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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6 1923.
INTIMATIONS
THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Tr TOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING COM- 'PANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Registered. Office of the Company, No. 5, Queen's Road Central, Vic- bonis, Hongkong at Noon on the 18th day of December, 1923, when the sub-joined resolution will be proposed as an Extraordinary Ra solution that is to say -
"That the Company be wound up velun tarily."
AND NOTICE 18 ALSO MEREBY GIVEN that a further Extraordinary General Meeting of The Company will be held at the same timo and place on the 4th day of January, 1924, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the pro- ceedings at the above mentioned meeting and of confirming it thought fit as a Special Resolution the above mentioned Resolation.
A further Resolution will be pro- posed at the second meeting for the appointment of a Liquidator or Liquidators for the purposes of suchi winding up and fixing his or their remuneration.
I. 8. GREENHILL,
Acting Secretary to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.,
General Agents for
THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILD- ING CO., LTD.
Hongkong, November 30, 1923.
THE CRINA LIGHT & POWER CO, (1918), LTD.
THE FIFTH ORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING of Shareholders will be held at the offices of the Company. St. George's Building. Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 20th December, 1923, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the pur pose of receiving a statement of report of the accounts and the General Managers for the year ended 30th September, 1923, and electing aConsulting Committee and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Com. pany will be closed from FRIDAY. the 7th December. 1923, unti THURSDAY, the 20th December, 1923, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 30th November, 1923.
THE HONGKONG TUG AND LIGHTER' CO., LTD.
NOTICE OF CALL.
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Issue of 100,000 Shares of the Nominal Value of $10, each ($1.25 paid up)
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
No
that the 2nd Call of $2.75 per share on each of the 100,000 shares allotted on the 5th day of Septem- bor 1923, has been made by the Company and that suck Call will be payable to the Company's Bankers, THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA- TION, in Hongkong on 4th January 1924.
SHEWAN, TOMES & 00,
General Managore. Hongkong, la December, 1923.
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE. HONGKONG.
THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR will begin on MONDAY, December 10th. An Entrance Ex- amination will be held on that day at 9 am. For prospectus and Terms apply to
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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
ANEXTRAORDINARY GENERAL A MEETING of the Club will be held in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Company, Lim- ited on WEDNESDAY, the 12th December 1923, at 5.15 p.m. immedi. ately after the half yearly meeting,
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When 41 mon were fined at Liverpool for playing" pitch and toss," it was stated that some were identified by plain clothes police- men who gambled with them.
To provide work during the win- ter for unemployed, Nottingham Corporation passed additional provements at a cost of £287,000.
For the purpose of proposing the and on the Now Road contouring hillside Auswers to the name of "SIN." schemes for road and other imi
following resolutions as extraordia ary resolutions:-
(1) That the Rules of Racing made by the Hongkong Jockey Club be amended by adding after Rule No, 11 the following Rule: 11a. A Chira pony is a horse measuring 13 hands 3 in- ches and under.
(2) That the said Rules of Racing be amended by striking out Rule No.77 and substituting the fol Jowing:T
77. The weight for China Pontes
according to the term "weight for inches as per scale" shall be 140 pounds for 12 hands with an ad- ditional 3 pounds for every complete inch above that height. Fractions of an inch to count in favour of the pony. Any China Pony which measures over 13 hands 3 inches "dead" to be ineligible to compete in any race reserved for Chins Ponics.
77a. The Stewards must refuse to enter any Pony which in their opinion is not a Chine Pony, but their decision must be supported by a
board of 5 Members any or all of whom may be Stew. ards. The decision of the board shall be final. Should the above Rule No. 77 be passed, it is resolved that the same shall not apply to Ponies. which have run in Official races in Hongkong and/or in Gym. khanas in Hongkong up to and including the 1st of December 1923.
3) That Rule No 34 of the Rules and Regulations of the Hong kong Jockey Club be expunged. (4) That Rule No. 76 of the Rules of Racing made by the Hong. kong Jockey Club be expunged. Hongkong, 4th December, 1923.
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SUBSCRIBERS are hereby notified that the Sixth Drawing of the Third Year Loan ($2,750,000) will be held, as announced by the Loan Bureau of the Ministry of Finance. in Peking on 1st December, and that payment of Bonds then drawn will begin on the 31st of that montb.
The Nineteenth. Interest Coupon on this Loan will likewise be paid on
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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
HE Half-Yearly General Meeting THE
of Members will be held on WEDNESDAY, 12th December 1923 at 5 p.m. In the Board Room Memos Jardnie Mathéidh and Co.
By Order
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At an inquest at Dartford, Kent, on William James Wallis, a horse slaughterer, who died from arithrax, it was stated that it had not been possible to locate the source of in- fection.
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The Isle of Sheppey will be linked up with the mainland of Kent by a new bridge after being partially cut off since last Decem- ber, when a steamer destroyed the main buttress of the old bridge.
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In the London and Middlesex Rifle Association's rifle contest at the Bisley ranges, the best score was made by Mr. Norman Arkell, who made 101 out of a possible 105. Mr. W. J. Alexander was next with 97.
During a procession in Cork in commemoration of the death of Terence McSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, who died in Brixton Gaol while hunger-striking, stones were thrown at the police, who fired over. the beads of the crowd.
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In celebration of "America's "Navy Day" members of the American colony in London visited Nelson's tomb at St Paul's Cathe dral to witness the placing ofà wreath on the tomb by the Nával Attaché to the American Embassy. (Captain G. L. Hussey)
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