NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFIŁ
WANTED-An experienced telephone operator for Bank.THEUndersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Please state in reply age and axperiance. Box No. 589 go "Hongkong Telegraph."
WANTED. — Furnished room for barbelor (Englishman), with- out board, Broadwood Road or Morrison Hill District, or within easy distance from Race Course. Apply Box No. 592 elo “Hong- kong Telegraph.”
TO BE LET.·
لاف
TO LET-Large Godown at Wanchai (known Mody Godown). Apply Lee Hy San & Co., 2002 Queen's Road Central.
Auction on
Friday the 5th Aug, 1931, commencing at 11 11. at No. 1 Prince's Building, (2nd Floor)
A Quantity of Office Furniture and Fixtures, Typewriters, Electric Fans, etc. Terms Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers,
THE Undersigned bave received instructions to sell by Public
* Auction on
Monday the 8th Aug., 1921 commencing at 245 pm.
at No. 8 A Block, Kowloon Docks A Large Quantity of Valuable
Household Furniture
TO LET.-Godown at Yau-(full particulars from catalogue) mat. For particulars apply to
On view from Sunday the
the Hongkong Land Reclamatiorth inst Co, Ltd.
NOTICE.
We have this Day transferred the Agency of the Queen Insur- ance Co. to Messrs. W. R. Losles & Co.
E. D. SASSOON & CO., LTD. Hongkong, August 1st, 1921.
NOTICE.
We have this day taken ove the agency of the Lancashire Insurance Co. from Messrs. David Sassoon & Co. Ltd.
T. E. GRIFFITH. LTD. Hongkong, August 1st 1921.
NOTICE.
We have this day transferred the Agency of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society. Ltd. to Messrs. Reiss & Co.
Hongkong, 1st August, 1921. DAVID SASSOON & CO. LTD
NOTICE.
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Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY
COMPANY LIMITED.
(INCORPORATED IN THE UNITED
KINGDOM)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE SHILLING pe: share on account of the year 1921 has been
declared.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1921.
HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD. RAINFALL FOR JULY.
Date
July 1
Inches
1.44
5.73 19
.0%
.52
NOTICE is hereby givan thatan
We are indebted to the Super EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL} MEETING of the above Com-intentent of the Botanical and pany will be held at the BONG- Forestry Department for the KONG HOTEL Pedder Street, following recont of July's rain Victoria in the Colony of Hongfall, as recorded at the Batanio
Gardens kong.on WEDNESDAY, the TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF JULY, 192), AT NOON, for the purpose of considering, and, if thought fit, approving the draft new Memorandum of Association of the tompany which will be submitted to the Meeting, A priot of such draft new Memo- random of Association and a print of the existing Memoran-| dum of Association of the Com- pany may be seen at the Com- pany's Registered Office in the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street
aforesaid, and a comparison of the print of the existing Memorandum of Association' with the printi of the draft naw Memorandum of Association will show where in the draft new Memorandum of | Association differs from the exist- fing Memorandum of Association. Should the Meeting approve of (such DOW Memorandum of
Association
OF with withou modification. the subjoined R- solution will be proposed 4.9 Extraordinary Resolution. oamely
(1) That the provisions of the Company's Memorandum of Association with respect to its objects be altered so as to read as shown in the print) signed for the purpose of identification by the Chair- man of this Meeting. and also for the following farther purposes, namely:-
KD
I
14
1.75
28
15
16
17
.91
18 19
30
20
.09
104
.63
07
.10
30
31
Total
CHINESE ITEMS.
Famine in Kweichow.
We take the following from to
day's Custon Times
An appeal was made by the Educational Association of Kwai-) chow to the Government and
for the people contributions to relieve the suffering of the people in Kweichow who are (now starving an account of erop failures through drought, and aubsequent hailstorm. The crops: in the farming regions of the pro- Įvince were destroyed mostly" by drought and locusts. Hundreds of thousands of people are suffar- fing from want of food while many others are forced out of smploy- mint which aggravates the situa tion. Contributions of food sup- plies and funds will be received! at the Educational Association in, Kweichow, and distributed among the famine refugees in the differ.. ent localities.
