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THE CHINA MAI
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A. 8. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
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WANTED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that TWO MARINE ENGINEERS with the THIRTY THIRD ANNUAL Shop experience to act as Work- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING shop Foremen, also a Foreman Marine of the Company (since its registration) Boiler Maker sud. Foreman Ship will be held at the Hogekona HOTEL'arpanter to take up duties in Shang- Hongkong on SATURDAY the 4th hai. Address all communications to May, 1918 at Nous, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Gepera Managers together with a Statement of Accounts to the list December 1917,
The REGISTER of SHARPS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 39th day of April, to MONDAY, the 8th day of May, 1918, both days inclusive, during which period
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COCHINA Mart' Office Hongkong April 10, 1915319).
WANTED.
no Transfer of Shares can be registered, TROPEAN LADY, residenter JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SONTE "daily, to look after 2 children of
General Managers. Hongkong, April 24, 1918 **
7 and 8 years 54
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THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY. LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ORDINARY OEN
ERAL MEETING of the HoyaKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Registered Otice of the Company Fedder Street, Victoria, Hongkong, MONDAY, the 8th day of May, 1918. 13 o'clock Noon when the subjoined resolutions which were passed at the Extraordinary General Hearing of the Company
beld 1913, will be submittee for Confrmation on the teth day of April
as special resolutions
(1) That it is expedient to effect an
HRS. GALE
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Hongkong Mar. 28, 1919.
DRY-CLEANING.
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EFORE putting away your winter clothing have it DRY-CLEANED to prevent damage from moths, silver- fish, grease spotting, etc. The economy affected. trifling cost repays itself in the
THE EASTERN DYEING
AND
All work done under special amalgamation of this Company with process by an expert. Satisfac-
Dairy Farm Company, Limited | And that with view thereto.
this tion
guaranteed. Company be wound up voluntarily and that Messrs. Jardine, Mintheson
Co., Limited be and they are hereby appointed Liquidators
for the purpose of such winding up. 2) That the conditional Agreement submitted to the meeting for the amalgamation this Company with the Dairy Farm Company, Limited ..upon
the terms (inter aling of the| acquisition by that Company of the seomplete undertaking, business, goodwill and property of this Com- pany in return for the issue to this Company of 52,000 Shares of the Dairy Farm Company, Limited of the nominal value-of,82.00 cach credited as folly paid up (being eight shares of 67.30 cents cach of that" Company for each share of $25 each of this Company) and of the issue by the Diary Farm Com pany Limites to Messra. Jardine Mathesun & Co., Limited, the General Managers of this Company (upon their entering into restrictive! Oceants which have been agreed” pon and by way of bonus as com- pensation for their loss of office as General Managers of this Company) of
2,00) abares of the Dairy Farm Company Limited of the nominal value of 97.50 each credited as fully paid up be and the same is hereby approved and that the Liquidators be and they are hereby authorised pursuant to Section 166 of the Com- panies Ordinance 1911 to adopt thế "said Agreement and carry the same into effect with such (if any) modi fication either before or after the execution thereof as the said Liqui. dators may think expedient. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 1st to 10th May, 1918, both days inclusive. Dated the 16th day of April, 1918. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.
General Managers.
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC
COMPANY, LIMITED....
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the TWENTY-NINTH ORDIN ARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Offices St. George's Buildings on SATURDAY, the 11th May at 19 o'clock Noor, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the
ef Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to. 98th February, 1918, and electing Directors and Auditors. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 13 o'clock noon April 27th to 12 o'clock noon May 11th. By Order of the Board of Directors. [U GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO.
Agents, Hongkong, April 26, 1918.
THE DAIRY FARM CO., LTD.
$62
PPLICATION has been made to the Directors of this Company to issue 20 WALTER DOUGLAS GRAHAM Hongkong (deceased) a Duplicate -Certificate of Sixty Shares in, the Com- papy or other Certificate or Certificates in lieu thereof upon the statement that the Original Certificate No 1909 for shares timbered 26775/28834.and dated 11th January, 1800, has been LOST or DESTROYED AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that if within 30 days from the data hereof no claims or repre sentation in respect of such Original Certificate is made to the Directors they will proceed to deal with such application for a Certilesta
Secretary
EMMANUE
Pated 4th day of April, 1918.
