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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1929.

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WANTED

NOTICES.

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Nhat the ORDINARY YEAR- TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN LY MEETING of the Shareholders in this Corporation will be held

NOTICES:

THE CHINA MAIL,

THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED."

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

that the THIRTY-FIRST OR-

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

at City Hall, Hong Kong, on DINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF

SATURDAY, the 23rd February, THIS COMPANY will be held at

Re-

THE STORY OF QUININE

HISTORY AND LORE OF CINCHONA

[By C. J. S. Thompson, M.B.E.]

This medicine, the most pre-

JUST RECEIVED.

A new shipment of

TOILET ARTICLES AND

SOFT

GOODS

at reasonable prices.

THE BAKILLY CO., LTD.

The young widow, who was a 1929, at Noon, for the purpose of the Office of Messrs. Jardine, cious of all those known in the woman of great beauty, became

& Co., Itd. On receiving the Report of the Court Matheson

Art of Healing, is one of the lady-in-waiting to. Queen Mar- the 18th February of Directors together with a State- FRIDAY,

at 12,80

the greatest conquests made by man garet, wife of Philip III, and while p.m. for

over the vegetable kingdom." at court she married for the Her new husband SITUATION VACANTment of Accounts for the year 1929,

ended 81st December, 1928. purpose of receiving the

These words were written of ein- second time. The REGISTER of SHARES of port of the Directors together chona by Laubert over a century was the Count of Chinchon, who LADY STENO-TYPIST, éxperienc-the Corporation will be CLOSED with a Statement of Accounts, for

valuable drug is fully borne out chon near Madrid, and of eighteen ed, required 1st April. Apply Box from Monday, the 1th February the year ended 31st December, 480, and his judgment on this in- was Lord of the Castle of Chin- to-day.. The mass of material towns in the kingdom of Toledo. No. 583, c/o "China Mail," giving to SATURDAY; the 23rd February, 1928.

1929, (both days inclusive), during The REGISTER OF SHARES of dealing with the history of ein- The count was appointed Viceroy particulars and salary required.

which period no transfer of shares the Company will be CLOSED chona is so great that it is possi- of Peru in 1628, and with his from THURSDAY, the 7th Febru-ble to give only a brief outline of Countess made solemn entry into can be registered.

ary, 1929, to FRIDAY, the 15th it within the limits of a paper. Lima on January 14, 1829. When February, 1929, both days inclu-For this purpose, therefore, it will the news that the countess WAS sive.

be well to consider it from three suffering from fever reached Don aspects in its development during Francisco Lopez de Canizares, the the past three hundred years Corregidor of Loxa (who had namely, the traditional, the em- himself been cured of an attack HONG pirical, and the chemical.

by means of the drug), he at once dispatched a packet of the pow- Although much has been writ- dered bark to Dr. Juan de Vega, ten concerning the early history of the drug, our knowledge of the physician to the countess, assur precise date when its remedialing him of its efficacy in the treatment of "tertiana." De Vega properties were first discovered, decided to give it to his patient,

WANTED.-English Woman seeks dally employment. Capable child's Nurse. Apply to Box 580, c/o "China Mail."

By Order of the Court of

Directors,

A. C. HYNES,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 4th Feb., 1929.

TO LET.

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

TO LETA Spacious and Well-

151, Praya East. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

By Order of the Board of Directors,

F. H. CRAPNELL,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 1st Feb., 1929.

NOTICE.

Lighted Gadow, Price & Co., Ltd. N that at an EXTRAORDIN CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & and of the manner of that dis- with the result that the countess TO LET-Offices to be let in HOLDERS of the Hong Kong &

Queen's Road, Central.

E. D. SASSOON & French Building.

TO LET-No. 7, Stewart Terrace, 270, Peak, from March 1st to October 81st," Five rooms fully furnished. Modern Sanitation, servants' quarters, garden. Apply F. A. Mackintosh.

TUITION

ARY MEETING of the SHARE-

resolution

MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

NOTICE

TONICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

covery.

153-155, Des Voeux Road Central,

NOTICE.

KONG JOCHEY CLUB.

FANLING HUNT

STEEPLECHASES

SUNDAY,

17th February.

FIRST RACE 3 P.M.

