SEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED,
Nan
THE HONGKONG DAILY PEKES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1st. 1918.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
THE BUSINESS of Ma H. K HOLMES, Solicitor, hitherto carried on at the
THE OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Pust Ofon Building, Victoria, Hong kong, EXTRAORDINARY GEN- ERAL MEETING of the HONGKONG wil be carried on as from this Date under AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY; the Nome and Style of HOLMES & LIMITED, will be held at the Company's HAYWOOD. Office,
Victoria, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 18th day of December, 1915, at 12 o'clock Noos when the subjoined Resolutions will be
HK HOLMES, GUY K. HAYWOOD. Hongkong, 1st December, 1918.
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proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions, DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
(1.)--That the Capital of the Company be increased to $3,000,000 by the creation of 10,000 additional shares of 250 each. (2.)-That the Directors be authorised to offer the said 10,000 Additional Shares at a premium of $10 per Shure to cachi Member on the Register of Members on the 14th day of December, 1915, in the proportion of one New Share for every complete number of Five Shares which such Member is the Registered Holder of on that date and upon the footing (unless the Directors shall otherwise determine) that Shareholders shall bo given the option of paying the full amount of each share taken up plus the premium (making together $80 per Share) to the Company on acceptance of the offer or of paying such amount on or before the 99th February, 1916, with interest at the rate of 6 per cent for ammum frem (and includ ing) tho 1st January 1916, until payment and that if any Shareholder fails to pay the full amount due on
any Shares accepted by him (includ
at
E
LIMITED.
PWANTED. NGINEERS and DECK OFFICERS. Apply to
DOUGLAS LAPBAIK & Co.,
General Managera, Hongkong, at December, 1910. [1242
WANTED.
Ya Commercial Firm, GIRL TYPIST
no objection to beginners, EursMÄAIN preterred.
Apply, stating salary required, to.
Care of Dalty Press" Office. Hongkong, les Desetzber, 1910 [1743
ATIMATIONS
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY, OF CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN
that an EXTRAORDINARY GEN- ERAL MEETING, of: THE UNION 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 o'clock Noor, for the purpose of con- sidering and, if thought fit, passing as Extraordinary Resolutions the following Resolutions, that to guy:-
ing premium and interest) on or before the 29th February, 1910, such Shares may be forfeited by the Directors and that such offer be made by notice specifying the number of Shares to which the Member is and limiting the time entitled within which the offer it not accepted will be deemed to be declined to the 31st December, 1915, and that the Directors be empowered to dispose of the Shares not accepted in response to such offer to such persons upon such terms and conditions and such times as they consider expedient in the interests of the Com" pany and that forfeited Shares shall become the property of the Company and may be sold, reallotted or other- wise disposed of by the Directors in such manner as they think fit (3.) That such Additional Shares shall not participate in any Dividend declared in March, 1916, in respect of profit accrued up to the 31st December, 1915, but shall participato. in any Dividend declared thereafter" pro rata with the existing capital. (4)-That no Member shall be entitled"
to an offer of any fraction of an Additional Share in respect of any Number of Shares less than five held by him.
(5.)That the Directors he empowered to dispose of all additional shares which members are not entitled to have offered to them to such persons upon such terms and conditions and at such times as they consider expedient in the interests of the Company.
(1)-- That the Capital of the Society
INTIMATIONS
CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED,
NOT EXTRAORDINARY GEN- OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ERAL MEETING of the CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Head Office of the Company, No. 2, Queen's Buildings, Ico House Street, Victoria, In the Colony of Hongkong, on SATUR- DAY, the 4th day of December, 1915, at
12.15 o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of considering and, if thought nt, passing as Extraordinary Resolutions the following Resolutions, that is to say
(1)- That Article No. 9 of the Com- pany's Articles of Association which now reads --
INTIMATION
DEWAR'S
SCOTCH
WHISKY
"IMPERIAL INSTITUTE
AND
"EXTRA SPECIAL."
cal The
At a meeting of the Sanitary Board yesterday applications for permission to erect one water closet at No. 5, Chater
bankrupt in a few months. Hor cal-The Council-General of the Society of culations, it is true, were based on a St. Vincent de Paul acknowledge with speedy success, but we can hardly suppose thanks the receipt of $25 from Mrs. J. M. that, in making provision for her long-Alves (Chev.) as a donation to the funds cherished projects, she out the estimates of the Society. down to the irreducible minimum. There was, indeed, no reason why she should do so, for she had enjoyed many years of commercial prosperity. In 1912 the volume of her trade excosded in value a thousand millions sterling and her investments abroad represented a very considerably bumi, The interest on these investments is still available, as we have seen in Chine, for the payment of debts incurred with neutrals for services rendered since the outbreak of hostilities.
