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NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.

IN THE MATTER OF THE COM PANIES ORDINANCE 19$1-1923.

AND

IN THE MATTER OF THE FRANCO SING ANNAMITE CO., LTD.

and f.

(IN VOLUNTART IIQUIDATION).

THE Creditors.of the shove named Company are Required, on or before the 30th Day of JUNE, 1927, to send their Names and Addresses, and Addresses of their Solicitors (if any) to JOHN HENNESSEY RETH SYDNEY HAMPDEN BO88, of DES VIEUX ROAD CENTRAL, Hong

Kong, the Liquidators of the raid Compay. Writing ad, if o required, by Notics in frout the ssid liquidators, us by 1 Solicitors, or Fersonally, to come in and prove their said Dob Claim

от Auch Time and Place as sl all be specified in auch Notice, or in default thercat they will be excluded from the benefit

Their

at

of any Distribution made before anch Debts are proveit

Dated this 16th day of May, 1927,

J. HENNESSEY SETH, 1.8.4.A. H. HAMPDEN KOSS, &C.A..., A...Ñ‚Ă‚Â.

NOTICE.

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HE UNIVERSITY CALEND. · R

TOR92 is Now Availado danes Can be obtained on

application to the Registrar. Price: 81.00 & Copy.

NOTICE.

Cop $16

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

HE Power of Attorney granted by THE

me in favour of MR. FELIX M ELLIS, is hereby CANCELLED, by mutual consent

(SL)E E. ELLIS.

1930

May, 12th, 1927. HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.,

D'AFFOURTH EXTRA RAFT Programmes and Entry RACE MEETING to be held on BATURDAY, 4TH JUNE, and MON- DAY, 6TH JUNE, 1927 (Weather Permitting), may be obtained at the RACE COURSE, HONG KONG Cith and CAUSEWAY BAY STABLER,

INTIMATIONS.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18th, 1927.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY

OF CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREBOLLERS.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN think the FIFTY-FOURTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING ni the Society will he held at the Beadi Offico,

BUILDING, Hong Kong.

No

FRIDAY, 20TH MAY, 1927, n. 11 'cook a.m., for the purpose of receiy." ing the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st DECEM Ben, 1926, and of declaring Pividends,

etc.

The TRANSFER POOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from MAY A to MAY 20TH, Both Daya inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER.

General Manger. Hong Kong, April 25th, 1927. 49%

BRITISH TRADERS' INSUR-

ANCE COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

No

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTY-FIRST ORDIN- AUY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, UNION BUILDING,

BING Hong Kong, en FRI. DAY, 20 MAY, 1927, al' i 15. a... for the purpose of receiving the Report

of the Directors and the Statements of ccount to 31st DECEMBER 192, and of declaring Dividends, ste.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MAY 4TH to MAY 20ru, Both Bays inclusive.

By Order at the Boari,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager. Hong Kong, April 25th 1927, [18:16 THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE

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LET, for the Summer, Roomy Furnished Bungalow, Three Bath-

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roome,

INTIMATIONS.

"Wine gires the lover vigour,

Makes glow the checks of bosatz,

Makes ponts write, And soldiers fight, And friendship do its duty.

Power, wealth, Beauty, health,

Wit uml mirth, in wine are crown'd.

Joys abound,

Pleasure's found, Only when the glass goes round."

Fine SHERRIES

Grown, Bottled and Shipped by

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Xeres de la Frontera

and Oporto

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co, Hollywood Road, on Monday

Emergy seria to go net into the A burglar entered a piere goods strokes but into the thinking. After shop on the ground floor of No. all, however, tanrominent tennis is Berely the spectacular side of the game. There is all the rest of the year in which in play the quite invigoratiner game, which keeps one

night by forcing the side door. He stole an electric fan and six rolls of cloth,

I was not Mrs. T. E. Pearce

who was bitten, as reported, by m

alert, Loth mentally and physically. and add so watch to the zest of

life in whatever part of the world, outside the Arctic regions, in which do on the Peak on Saturday, but na happen to be-in other words Mrs. Penver, of No. 405, the Peak the game's the thing that matters, Mrs. T. E. Pearce is at present in not the watching of it.

Eugland.

A dance is to be held in the Gymnasimu at Police Headquar" ters this evening, beginning at 8.30.

The Squeakels will give a Matinee performance at the Helena May Institute on Thursday, May 26th, at 5.30 p.m. Tickets 50 cents ench may hạ booked at Secretary's Oflice.----ADVT.

A LUCKY DEFENDANT.

TWO YOUNG WOMEN "HELP HIM OUT."

