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WHY

there are more than a million Buicks

There would not be more than a million Buicks in active use to-day if Buick had not, through the years, produced a motor car of unvarying and superior quality. In every de- tail, every Buick is an example of how well a motor car can be built.

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AGENTS :-

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THE CHINA MAIL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A drive for Tis. 201,500 to apply on the building fund of Ts, 750,000 for a new foreign V.M.C.A. building on Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, opposite the Race Course, started yesterday,

Tha Arst ordinary annual meeting of shareholders in the Hongkong and Territorial Estates, Ltd., is to be held on Wednesday, May 20, at 12 noon in the offices of the company. St. George's Building. 6. Connaugh

Road.

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In about a week's time, it is The total output of the Kailan' hoped, through trains will be run- Mining Administration's mines ning between Canton and Kow-for the week ending April 25, loon with British rolling stock. 1925, amounted to 63,749 tons. It is hoped to obviate the change and the sales during the period to at Samchun. . Later on, the 50,467 tona. through train first-class service || may be extended.

Many of those whose business or pleasure, or both, take them to The return of notifiable and fro over the Atlantic will be diseases in the Colony for the 24 sorry to hear that the Saxonia is to hours ended on May 8 shows one be scrapped. She has been sailing case of enteric and cerebro-spinal steadily on her trips for the last fever, both Chinese. The return aniy-five years and many a for the 48 hours ended on May 10 showe on Chinese case of diphtheria, ämi one Danish case at enterie fever (imported).

A Club for Americans with few associate members is to be opened this month in Duddell Street, this being the result of the work of Americans who have felt that there should be some centrality rallying place not only for social amenities but for the carrying out of arrangements in connection with functions of national import: The Club will be similar to other clube in that it will have a main dancing or reception room, read- ing room, card room, bar, etc.

The Salford education author has decided to build all its elementary schools in the future as open-air schools. At least they will have their class-rooms, open on one side to the outer air. The Board of Education has approved this policy, and it will there fore be put into effect as opportunity arises. Salford is the first author. ty to adopt this, plan. No other authority has as yet discussed it. The experiment will be watched with much interest by education administrators in other pants of the

country.

passenger after a rough crossing would say "Good old Saxonia, Compared to fater and bigger she's a wonderful sea-boat."

ships she was not speedy and tacked many of their luxurious features, but the agents say that' many passengers would specify the Saxonia when booking, and would often prefer to wait so as to get a berth on her. Why she was such a good sea-boat apparently nobody knows, for her qualities in this direction have not always been shared by other similar ships of later build.

TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1925.

HONGKONG HOTEL

EMPIRE DAY CELEBRATION

SPECIAL DINNER DANCE

will be held in the

GRILL ROOM

од

SATURDAY, 23rd MAY,

DINNER $4.00

W

per head.

Fancy or Evening Dress Optional

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By Courtesy of The Hongkong Telegraph, "THE FLAPPER WIFE” will be played during the evening.

Tables may now be reserved.

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

NOTICE

Anyone who served in France Like a reprieve from death

during the war will remember the must have come to Lieutenant

Nissen huts, the invention of Lieut- John S. Thompson, self-confessed

Col. Peter Nissen of the Royal slayer of beautiful 16-year-old

Engineers. He has now collaborat Audrey Burleigh, his sweetheart,

ed with Mesars. Petter and Narren, ] ❤ the three months" continuance of

who have combined their names in- trial granted by the military More and more is radiccasting to the word "Petren," and together court at Fort McKinley becoming part of the daily life ofthey have evolved the Nissen- five hours after it had convened to the people. A dinner was given Petren house. It is hoped thus to hear the evidence which prosecut- recently at one of the big London provide a cheap house, fit to live in. ing officers are confident will send hotels to celebrate the installation The main framework consists of him to the electric chair, says the of loud speakers in all the private patent steel ribs bolted to a con- "Manila Bulletin For the con- sitting-rooms and headphones in crete foundation. There is a semi- tinuance will enable his parents then that it was only a matter of with an asphalte-asbestos-water-

