suffer from them severely. This is especially the case if there be a stagnant pond or lake neat the house where the mosquitos or rather gnats breed. Mosquitos are often very troublesome in the lower ranges of the hills, where there is apparently no stagnant water whatever for them to breed in. They, however, get over this difficulty by finding a home in the cusps of large bamboos which are always to be found in such localities, and which ways (like the traveller's palms, of which we see a few hero and there in Calcutta) contain a certain amount of water between the cusp.and the stem.
It is told of the and Highlanders, the Black Watch, that when they landed in Calcutta it the end of 1857, they were marched off to the Scotch Kirk in Dalhousie Square, on the first Sunday. to full dress parade service, kilts, bonnels and all complete, to the great delight of the populace. All went well for a time, till the mosquitos from the adjacent Lall Digee or Red Tank smelt fresh blood, and swarmed into the sacred edifice. The Heelanders' unprotected legs in especial came in for the polite attentions of the insects, particularly the knee, which is a peculiarly sensitive portion of the human anatomy. For a while the brave soldiers endured the onslaught heroically, till first one, then another, made a slan at the mos quitos, until so many of them were fiercely slap ping at their legs, that the preacher's voice was completely drowned, and he had to cease his discourse and men be marched back to barracks, ➡Hayes' Sporting News.
TORRENS'S ACT.
A CHAPTER OF COLONIAL HISTORY.
The method of dealing with land through a State Registry Office instead of by lawyers is. says the Town and Country Journal, well known in the Australian colonies as "the Torrens system, and the title obtained under the Real Properly Act as a Torrens's title. Everybody, however, is not aware of the history of that measure of law reform, although it is not a little curious, and it affords a remarkable instance of the power of self-reliance and perseverance when exercised by a man of strong will. A sketch of its rise and progress may, therefore, be interes:- ing.
Robert Richard Torrens was the son of Colonel Torrens, one of the founders of South Australia, and arrived in that colony in very early days. He was appointed Collector of Customs, and used to make it his boast that he understood his datics "theoretically and practically." All transactions connected with shipping, including registration, selling, and mortgaging, were conducted at the Custom-house; and Torrens, as head of the de- partment, soon gained a knowledge of the laws relating, to these matters. It is said that his family had formerly suffered grievously in estate by the exactions and complications introduced by the legal confraternity; and as the family ere frisk, and the even's took place before the Encumbered Estates Acts were passed, it is easy enough to believe that there was some truth in the report, which, at any rate, was sanctioned by Torrens himself. Be this as it may, he was very embittered against lawyers as a class-a feeling which is shared by malcontents even to this present day. It seemed to him, also, to be cruel that in a young colony, where transactions should be of the simplest kind, all the cumbrous machinery of the English system of conveyancing should be adopted. That system is built on feudal principles, and, South Australia being absolutely free, there was no raison d'etre for the system.
On thinking these matters over, it occurred to Torrens, by a happy inspiration, that the mode of dealing with ships could be easily adapted to transactions in land. What difference could there be in principle ? True, the land could not be wrecked, or sunk, or burned, or go to pieces through decay; but that was the only distinction. Both were property; and the one should be and could be as simply dealt with the other. Full of these ideas, Torrens set to
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1890.
The first Real Property Act was passed in the ession of 1857, and was assented to on January 37, 18. The House of Assembly, was enchanted with it; and, notwithstanding all the abuse, argument, and ridicule bestowed upon To rens and his bandling, members insisted upon having the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill;" while the Irish members, not to be behind the Germans, declared their determination 10 swallow it "helus-bolus." Torrens was now, indeed, the most popular man in the colony, He was bauqueled and fêred to an alarming extent. In the German townships his visiting procession passed under triumphal arches; and young girls strewed flowers before the path of the corquering hero. It was a time of which man might well be proud; but Torrens well knew that is troubles were only beginning. His fortress would be unceasingly attacked by skilled legal soldiers; and nothing but ceaseless vigilance on bis part could save it from destruction. His officers were all untrained men; and there was no one but himself to instruct them; while be knew well that every endeavor would be made to worry and confuse them by his enemies. As long us the warfare was confined to speeches, or letters, or pamphlets, he was rather delighted; for unconsciously his legal antagonists were supplying him with valuable sug- gestions for the improvement of his system...but mistakes in the office were matters much more serious. However, Torrens thoroughly drilled his corps, and in six months opened his office for the dispatch of business.
