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INTIMATIONS

1 KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.

ANNUAL DEVERAL MEETING. « MEMBRES ARE HEREBY NOTI

FTED that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held in the Chun House on MONDAY, September 30th, 1918, at 5.30 P.M.

BUSINESS A

Iteport and Accounts for 917-1918. Election of Dillers for 1013-1010. General

L. J. BLACKBURN, Ilön. Secretiory, Kowloon, Sept. 20, 1913.

KOWLOON CRICKET" CLUB.

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LOST.

QUNDAY, FOX TERRIER DOG. one "Black, ono White eye, reward.

REISS CO Queen's Buildings. Hongkong, Sept. 94, 1918,

ST. HILDA'S GIRLS' SCHOOL, CANTON,

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CCHOOL RE-OPENS (D.V.) Seprum

ber 19th. Entrance examinations 730 September 18th. Chinese Course, eleven

years: English Course, thirteen years.

Boarders Fees: Sixty to One hundred and eighty dollars per annum.

MEMBERS ARE OPENING of se NEW GROUND will take place or SATURDAY, Sept. 28th, at 3.30 P.L

EMBERS AR NEBERY NOTI

Members, Friends, and Members of other Sporting Clubs are "cordially invited to attend. There will be Cricket Bowls and Tennis matches.

L J. BLACKBURN, How. Serretitry.

Kowloon, Sept. 20, 1918.

HONGKONG CHINESE.

RECREATION CLUB.

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"AT. HOME."

ALEMBERS AND FRIENDS ARE

MMEREBY NOTIFIED that the CLUBS ANNUAL AT HOME", Postponed from the 1st instant, will talepler onUNDAY next, the 99th instant, ut 4 p.m.

There will be Tennis match between

Principal: MISS BENDELACK,

M.A., D.E.

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League. Members and Friends ar cordially invited to attend.

UN HEW FAN,

Hon. Serrotary.

Hongkong, Sept. 23, 1018.

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THE CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY,

NOTIC

LIMITED:

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GEN ERAL MEETING of Tag CHINAL BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Olier of Messrs. On LIVING- STON & COMPANY, St. George's Bailling.. Victoria, Hongkong, the Registered Offer of the above-named Company, on TUESDAY, the 1st day of October. 1018. at 4.30 o'clock in the forencon Le subjoined Respletion which when was pass at the Extraordinary Gen- eral Hesting of the Company held on the 13th day of September, 1918, will be submitted for confirmation as a Special -Resolution:

the new Articles already approved by this Meeting and for the purpose of identifiestion therun subscribed by the Chairman thereof. b and the same are hereby approved, and that such Articles be and they are. hereby micpted as the Articles of the Company to the exclusion of and in substitution for all the existing f. Articles thereof."

A copy of the now Articles referred to may be inspected by any Shareholder of the sail pury at the Company's Offices, it Hongkong, or at the Ofices of Mears. Johnsen, Stokes & Master, (the Company's Solicitors) at Prince's Building, Victoria, aforesaid, on any weekday between the hours of 10a.m. and p

Dated this 13th day of Sept., 1018.

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Hongkong, on SAT the 6th day of October, 1918, at 12 Noon, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st July, 1018.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be

from CLOSED erth September to th October 1919, both days inclusive.

By Order

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Warrants for the Interim Dividend can be obtained at the Oflice of the Company, 3 Queen's Buildings, on and after MONDAY7th October, 1918...

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Fon," he asked, "disabuse your minds of the methods adopted by Germany which have made her name stink in the nostrila of every honest man, and give chia ca a fair trial?” --

sarily barah. Imust, however, show the gravity of the view I take of your offence, and, therefore, I impose upon Sir Joseph Jonas a fine of £2,000 and upon Vernon £1,000, and you must jointly pay the costs of this prosecution."

The Attorney-General asked the jury whether they had the slightest doubt that Sir Joseph knew that if he gave any information to Goutard, which it. would be projndicial to the interests of BANK OF ENGLAND'S HUGE WAP England for the Germans, to know, the German authorities would acquire it by means of the channel which he had facilitated. The information sent to German agents in this instance was of a meat improper nature.

