mense mass down to the gea-level; and in a few weeks more it existed but as a dangerous shoal. And auch, vitably, would have been the fare of the equally incoherent cone-like craters of Etna and Auvergne during the seven and a half months that intervened between the breaking up of the fountains of the great deep and the fe-appearance of the mountain-tops. had they been included within the area of the Deluge.""
Scrape, in "Volcanoes of Central France" says: "This amount of excavation can be attributed only to the river, which still flows there because the undisturbed and perfect slate of the cone of loose scorice demonstrates that.no denuding wave, deluge or extraordinary body of water has passed over this spot since the eruption... The undisturbed condi. tion of the volcanic cones, consisting of loose score and ashes, which actually let the foot sink ankle-deep in them. forbids the possi- bility of supposing any great wave or deluge to have passed over, the country, since the produc tion of those cones,"
Sir Charles Lyell, confirms this in "Antiquity of Man," p. 192: "We behold in many a valley of Auvergne, within 50 feet of the present river channel, a volcanic cone of loose ashes, with a cinter, at its jummit, from which powerful currents of basalile lava have poured, usurping the ancient bed of the torrent. By the action of the stream in the course of ages, vast masses of the band, columnar basalt have been removed, pillar after pillar, and much vesicular láva, as | in the case, for example, of the Puy Rouge, near the Chalueet, and of the Puy de Tartaret, near Neckers. The rivers have even in some cases, as the Sinule, near Chalucet, not only cut through the basalt, which dispossessed them of their ancient channels. but have actually eaten 50 feet into the subjacent gneiss; yet the cone, an incoherent heap of scorial and spongy ejectamenja, stands unmolested. Had the
• waters once risen, even for a day, so high as to reach the level of the base of one of these cones,had there been a single flood 50 or 60 feet in height since the last eruption occurred, a great part of these volcanoes must inevitably have been swept away."
The advocates of the Bible story, finding it impossible to maintain, in the light of modern science, the alleged universal Deluge, have re- Borted to the plan of localiting the Noachian phenomenon within circumscribed boundaries. The partial deluge theory originated with those who thought that the flood was intended to destroy the human species alone, that con- sequently it must have affected only the coun- tries occupied by the-posterity of Adam, the remaining portion of the earth being left entirely free from its influence.
The Biblical narrator however, very clearly contradicts this hypothesis, as the following passages, will show "Jehovah said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the Earth, both mannil heist and the preeping thing and the fowls of the air. Gen. v1.7 "Behold I, even I, do bring a Flood of water upon the Earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of fife, from under heaven, and every thing that is in the Earth, shall died vi, 17 "Of every living thing of all flesh," etc. vi. 19.-"Every living substance, that I have made, will I destroy from off the face of the Earth. vii. 4. All the high bills that were under the whole heaven, were covered" vii. 19" And all flesh died that moved upon the earth
.all, in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed, which was upon the face of the ground" vil.
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CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
EMPLOYMENT OF INTERMEDIARIES,
a
In the works of a modern novelist there is story of a certain Yankee ship-captain who was shipwrecked, but who escaped in one of the bonts, taking with him the ship's instruments and a supply of provisions. While cruising about the waters of the Pacific, the captain sighted a whale, which by means of great skill and long experience in the art, be contrived to kill with the harpoon. As it was impossible to take such an object in tow of a whale boat, it occurred to the captain to transfer himself and ble men from the boat to the back of the whale, from which he daily took observations as from a deck, After floating around in this way for some time, the captain was sighted, as he had expected to be, by whaling ship, the captain of which heard the strange story of the shipwrecked party, and then, coming to business, proposed to hoy the whale, as the first captain knew he would. The dialogue between the two captains is given, as it must have been taken down, verbatim, and was as follows:-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1889.
Intimations.
THE NORTH CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE TENTH ORDINARY GENERAL
offered to them by the. lower unlmals, who have me of the burden, but it now descends to you." MEETING of the above Company will.
SIGNIFICANT DREAMS.
