Entertainment.
THEATRE ROYAL, CITY HALL,
HONGKONG.
To-morrow Evening, (SATURDAY), January 4th, 1879.
B. VERNON begs to announce that he
·M B..
will take his
FAREWELL BENEFIT,
Notices of Firms..
NOTICE.
admitted a Partner from This Date
THE CHINA MAIL.
To-day's Advertisements,
NOT 10R
MEE INTEREST and RESPONSIBILITY of HAVE This Day ESTABLISHED myself as
I TME-WALTER SCOTT FITZ, in our
& COMMISSION MERCHANT, &, Firm in Hongkong and China, CEASED on No. 2, Queen's Road, under the Style of the 31st December last..
"J. G. SMITH & Ox"
J. GRANT SMITH. Hongkong, January 1, 1879.
U. 8, MAIL LINE,
PACIFKO MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
Mr CHARLES VINCENT SMITH L
RUSSELL & Co. Hongkong, January 1, 1879.
NOTICE.
PACIFTO MAIL STEAMSHIP Co.
jpl
TR. J. J. HOWARD is hereby autho
THROUGH TO NEW YORK, VIA
· PASSENGERS, DEPLETED,
Per Gacist, for Yokohama, Mr Chun Lo and daughter; for San Francisco, Messrs Francis Turner, A. Cristy, Robt. Baird, Capt. 0. H. Nelson, and 308 Chiness.
Por Kwangtung, for Swatow, Mr Herton, Per Pekin, for Shanghai, Sir William Robinson, Mr Piotrowaki, and 10 Chinese. Per Atalanta, for Hoihow, 1 £uropean, and 32 Chiasse; for Haiphong, 12 Chinone,
Per America, for Haiphong, 4 Deok.
TO DEFART.
MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. Shipping. Noon-English Mall loaves for Porta
of Call and Europe.
2 p.m.—Diamants leaves for Amoy.
Amusement,
Opera Bouffe at the City Hall.
Per Teheran, from Shanghai: for South-SUNDAY, January 6--- ampton, Mrs W. Coulbourn.-From Hong. kong: for Bouthampton, Lieut. L. F. U. Jackson, R.N., Mr G. E. Bay, and 2 Dis- tressed Seamon; for Singapore, Yong Sad
Per Dale, for Bangkok, 170 Chinese,
On the above Date, on which occasion he will Vrized to SIGN BILLS OF LADING BY OVERLAND RAILWAYS, AND TOUQUING ? Kah, Goh Clab, Sam Qish and Ab Leong.
be assisted by the
AMATEUR DRAMATIC CORPS,
Who have kludly given their valuable
norvloes..
The Performance will commence with
H. I WILLIAMS
Admirable Farce Entitled:
"10I ON PARLE FRANCAIS;"
Principal Characters by
MR. TRAEB,
the Company's Steamers.
I
RUSSELL & Co., Agente. Hongkong, January 2, 1879.
NOTICE.
AUDITOR.
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HAVE This Day ESTABLISHED myself AS A PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT and
TOOS ARNOLD. 16, Bauk Buildings,
Hongkong, January 1, 1879,
NOTICE.
fel
AT YOKOHAMA, AND SAN FRANCISCO,
THE U. 8. Mall Steamer CITY OF
TOKIO will be despatched for Bar Francisco, vis Yokohama, on THURSDAY, the 16th Instant, at Noon, taking Fassen. gers, and Freight, for Japan, the United States, and Europe,
Through Bills of Lading Issued for tran- zportation to Yokohama and other Japan Forte, to San Francisco, to Atlantio and Inland Citics of the United States via Ovar MR. RICHARD SCHÖNBERGER land Railways, to Havana, Trinidad, and MR BARNABY BELMORE, ML his Day buen admitted & Demerars, and to portals Mexico, Central and South America by the Company's and Partner in our Firm,
connecting Steamers, KRUSE & Co. Hongkong, January 1, 1879. jay
ME HOCKEY.
anisted by
M188 CLARA STANLEY,
MISS FLORENOR HOWE, MIS BERTHA DRABOER, and
DRAE GEM
MISS
AGNES
NOTICE.
