NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
P. &0. 8. N. Co.'s Steamer
THE P. &
"ASSAYE."
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS.
Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being lauded and placed AT THEIR RISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godówn Company's Godowns at Kowloon where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery, can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landet.
This vessel brings on Cargo:--
From London, &c., ex .. **India. From Australia ex e.. Moldavia." From Calcatta, ex 8.4. "Japan."
From Persian Gulf, or HI. S. 'N. and
B. & P. S. N. Co.'s Steamers. Optional Goods will be landed here unless instinctions are given to the contrary within -6 hours.
Goods not cleared by the 21st inst, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by ms in any case whatever.
Damaged packages must be left in the Go downs for examination by the Consiguoe's and the Company's representativa at sa appointed hour. All daims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised. No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown.
E. A. HEWETT, Superintendent,
Hongkong, 15th April, 1909.
FROM EUROPE.
THE HAL. Steam-hip
THE
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Capt. You Hoff, having arrived Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to sond in their Bill of Lading for countersigasture by the Undersignet aud to take immediate delivery of Their Goods from alongside.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given befors To-DAY. Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed at Consignees risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong. kong and Kowloon Wharf and Golown Co., Id and stored at Consignees risk and expense.
All Claims must be presented within ten days of the stusmer's Arrival here, after which das they cannot be recognised.
No Clains will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 22nd fast, will be subject to rent.
All broken, chsfed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 21st iust, at 3 P.M.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,
Hongkong. Offles.
Hongkong, 15th April, 1909.
BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
S.8. "BENAVON.”-
FROM ANTWERP.
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MIDDLESBRO",
AND. LONDON,
NONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby in- formed that all Goods as being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd, whenen and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
No Chaims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 22nd Last., will be subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the the Undersigned or before the 29th inst.. or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and isoned Goods are
to be left in the Godowns, where they will be
-examined on the 22nd inst., at 11 am.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
A gents.
Hongkong, 15th April, 1909.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. GLEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
FROM MIDDLESBRO, ANTWERP LONDON AND STRAFTS.
KE Steamship
THE
"GLENLOCHY," having arrived from the abere Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed AF THEIR RISK to the Gedowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharl and Godown Co., Limited, at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Gouds are Innded.
Goods not cleared by the 23rd inst., will be subject to reat.
No Fire Insurance will be affected,
All damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 23rd inst., at 11 A.M.
No claims will be recognized if not presented within 14 days of the ship's arrival,
MCGREGOR BROS. & GOW. Hongkong, 16th April, 1909.
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The Chinman is, however, in no hurry he takos things quietly and goes alowly, but he will go surely. Years ago the Prime Minister, Wen In carrying ont their hospitable practice of Helang, said to me, You has better let us sleep entertaining distinguished persons, the Authorso; if you will awaken us, we'll go farther and Club says "The Daily Telegraph" bave never faster than you'll like! They are awake nowy had as their guest a mere interesting men than and the new learning is at work all over the Sir Robert Hart, who last night occupied the country, but mistakes will be made and the orop. place of honour at a dinner of the club at will not yield so mueli or so quickly as has been Whitehall-court. Following the usual rule at anticipated. It is no easy task to force four these fanctions, there was a set subject for con. hundred millions of people into line, and yet versation after dinner, and the selection of the time will see changes, and the apostles of the Far East as the top gave the company the now learning will have scholars, and the end will opportunity of housing something of China be the product of orelation at work, and the from the lips of Sir Robert Hart, whose long fittest will survive. The Government, marching official connection with the Chines Empire with the times, has promised the Chinese peoplo onables him to peak with greater anthority a Constitution, and with it some form of re than any other Englishman Unfortunately, prosoutative or parliamentary procedure. What Sir Robert has not been well of late, this will eventually be remains to be seen, bat, insomnia has as a matter of fact, China is, and has always and a trying period of
weak. In order been, a Constitutional Power, the Emperor's left his voice rather that the effort might not pat too great a strain notion being guided by laws that exist, by apon him, the dinner was held in a room the precedenta on recond, and by procedure which seating capacity of which was limited to fifty. has beenme fixed. Representation has hitherto good many members of the club and their been enjoyed in a measure, inasmuch as the friends were
therefore Huable to jou in offcial appointments have all been open to the chance-al yet there are outsidy possibilizia, being balit round uncovered coats one be so that a room may not retain the memory of a hoxouring Sir Robert, although a number of people and competitive examinations have for the Chiness themselves have Founding hind another, and not in storey over storey donth in it. But the important thing is to diners in other rooms flocked to the dining-hall long been the vale, and the gentry in every Hospitals and so huse the Catholic missions, ag
choose as appropriate day for the burial, and As soon as the great servant of the Chinese province joy, too, a aortain amount of many waifs and strays find existence thus as
Parliamentary life, as they are called on by gured for them.
