ADVERTISEMENTS.
UNION WATERBOAT CO., LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE TWENTY SEVENTH AN
TUAL GENERAL MEETING
Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Company,
ADVERTISEMENTS.
THÌ HONGKONG PHI
INSURANCE CO., LTD.
NOTICE. TU SHAREHOLDERS
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1932..
ADVERTISEMENTS.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LTD.
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL, MEETING.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY bers of the above named Company will GENERAL MEETING of the Mem
Hotel, Pedder Street, Victoria
of Bhareholders will be held in the hat the General Managers have TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Limited, on Wednesday, the aodh (with the sanction of the Consulting, be hold at the Ho Colony of Hong-1 Marsh, 1932, at 3.p.m. for the purpose Committee of this Company obtained of receiving the report of the General ao a Meeting of auch Committee hold Managers together with a Statement
of Accounts to B346. December, 103.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the Bird March to 80th Haroh, 1988, both dates inolusivo
DODWELL & CO, LTD., General Managers.
(1997
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE SECOND EXTRA RACE
MEETING will be held (westhor permitting at EAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY 28TH MARCH, and on MONDAY, 39TH MAROIL, 1989, om- mending at 12.30 p.m. on both days.
The First Bell will be. Eung st 13 o'clock noon.
There will be an interval for Tiffin after the 2nd Race on both days?
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No One without & Badge will be Badges admitting Non-Members to
admitted to the Members Enclosure.
here on the 14th day of March 1992) made a Call of $50 per share in respool of the monies unpaid on the shares held by the Shareholders and that such Call should be paid on Wednesday the 80th day of March 1832 to the General Managers at the Offices of the Company
That the General Managers have (with the like annetion of the Con 'rulting Committee) determinedì tó. employ the sum of 8400,000 part of the. | Reserve Fund of the Company in paying a Special Dividend of 250 per share on the shares of the Company
such Special Dividend be payable on the 30th day of March 1932,
Warrants for the Special Dividend be obtained on application to the General Managers at the Offices of the Company.
Should any shareholder fail to pay the amount of the said Call on the 30th day of March 1939 the General Managers Marsh 1982 apply, the amount of the will on the 31st day of
due to him in payment and satisfaction above mentioned Special Dividend" of the said Call
After payment or antisfaction of the said Call in the manner above indicated a Memorandum showing the extent to which the shares are then up will be endorsed on all paid uptor of Shores presented to the General Managers at the Offices of the
kong at 11.30 o'clock in the forenoou on SATURDAY the sad day of APRIL 1989 for the purpose of considering and if thought it passing as Extra, ordinary Resolutions the following Resolutions.
1. That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in manner following:
hood of St. James Palace ap-
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And the author And my to talk about many things besider. tão immediate business of “datsotionis
"The Figure of Eight." By Cecily
Wayo. Hodder and Stoughton,
7. Od
Tube-lift at the rush hour, and Among the unearthy visitants that Mr. O'Donnell onamerntos in this very fascinating book are a head- lesa woman in a red-striped gown and a tall, groyhaired man in even- Mr. Cooil Wajo has invention. ing dress who is to be seen walking | And a gift for unhalting narrative. in the rain without getting wet. This tale of the desperate ovontá Even the trees in that neighbour that lead from the discovery of a hood appear to be affected. One poisoned foreigner in a London Goat. "A History of Manchester Calhas been the scone of full Orphean the Old Bailey is axoiting in a
wooded hillock in the Green Park, ¦ eral omnibus to a trial for murder- lege." By, V. D. Davis. Allan rites.
grand Ruritanian manner. and Unwin. 108. ņ
NONCONFORMISTS AT OXFORD.
Some years ago a member of the
Paychic Research in Regent-strost now defunct International Club for
used to confide to me his adoration
"Infamous Fame." By E. Charles
Vivian Ward Lock.. 71, 8d;
>
A ripa, robust, melodrama with more at stake than there is in most Mr. Vivian is amus
G. Spencer Pryse. London: John Lane F}, vì 305, 78 Sử net." Mr. Spencer Prysh appears here. The history of Manchester Col as one of the war's accidental, his lege is in some measure the history (0) by the deletion of Article 84
In real life he is of nineteenth-century Nonconform and by the substitution of the torians. following Article to be known Spencer Pryse, the artist, but inity. As Article 84 in its (84) Each Director other than the the four days here becounted he School and University by the rogu
in its place.
