destroyed, including the British Consulate, and the amount of the indemnity is Tis. 105 267. The Viceroy has written separately to the Board of Revenue and the Tsung- Yamen on the subject. He suggests that the money should be paid by the Chinkiang Customs. The Emperor has referred the Viceroy's proposition to the Board of Revenue for consideration.
A letter fram Haiphong ways:-The French Resident here lately sent a letter to the insurgent chief, to inform him that the French Viceroy would soon arrive with an overwhelming force, against which It woull be hopeless to continue to maintain the unequal struggle; and that he counselled him as a friend to submit while there was yet time. An Annamese military officer was sent to convey this missive, accompanied by a little Annamese boy carrying a betel-out box. The insurgent chief had both the envoys behended, and their beads exposed on poles; and sent a man back with the original letter and box, the latter filled with gold and silver, to show that he was determined to hold out to the last.
Judge Wang Chi-ch'un, of Canton city, on 30th June found it necessary to remove the species of pillar letter box which he had established at bis Yamén gate to receive petitions. Various rumours are going about Canton as to the Judge's reason for removing the box Some said mischievous people dropped in papers commenting rudely on foreigners, thus making his lordship very angry. Others, bat parsimonious litigants, wishing to save legal expenses, disphered the Judge's notice (isabed when he started the box), that plaintiffs petitions which defendants were to see and answer, were not to be dropped in this secret manner, but openly presented on the regular Court days, 3rd, 8th, 18th, 23rd, and 28th of each month; We are unable to state ourselves why the Judge removed the box, as we do not know.
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Siam, a little sparacly-populated country in the distant south, for long refused allegiance to our Great Lind, like a praying mantis pushing back an advancing chariot with his little claws. But now for 100 years she has been submissive to the behesta of him who sits on the Dragon Throne. In the eighth moon of this year a new ruler will be crowned as King, and will take to consort a Queen, with dazzling pomp. A merchant of Ch'ao-chow Fu, Kuangtung, long a resident in Siam and loaded with favours by the King, wAS, lately commissioned to proceed to Canton to buy rosewood cabinets, silk embroideries, etc., to the value of over Tls. 10,000. This Chinese mer- chant has presented the King with a couple of boards, containing each 11 characters beautifully carved, praising the King as one of those virtuous princes whom the Son of Heaven views with special favour.
The Shin Pao gives the following scraps of news from Coren amongst the desultory notes which a correspondent continues to send from
that country :—
An American whom the King sent to the Huang-hai and Ping-yang provinces to report on gold mines has returned unsuccessful, having been set upon by the natives and very severely
beaten.
Chinese who arrive in Corea must report themselves at the Chinese Consulate and receive a passport. There are three classça of passport, at $2, $1, and so cents. Great numbers of refugees are arriving from distressed Shantung, About 100 by every steamer from Chefoo, apd Yuan, the Chinese Resident, and the Consul, Mr. Hung, have arranged to issue provisional pasaports to all such grafit, good for one 'month, until they can afford to pay the fee.
The King has borrowed $300,000 from France, The Secul people lately have been as civil to foreigners as if they were mandarins, and as rude to Chiness as if they were slaves.
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
MUTUAL SUSPICION,
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1889.
forbade the sale, to pay back at a later date the same buk of stalks as that which he now Irregularly borrowed!
