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WHYS
there are more than a million Buicks
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LOCAL
THE CHINA MAIL.
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GENERAL.
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A special general meeting of members of the Hongkong Phil- harmonic Society is advertised to he held on Monday, May 13-at 5.15 p.m, in St. John's Cathedral all. Business of an important nature is on, the agenda.
Two'and'a quaflar tons of gold In Jarrow, this one great- in- wver currier by a ieroplanes, from,j dysträd
on the Tyne, London to Paris, reviitly. The famous years ago for its shipshuld Illion was retries in speria! [ing and ster! Works, there ur) 4.700 melaisland enses mad was goirded workers ent" of a population of There is from the time t feit the hugaks there | aí,000 drawing the dok audit its arrival, in Switzerland,.. its Ponly one slip on the stocks of the "awetnkatad-destination
yards, and many litrauers bive bon 1Plosed dosen for three years lack Chinese boys and girls are Theurial passanger service of trade, shortage of money and evitang a strong itorest in the hog Sydory and Atletaide, oksenter demand for war veselwenink beause of texïpérance, Miss, Amy established ingeginjunction with the armaments are mainly responsible Spaulding, ventive searetury of The Chinese Woman's Christian egular mail service, was inagur, | for the prescint depressioU,
Temperaned Esjon, mported - to: ated on Jatiury 11. The larg (21, slightly more than fiú, * In the Melical ficer of headijumrlers of the World's Union an article published in the mile. As the big the regular Beuith's returų for the week ending in
five morink serving, brdween Sydney and May 2, there were cuses metienadorgan, the Unón Signal," small-pux More than a thouswerk greyya au tempe Adehide was established one of the reparted, for of
65110 of Fenntĥtions was that passengers were jand
diphsheria Alpernageso subjects were subasitted in to be carried after an experiment were Clinews with the exception Contests conducted recently by the Case Chinese Unka, Miss Spalding periodas well us mails and goods, of can imported Iulian Rebrimental work with mails and Boaths sumbered four --two small stated: Oratoriul contests were eath of hoht in mury, cilicstand a quality goals has now been cameck out for us, al Esis moths, and as this has hoën Ekiplitheria and purpural Jevon, All of lorature distributis. Activities satisfactory, tia condtigus in the small-pox cases occurred of the Chinese Union covered a wide Kowloon. Monday's return showed field including maintenances of u Lune base of enteric fever, and one of day nursery in Shanghai for the (cerebrospinal fever, both Chinese babies of factors women, a chuly President Kalinin has recent. There were no cases of paratyphoid vacation Bible school, and support ly been visiting the newly formed over as 1s boch erronémsly re-of a home for women and girls Central Asiatic Soviet Republics.
funded about a year ago by the of Turkmenistan and Uzbegistan.
Students Ternperince Ligiou. In establishing these republics the
Error in the inscription. old Tsarist administrative res beneath a fresco in the Parlin- As an outcome of the visit have been redrawn in a manner ment buildings corridor first to England last year of an calculated to correspond better pointed out by a schoolboy of the Australian Boy Scout contingent with the distribution of races in Royal High School, Edinburgh, and the jamboree, there has been this region. For some time after when visiting the House of Com-the resolve to establish a camp in the Revolution the Central Asiatic mons with his fellow scholars-New South Wales, similar to that! Soviet Governments were harass-was admitted by G. L. T. Locker- at Gillwell Park, in Essex, Eng- ed by insurgent natives, known Lampson for the Government in land. This camp, was presented as Basmacht, who resented the the House. The fresco depicts to the, Boy Scouts Association by ◆◆ introduction of Communist Ideas Montrose's execution in Edin- Mr. McLaren, who comes from and the arcomjunying econic burgh in 1650, and the inscription Scotland, and has been found very
• ' dislocations. This movement which has been up for 30 years useful for the training of scouts
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NOTICE
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reached its height in 1921 and says that the occurrence took in woodcraft. A block of land THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO.,I
,LTD...
