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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY FEBRUARY 15-1909
Public Companies.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK-
...ING QORFORATION, THE
LOTICE is hereby given that the ORDING
NARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the Chy Half, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the zoìh day of February, 1909, al Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts to 318. December, 1908,
By Order of the Court of Directors,
J. R. M. MITH,...
Chief, Manager, Herkkuns: 9th February, 1909. · [157.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE SHAREHOLDERS will be held in ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING the Offices of the Company, Queen's Buildings,
· New Praya, on MONDAY, the 22nd February, 1949, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 198.
POWELL'S
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· The TRANSFER BOOKS,of the Company will be" CLOSED from the 8 to the 2zad” February, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THO I. ROSE, Secretary,
Hongkong, 27th January, 1999,
HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING CO, in
TH
HE ZITH 'ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the COM- PANY'S OFFICE, St George's 'Building, 6, 'Connaught Road, Victoria, qn SATURDAY, 27th February, 1903, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Manager for the year ending.'31st December, 1908, and electing a Consuliin Committee and Auditors.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 23rd of February, to SATURDAY, the 27th Febru- sry, both days inclusive,
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RENCE.
"Omagna els veritatlı !" Clqaro *Wespena the Truth in Bhadowladd“. Azoni
IV.
The momentarily adjourned meeting renom ed ita course, and was enlivened by the vas
of opium within her own territory, Was your Excellency aware of that ? ̧
H. L. Lin,--Lord bless yon, yas! Knew in it perfectly wall. Yongan made a great part of her living by it, and it was grown in many pärla hanides, though not to the rame extent,, We, will enlighten you on that score if anothe mineting.
Entertainments.
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OET
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HIM Tap Kuang- notice from, the latest paychograms that public prayers are anked for, the success of the Shanghal Com: THE HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC miation.
marks of new speakers, including Lord John Russell, Mr. Gladstone, the Duke of Welling ton, Prince Bismarck, Admiral. Aloxiaff, Sir Robert Peel, steigee mul
News
Lord Shaftesbury,What was the immej diate effect of your destructieɓ of the 10,391 cheats of opiam?
H.E. Lin--A rise la prica!
Lord Shaftesbury-Bat wasn't the supply exhausted? A
H.E. Lin. By no means. Before the des truction was actually completed, sales, bed rù, Demand was beyond all precedent. commenced with greater vigour,' than aver
A
that we had not the power to prevent it. The H.I.M.Tao Kuang.I have already told you
Lord Palmerston-Humph-N, C. D.
LADY GYMNAST'S AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.
FALLS VICTIM, To. Nerve Debility" and ANARKIA WHEN FULFILLING AK. IMPORTANT' PROFESSIONAL
ENGAGEMENTS
Dr. Williams' Pink Pilis
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Miss Flossie Florizell, the clover and popu- lar.contortionist and gymnast now on tour in
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Opique of the present day hays seen what the || THE WORLD FAMOUS BLOOD AND NERVE Canion people can do when they have the ₫ Topio Built vr Her NERVES, RESTORED will. Japanese, goods bare rotted on their wharves, for one would-bay. Bul:maither the presence of H.E. Lio nor the distant thunders of Feking could make Canton forego its smoke, If it only where will and power are one that -social vice can be eradicated. We had made as the "Flexible Aorial, Beauty," and all who, a mistake. Under the cloks of an assault 00 have seen her in her novel and cansational per- ppium we had begun no "attack, on the forformance will admit that the title dits han well, eigoor. Oss weapon was, turned Agalost curIt is of the first importance, to ap-artist de«, own breast by our own people,
pendent so entirely, on, complete. &tosss" of Lord Shaftesbury-But the moral weight of naive and muscle, as, Miss Florisell is that at England was on your side!
