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even found confirmation of the rumour in the so-called "opening" of the Yangtze river. China, we are asked to believe, is at last to be thrown open to the energy and enterprise of the barbarian who has for decades been knocking at her gates; railways we to unite by a new bond her many-millioned provinces; her mineral re- sources, rich and varied, and as yet unrecked of by the speculator, a:e to be laid bare; and over the vast empire which has so long pined in the darkness of an exclusive and unelastic civilisation an era of progress is about to dawn. We wish that such statements were true, no less for China's sake than for the commercial world at large. We are afraid, however, that it is a dream the full realisation of which at all events is not yet. Nor does the reported opening of the part of Chung-king on the Upper Yangtize mean much.. The Chinese have been very

careful to introduce a condition which really leaves matters much as they were. No steamers, they say, shall ascend the Upper River until steamers of their own lead the way. Just so, and when will that be?

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1890.

bigger they are the better, because they can do all the more work. Te a Chinese there is na more sense of incongruity in marrying a little slip of a boy, simply because he is young and perhaps not more than half the size of his bride, than there would be in playing checkers with buttons, and then crowning the first button that happened to get to the king row What significs whether the button is a small one or a large one since it has reached the last row, and has now a set of moves of its own, n fact which must be recognised by doubling itself. It is not otherwise with the Chinese boy He is a double button, it is true, but he is nothing bat a button still and a small one, and is but an insignificant part of a wide and complicated game. During the celebration of a Chines wedding it does not strike the spectator that the bridegroom is the centre of interest, and the bride

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE the sacrifice. He is to fall upon his knees at a

CHINESE BOY.

ཅན་པར་ར་ན་ཆམ་པོ་ IV.

"

Intimations,

HONGKONG

TRADING CO., LTD.

"LATE THE HALL & HOLTZ CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY, LIMITED.)

10. SUMMER SEASON, 1890.

DEPARTMENT.

TAILORING

Gentlemen's Summer Wear, comprising -

WE Pre row showing a large and varied assortment of HIGH CLASS MATERIALS for Fine Undyed Angola Tweeds, Fancy Striped Washing Cashmeres; Striped and Check-d Flannels, Twill Cashmere Coatings (a speciality),

OUTFITTING Sun Helmets, newest Shapes, Straw Hats, Terai Hats, Leghorn Hats, Canvas Shoes, Russin Leather. Shoes,

Tennis Flannels in all colors, - White and Navy Blue Serges, Cricketing Flannels, &c., &c.

zatímations.

CONTRACTS FOR THE FRENCH SQUADRON.

ENDERS are required for the SUPPLY- :-01 VICTUALS and SUNDRY PROVI

SIONS to the FRENCH MEN-OF-WAR

in this Harbour and at Canton during. the TWO YEARS, to begin on the First of June next.

£

2°-Of COALS to the FRENCH MEN-OF-WAR in this Harbour during ONE YEAR, to begin on the ith inst Specifications, Bills of quantities, and Forms of Tenders can be seen on application to the French Consulate, 10, Wyndham Street, between the hours of 10 A.M. to 12, and from 2 to 4'P.M, daily.

SEPARATE TENDERS FOR: Bathing Drawers, &c., and every requisite | 1°.-Victuals and Sundry Provisions ; ·

for Gentlemen.

B-Conls

DEPARTMENT.

Lisle Thread and Silk Hosiery, Bath Towels,

1890. SUMMER SEASON. 1890.

HONGKONG TRADING CO., LTD. (Late THE HALL & HOLTZ C. Co., Ld.)

