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the line with varying success, that is all. But fate, particulars of which we published a few days ince, is only what could have liven reasonably whoever is in the box-even the shrillest-voiced
anticipated, and hence the officers in charge Chinawoman, their voices are lost to us. The Early English style of Court-la by no mean of the Hele are consklered by his Hannur to conducive to good hearing, and the waving have been entirely to blame for the disaster. punkahs which fan half the ball utterly dissipate When we remember that the officers of the the words before they reach us.' Speaking of Arratoon Apcar are faily passed and cer- punkahs, the little one appropriated to theificated Europeans, while those of the Blue Judicial bench seems to be more vigorous than Funnel steamer, together with the bay on dignified; it swings sharply in an erratic, three- he look-out, are natives or Asiatics of cornered sort of way which, as I facetiously tome description, the decree of the Singapore
Court may be said to have been all but, a fore remark, is contrary to the Queen her crown and dignity. We notice these things when we ar cone conclusion. It would have been singular ndeed, bad the Hede thus officered been found tired of hearing the cases dragging wearily along,
o be in the right and the Apcar wrong. We see that by a wise provision the reporters table is placed so ingeniously that when a witness The officer in charge of the deck of the speaks in the direction of the Bench, his posi Hebe appears to have been an Astatic gunner, tion, with the help of the great punkah, makes ne part of whose evidence according to the the languid young men grow apoplectic trying earned Judge, was toinlly opposed to all probas who to hear what he says, whilst the infallible rulingsbilities, and the above mentioned "boy of "med" are about as audible as a whisper ccupied the important post of look-out man, through a Hongkong telephone. The ingenuity
had only been seven months at sea. Doubtless of this arrangement is equally commendable in the eyes of very young men or boys are that the journalistic table is considerately placed vastly quick at picking up distant lights, beneath the raised dock, so that at the monthly but it is still possible to have looks-out who sessions or quarterly Assizes any prisoner who it once possess the advantages of youth and a feels inclined to get full value for his money fairly reliable sea experience, the latter of which may, after getting, say, five years, lean over the is always exceedingly valuable in distinguishing rail and knock some of their languid, literary colours, and watching the manicures of approach heads off, as they deserve to be. Come on, ing vessels. In all carefully navigated steamers let us go.
sailing out of the home ports a look-out-man must always be an able scans, and in all the ge mail steamers, never less than two able scamen-one on each bow-is permitted during the night. The Judge appears to have laid a good deal of stress on the proper carrying out by the Apear of Articles 18 and 23 of the Merchant Shipping Act, but the fact is that the whole case was governed by that article which says "Iftwo steamers are crossing each other's courses so as to involve a risk of collision, that steamer which has the other out her own starboard bow, shall keep out of the way." Thus, it has been rgued by competent lawyers in the London Admiralty Court and has never been denied but
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK
COMPANY, LIMITED.
The following is the report of the Board of Directors to the ordinary half-yearly meeting of shareholders to be held at the offices of the Company, No. 14. Praya, Hongkong, on Man day, the 47th August, 1888, at 3 o'clock p.m. :— To the Shareholders of the Hongkong and
Whampoa Dock Co., Limited. Gentlemen,-The Directors have now to sub-
mit to you their Report with a Statement of Accounts for the half-year ending 30th June.
The total receipts for the six months are $56,320 56 and the net profit, after paying in- terest due and all charges amounts to.. $82,012.18 to which has to be added the balance
brought forward from last account- 1,901.32 $83,913.50
and from this have to be deducted--- Directors' fees...
..$4,500.00 Auditors' fees....
400.00
4,900.00
leaving available for appropriation..... $79,013.50 The Directors recommend that a dividend for the all-year of 3 per cent., or $46,875. be paid to the Shareholders, and a Bonus of $1,000 to Contributing Shareholders; that $30,000 be written from the value of the new dock at Kowloon, and the balance of $1,134.50 carried forward to the new account:
When presenting their last yearly Report your Directors were hopeful of an improvement in our Shipbuilding trade, but so far their expectations have not been realised. The business of dock ing and repairs, though not so large as it has been in some former half-years, continues satisfactory.
