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HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
AUCTIONEERS, &a.
PAUL BREWITE
Zetland Street, Auctioneer, Appraiser and Commission Agent.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers to the Government, and Share and General Brokers, corner Ice House
Street and Praya Central.
V. I. REMEDIOS,
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THE PHARMACY,
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China Porcelain, Crockery are ; 59a,
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Surgeon Dentist, 50, Queen's Road Central,
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SPORT AND ANECDOTE.
BY AN OLD FoGry.
AY EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT AT FOOTBALL:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 610, 1900
EATIONAL CLOTHES AND FRESH AIR. Dr. Almond is a staunch advocate for what he calls" rationally dressed mon. He abhors tight-fitting clothing. He believes in bars throats and free play for the langs. The boys of Loretto School can be identified anywhere
The power of the rofores as football under all codes must be supreme, and it is moreover the manifest duty of all good sportamon, all shival rous players, and all self-respecting and im partial journalists, to uphold the power of that official. A curious incident occurred in relation, to this matter at Bury on Saturday, when the First League team of this East Lancashire town encountered Sunderland. The game was controlled by. Mr. Kingscott, of Derby, and he had occasion to rule MoLatchie offside several times. This player seemed to reset this interference with his movements, and in the second half ho; was again pulled up short when he was within half a dozen yards of the goal-lines, bat near the corner flag. Thereupon MoLatchie lack-heeled the ball over the goal-Line, and it rested up against the boards enclosing the playing oro. John Darroch, the opposing full back, did not see why he should be the ser vant of MeLatchie, and fotosh and carry through they are all dressed in a jersey of scarlet colour and in knickerbockers. They have, liko his petalance. He drew the referee's attention the London Bluecoat loys, no hat or cap, and to the matter, and Mr. Kingscott ordered Moge about as if they were playing football the Latchie to bring the ball back for the free-kick. day over. Free play for all the organs of the The player sheepishly did as he was told, ent body and fresh air combined with plenty of then commenced, it is alleged, to he impertinent exercise gives as the fine youths and the stamp. to the referee--not for the first time during the ping men we soe turned out from Loretto. And match--and that official ordered him off the from my own observatione I think. Dr. Almond fold. Under Law 12, Mr. Kingscott was quite is pursuing a wise policy. I know a doctor who within his rights, as the rule says: "In the has a delicate little boy. Living in a pure sir event of any angentlemanly behaviour on the by the seaside the curly-haired child runs about part of any of the players, the offender or offen-wook in work out without a hat, without shoes ders shall be cautioned, and if the offence is or stockings, and in a sailor costume which repeated, or in case of violent conduct without gives free play to the chest. The boy is gain. any previous caution, the referee shall have ing strength daily, and his talented father is power to order the offending player or players enthusiastic as to what I might term the fresh off the field. The power of the referee air cure for all siling folk who can get about. extends to offences committed when the play Deliancy, unless overpoweringly hereditary is, has been temporarily suspended, and when the largely preventible. ball is out of piny."
Manchester, Leeds,
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GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
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TEBRAU PLANTING COMPANY, LIMITED.
accordunes with Article No. VIII. Para- the Company, Interest at the rate of $10 per graph 3 of the Articles of Association of cent, per Annam is being Charged on all Un- paid Calk.
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JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managera., Hongkong, 3th November, 1996.
THE PUNJOM MINING COMPANY. LIMITED.
