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THE HONGKONG TI
Public Companies.
(HONGKONG,. CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED"
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS”
THE EIGHTY-SIXTH ORDINARY HALF YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held, as the Office of the Company, Hotel Mansions, on TUESDAY, the fath August, at za o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiv ing a Report of the Directors; · declaring ́ ́a Director; and electing Directors and Auditors
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 27th July to the
THE
GRAPH SATURDAY, JU
THE
* HUOR ANHUAL LOMB OSPATUR BRITISH:
tious chacků
fill le ke
resulting from, the gra Band (silver exchanges last year is atti
crossing attention on the Paclâc coast.
fait exchanges Icague || has been organised at
NO SALVAGE ORGANISATION,
Year after year ships and cargoes to the valos | of soms ten million pounds are lost around the British cosas, says a home paper. This is the tribute we pay to the seas to guard our shares Hardly any offhe sunkeu vesseli are recovered;
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timations.
OUNDED
No doubt you have seen in the such, pap
cements as this concerning some medicine or other "If, on trial, you write that this medicine has done you no good we will refund your money."--New, we have never had. reason to speak in that way conceming the Dilaws to keep the issues before the Dominion remedy named in this article. In h trade aliment, as Canada iequally affected. The extending throughout the world, nobody has league advocates the adoption of the Goschen ever complained that our medicine has failed, the United States, with open mists in India as public never grumbles at honestly and skillfully before 1893 The new movement has secured hide bread, or at a medicine which really and the qualified approval of Mr. J. J. Hill, president actually doct what it was made to do. The of the Great Northern Railroad, who la now in foundations of prod Canada. In a short statement, the publication WAIPOLE'S PREPARATION of which Mr Hill has authorised, he says
Consignees.
FROM EUROPE.
HE HA L. Steamship:
CIE PSAXONIA: Capiato Bible, having arrived, [Con- įsignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send their Bills of Lading for countersignatura delivery of their goods from alongside. by the Undersigned and to take iramediata Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before TO
Dividend, confirming the appointment of for it is the incomprehensible fact that hitherto plan of 1891 jointly by the British Empite or asked for the return of his money. The DAY. RestAMAENSAT DALES
10th August, both days inclusive.
544
'By Order of the Board of Directors;
WW.E CLARKE,
Secretary. Hongkong, 10th July, 1909. THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
Great Britain, the richest and most powerful o all maritime countles, has been content to be without any efficient salvage organisation for dealles promptly and rapidly with the enormous number of vessels lost in her waters. Although over 50 per cent of the mercantile marina of
We must await the proposals of the Mone the world salla under the British flag, it is, wall koown that in all large salvage operationsj even tary Commission at Washington. The silver upon our own coasts, we are compelled to sunk problem is fall of difficulty, sud' wish it wire the assistance of foreign salvage companies post gore it coule As remaining strangely indifferent to tha" vas? | WAIK
that at the present rate of exchange Asia bas cessed to impart American wheat flour or lumber and that the our shores."
Shanghai merchant, who 18 months sincs bought a sovereign or five gold dollars with
resalt is disaster. He no longer bay.
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of 51.50/100 waalth in skips and cargots lying'neglected off the KAPUVERT
per Share for the Six months ending 30lb- Juve, agog, will be payable on TUESDAY, 3rd
ugust, on which date Dividend Warrants may Messra. Siebe, Gorman and Co., (Limited) be obiniest on application at the Company's the largest submarine angideers, were right
'office. A
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company when in their last year's catalogne they wrote five tails, must now pay nearly dight tools. The Hypophosphites" and the Extracts of Malt and
* will ba=CCDSRD from MONDAY, 26th-July,. to TUESDAY, 3rd August, (both days In- clusive), during which period no transfer of sbites can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Secretary.
Hongkong, zotb July, 1992.
THE WEST POINT BUILDING
COMPANY, LIMITED,
AN
·₤345.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of DOLLARS TWO per Share for the Six months quding 30th June, 1909, will be payable on the 3rd proximo, on which dite. Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Com-
It is greatly to be regreted that Edġland, the most powerful mastime nation lg-the-world- should still be without soma proper silvage organisation empowered to deal expeditiously
·with all vessels sook off her coists, especially in view of the statemeḍt, which is made upon good authority, that the value of vessels and cargoes aneually fout on the British coast ex cendi „£9,000,000 sterling.
