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Entimations.
HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY,
·LIMITED,
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST
Intimations,
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN CO., LD
THE ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS be held at the Company's Hotel, TO-MORA ROW, the 27th August, 1904, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts of the Company to the 30th June, 1904, with the Report of the Directors, and to discuss any matter that may be competently brought before the meeting.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 21st to the 27th August, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
C. MOONEY,
Secretary.
1941
Hongkong. 26th August, root.
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN CO., LD,
NOTIC
OTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, will be held at Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s Offices. Pedder Street, Victoria, Hongkong, on WED NESDAY, the 31st day of August, 1954, at 12.15 o'clock in the afternoon, when the sub- Joined Resolutions will be proposed.
Should the said Resolutions be passed by the
required majority they will be submitted for confirmation as special Resolutions to a second Extraordinary meeting, wh ch will be subse quently convened,
1. That the Capital of the Company be in creased from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 by the creation of 10,000 new shares of $50 sach.
2. That such new shares be issued at a pre- mium of $30 per share and be offered to those persons who are registered as Share- holders of the Company on 1st October, 1904, in the proportion of one new shate
for every complete three shares held by them an ist October, 1904.
3. That the amount due for the new shares
be called up on 31st December, 1904. Dated the 15th August, 1904.
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By Order of the Board,
EDWARD OSBORNE,
Secretary.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
INTERIM DIVIDEND at the rate of Share) for the Six Months ending 30th June, 5 per cent. (Two Dollars and a Half per 1904. will be paid on application to those Persons who are Registered as Shareholders in the above Company on the 31st August, 1904, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th to 31st August, both days inclusive.
EDWARD OSBORNE, Secretary, Hongkong, 25th August, 1904.
WANTED.
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THE ROMANCE OF SECRET INVENTIONS"
Before the days of patents the only way to make sure that an invention,would remain the property of its original owner was to keep it secret, where this could be done without forcing it to remain in disuse. Even at the present public knowledge in this way, the inventor day many processes and formule are kept from
preferring to apply for a patent. If the history of secret processes could be written, writes a contributor to The Technical World, it would form a romantic and fascinating book, and one of the most interesting sections would be that which dealt with the many attempts to steal the secrets from the jealous owners. He goes on to say:
"The scene of one of these stories is laid in the wild moorland country around Sheffield, SITUATION as GENERAL ASSIST- England, where a watchmaker named Buats- A
ANT in a Mercantile Firm. Advertiser man had built a factory for making steel' by a has knowledge of BOOK KEEPING and TYPE process of his own invention. The secret was WRITING, First-class testimonials.
Apply to-
a very valuable one, for it was the only process by which steel could be made of uniform quality Clo Hongkong Telegraph. throughout; but Huntsman had little fear that any of his rivals would discover it, for he employed only picked and sworn workmen, and the portals of his factory were almost as strictly guarded against stranger as the doors of a bullion vault.
*W.*
Hangkong. 6th August, 1904,
WANTED.
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The Colonial Secretary is one of eight brothers, seven of whom.played for Eton at Lord's. In extenuation of the one defaulter, an elder brother: pleaded that the youngster was so delicate that he could not begin to play cricket until he was six years old. Of the seven brothers, Lyttelton, who played for Eton three-G. C. (naw Vis- count Cobbam), Edward (the Rev Headmaster
tary)-captained the Cambridge University of Haileybury), and Alfred (the Colonial Secre
Eleven in 1863, 1878, and 1879 respectively. In those years each brother headed the batting averages, while the future Colonial Secretary also played for All England.
26 1904.
Entimations.
ESPECIAL OLD TOM GINĮ. Marshall and
Elvy'a
Satinett
DOUBLY DISTILLED
AND OF
MATURED AGE.
TO BE OBTAINED FROM--
THE MUTUAL STORES,
Des Voeux Road.
Hongkong, 11th May, 1904.
EXCURSION TO MACAO.