EXPLANATIONS OFFERED BY SCIENCE OF
ignorance, intervenes, declares that sleep during makes it all the more indispensable that the
igestion is dangerous, admonishes the would-be middleman, should interpose, for otherwise, as one is constantly told, the matter could not even sleepers to struggle against their perilous in be mentioned between them, And why, you clination, and; though telling them that after dinner they may sit awhile, assures them of the venture to ask, cannot two principals who know each other well do their own business at first adage, "alter supper walk a mile." The millions hand, and save the expense of a middleman? ofits victims continue, therefore, theatrife to which Because the interests of the two principals, you it condemns them, and ignore the suggestions are reminded, are directly opposite. to one
always rracticed the lessons of sound physiology, another, while the interests of the middleman are
identical with those of each puny. Translated by sleeping after feeding whenever they are into plain English, this merely signifies that allowed to do so, Hence, the human brain and the two parties do not trust one another, but human stomach of such victims contend with agree to trust the middleman, in order that if each other during the digestive process; the there is any hitch, as there would surely be brain, impeded by superstition, strives to work and demaċds blood to work with, while the without him, each party may have some respon-
stomach, stimulated by its contents, strives to sible person whose business and whose interest it shall be to adjust the affrir, and bring it to carry on its marvellous chemistry, and demands head. Even if the matter in question were an ample supply of blood, for the purpose. The result of the struggle is that neither is able to do much simpler than the sale of land, it would in
One its work well; the brain is enfeebled by digestive all probability require intermediaries." man has a great shundance of turnips, but has process, and the healthy function of the stomach no sweet potatoes. His next door neighbour speedily and surely degenerates into dyspepsia
-Westminster Review. in the village hat plenty of potatoes, but no turnips. Each of them wisbes both potatoes and turnips. But instead of settling the matter by a friendly word over the wall after breakfast, each of them will go to the market distant several miles, taking his turnips or his potatoes with him, and if the other man wishes to buy these vegetables then and there, he can do so. "But
CURIOUS PHENOMENA. why," you inquire, "would it not be simpler to
Fm time immemorial dreams have been the exchange the roots at home, and save the time and trouble of hauling them ?"For the reason wonderland of waking hours. Hope and fear that unless the vegetables were taken to the have Yought them into their own fabric. market, it would be utterly impossible to tell Superstition has seized upon them and worked what the price ought to be, and one party or the up a curious ritual of "dreams that go by con other might be cheated. Neither of them trusts--anies," of "dreams of the morning light," of dreams with significances, spine of which seem the other, and each knows that the only way to be sure that some advantage is not taken of him natural enough, while to a few of those appar is to bring the maiter, to the arbitration of the ently most arbitrary, science, herself has offered
a certain amount of explanation. general public, in the form of an ordinary market sale, where the resultant between the advances of the buyers and the retreats of the sellers, 'are, de facto, the ́market price. In a country where market reports are practically unknown, and where each place and each time are as distinct as possible from every other place and every other time, the middleman is an absolute necessity. It should be added that the percentage of the Chinese mid, dleman does not appear to be unduly onerous, say five per cent, thus affording an instructive contrast to those cases annually reported as occurring in a great mart like Chicago, where the farmer takes his wheat to market, and some- times finds that after paying the railways for transportation, the elevators for storage, and the middleman for sale he not only has no money in hand, but is appreciably in debt to the benefac- tors who have kindly taken his crop off his bands I it was of such a case as this that an old farmer observed that he thought the' middle- man' stood too near the other and i
Dreaming is an experience which may be called common to humanity, though it varies so widely in different individuals, that in a few exceptional cases it is absolutely unknown. Certainly dreams are often made of materials very inadequate to their finished results. Aber combie relates that during an alarm of a French invasion in Edinburgh, it had been arranged ibat the first intimation of the enemy's approach was to be the firing of a gun from the castle. A certain gentleman, a zealous volunteer, retired to hed, dreamed that he beard, this pun, went ut,, and witnessed and jolted in the proceedings of the troops. At this juncture he was awakened by his wife in a great fight, she having had a similar d'eam. It was ascertained that the fall. ing of a pair of tongs in an upper chamber was the common origin of the dream in two minds already predisposed to the same line of fancy,
Another instance is given of a person sleeping. in a room where a flat-iron,was allowed to scorch 1 woollen garment. The sleeper dreamed that the house was burned down, and that she could not escape because all her clothes were destroyed!
