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Apply to-

M235 DEACONS,

1. Des Vaux Road Central Hong Kong,

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 1927.

INTIMATIONS.

that An EXTRAORDINARY N that An EXTRAORDINARY

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE

OF CANTON, LIMITED.

COMPANY, LIMITED. No

TOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN GENERAL MEETING of UNION GENERAL MEETING THE INSURANCE 800LETT of CANTON, CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COM IMITED, will be held at the Registered PANY, LIMITED, will be held at the

of the Users of Company. Than Pedder Street, Vioteris in the Colony BUILDONG, Pedder Streck

in of Hong Kong.on TUESDAY, 703 13TH the Colony of Hong Kong, on TUES- DAY FEBRUARY, 1927, at 13 DAY, TUX 15TH DAY OF FEBRUARY. O'CLOCK NOON when the Subjoined 1927, at 12.30 r., when the Babjoined Resolution will be proposed: --

Resolution will be proposed: (1)—That in Article 65 in line

thereof the words "and place be, delated and that stthe of

and such Article, the following words of the "All meetings shall be bad in Hong Kengerin mah other plzen anta side the United Kingdom as the "Directors may from time to time "determine.

Do

added

(2)The: in Article 89 in the first line

thereaf between tho word "Society" and the word "shall * the following words shall be inserted from which the husi

ness of the Society shall be managed. conducted. controlled

and

(3) That between Articles 108 and 109, the following now Article be inserted-

Place of "108 (a).-All meetings of 'Directors' Directors shall be held

"meetings."

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Hong Kong, January 12th, 1927.

HONG KONG HORTICULTURAL

SOCIETY.

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEET- T

ING of the MEMBERS of the Above Society will be held on TUES DAY, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1997, at 5.15 .M., in the Board Room of Mesers. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.

All Ladies and Gentlemen interested in Forticaltors, whether Members of the Socisty or not are Cordially Invited to Attend.

ÅGENDA:

To receive and pass the Committee's Report and Statement of Accounts for the Year ended 31st Decewne, 1926.

To elect Officers and a New Committee

for the Current Year.

To ix the Date of the ASUAL FLOWER which the Outgoing Committee recommend should be held on THURS DAY, 10TH MARCH, 1997.

To discuss any matter of interest to Horticulturists in Hong Kong and dating Districts.

E. B. C. HORNELL, Hon. Secretary, Hong Kong. 21st January, 1927,

WAR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS.

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"in Hong Kong er in such "other place outaide the "United Kingdom as the

Directors may

fram

time atto time determine." (4)That in Article 129 (6) in the the third and fourth lines there- of the words "both in Hong and be deleted and in Article 122 (d) in the fourth line word

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Kong and

thereof between the"

and the word "and", purposes the following words be inserted the Colony of Hong Kode

Should above mentioned Besolt- tion be passed by the requisite majority, it will be submitted for confirmation Special Resolution to a further Extra- General Meeting,

and such

will be held on Friday, the 4th day of March, 1997, at the same time and place, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit. confirming such Resolution 115 Speciál Resolution accordingly.

Dated this S1st day of Januszy, 1927. By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager.

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BRITISH TRADERS' INSUR-

ANCE COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICES EXTRAORDINARY

JOTICE IS, HEREBY GIVEN

GENERAL MEETING of BRITISH „TRADERS. INSURANCE / COM- PANY, LIMITED, will be held at the

Company Registered Office of the

USION BUILDING. Pedder Street, Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, THE 16TH DAT OF FEBRUARY, 1997, at 12.15 r., when the Subjoined Resolat

SEALED TENDERS will be Re- ➡EALED TENUERS will bo Retion will be proposed :-

OTTICZA,

R.A.S.O.. HEADQUARTER Victoria Barracks, Hong Kong, patil 19 o'clock Noor on the Dates stated, for the andermentioned Services for the Periods as stated :----

SIX MONTHS

Commencing lat APRIL, 1927. „

February, 1997

17th

Fuel

General Supplies *B*

17th

Indian Supplies...

flat

Hospital Supplies.

fist

·Meat..

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Forage...

TWELVE MONTES-

COMMENCING IST APRIL, 1997.

