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" COMPANY REPORTS.

Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd.

ROBBERS GEAR.

Light Sentences in Police Court.

The report of the above Society, A criminal case of a serious; for presentation to the share character came before Mr. J. A. holders at the forty-ninth ordin-Fraser at the Police Court this ary meeting, to be held at the morning. One woman and four Society's offices at noon on man were the defendants, Friday, 12th. May, states —————

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE BOOKSHELF.

(By "Librarian.")

ANATOLE PRANCE France's most famous living novelist, latest winner of the Nobel Literature Prize, who adopted the name of his country Inspector Appleton told the as his own, his just entered his Court that he visited No. 70 seventy-ninth year. More than 1920 Account. After payment Third Street, on the strength of half a century has passed since of the interim dividend of 24'- peri share and the bouns of 20% to information previously received. Anatole France's first work saw contributors passed at the last and in one of the cubicles five the light, and the volumes of дом being collected annual meeting there remains daggers were discovered con-essays

cealed babind a cupboard. In contain some of the ripest glean- ja balance of £431,626, 0, 9.

addition, a packet of pepper and ings of the celebrated novalist The Board recommends that to several coils of wire that might and critic during what has been this balance of £431,626. 0. 9 behave been intended for gagging termed his "august vagabondage": | added £55,500 from Equalization victims in an armed robbery were through the fields of literature.

of Dividend Fund giving brought to light. In a beam

The Third Series of "On Life balance of £487,126, 0. 9 which above the fourth defendant's bad

and Letters" has just been um the Board recommends be a piece of rock arsenic, sufficient translated, and is published be appropriated as follows:-

to kill two hundred persons John Lane at 7a. 6d. Two famous it was said. WIS also dis- controversies are recalled by this

possession volume. Its preface is

A final dividend to

shareholders of16- per share on 111. 000 shares

A bonus dividend to shareholders of 20- per share on 111.- 000 shares

To be carried for- ward to Under-

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covered. Io the

the

of another man, who was identi-celebrated reply to Ferdinand £888 000 fied as being a "boy" of the King Brunetiere, who accused M.

Edward Hotel. were a couple of France of troubling the pools of) table knives belonging to be critical clearness by substituting Hotel, and these formed the sub-personal fantasy for objective 111,000.0.0 jeet of a separate charge against standards

of judgment. The the prisoner.

jo is a masterpiece of sceptical The woman was fined $5 or raillery: poor M. Brunetiere felt, saven days, on the charge of ons imagines, much as did Peet} receiving the knives. The daggers Gynt in his wrestle with the charge was met by the lenient Borg, the sinuous foo that could 287,326.09 sentence of ten days imposed on neither be seized nor eluded. It the second defendant, while the anything could add to the sunoy. £487.126.0.9 the fourth prisoner against whom 191 Account. The balance of the possession of the arsenic was Working Account on

the 31st proved, was given the option of a $100 fine or a sentence of one

writing Suspense Account to close

the account for the year 1920...

13.0.

be paid to sharebolders, absorbing

20% be paid to contributors, absorbing about £50,000, and that the remainder be carried forward. Directors. In accordance with Clause 80 of the Articles of Association, the Hon. Mr. A. 0. Lang and Mr. J. A. Plommer retire, but offer themselves for

re-election.

offer

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The office rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. Montagu

years, and bis 18 holders The December, 1921, was £725,799-month. The remaining prisoner arose out of M. Paul Bourget's snd jeered al by a gang of mis has been in existence for 641 was discharged on sccoun: of novel "Le Disciple"; here.agsiz.chievous youths who as made first was the uncle of the prese ci The Board recommends that anļinsufficient evidence.

M. Brunetiere was among his ad- his life & burden for him during Earl of Derby, then a member of interim dividend of 24' per share

versaries, Le Disciple," which the last few weeks. This was the might be read with fresh interes: complaint which the proprietor of the House of Commons and the Salisbury, was twice Secretary £133,200.0.0 and that a bonus of ENGAGED THIRTY-THREE in the present crime wave, tolls a bucket-making shop in Queen's son of a Prime Minister. Lord!

before he how a young student of a degan-Road West conveyed to the police of State for India erate type was spared along the and by them brought before Mr.

formed ac administration, and path of infamy by the theories of E. E Lindsell at the Police Court other notable chiefs of the depart

The morning. his professor, who taught in all this

ment were the Marquis of of interest innocence that free-will was an figure

He was described Hartington (whose nephew was mentioned as a possible successor the evil genius who to Mr. Montagu), Sir Stafford sor Sixte to be made to answer directed the operations against Northcote, the Earl of Kimberley. ed for by the German police.. for the misdeeds of bis disciple the unlucky proprietor.

M. Bourget's gang of which he was lander made Lord Randolph Churchill, Vis

Cross and. He is a man passing under the Robert Greslon?

