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WEDNESDAY JULY 28 1924
INTIMATIONS.
-THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON |
TAXICAB CO., LTD."
NOTICE OF CALL.
Issue of 49,000 Shares of the Nominal Value of $10 each, ($5 paid up)
NOT
JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 3rd Call or $2.50 per
Share on each of the `49,000 shares allotted on the 19th day of May. 1923, has been made by the Company, and that such call will be payable to the Company's Bankers, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong' on or before the 15th day of August 1924.
The Transfer Books of the Con pany will be closed from the 7th to! 14th August 1924. inclusive..
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WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
25 WORDS I INSERTIONS,
"SI. PREPAID. Every additional word's Centa
for 3 insertions.
WANTED."
WANTED. Thoroughly ex
perienced Chinese Assistant required for large British firm in Hongkong, Must be good, writer and quick at figurës. Sound knowledge of Englisa. Apply box No. 303.
TO LET.
Villas
both days TO LET-Ellenbud
Apply E. T. H. Bunje do. H. M. H. Nemazce, Prince's Building:
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. M. ROAVE,
Managing Directat,
Dated this 19 day of July 1924.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED:
FOR
FRENCH TUITION
Write, to
G. MOUSSION cla "China Mail" office.
INTIMATIONS.
TICKETS will be issued for Round Trips during the months of July to September, from Hongkong to. Fonchow (Pagoda Anchorage) and return, calling eti Swatow and Amoy on both the THE HONGKONG "LAND INVEST. upward and downward Voyage, MENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD. by the Companys new, fast, well appointed steamer "Hai 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 Fonchow.
Duration of stay at Fonchow 48 hours.
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THE CHI
HIGH CLASS BOOTS AND, SHORS
Made to order. ROYAL & CO.
No. 1, IPAzular Atresi ·
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
A rather excessive, humidity is marking the present, hot, whatlier in Egypt.
Railwhy shopmen är Neath. Glamorgan, who hïve been an strike for a fortnight, have resumed work.
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Right. Bumsünd delegits are aududing the International Rotary Convention' at Terpalą.
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Mr. Thomas Clos, controller öf the Unionist Central, Olbire.. is retiring shortly. He was formerly agent to Mr. Four Law.
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N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Two A
Mr. Lewis Casson, the uctor aud months ending 30th June 1924 will", is better at hopes to leave
Dollars per share for the six
prodier, who was taken seriously be payable on THURSDAY, August 14th on whichi date Dividend Warrants
London. may be obtained on application at the Company's Office, 11 Queen's Road Central
The Transfer Bocks of the Com- pany will be closed from FRIDAY the 1st to WEDNESDAY the 13th August (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered,
The Trip copies 8 to 9 days and the
ii][ steamer
leave Hongkong from the Company's Wharf at 5 pm. arriving at By Order of the Board of Directors daylight on her return. (Weather
L. S. GREENHILL, permitting).
Secretary. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1924.
The Company's Steam Launch will convey passengers from Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow Clty, if required.
For further particulars and dates of Salling-
Apply to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LD. Hongkong. June 17, 1924.
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of
NOTICE.
E bave This Day xdmitted Mr. THOMAS GARNER PATERSON as a Partner in our Firma, The business will be carried on as heretofore under the firm name of Anderson and Ashe.
ANDERSON & ASHE. Hongkong. 14th July, 1924.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
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When you open an account at a bank you have to give a specimen of your. signature. That is the signature, you
use when drawing a cheque. The Common wealth Bank is asking its custom- ers to forward their signatures to complete the bank's records, says the Sydney Sun.
Of course, you may write your name in many other ways, but the bank officials don't know
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by asking the new customer to add ; **X*XX**XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX**XXXXOOXU 10 his signature the suburb in which he resides: he becomes on RTN B
his cheques John Smith, Mosman. Another Sydney bank, however, merely requests the customer to bank at one of its branches con- venient him.
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The reason for this procedure is not the possibility of fraud, but the trouble that is caused when money is paid into bank to John Smith," and, if there are two of that name the bank does not know to whom to credit the amount.
Still, there are always other helps to identification, suck the muraher of the cheque.
There remains the problem of your usual signature Even the man who signs his name withan Mr. H. Thonus, the Colonial if your signature is an undecipher- undecipherable flourish, a madden- wild series of ed maze of exuberant loops and Scentury, who has been absent able scrawl, a From his offel duties for several flourishes like those made by a twirlwigs. (He is usually a little Werks owing 46
attack offy out of the ink bottle crawl mau) Yet this signature comes Fleurisy, has returned to Whining over the paper, that is quite quite easy to the bank expert. He enough for the teller to hand you doesn't know what the letters in it |Ítal..
out £1,000-if, which isn't likely are, but he retains the picture of possess £1,000. it in his mind, and recognises and nowadays, you
How does the examiner of identifies it with comparative case. cheques distinguish the signature It is like a Chinese character, the o Say, Mr. J.Spith, from all the general outline of which recalls. other J. Smiths who bank' in the the name of the customer. It is} same bank? The answer is--be like a landscape with the general doesn's; he doesn't need to.
features/Enown to the observer. It is as define to the expert as a finger print-and usually it looks remarkably like a finger print.
