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NOTICE IS HERESY GIVEN that the TWENTY FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's Offices, Victoria Building, on MONDAY,
the 27th January, 1913, at 11. A... for
the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st Decem ber, 1012,
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, 17th to MONDAY, 27th January, 1913, (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of Sharos can be registered.
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THE WEST POINT BUILDING Co., Len. Hongkong. January 10, 1913.
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THE-HONOKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
danger of being betrayed by his own wife? These questions arise from an intimation by the German Imperial Chancellor for bidding Gernian diplomats to marry forei gners because it is said Americas,woman annot keep a secret.
The prohibition is, explained on the grand that it will tend to prevent the possibilities of the leakage of Germany's diplomatic secrets, and it is reported “from Berlin that hereafter all diplomata who disobey this injunction will be regarded
the diplomatic having resigned from
service.
In America the leaders of the feminist movement have taken the prohibition to he directed in particular against them, and they are very indignant,
They suggest themselves that the true reason of the fierman manisge prohibition to foreign women is because the Germs think the American women cannot keep a
secret.
"They assert that they can and question whether a German woman can keep a secret better than her American sister.
**LONDON NOT ALARMED.
THURSDAY JANUARY 23, 1913.
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diplomacy, and more often than not ind that their husbands are made to leave the AND 4, COMEDIANS-ALL FUNNY.
service.
GERMAN WOMEN'S TACT,
"Here in England the marriage of a
HONGKONG'S OLD FAVORITE
British diplomat to a foraigo woman is THE SPECULATORS
more common than in any other diplomatic Farrica in the world..
lomats will themselves tall you, as indeed **Yet, curiously enough, British dip-
wil those of any other country, that a member of a country's diplomatic service is first and foremost a representative of his country, and that it in wiser that he should marry a woman of his own nationality.
"The Right Hon. Sir Fairist Leighton Cartwright, the British Ambassador in Vienna, has for his wife an Italian lady-
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Hongkong, January 16, 1913.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LIMITED.
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the Marchese Chigi Zondodari, while his First Secretary, Lord Theodore Russell, is | married to the Countess Marie Louise Rer, a lady of Bavarian birth.
"There are quite a number of other ces, too, including that of our Present representative in Sofia, who marTHE Notice given under ente the 14th ried a Swedish lady,
day of January, 1913, convening an take first place in keeping a secret. They for Tuesday the 21st day of January, 1913 "Eut I really think that German women Extraordinary General Meeting of the Green Island Cement Company, Limited are natursily much reserved, and from at 12 o'clock Noon is hereby cancelled. childhood they are taught the importance Dated this 16th day of January, 1913. ef discipline and obedience-espicially in
SHEWAN, TOME + & CO, maltar ofBcial,
General Managers,
"English women, I fear, are not to be 78 - Many Green Island Cement Co., Ltd. i trusted en much as German women.-- "Daily Mirror."
JAPAN'S POLICY IN CHINA.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL The Viraku Shimpo" states that it was COMPANY, LIMITED, wil be held at the MEETING of the GREAS TALAND CEMENT generally presumed that the Katsura Offices of Meers Shewan, Tomes and Co. Cabinet at the outset of its régime would at St. George's Building, Chater Road, advocate the necessity of unity among the SATURDAY, the 25th day of January, 1913 Victoris, in the Colony of Hongkon”, on people on the ground that domestic politics at 12 o'clock Noon, when the subjoined must be shelved at such critical times Resolutions will be proposed:
(1) That the Memorandum of Agree
ment bearing date the nineteenth day of April 1912 and made be tween Joseph Whittlesey Noble, the Honourable Mr Edward Osborus sad the Honourable Mr Heary Edward Pollock (Members of the Committee appointed by the Sharo.
It
They paint out, too, that a number of German diplomatists are married to Ameri- can heiresses, and instance Count John in the Far Esat as the present. Barnstoff, the German Ambassador ab was also expected that the Cabinet Washington, who is married to the former would divert the people's attention to its continental policy in an effort Miss Luckemeyer, of New York.
Diplomatic circles in London, however,
to carry in unhampered its internal are not so alarised at the edict of the policy. As was conjectured, the Cabinet Germs. Imperial Chancellor.
has since mado various aarangements for this purpose, and has now completed all preparations for arriving at a fundamental settlement of Mongolia and Manchuria questions soon after the return of Baron Kato to Japan. The journal also states that the Cabinet will induce politicians who are informed on the Chinese politics! situation to stimulate public opinion in
A well-known lady who moves much in these ciples said the probibition, was not
new,"
"It has been a kind of unwritten la in Germany, for the last twenty years." she said **that Greman diplomatiste should not marry foreign women.
