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THE HONGKÚND DAILY PRESS," THURSDAY, MAY 22ND, 1919.
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UNION. INSURANCE SQUIETY OF | THE CHINESE BŊGINEERING AND
CANTON, LTD
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the FORTY BLYTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be beld at its Head Office, Nos 3d Queen's Buildings Hongkong. TO-DAY THURSDAY MA
22ND, 1919, as NOON for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1918, and of declaring Dividends ete.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED Lom May 19th to May Stad, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
CH. P. HAY, " "Deputy veneral Manager. Hongkong, May Bau, 1810.
MINING COMPANT, LIMITED.
Payment of Final Dividend on Share for the year ending 30th June, 1919.
THE BOARD having declared
from London.
INTERIM DIVIDEND of Ono Shilling por Share, free of Income Tax, for the year ending 30th June 1919, holders of Bear Shares and halters of Dividend Warranty
received account of Registered Sharon, will be their dividends an presenting No. 13 Coupon of the Bearer Shares, and Dividend Warrants on Registered Sharee, to either of the following Banks at Shanghai or Tientsin
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION.
INDIA,
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THE CHARTERED BANT ANAUSTRALIA & ÜHINA.
or
THE Russo-Astatto Bank.
THE CHINA FIER INSURANCE
-COMPANY, LIMITED.
& NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
[OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, Nos and 4, Queen's Build- ings, TO-DAY (THURSDAY) MAY SIND, 1818, at 12.30 ra, for the purpose of receiv ing the Report of the Directors together with the Statements, of Account to 31st December, 1918, and of declaring Dividends,
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against the above" to the undersigned, Alexandra Buildings, Des Vaux Road, on or before SATURDAY, MAY, 3182, 1910.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSEU from May 18th to May
and, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Beard,
C. H. P. HAY, Deputy General Manager. Hongkong, May 9th, 1919.
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
TONGE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY-THIRD ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, Nca 3 and 4
Queen's Building Hongkong TO-DAY (THURSDAY, MAY 22ND, 1918, at 12.45 PM for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1918, and of declaring dividends. etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from May 12th to May 22nd, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
C. EL P. HAY, Deputy General Micag Hongkong, May 9th, 1818.
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A. S. WATSON & CO, LIMITED,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL LORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company (since its registration) will be held at the HosaKONG HOTEL, Hongkong, FRIDAY, the 23rd day of MAY, 1918, at Noo, for the the Report of the General of receiving the Managers together
ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, with a Statement of Accomts to the 31st, NOT
owing to the Undersigned proceeding December;ISTER OF SHARES of the home on leave, 2 KIGBY EF KEWLEY will take charge of the Company's Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, Hongkong Brancs as Acting Local Manager the 19th day of May to Monizy, the 28th as from "ALAY 1ST.
day of May, 1919, both daya inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.
JOHN DE R. LANCASTER,
Acting Local Manager. Hongkong, May 18th, 1918. [173
HONGKONG. AND SOUTH "CHINA WAR BAVINGS ASSOCIATION.
NOTICE.
announce
that all WEbeg to
Straits Settlements War. Loan taken up by this Association for its Meraber has now been exhausted. All
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.
1748 Hongkong, May 12th, 1919.
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE
Tan Banque BILệu Pour L'ÉTRANGER. „The Payment?" will be made in either Dollars or Telt as the holder zu wish,
760
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WATSON'S
FORMAZONE
(REGISTERED).
Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Magistrates hav committed for trial, at the next Criminal Sessions, an accountant of a Chinese firm charged with falsifying the books to thu extent of 1500.
we had six squadrons of aeroplaner and that number had risen to two hundred by the date the Armistice was signed. The output of aeroplanes was raised in the interval to an annual rate of about fifty thousand an industrial triumph of a high order. It is calculated that our plage, three cases (one denth) of cerebro. Five cases (two deaths) of bubonic pilots fought at least, 40,000 battles over land and sen, resulting in about eight enteric fever were reported in the Colony spinal fever, and one case (one death) of thousand enemy aeroplanes being shot'
on Monday.
| down at a cost of 2,600 British machines.
Britain's progress in flight, un uexampl- A Chinese woman was walking along ed advance in any science, Was the road at Mongkok, on Tuesday, when national progress minds by British apti- she slipped and fell down. She sustained tude, pluck and industry. The reason such severe injuries that she was removed why we Rad the huge potentialities of to Hospital, where 'sha diedavon after commercial aviation being enavaared as admission.
