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ON 11 UPRIGHT GRANDS

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PUBLIC COMPANIES

THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED.

LATOTICE IS AEREBY GIVEN that ap

NOTICETRAORDINARY GENERAL

MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of

thu nhoya Company will be held at the OFFICE of the Company on TUESDAY, the 26th day of APRIL, at Noos, for the purpose of confirming the following Special Resolutions which were passed at the Extraordinary General Meting of Shareholders on the 9th instant.

SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS. 6) In Article 81 the words "Five Hundred Dollars" shall be substituted for the words “Quo Hundred and Fifty Dollars).

b) In Article 102 the wards" Au Anditor" shall be substituted for the words "Two Auditors."

* In Article 108 the word "Anditor" shall be substituted for thus word "Auditom.” By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND

AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED. General Agents for

THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING

COMPANY, LIMITED.

Hongkong, 9th April, 1904, -...........

HALL AND HOLTZ, LIMITED.

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SUPREME COURT.

Tuesday, 19th Apri.

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTIOS.

BEFORE HIS Honour Sie WILLIAM M. Goodman (CHIEF JUSTICE)

NO INDICTMENT

POLIOF COURT.

Tuesday, 19th April.

BEFORE MR. J. H. Kлar (SECOND Potter MaSTRATE).

A PAWNREOKER,

A pawnbroker was charged with unlawfully In the us against Sunda Singh, an Indian failing to seize and dotsbu a man who unde an a telescope. constable, who was charged with a grave offence.plication to borrow money on

when he hail reasonable ground for suspecting the Attorney General. Sir Henry S. Berkeley

an unlawful practice on the part of this applicant (who was instructed by Mr. F. B. 1. Bowley,

31. J Hastings appeared for the defence, Crown Solicitor), stated that he had head the evidence and did not consider it sufficient upon

and the nut was discharged.

which to file an information.

The man was discharged by prodamation.

ABSENT WITNESSEY-

Wong Kai was brought up on a charge of having between 30th December last and th January stolen nine tins of aniseed, the pr. porty of Lai Wan Hong,

Ho pleaded not guilty.

The following jury was empanellet :—Messrs. K. CH. Newman. J. Lysaght, G. Picking. ÁL. Steger.-D. K. Moss, T. C. Downing, and E. J. Judah.

PALSE SCALES.

Three shopkeepers were summoned by I- spector Word for not having their sales just The first defendant, having a fish-stall at No. 386, Westeru Market, wis final $50; the serond. against whom there was a previous conviction some three years ago, a fowl-store-keeper, at No. 16 Wastern Market, was fined $100. and the third, who keeps a fruit-store at No. 4 Western Market, was fined $40. The scali wore four and five per cent, out.

A CHINESE SERVANT.

The Attorney-General xil that he did not A Chinese servant was elurgerl by an Euro- propuse, to proceal with this case as several wit-pean for leaving without notice. He was fined musses could not be found ; the case was not a | 812 or 14 days. MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS

AVE 12TH ORDINARY GENERAL

will be held at the HEAD OFFICE of the Coropany, No. 29, The Bund, Stanghai, on SATURDAY, 30th, A PRIL, 1904, at 11 o'clock | A.ar, when the report and accounts for the year enced 29th February, 1904, will be presented.

The TRANSF BOOKS of the Company will bo CLOSED from the 21st to 30th APRIL, both days inclusivo.

By Order,

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E. R. PALMER, Secretary. Hongkong. 19th April. 1904.

THE TIENTSIN GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY, LIMITED:

NCORPORATED under The Companies' Ordinances of Hongkong, whereby the liability of Members is limited to the amount

OUR OWN MAKE of their shares.

$350 · AND

$395.

TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE

OUTPUT FROM OUR

NEW

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Credit.

Cash

FOR

Hongkong, 6th April, 1904.

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CAPITAL: TAELS 250,000, Divided into 2,500 shares of Tla. 100 each of which 600 shares hare already boon allotted to sharobiokers in The Tientsin Gas Co., Ld. Present Issue 1,500 shares of The. 100 each of which 350 shares have already been subscribed for by Shareholders in The Tenisin Gas Co., Ld. The balance of 1:150 shares is now offered to the public.

TERMS:

10 Tacis payable on application.

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1st August, 1904.

1st November, 1904. let February, 1905.