Hutchinson Almond is thoroughly opposed to | improvement in health, language, morality, and the "cramming" crasé, Boya and men' are even in school work, among the players." arpested nowadaya to assimilate so much co- This I can corroborate, and I am a staunok called "learning" just as a sausage-making advocate for football, cricket, and swimming machine grinds up and reduces to paly the being taught at all elementary schools Mr.HAREHOLDERS, who have not yet most crammed into its mouth. Dr. Almond George Bharples speaks from experiance, for PAID the Call of per Shary on the has no sympathy with the competitive e he was formerly captain of the Holton New Issue of Shares, due en 1st instant. are amination system-the whole article being di Wanderers Football
Clab, while at the forthwith and Scrip sent in to the Company's herely reminded that same should be paid rected against the cramming and the examina prosent time he is the headmaster of a very Office for endorsement, and notice is hereby tion methods for the selection of offers for large school vodor the Manchester Board, is a given that, in accordance with the provisions our army. This powerful appeal for the train very energetic member of the executive of the of the Company's Articles of Association, in- terest at the rate of 12 per cent. per Annum ing of the physique, not without lue regard to National Union of Tosphers, and vice-president from 1st inst. till date of payment will be the brain power of the fighting man, has, how of the Manchester, Salford, and District Schools charged on all such calls outstanding after this over, a much wider application. We should al Athletic Association. There is a football shield | dates. try to be vigorous animals, for the health of a for competition among the teams from the By Order. nation is its capital, We all want a better scholars of the Board Sohcols of Manchester, insight into the laws of life, the foods and and annually this produces a capital struggle, drinks we should take, the slothes we should the boys being well-trained, unt only physically, war, and the exercion wn should insist upon. but even in the iner poluts of this game. More- over, the Manchester boys have played Notting- ham, Sheffield, and London teams of a similar calibre, from which it will be seen that the good work is not confined to the city of Manchester- Moreover, in many large centres the teachers and the swimming clubs are instructing boya in the art of natation. A silver challenge shield was presented to the Amotour Swimming As- cociation by the Northern Counties branch of that body, to perpetuate the memory of Mr. G. H. Barker, of Liverpool, and this is annual- ly put up for competition ne a Schoolboy Team NOT sherri HAL EXTRA- Championship emblem.
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING- Nottinghau, Leicester, Liverpool, Walsall, of the above-named Company will be held at the Company's Office, No. 9. Des Vaux Road. Vin- Grimsby, and London have since 1896 farnisit-toxia, in the Colony of Hongkong, on SATUR- e compating teams for this trophy, and DAY, the Sth ray of Desember, 1900, at Noon, the winners have hailed from the Seamen's for the purpose of Considering and, if thought Crphange, Liverpool, Arnot-st School, Livert, Pussing the A or B Resolutions following, pool, Ardwick Groen School, Manoliester, and Albot-st Board School. Manchester, while I may nid that the People's College. Nottingham. have deserved well by their persistent efforts. This is a move in the right direction, and I should like to see more towns and more schools represented in the competition. Every year at Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester, the Board Schools have in athletic festival for both boys I cannot ontor at length into Dr. Almond's and girls, the progratame embracing foot and This is, of course, a misfortune for Meat article, but there are two points which I wish to cycle racing, bags of war, team races, and every- chie, who must be reported to the Football emphasise. Ho says: "I do not think that thing that the children enjoy. For the gather- Association and punished. He is a clevar Ayrorioket does nearly as much as football to cal ng last year there wore 1.433 entries. The shire laddie who has bean playing for Sunderland tirate those qualities of bruin and character mammoth programme was ran through with for more than three years--so that he knows his which are most wanted in a soldier. Football xanchine-tike precision. The enthusiasm of the R. HAUGHTON & CO.,
Naval, Military and Court, 16, Queen's Road, duties. It is really intolerable that experienced stands from this point of view in the first rank youngsters and the genuineness of all the races
Opposite Kuhn's Curio Store.
men should insult the referes, should delay the of sports. Alpine climbing, hunting, and deer was refreshing to anyons rendered “blasó" by. game, and should give trouble to opponents by stalking being the other three. Bat we want the swindling and gambling which disgraco so fits of temper in this manner. There has been active, self-rulinat, sharp, strong, long-suffering many of our modern athletic festivals. The great deal too much of this "showing off by man in every walk of life. Football is good for interest of parents and friends was only excelled well-paid professionals, and it is quite time they all of us who are young and healthy. At all by the brightness of the children as a whole and were taught to behave with decorum. Imagine, if possible, a professional cricketer, given out schools, whether for the poor or the rich, some the happiness of the winners - the lucky log before wicket, picking up the ball and code of football skuld be systemationlly played. minority. I never saw a greater tribute to the It was in The Nineteenth Century of Decem healthy influence of pure sport-and indeed I throwing it to the boundary in his mortification. Such an outburst of pique, which is exactly on all br, 1893, that Dr. Almond wrote forcibly on know of nothing in the world to give us the fours with McLatchie's common offence, would football as a moral agent. Let me recall his best breed of men and women to compare with memorable worde on that occasion. He said: systematio exercise in some invigorating- und be the ruin of the player. If we cannot control Surely, whatever tends to quicken the cirens cleanly pastime. When can be done in Man- the paid player in private life we can at least seetion, to raise the spirits, and to purify the chester and Salford is possible claewhere. Lot blen? is, ipao facto, a moral agent. This is so the teachers of our youth put their shoulders to Kingscott nearly ordered another Wearsider off at all ages, but it is more especially the case the wheel mud be backed by the Education. the grass for insolence. The Sunderland tesir
during the age of boyhood. It is an incalcul Department. They will find the childran raro were so annoyed that they began to try to blessing to this country that such a sport Lelpmates and the best of sportsmen. knock their opponents about. But Mr. King is so enthusiastically beloved by almost all that scott promptly called both teams together and most politely told them that in this instance the part of our boyhood whom nature has endowed CHRISTMAS!
