NEW ADVERTISEMEN 18
NOTICE.
ESSRS, CALDBECK MACGREGOR 1 & Co., announce that, from this date, her Hongkong Branch is in charge of ME T. H. BUTLER."
Hongkong, March, 20th, 1819.
FOR SALE.
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FFERS are invited for a siderable OFF
quantity of STEEL, PLATES, SECTIONS and RIVETS, all in mask in Hongkong.
Enquiring should be addressed to:-
THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., (8.0.) LTD.
Marine Dept.
Hongkong.
PEAK HOUSE TO LET.
לאל
FO. 8, MOUNTAIN VIEW, Six Room"}
Nand Furniture, bay lat.
Apply--
DENNYS & BOWLEY.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. 8.8. VENEZUELA” VOT 11-OUT. FROM SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU, JAPAN-PORTS AND SHANGHAI.
THE above-mentioned vessel having arrived TH
sbove-mentioned parts from the consigue of ourgo are hereby informed that their ego will be landed as their risk into the Essardons and/or extra Enser down Godoward the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, and stored at consigness' risk.
Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that they must produse an Import Permit, signed by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, be Hongkong. Infors Bill of Lading qan countersigned
All broken, shafed and dum
damaged goods are fo be left in the Gotowas, where they will be examinai
on April 1st, 1918, at 10 AM
All Claim iust be presented within a month the Et.wiera arrival here, after which they cannot be recognised,
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown and all Goods remaining andelivered after April árd, 1919, will be
subject to rest. PARA
No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected. Consignees are requested to send in their Bill of Lading for one-sigantare immällstely. PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
Alexantra Buildinga Hongkong, March 97th, 1918.
ITAL
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NOTIOL
raquvated in
that durin ALTERATIONS to the ROAD in UPPER ALBERT ROAD, outside Govern ment House Motor Vphioles will not ase this Road for downward fourneys. They should use Pakfu um Rosd and Queen's Road
CAPT, SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, Hongkong, March 27th, 1919.
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THE SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
OST SCRIP Notio is hereby given that the Scrip for the followin Ordinary Sharos in the abova Company, are alleged to have been lost: Nos 27328 to 27370 registered in the name of JOHN PATERSON (deceased) "late of Prince's. Buildings, No, De Vaux Road, Hong- kong.
Application has been made to the Company for a duplicate certificate, and should no objection be lodged with the Becretary within thirty on days from date hereof the application will be complied with
By Order of the Board,
14, Kiukiang Hoad,
Shanghai, March 27th, 1919.
BURROWS, Secretary
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A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER,
Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2432
HAVING been Favoured with instruo
tions from the Concerand, will sell by Public Auotion at his Sales Boom ¡TO-DAY (SATURDAY), March 29th, 1919, Fat 8.15 PM.
- A QUANTITY" of MISCELLANEOUS GOODS · AND
EFFROTS. Comprising
Boots, Shoes Watches, Handkerchiefs, Straw hats, Ladies' devas materials, Serge White Blankets and a long line of Sundries, Valeo, 300 grows Pencila,
10 Copies of Bentley's Complete Phrase
Code, brand new
3. Dozon The Mandel-otte Post Card comories by The Chicago
Camera, with
Ferrotype Co., USA.
Tanya. Cash on Delivery.
Hongkong, March 30th, 1919
A. G. DA ROCHA.
"A UCTIONÈER, SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER.
Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2932. TAVOURED with instructions from
POMAGATHë. Concerned,
will sell by Public Auction on MONDAY,
* March 2115, at 230 p38, at bla
CAMERA 1. Sales Boom,
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
C EFFECTS,
AND
Wardrobes, obost of Drawers, Dressing
·INTIMATIO VS.
THE HONGKONG AND AMPOA
DUCK COMPANY," "LIMITE
HEREBY GIVEN that the
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE NOTICE IS HELLY HERFINU of
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. D'HE FIFTIETH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be bold at the Offices of the dersigned at Noor TO-DAY (SATURDAY), MARCH 29TH,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED, from the 15th to the 29th indulve, March, both dễ cya
At this Meeting a Resolution will be pro- the Consulting propus bal, owing t Committee being is made up t tha maximum number a eight, the remuneration the Committed by increased from 87,000 to $,00%
"JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD,
Teranal Manager, HookUNG FIRE ISSURA NOB
Caur var. LIMITED. Hongkong, March, tuh, 9.9.
