company disposed of, be received and adopted.",
Carried unanimously.
Mr. H. J. Such proposed, and Mr. John Waller seconded-
That the books, accounts and documents of this Company and of the liquidators thereof, be handed over to the new companý.
Carried unanimously.
This concluded the business of the meefing, and the proceedings then terminated.—Mercury.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF
A CHINESE GIRL.
PREFACE.
If the proper study of mankind is man, the subject of the following pages must be of interest to every one who enquires into the forces which have moulded Chinese society in the past, and which regulate it at present. The observations upon which the conclusions are based have been largely, although not exclusively; taken in the northern part of the empire. The Chinese people, however, are in such an important sense a uoil, that differences in custom resemble those local variations of the compass, which, once understood and allowed for, serve but to confirm what they at first appear to contradict.
That all renders will agree with the conclusions reached, is not to be expected, but if conducted in a spitit of candgur the consideration of the question as to what causes the present condition of Chinese society is due, cannot fail to be beneficial, whatever theories may ultimately be either established or overthrown.
The conviction constaully grows upon those who have most opportunity to know them, that the Chinese are physically and intellectually among the foremost races of the earth. Their moral nature has, however, received but a one- sided development. They have had in large measure that" good "which has been pronounced to be the worst enemy of the "best" Many of the results which have been attained are of higher order of excellence, but these good results are uniformly accompanied by others to which it is our present object to direct attention."
The moral forces which have produced in China'many good fruits, and some bad ones, have long since ceased to exercise any developing pawer. Chinese society will never become what it might be, or what it ought to be, except by the infusion of a new life from without and from above.
Sons shall be boin to him; they will be put to sleep on couches They will beclothed in robes; they will have sceptres to play with: Their cry will be loud,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1890.
child marriages, which lead to so much wretched. ness in India. In some instances the relations with the family of the girl are wholly broken off, when she is taken for a "rearing-marriage, and in all cases it is regarded as a conf aston al poverty and weakness, which places the girl's family at much more than their usual "dis advantage, at best sufficiently great. When a girl is brought up in the family the son of which is to become her future husband, it is of course wholly out of the question that the parties should not have the fullest opportunities to became acquainted with each other's disposition, however they may be forbidden by usage to speak to one another. There is and can be very little senti- ment about Chinese "matches," but anything which tends to make the parties to one of these "matches" better able to adapt themselves to the inevitable friction of after life, cannot fail to have its advantages. Whether the parties to a "rearing-marriage" are, or are not, on the whole happier than those married in the ordinary way, is a question which no Chinese would be likely to ask, for the reason that he has no associations connecting marriage with happiness, but rather the reverse, and if the question is proposed by a foreigner, he is not likely to be made much the wiser by the replies which he receives.
The practice of binding the feet of Chinese girls is familiar to al who have the smallest knowledge of China, and requires but the barest mention. It is almost universal" throughout Chinn, yet with some conspicuous exceptions, a among the Hakkas of the south, an exception for which it is not easy to account. The custom forcibly illustrates some of the innate traits of Chinese character, especially the readiness to, endure great and prolonged suffering in auain. ing to a standard, merely for the sake of appear anccs. There is no other non-religious custom peculiar to, the Chinese which so utterly opposed to the natural instincts of mankind, and yet which is at the same time so dear to the them, and which would be given up with more reluctance,
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(Late THE HALL & HOLTZ C, Co., Lạ);
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The summer rains commenced on the 25th with a series of moderate showers, brought up by a south-east wind which prevailed for several days previously,
The Chinese authorities were so slow in issuing the warrants for the arrest of those con cerned in the fracas which resulted in the death of a junkman, which wereported last week, that not one of the offenders can now be found. The men got wind of the serious turn matters had taken, so escaped down the river in one of the tugs to Hsin-si-ku, and easing valves that the boiler could blow off, left the tug to look after itself, took to the country, and have not since been seen. The nature of Chinese law is such that the whole crews of pre tug and two lighters have decamped, for although all are not concerned, they were near enough to the affair to be iniplicated, and rather than brave the uncertainties of the so-called law, have sought safely in flight
