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CHAPTER IX.
The time, half-past four o'clock in the morning; the date, the twentieth of September, oightson hundred and lifty-four, the place, the southern
thousands. And it is not yet, not even yet, so very certain that we are to give battle this morging, after all. For we have been bedevilkd bithir and thither with falso marches and with "felse rumours of sailing, and loss of ronte, Monitor St. Arnaud has boon for coping south of the Balkans, and giving battla to the pawr of Russia there, and Raglan has been all for do Crimea and the road to Sevastopol. And no man has known what to boliere amongst the divial councils of the Alles. The men amolgat the vineyards aro plucking and sucking the rapos. The aun grows hotter and hotter, and here is no dreary a silence in these waiting
"THE HONG KONG LAND INVEST hauk of the River Alma. Present, soms thirty | hɔng that the angry neigh of a horse is heard
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an GENEBAL EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of HUMPHREY'S ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be hold at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, Nos. 36 and 10, Qaem's Rrail Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 31st day of OCTOBER, 1903, at Noon, who the Subjoined Resolutions will be proposed, vis. :---
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be increased from $1, 00,000 (divided into 100,000 shares of 510 caod) to $1,500,000 (divided into 150.000 shares of $10 esel) by the creation of 50,000 new shares of $10 each to be offered and if accepted to be allotted to the present shareholders of the Company at par in ths ratio and proportion of one now share for every two old shares in the Company held by the respoelive shareholders thoreof, the amount payable on each of such new sharma respectively to be paid at such time or times and in each munnce as the Company by ita General Maungers tay hereafter de presiun,"
2 That Arüse No. 82 of the Articles of Association of the Company be cane lext and the following Article substituted therefor: ...Tha
remineration of the General Managers obail be $1,000 per annum (which shall cover office rent but not salaries of Beeretary and other optayees) and a commission of 3 per cent, of the net profita of the Company for each year that such pruts amount to por cont. of the Unpital of the Company."
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