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· FOR CHARTFPS SÀRE.
We have, in Hongkong, many deserving institutions for the 'relief of the indigent and suffering, and amongst these there is que that appeals with especial pathos to our sentiments because its work is amongst the helpless and the weak, the object of its solicitude being the abandoned children of the poor.
Asile de la Sainte Enfances the Refuge of Holy Childhood--has already formed the object of a lengthy description readers are familiar with the rustere building in our columns, and the majority of our
"Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler, sister woman; To step aside is humane." Though they may gang a kemin' wrang
THE Universal Goz-fle hears that the London China Syndicate has seat out, mining experts to prospect the mines in Kuang Te district Te City, and the next day they went to their stayed for about ten days. They were accorded work among the "Single Mount," where they
an escort.
RETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library and Muschur for the week ending 6th Decem- ber, 1903-
Nor-Chinese Chinese.......
Library Museum ... 159
34 47. 1,663
Total
...... 106
1,697
are always a few of the young women, who a cause more deserving of their generosity, TWENTY-FOUR subscription griffins arrived attend to the wants of the little ones duting | There is one section of the establishment from Shanghai yesterday and were drawn for the night. In each of the dormitories there given up to the instruction and training of a Kennedy's Causeway Bay repository, are neatly fumished apartments for, two or the children of Europeans. These are more of the Sisters, who have windows car kept separate from the Chinese and their the head of the bed through which they, dormitories are apart from the main build- can look over the large and airy rooms. The ing near the Reverend Mother and Senior cleanliness, comfort and healthy conditions Sisters, and their meals are supplied in an under which these young women are brough: airy room near a balcony overlooking the
The Liquidator, in the course of his speech, said: From the statement it will be seen that Reverend Mother and her devoted antes. was first established in Hongkong in 1848,
charged. It is satisfactory to be able to slute The rescue work is as meritorious as it is but the mother institution in Paris was successful and creditable, and the confer founded over ihre hundred years ago. The
have run off without a single bad debt. The that bills, loans receivable, and advances sion of these waifs into useful seamstresses, object of the institution was, and is, that good cooks and skilful washevosen is broad-minded charity sung by Scotland's
remaining unrealised assets under the headings commendable in the extreme. The devo poct-
"Hills Receivable and Other Assets" and "Un" realised Assets of Old Bank' are of lute ono tion of the Sisters to their work; and the
value. The deficiency account of Old Bank success they have attained fills the visitor
remains unchanged at £180,000. The deficiency with admiration for the noble little band of
was, as you are aware, caused chiefly by the workers, who with solittle accomplish so much. It was destined to succor the children of
refusal of the Chinese shareholders of the Old When an infant is admitted it is brought those unfortunate women, to whom that
Bank to pay the calls made on them. I do not p in the Roman Catholic faith, the Sisters which should have been the glorious crown
think it is necessary to detain you by entering all being of that persuasion. There is no of motherhood was, owing to the egotistical | THE Avenir du Tonkin tells of a nutive there claims for these unpaid calls arose, and what at any length, into the facts showing how the pressure brought to bear on the inmates, passion of the male, but a stigma of shame.
