NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
ASSISTANT ENGINEERSHIP.
THE Council hereby invites applications for the post of Assistant Municipal Engineer.
A salary of Tha 380) per mensem is offered. Candidates should pot he were than 30 years
flage.
Applications should state age, nationality, qualifications, and experience, and abould be forwarded, together with copies of teati monials, to the undersigned forthwith.
By Order,
J. R. LYNESS,
Eserotary.
Concicil Room,
Tientsin, January 9th, 1990.
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THE PUBLIC are warned that dogs without collars found at large after 10 p.m. are liable to be destroyed by the Polica
E. D. Q. WOLFE, Captain Superintendent of Police.
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NOTICE.
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IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Persons applying for Licences under the ALMS and AMMUNITION ORDINANCE should do so between the hours of 9 .. and 11 4. daily, Sundaye and Holidays excepted.
Application to be made at the Licensing Clerk's Office, Central Police Station..
E. D. C WOLFE, Captain Superintendent of Police. Hongkong, January 12th, 1930.
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NOTICE.
TE have established a Branch Office in Sydney with ME ARTHUR NICKELLS BISHOP the Manager
thereof.
THE HONGKONG MERCANTILE
CO. LTD..
Hongkong, January 18th, 1990.
NOTICE.
$56
W from Head Office:
E are in receipt of the following cable
SUM LITE Assusanon Co. OF CANADA Hongkong,
New Business in 1918, OVER HUNDRED MILLIONS TO
This means an increase of 100% over 7919.
BF HOWELLER, Manager. Hongkong, January 16th, 1890,
TO LEF
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INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE MONDAY, JANUARY 19TH. 1920.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
■TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that
an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above-named Company will be held at the Registared Office of the Company, St. George's Building Victoria Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 29th day of JANUARY 1920, at 13 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of consider
and if thought fit of passing the following Hesolotions as Extraordinary
Resolution : ****
(1) To. consider, and if thought St approve the draft new Articles which will be submitted to the Meeting (2) That the Capital of the Company be increased to Three million dollars (83,000,000) br: the creation of Two bandred and forty thousand (240,000) shares of Ten dollars (810.00) each ranking for dividend, and in all other respect pari passa, with the existing shares in the Colony.
And in the event of the First Resolution being passed with or without modification
(3) To
consider, and if thought St
houston to na Extraordinary
Pass an
tha effect; That the new Articles
INTIMATIONS
KOWLOON RESIDENTË”
ASSOCIATION
MEETING of KOWLOOK A RESIDENTS will be held in the ONANERS OF COMMSU-ROC Gert Hai on TUESDAY, JANUARY 20TM:At 5.15 PUNK for the purpose of inaugurating the Row object of which is the betterment of condi Ion Residents Association, the principal tions of residence in Kowloon and the adjacent territories
INTIMATION
WATSON'S
All Kowloon Residenta, both Ladies and Gentlemen, interested in the movement are invited to attend, and anyone thing to join the Association who have not already done so, please send their names to Me BL FROST, 1, Kimberley Villas, Kowloon THE
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HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO
STEAMBOAT CO., LTD, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE ONE HUNDREDTH ORDINARY
MEETING
SHABABOLDERS in
the Company will be hold at the Offic
already approved by this Meeting the Company; Hotel Mansions, on TUES
for the purpose of
beroof subscribed by the
and that such Articles be and
DAY, FESTART, 10TH, 1920, 19 o'clock Noor
for the purpose of receiving ■ Report of the Directors together with Bustement be and the same are hereby approof Accounta
Dividend and are hereby adopted as the Articles electing Biotecaring of the Company to the exclusion And in substitution for all the axist ing. Articles thereof AND NOTICE HEREBY ALSO
Auditors The TRANSFER BOUKS of the Compay will be ULOSED from January 27th to February 10th, 1923, both days inducive
By Order of the Board of Directors, JOHN ARNOLD,
Secretary, Hongkong, January 13th, 1991.
