NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED.
WANTED.-By married couple for the 1st of October, Sve rooms unfurnished, with servants' quar=' ters, mid leval preferred--Apply ** Hongtong Box No. 597 ļo Telegraph."
WANTED.-Office in Central locality. Apply Fuji Trading Ca Ltd.
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TO BE LET. TO LET-With immediate possession. No. 4 Queen's Road Central Hongkong. Offices only sinate on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4tb. Entrance in and 5th Floors. Duddell Street. Hongkong, with use of two lifts, each floor itted with Electric Wiring for lights and two lavatories. Arply to Box 593 c/o "Hongkong Telegraph."
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
ASSOCIATION.
Precks of Petition.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1921.
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NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL) MEETING of the above Com- pany will be held at the HONG- Particulars and Conditions of KONG HOTEL Pedder Streat, the letting by Public Anction Sale. Victoria in the Colony of Hong to be held on Monday, the 15th kong, to WEDNESDAY, the day of August, 1921, at 3 pm, The Legislative Council of TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF at the Offices of the Public Hongkong makes the laws and JULY, 1921, AT NOON, for the Works Department, by Order of levies the taxation for all pur-purpose of considering, and, if His Excellency the Governor, of thought fit, approving the draft one Lot of Crown Land a poses in the Colony.
This Council is composed of 14 Memorandum of Association Shamsbaigo
of the company which will be of Hongkong, for a term of 75 member-8 official and 6 submitted to the Meating. A years, commencing from 1st July, offobals. All the officials are obliged to vola as directed by Print of such draft new Memo-1998, with the option of renewal randum of Association and as a Crown Rent to be fired, by H.E. The Governor, whose will print of the existing Memoran- the Surveyor of His Majesty the therefore law,
dum of Association of the Com- King, for one further term of 24| Of thess & unofficial members pany may be seen at the Com-years, less 3 days. of Council 4 are selected by The pany's Registered Office in the
is
in
the Colony
ECONOMIC INVESTIGATION! OF CHINA.
A Consular Tour. Dr. Frederic E. Lee, American Economist Consul, detailed in Shanghai, has just returned from
trip of investigation covering several weeks through the pro vinces of Kwangai,Hunan, Hupeb and Anhui The purpose of the trip was to investigate economic [conditions and resources of these Provinces and to continue the work ba has already begun in other parts of China.
DREU CENTRE OF THE COUNTRY.
From Kiukiang southward, two weeks were spent in the interior of Kiangai province. Goleg up
Governor, and only go through Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. the Kan River and its tributaries any form of election.
aforesaid, and a comparison of the These two are chosen respec-print of the existing Memorandum tively by the Chamber of Com of Association with the print merce and the unofficial Justices of the draft new Memorandum of of the Peace, the latter of whom Association will show where in are all appointed by The Governor. the draft new Memorandum of These two bodies number together Association differs from the axist. only about 350 electors. As, Lowing Memorandum of Association. ever, many belong to both bodies. Should the Meeting approve of gew Memorandum of the actual number of individual such
with 02 without Toters is less than 330, for some Association
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of them have two votes each. The modification. the subjoined Re- rest of the community have no solution will be proposed
an kxtraordinary Resolution, vote at all.
namely:-
TO LET.-Shameen, Canton.-
Tua Petition, which you are A well-built and desirable house. invited to sign, asks the House of suitable for office and residence.Commons to remedy this state of Immediste possession. Apply to affairs by: David Sassoon & Co., L:d.. Hoogkong.
.TO LET.-Cae Fiat to let in Tauri Balding 41. 1s: Floor. Nathan Road, Kowloon to J. F. Vasunia 38. Wyndham Street 1st Floor.
FOR SALE.
Apply
FOR SALE -Overland 5 sekter car 1920 model in splendid condi- tion, spare wheel tyre and all accessories. Owner drives. Price* for cash $2200 dr near offer.- Apply Box No. 596 co "Hong- kong Telegraph."
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
Unveiling of Memorial Stone at Fanling on Sunday the 14th instant.