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A seventy five cents per share E have removed our Hong under being 174881 m
has been declared and will be
'kong Store to our Koyloon payable on and after WEDNES| Branch, No. 84 Nathan Readi." DAY, the 20th August, when
Customers are kindly requested Dividend Warrants may be to communicate for their require- obtained upon application at the ments at our new address where offices of the Company.
accounts will also be received and The Shure Registers of the
paid: Company will be closed from Wednesday, ·August, 10 Tuesday. 19th August, 1924, both days inclusive.
6th
By Order of the Board,
W. E, ROBERTS. Secretary.
Hongkong, 21st July. 1924.
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It is obvious that with a score of John-Smiths, J. Smiths, and Jao Smiths banking in the same office. forgery, are considerable. After
the chances of a mistake, or of a
in a bank is not an easy one, but
The job of sorting out chaques
all, there are only a limited number so expert does the sorter get that of ways of signing "J. Smith"; he seldom is in doubt. When and it is conceivable that in the there is any difficulty he has to same bank Two I. Smiths might submit the cheque to all the tellers have signatures that would be ex-in turn and finally to the chief tremely difficult to distinguish examiner. However, it is not the Yet an official in one of the Sydney signature to a cheque that matters; banks said definitely that the it is the amount. chances of mixing up" the two signatures of the same name were only one in a million.
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In court cases of forgery "haud. The name of hail is given to writing experts" are frequently pellets of ice with fall chiefly in called in. Counsel for the accused summers. How they are formed is at liberty to discount the is not, definitely known, but one expert's evidence of handwriting suggestion is that hail is rain frozen by eliciting the fact that the | by being carried in strong ascend- My DLB DE BE BUB DE UN ALADE BERED AT:
bandwriting expert" is "only a ing currents of air to higner, freez- bank clerk. This is not at alling altitudes before it falls. On Hikely to weigh with the judge. ¦ the other band some hailstones, For there is no better expert in cut through, are seen to be in layers,
deposited round a speck of dust. handwriting than a bank clerk.
Who Invented Gas?
Natural gas escaping from the his wile's death. It was stated able signatures;and a long acquaint-earth is said to have been collected conse-ance with signatures unconsiously and used for lighting in China quence ni a statement made by his makes the bank clerk an expert many hundreds of years ago; but wife as she was dying.
He can immediately discover in the western world William Mur- apparently infinitesimal differences dock first used coal gas for light- Charged at Esses Assizes within signatures, simply because that ing his house at Redruth, Corn- the murder of Eliza Springett, 3, is his job. He acquires a flair, wall, in 1792.
It is the duty of bank clerks, or
Joseph Westgarth, 46, a nijuer, was rounded at Castle Eden. Porkam, on a charge of causing chief examinere, to handle inumer
that he was arrested in
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just as the art critic, knows when a
during quarrel at her house at Colchester. Williams Garmon, painting is genuine or faked
and James Rose, 50. were found guilty of manslaughter!
The
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The most cunning of forgers has to get past an official whose life- work has made him an 'expert-- though perhaps he does not even
Got Indigestion? Here's News For You!
passenger motordiner know how expert he unconsciously Do you realise that nine cases of "Aoraugi" (17,580 trust, built for is. Something tells him that the digestive trouble out of every ten the trans-Pacific service of the signature; is not a genuine one, are caused by excess acidity in the Union Steamship Co. of New even though he can't point out the stomach and that this is easily been minute difference that rouses his neutralised? It's a fact, and you laundærd at Govan, Glasgow, suspicions."
Zealand service.
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Of course, there are occasional can demonstrate it by taking a The Red Cross day heti on Mayforgeries that get past his eagle couple of Bisurated Magnesiu 16 last in aid of the County of eye; but in the majority of such Tablets next time you get ar London branch of the Red Cross crimes there are other circum-attack of stomach pain. Notice Society and the British Empire stances that influence him, such as the ease, the instant relief which Cancer Campaign resulted
tablets inan established routine or some these
bring! That's £2,431 17: 11d being collected. customary delegation of authority, because they neutralise the pain- the expenses amounting to rather ONE SMITH PER BANK
causing acid the moment they less than 5 per cent. of the whole."
Bisurated Banks, however, are very careful enter the stomach. of the avoidance of any possible Magnesin Tablets are the finest Following the publication in source of error, and protect them things out for imparting health, "The Daily Mail of the news of selves in a curious way. If you, be strength and vigour to the vital their disappearance, two 16-ycura-jing T. Smith, wish to open an ac old girls Doris Bean and Mar- count at a certain bank, at whichan-organs, and you can get these guret Littleproud, who had been other J. Smith already has an ac- wonderful tablets cheaply at any missing from a girls school at count, the possibility of a mistake chemist's. When buying look at Hovo, Sunnex, were found with is easily avoided. If you are the wrapper to make sure that friends at Maidstone.
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James Smith, or Jeremiah Smith, or what you have got is Bisurated Jehoshaphat Smith, you are Magnesia, as this ensures your politely asked to sign your fulf getting the one thing that' doen name. If you are James Jehofa give aure and instant relief. If |_ Hat_Weather Diseases · chin Smith or James Jellybag you see the ovál “BISMAG” trade. Disorders of the bowels are extremely Smith, or James Judas Smith mark you'll know your'e safe. dangerous, particularly during the bat though you dislike your second westher of the stimmer months and is name, you are asked to sign in
See it on order to protect yourself and family full, to distinguish you from sgainst a sudden attack, get a bottle of plain James. Chamberlain's Collo and Diarrhoes
Ons Sydney bank gets over the Remedy. It can be depended upon difficulty of too many John Smiths “Lee Mie evorg where. Th
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