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NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.

CHINA COAST OFFICERS'

"GUILD.

IN ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the QUILD OFFICE, 87, DIS VOI ROAD CENTRAL (DATID HOUSE), on WEDNESDAY, 22% MAY, at FIVE O'CLOCK P.M.

BUSINESS-General. All Members are requested to attend.

T. T. LAURENSON,.

Branch Secretary.

[7811 #

PUBLIC NOTICE.

PLAYING FIELDS COMMITTEE.

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONG KONG TUG` & LIGHTER CO., LTD.

No

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the above named Company will be held at ST. GEORGES BUILDING, GRATER ROAD. VICTORYS, Heng Korg, on WEDNES DAY, the 2D DAY OF MAY, 1999, at 12.18 PM, for the purpose o

of receiving Accounts and the a Statement of Rapert of the General Managers for the Year ended 31st March, 1929,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the DAT, the TT-DAY OF HAY, 1929. Company will be CLOSED from FBI. until FRIDAY, the 7TH DAY OF JUNE, 1929, Both Days inclusire.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. Hong Kong, 3rd May, 1929. [7739

THE HONG KONG TUG & LIGHTER CO., LTD.

the PLAYING FIELDS COM.AR EXTRAORDINARY 16 HEREBY GIVEN MITTEE is desirous of obtaining the views of as many interested parsons GENERAL MEETING of the above sed associations as possible, and these named Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, ST. GEORGE'S who bave any suggestions or re resents. tions to make regarding the preen and BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, VICTORIA, fatare provision of playing fields in the Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the Colony are invited to forward them 293D DAY OF MAY, 1929, 19.20 ... early to Ma. T. MEGARRY, Secretary for the purpose of considering and if the Committee, at the Colonial deemed desirable paring the following Secretariat.

Rewolutions Extraordinary Besolu tions with or without modification:-

to

Anyone wishing to support his written representations by omal evidence before the Committes is requested to inform the Secretary accordingly.

NOTICE.

(7826

HE Undersigned prepared to THE

consider OFFERS to Parchase the following Properties-

STATION O OF MARINE LOT 243. (Nos, 3 8, PRAYA KENNEDY and TOWN. Godawas). KOTLOON MARINE Lor 65. (Shipyard). Exctions A and B and the RAISING PORTION OF SHAVKIWAN ISLAND Lot 490, (Ten Ohinese Shops and Dwellings)

SECTION O and the REMAINING FORTION OF SICTION B OF INLAND LOT No. 1342.

WEST SHARP STREET

BUEBECTION 1 OF SECTION A or SHAUKI-

**WAN

482 INLAND LOT

(Nos,

219-987, Odd Nos., MAIN STREET, SHAUKIWAN WEST), Particulars may be obtained on Application at the TREASURY, or to the CROWN SOLICITOR at the Counts of JITICE.

To

8. C. McI MESSER,

Colonial Treas

21st May, 1929,

7816

Home Kose, 22nd May, 1929.

THE ELECTORS OF MEMBERS OF THE SANITARY BOARD.

GENTLEMEN

I desire to thank you for the hangar you have done me by returning ma to

the Banitary Board" as one of your members.

יי

1. That the Company be found Up

Voluntarily

2. That Jom HERREASEY BITH and

S:UNEX

HAMPDEN Ross of

Victoria, Hong Kong, te and are hereby appointed Liquidators for the purpose of auch Winding UF Should the mid Rasotations be passed by the

be 59oits majorite the same will

for Confirmation as Special Benolutions at a Subsequent EXTRA- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING to be held at the Same Place on FRI- DAY, the 77 DAT CY JUNE, 1929, at 1230 P.M., Notion of which is hereby given.

Dated this 3rd day of May, 1929.

SHEWAN, TOMES, & CO.,

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929.

