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INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOT EXTRAORDINARY

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an GENERAL MEETING of the HONGKONG ICE| COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company.DAY Podder Stroet, Victoria, Hongkong, (MONDAY), the 6th day of May, 1918, at 12 look Noos, when the subjoined resolutions which were passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 16th day of April, 1918, will be submitted for Confirmation Special Rosolutions

(I)

That it is expedient to affect an

INTIMATIONS

LUST.

N Kowloon, a LIVER and WHITE

I POINTER DOG, answers to the Name

THE HUNGKONG DAILY PRESS

of "Max. Anyone fourd herésftor în posession of the dog, without reasonable excuse, will be prosecuted.

ME EV. M. R. DE SOUSA, No. 1 Ormsby Villes, Granville iload, Kowloon

[1909

amalgamation of this Company with M GEO. P. LAMMERT has received

the Dairy Farm Company, Limited,

and that with a view thereto this

Company he wound up voluntarily

and that Mesern. Jardine, Matheson

PUBLIO AUCTION.

instructions to sell by Public Auction,

TUESDAY,

&Co, Limited, be and they are hereby the 14th day of May, 1918, at 3 o'clock

appointed Liquidators for the purpose

of such winding up.

(2) That the conditional Agreement sub-

in the afternoon, at his Falas Room

in Daddell Street, Victoris, Hongkong,

PROPERTY,

mitted to the meeting for the THE VERY VALUABLE LEASEHOLD amalgamation of this Company with the Dairy Farm Company, Limited, upon the terms (inter alta) of the Requisition by that Company of the complete undertaking, Boot

and property of this Company in return for the issue to this Company of 62,000 shares of the Dairy Farm Company, Limited, of the nominal value of $7.50 each credited as fully

situate in Barker Road, at The Peak, and comprising these pieces or parcels of ground registered in the Land Ofice as RURAL BUILDING LOT NUMBER 70 suİ GAR DEN LOT NUMBER 24 together with the attractive residential bouse: thereon known

"TUSCULUM."

IN ONE LOT. ·

paid up (being eight shares of 87.50 and garden toonis court thereto attached, each of that Company for each share of 836 esch of this Company) and of the issue by the Dairy Farm Company, Limited, to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Limited, the General Managers of this Company (upon their entering into restrictive covenants which have

Rural Building Lot No. 70 contains en area of 29,700 square feet and is held under & Crown Lease for 75 years

Garden Lot No. 24 contains an area of 7,800 square feet and is held under a Crown and conditions of

For further

hoans as compensation for their loss, of office as General Managers of this Company) of 2,000 shares of the Dairy Farm Company, Limited, of the nominal value of $7.50 each credited as fully paid bo and the same in

up hereby approved and that the Liqui- datars be and they are hereby authorised pursuant to Section 185 of the Companies Ordinance 1911 to adopt the said "Agreement and carry the game into effect with such tit

Any) modification either. Iefore or after the execution thereof as the said Liqui- dators may think expediant, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be ULOSED from the int to the 10th May, 1918, both days inclonve

been agreed upon and by way of Lease for 21MALA

Dated the 16th day of April, 1918.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD.,

General Managers,

(1901

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB..

`NOTICE,

To Advertised to be held on SATURDAY, the 17th April is unavoidably postponed until SATURDAY, the 11th May, 1918, at 12 o'clock Noox, at the Offices of

NHE HALF-YEARLY MEETING of

Boad

cale apply to

Mesura DEACON, LOOKRA, DEACON

4 HARSTON,

Des Voeux Road, Central,

Vendors' Solicitors,

or to

ME. GEO. P. LAMMERT,

The Auctioneer..

Hongkong, 22nd April, 1815,"

WANTED.

1920

on EXPERT, European, Chinese or "ANTED by a European Firm in Indis American, who has a thorough practical experience in the manufacture of glues from Hide cuttings and bones. Good salary to a. reliable man. Apply in the first instance with copies of testimonials,

ARREMANAGER

Care of "Daily Press" Qfice. $1027

HOUSES TO LET

TO LET.

