GENERAL NEWS.
“The Elusive Vila.
Washington, January 24. Ville bas managed to elude hiz would-be espions and, reorgs- niting, his scattered forces, has `mettled down on the extenRĪVO Mexican ranch owned by M Willian Randolph Hearst, the newspaper publisher, where he has established his headquarters. -Manila Bulletin.
New Fellows of the R.CL The following gentlemen have been elected mor-Trident Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute **** Mr. Victor G. Savi, of Penang; and Mosers: Matthew Anderson, Charles W. Bresland, Draglas 0. Brown, Clement 0. Hagbes, Henry W. Jack, BSc, BA, Thomas R. Mck Spence, Edwin J. Vallentins, E. S. George Watts, and John P. Wilkins, of Perat
The Late Mr. C.C. Scott's Estate.
Mr. Charles Cuningham Scott of Halkill, Ayrshire, chairman of Scott's Shipbuilding and Eo- neering Compiry, Ltd., Green-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, -SATURDAY, FEBRUARX, 4, 1916,
NOTICES
Victor Records
BY ALL THE MOST FAMOUS
ARTISTES.”
POPULAR SELECTIONS, BANDS,
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MOUTRIE'S.
NOMICE
That the following words be added at the end of paragraph
ooks member of the Royal Ompany of Archera, the King's Bodyguard for Scotland, and LA TEE HONGKONG & WHAM (a) of Article 95
Colonel Commanding the 3rd Highland Howitzer Brigade. lef:
FOA DOCK COMPANY LTD.
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personal property in the United Notice is hereby given that an Kingdom of the value of £137,-extraordinary general meeting of 360, of which £89,252 represents his share in the company.
Legislation Concerning the Philippines.
the Hongkong & Whampoa Dock. Company Limited will be held at the Company's Office. Queen's Buildings Victoria. Hongkong, on Monday, the 14th February 1916,
"A Director who is entitled to vote (as provided by Article 90 (b) notwithstanding his interest is to be counted in an quórum, but otherwise Director who is interested is not to be counted in a quorum,
That the words "to any regula-
at 12 o'clock acos. when the sub-ons be eliminated from line Washington January 26 joined extraordinary resolution, seven of Article 207 and that the The House of Representatives is which was passed at the extraor following words be substituted ready to act on the Jones Bill adinary general meeting of the therefor subject also tá such
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that the words not being inconson Road Newly done-up and Senate and reported from cocary 1916, will be submitted for ference by the committee on the Confirmation as a special resolnsistent with such provisions or
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measure in the Upper House was rained in the printed document Article 10 eight and cine of two good rooms and upstairs gentlemen a speciality.
momentarily expected this morn-submitted to this meeting and for That paragraph (p) of Article ing. The Sevate yesterday the purpose of identification sub-108 be eliminated.
That Article 112 be eliminated afternoon discussed the details of scribed by the Chairman hereof -the proposed neutralisation of the be amended as hereafter set out and the following Article sub-
stituted therefor Jalands-Manila Bulletin.
and that such rezulations so amended be and same a e hereby approved and adopted as the Articles of the Company in sub- stitution for and to the exclusion of all the existing Articles thereof."
Opium Haul at Tientsin. An opium baul was effected by an officer of the Railway Castors shortly after the arrival of the Makden mail train at Tientzia on the 24th, when $600 worth of the druz. consisting of 19 small cakes of opium 121 tsels in weight, was found concealed in an in- genious false bottom of a foreign
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The said amendments are:-
That Article 67 be amended by the elimination of the words "the Chairman" in line one thereof and by the substitution of the word three for the word "five"
in line two thereof
trunk. The owner of the drug. That Article 82 be eliminated. says the Piking and Tientsin That the following words be Times; & Rosian, thought it e-added at the end of Article 84. pedient to make himself scarce,but any such appointment shall learing his entire personal effects be subject to confirmation by the behind him, all of which was Company at the next ordinary Bert to the Customs Esad Office. Yearly Meeting
.a
That paragraph (b) of Article 90 be eliminated and the follow- ing paragraph substituted there-
こ
A Chinese Cotton Burean. The Chinese Ministry of Agri- fore: culture and Commerce bas (b) A Director who is a member established Cotton-growing | of, or a Director of, or a member Bureau in charge of the improve of the Consulting Committee of, ment of cotton-growing industre or otherwise interested in, in China, saya the Peking Daily Public Company which is inter- News. Mr. Tao bas been appointed ested in any contract or arrange Chief of this Bureau, and the ment brought up for determina- services of some experienced Directors shall notwithstanding tion at any Meeting of the foreign and Chinese cotton ex be entitled to vote as a Director perts will be secure for studying in respect of such contract or cotton-growing affaira Special arrangement provided grounds have been prepared by the Ministry for making experi ments in cotton-growing previous to the actual introduction of foreign methods into this country.
