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TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1924,

INTIMATIONS.

WANT

THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON ADVERTISEMENTS

TAXICAB CO., LTD.

NOTICE OF CALL.

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

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the 3rd Call of $2.50 per

25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONE, 01. PREPAID!

Every additional word 4 Clea

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WANTED.

Share on each of the 49,000 sharesHINESE Gentleman requires allotted on the 19th day of May, authorised architect is partners 1823, has been made by the Company, Apply Box No, 306 c/o China Mail, 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 pupil-for her daughter, aged The Transfer Books of the Com12, next term. Excellent governess, pany will be closed from the 7th to P. NE. U methods. Peak District. 14th August 1924, both days Apply Box 307 c/o "China Mail." fociosive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A II, ROWE

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

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

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TICKETS will be issued for

Round Trips during the months of July to September, from Hongkong to Foochow (Pagoda Anchorage) and return, calling åt Swajow and Andy on both the upward and downward. Voyage, by_the_Company's new, fast, weil appolated 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. bours.

The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days and the steamer will leave Hongkong from the Company's Wharf at $

p.m. arriving at daylight on her return (Weather permitting).

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

For further particulars and dates of Sailing

-Apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO..

General Managers. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO: LD, Hongkong, June 17, 1924.

RADIO.

For best results use a RAY-O- VAC Battery with your Re- 'celving Set.

The "RAY-OVAĆ" Battery lasts longest, is made to with- stand the climatic conditions of semi-tropical countries, and is the Battery that will give -you-greactar--satisfaction.. There is nothing to beat it and its reputation is world-wide.

Both "A" (13 volts spécially made for WD-11. and WD-12 tubes) and "B" are now obtain- able from

DE SOUSA, & CO,.LTD... 2nd Floor, St. George's Building, Tel No :-Central 1264.

WING HING

TAILOR PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. Specially Selected Woollen Suitings Just Arrived. Ordem executed at Shortest Notico. Price lowest.

64, Queen's Rd,, Ctl.

Hongkong.

Telephone 1417.

HEF HING & 00.

TAILORS

302, Pottinger Street.

Ladion, and Gentleman's Tallorn,

Dispers and Cutätters, ́Buíta mado boʻorder.

MRS. MOTONO

ELECTRIC MASSAGE 310, Wyndham St., 2nd Floor.

WA

VANTED-Lady desires companion

BUSINESS GENTLEMAN, with

“woold like to join Britisher, or small British Pirm, well established and progressing. Apply to X. c/o "China Mall".

TO LET.

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

TO LET-Two Godowns, or

MAIL WEEK NEWS.

"ITEMS" FROM FAR AND NEAR

THE CHINA MAIL.

The earnings of the Canadian Pacific Railway for "the" week ended June 21. were £660,200, en increase of £28,400 over the same period last year.

Mr. Maxwell, member of the Australian House of Representa tives, declares that the Communist Party is undermining the trade unions of the Commonwealth. ****

Sahibzada Aftab Ahmed Khap, member of the India Council; has been appointed Vice-President of the Council, in succession to Sir J. B. Brunyate, retired.

* PUBLIC HOUSE SIGNS.

HOW OUR OLD INNS, GOT THEIR NAMES.

[By T. Mitlisel Pope.] There are few pursuits that İ make so severe: demand upon the imagination as the naming of # public-house,The prevalenc of King's Heade, Crowns, Rail way Hotels and Lord Nelsons, in of itself-proof that the average publican-whatever other virtues he may possess is not a particolar ly imaginative being

Of course there are exceptions, and it is upon these that Twish to dwell.

One of the oldest inns in Eng- land is Ye Old King James and Yo Tinker, near Waltham Cross- $ name that at once invites A party of 600 Canadian and speculation. The inn is said to American students, accompanied hava.been established more than a by a number of prominent educa-thousand years ago, but. It was not tionalists and [clergymen, are until the reign of James I that it

The story goes that James enter- The execution of Abraham, aliased this particular tavern, one day Jack, Goldenborg, for the murder as he was bunting" ja Enfield of Mr. W. E. Hall, clerk at the Chase. In the parlour ho met a Bordon Comp, Aldershot, branch tinker who was drinking a cup of of Lloyds Bank, was to take place malt, and who confessed to the on July 8

unknown' stranger that lie would dearly love to see a king.

making a 30-day tour in Europe, received its name

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The Loodoo Flour Millers Association state that the price of standard grade flour will be advanced by is to 42s. 6d. to the London area from midnight. to day.

shops,in DUDDELL STREET

While four tourists were climb- now occupied by Messrs. Alexaning the western face of Mt. Todi, der Ross & Co., Ltd and Caldbeck (11,885ft.). in the canton of Grisons, Macgregor & Co. For Particulars Switzerland, on Sunday, two fell apply to:-H. Ruttonjce & Son, 16, Queen's Road.

