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Intimation.

Powell's

28, Queen's

Road.

GENTLEMEN'S

OUTFITTING

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19 1900

Public Companies.

"SAD STORIE

THE DRINK

was quite useless; be bad never found it to be of any ass

Many palicic and dismal stories of drun- keppnis are told in the minutes of evidence accompanying the important Blue-book on nabriaté reforma summary of which we print- id on Saturday,

HONGKONGLAND SHANGHAI BANK-

ING CORPORATIONENES REVELATIONS NADE AT OFFICIAL INQUIRY, NARY HALF YEARLY MEETING of

OTICE is hereby given that the ORDIN the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, TD MORROW, theoth day of February, 1900, at Noos, log the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1908

By Order of the Court of Directors,

IRM.SMITH;A

*ING CORPORATION, MUS

Dr. H. W. Pooler, of Birmingham, told the committee of a certain man who was an official in e geed and responsible position, and a man Chief Manager. of very good family. "He in eccentric almost Bingkong, 19th February, 1909.. [157 but ant quite, to the verge of insanity. After HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK. * good many warnings he was forced to leave bir employment, në 'ha could not be relied up on to do his work, and would not keep. bis books properly. He gets fits of violence occa sionally, frightens his family very much. I believe the man in a highly intellectual man really, a dae musicians and I believe he would' have remaldad a decent citizen if his carn could have been dealt with earlier and he had been detained."

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TOTICE is hereby gives that the RE GISTER OF SHARES of the Corpora tion will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 2 lystant, to SATURDAY, the 20th fortant, (bath days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Court al Director,

J. R. M. SMITH,

Chief Manager. Books, 5th February, 1909

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Abother cata described by the samo witness is that of “ the wife of a`very rospectable man,

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK | a works manager. The children, who are grow

COMPANY LIMITED.

THE OF SHAREHOLDERS will be bold in

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING the Offices of the Company, Queen's Buildings, ESTABLISHMENT. New Pray, op MONDAY, the 22nd February

New

Neckwear.

Silk Knitted, Crêpe de

Chine,

Foulard, etc.,

in

Exclusive Designs.

Fownes's

Gloves,

in

Reindeer,

Suede,

Chamois,

and

Dogskin.

Tweed Hats,

Latest Shapes."

POWELL'S

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS,

HONGKONG

Hongkong, syth Fabrházy, 1909,

ing up now, have been driven from home bs. cause they cannot stand their mother's habits, I remember this woman as a most intelligent and intellectual woman, but now

Chairman ——You have kavar known an ins. briate to be identified?-Witness:

a publican-not by a hbider of

not by -and

I do not quite son how it in possible for them to it the photo is taken when the person

his rela convicted, and he may go to another district

• You look upon, the system se mom or less impracticable in London owing to the migra tors condition of the people? -Yer, and the large area covered-for instance, in the cast of apablican here in Westminster, with the des cription of some inebriate from Whitechapel, the possibility would be very remote of that person belog recognised.

Dr. Brauthwaithi: 1. Would like to put tha question vary clearly to your area you not of oficion that the Black List arrangements ma now carried out are quite worthless?-Möst amphetically so.

So far as London is concerned? - Cartainly/

Auction,

PONIES PONIES! PONIES! "HE® Undersigned will hold their Annual Sale of face. Ponies by Public Roup as onder

WEDNESDAY,

is simply a disgrace to the neighbourhood, the 24th February, 1979, at 3 P.M., opposite wandering abou with flby, dirty, ragged

1909, at 12 o'clock soon, for the purpose of | clothes, boots down at heel, and hair unkempt, receiving the report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, an absolute disgrace to any neighbourhood.

1908.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 8th to the 2zad February, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

THOS. 1. ROSE, Secretary, Hongkong, 27th January, 1909.

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NOTICE: THE HONGKONG' HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.

DRIAK AND DRUGS..

Dr. G. P. Bale, the medical officer of health for the borough of Dalhnal green, tells of a medical, man who was repastedly brought to him or his sen by the police. "Ha ased to carry a laudanum boule in his pocket, and get a drink, and have 'his bottle filled at the same time."

#

the City Hall,

About FIFTY LOTS

Catalogues will be issued.

TERMI –AS USUAL,

Intimation

SAINT-RAPHAEL

TONIO, HESTORATIVE, DIGESTIVI

ory palatable,

Known throughout the world and prescribed ing all "casan of Anamia Debility and Cononfascence, to yoling woman, chüdra and the ağade Invaluable in hot olimates

AARON DOSE 1: One wineigisen nfter the two principal maale,

Each bottle of genuine VIN SAINT-RAPHAEL DONre, in additio to the registered trade-mark s

DE (1) The WARRANTY STAMP of the UNION DES FABRICANTE.

(1) A METAL SEAL'Sitarlising OERTHA 197

SLOVA MELISSå and, MINT, cordial

CLETEAS which surpasses all others by its

purety and faultless preparation. To be taken on a lump of sugare COMPAGNIE 40' VIN SAINT-RAPHAEL, Valence (Brême-France). POOLLLDBLOK®MXOGBEGUI & Co., Hoagkong."