who, on drawing near his seventieth year, steps were taken from time to time with a view however, for with young women ar girls Several convents were erected in Paris and wanted to burn hunself alive in order to entrusted to the care of the Rev. Mother were all provided with a criche, which is a heaven. This fanatic, prompted by a laudable Foreign Office to interfere on behalf of the to enforcing them.– need only say that i ha o become a first class saint in the Buddhist left nothing undone in my efforts to induce the there is no compulsion used. They can either species of iron cradle fixed on a pivot in desire to keep well within the limits of the law, shareholders. Amongst other proposals for a adja. Roman Catholicism or leave religion an aperture in the wall near the porch of wrote a letter to the local authorities asking settl ment, I suggested to the Foreign Office severely alone,,, They attend, with the other the edifice. The frail ones bent upon hid-leave to burn himself. They took no notice of that the matter should be submitted to arbit children, the morning and evening service the proof of their shame, or the poor, the letter because it was not written on stamped ration, and, in the event of this course being in the heat little chapel inside the grounds, sick women unable to nourish their off paper. It is expected that he will renew the agreed to, I undertook, on behalf of the Iiritish in which there are seats for over 400, and if springs would, of a night, come to the application in approved official style. they wish to be instructed the Sisters are, refuge. The babe was placed in the crèche, wherefore for everything that attracts their the sonorous clang of the bronze still of charge, willing to give them the why and the mother touched the bell-rope and, while attention. If, after they have grasped the vibrated through the stillness, the iron main truths of the Faith; they wish to adopt cradle revolved carrying the innocent mite anchorage, and covering a large area of it in its entirety they are baptised. one to warmth and comfort, and, better still, to ground extending from Queen's Road East of the children have grown up strong in the the loving care of the saintly wonten who down to the sea-front. There are few, how Faith, have donned the veil and | ever, who realise the good work that has been ministering to their less fortunate country enquiries made. The child that came are now waited, within. No questions were asked, going on within this refuge. For the past fifty Far East. Many girls in their teens have the tender charity of the devoted Sisters, women in Hongkong and other parts of the through the wall was sent by Heaven; and years the saintly Sisters of the Convent have been rescuing thousands of native infants lived months in the place and have been the self-sacrifice of the lonely sinning woman from death by disease, starvation and maltreat returned, at their own wish," either thi their without must have effaced the fault that was ment, cherishing and educating the discard parents, guardians, or owners without-luring only partly hers. But putting aside all reli- ed-offsprings, born in poverty or shame, and adopted any religion. It is erroneous to giuus sentiment in reviewing the task under- protecting the persecuted slave-girl from the suppose the main object of the establish taken by the Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres, brutality of her owner. Silently, unstenent is to make good Catfolies "fall the there is still a grand lesson in humanity to be tatiously and devotedly this lule band of that is not so The Sisters' fife learnt by a visit to the Convent in Hongkong. Sisters of the order of Saint Paul de Chartres work is the salvation of the helpless and Who, on watching the care and kindness bas laboured from one year's end to an-
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titute on the streets of the colony. Their He, have not a manger for a bed.
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ur the hardworking sun jor those who would assure themselves of this daughter, who had previously supported high example of self-abnegation, so rare in them, were swept into Eternity, and nine our age of money-grabbing scepticisni, spire perhaps, "out of a family of ten or a dozen, but an hour and visit this admirable estab-ere left to care for the aged motherseal monument to pity and humanity.
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listament. Permission is always willingly granted by the Reverend Mother Felicie, who aged in the light for the good cause though still active and alert, must perforce depute the smiling and good-hearted senior. Sister Louise to accompany the visitor. Entering the main building the spacious re- ception rooms and library are passed through, The floors of these rooms and the passage
or grandmother. The number of these starving women was constantly increasing, and the sad state of affairs soon came to the knowledge of the Sisters of Charity, who in the "plague year" (1894) admitted many romin.
of these aged and homeless They were quartered, as at present, in, a number of airy rooms overlooking the har bour, were given good food and plenty of it,
which is inmate in all women and developed to a saintly degree in these ministering Sis. ters? To-morrow a bazaar is to be held at the City Hall in aid of the funds of the estab- lishment, when some of the leading ladies product of the little workers in the convent. of the colony will hold stalls and sell the No better occasion could occur for those desirous of helping a deserving charity; a
"In Failand Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity."
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THERE were six inches of ice on the river at Newchwang on the 20th wit..
THE English mail of the 7th November was delivered in London on 4th inst.
