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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREAS
JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tha
GENERAL MEETING of the Society will be held at the Registered Office of the Society, Quera's of only the 10th day of APRIL, 1919, at ! Nous, when the subjoined Resolutious will la propused as Extraordinary Resolations:
1. That the nominal silver capital of the Society as existing whom this resolution is cormed as a special resulation de converted into sterling and that such capital so converted be irrenssi be
the sterling equivalent. of such silver capital when such amversion takes place to the sum of £2,000,000 Sterling divided into 200,000 shares of the nominal value of £10 each.
2. That each of the issued silver shares of
the Society of the nominal value of sqhe i esch with the sum of 8100 paid to the
an be converted into live klanes of the nominal value of £10 each with the sterling equivalent of 820 Hongkong currency at the opening TT. rate of exchange on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution credited as paid up thereon and accordingly that 80,000 shares out of the 200,000 shares of the nominal value of £t ench constitu ting the capital of the Society
-
verted and increased be distributed by the Board to the persons who are regis- tered as shareholders of the Society on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution in exchange for the silver shares then held by them.
3 That the Articlos of Association be alterel in manner following, asinoly:-- By the inertion after Article No. 107 of
the fullwing Article
al reserve
"307 ( The Bound may employ playmat
the furls of th Society which funds. have been established pursuant
to the provisions of Article 107 or any of them or soy portion thereof and that whether such funds or such portion as is proposed to be dealt with were au aside for the special purposo to which they are prop sed to be applied or for any other purposes or not) "in or for all or any of the folowing purposes, that is to say, in meting contingencies, in equalizing divideg, in paying special dividades or bu vases, la repairing; improving and wania ning any of the property of the So let otherwies in the business of thiety, and in or for such other parpus as the Board -hall in its dia cretion thick conducive to the interests of the So iety and in regard to ang such employment us atoresaid the Board shall Do be bound to koop such funds separate from the other nasets."
By the insertion of the following Articles
after Article No. 118,
Le set of
"108 (11. Ang generi meeting Bonus may
a which a dividend
or
·bonue agulat all. is declared or sanctioned may make a call on the membora of such amount as the meeting fixes but so that the call on each member shail not exceed the dividend or bonus payable to him and that notwithstanding the pro- visions of Articles 19, 20 and 21 the pall may be payable at the same time as the dividend or bonus and the dividend bonua may, if so arranged between the Society and the member, be set off against the call. The making of a call under this Artiole shall be, deemod ordinary business of an ordinary general meeting which declares a dividend. (8) After any resolution has been passed under the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article the Board insy arringe on behalf of the Society for the dividend or bonus to be set off ng sinst the call by authorizing any person on behalf of the members from whom such cal is due to enter into an Agreement with the Society providing for such dividend or bonus to be set off against such salt and
Agreement made any authority shalt be effective. (3). It shall be nubjection to any resolu- Lion made under paragraph (1) of this article to any all or arrangement that such resolution was passed or such call or arrangemont was made at the meeting at which the resolution intro- ducing this Articlo and Articles 107 (8) was confirmed as a special resolution provided that due notice of the intention to propose such first mentioned resulu- tion and to declare a dividend or bonus and to make such call shall have been given prior to the Con runatury meeting aforesaid.
under
10s (b). Dividends may be paid
such
pwable in
in Hongkong Currency at exchatige for such rate of exchange as the dividend General Meeting declaring dongkon or sanctioning the same or, in the case of interim dividends, as the Board may determine
Should the above resolutions he passed by tha ruquisite majority they will be sub mitted for comfirmation as special resolutions to a second extraordinary meeting which will be subsequently convened.
Datod the Twenty-eighth day of March, 1919.
By Order of the Board,
MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager,
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD. AMD
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. YONSIGNEES per Company's steamer
"TELAMON
are hereby notified that the Cargo_will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kow loon, where it will lie at Consignee's risk. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after March 87th.
Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's
arrival.