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It must be confessed that this original Act was, except in principle, a very weak perform. ance, It was full of mistakes and inconsistencies; and, in a word, before the end of a twelvemonth it proved unworkable, and the machinery tumbled to pieces. So far from being discouraged at this failure, however, Torrens look heart. He bad found its weaknesses; and, thanks to his enemies, he knew the direction of their attacks. On the other hand he knew that he possessed the entire confidence of the people, and that his system had taken firm root among them. Thus armed. he found no difficulty in passing an amending Act, and another after that, TheTHE Company's Steamship trouble was now over. The principles of the Act
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were too well established to be in farther danger,antain G. Tayler, will be despatched for the and the victory was won.
One final skirmish betweed Torrens and the lawyers deserves a word. According to the iden of the Ac, people were to come to the Land Titles Office and there fill up their documents, transfers, mortgages, leases, &c., pay the fees. and complete the whole business in half an hour. They were, however, quite at liberty to employ lawyers to do the work for them if they chose When the Act had gone through a couple of revisions, and the legal bostility was still so great that some professional men refused to undertake any business connected with it, and others threw all obstacles in the way (their charges continuing as heavy as ever), Torrens determined on a policy of retaliation. "These people won't work with me." said he, "then I'll make people who will." The process was very simple. He inserted a clause giving power to the Registrar-General to appoint a class of practitioners called "Land brokers," who were entitled to transact any legal business under the Act without being liable to the penalties of the Attorneys' Protection Act. A scale of fees was provided for them, and no one, solicitor or not, was legally, entitled to charge more than those fees for any business done. The blow was fatal. lawyers acknowledged the inevitable, and accepted their defeat. Ton the Real Property Act became an accomplished fact.
TEN MONTHS' SUFFERING IN A
HOSPITAL.
THERE is an old saying that physicians are a sinna of men who pour drugs, of whiloh they know little, inte bolies of which they know lose, Thin, is both trus and untrue at the sates time. There are good and poor largers, and poor dost pro mon trouble with ther medical gentlemen as a profession is that there
be conceited. They to be aro elannish, and
don't
have Ports. on MONDAY. the giḥ instant, at ¿ P.M.
For Freight of Passage, app'e to
RUSSELL A: CAL
General Managers. Hongkong, and May, 1890.
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AS WATSON & Co., LIMITED.
Cameral MEETING of the SHART. NOTICE sherahu oiven that the Omlinary HOLDERS of the Company will be held at the Honek ma Dianensary, on MONDAY, the roth infant at Three o'clock in the Afternoon, for the unner of receiving the Report of the General Manager, together with a Statement of
Aperanta to the arat December, 1890
The REGISTER of SHARES will be CLOSED from TUESDAY the 6th Instant, to WEDNESDAY, the 14th instant, hoth dare inclusive, during which peried no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
T. H. TALBOT,' Secretary,
Hangkono jud Mav., 1800
Intimations.
*NOTIFICATION:,
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H.B M. Tegation." Peking. April 3rd 18-0. virtue of the authority vested in him by the China and Japan Maritime Order in Council 1874 the Tindersigned hereby notifies
work to prepare a measure embodying them, andke to be beatm et flake own trade by outsiders who that he has appointed Mr. J. H. COOMBS to at this he worked very assiduously for a long baro ueror studied medicine. They therefore pay,:03 he SURVEYOR at the Part of Amay under the
the penalty of rofusing instruc
1
their
frequent failures, t
Provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts.
The
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time. He certainly studied some standard works tion unless the teacher boars their own Hall Mark." on conveyancing and real property law; but, as
An eminent physician-Dr. Brown-Sequard, of may be imagined, he soon got sick of a laber Paris states the foot accurately when he says:
bound in their self-con- which led in a diametrically opposite direction medical profession are so
ther
the diamond to his own notions; and be resolved to build on
fidence and concell that
of his own foundations. At the same time, he truths fsnience to be pleked up by persons ontirely. We give a most interosting outside their ranks made no secret of his design and he even con sulted Sir Charles Cooper, then the Chief Justice, incident, which illustrates the important truth.
