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SE ADVERTISEMENTS

OFFICES

TO LET

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FFICES in Princos' Building.

Apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Liquidators,

HEUTER, BROSIELMANN & Co.

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HONGKONG JOOKEY OLUB.

NOTICE.

THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of

THE Members will be held on SATURDAY,

the 29th April, 1918, at 19 o'clock Noon, at tho Ofice of the JocKET CLUB. on the Ground Floor of the HONGLONG CLUB ANNEXE Chater Road,

By Order,

T. F. HOUGH,

Clark of the Course. Hongkong, 15th April, 1916. [569 ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB,

IN

Order to avoid possible mishap, the

CLOSED

for play during TO-DAY'S Gymkhana.

This will also be the case on all future days when Gymkhanas ara held.

By Order of

THE COMMITTEE Hongkong, 15th April, 1916.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

(673

INTIMATIONS

HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 15′′¤, 1916.

PUBLIC COMPANIES

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON LTD.

THE FIRST GYMKHANA MEETING Tof the Season will be held at HAPPY

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. VALLET 10-DAY (SATURDAY), the 15th April, 1916, commencing at 3.15 P.M

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that The Charge of Adminion will be 51 for the FORTY-THIRD ORDINARY others than Members of the HONGKONG JOCKEY ÜLÜB OF GYMKHANA ÜLUB,

Soldiers and Sallors in uniform Half-Prise. The Committee invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be prosent.

Hongkong, 12th April, 1816,

THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF

CLUB.Cesta

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the above Club will be held in the Club House, Happy Valley, on MONDAY, the 17th April, 1916, at 5.30 1.3. for the following purposes

To receive the Report and Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1915.

To 'elect the Officers and Committee for 1918.

To transact any other business.

By order

T. W. HILL, Acting Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 7th April, 1918

[525

HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LTD. CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD NURDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the of the HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LTD., will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., Podder Street, Bong- kong on WEDNESDAY, the 19th day of April, 1918, at 12 o'clock Noor, to transact the ordinary business of the Company,

By Order of the Board,

W. E. ROBERTS, Secretary. Hongkong, 1st March, 1918.

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THE THIRTY - FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the. Undersigned on WEDNESDAY, the 3rd May, 1918, at Noon.

Tho TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 19th April to the 3rd May, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lao,

General Agents,

Hongkong, 14th April, 1916

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THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE,

கூசு

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that NO

EXTRAORDINARY GEN- ERAL MEETING of the CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED, will be held at the Offices of Messrs, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., No. 16, Pedder Street, Victorin, in the Colony of Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the third day of May, 1910, at 12.15 o'clock in the afternoon, when the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolu tions, viz. :-

(1.) That the provisions of the Com pany's Memorandum of Associa tion with respect to its objects be **altered so as to read as in the Print signed by the Chairman of this Meeting for the purposes of identification.

(2) That the Articles of Association *of the Company be altered in "manner following:- "That the following Article shall "be substituted for Article 94, "namely:-

Hemnes Tox of

Committe

94,--The Members of the Committed shall be paid out of "the funds of the Company such 44 'remasteration as way be or

Let's

have been determined at any "time by any General Meeting of the Company until such ro "muneration is altered by any subsequent General Meeting of the Company. Such su sball

divisible amongst the manbers of the Commitee in such proportion, as the Committee or a majority "thereof shall determine." Should the above Resolutions be passed by the required majority they will be sub mitted for confirmat ou as Special Resolu

1% RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT

TERMED LOAN OF 1916

for Rbla. 2,000,000,000. QUBSCRIPTION to the above LOAN will be Opened from 28th March till 5th May inclusively.

The Price of issue is 15%.

The Loan is entirely free of Income Tax and of other taxations.

The Loan is redeemable at par on let February 1928, Russian style, without option

for the Russian Government to convert it at

an earlier date.

Coupons are payable balf-yearly on the 1st February and 1st August, Russian style. As interest on the above loan runs from 1st/14th subscription must be taken into considera February the interest accrued on date of tion and is to be added to the price of issue. The RUSSO ASTATIC BANK in Hongkong is ready to accept applications for the above named Loan.

