*
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUE. THE FIFTH EXTRA BAUE MEET TNG will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 30TH MAY, and MONDAY, 182 JUNE, 1925.
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 26TH, 1925
THE HONGKONG & NHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
N°
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Ax EXTRAORDINARY GENEBAL MEETING of the above Company will be
INTIMATIONS
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD..
The First Bell will be Bang at 3 F.M., held at the Registered Office of the GempĮ TEARLY MEETING of the SouLTY will be
The Charge for Admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform, Half Price. Members are advised that they must show their Season Tickets to obtainӀdmission to the Members' Enclosure.
Eash Member has the right of introducing 2 Non-Members to the Members Enclosure, Tickets for whom can be obtained from Masers. LINETRAD & Datin at $5 sach day up to Faidar, 29TH MAY, 1925
The Stewards invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be prosent.
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HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB. VISIT OF JAPANESE TENNIS
PLAYERS.
PROPOSED MATCHES
.ON
27TH & 8TH MAT
BOOKING in Now Open at Masas. MOUTRIE & Co.-KERVED SEATS: $1 Each
"GLEN"
11.
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"LINE, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES."""""" FROM UNITED KINGDOM via PORTS.
THE Motor Vessel
." GLENBEG *
haring arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hasardous and/or ertrs hazardous Godawns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company. Limited, whence, acd/or from the wharver, Delivery
by th
Goods not cleared
be
2nd June,
925, at Noori, will be subject to Bent
All broken, chafed and damaged Packages are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be
the
of Consignees by examined-in presence Mesars. Goddard and Douglas, on Saturday, S0th May, at 10 am. Claims against the Steamer those for Cargo stort delivered must including those
on the Special Ferm provided, and be presented on the must also be submitted within 30 day d
be recognised. arrival, otherwise they will not
No Fire Insurance will be effected by as in any case whatever.
Billa of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 25th May, 1915.
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The ben LIÑE STEAMERS, LTD. FROM LEITE, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
The Steamship "BENGIME." NONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby infarm- ed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardens. and/or 'artza the HorexŐKG Godowns of "hazardona
AND KOWLOOK WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY; LTD., hence, and/or from the wharves, delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be simitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andalivered after the 2nd June, will be rabject to Rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to, the Undersigned on or befor
15th Jane, or they will not be recognised are
All broken, chafed and damaged
to be left in the Godowns, where they will be samined on the 2nd June, at 10 x 2 No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agente. Hongkong, 25th May, 1993,
S.S." PORTHOS."
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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES. MARITIMES.
NOTICE.
with
YONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEIL
in connection above Steamer are hereby informed that their Goods with the exception of Opinn Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the
and Kowloon
Wharf and Godown Hongkong
Co., Ltd, Kowloon, whence Delivery may be obtained immediately after landing,
landed
Options!
mal Cargo will be forwarded on unless Intimation is received from the Consignees before
Noos, To-pax, requesting it to be . hare Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the the Lat Jane, 1925, at Noon, will be to Bent and Landing Charges, Olaims must be sent in to me on or before Wednesday, the 3rd June, 1985, or they will not be recognized.
d. Goods remaining unclaimed after
Al
All damaged. Packages will be gained on Saturday, the 34th instant, at 19 am, by Mosers, Goddard & Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been affected.
REODENWOKER.
Agent
Hongkong, 25th May, 1925.
12239
CHARLES MONTAGUE EDE,
DECEASED.*
LL CLAIMB against the Estats of the Cabovs Deceased must be Sent to the Undersigned forthwith.
QUEAK'A BUILDING, Victoria Hoarkung, on TUESDAY, the ru DAY or JUNE, 1925, at 11 o'clock in the FOREXOON, when the subjoined Resolutions which were passed as Extraordinary Resolutions at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company hell on the 13th day of May, 1925, will be proposed for confirmation as Special Resolutions, viz:--
"(1) That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in manner following of Article that is to say by the deletion 17 and by ie ambstitution therefor of the following Article
Damely 17-So long the issued capital of "the Company half nat. Azceed Member shall be $6,000,000, no
ta. be
as the Holder registered ertitled "ot more than 8,000 Shares of the Should the "Company,
Capital the issued "of the Company be increased beyond $6,000,000 the number of shares in
respect
which of
Member shall be
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE I HEREBY GIVEN thas the FIFTY SECOND ORDINARY held at the Head Office, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 1925, at Noox, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1924, and of declaring Dividenda, eta.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from May 18TH to Mar 29th both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hongkong, May 8th, 1925.