July 29, the fourth day, marked tee concluding stages, befors Mr. Justice Lawrence of the trial of Sir Joseph Jonas, 74, steel manufacturer and former Lord Mayor and German Consul at Sheffiell, and Charles Alfred Vernon 35, manufacturer's agent and an official at the Ministry of Munitions, residing st Glenmore Road, Hampstead, indicted for conspiring with Pail you Coutard, Mr. Justice Lawrence sakit would the head of Berlin armament firm, be most unjust for the jury to allow and Richard Zieschanz, an employee at their minds to be prejudiced against the Crayford works of Messra. Vickers, the defendants because of the monstrous .td., to contravens the Oficial Secrets conduct of the Germans in this war, of Act, 1911.

which neither they nor anyone else in 1013 dreamed of. If the jury found

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One of the outstanding features of the fifth report of the Select Committee on the National Expenditure is the re muneration of the Bunks of England.

Previons to the war the payments to the Back for Government work, as set- tled by the agreement of 1802, were estimated at about £200,000 a year, and. It was alleged that at the instigation

were largely dependent on the amount of Government balances. la 1018-17, of Sir Joseph, Vernon obtained from that the defendante had no intention of partly owing to the growth of the Debt Ziesclang and communicated to his co-doing anything prejudicial to the inter-

ration was increased on the urgent.. defendant information relating to a new ests of the State, they would probably and partly because the rate of renone- pattern rifs and the plant and works find them not guilt of felony. As to representation of the Bank that it would which ware being put down at Crayford whether Vickers's works at Crayford Lot cover expenses, the payments to to make it, as well as other confidential at this time were a prohibited place, the Bank amounted to nearly £1,500,000 details. This information was com- that was a queation of fact for the (equivalent to more than 10 per cent. jury, and if they found this was so, then on the Proprietors' capital) before pay municated to Gontard by Sir Joseph.

of income tax and ment..

profits Me. Tindal Atkinson, K.C., in his firak it was to be deemed that to collect duty. The remuneration in respect of speech to the jury for Sir Joseph, sairl information there was prejudical to the the preceding year, says the Committee, This client took upon himself the scle intetests of the State, unless the appears to have been greater still.

"As a result of representations, the responsibility for obtaining the inforza contrary was proved. It was common tion, which was not in sense intended to knowledge because it had appeared in Bank has offered to enter into a revised which is cstimated assist & possible enemy. Sir Joseph's the newpapera, but newspapers were agreement with the Treasury for the

the war, sole purpose was to satisfy the inquiry not usual sources of information upon to secure a reduction of £750,00) in the made by a large customer, who un which manufacturers and Governments

equally large, or larger, reduction for the fortunately was in Germany, as to would rely. They require confrination, payments for the yat 1917-18, and an

reduced

profit. certain matters connected with a frm and that, it would appear, was the object current year. Even the

Baya the Committee, it so large as to that was about to open business in com- of these inquiries.

The Jury were away for an hour and require the fullest justification, and petition with Gontard. There was an almost insuperable difficulty in trying a quarter. They found both defendants they recommend that the Treasury, before agreeing to accept the new terms, at this juncture a case of this kind not guilty of felony, viz., conspiracy to should carefully consider them in con- involving communication with any injure the interests of the State, but sultation with the Bank. members of the German Empire. It guilty of misdemeanour, namely, Sir was impossible for the jury's Joseph guilty of siding, betting minds to be free from the pre-and procuring Vernon to obtain, and Judice arising from tint fact. It communicate information relating to a was, deplorable in tho interests prohibited place, and Vernon guilty of of justice that this case should be tried baring in his possession certain in- in reference to matter which took formation relating to a prohibited place place nearly five year ago, and nearly obtained in contravention of the Official year before the outbreak of war. Can Secrets Act, and communicating it to

Jonas, an unauthorized parson.

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Sir Richard Muir: Your Lordship knows the powera you have in regard to costs, and both these men are men of substanca.

said he The Judge, addressing Jonas) had been found guilty of misdemeanour and not of the crime of felony "The very serious aspect of the case, con- tinued the judge, has been negativod by the jury. Co not myself disagre with the jury in their conclusions. I think they have come to a merciful and ressonable conclusion. The same is true of you, Yetnop, that you have both been guilty of a misdemeandur which, from it very nature, is a very serious one as is con cerns the safety and interacts of the State. It is manifest that you were growly nogligent of those interests, I do not propose to end. either hit you to prison, because I think the view the forg, have taken that you did not consciously intend to injure the trce one. Punishment upon prisquraent would be unneces

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