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Accommodation for those desiz- ing to be present will be provided! on train leaving Kowloon at 3.00 D.. Return from Sheung Shui at 6.17 p.D-
By Order.
H. P. WINSLOW.
Manager. Kowloon, 10th August. 1921.
kvality.
"Boundary
Measurements.
NOTICE.
was
TOLLIERIES AND HISTS.
by small boat, Dr. Lee visited the camphor-producing regions in the south-central part of the province.! Changshu, on the Kan River, about the centre of the province, of the most interesting places bited in! Kwangsi- It is the most import-. ant native drug centre of all China. Chinese medicines from Tibet, Yunan, and Kwangtung are brought in by way of the Kaa River from Kwantung provinca, Drugs from Szechuan and Hunan are brought overland through the mountains of Human and western (1) That the provisions of the
Kiangs while other drugs from Company's Memorandum o
north China are brought in ra Association with respect to
Har ko and Kiukiang. These 1. Substituting the principle of its objects be altered so as to
Particulars and Conditions of drugs are mixed and repacked at read as shown in the print! election for nomination in
Changshu and Chinese huyers from all over China come the case of the non-Chinese
signed for the purpose of the letting by Public Auction identification by the Chair Sale, to be held on Monday to this inland city for their sup members, so that they may,
the 15th day of August, 1921, man of this Meeting.
plies. in fact as well as in name, represent those on whose and also for the following further at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the
Public Works Department, by The Pinghsiang collleries were beball they speak and vote. purposes, namely:--
Order of His Excellency the reached by chair and from there 2. Granting an unofficial mtaj-
For the purpose of considering.Governor, of one Lot of
Dr. Les proceeded to Chuchow, enty of one (subject to and, if thought fit, approving the Crown Land on New Road from where work is being carried on on adequare safeguards) by draft new articles of the Company Bowen Road to Wanchai Gap in
the northern section of the Can- increasing the number of which will be submitted to the the Colony of Hongkong, for ton-Hankow railway. Some days unofficial members of Coun- Meeting. print of such new a term of 75 years, with the
Articles and prict of the ex-option of renewal at a Crown were spent at the consulate in 'bangsha and the consulate-gen-i at Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor eral in Hankow. 3. Cresting a wider electorate sting Articles may he seen
In connexion for the above purpose by the Company's Registered Office of His Majesty the KING, for one giving the vote to all British in the Hongkong Hotel. Pedder further term of 15 years. subjects on the jury List and street aforesaid. In such print PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. to those who are qualified the portions of the proposed new for Jury service but exempt-Articles which differ from the ed from it by reason of their existing Articles are indicated by This would underling in black ink and by accupations. embrace many Government arginalm notes. Should the Meet- servants and members of the ing approve of sach new Articles Imperial Forces in the Col-with or with out modification, ory. The representation of the subjoined Resolution will be the Chamber of Commerce proposed as an Extraordinary would be left unchanged, as Resolution, namely ---- it is felt that the important local commercial and ship- ping interests require direct and expert representation. The Chinese representation would be increased from two to three members in order to maintain the same propor-i
These tion as at present
members would continue to be appointed by the Gover-
eil from 6 to 9.
(2) That the new Articles al- ready approved by this Meet- ing and for the purpose of identification subscribed by the Chairman thereof, be and the same are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Com. pany to the exclusion of and in substitution for all the existing Articles thereof. AND NOTICE HEREBY PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
ALSO GIVEN that a SECOND HEUndersigned have received
ed to the Secretary of State for EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL instructions from the Solici
the Colonies in favour of the MEETING of the Company will be held at the HONGKONG tors of the Estate concerned to election of all non-Chinese mem- sell by Public Auction on
bers and has added that he is HOTEL, Pedder Street aforesaid,
TH
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddoll
Street,
Hor.
II.E. The Governor has report-
Wednesday, the 12th Aug. 1921 agreeable to an increase in the on Saturday, the THIRTEENTH unofficial alement provided the DAY OF AUGUST, 1931, AT NOON. for the purpose of official element is increased
receiving a report of the proceed- accordingly.
ings at the above mentioned He has expressed a doubt, bow-deeting and of confiring. if ever, whather any change is gen-thought fit, as Special Resolutions. erally desired..
the above mentioned Resolutions (Nos. 1 and 2).
