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PUBLIC COMPANIES HUMPHREY'S ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an

EXTRAORDINARY: GENERAL MEETING HUMPHREY'S ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY. LIMITED, will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICES Nos. 38 and 40, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 3lar day of OCTOBER, 1903, at NOON, when the Sukjoined Resolutions will be proposed, viz:--|

"1. "That the Capital of the Company be inorensed from 21,100,000 (divided into 100,000 shares of $10 each to 31,500,000, (divided into 150,000 shares of 810 each) by the creation of 50,000 new shores of $10 each to be offered and if necopted to be allotted to the present

INSURANCES

THE STATE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, OF LIVERPOOL

THE

THE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Currant Rates.

W. G. HUMPHREYS & CO. Hongkong, 3rd August, 1903,

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FIRE and LIFE.

“Established., 1836.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26ræ, 1903

ALL RIGHTS ERSERYED.] GOLF FOR EVERYBODY..

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wicked enough to spend the hon.ymoon at á? northern golf links, His wife meekly pat ap with hot lord's daily absence for a considerable time, but at last she could stand it no longer, and allied forth one afternoon to the course, She arrived in time to soe her husband defeated

THE IMPORTANCE OF PUTTING)*n the last greco, owing to his adversery, a

OB "HALF THE BATTLE,"

BY

ALFRED TENNYSON.

Since it frst crossed the Tweed some twealy years ago the Royal and Ancieat game has seen many changes. First of all, of course, the number of players has increased beyond all cui- culation: not only in the United Kingdom:

the

THE Undoraigned are prepared to accept the world and play a game at almost every golfing pilgrim could make a trip round First Class Foreign and Chinese RISKS port. Golf clubs have sprang up on every against FIRE at Current Rates.

stretch of land suitable for the purpose, ond Also to accept proposals for LIFE ASSUR-cometimes, it must be confessed, in places not ANCE. Prospectuses on application,

suitable at all. This widespread onthusiasm TURNER & CO., kes had a tremosdous influence on the game, Agents and indeed it could hardly have been otherwise. Hongkong, 23rd September, 1903. [2073 A St. Andrews golfur was telling me the other NILE INSURANCE COMPANY.

JORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN.day some reminiscences of old times. He re

membered quite well as a boy visiting Allan Robertson. The champion was sitting in his parlour, his black oat Tibbie on his knee, watch ing a saucepan simmering on the hob. When the guttaporcha, then newly introduced to the golding world, was duly liquided, old Allen sarefally moulded by hand the only balls, then ebtainable in the Mecca of the golfing world. Compare for an instant then and now; the champion boiling guttapercha in the same saucepan which probably served to cook his inser, and the innumerable varieties of golf balls now sold in the market, cack with their owy adherents,

TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1902. £18,378,771.

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AUTHORIJED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 0 SUBSCRIBED. Carrral.... 2,750,000 0 A PAID-UP CAPITĀṀ.......................... 687,500 0 0 II. FIRE FUNDS

2,867,315 11 1. The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO..

Agoats. Hongkong. 19th June, 1903.

[1888 SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.

mediocre playor, holing out from the rough at the edge: now tribulation has fallen upon that misguided golfer; whenever he goes home (and ho has had a vein of ill fuck lately) complaining of his inability to hole the short one and orav ing for sympathy, his wife, replies, without a vestige of compassion in her voice: "But why, my dear, don't you putt like Mr. -, be can get in from the edge of the grean:"

The reason why good driving is easier than good putting is that it is purely mechanical, Ferlaps itis is putting it a little too strongly, Onybody can drive," said Andrew Kirkaldy but at any rate, we can say, without differing too widely from the celebrated professional, that anybody ought to be able to drive." Putting on the other hand-that is to say, laying the ball within holing distance from a considerable dis tanca--requires a combination of qualities, pre cision of eye, delicacy of touch, nerve, and an iadelinite quantity of causing in judging the tall of the ground, the strength of the wind, &o, &c. Anything such as a touch of liver or a suspicion of nervousness may spoil your chance of foling out next time. Then who shall blems the man whose ball once or twice in a round run away a bit ton gay or spoils a thre-hols by pulling up in that maddening way that golf balls lave, five or six yards from the lip Thare is another reason, it seems to me, why flas players miss a large proportion of putts, bat here we are treading on more delicate ground In old days, the days of Allan Robertson, young Tommy, the Dannies and the L'orka, everybody pulted with a wooden putter, When England took up the game, and made coureca in the most

AHE Undersigned, having bean appointed

AGENTS for the above Company, are Paladins of old to make and break their seem to have the same texture as the tarf on the prepared to ACCEPT FISKS against FIRE At Carron Raton,

HOTZ JACOB & CO. Hongk ng. 2nd April,1900

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AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN-

SURANCE CO...

OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL.

*THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

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REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & Co.

Agents. Hongkong, Zlet April, 1897 THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM PÁNY OF TÖRONTO, CANADA. INCORPORATED 1951.

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more slipshed method of putting than do the NOBEL-GLASGOW EXPLOSIVES.

There is a dietom known to everyone who has ever played golf, that a : an who can putt cau play anybody. Like most sayings it is partially true, but one must not interpret it too litar ally. No one can hope to win matches by put- ting alone, but also no one can heps to win matches unless be eau putt fairly well. Of course it does not follow that everyone can be come a very fine putter.de with every other stroke in the game of golf, certain definite rules rat be fallowed: neglect of these is sura, sooner or later, 10 be followed by mishap. Ap proach putting is an inspiration born of the maent and the bour, holing out, excépt ou 02- casions, a purely mechanical art.

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Then again there has been on enormene improvement in club-making. Gire old Hugh likely, as well as the most likely places, gal. Philp hie duc. for he did undoubtedly dincoser fors began to and that it was difficult to oon- the wooden club, but the reriest duffer of trol the ball with a wooden putter when putting to-day would look somewhat askance at one of on all or rough greens, and indeed on even MADE FROM THE CHOICEST TURKISH TOBACCO, ARE THE BEST. ASK those delicate graceful clubs, with their swau- the very best English greens, for they do not liko curve of the neck, which helped the golfing

"classic courses of Scotland. Then somebody YOUR DEALER FOR THIS BRAND.: records. I do not think that even the wildest invented the patting clock and putting iron laudator temporis ucti would deny that the No doubt they are excellent weapons when used driving of our finest modern players quite over- in first-reta hauds, but thay adwait of a much only longer but sarer. To be in the first flight wooden putter. There is only one way of to-day a man must drive. Dricing bes, I re-playing with the latter: with the former every paat, improved enormously, but what about body seems to play different. It seems to me putting It is little less then disheartening to that if the fashion changed again, and the wooden players fail to negotiate the simplest of putts. eclipse) were to regain its ancient popularity, eee with what regularity the finest professional patter (whose fame has suffered a temporary Half-a-dozon missed oues in a reened score is we might haar less about bad patting. No uncorpion occurrence. In the Amateur Championship which has just been played, Mr. Robert Maxwell, perhaps the most redoubtable of all the Scottish amateurs, though playing magnificent game off the tee and through the green, lost his match with Mr. Fry merely because on one or two occasions he failed to get down from foot or two; what is the reason, one may well ask, of this paralysis on the green In the Homeric contests between Tommy Morrie and Davie Stirk, the two finest players of their day, thirty holes would often be played without a single missed patt on either side. On the classic links where The chempionships take place ove cannot at- tribute it to way irregularity in the greens. Is patting, like the cunning of the Egyptians; & lost art? Among famous amateurs there are still one or two remarkably tine putters and perhaps one or two among professionals. Me. Horace Hutchinson would not impress the The Undersigned having been appole ordinary observer with any idea of his extra AGENTE for the above Company, are pre-ordinary skill; it is only when ens plays with pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE w

him that one is astonished at the end with which be holes the longest of putta, and not Current Rates.

STEMSSEN & CO... infrequently the trickiest of iron shots. It is

Agente.

certain that were his health as good as formerly 31 he would repeat his triumphs of the years 1886 and 1887. Another splendid patter, on whom the mantle of the ancient prophets may be said to have fallen, is Mr. John L. Low. He drives a short ball, compared with the tremendous hitting one sees nowadays, but, when he is in his best form, he may cooken not only to recover on the green all the ground he has lost

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THE Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE st Current Rates,

WM. MEYERINK-& CO. Hongkong, 18th May, 1905.

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UN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON

FOUNDED 1710.

Hongkong. 16th May, 1892.

HONIX FIRE

P

OFFICE.

The Undersigned are now prepared GRANT POLICIES, of INSURANCE against FIRE at Current Rates.

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DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO..

Agents for the Phonix Fire Office. Hongkong, 17th August, 1887. NORTH GERMAN PIPE INSUR

ANCE COMPANY OF HAM BURG

The Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are PREPARED TO ACCEPT First Close Foreign and Chinese Rinks at Current

Halos.

STEMSSEN & CO.

Hongkong.29th May 1895.

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THE BOMBAY FIEE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

HE andersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are propazed to accept RISKS at Current Rates. HOTZ, 'JACOB & CO. Hongkong, 30th July, 1903.

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KOWLOON ROTISSERIE,

doors next to Kowloon Hotel).

sharebelders of the Company at par in NO. 31, ELGIN ROAD, Kowloon (Two the ratio and proportion of one new Meals à la Carte, Steaks, Chops, &o,, &c., at Company held by the respective any time between am and 10.30 p.m. Monthly

terma on application.