retiring to bed she soon fell asleep and presently dreamed that an old man clothed in black approached her, holding out an iron crown apparently of enormous weight. As he drew near she recognized the features of her father, who had been dead for many years. He addressed her thus: "My daughter, during my lifetime I was forced to wear this crown. Death relieved He placed it on her head and gradually dis- appeared. Immediately she felt a weight and be held at the Head Office, TO-MORROW, the tightness about her brow. Further, to add to- 26th April, 1889, at Half-pist Two o'clock p.m. her torture, the rim of the crown was studded for the presentation of the Report of the Directors on the inside with sharp points, which and Accounts to the 31st December, 1888, the wounded her forehead so that the blood van declaration of Dividends, the Elcation of Direc down her face. She awoke, agitated and excitelltors and Auditors for the current year, and the but otherwise quite well, and found that she had transaction,of any other business which may be been asleep little more than half an hour. On transacted at an Ordinary General Meeting.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company falling asleep again the dream was repeated with the additional circumstance that the appar will be CLOSED from the 17th to the 26th inst, tion of her father now reproached her for her both days inclusive. unwillingness to wear the crown. When she By Order of the Court of Directora, awoke again she found she had been asleep for three hours. Again she returned to bed, and the dream was repeated in broad daylight.
She now arose and made her toilet. Going aver the circumstances of her dream, she recol- tected having heard her father say that during - his youth, spent in a distant land, he had been subject to epileptic convulsions consequent on an accident, and that he had been cured by the
operation of trepaning.
On a sister entering her room she proceedel to narrate the picturesque vision, which bad, naturally, made such an impression on, ber memory. While thus engaged she suddenly: gave a shriek, became unconscious and fell upon, the floor, in true epileptic convulsions, though the attack was but a slight one. A week afterward the dream was repeated, and was followed by another attack. Under suitable treatment both dream and attack ceased to recur. The Argosy.
To-day's Advertisements.
THE CHINA SHIPPERS MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
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FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ CANAL THE Company's Steamship
"NINGCHOW,"
:
Wm. Durdin, Commander, will be despatched as above TO-MORROW, the 26th inst., at 4 P.M.
For Freight, apply to
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 25th April, 1889,
FOR SHANGHAL.. *HE Steamship
THE
f448
"NINGPO," Captain F. Schulz, will be despatched for the above Port, on.SATURDAY, the 27th instant, at
4 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SIEMSSEN & Co.
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A gentleman, who, before retiring to sleep; had been reading a book of picturesque travels, dreamed that he was journeying across the Rocky Mountains. He was attacked by two Mexicans, and after a gallant fight was taken prisoner. His capters, believed, him to be the possessor of secret treasure, and in order to make him reveal its whereabouts put him to the torture of stripping his feet and holding them to a fire. Waking with a cry. agony he dis: covered that his hot-water bottle had escaped frm is.fannel swathings and that the undue heat of his toes had conjured up all the rest of P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship
TEHERAN" the tragic story."
Hongo, 25th April, 889. 1503
One authority declares that in a dream he made a voyage to India; spending several days in Calcuta, continued his journey to Egypt, visited the cataracts and pyramids and held confidential interviews with Mohammed AU, Cleopatra and Saladin, the whole journey appa rently occupying several months; but he had slept only an hour.
Scientific writers admit that there is a type of dream in which coming physical disease or dis aster is shadowed forth-some bodily sensation, perhaps too, slight to be noticed by the subject when awake, yet contriving to impress itself in some symbolic form on the sleeping mind. The mare striking instances of this sort may serve to explain how, in some lesser degree, certain symbols are likely to attach themselves to certain painful sensations or conditions until at-last they are finally accepted as mysterious presager of evil.
