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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREST GIVEN clues. An EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Green, Island Cement Company Limited will be held at the Other of Messrs. Showin, Tomate & Co., the General Managers of the Coung St. George's Buikling, Chater fil
Victorin in the Colony of Florentur, FRIDAY thu ficcush day of 1916, at twelve. a'clock noon for the Вигроне of considering, and if thought! Et, faasing as Extraordinary Resolutions the following Resolutions that is to
Aly
(1) That the expital of the Company He rehved from $1,400,500 (Four million dollars) divided into 4x (Four hundred thousand) shares of $10 Ten dollars) each, to $3,000,000 (Three willion dollars. divided into
stars and
and
of the
of 87.50
nist pach, cents) that such reduction by pete y
turning to the hollery of 400,000
KO (Four hundral thousand shares that have been issued paid
capital to
the extent of $2.50
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(Two dollars and sity cents), per whart and by reducing the shuros nominal
from $10 (Ter dollars) to $7.30
Seven Colars and fifty cents). (9) That application be made to the
amount of each of t
Supreme Court of Hongkong to confirm the reduction of the capital of the Company in con- formity with the foregoing
Resolution. Should the abova Resolutions be passed by the requisite najority, they will be submitter for confirmation as Special Resolutions to a Second Extra ordinary Cieneral Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
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HAMS.
WE HAVE just received a Consign." ment of FINEST ENGLISH EAMS (average weight 12 to 15 lbs.) in. Tins. These Hams are cooked by Patent process whereby they retin all their
turn thavour and pourishment. No bone, no waste, the Hams being rendy for Table. Price 70 cents per pound for cash.
H. STEPHEN'S & CO.
Hongkong. Dec. 121916
Dated this fifth day of December; 101,, | |- 16/22, Queen's Road, Central.
1302]
By Order of the Board,
General Managers.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.
LITTLE
"WONDER
"
SECOND
5 RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1916 FOR
ROUBLES 3,000,000,000
THE Subscription to the above LOAN will be Opened from itt: Sovember
to 29th Excember; 1914:
The price of issue is 96 per cent.
The Loan is entirely free of Income
Tax and other taxations.
The Loan is redeemable at par en 14th October, 1228, without option for the Russian Government, to convert it at an earlier date.
Coupons are payahlo half yearly on the 14th April and 14th October.
A interest, on the above lean rang from 14th October, the interest accrued on date of subscription must be taken into consideration and is to be added to the price of Jesus,
The Russo-Asiatic Bark in Hongkong is ready to accept applications for the above Hamed Loan.
Special favourable rates will be quoted for Russian Exchange,
Payment may also be made in Roubles, Applications will be wired" to Petrograd" free of telegraphic charges and commia-
sgs.g
40 per cent. only of the cost of the Bonds may be paid on application, the balance to be paid on receipt of thà Bonds.
The Bank is also ready to give every facility to subscribers in the' shape of advances against the scrips.
G. TISDALL,
Manager BUSSO-ASIATIC BANK.
Hongkong, Nov. 7, 1916.
1993
SILIMPOPON (SEBATTIE)
THE
COAL.
THE Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD., are prepared to quota prices forest "quality" BILIMPOPON COAL trimmed into Bankers at SEBAT TIK of SANDAKAN (Britia North Bornec
SILIMPOPON COAL compares favour- ably with the better grades of Japanese Coal and gives good results on a very moderate consumption.
Steamers calling at SEBATTIK OF SANDAKAN exclusively for SILIMPO. PON COLL.. (either cargo or Bankers) are exempt from payment of all Port "chargen.
At Sabattik Steamers are herthed along- side the Company's wharf where there is n minimum depth of 27 to 23 feet at low i water Spring Tides.
Charts of Sibuke Bay (Sobattik Har- bour), Prices and all other information. concerning the Port can be application to the Agent
had on
f
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16 MONTHS ON ICE-FLOES. companions were soaking wet the whole of the 16 or 17 days; they had very Kitle
SHACKLETON'S MEN REICH
LONDON...
A
HEROES ALL.
water, and when they landed on South
Georgia all the men were so badly chafed that they could hardly movs And after that Sir Ernest, with Creat and Worsley made a 36 hours' march over glaciers und mountain ridges, 5,000 feet high, to the whaling station.
RESCUE AT LUNCH TIME.
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The members of the staff of the Wed- RECORDS.dll Sea party of Sir Ernest Shackleton's "In my diary I find I fixed August 25 expedition arrived a Tilbury and reach as the approximate date for our relief.
find traveled The serum day Sit Fruest took us off Tal i eii London recently. "Nelson liner was the 30th. Of course, we had no ides
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KISHIDAKE YOSHINOTANI
from South America by Highland Laddie, on which vessel pass that this was his fourth attempt. And HOJO, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, KANADA, ages were generously given by the com- it was the luckiest thing in the world
They were Me Frank Wild that the Yeicho came when she did. Two SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BISAI cord in command). Mr J. Wordie days earlier she would not have got any- & OYUBARI COLLIERISSY (geologist), Mr L. Hussey (meteorologist), where near us, and two days later would Sir R. Clark
James probably have been as bad, for the ice Fir G
(artist)
ver cleared off for more than two
days at a
R.
