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THE BUICK SIX.
Owners express surprise that a car so powerful and spirited as the BUICK SIX operates so smoothly and quietly. Such outstanding
performance explains why the car is winning and holding the good will of all who buy it.
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33 & 35, Des Voeux Road Central,
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THE CHINA MAIL..
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
"The Princess Royal passed a good night and her progress con- tinues, cables Reuter under date May 4.
A meeting of the Board of Education will be held in the Board Room at the Education Office, to-morrow, at 3 p.m.
The Coming of the World- One case of oerebro-spil Teacher will be the subject of this fover was notified for the 24 hours week's Public Lecture of the Hong, Fended Sunday last. kop Lodge The Theosophical Society: 16, Queen's Road Central.
on Wednesday May 6, at 5,45 p.. will inspect the Hongkong Folios His Excellency the Governor The Public ure invited.
Force at 4.80 p.in: on Monday, May
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TUESDAY, MAY 1925.
HONGKONG HOTEL
Summer Rates.
From 1st May
To 1st October.
Single from $150.00 up inclusive.
Double from $300.00 up inglusive.
The plans for the statue of the 18. late D. Sun Yat-sen have been Property at Sung Wong Tol, drawn up. The staitie will be cist
The Chinese General Chamber Hill, comprising six newly-built in bronze and will be six ft. six in. four-storeyed Chinese houses and high and 18 in. wide. It will stand Commerce has telegraphed to having an area of 5.580 34. 11. stone pedestal eight ft. 10 in. Peking demanding the return of the was sold in his Auction Rooms high, and on this will be carved they it expended in connection yesterday by Mr. L. E. S. Hodgend history of the deceased of Chang Yun-ming, the ex- with the repatriation of the troops Bidding started at $24,000 and Pantonese leuiters as well as his;
Defence Commissioner of Shanghai, was moderately brisk throughout, ideals and will.
in Jantangy lust. The price finally rose to $38,000, "and at this figure the property i If the present fine weather will
was sold to Mr. Chan Tak-fook.. contime it will be ideal för. Bonnici
Scotland in the thumpions to-mor-Matheson und Co., Ltd., have an- At Shangli, Messers, Jarding, row and for the Dog Show on themed the adoption, during the A tragedy occurred at Shanghai last week at the Navy for the latter are ning in the 1st inst, of the following bust- Shanghai Band on May 16. Entries
summer months, commencing from 1.M.C.A. in the death of Curtis ist etworaging rate and there isness hours: Mondays to Fridaya.. S. Foote, who was drowned in the at the slighest dog ta nghits. a.. to 12 poon; 9 p.m. to Association pool. It appears that may be highly egiten, Stanglad the young man had finished arealy the pinge dog show. Saturdays: 800.m. to swim and went to the shower- bath. A boy, in the meanwhile public roting for the dog considered A popular inovation should be the thinking that no one remained. by visitors to be the best, which
An urmchair, similar in appeur- shut off the lights.
and What hap-will show how near the judges coine uneet The Empty Chair, pened in the darkened room to the general ile, for they wit merly in the office of Household difficult to state. When his friends missed the deceased they on dog.
decide independently on the Chum- | Words," was wong articles intim- ately associated with Charles returned to the pool and turned.