(2191
BRITISH TRADERS" INSURANCE- COMPANY, LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that "entitled to be registared shall be FIFTY-NINTH ORDINARY increased proportionately, but YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be Member shall be entitled to be register held at its Head Office. UNION BUILDING, "ed in respect of a fraction of Share" Hongkong, on
on FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 1995, at (2) That the authorised Capital of the Com1215 px.. for the purpose of receiving the
раду
$3,000,000 consisting Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 154, and of declar- ing
• (which is now
no
of 60,000 Shares of the seminal vaine of $50 each the whole of which have issued) be increa40,000 additional been is creation of
$10,000,000 by the
of... 140,900 Hon Shares of the nemiast rain of $50 cach
hereinafter for dividend and in all other mentioning (subject respects pari pass with the Shares constituting the Campany's present issued Capital.
8
(8) That 60,000 of the mid 140,000 New be offered in the first instance Shares be (in the proportion of ore new share for old share hold by them
(4)
*espectively) to the Members of tha
Company who on the 10th day of June. 1925, are registered in the Company's Share Begister as the holders of the said
Dividends, etc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MAY 18TH to Mar both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LADDER.
General Manager. (219) A Hongkong, May, 8th 1925.
Dieses at a Premium of $10 N FIFTH SIXTH ORDINARY
60,000 Old
Share That the aforesaid offer be made to Mem- bera by Notice specifying the number of to which a Member is entitled. member whose registered ad-
дет
Tast
drawi
in sitaste in the Far East or his
ball
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.· NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at ita Head Office, UNION BUILDING, Bongtong, on FRIDAY, 29TH MAY, 1925, 19.00 r., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1924, and of declar-
Dividends, etc.
pay for such now shares in TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
by two instalments, La., One
INTIMATIONS
To Connoisseurs
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OLD BROWN
BRANDY
is Unsurpassed as a Liqueur.
Exquisitely Mellow, and of Fine Aroma;
Delightful
the
Patate.
to
(Blenda Daliciously with
Watson's Dry Ginger Ale).
Bottled at Cognac, France,
especially for
示意
Mr. H. W. M. Manly, of San Fran It is necessary, however, to add that this undertaking forms part of the much cisco, who is on his way to Singapore discussed Article VIII of the MACKAY for the purpose of scientific. rematch
the work. arrived yesterday on Treaty wherein the Chinese Government
·President » Hayes, undertakes completely to discard`likin as
An Italian opera company, ter in a means of raising revenue, in return for which the British Government consented number, returning to Cienon after a
season in Japan and North Chine, ar excess of the surtax in A to allow
rived in the Colony yesterday on the sa Customs' Tariff rates, to be imposed on Presklent Hayes, British Imports as well as on Chinese It is stipulated in produce exported. the Treaty that if this Article VIII. does not come into operation, the right to demand under is the opening of these parts with the exception of Kongmoonin shall lapse. The Article has not yet come into operation, so we suppose it is strictly correct to regard the opening of Wanhsien still aan British proposal rather than a long postponed undertak. ing on the part of the Chinese Govern- ment China has not waited for the
After stay in Amerien, Dr. W. H. Bench, of Penang. who arrived in Hong- kong yesterday on the a resident agra is returning to Penang to con- tinus his missionary work there.
M. E. P. G. Barrow, "who has lived. Shanghai for the past 15 years, and is Principal of the Cathedral "School. there, arrived yesterday on the l'resident Hages. He is taking a rest trip.
......
the 58 Among the passengers on President Hayes, which arrived yester day, is Mr. Earl Dickover, American' Consul in charge at Kobe, who is taking a five months" holiday to visit relatives."
At a meeting of the United. Grand. abolition of likin and the imposition of Lodge of Freemasons of England, held the surtax before opening Changsha and in London on April 29th, the Hom Sir Claud Severn, K.B. E, C.M.G., waLE there seems no good reason why Wan-appointed to the brevet rank of Senior hsien should not be opened to foreign Deacon. | trade forthwith, in view of the prospect. Mr. Ebibara, sub-manager of
Yokohama Specie Bank, will be leaving under-the-Washington Agreement that
"Hongkong shortly to take over the China_will_get_the Customs tariffs raised manager hip of the Company's. Saigon before we may hope to see libin abolish-Branch, whose present manager w going
There is what appears to be a curious contradiction of terms in the section of the MACKAY Treaty relating to the open- ing of these Eve ports, for whereas the section begins with the statement that the Chinese Government agrees to open these ports to foreign trade on the same footing as the places opened to foreign trade by the Treaties of Nanking and
t of $30 per new share
to be will be CLOSED from MAY 167 to MAY A. SK WAYSON/Ficotaio," it Audy with the variation
paxi on or before the 15th day of
1995,
To
占
and
a farther instalment of $30 per
on of before the
29TE, both days 'inclusive,
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hongkong, May 8th, 1929.
