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THE ROYAL HONG KONG

GOLF CLUB.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Club will be bald in the Bosed Room of Mes JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltd. Des Vaux Road Contral, Hoogkong, on FRIDAY, the Sith day of September, 1918, at half-paar fire o'clock in the afternoon, when the subjoined i resolution will be propose as un Extra- ordinary Resolution:

Than the Articles of Association of the Club be amen-led as follows

(1) By striking out of the words “ Naval

Member

ter or Visitor." in the 3rd line at Paragraph 3 of Article I under the heading "MEMBER" and substituting therefor "Subscriber,

Subordinate Naval Officer or Visitor (By adding after the word "Clab" iz the 6th line of the form of application for admission to the Club set out in Article 8 the words "and if at any time called upon by the Committes so to do

to take up and pay for one Debenture

the Clah."

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(3) By adding after the word "Clab"

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the end of the amenduent to Article 31 the words or by the Committee." (4) By inserting the words after "month"

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PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE

WING to strictions on the Export of Wire Ropes from England the TRAM SERVICE will be REDUCED as from 1 September 1918.

Now Time-Tabies can be obtained from the Ticket Collectors or at the Company's Oce, Alexandra Buildings.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managərs. Hongkong, 7th August, 1928.

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striking out the words Treasurer" and "all" in the second line of Article No. 47 and substituting for the word "all" the word "both" and adding to the end of that Article the words and shall be elected by a show of hands at the Annual General Meeting."

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(6) By striking out the words of figures aist" the fourth line of Article No. 84 and substituting the words of figures 30th" and by striking out the word "December" in the fifta line of the same Article and substituting the word September.

(7) By striking out the word "March" in the second line of Article No. 07 and substituting therefor the word

"December**

(8) By striking out Article No. 81 and substituting therefor: "Accounts of Members, Subscribers and Visitors shall be made up and sent in at the beginning of each month and should any accounts be fifteenth

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Should the Resolution be passed by the required majority it will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Resolution to a Second Extraordinary" General Meeting which will be subsequently convened.

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that AD EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of THE CHINA BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the

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Offices of Messrs GI LIVINGSTON AND A SHOP In Nathan Road, Kowloos. COMPANY, St. George Building, Victoria, Hongkong the Registered Office of the

bove named Company, on FRIDAY, the 13th day of September, 1918, at 11.30 o'clock In the forenoon, when the" asbjoined Resolutions will be proposed Extraordinary Resolutions, vis,:---

(1) To consider, and it thought fit, approve the draft new Articles which will be submitted to the Meeting.

And in the event of the approval thereof,

with or without modification,

(2) To coskider sad, if thought fit, to pass An Extraordinary Resolution to the affect: That the new

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Articles already

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Should the above Resolutions be passed by the require 1 majority they will be submitted for confirmativa as Special Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convened.

A copy of the new Articles referred to may be inspected by any Shareholder of the Company at the Company's Offices in Hongkong or

at the Offices of Messrs. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER (the Company's Solicitors), as Prince's Building, Victoria, aforesaid on any week-day between the hours of 10 AM, and 4 PX

Dated this 27th day of August, 1918.

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The Daily Press.

HOFOKONG, 29th August, 19'8.

AUGUST 29TH, 1918,

exists in England, it may not be so great, although we know that to be warned of the Turf is a very heavy punishment. In the small communities of the China Coast news of such public or semi-public, form of censure travels rapidly and people are much more de- pendent upon each other's society.“

Wherever two or three Britons are gathered together-no matter whether it be in Koskatka or Patagonia-there at ence springs into being some evidence of their love of sport. It has been said that i wrecked on a desert island three ur four Frenchmen would set about Building 4.3 opera house, Americans would form a trust. Germans & Univer- sity and Britons a sports club. It ja, of course, a travesty of national charne- teristics, but there is a good deal of truth underlying the exaggeration, and, so far

There were no cases "of communicablo CHINESE TELEGRAMS. diseases reported in the Colony on Tues day."