NOTICE:
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GIVEN that a further Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Registered office of the Com- pany, St. George's Building aforesaid on MONDAY, on the 16th day of February, 1920, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. for
of the purpose
of the proceedings of the above ment ing and of confirming, if thought fit, sa Special Resolutions the above mentioned Extraordinary" Resolutions (3) and (3).
And the subjoined Resolation will be 1 old silver tires Nos. 10849/10650 proposed as an Extraordinary Resolution:
civing & Boned Heet! UNION INSURANCE. SOCIETY. OF |
**That it is desirable to capitalisa “the sum of $600,000.00 standing to "the credit of the Company's RestrYS “Fund, and accordingly that, for the “purpose of effecting such capitaliza “tion a bonus of $10 per share an "each of the issued shares of the
UANTON, LTD
NERTIFICATES Nos. 1845 and 2635, for 3
and 10128 respectively standing in the books of the Society in the mms of EDWARD WILITAR MAITLAND OF Yokohama, Jalan, bavi hem declared LOST and if at the expiration af one month from the date hereat the a documents be not forthcoming, the same wil be deemed cancelled sad of no effect.
OHP. HAYA Deputy General Miöngör?" Hongkong, January 13th, 1920, 30
HONGKONG BOXING
apany be and the same is hereby Declared and that the Board be and they age harcby authorised to satisfy "such bonus by the distribution "amongst the persons who are reg
gistered as holders of the issued 810 **shares of the Company on the date bereof of one of the naisaned" $10 “shares of the Company credited as fully paid up in respect of each " share of the Company held by such
of such aforementioned.
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ASSOCIATION.
(MARATHON RICE BUB-COMMERCE).
Mr. Chow Shou-son has been appointed to be a member of the Sanitary Board for a term of three years with effect from January 19th, 1920, rice Mr. Chan Kai- ming, deceased.
The Porthos, which arrived yesterday
be was convinced that the beginnings of the University they were
then inaugurat ing were but the nucleas of what would some day be a great and beneficent institu tion whose proportions would transcend and exceed, the original scheme sa much as the completed block transcenda and exceeds the small and comparatively from Marseilles, brought Mr. Lou Tseng insignificant block of granite which forms talang and Dr. C. T. Wang of the Chinese the foundation stone. Sir FREDERICE Peace Delegation, with Mrs. Lou and Miss LCGARn's Addresses on the subject of the Low and Mrs. Wang The party is on University must indeed remain for all its way to Shanghai. time an inspiration and a guide to those The young ex-Emperor of China: who may become entrusted with the met with an accident while skating responsibility for the further develop recently, but a medical examination ment of the University In its first showed that the injuries sustained were PREMIER Vice-Chancellor (Sir CHARLES ELIOT), the not of a serious nature,
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SCOTCH
Distinctive, in Flavour. Well Matured. Mellow
We are asked to remind readers of the
It is stated, says the Peking Leader, that the President bas recently ordered.
The name of. Dr. J A. Urquhart, "Alexandra Buildings, has been added to the Register of Medical Practitioners. He is Doctor of Medicine and Master of Aurgery of the Metin University, Canada, and Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada.
University was no less fortunate than, in ita frit Chancellor, for Sir CHARLES ELIOT was thoroughly in sympathy with children's lecture, Thirty minutes with Sir FREDERICK LUGARD's conceptions of Shakespeare" to be given by Mr. N the scheme, and we all know the valuable Teesdale Mackintosh on Wednesday, work be has done in starting the Univer January 1st., at 6.30 p.m. sity on its great career. The loss the University suffers by his exaltation to the post of Minister Plenipotentiary to the "Court of Jokok is great indeed. Dr.
aum of ten thousand dollars to be JORDAN, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, paid.an
issued to Sir Richard Dane, former co- obviously, well-merited tribute to Sir Director of the Salt Administration, in CHARLES ELIOT at Friday's Corregation appeciation of the valuable services rea- when he said they recognised that it is dered by the latter, largely due to his great influence and his great personality that the Hongkong University has been made known in all quarters of China and throughout the Far East. The good seed he has so indus. triously sown during the past six or seven years will doubtless continue to bear fruit in increasing measure, and his successor, whoever be may be, will have the advantage of coming to a University now in a well-advances stage of develop ment, and with a record of achievement in many directions which should serve as a useful guide for future activities.
