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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1915.

Hughes and Hough

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT

AND ADMIRALTY.

General Auctioneers

AND

Share, Coal and

General Brokers.

PROPRIETORS

"TO-KWA-WAN "-

COAL STORAGE,

Codes used

1.8.0 4TH & dra Estrional fi

A. TELEGRAPH: CODE."

Telegraphio Address MEIRION HONGKONG.

PUBLIU AUCTION.

THE Undersignedi bave received instruc tions to sell by Public Auction,

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNIB),

on

FRIDAY,

the 3rd December, 1915, at 11 am... at their Sales Rooms, No. 8. Des Your Road, Corner of

"Ice Hock STREET,

A QUANTITY OF

ENTERTAINMENT. ·

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FRIDAY, 3rd DECEMBER, 1915. The Thrilling Production of The Present Wär.

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UNDON INSURANCE SOCIETY OF -CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE

CANTON, LIMITED.

NUTICA is bereby given that

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of The Union Insuranca Society of Canton, Limited,ill be held at the Head Office of the Socisty, No. 2 Queen's Buildinga, Ica House Stroot, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, en SATURDAY

COMPANY, LIMITED.

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OTICE is hereby given that in NEXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the China Tradara Tasure anca Company Limited, will be held at the Head Ofice of the Company No. 2 Que n's Buildings, Ice House Street, Victoria, in

in the Colony of Hongkong on SATURDAY the 4th day of December, the purpose of chasidering, and if thought it, passing a Extraordinary Resolutions the following Resolutions, that is to say:

*ROUTE-MARCHING.

THE MOST HUMAN SIDE OF

MILITARY WORK..

COMMERCIAL

COTTON, "YARN, do".

My Taxi F. Hutton and Co.) Led., of Manchester, in their weekly market report duted October 28 palate. ---

Corti valties have this week taken

There is nothing quite like route-march- lag-nothing military ma any rate, with the mne. **Inwardnes. Civilian on holiday trampe may know the same physioni plene downward turn hat after the recent heuys aurs, but they do bet and cannut kave advances us reaction cannot be coti the atmosphere that soldier gute ipsidered very inrprising," although the know so well on bis tramps. There is official ginning report published on M nething subtle about it. That is at once day was not at all bearish. The ginning its aving grace, its beauty, and its figures werd small bur are to sense ess charm. Due has just to march, and tent explained by the fiet that the gm', cther things are added by circometanco

and ever present companionship. For this in erp is very late in soane arris, and rosson it is a mind-rosting exercise, far consequently, this figures do not give-une excelling those lonely walks where not sathe percentage of the whole as it recrut is forced back upon one's thoughts. And years, For instance; in Oklahains the

it differs completely from deill, of course,

LOCAL SHOPPING.

VICTOR VICTROLA

The ideal

CHRISTMAS GIFT.

Ever ready as an entertain ex

and gives a perfect

in that states of mind are not continually report shows only 18.00 hales gigned as being broken up by words of comms d. «gainst 431,000 bales last year, and being It forms, saya ariter in the Manchester an exceptionally bad weathse or other Guardian," indeed, the anat haman aide drawhacks to account for this, there can of military work, and is therefore

* useful set-off

to a routine which can jaz rather no other explanation but that the crop hardly

The recruit quickly gets to look is late. forward to chose days in country made and In the Manchester market there has) Innes, and the welcome loanging at the been a steady trade in progress for cloth reproduction of the world's resting placus where he can dit himself during the past week and although there with sweet alt and an unthinking happiness has perhaps not been enough business to though soap all the looma-running, more busi-

been taken, and already, now that im mediate needs have been satisfied, + Semmer tone prevails. Spinners too, have done well and their margins tend to inhe prove and one Bads the anomaly of dearer ioth and garn prices since last wich in spite of an appreciable ease in the raw

other things a vital Monotony on the march is scarcely Dess has been experienced than for a tex known, unless one is racy tired-it can so months post. Some ruinous prices, so exsily be prevented by the efforts of the far as manufacturers are concertai, basu. marobar themselves. Yorse, dees-song come more spontaneously, and never does it scho botter than to the sound of tramp ing fest. There is a lightening factor, too, which the civilian does not know, in the ictarest and acclamation of the fam Waysiders in

sin muft, and of the townamen and villagers. The soldier is not locked upon sourly as an idiar, or sulfonly and suspiciously as an "onsider," and these Ettle tempors of an unfamiliar countryside are matters which often grow to eigh heavily on the civilian tramper, with his rucksack and his well worn ash (oven Mr. Belloc, most tout-bearted of wayfarers, has confessed to

The endless go

material.

