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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1923.

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the Companies Ordinance Lot of Crown Land at Pokfulam

on THURSDAY, Continental Sundries Hardware 1911, notice is hereby given that jin the Colony of Hongkong, the 11th October, 1923, at 11 am, and Peca Goods trade in Hong a meeting of creditors of the for મ term of 75 years, at their Sales Rooms, No. S. Des kong require a connection with a jaboyenamed L'ompany will be with the option of renewal Vaux Read. Corner of Ice House Sem good standing for eventual held at the offices of Moses at a Crown Bent to be fixed by Street.. sple repr. sentation. Apply Box Percy Smith. Seth & Fleming, 3 the Surveyor of His Majesty the 1000 Hongkong Telegraph."Queen's Road Central, Hongkong. KING, for one further term of

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- Foment of any person as Liquidator in the place of or jointly with myself the Liquidator appointed by the Compens, or fur the Jappointment of a Committee of

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FOR SALE -B.S.A. Bicycle Fleming, the Liquidator of the with three -peed, nearly Company; and, if so required by new, complete with pump, lamp notice in writing from the said Particulars and Conditions of the & tools. wner will accept a Liquidator, are, by their Solicitors Sale by Public Auction to be held reasonably oiler. Apply Box for personally, to come in and on Monday, the 15th day October, No 10055 ngkong Tele-prove their debts or claims, at 1923, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of Kraph".

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on THURSDAY, the 11th October, 1923, commenc- ing at 2.30 p.m., at their Sales Raems, No. 8, Des Voeux Road. Corner of Ice House Street, Valuable Teakwood and Blackwood Furniture and Household Sundries, &c., &c. &c, Comprising:

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TO-DAY'S MI: CELLANY.

It is a question whether l shifting their capital to Angoi

Much has appeared lately in the Turks have forfeited the the local Press concerning the right to use the crescent fls, activities of timber stealers, who | According to some authoritie, have been hacking down trees the crescent belong to the Sulta in different parts of the island only as master of Constantinoph and mainland. The officers of and was the city's emblem man the Botanical and Forestry Decenturies before the Ottoma partment have been activaly conquest. When Alexander th engaged in tracking down the Great,

the story runs offenders, and we learn that alwas besieging ancient Byzan big.“find” of stolen timber has tium. 战 vital night attack bern tade at Taihang village, at was revealed by the bright shin- the back of Causeway Bay. Aing of the crescent moon, and the good deal of Taihang Gorge, grateful citizens adopted it as lying between Mt. Butler and their symbal When the Romans Mt. Caroline, appears to have came they adopted the arescent teen cut over.

flag for the new city of Constan- An open court of enquiry was tine, and when Mohammed II. opened by the Department con-conquered the great capital ic cerned E

2.30 this after-1453 he added its emblem to his noon... at Taibang village, own flag, hitherto plain red, ex- with SL representative of the plaining to his followers that the Secretary for Chinese Affairs new standard represented Cons- attending.

tantinople in a field of blood.

BUFFALO FIGHTING.

The Malayan Variety.

+

American millionaires, whose numbers show a diminution in the latest income tax statistics, form a growth of little more than

In its account of the Kedaha century old. The earliest was Exhibicion, the Pinang Gozette Stephen Girard French sailor gives the following 2-

who settled in Philadelphia ir The buffate fights added some 1772 as a wine merchant on a OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTI thrill and gare the native element small scale, and henceforth was

AND

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

Steamer

Consignees per Company

"TEIRESIAS "

are hereby notified that the Carg, will be discharged into Holt: Wharf Kowloon, where it will li at Consignee's risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage a Holt's wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown oc and after 10th. October.

Cntional cargo will be landed unless notice has been given pri

to steamer's arrival.

what they really wanted, as bound up with the destiny of evidenced by the excitement the Quaker City. He built fleet before, during and after the fights of merchant vessels. created There was a fight on each day whole residential districts, and but that on the second day was when the Bank of the United the better one. There will be States threatened to stop pay- another tight this evening. The ment set up his own bank and be padi field outside Anak Bukit, came the leading banker of the was fenced or four sides with country. Or Girard's death in sheds erected in the shape of an 1832 his estate amounted to ter amphitheatre on a small scale to million dollars-the largest known accommodate the spectators among whom were many ladies He was a bachelor, and left the whole of his fortune, with the ex- whose coloured. Kay native

until then in the United State

dresses added greatly to the effect. ception of a few trifling legacies, Very elaborate preliminaries are for charitable purposes.

A

carried out before the fight. cordon is formed round the buffalo All broken chafed, and damage: goods are to be left in the with all its supporters in it with

Yet another of the smaller and Godowns, where they will be tom toms and the flourish of more picturesque of local in- branches of trees. Then there was dustries is reported as approach- examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours the tukang jumpi (medicine maaling extinction. The Whitby je: 10.45 a.m. and noon within the who at intervals sprayed water workers,

familiar to holiday- free storage period.

and rice on the back of the buffalomakers on the north-east coast. No claims will be admitter to strengthen his muscles and now number no more than 60. after the Goods have left the infuse courage into the animal where less than half a century The signal being given the azo they could have been master- remaining undelivered alter the buffaloes were leg in, uccombani ed over 2,000 strong. Nearly all 16th. Octuber. will be subject

led by the noise of tom toms and of them

old men shouts. The bakims (judges) then there is no infinx of appren- fast.

trade which youtbe

steamer's Godown, and all Good:

YANGTZE INSPECTION.

