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THE CHINA MAIL." HONGKONG DRAWS WITH SHANGHAI. INTERFORT SOCCER MATCH FINISHES AT 3-3 AFTER EXCITING PLAY.
SHANGHAI, February 5.
In the Interport Football match, Hongkong and Shanghai played to a draw, the score being 3.3. Play was exciting throughout despite the bad conditions. It was foggy and slippery. At half- time Hongkong were lerding by 2-0, one of the goals being accidentally scored by a Shanghai player,
At the resumption Shanghal evened. Hongkong then scored again, taking the lead at 3-4 Shanghai equalised, however, in the last minute.
The Hongkong goals were scored by Charlesworth and Begg and for Shanghai, Coulcher (2)
Reuter.
and Witschi (1)
THE COLONY'S REPRESENTATIVES.
Hongkong's team with the H.K.F.C. President and Mr. James, hon, secretary. To decide the championship there will probably be another match,
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CRICKET.
AMOY NEWS..
ACUTE. UNITED SERVICES AND THE WATER SUPPLY PROBLEM
H.K.C.C.
By a margin of 19 runs the United Services were leading on the first innings in the two-days cricket nuteh against the H.K.C.C., start!
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
AMOy, January 31. Ratepayer's meeting! This chanco
ed yesterday. The H.K.0.0. went of ventilating lent grievances was
GRUESOME
MURDER.
WOMAN'S USE OF HIRED ASSASSINS:
SEQUEL TO CHILD'S SALE.
An extraordinary story of the in first and knocked up 169, the accorded us yesterday. The electric underworld in the native city is United Services responding with light Co. of Shanghai, which has revealed by the arrest of two 188. Lieut. Conur, Jothan's D3 tried to supply this little island of men alleged to have murdered the was a feature of yesterday's play. Kalungau with light for 11 years, cool whose body was found near At the close of play the Club hd was last night rebaptised the Elec- the British Barracks some days added 79 runs at the expense of 4 tric Twilight Co., and never was ago, says the Peking and Tientsin wickets to their first innings total. any concern so heavily criticised. Times
A.K.C.O.
E. J. R. Mitchell, E, Wallace,
b Pomfret
R. E. A. Webster, b Pomfret... 10
48
G. R. More, c Purcell, b Fritz...
7
1,
Rev. Quick, e Williams, b Fritz.
H. Owen Hughes, e Gould, b
Wallace...
T. E. Pearce, e und b Fritz
G. R. Sayer, C. Hargravo,
Fritz
Rev. J. B. Powell, 1.b.w. Rough
A. L. Gree, e Wallace, b Pom-
Iret
L. B. Lammert, not out
L. B. Reed, Hargravo, b
Gould
Extras
Total ....
A committee of three was appointed The men were arrested as the to find means to remedy the present result of a paper discovered in the murdered man's clothing. This state of affairs.
paper connected him with a house The enormous inflow of well-to of ill-fame, and on it was the name do Chinese to this Island of safety, of one of the men who have been well outside the reach of greedy arrested, B.M.C. detectives-effect- 14 military oficials, has caused the ed the captures and the men are population to well nigh double stated to have made a sensational within a few years, and as confession,
32
We
M
4 seldom get any rain, the question of They state that the murdered A man, Tun Fu-chen, bad a daughter water supply is getting serions. committee of three was therefore
who was kidnapped by a woman,
31 elected red water experts, Hot Liu Chang-shih, and sold to a man
6
12
casy to find in this port to look into his grave matter.
On the fourth inst; we are send. ing to Swatow about fourteen of our to represent 160 young, hopeful men.
Bowling Analysis.
0. 21.
B.
W.
Forgmes
.10
A
20
0
Pomfret
0
33
a
Rough Fritz
10-
0 4]
13
0 130
41
Wallace
7' 0.24
'Gould
.5 0
2
UNITED SKRVJUES.
at Kirin. Tun demanded money
from the woman, and she, refusing
to give him any, asked the prison-
to do away with him.