Royal Hongkong Golf Club will be held An extraordinary general meeting of the in the Board Room of Mesara, Jardine. Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Friday, Septem. ber 8th, at 3.30 p.m.

[DY COURTEST OF THE CHENG NOOI SAN PO.")

PEKING NEWS.

The Fungtien troops that accompanied Chang Cho-lam has arrived at Peking. Chang are stationed at Fung-Toi (about 30 miles out from the city).

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Mr. D. B. Walker, Junior District Officer and Magistrate, has been appoint-exportation of silver and copper. "The The Cabinet proposes to prohibit thể

Registrar of the High Court of approval of the foreign Ministers is Weihai wei, and also a Deputy Registrar being solicited, of Births, Marriages and Deaths

Dr. W, G. Reynolds nad Mr. H. C. Shrubaole, of Shameen," appeal to our readers for the loan of four B.S.A. pattern air-rifles for use in a miniature rifle-range on "Our Day" October 24th. on Shameen. The rifles will be returned to their owners in good condition im

4 we are concerned, it is expressed inmediately after the fête. our old proverb All wark and no play

makes Jack a dull boy." The Germans THEIR MAJESTIES' SILVER

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WEDDING.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HONG- KONG'S GIFT:

The following letter has been received

kong-

Buckingham Palace,

28th June, 1918.

It is reported that the electers have decided to chocse Tau Sai-chang as Promi- dent and Fung Kuochang as Vice-Presi dent. The election of the Vice-President, however, is to be postponed,

Heng Yau-wai, the famous monarchist, has recently gone to Peking.

CANTON NEWS.

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HOUSE RENT-TAX.

CANTON, August th. Ngai Pong-ping, the Superintendent of Police, has again requested to have thy

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A message from Huihow states that ong

dered with his troops to the Canton forces...

A message from a reliable source sundis

DEAR SIR,--I have laid your letter of that General Lung, after being requested the gth instant and its enclosures before to take up the Tuchunship of Fukien, sent the Queen, and am commanded to say that Her Majesty is deeply touched by the kind thought which has prompted the very generous gift of £1,095 from the women of Hongkong.

all his new recruits immediately from. Tientsin to Amoy. Lung has also ordered troops to be sent from King-chow to Amoy and his evacuation of King-chow is, there fore, anticipated.

puzzled to distraction by this apparently careless outlook on life. Ther become intensely irritated because the British are successful without being always at work. The accusation bas born made, of course, that we take our by the manager of the Hongkong and house rent-tax abolished. pleasures sadly, but it would be much | Shanghai Bank in acknowledgment of AND HIS TROOPS. nearer the truth to say that we take the silver wedding gift to Her Majesty them seriously. Indeed, the reproach Queen Mary from the women of Hong-of Lung's regimental officers has surren has been levelled against us that we are. only in carnest about games. Great as is the genius of KIPLING, he proved him self once unable to fathom that depth of English psychology by declaiming passionately against the Cannelled fool at the wicket" and the muddied of at the goul." He failed to realise that all the wickets and the goals' express the idea contained in the old motto A sound mind in a sound body." Even the scientists whose new discoveries so often complicate our lives rely more and more on exercise, and less on drugs, for the preservation of health. They recognise that, unless we are to become mentally distorted, we must have relaxa tion.

It is part of the Anglo-Saxon creed of life, and not only in Britain, but in all the Oversens Dominions and in the United States, educational experta recognise that brawn should be developed as well as brain.

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I am returning you the receipt form duly signed.-I'am, yours faithfully,

(Signed) EDWARD WALLINGTON, Private Sec. to H. M. the Queen.

HONGKONG

LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL

A meeting of the Hongkong Legis. lative Council will be held in the Council Chamber this afternoon at 2.30' o'clock.

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TYPHOON WARNINGS. " The following telegraus, have been received by the American Consulate- General, Hongkong, from the Manila" Observatory --

p.m. Aug. 27th.