JONKEY CLUB, on the Ground Floor-built EUROPEAN TWO STOREY 1, GARNARVON BOAD, Kowloon,

HOUSE, good locality.

of the HONGEONG CLUB ANNEXE, Chater

By Order,

T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Courise. Hongkong, 23rd April, 1918. [1890

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-NINTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Company's Offices, St. George's Building, on SATURDAY, the 11th May, at 18 o'clock Nook, for the pictors together with a of presenting the Report of the Statement

of Accounta« to Eth February,

· 1918, electing Directory and Auditor. ⠀

TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will

be CLOSED from 18 o'clock Noon April 27th

bo 12 o'clock Noon May 11th,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co...

Agents, Hongkong, 20th April, 1918. §A [1940

CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. #TYLE THIRTY-SEVENTH, ORDINARY |

MESTING OF CHAREHOLDERS Will

be held at the Offices of the undersigned on. FRIDAY, the 17th May, 1918, at Noox,

S

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 3rd May to the 17th May, both days inclusive,

JAÉDINE, MATHESON & Co., bro,

General Agents. Hongkong, 29th April, 1918,

Apply to

YU KAM HING, c/o Messes. Jousson, Storia de MASTER.

*1956

**___TO_LET.

FURNISHED, 4-Roomed FLAT on the three months.

PEAK, To Let from Middle May for

Box 1, Apply-

Care of Daily Press Office.

11950

TO LET.

FLAT în Prince's

RESIDENTIAL

Bailding.

⠀ "Apply to---

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., Lan;

1875

TO LET

MMEDIATE entry, Four very desirable MEDIA en die Lee House Street, opposite the Grand Hotel, recently recon- structed.

For rent and other particulars apply

jeigu THE MANAGER HONOLONO IO Co., LTD,

-

INTIMATION

WATSON'S

E

THE PREMIER SCOTCH

OF THE FAB EAST

FOR 25 YEARS.

WATSONS

VERY OLD LIQUE

Such Whish!

POPULARITY MAINTAINED

BY 148

EXCELLENT

QUALITY,

Nor BY EXPENSIVE

WORLD-WIDE ADVERTISING.

MONDAY, MAY 6,

is

1918.

COMPANY MEETING.

Tite name of Mr. Ying Kwan to, of Nu 3. Arbuthnot Road, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of the Univer MESSRS. A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. sity of Edinburgh, has been added to the local register of medical practitioners.

of

As a result of the entertainment given at the Victorin Theatre, Hongkong, on

The thirty-third atnyal ordinary general meeting of the above Company

there were present --The Hon. Sir Paul Mr. Henry Humphreys presided, and

Chater, C.M.G., and Mr. H. P. Whita

B. Dayors, W. Morley, F. W. Stapleton (Consulting Committee), and Mesars C

and J. M. Wong (shareholders), and Mr. J. A. Tarrant (secretary):

273-would be elected by panels of mem bere of the House of Commons arranged undern geographical group system, while une-fourth of the whole would be chosen by a Standing Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament, excluding

The engagement is announced fx-offieu mombers, whos, numbers, and

James Malcolm Hall, solicitor, third was held at the Hongkong Hotel, qualifications are not given. Apparent-

son of Mr. E. 8. Hall, of Hongkong,

Saturday: hereditary system- ly, therefore, the

and Marjorie Mahel, younger daughter vestige of which both Lord ROSEBERY and of Mr. and Mrs, Japh. Mason, of Ilford, Lord Lansdowne sought to retain by en-Essex. powering the Peers to elect fome of their number as Lords of Parliament entirely jettisoned. It is objected by some of the members of the Committee, Wednesday last, the sum of $160 has been including Lord Lassdowne, that an

forwarded to the Italian Chamber of election by groups of members of the Commerce in Shanghat as a contribution

