Wherever I met with Europeans they treated me with the greatest hospitality, but the same thing cannot be said of the natives, for they are exceedingly churlish, as, for instance, arriving one evening at dusk at a good sized village went from house to house seeking, without Buccess, for accommodation. The natives however agreed in advising me to walk back five miles on my rond to find some resting-place in a little set lement against which they bore a grudge. It is almost needless to say that I did not follow this advice. Possibly my difficulties were increased by an absolute ignorance of the Malay language, but judging by my own experience, no one wishing to travel in Pahang should besitate on that account. In conclusion Pabang is a most interesting country to visit, especially at the present time. The travelling though slow, is not really laborious, and whether the object be to find gold, to shoot big game, or as in my case, to get some insight into life in the Native States, the result is likely to be eminently satisfactory.
:
THE SUNDAY LABOR QUESTION. The following communication from the Acting Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements has been forwarded to the Chamber of Com. merce, the Dock Companies, and all the prin cipal mercantile firms in Singapore :--
Sir-1 am directed to request you to bring under the consideration of the Directors of your Company the subject of Sunday Labour on the part of European and American Seamen in this
Port, It is one to which the Governor's atten- tion has been recently drawn by the Secretary
will readily be admitted on all sides.
of State for the Colonies, and its importance
2. It is, His Excellency believes, the universal practice in all british Ports where Customs nro
established to prohibit the loading and unloading of all vessels on Sunday,"except under very special circumstances. Happily in this Colony there are no Customs; but it is to be deplored that as one of the results of such an exceptional advantage Europeans and Americans employed at the Docks and Wharves, in Mercantile Offices and aboard Vessels in, the Port, should be prevented from taking rest from their work on Sunday,
3. li can be readily understood that, at certais times and under certain clrcumstances, work connected with the Mercantile Marine must be performed on Sunday; but if there is only unanimity on the part of those who have it in their power to put stop to Sunday labour as the rule, a large measure of relief will be secured to a hard-working class of men. With the object of trying to gain that unanimity, this communication is addressed to you and to other Companies interested in Shipping, and Hi Excellency feels sure that the question will meet with that full consideration which it so thor oughly well deserves."
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
THE ABSENCE OF ALTRUISM.
II.
In speaking of the Chinese theory and prac- tice of filial piety, references have been made to that singular perversion of human nature, by which the birth of one half of the children of China is regarded by their parents as a calamity, Daughters in Chins are from the beginning of their existence more or less unwelcome. This fact has a most important bearing on their whole subsequent career, and furnishes many significant illustrations of the absence of nitruism. The details of customs in various localities differ widely, so that generalisations, here as else. where, are precarious, but the principles are doubtless substantially the same. The age at which marriages take place in China is very much earlier than that in Western lands, though we have never heard of anything in China at all comparable to the terrible child- marriages of India. But, in some regions, it is the fashion to marry the boys at the age of from fifteen to twenty, or even younger, while the girls to whom they are married are several years their seniors. No one will give any explanation of this eccentricity, unless it be that contained in a popular proverb about the man who buys a donker and rides on its neck instead of close to the tail, in Chinese fashion-namely, that he likes that way best But in the case of adult brides yoked to adolescent bridegrooms, the reasons for the practice are easy to be understood, when once ascertained. It is the family of the boy, that 'holds up its head,' and that of the girl must take such terms as it can get. A daughter-in- law is regarded as a servant for the whole family, which is precisely her position, and in getting a servant, it is obviously desirable to get one who is strong and well grown, and who has already been taught the domestic accomplishment of cooking, sewing, and whatever Industries may be the means of livelihood in that particular region, rather than a child who has Hitle strengths or capacity. Thus we have known of a case where a buxom young woman of twenty was married to a slip of a boy literally only half ber age, and in the early years of their wedded. life she had the pleasure of nursing him through the small-pok, which is considered as a disease of infancy Mothers and daughters who pass their days in the narrow confinement of a Chinese court, under the conditions of Chinese life, are not likely to lack topics of disagreement, in which abusive language is indulged in with a freedom which the unconstraint of every-day life tends to promote. It is a popular saying, full of significance to those who know Chinese homes, that a mother cannot by reviling her own daughter make her cease to be her own daughter ! When a daughter is once married, she is regarded as having no more relations with her family, than those which are inseparable from community of
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1889.