In 1867 the Lyttelton's banded themselves, into a family eleven and defeated Bromsgrove. Grammar School.. Eleven years earlier eleven brothers Golman, made a cricketing tour through the south of England, playing and de feating all comers. In 1845.8 Mr. Padgin`with the aid of bis four sons and six nephews, made up a strong Padgin eleven. Thefsame thing has been done by the Lucases, and also going further back in cricket history, by the Chris. tophersons, the Caesars, the Watneys, and- strangely appropriately-by the Brotherhoods, A few years ago, at Bristol, W. G. led an eleven of Graces against a family team of Robinsons. The Robinson family is probably the only one in England that constitutes a re, star and THE Splendid Steamer
when the wind was shrieking over the naigh few miles out of Bristol, they are one of the permanent cricket club throughout the season. "However, one bitterly cold wintry night, Playing at Backwell, the family residence, a bouring moor, driving the snow in wild eddies strongest combinations in the rural cricket of before it, a tattered, shivering tramp presented Somerset and Gloucester. Their score sheet himself at the door of the works and pitifully presents a curious sight, with the name of craved permission to warm his frozen bones at Robinson occupying the whole eleven spaces the furnace fires. For a long time he pleaded-Theodore, Wroughton, Foster, Percy, Arthur, (937 in vain; the door-keeper was obdurate; but Sidney, Douglas, Kenyon, Edgar, Gladstone, fically importunity and the pathetic aspect of Arthur Robinson-every man Jack of them a the man won the day, and the tramp was Robinson.
SECRETARY FOR THE SINGAPORE A CLUB. Applicants should send in, as employment with copies of Testimonials to the soon as possible, particulars of their previous Chairman of the Committee, Mr. E. C. ELLIS, ra, Collyer Quay, Singapore, from whom all
A. G. HILLS,
Secretary.
particulars can be obtained,
17th August, 1904.
NOTICE TO SHIPPERS.
THE NIPPON VUSEN KAISHA are
prepared, during suspension of their Trans-Pacific Service and until further notice, to BOOK CARGO and ISSUE BILLS OF LADING 10 SEATTLE, WASH., VICTORIA, B.C., and PACIFIC COAST PORTS, also to OVER. LAND POINTS in the UNITED STATES and CANADA in connection with the GREAT
NORTHERN RAILWAY FROM SEAT. TLE, as hitherto, by the Steamers of the NORTHERN PACIFIC S. S. Co., BOSTON ISSUE OF 30,000 NEW SHARES OF SIO EACH. STEAMSHIP and TOWBOAT Cus., OCEAN PURSUA
URSUANT to Resolution the General Managers of A. 8. WATSON & Company,
Limited, hereby invite applications from the Shareholders of the Company for the issue of 30,000 new shares of $to each at a Premium of 10 per cent. or $11 a share,
Each Registered Shareh lder on the 28th day of September, 101, applying for the Now Issue will be entitled to one share for every twoshares registered in his name Shares not applied far by those entitled to apply will be dealt with by the General Managers in accordance with Article 40 of the Company's Articles of Association,
Applications for Shares in the New issue will
S. S. Co. and CHINA MUTUAL S. N. Co.
For further Particulars, apply at the Com- pany's Local Branch Office in PRINCE's BUILDINGS, First Floor, Chater Road,
A. S. MIHARA,
Manager.
Hongkong, zoth May, 1904.
(643 IMPORTANT NOTICE.
FRESH ARRIVALS.
admitted to the warmth, only to fling himself on the floor in utter exhaustion and to fall asleep.
with him.
"The rascal, however, was sleeping with one eye open, and with that eye he was craftily watching the men at their work, with the result that when an hour later be left the place with words of gratitude, he took · Huntsman's secret "Another interesting story takes us to the neighbourhood of Temple Bar, in Londer, and to the shop of a chemist who was the only man in England that knew the secret of the manufacture of citric acid. Sa jealous was he of his invention that he would share it with no one, but worked alone in the laboratory over his shop in Fleet Street.
"One evening, however, when his processes were well advanced, he locked up his labora tory, and left the premises for a time, assured that no one could possibly gain admittance during his absence. But he bargained without a certain uninvited guest who worked his way down the chimney into the laboratóry and made such good use of his time that when he re-emerged from the chimney he had the manu
be received by the longhong and Shanghai BY GIVING A VERY LARGE ORDER, facture of citric acid at his finger ends.
Banking Corporation in Hongkong from the
28th September, 1904, to the 30th September,
1904, both days inclusive, and the whole amount
of Sit per share will be payable on application.
WE HAVE SECURED THE
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company CO-OPERATION
will be CLOSED from the 18th September, 1904, to the 8th October, 190), both days inclusive.