HE BUSINESS hitherto Conducted
by us at this Port, CANTON and And conclade with
SHANGHAI will be CONTINUED from CHARLES DIBDIN'S CELEBRATED BALLAD This Date under the Style and Title of
VOGEL & Co.
VOGEL, HAGEDORN & Co. Hongkong, January 1, 1879.
fel
NOTICE,
"TEE
ОРБНА
WATERMAN,” Principal Characters by the AMATEUR DRAMATIC CORPS.
ROBIN (First Time)........ME TRAEB. Miss CLARA STANLEY, KISS FLORENCE HOWE,
-Miss BERTHA DRAEGER,
AND
MR. H. VERNON-
During the Evening the Band of the 74th Highlanders, by kind permission of Colonel Jago and the Officers Commanding, will be In attendance and perform some Choice Bolectione
Purchasers of Tiokota are requested to: secure their Seats early at Miessra LANE, ÜRAWFORD de Co.'s.
PRICES OF ADMISSION;
Dress Cirole or Orchestra
Stalle
Pit
TWO DOLLARS, ONE DOLLAR
Ladies unaccompanied by Gentlemen
cannot be admitted.
Hongkong, January 3, 1879.
Not Responsible for Debts.
HAVE This Day Fetablished myself at this Port and at CANTON as MER CHANT and COMMISSION AGENT under the Firm or Style.of PUSTAU
Oo..
T. I. E. VON PUSTAU. Hongkong, January 1, 1879,
NOTIOR
fol
BE INTEREST and RESPONSIBILITY of INTRO BENEGRE 10 our Fiem CEASED OD 31st December, 1878:
CARLOWITZ & Co. Canton, Hongkong January 1, 1878.
and Shanghai,
NOTICE.
fel
E have Established a BRANCH of
Wur Firm at SHANGHAI
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ja
Noth
Veither the Captain, the Agents, nor Owners will be Responsible for any Debt contracted by the Officers or Crew of the fallowing Fesesla, during their stay in Hongkong Harbour-
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FONTENAYE, British ship, Capt. Geo. B. Taylor-Arnhold, Karberg & Co.
COMMISSARY, British ship, Captain A. Morison, Meyer & Co.
FANNY French barque, Captain E, M, Gouyo. Landatein & Co.
NAPIER, British barque, Capt. W. L. Bryar.Messageries Maritimes,
Tiwax, German barque, Captain O. Jes- Ben.Arnhold, Karberg & Co.
ANNIE S. HAZL, American barque, Capt. Obs. FL. Nelson,~Captain.
8. R. BEARGE, American barque, Capt. A. E. Oskon.—Russoll & Co.
PHAETON, British barque, Captain. H. Boheel.Wieler & Co.
CINGALEE, British barque, Captain John Le Couter-Jardine, latheson & Co.
PRINCE ANTHUR, British barque, Capt.
R. Wils.Chinese,
KVIK, Norwegian barque, Captain Ole Larson. Meyer & Co.
>
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co. Hongkong, December 81, 1878, Ja81
NOTICE.
Have This Day RESUMED my BUSI
NESS as MARINE SURVEYOR at this Port.
R. H. CAIRNS,' Surveyor to Local Insurance Offices and Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Olub Chambers,
Hongkong, December 21, 1878.
NOTICE,
fel
HAVE This Day established myself as GENERAL and SHARE BROKER.
CARL DENEKE,
Office, Bank Buildings,
Hongkong, December 3, 1878.
To-day's Advertisements.
FOR AMOY.. The Steamship
** DIAMANTE," Captain TREBAVD, will be de- TO-MORROW, the 4th Instant, at 2 p.m. spatched for the above Port
For Freight or Passage, apply to
MAID OF JUDAH, British barque, Capton Alfred W. Webb.-Rezario &.06.
DAVINA, British barque, Captain Geo. Scott-Arnbold, Katberg & Co.
LAUREL, British barque, Captain W, A. Johnson.-Glob, Livingston & Co.