Race Betterment.
(a). That he has disclosed his
interest in such Public Com-i pany before such contract or arrangement is voted upon by the Directors.
(b) That the Public Company so interested is not a Com- pany whereby a private firm There are only two ways to became incorporated and, improve the germinal character (c) That he is not a General | of the race, to better it in, a Manager of the Public fundamental and enduring man-
Company.in question and ner. One is to kill off the weak-
that the firm in which he is lings born in each generation.
a partner or which he repre- That is Nature's way, the old
sents are not the General method of natural selection which
Managers or General Agents of such Public Company. we are all agreed must be sup- Save as above provided no planted. When we abandon that Director shall as a Director vote we have but one conceivable alter in respect of any contract or native, and that is to adopt some arrangement in which he is means by which fewer weaklings interested and if he do so vote will be born in each generation, his vote shall not be counted. The only hope for permanent race That Article 96 be amended by betterment under social control is the substitution of the word "five" to substitute a selective birth rate for the word "seven" in line four
B.
for Nature's death rate. That means eugenica. - Paul Popence, in Pacific Medical Journal.
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(a) The Directors before de- DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD.,
claring a dividend may with
the sanction of the Company
in General Meeting set aside
out of the profits of the Com-TO LET - Ravenshill East, pany such sums as they think
graph."
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Park Road, containing 9 kong “ Telegraph. proper as a reserve fund to rooms, 3 bath rooms, servants! meet contingencies, or for quarters, &c vacant 1st Novem-j equalising dividends, or for ber Apply Descon Locker, FOR SALE-One 10 BHP. special dividends, or for re- Deacon & Harston. pairing, improving and main-
ta ning any of the the pro-
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50/70 volts with shuet regulator. ALSO One Switch- board for Accumulators. Dynamo, &c, complete with in straments for 100 Amps. For fur-
perty of the Company or for TOL
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Chater Road, whole or parts to the augmentation of any existing reserve fund or for lane at rear. Apply Clarke & such other purposes as they Co. think conducive to the Com- pany's interests and may with such sanction as afore
said pay out of the profits of the Company such bonuses as they think fit to those members who for the twelve months covered by each pro- fit and loss account shall have contributed business to
the Company (but so that no
bonus to contributing mem-
bers for any twelve months
TO LET-Office on 1st Floor ther particulars apply to Messrs. No. 14 Pedder Street.Linstead & Davis, Alexandra DINE, MATHESON & Co, Ltd Hongkong 15th September, 1915. Apply Property Office, JAR- Buildings..
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- of the net profits made dur
ing those months.)
(b) The Dilectors may invest
any sums set aside as a re serve fund upon such invest- ments (other than shares of the Company) as they may think fit and may from time to time deal with and vary such investiments.
(c) The Directors may employ the reserve fund for the time being or any portion thereof in or for any of the purposes for which it or for which such portion was created and in or for such other purposes 23 the Directors shall in their discretion think conducive to the interests of the Company and shall have power to employ the assets constitut ing the reserve fund or any part thereof in the business of the Company and that without being bound to keep the same separate from the other assets of the Company. (a) The Directors may also with the sanction of the Company in General Meeting employ the reserve fund for the time being or any part thereof in the payment of bonuses to members whether the part of the reserve fund so employed shall be set apart for that special purpose or not,” i
EXPRESS.
FORWARDERS TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE
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12. Chater Road
FOR
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TRY
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That the following new Article be inserted after Article 96:--
The Company may by Extraor- dinary Resolution remove Director before the expiration of his term of office and appoint another and that any necessary amend- person in his stead. The ments to the numbering of the
proposed Articles be cared to Largest
Dated the 2nd February, 1916.
person so appointed shall
hold office during such time only as the Director in whose place he is appointed would have held the same if he had not been removedas
By Order of the Board
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WAR AND HEADACHES.
Have you noticed that your eyes are much more tired and that you have headaches since the war started ? Everyone is reading two or three times as many papers ai usual. Their additional reading causes eyestrain in eyes which had been previously capable of doing all the work they were asked to do. If your eyes were perfect, or if you had correctly fitted glasses, you could read all day without tiring your eyes.
We make no charge for testing your eyes, therefore if your eyes tira call in and ask if you need glasses, Sight Tested with Latest Scientific Instruments by H. TOBIAS. F.S.M.C FLO,
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