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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

INTIMATIONS

THE

HONGKONG

FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATIO OF UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

HONGKONG.

EASTER HOLIDAYS.

CANTON, LIMITED.

DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 18TR,

zando by notice specifsing the number of shares tu which such pors are entitled and limiting the time within which the offer if not accepted by payinen. will be deemed to be declined to the 23rd May, 1919, and that the Board be epaswored to dispose of the shares not lekén up in ! response to such offer as they consider expedient in the interes S of the Society.

cipato TO.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all NOTION INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS TO DAY (FRIDAY), MORROW (SATURDAY) and MONDAY, APRIL, 18TH, 10ra and 21ST.

By Order,

A R LOWE, Secretary Hongkong, April 18th, 1919

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MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF HONGKONG.

EASTER HOLIDAYS.

NOMOR IBURANCE OFFICES

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all

will be CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIO BUSINESS TO-DAY (FRIDAY), TO-MORROW (SATURDAY) and MON- DAY, APRIL 1876, 1978 and 21ST.

By Order,

LOWE BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,

Secretaries. Hongkong, April 18th, 19:0

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THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE DIRECTOR of the above Company have declared An INTERIM DIVIDEND of 3% (equal to 3 per Share) on the Proferrel Ordinary Share at 6% (equal to 6 per Share) on the Deferred Ordinary Shares

Dividendla for Sharabodors on the Colonial Register are free of tooome Tax and will be nail at the rate of 3/3 per dular.

Dividend Warran's will be obtainable on and after MONDAY, May 18th, 19 9, at the Company's Office

TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will bs CLOSED from MONDAY, May 5th, to MONDAY May 12th, both days inclusive.

JARDINE. MATHESON Co., LTD., General Managers. Hongkong April 17th, '9 9."

WANTED.

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Reliable and Experienced MASTER

A for a British ve sol trading to thằng.

kong. Good reconi poatia!.

Also a CHIEF ENGINEE for the s

steamer.

Apply in writing, stating previous record. and experience, care of

POST OFFICE Box No. 248,

CANTED

W Steamer,

Apply-

WANTED.

1630

CAPTAIN for British

GERMINAL CRIAR TORE,

18, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

(577

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY,

LIMITED.

Cincorporated in the United Kingdom.)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at thi Offices of Mesa JARDINE, MATHESON COMPANY, LIMITED, Pedder Street, Hong- kong, en WEDNESDAY, Areil 2 RD, 1919, at 12 o'clock Noos, to transact the ordinary business of the Copany.

By Order of this Board,

WE ROBERTS, Secretary, Hongkong, February 7th, 1918.

PA

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LUSITANO RECREATION CLUB. TWELFTH ATHLETIC MEETING.

HE THE OFF.CER ATRONS:-

GOVERNMENT, ADMINISTERING THE HE MAJOR GENERAL F. VENTRIA, E. Vice Admiral TuDoz, Commodore GURNER, His Lordship Bishoo D. Pozzon, Hon. Mr. W. CHATHAM, C.M.G. Oneal E. V. MR, DE BOUZA, E.0.0.C

The Committee has much pleasure in inviting the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Colony to their SPORTS at the Race Course (by kind permission of the HoKOKONG JOOK-T CLUB) on EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 21ST, commencing at 1.30 P.M.

There will be two open events -220 yds. Championship, open to all Bona Fide Amatears in the Colony under the Rules of AAA ȘI.

One mile Relay Race, open to any unit of four. $2.00 per unit.

By ind permission of the Officers, the Band of the 18th Infantry will play during the afternoon.

By courtesy of the Management, there will be Special Tram Cars.

J. C. BARRETTO, Hon. Secretary.

Hongkong, April 16th, 1919.

ST. PETER'8

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CHURCH,

WEST POINT, HONGK NG.

THE above CHURCH will be Open, after repairs, on EASTER SUNDAY.

SERVICES-9 1.M.-HOLY COMMUNION

11 AM MORNING PRAYER, HOLY COMMUNION and

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BERMON,

PROPOSALS FOR COAL

FFICE Department

Quartermaster, Sealed proposals will be received here until 11 AM MAY 15TH, 1919 and then opened, for farnishing cond for Nagasaki, and Mjiko, Japan, Manila and other military stations Pallippino Department.