457
BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED,
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company Queens Building, Hongkong, on THURS DAY, the 10th day of APRIL, 1919, at 5 o'clock P., when the subjoined Resolu tions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions:-
"
1. That the nominal silver capital of the tion is confirmed as a special resolution bec nverted into stering and that each the sterling equivalent of such sil.or capital when such conversion Biom place to the sum of £1,00,000 Sterling divided into 200,000 shards of tud nominal value of £ó each.
Company 3 exising when this resolu-
capital so couverted be increased beyond
2. That each of the issued silver shares of the Company of the nominal value of 883.39 sach wich the sum of $26 paid up therson be converted into three all rea the and, two fths of one share of nomin I value of £o each with teneri ing equivalent of 87.36 Hongseng currency at the opening T.T. rate of exchange on the dates this resolution is confirmed
resolution special credited as paid up thereon audi accord- ingly that 81,800 shares out of the of 200,000 shares of the nominal value
મ
$5 each constituting the capital of the Company so converted and ingrossed by distributed by the Board to the persons. who are registered as shareholders of the Company on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution in exchange for the silver shares then held by them.
3. That the Articles of Association be
altered in manner following namely
By the insertion after Article No. 10s of
the Article..
108 (a) The Board may om- Employment, ploy the the funds of the of reserve
which have been funda
Of
ΟΙ
orged pursuant to the provisoas
Article 108 or any of them any portion thereof (and that whether such funde ur sach portion as is proposed to be dealt with were set meide for the special purpose to which they are proposed to be applied or for or not) in for all or any of th
By other purpo purposes, that in
SHAREHOLDERS wil be hak in, the Offion of the Compsity, 8 Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on MONDAY, MARCH 3187, 1910, st. Noor, for consideration of the Directors Report and statement of Accounts for the year rating & a Docente, so
The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOURS will be CLOSED from the 22hr, to the 31st inst, both ways inclusive.
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By Order of the Bard of Directors,
R. M. DYER,
Chief Manager, Hongkong, March 10th 1818. THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
THANNUAL HEATING of SUARE THE TWENTY-SECOND ORDINARY HOLDERS in the Company will to herd a
·INTIMATION
PARASITIN
KILLS
believe In Japan there can be no doubt
The Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp.is, leavingE
of the belief of the people in the unique the Colony to-day on the Empresa” of
character of their descent and constitu] Asia,
tion, and where Western idens are con cerned it is undoubtedly of great help na
Three cases (three deaths) of bubonic
a preservative against infection to hold Plague were reported in the Colony on
some
that while the nations of the West may require
reform Q other, the Japanese, by their special qualities of rae and government, do not need any thing of the kind. It may, of course, bo said that this is merely national conceit, but conceit hardly seems to be the proper word to use in this connection. It is rather a failure to realise the ideas of other lack of that wider consciousnes which enables & correct mental perspeo-
the Ofices of the Cuisipang, St. George's TICKS AND FLEAS tive to be obtained. A nation cannot be
on
Building, No. 6, Connaught Rout TUESDAY, APRIL 18T, 1918, at A., for the purposes of receiving a Statens of Accounts and the Report of the 'Genara! Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1918, and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditora.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, March 28th, 1910, until TUESDAY, April 1st, 1918, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Hongkong, March 20th, 1919, 100%
ON
DOGS AND
isolated for a long number of years with out suffering from its effects. Since the war came to a conclusion, however, thor has been something of an awakening in Japan. The war has made a yet deoper division between the rich and the poor. owing to the large sums of money which
CATS. have poured into the country having passed mainly into the hands of a few. It is no longer a virtus to be poor, and;
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF This preparation is non-
CANTON,
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an po sonous and harmless MEETING of the Society will be held at the
Registered Office of the Suciety Queen's to animals. It stimulates
Building, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 10th day of APRIL, 1919, at 18 Noor, when
the
subjoined Resolutions will be proposed the growth of the hair
an Extraor.linary Resolutions
1. That the nominal silver capital of the
Society as existing when this ration
confirmed as a special resolution he converted into sterling and that such capital so convertel he increased beyond the sterling equivalent of such silver capital when such conversion takes place to the sum of £2,0000 Sterling divided into shares of the nominal value of EU each.
rate of
2. That each of the issue silver shares of the Society of the noniuai vatus of $250 cach with the sum of $100 paid up there- on be converted into five abares of the value of £10 each with the nominal sterling equivalent of $ Hongkong
T.T. currency at the opening exchange on the date this resulution is confirmed as a
resolution credited *pecial as paid up the reon and accordingly that 80,009 shares out of the 200,000 shares of the nominal value of £10
constitu ting the
capital of the Society so com 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 special resolution in exchange for the silver shares then held by them.
