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COMPANY MEETING.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

ANOTHER HARBOUR COLLISION.

CHARGE OF MAN- SLAUGHTER.

At the Magistracy this after- noon, the corxswain of the Star Ferry Company's launch "Even": ing Star" was prosecuted before Mr. J. R. Wood on a charge of manslaughter. »

It appears that on the night of the 21st instant there was a collie- ion between the Evening Star and

Ja junk near Blake-Pier while the

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1919.

NOTICE.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

Butchers Meats

BEEF MUTTON LAMB.

launch was approaching the pier. SAUSAGES

appeared

Mr. W. E. L. Shenton w defend.

Sergeant W.R. Sutton said that at 11.15 p.m. on the 21st he went on board the Evening Star on the Hongkong side an arrested the outswain without a warrant on the complaint of Mr. N. 1. Moses."

Mr. Shenton.Did you ever travel on these ferries?-1 travel very often on the ferries and often REA the Evening Star.

I hold a master's certificate. 1 hve never seen any fault with the navigation of these boats.

Have you been on the Evening Star since the recarrence?—Yes. On suy of these occasions has | defendant ucted as coxswain since

from time to time. Your Directors | the occurrence ?—So far as 1 deem.. it advisable to know defendant has not acted as make this slight alteration with euxswain since the occurrence. a view to setting forth clearly then the night of this occurrence

HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD. method by which these amounts I was on board the Evening Star

An extraordinary general meet-

ing of the above Company was

held to-day, at noon, the offices

were arrived at, thus considerably from 10.30

to

facilitating matters should occas-under instructions from Inspec- 11 midnight ion arise whereby additions to, or

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appropriations from, these funds Gordion, with defendant IRON & STEEL PRODUCTS

tar

become necessary in the future. at the wheel, watching him of the Company, for the purpose I also desire to point out that for two trips. He handled his of confirming the following re- the increase in overdraft with boat in a most careful manner at

solution passed at an extraordin- the Hongkong and Shanghai the time.

he

was

travelling!

BEST TERMS. COMPLETE STOCKS.

Telephone No. 515.

ary general meeting held os Banking Corporation is due Mr. N. L. Moses, ja merebaut, February 8:-"That the Articles to the fact our carrying large aid of Association be altered in stocks of wines, etc, which have on the Star Ferry launch Even- manner following, viz-Io. Arti- been acquired at favourable prices ele 82, the word 'five' shall be from time to time, and these Kowloon to Hongkong. He left VANITY FAIR COMPANY. {

ing

from Star, travelling "substituted for the word "four"". purchases have tended in a great

measure to stabilise our profits, Kowloon at 11 o'clock and travell- and counteract in some degree

the upper deck on starboard side. the heavy increase in cost of the

there

011

Just

other necessaries. I venture to as the ferry was approaching,

ANOTHER HAPPY EVENING.

Mr. F. Maitland presided, and were present Sir Ellis Kadoorie, Messrs. J. Scott Har stor, and A. O. Lang. (Directors), Mr. J. H. Taggart (Manager), and think that you will agree with about 500 yards from the HongThere was a good attendance Messrs M. Manuk, C. S. Gubbay, me, gentlemen, that the result for kong side, he heard a commotion at the Theatre Royal, at even- S. D.Somekh E. Raymond. Lo the past year is

extremely and jumped up to see what it was.

ing, when Mr. Edgar Warwick's'

Established 1880.

CORRESPONDENCE.

DOVER PATROL FUND.

[To the Editor of the HousLL HAND

Tal graph."} Sir,-The above Fund, which

the glorious

Cheung Shui, A. E. Crapnell, W.satisfactory, and, taking into He saw fifty yards from the ferry clever "Vanity Fair" Company has been started for a Memorial Logan, Fong Tat Hing, and consideration the vicissitudee Ja jank on the point of crossing

A. S. Gubbay:

the motion was carried.

