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KEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE,
ALL Perents having Claims insinst Mr. GUSTAV ENGEL, of MESSES. WM. MEYERISK & Co., are requested to file same with the Liquidators before 15th March, 1916
ALEX. ROSS & Co., Liquidators. Hongkong, 9th February, 1016.. 1251
TO LET.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9m, 1916.
PUBLIC COMPANIES
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND
FINANCE CO., LTD.
GIVEN
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LTD.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
EXTRAORDINARY GENE
N NOTRE IS HEREN GAY GENERAL HAL MEETING of the HONORING
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the HoxOKONG Hotez, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, 12th February, 1014, at Noox, the the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending at December, 1915,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Campany February (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be effected,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers, Hongkong, 31st January, 1116. [227
NTIMATION
krop foreigners at arm's length. They could batter down our defences but they could not destroy our ideas. Our heads were bloody, but unhowed before foreign influence, and if we suffered foreign in- tercourse to grow it was more by reason of our inability to avoid it than by our desire to welcome it. After all, it was
A party of, revenue officers under the ervision of Revenue Officer Wildin searched the Americas, which arrived yesterday from Kwongelauwau, and dis- covered 250 tiels of prepared opium on board.
While an amai, employed' at "106, The
kong, on MONDAY, the 14th Februsty, ROBT. PORTER & merely the fringes of China that were Peak, was returning from the Peak School
AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Company' Office, Queen's Buildings, Victoria, Hong- 1918, at 12 o'clock Noor, when the Bub joined Extraordinary Resolution, which was passed at the Extraordinare General Meeting of the Company held on the 17th Confirmation as a Special Resolution.
OFFICES in PRINCE'S BULUNUR, Second will be CLOSED from the 7th to January, 1916, will be submitted for
formerly occupied by Messrs. Wo Meyerink at Co
Apply--
ALEX. ROSS & Co. Liquidators WM. MEYENNE & Co. Hongkong 9th February, 1916. [252
THE KOWLOON- LAND & BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED.
NTWENTY-SEVENTH
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's Offices, Victoria Buildings, on FRIDAY, 18th February, 1830, at Noax, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1915.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com pany will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the Ilthy to FRIDAY, the 18th February, 1916 (both days inclusive), daring which period no Transfer of Shares san be Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
....
MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE
Acting Secretary to the HONDRONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENOT
Co., LIMITED, General Agents for the KOWLOON LAND & BUILDING Co., LTD. Hongkong, 9th February, 1010. [253
UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED..
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE ELEVÉNTH ANNUAL GENERAL. MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Offices of Messrs. DoDWELL & Co., LCD, on MONDAY, the 14th February, 1918 at 11. A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Roport of the General Managers together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st Decem- ber, 1915.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be ULUSED from the 7th to the 14th February, both days inclusive.
DODWELL & Co. Lerb., Genel Managers. Hongkong, 31st January, 1916.
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HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE NINETY-SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, Hotel Mansions, on TUESDAY, LIMITED.
the 16th February, 1915, at 12 o'clock Noor, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts, declaring a Dividend and electing Directors and Auditors.
HARE CERTIFICATE No. 2005, dated 6th May, 1900, of Thirty Shares numbered 8115to 8130 inclusive and 18592/18590inclusive, standing in the Register in the name of Dr. JOSEPH WHITTLESEY NOBLE, having been LOST, Notice is hereby given that unless the said certificate be produced at the Office of the Company, 20, Dea Vaux Road, Central, Hongkong, on or before the 10th day of March, 1916, a New Certificate for the said Shares will be issued and the old Certificate will thereafter be held by the Company as null and roid.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Maungere.
[254 Hongkong, 9th February, 1014,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 2ud to the 15th February, 1016, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. E. CLARKE Secretary. Hongkong, 26th January, 1916. [207
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of
N
GLEN LINE (MCGREGOR, GOW & CO.), the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation
LIMITED.
THE
FOR LONDON.
Steamship
"GLENSTRAE,” Captain Jos. MoGillivay, will be deepstaked for the above port one about Middle of March, 1916,
For freight and farther informilles, apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Agente Hongkong, 9th February, 1916.
-BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
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8.8. "BENALDER," FROM MIDDLESBRO', LONDON `
AND STRAITS,
"ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed
that all Goods are being landed at their rink into the basardous and/or extra kamerions Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloos. Whast and Glodown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharvee delivery may be obtains
No Claims will be admitted after the Gooda have left the Godowns, and all Gooda remaining undelivered after the 1sth inst. will be subjec
to rent,
All Claims against the Steamer must be
will be held at the Crer HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 19th day of February, 1016, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year: ending the 81st December, 1916,
That the Regulations contained in the printed document submitted to this meet- ing and for the purpose of identification subscribed by the Chairman hereof be amended as hereafter set out and that such regulations so amended, be and the same are hereby approved and adopted ne the Articles of the Company in substitu tion for and to the exclusion of all the existing Articles thereof."
The said amendments are:**
That Article 67 be amended by the elimination of the words the Chairman in line one thereof, and by the substitution of the word "three" for the word " five '? in line two thereof.
That Article 82. be eliminated.
That the following werds be added at
CO.'8
CELEBRATED
BULL DOG
BRAND
the end of Article 84 but any such LIGHT
appointment shall be subject to confirms- tion by the Company at the next ordinary Yearly Meeting."
That paragraph (b) of Article 10 be eliminated and the following paragraph substituted therefor
IN PINTS AND
touched. It was inevitable, howevor, that on Monday with her master's son, a Chinese in the course of time this influence on stopped her and asked her where he ovuld the fringes should spread à little, and find Nos. 11 and 12. He then snatched from gradually there arose here and there some her two gold car-rings, with jadestone. individualists who thought that, if merely drops, valued at $18, pushed her down the as a safeguarding device, some imitation hillside, and ran off”. of the ways of other nations might be fol- lowed. It was seen what the mimetic
A coolie employed at the Hongkong Club principle had done for Japan-how it had indulged in a ganable with some Friends enabled an apparently moribund country and lost rather, heavily. He declined to to take on new life-and it was thought that China, also, might be able to take her place among the nations if the same path was followed. The China problem to these Chineso seened, therefore, merely on internal aflair; a matter of domestic reform which the nation might work out undisturbed by the foreign Towers. The ALE process could only be slow. To awaken anation which had lain asleep for thou. sands of years and to awaken a nation which had been asleep, only a few hundred
The wore two very different things. foreigners at our gates became impatient, It seemed to them that China was not able to reform herself; that her inaccessibility
SPLITS.
Very light, extremely palatable to foreign ideas was a matter of obstinacy,
(b) A Director who is a member of, or a Director of, or a member of the Consult ing Committee of, or otherwise interested in, a Public Company which is interested in any contract or arrangement brought up for determination at any Meeting of the Directors shall notwithstanding be entitled to vote as a Director in respect of such contract or arrangement, provided:- and refreshing.
(a) That he has disclosed his interest in such Public Company before such con- tract or arrangement is voted upon by the Directors. (b) That the Publie Company 60 in- terested is not a Company whereby n private firm became incorporated and, (c) That he is not a General Manager of the Public Company in question and. that the firm in which he is a partner or which he represents are not the General Managers or General Arente of such Public Company.
Save as above provided no Director
pay, and said he would fight them, One of the gamblers struck him, and the coolie then man into the kitchen and returned with a chopper, with which he wounded his assail- At the Magistracy yesterday he was sent to privon for three mouths,
ant,
#T
the
Revenue officers who were watching Chinese passengers embarking Honum at midnight on Sunday saw a naw come along carrying a bundle. They asked him what the bundle contained, whereupon he threw it down and made off. He was caught, and it was found on inspection that... the bundle contained morphine worth over $800. The man, who said the stuff was not and that matters might be hastened by his, and that the police had the wrong man, pressure exerted under the form of was brought before the Magistrate yeter- Brewed from the aphores of influence or in other ways | day and remanded in custody,
Hence arose the China problem' as it appears to foreign observers. It is a ques tion how the pressure is to be applied, how it is to be allotted, how each is to have his share and none encroach on the share of others. In spite of this, however Chinese believe that the China problem still remains a matter for the Chinese to theft. The Magistrate asked if the cap was settle. Even in the West it is admitted tied on, and then ordered the cap to
finest English malt and hops.
