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THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS,
LIMITED.
(Incorporated in Hongkong.)
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of the Hongkong The following replies are await-and Shanghai Hotels, Limited, will be held in the Roof Garden of the Ing collection
Hongkong Hotel, Fedder. Street, Hongkong, on Saturday, the 29th May, 1926, at eleven o'clock in tto forenoon, for the purpose of re- ceiving a Statement of Accounte and, the Report of the Board of Directors for the year ended on the 31st December, 1925, confirming the appointment of a Director, and re-electing a
the Directer and Auditors.
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Mrs. R. T. Mattuson.
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FOR SALE.
"FOR SALE-Three Tetter Prees Printing Machines, with motors. Apply Manager "8.C.M. Post."
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By Order of the Board,
WALTER J. HAWKER,
Manager: Hongkong, May 1, 1920.
THE CANTON 'INSURANCE OFFICE LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
The Forty-fifth Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be
held at the Offices of the under- signed op Tuesday, the 18th May, 1926, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1926.
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 4th to the 18th May, 1925, both days inclusive. :1
JARDINE MATHESON
& CO. LTD.,
General Agents. Hongkong, April 27, 1926.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY
OF CANTON LTD..
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1926.
LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have received instruction to sell by Public Auction
on MONDAY, 17th MAY, 1926 at 3. p.m.
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At the premises of The Hongkong Telegraph"
11, Ice House Street.
TWO LARGE NEWSPAPER
| PRINTING MACHINES
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These machines may be inspected in onera- tion on application to the Manager of "The Hongkoog Telegraph, "
Terms: Cash on Delivery, the Machines must be removed within ten days from date of sale.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
The Undersigned have received) instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Monday, the 10th May, 1926 commencing at II a.m.
at thoir Sales Room, Duddell St.,
2 Bales Silk Noil Yarn
and
(for account of the concerned: 2 Packages Sole Leather Bond
and
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
MODERN TRANSPORT.
THE PLACE OF THE HORSE.
LORD WILLINGDON.
ON WAY TO MANILA,
LADY'S CLAIM,
[Continued from Pago L)
Accompanied by Lady Willing to stop was blown-Yça.
There is a tendency to attach too much importance to the fact-don, there arrived in the Colony You did not see the wheel some this morning, aboard the Canadian off. What happened?-The bus or is it no more than a rumour-Pacific liner Empress of Canada, suddenly swerved across the road that business Arms whose tran-the head of the British Boxer In-and turned ovar,
Did the bus fall quickly or slow- ly?Quickly,
But you had time to step out {n} an attempt to save yourself No, I clung to the bars or I should have been killed.
MIGHT HAVE BEEN KILLED, port is pf the town or short-haul demnity Mission to the Far Eas
They are Mr. Strellett pressed the wit- order are replacing their motor Viscount Willingdon.
passing through on the way to
ness as to the position the bus was vehicles by horses on the score of Manila, subsequent to a brief re-in after it had overturned, and economy. Such changes may be spite from the labours of the Com Mrs. Jones replied that she was in in the making, but in the nature mission in the North. The trip auch agony that she did not pay, of things they cannot be perman-
special attention. ent. There are certain fields of transport that for the moment are best operated by horse, for the very reason that the hauls are short and that many stoppages have to be made, but that does not allow for changes and improve- ments. As a transport mediuin the horse is at its maximum; the motor vehicle is constantly being Improved In efficiency, and this affects its economic service. Moreover, it would be interesting to know whether the horse is really cheaper than the motor where the two come into proper compe- tition, if all charges are taken into account.
The unimal has definite limite:
it can work only so long and so
bard, and it is subject to influences
Re-examined, Mrs. Janes meri- tioned that her husband had owned car for years; and she consider ed herself a judge of speed,
An Indian constable, who was on duty at the police control point, forty or fifty yards from the scene of the accident, said that he noticed that the bus was tra- velling at a high speed and turned after it had passed to take the nunt- bor. Before he could do so, the bus had overturned.
Mr. Andrews:-Why did It overturn 7-Because of the fast speed:
Did you notice anything about the wheels-Not until after the accident. Then I saw that the left rear wheel was broken.