The meeting then terminated. ORDINARY MEETING.

through which we have passed,

The Chairman proposed the we can congratulate ourselves the ferry. He saw the junk on/8ve the second performance of to commemorate confirmation of the resolution, upon the showing of the past four the starboard bow, about to cross their season in Hongkong. The work done by Admiral Sir Roger Mar. 10. Logan, seconded, and years, With the outbreak of war, the bow of the ferry. He could programme was a repetition of Keyes and the Dover Patrol dus- and gradual withdrawal of ship not say whether the junk had her the first night's items, but the ing the war, should appeal to all ping facilities, the tourist trade sail up. Just then he heard the turns were of such a high order patriotic Britons in this Colony, been a very broken one, the list which formed the nucleus of our telegraph bell ring. In the mean as to make a second hearing more and, as the current week has

than acceptable. Mr. Leslie Hol- profitable revenue, was almost time the sail on the junk was lower-

nes was in great form, and the will be kept open for another completely suspended: neverthe-edand then the collision occurred. less the expenses of maintaining It looked to hit as it but boterm laughter does not adequately seven days, namely; till the 7th

considerable

describe the uproarious hilarity he

Subscriptions, limited to five met. The starboard bow of the Mr. increased by leaps and bounds, launch struck the junk.

provoked. Mr. Holmes is a hum- uurist of quite a distinct type. He dollars, may be sent in to the Sir necessary to effect drastic re-went down to the lower deck. cracks a joke which is funny Hon. Treasurer, Mr. P.S. Cassidy Ellis Kadoorie, Messrs. J. Scott construction in order to augment He found that the junk was along enough, and then caps it with elo Hongkong and

The ordinary annual meeting of the shareholders of the Hong kong Hotel Company, Ltd, was held today at the offices of the la Company, at 12.15 p.m.

Maitland presided,

F.

There

were

Haraton, and

present

A

und and

establishment

in 1915 it became

Lang. our earning powers 0.

LA

He

+

other side the launch. Just as the

soma witticism eren more funny (Directors), Mr. J. H. Taggart, directions; and thus prevent what collision occurred the passengers and proceeds in that strain until

on the launch were throwing life (Manager) and Messrs. M. Manuk, possibly would have resulted in a

he has his audience simply rock- C. S. Gubbay, D. Somekh, E. M. strong retrograde movement in belts. A dinghy came up from ing in their seats with laughter. Raymond, Lo Cheung Shui, the matter of revenue. Our cater the Blake Pier side and picked Mr. George Titchener is equally AE Crapnell, W. Logan, Fong ing business has been consider-up a body. The dinghy was clever and Mr. Sydney Mannering Tar-hing, K. Percy Smith, F.C.A.ably extended; additional stores towing the body in the harbour and Mr. George Graystone allequit B. Wylie, A. R Lowe, F.CA., and refrigerators installed, and

this department worked up to a that the body was sliced up.

to the launch. It looked to him themselves in high, artistic A.S. Gubbay and Ho Wing.

The Chairman said Gentle standard which, I have no

style. The ladies of the Com- Mr. Wood:-Was there men, The report and accounts, hesitation in saying, compares

pany are artistes of the first favourably with first light on the junk?—I had no rank and Hisses Madge Griffith, 1- together with the auditors' certi- very

Home recollection till after the occurr-Vera Pain, Thelma Lawn, ficate, have been in your hands class

hotels

at

any

March.

Bank,

Shanghai

Yours etc.

H. E POLLOCK, President,

St. George's Society. Hongkong, 28th Feb., 1919.

BILLIARDS.

CHAMPIONSHIP OF HONGKONG.

An interesting match in the)

for several days, and, with your These extensions, coupled with ence. I saw a light on the aft. Dorothy May and Shirley Cooke Hongkong Billiards Champion- permission, I shall adopt the the strong financial position of the Idid not notice any light on the carried out their various parts to ship was played at the V. K. C. usual procedure and take same Company to-day, justifies us in mast.

the future with

perfection. Special mention must last night when Mr. W. R. as read. The profit on Working looking to

Mr. Wood:-Did you notice again be made of Miss Eileen Neighbour beat Mr. A. G. Pile Account for the year under review optimism. Notwithstanding the the launch alter its course?-1 Boyd, whose beautifal contralto by 400 to 359. Both played well amounted to $186,275.42, as war, improvements have been

cannot tell you.

