INSURANCES
SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY
rur Undersigned, having bora appointed NTS for the above Company, att
PUBLIC COMPANIES
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4rg, 1901
A. S. WATSON & CO., IMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
part to ACCEPT ITSKE against FIRE A of the rear 199), at the rate of witty
Lt Current Rates.
HOTZ, JACOB & CO.
33 Hongkong, 2nd April, 1900, TORTH BRITISH AND MERUAN.
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY. TOTAL FUNDS AT 1ST DECEMBER, 1900, £14,732,681.
1.
6
AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 0
0 "Sumcribed CAPITAL.... 2,750,000 0
687,500 0 0 PAID-UP CAPITAL ....................
2,639,716 14 4 II. Fine FUNDS..
Tho Undersigned, having been appointa AGENTS for the above Company, are pre pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO..
A ganta,
0104 Hongkong, 3rd July, 1901.
TORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG The Undersigned AGENTS of the shore Company are PREPARED TO Acor First Clay Foreign and Chinese Tiska at Carrer
SIEMSSEN & CO.
Tai Hong, 20th May, 1895. TYRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSU
Rates.
ANCH COMPANY OF HAMBUR The Undorsiguel, having been appointe AUEATS for the above Company, are per pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE Current Rates
SIEMSSEN & CO.
Agents
Hongkong, th November, 1879,
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THE WESTERN ASSURANȚE "COM. PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA
INCORPORATED 181..
CAPITAL
.....Lito on..
drointe
HE Undersigned, having bee
AGENTS for the above Company, ir prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
WM MEYERINK & CO..
Agels.
Hongkong, 18th May, 1900. AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN SURANCE CO.
185
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL "E Undersigned, having boun appointe AGENTS for the shore Company, ar prepared to ACCEPT RISKS aghast FILE at Current Rates...
REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & CO.,
Agonte. Hongkong, 21st April, 1899
184
QUN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON
FOUNDED 1710.
The Undersigned having been appoints. AGENTS for the above Company, are pre pared to ACCEPT RISKS Against FIRE Current Rates.
SIENSSEN & CO.
Agente. Hongkong, 16th May, 1892.
"L'URBANE” FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LD. (Established 18IS.)
130.
HE Undersigned, having been appointed THE JENT'S for above.
Company, are propared to ACCEPT RISKS at current rates.
...
£419
P. LEMAIRE & CO. Hongkong, 7th February, 1901. PHENIX FIRE
OFFICE
The Undersigned are now prepared to of INSURANCE GRANT POLICIES against FIRE at Currant Rates
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
Agents for the Phoenix Fire Office, [32 Hongkong, 17th August, 188". THE TRADE MARKS-ORDINANCE, 1898
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARKS. TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that CHU KWONG LAN carrying ou 08 Wing Lok business at Nos. 104 and Street Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong and elsewore as Tobacco Merchants have on the 24th day of October 1901 applied for the registration in Hongkong in the Register of TRADE MARKS of the following TRADE MARKB
The distinctive device of a stag enclosed in a rhomboidal shaped ornamented design; above the stag is depicted the sun with its rays-ahore-which a tho English words "CHU KWONG LANTED MARE" and abace which are thres Chinese Characters
N INTERIM DIVIDEND on Conte per Share (or Fire per cant. on the Capital of the company) will be payable at tho Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Hongkong, on and after the 4th December on Warrants to be obtained from the nursigned. Local Sharoh lders are requested to apply at tho Company's Oleo for air Warra le
The Dividend will also be payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Shanghai, on presentation of Warraute there, on and after the same lato.
The REGISTER of SHARES will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 30th instant; until FRIDAY, ti Decabar, both days inclusive, during which period on Transfer of Shares can be registered."
By Orler.
[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]
A BEGGAR'S TRAGEDY
TOM GALLON
ΣΕ
· (Author of "A Prince of Minciune," &c.). She was probably the prettiest beggar that over stopped daintily in patched shoes. Yet, properly speaking, she was not a beggar at all, are for a few hour; she had put on a bewitching robo of miszy to please her own even that poor dress confd not hide for beauty; faner, and perhaps to shor-woman-like-that and would, in fact, only add to it, by force of contrast.