(Soldiers & Sailors in uniform,

half price)

Cars parked on course $10.00 each

Special train leaves Kowloon 1.59 p.m. Returns 6.27 p.m.

First class return fare including admission to Public Enclosure $2.00.

Free parking for ears.

RACE MEETING, 1929.

**25th, 26th, 27th February &

2nd March, 1929.

THE FIRST RACE on each day

will be run at 12 o'clock noon. Admission to Pablle Enclosure $1.00 covery, is largely traditional, and made a rapid and complete re- The Srst bell will be rung at 11.80 is still enveloped in mystery. A Corporation

a.m, each day, picturesque story is related by Apply to Shanghal Banking

that the THIRTY-SECOND Geoffroy of an Indian who, hay- According to a manuscript by MEMBERS' BADGES

the particular Members' Badges of Admission Co., Ltd., held on SATURDAY, the 2nd day

of February, 1929, at 12 o'clock ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING ing lost himself in the dense Hipolito Ruiz, noon at the City Hall, Victoria, in of Shareholders in the Company forests of Peru, became stricken species from which the bark ad- are now ready and may be obtain- the Colony of Hong Kong, the fol-will be held at the Registered with fever, and at length collapsed ministered to the countess was led by those members who have not

that known to the already received a little taken was

them, from passed, Office of the Company, 6th flour, from exhaustion beside W48 lowing

Pedder Building, Fedder Street, lake. He drank eagerly of the, bark collectors of the time as Messrs. Linstead & Davis, Alexan- via:-

That the Directors of the Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the water, into which a cinchona tree "Cascarilla de Chahuarguera,"dra Buildings.'

Members Are reminded that Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank- 20th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1929, at had fallen, and awoke, after a which abounds in cinchonidine. ing Corporation be and they are 12.15 p.m. for the purpose of re-troubled sleep, to find that the Howard points out the interest-these Badges will also admit them hereby requested and authorised ceiving a Statement of Accounts fever had left him. There is, how. ing fact that it was therefore to to all the Extra Race Meetings of by and on behalf of the share-and the Report of the Directors ever, no foundation for this this particular alkaloid that the this year."

After not recorded countess owed her cure.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE holders of the Corporation to for the year ended December Sist, legend, which was

Members have the privilege of take all auch stops as may be 1928, and to elect two Directors until late in the eighteenth cen- her recovery the countess became

tury. The same may be said of an enthusiastic advocate of the introducing two non-members to necessary for the introduction of and Auditora,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the the tradition related by La Conda- remedy, and caused quantities of the Members Enclosure. an Ordinance into the Legista-

A limited number of tickets are tive Council of the Colony of Company will be CLOSED from mine in 1738, that the febrifuge the bark to be collected, which Hong Kong and for the enact- MONDAY, the 11th day of Febru- properties of the bark were dis- she not only administered to her available and may be obtained ment of the same by the Gov-ary, 1929, until WEDNESDAY, the covered by the natives through dependants, but distributed to from Mesars. Linstead & Davis, ernor of Hong Kong with the 20th day of February, 1929, both watching the pumas chew it in those suffering from fever. Thus Alexandra Buildings, on or before order to cure their fevers. As a it came to be called the "coun- Saturday, 23rd February, 1928, at advice an" consent of the Legis- days inclusive.

matter of fact, the aborigines of tess's powder."

a cost of $10.- each per day or lative Council thereof, in the

South America, with the excep Hanbury declares that the bark $30.- for the Meeting. terms of a print which, for the

tion perhaps of the tribes in the was certainly known in Spain in Tho charge for admission for purposes of identification, has

neighbourhood of Loxa, appear to 1639, a year before the countess Ladies to the Members' Enclosure been signed by the Chief Man-

have been quite ignorant of its returned to Europe, as on that will be $4,- per day. Each mem- nger of the Corporation,-in-sub-

medicinal virtues. Markham ob- date it was administered for the ber can obtain upon application to stitution for the existing Ordin-

serves that it is also significant first time to a priest at Alcala de the Secretary, badges for the ad-"] ancea (except as in such print

that the medicine bags or walleta Henares near Madrid. The coun-mission of two Ladies free of is mentioned) and Deed of Set-

carried by the native itinerant tess came back to Spain in the charge. tlement of the Corporation. AND NOTICE IS HEREBY

SPECIAL PHYSICAL CULTURE

CLASS.

