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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS THE STAR FERRY COMPANY. LIMITED.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER JIST.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING CO., LTD.
1.-NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that AU EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEET ING of The STAR FERRY COMPANY, 8% FIRST MORTGAGE DEBENTURES LIMITED, will be held at the Office of Messra. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LIMITED, Pedder Street
WEDNESDAY, the NOOM, when
14TH DAY
Capital
the Bubjoinal Resolution will be proposed, as
Exbrsendiary Resolation-
(4) That the following Article shall be inserted aftar Article 110 of the Articles of Ampociation
110A (a) The Company in General Meeting may at any time the effect Resolution to that it is desirable to capitalise of money d or Summe ing part of the Undivided Prote of the Company standing to the of the Company's Reserve
Lestion
si pro-
Ite and
panding
shares.
pass
10.
cred accordingly that such"
KAILAN BONDS)
YMENT of The HALF-YEARLY INTEREST Due on 1st JANUARY, 1925, will be made on Presentation of Coupon No. 25 at any of the andermentioned Banks, vis,
HONGKONG AND SHANSKAT BANKING CoaPORATION. CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.. RUSSO-ASIATIO BANK.
wam er sums be distributed se
Bobal among
ong the Members in proportion to the Fhares held by thein respectively, and that the the
authorised to distri-
Directors the Members Unirsed Shares or New Shares
in like proportions.
(b) When any ench Resolu
on that referred to in the preceding paragraph shall have Directors may been passed the Dire allot and issue to the Members
nearly as may be in propar- tion to the Shares held by thera and in satin. respectively
the
of the said Boans, Unissued Shams or New Shares (credited in Fally Paid Up Shares
of the proportionats
to
the extent of amount payable to anca Membra respect of the Reserve Foil, with fall power to make such
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At Tientsia Shanghai
Or
Hongkong. AL
Tientsin and Hongkong only.
BANGOR DE L'INDO-CH
BAXQOS BEL L'ÉTRANGER.
Pock
At Tiantain and Shanghai only.
The Interest, lens Income Tax at de 8d. in
will he
ON
FEBENTURES:
a. d.
Per Coupon Gross) Lea Tar at 6 in the
12.0.
2. 8. 2/3
Net Amount Payable 9.'3.3/5.
ON £100 DIBENTURES:
Per Coupon (Gros) Les Tax at 4/8 in the
Net Amount Payable
23. 0. 0. 13. 6.
22 8. 8.
On 2500 DENTURES :
Per Coupon (Gross) Lean Taf at 4/0 in the £ 3. 76.
£15. 0. 0.
Net Amount Payabie £11. 12. 8. Payment will be made in either Dollar or
provisions by the 1ne of Frac-Taeis at the Demand Buying Rate of Exchange
tional Certificates or eth rwise an r the they may think expediat for t
-Chee
of fractions, and prior to such on behalf of
allotment the Directors may authorise say person
the Members to enter into any
Aestus with the Company pro
the allotment through
them of such Shares credited Paid Up Shares as aforesaid, and
LE
satisfaction as aforesaid,
ада
Dy
Agreement made under such
authenty shall be effective.
to
fe) It shall be no objection
under
para
Resolutions ple that they
graph (a) of this
at which
lat introducing this
Article is confirmed.
such f
of the intent
•
Special
that dus
to propose
firat mentioned Resolution.
of the Day the Coupon is presented
By Order,
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION,
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E. J. NATHAN, Acting General Manager.
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
81 PER CENT. FIRST MORTGAGE DEBENTURES (KAILAN BONDS).
TWELFTH DRAWING.
shail have been given prior to the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, in conformity with the conditions endorsed aforesaid.
Meeting
Confirmatory,REBY FUR- apon the Debensares, the undermentioned
ot
2-AND NOTICE IS THER GIVEN that he TWENTY- Numbers of Debentures of the total value
£24,000 were drawn on the Tharin “DAT SEVENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL ING OF THE PLAN FERRY OMPANY, 27 OCTOBER, 1994, at the Offices of the Company LIMITED, will be held at the aid Offer of No-22, Austin Friars, in the City of London, MAIL, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD, on in the presence of WALTON FITZIAMI TUENZE, MONDAY
the 2ND DAY of FEBRUARY, one of the Directors, ALFAID WILLIAM BERRY, Secretary of the Company, and Joux WILLIAM of receiving the 1925, a Noon, for the purpose Haport of the Directors together with a State PATIK JADRALDE, of 7/8, Great Winchester mens of Acconote for the Right months ended Street, London, E.U., Notary Public. on the 31st day of December, 1924,
3-AND NO KE 1 HEBEBY ALSO GIVEN that A Further EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Com pany will be held at the said Office of & Co., LIMITED, MATEUSON JARINE, on MUNDAY the 2ND DAT OF FEBRUARY
the 1945, immediately after the conclusion of Annual Meeting, for the purpose of receiving Report of the Proceedings at the sove
The, said Debentures will be paid off at Far on the 312 DECEMBEH, 1924, at either of the following places
1x LONDON: At the Transfer Office of the
Company, No. 3, London Wall Buildings,
La Bausazza: At the Offices of the Local Board 13, rua Brederode, Brussels ; IN CHINA: At the General Offices of the
Company, Tientsin.
