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FOREBANK EAST, MAGAZINE GAP.

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TO LET

ULLY FURNISHED, for 10 auths from the end of May. Telephine and Tennis Court.

Apply --

Box 609, Care of Daily Press" Offico.

FOR

WANTED.

DOREMAN ENGINEER, per fornbly with

good al op Experience. Apply

SUPT. ENGINEER, Kowloon Docks.

den

WANTED.

Reliable and Experienced CHIEF OFFICER for a British verank trading to Hongkong Good rooord essential.

Also a SECOND ENGINEER for the same steamer.

Apply in writing, stating previous record and experience, are of

POST OFFICE Box No 248.

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ANTED CAPTAIN for British

Steamer. Apply

GERMINAL CIGAR STORE,

18, Nathan Road,

Kowloon.

FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATIO

HONGKONG.

EASTER HOLIDAY.

[577

OF

NOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN that all

21ST.

INSURANCE OFFICES will

bs CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS 10 DAY (MONDAY), APRIL

By Order,

A LOWE, Becretary

1001 Hongkong, April 18th, 1919.

MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF HONGKONG.

EASTER HOLIDAY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS TO-DAY (MONDAY), APRIL 21ST.

By Order,

LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,

Secretarios. Hongkong, April 18th, 1919.

1855

LUSIFANO RECREATION CLUB. TWELFTH ATHLETIC MEETING.

Tak OFF CER ÅDMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT, H.& MAJOR GENERAL F. VERTEIS, HE Vice Admiral TUDOR, Commodore Girexe, His Lordship Bishop D. PozZONI, Hon. Mr. W. CHATHAM, C.M.G. Consul E. V. M K. DE BOUZA

PATRONS:-H

The Committee has much pleasure in inviting the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Colony to thair SPORTS at the Race Course (by kind permission of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB) on EASTER MONDAY, APEIL, 216T, commencing at 1.30 PM.

Thero will be two open events:-220 yds. Championship, open to all Bona Fide Amateurs in the Colony under the Rules of A A.A. $1.

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

By bind 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,

[001

Hongkong, April 16th, 1919.

HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED. (Incorporated in the United Kingdoin.)

N°

FOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Offloor of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, LIMITED, Fodder Street, Hong- kong. on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1919, at 12 o'clock Noon, to transact the ordinary business of the Company.

By Order of the Board,

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

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THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE DIRECTORS of the above Company have doglazed 40 INTERIM DIVIDEND of 3% (oqual to 3/- per Sharo) on the Preferred Ordinary Shares and 0% (equal to 6 por Bhaes) on the Deferred Ordinary Blac

Dividends for Sharoboldura on the Colonial Beginler so free of Income Tax and will bo paid at the ente of afa 3 por siuliar.

Dividend; Wathinte will be obtainablo on and after MONDAY, May, 15th, 1919, at the Company's Offro

TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, May 8th, to MONDAY May 18th, both days inclusive.

JARDINÉ, MATHESON & Co., Ltr.) Gonoral Managers. Hongkong April 17th, 19:0.

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 1ST, 1819,

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MENTING of the Socisty will be held at the Registered Office of the Society. Queen's Building, Hongkong, on FRIDAY the 26th day of APRIL, 1919, at 12 Noon, when tho subjoined solutions which wore passed the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Society held on the 10th day of April, 1919, will be submitter for confirmation as special resolutions:

made by notice spoeifz ing the number of shares to which such perse; o are entitled and limiting the time within which the offer if not neceptet by prymen will ba dengud to be declined to the 23rd May, 1919 and that the Bo.ed be empoworod to dispose of the shi-res not taken up in response to such offer as they consider the interea. of the expedient in Socinty.

4. That the 1600 additional shares referred to in fesolution No 3 parti cipato in all dividende declared after the next Annual General breting of the Society pro rata with the 60,000 MĚKTER referred to in Resolution No Í.

Dated the Eleveath way of April, 1913.

By Order of the Board,

C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager

(020

1. That the narcinal silver capital of the Society as existing when this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution be converted into sterling and that such UNION capital by converted be increased beyond the sterling equivalent of such silver capital when such conversion takes place To the sum of £200 000 Sterling divided into 1,000 shares of the nominal value of £10 each.

INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

CANTON, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

NOTIOR IS HEREBY GIVEN that the will be CLOSED from the 10th April to the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society 25th April, bo h days inclusive.

By Order of the Boer,

C. MONTAQUE EDE, General Manager,

[618 Hongkong, April 11th, 1948,

That nach of the issued silvor shares of the Society of the nominal value of $250 each with the sum of $100 paid up there- on be converted into five shares of the nal value of £10 oach with the nominal sterling equivalent of $20 Hongkong ancy at the opening T.T. rate of currency at exchange on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution credited is paid up thereon and accordingls that 90,000 shares out of the 900,000 shares the nominal value of £10 each constitu ting the capital of the Society so con. the Board to use persons who are regis-N verted and increased be distributed by

tered as shareholders of the Society on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution in exchange for the silver shares then held by thea

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

the following Articlo

of reseste

INTIMATIONI

BY API OINTMENT.

WATSON'S

STONE

GINGER-

BEER

BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE | The only fermented Stone Ginger-

COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company

JOTTER IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

to

Those

Among those who arrived in the talony yesterday on their way to Singapore were Mr. J. Hubosa, the Belgian Consul at Yokohama, and Mrs. Bubonia,

ignored the repeated inquiries addressed A sale of work will be held at the To them on the subject by their Inspectors Helena May Institute, on Wednesday ...who, be it remembercil, were also bunj. next (81. George's Day) in aid of Dr.

mrn giving their services gratuitous Barnarda's Homes ly it was clearly impossible, in the interest of the Corps and injustice

"played the Rame to alls such conduct [+ Pass 101 noticed. Punishments, tonover, have Rever been inflicted until after full in vestigation, and applications for exemp taon from duty have always been referred 10 an independent Board, which, to our | knowledge, hag sometimes given decisions

adverse to the views of the comandant There were 3,030 foreign residents liv. at the end of January, It is probable, we think, theí a good dealing in Kube

Among the local vesidenta densing by the thing we 18orrow is Mr. A. D. Geo, manager of the Steum Laundry Company, who is going Home on furlough,

of the discvalent expressed has been due according to the figures of the foreign section of the Kobe Police Headquarters, to the fact that nobody. apon joining. supposed that his services would be re quired for so long a period as they have Inet. but for that, of course, we must blame the Central European Powers. If

Mr. A a Brawn has been appointed Lieutenant in Command of the ladet Company, Hongkong Defence Corps, ered 2nd-Liem. J. E. W. Beard, restgned his

L'ommission.

The Hon. Mr. E D. G Wolfe has been

Arue that in 1915, when the Force com prised half its present number, only two duties a month were detailed to every man, but the correspondent who points appointed a Dirastor of the Widows Juid thus ont forgety that condition, arose Orphans' Pensions, me the flan. My A. M. Thomson, retired, with effect from later which demantled heavier calls upon April 9th, 1918.

Beer in the Four } *'.

BVOR

At

61 Corpe. When the appeal for additional

Front the

The members of the B.W.W.A.

were

WARE 题

will be CLOSED from 19th April to the The real charm of Stone Ginger-erived 25th April, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager. Rongkong April 11th, 1919.

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HONGKONG JOOKEY CLUB.

HE HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING Obers will be held

in the Office of the BONGKONG JODKEY CLUB on SATURDAY, APRIL 2re, at

10 (4). The Board may employ Employment the funds of the Socisty which tusda. have been established pur-uant to the provisions of Article 107 or any of them or say portion thereof and that whether such funds or such portion as is proposed be dealt with were set aside 12 o'clock Noor.

to for the special purpose to which they a 6 proposed to be applied or for any other purpose or not) in or for all or any of the following purposes, that is to may, in meeting continum íes, in dividends, in paying special

or bonuses, in repairing improving and mainta ning any of the property of the Society, or otherwis in the bustores of the Sciaty, and in or for such other parpo-es as the Board shalt in its dia- cretion think conducive to the interests of the Society and in regard to ang auch employment as aforesaid the Board shall

By Order,

T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of thus Conroe, Hongkong, April 12th, 1919.

G.

NOT JE.

R.

Beer is the flavour produced by

partial fermentation; without this Stone Ginge-Beer can be said

to be genuine.

