SHARE MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Up to the Minute.
b. 8. 930.00. b. 8. 155.00.
b. 8 123.00. b. 133.00.
Unions China Fires, Douglases. Indos (Def.) Steamboats. B. $. 22.25. China Sugare. b. $ 130.00. Luzon Sugars. b 39.60. H.K. Wharrer, B. $ 85.00. K'loon Dooks. b. 132.00. b. T 91.50.
S'hai Docks.
Ewod.
Kung Yike.
b. T 165.00. b. T 16:50.
8'hai Cottons. Yang terepoos. b. T Cements.
B.K. Electrics. b. $ H.K.Tramways. 8. $
BRY
54 50.
SHANGHAI SHARE REPORT.
Messre. A. L. Anderson and
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1916.
BOMBARDMENT BELLS.
DRAMATIC EVENTS
ISMINENT.
SUPPLY OF ZING.
Warning Device in German
Dug-Out-
Failure to Carry out Contract.
Look out for Something Startling.
bas now
POLICE RESERVE
ORDERS.
Orders issued to-day by Mr. J. W. Franks A.S.P. (Beɛsive) ́atute :-*
Parades. Central Station.
NOTICES,
THE DAIRY FARM COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of The Dairy Farm Company, Limited, will be held at the Company's Office, No. 2, Lower Albert Road, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong on Monday, the 30th day of October, 1916, at 11.45 o'clock in the Forenoon when the subjoined Resolution, which was passed at the Extraordinary General Mesting of the Company held on the 11th day of October, 1916, will be submitted for confirmation Friday, Oct. 27th.-Maximas a special Resolution. Ganners. Recruits of No. 21 That the Articles of Association be altered in manner fol- Platoon under Company Sergeant |lowing ---- Major.
(a).
5.30 pm.
Commendation.
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P. C. 897 Karim Dsan is com- mended by the Hon: 0.8 P. for intelligent serion in the Yaumati vos! stealing case on the 11th inst.
That Art. I be added to by incorporating therein thọ • following definition :--
"Dividend "includes bonus.
(b). That the remuneration of the Board as provided by Art. XV paragraph 10 (as amended) be increased to $3,500 and that Art. XV paragraph 10 (as amended) be altered accordingly.
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(c).
(d).
To cabi
In the Original Jurisdiction An officer who has been sorving Court this morning, before the in France wrote early inAogast: Chief Justice, Sir William Esea
Mr. E. Ashmead-Bartlett writes All of us are bucked at the re-) Davies, su action was beard in cent evente, which must not be which the Cheong Shing Loong, in John Bull of September 9 as judged by the map. It seems tredere, of 31, Bonham. Strand follows :-
Who would care to be's Han perbaps but a little territory re- West, sued the Yan Wo Tong,
Saturday, Oct. 28th.-Detaal. gained, but the moral effect of our tradera of 114, Wing Lok Street, to-day? The position of the
For for $17,281.25 a damages for Central Powers is like that of the ters Drill 4.30 pm. under Chief gain has been stupendour,
Germana are the non-delivery of 875 picals of buffaloes and Bed Indians of one thing the
Inspector Mason. practically blind. We have got the Kwong Shan" zipo sold by the North America, se the wave of b. T. 122.50. trick of bareting their observation defendants to the plaintiffs under oivilisation advanced, yard by 6.50. balloons, whilst we have a row of two contracts dated May 16 and yard, from the north, south, sast and west, gradually restricting b. 10.20. them which are so close together May 30, 1915.
