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The ORDINARY ANNUAL GEN- FRAL, MERUNG of SHAREHOLDERS and intent của HNG SONG HOTEL Ingkong, on SA RD Yth 14+5 Febriary,
1914 at 11.3 a.m. for thei THUDORE of recrivi the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Are unts for the year ending 31-t. December, 1913.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com pany will be CLOSED from the 9th tr the 23rd February (both days inclusi during which perind no Transfer of SHARES can be effected.
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(From Our Own Correspondent.)
EDINBURGH, JADcary 15.
THE DORECHT MYSTERY,
A Scottish mystery of a particularly, gruesome character is recalled by the dosth in Aberdeen of a rat catcher named
of February, 1914, as Noun for the purposes Charles Soutar. In December 1880, the of receiving the Report of the Court of 25th Earl of Crawford die af Florance, Diretors together with a Statement of
ccounts to 31st, December 1913.
and his boly wre embalmed and placed The Register of SHARES of the Corpo. within three coffins-the inner one of saft ration will be closed from MONDAY, the Italian wood, the middle use of lead, and 2nd February to SATURDAY, the 14th the outer one of ank. On the arrival of the Fobrasry, 1914 (both days inclusie), dur- ing which perid no transfer of SHARES ensina in Scotland it was placed in the can he registered.
family vault at Dunecht, Aberdeenshire, the entrance to the vault being corored with heavy dngs, over which mould was spread and graan KORD. On December 1, 116 1881, it was
discovered that "resur. rectionists" bad violated the tomb, opened the coffin, and carried of the contents.
By Order of the Court of Directars. N. J. STABB,
Chief 'Manager.
Hongkong. Jan.~28, 1914.
THE KOWLOON. LAND AND
BUILDING COMPANY LIMITED.
the man who has just died, had been hinting darkly that he could tell a strange wtory if he wished, and this information was promptly passed on to the police. Soutar was arrested in spite of his protests that he was absolutely innocent ACCOT- dinu to his statement, he had been poaching in the wooded policies of Dunecht on the night of the resurrection. and in the semi-darkuss he stumbled
gagad Pa
who were
Party of four
"
upon him, threw him down, presented
in burying the body. They sit revolver at bir bead, and awore him to keep the master secret with the alternative of lonet. certain dreadful penalties, Part, at of his story was true, for the body was discovered on July 18, 1889, buried about) two feet deep in a thicket not far from the mortuary chapel. Souter was in due the High Court of course tried in
a charve Justiciary in Edinburgh on of violating the sepulchre of the dead" and found guilty. Lord Craig bill, commenting upon the cold-blooded mercenary character of the
crime,"
*"paased sentence of Eve years' penal servitude. On his release, Souter returned to Aberdeen and resumed
sed his and still in colpa los te vermitte Jer. "He still protested his innocence; the genral opinion was that, whether he issocent or not, he could not prasibly have accomplished the outrage slône ; and he ould help to clear up the mystery. Pur- died without giving information which sonally he was estimable man, of a quist aud-snostentatious disposition, and a recognised authority on angling.
The coffin had been skilfully forced, neither the outer shril of cak nor the one of soft wond had been broken, the lids had been OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that simply unscrewed. As the lead shell wat
the TWENTY FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHO DERS in this saldered, is had to be eat; but this wa" Company will be hell at the COMPANY'S also neatly performed. That several body OFFICES VICTORIA BUILDINGS onanatchers wars engaged a pretty certain.
ROBERT NICOLL, THE PORT. THURSDAY, 26 February. 1914 at for the flagstones were six feet square The hundredth anniversary of the birth NOON, for
for the purpose of receiving the and severn! inches thick. The outrage was of the poet Hobert Nicolls celebrated REPUT of the DIRECTORS together a stine times nine days wonder. Ail Soot at Bankfoot and neighbouring villages in with Statement of ACCOUNTS for the land rung with it. The most fantastis" Perthekite associated with his name. prar bading Slab Doo mber, 1913.
theories to stentint for the Bacilega were Nicoll was born in a farmhouse at Tal- The REGISTER of SHARES. of the propounded, it was suggested that it was lybolton, where a monument is erected to Company will he Cloned from TUESDAY the work of Italian desperadas; and his memory. He was for several 17th to THURSDAY 2th February, 1914 party of clairvoyants put forward an even apprenticed to grocer in Perth; after (Both days inclusive), during which period more extraordinary, explanation. Tims ward he conducted a brokselling
TRANFER of SHARES can be went on, however, and it seemed us in Dundee; and his poems having brought registered.
authing would ever come to light. Then him literary-tame, he was, through the "By Ardor of the Board of Directors, ... series of anonymous letters began to appear influence of Tait, the well-known Edin-
in the local press, signed "Nabob."" and burgh bookseller, appointed editor of ̈A. SHELTON HOOFER,
from bints conveyed in them the polics newspaper in Leeds. His health broke Fecretary to the Bungkong Land renewed their inquiries. A handsome: down under the stain of journalism, and Investment and Agency Company reward was offered for information which he retired to Edinburgh, and died in his 1d Agents for the Kowloon would lead to the apprehension and 24th year. Land & Building Co, Ld.
conviction of the culprita, Charles Soutar, Hongkong. F. b. 9. 1914.
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A Presidential Mandata points out that the recent riots in Yuman were the work of the leaders of the new Tungmen hai. Consequently the Tutube of sile provinces are again intructed to arrost. all members of this Society,
Hongkong. Feb. 5, 1914
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