THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1889.
the true divinities by the Chinese people, how is it possible that China shquld take a single real step forward? The true.roqt of the Chinese practice of filial piety we believe to be a mixture of fear and self-love, two of the most powerful motives which can act on the human soul. The spirits must be worshipped on account of the power which they have for evil. From the Con- fucian point of view, it was a sagacious maxim of the Master, that to respect spiritual beings, but to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." If the sacrifices are neglected, the spirits will be angry. If the spirits are angry, they will take revenge. It is better to worship the spirits, by way of insurance.This appears. to be a condensed statement of the Chinese theory, of all forms of worship of the dead. As between the living, the process of reasoning is equally simple. Every son has performed his fillai duties to his father, and demands the same from his own son. That is what children are for. Upon this point the popular mind is explicit. "Trees are raised for shade, children are reared for old age.". Neither parents nor children are under any illusions upon this subject. If you have no children to foul the bed, you will have no one to burn paper at the grave. Each generation pays the debt which is exacted of it by the generation which preceded it, and in turn requires from the generation which comes after full payment to the uttermost farthing. Thus is filial piety perpetuated from generation to generation, and from age to age.
which are not considered at all. The cere- monial duty is held to be absolute and it is not uncommon to meet with cases of persons who have sold their land to the last traction of an acre, and even pulled down the house and disposed of the timbers, in order to provide money for a suitable funeral for one or both of the parents. That such conduct - is a social wong lew Chinese can be brought to understand, ant no Chinese can be brought to realise. It is accordant with Chinese instinct It is accordant with, or propriety, and there fore it was unquestionably the thing to be done. The Abbé Hue gives from his own experience an excellent, example of that, ceremonial, filia! "Conduct, "which" to the Chinese is so dear. While the Abbé was "living in the south of China, during the first year of his residence in this empire, he had pccasion to send a messenger to Peking and be bethought him that perhaps a Chinese school-master in his employ, whose home was in Peking, would like to embrace the rare opportunity to send a message to his cli mather, from whom he bad not heard for four years, and who did not know of her son's where abouts. Hearing that the courier was to leave soon, the teacher called to one of his pupils, who was singing off his lesson in the next room, "Here, take this paper, and write me a letter to my mother. Lorenatime, for the courier is going at once." This proceeding struck M. Huc as as singular, and he inquired if the lad was acquainted with the teacher's mother, and, was informed that the boy 'did not even know that Scholars are not agreed upon the question. there was such a person. How then was be to whether in the dim past, the Chinese once know what to say, not having been told ?" To recognised the true God. If they ever did so, this the school master made the conclusive reply, that knowledge has certainly been most effectually "Don't he know quite well what to say? For lost, like an inscription on an ancient coin, now more than a year, he has been studying literary covered with the accumulated rust of millenniums. composition, and he is acquainted with a number Itisa melancholy comment upon the exaggerated of elegant formulas. Do you think he does not Chinese doctrine of filial piety, that it not only know perfectly well how a son ought to write to embodies no reference to a Supreme Being, but mother? The pupil soon returned with the that it does not in any way lead up to a recognition letter not only all written, but sealed up, the of His existence. Ancestral worship which is the Lancher merely adding the superscription with most complete and the ultimate expression of this his own hand. The letter would havé answered Filial piety, is perfectly consistent with polytheism, equally well for any other mother in the empire, with pantheism, with, agnosticism, and with and any other would have been equally plensed atheisin. It makes dead men into goda, and its to receive it.
only gods are dead men. Its love, its gratitude and its fear, are for earthly parents only. It has no conception of a Heavenly Father, and feels no interest in such Redner ther Christianity will never be intre being when He is made duced into China, or ancestral worship will be given up, for they are contradictories.. In the death struggle between them, the fittest only will survive.-N. C. Daily News.
The amount of filial conduct on the part of Chinese children to their parents will vary in any two places. Doubiless both extremes are to be found everywhere. Parricides are not common, and such persons are usually insane, though that makes no difference in the cruel punish. ment which they suffer, But among the common people, groaning in deepest poverty, some harsh treatment of parents is inevitable. On the other hand, voluntary substitutions of a son for the father, in cases of capital punishment, are known to occur, and such instances speak forcibly for the sincerity and power of the instinct of filial devotion to a parent, though this parent may be a deeply dyed criminal.
NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS. We hear that Mr. Goebel, Belgian Consul. General, has at the request of Ma, Director of the C.M.S.N. Co., obtained from Belgium the services of a skilled mining engineer, M. Brave. M. Brave, who is a first-class specialist, is expected to arrive in a few days by the French
mail.
The Governor of Shantung has succeeded in obtaining the removal of the prohibition to import Shingking cereals into Shantung. From Kin-chow, the part of the Manchurian province where the harvest was not at all good, a limit is imposed on the quality allowed to be exported
to Shantung.
The first day of the 4th Moon, (30th April) has been appointed by the Governor of this province as the day when all Chinese in official positions are to replace the winter by the summer hat. A Chinese official who had inaccurate information on this subject went lately to see the Viceroy in summer hat thinking the 25th April was the day for change of bead-gear; he was informed of his error at the Yamen gale, and returned in high dudgeon, causing much merriment in others.
ICHANG.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
18th April, 1889, The Taotai has just been up here on his annual visit of inspection. Official time it possibly not of much value in China. Anyhow he came with his following in gaily be-flagged junks, taking a week from Shasze, instead of coming in the day by one of the steamers.
To the Occidental, fresh from the somewhat →too loose bonds of family life, which not infre quently prevali in lands nominally Christian, the theory of Chinese filial conduct presents some very attractive features. The respect for age which it involves is most beneficial, and might profitably be cultivated by Anglo-Saxons generally, In western countries, when a son, becomes of age, he goes where, he likes, and does what he chonses. He has no necessary connection with his parents nor they with him. To the Chinese such customs must appear like the behaviour of a well grown calf or colt to the cow and the mare, suitable enough for animals, but by no means conformable to as applied to buman beings. An attentive consideration of the matter from. the Chinese stand-point will show that there is abundant room in our own social prae. tice for improvement, and that most of us really live in glass houses, and would do well not to throw stones recklessly. Yet, on the other hand, it is idle to discuss the filial piety of the Chinese, without making most emphatic its fatal defects in several particulars. This doctrine seems to have five radical faults, two of them negative, and three of them, positive. It has. volumes on the duty of children toward parents, but no word on the duty of parents to children. China in not a country in which advice of this kind is superfluous. Such advice, is everywhere most needed and always has been so. It was an inspired wisdom which led the Apostle Paul to combine in a few brief sentences addressed to his Colossian church the four pillars of the ideal home. **Husbands love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord." "Children obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing unto the Lord." "Fathers provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged." What is there in all Confucian morality which but into competition with these far-reaching for practical wisdom can for a moment be Principles? The Chinese doctrine has no thing to say on behalf of its daughters, but everything on behalf of its sons. If the Chinese eye had not for ages been colour-blind on this subject, this gross outrage on human nature could not have failed of detection. By the accident of sex the daughter is a dreaded burden, liable to be destroyed, and certain to be despised. The Chinese doctrine of filial piety puts the wife on an inferior plane, Confucius has nothing to say of the duties of wives to husbands or of husbands to wives. Chris tianity requires a man to leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife. Confucianism requires a man to cleave to his father and mother, and to compel his wife to do the same. If the relation between the husband and his parents conflicts with that between the husband and his (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) "wife, the latter as the lesser and inferior is the
20th April, 1889, relation which must yield. The whole structure The April meeting of the Oriental Society of Chinese society, which is modelled upon the took place on the 4th at the German Legation, patriarchal plan, bas grave evils. It encourages when a long and Interesting paper on "Une the suppression of some of the natural instincts notice sur l'Histoire de Chine" was read by H. of the heart, that other instincts may be cult-E. M. Verhaegho de Naoyer. H.E. M. von vated to an extreme degree. It results in the almost entire subordination of the younger during the whole life of those who are older. It cramps the minds of those who are subjected to its iron pressure, preventing development and healthful change.
Our community continues to diminish. Mr. Sowerby, of the American Episcopal Mission, who went down ill to Hankow a little while ago, has now returned there to take Bishop Boone's place, and Mr. Montgomery has now followed him down also on account of illness. We have no doctor here now, and though Mr. Galton may be right "that while there is a great difference very little between 1 good doctor and no advice, between a good doctor and a bad doctor there is at all," yet we all somehow seem to want advice, when we are 1, ff at no other time. And the first advice to anyone ill at Ichang has bean: "Take the next steamer."
