NOTICES.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 7 1920.
NOTICES.
11
DOUGLAS & GRANT LTD.
KIRKCALDY, SCOTLAND
RICE MILLING
MACHINERY
A simple yet highly economical Oil Engine
Nickelplated & White Ware
BATHROOM FIXTURES
New Stock Jest Unpacked.
The largest and
must widely
experienced makers
in the world.
Sole Agents in South China
DODWELL & CO., HONGKONG.
CROSSLEY
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.,
30 & 32, Des Voeux Road, Central.
THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment;—
Principal features: Small Premium. Liberal Surrender Value. Fa Medical Examination. Return of Premium in the Event of Death, and Numerous Options at the Age of 25. WRITE FOR PAMPHLET AND
FULL PARTIDULARS TO
DODWELL & CO. LTD. ́Agents.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING
ESTABLISHED 1883.
MAHUFACTURERS OF
PURE MANILA ROPE
3 STRAND
to 15"
SIRUÜKYALINCH
CABLE LAID
5" to 15"
DIECUMFERRKUR
4 STRAND
3" to 10" CIRCUMFEREUL
·Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 let in langth, Prima, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO. General Managers.
CROSSLEY
OIL ENGINES
are the solution of the problem of design. ing an engine that will work on heavy oils with high efficiency. yet be thoroughly reliable and so simple that highly skilled attention is not required. They will work an all brands of crude, refined und residual oils, and can be run by native labour. Their strong construction and absolute reliability make them the ideal power for use in isolated places.
Made in sizes from 10 to 250 B.H.P.
CROSSLEY BROTHERS, LTD.,
MANCHESTER,
NTAR C
SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA 1–
ENGLAND.
ALEX. ROSS & CO.,
25 Des Voeux Road, HONG KONG.
STAR GARAGE.
*Tel No. 3017.
:49. Des Vœux Road Central
HONGKONG.
New Cars on Hire & For Sale.
E. HING & CO.
BEIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIPCHANDLERS AND
HARDWARE MERCHANTS,
'PHONE NO. 1116.
25, WING WOO ST.
CENTRAL.
FRENCH LESSONS.
G. MOUSSION,
15, Morrison Hill Road.
Developing & Printing
Undertaken
=
A. TACK & Co.
36 Des Vauc Road Central.
KODAKS
&
FILMS
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT
COMPANY, LIMITED,
A
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Casks of $75 lbs. nat. In Bage of 250 lbe, net,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.
General Managers. Hongkong, 16th August, 1916.
HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.
Mr. U. SUGA
Mrs. A SUGA
8 Queen's Road Central.
Hongkong.
METALS
of all kinds, especially for ship-. building and engineering works. Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony.
SINGON & G0..
(Established A. D. 1880.) HING LUNG ST. Phone 515
MEE CHEUNG
PHOTOGRAPHER,
NEW FILMS & FINE ALBUMS JUST ARRIVED.
THE KEW FRENCH REMED".
THERAPION NË, 1 THERAPION N12 THERAPION NO.3
Wo. 1 for maddar Camera. No. 1 for Blood
An Dimant Alfa, & Car Chronic WaazzLAOUNG,
VER TEMOR MARLED SOLD - THERAPIEN ́S KO
THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
(Capital Paid up...$1,250,000.)
Losar on Morgage of House Property, de Goods rooted as Storage.
LAVEROSE Wade on Merchezčím. Loans made on the Frendent yetene
TRUSTER, EXECUTOR OF WALLa. ATIDENET, an undertaken and Ersones
Rates and Pardoniany in appilaarten)
To the Office of
KE
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
General Managers,
NORTH BRITISH
AND
MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO..
in which are vested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
AND
THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.
The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates. SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.
MASSAGE HALL
23. FLOWER STREET.
MR. T. TAKAYE, MRS. MORITA, CERTIFICATED MASSEURS. PATIENTS IRRATED IN THEIR OWN Bouza 1 DR,
PUBLISHED ANNUALLY.
TRE
LONDON DIRECTORY
with Provincii & Foreign Sécisas. mombian traders to communicate direct with
MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS
In Lordon and in the Provincial Towns and Industrial Centres of the Cnited Kingdom and the Continent of Europe. The addresses and other details are classified under more than 3,000 trade beadings, incinding EXPORT? MERCHANTS
with detailed particolari of the Goods shipped and the Colonial and Foreign Markets supplied; STEAMSHIP LINES stranged under the Porte to which they sail and indicating the approximate Sailing
| One-lack BERINTER CARDS of Zirms desiring to extend their connections, or Trade Cards of DEALERS SEEKING AGENCIES
nen be printed at a cons of #130,0 for such trade heading under which, they my fnserted. Leger acrertiactata from 21 a
A bopy of the directory will be sent by parcal post for £7, natt mah with order.
THE LONDON DIRECTORY, CO, LTD
25, Abchurch Last, Lostor, E.C. 4, England.
KUSITISA ZATaklimued 105 TEARS.
CABLE COMPANY.