19deg. Lat. N.. moving W.N.W.

Typhoon in about"140deg. "Long: E.,

9.15 a.m., Aug. sth. Cyclone or typhoon S. of the Bonin Islands, inclining northward.

THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL COMPANY MEETING.

AGENCY, LTD.

The twenty-second general meeting of

Second reading of the Bill intituled, the United Asbestos Oriental Agency, An Ordinance to modify and to add to Ltd., is held yesterday morning at the in its application to the Colony of Hong the provisions of the Copyright. Act, 1911,

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offers of Messrs, Dodwell & Co. Mr. G. Morton Smith-presided, and there were present Messrs. A. Denison, A. Riteis and G.-R. Edwards (Secretary).

The CHAIRMAN said-The result of the

ORDERS OF THE DAY, The Orders of the Day are as follows: Second reading of the Bill intituled, The national game in England is priation of a Supplementary Sum of

An Ordinance to authorize the Appro cricket. From the small. Hampshire Two million seven hundred and fifty-two Hongwong Onnica: 104, Da Vaux B, C. village, where it is wid to have originat, thousand

ed, it has been carried by its devotees dollars and fifty-eight cents to defray the one hundred and fifty-two al. over the world." It has been played by British teams in the Arctic

Charge of the year 1917. regions, and in the Tropics. 'In their

moments "of relaxation, no douht, the British troops in Mesopo tamin or in Siberia will play cricket or football if the ground is at all. THE SHANGHAI SENSATION nible." It is worth noting that, while

Second reading of the Bili intituled, Taz members of the Shanghai Race ericket has always attracted

An Ordinance to. Fepeal the Anglo- Club have decided, by the large majority spectators when played by the British in

eage Portuguese Commercial Treaty Ordi. year's working shows an increase in of 12 to 17, to remove the name of Mr.Italy or France, it was always "ucered

nance, 1017.

proft on trading of approximately J, I. EZRA from the roll of membership on

An Ordinance to amend the Opium Or. at in Germany. Yet it will be the spirit dinance, 1914, and the Opium Ordinance,cluding $4,995.23 brought forward from 210,000 compared with last year. In- the ground that he was guilty of un-engendered by sport that will carry the 1917.* becoming conduct in connection with the Allies to victory. It may or may not *Will not be proceeded with at this meeting, distribution, and I trust you will approve last year there is $32,381.99 available for recent baseball matches played by the be true, that the Duke of Wellington 9th Cavalry, U.S.A. This negro regiment said that Waterloo was

of the allocation recommended in the had a baseball team of some considerable playing fields. of Eton, but there is truth

won on the LOCAL SIKHS AND THE TAI report. The accounts, I think, call for HUMPHREYS ESTATE FINANCE reputation and it was apparently con in the statement that our young sirmen

little, if any, explanation.

The your Ridered, by experts on the game, that it

have learnt their intrepidity and alert

under review has been a satisfactory one. ness while playing games. would easily beat its opponents. To the sort of thing," wrote a well-known war. "That is the

but the continued absence of so much local amazement and consternation of those correspondent recently," that trains a

shipping, increased difficulties in obtain man to think at two hundred miles an Diwan on Sunday, the following resolu- the goods we are able to obtain, render At the general meeting of the Khalsa ing materials, and the advanced coats of. who thought that they were good judges, hour."" But true sport does something however, the Cavalry lost the two more than that; it teaches a mag to be tions were passed unanimously:- matches that were, arranged. In the

chiralcous, to be generous, to be 1.That the local Sikh Community beg scrupulously honest. the score against them WAS

teaches its followers." to play the game."