There is no finality about the needs of a growing University. Of that the com munity was reminded many months ago when the Hon, Mr. SEVERN, C.M.G., who was then Administering the Government, an "Industrial Bank of Tientsin " made as statement to the effect that it would be no exaggeration to say that more than four million dollars are required
M. Reau leaves Hongkong to-day on the Parthor for Shanghai to take the place of M. Wilden (French Consul- General) who goes on long leave. He is accompanied by his wife and two daugh- ters, also by M. Reynaud, who will be Vice Consul at Shanghai
It is reported that Chinese, French and Japanese capitalists intend, to open
the course of the present month, with a capital of $4,000,000, of which the Chinese subscribers furnish $1,500,000, the Japan
persons as aforesaid and in pati MARATHON RACE. A. S. WATSON & CO properly to equip the institution for its ese the same and the French $1,000,000.
K bonus, and that such shares rank for
reports
as from the first day of March, 1900 Articles of Drafts of the new
of Associa tion, may be seen at any time before the second meeting, except Saturdays and Sundays, between the hours of 11 am, and 4 p.m. so the Registered Offices of the Company, or at the Offices of Messrs Johnson, Stokes & Master, Prince's Build ings, Hongkong, the Company's Solicitors. Dated this 13th day of January, 1990.
By Order of the Board.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., Agents.
903
THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE,
LIMITED's
FEIN to all SERVICES, UNIVERSITIES PUBLIO GENERALEYMA
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1930–
Start a 3" FM COURSE (about 11 miles)
OUT: Status Was L. (opposite. Queen' Statue), past Hongkong Glub and Law Courts, up Garden Boad to Public Garden, hast Government Bouss, along, Caine Road to University, and thence along Pokfulam Road to junction with Jubilee Boadamu huungan
HOME :--Alơng Jubilee Bosd to Kennedy Town Slaughter Houses, thence on to Praya (or Water Front) along Water Front, to Winning Post-opposite Hongkong Club.
Race Stewards will be posted along the
(course)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the CONDITIONS Go please. NO
SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING -of KHAREHOLDERS in this Company' will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LI, on THURSDAY, JANUARY 29TH, 1980, ai 11.30.4. sty for 3 purpose
of receiving the Report of t Directors together with Statement i Accounts for the year ending December 31st, 1919.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from MONDAY, January 19th to THURSDAY, January 29th, 1930, (both days inclusive), daring which period, no Transfer of Chares can be
By Orier of the Board of Directors, THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LTD.,
- MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTES The Secretary to
the General Managers.
Hongkong, January 13th, 1920
IOXLBEL G.
York Buildings
THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SALE
Garden Prics Moderate.
GIVEN that the
STOPPING. Minimum clothing; minglet de shorts.
Prizes (trophies) according to number of entries"
name, rank (if any) and address to
Intending Runners are requested to send
G. G. N. TINSON, E
Hon. Secretary Hongkong Boxing Association.
c/o Jonsson, Broxy & Mass Prince's Buildings
Ice House Street: Details as to drawing for places &c., will be duly published in those colum || ENTRIES «loss on SATURDAY, nary
31.19 NOOD
HL-J. GED #F. CAJE
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LIMETED.
WINE AND SPIRIT. MERCHANTS.
TIL 618
HONGKONG..
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The Baily Press.
HONGKONG, JANUARY 19TH, 1920.