India has been buying in most of tlie dual lines of Dhooties, Mulls and fine goods, but Shirtings remain under-s'cloud and bids are still pretty, woll out. Dred roods are very difficult to handle and

the 4th day of December, 1915 at 12 o'clock 1915 at 1215 o'clock in the afternoon for soldier gets, in this camomill and the position as regards Dee Studs is

Noor for the purpose of considering, and if thought it, passing as Extracedinary 6 COLOURED CHINESE PORCELAIN Resolutions the following Resolutions, that

CA,

$0.

To be sold without Roserve.

On view day of sale...

Torma ---CasË..

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Now, 1915.

FUBLIO AUCTION.

1017

HE Uademigned have received instruc

tions to sell by Public Auction,

FUB ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNEE)

90

MONDAY,

Whe 8th December, 1915, at 2.30 p.ti., at

No. 3, Carnarven Road, Kowloou, " Corner House"

ТЕК

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

1

FURNITURES

therein contained. Constating of ---

"Teak Hall Stand, Bevelled Mirror"; Extension, Dining Table. Teak Sideboard, Dinner Waggon. Overmantel, Crockery and Glass Ware, Teak Drawing Roomi Suite, Curio Cabinet, Lace Curtains, Bras Ficlaro Rods Japanese Water Colours and Pictures, E.-P. Tea and Coffee Service, Skin Ruge, Toak Fender Brasses and Dɛge, Double and Single Bruss mounted Bela, Marble-top Furanus, Wardrobes, Chest-of- drawers Shanghai Baths, Cooking Stove sad all Electric Fittings and Lights,

Also

1 Large Monkey House with three Motkeys and two aviaries with Canaries wad Sundry-Potn-Plauta

Un view from Sunday, the sta. Catalogues will be issued. Tzan-As usual,

HCGRES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers, Hongkong, Nov 27, 1915.- 1024

PUBLIC A VOTION

HE Undersigned have received instruc

tions to sell by Public auction,

on

FRIDAY

the 3rd December, 1915, commencing at 2.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Voeux Road, Corner of

43

Ice House Street. VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,,

CARPETS, &c.,

As follows:-

Chesterfield Sofas and Chairs (Now) Besas and Brass-mounted Bedsteads, Bed- roon and Dining Room Furniture, Toilet Tables, Wardrobes, Washstands, &c., Two Sideboardy by Powell, Ld., Dinner Waggons, Extension Dining Tables and Obairs, Brass Fenders, Fire Brasses, ots.,.

· BLACKWOOD - Cabinets, Chains, Flower Stands, Piano, Stools, Brackets, Marble top Tables, Music Cabinets, Card Tables, Stools, Photo Frames, etc.;

Ако

Une Dinner Service, Bundry Crockery. Sundry Glaes Wars, Outlery, Cooking Stove,

3 Pianon, Carpate, Sundry E.-P. Ware,

Electric Reading Lampe, etc.

(Full Particulare from Catalogue.) Terms:-As usual.

BUGRES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers Hongkong, Nov. 27, 1915.

in to say:-

1.

2.

That iba. Capital of the Society be ingrensed to $1,000,000 (Four **million Dollars) by the creation of **3,600 (Three thousand six hundred) **additional ordinary shares of $250 (Two hundred and fifty Dollars) each (whereof $100 (One hundred "Dollars) shall be credited as paid

up) ranking for dividend and in all "other rompec. pari pasu with the "existing ordinary." shares of the -Society: and that the said ad-

ditional shares, so far na shall be "necessary for the purpose, be issued

to those Shareholders of the China "Fire Insurance Company Limited

who bavs accepted or shall

the Society's offer made them on the 4th day of August, "1915- such **isane being in securidines with the "terms of a contract or memoriındum **in writing made or to be made "pursuant to the said oder and to be led with the Registrar of Com-

* proles and that the balance (if **any of the sail additional sharan be disposed of by the Society's Bard of Directors in such mander **as such Board shaif "think most

beneficial to the Society".

"That Article N5. 9 of the Society's Articles of Association which cow reads:-

The Society shall have a first and

* paramount lion spon all the shares et any shareholder for all monies. dae to the Society either from him *alone or jointly with any other person and where a share is held by more persons than one the Society shall have a lien thereon *in respect of all monies so das to 'it from all or any of the holders .thereof'.

