Volunteer corps to man them, is receiving the attention of the Government.
2.It is considered that if this corps consisted of 40 or 50 members, there would probably he sufficient to act as a nucleus. On the emergency arising, it is thought that a further supply of Volunteers would be forthcoming, who in a short time would acquire sufficient proficiency.
3. Briefly stated, the conditions of service in the Volunteer corps would be that members will, for the benefit ofthe colony, undertake to attend drills at least once a month, and in the case of threatened war place themselves at the disposal of the Government without reserve.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1889.
was this; but it was more than this. As a -point some a east of Moukden, the Hwün river, being in flood, suddenly and without an hour's warning, bust its banks, and finding a convenicat channel in the marshy hollow, known as the Small River, awept west ward through part of the east suburb, then entering the south suburb carried away several hundred yards of the outer wall, and the massive brick-built "Great Sauth Gate." Reaching the open plain the strange and dreadful monster went careering on his way, like a wild beast, Men, women and children fed terror-stricken bent on destruction, and rejoicing to be free. before it, fled with what they could carry, to the 4. The organization of the corps would be higher levels, up trees, anywhere somewhat on the lines of the Royal Naval selves and their children alive, and in the race Save them Volunteers and the Royal Naval Artillery Volfer life many hundreds, falling, were carried unicers, and they would be required to serve in away by the remorseless current, never to be the special vesscis provided for the defence of heard of again. When the floods passed the colony.
by the fortunate few who had the means The officers would receive commissions from to do, it left the district and betook them the Governor, and an allowance to help towards selves to the neighbouring cities or villages, providing themselves with the authorized while the unfortunate many without means of uniform. They would be expected to acquire any kind remained behind, despairingly, amid competent knowledge of their duties, and to give the wrecks of their former habitations and a proper attention to the drills of the corps. They possessions. They built themselves huts of mod will receive the pay of their rank when called to shelter them and their little ones during the out on actual service, and provision will also be winter that was fast approaching. Before the made for officers and men disabled on service. muddy walls were dry the frost set in, but within those clammy walls the poor creatures took refuge and there they are to be found. Some of those huts are decently sized; but many of them are miserable dens, wretchedly confined, just such as you might provide as a kennel for your as these many thousands of women and children dog or as a roost for a few fowls. In such dens.
samething is done and that speedily, many must are existing, with nothing, to eat, and unless die of skeer starvation.
The men of the corps will be provided with uniforms at the Government expense, and, when on service, will receive pay according to their
rank.
Oficers and men will be required to conform to such regulations as may be made from time to time by the Governor, and, when on actual service, will be subject to the provisions of the Naval Discipline Act.
Any Volunteer may, except when on actual service, quit the corps on giving ten days' notice of his intention, and delivering up any property
possession....
belonging to the corps, which may be in his
i
The drills will comprise the working of the machine guns carried by the vessels provided, as well as rifle, pistol and cutlass drill, as carried out in the Royal Savy; in addition to this, the officers and petty officers will be trained with a view to rendering them capable of taking com- mand of any vessel in the service of the corps.
5. With a view towards ascertaining whether the raising and institution of such a force is practicable, the Government hereby invite offers from candidates for enrolment in the corps, the decision as to whether the undertaking is proceeded with or not depending on the number and character of the offers received.
Communications should be addressed to the Colonial Secretary.
By Commaid,
FREDERICK STEWART,
• Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th January, 1889...
CORRESPONDENCE.
-
We do not necessarily etulore the opiolant expressed by Correspondents in this column)
THE DISTRESS IN THE NORTHERN
PROVINCES.
TO THE EDITOR OF ter "Homozona' Trurorafic” SIR,- venture to appeal through your columns for prompt assistance on behalf of the distress in Shantung. The autumn crops of 1988 were almost wholly destroyed by heavy rains, so that the people who always live from band romouth are now reduced to an extremity, In the low lying-marshy district they have plucked the seeds and leaves of a weed which grows wild there. These they make into villai nous looking cakes, tasteless as paper, which they eat, and thus sustain life. Others boil and eat the green grass-sprouts of the spring corn, or mix chaff, bran and husks with their scanty store of grain. But all the expedients are but temporary, and will not last until the next harvest.. Some have already exhausted their stock of food, and deaths from cold and starvation are by no means uncommon. Thousands have emigrated to Shensi where land la reported to be abundant, and the population scanty, but many more have no means of moving, and are selling their land, their houses, their wives and their children to obtain food. The price of grain is steadily rising, and the officials have undertaken no systematic relief. Unleasaub. stantial help comes from abroad without delay, hundreds must miserably starve to death, while it is to be feared that some in desperation will be foolish enough to pull up the growing corn, thus destroying their prospects of a harvest in May. This was done by some in Shani during the great famine of twelve years ago. Until the end of next May there will be hundreds of men, women and children who will have nothing to live upon but what may be supplied by extraneous help, and who, if this be not forth- coming, must miserably die of starvation.
