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IS THE PANAMA CANAL A'
FAILURE?
WARNINGS IGNORED.
A striking article by Mr Ignatius Phayre, an American, entitled "Is the Panama Canal a Failure" appears in the
• Datlook,"
After refurring to the recent landslides and the report that the Cemal would not be open again b.fore January, Dir. Phayze saya : January is hero, sad finds the pros- peek more menacing than ever, with 20-inch suction dredge quite inadequate to deal with the sliding hills" of which. aaz Minister in the zone speaks in a recent report in one place the Canal is choked 818 to a height of 18 fost abors the water, and is will take until next July to remove the total obstruction. But all estimates of this baffling work are falsified from day to day, or from season to
genson. But wil the antoricus Canainaver. be Enished as a world-feature, like the Suez Cal? I have no hesitation in mying that tera is
the greatest embarrassment which
|
blem always before her. Has an irremedi able error beau made in the construction of the Cans!? The French engineer returned an emphatic "Yes" when I put this ques- tion to him.
It is lock canal, M. Burau-Varilla ' reminded me agaiu, one dependent on the stability of a soft clay dam, 2, 300 metres long. It was madnees to adopt such a plan island of earthquakes and turious Hoods. Why, the Caual may disappear in a night, leaving all America cursing the confusion of ideas which has done all the mischtet. The sea level scheme would have united the two occans in nine years or no, and given a free atin, two hundred' metros Broad and fifteen deep at least, receiving all the rivers of the Istharas, including the aaraly Chagr
**No restriction or limitation, no elabo rate artläcial work», dama, or locks which an earth tremor of an explosion, could de- stroy. For a milliard of France the United States might have had an inter-oceanic waterway," proof against all attacks of Nature or of man.
And now after all the hopes, all the years of labour, with all resources of selence and machinery-steam shovels, blasters, and drills these mound words
Undersigned having been appointed the Washington Administration has over ring true. AGENTs for the COWIE HARBOUR known. It is some years since I saw M. COAL CO. LTD.,. are prepared to quote Pailippe Basau-Varills on this subject. He pices for best quality SILIMPOPON WAR The made hernin efforts to keep the CUAL trimmed inte Banker at SEBAT-Fanam schemo slive after the dismal TIK or SANDAKAN (Dritish North failure of the old concern. Boeree
SILIMPOPON COAL compares favour. ably with the better grades of Japanese Go and gives good results on a very moderate comsumption.
Steamers calling at SEBATTIK SANDAKAN- exclusively for STLIMPO. HON COAL (either cargo or Baskers) are exempt from payment of all Port charges.
At Subatik Stesmam are barched along ide the Company's wharf where there is a minimam depth of 97 to 28 feet at low water Spring Tides,
BRADLEY & CO., LTD.,
PALLERE PREDICTED...
**Will the Americans: succeed where you French failed?" I put to the late chief entrect of the Great Ditch. He said
TWO AMERICAN CIVIL WAR GENERALS DIE ON
SAME DAY.
The last of the lawyers who prosecuted
"In my judgment," M. Bennu-Varilla the band that conspired to assassinato went on theirs will be the worst and President Abraham Lincoin, and the last: most precarious of canals, because made
with locks and lifts instead of being cut as of the Corps Commanders of the Federal set-level, as becommended in 1906 by the Army in the Civil War died inst month International Board, of whom fire warn
on the same day."' foreign engineers with immensa experience
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1916.
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA
DOCK COMPANY, LTD.
FOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
N
11 EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the HONGKONG & WILAMPOL Dock Compisy, Limited, wilk he hold at the Company's Offco Queen's Buildings, Victoria, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 14th February, laid, At. 12 o'clock Neox, when the subjoined Extraordinary Resciu tion, which was passed at the Extraordinary General Mesting of the Company held on the 17th January, 1918, will be submitted for confirmation as a special resolution
INTIMATIONS
YOUR EYES
That the Regulatione eculsined in the SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTE printed
document submitted to this mGOLA ol identidation
ing and for the purpose o
subscribed by the Chairman hareof bo amended as bereafter set out and that such'
At the first symptom
regulations so amanded be and the same of eye strain you" should are hereby approved and adopted as the
Articles of the Company in substitution for consult us.. We test and to the exclusion at all the existing eyes scientifically and fit
Articles thereof."
