FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
INTIMATIONS.
1924.
INTIMATIONS
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
BANKING CORPORATION.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
No
RACE BRETING 1994.
that the ORDINARY YEARLY FEBRUARY 2013, 21st, 22nd & 23rd. MEETING of the Shareholders in
this Corporation will be held at the
ME
EMBERS BADGES OF ADMIS CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURAL SION are now ready and may DAY, the 23rd February, 1924, at be obtained by these Members," who 11.30 am. for the purpose of have not already received them, from receiving the Report of the Court Messrs. Hurlead & Davis, Alexandra
Directors together with a State
tment of Accounts for the Year end ing 81st December, 1923.
The Register of Shares of the
•Corporation will be CLOSED from
MONDAY, 11th February to SATUR DAY, 28rd February, 1934 (both Hays inclusive) during which period shares can be no transfer of registered.
AND NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary Meeting of The Shareholders of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation will be held on the day and at the
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In the Rugby Championship, East Midlands defeated Warwickshire by 20 poiste to 8.
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Two changes are announced in
Trial
The War Office, announce the there will be no Army mantenvres (on an extensive scale tälaydır, | training belog confined to divi
slons and smaller units
Detalls of our foreign trade during 1923 are now available. Is some respects the returns are dise appointing, but the general results are encouraging.
The fraudulent career of a well- spoken woman, describing herself as an authoress, was disclosed at the West Sussex Quarter Sessions at Chichester when Winifred Page, 37, was' sentenced to 12 months' hard labour for obtaining goods The Rest side to meet England in and credit by false pretences at the Rugby International
match or Twickenham, Worthing.
London papers, record the deaths Rooms on Ground and First to two months' hard labour» at of! Lord Masham and of Colonel advanced the date of the plebiscita
Greenwich for stealing a ring. J. L. B. Templer, the well-known She then falsely described herself Amy balloonist. as a daughter of the late Dr. Page, who was then the United States Ambassador In London.
Buildings, Members are not the CUPS & SPOONS TO LET New and Airy Office
they cannot gain admission on predné tion of the metal Badges and last || year.
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary,
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Hongkong, February 8, 1974.2.
HONGKONG JOCKEY, CLUB,
RACE MEETING 1024. FEBRUARY 20th; 21st, 22nd & 23rd.
place aforesaid immediately upon MEMBERS have the privilege of the termination of the Ordinary
Introducing two non-members
Yearly Meeting for the purpose of to the MEMBERS ENCLOSURE bonsidering and if thought fit of
A limited number of tickets are passing the following resolution available and may be obtained from Messra. Linstead and Davis, Alexandra" Vis. :-
19th February,
Price $10.00 per day or $30.00 for the Meeting!
LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Treasurer. Hongkong, February 8, 1914.
Thad the Directare of the Hong-Buildings on or before Tuesday, the kong and Shanghai Banking Cor- poration be and they are bereby requested and authorised by and on behalf of the Shareholders of the Corporation to take the steps neces way for the introduction of na Ordinance into the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong. and for the enactment of the same by the Governor of Hongkong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof to effect FEBRUARY 20th, 21st, 22nd & 23rd. the amendments necessary to the Ordinance under which the Carporn-TICKETS OF ADMISSION to the PUBLIC ENCLOSURE may be tion is, incorporated and carrying
tion
4.
SUITABLE FOR SPORTING TROPHIES
obtainable at
SHERIFF BROTHERS.
Queen's Rd, Ctl.
HIGH ULABS BOOTS AND SHOES
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
RACE. MEETING 1024.
Made to order. ROYAL & CO. No.1 D'Agate Street,
on business so as to allow of the obtained from Mesra KELLY & WALSH -ordinary note issue of the Corpors, or at the Gate Price 85.-per day,
being increased from
SAILORS in SOLDIERS AND $20.000.000 to $30.000.000 and to uniform El-par'day.
No one admitted without a Ticket modify the existing requiremente as regards the deposit of security in to be shown to the Ticket Inspector at respect of its note issue in the the Gate. following manner.
(a) So that the whole of the in-
LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Treasurers.
crease (namely $10,000,000) of such v Hongkong, February 8, 1084.
ordinary note issue shall be secured
by coin or bullion or approved securition.
(b) To provide that whatever the
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
fotal amount of the noto isene may PASSES for Servants will be be at any particular time the issued on application to amount of coin as distinct from Messrs. Linstead and Davis, bullion or approved securities to be Alexandra Buildings. No Servants deposited by the Corneration shall will be allowed inside the never be less than one third of the Enclosure of the Race Course total amount of the bills in actual during Race Days WITHOUT Birculation
TICKETS. By Order of the Court of Directors.
A. G. STEPHEN.
,
Ghief Manager. Hongkong, 4th February, 1924.
These tickets are only available for Servants while in attendance on-their-Employers or when en duty at the various stands. Any Chinese found lottering about with THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU. Servants Passes in their posses
'FACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
sion will forfeit them holders thereof, will be removed from the Enclosure.