Tardor information on application.

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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Society will be held at the Registered Office of the Society, Queen's Building, Hongkong, on FRIDAY the 25th day of APR, 1919, at 12 Noon, when the subjoined resolutions while wens passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Society bold on the 10th day of April, 1910, will be submitted for confirmation as special resolutions:-

1. That the nominal silver capital of the Society an existius wher, this resolution in confirmed special resolution be

4. That the 16,00 additional abares referred to in Resolution No. 3 parti- all dividende doclored after tho next Annual General Meeting of the Society pro rats with the 80,000 shares referred to in Resolution No. 1. Dated the Eleventh day of April, 1939.

By Order of the Board,

C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager.

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CANTON, LTD,

converted into sterling and that such | UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF capital se convertast be increased beyond the sterling equivaloat of such silver capital when sach conversion takes place to the sum of £2,000 Sterling divided into 200,000 shares of the nominal value of £10 each.

2. That each of the issued silver shares of the Society of the nominal value of $250 esch with the sum of $100 paid up there on be converted into five shares of the nominal value of £10 each with the sterling equivalent of 820 Hongkong currency at the opening T.T. rate of exchange on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution credited as paid up thereon and recordingly that 90,000 shares out of the 200,000 shares of the nominal value of £10 each constitu- ting the capital of the Society so con- verted and increased be distributed by the Board to the persons who are rogis- tered as shareholders of the Society on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution in exchange for the silver shares theu held by theo.

3. That the Articles of Association be altered in manner following, namely:--- By the insertion after Article No. 107 of

the following Article

"107 (a). The Board may employ Employment the funds of the Society which eve

⚫ have been established pursuant

fands.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from the 19th April to the 25th April, both days inclusivo.

By Order of the Board,

¤ MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager,

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Hongkong, April 11th, 1918.

INTIMATIONI

BY APPOINTMENT.

WATSON'S

STONE

GINGER-

iR

1919.

bands of the "medicine man." Such a Japan an analogy is to be found in the compromise exists in a very attenuated criticisuris launched at the Government form in the West to the present day. It for hastening to protect itself from defeat 1.rue that the Pope no longer by covering itself with the sacerdotal elis the right to apprint on pape

robes of the Sovereign, an action which the crition themselves do not scruple to Sovereigns, although this is due rather 10

Governments, in the fact that the Vatican no longer has adopt when attacked.

Japun, however, are themselves under any means of getting its behests carried cat than to voluntary abnegation.

suspicion of being merely composed of The

creatures of the clan leaders, who from Church, however, still exercises the right behind the veil direct the pulicy of the of anctification of all hevessions to the country while not themselves taking any Throne, although anty nominally.

public part in it. It will thus be seen Japan the sacerdotal functions of the bow far Japan is from being in sympathy Sovereign have survived through great with the democratic ideas now spreading stress and strain. That the actual ruler over the world and how perplexed is her never really absorbed the position of

nttitude towards many of those probleins sacerdotal ruler as astonishing, and may, which she is called upon to discuss at the perhaps, be ascribed to that system of Peace Conference. concubinage which guaranteed that there should always be one heir of nog two or three to the throne. The fact that the

Io

BEER office of macerdotal Sovereign was never

The next issue of the Hongking Daily Pre will be on Monday morning.

The Fire and Marine Insurance Offices

abolished is pointed to by the Japanese as evidence of the deep reverenon which will be closed over the Easter holidays. existed for the spiritual rulers and the

BRITISH TRADEBE INSURANCE The on y 1rmented Stone Ginger-ense of divinity which enfolded them.

COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company |

Beer in the Far cat.

Five cases (two deaths) of rerebro-spinal Whatever may have been the cause, lever wore reported in the Colony on throughout the major part of Japan's Wednesday. history the spiritual ruier exercised only nominal sway, while the actual power bren demobilised fauys

Mr. Ralston and Mr. Fletcher have

the

Fellow

25th April, both days inclusive. will be CLOSED from 19th April to the The real charm of Stone Gioger-lay in the hunds of the military ruler, Dragon, the magazine of Queen's College) who was supposed to be entrusted with and are now enjoying a holiday in Scot- it by the former. All attempts of the land. sacerdotal ruler to seize the temporal