Barrack Services Transport Services...

February, 1927

223rd 24th

Tender Forms and any necessary In- formation may be obtained at the above Office between the Hours of 10 1M. and

1 P.X. Daily, except Sundays. (4507

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OFFICE TO LET.

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(1)-That in Article 65 in line 3 thereof the words "and place" deleted and that at the end of such Article, the following words be added "All meetings of the "Company shall be held in Hong

or in each other place "outside the United Kingdom sa "the Directors may from time to "tims determina."

(2) That Article 80 be deleted and in lieu thereof the following Article be substituted "Votas "of "Members."

80.- s show of hands

every member present

shall have one vote, and

“upon a poll every rom-

(That in Article 65 in line 2 thereof the words "and place" be deleted and that at the end of such Article, the following words be added "All meetings of the Com

shall be held in Dong in sech other pics "outside the United Kingdom as the Directors may from time to

time determine."

(3)That Article 80 be deleted and in lien thereof the following Artible be substituted

Totes of "Mumbers."

INTIMATIONS.

outside the wildest stretches of "The Straits Echo (Penang) z0- Mr. A. Priznall, of the Accounts imagination that electromagnetic nounces that from February 7th it Department, A.P.C., Mr. H., Wil- waves could be transmitted without will be published as a morning son and Mr. and Mrs. J. Simpson and family left for Home on Sator- day on the Mores.

WATSON'S physical connection by wire and

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by proxy or com-

TC

pany present "presentative dały, su. "thorised by Section 69. "of Ordinance No. 58 of "1911, in which case such

"proxy or representative vote on the show of hands sa

he were member of the com: (3)--That in Article 89 in the first-line pany and the word "aha", the following words shall be inserted from which the business of the Company shall be managed, conducted and controlled." (4)-That between Articias 108 and 109, the following new Article be insorted:

thereof between the word “com

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"Place of "Directors' "Meetings",

(a).-All,, meetings of

108 (a). All meetie gad "in Hong Kong or in "ach other place out "aide the United King "dom as the Directors time to time

determine

(5--That in Article 199 (e) in the third and fourth lines thereof the

could be used to actuate instru ments thousands of miles away. The wonder is all the greater be causo although the other is now employed so freely no one knows what it really is, and we can form only a dim conception of ita Leharacter. Some sixty years ago

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paper.

Residents of 33, Bonham Strand have reported a theft of money and property, to the value of $1,601 from their premises.

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Those interested are reminded

that there will be an exhibition of

school-work at the Centrál British School, Kowloon, to-day from 11.30 H.E the Governor has nominated to-day from 11.30 am to 12.30 Mr. Kwok Siu Lau as a member p., and from 243 p.m. top.. of the Court of the University of Hong Kong for a period of three

years.

Official Receiver,

St. Stephen's College, Prospect

the first cable was aid under the Atlantic, and men acclaimed it.as

There was a collision between two marvel as indeed it was.-To-day motor cars on the Repulse Bay the Loadanez can ing up NewRoad, on Friday. Little damage York from home or office as easily however, was done and no one was

injured. a he can ring up an acquaiatsnee in his immediate neighbourhood. The Bankruptcy Court which was Wireless telephony was scoom to have been held on Saturday was plished a quarter of century again adjourned on account of the ago, but it was impracticable for illness of Mr. E. L. Agassiz, the ordinary commercial purposes. It had to await the advent of the thermionic valve, the invention Place, Bonham Road, re-opens on which has revolutionised the arts February 19th. The entrance ex and practices of communication amination for new students takes Most of our readers are familiar place on Friday, February 18th. with the advantages of valves in a broadcasting receiver in amplifying painting and calligraphy will be and making louder the music or held at the City Hall on Tuesday The only genuine brewed speech received from the aerial." It and Wednesday from 11 am to Ginger Beer in the East Pre-is-precisely in this function of p.m. each day. Entrance is free. pared by a special process of magnification that the valve has fermentation with the finest assisted the development of wireless selected ginger and frait telephony. Commencing with quite essences which gives it that

a small size, such as is used in distinctive flavour which is so

the broadcasting receiver in any pleasing to the palate.

private wireless set, the valve has Docks. increased in power year by year until there is now the large valve transmitter of 200 kilowatts capa city, which is in service for the wireless telephony between London and New York

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When the subscriber in London

The annual meeting of St. An- drew's Church takes place to- morrow evening” at six bo'clock. The meeting will be preceded by a reception given by the Rev. G. R and Mrs-Lindsay at the Ficarage."