also an appropriate site for the grar appropriate The allwion to Catholic missions gives me people began to speak.
ing something that shall be lucky, na here meming the officials to form committees for handling
the opportunity of saying that, although Gov.
with the deceased's horoscope, various locul measures. Every Chinese official
good fortune to his family. I has a seal of it to me and solemnity, and it is ernment objects to the intervention of mission boing in harmony his successor with form and, that, and not his signaturs, which counts. The aries between Chinese and Chinese in native and 20
courts, the people of the locality readily remember hearing that special cre had been Li family, and that consegnently the children, chief display of that s why moment appear recognise the charitable assistanes the missions Lakon to select a good burial wita fet the great tion: An edict my at any
to sick, the poor, and the young. ordering in official to hand over to the The Catholic missionary seems rather to look generation after generation, had hell high office, other, and the moment such an edict is issued for the Church's growth in the propaga- two sonsia one case becoming Vieaugs, of whom brother, Li Hau in each's name official position ends. Such absolute power hos tion and rearing of Christian families than in Li Lung Chang was one und his
the conversion of grown people, and so they Chang, the other-the
signifying they belonged to the Chang generation. it useful sile, for its existence keeps mon up
adopt. up rear, train, and support as many to the mark, and it is aided, too, by another law or enstom which requires officials to resign the childron as they can house, and, intermarrying A colleague Viceroy, Chow Fab, told me he visit
by intter could not speak, bat looked anxiously moment the death of a parent necessitates family there children, who regard them with a venera ed the great Li Hung Chaug when dying; the
tion due to parents; they literally mourning, so that, with this double ancer-
their couverts tainty hanging orer him, a man feels his res
excapt with kindness and "So," mid Chow. "I just said to him, 'Set your ponsibility, and tries to be up-to-date. There propagating families, and they never treat him, as if troubled about unfinished business is, besides, a Censorate, the members of which
consideration, and to their best to show mind at ease; I'll attend to everything; you just
is the
best for both shut year eyes, and go! and he thereon closed "Godliness have the right to criticise, and they may that
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of the body is sometimes wonderfully shown, mance of duty, a right which Confucian teaching
Protestant missionary rather adopts the other I was once at the execution of nine mon, eight is the establishes for the Emperor ones duties to having the promise of the world to come.
method, and seeks for grown-up couverts, and so for gang robbery, and the ninth for some his subjects just as they to him, and
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the Protestant growth in numbers is not so unknow subjecta duty to displace an Emperor who fails to perform his duties just as much as it is duty to punish subjects who fail in theirs.reat on the whole, it being also later in the as made, for his heredity has given him the abiling feeling, that, as Confacius knew nothing about During its 5,000 years of history Ching has old. But the convert is not always easily seen many dynastic changes, and each of them
it nobody else could know anything. The has been ushered in by the failure of the oven- pant of the throne to fulfil his duties and by the
all he has to do is proved periority of the leader who establishes Government is quite tolerant: a man may be
Christian, or anything obse himself on the throne thus emptied. Government what he likes-Troism, Buddhist, Confucian, is, in short, a sort of automatic machine, and to obey the laws. Confeinuisun, which has been various anfeguards come into play on 'overy
being somewhat set aside by Western science; point, so that rale depends not so much on the the chief cult for two dozen centuries, is now physical forces of the man in power us on the this will give China strength as a world-puwer, moral acceptance of his fitness to command by but, whether it will make the people happier intelligent subjects, who accept the principle of or better, time will show. And yet, the Chinese division of labour and who are more affected by have a ides of life beyond the grave; right than by might.
the vice-chair.