enet
2. That the Articles of Association be altered in manner following, namely:---
*
By the insertion after Article No. 107 of
the following Articlo
107 (a) The Board may employ Eployment the fands of the Bociety whialt of reserve have been established parquant
funde.
to the provisions of Article 107 or any of them or any portion thereof (and that whether such funds or such portion sa ja proposed to be dealt with were set aside for the special purpose to which they a 6 proposed to be applied or for any other purpose or not) in or for all or any of that is to say,
in meeting purposes in equalizing dividends in paying special
to say in meeting co tingencies, in paying special equalizing dividends, dividua
the following dr bonuses, 16 10pairing, improving and maintai lug any of the property of the Company, or otherwise in the busies of the Company and in or for such other purposes as the Board shall in its discretion think conducive to the interests of the Company and in fegard to any such employment se aforesaid the Board shall not be bound to koop such fands separate from the other asseta
By the insertion of the following Articles
after Artiole No. 107.
Barastoty
bot set of
the
1076 (1). Any general meet- ing at which a dividend or agalot call bonus i8 de Jared or "sancti ned may make a call on
mirs of such mount as the peeting ixes but so that the call on such weiber shall not exceed the dividend vr Longe payable to him and so that not withstanding the provisions of Articina 18, 19 and 20 the call may 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 set off against the call. The making of a call under this Article shall be deemed ordinary business of an ordinary general meeting which declares
a dividend.
(3). After any resolution has been passed under the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article the Board may arrange on behalf of the Company for the dividend or bonus to be set off against the call by authorizing any person on behalf of the members from whom auch call is due to enter into an Agreement with the Company providing for such dividend or bonus to be set off against, Buch sail and Agreement made under
BRY such authority shall be effective: - -
(3). It
It shall be no objection to any resolu tion made under paragraph of this article or to any call or arrangement that such resolution was passed or such call or arrangement was
made
at the moeting at which the resolution introdue ing this Article and Articles 108 (a) WAR confirmed as a special resolution provided that due notice of the intention to propone much first mentioned resolution. and to declare such dividend or bonna and to make such call' shäll have been given prior to the Confirmatory mooting aforesaid.
107 (B) Dividende any boat of
paid in Hongkong Cur exchange for rancy LL such rite of paris exchange a the General ungroup Mooting declaring or sanctioning the same. or in the case of interim dividend, as the Board may determine." Should the above resolutions be passed bý
maints ning any of the property of the er bonuses, ia repairing, improving and Society, or otherwise in the busines the Society, and in or for such other. purposes as the Board shall in its dis
think cretion
condu ive to the interesta of the Society and in regard to any such employment as aforesaid the Board shall not be bound to keep such funds separate from the other assets."
By the insertion of the following Articles
after Artide No 148.
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be set off
at which general meeting Bonus may
dividend or bonus gain call.
ia declared or sanctioned may
and fur and gives a fine
A.
gloss to the coat.
$1.00 per bottle.
8.
SOLD ONLY BY
WATSON
CO., LTD.,
HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
';
TEL. 16.
HONGKONG OPPIOR: 10A, DE VOUX ROAD, C. London Orwick: 181, Franz Braser, E.0.
The Daily Press.
HongKong, Maron. 29ra, 1919.
JAPAN AND DEMOCRACY.
make a call on the members of such Taa wave of democracy flowing round the call on each member shall not exceed the world has reached the shores of amount as the meeting fixes bat so that the dividend or bonus payable to him Japan, which, still dazed by the glamour and so that notwithstanding the pro-
of a call
ed.
the penaltics of being poor have increas Hence the recent rice riots, which were, to a great extent, a protest against
the mode of life and methods of the rich.
This, at any rate, is how the rich viewed
the situation, for, immediately following
the riots, there came large donations
to
charitable objects and other such pro-
Thursday.
The body of Chinese woman, found floating in the sea near Blake Pier, has been removed to the Public Mortuary.
As a result of a fire in Kowloon City, on January 26th, a row of mutaheds was burnt down.
nt $1,000.
The damage is estimated
Mr. Denman Fuller, who has been seri- ously ill for some time past, and Capt. Rolfe, of the Indo-China 9. N. Company,
leave for Home, to-day, on the Empress of Asia.
A Chinese young man in female attire Dis- has been arrested by the Police. guised as a woman, he went about making the acquaintance of unsuspecting young women, and, it is stated, assaulted them.
