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INTIMATIONS

G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER

AND SURVEYOR

Nickelplated & White Ware

Public Auctions BATHROOM FIXTURES

Now Stock Just Unpacked.

INTIMATIONS.

HONGKONG HOTEL.

CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR 1919.

YNER DANCES will be held on

De following sight:-

NEW YEAR'S EVE,

Wednesday, 31st December

The popular entertainers. The Misses AILEEN and DORIS WOODS. will appen in the sbore CHRISTMAS DANCES.

Special Tables d'Hote Menus will be CE. WARREN & Co., Ltd...

provided in the GRILL ROOM at $3.60

per head, and in the MAIN DINING

ROOM at $2.50 per head.

Patrons are advised to book early as accommodation is limited. All tables previously engaged and not cancelled

mid-day on the day to which stich reservation applies will be charged for,

rhether occupied or not.

Bookings may be made at the HOTEL. MAIN OFFICE.

J. II. TAGGART,

Manager.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

. ́BALL will bé hald on the Even- ing of the let of January, 1920,

sommencing at 9.15. P.M.

Ticketa including buffet aopper can be obtained at the longkong Hotel Main Office at 83.-pèr head..

Dinsèrs will not be served at the Repulse Bay Hotel on the opening night.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager.

Hongkong, December 22, 119..

NOTICE

REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

Ja

IN Order to enable the Contractors to complete the woin connection with the above Hotel at the earliest | posible date without interruption, and In order to avoid all possibility of dam- age to the Flooring, Tiles, Paint Work, stc. The public are requested to kladly abstain from visiting the Hotal· on and from this date until its completion and formal opening on which duc Notice will be giren by Hivertirement in the local newspapera.

The Management, of the Hotel feel sure that they may rely upon the ready co-operation or the publie in the fore going ragard.

Dated this Sixth day of November, 1019.

For the HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD. PROPRIETORS OF THE

RAPULSE BAY HOTEL.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager.

NOTICE.

TO ALL WHO it my concern I TSAMUEL JOHN CLAYE at praent residing at the Hongkong Ectel, Fadder Street, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, hereby give Notice that I have expressly withdrawn all and every authority which my wifo GLADYS ARELENE CLAYE may bave at any tima, either expressly or by implication

30 & 32 Drs Faux BOAD,

代攀

JUST. RECEIVED

from AUSTRALIA. a large shipment of LACTOGEN, UNSWEETENED CONDENSED MILE, STRELLIZED NATURAL MILY, MALTED MILK and 'SWEETENED COCOA-and- MILK, sold at very reasonable prices: owing to the present high rate of Erchango, especially for Retailers.

ACTOCE

SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,

No,

Nola Agents foe Hanghong and Boath China

Connaught Road Central, Hongkong.. Telephone Now, 1931 à 2230..

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

CHRISTMAS ORDER

for

HAMS, TURKEYS, GEESE, DUCKS, POULTRY SAUSAGE MEAT,

&c. &c., &c., do should be sent in as early as possible TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.

CHRISTMAS GIFTS.

Stockings,

XMAS BASKETS, Zag-ZAW PUZZLES, STAMP, BAGS AND PACKETS, DOLLS DOLLS !! DOLLS !!! PICTURE BOOKS, "FISH POND, QUOIT GAME,

ERACTOR, LUDO,

&C

ka.

GRACA & CO., No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Bax 620.

Hongkong.

or otherwise, acquired to contract for JAPANESE. MAKERS.

me or in my name or as my agent or in any way to pledge my credit having Expresaly forbidden her so to do and she being sufficiently supplied with all pecesaried and that I will not be responsible for her debta whénscaver or howsoever incurred.

Dated this 17th day of December, 1019:

S. J. CLAYE,

THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY SECOND ORDIN ARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Makers. Jardine. Matheson Compay, Limitel on WEDNES. DAY 14th January, 1920 At 11 D'clock 5.00. for the purpose receiving the Report of the Directors togather with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending' 31st December, 1910

of

The REGISTER of SHARES of be Company will be CL SED from THURSDAY, 1st January to WED NE DAY, 14th January, 1920, (oth days inclusive); doring which period o Transfer of Shares can be Regis

tered.

By Order of the Board of Directors. A, BHELTON HOOPER, Peerotary to the

Hooghoor Land Tureatment & Agency

·Company, Limited.

General Agents for the West Point Building Capapasy.

Linhei Hongkong, December 24, 1919.

Every kind of Footwear

MADE

TO M

THE CHINA MAIL.

GOLOFINA

"PERFECT" Actual Size

THE

CIGAR

FOR

XMAS

"PERFECTOS"

AND

"BOUQUETS"

This Advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacco Ge., (China) Ltd.

CHINA COMPANY LAW.