But, though we have never shated the views of these who thought that the economic strangulation of Germany would be a matter of a few months only, we are not disposed to accept without question the inspired accounts, which have appear ed in the Press of neutral nations, of Germany's wonderful feats of financial legendemain. They resemble too closely the story of the South Sea Islanders, who earned their living by taking in one another's washing. We know even from the Corman Press that the German people have felt keenly the back of many things since the British Government decided to
The Company shall have a first and paramount lien upon all the Shares of any Shareholder for all monies due to the Company either from him alone or jointly with any other person, and where a Share is held by more persons than one the Com pany shall have a lion thereon in respect of all monies so duo to it * from all or any of the holders + thereof.* **be eliminated in its entirety, and that "in lieu thereof the following new Articlo be inserted as Article No. 91– (9.)--' The Company shall have a first and paramount len upon all the Share 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 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 REPRESENTS A STANDARD ment are never at a loss for pretexts to
the footing and condition. that! Clause 33a hereof is to have full effect And such lien shall extend to all Dividends from time to lima
declared in respect of such Share. (2.) That after Article No. 33 of the
following new Article be inserted as
be increased to $4,000,000 (Four Mil-Company's Articles of Association the lion Dollars) by the creation of 3,600 (Three Thousand Six Hundred) Addi-Article No. 33- tional Ordinary Shares of $250 (Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars) each (whereof $100 (One Hundred Dollars) "shall be credited as paid up) ranking "for Dividend and 'in all other respects pari passu with the Existing Ordinary Bhares of the Society and that the said Additional Shares, so far as shall be necessary for the purpose, be issued to those Shareholders 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 "issue being in accordance with the
THE NAME OF
Road, and 30 water closets at Nos. 18 to 30, Nathan Road, Kowloon, were granted, subject to the usual conditions.
An extmordinary general meeting of the Hongkong and Whampoa Deck Co., Ltd., is to be held on the 13th inst. for the pur- pose of increasing the capital of the Com pany by $500,000 and issuing debentures, Details will be found in our advertising columns.
Members of the European Y.M.C.A. are reminded that Mr. Tickle will deliver a lecture on "Jiujitsu" to-night at 9 o'clock. The lecture will be accompanied by demonstrations, for which purpose the
amistance of a Japanese expert has been secured. Members may invite friends.
A marriage has been arranged and will take place in December, between the Rov, William Thornton Featherstone (second son of the Rev. T. Featherstone, B.D., and Mrs. Featherstone, Holme Eden, Carlisle) and Margaret, eldest
DEWAR'S draw the bowstring tighter. Indeed, this daughter of Mr. Charles Morrison, J.P.,
THAT IS ALWAYS
(338.) "Save as herein otherwise pru *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 A. recognise ans equitable or other Felaim to or interest in such Share on the part of any other person, Firma, Company or Corporation.' (3.)—” That the heading of Articles Nos, 94 to 99 (inclusive) of the Com- pany's Articles of Association read-
MAINTAINED.
SOLE AGENTS:
has been made the excuse for submarine piracy, and, though the German Govern
justify their disregard of the rules of civilised warfare, it is probable that in this matter they spoke with genuine feel ing. The vast fabric of their overseas trade, built up with so much energy and artifice, has been shattered at a blow, and all the sophistries in the world, no matter how skilfully they may be woven, can avail to minimise the importance of that to a nation which is engaged in a war of exhaustion involving an expenditure of
and Mrs. Morrison, Peel, Tsle of Man.
The Bankers Magazine states that coinage reform in China is again on foot, and adds: Thus the new coinage, according to these reports, would be issued as follows: In the first two years, 200 million one-dollar coins plus 80 mil- Lior half dollar coins; in the three fol dowing years 235 million ten cent coins plus 50 millions of three cent. ooins. would be made available; and in the five years following 275 million two cent. coins, 858 million one cent, coins (ten each) plus 186 million one-cash coins.
