ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
(Incorporated in Hong Kong)
NOTICE IS HEREBY NOTICE
GIVEN that at the Ordinary IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY Yearly Meeting of the Union YEARLY MEETING of the Insurance Society of Canton, Society will be held at the Limited, which will be held at HEAD OFFICE, Union Build- ing. Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, 1937 at 2.30 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1936, and of declaring Dividend, etc.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Both Days Inclu... sive.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
5136
the Registered Office of the Society, Union Building, Vic- toria, Hong Kong, on Friday. the 16th day of April, 1937, at 2.30 p.m., there will be proposed the sub-joined resolution as an ordinary resolution, viz:—
That it is desirable to capi tallse the sum of £270,000 being part of the unallocated reserves of the Society and for that purpose!—
(a) That"a call of £2 per share be and is hereby made on the shareholders of the Society as appearing on the Register of Mem. bers on the 16th day of April, 1937 and that such. cail shall be payable on
THE CHINA
the 10th day of May, 1937
FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LTD.
to the Society at its Regis.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS
that
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
the SIXTY EIGHTH ORDINARY YEAR. LY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 16th APRIL, 1937, at 2.50 p.m., for the pur. pose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1936, and of declaring Dividends. elc.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Both Days Incló- sive.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
5137
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS
tered Office, Union Build-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1937.
MAKE YOUR
TRAVEL
·ARRANGEMENTS
ACROSS AMERICA
VIA
THE PACIFIC
AND
THE ATLANTIC
Travel Department
The American Express Co., Inc.
Incorporated with Imited Liability in› U.BA,
No. 4 Des Voeux Road, Central.
ing, Victoria, Hong Kong. ADVERTISEMENTS,
of
b) That for the purpose
paying the aforesaid cali of £2 per share a special dividend of £2 per share be and is hereby declared payable on the 10th day of May, 1937 and that such
BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, TIENTSIN
special dividend be applied 'MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION
by the Directors on behall
of the persons who on the 16th day of April, 1937 were the holders of such shares in satisfaction of the said call of £2 per share and that such special dividend shall accordingly. be treated for all purposes as an Increase in the amount of the paid up capital of the Society held by each such shareholder and not as income."
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
5135
THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
SHAREHOLDERS.
AND
NOTICE 15 HEREBY GIVEN that the SEVENTY. FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 16th APRIL," 1937, Notice is hereby given that at 2.55 p.m., for the purpose of the ONE HUNDRED receiving the Report of the SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY Directors and the Statements of MEETING of Shareholders in Account to 31st December, 1936, the Company will be held at the and of declaring Dividend, etc.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be CLOSED from 29th MARCH to 16th APRIL, Both Days inclu.
"sive,
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1937.
5138
HONG KONG-SHANGHAI CONFERENCE
Foreign & Chinese Shippers.
NOTICE is hereby given that as from the 15th April, 1937, rates of freight from Hong Kong to Shanghai will be increased 20 per cent, over current rates.
office of the Company, Queen's Building, Victoria, Hong Kong, on Monday, the 12th April, 1937, at noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a State ment of Accounts, and re electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be "CLOSED from the 6th to the 12th April, 1937, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors:
H. DA LUZ;
Secretary. Hong Kong, 27th March, 1937.
WANTED KNOWN
5147
Tariffs showing current rates
£50 easily earned by showing as from the 15th April, 1937, are
the well-known and best-selling now in course of preparation and wESTMINSTER Series Private will be issued shortly.
Christmas Cards, Britain's Pre- JARDINE, MATHESON & mier Firm (est. 1906) offer
CO. LTD.
Highest Commission. Sample Secretaries, Book Irec. No risk or ontlay, Enormous success with 1936 Hong Kong Shanghai Freight
...". Conference. Hong Kong, Ist April, 1937.
•
Series, all records broken. Lewis
G.
No. 6/37
VACANCY FOR LADY SUPERINTENDENT OF HOSPITALS
ADVERTISEMENTS.
BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, TIENTSIN
MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION
No. 5/37
G.
R.
VACANCY FOR
FIRE BRIGADE
SUPERINTENDENT
The British Municipal Council, Tientsin, invites applications from British Subjects for the position of Superintendent for its Fire Brigade, which will become vacant in the latter half of the present year.
ADVERTISEMENTS
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN THE GOODS of JOHN MEEK late of 15A. Meadow Place, Edlaburgh, Scotland, Watchmaker and Jeweller deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or- dinance No. 2 of 1897 made an order limiting the time for credi
Major J. C. Currie, Mrs. Jupp, Mrs. Currie and Mr." Jupp photographed at the point-to-point meet at Fanling on Sunday.
tors and others to send in their A Wonder Of Ancient Rome
claims against the above estate
to 24th April, 1937.