M. Feer in acting Commissioner here, quite alone of the indoor staff, no substitute having yet been sent in Dr. Henry's place.
Mr. Frazer is delayed at Kiukiang, thus the three or four still gathered together here con- tinue to enjoy Mr. Gregory's kindly courtesies. We hear that be is contemplating a trip into Szechuan before finally quitting the far, extend- lng district of his consular labours.-N. C. Daily News.
PERING..
Brandt and Dr. Martin, who was in the chair in the unavoidable absence of the President from indisposition · afterwards made excellent speeches. The usual refreshments followed. There was a good attendance of ladies and gentlemen.
Mr. Lange, of the German Legatiod, has left to take up Consular duties at Chefoo.
nation on the 15th and the greater part proceeded on the 16th to their inns and guilds in the Chinese city, and Legation Street was again thronged with carts. As just observed, aur weather up till now has remained windy and dusty, and at the same time quite cold. NO such spring has ever been seen here before. The thermometer has rarely, if at all, risen at night above freezing point. If the north and east winds permitted us to enjoy a clear sky free from blinding clonds of dust, we might experience a little warmth or at all events have less of which to complain. Fires were still a necessity in the first week of April.
HE the Marquis Tadng has been appointed Director-General of the Tung wen College, which augurs well for this institution. His league in be superintendence is Hill-yung, another member of the Yanda, who has hitherto had the sole supervision. He is the least progressive perhaps of the Chinese ministers, The Marquis, has obtained ten days' congr to recruit from a cold which he caught at the Temple of Agriculture.
We hear that the newly appointed Minister to. Landon, Chên Chin-ming, has not accepted the post. The Shin-Ano falis into error in stating that he was appointed to the Cousts prasided over by the present Minister to Germany, etc, and that the Minister appointed to Washington was to go to London and Paris.
A telephone has been put up at the palace of the 7th Prince.
The railway is being constructed round the Nan Hai where the Empress has taken up her abode. The electric light has also been put up. The Emperor seems to enjoy the study of Western science. He is said also to be fond of taking down and putting up watches, This will doubtless teach him an excellent lesson in the complex government of the Empire, where there me so many wheels and cogs, and aprings and compromises and compensations, balances, escapements, etc. It is said he has taken kindly to the jinricha nnd be keeps the eunuchs busily occupied in drawing him through the extensive Palace grounds at a rapid rate.
Intimations.
HONGKONG CLUB.
N EXTRAORDINARY'
A MEETING RIINAKYMBERL CLUB will be held in the CLUB LIBRARY, on MONDAY, 13th May, 1889, at 10PM, for the purpose of confirming the Resolution passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting on the 25th April, 1889.
By Order,
C. H. GRACE,
Secretary Hongkong, and. May, 189...
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THE RICHMOND-TERKACE-ESTATE
AND HUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED.
[OTIZE in hereby given that the OR
antimations.
SUNGHIE DUA
THE PUNIOM AND
SAMANTAN MINING COMPANY, ****
LIMITED,
NOTICE is hereby given that the Share-
holders who ara desirous of taking up the NEW SHARES to which they are entitled in respect of the Shares of which they were the registered holders on the date of the confirma tion and in pursuance of the Special Resolution passed on the 4th April, 1889, and confirmed on the 20th April, 1880, must accept the same and pay the sum of $to for each New Share so accepted to the HONGKONG AND SHANOIA! BANKING CORPORATION, at Hongkong, on_or before the zoth day of May instaŭt, after which "date the New Shares which shall not then have been accepted will be deemed to be declined,
Forms of acceptance and Banker's - Receipt
and Shanghai Bank or at the Company's Office, No. 9, Queen's Road,
Dated and day of May, 189.
By Order,
'A. O'D. GOURDIN, Secretary.
NDINARY GENERAL MEETING of may be obtained an application at the Hongkong
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Amusements.
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL
To be given in the
HALL OF THE CLUB LUSITANO,
TO-MORROW EVENING,
1. the 9th May, 189, at 9 P.M.,
IV.