WATSONmething like three millions sterling a day would in made, these last three coins
& CO., LTD.,
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tering of a contract or memorandum ining The Secretary? be altered 40 WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. "writing made or to be made pursuantas to read the General Manager; to the said offer and to be filed with and that in the last-mentioned Articles the Registrar of Companies and that Nos. 94 to 99 inclusive) wherever the "the balanco (if any) of the said Addi-word. Secretary.
appears such word *tional. Shares be disposed of by thebe eliminated and that in lieu thereof.
Society's Board of Directors in such" the words General Manager
such Board shall think most *inserted." manner beneficial to the Society." (2. That Article No. of the "Society's Articles of Association which
new reada
(6. That the proposed exercise by the Directors of the power of borrowing vested in them he the creation of a lebenture issue of $2,000.000 bearing interest at Six per cent,, of which $1,000,000 is to be offered for sub- scription forthwith and the balance is to be dealt with in such inanger ng the Directors may in the present or future determine be and the same is hereby approved and that the Directory be left to raise and secure the repayment of such debentures in such mannor and upon such terms and conditions in all rospects as they" think it with liberty, if they think fit to deposit any of such debentures with the Company's Bankera on such terms as they think fit as security for any indebtedness of the Company to its Bankers either present or future. And the Resolution hereafter further subjoined will also be proposed is on Extraordinary Resolution, viz. :- "That the regulations contained in the printed document submitted to this
Meeting and for the purpose of identification subscribed by the Chairman thereof be and the same are hereby approved and that such regulations be and they are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Com- pacy in substitution for and to the exclusion of all the existing Articles thereof."
Should the Resolution immediately pro- cading for the approval and adoption of new regulations of the Company be passed by the required majority it will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Resolution to a second Extraor dinary Meeting which will be subse quently convened. A copy of the new regulations referred to can be seen on application at the Company'e Office in Hongkong or at the Offices of Messieurs Deacon, Looker, Deacon & Harston, the Company's Solicitors,
The Society shall have a first and paramount lien upon all the Shares of 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 more persons than the shall have a lien thereon in respect of all monies so due to it from all or any of the holders 'thereof.'
one
"be eliminated in its entirety and that "in lieu thereof the following new Article be inserted as Articlo No. 9:- (9.) The Society shall have a first
be
(4.) That in the following Articles of the Company's Articles of Associa "tion, viz-Articles Nos. 3, 7, 24, 30, 444, 46, 52, 54, 83, 93, 102, and 128 the “word Secretary' wherever it occure "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 Epecial 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,
O. MONTAGUE EDE,
Secretary.
and paramount lies upon all the. Shares 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 engage- ments, and solely or jointly with my other person, to or with the Society, whether the period for the payment, fulfilment, or discharge GENERAL MEETING thereof shall have actually arrived or not, and no equitable interest in any Share shall be created except upon the footing and condition that Clause 34 hereof is to have full
effect. And such lien shall extend to all Dividends from time to time declared in respect of euch Shares. (3.) That after Article No. 34 of "the Society's Articles of Association the following new Article be inserted as "Article No. 3a-
(34) 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 by Ordinance required, be bound to recognise soy equitable or other claim to or interest in such Share on the part of any other person, Firm, Company or Corporation."
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purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to the
31st August, 1915.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
will be CLOSED from the 2nd of December to the 9th of December, both days inclusive.
By Order,
EL. O. HOLT, Secretary. Hongkong, 30th November, 1910. [1235.
KAMUNTING (IN KEDAH) RUBBER
HoNGEING OFFICE: 10, De Vaux Roar, O. London | Ourich: 181, Free Sexets, B.C.
The Daily Press.
Horariso, Dz0zMDge 182, 1815:
GERMANY'S RESOURCES,
being copper."
