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NOTICES.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Society will be held at the registered othes of the Society, Queen's Building. Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 10th day of April, 1919, at 12 o'clock, noon, when Sho subjoined resolutions:-

1. That the nominal silver capital of the Society as existing when this reablution is confirmed as a special resolution be converted into starling and that anch capital so converted be ir creased beyond the sterling equivalent af such silver capital when such conversion takes place to the sum of £2,000,000 Sterling diskled into 200,000 shutes of the nominal value of £10 each.

That each of the issued silver shares of the Society of the cominal value of $25 each with the sum of $100 paid up

of thereor, Luanverted into five shares of the nominal value £10 each with the stelling equivalent of 820 Hongkong cur reney abthropening T. 1. rate of exchange on the date this resolution is contrised as a special resolution credited w paid up thereon sad secordingly that 80,000 shares out of the 200,000 shares of the nominal value of £10 each constituting the capital of the Society so converted and increased be distributed by the Board to the persons who are registered as shareholders of the Society on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution in exchange for the silver abares then held by them.

That the Anicles of Association be altered in mannerfollowing, namely

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By the insertion after article Na 107 of the following Article.

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*107(a) The Board may employ the funds of the Society which Imployment

have been established pursuant to the provisions of Article 107 or any of them or any portion thereof (and that whether such funds or such portion sa is proposed to be dealt with were set aside for the special purpose to which they are proposed to be applied or for any other purpose or not) in or for all o any of the following purposes, that is to say, in westing antingencies, in equalizing dividends, in paying special dividends or bonuses, in repairing improving and maintaining any of the property of the Society, or otherwise in the busi- ness of the Society, and in or for such other purposes as the Board shall in its discretion think conducive to the interest. ot the Society and in regard to any such employment as afore- aid the Board shall not be bound to keep such family separate from the other inssata.“

By the insertion of the following Articles after Article No. 108.

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108 (1) Any general meeting at which a dividend or bonus is on may

declared or sanctioned may make a call on the members of such amonst us the meeting fixes but so that the call on each member shall not exceed the dividend or bones. payable to hir and so that notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 19, 2 and 21 the cell may be payable at the same time as the divid end or bones and the dividend or bonus may, if so arranged between the Society and the member, be so off against the all. The making of a call under this Article shall be deemed ordinary business of an ordinary general meeting which declares a dividend..

(3) After any resolution has been passed under the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article the Board may arrange on behalf of the Society for the dividend or bones to set off against the ull by authorizing any person on behalf of the member from whom such call is due to enter into an Agree ment with the society providing for such dividend or bonus to be set of against anch call and any Agreement made under anch authority shall be effective.

(3). It shall be no objection to any resolution made under parn

graph (1) of this article or to any call or arrangement that each resolution was passed or such call or arrangement was made at the meeting at which the resolution introducing this Article and Articles 107) (a, was confirmed as a special resolu tion provided that due notice of the intention to propose such first mentioned resolution and to declare such fividend or onus and to make such call shall have beep given prior to the Confratory meeting aforesaid.

for

10s (b). Dividends may be paid in Hongkong Currenes at such hate of

rate of exchange as the Geuer Meeting declaring or sanction chaige ing the same or, in the case of interim dividends, as the Board dividend may determine."

payable in Houghong. Should the above resolutions be passed by the requisite amfority they will be benitted for confumation as special resolutions to send "extraordinary moeting which will be subsequently convened.

Dated the Twenty-eighth day of March, 1919.

By Order of the Board,

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

Cesural Ban THE T

BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the registered office of the Company, Queen's Building, Hongkong, en THURSDAY, the 10th day of April, 1318, at 5 o'clock when the subjoined resolutions will be proposed as extraordinary 73- solutions:-

L That the nominal silver capital of the Company us existing when this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution be omverted into sterling and that such capital so converted be increased beyond the sterling equivalent of such silver capital ben such conversion takes place to the sum of £1,000,000 Sterling divided into 20,000 shares of the nominal value of £5'ench.

2. That each of the issued silver shares of the Company of the

Dominal value of BF3.23 each with the sum of 256 paid up. thereon be converted into three shares and two-fifths of one hate of the nominal value of £5 each with the sterling equivalent of 37.35 Hongkong currency at the opening T.T. rate of exchange on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution credited as paid up thereon and according ly that 81,030 shares out of the 200,000 shares of the nominal. value of £ each constituting the capital of the Company so converted and increased he distributed by the Board to the persons who are registered as shareholders of the Company on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution in exchange for the silver shares then held by them.

