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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THY HONGKONG DAILY PREER MONDAY, MARCH 81ST 1919,

HONGKONG GYMKHANA OLUB: THE FIRST GYMKHANA MEETING VALLEY, SATURDAY, APRIL 6TH, 1919, commencing at 315 P.M.

THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA

DOCK COMPANY, LOITED. . OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the

31st, 2010, Hongkong, TO-DAY (MONDAY), MARCH at Noon, for con-il-ration of the Directors Report and Statement of Accounts for the year +nuing 3 st Decoruper, 1918

The SHARE KEGISTER and TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 22nd, to the 31st inst, both days inclusiva

OWARDER and the Others,

W leaving Hongkong, LIST. COLONEL of the Bacon will be held at Harry Ulfice of the Company, 2, Quvon's Buildings,

CONTINGENT MESTOPOTAMIA AKNOX'S MISSION, wish to thank their mutabrous friends and the Members of the Messes and Clubs in and near Hongkong fur the unbounded hospitality and kindness shown to the Officers during their stay in the Cul my.

NOTICE.

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THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. ERTIFICATE No. 6810 of the nb te Company for 50 Shares of the Company numbered 80695/710 and 39711/35 and Ger ficate No. 6811 of the said Company for 100 Shares of the Company numbered 3,1097, 3411497/648 and 30721/15 both is the name of SOLOMON SASSOON BENJAMIN, and dated the have been 17th

May, 1017 day of CANCELLED by the Company and no henceforth be riglits thereunder will

the said recognized. Now Certificates, Shares have been issued to and in the name of the said SOLOMON BASSOON BENJAMIN in place of the Original Certificates referred to

Above

Dated the 31st day of March, 1919.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

RM DYER,

Chief Manager, THE HONOLONO AND WHAMPOA Dock

COMPANY LIMITED.

[518 Hongkong, March 31st, 1919,

WISEMAN, LTD.

TEA DANCES

TODAY

Monday, March 31st.

To-morrow

Tuesday, April 1st,

and on

Thursday, April · 3rd,

Friday,

and

April 4th.

D. M. GOODALL.

TELEPHONE 407.

t.

"MANAGER

$106

The Charge of Admission will be Bi for others than Members of the HONGKONG JUOKKY CLUB or GYMKHANA ULUB

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Free. The Committee invite the Ladies of Hong- kong to bu proment.

Bungkung, March 29th, 1919,

PUBLIC AUCTION. PARTIORARE

of ARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of

ix

1.

NONCE

mistered

that

[649

during

By Order of the Board of Directors,

R. M. DYER,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, March 16th 1919.

1484

THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND

LIPD. CU.,

MORTGAGE

THE TWENTY SECOND ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the Company will be held a

Building, No. 6,

INTIMATION

PARASITIN

KILLS

ALTERAT CONS to the ROAD in the Offices of the Company, St. George's TICKS AND FLEAS! ment House, Motor Vehicles will not úso MORROW (TUESaught. Road 10.

IT UPPER ALBERT JA, salside Govern this Road for downward journeys. Thuy should use Pokfulam Road and Queen's Road.

CAPT. SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE

[637 Hongkong, March 27th, 1910.

TRADERS BRITISH

COMPANY, LIMITED,

INSURANCE

NOTICE IS BEREBY GIVEN that an GENERAL -EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of the Company will be hold at the Registered Office of the Company Queens Building, Hongkong; on THURS DAY; the 10th day of APEL, 1918, at

6 o'clock P.M. when the subjoined Resolu

tions will be proposed as Extraordinary Resolutions:-

1. That the nominal silver capital of the Company as oxis lug when this resolu- tion is confirmed as a special resolution be e averted into sterling and that sach capital so converted be increased beyond

sterling the

equivalent of such miller capital when each conversion takes place to the sum of £1,00,000 Sterling of the into 200,000 shares divided

of £0 each. nominal value 2. That each of the issued silver shares of the Company of the nominal value of 888.33 each with the eam of $20 paid op therean be converted into three bares fifths of one shure of the value of £b each with the sterl equivalent of 87.35 Hongkong currency at the opening T.T. rate of exchango on the date this resolution is CONT

held TO-DAY (MONDAY), la 31 by of 12 March, 191978 the Omo

of the PTELIC WORK DAPARTMENT; by Order of Hie ECOLLINOT TA OFFICER. ADMINISTERING THE GOVERMENT, of Ons Lot of GROWN LAND at Bakar Bosd, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a derm of: 21 FÖRE,

PARTICULARE OF THE LOT..

