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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1899.
with in China. In 'order, as is said, to keep the. was impassible to distinguish friend from for. line of succession unbroken, it is thought desir. The husband was at once overpowered, and was able that each generation should have its proper subsequently found to have seventeen owl stabs n his chest, and two'savage knife cus on hi representatives, whether they really were or were not links in the chain. It is only in hick, penetrating to the lungs. It was alleged by families where there is some considerable pro- the attacking party that the latter wounds musi have been made by some of the man's immediate perty that this question is likely to arise. Where it docs arise, and where n lad has died, neighbours who were pasonal enemies and who, for whom it is thought desirable to take a pos' hearing the outcry, rushed in only to find mortem wife, the family castabout to hear of some that their enemy was deferceless, and open to young girl who has also died recently, A propasi their attack (which could not be proved against tion is then made by the usual intermediaries. them) a circumstance of which they took care to avail themselves. The attacking party having for the union of these two corpses in the bonds of matrimony! It is probably only poor families thus placed themselves in the wrong were ebliged, to which such a proposition in regard to their pon being prosecuted at low, to get an ir fluential cmpany of intermedixies to help them out of daughter would be made; to no others would i
the difficulty. This was at last accomplished be any object. If it is accepted, there is a com- bination of a wedding and a funeral, in the pro-cording to the usual Chinese method-a great cess of which the deceased "bide" will be deal of head knocking and a great many feasts for the injured party. Notwithstanding such taken by a large number of bearers to the ceme- tery of the other family, and laid beside her instructive object-lessons as these, with which all "husband"! The newly adopted" graudson parts of China must to n greater or less extent worships the corpse of his "mother," and the abound, many of those who think that they can afford to do so, continue to repeat the experiment other ceremonies proceed in the usual way. The writer was personally acquainted with a Chinese hough the adage says:
against it, do not take a concubine," 1 this girl who after her death was thus "married" to a dead boy in another village. Upon being advice were to be adopted, it is not improbable. that the practice of concubinage in China would questioned in regard to the matter, her father admitted that it was not an entirely rational become practically extinct. procedure, but remarked that the girl's mother was in favour of accepting the offer. The real motive in this case was undoubtedly a desire to have a showy funeral, at the expense of another family, for a child who was totally blind and whose own parents were too poor at her death to do more than wrap her body in a mat
The practice of marrying one dead person to another is very far from uncommon in China. Its ultimate root is found in the famous dictum of Mencius, that of the three lines of unfilial con- duct the chief is to leave no posterity. This utterance is one upon which the whole domestic life of the Chinese seems to have rested for ages. It is for this reason that those Chinese who have not yet married are accounted as of no impor- tance. When they die, if children, they are "thrown out" either literally or figuratively, and are not allowed a place in the family grave yards. These belong exclusively to those who are mated and occasional bachelors must expect no welcome there. The same principle seems to be applicable to those who have died, and whose wives have remarried. It is for such cases that the strange plan of marrying a living woman to
a dead husband has been invented. The motive on the part of the woman could be only that of saving herself from starvation, a fate which often hangs imminent. over Door Chinese widows who do not remarry, The motive on the part of the family of the deceased husband is to make the ancestral graves complete. If the family of the deceased is not moderately well off, they would not go to the expense and trouble of bringing in a wife for a dead husband. But if she were well off, the widow would prob- ably not have re-married. It thus appears that the marriage of a living woman to a dead man is likely to be confined cases where, the family being poor, the widow re-married, but where the family circumstances having subse quently materially improved, it became an object to arrange as already explained to fill the threatened graveyard gap. It is perhaps for this reason that cases of such marriage appear to be relatively rare, so rare indeed, th: many even intelligent and educated Chinese have never heard of them at all, and perhaps stoutly deny their existence. Sufficient inquiry, how ever, may not improbably develop here and there specific cases of conformity to this custom, so repellent to our thought, but natural and rational to the Chinese.