All Creditors and others are ac. cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or before that date.
DEACONS,
Augustus's Altar Of Peace
In archaeology, as in politics," Signor Mussolini delights in over- coming the "impossible."
Solicitors for the Executor,
The recovery of Caligula's barque 1. Des Voeux Road Central, | from Lake Nemi: the hewing out Hong Kong, of Herculaneum; the clearance of the Via del Impero; and the re- 5165 covery of the Circus Maximus are all examples of how he has con- futed the negative convictions of engineers of pre-Fascist times.
And now he has decided to carry Editorial and Business Once:
out a project which has likewise 15-19. Queen's Road Central dened all previous efforts. Tel. 90251.
Night Editor (Wancha Omice):
Tel 24511.
Recently engineering contrap- tions were assembled at a point alongside the Corso for the re- London Office: 63. Fleet Street covery of the famous "Ara Packs"---
EC. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG. APRIL 9, 1937.
SHEER NONSENSE
the Altar of Peace erected and de- dicated to the Emperor Augustus in the year 9 B.C. in honour of his return from the pacification of Gaur and Spain.
This "token of empire-wide Augustan peace was built on the Campus Martius on a site which bow lies about 40 feet below modern street level knit into the foundations of a medieval palace fronting the main street of the dentral city—the Strand of Rome.
BAFFLING PROBLEM
The palace, which has assocļa - tions with Napoleon, now mostly The ability to talk real, consists of offices; but as an exam- human. helpful, refreshing non-ple of Renaissance architecture it sense" has just been praised by is preserved from demolition. The the novelist whom the world security of both the Ara Pacis knowe as Ian Hay, and no doubt and the palace above it are im- perilled by the presence of a he would be among the first to natural spring, which bubbles up be $600 (consisting of $400 agree that an even higher art is again as soon as any attempt is "basic salary" plus $200 Re. represented by the ability to re patriation Pay") per month with that kind of nonsense into writ free quarters, from the date of ing.
The commencing salary will
The British Municipal Council, Tientsin, invites applications from British ladies for the pesl tion of Lady Superintendent of its Municipal Hospitals, which will become vacant during the summer of the present year. taking up the appointment in It is an art which seems to
Applicants should give full details of their training, posts held, special experience, etc., in their letters of application, to gether with copies of recent
testimonials.
Other things being equal pre ference will be given to can.
Tientsin.
find congenial soil in the English tongue and on both sides of the Atlantic-if the names of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll at once come to mind, there soon follow those of Artemus Ward
The successful candidate will be on probation during the first six months of his service. At the end of the probationary period, if his services have been satisfactory, he will be given and Stephen Leacock. four year contract under which,
The ballads of "Bab" and in addition to the above-men-"Bon Gaultier" are other candi-
made at excavation.
symbol of Rome's greatness has The recovery of this priceless
completely baffled engineers for generation after generation.
have been plcked away to adorn
rebuilt in a spacious piazza now being cleared in front of the gate" way to the tomb of Augustus.
The tomb of Augustus, after many strange vicissitudes, was, un- til last year, Rome's biggest con- cert hall-the Albert Hall of Italy. The building is now almost strip- ped of all modern excrescences, and stands isolated as a 'shrine of the "golden era" of Roman art and architecture.
In the crypt, only partially ex- plored, are the tombs or the sites of the tombs of Augustus; of Mar- cellus, his beloved nephew; of Agrippa, his son-in-law:, of his sister, Octavia; of" Drusus and step-sons; of Germanicus, his Drusus, his step-grandson; and Tiberius.
It was also the resting place of the ashes of Nero and of the re- mains of Caligula and Antonius ... Claudius, Britannicus, and the Em- peror Nerva
Small wonder that such a com- prehensive tomb of Roman Em- į perors should be stripped of all extraneous associations save those of the mighty dead of mighty times.
It is before this monument that the Altar of Peace has to be re- erected. The whole work has to be accordance with
completed in
Signor Mussolini's orders for the approaching celebrations of the Augustan bi-millenary.
