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ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED.

NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

GENERAL MEETING of tho

ADVERTISEMENTS.

"126B. Any instrument appoint. "ting sa alternate Director in "pursuance of Article 126A of "these Artiales shall be as nearly "as circumstances will admit in "the following form or to the fat following:-"

Members of The HONG KONG THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

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and SHANGBAI HOTELS, LIMITED, will be heid #t Exchange Building,, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong. FRIDAY, the BIGOTEENTH day of MARCII, 1982, at 11.80 in the forenoon im mediately aftor the Annual General Meeting of the Company, for the purpose of considering and if thought At passing the following roschitions aa Ordinary Besolutions:-

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HOTELS, LIMITED,

a Director of

The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Limited, in pursuance of the power in that behalf contained in Article 128A of the Articles of Association and oppoint...... of the Company do hereby nominate

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1932.

The eldest. (really the youngest) | husband'; buy it seems that a novel

CICELY HAMILTON,

BOOKS and READERS neration under survey consists of based on se controversial a theme FULL STOP. By Cicely Hamilton

WAR MEMOIRS, AND 'SOME NEW NOVELS,

PARIS IN THE WAR. Ja ohapter devoted to that incident Mr. Sharp reveals how he disprov THE WAR MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM ad the German assertion that the GRAVES SHARE, AMERICAN AM boat had struck a foaling mine, BASBADOR TO FRANCE, 1914-3918. Edited by Warrington Dawson, and by some clever detective work London: Constable and

Co. was able to identify fragments of Pp. xxviii. 432, 18 nou

iron found in the benched velsely as Mr. Sharp lived continuously in parts of a German torpedo. Mr. Paris throughout the European Sharp's high admiration of the

a West Country squire, who in tau will have some difficulty in main- London: J. M. Done and Sons. conventional sportsman and familyaining plausibility However, in Pp. 310, 0s, not.. autoorat, his wife, who has a mind, this pass Mr. Hichens appears to The problem of the man who is but not enough will-power to du have set out to defy plausibility; told that he has only a short. (ime minate him, and her brother's sis his heroes are ineffably good and to live has been handled before, but ter, who lives in London and un-his villains unutterably bad; and rarely with the keen and beautiful derstands young.

people. The with a disputable theory as tho skil which Mi Hämilion bringa quire's daughter, Dinah, jilts a basis of the plot the novel canto it. This small books is a mai young M.F.H. on the ove of mar hardly fail to lose rapidly all con- terpices of austers and careful riage, marries and makes a G.P. that with reality. The characters craft. The hero, Royle, is on the and is east off by her inther. The all move on a plane of theatrical threshold of his life's ambition, tha story begins when Christopher Kin superiority and the situations are his death may occur at any moment dred, the G.P., has become a Han melodramatic in the extreme-par- and certainly within the next few lay-atrent specialist, who is chiefly ticularly Lord Brenden's systemawooks. He vows his doctor to let concerned with the neuroses of the tia corruption of his former wife's crecy and tries to hold the brief thread of his existenos,, us firmly as thinks, far more in mind than in hisse and the very easily contrived definite spen modern woman, who suffers, as, he sou. With the addition of a few though it stretched on into an in- In this intense mapt- al lonelines ha' snatches at Spiri-

Premiership, when he learns that.

1. That the authorised Capital of alternate Director in my place during struggle, and for most renders the Frensh nation, its soldiers, "states-body. Dinah has had a spiritual 'tacking-on of the necessary happy unlism and the Church, vainly the Company (which is now $10,000. my absence from the Colony of Hong chief interest of these memoirs men, and ordinary citizens, is misadventure, the nature of which ending it could be converted into trying to find in each some back have been issued) be increased from may ba) to exercise and, discharge all Periences and impressions of life tes discreetly of, the celebrated men first daughter, Christina, is born would be proud to include in their "ly, at a great political meeting of

my duties as a Director of the Com- pany.

000.00 divided into 1,000,000 Shares Kong or my inability to not as h of $10.00 each, of which the whole Director through illness (as the case $10,000,000.00 consisting as afore said to $15,000,000.00 (consisting of 1,500,000 Saares of the nominal value of $14.00 each) by the creation of 300,000 New Shares of the nominal value of 310,00 each.