"If your wile is
A traveller through China often notices in the villages along his route that in the early morn ing most of the men seem to be assembled by the road ide, each one squatting in front of his own door, all busily engaged in shovelling in their food with chopsticks (ppropriately called
nimble sons" chatting meantime during the bricfintervals with the neighbour nearest. That the entire family should sit down to a table eating together and waiting for one another, after the manner of the inhabitants of some countries of which we have heard, is an ica so foreign to the ordinary Chinese mind as is be almost incomprehensible. This Chinese (and oriental) habit is at once typical and suggestive. It marks a wholly different conception of the family, and of the position of the woman therein, from that to which we are accustomed, It, indicates the view that while man is yang, the male, ruling, and chief element in the universe, woman is in "dull, female, inferior." The conception of woman as man's companion is in China almost totally lacking, for woman is not the companion of.man, and with society on its present terms she never can be. A new bride
introduced into a family has visible relations with no one less than with her "husband." He would be ashamed to be seen talking with her, and in general they seem in that line to have very little to be ashamed of In those unique instances in which the young couple, have the goed sense to get acquainted with each other, and present the appearance of actually exchang- ing ideas, this circumstance is the joke of the whole family circle, and an insoluble enigma to A Chinese bride has no to all its members. rational prospect of happiness in her new home, though she may be well dressed, well fed, and perhaps not abused. She must expect chronic repression through the long years during which she is for a time in fact, and in theory "child." Such rigorous discipline always, a may be necessary to fit her for the duties of her position, when she shall have be- the come herself a mother-in-law, and at heal of a company of daughters-in-law, but it is a hard necessity. That there are some
times genuine attachments between mothers-in-
faw and daughters-in-law it would be a mistake to deny, for in such rare cases human nature shows its power of rising superior to the conven tional trammels in which it finds itself by iron customs bound.
To defend herself against the fearful odds which are often plited against her, a Chinese wife has but two resources. One of them is her mother's family, which, as we have seen, has no real power, and is too often to be com-
Intimations.
HONGKONG
TRADING CO., LTD.
(LATE THE BALL & HOLTZ CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY, LIMITED.)
Intimations
THE VICTORIA HOTEL COMPANÝ, LIMITED,
INCORPORATED. UNDER THE COMPANIES ORDINANCES 1865 to 1486 or HONGKONG.
CAPITAL
$750,000. Divided into 15,000 Shares of $50 each of which 5,000 Shares are to be issued and credited with $25 a share paid up in part payment of purchase money; 7,000 shares have been applied for and
Intimations.
is applied for, the surplus will be appropriated in whole or in part, as the case may be to the payment of the amount due on allotment
Three Agreements have been entered into and are respectively dated the ith June 1890, the 28th June 1897 and the 11th June 1890.
Prospectuses and forms of application for. shares may be obtained from the Company's Bankers, and at the Office of the Company's Solicitors, Messrs. Wotton & Deacon, 35, Queen's Road, Hongkong, and should be filled up and forwarded to the Company's Bankers on or be
HAVE ON HAND A COMPLETE STOCK OF GLASSWARE, we be a breed to the rent and to payable for the 28th day of July 1899.
Sherry Glasses,
Port Glasses.
Champagne Glasses, Emerald Hock Glasses, Ruby Hock Glasses, .Jelly Glasses,
Custard Glasses,
--
Liqueur Glasses, Soda Water Tumblers,
Half-Pint Tumblers, Small Tumblers, Champagne Tumblers,
Finger Bowls, Ice Plates, Decanters,
Chiet Decanters. Caraffes and Ups.
'IN SEVERAL DESIGNS AND PATTERNS.
Also
A CHOICE STOCK OF :-:
DINNER SERVICES, TEA SERVICES, TOILET SETS, EPERGNES, SPECIMEN GLASSES, and FANCY GLASS TABLE ORNAMENTS," etc., ele,
HONGKONG TRADING CO., LTD.
