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In the "China Mail's" editorial columns will be found a brief Note and Comment on the film "The Epic of Everest" now show- ing at the Star Theatre, It is a film which the "China Mail" urges every one of its renders to make u point of seclag
uf Posts,
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GENERAL.
The return of notifiable dis-
A merchant in Bathgate, enses In the Colony for, the 24 West Lothian, has received 24s. hours ended on May 3 shows 118d, with a letter from ar un Chinese case of small-pox and, 1 known sender in America asking Annamite case of enteric fever, I forgiveness for retaining 20s, Id, picked up 20 years ago, which is now returned with interest.""
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Rubber steadily pursues the course so often predicted, and it will soon be difficult to pick up slanges!
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"What a fine charice for that
make at school by putting it in the ink pot," remarked Judge Cluer when a chemist complained at Shoreditch County Court of iodide of potassium being dam- aged by water.
The Filipino people are rust reasonable prices may izzing kind of noise we used to Eng more, newspapers, magazines. Honig paper, Tand other periodicals every your, j
according to reports of the Buria The 44th onlinary meeting of Figures compiled by the Canton Insurance Office Tatil but buren show that the weights of Bhd on Thuesday the af avonderinss mail matter, under arst, gå moon, "in the othees of ide which newspapers and magazines Company, at No. 1. Fedder Street.
te,classified, and the postinge juil during hot. ure than doubled time
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Speaking at Horshad Surrey, Mr. Nan de Loubs, he has just Pojdeted fier-weeks "tour in A private hill has been intros dierung, said ting, throughout his duced in the House of Congmons, tour, he did not we a single man esatti to provide one week's 'annual hall of work, a single person badly day on full pay for all employed whozhink, or a single shim, persons. The introducer explain,
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Tsuchiya Shin, aged 19, cbri- mitted suicide by hanging him-:
tree in his self from garden in Hungo, Tokyo, recent- |- • . The direct cause of his rush act was his failure at the entrance examination of the First Higher School, Tokyn. Incidents.
ed that the practice had grown A young man at Bow County like this ought really to be headed, up in Lancashire and Yorkshire Court said he was out of work | “Another murder of a student,'
hia in recent years for factories and and living on
sister's says the "Japan Chronicle." Fosher industries to be closed down; "finance." Solicitor: You mean for one week yearly, to enable the her fiance? Young Man. I supe workpeople to get away for a pose that's it; I thought she said short holiday without pay. There Anance.
however, he declared were: 1,000,000 workers. who were hot!
At an inquest on Richard
There took place recently at the Goldsmiths' Hall the very ancient, ceremony known as "The Trial of the Pyx." The first re- cord of this ceremony is during the reign of Henry III. in the
able to afford to lose their ages, Eldridge, a housebreaker of and it was on their behalf that he Battersea. the Westminster thirteenth century. The trial is had brought forward the BIE. Coroner sal he had, a great of the coins issuing from" the The introducer added that he was respect for these men, who dis-Royal Mint and takes place every & printer, and since 1918 every¦ played great skill, pluck, and self-year. Originally it was carried nan. woman and girl concerned, reliance. They were "an umir-out in the Pyx, a chamber sin
the Printing Trade Employers" able body of men."
Westminster Abbey, which was Association and trade unions in
first the abbot's treasury and later the depository of the "pyx" or chest which consined the trial
standards of reference. The error admissible on the weight of coins is very small, 1.26 grains in a half-crown and a little over half a grain in the shilling.
wanted a similar concession, to be if Rahment in favour of Sur
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Great Britain had had 14 days Captain Arthur Evins is got holiday a year on full pay. He thig a petition signed by members
extended, to agricultural labour-Evelyn. Peril's bill to suppress ors, miners, engineers and textile newspaper reports of unsoury workers so as to enable them in law ensis and in favour of a resume
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that. an Extraordinary General get away for a week from the being issued by Blue judge whis day
Meeting of the above Company will be held at the Registered grime and smoke of the towns,y such cases. The petition asks Leave to introduce the bill having that facilities may be given to the than this is an "error" and seldom MONDAY, the 18th day of May, 1925, at 11 o'clock in the More Office of the Company, Queen's Building. Victoria, Hongkong, on been given, the measure will now Hill Over 154 members have occurs, the last entry being in forenoon, when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed come up for its second reading onlready signed, and Captain Evans 1919, The Royal Mint simply Extraordinary Resolutions, viz.:— April 28., 14 prospects of pass- experts think there will be over 200) | sends up a selection of all the ing are, however, problematical Justore the petition is handed inc different coins made there.