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2. That the Articles of Association be altered in manner following,

zamely:-

Min of TENKTYN

"By the insertion after Article No. 103 of the following Article.

"106 (8). The Board may employ the funds of the Company which heloyment

have been established pursuant to the provisions of Article f 106 or any of them or any portion thereof (and that whether. dealt with such funds or such portion as is proposed to were set aide for the special purpoee to which they are proposed to be applied or for any other purpose or not) in or for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say, in meeting contingencies in equalizing dividends, in paying special dividends or bonuses, in repairing improving and maintaining any of the property of the Company, or other. wise in the business of the Company, and in or for such other purposes as the Board shall in its discretion think, conducive to the interests of the Company and in regard to buy such employment as aforesaid the Board shall not be bound to keep sach funds separate from the other assets."

Be the insertion of the following Articles after Article No. 107.

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(1). Any general meeting at which a dividend or bonas is ons may

be art of

THE CHINA MAIL.

NOTICES

-Arnhold Brothers & Co., Ltd.,

Import

Export

Shipping

-POST OFFICE:

Allied soldiers in the various hospitals In Siberia are badly in need of reading. matter. Any books, newspapers, etc, for their use banded in the G.F.O, wil be packed and forwarded to them se

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Engineering

BRAD OTTICK :--SHANGHAI. BRANCH: HaMKOY, CHUALKING, CHINKTANO,.

HONGBONG And Canton, AGENCIES:-London and New Yozz.

The parcel post service to. Cuba is uspended.

It is notified that all restrictions as to the use. of wireless Telegraphy by Merchant Vessels en the China Station have been abolished...

The Services to Germany, Austri Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire are scapended.

No unofficial letter addressed to Abadan, Ahwaz or Mohammorsh in the Persian Gulf may exceed eight ounces in weight.

The insured letter and insured parsel services between Egypt (or in transit

ZENOBIA PERFUMERY gypt) and Cyprus are tempor-

Lily of the Valley, Carnation, Rose Supreme, Sweet Pea, Purple Heather, &c.

Zenobia Eau de Cologne.

Hair Brushes, Shaving Brushes,. Ladies Combs."

VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

TELEPHONE 998.

arily suspended.

Uninsured parcels for the United Kingdom will in future he forwarded from Hongkong in bags and the Public are therefore advised to pack such parcela very carefully..

Until further notice parcels for civil addresses in the provinces of Unize Vicenza, Trevise Padua, Venice and Bel- June in Italy will not be accepted for transmission unless posted under tho British War Office Permit

The Parcel Post Services to British East Africs and Egypt (except for members of the Expeditionary Forces and to Abyssinia. Bagdad, Frithres, French Somali Coast, Italian Somailland, Portuguese East Africa, Zanzibar and

THE HONGKONG SCHOOL OF MOTORING. Russia have been suspended.

Applications are now being accepted The School has accommodation for 200 pupils. Courses for Mechanics and driving

Special facilities will be offered to persons desirous of becoming Chauffeurs and not having the means to pay for their course.

Works and school, Shaukiwan Office, 4 Queen's Road Central

PROPOSED NEW SHIPMAS-

TERS' UNION.

Shipmasters and officers at South- ampton and Portsmouth are holding meetings for the purpose of establish ing a new officers' union.

TRADE AND THE WAR.

Registered and Parcel Mails close 15 minutes earlier than the time givan below unless otherwise stated.

In the case of Mails closing before 9 a.m. Registration closes at 5 c'clock on the pravions evening.

INWARD MAILS.

TO-DAY, April 9. Europe-Fer PAUL, LECAT.

GUTWARD - MAILS.

THURSDAY, April 10, Swatow, Amoy and Formosa via.Takap-

Per SOSHU MARU. 84.1. Shanghai and North China-Por

SUIYANO, Nous

Shanghai, North China Japan vis Nagasaki, Canada. United

States, Central and South Americs, and EUROPE via Canada-Per ARAHIA MARU, "Registration 11.18 am Tetters

19.30 pm

bow

Formosa

Amoy and Poochow Pu HAITAN, 1 pm

་་་་

via Takso Per BATAVIA MARU, 3p.m Swatow, Weibniwel Chefoo and Montain Shanghai, North Chins and

-Per BUICHO 3pm.