After walking a long distance from the Canton-Samshui Rail- way Station on the Bund to the Cheng Wang Temple on Wai Oi Maloo, yesterday afternoon when the intense heat was almost in- olerable, a man endeavoured to quench bis thirst by partaking of several dishes of ice cream from & street vendor in front of the Temple.
The man resumed his journey 13.88 inches but by the time he reached the East Gate, he collapsed and before any help could be givan him, he was found dead on the
LORD CURZON'S DENIAL.
On his attention being called topot the report of a Unionis: intrizue}
USED CARS FOR SALE!
SPECIAL OFFERS.
Dodge. 5 seaters, Elgin, 5 seaters,
.$1,600 and 52,000. $1,600 and $1,700.
Overland, Model 90, 5 seater, Willys Knight, 5 seater, Willys Knight, 7 seater, Hudson, 7 seater,
Hudson, 7 seater,
Chandler, 7 seater,
$1,700.
$2,000.
.53,000.
$3,000,
.$4,000.
$3,500,
All these cars are in excellent running order, most of them have been newly painted and overhauled. Suitable for private use or garage service.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR GO., LTD.
TELEPHONE
24. Des Vœux Road, Central
AGENTS FOR
TELEPHONE
492 & 3552.
482 & 3552.
Locomobile, Mercer, Chandler, Cleveland, Hudson, Essex and Dodge cars.
THEFTS
AND BURGLARIES,
An Unusual Crop.
A number of burglaries and
notes.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
An ancestor of Viscount Dillon.
in the Cab net to replace Mrj With the absence of the troopsį For the purpose of consid-ring, Lloyd Gorge by Lord Birken in the district of Samsbui who and, if thought fit, approring the head as Premier, Lord Curzon of are now at the front fighting the draft now articles of the Company Kedleston said: "There is not a Kwangsi troops, the bandits in house-breakings has taken place who figures in the recent honours which will be submitted to the word of truth in the story. It is that locality are conducting a during the last few days, the list raised an infantry regiment. The DIVIDEND will be pay. Meeting. A print of such or quite absurd."
very active campaign in pillaging the majority of the victims being Le Regiment de Dillon," which able on and after Wednesday, the Articles and à prins of the ex
the surrounding villages and kid- Europeans.
fought gallantly for France dur-* 24th day of August 1921 to Share-isting Articles may be seen at
Lance Corporal Gooding of ❘ ing the eighteenth century. On- aapping peaceful inhabitants withi holders on the Register on Tues-the Company's Registered Offic« | DON'T START A JOURNEY
a view to extort ransoms for their the Wiltshire Regiment, re-ginally recruited in Ireland in day, the 9th day of August 1921, in the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder)
ON FRIDAY
release.
¡ports that between 3 pm. oa support of James II. it was taken and will be paid to Shareholderstreet aforesaid. In such print
the 29th. ult. and 10 p.m.
over to France after the Battle of on the Colonial-(Hongkong) Re-the portions of the proposed new or aby other day without The latest raid of these bandits on the 1st, bis box was broken the Boyne, and Arthur Dillon, a gister at the exchange rate of 27 Articles which differ from the Pinkettes, because they help to was at a village near Loo Pap, open by some unknown individual, younger son of the seventh Vis- per Dollar.
existing Articles are indicated by keep off train-sickness and sea. in Samahui. Every bouse in this who extracted therefrom $275 in count Dillon, its founder, became undering in black ink and by sickness, dispel the constipation village was entered and looted
the first colonel proprietaire du arginalm notes. Should the Meet-so common when travelling, keep and boys were taken for the A Chinese woman, living at Regiment du Dillon,"
and was ing approve of sach now Articles the liver active, relieve Pites, and release of whom, large sums are No. 10, Aberdeen Street, was the created a count by Louis XIV. with or with- out modification, prevent the ill-effects of strange demanded. Seven buffalos were victim of a burglary, in which shs After Count Dillon's death the the subjoined Resolution will be or bully cooked food.
