INTIMATIONS..»
CHINA UNDERWRITERS,
* LIMITED.
(INCORPORATED IN HONG Kosa).
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19th, 1927.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO OIVEN that A SECOND EXTRA ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at ST. GEORGE'S BUILD-
ING aforesaid, on FRIDAY, THE
NOTICE IS HEREBY OFTEN
that An EXTRAORDINARY NINTH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1927, at GENERAL MEETING of the above 19 O'CLOCK NOON, for the purpose of Company will be held at ST. receiving a Report of the Proceedings GEORGE'S BUILDING CHATEK at tho above mentioned Meeting and ROAD, Victoria, in the Colony of of confirming, if thought fit, as Special Hong Kong
on MONDAY THE Resolutions the above mentioned
DAY OF NOVEM-Resolutions No. 1, and 2, TWENTY-FIRST
for Should the above Resolution No. I BER, 1947, at 12 O'CLOCK Noos, the purpose of considering, and, if be confirmed as & Special Resolation thought fit, approving the draft New by the requisite majority the altern- Memorandum of Association of the tions in the Company's Memorandum Company which will be submitted to of Association consequently involved of such draft will be submitted to the SUPREME the lecting. A Print of New Memorandum of Association and COURT OF HOND Koxa for confirma- a Frint of the Existing Memorandun tion. of Association of the Company may be seen at the Company's Registered, BUILDING afore- Office, ST.
of the Print of
said, and a cof
Now
the Existing Memorandum of Associa tion with the Print of the draft Memorandum of Association will show wherein the draft New Memorandum
of Association differs from
the
1997.
INTIMATIONS.
CHOCOLATES
De Luxe
In
Dated this Fifth day of. October, SHEWAN, TOMES & COMPANY,
·General Managers.
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Wonderful Variety
Existing Memorandum of Association HONG KONG HORTICULTURAL
Should the Meeting approve of such
New Memorandum of Association
with or without modification, the
Sub-joined
SOCIETY.
Resolution will be pro-18E ANNUAL GENERAL MEET CANADIAN
posed as an Extraordinary Resolution, TothL
Viz :-
at
above Bociety will be held on TUES- (1) That the provisions of the Com- DAY, 29TH NOVEMBER, 1927,
pany Meniorandam of Associa-5.13.1.1, in the Board Boore of Messrs. tion with respect to its objects be JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. altered so as to read as shown in
the Print signed for the purpose of identification by the Chairman of this Meeting. and also for the following purposes, viz:~~
For the purpose of considering, and, if thought fit, approving the draft Now Articles of the Company which will be submitted to the Meeting. A Print of such New Articles and a Frint of the
Articles may
be seen at the
isting Registered Office, Sr.
All Ladies and Gentlemen interested
in Horticulture, whether Members of the Socisty or not, are cordially invited to attend.
AGENDA.
To receive sad pean the Committee's Report and Statement of Accounts for the period ended 30th JUNE. 1947,
To elect Officers and a New Com- mittes for the Current Year.
.To fix the Date of the Annual Flower Show.
To discuss any matter of interest to GEORGE'T BUILDING aforesaid. In such Print portions of the proposed New Horticulturists in Hong Kong and
ting Catlying Districta.
Articles which differ from the Existing Articles are indicated by underlining
in
Black Ink and by Marginal Notes. Should the Meeting approve of anch New Articles with or without modifica tion, the Sub-joined Resolution will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resolu tion, vit:--
(2) That the New Articles of Aro ciation already approved by this Meeting and for the purpose of identification subscribed by the Chairman thereof be, and the same are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Company to the exclusion of and in substitution for all the Existing Articles thereof. and also for the following purposes,
viz!
For the purpose of considering, and,
E. B. C. HORNELL, Hon. Secretary.
Hong Kong, 5th Nov., 1987. [5503
FANLING HUNT.
RAFT PROGRAMMES
DRA ENTRY FORMS for
the
AUTUMN MEETING to be held on SATURDAY, 3RD DECEMBER, 1927 (Weather Fermitting), may be obtained from Dr. F. FIRICE GROVE, The FOLD Cruz, Bore Koxe Czca and CaUSY WAY BAY STABLES, *
Entries will CLOSE at NOON,
if thought fit, approving the proposed SATURDAY, 19TH NOVEMBER, 1927. General Agents' Agreement
between
the Company of the one part and Messieurs BurwAN TOMES AND COM
of
"PANY of the other part A Agres- |
the proposed General Agents' ment may be seen at the Company's Registered Office, Sr. GRORGE's BUILD-
ING aforesaid. Should the General |
Approve
of such proposed Agents Agreement, with or without modification, the Sub-joined Resolu tion will be proposed as an Ordinary Resolution, viz.