Japan vis Kobe--Per PAUL LECAT,

VÄGTEN CUPORTURIT

Another critkisin of the methods of the War Trade Department and their effect in transferry to other It was announced that an invitation countries business, which might have had been extended to Mr. Havelock been kept for England is furnished Wilson, M.P., to take up the organ-by a firm of export and buport mer- isation of the new union and to be chants in the City of London. "Soon come its first president. Mr. Wilson, after the war broke out the firm in reply," advised that the better began to receive orders from course was to join existing organisathe East for cigrette papers, Strais, tions, and by weight of membership and several good orders were

mould it in their own way,

filled. In the midde of August

4.3 p.m.

Japen vis Kobe-Per SUISANG, 5 pr.) Philippine Islands-Per YUENSANG, FRIDAY, April 11.

1 p.m..

Bangkok, Egypt and EUROPE via Liverpool-Per AGAPENOR, 3 p.m. SATURDAY, April 15.

and Port Moresby via Batavia-Por North China, Japán ria AVAN

WAERWLJOE_II a.m. Nagasaki, Canada, United States, Central and South America, and KUROPE via Canada Per MANILA MARU. Registration 45. Letters 13.30 p.m. Shanghay and North Chim Per NGCHOW, & p.m. SNDAY, April 13.. Swatow, Any and Formoss via Keelung PLAMAKUSA MARU,9am. MODAY, Apr 14,

gok-Per OHINHUA,

gestow and

In the course of discussion, it was last year an order for: 2,000,000) suggested that Sir Leo Chiozza Money papers were cabled from Sam. The Jaya should be asked to undertake the manufacturers of de papers were Shaghat formation of a new union, all present communicated with, and promised expressing their willingness to put up delivery within a month, but intimat £5 if that gentleman would under-ed that an export licence would be take the task.

required. Application was made to Commenting on the above, the the War Trade Department, but the Liverpool Journal of Commerce says:

licence was refused, without any What is the matter with the ship reason being given. Further corres masters and cfficers at the ports of pondence produced no change in the Southampton and Portsmouth? They, attitude of the Department. The or at least some of them, are seeking suppliers of the papers made it to establish a new ships omncers, known that they were not short of union. Assuming that the idea, paper and bad sufficient, in stock to snowball fashien, gathers weight, a carry them on for months, but it was question immediately presents itself not until Nov. 22 that the licence Shanghai and April 15. to us. It is this: Is there room for was finally granted. By this time; another organisation of the kind the firm had been compelled to cable which the promoters have in mind to their clients in Siam that the Shanghai and L We are inclined to assert that the licence was refused, and when they answer, to use a.Parliamentary tried to re-open the business they expression, is in the negative. were informed that the order had Switow, Amoy and The existing concerns, the Mer been given to a Japanese firm. cantile Marine Service. Associa ation and the Imperial Merchant Service Guild, seem to us to be suffi ciently able to safeguard the interests "of the British shipmaster and offer But if we are wrong in this belief, and if the Southampton and Forts of a further society would, in our

domed either the one or the other of the societies mentioned, and thus strengthen its hands. The advent

declared or sanctioned may make a call on the members of a mouth members of the cloth take judgment, only defeat the objects

such amount as the meeting fixes but so that the call on each member shall not exceed the dividend or bonus payable to him and so that notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 18, 19 and 50 the call may be payable at the same time as the divid ezd or bonor and the dividend or bonus may, it so arranged between the Company and the member, be set off against the call. The asking of a call under this Article ahu! be deemed ordinary business of an ordinary general meeting which reclares a dividend

a) After any resolution has been passed funder the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article the Board may arrange ent behalf of the Company for the dividend or bonus to be set off against the enll by authorizing any person on behalf of the members from whom such call is due to enter into an Agree- ment with the Company providing for such dividend or bonus to be set of against even call and any

* Agreemer made under mach authority shall be effective. 122 at ball bono objection to say resolution ma

under para sraph (1)of this article or to any call or arrangement that such resolation was passed or each car or arrangement was made at the meeting st which the solution introducing this "Article and Articles 106 (a) was is uflemed es a special resols- tton provided that due notice of the intention to propose cuch Erat menticed resolution and to declare auch dividend or hontas and to make such call shall have been given prior to the Conferstory meeting aforesaid,

*107 (b). "Pividends may be paid in Hongkong Currency at such at or Exchang rate of change as the General Meeting declaring or o

actioning the same or, in the case of interim dividends affluents

payable Li the Bourd may determine."