The case of the Filipinas will not come on for trial for another two months, the Defendant hav- ing obtained the consent of the Court to send to Europe and have evidence taken on commission. The Directors regret that the new dock was not completed by the end of July, as they anticipated. The delay has arisen partly from face of solid granite having been met with, the removal of which by blasting has necessarily been very slow work, and partly owing to the almost continuous rain since last February, which has prevented the workmen from doing more thon half-time; however, it is now hoped that the greater part of the blasting will be over by the end of this month, and that all the masonry at the head of the dock will be finished by the end of October next. The new pumps have been erected, and a trial made, when they were
I. BELL-IRYING,
Chairman.
found to work most satisfactorily.
CAPITAL ACCOUNT, January to June, 1888.
AISIT Aberdeen,
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commended themelves to the Chinese, may be named the establishment of fondling hospitals, and refuges fo: lepers, and for the aged, etc. China is a land which for all practical purposes (except that of the delectation of Peking Sinolo gues) is quite free from a Census, it is im possible to ascertain to what extent these forms of benevolent action are to be found, but it is hazarding little to say that they must be rels tively rare, that is to say, as regards the enormous population, and the enormous aggregation of that population in huge fives, where the needs are greatest. The vast soup-kitchens which are set up anywhere and everywhere, when some great food or famine calls them, are familiar phenomena, as well as the donation of winter clothing to those whoare destitute, It is not the Government only which engages in these enter prises, but the people also co-operato in a highly creditable manner, and instances are not uncom mon, in which large sums have been thus judiciously expended. We do not reckon among the benevolences of the Chinese such associations as the provincial clubs for care of those who may be destitute at a distance from home, and who could not without this help, return, or whin having tied, could not otherwise be taken home to be buried. This is an ordinary business transaction, of the nature of insurance, and is probably so regarded by the Chinese themselves. Hesides the regular institutions already mentioned, and others similar, there are sclctles for the moviding of offins for those too poor to buy them, for gathering' human bones which have in the course of time become exposed, and which me to be again buried in a suitable manner, and the gathering up of paperons which the character has been written or printed, that it may be burned, to sovg it ironi desecration. In some places plasters of a mysterious nature are also given to all applicants, free vaccination is (theoretically) furnished, and virtue books are provided for sale at a price below cost, or even given away. To items of this dass must be added the constant donations to the army of beggars with which China is cursed, and help tits fagees, who are ♫ more respectable vaputy of loggas,
rather admitted by the Board of Trade, that the responsible steamer can put in force any desirable evolution so long as she "keeps out of the way of the other vessel." She can keep her engines Having mentioned some of the most deserving going at full speed, can stop, or go astern,-it is
forms of Chinese Benevolence, it is only fair fo quite immaterial-so long as she keeps out of pacify the drawbacks which accompany then, way and by doing so avoids a collision. The In the first place, such Gxed instituious as nautical experts who framed those Articles wens Hospitals, &e, aré, ag remarked, relatively rare content to let the method of keeping clear. They are to be found in many of the large sea remain in the hands of the officer in charge, forests, and perhaps in the great cities of the they knew conditions might easily exist in the exigencies of navigation by which no hard and fast role, further than keeping clear, "coul! be safely or conveniently carried out.