M'me BARONELLI, ARTİSTE,— School of dancing for children and adults. Special Physical Culture class for Stout and Stiff Ladies. Address 31, Ashley Road, Kowloon (Back of Star Theatre).

W

HOME TUTTION."

ESTOVER

STEVENAGE,

Within an hour from, Lon- den. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL, BOYS. A few Boarders received

dividual care and attention.

Particulars apply to:

ordinary meeting of the sharehold-

For

(Camb. Higher Local).

MISS RUTH CULLEY

MISS GERTRUDE TURNER (National Frodel Higher Certificate). ·

MISCELLANEOUS.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

D. L. KING,

Secretary Hong Kong, Feb. 5th, 1929,

HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.

-

doctors, whose materia medica spring of 1640, and brought with On no pretext will children bo TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN had been handed down from the her a quantity of the bark, with permitted in either enclosure dur In the House of the Principal. InALSO GIVEN that a further extra- that the FOURTH ORDIN-time of the Incas, never contained the intention of distributing itling the first three days of racing.

among those suffering from fever PUBLIC ENCLOSURE ers of the Corporation will be held ARY YEARLY MEETING of Hong. cinchona bark,

Although Peru was discovered on her husband's estate, where Tickets of Admission to the on SATURDAY, the 23rd day of Kong Telephone Company, Limit-

in the ed, will be held on FRIDAY, the in 1513, and had submitted to the tertian fever was very common. Fablie Enclosure, price $3.- per February, 1929, at 12.45 afternoon at the same place for 22nd day of February, 1929, at the Spanish by 1550, no mention has When Dr. Juan de Vega followed day for all persons including ahortly afterwards, he Ladies, may be purchased from (Camb, Teachers Diploma). the purpose of receiving a report Board Room of the Company, been found of the bark earlier her,

of the above mentioned meeting Second Floor, Exchange Building, than the beginning of the seven brought with him a further sup Messra, Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., or at

teenth century, Joseph de ply, which it is said he sold at the Gate. and of considering, and, if thought Hong Kong, at 12 o'clock noon,

receiving a Jussieu, who visited Loxa in Seville for 100 reals a pound.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform at, confirming the above resolution for the purpose of

Little more is known of the admitted to the Public Enclosure in accordance with Article 98 of Statement of Accounts and the 1739, believed that the first know- the Corporation's Deal of Settle Report of the Board of Directors, ledge of the properties of cin- bark until 1668, when Chiffet, at 1. or day.

to the Archduke Admission by ticket only.. for the financial year ended 31st chona was derived by the Indians physician

Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc., December, 1928, and re-electing of Malacotas, some leagues south Leopold of Austria and Governor Demircctors and the Auditors. of Loxa, a town founded by the of the Low Countries, wrote a re- will not be permitted to operate

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Spaniards in 1646. He atates that By Order of the Directors,

tlon into Europe. He says: Kong Jockey Club during the Race Company will be CLOSED from the use of the drug was first made port on the drug and its introduc-within the precincts of the Hons A. C. HYNES,

the 16th February to the 22nd known to a Jesuit missionary who, "Among the wonders of the day Meeting Chief Manager. February, 1929, both days inclu- when suffering from an attack of many reckon the tree growing in

SERVANTS PASSES Note:-A copy of the proposed give.

intermittent fever, was cured by the Kingdom of Peru called Lig- Passes for Servants will be issu- the bark, which was administered Dated this 30th day of January to him by an Indian chief at Mala-chiefly reside in the bark, which is Linstead & Davis, Alexandra Build- New Ordinance can be seen

num Febrium,

on application to Messrs. daring the usual banking 1929.

cotas in 1600, and La Condamine known as China Febris. During hours (Sundays, Public and

claims to have discovered a manu- the last few years it has beenings. Bank Holidays excepted) in

Employers are requested to dig. script in the library of a convent imported into Spain, and thence Hong Kong at the Head

at Loxa in which it is stated that sent to the Jesuit, Cardinal tribute them with discrimination the Europeans of the province Joannes de Lugo at Rome." used cinchona about the same time. A similar story is related

YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly: and promptly printed. "China Mail" Offico, No. 8a, Wyndham St., Telephone Central 22,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

R..