All broken, chafod, and damaged good are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 a.m. and noon within the froe storage period. No claims will be admitted after the Good, have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods, remaining undelivered
THE HONGKONG DAILY PERSS, FRIDAY, MARCH 18TH, 1919.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
T
H
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
NOTICE MEETING of the Company will te hoki ati
reinigtl the Registered Office of the Company
that. during Queens Buiting, Hongkong, on THURS ALTERATIONS to the ROAD DAN, the 10th day of Aril, 193, at 12.30 UPPER ALBERT ROAD, outside Govern ciclock PM, when the subjoinet Resolutions will be
Extraordinary ment. House Motor Vehicles will proposed 26+
this Rond for downward journeys. They Re olations:-
should use Pakfulum Roid and Queen's
1. That the nominal silver capital of the Company as oxin ing when this resolu Lion is confirmed as a special resolution be averted into sterling and that such capital so rar verund be increased beyond the sterling equivalent of such ivor con'ersion takes expital when such place to the sun Espoo Sterling divide to 29 shares of Bomani vloe of £5 each.
2. That each of the issued silver shares of the Comowny of the nominal value of 883.33 each with the sum of 45 paid up theroon be converted into theve shares and two fifths of one share of the nominal value of £5 each with the stert ing equivalent of 87.35 Hongkong currency at the opening T.T. rate of exchange on the date this resolution confirmed +L4
His! A
resolution credited
paid up thereon and accord- ingly that 81,600 shares out of the 2,000 shares of the nominal value of £5 each constituting the capital of the Company so converted and ineroagod be distributed by the Board to the persons who are registered as
shareholders of the Company on the uate this resolution ie confirmertua a special resolution in exchange for the silver shares then held by them.
→
3. That the Articles of Association be
altered in mannor following namely:-
By the insertion after article No. 100 of
the Artiole,
fands.
100 (). The Board may 00- Smploy t ploy the the fund of the of rene Company which have been catablished pursuant to the provisions pt Article 106 or any of thein
or
any portion thereof (un that
whether such funds or suck portion as is proposed to be dealt with were sut aside for the special purpose to which they are proposed to be applied or for any other purpose or not) in or for all or any of the following purposes, chat is to say, in meeting contingencies, in equalizing dividenda, in paying special dividends or bonuses, in repairing. improving and maintaining any of the property of the Company, or otherwise in the business of the Company and in or for such other purposes as the Bourd shall in its discretion think conducive to tho interests of the Company and in regard to any such employment as aforesaid the Board shall not be bound to keep such funds separate from the other assets.
Bonus rasy
bet et uf nguétat call,
Rond.
not wan
CAPT. SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE. Hongkong, March 27th, 1919. 11:37
A. G. DA ROCHA. AUCTIONEER, S RVEYOR
FAVOU
AND
GENERAL BROKER
Queen's Rossi Centrat, Telephone No. 2932.
from NAVOURED with instructions
The Concerned, will sell by Public Auction on MONDAY, March 31, at 2.30 P.M., at bia Sales Room, VALUABLE HOUSEBOLD FURNITURE AND EFFECTS, Wardrobes, chest of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Iron Bedsteads Couch, Arm-chairs, Carpets, Rugs, Tables, Pictures, Overmantels, Desks, Crockery and Glassware, Curios, and a long line of Sundries.
A180
1 Oliver Typewriter, (new) 1 Winchester Repeating Rida
Columbia Grajbaphones (now). TERME-Cash on Delivery Hongkong, March 28th, 1919.
A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER.
GENERAL BROKER
INTIMATION
PARASITIN
KILLS
and Italy. Even after this, Great Britain The officers and men of Lieut. General did not have a free hand; she is still Knox's Mission, who have spent some obliged to consult sixteen other natione | time in the Colony waiting for an oppor- before introducing any scheme of im tunity to go to Vladivostock, are leaving
on the Empress of Asin to-morrow. provemeal involving the taxation foreignera; f respect the Capitulations,
The Rev C. L. which have resulted in welter of con flicting jurisdictions; ned to be careful
unt to fend native susceptibilities. this has demanded the exerene of
of
AB
Late and patience and involved irritating delays. Nevertheless, under the British régime, the indebtedness of the cumutry whose bankruptcy led to foreign inter vention howe been very considerally reduced, the revenue has been almost doubled, ta(1292) has been lightened
TICKS AND FLEAS and the glaring inequalities ĐỂ ĐEM
ON
DOGS AND
CATS.
......
Cooper Bunt, Tida
Military Chaplain in Hongkong. hay been appointed Senior Chaplain of the Garrison Church. Portsmouth, by Bishop Taylor Smith, Chaplain General to the Forere
Dering,
HE Sir Herbert Way K. M.G. British Envoy Extraordinary and Minimer Plenipotentiary to Siam, and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Darbi. shire, uf Singapore, left for Home on the nitrothers.