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE
HE Undersigned being about to Close his Firm at Swatow, hereby notifies that all DEBTS and CLAIMS due to or by him, he will Collect and Pay.
The Intefest and Good will of bfs Business has been transferred to Mesara DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co,
E. VINCENT.
Hongkong, November 30, 1878.
NOTICE.
TUTION is hereby given, that Messre DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co. have This Day Established a BRANCH of their Firm di Swa's, and have authorized Mr G. D. Pitmax to Sigu per Procuration.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co. Hongkong, Novomber 80, 1878.
NOTIOR.
RUSSELL & Co. Hongkong, January 3, 1879.
FOR MANILA,
The Steamship
jad
"BUTUAN," Captain TREMOTA, will be de- WEDNESDAY, the 8th Inst., at 4 p.m. spatched for the above Port
For Freight or Passage, apply to
RUSSELL & Co. Hongkong, January 3, 1879,
Through Passage Tlokets granted to Englund, France, and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines of Stoamers.
On Through PASSAGES to EUROPE, 6 REDUCTION OF TWENTY PER VENT from Regular Rates is granted to OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY, AND MEMBERS OF THE CIVIL AND CONSULAR SERVICES IN COMMIS- SION.
Freight will be received on board until 4 p.m., of 15th Inatant. Parcel Packages will be received at the office until & p.m. same day i all Farcel Packages should be marked to address in full; value of same is required.
Consular Invoices to accompany Overland Cargo should be sent to the Company's Offices in Sealed Envelopes, addressed to the Collector of Customs at San Francisco.
SHIPPING REPORTS, The British steamer Killarney reports: Very bad weather for the last three days.
The British steamer Diamants reports: Strong N.E. monsoon aud-fine weather throughout.
The British barque Laurel reports: First part of passage light variable winds and calms, which lasted until the 25th, whon in lat. 19 N., long. 118 E., experi onced a heavy gale from N.NE. which lasted until the 27th, also a second gale which lasted from the 29th to the Slat with a strong S.W. current, from that date until arrival had strong winds and cull cloudy weather.
The British steamer Bowen reports: Experienced light variable winds to Cape Jacki, from thenes to Singapore strong head winds and aqually weather. Singa pore to 4 North light winds, 4 North to Paracels hard Northerly gale and heavy Bea, thence to port fresti N.L. monaosa,
CARGO.
Por S. 8. Teheran, for London, 4,181 balf- cheats and 16,668 boxes Tea, 45 cases Silk Piece Goods, 398 bales Silk, 190 bales Waste Silk, 242 bales Funjum, and 639 page. Sundries. For Continent, 497 balos silk, 47 balea Waste Silk, and 25 pkgs. Sundries. For New York, dy bales Bilk, and 83 pkgs. Sundries,
POST OFFICE NOTICES. MAILS will olose :-
For AMOY.
For further information as to Prange and Freight apply to the Agency of the Jompany, No. 8, Exaya Central.
RUSSELL & Co, Agents, Hongkong, January 3, 1870. ja16
Occidental & Oriental Steam-For
Ship Company,
pla
TAKING THROUGH CARGO AND PASSENGERS FOR THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE,
IN ***** ORION
CENTRAL and
WITH TH
UNION PACIFIO AND CONNECTING RAILROAD COMPANIES
AND
ATLANTIO STEAMERS,
(HE 8. 8. OCEANIO will be despatch- THE 88 San Francisco via Yokohams, on TUESDAY, the 4th Fobruary, 1870, at 3, taking Oarge and Fassongers for Japan, the United States and Europe.
Connection is made at Yokohama, with Steamers from Shanghal.
PARCEL
Fraight will be received on Board unti) p.m. of the 3rd February. PACKAGES will be received at the Office until 5 pm. same day: all Parcel Packages should be marked to address in full; value
of same is required.
A REDVORION la made on Rezwen Par- BAGS TICKETS.
For further information as to Freight > Passage, apply to the Agency of the Company, No. 87, Queen's Road Central
G. B, EMORY, Agent. Hongkong, January 3, 1879.
SHIPPING.
ARRIVALS.