ICULARS & CONDITIONS

PARTICUL

of the Sale by Public Auction

to be held on MONDAY, the:

18th day of February, 1929, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gov- ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land near Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, in

of the Colony Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed

King, for one further term of 75

years.

No. of Sale.

Hegistry

Locality.

Boundary

Macanzemente

1.

(t.

Bawal Bental

Dated this 8th day of February,

ment.

1929.

Office of the Corporation or

By Order of the Board,

T. A. BARRY,

Acting Secretary

Hong Kong.

at the offices of Messrs. 14, Des Voeux Road Central, Johnson Stoker & Master,

Prince's Buildinga, Solici

whose virtues

ed

and to endorse their names on the In 1652 Chifflet's master, the passes.

Servants are not permitted in of Don Lopez de Canizares, the Archduke, had been taken ill

tors to the said Corporation, THE' DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD Spanish Corregidor of Loxa, who with fever and was treated with the Members' Enclosure except for and In Shanghal at the STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED. is said to have been cured of fever the bark, but although he recover-passing through on their duties,

Office of the Corporation.

from the date hereof until

the date of the above men- tioned confirmatory meeting.

HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.

ers' standa.

by taking the bark in 1630. The ed from two attacks he refused to but must remain in their employ NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. fact, however, that its local name take it in a subsequent one, to Any persons dound loitering was "quina-quina," which means which he succumbed, The physi- NOTICE

same and will be removed from

By Order,

G. B. BROWN, /|

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 14th. Feb., 1929,'

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Hodaks and Cameras.

Flims, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.

ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES

Price Moderate.

A Trial Order is Solicited.

A. SEK & CO.

Tel. No. C. 3459. 26A, Des Voeux Road C., Hong Kon.

NOTICE:

TO SHIPOWNERS,

- MASTERS & AGENTS.

The Yuen Wa - Seamen's Institute always hav, men available to ship as watch. men, seamen, &c.

Our

men

are employed by the leading passenger lines. We guarantee satis- faction.

Please phone or call:- K661 — No. 2, Saigon

Street, Yaumati or

C.2560-No. 36, Tang

Man Street.

TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to the late BIEN TING, 14, D'Agullar Street,

TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.

UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD. -

The following unclaimed tele grams are lying in the E. E Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:-

Guest Kremlin, from Iloilo.. Oamugityba Myvalehhuo, from

Manager, Theaing, 20, Des VæRTEX Road, from Colombo,

Tigtiguto, from Shanghai.

Dagshai.

18 HEREBY GIVEN bark of barks," seems to indicate cians of the time were divided in about with Servante Fasses la that the THIRTY-THIRD that some special value was at their opinions as to its value. their possession will forfelt the

Consderable controversy arose, ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING tached to it. of the SHAREHOLDERS In the It is somewhat remarkable and although it was admitted by the enclosure. Company will be held at the Com-that, although the Indians. of many that it palliated the fever TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pany's Town Office, 2, Lower Al Peru strongly adhere to their tra- they insisted that it fixed the NOTICE by the Surveyor of His Majesty the that the ORDINARY YEAR- bert Road, on THURSDAY, 28th ditional customs, they made no humour, thus causing a relapse LY GENERAL MEETING of FEBRUARY, 1929, at NOON, for use of cinchona medicinally, and or some other dangerous disease. Roland Sturm, a doctor of HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, the purpose of receiving the Report even in more recent times actual- LIMITED will be hold at the of the Directors together with ly had a prejudice against it in Louvain, who wrote a treatise on PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. offices of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe-Statement of Accounts, declaring a many cases. Poeppig, writing in the new febrifuge in 1659, states

son & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, on Dividend and re-electing Directors 1830, says that the people of that it was known in Brussels and to take the bark, after which he FRIDAY, the 1st day of March, and Auditors.

Huanuca, who frequently suffer Antwerp at that time as "pulvis made a good recovery.

