of those laws which enslave us and render us pitiful objects of ridicule, and contempt, and for the enaciment of those laws which we consider Just and right for the proper maintainance of law and order and for the fair division of capital and labour, both for sailor and officer.".
We will not desire to rule, but to be ruled fairly, and to share alike the national benefits of our country with our brothers of the soil.
Then, and only in the event of our modest and fair requests being denied us, will we rise and demand these rights, and make the earth tremble as we ask them.
Not that we will fight or cry aloud, but that we will suspend three-fourths of the trade of this vast universo.
Then will people understand us, then, and only then will they realize that we are the supremest body in the world's industry and that we control the world's affairs, and, that we are not only not common sailors her common carriers, but that we are men, that we are officers, that we are worthy of the trust reposed in us, and that, as inbour, we are worthy something more at the hands of capital than be imagine. Then, sir, when our grievances are redressed, for redressed they will be, the brotherhood of the Mercantile Marine will take upon itself to be answerable for the competency of the Brothers. to be answerable for their well being and proper behaviour to capital or country, to their ships, and to their owners, and for the better manage ment and simplification of the working of ships in a thoroughly practical manner, for, as things are nt present, one man is always crawling behind or over another's back, causing disturb srice, ill-will, and drunkenness, and careless indifference to everything but self and liveli: hood; as, though it may seem strange, it is never- theless true that in the ordinary steamer there are as a rule four distinct bodies:
1st. The master, sitting high aloft on his thunder cloud, his official log book bis sceptre, his arrogance his friend and councillor.
2nd. The officers, who are afraid to do their work properly for fear of censure, not knowing what would be considered right and proper by him of the thunder cloud, as he never speaks to them but to swear at them."
3rd. The engineers, whe arc almost a separate and distinct body.
4th. The sailors, who are generally the butt of everybody, sometimes, though rarely, in the confidence of the master as against the officers, sometimes, but more citen, in the confidence of the officers as against the master, or, at least, there exists considerable sympathy between
them.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1888.
cason, then, the Governor's address of yester. day afternoon is much more than the inere conventional address with which a session of Council may be supposed to be opened or closed. It sketches out in broad lines the new direction of advance which will be followed, with such modifications as circumstances may determine, for the triennial period just entered upon. It forms a distinct landmark in the rogress of the colony, and a convenient occasion for the turning over a new leaf, or the diversion energy and effort at the vel paret to new and worthier objects. Whatever the worries and cares that beset the Governor of this Colony, in- ne sense his lines are cast in pleasant places. Our Colonial prosperity is so vigorously pro. pressive that he is absolutely free from the Anxieties inseparable from, an inclastic or lailing revenue. We are happily out of the reach-hither to, let us say, not to be too confident,-of those visitations by which Indian statesmen are hampered from time to time, Famine can only come to us through severance four communication by war, and our popula tion is hot, so large or so densely com- pacted as te incur the dangers feed plains of
from disease or pestilence from which the Bengal can never be guaranteed immunity. Cyclones and storm waves do not sweep our tranquil shores, and we dread no disaster such as devastated a dozen years ago the low lying lands near the mouth of the Brahmaputra, and drowned in one night nearly a quarter of a million persons. We do not harass othselves with the creation of sinking funds against troubles of this nature, but are simply contented to take our good fortune and freedom from calamity as the merest matter of course. Our whole care is therefore given to the pushing on of our material prosperity, and the only difficulty seems to be a selection of the most appropriate objects on which to expand the surplus moneys of the Colony: Of appro priate enough objects we have more than abundance, and it is but right that while things are not left undone that plainly should be done, the preference should be given to those objects which contain within themselves the promise of an early and remunerative return, Seeing how interlocked the prosperity of the Straits Settle iments is with the progress of the Native States under British protection, it is wisely determined that in pursuing a policy of aiding these States in their march of development, the best means is being used to bring to ourselves that wealth of commercial activity which is ou.. Colony's mainstay. The most powerful agency for securing the increase of population and pro- ductive indusity in these States is the multiplica- tion of road and rail communications which have already, though on a small scale and within a limited sphere, achieved such splendid results upon the Western side of the Peninsula. The provision of the Native States with such funds as may be allotted for the given object will be one of the principal cares of the Colonial Govern- ment. That this policy will be amply justified by the most tangible results there is no room for the least doubt. In all this broadcast sowing of wealth on the rich ground of the Native States, there are passages in His Excellency's speech that serve to remind us, that it is our business to secure our position on the Peninsula, so that we may continue our casting seed into the FIFTY DOLLARS ON THE BRIDGE.
