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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. ·

THE THIRD GYMKHANA in fixed for

TSATURDAY, JUST 471, 1921. Draft Programmas and Entry Forms may be obtained

INTIMATIONS

THE HUNGRONG DAILY PRESS,

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHARE HOLDERS.

THE FORTIETH ORDINARY YEARLY

Race Cours, Hongkong Clab, and T MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS wil

Causeway Bay "Stables

Entries alone TUESDAY, 21TH MAY.

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ST. STEPHEN'S GIRLS' COLLEGE BUILDING FUND. THE following Subscriptions to the abore THE

Fund ave been duly received with thanks:-

Fer Miss E, M. Smith:-

A Frieni."!

For Mr S. W. Two :-

Mr. Lam Woo

Per Mr. Clian Kang Yte:

Theatrical incomes....

444

3 16.56

$ 200.00

| be held at the Offices of the undersigned on

THURSDAY, thở 19TH MAY, 1921, st Noox.

BOOKS REGISTER

of Members of the Company will be CLOSED from the 5th May to the 19th May, both days inclusive.

At this Meeting Resolution will be pro- posed dealing with the remuneration to the Consulting Committee.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LID

General Agents. Hongkong April 10th, 1921.

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD. 28. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY-SECOND ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held at the $2.478.10 Company's Offices, St. George's Building, or $52.531. SATURDAY, 1st Mar, 1921, st 11.50 M Total 315,006.18 Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the purpose of presenting the Report of the

Amount acknowlesleges!

KWOK BIU LAU, Hoa, Treasurer. Hongkong, May 17th, 1921.

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"TO" LET. ·

NMiddle Road, Kowloon Point.

TOS. 9 and 3, "VICTORIA VIEW

Apply to-

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to 28th February, 1991, and electing Directors and Auditor.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 21st

1921, both days inclusiva.

Order of the Board of Director GIBR, LIVINGSTON & CO, LTD.,

Agenti. Hongkong, May 4th, 1921. »

UNION

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WEDNESDAY, HAT. 18TH, 1991.

INTIMATION

AMERICAN

We

CONFECTIONERY

have just received

small consignment

next month.

A recent telegram from Vladivostock states that the number of plague cases is- increasing, with a larger percentage of Russians among the victims.

2.The suggestion of a further period A Peking report states that the air mail of state sontrol of the mines is imprae- ticable, as the miners have refused to service between Peking and Shanghai will accept the principles which Parliament come into operation commencing from has laid down. They had five months in which to settle their differences before decontrol came, and at the time of the atrike settlemont last autumn they under- took to do it before March 31st, 1991.

3-Not only is it vital for the goal industry that it should be on an economic basis, but it is vital for all industries. Keeping up the cost of coal means keep- ing up the cost of living in, Great Bri- tain."

This and the subsidy for the miners would penalise other industries and make them less able to pay wages. at the Magistracy, for having in... his Mr. FRANK Hopass the secretary of possession à false scale which worked af the liners Federation, has admitted the need of cheap coal in the interests of

13 per cent, against the purchaser. national prosperity.

4. The inherent weakness of the miners! case is that they claim to be placed in a special class by themselves as privileged workers.

The miners have based their claim on the argument that the increases or re ductions in wages in all districts should be on a uniform basis, being fixed by reference to the proceeds, from time to tinue, of the industry as a whole. The financial capacity of the collieries in the different coal fields varies considerably, and it is clear that the poorer districts could not afford to pay a national rate of wages. The miners proposed, there

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING very High-Class American fore, that in order to make this wage

CORPORATION...

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

NOTICE TRAORDINARY MEETING

systent "possible there should be a pool

A sait fish dealer of Des Vaux Road West, was fined $50 by Mr, R. E. Lindsell,

A Chinese woman was removed to the Government Civil Hospital from No. 31, Third Street, West Point, on Sunday. She was found unconscious, by the police, suffering from injuries to her head alleged to have been caused by a man who attack." ed her with a “stool.,

Consequent upon the "retirement frame who left for Home with his wife and“ the Harbour Office of Mr. M. Melver,' family on the s.8. Kamo Maru, Mr.-C. J. Thomson has been appointed to the posi tion of First Boarding Officer and the

position of Second Boarding Officer will

be filled by Mr. S. P. Leigh.

of the SHAREHOLDERS of the Hong Chocolates from the well prosperous. It is admitted, even by the 887

KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA TION will be bold at the CITT: HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 28th day of May, 1991, at Noor, for the purpose

INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

48TH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETing ING of the Society will be held at its Head Office, Nor, 3 and 4, Queen's Buildings, Hong- IVE-ROOMED BUNGALOW, Peak kong, on FRIDAY, MAY 27TH, 1921, at Noon,

FOR BALE

FDistrict Tennis Court, Kitchen Garden for the purpose of receiving the Report of the

Early possession.

