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WHAT IS UGLINESS?

OLD AND NEW NOTIONS.

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

"THE SHADOW OF WAR COMPANY MEETING.

THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.

NOTICE.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28. 1920.

THEATRE

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

ROYAL

RUSSIAN GRAND.

AN APT APPLICATION.

THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING CO., LTD. The following extract from a There has been an advertise-1 ment in the paper for "the ugliest recent novel is supplied by a

NOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN oman in London." Two people contributor to a Home journal

the

FIRST THIRTY An extraordinary general meet-that who came upon this advertise who directs attention to the sign-

MEETING of ment the other morning proceed-ificance of its application to pre- ing of the Hongkong Electric Co., ORDINARY

Ltd., was beld at the office of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Com- ed to amuse themselves in the sent day conditions- genial way of human nature by "Strike, strike; everywhere and Company to-day at noon for the pany will be held at the COM- friends and in every calling, the word had purpose of passing extraordinary PANY'S OFFICES VICTORIA examining their acquaintances to discover which gone forward-Strike! It mattered resolutions. Mr. W. J. C. Bonna BUILDING on Thursday 5th of them had the best claim to the not the reason. It mattered not presided, and there were also pres- February 1920 at 12 o'clock noon the workers' condition. If wages fent.-Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., the for the purpose of receiving the job.

were ample, then strike for less Hon. Mr. J. Johnstone, and the REPORT of DIRECTORS to- a writer in the Telegrupi Deity), work. If the work was insufficient, Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell (Direct-gether with Statement of Ac- they could not think of anybody. then strike for a minimum wage.ors), Mr. H. J. Gedge (Solicitor to counts for the year ending 31st. not even their pet abomination. If no grievance could be found at Company) Mr. Graham (Manager), December 1919. who was, considered impartially, all, then strike because there was and Messrs. C.H.P. Hay. Young,

To their disappointment (says

By Order of the Board of

Directors MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE

Secretary to the

OPERA Co.

BY SPÉCIAL REQUEST

TO-NIGHT

LA

BOHEMF.

NOTICE.

Hongkong Land Investment & Booking row open at MoUTRIE'S.

Agency Co., Ltd. General Agents for the Kowloon Land and Building

Co., Ltd. Hangkung, 21st January, 1920.

NOTICE.

CONSIGNEES,

KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART

MAATSCHAPPIJ.-

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Thirty Second Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Jardine Mathe- son & Co., Ltd. on Thursday 29th, January 1920 at 12 o'clock at

From SINGAPORE, PENANG.noon for the purpose of receiving ́»

the Report of the Directors to BELAWAN DELI.. gether with the Statement of Ac- counts for the year ending 31st, December 1919.

The Steamship

"VAN WAERWYCK**

The Register of Shares of the Company will be Closed from Monday 19th to Thursday 29th, having arrived from the above January 1920 (both days in ports, consignees of cargo by her clusive), during which period no are notified that all goods are Transfer of Shares can be Re- being landed at their risk into gistered. the hazardous and/or extra-

hazardous godowns of the Hong- Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

Goods not cleared by the 3rd February 1920, will be subject to

rent.

All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the godowns where they will · be examined on the 2nd February at 10 e.m. by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

Claims against the steamer

be recognised,

By Order of the Board of Directors, MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE

Secretary, Hongkong, 13th January, 1920.

NOTICE.

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THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION COMPANY.

LIMITED.

The REGISTER of SHARES very ugly. Plain people-olinone. In any case strike, and see Sing Ip Fock, Leung Wing-sang, of the Company will be CLOSED yes, hosts of them: disagreeable- that the demands included re- Chan Cho-nam, L. E. Ozorio, from Wednesday 28th January looking people quite a lot: silly-cognition of Labour Unions, and Leung Yau-po, A.HM. da Silva to Thursday 5th February 1920 looking people-any amount; but particulary of the demagogues and J. F. Grosse (Shareholders.) (both days inclusive), during The notice convening the meet- which period no TRANSFER of people definitely and conspic-who led them.

"Sa the storm clouds of indus-ing having been read by the SHARES can be Registered. uously ugly--not one.

We differ about beauty, and trial insurrection were, fostered. Manager,

The Chairman said:-Gentle- even more do we difer about They threatened, and rapidly, in ugliness. I suppose the com- almost every direction, the flood men,-The first business before usi monest, the popular, standard of of storm burst. Every sane, hard is to consider, and if thought fit, ugliness is the unusual. You thinking man asked his neigh-approve the Draft New Articles,

submitted Every fat which are

to the find this to perfection in childrer.bour the reason. Show a child pictures or statues sighted man, on both sides, shook Meeting. Our present Articles! of people of an unfamiliar type his head and pointed the apnf Association were drawn up in it doesn't matter much who they proach of a hideous reckoning. 1889 when the Company was are, ancient Egypodns or Tudor Every fool looked on and laugh-formed, and with the exception of ladies and that child will laugh led, and, shrugging his shoulders, an alteration in the Capital of

UNION WATERBOAT Rameses II. and swam with the tide on the side to of the Company in 1899, have or shudder,

COMPANY, LIMITED. not been amended in any way. Anne Boleyn are alike horridy which he belonged.

