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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONGKONG POLO CLUB
THE HONGKONU POLO CLUB will be held at the CLUB PAVILION, CAUSEWAY Bay, at 5.30 Pa., on TUESDAY, APRIL
HE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
14TE
BUSINESS :-- J. The election of Ollicers for ensuing yoaT.
the
2. To pass the Report and Accounts for the year onded December 21st, 19 9.
3. To discass any Club business,
J. H CONGDON, Acting Hon. Sea. und Treasurer,
HONGKONG POLO CLUB
Hongkong, April 8th, 1919.
GUD
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBEK
OF COMMERCE,
NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
SPECIAL EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL NESTING of Members will be held in the CHAMBER ROOM, CHARTERED BANK BUILDING, TUESDAY, APRIL 16TH, at 4, to consider andy: if thought desirable, pass the following Resolution:--
"That it is the desire of the merchants of "Hongkong that thie Colony adopt the "Daylight Saving System to the extent "of one hour, from May 1st next until "September 20th next, and that the "Government be approached with a "request to introduce the system by "putting forward the clock one hour at "12 midnight on April 30th."
By Order,
E. A M. WILLIAMS,
Secretary.
Hongkong, April 8th, 1918.
A
HONGKONG LAWN
LEAGUE.
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TENNIS
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING League will be held in the HongxNG CRICKET CLUB PAVILION OF "THURSDAY, APRIL, 10TH, at 5.15 P..
Clubs interested are requested to send representatives
Da, LINDSAY WOODS,
Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, April 5th, 1919.
NOTICE
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FR. HERBERT D. HUTCHISON has
Me appointed Manager of our Hongkong Firm and is authorized by us to Siga per procuration.
MR D. MISTHY will continue to act sa Secretary of the Company.
HOGG, KARANJIA & CO., LTD.
CANADIAN PACIFIC OCEAN
SERVICES, LIMITED.
(500
REGARDING NOTICE of cancellation
of accommodation booked for the Company's April and May sailings
We are now informed that a certain amount of frst-clas asenmmodation will he available on the "EXPRESS OF RUSSIA," to wait MAY , while accommodation on the "EMPRESS OF ASIA," to sa MAY 2)TH, will be entirely avalisha. The sailing of the "EMPRESS OF JAPAN," MAY 14TH, is definitely cano l'ed as from this port.
Original holders of accommodation on the "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA," MAY 187, will, if desired, be given pas-age on that date in ord r of original application, to the extent of accommodation available
Original holders of accommodation on the "EMPRESS OF ASIA," MAY 29Th, will, if desired, be given their original allotment.
The undersigned will be glad to receive advice from all concerned as promptly as
P. D. SETHERLAND. General Age anger Dept.
pos.ible.
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UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND
JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that these
EXAMINATIONS will be commenced on MONDAY, July 14th, 1919.
Forms of entry and all particulare van be obtained on application to the "Registrar, The University, Hongkong."
Each entry form, duly filled in. must reach the Registrar, together with the fee (Ton dollars, Hongkong Currency) on or before May 7th, 1910.
will
be
The following Scholarships Awarded on the results of the Matriculation Examination, provided that candidates of sufficient merit offer themselves.
(a) One King Edward VII Scholarship of £40 a year, for five years, tenable in any Faculty. A candidate for this scholarship must, be under the age of 21 on July 1st and must, before the first day of the oxaruination, submit to the Registrar proof that he is a British subjoot.
(b) One President's Scholarship of four hundred dollars (Peking Currency) for five years, tenable in any Faculty. A candidate Lor this scholarship must be under the age of 21 years on July 1st and must, before the Bret day of the examination, submit to the Registrar proof that he is the son of Chinese parents that he was not born in any Britial Possession or Protectorate; that ho has not adopted any foreign nationality; and that ba is not eligible to compota for a sing Edward VII Sobolarship.
Candidston who secure a King Edward VII or President's Scholarship must enter the University on the day on which thei University session opens and must reside in one of the hostels directly managed by the University.
The Examinations will be conducted
INTIMATIONS
FEM BUNGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9TH,
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
INTIMATIONS
BRITISH TRADERS INBURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
A
OTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that on EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at MEETING of the Sogioty will be held at the the Registered Office of the Company Registered Office of the Society, Queen's Queen's Building, Hongkong, on THURS Building, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the DAY, tifh 10th day of APRIL, 1919, at 106h day of APRIL, 1919 at 12 Noon, when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Revolutius:
1. That the nominal silvo capital of the Soulety as existing wher this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution be converted into sterling and that such expital y converted he increased beyond the sterling equivalent of such silver capital when snel conversion takes place to the sum of £20 Sterling divided into shaws of the nominal value of £1.