SOLE AGENTS:
shall as a Director vote in respect of any A. S.
contract or arrangement in which he is interested and if he do so vote his vote shall not be counted,
That Article 06 be amended by the substitution of the word "five" for the word "seven in line four thereof,
That the following now Article bein- serted after Article 90:--
The RECHSTEN of SHARES of the DAY, the 7th February, to SATURDAY, Corporation will be CLOSED from MON- |··· the 10th February, 1916 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered.
By Order of the Cours of Directors,
N. J. STABB,
Chief Manager. If ongkong, 31st January, 1916.
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THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
ST
There was an unique experiment at the Magistracy yesterday, A man who was charged with the larceny of a Chinese baby's headgear alleged that the cap fell off and he was merely picking it up when the mother of the child accused him of
WATSON that reforms must come from the inside be fitted on the child's head in Court." His
& CO., LTD.,
if they are to be permanent, and while worship remarked that there seemed little. we welcome foreign advice and foreign chance of it falling off, and convicted do assistance, we still feel that it must hefendant, who admitted that he was in pri- used to suit in some way the peculiar son last year for larceny. He was sen- methods of thought which
baya
tenced to three months' hard labour, inherited from our ancestors. Outside
we
The Company may by Extraordinary WINE & SPIRIT, MERCHANTS, pressure which tends to upset suddenly
Resolution remove any Director before the expiration of his term of office and appoint another person in his stead. The person so appointed shall hold office during such time only aa the Director in whose place he is op- pointed would have held the same if he had not been removed."
That the following words be added at the end of paragraph (a) of Article 88:--
"A Director who is entitled to vote (as
provided by Article 00 (b) notwith standing his interest is to be counted in a quorum, but otherwise a Director who is interested is not to be counted in a quorum,
That the words "to any regulations" be eliminated from line seven of Article. 107 and that the following words be sub- ~HAREHOLDERS desirous of making stituted therefor subject also to such inquiries in respect of the DEBEN-(if any) regulations as are and that TURE ISSUE should apply to the Company's the words. not being inconsistent, with Office in Hongkong.
such provisions or these presents" be eliminated from lines eight and nine of Article 107.
All applications for Debentures must be sent in before the 29th February, 1916. Forms may be had on application
R.M. DYER
Chief Manager. 118 Hongkong, 31st December, 1915.
NOTICE
ALLAN M&DOUGALLTMSLABK E
proanted to the Undersigned on or before the Mauthorised to dign our Firm per.
22&d inat, or they will not be recognised.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods nee
to be left in the Godowne, where they will be
ezamized on the 15th inst., at 11 am.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned byg
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & 0..... Agente.
Borgkong, 8th February, 1916
NOTICE,
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I HAVE This Day joined the Firm of
Missis. B. MONTEITH WERB & Co., and I have transferred to them the General Agencies of the:
SCOTTISH UNION AND NATIONAL
INSURANCE CO. OF LONDON, BALOISE FIRE INSURANCE Co. or
BASLE, and
CONSORZIO FABRRICANTI ITALIANI per L'ESPORTAZIONE oF MILAN, and I shall
be personally responsible for all liabilities incurred therein up to and including the 31st January, 1916.
F. DI-CANEVA Hongkong, 1st February, 1918,
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VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.
BOXING
NUBJECT to sufficient entries being received an AMATEUR · BOXING COMPETITION open to Hongkong will be held in the Gymnasium of the V.RC. on FRIDAY. February 25th.-
CONDITIONS:
(a) 3 two minute rounds and if undecided
"an"extra round of one minute..
(b) In 3 weights: 118 lba, 135 lbs, and 148
Iba
(c) Competitors weigh in at V.R.C.: on-
night of February 24th.
Entries stating weight to be addressed to DIAKIN, Esq. care of V.RO., before February 15th. No Entrance Fee.
No Competition if less than 18 entries. The Committee reserve the right to refuse entrics.
Hongkong, 22nd January, 1916, [196
Procuration.