Entertainments:

THEATRE ROYAL

CITY

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST."

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 15th February, 1909.

Entimations.

THE' IMPERIAL COLONIAL CLUB,

Lady Henry Somerset fel's bow shoot THE store Cith a fumes FAS MEM

the whole night with a woman of 28, who was suffering from dalirium tremena.

NOTICE hereby gives that an EXTRA

Another witness, De J. Ford Anderson, telle ORDINARY MEETING of the above-

of the case of a young man about 35, suffering mentioned Company will be held at its Regis tored Office, Nos, 9 to 17 Pedder, Street, from dipsomania, an only soo, with spells of Victoria, Hongkong, on ERIDAY, the 16throbriety lasting for twelve or eighteen months, day of February, 1999, at 11.30. P.3. for the when he is a pat ere of the domestic virtues and purpose of considering and if thaught fit pass a good son, and never touchas anything stronger ing the following Resolutions —

than milk.

I

"That the capital of the Company be incecared to $1,000,000 by the creation of 8,000 additional shares of $50. each "rauking for dividend and in all other # respects pari paesu with the existing

shares in the Company #

4

2. "That the said 8,000 additional shares be "offered in the first instance at par to all members of the Company registered as "shareholders on the First day of March 1409 in the proportion of two new shares for every thron original shares held by ...them and upon the footing, that, fifty per

cent of the full amount of each new "share-taken up shall be paid to the Company on acceptance of the offer and that such offer be made by notice "specifying the number of shares to which "the member is entitled and limiting a time within which the offer if-no,.ac- "cepted by payment will be deemed to be 'declined and that the directors ba em- "powered to dispose of the shares not taken in response to such offer as they “consider expedient in the interests of the "Compa By Order of the Board of Directors,

C. MOONEY,

Secretary, Hongkong, 13th-February, 1909. -[284 HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING'

:CO. LD..

25TH

ORDINARY

"Then he suddenly becomes restless, stays out at night, and soon becomes a curse to his

aged father. He pawns everything he can turn iptomoncy, even to his artificial teeth, and borrows from the friends of his family, often. with threats: and he stays away for days, and returns a wreck. The fit lasts for a few monthi, and he finally calme dowo, and resumes his quiet life.

COLONIAL and OVER-SEAS DERS it is situated at No. 84, Piccadilly (the centre of Clubland), opposite the Green Park:

The Club has a Bridge Section, Reception, Dining. Billiard Room, Smoking Loung, Reading: Rooni and Library.⠀⠀

Ladies are eligible as Members, Entrance Fee Fire Gaissas, Annual Sub- scription, Fire Guineas.

Forther particulars from

THE ORGANISING SECRETARY, 84, Piccadilly, W.

· London, 19th August, 1908,

1769

INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING CAR

and

EXPRESS TRAINJ. Co

THE HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC

CLUB

WILL PRESENT.

A COUNTRY GIRL.

TO-NIGHT & TO-MORROW NIGHT,

19th and 20th February, 1909.

PRICES AS USUAL.

BOOKING at The Robinson Piano Company opens at 10 o'clook smĄJ on Friday, 12th February,

(THE

GREAT TRANS-SIBERIAN - ROUTE ·

TO EUROPE)

Hongkong, 19th February, 1909.

|....... His father is a clergyman, and he is afraid, to invoke the law-in any way, and you cannot get the sanction of the patient himself to go to a home. So what can one do? He goes about with low company, and gets money from. people and drink, with it, and' is never sober while the fit las's That man ought to be in HAVING been appolated AGENTS for some way restraired from the beginning. He is as strong as a lion,

What can on

*

the abord Company, we shall · ba

| do to a case like that, a most difficult case? I pleased to give any information as to rates of

have had several of a similar character."

SATURDAY NIGHT IN BIG CITIES.

A guificant colloquy took place between Dr. H. W Pooler (already mentioned) and, the committee:

Dr Pooler 'do not think I would higin compulsory, detection from the very earliest ANNUAL stage of a man getting drunk, possibly on THMEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in Saturday Lights, even it was every Saturday the above Company will be held at the CUM: | night, else we should have a good proportion. PAY'S OFFICE, Ht George's Building, 6, Consaught Road, Victoria, on SATURDAY, of our present population in the big cities in

reformatories..' 27th February, 1909, at Nonn, for the purposs of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Manager for the year adding 31st December, 1908, and electing, a Consulting Committee and Auditors,..

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 23rd of February, to SATURDAY, the 27th Febru ary, both days inclusive.

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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 12th February, 1009. HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED. TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY

THE TWINLY FIGHTH OF BITARE.

HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Geberal Managers, at 17:30 P.M. on SATUR. DAY, 17th iolant, to receive a statement of the Company's Accounts to 31st December, 1908, and the Report of the General Managers. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 17th instant to the 27th instant, both days inclusive...