Hongkong, 10th May, rigo

Co-day's Advertisements.

is so only for the time being and in consequence of the curiosity which is felt to see what sort of a bargain the family has made in getting ber. The young man is ordered out of the apartment where he has been kept in ambush-according to the customs in some regions-like an ox for ward of command, and Lo't'o with intermitteri sequence to a great variety of persons, until his knees are stiff and his legs lame. His eyes are fixed upon the ground, as if in deepest humility. and the most awkward Chinese youth will per It is no exaggeration to say that there is nothing really intellectual in any part of the early form the details of this trying ordeal with a schooling of an ordinary Chinese boy. As a natural grace, with which the most well- rule the teacher does not concern himself with

bred occidental youth could scarcely. hope to vic and which he assuredly could his pupils, further than to drag them over a specified course, or at least to attempt to do so. not hope to surpass. When the complicated The parents of the lad are equally indifferent, protracted ceremonies are all over, our young or even more so. If the father can himself read, lad is, it is true, a married mat, but be is he remembers that he learned to do so by a long not the 'head' of any family, not even of his own. He is still under the same control of his and thorny rond, and he thinks it natural that his son shr uld traverse it likewise. If he cannot father as before, his bride is under the control of "rend, be recognises the fact that he knows the mother-in-law to a degree which it is difficult nothing at all about the matter, and that it is not for us to comprehend. If the youthful husband his business to interfere. The teacher is hired is trying to learn to compose essays, the mar to teach-let him do it. At home the pupil has riage does not at all interrupt his educational ST. JOHN no mental stimulus of any sort, no books, maga enterprise, and as soon as the ceremonies are over, he goes on just as before. If he is dull; zires or papers, and if he had them, Bis barren studies at school would not have fitted him to com.and cannot make the 'seven empty particles' prehend such literature. The range of characters which he has learned, often very imperfectly, is totally different from those in common use, and largely of no value except as a step to the classics. If the pupil goes on, as a small proportion of them do, after having theoretically mastered the classics, to study Hterary composition, his tasks are far more difficult than before. Chinese composition is an exceedingly intricate study, and requires a highly developed memory, wide acquaintance with the written character, and a patience which must be almost infinite. For those who do not go so far as to learn to com pose, their educ tien may be said to be finished before it is fairly under way. When it is dead and buried, as it not improbably will be within a few years, it might appropriately have carved upon its tomb-stone the epitaph said to have marked the resting place of a still-born infant,

Since so quickly I am done for,

the terror of the inexpert Chinese essayist-fit into his laborious sentences to the satisfaction of his teacher, he is not unlikely to be aver the head for his lack of beaten critical acumen, and can then go weeping home to have his wife stick a black gummy plaster over the area of his chastisement. Wi have known a Chinese boy who had the dropsy in an aggravated form but who could not be persuaded to take a single dose of medicine that was at all bitter. If he was pressed to do so by his fond mother, he either rowed,' or cried If he was not allowed to eat two whole water melon's at a time his tactica were the same, a domestic scene either of violent temper, or dismal howling grief. He was merely prolonging into youth the plan universally adopted in the childhood of Chinese children. Yet this sensitive infant of seventeen had been married for several years, and leaves a widow to mourn the circum. stance that drugs, drops, and water-melons, have blighted her 'existence.