· ORDER AFFECTING. LOCAL ·

COMPANIES,

*BOUQUET Actual Size.

Present. The King's Most Ex required by the Ordinance to file cellent Majesty Lord Steward, Mr.with the Registrar of Companies Secretary Shortt, Sir Francis Villiers, shall, in the case of a "hina Company, Sir George Buchanan.

-be-filed with the Registrar of Com Whereas by treaty grant, usage,panies, at Shanghai, and a copy of sufferance, and other lawful means all such documents and other writ His Majesty the King has jurisdiction | ten information shall, in the case of in China.

with the Registrar of Companies at a Hongkong China Company, be filed Shanghal.

An Order in Council of the utmost And Whereas it is desirable to importance is published in the London make further provision with reference Gazette of October 10. It is an ex-to the exercise of jurisdiction over tension of the company law which British companies carrying on busi has been passed in recent years ness. within the limits of this Order. affecting what are known as China companies," that is British companies with a local registration, and is evidently a further effort to repair the defects in the law which events during the war laid bare.

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by "The Foreign Jurisdic tion Act, 1890," or otherwise, in His Majesty vested is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

and Marine Insurance Companies 6. (1) The provisions of the Fire

Ordinance shall be applied to China Companies and Hongkong China Companies.

of this Order in pursuance of, the (2) All acts done within the limits Fire and Marine Insurance Com- panies Ordinance by, to. with, or be The order lays down that in these

fore the Registrar of Companies at companies the person holding the position of managing director, or by 1-This Order may be cited as sions of this.Order, be of the same Shanghai, shall, sabject to the provi. whatever name the office is described, "The China (Companies) Amendment force and validity as if they had must be a British subject, the intention Order in Council, 1919," and shall be been done by, to, with, or before the being made still clearer by the state read as one with "The China (Com-Registrar of Companies in Hongkong. ment that by this is meant the per-panies) Order in Council, 1915." 500 exercising substantial control. Several companies exist in Shanghal of which the managing director, or whoever holds a like position, carry ing with it substantial control, is not a British subject," and in these cases the Order will have the most faring or substituted for the same. reaching effects. Where default is made in complying with this pro- vision a mooctary penalty is inflicted, and failure to carry it out may mean a winding up order by the Court.

AN INSURANCE DEPOSIT.

2. In this Order The Fire and Marine Insurance Companies Ordin- ance" means "The Fire and Marine Insurance Companies Ordinance, 1917, of the Colony of Hongkong." and includes any Ordinance amend-

(3) The Registrar of Companies at Shanghat shall be entitled te initiate such proceedings as he may think necessary to

enforce com. pliance with the provisions of this Order.

7-(1) Subject to the provisions of this. Order the jurisdiction of the The Ordinance" means The Court in respect of China Companies Companies Ordinance: 1911, of the and Hongkong China Companies Colony of Hongkong." and includes shall be exercised, so far as circun- any Ordinance amending or substances admit, in conformity with stituted for the same.

the provisions of the Fire and Marine 3.-Where the general or sub-Insurance Companies Ordinance. The other principal point of instantial control of the business of a (2) The duties of the Governor or terest with reference to the Order is Company incorporated under the Or. of the Governor in Council under the application of the Fire and dinance is exercised by a person of Sections 5 (2); 5 (5), 6 (2), and 7 (1),

ORDER Marine Insurance Companies Ordi- persons ordinarily resident within the and of paragraphs 2, 3, and 7 of the

CEERRY & VO

TITORE ETEROL,

gpunta Anagkong Hotel,

-

Telephone No. 491.

Hopgkong, March 20, 1914.

MUMEY A

Japanese Photographers.

&

All kinds of Photographic Work done: -in latest styles also Famrport Photos,

Developing and Printing for Amateurs & Speciality.

"No. Ja, Queen's Road Central," Tal, 254,

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY

THERAPION NO.1 THERAPION N02. THERAPION NⱭ3

"REEK CANARIA MD. Drenie. WeaknesDVO SOLD BY LRADIAZERMAN, PRICEDIZKOLAND, J DR.LESLEICK, Ca, lamentDAKTAR WLLAN MEE TRADE-HARLES MOLO, TEKRARIOTIN DE JUS, BOTE, KEIMFARIRI ZA PONUDE PICKZE

prosecuted

nance to China Companies of local limits of this Order, such Company First Schedule of the Fire and Marine registration. This means that such shall, inespective of the place at Insurance Companies Ordinance shall, companies doing fire and marine which the Board of Directors may within the limits of this Order, be insurance business will now have to meet, or of any other circumstances, exercised by the Minister. come into line with the purely be deemed to be a Company of which (3) All offences under the Fire and Hongkong companies, and deposit the operations are directed and con- Marine Insurance Companies Ordin $100,000 either in cash or approved trolled from a place within the limitsance made punishable by fine may, securities in order to start or con of this Order and shall be a China if committed within the limits tinue business. At the same time Company within the meaning of of this Order, be suraniary penalties imposed on these The China (Companies) Order in summarily under Article 48 of companies for offences are increased Council, 1915."