Special favourable rates will be quoted for Russian exchange.

Payment may also made in Roubles, Applications will be wired to Petrograd free of telegraphic charges and commission.

40% only of the cost of the Bonds may be paid on application, the balance to be paid on receipt of the Bonds.

The Bank is also ready to give overy facility to subscribers in the shape of advances against the scrips.

G. TISDALL, Manager, Russo-ASIATIC BANK. (490

Hongkong, 30th March, 1916.

THE 6% INTERNAL LOAN OF THE 4TH YEAR OF THE CHINESE REPUBLIC

(1915).

HÈ PUBLIC ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Second Payment of the 6% Internal Loan of the 4th Year of the Chinese Republic (1016) will fall due on the 12th of April of this year. Toe detailed regulations governing the payment of interest of the said Loan have been published in the Government Gazette. Pamphlets containing these regule tions may be obtained on application to the interest. The following is the summary of the regulations:

YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at its Head Office, No. 4 Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 18th April, 1916, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1916, and of declaring Dividends,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 8th April to 18th April, 1916, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board.

C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager." Hongkong, 7th April, 1916.

(632 CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

NOGTIETH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, No. 4, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 18th April, 1916, at 12.15 P., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1915, and of declaring Dividends, &c.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company April, both days inclusive. will be CLOSED from 8th April to 18th

By Order of the Board,

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager. Hongkong, 7th April, 1918.

[633 CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY. LTD.

NOT

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Head Office of the Company, No. 4 Connaught Road, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 18th day of April, 1916, at 12.30 PM, for the purpose of

and, if thought fit,

85 671

Following ordinary Resolution the

that is to say "That the name of the Company be changed to BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.""

Should the above Resolution be passed by

INTIMATION

WATSON'S

OLD

It is announced that, ite order to avoid the risk of mishap, the golf course at Happy Valley will be closed this afternoon aud on all future days when Gymkhanaa. are being held,

struggle, on a plane with the other self- The P&O Homeward Intermediate governing colonies. At the time many steamer longera, which wit Hongkong doubts were expressed as to the wisdom of ; on 18th February just, arrived in London

on the 13th instant this step. Yet it has proved so successful that only recently one of the leaders of the amy opposed to the British fifteen years ago led a force drawn largely from his own compatriots to add another vast ox- pause of territory to the British Empire; and today another of the leaders is in

We are informed that Mr. G. T. Edking command of troops who have nearly succeed-

(Messrs." Butterfield & Swire) has been ed in wresting from Germany the last of ber Colonial possessions. Germany counter Commerce for the ensuing year, and elected Chairman of the Hongkong Cham- ed largely on a revolt in South Africa, Mr. S. H. Dodwell: (Dodwell & Co., Ltd.), imagining that the memory of the past still rankled in the hearts of the Boers. If the Bouth Africas war bod been waged. Gorman principles it would assuredly have left an indelible impression of hatred. Fortunately, it was conducted in a vory different fashion with the result that the BRANDY Wounds quickly healed, and al that Ger-$1 pmvided they advise Lieut. Thornhill,

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BROWN

THE

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MY HEART.

the requisite majority, it will be submitted for A. S. WATSON

confirmation as a Special Resolution to a Second Extraordinary General Meeting which will he subsequently convened.

Dated this Seventh By Order of the Board of April, 1913.

C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager, Hongkong, 7th April, 1918,

534.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE FORTY-SEVENTH MEETING, DE

SHAREHOLDERS IN NG COM

will be held at the Company's Office, No. 2, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, ou THURSDAY, 27th April, 1910, at 12 o'clock Noos, for the purpose of receiving State- maent of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ending 31st December,

1915.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 27th April, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directora,

C. PEMBERTON,

Secretary, Hongkong, 11th April, 1916. [545 HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED

LOST.

