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TORTH BRITISH AND mercan.
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TOTAL FUNDS AT Bir Ducman, 1905 £17,897,119.
THE Underdigued, having boon appointed AGENTS for the abovo Company, re
'PRENTICES
▲ PROMISED REVIVAL.
Next Wednesday the National Institution of Apprenticeship, which has busu silently and steadily working for a year and more under the supervision of Mr. J. S. Ballio, will beld en important meeting, when particulars will bo
CHRISTMAS LETTERS.
given na to the objects and the success of the Hobo carefully,peded them
t.
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prepared to ACCEPT BISKS against FIRE of, hey vary from labourers' children to those come in regalarly cuce a week. Then thers"
Current Rates.
shopman, and oven higher classes." And are the various trades falling in with your schema?"
If an enthusiastio student of humanity should commit the crime of holding up the latest of Hin Majesty's mails home as they pass by on the high seas and such a crime in not inconceivable sinos famous scientists have been known to sommit murder to further their pot thooriss what an interesting haul he would get! Fre- L. AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 Subscribed CAPITAL.... 2,750,000
put away all the home otreme. PAID-UP CAPITAL COMM
687,500 0 0
captured
twenty To a representative of the Daily Graphic, Į years honos, and studied them and the man who II. FIR FUNDS
3,386,720 19 8
who called
at bis house la Clarence bins
wrote them.
twenty years after, what wealth of The Undersigned, AGENTS for the bore Terrace, Mr. Balin was kind enough to give the
for oynicism and pleasure would ha to him. The mail fast. week mast Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS following lateresting particulars
The object of
ho sak, "islave carried home many thousands of letters this institution," against FIRE at Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., apprentice young people to good trades, and addressed to those whom we all hold dearly
thus to provide for their efficient training; to is mind Agend
In many cessa these are the raise the standard of work of the moobanios of yearly letters. We start off with well in [1349 Hongkong, 11th July, 1908.
the faturs. Apprenticeship, you may know, is tentioned promises of weekly epistles telling almost out of the reach of the London working all the news, before our cosage out is done AACHEN AND MUNICH FIKE IN.
classe
+ because, as a rule, they are not able to
is decided that SUBANDE CO.
monthly lotter in ample, and the interval does not seem very moch at OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
pay and what are the classes whom you bus home, because it takes the hems folk
the premiums.
Long time to quite understand that the mails do is that splendid oxoney-more common than the onlinary excuse this writing I am in
harry --the excuse “worry I missed the mail last time. They are. Nearly all that W8 bare I mast close now as the mail is leaving." Wo approached have expressed their willingness all use the barefaced 311
even if we start cooperate with our council and to take writing our letter on Monday for Thuesday's apprentios from our institution."
bost, for aftor sil it is of course really too much And what are the trades which you have to expect one to sit down and write lettere in approached?
this Wo limit ourselves to trades in which con- play creer, when it is almost too hot to OF billiard or bridge or even dance, tiderable skill is required, and which offer a And as we excuse ourselves, and those at Home tolerable
regular employment when the indentures
the former mostly, wilting away auder the have expired. The great halk of our appren ardonr of a tropie sue, which, after a hard day's Lices have every prospect of employment at 358, work, iray six hours) prevents them doing any. week, for the boys, when they are out of thing one but sit quietly in a cool spot and try their apprenticeship time, and are skilful and and ward off sunstroke. Meanwhile the "poor steady. Every care is taken to have masters dears" are perspiring at a violent single, or lash- who are sabatantial and well-to-do usufs- ing a
out bravely at thea
scanning hand, preparatory to drinking a large number of whiskies enl sodas.
But to return to the mails. Üse
there are here
are here who can claim that they bare really the promises. en lightly made, of frequently writing. few of the happier ones fud that they can really write a weekly letter to the girl of their heart, bat que fancies that few of the mothers ia the old land oraliga om nooh a letter means well treated by their sous. One does not
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.,
Agents,
Hongkong, 21st April, 1897,
THE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANY. OF HAMBURG."
LADIES AND CHILDBEN'S SHOES, and a good THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are
at Current Bates,
"
A visit from our kind Customers is solicitad, prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE and a certainty of good wags being paid in innocence picture their dear boys and girls,
PRICE REDUCED all round in conformity
with the risa in Exchange.
