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WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1921

AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT AND ADMIRALTY.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. Each additions) word 4 Cents for 3 insertions.

Hughes & Hough

Coal Contractors

Genera! Brokers.

WANTED.

or

THE CHINA MAIL.

SHORTHAND TUITION.

Furnished TARY and INTERMEDIATE.

INTIMATIONS.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

CABARET DINNER DANSANT.

WEDNESDAY, 27th July. -

THE CLARINS, will present

The latest Ballet and Ball Boom

WANTED.Immediately by gentle. DITMAN'S SHORTHAND ELEMEN-Dances. PUBLIC AUCTIONS-Room with bosni, baitroom, ete. Frivate tuition by European lady. To the befendant H. C. Best,

Location Kowloon preferred. Full, Terms moderate. Farther particulars particulars to Box No. 1307, co on application to Box Na 1306, co

Chrü Mal" "CHINA MAIL

0.

R

The Cross sell by Fublic Auction. HE ludersigned have received in-

On

THURSDAY,

July 8, 1921, at 12 Noon, #L their Sales Rooms, No. 2, Des Veux Road, Corner of Ice House Street,

SUNDRIES,

including:-

Brandy, Whisky,

Sulphur, Dyes,

Gas Mantles.

&c., *c

&c. Tartas-seh on delivery.

HUGHES & HOCGE. Auctioneers to the GovernmThis Hongkong, July 26, 1821.

INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE A DOLLAR per Share for the months ending 30th June, 1921, will be PAYABLE TUESDAY, August 9th, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained application at the Company's Office.

WANTED-For local Insurance Office. EXPERIENCED CHI- NESE CLERK. Reply in own hand. writing to Bax No. 1303 co. "CHINA

MAIL"

WANTED. Competent STENO

TYPIST (male) with knowledge cf Eling, coding, etc, requires immedi ate position, no objection to outports. Apply Box 1304, co "CHINA MAIL"

SPANISH

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-ONE or TWO LOTS of LAND, in Jordan Road, Kowloon, about seven minutes by Ricahs from Ferry. For plan & farther particulars Apply Box 1288, co * Carsa Ma

TO LET.

TO LET LARGE GODOWN AT WANCHAL (known as Body Godown). Apply to Lex HAY SA & C 204, Queen's Road Central.

WANTED TO BOOK-KEEPER with good knowledge of Shipping, and Import & Export and able to speak TO LET-GODOWN at Yumati. Chinese fluently. No objection to Oct

For particulars apply to TEE parts Apply to Bor 1305, coCsA HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION CO. MAIL."

Lo.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS,

(Router's Service to the China Mail.)

SPIDEMIC IN UNITED STATES.

New Yoas, July 28th.

outbreaks Alarming reports of

of disease in the cotton-crowing region in the South are coming in It is stated that hundred thousand are stricken with pallagra įskin disease). It is feared that at least ten thousand will die.

to

The epidemic is said to be due starvation, owing to the collapse of the cotton market ruining farmers and plan- ter

WASHINGTON, July 28th, President Harding has requested the of No. 14, Conduit Road, Victoria, Public Health and Red Cross oficials

Hongkong.

immediately to investigate and ascertain how the Government" Inn relieve the

arising from the epidemie of pellagra.

President Harding is of the opinion that the epidemic and the consequent threat of famine is dus to the impos- sibility of the people selling cotton caus isg a shortage of moner, which has de- prised thousands of the variety of lood necessary to present pellagra.

TAKE NOTICE that an action is been commenced against you in the Supreme Court el Hongkong in its Original Jurisdiction Action No. 131 of 1921, by S. Greenfield of Old Post Office Building, Victoria, aforesaid, ia which the Plaintiff's claim is for the return of a Share Scrip No. 6653 issued by the Hongkong sed Whampoa Dock Company Limited, for 100 Shares Nos. 1142246: 24817/41; 21333/432; or the sum of $21,500 being the equivalent value thereof.

AND that it has been ordered that service of the Writ in the said Action on you be effected by (inter alia) advertisement. If you desire to defend the said sction you most within 5 days from last publication of this advertise ment inclusive of the day of such last publication either paraorally or by your Solicitor enter an appearance at the Registry of the said Supreme Court in Victoria, Hongkong. In default of

entered against you.

HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,mitted to the Supreme Court of Hong-such appearance judgment may be

LIMITED.

kong for confirmation.