(3) That the proposed General Agents Agreement already ap proved by this Meeting and for the purpose of identification subs- cribed by the Chairman thereof be and the saine is hereby adopt
ed by the Company and the Board
of
to
Directors are hereby authorised
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
* ORIGINAL JURISDICTIO
ACTION NO. 581 or 1915.
BETWEEN
WING FAT HONG, Plaintifs
&ND
KUNG CHUNG BANK
AND
LAU YIK" CHEUK."
the Managing Part ner thereof,
Defendants
roosired Instructions from the
attach to such Agreement the MR. E. V. M. R. uz SOUSA,
Common Seal of the Company
and to execute the same in pursu-HEGISTRAR of the Supreme Court
ance of the Articles of Association
"of the Company;
and also for the following purposes,
viz:-
For the purpose of considering, and, if thought fit, passing the follow ing farther Resolution as an Extra-
Resolution, viz
ordinary
(4) That the Capital of the Com- pany be increased by the creation of Fifteen Fully Paid Up Shares of $1,000 each and that the Rights Privileges and Conditions follow- ing be attached thereto, that is to (a) The said Fifteen Shares shall be called "Founders' Shares" and shall be issued in accord- ance with Clauss, 12 of the General Agents' Agreement re- ferred to in Resolution No. a hereof. (5) That each Founders Share it the following Carry with Rights:-
shall
(1)
To receive by way of Divid- end One/Ninetieth part of the total amount declared diviai ble by way of Profits to the Shareholders.
TO SILL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
AT THE
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS, 4, DUDDELL STREET, VICTORIA, Hong Kong, MONDAY, 21st NOVEMBER, 1927, AT O'CLOCK FM. IN ONE LOT
ON
ALL TRY RIGHT TILE AND INTEREST OF THE BAID LAU YIK CHEUK
OY AND IN
(METCALFE)
and saw, that any policy of isolation, economically and poli- tically, was not only detrimentul to United States interests but im practicable under presday, das con-
ditions.
This opinion has recived strik- ing confirmation in the recent pro, ecedings, briefly reported by cable, of the International, Goodwill Con gress being held at St. Louis. Mr. NEWTON BAKER, the "Ex-Secretary of War, who held office during the crucial years of the Great War, and directed the immense nobili
Entries close for Fanling Hunt Autumn Meeting today at noon.
There will be a sitting of the Bankruptcy Cours this morning at
10.30.
•
There will be a meating of the New Territories Agricultura! Com- mittee at Sheung Shui to-day, at
3.30 p.m.
A Chinese tailor, living at No. 2 Circular Pathway, reports that someone stole from the above ad- dress, a dark brown overcoat, valued at $6.80.
-
Two Chinese cases and one Nor- sation of America's manhood and wegian imported case of typhoid wenith, brought forward three pre-fever were reported to the Autho posals of the very greatest import-rities during the 24 hours ended
November 17th. The first suggested that America should bind herself not to
ance.
trade with any Behigerent spation drelared by the League of Nations -to-lx-the-aggressor.This, if adopt ed by the Government and carried
AMERICAN out in the spirit as well as in the
Among passengers who arrived that days. Het from the Narth yesterday were Mr. Ho Ki, Mr. Ho Leung, Mr. W. S. King and Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Priestley
A Charity concert for Dr. Bar-
Andrew's Troop of Boy Scouts at St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kow-
nardo's Home is being given by St.
Mr. H. T. Brooks and Mrs. II. T. Creasy, of Hong Kong have been elected- fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute.
The late Sir Thomas Lyle, of Longfeld, Kingswear, Devon, a former British Consul-General at Bangkok, left £91,931, net per- sonalty £19,941.
MORRISON HILL TAKES TOLL.
EARTH COOLIE CRUSHED TO DEATH.
"YESTERDAY'S ACCIDENT.
Another death has to be added The late Mr. Charles Ford,
to the foll at Morrison Hill, near 1.8.O., F.L.S. (83), of Lindeth, Stanmore, Middlesex, retired super. Happy Valley, where colies are intendent of the Botanical and engaged in the work of cutting Afforestation Department, Hong down the hill to provide material Kong, left estate valued at £1,828 for the Fenya Ens reclamation.
Mr. Diamond, of the Hong Kong" Hotel, residing at No. 24, Dundas Street, reported to the police last evening that someone stole an Elgia gold pocket watch. valued at $50, and a pair of brown boots ralur at $0.
