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INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG ÜLÜB..

NOTIOR.

THE THIRTY-SECOND TEARLY GENERAL MEETING OF THE MEMBERS of the HaranNG CLUB, will her beld in the CLUB Hcus on MONDAY, the 1sth Blarch, 1918, st 5.30 PM.

By Order

E DES VEUX,

Secretary,

Hongkong, Max. §, 1918.

INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

ANNUAL SHOW OF FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES to be held in the Botanical Gardens. ** THURSDAY,

the 14th Marsh, at 3 to 6 p... Admission $2. (Children half price). Mrs. LOOKER will present the prizes st 5. p.m.

201 FRIDAY,

THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT ÇOMPANY, LIMITED.

THE AVENTY NINTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, St. George's Building Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, on SATUR DAY, the 93rd day of March, 1918, at 11.30 o'clock in the forencon for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1917 and declaring a Dividend.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TELESDAY, the 14th March, 1818 Katil SATURDAY, the 33rd March, 1918, both days inclusive.

By Order of the

BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hongkong, Mar. 3, 1918.

CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY. LIMITED.-

NOTICE.

103

THE FORTIETH ORDINARY

ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Pedder's Street; on WEDNES DAY, the 17th instant, at 11.30 AM. for the purpose of receiving the Report and Btatement of Accounts for the year anding 31st December, 117,

The TRANSFER 100 (8 of the Company will be CLI SED from the 14th to 7th March, both days inclusive. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lan,

Generul Agent Hongkong, Mar. 5, 1918.

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HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

"HE FORTY-NINTH ORDINARY 1. MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS ill be hald at the Offices of the Undar signed at 11 a. on WEDNESDAY, the 27th instaut

The TRANSFER BOOKS of thei Company will be CLOSED from the 13th to the 27th instant, both days inclusive..

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltri-

General Managers,

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COMPANY, LTD.

Borgkong, Mar. 0, 1918.

HONGKONG ICE COMPANY,

LIMITED.

the 18th March, at 3 to 6 pm.

Adimission..... 30 ets.

The BAND of the 18th Infantry will play on both daya..

TEA will be applied at 50 cents per head by the Hongkong Hotel (who have generously offered to give half the Proceeds to War Charities),

H. B. L. DOWBIGGIN, Hon. Hertiary: Hongkong, Mar. 0, 1918.

WANTED.

231

TXPERIENCED CHINESE, having Knowledge of Import, Export, Shipping. Insurance and Correspon dence is open for engagement.

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apparently impressive effect was there much novelty in Lord Finlay's suggestion that, in the event, of a geners: election before the close of the war, pacifism. might be enabled to exploit the vetsa of womes alectors with disastrous results indeed as disastrous as to lead even- tually to the end of the British. Empire."

FL.M. Minister at The Hague reports that a Bill has been introduced into the States-General having for its object the establishment of a joint stock company for the exploitation of petroleum folds of 134 to 71 the Lords on January luth By the unexpectedly large majority

While Lord Loreturn, as he owned, in the Netherlands East Indies. In an rejected Lord Lorebur's amendment to discerned in this warning a tribute to the explanatory Memorandum appended to delete the woman's suffrage clause from peses-loving instincts of women which, the Bill it is stated that the objections the Reform Bill, a result arrived at aftur if it were true, would redound to their attaching to State exploitation are avoided three different Ministers had appealed to honour, Lork Selborne, on the contrary, the House in three different senses the resented it as an unwarrantable imputa- by placing the enterprise in the hands Arst to support the amendment, the section. What have the women of of a company under certain conditions.ond to vote against it, and the third land done, he indignantly demanded. f Eng- The conditions mentioned are: (1) That to let it be negatived,

to justify such a taunt from the Lord Except for the observations of the Chancellor 1" From the same peer, whose. the national character of the company is guaranteed in the sense that the foreign sell, all the speeches of the debate came Lord Curzon as one of the shiest Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Rus speech was deservedly singled out by capital participating in the enterprise from Unionist peers, and most of them of the debate, came the first of cannot, by such participation, cause were delivered in opposition to the succession of solame reminders to Lord international disputes; (2) that the mondment. Perhaps the most striking Lorebury and his friend of the serious- Colony obtains a measure of control pro with which they put forward and apbald inviting the House to risk its future. feature of those orations was the vigour ness of the conflict in which they were portionate to its interests, receives a

the view not only that the will of the "No, no," protested the anti-suffragists, people must be allowed to prevail, bat on being told that their motion was & power to take over, at fixed prices, crude that its verdict in this instance had al matinn for the rejection of the bill, petroleum and producte. manufactured ready been made manifest through the re- "Indirectly to, but in effect yes.* insisted. therefrom; and (8) that the Administra-peated decisions of the House of Commage. Lord Selborne, proceeding in the same tion of the Colony are able at any time declared itself to be as submissive as the era that if they obtained their way now