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Jan. 3, City of Tokio, American steamer, 6079, Maury, San Francisco Dec. 3, and 18 Yokohama 28, Tressure ($385,837.18), pkga. Malls, 36,184 pkgs. Flour, 705 pkgs. Quickeliver, 57 pkgs. Ginseng, and 3,697 pkgs. Assorted Merchandise.-P. M. S. 8. Co.
JUST RECEIVED. FROM THE AFST PARIS MANUFACTURERS,
PAPETERIE DE LUXE,
HATTE NOUVEAUTE, An Assortment of
ADIES STATIONERY
VARIOUS TINTS, Newest French and Italian SHAPES, And of the Finest Quality.
Also- COUNTING HOUSE STATIONERY, Compricing! Commercial Letter and Note Paper. Samples and List of Prices can be obtain ed from
ED, CHASTELİ, Queen's Road Central, Opposite the Clock Tower,
ja10 Hongkong, January 8, 1879. COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. CONSIGNED of the following Carge are requested to send in their "Wills of fa futereat and Responsibility of the Lading to the Undersigned for counter. signed in the Chinese Mail damstore, and take immediate delivery. War The Yat Po), This Gaggo has been lauded and stored at OBASED from the 1st Auglist, 1877, but their risk and expense.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Doben prior to that Date will he reseired and paid by him,
CHUN AYIN.
Hongkong, April 6, 1878
NOTICE
L HENNEQUIN dolg. Agent Ex “fraouaddy” 610 (in diamond) ♬ A (underneath) No.-
830, Mr Outman, 1 caso Shirta, "from London.
IN Exference is the above hinese fati 4085/63, 4163/72, Menderes (b) No
igned has LEASED the
from the 1st August, 1877, and has engaged
the servios of Mr zone Yook Caus,
Jan. 9, Bowen, British steamer, 1500, Miller, Bydney Nov. 30, via Queensland Forts and Singapore Dec. 25, General, Gms, LIVINGSTON & Co.
Jan, B, Killarney, British steamer, 1060, B. O'Neill, Port Darwin Deo. 22, General, -GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.
Jan. B, Diamants, British steamer, 514, E. Thebaud, Manila Dec. 81, General.-. RUSSELL & Co.
Jan. 3, Laurel, British barque, 688, W. 8. O. Johnaɔn, Iloilo Deo. 16, Ballast. --- GIDE, LAVINGSTON & Co.
DEPARTURES,
Jan. 3, Atalants, for Balphong.
8, Kwangtung, for Coast Ports.
a, Annie 8. Hall, for Nagasaki.
8, Friedrich, for Touron."
8, Pekin, for Shangbai
3, America, for Haiphong.
3, Tonquin, for Haiphong.
B, Cho on, Chinees R.C., for a cruise.
CLEARED,
Aristide, for Cape St. James." Arraios, for Whamphe, Wilhelm Rameyer, for Touron. Amy Turner, for New York, Damante, for Amoy.
Florence Nightingale, for Whampoa. Friederich, for south Sea Islandi. Dale, for Bangkok.
PASSENGERS. ARRIVED,
Per Diamante, at 1.80 p.m. To-morrow, the 4th inst., instead of or previously notifed...
AMOY, TAMSUI, AND TAIWAN Per Taiwan, at 6 p.m., on Saturday, the
4th inst,
For MANILA, --
Per H.C.M.S.S. Patino, at 9 am, on
Sunday, the 5th inst.
For SAIGON.--
Per Clive, at 9 a.m., on Sunday, the 6th inst., instead of as previously noti fed.
For BOIBOW and PAKBOL.—
Per B.M.B. Mosquito, at 6 pm, on
Monday, the 6th inst,
For SWATOW, AMOY, & FOOCHOW.-
No. 4895,-JANUARY 3, 1870..
proper that the grants should be large in proportion to the work accomplished."