Hongkong, 6th October, 1909.

sharo for overy two old sharon in the

amount

shareholders thereof, the payable on each of such now shares respectively to be paid at snob time or times and in meh manner as the Company by its General Managers may hereafter determine,”.

2. “That Article No. 82 of the Articles of

Association of the Company be M

cavelled and the following Article Bubstituted therefor *The remuneration of, the Gouern Managers shall be $4,000 per annota (which shall cover officó rent but not salaries of Secretary and other employees) and a commission of 5 per conti. of the net profits of the Company for such year that such »prouts amount to 7 par cent, of the

Capital of the Company." Should the above Resolutions be duly pássed they will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently.

convened.

Dated this 24th day of July, 1903.

JOHN D. HUMPHREIS & SON,

| General Managers, ·*:** [2205 HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED.

THE SHARE CERTIFICATE No. 4,985

rbaros, 61,951 61,900

inclusive, standing in the register in the name

MADAME FLINT & CO.

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First of all, in holing out a patt, no matter how short, it is absolutely greential to keep our's eye on the ball. Remember only that the hole lies straight in front of you, and never look up till the ball has already travelled some distance from the club. It is not necessary to worry about the strength with the shorter putts, as whom you are attempting to lay the ball dead from a considerable distance and so the difficulty, becomes mainly oue of direction,,

In order to putt straight you must be just us careful about taking the clob back, and bringing it well through, as you are off the tee. In this roest the ordinary professional player is the greatest sinner: he seems almost unable to culti vate that pendulum stroke with the wrists which is, in my opinión, the only sound masthed of palling.

In these two simple ruleslies the whole segret of putting. How onsy it sounds, nad how dif on the way to the hole, but to secure the adficult it is to follow them implicitly Thero vantage over his adversary. Once within a seems to be an almost irresistible temptation to ehi done with the more misser. glance up at the hole when negotiating & short and his putting is done with an absolute per putt. As to stance it is almost impossible to fection of style. Mr. Low, as everybody know, Lay down any rules. The most comfortable posi putts only with a wooden putter. This deadly tion is generally the best. There is a sort of Weapon, of a pattern now almost extinct, is as notion shared by a large number of golfers, that well known on northern greens as its grenisl it is useless to practice patting. They imagine owner. It would be worth the while of any that at the critical moment a divine inspira keen player to watch carefully Mr. Low's tion will descend upon them. I

beg to differ methods on the patting-gren, He studies the from those gentlemen entirely. I think that lie with the hole, but his mind once marle up, he wastes as much as with their drivers and their irons. great deliberation from both sides of everyone should practice with their patters just no unecessary time in addressing the ball. The man who wishes to putt, well should never Before his eye has had time to weary, the lose an opportunity of practising holing out stroke is made. The ball is struck entirely from with a dozen balls or so, not cursinssly and at the wrists, and one notices that at the top of haphazard, but just as deliberately and methodi the swing (even though the distance to be tra- cally as if he were playing a match. versed is short) the club is lifted extraordinarily

THE END.) high, and taken back extraordinarily atraight, while the follow through is equally long and Ruished in the direction of the hols. Another fina putter of the younger school is Mr. J. A. T.

Bramston, whilst Mr. Sydney Fry is of course renowned for his skill in this department of the game. Among professionals I can only call to mind ons remarkably dne putter, Kinnell, who,

though of salt stature, contrives to hold bis own with even the famous triumvirate bis style is peculiar, for he stands facing the hole and grasps the patter very low down. Willie Fark had the reputation of great skill on the green, but he seldom appears before the public nowadays. Thess players are all very fine pat ILLINERY and DRESSMA KING.ters, but as a role putting in the weakost depart-

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Consultation Fro Hongkong, 91st March, 1903.

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GIVEN tha anlam the mid-town Loaded with With Pardor Certifliate be produced at the bees of the Powder only....and us of Shat Company, 38 and 40 Queen's Road Central, Princess Cases $5.25 Victoria, Hongkong, before 25th November, Pegamaid Cosés 26.85 1963, a new certationto for the said shares will be Ejector Brass Case 7,50 issued and the old vertificate will thereafter be

Apply to held by the Company as null and void.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON," H General Managere: Hongkong, 23rd October, 1909. [2961

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ment in a strong player's game. There are a good many roseons for this, though to the un-

A small consignment of above Machines aitinted driving seems far more difficult ac having just arrived, are offered for Sale at complishment than putting. The latter is in 91:15 Let reality the more delicate operation. A person who does not know much about the game is as tounded by a long drive, but rests comparatively unmoved before an eighteenth-yard patt. I heard an amusing instance of this the other day. A kwen golfer, after marrying a charming girl, was

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