He was pointed out to them, they say, and under the pretext of of all sorts. Although the majority taking him to see his daughter,
this ancient community in matches
of us are not very optimistic with they took him behind the British regard to the autels our team may Barracks, and stabbed him with a obtain from the matches, still we knife. The knife, one used fork il- nourish a hope, tlust in the farewell ling pigs, was found by the police dimmer at Swatow out team may in the house of one of the pri- keep up the traditions of our port
as good Chairpen, hard to door. We ato not fired at so often now
soners.
...
Tun was apparently not killed. outright, for an ice-cutter. has come forward and stated that he
Lt.Cdr. Jotham, b Reed when crossing the harbour at night, saw the man lying on the ground.
9.M.S. Fritz, st. Gace, b Reed. 15 Rev. Fthr. Purcell, c Webster,
b Lammert....
Lt. Sharpe, b Reed
Pay-Jt. Hargravo, st. Gace, b
Reed
Capt. William, a and b Reed.
00
****
Major Hattersley, Smith,
Webster
Pay. Lt. Wallace, not out
Surg.-Lt. Pomfret, b Reed
1
Lt. Gould, e and b. Reed
Matr.-Gunr. Rough, run out ..........
Extru
Rood
ing.
Total ...
Bowling Analysis.
0. M.
B
.183
which seems to indicate shortness
calling for help. Being frighten-
of ammunition among the local ed, however, the ice-cutter went
troops, who really seem to pay more back to his work. attention to junks loaded with fire-"
The woman has since been wood and to sampans with poor captured by the Tientsin City Singapore passengers von board,, Police, and all tures prisoners are collecting taxes from them with the now in the Yameu. A third man alleged to have assisted in the assistance of bayonets."
murder, is still being sought for..
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The 5-masted schooner "Shin- tai." of Shanghai, which has orna- mented the entrance to our harbour the last two months, being towed. down here from around Turnabout in distress by 8.5. "Kanóhow," left:
BANISHED GOLFER.
A LIFE SENTENCE:
here the other day for Portland. The Herald's Chicago representa; Oregon, in charge of a German, the tive telegraphs that Mr. Ivo A former pilot of Foochow, Captain Ficard, the wealthy Chicago, bond Arp, and assisted by his Trou na Stewardess.
0
1.
0
25. 0
paring itself for Chinese New
broker, has been exiled from the Lincoln Park golf courses because of his lack of golf etiquette.
100 89* Powell 10 1 45 Lammert. 4 0 20 Owen Hughes... 7 0 23 Quick wana, 8 0
I putting on the dismal appearance of near the first tee; and when a portly 0.8 030
Only a Japanese dos golfer topped his drive he laughed emptiness, second innings the
be lost his balanco, HE.C.C. had scored 70 for 4 (Mittroyer, the "Malau, looms up in loudly and swung so far round that chell 20; Lammert 11, Sayer: 23), the ironing ist, giving us a feel. The other golters did not see any. Powell (11) and More (1) went in ing of security in view of the tange thing funny in the accident, and to continue their innings this morn-practising soldiers enterprises on chased Picard into the arms of a the various landing places of Amoy policeman, who brought him before
the court
Magistrate Tabuy discharged London, February 4Mr New York February 5. It is Picard, but barred him for ever Henderson contests the by relec stated that the rebels have from the municipal courada, the tion at Burnley vacated by the evacuated Vera, Graz-Router police being intracted to arrest him death of the Labour Member-American Service,
it ever he appeared there again. Mr. Dan Irving. “Reuter,
Www Ficard dolemnly promised never New York Febraury Charles to go pear the courses again unless Washington February 5 Levermore, Secretary of the New, he was dragged there. announced that the Govern York Foace Society, has won the ment's special counsel will La stitute injunction proceedings to Bak peace prize. His plan suge prevent the further extraction of Rests that the United States participate in Labour's Leygues of
The harbour is now graduan Picard was sitting on a fence
all from the leased ungal offing on the conditions Intar alla
nds at Teapot Dome and
President that the motal force of public opinion shall be i substituted for the Coolldre signs the Walsh rest military and ecommend close lution-adopted by Congress on
resent moyed for in the
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WEDNESDAY, THERUA EY G. 1994, THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, of HONGKONG and SHANGHAL HOTELS, LTD. will be held at THE HONGHONG HOTEL, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of FEBRUARY, 1994, at 3:80 o'CLOCK in the AFTERNOON, when the gubjoined Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions —
(1) That "the authorised Capital of the Company (which is now $5,000,000 consisting of 500,000 Shares of the nominal value of $10 each whereof 975,000 have been issued) be increased from $5,000,000 consisting as aforesaid to $10,000,000 (con- sisting of 1,000,000 Shares of the nominal value of $10 each) by the creation of 500,000 additional Bhares of the nominal value of $10 each ranking (subject as boreinafter mentioned) as from date of allotment for dividend and in all other respects pari-passu with the Sharee constituting the Company's present issuoi capital.***
That in the first instance 375,000 Shares be offered at par (in the proportion of one Now Share for overy one Old Share held by them respectively) to the persons who on the date of the confirmation of this Resolution as a Special Resolution are registered in the Company's Sre Register as the holders of the 375,000 Old Sharea, and so that on acceptance of the offer, the nominal amount due in respect of such 375,000 New Shares shall be payable as to the Sum of $5 part thereof on acceptance of such offer and as to the balance thereof on the 30th day of June, 1024. And further that until such time as the said 370,000 New Shares shall be fully paid they shall eis-a-vis the said 375,000 Old Shares, rank for dividend only in proportion to the ratio borne by the amount, paid up thereon to the fuil nominal value (810) thereof, and that any of the said 375,000 New Shares which shall not be taken up by the Company's Shareholders in manner aforesaid be disposed of in such manber us the Company's Board of Directors shall, think fit."' (8) "That-such offer be inade by Notice specifying the number of Shares to which the member is entitled and limiting a time within which the offer if not accepted by the member on behalf of bingelf or his nominee will be deemed to bo declined and that the Directors be at liberty to fix such time and in the case. of Shareholders whose place of Address is not in Hongkong to extend it to such date or dates as they may think fit.
(4) That the balance of 250,000 Shares constituting the Com- pany's Unissued Capital be issued at such time or times in such manner and for such purposes and upon such terms and con- ditions in every respect as the Company's Board of Directors may decide."
(6) "That the Regres contained in the printed document submitted to the Mecting and for the purpose of identification subscribed by the "Chairman thereof be approved and adopted as. the Articles of Association of the Company in substitution for and to the exclusion of all the oxisting Articles thereof."? AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that a further EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the same place on THURSDAY, the 28TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1924, at 2.80 o'clock in the AFTERNOON, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Proccodings of the above-men- tioned Meating and of confirming if thought fit as Special Rasolutions the above-mentioned Resolutions.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 21st day of FEBRUARY, 1924, to THURSDAY, the 28th day of FEBRUARY, 1924 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
The suggested-new Articles of Association are similar to the old,. subject to clerical alterations and to the following alterations of substance, viz. :-
(1) The deletion from Article 71 of the words "and holding or representing by proxy not less than, one-tenth of the issued Capital.**
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(2) The alteration of the minimum number of Directors to four and
of the maximum number to seven.
((8) The alteration of the remuneration of Directors to payment at the rate of Four thousand dollars per annum and such suma as a General Meeting may determine instead of the fixed sum of i Three thousand dollars per annum and such suus as a General, Meeting may determine.
(4) The alteration of the quorum of Directors to three instead of two. (5). The addition of Articles enabling the appointment by the Directors of & Local Board or Advisory Committee in any place at a remuneration to be fixed by the Articles and the appointment by the Directors of Local General Managers, Secretaries or other Assistants, felegates or Attorneys at remuneration to be fixed by the Directors,
(6) The addition of an Article enabling the Company to have an Official Seal and Local Registers in places outside the Colony. A copy of the Articles of Association of the Company with the said alterations and amendments incorporated and indicated in red ink or red print can be seen during usual business hours at the Registered office of the Company, Powell's Building, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, and at the Shanghai Office of the Company in Hongkong Bank Building, Shanghai, in the Republic of China.
..
Dated the 31st day January, 1924.
By Order of the Board,
PERCY H. SUCKLING, Secretary.
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