"And all the time the demago-Tu meet present day require- ugly.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. You and I perhaps have got gues screamed from the house-ments, and to bring them into

The Fifteenth Annual General beyond that. But did you never ups, and claimed the daily press. line with the Hongkong Com-

NOTICE is hereby given that carrion of democracy panies Ordinances, it is neces- look at grand mother's portrait These

The Annual Open Billiard Meeting of Shareholders will be and compassionately sigh? Such actually belonged to neither sary that they should be brought

Championship of the Colony, held held in the offices of Messrs. must be presented in writing the Vineteenth Ordinary Meeting a fright the pour dear had to make side. They did not toil in the up to date.

The Solicitors of the Company under the auspices of the Victoria Dodwell & Co., Limited on Men-within ten days after arrival of of Shareholders in this Company

day the 9th February 1930 at steamer. otherwise they will not will be held at the Office of Messrs. - herself! How could she wear mills, nor did they employ labour.

Jardine Matheson & Company, such clothes, how could she do Theirs it was to feed upon have gone carefully into them, and Recreation Club.

Entries close on 31st January 11 a.m. for the purpose of re- No Fire Insurance will be Limited on Thursday the 29th, of the worker. the Draft Articles now submitted her hair like that? and as for the « carcass

power from those are on similar lines to what other and are to be accompanied by ceiving the report of the General effected by the undersigned in January 1920 at 11.45 a.m. for the

Managers together with a state- grandfather agrotesque, a night-and wrest

purpose of receiving the Report of Well, they didn't think who possessed it. Whatever Companies operating here and teatrance fee of £. mare.

The number of points to be ment of secounts to 31st Decem, any case whatever.

Bills of Lading will be counter-the Directors together with the so. and heaven only knows what happened they must be winners Home have adopted recently.

Statement of Accounts for the The 1ransfer Books of the signed by they would think of us. But, then in the game they played. Nor The Circular dated 13th Januars played and other arrangements ber 1919. they would certainly agree with did it matter one iota to them draws your attention to the prin- will be decided at a meeting of

Company will be closed from the

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN. year ending 31st, December 1919. The Register of Shares of the Agents. us that the negro type is very who might be the sufferers by cipal fariations, and I do not the Competitors.

The competition is open to all 2nd to 9th February 1929 both think there is anything that can

dates inclusive.

company will be Closed from ugly neither they not we can their juggling.

Hongkong, 28th February, 1919. Monday 19th to Thursday 29th, admire the Tartar.

"They possessed "one mar-be usefully added to it. I there in the Colony.

R. H. B. MITCHELL,

January 1920 (both days in- It is an axiom with us that a ketable commodity, their powers fore propose, as an Extraordinary

Hon. Secretary.

clusive), during which period nose without a bridge, that a pro- of stirring strife. Nor were they Resolution, that the Draft Arti-

. Victoria Recreation Club.

no Transfer of Stares can be minent and thick-lipped Jaw are particular to whom they sold.cles now submitted to the meeti

Registered. ugly. But I suppose that is not They belonged to a class of their ing be approved.

This was seconded by Sir Paul commonly accepted in Timbuctoo own, an unscrupulous, ambitious and Mongolia." I could quote self-seeking frace of intelligent Chater, C.M.G.. and unanimously

was approved. from even

English creatures. whose sole aim passages

The Chairman said: The literature lauling the beauty of publicity and power. which in almond eyes. But the other day the end, must yield them that second Extraordinary Resolution I came across a general officer position and plenty which they deals with the proposed increase who suggested that the almond decried in others. It mattered of the Capital of the Company to little to them whether they preach-$3,000.000, by the creation of eye was the brand of Cain..

