March 31, 1900.}
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
| of the Company, and does not enable the holder to sign the name of the person whose proxy he holds.
Agents on behalf of the Company and all other disbursements whatsoever incidental to the carrying on of the business of the Company made by the General Agents on behalf of the We have also to point out that until the do- Company. But, except as in Article 24 provid-caments authorising Mr. R. A. Gubbay to sign ed, no remuneration or commission shall be paid for Mr. R. H. Bruce, and Mr. E. R. Belilios to or received by the General Agents ont of the to sign for Mrz, Sema E, Belilios, and for Mr. funds of the Company."
R. E. Belilios as he appears to have done, are submitted to us for examination and verification, | 350 we cannot recognise these signatures. Your re- 2,000 quisition does not therefore bear the signatures 1,622 of ten shareholders, 1,245
Yours faithfully,
R. A. GUBBAY E. R. BELILIOS
́E. I. JUDAH
WONG PING LUM
CHUN A CHAI
M. H. MICHAEL
MBS. SEMA E. BELILIOS..
E. J. JUDAH)
Trustees.
E. J. MOSES)
125
280
168
25
R. E. TOEG
249
T. E. HASKEW
100
B. HEY
50
YANG HA TSAI
50
M. WOLFF
60
50
W. R. JOHSTON
C. F. JOHNSTON
R. S. HARVEY
I. JOSEPH...
W. H. READ
M. M. TACKEY
R. ANDERSEN
W. H. CAMPBELL
W. S. ORR
F. B. MARSHALL
25
We are, Gentlemen,
Yours faithfully, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Agents China Sugar Rafixing Co., LD.
No. 16. CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANT, LIMITED.
Hongkong, 22nd March, 1900.
R. A. GUBBAY, Esq,
Dear Sir,
The enclosed Powers of Attorney and 50
letter from Mr. W. S. Orr and others we have 125 submitted to our legal adviser, who informs us that the Power from Mrs. Belilios is in order, 25 but that the one from Mr. R. E. Belilios is use- 40 less for any purpose excepting the one therein
specified, viz., the collection of debti.
The other document we are advised gires no authority to sign a requisition or to vote.
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We have therefore registered the Power of 11 Attorney from Mrs. Belilios, but not the one 300 from Mr R E. Belilios, or the letter from Mr.
Orr and others.
100
E. THOMAS
E. W. WILSON
R. H. BRUCE;
R. E. BELILI03
5
R. E. BELILIOS
E. J. MOSES
25
. J. JUDAH
50
No. 17.
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125
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8,608
C. EWENS
M. W. SLADE
R. J. SOLOMON
Hongkong, 12th March, 1900.
No. 13.
15th March, 1900. Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
General Managers
CHINA SUGAR REFINING Co., LD.
Dear Sirs,
On the 12th inst. I forwarded you a letter signed by several shareholders. Kindly acknowledge receipt and oolige.
No. 14.
I am,
Dear Sirs, Yours faithfully,
R. A. GUBBAY.
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
Hongkong, 15th March, 1900.
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R. A. GUBBAY, Esq.
Dear Sir,
In reply to your letter of even date, the requisition to which you refer, requesting us to convene an Extraordinary Meeting of Shareholders
of the Company reached us on the 12th inst.
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We may add that it would have been acknow. ledged before but there was nothing to indicate from whom it particularly emanated, or to whom the acknowledgement should be addressed.
We are, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., General Agents.
No. 15.
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
Hongkong, 2lat March, 1900. To R. A. GUBBAY, Esq., and Others.
Gentlemen,
With reference to the Requisition re- osived from you on the 12th inst., asking that we should sall an Extraordinary Meeting of the China Sugar Refining Co., Ld, for the purpose of passing certain resolutions therein specified, we beg to inform you that we are advised that many of the signatures to the requisition are informal, and until it is reotified in respect of these, we do not propose to take any steps in regard to it.
Yours faithfully,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Agents.
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
Memorandum.
Hongkong, 22nd March, 1900. To R. A. GUEBAY, Esq.
Dear Sir,
In reply to your letter of even date we beg to inform you that the list of share- holders of the Comp ny for which you ask is being made up, and will be forwarded to you when ready on payment of the usual fee.
Yours faithfully, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
General Agents.
No. 18.