Tho steamship "Concordia," of the Donaldson upon his proposed system. Sir Charles, how-
for Baltimore is
in 1887. Line,
from Glasgow. sailed ever, belonged to the most old-fashioned and
Bisheri conservative cines of lawyers, and received having on board as a framan a man pa
s fireman- - for Wade, of Glasgow, He Torrens and his system much in the style used
fourteen years on various ships sailing to America in "The Padlock" by Mungo, "Cuss bim
China, and India. Ho had borne the hard and imperence and him dam insurance!" In that
exhausting labour, end had been healthy and strong. quarter, then, there was no hope of success.
His appetite and he
falled, feel weak and ill. But very material assistance was at hand. The On the trip we now name he began for the first time German element was very strong in the colonial puffered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in
Buffered population, Germans had been imported and the mouth, and cortiveness and irregularity of the settled on the land in large numbers by George bowel, Sametimes when at work he had attacks of Fife Angus, another of the founders of South giddiness, but supposed it to be caused by the heat of the fire-room. Quite often he was sick and felt like Australia; and they grew and multiplied ex- ceedingly. They were a thrifty and parsimonious vomiting, and had some pain in the head. Later race; and, as they required land, they found the during the passage he grew worse, and when the ship roached Halifar he was placed in the Victoria General legal expenses of obtaining a title pressing upon Hospital, and the ship salled away without him. The surgeon gave him some powders to stop the managed differently: the transfers were cheap and simple. Why could not the principles gave him a mixture to take every four hour. which prevailed in the Hanseatic towns
two days Wade was so much worse that the doctors be adopted in Australia? Just at this stopped bath the powders and the mixture. juncture they heard of Torrens and his
month passed, the poor areman getting worso and proposed reform; and they rose is a пове
them grievously. In the old home things were bons and the next day the visiting physiotap
man to welcome their deliverer. He became their hero at once; and that portilon he always maintained. His word was law; his opinion infallible. There were a few German. "advocats" extant, though rather in a mouldy and decaying condition; but they brushed up their law and rushed to Torrens with all their knowledge of the land system of the Fatherland, The ssels tance was valuable; but the sympathy was more
It was invaluable.
within
A
Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physican for the next five months. He gave other medicinos, but not much relief. Nearly all that time Wads anffered great torture; he digested nothing, throwing up all he ate. There was torrible pain la the bownia, burning beat in the thrust, heartburn, and rzoking headsolio. The patient was
now
taking
JOHN WALSHAM,
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SOCIETE FRANCAISE DES HOUILLERES
DE TOURANE.
SHAREHOLDERS are hereby informed that the Second Ordinary MEETING will take place at Haiohong, on the 5th May, 1890.
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., Agents.
[694 Hongkong, 29th April, 1890.
THE MARINBURK FURNITURE COMPANY. LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
FOTICE is herrhv given that a CALL of
NOTICE is het ver Share is payable
on or before the 10th May, 1890, to the Com- pany's Bankers, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. MARINBURK, Manager. Hongkong, 16th April, 1890,
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
.:.
NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS."
1626
BONUS of Twenty per cent. upon Con. been declared. Warrants may be had on
1st proximo. application at the above Office on and after the
Aributions for the year 166g has this day.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents, Canton Insurance Office, Limited.
[628 Hongkong, 15th April, 1890.
NOTICE.
THE JELEBU MINing and tradiNG COMPANY, LIMITTED.
DIVIDEND of a ver cent. for the period
or
618 o per
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will be held at the CITY HALL Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 31st day of May next, at noon, for the purpose of considering, or £ 9 11 6, and, if approved, of passing the following Resolu- tions:
or £11 4.6 p
.,
Shanghai Banking Corporation be increased or C13, o a That the Capital of the Hongkong and from $7,500,000 to $10,000,000 by the crea tion of 20,000 New Shares of $125, to be issued at the price of £41 1os. Eastern Shareholders to pay for their allotments at the current rate of the day for Demand Bills on London.
STG. payable at death, would'
cost at the rate of
quarter (a) If premiums are
payable for whole of life
(3) If premiums are limited
to 20 years;
(c) If premiums are limited'
in 15 years;*
(d) If the Sum Assured is made payable at age 50, or at death if previous,*
AFTER being the years in force, each.
year's payment of proinfum secures a proportionate part of Sum Assured as explained in Prospectus. For instance after five years n man Assured under plan & would be entitled to a Free Paid-up Policy for 5/20ths of Sum Assured, viz., La50, should be wish to discontinue future payments.