By Onier of the Bowd,

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager

[819 Hongkong, April 11th, 1918

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE HALF-YEARLY GENERAL

By Order,

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T. PHOUGH, Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, April Izok, 913. THE BONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

to the provisions of Article 107 or any of MEETING of Members will be held them or any portion thereof fand that in the Ooos of the BONGKONG JOCKEY whether such funds or such portion as is CLUB on SATURDAY, APRIL 2015, at proposed to be dealt with were set aside 12 o'clock NOON. for the special purpose to which they are proposed to be applied or for any other purpose or not) in or for a or any of the following purposes, that is to say, In Broting contingen ios, in equalizing dividends, in paying special dividends or lauses, in repairing improving and mainta ning any of the property of the So lety, or otherwise in the basines of Els 8icty, and in or for such other purpo-es as the Board shall in its dis. cretion think conducive to the interests of the Society and in regard to any such employment as aforesaid the Board shall now be bound to keep the reserve funde soparate from the other assets." By the insertion of the following Articles

after Article No. 108,

So wet af

108 (1) Any general meeting Boou may at which a dividend or bonus against call. is declared or sanots med may make a cali vn 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 pro- visions of Articles 39, 20 and 91 the call may be payable at the same time as the dividend or bonus and the dividend or bonus may, if so arranged between the Society and the member, be get off against the call. The making of a cali

poder

this Article shall be deemed ordinary business of an ordinary general meeting which declares a divikend (3. After any resolution has been passed under the provisions of pa ugraph (1) of this Article the Board may arrange on behalf of Bho Society for te dividend or bonus to be not of against the call by authorizing any person on behalf of the members from whom euch call is due to enter into an Agreement with the Society providing for sach dividend or bonus to be set off against such call and such Agreement made under Any authority shall be eflective (3). It shall be no objection to any resolu- tion made under paragraph (1) of this article or to any call or arrangement that such resolution was passed or such call or arrangement was undo at the mesting at which the revolution intro- ducing this Article and Articles 107 (a) was confirmed as a special resolution

pro idei that due notice of the intention to propose such first mentioned resolu tion and to declare su h dividend or bonus and to make such call shall have been given prior to the Confrmatory meeting aforesaid.

105 (b). Dividends may be paid

Iate of

in Hongkong Currency at exchange for such rate of exchange sa the dividenda General Meeting sanction-able in ing the same or, in the case of our interim dividends, as the Board may determine."

And the subjoined resolutions will be proposed is Extraordinary resolu

tions:-

1. That the difference between the sterling equivalent ab to-day's opening T.T. ento of exchange of 320 Hongkong currency and the sum of £4 called up upon esch of the 80,000 shares of the Bociety of the nominal valuo of £10 each into which the silver shares of the Socisty have been converted.

2 That a bonus dividend equal in amount to such difference se is referred to in

Locos doctored out of the Reinsurance

hereby

BE BONUS of $16.00 per Share authorised by to Extraordinary Resolution passed on March 28th, 1918, wili be di-tributed to those perons who are

Beer is the favour produced by partial fermentation; without this no Stone Ginger-Beer can be said

to be genuine.

$100 per dozen.

TRADI

BARR

two

An interim dividend of 3 per cent, un the Preferved Ordinary shares and of C per cent, the Delerved Ordinary

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shares of the Indo China Stram Naviga tion C., Ltd. has been declared

Mrs. E. W. P'attenden, of 125, The Peak, writes that yesterday there was received in the Colony a letter posted in Norway an "Surely," July 20th, 1914, vin Siberia. she observes this constitutes a record !"

power were repressed, and one or oniperors casne to violent ends, or spent their lives in banishment, owing to this cause. For the must part Japan's history consists of the struggle between the rival dans to attain the temporal power, the Sovereign being a mere puppet in their hands, whose function was to appoint officially the most succesful of the clan lenders. Japan's three hundred years of

a succession of tem peace were due to

more than poral rulers of

common ability, who, by means of extraordinary terday, with gambling at West l'uint. One safeguards including the holding of of the defendants assumed hostages, managed to keep all the other Christian martyrdom, stating that just

Several Chinese were charged before Mr. G. N. Orne, at the Magistracy, yes-

an air of

Registered on the 30th day of April, 1910, & A. S. WATSON & clans in awe. This was the feudal polity because he was listening to the Word of

the bolders of the issued Shares of the

Com Bonus will, pursuant to the Agree

ment which the Busrd has been authorised to enter into, be satisfied, us regards each complete number of three fesued shares held, by the allotment of one new share of #50, each credited as fully paid up.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, APRIL 19rm, 189, to WEDNESDAY, April 30TH, both days inclusiva

By Order of the Board,

W. S. BROWN, Secretary Hongkong. April 7th, 1818

T047

FOR SALE

NIX CYLINDER, Seven Passenger Over-

land Car, Good Order, Now Tyres, together with Fireproof Garage Building for two Cars, all Accessories for both. Bargain if sold one lut.