the bed-rooms. It was forecast circular covering of steel covered THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO.,LTD. in New York City to forward time when all hotels, Institutions, proof coating. At an early stage in through their attorney in the blocks of dats, and so forth would the construction the roof is put on United States. Newton W. Gilbert, be sp equipped. A well-known so that the rest of the work can be former vice-governor of therm in England recently held an carried on under cover. With this Philippines, depositions tending exhibition 10 demonstrate

special type of roof the walls are to show that the young officer and has been for years insane.

floor. The only brickwork is in the relieved of its weight of the first Lieutenant Thompson does not

chimneys and freplaces, all the want to die. Immediately after

rest being concrete, and it is his crime and for several days

claimed that half the ordinary"(1) afterward, he insisted that his life

number of skilled men, plus un- was forfeit and that it be taken

skilled unemployed labour, will to wipe out the irreparable wrong

build a house in half the time that he had done

is taken at present.

SOCIAL

Mr. and Mrs. D., G. M, Bernárd returned to the Colony to-day by the President Taft.

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to schools. The receiving sets were teachers the use of wireless in all of the polar blok" variety, which can be built up unit by unit, so that the simple crystal detector set can be gradually enlarged up to a detector with a couple each of high-frequency and low-frequency

valves.

AND PERSONAL.

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The St. Paul's Cathedral Pre- A Lady guest staying at the Im- servation Fund at Home now 'perial Hotel, Tokyo, named Miss amounts to over£246,200. AL. Jillat, aged 24, of Czecho- donation of £25 from Mr. J. Scott Slovakia, fell dead while dressing. Mr. G. Hodgkins, of the, Inter-Harston, of Hongkong, appears in Doctors were summoned from St national Banking Corporation, the latest list.

Luke's Hospital, Tsukiji, bat there left for Genou to-day by the s..

was nothing to be done. The de- President Van Buren.

ceased arrived at Tokyo with har sister and was staying in the hotel. The ladies were collecting objets dartin Tokyo and were round-the- world tourists.

What is known as "Congrega- tional singing" was attempted at St. John's Cathedral on Sunday at the evening service, the Acting Chaplain conducting,

Mr. E. L. Matteson, of the Admiral Oriental Line, returned to Hongkong yesterday by the 3.4. President Van Buren.- Mr. and Mrs. B. Proulx were

also passengers by the same

vessel from Shanghai.

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Mr. and Mrs. Gompertz on their way home motored up to Kuala Lumpur to look up some of their old friends, but found all the Government offices closed, it being a native holiday. A Kuala Lumpur paper remarks that only the, older

Miss Lucy Aldrich, who was generation. will recall that Mr. among those captured by Chinese Gompertz started his career as brigands in the Lincheng affair a Malayan cadet, being later two years ago and who wrote seconded to the Hongkong service. a delightfully good-humoured account of her adventure, is The Portuguese traveller, Ale-returning to the Orient and it is xander Geder, arrived in Minsk not reported that she will again long since, at a walking urip venture into the region where she around the world. His sole means encountered such serious risk. of support during his peregrina The "China Press" gives the tions is the sale of photographs of

news. Miss Aldrich is a sister-in- his wanderings. Interviewed in law of John D. Rockefeller junior.. Minsk, he observed that, although ing Russia, he had encountered he had been warned against enter. better trestment there than in any 4 other country.

Mr. A. Alban Parker, late of the "South China Morning. Post" has published a small volume con- taining his play "Kith and Kin" and several "War Poems." The volume will shortly be on sale at Messrs. Kelly & Walsh.

In these days of gestures it is

The King's approval is gazetted of H. F. C. Walsh, Esq., to be His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Soura-perhaps fitting that Mr. Ramsay baya (with effect as from June 1, 1924); J. Bailey, Esq., to be His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Nakawa Lampang (with effect as from June 1. 1924), and Mr. J. C. Hawkins. as Vice-Consul of the United States of America at Hongkong.

