The Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg con respondent saya that the police discovered quantities of strong explosives at Gatchina on Thursday, in lodgings which had been recently vacated.
The owners of the Midland collieries having conceded an advance of 10 per cent, in wages to the miners, the leaders of the strike movement are now discouraging any further a itation until Christmas.
The Duke of Cambridge has invited six or twelve Victorian riflemen to take part in the rifle tournament which is to be opened on the 18th June,
Viscount Deerhurst (eldest son of the Earl of Coventry), who was lately adjudicated insolvent, has made an arrangement with his creditors.
The Econmist, commenting on the Victorian loan, for which tenders are now invited, advisen investors to show more than ordinary caution, and declares that unless some financial ability is introduced into the Victorian Treasury, political jobbery checked, and Parliament insists upon deriving more money from lands than from loans and the colonial tax-payers, English investors will suffer.
The Financial Times, in an adverse article on the Bank of New Zealand published to-day, refers to Mr. Buckley's pamphlet, which contains a confidential letter from Mr. Murray. The writer of the article thinks that this is only the beginning of the revelations that must be made of the affairs of the bank, and asks whether it is true that two members of the Colonial Govern ment borrowed £60,000 from the bank, and the interest was unpaid for two years.
Four hundred live sheep have been imported into Liverpool from the Argentine Republic, and have realised double the amount at which frozen mutton from the River Plate has recently been sold.
The carpenters in New York are going out on strike on the 1st May in support of the eight hour movement.
The Socialists have determined upon a monster parade in Paris on the 1st of May, in which 200,000 will take part.
The programme submitted by the United States Government for the increase of the Navy has been largely curtailed by the House of Representatives.
The Portuguese dealers at Mozambique, on the East Coast of Africa, bave forbidden the Bupply of provisions to the British men-of-war there.
April 13th.
The death is announced of Sir John Henry Lelroy.
The report recently received of the massacre of two Portuguese officers and 150 native soldiers by the Makololo tribe in South-Eastern Africa, has been confirmed.
The tenants evicted from the Smith-Barry estates in Tipperary have built a new town in the vicinity, which was opened yesterday with great ceremony, Messrs. Dalvit, O'Brien, and other members of the Nationalist party taking a leading part in the proceedings. The old town has been entirely deserted,
April 14th.
It is reported that King Leopold of Belgium has refused an offer made by Germany of 100,000,000 francs (4,000,000) to acquire the territory of the Congo Free State.
News from Egypt states that travellers who have arrived from Omdurman, in the Southern Soudan, report that the Mahdists have practically disappeared. The route between Dongola and Khartoum is now open, and Mabdism is dying out in Upper Egypt and the Soudan.
The Samoan Convention, which was arranged some time ago between representatives of Germany, Great Britain, and the United States at Berlin, has been finally raised by the Govern.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1890.
vessel, which is only soft. long, with an 84 ft. beam, sailed from London on the 12th September last, and arrived at Madeira on the 2nd October, after encountering some heavy gales. She is manned by her Inventor, Captain Jorgensen, and a comrade named Nelson.]
Madame Melba, the Australian prima donna, appeared in Paris last night as Marguerite in the opera of "Faust" and achieved the greatest success since Adelina Patti represented the character there.
issue of revolutionary pimphlets has been discovered. It is reported that the arrest of all the leaders is Imminet.
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Arrests of anarchists continue to be made here.
Fifteen anarchists have been arrested at Lyons, Explosives, presumably for use on the day of the labour demonstration, were found at their residences.
The latest news from the west coast of Africa, states that the Dahomeyans are eight miles from Porto Nove, and are destroying the palm forests as they advance. The French are shell-
Whydah.
Captain O'Kane of H. M. S. Calliope, which has returned to England to be paid off, is an applicant for the command of the gunnery shiping Excellent, stationed at Portsmouth.
The proposed Portuguese railway loan has proved a fiasco.
The miners in Silesia (Prussia) have organised serious riots, which were quelled by the military. Mr. J. H. Houldsworth has been elected as one of the stewards of the Jockey Club in the place of Mr. J. Lowther, who has resigned.'.
The Committee of Ways and Means has reported the Republican Tariff Bill to the United States House of Representatives, after making various 'alterations in the bill, Sugar below sixteen Dutch standard is made free of duty, and above that grade subject to a duty of four tenths of a cent per lb. American domestic sugars are given a bounty of a cents per lb.