Grace Ingram was the spoiled child of a man who had suddenly and unexpectedly grown enormously rich. Old John Ingram had been a modorately prosperous tradesman; and a patent which came into his hands had proved to be as the advertisements Bay-a long-felt want; and had enabled him to rolice, at a little over middle-1 with a big Fortune. Graco, being his only child, sprang at ones into a position of importance; chased to preside over the modest 3018hon keeping arrangements of the cosy little house of which the shop had formed a part: AND
and becaum & fashionde young lady, and a con-ddurable wires.
J. A. TARR· NT,
for Secretary. Hongkong, 26th November, 1DGL THE WANCHAL WARN HOUSH
STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED. TOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN that an GENERAL EXTRAORDINARY
་་་
after all, been so happy. She thought of it with a paw tenderness of a poor deserted out house, in strange hands, with all the old familiar things changeder r gone. In a foolish eantiments! fashion, she wanted to look at it, on this night when she was closing down the old closely. writton page of her life so firmly-wanted to se what it locked like wanted to bid farewell to it, as it wore, for the lost time. There may have even been a sort of feeling in her mind, devoid of tenderness, which prerapted her to stand in the street through which she had passed so cften in old times to and there in that curions. never touch again. Be that as it may, sho dress-a very parody of the poverty she would
straight for the place. started off, without a moment's hesitation,
She began to grow little frightened when she was nearing the plays, the streets koetter to have narrowed somewhat, even in the compara- tirely short time since she hail left thom; the houses were smaller nad meater One or twice, tog, a drunken man lurched towards her, and only her swift feet sarod her from molestation. Sha bogan to wish axlently that she had never started out on such as orrand,
She reached the house at last--the dear old quaint shop, with the peeping eyes in the closed shutters. The place was empty, and a forlorn- looking board unnomed the fact that it was to Jet. From the appcane of the board, it had But wealth arrita its responsibilities; and apparently been to lol for a long time. But she Grace Ingram found that the ol comfortabls was glad now that she had come; was glad that days were gue, and sure of the old comfortable the old saffound teader foalings had awakened in her. The brilliant sceno she had left seemed N
wat menonjes for times of striving, had to levory for away; was back in the years some MEETING of the WANCHAL WAR | Timings with it. Old friends, with conveni- HOUSE and STORAGE, CO FFÀS 7. LIMITED, will be held at the COMPANYS Bot to plant along in their own fashi a new how, and had nothing real or tangible about it. She was back again in the old life, dreaming OFFICE No. 5. Qua's Rod Contral, thus, who had in memories at ull, sprang up
Then, in the test natural fashion, she lega Hongkong, TO-MORROW (THURSDAY) round the man with the big lions and the many the old dreanis, thinking the okl thoughts. the 5th day of December 1901, at 3 o'ck.ek
and patronized his and tried to in the afternoon, when the subjoin Resolation patronis his dichter. in the last, they dit which was passed at the Extra rinny Gordnet suvered; for Grace had a will of her own,
testing of the Company bell on the Tud se to know instinctively the right day of November 199, wil in submit for thing to do, and thw right thing to say, at the confirmation as a special assurudio
5. That the opty wind up valon- tarily and thin. Jelen Deur Ludwig Sehviter of Vinigria in the Colony of Hongkong te and he is homily p "pointed Liquidator for the purposes of
such winding up.
MEYER & CO.,
General Managers, Hongkong, 29th November, 190
HONGKONG COTTON SPINNING, WEAVING & DYING COM PANY, HMITED.
457
right. oment
"Of rourgo, there had been a lover to deal with; is aways is a lover, who turns my inn venderly, and refuses to set that suforfunste past deally bury its dead. Grace Ingram. in the gs when he lizat over her father's shops, but been genuinely in love with a peer -and-ruggling mates ace legem, when she tool, a hựa nhunde in her father's new and splen hd house, tried to forget (ut her father's ladd ing get it said) that she had ever been in love at all; wanted to surt with a clean slate, ilege, and to wip at out, legiber with eher im ble things.
