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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

WANTED by 27th inst.

ENGINEER

PUBLIC COMPANIES

CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, HAY DmD, 1916.

ABUROPAN SECOND ENG THE THIRTY FIFTH ORDINARY

$7.00 per day for seven days per week,

Apply to-

CHIEF ENGINEER, H.M. Dockyard.

Hongkong, and May, 1916

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⠀⠀ INTIMATIONS

NOTICE

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

THEPING SHARE ORDINARY MEETING TO DISCUSS REPORT AND

be held at the Offices of the Undersigned TO-DAY (WEDNESDAY), the 3rd May, 1916, at Noon.

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

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., General Agents.

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OSAKA SHOSEN Hongkong, 14th April, 1916.

KAISHA.

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE

AD

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS:

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that N EXTRAORDINARY GEN- ERAL MEETING of the CANTON INSURANCE-OFFICE, LIMITED, will be held at the Offices of Mosers, JARDINE, Pedder Street, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, TO-DAY (WEDNESDAY)

WE beg to inform MATHESON CO., LTD., No. 16,

the Public that the the ard day of May, 1816, at 12.15 o'clock

in the afternoon, when the subjoined Res lutions will be proposed as Extraordinary

Company's

's Telephone Numbers have been

changed TO-DAY

from 246 and 1280 to

744 and 745.

Hongkong, 2nd May, 1916.

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THEATRE

ROYAL.

HONGKONG

THE

HUMPHREY BISHOP

AND

LONDON STAR COY. Present a

Resolutions, viz.

(1.) That the provisions of the Com-

"pany's Memorandum of Associs "tion with respect to its objects be altered so as to read as in the Print sigued 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:

Remunera. tion of Committee,

"That the following Article shall "be substituted for Article 94, "namely: A

The Members of the "Committee shall be paid out of "the funds of the Company auch remuneration as may be or have been determined at any #time by any General Meeting of the Company until anch re- uneration is altered by any ***subsequent General Meeting "of the Company. * sum shall. be

amongst the members of the Committes in such proportion, as the Committee or a majority thereof shall determine." "

Such divisible

ACCOUNTS.

WE, the Undersigned Shareholders consider that the Report and Accounts of the above Company require early disenssion, in order that concertod botion may be taken by Shareholders, with reference to certain matters in the Accounts, including the diminishing of the Final Dividend by the appropriation of £30,000 for depreciation, repairs and renewals, and also th regard to the closing of the Company's Books at such Short Notice,

.with

A MEETING will be hold accordingly at the CITY HALL TO-DAY (WEDNESDAY), the 3rd May, at 4 PM, when all Shareholders, Registered and Unregistered, who are dissatisfied with the Report or Accounts or the closing of the Register at Short Notice are carriestly requested to attend. H. E. POLLOCK, N. H N Mony, LAU CHU-PAR AV APAR

G. TISDALL

BIN TAK FAN. S. II. MICHAEL G. H. DAVIS. W. LOGAN,

R. A. GUSBAY, Chow SAT SAN. T. W. HORNEY. CHING Noo SANG, E. J. Gnist,

J. Gouib.. F. KEW.

M. A. BAZADE CHAN YUE PING CHAN PAK CHUES, Yu KONG SHU, YU CHUNG BUEN, B. BASTO LAU IU. CHUN LAC TAX PO G. P. LLAMENT, Pus HUNG YAN, A. M. L. SOARES

Hongkong, 1st May, 1016,

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HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

REDUCTION IN PRICE!

for Lighting and Fans will be Reduced FROM 1st May, 1010, the Price of Current to 20 cents per unit

Discounts will remain as before.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.

Hongkong, 1st May, 1918.

AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION,

1648

UE Undersigned have received instruc

Should the above Resolutions be passedtions to sell by Public Auction

by the required majority, they will be sub. mitted for confirmation as Special Resolu- tions to a Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened

Prints of the Memorandum as proposed to be altered have been circulated to the Shareholders, and a Print thereof can be see at the Registered Office of the

CONCERT - REVUE Company

INCLUDING

THE FAMOUS WEDGWOOD CLASSICS.

Direct from the London Palladium.

Booking at MOUTRIES,

PRICES - AS USUAL.