That the said New Shares be in the first in- stance, in such manner as the Directors shall prescribe for that purpose, offered to the Shareholders in the propqition of one New Sbare for every three Shares of which on the 31st May, 1890, they shall respectively be the Registered Holders, and that any New Shares got accepted by the Share holders within the time limited by the Di rectors for that purpose, be disposed of and allotted by the Directors in such manner and at such price ns.in their discretion they shall think best in the interest of the Com-fail and fender the life ineligible for Assurance,
pany, 3-That payment of the sum of £42 108. per
The same provisons if commenced at age 40 n. b. would cost respectively (a) (8.150, (3).
11.50, (4) £13.24. (d) 27.0.8 per quarter. Note.-It is an advantage to effect Provisions of this nature early in life. By delay the rate of subscription increases; Death may occur before the Provision is effectel, or Health may
share for each of the said New. Shares be 810-4] made as follows, viz
10 12s. 6d. on the goth day of June, 1890
to 128. 6d.
TI
30th Septy
"
频
March, 191
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agents, STANDARD LIFE OFFICE
ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY OF
THE
LONDON.
PHE Undersigned, having been appointed Agents for the above Company, are pro- pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates,
EDUARD SCHÉILHASS & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 12th April, 1890, +
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FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF 1877 IN HAMBURG.
£10.123, 60, " 31st
Dec, 55 £to sza. 6d.
31st 4-That the Directors issue to Shareholders' holding shares not a multiple of Three a Fractional certificate in respect of each sbare in excess of or below such multiple, and allot one new sbare to every person who shall produce three such Fractional Certi- ficares on or before the 30th June, 1890, 2nd Day the first instalment in respect thereof. 5-That after payment of the first instalment and pending payment of the future instal- ments. Scrip Certificates in such form as the Directors may determine be issued in respect of such New Shares, entitling the Holders on payment of the remaining instalat ments, and subject to such other terms as to approval, date for lodging Scrip Cer- tificates, and otherwise as the Directors 'may prescribe, to be registered as the Holders of the Shares represented by such Scrip Certificates respectively.
| 6–That interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum (free of income tax) be allowed out of the profits of the Company on all instal- ments paid in advance of the dates when the same become due and that from the 30th June, 1890, Holders of Scrip Certificates be entitled to participate in future dividends, in proportion to the amount of instalments paid up on an equality with the other Shareholders of the Company. 7-That interest at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum be charged on every instalment which shall not be punctually paid, and be paid with such instalments. 8That all moneys received from premiums on the said New Shares be added to the Reserve Funds.
FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
WADE GARD'ÑER.
Acting Chief Manager. Hongkong, and April, 1890,
THE DARVEL BAY TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED.
1970.
A from 1st April 1889 to 31st January 1890 having being declared at the first ordinary General meeting of the above Company_beld | NOTICE OF CONFIRMATORY MEETING. to-day the Coupon No of the Share-warrants will be paid by the New Oriental Bank Corpo ration Limited in Singapore or Hongkong as follows.
Coupons A for 50 Shares, $7.50 each.
3:03 C.
0.75 i HUTTENBACH BROTHERS & Co
'General Agents.
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+
20 S
Singapore, 19th April, 1890.
H.R.M. Envay Extraordinary PEAK, HOTEL AND TRADING COMPANY,
and Minister Plenipotentiary
in China.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. KWOON KWAN YEEN CHALLENGE CUPS.
THE Second Stage of the Eighth Competition will take place TO-MORROW, the 3rd May at 2.30 p.m.
Firing to commence at 700 yards. Distance 700, 800, and 900 yards; fifteen shots at each. C. VIVIAN LADDS,
Hon. Secretary, Kopkong, 28th April. 18o
THE EAST BORNEO PLANTING
LIMITED.
Nice and Trading Company, Limited, TOTICE is bereby given that the Peak
will not on or after the 1st day of May, 1890, be answerable for er pay any DEBTS or: ACCOUNTS unless the orders for the supplies be signed by the Secretary to the Company for the time being.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. WHEELEY, Secretary, "Hongkong, 21st April, 1890.