The bigh rate of Chinese interest, ranging from twenty-four to thirty-six or more per cent. is a proof of the lack of mutual confidence. The larger part of this extortionate exaction does not represent payment for the use of money, but insurance on risk, which is very great. The almost total lack of such forms of investments as we are so familiar with in Western lands is due, not more to the lack of development of the resources of the empire, than to the general mistrust of each other among the people. The affairs of life hinge upon confi'nce, and it is for this reason that a large class of affairs in China will, for a long time to come, be disso clatal from their hinges, to the great detriment of the interests of the people,
A curious example of Chinese commercial suspicion was afforded a few months ago by a paragraph in the American newspapers, giving an account of the condition of things in the Chinese colony in the city of New York. The Chinese organisation probably did not differ from that of other cities where the Chinese have established themselves. They have a Municipal Government of their own, and twelve leading Chinese are the officers thereof. They keep the money and the papers of the Municipality in a huge iron safe, and to insure absolute safety, the safe is locked with twelve ponderous brass (Chinese) padlocks all in a row, instead of the intricate and beautiful combination locks used in the New York Banks. Each one of the twelve members of the Chinese Board of Aldremen had a key to one of these padlocks, and when the safe is opened all twelve of them must be on band, each to attend to the unlocking of his own padlock. One of there dis tinguished Aldermen having inopportunely died, the affairs of the Municipality were thrown
relations, and the reform of the currency went on. And now the last which we hear is that this expen- sive establishment is to be turned i to a cloth factory, to "scrape off the superfluous fat" of the foreigner, who has too long monopolised sale of cotton fabrics to the population of China. The same or even greater obstacles are thrown in the way of the opening of miner, which, if properly worked, might make China what she ought to be. a rich country. The earth dragon' below ground. and peculation and suspicion above it, are as yet too much for anything more than the most rudimentary steps af progress in this' mos essential direction. No matter how great advant ages may be, or how obvious, it is almost impos. sible in get new things introduced, when an all- pervading suspicion frowns upon item. Dr. Nevins, who has done so much at Cheloo for the cultivation of a high grade of foreign inits
in
China, fruits - whi fi' visibly yield on enormous profit, has been obliged to contend against this suspicion at every step, and one less patient and less philanthropic would long since have abandoned the project in disgust. When profits are once assured, this state of things of course gradually disappears. But it is very real when enquiries are set on foot, like there by the Imperial Maritime Customs in regard to the raising of silk-worms, or tea. How can those who are interested in these matters possibly be- lieve, in defiance of all the accumulated exper ience of past ages, that the object of these inquiries is not a tax, but the promotion of pra duction, and the increase of the profits of skilled labour? Who ever heard of such a thing, and who can believe it when he does hear it? The attitude of the Chinese mind towards such pro- jects as this may be best expressed in the Dutch over; Goud moirow to you all, as the fox aid when he leaped into the goose-pen!--/. C. Daily News,
(To be continued.)
NEWCHWANG.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
July 8th, 1889.
into the utmost confusion. The key to his padlock could not be found, and if it had been found, it was said that no one would then venture to take the place of the deceased, through superstitions fear that the dead man would be jealous of hi successor, and would remove him by the same disease of which he himself had died. Even the funeral bills could not be paid
We are so accustomed to refer to the great distress which natives have been suffering from until a special election had taken place to fill the vacancy. This little incident is inde da window, for the last year, as the Famine in China, that through which those who chose to do so may see
little attention has been paid to the fact as to some of the prominent traits of the Chinese whether the word "Famine" is or is not pro characterclearly illustrated; capacity for organisa-perly applied. Famine-death or scarcity- tion, contuercial ability. mutual suspicion, died of want,
will apply to the starvelings themselves, for they doubt, yet there was not any unlimited credulity, and lacit contempt for the institutions and inventi ns of the men of the west. scarcity of fond in the province" The land of Mr. Spurgeon is credited with the observation gypt and the land of Canaan were punished that if anything is really to be done it should reason of dearth," and the Government be accomplished by appointing a commitee of adopted means under the circumstances, but the two, and then putting one of them to bed.
