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THE HONGKONG DAILY FERBS, TUKSDAY, MARCH - 27TH, -¬1993,
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SCOTTISH LETTER
£1,100 por head for two dozen bull calvos, with a top individual price of 5,300 guiness. THE HEALTH OF MR. BONAR LAW., Naturally creared, he had the Aber- deenshire gift of turning away pawkily [rxon duR OWN CORIMPONDANT.] the attention he did not seek.
There was evidence of this in a leading show ring, Epauza, February 21st
when the late King Edward spent a low The health of the Premier, contrary minutes in conversation with the veteran to statements, made during the week end,
crowd of shows no sign of an immediate broskhe way to you!".
hen the King had left.
Presmen surrounded “What did down: but it cannot be concealed that a
What were you talk- good deal of anxiety is felt in Scotland, ing about! What would two
farmers kuown. When Jr. Bonar Law undertookered
ueried "Collynie." And that was all! to restore the old arrangement under nouLAND BUFERSTITION. which the Prime Minister personally led
In view of the statement that some of the House of Commons he was warned by his friends that the strain might prove to prehension the present violation of King Lord .... Carnarvon's friends view with mach for him. Scottish Unioniste, at Tutankhamen's Tomb, I was interested in any rate, do not disguise from them- solves the
conversation I had with a before fact that
resident of the a arsaion *** much older
the lone island of Gigha the other tay, Fo may find search
when we happened to touch on the subject necessary to
for a way of disbardening
excavations My friend told duties which his cinal position imposes highs, upon him. Separation of the
Gigha, who, desiring to build for himself offices Prime Minister and Leader of the House, a yard, encroached on certain of the other
and
family a mausoleum in a local grave under Mr. Lloyd George's regime, itself as a method of lightening the burden, graves. This action was viewed with greas but Mr. Bonar Law in reluctant to adopt this disquiet by the untives, who were not at plas, bas well as the House of Commoga allsarprised when a short time afterward, the return of the Prime during a gatching trip the lind an all Minister to an active share in its proceed his family were drowned. ings. If it may prove, however, to be the SCOTTISH TILES. ( only alternative to his resignation the The poiss made over Lord Leverhulmo's arrangement would have to be made
sasuniption of the title, of the Westera EARL. BALFOUR'S GIFFORD LECTURES.
Isles recalls a previous occasion when the Happily restored to his wonted health, heather was afire. The founder of the family Earl Balfour has once again descended from of Mackenzie Glenmuick was the son of an the world of high politics to the wider Englishman who had a shop in Aber spaces of philosophic speculation. The at doon. He want to the East, amassed a
of Paris or Lausanne is ná doubt || fortune, married s
a lady of
of the naMO of to that of Glasgow on a raw Mackenzie
day, but his Lordship in resum-There haring bought DE Estate in ing his
of Gifford lectures, seemed in no Ross shire, gave
forth himself disturbod
nd-Mackenzie of Kintail" by the inclement surround,
Instantly the ings. He was looking remarkably well, and Mackenzies of Seaforth and Kintail were has obviously made good recovery from his re-up in arms, and the would-be Highland cant indisposition. His comment on the Scots Chieftain dropped the title like but love of a philosophic argument, evidenced potato. The lesson was profitable, for by the large attendances at all his lectures, was keenly appreciated by his hearers. It was very encouraging, he said, to n Gifford lecturer, who had to deal with the most abstract and remote subjects, to be able to do so before an audience which, he ventur STd to any, could not he collected, and when collected, could not be retained, in any country in the world-except Scotland.
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WAY
Industrialism is spreading so fast in China that the Chinose National YAW.C.A. han granted a scholarship to the London School of Economics to Miss Tak Hing of Hongkong, that she may train in England is the first Chintao
woman welfare worker, Miss Shin has just come to Londen, and has at once settled down to hard studies at the School of Economics. She tells me (writes "HWP in the Glasgow Herald) that it was while she was secretary to the Y.W.CA in Hong- kong, a post she took up after being a school mistress for some time, that she first came face to face with some of China's
and became
A
Baronet
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when Glenmuick was acquired the Barones made no attempt to revive the extinct title of Baron of Brackley. LAUNCH OF A CLAN LINER AT IRVINE.
