was not only made through the instrumentality of the Inspector General of Custinis Su R be Hart, but that the Imperial Maritime Customs of China have been entrusted to carry ou the same on identical lines to those observed in China
While venturing, therefore, after carefully weighing the circumstances adduced in evi dence, the opinion that it is to be regretted the Canton Customs authorities should have selected the Fatshan as a test case, for there is much mote to be said in regard to River stramers with river privileges which for reasons of necessity and sanitary considerations, like theatres, have to be specially constructed with numerous accessible gangways and cargo ports, and are compelled to embark thousands of passengers at commodious wharves, as against occan going vessels, which lie in different positions, with full command of ingrese and egress, and with a full complement of crew under all circumstances of their capa- bilities provided by law, which we have not space to dwell on at present and therefore reserre for another accosion-we feel bound to aduit that the Steamboat Company and the China Navigation Company, considering the claim of the Imperial Maritime Customs to make no distinction in claiming a fine of s. 50 for every package on board, whether one or one thousand, which would naturally be destructive of all trade, hnd no other option but to try this issue, and it will be to the benefit of both sites if it is definitely decided without further delay or disturbance to the harmony which should exist between sech important interes!«,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1888.
relatives live, and who they are, in order to hunt up such of them as seem to be worth the trouble, and by representing themselves as friends of their friends, gain a little advantage in the shape of a meal or a lodging, or both.
existence in Chinese society of a deep-seated discasc.
By what means the pauperism of Chinese can be mitigated and in time abolished, Cannot now be discussed, but it is a problem well worth the attention of any philanthropist and of any statesman.-N. C. Daily News.
with which it is connected by marriage. If any one of these related familes grows rich, the pulsa tions of this newly acquired wealth will necessarily be felt torthe, outermost circle of relationship, whether of blood or of matriage. In the course of a few years, the eight children will be surrounded The whole body of Buddhist and T. cist priests, by a vigorous crop of little ones, and thus a whole in China is an organised army of parasites. army of grandchildren comes into the rapidly Their stock in trade is the irrepressible human widening circle, and a little later each of these instinct of worship, and by means of this alone, children will be a problem both as to its own they are able to persuade the shrewd and prac support and as to openings into some means of tical Chinese to support the priests in such case helping to support the family. Those patents and comparative luxury as but a small propor who are well off will have no dificulty in settling tion of the population are able to attain. In this problem easily and satisfactorily, but out of addition to receiving the income from the land such a large circle as we have now brought which is given to the temples, after the wheat into view, the proportion of those who will be and autumn harvests, the priests go about levy- indep ndent of outside help will be small. And the their tax on every family in the village, a help is required, of whom should it be sought, tax consisting of a greater or less contribution in if not from those in the wide circle of relatives grain, the refusal of which would certainly lead and connections, who are best able to give it ? to dramatic consequences. Besides this, 'cach That instinct of independence, which leads a priest is well paid in food and in money young man of the Anglo-Saxon race to scorn for his services at the temples on special the help of his rich relatives and which nerveslays, or at funerals. Taking into consideration his arm, and steadies his brain, while he fights the industry and the economy of the Chinese his own way in the battle of life, to a Chinese is people, and contrasting these characteristics with entirely inconceivable. In the case of a Saxon, the phenomen exhibited in the lives of the it is partly a matter of heredity, but it is due to priest, it is not strange that a poet has said "The hercility compassed with a suitable environ sun is high on the mountain nonastery, but the ment. England is a young country when compiest is not yet up; from this we see that Fame pared with China, but it is becoming more and and gain are not equal to indolence." The last more difficult each decade for a young man in example of social parasitism in China which we England, unaided by friends or influence of any have to mention, is the class of beggars diffused with a fearful impartiality all over the empire. kidd, to make his own way. Doubtless it can be done, and will be done for centuries yet to They ate the superficial evidences of the come, though under increasing embarrassments. But England has a splendid array of Calonies, and there is the Indian Empire, into which so much of the best blood of the British Isles. hna flowed for much more than a century. There are the Army and the Navy which receive so much of the restless anbition of British youth. None of these. avenues, nor any others at all resembling them, are open to a Chinese lad, nor if they were all ofen, has he the instincts which would enable him to take advantage of them, nor if he had, would he be able to do so, while Chinese society is constituted as it is, that is, while the Chinese continue to be Chinese. The English boy who runs away, goes to sea, travels all over the world, learns more or less of every thing that is bad, comes back like Robinson Crusoe, after twenty years of absence, with u harvest of experience and sacks of Spanish doubloons. The Chinese boy who runs away. steers with precision toward some spol, where there is some relative, townsinan, or acquaint- ance, on whom he can fasten himself, until they find him something to do. In piac cases out of ten the family know with reasonable certainty where they can find their runaway son, by con sidering in what accessible places he has uncles, cousins, or friends. It is this universal trait of parasitism, to which we are indehted for much of the difficulty of introducing western inventions into China. The shrewd Chinese, thoroughly aware of the valuable practical results which must cusue upon the adoption of certain foreign innovations, dread, and with good reason, to sec an army of foreigners summoned to introduce the new inventions, fattening themselves upon the hard-earned wealth of the Celestial Empire. Rather than submit to this; they resolve to introduce baly such innovations as are VIENNA, September 24th.
