POWELL'S BABY GRANDS
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PARIS and other facts which make for the
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Thirty-eight deportas arrived from Saigon by the 8.1. Fầu Sang on Sunday--
Owing to premura on our space we are compelled to hald over "Gardener's in foresting latter with regard to the proposed new tramway, until to-morrow, e
SADCOMPANY REPOR:
MONDAY, MAY 81, 1809
SHANGHAI HANGCHOW
The “star” Ferry Company,
of Elmited?
The "report for presentation to slinto- holders at the eleventh ordiony sumusl meating to be held on Wednoyday, in an
follo
The Directors have the pleseurs to The leasehold property known as Nubmit to shareholders their report, with's statement of soodunds, for the rear ending Horwond Road was sold by auction 30th April: 1909. by Me . P. Lammers on Saturday, to Mr Wang Hing for 330,300.
ACCOUNTI
by the most competent students that the arenge duration of human life has been doubled since the sixteenth century Within a period for which we have Ready made day and evening trustworthy records the average long- Gowns, Paris Modela inevity is shown to be extending at an Hats and Toques, Laces, increasing ratio. It was lengthened by Trimmings, Undercloth-about nine years during the last century: at present it is lengthening in Europe. ing, Boots and Shoes,
at the rate of 17 years per century, and Hosiery and Gloves, in Prussin at the rate of 27 years per etc.,
etc.,
century. Those barn have an increasing expectancy of life. This is primarily the result of sanitary and hygienic "Shortly after half-past four on Satties ́improvement, and some of the most I day Moon a native was knocked down Wrize off bosts ... 1 mon
by dialectria car near the Corinthian important fruits of this are found in a Yacht Clubs and received injuries which diminution of infant mortality. It fewer necessitated his removal to hospital. are born, the proportion of them that survive their first year is enormously increased. It is still true that vast
etc.
"BUSINESS NOTICE.
Rares of BubscUIFTION
(Payable in advance); Qawra Ma (daily) $50 per month; including postage, per month OVERLAND CHINA MAIL (weekly); $18.00:
per year including pong, 9.7.0)
per year.
Free delivery to all address accessible
by me, gar, naluding all Feak, Kowloon and Quarry Bay residences.
Single coples, Daily, ten pents; Week? thirey cants; for cash.
numbers of the children born in poverty and filth die before they have fairly atarted upon life, and this is still
A private dinner amongst the members was hold at the Lusitano Club on Saturday evening The entering was in the officiont hands of the proprietress of the "Oriental
Hocal.
The body of George Frank Stewart, the blusjacket belonging to .M.S. Cadmus, who was recently drowned at Shangbai, while attempting to get aboard the ship from sampaa, has been recovered.
RAILWAY.
OFFICIAL. OPENING..
(From Our Ou Corrspondent)
SHANGILAL, May 30
The Kiang-su section of the Chinese- built Shanghai-Fangehow line was officially opened to-day, the train to Kashing and back conveying: 100 Chinese and foreigners.
..
The nett earnings of the boats, after paying all working expenses and providing los, a loss of TV SILBT ¡on." subeldiary It is expected that through com coins, amounted to $38,543,58 as against munication to Bangchow will be 235,544,38 the previous year.
I possible in three months? The smount at credit of Profit and Losa
The lire is fairly well constructed, and scount, after paying for repairs and placing $7,480.00 to credit of Insurance find, is the opinion of experts is that it is suitable 88,121.43 which, "with the approval
for the probable trafic, and that the shareholders, it is proposed to appropriate as follow
strictures of Dr Morrison,.. the Peking Dividend of 10 par vent.... $15,000.00 correspondent of the Times,
10,000.00 Carry forward to new account
undeserved. 3.191:43
198,121.43
DIRECTORS.
of
In accordance with the Artioles of Association the Hon. Mr W. J. Grasson retires, but offers himself for re-election. Friesland resigned on leaving the colony The. Mon. Mr. H. Keswick and Mr.G, and the Hon. Mr W. J. Gresson and M
E Stellm were invited in their stead.
These appointments require confirmation.
AUDITOR.2 Me W. H. Potta hae aadited the accounts aloction.
C. P. Chator,
IS. MOUTRIE & Co.: Telegraphic Address, "Mam,' Hongkong, a counterbalance to be remembered on Saturday bound for Tacoma, abortly now presontod nad offers himself, for re-
SOLE AGENTS.
Hongkons. April 16, 1907.
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COLEMAN SISTERS.