(Late THE HALL & HOLTZ C. Co. Ldi)
Hongkong, 17th July, 1990
DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW.
THE Company's Steamship
"HAITAN," Captain S. Ashton, will be despatched for the. above Forts, on SATURDAY, the 26th July, at 3 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers.
гro87 'Honekone, zath Tulv. 1880
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
HE Steamship,
THE
CALCUTTA.
"ARRATOON APCAR,"
Captain J. G. Spence, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 29th instant, at NOON.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co..
Agcats.
F1094 Hongkong, 24th July. Rao
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM CALCUTTA. PENANG, AND SINGAPORE.
C°
KUHN & CO.,
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JAPANESE AND CHINESE FINE ART DEPOT,
21 & 23, QUEEN'S ROAD.
Hongkong, 21st July, 1890.
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W. S. MARTEN,
AND
ARTISTIC DECORATOR,
HOUSE AND ESTATE AGENT, 2, DUDDELL STREET, HONGKONG, Hongkong. 6th April 1890.
now offered the Public are for as follows, viz.;—
$to per Share, as Deposit, on Application. $15 on Allotment.
S25 when and as the same shall from time to time be called up under the provisions contained in the Articles of Association of the Company, '
མ
BOARD:
The Hon, Dr. HO KAB GEORGE RICHARD STEVENS, Esq. ADORABJEE NOWROJEE, Esq.
BANKERS:
:
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, 1, Queen's Road,, Hongkong,
SOLICITORS:
Messrs. WOTTON & DEACON, .'
35, Queen's Road, Hongkong,
ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
HIS Company has been formed for the
THIS
purpose of purchasing or otherwise acquir- ing, all those picces or parcels of Land, situate at Victorin in the Island of Hongkong, and Registered in the Land Office as Sections A. B and C and the Remaining Portion of Marine Lot No. 13, and Section A of Marine Lot No. 12, together with the tenement and buildings thereon known as the Victoria Hotel, and all the rights of the Vendor to reclamations and extensions Seawards in respect of Section C and the Remain ing Portion of Marine. Lot No. 13 under and by virtue of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance 1889, and also any rights of the Vendor (if he has any such rights) under the same Ordinance, in respect of Sections A and B of Marine Lot No. 13, and also of purchasing or otherwise acquiring F574 the goo will of tlie business of Hole Proprietors and Tavern Keepers as new carried by Messrs. Darabjee Nowrojee and Hing Kee at the Victoria Hotel, together with all the Plant, Furniture, Fixtures and Stock of the Hotel.
TO LET UNFURNISHED,' From August 1st. 'WO GOOD ROOMS, with Bath Room, in
Splendid View of the Harbour.
Apply to
TWO Rent moderate.
W. S. MARTEN,
2, Duddel! Strect.
1999
The main object of the Company is to carry on the business of Hotel-keepers, and other businesses incidental thereto, on the premises at present known as the Victoria Hotel, and if need be to acquire other sites and erect other buildings for Hotel purposes, as empowered by the Memorandum of Association.
A copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company and of the Agree- ments may be inspected at Messrs. WOTTON'& DEACON's Office aforesaid.
Share Lists will close on Monday, the 28th day of July, 1890 at 3 p.m.
Dated the 21st day of July, 17go..
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
(3078
In the Matter of a Deed of Release and Assign- ment by ALEXANDER MCGLASHÄN HEATON of the First part, ADA ELIZABETH FANNY HEATON of the Second part, all the Creditors of the said ALEXANDER MCGLASHAN HEATON of the Third part, and 'CHARLES DAVID BOTTOMLEY and CATCHICK PAUL CHATER therein described as 'Trustees of the Fourth part. And in the matter, of Ordinance No. 7 of 1875.