also taken from the villagers sustained the loss of $45 worth of [coloueley devolve upon his eldest proposed as an Extraordinary | Pinkettes are tiny but thorough, The village volunteers being out-clothing-
son who subsequently inherited Resolution. namely:-
sot as gently as nature, and thas numbered were easily overcome
The dwelling of a Chinese the Irish peerage. The eleventh are laxative perfection. Chamiss of the bandits, and nat one handia employed by the police. was Viscount, after the Battle of Det- (2) That the new Articles aleverywhere sell them, or post was captured.
ready approved by this Mect-free at 50 cents the vial from Dr.
entered by burglars, who securettingen, at which be was present ing and for the purpose of Williams' Medicine Co., 96 Sze-)
admission by breaking the ver-as brigadier, quitted France to identification subscribed by chaen Road, Shanghai.
andah window. Jewellery to the settle in Ireland. Before his de- the Chairman thereof, be and
ARMS AND CIGARETTES value of $108 was stolen.
parture be assigned the colonelcy Mr. Coff, head, guard of the to his brother, James Dillon, who the same are hereby adorted as the Articles of the Com-1
Kowloo-Canton Railway re- was killed when leading his regi- porta that between the pany to the exclusion of, and
31st, ment at Fontenoy during the fuly and the in substitution for all the
Zod..
famous charge which proved the existing Articles thereof.
By Order of the Board.
W. E. ROBERTS,
Secretary. Hongkong, 25th July, 1921.
HONGKONG, CANTON AND
MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. AD INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE DOLLAR per sbare for the six months ending 30th June.| We have this day transferred 1921, will be PAYABLE on Tues- the Agency of the Lanrushi elday, August 9th, on which dare Insurance Co. to Messrs. T. E.
Dividend Warrants may het Griffith Ltd.
obrained on application at the [Company's Office.
Hongkong, Is: August 1921. DAVID SASSOON & CO. LTD
HOUSE SERVANTS REGIS-
TRATION BUREAU.
AND NOTICE HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that a SECOND! EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
The TRANSFER BOOKS of MEETING of the Company will The Company will be CLOSED be held at the HONGKONG| frum Tuesday, August tad to HOTEL Pedder Street aforesaid. Tuesday, August 9th, both days on Saturday, the THIRTEENTH inclusive, during which period no DAY OF AUGUST, 1921. A Transfer of Shares can be Regis NOON, for the purpose of receiving a report of the proceed- By Order of the Board of Diren. | ings at the above mentioned
sered.
In order to cope with the over increasing demand for our ser- tor. vices. we take pleasure in an.! nouncing the appointment of MR. CHAS. A. MUTTON as manager in charge of this bureau.
MP MUTTON, a resident of this colony has 27 years exper- ience on the China coast and brings to this cre
J most thorough knowledge of the needa of the householder in this com munity.
ERVIS J. WEISS.
Greezal Manages.
• We have no Telephone
P. 44. The Ste 34
Room 5. Botel Mameinas
Emburse 10 01, entrance.
THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL COMPANY LIMITED., SILIMPOPON COAL
GE. ELLAMS.
Acting Secretary. Hongkong. 18th July, 1921.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISILA.
From EUROPE & STRAITS.
The Company's Steamship
KITANO MARU” having arrived from the above hereby informed that their Goods porta, Consignees of Cargo ate are being landed and placed their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, The undersigned are prepared where each consignment will be to quote prices for best quality sorted out mark by mark and freshly mined SILIMPOPOŇ delivery can be obtained as soon COAL, trimmed into Bunkers at as the Goods are landed, SEBATTIK ΟΙ SANDAKAN Optional Goods will be carried (British North Borneo) or tr
on unless instructions are given contract for regular Bunker Sup-to the contrary before Noon To- plies for 6 or 12 months at favour-day. able rates.
Goods not cleared by the 10th, Steamers calling at SEBATTIK Ang, 1921, will be subject to or SANDAKAN exclusively for rent Bunkers are exempt from pay- Damaged packages must be ment of ordinary Port Charges. left in the Godowns for examin The minimum draft of wateration by the Consignees' and the! alongside the Company's Wharf Co's representatives at an ap at Sebettik is 28 feet at low water pointed hour on Tuesday and Fri. Spring Tides. Charts of Cowie day. All claims must be presented -Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and any within ten days of the steamer's required information concerning arrival here, after which date the port can be had on applica- they cannot, be recognized. Na tion to
claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, Agents, Hongkong, 3rd August 1921,
BRADLEY & CO. LTD.