$1.00 per dozen.

is

TRADA

LL PERSONS, with the exception of those of Chinese race desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person between the hours of 9 am to 1 P.M. and 3 P.Mt. 50 4 P.L.

MARK

to the Polier Bezerve

fo

thu2 il Whe

آن

U SC of pride Shanghai, have asked Lady de Sausmarez, their President to accept a ring as a Lokon able release more of the Regu of appreciation of increasing and faith- lars for service with the Coloure and ful work" since September, 1914. thereby justify its description by Generá)

A Chinese girl, seven years of age, has KELLY 06 valuable addition to the been removed to the Government Civil defensive forces of the Colony." Though Hospital, suffering from injuries to her hostilities are now at an end, these men right foot, as the result of being run over have not yet returned to Hongkong. It by a loaded truck in Wing Lok Street. may be that some of them are spending

Mr. A brief vacation at Home, ba, who would deprive them of that, after the experi

nees they have been through, in order 14 escape from duties which do not occupy more than nine un en hour, & month? must not be forgotten that the members of the Hongkong Defence Corpe, who, it is complained, are now enjoying an easy time," were mobilised on the outbreak of war and were per

for months

not be bound to keep the rea-rve funds daily, at the PASS OFFICE, POST OFFICE A.. WATSON & forming arduoug duties

separate from the other assets."

By the insertion of the following Articles

after Article No. 18.

1088 (1) Any general meeting Boo

at which a dividend or bonus galist call, is declared or sanctioned may

in the & call on the monters of such amount as the meeting fixes but so that the call on each tu mber shall not exceed

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BUILDING.

Applicants will ne required to produce Passports or identification papers.

All persons, with certain exceptions, woo emain in the Colony for more than 7 days are required to Register themselves under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE, 1818.

Forms of Registration, giving the parți anlars required may be obtained at the G.P.O. and at all Police Stations.

The Penalty for non complisuse is a fine not exceeding $50.

FOR SALE

40

CNIK CYLINDER, Seven Passenger Over-

the dis idend or bonus payable to him and so that notwithstanding the pro- visions of Article 19, 20 and 21 the call may be payable at the same time as the dividend or bonus and the dividend or bese may, if

between the 80 arranged Society and the member, bo set off again-t the call. The making of a call under this Article shall be deemed Declinary business of an ordinary generalland Car, Good Order, New Tyrea, meeting which i ela e a divilend (31. After any lion has been passed together with Fireproof Garage Building under the prsions of paragraph (1) of for two Cars, all Accessoris for both. this Article be Board may arrange on Bargain if sold one lot, bo alf of the Society for the dividend or bogus to be set off against the call by authorizing any person on behalf of the members from whom such call is due to enter into an Agreement with the Society providing for such dividend or bonus to be set off against such call and any Agreement made under sucb authority shall be affective

J. LAMBERT, Alexandra Buildings.

THE PEAK.

[662

SALE. A FIVE-ROOMED Besidence.

For particulare apply to......

"XYZ"

Care of "Daily Preve" Oïños.

[424

(3). It shall be no objection to any resolu. Lion made under paragraph (1) of this article or to any call or arrangement that such resolution was passed or such call or arrangement was made at the meeting at which the rewolution intro- ducing this Article and Articles 107 (2) FOR Bevan Months from May 5th, was confirmed as a special resolution No. 103, THE PEAK; Fully

pro ide that das watice of the inten jon to propose auch first mentione | resolu tion and to declare such dividend or teous and to make such call shali have been given prior to the Contirmatory meeting aforesaid.

101 (b). Dividends may be paid

Hate of

in Hongkong Carency at exchange for such rate of exchange as the dividvoda General Meeting sanction pas in Hongkong. ing the same or, in the case of interim dividends, as the Board may determine."

And the subjoined resolutions will bá proposed as Extraordinary resolu- tions:-

1. That the difference between the sterling equivalent ab to-day's opening T.T. rats of exchange of 820 Hongkong enrrency and the sum of £4 be called up upon each of the 80,000 shares of the Society of the nominal value of £10 each into which the silver shares of the Society have been converted.

8. Tiast a bonus dividend equal in amount

to such difference as is referred to in

Furnished.

TO LET

Apply to:-

F. BEVINGTON,

c/o Bradley & Co., Ltd.