If the interposition of an intermediary is essential to the completion of a transfer of property, it is not less so in one of the most important acts of life, that namely of arranging marriages. We are twice informed in the Brok of Odes, that as the axe is necessary in order to cut wood, so a go-between is requisite in order to secure a wife. This statement is of special interest as showing the antiquity of the custom of arranging these matters through a third party. The reasons which made it a necessity then make it a necessity now, for there seems little reason to think that in all these ages the Chinese have materially altered. It is quite practicable to have the go-between a friend or relative of one of the partics, and in that case the party whose friend the go-between
A French physiologist caused many curious is, feels a degree of security to his own interests that would be otherwise out experiments to be made on himself during of the question. The reputation of professional sleep. These experiments took the form of match-makers is generally bad, their sole object trifling physical sensations, which produced being to accomplish the union, irrespective of almost invariably a wonderfully exaggerated fitness or of the real wishes the principals.ffect on the sleeping mind. Thus a feather Vet notwithstanding the constant frauds which tickling the lips was converted into the horrible are perpetrated by these go-betweens, who act punishment of a mask of pitch being applied to the face, A bottle of eau de Cologne for a pecuniary reward only, they do a surprisingly large percentage of the business of match. held to his nose sent him into a dream of a making. The topposition that two members of perfumer's-shop in Cairo. A pinch on the neck recalled the days of his boyhood and the families directly interested in a possible union, should themselves, unaided by any outside in old family physician applying a blister to that tervention, arrange the details between them, ap- region. pears to the Chinese as fatuous, as that a person who has occasion to cross a river should insist upon swimming, when there is already a good bridge. That parents arrange the matches for their children without reference whatever to the latter, is a matter of course, and it is often done when the children are very young and sometimes before they are born. If the parents are not living, it becomes the duty of the next of kin to see that a match of some sort is negotiated. This can be done quite as well when the young man is a thousand miles distant. If it should happen tant during his absence' from home, a match has been arranged for him where he is by some other parties and be has been actually married, then the law allows this somewhat irregular marriage to stand, and the girl who had been betrothed to him at his home, is re-engaged to some one else. One of the first questions which Chinese women ask of foreign Indies with whom they become well acquainted, Is who arranged their marriages for them and Nothing could afford a greater contrast between how it la possible for them to live at such vast the Occidental and the Chinese methods of doing distances from their mothers-in-law Upon business, than such a conversation as this, hearing that foreign indies arrange their own According to the ideas and practice of the marriages, and that they often receive a letter Chinese, in order to make a bargain, it takes from some man inquiring whether the lady will not two as our proverb says, but three, the two or will not consent to become in future the wife principals and a third who stands between them, of said man, we have seen a roomful of Chinese And who is therefore the middleman. This women and girls go off into shricks of itrapres- Individual is not merely a convenience, he isible laughter. There is nothing in the marriage necessity. If there are no clouds in the sky, customs of the most savage tribe on the planet, says the Chinese adage, "there will be no rain which strikes us as so absurd as, our customs on the earth if there is no one to stand between, appear to the average Chinese. It is not to be business will not be done." Customs doubt wondered at if the Chinese look with more or less differ widely in difterent parts of Chies less suspicion upon matches which are settled as to the details of everyday affairs, but in such an amazing fashion, for one of their there seems to be a general agreement in the aphorisms observes that without the decree of rule, that whenever anything of consequence one's parents, and without the intervention of a is to be done in the way of purchase or sale, go-between, to awange marriages for ourselves it takes more than two persons to complete the would make us all thieves 1" Iransaction. This is true of the transfer of land, of the purchase of animals, of the sale of any considerable quantity of the products of the earth.
SLEEPING AFTER MEALS, In a western land, a man going home to his roon meal meeting by accident a friend, xays to him," "By the way, what will you sell that forty-acre There is a widespread superstition, cherished lot for?" His friend replies that he thinks it is by the great majority of the people, that to sleep worth fifty dollars an aere, The other man had immediately sker they have taken food is to favor the onset of apoplexy, thought of offering forty, but after ten minutest endanger health, conversation, they agree to split the difference, etc. superstition based on the assumption and call the forty-five dollars. parties that during sleep the brain is normally congested, step fato at price for five colare The Pack There 13, no doubt, such a thing as congestive for the amount, the deeds are made out the same sleep, but during normal sleep the brain i aftemoon, recorded the next forenoon for a anemic When a person has taken a fairly triding fee, and the transfer le accomplished. In abundant lunch or dinner the stomach de China, the same end is achieved by a slow process mands a special influx of blood wherewith of diplomacy. Some one must first be interviewed to accomplish its work of digestion no or in a stealthy manner, as to the probability that gan can more easily comply with that de the piece in question can be bought. These mand than the brain, which, when in full ac preliminaries must be conducted with great tivity, is suffused with a maximum amount discretion, for it is an axiom of much importance of the vital fluid. But a derivation of blood
First Captain.-"What will you give ?” Second Captain. What will you take ?" First Captain. "What will you give " Second Captain.-What will you take n "What will you give ?" "What will you take?" and so on for half a page.
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Consad Geener, the eminent naturalist, dreamed that he was bitten on the left side by a venomous serpent. In a short time a severe carbuncle. appeared on the very spot, terminating his life in the space of three days. Another scientific man, who dreamed of being bitten by a black cat, also suffered in the same way,
STEAM TO STRAITS AND. BOMBAY, Calling at COLOMBO if sufficient inducement
HE
offers.