In the case which has just been concluded at Singapore the Arratoon Apeur was stree ing her course through the Siraits, bound to Singapore, when her officers observed the three lights of the debe approaching from the opposite direction and about five or six miles away. The Apear thes did what all steamers in such a case should do-she ported sufficiently to shut out the Hebe's green light and then steadied. Thus if the two vessels had held on their co se all would have gone well but instead of this the Hebe starboarded-for what purpose was not explained by Sir T. T. Ford in his elaborate judgment-and from themoment of star boarding the helm without the shadow of any necessity, the Hebe put herself into the difficult and respon- sible position of that steamer which, in crossing, nautical wisdom has decreed shall keep clear of the other ship or be responsible for a collision. In committing this preposterous blunder the gunner of the Hebe, as he had no ceni ficate, may possibly be allowed some little latitude, when it is remembered how very often the same mistakeis made by Europeans who have passed through one or two stiff examinations. It is the commonest thing in the British Channels, in the roomy Mediterranean, and particularly out here in the Formosa Channel to meet steamers that do the very sanie thing as the Hete-starboard when they ought either to pont their helms or keep on their courses, It is not very long since that in the neighbourhood of Ockseu light a large mail steainer was steaming lights burning when she observed the three lights to the north-eastward, at a am. with all her of an approaching steamer right ahead. The helm was ported atonce till the green light was shut out, and kept so for some time in order to assure a safe and wide berth. When the two vessels had neared each other within about a mile, the vessel coming south being then about two or three points on the other's port bow, suddenly showed her three lights, and thus perpetrated one of the grossest errors in seamanship. The mail steamer's helm was then put hard a port and kept there till the ship had performed half a circle under her port helm, when the other craft having come into a parallel line with her and fallen astern, the mall boat's course was' gradually altered till the north-east point was again reached. Had the engines in this case been stopped it would have been putting a very valuable steamer at the mercy of a man-in, the other vessel who appeared to have lost his 635474.81 head, or who had possibly confounded her brilliant white and red lights for those of some junk. This was a similar kind of meeting to that of the pear and the fiebe, and possibly if 34.9.7 the first named had kept on at full speed under her post helm she might have cleared the danger which overtook her. The wording of the article-if two steamers are CIOSS- ing, etc.,"-would indicate that the mail boat in the Formosa Channel, mentioned above, should have kept her course and never touched her engine, but he would indeed be a foolish 16,064 officer who, simply because, he was in the right 664,31.68
position, would therefore risk a valuable ship 0,771,5:3.47 and the lives of her crew and passengers by putting himself at the mercy of a nimcompoop. A wide berth is the first consideration for safety $1,361,500.00 when it can by any judicious system of maneuver ing be obtained, and the disregard of this principle, and the idea of falling back on "rules" 30,157.05 when danger threatens, has been the cause of
no end of casualties.
To Valua of Aberdeen Docks, na per fast stuiamant...$ 150,000.00
Koutson Value of Kowloon Docks, as per lit slatemet
............. 664,479-88' Cont of Boiler Dell Machine, Aah Whaling Machine, Pattom M5A- kers' Sailic, and Saw Mill Lathe, &C.....
Ne House for Superlatendent at Kowloon, cost of construction to date..
New Dock. *Amount expended in 'construction of "New Dock in date
6,10,43
285,163434 £5,000 149,690,79
Le Fice GTROL received from
Admiralty
Camopolitan.
Value of Cosmopolitan Dock, per East atatement. 345,793-07-
Completing Sea Wall
Tugs, Launches and Lighters. Value of Filat Flek, as per fast vtero-
Valve of Fame, as per last
130.00
talement...4000.00 Cont of Reconstruction 48,80%.20 Value of g Steam Launches, + Steam Lighter, Cargo Lighter, and Boats 229 230,410,34 Sundry Dablo
Cost of Mixtorial on hand, saa menerobos mes
- LIABILITFEES
By Shareholders for paid up Capitel.....
Admiralty Loan £10,000 os.od Less Repaymmi 34, od.
Árg, resim, od at /1⁄2
1. Sundry Creditoria
Balance of Proft brought forward
from last account: • •
» Proit
rammatud 1,001,32
manisan $2,011,18,
REVENUE ACCOUNT.
650,483
1.97.
104.52.0
I1.914.30 $97555.7
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THE NEGLECT OF LIFE
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HERE is no feature of our civilised life that
Trikes a thoughtful nian with more force
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than the neglect of LIFE ASSURANCE. By THIS EVENING,
payment of a small quaterly subscription any AUGUST 16TH, 1885..
