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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPOBATION.
Notice is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corporation will be held at City Hall Hong- kong, on Saturday the 27th Feb- ruary 1926, at noon, for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a statement of accounts for: the year ending 31st December 1923, ̧.*
THEATRE ROYAL
HONGKONG
DANCING DISPLAY BY PUPILS OF MISS DAISY
O'KEEFE.
Under the most distinguished patronage o1 H.E. The GOVERNOR and LADY CLAMENTI.
The Registor of Shares of the Corporation will be closed from Monday the 15th February to Saturday the 27th February 1926 (both daysinclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can To be registered.
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By order of the Court of Directors
A. H. BARLOW Chief Manager, Hongkong 8th February 1926,
THE HONGKONG RENEVOLENT SOCIETY..
The 36th Annual General Meet.
N or about March 1926 whale ing of the Hongkong Senevolent fat or spacious suite of ofBees Society will be held at
ON
the
in the "French Building" ex Cathedral Hail on WEDNESDAY,
Victoria Building," No. 5, February 24th, at 11 a.m. Queen's Road Central (between Chartered Bank and Mercantile Bunk. Apply to: Banque de Indochine Chater Road.
ROUND FLOOR PRL- MISES ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, opposite the STAR FERRY PIER, best locality in Hongkong for Shipping Com- panies or Shops. Single Office! room, or whole suite of 3 Office rooms for short or long leaso. For terms and particulars apply to Hongkong and Territorial Estates, Ltd., St. George's" Building, 1st Floor.
O LET. - Two large rooms To
excellently situated for offices on the 2nd Floor and one large room on the 3rd Floor of "St. George's" Building facing Tea Houso Street. For terms and particulars apply to Hongkong & Territorial Estates, Ltd. "St. George's" Building,
O LET-One European flat, Wanchsi Gap Road, Hong- Apply to 32 Kenedy
kong. Road.
o Let.- Two newly-con houses, atructed European Magazine Gar, Motor Road, tbree flats, three large rooms Bach with kitchen. servants' quarters and bath room, fitted]
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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
RACE MEETING 1926.
March 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 6:h,
NOTICE.
HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY,
All are cordially invited.
EVELYN A. WARREN,
Hon, Secretary.
Hongkong, Feb. 15, 1926,
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY, LTD.
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Notice is hereby given that the ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 20th February, 1926, at 11 a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direc- tors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 81st December, 1925.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the 10th February, to the 22nd Feb- ruary (both days inclusive), dur- ing which period no transfer of Shares can be Registered:
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, Feb. 3, 1926.
IN AID OF EARL HAIG'S FUND
FOR
DISABLED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
2.
ON
THURSDAY, 18th February, at 5.15 p.m. SATURDAY, 20th February, at 9.15 pm.
Tickets $3, $2 and $1 be obtained from Anderson's
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
RACE MEETING 1926,
March 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 6th.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16,
LAMMERT'S AUCTIONS
Particulars and Conditions of Sale of the Valuable Leasehold Property
situate and being Section A, B, C and the remain- ing Portion of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 84 and a Moiety of Kow- Toon Permanent Piør No. 4
'to be sold
By Order of the Mortgagees by |PUBLIO AUCTION on Wednes- day, the 24th day of Februáry 1926, at 3 o'clock p.m.
IN ONE LOT by Mossrs. LAMMERT-BROS., Anotioneers | at their Auction Rooms, No. 5 Duddell Brest.
The Properly consists of —
Fireball those pieces or paroola of ground situata at Mongkoktsui in the dependency of Kowloon and Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as Sections A. B. C. and the Romain- ing Portion of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 84 (being the whole of the promises comprised in the Crown Leate of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 84) with the Buildings erected thereon and secondly a moiety or one equal undivided half share of and in the right of
erecting and maintaining a pior Passes for Servants will be over the Crown foreshore and issued on application to Messrs. Crown Land shown on the plan Linstead & Davis Alexandra annexed to the Crown Lease, of No servants will be Kowloon permanent Pier No. 4 Bldgs.
The Property first described allowed inside the Enclosure of the Race Course during Race contains a total area of 80,307 square feet, or thereabouts and.is Days WITHOUT TICKETS.
