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THE HONGKONG - DAILY PRESS,
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
YEARLY
hald at
HEREBY GIVEN that SECOND GRDINARY
INTIMATIONS
DEWAR'S
of the Socarry will be Ofice, UNION BUILDING,6
Noor, for the purpose of receiving the Report Hongkong, onAY, 29TH MAY, 1935, st of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1924, and of declaring Dividende, etc.
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effacted.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF "HONGKONG.
COMPANIES (WINDING UP).
No. 3 ur 1925.
IN THE MATTER or Taz COMPANIES
ORDINANCE 1911
AND
IN THE MATTER or The CHEN KWONG
CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Petition for the Winding Up of the above camed Company by the BurazNE. COURT OF HONGKONG was on the śru DAY of MAY, 1925, presented to the said Court by HONGKONG TRADING CO., LTD., JOHN D. HUTCHISON & Co., Co., W. G. HUMPHREYS & HARRY WICKING CO, HATTORI TRADING CO., LTD., 8. C. LAY & Co., Sassis & Co., FRANCO-CHINESE TRADING Co Lane Kurg Woo, GETZ BROTHERS & Co, Co, Lau..
B106., LTD, BHING KEE, MING KEN YUZN
Burne, all of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong
And that the said Petition is directed to be head before the Court sitting at the Courta Victoris aforesaid, on the 26rx DAT 1925, at 10.80 A.M., and
Ly
Creditor
Il the
said
Company desirous
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of
oppose the making of an Order
the said Petition may appear at the Tizoe
of Hearing by himself or his Counsel for that purpose; and copy of the Petition will be fursisaed to any Creditor or Contributory of the mid Company, requiring the same by the Undersigned on payment of the regulated charge for the same.
Dated the 18th day of May, 1929,
GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON & CO., Solicitors for all the Petitionern,
Bt. George's Building,
Hongkong.
NOTE-Any Person who intends to appear
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from MAY 18TH to May 20th both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hongkong, May 8th, 1995. BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE
COMPANY, LTD. -----
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
FOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
NOTICE NINTH ORDINARY YRARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at it Head Office, UNION BUILDING, 1215 PM for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to Stat December, 1924, and of declar. ing Dividends, etc.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Mar 16ril to MAY 29TH, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board.
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. (21914
Hongkong, May 8th 1925.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that
FIFTH-SIXTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company wil be held at its Head Office, UNION BUILDING, Hongkong, ca FRIDAY, 997 MAY, 1925, 14.90 r., for the perpos of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1924, and of declar- ing Dividends, etc.
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THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company ill be CLOSED from MAY 16T to MAY 29ru, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Hongkong, May 6th, 1925.
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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
HALF YEARLY GENERAL
TWEETING OF MEMBERS will be held
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ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Com
pany will be held at the Ofices of the General Managers, Mears, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Lrn. Peter Street, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 1076 JUNE, 1995, zt 11 o'clock in the Morsing, for the purpose o receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Auditors.
of
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED front the 380 to 24ru -JUNE, 1925, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD., General Managers.
9212 Bougkong, 19th May, 1925,
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE.
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Area: 7.175 Rquare feet. Annual Crown Rent: 334.25. Term of Crown Lease: 75 YOUTH from the 25th day of December, 1894.
IN ONE LOT
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TUESDAY, THE 26TH DAY OF MAT, 1925, AT 3 U'CLOCK P.M.
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SATURDAY, MAY 2381, Almost toppled "ever without the Anal 2nd-Liont G. D. Upson, 5/2nd Punjab FAR push given to it by the revolution. It Regiment, has passed an examination bad merits but it had disadvantages of ja preliminary Urdu, and· Jeñadar which blind advocates of the system seem Jagat Singh, 3/2nd Punjab Regiment, has qualified in English (higher, stand, unware. The whole theory of society
ard). and of conduct in China was founded upon axioms, to be found in the writings! Yet it pro- of learned Chinese scholars. duced class of oficials whose very
tion, and 150 tins of prepared opium existence depended upon the exercise of stocks, nearly 3,000 rounds of ammuni "subtlety, usually closely allied with No arrests have been made so far.
1
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Searching the Emprëse of Russin, co Thursday, officers of the Water Police confiscated nine Msumer pistols, eight
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EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
ÍTHROUGH REUTER'A ACKNOY.]
MANILA OLYMPIAD.
JAPAN ASSOCIATION BARS OKARN AND OTHERS..
