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MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1924.

INTIMATIONS.

HIGH CLASS BOOTS AND BROMA

THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON

TAXICAB CO., LTD.

NOTICE OF CALL.

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

Not the 3rd Call of $2.50 per TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

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 an or before the 15th day of August 1924'. The Transfer Bogks of the Com- pany will be closed from the 7th to 14th August 1924, both day's Inclusive.

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By Order of the Board of Directora,

"A.PH. ROWE,

Managing Director.

Dated this 19th day of July 1924.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED.

TICKETS will be issued for

Round Trips during the months of July to September, from Hongkong to Foochow (Pagoda Anchorage) and retura, calling at 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 $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.

Made to exter. ROYAL & CO.

No.1, D'Aguilar Street

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

16 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID.

Every additional word & Centa

ter 8 insertiona.

WANTED.

HINESE Gentleman requires

authorised architect as partner Apply Box No. 306 c/o "China Mai)."

TO LET.

TO LET Shop and Offices No. 12 Pedder Street. Apply at the Premises.

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CLEVER FRAUDS.

THE CHINA MAH.

MANY DUPED BY S. K. WONG

Shanghai, July 25A most novel swindle came to, light at the Mixed Court yesterday morn= { Ing, when S. K. Wong, alias several Wongs, Sings and Kyungs, appeared before Mr. Martin and Magistrate Zao,

Sub-Insp. Powell had charge of the case.

It was Wong's habit, said the prosecution, to become acquainted with the employees of the various men against whom he operated and elicited from them, details which could give him an insight

into some of their most intimate

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ITEMS FROM FAR AND

'NEAR,..

LONDON, July 14.

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affairs and then applying a touch of shrewdness, not usually possess. ed men of the type, wormed his way into the confidence of the "My husband niefers dole work victim, and got money by false because there is more freedom 4፡ about It" said a woman at Mary pretences.

Mr. A. G. Wallas, Chinese Mari-lebone County Court. time Customs, in answer to Mr. Maitland. Police Solicitor, said he The accounts of East Ham was residing at the house of Mr. Tramways for the year ended K. J. McEuen, Commissioner of March 31 show a loss of £35.673, the leave). loss for the previous year having Police (now home Accused came to see him there on been £10,629 June 15 at 5 pm with his subtle

Ten thousand wild horses run- tale and extracted funds for a cable. Stating that he knew some ning at large on the range areas of witness's friends whom he of Southern Alberta were driven called by name, one of whom by cowboys, and ranchmen a few was in the Inspector-General's weeks ago into one central corral. office. Peking, accused declared

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or and Mr. Woo would then call upon tion caught fire yesterday, the getting the one thing that does shops, in DUDDELL STREET witness. That he was staying at flames breaking several panes of

givé sure and instant relief. If now occupied by Messrs. Alexan- the Burlington Hotel was another roof glass in the building.

you see the oval “BISMAG" trade- der Ross & Co., Ltd. and Caldbeck assertion which lent dignity to his Macgregor & Co For Particulars position.

mark you'll know your'e'safe. apply to H. Ruttonjee &, Son, 16, Queen's Road.

Finally after a long conversation in Chinese and Eng- lish-accused said he knew Russian also-Wong showed Mr. Wallis printed form of Chinese characters

of building facing harbour.sister in Peking, but it was after

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Four hundred members of the United States Bar arrived in the Cunard liner "Aquitania" at South- ampton yesterday on their way to London for the English visit of the

The Trip occupies & to 9 days UFFICES TO LET on ground floor which he desired to send to his American Bar Association. and the steanter will leave Suitable for Shipping Company, banking hours and he had not Hongkong from the Company's Apply: The Hongkong Land Invest- enough funds. Could witness lend Wharf at

p.m. arriving at ment & Agency Co., Ltd. daylight on her return (Weather

permitting).

The Company's Steam Launch will convey passengers Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow City, if required.

from

For further particulars and dates of Sailing-

Apply to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LD. Hongkong, June 177'1924.

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HONGKONG CRICKET LEAGUE,

THE ANNUAL MEETING will be held at the Pavilion of the Hongkong Cricket Club (by kind permission) on MONDAY, 25th inst. at 5.15 p.m.

F

H. OWEN HUGHES,

Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 15th August, 1924.

WING HING

TAILOR.

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FOR

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Write to

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INTIMATIONS.

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DIVIDEND NOTICE.

him $4. Departing with effusive thanks, Wong declared that he would return with Woo, but failed to do so.

The success which has attended the reopening of the Empire Theatre, Leicester-square, as a music-hallis to take Sir Alfred Buit on a personal search of the provinces and, the Continent for new talent.

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THE CONFIDENCE TRICK. Mr A. L. Blechynden, vic- Mrs. Wintringham proposes that timized in the sum of $35, was the a tenant farmer shall have the right next witness. Wong also came to to go to the county court to have see him, said witness, at the New his rent reduced in view of dearer Engineering and Shipbuilding Co.,, wages 'under the Farm Labourers' stating that as advance agent for Wages Bill. Mr. Woo. in Peking. He authorized to open negotiations The players having failed to for work to be done on a steamer, find a ball bit out of the ground. Informal conversations followed during A. cricket match.

him gave

was

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The Sign of the Genuine

BISMAG

See it on every

Package

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EXPERT FITTERS

Prince Otto von Bismarck, whose HIGH CLASS TAILORING

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and Wong then asked to write Folkestone yesterday a setter dog, a cable in Chinese containing given the scent of another cricket important information and request-ball, found the missing one ing a time. for an appointment. inmediately. Accused again seemed to lack funds for sending the wire and asked for a loan of $25 for which motor-car was bisrned a couple of He came to days ago, was slightly injured a. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN witness granted.

