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@ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1924.
- INTIMATIONS.
WANT
BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD. ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTIOR 18 HEREBY GIVEN
that an Interim Dividend of $3.00 per share has been declared
· for the half year ending 30th June, 1924.
The dividend will be-payubie on and after MONDAY, the 15th September, 1924, at the Offices of the Company, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be closed from MONDAY, the 8th September to SATURDAY, the 13th September,' 1924, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Direstora..
LITSE FONG
Acting Chief Manager. Hongkong, 1st August, 1934.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
AN
N INTERIM DIVIDEND at Fifty cents (50 cents) per share on the Old Shares (Fully Paid) and Three cents (3 cents) per share on the New Shares ($1.00 Paid) has been declared for the balf year ending 30th June, 1924.
Such Interim Dividend will be pay- able on and after TUESDAY, the 23rd September at the Offices of the Company, where shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants,
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be closed from the 13th September. 1924 until the 23rd September, 1924 (both days incla sive), during which period no trans- fer of shares can be registered.·
By Order of the Board of Directors, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO..
General Manazora. Hongkong, 3rd September, 1924.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED,
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INTIMATIONS
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTIOR.
HE FOURTH YEARLY DRAW. ING OF TWENTY DEBEN. TURES of the Hongkong Club (1920 issue-$500. each) was held in the Club House, on MONDAY, the 8th September, 1924, when the following Debentures were drawn for redemption :
17 266 416 757 62 291. 424 762 375 586 764 396 600 826 213 411. 607 837
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and will be payable at the Hongkong and Shanghal-Banking Corporation on Tuesday, the 30th September, 1924. in exchange. for surrender of
tame.
By Order.
T. A. ROBERTSON, Lt. Col.
Secretary. Hongkong, 8th September, 1924.
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Share Register and TICKETS will be issued for Transfer Books of the Company will Round Trips during the be closed from the 1st to 7th October months of July to September, from Hongkong to Foochow (Pagoda 1924 (both days Inclusive).
Warrants for the Interim Dividend Anchorage) and retum, calling at} Swatow and Amoy on both the can be obtained at the Office of the upward and downward Voyage, Company, 2. Queen's Buildings, by the Company's new, fast, well Hongkong, on or after the 8th.prox. appointed steamer "Hal Ning" at the reduced rate of $80 for the round Voyage, including Meals while the steamer is in port
These Special Tickets will be available for return only by this steamer, either by the Voyage for which it is issued or by her following sailing from Foochow.
Duration of stay at Foochow 48
hours.
By Order of the Board,
R. M. DYER,
Hongkong, 15th Sept. 1924.
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ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
New beet sugar factories involv ing an outlay of over £2,000,000 are to be built, states the British Sugar Beet Society.
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The Queen has sent a gift in a crate for a bazaar at Chelmsford, Essex, in aid of the cathedral' hall, with the stipulation that the crate shall be sold before it is opened to see what it contrips.
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INDIAN UNREST,
WARNINGS IN HOUSE"
OF LORDS.
The trouble is that the Act of 19to,
Lord Mestou said, Har'never bren worked withrany pretence-of- good will. Since the war there has been violent reaction against us and our work, and no concession London August An ex. less than our clearing out of India Viceroy giving a public rebuke to will satisfy the more extreme sec
tion. Lord Pentland urged that a Secretary of State for India was the remarkable feature of the re- we are bound to work towards sumed debate in the Honce of should show India that we intend Indian self-government,' and, we Lords yesterday on Indian affairs. It will be remembered that
to carry out our pledges. If this Lord Olivier went out of his way were made clear, he believes it to pay a high tribute to M would help to restore confidence Das, the leader of the revoln in India. In face of the growing revolutionary movement, Lord tionary movement in Bengal. He Curzon demanded that the Govern |described him as an upright and
scrupulous politician, second only ment should take a firm stand and to Gandhi in saintliness of charac say definitely how far they meant to ter. Yet this Mr. Das had associat-go. The reforms so far have bene- ed himself with a resolution fited no one, and Lord Olivier's expressing admiration for the temporising treatment of the de character and motives of a political mands for a further advance.to. wards Home Rule, he said, was, | assassin.---Marquis Cyrzon was
Indignant at a tribute so superflu. but hanging out a sort of flag to encourage the Nationalist party. ous and unprecedented. It was with amazement, he said, that they A definite statement of Govern heard such language emanatingment intentions, he believes, would from a Minister of the Crown, have a moderating effect, while a This saintly man was the leader policy of drift will mean destruc
tion. of the party whose avowed object
It was to reduce British Goveme Lord Chelmsford joint author of! ment to contempt, and had openly the 1919 scheme of roform, was condoned the crime of political the final Government spokesman. murder...
