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LIMITED, will be held at the Hood Office of the Society, No. 2, Queen's Office of the Company, No. 2, Queen's. Buildings, le House Street, Victoria, Buildings, Ice House Street, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on SATUR in the Colony of Hongkong, on SATUR DAY, the 4th day of Dember, 1915, at DAY, the 4th day of December, 1915, at 12 o'clock Noos for the purpose of con- 12.15 o'clock in the afternoon, for the BY Comme du Firm, bet, Barasian sidering and, if thought it, passing as purpose of considering and, I thought Extraordinary Resolution the following it, passing as Extraordinary Resolutions Resolutions, that is to sug
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now reads:- "tional Ordinary Shares of 8250 (Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars) each (whereof $100 (Ono ¡undred. Dollars) shall be credited as paid up) ranking "for Dividend and in all other respects "pari pussy with the Existing Ordinary
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Applications will be received by the Russo. ASIATIC BANK, Hongkong Branch, from difte. Hongkong, 21st November, 1915. (1216
AUCTION
PUBLIC
of
AUCTION
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY situate at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong in Six Lots,
To be sold in pursuance of an Order
the Supreme Court of Hongkong, TO-DAY (THURSDAY),
the and day of December, 1915, at 3 o'cloc p.m., by
MR. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer,
at his Sales Room, Duddell Street,
The Property consists of:
Lor 1-All that piece or parcel of ground intended to be registered in the
Land Office as Subsection No. 4 of
-
Shares 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, 1916, such "issue being in accordance with the terms of a contract or memorandum in writing made or to be made pursuaat "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 such Board hall think most "beneficial to the Society"
Article No. 9 That
of the (2.) "Bociety's Articles of Asociation which
now reads :---
The Society shall have a first and paramount lien upon all the Shares of any Shareholder for all monies duo to the Society either from him alone or jointly with any other person and where a Share is held one the by more persons than
Society shall have a lien thorcon in respect of all monies so due to it from all or any of the holders 'thereof.'.
The Company shall have a first and 'paramount lice upon all the Shares of any Shareholder for all monica due to the Company either from 'him alone or jointly with any other “person, and where a Share is béld by more persons than one the Cóm- pany shall have a lion thereon in respect of all monies so due to it from all or any of the holders * thereof."
"be eliminated in its entirety, and that "in lieu thereof the following new "Article be inserted as Article No. 9:- (9.) The Company shall have a first and paramount lien upon all the Shares Registered in the name of each Shareholder (whether solely or jointly with others) and upon the proceeds of sale. thoreof, for his debts, liabilities and engagements, and solely or jointly with any other or with the Company, person, to whether the period for the payment, fulfilment Gr discharge thereof.
"be eliminated in its entirety and that" "in lien thereof the following new “Article be inserted as Article No. 9:- (8.) The Society shall have a first
and paramount 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, liability and engage- ments, and solely jointly with any other person, to or with the Society, whether the period for the payment, fulfilment, or dischargo. 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 34a hereof is to have full effect. And such len shall extend to all Dividends from time to time declared in respect of such Shares.' (3.) That after Article No. 34 of the Society's Articles of Association the "following new Article be inserted as
Article No. 34a: (348.)-Save as here otherwise pro-
INTIMATION
DEWAR'S
SCOTCH
"Mr. G. C. Moxon and Mr. G. Hastings
Yunnanfu could doubtless be much im- proved." (In passing it may be remarked have Peturned to the Colony from a that it is only incidentally that a railway sporting trip up the Yangtze, from Burmah might touch Yunnanfu; its.
Mr. H. K. Holwes, of Hongkong, is real objective would be Talifu, or, to be leaving for home this week. His practice strictly accurate, the commercial suburb will be carried on by Mr. Guy B. Haywood: of Hsiakuan.) Mr. COLQUHOUN also threw cold water on the scheme, which, he thought, could never be carried out save the brain of an unpractical theorist," nor could he imagine any engineer "wasting a thought upon such an idle dream.”