BANKS"-BOGUS AND
OTHERWISE.
sale smash remaining. None outside of the directorate can tell at the present time whether any one of half the societies in (say) Sydney are safe. Properties have so depreciated that whereas directors formerly lent on the faith of security land may boons again and re-establish values deemed ample, they now have only a hope that
at a ante level. It is a boom or bankruptcy with some societies, but no one can tell how many or which of them, for the public can dis cover nothing more than directors deign to pub. lish. The matter becomes especially important inamuch as it concerns a most worny class of investors.
for one or more breaches of the Act: As care
Co-day's 2 Advertisements.
DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATÓW, AMOY & FOOCHOW.
THE Company's Steamship
"NAMOA,"
Captain Goddard, will be despatched for the above Parts, on TUESDAY, the 3rd September, at 10 AM.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co, General Managers.
·Hongkong, 31st August, 1889.
(1090
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
NOTICE.
STEAM TO YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND
NAGASAKI. · (Passing through the INLAND SEA.)
THE Company's Steamship
"GENERAL WERDER,"
Entimations.
HONGKONG HOTEL
WING to the completion of the NEW WING, increased accommodation is now available for Tiffin and Dinner Parties, etc., also for Public Meetings.
The Hotel is as usual prepared to supply Picnic and Shooting Parties, etc., on moderate terms, with everything that can be desired.
The Hotel can also offer to the Public the best of Wines, Spirits, Liqueurs, Stores, etc., specially selected by the Company's correspondenta in London and on the Continent.
For list of prices and particulars,
Apply to
C. M. ROBERTS, Manager.
Hongkong, goth August, 1889. HONGKONG AND
[1086 WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED;
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. "HE DIVIDEND of 5% being $6.35 per Thare for the Six Months ended 30th June, 189, declared at the Ordinary Half Yearly Meeting held on the 26th instant, will be payable at the Premises of the Hongkong and Shanghai Captain M. Eichet, will leave for the above Potts Banking Corporation on and after THURSDAY, the 29th instant, and Shareholders are requested on or about 5th September.
to apply for Dividend Warrants at the Com- For further particulars, apply to
pany's Office, No. 14, Praya Central, MELCHERS & Co., By Order of the Board of Directors,
Agents.
D. GILLIES, Hongkong, 31st August, 1889.
[4
Secretary. Hongkong, 27th August, 1889.
· NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
[1064 THE SHAMEEN HOTEL AND LAND COMPANY, LIMITED.
dicted. A weary woman whose occupation of making meat dumplings for sale at the daily markets always obliged her to rise long before daylight, and who was not frequently visited
If A has saved Lion which he wants to lend by her married daughters with their troopi of little ones, some of whom spent the night steadfastly refuse to lend unless I gives him good at interest, and applics for the loan, A will in tumbling over their poor grandmother (because their mothers could not take care of security-that is, of course, if the two are so many'), complained to the writer of the
strangers. But, suppose I hires an office and calls himself the "Sempiternal Loan Discount grievous nature of the burden. The when Mortgage and Financial Freehold Ranking inquiry why she did not send them. home wher they became so troublerome, she remarked with
Company. Limited; capital, £5,000,000" and evident sincerity, "I can't succeed in pushing furs, ay, lo per cent. for fixed deposits, Awill them out!" When the daughter-in-law returns cheerfully go and leave his money with B without asking for a fraction of security. For to her mother-in-law it is true of her, as the
Although the lawns it now stands is powerless adage says of a thief, that she never comes back te feels so much safet in dealing with a "Com-
to prevent the fraud, or lessen the dangers of which we complain, yet minor evils, upon which empty-handed. She must take, a present of pany" consisting of B-than he would be in some sort for her mother-in-law, generally food dealing with a propria persona. The name it is not our present purpose to dilaic, might be of the company inspires him with confidences decreased if full effect were given to the penal Neglect of this established rite, or inability to