Suppose we rule out any at-jed Syndicalism or Sauce. Their 340,000 Shares of $10 each, rank. tempt to make a universal stand-services must be paid for in the ing for Dividend and in all other ard of beauty and ugliness and way they desired. Vituperating rospects "puri passu with the declare roundly that the things from the summit of an upturned existing shares in the Company. are matter of latitude and long butter tub, or hurling invective The Company, as you are aware, itude.

from the cushioned benches of a was formed in 1839 with a Capital The fairest forms of Kew Nation's Assembly of Legislature of $300,000, which was increased! $600.000 ten years later.) Are the frights of Khatmanduit made no difference to them. to

the operations of And Clapham's nightmares lov-Anything they undertook must Since then ed in Martaban.

be paid for, at their own marke: the Company have been extended But then you have to go further price.

considerably, and almost every has witnessed extensive! still. The beauty which charms These were the microbes of year the ploughboy is rather a blowsy industrial unrest which had mul-addition to our generating plant creature in Piccadilly. One set tiplied during the dark months of and mains. For some time these of people will think a man a living the pear on hotbeds that were have been paid for cut of revenue, Their with assistance from our Bankers, skeleton while another lot call rich and fat and warm. him Galahad.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

Friday, the 30th Jan. 1920. commencing at 11.45 a.m. at Holt's Wharf, Kowloon 64 Cases Pilsener Beer (qts)

Terms: ash on delivery.

Geo, P. LAMMERT,' Auctioneer.

1

THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK.

LIMITED,

Hewi 0cc: 6 Des Voeux Road Ctl. Hankow Branch: Panof Building.

FOR THE YEAR TO COME, paunches were heavy with the j and a Reserve Fund formed, but

Precaution is imporant in als thug come when So the standard must be a good coodly supplies of sustenance the time has now

is required for This mulis to your own fasecer. 1 deal less than national. Of course, which they drew from the bodies more money

that way of providing for the future. free of those who, in their blind ignor-farther additions to Plant and by there are some flagrant cases.

When it was decided OPENING A SAVINGS ACCOUNT poor creature who is constructed lance and stupidity, were power- Mains.

WITH US. like a gargoyle, a sheer deformity.less to resist their insidious by your Directors to purchase

gif dari. SYSTEMATICALLY it will grow in is. I suppose. ugly to everybody blandishments."

THOUSANDS.

and everywhere. Perhaps We hud

better rule out deformity, for that

queer nose

North the land at

2

Point

and erect new Generating Station there, the time seemed

DODWELL & CO. LTD. General Managers, Hongkong, 27th January, 1920.

NOTICE.

HONGKONG GENERAL

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The Commission organizing The First Aerial Derby Around The World consisting of:-

Commodore Louis D. Beaumont

(President) Major Charles J. Glidden, U.S.A. F.R.GS. (Executive Secretary)

Mr. Benjamin Hinan (Treas

urer)

will address the Members of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce in the OLD CHAM BER OF COMMERCE ROOM, CITY HALL, on TUESDAY 3rd FEBRUARY, 1920 at 5 p.m.

All Returned airmen co dially invi ed to attend.

By Order,..

are

E. A. M. WILLIAMS,

Secretary. Hongkong, 28th January, 1920.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

instructions to sell by Public HE Undersigned has received Auction on Thursday the 29th Jan., 1920,

commencing at II a.m.

at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street

»

6

cases Toilet Soap

+150

NOTICE TO.CONSIGNEES.

From NEW YORK

The Steamship

that

By Order of the Board of Directors,

MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE

Secretary.

Hongkong, 13th January, 1920 -

NOTICE.

:: MUNCASTER CASTLE". Consignces of Cargo are hereby imtyried

all goods have! Deen landed at their risk into the Godowas of the nongkong ami

Wharf Aowieon

Godown Company, Lid., whence and, or irom the wharyes delivery may be obtained.

Optional Cargo will be forward- NOTICE is hereby given that ed unless notice to the contrary the Sixth Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders in this Company be given before.

t

Kowloon, THE HONGKONG CENTRAL

ESTATE, LIMITED.

No claims will be admitted will be held at the Offices of after the Goods have left the Go-Messrs. Jardine Matheson & downs, and all Goods remaining Company, Limited, on Thursday undelivered after the 4th prox 29th January 1920 at 11.30 am. for the purpose of receiving the will be subject to rent.

Report of the Directors together All claims against the steamer with the Statement of Accounts must be presented to the Under- for the year ending 31st Deceın. signed on or before the 20th prox ber 1919.

or they will not be recognized.

The Register of Shares of the All brokɩn, chafed, and damag. Company will be Closed from ed Goods are to be left in the Monday 19th to Thursday 29th Lodowns, where they will be ex-January 1920 (both days in- amined on the 3rd prox at 10 am. clusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be by Goddard & Douglas.

Registered.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by

JODWELL & CO., LTD.,

Agents, Hongkong, 28th January, 1920

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

The Hongkong Central Estate, Limited. MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE

Secretary to

The General Managers. Hongkong, 13th January, 1920.

NOTIĆE.

in decent people excites too much get into the armour of the opportune to increase our Capital. The other The war broke out very soon pity for thought about its ugliness days of chivalry. But then ought we to laugh at day in some eighteenth century afterwards, which provented your (240,000) shares of Ten Dollars carrying out their ($10.00) each, ranking for divid- any sort of ugliness? It is not a memoirs I came upon the remark Directors man's fault that he is born with that "damsels of 5 ft. 10 in. would intention. The new plant which end and in all other respect pari or an eccentric not inspire much affection. It has been installed as North Point, passu with the existing shares in mouth. We don't talk about his would be a poor look-out for our and other necessary additions, the Company."

