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GEEEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an GENERAL EXTRAORDINARY KEETING of the GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED, will be eld at the Office of Meters, SHEWAN, Tonse & Co., the General Managers of the Company.. St George's Building, Chater Road, Victoria, In the Colony of Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the Fifteenth day of December, 1916. at twelvo c'clock Noox, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing an Extraordinary Resolutions the following Resolutions, that i to say:---
(1) That the capital of the Company be reduced from 84,000,000 (Four Million Dollars) divided into 400,000 (Four Hundred Thousand) Ehares of S10 (Ten Dollars) each, to 83,000,000 (Three Million Dollar) divided into 400.000 (Four Hundred Thousand) Shares of $7.50 (devon Dollars and Fifty Cents) each. and that such reduellon be effected by returning to the holders of the 400,000 (Four Hundred Thonsand) Shares that
THE
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9TH, 1916.
NATIONAL MISSION.
TO-DAY (SATURDAY);
7.45 AM.Holy Communion, Cathedral. 10.15 A.M.-Service in the Cathedral.
3,00 PMawiting for Children at Government House.
TO-MORROW
(CLOSING SERVICES), SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10TH.
7.45 AM.Holy Connmannion Cathedral,
11.00 A..-Service in the Cathedral,
12 NOON-Holy Communion.
3.45 r..--Service in the Cathedral.
9,00 P..- Mass Meeting in the Theatre
(Men and Womens).
have been issued gait ap rapital to the Speaker: The Right Rov, F. L. NORRIS, D.D.
extent of 82.50 (Two Dollars and Fifty Cente) per Share and by reducing the nominal amount of each of the said Shares from 810 (Ten Dollars) to 87.30 (Neven Dollam and Fifty Cents).
(2). That application be made to the Supreme Court of Hongkong to confirm the redoc- tion of the capital of the Company in confonaity with the foregoing Resolution. Should the above Resolutions be passed by the requisite majority, they will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary Gotoml Meeting which will be subsequently convened,
Dated this Fifth day of December, 1916.
By Order of the Board,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.. Geuoral Managers.
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BUME & REIF.
IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that M 1 IS HOLY that the Firm name of BOME & REIF, but will carry an Business in fatur under his own asme.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 3th December, 1916.
NOTICE.
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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE CERTIFICATE for Four Shares, THE
NOB.
the 3389/3392 of
Originsi Denomination of $500.00 por Share, in this Company, standing in the name of NICOLAS ALEXIS IVANOV (since deceased) of Hankow, has been LOST, and if at the expiration of Ore. Month from the date hereof the above doorment be not forthcoming another Certificate for the quivalent there in the present denomination will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be acknowledged.
C. MONTAGUE EDE, Genoral Manager.
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A telescope has been contributed by: Mr. L. Gibbs, through. r. A Denison, Hongkong, to the Lady Boberts Field
three years ago. The domestic wrangles about taxation and the House of Lords left the impression on the minds of the majority of people that, as a class, the Glass Fund. aristocracy of Britain were selfish, and that they toiled not neither did they spio. But the war has given the Medina, with the Hongkong mail of the aristocracy and the leisured classes an 3rd ultimo, arrived at Marseilles on the
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Bishop Norris will address the last of the series of united meetings in connec tion with the National Mission in the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening at 9- 'clock. The chair will be taken uy Com- indore H. G. G. Sandeman,
The meetings in connection with the of our national duty. We laymen cannot National Mission to-day include fail to be struck with the fact that soine service at the Cathedral nt 10.15. a.m. of the views expressed by the Bishop of Peking would, if they had been uttered and only thirty years ago, have made it almostday). impossible for him to remain in the
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Princee Bulidings. to be made from Pure Malted Ariglican Church. When he tells us that conclude with a United Meeting in the
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SECOND 5% RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1916 for Rbls. 3,000,000,000.
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ALLEGED MURDER AT
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of Peking tells us that there is no sin in It has been reported to the police that playing goli or indulging in otherse attack was made on Thursday night. forms of physical recreation on Sunday upon two Chinese revenue men, as-u-re- The men were searching a large sampan ot Yaumati for opium, at about 9 p.m.,
the day of rest in the Treaty Ports suggested that he has no doubt about gluttony being sinful. He did not use the words, but it is not unfair to inter- pret the general trend of his ideas being very much in favour of recognising the duty of keeping our bodies fit, so that our minds may not be atrophied. This shows that the Church is progressive,
A correspondent has reminded us that the old crusades to Palestine from Britain were almost entirely due to the un-
O Central, at present in the occupation of HONGKONG OTICE: 104, DES VOUX ROAD, C. flagging energy of religions leaders, of
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N.B-Tho word "throughout" used in this Notice means that the Houses should be Lime washed in respect of all the Walls of each Boom, all Cubiclen, Partitions, Stair Casings and Stair Lininge, all Ceilings and the Undersides of Boofs in Main Buildings, Offices and Servants' Quarters and inclusive of Verandahs.
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG 9TH DECEMBER, 1916.
OUR NATIONAL DUTY.
our
ult of which one mit his death.
when a couple of shots were heard. What actually took place is not really known, but it is stated that one reveune tim dived into the water and escaped, and that the other was either shot or drowned.
An arrest has been made..