(653

No.

FOR SALE AT THE PRAK.

JO. 2 MOUNTAIN VIEW.

Apply to

H. E. POLLOCK,

Princes' Buildings,

[411

PEAK HOUSE TO LET.

SLX ROOMS and Furniture, No. 6,

NIX

Mountain View, May Jat. Apply to.

DENNYS & BOWLEY.

TO LET

1045

CO., LTD.,

ÆRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS

431 1,

119

N. J. Stubb, O.B. E., has been appointed as unofficial member of the Executive Council during the absence from the Colony of Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C, O.BE, with effect from Friday, April 18th

Mr. R. T. Nelson, an assistant of the Maritime Customs, has been promoted Acting Deputy Commissioner at Canton to take up the duties of Mr. A Wilson, who has been appointed Acting Commis sioner of Custoons since the departure of Mr. Francis A. Carl from Canton.

before the Police Reserve was formed and for nearly a year before its members were called upon to do any serious work. Ws] The Japanese Consulate General hand- have no sympathy with those who leaveed over to the Chinese Maritime Customs, their places of business each day at five on April 10th, some 370 Hw. of opium and o'clock and yet feel aggrieved because 63 lbs. of morphia for destruction in the The druge were they are asked to give up three or four furnaces at Pootung. night, a month for the purpose of assist seized on ships arriving in Shanghai from ing in the preservation of law and order various ports during the last three years, while some of the ordinary custodians of

Major A. C. Bryson, M.C., R.A.M.C., the peace are facing the perils and hard who returned recently from the Front, ships of the battlefield for their makes after three and a half year's service in On the other hand, of course, if the France, is one of the four sons of the Clevernment can make satisfactory Rev. T. Bryson, of Tientsin, all of whom rangements to dispense with the servicee saw active service with the British HARDMAN-BALLARD. At Putney Baptist

Expeditionary Force. He has now joined burch, Londen, SW, on February of the Police Reserve it is only reason 8th, by the Riv. A. Cunningham able to expect them to do so an early s

the firm of Drs. Jackson, Jackson and Burley, 2nd-Lieut. E. F. HARDMAN,

Neild. M.G.C. (Cavalry), son of Mr. and possible, and we agree with Disgusted " Mrs. Meredith Hardmna, of the that no preference should be shown to At the annual meeting of Ratepayers of China Inland Mi MARY

BIRTHS BILVA-At the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, on April 10th, to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. BASTO DA SILVA, A Kun, SIMMONS-On April 11th, 1919, at No. 41,

Soochow Road, to Mr. and Mrs. J. A. F. SIMMONS, a son.

MARRIAGES.

ELLEN

BALLAR hanghai, to

ar

daughter of the any one section of the Corps unless it be the International Settlement, Shanghai, late Mr. A. Ballard, Shunghai, those who bave served longest. There is Sir Havilland de Sausmarez, who presid. and of Mrs. Ballard, Cathay House, 24, Woodborough Road, Putney

certainly

no justification for treating ed, presented Mr. E. C. Pearce, Chairman MANNERS CLAREBON,-At the British the Search Supervising Squad with less of the Municipal Council, with a casket Consulate Shanghai, on April 5th, consideration than any other section, containing the Freedom of the Settlement

PHILIP MANNERS, second son of the

on behalf of the ratepayers, and a con-

late Thomas Norman Manners, of the especially when it is remembered that Chinese Maritime Customs, to MAX they are not engaged on work which has ratulatory address from the Municipal EVELYN CLAREBON, daughter of the

employés.

late William Thomna Clarkson, Maidany connection with the war. The Vale, London, 8.W.

The Bishop of Victoria, Hongkong, task of supervising the searchers on the wharves

undertaken voluntarily gratefully acknowledges the following donations sent to him:-For the building

HONGKONG Orion: 10a, Dia Vœux Road, C. LONDON OFFIon: 181, FLAT STREET, E.C.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, Arzt. 21st, 1919.