21912
new share to be paid for, and such 15th day of October 19
199 Member or his Nominee was
has not Xem accepted and lodged with the Company's Bankers the first instalment due on such new shares on or before the 15th day July 1925, will be deemed to bare declined That a Member whose regis- tered address is situata catride the Far Each or his Nominee shall pay for such. new abazen accepted by Twe Instal ments, ie, one instalment of $30 per on or before the paul new share to be. 15th day of September, 1925, together with interest calculato at the rate of per cent. per annum on the total amount then payable for the period from INDO-CHINA STEAM_NAVIGATION
CO., LTD. the 15th day of July, 1925, actil the dste of receipt of
by the Com- Payment
ORDINARY THE FORTY-FOURTH pany's Bankers and a further Instal mant of $30 per New Share to be paid GENERAL MEETING of the Com- on or before before the 15th day of any will be held at the Ofices of the General
intereas Managers,
Mosers. JARDINE, MATHESON December, 1995, together calculated at the rate of 6 per cent, per Co. LTD, Padder Etreet, Hongkong, on
the total amount then WEDNESDAY, the 107E JUNE, 1995,
of payable for the paried from the 15th 11 o'clock in the Morning, for the purpose day of October 1925, until the date of receiving the Report.of the Directors, passing. actual receipt of payment by the Com- the Accounts, and electing Directors and paay's Banker and such Member outside the Far East or bis Nominee who has not accepted and lodged with the Company's Bankers the first instal- ment due on such New Shares on or before the 15th day of September, 1925, together with interest as aforesaid will be deemed to have declined. The Direc tors shall have the right to reject any Nomines.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
YEARLY GENERAL THE HALF I MEETING OF MEMBERS will be held on SATURDAY, 6 JUNE, 1825, at 12.50 P... in the JOCKEY CLUB ROOM, HONGKOSO CLOS A.
FRAMO
On
(5) That such of the aid 60,000 New Shares ax shall be accepted by Members both in and outside the Far Fart shall vis-à-vis the mid 10,000 Old Shares rank for dividend as from the 15th day of July, 199, to the extent of one half of the nominal value of such New hares and as from the 13th day of
1005
equally with the said
Auditors.
& CO., LTD.
Wine and Spirit Merchants
Phone 618.
(30
BIRTH..
to France.
the
Mr. F. M. Key, Secretary of the Hong- kang Chamber of Commerce and Mr. P. Brown, of Messrs. Loxley and Co., the victims of the motor-cycle collision at on Saturday, are making Tsun Wan satisfactory progress toward recovery.
Mr. C. C. Hickling residing at Na 3 Branksome Towers, May Road, has reported to the police that a sum of money and a watch amounting to the total value of $58, were stolen from a
end. drawer at his residence during the week-
of
Sub-Inspector Andrews of the Kesiann that "foreigners residing in these open Water Police Station was bitten by a
Garduan, dog,
owned by Mr. ports are to observe the Municipal and Humphrey's Building, Kowloon, on Police Regulations on the same footing Sunday, and had to receive treatment in
accordance with the anti-rabies measures an Chinese recidents, and they are not, The dog was sent to Kennedy Town for to be entitled to establish Municipalities observation. and Police of their own within the limits
of these Treaty Parts except with the consent of the Chinese authorities" There was no such reservation as this in the Japanese Trenty of 1895 under which Shasi, Chungking. Soochow and Hangchow, were opened. These places
In commemoration of Empire Dar,
H.
Capt. Neville 1. D. C. to B. De Governor), laid a wreath at the Cenotaph on behalf of His Excellency. He was accompanied by Pay-Lient E. D. T. "Church (Secretary to the Commodore), who also laid a wreath on behalf of Commodore Stirling.
