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PUBLIC AUCTIONS
The Undersigned have received. instructions
sell by to
Public Auction en
FRIDAY, the 7th March, 1941 cumin.encing at 2.30 p.m.
at the Sales Room,
No. 35. Hankow Road, Kowloon.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising
Teak word Drawing Room. Bed Room. Ding Room, Offee and Rattan Furniture. Chesterfieldi Suites. Callery. Carpets, Rugs, Curas, Cimarents, Cuir Runners, F. P. Bay, Aluminum, Glass & Porcelata Ware, Gramophones & Records, Bleerie Table Lamps & Heaters. Tea Sets. Pictures, Clocks, Sinis, Cacking Utensils, etc., ele. also
A Few Pieces of Blackwood
Furniture
and
3 Pairs Binoculars
1 Reflex Camera fitted F4.5 Lense
1 Exposure Meter
1 Bed Room Suite
1 Wardrobe Trunk
1 Enamelled Bath
1 Dining Room Suite
1 “Mullard{"
1 "Zenith" All Wave Radio
All Wave
(A.C. & D.C.)
1 Lot Dance Music
Radio
On View from Thursday, the 6th March, 1941.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 5th March, 1941.
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction on
SATURDAY, the 8th March, 1941 commencing at 10.30 a.m.
at No. 2 Wood Road (Basement), Wanchai.
299 Packages Miscellaneous Goods comprising:--
Cotton Shirtings, Poplin, Nan- keen, Blue, Black and Grey Drills, Colton Prints, Crepe, Cotton Sa-
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 6, 1941.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS HUSBAND'S
Commissioners. Powers
Ordinance, 1886.
NOTIFICATION
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY,
LIMITED
MISTAKE
MAN,
WHEN SARAH BENDISH LEFT HER HUSBAND, SHE WROTE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN HIM A FAREWELL NOTE, BUT that an Extraordinary General! HER HANDWRITING WAS SO It is hereby notified for general Meeting of the Company will be DIFFICULT TO READ THAT IT information that the first public held in the P. & O. Building, CAUSED HIM TO NAME THE session of the Commissioners ap-Victoria, in the Colony of Hong WRONG
NICHOLAS pointed to enquire into the affairs Kong at 11.15 o'clock in the fore- FLACK, AS CO-RESPONDENT. of the Immigration Department noon on THURSDAY, the 20th Nicholas Flack had been on his will be held shortly on a date to day of March, 1941, or as soon annual elephant slaying expedition be announced by proclamation in thereafter as the Ordinary General at the time and William Bendish the Gazette and all persons wish- Meeting of the Company shall lost the case. As he did not know ing to testify before the said Com- have terminated for the purpose where to find his wife, the matter missioners are requested to give of considering and, if thought fit, was allowed to drop until Willam written notice to the undersigned | passing the following resolutions: met the widow of the late Canon at the Colonial Secretary's Office
Bell Mason,
by the earliest possible date to- gether with a brief memorandum of the evidence which they pro- pose to offer.
The examination of witnesses will be held in public but the Commissioners may, if requested to do so for good cause. direct that the whole or part of any wit- ness's evidence may be taken in private. Any request to this effect should be included in the above- mentioned memoranduni.
K. M. A. BARNETT, Secretary to the Commissioners. Hong Kong, 6th March, 1941.
HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB
Tennis Tournament. 1941
Closing date of ENTRIES has been extended
to SATURDAY, 8th March, 1941, at 6.00 p.m.
HONG KONG G SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
The Final Dividend declared for the Year ending 31st December, 1940, at the rate of Two Pounds Ten Shillings Sterling at exchange 1/27/8 is payable on and after the 26th February. 1941, at the offices of the Corporation, where share- holders are requested to apply for Warrants.
By Order of the Board of
Directors.
V. M. GRAYBURN, Chief Manager.
Hong Kong, 26th Feb., 1941.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
NOTICE
It is hereby notified that the fol- lowing increases in the Company's standard charges will be made for current consumed in respect of ac- counts issued for meters read on and after 21st March 1941:-
2.
For Lighting from 15 cents to 10 cents per unit.