NOTICE.
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158 THE JELEBU MINING AND TRADING
COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE CO
'HE COUPON-SHEETS for share warrants icin now be obtained through the New Oriental Bank Corporation Ltd. Hongkong,
HUTTENBACH BROTHERS & Co,
General Agents. Singapore, 15th April, 1999.-
COMPANY, LIMITED. TOTICE is hereby, given to Holders of NICE the love Company on which CALLS are still unpaid, that unfeas said Calls with Interest at the rate of 12 % per annum from the due dates are paid on or before the r5th day of May next, at the Company's Offices. 6, Ice House Lane, the Shares in respect of which such cal's were made' will be liable to be forfeited, and under the provisions of Article XARE Subsection VII. of the Articles of Association, the Board will pass the necessary resolutions for the forfeiture of the said Shares,
GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Agents.
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THE HONGKONG MARINA, LIMITED. THE Directors require, Immediately, the 527] Service of thoroughly competent MANAGER, for their Floating Hotel in Hong
a mixture every four hours, powders one after each meal to
to digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two such night to stop the cold sweats. If drugs could care him at all, Richard In 1856 the New Constitution was granted to
Bot it and the doctory took South Australia with the sesut of the colonies; had an idea that he took enough to do it. But on
ther hand pleurley THO and Torrens was returned as one of the city mem sinety ounces of matter from Ala right alde, and then bers, with the express intention of bringing for told him he was sure to die. Five months more
Nautical experience, though advantageous, is ward his new system. By this time he had com rolled by, and there was another bangs of listing
• mixture not necessary qualification. Apply, stating pleted his bill, and, had taken care to have its physicians. The new one
like a leaf prisciples made widely known. Lawyers laughed which he said made him trembla k
At this orials Wade's Booth blood inserted itself.Salary and giving references, to Consumedly, and they laughed still more when
on a
will let him
the bill was laid on the table, and it contents. He refused to stand any more dosing, and told the were published. The grandiloquent preamble, doctors that if he taust die be could die as well with- with them. By this time a cup of milk Whereas the people of this colony are subject out them to heavy costs, great trouble, and much would turn or on his stomach, and lie there for
to places. perplexity by reason that the law, &c., was days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck
on a shoal, fast going to on absurd falsehood. All the new documents tell the rest of his experience in the words in which were to be bills. There were to be "bill
ribo prest.JEAN communicated it to the of sale," "bills of lease," "bills of mortgage,"
Ho sayai "When I was in this state a lady whom and so on. The whole thing was childish and I had never seen came to the hospital and talked. Judicrous. But the second clause roused as much with me. She proved to be s an angel of mercy, for anger as mirth; for it proposed to abolish" all without her I should not now be alive. She told me
Strap Jaws, statutes, ordinances, regulations, &c, of a medicine called Mother Belgol's Ourative whatsoever, relating to land or dealings and brought me bottle next day. I started with with it." This was utterly monstrous; and the it, without consulting the doctors, and in only a few with lawyers set to work to punish the insolent days lime I went out of bed calling for intruder who bad thos rushed in where angels Jay, brankfurt: Pain that any organ and
"I got well fast, and fear to tread, There is no doubt that at the Mother Beigel's great, remedy to come home outset Torrens Intended to make his system, was soon able to leave the compulsory upon all landed transactions in the to Glasgow. I now feel as if I was in another world,
and have no liness of Buy klud. colony, and to be the sole mode of conducting that class of business. Henco this clause was The above facts are calmly and impartially absolutely necessary, and it remains in all the and the reader way, draw his own conclusion." We subsequent modifications of the Act, though its deem it best to uss, no names; Although Mr. Wade meaning has been much changed from the gave them in his original deposition. His address in latention of its author, Bat it ominously re- No. 244, Stoboross Street, Glagow, where letters, sembled Dick the butcher's exclamation: The will regia lím, Brn thing we do let us kill all the lawyers," muldsl.)
stated
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kong Harbour..
LA, BARRETTO, Secretary,
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oo which the SECOND CALL of $50 per Share due 31st July, 1889, is still unpaid, that unlass the said call, with Interest at the rate of 9 le per Annum, be paid to the "Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corporation, or the General Managers at the Co.'s Office, Nex 50 and 538 Queen's Road Central, on or before the 17th May, 1890, the Shares will be liable to be forfeited): MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co.