'PUPILS OF SIGNOR 'CATTANEO, In' aid of the Fund for an Organ for the ROMAN CATHolic CathedrAL.
DIRECTOR
Maestro CATTANEO.
PROGRAMME.
PART I 1.—Stretta Finale, “Lu- | LADY & GENTLEMAN,
crezin Borgia"......... AMATEURS. z-Aria (baritone) "11"
- Mr. E. W. MAITLAND. Trovatore " 3-Aria(soprano) “Ro-] Miss L.' D'ALMADA E
berto il Diavolo ".....] CASTRO. 4.-Duet (sopráno and Mrs. J. D. HUM- tenor) "Una notte a PHREYS and Mr. R. Venezia "
E. WITHERS:
the SHAREHOLDERS of the Company will be held at its Office over the Hangkong Dispensary on MONDAY, the 13th instñnt; at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Manager together with a Statement of account to the 31st December, 1884. CLOSED from Thursday, the 9th instant, to THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT Fantasis on piano- Monday the 13th inst, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares dan be registered.
The REGISTER OF SHARES will be
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5:8).
AND AGENCY COMPANY, 'LIMITED.
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL
..$5,000,0CD,
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And notice is further given that an EXTRA- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the COMPANY will be held at the same place on the same day at a QUARTER AFTER NOON when the following Special Resolution will be proposed: How J. J. KESWICK,"
That the Share Capital of the Company be increased to $100,000 by the issue of 667 new Shares of $100 each, and that such new Shares be offered in the first instance on terms to be determined by the General Manager to all the Members on the Register on the 14th day after the Meeting.
PAID UP CAPITAL .....................ã. 2,500,000. RESERVE FUND ........................ 1,250,000.
· BOARD-OF-DIRECTORS.
JOHN WILLMÖTT,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 4th May, 1889.
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A. S. WATSON & CO. LIMITED.
N†OTICEishereby given that an ORDINARY
N MEETING YE SHAREHOLDERS
Chairman. Hon. C. P. CHATER, Vice-Chairman.
E. A. SOLOMON, Esq. J. S. MOSES, Esq. S. C. MICHAELSEN, Esq. G. E. NOBLE, Esq. LEE SING, Erg POON PONG, Esq.
BANKERS.
Managing Directors.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION.
and Buildings.
Properties purchased and sold,
Estates Managed and all kinds of Agency and
conducted.
Commission business relating to land, etc.,
The newly appointed Minister to the United States, Spain and Peru paid a visit on the 18th to the various Legations and to Sir Robert Hart, He is a native of the province of Anhui and a Chang of the third rank. He was formerly friend of the Viceroy Li. He is a Hanlin Sbih Chau Shih-fit and a Kwan-hsieh Chian-hse, the of th: Company will be held at the Hongkong MONEY advanced on Mortgage, on Land, the latter meaning that he is a teacher of Dispensary n MONDAY, the 13th inst., at Chinese to the Manchus. He received his THREE O'CLOCK in the afternoon, for the purpose Hanlin degree (Academy of the Forest of of receiving the Report of the General Manager Pencils), the first Literary Board in the Em-together with a Statement of Accounts to the 31st pite, in the year in which the present Chinese December 1888. Emperor was born. H.E.M.von Brandt will leave Peking on the 22nd for Europe, and is expected to return before the autumn navigation closes He will be much missed in the diplomatic and social world of Peking. Colonel Denby succeeds as doyen of the Corps. He, along with Mr. Cheshire, is making a tour in Tartary to visit the silver mines at Kushan-sz. If Col. Denby should return to the United States in the autumn, which is unfortunately only too likely, Mr. Shiods will become deyen. The British Minister, we believe, stands nexi in order of seniority. The Italian Minister, were he located here, would naturally succeed Herr von Brandt as deyen of the Corps Diplomatique-N. C. Daily Nesus.
THE great value of Scott's Emulsion of Pure Diseases is shown by the accompanying state- Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites in Wasting ment from D. C. Freeman, Sydney, Aust. ima Having been a great sufferer from pulmonary attacks and gradually wasting away for the past two years, it affunds me great pleasure to testify that the above medicine has given me great relief, and cheerfully recommend it to all suffer ing in a similar way to myself. In addition 1, would say that it is very pleasant to take. Any Chemist, can supply-it-A. S. Watson & Co. (Limited), agents in Hongkong and China.- [Advi
To-day's Advertisements.
