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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1924.

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG-REALTY-AND

TRUST CO., LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN .that the First Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of HONG- KONG REALTY

TRUST AND COMPANY, LIMITED, 'will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street. Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of September. 1924, at

o'clock noon, for the

of

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

15 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1." PREPAID.

Every additional-word 4 Conta

for insertions.

..

TO LET.

LET-Shop and Offices No. 12

12 of Statement of. Accounts T Pedder Street-Apply Nethe

and the Report of the Board of Directors for the Fifteen months ended the 30th June 1924; confirming the appointment of Directors, and re-electing

and Directors and Auditors.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from WELNESDAY, the 3rd day of September 1924 until WEDNESDAY, the 10th day or September 1924;| both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,"

Premises.

TO LET. Two Godowns,

or

shops, in DUDDELL STREET now occupied by Messrs. Alexan- der Ross & Co., Ltd, and Caldbeck Macgregor & Co. For Particulars apply to:-H. Ruttonjee & Son, 16, Queen's Road,

POR

PERCYH SUCKLING. FRENCH TUITION

Acting Secretary.

Hongkong. August 24, 1924.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

NOTICE.

AN EXTRAORDINARY GEN- BRAL MEETING of the Glub will be held in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on FRIDAY, September 6th, 1924, at 5.30 p.m. for the purpose of confirming the resolutions passed at an Extraordinary General Meet ing held on 14th August, 1924.

By Order.

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.. Hongkong, 26th August, 1924,

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

Write to

G. MOUSSION c/o China Mall" office.

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG GENERAL.. CHAMBER

OF COMMERCE,

CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL.

THE next Session

MONDAY, September 8th-

at 1.15 o'clock.

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If sufficient support is forth. coming, a new class for Beginners

JEWELLERY

JADE &

PRECIOUS STONES

etc.

Also A Fine Selection.

'OF

Rings, Pendants ~~~and Cuff Links

(British make.)

obtainable at

SHERIFF BROTHERS.

89, Queen's Rd, Cu.

HAM AИMO.QHT THE CHINA MAIL.

– HIGH-CLASS-BOOTS-AND-SHOKA--

Made to onder. ROYAL & CO. No. 1, D'Agullar Street

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE. GRAPH COMPANY, LTD.

will be commenced. Intending The following undaimed telegrams -students-should-attend-at-there-lying-at-the-office-of-The- School (Masonic Building, Icehouse Great Northern Telegraph Company Street) on MONDAY, 1st Sept., Limited):- RAPT. PROGRAMMES AND WEDNESDAY, 3rd Sept, or

DENTRY FORMS for the FIFTH EXTRA RACE MEETING to be held on SATURDAY, 11th and MONDAY, 13th October 1924 (weather permitting); Rev. Dr. T. W. Pearce, O.BE. may be obtained at the Race Course Hongkong Club and Causeway. Bay Stables.

FRIDAY, 5th Sept between I and 230 p.m. to discuss details with the Director of Studies, the

Entries cloan on 27th September 1924.) Hongkong, 28th August, 1924.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED.

BARAKA

TICKETS will be

By Order,

M. F. KEY. Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 28th August, 1924.

HONGKONG CLUB.

NOTICE.

Issued for. Round Trips during the months of July to September, from THE FOURTH YEARLY CRAW Hongkong to Foochow (Pagoda ING of LEBENTURES (1920 Anchorage) and return, calling tissue- $500. each) of the Hongkong Swatow and Amoy on both the Club, Payable on TUESDAY, the upward and downward Voyage. 30th September, 1924. will be held by the Company's new, fast, well in the Club House at 11 o'clock a M, appointed steamer "Hai Ning" aton MONDAY, the 8th September, the reduced rate of $80 for the 1924, 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 5 p.m. arriving at daylight on her return (Weather permitting).

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

For further particulars and dates of Safting-

Apply to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LD, Hongkong, June 17, 1924.

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The "RAY-O-VAC" Battery lasts longest, is made to with- stand the climatic conditions of semi-tropical countries and is the Battery that will give

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Both "A" (1 volts specially

Bearers of Debentures are invited Lto attend the Drawing.

By Order,

T. A. ROBERTSON, Lţ, Col.

Secretary. Hongkong, 28th August, 1924.

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• Boga root and all, complete. Money back Carentan, Costs but a trifoweverywhten. Elements & Co.fr, Chingo, Bold bare te

made for WD-11 and WD-12 TUNG SANG

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TAILOR

2nd Floor, St. George's Building,

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Ladics and Gentlemen's-Tilbr«« Drapers and Outfitters,

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MAIL WEEK NEWS.

ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR

The former King George II of the Hellenca, who was dethroned last March when a Greek Republic was set up, has arrived in London.

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SEARCH FOR SEEDS.

SCOURING THE WORLD FOR RARE FLOWERS,

Plant collection used to be an agreeable side-line for the scien tific-minded explorer. To-day. '{}' has grown into a full-time job, and syndicate, are to, be found the collectors, working for a firm orfor

world over.

In the last five months the num-a ber of "pirate omnibuses running in London streets has Increased from nearly 200 to more than 300,

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The Rev. J. H. Ritson, senior secretary of the British and. For- eign Bible Society, has been elect- ed next year's president of the Wesleyan conference,

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...The Board of Trade announces that from October 1, 1924, the importation of the plumage of the common swan will be prohibited without licence.

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An exciting calling, one would think,-for-its-follower must unite a rare scientific knowledge with the spirit of an old-time adventurer.