mentioned Meeting to be held on the 14T 5 BONDS OF £500 EACH, NUMBERED:- PAT OF JANUARY 1025, and of contrming, it thought it, as a Special Readiation the above
mentioned Resolution.
AND NOTICE I HEREBY "ALSO GIVEN, that an ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the sail office of Mars JARDINE, after immediately &Co, LIMITED, MATHEBOX the conclusion of the last mentioned Meeting of considering andy if thought At, pasting the following farther Resolutions
28
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70 BONDS OF £100 BACH, NUMBERED:~
been inued) be incre725 BONDS OF 220 EACH, NUMBERED
by the creation of
50 $1.000.000 hares of the nominal |
val of $10 each
214 138
241
449
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for the purpose
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Ordinary Resolutions, namely
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(b) That the authorised Capital of the
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2914 2037 3046
Company (which is now $100,000 consisting of 40,000 Shares of the nominal raine of 310 each, all of
hich have
3192
3345 7926
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2615 3663
to
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That it is desirable to capitalise the Sas of $100,000 being part of the Undivided Profts of the Company standing to the credit of the Company's Reserve
the
capitalisation of effecting
in
tor accordingly and
such pursuance of Article 110% of the Company's Articles of Amociation a Bobar of 8.0 per Share
tha Issued Shares of the Compens hereby declared
be and the same
and that the Directors be mad they are hereby authorised to satisfy such Bonus by the distribution amongst the Persons who are registered as Hollers of the present issue of Shares of the
Company on the 2nd day of February, 1905, of oma of the Newly Jesued Shares of the Company credited as paid up in respect of every one heid by of the C sting Bbare
o Company en-h Persons Shares, rank for and that 14 anch New Ordinary. Dividend and in every other respect pari issed. pass with the Shares already (4) That the whole or any part of the remainder of the Unissued Shares of the Compaay be disposed of in much inanzer at such time of times and apon such terms as the Company's absolute Directors shs in their discretion think fit.
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THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be ULOSED from MONDAY, the 26th day of January, 1925, to Mornar, the Cad day of February, 1925, both days inclusive, Dated this 30th day of December, 1924.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W..8. BROWN,
Secretary. INSURANCE OFFICES. NEW YEAR HOLIDAY. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that All INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transsetion of BUSINESS
THURSDAY, 1 JANUARY, 1925.4
By Order, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,
Secretaries,
LOWE Fizz & HAME INTALNCZ ASOCIATIONS
OF BoxeLove.
[1668 Hengkong, 30th December, 1924.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
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CURE of INDIGESTION Dyspepsia-Biliousness-General Debility-Costiveness-Headache,
:
AND ALL STOMACH AND
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A PURIFIER OF THE BLOOD, AND A SWEETENER OF THE WHOLE SYSTEM.
SOLE AGENTS:
The drawn Debentures, with Coupons Nox. A. S. WATSON
20 to 40 attached, must be left four clear daya for aramination.
By Order,
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ALFRED W. BERRY,
Secretary.
Countersigned.
J. W. P. JAURALDE,
Notary Public.
30th October, 112. 22, AUSTIN FRAK, TORDON, EC. 2;
NOTICE-The following Debenture Bonde dewa at previous drawings have not yet beat redeemed and should he presented for payment without delay:
£100 BONDS NUMBERED:— ·
"
084 695 9891
£20 BONDS NUMBERED:-
6302
4207
BAND 7186 10742 11115 11550 14343 14800 14844 14880 14925 18252 19731 20356 21609 14926 17248 99099 £3158 24227 25201. 25310 25346 26540 26720 97995 29007 23008 30482 30018 30754 -31693 31695 31896 31700 #1709 21775 31744 35388 38811
NOTICE.