EASTERN EXTENSION'S
The
MEETING.
and other expenses for the causes of delays on tramc, and past year amforted, in round showed clearly that no numbers, to £620.000 against forethought in the past or action £552,000 for 1917. showing at the present time. beyond that an increase of £68,000, which which we have already taken, is mainly accounted for by could have brought out work eighty-fifth ordinary additions to the staff salaries and since the war. started, up to the general meeting of the Eastern war payments. After deductingjeficiency of the service prior to Extension. Australasia, and China from the increased earnings the August, 1914. To go over this Telegraph Company (Limited) additional expenses I have just again now would be only to was held recently at Electra referred to, there remains andetain you unnecessarily we House. Finsbury-pavement. Sit increased net revenue of roundly shali. therefore, send you John Denison-Pender, K.C.M.G., £493,000 for 1918. The amountja . full report of the the chairman, presiding.
we have, therefore, to deal with meeting of shareholders of The General Manager and at to-day's meeting is £1.449,000, the Eastern Company, which will Secretary (Mr. F. E. Hesse) out of which provision has give you full information on this having read the notice con vening been made for the pugment|pubject. As an illustration of the the meeting and the auditors of interest or the Four hormous growth of traffic since certificate.
per Cent. Mortgage Debenture the outbreak of war, I may men-
The Chairman said-Before stock, amounting to over £30,000; tion that "the Trans-Indian and dealing with the report and ac-for excess profits duty and our local traffics between India counts, I must refer to the loss income-tax. payable in England. and the Far East, &c., show an we have sustained by the death together no less a sym than increase in 1918 of roundly, 327 of our esteemed colleague. Mr. £860,000, and contribution to the per cent, over the pre-war year Francis Augustus Bevan, who genera} reserve lund £350.000. 1913. - Consequently, additional had been director of the company leaving a balance after payment carrying capacity is urgently ever since its formation in 1873. of the dividend and bonus, which required to deal with this large His information and advice upon you have received, amounting to volume of traffic, and we are financial questions was always £240,000, of £41,000, which is making arrangements for the most valuable, and we have lost carried forward to the current manufacture and laying of a an able and valued colleague. year's account, against £72,000 new cable between Madras and In presenting the report and for 1917. You will observe on Singapore at the earliest possible accounts, which. I presume page 9 of the accounts that the moment. The Eastern and other you will, AS usual, take company's holdings in War Loan cable companies also urgently as read, your directors have once and National War Bonds on Dec. need more cables to meet their more, to
express their regret 31 last amounted to £1,638,000. traffic requirements, and is will that, for the same reasons that Since the close of the year we therefore, take some little time prevailed in 1917 and last year, have invested a further sum of before this can be effected. The they were unable to hold the £857,000, making a total holding money required for the Madras- annual general meeting, as of nearly £2,500,000, and I am Singapore cable will be taken from formerly, in the month of May. sure you will be pleased to learn the general reserve fund, which, I hope, however, that it will be that a revaluation of our as the shareholders are aware, found possible to hold our next securities showed that the pro-was created for meeting expend- meeting at a date nearer that vision made in past years on iture of this nature. which was customary in pre-account of investment fluctua- A letter received from a share- wardaye. The enforced delay in ftions was found to be practically helder a few days ago suggests holding the meeting did not, how-sufficient to meet the deprecia-the capitalization of the reserve ever, event the distribution tion of the reserve fund securities fund to bring the capital account amongst the shareholders, at the on December 31 last, the date into a truer relation to its actual usual time, of the final dividend when the accounts now before assets, but our reserve fund is and bonus for the year 1918, as you were made up-
the board considered, from the estimated figures then before
were correct.
TRAFFIC. DELAYS.
not a free reserve," as prevails
in some companies and, instead of being capitalized as suggested,
1814 ESTABLISHERS 1914
100
JOHN
HADDON
AND CO.
Export and Import Agents
..
For ONE HUNDRED YEARS in the CITY OF LONDON we have acted as Buying and Selling Agents for Traders,Storekeepers, Growers of Colonial Produce. Are you requiring the services of London Agents to promote We shall be your interests? pleased to enter into correspond- ence with a view to arranging terms to mutual advantage.
CASE
BANK CREDITS ARRANGED.. ADVANCED AGAINST SHIPMENTS.
JOHN
HADDON
AND CO.
Colonial Merchants and Produce Agents, SALISBURY SQUARE, LONDON, E.C.
them, that they would be justified You will have doubtless seen it must be largely added to, as in paying 6 per cent, and the some of the many references ap-in the past, whenever possible usual bonus of 2 per cent., both pearing in the Frees to the delays to meet the heavy calls that will free of income-tax, without wait-in the transmission of the traffic have to be made upon it ing for the shareholders' approvalļover the cables of the Eastern and from time to time. This vacancy and the audited accounts now associated companies, particular-in the directorate caused by the before you show that their views ly during the current year, and to death of Sir John Wolfe Barry, ledge in these matters and ex-Inchcape. G.C.M.G., KC.S.I., the the public announcement recently K. C. B., has been filled by perience of many years in the retiring directors, Mr. John H. Turning to the printed accounts, made by the Eastern Telegraph the appointment of Mr. John H. East will be found of material Wilson, C.M.E. and the Hon. which, I think, you will agree are Company asking the commercial Wilson, C.B.E, which you will be assistance to the board of this Arthur G. Brodrick, were “re- very satisfactory, it will be seen community to curtail their asked to confirm when the re- company. I now beg to move:-elected. that the gross receipts for the cabling as much as possible, until solution for re-election of directors "That the report and accounts of] The auditors, Messrs. Deloitte, year 1918 amounted in round it is possible to effect an is submitted to you before the the directors now submitted be Plender, Griffiths, and Co. were Dumbers, to £2,070,000, against improvement in the existing close of the meeting. For many received and adopted."
seappointed and the proceedings: £1,508,000 for 1917, showing an adverse conditione. Only an years Mr. Wilson has been Sir Albert J. Leppoc Cappel, terminated with a hearty vote of increase of £552,000, due to the hour ago the general meeting closely associated with the EC.LE, seconded the resolution, thanks to the chairman and enormous increase of traffic all of our allied company, the British India Stoam Navigation which was unanimously adopted, directors and to the general over the companys, system dur-Eastern, was held in this hall, Company and other important On the motion of the Chairman, manager, secretary and staff ke ing the past year. The working when I went very full into the shipping interests, and his know. seconded by the Right Hon. Lord home and abroad.
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