1892
HONGKONG: TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS AⱭo. Z
GERMANS CURSE THE KAISER.
· Story of an Australian: Charge..
(Compiled from the "Hongkong In the course of a letter to a
Telegraph" files for the week, friend," an
ending August 25, 1892.No
The Dollar.
Australian soldier:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1917.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.
THE DAIRY FARM CO.,.
LIMITED.
writes as follows from a London Proposed Call of $1.50 (Dollar Hospital:-"It is rather mone-
August 18➡ The rate of the tocons waiting in a trenak, but Ons and Fifty Cents) per share dollar on-demand to-day in 2/9;.” exciting when the shells start to
A Police Matter.
fall around like hail. We were August 19.--"Under the agrïe in the trench two days when word ments of the Hongkong police, came that we had to capture the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN part of their pay is stopped when enemy's trench that night. We Annual General Meeting of the that the Twenty first they are in hospital, from suy had to start at midnight. It was shareholders of the above Com cause whatever. Thus a man a wonderful sight. Oor artillery paay will be held at the Com might be badly mealed in arrest started to put up a barrage st two pany's Office, No. 2 Lower Albert ing criminals, and would have to minutes to 18 (everything is Road. Victoria, Hongkong, on pay for the countientious efforts, worked to the second), and just SATURDAY the Sixth day of No wonder they never try ! !!... before it lifted we started. The October. 1917, at 12.30 o'clock in
Economy!
whole battalion to a man leaped in the afternoon when the Anguit 19.Au instance of oat of the trench, and the noise of following resolution (as well as the ingenuity displayed by con- the gane made it impossible to other business of which notice tractors and their kind in getting hear the man next you speak. I will be given in due course) will the Government to spend money was knocked over once, and be proposed as an ordinary annecessarily was furnished re- scarcely remember anything until cently in the changing of the big I fell into Fritz'e trench, safe and fire bell at the fire station in soond, I was greeted by three Queen's Road. The old bell was Germans, who emerged from a found to have cracked, and had to dugout, with their hands up, and be re-cast or replaced; in the mean-pleaded. *Mercy, comrade." We time, the bell from the the City captured one officer and sixty men. Clock tower, of exactly similar and they all seemed rather pleased size, was taken down, and fixed at being taken prisoners Bime up in, the watch tower at the fire of them have learnt to say, *-* alation, no emall trouble and ex- the Kaiser," and it is amusing to penes being involved. When the best them say it. At 5 o'clock now bell was ready, instead of thay counter-sttacked, but wa being taken to the vacant clock managed to keep item
Lower,
out,
it was pot as is the watch although we were cat up a good tower, and the original clock bell deal. The worst time is on guard was taken bunk, en thst just twice at night, as your nerves get a bit a much work was done se there jumpy, and you imagine you can ought to have been. "Either bell see the Germane coming back; would have been equally satisfio sometimes you will find yourself tory in either tower; but in spite firing at a mound of earth." of all Sir. William Robinson's economical professione, the motto of the Hongkong Government remains never spend sixpence where a ebilling will do.”
SANITARY BOARD.
The orders of the day for next Today's, meeting of the Banit- The Skipping Outlook. August 20-There are a few ary Board include:-
1. Leiter from Government re- people who told.tbat the bad con- ; fition of the coast freight marketlative to the erection of one water ia ófficient to deter capital from closet at Golf Club House on investing in China osastera for a Rural Building Lot No. 88, Dzep decade at least. They belong to Water Bay. A silly weak-minded class that
Letter from Government, re-
believes a drop of rain indicates allative to the erection of two water telage and a mild attack of closets in a new bungalow ca indigestion a sign of approaching Roral Building Lot No. 137, death, Poor things! They are, Pokialam Road.
alione, and their spleen is sadly oat of order."
resolution.
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"That pursuant to Article * 21 (12) of the Company's "Articles of· Association : a "Call of $1.50 (Dollar One and Fifty Cents) per share be and the same is hereby made on the shareholders on the Company's Register 4 on the Sixth day of October 1917, and that such call be made payable on or before the Tenth day of November, 1917. to the Company's "Bankers in Hongkong (The
Bankdog Hongkong and Shanghai Coporation) and 'that the dividend of $1 (Dollar Two) per share sanctioned by the Company in General Meeting on the "Sixth day of October, 1917 share- aay may, should holder so desire, to the extent "of $150 (Dollar One and Fifty Cents) be set off against such call."
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That the Secretary of the Company be and is hereby "authorised to endorse and "sign on the Share Certificates of shareholders who have satisfied such call on them a certificate to the effect that "the shares referred to in such "certificate are fully paid up.' The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY the Fifth day of Octo- bor to SUNDAY the Twenty Brst day of October, 1917, (both Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, pursuant days inclusive) during which to notice, will ask:-"What steps period no transfer of shares can The Catherine Apcer. (if any) have been taken by the į be registered. August 23-The Ajour liner Government to carry out the re Catherine Apotr, Captein Qiilmat, commendation made by the Board which strived here on her maiden on the 12th December last that Toyage on Sunday morning, cover- the area of Crown Land lying be- ed the distance between Bingapore tween Das Voeux and Connaught Iand this port in 4 days and 16 Roads opposite the Sailor's Roma boare quite a record passage should be laid out as a depot for which speaks volumes for the the storage and sorting of poultry builders of her hall sad en-at the earliest possible date, such gines (Movers, D. and W. Hen- recommendation having been derson & Co.) and the skilful made with a view to the abatement W navigation of her commander." of the nuisance occasioned by
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NOTICE.