The effect of it was clearly foreseen in Ger- many, and gave rise to the feverish anxiety to create a Navy strong enough to chal- lenge the supremacy of Great Britain GENEROUS GIFT FROM SIR
ROBERT · HO TUNG. upon the seas, In a speech which he delivered in May of 1912 at the first meet- 850,000 FOR WAR PURPOSES. ing of the General Direction of the
We are asked to state that His Excel- Deutscher Wertverein in Berlin, Herr Eleney the Governor has received from Sir POSSERL, a wholesale trader, said: “I have Robert Ho Tung a sum of 860,000 to be become persuaded that the economie war. applied to purposes in connection with cruelly national, which England will wage the war. His Excellency has accordingly against us on the sea, much more than a remitted £3,000 to London for the pur- purely political war waged against France chase of two acroplanes to be presented on land, will have for Germany the worst to the War Office, and £1,808 to be paid consequences and throw us down upon our to the British Red Cross Society for the knees." It was, doubtless, the fear of this purchase of motor ambulances, either that made Germany anxious to keep Great boat or wheeled, and for upkeep of same. Britain out of the conflict until a more
reIt is understood that motor-boat ambul convenient season, and that explains, in ances part, the intensity of her hatred towards us now. Though we may rest assured that everything has been done which foresight could suggest and ingenuity devise to mitigate the effects of a blockude, the length of the war is likely to upset the most carefully-conceived measures. At the present time Germany is living upon her capital and the confidence of her people, and, though the may seek scientific aid to conserve the one and resort to every species of misrepresentation to maintain the other, the end is inevitable though it may be delayed; she cannot concentrate the
are required for use at the Dardanelles and in Mesopotamia.
FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS.
The following weddings will be solemnisad in Hongkong at an early date:-
The Rev. W. F. Featherstone, of St Four's College, Chaplain to the Bishop of Victoria, to Miss Margaret Louisa Morri
500, en route from Home.
ant, residing at Braeside," Hongkong, to Miss Virginia Mary Connor, of She- meen, Cantan.
Mr E. A. Beaumont, mercantile assis:-
Mr. R. N. Hatrick, merchant, of Manila, to Miss Ethel Cullen Ferry, of Plymouth,
Mr. W. E. Harston, auctioneer, of Han- kow, to Miss Margaret Swarbrick, of Sydney, N.S.W.
Mr. Harry Steinfield, marine engineer, of No. 8, Leighton Hill Road, to Miss Julia Maude Barry, en route from Home on the Kashmir.
Mr. E. G. Norman, engineer, No. 7, Canton Road, Shanghai, to Miss Rose Gwendolin Neal, Buckinghamshire, Eng- land.
ONE of the surprises of the war, we are told, is the strong economic position of Germany. Frankly, we can see nothing to justify the statement.
Even Mr CHURCHILL, who had a penchant for painting our prospects coleur de rose, reminded his hearers at the Lord Maxon's WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED.
Banquet last year that "the economic OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that stringenty resulting from a naval blockade
the FOURTEENTH ORDINARY
of SHARE requires time if it is to reach its full effec HOLDERS in the above Company will be tiveness." Unrelaxing as the Navy's grip held at the Offices of Messrs. JOHNSON,
MASTER, Princes Buildings, has been upon the overseas trade of Ger STOXES &
THURSDAY, the tls many, it must be obvious that it is not entire energies of the nation upon the un-England. Hongkong, Decorober, 1915, at 3 o'clock M., for the
possible, under the rest favourable condi- productive work of war without dissipat- Lions, to starve two empires like Germanying her accumulated wealth and falling and Austria-Hungary into submission with into insolvency. Meanwhile, we are told, +1 a united people is pouring its gold into the same case that this result would be attained in the case of a city, The process the State Treasury and receiving paper must necessarily be a long and tedions one
in exchange.” The decision not to resort In view of the fact that the united aren
to taxation for the purposes of the war of the two Central European Powers 15 is, however, a clear confession of weakness. 450,000 square miles, or nearly four times The old expedient of manufacturing un- as large as the British Isles, and that the limited quantities of paper money when
RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER FLEET. agricultural and pastoral industries con-
in straits may be very convenient, but it stitute the chief occupation of the inhabi
is the negation of sound finance. A falso
Mr. Ivan Shestakolsky, Insnaging tants Nine tenths of the land in Germany appearance of prosperity is thereby main director of the Russian Volunteer Fleet, is productive, and, in normal times, tained whole the nation sinks insensiblys, says the New York Journal of Com
merce, opened offices at 44, Whitehall. (4.) That the heading of Articles NOTICE FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ninety per cent of the people are sup doeper and deeper into debt, without any street, and announces that the weekly Nos. 95 to 100 (inclusive) of the "Bocioty Articles of Association read- MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the ported by its produce, while the cultivation hope of extricating itself unless it can freight service of the fleet of steamers controlled by the company is about to be "ing the Serretary be altered so as above Company will be held at the PALACE of the soil furnishes employment to nearly wring on indemnity out of its foes. When resumed from New York to Archangel "to read the General Manager and HOTEL, Shanghai, an MONDAY, the 13th one-half the population of Austria and the inexorable logic of facts makes it The present plans of the management also call for the operation in the near the last-mentioned Articles day of December, 1915, at 4 2., to receive (Nos. 83 to 100 inclusive) wherever the the Directors' Report and Accounts for the nearly three-fifths that of Hungary evident to the people that this hope is future of a number of passenger send ward
Secretary appears such word period ending 30th September, 1915, to elect Both Germany and Austria-Hungary, chimerical we shall see the beginning of freight steamers between the Russian "be eliminated and that in lieu thereof Director and Auditors, and for the trans-
too, contain considerable mineral deposits, the end, if the wastage of men has not this service, however, have not yet been. ports and New York. Arrangements for "the words
action of other Orrlinary business General Manager. *inserted.""
