making 19 adult converts out of a population of nearly three millions, but the relapses were more numerous than the converts, as there was a decrease of 143 in the native Christian adher- ents. In China 747 agents of the same Society spent £44.875 34. in making 167 converts nut of a population of 382,000,000. In Northern India (Bengal, Bombay, and the North West Pro- vinces), 715 agents made 173 converts at a cost of £34,186 25.5"
CONVERTS AS CANNIBALS.
It will thus be seen that converts often cast as much as £60 or £7a a piece. And, unfor tunately, they would often be deat-Canon Taylor, goes on to show-at nothing. He says:-
In the missions to Egypt, Persia, Palestine, and Arabia, where there are no heathen, the Church Missionary Society employs 119 agents and has spent 23.545 45 7d in the last two years. The net results are mil. In Egypt, last year, there were two inquirers,' one a negro and the other an Egyptian, but the inquiries did not lead to any further results. In Arabia a sick robber who was, doctored by a missionary pro. mised to abstain from robbing for ten days. In Palestine, the one Moslem convert of last. year, a weak-minded niphan girl who required constant guidance, and fur whom the prayers of all English, Christians were invoked, has gone over to Rome, and is now immured in a nunners. In the oldest of our West African possessions all the unrepentant Magdalens of the chief city are professing Christians, and the most noto rious one in the place boasts that she never missed going to church on a Communion Sun- day. Three years ago, in a nominally Christian, village, a quarrel broke out, and not a few were killed. The victors cooked and ate the bodies of the slain. As a punishment, the native pastor announced that they were suspended from church privileges. Cannibalism is punished by temporary exclusion from the Holy Communion!" WHY THE CHURCHES AND CHAPELS FAIL
But Canon Taylor's article is not merely des- tructive, for he goes on to point out why church and chapel missions fail. What, he says upon this subject may be summed up under three heads, the causes of fallufe being-(1) squabbles among the missionaries; (2) rivalry of the societies; (3) want of sympathy, between missionaries and "heathen. Here is stance under the first of these heads :-
ia-
"Mr. Squires, the local secretary of the Church Missionary Society in the Bombay Pre- sidency, states that one of the greatest hin- drances to missionary effort is the existence of so many Christians who do not belong to any of the Protesiant societies. Strange to say, the existence of so many Christians is a great hin- drance to the spread of Christianity 1 Mr. Squires, with his ninety-seven assistants, bap- tized last year thirth-six adults and ninety-two
children, at a cos: of £9.411 75. 1d., and the converts made by his society, after sixty-six years of labour, do not amount to 2,000; while, the devoted Roman priests are, converting, educating, and consoling thousands upon thou- sands, at a nominal cost, which comes, not from any wealthy society, but mainly from the con- verts themselves. No wonder Mr. Squires is jealous of his successful rivals."
COMPETITIONS IN CONVERSION.
As for the rivalry of the Societies, it repro duces in the missionary world the scandals of competition is the commercial world. Canon Taylor says -
Mr. Hall complains that one of his 'inquirers' has been decoyed' and baptized by a missionary of another society. 'Inquirers take advantage of this rivalry for converts, and put themselves up to auction. Mr. Belt writes that an "Inquirer'
to whom pending the enquiries, he was paying,
a salary of £1 a month, struck for higher pay; and went off to a rival missionary to
found that one of his inquirers has been pursuing the lucrative profession of going round: to mission after mission and getting repeatedly baptized. Of course after every fresh baptist he reappears in the missionary statistics aF A fresh convert."
THE FATAL "PONY CARRIAGE." But even if this competition were put a stop to, it would be useiċas without greater sympathy on the part of the paid missionaries:-
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1888.
and cheerful and free from sin. The natives like the drums and the tomtoms, the lively singing, and the bright Banners and the prov cessions, and follow them in crowds, while they find the Church Missionary Society services on the Islington mndet dull and slow. It may not be a high ideal of religion, but it appeals to Indiaas, just na it appeals to the least educated classer at home."
GENKAL GORDON'S I'RECEPT AND EXAMPLE.
Lo-day's Advertisements.
THEATRE
ROYAL,
CITY HALL, HONGKONG,
"It may not be a high ideal of religion," but THE HONGKONG CHORAL SOCIETY
it is a high ideal of missionary zeal..
