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THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN at the TWENTY-FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Company's Offices, St. George's Puilding, on SATURDAY, the 3rd MAY. 1913, at 12 o'clock Noos. for the purpose of presenting the Report af the Directors together with a Statement capneity of 300,000,000 gallons of Accounts to 28th February, 1919, and eleting Directors and Auditoru.

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MEANT EN BEING TAKEN FOR THEA "

BUPPRESSION.

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TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECRм*ex. 1911,

£12,561.285

-Authorised Capital £6,000,000 Subscribed Capital £4,500,000 Paid-up Capital £2, $37,500 11--Fire Funda............... 3,899, 114 Life & Annuity Fund., 16,138,180 Staking Fund Account......

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88,512 MILNERS'

has not come too soon. The "mock funeral" has generally taken the form of a procession to the station of every avail able form of hired convoyance. Hansons, THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE latter days) motor and taxicabs have been four-wheelers draga, carts and (in these pres ed into the service and the main thoroughfares have been rendered nearly impassable by the procession. Somo port ef substitute for a hearse--and on occasiona the real thing itself has been chartered,

which the "corpse" has held-comfort figures great at the mind cable state, and the scene at the station has dedite frein it any idea of the gas baffled description. Ordinary passengers Sakinliented. The maximum depth is have had their comfort ectiously interfered 4, a rat is the expanse of war with, and the railway staff bave found that that me-third down its length is' is eus in two law, fugis Breakwiter, to prevent pletely overturned.

the morale of the station has been cum- the names of the dniature so doing dag i bistrous weather,

Imaging some thirty or forty vehicles But even soppe interesting in a waduates in various fantastic attire perched adorned with funereal ribbons; undergra. than the tangitude of the undertaking is

on the top of cabs and cars; a band play- the name in which the water will be pumpal ina the reservoir from the rivering lugubricus aira: a platform thronged When the King pri tand the releas. with men in academical costume drinking Ted AGENTS for the above Campany THE Undersigned having been appointing button at the spining ceremony ho the health of him who has been rusticated set in motion a series of pumps such as while he makes a valedictory speech from are prepared to accept Marine Risks at have ever been employed before. Ir the window of the railway carriage Men need hardly be said that the river Len have climbed on to the roofs of th coachia, could revay theet such a regular drain and the officials dared not send the train apon its resources, and for the ordinary away while they remained there. in orpins How of the river the one arsil pemap will bu enough. It is only nhen the river is in fod thus the " the water will be dealt with by the why dos of the pumps and sters d away.

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HOW A FORTENT WAS RUINERD,

the bas men for the want of a better Inquiries at Cambridge go show that

Old Etonians an the members of the bes torm take to part in these Saizu. The

esbs look upon the exhibitions as sensele sad derogatory to the dignity of the "Anuarié story attaches to the use "Varsity, as represented by the under Water Board were about to build the new and a member of the Pittor the Athenæum of those pantips. When the Metropolitan graduates, and it would be a rare thing to reservoir they were fared with the pro-leading countenance to anything of the bem offing 100,000,000 gallons of sort. water some 25 to 30ft. Iron: the rive

Oxford has not played such a prominent 562 to the reservoir every 24 hours. Mr. part in these "rags" of hate years. H. 3. Humphry, a London consulting Memory barka back to the early nineties, engineer, who had wonstructed a new type when a prodigious "mock funeral" wis! of pomp, was seen, and the board stipu- held on the occasion of the great "rag"- hted that they must have five pumps of one might more truthfully say riot-st from 200 to 200 horse-power euch, and

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thas if his invention was not a success hoChrist Church, It will be remembered should fortis „£20,000, and £1,000 for that leave as refused to attend the ball given by the Duke of Marlborough at tenth of a pound of coal used in Blenheim sad sa a protest the rape of Bi excess of ill. per horse-power per hour. Tom was cut eq, that the familiar hundred Mr. Humphrey took the risk, and he has and one strokes could not ting out. saeeded. The five great pumpa cha Bonizes blazed in every quad. Statues deliver 250,000,000 gallons of water a

were painted scarlet. Then come the day, which is equal to the whole water

rock funeral were sent down, and

was held of a singolarly supply required for Greater Londen. » turbulent kind. More than one present

Mr. Humphrey's pumps are a revolu-member of the Upper Bouse wae in

timately fionary innovation in methods of raising

ely concerned, water by means of power derived from hen intermittent attempts to revive the since these days there have, of course, The principio on which they work is custom and the "High" at Oxford he 68 us.

exactly the same as that of the ordinary now and ag' been denuded of its caba tu mutnequr vagine?". In Mr. Humphrey's Bees het procesion station ward prangos gas obtained by the burning of out," and such legislation as the Cambridge practice has generally fizzled petrol sopour in the motor-ne engine, welcome and salutary. malleracio al takes the place of the authorities are now contemplating is boln and water that of the piston. A mixture of the gas with air. is exploded by means of an electrical sparking plug in a cham her of the pump. Water from the I Bows into the panpind by the fores the explosion is forced along a ping and up a tower open at the top, from which it des into the reservoir. The column New Insurance, Paid for......£ 25,687,500 of water moves backwards and forwbals Outstanding insurmonte

to ..........

229,653,220 in the pipe hetween the explosion cluzaber Assata smount to £104,068,858 and the tower, and we get operationa 17,823,766 exactly similar to thosi in the motorwar

engine.

THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURASCH SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES.

SHEWAN, TUMES &.00., GENERAL MANAGARA, HONGKONG

J. T. HAMILTON, GENERAL MANA

FOR THE EAST, TOKYO.

Surplus amounts to

Dividends to Policyholders

1910.

Total mid

(Policyholders 1910 Total Expenses for 1910. Groes carnings from interest And Kepta for 1910...... Gross rate of Income from Investments 1910......... Hongkong, Feb. 27, 1012

10,576,187

53,439.384 10,332,03%

21,848,52F

4.45%

DIENIN. HIS 10376 YEAR.

Mr. John K. Long, of Small Heath, Pir mingham, has died in his 103rd year. He leaves & children, 21 grandchildren, 44 great-grandchildren, ant 1 grest-great- grandobild.

On his 100th birthday he received a letter from the King, congratulating him

THE ALEXANDRA CAFE Cannot be on the remarkable, ront, and expressing

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tremely good memory,

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£32.761.288 Revenas Fire brauch.......... 2,567.188

Life ant Aäronity 导师

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1,973,269

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430,193 PRINCIPAL BANKS

£3,233.312

The Aentaabtire Funds of the various Broches are separately invested, and, by Act of Parliament, are set aside to meet the claims under the resportiva Depart- menta of the Company's Business.

JHEWAN, TUMES & CO

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Bengkung, May 30, 1911.

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