Viscount Auditors.-Messrs. Lowe, Bing-

Wolverhampton. Five of Mr. bam and Matthews, and Mr. C.name of Eugen Nonn, who has book marked the beginning of it their favourite pastime to roll

been living for a while at Lebe, that reaction in favour of tradi-stones down the billside into the Montagu's predecessors are still Bernard Brown, Chartered

of the shop and shive. Lord George Hamilton is on the outskirts of Bremerhaven. tional ethical and religious ideas backyard but Accounants, retire

There he became friendly with which was later summed up in frequently buckets

pans the oldest of these. having been themselves for re-election.

young woman clerk, proposed the phrase attributed to Brune- were damaged. Yesterday the at the Indis Office from 1805 to to ber, and was accepted.

tiere, "the bankruptcy of science." youth was livelier than ever. He They had quite a gay time for M. France, as a true son of the laboriously took a good sized to 1993, and the others are Lord China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. 10, than, as money became 18th century, sceated the unwel- stone to the crown of the hill at Crewe and Mr. Chamberlain.

Midleton, Viscount Morley, Lord! The report of the above Com-necessary, Noon persuaded bis come implications for free thought Hospital Road, and tipped it over The stone crashed pany, for presentation to the fiancee to steal 30,000 marks of M. Bourget's thesis, and com-the edge.

the door of the shareholders at the fifty-third (nominally £1,500, but actually bated it with more wit, perhaps, through

Ping-pong redivivua! This game, ordinary meeting, to be held at £24 10.1 from her employer's than logic. Yet he spoke truth kitchen and a cooking pan was says a Home journal, which the Company's offices on Friday.safe. With this the couple fled. when he pointed out that many badly damaged a result, seems to be growing ex remely inrented 12th. May, at 12.30 p.m., states:- The police were informed, and venerable ideas on which society but the natural regret of the popular again, was

1920 Account--This account it was discovered that during 12 rests to-day were regarded when owner

was about 40 years ago, when, accord- shows a net profit on working of months Nonn bad become en- they first were broached as sub-mare than compensated for bying to tradition, someone started $617,27206 which sum it is progid to no fewer than 33 women versive.

the capture of the culprit. A playing it with cigar-box lids for posed to apportion as follows:-

io various parts of the country. M. France has never loved the foki had, as a matter of precau-bats and champagne corks for Dividend of $7.00 and

secluded balls. The credit of developing From all of them he had obtain dogmatists-it might be fairer totion, bidden Bonus of $3.00 per

ed considerable sums of money way he has never loved their corner of Hospital Road, and heit isto a game, however, belongs and jewellery, which he had dogmas. In that glowing gem, are chase to the youth which to Mr. James Gibb, who some later introduced YOATS pawned.

bis article on Rabelais, he praises eventually led to the latter's cap- ten

balls And drew. Nonn and his latest fancee the great story-teller for keeping ture and transference to the care celluloid

and of a policemso.

the published evidently went to Bremen, for clear of martyrdom. this Don Joan has been writing

The Magistrata decided that a rules. Gossima, as he called it Then comes the well-known from there to all his 32 other praise of irony, lacking which good whipping would care the failed to catch on for some years, fancees saying that he will soon the world be a forest without youth of his mischievous babits but in 1900 a change of name and birds." Those birds flit often and ordered that sea strokes be the introduction of seamless

indicted with the rattan.

xylonite balls net all the world through M. France's own pages:

playing ping-pong. The craze sometimes they have sharp

was 23 brief as it was violent, and beaks. Never was a crueller ex-

after two decades of neglect it is posure of Zola's faults than the an air of remarkable conviction

being rediscovered, imaginary dialogue in a Parisian to his writing, and make itparently, by a new generation. Lang and the Hon, Mr. P. H. Press Protest against Delay. smoking room in which bis Lovel exceedingly good reading.

Share on 20,000 Shares

$200,000.00

100,000,00

To transfer to Build- ing Reserve Fund To carry forward to Underwriting Sus- pense A c...

$17,272.06

6617,272.05

1921 Account The balacce at credit of this Account is $1,234,790 11.

Directors The Hon Mr. A. 0.

Holyoak retire by rotation and being eligible offer themselves

for re-election.

retura to them.

IMPERIAL WIRELESS

CHAIN.

A Critic. There are two dis-

tine: subjects in La Bete Humaine a famous case and a monograph on railways.

The Council of the Empire La Bete Humaine" is dis- Press Union, at a meeting presid-setted: ed over by Mr. Robert Donald and attended by many representa. Auditors. The anatted BC- counts have been sudited by tives of newspapers at home and Messrs. Lose, Bingham & Mat overseas, including the president, thaws and Mr. C. Bernard Brown

Burnham. unanimously who offer themselves for re-adopted the following resolution, proposed by Mr. F. H. Brown (the election.