A meeting of the members of the Hongkong Poultry Association will be held at Mossra. Johnson, Stokes Masters' office, Ice House Street, on Tuesday next, at 6.30 p.m., to pass the rules drafted by the Committen
The "Stunts" will give a performance of "Our Boys," a comedy in 3 acts, at the Theatre Royal, on Saturday, April 5th. The cast will includo Miss Elfrida
pitiatory offerings at the fest of Denu Demand, who is in "Pinkie and the
It
was
Fairies," while "Aunt Caroline "
will appear as "Perkyn Middlewick,"
ALL ABOUT A HAT,
MADAME LILY AS DETECTIVE.
be-
cracy, which offerings were by no means in evidence before the émeute. There resulted, also, from the rice riots a For being in unlawful possession of u general levelling-ap of wages, which tuele of opium, a Chinese was fined $600 before had remained at pre-war stand- by Mr. G. N. Orme, at the Magistracy, ards, the Goverument itself taking steps yesterday. Defendant was arrested at to increase official salaries.
the
while Kowloon Railway Station probably this increase of wages which has attempting to leave the Colony by the prevented any repetition of the rice riota, morning train. for rice has since risen to a higher figure tban then prevailed, although it now shows a tendency to drop. But the idea that the people have some political rights, beyond the privilege of serving
At the Magistracy, yesterday. in the Army, has not been allowed to fore Mr. R. E, Lindsell. Madame Lily, lapse. The claims of Labour to protect of Maison Lily, Dressmaker and Milliner, itself are persistently heard, and have charged a Chinese bat-maker with the evoked official announcements showing theft of a yard of gray silk and some even an official change of heart. Hitherto silver beads,valued at $18.50. there have been no labour unions in
Madame Lily deposed that, some time Japan simply because the law forbids the
in Race Week, Mrs. Jordan gave her use of strikes or such methods by which eight yards of gray silk with which to Labour in the West protects itself. In make a dress. She handed the material Japan, workmen inciting to a strike to her dress-maker, and, after the dross render themselves liable to fall into the had been made, found that there were hands of the polico, and, while strike, arę no remnant pieces of cloth. Becoming employed and are very often successful, suspicious, she paid visits to the various the leaders have to sacrifice themselves millinery establishments in the Colony, for the good of their comrades, since they and eventually entered Mohamed & Co's. are regarded as criminals, endure terms shop, where she noticed a hat trimmed of imprisonment, and are entered in that with gray silk, similar to the material Black Book which means that they are from which Mrs. Jordan's dress had been object, of suspicion to the Police wherever made. The hat was trimmed with silver they go in the country. The cause of
beads, and she maintained that those Labour has now been taken up by some bends were stolen from her shop, as sho prominent Japanese publicists, and efforts
was the only person who imported anch are being made to revise the laws to beads from Parie. No explanation was
to allow of Labour combinations.
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offered by Mohamed & Co., and buying Another step in the direction of democracy the hat for #8, she went back to her shop ig a widening of the suffrage. At present and accused the hat-maker of theft. The
latter blamed the dress-maker.
The dress-maker stated that he worked in the same
as the hat-maker.
room
in Japan about one person in every forty has a vote, the suffrage being limited to those who pay above a certain amount in A considerable widening of-the. taxes. suffrage is contained in the proposals of There were some remnant pieces of silk Governmen, Bill now before the Diet, which were lost. Ho did not know who while some enthusiastic reformers have stole them.
The defendant stated that the dress- even gone so far as to bring in a Bill.
visions of Articles 19, 20 and 21 the call of the Middle Ages, seemed to be turning be payable at the same time as the more and more to the past. This may, dividend or bonus, and, the dividend or
of course, haw been a reaction from the bonus may, if so arranged between the Society and the member, be set off enger reception of Western ideas which against the call. The making under this Article shall be deemed followed the opening of the country. Its ordinary business of an ordinary. general Corigin is more probably found, however, meeting which declares a dividend. (2). After any resolution has been passed in an attempt to keep off those so-called
under the provisions of paragraph (1) of
of dangerous thoughts" of which the this Article the Board may arrange on ruling classes in Japan show such droad. behalf of the Society for the dividend or bonus to be set off against the call by The inculcation of reverence for the past It was, indeed, impossible for Japan 'ta authorizing any
for universal suffrage. In an essentially maker gave him the silk in discharge of a conservative Diet it is not likely this loan of $3.