The public in Shanghai and the Northern ports have already liberally contributed towards the relief of the distress caused by the foods in Honan and Manchuria. The distress in this region is therefore greater than can be covered by local help, and I on this account direct my appeal to the generously disposed among your
readers.
Subscriptions may be sent here direct, or paid in to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to the credit of R. C, Forsyth Esq. Famice Fund, Shanghai.
Yours truly,
C. SPURGEON MEDHURST, English Baptist Mission,
Tsing Chen Fu, Chefoo, 17th January, 1889.
THE FAMINE IN NORTH CHINA.
The Rev. J. Webster, of the Scotch Mission, dating from Moukden on the 5th January, ...appeals for assistance, and gives the following account of the terrible distress existing in that
district
†
The Governor General of the province has of course taken steps to relieve the distress, and 8 large soup kitchens have been opened at various centres where a bowl of cooked millets dispensed dafly to each applicant. Many thousands of lives will by this means be saved.. Of course
ous complaints are made by the people. destination, the method of distributing relief is Seventy per cent, of the fund never reaches its
such that the neediest are left out in the cold, and the half of those, who are being fed are not certain amount of official "squeezing" goes deserving." So the tale runs. That there is a without saying; but a prominent official in the city, who has had a good deal to do with the arrangement for relief, assures me that the method of distribution is the one best adapted, with the funds at their disposal, to effect the greatest good to the greatest number, and the method where corruption is least likely to be indulged in. The Chinese know best themselves; but of this there cannot be the shadow of a doubt, that after, all that has been, and is being done to meet the distress, a very large margin of suffering rem is untouched by any helping hand.
The
black dust, had come as a godsend to others. The saddest cases were the poor women with three or four little children about them, often one at the breast. Once we came across a widow with six, almost naked, bairns, mother was weeping bitterly while the children clamoured for food. She was feeding them in turns from a dish containing some cold black porridge made of the ground husk of buckwheat, the gift of a neighbour in distress in another house we found five families huddled together in two small chien, the total humanity squatting being forty. Sixteen children under ten were
the kang shivering, some of them crying from hunger and cold, no food, no fire,
Shang'han" fever, it was said. almost no clothing, Two women were
The comparative absence of sickness was remarked with satisfaction. In most cases there was a little millet stalk or branches of trees for firing. The winter has been unusually mild up till now, and only once has the temperature been below zero. The clothing of the people was of the scantiest description and had the cold been as severe as in former years many must have inevitably been frozen to death,
I spent something over $100 of my small store, reserving the balance against a day, not far dis tant, when the struggle for life will be even more terrible than now. We relieved over 50 families, a total of 275 individuals, giving to each family sufficient to keep them alive for a month. Of course it is but a drop in the bucket; still it helped some. At few weeks hence 1 contem- plate going down through the heart of this the means at my disposal will admit the system northern famine district carrying out as far as of relief I have indicated above. If I had the means, a, vast amount of the unmitigated margin might be relieved, and thousands of poor women and helpless little ones saved from death. Let it be remembered that there is little time to lose.
in about 20 days from now the crisis will have arrived, and I appeal for funds to enable us to meet il, and in some measure tide it ever.
'MACAO.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT)
Macao, February 3rd, 1889. the neighbouring town of Chin-san, I am at a With reference to the preparations going in at loss to understand what the intentions of the Chinese Government are; but I know for certain that the place has had a new wall built around it at a cost, I am told, of 75,000 taels Inside the enclosure they are digging up a canal which is to communicate with the river, and outside it a vast area is being levelled and prepared, pro- bably for houses to be built thereon,
The new Income or Industrial tax which was to be levied on Chinese shop-keepers and traders
To-day's Advertisements.
