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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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WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT

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COLD STORAGE

is

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for your heavy clothing, carpets, &c. during the summer months.

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Contains all the News of the Week.

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-30 cts. PER COPY.

The "Overland China Mail" is obtainable every week on Friday morning at the office of the publishers (China Mail Building), 5, Wyndham Street in ample time for the mail.

Lending Articles,

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Local and General Bonin and Personal Selling st's Losse a Lavish Display..................... Presentation..a bit des que Keeping Cool

Government House..

Teaching Chinese...

Last Month's Rain.

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Piracy Evil

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5-6 Another Effort...

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6–7 Visiting Athletes...

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Share Slump..

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Bit A Girl

Not Likely.

Btolen Sugar..

"Good Omen

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Cripple In Donit

Child Labour Laws..

Jump Into Water

Naval Funeral...

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"Girl Guided

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New Born Ohild

Theft of A Ring

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Shorter Hour

Latest Garage....

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Bathing "Scandal'”

Arms on Liner..........

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European Robbed

$100 Arms Finę

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Higher Rente

Taxation

"Increasing Earnings"

Closing Cruise

Water Returns. Volunteers Corresponder oe

Waifs and Strays.

Office Thofte

Another Tiger

Just Like Home'

The Family Feoling'

$1,000,000, Batale

Canton Crials...

Thanka wen 18hots in Gloom

Missing Coupons ....... 10 Magic Numbers... Posten Damped..

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11-12 Tragio Events"

Sports

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Another Opera

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LOCAL

The "China Mail" has re- ceived from the Japanese Consul- ate-General copies of the 14th financial and economie annual of Japan.

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THE CHINA

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GENERAL.

Sixty-three cadetships

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One English case of diphtheria Woolwich and 200 at Sandhurst was notifled for the 24 hours will be open fer competition at an ended Wednesday last. examination Beginning on June 23. states the War Office..

Three acting new membera At a meeting of the Singa: took the cath at yesterday's Legis-pore Electric Tramways, on Apri! lative Council meeting-Lieut. 7. at Winchester House, London, Col. Montague Bates, Mr. C. G. E.C..'nt which Sir Frank Swetten- Alabaster, and Dr. J. Addison.ham, G.C.M.G.. presided, the necessary resolutions for wind- ing-up, for the purpose of carry ing out the scheme of reconstruc- tion, which was passed by the debenture holders, shareholders, and creditors, and sanctioned by the court last year, were passed.

The villagers of Aberdeen and Aplichau are to be charged more for rates now that lighting has been installed there. At yesterday's Legislative Council meeting the percentages on the valuation of tepements was raised from 9 In the case of Aberdeen and 7 in thei case of Aplichau to 12 in both

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"No, reference books for puzzles" reads a notice posted at the entrance to Kensington Public Library.

Though deformed in hands. and feet, a boy, discovered by the N.S.P.C.C., can use a hammer and knife and fork with his toes.

Four crates containing live snakes and lizards have arrived at Southampton by the White Star liner Medie from Australia. They are destined for Liverpool.

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A striking appeal has been issued by prominent leaders in all sections of the community, includ

The vagaries of tornadoes, ing Lord Burham. Lord Harris, one variety of which recently St. Peter's Church and the Eart of Oxford, Earl Haig, the snuffed out upwards of 800 lives Sailor's Home are to move from Bishop of London, Mr. Rumsay in the middle west of the United their present position at the foot MacDonald, Mr. Lloyd George and States have almost completely of Western Stree and at yester-Sir John Simon, pleading for a baffled the researches of science. day's Legislative Council meeting national movement for the pro-The suddenness with which they' Bill in the form of an incorpora vision of a more adequate num-strike, and the destructive force top Ordinance for this purpose ber of playing fields throughout of their attack, have made was read a first time, also a similar the country. enactment in respect of the Little Sisters of the Poor which will on- able the Society to hold immovable property in perpetual, succession.

The point of an assassin's dagger was turned by a copy of the Bible tucked in the kimono of

scientific study extremely difficult. Prof. William J. Humphreys, of the Washington weather bureau, describes a tornudo as "a violent rotating storm of small dimen- a young Salvation Army girl, atsions." The chances are, he says, At a lecture before the Royal Tokyo. She was saved from pos- that not once in a 1,000 years Photographic Society on Persible death at the hands of the would a tornado hit the same spot

To- twice. sonal Reminiscences of the Ever-man, her former. fiance.

The meeting of cold and' est Expedition. Mr. Arthur gether with other members of the warm currents of air starts up a Pereira. F.R.P.S., exhibited some Salvation Army, she was return-rotation between them and the curious souvenirs, including an ing from church services in whirl beats itself down, usually engraved die used in the temples Azabu. The youth. despondent from a level of less than a mile

FRIDAY, MAY 15, 102,

"DRIVE

the new

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So quietly and smoothly does the Now V-63 operate that owners' say. they are scarcely aware that there la a motor beneath the hood.