GRAND NEW FILMS.
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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
Aong the well-to-do classes with small families the children born have a vaatly better chance of life, and it may be questioned whether the large percentage of them who reach maturity do not compensate for the fewer aggregate births. We need more exact statistics Goods per Benmohr andelivered after than the census supplies to answer
this data enbject to rent.
Miscellansons
Gooda per Sydney anclaimed after thi- date at Noon will be subject to rent and landing charges...
"General Memoranda,
WEDNESDAY, Jand
The China. Mutual Steam Navigation Co.'s stomer. Omufe, which left Hongkong afterwards put back to port, it havin boen ascertained that the steam pipe of the star. board engine had broken
Two Earopenas, pamed Martin Butz- berg and Falon Skuja, nero charged at the Magistmey, to-day, with having been stowaways on the 5.8. Tosa Maru. They were o dared to pay fines of 825 oach, or undergo one month's hard' labour.
si
auch questions with confidence, but Today is Decorations. Day with the we need not hesitate to assume that Americans. It is a national holiday in the United States. The day is set apart the restraint imposed by the reapons for decorating the graves of the 19.16 p.m. Mosting of Brar Ferryibilities of parenthood and the increasing Union soldiers who took part in the
Do., Id., at Sir Paul Cháter's Office.
Civil War. Sono of these men lie Goods per Delhi not cleared at p.m.
on this date subject to rout
buried at Happy Valley, and this morning wreathes and other fioral tributes were THESDAY, June 3-
placed on their tombs by Americaż mitörs But the most urgeat question confrontin harbour. Salutes were also fired at
care over childhood is not without its reassuring compensations as concerns
Goods per Kaschi Mars not cleared the national integrity."
on this date subject to meat.
Friday, June 4 (---
Goods per Prins Waldemar undelivered ing the United States at present is clearly
"after this date subject to rent. SATURDAY, Juno ā ̈:-
9.16 p.m.-Open Air Concert at the Craigongwoër Cricket-Clab's Grennd.
The China Mail
Howurona, Monday, May 31, 1909.
THE DWINDLING FAMILY.
Goon.
Chairman
Hongkong, 28th May, 1909. ̋
Balanon Saint, 90xx "Arres," 1909,
LIABILITIES.
To Capital-10,000
sharos $10 each fully paid up 100,000.00- To 10,000 shares @ $10 osch' 85 paid
50,000.00
To reserra fund....... To insurance fund....... To unclaimed dividends.. To account payable.. To balance of Proft and Loss...
"
A SPEEDY CRUISER.
(Router's Service to the China Mail: Copyright, prodicted under Ordinance 3° aj" 894)
LONDON, May 29. The British craiser Invincible has steamed from Queensferry in the Firth of Ferth to Spithead at 'as average speed of 28 knots."
BRITISH RAILWAY INTERESTS IN CHINA
(Besler's Bercice to the China Mail: Copyright protected under
Ordinance 3 of 1894)
LONDON, May 23.
The Shanghai correspondent of the Times states that the Chinoso continue. -$150,000.00
65,0.000 to ignore their obligations regarding 49,980.89 British interests in provincial railways.
899.00
2.169.08. The Bureau Lan publicly advertised 28,191.43
for tenders for locomitives for the #295,110.40 Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, limiting competition to German mann- facturers.
By value of boats, as per list
account mai men ...8147,000,00 By Hongkong and Shanghai. By sococats receivable ...
Banking Corporation
By Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corportion. No. 2 sccount
By
++
444
Hongkong and Kowloon -Wharf nod Godown Com-
pany Limited, loan
whether, in face of the above phenomena, Messrs. W. G. Humphreys and Co., the nation can assimilate the enormous the agents in Hongkong, of the State Fire hordes of aliens for ever pouring intelusurance Co. Ltd., send us the latest reports of this flourishing concern. The its seaports; or, to put it a little differ total premium income, after deduction of ently, whether the emigrants will not re-insurances, amounted to £187,461-0s. eventually swamp the native born, with 6d, and the combined losses, commissions
and expenses to £167,601 14s. 4d. leaving.To a surplus on the year's working of £29,859-To balance...
2., or, including interest. of £35,178
disastrous elects for the Commonwealth. From 1820 to 1008 the total number of aliens entering the United States was £2,100,937. Of course, all these people did not remain in the United States, but how many returned to their native
3. Od.
·
WEST RIVER NOTE?,
2,314.49
42,956.91
839.00
102,000,00
$295,110.40
"PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOCYE,
insurance fund
Touzlinary supsirs andalterations
sectors and sutitor's fees.
