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Sole Agents:

THE

CONNAUGHT

MOTOR CAR

COMPANY,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1919.

Studebaker

Tel. No. 1913.

28, Des Vœux Rd.

Central.

G.P.O. Box 444.

A Car which has won for itself a world wide reputation for permanency of Service, Power, Design, Comfort, Workmanship & Economy,

A High Class Latest Modelled Car At a price within the reach of all.

A Consignment of Studebakers has just been lantied. Inspection and Enquiries are cordially Solicited.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIEYT OF CANTON, LIMITED

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that as Extraordinary Genaral Meeting of the Society will be held at the regatered offics of the Society, Qamai. Building, Hongkong, on Friday, the 25th day of April, 1919, at 12 o'clock noon, when the subjoined resolutions which were passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Society beld on the 12th day of April, 1919, will be submitted for condemnation as special rosolations :—

Mond

1. That the nominal silvar capital of the Socisty as exìming whan thia resolation is confirmed is a special resolatión de converted inte marling and that such capital so converted be increased beyond the starling equivalent of such silver capital when such converTION takes place to the ram of £2,000,000 Sterling divided into 200,000 shares of the nominal value of £10 each.

2. That sach of the issued silver shares of the Society of the nominal value of $250 each with the sum of $100 paid up there on be converted into Eve shares of "the rominal value of £10 each with the sterling equivalent of $20 Hoagloop currcy as the open ing T.T. rate of exchange on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special roolation credited as paid up therson and accordingly Läst 90,000 shares out of 200,000 shares of the nominal value of sach constituting the capital of the Socity so converted. Bas increased be dutributed by the Board to the persona

who are registared as shareholders' of the Ricisty on the daia this resolution la confirmed as a special resolution in exchange for the silver sharw then held by them.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Pub- lia Auotion on WEDNESDAY, the 23rd April

· 1919. commencing at li a.m.

at his Sales Rooms, Duddel

Street,

An Assortment of Wines

and Spirits

comprising:-

Wieland's Beer, Chianti. Ia- valid Port, Red Port, White Port. Remy Martin Brandy. Cherry Brandy. Graves Superieure, Barrac, Cerns, Haut Barsae, Sauternes, Medoc, St. Estephe. St. Julien, Pauillac, Chateau Moulin de Soubeyran, Chateau

des Carmes Haut Brion etc.

The ahore will be put up in lots suitable to purchasers,

On view from Tuesday, the

22nd Inst.

Teras-Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAM MERT,

Auctioneer.

“HE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on.

TUESDAY, the 22nd April,

1919,

commencing at I am

at No. 3 godown, of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd. (Kowloon) 100 bags Castorseeds.

225 bundles Flacks (stored in No. 14 Open Passie).

21 logs Borneo Teak (stored in

G.

NOTICE.

R.

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN WHEAT FOR INDIA,

Colombo, 25th March-The Times of Cegion's Melbourne cor- All parent, with the respondent states: Arrangements ception of those of Chiness

leave the have been completed with the race, desiring to Colony should apply in person Australian Wheat Board, where" between the hours of am. by out of British Government 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. tu é nm, daily — | stocks held in Australia 120,000) AT THE PASS OFFICE, POST tons afe to be OFFICE BUILDING.

shipped

30 India. The vessels by

Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identifies which shipment will be made are jon papers.

expected to arrive before the end of April. This transfer of wheat All persons with certain excep"] tions who remain in theto India for which the Imperial ( Colony for more than 7 days are Government is supplying ton- required to Register themselves nage, is additional to the 30,000 under the REGISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1918

tons of Australian wheat recent-

Forma of Registration giving they sold by the Wheat Board to particulars required may be India and 9,000 tons for which obtained at the G. P. O. and at the Commonwealth Government all Police Stations.

line of steamers is supplying freight.

The Penalty for Non-Com

pliance is a fine not exceeding

$50.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

APEXIOR

Stops and Prevents Correcive Platings v and the Adhesion of Nard Scale.

YOU

LAUGH

BOILER

CAN TROUBLES

BASIS 9810

USING

NOT

APPLIED WITH ABRUSH BOILER

FLUID

No Heat Retardation. No Zine Plates nezded in Boilers treated with this compound!! The only known Efficient Preventative of Cor- rosion in Marine Steam Turbines.

An use by the-

BRITISH, U.S.A., FRENCH, ITALIAN, JAPNESE, ARGENTINE AND CHILIAN NAVIES.

BEAN MILLING INDUSTRY AT HARBIN.