Hongkong. Should the above resolutions be passed by the requinte majorivy they will be smitted for confirmation as special resolutions to a second atmordinary

eting which will be subsequently, convened.

Doled the Twenty-eighth day of March 1919 M

By Order of the Board,

MONTAGUE KDE

General Manliger

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TEAN, North Chins-Per THURSDA April 17. SUNNING China- Per

FRIDAY,

18. how-Per HAI- HONG, 9 SATURDAY, il- Straita, Bangka, Cey, Mauritius,

South Africa, India kodi, Egypt andDROPE vis is Dhanush- Buca-For YO

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; PACIFIC ISLES,

believed, possesses, definite and speci fro asaurances frcen us, given at the me when she undertook at our re Sir Douglas Mawson, the Antarctic quest the clearing of the Southe

Pacino, that she would receive cer explorer, lecturing at Leeds Luntain of the German islands. Wat cheon Club, said Austridia' had no ever solution may be proposed, it the view that either of these two which the promoters have in mind, MOVEMENTS OF STEERS.

special claims to the islands north would, therefore, seem that our societies falls short of its require and, indeed, create internecine, war ments, or believe that its activities fate. Granted that there is still The O.F.OE Co's RMS

West of Fiji, but as she was the nearest hands are bound by secret agree leaves Shanghai for Houg

ment. A solution must, of course, are not in keeping with the spirit of much to be done for the betterment

the 9th April and is due bed on fosentry to them she might have be found, one way or the other, butts the times, or of the new and con- of shipmasters and officers, the best

1bout the 18th April

sone say in their disposal. Apper- it goes, almost without saying that stantly changing conditions, then results are not likely, in our opinion,

ently, the Australiana pere non keen Tokyo will insist that, whatever ite we should rather think that greater to be obtained by the formation of a headway would be made if, as sug. new society, even if it be organised

for Japan to get them. Personally, nature, the solution must apply unit rested by Mr. Havelock Wilson, and presided over, as gathered The CPBC Vance he had hoped that the United States Japan and to those claimed by Aus

formly to the territories chimed by M.P, who was invited to undertake from a paragraph which appears deia left, Yokohams for Vanco would have had them. They felt alia: In other words, if the islands

on the 5th April and is due Vancouver on or about the that the Asiatic races were going to both of the equator are not hund, April

be a big factor in the world. If the ed over to Japan neither must the

the organisation of the new society, elsewhere to-day, by. Sir Lea Chiozza and to become its first president Money, whose qualifications for the La gentleman who is steeped to work, by the way, are not altogether the eyes in trades-unionism), they apparent to us.

MESSES. FRANK WATERHOUSE & CƠS."

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Latest Advices,

Yokohama April 7 and will enll for

The TKK sa. Nippon afaru arrived Peace Conference considered Japan former German ordonics within the Ban Francisco from that Port Aprind call on them, and if Japanaren of the Australnaian, sphere be

pe to be recompensed by them handed over to Australia, A solu The T.K.K 38 Tenyo Maru

Maru left San there was no more to say I tion which antisted Australia and Francisco March 24 and is due to re was to be any return for those rande Japan only a mandatory of the arrive at titis Fort April 27. The KK. Ano Maru arrived at ould be an equitable oned by Japan as no solution, bab a had taken their share in the war League of Nations would be regand- Zokohama March 30th, and will asil April 4th for Honolulu and San London correspondent of the breach of faith on our part. In Francisco en-route to Valparaiso cater Guardian writes short, we seem to be once more up South America. The .K.Kesa. Steria Mars arrived at simple issue which people claimed by Japan are of little value destiny of the Pacific Islands against a secret bargain. The islands Yokohama March: 25.b from an geper believe it to be. Francisco.

Its in themselves, but are of very con Japan, its biderable strategia fimportance.

The O.P.0.8. Con B.M.B. Empress of

Japan lott Yokobema for Vancouver

on the 28th Marali and is, dus: at Vansonyer "on or shoat the 6th April 1919.

The Shewan Tomon Co.

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towards the end of April

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