Mr. O. G. Alabaster, instructed their territory. at dusk that one could almost
The loing up of Romanis on 7.30.imagine they were the day's by Mr. Mattingley, appeared for
washing put out to dry in the the plaintiffs, and the defendants the side of the Champions of evening breeze. And talk about were not represented or pressat. humanity and international law Mr. Alabaster explained that closes a bage gap in oor iron Beroplane Buperiority! Good Lord I baven't seen a Bocha by a contract dated May 16 the wall which has been leftopen too This is the vital issue. Rumania plane within two miles of our plaintiffs agreed to buy 500 piouls long. It is an event of far has not yet declared war on Tar- lines for a week. I think In-of zinc at 330 25 per pioul, and, reaching importance, both mater key and Bolgaria, bat Turkey and So Biz Bulgaria have declared war on melmann's death gave the whole under another contract dated islly and morally. Han sir service frozen feet. The May 30, agreed to buy a further hundred thousand fresh soldiers her. So I suppose it smounts to Co. in their weekly share circa way in which the Garman papers 500 picule at $31.30 per pioul. now carry on the ever-advancing the same thing. We do not want eve find lar (Shanghai 21st October,) cracked Immelmann up made him The latest date for delivery under Russian line from Bakovina to make a limited ase of the keys We have again to report a weak (*ppear s sort of Heaven-protected both contracts was August 10, to the Danube. Battered and i̟.now in our possession; we want | to unlock all the remaining doors avenging angel, bearer of a bat later the time wis extended exhausted Austria of ourtailed business, in which charmed existence, but when be to November 6. On this day to defend six hundred miles more in the Near East with them. The the public interest centered"got it in the neck" (actually) the plaintiff demanded delivery within of her mountainous frontier. Once courage of the others evaporated. three days, but the delivery was the passes are forced and this obiefly in Cotton. The Rubber market has been dull and inactive, I can nagine the saying, "What not completed. The market price food tide breaks through into prices tending somewhat down chance have wo against the if zinc on this day was $57 per Transylvania and the plains of warda. General Securities have English when a mere youngster picul.. Of the fret contract, 325 Hungary, it is surely all op with been quite neglected. To-day'e vanquished our great Immelmann! picule were delivered, leaving the the Daal Empire. The thre opening rate for T/T on London Bat the Germen dug-ost! My 675 undelivered. The plaintiffs million Bemanians in Tran 3/11; the Dollar rate being word they were things of beauty,were suing for the difference in sylvauia, who have long groaned 72.625.
art, and safety. Thirty and forty the market price and the contract under the Middle-Age tyranny of Debentures.-A few sales of feet deep; some with ten ora dozen price, and it was apparently due the Magyars are calling to their small parcels took place at au rooms, electric light, bot and to the rise in price that the de- comrades across the mountains. not want to Those comrades bare now spewer- changed rates, tui there is an cold water bath rooms? Boonde fendants. did
Several letters hadled the call, easier tendency and the supply is like a nice eligible vule out deliver.
between the parties, rapidly outpacing the demand.
The quaintest passed Bromley way.
Neither must we overlook the Banks-Hongkong and Shang thing I saw was in the dining and the excufe given by the economic importance of Bams- The German hais have been offering throughout room-panelled walls of one of defendants was that the floods in mia's intervention. the week at 8740 without busi-these desirable contry retrects. Yunnan had interfered with the people have long been suffering a nesa being effected locally, bat Is the roof, seepeded by light with the railway transportation partial siege which has forced Carpathians. shares went Booth for Ek. $770. aprings were four baile. What was! and that they could not get them to audergo a kind of organis- the Dae de Moray's article Osthaye. Ordinaries" are still the purpose of these I could not delivery of the metal in con- ed starvation. Nevertheless, they last week firmly held at 35, while "Prefer-imagine, but I came Bcrowd sequence. They said that as the could look at the map and comfort supreme importance of thie
achieve such an end, ences" lack buyers at 59. German prisoner afterwarde whe railway was full opened again themselves on, baving still open To
available Ramanian, Marine Insurances. North explained their use. Down in they would complete the delivery certain dooze through which every Obions are wanted at 100, Waious tast troglodyte abande' the After evidence had been given limited eapplica came to help them Russian and Serbian should be cut their own mirerable barled against Bulgaria, whilst at $900 and Yanglezes at $2473; sounde of gunfite were scarcely by a member of the plainuff firm, ke no slee under this beading were beard at least, it we impossible and the debt proved, his Lord-rations. Daring the past week reported,
to tell which side was firing.ship gave judgment for plaintiffs the Shipping. Indo Chinas are Here the bells came in. When with costs. wanted as 124), and Shelle are in the British abella were barsting demand at 112/6. There are up on the surface their explosion bayers of Shanghai Tage at 181 caused the earth to viorate so and 50 for Ordinary" and much that the bells tinkled. When "Pre ference" respectively, and only the German guna were firing of Kochiena at 23.
there was not sufficient vibration Dooke and Engineerins. on the earth to make them sound. Shanghois changed bands at 86 So the occupsats, safe in their and more shares could be placed: rabbit-bole, knew witheat trouble we understand that the ormpony just what was happening up
HARBOUR ITEMS.