Messrs. The Ayrshire Dockyard Company (Limited) launched from their yard at Irvine the steel single-scrow steamer Clas Harfod you, which they have built for the Cian Line Steamers
The dimensions of the vessal are:-Length, B.P. 473 ft; breadth, moulded, 63 ft. 3 ins depth, moulded to awning decks, 30 ft. Her gross tonnage is approximately 6,000 tons, and she has a deadweight carrying capacity of 9,000 tons Like the previous vessels built bys tlus firm for the Clan Line, the Clan Macfadyen is designed generally for their Indian and general trade, and the accommodation provided for the officers and crew is of the highest class.. The
propel ling machinery, which is designed to give a speed of 12 knots loaded at sea, will be upplied by Messrs. Danstanir and Jackson (Limited), Govan. Both hall and machinery are classed 100 Al at Lloyds. The launch- ing, eremony was performed by Mrs. J.F.
Brace Cantle.
INTERMARRIAGE BY FISHER POLE.
appalling factory conditions. The girls used to come and tell me about the long Muir hour, the endless round without a day rest, the Inck of sanitation, and the unprotected machinery. Then two years The gosipy tongue has to be warily Age Aliss Agatha from London to give son was invited out used in most fishing communities in Scot informaland, the families are so closely intermarried. tion about industrial matters, and with
The community of St. Abba, however, her I got experience of welfare work probably holds the record for the number
Y.W.C.A.
nt Shanghai. On my return to China we of its inhabitants who bear the same shall set
a training school there for naine. The
with a member- village church, welfare, workers Miss Shin women welfare.
ia skip of 180, has on its roll 60 members hoping to see a good deal of practical bearing the name of Wilson, 30-bose the welfare work in this country, such as that name of Nisbett, and a similar number are
and sho "will also visit model"
at
ber
Bourneville: Canuda and American called Ray. St. Abbs is also unique in that
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on it does not possess a single public house. her way home. She formed a close acquaintanceship with Miss Janet Maclay, CELTIC CHIEFTAIN-WORSHIP. daughter of Lord Maclay, when she vinted At a meeting of the Edinburgh Univer China last year as a delegate to the sity Celtic Society to arrange for the annual World Student Christian Conference in festival, one scoring member wanted to Peking.
know if and why the haggis was on the menu, and, moreover, what was a haggis Sir," said one of the boys, "the anyway. haggis is the Great Chieftain of the pudden The Magistrates of Edinburgh chieftain be present." Carried unanimoux- race, and I move that this distinguished
ly. The
THE TRAGEDY OF UNEMPLOYMENT. ""
This little paragraph is cloquent in its bald: details of the state of the labor
UR OF THE CHALDEES.
TEMPLE 8,000 YEARS' OLD:"
DISCOVERED.
market. advertised for men to fill two vacancies în the gas meter testing department. salary was £3 per week,as, prices go, n very modest sum, even for unskilled labour, and for the two vacancies. over 370 ap plications were received. A considerable number
of these from men possessing high technical qualifications. Several held Board of Trade certificates demonstrating their skill. In the short list of eight drawn up by the Magistrates there were ineladed draughtamen, fitters
News of the discovery of an ancient Several were er officers are and temple in the Chaldean city of Ur reached British Museum, who is touring the Sir Fredric Kenyon, Distor of the
United States, last month.
of the successful candidates served with distinction in the Navy.
HANDON SCOTTISH BCJoicing over the dis
London Scots
money box, which dates foron Pennsylvanian
craftsmen. They for
formed themselves into it
discovery was made by a joint of the British Museum and the covery of their old
University of back to the days when their ancestors
James
The reports received from the expedi followed
nes VL to London on his to the throne of England. It was three thousand years before Christ and
tion indicate
that the temple was built acccasion to instituted in 1611 a number of Scottish that additions and repairs were runde to
by Nebuchadnezzar (cirea 000 BC)* society under the title of the Scots Box,r of the Chaldees was one of the most and began contributing
6d. ambers in in Southern
with Ancient cities of the world. It situated an entrance fes of is, to nid
Babylonia, time of distress. It was the forerunner of Babylon, and is represented to day by 140 miles south-east friendly
and of the ancient
Lying si charity in London, the Royal Scottish Corporation, which now
sated close to the border of the Byro Tigris A dispenses more than £10,000 a year in relief of the Scottish
"Te Wh8-8 great centra of trade, and The desert poor of the
architect about 3000 ac. the rulers of the city exercised hegemony over the whole of Babylonia. most famous dynasty of Bourished
of
The great as geothakes of to day monads of ruins enllad Mubar
bex was discovered by a
in that a
a Whitechapel marine store, and it is The
tafter the destruction by fire of
WES
Nation's old premises in Crane Court from about 2450 to 2330 BC With the ea
tablishment of the empire of Babylon, about the box was among the debris. The box has thred lock and a rose 2000.c. Ur lost its independence and to a plats in the centre of the lid bears the tinned, however, te bes city of note till the the great extent its political importance. It con- inscriptions
This is the ancient Seats Box that was close of the Babylonian period. It is men founded in the year of Our Lord 1811, intioned in the Bible as the original home of
the reign of King James the Sixth of Sent Abraham noted for its temple of El-
land
And
the First of England.