Dickens, sold by Messrs. Hodgson on the lights again. Mr. Foote's A first-rate story comes From A writing-table from God's Hill body was found in four and a half Japan. According to the "Japan Place was alsall, photographs of feet of water. First aid methods Conieto." the Asahi reports the articles being inscribed: "Mrs. of resuscitation were applied and that last year boy of sight in Hutkes, with best love from a faint pulse was noticed, but it libaken put a pepsimmon, seed up eteorgina Hogarth," and "Mrs. was too late and he died a few his nose for fun. It remained there | Hulkes, with Mamie Dickens' best minutes later. Curiously enough and was forgotten, but, now that love." The articles sold for £110, a large bruise was seen on spring is here it is sprouting. A letter from Dickens to Mrs. deceased's check and temple: first leaves steking out of a boy's blutkes soiling tee the remainder THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD. How in came there is unexplained. nose were unsual that his fou the proofs of the "Tale of Two Whether he fell in the darkened parents took him to the village titles," with a first issile copy of room on the slippery tiles and doctor who extracted the plant. The the first edition, was sold for £25.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary Generał slipped into the water is not growth of a phant in the human body { "Not half a dozen of my oldest and known. Deceased was 24 years regarded as very marvellous, the most trusty literary friends have Meeting of the above Company will be held at the Registered old, an American citizen and a "Asahi says, It consulted Dr. seen it," wrote the novelist. It Office of the Company, Queen's Building, Victoria, Hongkong, on nativë of Lawrence, Masse-Tatsumi, au nithority on diseases is a real pleasure to me to entrust MONDAY, the 18th day of May, 1925, at 11 o'clock in the
will be proposed.. chusetts. While in Shanghai he of the throut, hose, etc. ut the you with the catastrophe, and to forenoon, when the subjoined Resolutions was connected for a time with a Medien University, who ask you to keep a grin and inflexi- as Extraordinary Resolutions, viz.:— the International Correspondence state int he had never heard of ble silence on the subject until it is "(1) That the Articles of Asso-
such a thing before.
published."
Schools.
SOCIAL
"Mr. W. J. Bonnar leaves for Home on the Hector to-tiny on a six months' holiday.
The Government Veterinary Surgeon and Mrs. W. J. E. Mackenzie, left for Home by the Macedonia on Saturday.
AND PERSONAL.
Mr. P. D. Wilson of the P.W.D. left Home leave on Saturday by the Macedonia.
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Lieut.-Colonel Orpen Sanders, | R.A., and Mrs. Sanders left for Home on Saturday on the P. & O. Macedonia:
Mr. F. Syme Thonison of Jewish people like much hotter Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., and baths,tban Gentiles, said an atten- Mrs. Syme Thomson and family dant as Belts Street. (Stopney).] left by the Macedonia on Satur-council baths at qui inquest on a day.
Wonnat finind dead. from heart failure in' one of the baths,
Passengers who left to-day by the Hector included Mr. C. J. Lafrentz. Mr. and Mrs. Herridge, Miss. D. Ranger, and Lt.Cdr. Thursfield, R.N.
Mr. Kent Clark, for thumber of year the umanager of the Oriental Hotel at Kobe, left for the United States on the Franconis, and it is uwertain whether he will return.
The Committee and members of the Chinese Recreation Club are to be At Home on Saturday next 'at 3.30 JJ.m. There will be a tennis exhibition match dancing from 6.30 to 8.30.p.m.
Miss Butten, of Bournemouth. has been licensed to drive 'à motor chitrabane.
Fritz Baedecker, aged 81, head. of the firm of Karl Baedecker, publishers of travellers' guide books, died at Leipsic on the 10th April.
West Drayton's new Baptist Chruch was erected at cost prica by a builder, whose son drew the plane, and whose workmen accepted ro- duced wages..
The forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. Thomas McCormack, engineer, of the ss.enrolled by the International Good
A petition from 80,000-children Ming Sang, to Miss Charlotte will Society from the province of Agnes Porterfield, en route from British Columbia, urging world Scotland by the ss. Sarpedon.
When a deal man applied for a public-honse licence at Coalville, Jestershire, a solicitor suhi ap- plicant would not likely supply two, pints when asked for one. The licencu was granted to the man's wife..
and The Freemasons of Bangkok en- fortained to dimmer, prior to his departure from Bangkok on leave, Wor. Br. J. Bazis Kerr, one of the founders of the first body established there, Lodge St. John, 1972. 5. C.
Many London girls were hardly. more than a shutilecik between office anal bedroom, declared Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, in an appeal for Y.W.C.A. Girls' Club to cost about £200,000, which was broad- cust from 210.
peace and the settlement of disputes by arbitration, has been forwarded in the League of Nations.
