THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1921.
NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED.
WANTED. By married couple for the 1st of October, five rooms unfurnished, with servants'quar- tere, mid level preferred-Apply Bax No. 597 co "Hongkong Telegraph.""
TO BE LET.
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
ASSOCIATION.
Precis of Petition.
up-
HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD. |
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NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Com- paay will be held at the HONG- KONG HOTEL Pedder Street,
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Particulars and Conditions of
of Crown Land st
NOTICE.
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The Public are hereby notified that when trolleys are run to and fro across Canton Road, Kowloon, between the Hongkong & Kow-
Hongkong, 9th August, 1921.
Victoria in the Colony of Hong the letting by Public Auction Sale, tops. OD WEDNESDAY, the to be held on Monday, the 15th The Legislative Council of TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF day of August, 1921, at 3 p Hongkong makes the laws and JULY, 1921, AT NOON, for the at the Offices of the Public loon Godown Ca's premises and Į leries the taxation for all pur-purpose of considering, and, if Works Department, by Order of their timber yard opposite, a man thought fit, approving the draft His Excellency the Governor, of will be stationed in the road; to poses in the Colony.
This Council is composed of 14 now Memorandum of Association one Lo:
in the Colony give warning to other traffic-by WANTED.-Competent Stano-
of the company which will be Shamshuipo
day with a red flag, and by night gather with knowledge of filing members-S, official and
officials. All the officials are/submitted to the Meeting. A of Hongkong, for a term of with a red lamp. To prevent} Ap.ls Box No. 591 c/o commencing from 1st Jul; 1893, with the option, of renewal kong Telegraph."
H.E. The Governor, whose will is randum of Association and
print of the existing Memorant a Crown Rent to be fixed by strict attention to these signals. therefore law,
E. D. C. WOLFE. dum of Association of the Com-the Surveyor of His Majesty the Of these & unofficial members of Council 4 are selected by The Pany may be seen at the Com-King, for one further term of 24| Captain Superintendent of Police
pany's Registered Office in the years, less 3 days. Governor, and only go through Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. any form of election.
aforesaid, and a comparişan of the **** These two are chosen respec-print of the existing Memorandum tively by the Chamber of Com-of Association with the print merce and the unofficial Justices of the draft new Memorandum of of the Peace, the latter of whom Association will show where in are all appointed by TheGovernor. the draft new Memorandum of These two bodies number together Association differs from the exist- only about 330 electors. As, how-jing Memorandum of Association. ever, many belong to both bodies. Should the Meeting approve of Memorandum of the actual number of individual sich voters is less than 330, for some Association with of without of them have two votes each. The modification, the subjoined Re rest of the community have no solution will be proposed. 29 Extraordinary Resolution, namely ——
TO LET-With immediate possession, No. 4 Queen's Road Central Hongkong. Offices only sipate on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4tb. and 5th Floors. Entrance in Duddell Street, Hongkong, with use of two lifts, each floor titted with Electric Wiring for lights and two lavatories. A ply to Box 593 c/o "Hongkong Telegraph."
TO LET.-Shameen. Canton.- A well-built and desirable house, anitable for office and residence. Apply to Immediate possession. David Sassoon & Co. Ltd.. Hoogkong.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE. Overland 5 seater; car 1920 model in splendid condi- tion, spare wheel tyre and all accessories, Owner driven. Price for cash $2,200 or near offer. Apply Box No. 396 cto "Hong kong Telegraph."
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
Unveiling of Memorial Store at Fanling of Sunday the 14th instant.
Accommodation for those desir ing to be present will be provided on train leaving Kowloon a: 3.00 D. Return from Sheung Shui at 6:17 p..
By Order.
HI. P. WINSLOW.
Manacer. Kowloon, 10th August, 1921.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
THE Fndersigned have received
instructions from the Solici
tors of the Estate concerned to sell by Public Auction on
vote at all.
The Petition, which you are invited to sign, aska, the House of Commons to remedy this state of affairs by
1. Substituting the principle of élection for nomination in the case of the non-Chinese members, so that they may. in fact as well as in name,
represent those on whose behalf they speak and vate.
30
new
4
Boundary
Mesurements
NOTICE.
Contents in
NOTICE.
