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CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.
Notice to Shareholders.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Tuesday
WOMAN'S TERRIBLE
DEATH
•
Buried Alive In Well By Fall Of Mud
Social Items
and
The following forthcoming wel.. Mr. Robert dings are autounced: Frosch, chemist,
Miss Ema Margarete Seidel, residing at the Kowloon Hotel; Mr. Ng Cheong- ling, engineer, and Miss Phyllis Nyuk Fung-ing. residing at the Y.W.C.A., Bonham
Rond: Mr. Yu Man-lit, broker, and Miss Cheung Shut-chun, of 39 Hollywood Road, Hongkong.
❤
A Parents-Tenchers' Meeting will
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN for 3 days propaid
that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above-
A woman earth coolie was buried TUITION GIVEN.
named Company will be held live by mud in a deep well on a
In Hillwood Road, be held on Thursday at 5.10 p.m. ni Head Office. St. George's building site
The mishap the Central British School. "DANCING IN HOURS"-Rupid the
"A Building, Victoria, Hong Kong, Kowloon, yesterday. Beginners - Easy Lessons.
Advanced Courses.
the lot were having tiffin and the Speciality." Modern Dallroom Tangu, Top. Ex-immediately following the Ordin-occurred while the coolles employed pert Tuition. Apply Tany's Dancery Yearly Meeting of the Com-woman was passing the mouth of the Studio, China Building, 9th Floor,pany to take place on Wednesday, well, which was 60 feet deep.
12-A. MUSIC LESSONS given by musie acudemy graduated European teachers, for violin, ulher string- Instruments, plano, planoaccordion, also musle theory and instrumenta- tion, from first January. Box No. 507, "Hongkong Telegraph."
ITALIAN VISITOR New Commander-in-Chief On Way to Shanghai
The Duc di Cirella, Dur Gactano Catalano Gonzaga, new Commander- in-Chief of the Italian naval forces in the Far East, arrived yesterday morning from Shanghul aboard the
Colleoni cruiser Bartolumco Singapore, on his way to Sharyhal.
from
the 1st day of December, 1938. nt Naon, when the subjoined Resolution will be proposed as an Ordinary Resolution, viz :--
"That the Authorised Capital of the Company be increased to Fifteen Million Dollars by the creation of One Million New Shares of the nominal value of $5 each and that such New Shares be issued at such time vr times and on such terms and conditions as the Directors in their absolute discretion shall see it."
Order
By Directors,
Among the passengers who arrived to Shenghal in the Chitral, was Lady Stuart who has gone on a long visit to her son, Mr. R. L. Stuart. Bar- rister-at-Law, of 1931 Rue Lafayette, Lady Stuart is the wife of Sir Louin Stuart of London, honorary secretary of the Indian Empire Society and Falltor of The Indian Empire Review. Sir Lails Stuart was formerly a judge
As the possed the woman slipped and fell to the bottom of the wee several feet of water, which broke her fall. She was not killed but when her colleagues rushed to the mouth of the well, which was sur rounded by mounds of soft mud tuken from the well, their ecorts at rescue
of the Allahabad High Court, and started a land slide and in a few inter Chief Judge of the Oudh Chlef minutes, tons of the mud had fallen
Court at Lucknow. into the pit.
WOMAN KILLED
Several coolies only narrowly miss- ed being swept down with the moving mud, and when they looked again the woman could not be seen. An attempt was immediately made to extricate her but it was soon realised that the task was hopeless, as the narrowness of the pit allowed only of the Board of one man to work at a me und 11 was estimated that the woman was cover- ed by several feet of mud, NOEL BRAGA,
An attempt to recover Secretary.
will be made to-day,
the body
Salutes were fired to the country. CHINA LIGHT AND POWER to the fat where a man and a woman the Commodore, and the Consul Gen- eral in Hongkong and, later in the afternoon, when H.MS.
rived, to II.E.
Kent ar Admiral Sir Percy Noble. Blackhead Fort repiled to the salute to the country, and H.M.S. Tamar for the Commodore.
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE
THE TWENTIETH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHARE- from an ancient Neapolitan family.OLDERS will be held at the
The Duc di Cirella has the rank of Capitan di Vascello, and comes
He called on the Italian Consul Gen- eral, Marquise G. 1. di Melite, and the Marguse later visited the war-
ship.
To-day, Duc di Cireilu pays calls un H.E. Die Governor, the Comman- der-in-Chief and the General Officer Commanding. The aides-de-camp of the Governor and the G.O.C. will return the enlla on board, while Ad- miral Sir Percy Noble will call per- sonally at 11.45 m.
The Bartolomeo Colleoni replaces the Montecuccoli, which left Shang- hai about a month ago and returned to home waters,
bullt at Was The new flagship Ansaldo, Genon, between 1928 and 1931. She is of the Condotieri class,
has a tonnage of 5,089, and a speed
of 37 knots.
The Italian ship sails for Shang- li to-morrow morning.