Drs A. Macklin
and
I had been arranged that a gun surgeons), Mr T Crean (third should be fired from the ship, but when officer), W, Stephenson (fireman). Nine the glaciers were calling and chunks other members of the expedition are fell off with a report Like a gun we gTEW returning home from South America by to distrust these signals. As matter a Government tug
of fact we saw the Yelcho before we Sir Fraest
Shackleton is on his way to heard any gun. I was an occasion one Australia in connection with the relief will not easily forget. of his men who are marooned on the Ross Barrier through the breaking away
We were just asserabling for lunch to the call of Lunch Of and I was ser-
of the Aurora, and it is hoped that huving out the soup which was particular
will sail south on that ship for the Ross Fabout the second week in December Mr Frank Wild gave Reuter's repre- sentative a remarkable account of the disaster to the Endurance, the 18 months' experience of the expedition on the ice floes of the Weddell tea, the ter ible four months sojourn on Elephant Island, and the final rescue, after three Sir Ernest DAIRY FARM NEWS. Sackleton, at amament when practically
unsuccessful attempts all their food was exhausted. All speak in the highest terms of their lender, but for whose bravery, enterprise and deter mination the expedition would probably have ended in disister..
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ly good that day, consisting of boiled seals backbone, uspets, and seaweed, when there was another hail from Mar ston of Ship O Some of the men thought it was Lunch O over again, but when there was another yell from Marston lynch had no further attrac tions. The ship was about a mile and a huli away, and steaming must us.
from the shore, and catching up socce "a smoke signal was the agreed sign body's coat that was lying about. struck a pick into a tin of kerosene kept for the purpose, poured it over the city and set it alight. It flared instead of smoking, but that didn't matter, for the chief had already recognised the spot
was burping in.
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"Tae scientific results of the expect where he had left us, and the Yeleho MANILA. Messrs Macondray
tion," said Mr Wild, have been very considerable, although circumstances prevented us from carrying out the original programme of crusting the Con- tinent. We have, too, secured the most wonderful Antarctic pictures that have ever been taken. We have some 6,000ft. of cinematograph film and hundreds of still negatives. Most of our misfortunes were recorded by Hurley, the cinemato her. The crushing of the Endurance, grapher the abandoning of the ship, her fina disappearance prr life on the Weddell Ben Hoes and in the ice hold at Elephant Island were all reconded by him.
stuck to his job to the end, and even got the final scenes when Bir Ernest took us off the island.
At the time we were rescued we had
only three days penggin meat supply in hand, and we were down to our last
Bovril-ration, which, was the only "forin of hot beverage we had."
It is understood, adds the Exchange Telegraph Co., that the members of the Expedition are joining the Army almost at once.
**ELOPEMENT MONEY."
AMUSING CLAIMS FOR SEPARATION ALLOWANCES.
✪ Bhe was a good ship, and was luncheon gives to officers of
Co
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The difficulties which the military Giring
Further details of the loss of authorities have in appreciating the their abip. Mr Wild said: As early as relative merits of individual claims for August, 1915, the Endurance was badly Army separation allowances were paz- nipped in the ice, and it was some four rated recently at the Mansion House, Later when she finally dis-when the Lord Mayor, presiding at s
the Terri just slowly mangled. Nothing could be totin) association, quoted a number of done to save her. There was simply a letters which he said were types of those stendy and relentless crushing, till finally frequently received on behalf of appä the ice went through her from side to canta claiming separation allowsaces.
[RON STEEL, METAL and HARD Aide.
One applicant wrote: Dear sir,In WARE MERCHANTS. Wholesale nccordance with instructions on the ring.
STORIA SAVED EY HARPCON," "
なら
paper I have given birth to a daughter
ther letters received ran Dear Sir,-You have changed my little boy into a little girl. Will it make any difference
pay
"When it became evident that the condition of the Endurance was hopeless we got on the upper deck everything that was essential to save Quantities of valuable stores were, however, in the
"Dear Sir,-My husband, Bill, has been compartment covered by several feet of ico and water. Fi Ernest, however, put in charge of a spittoon. Shall I get. conceived the brilliant idea of cutting any you please send me my out a piece of the dock, and an kho trpt
as the cas
CASCA |, Sir,—Y Bonted up to the higher level they were money as soon as possible, as i am walk. secured or apeared by means of an ing shout Bolton Bked. A dumped improvised barpoon and dragged to the pauper 27 surface. By this we secured some ir, My husband has joided the hundred cases, on which we lived for six Arity. Ishall be glad if you will send months. Without them I doubt if we me his elopement money."" should have pulled through."
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--Mr Wild also narrated how
„Zlajon Orde Lees, who was unarmed, was chased by un-leopard over the floes. Eventually
the creature, which was over twelve feet long and weighed a tory, was shot by Mr Wild from another floe.
The 700 miles trip to South Georgia in an open bont, continued Mr Wild, is, in my opinion, the finest thing ever done. I didn't know until later how bad
pass to the Chinese examinatios, and is possessed it had been. Bir Ernest and his six
if a first rate certificate na a Chinese tenchor. - Ju
“has slat a good knowledge of Mandarin and FlakkM
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