Tho CHAIRMAN said-Gentlemen,--I House of Comnions would not be likely for their Italian War Funde

propose, with your permission to follow to produce a body of men possussing the

It is announced in the Gazeffe that report and statement of accounts and the customary procedure and take the attributes for a Second Climber By H.M. the King has not been advised to auditors' certificate as read. Before refer- this we suppose they incan that one exercise his power of disallowance with ring to the accounts, I should like to say House would tend to become a mere re respect to the following Ordinance:-- a few words about our staff. Since the plica of the other, and thus the chief value Ordinance No. 15 of 1917, an Ordinance outbreak of way, eight of than have gone of Second Clumber as a hard of, revi- to amend the law lating to trading to the Front from Hongkong and China. sion and amendment would disappear with the enemy and the export of pro-alone. Two of these, vz., Lieut. Melcod The iden, however, is borrowed from the hibited goods; Ordinance No. 25 of 1017,and Capt. Evers have made the great Bill submitted by the Unionist Peers in a Dedinance to consolidate and amend sacrifice, the latter being killed by a 1911, which provided that 120 * Lords of the Inw relating to the deportation of sniper's bullet whilst gallantly leading Parliament should be elected for elec-undesirable persons..

his Company into action. No more nien can be obtained, and if there is any fur- ther drain on our man-power, une more of our establishments will have to be closed. In addition to the above, thưte tuen from the London Agency have joined up, of whom one has been

|

toral districts by electoral colleges coin- posed of members of the House of Cam. mons for constituencies within each district. The same remark applies to the proposal that the term of office of n muler of the Sceond Chamber should be tyelve years, though it is now re-

pended that one-third of the mem |bers should retire every fourth year in. stead of one-fourth retiring every three years. The selection of une-fourth of the members by a Standing Joint Committee of both Houses a substituted for the appointment of practically the same proportion by the King on the advice of the Ministry in proportion to the strength of parties in the House of Commons. Though no particulars are given of the ex-office members it is not unreasonable to assume that they include Spiritual Peers and Law Lords. It is to be hoped, also, that room will be found for officin representatives of the self-governing

It is notified in the Gazette that, as it "ppears to the Governor-in-Council that the San Ning District Society and San Wui Sheung Mo Kung Sho Society, re- gistered under Ordinance No. 47 of 1911, are being used for purposes incompat ible with the peace or good order of the Colony, it is ordered that the mid societies be forthwith dissired under Section 10 of Ordinance No. 47 of 1911. The Hon. Secretary for Chinese Affairs has been appointed by the Governor to wind up the Societies,

When four Chinamen, Chin Kow, Chang Wang, Pan Yow, and Lam Chan, were charged at the Old Bailey recently, with assaulting Ng Fook, and the first witness for the prosecution was Ching Sing, Jadge Rentoul looked perplexed It would be far better," he suggested, if we called them A, B, C, D, etc: We will call him [Ching] A. With these

or

killed.

The accounts before you, though -show- ing results well above the average, are Between

not so good as those for 1016. September and aber, 1917, supplies were scanty and loss of business ensued in consequence. Stocks have been coming forward better of late, though not as well as we should like, and we are parti cularly short of some of our best sellers, due to Government restrictions at Home For instance, one important article was denied a permit on the ground that it con- tained sugar. We offered by telegram to supply the sugar from Hongkong; we were menths afterwards informed that it tonnage. We then offered to export, the was not so much a question of sugar, es Committee declared, would be "a great

maufactured article in Japaness ships, advantage both to the House itself and of beating the prisoners. Even with and that is as far as we have got aftor to the communities which they repre- this precaution the court, forgot which sented." It would also appear eminently was. A and which was B, and as each

a year's letters and telegramie. Again, desirable to accord coats to those who interpreter had a diffoult task, Lamed to deplete our stocks (which you will Chinuman spoke a different dialect the the fire in April last year further owsist have served as Viceroy of India, Chan was acquitted, Chin Kow and observe in Governor-General of Cannula Governor Chang Wang were sentenced to nine General of Australia, High Commis-months, and Pan Yow to two months Conero South Africa, Governormou

imprisonment.

A. S. WATSON & Dominions, which, as Lord Rosessar's Chinese names we muy end, unless we sugar in Japanese ships, and import the

CO., LTD.,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, HONGKONG,

Teal $16.