It must not be supposer for a woment that THE SPARE CERTIFICATM No. 71 for
Grace was bearless 14 probable that, aftor 1.15 shares nubered 14-8 ta Fe inclusive
ber mid had bef her at ight, she wept over standing in the Register in the use of
that old jer of hors; and wondered anxiously ROBERT AGNEW ANDERSON, with re-
what he was doing and longed desperately to lative, transfer dead aigned by him, haring he
seu kim? Bat the world is a world of change, LOST, notice is hereby given that unless the
and we are never cont nt with the same thing Rift Certificate he produced at ho Offer of
very long if Pale gives us the opportunity to the Company, Padder's Street, Victorin, Hong- koug, on or before the 7th day of December, step out on a new vial; and Grec Iogram was be trandied 1901, a New Certificate will be issued in favoury ung, and the fins and splondid golden buil
wax a foot, to where she would.- Necessary. she called
solitude, and.! herself bitter shares, and the Old Cortificat will thereafter of ALFRED SHAW the purchase of said of life.
rush f breathless told herself that be held by the Company a null and void.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
for place ad pleasure were worth nothing. General Managers.
[2844 as compared with the love of a good raan; but Hongkong, 7th Noveab r, 9001.
other thoughts eans in the morning and she -told-borself ches with an impact stamp of HONGKONG HOTTE COMPANY LIMITED:
the foot, thank al was made for liter lungs. and raust, leave such funlishness bohind
'NOTICE.
NEXTRAORDINARY GENERAL A MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS
namster
this
Of course, it is shredly necessary to say that other lovers ut in an appearance-lovers good. bad and indirent. Bat old John Ingram : know pretty charly what, he wentel" for his
in the above Company will be held inve daughter; sorted the lovers, as he had once HOTEL on WEDNESDAY, the 1horted samples of goods in his shop; and picked December, 191, at Noon, to consider à prout the or he thought had the best qualities. peal of the Board of Diretors for the profit for the wear and tear of life, and the most sub- Able utilisation of the Ground on the Redlung-tantial king account to stand wear and tear tion in front of the Hotel and, if approved, to pass the following Resolution
That this Mosting approves the proposal for utilising the Company's Prayn Reclamation band (Remaining Portion of Marian. Lot No. 7) by the erection of a building thereon.
C. MOONEY,
Secretary.
13 55 Hongkong, 30th Novianber, 1901.
THE DAIRY FARM COMPANY, LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an
N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING of the above named Company will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, No. Albert Read, Victoria, in the clony of ong- cember, 1901, at Noos, for the purpose of kong on SATURDAY, the 14th day of De Considering, and if thought fit, passing the following Resolution, viz
RESOLUTION.
"That the figures in Article No. 10, Clause 15 of the Articles of Association of the Company be altered to read $1,500, (Fifteen hindre Dollars)." Should the shore Resolution be passed by the raquisite majority, it will be submitted for confirmation, as a Special Resolution, to a Second Extraordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
E. P. MOFFITT, Secretary,
3034 Hongkong, 27th November, 1901. HUMPERNYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
HE SHARE
CERTIFICATE No.
*ach enclosed in a circle reading UNDERWONG LAN. On one side 3758 for Fifty Shares, naubered 83,751 of the stug are the Chinese Characters
to, 63,800 inclusive, standing in the Register in and on the viher side of the stag the name of HUGH CAMERON GIBSON, of Shanghai, having been LOST. NOTICE The Chinese Charactere roading 18 HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said KAM LUK WAI KI meaning in English Certificate be produced at the Offices of the "Golden Stag as Maric" (the above is Company, 38 and 40, Queen's Road Central, the front label of the packet in which the Visteris, Hongkong, on or before the 15th day of December, 1901, e new Certificate for the Tobsoco is packed),..
said Shares will be issued, and the old Certifi-
In combination with the above and at
the back of the pathet in which the Tobacco este will thereafter be held by the Company as is packed is depleted the borders of anail and void. ornamented design formed in a rhomboidal shape and inside of which ers printed columns of Chinese characters,
In combination with the above mad ́in. the inside of the packet in which the Tobacco is packed is a label upon which is also depicted a stag enclosed in a rhom boidal shaped ornamented design above which depicted the man with its rays.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 16th November, 1901.
CARTRIDGES."
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87.40 6.00
the stag are printed columns of Chinose characters and on the other side of the Primrose Cases...$5.65 slag are also printed columns of Chinese Peganoid Cases... 6.25
characters,
The TRADE MARKS are intended to be used by the applicants forthwith in respect of the following goods →→
Manufactured Chinese Tobacco in Class-46. Facsimiles of the TRADE MARES.can be seen
8.05
1564
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Apply to claim to be the proprietors thereof,
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CENT J. B. WHITE & BIOS
SOLE AGENTS FOR CHIRA HOLLIDAY WISE Hongkong, 16th September, 1901.
at the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hong. kong and also at the Off of the undersigned,
Dated 4th day of Novembon, 19 1
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Applicants, 12 Queen's Road Control;
Hongkong.