* SALVING SHIPS. Only now and aquin is à voice raized against the national indifferance to sei-snivage, or to urge the beed aither of a State organisation to reduce the prodigious tribute paid to the sea or of a British company adequately equipped for rescue work. Chiefly in the law courts, where The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 15th in the end all cases of wrecks must come, has lost, to TUESDAY, the 3rd 20qust (both ||that urgent question of calving ships bsen dis- days inclusive), during which period no transcussed. It is of the highest importance to for fer of Shares can be registered.
pany office.
:
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Secretary to the rongkong Land-Invest
mant and Agency Company, Ltd: Agents for The West Polat Building
Company, Lid. ...Hongkong, za:b july, 1909, „
A. SHELTON HOOPER, [
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THE HONGKONG Electric Co., LD.
NOTICE
that THREE
ter the maintenance of salvage vassals around our coast, mid the Master of the Rolls not loog since; and Mr. Justice Gorel! Barnes, giving Judgment in a recent este, uttered words full of gravity and reproach to the British people was a matter, be is reported to have said, which struck me as most extraordinary when the
It
snormous volums of British commerce which passed bp and down these coasts was taken in-
main jailben CRINESE PORTRY, 24
A selection from the elastigat posts of China has recently, been published, remarks a writer in a contemporary, In an interesting intro dection it is mentioned that podity it an almost general mode of expression among the Chi. Dege-Indeed verse-making with hem "has always been a second nature." A reviewer of the poème points out a curious fact-an anti- cipation of a pretty copceit of Ben Johnson's by a Chinese post, 2,000 years ago. In his famous 200g Drisk to Me Only with Thine Eyes Johnson tells how he sent his love "a rosy Bat thou thereon didit only breathe,
Add seal'st it back to me,
Blace when it rows and smolis, I sweat,
· Norofltelf bởi thành
Now in the poems collected by Confucius about the year you B.C.," an unknowo poer bars very similar idea, but mors postically ex- prested i
She has gaibered with her lily fogers'
A lily fair and rare to see, Ohi sweeter still the fragrance lingers
From the warm hand that gave it ma.
*which'move-us to-day to song: moved these
Chinese singers of a long past A Chinare
to consideration, that there was no salvageuch the same emotions," adds the reviewer, craft belonging to British owners. It was there | obvious that persons launched in N SHARE CERTIFICATES for the enterption of tires who lurred such following Thirteen Shares Numbered 23504/ adequately compensted 17396/17339, 17.158/359, 17719/17711, 19154)— and 2 937/11918 in the above named company standing in the same of JOA) ANTONIO Da LUZ (deces ed) have been LOST, and should the same not be produced within. fortnight a dew Certificate-for-the-same-sbores- will be issued in favour of the said JOAO ANTONIO DA LUZ (deceased) and the| original Certificates will be declared by the Company as cull and void..
GIBE, LIVINGSTON, & Co., Agent,
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HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Hongkong, 12th July, log
[530
For those who launch on these enterprises with efficient n saus of carrying them through there would be overwhelming compensation As it is, with the means employed, salvage work is one of the most lucrative of all busisestat, although bardly any of the wrecks are secovered on account of the lack of efficient instrumenfi. for raising vessels from the bottom of the sat,”
£10,50,000 LOST.
The operations of one, Swedish company alone during the few years of its existence have resulted in the salving of vessels, in their dam.
THE UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF aged condition, representing a value of over
CANTON, LIMITED
AND
$
THE CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE 'COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE
OTICE is hereby given that PETITIONS were on the 6th July, 1909; presented to the Supreme Court of Hongkong in its Original Jurisdiction by the above named Society and Company respectively to confirm the alterations of the said Society's and the said Company's respective objects proposed to be effected by Special Resolutions of the said Society and
and the said Company respectively asuimously pasied at Extraordinary Genen! Meetings of the said Society and the Company respraively, held on the 31st April, 1919, and subsequently unanimously confirmed at further Extraordinary General Meetings of the said Society and the said Company re- spectively held on the 7th May, 1999, and which Resolutions respectively run as follows:-
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writer says) of poetry:-" Poetry has been in Chi, as in Greece, the language of the gods, it was poetry that inculcated laws and maxims, were handed down at a time when memory had it was by the harmony of its lines that traditions to supply the place of writing -and it was the first language of wisdom.”—Japan Chronicle
Auction.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
to sell by
PUBLIO
AUCTION',
Do
Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed at Consignee's risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardons Godowns of the Hong. kong and Kowloon Whad and Gedɔwn Co, Limited, and stored at Cousignoes risk and expense.