Then, to come down to quite recent days (1907), in his work on "Railway Enterprise in China," Mr. not yet known whether his promotion
1.
Mr. Moberly Boll, a. member of the Shanghai Bar, is a passenger by the Katori Maru, now in port. Mr. Bell is going Home to join the army,
Colonel Morrison, commanding the United State; troops in North China, has boon made a Brigadier-General. It is
WHISKY KENT SAYS, "The physical dificulties of will involve any change of station.
"IMPERIAL INSTITUTE
AND
"EXTRA SPECIAL"
THE NAME OF
"
DEWAR'S
The engagement is announced between Douglas Travers Paymaster Willian Morrish, R.N., son of the Inte Captain. W. D. Morrish, R. N., and Mrs. Morrish, of Home Park, Stoke, Devonport, and Dorothy Isabelle Paget, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Gordon, of Hong-
the Bhame route, however, are said, for practical purposes, to be insurmount able. If criticism could kil, we should certainly not be hearing anything more of railways from Burmah to China, but the idea is as much alive to-day as ever, and but for the war we should probably be seeing it pressed vigorously, for at the beginning of last year it was reported kong. that the British Government was ap- preaching tlie Chinese on the subject. The
Some time ago it was mentioned that money invested in Tsingtao was bringing great differences of opinion with regard in very good returns. Now it is report- to the feasibility of the project nighted that a group of business men, includ well give rise to grave doubts but for the ing Messrs. S. Azano, E. Watanabe, and fact that the reports of trained engineers T. Hashimoto, are organizing a land and who have made careful surveys on the building company in the Shantung port. spot are all in its favour; its opponents with a capital of Y.1,000,000. are either men who have not had a special training as railway engineere, or, if their qualifications would entitle them
Mr. F. D. Burton, of the Shanghat Gas Co., has left for Home to volunteer
shall havo actually arrived or not, REPRESENTS A STANDARD to pass an opinion, they have not visited for active service, Mr. Burton, who was a
and no equitable interest in any Share shall be created oxcept upon the footing and condition that Clause 33a hereof is to have full effect. And such lien shall extend *to all Dividends from time to timo declared in respect of such Share," (2.) That after Article No. 33 of the "Company's Articles of Association the following new Article be inserted us Article No. 33a:---
(330) Save as herein otherwise pro
vided the Company shall be entitlerk to treat the Registered Holder of any Shace as the absolute owner thereof, and secordingly shall not,
THAT IS. ALWAYS
MAINTAINED.
SOLD AGENTS :.
except as ordered by a Court of A. S. competent jurisdiction, or as by Ordinance required, be bound to recognise any equitable or other claim to or intorest in such Share on the part of any other person, Firm, Company or Corporation.
WATSON
& CO., LTD.,
the locality; it is, perhaps, not unfair to pon-commissioned officer in Canada and suggest that they have all been more or has seen some war service, although above less led away by Mr. BABER's striking the age liniit, hopes to obtain a commis dictum. In these circumstances the weight sion and carries a letter from Sir John of the adverse judgments is sensibly Jordan to the War Office. Mrs. Burton lessened, and it is fair to accept in pre-has volunteered for Red Cross work, and ference the verdics of the Indian Govern- accompanies her husband. ment's engineers who, after a detailed
With regard to the order for railway survey, were able to trace a route which carriages by the Russian Government, would avoid anything worse than a one-which has been a subject of communica- in-forty gradient (and that only for &tion between Japan and Russia for some few miles) and by which the whole 124 time (says the 5.-C. Daily News), the
miles of track could be completed at a South Manchuria Railway Company has
(3.) That the heading of Articles Nos. 94 to 99 (inclusive) of the Con- WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, facilities along an already existing line pany's Articles of Association read- ing: The Secretary' be altered
o
as to read the General Manager'; and that in the last-mentioned Articles Nos. 04 to 90 inclusive) wherever the word Secretary appears such word' "be eliminated and that in lieu thereof.