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary,
INTIMATIONS.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC
COMPANY, LIMITED...
TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
that the THIRTY-FIFTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Offices, St George's Buliding on MONDAY, 3rd March 1924, at 11 A.M: for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts to 31st Decem. ber 1923, and electing Directors and Auditor
Floors 5, Duddell Street, Can be used as Bank or Commercial Offices. Rent Moderate. Apply: Room 10, First Floor
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INTIMATIONS.
that in 1918 Page: was sentenced
A police superintendent said
With a score of seven wins, one
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Following representations made. by the. League Commission' the assist refugees, M.. Venizelos has
on the question, of Republic" or Monarchy to the first week in Márch.
Giuseppe Mingrino, the Com munist Deputy for Piss, has been sent to prison on charges of desling in cocaine and saccharthe. Min Brino, who was under suspicion was neatly trapped by police dis- guised as would-be buyers -of cocaine,
The exact position of the sun- ken- submarine, L. 24, hás been.
draw, and only one game lost, M. In 1922 she stayed under another Euwe secured the first prize do the name at а boarding house Hastings Chess Congress. at Kingston-on-Thames, While there Mrs. Francis, with
Chelsea and the Arsenal, who whom sha became acquainted, meet in the rehim League match was robbed of jewellery, valued at at Stamford Bridge, provide the £300. Page was suspected by the chief Association football attrac❤ police, but Mrs. Francis would bear tion in London. nothing against her. Page had- since confessed to stealing theIn the course of an interview located and buoyed. She is lying jewellery.
with a Political Observer, M.in thirty fathoms of water. Owing MORE JEWELS. MISSED. Jaspar, the Belgian Minister for to inclement weather conditions it Page also opened a Bridge club Foreign Affairs, declared that his has not yet been possible to do at Kingston Hill, which she furnish country followed a line of "per anything, though divers have HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LTD.ed lavishly without paying the bills. fect Independence." Her policy been sent out. •
She also started a Girl Guides' was dictated by her moral and (Incorporated in Hongkong.)
Company and wore the uniform. material interests, but this, he ex- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN When forced to leave the boarding blained, did not mean that, she
that the Ordinary Yearly house where she was staying, Page aspired to isolation... General Meeting of the Hongkong stayed at the Grosvenor Hotel, Tramways Limited will be held London; in the name of Mrs Before leaving Southampton for the estimate. There is every indica at the Offices of Messrs. Jardine, Francis, the bill not being paid. New York, Major-General Sir tion that the Commonweelik dnan Matheson and Company Limited. She was described in Kingston as W. S. Brancker, Director of Civil cial year will conclude with amba on WEDNESDAY, the 27th day an adventuress and an inveterate Aviation, stated in a brief interstantial, blace
of February, 1924, at 12 o'clock | liar. noon, to transact the ordinary business of the Company.
By Order of the Board,
W. E. ROBERTS, ... Secretary. Hongkong. 12th February, 1924.
A FANCY DRESS BALL 'will be held on
a
LEAP YEAR NIGHT FRIDAY, February 29th, 2
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the. Company will be CLOSED from 23rd February to 3rd March 1921, both days inclusive."
Bp Order of the Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
... Agents. Hongkong, 12th February, 1924.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO.LTD
THE THIRTY FIFTH ORDINARY
at the
CITY HALL
at 9.30 p.m.
in aid of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Tickets $4.00 including Refreshments.
Fine $1.00 for no Fancy Dress
ANDERSON MUSIC CO.
·HONGKONG HOTEL. "PEAK CLUB.
TELENA MAY-INSTITUTE.
BOTTLE SHAKERS.
ONE OF THE WORLD'S
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Despatches from Sydney 'stata
that the Customs revenue for the first half-year totalled nearly £18,4 000,000, about £3,000,000 above
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Considerable surprise has been created in New York society by the secret marriage of Miss Milli- cent Rogers, grand-daughter of the Inte Standard Oil-millionaire, Mr. HH Rogers, who inherited practically the whole of his fortune, to Count Ludwig Salm Von Hoog straten; head of an old Austrian family.
view that the new? Imperiať |stat From September to November Aviation Company would shortly. 1922 she stayed at a Surbiton come into operation, and it was boarding house and a woman probable that a station would be staying there had her jewellery established at Southampton, which stolen. Page left without pay would be the base of its marine ing her bill. In April lest she work
obtained a situation at Newdigate || as a cook-housekeeper, apparently Mr. C. R. Das will lead the by false references, and incur Swaraj party hi the Bengal red a debt for false teeth with a Council. He is a candidate in the dentist, in respect of which there by-election in a rural constituency, was a warrant for false pretences where his return is a foregone While seated at dinner in his hotel against her.
conclusion, A meeting of the at Speyer, Herr Heinz, leader of
be held Leaving in August, she stayed party w
when the Separatists in the Rhine Pala át a Brighton hotel under a false their final demands will be tinate, was shot dead by German name, and left without paying the formulated. These will include Nationalists. Two of his compan bill
the release of political prisoners, fons were fatally wounded, while CALLED IN DETECTIVE. complete provincial self-govern-two other people were killed and She then went to Worthing, ment, the abolition of the Viceroy's several injured by the assassins, where she sa on the parade pre-veto, and of interference by the who managed to escape in the tending to be blind. She said she India Office.
uproar which followed,
was the Hon. Lillian Maxwell
The long years of usefulness
Heron, and the wife of Sir Peter |------- Maxwell Heron. A Mrs. Lynch, who kept a boarding house, sympathising with her supposed affliction, took her in and gave her] the free run of the house. Α diamond ring worth £50 was miss- ed after Page had been left alorie in the room where it was and it had never been found.