FOR SHANGHAI. HE Steamship ~4.
THE
'" YANGTSZE,” - Captain C. Tonningsen, will be despatched for the above Port, TO-MORROW, the 9th inst., at 4 Pf.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SIEMSSEN & Co.. Hongkong, 8th May, 1889.
MADAME CORA,
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D. B. CHISHOLM, Manager. 'Hongkong, 8th May, 1889
GEO. FENWICK & CO., LIMITED. †
THE STATUTORY. GENERAL MEET-
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TING SHAREHOLDERS in the above named Company will be held in the HONGKONG HOTEL on WEDNESDAY, the 15th day of May, 1889, at 4 o'Clock riai.
GEO. FENWICK, Manager., Hongkong, 8th May, 1889. SINGAPORE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
LJONGKONG Shareholders are requested
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H lo apply to the Undersigned for
Warrants for the dividend declared at the General Meeting held in Singapore on 27th April..
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 8th May, 1889.
NOTICE
[$58
I as a SHARE
The Emperor proceeded to the Temple of Agriculture on the morning of the 5th to plough the annual piece of land, and immediately afterwards returned to the palace. Some friends, Chinese of course, who were there, say the scene was very fine. This is the second time the present Emperor, has ploughed.. Agriculture must always flourish in such a populous and wide extent of country as Chian, and this Imperial act is very significant and a stimulus to agriculture and an evidence of its importance..
and GENERAL BROKER.
S. R. BOMANJI Hongkong, 8th May, 1889,
Entimations.
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That tenet of the Chinese doctrine which makes filial' conduct consist in leaving posterity, is responsible for a long train of illa, It compels the adoption of children, whether there is or is not any adéquato provision for their support. It leads to early marriages, and brings into existence millions of human beings, who by reason of the excessive pinch of poverty can barely keep, soul and body together. It is the efficient cause of polygamy and concubinage, always and Inevitably a curre. It is expressed and epitomised in the warship of ancestors, which is the real religion of the Chinese race. This system of ancestral worship, when rightly understood in its true significance, is one of the heaviest to streams into the quarter of the Examinations yokes which over a people was compelled to to take up convenient lodgings for entering the bear. As pointed out by Dr. Yates, in the essay halls on the 7th (Chinese 8ib). Thousands of to which reference has been already made, the carts kept passing along Legation Street on the hundreds of millions of living Chinese, are 5th and 6th. They were filed with bedding under the most galling subjection to the count- | boxes, baskets, cooking utensils and all sorts of Ices thousands of millions of the deild. "The food; The students were of all ages, many wor generation of to-day is chained to the genera spectacles, and all looked “sicklied o'er with the tions of the past.”' Ancestral worship is the | pale cast of thought." They carried, for the best type and guarantee of that leaden conuer most part, pipes in their hands. It is difficult to vatism to which attention has already been say whether the large spectacles were worn from directed; until that conservatism shall have necessity or for literary effect or as dust pro- - received some mortal wound, how it is possible tectors. They must have proved eminently use- for China to adjust herself to the wholly now fel for the latter object as a hurricane of dust conditions under which she finds herself. In has been blowing hese, for over a month, A Articles of Association.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,
SPOON COMPETITION—100 YARDS,
TAKE PLACE NEXT SATUR-
The Masters of Arts on the same day began WDAY, the 11th May, at 4 F.M.
A SHELTON HOOPER,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong 7th May, 1889.-- THE HONGKONG BRICK AND CEMENT
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..... COMPANY, LIMITED. TOTICE in hereby given that a Call of $5.
per Share in the above Company was payable on the 25th day of April, last, and that all persons not having paid the amount of their CALLS will be CHARGED INTEREST at the date until payment, in accordance with the rate of $8 per cent. per Annum from the 'due'
this last quartes of the century? And while later examination will decide who are the senior Hongkong, dated the first day of May, 1889, the "generations of those who have passed || wranglers, as it were, of the Doctors who may from the stage continue to be regarded as now pass. The students came out of the exam. | 547]
W. I WALKER, Secretary
The REGISTER of SHARES » ill be CLOSED from Thursday, the gh inst., to Monday, the 13th inst, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of Shares can be registered,
And Notice is further given that-an" EXTRA- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the same place on the same day at QUARTER PAST 3 O'CLOCK in the afternoon when the following special resulutions will be proposed.