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JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, L.,

General Managers... Hongkong, 13th February, 1909. THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO.,

LIMITED.. <PHEFORTIETH MEETING of SHARE

HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Company's Offices, No, 3, Quern's. Road Central, Victoria, on THURSDAY, the 4th March, 1907, ki 13 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of Receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year onding 318 December, 1908,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 19th February to 4th "March, both days Inclusive.

By Order,

G-PEMBERTON---

Secretary.

Hongkong.jih February, 1909.

LEE YEE HAIR DRESSING SALOON,

·HAS ALWAYS ON HAND-

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OIGARS, CIGARETTES

·AND'.

TOILET REQUISITES

FOR SALE!

12, D'AGDILAR STRERT, Номекомо,

Longkang två Kaytimber, sang

Chairman; You go so far...s to any that, do || yout-Witness: Yes; at least a great many of them round me are drunk every Saturday night, and are very respectable citigras all the rest of the week.

Witness: And earn very fair money. Witness accepted a definition of this kind of excess as "convivial, d_nokenness,” except in the quarrelsome cases. In these cases the family would ralent the action of petitioning to have bem kent away.

Chairman; Because they are perfectly usky

ful citizens during the week, and synger

earners?-Yes many of them.

Chairman: But they go on a weekly bont?

-Yes.

• Public aplaian looks lealently on the Satur day drinking bout; is that it!--Yes, I am afraid

passage, Ac., in connection with above,

SHEWAN, TOMES &'00.

Agents.

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Ho aknas, sin July foor

PABST BREWING COMPANY; MILWAUKEK-

FRESH SUPPLIES ALWAYS KEPT IN STOCK

Agents for Honakoa,& South ChinA: Hongkong, xyth Inly, T9nY.,

0. C. MOOSA,

1 & 8; D'AGUILAR STREET.

ALEXANDRA

CINEMATOGRAPH,

2, Zetland Street,

To-night & Every Night, FAMILY PROGRAMME,

NO ARTISTES BUT ONLY THE LATEST

PATHE

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TO LET!"

OFFICES and ROOMS on the fat and and of No. 14. Des Veens Road Central (formerly occupied by Mestre Ebeiras, Tomas & Co.KARNA

No 11 SEYMOUR ROAD (from 1st Marcher, 19:9).

A

FILMS

ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME

Every

MONDAY and THURSDAY,

These Films have never Bbewa in Hongkong by any

NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON. Cinematograph.

Trimmed and Untrimmed

a great many of them take it as their wookly HATS, RIBBONS, FLOWERS,

pleasure.

Mr. Brandon, Is that peculiar to Birming ham)-No, I am afraid not.

FEATHERS, &c., &c.

Mr. Rose: Istkonugibar diminishing amongst | LACE, SCARFS," MOTOR VEILS the artisan class—the week-end drinking man In your experience?--I think it would be burd to prove li¡ but. I am under the impression that it is diminishlog.

BRUNKEN MEN IN EVERY STREET,

Chairman 1 Bu! you say it in very consider able?- it is.

In all the working-class districts of Birming ham do you find that ?—It certainly, is so in my district. You can hardly, go down a'stradi on a Saturday night without seeing two or three drunken men.

VARIOUS COLORS,

MOUSQUETFIRE GLOVES

WHITE BLACK & COLORS.

WOOLEN DELAINES, NUNSVEIL- INGS, VOILES, &c. 4.

UNDERCLOTHINGS,

And women-And women, to”; but my ex LADIES and CHILDREN'S. periences that the women are more apt to" drick all the week-round-then the men, because the men are at work,

Mr. E. Baggallay (the Metropolitan magis:

Samples on application. Coast:

trate) gavo evidence dealing with a kindred | Port orders carefully executed.

question that of drinking on bank holidays.:

lo bis exportando a good many hard-working | men went on the drink four times a year. On tha moraing after back-þolidays lots of per fecily good, hard-working men, and otherwise perfectly respectable women, were brought up!

-"BLACK"LIST" NO USE

Hresknox, sath September, 1009,

=GUNA-

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IREOT from the mangfactoren at lowast One very interesting point in the evidenca is | 24-prices. 19:bors Double Breechloader that which deals with the famous Drunkards from saja aacha Khastrated sextalogue of My Butasi model Bhot Guns:Combination: Guns, "Black List,"

Sporting Rifan, ikea por free, D. JAMES/ Superintendent Moirany told the chairmiş, SÚLYNOLDA, George, Strowy. Minorles, Lon- that the list with photographs and particniors) don, MiChikaglandi.

Apply to

THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT"

E, D, Sassoon & Daž¬

- Queen's Road Central di Hongkong, 16th February, 1909, [168y

TO. LET.

HOUSE IN KNUTSFORD TERRACE,

Kowloos.

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TO LET

THE FURNISHED FLAT on Top Floor The Matre, Douglas Impraile of Col Offices, Faur Rooms with Kitchen and Bath

been other Room.

Programmes to be had at the door. Hours from 9 to 11 p.m. Hongkong, 18th January, rooge

For Sale.

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