British Consulting Enz ner's Tour.

and

All Claims against the Steame: planted two flugs"red antices to a must be presented to the undergreen-with a tree midway be and their parents regard as tox signed on or before the 30th. Octtween the two flags as the place hazardously, dependent on the for they will not be recognised.

for then to meet. The two anim-whim of fashion. Spain. Turkey. No Fire

als led by the nose strings were and Insurance will be

America still maintain effected.

brought together until they got a fairly steady demand for the BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE their horns locked and then the real jet ornaments, which easily

fisht started. Agents

outvia the cheaper glass imit- The spectators on Saturday ations of Continental production. 9th. "October. 1923.

evening did not get a run for their but for a trade without ap- money for there was really noprentices the prospect is that fight. The animals' heads clashed within measurable time it will be three times. One of them raised impossible even to satisfy thi his tail in the air and ran for dear demand. life, being pursued by the winner, A better fight was seen on Sun- day evening. The contesting i

In appearance the Thames pike buffaloes were brought together Mr. F. Palmer, who was the and after being barked for a few are beautiful and symmetrica! British representative on the com- seconds they parted and refused fish. When young they are call- mittee of consulting engineer to fight. They took some time ed "Jack" up to 3 h.-some considering the Shanghai Harbour racing about the area and as they twenty-five years azt, it was 8 lb. in 1921. and who is to report on refused to come together again and the older they grow the the Yangtze to the Yangtze River they were brought together at Commission, arrived in Shanghai second time led by the nose

more ferocious they get. I have often been asked when is a jack a on September 22 in order to make strings. They got locked and each pike? The answer is. I fancy. an inspection of the river as tried to get the points of his horns when he gets his "spots." says a arranged during his former visitint the other The one with writer in a Home journal. On September 24 he was enters are closely together suc-un fish, his long, lithe, light rained and welcomed at a dinner ceeded in burging his horns into bronzegreen bods is flecked and given by the Technical Committee his opponent, who feeling the lakeland barred with bright yel- of the Yangtze River Commission wound inflicted, ran away amid low flashes that, as the fish grows THAT GOES mittee (Mr. P. LoftheCom frantic shouts from the supporters older, become round, nutil. from being striped like the tiger in his of the winning buffalo, National Conservaricy Bureau). in a speech, referred to the initi: -

Tuanku Kassim and Chu Is. youth. he becomes spotted like mail, Harbour Master, were the the leopard in his age. The reason tive in this matter taken by the judges who directed the fights.rn of this is entirely a matter of British Chambers of Commerce the three days.

natural defence. When a jack he hides in the reeds and rushes and his yellow "hers" serve to render him inconspicuous: when an older pike he comes more holly into the open. where

DRONCHITIS

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THE REMEDY

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FOR FULL

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THE

LUNGS.

DIRECTIONS SEEP BOTTLE COARE

All chemists and

Besters instindard British aad The Sarala, Fill spl HERE YOU HAD A

difically in obtaining write

In The Pepe Co. Leads

Fugland, who will forward

*ame of nearest agent.

AGENTS, Wakefield & Co., 60, Klangse Road, Shanghai.

The acting Chairman

A ST. LEGER HOAX.

As a

and the trin undertaken by Mr. Palmer, in December, 1991, down the river, in company with Mr. von Heidenstam and him! self, which resulted in a report recommending the formation of A wonderful hoax seemed to’among the stopes and .in igeantal Committe».

extended a hearty wele me

He have been played on the Civil and the speckled light the spota. to Vilitary Gazette, which in its, best confuse him with his Mr. Palmer on behalf of the Pre-issue of September 8th, published: surroundings. Growing to 80 sident of the Yangtze Commis- supposed, telegram from London enormous size-there are records

sj

dated September 6th. giving the of fish of 78 lb. (County Clare) The insertion party left on resuit of the race several days and 72 lb, the latter known September 29, on the Woosung, Mr. Palmer, being ac-headed

9.5. before it was run. The wire is the Kenmare. pike, a monster "Light Jester Wins.", over 6 ft. long, besides many b upanied from Shanghai by Mr.Pangrus Unplaced," and con- of 30 h. to 40 lb. the heaviest H. von Heidenstam, the Customscludes with "won by 30 lengths. pike taken from the Thames. Coast Inspector Eldridge), Mr. H. van Veen and thin.

(Mr. T lengths between second and would seem to be fish weighing Mr. Z.Y. Chow, of the Ministry money started favourite."

Bold and Bad at even, withip half' a mound of 30 lbs,

cauzhit near Oxford in 1907. Pike- of. Iuterior and Mr. Stroeb.. Below the hoax is Survey Fineer. At Hankow, Reuter's wire of St. Leger proh salmon, who rarely exceeds nine given live to a very old age-anlike the Messrs Vang Pao-ling end Shoupe, acting Chairman and September 5th.

dated London, ar at most ten years. Without Secretary of the Committee, re-

subscribing to the story of the spectively, Mr. F.W. Maze, Com-the paper in question should have there are instances where the It is curious that any one on Swedish pike that lived 200 years, missioner of Customs at Hankow been misled into printing such apike has outlived the life of man and Mr. U.K. Tinx, Director of palpably false account of a racej but we may take it that twenty tue Geological Survey, were to which had not yet been run, or of to thirty years is the average in join the expedition. The trip is supposing that the fixed date for rivers, with an added tem for scheduled to go as far as Chung-such as important event of the residence in a desirable pond or king, the last part to be made in racing year would be altered at lake, with prolific pastorage and

well-stocked larders.

the as Lomymow,

able starters

the last moment.