I wonder what I was begun for, Considering the utter juicelessness of his studies, which are not inaptly compared to The Chinese boy generally learns well two 'gnawing a wooden pear," it is by no means valuable lessons, and the thoroughness with singular that the great majority of pupils when which they are mastered does much to atone for they leave school, cast aside all their little stock the great defects of his training in other regards. of learning, as a worn-out pair of shoes belonging He learns obedience and respect for authority, to their carly days, but of no subsequent value, and he learns to be industrious. In most cases Notwithstanding the vast number of books in the the latter quality is the condition of his continued lists of Chinese literature, there are very few existence, and those who refuse to submit to the which are popularly available. The books to be inexorable law, are disposed of by that law, to the great advantage of the survivors, But of found in an average Chinese house, albeit some of the inmates can read,' are generally scant in intellectual i dependence he has not the faintest number, and limited in range-perhaps the one concepilon, or even a capacity of compreben. He does as others do, and neither most sure to have been read is the historical sion. novel called the Three Kingdoms. But knows nor can imagine any other way. If the style and the characters are alike far beyond he is educated,' his mind is like a sub. the capacity of most lads who have had only soil pipe, filled with all the drainage which five or six years of schooling. The cheap little has ever run through the ground. A part of this books which are everywhere sold, are full of false drainage originally came, it is true, from the characters, badly printed, and so difficult to skies, but it has been considerably altered in its comprehend for a boy with but a limited know. constituents since that time; and a much larger ledge, that they might as well be written in part is a wholly human secretion, painfully lack. Egyptian hieroglyphics. The practical resulting in chemical purity, In any case this is the is that the whole education of a vast number of content of his mind, and it is all of its contents. Chinese boys has the same relation to their I, on the other hand, the Chinese youth is un- subsequent life, as a familiarity with the 'tones educated, his mind is like an open ditch, partly of the Greek language, has to the business vacant, and partly full of whatever is flowing or Career of the man who has graduated from blowing over the surface. He is not indeed an English university., Ten years from Oxford, destitute of humility, in fact, he has a most what signifies it (to any one but a professor depressing amount of it. He knows that he of Greek) that "in the genitive plural of the knows nothing, that he never did, never shall first declension of Greek nouns, the final syllable never can know anything, and also that is circumflexed, but that feminine adjectives' and it makes very little difference what he knows. participles in ore on are accented like the geni-He has a blind respect for learning, but no idea tive masculine, but other feminine adjectives and participles are perispomena in the genitive plural, and that chrestes, aphne, efestal and chloures in the genitive plural remain paroxy. tones?" Happily there are other items in the liberal education of an English student which will probably abide with him, while in the case of a vast multitude of Chinese lads, almost the whole of what they have with such incredible labour acquired, will vanish like the morning cloud and the early dew, and like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a mark behind.

of gathering any crumbs, thereal for himself. The long, broad black and hopeless abadow of Confucianism is over him. It means a high degree of intellectual cultivation for the few, who are necessarily narrow and often bigoted, and for the many it means a lifetime of intellectual stagnation. Measured by what it has totally failed to do, when it might and abould have done it, we charge Confucianism with being intellectually one of the most elaborate, compendious, and far-reaching failures which has ever wrought out its ultimate results upon this distracted earth 1-N. C. Daily News.

TIENTSIN.

3rd May, 1890. The Chevalier Pausa, Italian Minister to Chins, has arrived here, an routs to Peking,

The Pelho river is, if anything, worse." The grain junks, about go of which have arrived, cannot pass up. One or two have succeeded in getting to, the Tientsin Reach, but have failed as yet to come further.

The Board of Revenue are reported to have granted Chang Chih-tung, Viceroy of the Hu Kuang, an appropriation of two million taels for the development of Iron Works in Hupel. This looks like business, and it ought to make the Viceregal Court as attractive ar`a hogshead of treacle to a swarm of wasps.

A fire broke out on Saturday night last in a

tin worker's shop just off the Fellung Road. The Customs and Municipal engines were quickly on the spot and soon had the freunder. There was

LODGE

OF HONGKONG,

No. 618, S.C.

REGULAR MEETING of the above LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS HAL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, the 13th instant, at 8 for 8.30 O'CLOCK precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.

Hongkong, 13th May, 1890.

ZETLAND

No. 524

(736

LODGE,

Masonic,

PERSEVERANCE

[35

LODGE OF

HONGKONG, No. 1165.

A REGULAR MEETING of the above LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, on FRIDAY, the 16th inst., at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely. Hongkong, 9th May, 1890.

Intimations.

THE EAST BORNEO PLANTING

COMPANY, LIMITED.

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be sent under sealed covers on or before THURSDAY, the 15th init, at 9 A.M., to the' French Consulate.

The Consul for France, G. GUEYRAUD. Hongkong, rath May, 1800.

$75!

HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,

KWOON KWAN YEEN · CHALLENGE CUPS.

HE Second Stage of the oth Competition

will take place on SATURDAY next, the 17th May, at 3 p.m. To commence at the 700 rards range. Entrance Fee 30 cents.