AND KOBĚ.
1504
will leave for the above places on THURSDAY, the 2nd May, at NOON.
E. L. WOODIN, Superintendent.
·Hongkong, 25th April, 1889. STEAM TO YOKOHAMA, VIA NAGASAKI, (Passing through the INLAND SEA.) HE P. & Ö. S. N. Ca's Steamship
" ANCONA" will leave for the above places on TUESDAY, the 7th May, at Noạn.
E. L. WOODIN, Superintendent.
THE P
Hongkong, 25th April, 1889.
STEAM TO SHANGHAI.
THE P.&O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship
“PESHAWUR'"'
[3
(s
will leave for the above place about 24 hours after her arrival with the outward English mail.
E. L WOODIN, Superintendent. Hongkong,-25th April, 1889. -
STEAM FOR
PENANG, COLOMBO, SINGAPORE,
ADEN, PORT SAID, MALTA, GIBRAL- TAR, MARSEILLES, BRINDISI, TRIESTE, VENICE, PLYMOUTH,' AND LONDON, ALSO, BOMBAY, MADRAS, CALCUTTA, AND AUSTRALIA.
B.-CARGO CAN BE TAKEN ON THROUGH BILLS OF LABING FOR BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF PORTS, MARSEILLES, TRIESTE, HAM- BURG, NEW YORK AND BOSTON.
SPECIE ONLY LANDED AT PLYMOUTH.
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A learned Jesuit, author of many crudite theological works, saw, one night in his sleep, a man laying his hand upon his chest, who announced to him that he would soon die. He
Steamship was then in perfect health, but was shortlyTHE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM carried off by a pulmonary disorder.
"CLYDE," Captain J. L. Parfitt, R.N.R., with A lady who had a dream in which she saw all
Her Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for LONDON, VIA BOMBAY and objects dim and obscured by a mist, wax, soon after attacked by a disease of the eye, of which that was a symptom,
A dream of great fire, in which the sleeper himself seemed to be consumed, was followed soon after by an attack of inflammation of the brain Apoplexy: Epilepsy uldreaula di senic are often preceded by frightful dreams, in which the sleeper feels himself scalped by ladians thrown over precipices or torn to pieces by wild beasts. Such
Bilerablights
Bo full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights (
SUEZ CANAL, on SATURDAY, the 4th May,
at Noon
Cargo will be received on board until 4P.M. Parcels and Specie (Gold) at the Office until 4P.Men the day before sailing.
Sille and Valuables for Europe will be transhipped at Colombo; Tea and General Cargo for London will be conveyed via Bombay with out transhipment, arriving one week later than by the ordinary direct route via Colombo,
For further particulars regarding FREIGHT and PARRACE apply to the PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Office, Hong- kong..
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should be treated as "warnings" in the truest sense of that word-as sent by nature to forer tell impending evils which skill and wisdom may. The Contents and Value of Packages are re-, be able to avert,
Thus, if science has dispelled such old wives'quired to be declared prior to shipment. Shippers requested fables as that to dream of a marriage signified the terms and conditions of the Company's
a death, or 'to dream of a cat meant to meet a foo, she has certainly added mysteries and terrors of her own to the subject. One learned man has actually tried to systematize these subtile premonitions to make them more available for use and guidance. In his opinion "Lirely dreams are in general a sign of the excitement of nervous action.
40 Solt dreams are a sign of slight irritation of the heads oflen in nervous fevers announcing the approach of a favorable crisis
Black Bills of Lading.
This Steamer takes Cargo and Passengers for Marseilles.
E. L. WOODIN, Superintendent.
P. & C. S. N. Co.'s Offico, Hongkong, 25th April, ###g
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC, URING the Paris Universal Exhibition of
ALEX. ROSS, - Secretary.
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Shanghai, reth April, 1879.. SOCIETE FRANCAISE 'DES CHARBON- 'NAGES DU TONKIN.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the FIRST
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS, will be held at the Company's Office, Hongay (Tonquia) on FRIDAY, the Thirty-first day of May, at Noos.
-BUSINESS-
To receive the Report on the state of the Mines, and to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors.
