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15th. December, 1923 — to — 8th January, 1924,
OF HONGKONG, LIMITED,
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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAM SHIP
COMPANY, LTD. ..
and CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Consignees per Company's
NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corporation will be held at the City Hall, Hong-¦ kong, on SATURDAY, the 3rd February, 1923, at 11.30 am. for Steamer the parpose of receiving the Report jof the Court of Directors together with a Statement of accounts for the Year ending 31st December,
1923.
The Register of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from Monday, 11th February, to Satar day, 23rd February, 1924 (both days inclusive), during which
period no transfer of shares cha be registered.
DEMODOCUS"
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf Kowloon, where it will lie
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
|DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE
The Steamship
PRES. HARRISON " having arrived from San Fran cisco via, ports on February, 4th. consignees are hereby notified] that their cargo is being landed at their risk into the hazardous Godowns of the Holt's Wharf, a Kowloon, and stored at con signees' risk.
Consignees of Cargo must pro-
at Consignee's risk and subject to duce an Import Permit signed by terms and conditions of storage the Superintendent of Imports at Holt's wharf. The Cargo will and Exports. Hongkong, before be ready for delivery from, Bills of Lading' will be counter- Godown on and after. 4th. -igned. February.
Optional cargo will be landed, to steamer's arrival. unless notice has been given prior
the
All broken, chafed and damaged cargo is to be left in the Godowns AND NOTICE is hereby given
where it will be examined at 10 a.m. on February 9th. by the that an Extraordinary Meeting of
All broken. chafed,
and Company's Surveyors, Messrs. the Shareholders of the Hongkong damaged goods are to be left in Carmichael & Clarke. and Shanghai Banking, Corporation the Godowns, where they will be All claims must be presented will be held on the day and at the examined on any Tuandays and within
-thirty days of place aforesaid immediately upon Fridays between the hours of steamer's arrival here, after the termination of the Ordinary 10.45 am: and noon within the which they cannot be recognised. Yearly-Meeting for the parpose of free storage period
No claims, will be recognized considering and i thought it of No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Passing the following resolution after the Goods have left the godowns, and cargo undelivered steamer's Godown, and all Goodson after February, 11th. will be That the Directors of the Hong-remaining undelivered after the subject to rent.
whatever kong and Shanghai Banking Cor-|12th February, will be subject No fire insurance
Consignees are requested to sedd in their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately.. DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE
vizt
will be effected.
4. Des Voeux Road." Hongkong, February 5th. 1924. No Fire Insurance will be effected.
WIRE, THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.
COPENHAGEN.
poration be and they are hereby to rent. requested and authorised by and -All Claims against the Steamer on behalf of the Shareholders of must be presented to the under the Corporation to take the stepsį signed on or before the 26th necessary for the introduction of February, or they will not be an Ordinance into the Legislative recognised. Council of the Colony of Hong- kong and for the enactment of the same by the Governor of Hongkong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof to effect the amendments necessary to the Ordinance under which the Corporation is incorporated and carrying on business so as to allow of the ordinary note issue of the
BUTTERFIELD &
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4th. February 1924.
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GREEK AN: "ROMAN REMAINS.
Important Finds in Yugo-Slavia.
41
23, WING WOO ST.
Central.
On this sarcophagus is a legible Latin inscription, encircled with a wreath of leaves in relief. The incription records that the sar cophagus contained the remains of Aurelia Ascibiodöta, who was only 14 years of age, and that the monument was erected by her brother Aurelius Alexander. The An ancient Greek temple has busts of the brother and sister are been discovered while the represented in relief. Both por foundations of a church were traits are surrounded by à being dug at Doiran, in Southern baroque design characteristic to Macedonia. "
this part of the world, and this having arrived, consignees of
decoration is repeated on the. cargo are hereby informed that
When the workmen had dug
narrow, ends of the sarcophagus, placed at their risk into the large columns of white marble circled with a wreath like that hazardous and/or extra hazardous Being quite ignorant of their around the inscription, the right, Godowas of the Hongkong and archacological value, the men with a baroque design like Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. injured them considerably in the that round the busts, but the lid | Ltd., where delivery can be course of their work, and even in the form of a sloping roof is obtained as soon as the goods allowed the people of the district decorated with a fish-scale or- are landed.
to carry away portions of them as namentation, with simple acro-
Corporation being increased from C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD goods are being landed and down about 6ft. they came upon the left with a rosette en-
$20,000,000 to $30,000,000, and to modify the existing requirements as regards the deposit of security in respect of its note issue in the fol lowing manner.