Behold how
Psalm 133.
good a thing it is, And how becoming well. - Together such sa brethren are,
In unitie to dwelle
During the great plague of 1885, upwards of 300 natives of Scotland were buried out of money paid into the Scots Box.
THE SHORTHORN KING
It was long
The rains were Nannar, the moon god first explored in modern times by J. E. Taylor. and W. K. Laftus în 1864. -The wall of the city was found to be 2,040 yards in cir cumference.-Trøvesi,
HIGHER COST OF BATTLESHIPS.
Mr. William Duthie, the famous breeder of shorthorn cattle, died at Tarres, Aber Mr Eyres-Monsell, Financial Secretary doonature in bis 63rd year. He was recog- to the Admiralty, states in axower to a nised as our first authority on shorthorny, Parliamentary question that the dowź and developed his hord with such remark involved in the building of a first-class able success that the name of Collynie came battleship in 1914 (pre-war) was approxi to be recognised all over the world as the mately £2,500,000. The cost involved in greatest British centre of aborthora, breed" ing. The most notable event in shorthorn the building of a similar type of battle- selling for many years paat has beag Mr. ship, corresponding to the labour and Duthie's sale of ball and heifer calves. In material prices now current in 1996, 1319 he had the Old's record average of would be about £3,300,000,
THIS PROSPECTUS HAS BEEN DÜLY FILED WITH THE
·REGISTÁK OF GO MPANIES.
The Subscription.
MARCH
List will Open on SATURDAY, the 24th day 1933, and Close on or before SATURDAY, the 31st day of MARCH, 1923)
HONGKONG REALTY AND TRUST COMPANY,
LIMITED,
[INCORPORATED UNDER THE COMPANIES, ORDINANCES 1911-1021.]
CAPITAL
$2,000,000
·DIVIDED INTO 200,000 Shares or $10 Bach:
Up
Of the above shares 100,000 have already been subscribed for cash by the Directors and their friends. On these $250 per share will be paid on application and the balance when called up on the same basis as the remaining capital.
In addition the Directors are allotting 30,000 shares oredited as fully paid under the terms of the Option and subsequent correspondence thereon referred in paragraph (a) hereof..
The remaining 70,000 shares ranking equally with those already subscribed are now offered for public subscription payable as to 33.50 per share on application. The balance due on each share, vil, $7.50 will be called up on subsequent demand as and when further capital is required."
Any of the shares now offered to the public which may not be subscriber for will be allotted in such manner as the Directors shall determine:
DIRECTORS
JOHN SCOTT HARSTON, 1, Des Vieux Road Central, Hongkong, Solicitor and Notary
Public.
Hon. Mr Crow Snov Sox, Bank of East Asia. Ltd., Dex Vieux Road Central,
Hongkong, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council.
JAMES HARPER TAGGART, Managing Director, Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd., Powell's
Building, Hongkong.
:
The Very Rev. Father LEON BOREIT, Procureur General des Missions Etrangeres
1, Battery Path, Hongkong.
ASTRUZ RYLANDS LOWE, 3, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, Chartered Accountant. FRANE MALCOLM LANE CRAWFORD, Managing Director, Lane Crawford, Ltd.
Chater Road, Hongkong, ...........
FUNG TAT HANG, Compradore, Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong. PETER KINGAON Kwon, Bank of East Asia, Ltd., Dea Vaux Road Central, Hongkong,
Merchant.
BANKERS.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
AUDITORS
LESETRAD & DAVIS, Alexandra Building, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong
SOLICITORS
Messrs. DEACON, HARSTON & SHESTON, 1, Das Vaux Rond Central, Victorin
Hongkong.
REGISTERED OFFICE OF THE COMPANY: POWELL'S BUILDING (2nd floor), Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong,
SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY (pro tem).