OPENING NIGHT: MAY 9TH. Hongkong, ani Miny, 1916

1054

A GRAND CONCERT will be given in King Georgo's Hall, SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE

119

THURSDAY, MAY, 11TH, 1016, at 9.15 p..

by the

CONCERT PARTY

frem

1.M.S. LAURENTIC."

A cordial invitation is given to all. Collection on behalf of the Billiard Room And Fan Fund.

Hongkong, May 3rd, 1016,

A CHARMING OPERATTA

ENTITLED

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**THE WISHING CAP" will be performed by the Papils of the Anglo-French Soltool, Causeway Bay, in aid of the Charitable Works of that Institution, at St. Paul's Institution, Causeway Bay, aÊ arm, on MAY 10TH, TITH nud ETH.

Charges for Admission:

Adults, $:Children. 50 cents.

There will be a DRESS REHEARSAL FOR CHILDREN ONLY on SATURDAY Next, the 6th inst., at 4 F.3.

Admision 20 cents.

Hongkong, 3nd May, 1916.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE MATTER of the

Estate of NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, late of “OAKHURST NETLEY ARREY, in the County of Hants, England, deceased.

Dated this 18th day of April, 1918.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, L.

General Agents, and d THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LAD."

TO-DAY (WEDNESDAY),

tho 3rd May, 1916 at 10

at H.M. Naval Yard, Hongkong, and Kowloon Depot,

12 Coal Lighters from 50 to 100 Tous, Steam Launches (Hull only), Steam Cutters complete, and

·OLD AND SURPLUS NAVAL AND VICTUALLING STORES, Comprising:-----

OLD AND SURPLUS NAVAL STORES- Fan Engines. Boilers

writer, Shanghai

· [671"

Boiler with 20 and 50 Tons;

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

Propellers, Type- Canvas and Leather Hoses, Stage-Inshings, Coir Cordage, Paper stuff, Canvas Rugs,

Old

India Rubber, Reading Boats, Dars Fir Carpet Rugs, Tables, Bookcases, Cabin Wardrobe,

INTIMATION

DEWAR'S

WARE

EMERI

JOHN DEWAR & SOLES

DISTILLERS)

Extra Special OLD SCOTCH WHE

OF GREAT AGES

Grand Prix

Joris 1900-St Louis 1905)

SOLE AGENTS:

S. WATSON

LTD., CO.,

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

HONGKONG,

́TELEPHONE 618.

+13

HONGKONG ÖFFICs :-, 101, Daa Vezur Road, C.

de, Mirror-Electric Cable, Firewood, LONDON OFFICE: 151, FZEIT STATET, EC.

The Daily Press.

OLD AND SURPLUS VICTUALLING STOREN Seamen's Clothing, Blankets, Officers' Mess Traps (a quantity of Electro-plated articles and Table Linen) Implements, Seamen's Mess Utensils, Oak Staves, do, do

Old Iron and Steel, Old Metal, TIRE DIVIDEND of $7.00 and BONUS of Rapeseed and Clive Oil, T52.00 per Share declared at the stor

de, de soventh Meeting of Shareholders held This Day will be Payable at the HONGLONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION on and after FRIDAY, the 28th April, 1916.

Shareholders are requested to apply to the Ofice of the Company for Warrants. By Order of the Board of Directors,

C. PEMBERTON,

Secretary. Hongkong, 27th April, 1916.,

CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY. LTD.

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TERMS OF SALE: As detailed in tho Catalogue

HUGHES & HOUGH By Appointment Auctioneers to the Admiralty.

Hongkong, 25th April, 1916.

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PUBLIC AUCTION

situate at

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an HUND HOM in the Colony of Hongkong, and EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL being KOWLOON MARINE LUT No. 83 MEETING of the CHINA TRADERS and KOWLOON INLAND LOT No 1178, INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, will

to be sold be held at the Head Office of the Company, No. 4, Connaught. Colony,

OR FRIDAY, the 6th day of May, 1916, at NOON, when the subjoined Resolution which wea passed as an Extraordinary Resolution at

of Hongkongloria, in the

the

1816, will be submitted for confirmation said Company held on 18th day of April

confirmation as Special Resolution –

That the name of the Company be changed to BRITISH TEADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED” BRACEL Dated this 18th day of April, 101".

By Order of the Board,

IN ONE LOT TOMORROW (THURSDAY),

the 4th day of May, 1918, at 3 o'clock P.,

Street.