„Be vidary

PUBLIC AUCTION.

nambg

$8728224.85

[350

ARTICULARS CONDITIONS of

• the letting by Public Auction Bale, to behold on MONDAY, the 17th day April, 1919, at 8 p.344.13, the Onion of this by Order of

ADMINIS

ORDWYA

of One Lot of

Goday of Hongkong for a bead of 75 yoken, with the option of renewal: at Crown Beat to be fired by the Barveyor of His MUNTE THE Khurd, for one further term of

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.A

ing

confirmed as B special resolution credited as paid up thereon and accord- ingly that 81,600 shares out of the 200,000 shares of the nominal value of Es each constituting the capital of the Company the Board to the persona so converter and increased be distributed by who are registered as shareholders of the Company on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution in. exchange for the silver shares then held by them.

2. That the Articles of Association; be altered in manner following namely :- By the insertion after Article No. 100 of

the Article.

ia

106 (8) The Board may em Employment ploy the the funds of the of reserve Company which have been funds. established pursuant to the provisions of Article 103 or any of the For any portion thereof (and that whether such funds or such pertion as proposed to be dealt with were wet aside for the special pa spplied or for to which they are proposed to be

or for al not) any other purpose or in or or any of the following purposes, that is in meoling co tingencies, in azing dividends, in paying special equalizing dividends or bonuses,, in requiring, improving and maintaining any of the property of the Company, or otherwise in the business of the Company and in or for such other purposes as the Board shailin aiza ducretion think conducive to gard to synch and in the tutorests of the Company and in aforesaid the board shalt not be bound

keep such finds separate from tse other asseta'

By the insortion of the following Articles

after

Article No. 107.

oal!.

107 (1) Any general meet- Bonus may

Let set of ing at which a dividend or against bands ia declared or Banoti ned may unke a call on the memb rauf such amount as the meeting fixes but so that the calt on each member shall not exceed the dividend or bonus payable to him and so that not-, withstanding the provisions of Articles

18, 19 and 20 the call may be payable at the same time as the dividend or bonus and the dividend or bonus may, so arranged between the Company and the be set off against the call. Teaking of a call under this Article shall be deemed ordinary business of an ordinary

ingry general meeting which declares

a dividend. (8) After any resolution has been passed

under

the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article the Board may arrange on behalf of the Company for the dividend or bonus to be seb.off against the call by authorizing any person on behalf of the members from

from whom such call is due to enter into an Agreement with the Company providing for such dividend or binne to be set off against Buch

| said any Agreement made

under

such authority shal be effective

DAI AFKIL 18, 1919,

at 11 A.M., for the purposes of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending. 31st December, 1918, and electing a Con- suiting Committee and Auditors.

(3). It shall be no objection to any resolu

tion made under paragraph (1) of this artiolo, or to any enli or-arrangement that such resolution was passed or such call or arrangement was made at the meeting at which the resolution introduc ing this Article and Articles 106 () was confirmed as a special resolution providen that due notice of the intention to propon such first mentioned resolution and to doolaro, auch: dividerli qe bonus. and to make much, oail: shall haxa bosn Egiven prior to the Cosp

meeting aforesaid. 107 (6) Dividendu

poid

may bey Bate of Horgkong

rency At such rate of payake ik exchange the General Tou Meeting doolaring or fonctioning the Bate or in the ease of interim dividend, au the Board may determina" Should the above resolutions be passed by Troquisite majority they will be submitted for pogilemation a spicist resolutions to

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company

ON

CATS.

will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY DOGS AND March 28th, 1919, until TUESDAY, April

tat, 1918, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.

[5** Hongkong, March 20th, 1919, UNION INSURANCE BOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

G. N. Orine has been appointed to net as Director of Education, in addi tion to bis duties na First Magistrator and Caroner.

