PUBLIC COMPANIES
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
CANTON, LIMITED, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS: TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FORTY-SECOND ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at fts Head Ofice, No. 2, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 23rd April, 1915, at Noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1914, and of declaring Dividendi, &c.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 13th April to the 23rd April, both days inclusive.. By Order of the Board,
C.. MONTAGUE EDE, Secretary. Hongkong, 0th April, 1915,
COMPANY REPORT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PREM, TUESDAY, APRIL 13TH, 1916.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
CANTON, LIMITED.
The report of this Society is naj follows
The board has now to lay before the shareholders a, balance sheet containing of the Sveicty on the 31st December, 1914, summary of the property and Eabilities
and a statement of accounts to the same date.
interim dividend of $30 per share and 1913 Account-After, payment of the the bonus of 20 per cent, to contributors passed at the last annual meeting there remains a balance of $1,922,202.81 as per annexed statement.
"Gold Securities have been valued ni "minimum" or quoted prices as on th January, 1915, which has involved in writing. down of ahaut £10,000 below prices current at the latest date on which the Indon Stock Exchange was open in 1914, viz., 30th
July.
Scurities purchased in London since the War began have been valued at est. usual, at prices current on 31st December, Silver Securities have been greabed, as 1014.
Storrling Exchange taken at is. 2.3.10.
W. L PATTENDEN, Directors. 6. H DODWELL
O MONTAQUE EDĖ,
have examined the Accounts of the Seriety
Secretary
at the Head Office with the Books
Auditors Report-We report that we
Vouchers in Hongkong, ad Returns re- cived from the various Branches and Agencies for the year ending 1st Decem We have also satisfied cur selves as to the existence and value of the Securities for Investments, the Cash at Bankers and on Mortgage to the amounts formation and explanations we have re- specified. We have obtained all the in quired, and in our opinion the above Balance Sheet is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the Society's affairs according to the best of our information and the ex- planations given to us, and as shown by the Books of the Society,
The board recommends that the sum beber, 1914. [481
OHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that tho
FORTY NINTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, No. 2, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 23rd April, 1915, at 12:15 PM, for the purpose of receiving, the Raport of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1914, and of dedaring Dividends, &c.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED. from 13th April to the 23rd April, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE, Secretary. Hongkong, 0th April, 1915,
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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK
COMPANY, LIMITED..
THE SHARE CERTIFICATES No. 2410 2411 for 10 and 25 Shares jampootirely, numbered
12730/19748," and 36858/85883 inclusive, standing in the register in the joint and of GIOBSE ANDREW HASTINGS and JOHN BABEAM CARSLAKE, Solicitors, Liverpool and Birmingham, having bogs LOST or DESTROYED, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said
approprinted as follows:-
A final dividend to share- holders of $20 per share on 12,400 shares.
A bonus dividend to share
248,000.00
holders of $5 per share on 12,400 shares
62,060 00
医术
An addition to the sterling reserve fund of £35,000 ne exchange 18. 93/164,"
To write off leasehold property
mcconnt
To be carried forward to under- writing-suspense account to close the account for the year 1913
396.460.18
10,000.00
505,743.73
61,922,202.91
1914 Account. The balance of working account on the 31st December, 1914, was 34,001,416.63 s. per annexed statemen
The board recommends that an interim dividend of $30 per share be paid to shinreholders, absorbing $372,000, and that a bonus of 20 per cont be paid to contributors, absorbing about $250,000, and that the remainder bo carried for- ward.
DIRECTORS
Since the last general meeting Mr. H. A. Siebs and Mr. E. Goetz have resigned their seats and Mr. A. Forbes has joined the board.
In accordaroo with Clause 55 of the Articles of Association Mr. P. H. Holyoak and Mr. W. L. Fattendes retire, but offer themselves for re-eleovicu.
AUDITORS.C
Messrs. A. R. Lowe and C. Bernard Brown retire, but offor themselves for
S. H. DODWEIL,
Chairman."