A Launch will leave the P. & O. Wharf at 2.45 PM., to take over Competitors.

C. VIVIAN LADDS,

Hoo. Secretary, Hongkong, 12th May, 1890

THE

NOTICE

185

HE DENTAL PRACTICE, heretalare carried on in Hongkong under the style of Drs.

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instructions

to Sell by Public Auction,"

...TO-MORROW,

the 14th May, 1890, at 12 O'CLOCK sharp, at their Sale-rooms, No. 68, Queen's Road Central,

A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

comprising of: CRETONNE COVERED DRAWING ROOM SUITE, BLACKWOOD CARVED TABLES, WARDROBES, CHIMNEY GLASSES, TEAKWOOD EXTENSION. DINING TABLE, SIDEBOARD, WHAT- NOTS, Double IRON BEDSTEADS with Spring MATTRESS, CHEST of DRAWERS, Marble-top WASHING STAND, Marble-top TABLES, WRITING DESK, LOOKING GLASS, &c., &c., &C.

AND A'QUANTITY OF BREAKFAST SERVICES, INKSTANDS, BELLS and SUNDRY CROCKERY WARE.

TERMS OF SALE-Cash on delivery.

APCAR BROTHERS, Auctioneers

Hongkong, 9th May, 1890,

Consignees,

1741

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG, AND

SINGAPORE. ONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship

." JAPAN"

are hereby informed that their goods are being landed at their risk into the Hongkong and Kow- loon Wharf and Godown. Company's Godowns at West Point, whence delivery may be obtained.

Cargo remaining·andelivered after the 18th inst., will be subject to rent, ance has been effected.

No Fire Insur

Consignees are hereby informed, that all claims must be made immediately, as none will be entertained after the 19th inst..

̈ ̈ ̈Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co., Agents. Hongkong, rath May, 1890. "5 OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAM- SHIP COMPANY.

NOTICE.

AN EMERGENCY MEETING of the above NOTICE is hereby given to Holders of WINN and KIMBALI, has this day been trans-ONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship

LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS'

Shares in the above Company on which

CALLS are still unpaid, that unless said Calls

Dr. KIMBALL has the utmost confidence in ferred to Drs. PERKINS and IVY of Shanghai.

1st May, 1890.

HALI, Zetland Street, on TUESDAY NEXT, the zoth instant, at 5 for 5.30 PM precisely with Interest at the rate of taper annumrecommending his successors. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.

Hongkong, 13th May, 1890

from the due dates are paid on or before the (757 15th day of May next, at the Company's Offices, 6. Ice House Lane, the Shares in respect of which such calls were made will be liable to be forfeited, and under the provisions of Article X. Subsection VIII. of the Articles of Association, the Board will pass the necessary resolutions for the forfeiture of the said Shares.

THE CHINA SHIPPERS MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION, COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, FROM LONDON, LIVERPOOL, AND

SINGAPORE.

THE Company's Steamship

"KAISOW"

having arrived from the above Ports, Consigners of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, are being landed at their risk, into the Godowns, of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, West Point, whence delivery may be obtained.

·GIBB, ·LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 28th April, tägo,

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SOCIETE FERMIERE DE, L'OPIUM AU TONKIN, SOCIETE ANONYME.

CAPITAL

................................1,440,000 FRANCS.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods CHAREHOLDERS are hereby informed that have left the Godowns, and all claims must be after the toth instant, the INTEREST sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before and DIVIDEND WARRANTS for the year NOON, on the rgth instant, or they will not be 18'9 will only be payable at the Company's

recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 19th inst., at 4 P.M.

Head Office' at Hanoi.

1501"

R. DE ST. MATHURIN, Managing Director.

No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 19th HONGKONG HIGH LEVEL TRAMWAYS inst., will be subject to rent.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before. 10 a.m., TO-DAY, the 13th inst.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.

Agents. Hongkong, 13th May, 1890.