The present paid-up Capirof the Company
is $600,000, divided into 60,000 shares of $10 each, and the New Issua is required to increase the Capital of the Company to $900,000divided into 90,000 shares of Bio each.
The whole of the premium received from the New Issue will be placed to the Credit of the Permanent,Reserve Fund.
The New Jasue will rank for Dividend for the
three months ending 3181 December, 1994, pay- able in May, 1903.
Forms of application for the New Issue can be obtained at the Company's Offices in Alèx-
K
UE ALE BANERE UF THE
APOLLO MASTER
"It was in a similar way that the minutiae. of tin-plate became
to wrest from its owners in Holland forhalf a century. But there was a bold and crafty Cor hwn, oue James Sherman, who made up his mind to discover it at any cost. Going over to Holland, he found his way into the factory at great personal risk and brought the secret back safely.
These are but a few of the little romances of successful secret-stealing, and who shall tell the number of attempts that have failed, or even how many lives have been lost in the attempting? Men will risk much ta fathom
PLAYERS" such a secret as that of the monks of the
andra Buildings or at the Hongkong and IN LOWERING THEIR PRICES, AND $10,000,000 has been refused point blank; but Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong, Shanghai, and London.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, 22nd June, 1904.
WE NOW OFFER THEM FROM
(7:4 $365 to $850.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK-
THE
ING CORPORATION.
“HE DIVIDEND declared for the half- year ending 30th June last at the rate of ONE POUND AND TEN SHILLINGS STERLING PER SHARE OF $115 is Payable on and after MONDAY, thand day of August current, at the Offices of the Corporation, where Share bolders are requested to apply for WARRANTS.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
J. R. M. SMITH,
Chief Manager.
1957
Hongkong, 20th August, 1904.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
ΤΕ
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NEW
CONSIGNMENT
JUST ARRIVED
PER S.S. EMPRESS OF CHINA"
Grande Chartreuse, who make the well-known liqueur of that name, for which a sum of
the secret bas defied all discovery.
"Among scores of secret processes just as successfully guarded in that which has given to the world the exquisitely beautiful Dresden China. It is said that not even a king may enter the guarded walls of the factory at Meissen, where the porcelain is made, with the solitary exception of the King of Baxony him: self; and every workman is under a solemn oath, to which the severest penalties are attach
Such a family of sportsmen is'not to be excel- led. After them, indeed, the four brothers scarcely to be mentioned, though each made a Steele-A. G. D. Q, H. B., and E. E.-are
finest sin bowler the amateurs have ever had. name in cricket, more particularly A. G., the In the Studds Cambridge bad a third famous cricketing family. All three brothers-C. T., G. B., and J. E. K.-played successively for
Eton, Cambridge, and Middlesex. The Fords also come to mind with their long line of re presentatives in the eleven at Repton, while three-W. J. Ford, A. F. J., and F. G. J-have also served Cambridge and Middlesex on the wicket field. The brothers 1. D., R. D., and V. E. Walker formed another famous trio. The popular designation of Worcestershire as "Fostershire" bears witness to the rare work of the cricketers, W.JL., H.,K., and R. E. Foster, The trio soon promises to become a quartetie by the development of a younger Foster, who recently maintained the family record at Maivem by succeeding his brother as racquets cham- {pion.
"YING KING,"
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TRIP TO MACAO, on EVERY SUNDAY leaving the Company's wharf at the end of Captain Page, will make an EXCURSION
Wing Lok Street, at 8.30 A.M., and returning from Macco at 7.30 P.M.
Perseverance's wharf at Macao.
The Steamer will lay alongside the S.S.
"
FARE:
1st Class Single Ticket $2.00, with Cabin $3.00
Return $300,
ta $5.00 Tiffin and Dinner may be had on Board at $1 each meal.
YUK ON & CO., LD. Hongkong, 8th August, 1904.
ROYAL AERATED WATERS MANUFACTORY.
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Entertainments.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
A
PROMENADE
will be held at
CONCERT
VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS,
TO-MORROW,
(SATURDAY), August 27th, at 9 P...
Tickets
$ and $1.
May be obtained from Kelly & Walsh or
Volunteer Headquarters." **
If wet, the Concert will take place at the Theatre, City Hall.
Hongkong, 26th August, 1904.
FAREWELL PERFORMANCE
AND.
