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INTIMATIONS

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTAURDINARY

YOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an GENERAL MEETING of the Society will be held at the Registered Office of the Society, Queen's Building, Hongkong, TO-DAY (FRIDAY) the 95th day of APRIL, 1919, at 19, Noox, when the subjoined resolutions which were passed, at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Society on the 10th da of April,

bald 1919, will be submitted for confirmation special resolution:-

1. That the

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Society NCAA Aivor" capital of the

confirmed L

when this relation special resolution be

converted into starling and that such so converted be increased beyond capital so the sterling equivalent of such silver. **pital when such coaversion takes place to the sum of £2,000,000 Sterling divided -into 2010 shares of the nomid valde

of £10 each.

THE HONGKONG

made by, notice spesifying the number of shares to which such persons are entitled and limiting the time within which the offer if not accepted by payment will be deemed to be declined to the 3rd May, 1919, and that the Board be empowered to dispose of the shorea not taken up in response to such offer as they consider exponient in the interesa of the Society

tha 18,000 additional shares referred to in Resolution No. 3 parti cipate in all dividende declared after the Dex: Annual General Meeting of the Society, pro rata with the 80,000 shares referred to in Resolution No. 1. Dated the Mleventh day of April, 1918.

By Order of the Board,

C MONTAGUE EDE General Manager.

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BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,

the

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an

EXTRAORDINARY GEN-RAL

currency at the opening ong which were passed at the Extraordinary

MEETING of the Company will be held at Queen Building," Hongkong,

Registered Office of the Company, TO-DAY (FRIDAY), the Soth day of Apr 1919, at 13.30 Pwhen the subjoined resolutions tieneral Meeting of the Company held on the 10th day of April, 1916

will be submitted for confirmation as special resolutions

That each of the issued silver 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 nominal value of £ach with the sterling equivalent of 8

Toth of exchange on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolusion credite

paid up thereon and accordingly that 50,000 shares out of the 200,000

shares the nominal value of £10 each constita ting 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 i conarmed as a sperdal resolution in exchange for the aiver shares then held by shem.

2. That the Articles of Association, be

altered in manner following, namely

By the insertion after/Article No. 107 of

the following Article

107

(s). The Board may employ Employment

the funds of the Society which

have been established pursuant

to the

provisions of Article 107 or any of them or any

portion thereof (and that whether such funds or such portion an is proposed to be dealt with wern set aside for the

special

purpose to which they re sed to be applied or for any other proposed purpose

or net) in or for all or any of the following purposes, that is to 183, in meeting contingencies in equalizing dividuals, in paying special

or

End

bonuses, in

in repairing improving mainta uing any of the property of the Society, or otherwise in the business of the

Society, and in for such other of

tion the Board hall in its dis

think conducive to the interests

of the Society and in regard to any wich employment as aforesaid the Boart shali not be bound to keep the reserve funds separate from the other assets"

* 108% Ang

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against call.

By the insertion of the following Articles

after Artinle No. 16.

general meeting Bonus may ab which a dividend or bonus of is declared or sanctioned may. make a call on the members of such amount as the peeting 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: 18,

21 the

(3)

may be payable at the same time as the 20. or bonus And the dividend or bonus may if so

so arranged between the be set off

and

the

the making of a call

call. The

this Articis shall be deemed

ordinary business of an ordinary general

which declares a dividend. After

resolution has been parted under the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article the Board

may arrange on behalf of the Society for the dividend or bonus to be set Against the call

by anthorizing any person on behalf of the members from whom - much.

call is dus

to enter into an Agreement with the Society providing for

for such dividend or

to be set off against such call and any Agreement made under such authority

abal: be effective. (3). It shall be no objection to any resoln. tion made ander paragraph (1) of this article

or to say call or arrangement that stich resolution

WAA passed

or such or arrangemant was made at the which the re-olution intro- this Article and Articles 107 was confirmed as a special resolution provided that due autice of the intention to propose such first mentioned resolu tion and to declare sach dividend bonus and to make such call shall have been given prior to the Confirmatory meeting aforesaid,

106 (b). Dividends may be paid

Bate of

or

in Hongkong Currency at range for such rate of exchange sa the airsdenda General Meeting, sanction-yable in ing the same or, in the case of arg. Interim dividends, the Pourd may determine

And the subjoined resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary resolu- Lions

