HEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28nd, 1915.
CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
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HOUSES TO LET
TO LET.
J. VINCENT BRAGA, Tayo Kisen Kaisha.
1100. Hongkong, 16th November, 1915..
TO LET
TOS, 11 and 13, GAGE. STREET, from No
Jet January, 2016 OTICE IS HEREBY
Apply to GIVEN that an EXTRAURDINARY GEN- to CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Head Office of the Company, No. 2, Queen's Buildings, Jee Mouse Street, Victorm, in the Colony of Hongkong, on SATURN, 9, and 10, MOUNTAIN VIEW, DAY, the 4th day of December, 1915, at 12.15 o'clock in the artesnoon for the purpose of considering and, if thought ht, passing as Extraordinary Relations the following Resolutions, that is to say
(1.) That Article No. 9 of the Com
18 HEREBY GIVEN that au EXTRAORDINARY GEN- ERAL MEETING of THE UNION | ERAL MEETING INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON. LIMITED, will be held at the Head Office of the Society, No. 2 Queen's Buildings, Ice House Street, Victoria. in the Colony of Hongkong, on SATUR DAY, the 4th day of December, 1915, at 12 'clock Noos, for the purpose of con- sidering and, if thought fit, passing as Extraordinary Resolutions the following Resolutions, that is to say --
(1.) That the Capital of the Society be increased to $4,000,000 (Four MiÏ.
How reads:-
The Company shall have a first and paramcunt lies upon all the Shares
of any baareholder for all monies due to the Company either from *him alone or jetatly with any other person, and where a Share is held by more persons than cre the. Com- pany shall have a lion thereon in respect of all monies so due to it feum all or any of the bolders. thereof.
lion Dollars) by the creation of 3,800pany's Articles Association which "(Three Thousand Six Hundred) Addi "Lional Ordinary Shares of $260 (Two "Hundred and Fifty Dollars) cach- (whereof $100. (One Hundred Dollars) shall be credited as paid up) ranking for Dividend and in all other respects pari passt with the Existing Ordinary shares of the Society: and that, the said Additional Share, so far as shall "be necessary for the purpose, be issued "to those Bhareholders of the CHINA "FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, "LIMITED, who have accepted or shall "accept the Society's offer made to them "on the 4th day of August, 1915, such accordance with the "issue being in "tering of a contract or memorandum in writing made or to be made pursuant "to the said offer and to be filed with "the Registrar of Companies: and that "the balance (if any) of the said Addi-
tional Shares be disposed of by the "Society's Board of Directors in such "manner as auch Board shall think mont "beneficial to the Society.”
(2.) That Article No. of the "Society's Articles of Association which "now reads:--
The Society shall have a first and paramount lien upon all the Shares af Any Shareholder for all monies due to the Society either from him alone or jointly with any other person and where a Share is held by
one Diore persons than the Society shall have a lien thereon. in respect of all montes so due to it from all or any of the holders *thereof.'
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"be eliminated in its entirety and that in lieu thereof the following new "Article be inserted as Article No. 9:-
first (9.) The Society shall have a
and paramount lion upon all the Shares Registered in the name of cach Shareholder (whether solely or jointly with others) and upon the proceeds of sale thereof, "for his debts, liabilities and engage- ments, and solely or jointly with any other person, to or with the Society, whether the period for the payment, tulfilment, or discharge thereof shall have actually arrived or not. and no. equitable interest in any share shall be created except upon the footing and condition thes Clause 34a hereof is to have full effect. And auch lien shall extend 'to all Dividends from time to time declared in respect of such Shares.' (3.) That after Article No. 34, of
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be eliminated in its entirety, and that in lieu thereof the following Article be inserted as Artisle. No. 9:- (9.) The Company shall have a first
and paramount lien upon all the share Registered in the name of each Shareholder (whether solely or jointly with others) and upon the proceeds of sale thereof, for his debts, liabilities and engagements, and solely or jointly with any other. person, to or with the Company, whether the period for the payment. fulfilment or discharge thereof shall have actually arrived or not, and no equitable interest in any share shall be created except upon the footing and condition that Clanse 33 hereof is to have full Deffect. And such lien shall extend ' to all dividends from time to time * declared in respect of such Share,' (2) That alter Article No. 33 of the Company's Articles of Association the "following, new Article he inserted is
Article No. 333-
(334.)- Save as herein otherwise, pra
vided the Company shall be entitled to treat the Registered Holder of any Share as the absolute owner thereof, and accordingly shall not, except as ordered by a Court of competent jurisdiction, or as by
Ordinance required, be bound to
recognise any equitable or other claim to or interest in such Share on the part of any other person, Firm, Company or Corporation, (That the heading of Articles "Nes, 94 to 99 (inclusive) of the Com- "pany's Articles of Association read- "ing: The Secretary be altered so
as to read the General Manager'; "and that in the last-mentioned Articles "Ncs. 04 to 00 inclusive) wherever the "word. Secretary appears "Such word
be eliminated and that in lieu thereof be the words General Manager inserted."