As one of the greatest of missionaries has said, the best preachers are not our words, but dur lives, and our deaths if need beare better preachers still. We must hold up the spectacle
devoted lives to enable the people to under- stand the first elements of the Christian faith. General Gordon, in 'one of his last letters, has told us the same hard truth. Waiting from Khartum, he says, in his trenchant style:
There is not the least doubt that there is an immense virgin field for an apostle in these countries among the black tubes. Bat where will you find an apostle ? A man must give up everything, understand-everything everything! No half or three-quarter, measure will do. He must be dead to the work, have no ties of any sort, and long for death when it may please God to take him. There are few, very low, such, And yet what a fell!"
AN Important Discovery is announced in the Paris Figare, of,a valuable remedy for nervous debility, physical exhaustion, and premature decay. The discovery was made by a mission ary in Old Mexico pit saved him from a miser- able existence and an early grave. We learn that the Rev. Joseph Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansions, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C will send the prescription, free of charge, on. receipt of a self addressed stamped envelops.
To-day's Advertisements,
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the 25th inst., being
ON TUESDAY NEXT on TUESDAY, the 1st January, 1889 being NEW YEAR'S DAY, this Office and the Opium Examination Hulk will be CLOSED to the transaction of all business; but work at the Customs Stations will proceed as usual.
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F. A. MORGAN, Commissioner of Customs.
THE SHANGHAI LAND INVESTMENT
COMPANY LIMITED. Incorporated under the Companies' Ordinances 1885 to 1886 of Hongkong, whereby the liability of members is limited to the amount of their shares.
CAPITAL....
....................1,000,000 TAELS DIVIDED INTO 20,000 SHARES OF 50 TAELS EACH
With power to increase, of which 1,000 Shares are In another case an usually acute mi to be issued paid up in part payment of purchase. money, 6,000 Shares have been subscribed for and will be allotted, 5,000 Shares are reserved for subscription in London, and 8,000 Shares are now offered for public subscription in China, Hongkong and Japan, payable as follows:- Taels on application, 5 Taels on allotment, 19 Taels on the 18th of March 1889 and to Tacls on the 1st of July 1889. It is not anticipated that any further calls will be required.
DIRECTORS. EDWARD JENNER HOGG, Esq. JOHN GRÆME PURDON, Esq., Of Messrs. MAITLAND & Co. WALTER CYRIL WARD, Esq., or Messrs. IVESON & Co. ALEXANDER GEORGE WOOD, Esq., or Messrs. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. AGENTS.
"It was the opinion of Bishop Steers that the success of a missionary depends on his accent- ance of the outward features of the native life. The preacher's hut, his goods, his food, should be the same as those of the antives. European missionaries fail because they attempt to make Asiatics or Africans into middle-class English Philistines. Islam succeeds better then Chris tianity largely, b cause it leaves the people undisturbed in all the outward circumstances of their lives. It has been well said that the teachers who would appeal successfully to Asiatics or Africans should be as unlike as possible to English rectors or dissenting ministers; efforts modelled on the pattern of an Islington district are doomed to faile. Sir W. Hunter reminds us that for the last twenty-four couturies every pre-cher who has appealed to the papular heart has cut him self off from the world by a solemn act, like the Great Renunciation of Buddha. He must be an ascetic, and must come forth from his solitary. self-communing with a mensage to his fellow men. Our missionaries have not these qualifica- tions. He tells us that the natives regard a mis sionary as "a charitable Englishman who keeps an excellent cheap school, speaks the language well, preaches a European form of their old Incarnations and triads, and drives out with his wife and his little ones in a pony-carriage," "The pony-carriage is obviously fatal to the missiona ries influence. If St. Paul, before starting on one of his missionary journeys, had required St. James and a committee at Jerusalem to guaranice him £300 a year, paid quarterly, and had provided himself with a shady bungalow, a půvkah, a pony-carriage, and a wife, he would not have changed the history of the world.
WHY THE SALVATION ARMY SUCCEEDS But it is not necessary to go back to Buddha or St, Paul for types of the ideal missionary. There are, as Canon Taylor points out, plenty of modern instances.. The "Oxford Brethren" at Calcutta are one. The Salvation Army is another-
Messra, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.
BANKERS.
THE HONGKGONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
LEGAL ADVISER.
