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SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921.
Hughes & Hough
ACOTTONIERS TO THE GOVERNMENT AND ADMIRALTY.
Coal Contractors flexeral
Brokers.
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS 25 WORDS 3 INKERTIONS,
EL. PREPAID.". Every additional word & Cente
for 3 insertions.
WANTED.
|-PUBLIC AUCTIONS-BRITISH FIRM have vacancy for
EXPERIENCED CLERK Must
be conversant with bookkeeping, ship-
HR Codersigned have received instrue-ping, export and imports, Good writer Tions to all by Pabile Anction, And able to type. Apply Box No.
1296, c/o "CHINA MATE
(For account of the concerned)
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TUESDAY,
May 10, 1921, at 10.30 am..
at No. 1, Cat's Path, Car's Road,
Kowloon,
BUNDET
TO LET.
ONE LARGE GODOWN, (known 25
the Hody's Wanchai Godown) Two Large Rooms with Verandah
Vainable Household Furnitare,ituated Queen's Road East, anitable fox
therein contained. Including Pantry sad Kitchen Utensils, &c.
(Full Particulars from Catalogue) Terms:-Cach.
HUGHES & KOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, May 5, 1921.
(FOX ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERYLD),
OK
TUESDAY,
May 10, 1921, commenting at 2.50 p.m. at their Sales Rooms, No. 8 Des Tax Road, Corner of Ice Bone Street,
AN ASSOMINENT OF Superior Household Linens,
Comprising
Hematitched and Scalloped Pillow Caset, Bed Sheeting 72-ins and 90-in. wide, White Satin Quilts, Bed Valances, Damask Table Cloths and Serviettes, Turkish Towels, Bath Sheets, Hucka- back Towels, Crochet and Drawnwork Doilies, White Cafika, Ludes and Gent's Eindkerchiefs.
And
A number of Marble Statuettes, Terme - Chib
"Hang ong”
HUGHES & HOUGE,'
Auctioneers.
1991.
(FOR LOOOCHT OF THE CONCERNED), on.
TUESDAY,
May 10, 1991, commencing at 2:30 pm, at their Baler Booms, No. 8, Dei Vaux Boad, Corner of Ice House Street,
TEAKWOOD AND BLACKFOOD FURNI TURE, BRASS AND TEAKWOOD TWIN
BEDSTEADS, CARPETS,
-La-Ley
comprising:- Dining Suites, Mirror back Side board, Dining Table, Chairs, &c. Chesterfeld Sofas, Arin-chairs (row) Card and Occasional Tables. One Up- holstered Suite, Bedroom Furniture comprising Teakwood Twin Bedsteads, Large and small Wardrobes, Dressing Tables and Chairs, Washstands, .. Dinner Services, Crockery, and Glass Ware, Cooking Stove, Cutlery."
Hectric Reading Lamps, Screens, Sundry Blackwood Furniture Side Tables, Chaira, Cabinets, Pictures, &c.
Also
Several New Heavy Brass Bedsteads. (Fall Particulars from Catalogue). Toruz-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctionzuri.
Hongkong, May 4, 1921.
MUMEYA.
Japanese Photographerë, We have removed our Premises to
No. 384, Queen's Road, O.
Sitting hours from 9 s to 9 pm
Passport photos-finished.
in one hour.
It does not matter what you send to
DIAMOND'S
DYE WORKS -
dainty lace or heavy clothes they always come back looking as good as new.
GASSUM AHMED.
Branch
gton Street
Kowloom
European's Residence. Apply to Lux ETELY & Co., 202, Queen's Road Central,
PUROPEAN HOUSE, No. 7, Middle
Road, Kowloon, large and airy rooms, bathrooms. Apply :-Ya Kam Hing. Cio Mears. Johnson, Stoker & Master.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS,
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THE CHINA MAIL.