And

That the difference between the sterling equivalent at to-day's opening T.T. rate exchange of 10 Hongkong currency the sum of £4 be called up upon each of the 50,000 shares of the Society the nominal value of £10 each into which the elver shares of the Society have been converted

9. That a bones dividend equal in smount to such difference as is referred to in Resolution No. I be and the same is hereby declared out of the Reinsa ance Funds of the Society, such bonus divid and

being payable to the persons who Aro registered as the shareholder of he Society on the date this resolution is pssed and that such dividend in the

of each of such persons he జనవరి 07. against the amount due from him for call under Resolution No. 1 and be retained by the Society accordingly and

Board be

authorised to

to make. the necessary entries in the books of the Society

that the

off

5, That the 16,000 shares of the rapital of the Society be issued additionally, to the 80,000 shures referred to in Resolution No. 1 and that the sum of £4 be called up thereon and that such additional shares be offered in the first instance at premium of Est per share to the petzons who are bolders of the Focistys is the share- on the date this

resolution is passed in the proportion of one additional skars for each silver sharna previously bold and upon the footing that the sum of Es called up plus the EXTaking together £35 per share) shall be paid to the Bociety on accept anco of the offer and that such offer be

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1. That the nominal silver capital of the Company as exis ing when this resolu tion is confirmed sa a special resolution be converted into sterling and that such capital so converted be increased beyond the sterling equivalent of such silver capital when such conversion takes to the atm of £1,100,000 Sterling into 200,000 shares of the value of £5 each.

That each of the issued silver shares of the Company of the nominal value of $83.33 ench with the sum of $25 paid up thereon be converted into three shares and two hiths of one share of the nominal value of £5 each with posteri ing equivalent of $1.35 Hongkong at the opening T.T

tute, of

Bhange on the date this resolution is

confirmed

edited as

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special resolution

paid up thereon and accord-

be

that 81,000 shires out of 20,000 shares of the nominal value of Es each constituting the capital of the Company so converted and igeressed be distributed by the Board to the persons 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 beld by then.

3. That the Articles of Association be

altered in manner following, namely By the insertion after Article No. 106 of

the following Article.

106 (4) The Board may eat Employment play the funds of the of reserve Company which have been und established parauant to the provisions. of Article 108 or any of them or any portion thereof (and that whether such funds or asch portion as

DAILY PRESE, FRIDAY, APRIL 25TH. 1919.

tion is prisurd and that such dividend in the case of each of soch persons be set off against the amount due from him for ais nadan Resolati a No. 1 and be retained by the Company accordingly And that the Board be au feried to make the necessary entries in the hooks of the Company.

3. That 100 shares of the capital of the mpany be issued additionally to the sharca referred to in Resolution No. 1

that the sum of £ be called And up theroon and that such additional sharos be offered in the first instance at a premium of £3.10 per share to the persoas who are registered as the share- Lolders of the Company on the date this resolation is passed in the prop rtion of one additional share for,

osch silver share

previously held and upon the footing plus the

of

£3 10

o

(making shall be paid

to

up

por £7.10 per share) |

Company on accept-

the

ance of the offer, and that rich offer bo made by notice

specifying abares to which such persons are entitled the number of and limiting the time within which offar if not accepted by payment will be deemed to be declined to the 23rd May, 1619, and that the Board be empowered to dispose of the shares not taken up in response to such affer as they consider the interests of the apedien

rals.

in

the 14,400 additional shares referred to in Resolution No 3 participate in all dividends declared after the next Annual General Meeting of the Company pro with the 1800 shares referred to in Resolution No 1 Dated the Eleventh day of April 1819.

By Order of the Board.

C MONTAGUE EDE," General Manager.

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OPEN

TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP.

FINAL.

Will be played on the Stand Court TO-DAY, at 4.15 PM (Weather permitting).

Unreserved Seats in Stand.

Mim* era Non-Metabers

30 "cents,

...DO

P. 3. HODGSON,

Hn, Secretary. Hongkong, April 24th, 1019.

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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS... NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society

+

INTIMATION

WATSON'

ICE

A

CREAM

SODA

makes

especially when it' is a language enshrin-

H.M.S. Carlisle arrived in port yes. at-in-classical works, and historical docu-terday morning looking rather the worse ments, as the Korean langungo is. In for her voyage. stead of putting her, officialy, to learn fotilla leader, capable, it is said, of She is a destroyer Korean, Japan has demanded that the attaining a speed of a knots.