The large number
of
vt
visitors who
incidence have been removed, and tåre fellaboen freed from the rapacity landowners and tax-gatherers, who robbe Ived in the Coluny, yesterday, on the Venezuela made the accommodation **
The Iccal problem more noute than ever. Hotels have boon full during the past week, and some Europeans have been forced to sock shelter in the Chinese hotels.
them of the fruits of theit labours by the
liberal use of the courbanh.
That ex
plains why the fellaheon show no signs of discontent. Even the uld Fasting re well-antisfied because, although the power ta tyrannise has been taken from them, their lands have become more fertile,
Th work of the British engineer, and they are able to collect
without difficulty.
This preparation is non-thanks t
po sonous and harmless to animals. It stimulates
SURVEYOR AND the growth of the hair and fur and gives a fine gloss to the coat.
Queen's Hond Contral, Telephone No. 2939 HAVING been Favoured with instruc- tions from the Concerned, will sell by Public Auction at his Sales Room TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), March 29th, 1919, at 2.18 P.M
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS GOODS AND
EFFECTS.
Comprising →
Boots, Shoe, Watches, Handkerchiefs, Straw hata, Ladies dress materiale, berge White Blankets and a long line of Sundries, also, 200 gross Pencils,
10 Copies of Bentley's Complete Phrase Code, brand new.
a Dozon The "Mandal-ette" Post Card Camera, with accessories by The Chicago Ferrotype Co., USA.
TEMS:-Cash on Delivery. Hongkong, March 28th, 1919
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By the insertion of the following Articles
after Articlo No. 107. "107a (1). Any general meet. ing at which & dividend or bonus is declared or sanctioned may make a call on the members of such amount as the meeting Axes but so that the call ou each member shall not exceed the dividend or bonus payable to him and so that sot-HE FIFTIETH ORDINARY MEETING
withstanding the provisions of Articles 18, 19 and 20 the call song be payable at the same time as the dividend or bonus and the dividend or bonus may, if so arranged between the Company and the member, be wet off against the call. The making of a call under this Article shall be deemed ordinary business of an ordinary general tuceting which declares
on
dividend.
(2). After any reqution has been passed under the provisions of intagrach (1) of this Article the Board may arrange behalf of the Company for the dividend or bonus to bo set off against the call by nathurizing any person on behalf of the members from whom such "call is due to enter into an Agreement with the Company providing for such dividend or binus to be set off against Buch vall and any Agreement made under Buch authority shall be effective
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the undersigned at Noor TO-MORROW (SATURDAY),
r.
MARCH
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 15th to the 29th March, both days inclusivo,
At this Meeting & Resolution will be pro- the Consulting proposed that, owing to Committee being now made up to the maximum number of sight, the remuneration to the Committee be increased from 87,000 to $8,000.
JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD, General Managers, HONGKONG FE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED.
Hongkong, March 11th, 1919.
THE
457
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
$1.00 per bottle.
SOLD ONLY BY
A. S. WATSON
CO., LTD.,
HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
TEL. 16.
до
their rents
It
mainly their sons, who have been educated
in Europe or at the Khedival Schonis of Law, Medicine and Engineering, establish
in Cairo by the British, who demand
immediate self-government.
At
pre.
Little Miss Marjorie Stewart will take the part of Pinkie" to-morrow night as well as at the matinée performance The extra matinée next Wednesday. must perforce be the very last perform- ace as one or two members of the cust are leaving the Colony on the following day
Booking for this matinée opens to-morrow morning at Moutrie's.
At an extraordinary general meeting
the direction of affairs is veste: in of the Kowloon CO., when the Club rules
the Sultan and a Council of Ministers, wore revised and altered, the metabere a British bude farewell to Dr. C. Forsyth, tho each of whom is assisted by Adviser in the conduct of the particular President, who leaves the Colony shortly, Department of State for which
] on account of continued ill-health. Mr. rusponsible. By way of affording the R. E. Lindsell, who proposed a motion People Rome constitutiona} method of of regret at the severance, paid a warm expressing their views, ✡ Legislative tribute to the work Dr. Forsyth had done Council and a General Assembly were for the Club, and expressed the hope created in 1888, but theic tauctions were that he would soon return with his health purely consultative and advisory, except completely restored. that the latter body possesses a rete oo new direct taxation. In 1913, a further advance was made towards representative government by merging the Council and
& Assembly into one body, called the
Homerong Ürrion: 101, Des Vœux Roan, C. LONDON Ornow; 181, FLEET STREET, É.C.