the word "limited "its sarcasms being latent clauses of the Companies' Act. An intelligent comply with it, will soon result in dramatic invests the concern with an awesome solidity: prosecutor might use these latter provisions with scenes. If the daughter is married into a family which is poor, or which has become office-window-dults any instinct foretelling the community. From nine out of every sten and the capital-existing only on the well-gilded mach profit to himself and great advantage to o, and if she has brothers who are married, she will find that her visits to her mother, arenger. Other tanks may lose their money, public companies, penalties might be recovered cated. There is was between the daughters-in. deposits and yet offer the splendid security of lessness and neglect, sometimes, if not generally In the language of the physicians, contra-indi- but n "bank" that can give to per cent, on law of a fantily, and the married sisters of the 500,000 "capital," must be sempiternal in wilful, has for a long time past characterisert same family, like that between the Philistines solvency as in name. Resting upon such an the action of company officers, and a few assurance, depositors, who know not how easily searches in the proper department would reveal and the children of Israel, each regarding the territory as peculiarly its own, and the eller days, invest their swings, and in too many cases ties could be recovered. It may be true that companies" and "banks" are formed now-a-serious irregularities for which appropriate penal. party as interlopers. If the daughters-in-law
And, when the terra has expired, that the "bank" the recklessness of shareholders and creditors are strong enough to do so, they will, like the Philistines, levy a tax upon the enemy whom has expired also, and that their money has
gone where the bad bankers go-to Val- is the primary cause of this negligence, but still Maraisa of San Francisco, This bagus banka and could be made to pay for its infraction. the directors and officers are responsible to the they cannot altogether ex erininate or drive out. A woman with, whom the writer has long been
In many cases also, there is a criminal as well acquainted informed him, not long ago that for wirdle is one that has been regularly worked for years past, and nothing but a stringent_Act. a year and a half she had been forbidden by the of Parliament will stop it in the future. Adver- which, once applied, would for a long time as a civil remedy, to injured parties, a remedy wives of her brothers from visiting Ler aged mother, who was blind and unable to travel the capital ompany that does not exist, and a prevent directors from istuing balance-sheets
minute fraction perhaps e several we could easily cite, two or three miles necessary to go to see her capital of which
even not one penny has been subscribed, is not daughter! The reason for this embarge was
a false pretence capable of being used in any described, some new provisions of law are To prevent the larger frauds which we have the deep poverty of the daughter, who was
indictment for obtaining the monies of depusi required. A penalty by way of fine or imprison. bring a present when
carried on with impunity, and the general public ment is necessary for the flagrant swindles per- carried on with impunity, and the robber petrated by men pretending, to be reset THE Company's Steamship hears nothing of the fraud. The robber does companies, and offering a security of capital not publish the record of his crime, and the which exists only in imagination. The ordinary robbed, ashamed of their folly and having no
criminal process now available is insufficient, efficien: civil or criminal remedy, do not care to make known the fact of their less.
for the simple reason that the fraud is not revealed to the depositor until the perpetrator of it has got out of the jurisdiction, and no one but the depositor could undertake a prose. cution. The quotation of enormous nominal capital could be checked by the simple means of taxing the published total to a moderate extent. This would not hamper or unjustly burden a company using its capital for business operations, but would eff ctually prevent com. panies from advertising a capital of half-a- million and trading on a fiftieth part of that undesirable, the difficulty could be met by sum. Or, if a tax were for any, reason deemed
providing that a company should not be allowed to commence operations until its whole capital were allotted. Then the share holders would be liable for the uncalled pastion of capital, and creditors would get all the security which they could rightly" expect. Another very necessary provision is that all companies accepting deposits, and thus becom ing borrowers of "other people's molley," should be obliged to furnish sworn returns in the same manner that the banks of issue do now. THE COMPANY'S STEAMERS WILL CALL AT It is impossible to discover any just reason for giving this security of publicity to the holders of bank notes, while denying it to the bolders of bank deposit receipts. It might well be argued that depositors are even more to be considered than note-holders: for while the latter can at once convert the vouchers into gold, the former in most cases have to wait for months before
unable to
she
came, albeit she should have taken a present
back with her when she returned to her mother- In-law In order to make the present which will render her visits to her mother's family agree. able all round, the daughter-in-law is sometimes obliged to steal something from the family of the mother-in-law. When this is discovered, it will result in an unpleasantness.'