inan of good health can secure a very large sum to his family in case of premature death, yet THE AMERICAN MUSICAL COMEDY bundreds of families brought up in confort-e #1 AND OPERA COMPANY"
perhaps, in luxury-are left in extreme poverty every year from the bread wlaner having [Mr. PEMBERTON W. WILLARD. neglected to assure his life. In the East many
.„, JOHN F. SHERIDAN,
a man lives up to his income, knowing well that if death cut him off suddenly, his wife and Will appear as above in CELLIERS SUCCESSFUL COMIC OPERA, children would be icit almost wholly unprovided for. All this can be prevented by Life Assurance,
Directors
to possess one's self of full details of the working of any regular Chinese charity, but enough has been observed during such special crises as the Great Faming, to make it certain that the deepest distress of the people, is no barsier, whatever to the most shameful peculation on the part of officials entrusted with the disbursement of funds for relief. And if such scandal's take place under these circumstances, when public atten tion is most fixed on the distress and its relief, it is not difficult to conjecture what happens when there is no outside knowledge either of the funds contributed, or of their use. We have repeatedly referred to the comparative insigni- ficance of the range of Chinese charity, but how narrow that range is, when considered in the light of the achievements of western lands, can best be understood by an examination of the table of contents of such arduirable work as Mr. Faber's book on occidental civilization, ALFRED published in Chinese, under the title ↑ From West to East. Such institutions as asylums for the feebleshipted, for the insane, for the deaf and dumb, nfd for various varieties of diseases, loge ther with a multitude of orfiers, must seem to the Chinese like the products of unusually lively imaginations, reminding them of nothing which they ever 51W or heard Tom Strutt of. When they come know more, of that Occidental Civilization, of which too often only the worst side obtrudes itself upon them, it will certainly seen to them not a little remarkable, that all Christendom is dotted with institutions, such as have no parallel out of Christer dom, and then it will perhaps occur to them to inquire into the rationale of so significant a fact. They may be led to notice the suggestive circumstance, that the Chinese character for benevolence, unlike pinst al th, so which relate to the euntions, which generally have the heat- radical, is written without the heart, The viste for whichy it stands, is a often, also, practised without heart, with the genie al results, some of which we have noticed. That state of third, in which practic philanthropy becaques av instinct,
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demanding opportunity to exhibit its workings, whenever the need of it is clearly perceived, may be said to be almost wholly wanting among the Chinese. Il it not, indeed, a human develop. ment. If it is to be created among the Chirete, itinust be by the same process which has made it an integral constituent of life in the lands al the west.-N, C. Daily News.
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600,000 85,000
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Subscribed Capital ............... Paid Up Capital
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intering along the routes rf trade, but do they rxist at all, in any except the very largest cities? If so, it is certain that they are singularly unob. A writer in Health is responsible for the strusive, for rong never sees nor hears of them. following :- The rame d'ecreation is to be made in regard The lings are the most pione to catarchs and 1 other oganised charities, they are few in
amben, átal narrow in the range of their action,pheric and barometric intances of a vast range inflammations of any part of the body. Are Again, with the exception of such institutions as on the one hand, and a high functional activity have been mentioned, the ordinary forps of of the lungs on the other, are the explicable Chinese benevolence are exceedingly intere determining causes of diseases of the lungs. We hittent. When a vast calamity occurs, like inhale air that the oxygen it contains may pass the great Famine, or the outburst of the into the blood, and "burn up the food we eat; Yellow River, the Government, local or and thes give us budy warmth and force, this is general, comes to the front, with a greater or a very plain-mode of stating the case, but it is Z ETLAND less degree of promptness, and attempts to help the victims, Ifit instead of doing this on Now, when the lungs become affected slightly any form and extensive scale, such as the or seriously, the nutrition of the body is pretty perpetual recurrence of the necessity might seem certain to suffer souner or later. A slight cough to suggest, it is done in a makeshift way, as if is a bad thing but a bad cough is a dangerous the occasion had never before arisen, and might thing. An infant with "cold on the lungs," a never arise again. The care of the refugees is person with chronic cough, and the subject of is murcover generally abandoned, at the very pulmonary consumption, all demonstrate how time when they must need help, namely, in the vain are, too often, the usual routine lines of early spting, which, having been weakened by treatment in diseases of the lungs. Before this their long sufferings, and by atrocious over mixture and that tincture are taken, there should crowding, they are most able to disease. It is come up the question-What is the cough duc then test they are seat away, with a little ready to ? It may, if chronic, be caused by heart money, to make the best of their way home, and dispase or right's disease of the kidneys, and to get back into their normal state of life as best cuble iron and cod liver oil. A ciso comes they can. The reason for this is apparent. The to mind where the writer was called to see a Government knows that they will die of pestil- doctor's wife with a cough of twelve years' dura- ence if they remain till warm weather where tion. She had