"a matter of course is that the intrepidity.
of the early war-pilots of the R.F.C. and
Hongkong has been declared, by the
the R.N.A.S. conquered all obstacles and Government of Siam, an infected port on blazed a trail, by sheer courage, for their account of plague. All Hongkong and successors. To them, and, to their Swatow resuels clearing for Bangkok organizers, who themselves had shared after May 16th.should call at Kobphra
A Refreshing, "Tavigorating and the ardours of experiments in their own to be examined.
person, is due the credit for the immensc” ly larger vision with which we all regard the world to-day.
at the buying este of exchange of the day, of
USENERAL MANAGER.. THE RAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION, Hongkong, May 8th, 1919
A. G. DA ROCHA.
SURVEYOR AUCTIONEER,
GENERAL BROKER
Queen's Road Ceritral, Telephone No. 2931,
AVOURED with instructions from the suit d for Tennis, Shooting and that the newspapers controlled by Lord FWING SUN & CO., Tamor, with al
AND
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by Public Auction, TO-DAY (THURSDAY), May 2nd, 1918, ab. 2.39.x.v., as their shop No. 71, Queen's Road Cential.
All the Farmitara, Fixtures, and Sundries, A.1.80 1 Safe.
14
TRI-Cash on Delivery. Hongkong, May 21st, 1918,
A. G, DA ̈ ROCHA, "AUCTIONEER,' SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER.
Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2932
LAVOURED with instructions from
FA The Concernal
will well by Public Auction, on SATURDAY, May 23mi, «1919, at ŸM P.M., at his Baler Roum. yxCELLENT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Comprising:
3 Chesterfield Coach and Arm Chair, Black! wood Furniture, Brass and Iron Bedsteads, Tables, Brussels Carpet and Rugs, Brner Overmantels Silk Tapestry Covered Thawing Room Suite, Sofas Esay Chair Occasional Tables, Extension. Dining Table,.... Bevelled Mirror Wardrobes, -Hat Stands, Dining. Chairy Bilver Ware Cabinet,
CT Fictures, Cartains, Bed Sheets
Dinner Crockery, Glassware,
and Palatable Drink, Particularly
Bathing Parties.
Plots $1.20 Per Dozen.
Splits 70 Cts.
The achievement which has just been recorded reminds us of the rapid progress which has been made in the navigation of the air. It was only ten years ago
Mr. R. O. Hatchison, Magistrate, doed
Chinese woman $2,000, with the alternative of six months' hard labour, for being in unlawful possession of 29 Government opium labels. The maximum fine for this offence is $10,000.
A Chinese was charged at the Magis-
NORTHCLIFFE were endeavouring to on. tracy, yesterday, with hawking lizards. cofrage périal development by offering."Alive or dead? inquired "Mr. R. E. handsome pecuniary rewards for flights Lindsell.. "Alive," replied Inspector trum London to Manchester within Brazil, adding that the lizards were used twenty-four hours, with pet more than for medicine. Defendant was fined $3. two stops on the way. At the beginning of this year a Handley-Page aeroplane
At the Magistracy, yesterday, Ur. H. made the journey from England to India. Hutchison sentenced a Chinese to a en Sicily, Malta, Egypt and Baghdad.clothing from a friend. The constable month's hard labour for stealing some Only a few days ago the cables informed who arrested defendant said he Bred us that Lt. Col. Watson had flown from several shots in the air as a warning to
defendnat. Mesopotamia to England in a week, and that Col. BEATTY had created a record by. covering the distance of 987 miles, which divides Madrid from London, 'in just under twelve hours. That this record
will not stand for long is a foregone conclusion, for improvements in the can- struction of aircraft are continuous.
S. WATSON & CO., Major-General SEELEY mentioned the
LIMITED.
other day that a chance discovery had resulted in increasing the speed of an aeroplane by ten miles an hour, and that experts saw no reason, why a speed of
Clocks, Marble-top Washstands, Cooking Stores, Cutlery, Tallet Sets, Electric Refling. Lamps Cabinets, Sideboards and a long the ERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS eight hundred miles an hour should not of Sundries
Catalogues will be issued.
TERMS: Cash on Delivery. Hongkong, May 30th, 1919.
A. G. DA ROCHA. AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR AND
GENERAL BROKER.
Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2831
AVOURED with instructions from
The Concerneti, will well by Public Auction, on TUESDAY: May 27th, 1918, at 230 7x, ONE OF THE LARGEST AND OLDEST STOCKS OF CHINESE PROCKLAINS AND CURIOS EVER PLACED ON
AN AUCTION, ELOOR FOR SALE. A Large Variety of 3-coloured and 5-coloured Vases and Plates, Blue and Whits Vases, nad Figures, etc, including Incense Burners of Bung and Wing Dynasties, Peking Cloisonne, Crystal, Agata and Jadestoms Souff Bottles,
TEZ 436
MARRIAGE,
f12 ·
The Polo Club ground has been the scene of "much animaton each evening in for the Gymkhana on Saturday. The this week, assiduous praction being put entries point to a successful afternoon, the number of ladies competing bring special feature.