TRANSFER RECEIPT Nod. 1217 issued

CO., LTD.,

Vice-Chairmau

Ko

Those who to witness the Easter Monday shoot (other than Competitors and Range Officials, for whom arrangements have already been made) will be able to obtain tifin on the Range at the price of

many was able to accomplish was a revolt The Soldier's Club (Tel. 1798), in advance, of a few of the wilder spirits that was The Bishop of Victoria will hold a quickly quelled by those with whom they confirmation at 11 am, to-morrow (Sun.. stand shoulder to shoulder in the battlesday) at Holy Trinity Church, O'd Kow. of the past India was another country in which Germany counted upon a rising, The prospects of stirring up strife were, perkops, more favourable in India than in South Africa, because, owing to the special circumstances obtaining, India has not yet been granted any large measure of self

British rule in India has

government...

on City in the evening at St. Andrew's, Kowloon, and on Wednesday next at 7 yan at Stephen's Chinese Church. He is announced to give a series of addresses in the Cathedral on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next week, being Holy Werk, at 5.30 p. His subject will be" Friends of the Christ in His Passion""

MOTORISTS' OFFENCES. EUROPEANS SUMMONED BY

SPECIAL POLICE... Members of the Special Police Reserve

often been criticised, but that its bene Scent rature is appriciated by those best able to judge is shown by the fact that the native Indian princes were among the first to come forward and destify their loyalty to the Raj by generous offers of men and money. Those nations which re-bought several summonses against motor- garded India as, a hotbed of sedition, rubbed

ists at the Magistracy yesterday for con traventions of the Regulations. their eyes in amazement. By what means bad such a miracle been performed 1 Her was a nation under alien rule actually rally ing to the side of the aliens; the descend ants of its ancient rulers vying with one another to be the first in the field? It is

true that a number of irreconcilables exist, and that plots have been laid and schemes meditated for overthrowing British rule, but they have received no support, and WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS today India is united in assisting Great

HONGKONG.

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Hoxazong Orvica: 101, Das Vaux Boan, C. LONDON OFFICE: 181, Farr Braun, E.C.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, 1TH ADRH, 1916

THE UNITY OF THE EMPIRE.

The one phenomenon connected with the

100 Shares in this Company into his name, siou on neutrals is the rallying of the to Mr. LA IU CRUNG dor Transfers of war which has made the deepest impres having been Mislaidd, Lost, or Destroyed, Dominions and Dependencies to the side NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Receipt is produced at this Office of the Mother Country. It is not surpris, within 30 days from the date hereof, the Certificates for the said Sharos will being that, the wish being father to the the Transfer Rereipt will thereafter be held by the Company as null and void. For the HONGKONG TRAMWAY Co., Lrn,

W. E. ROBERTS,

Secretory,

Britain against her foos. The reluctant admission

of Chermally that Great Britain knows how to govern the alien people who own her many is, perhaps, the greatest com pliment ever paid to the British,

Note is given that the half-yearly meting of members of the Jockey Club will be held on Saturday, April 29th, ar 12.

1003,

The P.&O. Homeward Mail stemmer, Mongoil with the Hongkong Mail of the 10th March last, arrived at Marseilles on the 13th instant.

second

A summons against a Chinese driver for failing to have a lamp illuminating his uber resulted in defendant being fined $10.

There were thrée summonses against Mr. J. McCubbin, of the Gas Company, but at the request of Inspector Gariod, who said he had seen Mr. Jenkin in reference to them, they were withdrawn with the excep number illuminated. tion of a charge of failing to have the

Mr. McCubbin admitted that the light went out, but said that it was shining brightly when he left the works. The only reason he could give og to how it gave out was that his car travelled across a newly-filed in trench and bumped

heavily. He stopped about three minutes after passing this trench, and the light was then warm

A fine of $10 was imposed.

There were originally no fower than six stuuionses against Mr. H. S. Komor, of 41, Robinson Road, and of these four were ultimately withdrawn. The charge first proceeded with wag

that of riding his motor-cycle on, the wrong side of the

It is announced that the Malaka Pindahighway in Lower Albert Road,

interim dividend of 8 per cent, payable Rubber Estates have declared a

on the 27th April.

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memo-

Trooper John Arnold told the Magistrate that he and another trooper, a Chinese, were patrolling Lower Albert Road un their ponies when they heard the sound of an approaching motor, and then saw de-

tions to a Second Extraordinary. Meeting establishuents authorised for the payment of delivered to the said Mr. LAU IV CHUNG, and though, Germany should have concludedial and Affiliated Hospita's acknowledges I fendant riding toward, them on the right

which will be subsequently convened.