Chinese Government have not admitted by their This plan may be adapted to the longitude of
actions that Manchuria was suffering from Greenwich, but not to China. In this country, scarcity. On the contrary, one may suppose that stocks of millet, beans, etc., are plentiful-so the man who was put to bed would su pect, when he got up, that the other man had taken plentiful, indeed, that many cargoes have been advantage of his retirement to make off with the shipped away. Instead of staying the export funds. The structure of the Chinese Govern- of grain as a mercantile commodity, several steamers have actually been laden for ports in ment contains many examples of the effects of
Shantung, and the Government transport Lee yuen is now taking what are called "Tribute beans " for Taku, Tientsin, Peking-the locality is uncertain-but it is said on Government account. Now unless the grain be taken to relieve greater distress than where it is taken from, how can the Government accept such tribute? Every shipment enhances the value of what remains, and although there has never been a "Famine" in the Egyptian sense, the price of millet and other cereals is so high that for the poor Inborer, who has only ten cents a day for wages, it is difficult to live if he has to pay double what it cost him last year. "Dearth" in that way as a word is applicable to the hard-working classes, even if they have work to do. How much note is it applicable to the thousands for whom there is not any work at all. It may be said the people are hard up on account of one or more bad harvests, or because the land has beer inundated, etc., but the word "Famine" as meaning that there is not enough food in the province, is a misnomer, and this is verified by the export of what is called Tribute grain, millet, beans, etc., unless the Celestial Govern ment are bent on completely starving out the masacs of this already poorest of pace provinces of China. It is needless perhaps to conûrm this view more strongly by pointing to the departure of some sixty to seventy steamers with all kinds of produce, the outcome of this famished country. The poverty all over the province is evidenced in a marked manner by the thousands of acres of ground which lie fallow, waste, one should say, because there was no labour, or manure, or seed small and big farmers being impoverished to the last degree, the harees, oxen, and other animals having died for want of food, or rather having been killed to supply the necessaries of lite for their owners as long as possible. One of the surest signs that all means had been exhausted" when relief was distributed was the
lack of confidence. Eunuchs are an essentially Asiatic instance in point and they are supposed to have existed in China from very ancient times, but during the present dynasty, this dangerous class of persons has been dealt with in a very practical way by the Manchus, and deprived of the power to do the same mischief as in past ages. Another example of the provision for that suspicion which must inevitably arise when such inbarmonious elements as the conquerors and the conquered are to be co-ordinated in the Government, is the singular combination of Manchus and Chinese in the administration of the Goverment, as well as the arrangement by which the President of one of the Six Boards may be the Vice-President of another. By these checks and balances, the equilibrium of the State machinery has been preserved. The Censorate, as we need not pause to remark, furnishes another illustration of the same thing, on an extended and important scale. Those whose knowledge of the interior workings of the Chinese administration entitles their opinions to weight, assure us that the same mutual suspicion which we have seen to be characteristics of the social life of the Chinese, is equally characteristic of their official life. It could not indeed be other- wise. Chinese nature being what it is, high officials cannot but be jealous of those below them, for it is from that quarter that their rivals are to be dreaded. The lower officials, on the other hand, are not less suspicious of those above them, for it is from that quarter that their removal may be at any moment effected. There seems the best reason to believe that both the bigher and the lower officials alike are more or less jealous of the large and powerful literary class, and the officials are uniformly suspicious of the people. This last state of mind is well warranted by what is
total absence of dogs, cats or other domestic animals. Although large portions of fields are no cultivated, there is every chance of the next rest being a favourable one and, unless things alter very much, we may look for better times There will be always more comparatively or less poverty, but it is wonderful bow the Chinese recover themselves when they have enough to eat, hand to mouth kind of existence though it be.
There was rather a severe squall outside the bar yesterday, and we hear of a very brave and praiseworthy act performed by Captain P. F. Inserzem one of the pilots at this port, who happened to be cruising near the Bar, A are Tientsin junk, laden with beancake, pears, oil, etc, soon after crossing the Bar was suddenly upset by a severe gust of wind, and every soul on board to the number of 37 people would have been drowned, but for the presence of mind and pluck of Captain Lorenzen, who, taking charge of the helm, steered his boat to the scene of disaster and rescued 27 persons some 5 others perishing before help could be given. We trust the action of Capi. Lorenzen will be fully recognished by his own Govern ment and the Chinese-fot it was a most unself- ish and noble deed, performed under very trying circumstances.-N. C. Daily Newt.
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ances. Life in Paris is almost always feverish and excited, and it is very hard indeed to make a living there. It is not surprising to find that a larger proportion of the people seek relief in death than in New York, where life is generally. quiet and easy and honest industry can generally command a reward.