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letter of the agreement, would be a big step towards both the pre-loon; this evening, beginning at 9. vention of war, and its curtailment in the event of a struggle break- ing out. Wars, in the past have Theatre Royal this evening, when last night. He is described na being very serious situation which as
Hong Kong Amateur Dramatic Club open their season at the they will present, at 9.15,
There will be dog Drummond. performances cack evening next
Bull
At 1.30 yesterday afternoon. N boulder weighing out a quarter of n ton suddenly rolled down the cutting opposite the Police Recrea tion Club and struck a coolie, killing him on the spot. Apart from other injuries, the man's right leg was smashed to pulp. » Seventeen British soldiers of the Two clans, Hokles and Puntis, Defence Force in China, recuperat were at work on the bottom and top... ing at Shaughnessy Heights Miliof the hill at the time. Immediate tary Hospital, Vancouver, expressly after the evident members of themselves a delighted at getting the clan to which the deceased be away from a war" where their fengod were roused to anger at chief duty 13 turning the other what they considered was a wilful. cheek."
act on the part of the other clan in loosening the rock without giving A Chinese Yeung Kai, alĩn» Yan warning. Armed with boring tools, Bei Chai, aged about 17 years, is bamboo poles and other weapons, wanted by the police in connection the bottom gang climbed the hill with a stabbing and wounding in- and engaged in a fight. The police cident which occurred at Wanchai arrived just in time to avert a
dressed in black cotton clothing arising with each side increasing with his hair cut short. He is in strength every minute. Several native of San Wui. Details of the men on the top of the hill attempt- stabbing affair were not available, ed to run away from the attackers and one of them who came down A 80-years-old Chinese received It was alleged against a Chinese to the road had a rough time at the LA MERITA batante is always a lucrative prosevere injuries to his head by fall carpenter at the Tung Tai Tseung hands of a man with a bamboo
position, and no maritime nation ing in Catchick Street, Kennedy shop, at Whitfield Road, when te pole.
With good sense prevailing once has an entirely clear record in this Town, on Thursday. The man be was brought before the Central
came excited at the approach of a Magistrate yesterday on a charge more, the body of the coolie killed TRIBUTE AS YOU LIKE IT respect. Undoubtedly the Great Sanitary dust cart and missed his of theft of eight pleces of wood, by the boulder was removed to the
that he removed the planks in a box mortuary. War was lengthened by the war footing on the pavement.
which he was asked to deliver on materials which Germany received Alleged to have been concerned board a steamer. The case was ad the neutral powers on her in the murder of the Chinese coolie,journed until noon on November whose body was found in the har- 22nd. borders. The whole "question of bour, a man was brought before blockade in war time is a very the Central Magistrate yesterday and remanded for a week. Mr. H. thorny one, only capable of being. Deunys appeared for the de-
fence. reduced to legal definition and re- gulation by peace time negotiation and the surreader by powerful
(ross)
FRUIT IN LIQUER TRU VALUE been indefinitely prolonged by the belligerents obinining supplies from neutral sources. Trading with com-
GIFT
SPECIAL
IDEAL
A. S. WATSON
& CO., LTD.
HONG KONG.
FLATS! ΤΟ LET
46/32 NATHAN ROAD,
KOWLOON.
APPLY TO
S. J. DAVID & CO. PRINCE'S BUILDING,
OHATER ROAD.
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RURAL BUILDING LOT No. 177. RURAL BUILDING LOT No. 177 Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice House.
Street. consists of:-
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nations of a great source of poten-
tial proft.
Mr. BAKER's second proposal was America's adherence to the present International Court of Justice. With the increasing, economic unity of the world an international court for the settlement of matters of varying degrees of importance that need an umpire's decision becomes a necessity as great, as each coun- try's national law
"courts. Only an international court can deal with many points relating to aviation, shipping, and the prevention of certain forms of criminal activity, No international court is complete without America's adherence, and that now at work would gain im- measurably in prestige and autho- rity by the presence of American jurists backed by the authority of Washington..
. Finally it was urged that America should negotiate a series of treaties, somewhat on the lines of the Locarno Treaty filedging peace be tween herself and a number of lending powers. There is all the difference in the world between the resolutions of an unofficial congress, however influential, and the necom- plished policy of a Government. Such drastic modifications of America's present policy, could,
week,
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Miss Andrews, a nurse at the Government Civil Hospital, when
walking with another lady near St. John's Cathedral at 6.18 p.m. on Thursday, had her handbag snatch led by a Chinese who escaped in the direction of the Government offices. The bag contained a sum of $18.