A meeting of creditors" of A. G. Waller & Co., Ltd., is being held at the office of the China California Eastern Oil Co., Bank of Canton Building, 4th floor, Des Voeux Road

Central, this afternoon at three o'clock.

A cargo boat trading between fshing villages in Hong Kong. Waters, was boarded on Tuesday last outside the harboar, by three robbers armed with choppers. The

and wounded, in the head. The An exhibition of old Chincée master of the boat was attacked ago of dried oysters, valued at

5

$40, was stolen,

Teaders are invited for a new bridge at Taipo and diversion to One of the lifeboats of the 5.replace the bridge washed away in Tingsang, was stolen during the 1503. The work consists of the con- night. It was secured to the stornstruction of rubble mounds, pitched. of the ship which at the time was slopes and approach embankments berthed at No. 8, Buoy at Kowloon for a reinforced concrete beam and slab bridge supported on long-pile During the absence on leave of piers and any other necessary con- Sergeant Nolloth, Police Sergeant tingent works. Dickson, of the Water Police Station will take charge of the Hawkers' Department as from yes terday.

"A little Chinese girl sustained serious injuries through a fall from

The water used in the speaks, say, from his otice in manufacture of our Aerated the City, hir voice currents pass first floor window in Wo Hop words both in Hong Kong and be Waters is guaranteed AB-through underground cables to the Street on Friday. She was

deleted and in Articla 15% (d) in 8OLUTELY PURE.

trunk exchange near St. Paul's moved to the Government Civil the fourth line thereof between

Cathedral. Thence they paas out Hospital

word t

purpose following and tha word "and", the

the words be

be inserted "cataids theA. S. WATSON

& CO., LTD.

Colony of Hong Kong."

Should the above mentioned Resolu tion be passed by the requisite majority, it will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolution to a further Extra-

uch

ordinary General Meeting azd Meeting be

will

held on Friday, the 4th day of March, 1927, at the same time and pace, for the purpose of considering and, ion as a Special Resolution accordingly. if thought "St, confirming such Resolu

Dated this 31st day of January, 1997,

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager.

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HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LTD.

to special underground long dis Among the passengers who sailed

tance cables to the great wireless for Home by the P. & O. sa Mores station at Rugby. There they on Saturday

weze Dr. and Mrs Aerated Water Manufacturers.undergo a transformation which W. B. A. Boore, Mr. and Mrs. J. Established 1841. [30 converts them into wireless waves Ralston, and Mrs. J. E. Hancock

which pass, across the Atlantic to and two children. Houlton, Maine, U.S.A, where the

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McLeod left MARRIAGES.

receiving arrangements of the Hong Kong for Home on Saturday PEARCE-LECKIZ-At the

British American Telephone and Telegraph on the P. & O... Morea. Mr, Consulate, Shanghai, on Febr- nary 1st, HENRY Joser, son of Company are installed. From McLeod is Assistant Chief Warder the late Mr. EDWARD PEARCE Houlton they pass by land-line soo of the Prison Department and a and Mrs. Price, of Weymouth, England, to MARY ELIZABETH, milce to the New York long-distance prominent Freemason. daughter of the late Mr. ALEX exchange, and from thence to the ander Leckie and Mra. Leckie,

subscriber. When the New York of London.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

The annual general meeting of the Hong Kong Horticultural Society is being held to-morrow evening at 5.15 in the Board Room

of. Mesara Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. An important item on the spends is to ar the date for the annual flower show, which the gutgoing committee suggest should be held on Thursday, March 10th

Mrs. Ruth Mary Ball, wife of MI. A. Dyer Ball, Assistant At- torney-General, whose death. Cromwell Nursing Home, London, took place on October 28th Inst year, left estate in Hong Kong valued at $1,700. Probate has been granted to Mr. A. Dyer Ball. The majority of the bequests are to deceased's son, Denys Michael Ball.

