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Shakespeare's Cliff and Flamborough Head took 6,400,000 years. Professor Hurley ("Lay Sermons" says, referring Norwich The area on which we now stand has been first sea and then land for at least four alternations, and has remained in each of these conditions for a period of great length). The chalk is pasty older that Ads himself, and crocodiles abounded long ages before chalk was deposited." On the chalk are stumps of trees, as they grew-firs, oaks, yews, beeches, and alders, some of them three feet in diameter; and remains of elephants and of other great wild beasts, Huxley finds it impossible to say when the chalk sea ended its existence, and left the chalk as we find it; but he considers the formations in which the remains of extinct generations of men have been found are not older than the drift, or boulder clay. "Since the chalkwas deposited the Pyrences, Alps, Himalayas and Andes have appeared, and the cretaceous sea flowed over the sites of Sinai and Ararat. Before the chalk was deposited all the great classes of animals, beasts of the field, and things that dwell in the waters flourished on the globe long agas.”
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1889.
and that volcanic eruptions were the agents of these changes. As Kalisch, observes (Gen, p. 69), the Mosaic segregation of the waters does not explain the formation of the strats, nor of the fossil remains of vegetables and animals-which according to the Bible did not yet exist in the interior of the earth, nor any of the wonders which make Geology one of the most interesting and absorbing sciences."
The creation of the two lights after that of 5 light, has been explained by some that God caused the Sun and Moon only to appear on the fourth day, he having created them on the first,
This is another twisted interpretation. The fossil remains of the animals which are found, but are not mentioned in the Bible, show that they had eyes and that these were formeil to receive the Sun's rays. It cannot be doubted that for countless ages before these animals lived, the Sun has been the source of light and heat, as no animal or vegetable life could have possibly existed otherwise 11 is well known that vegetable life in particular requires the light and heat of the Sun for its growth, The Bible tells us that the plants were made,
Geology on the Philological arguments are also abundant inng before the Sun as confirmatory of the antiquity of the earth. contrary unfolds before us the immensely long The Duke of Argyll says: Those who have periods of luxuriant vegetation which preceded studied the growth of languages are lost in con- the carboniferous age. How reconcile the jecture as to the lapse of time which may pro-existence of hundreds of thousands of years of bably have been required for the wonderful vegetable life with the total absence of the Sun's Creations of human speech." The philologist in rays? the earliest history finds languages, not only completed, arrived at a state of maturity, but bearing marks of long and gradual development through ages of the mind's progress. Chevalier Bunsen estimates the time required to form the years, begun come 22,000 years back. Our own -the Indo-European he supposes to have been gradually formed since so recent a time as 9,000 years ago, while for the Turanian he grants 17,000 years. "The English language, says Cattell, afford an excellent source of study to those who watch the growth of speech. Let them compare the words introduced at, and since, the time of Bacon and Shakespeare with what can be found in the literature that preceded that time."
Chinese language at 5,000mily of languages centre of our system, it is easy to imagine the
2. ORDER OF CREATION.~We now approach the other group of incongruities presented by the order according to which the Bible reports the work of the six days Creation to have been performed.