13, battleship Leviathan, Cajt. The Hon. W. G. Stoppford, arived from Wei-bai-wei and Mirs Bay last evening,
are of polished hard wood. They are sufi.and in return therefor were expected to do clean as the proverbial new pin; as, indeed, do, such as spinning and weaving with the special correspondent, is visiting Sian. ciently, but not claborately, furgished and as any light work that they might be able to MR. P. G Scott-Cranston, the hilly Chronicle is the whole establishment and every section crude native looms which in their houses and corner of it. Passing through the ball they were accustomed to manipulate; others XMAS & NEW YEAR CARDS. the visitor is taken into the playground and were set to fiaking coarse thread from raw yard, partly covered with grass and pretty hem, and others again to hetoming and ferns, trees and small coconut palmas dotted darning. Over two hundred of these poor FURNITURE about. Soon the arge washrooms are reach creatures have been cared for during the
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confie carly this morning. The Japanese was the alada:an Maru, had a row with a coal TOSUKE Tabai, a Japanese tallyman on board
checking the weights of the baskets, and it is alleged that a conlie threw a piece of coal at him. He chased the coolie and the latter fell overboard. He never rose and his body has not yet been recovered. The remaining coolies crowded round the Jap. until the police came
ing, when a coolie gave evidence to the effect tracy, before Mr. T. Sercombe Sinth, this morn and arrested him. He appeared at the Magis
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angkat, 1.d. Director and Manager.of the Maatschappy tot Mijn Bosch en Landbouwexploitatie in
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Cases.
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ad Nethersole flospitals begs to acknowledge with thinks the following donation to the funds of the Hospitals:--
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CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents a this column)
THE LEPERS OF CANTON,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Hongkak TerkGrápil."
SIR,-Will you allow me to make known
shareholders, to claim for such a sum only as
would undertake to enforce the award of the would be sufficient to equalise the ultimate loss holders, provided the Chinese Government per share of the British and Chinese share-
arbitrator in the same way as if it were a final and binding dec sion of a Chinese Court. This would have reduced the amount to be paid by the Chinese from £8 iss, per share, plus inter- es from 1895, to about £2 per share; but I
about a month ago, is to the effect that they are regret to have to inform you that the final de- communicated to me by the Foreign Office cision of the Chinese Government, which was
not prepared to agre: that the case be sub- mited to arbitration or reopened in any other way. Under these circumstances it is useless
to make further representations to the Foreign Office, and to recommence litigation in the Chinese Couris would be a waste of money., In view of the very large amount of the claims, and the still remaining possibility of proceeding in the British or Colonial Courts against any de- faulting shareholders who might happen to visit British terril ry, I have thought it my duty to give you an op, orturity of keeping the claius abandoning them. With this object in view, the scheme outlined in my report has been formulated, but I very much doubt if it would
his bank, and the reduction of the amount of the delay in the closing up of the liquidation of result in any recoveries being made to justify
the final return ef capital, which its adoption would entail. My reasons for this view are
(1) The smilness of the resources say 500 company. (2) The difficulty in securing the -which would be available for the realisation ervices of suitable manager and directors; e difficulty in obtaining information regarding the movements of the Chinese contribularies, and the difficulty in identifying them. There can be no doubt as to the repudiation of the claims being a cear breach of contracural liability, as the Chinese shareholders knew the nature of their obligations when they became shareholders, and many of them signed an agreement, printed in both English and Chin- ese characters, to the effect that they would pay alt calls, and that all questions between them and the bank would be decided in accordar ce with the law of England. I may mention that.. the result of the opinion of shareholders a ked for in my report is as follows:- For the adoption of some such scheme as outlined in report, 1,453 shares; for the liquidation of the company being kept open for the present, 425 shares; for the liquidation being closed and un- realised assets abandoned, 19,645 shares. ! shall now be glad to answer any questions and hear the views of the meeting.
it has no designs on Thibet. The object of the throu, h the columns of your paper the wants he proposed that the accounts embodied in the
present expedition to Thibet is not territorial aggression, but scientific and geographical investigation.