with strong passions and overflowing energies. referes was a He Who Must Be Obered, or hots more existence and the praution! lessons would send half a dozen ren to the dressing which it preaches are worth all the books that NTORE, TOYS, TOYS of all descrip rooms. The warning had its affect-although have been written on youthful purity.
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never seen in the second portion, and a draw, about the physiological facts of his own being The boy will eagerly listen to instruction without goals, was the best possible termination to the struggle. Mr. Kingscott, who occupies when he finds out that they have s practical an important position on the Midland Bailway he should not indulge in the vicious practice of bearing on his own immediate success. Why is not, as may be gathered, 'a ly figure as referee. Some years ago a member of the grabbing at all times, which laye up a store of far more fatare ill-health than oven juvenile [2961 Glasgow Bongers insulted him, and was
ordered to apologise. The impadent footballer smoking, or in the unwholesome habits, so rífa aidrossed the envelope "Mr. Kingscott, pro-aruong schoolboys, of bolting their food, er fessional football referee, Derby," The latter avoiding what are, perhaps, the only available! enclosed real I am desired to apologise; I vegetables; why he should never let even the hereby do so." This was adding injury to roughest day in winter pass without facing the IVORYWARE, invult, and the letter was sent to the English wind and rain, till he is in a glow of joyous Association, who referred the communication to heath, why ho should not eramp his breathing. the Scottish Association. The latter ought to organs, or distort his fest, if he wishes to have have suspended the player and ordered a proper good wind and to avoid sprain-these and apology But the Scottish Association re numerous other lessons of a similar kind are, I quested the referee to apologise for reporting, can bear witness, eagerly imbibed by a school the matter to the English Association instead of which is keen on football." I am not at one to them! Such are the trials and troubles of a with Dr. Almond as to the influence of cricket, referees official who deserves all the help but I shall never tire of siding and abetting him in the advocacy of football for boys and that everybody can give him,
young men. The indoor life of schools broods discontent, pesimismo, and all that is unhealthy morally and physically. The outdoor life brings optimian, sosial purity, and physical develop.
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A WONDERFUL WIN POZ BOLTON WANDERERS,
The present Association football campaign has been fruitful of surprise-but what are we to say, to the victory of Bolton Wanderers over Shofield United at Bramall-lane? Time was when the Wanderers could thrash the United
ment
PHYSICAL TRAINING IN NATIONAL SCHOOLS. But if this applies to the well-born, the well by 13 goals to none in an English Cup-tio, but bred, and the moneyed classes, it is true in those days are past. The United have risen in throbfold degree of those less fortunately placed the world, and the Bolton team have experienced in the world. We want more attention paid to upe and dovus." At present the Lancashire the culture of physique in our national elemen organisation are on the up-grade, and they have taxy schools--and less to the presumed paradise in the month of October beaten Aston Villa, of pen and ink." Dr. Almond in his last article romarks:-* I have never read a mora inter-
chuapiens. Last Saturday's success is very extraordinary, for in League matches, the Bol ton Wanderivs have only scored su two previous occasions at Brazil-lane, namely, do September 23, 1893, when they were defeated by 4-2, and
kong and the journey is made each day (San
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Sharples in Special Reports, Vol. II., issued by the Education Department, 1898 of the efforts made by masters of public elementary schools, to many of the large English towns, to pro- mote healthy bahits among their scholars on March 11, 1899, when they inst by by means of football and other games. As The Wanderors have on their own ground routed the United in four League matches, but aight be expected, the result has been a vast | Saturday's victory makes elab record
the sumo tame the United had much the best of the play. Still, what is the nee of that it But eliffe în goal is invincible, as he was k
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· PUBLIC COMPANY.