L

Mr W. Schofield has been appointed to act as Chief Assistant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and a Deputy Regis trar of Marriages,

Rence Celebrations. Instead of calling a Major General F. H. Kolly, C.B., who public meeting to choose the Committee, was commanding at Hongkong during the system of Government nomination the early period of the war, has gone on was adopted-at a moment, too, when retired pay. n public meeting had just asked that this i system might be superseded by election in the case of the unofficial members of It would be the Legislative Council. difficult to discover the principle upon which the

were mads. nominations Though we believe great care is taken in official circles to select only those whe count" a phrase with a very sug gestire ring the first list published was chiefly remarkable for its omissions, and numerong additions have had to be made to it until to-day it contains over 100 DERICK It seemed at bus as if we were to have a fairly representative body of residents to make the arrangements for celebrating pence and providing a suit- able memorial of the victory gained by This impres the Empire and its Allies. sion was strengthened by the invitation to the general public to communicate their ideas on the subject to the Preas. At the first meeting of the Committee,

Mr and Mrs. W. A. Hannibal are

leaving to-day by the Venezuela and ex- pect to be abent, from the Colony for

about twelve months.

Mr. AE. Wood has been appointed to net as District. Offer and Magistrate, and is empowered to hold a Small Debts Court at four places in the New Ter- ritoriče.

Three cases (two deaths) of cerebro- inal fegar; two tasca (ono death) of bubonic plague, une case (one death) of

This preparation is non-four sub-Committees were formed. indiphtheria, and one ease of scarlet fever

po sonous and harmless

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on

EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL to animals. It stimulates MERTING of the Society will be held at the Registered Office of the Society. Queen's

of THURSDAY. Building. Hongkong,

10th day of APRIL, 1910, BT 1200, when the growth of the hair the subjoined Resolutions will be proposed ne Extraordinary Resolutions:-

1. That the nominal silver capital of the

Society as existing when this resolution is confirmed as a

sa special resolution bo converted into sterling and that such capital so converted be increased beyond the sterling equivalent of such silver capital when such conversion takes place to the sum of £2,000,000 Sterling divided into soy 05 shares of the nominal value of £10 each.

and fur and gives a fine

gloss to the coat.

$1.00 per bottle.

2. That each of the issued silver shares of the Society of the nominal value of $250 each with the sain of $100 paid up there- on be converted into five shares of the nominal value of £10 each with the sterling equivalent of $20 Hongkong At the opening resciation is

T.T..

rate of currency exchange on the date

resolution credited confirmed as a special as paid up therpon and accordingly that 80,000 shares out of the 200,000 shares of A. S. the nominal value of £10 each constita-

the capital of the Society so con- verted and increased be distributed by the Board to the persons who are regis- tered as shareholders of the Society on the date this resolution is confirmed as a upecial resolution in exchange for the silver share then held by them.

3. That the Articles of Association be

alteret in munner following, namely

By the insertion after Article No. 107 of

the following Article

"107 (a). The Hourd may employ Employment

the funds of the Bociety which of

have been established pursuant

ve

SOLD ONLY BY

accordance with a list prepared in advance, with power to add to their number by co-option, while the com.

position of a fifth sub-Committee, in re

were reported in the Colony on Friday.

Colonel W. M. Watson, who command- ed the Shanghai Volunteer Corpe from 1908 to 1905, and later commanded an present the Chinese, was left over 10 Infantry Brigade in India, has gone on At the same time, a scheme retired pay and been granted the Ilonor- later date. for the appointment of an Executive ary Rank of Brigadier-General. Commitice was approved. The proposals

were accepted without comment, as is nynal in such eases because those who ob ject to ent-and-dried schemes are caught unprepared and wait in vain for one another to voice dissent. This week the names of the Executive Committee appear in the Gazette. They are twenty-three in number, and, with two or three excep tions, slavishly follow precedent. While! no fully appreciate the value of experi ence, and have never gympathised with cry "Too old at forty," believe in strong infusion of new is desired, for after a time the best of us are apt to lose our freshness of outlook- a fact emphasised in "Milestones" and "It Pays to Advertise," two plays produced lueally during the last year or two. Yet so conservative are we in Hongkong that rather than deviate from the beaten track we place upon the Executive Committee

the

A

WATSON & blood where progress

CO., LTD.,

Honekone Dispensary,

T. 10

DEATHS.

We

two lambers who had already left the

Colony before their appointment wee announced, and at least three others who are due to depart very shortly |

Lieut. Bell-Irving (Acting Captain), attached to the Camel Corps, formerly of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Shang- hai, is mentioned in General Sir Edmund Allenby's despatch published in the Lon- don Gazette of January 21st, 1919, for services with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.