A, paper on Gas-its Distribu. tion and Uses" was to have been read by Mr. A. Hevey, of the Hong Kong-And-China-Gan Co., Ltd., at the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hong Kong yester- day afternoon. This had to be un- avoidably postponed to a date to be announced later.
Passengers arriving yesterday on the Blue Funnel liner ss. Patructur from Home included Mr. T. G, T. Beek, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Bowes Smith, Miss M. B. Bowes Smith, Miss E. K. Butler, Mr. R. A. L Donaldson, Mr. and Mrs M. A.
Johnson, Mrs. Jordain, Mrs. and Mise Owen Hughes, Lady Stuart Taylor, Miss L. E. Stuart Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Eustace, Mr. R. B. Lewis and Miss G. IL Brodie.
STABBING AEFRAY AT WANCHAI.
ASSAILANT GETS AWAY.
At 8 o'clock yesterday evening. in the crowded part of Wanchai
Road, a coolie was stabbed in the back and the assailant got away.
The injured man was taken in hand by the police and sent to the Government Civil Hospital. It i believed that the wound is not.of a very serious nature.
The motive for the attack is at-
bributed to revenge. The assailant before he escaped. was recognised by the injured man-
The enquiry into the death of a Chinese woman through injuries received when she jumped from the third floor window of No. 7a, Cross Street during a police raid was concluded before Mr. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday. The jury returned a verdict that INDIAN OFFICER'S ESTATE. the woman preferred to take her Own life rather than undergo arrest, and added that they did not consider blame could be attach-]
The clever sketch "Honi Soit " was repeated last night at the Stared to anyone. Theatre by Mr. Charles Chamier's company of London artistes, the
New Our Cabaret." There was a good audience. A complete change of programme will be presented to- night." "Our Cabaret will ter- minate their season here on Monday. Bight.
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Bumours were current yesterday that a tiger had made its appear ance of the hillside at Kowloon Tang. Several reports were made to the Police by farmers, who said that chicken and cattle had myster- iously disappeared, and one fermer stated that he had come across the marks of the animal's paws. The Police have seen no sign of" the tiger,
H. Yato, a Japanese engineer, was fatally injured when he fell from the third floor of a house at Tai Yuen Street on Thursday even- ing. The man was alive when he was placed in an ambulance by the Wanchai police, but died on the way to hospital. Another fatality occurred at Taikoo, a dockyard worker being killed by falling from a staging while engaged at work on
All that Pice or Parcel of Ground London Office: 21, Bride Lane, owing to the nature of her constitu- a ship.
Two-
situate at BZPULSE BAT in the Coiny of Hong Kong and registered in the LAND RICE & RURAL BUILDING LOT No. 177, Together with the Premises thereon compriming Storied EUROPEAN DWELLING HOUSE, containing Reception Booms on Gronad Floor, Bedrooms (2) Shall rank as equivalent for and 3 Bathrooms, Hot and Cold Water Voting Power to 1,000 Ordi- and Usual Offices. Garage, Beryanta tary Shares of the Company. Quarters, Watchman's House and Tennis Shall in the event of the Court. Company being Wound up and The Property contains a Total Arca the Ordinary Shareholders 1816 Square Feet or thereabouts and is to retain any interest held under Conditions of Sale No. "Girectly or indirectly in the 1986 under which a Crown Lease for the business of the Company in Term of 75 Years from 3rd OCTUBRE, any manner whatsoever as a 1921, is to be granted.
entifled The Crows Rent payable in respect going concern bo after payment to the Ordinary of the Property is $100 per annum. Shareholders of the Fully Paid
...(3)
Fleet Street, E.C,
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 19TH, 1927
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Mr. A. Nicol, of the P.W.D., had a complaint to make against certain people at the Central Magistrocy yesterday. He said that the men were a nuisance on this Prays Reclamation where they occupied valuable land without permission, stacked it with firewood, and finally at a tin roof over it. Two of the offenders who were brought to Court, were fined $5 each for tres Passing on reclaimed land
tion, bo undertaken but slowly, but the fact that there is a current of "apinion setting in such a direction Less is encoujoging America co-opera- tion is vital need in world politics to day. The lack of it leads to misunderstanding,, popular recrimination and mistrust. America still feels the disillusionment of the praca that rejected the ideals of President WILSOS. The reaction In his recent lecture at Hong Kong under his successor is by no means worked out. But the hard facts University Professor Westen ex- pressed the opinion that America's of modern conditions have already Particulars and Conditions of Sale" attitude of indifference both to the brought about some degree of co- Hong Kong. Papers of the saune without prejudice in any way may be had from:
Up value of their Shares (bat
to the Rights of the dissentient
Shareholders
under
Section
18% of the Company's Ordin
anes
1911
which dissentient
amongst
Shareholders shall include the Holders of Founders' Sharea if do dissent) to have tally distributed them the aum of 8130,000 pr such legger sam as
after making the #forè- over said payments and if after making the aforesaid pay. ments there shall still be a warplus for distribution then
remai
Bs may
Mrs. DEACONS,
Vendor's Solicitors,
.