By balance from last account By pett earning of bosta
By interest.
By scrip fees
7,350.00
STORMY SCENES IN THE REICHSTAG.
(Reuter's Service to the China Maikr Copyright protected under. "Ordinance 3 of 1894.)
LONDON, May 29.
A Berlin message states that a stormy scone took place in the Finance, Com- $9,957.25mittee of the Reichstag. The minority 1,000.00 consisting of Radicals, Liberals, and 27,121.43 Socialists withdrew as a protest against the terrorisation of the majority com- roses sisting of the Conservatives and the 898.52 Centre. The latter party then passed 38,663.58 increased duties on raw coffee to the 7,683:58 extent of 60 marks per 100 kilos, roasted
$46,528,68
+43,00
By unclaimed dividenda forfeited 240.00 and ground coffee, 80 marks, and tou
100 marks:
$46,598.68
INSURANCE FUND.
(From our own Correspondent.j
NANNING, May 13th. night of the 7th inst. by a terrific thunder- To repairs to Morning Star dan
The long dry spell was broken on the
storm and for hours the rain poured in
aged in July typhoon....
FIRST TEST MÄTCH.
85.500.48 48,280,89
$54,671.37
For the Bath, Toilet and Tat United States of North America as
a nation is beginning to show alarm at lands can only he guessed at," until Household.
the continuous dwindling in the size of 1907, when record of this emigration Prometes a healthy action of the skin the American born family. Within less was kept for the first time. It is counteracts all effects of perspira-thon a hundred years the figure for all calculated, on the basis of the returns tion, and is as refreshing and invi- the population has fallen from an
for 1307-8, that about 20,000,000 aliens torrents. The rice fields have not yet To balance forwarded gorating to the system as a Turkish average of 5.8 persons to 4.6, while the remained of the 26,000,000 odd whio price still remains as high as bofore, nt however nearly enough water, and the Baib
number of children under 18 years of entered the country. The greater num-About 84.70 a picul.
By balance from last account... 847,221.37 age in what is known as a native ber of these aliens remained in the cities, One result of the storms was the collapse By proft and loss account ~7,350.000,-
of one of the new temporary barracks that American family has fallen since 1700 as is shown by a special report of the hare been erected out on the open pinin. from 2.8 to 1.5. The same phenomenon, United States Commissioner of Labour. Tiles, bamboos. rafters, mud bricks sudden. we freely admit, is observable in Eng. In the slume" of New York the foreign-ly descended on the inmates, over 39 land, France, and, to a lesser degree, in born and those of foreign parentagoner a dozes severely injured,
sleeping soldiers. One man was killed and
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DANTE Highly recommended by Germany, while what is very surprising constitute 95 per cent of the total
The Marvellous.
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The English doctor was enjoying his
$54,571.37
"ALEXANDRA CINEMATO-
ENGLAND'S FINE VICTORY.
{Reuter's Sørvice to the Chino Mail ?. Copyright protected under Ordinance-3-of-1894)
LOMON, May 30. England won the rat test match" against Australia by ten, wickets.".
After the book on Sir Robert Bart that GRAPH,
has bad such a cordial reception we are to have the imemoirs of General Sir Redram early cup of tas when he was hastily gum-Saturday night at the Alexandra Cinc- Butler, late of the King's Royal Rifle Corpe." There was capital programme on Buller set into-shape by Captain Lewis hours he was busy bandaging limba and to a crowded house. Professor Gonzale's moned to the acoza of the disaster, and for matograph and the various artistas played
The book began in a sketch of the Corps drawing wounds. That was 6 days ago rendering of 11 Travators" by Vendi by Captain Butler, who has now extended and all but one or two of the 18 who were and Impromptu Selections met with it and added three portraits of General have now been moved to a large airy tem- the violin was a great success and deserved to Lady Buller on his entry into Ladysmith. trusted are doing well. The worst cases enthuastio approval. His fica bandling of Bullar and a facsimile of the letter he wrote pla exactly opposite the Medical Mission so the hearty encoros demanded. that they may have constant supervision."