That the first instance

AS WITNESS my hand this...... ......................................... day of Une thousand nine hundred and thirty

AND NOTICE IS

comes from his own personal exdent throughout his, pages; he wri-

begins to be disclosed when her à pises that any old barnstormers ground to his own courage. Find with a slightly deformed little fin repertory. The scene at Wimble on his prepared speed and tells

his party he tears up, the notesṣup....... ger. Christina is more of the con ¦ventional type than Zoe, her sister, dont with its topichi appeal, could the audience of his impending fate. and the two are cleverly contrasted not fail of its effect, and would This scene, this declaration of a in the third-generation complica be well worth the slight difficulty brave and cynical creed, definitely tions which threaten to wreck their of staging. But as a presumably its the novel into greatness. It and Zoo mimic the conversations of comes up to expectations. lives. Even as children Christion modern novel the book hardly is a theme difficult to carry safely their parents, having the deadly

past the dangers of sentimentality and falso bravado, but Miss Hamil. tou never gives a hint of wavering step. Certainly it is a book that will not easily he forgottan,

in the city under the stress of war, he met, steers clear of French poli- In the first wooks of his duties ties, and makes no startling disclo there he witnessed the gathering ol

sures that might, stir the embers overy sort of conveyance having of past controversies: There are wheels for the transport of Gal naturally fower references, to Eng. HEREBY tien's grmy to make its unexpected ligh public men of the way, but 200,000 of the said New Shares be ALSO GIVEN that a further Extratroke on the Matue, and he saw he makes a special mention of the one No Share for evory are Members of the above named Com. many strange and varied sights, surprise ho felt (after he had ex gift of paychical mimicry so com offered at par (in the proportion of ordinary General Mecting of the Shares held by them rospectively) to fpany will be held at Noon at the from then onwards until his last pressed his alarm at the possible of to-day. But they keep a real the persons who on the eighteenth same place on the Fourth day of actual war experience in the cily, attitude of English Labour lead. į affection and respect for their much. So Lovers day of March, 1982, are registered in April, 1982, for the purpose of the days of long-drawn-out anxiety the Company's Shore Register as the receiving a report of the pruceelings when ench quarter of an hour there era) at the reply of Earl Balfour, experienced eldars, which helps|

them to achieve happiness despite holders of the 1,0 0,000 Old Shares at the last above inentioned meeting was a Sombardment from a German "I shall never fear the work at the impossibility of being wise in

long-range gun. The memoirs re- one who takes John Wesley for his loving. and so that on acceptance of such and of confirming if thought it as S

for feelingly to the difficulties offer the full nominal amorat due in Special Resolution the before men-

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mon with the bright young things

ALEC WAUGH.

respect of such 200,000 New Sharas, tioned resolution numbered 5 herein. experienced in the Arst two years model in life, as does Mr. Hender little dnger, which crops up in the now novel. But the text of it does!

Davod this 27th day of January,

By Order of the Board,

F. C. BAREY,

Secretary: 11749

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

shall be payable on the 80th day of June, 1982, and that on neceptamer 1932. of such offer and on payment in manner aforesaid such shares. 80: taken up shall rank as from the 1st day of July, 1993, for dividend; and in all other respoets pari paszu with the shares constitating the Company's present issued Capital, and that any of the said 200,000 Now Shares which shall not be taken up by the Company's Shareholders in manner aforesaid be disposed of at such time or times in auch manner, and upon such terms and conditions as the Company's Board of Directors shall think fit.

int sich offer be made by notice specifying the number of shares to which the Member is entitled and limiting the time within which the offer if not accepted by the Member on behalf of himself or his nominea will be deemed to be declined and that the Directors be at liberty to fix such time and to extend it to such date or dutes as they may think fit.

4. That the balance of 300,000 Sharea constituting the Company's unissued Capital be issued at such time or times in such manner and for such purposes and upon such term and conditions in every respect ne the Company' Board of Directora muy

decide.

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the "boforo mentioned Extraordinary General

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HOTELS, LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN HONGKONG)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVFN

that the ORDINARY YEAR LY MEETING of Shareholdáru of Tas Hong Kong, AND SHANGRAI HOTELS, DIVIT■n, will be held at the

of maintaining the role of strict son." neutrality. A vary critical period began when the Sussex, a Channel! boat, carrying American passengers was torpedoed without warning, la

ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE HONG KONG, CANTON MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LIMITED,

NOTICE.

AN OLD PROMISE,

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THE

FIFTH COMMANDMENT.

SOCIETY'S MISFITS. BEYOND "HELL.