H. S. WILKINSON, Esq.- Share Lists will CLOSE at 4 p.m. on the 28th of December 1888.
Prospectuses may be obtained and Articles of Association seen at the HONGKONG, AND SHANGHAI BANK, or at Mesers. GIUB LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.
Dated the 11th day of December, 1888. [1305
NOTICE.
SECRETARY is WANTED for the A HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Applications to be addressed to the CHAIR- MAN, on an early date.
Hongkong, 20th December, 1888 -- [1307
ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.
IS EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR has H's Conceted to Preside at the DISTRIBUTION of PRIZES at St. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE TO-MORROW (FRIDAY), at 3 P.M. Hongkong, 20th December, 1888. [1309
NOTICE. ·
MESS, 2ND BAT. NORTHAMPTON REGIMENT requests that all tradesmen's BILLS AGAINST the MESS may be closed to and for the 26th inst. and rendered on that date.
THE PRESIDENT of the OFFICERS
Mr. Tucker, their leader, has given proof of his sincerity by surrendering a lucrative poor in the Indian Civil Service. He heads a barefooted regiment of two hundred soldiers, who go for file, who give up everything they have, who receive no payment, bat are content with a bare sub. sistence. They abstain from the flesh of animals, the slaughter of which is an abomination to the Hindoo; they touch na alcohol; their food u ZETLAND
a handful of rice and curry, which they beg from
day to day from those to whom they minister. Like the natives they off their bodies with colza oll, they go barefoot, with turbans to protect
Hongkong, 20th December, 1888.
[1309
LODGE,
then from the snu, and their dress to low A LODGE Rill be held in FREEMASONS
No. 525- REGULAR MEETING of the above HALL, Zetland Street, on THURSDAY NEXT, the 27th December, at 8 for B.30 PM: precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
yards of calico, costing about 5. The whole maintenance of each missionary does not exceed 2. a week, or £5 a year. Like the successful Moravian missionaries in South Hongkong, 20th December, 1888. Africa or the West Indies, their object is to become natives, to live among the nativesă exactly as the natives livo, simply exhibiting EOTHEN-MARK a nobler life and bigher aims. They never argue, or discuss doctrines, or go into the evidences of Christianity. They exbibit the
ascetic life which appeals to strongly to the Hindoo. They say See what our religion does for us how happit makes ns, and how it enables us to despire poverty, and conquer the troubles of the world; how it mak
[1312
LOD GAME
"AY OF HONGKONG, No. 264.
A LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, on SATURDAY, the sand instant, at 8.30 for 9 P.14..precisely.
Henghong, 20th December, 1818,
REGULAR MEETING of the above.
will peiform GILBERT, AND SULLIVAN'S OPERETTA
IOLAN, TH E,” · THIS EVENING,
AND
SATURDAY,
the zoth and a and December. Doors open at 8.30, Performance to begin at 9 O'CLOCK P.M.
Tickets for the Second Performance, may be obtained from Messrs LANE, CRAWFOD & Co.'s, on and after THURSDAY, the 13th instant, PRICE: EACH.
G.
R. LYALL, Hon. Secretary,
Hongkong, zoth November, 1888,
{1240
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CHIARINI'S
MENAGERIE,
AT'* BOWRINGTON.
OPEN EVERY NIGHT, At-8, commencing at 9 sharp. SATURDAYS ≈ PERFORMANCES, Doors open at 3. and commerces at 3.30 P.M:
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NEW EQUESTRIAN SCENES. NEW SENSA MONAL ACTS. NEW HORSES EDUCATED IN BOTH SCHOOLS.
NEW COMIC AND LAUGHABLE SCINES, kc.,
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BLC4 Signor CHIARINI will ride a la haute Ecole" bis famous and highly Etucated sydney Horse "May Fly," demonstrating movements and
in Hongkong.
evolutions of the hippie School never seen before
The terrific and imposing scene of the ROYAL BENGAL TIGERS, and the tamer, Mr. J. FRAM, in the telescopic cage arm-in-arm with the brutes, having a pupil Tiger among the
GRAND REDUCTION OF PRICES 111
Boxes with 6 Chairs...................... .$9.00. Single Chairs in Boxes
1.50
lot
}
Dress Circle Chairs
Carpet Seats .................... Gallery
a 1.00
0.50
0.30
Children and Soldiers in uniform in the Gallery 30 Cents. To all other parts of the house Hall Price.