FOR SHANGHAI,
THE Steamship
instant, at 4 P.M.
" PEKING,"
Captain G. Heuermann, will be despatched for the above Port, on WEDNESDAY, the 6th
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SIEMSSEN & Co. Hgor, 4th February, 889. THE CHINA SHIPPERS' MUTUAL STEAM 169
NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL AND.
SINGAPORE
THE Company's Steamship having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk, into the Godowns, of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
have left the Godowns, and all claims must be No Claims will be admitted after the Goods sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before NOON, on the 9th inst., or they will not be recognited.
be left in the Godowns where they will be, All broken; chafed, and damaged goods are to examined on the 9th instant, at 4 P.M.
Intimations.
HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE DIVIDEND at the Rate of 7 per cent. Share, declared at the Ordinary Hall-Yearly and Bonus of 1 per cent, or St.60 per Meeting of Shareholders held This Day will be payable at the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION an and after MONDAY, the 4th instant,
Shareholders are requested to apply at the Office of the Company for Warrants.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
T. ARNOLD, Secretary. Hongkong and February, 1889. (164
PUBLIC NOTICE OF EXPIRY OF OPIUM FARM. PREPARING OPIUM and SELL THE Exclusive PRIVILEGE of BOILING ING and RETAILING OPIUM so Boiled or Prepared will CEASE on the 28th day of February, 1880. No boiled or prepared Opium after the 3rd day of March, 1889, at Noon, without purchased from us or our Licensees can be used the consent of the New Holder of such exclusive privilege as aforesaid.
Dated 26th January, 1889.
No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any 161] Goods remaining in the Godowns after; the 9th inst, will be subject to rent.
of
#
"
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before to int TO-DAY
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,
Agents, Hongkong, 4th February, 1889.
[167 THE SONGEI KOYAH PLANTING CO., LIMITED.
THE STATUTORY GENERAL MEETING HONGKONG HOTEL on TUESDAY, the 19th of this company will be held at the instant, at 12.30 p.m.
"GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
General Managers, flongkong, 4th February, 1889,
[171
Masonic.
in Macro has been suspended, and the old Z. ETLAND system of licences provisionally re-adopted,
CHILDREN starving to death on account of their
LO.D
KHOO TEONG POH,
AND
CHEAK TEK SOON, Opium Farmers, NOTICE.. HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED. THE EIGHTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Office of the Company, Pedder's Street, on THURSDAY, the 7th February, nt NOON, 10 receive a Statement of the Accounts of the Company to, the 31st December, 1888, and the Report of the General Managers, and to discuss any matters that may be competently brought before the Meeting.
proximo, both days inclusive. will be CLOSED from the 28th instant to 7th The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
[125
JARDINE, MATESON & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 24th January, 1889, CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE:
GETMEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the
ELEVENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL
No. 525 REGULAR MEETING of the above
February, at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
Hongkong, 29th January, 1889.
[147
above Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Peddar Street, on MONDAY, the 18th of February, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report from the General Agents,
:
method of distribution is such that only a certain inability to digest food will find a most marvellous LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS' with a Statement of Accounts, to the 31st of
There is no systematic food and remedy, in Scott's Emulsion of Pure HALL, Zetland Street, TO-MORROW, the 5th December, 1888,
Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites. Very palat able and easily digested. Read the following testimonial:I have prescribed 'Scott's Emul sion' in cases of children suffering from wasting and mal-nutrition and can report most favour-
taken most readily."-W. PERKINS, M.R.C:S., Medical Superintendent, Butleigh Hospital, Any Chemist can supply it.-A. S. Watson & Co. (Limited), agents in Hongkong and China.-[Advt.
