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MONDAY JULY: "28, 1924 ‹

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON

TAXICAB CO., LTD,. NOTICE OF CALL.

Line of 49,000 Shares of the Nominal Value of $10 each, ($5 paid up)

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

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25 WORDS 9 INSERTIONS, 81. PREPAID.

Every additional word Ounta for 8 insertion.

TO LET.

LET-Ellenbud. Villas Apply E. T. H. Bunje c/o H. M. H. Nemazes, Prince's Building.

that the 3rd Call of $2.50 per TO 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 Shanghal Banking Corporation in Hongkong on or before the 15th day of August 1924.

The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed, from the 7th to 14th August 1924, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. H" ROWF,

Managing Director. Dated this 19th day of July 1924.

DUGĻAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, DOUGLAS STEA

LIMITED.

TICKETS will be issued for Round Trips during the months of July to September, from Hongkong, to Foochow (Pagoda Anchorage) and return, calling st Swatow and Amoy on both the upward and downward Voyage, by the Company's new, fast, well appointed steamer."Hai Ning" at the reduced rate of 580 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 Enochow.

Duration of stay at Foochow 48

hours.

Wharf al

FOR

FRENCH TUITION

Write to

G. MQURSION c/o "China Mall" office.

INTIMATIONS.

BONOKONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HIGH CLASS BOOTS AND SHOLK

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THE CHINA MAIL.

NOW IS THE TIME TO HAVE YOUR · SUMMER CLOTHES MADE.

Try us:

MODERATE PRICE. FIT GUARANTEED,

PERFECTION IN STYLE.

GENTLEMEN'S TAILOR AND BREECES MAKER LADIES' DRESS MAKER.

INDIAN TAILORING CO.

KOWLOO HOTEL BUILDING,

AUSTRALIAN

ZINC

ELECTROLYTIC

Containing about 195 Metallic Zine 99.9% rated).

| Shipped in plates averaging 58 iba, weight,

"ZINC. CONCENTRATES (Various)

For full particulars of the above, address- ZING PRODUCERS' ASSOCIATION PTY," LTD:-

*Contractors with the Board of Trade,

COLLINS HOUSE, 300 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA.

· London Addzow: ORKSBÁMATOURÉÉ, OLD Badan Amnezt, LONDON, EC. E. Cablon:"2txen Molloteno; INPROVAN, Luna.

Made to order. ROYAL & CO. No. 3, D'Aguilar-Brest

THE

MAIL WEEK NEWS,

ITEMS FROM FAR AND

--NEAR,

The unofficial strike on the London Electric Railway system came to an abrupt close.

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Admiral Sir Hedworth Maux's Chosroes won the Manchester Cup by a length and a half from Marvex, with Puttenden third. The favourite, Soldumeno, was fourth.

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Widening of 'Prince's street at a ΑΝ

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of cost of between £300,000 and seventy five cents per share $750,000 is proposed by the has been declared and will be Luprovement and Finance Com- the Corporation of payable on and after WEDNES-mittee of DAY, the 20th August, when London. Dividend Warrants may be obtained upon-application at the offices of the Company.

The Share Registers of the Company will be closed from Wednesday, 6th August, Tuesday, 19th August, 1924, both days, inglusive..

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By Order of the Board,

W. E. ROBERTS, Secretary.

Hongkong, 21st July, 1924.

to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.

The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days and the steamer will leave Hongkong from the Company's AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of Two

Dollars per share. for the six] p.m. arriving at daylight on her return (Weather months ending 30th June 1924 will be-payable-on-THURSDAY,– August permitting).

The Company's Steam Launch 14th on which date Dividend Warrants will convey,

from may be obtained on application at Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow the Company's. Office, il Queen's City, if required.

passengers

For further particulars -dates-of-Sailing=

Apply to

Road Central.

The Transfer Books of the Com- and pany will be closed from FRIDAY the lat to WEDNESDAY the 13th August (both days inclusive), during which perlod no transfer of shares can be registered,

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. : General Managers. DOUGLAS STEANSHIP CO. LD. Hongkong, June 17, 1924.

FOR SALE

BY

PRIVATE TREATY "THE TOWERS"

kong. Modern House of six rooms

By Order of the Board of Directors

L. S. GREENHILL, Secretary. Hongkong. 22nd July, 1924

HOTELS, LTD.

Efforts by the Government to get a more or less agreed measure for the reform of the Poor Law system have failed, and the Minister of Health will bring in a bill, which will be introduced in the autumn.