Shu out from Grammar ex-officio Director shall be paid happened to be in Fragen, engaged Intions against Dissenters, the child to it... Hassid it used to sighing. He gives his hero an immense. pany na remuneration for his on an official mission which took von of those who did not belona and murmur when he spoke to ib. reputation and hints that the ras services the sum of $2,000.00 him into the heart of the war. It to the Established Church would but he could never interpret what it tion shall be deemed to sccrue was in the week felldwing Mons. have enjoyed few of the advantages said, because it seemed to be talk. and on a journey by road which of education had it not been foring in a foreign tongue and its
arted at Boulogne and went by the Nonconformist Academy. And voice sounded far away. way of Amiens And Compiegne to the Manchester Academy founded
out of the finds of the Com-
por annum and such remunern
de die in dient and be payable by half (b) By the insertion of the gure
yearly instalments. $15,000.00 in the place of the figures $10,000.00 in the fifth line
of Article 105.
2. That the foregoing resolution shall be retrospective and shall take offbot from the 1st, day of January 1933.
the Members' Enclosure and Olab Rooms Compnsfer Books and Rogistor of abovementioned mesting and of con- Loverrun, ho saw the inside pieiaro
st $8.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for
Ladies (Both ineluding Tax)
The
FORTS ROUND CHINA
He wrote sonnets to it, made love for a certain tree in this clump.
A SINISTER HOUSE,
melodramas.
patation is somehow disreputable.
reader at least is never disappoint Interest is awakened. And for one
ed.
(Continuped on Page 6)
"The Silent House." By Louis Prevent Colds
Tracy Grayson. 7. 8d.
the east of Soissons he contrived to in 1786 was famous even before its got us thoroughly lost in the in- Anal arrival at Oxford in 1880 as triencies of the situation as were most of the Allied forces. Travel
a post-graduate School of Theology. Mr. Davis has expanded much AND NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY ling with a succcession of French, thoughtful and devoted care on this GIVEN that a further Extraordinary officers, now through the confusion work. General Meeting of the Members of of the disorganised communications,
The house in Mr. Tracy's she above named Company will be held at the same time and place on now to some lemporary line of
novel is more sinister than silent. MONDAY the 18th day of APRIL resistance," and more than once into
An old man dies suddenly, and con--- 1839 for the purpose of receiving country which had already been
sequently a young artist leaves the Report of the proceedings at the
"The Political Philosophy of Con house in an, unseemly hurry. Na- arming if thought fit as Special of the ghaos which followed the Bri- fucianism" By Leonard Shih-turally the young heiress, who is Resolutions the above mentioned Resolutions.
tish retreat and the break-down of lion Hsu. Routledge. 12s. 6d. in love with him, fecla that he all original defensive plans. It
"This scholarly volume has a stands in need of protection from was a corner of the war, in time strongly topical interest. Thus we the suspicion that surrounds him, and space, which was soon to be read that "the Book of Change and a young policeman is persuad- forgotten by most of us with the declares that wise rulers provide ed to not in a highly irregular beginning of the long siege that strong forts in order to protect the mannor, eto,, etc:" CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND
followed. Northern France was country from foreign aggression.” Mr. Tracy writes so briskly that [1982 | LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
still an invaded country rather than Indeed. Confucius regarded miliwe hardly notice. the improbabili OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN an established theatre of war; arms tary equipment, together with econo-ties of his story.
that the SECOND ORDIN were mingled with the people and
aid sufficiency and popular trusi THE HONG KONG FIRE INSUR: | ARY" GENERAL MEETING of the people with the armies; and the 4s the three essentials of political |
SHAREHOLDERS will be held að
Members of the Company will be aro obtainable through the SECREclosed from the 10th day of Maroh | TALY apon Introduction by a Member, 1932 to the 30th day of March, 1939 sash Momber to be responsible for both days inclusive. Payment of All Obits, etc...
Hadges admitting to Members Hadiosar will NOT be on sale at the Race Course,
On No Protext will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during tha Mooting.
Tiffins are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Tolephone- -21920.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,
The. Prien of Admission to the Public Englosure is $2.00, including Tax, for all Parsons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
Sokliora and Sailors is Caiform are admitted Half Price.
Dated this 10th day of March 1932. JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD.
General Managera THE HONGKONG FIRE INSUR-
́ ́ANCE' CO., LTD.
ANCE COMPANY, LIMITED-
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
Bookmakers, Tie Tac Mer, etc., THE Sixty-third Ordinary Grancral will not be permitted to operate with Motifs Shareholdere rill in the Precincts of THE HONG KONG Jockey CLUB during the Race Meeting. Tiffins will be obtainable in the Ros taurant in the Fullio Enclosure.