The Rev. A. B. Hutchinson appeared to be even more delighted with the Grant-in-aid scheme than Mr Hennessy. "If the hundred and fifty pupils now before you," said the reverend gentleman triumphantly to His Excellency, "you eee the fruits of the last six years' Grant- in-aid scheme," No lend than one General Memoranda. hundred and sixty scholars were put forward by Mr Hutchinson for examina- Daylight.-Taiwan leaves for Amoy, &c. tion by the Government Inspector, and Manila II leaves for San Francisco on as there appears to have been only three
or about this date.
failures, a handsome sum will buye been MONDAY, January 6:—
drawn by the school from the Govern 3p.m.--Sale of Household Furniture, dro.,ment. It should be borne in mind that at the Hon. J. M. Price's residence, the whole of the scholars in the school Caine Road.
are Chinese; that no European master whatever is employed, and that the cost of impacting instruction in the school must consequently be comparatively small. Denominational instruction is of course mixed up with the education › imparted in the school, and doubtless the Reverend A. B. Hutchinson doen Alma leaves for London on or before his best to inculcate the tenets of the
this date.
Church of England at the expense, in SATURDAY, January 11:
soms instances, of Confucian teachings, Noon-French Mall leaves for Ports of The Government indirectly, but substan
Call and Europe. MONDAY, January 13:-
TUESDAY, January 7:~-
Daylight-Yesso leaves for Coast Ports, WEDNESDAY, January 8:—
2 p.m.-Sale of Schooner Nicolaus, on
Board.
4 p.m.-Butuan leaves for Manila. FRIDAY, January 10:-
3 p.m.Meeting of Shareholders of The Chinese Insurance Co., Limited, at the Head Office, Hongkong. THURSDAY, January 16:→→
Noon.-American Mail leaves for Yoko.
hama and San Francisco.
MONDAY, January 20:-
Sale of the Iron Sore Steamship Ameri- co, by Messrs. Hughes & Legge, on or about this dato,
TUESDAY, February 4;—
3p.m.-Oooldental & Oriental 8. 8. Cc.' Steamer leaves for Yokohama and Bas Franotaco.
THE
HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
Established A.D. 1841,
香港大藥房
A. 8. WATSON & Co., TAMILY & DISPENSING CHEMISTS, WHOLESALN ANd Retail DruQGISTE, IMPORTERS
Ог
Davggists' SuxDEISS, NURSERY Requi- SITER, TOILET REQUISITES, ENGLISH, ÁMBRICAN, AND FRENCH PATENT MEDICINES, MANUFACTURERS .
OF
Soda Water, Lemonade, Tonio Water, Gingerade, Potass Water, Sarsaparilla
Water, and other Aerated Waterv, į
tially, sids him in this work by granting liberal aid for the results of the secular instruction given. The Confucian rate. payere, who are in such a large majority, could not very well object to this state of affaire so long as the aid thus given is not too lavish, because the system is analogous to the one at home; and while the advisability of spreading abroad & multitude of sectarian degmas-those destroyers of human concord, and fruitful sources of enmity, divisions, and wAIN is recognised among those in authority, the Government will continue, we presume, to devote the public funds to the encouragement of denominational education. The bulk of the people in the most enlightened nations of the pre sent age, however, are looking forward X to the time when national elementary education-a recognised duty of Govern mente-shall be no longer made subser. vient to the spreading of denominational teachings a time when, in our publio – | schools, honesty, charity, and brotherly
love, shall be placed before dogmatick prejudice and the thousands of religious
nostrums,
In reckless and dishonest trading can be regarded at all in a favourable aspect, it is when it is brought to the light of day. This may seem paradoxical, but it must be borne in mind that when such mad awindling as that revealed by the Glas gow Bank frauds is being carried on quietly and unseen, its damaging effech upon honest legitimate trade is then the greatest. With the crash of the rotted Banking institutions at home, number. lese houses with a similar reputation have collapsed like exposed mummies, and although sympathy is well placed The publication of this issue commenced when we learn with pleasure that the at 8.20 p.m.
Per Yesio, at 5 p.m., on Monday, the The Manufactory is under direct and
6th inst.