The Pan-American Congress, which has been sitting for some months past, and at which all the States of North, and South America were Jepresented, is generally recognised to be a failure. The proceedings of the Congress have virtually been without result.
The bootmakers on strike and the masters, have decided to submit the matters in dispute between them to arbitration.
The employers in the boot trade have agreed to provide workshops for the men, and to accept the result of arbitration on the other matters in dispute.
A small palace belonging to the Czar, in Fin land, has been burnt down, and seven of the inmates lost their lives.
It is announced that the Governor of Mozam bique has been directed by the Portuguese Gove nment to recall the military expedition which it was recently reported had been sent to the Shiré River, if it has already started.
Constance Kent, who was thirty years ago convicted of murder, has been pardoned.
(On the night of 29-30th June, 1860, Francis Savile Kent, 4 years old, was murdered, and his body hid in a garden water closet at Road. His sister, Constance Keat, aged 16, and the nurse, Elizabeth Gough, the first suspected, were discharged for want of evidence. The coroner was severely blamed for charging the jury improperly, but the Court of Queen's Bench, in January, 1861, refused to issue a writ for a new inquiry. Constance Kent, on 25th April, 1865, before Sir Thomas Henry, at Bow-street, and at ber trial at Salisbury, on 21st-July following, confessed herself to be guilty of the murder. Her punishment was commuted to penal servitude for life. She was let out on ticket-of-leave, 18th July, 1885. Road is near Frome, Somerset.]
Mr. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered bis Budget speech in the House of Commons, this evening. available surplus of £1,549,000. A coinage fund to provide for restoring the depreciated gold coinage bad been. created and credited with 600,000 arising out of the profils realised by the mint on the circulation of silver. The duty on silver plate would be remitted to the extent of 0,000. The import duty on currants has been reduced to 28. per cwt., the Government of Greece having made important concessions. The house duty would be reduced by £540,000, and several minor reductions would be made. The duty on British and foreign spirits would be increased, and the amount derived from this, together with the additional beer duty imposed last year, would be handed over to the local authorities.
He estimated an
ments of the three Powers.
Five thousand dock labourers at Birkenhead have struck work.
NEW YORK, April 14th. An excursion steamer from Saginaw to Mr. Goschen stated that he was prepared to Michigan ran foul of a bridge yesterday. Eighty reduce the postal rates to India and the Cole persons were thrown into the water by the forcenics on all routes to 24d, if the Colonies would of the shock, six being drowned, and many concur in the project, but he estimated the loss
at £80,000 per annum. injured.
LONDON, April 15th.
April 18th. Mr. Mathews, Home Secretary, replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day, stated that the judge who tried the case, approved of the execution of the elder of the brothers Davies, who were convicted of the murder of their father, The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, cousin of the Czar, has been arrested for writing a revolutionary poem.
It is stated that Madame Sarah Bernhardt, the famous actress, has entered into a contract with a prominent Impresaria for a tour round the world, which will include visits to America and Australia.
The caravan which Emin Pasha, who has taken service under the German authorities in East Africa, is about to lead into the interior of 'the country, will, it is stated, be the forerunner
of four or five others.
The Germans are building immense ware- houses at Zanzibar in anticipation of opening op a trade with Central Africa.
The Timer correspondent at Cannes bas inter- viewed Mr. H. M. Stanley, who told him that several of the Relief Committee's letters had failed to reach him, yet their contents were known to the German officials.
In the House of Commons this afternoon, Sir John Gort, in reply to a member, said that the traffic in girls between Kangoon and Madras was engaging the attention of the India Office, and the laws already in existence for the purpose of dealing with that traffic, would be stringently enforced.
In the disturbances yesterday the Cartists
wounded three of the crowd with revolvers.
Order has been restored.
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VIENNA, April 15th, Fifty arrests were effected yesterday among the rioters in the vicinity of Vienna,
The shops which were looted, were chiefly those belonging to Jews..
LONDON, April 16th. The police made a raid on a low betting club in Soho to-day, and arrested fifty-seven persons, most of whom are foreigners.
The excitement in connection with the Labour Day movement, which it is intended to celebrate in France, Germany, and other countries on the 1st May, is increasing. The Socialists have destroyed by dynamite Liebig's Ironworks at Berlin, owing to the firm having refused to grant holiday on that date, when it is intended to hold a monster parade.