BY

The Property consists of:---

·HONGKONG, 3&D 'May, 1918.

A RETROSPECT.

Tho P. and O, outward mail str, Khyber,, with the London Mail of the 20th April, arrived at Fort Said on the 20th idem.

The term of the Formosa Industrial Ex-

this month, namely, six days longer than hibition has been prolonged until the 15th

was at first intended.

A Gazette Extraordinary issued yester day announces that the Forces of tho Colony will be subject to the Army Ad for a further period of three month-

with a powerful argument for immediato A mail for Europe vid Biberin oloses nction. Just as the increase in Gemany's to-morrow at 3 p.m. Navy was regarded and correctly regarded As directed against Great Britain, so an increase of the British Arms would have bron taken--and rightly, taken-as directed against Germany. In 1913 Mr. HARRISON Jospaired of any Government being able to pass a Compulsory Service Bill, and therefore proposed that a war loan of 160 millions should be raised to be spent partly on the Navy and partly on the Army the latter onse with the idea of making the profession popular and removing it out of the bands of the autocratic caste who were. grown too poor and too lazy to fill the posts efficiently. Mr. HARRISON'S Uggs tion that if officers were obliged to serve in the ranks and rise gradually according to merit, and were adequately paid to make The Army a real profession, all the men wanted would be available, so one likely to meet with general acceptance. It is, however, doubtful if the raising of a waring interim dividends on:~Pajans, 10 por leau of 150 millions when the country was cent.; Balgownies, 16 per cent; and Teluk at pence would not have fired the German Ansons, & per cent. Malakoffs were quoted militarisks, as much as a Conscription Bill, at a sales, and Kedals at $3.05 The situation being such a delicate one,

The Treaurer of the Hongkong Church the question resolves itself into this: Was Missionary Association acknowledges with it better for Great Britain to preci thanks the sum of $860,97 per the Rev. Mr. pitate the crisis by the inauguration of N. Q. Pope, bring amount collected in St. Andrew's (Kowloon) Sanday School during the first four months of the year.

a now policy, which, in any case, would have been futile, or to follow her tradition [al policy, and not throw away the chance of the disolution of the crisis through interan] onuses: Thero seems to us a choice between Great Britain catering pon the war with a half-fomed army which could only be intended for Continental work, and Great Britain entering up the war with a clear conscience as to the sence of any aggressive, notion on her ptrt.

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Chief Justice--What are those bents at the Heard at the Admiralty Court: The

rear of the photograph 7-They might be Chinese gubouts. Do they draw much water-Oh, no, they are anly tin cans.

Mr. W., Carroll, share broker, received a telegram from Singapore yesterday advis

Mr. W. E. Osborn, of the South British Insurance Office, has left, the Colony for ac in the Wellington Division, New Zealand tier service. He was at one time a Lieutenant Garrison Artillery, and afterwards Second Lieutenant in the Bombay Volun- teers. Recently he was nitached to the Hongkong Volunteer Corps as Lieutenant.

Prosecuting a Chinese building contractor at the Magistracy yesterday for using inferior ortar. Mr. A. E. Wright, of the Public Works Department, said defendant. was putting up some European buildings at Kowloon, and gaze amples of the mortar

he

was using were taken Some of then were good, but others, which they touk→ August of last year were found to be bad. He had written to the architect and. the contractor, warning them thai proseed-

Mr. HARRISON advanced another arges ent as to the importance of n large army to Britain and that is that the Navy cannot bring R war to fruition it con propere the ground but the final result must rest with tho Ariny. In proof of this he cited the was in tite times of MARLBOROUGH, CHAT HAM and WELLINGTON, and added the signi." Seant words: The problem to day is not Home Defence, but domination in Europe,ngs would be taken against them. A find

of $30 was imposed; And the battle has to be fought Jaud An island which obstinately condemns An old Shanghai residunt has passed itself to be nothing but an island limits away is the person of Mr. Robert Henry tself to the second or third rank in the Gore-Rooth, who came out to the Settlement European State system and chooses tu res

in the early sixties. Deceased was 78 years main simply a pawn, These ure stranger of age. He took un active share in volunteer- remarks for a philosopher who for forty-ing matters in his younger days and took years has denounc.d! the Imperial adven. & prominent part at the time of the Tai- fures into which we have been led, who ping Rebellion. He was one of the first in thinks that Egypt and that absurd Shanghai to realise the importance

neo of rub African Empire south of it will be ber. He was one of the largest shareholders: Britain's grave. Did he mean to claim in the Perak Sugar and Kalampong Rub- that Britain should have. domination in

ber Companies now known as the Gula- Kalampong Rubber Co., and during the

18 January, 1013, Mr. FREDERIC HARRI-Europe, that we shou'd revert to the policy boom of 1910 he was reputed to have made-

pose, Mr

yours past, that the German menner was

syst.in.

