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MONDAY, APRIL 23 1823.
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONGKONG HIDE & LEATHER CO., LTD. Вторую
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
FIRST. ORDINARY GEN. ERAL MEETING ; bo beld at the Company's Office, 67/69, Dos Vooux Road Central, an MONDAY, 30th April, 1928, 4 12 Noon, for the pur pose of presenting the Raport of the Directors and Auditors together with Statement of Account to 31st
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
15 WORDS 9 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID, Every additional word & Cente
-for: insertions.
TO LET,
Decambor, 1922, and electing Directors To LET-Two Airy Office Reoras
and Auditora.
on top floor of 6, Queen's Road
Co., Ltd,
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FÅR AND
NEAR...
A capital levy has been decided upon by the Greek Government..
THE CHINA MAIL.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
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RUBBER DIVIDENDS.
LONDOS, April gisi. Improved Quanc] resul are disclosed in the report of the Amalgarasted Rubber Estates, showing pelit last year of The first addition of the Kilmar£41,000 compared win £19,000 in 1921. nock edition of Buras poems The report proposes a 91 per cent fetched £600 at Sotheby's. An dividend on acepunt of last year, making the year's didend 74 per cent also Edinburgh man was the buyer.
a per cent, dividend on account of the
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Central. Apply to Gande, Price &ialy from Germany as reparations
Company will be CLOSED from 23rd
to the 30th April, 1923, both daya inclusive.
By Order of the Rosid,
E. FEPPERELL,
Hongkong, April 16, 1923,
Acting Secretary
HONGKONG HIDE & LEATHER COMPANY, LIMITED.
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NOTICE
IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GEN- ERAL MEETING of the above at the Company will be held Registered Office of the Company Stephen's Building, 67 and 69 Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 30th day af APRIL, 1923, when the subjoined resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolu- tions, namely -* ̧.
A-That-51,656 of the unissued shares of $10 be divided into 129,140 shares of $4 each.
B-That the capital of the Com- pany be divided into two classes of sharts namely 48,344 ordinary "A" shares of $10 each and 129,140 ordinary "B" shares of $4 each and that the provisions following in regard thereto have effect, that is to say!--
(1) The ordinary "A" sharce aforesaid
shall be those shares which are nambored 1 to 48,343 inclusive and gae additional $10 share which if and when issued shall be num- berod 48,344.
TO LET.-One European flat in Lee Building" Wanchai Gap Road. Apply to No 32 Kennedy
Road.
TO LET.-Seven-roomed detached
house with tennis lawn and garage for two cars. Apply to PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING.
FOR SALE.
near
FOR SALE "Ibach" upright Piano. $400 or offer. Apply P. O. Box 259.
FRENCH LESSONS
G. MOUSSION
16, Morrison Hill Road,
INTIMATIONS.
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS..
THE FORTY SECOND ORDINARY
Twenty drills have arrived in
and will be used to prospect for. oil in the south of Italy.
After eating from atin supposed to have contained cocoa, and sugar a Mountain Ash, South Wales, schoolboy, William John Acteson, became ill and died."
Mr. William Alexander Sither- land, a septuagenarian retired from: the postal service, and now in Calcutta, intends proceeding to England to claim the barony of Duffus, extinct in 1876.
·
Lady Mercy Greville, the 19-
years-old daughter of the Countess of Warwick, is to take up a stage career, and interviewed a West; End manager with a view to a part in a coming production.
The War Office acknowledges the receipt of £z sent anonymously by an ex-soldier as restitution money for part of kit sold while on active service in Belgium as a private in the R.A.O.C.
It was stated at Oldham that Ronald Greenhouse, 2, of Back Spense-street, Royton, was fatally burned while his grandmother was in the next house borrowing zd. to go to a spiritualist meeting..
Bernard Dillon, 33. ex-jockey,
Because a filly, Scheherazade, took fright at a kinema operator at GENERAL MEETING of Share Maisons Laffitte 'racecourse and in- holders will be held at the Offices of jured herself so that she had to be the undersigned on THURSDAY, the destroyed, Baron Maurice de Roth 10th May, 1924, at Noon, for the purschild has brought a suit for £2,400 (4) The ordinary "B" shares aforesaid pose of receiving the Raport of the damages.
shall be those unissued shares of General Agents, together with a 34 each which will, when issued be atatomout of Accounts for the year numbered 48,345 to 177,185 in-ended the 31st December, 1922.
The SHARE REGISTER AND TRANSFER BOOKS will be closed from the 26th instant to the 10th May, 1923, both days inclusivo, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
General Agents. Hongkong, May 19,-1923:
clusive,
(3) The said ordinary "B" abares shall as from the date or dates of isane fully paid rank equally with the said ordinary "A" shareans regarde dividend transmissibility ference of rights to vote and listribution of assets in the event of winding up.