Begus financial companies may be classified If it is not specifically discovered, it is suspected, and is according to the amount of fraud in their pretea- called by the generic name al leak-at-the-bot-sions and transactions. To the lowest rank be- tom, in allusion to the difficulty of detection, and long the concerns which are rotten all the way to the seriousness of its results if continued. It through. These have no capital, no registration, is a proverb that no family can stand the strain and no shareholders. They come into existence of a continued 'bottom-leak.' One of the in the way they ultimately expire-without care
mony and without any previous notice to the facetic of the Chinese represents two old women as meeting after a long separation, public. An office, with a small counter and and making inquiries us to each other's a big Tront window, is secured. A gorgeous families. How is your son's business says wint ; behind the copter a cleak is installed, name and a farcy capital are painted on the ́one, 'and what kind of a daughter-in-law have you?! My son's business is fairly good, and in a small "manager's room" at the back the "company" himself sits, twiddling diamond was the reply, but the daughter-in-law is bad- she steals from us to give to her mother. And tings, and awaiting credulous holders of treasured' your married daughter, how is it with her coin. He, the "company," is sometimes a Ah was the reply, if it were not for the help prematurely released felon who finds this kind of robbery more profitable than burglary, and we get from her, we should not be able to get on at all! In speaking of the absence of safer sanctimes he is nothing worse than an sympathy, reference was made to the bitter lat uncertificated, insolvent. The latter case, how of Chinese concubines. The term used to denote ever, is rare. Nearly always, he is a man the relation between wives and concubines, is who would not be trusted with a copper if that most expressive phrase, sipping vinegar. he were not endowed with the glory of sup This is proverbially a thing to be avoided, and posed incorporation, and unlimited capitat. from this association, that phrase has come to He does not care to lend money; the "bank" be employed as a euphemism for vinegar, as depends upon deposits alone, and the longer the when a waiter enquires of a guest at an inn term for which these can be got, the better, If what he wishes for his meal, he asks, "Do depositors give him their money for three years you want the thing-to-be-avoided '? But the he will give them another three years to catch certainty of trouble in the family is by no him an arrangement which suits everyone but means confined to the occasions when prin- the depositur. Sometimes, of course, a man may cipal and secondary wives are be found call himself a " bank" or financial company, and living in the same establishment. The Chinese not mean to swindle anyone. But not often. believe that the graves of successive wives should The facilities for robbery are great that be placed at a due distance from each other, humanity can seldom resist the temptation of it until their common husband has died, when the twice. Concerning the law which permits these bodies are to be taken up, and may be placed on to flourish as a green upas tree we shall berein cach side of him. The theory is that 'e'en in after write. their ashes live their wonted fires,' and that the ghosts of wives so buried as to be adjacent to one another, with co intervening husband as peace-maker, would be certain to maintain a war which would render the lives of surviving mem- bers of the family scarcely worth living. "At first sight this may appear merely a curious super- stition, with no especial bearing on practical affairs, but it is in reality a most serious matter, and one which caters into the marrow of one's existence.-N. C. Daily News.
(To be continued.)
CHEFOO.
\(FROM CUR CORRESPONDENT.)
Cheloo, August 21st, 1889. We are having delightful weather here; although the days are warm the nights are cool and pleasant. The hotels are full, and visitors from your and other ports seem to be enjoying the Chefoo air and sea-bathing. Capt. Watts, lately of the Peiho Tug & Lighter Company, left bere yesterday to take charge of the steamer lately launched at your port. He will be a man well fitted for the post. I have no doubt that he was glad to turn his back on Pilot Town, for lately affairs-there have been unbearable for a peaceful man, I can remember when Taku was a town of harmony 'and peace, but late arrivals have turned it to a place quite opposite to that. I see by a prospectus just received here that the Taku Hotel is to be turned into a company, called the Taku Hotel Company. The capital required is. Tls. 10,000, in 400 shares of Tis. go each, of which more than half the shares are taken. I enclose the prospectus for fear you may not have received
onc.
five vessels, the Sendre, Villars, Chasseur We have the French fleet here, consisting of Vibére and Aspic. The Turenne is expected The Chinese fleet of some fifteen of sixteen tere next week, besides war-vessels of other
to arrive shortly.