L MAYA,
Hongkong, 20th December, 1888,
THEATRE
Secretary,
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CITY HALL, HONGKONG.
HE AMERICAN MUSICAL COMEDY
THE
AND OPERA COMPANY.
DIRECTORS.....
Mr. P..W. WILLARD.
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MONDAY,
the 14th December, 1888.
LAST PERFORMANCE BUT THREE.
COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT
TO
Mr. J. A. ROBERESON, (Conductor),
when will be produced "THE BONNIE FISHWIFE," and
A VARIETY OF SCOTCH SONGS, DANCES, &c.
GREAT SCOTCH NIGHT.
PRICES OF ADMISSION :~~ Dress Circle and Special Stalls...$3.00 Stalls På
2,00
***** 1.00
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PEMBERTON W. WILLARD." Hongkong, 20th December, 1888.
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'OF PURE COD LIVER OIL With Hypophosphites of Lime & 8oda, PALATABLE AS MILK.
The only preparation of COD LIVER OIL SINA 068 be taken readily and tolerated for a long time.tk
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THE
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION
A FINE COLLECTION OF
1. A P. A N
WĄ RE
SUITABLE FOR
SEASON'S PRESENTS.
To Sell by Public Auction, on
HE Undersigned has received instructions
,,,
SATURDAY,
the 22nd December, 1888, at 2: P.M., at his Sale Rooms, Duddel! Street,
A VERY FINE COLLECTION OF
WARE, JAPAN
Just received from Japan, Comprising:-
SATSUMA, KAGA, IMARI, MIACO and TUKIO ENAMELLED VASES, JARS, PLATES, BOWLS, INCENSE BURNERS. TEA and BREAKFAST SETS, COFFEE CUPS, &C.
SILVER and GOLD INLAID BRONZE VASES, and other Articles-in Brouze & Metal:
Very Choice, CLOISSONNE VASES, PLATES and PLAQUES, &c.
IVORY CARVINGS, IVORY INLAID SCREENS, IVORY INLAID PANELS.
Ladies' and Gentlemen's SILK DRESSING GOWNS, SILK HANDKERCHIEFS. SILK EMBROIDERIES and BROCADES.
ANTIQUE and MODERN SILK EM- BROIDERED KAKIMONOS and WALL HANGINGS, Gold and Silk EMBROIDER. ED SCREENS," &c.
A Very Fine Lot of BEAD CURTAINS, and other ARTICLES.
CATALOGUES will be issued prior to Sale, and above will be on view on FRIDAY
the NEXT.
TERMS OF SALE--As Customary.
G.ƏR. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer. Hongkong, 17th December, 1888.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, No. 558.
I
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE.
HAVE this day commenced Business as a
SHARE and GENERAL BROKER,
HECTOR SAMPSON, Office, No. 4, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 1st December, 1888,
ga Ámations,
THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY.
ADIES who have arrived in the L
Entimations,
ITALIAN CONVENT,
CAINE ROAD.
'CONDUCTED BY THE CANOSSIAN SISTERS OF CHARITY.
[1223ffords to parents residing in Hongkong
"HIS SEMINARY, established in 1863,
colony during the current year, and those who have changed their residences since last publication, will oblige by forwarding THEIR ADDRESSES for insertion in THE LADIES DIRECTORY for 1889, not later than FRIDAY NEXT, the 21st instant.
ADVERTISEMENTS for the HONGKONG DIRECTORY will be received up to MONDAY, the 24th instant. "THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH” OFFICE.
Pedder's Hill,
Hongkong, 18th December, 1888.
NOTICE..
HE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LD. is prepared to supply GAME PIES, CHRISTMAS CAKES, &c, at short notice.
PICNIC PARTIES supplied with all requirements.
C. M. ROBERTS, Manager. Hongkong, 19th December, 1838.
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THE KOWLOON HOTEL
*ITUATED on GARDEN LOT, No. 55. RODINSON ROAD, KOWLOON, BVC minutes walk from the landing.
SIT
Wines and Spirits of the best quality only
THE action, to be held on the kept.
HE following Particulars of Sale of Crown
spot, on
THURSDAY,
the 27th day of December, 1888, at 4 P.M., are published for general information. By Command,
ARATHOON SETH, for the Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hangkang, 15th December, 1888.