MAILS BY THE BRITISH PACKED.*** The British Contract Packet Teheran
will be despatched on SATURDAY, the 4th January, with Maila to and through the United Kingdom and Europe vid Brindisi or Southampton; to the Straits Settlements, Batavia, Burmah, Ceylon, Indis, Ader, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar. N.B.-This Packet carries no mails for the dustralian Colonies, E. or S. Africa,
nor for Mauritius.
continuous Buropean Supervision, Bongkong, June 1, 1876.
MARRIAGE.
At the Cathedral, Shanghal, 24th De. cember, by the Very Rev. Dean Butcher, JOHN COMPTON, Consular Constable, Wen- show, to HANNAH AVA, widow of the late William James Shaw, Consular Constable, H.M.'s Gaol, Shanghal.
The following will be the hours of closing=
the Mails, do. :---
Day before departure,—
5.M.-Money Order Office closos; Post Office closes except the NiGHT Box, which remains open all night. Day of departure, --
7A..Feat Office opens.
10 ..-Regletsy of Letters conses. Posting of all printed matter and pattorna cesses.
THE CHINA MAIL.
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JAN. 3, 1879.
Glasgow Bank Relief Fund had reached a quarter of a million sterling, it is but reasonable now to go further and draw the assuring inference that good in this case must come out of evil. Legitimate and honest trade will now have a chance of securing those remunerative returns, which, while such unsound and unheal- thy firms daunted in broad daylight, wore next to impossible. A glance at A the system upon which the unhappy merchants and bankers have lately play- ed and lost will at once show that the game in which they were engaged was an different from fair commerce as piracy Tay speech delivered by Mr Hennessy is from honest freight traffe; and hence yesterday, on the occasion of the distri- the reaction that must follow is all the bition of prizes at St. Stephen's Church more holy to be healthy and beneficial, Schools, was the most satisfactory one inasmuch as the panic was brought His Excellency bus yet delivered about, not by a universal infringement on the Education Question. There is of the laws of supply and démand, but not one remark in the course of the whole by a pernicious local attempt to reverse speech to which any objection need be the maxim that "honesty is the bEND The list of names-Smith, taken, while it is extremely gratifying to policy." find that His Excellency holds the opi- Fleming & Co., Nicol & Co., James bion that "the grants (under the Grant Morton & Co., Buchanan & Co., and jain-aid scheme) are large in proportion to Heugh, Balfour & Co.-will serve as a the work accomplished." If the pamph- warning that, however brilliant auch a let: "Can the Central School justify its career as theirs may be outwardly, it is MAILS BY THE FRENCH PACKET,— The French Contract Packet Sindhill raison d'etre" represents the views of but short-lived and certain to turn out a be despatched on SATURDAY, the the head of a religious denomination in most abject failure in every sense, 11th January, with Mails to and the Colony who has withdrawn his The three firms last named exhibit through the United Kingdom and schools from under the Grant-in-aid ays liabilities of nearly five millions sterling, Europe, vid Naples; to Salgon, Stra to tem, then His Excellency is not likely with a few hundred thousands of assets: Settlements, Batavia, Burmah, Cylon, to find his ideas in regard to local educa and Buchanan & Co., with £7000 assets, Pondicherry, Madras Calcutta, Bemotional matters agres on all points with show & bay, Aden, Suez, and Alexandria.
11AM-Mails closed, except for Late
Lettera.
11.10 ▲.M.—Letters may be posted with
LATE Fax of 18 cente until 11.30 ..when the Post Office Ozones
entirely.
11.40 Late Letters may be posted on board the packet with Late Fea of 18 cents until time of departure. Hongkong, December 30, 1878.
The following will be the hours of closing those of the ecclesiastical dignitary in question. One of the objections urged by the author of the pamphlet referred
the Mails, 0. 1-
Day before departure,—
5 FM-Money Order Office closes Post Office closes except the Nians Box, which remains open all night, Day of departure, -- -
7.M.-Post Office opens. 10-Hegistry of Letters cases. Posting of all printed matier and patterns ceases,
11. K.-Mails atosed, except for Late
Lettera.