:

binding the

lo recognition of the close ties English speaking people of the word, the English- Speaking Union of the United States gave a dinner in New York on April 33, the anniversary of MacDonald should return his Shakespeare's birth. Sir. Gilbert motor-car. The public. has not yet Parker, the British author, and M.P.s who condemn the capi of the become quite used to Labour James M. Beck, Solicitor General talist system but are apparently Similar meetings in other cities of United States, spoke.

other folk. But the process of as keen on Its advantages as the United States where the union has branches also were held that education is going forward, and day. the Labour M.P. in his car will soon become a commonplace. Mr. From Detective Inspector M. Lansbury is the latest addition to dresser has said recently that A leading West End hair- Earner, who retired on pension the ranks of the Labour Party mo hair-dyeing is now one of the and left by the P. & O. 8.3. torists. He has recently had a Macedonia on May 2, a friend has small saloon car provided for most lucrative parts of his received a postcard from Singa- him, and those who like to stand trade. Many women are asking Mr. and Mrs. Earner outside at social functions may for their hair to be dyed. white speak of having enjoyed a trip occasionally have the thrill of because of the distinguished which was "gloriously calm and hearing the stentorian voice of a effect snow-white hair gives the cool" and were looking forward policeman calling for Mr. owner. Others are seeking a steely-grey colour while others want the “pepper and salt effect"| created when hair begins to be streaked with groy. Red and copper tints are going out of The death is announced of be has known intimately, can be fashion and possessers of this Sir Isidore Spielmann-Reuter, placed ahead of John Barrymore, class of dyed hair are most Sir Iaidore Spielmann's chief in said Henry Arthur Jones, dramatic anxious to undergo the new terest lay in art exhibitions, and author, in introducing the American | process.

pore.

to getting to Colombo. Inspector | Lansbury's car.' Earner wishes to be remembered to. his many friends colleagues,

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Only Sir Henry Irving of the interpreters of Hamlet during the past two generations, all of whom

in furthering British art. He actor as a guest of honour at an

was born in London in 1854, was English-Speaki Union luncheon

When

married at the age of 25 and has Mr. Barrymore, whose production to take unto themselves a hus- British war widows seem loath one son and three daughters. Heat the Haymarket Theatre has band for the second time and, be- was educated privately in Eng-been the centre of Shakespearean land. He was Director for Art, interest in London this spring, cause of this coyness, the British Board of Trade (Exhibitions was given a warm welcome. He taxpayer has to suffer. Branch) on the Executive Com-expressed his thanks for the the ministry of pensions sub- mittue of the National Arts Col-reception the English pubile hadmitted Its budget. in March, 1924, giran him and wild be believes for the amount of monest in he Plectrons Fund, a member of the

Advisory Council of the Victoria do more to bind, the British and it estimated that seven per cent. Shakespearean drama would likely paid in pensions to war widows, and Albert Museum; a Governor American peoples together than of them would remarry during of the British Institute of Indus-any other force. Among the the year. Unfortunately the cul- trial Art, and was connected with several hundred guests were Fay culations were wrong, for, up to a very large number of art exhibi- Compton, Barrymore's leading the present time, only four per tions in Britain, the Colonies and lady; Gladys Cooper, Sir Gerald cent. have discarded their widows' other countries. Sir Iaidoredu Maurier, Mise Viela Tree and weeds. Consequently the exche Spielmann was on the Council of T. P. O'Connor, oldest member of quer has had to grant an extra the British Empire Exhibition, the House of Commons.