The Baily Press.
Hongkong, March 28th, 1919,
of whom are elected.
श
Mr. Joergen Jacob Eitzen, Charge d'Affaires for Norway, at Tokyo, whose death took place in Japan, was born in 1877 and graduated at the university of Christianis with a law degree in 1909. Legislative Assembly, elected upon
In 1903 he was appointed a secretary at more liberal and rational basis and
the Foreign Ministry, and in 1906 was endowed with greater powers.
The new
made Vice-Coneul for Norway at Hong. Chamber is composed of 89 members, 66 kong, since when he has been almost con- For this purpostinuously in the Far East. For several the country is divided into 66 electoral months, in 1911, he was scting Consul areas of about equal importance, thus according one representative to about overy 200,000 inhabitants. The members are chosen by electors-delegate, one of I whom is selected by every 60 inhabitants. The Assembly possesses the right to dia. ouss the Budget and to initiate legisla tion, save when it concerns constitutional laws, but it is not competent to deal with questions of foreign policy. In the event of disagreement with the Govern ment concerning any project of law, provision is made for at least three public discussions two before and one fifteen days after a private conference with the GovernmenL For local administration
General at Shanghai, but was again at Hongkong until 1914, when he was again transferred to Shanghai as acting Consol. General, which office he filled until
November, 1917, when he was appointed te Tokyo.
CANTUN NEWS.
CANTON, March 27th.
PRESIDENT OF THE CANTON GOVERNMENT.
The election of a Provisional President of the Canton Government was discussed by the M.P.' yesterday, and there were sterion differences of opinion.
It is said that this proposal cannot be
there are Provincial Councils, and muni- cipal bodies ranging in importance from the Municipality of Alexandria-whose carried out as it is rather difficult for the Hongkong on MONDAY, MARCH 31st, rising, fomented by the Nationalists, in inhabitants are mostly foreigners and MP's to make a selection from among Directors Report and Statement of Accounts only of students, small boys, and the dregs autonomy by international agreement, as 1919, at NOON, for consideration of the Egypt, and that it secured the support have been granted almost complete local the leaders in the South-West provinces all of whom are endeavouring to claim for the year onding 3 at December, 1918
of the population, will not cause surprise in the case of Shanghai-down to small superiority,
(3). It still be no objection to any resolu-ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ABORTIVE RISING IN EGYPT, tion made under paragraph (1) of this article or to any call or arrangement SHAREHOLDERS will be held the THE news that there has been an abortive that such resolution was passed or such Office of the Company, & Queen's Buildings, call or arrangement was made at the This sticle and Articles 18 (8) was mtoting at which the resolution introduo confirmed as a special resolution provided that dun notice of the intention to propose such first mention d resolution and to duclare such dividend or bonus and to make such call shall have been given prior to the Confirmatory meeting aforesaid. 107 (b) Dividends
be Rate of may
exchange for paid in Hoogkong Our: dividend rengy at such rate of myable la exchunge Be the Genem Hongkong. Meeting declaring or sanationing the
Should the above resolutions be paused by
The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 22nd, to the 31st inst, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
B. M. DYER,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, March 18th, 1919.
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to anyone acquainted with the country. nominated Commissions, whose functions It is further aloted that in spite of For some years past the Nationalists have are limited to administering the funds the differences of opinion, the majori been clamouring for popular represents placed at their disposal by the Govern
ty of the M.P.'s, with the support of tive government, but, as all but a numeri ment. The difficulty of developing the cally insignificant proportion of the system of Municipal government, which THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND people are illiterate, it is obvious that the would afford such a valuable roeans of
MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
real desire of the agitators is to obtain training men for the exercise of wider
I ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE aspiration is of
course,
certain militarists, have decided to carry
uat the election within three months.
THE ALLIES AND CHINA.