Times of India), seconded by Mr.i T. S. Townend (the Argus Mel- bourne):-

British Traders Insurance Co., Ltd.

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In connection with the new We are to have another Reping- ton Diary. Colonel Repington is to gift to the nation of soother big follow up his War Diary with a slice of Meredith country Pesce Diary. Under the title of Box Hill, a correspondent in a After the War," the diarist gives Homo paper recalls an interest- An Engineer--Personally, I a detailed account of his journeysing episode in the revision of the

What M. Zola

to the various capitals of Western great novelist's tripping and danc- says about the courts is pro-Europe, and of his attendance ating lines, оп

Love in the Valley. Those who have some the Washington Conference, The Magistrate. I prefer and with that vivid picturesque-have noted that distinct and care- of the verses in their memory may bim when be" talks about the ness that made his former "This meeting views with an.

volumes so readable, he touches fol references are made to the The report of the above Com-xiety the continued lack of ade-i

An example of M. France's off the persons and policies of the scenery of the district. The poem pany, for presentation to the quate telegraphic communications sbarebolders at the fifty-sixth within the Empire, and records more benignant moods is to be political leaders of the post-war having been published originally ordinary meeting, to be held at on behalf of the newspaper Press found in the beautiful little essay period. Messrs. Constable are in 1851-sixteen years before its author moved to Flint Cottage- the Company's offices, at 12.30 of the Empire its deep concern at on Paul Verlaine, who also figures publishing "After the War."

these references give the revised on Friday, 12th May, states

edition a whiff of originality. In the prolonged delay in securing in his novel "Le Lys Rouge."

A book, published by Messrs. all editions issued after 1878 the 1920 Acrount. After payment the full advantages of inter-Faith that is naive is always

pardoned by this terrible sceptic, John Lane, that will appeal to all rewritten form is adhered to of the interim dividend of 9- per Imperial wireless telegraphy.

Futher it understands that who writes with such joy of Londoners, is "The Churches of throughout. Some of the descrip sbere and the bonus of 20 to contributors passed at the last the Post Office scheme does not marionette show at which he saw the City of London," by Herbert tire lices cover the actual site!

mystery play by the Saxon 30 a

we sdtory of the 56 city churches, and Trust.

contains 53 original drawings, by the author, of famous towers and steeples.

balance of £163,949. 1. 1. The Board recommends that this eam be appropriated as follows

A final dividend to

shareholders of 8/-

per share on 96,000 shares

...

To be carried forward

to Underwriting

Suspense Account

toclosethe account

Hratswitha. And sometimes, as Dominions overseas, and presses his Majesty's Government as in the essay "Why are matter of urgent importance im-he Beerus even to regret the shipwreck of faith. Irony, one mediately to carry out or sup- port such a scheme for establish-may say, cannot suffice for this fing an Imperial wireless chain asster of it. 38,400.0.0 wilt obtain general approval throughout the Empire.

When the newly-elected Lon- don County Council meets it will assemble in very different cir- M. Pierre Benoit's novel, "L'cumstances from the first meet- Atlantide, which has been the ing of that body, 33 years ago. It A book that is being looked subject of a remarkable film, bas met then (writes one who was forward to with more than usual already bad a sale in France of present) in the old board room of interest is the "Memoirs of the 270,000 copies. ठEnglish the Metropolitan Board of Works, absorbing about £25,000, and that ex-Crown Prince of Germany" translation of the book, under the which it succeeded, but the for the year 1920... 125,549.1.1 the remainder be carried forward. (written during his exile in title of The Queen of Atlantis," chamber was entirely inadequate Directors. In accordance with Holland), which Mr. Thornton is to be published by Messrs. to accommodate the largely-in- £163,949.1.1 Clause 79 of the Article of Asso- Butterworth is about to publish. Hutchinson.

creased number of members, who ciation The Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang The book is said to contain a

had to stand in groups, as there 1921 Account.-The balance of and Mr. J. A. Plummer retire, very outspoken history of the

A new novel by Gertrude was not sitting room. The Cor re-prince's life, and gives a vivid, Working Account on the 31st. but offer themselves for

Atherton, entitled "Dormant poration of London generously: first-hand picture of the Court, Pires" is announced for early came to the rescue by allowing December, 1921, was £343,972. 19. election. 1. The Board recommends that an Auditors-Messrs, Lowe, Bing-political and military life

the last 30 publication by Mr. John Mar- the council to meet in the Guild- interim dividend of 9/- per share ham & Matthews, and Mr. C. Germany during be paid to shareholdere, absorbing! Bernard Brown, Chartered Ac-years. It is also stated that the ray. The scene of the story is set hall until proper accommodation. be provided at Spring £43,200 and that a bonus of 20 countants, retire, but offer transparent sincerity and earnes- for the most part in San Francisco could

asse of the ex-Crown Prince give of the 'sixties. per cent, be paid to contributore, themselves for re-election.

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