As we say, it to express their deep regret at the Tai ensuring year. Your investiments have to 1, and in the second * to We do not fail to recognise that, like tragedy in which a Sikh was not only been written down to the market valua

The local baseball experts were carried to excess. Competent judges have

all good things, a love of sport can be concerned but was guilty of murdering on 31st May, but your shares in public convinced that, in the first content at the impression that, a genuine. love, re his senior officer and finally of taking his Companies, you will be pleased to hear, any rate, there was something curious verence and enthusiasm for intellectual own life.

have appreciated considerably since that about the play of the Cavalrymen. It men of the present day than it was among deep regret at the cowardly conduct of the fully checked by the Superintendents, things is less common among the young 2-That the local Sikha express their date. The stock has, as usual, been care- appears that there was a considerable their fathers. That may be a part of amount of betting on the results of the the price that we pay for promoting remaining Indians stationed there, who and ample allowance has been made for. matches, and; naturally, those who lost dispelling tho morbidness of temperament

physical health and. strength

and escaped to save their own lives, leaving depreciation. A contribution of $3,000 money were determined that the matter which is so apt to accompany a purely Mrs. Glendinning and her child in dan has been made to War Charities, which, should be investigated. It is easy to

Redentary life. Certainly, with the march ger, which might have been averted if they doubtless, you approve of of civilisation, we become increasingly had acted manfully. Therefore from, the make wild accnsations and to draw do dependent upon games for the preser ductions which may appear to those who are smarting under a sense of injustice to be obvious, but it is often difficult

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O TRAGEDY. EXPRESSION OF REGRET AND ABHORRENCE.

it" difficult to forecast prospects for the

Mr. Denison, in seconding the adop-

vation of health. It is said that during viewpoint of Sikh teachings their conduct tion of the report and accounts, said that have introduced into Great Britain the the war the Americans and Canadians is viewed with abhorrence.

the shareholders ought to be pleased wish game of baseball and that it has come to

the dividend they were receiving. Much to obtain tangible evidence and to prove one aspect of it which seems unsporting making extensive alterations in, their pre- and the staff for the way in which they.. stay. It is 1-good game, but there is Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Company are

thanks were due to the General Manager definite charges. However, Mr. W. L. to the old-fashioned Briton; we refer mises in order to provide room for their bad conducted the business. They were MERRIMAX and his friends were resolved to the use of "fans" For in Cand steadily growing trade as ladies out not only able to declare that very fine. that the matter should be probed almost take a part in the game.

and the United States the spectators thoroughly, and they finally brought a jeer at the players and do their utmost has hitherto been housed on the third floor charities with a aum equal to 7 per cent. Thoy Etters. This department of their business dividend, but were able to present war charge of bribery against Mr. JUDAH to interfere with the play, and this is EZRA and two of his friends. It is

considered perfectly legitimate. Our of their building.

Now a commodious of their paid-up capital, and, at the own idea of sport is to encourage, the axles room is being fitted up on the second same time, to write down their invest- only fair to the accused to say that finally wenker side and to applaud good floor. Large consignments of antama ments to market value on the date of this charge was dropped. The elemen could scares forbear to cheer" we quote goods are expected shortly, and it has been these accounts, the price being very much

play."Even the ranks of Tuscany tary right of every association, to deter as we shout upproval to the team pitted decided to self the present stocks at lower than the purchase price, owing to mine who is suitable or worthy to belong against our own favourites. In all bargain prices to clear them out of the the tremendous rise in exchange, OR BROOMED HOUSE on Higher to it was invoked, and although the counts. On the whole, we believe that made when the improvements, now under forms of sport it in the "spirit which way so that an entirely fresh start may be Lovels or The Peak

The motion was carried unanimously. Apply to

penalty meted out may seem almost the old Anglo-Saxon ideals of cleanness way, have been completed. Dreases, at a remuneration of $200.

Mr. F. Maitland was re-elected auditor trivial it is in reality very severe In and honesty in sport still obtain, and we blouses, shoes, costs, hats and hosiery may,

are glad to notice the vigilance of the therefore, be obtained at a considerable warrants were ready, and the meeting The CHAIRMAN announced that dividend Jorge sporting community, such as

members of the Shanghai Race Club. discount

terminated.

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