"the words General Manager he
"inserted."
(4.) That in the following Articles of the Company's Articles of Associa "tion, viz.:-Articles Nos. 2, 7, 24. 35.
44, 46, 52, 54, 93, 93, 102, and 128 the "word Secretary wherever it occurs «be eliminated and that in lieu thereof "the words * General Manager be "inserted."
vided the Society all 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
Should the above Resolutions be passed recognise any equitable or other claim to or interest in such Share by the requisite majority, they will be on the part of any other person, submitted for confirmation as Special Firm, Company or Corporation."
Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary (4.) That the heading of Articles General Meeting which will be subse- Society's Articles of Association read- "Nos. 95 to 100 (indusive) of the quently convened.
Dated this 22nd day of November, 1915. Section F of Inland Lot No. 800 together to road the General Manager's and "ing the Secretary le altered so at
By Order of the Board, with the messuage and buildings thereon that in the last-mentioned Articles known as No. 400, Quaan's Road West.
Ares 669 square fee
(Nos, 95 to 100 inclusive) wherever the or thereabouts Annual Crown rent 89.70.
"word Secretary' appears such word Lor 2-All that piece or parcel of" be eliminated and that in lieu thereof
General Manager' ground intended to be registered in the the words
"inserted." Land Office as Subsection No. of Section F of Inland Lot No. 800 together
(5.) That in the following Articles with the message and buildings thereon
"of the Society's Article of Association, known as No. 408, Queen's Road West.
"viz. :--Articles Nos. 2, 1, 26, 36, 45, 47, 53, 55, 84, 94, 163, and 129 the word
Secretary' wherever it
be "eliminated and that in lieu thereof the
Area 600 square feet or thereabouta. Annual Crown rent. 89,10,
Lor 3-All that piece or parcel of ground intended to be registered in the Land Office as Section of Inland Lot No, 800 together with the messuage and buildings thereon known as No. 23, Sam
To Lane.
Area 1,022 square feet or thereabouts.
Annual Crown rent $13.50.
Lor 4-All that pics or parcel of ground intended to be registered in the Land Office as Section K of Inland Lot No. 800 together with the messuago and buildings thereon known as No. 141, Second Street
Area 783 square feet or thereabouts, Annual Crown rent $10:35.
The above-mentioned premises are held from the Crown for the residue of a term of 999 years from the 30th day of June,
1862.
LOT 5-All those pieces or parcels of ground intended to be registered in the Land Office as Section C of Inland Lot No. 769 and Section C of Inland Lot No. 758, both held for the residue of a term of 999 years from the 7th day of January 1882, together with the messuages and buildings thereon Enown 18 No. 65, Second Street.
Area 768 square feet or theresbents, Annual Crown rent $10.14.
LOT 6-All that piece or parcel of ground intended to be registered in the Office as Section D of Inland Lot No. 759 held for the residue of a term of 999 years from the 7th day of January, 1869, together with the message and buildings thereon known as No. 50, First Street.
Area 98 square feet or
Annual Crown rent $10.47.
thereabouts.
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
Secretary.
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MARRIAGE.
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FINCH-FOLEY-On October 20th, at Pad dington, Captain FRANCIS FINCH, Gloucestershire Regiment, to SUSIE, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. FOLEY, Tientsin
DEATH.
at
cost of some £760,000. Such a railway
now accepted a contract for the supply would carry with it advantages over and of 1,500 carriages. It is proposed to above these that are usually associated enlarge the Company's factory at Dairen with such developerents. Ordinarily the so that it may be enabled to turn ous function of a railway is to offer greater 300 carriages every month. The total
cost of the order is estimated of communication; the Bhamo-Tengyuch Y.30,000,000, and most of the materials line would to a certain extent form will have to be inported. bridge over a stretch of impassable conn- try-for that adjective may be truly applied to the borderlands during the influx of Germans to this port, writes the monsoon period, when they are so in-chang correspondent of the N. C. Daily fested with malaria as to be a veritable News. They did not remain longer, how. over, than to repack their baggage, and they then, along with one or two unem ployed Germans from here, went west,
death-trap.