All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after, which dale they cannot be rechgutsed part
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods undelivered after the 25 lost, will be sub- have left the Godowas, and all Goods remaining ect to rent.
All broken, chafed, and danlaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 26th lost. of 3
No Fire Insurance has been affected,"
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE
Hongkong Offi Hongkong, 19th July, 1909
154x
SHIRE LINE OF STEAMERS LTD.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
FROM EUROPE, COLOMBO' AND
are laid in sincerity and honour, the knowledge of which on the part of the people explains its popularity and success. There is nothing to disguise or conceal." It was not dreamed out, or discovered by accident; it was studied out, on the solid principles of applied medical science. It is palatable as honey and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound: Syrup of
Wild Cherry This 'remedy is praised by all (who,have employed it in any of the discanos:it is recommended to relieve and cure, and is effective from the first dose. In Anemia, Scrofula, Nervous and Gesamt Debility, la fluenza, La Grippo, and Throat and Lung Troubles, it is a specific. It is precisely what it is said to be, and has won the confidence of the public on that basis. You may resort to it with a faith and hope that arise from the historyTHE Company's Steamship of what it has done for others. Dr. Thos. Hun-
"CARMARTHENSHIRERA The continued use of it in my having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees Stucky says: practice, convinces me that it is the most of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods palatable, least nauseating, and best prepara-are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharfand Godown tion now on the market." One bottle proves Company's hazardena apelor extra hazardous its intrinsic value. You cannot be dis- Godoygaat Kowloon, where each consignment appointed in it." Sold by chemists throughout will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery the world.
can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.
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THE TRADE MARKS, ORDINANCE, 1898.
Application for Registration of Trade Mark,
OTICE is hereby given that BENEDICT NOTICE shot by Cusa fim duly or gasized under the German Law and carrying
German Empire, Merchants, and of which oa business under this style at No. 47 Gr Theaterstrasse in the city of Hamburg in the frm FELIX MANFRED SCHÖNFELD is Sole Owner, MA FAD SCHON FEL A the
1909, applied for the registration in Hongkong in the Register of Trade Marke of the following
Trade Mask:-
A twig of flowers' and leaves, the lower part being aplarged into two panicu- lily wing, shaped parts, each of which ending into an inwardly beat projectino. / A hat, sitting on that lower part. A flying ribbon ünder- mbath, “Tha, whole. arranged' inta *quire with ornamented edges,-
in the name of BENKDIET SCHÖNFELD & CO. who’claim to be the Sole Proprietors thereof,
The Trade Mark has been used by the Applicants since at least 6 years in respect of Cord yarn, yaras of wool warsted or air, le
Class 33.
A facsimile of the Trade Mark can be seen
Hongkong.
Dated the 1st day of May, 1903.
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STRAITS.
Goods not cleared by the 26th inst, at 3 P.M., will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whalavar.
Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary befors NOOD, TO-DAY.
STEAMER'S ARRIVAL
All damaged packages must be left la'the' Godowns," where they will be examined on MONDAY, 26th inst, al 9.30 AM No Claims will be admitted after delivery "of-Cargo-har
they will not be recognised. been effecied to Consignees, and all claims must be presented before 29th inat, otherwise
JARDINE, MATHESON & OB, Ltdiy
Agents, Hoogkong, aoth july, 1009.
·FROM
NIFTON, YUSEN KAISHA.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP
LONDON, COLOMBO and. SINGAPORE,
THE Company's Steamship. BINABA-MARD,
having arrived from the above Parts, Con signees of cargo are hereby informed that their Goods 'ara, baing landed and placed ́at, thair risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon, Wharf and
where will be sorted, mark by mark and delivery can be obtained'ar soon as the Goods are landed.
