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THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTĎ.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. "
Yearly Meeting of shareholders The thirty-eighth Ordinary will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Wednesday the 21st May 1919, at 11.30 am.
Books The Transfer
and Register of Members of the Com- pany will be closed from the 7th May to the 21st May, both days
inclusive.
Immediately after the above mentioned Meeting the General Agents in pursuance of Article 17 of the Company's Articles pro- pose to ask the Consulting Com- mittee to sanction a call of $50 re: share in respect of the monies unpaid on the shares held by members of the Company.
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- BILLIARDS FOR WOMEN..
BY HOWELL EVANS,
The game of billards-never more popular than it is to-day- has always been played mainly— almost entirely by man, women [seeming to take pointerest whit
ever in it.
Occasionally a woman spectator has been seen at a big match, but she has generally looked rather bored and sometimes very sleepy, Really, billiards is perhaps the one game in which, up to now, women have taken no interes Tennis and golf have their women lovers and players. Yes, and even cricket and football, too. I knew a girl who could make a cricket ball swerve! And more than one munition factory has produced a serviceable team of women footballers.
Now I think women in cricket and football are out of place.
MEASUREMENT MIRACLE They are not physically fitted for
The biggest thing discovered by measurement in earthly experience has been the North, The smallest
on South Pole. thing has, within the last few
ment at the British National days, been discovered in measure Physical Laboratory at Tedding ton, writes "G. T. B. in the Westminster Gazette.
This smallest, tweeniest, un- seeable, unseizable historic trifle the closest approach in mortal substance to ghostliness-is the space of a millionth of an inch! Try to realise it.
One-hundredth
of a ten-thousandth of an inch Divide an inch into hundredths,
those two games.
But billiards! Ah, there is a game for women!
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 1819
TO-DAY'S SHARES QUOTATIONS.
BRITAIN'S FINANCIAL
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TWO NIGHTS EXTENSION OF SEASON. ̧ TO-NIGHT
OFFICIAL PRICES Banks.
THEATRE LE
ROYAL
$690
b. $495 na, 480
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$215
$1090
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$955
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$160
$330
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133
$ 34
Refineries.
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$35
Mining.
30/-
2nd May
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3rd May
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Lord Swaythling writes:-Cantons Taking everything into considera- North Chinas tion, the financial position of Unions Great Britain is not nearly so bad Yangiszon as the pessimists try to make out. Far Easterns We are still a creditar country, and with industry there should China Firas not be the slightest difficulty in H, X, Fires as between enemy, neutral, and recovering our relative position Allied countries. In the relative Steamboats.
Douglases sense our position is not worse, Indos (Prof.) than it was before the war. but if anything a little better Irdos (Def.)
What makes our financial Ferries position look hopeless to the pessimists is the fact that our debts are more evident than our assets. The debts are more in the public eye than the amount which is owing to us by foreign Kailans
Langkats countries.
This country can get over the Shanghai Loans heavy strain of the war, granted Shai Explorations two things. In the first place. Raubs people will have to settle down Tranchs to work harder than they have Urals
Women. most rightly, love prettiness. And the prettiness of billiards should appeal to them.
To start with, the green cloth,ever done before. Secondly, all
subdued scheme of harmony that the red ball, the two white ones, unnecessary expenditure. both the shaded lights, all make a Private and public, must be
absolutely avoided. is soothing and comforting to the eye
And if the billiard table itself pretty, the game itself is prettier still
Billiards properly played is a graceful game. A woman looks well bending over the table.
Shells
Sugars
Malabons
Docks, Wharves, Godowns, &c. H.E. Wharvesh $130 sa. 128 E. Docks
1.176
b.
1.
$153
S'hai Docks
very bad example in this respect,
The Government is setting a N. Engineerings b
Lands, Hotels & Buildings. and if there is a continuance of Centrals that reckless extravagance which R.K. Hotels is going on now in public depart-Land Invest. ments the general public chanot 'phreys Est. KToon Lands to expected to retrench.
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$13.20 rights $5
Such huge sums as £495,000,- 000, which is at present sought It is a game, too, that does not for Civil Service use, will have to require violent exertion or physic
cut down rigorously. And al strength of arm and body. In
For can be done. the long, trying professional game, stamina and strength of ample, there is no need to establish an eleventh Department Then divide one of the hundred- nerve are, of course, indispens-with a new staff when centralisa- the into bundredths, and the able. But the weakest woman hundredth of hundredths into could play an ordinary hundred tion of work formerly scattered among ten Departments is con- more hundredths. In one of these up" without fatigue. Goal divisions you have a mil-
templated. Care must be taken lionth of an inch.
to see that those who did the work previously are not allowed to waste their time in one of the old Departments. The Ministry of Health is an illustration. The Departments, set up to control fying are two others.