It is perfectly evident, and indeed admitted by the officials themselves, that the native
class is reached. house to house visitation with a view to find out the actual circumstance of those who receive aid. The soup kitchens are opened at an carly hour every morning, whoever comes is served and no questions are asked. First come, best served, and if the poor applicantsbly of its good effect; it has been in each case arrives but a minute too late he finds the gates closed against him, and he has to return hungry to his home With such an indis- thousands who are daily fed, a considerable criminate system of giving, it follow, that of the Proportion are professional beggars who tramp from the soup kitchen to beg at the nearest shop door, and that another considerable proportion consists of that class of mean men, a large class in China, who will grab at a bowl of millet for nothing, although they might have breakfasted who are really deserving, and receive genuine comfortably in their own homes, Then those help from the kitcliens are those who live within off their kangs at cock-crow, and trudge the a manageable distance, or who are able to get
Ample provision is made for this class, and the THE Company's Steamship matter of seven or ten miles to the nearest depot.
government deserve due praise for making this provision, by means of which over 20,000 receive their daily bread,
But what about those who from age, ill-health, want of clothing, or other reasons, are unable to go to the kitchens? What of those who could not walk a mile to save their lives? The ill-clad women and helpless little ones? Let it be remembered if they go they are fed; but if they cannot go, they may not send. They are. simply outside the range of the native relief systems. It is this
** Margin of immitigated distress." to which I referred, and in behalf of which I would fain lift up a plea.
Co-day's Advertisements.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY, LIMITED,
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, AND
!
CALCUTTA.
"TAISANG,"
Captain Jackson, will be despatched as above TO-MORROW, the 5th February, at DAYLIGHT This Steamer has Superior First Class Accom modation, specially, constructed to meet the requirements of tropical climates,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 4th February, 1889. [143
STEAM TO MANILA (DIRECT), THE Steamship
THE
"NANZING,"
·Intimations
JURY LIST, 1889,
OTICE is hereby given that pursuant to The Provisions of Section 4 of Ordinance No. 14 of 1882, I have this day caused to be posted, in the Court House, a List of all men ascertained by me to be liable to serve as JURORS.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company, will be CLOSED, from 5th to the 18th of February, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents, Hongkong, 2nd February, 1889
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TWENTIETH -*
Auctions.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,"
No. 35.
HE following Particulars of Sale of Crown
4
to held on
spot, on
MONDAY, the 11th day of February, 1889, at 4 PM
are published for general information. By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 16th January, 18 9
[135
Particulars of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 11th day
CROWN LAND, in the Colony of Hongkong, of February, 1889, at 4 P.M., by Order of Hin Excellency the Governor, of One Lot o
for a term of 999 Years.
No. 1,215
No. of
Sale.
No.
Registry
Measurements, Boundar
Locality,
N. S.&E W.
Square ft.
Contents in Annual Upset Rent. Price.
feet.
feet.
feet.
$
Inland Lot Rutter Street Tai-
p'ingshan ........ 101
158
134
7.380
48
3.690
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
'No. 37.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
(165 THE following Particulars of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held on the spot, on
WEDNESDAY, the 13th day of February, 1888, at 4 P.M., are
.pablished for general information. By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
ORDINARY
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the Company. will he held at the Company's Office, No. 5, Queen's Road, Victoria, at THREE O'CLOCK in the AFTERNOON, of TUESDAY, the 19th February, 1889, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts, and the December, 1888.
**[137.
The said List will remain so posted for the term of one fortnight, in order that any Person may, as the case shall be, apply by notice in Report of the Directors for the year ending 3151 day of February, 1889, at 4 P.M., by Order
writing to me requiring that his name, or the names of some other Person or Persons may be
respectively either added to, or struck off, the said List, upon cause, duly assigned la such notice,
ALFRED. G. WISE, Registry Supreme Court,
Acting Registrar. Hongkong, 1st February, 1889,
[160 NORTH CHINA FAMINE RELIEF FUND,
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION will be happy to RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS to the above lund and transmit same to the Shanghai Commitice.
Hongkong, 30th January, 1889
MASONIC BALL, 1889,
figr
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 6th Proximo to the 19th Proximo, both days inclusive.
By Order,.:
F139
JAS. B. COUGHTRIE, Secretary, Hongkong, 28th January, 1889.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
N EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of
Captain Talbot, will, be despatched as above. A MASONIC BALL, under the Auspices of subjoined Resolutie we proposed.
on WEDNESDAY, the 6th inst., at 3P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 4th February, 1889.
[168
the DISTRICT GRAND LODGE of Hong kong and South China, will be held at the CITY HALL, OR FRIDAY, the 15th February
Brethren desirous of inviting Guests, are requested to send the names of their friends to the undersigned.