taken cod liver oil time and officials to be a less, because a less conspicuous carefully examining the chest one of the valves they are, and destruction in detail seems to the again, but without a particle of benefit on evil, than death in masses, The same spirit is evinced in the curious ebullition of charitableness, diseased. This interfered with the proper circula of the heart was found to he imperfect and which is known as the la pa chou. This per- tion of blood through the lungs. The lady was a typical case of Chinese Benevolence. On the doses, three times a day, and, by the tonic effects formance may be regarded as in most respects given the Wyeth Diadysed Iron in six-drop eighth day of the twelfth moon, (called the of the iron on the heart, the cough was completely park"). It is the custom for everyone who has cured in a couple of weeks. Overwork and actaniulated a quantity of benevolent impulses nervous exhaustion would often induce a which have had no opportunity for their gratifi- recurrence of the trouble which was always cation, to make the most liberal donations to all quickly relieved by the iron. In Bright's disease comers, of the very cheapest and poorest quality iron would hardly have given such a brilliant of soup, during about twelve hours of solar result, but the cod liver oil would have done time, he the same more or less. This is mare good than it did here, talled practising virtue, and is considered to he a means of laying up, merit. If the year happens to be one in which the harvest is bountiful, those who live the country have perhaps no applicants for their coarse provender, as even the poorest people have as good or better
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Companies participate in the Banus whether All Contributors of Business in the above Two Shareholders or not.
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NOTICE. THE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE THE
COMPANY, LIMITED.
in this Company, standing in the name of MR. THE CERTIFICATE No. 1,374, dated 30th June, 1885, of the Shares Nos. 4516/4525
LOST, and if at the expiration of One Month GEORGE LEWIS, of Shanghai, has been from the date hereof the above document be not by the Company and thereafter no other will be forthcoming another Certificate will be issued acknowledged.
Dated 21st July, 1888.
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JAS, B. COUGHTRIE, Secretary. HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEET-
be
in the Offices of the Company No. 14, Praya Central, on MONDAY, the 27th instant, at 3 P.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, and a Statement of Accounts to 30th June, 1888.
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED......
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The ahave/Company is prepared to accept MARINE RISKS 11 CURRENT RATES on GOODS. c. Policies granted to. all Parts of the world payable at any of its agencies.
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GENERAL' NOTICE. THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, (LIMITED.) CAPITAL
TAELS 600,000) $33,333.35 EQUAL TO RESERVE FUND
$140,000.00.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
LO YEUX MOON, Esq.
LEF SING, Esq. Lou TSO SHUN, Esq.
MANAGER.-HO AMEI,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 13th to 17th August, MARINE RISKS on GOODS, &c, taken both days inclusive.
at CURRENT RATES to all parts of the
$760
world.
HEAD OFFICE, 8 & FRAYA WEST. Hongkong, 17th December, 1885,**, [877
By Oider of the, Board of Directors,
D. GILLIES, Secretary. Hongkong, 1st August, 1889.
THE CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED. -
We come now to that larger class of cases where, honestly, we must admit that we do not know, for certain, what the cause is. Cases of this kind come often under the physician's eye. We turn here from the fascinating experimental work and praiseworthy efforts of scientific, at home. This circumstance, does not, how-humanitarians, to consider some homespun ever, lead to the prætermission of the offer, much practical facts. In diseases of the lungs we less to the substitution of anything of a better observe emaciation alten and gradual, wasting quilt the contrary, the donors advertise away. The vital powers are on the ebb. We other years, not to say with greater, and when do not cure. What is to be done? Sustain their intentions, with the same alacrity as in have no specifics here, and the cough mixtures
bowl of the rich gruel designed for them, it is tions the highest medical authorities have been, the day passes and no one has asked for a single nutrition. To promote healthful nutritive func- merely put into the broken jars out of which the and are, unstinted in their praise of cod liver oil. pigs are fed, and the wealthy man of practical The celebrated physician, Dr. C. B. Williams, benevolence retires to rest with the proud satis asserted, after using it for a third of a cen- faction, that, however it may be with the poor tury, that it is the only agent deserving the
multitudes of cases where it cannot be given discases. Certainly it is a grand food, but the. and is contra indicated are simply legion. It is never indicated where there is indigestion--and symptom dyspepsia! No oil is digested in the in what a percentage of lung cases is this very stomach, but in the intestine; therefore it must AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION will Dividend Warrants payable at the HONGKONG needs be retained in the stomach for two or be issued to Shareholders on the Register on the three hours, and even more, before it is passed 24th instant. into the intestine. While thus besmearing the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company stomach wall, fatty acids are produced, eructa will be CLOSED from the toth to the 24th tions, nausea, and vomiting frequently being instant, both days inclusive. caused. But this is not all. The task of freely subdividing the oil is imposed upon the digestive organs, in order that it may be absorbed and carried into the system. Too often this burden, is more than they can bear.