Con.
(4) If the Company shall ho wound up
Ibe surplus asgate shall be distri hated as nearly as may be among the members in proportion to the number of shares held by them at the commencement of the winding up. But this clause is to bo with out prejudice to the rights of the boller of sbaros issued pon special teams and conditions. C-That the Articles of Associa tion be amended by the deletion of clauses 107 and 126 thereof,
Should the Resolutions be passed by the required: majority they will be submitted for Confirmation as Special Resolutions, to a second Extraordinary General Meeting, which will be subsequently con- vened.
By. Order of the Board,
E. PEPPERELL, '-
Secretary, Hongkong, April 21, 1923.
MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS
WANTED.
[ESSRS. DEACON, HARSTON & Road Central, Solicitors, have for investment the sum of $300,000, and are prepared to consider applications for the advancement of the same on first class Mortgages of house. property.
~ - Hongkong, April 19, 1923.
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE
OP
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY .registered as
INLAND Lot No. 1750 Together with
the messunge thereon known as No. 184 Macdonnell Road to be sold
by order of the Voador by
PUBLIC AUCTION
on
THURSDAY
the 3rd day of May, 1923, at 3 p.m.
by
Moser LAMMERT BROTHERS
at their Office, Daddell Streat.
The property consists of
All that pleca or parcel of ground sitopte at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 1759 together with the messunge oreotions and build ings thereon known as No. 18A Aiacdonnell Road beld for the residub of the teria of 75 years from the 20th March 1901. renewable for a further torth of 75 years created by the Crowa Lease thereof..
Area: 6850 sq. ft. or thereabouts Crown Rent: $40.00, Particulars and conditions may bo bad from
Mesure LO and LO,
Alexandrs Building.
Auctiogoare.
Marz, LAMMERST- Bougkong, April 14, 192s;
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who
denied assaulting Miss Blanche Myers, with whom he said he had been living, was sentenced. to a month's hard labour at Marl- borough-stract Police Court. Notice of appeal was given.
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Major-General Sir William B. Leishman Director of Pathology, Army Medical Services, has been appointed Director-General Anny' Medical Services, in succession to Lt.-General Sir T. H. John C. Goodwin, with effect from July 29 next.
Residents of Ham and Telling- ton, on opposite banks of the Thames, are petitioning the Surrey and Middlesex County Council's for a road bridge at Teddington Lock. The only existing means of crossing is by rowing boats, the
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No. 80, Wellington Street.
SWAY HOUSE
age,
against 56 the second reading of a' Bill which prohibits public houses from selling intoxicating liquor for consumption, on the promises to persons under eighteen years of The second reading was moved by Lady Astor. It is the first time that a woman has piloted legislation in the British Parlia- ment. The Billia a private one and the voting was on non-party lines.
The House of Commons has passed by 169 votes against 35 the second reading of a Bill for the prevention of cruelty to perform- ing animals. The Bill, which has been framed in accordance with the recommendations of the Select Committee, provides for the registration of all persons training animals for exhibition, prohibits performances by chimpanzees and anthropoid apes, and renders use of certain illegal the mechanical and other appliances in conjuring tricks.
ourrent year.
U.S. TO ENTER COURT OF 'INTER-- NATIONAL JUSTICE
WAMINOTON, April 21st. President Harding's proposal to enter the Court of International Justice has en unreservedly endorsed by the House
of Representativës,
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CHINA, JAPAN AND AMERICA.
PERING, April 22.
Yesterday, the Union of Chinese Chambers of Commerce passed a resolution asking the Government to cancel the Sino-Japanese wire- Jess contract, but to carry out the American wireless contract. They also urged the Government to yield entirely in the Coltmún caso, in order to restore friendly relations with Amorica.
TITLES FOR CHINESE GENERALS.
:
PEKING, April 21.
A mandate issued last night made numerous Kwangtung appointments and gave titles, to various generals, all of whom are either followers of General Chen Ching-ming or the former Inspector-General Lung Chi-kuang, or have hitherto been neutral in the present struggle.
It is evident that the object is to win them over to General Slien Hung-ying's side.
CHINESE OFFICIALS' SALARIES,
PERING, April 21.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS,
April 23-Coronet Theatre Douglas Fairbanks in "The Nut April 23-World Theatre Eugene O'Brien in "A Fool and His Money," "M
April 24-Star Theatre; at 5:30 The House of Whispers; at pm. 9.15 p.m. Intolerance."
May 7.-Concert at Government House in aid of welfare work 9.15 p.in.
SPORTING EVENTS. April 23. Challenge round of Open Championship Singles; H.K.C.C. T.T. at 4.30 p.a.
April 24.-H.K.C.C. T. T. Mixed Doubles, semi-final.
April 25: HK.C.C. T. T Challenge round of open-Cham- pionship doables:
April 25-Inter-School sports at Happy Valley,
April 26-H.K.C.C. T.T. Handi- cap Doubles, final.