Agents, The COWIE HARBOUR COAL
CO. LTD.
Meeting and of confiring. it thought fit, as Special Resolutions. the above mentioned Resolution: (Nos. 1 and 2).
Should the first of the above) Resolutions (No. 1) be co firmed as Special Resolation by the requisite majority, the alterations in the Company's Memorandum of Association consequently jo rolved will be submitted to the Supreme Court of Hongkong for confirmation.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the said SECOND EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING to be held as aforesaid will be continued and, if thought it, passing the for the purpose of considering. following further Hesolutions as Extraordinary Resolutions, name-
(3) That each of the existing 20,000 fully paid up shares of $50 each constituting the Corn any's present Capital of $1,100,000 be divided into 5. fully paid up shares of $10 sach so as to make such Capital $1,000,000 consistin. of 100,000 fully paid up shares of $10 each.
present
A "Farmer's" Story.
someone
6) That it is desirable to capi
talise the sum of $1,000,000] being part of the undivided At the Magistracy this morn-eatered bis quarters in Hungbem turning-point of the battle. profs of the Company stand, ing a Chinese was charged with and purloined a Smith-Weston ing to the credit of General the illicit possession of several revolver, 20 rounds of .38 am- Two years later, when the brother. James, who Reserve, and accordingly that thousand dutiable cigarettes, tw opnunition, another revolver and fourth for the purpose of effecting revolvery and four rounds of pine rounds of 32 ammunition succeeded to the coloneley, was such capitalisation such sum | ammuition.
from bis box, which the burglar killed at the Battle of Laufeldt. visi, 10,000 be distributed as
opened by means of a skeletona carious situation arose. The A Chinese Revenue Officer honus among the
share-tated that in pursuance of in-key. The other revolver and the fifth brother. Arthur, being in holders of the, Company information
second lot of ammunition belang Holy Orders (he subsequently be boarded
the
ed to Mr. Winyard, who resides (bcame Archbishop of Narbonne). proportion to the shares intr. Tai Lee yesterday after- the Company's
in the same quarters. From c. WAS not eligible for military 11000 to search for Bome Capital of $1,000,000 held by bread-brimmed Chinese
drawer the burglar pilfered two service. and several French. them respectively on the date als. He located the object ofairs of serge trousers, a pair of noblemen appled for the vacancy. hereinafter ferred to, and is quest in the hold, near a place ore pot. The value of the last-married," said Louis XV. "and Juniform trousers and a brass but in vain. "Lord Dillon is that a bonna be declared ac where defendant wa lying awake.amed article is $. cordingly. And further tha Defendant's head was resting on
Mr. Cuff so long as there is any prospect the Company's Board of Dir
a basket and two lots of Chinese absconded since the theft.
-uspects his "boy" who has of a Dillon succeeding to the ecrore be and ther are hereby hats, piled up in pairs, on either
proprietorship I will not sever a authorised to satisfy such side of him. The cigarettes were reported by Mr. J. C. McLeggin, gallant services and so much Another burglary bas been connection cemented by such bonus as far as possible brandwiched between two hats the distribution in manner bile secreted between two other Dockr.
a draughtsman of the Kowloon blood." Accordingly Lord Dillon, aforesaid of 100,000 shares of similar pieces of headgear was a Monday night someone entered aged the affaire of the regiment who states that on though residing in Ireland, man- 310 each credited as folly mail bag containing the arms his room, the dear of which was until-1767, when his second son. paid up among the person When he was examining the bag
coolie
of the Company earned sine. Sinning while on his way to room yesterday. the 31st December. 1920 clongko g to find a friend who and such distribution to be in had promised to secure satisfaction of the aforemen-emsloyment. He was tioned bonus.