By Order,
U. B. BROWN,
Socratary. Hong Kong, 21st March, 1932, 988
SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE, HONG KONG,
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
NOT
be held at the Office of the under signed on WEDNESDAY, the 30rm MARCH 1982, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 81st December, 1931.
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 18th to the 30th March 1932, both days
inclusive.
that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Society of St.Hong George, Hoog Kong, will be held on Wednesday, the 30th day of Marob, 1982, immediately after the termina- tion of the Annual General Meeting when the following Resolution will be proposed:
o
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That the Rules of the Society be amonded as follows:-By adding the
JARDINE, MATHESON
& CO., LTD., General Managers,
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD. Kong, 9th March, 1982.
Dated this 15th day of March 1832.
JOHN D, HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.
[1900
the Registered Offices of the Com. story is in a different genre from pany, King's Theatre Building, ith anything that has been put into Floor, on Wednesday, the 29rd day more customary war books. Crisis, of March, 1932, at 12 Noon, to receive the Directors Report and confusion, and the despair of the Accounts, for the year ended 31st time are well pictured-but most December, 1931, to elect Auditors, of all confusion, or in those four and to transact such other business days scarcely anyone, civil or mili
may be properly transacted at an Ordinary General Meeting of the tary, knew exactly, where he was Company.
or quite what was happening. And And notice is further Boreby given if Mr. Prver's book scarcely tells: that the Register and Transfer Books
the Company will be closed from us in any orderly way either where the 14th to the 29rd day of March, things were or how they came so, 1932, both days inclusive.
LIANG CHI BAO,
Managing Director. Hong Kong, lat Mar., 1982.
[1908
security.
Professor Hau has performed a grent service in making accessible volume of political instruction that should be as widely read an Machiavelli's. " Prince,"
CURES BY HYPNOTISM.
".
"NEW NOVELS IN BRIEF
"
"Hathaway House." By Nolia Gardner White. Stanley Paul. 76. Od.
་་
A delightful novel. Ming White is in the tradition of those women novelists who stayed at home and wrote about what they knew. Shef ia American, but not aggressively un-English in her speech. Her book. By will be enjoyed by those who like their reading to be quiet and gentle.
"A Hypnotist's Case Book."
Alex. Erskine. Rider, 58. it ia because he writer from the People who imagine that hypno- view-point of the four days themtiam is merely a trick for the cop- selves. Neither the author nor the juror's platform should read This mes! authoritative of his conduc remarkable book. tors knew very much beyond the
The author is a practising hypo-
CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND confusion, and is is the confusiontist who, in his medical practice, LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.that he has set out to convey.
[1958
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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the China Entertainment & Laud Investment Co., Ltd., will be held at the Regio tered Office of the Company, King's Theatre Building, 5th Floor, at 12.15 p.r. on Wednesday, the 23rd day of
following paragraph to the end of NOTICE 18. HEREBY GIVEN March 1982, for the purpose of con-
that the 43rd Ordinary Annual Rule 8: The Committos shall have Meeting of Shareholders will be hold power to waire the payment of an at the Offices of the Company Ex entrance fee in the case of members
of His Majesty's Forces and Ciril Servants attached thereto who wish to join this Society.
By Order of the Committas,
LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Secretaries & Treasurers
[1985
ong Kong, 21st March, 1932.
SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE,
HONG KONG
THE ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING of the Bobiety will
Dos Rond
central, Victorm, Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 1st day of March, 1039, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving & Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ended 31st December, 1881.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Saturday, 12th March, 1932, to Thursday, 31st March, 1932, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
ALLAN KEITH,
Secretary. Hong Kong, lat Marob, 1999. [190
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
be held in the Board Room of Messrs.NOTICE is hereby given that the
THIRTY-FIFTH ORDINARY Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on
ANNUAL MEETING of Share- Wednesday, 30th March, 1932, at holders in the Company will be held 5.80 p.m...
in the Company's Board Room, Brd For the following purposes Floor, Exchange Building, Hong (a) To receive the Report of Kong. on Thursday, 24th March, the Committee and State-1982, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts Fast year, for the and the Report of the Directors for
YOBT
sidering, and if thought it, passing That there shall be ided to the following Resolution:-
Article 71 of the Articles of Association of the Company the words:-
"but the Chairman abull receive double ramuneration.”
ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB,
[1990
FORMS for the Becond Extra PROGRAMMES and ENTRY Sunday, the 3rd April, 182, may be Itaco Meeting to be held in Maono on obtained at the Sports Club, Hongkong Jockey Club Stables, or at the offices of Mesara, Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming,
Des Voeux Road, Central. ENTRIES close at 5 pm on Thura-
ALSO GIVEN that a further Ex-
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY day, the 24th March, 1929. traordinary General Meeting of the Members of the Chinn Entertainment & Land Investmont Co., Ltd., will be held at 12 o'clock Noon on Wednes- day the 18th day of April, 1982 for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings at the above-men- tioned Meeting and of confirming, if will be held in the Board Room, of MEETING of the Members thought fit, an & Special Resolution Messrs. JARDINS, MATHESON & Co., the above-mentioned Resolution.
LTD., on Tuesday, the 29th of March, Dated this Second day of March 1982 1982, at 5.30 p.m.
LIANG CHI HAQ,
Managing Director.
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CO., LTD..
HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION, THE ANNUAL
GENERAL
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By Order,..
B D. EVANS,
Hon. Secretary.
TIETVORB
claims to have, cured even case of blindness and paralysis that have been declared hopeless by the doc tora, Neurasthenia and strain have been equally successful- ly treated, and. Arnold Bennett was among those who derived benefit from Mr. Erskine's, treatmmit,
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Obtainable at all Chamlata.
The Mystery of David M." By Latest
D. Wilson MacArthur. Melrose, 78. Od.
Mr. MacArthur brings to this tale of the Firth of Clyde the sense of atmosphere that bnriches Mr. Buchan's stories of the moors, Ad- mirably written, it will delight both yachtshers and lovers of good "thrillers."
"The Case of Cnspar Gault."" By William Morton, Hurst and Blackett. 78. Bu, While most readers will be willing to accept "Mr. Erskine's stories of American slickness. The actual de- American orime; American slang; the way in which hypnotiam can teation will seem rather elementary cure drunkenness and the desire for to woll-qualified readers. drugs, we imagine that some readers. The Murder Tree." By Leslie Mc- will be inclined to boggle at the
Farlane. Stanley Paul, 78. Od. stories of experiments that verge der is set in a raral American land- The story is well told. The mur- into spiritualism, Nevertheless, they are all intensely interesting:
NORTH ». SOUTH.
Jane Comes South," By Emme- line Morrison. John Long, 78.
Bil
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The difference between Mr. Kipl ing's East and West is na nathing
compared with the gulf that, the heroine of this novel finds between the Nouth and South-of England. The daughter of a Northern manu- facturer, married by a Southern
excused if she thinks Northern man-
At
"Mac's Cafe
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THE HONG KONG & WHAMPOAstagrat for her money, may be HONGKONG
that the FORTY-THIRD ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. ners the better. But a happy love
HOTEL will be held at the Company's Offices, P. & O. Building, on WEDNESDAY, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN affair endears the South to her, And
that the ORDINARY YEARLY | she accepts n kind heart as well
on
LONDON GHOSTS.
(b) be as A
Committee for the ensuing electing Directora and Auditors, and the purpose of presenting the Report held in the Office of the Company, peal to renders from both sides of
for the transaction of any other of the Directors together with Queen's Building, Hong Kong, (e) To consider the manner in Ordinary business of the Company. Statement of Accounts to 91st THURSDAY, 31ST MARCH, 1939, at the Humber.
which St. George's Day the TRANSFER BOOKS of the and Auditors.
NOTICE is also hereby given that December, 1981, and electing Directors shall be colebrated," (d) To transact any other Company will be closed from Monday, The Register of Members of the business of which das 14th March, 1982, until Thursday, Company will be CLOSED from notice has been given...
24th March, 1982, both days in- 10 MARCH, 1982 to 28 "All Members are requested to fera of shares can be registered.
clusive, during which period no trans- MAROE, 1989, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of attand.
Order of the Board
Shares can be registered. D. L. KING,
By Order of the Board of Director, Secretary, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Hong Kong, 7th Marob, 1982
Agents. 1924 | Hong Kong, 17th Feb., 1982. [1889
LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Secretarios & Treasurers, Hong Kong 21st March, 1982,
(1986
11. A.M. for consideration of the Directors' and Statement of
Report Accounts for the year ending 31r December, 1931.
The Share Register and Transfer: Books will be closed from the 24th to the 31st MARCH, 1932, both days inclusive
By Order of the Board of Directors
R. M. DYER,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 17th, March, 1988.
· [1977
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