Wo moet
important
time has come to strike, and to strike hard, in the Balkans. We must finish with Balgeris. Either by force of armor by diplomas we must drive her out of the war. Such a step will close the last remaining gate between Germany and the outside world; and it will open up a route from Salonics through Macedonia, Serbia and Balgaria across the Danube into Romanie which will enable us to
(e). keep the Rassian armies in Buko- Tina and Galicia supplied with Devetors munitions for the great drive which is only just commencing sgainst the Austrians in the
Those who read
will realise the
Serrail's army-relieved of the pressure on its front-largos ita way up the ralley of the Vardar into Macedonis.
·
refund.
(f).
Dividend and
call together.
toerot allowed
of these doors have at length been closed. Italy, by declaring
There must be no half messurek war on Germany, hea shat the Swise door with a enep, and now. -no more hanging back until the Ramanis bas** banged, barred cat has jamped a bit farther. and bolted" the main gate Let as dictate our terms in the Ia Wanchai Bay there are at through which a continuous and Near Eset, and have done with once and for all. present six Japanese fishing traw very important supply of oil and the matter
180 bor territory lere, which bave evidently put ingraio has been reaching be Cen-Greece must come in, or we A certain bargain with others. Family owing to bad weather prevailing trai Powers. Only a few wickets must outside. It is rather an unusual now remain open.
fcol may still relations cannot longer be allowed occurrence to see there trawlers amount of
the so far away from home, and the be eept
Dateb to stand, between a nation and frontier. Chinese especially have been very
Sume 800 la
Constantine on her true destiny. interested in their arrival.
doubtedly resnh Germany must choose between the Allies Thee: Uiv from Bangkok and through Sweden, but since the and the sister of the All Highest. the s.. Haurule from Saigon Battle of Jutland our blockade of That lady, whatever her virtues, brought cargoes of rice into port the Baltic has been more effective. has got to get out or get under," But for these sources of supply and the whole crowd of German yesterday.
has now overcome the difficulties above! which impeded the supply of ship. I suppose the Colonel is on the bailding material. New Eag Somme just now and doubtless ineeringe have ruled easier and he will have writen some interest chares have been offering at 13. ing things about the place. I was Linde and Hotele. Anglo-among the German dug-outs a French could be placed at 92, and soon sa the frat line was basked Investments after sales at 1, siin, and I don't think I'll ever for- 90. Centrale sold at $81 with get the sights I came scross then Thess. Euplectela has arrived all the gates are closed. A sense officiale and intrigasra must go further buyers,
they were not pretty. One of here from Balik Papan with baik Cotton Mills. The rise which the most tragic pictures I saw in oil for the Asistio Petroleum we noticed last week, and to a very short, narrow, zig zag Company. which we alluded as probable in trench. Suddenly I came previous Circulers, was so
exon a British sergeant facing aggerated by the public as to Bavarian
therefore
+
the German
Suflerlug at Ruhleben.
of suffocation and despair meat with her. What a happy family now overwhelm the people of the All Highest will soon have Germany sod Austria, The bal-round him at Polidam! Our loon is still abnormally expand. motto must be, "Those who are ed, but at a dozen diferent points not with us are against as" punctures are threatened which
Dividend in BOL.
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That paragraph 11 of Art. XVII be cancelled andthe following paragraph be substituted therefor :-
11. To invest and deal with any moneys of the *Company net immediately required for the purposes "thereof upon such securities and investments (not | being shares of the Company) and in such mannor as they may think fit and from time to time to vary or realize such securities and investments.” That paragraph. 13 of Art XVII be cancelled and the following paragraph be substituted therefor
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13. Before recommending any dividend, to set aside out of the profits of the Company such sums BS they think proper as a reserve fund to meet contingencies or for equalising dividends, or for special dividends, or for repairing, improving, and maintaining any of the property of the Company "and for such other purposes as the Directors shall "in their absolute discretion think conducive to the "interests of the Company; and to invest the several sums so sec aside upon suca invesɩments "(other than shares of the Company) as they may think fit and from time to time to deal with and vary such investments, and dispose of all orany part thereof for the benefit of the Company and to "divide the reserve fuad into such special funds as they think fit with full power to employ the "assets constituting the reserve fund in the business of the Company, and that wịthout being bound to * keep the same separate from the other asseta." That paragraph 14 of Art. XVII be cancelled and the following paragraph be substituted therefor
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14. To employ the reserve food for the time being or any portion thereof (and that whether such fund or such portion as is proposed to be dealt with was eet aside for the special purpose to which it is proposed to be applied or for any other purpose or "not) in or for all or any of tae following purposes; "that is to say, in meeting contingencies, in equalis- "ing dividends, in paying special dividends or *bonuses, ia repairing improving or maintaining any of the property of the Uompany or otherwise ** in the business of the Company and in or for such "other purposes as the Directors shall ia their dis- "cretion think conducive to the interests of the **Company and in regard to any such employment
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as aforesaid the Directors shall not be bound to keep ** the reserve fund separate from the other assels.” That the following new paragraphs be added to Art, XXI and numbered respectively 12 and 13.