soil, in the expectation of resping the fall fruits TO THE EDITOR or via "Hongkong Telegraph,"
of our husbandry. We are not allowed to forget DEAR SIR,—1 observed in your issue of the that the security of all our investments and the 14th September a most alarming.effusion from
permanent worth of our efforts to forward the my Antagonistes furioso, "Mail Boat," who, prosperity of the Peninsula depend upon the has become so rabid in his abortive attempt to unbroken maintenance of our Imperial position raise my ire, that, I should suggest a muzzle in this part of the world. Much has been done dnd a strait-waistcoat, a litle St. Jacob's Oil we know to strengthen our base here; Singapore; applied externally, and half a dozen Mother but we yet await, and His Excellency is con- Seigel's Curative Pills taken inwardly. These cerned to have to remark it in his address, the fatter two are good for the liver, the former are completion of the defences, by the supply of the panaceas and are generally successful when needed armament. Although His Excellency -applied in cases of enlarged spleen.
gives, as the reason, the statement with which Mail Boat' 91
accuses me of personalities,
he has no doubt been officially furnished by weak brain, and weaker argument, and then
the Secretary of State, we cannot think that immediately ties into a composition of the most
the statement of this Minister is quite candid, satirical witticisms (?) I have yet encountered, and, for it is really no secret that the reference is only if he continues, 1 dare venture the opinion that applicable to a partion and not the whole of the he will most assuredly ruin the future prospects sanctioned armament. There is no manufactur- of any "respectable newspaper" that has plucking difficulty whatever concerning the greater enough to publish them.
part of the new armament that is to be laid down here, but it is quite true that what the Secretary of State remarked about "the heavy guns not standing the severe tests now required" does, or did lately, apply to a pattern of which we believe we are correct in saying that we are to receive But for the present we pass this by, and make mention of the subject only as bearing upon, and being the very founda. tion of, our policy of rinking capital in the Native States on worthy and profitable objects, a policy take wise in proportion to the precautions that it is to be ourselves, and not intruders, who may in future years reap the benefit. Sir Cecil Smith in his address makes it plain that while earnest in his desire to forward the prosperity of the Colony and the Allied Native States on the lines that afford the fairest promise of early reward, he is equally in-earnest about achieving that real security which is so necessary to the just confidence of Minister and Merchant alike in the laying out of capital, whether for private profit or the public good.
New, Sir, I must thank you most sincerely for listening to my poor idea of redressing great grievance, but, had I not known that you are ever on the side of justice and fair dealing, .I had not inflicted it on you.
Therefore, allow me to subscribe myself
Very gratefully yours,
FIFTY DOLLARS. Hongkong, October 13th, 1888. P.S.-Will any of my fellow-toilers of the deep concur with me in ever so slight a degree, will willingly take upon myself the inaugura tion of the club scheme in Hongkong and consider it an honour.
*F. D.
1, Fifty Dollars, will admit weak brain, weaker argument, incapacity to scribble or even think, any thing that "Mail Boat" desires or says, if he will only point out to me in what respect cither of his effusions has shown any relative controversial bearing to my exposition of "The cause of hipwrecks" or my request for an increase of pay, both which latter appeared in your issue of May 1oth last, or, if he will only tell me what his subject is, or what he has attempted to prove or disprove.