[751 THE CHINA SHIPPERS' MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

~HE Company's Steamship

"KAISOW,"

Geo. L. Castle, Commander, will be despatched for the above Ports, TO-MORROW, the 14th inst, at 9 A.M.

For Freight, apply to

ARNHÖLD, KARBERG & Co.,

Agents.

(733 Hongkong 13th May, 1800

DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP 'COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW, AMOY, &, TAIWANFOO. THE Company's Steamship

"THALES,"

Captain Hunter, will be despatched for the above Ports, on THURSDAY, the 15th (ostant, at 11 AM.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 13th May, 1890.

F753

STEAM TO STRAITS AND BOMBAY, (Calling at Colombo if sufficient inducement offers). THE P. & 0. S. N. Co,'s Steamship

"THIBET"

THE

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There is one incident in the life of the Chinese lad which assumes in his eyes some degree of importance, to which meat occidental boys are strangers. This is the ceremony of donning the cap, in other words of becoming a man and his mariage. The age at which this takes place is far from being a fixed one, but is often in the vicinity of sixteen. The customs observed doubtless vary, but in rural districts they frequently consist in nothing more exciting than the playing by a band of music fo the evening before his marriage, and a visit on the part of the young man to each house in the village where be makes his prostration, much as at the New Year, and is bence- forth to be considered a full-grown man, and is protected to some extent from snubs because he is only a child. The more conspicuous part of the affair, however, is the wedding. This proceeding is based upon principles so radically different from those to which we are accustomed that it is generally hard for a Westerner to become reconciled either

will leave for the above places, on FRIDAY, the to the Chinese theory or to the practice. To us, a fresh wind blowing at the time, and great 23rd last, at DAYLIGHT. marriage seems suitable for persons who bave damage would have been done had the fire

E. L. WOODIN, attained, not merely years of puberty, bet a got been promptly extinguished. For some

Superintendent.: ; certain maturity of development, compatible with few years the formation of a properly Hongkong, 13th May, 1890. the new relations which they now manome. We equipped fire brigade bas been among regard the man and wife as the basis and centre various suggestions put forward by the EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP of a new family. and there is ancient and moving spirits. In the settlement, and now

COMPANY. LIMITED. adéquate authority for the doctrine that that buildings are multiplying and residents they should leave, father and mother. In project overflowing the borders, the formation China it is altogether otherwise. The toy and of such a body would be an indication, if nothing girl who are married are not a new family, but else, of the advance in the direction of uillita the latest branch in a tall family tree, indepen- rianism, more of which perhaps might be taken dent of which they have no corporate existence, up into life in the East without detriment either well It is by no means uncommon for boys to be public or personal. The settlement, married at the age of ten, although this is served by the natives under the direction of the regarded as a trifle prema ure. The physic), inspector of police and the Customs, but it Intellectual, or moral development of the parties would be infinitely better if the residents would Captain Craig, will be despatched for the concerned has nothing whatever to do with the take the matter into their own hands.-Chinese above Ports, on MONDAY, the 26th instant, at matter of their marriage, which is an affair Times.

For Freight or Passage, apply to controlled by wholly different considerations. Sometimes it is hastened because an old grand- THE great valce of Scott's Emulsion of Pure mother is in feeble bealth and insists upon see. Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites in Wasting ing the main business of life done up before she Discases is shown by the accompanying state- is called away. Sametimes the ran'ive is to mest from D. C. Freeman, Sydney, Aust, 2 settle the division of a piece of property so that "Having been a great sufferer from pulmonary It shall be impossible for the elder heirs to retreat from the settlement. Quite as often the two years, it affords me great pleasure to testify attacks and gradually wasting away for the past real motive for hastening the wedding is the that the above medicine has given me great need felt in the boy's fami.y of an additional relief, and cheerfully recommend it to all suffering servant, which need will be supplied by the in a similar way to myself. In addition I would Introduction of a new bride. It is for this reason..say that it is very pleasant to take." Any Chemist that so many Chinese women are older than can supply it-A, S. Watea & Co. (Lid.), the'r husbanda When they are betrothed, the agents in Hongkong and China,-[Advi,

FOR SYDNEY, MELBOURNE AND * ADELAIDE. Calling at PORT DARWIN and QUEENSLAND PORTS, and taking through Cargo to New!