MANILA.. May, 22nd: Japan's head track coach, Me. „Okabe, and the truck captain, Mr. Tani, and eleven other track men have been debar-
cable from President.
It failed to produce the squeeze."
The report has reached Hongkong that red from amateur, athletics in Japan, men demanded by the emergencies of somewhere about 40,000 rounds of am- according to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. munition was seized on board a steamer Hirnauma. for having withdrawn,
at Kongmoon a few days since Part of It is no use to deplore the contnet of the West and the East. Facts are stubborn, the seizure at least has been handed over things. the steamship and the telegraph to the Hongkong pelice nul interesting are with us and will not disappear for developingnts are expected, all our moralising and theorising. The The new police station at Kowloon average foreign friend of the Chinese City is now completed and ready for realise. by
sors of instinct. that the occupation. It is a ne nequisition to memorising of old-world aphorisms and the district and has cost, the sum of
blaming the *** 30.000 has been completed io the writing of essays "according to a
period of ten months, four months less pattern that has never varied for tens than the contractid time. The building of generations cannot develop the exp-covers an era of 23,000 square feet - abilities of the mind." In the old Chinese
A District Court Martial, will assenible schools and examination halls there wag
a
at Murray Barracks, nt 10 am on Tues the maximum of memorising with the day, for the trial of Private A. Markhamn, |
VICTORIA minimum of stimulus of creative effort- 1st Battalion, The Enit Surrpy Reginent,
VAT "
THE VERY FINEST. OLD
1)
SCOTCH WHISKY
I
As supplied to the Houses of Lords and Commons:
SOLE AGENTS:
A.
S.
Teeny must come unless there is nutri-The Court-will-be compound of Major tion and growth. On the other hand, R. S. 8. Paton, 1st Battalion. The East everyone must sincerely wish to preserve Surrey Regiment (President), a captain, all that is best in Chinese literature. RA., and a subaltern, af the 3/20 The day of the Four Books is not yet Punjab Regiment. past. A study of great, literature softens manners and refines the taste.. After the Arst drudgery is over the Chinese classics produce the same kind of pleasure.as music" and painting give to people of the West. There is also an entirely wrong statement of facts, such as the false science of the Book of Changes"
What, then, is to be the common-sense attitude of mind of the Westerner to this
Monday, May 2ath, will be pliserved by the troops of the China Command as a holiday, in lieu of Empire Day, May 24th Whit Monday, Juor txt, and Wed- nesday, June 3rd, being the occasion of H.M the King's birthday, will also, be observed as holidays. Offices will be glosed on all three days except for business of an urgent nature.
Eradquarters
The French police at Shanghai reerived a repart that a gang of men were trying
They may be held here a week after the others, (who leave abroad the Em- press "of Buarin) and will probably sail by the President Vadison.".
The striking athletes were removed from. the dormitory, where they were quarter- ed, and seat to private hotels...
It is reported the disaffected, Japanese
American Gamen- Officials for alleged discrimination. against the Japanese. It is pointed out, however, that the majority of the officials are Filipinos. The referee and truck in- spector who disqualifed Noto, which was the immediate cause of the walk-out, are both Filipinos
Photographs of some of the trial heats however, show the apparent bad-judg ment of sojo of the officials, though not affecting the final events.
In yesterday's tenais doubles, Yoshida and Kobayashi (Japan) beht Sanchez and Bolanos (Philippines) by 6-4, 6-3, 30,
The standing in. the track and field. eveats now is
Philippines Japan Chinu
.134) points.
69 points.
121 points,
VICTORY FOR CHINESE. Two Japanese coaches participated i morning, but were unsuccessiul, Wu, the Pentathlon which was concluded this Chinn, was first with 9,431 points, Danao," Pasaporte, and Ico, all Filipinos, being text in that order with 2,428, 9.421 and 2,3 points respectively.
WATSON subject of preservation of the Chinese to smuggle workers to Singapore and the Philippines by 6-1; 9-3, 3-6, 7-5.
& CO., LTD.
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BIRTHS. MORGANA Shanghai, on May 18th, to Mr. and Mrs. G. J. W. Morgan, a daughter. RRG. At Shanghai, on May 16th. to Mr. and Mrs. B. A. RANDRO, a xon and a daughter.
*
Classics 1
1.
Time: 6iscus
The two hundred metres breast stroke was woIL by Ydlefonso, (Philippines) from Sugita, Tokito and Sakakura (301 Japan).
Time: mins. 5.3-10anes
In basketball, the Philippines ran up
huge score against Japan, winning by
to H..