Certificates be produced at the Offee of the Company, Queen's Buildings, Vistoria, Hong-election. keng before the 24th April, 1816, New Certificates for the said Bhares will be issued and the Old Certificates will thereafter be held by the Company is Null and Void.
GEO. A CALDWELL,
Becretary
Hongkong, 25th March, 1915.
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HONGKONG JOCKEY OLUB.
NOTICE.
THE
HE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the above Club will be held on SATURDAY, the 24th April, 1916, at 12.30 P.; at the Office of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB, on the Ground Floor of the HONGKONG CLUB ANNEXE, Chator Eoad.
By Order, an
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course... Hongkong, 10h April, 1915,
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AN OFFICER'S HARDSHIPS. CULTIVATED «
FRIGHTFULNESS.".
A correspondent of the Times recently wrote:
This
I have recently met a British officer who, after being seriously wounded and made prisoner, has now come back to England as an exchanged prisoner of war. officer was wounded by a bullet in the and made prisoner. The injury produc head during the earliest days of the war od paralysis. He was taken to a hospital at Cambrai, where he was treated by a French civilian doctor.
remove the officer to a fortress at Wartz- After some months it was decided to. burg. This was done ou January 6. The
officer, thanks to the efforts of the French doctor, was placed on a bed in a second Hongkong, 12th April, 1915.
class compartment. Presently & German officer ordered him out. Explanations WORKING ACCOUNT, 1913-ON $1er DL, 1914: were in vain; it mattered not that the
Dr.
$ prisoner was an officer and paralyzed, a To Nett Premium
4,719.770.70 third-class carriage was good enough for Ta Interest
617,809.72 an "Englander." Accordingly ho was placed in a compartment with five other
Cr.
$5,3-0,079:42 men The seats were wooden and there
By Agency Commissions By Head Office, Branches and
Agency Charges By Remuneration to Directora,
Committees and Auditors. By Losses and Claims paid
By Bunnus, of 20 per cent. paid
to Contributors.........
were no beds. Some of the men lay on the floor, two had unhealed wounds, one a 130,134 41 broken thigh unset. The journey took three days,The food provided was un- 403,903.01 drinkable soup and a little black bread;
sometimes there was coffee, *20,160.47 2,821,166.37
3,495, QUI 86 adve 239,201.65
By Interim Dividend of $30 per
Share
327,000.00 By Balance
1,228 202.91
$ 3,340.079.49 WORKING ACCOUNT, 1914-os 31er Dro., 191:
Dr. To Natt Premium To interest
Cr.
In the fortress 14 men shared & room. There were mattresses on the floor, but a mattress is useless to a paralyzed man No kind of treatment was prescribed for him; he was simply fed and left to him- self, There was a bath once a month. The officar concluded the story in the fol- lowing words
On the whole the officers are fairly well treated. But the ran have a bad time, though things vary in different places The fact is they are treated just as the German soldiers are treated-if they 7,301,500.13 'don't obey an order at once they are 817,951.00, kicked. Germans are Germans, and you can't expect much from them. You can't
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$ 7,919,383,92 begin to educate the Gorman people into being anything but brutal; they simply treat soldiers as if they were dogs; it's
By Agency Commissions. By Head Office, Branches and
Agency Chinrges
By Remuneration to Directors, Committees and Auditora... By Losses and Clains paid By Balance
162,002.02 part of their discipline.
As to their hatred of the English, this 489,9 52, is all done to order, part of some obscure scheme. This became apparent, for as 27.251.63
soon as the time came for us to leave their 2,207,724.00 4,591,416.63 whole attitude changed. They declared that they wanted us to have everything- $7,910.33 for our comfort. The doctor at the for tress wre a German-American who spoke English very well. He actually said that he simply dared not do anything for the. Englishi.