ZEALAND, TASMANIA, &C.) THE Steamship

4 P.LL

**MENMUIR,?

GAE RUSSELL & Co.,

Hongkong, 13th May, 1890.

[756 HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING

CORPORATION. A

More London has this day resumed. the R. THOMAS JACKSON baying arrived Chiel Management of the Bank,

By Order of the Court of Directors,

COWADE GARDNER,

Acting" Chief Manager.

Hongkong 13th May, 1890,

1754

NOT

COMPANY, LIMITED.

TOTICE is hereby given to Holders of Shares in the above Company bearing the following numbers ;-

1

· 484, 511/520, 561/565. 571/580, 611/620 68/690, 771/785, 791/810, 961/990, .. 1021/1040, 1071/100, 1111/1415, 1121/1135, 1186/119% 1206/1210, 1225/1226 and 1229/1230,

on which the SECOND CALL of $50 per Share dae 31st July, 1889, is still unpaid, that unless the said call, with Interest at the fate of per Annum, be paid to the Hongkong" and Shanghai Banking Corporation, or the General Managers at the Co.'s Office, Nos. 50 and 53, Queen's Road Central, on or before the 17th May, 1890, the Shares will be liable to be forfeited.

MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co.,

General Managers, Hongkong, 24th April, 1890.

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W. S. MARTEN,

ARTISTIC DECORATOR,

2, DUDDELL STREET,

HONGKONG,

Hongkong, 9th Apill, 1890,

A

CARBOLÍNEUM ÁVENARIUS,

(REGISTERED),

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DRS. PERKINS & IVY, DENTAL SURGEONS, (Successors to Drs. Winn & Kimball), No. 16, Bank Buildinga, Hongkong.

\FFICE HOURS from 9 to 1 and 2 to 5.

Shanghal Office No. 1, Kinkiang Road. Hongkong, 8th May, 1890.

1732

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. NOTICE ORDINAY

TOTICE is hereby given that A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of

this Company will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the grst day of May next, at noon, for the purpose of considering, and, if approved, of passing the following Resolu tions:

-That the Capital of the Hongkong and. Shanghai Banking Corporation be increased 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 £42 10s, Eastern Shareholders to pay for their allotments at the current rate of the day for Demand Bills on London.

--That the said New Shares be in the first in stance, in such manner as the Directors shali prescribe for that purpose, offered to the Shareholders in the proportion of one New Share for every three Shares of which on the 31st May, 1890, they shall respectively be the Registered Holders, and that'any New Shares not 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 as in their discretion they shall think best in the Interest of the Com. pany.

3--That payment of the sum of £42 10s. per share for each of the said New Shares be › made as follows, viz :—

11

$1

410 12s. 6d. on the 30th day of June, · 1890 ZIO 12s. 6d. '0 30th Sept, LIO 125, 6d.

318

DeG to 328, 6d.

31st "March, 191 4-That the Directors issue to Shareholders bolding shares not a multiple of Three a Fractional certificate in respect of each abaré in excess of or below such multiple, and allot one new share to every person who shall produce three such Fractional Certi- ficares on or before the 30th June, 1890, and pay 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 instal 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,

N ANTISEPTIC PAINT, for the Preserva

tion of Wood, Walls, Ropes and. Ship's Tackle. May be applied to: Beams.Floors, Wains- coting, Wooden Orgaments, Eaves,. Rools, Wooden Sheds, Farmer's and Gardeners Imple-. ments, Carts, Fosts, Fences, Stables, Gates, Bridges, Boats, and all Timber, underground, vi

Effectually excludes all dampness from walls painted with it and entirely prevents the crim. bling away and decay of both stone, and bricks.: 6 White ants do not touch wood painted with Carbolineum Avenaríus, GA MORAT

Used during the last 14 years with the utmost success, as proved by numerous Testimonials of living authoriiles.

