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FRIDAY MARCH 14, 1924.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

COPENHAGEN,

Regular Freight and Passengers Service for Bangkok. Hongkong, and return.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

AUTHORS INCOMES.

FRENCH FOOTBALL.

Some Interesting Disclosures.

Will leave for Bangkok.

on or about

5.S. Banka "

(1648 tons)

Expected on or about 19th. March

25th March.

M.S. "Bintang “

(1725 tons)

29th. March

4th. March.

Subject to change without notice

For further particulars please apply to~-~-

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.

Agents.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

COPENHAGEN. ~

The S. S.

'ASIA'

will be loading for Valencia, Dunkirk. Rotterdam. Amsterdam, Hamburg Copenhagen and other Scandinavian

ports about

Further Sallings:-

M.S.Siam "

M.S. "Chilə"

M.S. ** Afrika” M.S."

Malaya

7th. of April 1924.

Expected on or Will leave homewardbound

about.

about.

24th. March

Oth.. April 26th, April

20th. May

од or

Subject to change without notice.

For further particulars please upply to

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.

Agents.

YOU WILL SAVE MONEY

if you buy from

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Everything we offer for sale is mide, in our Canton factory, from the raw material into finished articles.

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SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIP CHANDLERS & HARDWARE MERCHANTS.

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NOTICE

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

Forms for the First Extra

Where Their Strength Lies.

The spread of Rugby football in DRAFT Programmes & Entry People were surprised the other France and the development of day to find that doctors incomes French play to the highest in Race Meeting to be held on the are concealed. Asked by the ternational standard are no new "9th March (weather permitting) authorities to state an average things. But we doubt whether, may be obtained at the Race income, they declined.

But who even now, we have sufficiently. Course, Hongkong Club. and knows what an author makes? accustomed ourselves in this Causeway Bay Stables. Scarcely anyone. The figure is country to the expectation of see- Entries close on 15th March

naver advertised, and the most ing our neighbours, as we very 1924. extraordinary rumours enlarge or soon-may see them, start each diminish a writer's income so year as favourites for the cham- that there is as much'nonsensa pionship. The French of the talked about them as there is South have always been great about the millions which Holiy players of ball-games, and there wood heroes and heroines are to-day lias the main strength of supposed to gather in.

French football. But France is far from having exerted yet her full weight in the internationa! contest.

NOTICE.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

REDUCTION IN PRICE

FROM 1st. April 1924 until farther notice the price of current for Lighting and Fans will be reduced to 16 cents per

unit. Discounts ill remain as before. GIBR, LIVINGSTON AND

CO., LTD. Agents Hongkong, 10th, Marc,h 1924

HONGKONG FIRE INSUR-

ANCE CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

Ordinary

HE Fifty-fifth

General Meeting of Shar

HE Fourth Annual Dinner of

Queen's College Od Boys' THE The fact is that a select group

Association will take place on of writers make a fire figure in

Saturday, 15th March at 8pm.. come; quite a number make a

in the Hall of Queen's College. bare thousand a year the average. Since nothing succeeds like Members are requested to send author who publishes a novel ro success, her "football population" in their subscription, before 12th gularly every year, but never will increase in proportion as her instant. The minimum charge is reaches best seller rank. makes victories multiply. Football under $5- possibly £50 a year. A well Rugby rules, holds the French Members intending to invite holders will be held at the Offices

field. There is not the same guests diversity and competition

are requested notify of the undersigned on Thursday. of Mr. C. Choa. Asia Banking Cof-the 27th March 1924, at Noon, for miscellaneous games H...५ per-poration, or the unders good. Ithe purpose of receiving the c- haps

port of the General Mahagers.. together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December 1923.

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Shakespeare. In the meanwhile the plays the thing, and the play is going the right way to justify such efforts.

HC. HENT,

Hon. Secretary.

NOTICE.

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The Share Register and Trans- fer Books will be closed from the 13th to the 27th March 1924, both days inclusive.

JARDINE MATHESON

& CO., LTD. General Managers.

H.K. Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

NOTICE.

NOTICE.

H.K. DOG & CAT SHOW.

BY kind permission of tha

Officer Commanding the Hongkong Dafence Corps, a Shows will be held in the Parade Ground There will be classes for all kinds on Saturday 15th March at 2pm

of dogs, including cross-broeds and puppies, also litters of papë pies. If sufficient entries are re- ceived there will be classes for cats also.

Entry forms may be had from? the undersigned..

Entries close on Tuesday 11th inst. at 5 pm and intending com petitors are notified that owing to the trouble in comp ling the cata- logue no entries can possibly be accepted after that date.

B. L. FROST,

Hon. Secretary & Treasurer, e. The E Ex. Telegraph Co.

HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE

ASSOCIATION.