birn
a farm
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
who are registered as the d fendant snatched it, but witnessen, and atole two $100 notes on Arthur, became colonel It was holders of the shares con-retrieved it. In a statement made the Hongkong and Shanghai the beginning of a notable stituting the Company's pre-a the Harbour Office defendant that the culprit was bis houseboy Prussians and Austrians invad- Bank. Mr. McLeggin believes military career. When, the sent Capital of $1,000,000 or explanation for snatching the bag whom he had dismissed some such date as the Company's was that he thought the bag was
ed France in 1792 he 'shared Board of Directors shall his coat which he had previously
time ago.
with Dumouriez the bonour of decide such last mentioned handed to a clensman on board the Taikon Docks, living at No. Forest of Argonne, and pursuing Mr. S. Hope, a draughtsman, of the successful operations in the shares to rank pari passuthe steamer to be washed. with the shares constitut-
6. Stanley Terrace, reports that the retreating enemy recaptured Defendant made a irrevelant jewellery to the value of $30 and Verdun. In 1793 he was given ing the Company's pre- sent Capital of $1,000.000 statement of how he lost several $200 in money were stolen from the command of the army on the hdred dollars in gambling in a drawer of his deak in his be:- Rhine, but being denounced as a in respect of all profit
Royalist was summoned to Paris and condemned to death. Among those carted with him to the guil- lotine on April 14, 1794. was the aurer in his village.
widow of amilla Desmoulins. Solicitor at Bow County Court-who, when beckoned by Banson, When asked by the Magistrate, AND NOTI E IS HEREBY to confine himself to the bats. Has the man any means? | exclaimed, “Oh, M. Dillon, will ALSO GIVEN that a THIRD defendant said "The hals are not Creditor-Ob, yes, ample. He's you go first?" "Anything to EXTRAORDINARY GENER
mine. I know nothing about married.
obliga a lady," he replied with a will be held at the HONGKONG AL MEETING of the Company
them."
Heard at Bow County Court-smile. Mounting the stepe of the The Magistrate: Do you expect It was just dark enough to get rid guillotine, be called qut "Viva le HOTEL, Pedder Street aforesaid (4) That after the division on WEDNESDAY, the THIRTY-me to believe that being a farmer of a bad "bob" on the top of an Roil". Thus died the Iset "colonel proprietaire du Regiment de Dil. aforesaid, the Capital of the FIRST DAY OF AUGUST, 1921. You had several hundred dollars omnibus.
Solicitor at Marylebone County | lon." Company be increased from AT NOON, for the purpose of to lose in gambling?
Court-What do you mean by $1,0 0,000 consisting as a receiving a report of the proceed- Defendant said the money had "for all time" The reply-For foresaid, to $2,500,000 divid-dings at the above mentioned been remitted to bim by his so long as it suits my purpose. into 250,000 shares of $10 Meeting in so far as regards father at various times.
"You know the law, sir, and straight to prison. It is up each by the creation of 150,- Resolution No. 3, 4 and 5 above In reply to his Worship the are better educated than I am.FU to dodge me in futm 000 new shares of $10 each and of confirming, if thought fit, Revenue officer said the informa-said a man to Mr. A. Smith, the Motoristat Big such new sbazes (subject, as such last mentioned Resolutions tion be received did not include Willesden Magistrate. Mr. Smith hereinafter, mentioned) to be na Sporial Resolutions, an the arms,
—Oh, no, I am not. Hame college íssued at such time or times Dated this fourteenth day of Mr. Lindsell sentenced defen as you school of experience. andon Buch terms and the Joly, 1921.
dant to six months" hard labour Tottenham · Magistrate to ma conditions in every re-
for possession of arms sad. im- persistant rate defsulter--"The When I am out of work I al By Order of the Board.. spool as the Company's
posed a fine of $250, or three | next time you are sommoved, if ways do the washing and froning -- Bo
Directors may
months imprisonment, for the you come before me I shall not said a man as Wilenden tak provi think St
fother chargs,"
İgive you any grace, -You will get that he was a good husband;
J. H. TAGGART,
** Manager.
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Dolice sergesut "ellow Magistrate-That nothing We Magistraten "are" "fellows.