The Subscription is limited to $10 for Masont and $5 for each Guest invited (non-Masons)
ALF. WOOLLEY. Hon. Sec Hongkong, 28th January, 1889.
had last week when I paid a vianal experiences I had last week when I paid a visit to the famine district. Through the kindness, of friends in Scotland the sum of £50 was placed at my disposal for distribution. The time at my disposal for this work was limited, as was the money, and I determined that the little help I gave should be applied with as much discrimina- tion as possible. With this in view, I dispatched two trustworthy men to a district not ten miles from Moukden where the distress was reported to be exceptionally great. They were instructed to operate at a point remote from the native soup kitchens, to investigate carefully the circum- stances of the families, and to bring me a list of be despatched for the above Ports, on the THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COM-
joth instant. most necessitous cases who were not being
the relieved by the native agencies.
They returned and submitted their report. I then prepared a lot of schedules in English, with Chiasso duplicates, indicating the village, bame of the family, number of adults and children in each, their circumstances and the amout granted. Having made, arrangements with a grain.mer- chant I started for the scene of the distress. As the ground had been gone over by my men, and fairly well known I had a comparatively easy task the circumstances of each family were already before me.
FOR
will
HE
"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NAGASAKI, KOBE &. YOKOHAMA,
Steamship
"CARDIGANSHIRE "
. . . . .
For Freight or Passage, apply to
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 4th February, 1889...
notice.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
г168
Tole, advertised to take place To- Sale of RURAL BUILDING. LOT morrow Afternoon, is POSTPONED until further
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office, g Hongkong, 26th January, 1889.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. XEEKLY SPOON
COMPETITION,
[136
We went from "hauser to house, meeting with sights and hearing tales of want and suffering impossible to hear and see The distress in this neighbourhood, occasioned truth it was the most trying piece of work I unmoved I have said my task was easy, in by the disastrous floods of August last, is very great, and is fast, reaching a crisis. During weight the longer we carried it, and crushing ever attempted, the burden increasing in those foods the whole of the southwest portion not the body but the heart The men bad of Feng-t'len was swept of almost every stalk of carried out my instructions to the letter. They grain, while in the northern provinces of Kirin had surely chosen the most necessitous cases! and, Tel-tsi-bar and the castern valleys of the almost wished I had not sent them on before,00 Yards, so Shots: Entrance Fes to southern provinces, the drought of early sumrder so that in my personal investigations an occa- and the unusually early descent of hoarfrost, sional ray of light might have come athwart my Cents payable on the ground, next SATURDAY, have left but a mere fraction of a crop. The path as it was, the next house seemed always the 9th February, 4 O'CLOCK, Carbines sllowed consequence is that grain has risen to an almost to be in a more lamentable plight than the one shot extra. On THURSDAY AFTER- unprecedented price, and the people who, even previous one. Almost without exception the 300 and go Yards.of.
NOONS the Range is reserved for Practico at in ordinary years, have difficulty in making families were living in the merest kennels and so ends meet, are feeling sorely the pinch of confined that in some cases not only the kang poverty, although they have not suffered directly but the floor was littered with human beings. the loss of houses and crops, while hundreds of The stench from those dens of human misery thousands, men, women and chlidren, are in s
was sometimes horrible," so much so, that on state of abject destitution.man
more than, ona occasion it was quite out of The extent of the territory over which the the question for me to face it. In some of distress is extreme is very wide, and there is no the houses I found a little of the refuse of pastion of it that can be more forlorn, than the beancurd, in others a litle of the husk of back district extending from Moukden southwest to wheat crushed, a black dust, such as the swine the T'aidsu river—a distance of 120 as the do cat. But in the large majority of cases crow fles During the floods the loss of life and my search revealed absolutely nothing except property in this locality was exceptionally heavy, water. The husband was as a general rule in order to receive accounts for the past year
[58
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 4th February, 1889. HONGKONG, AMATEUR ATHLETIC
(SPORTS," T-
ENTLEMEN interested in Athletics are
invited to attend a MEETING to be held
on WEDNESDAY NEXT at 6 F in the Gymnasium of the VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB
!
[100
CAPITAL
PANY,- LIMITED,
DIVIDED INTO 30,000 SILARES OF $10 EACH.
100,000,
THE PUBLIC.
(The remaining 15,000 Shares have been taken up on the same terms as the Shares apw offered to the Public.)