2. That each of the issued silver shares of the Society of the nominal value of $260 cach with the sum of $100 paid up there on be converted into fire shares of the Dominal value of £10 each with the sterling equivalent of $20 Hongkong currency at the opening T.T. 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 £10 each constitu. ting the capital of the Society so con- verted and increased be distributed by the Board to the persons who are regis- ⚫tered ge shareholders of the Suciety on the date this resolution is confirmed us a special resolution in exchange for the silver shares they haid by them.
3. That the Articles of Association be altered in manner following, namely:- By the insertion after Article No. 107 of
the following Articlo
Ibandu,
"107 (a). The Board may employ Amployment the funds of the Society which of reserve have been established pursuant to the provisions of Article 107 or any of hem or any portion thereof (and that Tether such funds or such portion as is pposed to be dealt with were set 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, that is to say, in meeting contingencies, in equalizing dividonda, in paying special dividends or bonuses, in repairing improving and maintaining any of the property of the Society, or otherwise in the business
the Society, and in or for such other purposes as the Board shall in its dis- cretion think conducive to the interests of the Society and in regard to any such employment as aforesaid the Board shall no be bound to keep such funds separate from the other assets."
By the insertion of the following Artioles
after Article No. 108,
108a (1). Any general meeting an
net call,
at which a dividend or bones is declared or sanctioned may make a call un the members of such that amoant as the meeting fixes but
the call on each member shall not exceed the dividend or bonus payable to him and so that notwithstanding the pro visions of Articles 10, 20 and 21 the call may be payable at the same time as the divid nd or bonus and the dividend or bons may, if so arranged between the Society and the member king of a cal
against the call. The
be got off
under this Article shall be deemed ordinary business of an ordinary general meeting which declares a dividend. (2). After any resolution has been passed under the provisions of poa agraph (1) of this Article the Board may arrange on behalf of the Society for the dividend or bonus to be set off against the call by authorizing any person on behalf of the members from whom such call is due to enter into an Agreement with the Society providing for such dividend or bonus to be set off against such call and Agreement made under such authority shall be effective.
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(3) It shall be no objection to any resola- tion made under paragraph (3) of this article or any call or arrangement that such resolution was passed or such call or arrangement was made at the meeting at which the resolution intro- ducing this Article and Articles 107 (6) was confirmed as a special resolution pro ided that due notice of the intention to propose auch first mentioned resoln. tion and to declare such dividend or bonus and to make such call shall have been given prior to the Con ripatory meeting aforesaid.
Rate of
10- (b) Dividends may be paid in Hangkong Currency at such rate of exchange as the dive for
General
parable la
Meeting declaring Bangkost. or aanctioning the same or, in the case of interim dividends, as the Board may determine."
Should the above resolutions ba presed by the requirite majority they will be sub- mitted for cartirmation as special resolutions to a second extraordinary meeting which will be subsequently convaned.
Dated the Tweuty-eighth day of March, 1019.
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE General Manager.
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GOLF.
THE following Competitions will be held
at Fan Ling at Easter:
(1) Au Eclectic Competition for Men on the Big Course to be played on APRIL 18TH, 19TH, 10T1 and 21st, for a Cup kindly presented by Surgeon-Capt. 8. DREAPTE, RN,
(2) Mixed Foursome Compolition on the Big Course to be played on the after- noon of MONDAY, APRIL 1ST. Campion to soloot their own opponents.
(3) Burning Bogey Pool for Ladies on the Relief Course to be plased on APRIL 18TH, JOra, 20TH and 23 T
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INTIMATIONI
THE BEST PREVENTATIVE OF
6 o'clock r., when the subjoined Hesolu- INFECTIOUS AND tions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions :~~~
1. That the nominal silver capital of the Company as existing when this resolu- tion is confirmed as a special resolution be converted into sterling and that such capital so converted be increased beyond the sterling equivalent of such silver capital when such conversion takes place to the sum of £1,000,000 Sterling divided into 200,000 shares of the nominal value of £b each.