administration of The Prince of Wales has gone with the absolute, necessities, and these only by Archduke Rudolph chamois hunting, and after-degrees, entrusting the 'wards proceeds to Bucharest on a visit to Prince
Charles of Roumania.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
CONSTANTINOPLE, September 22nd. The Greek Government has sent a sharp note to, Turkey, an account of the seizure of a Greek vessel at Chios Engaged in sponge fishing.
The Porte hins complained to the Bulgarian Government regarding articles which have lately appeared in the Bulgarian press in Macedonia against Turkey. M. Stamboulof has replied that the Bulgarian press is free and that he cannot
Interfera.
BERLIN, September, 22nd. The German Expedition which is being formed with the object of proceeding to the relief of the Emin Pasha expedition will start in October and will advance from the East Coast of Africa.
CAIRO, September, 22nd:
The rebels in strong force have closed round
·Snakin and intercepted the water supply of the town. All efforts made by the garrison to dislodge them from their position have proved fruitless. The Egyptian Government have ordered another gunboat and a battalion of troops to Suakin.
NEW YORK, September 22nd. Yellow fever is raging at Jacksonville in Florida Stale, and has now spread to Alabama and Mississippi. All the stores have been closed, and a general exodus of the inhabitants" of the towns stricken with the epidemic has taken place.
LONDON, September 25th. Advices from Suakin state that deserters report that the rebels are upwards of 2,000 strong. The enciny kept up a cannonnde yesterday evening, and their alclls fell, within the lines of the garrison, but did not explode. The British gunboat Gauiet and the forts replied to the enemy's fire and succeeded in silencing their guns. A reconnaissance made by the friendlies In the morning showed that the enemy had advanced, and a deadly fire was then opened on them by the Gannet and the forts which drove their cavalry into the bush and silenced the fire from their entrenchments.
Mr. Alexander Blanc, M.P. for South Armagh, imprisoned under the Crimes Act, has been released owing to ill-health.
September 16th.
The British Government have proposed to the Cape Government the annexation of Bechuana- land. The Cape Government are considering
the matter.
Latest news from Suakin states that at mid- night on Tuesday the rebels attacked the fort, but were repulsed by its guns. In the afternoon the enemy again made an attack, throwing up entrenchments before Fort Foolah, but they were dispersed by shells from the Gannet. Reinforcements have reached the enemy's
camp.
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
PARASITISM.
the new enterprise to such competent Chinese management as is to be had. As the Chinese are an eminently practical people, there is no lack of administrative talent, but there is no man in China, no matter what his administrative or other talents, who is not surrounded by a cordon of needy relatives, whom he could not shake off if he would. Nepolism and parasitism are the normal concomitants of the career of every public man in China, but however much a matter of course it may seem to the Chinese that this should be so in official life, yet when the same principles are found to be applied as well to the management of steamship companies, and mines, the results are not gratifying to stock-holders, nor favourable to the march in the Chinese Empire of what we call foreign ideas. The whole official system of China is but an extended and complicated example of parasitism. Officers who are employed by the government are paid but a trifle for their services, which are often of a very arduous and thankless Whatever they receive above this meagre allowance, must be secured by a more or less gentle pressure on each side, a pressure to which foreigners have agreed to give the name of 'squerres. This pressure, in the shape of exactions, is transmitted from above,.down- wards, like the impulse to motion through the wheels and cogs of a machine, until each part is set in motion, subject to its own pressure and its own friction, and in each case, the friction is an unavoidable constituent of the working of the machine. In the allegorical language of the Chinese aphorism The large fish eat the little fish, the little fish cat the insects, and the insects eat the water-plants and the mud!' This system is by no means confined to China, for it was described by Swift 150 years ago in his well-known lines,.
nature.