G. G. HOPPELER, DECEASED,
[1687
CO, LTD,
The Hongkong Dispensary.
Hongkong Office: 1a, Chater Road. London Office: 131, Fleet Street,
The Daily Press.
Hoxoxoxo. DICE 87, 1924
THE DYING YEAR.
1924
brief notes on this aspect of the year's will be found to have mora red-letter history which we publish on another page days for China in its record than there of to-day's issue. As against these disave black-letter days in the Diary of the quieting considerations we may note the year which ends so-day... fact that the shares of local gompanies
have never stood on a higher general The H.M.S. Durban, from: Shanghai, level than they stand to-day in the Stock arrived in Hongkong yesterday morning -Exchange lists.
In the matter of public health we have. We are informed that Mrs.. Lai Kwong the satisfaction of being able to place run, who died as a result of drinking a quantity of "Lysol," was the daughter- on record for the first time in the past thirty years that the Colony has been inlaw of Mr. Lai Hoi San..
The theft of 56 lbs. of potassium of entirely free from bubonic plague. Not a single case has been notified in the iodine. valued at $700, from Mosers. A. Colony throughout the year, notwiths. Watson's factory at Bay View, has standing the fast that at one perfed of been reported to the police..
the year the prevalence of the disease
A Shaukiwan tradesman returning home at Canton was reported to be causing anxiety to the public health authority in a rickshaw before sunrise yesterday there. Not infrequently during the past morning, was get upon in Yes Woo. Street thirty years bubonic plague has heen by two uien who robbed him of $220 and responsible for over a thousand deaths a wrist watch.
a year among the Chinese population of this Colony, though few cases have ever occurred among Europeans since the first year in the history of these epidemics, when there were several European cases. But if the Colony has been free of plague, it had for a time an unusual experience
of typhoid, many cases ocurring amoag
The Bible Circle at the Helena May Lastitute on Friday next, January 2nd will be conducted by Mrs. H. Lechmere Clift. The meeting which is at 10:30 a.m. to a women-Ariva i open
is
The Taikoo lan Yi which, as
Europeans, and we have had to lament reported in the Daily Pre yesterday, the death of two or three prominent residents from the disease. Happily the proportion of deaths to enses was low.
eut aground near Hainan Head, wan successfully refcated on Monday after- noon, and returned to Hongkong.
Mr. Guy Clarke has been chosen to But if the Colony has been free of great sensations during the year, the same represent the Singapore Chamber of cannot he said of China, of which we Commerce on the Legislative Council off are frequently told Hongkong is "inte- the Straits Settlements in place ́of "Mr. grally a part." The neighbouring city W. Lowther Kemp, who recently retired of Canton has produced a constant sve-
The pony Kashmir, belonging to cession of sensations of a most deplor
L Dunbar, died yesterday. The po able kind. There was, for instance, the bomb outrage on the Shameen, when five won distinction at the last two extin meetings at Happy Valley, and Mr. Don French residents were killed and many
bar's many friends will regret his loss others injured by the explosion of a homb aimed at the Governor-General of Indo. Mr. Dunbar is at present in Manila.
A copy of the "Almanaque da Bo dinner by the French community; we Imprensa for 1923, third year of pub- China while he was being entertained at have seen the Shameen deserted for a
lication," has been forwarded to us by the whole month by the Chinese, on the pretext that they objected to the police! "Religino e Patria" It contains a quan: tity of reading matter and some illustra
of the Serator, tions, including one Senhor Anacleto da Silva.
and traffic regulations for the Shameen as revised by the British and French Mänicipal Councils though the fact is ill-disguised that the motive force came from political circles in the Chinese city.
Two Chinese, charged before Mr. E
W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magi We have seen also the Chinese merchants tracy. yesterday, with the manslaughter of the 'eity is open revolt suspending their of a third Chinese on board the L business for days on end in protest Philoctetes on the high seas recently, - against the tyranny and oppression of were discharged, His Worship remarking the Government headed by Dr. Sux YAT that no jury would convict on the evi- SEN, the leading advocate in China ofdence. popular Government; and we have scen
There was no business of public interest. So far as the Colony of Hongkong is
desperate war waged in the streets of
before the Hongkong Sanitary Board concerned the year 1924 has been distin- the City against the merchant class, in-
which met yesterday afternoon, under the guished by nothing that will stand out valving considerable loss of life, great conspicuously in its history. Hongkong destruction of property in the principal chairmanship of Mr. W. T. Traiman, when has been "pursuing the even tenour of business section, and resultant injury of Dr. W. V. M. Koch, Dr. J. C. MacGowan, its way," continuing, no doubt, to grow an enduring character to the important Dr. A. G. M. Severn, Mr.. Wong Kwong
in population and in wealth. Perhaps commercial interests of the city-injury and Mr. D. Davies (Assistant Secre- ALL Persons having any Claims against the the most conspicuous feature of the year necessarily extending to Hongkong as the tary) were present.