A

SUMMER

NECESSITY

Special

Magnum

Bottles

OF OUR

GENUINE

Eau de Cologne

of

General Manager Exquisite Aroma

[7740

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE. LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE FORTY-EIGHTH ORDIN

ARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned on THURSDAY, THE 23 MAY, 1999, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the of the General Agents, together

Report tement of Accouple for tha

with a Year ended the 81st DECEMBER 1998.

The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED From the 9TH to the 2310 MAY, 1929," Both Days inclusive. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Agenta Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1929. [7724 UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG).

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN the FIFTY-SIXTH

Nat

-'I shall endeavour to serve conscien. tiously as your representative in the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING

Each $2.

A. S. WATSON & Co.,

LIMITED.

"PEAK MANSIONS.”.

TTUATED within Two Minutes" Walk from the Tram Station and Overlooking the Bouthern Side of the Island. Ready for Occupation:

Fire-Roomed and Six-Roomed APARTMENTS

ALBO

interests of the Colony 24 & whole of the Society will be held at the with all Modern Conveniences, Drying But it is obvious that I cannot possibly HEAD OFFICE UNION BUILDING, Booms and Out-houses, Two Lafte hope to succeed in my task as your Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 24TH MAY, representative, and interpreter of 1929, at 11 O'CLOCK &M., for the Your

and wishes, without your purpose of receiving the Report of the active co-apeiation and support, for Directors and the Statements which I accordingly appeal.

Account to 31st DECEMBER, 1929, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

I shall welcome practical suggestions from residents, and shall be delighted to discuss any sanitary matter with them personally in the public interest. Yours truly,

M. K. LO.

V. R. C.

(7917

THE ANNUAL GENERAL T MEETING of The VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB

take

place at the V.RO. at 6 M. on WEDNESDAY, MAY 29mm, 1929.

C. J. COOKE,

Hon. Secretary, VICTORIA RECREATION CLEA

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"KEEP WATCH.”

THE NAVY LEAGUE (Hoxe THE

KONG BRANCH) have much pleasure in announcing that with the Kind Permission of the Hong Kong Amusements, Limited, and under the Auspices of the ST. GEORGE'S and ST. ANDREW'S BOOIETIES they will be showing the film:→

"KEEP WATCH".

on EMPIRE DAY (24TH MAY) at the AFTERNOON PERFORMANCE which will take place at 5 P.M. Sharp In the QUEEN'S THEATRE

LM-WHITE;

Hon. Secretary. NAVY LEAGUE (Hong Kong Branch).

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED From 621 MAY to 24TH MAY, Both Days inclusivo.

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

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【TOTICE GIVEN

PRIVATE GARAGES TO LET.

Situate at the Rear of PEAK MANSIONS -. Separate Compartments including Light and Water.

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NOTICE IS SHREE ORDIN SPANISH DOMINICAN

ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 24 MAY, 1929, at 1.13 A., for the harpers of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Btatements of Account to 31st DECEMBER, 1925, and of doclaring Dividends, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From 6TH MAY to 24TH MAY, Both Dayı inclusive.

...By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager. Hong Kong, Isi May;1929. [[7722.

· BRITISH TRADERS' INSUR-

ANCE CO., LTD. (INCORPORATED IN Hose Koxo.)

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTY-THIRD OP- DINARY YEARLY MEETING the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, Hong Kong on FRIDAY, 24TH MAY, 1929, at 11 20 AM for the

of receiving purpose Report of the Directors and the State ments of Account to Sist DECEMBER

1929, and of declaring Dividende, etc.

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PROCURATION.

mental indecision, but a well. grounded feeling of lack of sym- pathy with the Gladstonian idea. The perfect description of Lord RoscoERY in his prime is given in |E. T. Cook's sketch of him

News and Views.