Dr. C. E. Lim, a graduate of Hong. kong University, at present attached to the Peking Central Hospital, has been awarded a Fellowship under the Rocke- feller Foundation of the China Medical *. Board at New York. He intends taking up post-graduate studies at the Johna |Hopkins University.

Amongst those who left the Colony on Saturday on the Empress of Asia, besides those already mentioned, were:-Mrs. A. Chapman; Mr. A. 8. D. Cousland, of Messrs. Alex Ross & Co., Hongkong, and Mrs. Cousland; Mr. W. 3: Dexter, of the South British Insurance Co., Hongkong; Darby, Chairman Messre, Harrison and Cho, clinician of Acaurs B.N.B., Mrs. Caldbeck,

Darby Mr. F. W. Hongkong, and Mra Gregor

Evans, of Messrs.

& Co1

&

It

W.

would be interesting to know precisely what the functions of the Executive

Wha

W. F. Ford, of the Hongkong and

Dock Co., Mr. U.C Galluzzi

for

Garibaldi,

Italy in wife of

of GFRERS, At Shangèsi, on March 21st, Committee are. We

recall one Com the Eastern Madame

Regt, of Shanghai, aged 32 years.

SAMUEL GREER, professional to the mittee with a membership of forty-five Shanghai Golf Club, aged 30.

A. A. Henggeler,

and Mrs.

of Measra

Garibaldi; Mr. Director of Selangor,

Mr. H. W. Looker, Dea-

which was no sooner formed than it was con & Harston #eace, Mr. Donald

to the provisions of Article 107 or any of them or any portion thereof (and that

BENNETT-At Balonika, on November whether such funds or such portion na is

27th, 1918, Captain G. W. BENNETT, to be dealt with were set avide proposed to

M.C., Yorkshire and Lancashire to which they a e special for the to be applied or for any proposed

other purpose or not) in or for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say,. in meeting contingencies, in eqaslizi.g dividends, in paying speci

4d dividends or bonuses, in pairing improving and mainta ning any of the property of the Somety, or otherwise in the busines the Swisty, and in or for much other purposes as the Board abali in its dis cretion think conducive to the interests of the Soci-ty and in regard to any such employment as aforesaid the Board shall nos be bound to keep such funds separate from the other assets,"

be set of

By the insertion of the following Articles.

after Article No. 1: 8. #1086 (1. Any general meeting Bonus may

at which a dividend or bonos aquis call, is declared or sancti med may make a call on the members of such amount as the meeting fixes but so that the call on each member shall not exceed the dividend or bonus payable to him and so that notwithstanding the call visions of Articles 19, 20

RexGRONG Urice: 10, Dre Vox Road, O LONDON OPI: 181, FLEET STREET, E.O.

The Daily Press.

Hosarong, ManON 31ST, 1919. .

IS IT CAMOUFLAGE?

Macrae of the Taikop Sugar Refinery.

invited to appoint an Executive Com

Mr. J. O, Owen, of mittee with power to add to its number.

and Mrs. Diven; Mr. A. Pearson, Governor of British North General Committee knew no more of Bornea: Mr. John W. Taylor of Messrs. what was being done than "the man in Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong, and Mrs. Taylor Mr. Joseph W. Taylor of Mcestn the moon," for they were never again Moxon & Taylor, Hongkong, and Mr.

Taylor.

From that moment the members of the Home and Whampoa Dock

consulted. If that is to be the procedure followed on the present occasion, or, if

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the Executive Committee is to sit in judg FAR

ment on the proposals of the sub-Com-

Mr. E. A Irving, Director of Educa

tion, will be proceeding on leave shortly. Wu Lien-teh has been awarded the Chiaho Decoration of the second order.

The Hon. Mr. D. Landale will be leaving the Colony shortly on an extended

To anyone gifted with a sense of bumour it is very diverting at times to observe the mittees, we merely come back to the old peculiarities of this little "outpost of régime after an elaborate piece of Empire." Let us take, for example, the camouflage. tendency to keep all power and influence may be payable and the dividend or

the name

me time as the in the hands of a select few.