U.S. COMMODITY
PRICES
LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS
New York, Dec. 19. New York Colton
Opening 0.22/22
Closing
Jan. (1039)
8.29/30
-Mur. (1930)
0.10/10
8.27/27
May (1930)
B.01/01
8.07/10
July (1930)
7,72/72
7.80/02
Det. (1039)
7.44/44
Dec. (1930)
7.48/48
Spot
7.55/55 7,50N 8.72Nom,
Dezember
Mar. (1939)
May
18.55/24 16.10/20
September
October
New York Rubber
Sales for the day:3,010
Chicago Wheat
Hend Office of the Company, St. George's Building. Chater Road, Victoria, Hong Kong, on WEDNES- DAY, 21st December, 1938, at 12 |o'clock (Noon), for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the financial year ended 30th electing September, 1938. Directors and Auditors,
THE TRANSFER BOOKS ANI REGISTER OF SHAREHOLDERS will be cloned from Friday, 25th November, 1938, to Wednesday. 21st December, 1938, both days inclusive.
und
By Order of the Board Directors,
of
NOËL BRAGA,
Secretary, Hongkong, 8th November, 1938.
DISHONEST COOLIE
Brass and Wiring Taken
From Building
Lau Choi-nam, 32, P. W. D. coolte, appeared before Mr. T. J. Houston
The scene of the mishop is adjacent
were buried in a fall of earth aix months ago.
HAWKER'S GOOD WORK
a woman, was
Kwan Fook, 80 knocked by a motor car near the Western Market yesterday, and died in the Queen Mary Hospital.
The car, it is understood, swerved to nvold colliding with the woman, the road, but who had run across crashed into pillar, hilting the woman with the rear mudguard.
WANCHAI BROTHELS Summons Follow Raids
By the Police
Ralfs by the Police un brothels in the Wanchol district resulted in the
before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy yesterday.
Chases Man Who Snatched appearance of a number of people
Woman's Earrings
Leaving his goods in the street unattended, an unlicensed hawker,
as a good citizen when he saw an Chak Kan, thought only of his duty earring natcher making his escape In Pho Street, Kowloon, on Satur- Chak day. For effecting an arrest, was granted $1 from the Poor Box. when he appeared before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis tracy yesterday as witness in the Atching case.
The thief. Tang Chi, 22, admitted [months' hard labour and 12 strokes the charge and was sentenced to ex of the cane. He snatched a pair of gold earrings from a woman, and it was said that some force must have been used as the hooks of the ear- rings were left in the woman's ears. An additional charge of having returned from life banishment was preferred ngainst Tang, and on this count he was sentenced to a further six months' imprisonment.
In granting e dollar to Chak, Mr. Mucfadyen told him not to hawk without a licence.
Prison and Caning
Arrested on Saturday for having matched a handbag containing money and other articles from
woman
walking in Waterloo Road, a man
named Chan Tang, 23, appeared be- fore Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kow- loon Magistracy yesterday, and was three months' hard sentenced to labour and eight strokes of the cane.
brass ITALIAN DECORATION
at the Central Magistracy yester- day on four counts, larceny of a plece of electric wire, of two
brasj window bolts, two further window bolts, and four brass window 16.42N 16.33/35 hinges. He was also charged with 13.30/31 illegal pawning of a saw, the pro- 16.30/31perty of the Public Works Depart- 10.30/30
ment. The thefts were committed at the Fire Brigade bullding.
tons.
84 /031, December May
00%/063% 0054/66%
0014/06 July 08/00
Saturday's Sales: 0,461,000 bushels,
Chicago Corn
December
May July
December
May July
52%/32
53 153
Winniper Wheat
61%/01 017/0134
Mr. E. Cock to Receive Recognition of Service
A 42-year-old widow, Ho Sam-ku, was fined $50 or two monthis hard labour when she pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping a brothel at No. 18
Swatow Lane.
Another case, against Lat Fung- shi, 30, married woman, described is another the principal tenant of brothel in Swatow Lane, who was charged with knowingly permitting the place to be kept as a brothel, was adjourned for 24 hours for further witnesses to be called. After the house had been raided by the pollee,
women,
was Wits
Lal, with five other taken
to the Station, and identified the next day by the rent collector as the person who paid the rent..
21
Chan Siu-hung. 18, and Chan Lai- ying 17, charged with keeping No. 84 Jaffe Street, third floor, as brothel, were convicted and caution- ed. Mr. Forrest remarked that it ap. peared to be a technical offence.
was
Sub-Inspector R. McEwan snid the place was known to the police as a visited "one-girl house." and once or twice a month. In this case, the two defendants were the tenants, and they paid the rent of the pre mises between them.
There were two European scamen from a ship in port in the place when it was visited by the police.
LOCAL HORTICULTURE Society's Annual Meeting Re-Elects President
December 20, 1938.
The annual meeting of the Hong- kong Horticultural Society was held yesterday in the boardroom of Messrs.
Mr. E. Cock, head of the Hong-Jardine, Matheson and Co., when it kong and Whampoa Dock Company, is to receive the decoration of Com- of the Crown of Italy. was mendatore It was said that defendant seen on the third floor of the build-Mr. Cock is due back from furlough ing by one of the "boys" there, who about the end of the year, and short- chased the man, and when he was ly afterwards he will receive his de- arrested the hinges were found on corntion at the hands of the Italian Consul General, Marquess G. P. di
were
The other thefts his person. traced, an defendant's own #dimis- sfon.