HARRY WICKING & Co. Hongkong, 5th-February, 1916
RE AUSTRIAN
[241
LLOYD STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
ALL Persons having Claims against the
abore Company are requested to forward same to the Liquidators, as soon as possible.
HARRY WICKING & Co., Liquidators. Hongkong, 7th February, 1916. [246
WANTED.
R
A female TEACHER, with some expari-
small Children's School at Lyeman at an ence is required to take charge of the
early date. Salary $40 per month.
Any person desirous of the appointment should communicate at once with the--
INSPECTOR OF ARMY SCHOOLS, No. 1, Observatory Villas, Kowloon Hongkong, 2nd February, 1918.
1232
WANTED-IMMEDIATELY.
LOOD STENOGRAPHER- for British
Firm at Saigon.
State experience and salary required to
That paragraph (p) of Article 108 be eliminated.
That Article 112 be eliminated and the following Article substituted therefor:-
RESERVE FUND.
(e) The Director before declaring a dividend may with the sanction of the Company in General Meeting set aside
snd
DEATH.
18
CORDEIRO-At Lisbon, on the 4th inst.
SOFIA CORDEIRO, beloved wife of L. Cordeiro, Capt. of Artillery, and dearly beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Alves, of Hongkong. (By cable).
[200
Hongkong Umno: 10, Da Vaux Boi, O. London: Oznor: 181, Frame Szam, É.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG 9TH Fin‹DARY, 1918.
CHINA FROM TWO POINTS OF VIEW,
to
all our established ideas can only result
in throwing the country into a state of anarchy." Such, in bald outline, may
CORRESPONDENCE.
be taken to represent the ideas of the PETITION TO THE SECRETARY
OF STATE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE
HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS."]
SIR,British Residents who wish to sign the above Petition are requested to kindly do so promptly, as the lists will be with- drawn on Friday next-Yours faithfully,
H. E. POLLOCK. Prince's Building, Hongkong,
February 8th, 1918,
receptive Chinese who desires to me his country progress along the right path That they do not accord with the views of foreign observers is but natural. The foreign observer soes in China's slow- almost imperceptible-progress a menace to the peace of the world. He sees in China's resources a field for human en deavour which is now almost unworked. He sees the nations gathered round China, Booking anxiously at her condition, know- ing that, should the artificial system which sustaing her crumble to pieces, interven tion will be anavoidable. He sees in the China policy of the foreign. Powers a persistent endeavour to ward off interves- tion or to restrict its operations with a view to ensuring peace. For this it is that innumerable treaties and conventions.
Mrs. E. W. Pattenden, hon, treasurer have been signed, for this that groupings informs us that the concert given by Mr. and re-groupings of the Powers have been Denizan Fuller on January 31st in the suggested, spheres of influence assigned, City Hall for the purpose of helping the and leases negotiated, The danger is a
funds for providing the materians of Mrs. real one; it would not have received Phelips Bandage-making Class bas much attention if it had been merely resulted in the magnificent donation of matter of academic interest Yet it is doubtful whether China has realised in
THE RECENT CONCERT AT THE CITY HALL.
FINANCIAL RESULT.
Out of the proble-of-the Company such CHINA as it appears to a Chinese and sumg as they think proper as a reChina as it appears
a foreigner serve fund to meet contingencies, or for equalising dividends, or for special naturally wear two very different aspects, dividends, or for repairing, improving in fact which is too often lost sight of in maintaining any of the property of discussing what is called the China prob the Company or for the augmentation.
From the Chinese point of view of any existing reserve, fund or for lem. anch other purposes as they think there is no problem, or, at any rate, no
8658,70, after all expenses have been conducive to the Company's interests
deducted, for which Mrs. Phelips is moet and may with such sanction as afore problem that need trouble outside sations, said pay out of the profits of the Com "China," a Chinese might argue, "is
grateful. pany such bonuses as they think fit to those members who for the twelve engaged in throwing off the bonds of proceeds on her course with the slowness,
The sum of $101 received from the sale months covered by each profit and inss custom which have for ages restrained her the laboriousness, and the conservativeness of programmes at the concert goes to the account shall have contributed busiuose progress and kept her in a condition of an ancient people awakened rudely funds for Blind Soldiers. to the Company (but so that no bonus to contributing members for any little different from that of thousands of from its slumber and none too eager to twelve months shall exceed fifteen per years ago. Just as in the case of Japan respond to the call. cent. of the net profits made during a political system was devised which by those months).