SOCIAL
Pag, A. E. Waits has gone tog North China on inspeebiour duty.
According In a hülletin issance! k-day
Princess * May (6) "the Roval's condition occasioned rather more anxiety during the inter part of yesterday, but after a transfusion
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PERSONAL.
Prince Henry received numer- ous congratulations on the 25th anniversary of his birthday,
In unveiling the Aldershot war memorial, Prince Henry said it was from that town that our "contemptible little army" set out.
The Shanghai Portuguese Ladies. Benevolent Society
Mr. S. T. Manu, stationmaster acknowledges with thanks the at Windsor (Great Western) for receipt of. $106.15 from the Por- 22 years, and well known to every
retiring after 50 years' service.
of blood there hack been definite im.tuguese Sporting Association. member of the Royal Family, is
govement.
Major Nathan, the Chairman of The Peking Syndicate and a direct of the bine Engineering and Mining Corporation, who bus been spoding the past day or two in Canton is leaving for the North by The Proskland Jeffousani tonnor?OW.
His
being part of the voluntary con- tribution by the spectators at the football match between the com- bined Portuguese team and the rest of Shanghai on April 13, at the Hongkew Recreation Ground,
Mr. J. Jackson, of Arlington- square, South Islington, who at 94 still plays the violin and viola, performed in the orchestra at his daughter's 71st birthday celebra- tion.
During Lord Curzon's fatal ill- ness the Queen called personally in Carlton House Terrace to To a woman with a baby, Judge The King had implicit, reliance
inquire. Such a visit indicates Cluer, at Shoreditch recently re- upon the late Lord Curzon's Judg the clase friendship between the marked, "I wish I could take your ment and knowledge of the world. King and Queen and the late case at the beginning of the day. On politicn) masters, of course, Marquess. Telegraphic and tele-but if I did everybody would hire the King consults nobody. phonic. inquiries may be made babies and bring them here." Majesty is advised of those ques from Buckingham Palace as to (Laughter.) tions by his responsible Ministers. the condition of distinguished But in social matters and in mat-people who are ill; in some cases ters affecting members of his inquiry is made at the house by own family, the King constantly an equerry on the King's behalf, consulted Lord Curzon. It is an
but personal inquiries are never open secret that Lord Curzon was made by the Sovereigns except in opposed to the Prince of Wales's cases of members of the Royal visit to India. "He thought the Family or their most intimate moment inopportune. It is friends. The Queen's call was equally an open secret that Lord the last honour Lord Curzon re ceived in a career strewn thick with honours.
DÕÕRGD------I.@ ̈¤•·Õ ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈@@@-----8090 Curzon was right:
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Mr. Jacob Millhoff, of Willesden- lane, N.W., founder of the De Reszke Cigarette Co., a native of Russia, left £130,431.
Bequests include:- £250 to the London Hospital. £250 to the London Jewish Hospital. Guardians.
£100 to the Jewish Board" of "
£1,000 is left to his brother, Haskel Mirowsky, of Odessa.
Everything in the social round at the Pan-Pacific Conference in of the London season has gradual- the American European Y.M.C.A. Richard M. Hail, secretary of Honolulu: — Mr. Hin
Wongly been restored to the pre-war at Manila and Sergeant A. Frid- journalist; Mr. James L. C. Yen, routine with one exception. That man, steward, better known to his founder of the Popular Education is the reception at the Foreign hundreds of Manila friends as Movement: Dr. Z. T. Woo, a well-Office. It used to be the known engineer; Mr. L. T. Chen, brilliant function
most "Sarg," will leave Manila on June of the year. 25 for the United States via Europe. of the national YM.C.A. in When the late Cord Curzon be Mr. Hall will be accompanied by China; Dr. T. T. Lew, dean of the
tume Foreign Minister everybody Mrs, Hall and his son, Richard, Peking University theological thought that with his great now in Baguio and a student at department; Mr. Y. S. Tsao, pre-wealth and his delight in the the Brent School for Roys.. Both sident of Tsinghun College, Peking; Mr. S. N. Oywang: Miss Spectacular and brilliant he would Mr. and Mrs. Fridman are going revive this.old function. But he to the United States on vacation Lo Yau-chih, president of the
didn't. Will Mrs. Chamberlain, and plan to return to Manila iz Kuangtung Girls' Normal Col who is a born hostess, prevail the Fall, lege; and others. The Peking upon her husband to restore the Government has been asked to vanished pre-war glories to the General Dunsterville, the allot $10,000 as expenses for the painted ceilings and walls of the original
Stalky of Rudyard delegation.