is that a similar Malthusian law is population, 91 per cent. in Philadelphia, evidently gaat keenly at work in such 90 per cent. in Chicago and, 77 per comparatively new and sparsely settled cent in Baltimore. In New York 59 Australis and New per cent, of the aliens were illiterate, 51 Zealand In New Zealand, the falling per cont. in Philadelphia, 47 per cent. off in the birth rate is very marked. in Chicago and 40 per cent. in In 1887 the average number of children Baltimore. That is to say, the more biany of the other comporary buildings. in a family was 5.31; in 1998 it had the aliens herd together the more belonging to the military department ap: fallen to 3.21. Yet ovon these figures illiterate they are; or if the fact is as per to be just as likely to fall during tho are higher than those returned by stated in the possible relation of cause next storm whenever that may be 1 Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and effect the more ignorant the alicos, of bandits in the district of Fingches. The The officials have captured a large body and Scoth Australia. The only reasear the more fervently they cling to each robbers when pursued eventually took ing reflection which comes to mind in other for protection or couneci. These shelter at night in one of the numerous
00 rate is also a steadily declining, due to stances the foreign born citizen is soldiers and as each was examined they atudying these figures is that the death figuree go to show that in many in-large caves in the neighbourhood; these | caves, word systematically searchod by the
the spread of a better knowledge of rather a bad bargain than otherwise so put a lighted lantern at the month; in the hygiene, the enforcement of sanitary fax as lus adopted country is con- last one they found the men, who fought desperately but were either killed or were lewe, and the higher standards of living cerned. The 5gures of the last overcome which the past half century hes Census also show that had the United Pose on the Yanasu frontier, situated on witnessed. This point is emphasized by States birth-rate kept up through one of the upper reaches of the West River, has been suffering from disastrous foods. the Philadelphia Ledger in the course of a the nineteenth century the ratio of the
The river here has in consequence- rison recent leading article. Our contemporary last decade of the eighteenth century, oral feet and the watot is very muddy.. says:-"It is an acknowledged and ob there would have been the present This rive to the water is cnabling B.M.8. vious fact that the tendency of civiliza population even if not a single alice had "Sandpiper to cores or to Nanning and tion, of increasing intelligence and thrift, entered the country in that time. More is to limit the propagation of children. over, the native-born would have been
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY AND KOWLOON DISPENSARY.
作
11 WEEKLY NEWS
WORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
-INSURANCE COMPANY,
|
£18,114,024*
FOR HOME
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we are expecting her now any time. !
other visitors are expected, including Mr Dorbing, of the Bible Society, who is travelling overland from Lao Chau, and
TOTAL SUMUL PORN 1907 The Overland China Mall that the higher the social development, would not have herded in the cities to Pakhot, who come by Sing Bhan.
As a brool-generalization, we they may better scattered over the country, and the Rev. W Hipvell, of the 0.28,
Authorized Cajal 28,000,000
Babiaribed Capital 22,750,000
Pald-up Capital £697,500.00
Fire Funds
3066,37€ 15 7 FULL REPORTS.
1 Life & Annuity Funds 14,816 863 10 8
Binting Food Account
Savinos. “ ra: BencionA.
Branches Binking, Fund Account
LATEST INTELLIGENOE
the emailer the average of offspring create the terrible problem now present- The largest families are found amonged by the slums.
the mont
improvident, A And in this Matry, open to the constant immi-
A BARGAIN,
During the last two years shipbuilding essoned in England by one-half, In Germany by twoithirds and in the United
45,907 5 8
€18,114,634:11 1 1,230,659 131
gration of people on a low scale of de-Wen you ca vs from 25 to 50 pur. States by a little more than two-thirds, says tant, on ang artioja,, you fave a an American Conmilar report from Bremen, 1,647,184 18 4 Order before you leave so you many moodiva velopment, his is unquestionably a dan brain. When you buy a bottle of Chat From 1892 to 1897 Edgard built pardin
borkin's Colis, Cholers and Diarrhoe While at Home
ger, sutice their more rapid increase may Hamedy at the regular price you of the vessels, while fo 1906 she built only disangkak pre bably save several time: Its opst: 16 50.7/10 per cent, of the world's marsatile overwhelm the native stock But when ductor's bills before the summer is over, vassale. Germany's share during the same we talk about the diminished birth-rate, will have in knowing that your family The United States Holland, and Japan ne balls the fauling of wodurity you periods increased from 3/10 to 10 8/10, especially among the wall-to-do, we must prepared for sudden stroke of year how diff larger read. In England se er dinschowa, Yur skin by all obetukogu mani not overlook the diminished death-cute aborsicaoni
toczesne in shipbuilding in again noticčnú
24, 136, 158 16 23. The Accumulated Funds of the Piza and Elfe Departzoetan new from from liability: in
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