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the restore, Marchang at

MAPIER JOHNSTONE'S

** SQUARE BOTTLE”

WHISKY.. UNVARIED FOR ØVER 150 YEARS,

THE SAME TO DAY AS IN

1745.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG LANE CRAWFORD & CO.

and from ALL WIFE MESCHAFTE,

TO LET

TO LET.

SHOP, No. 12, Queen's Road Central.

No. 9, MOUNTAIN VIEW, PRAK,

[69

2, FAIRVIEW, Nathan Road, Kowloon,

Apply to

M. J. D. STEPHENS, Hongkong, 11th December, 1913.

Apply to

TO LET.

(57

DENNYS & BOWLEY, 1431

Hongkong, 19th March, 1914.

TO BE LET. From 1st April, 1914. LDESLOE," AUSTIN AVENUE, KOT-

loon Apply to

PATELL & Co.,

79, Wyndham Street. 1403 Hongkong, 11th March, 1914.

TO LET FURNISHED,

COMPANY MEETINGS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 20th, 1914.

CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

The forty-fifth meeting of shareholders u the above Company was held at the Company's offices, No. 3, Queen's Hood Central, yesterday, the Chairman (Hon Mr. E. Shellim) presiding. There were also present:-Mosarat. J. W, O. Bonnar, H. A Sicbs, E. Goetz, and W. L. Pattendon (Directors), J. A Flammer, F. Smyth, G. C. Moxon, W. S. Jackson, F. B. L. Bowley, J. M. Machado, I. G. Weall, K. D. Guzdar, A. H. M. da Silva, J. M. Alves, B. M. Conceicao, Leung Yan Po, and Chan Pat, with Mr. C. Pember ton (Secretary),

The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting,

The CHAIRMAN said The directors' repert and statement of accounts together with the auditors report for the past year having been in your hands for acme time, I will, with your permission, adopt the usual custom and take them as read: Before proceeding with the business of the mooting I have to express on behalf of myself and the Board our deep regret at the death, since the issue of the report and balance sheet, of the Chairman of the Company, Mr. G. Friesland. had been on the Board for six years, and had always taken the keenest interest in. the welfare of the Company, It is pleasant to be able to report that the year 1912. in spite of unusually heavy losses, turned out favourably, leaving us with a

WM POWELL. S. Montrie & Co., Ltd.

LTD.

CABIN TRUNKS

3 PLY VENEER

COVERED

BROWN, WILLESDEN, CANVAS,

VERY

LIGHT

WEIGHT

UNBREAKABLE.

Ho

33 inch $24.50

BEST LEVER LOOKS.

36 inch $28.50

PIANOS

ON

HIRE

At $10 Per MONTH.

TUNING AND REGULAR ATTENTION INCLUSIVE.

51-3

40 inch $32.50

WESTMINSTER

TURKISH SPECIALS

balance of $311,103.07. Subject to your INDO-CHINA BRICKS, TILES. PIPES approval we propose dealing with this

sum as follows

Dividend of 87 and bonus of $3

per share on 20,000 shares.$200,000.00 Add to extre reserve fund ..

136,010:17

Bonus to office staff to be placed

to thoir crédit in Staff Provident Fund

6,389.90

6941,403.07

COMPANY, LIMITED.

BEST FIRE BRICKS AND FIRE CLAY PATENTED ROOFING TILES. Guaranteed against Typhonu and Leakage.

MORE THAN TEN MILLIONS IN USE IN THE FAR FAST. SAMPLES AND FULL PARTICULARS FROM

P. SOFFIETTI & Co., 14, DES VIEUX ROAD. TEL. 289. ALWAYS IN STOCK.

HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED

[1049-2

$1.25 per tin of 50.

TRADE

MARA

AIDE-DE-CAMP

VIRGINIA-

70 Centa per tin of 50 Cigarettes.

Tobacco Co.Ltd.

Westminster London

Manufacturers of Cigarettes & Smoking Tobaccos, of the Highest Quality only

Obtainable of all High Class Tobacconists

NFIVE ROOMS.

TO 7, MOUNTAIN VIEW, Unfurniskod, The balance at credit of working account 1913 is $428,277.34, which, while umaller than last year, I think can be considered as satisfactory. The Company's surveyora have reported on our mortgage loans and find aame satisfactory. These loans show a decrease of $303,938.14 owing to the repayment of mortgages and the difficulty" in replacing them. During the early part of last year your directors took

The 45th annual ordinary meeting of advantage of the high rate of exchange the shareholders in the above Company ruling to remit further sums to London, and you will notice that our sterling was held at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, The investments have been increased by Matheson & Co., Ltd., yesterday. £32,981 09 7d. Fires in our particular field East, were unusually numerous, and several con Bagrations in Manila and cotton fires in Shanghai served to materially swell, our losses, which were the largest na record The year in the latter place has, I amhareholders: Messrs. G. K. Haxton, A. restricted our loss to a moderate figure, sorry to say, opened none too favourably. Denison, C. Ognund, Chan Chan Nap, JM. Aires, J. M. E. Machado, and A. BOOMS for Ofces, 6, Des Voeux Road, the proposed alteration in our articles M. da Silva, with Mr. L. N. Leefe,