With the humdrum routine of her life at home, ↑ Hiji of the Shanghai Office, and Woo Nan-kao, the occasio, al visits to relatives, and now and the Assistant Director, will probably be appointed then a large fair or a theatrical exbibition, the to succeed the Manngets. Chinese girl grows to be what we should call a young school-girl," by which tinic all her friends begin to be very uneasy about her. This uneasiness, we need scarcely-remark, has hot the smallest connection with her intellectual
There is much sickness among the natives, It is well known that the greatest emperor nature, which, so far as any culture which it cwing to the extreme heat of the day, and the who ever sat upon the throne of China dared not
receives is concerned, might as well be non-surden chill of the night; children especially risk his authority in an attempt to put down this existent. Unless her father happens to be a suffering from summer diarrhoea and malarial custom, although his father had successfully school master, and at home with nothing to do, fever. imposed upon the Chinese race the wearing of he never thinks of teaching his daughter to read. the queue as a badge of subjection. A quarter Even in the care of boys, this would be of a millcanium of Tartar rule seems to have exceptional and irregular, but in the case of girls done absolutely nothing towards modifying it is felt to be preposterous. And why ? asks the practice of foot-binding, in favour of the the incredulous foreigner. It will take the There is a familar passage in one of the more rational one of the governing race, except | average Chinese a long time to get at the oldest Chinese classics, the Book of Oden, which, to a limited extent in the capital, Itself. But a nature of his objection, stripped of superfluous in describing the palace of an ancient king, few is away from Peking, the old habits hold verbiage, and when he does so he will shows in a striking light the relativa estimation their iron sway, and unless some powerful force not have stated the whole of the case, 'nor at that remote time put upon boys and upon from without should be brought to bear, will aph ve gone to the root of the matter. The real girls. After speaking of the dreams of the king,parently continus to do so until the end of lime, difficulty is, that to educate a girl is like weeding the poet adds a couple of stanzas, which, The observations which may be made with the field of some other mas. It is like putting according to Dr. Legge's translation, are as regard to the industry of Chinese boys, are a gold chain arcun the neck of some one else's follows
equally applicable mutatis mutandis-to puppy, which may at any moment be whistled Chinese girls. In all lands ́And in all climes, off, and then what has become of the chain? It "woman's work is never done" and this is is a proverbially mean man in China, who, when most especially true of China, wheic machinery, manjing bis daughter, wants to be paid for the has not yet expelled the primitive processes of food he has wasted upon her up to the date of what is literally manufacture, or work by the marriage. But the expression illustrates clearly hand. The care of silk-worms, and the picking, one of the underlying assumptions of Chinese spinning, and weaving of coilon, are largely society, that it is the body of the girl for the labour of women, to which the gili arc which the parents are responsible, and not the introduced at a very early age. The sewing for mind. To almost any Chinese, it wou'd pro- a Chinese family is a serious matter, especially bably appear a self-evident proposi ion that to as the number of families who can afford to hire spend time, strength, and much more money in help in this line is a very trifling proportion, educating the daughter-in-law of some one else is But aside from this employment, in which a a sheer waste, But, you say to him, she is your Chinese girl who expects to be acceptable to the daghter. "Not after she is married," he family of her mother-in-law must be expert, girls replies " "she is theirs, let them educate her can also be made useful in almost any lire of themselves if they want her educated." home work to which the father may be devoted. Why should I tech-her-how-to-read-write In the country districts all over the empire, boys and reckon, when it will never do me any good?" and girls alike are sent out to scratch logether With which utilitarian inquiry, the education of as much fuel as possible, for the prepara-
most Chinese girls has been hanished from tion of the food, and this continues in the human thought for the space of some millen case of the girls until they are too large to go alums.—N. C. Daily News. any distance from home. It is not an unmeaning
(To be continued). appellation, which is given to girls generally, that of ya-t'ou, 'et 'slave-girl," used just as we should say "daughter" To a foreigner, this
TIENTSIN. sounds much like the term "nigger," appiled to black men, but to the Chinese there is a fitness in the designation, which they refuse to surrender.
They will be thereafter) resplendent with red knes-covers, The future) king, the princes of the land, Daughers will be born to him. They will be put to sleep on the
stound: They will be clothed with unppen; they ulli hava tiles to play
with.
wile theirs neither to da wrong or to do good. Only but the splits and the food will they have to think And to cause no sarray to their parents.