Apply to-

G.

Box No. 588,

Oare of Daily Press Office,

PUBLIC AUCTION

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THE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell by Public Auction,

On FRIDAY,

Directore together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1920, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 14th to 27th May, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

Hongkong, May 8th, 1921.

U. MONTAGUE EDE, - " General Manager.".

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BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED."

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

the 20th May, 1997, at 10:30 AM, at Royal NE ORDINARY YEARLY MEET

Army Service Corps Pier.

W. D. Vessel "BERCULES “

Length

Beam

Depth

Engine

Displacement Tonnage

Horse Power

inches

95 feet.

17.

10

3

170 Tons Cox's Falmouth, ...360.H.P.

Knots 10. Working Preasure per square inch 150 Is.

Bailt at Falmurth. “

Materials of Construction, Wood to water

line, Iron Flated,

Approximate Carrying Capacity, 25 Tons or

100 Prasengers,

As she now lica

A

detailed list of fittings to be sold with the ship be seen at these offices,

may

The vessel will be open to inspection from 17th May to the day of sale inclusive between hours of 10 M. and Ex

Permits for inspecting will be issued on Application at the Auctioneers.

Ship may not be viewed without permit. Trans-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers to the Government.

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DAIRY

FARM

NEWS.

JUST RECEIVED

Consignment of Smoked Fish, direct from the

FISHERIES

SCOTTISH

Fillets

Haddocks

Kippers

THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD

STORAGE CO. LTD.

JUST RECEIVED Fresh Supply

PEELABLE

STAMP HINGES

BEST QUALITY

GRAOA & 00 "Dailare i Postage Stamps, Philatelia Goods, Roligious Books, Toya, etaz

No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET,

-HONGKONG.

P.O. Box 620.

ING of the Company will be held at its Hend Office No. 3 and 4, Queen's Buildings, Bong kang, on FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1991, t 19.30 T. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1920, and of declaring

ring Dividends, etc. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 14th May to 27th May, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board.

ล

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager. Hongkong, May th, 1921.-

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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

ORDINARY YEARLY MEET Office, No. 3 and 4, Queen's Buildings, Hong ING of the Company will be held at its Head kong, on FRIDAY, MAY 27TH, 1921, at 12.45 F.MIL

for the purpose of receiving the Beport of the Directors, together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1920, and of declaring Dividends, elce

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 14th May to 27th May, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

NYC? MONTAGUE EDE

General Manager. Hongkong, May 5th, 1921.

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SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE

'21, PRATA EAST, HONGKONG.

Fine and HM. Nary.

MOR the use of all Men of the Mercantile

Reading and Writing Rooms, Billiard Room, Officers Room, C.P.O.' Boom Restaurant, Concert Hall, Church.

Private Calina and beds in Dormitories Motor Launch "Dusweing,"

NOW ON SALE,

DIRECTORY &

CHRONICLE.”

DHIKA, TAPAN,—–—– STRAITS MENTS, INDO-CHINA, PHILIP

1921

containing

1,600 PAGEST 14 MAPS!!

SPECIAL NEW MAP OF HONGKONG

AND THE NEW:

*PRICE

Abridged Edition

TERRITORIES.

812

of considering and if thought it of pass known firm

the following resolution-

That the Directors of the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA- TION be and they are hereby re- quested and authorised by and on

of profits by means of which the more The Osaka Electric Light Plant Com- profitable mines might assist the less pany, on the 9th instant, discharged

employees who were agitating. miners, that at the present time there is against the terms of settlement of a not a sufficient reservoir of profits protracted dispute. The company is now from the good collieries to make up the obtaining its supply of current from of Bunte deficits which would be incurred by the neighbouring power companies. Six less profitable collieries if wages were hundred police were mobilised in, pre- maintained at a level which the miners paration for emergencies. are willing to accept. Therefore, they claimed that the coal mining industry should receive a subsidy from the 'State until times are normal. Mr. Honces has put this subsidy at £100,000,000. That is only the first instalment. There is no guarantee that it would be the last.

behalf of the shareholders of the Brothers, Chicago. Company to take the steps neces sary for the introduction of an Ordinance into the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong and for the enactment of the same by the Governor of Hongkong with the advice and consent of the Legisla tive Council thereof to effect the amendments necessary to the Ordi nances under which the Company is

!..