£2,500,000 to pay their pensións:

Meeting of the above Company will be held at the Registered: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General:

Office of the Company, Queen's Building, Victoria Hongkong, on when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary MONDAY, the 18th day of May, 1925, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon,

Resolutions, viz.:~-

That the Articles of Asso- ciation of the Company be altered in manner following that is to say by the deletion of Article 17 and, by the. substitution therefor of the following Article, пате

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"17. So long as the issued "capital of the Company ""shall not exceed $6,000,000 "no member shall be entitled "to be registered as the "holder of more than 8,000 "shares of the Company. "Should the issued capital of "the Company be increased "beyond $6,000,000 the "number of shares in re- 'spect of which a member "shall be entitled to be "registered shall be increas- "ed proportionately, but no "member shall be entitled "to be registered in respect "of a fraction of a share.” (2) That the authorised Capitul |

of the Company (which is now $3,000,000 consisting of 60,000 shares of the nominal value of $50 each the whole of which have been issued) be increased to $10,000,000 by the creation of 140,000 additional shares of the nominal value of $50 each ranking (subject as hereinafter mentioned) for dividend and in all other respects. pari passu with the shares constituting the Company's present issued Capital.

(3) That 60,000 of the said 140,000 new shares be offered in the first instance (in the proportion of one new share for every old share held by them respec- tively) to the members of the Company who on the 10th day of June, 1925, are registered in the Company's Share Register 29 the holders of the said 60,000 old shares at a premium of $10 per share.

before the 15th day of September, 1925, together with interest calculated at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the total amount then payable for the period from the 15th day of July, 1925. until the date of receipt of payment by the Company's Bankers and a further, instalment. of $30 per new share to be paid on or before the 15th day of December, 1925, together with interest calculated at: the rate of 6 per cent per annum on the total amount: then payable for the period from the 15th day of October, 1925, until the date of actual receipt of payment by the Company's Bankers and such member outside - the Far East or his nominee: who has not accepted and lodged with the Company's Bankers the first instalment due on such new shares of or before the 15th day of September, 1925, together- with interest as uforesaid will be deemed to have declined. The Directors shall have the right to reject.: any nominee,

(5) That such of the said 60,000" new shares as shall be accepted by members both in and outside the Far East shall vis-a-vis the said 60,000 'old shares rank for dividend as from the 15th day of July, 1925, to the extent of one half of the nominal value of such new shares and as from the 15th day of October, 1925, equally with the said 60,000 old shares.

(6) That any of the said 60,000. new shares which shall not be taken up by the Com pany'a shareholders in manner aforesaid and the. remaining 80,000 unissued new shares may be issued and disposed of in such manner at such time or times, and upon such terms- as to ranking for dividend and otherwise as the Com- pany's Directors shall in their absolute discretion.. think fit.

(4) That the aforesaid offer be made to members by notice specifying the number of new shares to which mem- ber is entitled: That a member whose registered address is situate in the Far ALSO GIVEN that a further AND NOTICE IS HEREBY East or his nominee shall Extraordinary General Meeting pay for such new shares of the Company will be held at its accepted by two instalments, Registered Office aforesaid on Le, one instalment of $30 TUESDAY, the 2nd day of June. per new share to be paid on 1925, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon or before the 15th day of for the purpose of receiving a July, 1926, and a further Report of the proceedings at the instalment of $30 per new above mentioned meeting and share to be paid on or confirming, if thought fit, as before the 15th day of Special Resolutions the above October, 1925, and such member or his nominee who

mentioned Resolutione.

The Transfer: Books of the has not accepted and lodged with the Company's Bank Company will be closed from ers the first instalment due WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of on such new shares of the

1925, to WEDNESDAY before the 15th day of July, the with day of June, 1925 (both: ie 1925, will be deemed to have days inclusive) during which declined. That a member period no transfer of shares con whose registered address is be registered. situate outside the Far Enst Dated the 4th day of May, 1925.

or his nominee shall pay for such new shares accepted; by two instalments, te, one

- Instalment of 680 per new share) to be paid on" or

Bj Order of the

Board of Directors,

R. M. DYER,

Chief Manager