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(a) To receive and consider, the annual
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(b) To
place
elect Directors in the of those
retiring by rotation and an Auditor.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of 50 Centa
Per Share has beon Declared Payable
SCOTCH WHISKY.
THE CHOICEST and
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The adjourned annual meeting of the
ments for matches this senion will be portunities of checking and, if necessary, discussed, is being held this evening at
the Victoria Recreation Club.
correcting information and impressions derived from books and newspapers. There is further the benefit, in a group of educated people of this type, of one supplementing and clarifying the facts supplied by the other, and above all there is the vivid effect which accom- panies knowledge received from, and associated with, a living personality. Such knowledge is impressed more deeply than that acquired from the dead book, whose author we do not know, or know only by repute.--
If such groups, then, would only in- crease in an informal way, they should
The
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Dated the 31st day of July, 1926.
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Au EXTRAORDINARY MEETING
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O'CLOCK, in the APZZINOON, for the purpose of
: considering and, if thought ft. passing as an Extraordinary Rectation, the Resolution Following
That the 2,000 Deferred Ordinary Sharea of 35, oach and the 16,000 Pre- ferred Ordinary Shares of $10 each in the Company bore organized sad consolidated into one class of 20,000 Shares of 810 each to be called ordinary shares and to rank as regards dividend and capital pari pray and each share to confer one vote and that the Company's Memorandum and Articles be altered accoringly." Should the above Resolution be passed by the requisite majority" it will be submitted for confirmation as a Special exclution. to farther. Extraordinary General Meeting, and such meeting will be hold on the 25th day of August 1826 at the same time and place for the purpose of considering and, if thought it, confirming Ben Resolution * Special Resolution accordingly.
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By Order of the Board,
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ANGLO-CHINESE FRIENDSHIP.
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[THROUGH BUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, August Sad. Lieut-Commander W. A. Higgins,
captain of H.M.S. Teal, died at Shang- hai to-day aged thirty-three, a victim of... the recent heat wave.
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FIGHTING IN CENTRAL CHINA.
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SEQUEL TO THE CAPTURE OF CHANGSHA..
THROUGH BUTTE'S AOENOT.]
HANKOW, August 2nd,
The Kwangsi troops, which formed the
When entering the harbour yesterday which would cater for the larger needs of down the fairway off Kowloon Point the terpretative nature, and perhaps offering East Asiatic Company, grounded on the bulk of the reinforcements enabling the public by providing lectures of an in-motor-ship Danmark, belonging to the
a Chinese play occasionally. Finally would mud bank off the Kowloon Clock Tower. General Tang Seng Chi to come the establishment on normal lineš
The vessel was proceeding to the Kow-aangsha, are now reported to have capture of a central Anglo-Chinese social club,
loon Wharf, having just arrived from
evacuated that city, as Kwangsi is being club dedicated in the arst instance to for ports beyond. Being fully loaded she which would probably emerge from a
Copenhagen and Singapore with 760 tons
invaded by Yunnan troops. of cargo for Hongkong and 11,000 tons outdoor sports. The exceeding charm of was drawing a good depth of water and General Tafy's immediate retirement.
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The crew com-
this Colony lies in the beauty of its ever-grounded in 95 feet. lasting hills and its green islands, and prises 38 Europeans, and there were also the curse of it is the absence of level three passengers on board. After spaces, and the enormous labour and grounding, the vessel's stern gradually cost involved in creating them. Hence swung around with the tide until she the almost insuperable barrier to
came to rest with her bows pointing' directly towards the Clock-Tower. international sports club, which must be
The mud bank which caused the trouble fairly central and reasonably accessible was dredged some time ago to a depth if it is to serve its purpose and be effecol over thirty feet, but is continually tive. Yet the objects aimed at, mutual silting up.. understanding and goodwill, are of sucb transcendant importance that some soluzel, this being her second trip from tion must be found to this difficulty.