F-know not who "Mail Boat" is, neither do care a coolie's anathema who or what he is I was merely led into making suppliers at to his business and nationality, on account of his very plthy 'remarks of May 12th.
*
These suppositions were not made with the idea of discovering "Mail Boat's" identity, neither were they made in untrained or bucolic eimplicity," but merely made in my attempt to sid the thinking portion of humanity to a guess na to the possible writer of such remarks and, to turn the torrent of gathering ignominy from crashing on the head of a British sailor, only
Mail Boat" was so dense.
There cannot be a doubt of it, for it is apparent even to the casual observer that," Luk Ong," "Mail Boat's" clever boy, must be the composer of this last, effusion, because I am quite sure that a real "Mall Bost" could never have been so impolitic as to be so uncourteous, oven to a $50-brain-powered "constcr, And now, Sir, trusting that "Mail Boat" is in better health than when you last had the pleasure of hearing from him,
I remain,
Yours, &c.,
FIFTY DOLLARS. Hongkong, October ryb, 1888.
THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
no more than two.
... WHY MEN DON'T MARRY.
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There are at present growing up millions of girls who are being diligently taught what in woman- hood they will quickly forget, while the lessons which would be of inestimable service in after life are audiously neglected, One curious feature in connection with the alarming. fall in the English marringe-rate is that it upsets another so-called law which was discovered and dilated on by Buckle over 30 years ago. Chat remarkable author of a remarkable book ventured the positive statement that wars were becoming less frequent. Scarcely were
his lines dry when the Russians crossed the Proth and the Allies,started for the Crimea. Since that date some of the bloodiest wars in
the annals of mankind have taken place, while at the present moment signs are not wanting that Europe' Is on the eve of a bloodier and more protracted struggle still. Again, he con- clusively proved by carefully-compiled statistics that there was an inverse, ratio between the marriage-rate and the price of flour-the former going up while the later went down, and vice versa. Thus a dear loaf was supposed to mean- fewer banns, while cheap bread implied more ratio has been direct instead of inverse, the price bridals. For the last 20 years, however, the
of flour having steadily fallen and the percentage of nuptials with it. Thus it appears that not even the temptation of a cheap breakfast-table been sufficient to induce the young Englishman consequent on the triumph of Freetrade has
to provide for his neighbour's daughter."
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vendor of doubtful ducks or malodorous fish who happened to call. It was but the other day we heard an elderly lady say on observing the slovenly daughters of a struggling free selector engaged in pounding polkas on a primitive piano, "What the good will they be to any men?" It may have been coarse | it was certainly ' true, She had been her husband's true helpmate, had faced poverty with him, and nided him in attaining affuence. Had she been as they, she and her husb would be, figuratively speaking, in the gutter still.
The average man if in very poor circum stances teaches his sous to rely on hard
until for a livelihood
something
labour
better comes in their way. If in slightly superior position, he puts his boys to a trade, or endeavours in some way to get them taught how to be useful. Men of independent means either leave their lads legacies or put them to professions-frequently both. How different with daughters! It is not that they are not taught professions or trades; it is nat that they are not trained to hard work. Young men neither demand nor desire such accomplish- expect is that the women taken to their homes iments in their intended wives. What they do
may have been trained to assist, not to retard, their husbands' careers, that marriage need not necessarily spell penury. In a word, the symptom, not so much that young men are ominous decrease in the marriage-rate is a
afraid to chance poverty, as that in the balance of cases poverty, with all its unlovely surround- inga, must necessarily follow as a consequence of the insensate method or want of method employed in fitting woman for her mission.--... Sydney Bulletin.
Co-day's Advertisements.
LODGE
OF HONGKONG, -No. 618, S.C.
REGULAR MEETING of the above- -named Lodge will be held in FREEMA- SONS' HALL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, the 13th instant, at 8.30 forg O'CLOCK precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited."