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"12. Any general meeting declaring a dividend may "make a call on the members of such amount as the "meeting fixes, but so that the call on each member "shall not exceed the dividend payable to him, and "so that the call be made payable at the same time 'as the dividend, and the dividend may, if so arranged "between the Company and the member, be set off against the call. The making of a call under this "clause shall be deemed ordinary business of an ordin- "ary general meeting which declares a dividend." **13. Any general meeting declaring a dividend may "direct payment of such dividend wholly or in part. "by the distribution of specific assets, and in partico- "lar of paid-up shares or debentures of the Company, "or paid-up shares or debentures of any other "Company, or in any one or more of such ways, and "the Directors shall give effect to such resolution; "and, where any difficulty arises in regard to the “distribution, they may settle the same as they "think expedient, and in particular may issue "fractional certificates, and may fix the value "for distribution of such specific assets, or any "part thereof, and may determine that cash payments shail be made to any members, upon the footing at “the value so fixed, in order to adjust the rights of "all parties, and may vest any such specific assets in "trustees upon such trusts for the persons entitled to "the dividend as may seem expedient to the Direc- *tors. Where requisite a proper contract shall be ́" filed in accordance with Section 90 of the Companies "Ordinance 1911 and the Directors may appoint any person to sign such contract on behalf of the persons entitled to the dividend, and such appointment shall be effective," Dated the 12th day of October, 1916,
EUROPEAN AGENCY.
Indente
|
M. MANUK,
Secretary.
B.
Perhaps the most signifisent prove very short-lived, and prices on his knee, the sergeant with Flushing, September 7.-Ten may let out the gas with a rash news of all is the dismissal of Von close some points lower than the bie bayonet, pointed forward. For interned Civilians arrived last and case the whole rosten fabric Falkenhayn and the substitution bigbest rates louched. While the a moment I expected to see them night from Ruhleben also four of militariem to collapse on the of Von Hindenburg. The Allies position is statistically strong, the spring at each other but in women and five children from top of its occupants.
ought to erect a monument to Von assettled state of the oustry and another instant I realised. These Germany. Those rolessed from
By a atauge irony, there is still Falkenhayn. He has been of Inland credite, two had come face to face and internment repost the story of the one road open between the Cen- throughout the apostle of stisok. together with the local lighter bath bed fired at the esme time. terrible Life as Rulleben. The tral Powers and their two dupes, la consequence, the German of money, must be taken into Both were dead. One comes
Bulgaria and Turkey. Passengers armies have been bled to death- prisoners have nothing but pota consideration.
across ao many silent stories like toes and some fish twice weekly. can still travel from Berlin and in Rassis, in attempts to break Rabbers. The price of the raw that the enddest of all when you for the rest they depend on Vienna scross the Danube through through to Calais, and before What is the real article in the London produce find two comrades together-one merket has tended ather to had been wounded, the other tried Parcels from England and neutral Belgrade, Nish, Sofia and Adris- Verdon.
countries, They suffer greatly nople to Constantinople. But significance of the appointment droop, but the state of depression to bring bis friend to safety and from the loneliness of their confine what a melancholy journey for of Von Hindenburg? I under this heading is dae to the failed!
those who desire to follow the inclined to think, myself, that bigh rate of native interest and I asw one underground hospital ment, which is the main reson Via Dolores of Germany's Near it presages a general retreat of WHOLESALE
|for the mental derangement of so the consequent lack of native of 300 beds; it Яне not
Any European, Non-Asistió or is too late! They must pass line both in the east and in the buying ordere. Dominions. A apparently a clearing station, but many of them. Three of such Esstern ambitions before it the German armies to a shorter
Indian desiring to leave the Becoud interim dividend of Tie, obvionely a permanent institution,
mentally, deranged persons are
through devastated territories west. It is the Kaiser's delicate
Colony should apply in writing 0.50 is payable on 3rd proximo. All the dag-ouls were furnished among those released. The women with guns of Salonica thundering msoner of breaking the evil
for permission to do so to the who are German by birth, bat Jaya Consolidated. A second in with real bede and fine linen married to Englishmen, left Gar- from the south and with the guns tidings to the German people.