at

At Mesara Kemer and Komor's to-day and to-morrow there will be on view a collection of twenty-three

It is notified that, at the expira.trings of very fine old pearls. We tion of three months, the Alpha are informed that these pearls are aubscriber replies his voice currents Towboat Company, Limited will, which was exhibited by Messrs. even better than the collection

her present in person or NOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN

that the ANNUAL ORDINARY Mr. and Mra-A. RAHIM, and pass on underground cables to the unless cause is shown to the con- Komor and Komor during Christ-

OF

by proxy shall have one GENERAL MEETING of SHARE *vate fur avery share HOLDERS in this Company will be

him. No men-.

held at HCNOKONG HOTEL, Hong

the ber not personally pre- Kong on SATURDAY,

the 19TH

"held by

ent shall be entitled to

itled to FEBRUARY,

BY. 1927, at 11 AM, for the 'vota na s show of hand”. unless such memberi pose of receiving, the Report of the Directors together with a Bistement of corporation prosent by Accounts for the Year ended 31st

́a proxy or a company DECEMBER, 1926.-

***resent by a representa The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

Mra MASALLET and family wish to thank those who attend ed the funeral of their father, Mr. FATTADIN and other friends. for their sprapathy, letters of condolence and foral tributes in their recent bereavement

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Company will be CLOSED from the Hong Kong Office: 1, Chater Rd.

TH FEBRUARY to the 14TH FEBRU- London Offices 131, Fleet St., E.C. ABY (both days inclusive), during which Period No Transfer of Shares can be

JOHN D. BUMPHREYS & SON, Che

General Managert. Hong Kong, 29th January, 1927,

'tive duly authorised by ised by "Section 69 of Ordinanca "No. 68 of 1911, in which case such proxy or re- presentative may vola registered. on the show of hands. ass if he were a member of the company (3) That in Article 29 in the fret lice

thereof between the worca pany" and the word "hall", the folowing words shall be inserted. "from which the bugi. cess of the company stall be managed, conducted" and "con trailed."

That between Articles 108 and 103, the followingļuew Articlo be insured

Meetinga.

"

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THE HONG KONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT

CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THEN

THE ONE

SEVENTH ORD MEET-

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 7TH, 1927.

HALLO, NEW YORK.,

on

the best pearls seen in Hong Kong these pearls range from 8300 to for many years. The prices for

81,500.

long-distance exchange, where they trary, be struck off the register and proceed by underground cables a the Company, will be dissolved. mas week. They are stated to be distance of 70 miles, to the wire- less station on Long Island. There

Mr. Earee, formerly of the night they are transformed into wireless staff, South China Morning Post, waves, ta at Rugby, and traverso left Hong Kong for Colombo by the ocean to Wroughton, near Swin- the forea Saturday Mr. don, where the Post Office receiver Carce was a keen golfer. He had converts the wireless waves back held office, at St. Andrew's Church, into voice frequency currents suit Kowloon. able for transmission along the underground cables to the London trunk exchange, and thence to the subscriber.

tion has been made under the wire- The following additional regula- less Telegraph Ordinance-The licensee of a ship station..licence shall forthwith deliver ap the licetice to the Colonial Secretary- It is notified that sub-calibre g the licence has expired by passing. if the licence has been cancelled: if. practice will be carried out by His of time; if the licensee has ceased Majesty's Navy on the morning af to be owner of the ship if the Fifteen pounds, which is the Friday, the 11th February. Firing nationality of the ship has been charge for a three minute call, will be directed against South of the ship has been changed.

changed; or if the post of registry with £5 for each additions! minute, Cau Rock at the southern entrance. looks a lot of money, and it reto Mirs Bay, mains to be seen to what extent

the public will use the service, His Majesty the King has not

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As might be supposed, the initia tion of a commercial telephone AND service between London and New The authorities promise, however, been advised to exercise his power the close proximity of a squatters'

that the rates will be reviewed from of disallowance with respect to time to time as experience is gained the following Ordinance.-An Ordi of the working of the system. In nanes to charge a certain loan upon London, agreement is general that

ING of SHAREHOLDERS in the York has stirred the public imigipa Company will be held at the, Office of the tion on both sides of the Atlantic.