Hongkong, 13th October, 1888,
FOR CH FOR SHANGHAI
THE Steamship
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"PEKING." Captain G. Heuermann, will be despatched for the above Fort, on MONDAY, the 15th instant,
In savage life the woman does everything. As civilisation progresses she becomes less of a slave and more of an equal. This is as it should be. The misfortune is that she has not only lung ceased to do everything, but, if the present system of female education continue, there is a fair likelihood of her being unfitted to do anything at all. Nor is this the worst. To do nothing is bad but it is not as bad as to do something badly. For a young person to be ignorant of the piano is a misfortune. It is doubtful, how- ever, whether it is so actively irritating as the ability to play a negro melody by car. To ST. JOHN dwell for a moment on this subject of music alone, there is no doubt that harmony is a necessary ingredient in happiness. Without the former the latter is incomplete and unsatis factory. Still, it is extremely questionable whether the average woman's acquaintance A with Marmony in the form of ability to extract, a succession of pleasing sounds from a piano is of much moment in inducing the average male to remain at home. Indeed, the opinion appears to be gaining ground, that the expensive instrument in the best room" is frequently the use of the apartments being avoided by the heart of the house. Such, how
ver, is the tyranny of custom; such the stupid adherence to a stupid system, that time, trouble and treasure are expended prodigally in teach- ing young people 'an art in which Nature has decreed that most of them can never attain even mediocrity-an art which will be the study of their maturer years to forget. We instance this as an example of the pains taken in numberless cases to fit young pre- sous for the inevitable struggle of life by arming them with weapons whose use they are neither desirous nor capable of master- ing. This must not be thought a narrow or. ungenerous view to take of that much-de- bated subject-female education. We yield to none in our desire to see opportunities for the highest culture brought to the doors of all, irrespective of sex, who evince the necessary love and aptitude for them. But when it is remembered that woman's chief mission- however dainty theorists have endeavoured to ignore it is, has been, and always will be, to become the mother pfaturdy children, it is surely not too much to expect that the knowledge necessary to enable her to perform warthily her assigned part in Nature's scheme should not be withheld. One of the minor reasons, then, for the significant fall in the marriage-rate might be sought and found in the fact that, while the pressure of numbers and the consequently greater difficulty in making a living at all are yearly increasing, the ordinary training of women is such as unfits them for taking their fair share in the work,
The fact is that, owing to many causes-chief among them being the tendency of female educa. tion to lessen the chances of woman's becoming a real helpmate-the young men of to-day begin to see in the marriage contract an entirely one- sided arrangement. Hence they avoid it in yearly increasing numbers. The man, in a word, has all the worst of the bargain.. It is sweet, no doubt, to know there is a comely wife whose car will be the first to catch your approaching foot- steps; pleasant to see winsome bairns in whose veins your blood runs merrily. But if the price paid for these pleasures is unremitting toil and prospective poverty; if the independence of bachelorhood has to give place to a life dependence, perhaps of squalor, it is little wonder that so many young men pause on the threshold. To the great majority of men marriage means the difference between wear ing their hats on their heads and in their hands. In the heyday of his strength the man finds himself face to face with the cruel alter- native-a natural life comparatively independent but devoid of those ties which give existence. 1 meaning. For it is not so much what our odd
at 4 P.M.
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FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY, "HE'Company's Steamship
THE
at 4 P.M.
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"ZAFIRO," Captain McCaslin, will be despatched for the above Forts, on TUESDAY, the 16th October,
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"LOMBARDY"
will leave for the above places on FRIDAY, the 19th instant, at NOON.
E. L. WOODIN, Superintendent. Hongkong, 13th October, 1888,
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STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR LONDON, VIA SUEZ CANAL. HE Company's Stemship"
THE
"NINGCHOW.i
W. C. Durdin, Commander, will be despatched as above on or about the 27th October.
For Freight, ect., apply to
"ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 13th October, 1888.