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Particulars of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on THURSDAY, the 27th day
of December, 1888; at 4 P.M., by Order of His Excellency the Officer, Administering the Government, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 999 Years.
Inland Lot
No. 1,21z.ings, Ha-Wan, 24 457 Arsenal Street, West of Blue Build-16' 10"
No. of Registry
Locality.
Sale
No.
N.
5.
W. Square ft.
Rent. Price.
feet, feet
feet. feet.
$
$
98' 6" 91' 6′′
4.475
82
ཚོ
13.325
E.
To be Let.
TO LET..
PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS. Boundary Measurements. Contents in Annual Upset
T MAGAZINE CAP, from 1st December next,
A three well built and handsomely finished
HOUSES-Two of Six: Rooms each-One of Four Rooms.
Apply to
J. J. FRANCIS, Bank Buildings.
(1219 Hongkong, 7th November, 1888.
J
TO LET, FURNISHED.
AT the Peak "Dunford," A FIVE ROOMED HOUSE with Tennis Court. Possession from the 15th Instant to the 31st March, 1889, or
1890.
Apply to
J. Y. V. VERNON. Hongkong, 3rd November, 1888
TO LET.
AT
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T. the Peak "LA HACIENDA," formerly
occupied by Sir George Phillippo,
Apply to
H. N., MODY, Victoria Buildings.
Hongkong. Both December, 1888. 1.
TO LET.
OOMS in “COLLEGE CHAMBERS”
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and adjacent Poris an opportunity of obtaining ❤ for their daughters a liberal education.
The utmost attention is paid by the Sisters to the health and confort of the Pupils. Special care
of taken the Motherless Girls,
The moral conduct of the young Ladies is watched over with the strictest attention, and while every effort is made to expand and adorn the mind, the heart is trained to virtue, .
The course of education embraces Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, History, Geography, also Plain and Fancy Needle Work. and Embroidery,-
For Boarders,
Per month.
$10.00
Day Scholars,
3.00
EXTRA CHARGES.
Music Singing
4,00
4,00
Drawing
2.00
French German....
4,00
2.00
Italian ..................
2,00
7.00
Spanish....../
For further information and admission of pupils, application should be made and letters addressed
To the LADY SUPERIORESS,
ITALIAN CONVENT,
Caine Road,
Hongkong. School duties will be resumed on the 3rd January, 1889.
Hongkong, 19th December, 1888. {1302
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SINGLE GENTLEMAN WANTS⚫
ham Street,
ABOARD and LODGINGS in or near Wynd-
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Address
R. W., Hongkong Telegraph Office. Hongkong, 18th December, 1883.
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Two First Class English and one American | THE DAIRY FARM COMPANY, Billiard Tables, also a Tennis Lawn,
Arrangements have been made with the proprietor of the sleam-launch Morning Star to ran special night trips, laat boat leaving Kowloon at midnight,
Fares to Cents each way,
J. C. L. ROUCH,
Mariager. Hongkong, 8th December, 1888. [1247
MACAO. JANTED to purchase, if a good situation in Macao, Smail FAMILY RESIDENCE commanding a sea-view. Price must be Moderate. Apply with full particulars, by letter only, to
W. H., c/o Hongkong Telegraph Office. Hongkong, 25th September, 1888. DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA
BEG
LIMITED
[954
to announce to the MEDICAL PROFESSION, and to the European
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE
"HE · SECOND
MEETING
ORDINARY YEARLY OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Company's Office, No. 5 Stanley Street, Victoria, Hongkong, on | SATURDAY, the 29th day of December, 1858, at 3 O'CLOCK P. M. for the purpose of recțiving a Statement of Accounts, the Report of the Directors, and for the election of Auditor and
retiring Directors
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company' will be CLOSED from the 16th to the 29th instant, both days inclusive. By Order,
E. W. MAITLAND,
Secretary, Hongkong, 13th December, 1888.
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
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and Chinese community of Hongkong,accordance with Section 120 of the Articles of Association, the General Agents, with approval of the Consulting Committee, will
that the
DISPENSING DEPARTMENT on the January 189, issue Interest Wagrants
OF
THEIR BUSINESS
IS
NOW OPEN. THIS DEPARTMENT, being considered of
the FIRST IMPORTANCE, is entirely under the control of fully qualified and ex- →perienced EUROPEAN ASSISTANTS. The DRUGS used in preparing prescriptions are of the BEST and PUREST QUALITY obtainable.