Sergt. Smith said he examined
of weather in a way that does not to Manila will be continued by affect the motor vehicle. It needs the Empress liner, which leaves the scene of the accident soom after it had occurred. He saw the
instructions to sell by Publicing or resting it must be fed and
The Undersinged have received constant attention, whether work-this evening.
bus in the depot of the Compány It will be recalled that a Auction on
attended to, and it cannot work Statutory Committee was appoint-on the same day and found it in and eat at the same time. Whated with Earl Buxton as chairman good condition except for the faét may be termed the auxiliary ser- to advice the Secretary of State that the left rear wheel was off. vices also run to expense. Pro- as to the best use to which the perly fed, a good horse consumes
funds of the Boxer Indemnity
Friday, the 7th May, 1526, commencing at 11 am.
at Godown No. 6, Holt's Wharf,
Kowloon.
"
18lb. to 201b. of hay and 14lb. of could be put in the interests of onts daily; it must be fed and this country and China.
Under
BUSES TOP HEAVY,
Questioned by Mr. Justice Wood, witness said that the maximum speed allowed the buses in Kow- A Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods.
watered on Sunday, when presum-the Protocol of 1901, Chini under-loon was fifteen miles per hour. comprising
ably it is not working, and this took to pay 167,500,000 in 39 an-They were capable of about thirty- five. The police did not examine Bolts and Nuts, Galvanised needs the attention of a man, who the British quota being £400,000. nus instalments of £3,500,000,
buses periodically but, a mechanic A Quantity of Miscellaneous Papes, Brags, Boilers, Iron Wire, loses so much Sunday leisure and This amount was remitted by two them, and if he was suspicious of was always in Kowloon watching Tin Plate, Soap, Paint, Sample needs paying for the task. The Goods, Sockets,
instruments, namely, by decision Iron Pipes, food, oats and hay, need storage of the Cabinet in 1922, and by any particular one he would stop Locks., etc.,
room, and this takes up space for the passage of the China Indem- it for examination. TemsCash on Delivery
Mr. Justice Wood:-Are they LAMMERT BROS,
opinion, yes.
Goods..
comprising: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Socks, Stockings, Face Towels. RESIDENTIAL APART that the FIFTY-THIRD OR- Match, Single s, Handkerchiefs, MENTS.-Pull board small room DINARY YEARLY MEETING Soap, Naphtaline Balls. Yarn. 195 monthly. Medium sized of the Society will be held a. the Tooth, Powder, Candles, Butl room $120 inclusive Large com-lead Office. Union Building, Towels, Rubber Shoes, Slippers modious bedsitting-rooms $130 Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 28th Brass Nails, Satin and Leather monthly, 1 minute from Forry, MAY 1926, at 11 o'clock a.m., Shoes, Boots, Laundry Powder, Next new hotel Hankow Road, for the purpose of receiving the Buttons, Thread Balls, Toys, Kowlcon, Tel. K.357
Report of the Directors and Pencils, Combs, Mosquito Sticks, Statements of Account to 31st Reels, etc., etc..
FLATS FOR RENT-Oriant December 1925, und of declaring
"Puilding oronation Road, Dividende, etc. Kowloor. o. 5, Ground Floor THE TRANSFER BOCKS of No. 9, 1st. Ficor. No 10, 2nd the Society will be CLOSED from Floor. No. 11, 2nd. Floor. No. 12. 14. Foor. No. 13, 2ad. Floor, May 12th to May 28th both days No. 14, 1st Floor. No. 15, 1st Floor.
Immedia o accupation: Enquire Caine Road or Te'ophone 0317 between 9 and 10 a.m.
~ LET,ne European flat, Wanchal Gap Road, Hong- Apply to 32 Kennedy
tong. Road.
NOTICE:
Notice is hereby given that as
incluéive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hongkong, May 3rd 1926.
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE CO. LTD.
NOTICE TO SHARE- HOLDERS. E
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
(all more or less damaged) Terma-Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,
CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.
4, Daddell Street.
If you have anything you woulc like to sell, oxchaoke or advertisc send it to the CHINA AUCTION ROOM.
E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA.
Auctioneers,
RELIGION AND
SCIENCE.
DR. GORE'S TRIBUTE TO
SCIENTISTS.
which presumably rent must be
nity (Application) Act in 1925, paid. The motor vehicle goes into There has been rauch discussion top heavy when full?-In my much less room, and when idle over the week-end needs no attenremitted funds should be applied,red there is a downhill gradient? as to the purposes to which the At the point the accident occur- tion such as has to be given the and it was with the object of Yes, a slight one. horse. Its life is longer; it is determining these that the Act estimated that the working life of authorized the setting up of a
Supposing the car was travelling a horse on the hard roads and Statutory Committee.
at a fast speed and the driver was suddenly, called upon to stop, what" half years, whereas a motor vehi- send certain members of the Com-
Subsequently, it was decided to would happen?-Nothing provided
streets of cities is about four and a
cle
ought to last twice that mittee, with Lord Willingdon 23 it did not skid.