'Place of 103 (a). All meetings of 'Director' Directors shall be held gor in such in Hong Kongo "other place oatside, the

"Directors may from time at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a

44, DIE VEUX ROAD, On

22ND

At to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board, Mr. J. P. Braga will submit the following motion- That in the opinion of this Board settlement to the new and growing residential district of Kowloon health, and in the interests of the Tong is prejudicial to the public

granted to the squatters should be revoked at as early a date practicable." This question was

United Kingdom as the pony, H. FEBRUARY, 192, When, one comès to reflect upon the f there are many occasions when the the general revenue and assets of residents of the district the permits

"to time determine." Report of the Directors, together with a subject, it is nothing short of (5) That in Article 122 (b) in the Statement of Accounts, and electing miracle that people in England

and fourth lines thereof Directors and Auditors. third the words "both in Hong Kong The TRANSFER BOOKS of the and be deleted and in Article

a A stockbroker, for instance, might

expense, will be well worth while the Colony of Hong Kong prefer a few minutes conversation By kind permission of the Com brought up the last meeting

and

will he CLOSED from in America, separated by over 3,000 122 (d) in the fourth line/ WDAY, 9ru FEBRUARY, to

miles of ocean, are now able to hear poser and the word "and" both days inclusive, during which Period each others voices. And not only the

be inserted No Transfer of Shares can be registered. following

words outside

the

that, but we learn from accounts By Order of the Board of Directors, Colony of Hong Kong

just received from London that such conversation is clearer and more distinct than it often is by ordinary telephone between people living in

Should the above mentioned Resolution

be prased by the requisite majority, it

will be submitted for cenfirmation as Special Resolution to a further Extra-

|=

ordinary General Meeting, and such

JOHN ARNOLD. Secretary. Hong Kong, 27th January, 1957,

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on the telephone to the alternative

of dozens of expensive cables, and manding Officer, the Dance Band of of the Sanitary Board by Mr. with complicated deals involving H.MLS. Caradee will play, under Bragas big sums a ringte on the telephone the direction of the Band Presi might be all-important A wire dent, Mr. B. R. Reiss-Smith, at less, telephone call might save a trip across the Atlantic, as in the the Repulse Bay Hotel, on Satur case of the sudden illness of a re day, February 12th, commencing at lative. Apart from business con- 8.30 p.m. siderations it is easy to imagine circumstances in which people of the two nations with their innumer-

The wedding took place at St. John's Cathedral on Saturday, morning of Mr. W. A. Donaldson, of the editorial staff of the Hong Kong Daily Press, to Miss Marguerite de Dibon Faber, of Lieutenant-Col. Frederick Eaves, Colony by the F. &

London. The bride arrived in the able ties of bleed and association D.9.0., Barrister-at-law, has been on Friday. The Rev. II. Copley 63. Mantua

and Mr. E. nication. And there is bound to

Mason, Cathedral Organist, played com a Christmas when it will be of arbitrators to determine the wedding music. Following the roomer Bungalow on way to Repaise the use of the ether by mankind to deliver their Christmas greetings in respect of the resumption of the held at the Hong Kong Hotel, and possible for people of modest means amount of compensation to be paidCathedral ceremony a reception was Buy nad Fauling respectively for rent

A few by word of mouth and to hear the

voices of friends that they never properties known as Teat Tio Mui for Repulse Bay, where the honey- later Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson left would have seemed thought to hear again.

Village Houses Nos. 5 and 68. moon is being spent.

Meeting will be held on Friday, the 4thLATE, three, four and five room adjoining strecta. Few achieve. Will demand the personal comm nominated a member of the board Moyle officiated,

day of March, 1927, at the same ti

time and

place, for the purpose of considering and, ed. modern bathrooms, flush, ste

if thought it, conleming unch Resolution Also one two roomed and one shreements are more tatounding than

a Special Resolution accordingly.

-Dated this 31st day of January, 1927.

·By Order of the Board,

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PAUL LADDER,

General Manager.

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