong drink netil sane and safe remedy for those of half a dozen fragments that the who has been committed for trial. when Leopold asked the sheriff to who suffer from indigestion, and cracks show only as a hair line, A me take a Lote to his father and stomach weakness, but when buy and do not leave an ugly mark to It is likely that, in addition to come back with a bottle of harding care should be taken to so8 mar the whole. And she must the Republican and Democratic-| stuff."""
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