In this city it seems nearly twice as many people commit suicide, in proportion to popula tion, as in New York. This is due to the exciting character of many of the occupations followed here. We are a speculative community, and when our speculations turn out badly the weak vessels are prone to seck surcease of sorrow in the grave. It is remarke! here, as in the East, that two-thirds to three-fourths of the suicides are foreign born. ·
Here, as in the East, suicide mong mates is generally caused by the resulta of debauch, by insanity, or by business troubles. Habitual drunkenness is the most frequent cause. In the old works on suicide it is stated that suicide among females is caused either by maladies incident to the sex, or by disappointment in love, or by religious excitement. All the late returns from Boards of Health concur in reporting that the number of suicides resulting from the two latter causer is diminishing rapidly. Women seem to be less prone than they were to lose their balance from theological study; and it is a fact that girls nowadays hardly ever kill them. slves from love; the few exceptions which occur merely prove the rule,
In the East, the health reports say that suicides by violence are less frequent than the were, and that poison, and of all poisons Parit green, is the favorite weapon of self-destruction. Our fashion is different. Most of our suicides are committed with the revolver next to this comes drowning: poison comes afterward. No person in the West would think of using Paris green for purposes of self-destruction; whenever poison is used it is either arsenic in some of its forms or prussic acid.
Suicide is undoubtedly less common thas it was formerly. In the ancient civilizations it was held to be honorable to anticipate the advent of the destroyer; the stigma affixed by the Church to self-de-truction naturally checked the practice. Batins long as man is born to trouble, and some children of men are destitute of the virile fibre which fits them to stay in endure, there will be every year a page in the mortality tables devoted to suicides.-S. F. Call.
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CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION.,
ROYAL NONEXT, the 23rd instant (6th Moon 15th
TOTICE is hereby given that TUESDAY
CITY HALL, HONGKONG. THIS EVENING, the 20th July, 1889.
POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGHT.
In consequence of the brilliant success of THURSDAY EVENING,
WANDERERS,
HEL
Assisted by Signar CATTANEO and othertalented Professional and Amateur Gentlemen,
will give a Second (and final)
-ו
· DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL.
PERFORMANCE, For the henetit of the highly gifted vocalist. and comedienne.
Mrs. AUSTIN POWER, Whose remarkable compass of voice and culti vated style have won for her goldes minions from Press and Public in all parts of the world.
The Weekly Times says of her:-" She has a pure soprano, voice of sympathetic quality and astonishing compass, and has the gift-so rare
of Executing a really perfect shake,"
The Programme will include Gro. M. Fox's delightful Anglo-Irish Comede, the
"PRIDE O' KERRY? (In which the Towers will sustain their original characters, played by them over 500 times). Captain Vereker ..........Mr. D. DURAND." Squire Patrick O'Connor ...Mr. AUSTIN POWER. Kate O'Hara (with song's Mrs. AUSTIN POWER.
"Küturney." &c.) ................. Í.
(The Evening Mail sxys : -" This is really a high class little comedy; encily written, well mounted, well dressed, well played, and without a touch of vulgárity.!)
Doors Open at & 36, Caminence at 9.
Front. Seals (Fans provided) Second Seals..............
Third Seat
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Plan at Messrs. KELLY & WALSH'S Hongkong, 20th July, 1889.
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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY, AND FOOCHÓW. THE Company's Steamship
Scorr's "Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites, is a combination of two most valuable remedies, in a pilatable and easily digested form, having great healing and streng thering properties, most valuable in Consund tion and wasting diseases. Read the following:- I have found Scott's Emulsion of great benefit in the treatment of phthisical and scrofulous diseases. It is extremely palatable and does not upset the stomach-thus removing the great Captain Pocock, will be despatched for the difficulty experienced is the administration of above Ports, TO-MORROW, the 21st instant, the plain oil.-D. P. KENNA, L.R.C.S., Surgeon, St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin. Any Chemist can supply it.-A. S. Watson & Co. (Limited), agents in Hongkong and China. [Advt.
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THE CHINA SHIPPERS' MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR LONDON, VIA SUEZ CANAL.
THE Company's Steamship
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day) being the BIRTHDAY of HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF CHINA, will be observed as a HOLIDAY at the Kowloon Customs and Stations. All Examination of Cargo and clear- ing of Junks will be suspended on that date.