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BALANCE SHEET 31er DECEMBR, 194
Dr. To Capital 12,400 Shares of 8250 each, equal $9,100,000 upon which $100 per Share called and paid up
To Reserve Fund:-
Silver $3,000,000.00 Sterling, £160,000 1,812,389.38
To Reinsurance
Fund
To Underwriting
-1,240,000.00
4,812,990.38
.£265,009. 14. 7 3,009.356.22.
Suspense Acct. £ 61,755. 17.9 696,261 38 To Exchange Fluctuation Ac
count
To Investment Fluctuation A-
.count
To Working Account, 1913,
Balance
THE LANGKAT BRIBERY CASE.
TRIAL OF MR. MCBAIN S SECRETARY.
The sequel to the prosecution of M. D. Silas for bribery was heard in H. M Police Court last week, when Cyril Napist Chipp, 25, a clerk in the emping of Messrs. George McBain, was charged with having corruptly accepted a bribe of 808 from M. D. Silas.
220,527.86
-151,000.72 1,922 202.91 +1416.69 Mr. S. H. McKean appeared for the 893,667.07 prosecution, and Mr. Francia Ell for
the defence. $17,180,232.17
To Working Account, 1914, -
Balance To Sundry Creditors...
By Cash with Bankers on Cur-
rent nad Beposit Accounts w
Silver
1,446,427.01 Gold £198,606. 1. J. 2249.07.03
4,057,810.01
To Investments in Silver Semmrities
To Securities in
Gald ........£451,999. 6. 7. 5,119,091 06 To Sundry Deltars
*Branch
Agency
and Ba-
lances:-
Silver
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Care of Daily Press" Office. Hongkong, 5th April, 1916.
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Mortgages Hongkung
To Mortgages
Shanghai
To Mortgages
Hankow
After bearing the evidence. and addresses of counsel,
His Worship in passing sentence said he could quite appreciate the feelings of the defendant in having lost his self respect and the self-respect of his friends all for a paltry sum. Knowing that this case would come on, he had an oppor of considering what sentene be should pass--in the event, of finding the defendant guilty. Thero bas
course, been all along two calient points which, reluctantly, decided him that he could not give defendant the benefit of the First Offenders' Act. One point was this: 327,015.00 defendant held a position of trust aud £168,927.18.11. 1,890,85.23 sold his employers. That was a very grave offence, and if he overlooked it he would have great difficulty in dealing with any other defendant before him in a similar position. The other point was that defeudaat had plenty of opportuntiv for thinking over what he was doing. It was not a case of sudden temptation. The thing was arranged some Weeks 1,610,676.92 beforehand. He could not distinguish 58.133.41 between defendant's position and the man who had tempted him. Dofendant would 817,30,362.17 have to go to prison for one mouth, as a
first class.misdemeanant
817,692. 8.10
izi
$687,000,00
730,760.23
192,307.69
To Leasehold Property
JAPANESE NAVAL AND MILITARY EXPANSION.
ordinary session, the Government will In May, when the Diet meets in extra
introduce two Bills for the expansion of the Navy and Army..
be those submitted to the Diet last The Jiji learns that the two Bills will Divisions in Choses are to be inaugurated ression. It is provided that the two in the present fiscal year, and to be com pleted in twenty years During seven consentivo. years, commencing from the
Y5,200,000 will be spent cach year. present year, the sum of 1.80,105,182 will be defrayed, and after that period souve
providing for the construction of two As to the naval replenishment scheme, battleships, eight destroyers and two sub- are the sum of X.91,557,926 will le appropriated during sen consecutive years, commencing from the present year, tho annual expenditure follows
being 29
Yen
1915 1916 1917 1018.
INTIMATIONS
LANE
CRAWFORD&Co.
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JUST RECEIVED:
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23,333,000
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36,048,000
25,815,000
6,360,003
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JAPAN'S CAPTURES AT ISINGTAU.
According to the Yomiuri, and other papers, the Japanese-military authorities estimate that the trophies captured by Japan at Teingsao amount in value to Y.60,000,000. The following are the principal trophies:-
Shantung Railway Harbours Mines ......