These Tickets are only avail- hold under a Crown Lease of the able for Servants while in at-term of 75 years renewable for a tendance on their employers or further term of 75 years, when on duty at the various slands.
The Crown Ront payable in respect of Sections A. B. C.s.d Any Chinese found loitering the Remaining Portion of Kow- about with Servants Passes in loon Marine Eet No. 84 is $832] their possession will forfeit them per annum and in respect of the and holdera will be Removed from Enclosure.
C. B. BROWN
Secretary,
HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE
ASSOCIATION,
All Communications should be addressed to Messrs. Linstead & Davis, the Treasurers, during the temporary absence of the under signed..
P. M. HUDGSON
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, Feb. 6, 1926.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
From MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON and STRAITS
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. The Steamship
RACE MEETING 1926.
March 1st, 2nd 3rd and 6th.
"BENVORLICH Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that all goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazar Members' Badges of Admission dous godowns of the Hongkong are now ready, and may be ob and Kowloon Wharf and Godown tained by those Members who Co., Ltd., whence, and/or from have not already received them, the wharves, delivery may be from Messrs. Linstond & Davis, obtained.
A
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
RACE MEETING 1926.
March 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 6th.
moisty of Kowloon Permanent Pier No. 4, $150 per annum.
Particulars and Conditions of Bale may be had from :-
Messra. DEACONS,
Vendors' Solicitors,
1. Des Voeux Road, Central, LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 11th, Feb., 1925.
* 'PUBLIC AUCTION
THE Undersigned have receiv ed. instructions to sell by | Public Auction
FRIDAY, the 19th FEB. 1526 commencing at 2.45 p.m. at No 2 Patell Villas (Top Floor) Kowloon
A Large Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture
Full Particulars from Catalogue) On View from Thursday, the 18tb. February 1926..
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMERT BROS,. Auctioneers,
"OCEAN STEAM SHIP
COMPANY, LTD.. and CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
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HONGKONG..
MILLIONAIRE'S
SUICIDE.
A STRIKING LIFE STORY.
Dayton Beach, Florida, Feb. 2.-William Madison Wood, man-
MASTER CRIMINAL.
EIGHT YEARS OF TRAIN ROBBERIES,
Cologne, December 31.-In
ufacturer of Boston, committed April last the master oriminal of suicido here to-day owing to con-
tinued ill health. He was 67 a gang of train robbers was sent- years old.
enced at [Crefeld to-nine years'
The performance of the poor panal servitude, and with his re- boy who rose to wealth and com-moval from freedom comparative manding position was strikingly
exemplified in the life of William security obtained on the Crefeld- Madison Wood. The son of Neuss-Cologno lina, which for humble immigrant parents, he many years had been the most became, as president of the notorious in Germany for loss of
American Woollen Company, a
dominating figure in the woollen goods and valuables in transit.
and worsted manufacturing in- The loader, however, escaped dustry of the country. It was through his aptitude and am- from prison and before long the bition shown as a boy in a mill rebberies recommenced. He has. office and as a youth in various just been re-arrested while in the departments of mill work that be
won the opportunity to serve as act of stealing a mailbag. On superintendent of a large mill, him were discovered notes for a and eventually to head the book to be entitled "My Life." largest woollen manufacturing corporation in the world,
FATHER A COOK.
Wood's father,
a native of
Among notes were complete lists of all the robberies he has per- petrated or organised during the
Santa Maria in the Azores, came past eight years, and full lists of to this country as cook's. an. his associates, to the number of Co.sistant on a whaling vessel. His 150. Some of these are former
namoz was Jacintho," but not
PLUMBING...
We employ an expert stalf
under European Supervision
Estimates Given
Repairs a Speciality
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD. CHINA BUILDING Opposite Queen's Theatre TEL. C. 269.
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THESE CHARMING LITTLE
CHINESE CHILDREN.
Owe Their Excellent Health To BABY'S OWN TABLETS
Says Their Family Physician.
INDICTED IN, 1920.
along after his arrival he took railway officials.. the name of Wood. A little later | he married a young woman who had come from Flores, another island of the Azores group. They! established their home in Ed-
His name appeared again in gartown on the island of Martha's criminal proceedings in 1920 Vineyard off the southern when
he and the American Massachusetts coast. There Woollen Company were indicted William M. Wood was born April by the federal grand jury in New 5, 1858.