PEAX. Apply to-
M. J. D. STEPHENS. Hoogkong, 12th November, 1915. [1170
TO LET
BRITISH CONCESSION, SHAMEEN, CANTON.
ROM 18 December, ONE SIGHT- FROOMED HOUSE.
Apply-
·T. E. GRIFFITH, Lrn. Hongkong, 11th November, 1916. 11167
TO LET.
66/THE KENNELS,” 158, Magazine Ging.
Thoroughly renovated, and repaired. Apply
.
THE HONGBONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co. LTD Hongkong, 10th November, 19MD. (1162
TO LET-FULLY FURNISHED.
About March, or sooner if convenient. BERGELDIE." 138, Tas PEAX.
Apply
A. RITCHIE, Care of Messrs. DODWELL & CO., LTD. Hongkong. 10th November, 1916. [1163
TO LET.
Raining Rooms, 3 Bath Rome, AVENSHILL EAST, Park Road,
Serraute Quastuer, &c. Vuosat 1st November.
Apply
66
DEACON, LOOKER, DEACON & HARSTON, Hongkong, 19th October, 1915. · [1096)
TO LET.
LENSHIEL," No. 141, Plantation
Road, Peak, from 1st November, 1915.. Apply-
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Hongkong, 18th October, 1915. *1089
TO LET.
N and 6 TORRES BUILDINGS,
· Kowloon, ⠀ Moderate rent. Bendy for conupation.
Apply to--
SPANISH DOMINICAN DE PROCURATION.
[963 Hongkong, 29th September, 1916,
TO LET,
NORMAN COTTAGE, NË, 2, Peak Road, 4 GOOD BOOMS. Immediate posses-
Applim
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th August, 1916. (675
100.
"the Society's Articles of Association the "tion, viz.:-Articles Nos. 2. 7, 24, 35, Second Floor, Overlooking Harbour,
"following new Article be inserted as
Article No. 3la :-
(342) Save as herein otherwise pro 'vided the Society shall be entitled to treat the Registered Holder of any Share as the absolute owner thereof, and accordingly shall not, except as ordered by a Court of competent jurisdiction, or as *Ordinance required, be bound to recognise any equitable or other *claim to or interest in such Bhare 'on the part of any other person, 'Firm, Company, or Corporation.! (4.) That the heading of Articles Nos. 05 to 100 (inclusive) of the "Society's Articles of Association read "ing the Secretary' be altered so us "to read the General Manager'; and
that in the last-mentioned Articles "(Nos. 93 to 100 inclusive) wherever the "word Secretary' appears such word "be eliminated and that in lieu thereof "the words General Manager be "inserted."
(5.) That in the following Articles "of the Society's Articles of Association, "viz-Articles Nos. 2, 7, 25, 30, 45, 47, 53, 55, 84, 04, 103, and 129 the word ***Secretary' wherever it occurs be "eliminated and that in liea thereof the "words Genera
be "' inserted."
Manager
(4.) That in the following Articles "of the Company's Articles of Associa
"44, 48, 52, 54, 83, 93, 108, and 128 the "word, Secretary wherever it occurs "be eliminated and that in lieu thereof the words General Manager be "inserted."
Should the above Resolutions be passed
by the requisite majority, they will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary General Meeting which will be subse quently convened.
Dated this 22nd day of November, 1915.
By order of the Board.
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
Secretary.
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RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT WAR LOAN. PER CENT, LOAN, free of tax, to be
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issued at 95.
Loan to be redeemer after 10 years. Interest on coupons runs from 14th Novem- ber,
1916,
The Bonds are issued in Roubles.. Subscription List will be Opened from 29th November to 3rd December, 1915.
Applications will be received by the Russo- ASIATIC BANK, Hongkong Braneli, froni dute.
[1216 Hongkong, 1st November, 1915.
THE
NOTICE.
CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED
-Should the above Resolutions he passed by the requisite majority, they will be submitted for confirmation as SpecialTHE CERTIFICATE No. 307, dated 16th. Rezolutions to a Second Extraordinary January, 1854, of the share . 18105 General Meeting which will be subse quently convened.