2. That each of the issued silver shares of the Company of the nominal valus of 883.33 each with the sum of $25 paid up thereon be converted into three shares and two fifths of one share of the nominal value of £ each with the sterl ing equivalent of $7.35 Hongkong currency at the opening T.T. rate of 1 axchange on the date this resolution ie confirmed
a special resolution credited as paid up thereon and accord- ingly that B1,600 shares out of the 900,000 shares of the nominal value of £o each constituting the capital of the Company so converted and increased be distributed by the Board the persona who are registered as shareholders of the Company on the date this rezolution is confirmed as a special resolution in exchange for the silver shares then be by them.
3. That the Articles of Association h altored in manper following namely:- By the insertion after Article No. 100 of
the Article
1
CONTAGIOUS
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DISEASE
1919.
The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Court-
Mr. G. N. Orme is al present engaged
Without any pretence of analysing the bulky returns, we are able to extract. aucy, of MessrR. Butterfield & Swire, few Inets of interest. For example, the Shameen, was entered on Saturday night total volume trade of the Colony was by thieves and 8250 in Hongkong bank- returned last year at one hundred and poles were stolen. A servant has been twenty-eight millions sterling, which sum arrested on suspicion. was mnde up of sixty-one millions for imports and Bixiy-Heven millions for exports. The bulk of the exports, of at the Magistracy hearing an applien- course, went to China and Formoen, tion by Mr. Leo Longinustu, Assistant which took thirty-seven millions. The Crown Solicitor, on behalf of the Singa trade with the United Kingdom amount- pore authorities, for the extradition of ed to five and a half millions, with the a Chinese charged with stealing a quan rest of the British Empire to fifteen and tity of jewellery from the Commercial a half millions, with Japan to about Press, Kuala Lumpur. Iourteen and a third millions, and with
A sad fatality occurred to an Indian uther foreign countries to forty-six mil. lions. It is probable that the distribution male driver on Monday in Nathan Road, of trade would have been very different Kowloon. No. 1934, Fakir Mohamed, under normal conditions.
attached to the 39th Mule Corps, was
Coming to details
find that | driving a mulecart along the road, when nearly £400,000 worth of timber Was be anddenly fell from his seat on to the which Less then half ground. The wheels of the cart pussed
WATSON'S imported, of
HYGIENOL,
A HIGHLY
ONCENTRATED
AND PERFECTLY SAFE
DISINFECTANT.
* 106 (6). The Board may e- Eusployment ploy the the funds of the of reserve
tunds. Company which have been established pursuant to the provisions of Article 106 or any of them or any portion thereof (and that whether such funds or each portion as is proposed to be dealt with were ant aside for the special purpose to which they are proposed to be applied or for nay sther purpose or not) in or for all or any of the following purposes, that i to say, in meeting contingencies, in equalizing dividends, in paying special dividends or bonuses, in repairing, improving and maintaining any of the property of the Company, or otherwise
of the Cotton A.
or for such other purposes as the Board shall in its discretion think conducive to the 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 asseta.
By the insertion of the following Articles
after Article No. 107.
or
Bonun may bat net of against call.
107 (1). Any general moet ing at which a dividend or bonna ie
declared sanctioned may make a call on the members of such amount as the meeting fires but so that the call on each member shall not exceed the dividend or bonus payable to him and so that not- withstanding the provisions of Articles 18, 19 and 20 the call may be payable at the samo time as the dividend or bonus and the dividend or bonus may, if $0 arranged between the Company and the be set off against the call.
member The making of a call under this Artiole shall be deemed 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 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 such call is due to enter into an Agreement with the Company providing for such dividend or bonus to be set off against such call and any Agreement made under such authority shall be effective.
SOLD ONLY BY
S. WATSON &
CO., LTD.,
TEL 18
FEB
Honumono Urica: 104, Des Vœux Road, C. LONDON OTO: 181, FLATT START, É.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, APRIL 9TH, 1919.
THE COLONY'S TRADE
RETURNS.
