TILE CHINA MAJI.
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THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY,
LIMITED.
IS HEREBY GIVEN that
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SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE;
HONGKONG.
NEXTRAORDINARY GENERAL "St. George's Day" 23rd April, 1919
MERCING of the KowLong LAND AND ~BUTENING-CORY. LENTED will he'
held at the Registered Ottee of the DRAWING -OF
Company. Victoria Building, Hongkong. an WEDNESDAY, the 9th day of February, 1918 at 11 o'clock in the forenson, when the subjoired. Resolution will be proposed as an Extraordinary Hesolution
That the Articles of Association be altered in manger following
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WAR BONDS |
IN AID OF WAR CHARITIES.
$500,000
(HONGKUNG CURRENCE)
or more or less Recording to subscriptions:
PROSPECTUS
.Tickets $5.00 each. PRIZES to be paid in Bonds of the
(a) That the word "two" be substituted the word "three in the definition for of the "The Beard in Article 2. (b) That the word "tw" be substituted
for the word "three" " in Article 72 (That the word "one" be substituted for the word "two in lines one and two of Article 6 and that the word "ather shall be substituted for the word "others" and the word "his" for the word "their" in line two of Article 78 and the wont member berubatitated for the word "mem- bersin line three of Article 70.
Hongkong Government 6% Wir (d) That the word "Director" be anb Loan of 1916 (which may be redeemed atituted for the word "Directors" in at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at par) and, in order to Article 27. (e) That the word "Director" be sob sasure that the scheme is productive of "new" money for war purposes an stitated for the word "Directors" in equivalent amount of the prizes will be line tour of Article 79.
reinvested by the Hongkong and Shang- That the word "signature" bo subhai Basking Corporation in new British stituted for the word "signatures War Lean Stock. in lines one two and, four of Article 82 and that the word "ane" be sbstituted for the word "two" and the word "Director" for the word "Directors" in line one of Article 89." Should the Resolution be passed by the regeired majority, it will be sub mitted for confirmation as a special resolution to a second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently Bonvened.
Dated the 9th day of February, 1918, By Order of the Board,
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to
Of the net amount subscribed, 76 per cent. will be distributed in prizes, and the remaining 25 per cent
will be given to War
Charities.
The amount to be distributed in prizes will be divided as follows:
First Prize,
... 50 per cent.
Second Third
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15
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... 10 .
1
100 smaller prizes
ranging in amount from 25 H.K. $1,000 to HE. 830)
13
Winning Tickets must be presented at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hongkong, during business
{hours,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT &
AGENCY Co, LD..
Should any winning ticket not be General Agents for the Company-presented before acon on the 23rd [120 October, 1918, the ticket will be ma celled, and the value will be distributed amongst War Charities by the Commit- cee of St. George's Society of Hongkong through the medium of the Hongkong, War Charities Fand Committee.
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON "WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE THIRTY-FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JasoINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, LIMITED, OG THURSDAY, the 21st February, 1918, at Noos, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1817. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from HONDAT, rich February to THURS DAY at February, 1918, both daya
nclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
W. S. BROWN, Secretary,
Hongkong, Feb. 4, 1918.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
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NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the 'SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the $3rd day of February, 1918, at Noor, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the year eading the 31st December, 1917.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 11th February to SATURDAY, the 23rd February, 1918, (bota daya inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
AN. J. STARE,
Chief Manager.
Hongtong, Feb. 5, 1915.
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HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
NOTICE.
AND AFTER 16th February, 1918
OANDAP for the transaction of business by the Hongkong Savings Bank will be 10 4.2la 12 Noon every week- day except Saturdays.
Toe Savings Bank will not be open for business on SATURDAYS on and after 10th February, 1918,
For the HoxaLONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION,
NJ. STABB,
Chief Manager.
Hongkong. Feb. 7, 1918.
NOTICE.
THE UNITED BRITISH INSURANCE CO. LTD. INCORPORATED 12 ENOLAND.)
123.
ILTAVING been appointed MARINE IL AGENTS, to the above Company, We are prepared to ACUEPT RISKS And issus Policies at Current Rates 2
UNION TRADING CO.;
Queen's Buildinga, Hongkong Fab, 1, 1918.
ALFRED HYNDMAN
43 Wyndham Street
Flas for sales
CARBON PAFER at $1.00 per doze
RIBE
at $1.80 each.
The Drawing will be in pablic and the date and hour at which
will take place will be notified in due course by advertisement
The sale of tickets will close in Hong- kong on Saturday, the 13th April, 1918.
Any disputes arising will be decided by the Committee of St. George's Society of Hongkong whos decision shall be final.
The names of the members of the Committee are
Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak (Pyenident).'.. N. J. STARR, Esq., (Vice-President).