The advantage to commerce that would acerue from even a 2ft. d WALTER October 18th, at St Leonards, railway working all the year round, as on-Sea, HUGH WALTER, Lieut., Bed-against pack-mule, working for guine fordshire Regiment, son of late John
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, Drormber 2nd, 1016.
COMMUNICATION.
There has been recently a noticeable
There were in all fifteen of them, and
amongst the members of our foreign community there has been much specula- tion as the business on which they are bont. Their travelling was facilitated by We shall probably hear mors of their an officiul notification of their arrival. activity in Szechuen later.
HONGKONG
LEGISLATIVE-
COUNCIL,
Walter, of the Hongkong and three-quarters of the year, are obvious; Shanghai Bank, aged 27,
it is generally agreed, too, that the HONGKONG OPIC: 10A, Des Vœux ROAD, C. proper terminus of the line would be LONDON Orion: 181, FLEET SZEREZ, É.C. | Talifu, the commercial capital of West ern Yunnan, and the Government of India's survey party is said to have discovered a practicable route for this extension also, the total cost of the whole line being then about four and a half millions. With the advantages that are to be reaped from it, it seems almost BETWEEN
incredible that the scheme should have CHINA AND BURMAH.
bean neglected for so long; one cause NARRATIVES and reports of travel in was probably the Indian Government's China always have an interest of their aversion to anything that would bring own, but when the traveller is also an foreign countries nearer or that might expert in some special branch the in-caues trouble on the frontiers, but the
Second reading of the Bill intituled terest is redoubled and the value of the principal reason is to be found in Mr. Should the above Resolutions he passed IN THE MATTER OF THE WING ON work immensely increased. This is the BABE's witty but-in the light of later"An Ordinance to amend the Full Court Ordinance, 1912, and to make further COMPANY, LIMITED,
case of the recently published Notes knowledge-unjustified condemnation of provision for the constitution of the Fall by the requisite majority, they will be submitted for confirmation as Special
Court." from Frontier," by Mr. T. M. it. Resolutions to a Secoud Extraordinary IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ANsCoron, the Board of Trade's special General Meeting which will be subge- quently convened.
44
occurs
"words General. Manager
"inserted."
be.
be
Dated this 22nd day of November, 1915.
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
Becretary.
NOTICE.
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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE CERTIFICATE No. 597, dated 16th TER, GATEN 7, 10th in this Company, standing in the name of MR. THOMAS BROWN, of Shanghai, has beon 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, 1015
PEMBERTON,-
Secretary,
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG,
and
ORDINANCE, 1911.
commissioner in China, Mr. AINSCOUGH'S TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a descriptions of travel and life in Western Petition was presented to the Court China make good razding; his essay on un 24th November, 1915, by the above-named Company to confirm an alteration of the the political status of the Sifan and Company's objects proposed to be effected other semi-Tibetan tribes of the Szebuen. by the following Special Resolution of the Tibetan borderland, and his analysis of Company unanimously passed and confirmed at Extraordinary General Meetings on 26th the Sino-Tibetan tangle, have a value of October and 11th November, 1915:
their own; but it is on the commercial problems and developments that he met with in the course of his travels that he
A meeting of the above will be held The Orders of the Day are ag to-day. follow:-
First reading of a Bill intituled, “An Ordinance to amend the law relating to companies."
First reading of a Bill intituled, “ An Ordinance to amend the law relating to importation and exportation.”
Second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance" to amend farther the Mails for Europe vid Biberia close Trading with the Enemy Ordinance,
1914." to-day at 11 am and at 3 p.m.
Second reading of the Bill intituled, "An Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Mr. James Simpson, of Middleton Ordinance, 1890, and for purposes on- Mount, Reigate, formerly of Shanghai, nected therewith. who died on Sept. 3rd, left £50,154.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals acknowledges with thanks the following donations to the funds of the hospitals:--
Old Clothes Dealers Guild, $30; P. J.
Vasaria, $11.
Second reading of the Bill intituled, "An Ordinance to amend and consoli- date the law relating to Chinese Passen- ger Ships as defined by the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, and concerning Asiatic Emigrante generally."
*
THE VACANCY ON LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Wo understand that the successor to the late Mr. E. A. Hewett, C.M.G.. as. the representative of the Chamber of Commerce on the Legislative Council, will not be elected until the return to the Colony of Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar, Vice- Chairman of the Chamber, who will assume the office of Chairman in the
1. To add to paragraph 3 of the Memoran- dum of Association the following: To do all kinds of suitable business, to establish branches, to enlarge the said businesses, to open Branch Offices for apeaks with special weight. This is par Fire, Marine and Life Insurance, Land ticularly noticeable in his advocacy of Investment, Loan and Deposit, Shipping the Bhamo-Tengyueh Railway. Probably and Hotel business, to commence any other business that may seem profitable there is no railway scheme in China that Captain Christopher Edmund Grant to the Company, and to take shares in has been the source of so much debate or Davidson, 1st, attached 6th, The Buff any other Company, or Companies but before doing any of the aforesaid has been so often and so effectually who was killed in France on October 15th, businesses a unanimous resolution of the denounced as has this one, but the re Board of Directors must be passed.
was gezetted to the Buffs in 1805, and AND NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN markable fact remains that, after forty served with the second battalion in Hong that the Petition is set down for bearing by years of adverse criticism, the scheme is kong. Captain Davidson was a member the Court on 31st January, 1918, ab 10.30 A.M., still alive and is still vigorously of the Saddlers' Company and a Livery-interim Four names are mentioned in and any person interested in the Company, whether as creditor or otherwise, desirous to pressed. There is an array of great man of the City of London. oppose the making of an order confirming the said alteration under the above Ordinance, demolition of it is classical, I do not names against the idea. Mr. BADER's should appear at the time of bearing by himself or his Counsel for that purpose, and
such person requiring the same by the under- signed on payment of the regulated charge.
Dated 26th November, 1915.
For further particulars and conditions INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION a copy of the petition will be supplied to any
of sale apply to
DENNYS & BOWLEY,
6, Des Voeux Road Central.
Solicitors for the Vendor,
or to
MR. GEO, P. LAMMERT.
Auctioneer Hongkong, 17th November, 1915.
T1901
COMPANY, LIMITED.
IVIDEND WARRANTS dated London, D 24th September, 1935, may be had on application at the Offices of the Undersigned.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.
General Managers. Hongkong, 29th November, 1915.
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DENNYS & BOWLEY,
Solicitor for the Company, No. 6, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.
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namel connection with the vacancy, those of Mr. T. F. Hough, Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar, Mr. P. A Holyoak and Mr. W Dickson We understand that Mr. Major Frederick MacDonell Browne Montague Ede was approached to
offer himself as a
candidate but declined. The conditions governing the selection of the representative of the A high authority has informed me that was the second son of the lata Venerable Chamber of Commerce are prescribed in shareholders will provide the money J. F. Browne, Archdeacon of Madras, a special set of rules. A full meeting of they will always find an engineer to and of Mrs. Browne, of 12, Park-street, the Chamber and not be confined to the spend it. By piercing half-a-dozen Mont Bath. He served in China and was members of the Chamber itself. In the Cenis tunnels and erecting a few Menai wounded at Tientsin in 1900, receiving event of any member of the outside public being chosen, he attends the meetings bridges, the read from Burman to the medal for the relief of Peking.
of the Chamber, ez-officia,
mean that it would be absolutely impos D.S.O., Royal Engineers, who has died sible to construot a railway he wrote of wounds received in action in France,
has summoned, and