Prints of Memorandum as proposed to be altered have been circulated to the Shareholders, and a Print thereof ena be. -2-0-1 ut the Registered Office of the

Company.

Dated this 15th day of April, 1916. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. General Agent, THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.

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WE

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

WE HAVE This Day REMOVED our Offices to 2nd Floor, QUEEN'S BUILD- ros, Chater Road (premises lately occupied by Messrs. Bradley & Co., Ltd.).

1. Payment of interest commences ou 12th

of April, 1916

2. Organs in Chins authorised to pay

interest:-

a.--All Magistrates' Yaneus

The Hend and Branch Offices of the Bank of China and of the Bank of Communications,

c. The reliable agents of the shove.

mentioned two Banks,

3. Organs in foreign countries authorised

to pay interest

UNION TRADINGA

Hongkong, 8th April, 1915.

[536

PUBLIC AUCTION. Piting by Public Auction Bale,

ARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of |

to be held on TUESDAY, the 25th day of April, 1916, ut 3 ra, at the Offices of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of HI EXCELLENCY THE GOVEENOÉ, of Qas Lot of CROWN LAND above Kennedy Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, for one further form of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT

No, of date.

No. 115g

Registry No

Be hind the Fubli

Kennedy Kond

Locity.

Boundary

(approximate.)

Mekanzumentr.

Contenia

Upset Price.

J.

feet frot

beel

A

pes alplan 18,195 194 274

[about)

· Hongkong, 24th March, 1918.

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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE:

Certificate No. 2050 for 20 Shares, $100 pain up Certificate No. 2960 for 20 Shares, 3100 paid up numbered 3021/3035 and 9470/9480

Certificate No. 2061 for 20 Shares, 8100 paid up aubered 6016/0025 and 97469756. Certificate No. 2962 for 20Shares: $100 paid up,

numbered 6381/6380. numbered 6381/6400 Certificato No. 2903 for 20Shares, $100 paid up,

numbered 6401/8420

with thanks the following donations to the funds of the hospitals-Benjami Potts, #95; W, G. Worcester & Co., 825.

The annual meeting of shareholders of

that the loosely drawn ties which link together the various countries forming the British Empire would sover at the first sign of trouble, but it is strange that other courries, which had nothing much the Canton Insurance Office, Ltd., will be to gain by the diesalation of the British | held on Wednesday, May 3rd at 12 noon, Empire should have entertained very of the Offices of the General Agents. similar views. The reason is probably to be found in the fret that the British con- ception of the relations between the other. country and her dipendencies is peculiar.

hand side of the road near the Government Offices. Defendant continued on his right hand side to the corner, passing, the on the wrong side. He held up his hand to top defendant, but he took no notice, aut. witness then shouted. He stopped near the

corner.

Defendant said he had spoken to soperal" Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co. The motorists and all aid that they had tol annual meeting will be followed inmedi- | get on the right hand side of the road ately by an extraordinary general naceting.

to negotiate the fork and turn up into the road leading past Government House. Ha

the road near the Government Offices, wag not riding on the right hand side of

toward the right to turn the corner. but nearly in the centre, turning outwards

was Signor A. Carpi, the distinguished; im-

ahe world is there to be found the same to Great Britain. In no other country in Hongkong by the s.8. Nemur yesterday Among the paserngers who arrived in

absence of restraint over the colonies in presaric of the Italian Opera Co., which regard to internal affairs, and the same visited this Colony last season. in the Register in the name of large and judicious allowance of self-glad to karn that his Company, strongly GEO, RICHARDSON & COMPANY LTD. government. We all know thas the British re-inforced, mon with very great succes having been declared nid. Certificates are

LOST, Notica is hereby Empire has been a natural growth and

standing

-All Chinese Legations, Chinese Consulates, and all Offices of the Chinese Resident Commissioners. Hranch Offices of the Bank of Communications In foreign towns where no such branches exist, foreign banks are authorised to pay interest c-All Chinese Chambers of Com merce, Guilds and Public Organs 4. Methoci of claiming interest. When

