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G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER APPRAISER.

AND SURVETOR.

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Public Auctions-

INTIMATIONS.

NORTH CHINA INSURANCE. COMPANY LIMITED.. NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

THE OFFICES of the above Com pany have this day been removed

to No. 3, Queen's Buildings, (Chater

Road).

Hongkong, December 8, 1919.

INTIMATIONS

Nickelplated White Ware

BATHROOM FIXTURES

New Stock Just packed

THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER||C. E WARREN & Co., Ltd.,

COMPANY (1918) LIMITED.

NOT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the irs: ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders will ba held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Boldog, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong, or SATURDAY, the 30th Deceicber, 1919, at 11.30 o'oleck, in the forenoon, for the purpose of receiving a statement of accounts and the Raport of the General Managers for the 14 months ending, 30th September, 1915, and electing a Consulting Com- mittee sad Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MON-P DAY, the 15th December, 1919, catil BATURDAY, the 20th December, 1919, both daya inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers..

Engkong, December 5, 1919.

THE CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the COMPANY will be CLOSED from SATURDAY the 20th December 1919, until MONDAY the 29th Decem Eer, 1919, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.

Agents...

Hongkong, December 13, 1919.

CHINA BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE STRAORDINARY GEN

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

ERAL MEETING of the above Com- pany will be held at the Offices of MSRS GIBB, LIVINGSTON AND COMPANY, St. George's Buildings, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 29th day of December, 1019, at eleven o'clock in the foret.com

30 & 32, Drs. Voux Roan, C.

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JUST RECEIVED

from AUSTRAMA s large, shipment at LAUTOGEN, UNSWESTENED CONDENSED MILK, STERILIZED NATURAL MILK, MALTED MILK and SWEETENED COCOA-and- MILK, sold at very reasonable prices owing to the present high rate of Exchange, especially for Retailers.

ACT

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

Holo Azoula for Esegkeng and South China. Xon, 13 & 13, Connight Road Central, Hongkong. Telephone So, 1739 & 2030,

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

OWN HOUSE FED POULTRY,

We are now able to supply our Customers with own fed poultry and to meet all demand.

Our present stock consists of specially selected Birds which are ir prime condition and should give every satisfaction.

for the parpose of considering and if CHRISTMAS GIFTS,

thought fit, passing the following Resolution u Ordinary Resolu

tion

1. "That the conditional agreement "entered into by the Directers of "the Company in the name and on" "behalf of the Company with "Harrisons and Croeteld Limited

dated the 10th day of December' "1919, for the sale of the under. taking property and assets of the "Company as existing on the 31st "day of December, 1918, subject

SELING

to its liabilities, for the sum of | $82,000 (Eight hundred and "twenty eight thousand dollars) cash which has been submitted to this meeting be and the same ia bereby ratified and approved and that the Directors be and they are hereby authorised ard "directed to

the carry "into effect with full power to "assent to any modifications in "the Agreement which they may "think expedient and in the

interests of the Company." Copics of the above mentioned Agree ment can be seen at the Registered" Office of the Company, St. George's Buildings, Chater Road, Victoria afore- said or at the Offices of Johnson, Stokes & Master, the Solicitors to the Com pany, at Prince's Buikling, Ice House Street, Victoria aforesaid, at any time before the said meeting (except SAT- URDAYS and SUNDAYS) between the hours of 11 A., and 4 F.M.

And subject to the passing of the abova Besolution to consider and if thought fit, to pass as an Extraordinary Emolution the following:-

2. That the Company be wound up "voluntarily and that Ernest "Alfred Mountford Williams of the firm of Lowa Bingham and "Matthew of Chartered Park "Building, Queen's Road Central, "Victoria aforesaid be appointed "Liquidator for the purposes of

ach winding up, at such remu- #geration sa may be arranged "between the said Harrisons and

and Crosfield Limited and the "Liquidator.

Should the Second Resolution be pated by the requisite majority, it will he submitted for confrmation us a Special Resolution to a Second Extra- ordinary Genral Meeting to be held at the abovo address at twelve o'clock noon on TURSDAY the 13th day of January 1930.

Duted this 10th day of December,

3019

By Order of the Board,

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(90.) GIBR, LIVINGSTON & CO.

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GERMAN REINSURANCE COMPANIES.

ROMANCE OF FOUR MILLIONS.

STRANGE STORY OF IRISH

FAMILY'S CLAIM.

The story of a romantic claim to an immense fortune estimated at about four millions sterling is sent by an Irish correspondent at Athlone. One of the claimants, is Mr. Patrick Quinn, who is nearly 80 years of age, and at one time a member of the Athlone Council.

"According to documents which have arrived from America," He writes, "It seems that this vast

LOST RECORDS.

NO TRADE OF IMPORTANT AIR

FORCE BOOKS.

Sir Walter Raleigh, the official bistorian of the Royal Air Force, is anxious to obtain information re- garding the whereabouts of the re cords of Nos, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps, which are missing.