P
URSUANT to an Order of the Acting Chief
Justice of Hongkong made herein on the 17th day of June, 1890. All Persons claiming to be interested under the above mentioned Inden. ture dated the 24th November, 1879, executed by the said ALEXANDER MCGLASHAN HEATON, late of Victoria, Hongkong, Broker, for the benefit of his Creditors are by their Solicitors on or before the 1st day of September Chambers of the Acting Chief Justice of Hong- next, to come and prove their Claims at the kong, Supreme Court House, Victoria aforesaid, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from sharing in the distribution of the trust fund.
Dated the 18th day of July; 1890.
WOTTON & DEACON, Solicitors in the matter of the Pelition,
1061]" 35, Queen's Road, Hongkong. THE
N
HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF
AND GODOWN Co, LD..
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL
A MEETING ORRIAREHOLDERS LE CHE above Company will be held at the Chamber of Commerce Room, City Hall, at 12.30 P.M., on TUESDAY, the 5th August, to confirm the this day.
ONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship called for FRIDAY, the 18th inst., is gentleman has bad 19 years' experience as an | following Resolution passed at the Meeting held
"ARRATOON APCAR"
Hongkong, ard july, 1890.
HONGKONG ATHLETIC CLUB. HE Meeting of the Members of this CLUB, are hereby informed that their goods are being POSTPONED until TO-MORROW, the 25th landed at their risk into the Hongkong and Kow inst., at p.m., at the Hongkong Hotel. The exact loon Wharf and Godown Company's Godownsform which the proposed Grant of Land by the at West Point, whence delivery may be obtained. Government to the Club is to take is still under Cargo remaining undelivered after the 30th consideration of the Government, and Members inst, will be subject to rent. No Fire Insurare respectfully requested to acquiesce in the
ance has been effected.
Consignees are hereby informed that all claims must be made before the departure of the steamer, otherwise they will not be entertained,
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co., Agents.
[tods. Hongkong, 24th July, 1890,
PUBLIC AUCTION
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c.
OF
to Sell by Public Auction, on
MONDAY,.
the 18th July, 1890, commencing at 2.30 p.m.. sharp- at No. 3, Marque Terrace, the resider ce of G. RAYNA Esq.
DRAWING
THE WHOLE OF HIS HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Comprising - CRETONNE COVERED ROOM SUITE, CANTON MARBLE-TOP BLACKWOOD CENTER & IDETABLES, PICTURES, MIRRORS, FENDERS, and IRONS, &c.
In cases where it has been decided to adopt a son, and where there are no suitable candidates within the family circle, a lad may be taken from a different. family, sometimes related, sometimes connected, sometimes neither related nor connected, and sometimes he may even bepared to the stern light of a ship, of no service a total stranger merely "picked up." The result for protection in advance, and only throwing a of this latter practice especially is rften very
lurid glare on the course which has been passed THE Undersigned has received instructions disappointing and painful for the cou le who over, but which can not be retraced. The have gone to so much trouble to find an heir, other means of defence which a Chinese wife and who too often discover that they have spent has at her command is herself. If she is their strength in vain, and that filial piety is not gifted with a fluent ionrue, especially if it is a commodity to be had for the asking. But backed by some of that hard common sense whatever its attendant qvlls, which are un- which so many Chinesa exhibit, it must be doubtedly many and great, the Chinese plán very peculiar household in which she does not of adoption is always incomparably prefer- hold ber own. Real ability will assert itself, and able to that of bringing into the yard a such light as a Chinese wonian possesses will "little wife," It is by no means 'agular assuredly permeate every corner of the domestic that the Chinese have given, to the relations bushel under which it is of necessity hidden. If between the real wife and the supplementarya Chinese wife has a violent temper, if she is able one, the significant name of "sipping vinegar."at a moment's notice to raise a tirando about We happen to have been personally acquainted next to nothing, and to keep it for an icdefined with, only four families in which a concubine period blowing at the rate of a hundred miles an had been introduced. In two of them, the hour, the position of such a woman is