NOTICE. --------------

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the Hongkong Automobile Assoc- iation will be held in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardino Mathe- & Co. Ltd. on MONDAY, the 17th. March. 1924. at 5.30 p.m.

ending 31st, December 1933 and to elect Officers, etc.

By Order.

THE BONGKONG & SHANGHAI to pass the accounts for the read

-BOTELS, LIMITED.

NOTICE

IS

known publisher told me other day that 30 per cent, of the novels he published in 1923 would make a bare fifty pounds apiece

threatens to Bintar Da the other for their wri ers.

Dur future along with hand he had just sent a cheque the growing prowess of the latest- for six thousand pounds to a comer. Another decade or two well-known WOMAD novelist. may see Rugby football the This represented her profits national game of France. Fr ach for six months and did not enthusiasts may be discovering a include film rights which had latic ancestry for William Webb sold for fifteen hundred.

Ellis, or at least for his reputed NOTICE is hereby given "that The thirteen thousand which invention. French savants may owner

M. LAI HIN MAN the Mrs. Asquith is reputed to have be indulging in a harmless an- HOTEL, Kowloon has as from of THE KOWLOON made from her first book, and the nexation of the game, as German the First day of March, 1924, fifteen thousand which Mr. Chur-scholars have already annexed leased THE KOWLOON HOTEL chill admitted making out of his

with all the Furnitures and etc. War book are figures which only

therein to Mr. FRANK LEWIS such writers as Wells, Bennett,

COOKE upon Terms mutually Ethel Dell, and Hall Caine reach for a single book serialized on

agreed.

HEREDY both sides of the Atlantic and

GIVEN that the Ordinery translated into a dozen languages.

Yearly Meeting of Shareholders Wells has probably made nearly

of The Hongkong & Shanghai £40,000 out of his Outline of His-

Hotel, Limited, will be held at tory, one of the most successful ing narrowly in a hard-fought | Notice is Hereby given tha tthe The Hongkong Hotel, Pedder books ever written, and Arnold match. Up to this match it would Thirty-Ninth Annual Ordinary Street, Hongkong, on SATUR Bennett, asked what moved him have been bold forecasting to rule General Meeting of the Company DAY, the 22nd. March. 1924, at write The Pretty Lady, France out of the championship (since its registration) will be 11.30 o'clock am, for the purpose replied laconically: Eight thou-honours. In any year bence held at the Hongkong Hotel, ofreceiving a statement of ac sand pounds. A. S. M. Hutchin-forth they may be hers. When Hongkong, on Saturday, the 15th. counts and the report of the A SPECIAL GENERAL son cleared possibly £40,000 by If that happens no true supporter of March 1924, at 11 am. for the Board of Directors for the year MEETING of the Members of Winter Comes, but his later books the game will fail to discover a purpose of receiving the Report ended the 31st. December 1933, the Hongkong Automobile Assoc have not. I fancy, repeated that satisfaction deeper than his parti- of the General Managers, to conarming the appointment of latton will be held in the Board extraordinary success. Elinor son sympathies and to acknow-gether with a Statement of Ac-Directors, and re-electing a Direc- Room of Messrs. Jardine Mathe- Glyn is one of the few writers ledge that Frenchmen have dons counts for the year ended 31st. tor, and the Auditors.

son Co., Ltd., on MONDAY, whose vogue is as great now as it a service to Rugby football in October 1923.

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the 13th. March 1924 at 5.45 pm. was fifteen years ago. She has more countries than their own-

the Company will be closed from to consider and if thought ɓf to lately been taken up with ea- Observer.

Friday the 14th March 1924 until pass the following Resolutions. thusiasm by the American film

Saturday the 22nd March 1924. magantes, and her storiesserialize

both days inclusive.

~By Ordered the Board,

to

a factor which makes a differ ence of around about £4,000 per book to her.

These great prices are not, as is generally suppo:ed. peculiar to the latter day era of syndication and scientific

France has begun the present season by adding another to the series of defeats already inflicted on

Scotland. Recently, the A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. French team visited Dublin, los-

WEMBLEY EXHIBITS.

on the

No Competitve Awards. exploitation. An important decision is an- Victor Hugo received enounced by the Board of the ormous soms for his mighty British Empire Exhibition. Many works. He was guaranteed representative exhibitors pressed £30,000 for The Toilers of The strongly that awards Sea before he set pen to paper. competitive system should not be Alexander Dumas pere. made made, and it was felt that the more than any other man living difficulties experienced at past or dead.