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It has been decided that the permanent governing body of the Imperial Institute shall Include thirty-nine colonial members, the North American colonies being represented by eleven, the principal Australasian colonies by twelve, Africa three, the other colonial possessions (including the Fiji Islands) nine, Tasmania and Western Australia one each, and other parts of Australia two,
DARMSTADT, April 27th.
Queen Victoria yesterday received a depata tion of the Prussian Dragoon Guard tegiment of which she is bonorary chief.
PARIE, April 28th.
The Paris municipal elections passed off quietly. Twelve Republicans, eight Conser vatives, and one Boulangist have been elected. 59 second ballots were necessary, of which 41 were favorable to Republicans of various sbaden. )..
BERLIN, April 28th.
The proposed labour demonstrations on the 1st May have been prohibited in most of the German states, and many firms threaten their men with dismissal if they take holiday on that day.
LONDON, April 28th.
Mr. Michael Davitt has made attempts, which so far have proved abortive, to mediate in the railway strike in Ireland, which utterly paralyses trade in the south. The mail was the only train from Dublin to Queenstown yesterday.
In the House of Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer, replying to a question, said that Government would take no stop regarding the question of a ball-mark for silver plate Imported from India of the rupee standard" without con- sulting the Government of India.
The Pall Mall Garafts publishes an account of an interview their representative had with Mr. Childers regarding the Impressions he had formed of his late tour in the East, Mr. Childers warmly praised the energy and intelligence of the officials on the Indian frontier, and said that the Indian army was in a high state of efficiency. Regarding the Indian Congress, he thought that many measures of reform were feasible, but they must be gradual. British responsibility for the safety of India, he said, must be unqualified.
As April 29th.
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ZANZIBAR, April 29th.
Major Wisemann with a strong force has left Bagamoyo in order to subdue Kiwn, H.M.S. Turquoise has gone there to protect British interests."
LONDON, April 30th.
́ ́ Lord Randolph Churchill has introduced n hill to amend the licensing laws. The bill vesis the right to issue licenses with Municipal and County Councils, who will have fall authority to regulate the hours of closing. It also provides for a registration fee from clubs ranging up to £2.000, which is to be payable to the County Councils,
A meeting was held yesterday at Cardiff under the auspices of the Indian Congress Committee, "at which resolutions were parsed similar to those -Babu 5. N. Banerji and passed at Swansea. Mr. Dadabbai Naoriji were the chief speakers. A letter was rend from Sir E., F. Reed, member for Cardiff, promising to support Mr. Bradlaugh's amendment to the India Councils Bill.
This debate on the Irish Land Bill was resumed last night in the House of Commons. Mr. Chamberlain said that he thought it possible to adopt Mr. Pamell's proposals Jointly with those of Mr. Balfour, and advocated giving the Irish Country Councils, when created, control over
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the fire is presumed to be carelessness on the part of the natives in setting fire to leaves and refuse.This dry season has been remarkable for its freedom from fires, that of Wednesday. being the only one of any importance which has occurred for some time past,
Heart-rending accounts reach us, of the destitution and famine raging in East Laos. In Ubon the prisoners and the majority of the population are living on banana stalks and wild herbs. Whole villages bave been deserted, the people fring to more favored districts. The central Government in Bangkok has kept silent on this matter, but we wou'd respectfully suggest that some measures of relief should be taken in
id of the famine-stricken region.—Mercantile Gazette.
We sincerely regret to record the death of Captain Peter Veer, who succumbed to "an, attack of heart disease Inst Thursday week. He was interred in the Protestant cemetery.
The German steamer Picciola, Captain-|- Nelssen, was in collision with a lighter on Monday night. It seems that at the time of the collision the night was very dark and the rain pouring down. The lighter was on her way down to Koh-si-chang and ran into, the steamer, leaving a good sized air-hole in her port bow. It is not definitely known which or whose lighter did the damage, but there is a very strong supicion.
On Wednesday evening Inspector Sheriff met and arrested young Higgins, who became famous here some time back by decamping with go ticals, wages advanced to him by Mr. The Queen has leit Darmstadt for England.
Jones, who had engaged his services as inter The mediation of Archbishop Walsh and Mr. preter, before his last trip up-country. He was Michael Davitt between masters and men in the taken before the American Minister who sent railway strike in Ireland has failed.