and though some of the mines are badly already brought it into view.
completed. The season of navigation in (5.) That in the following Articles
worked and unremunerative in times of
and around the White Sea port will soon "of the Society's Articles of Association,
come to a close, The Canadian ice "viz.-Articles Nos. 2, 7, 25, 30, 45, 47,
pence they are, nevertheless, valuable assets
breakers last season succeeded in extend- 153, 55, 84, 94, 103, and 129 the word
in war. To these resources must be added,
ing the period of navigation for about ***Becretary wherever it occurs be
40 days beyond the usual duration.n eliminated and that in lieu thereof the
of course, those of practically the whole of
is believed that with more complete pre ** worde - General Manager be
Belgium and the north of France, which
parations this season the channel can be (HAREHOLDERS are reminded that "inserted.”
from the outset have been in the occupa- pursuant to the Resolutions-advertised Should the above Resolutions La passed.
kept open for steamers for at least two months beyond the ordinary period. It above THE REGISTER WILL BE CLOSED by the requisite majority, they will be
the Buaian Volunteer Fleet will devote its main services for transportation of freight to and from New York and Vladivostock. The freight steamers are expected to carry large quantities of rail. road supplies and construction materials which have been ordered from American factories within the past six months.
Dated the 1st day of December, 1915.
By Order of the Board,
R. M. DYER,
CHIEF MANAGER.
NOTICE. The Register of Shareholders will be Closed from and including the 14th December, 1915, to the 24th December, 1915.
By Order of the Board.
R. M. DYER,
CHIEF MANAGER. [1840
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
"that in
be
PLANTATION COMPANY, LIMITED,
Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances of Hongkong.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 4th to the 10th of December, both days inclusive.
Dated this 23rd day of November, 1915. By Order of the Board of Directors,
SCHILLER & Co., Secretaries and General Managers,
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A mail for Europe via Siberis closes to-day at 11 a.m.
Mr. E. W. Carpenter, of the Public
ON THE 14TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1915, submitted for confirmation as Special INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATIONtion of the enemy. Nor must it be forgot Works Department, is going home on leave is regarded as more likely, however, that
and the offer of New Shares will be made Resolutions to Second Extraordinary
TO THE SHAREHOLDERS ON THE REGISTER ON THAT DAY. The last day for receiving transfers will accordingly be THE 18TH DECEMBER. 1915
B. M. DYER,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 1st December, 191552 [1241.
General Meeting which will be subse quently convened.
Dated this 22nd day of November, 1915.
By Order of the Boord.
6. MONTAGUE EDE,
Secretary.
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COMPANY, LIMITED.
IVIDEND WARRANTS dated London, D24th September, 1915, may be hard on application at the Offices of the Undersigned
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Liv.,
General Managms.
[1234 Hongkong, 29th November, 1916.
ten that Germany has been able to import this week.
countries A extensively through neutral since the war began. Though, doubtless,
The Criminal Sessions open at the she has had to pay dearly for all that she Supreme Court to-day. The calendar con obtained in this way, it was not to be tains three murder charges and one of expected that Germany would become attempted murder.