DIRECTORS:

C. POULSEN, Esq. (Chairman), of Electric Engineering and Fitting Co.

K. OSWALD, Esq., of Messrs. Oswald aud Loup.

W. E SOUTHCOTT, Esq., of Messrs. William Forbes & Co.

W. T. L. WAY, Esq., of Taku Tug & Lightor Company, Limited.

Wo Jin Pan, Esq., Compradore, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

Prospectares and Forms of Application for shares may be obtained on application to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at their Bronches in Tientsin, Feking, Shang- hai and Hongkong, and also from Meaars Doney & Co., 99, Consular Road, Tientsio,

Share Lists close at 4 p.m. on Saturday, 30th April, 1904.

Hongkong, 1st April, 1904,

NOTICE.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

1923

THE CERTIFICATE No. 997 dated 25th August, 1884, of the Five Shares Nos. 14181/14186 in this Company, standing in the name of Mr. MOK SE YEONG, of Houg kong, has been LOST, and if at the expiration of One Month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming, another Certi- ficate will be issued by the Company, and thereafter no other will be be acknowledged,

Dated 4th April, 1904.

C. PEMBERTON,

Acling Secretary. Hongkong, 4th April, 1904.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

very strong osv.

His Lordship directed the jury to rebum' u formal verdict of not guilty.

The jury returned a verdict necordingly- Acensed was discharged.

His Lordship ordered that the recognis- apees of the missing witnesses be extrenteil,

FORGING AN ORDER.

Ip Lum, a boatman, was charged with having on 4th April offered a forget rejuest for the. delivery of oven pieuls of rice purporting to he chopped by the Fung Yan Loong firm.

He pleaded not guilty.

The Attorney-General in opasing the muse stated that on the morning of the day in ques tion. about ten o'clock. the accused went to a shop called the Yee Fang and asked for and got some samples of ries About mid-day be returned and said he was satisfied with the samples and brought as unler for seven piouls of rice. The rice was delivered to him on this order and was taken away to his boat. Meantinic the You Fung ärm sent the bill to the Fung Yan Loong firm upon whose supposed order the rice had been delivered. The latter repudiated the order. The Yee Fung there upon did their best to get their rice back and recovered it on board the defendant's bout.

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TRESPASSING.

An Indian named Bachan Sinch was changed by a Chinese watchman for trespassing on mifi tary ground. He was fined $10 or 14 days, The man in question was employed for, a munnfli or so in the Hongkong. Police Fores, being diss charged as not of the right surt,

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Tuesday, 19th Apríl.

BEFORE MI H.H. J. GOMPERTZ (ACTING POLICE MAGISTRATE).

A SCANDALOUS AFFAIR, On the 11th inst. at about midnight an Excise officer knocked at the door of a house at Yaumsti, a bridal clair-shop. IIe interrogated the shop- keeper us to whether he gold cigarettes. The lattor asked who he was. He said he was policeman. The Excise oflier, agording to vileme, then gave the shopkeeper two slaps on the head, saying he was furdy in opening the door, and he then went away.

The defendant was fined $2. There have been several cases of Excise, officers being assaulted of late. If others are like this one, no wonder!

HOUSE BOYS.-

Mr. Webb charged two house-boys with

Ho himself was found on Canton hout.leaving, without notice. They were fined $ concealed in the crew'aquarters, and was arrested. | macia. His defence was that he did not know that the order was a forgery.

The jury, after hearing ovidesre. found the charge proven.

His Lordship passed sentence of 18 mouths' imprisonment.

CHARGE OF ARSON.

Leung Pan Wan and Sin Man Wan wage- empanelled on a charge of having on 20th March set fire to the dwaling-house No. 45 Gough Street, certain persons being then there in.

They pleaded not guilty.

Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., who represented the Attorney-General, stated in his opening the case that the accused were an accountant and a coolie respectively of a miscellaneous store OET the ground Door of No. 15. Gough Street, of which the upper floors were occupied as a Chinese boarling-house. store was new business begun on 27th January. The master of the shop put in certain anumat of stock, and then proceeded to insure it, effecting insuries amounting to

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$10,000, beside $1500 in respect of his clothing and furniture. After this the mastar disappear. ed and on 15th March the first prisoner took over the charge of the shop. On the night of | the following day the people on the first floor saw a fire on the nor law and called out to the people in the shop, who shoated back an ex- planation about upsolting & lump. On the 19th a quantity of goods were taken away from the

AN INTERIM BONUS of Twenty per shop. On the following morning at half-pest

cent. upon contributions for the year

1903 has been declared,

Warrants will be issued on the 4th May.

By Order of the Board,

C. MONTAGUE EDE, Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 15th April, Ï90s.

HONGKONG

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

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