He disappointed at--the-spirit în m which the new Indian Constitution, has been received, but he believes the development was inevitable. As for revolution, he pleaded that the decision must be left to the men on the spot, but he gave
RADIO.
In scathing tones Lord Curzon continued. language of that kind is an encouragement to these acts of violence, and when there is a recrudescence of trouble the aggressors will point to the speech of the Secretary of State and say the assurance that the Govern
he practically told us it is the ment will give every support to only way we could get what we the Government of India in any desire.'" At the time Lord Olivier steps they may take to quell any spoke Viscount Chelmsford, also a revolutionary movement. This former Viceroy, was on the Govern was his reply to the Das incident. ment bench, and Lord Curzon The policy of the Government with wondered what he thought of regard to India is that laid down his colleague's language. Lord by the Prime Minister, that no Chelmsford, later in the de-party in Great Britain will be bate, did refer to Mr. Das, but cowel by threats of force or by his words were very different in policies designed to bring govern- character from those of, the Secre- ment to a standstill. tary for India. Throughout Lord Curzon's rebuke Lord. Öliviery sat perfectly impassive, but he was moved to anger when Lord Curzon quoted a passage from the Simla Correspondent of "The Daily Telegraph." stating that the Gov- ernor-General had found it neces- sary to issue a communiqué to the Press, denying a report that the Government of India had been consulted about a suggestion that Mr. Das should visit England." What interpretation, did Lord Curzon.put on that message, Lord Olivier demanded: Merely, Lord correspondent well known to many Curzon blandly replied, that aj of their lordships reported that the Government" of "India were rather alarmed at the sugges- tion that Mr. Das was coming to Forestry England with a view to consulta:
tian..There is no foundation for such a suggestion," Lord Olivier A woman, twice married, who interjected. Then I am rather successful in securing a surprised that the Government of separation order at West Hartle India should have gone out of pool, complained that her husband their way to deny it." Lord was constantly turning the portrait | Curzon.sarcastically observed. As of her first husband to the wall, | a parting shot "he expressed the view that it would have been belter if the Secretary of State, instead of giving a certificate to Mr. Das, had offered a few words of en. couragement to our own people in India whose lives are in danger.
Mr. G. H. Green, about 50 years of age, a London, Midland, and Scottish Railway official from Euston, was stepping out of a motor-omnibus at Crewe then he was taken ill and died in a few minutes.
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The estate of Barcaldine, ex- tending, to nearly 13,000 acres, situated on the shores of Loch Creran, near Oban, and belonging to Mr. James Methven, has just
sold to been Commissioners.
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NOTICE
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE reopens for MICHAELMAS TERM on The Trip occupies 8 to 9 days MONDAY, September 15th, 1924 and the steamer will leave Boarders return on 13th instant. Hongkong from the Company's Entrance Examination for new boy Wharf at 5 p.m. arriving at will be held on SATURDAY, Septem. daylight on her return (Weather ber 13th, 1924, at 9 A.M. permitting)...... d
Hongkong, 10th Sept., 1924.
The Company's Steam Launch will convey passengers from Pagoda Anchorage to Foochow City, if required.,
For further particulars and dates of Sailing-
Apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.
General Managers.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP, CO. LD. Hongkong, June 17, 1924.
-NOTICE OF REMOVAL
DICKSON, PARKER & CO., LTD.,
have removed to their new!
offices at the Bank of Canton Building, 5th Floor, 6a Des Voeux Road Central, on the 15th September, 1924.
Hongkong, 13th Sept.. 1924.
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DISQUIETING REVELATIONS. The debate on the whole showed 3 disquieting state of affairs in Firemen had difficulty in India. In the Central Provinces extinguishing a fre on the and in Bengal the Legislatures have Norwegian steamer "Havdrot" at been, brought to a standstill, and Belfast owing to the fumes caused violent revolutionary propaganda by the pumping of water on a appears to be growing.
Des- quantity of sulphur and chloride patches from correspondents of of lime in her hold.
The Daily Telegraph" in India were freely quoted to show the state of feeling in the country.
Dame Nellie Melba has accepted the presidency of the Dominions Artists' Club (London), which includes among its members Miss Florence Austral, Miss Margaret UNCLAIMED Bannerman, Mr. Peter Dawson, and Mme. Lily Payling.
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Messrs. Henderson Brothers, Ltd., have given an order" for a new Anchor Liner to carry cargo
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The diplomatie and consular vote passed by the House of Com mous includes the gift by the Government of £25,000 for the purchase of English books for the Tokio Imperial University to re place those destroyed in the earth- quake last year.
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