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore- okat and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 20 he became Premier: A strong of cerebrospinal fever (all Chinese)

slated:

Pressure it highest to the north east of Japan and relatively low, over China generally. Depressions are situated to the N.E. of Formosa and between the Pelew Islands and Tap

winds,

Local Forecast: S. moderate, fair to showery.

when

Three cases of small-pox, and one

Radical, wha, nevertheless is not un- favourably regarded by the stern were reported on Wednesday. unbending Tories; a Home Ruler who is half-trusted by the Union-

An ordinary general meeting of. ists; a Sosialistic politician who is related to the Rothschilds; a poli- the China Coast Officers' Guild will tical reformer who commands in be held to-day at 5 pm at the equal measure the confidence of the Guild Office, No. 167, Des Voeux extremista and the moderates & Road Central.

man of the world in the widest Bense," whose, personal friendships

By removing a couple of floor. include the heir apparent to the boards from the room above Sir Editorial and Business Offices: 11.Throne and the leaders of the new Henry Pollock's office in Prince's

Ice House Street: Tel. Central | democracy.” Not much of GLAD-

12.

Night Editor (Wanchai Office); Tel.

Central 4511.

London Office: 91, Bride Lane,

Floes Street, E.C. &

The Daily

Bress.

HONG KONG, MAY 22, 1929.

A REAL MAN OF THE WORLD

the

STONE. there, and still less in the Building, a thie! managed to steal man who may place Liberalism an electric-fan from Sir Henry's definitely on a Big England basis desk. He apparently "fished and thereby win back many who fan by means of a hook tied to the have been alienated rightly or end of a string The police have wrongly by their distrust of Mr. GLADSTONE's foreign and colonial policy."

been notified.

Women in the United States will continue to preferanturað - silk rather than artificially manufac- tured substitutes, according to opinion among Japanese consuls in American cities. The Consula all- expressed, optimism with regard to

futura trade in the silk industry between Japan and the United States.

Chinese raw silk marchants have

petitioned the National Govern ment for 21,000 taals to defray the expenses of sending Chinese filatura mon to New York in August to attend the International Raw Silk Technical Conference. The delegates. have not been chosen as yet," but only practical raw silk producers will be sent.

The notice "No children ** not

infrequently seen in advertisementa... of apartments or houses to let, is to be banned a Rome. The Com- missioner of the Fascist National

A fine of $3 was imposed by Mr. Federation of real-catate owners haa Lord RUSISERY WAS GLADSTONE'S Smith yesterday on a Chinese issued an order to all members of the various Fascist Associations immediate successor" as Leader of who admitted that he had caused & the Liberal Party, but his natural nuisance by the unnecessary van af grouped in the federation inform gifts did not include those peculiar his motor-born. Mr. P. P. J.ng them that the inclusion of any words barring children in real- Wodehouse, C.LE.. the Deputy qualities absolutely necessary in a Superintendent of Police, who protempt to refuse the renting of a estate advertisements, or any atë successful political leader. Efforts.

were made by his friends to bring secuted stated that the tooting at fat or house owing to the applicant:

Intolerable aus having children, will result in im-

bim back after his differences with tight was an

ance.

enter a

President Hoover's limitation ak handshaking to Mondays and Wednesdays seems reasonable.

than

the party on the Boer War and

mediate expulsion from the Real- Home Rule, but without avail. The

Estate Owners Association. This ex-leader

When two Chinese were charged decision has practically, if not preferrred his lonely furrow. The events of his brief Kowloon Magistracy yesterday nominally, the effect of a law, for Premiership belong to histors, and with trespassing on the K.C.Randlords who are not regularly re- AtMost on the eve of a political history may decide it was less un-