(19

Hongkong Operon: 10a, Das Vœux Road, C. Leader Orezen: 181, Fans Starr, E.C.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, STH May, 1818

of New Zealand, Agent General in Egypt and others

are careful, in finding Ng Fook guilty

who have had VALUABLE SERVICES DURING long and intimate experience as ad-

THE WAR. ministrators in the Overseas Dominions)

¡THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]

of the King, so that Parliament may ba| CAPTAIN BARRETT OF SHANGHAI the better fitted for dealing with In- perial questions, which promise to assume ever-increasing importance. Although,

the balance sheet

re

162,008.81 less than the year previous) and, in addition, dislocated for a time a considerable portion of the business and also restricted sales. There are two now accounts which appear for the first, time, viz., Inland Lot No 1760 and the buildings thereon $67,974,60 and loan against security $10,000. The former is required for var Chinese Department, the LONDON, May lat lease of the premises now occupied by Amongst those mentioned for valuable this department shortly expiring, the THAT some reform of the House of Lords owing to the context, it is not quite clear services during the war are members of latter was repaid on 30th April last was imperative has long been recognised from the cablegram, it would seem that the Legation Guards at Peking, includ. Local and general liabilities in the East by all political parties. A Select Com clergymen of the Church of England, the ing Captain E. W. Brett, Captain A. J. and mittee of the Peers themselves, presided Roman Catholic Church, the Church of Thomson, and Company Borgt. -Major F 24,813.02. Bills payable in the present America are decreased by Scotland and the Protestant Episcopal W. Deane of the Indian Army, Church of Ireland are to be eligible for

Captain E. I M. Barrett, of the election to the Second Chamber in Shanghai Municipal Police, is also men- accordance with the view expressed by hang

HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM.

over by the EARL of ROSEBERY in 1908, came to the conclusion that the possession: of a peerage ought not, of itself, to give

mem.

the right to sit and vote in the House, and

Lord Rose Kuy's Committee that the suggested various qualifications for bership. Three years later, the Marquis duced to ten, and that the other ·

Episcopal representatives should be re- of LANSDOWNE introduced a Bill for the Churches of England, Scotland and great

· FAREWELL.

[FROM THE RUSSIAN OF NEKRASOV,]

accounts figure at $15,312.23, as against $105,495.69 in 21916-2: decrease

00,103.40. The improved financial con- dition of the Company had enabled the general managers to retire drafts before maturity, thereby effecting a saving of interest At 31st December $40,567 worth At the strifey

moment of speaking, I might add that of pain, of log-the toil and stress 869,361 worth of drafts have been retired Do not recall its storras, nor yet its before maturity.

of life;

tears, Think not of jealousy's dark threats

and fears!

40, Connaught Road Central, reconstruction of the House, which passed Ireland should be accorded representa Farewell! Do not recall the days of of drafta had been so retired.

TO LET.

OUSES on Shaneen, Canton,

No. 57, THE PEAK, LUSTLEIGH

Apply to- M

0946 H

THE CHINA-BORNEO CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE FIFTEENTH YEARLY MEETING DI SHAREHOLDERS of the above Company will be held at the Company's Office, St George's Build nga, st. 11′′AMS OR FRIDAY, the 17th May, 1918, to zeceïve a Blatement of Accounts to the 21st December, 1917, and the Report of the General Manager. and Consulting. Committee, and to alect. a Consulting Committee and Auditor.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of

the

Company will be CLOSED from the 4th May to the 17th May, 1918, both days incleave.

THE CHINA-BORNEO CO. LTD.

W. G. DARBY, Genom Manager,

Hongkong, 2nd May, 1913,

NOTION.

f1806.

UNION INSURANCE BOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.

THE CERTIFICATE No. 3051 for 38 Shares Nos, 11410 to 11445 standing in the books of the Bociety in the name of FRANCISCO DE PAUZA UZMBBATO late of Wimbledon Middlesex, England, had been declared LOST and if at thepiration of was month from the date hereof the above

document be not to another. Certificate for the said will be ferus by the Society, and thereafter no other will be acknowledged.

0. MONTAGUE EDE General Manager. Hongkong, 19th April, 1918, 1879

[000

"THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD.