day last. The winner of the Vice-Chan- cellor's challenge cup, awarded for the highest number of points, was A. J. Kow, and the winner of the inter-bostel Ho wong challenge cup was the Morrison all. After the prize, have boon present. ed there will be exhibition tennis matches. between some of the University-studenta.

sus, the well-known Positivist, published which we abandoned when the last of our in the English Review a warning as to the European possessions passed from us?

a fortune of half a million tacks. He was a prominent member of the Race Club, and German menace. The article was reproTo-day we are fighting against the domina.

at one time owned a very successful stable, aced in a recent issue of the same review on of Estope by Germany. Is cur good though auf, we believe, in its entirety opinion of ourselves a great that we can

To-day (Wednesday) H.E, the Goverant, a remarkable example of political proclaim our own domination to be advantage. President of the University, Union, will phocy, but it is not impossible that many ous to Europe and Germany's domination be " At Home" to all members of the Uni other articles could be unearthed which 10 Le dindvantageous? As a matter of versity Union and their friends.

After would as easily lend themselves to the purfact, thers is a gool deal to be said in "pening the Pavilion His Excel andy will HARRISON has one thing of the favour of the argument that Britain is present the prizes won at the first annual Else Extraordinary General Meeting of the M at his Auction Rooms in Duddel or off, and to live believed for om In largange, institutions and

TR. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer, Fatalist in his composition. He appears. no longer a part of the Europeaf State. athletic sports, which took place on Satur

poity she has long since severed herault

Europe, and it is only her geographi cal position which binds har fa any dege to the Continen", Otherwise, she is ustach tide the European State-system as the United States or Australasia. Putting aide all the glamour of sentiment, th; war to-day is for Britain a matter of Home (including Ng Sze Kwong and Wei Wing Defence. Just as a hundred years ago sluok) and wel-known local players includ could not allow NAPOLEON to dominate ing Green, Nisbet and Cooper Hunt. The

bores separated from hes by only a narrow Europe and menace her independence frum band of the Punjabis will discourse selec

tions of music. strip of water, #0 German invasion of Belgium not only the Bishop London Star Company aro an- to-day she sees in the Commoneing a May 9th, the Humphrey destruction of the liberty of sunlernounced to present at the Theatre Royal, liberty as in the time of NAPOLEOs. Mr. famous Wedgwood Classics from the London nation but the same meance to her own Hongkong, a concert-revue, including the

HARRISON' Cain, therefore, By to the

Palladium, The entertainment is described superior power of the Army to decide a

sa a high-class per-pourri of graud and light war turns upon the question what the war

opora, - classics] dancing and posing. The is for. If Britain desires domination in Donne, from the Royal Opera, Covent Company includes Miss Nera Moou, Prima Europe, then it is possible that, the Navy Garden, Miss Katia Hill, from the prin alone would prove too slow a weapon. Ruscipul West End Theatres, in ker laloșt

C MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager.

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INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

All those pieces or parcels of ground situate unavoidable. He even went so fur is to at Haug Hom in the Dependency of Kowloon attack some importance to the number 13, and Colony of Hongkong and registered in which he described as "tant ominous thir the Land Office respectively as KOWLOON MAHINE LOT No. 83 and KOWLOON teen," and endeavoured to show that the INLAND LOT NO. 1178 Kowloon Marine corresponding years in preceding centaries Lot No. 83 contains an area of 135,800 SQUARE FEET and is held for the term of brought with them some far-reaching for another terin of 75 years), created therein 75 years from the 16th May, 1904 (nowable change, such as NAPOLEON's overgrow in by a Crown Lease dated the 11th day of 1813, and the Treaty of Utrecht in 1719. October, 1906, and made between His late He apparently fails to ra that all the HE THIRTY-FIFTH ORDINARY Majesty King Edward VII. of the one part will be held at the Offices of the General of the other part subject to the payment of menace would bat have precipitated the GENERAL MEETING of the Company and DONALD MACDONALD and JORN Wir measures he proposed to meet the German Managers, Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & the Crown rent and to the observance and crisis and that if the crisis was to be Co. Lrn, Des Voeux Road, Hongkong, on performance of the Lessee's covenants thereverted it would only be by action on the SATURDAY, the 6th May, at 10 o'clock am in reserved and contained. for the purpose of receiving the Report of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1176 is situate on part of Germany-a revolt against the the Dire sectors and Auditors.