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GRAND TESTIMONIAL BENEFIT
AT THE
METROPOLE THEATRE.
TO-MORROW,
(SATURDAY), AUGUST 17TH.
A Special Programme Arranged..
MR
improvements to the Theatre, including the TR. CHRISTIE announces that Saturday's
installation of an Electric Light plant. weeks, as he contemplates making extensive performance will be the last for several
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This Performance will also be made the occasion of a Grand Testimonial Beneft to his Business Manager, Mr. CHARLIE WARE.
Prices...
...$2 and $r. Soldiers and Sailors, in uniform, half price. Tickets may be purchased and seats reserved at the METROPOLE HOTEL or Prays East Hotel. SATURDAY, August 17th.; Hongkong, 26th August, 1904)
Masonic.
ZETLAND
No. $35, EC.
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LODGE,
PWATERS in the Far East on account of their High Class Machinery and also of the RODUCE the highest, Class AERATED superior ingredients they use in the manufacture of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c., are all A LODGE will be held at the FREE- under strict supervision of Europeans only.
REPORT OF AN EXPERT. The representative of Messrs. BRATBY and HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED, Aerared Water Engineers and Chemists. Manchester, visited- our factory recently in the course of a tour was greatly surprised at the compactness of our amonger Eastern Aerated Water Makers, and factory and also the methodical way in which everything pertaining to the making of Aerated Waters was carried out. He also expressed him. self strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our whole establishment, which he assured us was Among professional cricketers family influequal to any he had yet visited and suparlor ence shows itself scarcely less strongly. In to a great many. He also reported that the Australia the Gregory family has a unique record. quality of our goods was of a first class nature, Four of the brothers, E. J, D. W., C., and A. H., and they showed that scrupulous care was
exercised in the course of their manufacture. Magez New South Wales and Victoria, test match against England twenty years age. Depot, Ice House Street. Tel. 374.
„Audes Žeravi PrtP, West Point: Tel. 367. more upgry to David also captained the first Australian m to England in 1878, and his nephew, S. E. Gregory; has been hear anfall the recent tours. The three brothers, David, Edward, and Charlos once challenged any three players in Victoria
REGÅERDANENRERG, Hongkong, zoth May, 1904.
LIMITED,
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to a single-wicket game, and after a stiff fight | GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, justified their claim to ba the best three cricketers in the colony. In English cricket the Bearnes bave an unequalled record. George G., Frank, Alec, Herbert, and Walter Hearne have all played for Kent. For two generations
PORTLAND CEMENT.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 1st August, 1904.
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a. Thomas Hearns has been grounds-man at In Casks of 375 iba.net per Cask ex Factory. Lord's and the Middlesex eleven has included In Bags of 250 lbs. net $8 per Bag ox Factory. ar includes Hearnes of the initials G., G.F., and J. T in the Notis team William Guda has two kinsmen of the same fighting name. Hayward, of Surry, comes of a long line of cricketing ancestors, whose deeds raised Cam. bridgeshire to the front raak of the counties, In Sussie cricket Lillywhite was as great a pame; and from Lascelles Hall half-a-dagen menbers of the Thewlis family went into the Yorshire team. As for the pairs of brothers whohave acquired joint fame at cricket, their names are legion. That their deeds are not
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
TO HEADS OF FAMILIES, HOTEL- KEEPERS, CLUBS, BOARDING- HOUSES AND MESS.
ed, never to breathe a word of what goes on yet egend is sufficiently proved by the quota MR. H. RUTTONJER is prepared to
within the factory.
"Then there is the romance of inventions that have been absolutely lost to the world, of which one example must suffice. An American inventor named Ford, after long years of unremitting labour, had discovered a method of treating are without smelting, and at very small WE WILL SUPPLY AN UPRIGHT cost. 8o valuable was the discovery considered that fabulous offers were made to Ford for the IRON GRAND AND A PIANO secret; but, as ill-luck would have it, on the very
PLAYER FOR $825.
day on which he had arranged to part with it in CASH OR exchange, it is said, for an annuity of $roq,500, he was struck down by apoplexy, and his secret died with him."