In the Atlas Mountains of Africa, in the Andes of South America, in China, in Thibet, collectors are searching the wild places of the earth for new flowers, mostly for the English market.

For of all Western races it is the British who love their flowers the

t Gardens there. are, and beautiful ones, too, in France, in Italy, in the States, but generally England that love of flowers and as the wealthy man's toys. L'is in

Four men were fishing in a motor-bont-off.Spurn-Head,-at-the-the garden becomes a national trait. mouth of the Humber, when a fire broke out and spread to the oil fuel tank. They were rescued.

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From the millionaire, with his conservatory of costly orchids, to the poor man, with his window-box and his packet of seeds, almost every Englishman loves flowers and wants to have them about him.

Professor A. F. Pollard has been adopted as Liberal candidate in the London UniversityParlia-. It is this nationst characteristic mentary vacancy caused by the that has brought into being the death of Sir Sydney Russell-trade of the plant-hunter. The Wells, U.

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Captain L. McNamee, formerly director of the Naval Intelligence Division at Washington, is to suc- ceed Capt. C. L. Hussey as United States naval attache in London.

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great commercial firms that cater for the market and Its changing tastes may get their seeds and plants from British residents on the outskirts of the world, from missionaries from officials, but to keep pace with the demand they' have to do more, and so send out their own expeditions.

The sale of the Government") war-time munitions establishment dreds of pounds, but the rewards

An expedition may cost hund at Gretna, Cumberland, ended at of success amply repay the ex- Carlisle, the total amount realised penditure, says Capt. F. K. Ward for 4-days' auction being £81,000.in" Romance of Plant Hunting,"

The Prince of Wales, at Bal- lards, Addington, Surrey, opened the new Warehousemen, Clerka: and Drapers' Russell. School, a Yap Hong Kwi The Great Eastern memorial to old Russellians who Hotel, from Amoy.

Lun On, from Shanghai.

died in the war. Chan-No.-3, Tai Sack Street, from Shanghai.

„0502, from Tientsin.

E. V. JESSEN,

Ruperintendant, dongkong, 28th August, 1924,

EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL ASJA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO,

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List of anclaimed telegrama lying in E. E. Telegraph Office, Hongkong.

Gosmart Poinveyret, from Yunnanfu.

ME. FAIREY,

Superintendent

Hongkong, 28th August, 1924.

MRS. MOTONO

ELECTRIC MASSAGE

31B, Wyndham St, 2nd Floor.

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Miss A. Dale, a New Zealand Government matron, who began her 55th voyage to New Zealand in the White Star liner "Ionic," travelled in the vessel on her maiden voyage more than 20 years ago.

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Gone are the days when men used to gamble over tulip bulbs, and when fortunes were made and lost over a "corner" on the tulip exchange. But even to-day men are scouring wildest Turkestan, In Central Asia, for new tulip varie. ties. Orchids, again, may be a costly hobby; there are, by the way, 6,000 known forms, and more may yet be found in some savage corner of the unexplored earth.

It is not, however, for the very wealthy that the collector is really working, but for the little man with his scrap of garden or even This window box. To cater for the

The grand jury at London packet seed trade spells profit us Sessions threw out the Bill against surely as the bulbs of the wealthy Police-Sergeant Dennis Lidding-hobbyist..

ton Wootton, 85 of the Metro- politan Police, who, was charged

with stealing basket straw Halp Children Over Hot Wanther berries and was discharged. # Summer complaint makes little head-

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way with children whose carefgi Capt, and Quartermaster Ernest mothers use Chamberlain's Colic and Opie, Prince of Wales Volunteer Diarrhoea Remedy for stomach and Regiment, convicted in connection towel complaint, severe and sudden with accountancy charges, has intestinal craps and weakening been sentenced by court martial to diarrhoea. Given in a little sweetened cashiering and to imprisonment water it by to take. For sale for six months.

everywhere,

THE TELEPHONE HANDBOOK

The Sixth issue of the TELEPHONE HANDBOOK has been published in JULY, 1924.

The TELEPHONE HANDBOOK consists of an up-to-date, and accurate index of Telephone Subscribers, the numbers being given in sequence.

SPECIMEN PAGE.

Central 22 The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., 6, Wyndham Street Central 22 "China Mail" (Newspaper), 5, Wyndham Street Central 22 The lollar Directory Co., 5, Wyndham Street Control 29 Telephone Handbook, 6, Wyndham Street Central 29

Hongkong Bunday Herald," b, Wyndham Street Peak 22 MacCourtney, F. D., Residence, 358, The Peak Kowloop-22. Groen Island Cement Co., Ltd., Cement Works, Hok-un Central 23 Jordan, Forsyth, Grove, Auhrey, Urquhart, Lyon

Brown & Macgown, Dr., Alexandra Buildings Central 23 Brown, Dr. Lyon, Öffice, Alexandra Buildings Central 23 Forsyth, Dr. C., Office, Alexandra Boildings Central 23 Maogowen, Dr. J. C., Ofee, Alexandra Buildinge.

Peak-23 Brown, Mr. N. 5, Besidence, 183, The Peak Peak 23 Butterfeld and Swire. Mr. N.S. Brown, Residence, 184,

The Peak

Kowloon -28 Ye Fong Chan, 136, Temple Street, Yaumeti “ Central 24 Tak Sbun Bank, 155, Queen's Road, Central Peak-24 Ball, A. Dyer, Residence, -154, The Peak --- Kowloon-24 Dizon, H., Hendenes, 4, Lyeemoon Villas, Chatham

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