T. A. BAERY, Powell's Building (2nd floor), Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.
PROSPECTUS
(a) This Company has been formed principally to acquire by purchase (under the terms of the Option and asbsequent correspondence thereon hereinafter mentioned) from Lane Crawford Limited (whose Registered Office is sizumia at Ice House Street, Victoria, Hongkong) and develop by building therea the land registered in the Land Office as Section A of Marine Lot No. 7and commonly known as "The Wiseman Site" situate in Des Vaux Roact Central, Hongkong. The purchase price of the land is 31,000,000,000,000 which
will be satisfied by the issue to Lanet
of abiacom purchase
of the Company credited as fully paid up. Of the remainder of the
$148,781.50 will be paid in cash, and the balance of 8351,818.60 will satisfied by the taking over by the Company from Lane Crawford Limited of the Mortgage (repayable on the 30th April, 1927) for that amount now subsisting on the property in favour of Lane Crawford Limited and
400 Carrying interest at $2 per annum.
the Company will
In addition to the purchase price payable as above, under
the Option hereinafter mentioned, pay the brokerage of one per cant on the purchase price amounting, to $10,000 which is referred to in par graph (4) hereof, and also indemnify Lane Crawford Liuited to the extent of 823,394.30 in respect of the Plans and Specifications referred to in paragraph (a) bereof.
The Option for the sequisition of such land bears date the 5th day of March 1923 and is made between. Lane Crawford Limited as Vendors of the one part and Mr. W... L. Shenton, one of the partners in the firm of Deacon, Harston & Shenton the above mentioned Solicitors to the Company, as Trustee for the Company of the other part. A copy of this Option and the subse quent correspondence thereon can be spected at the office of the Land Solicitors to the Company (No. 1 Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong) at any time during business hours. A copy of the Mortgage above referred to which bears date the 6th day of May 1923, and is for a term of Five years. from that date can also be
be acquired
relating to the land to
There are no other Contre la the same place and time. Company On the land to be acquired as above by the Company it is proposed to croct a modern seven-storied building with n Basement, so as to afford accommodation for Stores, Shops, a Safe Deposit Vault and First-class Office Booms, particularly suitable to professional people. The Site is considered to be specially favourable for such a building, being in the centre of the of the City and close to the Hotels, Banks and Shipping business part Offices, etc.''
(5) In respect of the above mentioned Option a brokerage of 17 on the pur
chase price of $1,000,000 amounting to $10,000 is payable by the Company to the Solicitors to the Company in respect of the sale of the land ther subject of such Option.
(c) Under the last mentioned Option the Company are to be under the obliga
tion of indemnifying Lane Crawford Limited to an extent not exceeding $28,394.30 in respect of the cost of certain Plans and Specification pre- pared in 1922 in connection with the building which Lane Crawford Limited at that time proposed to erect on the mid land gameday (d) No other comsulssion or promotion money will be paid by the Company. (e) The Corupany to pay all preliminary expenses of and incident to the formation and floating of the Company down to the time when it becomes entitled to commence business and also all costs and expenses in connection with the acquisition of the land and the Assignment thereof to the. Com pany, the estimated amount whereof in $20,000.0 (f) The minimum subscription on w
on which the Directors may proceed to
is seven shares.
(g) The Articles of Association provid
to
provide that the qualification of a Director is t be the holding of 1,000 shares in the Company and that the remuneration of each of the Directors is to be $1,000 per annum.
(Al Directors are interested in the promotion of the Company as follows:-*
(1) As to Mr. Haration in respect of the brokerage mentioned in clause (6). (2) As to Messrs. Taggart, Lowe, Crawford and Haraton to the extens they are Directors of Lane Crawford Limited who are the Vendors of the to bo acquired by the Company
(3) As to Messrs Taggart, Lowe and Harston to the extent that they
Directors in the Hongkong Hotel Company Limited who Shareholders in Lane Crawford Limited...
Are
of the Dairy Farm Ice
Cold
As to the Rev Father Robert to the extent that he is a Director Company Limited, who the Vendors aforesaid.
and
are Shareholders in Lane Crawford Mr. Chow Show So
(6) As to all the Directors other than
Fang. Tai
are
Directors and Potor Kingson, Kwok that they or some of theen other Companies with hom tha Company may da
business.
(i) Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company can
be inspected at the aforementioned offices of the Solicitors to the Company st any lime during business hours
a
of the Company's Memorandum of: Association is annoyed to the Prospectus and forms part of it (E) Application for shares should be made upon the Form attached to the Fro
peatus, which should be detached therefrom, and sant to the Company's Bankers (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) together with
remittance of $2.50 per share, the amount of the deposit
Where no fallotment is made, the deposis will be returned in full, and where the number,
mber of shares allotted is less than the number applied for, a proportionate amount of tho deposit will be returned. Prospectuses can be inspected at and Forms of Application obtained from the Company'a Bankers (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) and at and from the temporary offices of the Company in Powell's Buikling (second floor), Des Yeux Bood Central, Hongkong,
Dated the 3rd day of March, 1928,
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