Phone No. WORLD THEATRE Phone No.
(Next The Sun Co, Des Voeux Road, Cantral)
Friday, 12th to Sunday 14th August..
*** 0.15 p.m.: only.
TRIANGLE PLAYS presants DOROTHY DALTON in a Thomas H. Inca Production
THE
FLAME
OF THE YUKON "
A most Gripping and Entertaining Picture.
5.15 pm. Matinees Friday, Saturday and Monday. "VENGEANCE OF THE WILDS"
2.30 pm. and 7.15 pm. 15th & 10th episodes of “THE MOON RIDERS."
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
NOTICE is hereby given that the exclusive exhibition rights for Hongkong & China of the Serial Cinematograph picture en-
During his visit to Cambridge titled VANISHING TRAILS"
for a doctor's degree the Prince of consisting of a set of 15 episodes
Wales planted a mulberry tree in of two reels each is the property
the beautiful grounds of Em- of the Middle East Films Ltd.
manuel College. This was quite and further that these rights can
The Hon. Hugh O'Neill, the first in accordance with local tradition. only be sold or leased by the Speaker of the Ulster Parliament, for "the wisest of all trees," as Middle East Films Ltd. or their claims descent from one of the Pliny styles the mulberry, has ancient Irish kings-that Neill always been a favourite at Cam (1) That the provisions of the
| duly authorised agents. Company's Memorandum of
Proceedings will be taken who was arch-king at least 1,000 bridge. The most famous of the Association with respect to
against anybody exhibiting such years ago. His father holds an Cambridge
mulberries is of its objects be altered so as to
ilms who have not obtained pro-Irish harony of a nineteenth cen- course, Milton's tree." proudly
But the read as shown in the print
first berished by the poet's alma Particulars and Conditions of per authority from the Middleftury creation. signed for the purpose of the letting by Public Auction Fast Films Ltd. to exhibit the Viscount O'Neill of an earlier mater, Christ's College. Milton's creation was one of the five Ulster mulberry tree was one of 300 pur- identitiestion by the Chair-Sale, to be held on Monday,size. man of this Meeting.
Convention of 1783. Major O'Neill please King James I. who ried delegates to the Irish National chased by his college in 1608 himself has been Conservative to introduce a silkworm industry M. P. for Mid-Antrim since 1914, into England with a view to when ha succeeded bis brother obtaining a home-grow supply Arthur. the first Member of of silk for the Spitalfields weavers. Parliament killed in the war. But the present tree at Christ's College is said to be merely a descendant of the original mul. berry associated with Milton.
and also for the following further 15th day of August, 1921 (purposes, namely:—
2 Granting an unofficial maj For the purpose of considering. ority of one (subject to and, if thought it, approving the adequate safeguards by draft new Articles of the Company increasing the number of which will be submitted to the unofficial members of Loun-Mesting. A prins of such new
ril from 6 to 9.
Articles and print of the ex-
at 2 pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the of one Lot of Goternut.
Crown Land on New Road from Bowen Road to Wanchai Gap in the Colony of Hongkong. for a tena of 75 years, with thei
Registry No
Soundary
Menements.
1
fest. fert. Det..
3. Creating a wider electorateisting Articles may be seen at option of renewal at a Crown for the above purpose by the Company's Registered Office Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor- giving the vote to all British in the Hongkong Hotel Pedder of His Majesty the KINO, for one subjects on the Jury List and street aforesaid. In such print further term of 75 years. to those who are qualified the portions of the proposed new | PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. for Jury service but exempt Articles which differ from the ed from it by reason of their existing Articles are indicated by occupations. This would underling in black ink and by embrace mans Government arginalm notes. Should the Meat- servants and members of the ing approve of such new Articles Imperial Forces in the Col-with or with- out modification, ory. The representation of the subjoined Resolution will be an Extraordinary the Charaber of Commerce proposed as would be left une banged, as Resolution, namely:- it is felt that the important; local commercial and ship) ping interests require direc: and expert representation. The Chinese, representation would be increased from two to three members in order tol maintain the same propor-| tion as at present. These! members would continue tol be appointed by the Gover
ROT.
H.E. The Governor has report.