|
A grade higher in the way of fraud, are the financial institutions which have some share holders, some capital, and carry of a certain class of business on the lending side. These companies usually begin their history by defraud- ing their shareholders. Two or three "financiers" meet and agree to start the venture, Each of them requires some plunder to requite the use of his name and influence. They, therefore, as a preliminary step, allot to themselves so many shares or so much money, the capital of the embryo company. Then, when shareholders have been captured and operations begun, a false balance-sheet is prepared; the plunder secured by the promoters be og then abstracted, the balance sheet, if accurate, would show the company to be insolvent. Therefore the figures have to be cooked. This is sometimes done by making a fictitious entry under the head of investments; sometimes forged vouchers for preliminary expenses are put in to square the amount abstracted; sometimes the promoters are guile less and publish a statement proving the com- be insolvent. But, whatever is pany to done, shareholders' who have no notice of the bondling are defrauded; and creditors from whom the transaction is bidden are robbed of a part of the security upon which credit was given. We could quote one financial institution whose "promoters" plundered it to the extent of £5000. In another case, more than double that amount was landed, and in each case a crim.nal cooking of the accounts bas periodically occurred. These companies, like others of even less reputable character-or rather, class, for character they have none-are marvellously fond of impressing the ignorant by quoting an enormous nominal capital. If £5,000 is required to satisfy the promoting vultures, and £5.000 more for business, the capital will be fixed at, say, £500,000. Of this amount we suppose
on this amount, as stated, depositors and other 10,000 to have been subscribed. The rest is advertised as Reserve capital, £490,000,” and creditors rely for their security. But, in reality, it offers no shadow of security. Noose is liable shares which represent its sum has ever been made. It is a lure to those who may chance to be beguiled: a bait to those who can't see through the attempted, or, perhaps, accidental, fraud,
There is a deep-seated reason for omitting ships ls at Wei-bal-wel.-Wo are expecting them for it, as no subscription or allotment of the
st
nationalities.
I have some important news to tell you about telegraph Hnos. The Chinese are going to build a gigantic line from Pao-ting-foo to Ill
Compared with the'."financial institutions "
origin.
daughters from all family registers. She is no longer our daughter, but the daughter-in-law of some one else.. Human nature will assert itself, in requiring visits to the mother's home, more or less frequent intervale, according to the local usage. In some districts these visits are
It is to go through Shanshi. It will be about above mentioned the recognised banks, building very numerous and very prolonged, while in others the custom seems to be to make them as party of mandarins and soldiers, is just about stability. But even in their managerment many 1.500 miles long. Mr. Christiansen, with a societies, and mortgage companies are models of few as possible, and liable to almost complete to start to make a survey of the fine. The matters which may at any time lead to danger
long periods in case of a death in suspension the family. But whatever the details of usage,
| Chinese have re-engaged Mr. Christiansen, who the principle holds good, that the daughter-in-will have the management of it. When this offer large scope for legislative reform. There law belongs to the family of which she has have three connections with the Russian frontier, holders are liable to the last penny for the tine is finished the Chiness telegraph line will is, for instance, no check whatever apon the issue of notes except the fact that the bank-share- become a part. When she goes to her mother's home, she goes on a strictly business basin.counting the one to Vladivostock. Arrangements amount represented by the notes aforesaid, She takes with her, it may be, a quantity what I can learn it is only a matter of time, It Imited" one. No gold reserve has to be held have not yet been settled with Russia, but by of sewing for her husband's family, which
will not be long anyhow, The Chinese tele- the wife's family must help her get through graph ilas is paying well. They pay the against notes in circulation, and no deposit of gold with. She is accompanied on each of these shareholders 7 per cent, this year again, and in the Treasury on any account is necesssary. The visits by as many of her children as possible, this is the fourth year they have paid the same, only thing that banks are required, to do is to
both to have her take care of them, and to have them out of the way when she is not at hand to
whether the bank be a "limited" or "un.
they can apply for payment. Finally--although this is a reform that would meet with the vehe: ment opposition of vested interests-we would urge the wisdom of making every financial insti- tation déposit a moderate sum in the Treasury, in gold or debentures, as a guarantee of bona fits. The Companies' Act bas been so often perverted to the uses of imposition and robbery. that no reasonable check to such operations could be property opposed. No promoters of what was meant to be a stable and permanent company would object to supply such a pecuniary hostage for the benefit of those involved in their operations. Company-mongers as a class, would inveigh bitterly against any such demand, but they as a class are not deserving of very high legislative consideration, The community would profit hugely by the effectual squelching of the grandsons of the horseleech.—Sydney Bulletin,
NOTIC E.
STEAM TO SHANGHAI.
BAYERN."
Captain J. Mergell, will leave for the above place about 24 hours after arrival with the out- ward German Mail.
For further particulara, apply to
MELCHERS & Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 31st August, 1889.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
NOTICE.
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OTICE is hereby given that the STATU. held at the Offices of the Company, No. 2, D'Aguilar Street, on the 17th day of September next, at Noon.