J. LAMPERT, Alexandra Buildinga.

Funds of the Society, such bonus divid-8 end being payable to the persons who are registered as the shareholder of he Soviety on the date this resolution is passed and that such dividend in the ease of encit of such persons be set of against the amount due from him for call under Resolution No. 1 and be retained by the Society accordingly and

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THE PEAK.

SALE. A FIVE-ROMEO Residence. For particulare apply to-

CO.. .TD.,

Fines ranging

which was on it last legs when Admiral Giod he was arrested.

from 33 to 85 were imposed. PERRY went with his black ships to

The Japan some half a century ago.

A fatal tram-car accident occurred on tottering fabric needed but this last Wednesday evening opposite the Hong- An elderly Chin-

ÆRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS touch to fall to the ground, but it would kong Cricket ground.

Tu, 43

BIRTH.

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Hongkong Ortion: 10, Dre Vœux ROAD, O. LONDON OFFION: 181, FLAT STRIST, B.C.

The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, April 1878, 1919.

JAPAN AND THE SPREAD OF DEMOCRATIC IDEAS.

WAS

ཡ

Sergeant Cockle, of the Wanchai Police, charged seven mea before Mr. G. N. Drave, at the Magistracy, yesterday, with smoking optum. Sergeant Cockle stated that he raided a house in Wanchai and found the defendants lounging on a bed

be idle to regard that which then took esc, who persisted in walking along the its place as a new departure or even a tram-lines despite the warnings sounded return to a remote or vriginal polity by the driver was knocked down and from the upholding of which Japau had badly injured before the car could be He was removed in the motor- strayed. The temporal power was hand stopped. NATHAN.At No. 10, Seward Road,ed to the sacerdotal sovereign by the ambulance to the Government Civil Rus Shanghai, on April 11th, to Mr. and action of two clans, who were the leaders pital, where he died yesterday morning. Mra, E. 8. NATHAN, & son.

in the revolt against the Tokugawa rule The other clans agreed to this course partly by force majeure and partly by the pressure of foreign influence em phasising the need for internal cohesion. There was a last flicker of the old clan

He arrested the bunch, and, rivalry when one of the cians, which had enoking. been chiefly instrumental in handing the searching the premises, found a number temporal power to the Sovereign, endeav of pots of opium. Defendants, were fined Dured to grasp the sole right of exercie 4 each, while the keeper of the divan was fined $60, with the alternative of This ing the temporal power. defeated, but the induence of the clan six weeks' imprisonment. „Jaran still surveys the world in the light was bardly impaired, and to-day the rise

St. Peter's Church will be open again of her feudal paat--a fuet which is often or fall of Governmente in Japan repre on Easter Sunday. During the past six overlooked owing to the veneer of modern senta more or less closely the struggles wecks the whole building, internal and civilisation with which she has covered of the rival clans. The difference is that external, has been repaired under the her institutions. The wave of democracy the struggle is now in the Council cham-supervision of Messra Leigh & Orange. which is sweeping round the world has her and not on the field of battle. As in These repairs to the Church have cost touched ber upon this weak spot, causing the case of other constitutional moner about, $1,500, and "are being paid for by some heart-searching a to how farchies, the Sovereign is in the hands of the Missions to Scaunen, while the repairs Japan is still out of touch with the his advisers, and while having a nominal to the Organ, which were done by Mr. It is the boast of Japan that right of veto is hardly called upon to been paid for out of the funds of the what she has taken from the West she exercise it. There is a form of veto, Church and by means of a few special has adapted to her own peculiar civilise however, consisting in the issue of a subscriptions. A surpliced choir for St. tion. It is constantly emphasised in the Imperial Rescript, which has been used Peter's has been started in connection sehools, in the lecture bulls, and in the on several occasions to overcome opposi with the Diocesan Boys' School. Press that Japan's Constitutional basis tion to the Government's plans, though is totally different from that of any other not without considerable, if guarded, IX ROOMS and Furniture, Ne-6, quuntry-that she enjoys the distinction criticism. SIX

It is in this that the feudal

"X.YZ" Care of "Daily Press * Office. (424

TO LET.