A Chinese boy had a bad cycling acci dent on Sunday. The machine got beyond his control in runding down a sippe and collided with the railings of a nullah. The boy was thrown over the railings by the impetus and received serious injuries What are the owners' proposals They by striking the granite wall of the nullah. agreed that wages in each district should He is now lying in the Kwong Wah Hon-

incorporated and carrying on busi- AS, WATSON & be fixed on principles settled nationally, pital in a critical condition.”

CO., LTD.

news so as to allow of the capital of the Company being from time to time increased from 20 millions of dollars the present authorised capi- tal of the Company to 50 millions of dollars. -That the Capital of the HONGKONG

AND SHANGHAL BANKING CORPORA TION be forthwith increased from $13,000,000 to $20,000,000 by the creation of 40,000 New Shares of $125 each to be issued at the price: of £10 on the terms after mentioned. Shareholders on the Eastern Regis FERNANDES-At Shanghai, on May basis in each district, and offered that

ters to pay for their allotments at the rate of exchange for the Com- pany's demand Billa on London on the day on which the. instalments. are due. 8That the said New Shares be in the Grst instance, in such manner as the Directors shall prescribe for that purpose, offered to shareholders in the proportion of one New Share for every three shares of which an the 28th day of May, 1921, Share holders shall respectively be the registered Holders, and that any New Shares not accepted by Share- holders within the time limited by the Directors for that purpose be disposed of and allotted by the Directors in such manner and at such price as in their discretion, they shall think best in the interesta of the Company.

DEATHS.

01

HELENO. REMED108 FERNANDES, 100 ́Of the Inte Manuel María Fernandes. McLEis. At Knaresborough Place, London, on May 3rd WILLIAN MC Lean (formerly of Tientsin), in his seventieth year. WILSON-At Shanghai, on May 9th, LAURENCE WILSON, of the Socony, aged 30 years.

Hoxerond Option: 104, Das Voraz RD., C. LONDON Orion: 181, FLEET STREET, E.O.

The Daily Press.

HODLONG, MAY 1578, 1921

That the payment of the sum ofTHE MINERS STRIKE IN £70 per share for each of the said New Shares be made as follows,

GREAT BRITAIN.

but they contend that in the application of these principles each, district should.

But for the alertness of the military be treated as a separate unit. They guards of the passenger boat Chai fin of maintain, further, that the level of wages the Canton-Kongmoon line, and their in each district should be fixed by refer successful defence, anys our Canton .con- ence to the financial capacity of the temporary, the passengers of the boat average colliery in that district, and not would have been robbed by a band of by reference to the financial capacity of pirates who recently attacked, the boat.. the industry as a whole. Accordingly when she was on the way to Kongmoon... they proposed new rates, fixed on this Although, the pirates were defeated in

attack, all of them succeeded in making... their escape.

their books should be open for inspection so as to remove any doubts that the rates

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had been fairly calculated. The reply of It is mentioned in one of the leading the Miners Federation to these proposals Chinese newspapers of the North that was to instruct their branches not to some 500 persons employed as discuss these proposed district rates. "advisers of the Cabinet" in Peking.. The owners maintain that any system They are chiedy ex-officials of the Manchi of pooling profits in fatal to efficiency regime na well as of the Republican and enterprise. It provides a guarantee regime, and are divided into four classes. for the inefficient management at the according to their monthly pay. Those expense of the enterprising and efficient. belonging to the Ist einss receive..8800. Buch a system is fundamentally bad, and and those belonging to the last class militates against progress by penalising receive $300 per month each. active and sound management, and guar anteeing an advantage to slack and badly conducted management.

"

An official telegram to Peking from Sianfu reports that Mr. Stevens, of the

It will thus be seen that there are 'China Inland Mission has been captured fundamental differences between the men by rebels at Fengsiangfu and is being and the employers which cannot be held as a hostage. Mr. Stevens is a The coal miners of Great Britain have Permanently settled by compromise some time at Fengsiangfu, with his wife. British subject and has been stationed for been on strike nearly seven weeks, and that the strike is having a disastrous The telegram says nothing about ransom there is a confrmation yet forthcoming effect on the general trade of the country being demanded and it is, therefore, 5-That the Directors issue to Share in the cables of an early settlement. As a circumstance which does not trouble with a view to bringing pressure upon believed that the rebels are holding biar

1st instalment of £35 on the 1st.

day of July, 1921

2nd. and final instalment of £35 on

the 1st day of October, 1991. holders, holding shares less than or not a multiple of three,a fractional prediction made by Mr. J. H. THOMAS, the consciences of the miners. They care cartiicate in respect of each sharabi.P., the leader of the railwaymen, that for nothing but the complete satisfac less than three or in excess of a multiple of three and allot one New