By Order of the Directors,
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J. A. BARRETTO, Secretary. Hongkong, 27th August, 1889.
CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE Twenty-third Ordinary MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Com- SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ, Hongkang, on MONDAY, the 9th proximo, at pany will be held at the Head Office, Victoria,
STEAM FOR
PORT SAID, BRINDISI, GENOA, ANT- WERP, BREMEN AND HAMBURG, FORTS IN THE LEVANTE, BLACK SEA AND BALTIC
PORTS;
ALSO.
BOSTON, LONDON, NEW YORK,
BALTIMORE, NEW ORLEANS, -
GALVESTON AND SOUTH
AMERICAN, PORTS.
SOUTHAMPTON TO LAND Passengers AND, LUGGAGE.
J
N.A.—Cargo can be taken on through Dilla of Lading for the principal places in RUSSIA
4 O'CLOCK P.M., for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 30th April last, and of declaring dividends.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 27th instant to 9th proximo, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. H. RAY, . Secretary. Hongkong, roth August, 1889, [1036
H. G. BROWN AND COMPANY, LIMITED.
hereby given
that the STATUTORY GENERAL MEETING
of the above Company, will be held at the. Offices of the General Managers, on SATUR-
F.M.
ON WEDNESDAY the 25th day of DAY; the 7th day of September next, at 12.30 "BAYERN," Captain 1. Mergell, with MAILS. 1889, at 4 P.M., the Company's Steamship PASSENGERS, SPECIE and CARGO, will
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., leave this Port as above, calling at GENDA
General Managers: Hongkong, 22nd August, 1889. [rosa
NOTICE.
THOMAS KERR & Co.
Shipping Orders will be granted till to a.m., Cargo will be received on board until 1 p.m., September, 1889.. (Parcels are not to be seat on Specie and Parcels until 10 a.m.. on the agth of board; they must be left at the AGENCY'S Office). Contents and Value of Packages are required.
and carries a Doctor and Stewardess, For further particulars, apply to
MELCHERS & Co.
Agents Hongkong, 31st August 1RRO.
The Steamer has splendid Accommodation ENGINEERS,
WANTED.
Ta
ZOR The Hongkong Telegraph, a CAPABLE FORT HAND REPORTER, who is a
smart paragraphist and reliable proof-reader.
Apply, with full particulars, to
THE EDITOR, The Hongbong Telegraph.
Hongkong, 31st July, 1889.
CONSUMPTION, Wasting Diseases, and General Debility. Doctors disagree as to the relative value of Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites; the one supplying strength and flesh-the others giving.nerve power and acting as a tonic to the digestion and entire system. But in Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypo- is wonderful. Thousands who have derived no phosphites the two are combined, and the effect permanent benefit from other preparations have been cured by this. "Scott's Emulsion" is perfectly palatable, and is easily digested even oil. Any Chemist can supply it.-A. S. Watson by those who cannot tolerate plain Cod Liver ZETLAND & Co. (Limited), agents in Hongkong and China. -Adut.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE.
(From Mesira, Gas, Falconer & Co.'s Reglater.)
Today. Farang B, filmares Earomeler P.#roa Barometer.
Thermometering, ThammaANGKODEKLARATII Thermometer-p.m. Thermuster – 4 j1,2.
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.10.03
#9.00
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REGISTER.
30th August, 1889.—At 4 p.m.
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„The berometer has risen and gradients are slight. · Fine and
dry weather proved to bevel of the ace in inches, tenths and
furnish sworn quarterly returns. Banks which do not issue notes are not obliged to publish any returns whatever. Another weak point in the management of all successful institutions is the
Boilus... treatment of what is humorously described as the reserve fund." The fund is not represented
་ that the Marquis Tseng was the first man that had to be appointed as Viceroy of the Two by any security capable of instant or even of Kwang, but the Emperor, and the high officialspeedy realisation, but is employed, like the came to the conclusion that be kuce too much securities liable to extreme depreciation in time bank's capital, for the purposes of loan upon of foreign affairs to part with him from Peking of panic, and not often of a kind, that could be August 23rd. speedily realized upon, even in the best of "Sheng Tastal leaves to-day or to-morrow for times. With building societies, the most danger Tlantain to see Li Hung-chang on some business is in the fact that the management can keep of importance. The French man-of-wax Turenne os concealing the rottenness of the whole con anired early this morning-Mercury,
carn, until there is no possibility whors of whole.