It is the Duce's intention that this sacred "area" in the heart of Rome' shall not be merely a dead archaeological museum plece, but shall be a reminder to the world at large of a glorious past and to Italians, in particular, of their great Inheritage:
A small tunnel shaft exists, and through it fragments of the Altar the art treasures at the Louvre, at board the steam launch Man Tak, the Umzi Gallery in Florence, the Rome Museum, the French
Academy in Rome, and private
galleries in Vienna,
It is said that the perfection and symbolism of these fragmentary marble bas-reliefs is only exceeded
Tam King, aged 21. seaman on
was sent to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday. His right hand Was
caught in the bulwark while nt- ting the rope on when the launch arrived at the Shamshulpo Wharf about 8 pm., and as a result two
didates who have bad previous tioned emoluments, he will be dates for remembrance, when by the gracious symmetry of the of his fingers were amashed.
experience as Hospital matrons, or superintendents, particularly those who can show evidence of ability to administer hospitals in business-like, efficient and
A
economical manner.
i
entitled
to the benefits of the moonbeams from the larger Superannuation Fund, travelling lunacy are under consideration, and uniform allowances etc. and the field is greatly widened Applicants should give in their if one admits the more playful letters of application "full details types of satire...
complete construction as originally conceived and built.
The work, ahead consists primarily in building а new foundation to the existing palace, and gradually encompassing" "the |'Ara Pacis in a protective cave of
extracted piece by piece.
a'
Chan Tim. 18, unemployed, ap- peared before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy-yester- day on a charge of stealing radiator cap belonging to Lindars of 23 Humphreys Bul'd-" ing, third Boor. Chu Ho, 19,.. unemployed, and Ng King, 29, unemployed, were charged with
covered. And the whole is to be remanded.
|
of their experience, training, Doubtless a word of apprecia-masonry. After that it will be positions previously held, and [tion should also be added for the also copies of recent testimonials. unknown heroes who achieve in- It is essential that the candi | advertent nonsense or even for
TO ADORN NEW FIAZZA The fragments already scattered
date be able to speak the Chinese the mechanical absurdity of the abroad and in Italy are being re-receiving the same. The case was
(Northern dialect) misprint. language Buently.
But the true connoisseur of
The successful candidate will receive a commencing salary of $450 (consisting of $300 "basic salary" plus $150 "Repatria tion Pay") per month, com mencing from the date upon which she takes up her duties in Applications should be forward. } genial nonsense would perhaps Tientsin, together with free boarded so as to reach the undersigned beware of straying into the field and lodging, uniform allowances, not later than 12 o'clock (noon) of absurdities which seem solemn etc.
on Tuesday, 22nd June, 1937. sense to those who utter them, for there appreciation owes some- By Order,
thing to a feeling of conscious superiority, and superiority of any kind goes ill with gaiety of the simplest and most unaffected sort.
H. F. BARNES, Secretary and Engineer,
She will be on probation for a period of six months from the date of taking up her dutles.
At the end of the probationary COUNCIL ROOM, period, if her services have been satisfactory, she will be given a four year contract, under which, In addition to the above-mention. ed emoluments, she will be entitled to the benefits of the Superannuation Fund, Leave Pay, Travelling allowances, etc.
Applications should be forward ed so as to reach the undersigned not. later than 12 o'clock (noon) on Tuesday 25th May, 1937.
By Order,
TIENTSIN, 11th March, 1937.
קי
H. F. BARNES, Secretary & Engineer.
COUNCIL ROOM,
& Co., Dept. B.D. Westminster TIENTSIN, 11th March, 1937.
5168 Works, Preston, England.
51.12
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB:
5143
The Third Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Satur. day, 10th April, 1937, commenc ing at 2.00 p.m.
i The First Bell will be rung at
1.30 p.m.
By Order,
However, it must be admitted that this is a type of cheerfulness where philosophy is apt to keep breaking in; a good deal of our classical nonsense has its roots in laughing satire: That, no doubt, is why Lear so often seems the king of mirth-makers in this field; his quaint genius ran to absurdity for its own sake and with no discoverable reservations about pointing morals and adorn- ing tales. He seems to have had his reward in one way
Photograph shows a group of spectators at the point-to-point meeting of the Fanling Hunt and Racs Club last Sunday afternoon.
or of the young lady who went i for a ride on a tiger. But the psycho-analysts have been at Lewis Carroll and Wonderland" No stern prober into hidden has been cited against him... motives for that "flight from That, too, has its humorous reality" has bothered to examine side, but it is not quite such the suspect sources of the old stimulating nonsense as the ad- 5171 man whose beard was an aviary ventures of Alice,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary Hong Kong, 5th April, 1937.
ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWES "AWARDED VEGA MEDAL
Stockholm. Apr. 8-The Swedish
Anthropology Society of
and Geography has awarded the high- action of the Vega Medal to Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, the famous explorer
Blimuter
莽
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.