York for violating the Lever Act
The father became steward of by profiteering in the sale of a little steamer plying between woollen cloth. Charles E. Hughes, Edgartown and New Bedford, retained as counsel,, offered a and the family soon moved to the demurrer on the ground that a latter place. Wood attended the piece of woollen cloth was notan" grammar school and entered high article of wearing apparel, and school when his father died. The Judge Julian Mack sustained the mother and two sisters needed demurrer and quashed the indict- support, and Wood got a job in ment. the office of the Wamsutta Mille in New Bedford.
After the indictment, several He showed. such promise. that Andrew G. thousand employes of the com- Pieree, head of the corporation, pany marched four miles from took a personal interest in the Andover and gave a demonstra. Lawrence to Wood's home in boy.
After three years in the office he spent three years at the tion of their confidence in him. machines and then was advanced On the night that word was re- to the agent's office.
ceived of Judge' Mack's action the company's employes held. He had gone ahead rapidly public celebrations in several mill when he accepted a chance to villages and gave Wood a big enter a banking house. but after reception in Shawsheen Village. a brief experience thore he re-
turned to mill work. Six years~It was Mr. Wood's custom.or of increasingly important duties the occasion of wage increase or in Fall River led to his choice as decrease by the corporation to superintendent of the Washing-address long letters of explanation ton Mills in Lawrence, which to the employes. Frequently, he had been taken over for debts by entertained the Lawrence opera- Frederick Ayer of Lowell. tives at his Andover home. In
The poor boy already had December, 1919, he aroused the risen far. He was welcome in ire of Lawrence merchants and Mr. Ayer's home and after a brief the gratitude of his employes by courtship he was married to the charging that the merchants manfacturer's daughter.
raised prices every time the mills increased wages and declaring In 1900 a merger of many of that unless they desisted he would the build a big company store to sell East was consummated, and Mr. necessaries to operatives at cost...
the woollen mills in
Ayor became president of the re- sulting American Woollen Com-in response to a Christmas greet- In a letter to company employes pany, while Wood was made ing from them in 1919 he set forth tronautor. Within a short time some of his principles as follows: he succeeded to the presidency. Other mills were taken into the PRINCIPLES SET FORTH. Alexandra Bldgs. Members are No claims will be admitted.
combination: froth time to time reminded that these Badges will after the goods have left the
"In the new social and indus- Consigness per Company's
until the company had ap: trial order on which we have also admit them to all the Extra godowns, and all goods remaining Steamer
proximately 40,000 employees in
entered there is no room for the The Stowards request the plea-Race Meetings this year.
undelivered after the 15th inst.,
New England and New. York.'. "TELEMACHUS "
selfish employer or for the selfish sure of the presence of the Ladies
will be subject to rent.
the company had 15,00 workers, that there is no essential
Wood built in Lawrence, where worker. It is my firm.conviction" at the Races.
All claims against the steamer are hereby notified that the cargo must be presented to the Under. will be discharged into Holt's
the Wood Worsted Mill, the antagonism between capital and signed on or before 29th inst., Wharf Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignee's risk and subject to
largest of its kind in the world.labour. Differences of opinion or they will not be recognised.
Later he built in the neighboring may arise but these can be ad All broken, chafed and damag-torms and conditions of storage
town of Andover & settlement of justed if both parties are pervaded Led goods are to be left in the at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will
model homes for mill workers, with a spirit of good will and godowns, where they will be or be ready for delivery from Go-
as Shiaweleen Village justice." known amined on the 15th inst., at 10 down on and after 16th February.
In countless homes throughout Optional cargo will be landed, China Baby's Own Tablets are Here he gave employes of the
King Victor Emmanuel made No Fire Insurance has been unless notice has been given held in the highest esteem, and corporation the opportunity to
prior to the steamer's arrival. many Chinesa, doctors prescribe purchase their own homes on a Wood & Cavalier of the Cross and sffected
All broken, chafed, and damag- them for their little patients. For system of monthly payments and Crown of Italy in 1922, Wood Bills of Lading will be counter signed by
ed goods are to be left in the example Dr. Pai Yu Sang, a pro- provided a bowling green, soccer never cared for sports but had Godowne, where they will be minent physician at Kweihsien, grounds and other opportunitice owned several yachts and was a GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. | oxamined on any Tuesdays and Shansi, writes:-
for recreation.