THE POLICE RESERVE.

some time back as the result of coin.

plaints made by the Chinese members of fund of the new Chinese Church at Can- ton, Mr. J. M. Wong, 8500. For repaire the Legislative Council that passengers

to the British Church and graveyard, were "squeezed," and it has fallen upon Macao:-The Green Island Cement Co., the British and Chinese because others

objected to the unsavoury surroundings. 200; Mesars, Jardine, "Matheson & Co, As it is only carried out between the $100: J.A., 80; Union Insurance Co., hours of 6 and 10 p.m. it is obvious that

$100 Mr. T. Arnott, $25.

whatever good effect, it may have can be H.E. the Officer Administering the Now that the Great War is at an end only partial, as many ships arrive and Government has accepted with regret the there is a very natural desire in all direcdepart during the daytime. In any case resignation by Major D. Macdonald, tions for a return to normal conditions. It is open to grave doubt whether, when V.D., of his Commission in the Hong- Many of the regulations and restrictions the Police Reserve is disbanded, the kong Defence Corpe, with effect from the of the past four year, and a half have Governmong will be disposed to incur the May 1st, 1919. Major G. H. Wakeman, proved extremely irksome, and have only expenso of employing sufficient men to V.D. has been appointed Second in Com- mand of the Infantry Battalion, Hong kong Defence Corps from May 1st. Lieutenants A. E. Wright and E. Evan- Jones have been promoted Captains.

Resolution No. 1 be and the same is DERRINGTON" No. 8. Peak Road, bean submitted to from patriotic motives. do the work as thoroughly as it is con hereby declared out of the Reinau anco

persons who

Apply to

This fact has not always been as fully sidered necessary to do it to-day. appreciated by those "dressed in a little! brief authority" an should have been, and, ng a consequence, anything smack ing of militaristo is now anathema to the vast majority of people. We do not TO. 102, T PEAK, 6-Roomed. Housethink, however, that the nombers of the

LINSTEAD & DAVIS.

Alexandra Buildings. [013

TO LET

p

Furnished from 1xt June Funds of the Society, such bonus divid. 8 Rooms and 2 Tennis Courts. end being payable th are registered as shareholders of ho Society on the date this resolution is passed and that such dividend in the case of each of such persons be set off against the amount due from him for wall under Rosolation No. 1 and bo retained by the Boointy accordingly and that the Board be authorised to make the necessary entries in the books of the Society.

3, That the 16,000 shares of the capital of the Society be isqunci additionally, to the 80,000 shares referred to in Revolution No. 1 and that the sum of £4 be called up theroon and that such additional alarm bu offered in the first iantenvo at

at the Poak. Apply to

FEROY SMITH SETH & FLEMING

TO LET

Borgonu who are registered the AFLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon

na sbaro-

hoklon of the Society on the date this resolution is passed in the proportion of one additional share for each silver share i proviously hold and upon the footing, that the mum of £4 called up plus thế, Ex (making together as par share) shall be paid to the Booloty on accept anon of the offer, and that such affar be

Apply to-

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

COMPANY, LID,

Alexandr Enlldings.

For

|Hongkong Police Reserve have, had any

A presentation to Major D. Macdonald, of the Hongkong Defence Corps, will bo made at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. to morrow.

As will be seen from an advertisement

appearing in to-day's issue, "Aladdin and his Wonder-lamp" will be produced at the Naval Cantoon Theatre under dia- A Chinese married woman, 21 years of tinguished patronage on Friday. The

just cause for complaint. The organisation, committed suicide on Friday, by booking at Moutrio's in good and a full haben run on the moat democratic hanging herealf, at No. 19, Bonham bouse is confidently expochod for this

lih. The officers have been solested for

Strand. Q

their real and effolency, regardless off The King's Exequatur empowering Mr. their social status, und severe discipli E. Anderson to not as Consul for Peru in 'nary inosaures were only intruduced Hongkong has received His Majesty's after the Force had been in existence for signaturo.

gone considerably time and experience The wedding of Mr. F. Symo Thomson and proved the necessity for them. and Miss Gracie Litlas Main will take When it was found that certain men place at St. John's Cathedral next Batur nystematically neglected their dutiãs and' day, at 3 pîm,

quaint and original performance. The first dress-rehearsal is on Tuesday, and, to judge from reports, Aladdin will giva mero pleasant surprises then many of the entertainments soon lately. The motínde for Saturday, 20th inst., is well booked. It is hoped thap there will be many more performances of bla olevor and lively pantomine, which is for the benefit of the C.M.L