FOR NEW YORK.
THE 3/3 L. 1. 1. Norwegian Bark
Insurances.
THE NEGLECT OF LIFE
· ASSURANCE, THERE in no feature of our civilised life that strikes a thoughtful than with more farce than the neglect of LIFE ASSURANCE. By payment of a small quarterly susscription any man of good health cần secure a very large sun to his family in .case of premature death, ye 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 hie. In the East many a man lives up to his income, knowing well that if death cut him off suddenly," his wife and children would be left almost wholly unprovided for. All this can be prevented by Life Assurance,
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'is afforded by
one of the largest and wealthiest of the Provident THE STANDARD LIFE OFFICE,
Institutions of the United Kingdom. Forms of application and aft information will be promptly afforded on application to any of the Standard Company's Agents, or to
THE BORNEO COMPANY, LD,
Agents, Hongkong, Hongkong, 29th June, 1888,
(699
ECONOMIC FIRE OFFICE, LIMITED,
LONDON.
AUTHORISED CAPITAL.1,000,000 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL
AL_ganima.
PAID-UP CAPITAL........
357.500 -71,500
T AGENTS for the above Company, are HE Undersigned having been appointed prepared to accept RISKS at CURRent Kates.
F. NAUDIN & Co Office, No. 58, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 17th September, 1888,
Intimations.
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLD RS.
THE SEVENTH ORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS #B be held at the Office of the Undersigned at ja U'CLOCK (NOON), 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,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents, CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED. Hongkong, 8th October, 1888. –
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HONGKONG
RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
FROGRAMME OF THE SIXTH
: RIFLE MEETING,
TO BE HELD AT KOWLOON
+
ON
FRIDAY, the 9th November,
and... SATURDAY, the roth November, 1888, “AGGREGATE VALUE OF PRIZES.
Competitions open to All-elmers,
1. ALL-COMERS.—1st Stage, distance 200 hats, seven at each. Entrance fee, 30 cents at ards. 2nd Stage, distance 300 yards. No. of each. Unlimited entries, but competitors not lowed to take more than one prize at each
·listance,
20 prizes, presented by the Associa ion; aggregate value, $122.00.
2. ANY RIFLE.-Distance, 800 yards. No. of shots, ten. Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes.
· 3. ASSOCIATION.—FOR ANY RIFLE.—Dis- ance, 900 yards. No. of shots, ten. Entrance [923 fec, $1.00. Two prizes.
GENERAL NOTICE. '
THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, (LIMITED.)
CAPITAL
TAELS 500,000
EQUAL TO ......... RESERVE, FÜNI),
$33,333-31- $240,000.00
"BOARD OF DIRECTORS, LIK SINO, Esq.
Lou TSO SHUN, Esq.
1.
LO YKUR MOON, Esq.
MANAGER-HO AMEI.
ARINE RISKS on GOUDS, &c, taken
M^ at CURRENT RATES to all parts of the
world.
HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 2, FRAYA WEST. Hongkong, 17th December, 1ARG. (858
.NOTICE,
4. CADET'S PRIZE-Presented.-Open to upils of Hongkong Public schools under 16 years of age. Rifle, Rook Rifle under 40 Cat Distance, about 150 yards. No. of Rounds, 7- and one sighting shoot. Four prizes.
Competitions open to ¿tembers.
5. PRESIDENT'S-Distance, 30 yards. No. of shots, seven. Entrance fee, $1.00. Three prizes.
6. QUEEN'S 1ST STAGE.-Distance, 200, 500 ind 600 yards. No. of shots, seven at each. Entrance fee, $1.00. Three prizes.
soo and
7. QUEEN'S 2ND STAGE.Distance, Soo yards. No. of shots, ten at 500 yards, fifteen at 600 yards. Two prizes,
8. QUEEN'S 3RD STAGE-Distance, 800 and goo yards. No. of shots, ten at each. Eastance lec, $1.00. Two prizes.
9. LADIES.-Open to Lady Members or their nominees, Distance, 300 yards. No, of shots, seven. Entrance fee, mone. Five prizes.