(2) That the new Articles al- ready approved by this Meet- ing bad for the purpose oi identification subscribed by the Chairman thereof, be and the same are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Com- pany to the exclusion of and in substitution for all the existing Articles thereof.
HEREBY AND NOTICE ALSO GIVEN that a SECOND
Wednesday, the 17th Aug., 1921fed to the Secretary of State for EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
commenting at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.
the Colonies in favour of the MEETING of the Company will be held at the HONGKONG lection of all non-Chinese mem- bers and has added that he HOTEL, Pedder Street aforesaid. agreeable to an increase in the on Saturday, the THIRTEENTH, unofficial element provided the DAY OF AUGUST, 1921, AT INOON, for the purpose of official element is increased
receiving & report of the proceed- accordingly.
ings at the above mentioned He has expressed a doubt, how-wfesting and of confiring, if Five coloured, three coloured, ever, whether any change is gen-thought fit, as Special Resolations,
A Private Collection of Valuable Antique China and Curios
famille
of various periods
comprising:
blue and whiterally desired. rose. flambe and reledon" vases, jars. YOU ARE NOW ASKED TO wall plates, bowls, peu-holders, REMOVE THIS DOUBT BY seal boxes, white incenes harners SIGNING THE PETITION. and dishes, etc, etc:
On view from Tuesday the Iub
August.
Catalogues will be issued.
Terms: Cash va delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctionver
Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
Thursday, the 18th Aug.. 1021 commencing at 45 p.m. at No. 6 Stewart Terrace. No. 9 the Peak
A Quantity of Valuable
Household Furniture
Comprising:--
Teak hatstand with bevelled mirror, hesterfield sofa and arm chairs, made by Powell Ltd., Car pet, Lace and Casement Curtains etc.
Teak extension dining tabl and chairs, sideboard with bevell ed mirror, dinner waggon, ic ebest, tea tables, dinner crocker and glassware etc., etc.
Teak double bedstead, Brass mounted single iron bedstead. Teak wardrobe with beveller mirror, marble top washstand toilet crockery, etc.
On view from Wednesday the 17th August (afternoon)
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery
LAMMERT BROS. Auctioneers.
NOTICE.
the above mentioned Resolutions (Nos. l'acd 2).
Should the first of the above! Resolutions (No. 1) be confirmed As a Special Resolution by the requisite majority, the alterations in the Company's Memorandum of Association consequently in- İvolved will be submitted to the
Supreme Court of Hongkong for confirmation.
The Petition for a more Repre sentative form of Constitution in Hongkong will be collected, from the places where it has been AND NOTICE IS HEREBY leposited for signature, on Mon-ALSO GIVEN that the said day 15th, inst.
SECOND EXTRAORDISARY GENERAL MEETING to be beld as aforesaid will be continued THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL and, if thought it, passing the for the purpose of considering.
following further Resolutions as Extraordinary Resolutions, name. ły -
COMPANY LIMITED.
SILIMPOPON COAL.
The andersigned are prepared o quote prices for best quality reshly mined SILIMPOPON COAL, trimmed into Bunkers at -EBATTIK OT SANDAKAN British North Borneo) OT to
ntract for regular Bunker Sup- lies for 6 or 12 months at favour- ble rates.
Steamers calling at SEBATTIK -- SANDAKAN “exclusively for Junkers are exempt from pay- ent of ordinary Port Charges. "be minimum draft of wateri longside the Company's Wharf . Sebattik is 2* feet at low water spring Tidea. Charts of Cowie lay.(Sabattik Harbour) and any equired information concerning he port can be had on applica-
on to
BRADLEY & CO. LTD,
Agents, The COWIE HARBOUR COAL
CO. LTD.
DEACON LOOKER DEACON
& HARSTON,
Solicitors for THE MIDDLE EAST FILMS LTD. Hongkong, 10th August, 1921,
THE DRY LAW.
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Interesting Shanghai Case.ionist. Fer the Speaker of the
AIR NOTES.