:
1. That the present Shares in the Capital of the Company of $100 each be súbdivided into Shares of Tea Dollars
each to admit a wider distribution of the capital of the Company.
2. That with a view to the extention of the business of the Company and the purchase of additional premises in Queen's Road Central and at Kowloon the capital of the Company be increased to the sum of $500,000 by the issue of 12,000 new Shares of the value of Ten Dollars each. and that such new Shares be disposed of by the General Manager as if they were part of the Shares in the original expitál of the Company in such manner on such terms and at such premium as he shall in the interest of the Company determine.
The amount realized by way of premium
to be put to the Permanent Reserved. Fund.
JOHN WILLMOTT,-**-
Acting Secretary,
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Hongkong, 4th May, 1879.
SOCIETE FRANCAISE DES CHARBON. NAGES DU TONKIN.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the FAST . MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS, will be held at the Company's Office, Hongay (Tonquin) on FRIDAY, the Thirty-first day of May, at Noon.
·BUSINESS-
To receive the Report on the state of the Mines, and to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors.
forte, Auki Lang- { Miss CAROLINE DE sync.""Charlie is my
darling (Pope)...)
6.--Ballad (tenor)" Love
SOUZA,
the Pilgrim," (Blu-Mr. C. LAmmert. menthal)........ 7-Grandaria (soprano) Miss E. CARVALHO.
"La Traviata" 8.-Song (basso) “ Piff' Paff" (Les Huguenots).
Sestett Lacin di Lammermoor"
Mr. O. BACURACH (Mesdames E. CAR. VALHO & M. GUEDES and Mesars. C. LAM- MERT, G. CARVALHO, G. LAMMERT, and D. BACHRACH,
INTERVAL OF 10 MINUTES.
PART IL
Quartette
1-Comic
"Tutti in Maschera»
Mesdames I. D'AL- MADA ECASTRO and M. GUEDES, and Messrs: R. E. WITHEks and' O. BACKRACH.
-Song Serenade Miss STOPANI.
(Gounod)...........................
3-Song-El Toreador Mr. C. H. GRACE.
(Violin accompaniment-Mr. VON WILLE) (A
("Carmen")...............
La Sonnam bula”..... 5.-Duet (soprano and tenor) Faust "......
Miss D'ALMADA · E · CASTRO and Mr. C. LAMMERT.
Full particulars can be obtained at the Com-4-Aria and rando, Mrs. J. D. HUMPHREYS. pany's Offices, No. 7, 'Queen's Road Central..
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary. Victoria Buildings, Hangkong, 3rd May 1889
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
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NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS. FIRST INTERIM BONUS of Twenty per cent upon Contributions for the year 1888 has this day been declared.
Warmants may be had on application at the above office on and after the ist proximo.
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JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, General Agents, Canton Insurance Office, Limited. Hongkong, 15th April, 1889..
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
6 Pianoforte duet
Semiramide".................. 7-Aria (mezzo-sopra-1 no) "La Favorita".... 8-Ballad (basso) “Oh!]
Mesdames C. DE SOUZA
And M. E. ALVES. Madame M. GURDES.
oh 1 hear the wind Mr. W. E. Crow, blow"
9-Duet (soprano and) Miss EDITH CARVALHO baritone) "L'Addio" and Mr. E. W. MAIT- (Donizetti)
LAND,
AN INTERIM BONUS of twenty per cent.
upon contributions for the year 1888 has been declared.
Warrants may be had application of the
Office of the Society on an after ist May,
By Order of the Board,
N. J. EDE,
Hongkong, 16th April, 1889.
KOWLOON HOTEL.
J.C. L. ROUCH...
Secretary.
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.MANAGER,
JINE and SPIRITS of the best quality.
TABLES, BOWLING ALLEYS, TENNIS LAWN.
Hongkong, 21st January, 1889.
Masonic.