Boxen Months, from May 4th, THE PEAK Fully

103,

to:-

No Furnished

APPLY VINGTON,

o/o Bradley & Co., Ltả, 1653

FOR SALE AT THE PEAK.

No. 3, MOUNTAIN VIEW.

Apply to

H. E. POLLOCK,

Princes' Buildings.

PEAK HOUSE TO LET.

Mountain View, May 1st. Apply to

F411

(645

DENNYS & BOWLEY.

TO LET

world.

of being a country without parallel in so character of modern Japan's polity re far as her polity is concerned. The boast sides. As in ancient days the temporal is not an idle one, but whether poculiarity ruler received from the sacerdotal ruler and distinctiveness always demand ada mandate for the suppression of any

DERRINGTON No & Peak Boud, miration in another question There is attempt to drive him from power, so to

from 1st

Rooms and 2 Tennis Courts

Apply to-

June.

LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

Alexandra Buildings.

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TO LET.

TO.

Apply to-

W. Binckelt, have cost $800, and have

CORRESPONDENCE. LADIES MINIATURE RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONOKONG DAILY PRESS. "' no other great Power which now claims day the Government of Japan can call

SIR,--1 am requested by the President an upon the Sovereign to excommunicate ite and Committee of the Ladies' Rifle Asso- godhead for the Sovereign and

Excommunication is really ciation to ask any indics in the Colony unpolluted line of descent for the whole opponents. people, thus making them all one family. what it amounts to, since to offer opposi who may be desirous of being elected To find a parallel to such claims one tion to the sacerdotal power is an unformenbers of the Club to send in their would have to turn to the ancient civili-givable crime. In ancient Japan it was

names to Misa Loureiro, 2, The Albany,

that the Board be authorised to make No. 10% THE PEAK, 4-Roomed House antions of South America no the latest possible for two rival parties to claim

the necessary entries in the books of the Socioty,

at the Peat

TERUY SMITA SETH & FLEMING

TO LEE.

3, That the 16,000 shares of the capital of the Society be issued additionally, to the 60,000 shares referred to in Resolution No. 1 and that the sum of £4 be called up thereon and that such additional aliaros be offered in the first instance at a premium of £21 per share to the

ona who are registered as the sham-FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon holder of the Booty on the date this solution is passed in the proportion of one aditional shoro for each silver share proviously bold and upon the footing that the sum of 24 called up plus the 291 (making togelber £25 por share) shall be paid to the Sooloty on kooopt 1 ance of the offer, and that each offer "be

Apply to--

KUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

COMPANY, LTD.,

Alexandra Buildinge

(8)

examples. In Europe they have long that they were both fighting for the since been abandoned. No doubt in upholding of the spiritual ruler-one primitivo communities there was always side on the ground that it held a mandate a struggle between the "medicine man "to administer the temporal power, and and the warrior as to the leadership of the other on the ground that the sacred the tribe, the one seeking power by wayness of the Sovereign's rights had been in of slavery of the soul and the other by fringed. This would seem to indicate a slavery of the body. Very seldom was sense of humour among Japan's ancient

ид or before the 30th instant. Misa

Loureiro will be pleased to supply any lady wishing to become a member with particular regarding the Club.

The Club has for the past year been unable to hold any competitions owing to war conditions, but it is hoped to reopen the Club next autuma, and in order to do so it is necessary to order the requisite supplies now and to know the probable number of be shooting-Yeure faithfully, we will

CA. DREAPER, (Hon. Scoretary, Ladies' Rifle Association),

TA

it that the power remained in the same warriors, since the driving of a rival from hands for any length of time, the usual the position of temporal rulor was invari- cosult being a compromise by which the ably followed by the relinquished reins Royal Naval Hospital, warrior received his mandate from the being yot more tightly hold. In modern Hongkong, April 17th, 1010.