Central.

of association, copies of which are by now Apply to

in your hands. In these new articles Secretary you will notice we are taking powers to transact any form of insurance except life. This, I would point out, is purely defensive, for it is not our present tion to use these powers, and we should probably only do so should competition drive us to this course. I will cow move that the directors, port

$324,131.74 is absorbed. I should add that the consulting committee have decided, in view of the favourable result of the year, to vote a bonas to staff of 10 per cent. will approve. Working account for the upon their salaries, of which I trust you. year 1913 has, I am glad to say, gone quite satisfactorily for the first 12 months, and premises & favourable final out turn. Hon. Mr. D. Landale (Chairman) Fires, as you are aware, have been very presided, and those also present were frequent in the area from which a large Hon. Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., and portion of the Company's income is Moss, H. P. White, Maitland, and derived, and many of them have been C. 8. Gubbay, seembors of the Consulting serious tenoiding some altogether BALLS Committees along with the following whilst in other cases our limits have

ODREENAGH, No. 21, M Chamberlaiss Road 28.

Apply to

GILMAN & Co.,

8a, Dos Vosur Road, Hongkong, 20th February, 1914.

3

Hongkong.

TO LET.

T. YUASA

[883

6, Des For Road, Central, [428 18th March, 1914

TO LET

From 1st May, 1914.

NO. 104, THE PEAK, FURNISHED,

Apply to

8. J. DAVID & Co.,

Prince's Baildings. Hongkong, 7th February, 1914.

TO LET

1204

Before closing I should like to refer to

inten-

The Secretary read the notice convening the meeting and auditors' report, after

which

The CHAIRMAN said-The report and accounts having been in your hands for some time, I will, with your permission, take them as read. The working account for the year 1912 has, I was glad to our resulted in a very satisfactory profit be adopted. After this has been seconded The premium inrome has not been main

of accounts for the year 1013 as presented

I shall be pleased to answer any questions tained at quite so a high figure as that

TOUSE, in OBSERVATORY VILLAS, that may be put relating to the business Howloon,

before the meeting: Apply to

ARBATOON V. APCAR & Co.,

14, Des Voeux Road.

[484 Hongkong, 17th March, 1014,

TO LET.

TO. 68, PEAK MOUNT KELLETT

No Church Mission Society Bungalow), till 30th May, 1914 Partly Farnished, Chesp rent,

To Let till 31st October, 1914, No. 64, THE PEAK, SEVEN ROOMS and Drying Room, Furnished, including Electric Fans and Telephone

The

extent.

GOLF

of association have been found unsatis FREE.

In many respects the Company's articles factory, and the Company's solicitors have been at work upon a draft of new articles designed to remove the points This to which objection can be made, draft will be ready almost immediately, and opportunity will be taken to seek for the Company fuller powers which will enable it to transact such other classes of insurance as it is found, ander present day conditions, are frequently applied for in connection with the arranging of fire insurance business, and an extraordinary meeting of the Company will be called

of shareholders. I now have pleasure in proposing that the report and accounts as presented' be adopted and passed, and after this resolution has been, seconded it wiff he before the meeting for discussion, and I shall be glad to answer any ques tions arising out of it which shareholders may wish to put

There being no questions,

M DENISON Seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously,

Mr G. KHAXTON proposed the re- election of the consulting committee, Mr. T ME MACHADO Seconded, and this was unanimously agreed

Mr. A. M. DA SILVA proposed the appointment of Messrs. H. P. Smith and A. R. Lowe as auditors to hold office. antil the next ordinary meeting at a remuneration of $400

of the three preceding years but exchange influences are to a great extent Mr. PLUMMER, in seconding the motion, responsible for this, and it is gratifying said-I am sure I am only voicing the to note that a substantial increase appears sentiments of all shareholders when I in respect of the year 1913. Losses for express to you our sincero regret at the the closed year work out at the excep- Josa our Company has stistained by the tionally low ratio of 29.84 per cent. of death of our late Chairman, Mr. Fries the premiums and expenses at 98.18 per land, and also our appreciation of the cont—a very satisfactory figure. valuable services which he rendered to the income from interest shows a diminution, Company Gentlemen, I am sure we to be attributed, as explained by my pre have listened with great interest to the decesor a year ago, to the difficulty in Chairman's remarks, and I think we baver East. We have, during the past motion was agreed to

obtaining satisfactory investments in the every reason to congratulate ourselves and twelve months, as a consequence, made also the directors upon the fact that in further pureliases of gold securities: Chairman announced that the Friday spite of unprecedented losses on the 1912 which, of course, return a smaller per

centage than what we have hitherto been 1013 account, the balance of our working cool would seem, from the account shows only a comparatively small present outlook, as if it were likely that falling off from what has been recognised we should have to invest still more of our as on exceptionally good year A funds in gold. It is fortunate that the necessity for doing so has arisen at a time further, after setting aside the considerable when our various funds are increasing, FOH SALE. "HARTING and ROGATE," on part of sum of $135,000 cdd to the extra reserve and the decline in income which would Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1154.

19, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Shop, No:8, MOUNTAIN VIEW, from 1st April No. 19, SHELLEY STREET.

No. 6, CAMERON VILLAS, No. 59, PEAK To Let, Furnished, for one year, from 1st May 1914,

"ROGATE,” Austin Road, Kowloon;

Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

Buildings

8rl Floor, Alexandra Buildings, Hongkong, 10th March, 1914.

TO LET

YOUR-ROOMED HOUSEB in Granville Avenue and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon Cheap rentals,

SHOP with GODOWN attached, Nathan Boad, Kowloon. Kowloon Marine Lot No. 48, with Wharf

WINDSOR LODGE, Kimberley Road olcon, 6 ROOMS and Tennis Court No. 3 MINDEN VILLAS, from 1st April. Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Co., LTD., Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 4th March, 1516,

[287

TO LET

O

FFICES in King's Building.

MENT & AGENCY Co., La

156

Apply

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. Hongkong, ad March, 1914.

Mr. A. DAMUND seconded, and the This was all the business and the warrants would be ready this (Friday) morning, and could be obtained upon

applitation

OIL IN GERMAN NEW GUINEA

During the discussion of the Colonial

our directors are still able to recommend otherwise be very marked is stayed by the same dividend and bonus as was paid the growth of the funds which are avail estimates in the Budget Committee of the last year. The Chairman did not com able for investment. This leads e Reichstag on the 20th ult. a mining ment upon the fact, but I am pleased to naturally to consideration of the

secura

notice that our premia income is indica investment and exchange fluctuation expert of the Government gave a report tive of steady progress, and in spite of account, instituted a year aro, and which upon the new oil finds near Eitape in the the fact that the current year, to quote now stands at the modest figure of north-west of German New Guinea. He the Chairman's words, has opened none 89,948.04. Sinou, Mo have adopted the and that four large companies were too favourably in Shanghai, I think wo policy of writing our securities up or applying for exclusive rights of exploits- can look forward with every confidence down, as the ose may he, to their value tion. They were also trying to

on 31st December, it is clearly wise to monopoly rights over the land and tele to the future.

There were no questions, and the motion make, out of our good years, prevision, graphs, and exemption from laxes for 10 was carried.

not only for the decline in the market or 15 years. The Government desired to On the proposition of Mr. Jackson, value of the securities which was so divide the concession, and should take seconded by Mr DA SILVA, the appoint-preminent a feature last year of what action independently. The Secretary of ment of Mr. Goetz as director was are still euphemistically described as State for the Colonies. Dr. Self, consented confirmed.

gilt-edged investments but also for the to close the whole district immediately The re-election of Messrs. J. W, C. fuctuations in their values as expressed and the committee voted a sum of £25,000 work Bonnar and W. Pattenden as directora in silver attributable to the vagaries of to meet the cost of Pestigation into was proposed by Mr. BOWLEY, zeconded exchange. It is for these reasons that the which is to consist of an by Mr. MACHADO, and carried.

recommend. the the character of the geological strata. consulting, committee Messrs A. R. Lowe and C. Bernard addition of $58,131.74 to the account The oil is said to be similar to that found Brown were re-elected auditors at designed to meet these contingencies, in Dutch India, but, according to the remuneration of $500 each, on the motion which will then stand at just over $65,000. Government representative, the prelimi of Mr. SMYTH, seconded by Mr. WRALL To the reserve fund it is proposed to mary borings are not for the purpose of The CHAIRMAN That is all the business make an addition of $50,000, bringing extracting oil. The sum voted was gentlemen. I thank you for your attend that fund up to the amount of the £20,000 more than was at first proposed Dividend warrants will be ready uncalled capital of the Company, and It was stated that the German naval ance and may be had to-morrow on application with a dividend of $2 per share, as in authorities are deeply interested in the

former years, the year's profit of matter. at this office.

GOLF

BALLS

FREE.

In order to introduce our Brands of Cigarettes quickly to the Notice of Smokers who appreciate something out of the Ordinary wo have decided to prezent GOLF BALLS to Smokers of our Brands.

HOW TO OBTAIN A BALL.

In return for 5 of the tin ash trays that are packed in sach 50's round tin of Cigarettes or for 5 of the gold paper scale that join the cardboard together in ach 50's flat tin, we will give-

FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY, ONE GOLF BALL that is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be of the very highest grade ball produced, or if you prefer it we will give you a ment leather wallet-in exchange for the same nomber of ash trays or seals--that contains a golf scorer and we will also give you

rofile.

Return ash trays and labels to

WESTMINSTER TOBACCO COMPANY, LIMITED, 18, BANK BUILDINGS, HONGKONG,

Hongkong, 11th March, 1914.

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