Dated this 22nd day of November, 1915.
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
Secretary.
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THE NATIONAL LOAN OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA
$16,000,000
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AND
(1914),
SUPPLEMENTARY ISSUE OF $8,000,000,
AND
THE NATIONAL LOAN OF
THE FOURTH YEAR OF
REPUBLIC OF CHINA (1915), $24,000,000.
THE
UBSCRIBERS to the above TWO LOANS are hereby notified that the Interest Instalments for the month of November, each amounting to Dollars One Hundred and Twenty Thousand (8120,000)-8240,000 in all -have been duly received by the Undersigned and brought to Loan Service Account.
T. A. AGLEN, Inspector General of Customs, and Vice-Chairman of the Bureau of
National Leanë.
Inspectorate General of Customs, Feking, 15th November, 1915.
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in this Company, standing in the name of MR. THOMAS BROWN, of Shanghai, bas been LOST, and if at the expiration of One Month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming another Certificate will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be acknow- ledged.
Dated 11th November, 1915.
C. PEMBERTON, Secretary.
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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
LOST.
PPLICATION has been made to this
TO LET.
PRICES in ET. GEORGE's Builorno,
immediate pcrseEMİ, 2.
Apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co, Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914.
TO LET.
39
A Kowloon,
HOUSE in Kautsford Terence,
Apply.
"THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.
[48 Hongkong, 24th October, 1915,
INTIMATION
DEWAR'S
SCOTCH
WHISKY.
THE WHISKY OF Our
FOREFATHERS.
THE WHISKY OF TO-DAY.
A.
SOLE AGENTS:
to
When police raided a gambling den ab Hunghom about 30 men rushed down the stairs, while others jumped over the verandah, breaking a number of tole phone wĪTAS.
Six Chinese who were caught were eaelt fined $4.
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul' regret the inadvertent omission of the names of the Club Lusitano and MerA. theGrnen & Co. from the list of those who rendered valuable assistance on the occu- sion of the late Bazaar,
The weekly return of communicable diseases occuring in the Colony show that during the past week there was one fatal case of plague; two cases of diphtheria (one fatal); six cases of enteric fever (four fabal); and one case of puerperal fever. All patients were Asiaties.
sation papors which it has issued to people. of German and Austrian birth it would, we should imagino, bo ultra vires for any Crown Colony, to refuse to do the same. Whether the time has come to regard these papore as lightly as they are regarded by many of those who hold them is a question which ho
this Colony is not competent to settle. Repeated repre- sentations have been made Imperial authorities. in favour of withdrawing the privileges of citizenship which they have so freely granted and interning without distinction of class, age or sex all alien enemy subjects--we use the word advisedly because it has been made perfectly clear that fercign natura. lisation is no bar to German nationality, hut such representations have so far fallen on deaf ears. Until, therefore, some changes made along the lines indicated
A cook at No. 3, Naval Terrace, went it would seems that alien enemy origin
out on Saturylay with a friend. The cannot be held to entail any disabilities cook had to go to Wanchai, and while There remains, then, only the conviction he was there the "friend" returned to recently recorded against the Peak Hotel | the house and stole money, clothing, and to consider, and nobody who followed the miscellaneous articles to the total value case would attach any very great import of 882.60. He was caught, however, and ance to that. It was secured under the at the Magistracy yesterday new Travelers' Restriction Ordinner, the to prison for two months, exact interpretation of which seemed to
Application was made by Mr. F. C. be a matter of doubt to all concerned, even Jenkin at the Supreme Court yesterday the magistrate adjourning the case in for the adjournment until Monday, De order to have the opportunity of consult-cember 20th, of a petition for the carry- ing the Crown Solicitor a somewhat ing on of a voluntary winding up of the unusual progeeding, it appeared to us. The Kwong Wo Hing Co. Ltd., curio dealers, case of the Grand Hotel, however, stands Singapore, under the supervision of the on an entirely different footing. The Court, in order that an advertisement applicant has admitted, in cross-examina- to the effect might be inserted in the local tion, that he is a German subject of mili- newspapers. By a mischance that had tary age. Yet, for the second time, the not been done, The application was agreed to. "A similar application in re Government has seen fit to grant him a licence after it has been refused by the gard to the Yuen On Exchange, Insur- ance and Godown Co. was adjourned Licensing Board. Why he is not with his compatriots at Hunghom is a question until December 8th. that has been asked in many quarters.