"be eliminated in its entirety and that in lieu thereof the following new Article be inserted as Article No. 9:-

9. Tas Boo'ety shall have a first and *paramount lien upon all the shares "registered in the name of each shareholder (whether solely or *juictly with others) and upon the 'proceeds of sale thereof, for his debt, liabilities and vugagements, ane solely or jointly with any other person, toor with the Society. whether the period for payman, fulfilment, cr, dis- charge thereof shall have actually arrived or not, and no erritshle interest in any share shall ba *created except upon the facting and condition that Clausa 24. hersof is to bave full effect. And such lien shall extend to all dividends from time to tide ⚫declared in taspect of such .*abares".

the

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accord and lua ia plenty in bis country an- counters, for everybody, he meets know why he is there, and everybody approves

about as bad as it could her

The question of labour, or rather short- 1. "That Article No. Dof the Company'sligence is not cloudied by dark doubts.

the reason. In bis ease the rustic intelage of labour, is at the present the st

"Articles of Association whica naw

reads.

The Company shall have a frst *and paramount lietr upon all the shares of any shareholder for all munies due to the Company either from him aloze or jointly with any other person, and where a

held by

more persons than one the Company shall have a lien thereon in respect of all mosies so due to it from all or

or

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WHIRE TRI CIVILJAN »COR13,

serious of all difficulties. and in some quarters Urbatens to dislocato business 'There is one direction, however, in altogether. The latest appeal by the which the civilian scores, one which he Government for Fecruits, for the army msy diem, indeed, as important as any has taken a many irruplacable men from He is free to wander at will sad to form the mills and also the dyeworks, and the his own sandering impressinas, and,

indeed, probably sets out mainly to do so.output cannot help but he further cur. The marching soldier can do this only in tailed thereby.

This will also afte

very imperfect fashion. Be gets gloricus prices as using expenses remain the

limpac, it is true, but he may not

samme mad mist, he spread over the res linger. Even when the steady move for

any of the holders thereof, want does not her out the view, the deced production.

be eliminated in its entirety, and

cou

continual becuasny for keep by step is

that in Lou thereof the following new Article be inserted as Article say deep realization of the nature ...* No. 9:---

sufficient in itself to render possible

WALL.

of the country. And at any moment diver. "WIRELESS ALONG THE GREAT The Company shall have a tiratsion may come in the shape of a new s sung, and paramount lien upon all the Singing on the march is wou e fully shares registered in the name of compelling thing t

each shareholder (whether solely

outaido its indsend possible tore nain

But of directions

Tự days of old, when the Gướt Wall

or jointly with others) and upon and roads and distances the soldier may, of Lain was a real rampart of defence the proceeds of sale thereof, for and usually does, retain a very clear im and not the numbling ruin that it is tr

his debta, liabilities and engage-pression. Fla moves evenly, bu enjaga sut day, says the Thuily Nesta, ments, and lely or jointly with intervals of rest, and he has always. the

Aby other

have

to or with the same companions with whom to compare messages of danger must have been tasks. Compapayment.

whether the pezine for Bites, and these things may he set ind along it by benteras flaming their warn the

falfilment or medest opposition to the unfettered joys of ings across hundreds of miles through the discharge thereof shal kun the “Ezeo-lanca,”

dear, dry sit. To-day, according to our actually arrived or not, and A route march, toe, sfurds the finest no equitable interest in say share possible opportunities for dreaming. It is correspondent in Taikutisien, the Chinese shall be created excopt upon the easy to keep aliva in the besir aceast of Government is preparing to instal a chain footing and condition that Clause conscinusacas fuat thin enough to keep of wireless telegraph stations all along hereof is whare full effect. touch with nach small objective necessities the north-western frontier, the station a And such liz ahsil extend on all as pace and step and po it on in the ranks. Shansi to be xated at Niawufu. The dividends, from dime to time For the rest one may d.cam, pleasantly city stands just inside the Great Wall,

aware of the surrounding atir and moves

declared in ruspect of such share meat, the turns of the road and the jors west of the famous Yenmen Pass, dae of Į 2. Tas altes Article No. of the uphill, and serenely unconscious of all al a the fous passes in the wall at which the

Company's Articles of Association the following now article beinserted

a Article No. 33--

* 50

DIGNITY AMID DANGER.

In a

one's own restful mental pruce sus. The Government still keep troops, the others thing that is mostly worrying a change bing Shanhakuan Pass, at the costera From road to grass, or the passing of heavy 33. Sare as herein otherwise provided vehicle, for grams or the son of the step extremity, Kalgan Pass, north of Peking, the Company shall be entitled to gets drowned, and though its existents was end Kaigu Paw at the extreme west lead- trent the registered holder of any not considered before, its loss is quicklying to Barkul. Very little danger share as the absolute owner there disturbing, and the marching gets "ized." threatens hina na this frontier to-day. of and accordingly shall not,

The Mengels, it is true, are on too axcept as ordered by a consturing QUIESCENCE OF MINA

This quiescence of the mind is an unfriendly and are liable to swoop down, in competent jurisdiction, er as by Ordinance ri quir.d, be bound to mixed good to the matching soldier. Cou- marunding bade, and against them the truongnise any equitable or other sinuous mental effort is impossible he wireless stations will be useful. But the claim to or interest in such shard cannot thresh out problems, as the lonely fare esting and romantic thing about their. on the part of any other person walker is tempted to do, and material construction is the conservatism which

ni, Company or Corper iou.