HONGKONG MOTOR CAR FATALITY.
CHINESE KNOCKED DOWN AND KILLED ON BOWRINGTON. BRIDGE.
A Chinese constable spoke to seeing
its course.
which the most remarkable was Peter the Hermit, To-day the appeal from the pulpit is not the only method of making people realise their national duty. The
At the Hongkong. Magistracy - yester platform and the Press serve the same day, Mr. J. R. Wood sheld an enquiry purpose. In general, clergymen, politi-into the circumstances surrounding the cians and journalists are all agreed upon death of a Chinese named Chan: Kai,. the fundamentals of our national duty which resulted from injuries reecived at the present time. We must win the
from being knocked down by a motor-car At no time in British history have the war, and win it as quickly as possible. on Bowrington Bridge on November citizens of the Empire been so exercised Nobody in the Empire seems to have any 24th. in their minds as to what is their national doubt about the righteousness of duty, or more anxious to do whatever cause; the German Chancellor, at the deceased carrying a large bundle of cloth lies in their power for their country. The outbreak of war, presented the case so
on the bridge. When the car was about 100 feet from deceased he heard the horn spread of education and the multiplica-bluntly that the only thing which sur
sounded. The vehicle knocked the mon tion of the number of printing presses prises us is that any neutrals who read
can hesitate as to the real down and the wheels ran over him. Tho has enabled everyone to take an intelli- his words
All those of qa
car was only proceding at an ordinary gent interest in the great events of the origin of the conflict. day. Rapid transport and the deep-sea who love, freedom are most anxious to see speed. He could not see why the dr cables-have-placed up in the Far East re-asserted, and accepted by civilisation, did not avoid deceased; it did not alter the basic principles for which we are Dr, Moore, Assistant Superintendent in quick communication with those of our Countrymen who are thousands of miles fighting. We have no doubt that our at the Government Civil Hospital, said in an unconscious state and died about The changes in the Cabinet in nation will emerge from the conflipuri deceased was brought into the institution London aro commented upon out her fied. All the heroian and self-sacrifice of two hours later. Denth was due to Iraq-.
An uncle of deceased said his nephew almost as rapidly after the rumours the past twenty-eight months is an tume of the base of the skull. begin, or the events take place, as in the inspiration, not only for this generation could neither hear nor see very well; he but for those that will follow. While we acknowledge, with great regret, the fact that problems connected with poverty and that on the morning water futurys the unsatisfactory state of family life was driving a motor-car to the works at had not been solved by the English-speak-North Point. The car was a five-seater and he had driven it twice before, At ing peoples before the war, we cannot the time in question a hand truck was overlook the improvements which have on the bridge proceeding in the same taken place even in our lifetime. We are direction, and there was an electric car coming in an opposite direction; a little all thinking so
much in these days about way from the bridge. He did not notice any other people on the bridge except deceased, and he was going in the same direction as the car. When he was going, to prevent running into the truck in front. Witness was watching the truck and sounded his horn. He was not quite. sure whether he saw deceased; he thought.
AWAY.
was about 50 years of age,
Mr. Albert Woodall Smith, manager of soda faqtery,
Metropolis of the Empire. It was coni- monly said before the war by these who had travelled from Great Britain to dis tant parts of the world that the Colonies gave greater evidence of an intense feeling of patriotism than did the provincial cities of the Mother Country. Today it is impossible to draw any such distinction. Individuals vary greatly, not only in the expression of their emotion but in the national duty that we shall return to this subject with increased earnest manner in which they are affected; but there is no man with soul so dead in ess when the present difficulties are over the bridge, ho decreased his spoed these outstanding days that he does not over. Service, in any shape or form, if given cheerfully, for our country is often hear the small, still voice of con science asking him questions about his performing our national duty. Millions
are fortunate enough to be able to he was safe, which he would have been. duty towards his nation.
Witness thought when ho was going. In the day of crisis we need to have lake a direct part in the conflict, many if be had continued on in the way he the facts and the issues placed squarely must remain thousands of miles away from sounded the horn it must have frightened. Shop. Apply in own writing with copy before us, so that we may make a decision 1 All of us. however near or however the deceased, for he got in front of the car. Exactly what he (witness) did just concerning which we shall, afterwards, distant, can limit our expenditure and at that moment he was not quite sure, While we must all subscribe to the war charities and invest but he thought he intended to swerve to have no regrets, recognise the influence of luck or chance in war loans. We have repeatedly urged the other side of the bridge. He applied sounded the horn. He could not do any upon our lives, yet in the main we have that it is our national duty to provide, the footbrake with all his might
to the utmost limit of our resources, the more. The man seemed to fall backwards to make our own great decisions.
the over the mudguard. The street car had
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Mr. Wood asid he did not think that YENGINEER & Asistant Sales Example affects, as all. It is imposible money so essential for carrying
to over-rate the debt which the nation. Because we have already subscribed not then entered the bridge. owes to those who at the outbreak of the freely to must not rest satisfied. We this case came within the scope of war gave up everything to take an active must ask ourselves continuously whether criminal law, part in the struggle, Aristocracy was a we are doing our utmost to discharge our word not held in any very great respect duty to our nation.
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The jury returned a verdict of acci
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dental death and exoperated the driver