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN GIVEN that the said SECOND EX- GENERAL that an EXTRAORDINARY GEN. TRAORDINARY ERAL MEETING of the above MEETING to be held as aforesaid Company will be held at the HONG. will be continued for the purpose of

KONG HOTEL Pedder Street, considering, and, if thought fit, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, passing the following farther Resolu- on WEDNESDAY, the TWENTY tiens as Extraordinary Resolutions, SEVENTH DAY OF JULY, 1921, namely AT NOON, for the purpose of con- The TRANSFER BOOKS of the sideriag, and. if thought fit, approv. | Company will be CLOSED from ing the draft new Memoranduin of TUESDAY, August 224 10 TUESDAY, senciation of the Company which Augus: 9th, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares car will be submitted to the Meeting. A priat of such draft new Memorandum be Registered.

of Association and a print of the ex- isting Memorandum of Association of the Company may be seen at the Company's Registered Office in the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street j aforesaid, and a comparison of the print of the existing Memorandum of Association with the print of the draft new Memorandum of Associa tion will show wherein the draft new Association Memorandum differs

By Order of the Board of Directors,

G. E. ELLAMS,

Acting Secretary.

Hongkong, July 18, 1921.

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED.

(Incorporated in the United Kingdom)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

from the existing Memorandum in INTERIM DIVIDEND of of Association. Should ONE SHILLING per share on account Meeting approve of such

the

new

of the year 1921, has been declared Memorandum of Association with of The DIVIDEND will be payable on without modification, the subjoined and after WEDNESDAY, the 24th Resolution will be proposed as an day of August, 1921, to Shareholders Extraordinary Resolution, namely:- on the Register on TUESDAY, the 9th day of August, 1921, and will be (That the provisions of the paid to Shareholders on the Colonial Company's Memorandum of As- (Hongkong) Register at the exchange sociation with respect to its rate of 2.7 per Dollar.

objects be altered so as to read as shewn in the print signed for the purpose of identiscation by the Chairman of this Meeting. and also for the following further: purposes, namely:-

By Order of the Board,

W. E. ROBERTS,

Secretary,

Hengkong, July 25, 1981.

For the purpose of considering.! NATIONAL LOANS OF THE THIRD and, if thought fit, approving the YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC (1914). draft new Articles of the Company AND OF THE FOURTH YEAR OF which will be submitted to the Heet- THE REPUBLIC (1915). ing. A print of such new Articles and a print of the existing Articles SUBSCRIBERS to the above TWO may be seen at the Company's Re- LOANS ARE HEREBY NOTI-gistered Office in the Hongkong Hotel, FIED that the drawing of bonds for Pedder Street aforesaid. In such redemption will take place at Peking print the portions of the proposed on the following dates, namely, THIRD new Articles which differ from the YEAR LOAN, Fourth drawing on December 1, 1921: FOURTH YEAR existing Articles are indicated by underlining in black ink and by

LOAN, Third drawing on September marginal notes. Should the Meeting 1, 1921.

The numbers of drawn bands with approve of such new Articles with or date and place of repayment will be without modification, the subjoined. announced in due course by the Resolution will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resolution, namely:- Ministry of Finance.

(2) That the new Articles al- ready approved by this Meeting and for the purpose of; identification subscribed by the Chairman thereof, be and the aame are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Company to the exclusion of and in substitution for all the existing Articles thereof.

F. A. AGLEN, Inspector General of Customs, Inspectorate General of Customs, Feking, July 14, 1921.

NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN +bat

HONGKONG DOLLAR

the

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO

(3). That each of the existing 20,000 fully paid up shares of $50 each constituting the Com- pany's present Capital of $1,000,000 be divided into 5 fully paid up shares of $10 each SO 8 To make such Capital. $1,000,000 consisting of 100,000 fully paid up shares of $10 each. (4) That after the division afore- said, the Capital of the Company be increased from $1,000,000 aforesaid, to consisting as

$2,500,000 divided into 250,000 shares of $10 each by the crea- tion of 150,000 new shares of $10 each-such new shares (subject as hereinafter mentioned) to be' issued at such time or times and and on such terms and conditions' in every respect as the Company's Board of Directors may think Et (5). That it is desirable to capital- ise the sua of $1,000,000 being part of the undivided profits of the Company standing to the credit of the General Reserve, and accordingly that for the purpose of effecting such cap- italisation such sum of $1,000,- bones 000 be distributed as

among the shareholders of the! Company in proportion to the shares in the Company's present Capital of $1,000,000 held by them respectively on the date bereinafter referred to, and that a bonus be declared accordingly. And farther that the Company's Board of Directors be and they are hereby authorised to satisfy such bonus as far as possible by the distribution in manner afore- said of 100,000 shares of $10 each credited as fully paid up among the persons who are re-! gistered as the holders of the shares constituting the Com- pany's present Capital of $1,000,000 on such date as the Company's Board of Directors shall decide-such last mentioned shares to rank pari passu with the shares constituting the Com pary's present Capital $1,000,000 in respect of all pro- fits of the Company earned since the 31st December, 1920, and Buch distribution to be in satis faction of the aforementioned bonus.