The owners of at least Twenty. Shares to
either with the Undersigned, or with the Chief bearer, in order to have the right of attending the above Meeting, shall deposit their Shares M.nager of the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, not later than Fifteen ST. JOHN Days before the Meeting, and there shall be delivered to them a caid of admission to`the Meeting.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
ALEXANDER LEVY, Secretary. Hongkong, zoth April, 1889.
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SITUATION WANTED.
NORWEGIAN GENTLEMAN of good
A Neath (21) possessing a thorough know- ledge of English, German, French, Scandinavian and partly Dutch languages, and a perfect book- keeper, is desirous of obtaining a trustworthy position; merchant or shipbroking office preferred.
Advertiser has been abroad for the last seven years. Best testimonials,
Good salary expected. Address to
E. T. MELING, Imperial Custom House, Canton, Canton, yth May, 1889.
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WANTED.
“LERK of WORKS. Applications, stating qualifications and wages, to be sent to
H
c/o Hongkong Telegraph Office. Hongkong, 4th May, 1889..
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ODGE
OF, HONGKONG, No. 618, S.C.
REGULAR MEETING of the above named
ALodge will be held in FREEMASONS' HALL, Zetland Street, on SATURDAY NEXT, the 11th instant, at 8.30 for 9 O'CLOCK precisely, Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
Hongkong, 7th May, 1889,
THE
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Notices of Firms. »
NOTICE.
HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED.
MR
'R. EDWARD OSBORNE has been appointed ACTINO SECRETARY of the above Company from this date.
Chairman.
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J. J. KESWICK,
Hongkong, ist May, 1889
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
SHELTON HOOPER
N ENGLISHMAN (21) WANTS situation MR, AUGUST SCRILLEY N the Com Ain MERCANTILE OF INSURANCE OFFICE, pany.
either in Hongkong, or out-poris,
Book-keeping, Shorthand, References, and Testimonials,
Address
c/o Hongkong Telegraph Office. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1889.
PREME
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WANTED.
DREMISES. suitable for a FIRST CLASS PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO in a good central
Offers to be sent to
position.
Victoria Buildings, Hongkong, 1st May, 1889.
J. J. KESWICK, Chairman.
NOTICE,
HE Procuration granted to Mr. C. H. TSCHMIDT by our Firm is withdrawn.
MR. D. K. GRIFFITH, Roam.91, Hongkong Hotel.. Hongkong, 26th April, 1889.
Salgon, 13th April, 1879, -
·UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY
CANTON, LIMITED.
W. G. HALE & Co.
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OF
NOTICE.
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URING, the temporary absence of the|
G. FALCONER & CO. Dcragged W. J. SAUNDERS
FACTURERS and JEWELLERS WATCH and CHRONOMETER MANU-lact as SECRETARY of the Society;
By Order of the Board, NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTs, titAM
N. JEDE HR CHARTS and BOOKS
'Secretary. *Mo. 48. Quam's Road Central) (5)
Hongkong, and May, 1889,
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Tickets........ Not less than $2.00. To be obtained from Signor Cattaneo, and at the Lusitano Club the day previous to the Concert.
Hongkong, 4th May, 1889.
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the
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned has received instructions
- 19hSell by Public Auction,
TO-MORROW,
oth! May, 1089, at 11 AM., at Mesere. Rus& Co, Kerasine Oil Godowns, Wanchal, FOR ACCOUNT OF WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Ex American Skip Titan,
About 28,453 Cases and 887 Drums KEROSINE OIL, "STELLA * Brand. More or less sea damaged and empty. TERMS OF SALE.-Cash on delivery, ".
G. R. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 8th May, 1889,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
No. 21%
MONDAY,
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Towblic Auction, to be held on the "HE following Particulars of Sale of Crown
spot, on
the 13th day of May, 1889, at 4 P.M., "are published for general information." By Command,
'FREDERICK STEWART,
·Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 4th May, 1889.
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Particulars of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 13th day of May, 1889, at 4 P.M., by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of Two Lots of CROWN' LAND, In the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 999
Years.
No. 70.
Aberdeen
#
71.
300
Village............
Inland Lot East end of Aberdeen
8
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200
200
130,000
200
60,000
138
feet
Registry
Locality.
N.
No.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
Boundary Measurements Contents in Annual Upact
feet. feet.
W. Square
1