THE ENTIRE STOCK
OF
CHEMICALS,
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MEDICINES,
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A Guarantee for nearly Three quarters of a century.
21 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Hongkong, 1st December, 1888.
T
THE HONGKONG HIGH LEVEL
TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
I M E
LIMITED..
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Τ A B L E.
(to take effect from the 1st of November),
The CARS RUN as follows, between ST. JOHN'S PLACE and VICTORIA GAP →→
WEEK DAYS,
8 to to AM. every quarter of an hour. 13 to 2 P.14. half hour. '3 to 7"
+
+2
11
quarter of an hour. THURSDAYS,
NIGHT TRAMS at 10-15 and 11 P.M. SUNDAYS,
CHURCH TRAM at 10.40 A.M.
12) to 3 P.. every half hour.
3 to 7 P., every quarter of an hour, Special Cars may be obtained on application. Single Tickets are sold in the Cars: Five-Cent OFFICES IN VICTORIA BUILDINGS" from Coupons and Reduced Tickets at the Office of MACÉWEN, FRICKEL & Co., General Managers. VICTORIA EXCHANGE,
R
ist February.
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON SONS & Co... Hongkong, 12th December. 18RA.
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TO LET. FFICES and GODOWNS now occupied
OFFICES AND CORONE-MARKING CO
being No. &, Praya Central.
Possession from Eat February next.
Apply to
LAI HING & Cas No. 153, Queca's Road, Central,
or la C. EWENS. Hongkong, 18th November, 1898,
50 & 52, Queen's Road,
Hongkong, 31st October, 1888.
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHIA.
SOLE AGINTS FOR
THE MIIKE COAL MINE;
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UNKER COALS can be supplied to any. B. Steamer Wing in the harbour or coming
of $4 per Share, payable at HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,. the same being at the rate of to per cent. per annum on the paid up Capital of the year 1888, and notice is hereby given that in order that the same may be adjusted the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Office, will be CLOSED from the, 18th to 31st instant, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents, Canton Insurance Office, Limited. Hongkong, 17th December, 1888. [rago
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB, RACE MEETING, 1889.
HONGKONG DERBY,
SWEEPSTAKES of $20 each, half forfeit if
declared on or before day of closing. Entries, with $too added for 1st Pony and $50 for 2nd. For all China Ponies dond fide Griffins. at date of Entry (SATURDAY, 19th January, 1889). First Pony, 70 per cent. Second, 20 per cent. Third, to per cent.: Weight 10st. tolba. Ono-mile-and-a-half (Nominations close to the CLERK OF THE COURSE at the CLUB on SATURDAY, the a2nd December, 1888).
H. J. H. TRIPP, Clerk of the Course.
(1253 Hongkong, 22nd November, 1888, SOCIETE FRANCAISE DES CHARBONNAGES DU TONKIN.
TJOLDERS of allotment, papers of Shares in
H
the above Campany are requested to band same into this Office la EXCHANGE for SCRIP.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
'ALEXANDER LEVY, Secretary.
·
Victoria Buildings,
Hongkong, 14th November, 1888.
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THE HONGKONG> HIGH-LEVEL TRAM
WAYS COMPANY, LIMITED,
1
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
THE FOURTH ORDINARY GENERAL THE
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held in the HONGKONG HOTEL, TO-MORROW, the 21st instant, at fi O'CLOCK FORENOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, and State. ment of Accounts to the 30th November, 1888, and of declaring Dividend.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 8th to the 21st inst both days inclusive,
X
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`HE TRANSFER BOOKS of this Company THE be CLOSED from the 19th December, to the set of January, both days inclusive.
F; W. CROSS,
- Manager, Hongkong, 18th December, 1888:
FOR HIRE.
"HE Fast Steam Launch “ELK” is always-
I kept under steam of Feder, Wharf and is at the service of the public for proceeding to
alongside the KOWLOON WHARF on application and from Steamers to the Undersigned, as
Y. FUKUHARA,
Acting Manager.
19th January, 1885, 2(105||
Picnic and Bathing
Parties, etc
For particulars, apply to
CRUICKSHANK & Co., Ia
Page 17th August, 1838.
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