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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS la the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Buildings, Charter Road, Victoria, Hongkong on TUESDAY the 4th of March 1924. at 11 o'clock in the forenoon for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and Report of the Directors. for the year ending 31st December, 1923, and declaring a dividend,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from TUES. DAY the 19th February 1924, until TUESDAY the 4th day of March 1924, both days inclusive.
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Hongkong, 11th February, 1924.
UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL
of MEETING GENERAL Shareholders will be held in the offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd.. on THURSDAY the 6th March, 1924, at, II a.m. for the purpose of receiving the report of the General Managers together with a statement of accounts to 31st December 1923.
The transfer Books of the Com pany will be closed from the 22nd February to 6th March, 1924, both dates inclusive!
DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD..
General Managers. Hongkong, 19th February, 1924.
HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
NOTICE OF CALL,
Issue of 95,000 Shares of the Nominal Value of $10 each, ($7.50 paid up).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Final Call of $2.50 per Share on each of the 95,000 Shares allotted on the 8th day of November, 1922, has been made by the Com pany, and that such call will be payable to the Company's Bankers, The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation. In Hongkong, on the 15th day of March, 1924!
The Transfer Books of the Com pany will be closed from the 8th to 15th March, both days inclusive.
For and on behalf of the
Hongkong Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.
5. COURTNEY COOK, Secretary. Dated this 22nd day of February, 1924.
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AMERICAN EXPEDITION SOUTH OF GOOD HOPE.
DIAMONDS AND DOGS.
They lie south of the Cape of Good Hope. Washed by the foam of the Antarctie Sea, cold, bleak, and desolate, they are unknown except to a few hardy whaling men and seal hunters, writes in the "Man-
THE
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William J. Malkin, itt is when the stout little whalers come pitching over the henvy seas into Table Bay that one hears strange talk about the mystery islands of the south. With the fumes" of strong African tobacco hazing an old timbered roof and the fiery Cape brandy being lavishly drunk, the men who weather these voyage to Australia. Many a fire southern seas all the year round ship has come to grief on its rock- tell stories of islands that dis bound coast. Perhaps the present appear again, of men who were i
marooned on these lonely rocks dogs which roam the island are" and who spent months digging descendants of the pet or mascot desperately for diamonds, of the dogs of wrecked ships. Last year dangers of seal-hunting and of two French scientists were land- fights with sea elephants..
Another of these mystery- islands that the Americaïi expëdi- tion hope to visit is Gough Island. Commander Wild, in his book "Shackleton's
Last Voyage," describes how the "Quest" expedi tion landed on Gough Island, and found, to their astonishment, two excellent condition,
We are likely before long to ed on the island, and have remain- learn more of the islands. There ed there to take observations. lately reached Capetown sixteen These two will be picked up by men who are facing adventure the present French expedition, TO LET-Furnished for seven
months or more from 23rd inst.with the calculated zeal of scien- No, 525 The Peak. Six rooms and tists. Their ship, a three-masted garden. P Jacks. Land Office. Law schooner, has been sent out under the direction of the Cleveland (U.S.A.) Museum of Natural History. The expedition, which is to make Capetown its base, is to conduct a two years' cruise. Lonely Tristan da Cunha, with its brave missionary and his wife, is huts in one of the islands to be visited, while, all around lay instru- Kerguelen, where the sea elements for mineralogical examina- phants breed, Gough Island; with tion, picks, shovels, hose, hand its myth of diamonds, and many pump, washing-pan, ropes, axes, On a stove near by others, probably fifty in all, and so on. Among those islands the explorers was cut by someone who knew his hope to gether interesting job the following Inscription: natural history specimens, to see "F. X. Zigler, R. J. Garden, J. strange animals and places, and Hagan, W. Swaine, J. C. Fenton. No ex- perhaps to chance on a few things Capetown, 16/6/19." that are quite exceptional.. Theplanation was forthcoming of this expedition. The American explorers seem parti- mysterious cularly interested in Lovet story is known only to a few in Island, said to be the most Capetown and has never been mysterious of the group. Cer- published. It is, however, worth tainly it would be difleult to dis- the telling, as it reveals the cover much about Bouvet Island romantic rumours that come from in the encyclopaedias or even the these islands of the southern sea. "Oceanic Pilot." The average About five years ago a man walk- gazetteer merely states that it ised into the offices of a Capetown 1,500 miles south-west of the shipping firm with a small bag Cape of Good Hope, while atlases of gravel and a dozen smail dia- He explained to the vary in showing-it-in longitude 4monds.
manager of the firm that he had cast and longitude 3 west.
Of those: French sailors who discovered these diamonds on first found it, it is not known for Gough Island, and that there certain whether they were able were more to be found there. His to land, for no record of what they story was plausible enough, and found ever came back to the the result was that a schooner world. There is the record of a was equipped by the firm and set German expedition which man- sail for Gough Island, carrying aged to reach the island on the white men mentioned above November 25, 1898. They found and about twelve Kafira from The ship reached it surrounded by huge glaciers. Kimberley. Its mountain-tops were enveloped Gough Island, the white men and in clouds, which may account for Kafirs and a quantity of tools the fact that previous expeditions were landed, and after a promise. searched for it in vain. This to call again for them in three expedition managed to land. They months' time the skipper of the found that there was no running schooner set sail for South water, no vegetation, and that Georgia. But he did not reckon animal life was practically non- with the weather of the southern existent. In the centre of the seas. Six months passed before island was a big crater of volcanic he mariaged to reach Gough origin, Altogether it was a wild, Teland, again. The white men deserted spot that no one would were still there, but had lived particularly care to visit again: through many great hardships, They managed to take some They had gone at the wrong time photographs and map out the of the year, when the worst wea- to be experienced. island and the group that it he-ther was longs. to. Since then no real Nevertheless, they struggled on scientific expedition has been near with the work they had set out to the island, so the Americans may do. Not a single diamond was yet find something which will ever found. The whole story of diamonds on Gough Island was a startle the scientific world.
The American expedition is not myth. One Kaffir in the expedi the only one that is visiting Kertion died, and the survivors were guelen. Recently a French ex- eventually brought to Capetown, pedition sailed from Capetown Yet the myth still persists, and for this island, being ordered by there are many in Capetown who the French Government to explore shake their heads mysteriously Kerguelen and report as to the when Gough Island is mentioned, The cruise is expected to take adaptability of the island for sheep and pig rearing. It will two years, and in all probability also prospect for coal and other 30,000 miles will be travelled. minerals, Kerguelen is claimed The enterprise of this American as a French possession, having museum is likely to produce excel- been first discovered by a French lent, if not startling, scientific expedition which sailed south results. during the latter part of the eigh- teenth century in search of what the navigators and scientists of
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