In the tennis doubles, Japan defeated
In the final of the 100 metres.swim South Sea Islands under the guise of recruiting soldiers. On May 17th. theyming, Takaishi, Mihinta and Tanaka, We suggest that just as in the univer-iscovered that one hundred men were (all Japan), and Osins (Philippines)
finished in that order sities of Great Britain, there are special to be transported to Hongkong hy facilities for the study of Greck and steamer through the agency of one 1. Latin, so in China there must be a Sico Noem. Unfortunately the man heard of their coming and made good his
·racope. The workers were released. more liberal education. There must be facilities for the study of Medicine,
War Lord Tang Chi Yao has been com- Engineering, Chinese Literature and pelled to fire from Younan, having been Classics, and World History. We sug forced to submit to an ultimatum from 6
his immediate subordinates, the military (OVERNOR WOOD'S VIEW. gest that some of the Boxer Indemnity commanders of troops still stationed in
fiovernor-General Wood haa, issued a funds might well be used. to" encourage Yunnanfu and other parts of Yunnan
province, states the Pantra Gazette, statement in which he says that the May 16th. MARGARET ANY BROCKETT, the study. of Western, Science and which adds that Tang Chi Yno's dream Philippines will do all possible to per
suade the Japmaes to participate daughter of the late THOMAS BROCKETT Chinese classics. Compulsory Greek" of conquest and overlordship over the
future Far Eastern Olympics He adds South-Western provinces, with Kwang-The games are too important to be and Mrs. BROCKETT, of Foochow, CHARLES FREDERICK GOTZE JACKSON, is no longer the cry of the Schools in tung as his roain objective, is now over.
discontinued on account of an incident son of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. JACKSON, of Shanghai,
like the withdrawal of a few athletes"
DEATH. Fun On May 2nd, at, Derrington," Peak Rond, Hongkong. CHARLES MONTAGUE EDE. ged. 60 years.
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MARRIAGE."
Jackson-BROCKETT-At Shanghai,
Hongkong Office: 1, Chater Road. London Office: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGICNO, MAY 23RD, 1925.
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HONGKONG AND THE CHINESE CLASSICS.
VOLLEY-BALL RESULT.
蠢
China defeated Japan in both matche The scores were 21-6;
At football, China beat the Philip
England, and the Chinese schoolboy
"Architects and artists are invited to requiries other knowledge besides that of enter the competition for the design of the Classics. Let us preserve all that is the tomb of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's remains at Nanking and also a memorial hall. best in the Chinese system by creating The design of the latter should preferat volleyball.
ably be in classical Chinese style with 21-4.. facilities, in Hongkong and elsewhere, distinctive and monumental features, for the preservation of the old time with a marble tomb for the sarcophagus, pins, by -).
Intending competitors should write to Chinese scholars. Let us also realise the the Chiun International Corporation, aceûs of modern times so that there may P.O. Box 1449, Shanghai. be also facilities for preserving health and providing a wider outlook on life than was possible under the old system Mr. Oume and his friends might well interest themselves in this work.
Hougkong's interport cricket team left Shanghai yesterday by the President
Stadionu,
THERE is abroal an impression that the Director of Education in this Colony, is endeavouring to extend the facilities for instruction in the Chinese classics. Mr. Onu has always bad the reputa
Lieut. P. W. Gibson, Ist Loyal Regi- tinh for being interested in that parti- cular branch of learning and a number ment, reported himself at Headquarters of people are sympathetic with the on Tuesday on arrival by the ze
Kueichow. iden that an effort should be made to
many
We
At tennis. Toda (Japan) defeated Aragon (Philippines) by 7-5, 6-2, 6-1, giving the Japanese the championship 'n
tennis.
MUKDEN THE MARSHAL OF
EXPECTED TO PAY VISIT
TO PEKING.
His Excellency the Governor (Sir Ed- ward Stubba, K.C.M.G), accompanied by a small party of friends, were the gurets of the Hon. Mr. R.H. Kotowall and the Hon. Mr. Chow. Shou Son at. West Point on Thursday evening, when they visited the Tai Ping Theatre. His Excellency expressed his great pleasure at the enjoyable performance of a com- thang Tsa Lin, of Mukden, will come pany of lady entertainers from Peking. to Tientsin within a week. Later he will The performance included acrobatic "dís | apend a few days in Peking. plays and a spectacular play, staged by Add Morocco
one of the actresses, “
J
PEKING, May 22nd.