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
1 GENERAL ` MEETING of
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Members will be held in the pavilion of the Clab on TUESDAY, the 10th May,
an' EXTRAORDINARY MEET- 1921, at 5.30 pm: for the purpose of ING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the confirming the following resolutions HONGKONG ANDA Sṛlighat BANKING which were passed at an extraordinary CORPORATION will be held at the CITY general meeting of members held on HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, | the 14th day of April, 1921.
the 28th day of May, 1921, at NOON, 1. That the present Hongkong for the purpose of considering and if
Griekst. Chub” be wound up, aả the Committee be authorised to thought it of passing the following take all necessary steps for the resolutions > purpose.
That the Committee be authorised to register à Company limited by guarantee not exceeding $100 per member, on the terms of the Memorandum and Articles of Association which will be submit- tod to the Meeting.
3. That the Committee be authorised
to sign and hand ovar to the i
K
new Company, when registered all the assets of the Clüb.
By Order of the Committes.
L. S. GREENHILL,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, May 2, 1921.
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM ASSO-
CIATION OF HONGKONG..
NOTICE
THE FOURTH ORDINARY "AN- NUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Constitutional Reform Association of Hongkong will be held in the old. Chamber of Commerce Room, City Hall,
WEDNESDAY, 11th day of May, 1921, at 6.15 pm, for the following purposes-
To receive the Report of the. Com- mittes and Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1990.
To consider the following real-
DARTICULARS and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 9th day of May, 1921, at 3 pm, at the Osets of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excelency the Governor of One Lot of CROWN LAND stier Coronation Road Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 15 years, with the option of renewal at a Crowa Bent to be fired by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one feriber term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Foasdary
G,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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PARTICULARS and Conditions of the
letting by Pablic Auction Sal, to
(1) That all the non-Chinese members
of the Legislative Council be alected.
e) That a larger electoral body, be, adopted in the case of all such non-Chinese members with the exception of the Representative, of the Hongfang treneral Chamber of Commence.
(3) That there be an Unofficial majority. m the Legislative Council with such safeguards ás are provided in the Constitation of Ceylon.
THE PRACE TREATY.
▲ SOLDIER'S VIEWS.
"SORRIEST: OF SEQUEĖS TO VICTORY."
Fatal Versailles! Not a line-not one line in your Treaty to show that those boys had been any better than for the kindness of England; not one the Emperors: not one Kine to stand word to bring back some memory of the generosity of her sons-----
One beautiful gesture might have lifted this civilization on to a higher plane and have given it a fresh lease of life the gesture familiar to every Public schoolboy in England of the victor holding out his hand.”
1. That the Directare of the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation be and they are hereby requested
--General Sir Ian Hamilton. and authorised by sed on baba?F of the shareholders of the Cam General Sir Ian Hamilton, the famous pany to take the steps necessary general and man of letters, has taken far the introduction of an Ordin-a remarkable occasion in which to ance into the Legislative Counerebake the Diplomats for the Treaty of the Colony of Hongkong and of Versailles, and the striking words for the enactment of the same by quoted above are from his rebuke. the Governor of Hongkong with | The article from which they are the advice and consent of the taken appeared in a fine John Keets Legislative Council thereof to effect Memorial Volume, which Mr. John the amendment necessary to the Lane has just published. He takes Ordfelances under whick the Come two lines from Keats, and uses them pany is incorporated and carrying with tremendous effect in this way: on business so as to allow of the
Beauty is truth, truth beauty-that apital of the Company being
Is all from time to time increased from 20 millions of dollars the present authorised capital of the Company to 50 millions of dollars. That the Capital of the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation "be forthwith increased from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 by the creation of 40,000 New Shares of $125 each to be issued at the price of $70 on the terms after mentioned. Shareholders on the Eastern Registers to pay for their allotments at the rate of exchangé for the Company's demand Bills on Loudon on the day on which the instalments are due.
2.
3.
(4) That a petition be sent to the House of Commons seking for the support of the Members in securing the above change in the Legislative. Copingil.
To elect the Officers and Committee for the ensuing year.
By Order of the Committee,
+
L.M. WHYTE,
Hon. Seerstary.
Hongkong, May 7, 1921.