Aggregates open to All-comirs.
10. VOLUNTEER AGGREGATE.-Restricted to
THE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY, efficient Voluntee up the highest aggregates.
LIMITED,
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED..............$1,000,000
The above Compony is prepared to accept MARINE RISKS at CURIUNT RATES on GOODS. &c. Policies granted to all Parts of the world payable at any of its Agencies.
WOO LIN YUEN,
Secretary.
HEAD OFFICE, No. 2, QUEIN'S ROAD WEST. 'Hongkong, 1st February, 1887
Intimations ̧«
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the All-comers' make
Entrance fee, $1.00. Three prizes.
3. CIVIL SERVICE AGGREGATS-Restricted to members of the Civil Service whose respective scores in the 'All-comers' make up the highest aggregates. Entrance fee, $1 00, "Three prises. 2. POLICE ACOREGATE,Restricted id the members of the Police Force whose respectiva scores in the 'All-comers' make up the highest aggregate. Entrance fce, $1.00, Four prizes.
13. ALL-COMERS AGGREGATES-For com- frso petitors whose respective scores in the "Any Rifle and Association make up the highest aggregates, Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes.
14. LONG RANGE, AGOREGATE-For com- petitors whose respective scores in the 'Any Rifle' and 'Association' make up the highest aggregates, Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes.
Aggregate open to Members..
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
́NFORMATION has been received from the
15. FAREW LL CUP-Silver cup presented by the Civilian Members of the Hongkong Riffle Association: Open to the Officer of the 58th
INFORTART AUTHORITIES that TARGET Regh, and to be won by the highest aggregate
PRACTICE will take place from Stone-cutters' Island Batteries on MONDAY, the 15th instant, from 4 to 6 P.M.
.
The direction of the fire will be nearly due West from Stone-cutters' Island West Battery.
All Junks and other Vessels are cautioned to keep clear of the range.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office, [1,032
Hongkong, roth October, 1888.
CHINESE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT SILVER LOAN OF 184.
"ISABEL," Howe, Master, shortly expected, will load here for the above Port, and will have quick despatch.
For Freight, apply to
PUSTAU & Co. Hongkong, 13th October, 1888. [1033
FOR NEW YORK.
HE
system of female training does in the direction TE-3/3 L. I. I. American Ship
1
"RAPHAEL,"
3
Harkness, Master, shortly expected, will load here for the above Port, and will have quick despatch.
For Freight, apply to
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of unfitting women to assist in keeping the family For close on a generation the European mar pat boiling as what it leaves undone. Take, for riage-rate has been decreasing. Nowhere, how-instance, the all-important question of money ever, has the decrease so significantly manifested and its value. It is not too much to say that of itself as in the United Kingdom. In the British ten women who have never had to earn their Istands for every 18 couples (173 to be precise) daily bread scarcely two know how to spend to the 1000 inhabitants in 1866, scarcely-more money to advantage. Being unacquainted with than 14 approach the altar or the registry-office the work or thought required to obtain it, to-day for the purpose of being made one. This they are ignorant of its value. So it results means that in Great Britain alone over 100,000 that in the preponderance of cases it is a lewer marriages were solemnised last year than hazardous experiment to set an attractive would have been the case had the rate of 20 young woman down in sight of a row of years since been maintained. In other words,showy shops with a five-pound note in her PERSEVERANCE LODGE OF in one small country 100,000 women of marriage purse. Let her but see an article possessing. able age are yearly left to become maiden aunts or disconsolate virgins when they might have been wives and mothers.
the dual attractions of dearness and uselessness, and the chances are much in favour of her becoming a purchaser. Should she have children whose happiness, is sensibly augmented by the as bricks, cast-iron animals, or other interest possession of inexpensive or durable toys-auch
exciting articles not easily rendered unservice- able the affectionate parent returns home with an assortment of playthings which the indus- trious makers fashioned so dexterously as to ensure their falling to pieces on the least encour agement. The male parent on returning from his workshop or bla office observes with thank- fulness that the money he toiled to procure is being laid out to advantage. This naturally some years previously threw in his path the careful young woman who at the tea-table takes a seat opposite hiri, beaming with the conscious- ness of having worthily performed her part of the contract.