A Private Collection of Valuable Antique China and Curios
of various periods
comprising:
YOU ARE NOW ASKED TO REMOVE THIS DOUBT BY
Five enloured. three coloured. SIGNING THE PETITION.. famille rose. blue and white,| flambe and celedon vases, jars,' wall plates, bowls, pen-hablers, i seal boxes, white incense burners and dishes, etc, etc.
On view from Tuesday the 16th August,
Catalogne, will be issued! Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers,
TUE
DB Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction on
Thursday, the 18th Aug., toat commencing as 45 p.m. at No. & Stewart Lerrace. No. 92 the Peak
A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture
Comprising
NOTICE.
The Petition for a more Repre
Should the first of the above) Resolutions (No. 1) be confirmed as a Special Resolution by the requisite majority, the alterations
the Company's Memorandum of Association consequently in- volved will be submitted to the
Supreme Court or Hongkong for confirmation.
sentative form of Constitution in Hongkong will be collected, from the places where it has been deposited for signature, on Mon-ALSO day 15th, inst.
THE COWIE NARBOUR COAL
COMPANY LIMITED. SILIMPOPON COAL.
The undersigned are prepared. to quote prices for best quality SILIMPOPON freshly mined COAL, trimmed into Bunters at SEBATTIK
SANDAKAN
OT
Teak batstand with bevelled (British North Borneo) or to mirror, Chesterfield sofa and arm-contract for regular Bunker Sup- chairs, made by Powell Ltd Car-plies for 6 or 12 months at favour- pet, Lace and Casement Curtains, sble rates...
etc.
Teak extension dining table and chairs, sideboard with bevell ed mirror, dinner waggon, ice chest, tra tables, dinner crockery and glassware etc., etc.
Teak double bedstead. Brass mounted single "iron bedsteads Teak wardrobe with bevelled mirror marble top washstand, toilet crockery, etc.
On view from Wednesday the 17th August (afternoon)
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery
LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers.
Steamers calling at SEBATTIK!
or SANDAKAN exclusively for Bankers are exempt from pay- neat of ordinary Port Charges. The minimum draft of water alongside the Company's Wharf at Sebatlik is 2 feet at low water Spring Tides. Charts of Cowie Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and any required information concerning the port can be had an applica- ion to
BRADLEY & CO. LTD.
Agents, The COWIE HARBOUR COAL
.CO. LTD.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the said SECOND EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING to be held as aforesaid will be continued! for the purpose of considering. and, if thought it, passing the following further Resolutions as Extraordinary Resolutions, name.
of
shares of $10 each.
Jay
Beyadary
MeasuremeN LA
At per vale SAD
(5) That it is desirable to capi- talise the sum of $1,000,000 being part of the undivided profits of the Company stand-
such capitalisation such sum nf $1,000,000 be distributed as
with the special investigation of Dr. Lee on currancy, banking,
These Magnificent "Columbia" Grafonolas
from $65.00
and with it you may choose Columbia Records from our stock of thousands of titles. The instrument itself is famous for its strong, silent motor, beautiful tone and handsome cabinet. Come in today and hear this splendid instrument.
ANDERSON'S
THE MUSIC SHOP Des Voeux Road.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE.
The East's Message To The West.
NO HATRED OF ENGLAND.
It was touching to observe,”-
remarked Mr. Bomanji, “how the peoples of Europe, intellectuals and popular masses alike, respond- ed to this appeal. The Germans, in particular. drank it in as though were the great new gospel for which they had been thirsting." - We found," ho continued "that there was now no bitter-
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"I have had a most interesting and finance in China, the govern chat with Mr. S. R. Bomanji, an ment mints at Wuchang and An-l accomplished Parsee gentleman king were visited: Particular well known in London who bas investigation was made in regard just returned from a two months'
such to the looted cities of Wuchang four among the chief capitals of nesa against or hatred of England,
as found original and Ichang..