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band, but that little jusid in keeping up the even question the Emperor's own person: worlds, seunring Christian treatment hère and his eyes, and soon died quietly," The vitality
The mean inchied that Chinese delicacy bird's uset soup," sad on the card, designed by Mr. Clntley Inou, the mean was translated into Chinese by Mr. Iran Chan, first secretary to the Chinese Bubassy On the top table was model in sugar of the summerhouse in Sux Lard Monks s garden in Pekin. well presided, and Mr. Percy White occupied Sir Robert Hart, after describing the ease with which his band learned music, stated that during the Boter troubles some European troops got out of land and commenced to loot. A party of Rassion soldiers entered the house of one of his bandsmen and threatened violence to the man's mother and sister. The bondsman than piaved the Russian National Anthem, and the soldiers stood si attention, saluted, and passed out with out saying a word, He often thought he had wasted a good deal of
was worth all the money he had spent, for it saved property and protected women froma outrage.(Cheers.)
Proceeding, Sir Robert said: I highly appreciate the honour your club has done me in making me the guest of the evening at this dinner, and I thank you for it very sin. cerely. At the same time, it gives me great pleasing to meet in the flesh men when have hitherto known only in literature: how great this pleasure is you would more fully yon know how books have kept understand could me company thruagh so long an absence in China I may not remember the titlos of all I have read or the nsues of their authors, but they have been in my life what sunshine and rain are for stree, and have aided my growth from firat to last. I fear, however, I am here to-night rather as a deadweight than as a spring, for, frem what your obliging secretary has told me, all expect much, while I am prepared to give but little; and, in fact, it is rather to fulfil an old
Among the people births, marriages, and promise to dine with you than to deliveran address deaths, of course, make up individual and family thatI have come. Y You want to hear about Chins history, and volumes might be written about and the peculiar manners and customs of the their ways of doing things, each district being Chinese. The theme is certainly comprehensure to have some local peculiarity of its own, sire enough, and, were I quite fit, I might but in harmony with the general practise. elaborate my address to an appalling extent. A country which covers some fremillion square miles of the earth's surface, divided into some turadosan provinces, whichare each large enough
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CURIOUS CUSTOMS.
When the child is born he receives nursing name; when he goes to school the teacher gires of him a school name; when he is given the cap mankod, his official name is given him, one of
CHIKESE
Chinese marriages, geraRIAGES.
cause after long imprisonment. The first eight submitted quietly, and the the ninth would not submit tnt, calling but Injustice Injustice!" wriggled so that the head of each fell off at a single blow, Int
headsman had to strike thrice before the de-
the jaw moving as if talking, while the body capitation was complete, and, even then, the eyes ontinued rolling, wildly in the heal and itself romained on ita kunes without failing, and that bound them, till one of the assistante the arms tried to free themselves from the ropes tumbled it over, and the gruesome sight ended. Childron who were standing by thon rushed forward, and dipped bread in the blood of the give the courage that knows no fear of death. behested, the iden Iming that to eat it would Anutally families visit their burial places, and, tion of the departed, eat the good things them- spreading feasts before the tombs for the delecta. selves, and overhaul the site, closing and beauti- check cestal worship," as it is called nets as a fying it. This regard for the departed." An- on the waywardness of descendants, and a mau won't suffer much himself rather than be false to this onlt nu degrade his ancestors, This again, has its bad side. tending to keep in the and keep out the new, and, in surgery in particular, it is standing difficulty, what ancestry had handel dawn in form and feature, and a proper knowedge of anatomy
therefore impossible to acquire
to be kingdoms tliemselves the smallest having is always so composed as to show the gene in regairs or allow acquaintance, and much less dissention being objected to as dishonouring
44 Delages to an important point recorded
a population of six or seven millions and the
temples and on family trees; and largest of sixty or ingers comprise some four hundred millions then in youlle man noleots as Lume of his
and whose history goes beck some five thousand town for his friends to call him by, aul which soothsayers and matchmakers see that the you, diffinity, however, which is biur got round
years; a literature which has been growing through two dozen centuries; a Government which subsiste on the moral prort of its abjects rather than on the physical force of its armed non-those and other categories into which the subject might be divided give rooma enough for lengthy treatment; and even then would be but slimmed over. I therefore avoid detail as much as possible, and only pat before you some general thoughts on this
occasion.
HOMOGENEOUS PEOPLE.