wretches who would not come to his feast, he at title of a remedy' in chronic wasting in the Articles of Association, the 'General
4.
Agents have this day declared an INTERIM
N accordance with the provision of No. 121 of
DIVIDEND of 6 per cent. for the half-year ending 30th June, 1888, on the paid up Capital of the Company.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents." Hongkong, 4th August, 1888.
(771 CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE
∙COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
least has done bis duty for another year, and can in good conscience pose as a man of practical benevolence and virtue. But if, on the other hand, the year should be a bad one, and grain means and of virtue, fails to send out any notices rises to a fabulous price, then this same man of of the "practice of virtue" for this particular year, for the reason that he cannot afford it beggars, of whom one almost everywhere sees We have already referred to the donations to a swarm. This donation also is of the nature of an insurance. In the cities, the beggars are, as is well-known, organised into guilds of a very powerful sost; more powerful by far than any with which they can have to contend, for the reason. that the beggars have nothing to lose, and nothing to fear, in which respects they stand alone. The To sustain nutrition is to look well to the shopkeeper who should refuse a donation to a digestive, assimilative, and excretory functions; The Chinese bave placed the term Benevolence stalwart beggar, after the latter has waited for to make sure that all 'let or hindrance is at the Company's three Establishments $470,039-47 at the head of their list of Five Constant Virtues. a reasonable length of time, and has besought removed, so far as is possible; and to supply: 3.The character which denotes it, is composed of with what the Geneva arbitrators styled "due such food only as shall make a moderate
BY THE TWINY SHAREHOLDERS in the 1,319.33 the symbols for Man' and 'Two by which is diligence" will be liable to an invasion of a physiological demand on digestion, and yield to above Company will be held at the Head Office, Felly Castici ffoad Odion 11.5? Benevolence is something which ought to be the existence, even of a stolid Chinese, á burden, principles. In the aqueous extract of malted proximo, at 40'CLOCK P.M., for the purpose of supposed to be shadowed forth the view, that horde of famished wretches, who would render the system an abundant supply of nutritious Victoria, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 3rd developed by the contact of any two hyman and who would utterly prevent the transaction barley we have precisely such a food. It is a presenting the Report of the Directors, and 2013, beings with each other. It is unnecessary to of any business, until their continually rising lovely food, and, when the stomach is in active Statement of Accounts to 20th April last, and $66.3.6 remark that the theory which the form of the demands should be met. Both the shopkeepers revolt, a teaspoonful of malt extract every hour of declaring dividends.
character seems to favour, is not at all substan and the beggars understand this perfectly well, By Grous Eamlags of the Company's Establishes 2006,045.14 titated by the facts of life among the Chinese, and it is for this reason that benevolences of nor qualities. For several years past, the is an aliment which offends it neither by bulk Towage, Nett Earnings.....