the
An interesting tennis match will be
played on the Hongkong 0.0. ground this
ning between Mr. N. E. Kent and Mr. Mikami. The latter is the Japanese champion who defeated Ng Be Kwong in Manila and was mainly responsible, by his consistent tennis, for the success of Japan in the tennis tournament at the Olympic Games.
be attained before long. This would A number of Japanese who took part enable one to breakfast in London and in the Olympic Games at Manila have
arrived in Hongkong, and arrangements, lunch in New York Yet when Mr. have been made for ~ baseball
match, HANDLEY-PAGE ventured the opinion six to be played at Happy Valley at 8.2 India
3.30 between a
day
months ago that the journey to America a test drawn from the visitors. The could be accomplished in a day and a Japanese in Hongkong have improved LANNING-JANION-At the British Consu-
wonderfully, and recently defeated tho late General, on April 25th, and balf he was regarded as an optimist. So U.S.S. New Orleans players in a scratch afterwards at Christ Church, Yoko greatly have aircraft been improved in match. hama, by the Right Rev. Cecil, Bishop the last twelve months that there are of South Tokyo, OSWALD VICTOR, third son of Mr. and Mrs. George machines now which can weather any Lanning, of Shanghai, and Exaching but fog or a gale. The aerial mail. MAUD, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A Janion, of London, niece of the Rev. and Mrs, H. B. Walton, late of Yokohama
DEATHL Dr. MURRAY.-At
Fearn's Hospital, Shanghai, on May 13th, IREZ AGNES MUERAT, aged twenty-nine years. ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
:
to Paris during the sitting of the Peace Conference defed wintry weather which would have kept all machines aground, in
A short commemoration service will be beld at St. John's Cathedral on Empire vice is intended primarily for the British Day, Saturday next, at kam; The ser
children of the Colony, for whom the cave and both transepts will be reserved. dated in the nave aisles A Government The general public will be accommo
As the science of meteorology launch, available for Kowloon children, advances the present element of uncer sharp, and will leave Blake Pier on the will leave the Kowloon Pier at 8.20 .m. tainty will be gradually eliminated. „
return journey immediately after the Recent developments emphasise the Bervice. There will also be a service at
Pozzoni officiating.
1913.
monay paid in to this Association will, HOLDERS of the above Company will be vasen and Ornaments, etc, and a number of | Mrs. Jamniwas and family wish to thank need, which has been pointed out by the the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Bishop
in fature be invested in British War Load bearing interest at 5 per cent. per
KAMPO,
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
Hon. Becretary.
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IMPORTS AND EXPORTS DEPART.
HENT.
NOTICE.
EMPIRE DAY..
THIS DEPARTMENT will be open for purposes till Noor on BATOHDAY, MAY 14TH Licensed Warehouses will be entirely closed on that day.
Dndent,
Imports and Exports.
Hongkong, May 10th, 1919.
W
HONGKONG POLO CLUB.
EMPIRE DAY.
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K TUER Permitting. POLO CLUB GYMKHANA will be held s the RacecouE-E, HAFFT VALlet (by kind peruission of the Stewards Hong kong Jockey Club) on SATURDAY DEKL MAY 3478, at .4 P.M. · Admission $1 00 (including
Children under twelve
HA! price.
Tea)'
Programme
inclades.
TEXT PEGGING BRAIN-ERVIL RACE
“MOUNTED COMBAT, &u," &€.
Cash Broepi
8. E. GRIMSTONE, Hon. Secretary. Hodgkong, May 18th, 1918. (£774)
FOR SALE.
A appurtenances, and
held at the HoxacoNG HOTEL, Hong- kong, on THURSDAY, MAY 19TH, 1919, Noox, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with. * Statement of Accounts for the year ending April 30th, 1819.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th instant to the 31st instant, both days incinsire.
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LTD.,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & BON,
General Managers Hongkong, May 20th, 1918,
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THE STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.
* NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-FIRST OBDINARY
Lacquered Screens, Parichs, Old Chinesa Engravings and Kakeyonos and a long line of Sandrion.
Cataloguse will be issued. TEENS-Cash on Delivery. Hongkong, May 20th, 1919
TO LET.
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AT-the PE in immedino posetion
No. 2, MOUNTAIN VIEW, Furnished or Unfurnished.
Apply 10-
No
Ja
H. E. POLLOCK,
Bupreme Court.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, PEAR, from June, 186, 1919, in excelled
Addre
"A B Care of "Daily Prom* Offs.