It is not often that we are able to con- gratulate the local Government upon now enterprises, and we are therefore the more pleased to express our appreciation
were
We
The
It is six
ጓት ጊዜ re-exported, large quantities over him and crushed him to death. of Leak and hardwoods cvidently
On behalf of St. Dunstan'e Home, a being used in buildings and on ships
bazaar will be held this afternoon, at 3 Unnamed made and repaired locally. Chinese medicines to the value of a mil-'clock, at "Montpelier," Queen's Gar lion and a half sterling were exported, dens--on the tennis court if the weather and there must be a lucrative business in is fine, and in the house if it is wet. ginoong.cassie and similar things in usual assortiment of useful and fancy which the Chinese have faith. Beans articles will be offered for sale, including of a number of nicely-dressed dolls and imported worth upwards. £500,000. The fish exported was valued live pets suitable for children. at three times that sun. As might be
The famous Cherniavsky brothers will expected, enormous quantities of rice were handled. The imports of white rio give two concerts at the Theatre Royal, (one of five varieties of rice) were repre- on April 18th and April 17th. Hented by the formidable figure of years since this talented trio have appear. £9,287,617, and broken rice by £2,813,830.ed in the Far East, and in that interval The sugar*
DW Bent of the Colony at least one of them, Leo Cherninvsky,
had
а value of
seven has risen to that height which entitles neurly millions sterling. Nearly 679,000 tons of him to be called one of the world's great coal, with a sterling equivalent of two violinists. Mischel Cherniavsky is 4 and a half million pounds, were imported,gifted cellist, and Jun Cherniavsky is a and more than two-thirds of this quan pianist with a wonderful reputation for tily were retained in the Colony. The interpretative genius. 6gures for machinery, metals and hard- ware loom large, and indicate clearly that the industrial revolution is commencing in China. The iron and steel imported come under various headings, but appar ently between five and six million pounds worth of the raw materials was imported. There was a big export of wolframite, including transhipment cargo, represent- ing more than one and a quarter million sterling. This was practically equalled by pea-nuts, while kerosine was valued at Dearly two millions or slightly under 28. & gallon. Nearly three pages are devoted to piece-goods, which form, perhaps, the most important division of merchandise. The volume is a mine of information that will repay investigation by commercial
en.
The annual general meeting of the Hongkong Polo Club will be held on April 15th
The water return for March shows that 1,916.0 million gallons of water were District stored in the City and Hill water-works during the month. as com Pared with 694.94 in the corresponding period last year. The consumption per head was 21.6 gallons, and 20.4 gallona respectively.
la the Kowloon water-
Works 216.30 gallons were stored against 17086 gallons tweine months previously, while the consumption per head was 12.3 gallons, instead of 10.7 gallons.
ANOTHER BURGLARY, 811,000 STOLEN FROM PROPERTY. OWNERS.
A Chinese partner in the Pun Iu Yin
Tong firm, of property-owners, with bead- quarters in Queen's Road Central, has reported to the Poliec that between 9 p.m. on Sunday and 4 p.m. on Monday Major Morgan and Major Macdonald | some person or persons entered his abop returned to the Colony, yesterday, from and, opening a safe in the back portion Swatow on the itan.
of the premises, stole of $11;900 in bank-
The lock of the safe was not.”
Mr. E. J. Grist, of Messrs. Wilkinson
of the initiative shown by the Statistical & Grist, solicitors, left the Colony, yes. Branch of the Imports and Exports Derday, by the Elpenore, on a holiday. partament, of which Mr. D. W. TRATMAN is
the Acting Superintendent, in compiling
A further batch of deportees have
Sixty blind Chinese teachers and pupils have been sent from Hongkong to Canton and are residing at the Ming
notes.
broken. It is believed that the thief whe well acquainted with the premises and ☀ opened the safe with a skeleton key. No clues were left behind.
CANTON NEWS.
(3). It shall be no objection to any resolu- tion made under paragraph (1) of this article or to any call or arrangement that such resolution was passed or such call or arrangement was made at the meeting at which the resolution introdas the Trade and Shipping Returns Just arrived in the Colony from Singapore ing this Article and Articles 108 (a) was published. We regard this volume, which and are awaiting transhipment to China. confirmed asa special resolution provided is a by-product of the war, as the be
CANTON, April 8th. that due notice of the intention to
THE PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY, propose such fret mentioned resolution ginning of a series which will become und to declare sach dividend or bonus increasingly valuable as time goes on.
The Civil Governor has ordered the and to make such call shall have boon
it would be interesting to be able to given prior to the Confirmatory meeting
new session of the Provincial Assembly aforesaid.
compare details of the trade of the Sem School, Fatí,
to be opened on April 12th. The Speak- 107 (b). Dividends may be
Colony to-day with those of sixty, fifty, exchange for
Nine more German subjects arrived in ers are to be elected on the same day. paid in Hongkong Our Bridenda
forty, or even be years ago, but that Hongkong yesterday on the Haiton and THE CANTON PARLIAMENT, at such rate of rency exchange as the General Hongkong.
is impossible. We can, however, Bee Meeting declaring or esantioning the clearly that new business is opening up which mig for Singapore to-day. same or in the case of interim dividend, for some of the imports and exports of as the Board may determine."