WATSON we cr
& CO., LTD.,
only conclude that there must be some excellent reason for the exceptional treatment accorded him, for in these days it is impossible to believe that in ordinary circumstances any undue consideration would be shown in dealing with the subjects of a nation which has
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. systematically abused British hospitality and outraged every canon of civilised bociety,
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HONGKONG OFFIon: 10x, Des Vœux ROAD, C, LONDON OFFICE: 181, Fiat Stazer, E,G.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, NOVEMBLE 3RD, 1915.
THE LICENSING BOARD.
THE meeting of the Hongkong Licensing Board which was arranged for yesterday afternoon has been postponed until next Monday. This tends to confirm the F FLATS in Humphrey buildings, rumour, which was current over the week
TO LET.
YOUR-ROOMED and THREE-ROOMED
Kowloon, with every modern convenience FOUR-MOOMED Immediate possession FLATS in May Rosil, possession on or about 1st November next. Modern appointments; throughout, including English Baths and Kitchen Ranges, Hot Water and Water Carriage System, A few Flats specially designed to accommodate three bachelors at reasonable rentals.
FOUR-BOOMED HOUSER in Gordor Terrsos und Salisbury Avenme, Kowloon,
TWO-ROOMED FLATS in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
WINDSOR LODGE, Kowloon, Six-Roomed House, Tennis Court. Immediste possession,
Apply to-
KUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANOS
Ca, L., Alexandra Buildinga, Hongkong, 3rd November, 1818.
TO LET. FFICES at 2, Connaught Road
"OFFICES in King's Buildings.
OFFICES in Des Voor Road Central. HOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS,
Conduit Road,
[1177
NEW HOUSES in Broadwood Terrace, HOUSES at the Pask.
No. 21, WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD. No. 1, MORETON TERRACE, Causeway Bay.
GODOWNS, st Wanebal GODOWNS, at New Praya. Kennedy Town. Nos, 1, 2 and 3, WEST END TERRACE, CANTON...
Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.
(38 Hongkong, 4th November, 1915
NOTICE
THE
sent
EXTRADITION CASE. When the Hung Shiu Lung extradition case was resumed before the Full Court yesterday. the Chief Justice said he would like to mention that
had they
been considering the question of the affidavit of
the Governor-General of Kwangtung Pro vince, and if Mr. Sharp had anything. to say upon the matter the Court would hear him afterwards. As at present ad-
Mails for Europe via Siberia closes vised, the Court was doubtful if the affidavit carried Mr. Sharp any further. to-day at 3 pm, and at 5 p.m.
than the undertaking given, but assure. The Royal Hongkong Yacht Club pro ing that it did, as at present advised the pose to hold a “Ladies' Day, on Satur-Court did not think that it ought to day, December 11th.- In addition to Yachting races, there will be Ladies' Double Sculls and Scratch Fours with lady coxswains.
From an advertisement appearing on this page it will be seen that an extra- ordinary general meeting of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd., is to be held to consider a proposed increase of the capital of the Society in connection with the recent offer to the shareholders
end, that the unofficial Justices of the of the China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Peace who had seats upon the Board have tendered their resignations en bloc as
Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & protest against the action of the general managers of the Indo-China S.N. Executive Council in reversing their Co., Ltd., inform us that nothing has yet
decision receat
to refuse licences been decided with regard to the transfer to applicants of alien enemy origin. If of the Head Office of the company from this be the case-and our inquiries seem London to Hongkong. It is understood to leave no doubt on the point-the public that a meeting of the shareholders in the will fully understand and sympathise with company will be held in London next the motives which have led the unofficial mouth, when the proposal to transfer the members to take such a step. In declin- Head Office of the company will be con- ing to renew the licences of the Peak Hotel sidered. Shareholders resident in London and the Grand Hotel they were perform are believed to be in favour of the transfer, ing what they conceived to be a patriotic duty, and, as the nearest approach which we in this Colony are permitted to have to public representatives, it is only to be expected that they would resent the slight which has, apparently, been cast upon them. As busy members of the community they doubtless feel that it is a sheer waste
go in.
Mr. Potter (Counsel for the defence) then went on to point out some of the contradictory statements given in the Magistracy as between witnesses for the Crown and the defence. Counsel com mented that the requisition by General Lung was the only document containing any mention whatever of any murder in the village of Sam-to-chuk Counsel submitted that the entry in the book which referred to the cook's coffin was a
bogus one.
..