In spite of its success in such 1929, at 12 o'clock noon to trans The TRANSFER BOOKS of the from tertian agues, have a strong Jesuiticus," because the Jesuit act the ordinary business of the Company. will be CLOSED from repugnance to its use, while Hum-fathers used to administer it. notable cases, however, its medi- Company.

the 21st to the 28th February, 1929, boldt declares that at Loxa the na- They charged the rich the price cinal value still remained a sub- NOTICE AND

IS HEREBY both days inclusive.

tives would rather die than have of its weight in gold, but gave it Ject of dispute. Chifflet in Paris ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER By Order of the Board of recourse to what they consider so to the poor-who suffered from in 1658, and Plempius of Rome OF MEMBERS of the Company

Directors,

dangerous a remedy. Spruce quartan fever. It was more com- in 1656, both predicted the dis will be CLOSED from FRIDAY.

M. MANUK,

makes a similar observation with monly known as "pulvis appearance of the bark as a thera. 16th FEBRUARY to FRIDAY, lat

Secretary, regard to the people of Ecuador Peruanus" or "Feruvianam febri-peutic agent and denounced. Its and Colombia, and says it was fugum." The Fathers in Peru use as harmful; on the other MARCH, 1929, both days inclusive Hong Kong, 18th Feb., 1929.

difficult to make the natives be-sent considerable supplies of the hand, Badius of Genoa, in 1656, By Order of the Board,

lieve that their red bark could be bark to Rome, and the methods defended it, and quoted 12,000 W. F. SIMMONS,

required for any purpose other of using it were explained to a cures by itaald in Italy alone. han for dyeing cloth, congress of Jesuits assembled in The high price commanded a

The first authenticated record that city. It was afterwarda dia- caused many worthless substi of the therapeutic value of cin-tributed to members of the com- tutes to be sold, and the Spanish Head Office25, Des Voeux Road chona is in the year 1688, when munity by Cardinal de Lugo, the merchants were charged with the wife of Don Luis Geronimo Procurator General of the Order, sending various other astringent Fernandez de Cabrera, Bobadilla'y who also gave it away to the poor barks into Italy, adulterated with Mendoza, fourth Count of Chin- who came to his place. Thus it aloes, to give them a bitter taste. chon and Viceroy of Peru, was became commonly known in Rome The bark does not appear to stricken, with intermittent ever as the Cardinal's bark," or the have been known in England until in the palace of Lima. This powder of the Fathers Sturm about 1856, the first mention of its lady's maiden name was Ana de states that he "saw twenty doses occurring in the Mercurius Poli.

cost ticus, one of our earliest nowa Osorio, and she was the hter sent to Paris in 1656 whi

which recpapers, in 1658, a of a

Kowloon Inland Lot

Near P. lace Edward Road,

Kowloon Tong.

As per sale plan. 7,490

SPORTING

GUNS, AND ACCESSORIES.

GUNS: Greener, Webley & Scotts, 3.8.Am. J. W. Noodiam &” Kálek. Freres *** Air: Rifes -- Revolvers. F&W-RINs) Accessorica Aper. tura: Bights--Sporting “requisites Cartridges to suit all bores. S THE HONG KONG SPORTING WARMS AND AMMUNITION

RESTORE

Secretary "CHINA LADIES' HAIR DRESSING

Hong Kong, 7th Feb., 1929.

BEST COAL & CHEAPEST PRICE

KWONG HÀNG & CO.

Tel. C. 2785. 43, Des Voeux Road Central. Government and Admiralty Coal Contractors.” HOUSE COAL

Fat: $28.00 per ton:

Peak Upper Level

Level

SALOON.

Central, Tel. G. 6234.

First Branchini.

No. 5, D'Agullar Street.

(For Ladies only) lu CTelephone No. C. 6284)

Second Branch

No. 122, Queen's Road Central,

(For Ladies & Gents.) Rear Ground floor of Kayamally Building);

faltsoordially welcomed

(when you will see that our "Train-

Half Dressers

von lavery: mitisfaction.

60 florins, and according tions issued to the ap

of Romer for its:

emic ofi this cour

8. LACK,

Superintendent.

Hong Kong, 7th Feb, 1929.

THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO, LTD, !S OF DENMARK.

The following unclaimed tele-

Great Northern Telegraph Com grams are tying at the office of the pany (Limited) of Denmark:-- Penye USMER Shipbroker, from Tientsin.

Cable, from Osaka:: Japanese Chamber of Com Fom Kobe

Lindell Leslie, from Tsina

VUESSEN

SUD

Hong Kong,A7h705, 110