The said amendments aro
That Article 07 be amended by the elimination of the words "The Chairman jim line one thereaf and by the substitution of the must "thre" for the word "fire". in line two there.
That Alle 62 be climïanted. following That the
words be added at the end of Article 84 "but any such appointment shall be subject to confirmation by the Company at the next ordinary Tearly Meeting
That paragraph (b) of Asticlu 90 Be eliminated and the following paragraph substituted theref.r:-
(b) A Director who is a member of, or a Director of, or a member of the Consulting Committee df, or otherwias interested in, à Public Company which is interested in any contract or arrangement brengbb up for determination at any Meeting of the Directors shall notwithstanding be entitled to vote as "Director in respect of such
intract or arrangement provided:- (a) That he has disclosed his interest in
such Public
Company before wach contract or arrangement is voted upon by the Directors.
(b)
glasses to individual re- quirements
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TENERAL MEETING OF SHARE- ELEVENTH ANNUAL HOLDERS will be bold in the Offices of Mesers DooWEL & CO., LIMITED, CO MONDAY the 14th February, 1916, at 11.3. for the purpose of receiving the togother
That the Public Company so interest- ed is not a Company whereby a 11** private frm bocamse incorporated, and report of the General Manage
with a statement of accounts to Sist (+). That he is not a Qeneral Manager of December, 1915.
the Fatlio Company in question and. that the firm in which he is a partner or which he reprosents are not the General Managers or General Agents of such Public Company. Savo as above provided no Director shell' as a Director vote in respect of any interested and if he do so vote his vota contract or arrangement in which he is shall not be counted.
Thai Article 96 be amended by the; subesitation of the word "fra for the word "seven in line four thereof.
That the following, new Article be in sorted after Articļa 98 ;—
The Company may by Extraordinary Resolution remove any Director before the expiration of his term of office and appoint another person in his stead. The person so appointed shall hold office during such time only na the Director in whose place be is appointed would have held the same if he End Dot been removed." That the following words be added at
W
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pary will be CLOSED from the 7th to 14th February both dates inclusive.
DODWELL & COMPANY LIMITED.
General Managers. Hongkong, Jan. 31, 1916.
THE KOWLOON LAND-AND BUILDING COMPANY LIMITED,
75
on:
TWENTY SEVENTH ORDINARY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the COMPANY'S
BUILDINGS OFFICES, VICTOSI FRIDAY, 18th Fabriary, 1918, at Noox, for the purpose of receiving the REPORT of the DIRECTORS together with State- ment of ACCOUNTS for the year ending 316 December. 1915.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the
the end of paragraph (a) of Article Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, .98 :-..
11th to FRIDAY, 18th February, 1916
** A. Director who is entitled to vote (as | (both days inclusivo), during which parod provided by Article 90 (b) notwith-ro TRANSFER of SHARES can be standing his interest is to be counted registered.
in a quorum, but otherwise a Dizistor who is interested is not to be counted in a quorum.”
That the words to any regulations"
be eliminated from line seven of Article 107 and that the following words be sub- stitated therefore subject also to such
in the building of waterways for ccerzi.. General Henry Lawrence Burnett su:-(if any) regulations as are" and that the going steamers of the largest typo."
Charta of Sibuko Bay (Sebattik Ear bour). Prices and all other information
Locks, it was pointed out, delayed tran-cumbed in New York to arteriosclerosis concerning the Port can be had opsit. The projected lifts were beyond the in his seventy-eighth year. He was the application to the Agenta.
mit of prudent design, and the gates Government's chief prosecuting officer liable to damage from the greater ships. Sach were the warnings of eight out of the against the men who aided John Wilkes Agents Corie Harbour Coal thirteen engineers employed in the Ameri- Booth in the plot that ended in the Great
Company, Limited.
can survey. Yet the minority prevailed, "Hoogkung, Dec. 2, 1075,-- 1097-barked up by the U.S. Chief Engineer, Mr Emancipator's death. The assassin" was
hot and killed by his pursuers.