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to stamp out clay images of at the refusal to marry him, ap Buddha. for votive offerings,parently had been waiting in a The tornado only occurs in con- human thigh bones converted into dark street where he knew she nection with a big rain or snow- trumpets, and a devil-exorciser would pass. As the group came bringing storm and is usually fashioned from two men's skulls. along he rushed from the shadows from 1,000 to 1,500 feet wide.. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary: General There was also an exhibit of and stabbed her with a long dag: The peculiar phenomenon of the Meeting of the above Company will be held at the Registered Tibetan cheese made from yak'a ger. She fell and he apparently tornado "skipping." striking Office of the Company, Queen's Building, Victoria, Hongkong, on milk, sold in small dried squares thought her dead. He then turn-spot and jumping over a stretch as hard as wood, and threaded oned his weapon on his bared breast of country leaving it undisturbed, string like a rosary. A journey and thrust it through his heart. is not-ao well understood. The over the mountains to the famous He was dead when examined by upper part of the tornado seems monastery of Pamionchi pro- doctors at a hospital where both for some reason to move ahead duced a number of photographs of were taken. The girl is expected breaking off its lower portion, and the "devil-dances" enacted there to live, the dagger having missed then, as it speeds on, the whirl- by the Lamas in weirdly-fashion the heart, turned by the Bible,ing wind finds its way to the ed masks and grotesque costumes, which was cut.

SOCIAL AND

The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal has been awarded by H.E. the Governor to Piper E. H. Farrell of the Scottish Pipe Band, HK.V.D.C.

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ground again.

PERSONAL.

Mrs. Johri Simple, who recentlyMrs. Zola, the widow of the inderwent ar operation for ap famous French author, Emile pendicitis in Kote is out of the Zola, died at Paris on April 28. hospital and is convalescing nicely. She was eighty-six years old. She is the wife of the manager in Moji for the Standard Oil Com- pany.

-Members of the Straits Settle-

Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps Orders state that H E, the Governor has been pleased to make the following promotions ments (Singapore) Association and appointments in the Hongare being asked to vote for a kong Volunteer Defence Corps, candidate for nomination with effect from the 5th May, 1925-Corporals A. H. Penn and E. J. R. Mitchell to be Second-

Lieutenants.

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Municipal Commissioner.. The two candidates are Mr. H. J. Fougere and Mr. H. V.. Raper, both Insurance Managers,

The

Non-resident Fellows. of the Itoyal Colonial Institute recently Premier Kate is reported to be :{s:6:] include :-I. 0. Allen planning a trip to Formosa iu June, Gingaporer, M. D. Fallonit the invitation of Governor (Serendah); J. 1); 6. Morice (Kuan- |(ienerul Izawa.of Formosu. ban), W. Patterson (Perak), E. E. Premier will attend to a celebration Pengilley Kuala Lumpur), J. V. for the 30th anniversary of the Robert Penang). H. W. Smü establishment of self-government (Kelantan), and R. G. Vergette there, which is to take place on (Kuns Lumpur).

June 17.

Mme. Tetrazzini, as she left Victoria for, Paris, remarked: "Oh, yes, I am very feminine-I have not got my hair cropped."

Sir Alfred Mond, Bart, M.P., has presented a complete wireless installation to Carmarthenshire Infirmary, Carmarthen, with loud speakers in each ward.

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"Back to the long engagement," seems to have become a sort of slogan among the lovelorn of Britain. It would be hard to say. how the change has come about but evidence accumulates that long engagements are again in fashion. The wartime habit of the hasty marriage-not seldom followed by repentance at leisure is surely giving way to the Reuter cables the death of Pro- Prince Chichibu, second son of protracted and romantic engage- fessor Joseph Henry Longford. the Emperor of Japan, who is to menta of prim days when Queen Professor Longford was Emeritus study in England for two years, will Victoria used to spank one of her Professor of Japanese at King's leave Tokyo on May 24, it was grandchildren who afterwards College, London, and vice presid-nouneed by the Imperial House became Emperor of Germany. ent of the Japan Society of London. hold Department, The Prince will "There is a slump in the sale of He was born June 25, 1849. In 1869 il for Hongkong by the coast-engagement rings" confided a he entered the British consularser-defence ship, Izumo, and will visit court jeweller. "Young men vice in Japan as student interpreter, Formosa on his way. From Hong- nowadays do not rush into, three serving for 33 years and travelling kong, the Prince will transfer to or four engagements before they during that time, through the entire the Nippon Yasen Kuisba liner, Japanese empire. He was a prolific writer of things Japanese, his first Hakozaki Manu, and is expected to book being the penal code of the land at Marseilles on July G. country published in 1877.

marry. This, however, is balanc ed by the number of costliness of presents exchanged in the court- ship. The most fashionable of a six to twelve months' engage- marriage ure generally the result

ment."

