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NOTICE.

THE GENERAL MEETING of the Victoria Recreation Club will take place at the V.R.C. at 6 p.m. on TUESDAY, the 20th March, 1928.

C. J. COOKE,

NOTICES.

THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the THIRTY-NINTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

THES

NOTICES.

MAIL,

THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.

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NIGHT LETTER TELEGRAMS. Hon. See, V.R.C. will be held at the Company's C

OMMENCING 14th MARCH, Officer, P. O. Building, on FRIDAY,

NIGHT LETTER TELEGRAMS 16th March, 1928, at 12 Noon, for (NLT) will be accepted via Pacific the purpose of presenting the Re-for the undermentioned Places at port of the Directors together with the following Rates:-

a Statement of Accounts to 31st! December, 1927, and electing Direc

tors and Auditors.

The Register of Members of the Company will be CLOSED from 3rd March, 1928 to 16th March, 1928, hoth days Inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

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Manila

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GLASGOW SYNOD,

BISHOP ON DIVORCE FACILITIES.

+

DECAY OF HOME LIFE.

America last year one marriage planation

3

of that was the out of every seven ended in a de- totally inadequate stipends given. cree of divorce. With that warn In regard to the junior charges in ing before them they must pro- particular, he thought the en- test and fight against the in-vironment of those young minis sidious attempt which was now ters, was quite impossible. Sure- being made to extend the facilities ly the first duty of a diocese was for divorce in our own land. A to see that the men it already had proposal had recently been made were adequately remunerated. The annual Synod of the that any couple who had been When that was done it would be Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway separated for three years--for good time to think of extension was held in St. Mary's Cathedral, any cause whatever should be schemes. He was sure that what Glasgow, in mail week. The Rev. allowed to turn that separation they wanted was not buildings but E. T. S. Reid, D.D., Bishop of the into a divorce and should be free men. They wanted fewer but United Diocese, took as his charge to marry again. It was almost stronger churches. the subject of Holy Matrimony," inconceivable that snne people, The Rev. Canon C. B. Beard, Bishop Reid said we each had our with the scandals of our present Helensburgh, seconding, said in own distinct personality which divorce laws before their eyes, regard to the question of stipends had to be attended to and provid- should contemplate an extension that he marvelled at the silent ed for. But at the same time we of divorce on the lines suggested. endurance of the clergy, and he could not leave out of accolant our Married people who had been liv-marvelled also how they mannged necessary dependence one uponing apart for three years were to to live. another, nor could we except at be allowed to claim a divorce, be-

A Clamant Necessity. great loss to ourselves, neglect the cause they were tired of cach responsibilities which our union other. because they did not find Convener of the Finance Com- The Rev. Canton Petrie, the involved. National life, and in its the marriage state to be perfect mittee of the Church, Extension. turn the life of humanity as a because they forgot what they Scheme, moved the following whole, was but family Hfe writ meant by the lifelong promise to large, The problems of the world keep to one another, or for any view (1) of the earnest deside for amendment:-That the Synod in to-day were on a larger scale the other reason or excuse. Marriage problems of the family. Without certificates were to be torn up as housing areas in the diocese; (2) spiritual privileges in the new 61 attempting to fix the blame upon "scraps of paper." Our homes

any particular individual or group were to be broken up.

the great need for an increase in Children the number of clergy; (3) the of individuals for assuredly were to be brought up under the there have been faults on both shuflling and shame of changing necessity of providing adequate sides he believed it was true to parents. The misery that would stipends for the mission clergy; say that the hooliganism of our be sure to follow was too awful to and (4) the evident blessing of G3streets, the labour troubles which contemplate.

Glasgow upon the new extension were all too frequent, the revolt It was said that this proposed mission, considers that further against discipline which was so now law would promote morality, Church extension is u clumant common, and so forth, could all be and that separation without necessity, and urges upon the traced back ultimately to the divorce tended to immorality. To Bishop and the Church Extension breakdown of family life, and to permit such an extension of Committee to take every possible loss of the ideals which ought to divorce would unquestionably en- means to bring the needs of the direct it. We should discover the courage hasty, improvident, and diocese for additional clergy and 63 principle upon which present-day unwise marriages. It would make the provision of sites and build- Nova Scotia,

world problems might be solved forethought practically unneces-ings before the whole Church. In New Brunswick and "That the capital of the Com- Quebec

only when we had set up anew sary. It would thwart that submitting the amendment, he "pany be increased from its pre-Newfoundland

the ideals which ought to inspire growth in character which redescribed Mr. Brews's motion as "sent capital of $3,000,000 (Hong) These Telegrams will be accept the home life, and were honestly suited from husband and wife vote of censure on the Bishop "Kong Currency) divided into ed under the following conditrying to carry them out; for, as learning to face together the and as an insult to the Church. "300,000 shares of $10 each totions:-

had been well said, "The strength manifold difficulties of life, and in regard to the stipends ques- "$6,000,000 (Hong Kong Cur

of the nation is in the homes of from that unselfish consideration tion, he would like to know what, "rency) divided into 600.000

the people."