What do you think was the causs time, and with mechanical over-their head, to the Far East to study of the accident?-The road cants. hauls and renewal of tyres can conditions on the spot and to into the left and the weight of the be made to serve longer.
vestigate claims for appropria-ear would be thrown on the left. The task of reconciling, the
There is strictly no place for tons from the Indemnity Funds. If the car was travelling fast there Christian religion with modern
Lord Willingdon, who was, for- would be a double strain on the science was undertaken by Dr. the horse in modern elty traffic, Gore, late Bishop of Oxford in and it survives only because the morly a Liberal Member of Par-left rear wheel," St. Paul's Cathedral when he gave conditions of pre-motor days are liament, was Governor of Bombay He thought the wheel was broken
We have narrow from 1913 to 1919 and Governor before the bus swerved. the third of his Wednesday ad-still with us.
of Madras from 1919 to 1024. dresses. There
On streets, antiquated methods of was again. a crowded audience.
loading and unloading, and we have tramcurs with their fixed At one point it seemed that track, while all the time transport little would be left of Chris-services have been developing and tian' and tradition,
up.. Position speeding
Tramways and after position was abandoned horses together account mainly Adam and Eve, the Garden of for street congestion: the one be- Eden, the traditional Heaven of
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AN HISTORICAL. EVENT.
LOWER YANGTZE
further examination he agreed that the breaking of the wheel might have been a conse→ quence of the swerve and overturn- ing rather then the cause.
In cross-examination by Mr. Strellett, Sergt. Smith said a skid depended on speed." He did not think there could have been a
from 1st of May, 1926, the under N TAGIX ITI BTH ORDINARY HUGHES & HOUGH Hell, the stories of the creation, other pecats infexible track, the PILOTAGE EXAMINATION. serious skid without high scod.
the
nected with the Chung Mai YEARLY MEETING of Garage Limited, and their re Company will be held at its Head sponsibilities and liabilities cease Office, Union Building, Hong as from date herein stated."
Signed-
ANDREW HARPER WILLIAM KAILEY CHAN IK TSEỤNG
NOTICE.
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UNIVERSAL AUTO SUPPLY COMPANY.
OUR OFFICE and SHOW- ROOM have been REMOVED to 61, DES VOEUX ROAD. C. CUSTOMERS are requested to go
to the above mentioned address...
انرجی
LIMITED.
GENERAL BROKERS.
kong, on FRIDAY, 28th MAY GENERAL AUCTIONEERS. 1926, at 11.15 a.m., for the pur-IMPORTEERS, EXPORTERS & pose of reciving the Report of the Directors and the statements of Account to 31st December 1925, and of declaring Dividende, etc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will bo CLOSED from May 12th, to May 28th, both duys inclusivo.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER.
General Manager. Hongkong, May 3rd 1929...
THE CHINA PIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LTD.
DIOCESAN OLD GIRLS' | NOTICE TO SHARDHOLDERS.
ASSOCIATION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tho FIFTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEET ING of the Company will be hold at its Head Ofice, Union Build- ing, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, 28th MAY 1926, at 11.20 a.m., for
All former pupils of the biocesan that Girls School wishing to join the above, please apply for particulars and enrolment forms to the Hon. Secretary.
Miss M. Kaeker,
e/o Messrs. Lo & Lo. of receiving the
Hongkong, May 4, 1920.
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.
Robertson's
Asbestos
Protected
and ascension-all were surren-ment. The two in combination, Cered to the scientists.
which is a frequent happening, Just recently a bourd of examin. cost the trading community heaviers sat to conduct an examination Dr. Gore seemed, indeed to be ly because of the hindrance they of candidate for a Pilotage Cer- anxious to give up this ground.
The case is proceeding.