passing the Accounts, and the North-west side of Kowloon Marine Lot

SQUARE FEET and is held for the term of the entrails of the country. In view of No. 83 and contains an area of 27,073 per of militarian that was eating away 75 years from the 18th May, 1001 (mansable the growing power of Social Democracy in for another term of 75 ycans)

Crown Lease dated the 10th April, 1917, Germany, there was always a hope that the and made between His Majesty King George

electing

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLUSED from the 1st May to the 20th May, inclusive,

By Order of the Board. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., General Managers. Hongkong, 23th April, 1916.

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THE HONGKONG. ELECTRIC CO.,

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V. of the one part and the said Donald Macmilitary régime would fall by itself, having Donald and John Wilkie of the other part alienated publia opinion, but this and subject to the payment of the Crown rent could only be attained by allowing inters and to the observance and performance of LIMITED.

the Lesree's covenants therein reserved and to take their course and by introducing no OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that t

contained. Court has, by virtue of Section 58 of TWENTY-SEVENTH The Probates Ordinance, 1897 (No. 2 of 1897), GENERAL MEETING of the SHARE

ORDINARY No. 83-31,984 per annum Lot

Crown Rent of Kowloon

zando an Order limiting the time for sending in aims to or against the above Estate So the 13th day of May, 1918.

Creditors and Claimants are hereby required to send their Claims to A. SAELTON Hoorer, Esq., No. 5. Queen's Hond Central, Hongkong, the Administrator of the above Estate, by the aboro date.

Dated the 1st day of May, 1916.

HASTINGS & HASTINGS, Solicitors for the Administrator, 6, Das Vieux Road Central,

Hongkong.

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NOT

the

Crown Rent of Kowloon Marine Lot new factor into the situation. The in- if Britain lesires, as we think sho does comedy numbers; Mallo Suzanne Verney.

Particulars and

from MESING DEACON,

had

HOLDERS will be held at the Company's No-1175-8248-persunions of sale may be Offices, St. George's Buildings, on SATUR for the purpose of presenting the Beport of DAY, the 20th May, 1816, at 12 o'clock Noon, the Directors together with Accounts to 29th February, 1916, and electing th a Statement of Directors and Auditors.

Company

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the will be CLOSED from the eth Alay to the 20th May, both days inclusiva

By Order of the Board of Directors.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents Bungkong, 1st May, 1918.

1640

&HARGER, DEACON

1, Des Voeux Road Central,

ME. LEO D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Old Supreme Court Building.. Vendors Solicitors,

and also from MR. GEO. P. LAMMERT, The Auctioneer, Hongkong, 25th April, 1916.

crease of the British Navy to keep it in factor, since it was the traditional policy advance of Germany's Fleet was not a new

of Great Britain to maintain the command of the Bas; but if Britain had started form an army on anything approaching the reale of that of Germany-if she had adopt. ed conscription, or even some other form of national service-there is not the least reason to doubt that the matary rulers of Germany would have at once been furnished

merely to defeat the domination of another classical dancer from the London-Patice capon. Even dow, Germany is celebrated violini, from the Royal Albertr Pawor, then the Navy is her most potent and Alhambra; Miss Bybil Keymer, the ready defeated by her failure to chain Hall, Mr. Stanley Vilven, the miners command of the sess, and were she to drive tetor, from the Queen's Hal; Mr. Barry cell the British troops from the Continent Russon, the popular London humorist and

of Europe and bring her other onenics entertainer from the Pavilion; and Mr.- their knees, sho would still be unable to Humphrey Bishop, the famous operatio renew her national life or continue those bass, From the Royal Opera House, London vast undertakings, the creatures of her Opera Houes, and other principal London ambition

theatres,