The Chinese are as practical a people, as ever had a national existence, and we know of no reason to suppose that the Chinese ever had the least doubt that a substantial equality of the sexes in point of numbers is a condition of the continued propagation of the race, Certainly no race was ever more careful to keep itself propagated, or has ever met with greater success in the undertaking. How happens it, then, that the Chinese are almost the only people boasting an ancient and developed civilisation, who despise their own daughters who are married into the families of others, and are by that process lost to their own; and because according to ancient custom they can offer no sucrifices for their parents, when the latter are dead ? It is for this reason that the popular saying declares, that the most ideally excellent daughter (literally a daughter with the virtues of the eighteen Lo-hans) is not equal to a spiny-footed son. This senti ment is endorsed by all Chinese, consciously and unconsciously, in a manner to show that it la inwoven in the very fibres of their being. Its ultimate root is the same as that of so many other human opinions, pure selfishness.
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25th June, 1890. The long prayed for rain bas come at last. Ever since daylight it has been descending in sheets on the parched soil, cheering the hopes of the farmer and cooling the sultry air. It does not give much promise of continuance though. for the sky is already clearing, and a high wind is springing up from the wrong quarter, and if it holds, the grateful showers will be over in an hour or two.
officials to
With the exception of such limited "trips" as she may have been able to make in early child hood, and occasional visits to relatives, meat Chinese girls never go anywhere, to speak of, and live what is literally the existence of a frog in a well. Tens of thousands of them have never been two miles away from the village in which they happened to be born, with the occasional
In accordance with the Instructions issued exception of the visit to the mother's family just mentioned, where they are not improbably recently to Governors General and Governors regarded as terrible beings who cannot be of provinces, 1 Hung-chang has sent out exterminated, but who are to be as much as
inspec! the various mining possible repressed. If the pieces, on the mother's districts in the south-west of his province, side, are numerous, as is often the case, there is Shun Ti-foo and Kwan Ping-foo. The work some reason for dread of the visits, on the parting in the latter district known as the Tre Chow Mines, have been found the best, giving of the bread-winners, for no Chinese mother can be dissociated from her fock of children, whose promise of rich stores of coal and fron. They appetites are invariably several horse-power are within easy reach of fine water highway, strong, and who, like their elders, are all and the railway, if built either to Hupeh or excessively fond of enjoying "the rate and in- Klangsi, will run close to them. The value of effable pleasure of eating at somebody else's the mines is vouched for by auch bigh authorities as Baron Richthoven, Mr. James Henderson and others equally reliable, and His Excellency entertains very sanguine anticipations of their successful working." The only weak point in the proposed operations is the scarcity of the necessary capital. The Chinese are mid of investing their savings, and foreignerswot toach it, unless the sole management of the concern is guaranteed them. However, 14 is just" now negotiating with a foreign firm on the subject, and it is expected that some arrange ment will be come to, for the authorities at Peking do not seem very hostile to the idea of the mines being worked under foreign manage, ment,
The Chinese girl when she makes her first appearance in the world is very likely to be un- welcome, though this is by no means invariably the case. The ratio in which fortune-tellers allot happiness is generally about five sons to two daughters, Whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.” With theories like those of the Chinese about the unavailability of daughters for the performance of ancestral rites, and with the Chinese nature as it is, it is not to be wondered at that the great pressure of poverty leads to the crime of infanticide upon an enormous scale. For aught that appears, this has always been the case. It is not that the Chinese conscience does not recognise the murder of girl babies as wrong, but that the temptation to such murder, especially the temptation to the disappointed | expense." and often abused mother, is too strong to be It is when the married daughters of a large resisted by any motives which have the oppor- family have all returned to their parents to spend tunity to act upon her. Much has already been a few days of weeks, that the most dramatic done by those who have had most opportunity scenta of childhood' occur. Self-control and to learn the facts, toward exhibiting the real unselfishness have not been a feature in the practice of the Chinese in the