The Bear mills a Earbin made a tremendous development in 1915 and 1916. due to the increased Bean crops in North Manchuria, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. the rise of Bean Oil demand about '

Blagovestchensk and other parts! Also- of Siberis. and the protection Chinese Eastern given by the Railway to the Bean milling industry. In 1916, this line of industry at Harbin attained its zenith, but suddenly in 1917 the continued disturbances made the export

Beau Cake from

NOTICE is hereby given that the Transfer Books of the Society will be CLOSED from the 19th April to the 25th April, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board

C.MONTAGUE EDE,

General Manager.

Hongkong, 11th April, 1919.

of

Canari, Orient, Allan, C.P.R., Johnston, Atlantic Transport. Taion Castle. Elder Dempster. Common-wealth and Dominion, Anglo- American Oil Co. Hudson Bay Co, Pacife Steam Navigation Lamport & Hoh, Knight, Leyland, Brocklebank, John Cockerill. Line, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and practically all important Steam- ship Companies.

Agents for Hongkong & South China

Vladivostok impossible and also THE EASTERN ASBESTOS COMPANY,

& That the Articles of Association be altered in matase following Timberyard, Kowloon laland Lot ST. PETER'S CHURCH. mills have managed to keep

namely:

By the insertion after Article No. 15% of the following Article.

KUPIOTUENT OF RESERVE FUNDO.

107 (4). The Board may employ the fanda of the Society which have been established pursuant to the provisions of Article 132 or May of them or any portion thereof (and this whether such fandı or such portion as is proposed to be dealt with were set aside for she special purpoas to which they are proposed to

be

applied or for any other parpone or not in or for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say, in meeting contingencies, in aqualizing diridoads, in paying special dividedds or bonuses. in repairing improving and maintaining any of the property of the Society, or otherwise in the business of the Society, and in or for such other purposes as the Board shall in its discretion think conducive to the interests of the Society and in regard to any such, employ ment as aforesaid the Board shall not be bound to keep the reserve fand separate from the other assets.**

By the insertion of the following Articles after Arlide No. 108.

BONTH MAT 2X 322 OFF AGAUSST CALL

**10 (1) Any general meeting at which dividend or bonus b declared or auctioned may make a call on the members of such amant as the meeting Exes but so that the call on each member shall not exceed the dividend or bonus payable to him and so that notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 19,2 and 2 the call may be payable at the same time as the dividind or bonus and the dividend or bonna may, if an arranged beirren the Society and the member, be set off against the call. The making of a call under this Article shall be deemed ordinary business of an ordinary gooral meeting which declares a dividrod.

[31. After any resolution has been passed andre the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article the Board sy arrange on behalf of the Society for the dividend or boaaa to be set off against the call by authorizing any person on behalf of the members from an Agreement with the whom such call is due to enter into

Society providing for each dividend or bonus to be set off against ach call and any Agreement made ander sach authority shall ba *ffective.

(3). It shall be no objection to any resolution made and paragraph 1) of this article or to any call or arrangement that such resolution was passed or such call or arrangement was made at the meeting at which the resclation introducing this Article and Article 107 (8) was confrmed as a special resolution provided that due notice of the intention to propose sach Ext mentioned resolution and te declare sach dividend or bonus and to make sach call shall have been given prior to the Confirmatory meeting aforesaid.

BATH DY EXCHANGE FOR DIVIDENDS PAYABLE IN HONGKONG.

sanctioning

rate the

108 (b) Dividends may be paid in Hongkong Currency at sch

of

General Meeting exchange a the de or, in the case of interim dividends, as the Board may deter- mine."

And the subjoined resolations wil be proposed as Extraordinary rescia.

1. That the difference betwega the sterling gaivalent at to-day's opening T.T. rate of exchange of $20 Hongkong currency and the sum of £4 be called up upon each of the 80,000 shares of the Somety of the seminal value of £10 each lato which the silver shares of the Society have been converted.

That bonas dividend equal in amount to such diference as is referred to in Relation No. 1 be and the une is hereby declared out of the Reisearance Fund of the Society, sach bonus dividend being payable to the persons who are registered as the shareholders of the Society on the date this resolution is passed and that sach dividend in the case of each of sach persone be act off against the amount due from him for calls ander Resolation No. 1 and be retained by the Society accordingly and that the Board be authori ed to make the cecessary entries in the books of the Society. & That 16.000 alares of the capital of the Society is issued addition. ally to the 80,000 shares referred to in Relation No. 1 and that the sum of 24 be called up thereon and that much additional shares be offered in the first instance at a premium of 221 per WHATS the persons who are registered us the shareholders of the Society on the date this resolation is passed in the proportion of one additional share for each silvar share proviously held and upon the footing that the sum of £4 called up plus the £21 (making together £25 per share) shall be paid to the Society on acceptance of the cfier, and that much for be made by notice specifying the amber of shares to which such persons are entitled and limising the time within which the offer if not accepted by payment will be deemed to be declined to the 23rd May, 1919, and that the Beard be empowered to dispose of the shares not taken up in response to such offer as they consider expedient in the interests of the Society.