But the old French exhibitions in assessing the dif master had a regular factory run-ferent exhibits under this system ning. At one time eighty'ghosts' would be enormously increased worked for him and probably at the Wembley Exhibition. [only a tithe of the enormous where the only competition would volume of his output was actually be among exhibits of the various penned by himself. Everything parts of the Empire. Steps were Dumas wrote was serialized in therefore newspaper and magazine before whether exhibitors would not publication in book form" and prefer. in the interests of every many of his tales were dramatis-one concerned, to abandon com- petitive awards altogether. The As an instance of what the Overseas Governments expressed modern common or garden author themselves in favour of abandon- makes, may quote the ex- ing competition, as did the mal perience of a friend of mine, ajority of exhibitors in the United wellknown journalist who fiui- Kingdom sections. The Board shed his first novel eighteen have therefore amended the Re- months ago. He sold it on 10 per gulations of the Exhibition. A com cent. royalty terms, bad his next memorative medal, accompanied two novels commissioned by the by a decorative certificate, will be same publisher. and has finished awarded to each exhibitor who

ed.

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taken to

ascertain

The Register of Shares of the Company will be Cluser from Tuesday, the 11th; day of March, to Monday, the 17th day of March 1924, both days inclusive. during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS &

SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, 5th. March. 1924.

"For the Blood is the Life"

Sufferers

from Bad Legs Abscesses. Cleers. Plas, Glandular Swell #gs. Ketema, Balls, Propins sad. Eruptions, Goat, Zumatism," that resine that the only mare way ka complete and fasting solel is to free the blood of the poisonens WHATE mazzer, the poe, cause of such woulles Clarke's Blood Mistare conraias ingredients which soon over- come and expel

be impurinas, that's why so many lasting mores stand to its credit.

Pleasant to take,

Of all Chemista

and Stores.

Refuse Subunates..

Clarke's Blood Mixture

*Everybody's Blood Purifer."

the second book and get well into has rented space in the United MASSAGE HALL

the third. He expects to receive Kingdom Section, India, the £40 for his first book and about Dominions, Colonies, Protector- the same for the second. Butates, and Mandated Territories now, the sole fruits of his labour will receive for distribution of eighteen months is a cheque armong their exhibitors a suffic- from his publisher of £20 on-fient supply of identical medals account-Peter Forrest in Ex. and certificates.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

LACTOGEN

FOR

Your Baby

YES, FRECKLES WENT AN HIT RAY

IN THE EYE AN

MADE IT AL BLACK

CH I'M GONNA TELL

POD ON

VA KNOW WHẤT PRECKLES DID T ZAY WALTERS, POD?

THE HIT HIM IN-

TU EVE AN MADE IT BLACK

MRS. 8, UZUNOYE, Expert Massenze

17. Quoan's Boad "Teatral

Iaf. Floor

Marked for Future Reference

FRECKLES DID A THIG

LIKE THAT?? 60 AND

SEND HIM TO A

AT ONCE

WHADDYAN? WANT WITH WE POD?

PERCY H.SUCKLING, Secretary. Hongkong, 6th March 1924.

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD

Sanitary Engineers, Monmentalists, etc. Offices &

98A, Wanchai Road, Godowns.

Hongkong

Tel. No. 269

All kinds of Builders Requisites in Stock.

Sail Vent Pipes, Rainwater Pipes

Floor & Wall Tiles Baths, Basins, bath Room Fittings, Water Heaters for Gas Oil or Coal Fuel. Also a Few Chip Heaters

Open & Closed Grates-Cooking Range. ESTIMATES FREE FOR ALL SANITARY INSTALLATIONS -- HOT WATER

SYSTEMS. 8

General Repairs Fromptly Attended to Specialists in Monumental Work-Cat în Italian Marble or Hongkong Granite.

Just Received a Shihment of Italisa Marble Floor Tiles-Prices on. Apglia.

tion.

A Large stock of Artificial Wreaths in all Sizes.

I HEAR YOU SAVE ONE OF THE WALTERS BOYS A BLACK-EVE

WHAT REASON HAD YOU FOR

SUCH CONDUCT?

P. M. HODGSON,

Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 10th. March, 1924.

HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE

ASSOCIATION.

NOTICE.

The following Rula shall be substituted for Rule No. 8 of the Rules and Constitution. of the Hongkong Automobile Association.

shalt

S. Each Member election pay an entrance fée of $5 and subseription of $10 per annum in the case of owners of Cars und $5 in in the case of cwners of Motor Cycles only."

By Order

P. M. HODGSON.

Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, March 10th. 1924.

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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY ·

LIMITED,

THE

HE Ordinary General Meet

ting of the above_Company will be held at the Company's Offices 20. Des Voeux Road Cen-

1924 at 11 a.. tral on Saturday 29th of March

The Transfer Booke of the Company will be closed from the. 15th of March to 29th of March both days inclusive.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK

* & CO. General Managers.

Hongkong, 8th. March 1924.

BY BLOSSER

WELL, THEY'RE TWINS AN' I WANTED SOME WAY T TELL

JUŠU APART!

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