The owners of at least Twenty Shares to bearer, in order to have the right of attending the above Meeting, shall deposit their Shares either with the Undersigned, or with the Chief Manager of the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CONFORATION, not later than Fificen Days before the Meeting, and there shall be delivered to them a card of admission to the Meeting.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
ALEXANDER LEVY, Secretary.
1488
Hongkong, zoth April, 1889. THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL. PAID UP CAPITAL"
Board of DIRECTORS.
..$2,50,000.
Hon. J. J. KESWICK, Chairman.
Intimations,
ADMIRALTY CONTRACT,
NOTICE TO BUILDERS.
are required for CONSTRUCT- ING BOAT SLIP at R. N. DOCKYARD, TENDERS Kowloon,
Plans and Specifications can be seen, and BU of Quantities and Form of Tender obtained, on application to the Officer in Charge of Works, Royal Engineer Office, Queen's Road, between the hours of 2 P,M. nnd 4 P.Mỹ daily. --Tenders to be addressed to the Naval Store-
keeper, Hongkong, before to A.M., on THURS DAY, the 2nd day of May, 1889, marked on the outside of the envelope Tender for Boat Slip R. Yard, Kowloon.
The Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty do not bind themselves to accept the lowest or any Tender.
*H. CHAMPERNOWNE,
Officer in Charge of Works. Hongkong, 24th Aprili 1899-
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS.
A FIRST INTERIM BONUS of Twenty
per cent upon Contributions for the year 1988 has this day byen declared.
Warrants may be had on application at the above office on and after the 1st proximo.
JARDINE MATHESON & CO., General Apents, Canton Insurance Office, Limited. Hongkong. 15th April, 1889.
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HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
MONTHLY HANDICAP CHALLENGE CUP AND A PRIZE OF $5. 200 AND 500 YARDS ENTRANCE FEE 30 CENTS. THE SECOND COMPETITION wili také Tce next SATURDAY, the 27th April,
at 3 P.M.
Intending Competitors must send in their Entrance Fee to the Honmary Secretary before 1,350.00040'CLOCK P.M., negt FRIDAY, the 26th inst.
-X. SHELTON HOOPER,
Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 23rd April, 1889.
Hon. C. P. CHATER, Vice-Chairman. Mr E. A. SOLOMON,
Mr. J. S. MOSES.
Mr. S. C. MICHAELSEN.
Mr. G. E. NOBLE.
Mr. LEE SING. Mr. POON PONG.
BANKERS.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
HE objects for which this Company is T
formed are to transact in the Colony of Hongkong and its dependencies the purchases and sales of Property, to advance monies on
dctermined. Is he not to sell," "But on the sup. 1 vigorous persons, on the condition that the cere Frightful dreams are a sign of determination880, files of the "HONGKONG TELEORAPH"- {
in China, that "the country villager is born from the brala to the stomach can only take perverse, the more you wish to buy, the more place, except in exceptionally full-blooded and position that the land can be had at all, therebral functions be meanwhile, partially or wholly ensues a long and often an interminable series suspended. Hence many people after taking of interviews between the go-between and the dianer feel indisposed for mental action and not Pincipals, in the course of which each piny a few long "for sleepThe already partially alternately advances and retreats, being dexter armic brain would yield up to the stomach a ously manipulated by the middleman, whose still further supply of blood, and yield itself up interest it is to see the matter come to a successful to refreshing sleep. Doing so it gains now sue, in onder that he may receive his percentage, strength meanwhile digellon proceeds ener It makes no difference if the principals are getically and soon body and miodare neighbours divided only by a wall, er members again equipped to continue in full force the of the sanes family, Such a state of things, bante of life. But superstition, the child o
of binad to the head. prevalen
Dreams about blood and red objects are will be kept at the Office of our correspondents, signs of obstruction and diseases of the liver. | Messta AMADEE PRINCE & Co, 36, Rue Dreams in which the patient imagines torture Lafayette, Faris, which may be consulted at any or injury of any limb indicates dicase in that time by visitors from the Far East:: limb, kekaya
Dreams about death often precede apoplexy, which is connected with determination of blood to the headed Au educated and very seasible lady had been through rather fatiguing social day," On
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P..BOHM.
*ENERAL Employment and Intelligence Information given of Situations offered and of suitable applicants for Situations,
WANTED A 10-20 roomed house in a central position, Offers to be sent to above Office.