all-times.ben health should be in perfect condi»: Mr. Gladstone-It was indeed-at least some tion, for failing this she could no longer par UINEMATOGRAPH, of it. It was its chief exponent in the Hose form the difficult and dangerous feats on which, of Commons, I wrestled in spirit, I argued in her living depends. One can imagine then, dabate, I pleaded, I exhorted, I'denounced: this lady's horror when abe found, some years, Sir Robt. Peal-Do, you remember asking age, that her devous system was giving way, me whether it would be in accordance with and that her general health was being unders party interests for you to do so, and my saying mined by that insidious weakening malady "Yes"?
the Far East with Harmsion's Circus, is known, BOOKING at The Robinson Piano Company opens at 10 o'clock
on Friday, 12th February, Hongkong, 3rd February, 1999.
Mr, Gladstone-You did, I remember. Mor- ley has said as much in my "Life," Of course "our"main"object was to dish the Whigs:"
The Duke of Wellington -Anything to get the scoundrels out.
Mr. Gladstone And we did it. We deftly, davetailed two charmingly conflicting thoughts;| First, that Captain Elliot's line of action was politically wrong and morally indefensible; and Second, that the Government: had not placed sufficient strength at his disposal: 10 |'onable him to enforce li
Wellington-It worked like a charm, I re-. member."
Mr. Gladstone-And from it has arisen the pernicious fiction "that the first, war with Chipa. was an Opium War¡ a Gction sown by us Tories, for party purposes, cultivated by mis alonaries at an explanation of their failure,. watered by our enemies for național quda, and over since reaped, both by China and England, in a noxious harvest of misunderstanding-and [179 suspicion.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 12th February, 1909.
of the Spockton Club, that cross-zxamination` as we understand it is by no means resented : on the contrary it is, warmly, welcomed aga
"Anaemia" or poverty of blood. The fact that she' was enabled 10 continue her work atthat trying time, and that the bas enjoyed perfect -health-of-body-
and serve since, Miss Flo riz-il 'unhesitat»
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QUEEN'S COLLEGE:
To-night & Every Night, Subjects will resursa work on MON-
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NO ARTISTES BUT ONLY THE LATEST
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Ingly attributes ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME
solely 10 the great restorative strength-sustain.
ing merits of Dr Williams Plak Pills for Pale People.
In the courts Min Floris Floral, of an Interview the famous Lady Gym.ait; recssily
in
Every
MONDAY and THURSDAY.
These films have never been Shewa in Hongkong by any other Cinematograph.
Programmes to bhad at the door.. Hours from 9 to 11 p.m. Hongkong, 28th January, 1909
(Our readers will have noted during the coumerom a photograph) Cured. Batavia, o Java of Anaemis and Nervous where. Harms- HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED. of these conversations amongst the Celebrities
Debility by Dr. Williams ton's celebrated
Pink Pilis
show. was then performing, Miss Florizell gave the fallowing interesting details regarding her case. It was when touring South Africa. with Fillis's Circus some years to that, 1 Arst discovered the remarkabla Powers of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to restore on when Anaemic, Nervous, and run-down A said she.At this time I was very much,
1 felt a muscular weakness and gradual de- afflicted with Nervous Debility and Ansemis.
crease of strength coming ever me; I looked. pale and sallow, my appetite fell away.
“HE TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE. HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the device by which the Opaque may be enabled General, Managers, at 12.35 PM, on SATUR-
to see more clearly into the soul of the subject DAY, 27th instant; to receive a statement of the Company's Accounts to 31 it December, and the inner consciousness of those who play 1908, and the Report of the General Managers,nd a part in its development. Thus it comes The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company to pass that the marvellous combination of will be CLOSED from the 17th instant to tha
moral indexibility and partisan pliabisness 27th'instant, both days inclusivo-m
darkly hinted at in Morley's Life-of-Glade JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LD, tone is here openly exhibited by the graat
General Managers,
statesman himself. Other, examples will follow Bongkong, 13th February 1999.. (182
in due course. Ed.)