128

its second reading but got no further. tion." As regards the relations of the When the Parliament Act was carried, two Houses, the absolute and unquestion expressly excluding the Second Chambered supremacy of the Commons in matters from all authority in the sphere of of finance in reanimed. Presumably to Money Bills and limiting its veto in guard against "tacking," it is proposed all other fields of legislation, a pledge that any question as to whether a Bill in was given that it would be followed at

Money Bill should be referred to an an early date by a measure for the recon authority, to be electext at the beginning stitution of the Chamber. The cage for of every session consisting of seven TO LET

the fulfilment of this pledge obviously members of each of the two branches of

FLAT in Nathan Bond, Kowloon.

became much stronger as a consequence the Legislature. This follows along the of the recent wide extension of the fraglines of the sandment moved to the chise. It was felt that there could be Parliament Bill by the late EARL of FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Kowloon.

no more favourable opportunity for Apply to

attacking the question than the present, the HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE when a party trace is understood to pre- vail, and Committes of both Houses CO, LTD

was appointed for this purpose under the Chairmanship of Viscount BRYCE. The success which attended the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform encour aged the hope that an agrood settlement. SIXould be reached in this case, but from

Alexandra Buildings.

FOR BALE. ALESEND 109, THE FRAE, GBOOMS

OH GALE P.W.D.

Apply

TOR SALE

1628

£1958

PARISH, WANCHAT,

Choven and rejected by the Com- mone. the event of disagreement between the two Chambers a Bill may be referred to a free conference of both Houses consisting of thirty members, who shall submit a suggested basis of agreement.

the report, which was issued a few days, One fatal Chinese cade of bubonic Byo It is evident

that unanimity plague was notified in the Colony on has not been attamed. In the tele Friday. graphic, summary of the scheme sub- writted by the majority of the Committee

ON MOUNT FOR Hos with it is not precisely stated how many

Garden, Electris Light, Goa and Telephone installed. Apply to--

DAVA STEAVENSON, Meners, DEACON LOOERE, DEACOS

WAVEST & HAESTON.

(1912

The annual meeting of worshippers at the Peale Church will be held to-day, at

at St. Paul's College

members the Second Chamber would

cerebrospinal fever, and contain the number suggested both by Six cases of Lord ROBERLEY'S Committee and by Lord three deaths from the disease were notified LANSDOWNE'S Bill was 350. All we are told in the Colony on Friday. All the suffer is that 246-or, if Ireland were included, crs were Chinese.

Be mindful of the days when love's clear

star

Above us threw its radiance hear and When fearlessly we went our way. Ab

let

During the year under review, the Shanghai Pharmacy Branch has been

vided for in the profit and loss account. sold, and the loss our same has been -pro

The sale was made in accordance with a decision long

ong since determined upon and approved by your Consulting Committee to concentrate in Hongkong and Canton, where we have need of all our capital and can employ it more remuneratively. The

loss on subsidiary coins has been BANK RETURNS FOR APRIL nominal as compared with previous yeRYN,

Us then for this give thanks, and not

forget.

T.K.D. Hongkong, May 6th, 1018.

The returns of the average amount of I trust that the donation to charities of hank notes in circulation and of specin $2,700, referred to on the first page of reserve in Hongkong, during the the report, will meet with your approva).. mouth ended 30th April, 1918, as certified by the managers of the respective Banks, are as follows

Specie Average Amount. Reserve.

Banke

Chartered Bank of ⠀⠀⠀ India, Australia

and China, .............$ 7,518,370 § 5,000,000* Hongkong and

Shanghai Bank- Mercantile Bank

ing Corporation. 21,102,200 17,000,000 of India, Ltd. 1,174,685 530,0001

Total

I now beg to move the adoption of the report and statement of accounts and when seme have been duly seconded 1 shall be pleased to answer any questions shareholders may have to ask.

Mr. H. P. WHITE seconded the motion, and it was carried.

Messrs. F. Meitland and C. Bernard Brown were reclccted auditors for the ensuing year, & remuneration of $350 each, or the proposition of Mr. C. B. Buygas, seconded by Mr. W, MORLEY

The CRAIEMAN : Gentlemen, dividend Cross Agents valued at £150,000,

f-Securities with the Crown Agents Warrants are ready and may be had on £110,000.

829,785,264 822,550,000

*Sterling. Securities deposited with the

application.