Ulicial circles expect that Marshal
ESU "LITTLE "
IN LONDON.
HIS TOUR..
In connection with this establishment Mrs. Pasco, who is in Hospital as of an Industrial School at Stanley, on TELLS OF VALUABLE LESSON OF result of a motor ccident, is progressing the lines of a similar institution at Macao, referred to in these columns a satisfactorily."
few days ago, the promotors of the scheme who visited Macao recently, immediately took up the matter of build- ing an Industrial School at Stanley upon their return. The inaugural com- mitten intend visiting Stanley next week to decide upon the selection of the site for the Home and after that Kai Foug (or Mass Meeting) is to be held to die
use the scheme further.
...
whose
LONDON, May 20th A farewell dinner was given by Gen- ("Little" Hao): era! Hsu Shu Tseng,
Chiness guests included the Consul-General in London, Bir Jahr Jordan, and Sir Robert Ho Tung
General Hau spoke of the valuable le sons of the tour.
He leaves Londen on May 22nd.
preserve the particular type of culturo The return of notifiable diseases which has flourished in China for so in the Colony for the 24 hours ended thousands of years. However, on May 21st shows 1 Chinese ease of
In a manifesto issued by the Canton although we might deeply regret to see the enteric fever.
Government proclaiming its determina-
EMPIRE DAY. tion, among other things, to" oppose Chinese giving up the study of their own
A large number of people attended Imperialism and so realise the emancipa-
SPECIAL SERVICE AT UNIÓN literature, it is a matter of argument Clifton Parish Church on April 8th, to mentioned in the programme of internal tion of the nation," it is incidentally
CHURCH, KOWLOON. whether we should make the attempt to
witness the wedding of Mr. Arthur policy that the Co-operative system
To-morrow marning & special service. force such studies upon school boys in Robert Harris, of Shanghai, and Miss will be promoted in order to give no
chance to foreign merchants to control will be held to commemorate Empire Hongkong.
до are, by means Lillian Mary Hall, of Clifton.
the market." This apparently has re-Day. The address will be given by the ference to the silk industry. The mani-Rev. Dr. T. W. Pearce, O.B.E., & veteran antagonistic to the ideas of those who
Whilst attempting to board a Star festo also contains the promise that the resident of the Colony, who has served wish to preserve the ancient literature
Ferry launch as it was drawing away various taxes which are bitterly hated his generation with conspicuous ability tigated by a special committee charged brandminded and public spirited manner, overthrow of the Manchu dynasty in 1912, harbour on the Kowicon side yesterday to study the economic capacity of the the highrat intercats of this Colony.
Mr. Johnston will be further assisted people and to determine from an economic and the abolition of the old system of morning. He swam back to the steps.
and legal point of view which taxes by one who ban only newly arrived in examinations for Government appoint According to the Canton Gazelle, the should be retained and which abolished." the Colony to organise the work of the The general expectation appears to be European Y.M.C.A., in Kowloon, Mr. J. ments, the chief intentive to the studywangtung Mailing Labourers' Union that the present Civil Gavernment at H. Haut, who was decorated with las of the Chinese classics has disappeared. has issued a declaration to the general Canton is doomed to early extinction, O.B. E. for distinguished services : im which are so bitterly bated by the the War. The evening service will be people will be viewed as in the nature conducted by this Bey, H..S. F. Rossiter
Wesleyan Chaplain at Wancha of death bed penitence.
on the hearing of the id Petition, mustFFICE in UNION BUILDING-TWO of China. We realise that, since then the pier, a Portugueso fell into the by the people will be carefully inves- and dovotion and has promoted, in m
serre on or send by Post to the above.
sa to do.•*-
Fasted notice in writing of bis intention
=
The Notice must siste the Name and Address of the Person, 7, if Firm, the Name and Address of the Firm, and must be signed by the -or-his
Person of
or Firm,
Apply- UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
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their Solicitor (if say) and must CARPETS for Packing Purposes, No On the other hand, we must remember public regarding their petition for ar and this promise in regard to the taxes connection with that Association during
be served, or, if postel, saust be sent by post in sufficient time to reach the borenamed Hot Later Than 6 o'CLOCK in the AFTERNOON of the 25TH DAY OF
12211 MAY, 1935.
ANTED Some Old Second Hand Matter How Old but Must be Clean Apply to
ML PERCY SMITH,
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that the system had reached a ridiculons increase in their wages, failing which position. It was so unbalanced that it they will stand firm with their strike,
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