DRKAM BY Alre and Waugh. London: Cassell Co. p. 350. 78. 6. net. "The moderh novel is dend. Long

By Stephen Mc- The implications of the crooked, live the modern novel Thus the

Kenna publishers harald Mr. Wangh's

London: Chapman and Hall, Pp. 363, 78, 6d net. lover of both girls, make the clou not fulfil so flamboyant a prophecy, Mr. McKenna puts the clock on of the drama, which must not be for auarch we never so diligently a decade in his novel to the time. revealed by the reviewer. The it is impossible to discover a single when civilised peoples have decid story is as complex as fe itself, authentic note of innovation, 3od that capital punishment is no and as full of significant incident. Lovers Dredm treads the saras longer tolerable. Druid, a young It is an engrossing piece of reality paths and creates the same charac doctor, is the first Englishman to By(not merely realism), and may ters as hundreds of other novels be sent to Sunday Island in the Horace Annesley Vachell. Hut.prove as crowd-compelling as the trend and

author's Quinney's. Mr. Vachell The scenes are set in the fashion President has founded a ponal.

create each year., Pacific, where the United States chinson, 78, ed., net.

goes to life, not to literature, for able districts of London, New York, settlemen: for murderers of every Mr. Vachell's new novel, which his dramas of characters in colli and the Riviera. The hero is a nation. Here they are given &is subentitled A Commentary.

sion, and there is more human na

young hovelist, and the book do chance to start life again under an upon certain phases of modern half a dozen of the Freudian phan.

ture in one of his novels than in series his relationships with three idealistic despot, Governor Hale. domostis life," holds the balance tasieg of the

women, a student in London Uni but no chance ever of returning to hyper modern fairly between the claims of crabbed

noveliste.

versity a married American how the life from which they have been tes, and a rising actress. Two of expelled. age and youth crabbing itself.

these liaisons are, to use the proper Events happen, swiftly on the is Three generations are presented, the vitality enjoyed by all this THE FIRST LAND BURNDON.

word, adulterous, and the third island. A convict is publicly flogged each of them in characters which

plutonie, ̈, My, Waugh undoubtedly for keeping an illivie still. The are shown in the round and have

possesses dexterity and the ability troops become disaffected; refusing By interest and to create character. to confrse who were in league with novelist's creations. And, if the Robert lichens London: Cas. His literary agent is an excellent the runners of the still, they ard ultra-modern eritic should complainĮ sell and Co. Pp. 444. 73,"0d. | character, and it is a pily we do put on fatigue duty. The terror that his conception of moral issuea

not hear more of him. But these of an earthquake intervenies.. But is oldfashioned he must none the Lucas Males had already merits, worth possessing though they an officer is murdered. The troops less admit that the persons, of his dealt with the question of pre-natil | are, are common-place. Thousands mutiny. The convicts revolt, cut 1800 drama are allowed complate free suggestion from the physical side; of novels show them. The supreme the Governor's throat, and gradual- dom to win or be sinned against. Mr. Hichana has now considered it quality which can lift a novel lygain full power over the island. The plot is tint made a Sardoues from the mental side. It would above the rank and file is not dex. Some sort of government is neces- que mechanism in which everybody take an expert grecologist to say terity or frankness, but an obsary to any, community, and the in deprived of free-will, even so whether a son by a second husband vious interior conviction and in-spectacle of self-government being much as modern scientists concede can inherit the mental qualities-spiration, and of this Mr. Waugh formed, out of chaos is an interest to the atom..

in this case the defects of the first showasna discoverable trace.

ing one.

Registered Office of Tony (Exchange Building, Deg Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong), on FRIDAY, the 18th day of MARCH, 1982, at 11. a.m., for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounta and the Report of the Board of Directors for the year ended on the Fong Kong, 5th Feb., 1982. 31st December, 1931, confrming the appointment of a Director and re. electing a Director and the Auditora.

Mppointed Secretary to This R. G. E. ELLAMS has been Company, as from date.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

R. HO TUNG,

Chairman.

The Transfer Books of the Com-

any will be closed from Wednesday, the 2nd March, 1992, until Friday, the 18th March, 1932, both days inclusivo.

By Order of the Board,

FO. BARRY,

Secretary,

Meeting will. 59 continued for Hong Kong, 27th Jan 1882. [1748

the purpose of considering and if thought passing the following Resolution as 1

Resolution:-

Extraordinary

5. That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in wanner following:-

THE "STAR" FERRY CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

ANNUAL RACH MESTING, 1932.

2018, 22г, 23RD, 24TH AND 27TH-

FEBRUARY, 1032.

