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THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1925,
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6 Des Voeux Road O. Tel C, 193 Bole goat for Hongkong for THE CHINA REFRIGERATING & INVESTMENT COMPANY, LTD.
and aleo-
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Hoart-Ngau Bam
Hump, Salt-Ngau Chun
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Kidneys-Ngau Tłu
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Liver Ngat Kod
Tripe (undressed)-Ngay To.. Calves' Head and Foot---Ngau-taal-tan-
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Mutton Chop-Young Pol Ewat
Leg-Young Pel.... Shoulder-Young Kin
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ton Street, Hongkong, hereby give notice that in consequence of change in
registration, I have applied to the Board of Trade, under Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping "Act, 1894, in respect of the steam Many of these now words we owe launch "Shun Hung" of Hongkong, to developments in science, the arts, of gross tonnage 47.65 tons, register politics, and commerce, though the tonnage 32.40 tons, heretofore general tendency in the growth of owned by me, for the permission to langliage, Mr. O. T. Onions ex. Pig's Chitlings Chu Chong change her name to "Salwanho" plained to me (writos a representa- and to have ber registered in the five of the Observer), is for words new name at the Port of Hongkong to come up from the lower as owned by me.
atrata, that is to say, from slang sad the proposed from provincial and dialectal strute, Any objections to change of name must be sent to sad establish themselves in the of Shipping at higher colloquial and literary strate. the Registrar
Very seldom do uew words enter Pork Hongkong, within seven days from the appearance of this advertisement. the language from the pens of
Dated at Hongkong this 15th day writers. Mr. Shaw's "Superman." :
which was used as a translation of of May, 1925.
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(Signed) Wong Lan-Bang.
Nietzsche, was quoted as an excep tion 'And, in connection with Mr. INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION Superman one may mention,"
Onions said, the idioms the will to victory' and 'the will to power, which seem to depend in present
the on
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THE TRANSFER BOOKS of lbs Company will be closed from the rd to 24th June, 1925, both daya inalustvo.
"By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
General Managers.
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hug for the purpose of receiving the work was begun. It is quite Barbel-Ka Yu Report of the Directors, passing the obvious," it was pointed out, that Bream-Pin Yu Accounts, and sketing Directors and we can never be complete even in Canton Fresh Water Fish-Hot Sin Auditors.
treatment of existing words, because earlier evidence is always Carp-Li Yu being brought to light.
CatAsh--Chik Yu "Th an historical dictionary we Codfish-Mun Yu. cumos within a limited time get all Crabs-Hal the best evidence for the meanings Cattle Fish-Muk Yu, of words. New evidence is likely Dab-Sha Mang Yu, to tarn up at any time and to take Dace-Wong Mei Lap ns back a hundred or two hundred. Dog Fish-Tit To Sha. feurs in the history of a word. We Eeis, Conger-Hoi Man have in fact for the Supplement re- murkable instances of words and menings which we are able to take buck for two or three centuries, Our object is to make the evidence for all the words we treat and for Gudgeon-Pak Kap Ya
Herrings-Tso Pak
Hongkong, 19th May, 1925.
FOR ANEURISM, CANCER ETC.
A new medicine for the care ofaneurism, Cancer and Carbuncle by Injection and Internal uas.
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Fresh water-Tam Shui Yu Yellow-Wang Sin Frogs-Tin Kai.......... Garoupa-Shek Pan
Most physicians and surgeons have ex-all their meanings ns-historically Halibut--Cheung Kwan Kap
Even now! arassed the opinion tost Aneurism, Cancer and complete as possible. Carbuncle are Incable and many deaths bar, the tumber of actual quotations in Labras-Wong Fa Ya Mateusblts, B., Professor of the Japanese Dictionary, used for illustrating Loach-Wu Yu.... Imperial University has made a esreli study the meanings of words according to
beem saused by these dead distance. Dr. I.
Lobsters Lung Ba
of these diaranes for Myaral years and hit the historical method, exceeds a Mackorel---Chi Yu
et discovered the use of "CARCINOLYSIN7"
for infection and internal use. A large number illi and a half, and the words Monk Fish-Mong Yu
of Japanese pallents have been cured by the themselves, I suppose, run into four
Mullet-Tsai Yu
Oysters-Shang Ho
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Foreigners have always died of these dis-And even so there are many now Parrot Fish-Kai Kang Yu Office, Union Building, Hongkong,
words which have entered the Perch-Tau Lo cases owing to failure to find's remedy. on FRIDAY, 29th MAY, 1925, at 12.15 p.m., for the purpose of re- ceiving the Report of the Direc- tors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1924, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from May 16th to May 29th, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager.
Hongkong, May 8th, 1925.