voice constitutes one of the gems throughout, breaks of over 20 compared with $180,790.76 for carried out as in pre-war days

Mr. Moses proceeded to say that of the Company's repertoire. She being very frequent. The best of mainly with a view to cope with the corresponding period 1917, being an

"Annie Lauris last night effort was by Mr. Neighbour, $5,484,66.

increase of the influx of tourists which we the collision could not have $3ng. The Profit and Lossi anticipate with the removal of been avoided altogether, though in front rank professional style. who compiled a. 58, the highest

Account, including the sum of travel

restrictions, and

re-the bump would have been less It will no doubt be remembered break so far in the tournament, $78,246.39 brought forward from sumption of normal shipping severe if the engines were that "

this gifted lady 31st December, 1917, amounted to facilites. I will avail myself of reversed and went full speed gave a beautiful rendering of GAVE HER BABY RELIEF AT ONCE. $251,045.30, and after deducting the opportunity of roughly aetern. He had a chief engineer's Chaminade's "Silver Ring" upon the interim dividend amounting outlining our intentions in con- certificate.

with Repulse to $60,000 paid in September, 1918,nection

Bay. time past the sum of $191,045.30 remains, Realising for some which the Directors recommend that there was an urgent need for a seaside resort, and with a apportioning as follows:-

To pay a final dividend

of $3.00 per share on

20,000 shares...

To write off Buildings

To write off Furniture

and Fixtures ..

To write off Steam

Launch

Reserve

To transfer to General

The case is proceeding.

view to fulfilling this long felt formally proposing the adoption many patrous in the Colony have ones. want, we have acquired an ex-of the report and accounts, your expressed a desire to hear Miss American mother says: 60.000.00 cellent site, overlooking unques- Directors wish to record special Boyd sing it again. 22,526.00 tionably the finest beach in the thanks

Colony. We are erecting thereon Mr, Taggart,

to

14,021,04 B hotel which will permit of ex-

'our

the occasion of the Company's Mothers everywhere are finding first visit. The song is Baby's Own Tablets, the Cana- masterly composition which is dian childrens remedy, im- seldom heard in these parts and mensely valuable for their little Bere ia what one

"My baby was much troubled with wind and colic, writes Mrs. B. Williams, of Perth Amboy, NY, and nothing seemed to do sny good until I tried Baby's Own Tablets. They gave relief at once and I would not be without them.

Mr. Lo Chung Shui proposed,

I have taken great pleasure in

Manager,

To-night there will be a change for his untir of programme, when entirely tension from time to time, and, of shareholders, and taking into presented.

ing energy in the interests new and up-to-date items will be 700,00 though commencing in 'consideration the excellence of

modest, way, it should be

returns, your Board have voted 50,000.00 borne in mind that we are, the staff a bonus of 10 per cenwand Mr. Ho Wing seconded, the recommending the Tablets to my

pioneering on this side of the on the salaries for the past year, 43,798.26 island, and I have no hesitation which action we feel sure will re-election to the Board of in saying that with regard to have the support of shareholders, Directors of Mr. F. Maitland and .Total ...$191,045,30 sanitation,

service, adequate" (Applause). I now beg to formal! Mr. J. Scott Harston, and the mother's ever-ready help and transportation facilities at mo-! In would draw your attention derate rates, combined withily propose that the report and motion was carried: to the fact that, in the balance beauty of surrounding, the Te Accounts for the year 1918 as, sheet the Reserve Fund, amountintuw will undowoodly man darak Kadhaybed

To carry forward to

New Account

ling to 3348, 974/78, has been elit, that "Biggie V pretekenen Staats-

4548,875.78 - Bolig Bormansk fying fully one tryoututk redgave fună-ngutust land as The hotel will be completed to- buildings and $100,000 as general wards the latter end of this year, reserve, in view of the fact that although for residential purposes the former amount represents the sscomodations will appreciation in value, of land as somewhat limited until 1920 1 1905 and the balance of do not propóma" to detain you 1000 vated out of the profitä further, gentlemen, - bát, before:

be

WINCARNIS

Mr. R. M. Haymond proposed

fing year, of a remu [50

rundy on

the motion

friends."

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