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LIST OF MEMBERS, 1877.
MESSRS. ADAMSON, BELL & Co.
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.
BIRLEY & Co.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
MESSRS. OLYPHANT & Co.
ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.
P. & O. S. N. Co.
THE BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED.
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.
MESSRS. WM. PUSTAU & Co.
REISS & Co.
RUSSELL & Co.
D. SASSOON, SONS & Co.
CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK.
E. D. SASSOON & Co.
COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS.
MESSRS. CARLOWITZ & Co.
SIEMSSEN & Co.
DEETJEN & Co.
E. SCHELLHASS & Co.
TURNER & Co.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.
VOGEL, HAGEDORN & Co.
GILMAN & Co.
E. R. BELILIOS, Esq.
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
C. P. CHATER, Esq.
R. DEACON, Esq.
MESSRS. HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.
MELCHERS & Co.
N. MODY & Co.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
NATIONAL BANK OF INDIA.
F. DEGENAER, ESQ.
J. J. FRANCIS, Esq.
W. M. MORGAN, Esq.
G. SHARP, Esq.
DAVID WELSH, Esq.
T. G. LINSTEAD, Esq.
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MINUTES of the Yearly General Meeting of the HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE held on the 12th February, 1877, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Committee and passing the Secretary's Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1876.
Present:
The Hon. P. KYRIE, Chairman; the Hon. W. Keswick, and Messrs. E. B. BELILIOS, H. Horius, H. H. NELSON, L. MENDEL, G. Sharp, D. WELSH, C. Kaun, Mackenzie, THOMPSON, W. PESTAU, F. NISSEN, and DR. N. B. DENNYS, Secretary.
The SECRETARY read the notice convening the Meeting.
The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting of the Chamber, held on 3rd February, 1876, were, on motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Welsh, taken as read, and confirmed.
ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS.
THE BLOCKADE.
The CHAIRMAN said:- Before proposing the adoption of the yearly report of the Committee, and the passing of the accounts attached to it, I beg to be allowed to make a few remarks upon the leading subjects dealt with. The most prominent one, and I regret to say it has been so for some time past, is the Blockade. In spite of all that has been said and written against these most unprecedented and unjustifiable proceedings of the Canton Customs cruisers in our waters and outside our waters, their depredations—for I can call them nothing else—continue unchecked. However, I think we may now entertain the hope that the question will not continue much longer to be bandied about from one department to the other, and that a settlement will be arrived at ere long. The parliamentary papers lately published, a copy of which I have before me, strengthen very materially the hands of the people of this Colony, in their opposition to this system of
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