MA
work Later in the year His EXCELLENUT
made
:
The death took place at the Govern un appeal for a million mont Civil Hospital on Friday of Capt. and a half dollars, to meet the immediate Alexander Smith, who had been- needs of the University Towards that
command hot the Hongkong. Cantoan sum the Government has pledged itself and Macao Steamboat Co.'s steamer Kin
to contribute a quarter of a million dollars, from the amount derived from the profits made under the shipping requisition scheme from shipping owned
shan, He leaves a widow and child The funeral took place on Saturday even- ing and was largely attended.
by Chinese. The Hon. Mr. BEVERY been acting Consul-General at Shanghai, Mr. J. W. Jamieson, C.M.G., who has plained at Friday's Congregation that was entertained last week at a farewell events have occurred which have delayed dinner by the British Chamber of Com the raising of the necessary funds, but here and presented with a pair of hand- some bowls-as a small token of appre trusted the delay was only a temporary ciation of cordial co-operation and help one. He said the need is even greater during his Hon. Presidency of the now than it was then, for the conclusion
of peace has made it necessary for Amber
Mre Claude Thompson, of Nanking THE UNIVERSITY.
University, in common with her sister University, and president of the Smith Universities throughout the Empire, to College Club of China, has been asked by Danze Day at the University has develop ber activities to meet the increasing & 84,000,000, fund for Smith College the general committee in charge of rais come to be an event in the local calendaring calls made upon bor." A large part at Northampton, Mass, to act as chair- to which the ammunity, foreign and of this money is needed for the erection man of the Smith alumai in China and to Chinese slike, Rok forward with ever- and equipment of new buildings. We be responsible for the raising of the interesting interest In the short space thus see how rapidly Sir FREDERICKota which will be assigned to the Smith
women in China. - itself b position as a British centre of foundation stone is being fulfilled left Hongkong for war service some time of seven years the University has won for LUGASD's prediction at the laying of the Koran se
Mr. Alfred Demee, a local boy, who education in the Fa East that exceeds the financial help that the University ago, returned to the Colony yesterday on the expectations of all but its most needs to extend the sphere of its useful the Porthos, Hersaw a great deal of ser- sanguine promoters. No one who was nees we ought to be able to look with ice, and was wounded four times. Ho hare at the time can Ixil to recall the ever-increasing confidence
was in the battles of Mans, Verdun and to wealthy the Somme, and spent eight months as a doubts which were free expressed re- Chinese who have the highest interests prisoner in the hands of the Germana garding the very optimisty views of the of their Motherland at beart. They have Enlisting as a private, he rose to be a project formed by Sir FERRICK LUGARD contributed liberally to its funds in the of the Croix de Guerre and another sub-lieutenant. He is the proud possessor who gave life to the idea. He pleaded past, on the strength of its great poten French military distinction with the community for the exercise a tialities for good to China, and now that
University, and not to confine the viewing out graduates year by year, equipped to the horizon of the unmediate present, with the sound education that is essential His conception of the scheme was that it if progress in China is to proceed along should stand sa a proof that the tires sound and enduring lines, it would be of a British Colony were not ang pesed surprising if wealthy and patriotic purely in the pursuit of wealth, that they Chinese did not come to its aid in steadily realised the obligation which lies upon growing numbers. them to extend to subject races ind to neighbouring and friendly people benefits which the energy of their fore Enthers had conferred upon themselves, that Hongkong chould lead the way
H.E. the Governor is distributing the among the Crown Colemies in proving prits at the Italian Convent School of anew that the British Empiro is not 4 pim to-d merely Yaet trading corporation, but
NNINETEENTE OLDINARY REPULSE BAY HOTEL Imperial imagination in regard to the they are able to see the University turn
OBRAIGHT RESTY NO 161, TAL MEETING of BHAREHOLDERS in this
House
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO. [Las
PUBLIO AUCTION.
DARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of
Company" will be held at the Offices of Mesara.