almost The most termagant of secondary wives had been bought because they certainly secure. were to be had at a cheap rate in a year of methers-in-law hesitates to attack a daughter- famine. One of these poor creatures came one in-law who has no fear of men or of demons, and day running into the yard of a Chinese family who is fully equal to any emergency. A Chinese with whom the writer was living, screami g and woman in a fury is a spectacle by no means un- dishevelled, as the result of "vinegar sipplag." common. But during the time of the most The man who had taken her openly reviled his violent paroxysms of fury, Vesuvius itself is not mother in the most shameless way, upon hir more unmanageable by man. If a Chinese hus- remonstrance at the act. In the second instance, band happens to be a person of a quiet habit, with a man past middle life thought by this means to no taste for tumults, he may possibly find himself make sure of a son, but was greatly disappointed yoked to a Xantippe who never for an instant re- in the result. He was in the Habit of inviting faxes the reins of her dominion. In such cases elderly Chinese women of his acquaintance the prudent man will be glad to purchase to go to bis house, and "exhort" his wives "peace at any price," and whatever the theory to stop "sipping vinegar," a labour which may be, the woman rules. Such instances are was attended with very negative results. by no means infrequent. This is witnessed as When he died; the last wife was driven out to well by what one sees and hears in Chinese return to her relatives, although for a country society as well as by the many sayings which villager her husband was reputed to be a fairly refer to the "man-who-lears-what-is-inside, rich man. In cases where the concubine has a that is, the "henpecked. man." Although it is son, in the event of her husband's death if an accepted adage that
affairs are properly managed she has a portion "A genuine cat will slay a mouse,
"A gehuine man will rule his house*
(To be continued).
EXTENSION DINING TABLE, and WHATNOTS, CHAIRS, SIDEBOARDS, PLATED, GLASS, and CROCKERY WARE, &c.
DOUBLE IRON, BEDSTEAD with Patent WIRE MATTRESS, Lady's Double WARD. ROBES, with plate glass door, MARBLE- TOP WASHING STANDS., DRESSING TABLE, WRITING DESK, CHILD'S IRON COT, BED ROOM FURNITURE.
&c.
&c.
&c.
Postponement, so that a definite statement may be laid before them at the Meeling.
Business to be brought before the Meeting. -Confirm Minutes of previous Meeting." 2--Discussion of proposed Memorandum and
Articles of Association, 3-Election of General Committee (by ballot). 4-Yote of Thanks to the Government, for
grant of land.
W. H. YOUNG,
Hon. Sec., prò tem.
Hongkong, 17th July, 1890.
A H
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FOOK, SHIP'S COMPRADORE & STEVEDORE, PRICES.
.....at 7 cents per .
6
Bread
Cabin Beef Crew Beef.... Vegetables.uuumuse di
JP
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11
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Mutton. A Fruits.................... 4.
12
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11
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Pork
9
17
11
Fish and PrawAS...'p 9 Veal Fowls and Ducks Geese Eggs
M
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9
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Discharging Rice
......$3.60 per dözen,
» 900
80 cents per foo Stone Ballast ...................... # 40. Shingle do.
ton.
55
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No. Ro, PRAVA CENTRAL, WING WOO STREET. Hongkong, zrat July, 1800.
HE
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The present Victoria Hotel has been carried on under the successful management of Mr. Dorabjec Nowrojec for the last 6 years. This Hotel Manager, and on the formation of the New Company he has consented to act as Manager of the Hotel, and Mr. Ismail Pulley Madar, who has been in the service of Mr. Dorabjeo Nowro- jee for 19 years as Book-keeper and Assistant Manager, is willing to continue to act as General Assistant. The Company will, if it is thought desirable, also retain the old experienced staff of servants with which the Hotel for the last six years. has been so, successfully brought to its present position,
Resolved that Mr. C. S. Taylor and Mr. H.
Wicking elected by the Shareholders and the Hon. C. P. Chater and Mr. L. Poes- necker, elected by the, Directors, be and hereby are appointed a Committee to inves tigate, examine and report upon the work- ing of the business of this Company,"
By Order,
EDWARD OSBORNE,
Hongkong, 19th July, 1899.