1, DES VOUT ROAD CENTRAL, ON THOM Ma. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA, The Auctioneer.
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of
TE Require FLAT and HOUSES
in CENTRAL KOWLOON" mad One Sixth of such surplus above MAY ROAD LEVEL, Hong Kong. shall be equally distributed Will Landlords interested send part amongst theth and the balance calare to SMALL INVESTORS paid to the Ordinary Share-
TEL C. 4630 hollers.
AMERICA AND WORLD POLITICS.
Home mail letters only, dated London, October 20th) arrived from Home ri Negapatam on the Blue Funnel liner Patroclus yesterday. The total mail was in 121 bags of which 33 were from the United Kingdom. There were 52 bags for the League of date arrive on Monday on the s.. League of Nations and to European operation with
Laisang. Mail also arrived from affairs in general was being rapidly Nations, and the Naval Confer Europe wid Siberia, yesterday on modified,
coerce, for all its failure, marked the Sun Mara, totalling 43 bags Washington was
further modification of her isola of papers. operating in many minor matters tion. The process bound to be Among this term's "freshers" with Genera, whereas not so very
Princess Noy, of Chandaburi. a long ago the American Government low, and it will be the surer if Somerville College, Oxford,
built stage by stuffe upon the re-niece of the King of Siam. Her refused even to recognise officially quirements of the situation, America father is Prince Kityakana, one of the existence of the League of has no wish for entanglement in the king of Siam's four brothers, who form his "governing council. Nations.. From a wide experi- the maze of European politics, but The Princess, who is living in ence of the United States the Pro- there are wider problems in whose college, is Oxford's first Biamese
undergraduate." She is not tak fessor was able to state that educnt- solution America, it is hoped, will
ing the usual, three years' course,
Pother subjects..
at
is:
ed American opinion now took the bear an increasingly important but will specialise in history and despost, interest in world affairs purt
WEATHER REPORT.
FRESH AND FAIR
Last night's weather report, ed from the Observatory at. 6.35, stated:-
$1,300 IN HONG KONG.
It will be recalled, that at the end. of June Jeradar.. Gurmukh Singh, of the Indian Supply Transport; was found dead in bed on the verandah of his quarters at Whit- field Barracks, Kowloon,
The discovery was made by an isah-orderly who went to the officer'a quarters at 5,45 n.m, on June 25th, and an examination showed that the officer had been shot.
The anti-cyclone luns moved east ward and is now central between
Letters of administration have Shanghai and S.W. Japan. Modrow been granted in reabeat of the rate to fresh monsoon may be ex- deceased officer's Hong Kong estate pected over the China Sea.
to Mr. H. A. Nisher, the "Official" Loca!
winds, Administrator. Local forecast:-N.E. fresh to moderate, fair.
valued at $1,300...
entite
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TWEEDLEDEE TO-TWEEDLEDAM.
Dear Tweedledum,-Orthography, As dealt with in anobography, Takes
others" as synonymous with all, But, meaning "All that Mattered," Such terms may well be shattered To raise a figure obstinately small,
In gatherings exersive Both phrases are elusive. But, if well learnt, save falls
Hear how a lady gnile
A crime most mot mental
those who climb;
Committed, rameichṛre once upon a time!
From Home arriving gaily.
She gathered round her daily
Some pleasant, kindly friends whose presence cheered;
But wait! This tale domestic
Holds moral stern, majestic,
For, breathing scorn, her Nemesis appeared.
"
One of The Great, far better Acquainted with the letter
Of Social Life (capa, plear: 1) than she, the
My dear, how weird and awful!
Yes, yes! Quite good and lawful—“ But, all the wrong set! Drop them, dear, at once?
Another point instructive
I find, and thought productive---- When themes such as logomachy are raised,
To see terms beatific, With adjective prolific", Run riot, till the common
is dazed,
For bread when cast discreetly On waters which we nently Assume are not averse to tempting hait,.
With treasured prize returning, Shows that a mind discerning Knows flattery's achievements soon or late!
Now Tweedledam, I fancy. That more than necromancy Were ours, to set aside with aurctic
Though thirst for truth be parching, That query. Whither, Marching!"-- What think you Thine to cinders
TWEEDLEDEE.
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