As usual in such invocations, one side unfinching style to warn his interrupt to subject the company to their influence other to ultimate authority, the only it would be to court humiliation later in sach & manner that its legal character difference between the rival pections and find themselves completely isolated is not ebanged. The Jambi Petroleum being described as ons of interpreta from the national sentiment. Co., which is the name of the concern tion. Thus while Lord Felbourne, Lord Lord Russell; and the Primate

The TRANSFER BOUKA of the 7313 Company will be CLOSED from the 13th to 7th instant both days inclusive. 7331 (Popular Songs Medley (Concertina) considerable share of the profits, and has

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NOTICE.

NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the Firm of AB. MARTY, BENZ BALLE Successor, has as from the 19th February, 1918, sold to Messrs. P. A LAPIGAGE & CO.,

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28. HANOE" which insures the Postal Service between Hongkong and Haiphong, and also the right to use the nege of A. R. MARTY, Compagnie de Navigation Tonkinoise.

The business will hereafter be carried en by Mesara P. A. Laricque & Co., „„No. 4, Queen's Building, Telephone 950.

PA LAPICQUE & CO.

MATION, A. R. MARTY, RINE SALLE, Successor.

Hongkong, Mar. 6, 1916.-

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THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

DURCHASERS OF PARI-MUTUEL TICKETS on the fifth Race, Second Day, for Cash Sweeps, Places and Winners, also Cash Sweep. Ticket Holders, of fullaring Races can obtain s refund on production of their tickets at the Offices of the HONGKONG JOCKEY Czur“ on the Ground Floor of the HONGKONG: CLUB ANNEXE CHATER ROAD, between the hours of *3.30 PM. and 5:30 PM on MANDAY, the 4th March, 1918, until 20th

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LOED CURZON AND THE COMMONS.

proposed to be established, will, it is Lytto convinced that the astion had 1: Afterwards, as has been indicated,

said, fulfil these conditions.

Lord Curzon, while dealing out chaff and banter with a liberal, but at times rather maladroit, band to the anffragist not House of Commans fund become, he victors, virtually echord Lord Selborne's warming. Old and az

made up its mind in favour of women's A capital of £16,000,000 (about imge, the Lord Chancellor, Lard 2420,000, at par exchange) is considered Chaplin and Lord Guisborough (for Reide, and in order to assure this amount lenged this assumptions. Indeed, the necessary for the exploitation of the merly Colonel Chaloner) sharply chal-

Lord Chancellor, în advising. guarantees are to be given by the State, pears to vote for the amendment, threw observed, it was still the sole constitu The first issue will be for 1.600,000 in doubt not only on the theory of the tional representative of the people, and registered shares, the holders of which national approval but even on the out a matter of this kind it would will have a voice in the management of

hypothesis that

Consequently Lord Cuzzu, speaking in the Company. As need arises, the Corn-aired the votes women themselves deundoubtedly insist on having its

Nevertheless it was fairly, evident strictly unofficial capacity, was in. pany will subsequently issue bearer shares from the outset that whatever might favour of an immediate, voluntary to a maximum amount of fl. 4,500,000 be their estimate of the forces of public capitalation in proference to an enforced also under State guarantee: Other shares

surrender later. country, the opponents will be placed on the market when the of the bill were not disposed to risk a business is in operation; these will not quarrel with the other House on the alling be guaranteed, but higher dividend wil u ject. Eren Lord Curzon, be paid upon them the resources of a lively

acidulated wit at the expense of the phe suffragists and their cause, found him- self constrained in the end by considera-

opinion in the

British firms interested may consult the text of the Bill (in Dutch) together with a map of the petroleum fields, tions of prudence and in the interests

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As in the first: Bay's discussion, 80. nasi” on the following day, the general argument failed to throw any fresh light

ita txmilise subject Not for the first time one beard the proposal to cnfrnachise women denounced in the language of super latives by the Lord Chancellor sa- " a gigantic experiment.” and “neither more nor less than revolution and by Gord Quezon as "a-vaat; incalculable, almost catastrophic? chinga." Nor, despite ita

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