F. A. MORGAN, Commissioner of Customs for
Kowloon and District.
CUSTOM HOUSE, Kowloon, 18th July, 1889.
THE CHINESE AMUSEMENTS SYNDICATE LIMITED.
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THE Syndicate invites TENDERS for the RENTAL of a REFRESHMENT BOTH at their grounds at Bowrington, which will be opened to the public in a few weeks.
They also invite Tenders from Chinese and other store keepers for, a certain number of· Stalls which are to let.
The Booth and Stalls will be confined to a certain portion of the grounds and will be erected at the cost of the persons whose 'tenders are accepted.
Applicants so tendering will please say what rental per month they are prepared to pay and those applying for Stalls will please state for what purposes they are required.
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Tenders to be sent in marked "Tender for Booth" or "Tender for Stalls," as the case may be, not later than the 24th instant, to the undersigned,
J. A. BARRETTO,
Secretary,
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N ENGLISH CLERK, about 25 years of
age, is required for the Office of the Company. Written applications for the appolat- ment, accompanied with references, will be received by the undersigned until the 31st instant.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
'T. ARNOLD, Secretary,
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Hoogkong, 15th July, 1889.
THE STEAM LAUNCH-COMPANY,
THE
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THE FIRST ORDINARY MEETING of
the Company will be held at the HONG- KONG HOTEL, on TUESDAY, the 30th July, 1889, at 4 P.M.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 16th to 30th July, 1889, both days inclusive,
By Order,
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· [8,1 THE EAST BORNEO PLANTING
COMPANY LIMITED. '. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. [OTICE is hereby, given that the CALL of
NOTICE is given of
R. H. Machugh, Commander, will he despatched made, the 18 February last, is not being
as above on TUESDAY, the 23rd instant.
For Freight, apply to
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Hongkong, 20th July, 1889.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
FAKI CUP.
EVEN Shots at 200 Yards; position,
Standing.
Seven Shots at 300 yards; position, sitting or kneeling.
To be won 3 times before becoming any mem- ber's absolute property.
Winners to be penalized 5 points after winning it once and 7 points after winning it twice.
The first competition will take place next SATURDAY, the 27th July, at 4.15 PM. Intending Competitors must send me 30 cents Entrance Fee not later than 4 P.M., next FRI DAY, 26th instant.
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
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THE DAIRY FARM COMPANY, LIMITED.
"DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM," Captain Groombridge, having arrived with part Cargo from Japan, will be despatched as above, on TUESDAY, the 23rd inst., at 4 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
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THE SONGEI KOYAH PLANTING COMPANY, LIMITED; NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
N accordance with the Articles of Association
SHAREHOLDERS are hereby notified that a CALL of $15 (FIFTEEN DOLLARS) à SHARE, is Payable to the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION on or before the 16th day of August next, we romant
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
General Managers, Hongkong, 15th July, 1889,
NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED.
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TN accordance with the Provisions of No. 104 of the Articles of Association the General Managers have this day declared an INTERIM
Captain Dowling, will be despatched for the DIVIDEND for the Half Year ended 30th ult. above Ports, on or about the goth instant, .
For Freight or Passage. apply to
ADAMSON, BELL & Co, ¡
Agents. Hongkong, 20th July, 1889.