COLLEGE, Macao. Re-opens Sept. 10th. A liberal education provided in F INTERIM DIVIDEND of English, Commercial Subjects, ONE DOLL B (8L) per Modern languages and Chinese share for accore 1917 will be
at very moderate charyes. payable on FRIDAY, the 24th
The school is situated in the August, 1917. Shoroholders are healthiest part of Macao requested to apply for Dividend
Applications to the Fr. Director.. Warrants at the Company's Office St. George's Buildings, Hongkong.
MANUFACTURING CO. LTD. ST. JOS. PH'S
AR Dated this Seventeenth day of August, 1917.
M. MANUK,
Secretary.
WANTED.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.
OUR ADVERTISING
HAS
DRIVING POWER
THE DOLLAR DIRECTORY-DOES.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of! the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY the 20th August, JANTED: A complete set 1917, to FRIDAY, 24th August, NONE HAMMER HOME LIKE
of the ENCYCLOPAE-1917, both days inclus.ve..
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., such storage and sorting in EG DIA BRITANNICA. Reply stat
General Managers. ing price, what edition and con- Aagast 23.-Gird, your loin, Shing and Li Bing Streels?." backle -on your armour. and
M. F. B. L. Bowley pareuant dition. Box. 1310 c/o Hongkong
Telegraph. " brighten your steel, ye wayward to notice, will move:-"That the youths, ye Church abhorrers, for Board recommende the Govern the day ban at last arrived when meat to extend to the sea as so00 a terrifs onslaught from a squad as possible the sewere draining of General Booth's Gladiators the central portions of the Peak may be expected at almost any into the Waetern Aberdeen Valley moment. The scouts of the below the Falle"". advancing
are in our bosl
Mra. midat. They (that is Ohmootoo, Mina Bryne and Misa Pearing) arrived here this morning in the Melbourne and are believed to be under cover in the Western dietriot of the Colony. They were seen walking in that direction this morning dressed in
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
3.5.
NIPPON MARU.”
KONINKLYKE PAKET- VAART MAATSCHAPPY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
From PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
the khaki uniform something like From SAN FRANCISCO THE Steamship
"Our Very Own' wear, and were
'taking jook' of everything an route. & Telegraph reporter,
ho
a barry to report the positione
HONOLULU . & JAPAN
PORTS.
* B* JACOB".
The above, named steamer having arrived from the above having arrived, consignees of port Consignees of Cargo by
Godown
a're notified that ali
All broken, chafed and dam-
UNION INSURANCE- SOCIETY OF CANTON LTD. Eetablished 1835. Incorporated in Hongkong.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOT
[OTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Union Insurance Society of Cantou Limited will be held at the Head Office of the Society Nos. 3 and 4 Queen'e Buildings, Victoria in the Col- ony of Hongkong, on SATUR-
came upon them suddenly when turning a corner, turned on bid cargo are hereby notified to her heel and made tracks down sead in their Bills of Lading for Goods are being landed at their DAY, the 1st day of September, steep incline at such a speed that counter-signature, and to take risk into the hazardous and/or 1917 at 12 o'clock NOON for the bystanders thought he must be immediate delivery of cargo from extra hazardous Godowns of the
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf purpose of proposing, consider mad, but he wasn't; he was in alongside...
Cargo remaining undelivered and Godown Co., Ltd., whence ing and, if thought fit, passing
the following Resolution viz:- of the Boout at the earliest on 19th August, at 5 F.M., will and/or from the wharves delivery
"That the provisions of possible moment, He will be landed at consignees' risk and may be obtained. Goode not
the Society's Memoran- dum of Association with sond all their (mee?) meetings, expense, and delivery must then cleared by 25th August 1917, will
respect to ita objects, be and "kusé-drilla (with the Gust be taken from the Company's be subject to rent.
altered so as to read as in tow) and will, it is vaguely. Storage charges will be assess" aged packages are to be lett in
shewn in the print signed ramonted, become the sole agent ed on all cargo remaining un-the Godowns, where they will be
for the purpose of identi- in the Far East for the sale of the delivered on: 24th August, at examined by Mosers. Goddard &
fication by the Chairma Salvation Army's organ, the War 5 P.M.
Douglas on the 24th August,
of this Meeting," :* No Fire Insurance whatever at IU A.M, Ory, unless our Office Goat, who
Should the above Resolution has been absent since Saturday's will be effected.
Claims against the steamer be passed by the requisite ma Athletic Tournament on a jam- No Claims will be recognised must be presented in writing jority, it will be submitted for boree down West, ants him olsen after the goods have left the within ten days after arrival of confirmation as a Special Resc-
Steamer or todown.
steamer, otherwise they will not lution to a Second Excraordinary All chafed and damaged cargo be recognised.
General Meeting which will be The Hongkong Hotel
|will be landed into the Company's No Fire Insurance will be subsequently convened. August 25,--"The Hongkong Godown, where they will be effected by the undersigned in Hotel extension is now visible to examined on 28th Anguet, at any case whatever. the naked eye in all its beauty, 10 A.M.
out of the switra,”
4.
A. print of the Memoranduo as proposed to be altered can be Bill of Lading will be coun-seen at the Head Office of the
Society."
stripped of, ihs: hage scaffolding No Claim will be recognised if tersigned by that has concealed its growth, filed after the 7th September,
and now stands forth, as the 1917.
higgest and finest building in the Esat. It will be opened in about
T. DAIGO,
Agent.
Hongkong 18th August 1917.
4gents. JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJE,
Agenta, Hongkong, 18th August, 1917.
SAKURA BEER
SOLE AGENTS:
Dated this 18th day of August SUZUKI & CO.
1917.
C. H. P, HAY, pro, Genaral. Manager.
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