And delicacy of touch, that great requisite for billiards, is surely a woman's
possesion the
At the same time the General Agents will also under Article 104 (p) ask for the sanction of the!
The first man in the world to And
wonderful, the Consulting Committed to the pay-!
measurement to such almost unexpected, prettiness ment of a special dividend of $50, carry
with its per share (parable immediately infinitely small limits is Mr.or after the call out of the Reserve Fund.
JARDINE MATHESON
& CO.LTD.
¡General Agents, Hongkong, 30th April. 1919.
measurement, Jet
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GOVERNMENT WASTE.
Green islands China Borneos C. L. Borneos s. cum
$ 76 China Providents b. Dairy Farms b. 8301 sa. 31/3016
$78 $331 H. K. Electrics
$316 $7.50
D.
Macao Electrics Ropes Trams. Low Level n.
Trams, Peak, new.b. Trams. Peak, old b.,
Laundries Steel Foundries U. Waterboats, Watsons. Wm. Powells Wiseman's
It may be desirable to have a Department for each of these, but if so, the Government must see that the existing Departments are very much reduced or abolished. The waste of time and man- power in Government offices is deplorable, and money would be. saved if the Treasury appointed inspectors to go round the various Departments to End out exactly how many clerks can be dis-induce pensed with
$7.60
cts.
.75
b.
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$ 331
$12
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TELEGRAPH"inforce the authority of the provided. I should think so, for wheel and help as it has never man starting with a very small
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OWING TO THE
ENORMOUS SUCCESS
A. J.C. Brookes: {
British difficulties and fascinating pro engineer in the Laboratory's blems, to be solved only by cunn. metrology department. He in- ing hand and clever thought, Should these sacctions be obe vented an original method of Sne should appeal to women. tained the Transfer Books and Register of Members will be which is said to be startlingly facilities for women to
So far there have been no real become closed for an additional 14 days,
acquainted with the game. i.e. until and including the 4th simple...
A millionth of an inch! Not
Only the well-to-do can have a June 1919.
much to discover, you say? Well, table in their home. And a wo the discoverer cannot plant a man could not play in the public British flag on it, but probably his rooms as they are at present. determination of this millionth of The Birmingham magistrates an inch will have greater im- recently refused a licence for Imediate value to humanity than billards hall unless "equal faci-
the mep
who are the finding of the North Pole has lities" were" provided for wo
returning to this country to given in benefits up to date. In men. I do not know whether
one-man businesses. On the other hand, Labour will set up the first place, the prestige at- that means that a separate
certain that no taching to the discovery will re-room. for them should be have to put its shoulder to the I am quite metrology department of the it would be impossible for a helped before. It will be necess-capital could build up a business National Laboratory in the woman or two women, to walkary for all to turn their hands to by himself in a lifetime while British industrial world. into a public room and play in something. We shall not bare to faced with an income tax of 6.
had educated manu- the same way as men do.
lapse back to the pre-war system This type of business should be people made encouraged rather than retarded. facturers of munitions
Perhaps one day soon we may in which some to
The Enly way in which such the need or fineness of accuracy see billiard rooms for women only, leisure their only business. up to hundred-thousandths of an and later a women's champion. Under such conditions. I am businesses have been built up in inch'during the war, Since the ship. For once women fall under of the opinion that we can easily the past has been by men who industries have become fluent. the spell of this amazing, this compete with foreign countries. have lived economically and who even loquacious, in speaking in intriguing, fascinating game, theyThe hours of the workman can have put a large proportion of terms of hundred-thousandths of will, as in other games of skill, be shortened and his wages be their profits back into the busi- an inch, it was necessary for the produce players of more than increased so long as, on the otherness. laboratory
Inducements should be given to corkscrew cen-average merit.
side, the workmen will agree to give up all restrictions upon out- to such men in order to help them- put or upon labour. Further start again. By assisting them evary opportunity to save their capital they will
to be taken advise be enabled to build up a business people not to spend money on in the course of a lifetime. Such The proper a prospect would keep the men For one thing, it may be possible
avoidable imports. way to do this is by a big pro-here. They would not be driven to measure molecules. When the
away to the Dominions where phenomenon of molecular move-
paganda ampaign by which the "MUSICAL JOTTINGS" measured in microscopic bits, Government patrol
ment in metals under heat may
people should be educated and the taxation is lower. taught economies which would be We then the expansion and contrac-leadership of a "Captain Semik." to the country's benefit. tion of a rail or a great girder writes Mr. H. J. Greenwall from should explain to everyone how I rather essential it is for the country that "ROBBIE'S LETTER" actitude.
be computed with ex-Berlin on March 1.
wonder what Mayor Schmitchen people should not be responsible theoretically the fairest tax that one could impose. But unfort-
品 But away with practical con-whom I interviewed recently for the importation of one un-
has done with the contents of the necessary article. This, of course,unately, although it is fair to the siderations and consider the
applies merely to laxaries.
individual in practice it has the Then there is the question of effect of damaging the country by rhapsodic possibilities of a mil municipal safe. “PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT"lionth of an inch!