(a) So that the whole of the in- crease (namely. $10,000,000) of such ordinary note issue shall be secured by coin or bullion or approved securities.
(b) To provide that whatever! the total amount of the note issue may be at any particular time, the amount of coin as distinct from ballion or approved securities to be deposited by the Corporation shall never be less than one third of the total amount of the bills in actual circulation.
By Order of the Court of Directors,"
A. G. STEPHEN,
Chief Manager.
Hongkong, 4th Feb., 1924.
KOWLOON RESIDENTS'
ASSOCIATION.
The Annual Meeting will be held in tho
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH HALL
on
MONDAY, 11th. February
Sanitary Engineers, Monmentalists,
Offices & Godowns.
Tel. No. 269
.
etc.
984, Wanchai Bal, Hongkong.
All kinds of Builders Requisites în 5, tack.
Soil & Vrat Pipes, Rainwater Pipes,
Fees & Wall Tile Baths, Basin, bath Room Fittings, Water Heaters for Gas „Dil or Coal Fuel. Ahoja Tew: Chip
Heaters
Opex & Closed Crates-Cooking Ranges. ESTIMATES FREE FOR ALL SANITARY ́INSTALLATIONS --- HOT WATER SYSTEMS. EL
General Repairs Promptly Attended (to Specialists in Monumental Work-Cutjin Italian Marble or Hongkong Granite. Jest Receivel a Skikmest of Italian. Marble Floor Tiles-Prices on „Applica- ties.
A large stack of Artificial Wreaths in all' Sizes."
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No claims will be admitted building material. In addition terie at the ends. Inside there after the goods have left the to the columns two very well-was nothing but the skeleton. Godowns, and all goods remati preserved marble tablets were The tomb was certainly plunder ing undelivered after the 13th of found, bearing finely Feb., 1924 will be subject to reliefs of the heads of six Greek ed, perhaps in ancient times, and,▸
although the lid was carefully gods,
replaced, the iron fastenings with which the sarcophagus had originally been closed are missing It is thought that the sarcop & Douglas on the 13th February portions, so that the temple may hagus may date from the third
rent.
All broken, chafed and damag-
The Archaeological Society of ed goods are to be left in the Godown, where they will be Belgrade has now taken charge examined by Messrs. Goddard of the excavations, and is trying Ito recover all the missing
1924 at 10 am
be reconstructed as far as century ad. The buried girl, All claims against the vessel possible. Since the society has from her name can hardly have must be presented to the underbeen at work, an encimous vase been Roman, and was probably a signed before 17th February 1924, has been nearthed, so large that Pannonian, Her brother, or the or they will not be recognized. two men could stand in it with contrary, bears the name of No Fire Insurance will be ease. Besides this, many human Aurelius Alexander, from which affected
Bills of Lading will be counter signed by
JOHN MANNERS CO. LTD.
Agents Hongkong, 6th Feb., 1924.
bones anda considerable quantity of ancient coins have been found Two Roman graves have also been discovered near the station
some are inclined to infer that he lived during the reign of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Alez- ander Severus, 222-235 ad-
of Mitrovitia, in Slavonia, on the There is a wide field for site of the old Roman Sirmium, archaeological research in Yugo - once the metropolis, of Illoricum. Slavia, and the Archaeological One of the tombs was fashioned Society hopes next year to con of simple long tiles such as the fine the excavations of 12th
RADIO_MAGNAVOX Lond MASSAGE HALL Romans used for covering roofs, century remains near Gradsko,
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but inside. It was found nothing on the Vardar, and the Govern« but the bones The other how ment intends to investigate the sver, contained an unusually monastery of B Michael, the well-pre ved sarcophagus made 14th century, foundation of the of limestone, 7ft 4in. long, nearly famous Berb ruler Tear Stephen 3ft wide, and, with the lid 4ft Dushan, where de is hoped to find
the tomb of the Tear)
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