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CANTON, LIMITED.
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Ye know on earth and all ye`nced).
to know.
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OUR YOUTH AND AN IDEA. Never, since Peter the Hermit preached, has our youth been so swept off its feet by an idea, says Sir Ian. Already the story seems too incredible to be put into words-the story that all eyes in those armies of 1914 were opened for awhile, to Keats's Principle of Beauty.
The angel which beckoned to those boys who are dead was one whose visage was most beautiful" "The whole sky had opened, and they saw her clearly. To each she showed something which made appeal to what best within himself.
That the said New Shares be in the first instance, in such manner as the Directors shall prescribe for that purpose, offered to share- I know that we strayed awhile bolders in the proportion of one after the mere simulacre of beauty; New Share for every thres shares that "Ambition, pale of-cheek, and of which on the 28th day of May, ever watchful," may at that very 1921, Stareholders shall respect time have been climbing on to the tively be the registered Holder, bridge of our ship of State; that it and that any "NOW SELFIE not | was Adventure. with glowing band“ accepted by Shareholders within | which cast the fron dice when cold the time limited by the Directors Science should have set our steady for that purpose be disposed of course; that Glory, Romance, and a sed allotted by the Directors in desire to be worthy of a woman's such manner and at such price sa love had charmed vast numbers of in their discretion they shall think
That the payment of the sum of £10 per share for each of the said New Shares be made follows, Tiz
on the
1st instalment of £35 1st of July, 1921. 2nd and 6nal instalment of 445 on the 1st day of October, 1921:
M
be held on MONDAY, the 9th day of ] UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF That the Directors issue to Share, world; Hope of striking at the
May, 1921, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Pablic Works Department, by Orcer of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Lagard Road Extension in the Colony of Hongkong. for term of 5 years, with the option of renewal at a Crows Rent to be fired by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King. for one further term of 75 yea
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Registry
and xtee
locality:
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As per sale! pizz
St. John's Cathedral
MONDAY, May 9th,
at 9.15 p.m.
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AERATED WATER MACHINE
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the 48th ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at its Head Office, Nos. 3 and 4. Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, May 27th, 1921, at Noon, for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of the Directora together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1920, ard of declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 14th May to 27th May, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
General Manager. Hongkong, May 5, 1921
BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 55th ORDINARY YEARLY. MEETING of the Company will be held
at its Head Office, Noa. 8 and 4, Queen's Bindings Hongkong on FRIDAY, May 27th, 1921, at 12.30 PM, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1920, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
6.
holders, holding shares less than or not a multiple of three, a frag tional certificate in respect of each share less than three or in excess of a multiple of three and allot oce New Share to every person who shall produce three sach Fractional Certificates on or before the 1st day of July, 1921, and pay the first instalment in respect
beat in the interests of the Com-w to sail, spellbound, over the
perilous seas." I know, too who better?-hom many have emptied their veins into the Aegean so that the White Ensign might float over the Golden Horn and yet it is God's own truth that we turned to no vala imaginings when the struggle grew desperate and stark. These had been but Ministers leading us towards. Hope. In that darkest hour Hope upheld us in her arms: Hope of a better
roots of war by some unheard- of set of magnanimity: Hope that the patrons of the War theare might, from their dress circle seats, learn to understand the tortured minds of their Generals, tortured bodies of their men; might use their moment of omnipotence when we won
for them-to stop, these miseries for ever by sowing, far and wide, visions, ideas of beauty which never but for That after payment of the instalour bright swords could be sawIL-
ment, and pending payment of the remaining instalment, Scrip Certificates in such for as the Directors may determine be issued in respect of such New Shares entithng the holders en payment of the remaining instalment, and tabject to such other, terms as to approval, date for lodging scrip certificates and otherwise as the Directors may prescribe, to being them some respite from their registered as the owner of the shares respectively represented such Scrip Certificates.
thereof.
THE BLACK HEAVENS.
Hope was our lodestar: Hope which, with all its uncompromising effectual strength, is yet, above all a thing of beauty.