MATTHEW J. D. STEPHENS, ·
Solicitor on behalf of the Applicants,
550,180, Simons are the enger THE Undersigned have received instructions office of the Colonial Secretary of Godown Company's Godowa Kolon tions paid to salvage companies that, as a gag” eral iule, they exceed half the value of the pro perty recovered. The Brothers Baghino, of Ganda, to take only ons case, received £52,000 for is few days' work on H.M,S, Sultan, though Ker deck was buzely under water. H.M.S. Gladiater, wrec'ed last year, was raised at a cost of £50,000.
To glaoce at the figures which speak of the wrecks in the world's water is to gain nomo iden of what work and what profit awaits a salvage BRid
organisation.
That the Memorandum and Articles "of Association of the Society (Company) "he respectively extended, altered and "amended so as to read as shown the print signed for the purpose of identifica. **ion by the Chairman of this Meeting and *that such extended, altered and amended "Memorandum and Articles of Associn- **tion be henceforth adopted as the H-Memorandum and Articles of Associa *tion of the Socisty (Company) to the "exclusion of shore heretoforo prevailing AND Notice is farther, given that the said Petitions are directed to be heard before His Honour Sir Francis Piggott, Chief Justice of the wald Court, in Afiean days from this date and any person interested in the said Society
If we take briefly isto consideration a single year, the year ended June 30, 1916-7,-us. being the last statistics published, we find that the vessels of the world numbered 47,064, of which 15,165, with a tonnage of 18,014,189, sailed under the British-fig.“ Of those 15,365 ships, 8,883 vessels, tonnage 7,563,729, suffered casual. tias. These figures, the latest available; am below the average; but they spank of ships and cargoes dimazed in a year of a value of bus. derdy of millions. They do not include the ship of the Royal Navy, and they mean that over half the shipa und nearly kuif their tonnage belonging to the uation reported casualties on the year either at home or abroad
In the same year, the dumber of ships that met with casualties on the coasts of the United, Kingdom alone totalled: 9,784, of which 453
or the said Company, whether au créditor, were foreign ships. - The value of the ships policy holder or otherwise desirous to oppace
would be small in comparison to the value of
lor, eter, pracls, and other {swels.. England is the largest of the world's markets for jewels and the products of mines. Ata moderate com potation, the gigantic value totally lost as the British coasts sions in a yaar is, as we here mentioned, Lin,n00,000. ||
MONDAY and "TUESDAY,
the gh and 10th August, 1909, at 10 AM, each day, at H.M. Nawal Establishmauts, SUNDRY OLD and SurplUS NAVAL AND VICTUALLING STORES,
Comprising:
Consignees.
8,8. "ERNEST SIMONS."
COMPAGNIE DES. MESSAGERIES- MARITIMES
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
Optional Goods "will be carried on unless instractions are given so, the contrary, before Noon, TO-DAY.
Goods ast cleared by the 28th July will be subject to rent,
No Fite lusurance has been effected. ·· Damaged packager: must be left in the Godown for examination by the Consignee's. and the Co/ reprezentatives at an: appölated bour, All claims must be 'presented within ten daya of the, steamer's airival hera, altar which date they cannot be recognised. Nee claims will be admitted after the goods haru
Old and Surplus Naval Stores -CHAIN, WOOD-BLOCKS, HOSES, TOOLS, OLD IRON and METAL, OLD MACHINERY, ELECTRIC CABLE and GEAR, MATS and MATTINGS, WOOD BOXES, LEATHER, COAL SACKS, OLD INDIA RUBBER,
GOAL INSTRUMENTS, CO, BETS,CONSIGNEES of Cargo, in connection with left the Goo SURGICAL &c., &c.
Old and Surplus Victualling Stores PRO- VISIONS, SEAMEN'S CLOTHING, BLAN- |KETS, MENS TRAPS, IMPLEMENTS; STAVES, and quantity of ELECTRO PLATED ARTICLES, &c. &c.
Catalogues will be issued. TERMS OF SALE :—As Customany,.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers fsst
* Hongkong, ayrd Joly,"1000-
the making of an Order for the confirmation of the last cargoes-often precisos cargoes of balo 40 the said alterations under the Companies Ordioacce 1865 should appear at the time of bearing by himself or by his Counsel for the cory of the said Petitions, or parpose and either of them, will be furnished to any such person requiring the same by the undersigned on payment of the regulated charge for the
Dated the zoth July, reco.