The Tuning which arrived in Hong

Koreans learn Japanese. This seems ta have been not the least cause of the trouble. Another is the treatment of the kung yesterday from Bangkok was put people by the Japanese officials. Japan into the quarantine anchorage, as it was herself has caly recently emerged from suspected there was cholera on board, a state where the common people were of Seven deaths occurred on the voyage.

It was stated in the Daily Press your

no account and methods of justice were primitive in the extreme, and while she

is restrained by the light of public terday that Mr. J. Lambert, Surveyor apinion at home from procedure reminis Lloyd's Register, was among the pas cent of old times, it is natural-though Ecuador. & Mr. J. Lambert was among ə

sengers who left the Colony by tho none the less reprehensible that she the passengers but he was not Lloyd's should revert to it in conling in contact with an alien, rpes, Nethat the Korean inconvenience it may hate occasioned.

surveyor. We regret the mistake and any ideas of justice were any less primitive than those of feudal Japan.

The pantomime * Aladdin Indeed,

is to be while Japan-dic-put on a decent appear-aged-te-night at the Royal Naval Can- ance to the world, Korea continued to teen Theatre. The entertainment is being practise many of the old barbarities up given in aid of the Ministering Children's to the very end. There is a very great League and a good attendance is expect difference, however, batween the indictioned. The dress rehearsal last evening gave of punishments by native and by alien promise of a very charming production: officials, and while under the old regime The scenic effects are extremely pretty the Koreans might have thought nothing there are a number of well-known catchy. of such punishmetits, under the Japanese songs, with tocat allusions, and some régime they appear oppressive, the more clever dancing.

Delightfully especially as they are not inflicted upon

Refreshing

and

Cooling Summer

Drink.

will be CLOSED from the 19th April to the AS. WATSON

25th April, both days inclusive,

By Order of the Board,

C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager,

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Hongkong, April 11th, 1919.

CO., LTD.,

BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE RATED WATER MANUFACTURERS

COMPANY, LTD..

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

is proposed to be dealt with were set aside for the special purpose to which they are proposed to be applied er for any other purpose or not) in or for or say of the following to say, in meeting contingencies, in purposes, that is

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the equalizing dividends, in

TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company special Paying dividends or

repairing will be CLOSED from 19th April to ke

By Order of the Board,

C. MONTAGUE EDE

General Manager. Hongkong, April 11th, 1819

[ale

or banuse any of

improving and property

of the Company, or other 25th April, both-days inclusive.

in the business of the Company and in or for such other purposes as the Board shall in its discretion think conducive to the interests of the Company and in regard to any such employment-us aforesaid the Board shall not be bound to keep

the reserve funda separate from the other asseta."" By the

after Ansertion of the following Articles *107a (1). Any general meet Bona may

ing at which a dividend or bonus is declared or sanctioned may make call on the members of such amount as the meeting fires bat so that the call on each member shall not exceed the dividend or

No. 107.

1

*bet mat off

payable to him and so that not standing 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 ΟΣ bonas

between the Company and the may, if so attriged member, be set off against the call. The making of a call under this Article abail be deemed urdinary business of an ordinary general meeting which declares & dividend. (9). After

say resolution has been passed under the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article the Board may arrango on behalf of the Company for the dividend or bonus to be set off against the call by aathorizing behalf of the members Irany person on such

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HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.

THE SECOND GYMKHANA MERNING of the Season will be held at HAPPT VAMANT,

TO-MORHOW (SATURDAY), APRIL 26TH, commencing at 3.30 PM others than Members of the Hanerorg Jockst The Charge of Admission will be $3 for

CLUB OF GYREBAJA CLUB

The Committee Invite the Ladies of Hong Boldiers and Bailom iz uniform Fre. kang to be prosoni. ...Hongkong, April 17th 1019

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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THE HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of Members will be held in the Offices of the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), APEIL 267, at 1 dclock Noos.

By Order,

T. F. HOUGE, Clerk of the Course, Hongkong, April 12th, 1910. .. [823

LOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, *LIMITED,

2.