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The fullest information can be had on applica-Cha Hall, a GOLD HORSE- N Thursday night, at or near the Theatre
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Secretary (pro, tem.} Telegraph Office,
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT
AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED. ISSUE OF $1.250,000 NEW CAPITAL IN 12,500 SHARES OF $100 EACH. PPLICATIONS are invited for $1,250,000. A New Capital at notes
each; which is being raised for the objects and business of the Company, as defined in the Com pany's Memorandum and Articles of Association, and in pursuance of the Special Resolutions to that effect duly passed on the 6th April instant, and confirmed on the 23rd April lust..
These Shares will be issued at a premium of $50 per Share.
A First Call of $50 per Share will be payable on Application, and the Balance of $50 per Share will be payable in such amounts, at such times, and on such conditions as the Hoard may determine. The premis will be payable on Allotment.
Hongkong, 13th April, 1889.
KOWLOON HOTEL.
J. C. L. ROUCH.......................... MANAGER.
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Hongkang, 21st January, 1889.
THE PEAK HOTEL AND TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED.
at 0.30 P.M.
THE STATUTORY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the CITY HALL, on SATURDAY, the 27th instant,
C. MOONEY, Secretary (pro, tem.) Hongkong, 12th April, 1889. THE HALL & HOLTZ CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY, LIMITED.
Where no Allotment is made, the deposit will | HEAD OFFICE—Shanghai. be returned in fufl, and if a less number of Shares in allotted than is applied for, the excess. of the deposit will be credited in reduction of the amount payable for premium. Failure to pay any premium when due will render the allotment liable to cancellation and the payment made on application, to forfeiture.
REGISTERED OFFICE-37 and 39, Queen's -
Road, Hongkong.
Applications for shares should be forwarded to the Company's Bankers, the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Hongkong, together with the amount payable on application un or before the 3rd May next. Forms of application can be obtained at the Company's Registered Office in Victoria Buildings, No. 7, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, where a print of the Company's Meinorandam and Articles of Association can be seen.
The TRANSFER. BOOKS will be CLOSED from the and to 9th May next, inclusive.
to
ÁLEXANDER LEVY, Secretary (pro, tem.) Hongkong, 24th April, 1889.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS THE FOURTH ORDINARY GENERAL will be held at the Company's Head Office, 13, Nanking Road, Shanghai, at 11 O'CLOCK in the Forenoon of SATURDAY, April ayth, 1889, when the Report and Accounts for the year ended, 28th February, 1889, will be pre- sented."
The TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the zzad to 27th instant, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Directors,
Shanghai, sth April, 1889.
W. HAYWARD, Secretary.
TUITION IN FRENCH.
(501DLLE. MAILLARD begs to intimate that she will give Lessing In FRENCH, Grammatically, Conversational or Literary: Terms on Application at 3, West Terrace. Hongkong, 1st April 1889
HAVE this day REMOVED to say door premises at No. 35, CAINE ROAD, next door the Japanese Consulate.
A. HAHN, Flam-tuner and Repairer Hongkong, 1st April, 1889.
THE STEAM LAUNCH COMPANY,
`LIMITED.
NOTICE.
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THE HONGKONG BRICK, AND CEMENT. COMPANY, LIMITED,”
For Prices and other particulary,
Apply to
HIS Company is now prepared to Manufac THI
ture.Machine-Pressed Building BRICKS superior quality, in WHITE or RED CLAY. Also SPECIALITIES, such as STRING Ten The Rod Cont sust be paid at the COPINGS,
HE THIRD CALL of $ro per Share due COURSES, WINDOW HEADS, RIDGES, TILES, EARTHENWARE Office of the Company. 1, Pedder's Street, with, interest of 12 per cent, per annum from the 3rd
DRAIN PIPES, GULLIES, CESS-POOLS instant, in accordance with Article No. 38 of the and other SANITARY FITTINGS: Company's Articles of Associations.
FIRE BRICKS and all descriptions of FIRE By Order,
CLAY GOODS. A. G. GORDON, Secretary. Hongkong, 13th April, 1889,
“UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.: NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. AN INTERIM BONUS of twenty per cent upon contributions for the year 1888 has been declared. Food Proje Office of the Society on an after 1st May,
By Order of the Hoard,
NJ EDE,
Hongkong, 16th April, 1889.
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Hongkong, 11th March 1889,
Secretary:
AM MISS C. PALMER.
Macao, 8th April, 1889