SAY THE COMPLAINANT WAS GREEDY.

At the Central Magistracy yes- today, before Mr. R. E. Lindsel. a Bahnunger from the Western

Market, pleaded not guilty to a charge of striking an old woman with a pair of senles and enusing injuries which necessitated her de trution in hospital for three days. The defendant suggested that the e woman received the injuries through

a fall.

Defendant was also accused of giving short weight to the complain- ant but a young woman whom he

The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of Mr. Juanes Howden Il engineer, of Shanghai, to! The forthcoming wedding is an Miss Kathleen D. MacFarlane, of nounced af Mr. Eduardo Inacio called as a witness stated that the Read Laitas, mercantile assistant, endeavour to run off with a slice too jold woman was greedy and would Glasgow.

China Underwriters, Ltd., residing at No. 11, Kowloon Tong, and Miss Marie Augusta de Souza, residing at No. 2, Lyenna Villas, Kowloon

Mr. E. B. S. Edwards, af Kole, who left recently for England with this family to settle down there, bus poesented the International Hospital with Tls. 500 as a parting gift.

nincb.

it was purely in the interests of His Worship asked the witness it

justice that she put heraclf to the inconvenience of coming into Court. She replied that gossip passed around that the fishmonger had be the right thing to do to stato bren arrested, and she felt it would

At the District Office, in the Post Office Building, before Mr. E. J. Wynne-Jones yesterday morning, The total output of the Kailan the master of a Chinese wine shop Mining Administration's mines for

was fined $500 for having in his the week ending 30th

April, possession 152 gallons of dutiable before the Court what she herself -amnunted to V4,416 tons, and the Chinese wine, on which duty had 44.00 3.75 sales during the period to 77,213 not been paid. 47.00 4.10 ms. 57.00 4.85

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ZOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTICE 18 TIEREBY

that the FIFTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office. UNION BUILDING, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 2011 MAY, 1927, at 1120A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and th Statements of Account to 31st DECEM men, 1926, and of declaring Dividends, elc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be. CLOSED from MAY Entrica will CLOSE at 1 7.M. on | 4ru to MAY 20TH, Both Days inclusive. MONDAY, 23an MAY, 1927.

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CHINA UNDERWRITERS,

LIMITED,

JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by a Resolution of the

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER.

General Manager. Hong Kong, April 26th, 1927. [45837

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LIMITED.

General Managers of the Company madeTING

on the 9TH INSTANT A CALL OF $1.00

ORDINARY GENERAL

SHAREHOL

For Share has been marte upon the DERS in the above Company will be Members of the Company payable on he'd at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, on or before the 19TH DAY OF AUGUST, SATURDAY, the 21sT of MAY, 1927, 1927, to the Company's Bankers, Tas HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Dated this 11th Day of May, 1927.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., 49057

General Managers.

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

dated Hong Kong, 20th JuLs, 1929, for Twelve Shares, Numbered 13030,130541 5 NS inclusive, and Certificato No 10410 dated Bong

BLI APLI 1925, for Six Shares Numbered 507-46 t

t

at Noos, for the purpose of receiving- the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts to the 31st of Decɛwner 1926.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from th: 17TH to 21ST of MAY, Both Day inclusive.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO., General Managers Hong Kong, 6th May, 1927, ... (4897.

CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE

FORTY-NINTH ORDINARY

1926.

58250 and 131:49 inclusive, sil registered TANNUAL MEETING F th in the Name of AUGUSTE MAURICE CHAMRION, have been LUST or SHAREHOLDERS of the abors Com STOLEN, cal should these Certificates any will be held at the. Offices of the not be produced to the Bank before General Agents, PRODES STRENT. On the 10TH JUNE, 1927, New Certificates TUESDAY, 20 JUNE, 1927, at Noon. for the Shares will be issued and the ani Statement of Accounts for the Year for the purpose of receiving the Report aforesaid Certificates Nos. 5/No 8949

and 5/N8 10416 will be thereafter treated soling Slat DECEMBER, by this Corporation as Null and Void. By Order of the Court of Directors,

A. C. HYNES,

Acting Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 11th May, 1927. (49)

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Two coolies were on Monday custody for Inreeny, succeeded in A Chiurse, who was in Police taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital

making his escape on Monday while he was being conveyed from Aber-

and Fine PORTS suffering from ents in their legs

Invalid Douro

hud seen.

His

Worship, to defendant: Well, you are lucky. Have you any other girl as a witness ?