Many pious expounders of the Bible have entirely waived the question of time in the work of Creation. solacing themselves with the idea expressed by Bishop Wilberforce in Rev. R. Main's "Replica to Estays and Reviews" (p. 54) that no literal bistorical truth can be attributed to that portion of the Pentateuch, that "Whatever be the meaning of the six days, ending with the seventh day's mystical and symbolical re t, in disputably we cannot accept them in their literal meaning. They serve, apparently, aarbe divi sions of the record of Creation, lest the mind may be tob much burdened and perplexed by all these wonderful acts." As an arbitrary interpreta tion, this would certainly be acceptable; but it can hardly 'stand the test of analysis when examined by the light of that special order or, succession of events, according to which the first Chapter of Genesis purports to record the work of Creation. We have here a distinct order of things made after the creation of the heaven and the earth, an order which is directly contra- dicted by Geological observation and by all the data of Astronomy, Meteorology and Palæonto- logy,
The Bible theory of the creation of the Sun after that of the earth is to us one of the clearest proofs of the ignorance the writer of Genesis aboured under with respect to the real dimensions and functions of the Sun towards the earth. Assuming the earth to be the Sun to have been made after our planet. The Mosaic writer treats the stars in the same secondary way in which he records the creation of the Sun. It is plain, says Colenso (p. 320) that the writer of this chapter had very little potion of the real magnitude of the heavenly bodies, and so he assigns ane day only for the for mation of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, while three or four are spent upon the Eanh alone. the Stars, those points of light, be regarded, no doubt, as a small addition to the greater luminaries, without having the least idea that each one of their glorious host,-which Astronony shows to be infinitely more numerous than he could have supposed, was itself a mighty Sun, though placed at an immense distance from us, in comparison with whose bulk that of our-earth would shrink into nothing,"
...And
6. Then as to the order in which the living beings, vegetable and animal, were created, we are told that Plants were made first, then Fish and Fowl, then Cattle and Reptiles, and finally Man, Had such really been the succession of creations, the fossil remains found would have exactly corresponded to this order. But Paleontology shows no such succession. At different epocha. plants and animals of all kinds appeared on earth. Draper says-" Birds, mammals, reptiles, fishes, and invertebrates may each be detected in earlier strata; even in some of those forma- lions now regarded as non-fossiliferous, organisms may be found, but it is not at all probable that the preponderance of reptiles will ever cease to be the essential characteristic of the Secondary rocks or that. of mammals of the Tertiary, or that a preceding pe.iod of vast duration, in which the type of life had been the favertetrate, will ever be doubted.". It has been alleged, by Commentators that the plants were made fiist, and the animals alterwards because Genesis expressly says that herbs were 1. The succession of creativa events com- given them for meat. This, however, clashes mences with a state of desolation, emptiness, and with the fact that many animals were provided darkness reigning upon the face of the deep.with teeth and stomachs so formed as to enable (Gen.i, z). The data of Geology are very precise their possessors to ferd on flesh: Geology shows on this point. It has been proved that at the that ravenous creatures, preyed upon their equals epoch when life, appeared, the earth existed and lived on flesh at all epochs of the earth's generally in the same condition it is in at pre-existence, in precisely the same manner as they ent. The igneous state had been earth's first do pew. Dr. Pye Smith says: "Geology and candition; no life had then existed; when the Scripture," p. 87) "Some persons have dreamed crust of the globe cooled down and solidified of sustaining animal life by exclusively vegetable food,—ignorant that in every leaf or root or after millions of years, no sudden convulsions or catastrophes took place sufficient to destroy all fruit which they feed upon, and in every drop that existed and to give room to a new Creation. of water which they drink, they put to death Hugh Miller ("Testimony of the Rocks "p 121) myriads of living creatures, whose bodies are Bays: "For many ages are man was ushered as curiously and wonderfully made as our own, into being, not a few ofhis humble contemporaries which were full of animation and agility, and of the fields and woods enjoyed life in their enjoyed their mode and period of existence as present haunts, and for thousands of years, really and effectively, under the bountiful carc anterior even to their appearance, many of of Him, who is good to all, and whose tender the existing mollusks lived in our seas." mercies are over all his works, as the stately' The Biblical record is essentially catastrophisi, elephant, the majestic horse or man, the earthly while Geology teams with proofs of a very lord of all. By far the larger portion of the gradual and, natural succession of things animal creation is formed, in every part of its When, says Draper, (Op, anatomy, internal and external, for living upon cit. p. 316) it could be no longer- doubted animal food, and cannot live upon any other." that strata many hundreds of feet in thickness were 'crowded with the remains of organic life, it became altogether out of the question to refer their entombment to the confusion of a single catastrophe, for everything indicated an orderly and deliberate proceeding.
upon earth,
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Insurances.
OF THE
STANDARD LIFE OFFICE
Entimations
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY,
LIMITED..
NOTICE.
ELEVENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL
pletely ignored by those with, whom he is sup posed to maintain the best of relations. It can not be gainsaid that the Viceroy is simply stul tifying himself la attempting to withhold the full THE FUNDS privileges accorded to national representatives. The fiction of universal sovereignty of the Son of Heaven no longer holds water, and unless that phantom claim is relegated to limbo, foreign invested entirely within the British representatives treated on a footing of complete complications which might arise in time of war.MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS is the equality, and all officials of the stamp of Viceroy They now. amount to Six and three-quarter
Millions Sterling, and are increasing yearly. A above Company will be held at the Offices of the Pien are at once shelved, China cannet hope for helter days.
marked preference continues to be shown for General Agents, Peddar Street, on MONDAY, It is affirmed, but we do not vouch for the STANDARD POLICIES, and every year since the 18th of February, at NOON, for the purpose truth of its correctness, that Viceroy Pien enter-1865, New Assurances for upwards of £1,000,000 of receiving a Report from the General Agents, tains the most pronounced anti-foreign views. Sums Assured have been placed on the books- with a Statement of Accounts, to the 31st of This may or may not be true, but sufficient color * result continued uninterruptedly for so long a December, 1888, has been given to the supposition by the way the period by no other British Office.
THE BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED, Viceroy shaped in the Kuliang affair. It is an
Agents, Hongkong- unquestionable fact that his policy in that matter 669] was solely dicinted by a desire to pander to the nopular prejudice and to curry favor with the literar at the expense of foreigners.
GENERAL NOTICE.
THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, (LIMITED.)
CAPITAL TAELS, 600,000,
RESERVE FUND
$833,333,3 $318,000.00.
We have several times in these columns called the attention of the powers that be to the whole- sale public gambling which is most disgracefully carried on in the principal thoroughfares of the settlement. We understand that the Foreign consuls have also complained to the officials against the evil which is growing into a veritable
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, eyesore. But all has been of no avail; and the
LEX SING. Esq." gambling is going on as merrily as all these
LOU TO SHUN, Esq. whose palms are well greased thereby could wish. It is a noteworthy fact that even the oldest
MANAGER.-HO AMEL 107 resident here does not recollect having seen public gambling flourishing on such a grand scale as under the aegis of the present administra-MARINE RISKS on GOODS, &c., take
CURRENT RATES to all parts of the tion.
on the
world.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company, will be CLOSED from 5th to the 18th of February, both days inclusive. :
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JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents, Hongkong, 2nd February, 1889
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TWENTIETH
ORDINARY
LO YOUR MOON, ESC.THMEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in
1}.
HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 9, PRAYA WEST. Hongkong, th December, 198. 858
NOTICE.
THE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED.
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED.......
The advent of Pien, the Viceroy of Foochow, was heralded with such a flourish of trumpets the bulk of the native population was at one time under the impression that they were eve of the reign of plenty. Even some Europeans were taken in by the state. ments about the Viceroy's honesty of pur-T
the public service, pose, his long experience and his ability of cleansing what we shall denominate the Augean stable. But in the Case of the Europeans, it may be said that they placed some confidence in the coming man, not so much on account of that official's high pretensions as in the belief they entertained towards the old adage that a new broom sweeps clean. Whatever may be the case, we think foreigners and natives alike have had sufficient opportunity to form an opinion of the man who has been at the helm of the gubernatorial bark since October last; and the general consensus- af opinion is, we may safely say, that His Excellency Pien is thoroughly unfit for the high and responsible position he holds, or, in plaines. language, that he is a complete political non-entity,
Co-day's Advertisements.
FOR SINGAPORE AND PENANG, HE Steamship
THE
'TETARTOS," Captain Petersen, will be despatched as above
on THURSDAY, the zist instant, al 4 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
AH YON & Co.
[30; Hongkong, 14th February, 1889.
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
NOTICE
CONSIGNEES of Cargo per Steamship The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Carga are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from along- side...
"CITY OF PEKING."
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense,
CHAS. D. HARMAN,
Agent. Hongkong, 14th February, 1889.
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MASONIC BALL.