the Continent as the, companionpression in Lissauer's notorions, On the retura trip from wertern and co-adjutor of Sir Rabindran | Hymn, but the German people Hopeh. Dr. Lee stopped for some ath tagore, Indian philosopher canot forgive the policy parroeri time at the river ports of Shansi, and post, and Nobel Prizeman, | by the Allies since the Armistice Yochow, ankow, Anking, Wuhu, writes a Correspondent of the and Naoking. Business candi- server, The object of this tear policy, however, for which tions in the four provinces are re- was to enlist the sympathy and they believe France to be mainly ported as dull. das mainly toperation of the intellectuals responsible. We came into con tact with and were entertained by weak markets for Chinese pro- of Europe-a crusade sopple all sorts and conditions of Gez-
to unsettled mentary
previous
mass--federal Princes and Pro- one by the same Bengali
festors and industrial magnates "Peter the Hermit" in America- for the establishment of an "ID-like Hugo Stinoes, and the Prin- cipal of the Berlin University, ternational University" at Bol-who treated us to a banquet in pur, in India, where Dr. Tagore. the Aula, or Senate Hall. for the last twenty years, has conducted an open-air school on
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ducts and political conditions.
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WORLD-WIDE SPORT,
TheBacing Calendar," ferring to the Walton Plate at
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"At Darmstadt we were most kindly entertained for a whole
ing to the credit of GeoReal Epsom, says the Stewards inquir- the Platonic or "groves of Aca week by the Grand Duke and Reserve. and accordingly that er into the cause of the fall of denne model--a University in Duchess of Hesse, grandson of for the purpose of effecting/ The Speaker, and ascertained rented, in brief, to act as a sort of Queen Victoria, and first cousin that no blare could be attached "C'earing-house" for the intellec-of the ex-Kaiser, whose guests tual treasures of East and West included Prince August William, to anyone for the accident. in
one of the ex-Kaiser's son", as which the horse broke a pastern hon us among the share-and was destroyed.
well as his youngest sister Mar- garet and her husband, Prince Freslerick Charles of Hesse Casse: (that was), and they al spoke to us about the causes sad
THE VERY BEST EYE INSURANCE
The philosopher-poet and his Parsee companion visited in turn France, Switzerland, Germany. Denmark, Sweden, Austria, and Czecbo-Slovakia and everywhere received a most enthusiastic wel-
come.
consequences of the war with a frankness of which it would be
to speak in detail.
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holders of the Company in prosonion to the shares in the Company's" present Capital of $1,000,000 held by them respectively on the date hereinafter referred to, and
But it was in Germany that you can get for the hot season-- that a bonus be declared ac including risks of dust and glare the pilgrimage achieved its most cordingly. And further that is a pair of Sir William Crookes] striking triumph. Wherever Dr. unbecoming and indiscreet of me the Company's Board of Dir-Glasses the ideal guard from Tagore stayed people flocked to ectors be and they are hereby re There are two varieties his hote! with gifts of flowers. authorised to satisfy such of this glass: (a) A glass very When his train stopped at sta bonus as far as possible by slightly tinted, of a pale antethyst tions the people gathered round the distribution in manner colour which looks atmost colour-bis carriage. His public meetings aforesaid of 100,000 shares of less. (b) A neutral tint which were attended by many thou- $10 each credited as fully
eats down the glare as well as sanda, and almost as many more paid up among the persona absorbing the harmful rays. I had to be turned away. who are registered as the Crookey lenses of any prescrip- asked for bis autograph so often holders of the shares con- tions in either regular or Toric that he was sometimes unable to stituting the Company's pre-form are manufactured by the continue writing from sheer ex- sent Capital of $1,000,000 on Hongkong Optiral Co.. Succes haustion of hand:
och date the Company's
DR. TAGORE'S MESSAGR Board of Directors shallors to Clark & Co., Manufacture
ing and Refracting Opticians The message delivered by Dr. decide-such last mentioned the most competent optical mang-Tagore in his lectures (said Mr. shares to rank pari passu facturing establishment in South Boman) was one of harmony and with the shares constitute Chica-located in 58, Queen's peace. He strove to show that ing the
Company's Pre Road Central sent Capital of $1,000,000 in respect of all profits of the Company earned since the 31st December. 1920 and such distribution to be in satisfaction of the aforemen- tioned bonus.