The him to the Borispah prison for 30 days. Archbishop blames the directors of railways for Colonel Childs also ordered the officer to have him confined in the section set apart for Euro- the failure.
peans and to sco that he was supplied with good rations, for which the American Minister said he would pay.
Obituary. Lord Hammond.
Hopes are entertained that the Railway strike in Ireland will be settled to-day by a compromise.
The Queen has arrived in England. The annual banquet of the London Chamber of Commerce took place last night is the Hotel Metropole. Mr. Goschen and the Agents General for the Colonies were present. Sir Charles Tupper, High Commissioner in London for Canada, said England can depend on the support of her Colonies in time of emergency. He denied there was any widespread desire in Can da for annexation to the United States Mr. Grischen, referring to the Bi-metallic ques- tion, held that the State had no ri, ht to interfere in remedying causes of depreciation of silver.
INTERESTING 'SHARE CASE
IN SINGAPORE.
The Case Allinson v. Gaistaun, which came before Chief Justice O'Malley on May 7tb, develops (says the Straits Times) a number of interesting points. Mr. Nanson appeared for the plain.iff and Messrs. Joaquim and Everard for the defendant. In this action the plaintiff claimed $1,000 for breach of contract of purchase of fifty Rawang shares bought forward at $20 July 30 h. 1889 The defence was based on various allegations to the effect that the defendant was induced to enter into the contract owing to false and fraudulent representations mide by the plaintiff's broker who, it was alleged, stated that the Company was in a flourishing condition, and that a dividend would be declared it was urged as a further scl-off that at the time the shares were sold, the plaintiff knew that the affairs of the Company werein a bad state, the plaintiff, it was avered, being at that time Secretary of the Company,
Mr. Nanson said that the first of these arguments was no doubt a good one, if the defendant could prove it,
Only one witness was called for the defence in the person of the defendant himself, who gave evidence as to his purchase of the shares, and in support of the allegations made in the pleas for the defence. The witness apparently conscientiously believed himself to have been victimized, and Mr. Nanson's rigorous cross. examination caused very little deviation in his evidence. This closed the case for the defence.
The weather all last mouth was very trying on the constitution of those who are not used to the tropies, and fever and other minor disorders bave disabled many from active work, while in some cases the results have been fatal. It is to be hoped that the heavy showers we have been having this week, which, by the way,
mirate have not fallen a
loo soon, will parily the air and prevent the further spreading of minor illnesses. A thunderstorm of somewhat alarming violence broke over Fakiat on Thurs. day moming and accompanied and followed by a very heavy rainfall. The crashes of thunder heard at the beginning of the storm
was
Bounded directly overhead and were startling in their loudness.
The Siamese lady who has for some time past acted as house-keeper for the late Captain Peter Veer has a natural dread of the tedious and often uncertain mode of procedure of the probate court. Half an hour after her employer's demise she marshalled her host in the form of a string of coolies and proceeded to remove the furniture and effects out of the house and transport them to a new home, which she had already prepared to receive them. Alas, for human hopes and plans During her long residence in the house she had never learnt that Inspector Sheriff resided only a few feet away, and that his eagle, eye was ever on the out- look for law-breakers, She seemed very much surprised when he swooped down on her with all the majesty of the law in his hand, in the form of a club, and at his heels in the form of a cordon of his minions. The case was reported to the Austrian Consul-General who, considering the nature of the case, and the woman's apparent belief that she had a right to the goods, let her off with a caution, Bangkok Times.
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artees of Carge are hereby informed THE above named steamer having arrived, that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
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Optional Cargo will go on to Shanghai unless notice to the contrary be given before Noon TO-DAY, the 16th inst,
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the. Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 23rd instant, will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged. Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be
examined on WEDNESDAY, the 1st inst,
at 4 P.M.
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time when the Company was considered a sound 3353 Tone Reis VANCOUVER, BC, IN accordance with Ordinance No. 6 of 1875. be despatched for via concern and an output of 4,000 piculs of tin are was anticipated, which output, had it been NAGASAKI, INLAND SEA, KOBE and realised, would have put the affairs of the Com-YOKOHAMA, on THURSDAY, the rath June, pany into a most satisfactory condition. After at Noon..