"Saturtiny 20th, Monday 22nd, 3esday 23rd, and Wednesday 2th February, the first bell will be rung at 11 am, and the frst race will be run at 11.30 a.m. On Satur day the 27th February, the frat bell

be rung at 1 pm., and the Arst

race will be run at 1.30 p..

The tilin interval will be taken after the fifth race on the first four days.

MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE

Members are reminded that they and their ladies must wear their

NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRTY-FOURTH (a) By the insertion inmediately "nflar Article No. 126 of the exia ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING "ting Articles of Association of the of this Company will be held at the badges prominently displayed. "wo following new Articles to be Office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson "known as Articles 125A and 126B. & Co., Ltd., on THURSDAY, the 11th February, 1982, at NOON, for 126A. Each Director who is a the purpose of receiving the Repor "registered holder "in his own of the Directors together with a "right of not less than 2,000 Statement of Accounts for the year "Shares in the Capital of the ended 81st December, 1981, "Company shall have the power "to-nominate any person ap.

"majority of the other Directors "proved for that purpose by a "of the Company to Lat alternate Director, in

"a fu

The Register of Shares of the Wednesday, the 3rd February 1932, Company will be CLOSED from to Thursday, the 11th February, 1932, both days inclusive.

An

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NOTICE IS HERERT ALSO GIVEN that Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the above named Company will be held at 12.15 p.m. on the same day and at the sine place as and immediately

after

the

before

mentioned Ordinary General Meeting. for the purpose of considering and if thought it passing the following resolution 政技 an Extraordinary Resolution.

That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in manner following

No ono without a badge will be admitted to the Member Enclosure. the Members Enclosure and ab Badges admitting non-members to Booms at $10.00 per day including tax or state including tax for the pectively, are obtainable through the

ponsible for all chits, etc. Mary upon introduction by

Meeting Curlies ani 420.00 ros-

such Member to be res

Badges admitting to Members En- closure will NOT be on sale at the Bace Course.

A limited number of Tins will be obtainable each day at the Club House, provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1. Eos, lale. phone Na, 1990.

On no pretext will children be permitted in either enclosare, daring the Brst four days of the Meeting,

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

The price of admission to the Public Erclosure is $4.00 per day including tax for all prrarns, including ladies and is payable at the Gats.

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted to the Publio Enclosure st $1.00 day including tax,

Tie Teo men, ate, will

Banted to operate within

not be

his place, during hie ab "sence from the Colony of "Hong Kong or inability fa ant "through illness as such Direct r, "and at his discretion to remove "Tuch alternate Director, and on "any such appointment being "made, the alternate Director "shall be subject in all respect to "the terms and condition exist "ing with reference to the other "Directors of the Company, and "any alternate Director "while "acting in the place of an absent "Director, shall exercise and dis "charge all the duties and func

tione of the Director he repres- "ents, but shall look to such Director, solely for his-70- "muneration and shall not bo "antitled to claim remuneration "from the Company Provided

Fasses for Servanta will be inated "always that, it shall be a con-

on application to the Becretary, frd "dition precedent to the exercise

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY Floor, Gloucester Building. of the power of appointment

ALSO GIVEN

A further

Employers are requested to distri "harein contained and the con- "tinuance of the appointment Extraordinary General Meeting of buto them with discrimination and to

endorse their names on the pasacs. "hereunder that the Director ex- the Members of the Company will

Servants are not permitted in the "ercising the same shall be, at be bold at the same place at 12.30) Members' Enclosure exempt for passing "the time of making such appoint m. on Friday, the 25th day of through on their duties but must "ment and shall continue to be February, 1989, for the purpose of remain in their employers stands.

Any presons found loitering with "so long as the said appointment receiving a Report of the proceedings "continues, the registered holder at the before wentioned Extraordinary Servante passes in their possession "in his own right of not less than General Meeting and of confirming will forfeit the same and will be 25,000 Shares in the Capital of thought fit the before mentioned removed from the enclosure.

By Order, "the Company. Every appointsolution as a Special Resolution,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

"ment made in pursuance of this "Article shall be in writing un- "dor the head of the Director "making the same,”.

(2) By deletion of the words

Ona thousand Dollars contained the precincts of The Hong Kong partly in the third and partly in Jockor Club during the Race Meeting the fourth lines of Articlos 981 of Tifins will be obtainable in the tho Company's Articles of Restaurant in the Public Enclosure. Association and the substitution. therefor of tho words "Five thousand Dollars,"

that

F. H. CRAPNELL,

27th January, 1932.

SERVANTS PASSES

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary.

Secretary179 Hong Kong, 8th-February, 18 [1794

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net.

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