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NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA ant, with some knowledge of accounts, in the
The commercial life of the Chinese illustrates their mutual suspicios, in a great variety of ways. To this reference has been already made in speaking of the employment of intermediaries." Neither buyer nor seller trusts the other, and each for that reason thinks that his interests are subserved by putting his affairs for the time being, out of his own hands, into those of a third person, who is strictly neutral, because his percentage will only be obtained by the comple- tion of the bargain. No transaction is considered as made at all, until bargain money hasbeen. paid. If the matter is a more comprehensive one, something must be put into writing, for
known of the multitudinous semi-political sects, talk is empty, while the mark of a pen is final.' In the innumerable transactions of with which the whole empire is honeycombed a mercantile people like the Chinese, there A district magistrate will pounce down upon the must, of course, be many exceptions to the annual gathering of a temperance society such theory, but in this case, as in others, the as the well known Tsal-li, which merely forbids exception proves the role. The chaotic condition opism, wine and tobacco, and turn over their of the silver market in China is due partly to the anticipated feast to the voracious wolves and deep-seated suspicion which cash-shops entertain tigers' of his yamén, not because it is proved that for their customers, which customers. cherish the designsof the Tsaí-li Society are treasonable, toward the cash-shops, and in each case with but because it has been officially assumed long the best grounds. Every chopped dollar in since that they must be so. All secret societies south China, every chopped piece of chopped are treasonable, and this among the rest. This silver in any part of China, is a witness to the generalised suspicion seules the whole question, suspicious nature of this great and commercial and whenever occasion arises, the government people; keen as they are to effect a trade, they interposes, seizes the leaders, banishes or exter are keener still in their reluctance to do so, minates them, and thus for the moment allays Has the reader ever had occasion to replenish bis is suspicions. It is obvious that so powerful a supply of cash by trying to sell silver in a Chi- principle as the one which we are considering hese city after dark, when the shops have closed must be a strong reinforcement of that innate for the night? They
very
fact that a customer, conservatism which bas been already discussed, whether Chinese or foreign makes no difference, to prevent the adoption of what is new. The wishes to sell silver at such an hour, is of itself census which is occasionally called for by the suspicious, and it will not be surprising, if every government, does not occur with sufficient fre shop in the city should successively impart the quency to make it familiar to the Chinese, even sage advice to wait till to-morrow, The banking in mare. It always excites an immediate system of China appears to be very comprehen- suspicion that some ulterior end is in view. How sive and intricate, and we know from Marco Polo real this suspicion is, is illustrated by an incident which occurred within two years in a village next that bank bills have been in use from I Very
to the one in which the writer lived. One of two ancient period, But they are not by any means universal in their occurrence, and all of them brothers, bearing that a new census had been appear to be exceedingly limited in the range of ordered, took it for granted that it signified com- their circulation. The banks of two cities ten pulsory emigration. It is customary in such cases miles apart will not receive each other's bills, to leave one brother at home to look after the and for a very good reason. It has been already graves of the ancestors, but the younger of the mentioned that regular markets are the places two, foreseeing that he must go, promptly pro- to which a purchaser is expected, and indeed ceeded to save himself from the fatigues of a required, to repair, if he wishes to buy anything, long Journey, by committing suicide, thus check irrespective of the inconvenience which may mating the government! It is a mixture of thus be occasioned, Should any other course suspicion and of conservatism which has made be pursued both buyer and seller would be the path of the young Chinese who were educated the prey to deep anxiety, lest the price agreed in the United States, such a bed of thorns from upon should prove to have been a cash or two the time of their return to the present day; it is until 1824, was the law of England, where the named Lodge will be held in FREEMA- more or less than might otherwise have been the the same fell combination, which shows itself suicide was called fele de se, his goods and Case. If any comodity is not usually an article in opposition to the inevitable introduction of chattels were forfeit, and he was buried in the of commerce, these embrrrassments are at their railways into China; it is the same spirit which open highway with a stake run through his maximum. Thus, in a country district, during has ruled the proceedings Instituted by the body. But no such provision of law was ever the month of September, a friend had occasion Governor of the Two Kuang provinces, in in force in this country, The New York en- to buy a few bundles of stalke of the sorghum, or the matter of his mint. It is reported that the actment went into effect in 1881, and there tall millet plant. Now at the particular · season first machinery for this great innovation was have been trials and some convictions under it, this kind of fuel is not ordinarily to be sold, such that the cash would have been punched though the extreme penalty has never been because it has, but just sipened, and being with a round hole, instead of a square one. enforced, and it is said that it has had the reckoned by wright, which is unduly great when This was of itself an auspice and guarantee of effect of diminishing the number of suicides. the sap is still green, no one wishes to buy, Thus failure, for is not the round and the square' a The annual average cases of suicides in New there is at that time of year no market price. The classical expression for completeness? By what Vork are given as 144 to the million people, as total value of the material desired was but a means could even the powerful Governor General against 87 in London, 170 in Berlin, 287 in fraction of a dollar; several. Chinese held of the Two Kuang explain to his people the Vienna, 422 in Paris and 164 in San Francisco. long and animated debates over the matter, disappearance of the familiar old square hole The circumstances which suggest suicide. as a and came at last to the unanimous conclusion It would not indeed be necessary, for it is certain relief from intolerable suffering besur less that under the circumstance there was and that whatever, his wishes might have been, the frequently in an atmosphere of material pros- could be no price fixed, the only possible solution people would have had none of it. At great perity and political tranquillity than in a being for the foreigner who insisted upon haring expense new punches were obtained, the round region where huing poverty prevalls and stalks at a time when all known precedents i and the square? were brought into their normal the coures of industry in interrupted by disturb
SUICIDES.