To be followed by the 3.5, ABYSSINIA" the cross examination of this witness by Mr.
on the 3rd July and S.S. "PARTIIIA" on the Everard, Mr. Schomburg, the broker, was wir, his evidence coinciding with that of Mr. Allinson, 24th July. A plea for the plaintiff. and one confirmed both by Mr. Allinsan and Mr. Schomburg, was that he (Mr. Schomburg) was net acting as plaintiff's agent, and plaintiff could not be considered responsible for any statements made by him in his capacity as a broker.
Immediately after the adjournment for tiffa, His lordship, without calling upon Mr. Nanson to reply, delivered judgment in favour of the plaintiff for $1,000 and costs. He said that his decision was in favour of the plaintiff the con- trac. was admitted by the defendant, and defen dant set up a defence that he had been induced to enter into the contract by false representations made by Mr. Schomburg. His lordship held as a fact that Mr. Schomburg did not make any false representations, and on these grounds be gave a verdict for the plaintiff for $1,000 damages and costs.
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Freight will be received on board until 4 P.M. on the 11th June,
May 3rd, 1999. We hear that another Celestial decamped on Tuesday he was a trader at Sampang and leaves creditors behind to the amount of some 60,000 1icals. No Europeas, firms are touched. Mr. C, E. Heck, the new Inspector: of the Opium farm, had a locky beginnings. On
Tuesday be made a seizure of some 1,500 tipais | apply to worth at Mr. M, B, Cohen's saw-yard, and on W dnesday be found so tios of opium slowed A Ageats, away on board the steamer Mongus,
All Parcela must be sent to our Offico and should be marked, to address in full f, and the same will be received by us anil, the day prøykius to gaillug.
A serlous accident occursed at the Arracan Milling Company's warehouse last Sunday morning. Several coolics were engaged in
Hospital
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THE MACAO BATH-HOUSES,
B. T. J. COLLACO, in again establishing
the transfer of land. He urged mutual conces-pliing up sacks of rice, when suddenly the whole M the Bath-houses at Macao for the sions in order to settle the Irish Land Question. mass toppled over on to them, injuring four; one
The state of siege, has been raised in Crete, rather seriously. The men were taken to the summer season, respectfully solicits the patron. and martial law has been, abolished. The Christians there are much gratified at this
In the House of Commons Mr. Bradlaugh gave notice that he would move that no reform If the silver trade would be complete unless it provides for the export of any quality without compulsory hall-markingia kika
Signor Sacci, the celebrated Italian faster, who has undertaken to go without food for forty days, has finished the thirtieth day of his fasi Aquarium, and is still at of Good
The Press at the Cape of Good Hope is de nouncing Lerd Salisbury for his refusal to cede the native State of Swaziland to the Transvaal,-
A bill re-classifying the various trades and providing for arbitration in trades disputes has been introduced in the German Reichsing,
The labour strikes in Austria are spreading throughout the country.
April, 17th. A meeting of Gladstonian Liberals was held M. Sadl Carnot, the French President, passed at Swansen, at which the Mayor presided. Babu through Aix-les-Bains, where Queen Victoria Surendra Sath Banerji and Mr. Dadabhal staying, and proceeded thence to Marseilles | Naoreji were present and addressed the meeting, without paying a visit to her Majesty,
which passed a resolution of sympathy with the The lifeboat Storm King, in which Captain efforts of the Indian Congress, and authorised Jorgensen Is making the voyage to Australia, has the Mayor to address a petition to Parliament left Capetown for Melbourne, ved at making that the elective principle in India, he
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PARIS, April 29th. and March, and after a short slay was to proceed Seven prominent anarchists; have been thence on her voyage to Melbourne. This small | arrested here, and a secret printing press for the
A Bar will be one of the features of the establishment where refreshments can be obtained at very low rates, th
The Bath-houses will be opened from the 18th
The pre togamy age of the Foreign Commentiles of Hongkong The steamer Picciola, Capt, Neissen, has been and Canton, who, as, occasional, visitors desire in collision on the bar with a white painted lorcha to enjoy a course of sea-bathing under the best possible circumstances. The accommodation on Monday night. The Picciola had two platos has been atade as comfortable and complete as on her starhoard side broken and her starboard
circumstances will allow, and the charges are, anchor with thirty fathoms of chain carried away as last year, fixed at a most moderate tarifa The repairs of the damage will retain the Picciola about a week at the Bangkok Dockapalaran
Kim Yoo, another enterprising Celestial, has left his creditors to mourn the loss of some zz0,000 ticals. About 200,000 ticals are due to European firms and about 20,000 ticals to Chinese, and at the utmost 4 or 5 per cent will be saved. Another Chinese Brm, pressed to For show up its standing Chowed 90,000 ticals duen to Europeans agalast about 20,000, fleals ausein. A serious conflagration took place near Wat Baker last, Wednesday night,... when nearly thirty houses were burned down, The cause of ⠀⠀ Macao, 16th May, 18907
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.:
In the Matter of The Estate of FRANCISCO DE: SA, Deceased.