Druggists Captain Superintendent of Police, teria of Tie. 1.00 has bensbrets looted from the neighbour many owing to the great scarcity or the Danube from the north, hero. He has never ben de
at least 48 hours before the in- of Ramanis pounding away Hindenburg is still the popular Sundries, declared payable on 10th prox. ow. There were stores of evil-
China, Earthenware and Glas-tended hour of departure, giving prevailing there. One of the
name, nationality, age, sex, called for 31st instant. Sas which were many cinders and Egypt and arrived at Hamburg Shanghai-Malays. The meeting is sulling, evil tasting bread; in released men, who was born in Boonomoally, this route is of no feated. He is not the Kaiser's ware,
valas to Germany and Austria, man, se was Von" Falkenhayn. Cycles, Motor Cars and Ac-height and occupation of the applicant, and stating the name HBWS will
with cessories, OGIE Manggis. An interim dividend cf gave one the impression of boing on August 5, 1014, when he was a Bulgaria and Tarkey have not The Tis. 0.25 in advertited to be paid made from chopped hay and at once arrested, said that apart All they can do is to whine for is the last desperate attempt
Drapery, Millinery and Piece of the steamer or other vessel or a biscuit or chicken to send them. better graos from him. This
Goods,
the hour of the train, by which straw. We found the whole from mental cases at Buhleben,
Fancy Goods and Perfumery,
the applicant wishes to leave... to preserve the Hohenzollern Miscellaneous. A few Cono reseges of two ballooks, and others are suffering from stomach dzmunition from their masters.
Hardware, Machinery structions were sold at 88 with there was plenty to drink; at and heart troubles, from which
and | Applicants should apply in person The question which immediate- | Dynasty. The popular hero,
for their passes at the Central more available. Telephones were least for the first owners!
Police Station between the hour ly concerns as is, how long will has been shoved in, at the eleventh sold and offer at 90. Gas changed
the last gate in the Near Esst be hour, between the Kaiser and bin
of 9 am to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to hande at 24, and Bores Bazaare
left open for the "Balkan Zug" people. We are certainly on the
p.m. daily.
at 30.
to puff its weary way from Berlin eve of dramatic developments.
on 3 let instant,
A Youthful Admiral.
I am sure the general tons of the German Army is vastly lower-
many
die.
promptly executed at lowest cash prices for all British and Continental goods, including
Books and Stationery, Boots, Shoes and Leather, Chemicals and
1.
Metals,
Jewellery, Plate and Watches. Photographic & Optical Goods. Provisions and Oilmen's Stores.
eto, etc. Commission 24% to 5'.. Trade Discounts allowed. Special Quotations on Demand, Sample Cases from £10 upwards. Consignments of Produce bold
ed this last three weeks.' AU machine-gunnera ara cheined in the highest spirits, and declare co Constantinople? Ramania This is the third change in the bend and foot to their guns, and with no ascertain voies thas the holds all the kaya to the Near General Staff since the war began, The moment the men get a chance Fritzon have their numbers up. East and to Constantinople. By Von Moltke was good enough for Admiral Koltchuk, the new to give themselves up they do it Mind you, this from men who declaring war on the Central Bohleswig-Holstein, for the crash- Commander-in-Chief of the Las very emartly. If I am right in have been right down into the Powers, she has plaood shem at the ing of Austria in 1866 and for the Bind Fleet in the Black Sea, is judging the spirit of all from the fray, and one gets impressions at partial disposal of the Allies. But Fro-German War, O'est le com only 12 years of age. Es in the many prisoners I have seen Intely, moh a time which it difficult in she going to employ her armies mansement de la fin, youngest admiral in Russia sad I do not think the end oss be vary to socpant for, but are none the against Balgiris waller agains. Look out for something at ALAN OUT. also probably, in the world. far off At least, our boys ses mi|losu trun,
The Austeinud In Transylvania ? | startling | 12106,
on Account AWH WILLIAM WILSON
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flongkong 9th, July, 1915,
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