track they pleaded they had no gistered in their proper eorpora- struggle of unique interest-and fortunate than the Premiership of money and intended to walk to tive association cammot claim the BALFOUR and infinitely less ignoble Canton. One of the defendants was full benefits of the law in their perhaps importance-comes news of than the Premiership of GODERICH. discharged with a caution having relations with their tenants. the death of one of the old-time No Prime Minister marooned in the already spent a night in gaol, while Liberal leaders. Lord" ROSEBERY's Lords could have withstood intri. the other was fined $1. The defen- The Wholesale Handshake. career was many-sided; he held the gues of the HARCOCETS and the dants were both arrested by guards post of Chairman of the London disloyalty of nominal supporters as they were about to County Council as well as the office His resignation of the leadership tunnel. of Prime Minister; he was an and refusal to combine with CAMP- orator of great ability and a writer BELL-BANNERMAN have been criticis HE. the Governor regrets to enough Hard experience has sug- one way of with no mean literary gifta; heed, but those who take long views announce that, owing to extensive Bested more was a keen racing-man and a patron may wonder whether, if the party repairs now being effected in the mitigating the wearisomeness of wholesale handshaking: Roosevelt of the arta. He was, in fact, a man had gone with him instead of ballroom and other rooms in the simply folded his fingers around the of many parts, and his public life against him, the disasters of recent cast wing of Government House, it other man's hand and waited for. extending over half a century-years would have followed the tem will not be possible to hold the him to do the fervent clasping if forms a career" of particular in- porary success of 1006. Curious usual reception at Government terest. The present generation, even the fate of such a munt Curious House on the occasion of His he could; Gladstone used to stiffen those of Liberal sympathies, know that failure should have filled so Majesty's birthday next month. his hand and place his thumb little of the man who left that party many pages while success, has re- His Excellency hopes, however, to against the palm, Mrs. Gladstone after leading it and declared heceived the most cursory mention or hold a reception later in the year; furtively putting out her band to (according to Sir Algernon West) reconstruction mast plough his furrow alone. Nor been forgotten altogether Lacking when is it frequently recalled that, twenty the experience of House of Com Government House has been con- relieve him occasionally. But as years before it became the habit of mons work, essential to political pleted.

there are more and more people who would shake hands with a European Cabinet Ministers to success in these days, facking the

king upon his throne," some re- meet each other at. fashionable capacity for intrigue, lacking the When twelve Chinese were charged striction upon the use. of this hotels and discuss informally their thick skin, lacking the urge of before Mr. N. L. South at the salutation has long been fore- politics, Lord ROSEBERY bad de- necessity, a man of maty sorrows Central Magistracy with gambling shadowed, and the new President clared that some of the greatest in private life, there is still much bis Worship observed that one of has been quick to make one A peaces and greatest settlements in to be said on the credit side. At the men had "literally put his Washington schoolgirl once wrote to the world's history have begun with

shirt on the game," as he appeared her parents in the Middle West: an apparently casual meeting of

in Court without any other wearing" Preserve this letter. The hand two travellers in a neutral inn:

apparel than a pair of short pants which writes it has been shaken by This useful hint was dropped dur-

The Inspector in charge of the case the President of the United States. ing the dark days of the Boer War;

told his Worship that that was sc-

This thrill has come to be regarded„ strangely enough, it was acted upon

tually so. Fines of 83 sach were very frequently during the dificult

imposed on the gamblers, whilst the school children and of every de

as the right of every contingent of years immediately following the

keeper of the gambling-bouse was legation visiting Washington, bab fined 850 or in default fourteen it is certain that President Hoover, days' imprisonment.

at any rate, will not be able to re peat Roosevelt's boast that he had shaken hands with a quarter of the population of the United States.

Great War.

this moment we do well to remember how he settled the coal strike of 1893, with what infinite tact and wisdom. We do well to remember that it was Lord Rossay who lifted the infant London County Council above the miserable squab ble of vestrydom and gave to the new London pride and dignity. Above all we do well to remember that it was the men trained by him, the ASQUITHS and the GREYS and

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work

at

rate, this step indicates economy from the top with vengeance, and means the sacri- fice of yet another in the ever- shrinking list of flag officers' op-

Commentators on Lord Rose BERT's career have enlarged to weariness on what might have been, and discussed in tones of regret the HALDANES, to whom we owed The death on May 9 of Mr. J. life singularly full, in some things impulse, which decided the nation A. Skalke, fourth engineer of the unfortunate, and yet comparable in for honour in the great crisis of Carnarvonshire, was attributed to its accomplishment with that of any our period.. We do well to be "heart, failure and shock" at the The Board of Admiralty. man of the age. There is a curious grateful for the orator whose ap- coroner's inquest in the British "The announcement that "asian

Police Court,

Mr. Shanghai. side to the Scottish character never pearance on the Cross Benches in

experiment the next vacancy on sufficiently explored. The son of the Lords filled the House as it was Skalke was involved in a boiler ex-

the Board of Admiralty will not be the manse and the plough seems never filled by the leaders on either plosion aboard the Carnarvonshire filled was another of the little generally, to be endowed with a side.

Dr. E. A. Aylward testified that he ruthless singleness of purpose which One of the last really important accident happened and found the Estimates. We had previously been boarded the vessel shortly after the surprises" of the First Lord's ex- planatory speech upon the Navy maps out a career and follows it appearatices of Lord RcsEBERY in deceased lying on a stretcher, life told that in future the Assistant undeviatingly to success. It is far political affairs was at the passing being extinct. He gave it as his Chief of the Naval Staff will not otherwise as we rise in the scale of the old House of Lords in 1911. I opinion that death, resulting from be a member of the Board, but in The Scot of the laird clase and the August of that year the Chamber inhalation of steam," was almost any case he has never been a Sea aristocratic class seems born with assembled for the last time clothed

instantaneous. a more discursive temperament. in its full legislative, powers and

Lord. The next vacancy will fall.. He aims at universality. Such has privileges. Lord MOELTY, an be-

in a few weeks' time, when command been the case with more than one half of the Government, had warn- Extensive smuggling by merchants of the Atlantic Fleet changes hands, DUKE OF ARGYLL Such was the ed their Lordships if the Parlia of large shipments of rice from bus there is nothing to indicate that case with ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR of ment Bill then before them be de-Shanghai to Japan is forcing the this particular vacancy will be the Whittingehame; the tendency could feated, the KING would assent to price of the commodity upwards, one earmarked for experimental be seen even in HALDANE OF CLOAN. the creation of Peers sufficient in and there is every likelihood, it is abolition. Each of the four Sea In Lord BALFOUR the hesitation be-numbers to guard against any pos stated, that due to the smuggling Lords has his own departmental tween music, philosophy, and poli-sible combination of the different local quotations will continue to work very clearly defined. The tics was solved by the discipline of political parties in opposition by rise. Best quality rice is now quot First Bea Lord is Chief of the the Commons and the demands of which the Parliament Bill might ed in Shanghai at 814.30 per shih Naval Staff the Second Sen Lord the difficult of offices. In Lord be exposed a second time to defeat. of 200 pounds, second grade at is Chief of Naval Personnel; the HALDASE the division of heart be Some of the Lords thought this $13.60 and third at 813. It is Third Sea Lord is Controller: of tween philosophy and practical threat to be mere bluff, but Lord alleged that the smugglers are the Navy; the Fourth Sea Lord is... affairs was corrected by the practice MORLEY nasured them very seriously transporting their rice from the Chief of Supplies and Transport. of an exact profession, Even in that such an idea was a pure and Changsu and Wusih districts to the Presumably, the idea is to merge GLADSTONE the hesitation between absolute delusion. Thereupon Lord Chekiang const vid small canals the administrative work of two of the Church, literature, and politics ROSEBERY solemnly reminded the and waterways and thence to these members of the Board. At needed the House of Commons for House what the declaration thus Japan Export of rice from China say

is forbidden its settlement. Lord ROSEBERY had made on behalf of the Government the same universal tendency