matter of destroy- culture of any one of the numerous cousins thus Ing female infants. Yet no more can be safely brought together in a cluster, which frequently predicated than that this is a crime which to some resembles those on the inside of a bec-hive. extent everywhere prevails, and in some places Each of the young generation has the keenest. to such a degree as seriously to affect the pro-instinct for getting as much of the beat of what portion of the sexes. It seems to be most com- is to be had, as any one else, and if possible mon in the marine provinces of the southern more. This leads to occasional "scenes of con- part of China, in some districts of which it is by fusion, and creature complaints," in which each the Chinese themselves regarded as a terrible small participant publishes his or her version of and a threatening evil. Native tract societies the particular squabble in question in acrid tones,
It would seem as if all the obstacles but the publish books exhorting the people against the which soon summon the whole establishment
question of capital, had been removed from the practice, and magistrates occasionally issue pro to the scene of action. Judicious parents fulfilment of the railway scheme at Peking, and clamations forbidding it. But it is evident that would punish the children all round for their even now there loomis up a prospect of the the nature of the offence is such that no laws complicity in such # quarrel,
which is collapse of that even. It is expected that a it, and nothing short of the elevation most often based upon alleged or sup State loan of 20 or 30 millions of Taels will can touch of the mothers themselves to a far higher polat posed inequalities in distribution of food, be issued for the purpose of bringing the scheme of wew. than they now occupy, can have any But Chinese parents are seldom judicious, and to a head. Tenders on various bases have been permanent effect upon Chinese female infanticide, the most that can be expected is that the mother sent in, but no decision has so far been arrived Next to the destruction of the lives of female will call off her child or children, and “ yell " at ii, infants, the Chinese practice most revolting to or them. “Yelling" at a person is the act of
"The Tientsin waterworks scheme has been our western ideas, is the sale of their daughters proclaiming in a loud and piercing voice the rejected by Li Hung-chang.-Shanghaj. Mitm at all periods, from infancy up to a marriageable disapprobation on the part of the yaller” of fury, age. The usages of different parts of the empire the conduct of the "yelles," often accompanied
28th June, 1890. vary widely, but the sale of girls, like infanticide, by seviling language, and frequently also with promises to beat" and "kill the said "yelles"
of the tour most in the maritime provinces of the south, where it is conducted as openly as | in the event of further provocation. These
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We understand that an appeal to the Shanghai Famine Committee to assist the Chinese, whose letter we pablished last week, has been promptly responded to and that a sum of Tis. 3,000 will be sent to Shantung in charge of some missionary volunteer, to be applied to the relief of the destitute, in co-operation with Mr. Chin, and his friends,Chinese Times.
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To-dup's Advertisements.
PUBLIC AUCTION
or
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PIANO, &c.
HE Undersigned has received instructions To Sell by Public Auction; sh
SATURDAY,
the rath July, 1890, commencing at 2.30 pimi at his Sale-Rooms, Duddell Street,
Intimations.
W. S. MARTEN,
ARTISTIC DECORATOR,
AND
HOUSE AND EState Agent, 2, DUDDELL STREET,
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, 6th April, 1890.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
*574
the property of gentlemen leaving the Colony intends shortly to publish a Register
A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c.,
Comprising: ROMAN SATIN COVERED DRAWING ROOM SUITE, MARBLE-TOP & CENTER TABLES, PICTURES, CURTAINS, FEN. DERS, with BRASS RAILS, FIRE DRASSES COTTAGE PIANO, etc, TREADLE SEW. ING MACHINE. by WILCOX & GIBB, etc SIDE- DINING TABLE and CHAIRS, BOARD, CHEFFONIERS, CROCKERY GLASS, and PLATED WARE, CUILERY, LAMPS, etc.. DOUBLE IRON BEDSTEAD and SPRING MATTRESS, MARBLE-TOP WASHING STANDS. DRESSING TABLES, CHEST of DRAWERS, WARDROBES, COUCHES, BRONZE, CURTAINS, CAR. PETS, BOOKCASE, BOOKS.
&c.
Bay
&c. The above will be on view on Friday, hext p.m.
TERMS OF SALZ.-As customary.
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G. R. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
SHIP COMPANY.
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Hongkong, 8th July, 1890. OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAM. TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, THE UNITED STATES, MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, AND
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THE OVERLAND RAILWAYS,
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STEAMERS.