The Chief Justice-The onus is on you as regards one portion of the case the political case,
Mr Potter-And in so much as the political case depends upon the entry in the coffin book the onus is shifted and there is no answer to our case at all.
Mr. Potter pointed out that the photograph contained two Crown's characters more, the interpretation of which no one knew. They had been placed there by some one after Mr. Hind, for the fugitive, photographed the page. If ever it had been proved that a book had been faked it had been done which was made by the police at Sam-to- in that case. Dealing with the plan
chuk, Counsel said that the men who were in charge of Inspector Watt misled him everywhere.
"Rhymes without Reason is the title of an attractive little brochure in which the verses that have been woven from time to time by Mr. R. P. Thursfield have beened gathered together. Some of these have already found their way into the columns of the local Press-indeed, we have our
The Chief Justice asked why they did. not dig up the coffin. They might have found a dog.
Mr. Potter said Chinese were preclud- If they from exhuming a body, had dug they would probably have found that the bones had been consumed. Some burying grounds, he believed, had that faculty; in others the bodies lived
for ever.
a mistake.
book
of their time to sit upon a licensing selves recently published two of them
Counsel went on to deal with 'the' authority whose decisions are liable to be entitled "Vice Versa" and "A Touch of numerous photographs submitted at the reversed by a stroke of the pen without Nature and those who have read them Police Court proceedings. Dealing with the photograph of a notice of the order any explanation being vouchsafed, or any will be like "Oliver Twist" and ask for of a coffin, Counsel said that Inspector more. The verses deal almost entirely with Watt found the notice in an entirely different place to what the defence did. opportunity afforded them, in their cor- porate capacity, of stating the reasons topical subjects and many of them have a It would have been childlike for A Company to jesus to Mr. LAUSAI TUNG
Watt to have said he which determined their attitude. It nut pronounced local favour, which adds to Inspector of Hongkong Duplicate Certificates of 200
in the coffini saw the entry Shares in this Company or other Certificate
not he forgotten, of course, that in their piquancy. Nothing is sacred to the because the production of the book him. or Certificates in lied thereof upon statement
have England a licence, whose licence is quash- satiris-not even our gallant defenders or would
contradicted that the Original Certificates Nos. 8564-100 shares numbered 246039/246138 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ed at the annual Brewster Sessions, has a “Roderick Random"-yet he would be a Therefore he could only say he had made Mr. Melby's evidence was hitberte Partnership dated 16th November, 1908.
subsisting DONAL right of appeal to the Quarter Sessions, crusty old curmudgeon who could forbear definite, positive and clear that the the Undersigned, Nos, 6803-50 shares numbered 197703/197727, between
201688/261710; 25th March, 1903. MACDONALD and JOHN WILKIE, but that is a legal tribunal, and the pros to smile at Mr. Thursfield's werry wit, coffin book was not in the condition it was when he examined it. The page Nos. 97880 shares numbered 6961/8950 carrying on Business as ENGINEERS, SHIP
was in an entirely different position and dated 27th May, 1910 BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS AND MACHINERY and cons are argued and considered afresh for it never wounds. To show his versa
he was convinced that the page on which have been LOST or DESTROYED, and ACENTE at York Building, Chater Road, in public. In the case of the Peak Hotel tility he lays aside the cap and bolig for a Notice is Hereby Given that if within 30 days Victoria, Hongkeng under the style of it is, perhaps, open to question whether moment and gives us two charming little the Crown relied was not there. Counsel had no doubt that Inspector Watt had from the date hereof no Claim or Representa MACDONALD & Co, has been Dissolved tion in respect of such Original Certificates by mutual consent as from the Thirtieth the Licensing Board could establish their poems The Breeze" and "The Beauti told them what be literally believed to No Court, said Counsel, would is made to the Company the Undersigned September, One Thousand Nine Hundred right in law to refuse a renewal of the fui Land of Dreams." We predict an eager be true. will then proceed to deal with such applica and Fifteen, so far as concerns the said licence, inasmuch as the applicant is a demand for "Bhymes without Reason listen to the suggestion that the page was
not in the bank. tion for Duplicates.
JOHN WILKIE, who retires from the said Firm. For the GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD., Dated this 15th day of November, 1915. naturalised British subject of several and we hope that the author, having "It is all part and parcel of a pre-
D. MAUDONALD,
added SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
years standing. Bo long as the British whetted our appetite, will continue to tence to get hold of this man
Counsel. General Managers.
JOHN WILKIE.
Government saee fit to honour the naturali- keep us supplied with good cheer, [1101
The hearing was adjourned. Hongkong, 23rd October, 1915.
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