C. MONTAGUE EDE, Secretary to the sald Society and the said Company..
same,
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PARA VENDA.
GRANDE sortimento de LIVROS de MISSA em Portuguez, encader, nados em lindas capas de phantasia
e de diversas cores,
-Precos modicos.
Dirifie
GRACA &
If one iu a hundred sunkan ships were rais ed, enormous profits would be made by a salve age company provided with strong, powerful, effective, and simple apparatus.
DISCOVERY IN A VILDIZ CELLAR,
Constantinopole, 18th Jane,
Intimations,
Colonial Secretary's Department,
HONGKONG OPIUM:FARM
biraby given that SEALED NTENDERS it be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, Ull Nosa da TUESDAY, the s1st day of August, 1909, før the purchase of the privileges kaowa as the Opium Farm established under “The Prepared Opium Ordinancas, 1891-1909,
that. | in to say, the sole privilege of preparing Opium and of Balting, within the Colony, (including the New Territorizaj, Opium (so, prepared," | Inclusive of the privilege of collecting dross
and of propsting and dealing in Drost Op for three years froth the 1st of March, 1910, "
Fall information as to conditions of tender ing, &c., can be obtained from the Colonial Treasurer, and the conditions of tendering and form of grant have been publjana is Govern
above Steamer are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Treasure sea being landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or: extra hazardous Godowas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Limited, at Kowloon, whenca delivery may be obtained Immediately after landing.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless Intimation is recolved from the Consignees before. Noon TO-DAY, requesting it to be landed here.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned Goods remaining unclaimed after MONDAY, the 6th July, at Noon will be subject to rent and landing charges
All claims must be sent la to me on or before the 26th July, or they will not be recognized. -- All damaged packages will be examined on
MONDAY, the 25th July, at 3'F.M; ++
No Fire Insurance has been effected,"
P. DE CHAMPMORIN, Agent, Rongkong, 19th July, 2009;
BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
·
--- NIPFON-YUSEN-KAISHA"-
Hongkong, xist July, 1000,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
HE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamer VERS" DELHIPE
THE N. CO
(458-459
·FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS.
Consignem of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods st Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godaw. being landed and placed as their ritk_in_thu
consigament will be sorted out, Mark by Mark, Company's Godowns at Kowloon," "where"each
and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are fandød, media
This vassel brings on Cargo dabar trave From Landon, &c., ax 8.9; Mongola, From Calcutta, és 8.8, Candio, Frota Parslan Golf, **.E.1,8.N, and 3. &
4-P, S, N, Co.'s Steamers, 200 Optional Goods will be- landed hara dalóis instructions' are: given to the contrary, before 6 hours.
Goods not cleared by the 271iby inst, af to› NOTICE TO CONSIGNEESET||10 will be subject to rent
No Fire Insurance will be adfected by mo la | doy caso whatever, t 3.5, BENCLEUgAHA Mem FROM ANTWERP. MIDDLESBRO..
- Damilgad. Pärkages must be left in thi LONDON, ANDʻSTKAITS
Cart") || Godowat: for) examination by the Consigabe?
and the Company's representativa informed that all Goods are being landed All claims must be presented, libia ONSIGNEES of Cargo are, koráby pointed houtsntaran kerana changa
at their risk into the hardons and/or astra of the slaimer s'arrival, bara after whic bazardous Godowns of the Hongkong" And they cannot be recognised, like Kowloon Wharf and Godown Cove Lady No cläimi will be admitted. Lher the, whence, and for from the whauren Balivary kaya lah the Godowe the may be obtained, a syn Marodila
It is reported by the Stamboul thai hame oma med Gaselle as Notification: Noc040.2223374 BAND Olaimu,will be admitted, altar, the
cars of the Gendarmaris who were searching the cells oftheguard-house, cear Vildiz, where, according to popular remour, many "[caloos Hamidian despotlam ware made away, found a crescent shaped. satin, which upon being opened was. contain a hum
pad July, 1000
Odionis!
Esve left the Godowas, and all Goods scretary?+7] 3by Vandallvéred"2fter the "ayth? Thats
[515]); subject in venta fizik
All Claims against the Stormer santad: to the Undersigned: