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UNION INSURANCE SOCETY 'OF CANTON LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS."
DOLLARS and a Bonus of TEN DOLLARS per Share for the year 1914 and BI INTERIM DIVIDEND of 'THIRTY DOLLARS per Share for the year 1915 will bo Payable on TUESDAY, the 18th instant.
Warrants may be had on application at the
By Order of the Board,
FINAL DIVIDEND of TWENTY
THE HONGKONG DALLY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 2478, 1916.
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SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Company's Office, No. 3 Queen's Road Contral, Victoria, on THURSDAY, 27th April, 1910, of 12 o'clock Noox, for the purpose of receiving a State- ment of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year cuding 31st December
PATRONS. His Exceller om April, both days inclusivo.
MAY, K.C.M.G., H. E. Major General F. VENTRIS, His Lordship Bishop D. Pozzoni, Rear Adшimi R. H. ANSTRUTHER, R.N., The Hon. Mr. W. CHATHAM, C.M.C.
The COMMITTEE have much pleasure in inviting the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Colony to their Sports at the Race Course by kind permission of the STEWARDS of the HONOKONG JOCKEY CLUB) TO-DAY (EASTER MONDAY), 24th inst., commencing at 1 P.M.
Lady May has very kindly consented to distribute the Prizes at the conclusion of the Sports.
There will be an open crent:-220 yards Championship open to all bona flas Amateurs in the Colony under the rules of the A.A.A.
$1.00.
By kind permission of the Officers, the Band of the 74th Punjabir will play during. the afternoon.
By courtesy of the Management thero will be Special Tram Cars,
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Hongkong, 21st April, 1916.
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NOTICE OF REMOVAL
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"The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 27th
By Order of the Board of Directors,
C. PEMBERTON, Secretary: Hongkong, 11th April, 1916
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THIRTY-FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS wil be held at the Offices of the Undersigned on WEDNESDAY, the 3rd May, 1910 at Noon.
will be CLOSED from the 19th April to the The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company 3rd May, both days inclusivo.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD,
General Agents. Hongkong, 14th April, 1916.
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From 1st May, 1916. ROOMS, newly renovated. Furnished RAIGMIN EAST, 180, PRAE, FIVE- $115 per month, Unfurnished 8K0 per month,
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OTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that EXTRAORDINARY GEN- MEETING of the CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED, wil be held at the Offices of MessTS JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., No. 16, Pedder Street, Victoris, in the Colony of Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the third TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. /
day of May, 1916, at 12.15 o'chek in the afternoon, when the subjoined Resolutions. THIS is to notify that on and after this date will be proposed as Extraordinary Reaolu
I is to notify that ouale fiert cute-tions, viz., 20 incurred by my wife, Mas JOHN JAMES
(1.) STUBBINGS, unless authorised by myself. JOHN JAMES STUBBINGS, Hongkong, 19th April, 1916,
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51% RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1910
for Rbla. 2,000,000,000,
CUBSCRIPTION to the above LOAN will
bo Opened from 29th March till 5th May nclusively.
The Price of issue is 94%..
The Boan is entirely free of Income Tax and of other taxations.
The Loan is redeemable at par ou lat February 1926, Russian style, without option for the Russian Government to convert it at an earlier date.
Coupons are payable half-yearly on the lat February and 1st August Russian style As interest on the above loan runs from 1st/14th February, the interest sccrued on date of subscription must be taken into considera- tion and is to be added to the price of issue. The RUS80-ASIATIC BANK in Hongkong is ready to accept applications for the above- named Loan
Special favourable rates will be quoted for Russian exchange.
Payment may also be made in Roubles.
That the provisions of the Com ***'pany's Memorandum if Associs-
tion with respect to its objects be "altered so as to read as in the "Print signed by the Chirman of "this Meeting for the purposes of ** identification."
(2.) That the Articles of Association **** of the Company be altered in
manner following:-
Renu-
Lion of Committee.
That the following Article shall "be substituted for Article 94, "namely:
4.The Members of the Committee shall be paid out at "the fands of the Company such semuneration as may be or have been determined at any time by any Geners Mecting of the Company until such re muneration is altered by any subsequent General Meeting ""of the Company, Such divisible
sball
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* "amongst thơ members of the *Committee in such proportions ***as the Committee ors majority "thereof shall determine," Should the above Resolutions be passed by the required majority they will be sub- mitted for confirmation as Speelal Resolu
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|Asia Minor" with the design of establish- ing a ling from Trebizond, through Erzingan, to Diarbekr (at the source of the Tigris), or whether the Russians will
A mail for Europe vid Siberia closos horrow at 3 p.m.
H.E. the Governor has appointed Liont
be content to hold the Turks in the centre. J. Kitchin Smith, King's Own Shrop
and operate their left wing"
shriro Light Infantry, to be his Aide-do-
Mr. A. C. Norik has been appointed a Magistrate during the absence on leave of Mr. G. Woodcock, or until further notice.
When wo recall the fearlessness of the Camp. GRAND DUKE'S advance through
aho Carpathians to the verge of the rich and fertile plains of Hungary we realise that no enterprise which may be conocived by his brilliant strategy would be too bold for him to attempt. Communications are a very vitat factor in warfare in
"ch
Major Hiken-Johnson is expected to- rive in Shanghai about May 6th to re- sume his work as Assistani Superintendent. of Police
country, however, and the further the Russiany penetrate into Asin. Minor the more embarrassing will, the problem. of maintaining officient communications -be- coine, while on the other hand, the luss difficult will be that problem to the enemy. The only railway line upon which the Rus- sians can depend is the Tiflis line to the Caucasian fronter, and they are already 200 miles distant from this. The Russiansmitter during the absence on leave of Mr.
hayo naturally been very reticent as il ultimate object of the winter campaign. The final Mes cuger, at the time of the fell of Erzeran, merely said that the cap- ture of Erzerum removes the chief STOUT. obstacle to raids on the Turkish communi-
IN PINTS AND SPLITS.
SOLE AGENTS:
The Hon, Treasurer of the Allice Memo- rial, and Affiliated Hospitals acknowledges with thanks a donation of $5 to the funds. of the hospitals from J. Walker,
member of the Authorised Architects' Com- Me. Arthur Turner has been appointed a
H. W, Bird, or until further notice.
A
Case'le notification states tha the rate of sule for Kamshon opium shall- be $37 in instead of $83 in, and the rute of sale of Hongkong epium shall be $12 a tael instead of $11.50 -tael,
entions and facilitates the disking up of the Anglo-Russian advance toward Bag At the annual meeting of the Shanghai dad." The more imediate danger the Polo Club the following were elected to Tucks have to fear is the threat to their serve on the Committee during the easying Bagdad communications by the Russian
year:-Dr, W. B. Hillinghurst, Messrs. J. Army which cleared Persia and was inst Johnstone, P. Crighton. Ġi. Dalles. I. heard of at Keriud, 75 miles north-east of
Ezra. H. S. Lindsay, and T. S. Forrest. Bagdad. It is presumably, with the objectMr. S. J. Decks, who is about to take a of effecting a junction with this Army that short home holiday in Australia, lofb the Russians operating below the Labo Van region are striking southward towards
A. S. WATSON & Mosul (the ancient Nineveh), a vital contre
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of communications on the Tigris. This Army is rapid'y nearing Bert, an import aat junction of nisin roads, about 40 miles. below Bitlis, An advance on Erzingan aud WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, Diarbekr would be a very real menace to
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DEATH, GRACA OZORIO, At Harperville, 9. Garden Road, on April 23rd, AUREA DE GEACA OZOK10, aged 22 years. Deeply regretted-Funeral wil pass the Monument today at 6 pm. 608 Terrace, Hongkong Office: 101, Des Vaux Road, C. LONDON Orics: 131, FLEET STREET, E.0.,
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No. 5, BOHINSON ROAD, "STONE- RENGE," DWELLING HOUSES contain- Ing Five Rooms and OutkonsEN.
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FAIRVIEW" No. 1, Robinson Road, Comprising 9 ROOMS, Auple Servants, Quarters, and Gardens.
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The Daily Press
HONGKONA, 14TH APRIL, 1918
the Turkish communications both with the north and with Mesopotamin. The Turks have three main routes of communication The chief and simplest is that by the Bagdad railway to Res-el-Ain. From this point they can proceed by road to Dier- bekr to support the northern armies, and by road and river to Bagdad. Ras-el-Ain is approximately 75 miles directly south ward of Diarbekr, and it is from this rail. bead that troops and store, pass north ward. There are two other routes open
Shanghai by the P. & O Nagor, Ma Decks is an enthusiastic member of the Shanghai Cricket Cab and has taken a rominem part in the organization of patriotic concerts.
H.M. the King has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance with re- spect to an Ordinance to amend the law, relating to Companies; an Ordinance to amend further the Tramway Ordinance, 1902; an Ordinates to amend the Deporta tion Ordinances, 1912-1914.
By the performances of Massenet's opens Cinderella" at the Lyceum Theatre, Shanghai, during the past fort night, the Fund for French Crippled Soldiers has benefited to the extent of about $10,000, and the Fund for Belgian War Relief to the extent of approximately 85,000.
to the northern armies, namely, the Angora Sivas and the Konia-Kuiserie-Sivos itinor-
The Boy Scouts paraded at St. Joseph's, aries. From the railhead at Angora, how College compound yesterday (St. George's. over, the road passes through most difficult Day), and saluted the flag. Scoutsmesters. country and is more than 250 miles long, Edwards, Hoylance. Praga, and Carvalho while the railway at Konis is still further
were in charge, and there was a largo Histant. It is obviously. a serious matter inusser. After the ceremony the Scouts. THE CAUCASUS CAMPAIGN.
|to support armies and to reinforce them were entertained to tea by the Brother Direc Call of Trebisand, like the Russian from Constantinople over suck long and tor. The proceedings ended with hearty masterstoke at Erzerum, has diverted difficult lines of communication. Quito cheers for King George and the Brother. attention from the great, Verdun struggle possibly it will be the alm of the GRAND | Director, to the brilliant Russian offensive in eastern DUKE to kill two birds with one stone by Asia Minor, where the situation is cf ab cutting communications on the Bagdad sorbing interest because of the possibilities railway-line, thus compelling the enemy to if unfolds. The achievement is a triumph use the tedious land routes to provision of the coordination of the Russian Black and reinforce his northern Armies and com- Sea Fleet with the Army operating along pletely isolating the Turks in Mesopota the coast and with the main Army westmin. The dangers of such a project, how.
Mr. Ping Wing Lat, alias William Philip, who graduated at Edinburgh, has been appointed resident medical officer at the Leicester Workhouse infirmary. The Board of Guardians received appli- cations from a Wekhuan a Japanezo, u Belgien, an Indian, and the successful.
rios with it a salary of £230 a year with house and rations.
Applications will be wired to Petrograd tions to a Second Extraordinary Mee English Baths and Kitchen Ranges. Houf Erzerum, and is the reward of an exceed-ever, are considerable, and the Russians candidate, a Chinese. The appointment ear-
free of telegraphic charges and commission.
40% only of the cost of the Bonds may be paid on application, the balance to be paid an receipt of the Bonds.
The Bank is also ready to give every facility to subscribers in the shape of advances against the scrips.
& TISDALL,
Manager, RUBO BANK. Hongkong, 30th March, 1918. 1490
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
▼ NHE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of
Members will be held on SATURDAY,
which will be subsequently convened.
to be altered have teen circulated to the Prints of the Memorandum proposed
Shareholders and Print thereof can be seen at the Registered Office of the Company.
Dated this 15th day of April, 1916.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. General Agents, THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFIC, LTD.
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HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY LIMITED.
LOST
the 29th April, 1918, at 12 o'clock Noos, atRANSFER RECEIPT Nod. 1217 issued
to Mr. Lay IV CHUNG for Transfers of
the Offices of the JOCKEY CLUB on the 700 Shares in this Company into his name, Ground Floor of the HONGLONG CLUB ANNEXE Chater Road, Big
By Order,
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, 15th April, 1916 *.
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CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
having been Mishid, Lost or Destroyed, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Receipt is produced at this Office within 30 days from the date hereof, the Certificates for the said Shars will be delivered to the said Mr. Lao lo CHUNG, and the Transfer Receipt will thereafter be held by the Company as null and veid For the HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LTD,
W. E. ROBERT
Hongkong, 14th March, 1918,
posesión.
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The Wuchang correspondent of the N--U. Daily Seas writes on April 19th-Lasb
Sieulin from here, a distance of zoute 68 night the first train can through to
English tiles, in the direction of Yochow and Changsha This is quicker than any thing we dared to hore a few years ago. We shall soon he as near Canton og we are to Peking and then the world will find out what we knew all along, that this centre is the hub of China.
In the House of Comicas last month,.
Mr. Lloyd George, teplylug to Sir Joseph
Water and Water Carriage Bystem. A few ingly well-planned scheme. The capture may, therefore, content themselves, with Flata specially designed to accommodate thres of the port of Rize by a skilful combing harassing the communications by cavalry bachelors at raniomable rentals, Immediate
tion of land and sea operations gave the raids, for which the country is most Russians an excellent base for the Fleet suitable, and embled them to march up along the | Trebizond-Erzero rond into the almost. Russing armies in Asia Muor, the Turks Apart from coping with the powerful inaccessible coestul mountain regions and, buys a further serious possibility to keep Rent with the rents of the left before thent. The favourable senson for Aank of the Turks Third Army, an attack on the Suez Canal has passed, whilst the landing a force directly and, although part of the great Army con- in front of Trebizoni hastened the centrated on its banks in sager hope of downfall of that port, The effect of Turkish offensive may have been trans this serress, both morally and materially, ferred to other fronts, thers doubtless still will be very considerable. Although the remains a very formidable force, which is creasing vigilance and enterprise of the hardly likely to be permitted to remain Black Sea Fleet had practically prevented inactive at such a critical time. sen communication between Trebizond and Western Front must, of course, have first Longford, formerly his Majesty's Consul in The Walton, who asked whether Professor J. H. the Besphorus, the port was still of the claim, especialy at this period, but, if Japan, had vainly offered his gratuitous greatest importance, as the starting-point ufficent men can be spared, an attack way services to four departments of the Govern of the great, richly laden caravans inte be delivered by the British from the sea tent, said:-I have seen Professor Long- Asia. Its capture assures the safety.
the Russian
on Syria, which is singularly vulnerableford's letter in The Times. I can assure of
Fight wing, and
to such an attack. Three salient points the hon, member that the services of retired gravely menzees with euvelopment the Turkish forces which are stubbornly resist emerge from an examination of the Civil servants are utilized in Government Ing in the Bailut region, about equi-Russian offensive. The Russians have department, wherever possible, distant from Erzerum and Trebizond on the main road. When the Russians have nia, they are gravely embarrasing the Turks who are so teraciously holding on effected a clearance of this region there will be no further obstacle to the linking at Bagdad, and they are compelling the up, of the Erzerum forces and the Army withdraw from Thrace-a likely theatre along the coast. The Russians will then of momentous events in the not distant have an unbroken line from the sea ta futura-of forces of such size that the r.re. south-west of Bitis. The real object of moval must greatly weaken the enemy in the Russian offensive is best known to the Macedonii and cruse gravo uneasiness MAHOUSE in Kowloon
ARRIED COUPLE want to Share GRAND DUKE himself, and will gradasily among the Bulgarians and the Austro- preferred.
Es unfolded as the campaign progresses, Germans who make no secret of their fears It is impossible to tell whether a solid of the designs of General SIEBAIL's army
et Balonika. advance will be made into the heart of
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, will held at the Head Office of the Company, No. 4. Connaught Road, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong. on FRIDAY, 1918, at Noon, pased as an Extraordinary R which was THE CERTIFICATE NO. 105 for two R
be
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the Extraordinary General Meeting of the said Company held on the 18th day of April, 1916, will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolution :
That the name of the Compang be changed to 'BEITEH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED." Dated this 18th day of April, 1916.
By Order of the Board.
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
General Manager,
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Sharea, 8100 paid up, numbered 6883/6887, standing in the Register in the name of MecE MUN Po, having been declared TOST, Notice is hereby given that unless the said Certificate is produced to the Society before the 13th July, 1918, A NEW CERTIFICATE for the said Shams will be issned and the old Certificate will thereafter be held by the Society as null android. By Order of the Board of Directors,
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Mr. J. J. Thompson, District Engineer on the Nanking-Hunan ratwav, is leaving Ching, shortly to volunteer for engineering and munition work. Mr. Thompson was on the Shanghai-Nanking railway from 1904-1908 and on the Canton-Kowloon rail way from 1908-1915.
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Mr. Roy Scott of the Cos who joined the 10th Bath Yorkshire Regt, and had risen to Lance Corporal and suiper, has been given a commission in the 11th Bott, Devonshire Regt. in training at Wareham,