If this state of things is sad as it cor- pertinent remarks on the annual statement made and by Australian journals are inexpressibly The Singapore Free Press makes the following tainly is the reasons given for it by English by the Governor before the Legislative Council | droll, It is said, for instance, that young on the 4th "instant, few items of which, will men do not marry because they are more be found in our yesterday's and to-day's issues exacting than formerly; they want to preserve The speech of His Excellency the Governor in married life the same independence, not to delivered yesterday at the opening of the session say license, they possessed when single. It is of Legislative Council meritu more than usually further hinted that men postpone marriage until careful reading. In saying this we do not refer assured of a competence, the prospect of s to the matter of the speech, although to that the cottage, with or without love, having lost what statement is entirely applicable. It is atlier ever attractions it may have formerly possessed that this is the first official declaration of Gor- The writers, in fact, who have endeavoured to makes him grateful for the good fortune that crament policy made, alter one of those discover the cause of the steadily-increasing triennially recurring occasions when, there unwillingness of men to face the responsibilities is a reconstitution of the main basis of our of merringe have carefully avoided touching on Culonial revenues. The Governor-of-this what appears the most potent cause of all. They Colony is enabled to look forward beyond have unearthed a number of subsidiary reasons the horizon of the single' year that is the while leaving the principal one untouched. It necessary limit elsewhere to revenue) fore- is not so much the fear of restraint that keeps a Casts, and can regulate his policy aft public man from entering that social union so clearly expenditure in aalo reliance upon a large designed by Nature It is the rapidly-growing fized item of income. Whatever the fluctuations suspicion that owing to an insensate system, the uf other currents of contribution to the public woman of to-day, in a vast majority of cases, is purse; this sum at all events remains unaffected. clog not alone on his worldly, prospects, but on In view of this s; is only natural that the hit higher lengthe Governor, should be led to consider the subject. of Colonial Expenditure from the entirely new standpoint thus provided, and in whateves policy he thinks it advisable to recommend in the public interest; to include within the wider scope of the three years outlook, more continuous and
To defined - plans?), for the? JAVI
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Observe the difference between the training, of the fairly well-to-do Continental female and that of her British or Australien sister. In any of the garrison towns in France daistily-dressed officers, wives may be seen attending market and expending the allotted portion of their husband's slender pay in providing for the family's modest table. The poulterer, frulterer or "coster,” who There is no reason to suppose that the modern succeeded in selling those well-bred: ladies an woman of civilised society is inferior either attenuated fowl or an imperfectly developed intellectually, or morally to her predecessors, cauliflower, would require to be a person of But there. In every reason to conclude, that, abnormal persuasiveness,” But➡and: #6 way it owing, as we have said, to an absurd system of with extreme regret the English or Australian training, she comes to the battle of life far less. Andy in similar circumstances would not attend Midlelicaly equipped than her forbeats, Among maiket at all but remain at home and become abs English-speaking folk of the British Empire ready victim to the Grat glibtongued
Masonic.
HONGKONG,
No, 1165.
HALL, Zetland Street, on TUESDAY, the ALGULAR MEETING of the above -LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS 16th instant, at 8.30 for 9 PM precisely. Visiting Brethren are condially invited.
Hongkong, Koth October, 1889
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE
in
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DURING my temporary absence ANDER LEVY to sign for GIO. IL STEVENS & Co.
GEO, R. STEVENS. ·
* Hongkong, sath October, 1888.