Valus,
Yen.
21,000,000 12,000,000 6,000:000
Waterworks and Electric Light. 8,000,000 Buildings, Arms, Clothing, de 14,000,000.
VOLUNTEERS FROM THE FAR EAST.
MEN WHO HAVE LEFT NO,
ADDRESS.
Daily News writing on March 5th says:- The London correspondent of the M.-G.
Some time ago I mentioned that the Head Recruiting Offices at Scotland Yard were receiving letters from abroad for Britons who had come home to fight but
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AND
TAFFETAS
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not given the slight indication of how they have enlisted or whero they are letters and the authorities are getting to be found. There are scores of such
publish a list desperate. They have asked me to friends who wrote to them at the address THEATRE
so that those of their may know that the letters have not bees delivered and why. Here is a list of letters awaiting Hongkong men.
Herbert Staton Bevan, W. H. and G. R. Chatham, G. Foster, A. K. Hynd man, C. R Mellis, Kowloon Customs, Hongkong; Frank Soares.
THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.
DADERS BY LIPUT.-COL. 4. CHAPMAN, `V.D.
RESIGNATION.
1.-Pte. D. S. Eddie is permitted to resign,
dated 10th April, 1915.
TRANSPER.
2.- Pte. J. Duncas from Left Section M.G. Co. to Scouts Co., dated 12th April, 1915.
MUSKETRY.
3-Every member of the Corps(except the Signalling Section and Rernits who have joined since 28th February, 1915) who has not fired the Standard Test this season must attend at King's Park Range on Friday, 8th inst., a 4 p.m., sharp, which will the last opportunity of firing it,
PARADES.
4.--Parades for to-day (Tuesday).
5.00 p.m. Civil Service Co.-Tablo "C", Machine Gun Course on Kousedy Road Range. Corp. Grimes, B.E., will attend.
5.15 p.m. No. 2 Section Artillery But- tery-10 pdr. Gun Drill with mules at Headquarters. 5.15 p.m. Right_Section and Centre Section M.G. Co. and Scourts Co Squad and Company drill at Head- quarters under Co. Commanders. 5.15 p.m. Signalling Section will parade at Headquarters to draw arnis and equipment and will then he instruct- ad in rifle and Musketry exercises.
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Commencing at 9.15 Sharp. Hongkong, 1st April, 1915.
JUST LANDED: HIRANO MINERAL
WATER"
IN QUANTS, PINES AND SPLI78,
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5.On duty at Volunteer
until 17th inst.-H.K.V.1 Nest for: duty, 17th ito 24th inst. No. 1 and 2 Sections Artillery Battery, Right and Centre Sections M.G. Co. and Cl Service Company
Officers on duty, 17th to 24th just: Capt. W. M. Scott and L. Wright Orderly Officer: Lieut. Wright. Orderly Sergeant: Corpl. W. Brown/
G. E. STEWART, Capt., Adjutant, H.K.V.C. THE VOLUNTEER RESERVES.
ORDERS BY MAJOR WAKEMAN, 0,0 H.E.V.E.
PARADES-A, B and C Companies (with the
HONGKONG, 12th April, 1913.
exception of men on duty with the main guard) will parade on the Road, Fetisen the Law Courts. and the Cricket Ground! at 5.15 p.m. to-day (Tunday) and Fri- day, 10th April. Dress, drill oredr.
Beernits will paracle, under Coy. Sut. Major Bond, on the Cricket Ground at 5.15 p.m. an April 15th and 10th Dress drill order.
D. Company will parade, under Coy Sgt. Major Cooko, at Velanter Heal- quarters at 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday, POATINGS.-Pte. A. Mackenzie to Coy. B
April 14th Dress, drill order.
Section 4.
Pto. E. Ralphs to Coy. A Sertion 3. Pte. Smyth to Cay. D.
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