Chinese by organised claiming interest, the bondholder must cut down the matured coupons and produced to the Society on or before the not a pre-organised scheme; that there present thou at any of the above and July, 1910, NEW CERTIFICATES for were indeed, some who regarded with mentioned organs. The said organs the said Shares will be issued and the old favour the severance of the tits between after examining the coupons will pay litereat and keep the coupons so

Certificates will thereafter be hel

held by the paid, But the holder of $1.000 bonds or Society as null and void. 810,000 bonds must not cut down the coupons themselves, as the said bonds must be examined first by the organs

concerned

The matured coupons can be used as coal in payment of land tax. The interest of the coupons is expressed in term of “big dellar and if it is required to be converted into taels or copper cash, then the rate of exchange for different districts will be fixed and posted in conspicuous places by the various Financial Bureaux concerned.

given that unless

By Order of the Board of Directors,

C. MONTAGUE EDE. General Manager. Hongkong, 3rd Apri?, 1916.

1500

in India.

We are His worship-Does that mean that you turned to the right hand side a little earlier than you need necesarily have

Bandman Opera & Comedy Co,, desires Mr. R. H. Smith, general manager of

the mother country and the colonies as soon

to express on behalf of Mr. Bandman and as the latter should be able to support them the Bandiman Opera Company, the deep selves. When the idea dawned on the grow appreciation they feel of the generous ing consciousness of Great Britar that patronage which has been accorded them the had somehow or other succeeded in this season. It will serve, he says, 28 a UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF bringing into existence the greatest Empire stimulant to further efforts on their part

CANTON, LTD.

the world has ever seen, and people were to please the public of Hongkong, NOTICE.

urged henceforth to think imperially,

At Union Church on Wednesday next,

done?

Defendant-No, all motors toke the same course as I did.

Inspector Garrod-We do not expect. them to round that corner without going to the right, but we expect them to be on their proper side by the Government. Offices, and to hug the left hand side of the road until early at the corner.".

Another trooper, who was with Trooper Arnold, gave evidence,

His worship said the facts did not seem

The cancelled coupons (No. 1) of each bond CERTIFICATE No. 1065 for two there was a tendency to forget how the at 9 p.., J. H. Maunder's sacred Cantata to be very definite, and dismissed the

Shares, 8100 paid up, numbered Empire had been must be cut down at the time when the 6850/6887, standing in the Register in the together. An instance of this was seen in The soltasts are:-Soprano, Miss Wilks; created and kept Olives to Calvary will be rendered. coupon No. 2 is

is presented for payment in name of MOCK MUN Fo, having been declared cash or in payment of land tax, and to be LOST, Notice is hereby given that unless the the case of South Africa. After the war tenor, Messrs. Goodall, Handyside and handed over for cancellation together with said Certificate is produced to the Society coupon No. 2. The Public are requested to on or before the 13th July, 1918, A NEW the British Government, under the leader Edgecombe; baritone, Messrs Gray and read the detailed regulations governing the CERTIFICATE for the said Bhares will be ship of Bir HENRY CAMPBELL BANNERMAN, Marie. The chorus is composed of the payment of interest which are obtainable issued sad the old Certificate will thereafter taking its courage in both hands, granted Choir of Union Church with the kind at any of the authorised organs above be held by the Society as null and void. mentioned.AHAN

By Order of the Board of Directors, a measure of self-government which placed assistance of the Wesleyan Church Choir the whole of South Africa, including the and o her friends. A collection will be territory which had be a the scene of the taken in aid of the New Organ Fund.

By Order

THE BUREAU OF NATIONAL LOANS.

Hongkong, 14th April 1915.

[561

$16

C. MONTAGUE EDE General Manager, Hongkong, 13th April, 1916. [664

Bumong

The second summons, that he failed to sound big hooter, was then proceeded with. Defendant said he sounded his hooter near. the Government Offices, but not at the corner. He did, not see the ponies, or he would have given warning.

His worship said he should have sounded

his hooter before reaching the corner, and fired him $5.