FOR

FRENCH TUITION

Write to

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

INTIMATIONS.

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN &

MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

DIVIDEND NOTICE.

His Majesty informed him that his wish should be granted, and immediately carried him ff upon his horse to a place where the great nobles of the court were assembled. The King ---- then revealed his identity: the terrified tinker received a knighthood, and the Inn a new name

'Not far from the border of Derbyshire there is a public- over the precipice and were killed.bouse known as the Cat and A Fiddle. One ingenious antiquarian The Gucard her "Franconia" has suggested that the name is a which want aground off the west. perversion of Caton le Fidele, in coast of Norway while cruising but honour of Catod, the faithful proceeded safely to Tronddjem, f Governor of Calls, but it is more! expected to leave this afternoon likely that it took its origin from for England.

the Yamiliar nursery rhyme."}, THE SWAN WITH TWO NECKS.

Still, many well-known, public house signs are corruptions of po- pular proverbs. The Goat and Compasses, for instance. is said to be a modern variant of God on- compasses us," while it has been suggested that the Bull and Gate is merely a vulgarism of the Boulogne Gate, associated with a victory of Henry VIII.

are

Large consignments of lavender arriving at Covent Garden from Durrington, near Worthing, which, with Mitchain, is among the chief growing centres in England.

A letter written by Mary Queen of Scots in 1574 to the Archbishop of Glasgow acknowledging the receipt of sweetmeats, was bought by Messrs. Quarktch at Sotheby's for £235.

Then there is the Swan, with Two Necks-a name that has been' the occasion of no-little-contro- Thirty years ago Father Vacher,troversy, In his "Inns, Ales and a young priest, left his home in Drinking Customs of Old Eng Brittany to spend his life among land," Mr. Frederick W. Hack- the Indians of the Canadian Northwood writes that this sign--which, West. He is now revisiting his by the way, is the sign of the old home again for his first holl-Vintners was really the swan

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an INTERIM DIVIDEND has been declared in respect of the financial year ending on the 31st December-1924, and will be naid on | day. FRIDAY the 29th, August 1924, bs to Forty Cents (80 40.) per share on Preaching in York Minster, the the Old Shares (Fully, pald), Thirty. Archbishop of York said he looked three Cents ($0.89) per share-on forward to the time when people, Bonus Shares (Fully paid) Nos. "even in Yorkshire,” should not 171,000 to 200,000, and Six Cents think it strange but rather natural ($006) per Share on the New to use the Minster as a place for Shares (1924 Issue) upon which private prayer. $2.50 per Share was paid up on the 15th March, 1924.

The P. and O. boat trains to Tilbury Docks which formerly ran from Liverpool-street will in future depart from St. Pancras Station, the train service having been SHEWAN, TOMES & 00.,transferred from the L. and N. E.

General Managers.

Railway to the London, Midland and Scottish Hongkong 28th July 1924.

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

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU. FACTURING CO., LTD.

DIVIDEND NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

Five cowboys and three cowgirls gave exhibitions of broncho riding, trick roping, and fancy riding, and a little steer wrestling and riding at the London Coliseum yesterday. Their novel surround- fngs and the limited area of the stage called for great skill and nerve on the part of the Rodeo champions,

injuries received in a drill competi

flon at headquarters on May 27...

with two nicks, or marks cut in Its bill; for identification at the annual swan-hopping the."

JEWELLERY JADE

PRECIOUS STONES

Also A Fine Belection

OF

Rings, Pendants and Cuff Links

(British make.)

obtainable at

SHERIFF BROTHERS.

69, Queen's Rd, Cil.

· HIGH CLEM BOOTS AND SHOWS

Made to order. ROYAL & CO.