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HONGKONG GOVERNMENT 6% WAR LOAN OF 1916.
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M. THOMSON,
Colonial Treasurer.
longong, Apr 25, 1918
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BURNS DAY IN SCOTLAND.liberty which was always nestling in Westen world u teetotal poet." It is his big heart. Burns was a democrat, questionable there areny to-day. yet Burns was no more a believer It may be taken that it is quite in universal suffrage than in certain, with fex exceptions, they anarchism, and the democracy he all at times took a little more wine
BURNS AND THE TWENTY-FIFTH
(From Our Dian Correspondená. )'.
The wretch that wad a tyrant'own,
And the wretch, bis true-born brother, Who'd set the mob abune. the throne-
May they be damned together!. Who will not sing, "God Save the King"
Shall hang a high's the Steeple. But white we sing God Save the King|" We'll ne'er forget the PEOPLE-Burns.. Few meetings were held in Scot land to celebrate the birthday of
worshipped was a democracy of than would be considered judicious Burnses, of people as enlightened as in cut enlightered age. Yet Burns himself. He believed in brains, he alone is the awful example kept at was of the intelligenzin, and, said this dread etninence by the perpetual
so, and no one should forget this fact defences of his fellow-country- who claims spiritual kinship with him at the present time..
HURNS AND STRONG DRINK,
mer Lamb and Coleridge und De
Quinces, and a whole host of Eng. writers and poets, drank and degree that
The accounts of the Burns celebra-drugged themselves to a tions tempt one to ask, whether the
| would have "hrought Bura to the
Burns drators would not be well Tolbooth und male his family beg
gars: but the English never worry
advised to give a rest to the per- moment, and rightly, about
Robert Burns Outside the Masome petual theme of the poet's convivial this human defection in the lofty Lodges they might be counted on the babits, real or imaginary? A hundred
Singers. And all of them were of a years of controversy are surely quite souls who have left them precious restrained character; the times are enough. Lamentable to state; it has ould as soon think of laying, stress legaries of thought and song. They out of joint for robustious-festival.lways beer his own countrymen, his
But for
A BURNE' WAR. LOAS APPEAL.
But of late years, indeed, the Burns professed admirers, who have kept on the fact that these men wore knee-breeches instead of decently dinners and suppers in the Home the controversy raging.. Land have been attended by a much their misguided zeal, Anglo-Saxon creased trousers They quite under- quieter class than formerly The readers would no more think of stand that 18th century poets lived! characteristic Burnsite is now mid-associating the name of Burns with the average life of the 18th century. dle-aged or in the frostly but intemperance than of confounding : Borne, dying at the Age of 38, had kindly stage of old age. The dash. Shakespeare with pouching. The tone single accusation of the mg, dressy young dogs who patronise consequence of Scotland's persistent debauchery of drunkenness against smokers of the ordinary kind are harping on the bacchanal element in him, except in his own letters, and absent and unregretted Shrewd, Bams poems, and the violent un in the whole scrol of bis official brotherly, are those lovers of the flagging defence of his reputation position as exciseman there is not a national poet, with not a single dour, against vague charges which could single black mark against him; sourHoly Wille in the whole plausibly be made against any man On Bums' “natal day," as they who ever drank a glass of wine, is The most noteworthy point in the that by a constant Association of are fond of calling it in Scotland, Burne ortions was the emphasis ideas our post threatens to become laid on Burns' patriotism. The
more renowned, for if alleged weak speakers without exception registered eases than for his songs, the conviction that the man who was No adverse English critic has said. a. Volunteer and who wrote, Does harsher things about Burns, than he haughty Gaul invasion threat," said himself, and those who try to would not be a pacifist to do. And cumouflage his confessions and give it was impossible to imagine Burnahm a resemblance to a 'Twentieth as an Internationalist. One speaker Century paragon make themselves describes Burns views of foreigners ridiculous to the unprejudiced and
clan of thern.
Julian the Tank issued an appeut for money, and supported it with this verse from the poet
'Not for to hide it in a hedge. Or for a train attendant, But for the glorious privilege
Of being independent.
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