as really meant. How long, he asked. ARGYLL, GLADSTONE, BALFOUR, and did the "Die-Harda in "the) The Age of Innocence, HALDANE; but for him there was no Upper House suppose the Bill The station was at its busiest pointments. It is probably true discipline, no apprenticeship, no could be kept off-forty-eight hours when an incoming train deported to say that there would have con need for the tady of the practical a week, a month? What is a class of schoolboys upon one ofsiderably less surprise at the demands of life. He was born too month in the life of a nation," the platforms. A schoolmaster addition of another Bea Lord to late, for 1832 had established the he asked, and recalled the example valiantly shepherded them past the the Board than has been occasioned House of Commons in a paramount of the DUKE OF WELLINGTON, whose barrier, plunged through the crowd by the proposed elimination of one. position. He had not the opportu- courage none of them could doubt. of Easter holiday makers, then For a long time past there has been nity to outlive the phrasemakers, and who, by yielding in 1832, had halted the boys at one of the station talk about the creation of an Ex-: and the use made of WILLIAM JOHN-preserved the House of Lords for exits, where he held an informed gineer Sea Lord. We are not pre- BON'a Dalmeny wants the palm eighty years. Lord RosterRY made roll call. One eve lamb was misspared to any that this discussion without the dust" had dogged him a brilliant speech, but it failed ing. After charging the eldest has ever had any official sanction, through life and should be a warn to convert the Die-Hards from scholar to guard the rest of the but it has certainly gained wide. ing to all schoolmasters, Nat. pressing, the issue to a division, at faithful, the master returned to the currency, and in an age when values The public career of Lord Rose which they were defeated, Lord platform in search. of the straying appear to be really changing in REBY covers the long period of fifty. ROBERERY entered public life at a one. He found the boy standing that conservative organization, the six years. Had it been his fortune time when Great Britain lived poli- before an automatic machine. A Admiralty, such a creation would to make his maiden speech in the tically under the two-party system,parently the machine had jammed, not have caused much surprise. The Commons rather than in the Lords, and no other arrangement was con for the boy was tugging violently tradition that the Sea Lards shall " the have very difceivable. BEACONFIELD and GLAD but quite fruitlessly the handle. be seamen is the event might have been ittte for Brons had ranged the multitudes of Here, let me try; said, the and down to within comparatively immediate ambition in the years their countrymen into two great teacher, getting a manly clutch on modern times it was virtually im- immediately after. 1871. He enjoyed great camps, and two only. In the sweet machine. A few minutes possible that they should have been life, cultivated that taste for those days an Englishman was later he was retiring defeated from anything else. But the revolution racing which had made trouble with either a Conservative or a Liberal; the unequal tug-of-war when aary changes in the character of the the Oxford dens, married the he could be nothing else. The agble kindly individual who had been Fleet leaves this tradition with Bothschild heirces and embarked on Lord lived to see a tremendous watching the incident from a dis nothing but a sentimental basis. a happy married life cut short in change in British politics the tance came up and slipped a coin The time must come when engineer- 1800. GLADSTONE made one of his splitting up of these two great into the boy's hand." The boy thanking will take its place amongst the mistakes when he scouted in 1880, camps into various new "schools: ed him after a prod from his ghosts of semanship, in the Board HARCOURT's plea that Lord Rose Liberal Imperialists, progressive teacher; then master and pupil re Room. No doubt the Engineer-in- BERY" should be "given high office. Conservatives, and many others, joined the party. A swift suspicion Chief of the Fleet is adequately The experiment at the Home Office and last but not least, he saw the came to the tutor. "I suppose that called into counsel upon matters zmonaldondead to failure; the Foreign birth of the Labour party. He has you did. patepang, in dusk, maloelating.to,hia department, init tha Office in 1886 was a mere interlude, died on the eve of a struggle between chine?" The boy looked mildly very fact that this is so sufficiently and- ROBZBERY's hesitation to return three political parties, and a contest surprised. Oh, no, sir," he said illustrates the need for including to it in 1892 was not, as has been in which there are more women cheerfully, "I was just seeing if it an Engineer-Admiral upon the represented, an instance of funda voters engaged than inen 1

would work without one!"

Board.

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From Gri MAY to 24TH MAY, Both Days

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per annum for delivery in Hong PAUL LAUDEB,

Kong-13; including Portage to Geral Manager. Hong Kong, let May, 1929, 17793 any part of the world-915,

one,