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PUBLIC COMPANIES THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]

RAYNIER'S PERIL,

TGENERAL MEETING of SHARE

THE TWENTIETH ORDINARY A ROMANCE OF THE NORTH-WEST

MOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICES. No. 14, Dos Your Road, Victoria on WEDNESDAY, the 09th APRIL, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the

FRONTIER.

BY

BERTRAM MITFORD":

Author of “The Buby Sroord," " Sign of

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, APRIL 18TH 1903

elipped to the consistency of a toothbrush

And so on.

him swiftly along. Then in his frenzy of terior at the recollection of the fate by had Just at this stage, J'owever, 'Baynier recog escape from and which certainly awaited him nising that bo was on the high road to cordially, now, even the far of instant death dil not deresting the man, had laid himself out to be avail. A loud quavering ebriek for aid rang

from his lip. extra long-suffering.

Wonder if those women ever mean to come n?" went on Tarleton, with a filgetty glance at the clock, for the two were alone in the drawing room just before dinner.

"Oh, one has to give the ornamental sexa little law," and the other, good-humouredly.

"Well, you can't expect them to put on their

Report of the Gen ral Managers for the year the Spider," "The Word of the Sorterea," de clothes and all that as quickly as we can," was

ending 31st December, 1942.

T

TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company

will to CLOSED from MONDAY, the 26th

APRIL, to WEDNESDAY, the 20th APRIL, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers.

Hongkong, 15th April, 1903.

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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

AN

CHAPTER VIL

A SURPRISE.

Herbert Rayuier ran lightly,up the steps of his verandah, feeling intensely satisfied with himself and things in general.

the rejoinder to this accomodating speech. And just then these women, in the shape of Mrs. Jarleton and a guest, eutered. The rat. was a good humoured pleasant-looking little Irishwoman, the second---

How d' you do, Ms Clve. Why thle is n surprise, began Rayuier, without waiting for an introduction...

"I like surprises," laughed the hostess. you one Mr. Raycior."

Though summer, the air was delightfully balery, and the glow of the angsel reddouing"They're great fun. We thought we'd give the Loads of the mountains surrounding the basin in which lay blasaran, was soothing and

"They are, if, as now, they me pleasant ones." be answered,

PER CENT. upon Contributions for and commodious, and stood in the midst of a kind of speech making was at all in your line."

the your 1902 has boon declared.

Warrants will be issued on the 1st May.

By Order of the Board,

W. J. SAUNDERS. ·

Secretary,

[1196 Houghong, 17th April 1908. THE PUNJOM MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

pleasant garden, where closing flowers distilled fragrant scente upou the evening all this sapi bis mind back in thankful contrast to hot, steaming, languid Baghusgor, its brassy skies and feverish erbalations, whore even at this late hour the very crows lizing the roof would to pen-billed and gasping. And thus contrasting the new with the old order of things be decided for the fiftieth time that the luckiest moment of his life was when he opened the official TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at a letter which met him on landing at Hombay Meeting of the Beard of Directors of apprinting him Political Agent at Mazaran. the Company, bld at the Company's Office. Hardly less in contrast between the climate of No. 13, Beaconsfield Arcade, Victoria, Hongbin new station and the last, were the people kong, on Wednesday, the 8th day of April, with whom he now had to steal. There was 1963, the following Resolution was passed ---

wbaterer in common between the meek nothing That the fan CALL of FIFTY CENTS subservient native he had hitherto ruisd, and per SHARE upon all the Holders of the stalwart independence of these wild monu-

"Why, Mr. Raynier. I didn't think that said the Surprise,' demurely.

She was a fallish girl, rather slight, with refined and regular features, which aineteen out of twenty pronounced cold. She had a great deal of dark brown hair, and very uncommon eyes; in fact they, were unequivocally and unmistakably groen. Yet framed in their dark, ubandant losha, they might be capable of throwing as complete an attraction, a fascina tion, as the moro regulation blus or lazul ones. She was unt popular with me. Not enough go in her, they declared. Seemed more cai out for a blue-stocking,

·But it died in a choking gap. The white knife blade disappeared. to emerge again red and this not once only. A corpse lay wallowing in the road and two loosely dad figuras van: ished into the darkness, evou as they had come out of it.

To be continued)

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NOTICES OF FIRMS

CHINA COMMERCIAISTBAMSHIP- COMPANY, LIMITED.

司公限有船輪華中 HE OFFICES of the above Company boo 80 OPENER at No. 35, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL 2ND FLOOR.

Hongkong. 21st March, 903.

NOTICE.

Ordinary Shares in the above Company intain tribes, whose turbulent and predatory that being a form of exercise which he Colony. ME. ITAROLD A. SETH

A. H. RENNIE.

General Agent. THE PORTLAND FLOURING MILLS CO.