Melito.
50/50
A month's hard labour was Im- 52%/82% 33%/8371 posed on each charge, the sentences vices, through the Whampoa Dock
to run concurrently.
was announced that the date of the annual show of flowers and veget- ables had been changed from that published recently.
Northcote presided, Lady
and others present were Lt.-Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, Mr. J. P. Robinson, Mr. G, G. N. Tinson, Mr. V. H. C. Jarrett, Mr. J. F. Grose, Mr. Andrew Tse (members of Committee), Mrs. J. Scott Harston, Mrs. R. Pestonji, Miss M. Loureiro, and Mr. M. P. Talati.
It is understood that the honour bestowed by the Italian Government Is in recognition of Mr. Cock's ser-
The annual report (already pub Company.
In refloating the Conte lished) and accounts were adopted, Took Sweets and Cakes
Verde after the liner grounded out and it was announced that Lady side Lyeemun Pass in the typhoon Northcote, who was duly re-elected, 30/594
For theft of eight jars of sweets of September 2 last year,
had idindly consented to remain the 01/01% and cakes from kitchen of the La
President of the Society for the The ship was aground for several ensuing year. The Committee for 0176/02 Salle College, Kowloon, on Saturday,
Lui Sau-lin, 33, was sentenced to days, and at one time it was thought the coming year was also elected, suffer the fate of the and consists of Mrs. F. C. Hall, L.- three months' hard labour by Mr. E.she might Himsworth at the Kowloon Mugis-Asama Maru which was stranded for Col. Dewbiggin, Mr. F. Flippance, tracy yesterday. He had a previous montha Salvage work was success.
Mr. Grose, Dr. G. A. C. Herklots, ful, however, and the ship was re-
Mr. Hp Kom-tong, Mrs. R. E. Hoare, paired at the, Whampoa Docks, re suming her. schedule soon after Mr, Jarrett, Mr. M. W. Lo, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Tinson, Mr. J. T. Bagram (Hon. Secretary), and Mr. Tro (Hon. Treasurer).
."THE THREE BEARS"
Owing to the demand for tickets for the pantomime The Three Bears" at the Helena May Institute, an ad- ditional performance will be given on Thursday at 5.30 p.m.
ONLY
5
SHOPPING DAYS
TO
conviction..
THEFTS
REPORTED
The loss of $170 in money from his room at the Tal Law boarding house, Connaught Road Central, has been reported to the police by Sit Ching- sin, visitor!
Mr. J. S. Flegg reports that 14 hardwood ralis, valued at $50, have been stolen from the Tytam catch- waters,
wards.
Sir Robert Ho Tung is hitherto the only Hongkong resident holding this Italian decoration.
IN AID OF ORPHANS
Entertainment Given At French Convent In all of orphans at the French Club presented a play, "The Two
Mr. J. D. Dickson of Connaught Road Central, reports to the police that on Sunday some one broke into his residence and stole clothing. to Convent, the St. Paul's Recreation the value of $15.
HAWAHAN PRINCESSES
It was announced that it had been found more convenient to hold the forthcoming annual show on Thurs. day and Friday, March 0 and 10, and these dates were approved by the meeting.
YANGTSE QUESTION May be Prejudiced By Pearl River Opening
Canton, Dec. 19.
Mothers," at the Anglo-French School on Saturday and yesterday. The school hall was packed on both occa-
It appears that the Pearl River The audience was also entertained will be closed to foreign shipping The
by the kindergarten boys and girls until the Yangtse question is settled. Princesses Lilfolan! (Mrs.
who opened the programme with a The Japanese Consul-Ceneral, in- Clark Lee) und Proqualani, of dance, followed with a French song,terviewed by Reuter, stated that the Ilawall, who came to the Colony about a month ago, left for Shang-Mc Sabots," by Miss M. Vanden Fear River was not an important Isaur by liself, but should traffic be
Braecken.
XMAS GIFTS
P
AT
SENNET
FRERES
R
ECORD
WATERPROOF
WATCHES
With
STAINLESS
STEEL
BRACELET
$7500
each.
SENNET FRERES
hal on the Conte Blancamano, They Misses G. Litton, P. Chan, E. Latton, restored it would prejudice the Open up to 6 p.m. were accompanied by Mr. Clark Lec. R. Ching, E. Yuen and M. Tantoco Japanese care regarding the Yangtze of the American Associated Pave Hems between acts. The cast The now Hwangtung Provincial
It is understood that they are going for the play consisted of E, Julebin, Government will be inaugurated at M. Azzolini, C. Yolle, Sandra Monti, CHRISTMAS to Japan after Christmas.
Miss Edna A. Goo, of Hawail, Mr. D. Pearce, P. Hollands, V. Gardener, W. E. Peterson, and other friends 3. Abbas, M. Large, N. Cook, L.
Nolasco and B. Wright. went to see them off.
a.m. to-morrow with Mr. Pang
·as · Chairman. He will Tung-yuen also act as Mayor for the time being. -----Reuter..
Saturday included.
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