Admiral CHANDLER, the Masonic Ball is
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The above Company is prepared to accept MARINE RISKS at Current Rates pn GOODS, &c.
Policies granted to all Parts of the world payable at any of its Agencies.
WOO LIN YUEN
Secretary.
.....HEAD OFFICE, No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST, Hongkong, 1st February, 1882.
Hatimations.
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PERSEVERANCE
LODGE or
HONGKONG, No, 1165.
REGULAR MEETING of the above A LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, on SATURDAY, the 16th instant, at 5 for 5.30 P.M. precisely.
Hongkong, rth February, 1889. [194
Consignees.
"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
STEAMSHIP "CARDIGANSHIRE," FROM HAMBURG, ANTWERP, LONDON, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
¡ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all goods, are being landed at their risk, into the Godowns of the Kowloon Wharf
and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whence
and/or from the wharves delivery may, be obtained. .
the Company will be held at the Company's Office, No. 5. Queen's Road, Victoris, at THREE O'CLOCK In the AFTERNOON, of TUESDAY. Optional cargo will be forwarded unless notice the roth February, 1889. for the purpose of to the contrary be given before 4 P.M. TO receiving a Statement of Accounts, and the Report of the Directors for the year ending 31st
December, 1888.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS' of the Company will be CLOSED from the 6th Proximo to the 19th Proximo, bath days inclusive.
By Order,
JAS. B. COUGHTRIE, Secretary,
Hongkong, 28th January, 1889.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
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N EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of
ASHATEHOLDERS in the above Com
DAY,
have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining No Claims will be admitted after the Goods
after the 20th instant, will be subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the zoth instant, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 13th February, 1889...
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE.
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Mr. J. DE SONNAVILLE were admitted PARTNERS in our Firm on 1st January last.
pany will be held at the Company's Office, No. MR. JAMES HENRY MACLEHOSE and [1525, Queen's Road, Victoria, at 3.15 O'CLOCK г.M., of the tgth day of February, 1839, when the subjoined Resolution will be proposed.
RESOLUTION.
TENDERS, in Duplicate, will be received for the following SUPPLIES and SERVICES required by the TRoors at Hong- kong and Out-posts, daring the year, from "Ist. April, 1889, to 31st March, 1890-
SUPPLIES..
1-For Her Majesty's Troops.-Provisions,
Fuel, Light, &c.
-For Hospitals-Provisions, Fruit, Wines,
Porter, Ale, Spirits, &c.
SERVICES. 3.-Washing and Repairing Department, Bed.
ding and Clothing.
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4-Scavenging, Sweeping Chimneys, and Sup
plying Dry Earth to Latrines. 5.-Lighting and Supplying Oil for Exterior
Lamps..
Samples to accompany the Tenders for General 6-Purchase of Empty Parter Hogsheads. " Supplies, Hospital Supplies, and Lighting and Supplying Oil for Exterior Lamps,
Forms of Tenders, Conditions of Contract, and any information required may be obtained on application by letter addressed to the D. A. A. GENERAL (B) Commissariat Buildings, or in person, between the hours of 10 AM. and 4 P.M., and no Tender will be entertained unless made on the Forms so obtained.
Tenders to be addressed to the D. A. A. GENERAL (B) Commissariat Buildings, before 12 O'CLOCK. NOON, on MONDAY, the 25th of February, 1889, and marked on the outside of the envelope-Tenders for Supplies or Services,
as the case may be.
The Secretary of State for War does not bind himself to accept the lowest or any Tender. Head Quarter Army Offices, N Hongkong, 9th February, 1889
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"THE SONGEÍ KOYAH PLANTING CO;
LIMITED.
consequence of the lamented death of POSTPONED from Friday, the 15th instant, to MONDAY, the 25th February next.