GENER-
NOTICE..
NOTICE is hereby given that the excla-ive exhibition rights
PRINCESS BISMARCK. "One of our most memorable experiences was a day spent at Hamburg Friedrichsrub, near with the Dowager Princess Bis- marck, half-English by origin, and 3 He was
ost intellectual type of wo- man: beloved, not to say adored. by her three sons, the oldest of whom, Bismarck 111.-named Ar- chibald after Lord Rosebery, a great friend of her father-while the second seems to have inherit ed much of the character of his the grandfather. Pointing to chair in which Bismarck I. used to sit, the Princess repeated the Indian way of life, thought. much of the pessimist prophec and religion was not one of war. indulged in by the Iron Chancello The materialistic civilisation of when speaking of William II the West had found its fruition in and as repeated in the lately militariam and imperialism---both radically the same: but what the published third volume of hi
memoirs. war-worn world now needed was
We come into contact with
consisting of a set of 15 episodes West was no real peace.
Ás ex-
(3) That each of the existing 20,000 fully paid op shares of $50 each constituting the -Company's present Capital of $1,000,000 be divided into 5
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY for Hongkong & China of the the spiritualism and mysticism of no Germans, bigh or low, who di fully paid up shares of $10 each so as to make such ALSO GIVEN that & THIRD Serial Cinematograph picture en- the East, which could alone give (not admit that in plunging Eu titled "VANISHING TRAILS" Jasting peace. The peace of the rope into war the ex-Kaise Capital $1,000,000 consisting EXTRAORDINARY
100,000 fully paid up AL MEETING of the Company of two reels each is the property pressed in the Treaty of Ver- committed a fearful blonder, du to bis vanity, his megalomania will be held at the HONGKONG of the Middle East Films Ltd. sailles it was not worth the paper his instability, and his sentiment HOTEL, Pedder Street aforesaid, (4) That after the division on WEDNESDAY, the THIRTY and further that these rights can written oo,
To rise superior to the nationality. Believed by Europe to b an autocrat, they said be reall aforesaid, the Capital of the FIRST DAY OF AUGUST, 1921, only be sold or leased by the
was a ruler without any real wi barbarism and ceooibalism, the of his own. At the fast-momen Company be increased from AT NOON, for the purpose of Middle East Films Ltd. or their alism of the West, which was
duly authorised agents. $1,00,000 consisting as receiving a report of the proceed. Proceedings. will be taken peoples most find spiritual unity, be allowed his will as so ofte foresaid, to $2,500,000 divided ings at the above mentioned into 250,000 shares of $10 Meeting in so far as regards against anybody, exhibiting such with Nature and with the life of before, to be overruled by th each by the creation of 150,- Resolution Nos. 3, 4 and 5 above films who have not obtained pro-God in all humanity. Hitherto military caste, the General Sťaž per authority from the Middle the West bad gone to the East and in fact he never knew whe 000 new shares of $10 each and of confirming, if thought it, East Films Ltd to exhibit the merely to exploit its material it was to have a will of his own. such new sbares (subject as such last mentioned Resolutions hereinafter mentioned) to be as Special Resolutions.
and
issued at euch time or times and on such terms.
in" every conditions spect .AS the Company's Board of Directors may think fit.
Dated this fourteenth day of the July 19212
By Order of the Board.
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager.
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DEACON LOOKER DEACON & HARSTON,
Solicitors for THE MIDDLE EAST FILMS LTD Hongkong, 10th August, 1921.
IBBOUTCES; whereas Dr. Tagora now invited the West to send its foremost minds to the East to sc- quire all that was best there of Eastern culture, and in return to offer all the intellectual fruits of the West.
CHUISER AS ANTI-GAS TRAININ
BEIP.
H. M. cruiser Bandices is to b utilised as an anti-gas trainin ship at Portsmouth.
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