The Allied Ministers are reported to the fact that have held a meeting at the British Lega- perfectly white no very great or rapid progress tion to discuss:-(1) whether the pro-
as the Board may determine dividend, THE TWENTY-SECOND ORDINARY increased power for themselves. That, responsibilities lies in the requisite majority they will be submitted HOLDERS in the Company will be held a natural, even if it cannot be dignified by can be expected unless the Munici- posed note of warning, which the Minis
for confirmation as special resolutions to a second extraordinary meeting which will be subsequently convened.
Dated the Twenty-eighth day of March 1919.
By Order of the Board.
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
General Manager.
AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE.
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A1918 MODEL 8-passenger Overland, wire wheels, extra wheel and other Owner extrae, in first class condition. solling because he has bought a larger
Address: Box No. 588,
Care of "Daily Press" Offico.
car.
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THE SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
OST SCRIP Notice is hereby given
that the Sorip for the following Ordinary Shares in the above Company are alleged to have been lost: Nos. 17390 to 27876 regiatored in the name of JOHN PATERSON (deceased) lata of Prince's Buildings, No. 1, Des Voeux Road, Hong- kong.
Application has been made to the Company
after April 2nd, will be subject to rent. for a duplicate cortifonte, and should no
"All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before April 16th, or they will not be oognleod.
No Fire Insuranco will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agenta, Hongkong, Murchi 9742, 1010.
objection be lodged with the Secretary within thirty-one days from date hereof the reapplication will be complied with.
By Order of the Board,
E. BURROWA, Becretary.
| 14, Kiukiang Bond,
Blangbal, March 27th, 1010.
ustion,
reply regarding the War Participation Loan to the Peking Government with a request for another and more satisfactory
the Offices of the Company, St. George's Building, No. 6, Connaught Road on the description "national," and attempte pal Commissioners are invested with ters intended to deliver to the Peking TUESDAY, APRIL 1st, 1919, at 11 AM, for
it a far certain powers of local taxation, no local Government owing to the suspension of the purposes of receiving a Statement of have been made to meet Accounts and the Report of the General as circumstances would permit. It must taxes can be imposed on Europeans, who the Shanghai Conference, should be with- Managers for the year ending 31st December, be remembered, however, that from time form the bulk of the business community, drawn, if the Conference is resumed this 1918, and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditora.
immemorial, until less than forty years without the consent of all the Powers. week; (2) the return of the unsatisfactory The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company ago, Egypt has been under the heel of a It is probable, however, that as an out will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, March 30th, 1018, until TUESDAY, April aucoession of tyrannical conquerors, and come of the Conference now sitting in this, by stifling independence of Paris the obstruction caused by the 1st, 1918, both days inclusive,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
thought and General Managers.
deprived Capitulations will be swept away. Even 150 Hongkong, March 20th, 1918.
the native population of the capacity then, however, it will not bo practicable to govern themselves. The object of to endow the people of Egypt at once the British hae boon to fit the people to with precisely the same powers as the take an increasing share in the adivinis people of England bave won as the result tration of the country, but, of course, the of a struggle extending over nearly a
thonsand years. character of a raço is not changed in a day. Although Egypt has been under foreign supervision for thirty-seven years, the division of authority amongst the
WISEMAN, LTD.
TEA DANCE
TO-DAY
Friday, March
28th.
(100
--------
Three annos of sorebro-spinal fever, one anse of small-pox, and 0400 (one
Ono
Powers, combined with the impoverished death) of diphtheria, were reported in state of the country, hindered the pro- the Colony on Wednesday. gress of reform until, in 1904, Franco,
in return for British support of her
Amongst those who left the Colony. claims in Morocco, undertook not to yesterday, for Australin on the Taiyuan "obatross the notion of Great Britain were Mrs. V. L. A. Fairley, wife of tie
Fin Egypt "-av attitude which was sub-Hongkong mannger of the British-Ameri. sequently endorsed by Germany, Austria can Tobacco Company.
reply; (3) the protest against the surplus of the sale revenue being used to sonority for the 8th Year public loan,
PEKING CABLE NEWS.
Messages from Paking state that the publication of the Sino-Japanese secret treaties has been suspended, though some of them have already published.
The Peking Government, ia view of the Mongolian troubles, has ordored the Ponce.
Envoys in Shanghina not to demand the demobilisation of the troops of the War Participation Bureau.
The delegates who were sent to investi- ente the fighting in Shansi have reported that fighting has boon stopped but the whole province is ruined, adding that it will take about 30 yours to repair the damegy.
The