of

DIRECTORY has been acquired, as

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO from July 7th, 1921, by the undersigo GIVEN that a SECOND EXTRA GIVEN that & THIRD EXTRA- ed with all rights and titles, and will ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING bereafter be published by them. No of the Company will be held at the of the Company will be held at the HOTEL, Pedder claims against the Hongkong Dollar HONGKONG HOTEL, Fodder HONGKONG Directory incurred prior to this date Street aforesaid, on SATURDAY, Street, aforesaid on WEDNESDAY, will be admitted by the undersigned.

THIRTEENTH DAY OF the THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE AUGUST, 1921, AT NOON, for the AUGUST, 1921, AT NOON, for the purpose of receiving a report of the purpose of receiving a report of the proceedings at the above mentioned. Proceedings at the above mentioned Meeting and of confirming, if thought Meeting in so far as regards Re- fit, as Special Resolutions, the above solutions Nos. 3, 4 and 5 above and mentioned Resolutions (Nos. 1 and, of confirming, if thought it such last mentioned Besolutions as Special SAFE Sure and Guaranteed eure 2).

for Leprosy, Leucoderma, Pateben, Should the first of the above Be Resolutions.

Dated this Fourteenth day of July, Eczema, Eruptious, etc. in four weeks solutions (No. 1) be confirmed a Patients willing to be treated by Post, Special Resolution by the requisite

By Order of the Board, are requested to write. $3.50 per week majority, the alterations in the Com- Full particniara Free under cover, parry's memorandum of Association "SHI" WORKS, Beadon Square, consequently involved will be sab- Calcutta (C.M.) India.

LTD.

5, Wyndham Street. Hongkong, July. 7. 1921-

MIND THE PAINT]

1921.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager.

PHOTO SUPPLIES,

LONG HING & CO. Eodas and Enda 3-1, 4-

DEVELOPING PRINTING. A SPECIALITY.

NO. ITA, QUEEr's Boaz Chefzaal, Borokosato

LEO LONGINOTTO, Solicitor for the Plaintif Dated this 21st day of July, 1921.

FOR SALE.

New and Used.

HARDLEY DAVIDSONS. INDIANS. HENDERSONS.

WOLFE

and SMITH. MOTOR CYCLES.

REEVES & CO 106-114, Woo-Sang Street, Kowloon

situation in the Southern Cortong re

SEIZURE OR VESSELS.

New York, July 26th, Pending a judicial ruling on the in- junction applied for by the United States Mail Steamship Company to restrain the Shipping Board from interfering with the operation of the company's ships, orders have been issued to withdraw the United States Marshals placed aboard the ships seized.

DARING TRAIN ROBBERY.

PARIS, July 6th. gang of masked and armed bandits saloon in the Paris-Marseilles express, held up and robbed passengers in near Baune.

4.

Two young French officers, who resist- ed, were shut at. One was killed. The handits exped.

BOXING CONTEST.

BROOKLYN, July 28th. Pete Herman outpointed . Lynch in fteen rounds, this regaining the bantam-weight championship.

UFFER SILESIA PROBLEM.

LONDON, July 26th.

It is officially announced that Lord Curzon and M. Balfour will attend the Supreme Council, in Paris, on August 4tb.

It is improbable that Mr. Lloyd George will attend owing to pressure of business in London. The meeting is ex- pocted to deal only with the Silesian question. British experts have already! goce to Paris

ESTABLISHED

1814 FOTOLAR 1914

JOHN

HADDON

AND CO.

Export and Import Agents

For ONE HUNDRED YEARS in the CITY OF LONDON we have acted as Buying and Selling Agents for Traders,Storekeepers, Growers of Colonial Produce. Are you requiring the services of London Agents, to promote We shall be your interests? pleased to enter into correspond- ence with a view to arranging terms to mutual advantage.

CARR

BANK CREDITS AFRANCED. ADVANCED AGAINST SHIPMENTS.

JOHN

HADDON

AND CO.

Colonial MerchantsTM and Produce Agents,

SALISBURY SQUARE, LONDON, · E.C.

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