The Denmark is a comparatively new
Europe to the Far East, and the second time of entry into Hongkong Harbour Her gross tonnage is 8,391 and nett ton- nage 5,342.41. Her draft is 23 feet 10
It is believed that this will involve
A LOST MYSTERY.
THE STORY OF THE
CELESTE."
1.
"MARIE
Γ
FACTS NOW RELATED.
It-is-agreed-by-all-connoisseurs-of-such ------ things that the case of the brig Marie, Célrite is one of the best of the world's mysteries. No novelist has ever_made_ better, but the novelist, of course, is un- fairly handicapped by having to provide an explanation of his mysteries which real life is allowed to omit. A hundred attempts have been made, to invent a solution. All sorts of crimes from bar- ratry to piracy have been called in aid It has already been suggested in these
ratry to piracy have been called in sid. columns that the Polo Ground is the only
But the beauty of the story is that no explanation from the most crudely san ideal site. It is a Naboth's vineyard
"guinary to the most fantastically subtle could account for the bewildering facts coveted by many clubs, but, of course
No damage Bustained by the in evidence. Now fifty years and more its surrender would have to be an act vessel but she had to remain aground after the weird deeds aboard the Marie
Celeste were done we find in Chamber's. of grace.
The paucity in numbers of until the early afternoon when she float-Journal what is offered us as the simple.
truth. But first let us state the mystery. polo players and the fact that it is ned off with the high tide. game which commences at 4 p.m. imply Mesars. John Manners & Co..
The local agents for the Danmark are
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inches furry 29 fet aft, with a man daf of 28 feet 11 inches,
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that it is pursued by those who have a A similar accident befel the Tonkin, fair amount of leisure and are not re belonging to the same line, a few months strained by business hostes. Would it ago. She went aground at almost the not be possible for them to find accom. same spot.
While waiting for the vessel to float off modation on the Kowloon side near
the agents commenced the discharging of King's Park, and make a magnanimous Hongkong cargo, with a view to saving surrender of a site, which many feel, and time, and it is not thought there will be feel very deeply, would do much to pro-any delay in the departure of the Dan- mote the best interests of this Colony, mark for Shanghai. if set apart for the purpose of a sporting club on a broader basis of membership i
A gust of wind caused a cargo bost to capsize in the harbour yesterday afternoon, and the three occupants, luckily, were rescued by a police launch.
www......
WASTING WATER.
DESIRE TO CONSERVE. UPPER
LEVEL'S SUPPLY,
Dei Gratia, bound from New York to On Dec. 7th, 1872, an English ship, the Genoa, by way of Queenstown, came brig under full sail. This craft made no down the Spanish coast and sighted a
answer to signals and showed no sign of life. The captain of the Dei Gratia sent a boat to investigate. The silent ship was board. But her boats. were all in their the Marie, Céleste. She had no one on chocks; there were five seamen's chests full of clothes in the forecastle, and a meal for three was laid in the cabin with cups of tea still lukewarm. The galley stove was warm too, though the fire had been raked out. The ship'a cat was com- fortably asleep. The captain of the Dei Gratia put a crew aboard, took the brig into Gibraltar, and claimed salvage for a derelict.
Ir is necessary that those who reside in China should acquire an accurate and intimate knowledge of the political, economic and-social conditions of those among whom their lot is cast. On such
What would Mr. Sherlock Holmes have knowledge depends an intelligent grasp,
made of it? Was it a wild mutiny in GARAGE MECHANIC FINED, which officers and men killed each other? and the successful solution, of each new
There was no corpse aboard, no blood, Before Major C. Willson at the Central no sign of violence. Was the brig aban- problem as it arises, problems from which
Magistracy yesterday, Mr. J. T. Ewing, doned? The crew did not go in their the ordinary person cannot escape if he The .s. President Fan Buren brought an overseer of the Public Works Depart-taken them off and left a sound craft to own boats. No. ship master would have has to deal with the Chinese at all. The 303 bags of mail from U.S.A., Honolulu, ment,. prosecuted a Chinese for wasting make salvage for another captain. Did most effective way of doing this, of course, Japan and Shanghai yesterday morning, water. He said that the defendant, who they all go auddenly mad and leap over. 30 Cents per Copy.