Only dividend or bonus and bonus may, if so arranged between the recently complaint has been made of the Society and the

ber, by set off difficulty which anyone outside the charm- the call. The melting of a call. this Article shall be deemed ed circle experiences in obtaining a seat ordinary business of an ordinary general on the directorate of a local company, meeting whick declares a dividend.

unless, of course, he can command (3). After any resolution has been sufficient shares to outrote the solid

under the provisions of paragraph this Article the Board may arrings on phalanx opposed to him--an utter im behalf of

of the Society for the dividend or bonus

to be set off against the call by possibility, as a rule. Inasmuch, how- authorizing any person on behalf of the eyer, as it is a recognised principle in

from whom such call is due members now Agreement with the commercial spheres that he who pays the Bociety providing for such dividend or piper call, the tune" there is little ground bonus to be set off against such call and

Gun practica will take place at Pak- under such for adverse criticism in this case. If the any Agreement made authority shall be effective.

services of the boet men are not always shawan to-day. Shipping is warned to (a). It shall be no objection to any resoly-

tion made ander paragraph (1) of this obtained, we must assume that the majori-koep clear." article or to any call or arrangementty of the shareholders are either too inert that such resolution was passed or such

of

call or arrangement was made at the or too well satisfied to desire any change. meefing at which the resolution intro-The situation is different, however, when ducing this Article and Articles 107 (^) we come to deal with the conduct of was confirmed as a special resolution provided that due notice of the intention public affairs. In this direction progrés to propose such first mentioned

furlough.

The first Gymkhana meeting of the season will be held at Happy Valley next Saturday.

Police Reserve Orders announce that P. 622 Bryan is permitted to resign, mo leaving the Colony.

The importation of foreign coins, other than gold or silver coins, into the United Kinom is prohibited.

and to declare such dividend or sive communities are rapidly removing and to make such call all have the old property qualification, and hered]. given prine to the Conerminy tary privileges for sound reasons into It is reported that proposals are being moozing aforesaid, itos (b). Dividends may be paid

which we need not inter now. Imperial zonde to construct a race course on the Parliament has nos only its Labour mezi castern outskirts of Canton.

p

Hongkong. Currency stato ach rate of exobanao as the drin

Meeting deblaring

Ong the same or in 27-

the case of interim dividenda, na

bera but also its Labour" Ministers, and

the working classes are directly represent.

The Ho Hong Bank, whose head offido the Board may determine afgek fed upon every Hoyal Commission, Parlin, is in Slogapore, havo just established an Bhould be shutouts bmped montary Committed, and efloint orgunita agency in Hongkong under the Ho Thong the requkite, fuk örity, they will be gob maltod for bon runstiut as special resolutions tion that is appointed. In this Colony,

EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

SCUFFLE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

PEKING, March 28th. A scuffle occurred in the House of Representatives, yesterday, over a debate

on the Eighth Year Domestic Loan.

A motion was submitted to nak the

Finance Minister to attend the House

and explain.

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As the vote was hoing counted, a mem ber exclaimed Majority! This annoy ed the Spanker, who said it was for him to announce the result. The interrupter was assaulted by another member. and "a scuffle ensued.

.

The members left the House, the Finance Minister not being invited to

attend.

[BY COURTESY OF THE CHINA MAIL

* DEPORTATION OF SHANGHAI

GERMANS.

SHANGHAI, March 28th.

The Antilochus is not sailing for ten days. The ombarkation of the Germans to-morrow has been deferred for some reason unknown

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY] GENERAL KÖLTCHAK'S BIG VICTORIES.

LONDON, March 25th.

·Raiter learns that

that Gen. Omsk, dated March 11th State from. Kolichak's Army parted tile enemy on . front of 30 miles, and advanced nearly, 40 miles along the right of the River between her tready captured

which

pursued in, thien direne Abandoning,langI iantitie

codd. antraordinary moeting #hion will bo to sodoma enthrwojedinary miseling which || however, our thoughts: still sellor to Chinese coolin's find of umbezerit do ta storos,,ya) large number of prid

berumily convened pounds

thai day of Mark 1919.

MONTAGUE EDE.

General Manager.

will be absequently convanethsi

Dabed thes

By Order

insanals were taken?

ili day of Marsh, 1913, the mouldering part." An illustration Borneo (says the Britisk North-Borro

XTAGUR ED

Aby proceed Herald) Maliml in total::

with the proposed Hung