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COMPANY MEETING.

WILLIAM POWELL & CO., LTD.

An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders in Mors, William Powell & Co. Ltd., we hold on Saturday at the offices of the Company, Des Voeux Road. Mr. H. J. Godge presided and those also prescat were!-- Mesars, † A Tarrant, H, 0. Holt, and E. Mauricio, with Mr. F T. Chapple, managing director.

The Managing Director read the notice convening the meeting, after which

The CHAIRMAN said: This meeting has been called for the purpose of asking your sanction to an increase of capital. We find this necessary on account of the continued increase in our business, and the consequent heavy stock of goods we muat carry to meet same. The prosent

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 6TH, 1914.

WM, POWELL,

LTD.

TRIEPHONE 346,

CHINA AND GLASS DEPT.

"SILICON" CHINA

DARK BLUE AND GOLD BORDER, COMPLETE RANGE OF EVERYTHING FOR THE

position of the Company is very satisfac DINNER, TEA AND BREAKFAST

tory, our turnover for the nine months to March 31st last being considerably in excess of the corresponding period of last year. With these fow remarks I beg to propose the following resolution:-

That the Capital of William Powell, Limited, be increased from $105,000 to $147,000 by the creation of 6,000 additional ordinary shares of 87 each ranking for dividend as from the 1st day of January. 1914, and in all other respects part passu shares in the with the existing ordinary shares

"That tho said 6,000 additional shares be offered in the Stat instance at por to the members of the Company, in the proportion of two new share for overy Ave old shares. held by them respectively and upon the footing that the full amount of each new share taken up shall be paid to the Company. on the acceptance of the offer and such offer shall be made by notice specifying the number of shares to which the member is entitled and miting u time within which the offer if not accepted by payment will be deemed to ho declined and that the directors be empowered to dispose of tho shares not taken in response to such offer as they consider expedient in the interests of the Company.

Mr. MAURICO seconded, and the resolu tion was unanimously carried, e

The CHAIRMAN-The above resolution having been passed by the requisite. majority, it will be submitted to a co- firmatory meeting to be held on Saturday, April 25th, 1914, at noon.Y

SOMETHING ABOUT RADIUM EMANATION.

It was on the 2nd October, 1913, that Sir Frederick Troves, of the London Radium Institute, made public the results of his experiments with Radium Emana- tion in the treatment of diseases which had been previously considered incurable. To name only a fow of these we would mention chronic rheumatism arthritis

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SUPREME COURT. Saturday, April 4th.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION,

CHIEF JUSTICE or H.B.M.'s Cover OF CHINA (PRESIDENT); THE CHIEs JUSTION, SIE WILLIAM REES DAVIES, K.C., AND ME. H, H. J. COMPETZ (PUINNE JUDOB).

causing malformation, sciatica god. BEFORE SIR HAVILLAND DE BATSMATE diabetes and arteriosclerosis, or the oning of the arteries in advanced age. Lang before last year, however, it had already been found that Radium Emana tion was capable of stimulating fermenta- tion of activating the digestion, of increasing

the working power of the kidneys in fact of doing exactly those things which go to curo some of the illnesses medical science was unable to comoat before the discovery of Radium and its Emanation.

curative The first to make use of the properties of Radium Emanation, as far back as 1903, was Dr. Saubermann of Berlin, and when he and other Doctors found that the Radium Emanation

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that he did not reach the conclusion without doubt. He thought, the appeal should be allowed with costs both hero and in the Court below

lands

The Chief Justice said it was true that the conclusions at which he had arrived ters not he then stated, reached without doubt, and he thus endeavoured to approach the argument on appeal from that standpoint. The result he was enforced to say had been to confirm in material particulars his judgment in the Court below.

The Puisne Judge said that in his opinion the appeal should be allowed, though he was fully sensible of the weight which had to be given to the opinion of the trial Judg, who saw the witnesses and heard, the evidencat

The appeal was therefore allowed, with costs in both Courts, and on the applica with a view to appeal to the Privy Coun- tion of Mr. Potter a stay of fourteen days cil was granted

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PARTNERSHIP APPEAL JUDGMENT. Judgment was delivered in a Chinese was heard partnership appeal which before the three Judges.