11.10 -Letters may be posted with
Late Fee of 18 cents antil
liability of not less than £1,300,000! With such "financing removed from the field of honest trade, there are good reasons to believe that the to against the Grant-in-aid scheme is that trade with the Baat will soon begin to "the amounts offered under the Grant feel the beats of a more vigorous life in aid system, even as recently modified, than it has hitherto had the opportunity are hardly worth accepting in them of displaying Belves," Mr Hennessy thinks, on the con- trary, that the system is "very generous" in this respect, and His Excellency in, on this point, undoubtedly right, Com- Home, the Gram in aid systems here is lian Hailu was begun at 10.85 this inorning pared with the corresponding scheme at Tar delivery of the American and Austras
11.30 AM,hen the Post Office Consrranged on a liberal basis, although it
entiraly.
may be questionable if the cost of edu
11.40 A.-Late Letters may be posted on board the packet with Late For of 18 cents until time of departure. Hongkong, December 30, 1876,
LOGAL AND GENERAL
eating Chinese children here in our voWe learn that bir Carvalho, the second luntary schools is nearly so great assistant Superintendent of the Fire Brie as the cost of educating European chil-gade, tras absent from the great fre on jalldren at Home. Sobople eligible for medital certificates
grante in-aid inclfide those in which a
MAILS BY THE UNITED STATES PACKET. Chinese education only is given, na well
The United States Mail Packet City-ofas those in which a Chinese education is THE 5. §. America left here this afternoon Tokio, will be despatched on THURS given with English in addition, the for Haiphong, having asmall steamer in tow DAY, the 16th inat,, with Malls for values of the passes in the former vary. called the Tonquin, which is intended to run Japan, San Francisco, and the United ing from five dollars to ten dollars and on the river at Halpkong, States, which will be closed as fol | in" the latter from five dollars to ten lowB
dollars and a half, according to the we understand that the annual rental of standard in which the scholar passen
Per City of Tokio, from San Francisco, 4088/03, 4153/79, Mere W. Pastan, Rev. Mr and Mrs B. V. Noyes and & Co., 11 bales Merobandite, from Rot. Mr and Mrs Ni A. McDonald and 11.15 M. Registry of Letters ceases. child, Miss M. Happet, Miisa A. Happer
London;
Translator and General Manager of the BA P 14 casks Wine and cases Sausages, bhildren, Rev, Mr. and Mrs J. McGowan 11,39 A. Post-Office closes, but Letters Certainly in no voluntary school in the houses destroyed by the Great Fire of
newspaper, which under its new régime will be found to be, as hitherto, an ex-G Dellent medium for advertising, especially
do., Mr B. A. Pereira, from London, and children, Mlas Sheppard, Miss A. (in disrond) No. 1/9, Mesare Gilmati Behoefield, Mr W. T. Schoenold, and F11
Chinese. & Co., B cases Granite, from London.
the Manager is able to devote bis abole A A A (in heart) No. 31/28/29, Morri
attention to the conduct of the Newspaper.
D KONG CHIM, Lases of the Hongkong Chiness Maik Mehpenny, April 6, 1670,
Per Bowen, from Byday, do, Mesurs
(except for Non-Union Countries) may be posted on board the Packet with Hongkong is the cost of education nearly Dec. 15 20 amounted to $120,728; which Late Fee of 18 cents extra Postage so expensive as it is in England, although would make the actual house property value, until the time of departure.
the grants are, if we are not mistaken, taken at say 12 per cent., about a million (except the Babamas and Hayti), Home. At the same time, we offer no
Turner & Co., 8 bales Merchandite, Patterson, Piotrowski, Danckley, i Euro-Correspondence for Non-Unton West Indies more than double what they are at of dollars. The buildings, however, may be
from London.
NBL No. 233/34, Mr J. Noble, 2 cases ·
Clocks, from Marcillen.
floogkong, January 9, 1879.
pest steerage and 325 Chipere,
Par Diamante, from Manila, Mr and Mrs E, Gharp, Mesars R. D. Tucker, H. Nelson, and 180 Chiness:
Monte Video, Paraguay, and Uruguay objection to His Excellency's remark reconstructed in better sondition than be can no longer be cont by this rou Hongkong, January 9, 1876,
jalg that "in such a Colopy as this is in fore for my less than half that gum,