His Benoar Mr. E. H. J. GoxPEETZ. 0.8. ARCHBUTT, Esq.
H. W. BIRD, Esq.
C. MONTAGUE For, Esq.
W. J. ELDRIDGE, EAg.
H. B. B. HANCOCK, Esq.
L. N. LETE, Esq.
Fon. .. H. E. FOLLOCK, K.C.
J. H. RAMEAT, Esq. (Hon. Trener). JOHN BENTLET, Esq. (Hon. Secretary). Tickets and Books of Tickets can be had on application at the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation on and after the 8th February, 1918.
',
H. O. SANDFORD, (Hon. Treasurer), CHA8. BESWICK, (Hon. Secretary),
St. George's "War Bond Drawing, Hongkong, Feb. 2, 1918.
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THE CALL OF THE DEAD. it seems to me, as clear as the son at today, the people of this country as a noonday. They would tell as for other whole for I sny zothing of that careful wise their devotion and their death have weighing of all possibilities which belongs neither message nor meaning that in this to the Council Chamber and the Cabinet struggle between freedom and tyranny,cannot wisely give a single thought to Mr. T. E. Fage writes to the editór of between honour and dishonour, between anything other than the work which yo The Times"——
good and evil, there is but one path before have in hand. In that work, sceing that During these last years we have all seen us, the path they themselves deliberately no human effort can control the final issue what I can only call a miracle of faith. chose, and that leads only to victory or of events, it may be that we shall fail. It From every town and hamlet throughout to the graer. Let Mr. Worldly Wisdom way he se the cautious and the faint this country and this Empire we have and Mr. Sagacity say what they will, let hearted tell us, that we are rashly setting: seen men by thousands and tene of thou them make whatever calendations they all our fortunes on the hazard of su sands go forth, with a voluntary and please, but we have other counsellors to uncertain and possibly disastrous future. unpurchased devotion, to set themselves whom we must give beed. Waarom But all that if we would form just and their all at utmost hazard on the passed about with so great a cloud of estimate of real values concerns us not battlefield and on the set. They have witnesses who bare sealed their tone jot. We may loss, if God so will, our faced dangers and sufferings untold; they mony with their blood that we cannot be lives and our wealth; the nation may have flung away their lives, withou: deaf to the convincing eloquence of their fall, the Empire any fall; but better is faltering, without complaint, and even example. Their image is belote our very it. thousandfold batter, to be the with something of a solemn and airncat eyes; they speak and plead with us in martyrs of a noble faith rather than ile sacred joy. And for why Assuredly our very eas. We how that they laid betrayers. That is the clear message because they had in them not only that down their lives not from any selfishness which our dead have left to us in dying: spirit of adventure which is nn beirloom of ambition, not aceking any cruelty of and it may also be that this same spirit of our race, not only because of thats revenge, but to rouress, wrong, to from the of faith is in itself a shield and buckler spirit of obedience to duty which gives to world from a perpetual terror, by war to are sure than all the devices of calculat States their cohesion and their strength, make an end of war, and to give those state-craft. For not less for a nation but far more because they were animated who came after them some amured than for each of us the great question, by that spirit of faith, that trust, I mean, security of peace. They have bequeathed thou of little faith, wherefore didat in goodness and right, in what is just and to us these their high aims, and Landed thou doubt?? pieces as is were, to the honest and stue, without which neither over to us the fulsiment of lust task to very centre and inmost citadel of lifer for the individual por for the nation can which, while life insted, they set a for- And, above all other things whatsoever, there be any saving of the sout alive. ward and unfinching face, nor can we it is according as we, te people, shall And when we reflect how these men. turn aside from it until it is accomplished. show ourselves worthy of our dead" by who but lately walked along with us onEvery deviation from the direct path treading, like them, the path of a the common paths of life, today stand which they followed, every diversion of and unswerving faith, that we shall also, for ever in the ranks of those who energy to anything other than the one under God, trend the most secure path **through faith
out of weskuem object of their endeavour is 4 wrong and to safety and to success, were made strong, wazed valiant-in-finta dishonour wrought not only against our- turned to fight the armies of the aliens selves but against the
The work they set themselves to do is then it seems to me that we cannot, but ask ourselves how these, our undying yet undone, and until it is done, or
dead, would regard those cold and chilling least until the end and completion of it counsels of pasillanimity and so-called are more clearly discernible than
prudence which are today being forced
upon our cars. For who is there who can without a pang, bring himself to believe that thess" berio souls', have no, longer, eilber part or concern with the fortunes of those for when they frenly? made the sdpremie acrifice of their own lives? To Ho that would be such a flat denial of all purpose is hazian existence of all hopes that run beyond the grief limits of our mortal span that the beach instinctively recoils from a scepticism: no repelle "Anil yet, ik we cannot do otherwise,kba Thold that
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