We are not, as a rule, apt to rt The Empress of Canada left gard Mr. Churchill as a family |to-day with a full complement of man, but his hours of leisure passengers: Those sailing in- with his children, away from

Lady Astor's confidence in her cluded Mr. F. M. Crawford, Mr. the cares of office and public Frank A. Cook, Mr. Murray Cook, fe, bring him' great enjoyment own sex was volded again in a Down zt Westerham, a speech to delegates attending the Mr. and Mrs. A. Cameron, Mr. G.

Peter Pan house annual conference of the National Grimble. Mr. C. 8. Gubbay, Mr. fascinating

She described

and Mrs. C. A. Hooper, Mr. built for the children. Sarah and tain and Ireland.

jo the tree-tops has been Council of Women of Great-Bri-

Howard Kinsey, Mr. E. Kinsey Diana Churchill adore Barrie's the younger generation as full of Capt. and Mrs. F. E. Lane, Mr play, and the tree-tops house was hope, zeal, confidence and bliss- W. M. McLeod, Mrs. F. R. Marah, built under Winston's supervision,ful ignorance. Mr. E. H. 0. Farrell, Mr. and and I am told that he is just as we can affect youth," Lady Aster "The only way Mrs. D. Purves, Mr. and Mrs. Chas: Pryce Mr. and Mrs. H. ggerly interested in it as are his said, ““is not in what we can do

Rouse, Mr. A. H. Rowe, Mr. and Mrs H Snodgrass and Mr. Carl Shank.

The Infantry Company of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps having been sub-divided into No. 1 and 2 platoons, Sergt. 29H. Green has been promoted to 8039 the rank of Company Sergeant

Major, and Gorporal E G-Stewart to the rank of Company Quarter mister Sergeant, and posted it the Infazuy Company Second Lieutenant AH. Pennis posted to

Two small daughters.

for them, but in what we are. I have unbounded faith in my sex. It la quite impossible to imagine. I truly believe that women coming that the Duke of Connaught is into public life is the greatest great-great-uncle, of that he was spiritual step forward that has. rowing boy at the time of the happened for generations. The Crimean War, judging by his social most selfless service comes from activities along the Riviera. Many women." She asked girls to a man of forty would be glad of think for themselves and make up the reserve of strength which en the kind of minds they wanted ables him to be here there and walk is end,--- she-continued that dashing is doing-between Canner Christianity I don't agree with every where whenever anything our people are going back on and Mentone Luncheon a thés dan that I believe the young people sent dinners,even midnight cabare who are thliking for themselves,

No. 1 Platoon (lafantry Company) tertaloments, Jachting may be far nearer the Kingdom

25. Commanding Officer/anit Second Lieutenant E JR. Mitchs!

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is posted to No. 2 Platoon (lafantry, all to look Company) as Commanding Officer.

lent. SJ-Jordain, M.C. In the Company Commander of the In

antry Company,

grand than the young people who

yictopted, the faith of their fore

fathers blindly. Blind faith is not

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MONDAY, the 18th day of May, 1926, at 11 o'clock in the forenoor, when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions, viz.:--

(1) 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, name- ly!

"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 Capital 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.

(8) 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 AS the holders of the said 60,000 old shares at a premium of $10 per share.

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before the 15th day of **September, 1928, 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, 1935, 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 Bankery and such member outside the Far East or his nominee who has not accepted and lodged with the Company's . Bankers the Arst Instalmont due on such new'shares on or before the 16th day of September, 1925, together with interest af aforesaid will be deemed to have declined. The Directors i 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 Fär East shall vis-a-vis the said 60,000 old shares rank för dividend as from the 15th day of July, 1926, 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's sharcholders 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 a mem- ber la entitled.

That a member whose .. registered address is situate in the Far AND NOTICE IS HEREBY, East or his nomined shall, ALSO GIVEN that a further pay for such new shares, Extraordinary General Meeting accepted by two instalments, of the Company will be held at its Le, one instalment of $30 Registered Office aforesaid on! per new share to be paid on TUESDAY, the 2nd day of June, or before the 15th day of 1925, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon July, 1928, and a further for the purpose of receiving al instalment of $80 per new Report of the proceedings at the share to be paid on or above mentioned meeting and before the 15th day of confirming. If thought fit, as.. October, 1925, and such Special Resolutions the above member or his nominee who mentioned Resolution. has not accepted and lodged The Transfer Books of the with the Company's. Bank- | Company will be closed from ers the first fnstalment dueWEDNESDAY, the 10th day of on such new shares on or June, 1925, to WEDNESDAY, before the 18th day of July, the 17th day of June, 1925 (boln 1925, will be deemed to have days inclusive) during which declined.That a member period no transfer of shares enn whose registered address is be registered, tell attuate outside the Far East Dated the 4th day of May, 1925. Cor his nominee shall pay for ishnew shares accepted two Instalmente, e, one of $80 per new

By Order of the

Board of Directors

R. M. DYER

Chief Manager

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