for one another which broughted an adequate stipend. Further, In Mr. Brews's opinion, constitut- "shares of $10 each and that

out all that was best in both. "guch additional shares shall "rank in all respects pari passu "with the original capital of the "Company."

THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.

NAS EXTRAORDINARY

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

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GENERAL MEETING of the Com-! pany will be held at P. & O. Bufid-New ing, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong at, 12.10 o'clock in the afternoon on FRIDAY, the 16th

York, New Jersey Delaware, Florida, Geargin, Connectient, New Hampshire, Mas- sachusetts. Pennsyl.. EALED TENDERS will be re-day of March, 1928, for the pur-1

vania, Rhode Island, ceived at the RN. HOSPITAL, pose of considering, and if thought

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EASTER MEETING. Saturday, 31st March, 1928.

RAFT PROGRAMMES

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(National Fredel Higher

Certificate).

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS

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-Public Auctions-

THE

for

EASTER MEETING to be held

Soturday, 31st March,

may be obtained from

Dr. F. PIERCE-GROVE,"

Alexandra Buildings..

Wednesday, 20th March, 1928.

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that a further Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the same place at 12.30 o'clock in the i afternoon On MONDAY, the i Second day of April, 1928, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, confirming the above Resolution as a Special Resolution.

Ontario,

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:

The Tendency of To-day..

There were hard cases and ill he would like to know on what No thoughtful person

could assorted unions for which divorce ground Mr. Brews was able to say Fame as for view with anything but apprehen- seemed to offer a remedy. But that many of our missions had

sion the decay of home life which for the good of the community

failed.. was one of the marked charac-divorce must be refused.

The amendment was seconded teristics of modern times. love for home, which once was a law of marriage, Bishop Reid said

Any tampering with the Divine by the Rev. Canon Lempriere, distinctive note of our national in conclusion, was to endanger the Glasgow, in supporting the mo life, no longer existed to the same home life and to trample in the tion, said he was sure Mr. Brews The home had become dust all that good and true men did not intend to offer an insult Httle better than a lodging-house, and women cared for most. The

4. Further Details on application.

E.A. LEGGATT,

Superintendent.

Hong Kong, 14th March, 1928. extent.

NOTICE.

The

Bearsden.

The Rev. Canon 3. 'M'Bain,

where we slept and took some of State could regulate and safe to the Bishop or to the Church as our meals. "The whole current guard the behaviour of those who made to the spiritual deadness of a whole. Reference had been and trend of life to-day is drawing were married, but it could not the times, and he asked if any of the inmates away from home." undo the marriage in the sight of the brethren were antisfied with Without in any way denying the God.

Therefore any immense amount of good which which the State might give to re-organised religion in this country sanction things as they were. Again, did had been done in the way of edu- marriage after divorce was in op-to-day admit that it was an ex- cating and brightening life, by our position to the laws of God. When traordinary success? TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN public institutions and places of the law of the State allowed what realise that more than half the same place on MONDAY, the Nthat the ORDINARY YEAR-musement, and without in any God forbade their only course-it

Did they

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY THE HONG KONG & WHAMPOA FURTHER GIVEN that a further

DOCK CO., LTD. Extraordinary General Meeting of

and

the

on

the Company will be held at the

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

TH

THE SECOND EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (wen- ther permitting) at Happy Valley fon SATURDAY, 17th March, 1928, commencing at 2 p.m. The first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.

The charge

Tin undersigned have received Publie Enclosure wilmission to the

-Auction

ON

THURSDAY, the 15th March, 1928, commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street. A Valuable Collection of

CURIOS. Comprising:

persons including Ladies.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform half price.

Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain admission to the Members' Enclo-

*

sure,

1,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

R. M. DYER,

Chief Manager.