At the business meeting of the dramatic department of
the American Women's Club, Shanghai, the following officers were slected: Mrs S. C. Kingsbury, chairman; Ars. R. I. Clapp, vice-chairman and property manager; Mrs. H. V Bernard, treasurer; Mrs. J. Scott Emons, secretary.
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Two Lancashire women were discussing a visit to their town of "They Galli Curci. Sald one: A message from Zaria (Nigeria) do tell me as 'ow she 'ad nearly a says the Prince of Wales arrived thousand pounds for singing that at Zuria on April 17. As a reward one afternoon." Answered the They were laughing at the House for his spell of piloting the train, other: 'Aye, but you 'ave, to of Commons over the uccident that the Prince has been presented with remember that she's not in regular happened in the member's cloak-In mileage sheet showing len-pence work." room the other day- tin of liquid due to him, which he smilingly. eggs, bht in by Mr. Tom accepted after signing the sheet. Johusten to reinforce his arguments
re-
A well-known Tientsin against the importation of certain Raquel Meller, the
Aident, (says the **P. & T. Times"), goods, had got upset in a member's Spanish singer, was received in an Australian friend, Mr. Andrews, famous Mr. F. H. Pickwick, together with new bowler hat! The incident re- private audienes by the Pope, and has been fishing in New Zealand. minds one of that in which H. Gaug her famong song. Pendant Really fishing. His bag includes Wells was found by a certain actor In Procession (During the Pro-a shark which tipped the balance. poaching an egg in his "topper cession), for which she was recently at 224 lb., and a monster swore fish. over a gas stove. "F, G." though threatened with ex-communication. Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Andrews not so gay as he once could be, canThe Pope and the cardinals heard booked swordfish almost simul- still find a smile when this is re the song, and his Holiness gave the taneously. called.
singer his benediction and permis sion to continue to sing it. The
The British Legation Chapel at ang deals with the story of a young rot a thing that one usually a
A master mariner's certificate is Peking was crowded to utmost girl who watches a religious pro- capacity at the memorial servicecession and utters blasphemies, but sociales with a woman, but at least lo Lady Aglen last week. Bishops afterwards, owing to the action of She is Lady Margaret MacRac,
one woman is a qualified "skipper." | Scott and Norris, assisted by the priest, becomes an ardent convert sister of Lord Bute, and wife of a Rev. J. T. Holmar, the Legation Chaplain, formerly of St. John's Kobo's oldest foreign resident, qualified some years ago, and is a Highland chieftain, Lady Margaret Cathedral, Hongkong, conducted Mrs. E. Nankivell, who had lived well-known figure in the yachilog a simple but impressive service The entire customs staff war of heart discuss following tui il yacht as the Cowes Regatta cach in the port 50 years, died last week world. She navigates her own present as well as all the norm of six weeks. Although 78 year, and, is an extremely com diplomatic body. Many pro minent persons of a community years old, Mrs. Nankivell was un-prtent seaman or should it be wch bears Lady Aglen in affecmally active for her years and sea-woman? lionate remembrance were present,p until her lust illness was able and the whole assemblage war to visit hor. Huny friend few of moved by deep emotion. Bishop whom knew of her advanced years. Norris spake's few words Her husband died niany years no appropriate gravity, and the short three daughters, two of whom
WHY: STOP”A” COUGH" " service followed. It can be try were in Kobe during her illness, Because of the chance you take in said that no member of the British survive her. They are Mrs. (.. neglecting it. Your cough, unknown to Community has done more in good Lightfoot of Shidayoka and MTA chitis, pleurisy or pneumonia tham- yourself, may be a symptom of bron works than Lady Aglon, and long George Grimble of Hongkong wing berlabra Couch Testedy kateerialin will her spirit of kindifness and went to Koteswhen she became ill, healing and curative qualities tiimi stop loving care to all those in distress and Mrs. HW Millward, whose ure. This dependante medicine is for. coughs, and “rid “the system" of the be remembered.