Foreign Office? Rumour says Kipling's antidote to "Eric; or the revival of the function is Little by Little," has written a contemplated. "
novel called
"And Qbeyed." Dunaterville and Kipling were Somewhat novel was the way in schoolboys together at Westward which the Duchess of Somerset Hot and have been friends ever
A mural memorial tablet to the Rev. C. E. Darwent, who died fast autumn, was unveiled in the Union Church, Tientain, by the
THOS, COOK & SON, (BANKERS) LTD. sling Pastor, the Rev. Frank B. expressed herself, concerning the since. "The greater part of the
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Turner. The tablet bears the use by women of bird plumage, General's life has been spent in following inscription: "To the in the course of the thirty-fourth India. During the war he did memory of Rev., Charles Ewart annual meeting of the Royal great, deeds, Darwent, M.A., born May 6, 1858. Society for the Profection of
For five years as the beloved Birds at the Middlesex Guildhall, Lord Derby's family, one by pastor of this church, and earlier when she said that the wearing of one, are turning to labour in one through a long ministry in Eng- aigrettes in hats or hair was form or another es a help to liveli Jand and in Shanghai, dis really akin to the customs of hood. First, Mr Oliver Stanley, tinguished for his fine Christian savages who wore very little Lord Derby's younger son and character, his erudition and except feathers. This practice, Lord Londonderry's son-in-law, eloquence as a preacher, his she urged was absolutely indefen went into the City, where he faithful presentation, of Gospel sible. It may be recalled that the joined the stock-broking firm.of. truth his devotedness" as a pastor importation or birde plumage: Montagu Co of which his and his deep human realing into, Great Britain has been pro uncle, Lord Charles Montagu- towards all, he truly served his hibited since April, 1922, and it who is likewise the uncle of the generation by the will of God and is impossible to overestimate the Duke of Mancheater is a mem fell un sleep, October 12, 1924. beneficial example of. Dowager her. Now Mr. Frederick Stanley, "He being "dead" yet speaketh. Queen Alexandra in connection the eldest son of Lord Derby's This tablet is erected as a tribute with the use of these articles of brother, Ferdinand; has departed of affection by this congregation" decoration.
to Canada to become a farmer. 5.
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"(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 eubstitution therefor of the following Article, name- ty:-
"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- "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 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;
Capital.
(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 registered in the Company's Share Register as the holders of the said 60,000 old shares at a premium of $10 per share.
(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
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 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, 1926, 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 aforesaid1 will be deemed to have declined, The Directors shall have the right to rejecti any nominee.
(5) That such of the said 60,000 new shares as shall be accepted by members. both in and outside the. 'ar East shail 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 rew 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 auch 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 fit.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY
East or his nominee shall ALSO GIVEN that a further
Extraordinary General Meeting" pay for such new shares accepted by two instalments, of the Company will be held at its de, one instalment of $30 TUESDAY, the 2nd day of June, Registered Office aforesaid on per new share to be paid on 1925, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon or before the 15th day of
or
July, 1925, and a further for the purpose of receiving a instalment of $30 per new Report of the proceedings at the share to be paid on above mentioned meeting and before the 15th day of confirming, if 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, 1926, to WEDNESDAY, before the 15th day of July, the 17th day of June, 1925 (bota 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. or his nominee shall pay for such new shaies accepted.
By Order of the by two instalments, ie, one
Board of Directors; Instalment of $30 per new
B. M. DYER, share to be paid on or
Chief Manager.