3.527.06 Trapafor Fees
as those facts are to be read by the intelligent this nature flow in a steady, be it a tiny ill celebrated author Dr. Niuemeyer, consulting and attentive observer, Nevertheless, it is far The same principle, with obvious modifications, surgeon to the King of Wurtemberg, writes, from being true, as a superficial examination applies to the small donations to the incessant to restore the strength and nutrition of $606,308 would seem to indicate, that there is among stream of refugees, to be seen so often in so the patient, instead of prescribing cod liver the Chinese no Benevolence, though this has many, places. In all these cases it will be oil, which I was formerly in the habit of doing, D. GILLINK,
heen often predicated by those who ought observed that the object in view is by no I have employed, almost exclusively, extract of to have known the truth. The feeling of means the benefit of the person upon whom the malt, and with the very best effect. This sub: pity as Mencius reminds us, "is commonBenevolence? terminates, but the extraction stants must not be confounded with other so- to all men, widely as they differ in its from the benefiticonferred, of a return benefit for called malt extracts, which are only a kind of expression. The mild, and in some respects, the giver. Every object of Chinese charity, is beer, containing a large proportion of carbonie really benevolent teachings of the Buddhist regarded as a little Jo, and the main aim of acid and alcohol, often injurious to the patient. rellglon, have not been without a visible effect those who have anything to do with him, is to It consists of the soluble constituents of barley upon the Chinese people. There is, moreover, make it reasonably certain that he will "move malt. The Kepler Extract of Mall is the best, very action, and hang practical instinct on The other disabilities of Chinese Bene, and has the finest flavour of any I have ever Tevery unfection, and when the attention has volence, must be added this capital one, that it seen, affirms Professor Yandi In this coun- been pace directed, by no matter what euse, le almost impossible for any enterprise, however try the Lancet tells us, it is the best known toward the practice of virtue, there are a great good or however urgent, to escape the withering and largest used. In this malt preparation, cod variety of forms in, which there is certain to be effects of the Chinese system of squeezes, which liver oil has recently been dissolved, and thus abundant scope for the exercise of benevolence. is as well organised as any other part of the we have a new preparation of two foods, which Atlong the forms of benevolence which have scheme of Chinese govemment, it is not easy promises be invaluable lo pulmonary affections,
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Secretary We have examised the Books and Vouchers of the Company. cerify that is above Statements are in accordance therewith.
THES, ARNOLDS AND PART. P, FOITA
-Kongkong,.ryth August, 1598,
THE ARRAZOON, APCAR !! AND "REDE" COLLISION
The judgment delivered by Sir J. J. Ford, Chief Justice of the Straits Settlement, in this clion, case between, the steamer irration: pur and: Messrs. A. Holi and Co's steamer
will be CLOSED from the 21st instant to the The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company 3rd proximo, both days inclusive.
By Order,
A. S. GARFIT,
Acting Secretary Hongkang, 10th August, 888-
NOTICE. THE TAKU TUG AND LIGHTER '
COMPANY.
Intimations.
CRUICKSHANK AND COMPANY, LIMITED.
CAPITAL
IN 1,600 SHARES OF $50 EACH. Payable to on application and $40 on allotment in the event of no allotment being made the deposit will be returned in full.
Comp the highly successful Business of HIS Company is formed to acquire as a going
MT. WILLIAM CRUICKSHANK, CHEMIST and DRUGGIST, Hongkong.
Mr. WILLIAM CRUICKSHANK will act as General Manager of the Company.
Forms of Application can be obtained of Mr. WILLIAM CRUICKSHANK, Victoria Dis pensary to whom cheques must be made payable and the List will be positively CLOSED on the 31st August, 1888.
Dated 14th July, 1888. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION...
N ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEET ING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corpora tion will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the Twenty-fifth day of August, at TWELVE O'CLOCK NOON, for, the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a Statement, of Accounts to 30th June, 1888.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
T, JACKSON,
Chief Manager.
FOTICE is hereby given that the.
| Hongkong, 27th July, 1888. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
PE CORPORATION. TOTICE is hereby given that the REGIS
ROM the rat July the above Company will
lighter steamers and sailing, vessels at theNTER OF SHARES of the Corporation Faku Bar, at the rate of p
ill be CLOSED from the 11th (SATURDAY), to THREE MEXICAN CENTS PER PICUL the 25th day of August next, both days Inclusive, The work is done under the personal super during which period 'no transfer of Shares can be vision of the Manager assisted by a large registered. Fi FOREIGN STAFF
W. H. FORBES,
Tientsin, 28th June, 1888.
Secretary
By Order of the Court of Directors, M
T. JACKSON,
Chief Mansher,
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