The Police, it is understood have m were to be opened to the trade, residerived information of the arrival, in Hongkong of a number of officials of GULLON-FERDOSON.--At 117, Avenue Haig, ence, industries and manufactures of the Kuomintang party from Canton. These are high officials of the Canton. Shanghai, on May 20th, to Mr. and 'Mrs J.
a Japanese subjects (and, in virtue of the Government and several generals. They C. GILLON-FERGUSON, daughter.
mest-favoured nation clause, of the sub-an staying at local hotels, and severat DEATH.
have booked passages to Swatow. LUCAS-A Tientsin, May 19th, icets of all other treaty Powers)," under KATHARINE HATZLER, wife of D. W the same conditions, and with the game Lucis. of the Standard Oil. Co. tự,
privileges and facilities as exist at the ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
оп
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company Mrs. Epe and Family desire to thank present open cities, towns and ports steamer announced that some sensutionat will be CLOSED from the 3RD to 24TH JOSE, 1995, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD. General Managers.
[01:2 Hongkong, 19th May, 1925.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGER. PUBLIC AUCTION
VALUABLE LEAS
LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY..
4
ITUATE at YAKAT in the UZPENDENCY Old Shares.
of KowLoox and COLOST.of HONGKONG (8), That any of the said 80,000 New Shares and knows as the Remaining Fortion of How- which shall not be taken up by the Con loon Inland Lot No. 529, together with the pany's Shareholders in manner aforesaid five Messages Eractions and Buildings thereon and the remaining 80,000 unissued new in course of construction.
Area: 7,175 Square feet. be issued and disposed of in sharos may be such manner at aach time or times and Rent: $34.25. Term of Orown Lease: 75 years apon such terms as to ranking for from the 25th day of December 1894, dividend and otherwise as the Company's. Directors stall in their absolute discre. tion think fit.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the forg DAY OF JUN, 1925 to WEDNESDAY, the 17TH DAT Junz, 1925 (both days inclusive), during which period no Tranner of Shares can be registered.
Dated the 20th day of May, 1925.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
R. M. DYEE, 9218]
Chief Mannger.
TO LET.
STOREYED SEMI-DETACHED
3 HOUSES, Booms, osch Flat, also Bathrooms, Servanta Quarters and Kitchen, BANINGTON PATE, nese University. View of Harbour. Congenial Hurroundings. Ideal Home for Fumpeans. Rent Reasonable,
Apply
IN ONE LOT
*BY
Annual CroWH
Ma. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA, Auctioneer,
THE CHINA ADOTION ROOMS"," China-Building,'
**
TUESDAY.
THE 2ND DAY or JUNE, 1825, AT 3 O'CLOCK PJE
For further Particular and Conditions of Bale, Apply to Messz, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Mortgages's Bolicitors,
"Prince's Buildings,
Ice Hocka Street, Hongkong,
or to
Ma. E. V. M. X. DE SOUSA,
The Auctioneer,
their friends for their kind expres sions of sympathy in their great bereavement and for the many floral tributes.
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Hongkong Office: 1a, Chater Road. London Office: 131, Fleet, Street, E.U.
munists from Canton and the whole of
General Wu Techen, Police Commis sioner of Canton, arrived in Hongkong on Sunday night, and on leaving the developments may be expected in Canton in China" In Manchuria, according to in a few days. He intimated the pre- the Treaty made between China and Sent movement is one to oust the Com- Japan in 1895, in Antongcheng, Mukden Kwangtung. and other places in the Shingking "pro- A district watchman while walking vince, which it is agreed to open to with friends on the Prays at West Point, suddenly collapsed and diet foreign trade, settlements for the ex-
The past-mortem examination proved clusive use of Japanese will be estab that the man had died from a taptand lished." It seems a matter for argument spleen, and that there had also been haemorrhage of the brain. According to whether, by the apération of the most his friends the man was in cheerful favoured tion clause the right of spirit immediately before his death.
exclusive settlements" could not be This afternoon H.E the Governor is formally to return to the inhabitants of PORTclaimed by each of the Treaty Powers the village of, Kam Tin, in the New
The Daily Press.
Hoaxcare, Mar, 1925.
CHINA AND THE "OPEN
QUESTION."
in the places opened to foreign trade Territory the ancient iron gates which were captured by British troops in 189, in other parts of Chinn. To a place like under the circumstances recounted in the village community will avail themselves angkang Daily Freex of May 18th. Tho of the opportunity to present a farewell
WES
serve
Mitchie
A PRKING news agency states that the Wanhsien, however, it is probable that Taoyin of Eastern Szechuan has reported there is never likely to be a fereign to the Government, that Commercial population of a size to justify foreign address to His Excellency.