NOTICE
H. I. M. Tao Kuang.-You must be careful to remember that at that time we had but one desite, one object in all our foreign tolations, THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, and that was to keep the foreign devil in his.
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place, vis, doon. Viewed through the perfect transparency of this post-terrestial existence, it is easy to sea that there at least a dozen grounds on which England might, justly have made way, most of them of greater consequence than opium ever was. Talk of the "Opium War," therefore, is a sigo either of malevolent igsomace or of ignorant malevolence, That in clear.
NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA- ORDINARY MEETING of the above- mentioned Company will be held at its Regis. tered Office, Nas. 9 to 17 Pedder Street, Victoria, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 26th day of February, 1999, at 11.30 F.M. for the purpose of considering and if thought fit pass ing the following Resolutions, per
1. "That the capital of the Company be increased to $1,000,000 by the creation of 8,000 additional shares of $50 each ranking for dividend and in all other "respects pari passu with the existing
shares in the Company."
by
2, "That the sa'd 8 ooo additional shares be "offered in the first instance at par to all "members of the Company registered us "shareholders on the First day of March "1409 in the proportion of two new shares for every three orginal shares held "them and upon the footing that fifty
cent of the full amount of each new "share taken up shall be paid to the Company on acceptance of the offer and that such offer be made. by notice #specifying the number of shares to which "the member is entitled and limiting a
time within which the offer if not cepted by payment will be deemed to be "declined and that the directors be em "powered to dispose of the shares not ipken in responsa 'to such offer as they considor expedient in the interests of the
• Company," By Order of the Board of Directors,
C. MOONEY,
Secretary.
Wells Williams -Men might en well declare that our war with 8pɔin was "caused by the sinking of the Maine,
Prince Bismarck-Or ours with France by the candidature of a Hohenzollern for the throne of Epain.
Admiral Alexieff—Or burs with Japan by the cutting of thebron the Yalaj
Mr. Gladstone-Quito so. Causes are deep: pretexts shallow. But for the accident of a party crisis, little would have been heard in England about either Chios or opium until one of the other causen bad raised the. condict, Mackensie in his well-known History of the Ninsioenth Century dismisses all our relations with China in two sapiences, one of which is incorrect-
Sir Robt. Feal-Though based on your owp
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Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo People are the greatest blood and nerve-tonic medicine known to medical science, and they are the provad. remedy for Anaemia (weak watery blood), Nervous, Dobility, Malaria, Indigestion, Liver Disordar, Palpitations, Headaches, Ebenmedium, Sciatica, Paralysis, Beri-Bari, Pimples, ciama, and Skis, complainte, and the alter effects of Favers, Dysentery, and Chills. For the ailments which afflict ladjes between youth and middle ago, they are especially efficacions, They are obtainable ar most shops where medicines are sold, and also direct from, the 'Dr. Williama' Medicins Co.,, 89, Kiukinog Road, Shanghai, at St.50
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yourself up over that speech? The visitatiop. from God which you feared? The Jopah-like. pradictions you hurled forth! And above all the astounding declaration that the Chinese
Mr. Gladstone-I remember it perfectly,
were amply justified in poisoning the walla, 2.
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it in my raport the same evening.
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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE Co., LIMITED.
HE FORTIETH MEETING of SHARE TEHOLDERS, to the Company will be held at the Company's Officer, No, 3. Queen's Road Cestral, Victoria, on THURSDAY, the 4th March, 1999, at 13 o'clock Noon, for the, purpose of Receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year anding stat December, 1908..
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By Order,
O. PEMBERTON, Secretary:
Hongkong 13th February, 1909).
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Mr. Gladstons-What did she say) ·
Lord John Russell-She would tell you ber», self if she were here, but I happen to know that she is making one at a "Pook" party this after Boon-wonderful how that game's caught on, But you might tell us why Honest John skimas med. do lightly over the episode without ex planation,
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