the past, or even now realises, what a She dangerous position she occupies,
Mrs. Phelips also thanks the following for their kind help received during Jan- uary :—Mrs. M. J. D. Stephens, $100; · Mr. Evan Ormiston, $50; From "Indian Ladies per Lady May, $50; Mr. V. H. A mail for Europe vid Siberia closes Smith, #20: Miss Annie Miller, 820; Mra
(b) The Directors may invest any sums its stifling of all individuality and its set aside as a reserve fund upon suck clever aories of safeguards kept the coun investments (other than shares of the Company) as they may think it and try stationary for three bundred years, may from time to time deal with, and so our Chinese ancestors organised educato-day at 5 p.m. vany such investments.
The P. & O. outward mail str. Halwa, with the London mail of the 27th January lest, left Suez on the 8th instant.
Dunbar, $10; Mra. Pollock, #10; Mr. Pullen 810 Mrs. W. M. Humphreys, 810; Mrs. Danby, 85; Miss Chettle, 45; Mrs, Chatham, 85.
tional and political system, which, while (c) The Directors may employ the re
fund for the time being or any admirably suited for the times when they ion thereof in or for any
"of
were enacted, virtually stifled all indisi the purposes for which it or for which such other was created and in or for duality and thus produced a temper of other purposes as the Directors | mind quite immune to any influence from shall in their direction think on outside changes. It is possible that the
FOR THOSE HOMEWARD BOUND Three members of the Hongkong Police ducive to the interests of the Company and shall have power to employ the same result would have occurred in Japan Force have enlisted in the Scots Guards. asserts constituting the reserve fund
It will interest many people about to em- save for foreign intervention. In China They are Lance Sergeant Alec. Clark, his on any part thereof in the business of
bark for home and who contemplate mak- the Company and that without being the processes of systematisation had con- younger brother, A. L. 8. Clark, and Being the journey overland from Marseilles bound to keep the same separate from tinued over such a tong swing of years. venus Oficer Kuight.
to a channel port, to learn that they will: the other assets of the Company the that when outside influences first appear
have to pass through Dieppe or ports more (d) The Directors may also with
to the west instead of detraining at Calais The Choysway, on her voyago sanotion of the Company in Generaled, they rebounded off the solid wall of
or Boulogne which are now being used by Meeting employ the reserve fund for the tide being or any part there in custom without making the slightest im- Bhanghai, vid Swatow, to Hongkong, saw the troops and for military purposes only. the payment of bonuses to members pression. The Chinese had been modelled on the afternoon of the 30th ult., outside There are very few exceptiona made to this whether the part of the reserve fund to a pattern until the idea that any other Gutzlaff, the Shinyi Maru towing the Oto change and these are only granted to spe
cially authorised persons. The same regula. se employed shall be set apart for pattern was possible seemed an absurdity. More towards Shanghai. The Oto Marutions hold good on the outward voyage from that special purpose or not, OMPETENT EUROPEAN 1st Class and that any necessary amendments to Foreign pretensions were more like pre- was in a sinking condition and was down England,
STEWARD for Pacific Buns good the numbering of the proposed Articles be sumptions. It was impossible that the considerably by the head. Her engines, references required as to character and carried out experience in catering.
Dated the 2nd February 1916.
wisdom of cur ancestors could ever be however, were still going, and she was. Apply personally to
By order of the Board,
replaced or even equalled by what seemed being towed stern ahead. A tug and the BM DYER,
Chief Manager.
to us the courser and rougher methods of salvage boat, the Sukiyaki Maru, were abroad. For a time we endeavoured to assisting
Box No. 6, Care of "Daily Pross" Ofiles. Hongkong, 6th February, 1916
WANTED-IMMEDIATELY.
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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN, York Building. Hongkong, 7th February, 1916, [242
from
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