There was a stir in the lack of the Court, where the spertators wore seated. The Magistrate no-

eansed by the sharp edge of au | Jeen to Central Police Station in ticed a young girl whom he ordered

iron boiler which they were carry- $42.00 $3.70

ing to the military camp at Sham- 41.00 3.60 shuipo.. 44.00 3.80

The 49th ordinary annual meet- 48.00 4.15 ing of shareholders of the China | 49.00 4.25 Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., will be 5.50 at the offices of the General 5.75 Agents, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Tuesday, June 7th,

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Hong Kong, Mar 1811, 1927.

TENNIS.

Wine and Spirit Merchants.

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at noon.

Mr. L. G. Husar, former U.S. District Attorney in Shanghai, and who was recently convicted of bribery, left for America in the Empress of Asia, where he will re- main pending his appen in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

a moter bus. While in the hus he murged to slip kis hand-cuffs and made a dash for liberty.

It was inadvertently stated in our report of the moonlight inth

to be brought forward.

Are you also a witnessi" his Worship queried.

I

saw

"Yes, I am an earth-carrier, but what happened at the market," replied the girl.

She was cross-examined at length. as to the motives which brought her

into the case, and said: I came up

for a job as an earth-carrier.

picnic of St. Peter's Young Men's Club, which was held on Monday night, that the party went hy launch to Junk Bay. This was! the original intention, but at the last moment it was decided to make the venue Big Wave Bay. Com-Gura? munity singing was the outward and return trip.

.. feature of

Mrs. H. Coombes, residing at the Government Waterworks Bungalow on the hillside at Taikoo, was at- practically non-yet the game re-

The accountant of the Wab Iing tacked by a Chinese on Monday at quires agility, finesse, and concen- The tennis tournament has now

haberdashery shop of No. 80, Holly 8.10 p.m. when she was walking up tration of mind if success is to wood Road,reports that on the the path towards her house. The ended, and new and youthful achieved. The deftness and 16th instant someone entered the unknown assailant ran out from a champion has come to the front. sobtlety of a good player are premises on the ground floor by bush, seized her throat and threw The attendance at the matches actuating to watch, the perfect co-breaking open the side door.. The papper at her eyes. Mrs. Coombes demonstrated the great and growing ordination of the Feet and arm with intruder stole un electric fan and put up

a strong resistance and after

aoine struggle, the Chinese interest in the game which, at any the eye, appeals strongly to those 20 rails of cloth.

who love the rhythm of movement

ran away. which achieves a definite purpose-Morrison Hill Road has reported Van Epps, of No. 41. clean hard stroke, placing the ball in a

to the police that some time on roof and wall of Shektongtsui corner from which it Monday afternoon omne cannot be returned, preferably after from his house a watch worth $40. 8.40 yesterday morning.

one stole market in Hill Street collapsed at A fire the player has been manqusred out The police, after making enquiries, engine wont to the scene from Kennedy Town but found that no The movement, the were able to restore the watch to

one had been injured. Some coolies

tunately for them, received warn-

rate from the spectators' point of view, has the decided advantage over cricket in that it exhibita activity practically the whole time Moreover, & derision is generally reached within two hours.

The increase in the popularity of

of position.

Mr.

His Worship: Here, in this Court 1 You know defendant? A friend of

In the end, Mr. Lindsell snid that he could not convict the de- fendant, as he had two witnesses and the complainant had wone. Defendant was discharged.

SMALL ENTERIC EPIDEMIC. SATISFACTORY RETURNS FOR

OTHER DISEASES.

Last week's health returns for

the Colony showed a diminution in small-pox, there being only fresh cases and only two deaths.

The south west portion of the

Enteric figures were more serious, showing 10 fresh cases and six denths.

There were also one

Case each of paratyphoid and cerebro-spinal fever.

perfect timing, the ball truly and Mr. Von Epps. No arrest was sleeping in the market had, for- cept one German case of enteric.

tennis throughout the world has cleanly struck, these cauze almost been one

of the most marked as much exhilaration to the specta. Phenomena of the post war period. Lors as to the player. Formerly it was considered an in-

It is a game for those whose

inte,

į

Two more Communists were ex- ing of the impending collapse by cented on Thursday in Chapei. the creaking of some of the beams, Both victims looked very depressed and immediately left the place.

All the patients were Chinese ex-

On Monday another Chinese case of enteric was reported.

A Chinese woman who had 12

noctious accompaniment to after- temu spirit is not very strong, and on the excention ground, and one / The rest of the building is being previous convictions against her

it satisfies the individualistio of the evidently thought that !! outlook of the Chinese. It is some he had anticipated what would hap

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the) Company will be CLOSED from 26TH MAY to 7TH JUNE, 19:7, Both Days inclusive.