TOTICE is hereby given that the Honour Noble The Acting Calef Justice having, in
an
Virtue of Section 3 of Ordinance 9 of 1870, made order limiting to the 1st July, next, the time for sending in CLAIMS against the said Estate
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Dated the 16th day of May, 189
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REGULAR MEETING of the above
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HALL, Zetland Street, on THURSDAY, the
1770 Hongkong, 16th May, 1800.
and instant at 8.30 for a PM. precisely.
Intimations.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE
OTICE is hereby given to Holders of
Shares in the above Company on-which the CALL of (4) Four Dollars per Share due 16th November, 1889 is still unpaid, that unless the said Call, with Interest at the rate of ta per cent. before the 31st day of May next, at the Com- per annum from the due date, be paid on or pany's Offices, 6. Ice House Lane, the Shares in respect of which such call was made will be liable to be forfeited, and under the provisions of Article X. Subsection VIII. of the Articles of Association, the Board, will pass the necessary resolutions for the forfeiture of the said Sbares.",
By Order of the Board of Directors,
CHAS. F. HÁRTON, Acting Secretary, Hangkong 15th May, 1890.
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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
N°
[OTICE is hereby given that A SPECIAL
or
EXTRAORDINAY GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS. of this Company will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 31st day of May next, at noon, for the purpose of considering, and, if approved, of passing the following Resolu tions
That the Capital of the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corporation be increased from $7,500,000 to $10,000,000 by the crea tion of 20,000 New Shares of $125, to be issued at the price of £43 10s. Eastern Shareholders to pay for their allotments at the current rate of the day for Demand Bills on London,
2-That the said New Shares be in the first in-
stance, in such manner as the Directors #ball. prescribe for that parpose, offered to the Shareholders in the proportion of one New Share for every three Shares of which on the 31st May, 1890, they shall respectively be the Registered Holders, and that any New Shares not accepted by the Share holders within the time limited by the DI- rectors for that purpose, be disposed of and allotted by the Directors in such manner and at such price as in their discretion they shall think best in the interest of the Com раду.
3-That payment of the sum of £43 tos. per shard for each of the said New Shares be made as follows, viz
Lio 12s. 6d. on the 30th day of June, · 1890
410 125, 61.
410.128, 64.
30th
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Sept
Dec.,
31st 610 121, 6d.
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"March, 1291 4-That the Directors issue to Shareholders holding shares not a multiple of Theco a Fractional certificate in respect of each share in excess of or below such multiple, and allot one new share to every person who shall produce three such Fractional Certi- ficares on or before the goth June, 1890, and pay the first instalment in respect thereof 5-That after payment of the first Instalment
and pending payment of the future instal ments. Scrip Certificates in such form as the Directors may determine be fasued in respect of auch New Shares, entitling the Holders on payment of the remaining instal meats, and subject to such other terms a to approval, date for lodging Scrip Car- tificates, and otherwise as the Directors may prescribe, to be registered as the Holders of the Shares represented by such Scrip Certificates respectively.
6-That interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum (free of income tax) be allowed out of the profits of the Company on all instal ments paid in advance. of the dates when the same become due and that from the 30th June, 1890, Holders of Scrip. Certificates be entitled to participate in future dividends, in proportion to the amount of instalments paid up, on an equality with the other Shareholders of the Company. 7—That interest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum be charged on every Instalment which shall not be paactually paid, and be pald with such instalments,"
That all moneys received from premiums on the said New Sharai be added to the Reser Funds.
FOR THE HONGKOND AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, MARWADE GARDINER,
Acting Chief Manager, Hongkong, and April, 1899.
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