Secretary.
NOTICE
[τούς
The average yearly proat for the last three years is $18,026.60 and as it is proposed to expend at once about $35,000 in building and furnishing 29 additional bed rooms to the exist ing Hotel, and in making other small but much needed improvements, it is anticipated that with these additional rooms and the consequend of the Articles of Association the General
increase in the consumption of Wine. and Liquors, the nett annual earnings of the Com. | piñy should not be less than $40,000, as the tunning expenses of the Hotel will not be materially increased by such additions.
The property proposed to be bought by the Company is at present in lease to Mr. Dorajee Nowrojce.
THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY,
· LIMITED.
N accordance with the provisions of No. 104
Managers have this day declared an INTERIM TIVIDEND for the half-year ended 30th June, of eight per cent, upon the paid up capital.
Dividend Warrants will be issued to Share- holders on FRIDAY, the 8th August.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company · will be CLOSED from the 29th July until the
August both days inclusive,
An Agreement has been made for the Assign-2th ment this lease to the Company, and for the sale of the Goodwill, Plant, Furniture and Stock of the Victoria Hotel for $150,000 of which $75,000 will be paid by the allotment of 3,000 shares in the proposed Company, on each of which $25 will be credited as having been paid up; of this sum of $150,000, the sum of $50,000, is to be paid for the lease to Mr. Dorabjee Nowrojee, $50,000 for the Goodwill of the Victoria Hotel, and $50,000 for the Plant, Furniture and Stock-in-Trade of the Hotel.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 23rd July, 1890.
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THE SONGEI KOYAH PLANTING COMPANY, LIMITED.""
SECOND CALL of $5 per Share due yih OTICE is hereby given that unless that
June, 1890, on Shares of the above Company, bearing the following numbers :--2027/2030, An agreement has also been made with Mr. 2751/2760, 3571/1580, 3591/3620, 1395/1420, Li Sau Lam, the present owner, for the purchase 1221/1260, 3406/3520, Yo 6/1050, 1376/1925, of Sections A, B and C and the Remaining Por 1346/1365, 1376/1380, 4605/4655, 2461/2485 tion of Marine Lot No. 13 and Section A of is paid to the Hongkong and Shanghai Marine Lot No. 12 together with the messuages Banking Corporation on or before WEDNES- and tenements erected thereon, now known as DAY, the 6th August, 1890, the said Shares the Victorin Hotel, and his rights to reclama will be FORFEITED in accordance with the
Catalogues will be issued previous to Sale,REMOVED to a better and larger House tions and extensions seawards in tespect of power given in the Articles of Association.
and the above will be on view on Monday a.m.
Terms of Sale.—As customary,
G. R. LAMMERT, Auctioneer, Hongkong, 74th July, 1890.
Intimations.
HING KEE HOTEL, MACAO. above establishment has
been
on Praya Grande Central,
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Ho
AND HONGKONG, CANTON
MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE Forty-eighth Ordinary Half-yearly
the Company, will be held at the Office of the Company No. 18. Bank Buildings, Queen's Road Central on FRIDAY, the rst August, at 12 o'clock at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors together with a State- ment of Account, declaring a Dividend,, and electing Directors and Auditors:
L ́HING KEE, Proprietor.
Section C and the Remaining Portion of Marine Lot No. 13 under and by virtue of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance 1889, and Macao, 8th July, 1890,
[1024 also any rights of the said i Sau Lam (if he has any such rights) under the same ONGKONG HIGH LEVEL TRAM Ordinance, in respect of Section A and B of
WAYS COMPANY, LTD. |
Marine Lot No. 13, the purchaser agreeing on. completion of the purchase to repay to the Vendor all suma which the Vender shall then have paid, under any Reclamation Agreement, and the purchaser agreeing to assume and take
SUMMER TIME TÁBLE.