is to acquire a knowledge of the language.
this consigament including a number of was a mechanic in a garage in Caine board! To say that is to give up the bags from Home and Eiropa vid Road, was seen spraying the roadway It must be borne in mind, however, Siberia. Bubscription, paid in advance-$13 per
with water drawn from a tap in the annum for delivery in Hongkong; including that many foreigners come to China late Postage to any part of the world-815,
garage. Mr. Ewing also stated that the in life, and that most British people have
A collision occurred between a train-car P.W.D. wished to conserve the water neither the time for, nor the gift of, and a wok lorry owned by the Luen supply on the upper levels as much as
Yick Company in Queen's Road East on possible. acquiring foreign languages. Moreover,
Defendant pleaded that the roadway was injured, but was sun-baked that day, and he only as English is the secondary language in damage, estimated at $100, was done to wanted to temper the beat in the garage the Far East, there is zo great stimulus the. tram-car.
A 5ne of 820 was imposed. to special effort in this direction. In
Professor Maximilian Langaner, the practice, therefore, the ordinary indivi-telepathist and hypnotist, has in response
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the truth, and, as happens so often, it problem as insolable. But now we have
is profoundly disappointing. No nove list ever let us down so badly with the solution of his mystery as the truth bas done here.
THE EXPLANATION.
The explanation is simply that the evidence was faked. The mystery is no mystery. The Marie Céleste was not found with no man on board...The Dei Gratia's captain said she was in order to make sure of the salvage for an abandon- MILLION-ACRE ESTATE SOLD.ed ship. But as a matter of fact she car- ried three men and the cook. It is the SIR ABE BAILEY'S DEAL
cook who tells the story now at the The African World is informed that us are odd. What the cook has to go
mature age of 77. The details offered to' Sir Ate Bailey has arranged for the count for is the elimination of the purchase of the Rhodesdale Estate from captain, the captain's wife, the mate, the Chartered Company. The estate is boatswain, and two men. He does it in situated twenty miles north of Umvuma, detail. The captain's wife was crushed A confiscation order was made at the and extends to 1,018,000 acres, which will to death by her piano. The captain went friendship with a Chinese who is not Kowloon Magistracy yesterday in rebe partly devoted to cotton and tobacco mad and jumped, overboard. The mate only well versed in his own lore, but also NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO, SIAM well acquainted with the English lan-and 334 rounds of ammunition which portant land deals on record. in the his board too. Then the Marie, Céleste made gard to two Luger pistols, one revolver Plantations and partly to ranching ad a quarrel with one of the men and in
The transaction is one of the most im- drunken scuffle that man went over-7. guage. The number in this class is a were found unclaimed in the Chinese tory of Southern Rhodesia.
the port of Banta Marta, and mate, boat- large and growing one. An extension of crews' quarters on the President Jackson
swain, and one man hurried ashore, yowing they never wanted to see her this procedure would be the formation on Sunday morning.
again, Now, the remaining three: had been lent to the Marie Céleste by the Dei Gratia, and know that their old ship Last night'e weather report, forecast would be round and about Gibraltar, So.
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and remarks issued by the Royal Obter they and the cook décided this is the strangest part of the story-to stand North China. An anti-cyclone extends of meeting her, which they did. So the Depressions cover. Indo-China and across from Santa Marta on the chance from Formosa to the Bonins. winds, moderate, over-cast, occasional his tongue. It was a much better story cook says, and for all we know every Local forecast:-B.E. or' variable word is true. But we with he had held
before he middled with it.
rain.