In a letter to the Daily Chronicle, Sir Walter states that these squadrons assisted the British Army when it

numbers were small, but they were

trained Air Force in Europe. perhaps the most efficient and best

The training was carried out at the centres-Farnborough, Nethera- Ton, Montrose-where the squadrons work done was entered by the com- manding officers in the Squadron Record books.

The new German Government has been discussing the question of creat ing a State monopoly of insurance, following in this respect the lead of other countries This has drawn from Wilhelm Kisskalt, manager of the Munich Retrocession Co., the leading German institution of this kind, a statement to the effect that the creation of a State monopoly of insurance would cause the death of retrocessions, for the reason that retrocession is not, properly speak- ing, a branch of insurance, bat

spread of direct insurance. amount over 19 million dollars took the field in August, 1914. Their Direct insurers need retrocession was left by Mr. Quinn's uncle, facilities, because they are unable to Thomas Quinn, who was a soldier. retain the full lines written, after a Thomas Quinn, it is stated, let certain maximum has been reached. Ireland 95 years ago, having joined But when the State itself is the in- the Army. He lived for years in surer, retrocession becomes super India, and shortly before the outbreak fluous on account of the illimited of the Mutiny he bought some land. resources of the State. Herr Kisskait It is this land, it is said, which formed were stationed, and a record of the fears that the death of retrocession the nucleus of the big fortune, owing would bring about the death of the to the fact that valuable minerals German reinsurance monoply (says have since been found upon it. Quinn

These record books have all dis- "Nauticus," New York) for the reason returned afterwards to Ireland, settled that reinsurance is a natural in at Miltowa Malbay (County Clare), appeared. When the war broke out the commanding officers were order. ternational corollary of retroces where he died childless, 30 years ago.ed to forward their record books to

Those who are claiming a share sion, and it is the lead taken by the German retrocession companies of the wealth, in addition to Mr. the R. P. C headquarters at South which brought in its train supremacy Patrick Quins, the nephew, are the Farnborough, and this was done. In the growth and change of the time. families of two brothers settled at international reinsurance. A summary of results from retrocessions Chicago, and the children of a sister, the record books, packed in Renault obtained by Germany from foreign named King of Kilmahil (County or Gnome engine boxes, were 'shifted from place to place at South countries is not available, but the in Clare).

Farnborough... The nephew tells me that be surance text-books show that in the ten years preceding 1914, premiumy remembered his uncle as a boy, and troceded to German companies in kept up a rather infrequent corres creased by 100 per cent., reaching a pondence with him when he was in of his infancy. Nevertheless, the value of about $140,000,000 in 1913, India. After he had settled down in record books were preserved, and when the Royal Air Force was Miltown Malbay,' says Mr. Quinn, of which about $126,000,000 29 1 visited him there. He died there, formed, late on in the war, they obtained by pure retrocession com. panies. Next to Germany, Switzer. and left, after providing for his wife, were despatched from South, Farn land, Austria and Denmark, in the all he possessed-not by any means borough to the depot that was being formed at Blandford. There is order given, exploited retrocessions: a big fortune-to his brother Michael! evidence of their despatch, but Switzerland taking about $12,000,000 who was never found:

"He never mentioned anything in premiums, Austria almost a like" sum, and Denmark about $6,000,000. about land in India, continued the Of the $140,000,000 premiums obDephew. It may have escaped his tained by German companies fully memory owing to the outbreak of two-thirds came from foreign conn- the Mutiny immediately afterwards, or he may have considered that the tries. Deducting from the above losses and underwriting expenses and purchase was not likely to have Including interest оп premium turned out profitable."

The American letters received reserves, it is indubitable that the business resulted in a huge profit to which Mr. Quina possesses state that the money may be distributed

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When a man is fighting for his life has no time to spend on the relics

direct first-hand evidence of their receipt is lacking and they have not been found at Blandford.

Among past or present members of the force someone who reads this letter may remember seeing the re- cords, and may have something to telli Any clue to their whereabouts would be more than welcome at the Historical Branch of the Royal Air Force, 2, Cavendishi-square, great. They were written by men whose names are now widely known, and whose early world did much to win for us our dominant position in the air.

Germany. Indeed, except for the year immediately upon the establishment London, W.1 Their importante is of the San Francisco fire, German re trocession and reinsurance companies of the identity of the dead man and were the recipients annually of large the claimants' relationship to him, remittances from abroad, which were At present the regiment which of considerable assistance to German Thomas Quinn joined is not known, credit and German industry. Herr and the War Office, It is stated, have Kisskal: concludes that if the German | been communicated with." retrocession companies were com pelled to liquidate, these institutions would be called upon to make large remittances abroad, from which there

UNNECESSARY WORDS,

would result a further depreciation WHY waste words and advertising ups in describing the many of German exchange. The author admits that German retrocession of zot merit in Chamberlain's Cough Bedri Tednat fastidious arg. Babis. companies have lost much ground fed when we state, that is cures coldy abroad during the war, and that it spa cotahs It in any cause. And that it will be very difficult to pick up the contafas absolutely so narootios or fax broken threads in many countries.jurious substances. For sale by all,

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1919

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS,

Hotel Mansions

Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,-

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers

High Class English Jewellery, `

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Sampies and Price List will be given free of charge on application to our Head Office

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