RACE BOOKS.
THE only Authorised Falition of the RACE BOOK is that Published by Messrs. NORONHA & Co. WHICH IS COPYRIGHT. UNDER THE ACT OF
1911.
T. F. HOUGE,
Glerk of the Course. Hongkong. Feb. 11, 1918,
RACE BOOKS 1016.
John S. Ster.
They gave fire ressors for their opinion, and of these the most effective was that a lock canal could be built in half the time,
General Grenville Millen Dodge peased away in Council Bluffs, In. in his eighty- and for little more than half the cost of the fourth year from cancer.. He succeeded sea-level proposition. Mr Taft, then War General Sherman, to whom war is Secretary, agreed with the minority Lell is attributed, and who ent the
time and cost of
such a
Confederacy in twain by his march to
• of confrohibitory.
canal at sea level are in
It would take too long to trace the cooling the sea," as president of the Society of
of American ardour in this gigantic rentare: the Army of Tennessee, composed of
the continuous change of the Isthmian veterans of that campaign......
106 stal, the clash of counsels, inevitable General Burnett was born in Youngs-
graft," dissereich and noisy recrimination. There was yellow fever and black measles, malaria and bubonic plague, smallpox and Chagres lever.
LEATHER-COVERED... 82.00
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May be had from!--
"1.75 1.00
NORONHA & CO., (Printers to the Hongkong Jockey Club).
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THE HONGKONG CIGAR STORE. Hongkong, Feb. 11, 1915,
103
DAIRY FARM NEWS. Some of our BY-PRODUCTS AND SPECIALTIES. COENED BEEF, CORNED PORK
VÅR ETT OF SAUSAGES: PRESSED BEEF, COOKED HAM, DEIPPING, ... LAED CORNED, TONGUES,
SMOKED TONGUES, PORK PIES, GAME PIES.
Which cannot be Excelled for Quality.
FRENCH LESSONS
#. MOUSSION.
Morrison HD) Boää.
town, O. He studied law, but in 1801 enlisted. In 1865 he was made Brigadier. Generál. With General Holt and 'Mfr. Bribery, rod-tape, and attar demorali- John A. Bingham, he prosecuted the tation figured in scorst official reports. conspirators against President Lincoln. And those leaked out fate the Press, to He came to New York, where he was the great anxiety of the President. Now
the American Fress tends to levity when made United States District Attorney bored, yet in its sarcasm shines, many a for the Fouthern District.
bitter truth. For which reason I give partGeneral Dodge was born in Deuters. of the Panama Primer," which lies Mass He was a civil engineer and before me as I write
entered the Union Rrany a colonel of the
money.
What is the Panama Canal?-A hole4th Iowa Infantry in 1981. He was across the Isthmus, entirely filled with fajor General in June, 1984. He was Where did we get it?-WN.Cromwell chief engineer for the Union Pacific kindly persuaded the French company Hallway and; later of the Texas, and to all it to us.
Pacike Hallway. He was a member of What did thoy gat -Forty million the 40th Congress, and succeeded General dollars,
Ware they satisfied-They were Sherman as president of the Socisty of ibe Army of the Tannessor. He was
astonished..
did Cromwell got 7--The Senate chairman of President Mckinley', com has been three years saking him;
What did we got The Greatest miles appointed to inquire into the management of the war with Spain. d Engiosering Fest of the Age -
But is it It would be, if we could
soy ab work on it.".
kere we anything else but the Cenal ?
We acquired the zone the home of the
· Culebra Cut that swallows all our money- Has the Caual any damsSeveral.
And all Arterica'll be damning it before
Long
!. Will the Gaun Dam over be Enished 1 Ics, when the engineera maks, stinė font upon mad.
What is the Rio Chogros 7-A depraved stream that goes on a foot every few weeks and can't be couverted.
Which is the principal lock 7-The hammer-lock which the whole project
as upon our Treasury.