There is some possibility of a general strike in Berlin. At control. Anyone who has any-curbing industry and hampering In some instances enterprise, What are we getting to? It' Spandau the munition workers thing to do with trade knows how
led to speculation wasn't so very long ago the stand-are demanding standard wages, absolutely essential it is that the it has
But this is not the SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODYard inch was the length of the the confiscation of dynastical Government should remove con- and waste.
of the tax. In last joint of the thumb, and a fout fortunes and incomes, also private trol, in order to give British fault was the lengthwise span of a shoe income over a certain
an opportunity of reality this is what occurs. If a Amount merchants Note the day on which you starting, crafty merchants to which will be fixed later; the an competing with their foreign com-
hire clerk's with long tapering nulment of all public debt, includ-petitors. By so doing, profit andan is earning more than bewas before the war started nothing could be fairer than that he should pay the bulk of the excess
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favor to feature appears.
tripetally toward the ultimate
zero of nothingness.
A second great value of the discovery is the instrumentation
it gives scientists in research.
may
reasons.
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BOLSHEVIK UPTOPIA.
GERMAN DEMANDS FOR GENERAL CONFISCATION.
Dusseldorf-if reports be true has been captured by a small under the
abolition
more. must
There is also the question of
the excess profits tax. My own opinion is that during the war and even after the war
1. to the Government,
this is
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nails and small feet for obviousing war loans; the confiscation turnover would be increased, and, of all banks, mines, and found- of course, a larger amount be We could not grasp anything ries, as well as all other large available for taxation.
But the result is that directly PRESENT-DAY PATRIOTISM.
Upon the method or system of in perception smaller than a hair. commerical and industrial con- Speaking at King's College Sir Alongside a millionth part of an cems; the
of all taxation the financial prosperity a man has earned, at the present Henry Newbolt said that patriot-linch a hair is a massive redwood Parliamentary bodies and muni- of the country also depends. The moment, the same amount as he ism to-day was far more worthy log.
cipalities, their functions being rate of payment of our debts earned before the war he stops TEL. 2499 and based on far better ideals Our expansive philosophies undertaken by workmen's and depends upon how taxation can because on all other earnings he than had been the case in any have reached ont always to bigger soldiers councils; the setting kept at the present height. It is is obliged to pay the extra duty. So past age of our history. Patriot worlds. Will the reaction to this up of a revolutionary tribune perfectly evident that if we can he refuses all reasonable business ism," he added. " in its early form was very closely connected with news of the determination of a before which will be tried those retrench and keep the taxation at at small profit which entails same man will attempt to go in war. Boys at school have only millionth of an inch and this guilty of the war, the list to the figure it now stands we shall the slightest risk. Whereas the for speculations on which he may one idea of patriotism and that is is the first announcement to include the two Hohenzollerns, be able to pay off our delt in a
get out-gire s contractual Ladendorff, Hindenburg, and Tir-comparatively short time...
get large and quick returns. connected with successful war."
curiosities-turning 05 away pitz, as well as the traitor of
LIGHTEN, THE INCOME TAX. Quoting the first verse of the
from the bleak aspects of the the revolution," Ebert, Scheids But while taxation is kept high Should the speculation turnout "British Grenadier," which in- cludes the lines" But of all the moon to the possibilities of life mann, and Noske; soviet govern-in one respect, there ought to be disastrously 80 per cent. of the world's breve heroes there's none on a globule a millionth of arment for all factories; and the some relaxation in another. I loss would fall on his excess.
release of political prisoners. have not the slightest hesitation profits returns.
There need not be the slightest that can compare "(with the inch in diameter?
This frankly Bolshevik pro- in saying that at the evey earliest Extra Later news comes that
the Government, grounds for pessimism with re- the millionth of an inch has been gramme is to be submitted for opportunity bisected, and the laboratory's the approval of the Soldfors' and should reduce or lighten the gard to our finances if individ apparatus now measures to a Workmen's Council of Grater burden of income tax on the ualism will sink and industry be
lesser earned incomes in order to allowed to flourish. two-millionth of an inch.
British Grenadier), he remarked: "That is just the rollicking spirit which we cannot suppress and there may be some use, perhaps, in keeping it alive."
Berlin.
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