ATLANTIC AND OTHER CONNECTIN
THE Steinship
"OCEANIC". will be despatched for San Francisco, vis Yokokams, on THURSDAY, the 31st July, at 1 F.M.
Connection will be made at Yokohama 'with Steamers from Shanghai and Japan Porta.
AJ PARCEL, PACKADES should be marked te address in full; and the same will be received al the Company's Office until Fryx 27.M. the day previous to salfing.
First-class Fares granted as follows To San Francisco......
.....$225.00 To San Francisco and return,
393.75 available for 6 months....... To Liverpool...is..................
****** 325,00 To London,
330.00 To other Buropean Points at proportionate rates. Special reduced rates granted to Officers of the Army, Navy, Cl Service and the Imperial Chinese Customis, to be obtained on application.
Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hyp phosphites, is a combination of two most
"Passengers by this line have the option of valuable remedies, in a palatable and easily proceeding Overland by the Southern Pacific digested from, having great healing and streng- and Connecting Lines, Central Pacific, Northern thening properties, most valuable in Consump Pacific or Canadian Pacific Rallways tion and wasting diseases. Read the following: Passengers, who have paid full fare, re-em bark- "I have found Scott's Emelsion of great benefiting at San Francisco for China or Japan (or in the treatment of phthisical and scrofulous vice versa) within one year will be allowed a disease. It is extremely palatable and does not discount of 10 per cent. This allowance does upset the stomach-thur removing, the great | not apply to through fares from China and difficulty experienced in the administration of Japan to Europe. the plain oil!"-D, P. KENNA, L K,CS., Surgeon, St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin. Any Chemist can supply it.-A. S. Watson & Co. (Lid.), agents in Hongkong and China,—[Advi,
To-day's Advertisements.
DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOV, AND TAMSUI, THE Company's Steamship
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II AM.
"FORMOSA," Captain Hall, will be despatched for the aboré Ports, on THURSDAY, the 10th instant, at
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers, Hongkong, 8th July, 1899.
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FOR MANILA (DIRECT). Owing to the inclemency of the weather, the departure of THE Spanish Steamer
SALVADORA,^.
Consular Invoices to accompany Cargo den tined to Points beyond San Francisco, in the United States, should be sent to the Company's Offices, addressed to the Collector of Customs, San Francisco
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No charge for advertising in Register. Hongkong, 24th June, 1890.
TO LET UNFURNISHED, From August 1st.
F958
TWO GOOD ROOMS, with Bath Room, in the Caine Rord. Rent moderate.. Splendid View of the Harbour.
Apply to
W. S. MARTEN, 2, Duddell Street.
1999
Hongkong, 3rd July, 1890,
KOWLOON.
TO LET UNFURNISHED, 【OS. 4 & 5, VICTORIA VIEW, containing
N, Dining-room, 3, good Bed-rooms, &c. A capital Tennis Ground. The rooms face the Harbour, and have a splendid view of Hongkong.
For further particulars, apply to
W. S. MARTEN, z, Daddell Street.
Hongkong, 25th June, 1800.
KOWLOON.
TO LET UNFURNISHED.
"KIMBERLEY."
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BEAUTIFULLY Situated, containing Dining
Drawing-room, two Bed-rooms,
and usual Quarters..
For further particulars, apply to
W. S. MARTEN, 2, Duddell Street.
Hongkong, 24th June, 1890.
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TO LET, UNFURNISHED. TO. 73. CAINE ROAD, qontaining Dining
No. 75. Caring Room, Three Bed-rooms
and Bath Rooms,
Excellent Quarters for servants. For further particulars, annig to
W. S. MARTEN, 2. Duddell Street.
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Hongkong, 11th June, 1800.
THE HOTEL MARINA.
NOTICE OF OPENING. THIS FIRST CLASS FLOATING HOTEL THIS
will be Opened for the Accommodation of Guests on or about 1st July.
The Hotel being entirely new and fitted up with all modern improvements, Residents and the Travelling Public will here find, superior accommodation.
The Table d'Hete will be unexcelled, the "cuisine "being under the supervision of a well known and experienced Caterer,
Being moored within a short distance of Kowloon Point, THR HOTEL MARINA offers Guests exceptional advantages for Healthfulness and Refreshing Breezes, the avoidance of street noises and unwholesome odours, &c.