A SHAREHOLDERS in the above Coin- pany, will be held at the Company's Office, No. 5, Queen's Road, Victoria, at 3.15 O'CLOCK P.M., of the rgib day of February, 1889, when the
That Article No. 9 of the Articles of Association RESOLUTION, be altered by eliminating therefrom the words "One Hundred Thousand" and substituting therefor the words "One Hundred and Fifty Thousand." By Order,
[140
JAS. B. COUGHTRIE, Secretary, Hongkong, 28th January, 1889. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
that the
TOTICE hereby,
given
NORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of
the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will
be held CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 23rd day of February next, at 12 O'CLOCK
OF WHICH 15,000 SHARES ARE OFFERED TO NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a State- ment of Accounts to 31st December, 1888.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
G. E. NOBLE,
Chief Manager, Hongkong, 24th January, 1889.
[130 HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING SANTA CORPORATION,"
PAYMENT TO BE AS FOLLOWS:- ON APPLICATION. ON ALLOTMENT.....
The Balance at call (on One Month's notice being given) as required to meet drafts for purchase of Plant and other wise for the purposes and
the extenriod of the pondo pel
Applications for shares, accompanied by
business of the Company.
deposit of $1 per share, must be sent in to
"THE HONGKONG" AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION ON OF before the 12th day of··
February, 1889,
Las
N REGISTERS OF SHARES of the
OTICE hereby given that the
Corporation will be CI OSED from SATURDAY, the 9th, to SATURDAY, the 23rd February next, (both days Inclusive) during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered. By Order of the Court of Directors,
G. E. NOBLE,
Chief Manager, Hongkong, 24th January, 1889. [131
THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 26th January, 1889. Particulars of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on WEDNESDAY, the 13th of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 999 Year.
No. 1,514 Sing Wong Street...[55' 3" (18' 9" 53' 1o 41' 6"]
1,535
18
2,000
Inland Lot
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No.
Sale
No.
Registry
Boundary Measurements Contents in Annual Upset
Locality,
N.
S.
E.
Square f
Rent Price
fret:
feet: feet
feet.
६.
W
Notices of Firms.
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
R. E. has been appointed. CHIEF MANAGER of the Bank from the 1st January, 1889.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
ST. JACKSON,
Chief Manager Hongkong, 31st December, 1888.
NOTICE
For prospectus and for forms of application HE TWENTIETH ORDINARY for shares, apply to the ELAVAGE
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOLDERS in the above Company will be held M Mr. J. DE SONNAVILLE were admitted IMAGINATION BANKING CORPORATION,
Messis, GIBB LIVINGSTON & Co. Dated the 24th day of January, 1839.124
KOWLOON HOTEL
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Compasy
at the Offices of the Company, Pedder's Street, on MONDAY, the 35th February. instant, at 17O'CLOCK (NOON) to receive a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1888, the Report of the General Managers, and to elect a Conautt Janonau-Ling Commites and Auditors, sta JCL ROUCH:MMMMM....MANAGER LEE XZINE and SPIRITS of the TABLES BOWLING ALLEYS TENNIS LAWNA
Hongkong 21st January, 1869),
on account of the peculiar nature of the disaster. absent, he had been away for a month in and elect Officers and arrange the programmaWMPENGLISH &AMERICAN BILLIA
In this case it was not merely an exceptionally search of work, or had gone to the scup kitchen high water mark, the banks overflowing and or he was away begging something forthe wife
for this Year's Meeting,
UJUANCHAS, H. THOMPSON Hongkong, 4th February, 1889 need 174
Causing partial destruction to crops and houses and weans," Many had not tasted food for days Hon. Sccretary, In the Immediate neighbourhood of the river, . 11 - an occasional bowl, of beancurd refuse, of the
will be CLOSED from the sath to the atth day 91 February instant, both days inclusive, FYRIR LE JARDINE, MATHESON & Cop
B General Managers, Friday Hongkong Fire Lœsurance Co., Limited.
Hongkong, 1st February, 1889,
JAMES HENRY MACLEHOSE and
PARTNERS in bur. Firm on 1st January last,
-MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co. Hongkong, 1st February, 18°9.
practice a VICTORIA BUILDINGS and after the 1st February, shall (basement) Queen's Road,
for
ARTHUR B. RODYK,
Solicitor, [139] Hongkong, sotia January, 1989 [144