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THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTE.
NOTICE
ciation of the Company be altered in manner following that is to say by the deletion of Article 17 and by the substitution therefor of the following Article, name- "Iy:--
"17. So long as the issued ""capital of the Company
"shall not exceed $6,000,000 | "no member shall be entitled "to be registered as the "holder of more than 8,000 "shares of the Company. "Should the issued capital of "the Company be increased "beyond $6,000,000 the "number of shares in re- 'spert of which a member "shall be entitled to be "registered shall be increas- "ed proportionately, but no "member shall be entitled "to be registered in respect "of a fraction of a share."
(2) That the authorised Capital:
of the Company (which is now $3,000,000 consisting of 60,000 shares of the nominal value of $50 each the whole of which have been issued) be increased to $10,000,000 by the creation of 140,000 additional shares of the nominal value of $50 each ranking (subject as) hereinafter mentioned) for dividend and in all other respects pari passu with the shares constituting the Company's present issued Capitul.
(3) That 60,000 of the said |
140,000 new shares be offered in the first instance (in the proportion of one new share for every old share held by them respec- tively) to the members of the Company who on the 10th day of June, 1925, are i registered in the Company's Share Register as the holders of the said 60,000 old shares at a premium of $10 per share.
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before the 15th day of September, 1925, together with interest calculated at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the total amount then payable for the period from the 15th day of July, 1925, until the date of receipt of payment by the Company's Bankers and a further instalment of $30 per new share to be påld on or before the 15th day of December, 1925, together with interest calculated at. the rate of 6 per cent. per unnum on the total amount then payable for the period from the 15th day of October, 1925, until the date of actual receipt of payment by the Company's Bankers and such member outside the Far East or his nominee who has not accepted and lodged with the Company's. Bankers the first instalment due on such new shares on or before the 15th day of September, 1925. together with interest as aforesaid will be deemed to have declined.
The Directors shall have the right to reject any, nominee.
(5) That such of the said
60,000 new shares as shall. be accepted by members- both in and outside the Far East shall vis-a-vis the said 60,000 old shares rank for dividend as from the 16th. day of July, 1925. to the extent of one half of the nominal value of such new shares and as from the 15th day of October, 1925, equally with the said 60,000 old shares..
(6) That any of the said 60,000 new shares which shall not
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be taken up by the Com- ..pany's shareholders in manner aforesaid and the remaining 80,000 unissued new shares may be issued and disposed of in such manner at such time or times and upon such terms as to ranking for dividend and otherwise as the Com- pany's Directors shall in their absolute, discretion.. think it.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY
(4) That the aforesaid offer be made to members by notice specifying the number of new shares to which a mem- ber is entitled. That a member whose registered. address is situate in the Far East or his nominee shall ALSO GIVEN that a further pay for such new shares Extraordinary General Meeting accepted by two instalments, of the Company will be held at its i.e., one instalment of $30 Registered Office aforesaid on per new share to be paid on TUESDAY, the 2nd day of June, or before the 16th day of 1925, at 11 o'clock in the forendon July, 1925, and a further for the purpose of receiving a instalment of $80 per new Report of the proceedings at the share to be paid on or above mentioned meeting and before the 15th day of confirming, if thought tas. October, 1925, and such Special Resolutions the above. member or his nominee who mentioned Resolutions. has not accepted and lodged The Transfer Books of "the" with the Company's Bank Company will be closed from ers the first instalment duc WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of on such new shares on or June, 1925, to WEDNESDAT before the 15th day of July, the 17th day of June, 1925 (botn 1925, will be deemed to have days inclusive) during which declined That a member period no transfer of shares can whose registered address is be registered. situate outside the Far East
Dated the 4th day of May, 1925.
By Order of the aw Board of Directora,k
or his nominee shall pay for auch new shares accepted! by two instalments, ie, one -instalment of $80 per new share to be paid on or
R. MADYER,
Chief Manager.