Separate Bathrooms and Verandabs attached to every bedroom, in which comfort and ventila- tion are specially considered,
Grand Promenade, Deck, Commodious and Airy Dining Room, Ladies' Parlour, Billiard Room and Hair Dressing Saloon, together with
Saltwater Swimming Bath, &c., &c.
The Hotel Launch will run half-hourly to and from Pedder's Wharf and the Hotel Free of Charge.
For further information as to Freight or Passage, apply to the Agency of the Company No, sa, Queen's Road Central,
C. D. HARMAN,
Agent Hongkong. 8th July, 1800
TO LET. OUSES at the Peak and at Belllos tion to
ROOMS In Beaconsfield Arcade. GODOWNS in Duddell Street. BUNGALOW, Delmar, Yow-ma-ti
Apply to
BELILIOS & Co.
Herrace
Hongkong, 8th July, 1890.
Entimations.
Bedrooms may now be engaged upon applica.
ANDREW FOSTER, Manager.
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Hongkong, 21st June, 1890.
TOURISTS
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THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN CO., LD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
choice collection of Japanese and Chinese FINE ART CURIOS, which is unequaled in Japan
trouble to show goods. One price only.
Every article guaranteed as represented. No
- DEAKIN BROS. & Co,
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Captain C. A. Conte, is unavoidably postponed
AN Extraordinary General MEETING of
SHAREHOLDERS in the above Com 527) until THURSDAY, the 10th instant, at 2 F.M.pany will be held at the Chamber of Commerce
For Freight or Passage, apply to,
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STEAM TO MANILA, VIA AMOY, HE Steamship
"NANZING," Captain Talbot, will be despatched as above, on THURSDAY, the 10th fast, at 3 EM,
This steamer has superior Accommodation for at Class Passenger.
For Freight of Passage, apply to
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Room, City Hall, at 12.30 p.m., on SATURDAY, the 19th July, 1890, to elect a Committes in accordance with the following resolution passed af the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 28th ultimo -
"That a Committee of Investigation be appointed to examine into and report on the working of the business, The Directors to appoint two and the general body of Shareholders two.”
By Order,
EDWARD OSBORNE,
Secretary. Hongkong, 4th July, 1890.
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THE PEAK HOTEL AND TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
hereby SECOND
PARENT PANORAMIC SALOON, No. 30, WELLINGTON STREET, (Corner of D'Agullar Street), in returning thanks for the patronage and support of the Hongkong community, has much pleasure in announcing that an entirely new set of scenes are on view, which are well worthy of public attention.
The Panorama is open daily from to a.m. to 17 p.m., the Admission is only Twenty Cents, and every visitor receives a prescat free of any extra charge,
M. HIRSCH, Proprietor,
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Hongkong, 7th July, 1890.
HONGKONG ATHLETIC CLUB. PURSUANT to asrangements at the
LODGENTALL of seven that the) per Share Public Meeting held on 16th April last,
OF HONGKONG, No. 618, S.C.
in the above Company is hereby made and is payable at the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, on or before July 17th, 1890.
Interest at the rate of 15 per cent per Annum
By Order of the Board of Directors,
LODGE will be held in FREEMASOND' A REGULAR MEETING of the above will be charged on all Calls overdue. HALL, Zetland Street, on SATURDAY NEXT, the 13th instant, at 8.30 for 9 M. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
Hongkong, 8th July, 1890.