To take effect from 1st May,
The CARS RUN between St. John's Place over, as from the date of auch completion, all
WEEK DAYS.
8 to to A.M.every quarter of an hour. Iz to IP.M. every quarter of an hour.
10 2 .. every half hour,
4 to 8 PM, every quarter of an hour..
THURSDAYS.
NIGHT TRAM at 10.30 and 11 P.M.
of land set apart for ber like any other wife. A third case is reported even while these lacs are
yet there are numerous references to the MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS and Victoria Gap, as follows - committed to paper. In this instance a neigh: puishment of "kneeling-by-the-bedside-holding- bour of the writer and a man in middle fe had a-farmp-on-the-head," which is the penalty a third wife, about forty years of ig the pre-exveted by the regnant wife from her disobedient ceding wives having died, one of them leaving husband." a daughter now twenty years of age. The father .was absent from home much of the time,
engaged in business in Peking. Wah Chinese SCOTT's 'Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with thus situated, it often appears to be a particularly Hypophosphites, is a combination of two most happy solution of a difficulty, to have two wives, valuable remedies, in a palatable and easily the legal wife at home, and the "smeli one" at the digested from, having great healing and streng-inclusive. place where the husband spend most of his time. thening properties, most valuable in Consump. When the man returned to his home, several tion and wasting diseases. Read the following: months ago, be brought this second ry wife with have found Scott's Emulsion of great benefit him, an act very well adapted to promote in the treatment of phthisical and scrofulous "vinegar sipping. This additional wife was disease. It is extremely palatable and does not mere child, much younger than the daughter of upset the stomach-thus removing the great her husband. At the next New Year it was re difficulty experienced in the administration of ported that the man would not allow his proper the plain oil"-D. P. KENNA, L R.C.S., Surgeon, wife to go to the ancestral graves, but insisted | St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin. Any Chemiet
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 19th July to 1st August,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
T. ARNOLD, Secretary. Hongkong, 14th July, 1800.
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NOTICE.
THOMAS KERR & CO.
BOILER-MAKERS
upon taking his young concubis, le off the can supply it.-A. S. Watson & Co. (Lid), agents ENGINEERS, acrificing. Other injurious repons, true or false, in Hongkong and China. [Advt.
were circulated-in-regard-to-his-ch_viour to HAMKOR
ward his proper wife, and his intentions in the future to abandon or to divorce hr, and these
soon reached the village of which she was a native,
The result was a deputation of a considerable
number of elderly men from that village to the one
Co-day's Advertisements.
AND CONTRACTORS, FAU-MA-TI-ENGINEERING WORKS,
Kowloon. OFFICE No. 23, Pottinger Street, Hongkong. 6th June,” 1880
SUNDAYS.
CHURCH TRAM 21 10.40 4-M.
the liabilities under any such Reclamation Agreement,
The total purchase money for the premises is $525,000, including a Mortgage for $400,000, | leaving only $125,000 to be paid to the Vendor, of which, $50,000 will be pald by the allotment to him of 3,000 shares in the proposed Company, on each of which $25 will be credited as having been paid up, and the balance of $75,000 will be paid in cash.
The Mortgage for $400,000 is not repayable until the 30th June, 1896, and until the expira- tion or sooner determination of the Lease to Mr.
Ia (NOON) to z P.. every quarter of an hour, DORABJEE NOWROJEE, the Mortgagees in lieu of 4.to B P.M. every quarter of an hour.
9, 10, 10.30 and II P.M.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 21st July, 1890,
DRITISH
MERCANTILE · MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION OF
HONGKONG.
· This Association is formed for :- 1-The purpose of counteracting influences that are, and for a very long time have been, acting against the interests of officers of the British Mercantile Marine.
II.-To watch over and guard the interests of
its members.
III.~To maintain the proper dignity of the pro
fession.
N.B.PUBLIC MEETINGS of this Associa tion will be held at 8.30 P.M., Every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at No. 2 HIGH STREET-the temporary quarters until further notice.