April 27. H.K.C.C. T.T. Mixed Doubles, final..
T. T.
April 28.-H.K.C.C. Challenge Round Open Champion-| ship Doubles.
May 5-Second Gymkhana at Happy Valley.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
April 24. Lammert Bros., a quantity of miscellaneous goods at the Hon Shan godown, at Kennedy Town, 10.30 a.m.,
April 24 Lammert Bros valuable household furniture, No. 8, Man Cheong-fong Terrace (Happy Valley) tamm
April 27-Lammert Bros, at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, a valuable collection of postage stamps, at 5.15 p.m..
April 30,--Lammert Bros., at their Sales Room, the wreck of the s.s. "Nichiren Maru," at noon.
April 30-Lammert Bros., at No. 20, Chamberlain Road, Peak, valu-
Following: the rumoured largeable household furniture belonging opium monopoly loan, which has been since denied, there comes a rumour regarding a large loan by the Consortium which is now also denied.
It is suggested that the reporte were spread in order to give the idea to those who are much behind in their salaries that ample funds will be shortly forthcoming, whereas the real fact is that the financial diffi- culties of the Government are con- tinually increasing.
It is understood that nothing has yet been forwarded to the Ministers in Europe, whose pay is now eleven months in arrears. `-,
REMAINS OF PRINCE
KITASHIRAKAWA..
PARIS, April 21.. The remains of Prince Kitashira- kawi have been removed frota the Japanese Embassy to the lure de Lyon, whence they will be sent to Marseilles.
Among the prominent Japanese present were the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires at Paris, the Japanese Ambassadors to London and Ber lin, Japanese anlitary attaches and Colonel Oto, deceased's Aido-de- Comp.
The coffin was draped in white, and placed on a railway coach lined with white hangings. The magni- ficent wreaths included tributes from the Prefect of Eure, and the Mayor of Bernay, where the Prince was killed.
Japanese officers will mount gnard over the coffin until it is placed aboard the "Katori Maru." M. D. Matanda (Embassy Conncillor in Paris and Baron Hayashi will ae- company the remains to Japan.
U.S. COASTAL SHIPPING LAW.
WASHINGTON, April 21,
It is learned from the White House that the extension of the Coastwise Shipping Laws to the Philippines, as recently recom- monded by shipbuilders and ship- owners is not immediately contem- plated by the Government, as Pre- sident Harding eces no reason for such a step under the present cir constances.
When a young ex-soldier in the Australian Imperial Forces was charged at Thames Police Court with the unlawful possession of several articles, a gentleman inter- ested in social work said that many 1 Boldiers who were Australian
to sent home returned seedear old London, where they had been treated with such lavish hospitality and over- whelming kindness, and became stranded.
With bated breath a group of people watched a Canadian youth trying to enterthe United States by traversing, like a tight-rope walker, the narrow girder beneath the cantilever bridge, 150 feet above the rapids. The path was ten inches wide, and a mis-step would have The wedding at St. Fuls. meant a plunge to death Several Church, Sale, Cheshire, of Miss times the boy almost ran in his Marion Truelove, aged 19, and cagerness to gain his objective and Golonel Gibert Ward Johnson, the crowd sighed with relief when aged 56 followed a race against his foot touched the abutment on the clock to London and back to the American side. He had rectify a mistake in the special previously been barred entrance to licence. The parish had been the United States because he was described as St. Anne's instead of unable to pay the night dollarsSt. Paul's, and Colonel Johnso head tax. Sad to relate, when he hurried to London to get it altered."
officials seized him and marched hira back to Canada
·Time
bled the cerem
to Mr. E. Howard, at 2.45 p.m.
May 3-Lammert Bros., valuable: household property, known as 13. Macdonell-Road at Auctioneers' Office, 3 p.m. -
COMPANY MEETINGS, April 28.-Ordinary yearly meeting of shareholders of thei Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd., at the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, ati 1.30 a.m., and the twenty-eighth ordinary general meeting of share- holders of the Shanghai Hotel Ltd., at same place, at noon.
April 30-First general meeting of the Hongkong Hide and Leather Co., Ltd. at 67-69, Des Voeux Road, Central, at 12 noon.
May 3-Extraordinary general meeting of the Hongkong Central Estate Ltd., at the offices of McSSTS Jarding, Matheson and Co., Ltd.,! Pedder Street, at noon.
May 3-Extraordinary general meeting of the Hongkong Land Investment anc Agency Company Limited at the offices of Messrs Jardine Matheson Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, at 11.30_a,m......
May 10. Forty-second ordinary general meeting of the Canton In- surance. Office, Ltd. at Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Co., Ltd., at
noon,
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Think of the germa, dust,
and other dangerous matter which garments gather when wom, Our hygienical
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