For Power and Heating from. 5 cents to 5 cents per unit. 3. The discount of 10% on Pow¬,
er accounts in excess of 1,000 units per month will be dis- continued.
By order of the Board of
Directors,
rong, Cotton Jean, Cotton Singlets, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
Towels, Hats, Rubber and Canvas
Agents.
THE BANK OF EAST
Shoes, Hair Clips, Padlocks, Steel, Wood Screws, Aluminium Ware- Wire Net, Chromium Plated Oil Lamps, Radio Parts, Charcoal Flat Iron, Electric Lamp Bulbs, Flexible Cords, Wall Sockets and Plugs, Electric Three Way Soc- kets, Lamp Shades, Cardboard Photo Backs, Stationery, etc.
(all more or less damaged) Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT. BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 6th March, 1941:
TO LET
ASIA, LIMITED
NOTICE is hereby given that the TWENTY SECOND ORDIN ARY YEARLY MEETING of this Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, on SATURDAY, the 8th March, 1941, at 2.00 p.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a State- ment of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1840,
NEW SIX ROOMED HOUSE (Spanish Style) on Hillwood Rd.,
The Register of Shares of the Kowloon, with fixtures and fully Company will be closed from Furnished. Large garden. Apply Saturday, 1st March, 1941 to Ieh Fong Coal Corporation, Tai Ping Bldg., Queen's Rd. Tel. 20664.
FOR SALE:
HONG KONG 'DOULAR DINEO- TORY 1941 EDITION/-Ori, škle at all Book#talls and at the Offices of the Pabllhers, Windsor House,
Saturday, 8th March, 1941 (both days inclusive) during which: period no transfer of aliares can: be registered,
The
1. That the Directors be and
He is making considerable pro- they are hereby authorised to capitalise the sum of $3,000,000 gress in the conquest of the mature Hong Kong currency, part of the charms of Mrs. Bell Mason whet undivided profils of the Com- his wife suddenly reappears. Since pany standing to the credit of the she left her husband, Sarah has Company's Reserve Fund, and become a very successfu) designer to allot to the members holding of hats in New York, using the shares of the Company as on the name of "Sarah Simple." first day of April One thousand entrance of the poised and nine hundred and forty-one in very attractive "Sarah Simple" respect of the net amount capi- into William Bendish's life leads talised fully paid shares of the to a series of complications and Company of equivalent nominal | difficult situations. His young twin value in the proportion of one nephew and niece add to the coin- share for every three shares of plications, while acting as his own the Company held by them res- co-respondent, in a precarious dis- pectively and that such shares puise and at the village inn, is not so allotted shail rank for divid- the least of the difficult situations. ends as from the 1st day of July, 1941.
2. That if on such distribu-
as aforesaid
any person would be entitled to a fractional
tion
share the Directors shall, in lieu of issuing fractional certificates, cause the whole share to be al-
lotted to a person or persons to be named by the Directors and such share shall, at such time as the Directors think fit, be sold and the proceeds distributed amongst the persons entitled to the fructions making
up
such share.
By Order of the Board
of Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO, LTD.,
Agents. Hong Kong, 21st February, 1941. NOTE--Under the powers conferred upon them by Article 12 of the Articles Directors of Association of the Company, the
have decided to offer to
Such is the comedy written by A.A. Milne, which the Hong Kong A.D.C. are presenting at the China Fleet Club Theatre on March 19, 20, 21 and 22.
The play, with Leonora Corbett as "Sarah Simple." A. D. What-
William as
Bendish, and
more
after son
Agnes Lauchian as Mrs. Bell Ma. receiving excellent notices from the critics in London had a long Fun a1 the Carrick Theatre.
Booking is now
son's.
open at Ander-
AMATEUR TOWS
Shareholders on the Register on the 1st BOMB AWAY
day of April 1941, one share at par fur every complete three shares held by (excluding the Bonus Shares to
them
BRIDGE. NOTES
Crime Doesn't Pay!