ERROR IN CONSTRUCTION 1 To-day america is mute, frowning upon Aippancy of this kind, but with the pro
TICKLING IN THE THROAT.
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of the best." KERK ANDRA CAWEAR by all Übernista And Storakospera, p
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SEMUT OF ALL CHEXISTS
Prioma - 61.25 und 20,25,
provisions or there presents " be eliminated
wordsagt being inconsistent with such from lines sight and nins of Article 107.
That paragraph ( (p) of Article 108. be eliminated.
That Article 112 be eliminated and the
following Article substituted therefor:
RESERVE FUND..
By Order of the Board of Directors.
MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE,
Acting Secretary to THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- -MENT, AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
Agents for THE KOWLOON LAND AND
BUILDING CO., LTD. Hongkong, Feb. 8, 1916.
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK- ING CORPORATION.
-(o)-The-Directors before declaring a dividend may with the sanction of the Company in General Meeting set aside out of the profits of the Com NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEET- pany
such sums as they think proper ING of the SHARKEOLDERS in this areasrve "fund to meet - Corporation will be held at the CITY HALL tingencies, or for equalising divi- Hongkcog, on SATURDAY, the 19th day denis, or for special dividends or for of Febranty, 1918, at Noox, for the pure repairing, improving and maintaining
Na
pose of receiving the Report of the Court any of the property of the Company of Director together with a statement of or for the
of any augmentation
*List- Accounts for the year ending the 31st ing 10derve fand
or for such other December, 1915.
conducive purposes as they think cond
The REGISTER of SHARES of the to the Company's interests and may with much sanction as oressid pay Corporation will be OLSED from MON- out of the profits of the Company DAY, the 7th February, to SATURDAY, such botates se they think it to the 19th February 1918 (both days. those members who for the twelve inclusive), during which period an transfer months covered by each profit and of shares can be registered.
Josa account shall have contributed By Order of the Court of Director. business to the Company (but so that
no benas to contributing members.
for any twelve months, shall exceed
Tem fifteen per cent of the nat....profita
adsduring those manths).
(b)
N. J. STABB,.
Chief Manager.
Hongkong, Jan. 31, 1918,⠀
THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN. AND MORTGAGE COMPANY
·LIMITED.
*
ORDINARY
The Directors may invent any sums cat auds as a resurve fund upon such investimenta (other than shares of the Company) as they may think it and may from time to time deal with and vary anch Envestmonta, (e) The Directors may employ the cer
fand for the time being or any portion thereof in er for any of the purposes for which it or for which EE NINETEENTH
ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE- such portion was created and is of HOLDERS in the Company will be held for such other purposos na the Directors shal in their discre at the Office of the Company, St. George's No. 6. Connaught Road on lian : think dànducive the in
to
25th February, 1918, at DAY, the terals of the Company and shalt
11.30 A., fort hare power to
the purpose of receiving s employ the actą constituting the reserve fund or any Statement of Accounts and the Report of.
the General Managers for the year ending part thereof in the business of the gist December, 1915, and electing Company and that without being Consulting Committee and Auditors. bound to keep the name separate
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- from the other assets of the Company pay will be CLOSED from MONDAY, (d) The Directors may also with the the 21st February 1918 at FRIDAY
sanction of the Company in General
Meeting employ the reserve food for the 25th February, 1918, both days the time batug or any part thereof in inclusive.
the payment of bonuses to members whether the part of the reserve fund
so employed shall be set apart for that special purpose or not,
and that any necessary amendments to Eto ambering of the proposed Articles bo carried out,
Dited the 2nd February, 1910,
By Order of the Board.
FM. DIER
Chief Manager
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ALEXANDRA
・Open Tuf
Supper,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
General Managers. Hongkong, Feb. 14, 1818.-
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPÁKY, LIMITED.
HAREHOLDERS, desirous of making Inquiries in respect of the Dlibenturo Jasne should apply to the Company Office in Hongkong.
All applications for debeatures must be ean ia bofors the 24th Februkry, 1010. Forme any had en spalication,
DYER Chief slananbra
Bangkong Des. 20, 1915,