!
**So naturalists observe, a flca"
Ha smaller fleas that on him-prey;
And these have smaller clif to bite 'em: And no procedad infinitem."
..
FOOCHOW
October 6th, 1888.
The natives believe that foreigners are better fangshui men than themselves, and select always the best spots on the hills for their In many cases their ancestors' residences. graves are forced to be removed out of the fung shai shots for foreign houses to be built on them. One of our leading doctors-we will not mention the name until a certain price is offered is said to be the best fungshui foreigner in the settlement:
.. Kalinng troubles seem to be the topic of the day amongst the tea house visitors, and there is free chit-chat amongst the street coolics on the subject. The literati work this trouble capitally, and we firmly believe that they are spreading the news all over the country in order to obtain help from the vagabonds. We hope our consuls will not fail to bring the bands of so called literati to a proper understanding to af foreigners should be allowed, even if outside of treaty rights, to have a summer resort in any part of the country, much more so in a place so close to the settlement as Kuliang.
The following is the tea export since our issue of Ist ultimo, as per consignees' returns :— For London
Deucalion Benlarig Tason Pardozus Glenray..... Achilles
For London and Continent:-
Cardiganshire
For Continent
Jason Achilles Via Hongkong.
Benlarig
For Hangkong --
Deucalion, Jason Dardanus, Glenroy, Cardiganshire,
For Singapore
Cardiganshire, For America :-)
Via Hongkong-
Benlarig Via Amoy.
Benlarig
For Sydney:-
Airlie...... For Melbourne :~~- Airlie......
For Adelaide :-
Airlie.... For Queensland.:- Airlie.....
For New Zealand :----
Airlie Taiyuan... For New York:- Dorset,
-Echo.
To-day's Advertisements.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
WING to the continued inclement state of MAGAZINE GAP, which was POSTPONED until To-day, is further postponed until further notice.
By Command,
the weather, the SALE of LAND at
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong, 10th October, 1888. Colonial Secretary's Office,
[1016
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
MILITARY AUTHORITIES that TARGET INFORMATION has been received from the PRACTICE will take place from Stone-cutters Island Batteries on MONDAY, the 15th instant, from 4 to 6 P..
The direction of the fire will be nearly due All Junks and other Vessels are cautioned to West from Stone-culters' Island West Battery.
By Command, keep clear of the range.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 10th October, 1888,
[1017-
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. STEAMSHIP STRATHLEVEN," FROM NEW YORK. CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby
requested to send in their Bills of Lading* to the Undersigned for countersignature, and TU -TARE IMMEDIATE DELIVERY OF THEIR GOODS
FROM ALONGSIDE.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Steamer will be at once landed and stored at Consignees risk and expense, and no Fire Insurance will be effected.
All claims against the Steamer must be pre sented to the Undersigned on or before the 17th inst, or they will not be recognised,
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agents.
[1020 Hongkong, toth October, 1888. UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF" CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
for the year 1887 will be payable on DIVIDEND of FIVE DOLLARS per Share THURSDAY, the 11th instant.
Warranis may be had on application at the Office of the Society on and after that date.
By Order of the Board,
N. J. EDS,
Secretary. Hongkong, 10th October, 1888. [1019
LODGE OF
305,661 lbs. 454.442
$1
212,783
PERSEVERANCE
432.424
$34.948 " 616,165
HONGKONG, No. 1165.
280,177
19
3,333
15
1,100
13,294
19
A REGULAR MEETING of the above
LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS' HALL, Zetland Street, on TUESDAY, the 16th instant, at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited."
Hongkong, toth October, 1888
Insurances.
[101 B
***** 13,700
7,000 22 65,726 "
9,214 » THE NEGLECT OF LIFE
645"
ASSURANCE.
9,211 "
1
7,172 "
29,1gr...