Apply with references by letter to
GIBB; LIVINGSTON & Co,
Agents, The China Borneo Co., Ld. Hongkong, 9th July, 1889.
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ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING | latter. of the above named Company will be held at the Office of the Company, No. 5. Stanley Street, Victoria, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 6th day of August 1889, at 4 O'CLOCK P.M., when the Resolutions which were passed at the General Meeting of the Company held on the zoth day of July 1889, and which Resolutions were set out at length in the Daily Press of that date will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions.
Some eight years ago certain benevolent ST. citizens of New York succeeded in remodeling the criminal code in some essential particulars. Among others, they got a law passed making it a felony altempt to commit suicide. This,
By Order of the Directors,
·E. W. MAITLAND,
Secretary.. Hongkong, zoth July, 1889.
JOHN
TO HEADS OF FIRMS.
of 7 per cent on the paid up Capital ·
Dividend Warrants payable at the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION will be issued to Shareholders on the 2nd proximo.
The TRANSFER BOOKS:of the Company will be CLOSED from the 24th instant to the and proximo, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers.
Hongkong, 17th July, 1880.
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THE RONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY,
LIMITED. i
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
NOTICE is hereby given that an INTERIM
DIVIDEND of TWO AND A HALF DOL LARS per Share will be payable to those Persons. who are Registered Shareholders on zand July, 1889.
The TRANSFER, DOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 22nd 10 29th July, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
..
EDWARD OSBORNE,
Acting Secretary, Hongkong 3rd July, 1889. **
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Hongkong, 20th July, 1889.
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Hongkong, 15th June, 189.
COMPANY, LIMITED.
Office.NOTICE is bereby kiven' that the Balance of FIFTY DOLLARS ($50), dus 'on each [797 Share is now being Called up, and Shareholders, are requested to pay the same to the HONGKONG' AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORFORATION on or before the 31st day of July instant
NOTICE.
THOMAS KERR & Co. ✔
BOILER-MAKERS,
ENGINEERS,
AND CONTRACTORS, YAU-MA-TI ENGINEERING WORKS,
Kowloon. Hongkong, 6th June, 1889,
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CHS. J. GAUPP & CO., “HRONOMETER, WATCH, and CLOCK-
MAKERS, JEWELLERS, SILVER- ADSMITHS, and OPTICIANS..
CHARTS and BOOKS.. NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, Solo, Agents for Louis Audemars' Watches; awarded the highest Prizes at every Exhibition; and for Voigtländer and Söhn's CELEBRATED, OPERA GLASSES, MARINE GLASSES and SPYGLASSES, No. 8, Queen's Rand Central, 1934.
Any Calls remaining unpaid after that date will be charged INTEREST at the rate of $9 per cent per annum, in accordance with the Articles of Association.
MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co., General Managers.
[848 Hongkong, 6th July, 1889.
THE SELAMA TIN MINING COMPANY,
LIMITED.
N°
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TOTICE is hereby given that the STATUTORY MEETING of the above named Company will be held at the Offices of d the Company, No 18,,Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 23rd July, 1889, at 4 O'CLOCK P.M.
By Order of the Directors, R
ALEX LEVY, Secretary (pro, tem), Hongkong, 11th July, 1889.