ALF. WOOLLEY. Ion, Sec, 7. The last being created was Man. As to the
Hongkong, 14th February, 1889. manher of his creation, Genesis gives two accounts: In the first, man and woman are created together in the second, man is created
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. first, and woman afterwards; in the first, man and woman are commanded to be fruitful, to multiply THE STEWARDS readies at the Grand T
request the of to replenish and subdue the earth; in the second; man is created alone, and long afterwards, after Stand and Enclosure during the Races on the he was placed in possession of Eden and intro. 20th, 21st, and 22nd instant. duced to all the living world, woman is made, and
2. The creation of light days before the crea tion of its source, the Sun, nay the very creation of the heaven and the earth before the Sun was called into existence plainly indicates the ignorance of the laws of Gravitation, or of the dependence of the earth upon fintion is given to the pair, til after the fail. parent stock.. It is needless to say the. Hebrew In the first account, man is made after notion of the earth was exactly similar to all God's own image; in the second, he is made the ancient notions, which gured our globe of the dust of the ground. Finally, according
no injunction as to multiplication and reproduc-.
to be a flat surface, over which the sun travelled to the first record, man and woman were
in twenty-four hours, rising in the East and
H. J. H. TRIPP, Clerk of the Course.
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next.
TO BE LET.
WELL FURNISHED FLAT in Blue
Apply to
Messrs. HOLIDAY, WISE & Co.,
Ice House Lane. Hongkong, 14th February, 1889.
That Article No. 9 of the Articles of Association be altered by eliminating therefrom the words "One Hundred Thousand" and substituting therefor the words, "One Hundred and Fifty Thousand." By Order,
JAS. B. COUGHTRIE, Secretary.
Hongkong, 28th January, 1889
HONGKONG AND CHINA BAKERY COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE SEVENTEENTH
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ORDINARY
́GENERAL MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS of the Company will be held on MONDAY, the 25th instant, at 3 O'CLOCK P.M., et the Company's Office.
LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 11th February, 1889. [193
THE HONGKONG. FIRE INSURANCE · COMPANY, LIMITED, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE TWENTIETH ORDINARY
ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, Pedder's Street, on MONDAY, the 25th February instant, at
2 O'CLOCK. (NOON) to receive a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1888, the Report of the General Managers, and to elect a Consult ing Committee and Auditors.
· MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co. Hongkong, 1st February, 189.
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NOTICE.
T. HAVE this day taken into PARTNERSHIP 1 Mr. GERSHOM STEWART, late of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and my Business wilt hereafter be carried ou under the name and title of ANTON & STEWART...
J. ROSS ANTON.: Hongkong, th January, 1889, [193 HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
MCHIEF MANAGER of the Bank from the R. G. E. NOBLE has been appointed
1st January, 1889.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
T. JACKSON,
Chic Manager.
Hongkong, 31st December, 1888
To be
Let.
"TO LET, ENTRY 1ST MARCH NEXT.
NO.3, WEST TERRACE.
Apply to
G. C. ANDERSON, 13, Praya Central. Hongkong, 29th January, 1899.
TO LET.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company ROOMS in "COLLEGE CHAMBERS.". will be CLOSED from the 12th to the 26th day of February instant, both days inclusive,
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., General Managers, Hongkong Fire Insurance Co, Limited. Hoppkong, 1st February, 1889,
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ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION IN. LIQUIDATION.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
PAYMENT OF 6TH DIVIDEND.
HESTATUTORY GENERAL MEETING of this Company will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL on TUESDAY, the 19th instant, at 12.30 p.m.)
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., against the Hongkong Branch have
General Managers...! Hongkong, 4th February, 1889,
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6TH DIVIDEND of ét 3⁄41⁄2 on all claims
ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, which have been approved by the Court of Chancery will be.
CORPORATION, LIMITED, on and after MONDAY, the 17th March next.
Creditors are requested to apply to the Bank for their Dividends and to produce the letter they claims la, order that the payment of the 6th hold from the Official Liquidator schmitting their Dividend may be endorsed thereon.
'ནམ་ PAYMENT OF FINAL DIVIDEND IN ADVANCE UNDER DISCOUNT.
Apply to
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DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. Hongkong, 12th December, 1888,
TO LET,
WITH EARLY POSSESSION,
NOS. 1, 2 and 4, QUEEN'S GARDENS.