No. 1, D'agullar Street*"

No Corn Too Tough for "Gets-It"

Teh Jost wonderful libre "Gets-[tande oorhe pand cślowes. Putstew drapead ““Geta)

-a-buting our wed Prestot TEK PAŠM

ober, Forever. Soon the corn fose from tgan bush and you put dift the corn on with the

· Misters root sai áll complete. Money back guenoties. Con bat a tride-eyrywhere. 3. Lawrence & Co., Saft, Chicago. Bold here by

A SUCCESSÍUIPRUSE, ZNO The curious sign Now Thus, which is to be found at Barton-on- Irwell, near Manchester, is in com- memoration of the successful ruse perpetrated on the Parliamentary troops at the time of the Civil War

Swythamley Hall, the property of a staunch Royalist, fell into the hands of the Roundheads, and the owner, after sending all his servants away, disguised himself as a farm labourer, collected his valuables and buried them beneath the foor of barn. When the Roundhead officers -questioited bim -he appeared a poor witless thing who could do nothing but exclaim "Now thus" at each stroke of the fall as be threshed his corn over the very spot where the valuables were buried...

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A public-house known as the Pelican, which formerly stood on an INTERIM DIVIDEND has

the Bath Road, agar Newbury, was been declared, in respect of the

responsible for a thymed epigram Financial Year ending on the 31st December, 1924, and will be paid on rades will attend the funeral at

A guard of honour of his com from a disillusioned guest: FRIDAY, the 22nd August, 1924, as Fireman's Comer". of Highgate

The famous house at Speenham-

land to Forty Cents (80.40) per Share Cemetery tomorrow of Fireman'

That stands upon the hill, on the Old Shares (Fully Paid), J. J. Scholes, of New Cross, who May well be called the Pelican Thirty Cents ($0.30) per Share on died in hospital on Saturday from

From its enormous bill. Bonus Sharea (Fully Paid) Nos

The combination of two ap 60,001 to 150,000, and One Cent

parently irrelevant signs-as, for (0.01) per Share on the Now Shares

instance, the Whale and the Crow (1924 Issue) upon which $1.00 per

The grand jury at the Old Bailey the Shovel and the Boot, etc.has Share was paid up on the 15th May yesterday found "No Bill against been a source of puzzlement to 1924.

Diana Hamilton, aged gs, described many. Mr. A. S. M. Hutchinson, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the as a married woman, who was author of "If Winter Comes," has Company will be CLOSED from the 8th to 22nd August, 1924 (both committed from Marylebone Police thrown some light upon, this

LACK OF HOSPITALITY.""" Court on a charge of stealing a days inclusive).

brooch and a bangle, the property. "In illiterate days," he_writes, of Doreen Nonna Williams. She "an inn was known solely by its was discharged. :

tigua bull, a gate, a lion, and, so on. If the proprietor moved to a Nineteen entries have been new hostelry he would strive to received, writes the air correspon have the benefit of his old renown, dent, for the Air Ministry's £50,000 so he took his old sign with him prize for a helicopter which passes and joined it to his new bence

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Hongkong, 1st August, 1924.

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TUNG SANG official tests. Sixteen eutics have Bull and Gate, Rose and Crown.”

TAILOR

Peel Street

EXPERT: FITTERS

HIGH CLASS

been accepted, bat It is doubtful if The index of Mr. Hackwood's all these machines will be com- book contains the names of many pleted in time for test before April curious dan sigos. They include. 30 next, when the competition among others, the Adam and Eve closes

(which is of pre-Reformation origin), the Cat and Shoulder of Mutton, the Come Along, the Dey-drop, the Frog and Fiat-from, the Gopse and Gridiron, the Labour in Vain, the Lad in the Lane, the. Let and Seven Stars, the Modern-

The Charming Comedienne

Constance TALMADGE tion admirable emblem 1), the Old

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"THE STUDIO GIRL”

WORLD THEATRE

Pick: My Toe, the Pass By (n. which one seems to detect a certain, lack of hospitality) anth the World: Turand Upside Down,vel

THE

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M. Y. SAN & CO., LTD.

"THIS "FAMOUS "BEE" BRAND GINGER IS MOST RELIABLE FOR BOLD GOOD COLOUR, AND FUR- THERMORE IS MELLOW AND WELL-PRESERVED.

FOR COOL, STYLISH SUITS

This Label Identifies the Genuine. PALM BEACH CLOTH

At all good tailors.

Delivered to Peak District (abava Howan Road)

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$21.00 per ton $20.00

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$19.00

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL

InLots of not less than -ton -

Bowen Road and Lower Levels Kowloon

Orders should be sent in writing at least 24 hours, before the Coal is required. All orders must be accompanied by cab. Cheque, or Compradore Order,

payable to Tha Kalan Mpina ADMINISTRATION qu

KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

BEAD OFFICE': TIENTSIY.

DODWELL & 00.. LTD.. Agents, Hongkong.

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