Estate of the shove Deceased, late of Shamsen, Chaton, who died at Canton ca has been the remarkable building activity emporium of the foreign trade of South December, 1924, are hereby asked to Bend in the city as well as in the suburbs, and China. Business conditions, "by reason of Particulars thereof to the Undersigned within the 31st JANUARY 1025. AND NOTICE there is abundant evidence that this all this turmoil, have never been" worse
in the neighbouring province. 13 REBESY ALSO GIVEN that All Persons activity is not by any means likely to indebted to the ssid Estate are hereby Requested
to make Immediate Payment to the Undersigned. subside for some considerable time to
U. SPALINGER,
Swiss Consul. Datod, Caxion, 29th December, 1944
come.
(1665
Further North we have seen a start
Reuter wired yesterday the announce- «) ment that the President of Portugal has appointed Sir, Robert Ho Tung a Knight: of the Most Ancient Order of Christ in We bave still, however, in the made with, and a sudden end brought recognition of services to the Portuguese Statate Book of the Colony the Rents to the great civil war which rear after colony of Macao, and the assistance ba Restriction Ordinance enacted in 1921, year we had been warned to expect had given to Dr. Rodrigues, the Portu in the expectation that this protection There is no need to recount now what guese delegate to the League of Nations of the tenant from “squeeze" would not took place but a couple of months ago. Private information of this appointment be required for more than a year. The We bave since seen President TAO KUN was received in the Colony more than a the imperative and his Cabinet ejected; we have seen month ago and was published at the time. Government has seen necessity of continuing it year by year, the succeeding Cabinet speedily dismiss-Reuter adds that Sir Hobert Ho Tung is though when we contemplate the great ed. and another installed by Marshal the first Chinese who has ever received number of houses built since the enact TUAN CHI-sui, who has become, the Pro- this grade of the Order. ARTICULARS CONDITIONS of meat of the ordinance, and especially the visional Chief Executive by "general Bale by Public Anction to be held on great number, now nearing completion consent of the lending military person- MONDAY, the 5th day of January, 1925,
PUBLIC AUCTION,
at 3 ... -the Office of the Public Works un the Kowloon Tong Estate, for example ages of China, who have now been aura-“STAR" FERRY'S NEW BOATS.
Department, by Order of His EXCELLENT THE
GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND—we may well wonder whether the monod to a conference with civil officials. Near Taun-Wan in the Colony of Hong coming year will not see rent restriction to settle for presentation to a subsequent kong, for term of 75 years, commencing
:
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Lomality
Boundary Massarosasta.
TWO ADDITIONS TO THE
** FLEET."
Two new ferry-launches, built at the Kowloon Docks for the "Star" Ferry Company, have now been completed, and one of them, the Golden Siar, had
from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal discontinned, in the Colony, albeit we national conference, a basis of govern- sta Crown Bent to be fixed by the Surveyor of may be sure that it will not be without ment which will reunify the country and HIS MAJESTY T. Kisa, for one further term of
a strong protest from tenants who are put an end to the provincial wars and 24 years loss thre-dayi, ........
enjoying its protection. The prosperity disturbances which have distracted the of the Colony, as evidenced by the ap-country for the greater part of the nouncement made by H.L. The GOVERNOR thirteen years of the Republican regime at the Legislative Council on Monday-The dificulties of the great task that the successful trial trip yesterday.
It is probable that, the other, the that, from the financial point of view of Chief Executive has undertaken can the Government, the year will end "very hardly he overestimated, nor can it be Meridian Star, will be given a trial run favourably," even more favourably then aid that much optiniem at present pre-to-day, and that both will be put into was anticipated a couple of months ago vails regarding the result of the effort active commission on the Hongkong
The new vessels are of the same type' when the Radget was introduccu-is cer. But we may at least cherish the hope Kowloon service in a few days' time. tainly remarkable in view of the unsatis that success will attend his efforts and factory state of trade revealed in the thus usher in a year which at its close as the alder anos,' only larger.
Kaur Tyun Wan,
60 400, 30,009
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