·Hongkong, 1 th April, 1983.. ---ཁ

NOTICE

respect of all the Shures hold by them in instincts norded nico handling to keep in of

Bat all this uppealed to him the above Company be and the samo is cient sontrol. hereby made, Such Call to be paid to the vividly, and he threw himself into his new duties Company at their Bankers, the Hongkong with an eager zest which caused those who had and Shanghai Banking Corporation, at known his predecessor to smile. He recognised their Premises, Queen's Road Centrals that here at least was a chance; here he might Victoria, Hongkong, on or before the Ith flad scope for his Intout ability which the day of May, 1908,

stagnant routine of his old Department bad been And NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that in in danger of stifling altogether. In fact he was Accordance with Article 24 of the Company's inclined to regret the abnormally tranquil slate Articles of Association, Inforest will be charged of things, when Jelson, his predecessor, had as from the said 9th day of May, 1903, at the congratulated him upon the fact that Mushim to be of service to her. This he had done out By Procuration from this data. rate of $10 per sentum per annam, upon all Kban, the chief of the powerfal, and often Calls remaining unpaid after the said 9th day turbulent, Gularzai tribe, had become so of May, 1905, up to the actual dates of payment amenable since the Government had created of the cause.

him a Nawab that the mean buy almost walk through the Gularzai country alone and with his pockets bulging with rapeer, in perfect safety.

Shareholders are particularly requested to note that upon presentation at the Office of the Company of the Bauker's Receipt for payment of the Call, together with the Certificate of the Sheres, it respect of which the Call has been paid, an ondorsement to that feel will be made apon the Certificate.”

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SHIP and FREIGHT BROKER.

A. BUNE. Priness Building No. 1: Hongkong. 19th April. 1963,

NOTICE.

Skin-Tortured Babies

AND TIRED MOTHERS Find Comfort in Cuticura

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MILLIONS USE CUTICURA SOAP

Assisted by CUTICURA OINTMENT, for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and more hands, for baby rashes, itchings, and chafings, in the form of baths for annoying irritations and Inflamuïntions, or too free or offensive perspira tlun, in the form of wastes for ulcerative weaknceses, and for many sanative, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, especially mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. No other medicated soup ever compounded is to be compared with it for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soup, however oxpensive, is to be compared with It for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and parsery. Thus it combines in OKE SOAP at ONE PRICE, the BEST ekin and complexion soup, and the BEST toilet and BEST baby soap in the world.

CUTICURA RESOLVENT PILLS (Choclate Coated) are a new instelaza,

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ha and Raynie bud been fellow-passengers gat, but had bad itéle to say to each other on board. He had dunced with her three or four

URING my temporary alsauce from the times, which was rather remarkable in vier of favoured but little. Both had this ia e comon, that they held aloof from the usual board-chip-is-authorised to Sign for ine amusements, yet they had not come together at all. It was only when they landed at Bombay and the friends she had expected to meet her had not arrived, that Raynier, noting the look of intense ennsternation, of bewilderment oven, upon the girl's foco, se she realised how she was traded a total the recite or every for CONSEQUENT upua leaving our Firm land, bad come to the rescue had even foregone. Mr. A. UNE Cenges to Sign for ams

BAST ASIATIC TRADING CO his train and remained over until the next day

Hongkong. 10th April, 19 3.

NOTICE. sheer kindness-the other passengers having gone their respective ways without giving her o thought--and having handed her over to ber friends who had been unavoidably dolaped, hud hidden her good-bye and had gone his awz-he, AVE. This Day drilled in yself as

Hilds says you were so kind to her at tuo, scarely giving bor another thought. berbert Raynier flung himself into a comfort. Bombay, Mr. Raynier," went on his hostess. able chair on the verandah, and ligated a "Ob-that's nothing, Mrs. Tarleton. Glad cheroot. He bud half an hour to spars before to have been of any service of course," he it should be time to dress and go out to dinner, replied, in that hurried, half confused way to and how should such ba botter spent than in be expected of a man of his disposition under the

circumstances, restiul smoke: yet while enjoying this his though's wore sotica ouough. His prospects, rosy as the afterglow which dwelt upon the surrounding peaks kept Lim busy for a time, and over all was a sepse of great relief. If he bad saved the life of an unknown Oriental at the hands of a particularly brutal mob, assured. by he had been repaid to the fnli, for but for that circumstance matters would never have come to a head with Cynthia. He would still be bound hard and fast by a chain of which he only realised the full weight since he had broken it. For he had broken it-inally of the principal landing stages of the

irrevocably, unmistakably--he told himself, SECOND SEAPORT IN THE WORLD,ince that last sose in the Vicarage garden ha

and Cynthia had exchanged no word, und on the Trunk Road of the Projected HONGKONG CANTON-RAILWAY, remainder of that day bad not been of a pleasant nature, and he had left by an early train on the 18 FOR LEASE OF

following morning, to return three days later VERY EASY TERMS,

to India, No letter, either, of farewell, or owing to Proprietor having to leave the Colony, reproach, or recrimination--as he had half feared-reached him at the least, and it was with The Elite Establishment, patronised by the feelings of genuine relief that he watched the residents of Hongkong and Kowloon, and by shores of the mother country fade foto the the Bhipping Community calling at this Fan invisible. Eastern entrepôt of trade.