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LODGE OF
On the 23rd inst, Li Hang-chang, paid a visit of inspection to the four Ironclads and corvettes anchored at the Bar. As he proceeded down station, both banks were lined with braves bearing banners, lances, and fire-arms. A special train took the Viceroy and his suite to Tongku and back. He expressed himself much pleased with the efficient condition of the Fleet. PERSEVERANCE
The Tungebow Tuotal's vacancy will he filled temporarily by Tastal Yang, the former Director of the Military School, whe has proved himself in his associations with foreigners a not very capable man,
any other trafic. That the parents are generally remarks are interpreted by the "yelles" the river in bis private launch to the railway impelled to this extreme step simply by the pres sure of poverty we are quite ready to belleve Yet the knowledge that the girl must be parted from her family at a later period, and that this parting isirrevocable, must tend to reconcile many
parents toan anticipation, by a low of the inevitable. Of the miseries, which giris who have been thus sold are likely to endure, it ls unnecessary to speak in detail, but enough is known on the subject to lead us to regard'the | practice with horror. If the parents do not feel able to keep their daughter" batil she is did enough to be married, and yet do not wish to sell her, Chinese custom has invented another expedient, which is a compromise between the
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hint to shut up, a fest which is at length accomplished after a period of more or less | spasmodic and convulsive recrimination. But 11, as often happens, each of the mothers feels called upon, from a high abuse of duty to take a firm stand for the rights of her off. maring, the case becomes much more serious, Each of the mothers will then scream simul- tadeously, to the accompaniment of the wails, yells, and ruviling of the whole dosen or more of | her posterity, while above the general clamour may be distinctly caught the shrill shrieks of the Inspector of the Northern Coast Defence left grandmother, whose views, whatever difficulty for Port Arthur on the 22nd fast, in a Govern they may have in getting themselves beard, must ment transport, to inspect the harbour works eventually prevail when peace once more reigns which have been in process of construction for in the domestic tea-pot. After one of these the past three years, and to report on what fer This is the well known "rearing-marriage," | family cyclones, the atmosphere gradually be mains yet to be done to make the docks service- by which the girl is made over to the family into comes cleared again, and things go on as before; which she is to be manied, and ls by that family but we bave known a particularly “apunky | coast defences and present a full report to the brought up, and married whenever their married, daughter, who exhibited her dissatis» | Viceroy, convenience dictates. There are manifest and faction with the terms of settlement of a dispute A report is current that there will be some grave objections to this practice, but there can be of this sort, by refusing to speak to her sisters for changes made in she management of the Chias no doubt that it is far better than the custom of | some days together,
Merchants' S, N, Co. The former« D[restors,
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HONGKONG, No. 1165
A LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, on WEDNESDAY, the roth inst., at 8.30 for F., precisely,
Hongkong, Sth July, 1890, 75 [1031
HING KEE HOTEL, MACAO.
REGULAR" MEETING of the shove
able... He wil make an luspection tour of all the TH
J. WHEELEY, Secretary. Hongkong, 16th June, 1890.
[917 RITISH MERCANTILE *MARINE
·HONGKONG.
BOFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF
This Association is formed for L--The purpose of counteracting indusnces that are, and for ́s very long tima hava been, acting against the interests of Oncers of the British Mercantile
Marine.
II.To watch over and guard the interests of
its members.
III.—To maintala the proper dignity of the pro-
fession. --
N.B.—PUBLIC MEETINGS of this Associa ten will be held at 8.30 F.M., every TUESDAY HE above establishment::| has |been | and FRIDAY, at Nő, '2, HIGH STREET LEG REMOVED to a better and larger House temporary quarters until further notice, dan ( ), on Praya Grande Contra), Armada Pig All Masters and Officers are cordially invited
L. HING KEE to join.
Proprietor.
Macao, 8th July, 1890.
By, direction of the Commitee, Hongkong, 28th May, 1890,-
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further MEETING of the FRIENDS and SUPPORTERS of this Club is called for FRIDAY NEXT, the 11th instant, at 4:30 pm.
the Hongkong Hotel. Business to be brought before the Meeting.
Confirm Minutes of previous Meeting. 2.--Discussion of proposed Memoranthzın 'and
Articles of Association, 3-Election of General Committee (by ballet). 4. Voto of Thanks to the Government for
grant of land,
W. H. YOUNG,
Hon. Seo, pro tem. Hongkong, 7th July, 1890.
(1016 THE WEST POINT BUILDING W
COMPANY, LIMITED. N'INTERIM DIVIDEND at the rate of
per cent per sqaum for the al months ending 30th June, 1800, will be payable on the roth Instant, on which date Dividend Warranta may be obtained on application at the Come pany's Office, No. 5, Queen's Road Central. By Order of the Board of Directors, p
R. BALLEN, Acting Secretary, for the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co, Ldy Taky Agents N
to the West Point Building Co, tida [1017
Hongkong, 7th July, 1894,
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