I is one of the carious little ironies of Irish politics that the Speaker of the first Home Rule Parliament to assemble in Bel- fakt should be a prominent Up-]
ast Irish House of Commons was When G. A. Wand, seaman on chiefly prominent as a determined board the str. City of Spokane, Anti- Unionist. This was John To India In Six Days. was charged before Mr. F. Foster, who had spoken vigorous-
Plans are now being made for Schubl as the US. Court lastly in committee against the Bill, week with assaulting the ship's which he had afterwards to degreat fight by R. 36, England's first officer because the latticlare carried."
latest and largest Airship, to After the Act Malta, Egypt and India. refused to allow drink aboard, of Onion Mr. Foster was one of sorts of proposals are being con- All some interesting light was thrown the fow Anti-Unionists to gain a sidered at this time, and instead on the working of the Eighteenth seat in the united Parliament at
of a trip to India it may be decid Amendment in distant seas. Westminster, whence, he subed to make a non-stop journey to
The master, Mr. T. Quinn, ex-sequently passed to the peerage Malta and return. plained to the Commissioner that, as Lord Oriet
Should a under the recent amendment to
decision be reached to make the the Prohibition law, not only
trip to India, however, the R 36 A piecework scale of pay for will make a stop in Egypt for re Government vessels but any ship members of Parliament is not plenishment of fuel. It is expected sailing under the American ag was forbidden to carry liquor-notion that some shocked Com-six days. The fastest time by the preposterously unprecedented that the flight to India will take The penalty was a fine of $100 or mous men imagine. remarks a rail and steamer is 31 days. 15 That it is desirable to capia year in gaol, to which the mas- London critic. It was at one
talise the sum of $1,000,000 rers of ships were liable. The
AIR-EXPRESS RAFT. time the accepted rule. So much being part of the undivided|itoess added that on one occa-
A wonderful feather-weight en that a member for Grantham raft, for use in the event of a prof's of the Company stand-sion his men had hidden liquor in who sued the town for his wages forced descent on the water, bas ing to the credit of General the bilges, which had been dis-for a session in Elizabeth's reign best devised for cross-Channe Reserve, and accordingly that covered or the searchers and the when he did not sit in the House air expresses. for the purpose of effecting blame had fallen opaa him. was ordered by a specially ap comprises two cylinders of com The apparatus
teneg cave plað.
Abuat 18,000
195
0402
holders of the Company in with liqu r. He was told he
was sat upon until he promised to behave himself.
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pointed committee to remit the press-d air which, when the said wages, which he did. But valves are turned, inflate in 20 not only did payment depend seconds two floats, and enable the upon attendance. Strong action raft, though its total weight i was taken during the Common-only 36 pounds,, to support as wealth. In some cases a £20
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such capitalisation such suma Giving evidence of the assault. of $1.600.000 be distributed as Mr P. J. Moran, first officer, said banus among the share that the defendant came on board proportion to the shares in could not take it on to the ship the Company's present Winess then broke the bottles on -Capital of $1,000,000 held by the ship's side, and Wand bit him penalty was imposed a stiff tax many as four people. The rafi
them respectively on the date in the tace, koorking him on to in those days. For drowsy mem-aeroplane fuselage
can be stowed along the lon of an bereinafter referred to, and the deck. Afterwards the man bers who could not shake off the that a bonus be declared ac- was overpowered completely and effect of claret in time for 8lian airman, proposes to start on Lieutenant Parer, the Austra cordingly. And further that
o'clock morning prayers. the a flight round Australia this the Company's Board of Dir
more modest fine of 19. was ectors be and they are hereby
The defendant's story was that
month. accompanied by an inflicted. authorised to satisfy such he came up the gangway and the
observer, a mechanic and a bonus as far as possible by first officer said. "No liquor
cinematograph operator, for the Apropos the second presidency purpose of raising money to buy the distribution in manner aboard here." Defendant then aforesaid of 100,000 shares of said that he would leave the ship Chroncile obertes: It was for across the Pacific.
of Dr. Sun Fat-sen, the Daily machine for an attempt to y $10 each credited as fully and drink elsewhere. Whereupon paid up among the persons the complainant grabbed hold at him, ten years ago, that Mme. Tussaud's exhibiti a opened its who Are registered as the bim. and he (defendant) made
doors on
& Sunday. He bad holders of the shares con- a swing" at the officer, who had stituting the Company's pre-handled him roughly. The com- the wax effigies, and so a "private expressed a great desire to see seh: Capital of $1,000.009 on plainant had never acted in a
view"
was arranged. He was such date as the Company's gentlemanly way towards the
then on his way to China to take Board of Directors shall rest of the crew.