Whilst an American naval officer was the waiting for a launch on the Kowloon

*)

their supposed fellow - subjecta, Japanese The reports of the methods ferry wharf on Tuesday night.bis atten adopted to deal with the independence tion was drawn to a number of Portu agitation in Korea contain constant re- guese youths returning from fancy ference to whippings carried out by the dress party, led by a very charming ass police and apparently ordered by the beautifully dressed in · Stars and Courta. This was an old form of punish Stripes" and gleefully waving an ment in Korea, but it has long since American Lag. The Olacer immediately passed out of the penal code of Japan. saluted, shook hands with the lady, and, Wa thus have a discrimination in the amidst uproars of enthusiastic approval treatment of Japanese, and Koreans, from all present, "made a short and elo- in the country of the latter, which cannot quent speech eulogizing the Ang of but be humiliating. The Japanese argu liberty. He expressed himself as proud ment would be that the Korenas would of its fair bearer whose name and address not understand the more humane methods he took to send her a souvenir.

The members of the Hongkong Con-

of the West which have been adopted in Japan, since such punishments have always been enforced in Korea, but it is stitutional Reform Association will be probably true that Japan herself would interested to know that the Calcutta not have changed her penal code had it European Association, whose avowed not been that she desired to bring herself objects are the same as those of the local on such a level with the Western nations Association, has altered its rules so as as would allow her to get rid of the to allow women to become members. At stigma of extra-territoriality, with all its recent meeting of the Association the implication of a lower form of civili-Secretary pointed out that the ladies sation. Further, the discrimination went Home oftener than the men, and shown between the Japanese" and the remarked that now women's suffrage was Koreans is such that the Koreans are dein force in England, they might be able prived of any voice in the laws and re- to assist the Association a great deal by HONGKONG OFFICE: 204, Dm Faux Bad, Cgulations of their country. Although influencing English politicians to move LONDON OFFICE II, FA SERE, É.C. heavily taxed they have no representa in matters in which the welfare of the

Japan's colonial policy is one European community was concerned

TEL. 436.

F

The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, APRIL 28TH, 1919.

tion,

of purely military autocracy.

The

Japanese Diet can discuss the colonial FAR EASTERN CABLE

policy of the Government, but it, has no vaica in deciding what laws shall be im posed on the colantes. Yet the alien racca Japan has brought under ber-rule ́UNBEST IN KOREA. do not differ widely from herself, and THAT the general unrest among the peoples if they have not shown themselves so should have found its way to Korea is susceptible to Western influence the not extraordinary; it is, however, re-

reason is to be found more in the circum markable that the Japanese should not stances which surrounded them than in have suspected that some such outbreak their temperament Japan at the Peace would occur and have made preparations Conference is making great claims for to meet it. The death of the old erracial equality. Her treatment of the Emperor was to the Koreans an event of Koreans would seem to indicate that heart-stirring importance-much more what she desires is equality for her own than the Japanese imagined, and the real race vis-à-vis more advanced races, not grief which was shown over his death the equality of those whom she regards as may very well have been mixed with feel her inferiors. Materially, there is no ings of despair over the future of the doubt, Japan has. done a great deal for country. The death of the Korean ex-Korea, but it has been done by methods call is due to enter into an Agreement with the Company providing

Emperor served to revive old memories which have served to make, the benefits Хот dividend or bonus to be set off against

of a movement having for its end a def actions have led the Koreans to believe and led apparently "to the organisation received 'as gall and wormwood. such call and any Agreement made under such authority shall be effective

monstration that the Koreans were by no that it was not to benefit them that the (3). It shall be no objection to any resolu

means antisfied with Japanese rule country was annexed" but that Japan tion made under paragraph

wh (1) f this during which time no Transfer of Shares potest has always existed since the time might exploit its resources and reduce the Article or to any call or arrangement that such resolution was passed or auch call or arrangement was made at the meeting which the resolution introduo-

at this

Article and Aracles? ing

106 (a) confirmed as special resolution provided that due notice of the

intention propose such first mentioned resolution and to declare such dividend or bonus and to make such call shall have been given prior to the Confirmatory meeting aforesaid. 107 Dividends may -be Rate of

р

Hongkong Car diridende

exobange for at such rate of parable la

the General

Rongong, Meeling sanctioning the same or, in the case of interim dividends, as the Board P. & O-BRITISH INDIA APCAR may determine.

in

Buch

to

And the subjoined resolutions will be pro- posed as Extraordinary resolutions;

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That

the difference between the sterling equivalent at to-day's opening T.T. rate of exchange of 87.35 Hongkong currency und the sum of £2 be called up upon each of the 81,600 shares of the Company of the nominal value of £5 each into which the silver shares of the Company have been converted. 2 That a bonus dividend equal in amount to such difference as is referred to in Resolution No. 1 be and the same is hereby declared out of the Heinsurance Fund of the Company, such bonus; dividend being payable to the persons who are registered a the shareholders of the Company on the date this resolu

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of 8% and will be payable on the 5th of May, 1910. (83.00) per Share has been declared The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 30th of April to the 5th of May, both days inclure, can be registered."