·
EUROPEANS' LOSSES.
set up to the free flow of traffle, tificate on the Yangtze from Woo-YESTERDAY'S THEFTS. The remedy will have to be a bold sung to Hankow a distance of "Let us proclaim," he declared,
600 milos of intricate river "as constantly,
one; the unfortunate part of it is as emphatically
navization. and as publicly as possible the that, if adopted, much of the cost The ovent is a of some historical
will fall DH individual abandonment by the Church of an
owners importance as being the first in-
Robbers were busy again yester Junteuble pesilion--the position
rather than on the community a stance of an examination ever duy that the early chapters of Genesis whole. The remedy compre held in connexion with this great In one case, the house of a record literal history."
hends the elimination of the tram-important waterway into the Chinese foreman employed on the ear from the centre and most. con- interior of China. Some of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, at Ma And he went further than this. gested areas, and the elimination largest cargo vessels in the world Ngui Hui, was visited by three men, He insisted that the early Chris-also of the horse from the same proceed, regularly to and from who entered by means of the front tian leaders never intended the areas. The public would lose Hankow during the high water door which was closed but not position to be held, and he blamed something at first by the wiping seasons April till October.
locked One of the men carried a
the later theologians" for atub out of capital outlay on track and The Board was composed of D torck. They ransacked, the house, bornly claiming as literal fact overhead equipment, but would Ferguson, Manager, Woosung and got away with money" and. what was intended only to be the proceed to earn something by the Hankow Pilot Association, Cap. clothing to the value of $20.50. vivid and symbolical presentation substitution of motor-buses. The tain W. I. Elslar, United States Sometime between 1 p.m. on individual haulier or business Shipping Board, Captain J. T. April 4th., and the same time on of a divinely inspired idea.
houses with stables would lose in Inch, Pilot, and Captain F. A, the following day, someone gained In paying a tribute to the scien- that they would have to get rid Maxwell, C.M.S. Kiangbein. The entrance to Mrs. R. Millor's dres- tists of to-day for their devotion of their horses and buy motor
candidato was Mr. John Esing room at 3, Mody. Road, Kow- to truth, he declared unreservedly vehicles, but here again the outlay Loving who has been some pum-loon, and stole $400 in bank notes. that the theory of evolution was would provide a return, direct and ber of years trading on the Sergt. Major Edwards, Royal Metal Roofing)
more satisfying than the old indirect; there would be speedier The oxamination is provided for has reported to the police that $140 Yangtze as master of a local ship. Engineers, Wellington Barracks, dogma of a special creation "to transport and the elimination of under Articles of Agreement bon notes has been stolen from a which unfortunately the theolo that loss which comes through thetween various bodios-Shanghai coat pocket which he left on the gians of the Renaissance commit congestion of traffic. It is a case Marine Underwriters, General table, in the Survey Department ted themselves."
for taking long views, and the Chamber of Commerce, sts, and Omics, Victoria Barracks. As Dr. Gore, retreated further sooner, the whole position is sur-ts of such nature that shipowners
A Singer sewing machine, better.
Traffic is grow insurance companies have valued at $100, has been stolen
Full Particulars from:
the purpose Directors and the DAVIE BOAG & Co. and other from ground that in veyed the bursity and volume, and and guarantee that now men from a tailor's shop at Un Long,
Statements of Acoount to 31st
December 1925, and of declaring Dividends, etc..
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of
The Banque de l'Indo-Chine bog the Company will be CLOSED
to inform all interested in safe from May 12th to May 28th, both
deposit, that they have actually days inclusive:
In their new building. 5 Queen's
Road, aafe deposit Boxes at the yearly rate of $8 for the small,
size, and $12 for the large size, Please apply to the Cashier.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
Goneral Manager, Hongkong, May 3rd 1926.
Bank of Canton Building. (Sole Apents)
Before You Advertiso. ·'
DISCOVER WHICH NEWSPAPER
Your Friends Rood.
TO-DAY.
the past has been so strongly with it the congestion of the taking up this pilotage aro fully Ax Tau district, Shatin, occupied, one began to wonder when he would stand and how he streets is increasing. It is a qualified for the work they under- would defend the essential position situation which is again giving take. of Christianity
some life to the proposal to con- struct a system of tubes for Man- He soon made it clear that while chester, but while that would re
"Since your accident have you conceding to the scientists the lleve the passenger congestion. It tried to do light employment.?** literal imposalbility of many of the would not touch the problem of Yes, I peel potatoes for the Bible stories he intended to justify to võhicle, which is one ecom- wife. Man at Bow County them on other grounds.
Ing urgent for solution,
Court to solicitor.
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