239,947 1,224,881
99,897 **
166,883 "
12,080 11 393.858 »
899,780 "
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE,
Barometer-ga.m.. Barometer-ż p.m. Bazeler-4 ja 172. Thermometer → A.12,
To-day.
(From Mears. Falconer & Co.'s Register).
3008 10.05
30,07
Thermometeram. (Wet bulb)
Thermometer-1 p.m. (Wet bulb)vem Thermometer- p.m. (Wet bulb)
Thermomoter-Maximum
to
Thermometer-Mlutasura (over night!!.................
Thermamei** ..
Thermometer-4 p.In.
HERE is ao feature of our civilised life that Triad Guttful man with more force
than the neglect of LIFE ASSURANCE. BY payment of a small quarterly subscription any man of good health can secure a very large sum to his family in case of premature death, yet hundreds of families brought up in comfort-- perhaps in luxury--are left in extreme poverty every year from the bread winner having neglected to assure his life. In the East many a man lives up to his income, knowing well that if death cut him off suddenly, bis wife and children would be left almost wholly unprovided for. All this can be prevented by Life
Assurance,
EVERY FACILITY
In connection with Life Assurance Business is afforded by
THE STANDARD LIFE OFFICE, one of the largest and wealthiest of the Provident. Institutions of the United Kingdom. Forms of application and all information will be promptly afforded on application to any of the Standard Company's Agents, or to
THE BORNEO COMPANY, LD.,
Agents, Hongkong.
[659 Hongkong, 29th June, 1888. ECONOMIC FIRE OFFICE, LIMITED, .LONDON.
11 Chinese officials are compelled by the terms of their existence to be parasites, the same is true to a still greater degree of the horde of followers who attach themselves to every person in office, and without whom he could not move a step. Indispensable as these assistants are to the conduct of the public business of the Empire, multitudes of them systematically, not only receive no salary, but often pay handsome fees for the privilege of holding their positions. How they reimburse themselves, with compound interest, can be ascertained by interviewing any Chinese who has become entangled in a lawsuit, CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICLA prepared to accept RISKS at CURRENT RATES. and by obtaining from him a detailed state-
·
The English word 'Parasite' is derived from a classical term signifying to get one's living at the expense of another, and this word and its derivatives have found their way into the languages of modern Europe, to denote a social fact which has no limit of time or of place. Wherever there are rich and poor, the great and the humble, those in power and those not in 'power, there will be developed to a greater or to a lesser extent, a state of parasitism. But in the social conditions of China, the circumstances which lead some to attach themselves to others as dependants are numerous, and the temptations to do so are strong, while at the same time the checke to such a system which are found in Western lands, are in China almost entirely wanting. Attention has been repeatedly directed to the solidarity of Chinese social fille, as the key to many of his characteristics. It is in social soll. darity that Chinese parasitism has its strongest root and its most conspicuous illustrations.ment of the persons to whom, and objects for A Chinese family, let us not forget, does not which he paid the squeezes to which be has consist as in our thought a 'family' does, of a been subjected at every stage of the proceed- man, his wife and their children. In China a ings. But even if by rare prudence and good 'family' denotes a multitude of persons of the fortune, a Chinese were to escape from all same surname and descended from the same legal proceedings during the entire tern of his ancestors. Political convulsions, may bave led natural life, the parasites would be sure to find to a break in the connection between the present him out at irregular intervals, and levy exactions and the past, but after every much interruption upon him for so-called public business, such as the family begins again its processes of expan- providing carts, animals, boats, materials foragid... sion,, accumulation, and ramification. Let us repairing river banks, and a multitude of similar Shingh
Assay suppose the case of a family, using the terms for objects. These 'squeezes, like others, are more the moment in the moi restricted sense, having or less systematized, and come to be taken as five sons, and three daughters. The father has matters of course. The system of parasitism Is several brothers and sisters, and the mother a constituent part of the educational routine of likewise has her brothers and her sisters. The the Chinese. The relation between teacher and eight children grow up, and at an early period pupil is far more intimate than any with which marriages are arranged for them all, the five we are acquainted, and a person who has once young men bringing their five little brides into been a preceptor of another, has a kind of the yard, in which quarters must have been presumptive claims upon him as long as he provided for this expansion. A foreign census. lives. When the teacher is poor and in faker now reports six families instead of one, distress, as happens to a large percentage
REGISTER.