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP. Co., LTD, Hongkong, April 3rd, 1919. [671

LOST.

ARGE POINTER DOG, Lemon and light brown patched. Answers to the name of "ROVEK, "AN

Will Finder please return to

9, LYEMOON VILLAS,

Kowloon.c

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LINES.

Screw

8,9. “NEÜRALIA”

2,082 Tons British Register

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will be despatched from Hongkong " about the middle of MAY. - Taking THROUGH PASSENGERS (Ono Class) Direct to MARSEILLES ID LONDON

For Passage and Freight apply to

22-Des Veur Road Central.

MADEINNON, MACKENZIE & C

that the Japanese assumed control, and the foal annexation did not serve to make things easier. Japanese methods, also, were not such as to make their rule welcome. The Japanese lay great stress upon the assimilation of alien peoples Instead of leaving time to do its work in, establishing a bond of common interests, there is constant interference with the language, customs, laws, etc., resulting

Her

Koreans to the position of a subject race.

Mr. and Mrs. F.. Bevington and Mrs. Kont left the Colony yesterday on the

Likkó Maru.

Two cases (one death) of babonic plague and one case of cerebro-spinal fever were reported in the Colony on Wednesday. "

Three Chinese have been arrested in

Mr. G. N. Oripe reserved judgment,

NEWS.

J

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

·DEATH OF DR. TIMOTHY RICHARD:

SINGAPORE, April 24th. The death is announced of Dr. Timothy Richard."

Dr. Timothy Richard, D.D., Litt. D., Missionary and Mandarin, of Christian and General Knowledge, now was General Secretary of the 'Society for the diffusion called the Christian Literature Society for Dr. Richard went out to China a Chize. Born in 1845 of humble parents sionary under Society. Later, ho became Adviser to the the Baptist Missionary Governor of Shansi, and, when he became

a reformer, was appointed one of Emperor Kraug Sau's advisers. He was chosen by the Chinese Plenipotentiaries to arbitrate. in the settling of affairs after the Boxer was appointed religious adviser to the. Massacres. He founded the Modern Im perial University in Shanai, and, when he Chinese Government, was given the rank of mandarin of the first grade.]

CANTON NEWS,

CANTON, April 24th. THE PEACE AGREEMENT. TH

Lak Ching-chang, the chief of the Peace cavoys to Europe has reported that be and Dr.. Wong Ching-ting are es titled to sign the Peace agreement for the Chinese Empire.

PROJECTED FOREIGN LOANS.

in Shanghai are negotiating to secure We are informed that the peace envoys

foreign loans for the restoration of the great damage done by the recent fighting..

It is reported that, following consul

in irritation rather than conciliation.connection with an armed robbery which Thas Japan has tried to force her lang took place on Wednesday afternoon at uage on Korea as well as on Formosa, much

Haiphong Road, as Germany tried to force her language on the Polish provinces of her Empire, Japanese are astonished to bear that yesterday in the case in which the tions in the Paris Conference, certain there are parts of the United Kingdom Colonial Dispensary was charged with foreign capitalists are desirous of offer. where English is not spoken or even selling certain poisons. understood. Then, regard this as a fault

ing loans for the construction of rail- The final of the open doubles Chamways in China. The principle leaders in showing a lack of unification and pionship (Kent and Redmonds. Murray the South-West provinces have expressed falling away from the ideal of and Jennings) will be played this oven appuvad said that fallways will everything to the Stuto. to one ing. The challenge round of the open be constructed from Kwange to Sze Experience teaches that a single championship (Kent . Ng. Sze chaen, or Kwangwi to Kwai resents nothing more than an Kwong) has been fixed for Wednesday construction of more than 2,000 miles of

suppress its language, more next.

railways is contemplated.

The