"the coal trouble would be settled dur-tion of their demands, and the question Share to every person who shall fire last week was not fulfilled. There was that has to be decided now, one way produce three auch Fractional Cer- nothing in the cables to indicate how, a

or the other, is whether the Government. tificates ou or before the 1st day of settlement was expected to come about. shall, against its own will and the will July, 2021, and pay the first instal

What information came over the wires of Parliament, be compelled to heavily ment in respect thereof. That after payment of the first told us that the railwaymen were growing aubaid so an industry out of general instalment, and pending payment of the remaining instalment, Scrip restive during his absence on a visit to taxation in away which must be for all Certificates in such form she the United States. They were refusing precedent to which they can appeal other organised branches of labour a Directors may determine be issued to handle foreign coal, and

that the

Certificates.

the Shensi Authorities. The Britisk Legation has made the necessary repre- sentations to the Chinese Government.

THE CANTON-SAMSHUT RAILWAY.

"CORRUPTION PRACTICALLY

Canton Times

ABOLISHED.".

The following is reproduced from the Due to the able management of the Canton-Samstui Railway under the new The gravity of the Managing Director, Mr. Hsia Chung-ming

in respect of such New Shares executives of the transport workers and whenever they may chose to put forward entitling the holders on payment of the remaining instalment, and rub the railwaymen were drifting towards milar demands, jost to auch other terms as to the combined strike which they refused struggle now in progress cannot be corruption among the railway employees approval, date for lodging scrip cará

camouflaged. The real question at issue has practically been abolished and the tificates and otherwise as the Directo call officially a month ago tors may prescribe, to be registered it may be useful to recall the points is the continued existence of the Constituearnings of the railway have increased by the owner of the share respec at issue. The absurd statement bastion whether the destinies of the nation leaps and bounds as compared with the tively represented by much Brip been made that the situation is shall be ruled by Parliament or by the managing directors

earnings of the line under its previous That Interest at the rate of 0 per the result of a plot between the coal- tyrannical exercise of the combined The daily receipts of the railway since. Cent. por anaum be allowed out of owners and the Government to bring strength of great Labour organisations its operation, more than ten years ago, the proats of the Company on in-

neyer, exceeded $3,000; until Mr. Esta stalments paid in advance of the down wages. The suggestion is that the concern is not for national prostook control of the line, and he now re- dates when the same beconds due, Uapitalists are determined to beat perity but for remuneration beyond what ports that the daily receipts have even and that registered bolder of Strip Labour. That story can be at once dis- the industry earns. Once it is satisfied, reached the 35.000 mark on several occu

sions. While the monthly earnings of the : entitled in respect of such Nos missed. The answer to it is that the policy as it is, that the miners are getting a line under as previous managing direc Sharon to participate in future of the Government is the fully considered reasonable share of the earnings of the tors, never exceeded 800,000, the last dividends on an equality with the pelley of Parliament, debated in the industry, the Government in the interests monthly report of the railway showed, the instalments paid up,and from dúa este

According to Mr. Hsia, there were dates for payment of usmene expression in the Coal Decontrol Fill, and transport workers included is corruptions in the buying of railway sup 5. That interest at the rate of 8 per Thore are these further points which are bound to fight this menace with all the plies, the selling of passenger tickets,

Certificates for New Shares be

old shares, in proportion to top hearing of all the world, and finding of the whole nation-miners, railwaymen

Blind figure-8147,000, ak

centum per annum be charged on essential to a clear perception of the resources it can command, and smuggling of cargoes and opium, but now

sach instalment not

punctually

paid, and be paid with each such issue which has planged the country into Instalment

modern times—~_~le the most serious industrial dispute of

9-That all moneys received from pro minm on the said New Bharos be added to the Bterling Reserve Fund For The HonGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,⠀ A. G. STEPHEN,

Chief, Mansgar. Hongkong, April 28th, 1031 887

1The miners' claim involves

(a) Subridye Aph (6), National Pool

Both these expedients to maintain the present level of wages are contrary to the policy endorsed by Parliament.

all these corruptions have been detected and removed, and this explains the in who crease in the railway's earnings,

an effort it should engage the support of every loyal citizen has a care for the welfare and prosperity of the country, y

It is understood that many other re "forms will be. introduced, such as the granting of bonuses to the workers of the railway; the introduction of educational The health return for the three days work among the employees and the insur ending May 10th shows one fatal case of ing against accidents for their beneit... plague and one case of cerebro-spinal Much satisfaction among the railway lever

workers 23 evidenced.