THE President of the French Republic left
many people that at the East Gate of the city of the lepers of Canton? It is known to
there is a village containing upwards of 1,000 lepers. These lepers receive from the local
Sisters and of the other inmates of the instainly appeals most to visitors, is the Paris for Rome on the 1st inst. He will government free houses. Many of these houses
tution. They look bright and happy, and their healthy appearance speaks volienes for the good care and liberal diet" they receive Then the work-rooms are entered, where' several hundred girls, nearly all Chinese, are engaged in needle-work of all kinds. Many urders are received from European ladies, chiefly consisting in trousseaux for babies, WHITE TURKISH TOWELS. Some of the children who are at work are
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be the guest of the King of Italy. His departure was accompanied by an enthusiastic
demonstration,
are new and fairly comfortable. In addition to the free houses, about 600 of the lepers receive three cents each a day in money. The MR. Kang Yu Wei, the listinguished Chinese as the three cents do not furnish wood for majority of the 1,000 must beg for their living, reformer who recently paid a visit to the Malay cooking, vegetables, etc. Of the 1,000 in the Stites, has returned to Singapore after making village not less than 600 have not enough to with his reception there, both at the hands of weather is warm and dry they cna make their a tour through Java. He was very pleased cat They are, in fact, half starved. When the his fellow-countrymen and the Hutch officials, way to the city and beg from stop to shop, and MANILA exchanges state that the Japanese Minister in the Court of St. James has been notified that the Government at Tukio had
the interest of commerce. This is a Japanese frans Russia. - concession to the Powers, including a demand
CASES of communicable diseases notified as
hospital and infants' "nursery, where a score or more of the tiny ones lie in their cuts. These are the habes abandoned
by their palents. Some because they were sick; others because they were girls instead of buys and would therefore be of more expense and less use to their needy parents; others, again, because their mothers were careless totally blind and the kindly Sister. Louise, of them, did not want to be bothered with smiling benignly at the surprise of the visitor, them, let them almost starve to death, and tells one how expert they are. In an adjoin-then brought the poor expiring infants HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.ing room a large number of girls, ranging to the good Sisters, knowing full well that
front 13 to about 18, are engaged in making they would at least receive decent inter-declared Yongampho, Corea, an epen port in PHOTOGRAPHIC exquisite lace, for which there is quite, a ment. The emaciated features, shrunken
DEPARTMENT.
hrisk demand. The pattern is marked out limbs and lifeless eye-balls of these suffering by one of the good Sisters and the accuracy little 'onds pull aretheheartstrings. How with which the little things copy it is simply nobly these good women work, sparing no marvellous. The thread used, is imported pain, begrading no labour to bring back from France and the kind of lace mostly from the shadow of the dark valley these turned out is of the well known torchon varie dying mites. About 1,400 children are left ty. Other busy hands are making exquisite each year at the gate of the convent; of these table cover centres," while others again but a few are saved, anditis terifole mortality put the finishing touches on an embroidered is due, to the fact that, the, mothers, bring in altar frontal which is destined for one of the their children only when they are at death's THE Manila Cablenews of the 1st states that mission churches. These works of art are door. This is owing to the crassiorance Admiraf Alexieff; the Russian Viceroy of Man- beautifully executed and speak highly for the and superstition of the parents, who, to the churin, has begin a naval demonstration in exquisite taste and consummate patience of last moment, will trust in the spurious reme Russo-Jap nese fracas at Clientulpo, the capital Curein waters as a son of reply to the recent the Sisters who have instructed the workers. dies of the native quack. Well-to-do Chi-city of the Island. The battleship Poltava The dormitories in which over 500 children nese take a certain amount of interest in the and torpedo boat destroyers, which sailed from and young women are accommodated are institution, which is partially supported by-Per-Arthur on November 8th, after a cruise scrupulously clean and well ventilated. yearly grant of 23,000 francs from the parent have finally arrived there and the result is. that Each. inmate. has an iron bedstead, well organisation in Paris, but these might do more raised from the floor, to herself. Each has since the inmates of the institution
are, by a a blankét, sheet, thin mattress, and pillow. large majority, women and children of that Tic smaller children have a neat iron railing race. There is a fine field here for the char round their cots to prevent them falling outfity of some of the rich philantrophic members on to the floor, and in the infants' rooms there of our Asiatic Community, for never was there deer to drink in the tropics is the Bere THE Bedz to drink in the tropics is the Beer made in the tropica—SAN MIGUEL, made in the tropic:-SAN MIGUEL-
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Tide in the tropicsSAN MIGUEL HE' Beer to drink in the tropics is the
having occurred in the Colony during the week ended 5th inst., are as follows-plague, one fatal (hinese); puerperal fever, one fatal (Chi cases of plague have been recordel, 1,248 of nese). Since the beginning of the year 1,421 which to minated fatally.
excitement is at fever-heat.