2

4. That the 16,000 additional sharms referred to is Eesolation No. 3

participate is all dividends declared after the next Annual Gen aral Meeting of the Society pro rata with the 80,000 shares referr ed to in Besolation No. 1

By Order of the Board,

Duled the 11th day of April, 1919.

TO-NIGHT!

C. MONTAGUE EDE,

Guard Manager.

2.1).

5) bundles Mild Steel Bars (stored in No. 10 Godown)."

34 kegs Wire Nails (stored in No. 10 Godɔwa).

Terras:-Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT.

Auctioneer.

WEST POINT, HONGKONG.

The above CHURCH will be opin. after repairs, on EASTER SUNDAY.

SERVICE-

THE Undersigned has received 8 am -HOLY COMMUNION 11 8.1.-MORNING PRAYER, HOLY COMMUNION

instructions to sell by Public Auction on WEDNESDAY, the 23rd April, 1919, commencing at Il am.

7

at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,

An Assortment of Wines

and Spirits Comprising:-

Wieland's Beer, Chianti, Invalid Port, Red Port. White Brandy, Port, Remy Martin Статев Superieure. Brac, Carone, Haut Barsac, Sauternes, Medoc. St. Estophe, St. Julien, Pauillac, Chateau Moulin de Soubayran, Chateau des Carmes Haut Brin etc.

The above will be put up in lots sui'able to purchasers.

On view from Tuesday the 22nd insi.

Terms: Cash on delivery,

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

DRESS THRIFTILY!

National interest and persona! economy are best served by having dresses dyed or dry- cleaned by Diamond perfect processes.

To wear old clothes need not mean shabby clothes if DIAMOND service is utilised. A century's experience enables DIAMOND to give maximum eatisfac- tion at mimum cnet.

The DIAMOND DYEING & DRY CLEANING CO.

Agent:

"

CASSUM AHMED

32, 34 WELLINGTON STREET.

and SERMON,

PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD

11.30

4.00

TIME TABLE. WEEK DAYS.

888232388

NIGHT CARS.

Every 15 min

13 i

1. Kada

13 min

Ja valko

İJ MA

8 30 p.m. 9.00 pm. 9.20 p. 8.30 p.m. to 11.10 p.m. every 30 minutes 11.45 p.m. SATURDAY EXTRA CARS,

#37 AM

14.00

13

11.09 midnight. BUNDAYS.

31.0

11.39 to 12T zoos 14 riga 2 1.20 p.m.

1.96 pta, to 1,33

5,33

Every 15

i ps 15 zile

20 5,31

H

20 5,31 20 5,00

10

NIGHT CAES.

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the supply of coal from South! Manchuria became unsatisfactory and the industry met with a check. Only with a small demand of Bean Oil in the Sungari district, the

themselves going. At present more than one half of twenty-one mills at Harbin have su-pended work, waiting for improvement of the carrying facilities of the rail- ways. The total capacity of the twenty-one mille is ten million pieces a year, but in 1918 the total output

only five million pieces. As it is impossible to export Bear. Cake and as coal and firewood cost very dear. Bean Cake, is now being used as fuel for power at the low price of about sixty en a piece. Bean Oil is comparatively high as there is a run of demand in the Sungari district, and it is now rated at about fifteen yen. The mills at Harbin are anxiously waiting for the restoration of peace.

was

COPPER.

to

art

QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG.

Placed First

in order of merit by doctors, nurses, and mothers, through out the world; prescribed by British doctors for 35 years; used in British military and civil hospitals and convalescent homes; ordered by the British, Indian, Canadian and Australian Red Cross, etc. This is the record of

BENGER'S

Food

For Infants, Invalids, and the Aged. Different from other foods and most highly nutritive. Invaluable in illness and convalescence.

From " 4 tryptam ef Died unit Diemtica** La, mát,

Bever's Food is my past valuable gemeietary (pad we this comeķel *itas Pahan Lod in typnoel fører, grešne ust intestinal trouble," vé

Baszefa Frat sa soil in Line by Chemist, tha..., sonyplume,

Pal partiralari & diesetives with each tia, Sole Proprstom ind Muvafschuwurm i BENGER'S FOOD LTD.