MATHESON & Co., I TAN BARY 2973, 1990, at 11:45 4.3, for the
purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year
ding December 31stAKES of the Com
The REGISTER of
pany will be CLOSED from MONDAY, January 18th to THURSDAY, January 1971, 1920 both days inclusive), during which period o
Transfer of Shares can be Registered
the letting by Public Auction Sale, to By Order of the Board of Directors.
be held TO-DAY (MONDAY), the 19th day of ANTÄXT, 1920, BU 3° F., “at the Offices £the Public Works Department, by Order of HM EXCELLINGY THE GOVERNOR,jöf: One Low of CROWN LAND at Aberdeen, in the Colony of Hongkong, "for's term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at s Crown Bent to be fixed by the “Surveyor
MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary Hongkong, January 18th, 182015 (139)
THE HONGKONG, LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
【OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
of HI MAJESTY THE Kiss, for one further THIRTY SECOND ORDINARY
term of 75 yeara.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
4,40 20 1989
SATURDAY," JANUARY ~1722-
TEA DANBAST-FROM-4 EM. TO'
DINNER DANBANT From 8 F
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18TH." AFTERNOON AXD EVENING ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS
J. TAGGART.
Mannger
CANTON NEWS.
4 squary 18th.. PROPOSED BALLWAY CONSTRUCTION.
in regard to the proposed construction of a railway from Fatahan to Chanebun psoy, the owners of more than 40 silk by the Canton Samshur Railway Com dactories in the Shuntak and Nambot districts have jointly sent is representa tion to the company saking that the rail- No cases of communicable disease were way should pass by Lanahack which,
easily accessible to all the factories. The notified in the Colday on Friday.
railway company is to be informed that silk worth over $30,000,000 will be sent PEACE ESTOYS TO PARIS. every year to Canton by the new railway-
has still that sacred fire of enthusiasm. The Hong Was I is reported to be which is content to cast its bread upon ashor aff Amoy. A salvage party has 810
the waters, without looking to frmediate been sent to the scene. Delfi gain; assured that it will return after
It was his belief that
MEETING" of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Levy on THURSDAY, JANUARY 28TH, 1927, at 19 In connection with tea and dinner
'clock Noor 19 Diosa of receiving danssats motor bases will leave the Hong-
together with kong
the Report of the. them Statement of accounts for the year
ading December alst 1918, 7 dage
The REGISTER of KHARES of the Com pildy" will be - CLOSED« from MONDAY, January 19th, to THURSDAY, January 29th 1920; (both days) Inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered w
By Order of the Board of Directors
MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary, Hongkong, January 13th, 1990,
Hotel at the following pentaall irrespective of the neber tickets sold
DEPÄETUKEJ
· KETUER,
7.P.M.
11 P.M. 12 MIDNIGHT
the
3.15 PM.
6.30 P.X Tickets can be obtamed at the Flor Hotel or Dragon Motor Care Callat-
and we recall that foundation storie of the University he the stona ne, emblematic of the fust as the foundation stone is
Sitem
eture the great uld arise upon and arou
The Government intends to erect 12 houses at Happy Valley and is calling for tenders for the same.
The St George's Society at Shanghai entertained at dinner last week the members of the Society who have return: ed from/war service
The Kailan Mining Administration's mins for the week ending January 3rd amtunted, to 97,914 tom and the sales duting the period to 81,073 tons/
The members of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and the Y.BLC.A of Hongkong who propose to entertain Lak Ching-cheong and Wong Ching-ting, the peace envoys on their arrivals at Hongkong, have received a message the envoya stating that they will have no time to remain in Hongking for any return to Feking immediately. The langth of time us
us they have been asked to French mail steamer by which the envoys are travellingeit Haighong on January 18th and was expected to arrive at Hong- kong this afternoon, can STUDENTS' AGITATIONS.
The students of t
of the Government Law School, the Normal School for Girls, and on strike. It is also reported that the the First Primary School are still put
Law students have induced the students of the other schools to join them and more than a hundred students of the Kwong chow Middle School came out yesterd
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