1922, when the Turkish states-place in the Grassmarket whereas hetween. Narrabeen and Pymble. f man. Enver Pasha, assumed the the boy said.That is not the comprising 80 neren. hat, been adership of the Basmachi Now Grassmarket, that's High Street." placed at the disposal of the scout
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General.. law da order have been largely and this is now confirmed. The authorities in this State by V. restored and one of the few re-correction. Mr. Locker-Lampson Roinel and Mr. and Mrs. Danvers Meeting of the above Company will be held at the Registered maining Basmach leaders sent a said, is to be made, and the com-Power; and the erection of the Office of the Company, Queen's Building. Victoria, Hongkong, on message to one of the Soviet missioner of works will consider various structures required is die MONDAY, the 18th day of May, 1925, at 11 o'clock in the congresses addressed. by Kalinin, handing over the existing version to the generosity of the chairman forenoon, when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed
Extraordinary Resolutions, viz.:-- proffering submission and asking to the Edinburgh High School for of the executive committee, Kelso as
King, for pardon.
(1) That the Articles of Asso- !
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- ly t
a memento.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. R. J. Paterson has consented to accept the post of Honorary Clerk of the Course to the Hong. kong Jockey Club, which has become vacant owing to the de parture from the Colony, on leave, of Mr.F. Sutton.
Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, of Labrador, who was recently in Hongkong, has been paying a visi to Peking, where he was enter tained to a public reception by the Peking Union Medical College and the Peking Missionary Associ atjon. After the reception Dr., Grenfell gave an address upon his work in Labrador.
Mr. E. F. Mackay who has jos?
Lady Severn, before she left. retired from the service of Messrs. kindly gave two altar cloths and Butterfield & Swire at Shanghai,two Credence table covers to St. is being succeeded as the Firu's John's Cathedral. Mr. Hemsworth manager there by Mr. T. H. R. sent a cheque for a new table. Shaw.
The freedom of the City of At the request of a representa Londen is to be conferred on the tive body of ex-Service men in Earl of Oxford and Asquith on Shanghai Miss Lee White intro-Wednesday, May 13. After the duced some of her war time favourites at one of her per- formmances.
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The marriage took place at Kobe last week between Mr. George Russell
ceremony in the Guildhall the new freeman will be entertained to luncheon at the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress.
Miss Marguerite Lord Inchcape's daughter, the and Forster, only daughter of Mr. Hon. Elsie Mackay.. has taken RGM Forster, H. M. Consul--over-the-job--of-furnisher-and.
Mrs. and
Forster decorator for the three new
bride's
Ainun si dhe passengers who felt | General, for Home on bedidoy by the "Teeter | Following the ceremony a recep- P. and, O. vessels. Her in- vissterday were. Mr. and Mrs. tion was held at the home of the novations, which include Jacobeän where many and Adam rooms; oak panelling. parents, W. L. Bubny from British
wish the foot stools, with
other friends gathered to
many North Bars Mr. Bunbury is #
before senior ofteer at the Borra Civil young couple every happiness and refinements have never Servier.
Bestdent bring
prosperity in their future. Their been seen on the high seas. healths were proposed by Col. Mundakan, and laving acted on seviral treasures as overnment Piggott, Military Attaché to the Seer-dang and also as Offeer Admin-British Embassy, Tokyo. istering a Government...
Within 24 hours of reading the burial service for the dead at sea over the body of his son, who had A baby girl was born to a died of pneumonia, Captain Pri- woman while visiting the British deaux, of the steamer Pentowy. The story of a fortune made in
His dream,cruiser Danae at Auckland, accom.died of the same malady. a lottery, thanks to a comes from Rome. A youngpanied by her husband and body was buried at sea not far from the spot off the Azores where her mother children, during the Heet's visit. Woman. wrote to
the body of his son had been com telling her to buy three tickets, the The newcomer was named Danas,
and the parents forwarded themitted to the deep on the previous numbers of which she gave, in a big lottery She added that her birth certificate to the warship's day. Mrs. Prideaux, who lives at commander for endorsement. Cardiff, received the tragic tidings husband, who had just died, had the numbers revealed to him in a The commander, instead of doing in a couple of cable grams.
this, has written to the parents dream and gave them to her on his death-bed. The tickets were stating that the certificate has been bought. All three were winning fied with the ship's papers, which.been lecturing in Scotland. The when the vessel is placed out of lady is the wife of the Chinese numbers and brought the owner
commission, will be pigeonholed Legation Secretary at Vienna £22,000.
in the Admiralty. A beautifully She told a Glasgow audience that a
"the province of Hunan in Central bound edition of the "Legend of Danac," embossed with the war China, one of the most civilized ship's cont of arms, and also a gold and progressive of all the States brooch of the same design, were of Last huge country which con- sent to the baby, with a letter oftains more people than the whole congratulation from the ship's of Europe, is sometimes spoken of
as the Chinese Scotland." officers.