JARDIN F, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,

General Agents. Hong Kong, 16th May, 27. [4332

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shored up.

för hawking without a licence, was fined $25 or 14 days' hard labour hy Major C. Willson at the Cen- trai Magistracy yesterday morning for a similar offence.

The death occurred at ber residence, No. 8, Caine Road, in the early hours of yesterday morn- ing, of Mrs. Cornelia Corventh de

chair or pleasant walk. 0.1: Mid level building up of the manly type, fright." What probably happens is Hong Kong Bank ex-compradore at Deccased is survived by a sister at The whereabouts of Teng, the Sousa, at the age of 79 years.

Three months gaol was the sen- Audiber charge levelled against, it that the players are so concentrated Peking and bis son, temning à

tence on a Chinese by Mr. R. E. Shanghai, and a number of grand-Lindsell at the Central Magistracy ens that did not tend to create

on the game so keyed up with mystery, says the North China children, and other relatives. The yesterday for having in his posses excitement that they are more ar Daily Mail. The Commissioner of funeral took place at the Romansion a forged ten dollar note, The the team spirit. Either nea action from the war with more than less obligious of the spectators. Foreign Affairs in Tientsin is re- Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley, accused was stated to be a former Stage fright scarcely enters into ported to have been instructed by yesterday evening, the Rev. Father dog catcher attached to the Wan- consideration. The player tries to the Waichinopu, to negotiate with Bianchi taking the service. Many chai Police Station. a closer acquaintance with the gaine

relatives and friends were present, anticipate too much and wearies the foreign authorities for war- for and its possibilities has revealed

higself with the strain. Therents of arrest in case Teng and his and a very large number of floral thị need for endurance, the attitude.

sectos to be

son are hiding in one of the Contributes were sent. difference between towards the sport has completely

| cessions. (*. physical, exertion that is Accom- changed. Even if it do not oust papied by mental strain and the

Yesterday afternoon's meeting of cricket in England it bids fair to

It is understood that Mr. A. the Sanitary Board was again a resumed before Mr. W. Schofield become the one great international Men drop down dead in running tary of Ceylon, will fill the posted less than a minute, the only same, physical exertion without it. M. Fletcher, the Colonial Secre- speedy one. The proceedings last

competitive game.

to catch trains, but seldom while of Officer Administering the Gov-public business before the meeting 3. No limit to tenants supplied and no sharge for

It is clear that it appeals to the running in un ordinary way. At ernment, when the Governor of being the granting of registration securing new tenants or for advertising during

period of contract. Chinese mind very deeply, and it any rate in tennis the 'mental strain Ceylon leaves on May 28th, Mr. of No. 46, Queen's Road East, 4. Anction or private sale, 3. Negtotia is only because of lack of open of tournaments seems to destroy Fletcher was appointed Colonial ground floor, as a dairy. Those tion of mortgage. 6. Insurance ar

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. Free information and adviso practised by far more than at pre- the same respotise and so the timing 20th.

The case in which three Chiness are charged with receiving 40 piga kaowing the same to have been side the waters of the Colony, was stolon or unlawfully received out-

appeared for the defence. The case at the Kowloon "Magistracy yester- day morning. Mr. Hin Shing Lo was again adjourned until next Tuesday.

Mrs. Wilson, residing at the tangent of your land

Military Quarters at Kennedy or property.

the feet and the eye. There is not assumed his duties on January N. L. Smith (President), Dr. J. C. man yesterday at the Central garding shares, mortgage, etc. We sent in this Colony, There in some-

Previously he served in MacGown, Dr. 8. C. He, Mr. Magistracy yesterday for the theft have rented many of the Colony's largest APPLY TO A. J. DAVID house and have negotiated property thing in tennis which suits the

goes wrong, for, the normal adjust various capacities in the Civil Wong Kwong Tin, Mr. J. P. notes. The accused was said

of a silver purse containing some land and shares for some of the older Chinese temperament.

ments cannot be made when the Service of Hong Kong, where he Braga, Hon. T. H. Jackman (Dires have entered her bed room to collect local firms.

There is mind is in this abnormal condition acted as Colonial Secretary on tor of Public Works), Dr. G. W. washing sad stolen the purse which HONGKONG SMALL INVESTORS,

almost A complete absence of of intense concentration. Hence the Ceylon from long leave early this Oppe (Medical Officer of Health) Willson ordered the accused to re- several occasions. He returned to,

was lying on a table. Major O. dang of fear of injury there is lack of enterprise shown at nais. year.

and Mr. D. Dacies (Secretary). ceive 12 strokes of the birch.

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Tol. 1030

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to

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