But in the cold and wet weather many cannot
enough to get two small me.ls-cach-day- leave the village and are obliged to go without food or beg from their more fortunate brethren. Their scanty cupply of clothing makes them feel the need of food very keenly Several have died during the cold weather this fall from cold and wast of food.
For several years I have been trying to make the lives of these suffering people less miser able. Besides a chapel, 'I have a school and a free dispensary in the village, supported by
gifts from friends of the lepers.
these helpless and suffering lepers, I will gladly If any one wishes to help to feed and cloth
receive and acknowledge their contributions. Help must be given during the cold weather, or many will starve to death or die from cold.- Yours truly, American Presbyterian Mission,
ANDREW BEATTIE,
Canton, China, 7th December, 1903.
ulice of all our readers many of whom, we [We heartily c mmend this appeal to the
deserving a cause and to avail themselves of feet sure, would be glad to contribuie to so The movemnat an opportunity such as that which is now offer- of the japanese feet, which sailed several days ed by our correspondent, and which we sincere go so mysteriously from Tokio, is now ex-ly trust may result in a substantial sum being plained. It is on the scent to protect Che-realised. The leper village of Fat Tung Yun, to molest the city. Another Russian warship some of the hardships of its inhabitants is de mulpo from the Russians if their vessels attempi
is situated about six miles to the east of Can ton, and every effort that aims at removing has arrived at Chinnanpho.
serving of liberal support.-ED, H.K.T
HE:Beer to drink in the tropics is the Rear- made in the tropice-SAN MIGUEL,
T
HE Beer to drink in the tropics in the Bee ~ made in the tropic-SAN MIGUEL
No questions being put, the Chairman said there was no resolution before the meeting, but report be and are heredy adopted. Perhaps, pose the resolution.. however, some shareholder would kindly pro
Mr. Bishop then proposed the foregoing resolution, which was seconded by Mr. How. and carried paanimously.
The Chairman then said that, in view of the the scheme, he would take the necessary steps result of the opinions he had received respecting to have the liquidation of the company closed, would mention that, in order to carry this and the unrealised assets abandoned. le scheme, it would be necessary to have a three- subsequently convened. fourths majority at each of the meetings to be
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The P. & O: S. N, Co.'s s.s. Japan lest Singa- pore for this port to-day, at 6 am. expected here on the 9th inst, at 9 p.m.
The T. K. K. Co.'s 5.s. America Maru is The I. C. S. N. Co.'s ss. Namsang lest Calcutta for this port via the Straits on 6th inst, and may be expected here on 22nd inst.
The M. M. Co.'s s.5. Annant with the next French Mail left Singapore yesterday, Mon- day, at 8 p.m., for this port via Saigon.
The N. Y. K. 5.9. Kawachi Maru (European Line) left Shanghai for this port on 7th inst., p.m, and is expected to arrive here on roth inst.
The O. & O. S. S. Co.'s s.s. Gaelic with mails
and Manila, on 25th ult. &c., left San Francisco for this port via Hono lalu, Yokohama, Inland Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki
The T, K. K. Co.'s s.. Hongkong Maru with mails, &c., left San Francisco for this port via Honolulu, Yokohama, Inland Sea, Kobe, Naga- saki and Shanghai, on 3rd inst.
again a 4 p.m., Monday for Kobe where she The C. PR Co.'s 8.5. Turlar arrived at Yokohama at 1 a.m., on 6th inst, and left is due to airive at 9 p.m., on 8th inst THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer.
made in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL
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