member of two country clubs.' In Agaria,
Fridays botwoon the hours of
While emphasizing at all times politiós he was a republican and "Mr. Cheng Chen Wu's little his desire for friendly relations in religion an Episcopalian. 10.45 am, and noen within the froe storage period.
son and daughter have both been with the corporation's employee, No claima will be admitted bonefited by Baby's Own Tablets [ho could not prevent after the goods bave left the and Mr. Cheng, who is an army the Lawrence workers from join- stoamer's Gooown, and all Goods secretary hore, is glad for the ing with those of other mille in remaining undelivered after the casos of his children to be publish that city in the great strike of 2nd. Feb. will be subject to raat ed. The little boy and girl were 1912 which resulted in much All Claims against the Steamer woak and I failed to prescribe a violence and bloodshed. As on must be presented to the under- suitable remedy for them until aftermath of the strike Wood was signed on or before the 8th March Baby's Own Tablets were tried. indicted for conspiracy to "plant" 1926, or they will not be recognis Now both are enjoying excellent sticks of dynamite which had IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS
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ANNUAL BALL.
Members are reminded of the following dates:-
1st Reel Practice-Friday. 19th February, 5.30 to 7 p.m.
2nd Reel Practice--Tuesday, 23rd February, 5.30 to 7 p.m.
BALL-Friday, 26th February, 9.30 p.m.
Those who have already hand- ed over the 1st Practice Dance Tickets will be admitted by pre- senting the 2nd Practice Dance Tickets, and suitable arrange. ments will be made for admission to the Practice Dance to be held on 23rd February.
Members are also reminded that they will be able for subscrip- tions pa previously instructed un- less the Honorary Secretary is notified in writing of any changes on or before Tuesday, the 23rd instant.
Á, K. MACKENZIE, '
Hon. Secretary. c/o Holyoak, Massey &Co., Ltd., Queen's Buildings.
(Tel. C.2492).; Hongkong, Feb. 11, 1926.
Members have the privilege of introducing 2 non-mombers to the Members' Enclosure.
A limited number of tickets are available and may be chained from Mossrs, Linstead and Davis, Alexandra Buildings on or before SATURDAY, February 27th 1926 Price $0 por day or $30 for the Meeting.
LINSTEAD & DAVIS,":
Treasurere.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,
RACE MEETING, 1923
March 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 6th
Tickets of Admission to the Public Enclosure may be obtain- ed from Messrs. Kelly and Walsh or at the Gate. Price $3. por day
Boldiers and Sailore in Uniform $1 per day.
No one admitted: without a Ticket to be shown to the Ticket' Inspector at the Gate,
· LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Tro:surers...
10 a.m.
Hongkong, 8th Feb., 1926,
FISH
Macao Bole, Sciaena, Mullot, IMPORTED FRESH
DAILY,
FRESH—CLEAN – PIRE. HONGKONG FISH STORE 59, Des Voeux Ed. Tal. C.234.
ed...
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
· 15th February 1926.
Before You Advertiso
COUNT THE “TELEGRAPHS”.
In The Streets
health."
"
been" found in the homes of
HUGHES & HOUGH
LIMITED.
GENERAL AUCTIONEERS.
* GENERAL BROKERS,
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.
Baby's Own Tablets contain not several mill workers, with the a single particle of harmful drug, intention of imputing criminal and can be given to the tiniest charges to these operativos. A infant with absolute safety. They Lawrenos undertaker who had are a specific for infantile in-been convicted of actually placing digestion, constipation. colic, the dynamite in the homes.had diarrhoea, simple fever, worms told the authorities that Wood and, teething pains; they sooth and others had paid him a few the nerves and quickly bring roat-hundred dollars to do it. A mill ful, health-restoring sleep in a builder named by the undertaker If you bave any thing you would perfectly natural way. If you as one of the conspirators com, like to sell, exchange or advertino, cannot obtain Baby's Own Tablets mitted suicide after being sum-send it to the CHINA AUCTION where you live sond 60 cents. for moned to testify before the grand BOOM.
a vial to Dr. Williams Medicine jury. The trial resulted in
Co., 60, Kiangse Road, Shanghai,Į Word's segulstal.
4. Duddell Street.
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