NOTICE
URING M.DENT'S
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Mr. CHARLES JULIUS LAFRENTZ
authorised to sign for HERBERT DENT & CO. by and Mr. FREDERIC ONGLEY SEATON are
"procuration,
HERBERT DENT & Car Canton, 20th September, 1888. In 1953)
TAKASIMA COLLIERY AGENCY,
Savdo HAVE this day resumed charge of this AGENCY,
HTH TRIPP. Hongkong, 6th October, 1885, 1000
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LOAN C, NOTICE is hereby given, that in conformit
TOTICE is hereby given, thai in conformity Bonds of this Loan, the DRAWN BONDS and INTERIST will be PAID at the Office of the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA-İ TION, on the Fifteenth day of October, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Eight.
Lists of Drawn Bonds may be obtained on application.
For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKINO
CORPORATION,
W. H. GASKELL, Acting Chief Accountant. Hongkong, 12th October, 1888.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION,
In the Goods of FUNG CHUNG, alias FUNG TAN PO, Deceased
NOTICE is hereby given that in accordance
with the Ordinance No. 9 of 1870, Section 3, on Order has been made by the Honourable JAMES RUSSELL, Acting Chief Justice
CLAIMS to the Undersigned against the above of the said Court, limiting the time for
Estate to the 11th April, 18fg, on or before which date all Claims must be proved.
All Persons indebted to the said Estate are requested to 'mave immediate payment to t
WOTTON & DEACON, Solicitors for the Administrator.
CREDITORS and others to send in their
Hongkong, 12th October, 1888..
·HONGKONG HOTEL.
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THE HOTEL is prepared to SUPPLY Picnic
T&Shovling Parties with all requirements,
The Hotel Launch is Available for HIRE) when not required for Hotel purposes.
Apply to
C. M. ROBERTS, * Manager, Hongkong, 15th September, 1888..
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHIA."
SOLE AGENTS FORAGIN THE MIIKE COAL MINE, BUNKER the ha
UNKER COALS can be supplied to any
score made in the ral Stage Queen's. Entrance fee, none.
116. 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 zco 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 aco and 500 yards in the Queen's First Stage make up the highest acgregates. Entrance fer, $100. Two prizes,
18. QUEEN'S AGGREGATES. For competitors. whose respective scores in the 'Queen's three stages make up the highest aggregate. Ist Stages 200, 500 and 600 yards. and. Stages 500 and 600 yards. 3rd Stages Boo and goo yards ist Prize, Silver Cup presented, value 3100 9 money prizes, value $100,
And in connection with the above, 3 EXTRA Money PRIZES for aggregatca In 1st, 2nd, 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. aggregate. Winner of Cup excluded from taking this prize. Entrance fee, 81.00. AND
SWEEP-STAKES at Running Man and Vaniabing Target
Open to all comers during the meeting, Any Rifle.
POOLS at 200, 500 yards and Saucer." Openi to all comers, M.H. Rifle or Carbine.
Conditions &
1. To avoid delay, Intending competitors are strongly advised to enter and obtain tickets for the various competitions before the date of the
neeting. 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 seconder, to the Hon. Secretary not later
Thursday, noon, 8th November
Entrance fee $5.00. Ladies $100.00 The above programme is subject to alteration. Programmes will be lasued in the oftwa
For three weeks, tam tugan NONPANNAFE
A SHELTON HOOPER
Hon. Secretary,BOX HONGKONG CLUB,” Hongkong, 8th October, 1888, WM, [foto]
FOR HIRE
THE Fast Steam Launch ELK * It always kept under steam-off Pedder's Wharf and in at the service of the public for proceeding to and from Steamers, Picnic and Bathing Parties, etc
For particulars, apply to WARARAMA CRUICKSHAN
Hongkong, 17th August, 1888,
any
WAN
"Apply
alongside the KOWLOON - WHARF on application to the Undersigned,
FU
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