Hong Kong. 6th March, 1928.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE

"Spiritual Deadness. "

Second day of April, 1928, at 12:40 o'clock in the afternoon or so soon

LY MEETING of SHAREHOLD- ENTRIES close before NOON, thereafter as the above Meeting ERS, will be held in the Office of Puritanical sense decrying the op- they were to be loyal to if citizens had no connection what

portunities now afforded shall have terminated for the pur-Hong Kong, on

the Company, 2, Queen's Buildings, wholesome amusement,

for heavenly King-was to protest, ever with any kind of organised the and to endeavour by every means

religion? pose of considering and, if thought March, 1928, at Noon, for conal to the fact that he tendency of standard of thought about mar TUESDAY, 20th thoughtful person could be blind in their power to raise the whole

Bishop's Reply, fit, passing the following Resolu-deration of the Directors Report to-day was to undervalue the riage to that level which benefit-mittee on Church Extensions was Bishop Reid said the Com- tions, namely:-

and Statement of Accounts for the blessings of the home life, and to ted it as an honourable estate. "That the Directors be, and year ending 31st December, 1927. spend too much time outside the

only too willing to listen to prac- "they are hereby authorised,, to

tical suggestions that might be "capitalise the sum of $1,500,-TRANSFER

The SHARE REGISTER and home circle.

helpful. He therefore did not re- BOOKS will be "000 profits of the Company CLOSED from the 14th to the 20th was to be found in the recognition Rev. Canon W. Brews, Dumbar- of censure on himself or on the The secret of happy home life A motion put forward by the gard Mr. Brews's motion as a vote "standing to the credit of the March, 1928 (both days inclusive). of the bonds which united all the ton, gave rise to a lengthy and Committee. He would like to "Company's Reserve Fund and to "allot to the members holding

members of the family in an en-somewhat lively debate. The mo- point out, however, in regard to "shares of the Company as on

during fellowship, and the conaction was in the following terms:-the question of missions that "the 1st day of July, 1928, in res-

quent responsibilities which those "That the Synod, in view of (1) some of the new charges were do- pect of the net amount capitalis-

ties involved. The union once the spiritual deadness of the time, ing better than some of the formed might become strained, (2) the difficulty of obtaining churches that had been in exist. "cd fully paid shares of the Com-

but it could never be broken, clergymen, (3) the inadequate ence for 50 years. So far as the "pany of equivalent nominal "value in the proportion of one

Brothers might quarrel, but in stipends of the majority of the difficulty of getting ministers was spite of their disagreement they clergy, and (4) the failure of concerned, he pointed out that the "share for every two shares of

remained brothers. Husband and many of our Missions, considers important thing was not to get "the Company then held by such

wife might separate. but they re further church extension inadvis- men, but to get the right men. "persona. respectively and that

mained husband and wife. Mar- able, and suggests that the re- "auch shares, so allotted shall

At the close of the discussion riage had united them in a life- sources of the Church should be it was agreed that the motion "rank for dividends as from the

long and indissoluble union. "1st day of July, 1928,"

It directed to improving the finan-and amendment should not be MEETING OF SHAREHOLD- sure foundation upon which true are worth preserving." "as aforesaid, any person would ERS in the above COMPANY will home life and all social morality!

ed with the next business, "be entitled to a fraction of a be held at the Offices of the Com-was based. What grounds had we Rev. Mr. Brews said he had been pointment of the Rev. Duncan In submitting his motion, the The Synod agreed to the ap "share, the Directors shall, in pany, St. George's Building. Chater for teaching it to our people? The studying the question of church | Macintyre as a representative on "lieu of issuing fractional certi-Road, Victoria, Hong Kong, on opening address of the Marriage extension, and he had come to the the Provincial Synod. in succes- "Acates, cause the whole share WEDNESDAY, the 21st day of Service in the Book of Common conclusion that they had been sion to the Rov. H. W. Hall. "to be allotted to a person or March, 1928, at Noon for the pur- Prayer (Scotland)

be named by the pose of receiving a statement of statement that marriage was "an the cost, or without any informa- BISHOP OF LONDON.

made the building towers without counting "persons to "Directors and such share may, j accounts and the report of the honourable estate, instituted oftion as to whether they were pro- "at auch time as the Directors Directors for the year ended 31st God in the time of man's in-ceeding on right lines. "think fit, be sold and the pro- December, 1927..

nacency,"

"It was ordained for was at present a blast of material-

HIS SECRETS OF GOOD "ceous distributed amongst the THE TRANSFER BOOKS or the increase of mankind accord-ism abroad in the world.

