THURSDAY MAY 17, 1628
INTIMATIONS...
HONGKONG HIDE & LEATHER
CO. LTD.
·ATÓTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
NOTION IS GIVENGEN
ERAL MEETING of HONGKONG HIDE & LEATHER CO., LTD., will be held at 67/69 Des Vooux Road Central, Vio- torin, in the Colony of Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 30rit DAY OF MAY, 1923, at 12 Noon, when the sub- joined Ronolutions which were passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company hold on the 14th day confrmation as a Special Resolution, of -May, 1923, will be submitted for namely:
4.That 51,856 of the uniasuod sfinres of $10. be divided Jato 130,110 shares of $1.- enok.
B-Thut the Capital of the Company be divided into two classes of ebaren namely 18,314 ordinary "A" shares of $10, each and 149,140 onlinary "B" shares of 44. cath and that the provisions thereto have effect, that is to say;— (1) The ordinary "A" abaros.afore- said shall be those shares which aro numbered I to 48,343 in clusive and one additional $10. sharo which if and when issued shall be numbered 48,344. (2) The ordinary "B" sharia aforo. said shall be those unised
sharos of 81. cach which will, when issued honurabered 48,315 to 177,485 inclusiva. (3) The said ordinary "B" shares
aball as from the date or dator of issus fully paid muuk equally with the said ordinary "A" abares as regarde dividend transmissibility conference of rights to vote and distribution of assets in the evant of wind. ing up.
(4) If the Company shall be wound up the surplus assets shall be distributed as nearly as may be among the members in pro- portion to the number of shares held by them at the cominence- ment of the winding up. Bat this clauro is to be without pre- juice to the rights of the holdora of shares inued pon special terms and conditions. O-That the Articles of Association de amandled by the deletion of clausES 107 and 126 thereof. D-To consider tho election of and to elect futher Dircator or Directors.
By Order of the Board,
E. PEPPERELL,
Acting Secretary.
Hongkong, May 15, 1923.
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE THIRD GYMKHANA is
fixed for SATURDAY, June 2nd- 1923, Draft Programmes and Entry Forms may be obtained from the Race Course, Hongkong Club. and Cause- way Bay Stables.
Entries close Saturday, 19th May, 1923,
Hongkong, May 12, 1023,
HONGKONG RADIO SOCIETY.
A MEETING of members of the
others above Society, and interested, will be held at the
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INTIMATIONS.
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY the 23rd May, 1925 at 11.00 & st. for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statamant of Accounts for the year ending 30th April 1923.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from FRIDAY the 18th day of May to THURSDAY the 24th day of May 1923, both days:
inclusivo.
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers, Hongkong, May 15, 1923,
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
FIFTIETH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at ita Head Ofice, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong on FRIDAY, 28th May, 1923, at NOON for the pur- pose of receiving the Boport of the Directors and the Statomsats of Account to 31st December, 1922, and of declaring Dividends, oto.
Tho TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 11th May to-20th May, both days inclusive. By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER, Acting General Manager Hongkong, May 4, 1923,
BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
HEADQUARTERS on NOTICE
L
THURSDAY, May 17th, at 5.30 p.m. Nthe FIFTY-SEVENTH OR for the purpose of discussing the DINARY YEARLY. MEETING of the future of radio communication in Company will be held at its Head Hongkong.
Offic, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong ou FRIDAY, 25th May, 1923, at 12.15 p.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the State- mente of Account to 31st December 1922, and of declaring Dividenda, etc.
The Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, C.M.G. C.B.E., acting Colonial Secretary, will attend and speak on Government policy.
All interested in the subject are cordially invited to be present.
D. TOLLAN,
Hon. Secretary,
Hongkong, May 14, 1923.
THE HOLLAND PACIFIC/TRADING
COMPANY, LIMITED.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from lith May to 25th May, both days inclusivo,
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDEB, Acting General Manager. Hongkong, May 4, 1923.
TAKE NOTICE that JAN HENDRIK THE CHINA PIRE INSURANCE
VAN GENNEP LUHRg has resigned from the office of Managing Director of the HOLLAND PACIFIC TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED,---
Dated this 16th day of May 1923. By Order of
THE HOLLAND PACIFIO TRADING
COMPANY, LIMITEDÁV WILKINSON & GRIST,
Solicitors: Hongkong, May 16, 1923.
Cuticura Is The Best Beauty Doctor
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that FIFTY-FOURTH OR- the DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be bold, at its flead Office, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong on FRIDAY, 25th May, 1928, at 12:20. p.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the State ments of Account to Sist December," 1993, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
Tho TRANSFEE BOOKS of the Company will bo CLOSED from 11th May to 25th May, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
BAUL LAUDER Acting General Manager.
Hongkong, May 4, 1923,
THE KWONG KWUI CO,
PHOTO SUPPLIES.
60. Queen's Road Central,'-
Telephone No. 2170.
Walss. landing (on sale.
MAIL WEEK NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND
NEAR
THE CHINA MAIL.
Following favourable reports by experts, boring for gold is to start at Pumpsaint, near Lampeter, Carmarthen,
On the question of the taxation of The Orient liner"Ommuz, which betting, it has been pointed out that was to have sailed from Tilbury for Australia raises annually some-Australia with 700 passengers, was: thing like £700,000 by this means, held up for an hour and a half by and in South Africa bookmakers a strike due to a proposed wage and totalisators contributed to the reduction, which was deferred
until after the present voyage.
revenue.
The King and Queen paid a pri vate visit to the Laverstoke mill, where paper for bank notes is Thely: Majesties manufactured. Fourteen passengers, with toured the building and inspected wireless operator, were in a big designs of notes made during the Handley-Page aeroplane which,
past 200 years. left London for Paris...
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While repairing the shaft at the A Pit, Bedlington, Northumberland, Emest French was knocked 20 fathome to the bottom of the shaft and killed outright by a dislodged stone. Some years ago French's brother was killed hi the same shaft.
:
The question of refloating the The King and Queen paid an Damage to the amount of several thousands of pounds has been informal visit to Eton College. British cruiser "Raleigh," which caused by an outbreak of fire in Their Majesties inspected the struck the rocks near Point Ainour, school, particularly the war Labrador, last August during a fog, the Cawnpore Flour Mills.
memorial, which contains the is to be revived. It is believed Lord Elphinstone has been ap-names of over 1,100 Old Elonians that the vessel has been moved by the pressure of the ice-pack, and pointed Lord High Commissioner who fell in the Great War..
that it may be possible to salve her. of the Church of Scotland in suc- cession to the Duke of Sutherland.
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Under agreement with Lloyd's underwriters, the Gothenburg sending the It is estimated that the tenancies Salvage Co. are of about 250,000 war-time allot- salvage ship "Frithiof" to the Bay ments will end owing to the expiry of Biscay with specially-designed of State control under the D.O.RA. apparatus to endeavour to recover regulations. Local councils have bullion and specie. last in the power to re-acquire the landcot im steamer "Egypt. The sal. age pre- mediately required for developmium is said to be 55 per cent on ment.
the amount recovered,
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Speaking at the horse-shoeing andshoemaking competition for the London and district championship, Mr. Cunninghame Grahame said he had been informed that the life of a: modern dray horse in the streets of London seldom extended past six months. If that were so, it was a horrible reflection.
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