Then money was missed and Page called in a woman detective from London, who returned after II days' unsuccessful investigations. Further money disappeared in the meantime. The detective agency charged £30. and Page engaged a He solicitor to dispute. this. secured a reduction of £10 and
-ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, St. George's Buildings, Charter Road, Victoria, Hongkong. on TUESDAY the 4th of March 1924, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon for the purpose of receiving a Statement of
On the banks of the Loire lies the Accounts and Report of the Directors gay little town of Saumur famous HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB for the year ending 31st December, all over the world for its cavalry paid him the balance, but Page
1923, and declaring a dividend,
THE FORTIETH ORDINARY AN
NUAL MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS in the above Company Hongkong, 11th February, 1924. will be held at St. George's Building. Chater Road, Victoria, on THURS DAY. the 28th. February 1924, at 11 o'clock a m. for the purpose of receiving a statement of accounts and the report of the General Man. agers for the year ending 31st Decem ber 1923, and electing a Consulting the Races. Committee and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Com pany will be closed from THURSDAY the 21st. February 1924, until THURSDAY 28th. February 1924 Both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers.
Hongkong, 9th February, 1924.
THE Stewards request the pleasure of the presence of the Ladies at
Hongkong, February 14, 1924.
HONGKONG SHAREBROKERS"
ASSOCIATION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the HK. SHARE-
BROKERS ASSOCIATION
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Company will be closed from TUES DAY the 19th February 1924, until TUESDAY the 4th day of March 1924, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directora.
SHEWAN, TOMES.CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong. 11th February, 1924,
STRANGEST TRADES.
school and its sparkling wines.
never paid him.
It was stated that a woman con- nected with a well-known church
used to lead Page to church on account of her alleged blindness. Page ordered. expensive flowers and
The caves" of Saint-Hilaire- Saint-Florent cover an area of 495 acres, and there are about five kilometres of line laid down, upon which trollies run..from one point to another, While strolling past to be sent to this church,
ordered turkeys for a Christmas the stocks, dimly illuminated by dinner for orphans without paying our flickering candie torches, says a writer who recently went there, over the wine "caves
we came upon the remueur, a man
be CLOSED on WEDNESDAY UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY, who recalled to mind a hero of my
20th, THURSDAY 31st, FRIDAY 22nd and SATURDAY 23rd inst.
TUNG SANG By Order of the Committee,
TAILOR
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J. W. KEW.
Secretary. Hongkong, 18th February, 1914.
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
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Left hand; right
the bills.
-BETTING DEBTS.
She owed one bookmaker £yo and another £59. She even
collected pennies for a charitable society, but failed to account for the money.
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childhood, a clown who shook clusters of bells and produced continuous melody. This: in-
It was stated that while at Worth! dividual Was shaking not bells but
ing Page sent jewellery to a London bottles, and one was almost con- money-lender as security for a scious of music. hand, simultaneously shake, shake,oan. In her letter, which, was delicately, but firmly and with signed. Heron Maxwell, she said she was short of money as her lightning rapidity.
house had been broken into by. He is the shaker," said my host. burglars. She added that royalties It is his job to shake the sediment from film plays in America were in each bottle so that it acter Irtes due to hez. In a second letter she in the neck. He handles from signed herself Maxwell Heron, thirty to thirty-five thousand a day. and, becoming suspicious about and his work demands much the variation in names, the money- skill".
lender communicated with the That I could well believe, but police. there was still an even more dramatic genius to be interviewed, At the police station Page was made to remove the blue glass DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD..for after the bottles have stood on she was wearing and was found
the stocks for about six weeks and to be able to scoperfectly beea shaken every day the services
THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL of MEETING Shareholders will be held in the offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., on THURSDAY: the 6th HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE. March, 1924, at Ir a.m. for the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN purpose of receiving, the report of that the STOCK EXCHANGE the General Managers together will be CLOSED on WEDNESDAY, with a statement of accounts to 20th, THURSDAY, 21st, FRIDAY, 31st December 1923.
The transfer: Books of the Com- 22nd and SATURDAY, 23rd inst
pany will be closed from the 22nd- By Order of the Committee,
February to 6th March, 1924, both P. TESTER,
dates luclusivenen gentibu
Secretary. kong, 18th February, 1924
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BOXING TOURNAMENT to be held at VOLUNTHER HEADQUARTERS (By kind permission of Lt. Col. Tuff L. G. Bild, D.SO.)-
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