Bookings at the Hongkong Hotel opinion at Wanhsien is all in favour of municipal and police establishments. No
yesterday were as under: From Shigon: the British proposal" that the port doubt, the idea of the Chinese negotin-Messrs. S. Hirsch, S. Frank J. J.
these that
open porta Connelly, J. S. Nicholson, A. Yates, A... should be opened to foreign trade and fora commerce. "As Wanhien is an im- where foreigners were to live under Scott, Harry A Bryden; from Singa pore: M. 8. J. Rotherbam. The follow portant city in Eastern Szechuen," the Chinese municipal and police regulang arrived on the M.M. Parthos and booked rooms at the Hotel Mme to satisfy for Legrand, M. Gerer, Mrs. G. E. Rhodes opening to inter- tions" would news agency says, national trade will surely lead to the eigners that they would have nothing and two children, Mine. F. Wadson as the result gradual development of the vast un to fear when the time came for raising McCurdy, and Mr. W. Bruce
abolition of
A Chinese coolic, has died developed natural resources of that big the great question of the
of injuries received during blasting It can
operations at Stubba Road on Saturday. industrial province on the upper Yangtze extraterritoriality in China river." One would suppose on reading hardly be said that the past ten years. It appears that the man worked with coolies on a site which is bearg other
deceased, unable to this that the opening of Wanhaien to have brought that end more clearly in developed, and
Escape in time, was struck by fragmente of rock as the result of charge which foreign trade and commerce is a "pro- view.
exploded prematurely. He received ter rible injuries. to his head from which perhaps, upon the Cockchafer incident. The Hongkong Interport cricket XI be expired almost immediately. Another As a matter of fact the Chiness. Govern- returned from Shanghai on board the man sustained injuries to his hands.
It was!
was stated in the Daily Prem TROM
yesterday that Mr. W. H. Bou, the GODOWNS in ALEXANDRA BUILD. FOX-TERRIER, White The Leak, ment agreed to open this port to foreign as President raison on Sunday-
with Black trade twenty-five years ago. It is one Markings, Tail Half-black, Half-white (not cat))
The Annual General Meeting of the manager of the Asiatic Petroleum Co. in Hongkong, had reported to the Police the Six months Old Answers to the Name of EIP of the first ports mentioned in the
Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals that of a witch which he had left in the -Phone C 3840, REWARD. w.fasas
MACKAY TREATY to be opened
is to be held to-morrow afternoon in the pocket of his coat hanging in the office
The facts of the case are that Mr. E. C. came footing as the places opened to Chamber of Commerce Board Rout
Bell, a member of the A.P.C. stad, mis foreign trade by the Treaties of Nanking
laid his watch in the office on Friday Revenue Officers boarded a British evening and thought it had been stolen. and Tientsin" The other places named were Changsha in Hunan: Nganking in vessel lying alongside the Kowloon He reported the watter to the Police, Anhui; Whichow (Hui-chow), in Kwang-wharves on Saturday, and seized
quantity of drugs and aeroplans parte. tung; sad Kongmoun, in Kwangtang
92251
TUNG ON INSURANCE CO. No. 2, Bonham Strand West.
TO LET.
DEACONS,
Bolicitors,
Hongkong
Hongkong, 23rd May, 1995,
(2:230
INGB (Basement).,
2032
upply-
SECRETARY. A. 8. WATSON & Co., LTD.
TO LET.
BUSINESS CONNECTION WANTED. HAMBURG LD. ESTABLISHED
HOUSE with more than 20 Years China Experience Wants Connection with First Class Hongkong Firta for Export and Import Business,Principal, shortly to arrive in China to talk matters over. Apply to Box
c/o Hongkong Daily Prom
2222
FFICE in UNION BUILDING TWO
ROOMS on FOURTH FLOOR
Apply UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
Chin's Building, Queen's Road Central Hongkong.
STRAYED.
WANTED.
2206
WANTED Rome Old Second Hand CARPETS for Packing Parposia, No Hatter How Old but Must be Clean,
Apply to th
FERCY SMITH
12173.
2117]
6. Des Yeux Road Central
posal" of quite recent date, following,
"on the
n
but on Saturday be was able to inform
then that the watch had been found,
All's well that ends well,