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MA H. E. Blain, chief agent of the party, said that the need for such candidates, had long been recognised, and a number would stand at the next General Election.

Controller of Materials of Muni- Sir Leonard Llewelyn, who was

tions Supply during the war, has died at Llanfrechfa 'Grange, near; Newport (Mon.), aged 50.

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Great Western Railway em- ployees in the London area have also decided to return, and instruc tions to the same effect, have heer given to members of the four craft

unions who are on strike,

Mr. G. H. Gater (Education -Omer of the London County Council), speaking at the jubilee annual conference of the Associa- tion of Head Mistresses, con- gratulated the association on having attained the complete triumph of the ideals for which it had been

started.

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"High hopes of future triumphs from the excavations at the site of THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI the "City of David" by the Palestine Exploration Fund, were reported by Professor RAS. Macalister to the annual meeting of the fand, although he confessed in some respects to disappointment with the results of the discoveries.

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DIVIDEND NOTICE.

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AMSTEL

Amatzi Seriss

Were the Pyramids built on Beer?

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Egypi

Long before tract refused to make bricks without azzas, beer was brewed in gris.

Perhaps the "bricklayers of those days sent their apprentices to the now buried cities to fetch as uent of what was th the beat-the equivalent of Ainstal, **

The methodic art of Ancient Egypt may be compared with the intricate care with which "Amstel, beer is brewed.

Don't intrels order "a beer?" 90% “* AMISTIL", beer, a little trouble giving a treat rated

"Amstel"--The beer that is

brewed for abroad.

AMST

BEER

BREWERY—AMSTERDAM.

Agonts for China:- DONNELLY-A-WHYTE, Hoogkong,——

VITALITY OF THE BUG.

A CAMPAIGN FOR GENERAL DESTRUCTION,

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BACHELOR-VIGAR.”

PARISH THAT REFUSED MARRIED MAN.

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Aceordiogr to the "Scientific American'

The trustees of St. Paul's Church. an attempt is at pre sent being made to work up publie Brighton, have appointed the Rev, opinion on the question ni the W. H. Carey, a bachelor, to be extermination of the best-bug. So vicar of the parish. The living long as thus obnoxious insect was has been vacant since the Rev. J. regardent merely as a source of in- E. Halliwell resigned in November dividual discomfort and the out-last. Considerable Interest was Ward sign of domestic diet, no aroused by the refusal of the other action to get rid of it was churchwardens and congregation considered necessary than the pre- to accept a married vicar, and this No. 20 Broadwood Road, Hong-

servation al scrapuious cleanliness,led to the Rev. G K. Olivier, of

withdrawing NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Now, however, that the inset has Letchworth, with all up to date fittings and

that an INTERIM DIVIDEND

been shown, or is at loust gruvoty acceptance of the living, improvements. Special Chinese has been declared is respect of the

suspected, to be the currier of the Mr. Olivier, declared that he was Rooms and decorations; ample financial year ending on the 31st Sir James Reckitt, Bt., who left i gyrins of certum serious diseases, informed by parish officials that servants quartera. Two Tepnis December, 1924, and will be payable unsettled property of the gross such as kula-azar, relapsing lever, it was against the tradition of the Courts. In its own grounds over on MONDAY, the 18th August 1924. value of £840,839, expressed in his [! 10 come neurer home, typhoid church to have a married vicar and looking Happy Valley.

as to SIXTY (60) Cents per share will a desire that his children and muenza, the general "exter opposed to the wish of the founder, on the OLD SHARES. and as to should follow "his example of mination of the hed-bug is thought the Rev. A. D. Wagner. FIFTEEN (15) Cea's per share on giving not less than 10,p.c. of to be desirable, and for this pur the NEW SHARES (1924 ISSUE), their inconse to religious or philan- pose, measures more effective and UPON. WHICH $5. PER SHARE thropic objects Estate of the more muversally applicable thin WAS PAID ON THE 31ST MARCH, gross value of £73.961 was left by that of simple cleanliness are of 1924.

Sir Walter Trower, solicitor, of course required. The Transfer Books of the Come, Westbourne-terrace, Hyde Park. pany will be closed from the 11th to the 16th August, 1924, both days Inclusive.

JOHN FLEMING, CA.

Trastec

C. E. Warren's Estate. 3, Queen's Road, Central: Hongkong, 26th July, 1914.

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

Me MEMBERS are hereby notified that the lists for next season's sub scription griffins will close on the 31st July.