No. 33
By The Four Aces To-day's Crime is contributed by a Baltimore reader:
South, Dealer East-West vulnerable
A. JE
A 10 8 4
AKQ10 7:
3
◊ 10 7 4 KJ G
N
IW
A 6
JG 2
♡
5 2 ◇ A 8 2
10 7 3
O K J 9 6
S
49 5 4 2
▲ A9 8 4 2
3
♡ K Q 9 7 0 0
AQ 8
Free
North INT
East
Pase
L'as
4V Pass
Pass Pass
The bidding: South West
14
20
Pass
"West opened a trump." writes our contributor. "South winning with the seven. Declarer promptly
HION CARD VALUES
OF THE FOOR-ACES SYSTEM
ACF KING..2 QUEEN.1 JACK
3n-
cashed the spide Ace and led other spade, West winning with the spade Quec:n and returning another trump. South won and led
a spade,
ruffing with dum- my's heart ten, but
East over-ruffed
with
the Jack
(which he had saved for just that purpose). Thereafter, South ruff- ed his fourth spade but had te lose his fifth spade and a diamond, going down one.
"North observed, at that point, that all the butchers aren't in the meat business; but refused to say how he thought the hand should have been played. Was South actually at fault or was he just unlucky?"
1
South was a criminal, but he was 2nd Lt. John MacMillan tunate to find a 5-1 spade break; also unlucky. It was very unfor-
be offered to them under the preced. Stevenson Patton, of the particularly with East in position
that Royal
dummy. But Canadian Engin- South need not have exposed him-
ing resolution) upon the terins payment for such shares shall be made |
to over-ruff the
to the Company's Bankers. The Hong eers, has been awarded self to this risk. Correct play is Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. the George
to lead a diamond at the second Cross "for trick. A trump return can be won
Hong Kong on or before the 30th Sep
tember 1941 and that Shareholders be most conspicuous gallan- under such offer and that no rights at
given power to renounce their rights
tach to any fractions. The shares tak-
en up under the above offer shall rank for dividends as from 1st day of July 1941. Formal letters of offer, accep tance and renunciation will be sent to Shareholders as soon as possible after
April 1st next.
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having preparations.
Sole Agents.--
try in carrying out hazar- dous work in a very brave manner.
""
He was engaged in clearing de- bris when a member of the Home Guard told him that a big bomb which had fallen in the vicinity had failed to explode.
He inspected the bomb, decided it was in much too dangerous a position to be left there, and ob- tained an Army lorry and a length of cable.
After fastening the cable round the missile 2nd Lt. Patton sat on the running-boord of the lorry to watch what happened while the bomb was dragged behind the vehicle to a field.
It was decided that it would be best to dump the bomb in an old crater. After careful manoeuvring it was deposited gently in the hole.
2nd Lt. Patton, an expert in chemical engineering, at that time knew nothing of the technique of tackling unexploded bombs.
He became so interested that he is now attached to a bomb disposal unit of the R. E. He is 25 and married,
JAPANESE
OPERATIONS
IN SOUTH
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)
IN ORDER TO CUT OFF ALL SOUTH CHINA COASTAL COM- MUNICATIONS WITH THE IN... TERIOR, JAPANESE NAVAL AND MILITARY FORCES, SUP-
with dummy's ten, after which of clubs is entry for another dia- mond ruft; and the King of clubs
South ruffs a diamond. The Jack
enables dummy to draw East's last trump. Declarer thus makes four trumps, two ruffs, three clubs, and
one spade-a total of ten tricks. Two ruffs were needed for the contract; and South should have seen that ruffing the short diamond sult was safer than ruff- ing the long spade suit.
* * ✡
Yesterday Schenken's partner and, with both you were Howard sides vulnerable, you held:
AKJ 97 @ ♡ Q
8 4 2 Q 3 6 6
Jacoby Pass Pass
You 14 (7)
Mater
Pass
The bidding: Schenken 10
2NT
ANSWER: Bid three clubs, You are too strong to pans, yet, wish to discourage a no-trump contract because of your singleton heart. Bidding the clubs shows that you probably have an unbalanced hand and warns against a return to no-. trump unless your partner can surely take care of the unbid suit. Score 100% for three clubs, 40% for three diamonds 'or three spades, 20% for three no-trump.
Question No. 657
To-day you hold the gamto hand, and the bidding continues.
Schenken 10
Jacoby
Pasa
1A
You Mater Pass
2NT.
Pass
3號
Tass
Pass
1?)
What do you bid? (Answer
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