The Master-The crew are all up his duties as President of the MOTHER'S STRONG TRIBUTE TO decide such list mentioned shares to rank pari passu college boys and students and Republic. The famous Chinaman with the shares constituthare the highest regard for the long while at Tussaud's
Company's pre-first officer,
ing
the
Se Capital of $1,000,000
studying celebrities. He was
lifelike model of himself.
"SAVED MY BABY'S LIFE."
BABY'S OWN TABLETS"
"I believe Baby's Own Tablet
saved my baby's life, and I woul not be without them," writas Mrs James Levere, of Spencerville Many other gratefu Anticipatory of the 81st birth- Ontario.
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Capt. W. I. Eisler, representing naturally interested, too, in the in respect of all profits the U. S. Shipping Board, said (3) That each of the existing
of the Company earned since that there had been a great deal 20,000 fully paid np shares
the 31st December. 1920 of drankenness on the ships. The of $50 each constituting the and such distribution to be in defendant bad been in the Army day of Mr. Thomas Hardy, an mothers have given equally elo Company's present Capital of
satisfaction of the aforemen- and knew there were means of inquiry at a public library in one quest testimony AS to th $1,000,000 be divided into 5
tinued bonus.
making a man behave himself. of the poorest districts of You becacy of this remarkable Cana fully paid up shares of $10:
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY On shipboard under the present London elicited some interesting disn specific for children's zcbei each so as to make such ALSO GIVEN that a THIRD law officers had very little power evidence as to the popularity of and ill. Capital $1,000,000 consisting EXTRAORDINARY GENER- over the men and the authorities the veteran novelist's works Baby's Own. Tablets are ai of 100,000 folly paid PAL MEETING of the Company tooked to the Court to uphold among working folk. Every one absolutely safe medicine for th shares of $10 each.
will be held at the HONGKONG thero in keeping discipline. of the novels, even the lesser- little ones from infancy onward The defendant, în view of his known ones like "Desperate They aro guaranteed, unde (4) That alter the division HOTEL, Pedder Street aforesaid
aforesaid, the Capital of the on WEDNESDAY, the THIRTY- satisfactory record with the Remedies," and "The Hand of Government analyst's certificate Company be increased from FIRST DAY OF AUGUST. 1921. colours in France, was given 30 Ethelberta," had been issued to be free from any opiste, nat $1,01 0,000 consisting as a AT NOON, for the purpose of days, but the Commissioner said several times, it was found, dur-cotic or other injurious dro foresaid, to $2,500,000 divided receiving a report of the proceed the authorities would endeavouring the past 12 months, whilet Their field of curative effene into 250,000 shares of $10 gs at the above mentioned to secure him a ship, in which two copies of "Tess" had sach includes Infantile indigestion each by the creation of 150,- Meeting in so far as regards cane the sentence would be re- found a score of readers during constipation, colle, diarrhen. 000 new shares of $10 each-Resolution Nos. 3, 4 and 5 above mitted.
such new shares (subject as and of confirming, if thought fit, hereinafter mentioned) to be such last mentioned Resolutions issued at such time or times as Special Resolutions.
such and
and terms conditions in every TB- spect
the Company's 49 Board of Directora
may think fit.
Dated this fourteenth day of the July, 1921.
By Order of the Board.
Manager.
J. H. TAGGART,
LONG ARM OF COINCIDENCE. A constable named Fishpool gave evidence at a Rotherhithe inquest on a dead seaman belong ing to the ship Fishpool.
that period, and "Jude the feverishness, croup and cold Obscure," "The Return of the They make teething easy, expe Native," "The Mayor of Caster-} worms, aid the appetite, promet bridge," The Woodlanders." and restiul, natural sleep and regula *Under the Greenwood Tree,” Į developmént.
Of chemists, or post free it 6 averaged_over_ one reader per month. The "Dynasts," too, Fad cents the vial from Dr. Williams been issued three times within Medicina Co., 96 Szechuan Road
Shanghai.
the year..
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