The parties were Ho Chix Lam, alias Ho Yin Tong, plaintiff in the original

Mr. E, H. Sharp, K.C., and Mr. C. G. Therapy improved the state of people who action, and respondent, and Ho San Lam,

Alabaster, instructed by Mr Reader were believed to be past all hope, it was ins Ho Ngok Lau, defendant and only natural for other scientists to make appellant. The appellant moved for an

represented the appellant; and Mr. Eldon further experiments, and so, little by little, people at Home were laid to order that the judgment of his Lordship Harris, of Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist, recognise the great future in store for the Chief Justice on the trial of the Potter and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed for the this new way of treating mankind. To action, dated October 18th, 1913, in favour by Mr. Otto Kong Sing and Mr. Leo day we know that ten years ago we were of the plaintiff be set aside and ja Igment D'Almada Castro, wers only allowed to guess. We know that in Badium Emanation we have one of the entered for the defendant with costs; orrespondenta most powerful, and in its effects one of alternatively that a new trial be ordered the most varied curativa agents ever dis with a jury, the custs of the former trial

M185 CORELLI AND PRESENT-DAY WRITERS.. overed. We are informed the Fadium

In an extraordinary Emanation Therapy has been practised to abide the event, and plaintiff to pay

Miss Marie Corelli, in an

present-day in the North of China daring the past the costs of this appeal; or any other or year and very quickly found favour with further order that the Court may think outburst, comments

pub both foreignera and Chinesa.go

evening paper which had This treatment has to be prescribed by fit. The grounds of the appeal wers that writers in a letter to a Birmingham a Doctor, and, of course, the undisputed the plaintiff did not retire from the lished a paragraph asking "Where is success at Home has raado many people. anxious to try it here, too, so that within partnership, the subject matter of the Miss Marie Corelli ? After stating quite a short time two hundred people action, in 1802; that there was no settled that she is very much alive and in posses- I have certainly withdrawn for a time gkong account in 1904; that therefore his Lord.sion of all her faculties she writes: were treated at Shanghai. residents will now also be able to undergo ship the Chief Justica decided wrongly into a retired literary corner, "over the treatment at the hands of their Doctors, as Radium preparations such that the plaintiff's claim was not barred powered by the crowd of stupendous advertisements) who occupy it, consider. nued in England have now been by the statute of limitations; that the geniuses (according to publishers wrongly anding it but just and decent to stand aside imported into the Colony. This treat ment will be of special importance for Chief Justice decided

marvels of the age who (if publishers two specific cases, namely for poople against the weight of evidence; and not out of the glittering galaxy of these many suffering from Pyorrbes or loose withstanding that no such case wil advertisements and nowspapers booms

which WO ato ness of the teeth,

ploaded by the plaintiff (a) that there mean anything) have arrived unto their in complaint told is a common

less than Shakespeare and the classics re cases can often be cured by means of retirement; (b) that such condition was embodied, even eclipsing those overrated, Hongkong, but which even in very chronic was a condition precedent to the plaintiff's own-g food beings who can be nothing well-nigh mythical personager, to say Radium Emanation; and secondly for cases of nervous dyspopain or similar not performed

The Presiding Judge, in a judgment nothing of such out of date authors 45 Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, and Bronte. digestive complaints which are more than frequent in Hongkong. In Shanghai extending to twenty foolscap folios, acid I am not waiting till the clouds roll by, stage after the appeal was from a judgment of the bot only till the dazzling prosession of

publishers' planets sweep onward in their OUR ROOMED HOUSES in Gragvills Avenue and Salisbury Avenue, Kowkos. brilliant course, leaving trails of Bernard dysentery and typhoid and the result of Chief Justice sitting without a jury in a this treatment, we are told, was very

case in which almost entirely facts wore Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Chesterton, De Cheap rentals

3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings, Batisfactory indeed. MIDY

The treatment itself is as simple as it in issue. The plaintiff cin med a dissolu-Morgen far behind them. Then, perhaps SHOP with GODOWN attached, Nathan Kowloon Inland Lot a MATE," on par book in a limited edition, of which

Hongkong, 10th March, 1914. is effective. The Radium preparation, tion of partnership and an account; the I may venture humbly forth with a little Road. Kowloon, Kowloon Marine Lot No. 48 Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS. rosting in a porous clay cells is placed

I put it at this water; there it gives off the Emanation, defendant pleaded that the partnership .rmingham may, perhaps, generously modest figure because from my very first which is at once liquified and this im was dissolved in 1909, that accounts were purchase ens sopy.

the pregnated water is taken during

As the Emanation can do no agreed in 1904; and the Statute of beginnings I have never united the liter meals. damage, this Therapy is absolutely harm-Limitations. These defences were in ssue ary tastes of Birmingham, though this distressing to tesira. What leis, and quite agreeable, especially as the and those issues were plainly of fact, aye distressing state of things has not yet

may bo tasteless radio-active water taken with either brandy or whisky. But or no did the plaintiff retiro in 1902, Ms Corelli goes on to say: if taken in that way it must not be and did he accept the partnership readers want they will have, and if they stirred as in that case the Emanation accounts which were squattedly rendered do not want me I do not want them, and would simply, evaporate. For the came to him in 1904. The learned Judger had dore Loed be no strained relations reason the Emanation cannot be taken

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to the supply of this remedy to China, the first point was not the same as the and their agant, Mr. Ernest Hertzell, who Chef Justice, though he hesitated long

is now in Hongkong, has arranged for the before venturing to disagres with him. sale of the Emanation here by Messrs. A, The Chief Justice had himself conferred 8. Watson & Co. and the Medical Hall,

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