Hongkong, 23rd March, 1900. Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
General Managers
CHINA SUGAR REFINING Co., LD. Dear Sirs,
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In reply to your letter of the 21st in- | staut, I must point out that there are at least ten signatures to my requistion, viz., E. R. Chai, M. H. Michael Myself, C. Ewens, M. Belilios, E. J. Judah, Wong Sin Sum, Chan A Slade, E. J. Judah and E. J. Moses Trus- tees, Mrs. Sema E. Belilios by her Attorney.
I must therefore ask you to call the meeting.
I am, Dear Sirs,
Yours faithfully,
R. A. GUBBAY.
No. 19. UHINA SUGÁR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED,
Hongkong. 23rd March, 1900. R. A. GUBBAY, Esq.
Dear Sir,
Referring to our letter of yesterday, we beg to enclose list of shareholders of the Com- pany, with debit note for $5.50 in connection therewith, which sum kindly forward us.
We are, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.:
General Agents.
No. 20.
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24th March, 1900. Mesurs. Jardins, Matheson & Co.
Dear Sirs,
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I am instructed to prepare a of questions to be put to the Chairman at the meeting of the Shareholders of the China Sugar Refining Co., Ld, to be held on the 29th inst. A
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prepare the answers. In the meanwhile I pro- pose to ask the Press to publish the correspon. dence which had taken place between the share-. holders and yourselves, so that all shareholders may know what has taken place.
Yours faithfully,
No. 21.
M: W. SLADE.
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CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
Hongkong, 24th March, 1900. M. W. SLADE, Esq.
Dear Sir,
Referring to your letter of this date, we shall be glad to have copy of the questions in- tended to be put to us at the Ordinary General Meeting of the Company, on the 29th inst.
We desire, however, to call your attention to the fact that no questions are admissible at the Ordinary. General Meeting, and no business can be transacted thereat except in connection with the Report and Accounts as presented by us (See Article 113 of the Company's Articles of Association), and we shall decline to answer any questions whatever outside the immediate business for the transaction of which the Meet. ing has been called, nor will we permit any discussion on any other questions.
We can have no objection, to your publishing the correspondence
We have only to request that the Requisition addressed to us with its signatures and the supposed anthority from Mr. R. E. Belilios. and from a group of gentlemen in Amoy under the assumed authority of which the Requisition in question was signed, may be included, as also your letter, and our reply.
We shall be glad to know the name of the solicitor who is instructing you,
We are, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO,. Genéral Agents.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE
Sir.
WEEKLY PRESS,"
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With reference to correspondence pub- lished in your issue of the 27th inst., by request of Mr. Marcus W. Slade, we beg, with his concurrence, to enclose copies of other letters upon the same subject, which we shall be obliged by your inserting in your issue of to-morrow.
We are, Sir,
Yours faithfully, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO,,
General Agents
CHINA SUGAR REFINING CO., LD.
Hongkong, 28th March, 1900,
No. 1.
Hongkong, 26th March 1900. R. A. GUBBAY Esq., and others.
Dear Sirs,
In reply to Mr. Gubbay's letter of the received from you on the 12th idem, requesting 23rd inst. and with reference to the Requisition
us to call an Extraordinary General Meeting of the China Sugar Redning Company, Ld., for the purpose of having submitted certain Resolutions therein specified, we beg to state that, apart from the question of the formality of the signatures to the requisition, we do not propose to call the Meeting.
One of our reasons for declining to comply with your request is that we disapprove al- together of the Resolutions, which we consider to be opposed to the interests of the Company.
You will probably, under the circumstances, take steps to call the Meeting yourselves, and, so far as we are concerned, there is no objection to your doing so on ten days' notice instead of waiting a month, as would be required were there any doubt as to whether we would do so
or not.
We are, Dear Sirs,
Yours faithfully, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.
General Agents.
No. 2.
Hongkong, 27th March, 1890. MARCUS W. SLADE, Esq.
Dear Sir,
We beg to point out that of the corres- We beg to call your attention to the fact that
pondence published at your request in to-day's no proxy gives the holder any other authority I copy of the questions will be furnished you on issue of the Hongkong Daily Press, the letter the 28th inst, so that you may have time to ❘ addressed by certain shareholders to Mr, B, A,
than an authority to vote at a general meeting