General Managers,
[610 Hongkong, 24th April, 1890,
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SCHEELE & Co. Sola Agents, No. 16 Stanley Street, Hongkong, and December, 1889.
is hereby given
that an
NOTICTRAORDINARY MEETING of
the SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Registered Office of the above named Company, Queen's Road Central, No. g. Victoria, Hong- kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 7th day of May, 1890, at 4 O'CLOCK in the Afternoon, for the purpose of Confirming the Special Resolution proposed and passed at the last Meeting of the Shareholders held on the 21st instant.
passed at such meeting way be seen on applica
A full and complete copy of the Resolution
tion at the Company's Office.
Dated the 23rd day of April, 189".
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co.,
General Managers. 667].
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE.
HE name of our Firm from this date will be Tanged to PALATER TO TURN
BIRD & PALMER, - Architects and Surveyors.
(699
Hongkong, 1st May, 1890.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
DURING the temporary absence of the
Undersigned Mr. W. J. SAUNDERS will act as Secretary of the Society.
By Order of the Board,
Hongkong, 30th April, 1890.
THE
N. J EDE,
Secretary.
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Taiwanfoo
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HONGKONG, HOTEL,
NOTICE.
R. and Mrs. TUCKER (from the Adelphi
MANAGER and MATRON of the Hotel from this date
By Order of the Board of Directors,
M Hotel, Liverpool) have been appointed
-R. LYALI,
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Hongkong, 29th April, 1890. Secretary
CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION,
No. 31.
HAVE this day handed over charge of this Office and the Kowloon Stations to Mr,
J. MCLEAVY, BROWN, the newly appointed Commissioner of Customs for Kowloon and District.
F. A. MORGAN; / Commissioner of Chinese Customs Custom House, Kowloon, a9th Apríl, 1890.-
HAVE this day assumed charge of this
Office and the Kowloon Stations.
J., MCLEAVY BROWN, Commissioner of Customs, . for Howloon & District,
Custom House, Kowloon, agth April, 1890,.
THE Undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above Company, kre prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE
Current Rates.
·REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 1st July, 1830.
GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE
·ASSURANCE COMPANY IN'
LONDON.
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E Undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above Company, are pre- pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE and LIFE ar Current Rates.
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co., Hongkong, 1st July, 1889,
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INDIAN IMPERIAL MARINE INSURANCE COMPÁNY, LIMITED,
THE
*HE Undersigned having been appointed.
Agents for the shove Cntarany are pre- pared to accept MARINE RISKS at Current Rates.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 5th November, 1889.
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GENEKAL NOTICE.
THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, (LIMITED.)
'CAPITAL
-
TAELS 600,000, $833,333-33- $318,000.00,
EQUAL TO RESERVE FUND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
LO YEUK MOON, Esq. LEE SINO, Esq. LOU TO SHUN, Esq.
MANAGER-HO AMEI.
MARINE RISKS on GOODS, &, taken
at CURRENT RATES to all parts of the -
world
HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 9, PRAYA WEST, Kangkong, 17th December, 1AST.
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THE
NOTICE.
THE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY
LIMITED.
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED.....
.$1,000,000.
The above Company is prepared to accept MARINE TE! at CURRENY RATE; on Gours.
c. Policies granted to all Parts of the world. payable at any of ita Agencies,
WOO LIN YUEN
Secretary,
HEAD OFFICE,
NO. 7, Quie's ROAD WEST, Hengrang, tai February, 1851.
Consignres.
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PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
NOTICE.
CONSIGNEES Cargo ner Steamship
PEKING"
fa
The above Steamer having arrivel, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from along. wide.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
CHAS. D. HARMAN,
• Agent. Hongkong, 30th April, 18go.
*SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
STEAMSHIP "MONMOUTHSHIRE," 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, and
Optional cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before NOON, TO-" DAY. * No Claims will be admitted after the Gooda have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining after the 6th prox, will be subject to rent, e
All claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 6th prox, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance has been effectóð, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by pag ADAMSON, BELL & Co.
Hongkong, soth Aftell, 1899.
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