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also. Let it not be thought that the old an courced his daughter, in any we probably he knew her too well to attempt it. But pride and wealth had turned the girl's head a little, and she saw. only too clearly with her father's eyea More than that, the suitor proposed had much to re egamend him; quite apart from his wealth and social position, he was really a good follow-quite young and honestly in fore with the girl There was no forcing of the inclinations, no shedding of tears in secret: Graco Ingram really liked young Clement Vicary, and was quite content, in a sort of negative fashion. Ja a word, she stifled con science, forget ald vows and promises, and resolutely determined not to be reminded of something whit ever ought to have beou, which never could be now,
to marry him.
man who budoun filled wi i brave ambitions for to think of the man who lind luvel her; the
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her sake; the man who hai be willing and MESSES. KELLY & WALSH, LD. bogan to wonder, with a quick ning heart, wit ready to conquer the world, for love of her." SMESSES. W. BREWÈ & CO. had happened to him, and where he was; whether la balee el or failed; above all (strang thought for girl ju whose cars the congratula tious of her feats on her approachio RUPTURE RELIEVED faberig were stil rúging she began to
wonder if i al sou any offer woman to bis OFTEN (URED)
Alm without thinking
heart, to oasele tria.
about the matter at all, shof und her foot were taking her in the direction of the place where he had lived: icus, a few minnins, that sher was going up the old dark stuirea which led to his rooms. Bli stopped at lust outside the
done at which she had so often lapok, in the ld
days, when she nation light-heartedly up there to see liru. She hesiated for a monetic, and then knocked softly on the door.
To be continued.)
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Tonight, when she played that most incon- gruous role of beggar, she took her pla e firmly
The Code contains 80 pages of 75,000 and strongly in the great world that her father's money and her own beauty bad carried by assault elphers: 65,000 have sentences, and 10,000 ars and wou. Hor engagement to Clement Vicary blak, nabiing the addition of privato pbrosos -of so many thousands a year, and of the under their propor headings. ancient family of the Vicarys of Shropshire- had been fotoally announced; and, at this great funcy-dress ball, she was to receive the congratulations of the great world, and as old John Ingram tersely pet do the thing in proper style."
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She had chosen, in a very spirit of daring, to be the humblest figure in the room, to appear in the midst of that splendid throng of gaily dressed lorde and ladies, queens and kings, cavaliers and powdered dames, BY a simple beggur maid in a tattered dress, and witbont ornament of any kind Perhaps it is seaveoly knew it only too well-that she stood out, as neessary to say-and perhaps Grace Ingram she had desired to do, conspicuously among. them all; moved, a quaint and picturesque figure, through the beautiful rooms, observed Now, whether it was the fact of wearing such by everyone, and complimented on all hands. a dos, and of appearing in that mockery of poverty in her father's house; or whether strange, half-strangled thoughts came back to her on that night of her triumph, it is quite impossible to say. Indeed, all that afterwards happened may have been the result of a mere no settled intention atall. But certain it is that, freak--a whim on her part; may have had in it at nearly midnight, when the noise and gaiety were at their height, and when slio was most in demand, a sudden wild daring thought came to her, and was put into execution, The first novelty of her dress bad worn off; all the pretty
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long age been given; she wanted to conquer
new words; longed for some adventure, outside
tu warm safety of the house.
Watching her opportunity, she escaped from the ball-room, and glided through the house, in the direction of the servants' quarters; trem- blingly and yet eagerly, she guided the trades- mer's thes, unobserved, darted up the steps, and found herself in the quiet street. Laughing delightedly, and thinking what a tale she woul!
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here was no fnu there; all was quiet and atill, says where the house itself threw out a flood of light, and the twinkling lamps of the waiting carriages were eat in a double line doura
As she stood side of the square. there, she could hear the faint sound of the Masur. A. S. WATSON & CO., Amoy; music, and know the waltz they were playing. Mosers. A. B. WATSON & Co. Feochow.
Strangely ecough, her thoughts turned to the The DAILY PRESS" OFFICE, Hongkong, and old place she had known so well the old home at the London Office: 131, Fleet Street.
[3010] wherein she had been born, and where she had, i
Hongkong, 26th November, 1901
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