"The China Order In Council, 1904" from £20 to £200.

4-(1) No person, other than a provided that the maximum fine It is well known that in the past' British subject resident within the which can be imposed in the case of number of companies having a mere limits of this Order, shall act as offences tried summarily shall be ly nominal, If indeed any British " managing directer or in any position £200 instead of £20.- interest, were registered under the similar to that of managing director, 8. All fees prescribed by or under Hongkong Ordinances. From time or shall: otherwise exercise general | The Fire and Marine Insurance Com- to time the inconvenience of this was or substantial control of the business | panies.Ordinance, which are paid to shown by the fact that while the of a Chica Company,

the Rexistrar of Companies at Shanghai ahal be paid by him to the Colonial Treasurer at Hongkong.

British Court had jurisdiction over (2) If default is made in compliance the company as such, it had none with this article the Company shall over its personnel, as in some cases be liable to a fine not exceeding $50 9.-This Order shall come into there were no British directors, Sub for every day during which the de-effect on the first day of January sequently, when local-registration of fault continues, and every director and 1920.

China companies was permitted, it every manager of the Company who And the Right Honourable Arthur was enacted that the majority of the knowingly authorizes or permits the James Balfour, C.M., of His Majesty's directors should be British, but this default shall be liable to the like Principal Secretaries of State, is to did not meet the case in the least, as pena'

give the necessary directions herein.

Almeric Fitz Roy,

it was always possible to put in 3. Jallure to comply with the figureheads as directors, who had provisions of this article shall be a actually no control and little" real ground upon which an order for winding up the Company may be made by the Court,

interest. The present legislation

makes it certain that in British com panies, real British interests and con trol will predominate...

OZ ORDER..

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 9th day of October, 1919.

THE BEST COUGH MEDICINE.

HAMBERLAINS: Cough Remedy li (4) This article shall come into the largest selling cough medicine [force 60 days after the publication of in the world to-day because it does rezaotiy whatesoogle-mediatas, la sup- THIS ONE.

5-All documents and other write toda. It stops enuight sad colds, ten Information which a company is silly and effectually For sale by

Chemists and Bterskoupers,"

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1919

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel Manaiona,

Ageala 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,

TO MAKE A DAINTY MEAL

Boy "ROOSTER BRAND Macaroni. Tormiselli, Erg-Noodles, Paste Stars and other kinds of Soup, Staffs from us. All ore Faste Products, made in a new, well-ventilated and modern style Factory, ara pare, wholesome and of excellent quality.

Obtsinnhle from all our Agents everywhere:

Samples and Prica List will be given free of charge en application be our Hand Office.

TRADE HARE.

THE HING WAH PASTE MFG. GO., LD.

Hram OFFICE; 47 & 43, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong.

Tel. No. 380 BRANCH OFFICKI 430 & 437, Hanking Boad, Shanghai, China.

HOTELS AND CAFES.-

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

OPERATING:=

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

HOTEL MANSIONS,

THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

(To be opened 1st January, 1920)

J. K_TAGGART, MAYAGER

THE PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 Feet above Sea Level

15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of

Mrs. BLAIR,

KING EDWARD HOTEL

* CENTRAL LOCATION -

LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pas Entrance, Electric Lifts, Faza and Lighting A European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout Best of Food and Service.

Telephone 375. Telographie Address :---'VICTORIA."

J. WITCHELL, Manager.

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON.

(Two minutes from Star Ferry).

Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light sad fans throughout and entirely awler new management Cuisine under the personal supervision. of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booms. Terus moderate, Special terms to familier on application to

Telephone K. 3. Telegraphie Add's "PALACE”

J. HL OXERREY, Propelator.

CARLTON HOTEL,

"

(KIRKOSLE AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE COLOST.)

ION EQUSE STRELT,

Under American Management. Nice and quiet yet only a few minútor walk from the Banks and Central District. 42 Bedrooms, -Excellent Cuisins, scrapulously olen. Moderate Tarma. Monthly and Family Baton on application, to the Proprietres. Launcher moet Passenger Boats.

Talegraphis Aidrus “CARLTON,”

ま

Man F. E. CAMKEON.

TEL ALEXANDRA CAFE TM

909:

18, Des Forum Bood Central.

109

Next Hongkong Hud- Try our BREAD, made from the very beat Flour and guaranteed to be the purest Bread in the Colony. DON'T FORGET and order early our own made XMAS PUDDINGS and MINGE PIES Christening, Birthday & Wedding Cakes made to order.

Mi N. BABBAGE, Managerona -

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ION OBEAM PARLOUR

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