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The Chiness may be said, in a general way, to be a homogeneous people, but, of course, spread over a large a superficies, while there is general similitude, there are infuite differences, the antcome of climate, eurironment, oconpation & The Chinaman of to-day way be consider el the product of heredity, education, and cartom. Ask bira why he does so-and-so, he replies, "Berry old custom," and that old custom has come down threagh perhaps a hundred or more generations, and now a much ANCES to undertake BUILDING
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The young girl receives varions names also at different stages, and, when she morries, she is pakea of with the double name of lier own and her husband's family. Most girls are betrothed, or, if not so, enter life as the concubine of some one who is adding to his establishment. If wife has not borne a son by the time her husband or is 40, it is her daty to arge him to promie, c even provide him with, a concubine; and even when there are already sons of the first wife, a or secondary mad may bring in a concubine wife, or more than one, who are numerically referred to, but the children of the Nos. 2, 3, or 4 mistresses are all considered the children of the No. 1 or real wife, and this practice has wrought out two results in China of, a socially useful kind-there are very few unmarried women, and there are still fewer illegitimate children,
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Merthur Diosy said Sir R. Hart had giv liring tone to the way in which the Chinese Kr. H. C. Levenson 1C.S., and Mr. B. Broomball joined in the dissasion. lived. China, like Japau, was awakening.
they burn incense in various temples, and when a person dies, the family, if it can afford it gets all the priests in the neighbourhood to recite prayers which will go in the right dir ustion aud reach the All-Merciful. The fact that is the Boxer troubles ten years ago thousands of Chiness laid down their lives and submitted to crael torture and deathsther than abandon. their Christianity, showed the reality of their faith and its power to support them in the face.
speaking, do not of the most terrible treatment.
intimacy, beforehand. The parents arrange as to the suitability of the family connect ion, and the people concerned are not horn ander opposing or conflicting stars. When the auspicious day by sending students to foreign countries to "red study. The materia Budica of China is comes, the bridegroom's family send 4 chair to bring home the bride: mole omber large, but foreign prescribers would find it of her family accompanies the chair to the door, diflealt to use, und although it has had cons hands over the key there to the bridesmaid, and attention from students, it is little known and
+ M goes home; the bridesmaid, instead of being a comparatively neglected, though, of course, som maiden, is the married mother of the largest of the nostrums are
in the neighbourhood, and she then opens mmaber hearing the celebrated Bishop Favi family the door and conducts the bride scross the say is only relief from hisgout, was an threshold into the house, where the groom meets ordinary Chinese prescription; fore gu drags her, sad in the hall they go through the marriage had always failed, but that mixture always toms. It was the same Monsignor Favier ceremony, which consists chiefly in making their accended in driving back the advancing symp bows together before his ancestors' tablets,
Borers in 1900 for and in paying their respects as bride and who held out so splendidly with hia Catholo
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Northern groom to tho friends present. She then takes converts against the in the Poi-Tang, or hold of his dress and follows him to a room, in
thre four fixe which the bridesmaid seats them on s conch, giving them a thread to hold; the bridesmaid and who built the A girl child is fast as welcome in a family as then, with a red stick, lifts the bride's opaque Catholic churches which attract the visitor's boy. There is such a thing as infanticide, but veil, and for the first time the newly married eys in Pekin, And now I think I hao tak it is not general, and it sometimes affects a boy pair ses cach other; she hands them a cup of tea, up enough of your timo; but the habject in one chill just as readily as a girl, the case being which they each sip, and a cup of wine, which that cannot be exhausted, and I hope what I desire to hear something from me about the Fre probably poverty. A good many years ago ather trent similarly, and they are then considered have read you has some extent met your Consular doctor and his wife wars walking at married. The groom leaves the bride then, and Amoy as they passed a dungheap the lady criedreicius. the male guests to feast with them, East --a quarter of the globe about which the
room, to see and criticise the bride. The critics rell on. (Cheers.) out O. Charlie, Charlie, what is that?" and which
a tiny anger protuuled, and was seen to literally pull her to pieces, I am told, and say
all they can to force her to show a consciousnessa QUBA-MARU (712 tons, 700 IH.Pelf-centred people. Education in China has be moving; they took up the package, opened it,
to show any sign of knowing they are present, and, specially built for SALVAGE PURPOSES been of its own kind, and has had for object and found a baby boy, newly born evidently of their presence, but the rule is that she is not equipped with necessary gear, always ready rather the formation of character and the per inside; they took the baby home and reared it.
formance of duty than the spread of what our and afterwards on a visit home to Scotland took in het, is to keep silence for three days; any
The Short Notice.