9th October, 1888.-At 4 p.m.
Wlad.
STATION
Whadirontesk. Tako ekitavni
thong.
19.09
46
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Hoogkong Bolinas --q! →
19.00 Kanila
19.91 toth October, 1888,At 10 mm,
STATION.
Wadlocks 30.15
37
Takie
30.08 30.00
30.04
Any AMINT Hongkong
30.04
The barometer la rising 'and 'gradiante' are guatle. The weather. is overcast, warm and damp
but the foreign census-taker would be wrong. It of Chinese teachers, he may get his entire Nagd Shanghai is very likely that the whole of this compound living by roaming about and levying small his former pupils. If this family will continue as before to have all things contributlers Of Aot unlikely to be, a poor Halphonganim common, and even if they have divided their land is insufficient, so that each married couple, cultivates its own teacher becomes a " Roving Scholar, like some portion, they still constitute one family, and of the monks in the middle ages, and receives a are so regarded by others. By the marriage of trifle in alms at every school-house at which be the eight children, the family is brought into stop. The circumstance that two persons have intimate, relations with eight other famille, mutted together under the same teacher, or have cach of which la turn has its own circle of been examined at the same time for a degree, connections and relationships, and each one constitutes * claim upon which aid in distress Fof of these relationships bears a more or less im Is continually based. Indeed to such a pitch portant part in the affairs of the original family perfection is parasitism carried, that there are. which is our point of departure. If the star of everywhere clever vagrants. roaming about any one of these numerous families wanes this picking up acquaintances, insinuating themselves circumstance cannot fail to affect every family Into the affairs of othert, learning where their
Harruced'ta 'teral of the son la inches, suntha and Langdon Femmes to che shade in diagram, Fahe
resheft-Huredite a percentage of saturation the besteldity of air miserated with males being ron. Directlow "of the wind to two polete 1-Yace of the "wind according to Resofort seals; O-Fists of the wwchar, & Blanky, Depicant
·clewda, el file Binz min, / Fog, gooday, 4 Haik, /Lightning"
• Opticaki, / Panting showers, e'. Smudy: » Rats, «. Buone 1, Tounder, ** Visibility, w Dew wet) yubala “la lachen, Hongkong Observatory, 10th October, 1888,
AUTHORISED CAPITAL.£1,000,000 357,500 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL ....... PAID-UP CAPITAL...............MÉTEROPIET 71,500 THE Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are
· F. NAUDIN & Co. Office, No. 58, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 17th September, 1888,
GENERAL NOTICE
Masonic,
ST. JOHN
LODGE
OF HONGKONG, No. 618, S.C.
REGULAR MEETING of the above-
held in FREEMA
the 13th instant, at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely. SONS HALL, Zetland Street, on SATURDAY Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
Hongkang, 5th October, 1888
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE:
1996
DURING Mr. DENT'S absence from Canton,
CHARLES JULIUS LAFRENTZ and Mr. FREDERIC ONGLEY SEATON are authorised to sign for HERBERT DENT & Co. by
HERBERT DENT & Co. procuration.
(953 Canton, 20th September, 1888.
TAKASIMA COLLIERY AGENCY,
[100
HAVE this day resumed charge of this
AGENCY.
II. J. H. TRIPP. Hongkong, 6th October, 1888.
Entimations.
NOTICE.
TENDERS will be received by the under- .signed on or before the 16th inst. for the supply of GROUNDNUT OIL to H.M. NAVAL
YARD.
+1
Each Tender is to be accompanied by a Sample of Samples of the Oil to be Supplied.
Naval Storekeeper.
i
W. H. LOBB,
:
H.M. Naval Yard, Hongkong, 6th October, 1888.
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHIA....
SOLE AGENTS FOR
[1003
THE MIKE COAL MINE. DUNKER COALS can he supplied to any alongside the KOWLOON WHARF on application Steamer lying in the harbour or coming
to the Undersigned.
Y. FUKUHARA,
Acting Manager. Hongkong, 19th January, 1888
Tros
HONGKONG HOTEL HOTEL is prepared to SUPPLY Picnic THE shooting Parties with all requirements. The Hotel Launch is Available for HIRE when not required for Hotel purposes.