The Hon. Mr. S: H. Dodwell been financed by Сиг Yet have oddity to his face. Is it decent daughters if that were true. to laugh at it hebind his back? the eighteenth-century peoplej Bankers, to whom we are in seconded and the resolution was

Ugliness must be something seem to have taken it as an axiom. debted at the present moment for unanimously passed.

The Chairman Having passed 1 Sewing Machine (new) positive, not the mere absence of A moderately tall woman was to about $600,000. To cope with the

1 16-bore Midland's Gun charm, not merely something them a grotesque. What would increased demand for current, an the first Resolution without which doesn't please you. But they say to the sturdy Amazons order has been placed for a 5,000 modification, the third Resolution 11 pieces Lenos

cases Bar Soap what kind of a something. some-of 1$19.

K.W. Turbo Generator, which is merely a formal one. I have 30 thing that is really painful to When an actress wants to pre- it is hoped will be delivered this therefore to propose the follow. 18 cases Noodles look at, omething that is dis tend to be ugly and lowdy now it year, and it is more than likely ing Extraordinary Resolution:--

A Quantity of Sundry Turni-: agreeable or something that is long odds that she pulls her hair that by the time that plant is"That the New Articles already merely qacer and comical? 1 straight back and plasters it down tunning, we shall have to order approved by this Meeting, and ture

Terms: cash on delivery. fancy we shall never come to any and makes a nob or bunch at the another of similar size. To meet for the purposes of identification

Geo. P. LAMMERT, agreement about that.

back. Then we all say politely this expense and wipe out our thereof subscribed by the Chair- be, and the same At the beginning of eighteenth that it was noble and marvellous overdraft requires fresh capital, man,

WANTED. century men had clean-shaven of her to make herself so hideous. and I think Shareholders will are hereby approved, and that Articles be, and they faces, but they did not, But only a generation or so back agree that the Resolution, which such

hereby adopted as the WANTED. - Lady & Gentle Co. 13, un Friday, February, Sib men living in the everybody thought that way of 1 shall now propose, is not only are,

interests of the Articles of the Company, to the best society, shave every day. displaying the female skull per-in. the Look into Swift's journal, and you fectly beautiful.

Company, but essential, in order exclusion of, and in substitution an going to Vancouver with 3 celing the Regors of the Directors and

·will find that shaving day

If you look at the portraits of that we may efficiently cope for, all the existing Articles Children ages 7. 471⁄2 & 212 by webistemen of Acceact for the year

Monteagle " ou 16th March ending 31st December, 1919. happens only one or twice a week, the past and try to compare them with the ever-increasing demand thereof."

I pro- The Hon. Mr. J. Johnstone from Hongkong desire to com-wil. bs Closed from Tues ay, Janus 7 though he was hand-and-glove with ours, you will incliue to be- for current made upon us.

and for Table d'Hote dinner at with Cabinet Minist.rs. Could lieve that even feminine features pose the following Extraordinary seconded and the resolution was municate with Lady travelling by 27th. 1940, to Frida., February 6th, 192, for Tea will be $1.00 per head,

the same steamer who would be 8th Days Lcclusive. anything be-aglier?

have changed-they have ceased Resolution:-"That the Capital approved.

This was all the business, the willing to help with the children.

By Order of the Board of Directors. $3.00 per head, exclusive of wines. And what if even within a few to be tiny, they have become bold. of the Company be increased to

W... BROWN, Apply MTB. Hornell

Secretary. generations physical types have We think the beauties of yester- Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000.- Chairman announcing that a con- Terms to be arranged on appli-

of Twe frmatory meeting would be held cation. changed? It is an old story that year miminy piminy I wonder 00) by the creation

No. 111 The Peak,

Hongkong, Janasry 22nd, 1920. twentieth century men cannot what they would say of ours, Hundred and Forty Thousand on February 16.

even

best

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. The Thirty-Third Ordinary Annual Meeting of Baateholders will be held at the Offices Messrs. Jordine, Katheson

192, at non for the pur:ons of 18-

The Transfer Books of the Compa"r

REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

on

Wednesday, 28th January, 1920.

and Saturday, 31st January, 1920. TEA DANSANT from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

DINNER DANSANT from

8 p.m.

On these occasions the charge

·J. H. TAGGART,

Manager.

BOYDS FIRE EXTINGUISHER

MUSTARD & Co.

SIMPLE TO CHARGE: SIMPLER TO OPERATE.

Tel. No. 1186.

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