Corpor tomaffairs of distance, direction, and possi sees in the firear Well a natural elizare 3. That the heading of Articles Nor

**84 to 99 (incinsive) of the Com.bilities of nourishment do not rest with meat for modern methods of telegraphy..

pany Articles of Association raad him. And this smooth mental rest is, ing the Secretary bo altered of course, quite apart from torpidity

as to... the General which is not only welse to the marcher, Manage and that in-the-laat mentioned Articles (Nce, 94 to 99 but does actually lessen the value of the inclusive) wherever the word work as a mind-sedative. "Sacretary appears such word be Ah! but the sum aud the wind are good; ***** the words "General Manages be translated to the ranks, would descend to eliminated and that in lien thereof and very good. Fra. Cubist poet,

4.That in the following Articles of enjoyment of that glozines midday break,

the Company's Articles of Assočín, tion, viz Articles No 2, 7. maybe, the lawn of a waysida inn, and 4424, 30, 44, 16, 89, 54, 83, 93, 10 puffs contentedly, haversack empty and

and 198 the word Secretary water bottle with its homeward reserve individual end of a character differen *wherever it occurs be eliminated

and that in lieu thereof the words only, Thun your archer thinks of many from other route, marches. "Goneral Manager' be inserted." things which are popularly supposed to Should the stove Resolutions be passed be outside the len of the Tommy. On And if, instead of lapaing to retrospect, 244 Save as berein otherwise provided the requisite majority. they will be the march at any ate they are not my you should look ahend, a little perplexed.

suomitted for confirmation as the Society shall be entitled to Resolutions to a Second Extraordiam laughter and the horseplay" at the minor a big content. For the roads of England Special friends. And what of the full-blooded ir, perhaps, you should be filled with 4treat the registered bolder of any General Mecting which

share sa the absciste owner theresequently convered...

will le sub-

break? You would stake your word were never knowp until Germany showed that Johnson, unless you knew him for them to. See our Midland potters the one-time quill-driver he actually was, and miners marching over Stukar and had been hardened to the country all the Easter Plata and our Londoners his life. Watch him jump a ditch and

3. That after Article No. 34 of the *Society's Articles of Association "the following new Article be insert "ed as Article No. 844

of, and accordingly shall not, Dated this 22nd day of November 1915, *axcept as ordered by a Court of

By Order of the Board, competent jurisdicti, u, or as by *Ordinance requised, be best to

recognise say equitable or other 1001 platim to or interest in sticla átusra on the part of any other person, firm, Company or Corporation."

4. "That the heading of Artidjos Nos. *80 to 100 (inclusive) of the Arciety's" "Articles of Association reading the "Soerotary' be altered no an to rend the General Manager'; and that in the last mentioned Articles (Nor 85 to 100 inclusive) wherever. the

"word: Becretary appear such word

"

C. MONTAGUE EDE.

Secretary.

FOR SALE

FOR

SALE.

be eliminated and that in liouthereo! THE Underigned have received fastrus- the words "General Manager besions to self ab their Sales Rooms "inserted."

No. 8. Des Yeux Road, Corner of Ice,

5. That in the following Articles House Street,

of the Society's Articles of One Piano by Broadwood & BoDs (good "Association, viz :-Articles Nos, 3

1013

**7, 25, 38, 45, 47, 53, 55, 54, 14] One"

E Undersigned have received instr

tions to sell at their Sales Rooms,

103 and 129 the word 'Secretary' wherever it occurs be eliminated and that in lieu thereof the words One ***General Manager" be inserted."

Should the above Rreolutions be passed

One

condition),

by Collard, Collard," good

condition,

good

by Brinsmead & Son, go

condition, by Monington & Weston, good

condition,

No. 8, Us Your Kosd, Corner of lesby the requisite majority, they will be Two Boudoir Grand Plance by Broadwood

House Street,

ONE PERAMBULATOR, PRACTICALLY NEW, Apply to the Undersigned.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Assablonizers. Bengkong. Nov. 29, 1115,

submitted for afirmation": "Special

& Soun Resolutions to Second Extraordinary Piano by Koch & Bakne, General Meeting which will be subsequent Pisne by Weindenslawle ly contered of cut f

Apply to the Undersigned, Tenas Cast

· Dated this 22nd day of November 1915.

1016 1000

By Order of the Board,

0. "MONTAQUE EDE,

Becretary,

SHUGHES & HOUG

Auctioneers, Hongkong, Kov. 30, 1915.

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