I read something in your morning centers porary about Li Hung-chang's brother getting to ask after them, and most especially to have the Viceroyalty of the Two Kwang. If them fed at the expense of the family of the matemal grandmother for as long a time as remember rightly that paper spoke of Lis possible. In regions where visita of this sort ascendency of power. I hear on good authority are frequent, and where there are many daugh ters in a family, their constant raids on the old home are a source of perpetual terror to the whole family, and a serious tax on the common resources. For this reason these visits are often discouraged by the father and the brothers, while secretly favored by the mothers. But, as Local custom fixes for them certain epochs, such as à definite date after the New Year, special feast days, etc, the visits cannot be intere
Masonic,
No. $25.
LODGE,
REGULAR MEETING of the above
A LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, on TUESDAY, the 3rd September, at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
Hongkong, 30th August, 1889.
Entimations.
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HONGKONG CHUGA LEVEL TRAM-
WAYS COMPANY, LTD.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS.
8 to 10 A.M. every quarter of an hour,
12 to 2 PM, every half hour,
J
4 to 8 PM. every quarter of an hour.
THURSDAYS. NIGHT TRAMS at to.30 and II P.M, SUNDAYS.
sc40 AM.; 13 to 1.30 PM, every quarter of an
hour.
4 to 8 n.M. every quarter of an hour,
9, 10, 10.30, 11 P.M.` Special Cars may be obtained on application to the Superintendent.
Single Tickets are sold in the Cars; Five-Cont "Coupons and Reduced Tickets at the Office.
MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 1st May, 1889.
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FOR SALE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
WATERBURY WATCHES,
the Handiest, Cheapest, and Best * Timekeepers invented. $8 PRICE THREK DOLLARS KACH $8
„REPAIRS NEVER EXCEED 50 CENTS
Orders from for each accompanied with
Hundrede,Temperature in the shape in degrees, Fah
of the
Remittarice for Cost Plan handley of te sahurated with moisture ang 100, Diraculos THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHIA,
} of the wind to re polaca E-Force of the wad code and Beaufort scale State of the months; & Blue sky, douds, a Drieding ral/Fog, Gloomy & Hail, / Lightning,"
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BOILER MAKERS,
AND CONTRACTORS, YAU-MA-TI ENGINEERING WORKS,
Kowloon. Hongkong, 6th June, 1889.
1703
SHANGHAI LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED. SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL....Th. 1,000,000 CAPITAL PAID-UP
.Tis. 600,000
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:. J. S. PURDON, Esq., Chairman, of Messrs.
MAITLAND & Co.
H. R. HEARN, Esq., of Messre, ALFRED
DENT & Co.
E. J. HOGG, Esq.
JOHN WALTER, Esq., Manager the HONG.
KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COR- PORATION.
A. G. WOOD, Esq., of Messrs. GIBB, LIVING-
STON & CO.
BANKERS: THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
OANS made on MORTGAGE ON LAND;
BUILDINGS, &c.
PROPERTIES bought and sold.
ESTATES MANAGED and all kinds of LAND
AGENCY and COMMISSION business conducted. GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., - Agents,, --- Shanghai, 19th July, 1889.
(938 THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED. SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL...................$5,000,000, PAID UP CAPITAL
samaniumu 2,500,000. RESERVE FUND 1,250,000.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Hon. J. J, KESWICK,
Chairman Managing Directors. Hon. C. P. CHATER, Vice-Chairman.
E. A. SOLOMON, Esq. J.S. MOSES, Esq.
S. C. MICHAELSEN, Esq.
G. E. NOBLE, Esq. LEE SING, Esq.
POON PONG, Esq.
BANKERS.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
[ONEY advanced on Mortgage, on Land,"
Mod Buildings,
Properties purchased and sold. Estates Managed and all kinds of Agency and Commission business relating to land, ete conducted.
pany's Offices, No. 5, Queen's Road Central.
Full particulars can be obtained at thé Com-.
A. SHELTON HOOPER,'
Secretary, Victoria Buildings, Hongkong, 3rd May, 1889.
KOWLOON HOTEL. J.CL.ROUCHMANAGER,
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FINE and SPIRITS of the best quality,
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ENGLISH AMERICAN BILLIARD
TABLES, BOWLING ALLEYS, TENNIS LAWN CARE
Hongkong, 41st January, 1889,
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