Apply to
G. C. ANDERSON,
13, Praya Central.. Hongkong, b4th January, 1889. .[129
TO LET, IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
Road. BUNGALOW, No. 35, Pokfulum Road and Third Street.
From 1st March, 1889. HOUSE, No: 1, Hollywood Read, now in the occupation of Dr. C. GERLACE.
From 1st June, 1889. HOUSE, No. 1, “Cameron Villas," Exat Peak.
Apply to
BELILIOS & Co. Hongkong, 9th February, 1889
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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING Ofices of the NEW ORIENTAL BANKHOUSE, No. 31, "West Villa," Pokfulam
CORPORATION.
given NOTICE is hereby
that the NOTIC
ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 23rd day of February next, at iz O'CLOCK [207 NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a State DUA
ment of Accounts to 31st December, 1888,--
By. Order of the Court of Directors,
G. E. NOBLE,
Chief Manager, Hongkong, 24th January, 1889. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
made on the sirth day, after the creation of A Buildings for 6 months, from 15th April setting in the West. As the earth was supposed the plants and animals; according to the second to have no connection with the sun, in precisely account, it is distinctly asserted that man was the same manner light was alleged to have made before the plants, or before the third day: been created entirely independent of its undis."And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, putable source. It is also noteworthy that the day is made up of the 'evening and the morning, when, since the creation of light, morning should have preceeded evening. This contradiction becomes all the more forcible when it is said in "And God called the light Day, and the darkness Night." Some find an explanation in that by evening' was meant the darkness which preceded the creation of light. But is it not clearly stated that "God divided the light from the darkness ?" The darkness of night or evening is here clearly distinguished from that darkness which had previously reigned "upon the face of the deep."
and no herb of the field bad yet sprung up: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground; but there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. And the THE PUNJOM AND 'SUNGHEI Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life." (Gen. it. 5,7). We will again ask-which of these two contradictory account Elohistle, or the Jehovistic is true?
(To be continued:)
FOOCHOW.
the
The Foochow Echo of the 9th inst, has the
3. The next thing made is the firmament to 'divide the waters that were beneath from the waters that were above. This in an exact reflection of the Hebrew theory of the sky being following: a vault, and the rainy waters being not only,
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It is an open secret that the Consular body in Foochow is a much saddled with a dispute about the character of their diplomatic relations aste the Ministers in Peking. The former's dispute is called the "rat call? question, and the latter's the audience" question.
SAMANTAN MINING COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
of the PUNJOM AND SUNGHEI DUA SAMANTAN | MINING COMPANY, LIMITED), will be held at the Registered Office of the Company No. 9. Queen's Road. Central, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the acth day of February, 1889, at 3 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, when the subjoined resolution will be proposed.
with the Assets Realisation Co., in prepared to pay in advance to Creditors willing to receive [130 such payment, IN FULL DISCHARGE OF THEIR CLAIMS the Dividend of 5. % payable in the or FIVE Year." 1890 UNDER A DISCOUNT
TOTICE is hereby given that the
REGISTERS OF SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 9th, to SATURDAY, the 23rd February next, (both days incluiive) during which "period
Should the resolution be passed by the required majority it will be submitted for confirmation as a special resolution to a Second Extraordinaryo Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors, Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
RESOLUTION. That the Capital of the Company be increased to the sum of $660,000 legally current in the Colony of Hongkong by the creation of 20,000 New Shares of $10 each. Subject to any direction to the contrary that mày ||- be given by the Meeting sanctioning the Increase of Capital, all New Shares shall be
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held in suspension but produced by it. They had no notion of the origin of rain in the evapora tion of the sex and land waters. "According to the mythical representation, saya Tuch (Gen. p. 21) this heavenly vault is provided
It has been held that new Chinese officia's with a door, Gen. xxvill, 17; it rests upon pillars and foundations, Job xxvi. 17, 18, arriving at their post should make the first call xxii 8; and its glistening blue makes it appear on the Foreign Consuls. This has been the as a crystal sapphire-like masi, Ex. xxiv. practice for a long time past, and is on all-fours 10, Dan. xii 3; or like a molten looking glass with the etiquette or usage observed in Chinese Job xxxvii. 18. Above this vault rolls the social life. An exception to this sound rule heavenly ocean, the waters above the heavens, occurred last year with the late Tarter General, Pa cxlvii. 4, wherein Jehovah has set His who refused to make the first call on the Consuls. throne, Pa. xxix. ure. Through the doors. The matter was at once reported to Felding, Fs. lxxvii, 23, and" "windows,' Gon. vil, 11, 2 and the recalcitrant official was immediately Kings vil. 2.19, in the Firmament, this ocean taken to task and ordered to perform his duty in pours down upon the earth as rain.”