Sold in casks of about 450 lbs. net, Price 8 cents per lb...

For further, particulars, apply to

SCHEELE & Co., ~~ | Hole Agents,

" OCEANIC" The above Steamer, having arrived, 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. side.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

CHAS, D. HARMAN,

Agent.

Hongkong, 8th May, 1890

Insurances.

THREE IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT THE

LIFE OFFICE

STANDARD

3.

HALF A MILLION STEERING

annum is being paid in Death claims year by year."

THE FUNDS IN HAND amount to up

wards of Six Million and Three-quarter pounds Sterling and have increased so per cent, in the last 15 years. THE LIVES who die are annually replaced by more than double the number of fresh carefully selected lives,

810-31

ADAMSON, BELL & Co., Agents, Hongkong. ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.

THE Undersigned, having been appointed Agents for the above Company, are pre- pared to ACCEPT RISKS against, FIRE at Current Rates.

EDUARD SCHELLHASS & Co.,

Agents, Hongkong, 12th April, 1800.

[599 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF 1877

IN HAMBURG,

HE Undersigned having been appolated THE

Agents for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 1st July, 1889.

GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE

ASSURANCE COMPANY IN

LONDON.

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gents for the above Company, are pre- “HE Undersigned having been appointed pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE and LIFE at Current Rates,

REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO157.

Honglang, 1st July, 1889.

THE

INDIAN

·IMPERIAL "MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

HE

Undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above Company are pre- pared to accept MARINE RISKS at Current

Rates.

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co.

[25 Hongkong, 5th November, 1889.

GENERAL NOTICE.

THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY,

(LIMITED.}.

CAPITAL

That interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum (fres of income tax) be allowed out of the profits of the Company on all instal ments paid in advance of the date when the same become due and that from the 30th June, 1890, Holders of Scrip Certificates be... "BOARD OF DIRECTORS. entitled to participate in future dividends, LK SING, Esq.

TAELS 600,000, $833,333-33- EQUAL TO ........................................ RESERVE FUND $318,000,00

other

· Lo Yryk Moon, Esq.

In proportion to the amount of lustalments Lou TSO SHUN, Esq. T paid up on an equality with the Shareholders of the Company. That interest at the rate of 8 per cent, per

MANAGER-HO AMEI,

"ARINE RISKS on GOODS, &c., taken

Makes med No. 16, Stanley Street: annum, be charged on every instalment at CURRENT, RATES to all parts of the

Hongkong, and December, 1889

* CAPTAIN GEORGE TAFLOR,

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which shall not be punctually paid, and be Spáld'with such instalmente, 8-That all moneys received from premiums oI

thesaid New Shares be added to the Reserve Funds..

FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

- WADE GARDINER,

Acting Chief Manager. Hongkong, and April, 1890,^N

POWERS,e?

Nagasaki,

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PERO NOTICE

Hongkong, 8th April, 18907;

HONGKONG TIMBER

YARD WANCHAL.

REGON PINE, SPARSE and LUMBER.

ADOLPH

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world.

HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 9, PRAYA WEST, Hongkong, er7th December, 'TR&G, f1001

NOTICE.

"HE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY

LIMITED.

CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED....,

The above: Company is prepared to accept MARINE Risks at CURRANT RATES on Goods,

NY Debts Contracted by any Member of | &c. Policies granted to all Parts of the world

Crew of Ship "JOSEPH H. SCAM payable at any of its Agencies, dis MELLA Captain BOLT or ship will not be RESPONSIBLE.ANDA Ademekt

TEL. MALLORY, Hongkong 24th June 1881;.-

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Hongkong, 9th May, 1890

THOS. BOLT

Master

WOO LIN YUEN!

Secretary,

HEAD OFFICE;"

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Hongkong, 1st February, 1882.