A. B. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND on recount of the your 1300 at the Hate of Fifty Conte per Share for Fiss per cant on, the Capital of the Company) will be PAYABLE at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Hong kong, on and after the 25th lustant, om Warrants to be obtained from the undersigned. Local Shareholders are requested to apply at the Company's Office for their Warrants,
The DIVIDEND will also be Payablent the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Shanghai, Mon presentation of Warrants there, on and after the, samo dabs, me
The REGISTER of SHARES will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 21st instant until FRIDAY, the 30th instant, both days inclusiga, during which period ne Trans- fer of Bharen can be registered.
y By Order:
A H. MANCELL, Hongkong, 9th November, 1900,
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RESOLUTIONS A. 1-That the Capital of the Company be in
orsused by the creation and basis of 60,000 New Ordinary Shares of $10 each, with the sum of $8 paid up on cach, and that the Directors be empowered and authorised to accept surrenders of the present 60,000 Ordinary Shares of the Company of 83 each. on which the aim of $8 each has been paid up, and that one New Share of 810, with the sum of $8 paid up thereon, he given in lieu of and in oxchange for each old share of $3'fully paid up, and that thereupon the said old shares bu qancelled. 2.That of the romaining $2 payable in res- pest of each of the New Shares, the sum of $ be paid on the surrender of the old share, and that the revidna be (if necessary) called up and paid at such times and in such instalments as the Board may determino
RESOLUTIONS L.
1. That the Capital of the Company be in- ⚫creased by the eration and issue of 60,00 ) New Ordinary Shares of $12 ench with the xam of $8 paid up on each, and that thỏ Directors be powered and authorised to accept aвrrenders of the present 60,000 Ordinary Shares of the Company of $3 each on which the mm of 38 each has been paid up, and that one Now Shore of $12 with the sum of 38 paid up thereon he given in lieu of and in exchange for each old share of 98 fully paid up, and that thereupon the maid old Shares be cancelled. 2-That of the remaining 4 payable in res
pect of each of the New Shares the sum of $1 be paid on the surronder of the Old Shures and that the rasidne to (if necessary) called up and paid at each times and in ench instalmenta as the Board may deter. mine.
Should either of the above Resolutions be passed by the requisite majority they will be sub- mitted for confirmation us Special Resolations to a Second Exlaaordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. H GASKELL,
Becretary. Hongkong, 24th November, 1900.
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED:
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the Com- pany's Office, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 20th day of December, 1900, at TWELVE O'CLOCK NOON, when the subjoined Resolution, which wry passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company hold on the 4th December, 1900, will be submitted for confrmation as a Special Rosolution.
RESOLUTION-
That the Regulations approved by this meet *ing and for the purposes of identification sub- "scribed by the General Managers be and the same are hereby approved. And that such Re gulations be and they are hereby adopted ri "the Regulations of the Company to the exclu *gion of all existing Regulations thereof."
By Order.
A. H. MANUELL,
Sporotary, Hongkong, 5th December. 109,
THE STAR FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.
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TOTICE is hereby givan that an EXTRA- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.
of the " Star Ferry Company, Limited, will be held at the Company's. Ofles on the 28th December, 1900, at 12.15 PM.
1. To consider and if thought it approve the draft Now Rognlatieże which will be submitted to the Meciur and in the event of the approval thereof witli or without modifications er aliscations. 2-To consider and if thought: to pass & Resolution to the effect that the Now * Regulations already approved by this "Meeting and for the purpose of Identi "Beation Enbsoribed by Chairman's "thereof be and the same are hereby
approved and that even Regulations be “and the some ara horoby adopted as the Regulations of the Company to the "exolnsion of all the existing Rege
tious theruof A Copy of the
Now proposant Regulations may be seen at the Company Office.
Should the abers Resolution be passed by the
required majority it will be submitted for
confirmation" us a Special Résolution to a Second Listraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
By Order
of the Board
EDWARD OSBORNE, Snorecary. Hongkong, 5th Decamlior, 1909)
NOTICE
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HAVE This Day REMOVED my Office
- to 1st floor, No. 6, QUEEN'S ROAD.
FERD. HORNEMANN. Hongkong, 1st December, 1900,
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