"By Order of the Board of Directors;

W. KERFOOT HUGHES,

Secretary

[1190 AN OPPORTUNITY FOR AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN ENTERPRISE

Hongkong, Hh April, 1903.

IN

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An exceptionally large and showy building, capable of extension, with large piece of vacant land adjoining/

Bounded by main roads lending to the Docks

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The Establishment has been conducted as a First-Class Hotel and is a profitable investment, Is capable of still larger returns if management is taken over by person devoting exclusive attention to the business

Inspection of Books allowed to any one making bona fide Offers for Leano, &e.

For Fall Particulars, apply to-

a

The

Tariston, the Civil Surgeon, at whose bua. galow Raynier was dining, was somewhat of a trying so fal unit, in that he was never even by chance known to agree with any remark oy proposition, weightly cr trivial, put forward by anybody, or if there was no concárable room for gainsaying such why then he would append some brisk aggressive comment in rider fashion, As thus

"How do, Raynier. How did you come over ? Didn't walk, did you ?"

"No. Biked"

"Ho! Blogole's not much use up here, I can tell you."

Baybier remarked that he found the machine useful for getting about the station with, and that the roads in and immediately around the same were rather good.

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To settle up late owner's estate,

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Vessel bas just undergone aantal overhaul and is ready for sea.

For Farther Fartfonlars apply to

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Well, you didn't expect to find them all rocks and stones did you came the prompt Tarleton, was white-haired and red-faced, which caused him to look ulder than his actual Fears Anotlier of his peculiarities was that he

"But it isn't nothing." a'ruck in the girl decidedly. "Do you know, Mrs. Tarleton, waited till the next Mr. Raynier even

And it's old because day to look after me. we hardly knew each other on the ship. "

Oh well," mumbled Raynier jerkily, you can't see anybody stranded like that a lady especially-in a totally stranga place without doing something to straighten things ont for them."

Hilda Clive smiled.

None of the others seemed to be of that opinion, at any rate," she said.

Soappad Tarleton. "Well, you can't expect a lot of people just landed from a-voyage to think about anything but therasolves and their own belongings."

Partnership formerly existing between Test.DORABJEN NOWROJEE, I. P. MADAS, and WILLIAM FARMER in connection with the businesses of the NEW VICTORIA and KING EDWARD HOTELS. Hongkong, and the VICTORIA HOTEL, Shameen, Canton, has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 31st day of December, 102,

Mr. WILLIAM FARMER as from such date entirely takes over and bonomes responsible for the business of the VICTORIA HOTEL, DORABJEE Shamson, Canton, Masers NOWROJEE and 1, P. MADAR as from euch. ate entirely take over and becomo responsible for the businenser of the NEW VICTORIA and KING EDWARD HOTELS Hongkong.

Dated this 14th day of April, 1903.

DORARJEE NOWRQJEE, I. P. MADAR. WM. FARMER.

TING.

For once Raynier felt frankly grateful to the contentions oue-if only that it was suit 11561 for Tarleton to lay down a statement on any given subject to canas bis ordiary hosrors t drop that schient like a hot bar. Wherefors theas promptly turned to another.

Suat Singh and Kane Singh, chaprogsin, wara aroused from the drowsy enjoyment of the r babble-bubbles by a very auronted intruder in the Political Agent's compound late at night, and were well nigh speechless taurinque amazement. The Est trador thy hd left on the road! See the Hazoor: At that time of night! It was the Police Station the fool wanted. Something of the highest importance? Let him opme it the morning. It would kept natil then. Besides, the Huzoor was oot dining.

In a divafal state of fear aud perplexity Chand Lall, thus rebated, got out into the road again, and with a soared look over each shoulder, took his way as quickly as he enld from the gate. Bet this was not quick, for even in the darkness it tight have been seen that he walked with a painful limp. In the darkness too. some-. thing else might have been seen-two figures stealing along in the deeper shade of the tom risk bedge. He whom they shadowed saw them not at first-thon having chosen their spot, they quickened their pace, and darling forward flang themselves upon him.

The yell, which the assailed men opened his mouth to atter, died in his throat as the white

Now he would grow a beard; then enddenly his eyes. without a word to any body, would trim it down

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