HEALTH AT 70.. "person entitled to the fractions the Company will be CLOSED from ing to the will of God, and that no time for Napoleonic conquests; "making up the share." TUESDAY, the 13th March, 1928, children might be brought up in it was rather a time for guarding A. F. Winnington Ingram, cele The Bishop of London, Dr. Dated the 3rd day of March, 1928. until WEDNESDAY, the 21st the fear and nurture of the Lord. and keeping the ground they al

March, 1928, both days inclusive. and to the praise of His name. It ready held. Where, he asked, brated his 70th birthday recent-

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

was also ordained for the mutual wore the clergy in the Synod of He said: society, help, and comfort that Glasgow? To him they appeared General Managers, the one ought to have of the like the actor to Shakespeare: rackets as hard and enjoyably as I play golf, tennis, and squash Hong Kong, 1st March, 1928. other, both in prosperity and ad- they had their exits and their en.I ever did. I am just back from

versity." It signified "the mys-trances. tical union that is betwixt Christ spiritual family was a procession the storm on Tuesday.

(Laughter). Their Bournemouth, where I played two rounds of golf in the middle of and his Church,"

of cradles and coffins. It was not The implication of the service a diocese; it was a kaleidoscope good constitution, coupled with I attribute my good health to a was that marriage was a lifelong! They changed so frequently that the facts, that I am a teetotaller, and indissoluble union. If words they

never.. gat. to know.i NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. their Church implied that mar-

meant anything, the teaching of each other, and.. riage united bride and bridegroom ORDIN-in a union which was intended to

the 2. "That if, on such distribution 30th ORDINARY ANNUAL was this fact which provided the cial position of such charges as voted on, and the Synod proceed-

Bach member has the right to Five Coloured Vases, Blackwood introduce 2 non-members to Joss Table, Carved Lacquer Members Enclosure, tickets for Vases, Porcelain Table Screens, whom can be obtained from Crystal Ornaments, Jade Vases Messrs. Linstead & Davis at $5 and Birds, Ivory Figures, Porcelain ench up to Friday, 16th March, Flower Bowls, Plates, Bronze 1928. Gongs, Embroidered Mandarin The charge for admission for Coats, Valances and Hangings, Ladies to the. Members' Enclosure Chinese Hand Paintings, Lacquer-will be $2. Each member ed Cupboards, Trunks, etc, etc. can obtain, upon application to the Catalogues will be lasued. Secretary, Badges for admission of On View from Wednesday, the 2 Ladies free of charge: 14th March, 1928,

Terma:-Cash on delivery..

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneera. Hong Kong, March 8, 1928.

HE Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public

Auction

ON

SATURDAY, the 17th March, 1928, at 12 o'clock "Noon,

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street. One Studebaker Motor Car-

5 Seater..

One Cadillac Motor Car-7 Seater.

in good condition.

On View on Day of Sale, Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong 13th March, 1928.

Having Returned from Japan MRS. INAGUCHI

· MASSEUSE

HAS RESUMED PRACTICE.

AT 6 ASHLEY ROAD, KOWLOON. Telephone E. 754.

Bookmakers, Tic-Tac Men, etce- tera, will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race Meetings.

Hong Kong, 12th March, 1928.

By Order of the Board,

|GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,

Agents.

A REAL BARGAIN.

THE OLD ORIGINAL

CHEFOO STAMPS

UNUSED GENUINE SPECIMENS

$2.00 per set of 6 stamps.

Cash must be sent with urder to Boz No. 519

c/o "China Mal"

THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

FIFTY-NINTH

TARY GENERAL MEETING or be lifelon. What authority to

"Scraps of Paper."

Shareholders will be held at the there for the view which was here Offices of the undersigned on indicated as to the permanence of MONDAY, the 26th March, 1928, marriage? As Christians, they at Noon, for the purpose of re-naturally turned to the Bible for ceiving the Report of the General light upon the subject, and In Managers, together with a State- doing so they found that the con- ment of Accounts for the year end-ditions accompanying marriage. ed the 31st December, 1927. - had varied from time to time.

The SHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOS ED from the 12th to the 26th March, 1928, both days Inclusive,

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD. General Managers, The Hong Kong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Hong Kong, 5th March. 1923,

Dealing with question-of divorce, Bishop Reid said our duty as Christians was clear. Divorce was contrary to the law of Christ. We attached no weight whatever to the decrees of the Divorce Court. They were injurious to morality, and they were opposed to the teaching of Chelatamie

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