Apply to
Hongkong, 15th September, 1888.
THE HONGKONG HIGH LEVÉL TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
C. M. ROBERTS,
Manager.
LIMITED:
PEAK TRAMWAY was
[915
THE Public are respectfully informed that the OPENED for Public Traffic on WEDNESDAY, the 30th May,
WEEK DAYS.
The CARS RUN as follows between ST. JOHN'S PLACE and VICTORIA GAP
12
11
8 to 10 A.M. every quarter of an hour.." 12 to P.M.
half hour. .4 to 8
quarter of an hour, Down Cars between 8 & to A.M. for 1st Class
Passengers only.
171
SUNDAYS,
past 12 to past one every quarter of an hour, and from 4 to 8 P.. every quarter of an bour.
Single Tickets are sold in the Cars: Five-Cent Coupons and Reduced Tickets at the Office of
MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co., General Managers.
VICTORIA EXCHANGE,
50 & 52, Queen's Road,
Hongkong, 17th August, 1888.
[395
A. G. GORDON & CO.
BUILDERS, GENERAL
GOVERNMENT ENGINEERS, LAUNCH CONTRACTORS, IRONMONGERS, COM- MISSION AGENTS, VALUATORS, IRON and TIMBER MERCHANTS.
and
WORKS:
'BOWRINGTON, EAST POINT.
OFFICE:
CORNER OF PEDDER STREET AND PRAYA. STEAM LAUNCH COMPANY, LIMITED. -tar Hongkong. 3rd September, 1888.
THE STEAM LAUNCH COMPANY, LIMITED. "HE Steam Dispatch Launch
"BONNIE,"
1922 T
THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, (LIMITED) CAPITAL TAELS 600.000, ),
EQUAL TO ... RESERVE FUND
$833.333-39 $340,000,00
[899
is now lying off. Pedder's Wharf for Hire.
For terms apply to
THE COMPANY'S OFFICE, I, Pedder's Street. Hongkong, rith September, 1888.
NOTICE LO YEUX MOON, EFSHANGHAI BUTCHERY will be BDERS. TROM the 1st of November next, the
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. LIE SING, Esq. Lou TSO SEUN, Esq.
MANAGER-HO AMEL
MARINE RISKS on GOODS, &c, takes
world
at CURRENT RATES to all parts of the
HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 9 PRAYA WEST. Hongkong, 17th December, 1885. NOTICE T THE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED.
THE
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED......................$1,000,000
The above Company is prépared to accept MAKINE RISKS at CURRENT RATES on GOODS c. Policies granted to all Parts of the work payable at any of its Agencies.
WOO LIN YUEN dom Secretary, HEAD OFFICER 4, QUEEN'S ROAD WEET
1st February, 1882
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to supply BRAWN, LARD in-BLADDERS. FRESH and PICKLED ENGLISH PORK, SAUSAGES, &c.
Also,
BEEF. In JOINTS and CORNED, BLACK PUDDINGS, PORK and GAME PIES.
S. R. GALE Shanghai, 21st September, 1888
(982)
Intimations.
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE
HE SEVENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Office of the Undersigned at ja O'CLOCK (Noo), on 'SATURDAY," the 27th October instant.,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company, will be CLOSED from the 13th to the 27th Inst
both days inclusive,
บ
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
General Agents, .
CANTON INSURANCE ÖFFICE, LIMITED. Hongkong, Sth October, 1888.
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[1009
"ONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
PROGRAMME OF THE SIXTH
RIFLE MEETING,
TO BE HELU AT
KOWLOON,
‚'
אס
FRIDAY, the 9th November, and SATURDAY, the 10th November, 1888.
. AGGREGATE VALUE OF PRIZES.
Competitions-open to All-comers.
1. ALL-COMERS-1st Stage, distance 203 vards and Stage, distance 300 yards. No. of shots, seven at each. Entrance fee, 30 cents at each: Unlimited entries, but competitors not allowed to take more than one prize at each distance. 20 prizes, presented by the Associa tion: aggregate value, $112.00.
2.ANY RIFLE.-Distance, Boa yards. No. of shios, teo. Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes. 3 ASSOCIATION.-FOR ANY RIFLE-Die- tance, goo yards. No. of shots, ten. Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes.