Mr. Landsoll remanded the oase, 'oo would have been passed, but it indicates the application of Mr. Ch. Haywood's some degree of influence from the West. clerk.
members from who on behalf of the for the old heroes, the old religion, the escape the effects of falling dynasties in MURDER AT CAUSEWAY BAY.
such call is due
to enter into an Agreement with the old castoms has appeared to this authori-Europe, and the vivifying force of Pre ARMED ROBBERS SHOOT AN OLD Society providing for such dividend orting as the best answer they could make sident WILSON's speeches. Against the bonus to be set off against such call and
any Agreement made under such to the demand for further freedom of lust Japan for a long time contended, authority shall be effective.
(3). It shall be no objection to any resol-expression, more direct participation in tion made under paragraph (1) of this the government of the country, and a article or to any call or strangement widening of the ideas of the people that such resolution was passed or such
affecting to hear the note of hypocrisy in
MAN. Following upon an armed robbery late on Thursday night at Causeway Bay, an those utterances which elsewhore in the old Chinese man, aged 02 years, wa world seemed to ring so true. This fired at and killed by the robbers.
It appears that three robbers each attitude is now waning as military power armed with a revolver entered a market is discredited and military direction oun gardener's matshed, situated on the hill-
or arrangement was made at the Wherous there was a tendency before to meeting at which the resolation intro- discard old custome, now there is a ten- ducing. this Article and Articles 107 (8) was confirmed as a special resolution deney to revive them. Ancient customs, domaed. The Penise Conference has itself side, in the neighbourhood of Whitfield, with intent to rob the place.. The garden- provided that dos notice of the intention visits to the shrines, nonstar worship, served to stir up Japan. The ideas with or wife and daughter were sleeping in to propose such first mentioned resolu- tion and to declare such dividend or have all been invoked as. turning the which she went to it have been almost the shed, and, being awakened by the
presence of the men,
Save called out bonus and to make such call shall have thoughts to the past, and removing totally abandoned. The idea that there
life! ?? " Robbers. The armed despe been given prior to the Contrators them from contemplation of the future. was to boja division of the spoils scoort radost, becom og aldrmed, rusted out, of meeting aforesaid. 108 (b). Dividends may be paid.
Ada antidote against Western ing to old and wall-honoured practices the shell by were met by the old man, who had died altracted by the cries for thoughts there has been a persistent was, no doubt, her first impression. In help. One the robbers fred point. toration of the old idea which kept abandoning this she has also had to blank Xt the old man, who
of abandon the question of radial discrimal and died almost immediately, Japan isolated from
By this time the whole neighbourhood the world for hundreds of years that nation really an economic quemión--and was alive with people and in poses of oon.
Balu 12:44
in Hongkong Currency at Lok Buch rate of oxchange as the
Gonora
· payable In Meeting declaring Bongbong
or sanctioning the same or, in
this case of interim dividonde, as the Board may determine rang vi fo Should the above resolutions be passed by
the Teet
tell
wounded.
Talos, Iron Bedsteads, Cauch, Arm-oitaire, the roquisite majority they will be submitted the requisito majority they will be sub the Japanese are a special people, of a ovet some of her cherished military tables, 3 with Tukpestor, Kent at tinir
Carpots, Rugs, Tables, Fraturos, Overmantols for confirmation as special resolutions to a Doske, Crockery and Glassware, Curios, and send extraordinary tabelius vice will be
a long line of Bundrio
(Daw)
Oliver Typewriter ( 1.Winnloster Repeating Billo.
Columbia (traplisphones (new). -Tauma--Casli on Delivery.
Hongkong, March 28th," 1919.
47 (kabsequently convened,
Dated the Twenty-eighth day of March 1910,
By Order of the Board,
O MONTAGUE EDE, try General Manager.
mitted for sombrantion as social resolutions tosecond "extraordinary meeting which will be subsequently convened.
Dated the Twenty-eighth day of March, 1919.
By Order of the Houri,
C. MONTAQUE. EDE
Genotsit Alauogers.
unique descent and polity, not to be fools. All this has thrown her more hep frived on the scene had commenced snall-night search of the hill side, inh equalled anywhere in the world. This upon bordelt line oude her more intent satisfactory result. It instabiti, phak remiinde unɑ of the utterances with which upon solving internal problems: witä" and "constable mo, a man on the the Corman Emperor used to regul, his view to the future, than in keeping bar nnd challenged him, but he mad people, and which the people came to eyes fixed obstinately upon the past?"
maka His othpa
The dead body was removed war tha Public Mortuary,