THE CHINA FIRE INSUR- "ANCE COMPANY, LTD.·
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN | that the FIFTY-SIXTH ORDIN- ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, Union Building, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 29th MAY, 1925, at 12.20 p.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direc- tors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1924, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from May 16th to May 29th, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager:
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„FOR 'RMAL FINE MAJONG SETS. KADE OF TVORY-ANDE, ROMER
BOLD AT EK MANS Lowest Possible Prica SUNG SAN CHAN
Of late Dr. Bun Yat Sen offering from language, since the Dictionary was PikeFa Pau Fong cancer of the liver which is a phase of one of begun. It is usually supposed to Paleo-Pan Yu
¿Loses. Thom, above-mentioned uffering from this disease will gradually be a shocking omission, I think, Pomfret, Black-Hak Chong develop fever, nervous pains, tricary isonbles, that Appendicitis is not in the, Pomfret, White-Pak Chong
the
nd appetite, dysentery and vomiting | Dictionary, This word had not Prawns--Ming Ha Victims of this disease are advised to low been invented-the disease had not Ray--Pai Pa Sho mediately procure "GABOINOLEBLY" from
our agents and by taking this internally, or been recognised as a distins dis injection, the progres of the dense will be dar at the time, forty years ago, stopped and reculte çalakly obtain
Cheer Glands Wal diasppear and swollen when that part of the Dictionary
sally by the tee of "CARCINOLESIN,
was done.
Rock Fish-Shek Kau Kung Roach-Chun Yu. Salmon-Ma Yau
The omission, of 4, Shark-Sha Ya nicars be reduced to a minimus ack and word like that may seem serious to Skate--Po Yo
Thow having hereditary disease are advised the outsider, but to us it is a mere Shrimps-Ha......... to take “QARINOLYSIN" in order to check drop in the bucket.
| its motivītim.
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Long-Tau Kok
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Brinjals, Green-Ching Yun Kwa
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Celery, Chinese-Tong Kan Tsol
Chilies, Driod Lat Chin Kon
Red-Hung Fa Chin
Green-Ching Lat Chin
Garry Stuff, English-Ka Li Chu Liu...,
Cucumber-Ching Kwa
Garlic-Sun Tau .....:
Ginger, Young-Sun Tae Kaung
Ginger, Old-Lo Keung
Horseradish, Shanghai-Lik Haa Indian Corn-Shuk Mai
Lettuce Young Shang Tsol Water Chestnuts-Ma Tai
Mandarin Kwai Lam Ma Tai
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in which, as a bell-hop, he con- and wife, Interesting, immense frents and is recognized by his ly so, and mighty thrilling all the wealthy and irate unrôle, the fun way is this present day picturiza- tion of a girl's enduring love. Using one of Sancisco's biggest a hilarious!
*aeroplane will be found in the class consisting of the educated for us to put the word in. That is Dictionary, it is not there in the portion of the population, and re-un omission that will have to be modern sense, but merely as awarded as capable of forming public plane placed in the air for weronta opinion. tical experiment. Hydroplane does not appear at all.
"The terminology of wireless language, including such terms on the effect that it has no right to operations is also new, including the complex behaviourism, and exist because the substance, which wealthy family to that of bell boy showing at the World Theatre to verb to broadenst. And here it censor Then there is the new it was invented to denote has been in a big hotel, Douglas Maclean day, in a powerful swift moving was pointed out that, though some application of modernism in rele discovered to be no separate sub does some clever acting that give drama of modern day husband persons use broadcast" for the tiun to theological thought The stence at all. tense and past participle the better word is in the Dictionary in the old form according to linguistic analogy Sense, but we shall have to extend. in "broadcasted."
its meaning in the Supplement. Its The war of course, with its "I have seep," Mr. Onions, re- new meaning is dus, to the. Papai various activities, introduced into marked, "the use of the monstrosity Encyclical on the doctrines of the the vocabulary elemente that were "brondcatcher to describe a person Modernists, in which Pope Pius X.not there before. Army slang be hotele as a background, the pic. The play moves like quick silver. came part of the current colloquial who receives wireless messages, used the Latin word modernista"," Though we have to deal with some but not, as for a 1, have discovered, guage. We have already got ture tells a story of modern hotel Fast, vivid sensational, it takes some of it in the Dictionary, sa, for life from the original viewpoint of the locker-on to Russia, and to monstrosities I do not think we shall moderniamus. Viss,
the bell-hop With laughs" and example, strateg recognise that. In the 8.U.'
***And there ure some words which thrills and a pleasing love interest America....... There rolamo published about 1817, we "Two interesting Galliciams have have hardly survived the war period besides, the farce said to be one of tionary shootings, prison included the word 'suffragette, become quite formuar to us
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that will have no doubt to be in the funniest yet screened. The the rapi though it is not a proper formation is to make a gesture
cluded in complete survey of the picture is to be shown to-morrow. slume to have language for their historical, interest. 1-felt I was obliged," for "example,
o. put in the phrase to get wind up, because it has become. very common colloquialia,, bus am quite unable to decide what mgin of it is There
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an etymological anomaly, taken. ip, în comparatively recent "As a further illustration of now times is the verb to intrigue 1 uriosity words let us take the development, the sense of exciting one of painting. We have neither You can even talk about ties in stic *cubist nor futurist in the win
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