4. CADET'S PRIZE.-Presented.-Open to years of age. Rifle, Rook Rifle under 40 Cal. pupils of Hongkong Public schools under 16 Distance, about 150 yards. No. of Rounds, 7 and one sighting shoot. Four prizes.
Competitions open to stembers.
5. PRESIDENTS.-Distance, 300 yards. No. of shots, seven. Entrance fee, $1.00 Three. prizes.
6. QUEEN'S 1ST STAGE-Distance, 200, 500 and Goo yards. No. of shots, seven at each. Entrance fee, $1.00. Three prizes.
7. QUEEN'S 2ND STAGE-Distance, 500 and foo yards. No of shots, ten at 500 yards, fifteen at 600 yards. Two prizes.
8. QUEEN'S 3RD STAGE-Distance, 8oo and 900 yards. No. of shots, ten at each. Entrance lec, 31.00. Two prizes.
9. LADIES.'-Open to Lady Members or their nominees. Distance, 300 yards., No. of shots, seven. Entrance fee, none. Five prizes.
Aggregates open to All-comers: 10, VOLUNTEER AGGREGATE.-Restricted to efficient Volunteers whose respective scores in the All-camera'make up the highest aggregates. Entrance fee, $1.00. Three prizes.
1. CIVIL SERVICE AGGREGAT*.--Restricted to members of the Civil Service whose respective scores in the 'All-comers' make up the highest aggregates. Entrance fee, $1.00. Three prizes.
2. POLICE AGGREGATE.Restricted to the members of the Police Force whose respective scores in the Ali-comers! make up the highest aggregate. Entrance fee, $1.00. Four prizes.
13. ALL-COMERS' ACCREOATES.-For com- petitors whose respective scores in the Any Rifle and Association make up the highest aggregates. Entrance fee,-$1.00. Two prizes.
14. LONG RANGE AGGREGATE.-For. com- pettors whose respective scores in the Any Rifle' and 'Association make up the highest Egregatea. Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes. Aggregate open to Members.
15. FAREW-LI CUP.-Silver cup presented by the Civilian Members of the Hongkong Riffle Association. Open to the Officers of the 58th Regt., and to be won by the highest aggregate score made in the 1st Stage Queen's. Entrance fee, none,
16. NURSERY AGGREGATE-Restricted to com petitors who have never won a First or Second prize at any previous prize meeting in Hongkong and whose respective scores at 200 and 500 yards in the Queen's 1st Stage make up the highest aggregates. Entrance fee, $1.00, Two prizes.
17. HANDICAP AGGREGATE-For competitors whose respective scores (with monthly challenge cup points added) at 200 and 500 yards in the Queen's First Stage make up the highest @ggregates. Entrance fee, $1.00 Two prizes.
18. QUEEN'S AGGREGATES-For competitors whose respective scores in the Queen's three stages' make up the highest aggregate. Ist Stages 100, 500 and 600 yards, and Stages 500 and 600 yards. 3rd Stages 800 and goo yards. 1st Prize, Silver Cup presented, value $100. money prizes, value $100.
And in connection with the above, 3 EXTRA Money PRIZES for aggregates in rst, zad, and“ 3rd stages.
Also, A MATCH RIFLE with 300 rounds of ammunition, presented, for the competitor whose scores in 'All-comers, 'President's, and 'First' and 'Second Stages make up the highest agglegate. Winner of Cup excluded from taking this prize. Entrance fee, $2.00..
SWEEP-STAKES at Running Man and Vanishing Target. Open to all-comers during the meeting. Any Rifle.
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POOLS at 200, 500 yards and Saucer. Open all comers, M.H. Rifle or Carbine.
Conditions &rti
1. To avoid delay, intending competitors are strongly advised to enter and obtain tickets for. the various competitions before the date of the meeting. Application to be made to the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Club..
2. Post entries will be accepted on the ground. Sights. Paper or sliding wind-gauges on above, are not allowed.
Persons wishing to join the H.R. Association should send their names, with that of proposer and
to the Hon. Secretary not later
thandoon, 8th November,
Entrance fee $5.00 Ladles $1,00% The above programme is subject to alteration. Programmes will be issued in the course of two or three weeks.
SHELTON HOOPER
Hon. Secretary, HONGKONG CLUB,
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Hongkong, 8th October, 1888, wh[1010)
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