"Mme. Daisy Laighwang"has
The Prince of Wales was enter tained at luncheon by the South African Lunchenn. Club at the Savcy Hotel in view of his visit to South Africa. The Prince said: Somebody the other day con- daled with me by pointing out that by going to South Africa just now
A portrait of Queen Elizabeth of I should be having three winters
Mr. J. A. Spender, a former Westminster running. Well, I thought this ever England has been found in an -it is absolutely true-but from obscure passage which connects editor of "The
For my experience of this wonderful the Galleria degli Uffizi and the Gazette," writing in that paper climate of ours it is often hard to Palazzo Pliti in Firornece. Until about Lord Curzon, says: differentiate between summer and. now no notice was attached to it, years he corresponded with me at intervals about the literary page in 1 am not sure that the but an English lady declared it to "The Saturday Westminster," of winter. South African winter is not just as he a well-preserved portrait of the good as and is not more sunny Queen in the prime of her life. which he was an assiduous reader than one of our summers over here.. No clue as to the painter of the and critic; and not infrequently he submitted verses and translations picture could be found, and it is of his own with a modest hope Capt. L. W. Hughes, who was surmised thai Queen Elizabeth thrown from his horse at the herself gave it to the Medici that the literary editor might Nanyang Gymkhanu receiving family in the same way that the think them worth considering." severe cerebral injuries, died latter had obtained portraits from week later in the P.U.M.C. Ho-other reigning foreign sovereigns. spital at Peking. A post-mortem Since the picture has no real value examination revealed injury to the in the eyes of the Italian Govern- brain. The news of his death, ment. either as a work of art or of though expected, will come as a historical importance, it has been A keen wind was blowing. At an the service in the cemetery chapel great shock to his numerous suggested to bring about
two the Rov. V. D. Davis announced between the friends in Peking, the tragedy exchange teink all my Capt countries. Bocinstance the Agure that Mrs. Solly and her Inte husband Hughes had settled up all his of the Politico of Gentile da had strong feellogs about the risk affairs and had made arrangements Fabriano is to be found in the people ran at funerals when they to leave Peking on home leave. National Gallery of London and walked bareheaded from the chapel He was for two years in the Loyal by an exchange of these two to the graveside. Many lives, he Lancashiro Regiment before join-pictures both countries would said, had been lost through this ing the Indian Army He was benefit, and England would there tribute. It was Mr. Solly's special more recently attached to the by add another periralt of the request that at his funeral mourners language Queen to the collection already in should wear their hats as they went
nxistence.
from the chapel to the grave British Legation officer
as
By special request, mourners wore their hats at the funeral of the Rev. H. Shaen Solly, a retired Unitarian minister, at Bournemouth.
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"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 he increased "beyond $6,000,000 the "number of shares in re- 'spect 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 consistingį 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 Capital.
(8) 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 registered in the Company's Share
ឆន Register the holders of the said 60,000 old shares at a premium of $10 per share.
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, -1926, until the date of receipt of payment by the Company's Bankers and a further instalment of $30 per new share to be paid on or before the 15th day of December. 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 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 (n 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.
(6). 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 15th. 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 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 ut 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 fit.
'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- That a ber is entitled, member whose registered i 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 it: tc., one instalment of $30 Registered Office aforesaid on per new share to be paid on TUESDAY, the 2nd day of June, or before the 15th day of 1926, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. July, 1925, and a further for the purpose of receiving a instalment of $30 per new Report of the proceedings at the..
above mentioned meeting and share to be paid on or before the 15th day of confirming, I thought fit, as 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 due WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of on such new shares on or June, 1925, to WEDNESDAY, before the 15th day of July, the 17th day of June, 1925 (both 1925, will be deemed to have days inclusive) during which declined. That member period no transfer of charce can whose registered address is be registered. situate outside the Far East
Dated the 4th day of May, 1925, or his nominee shall pay for
By Order of the such now sharea, accepted by two instalments, i.e., one Instalment of $80 per new. share to be paid on or
· Board of Directors,
R. M. DYER,
Chief Manager