Hongkong, 8th July, 1924

TUNG SANG

TAILOR

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By Order of the Board,

PERCY H. SUCKLING,

Secretary, Hongkong, 24th July, 1924.-

FOOK BUN FOR SALE, Panama Hats, Polt Hataji Straw Eats andall Kinda

of Esta

HATS CLEANED A SPECIALITY. No. 80, Wellington Streek:

DRIP FILTER

WITH

ICE CHAMBER. Price $80.00 each.

LEE KEH

21, Wellington Bt..

HEP HINA & (00 TAILORE

802 Pottinger Btrol.. idles" and "Gantiesien’"Tikorn.

· Defporn and Dätästers,

The Scientific American" gives an account of the method which it

Mr. Gercy, who is 55, Is vicar of the Church of the Annunciation. A tall, well-built man of athletic figure, he has the reputation of being the joillest man in his parish. To a reporter he said:

"The appointment was quite un“! After deliberating for two hours for the general destruction of this resulted from it is the discovery is hoped to bring into operation expected. The best thing that has and a quarter, the jury at the inpestilential insert, and incidentally that people have been quite un- quest regarding the death of Alfred George Poynter Jones, landlord of turishes us with some interesting aware of my age. I have been that brilliant young the Blue Anchor Hotel, Byfleet, res information with regard to its described as

Thus, we clergyman," and when I read it I turned a verdict that death was due exmordmary vitality. to strychnine poisoning adminis are told that specimens hatched in was so delighted that I danced a tered by some person or persons

have survived fandango in the bathroom. the laboratory

"Now I want to tell everybody living in the hotel on March 29 several months without tasting. with intent to cause Jones's death food from birth to death, while that. I am a jolly bachelor of 55. others fed in the laboratury lived I am going to send a letter to the from two months to a year. bishop, so that he may enjoy the Accompanied by a large house solitary specimen. brought into a know that he has cheated the

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empty apartment will rear. party, who had been invited to Windsor Castle.. the King and family and thrive, though human Queen attended Ascot races beings may not enter the room for momis. In such circumstances, semi-State.. Ascot. liveries of scarlet and blue, with gold may obtain sustenance by drop- facings, were worn by the out

ping down into a mouse or rat

joke. Even a bachelor likes to

appearances of time and is con şidered young at 55. It is the best, tonic I have had in all my life."

riders and postillions of the eight hole to feed, or by citing the Food Cannot Upset Your!

four-horse landeaus which con- veyed their Majestics and their visitors up the Royal Mile to the Grand Stand, on each of the four days of the meeting..

Stomach

"blood" of a dog, cat, or bird. * IN however, even these resources are wanting, and the bug itself dies if you take two or three little from starvation after months, the colony which it immediately after eating. When several tablets of Bisurated Magnesia

started will go on for a year or you have pain in your stomach the trouble is due to excessive acid

more.

found in walls and floors, A more

Replying to a question in the how the insect manages to keep Magnesia Tablets neutralise the It is still somewhat of a mystery or food fermentation. Bisurated House of Commons, Mr. Ramsay itself alive so long without any up-acid, stop the fermentation, and in MacDonald referred to the threaten- ed expulsion of Mr, Cummins, the parent supplies of food, and it has five minutes your stomach is doing British Diplomatic Agent in Mexico ggested that it lives on the its work in a painless, normal City a grave breach of interna- moisture from wood, or the dust manner. If you have dyspepsia, tional courtesy. If steps of which likely supposition, which is the gastritis, Indigestion, or just a the British Government did not view held by entomologists, is that plain every-day pain after eating, approve were taken against Mr. the colony supports itself by can go to the nearest chemist and get Cummins, Sir Thomas Hofler, who, was due to start at once, would not nibalism, the old eating the egg some Bisurated Magnesia Tablets. proceed on his mission to Mexico, or the young, and the young eat. A large flask costs very little and ing the old insects that die. Other if you will take as directed you | important facts with regard to the will find you can eat what you like limits of temperature within which without fear of any following dis- tha insect is able to continue the comfort. Further, it is usually struggle for existence, have also found that the simple taldar "of been established. Below, 60 deg Bisurated Magnesia adda strength The WANDERWELLS fahrenheit it stops feeding and and power to the vital organs: It breeding, but it still manager to urged, however, that the survive for long periods even when the temperature-falls below, free be seen when purchasing.

"""BISMAG" oval trade-mark, sign, ing point. On the other band; whan the temperature goes above 100 deg. fahrenheit, it, dies, and

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