MANCHESTER, England BRAY IN OFFICIST NEW TURG, LISA) 90 Destina Street – SIDUZY PRAW. by Faz Sarees

PREVENT DISEASE

'INSECTOX'

IMPROVED "HEPPELL'S FLY SPRAY." SUPPRESSES FLIES. MOSQUITOS (& OTHER INSECT DISEASE

CARRIERS "INSECTOX OUTFITS"

of "Household Insectes"

FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIA. TION OF HONGKONG,

EASTER HOLIDAYS.

NOTICE is hereby given that all FIRE INSURANCE |OFFICES will be CLOSED for {the transaction of Public Business Lomizer and on FRIDAY, SATURDAY, and MONDAY, the 181., 19th and 21st instant.

Price $4.00 "HOUSEHOLD INSECTOX"

of

By Order,

A. R. LOWE,

Secretary strong for Hongkong. 17th April, 1919.

Rediis, for me in home hospitals, hotels, sta

Price $1.30 per tin. CRUDE INSECTOX”, re in cams, mables, factorian, e solle quarters ste

Price $1.30 per tin. HORTICULTURAL INSECTOX” Benliis, for spraying pianta kafəsted with. kreendy, pic. Karides to plant life.

Since the armistice the price of copper has suffered a continual Lima Crop. and at one time it was mis quoted at only 3%, but from the this month the beginning of market is recovering somewhat, the quotation at present being Y42. However, this tendency is ascribed to a temporary reaction, the general trend being unchangeably weak. In Japan elone the supply of copper is far in excess of the demand, and it is necessary

find a market Hitherto London was abroad. the only market for Japanese copper, and during the war Japan- ese copper manufacturers were very prosperous, but the arm- istice brought about a great change in copper markets all over the world. It is reported that on the London market abou: 30,000 tons of electrolytic copper for war use is accumulated, and that the United States stocks accumulated Co. reach 500,000 tons. Such being Co. the situation, the copper market cannot revive until these stocks are cleared off-Japon Chronicle.

SHANGHAI SHARE MARKET,

Messrs. J. P. Bisset and Com- NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. pany's report dated April 12 states:-Cotton share dealings have again constituted the feature of the week's business, especially the sudden appreciation of Kung

ason Week Daya SPECIAL CARS Bagment the Company's On Aseanaira BaÄings, Des V5432 R31. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON

BRITISH TRADERY INSUR ANCE COMPANY LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED from the 19th April to the 25th April, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board

G. MONTAGUE ĮDE,

General Manager. Hongkong, 11th April, 1919.

Yiks. These shares closed last week (April 3) at Tls. 2314 cash and Tls. 2434 June. The closing, quotations on April, 10 were Tis. 34 cash and Tls. 35 June, Other Cottons have also appre- ciated considerably, viz., Yang- tszepoos from Tis. 10.65 cash and Tis. 11.10 June to Tls. 11,30 cash and Tls. 11.75 June; and Laou

VICTORIA THEATRE

OUR GREAT, SERIAL AGAIN

Price 70c. per tin.

On sale at Messrs. A. S. Watson &

Hongkong & Kowloon, Bakills, Hongkong, and leading stores.

FRANK SMITH & CO., Sole Agents.

Kung Mows from Tls. 150 to Tls. 170.

HONGKONG LAWN TENNIS

LEAGUE.

NOTICE. Entries for the 2

Divisions of the above

League close April 20th.

Clabs are requested to forward their entrance fees ($1.00 per team) with their entries.

Dr. F. LINDSEY WOODS,

Hon. Secretary.

LESSONS IN CHINESE

100 years.

These rather sensational rises are rumoured to be due to) the control of the market by the Bulls. Whether this rumour is correct or not there appears to be doubt that the recent big fluctu-derature, has been a teacher to Br MR. LI HON PAN, Chinese graduate ations in certain Cotton shares pean Oicials and Storchian's is this Colony for are due chiefly to the operations Hebe good method of training Europeans to of speculators and not to a generala drzala ertificats as a hazers cher. Ha investment demand. The final a good knowledge of Mandarin and Blaðam

Those who latend earning the Chinese langungƏ outcome of the bull and bear a requested to write care of "Hoogkang Tele

graph” Office or direct vë Na 174 Wellington operations remains to be seen. west frat door sad to Homer, Hibuire add The market in other departments Band Supreme Cours, Ground Love remains quiet but steady.

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TO-NIGHT !

Episode 17" THE DEATH SWITCH