All Masters and Officers are cordially invited to join.
By direction of the Committee.
Hongkong, 28th May, 1890.
THE 'SHAMEEN HOTEL
BRITISH CONCESSION, CANTON.
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any fixed rate of interest on the $400,000 have agreed to receive and accept by way of interest the rents and profits of the said premises, so Special Cars may be obtained on application demised to Mr. DORABIEE NOWROJEE, VIE | THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL,› admirably to the Superintendent
$1,250, and on and immediately after the expleted within a few minutes walk of the Single Tickets are sold in the Cam; Five-Centation or sooner determination of the term granted. River Steamer Wharves, is now open to receive Coupons and Reduced Tickets at the Office. by the said Lease, interest at the rate of $6 per Visitors
MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co... General Managers. Hongkong, 30th April, 1800.
A. G. GORDON & CO.,
LIMITED.
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in which the husband lived. This deputation of THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP Geo. Fenwick & Co., ENGINEERS LAUN GOVERNMENT
stituted proceedings by summoning of the husband's clan to meet them. But a large number of young men, from that same village, having heard of the affair, could not wait for the elders to adjust the matter by slow Chinese diplomacy, but came in a body to the house of the husband, and without any ceremony mate an attack upon it, breaking down the barted door and throwing themselves with violerice upon the defenceless husband. The atta king party had. arned themselves with awls, but not, according to their own account, with knives, It was fato at night when the onslaught was mady, and, it'
COMPANY, LIMITED,
FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY. HE Company's Steamship
"ZAFIRO,"
LIMITED,
VICTORIA FOUNDRY, `WANGHAI.
*NGINEERS,・ IRON and BRASS FOUNDERS, GOVERNMENT & GENERAL CONTRACTORS, &c.
Captain Cobban, will be despatched for theEN above Ports, on SATURDAY, the 26th instant, at 4 EM-
For Freight or Passage, apply to]
RUSSELL & Co.,
„General Managers.
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Hongkong, 24th July,
Established 1880,
·Hongkong, soth January, 1800
₤195
́ ́LAUNCH. BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS IRONMONGERS; COM MISSION AGENTS, VALUATORS, IRON and TIMBER MERCHANTS.
WORKS: BOWRINGTON, EART POINT,
OFFICE;
2
PRAVA CENTRAL, STEAM LAUNCH COMPANY, LIMITED;
Hongkong, 1st May, 1889.
cent, per Annum is payable on the said sum of The Bed-rooms are cool, airy and comfortably $400,000 until the 36th June, 1896.
furnished; and the spacious Dining Room, Sitting Reams, and accommodation generally will be found equal to the best Hotels in the Far East.
This in itself represents a loan to the Company of $100,000 at $3.75 per cent, per annum until the 30th June, 1894, and from thence until the 30th June, 1896 at 36 per cent per annum and until this mortgage becomes due it is not anti-
".] cipated that any farther call will be needed.
The proposed Reclamation of Sections A, B and Cand the Remaining Fortion of Marine Lot No. 13 is 13,8661 square feet, at a cost of some $30,129.33, and if on completion it is determined to erect a new Hotel on the reclaimed site, the present property can doubtless be disposed of at a remunerative figure, and a d
Applications for shares should be made and forwarded to the Bankers of the Company," together with the amount payable on applica tion. Where no allotment is made, the deposit Will be returned in fall, but without interest, and 'In case a less' number of shares be allotted than
The Table D'Hôte is supplied with overy' luxury in season, and the cuisine is in experi enced hands,
Wines, Spirits, Malt Liquors, etc., of the best,
C. BOND, quality only.
Manager,
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Hongkong, 14th July, 1890.
CAPTAIN GEORGE TAYLOR, INLAND SEA and JAPAN COAST PILOT
Telegraphic Address;
Hongkong, 8th April, 1890;
POWERS,
Nagasaki.