"Quite a number of them, however.
throwu prudence to the winds and JayZY," obeyed the dictates of their hearta.
"A notable instance was Prince Pless, ho married an English lady, Miss Corn. wallis-West, when he was attached to the German Embsaxy in London.
"Fut the Prince had to lears the sex vice of the German Diplomatic Carpa in
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Company's Offers Victoria Buildings on MONDAY, the 27th January, 1913, at Noon, for the consequence." purposo of receiving the Report of the
**It is when this unwritten law is diare- Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st Decemwarded that the old order is sont out again, ber, 1912.
and its repetition now is probably due to
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, 1th to MUNDAY, 27th January, 1913, (both days inclusive), during which period he transfer of Shares can be registered. By Order of the Board of Directors,
MOWBRAY S. -NORTHCOTE,
Acting Secretary. Hongkong, January 10, 1919.
-
English-made boet sugar will evidently soon be on the market, for samples are now available of the product of the anglo- Netherland Sugar Corporation's factory at Cantley, Sorfolk. We can testify, says a home paper, to the good colour and crystalline charactor of this home produce and to its sweatening qualities.
The council of the National Ride
Association announces that it has learned
the recent marriage of other German with the greatest pleasure that a Commer. wealth team will take part in the tourne- diplomatic to a foreign lady."
"Young members of the German diplomont at Bialey. It is arranging an Empire match for the occasion, and it hopes that matic service who marry women of foraigs the musjority of the overseas dominions wil 'birth fiad--if they are not given a signis- take pizi in il cant hint that their resignations would be expected that all chanes of promotion is 46 restricted.
***The German prohibition of these mixed
marriages is naturally disappointing to "HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO | American women, who love to dabble in
STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
UNION WATERBOAT C 31PANY,
LIMITED..
HE NINETY-THIRD ORDINARY
HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF * NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS: HHAREHOLDERS in the Company will
be held at the Offloc of the Company, THE EIGHTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS Hotel Maasions, on TUE÷DAY, "the ilrif FEBRUARY, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the will be held in the Offices of Moses purpose of receiving Report of the DowELL & Co., LTD., po THURSDAY, Directa, together with a Statement of the 30th January, 1913, at Noor, for the Accounts, declaring a Dividend and elect purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers tazether with a State- ing Auditors,
nont of Accounts to 31 Decembar, 1912- * The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from the 28th January pang will be CLOSED from the 22nd
to the 11th February, both days inclusive, January to 30th January, both datos in
By Order of the Board of Directors,
clusiso
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,
WE OLARKE,
Beerclary.
* General Managers. Hongkong, January 13, 1919. (48 152 Hongkong, January 21, 1919.
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holders of the Green Island Cement PRINCIPAL BANKS Company, Limited at the Annual General Meeting of that Company held on the twenty fifth day of March 1911) of the one part and Shewas Tomes and Co. in their capacity of General Managers of the Green Island Cement Company, Limited of the other part su adpple- mented by a letter bearing date the eighth day of May 1912 and address. ed-by-the-enid Showan Tomes-and- Co. sa such General Managers a aforesaid to the above named biem-
•bers of the above mentioned Com- mittes and by the letter, of such Members in answer thereto bearing
GEO. P. LAMMERT.
Agent Hongkong, May 20, 1911.
dates the 14th day of May 1912, b KOMORS
and the ame is hereby ratified and confirmed by the Shareholders of the said Company.
(2) That the regulations contained in the copy of the proposed sew Ar-- ticles of Association of the Green Island Cement Company Limited | (which for the purpose of identifica.
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tion have been subscribed by Mesra HAVE Revived direct from the Factory Shewan Tomes and Co., as General
Smyrna Managers of such Company, and
which may be inspected by TURKISH
any.
Shareholder of the aid Company at the Offices of the said General Mana gerat St. George's Building. Chater Road, Victoris in the Colony of Hongkong, or at the Offices of Makers, Deacon Looker Deason and Harston at No.1, Des Vaux Road Central, Victoria aforesaid, werkday between the hours of 10' A.. and 4 P.) be and the name are hereby adepted as the Articles of the anid Company to the exclusion fir all the existing Articles titeraof. Should the above. Rasolutions be passed by the required majority they will be sub mitted for confirmation za Special Bevela tions to a second Extraordinary Meeting which will be sulmoquently convener
Dated this 18th day of January, 1913.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers,"
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