Kate of
payable in
the were transhipped to
Antiluchus,
to-day would not have appeared in earlier In Mr. R. E. Lindsell's Court, the case ngainst a Chinese servant girl of wound ing and cutting her mistress was
Should the above resolutions be passed by the requisite majority they will be submitted lists. for confirmation as apecial resolutions to a second extraordinary meeting which will be subsequently con vaned.
Dated the Twenty-eighth day of March 1919.
By Order of the Board.
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
General Manager.
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NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
The local dollar 15, of
course,
this afternoon.
To-day (April 8th) is the first anniver- sary of the Canton Parliament, and in recognition of this the yamens, Custome and Post Office are closed.
It is stated that more than 900 M.Ps. Many of them are
being employed by the Peking Govern ment and, therefore, they cannot be ex-
the money standard for all local transac continued, yesterday, and adjourned til have left Canton. tions, but we think it was wise to adopt the pound sterling as the unit of value for these published returns.
To considor the adoption of the Day pected to return. Owing to
light Saving system in the Colony an extraordinary general meeting of the
the high rate of exchange the dollar was taken at 38, 2jd for the year 1918, and
in futuro it is proposed to convert the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce declared values into sterling monthly at is called for April 18th.
the average demand rate for the month.
CHINESE AND GERMAN TUENTIES.
Luk Ching-chang, the chief of the peace envoys to Europe, has reported that by the kind permission of the Associated Powers, all the old and new treaties be
are to be considerod invalid.
The Powers have also announced that
The Chinese Maritime Customs has done Mr. J. Hooper, of the Hongkong tween China, and Austria and Germany, ERTIFICATE NO. 6810 of the above such good work in the compilation of Wharf and Godown Co., who left for
Home yesterday by the Elpenore, was none of them will render any assistance Company for 60 Shares of the Company trade statistics that it is not surprising to aumbored 39688/710 and 20711/38 and Cerif
Mongolia, ficate. No 1911 of the said Company for 100 find that its methods have been copied, given a farewell tiffin at the Hongkong to the movement for independence in Shares of the Company numbered 1003/1087, specially when we remember that the Club prior to his departure. 11497/546 and 30791/46 both in the name of
BOLOMON BASSOON BENJAMIN, and dated the trade of this Colony has very intimate
benceforth bo
A collision occurred between a vessel
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(4) Running Bogoy Pool for Mon on the
Big Couran to be played on APRIL 17th day of May, 1917 have boon relations with that of the neighbouring and a junk off, Che-Long, in Chinese 18TH, 10TH, 2011 and 21st."
CANCELLED by the Company and no Republic. In Hongkong. merchant waters, on April oth Fortunately do rights thorounder will recognised. New Certificaten for the said dise from all parts of the world is lives wore lost, but damage was done to Shares have been issued to aud in the Damp handled, but the Colony produces the junk amounting to $460. of the sald SOLOMON BABBOON Benjants in place of the Original Certificaton referred to above.
Dated the 31st day of March, 1911.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
R. M. DYEN,
Chief Manager, THE DEMOKONG AND WHAMIDA DOCK
COMPANY, LIMITED
MIDWIFERY.
according to the Eegulations for the Bonior A. Botland, is open for engagements.
aad Junior Local Examinations and for the Matriculation Examination 1010."
Гла
QUALIFIED MIDWIFE, trained in
Mrs. MoLWEN, Government Civil Hospital.
Writo-
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raw material. nothing in the way of There are, of course, local industries which absorb largo quantities of raw material, and the products of many of the local factories are chiefly destined for
other marketa.
Four cases (two deaths) of bubonic plague, one case (one' death) of diph theris, and Ave ones (four deaths) of cerebro-spinal fever were reported in the Colony on Sunday and Monday.
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THE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL LUE.
It is reported that the President în negotiating serrate ponce terms with General Luk Wing-ting and Tong Kai- yew, Tuchun of Yunnan.
A MUTINY QUELLED,
The military leader of Shak Lung has reported that a regiment of the Pat toiling Guards at Shak Lung musinied and began to loot the place, but werd suppressed by other troops, after fighting giment has been disarmed and disbanded, for several hours. The whole of the re- and order has been restored,