that an INTERIM DIVIDEND Witness's home after dinner and, Banberg, Bavaria, yesterday when has been declared in respect of the stating that he had to send yet an aeroplane in which he had financial year ending on the 31st another message wanted $25 more, started for a flight crashed from, a

but witness, his December 1924, and will be paid on

suspicions low height." but Sto. FRIDAY the 29th. August 1924, as aroused,

He said that he would bring In the House of Commons is a to Forty Cents ($0 40,) per share on the Old Share? Fully patd), Thirty. Woo, coming from Peking, to my table rescued from the fire which three, Cents ($0.33) per share on office at 4 pm. on Tuesday, three Bonus Shares (Fully paid) Nos. days later, but at the appointed 171,000 to 200,000, and Six Cents time, punctually, the phone bell ($0 06) per Share the New rang and Wong's voice came over Shares (1924 Issue) upon which the wire. Woo is very busy to." $2.50 per Share was paid up on the day, but will see you later," said Witness never saw defendant. 15th March, 1924.

or heard of him again until several days ago when at Hongkew, Station, he looked from behind the bars at him.

on

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 8th to 29th August (both days in clusive).

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 28th July, 1924.

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU FACTURING CO., LTD.

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DIVIDEND NOTICE

destroved the Houses of Parlia ment in 1834; Mr. Laverack, M.P.. proposes to have it inscribed with the names of "illustrious leaders."

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Police-constable Albert Edward Webster was remanded on bail at Camberwell on a charge of causing grievous bodily harm to Police sergeant James Donoghue by strik- ing with a truncheon.

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The woman found unconscious

GERMAN CONSUL VICTIMIZED. Diplomats, too, were not exempt in a bathing-dress at low-water from the machinations of the mark on the shore near Mablethorpe swindler. Dzau Wa-foo, employed Lincolnshire, is stated to be Miriam at the German Consulate, had deal. Shenton, 21, of Sudbury-street, ings with him. Again the cable Derby, who when bathing is and funds for it played a prominent thought to have been sunstruck. part in the swindle: Giving his ad-

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dress as the Kalee Hotel, where he Among the nine Boy Scouts said he had a suite of rooms, Wong from Kenya (British East Africa) pleaded for funds to send 80 char- to take part in the Jamboree at the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that acters by wire. Witness offered to British Empire Exhibition, August an INTERIM DIVIDEND has send the wire by messenger, butf-8, will be R. W. Ryan. 15. who been declared in respect of the

Wong would send it himself and runs, his father's farm and once Financial Year ending on the 31st accordingly left the premises, to shot two lions that were found December, 1924, and will be paid on return, stating that he could get me worrying stock. FRIDAY, the 22nd August, 1924, as funds as the banks were closed,

1924.

was engaged, he sent out a message

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to Forty Cents ($0.40) per Share He needed $30, and as the Consul Believing that it will not make on the Old Shares (Fully Paid).

for a "brighter Bournemouth," the Thirty Cents ($030) per Share on to witness to assist Wong. An local Chamber of Trade object to Bonus Shares (Fully Pald) Nos. advance of $15, not being enough, the proposal to erect a mortuary 60,001 to 155,000, and One Cent five more were given. Later in the chapel in the centre of the town. (0.01) per Share on the New Shares evening when Wong did not re- provided by St. Peter's Church as (1924 issue) upon which $1.00 per turn Da Breckler told withess to a war memorial. Share was pald up on the 15th May inquire at the Kalee Hotel and at

The Rev. T. W. Roberts, rector the cable office, but the search The TRANSFER BOOKS of the revealed nothing

The police of Christ Church, St. Leonards, the Company will be CLOSED from, the

most fashionable church in the were then notified. 8th to 22nd August. 1924 (both

Drs. Furstenburger, Podpatch town, protests strongly against days inclusive).

Paukstadt, Rosemberg and Messrs. large hats at Holy Communion, Edward Evans and Son, Ld., were He wrhea: The altar is most alsc victims.

emphatically not a place at which person should appear in a large hats. It is almost impossible for the priest to guide the chalice to

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Geceral Macugore. Hongkong, 1st August, 1924.

MRS. MOTONO ELECTRIC MASSAGE

31B, Wyndham St., 2nd Floor.

TANG YUK, Darrin,

ibe labe SIEN NING, 24, D'Aguilar Birent.

TERMS VERY MODERATE.

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Accused was sent to prison for

year.

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the lips of a person who is wearing one of the large bate-The chalice

Posted at Folkestone in 1905, a simply disappears under the brim card' has just been delivered to al of the hat.

| Misa Bush at Peterborough.

Their Buced Summer the Hardent

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For a wager Mr. J. Love, of St. James's Gate Golfing Society,! played six rounds on the Milltown golf course, Country Dublin, "on June 24. He started at 4.30 am. Teething and hot weather make their and finished at 8:30 pm. For cach second summar ⋆ trying time for little round he, bad a different partner, once. Summer disorder stomach and bowala and infantile cholers may be but the same caddie attended him quickly controlled and suffering relieved all day. It was stipulated that he by Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoes tad to hold out on every green, Remedy. Easy to take in a little sweet and that his average per round. med water. Always relieves. For sale must.not exceed 100 strokes, Mr. averywhere.

Love did the ro8 hole in 557 or 93 per round. Bagey for the course is

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