Western world considers knowledge. great teacher to whom ali China has long the child with them, and gave it some educa breach of this is pronounced proof of bad breed- looked up to was, of course. Confusius, who on; in 1856 that Consular doctor came to ing. These marriages have probably the average others failures. A great Chinese scholar and a in
the Consulate, and they had with them lived some Eve hundred years bafore Christ, Ningpo as Consul, when I was an assistant amount of happiness; some are successes and and he did not claim inspiration or origins ander-butler u fina, bright, healthy lad of high official was one day talking about this to me and he said our foreign way of letting the the wisdout 13 or 14; this was the child
choose, and the transmitted uality:
he simply
17 Later:
a good on they left China and got the of the past, and that wisdom contemplated and
siness way of first marrying and then making man in his position in the world. of men,
billet us steward on an English gunboat; his young people fall in love and
Still later on the acquaintance reminded him of two kelties of water; taught him his daty in that environment.
use was Leo Bush, "You have husbands and wires-you have
Chinese Government sought to create a navy. the first the foreign-was taken ist the boiling
the stond the AS SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF and, wanting men of naval experience, they parents and children-you have brothers and
cooler and cooler, whereas have neighbours and acquaintances you have steam corvette to take charge of. I once visited Chinese--was a bottle of cold water pat on the sisters you have friends and relations you made Lee & commander, and gave him a fine point from the fire by marriage, and then grow
officials.
80 that," said my your Emperor and his representatives the Each of these relations has its duties; faißibits ship at Cauton and found all in excellent fire by wedlock, and ever afterwards growing LORDS, AND HOUSE OF COMMONS.
condition. Soon afterwards bo vas was caught warmer and warmer,
broke her friend, "after fifty or sixty years we are madly One curious case them and you will be right fail to fulfil them in a typhoon, and the vessel
in love with each other) and ill will follow!" There is nothing con-back and went down, but some of the crew.
and he came to my knowledge in Pekin. A certain troversial-nothing that requires proof in such conped himself among them, teachings, and so sensible man--and Chiness
for losing his vessel. He was then given that no matchmaker had been able to provide a are very sensible people-accepted the Confucian was then condemned to death, but forgiven, junior mees had an excellent cook, but so teaching, revered it, and lived the life. The command of one of the Mosquito qua- wife, and yet he was, despite his ugliness, one of Confucian books illustrate many points con trou," boats built by Armstrong, and he was the most amiable and lovable of men. At last nected with character and life, and every at the Pagoda anchorage, Foorhow, in 1884. Chinaman who could give his children any when Adairal Courber destroyed the Chinese girl was found, and rumours said she was just was fixed; she was brought home; the marriage groom saw what schooling sent them to teachers who taught feet in port: Lee, knowing his little craft the prettiest of Pekin's lovely maiders. The day them these simple truths, and the influence.
a treasure he had got, and the brids sow what a The shallow water creek and saved himself, vessel, edifice, and is not restricted to the library or and crew; for this for saving his ship, and not hidecas mate the fates had given her,
was groom thes left the room to join his male. schoolroom. The result is a singularly law-dring with his comrades of the fleet-he was abiling people, intelligent, frugal, industrious, again condemned to death, but, as the Commisa- guests, and when he returned with them to
son-in-law of Li long jor-in-Chief, Chang Pei Lun,s
prosent the bride, they found that she had and contented. They have during their
Cheng, was also condemned to death and undone a garter, and with it hung herself to the girl was dead, and had life had experience of possibly every kind, the outcome is a commonsense view of life and ospite, with a sentence of three years banish. window-tune the poor its surroundings. The teaching has, however, ment sud hard labour, Lea Buah was similarly evidently committed suicide rather than enter the defents of its qualities; it has been excellent treated, and in 1888 his banishment ended, he on married life with the man she had just seen for domestic use, but, for foreign intercoarse, visited me in Peking, and gave me an interest for first time. So, tragedy is sometimes the
account of his variona it does not supply what the times call for-the
appointment of arranging how people are to marry, instead against assailants. Girmmstances have forced of a novel Lind, and did well in it. He of letting acquaintance, intimney, and love this on the attention of Government and and a new departure is being minds. Caningan brought up a family of sons, and they did settle that for the pair themselves and by thou
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