ANNUAL MEETING of this Company will condition. be held at the Offices of. Mestra: "JARDINE MATHESON&US, LTD on THURSDAY, ut 11:30 AM, for the
MAY 2977,
receiving the Report of the purpose of Directors together with ▲ Statement of" Accounts to 3-h April, 1979.
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Compsay will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, MAY 23m, to THURSDAY, May 29th, 1919, Exclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. 8. BROWN, Eecretary, Hongkong, May 16th, 1918.
1.
TO LET
Саба
their friends for the many kind ex Hon Mr. HE. POLLOCK, K.C., of pro pressions of sympathy and floralviding an aerodrome in the New Terri- tributes received in
their bereave- tory. Already a scheme of inter-Imperial ment.
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HONGKONG, MAY SEKD, 1819,-
HONGKONG AND AVIATION.
..
The most disastrous are experienced in Yokohama daring the last sixty years broke out on the afternoon of April 28th air communications contemplates linking and was not subdued until after midnight. up England and Australia with the Far Two thousand five hundred houses were East, and we must be prepared, also, for duced to smoking rains, and a number destroyed, sixty blocks of, buildings re- the early introduction of local mail and of public buildings and business houses passenger services, such as are being burned. Two persons were burnt to established between London and the chief death, 20 were seriously injured, and over a thousand rendered houseless. The provincial cities of Great Britain. There damage is estimated at 16,000,000 yen, are, indeed, grounds for believing that The fire originated in a ricksha-coolies' an aerial service is already projected hut. The losses sustained by the Firs Insurance Companies are estimated at between Hongkong and Shanghai, and about 2,000,000 yen. that the idea of employing scaplance to convoy valuable merchandise from the Amongst others who left the Calony, yesterday, on the Columbia were. Mrs. interior as a means of escaping the tolla Athol Anderson, wife of the Superinten-
dent in levied by pirates en rouse is receiving of consideration. Obviously, a daily service Messrs. Jardine, Matheson &
Mr. C. W. Beswick, of RB Frikkie, Superintendent of the
Mr.
between Hongkong and Shanghai would Great Northern of the
Amoy Capt
Tax report that the distinction of making the first aerial passage over the Atlantic has been won by a British officer is another proof that Great Britain's claim to lead in the air is not an, idla boast. As it, in dying which, perhaps more than he of the utmost convenience to business anything else, must differentiate the new. men, for it would reduce the time occupi 0.108 Tax PPAR, -Red House world from the old, the personnel of the ed in travelling between the two ports
at the Peak.
Royal Air Force are entitled to the fore-from several days to a few hours and FRROY SMITH SETH & FLEMING. most place amongst the makers of the would permit of the substitution of new world. It is true that they had letters for cables. According to Mr. predecessors, to whom is due the bonour HANDLEY PAs, an 800-mile air service which all men give to pioneers: but can be run at a profit, both for mails and during the war flying was metamorphos passengers, at a rate only slightly higher ceived in Hongkong of the following im Telegraphic information has been re- ed from an experimental adventure into than that to which the public is accus-portant amendment, made by the King-
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PORTABLE GARAGE, with all (1) To receive and past the Committee
Five seater Report and Statement of Accounts, (1) Car used only 14 months. No reasonable klection of Officers and new Com
Committee for offer will be refused. Ownor louring Colony, ensning year.
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Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, May 20th, 1815.
FLAT in Nathan Bosch, Kowloon"
"A Four-Boomed House in Gordon Terrac Kowloon
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
DO., LTD, Alexandra Baldingy
a practical affair, and the credit for the toned
change and the achievement is due to the
RA.F. That is, as far ae British flying,
Mrs. Frikkie and Miss Worren Kacaramund, recently returned by the
G. Purdy, late. United States Shipping Board to the Neeson, wife of the Passenger Agent of Singlese Government and Mrs. W the Pacific Mail 8.8. Co. Mrs. Neeson
was seen off by a large number of friends, flowers. her cabin on the boat being almost full of
in-Council, to the Regulations under the Defence of the Realm Act: A person shall not, unless specially authorized for the time being by the Admiralty or Board goes, and British flying goes very far. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of Trade, act in the capacity of master or person in charge of a British mer- That it was victorious over German and Ltd., of Hongkong, has just opened chant ship unless he is natural-born Austrian flying is incontestable, and, branch in Hankow.
7 British subject and the son of "parenta without making comparisons between
both of whom were, at the time of his The sale of the wreck of the Chiyo birth, either natural-born British subjecte British efforts in air warfare and the
Haru, which was to have taken place at or British subjects by naturalisation, efforts of our Allies, it is true to say Mr G. P. Lammert's auction rooms and any person acte în contraventica that the Naval situation is paralleled by yesterday, was postponed as there were summary oncace against the regula of this regulation he shall be guilty of
the air situation. In the summer of 1914 no bidders.