"HE DIVIDEND of 12% per Share and
BONUS of 4% per Share for the six CREDIT TERMS. months ending 30th June, 1904, declared at Monday's Ordinary Hall-yearly Meeting, will be Payable at the premises of the HONGKONG. AND SHANGHAI Banking CORPORATION, on and after TUESDAY, the 23rd Auguel, and Shareholders are requested to apply for DIVI DEND WARRANTS at the Company's Office, Single Failure, which can be said of no other Queen's Buildings, New Prays.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THOS, I. ROSE, Secretary.
Hongkong, 22nd August, 1904. [961
These Players have been tested in Hongkong. for 6 years (at Paak included) without a
Player.
THE
CRICKETING FAMILIES. ·
To mention Ibsen's theory of heredity in the same breath with the glorious virility of cricket
tior of such few instances as the brothers Palriet of Somerset, the Quaifes of Warwick. Frak and Albert Ward of Lancashire, the Sugs of Derby, and Hunter, who succeeded bisbrother Joe so wicket-keeper for Yorkshire.
Gods.
COMMERCIAL.
TO-DAY EXCHANGE.
Salling.
oldon-Bank T.T.
10. demand..... 20.4 months' sight Fince-Bank T.T..... America-Brisk T.T............... | Gfmany Bank T.T.,
Inja T.T.`......
is almost an approach to sacrilego. But in no
to demand ..rza other sport does the inherited instinct show | Shaghai-Bank T.T.
DELIVER BREAD
IN HONGKONG AND KOWLOON. perfect as possible, and the work is under The Sanitary Arrangements are as nearly constant foreign supervision only.
The best Flour is used. Brown Bread made from the well-known Graham four Aspecialty
H. RUTTONJEE, -
No. 5, D'Agullar Street,
36 to 38, Elgin Road, Kowloon, Hongkong, 23rd August, 1904.
TBIN TING. LATEST METHODS OF DENTISTRY.
REGULAR MEETING of ZETLAND MASONS HALL, Zetland Street, on THURS DAY, the 1st September, at 6.30 for 9 p.m.'"" vited to attend. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially in
Hongkong, 23rd August, 1904.
Insurance.
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NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCETM COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
THE
Undersigned AGENTS of the above Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS & Company are prepared to accept Fint
CURRENT RATES.
SIEMSSEN & Co.
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Hongkong, 18th May, 1895,
THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
TRADE MAR BARRETTO & Co.,
General Agents, Hongkong.
HOCKS AND MOSELLES. :
Per Case. Per Case.
1 doz, qts, 2 doz. pts.
Verziget 1900... Rudesheimer 1900......... $17.00 Rudesheimer Engerweg Johannisberger 1897...... 1897s sam Zeltingerborg 1900.......
CLARETS,
$19,00
18.00
10,00
18.00
20,00
$2,00
24.00
14.00
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.....1/99/16 1/91 1,9 13/16 1.261
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St. Estephe...
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itself more strongly. There are families not a | Japp-Bank T.T. ................................................86] few in which crickét seems veritably to run in | Singpore—Bank T.T........................Nomical the blood and be bred in the bone. The name Jave-Baak T.T................................ 108/ of W. G. Grace Instantly recurs in this as in
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STUDIO AT NO. 14, D'Aquilar STREET,
THE AMERICAN SYSTEM
OF
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, ROBINSON PIANO every other connection with cricket. Both his maths' sight 1/C.............1/9 15/16 DENTISTRY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
IN the the General
N accordance with the Provisions of No. 121
Agents have this day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND of FIVE FER CENT, for the half- year ending 30th June, 1904, on the Paid-up Capital...
Co., Ld.
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Hongkong, 3rd August, 1904.
TUBORG BEER.
A. FIRST Class FILSENER BEER
DIVIDEND WARRANTS payable on MONDAY, the agth August, will he issued to and any other Chemicals,
guaranteed free from Salicylic Acid, Shareholders on application.
Price $10.50 per case of 48 boities (quarta)
dor, pintr.
Special Prices for Quantities,
Solo Agents
SIEMSSEN & CO, (9 Hongkong, roth January, 1993, (781
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 16th to 29th instant, or
both days laclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Cạ, General Agents,
Hongkong, 9th August, 1904/-
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Dar liver..........................is üiumző 5/16 third generation, W. G. Grace, Junior, though perceptibly handicapped bys! ort sight, oblain- ed his Blue at Cambridge, and took the field for Gloucestershire under his father's captaincy.
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