the matter. Death, however, intervened, and the consummation so devoutly wished for, did not come to pass. His Excellency Pien, itserms, is trying to follow in the wake of the Tartar General, The Viceroy arrived bee fn the first week of October last, and has now been over five months in charge of his office. The foreign Consuls, how ever, have not as yet received any notification of his having nasumed the functions of his bigh office and his existence, whether official or social, le comh, soa)
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4 With regard to the separation of the dry land from the water, we are led to understand that at the beginning, once for all, the division between seas and continents took place, not by any upheaval of the land, but by the gathering together of all the waters into a certain place. Now, Geology teaches us that the same part of the globe e aisérnately, water and dry land, WAS KIRDY times
Offices of the Company, No. 14, Praya Central,
TWELFTHS PER CENT,
Creditors who are willing to accept payment of the Final Dividend, less discount as above are requested to communicate with the Under- signed BEFORE THE END OF THE CURRENT MONTH,
E. W: RUTTER,
Agent for the Official Liquidator, Oriental Bank Corporation, in Liq.
a, Queen's Road, Hongkong, 6th February, 1889.....
G. E NOBLE
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 24th January, 1889..
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RACE MEETING, 1889,
COMPANY, LIMITED,malaik
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS:: 7 offered to the Members in proportion to the THE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING existing Shares held by them, and such offer of SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the shall be made by notice specifying the number of Shares to which the Member is entitled and limiting a time within which the offer if not accepted will be deemed to be declined, and after the expiration of auch from time or on the receipt of an intimation the Member to whom notice is such given such Shares shall be dealt with by the that ha declines to accept the Shares offered,
Directors in their discretion, he Dated the 14th day of February, 18/9,
Werke het dA. O'D. GOURDIN.
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TO LET.
ECOND FLOOR. of HOUSE No. 64
Queen's Road Central, Possession from 1st April next,
Apply to
LAI HING & Co., No. 153, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 8th February, 1889
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TO LET, FURNISHED. Tthe Peak, "Dunford," A FIVE ROOMED
A HOUSE E Tennis Court. Possession [176 from the 15th instant to the 31st March, 1889, OF
1890.
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J. Y. V. VERNON, Hongkong, 3rd November, 1888.
TO LET.
Tthe Peak "LA HACIENDA," formerly
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WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, & FRIDAY, the 20th, 21st, and zand February,
ULE 15-Admission to the Grand Stand and Enclosure For Members of the on MONDAY, the acth instant, at 3 P.M.for Jockey Club, Free; for Non-Members $5 for the the purpose of receiving the Report of the Meeling For Admission to Grand Stand $y for Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st { the Meeting, December, 1888 Vahun aku
RULE 6. Tickets of Admission to the Grand Túo-TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company | Stand and Enclosure to be had on applicasion to will be CLOSED from the 11th to the 25th. W RUTTER, Esq, Honorary Treasures. instant, both days inclusive.
A occupied by Sir George Phillippo,
H. N. MODY, Victoria Buildings,
· Hongkong, sath December, 1888...
HEATRE TO LET.
No one, admited without a Ticket, to be shewn A BUNGALOW in 's Garden at Kowloon, with; Lawa Tennis Court-attached, 7** to the Gate keeper,
Sabre situated on the Dock Bay H. J. H. TRIPP, S, GILLIES,25l Sal
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Hongkong, 30th January, 1889.
By Order of the Board of Directors, NU ESPANY
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