-
Who has quenched that new star of Bethelehem which stili throughout the war went before the fighters giv-
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It is more than that. It has all the appearance of leather but it is better in every way: wears better and is in- pervious to stains or grease.
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pain? Why is it that peace has sud-there was blood upon it; it was THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,- denly made the vaulted heavens sa clean--there was not a weed on it, black as the socket from which some
by
Send has torn the aye? What have
DANCING DIPLOMATS,
LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that"
So we dreamed of a harvest of 7. That interest at the rate of per we done with those gems of beautybeauty. But while, men slept the the THIRTY SECOND ORDINARY cent. per annum be allowed out Keats bequeathed to us still pulsatma | enemy cams and sowed tares among GENERAL- MEETING will be held of the profits of the Company on with his divipe fire? instalments paid in advance of the
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the 8 Company will be CLOSED from 14th May to the 27th May, both days inclaire.
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
General Manage Hongkong, May 5, 1921.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERÀ.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 52nd ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be beld at ita Head Office, Noa: 3" and 4, Queen's Buildings on FRIDAY, May 27th, 1821, at 12.45 PM for the par poss of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to S1st December 1920, and of declaring Dividends, ete.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 14th Key to 27th May, both days haciufvO“ Order of the Board, ... →
MONTAGUE EDE
Gezeral Manager
FLAGELSE LOWOPL. Hongkong May-65-1921.
them
The wheat and went his way." While the Company's Offices,
St
dates when the same become due, That star went west with our tre diplomats danced with their George's Building on SATURDAY, and that registered holder of heroes: the machine-guns scythed pists the Devil war working with a 21st May, 1921, et 11.30 am for Scrip Certificates for New Shares them down; amidst the mists of will. So to-day, when winter is here, the purpose of presenting the Report be entitled in respect of such New death they disappeared; they bowed, we turn to our granaries and find of the Directors together with a State- Shares to participate in future they fell down, and with
1921, and electing Directors and dividends on an equality with the saak their Star. The names of good seed still, thank God, but mixed ment of Accounts to 28th February,
with the tares of hatred. old shares, in proportion to the those who followed it are grow Versailles, sorriest of sequels to a Auditor. The Transfer Books of the instalments paid up, and from dae ing dark: politicians had the writing victory won by young enthusiasts Company will be closed front, the 14th dates for payment of same. of their epitaphs and dead men have over evil traditions, over ugliness; to the 21st May, 1921, both days- That interest at the rate of 8 per no votes.
over the Emperors who had ridden inclusive. When the Sun of Victory rose rough-shod for so many year over centum per annum be charged on cach instalment not punctually over the field of Armageddon we Europe. paid, and be paid with each such dreamed of a harvest of beauty.
Here comes in the words quoted at instalment.
That field had lain fallow for four the head of this article,
By order of the Board of Directors,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO LTD.,
Agents
9. That all moneys received from long years bedewed with the tears ⠀⠀ A defeated enemy comes up to re
premium on the mid New Shares of a generation, ploughed and har ceive sentence, continues Sir Ian Hongkong, May 4, 1921 be added to the Sterling Reserve rowed without ceasing by the fron He might have been told, Our travest Fund. 10" 4-
FOR THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION, A. G. STEPHEN,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, April 28, 1921.
MARTIN'S
APIOLASZ
Bright eyes and
a rosy akin
implements of war. The soft bosom and best died to make the world a of Mother Earth had been wounded thing of beauty, so now in menors with hundreds, thousands, millions of their deeds and of their wah, let of cruel furrows; the tiith was rich us be friends. Take back your gold; keep your lands; we want from you no blood money, only that you repair. the wanton havoc you have wrought and so help us to realise the valan for which our young soldiers and your. young soldiers also went out to WEEK Could these three-mes of the of Central Striking Force come to life again how they would see that their care banners have been dragged through ische, the dirt; that instead of being a ensure thing of beauty which will never ht pass into nothingness," the peace built upon their sacrifice has been Tiny
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