Hongkong, 26th November, 1906,
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ON Account of the Favourable Exchange, Mr. H. RUTTONJBE bega to informa bis kind Customers and the Public of Hongkong and Coast Poria, that he has REDUCED HIS PRICES all round from the ler or DECEMYE, 1906, based on tha Rate of Exchange now ruling.
NEW PRICE LISTS will be issued shortly.
H. RUTTONJEE.
5, D'AGUILAR STEERT, HONGKONG,
and
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labour, galting vary cheap to do with such masters, and no apprentice of Fours is bound to such a one."
“And bow is it as to the premiums ?" "We do not make the boy a present of the premium, but we lead it to him, and be repasa it by installments out of his wages. Thus, olo, he acquires the habit of thrift and the looking
forward to independence."
And the girls?
Well, in only very few cames are premiums paid with girls. We have been able to get places for girls with high-class firms of milliners dressmakers, art moodleworkers, and others, without premium.
Yen have fairly snesssful so far, Mr. Hallin, with the sohome ?"
Very much so, I think, all things considered. We hava apprenticed 129 boys and girls so far. Last week we had forty-two applications. thirty-five of them were sent out to different places to serve the mouth's probation which is
and
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to the quiet little white haired lady who sits in the arm abeir, thinking, always thinking, of the boy who has left her for a wild country. One fancies all mothers thick the world an unstter. ably hard and srael place for their sons to go out into, and yet they would not have thom
time
they are thinking and hevor go. All wondering and too often worrying how the spirit they have had so much to do with in its training will be able to resist the trials it
as to encounter, and to bravely bold hand against odds.
up its And even when they ar certain about the ability to meet the dangers, they ever feel fearful flat some unforseen fight. It is not much wa can do for par mothers ont bore, they have to pat apwith
leng absences, too often an absence of an enly or bast loved son or daughter, therefore let us do what little we can. In letters we may, thank Heaven, still retain some of old time favour. Too often the roughness of the world has knocked the
appronti always stipulated previously to calamity may rob their boy of his power t
And you have been supported in the financing of the institution !**
Practically all the funds we had have been paid away at Come to a standstill unless aca for premiums, and the work
funds are forthenraing, as I hope they will be The institution is administered by a council and General Stores commilton, Lord Avebury is our treasurer,
to
edge off our manners, so the purity
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off our ideas, but still by the making of su affort WB Can 80 appear in writing that the may rejoice at the contiansboe of the old lose, Therefore though it be too late for the Christmas day lotter, on urges on all who have not yet dons so te sit down and weite at least one loma letter. The new year mail at any rate is not yet, "closing."
And in BO doing we shall sarve
a double end, for we shall pay back slightly the t we all owe to thou to whom our own slight racoess in the world is largely dae, and we shall preserve in ourselves the training of a graceful habit which will rad et unconsciously Morsovar there will com a upon our lives. day when we, at home, may pine for the hot, nerons t-ropered scrawls of a youth which shall he dour to us, and it will once ne the tells us that we are only being done to as saddest sorrow of declining yours, if reflection
we base in the past sloge by uthors-Singapore Free Press,
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The Berlin correspondent of the Timer tele-
States, the master, owner, of agent of a Japan
1-Upon the arrival at a port of the United
the certificate of sarvey to the competent steam- ace passenger steamer shell present a copy of
ship enrveyiog authorities of the
prirt. Japanese passenger steamer holding a Acts of burvey of the U.S. Goverment shall graphed :—
take the process specified in the preceding article
In connection with the difficulties which bara apon arrival at a 0.9. port on the last voyage
arisen with regard to the education of Japanese before the expiry of the term of the certificate.
children in San Francisco, the Alldeutsche When the U.S. Bathirities receiving the Buffer, the organ of the Pan-Germanic League. papers specified in the preceding two articles indulges in the following reflections: For 18 find on boarding the steamer, that the bull, it very welcome to find that Japanese wrath engines and accessories and life-saving appli- is diverted eastwards, and that at the same time is drivon into the relations between identiosi in condition to the a wedge partionlars stated on the certificate, a certificate England and America. We have repeatedly available for the same period as the original pointed out that in the new grasping of the certificate shall be granted by the L.8. author. Powers in East Asia the United States are our natural allies. There is us need for a written silico, and the more Ameries is pushed into foreground the natural conesa of avants the botter for us."
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