THE NATURAL HISTORY OF Å CHINESE GIRL.
V. (Continued.)
If a Chinese woman has the heaven-bestowed gift of being obstreperous to such a decree that, as the sayings ga, “ profile da not know east from west" that "men are worn out and horses exhausted"; that," the mountains tremble, and the earth shakes", this is unquestionably be surest life-preserver. It is analogous to the South American toucan, which frightens away enemica by its mere exhibition, they not caring to wait for further and detailed proofs of it capacities of execution. But if such an endow ment has been denied her, her next best resource is to pursue a course exactly the opposite, in all circumstances and under all provocations holding her tongue. To most Chinese women, this seems to be a feat as difficult as aërial navigation, but now and then an isolated case shows that the difficult is not always the impossible.
We must regard, the position of women, and especially of wives, in China as the ultimate outcome and most characteristic fruitage of the Confucian system. In our view it has been a bitter fruit, and in recapitulating we wish to lay especial emphasis upon the Seven Deadly Sins of Confucianism in its relation to women.
-It provides them with no education. Their minds are left in a state of nature, until millions of them are led to suppose that they have no minds at all, an opinion which their husbands often do much to confirm, and upon which they habitually act.
II.The sale of wives and daughters. This comes about sa naturally, and it might almost be said so inevitably, when, certain conditions prevail, that it is taken by the Chinese as matter of course. Except in years of famine it appears in some parts of the empire to be rare, but in other parts it is the constant and the normal state of things for daughters to be as really sold as are horses and cattle.
III.Ted early and too universal marriages. A considerable part of the unhappiness caused by Chinese, intiages may fairly be charged to the immaturity of the victims. They treat children as if they were adults, while at the same time treating them as children who require the same watch and ward as other children, does not appear to be a national procedure, nor can it be claimed that it is justified by its results That a new pair constitute a distinct entity, to be dealt with independently, is a proposition which Confucianism irents with scorn, if indeed it ever
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1890.
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are too many villages to the square mile, tom many families to the village, too many mouth' to the family. Wherever one goes, it is the iame weary tale with interminable reitern tion. Poverty, poverty, poverty, always and evermore poverty. The empire is broad, ite: anoccupied regions are extensive, and its undeveloped resources undoubtedly vast, in what way can these resources be so developed as to benefit the great mass of the Chinese people ? By none with which were acquainte or of which we can conceive, without a radical di turbance of the existing conditions. The seething mass of over-population must be drawn off to the regions where it is needed, and then only will there be room for the relief of those who remain. It is impos ible to do anything for people who are wedged together, after the manner of matches in a box. Imagine a surgeon making the attempt to set the broken lev of a man in an omnibus in motion, which at the time contained. twenty other people. most of whom alo had broken legs which likewise required setting! The first thing, to do would be to get them all unloaded, and to put them where they could be properly treated, with room for the treatment, and space for breathing. It is, we repeat, not easy to, perceive how even the most advanced political economy can da anything of permanent benefit for the great mass of the Chinese without a redistribution of the surplus population. But at this point practical Confucianism intervenes, and having ideed the begetting of this sw mm of human beings, it declares that they must not abandon the graves of their ancestors, who require their sacrifices, but must in the same spot continue to propagate and urge their posterity to continue the inter minable process.
The world is still large, and it has, and for ages will doubtless continue to have, ample room for all the additional millions which its existing millions can produce. The world was never se much in need of the Chinese as to-day, and never. on the other hard, were the Chinese more in need of the world. But if China is to hold its own much further mee if it is to advance as other nations have advanced, and do advance, it must be done under the head of new forces. Confucianism has been a mighty power to build up, and to conserve. But Confucianist with its great merits has committed many 'Deadly Sins, and of those sins it must ultimately suffer the penalty. Confucianism as a developing force is a force which is spent. Sooner or later it must give way to something stronger, wiser, and better.-N. C. Daily News.,
Intimationg.
HONGKONG
TRADING CO., LTD.,
LATE THE HALL & HOLTZ CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY, LIMITED.),
AVE ON HAND A COMPLETE
Sherry Glasses, Port Glasses,
Champagne Glisses, Emerald Hock Glasses, Ruby Hock Glasses, Jelly Glasses,
STOCK OF GLASSWARE,
consisting of :- Custard Glaases, Liqueur Glassea, Soda Water Tumblers,
Half Pint Tumblers, Small Tumblers, Champagne Tumblers, '
Finger Bowls, Ice Plates, Decanters,
Claret Decanters. Caraffes and Ups.
IN SEVERAL DESIGNS AND PATTERNS.
Also
A CHOICE STOCK OF :--
DINNER SERVICES, TEA SERVICES, TOILET SETS, EPERGNES, SPECIMEN GLASSES, and FANCY GLASS TABLE ORNAMENTS, etc, etc.
HONGKONG TRADING CO., LTD.
(Late THE HALL & HOLTZ C. Co., Ld.)
-Hongkong, 17th July, 1290
#otices of Firms.
NOTICE.
THE PARTNERSHIP heretofore subsisting between EDWARD CONSTANT- RAŸ and GEORGE HENDERSON WATT is this day dissolved by Mutual Consent.
"
E. C. RAY. GEO. H. WATT, Hongkong, 3rd July, 1800.
[1000
7ITH
reference to the above the business of SHIP, SHARE, and GENERAL BROKER will be continued by me in my own name.
E. C. RAY.
Hongkong, 3rd July, 1890.
NOTICE
[1001
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c.
THE Undersigned has received instructions
to Sell by Public Auction, on
MONDAY, ·
the 28th July, 1800, commencing at?2.50 p.m. sharp, at No..3, Mosque Terrace, the residence of G. RAYNAL, Esq.
THE WHOLE OF HIS HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
Comprising:- CRETONNE COVERED DRAWING, ROOM SUITE, CANTON MARBLE-TOP BLACKWOOD CENTER & SIDETABLES, PICTURES, MIRRORS, FENDERS, and
entertains such a conception at all. The cem- CHina coast meteoROLOGICAL DURING my temporary absence from the IROVS. &c.
pulsory marriage of all girls forces all Chinese society into cast-iron grooves, and leaves no room for exceptional individual development, It throws suspicion around every isolated struggle against this galling bondage, and makes the unmarried woman seem a personified violation of the decrees of Heaven and of the laws of man. IV-Infanticide of female infants. This is a direct, if not a legitimate result of the tenet that male children are absolutely indispensable, applied in a social system where dire poverty is the rule, and where an additional mouth frequently means impending starvation. In a chapter in her "Pagoda Shadows" on "The extent of a Great Crime" Miss Fields combines a great variety of testimony taken from several different provinces, in the following paragraph "I find that a hundred and sixty Chinese womer, all over fifty years of age, had borne six hundred and thirty-one sons, nnd five hundred and thirty- cight daughters. Of the sons, three hundred and sixty-six, or nearly sixty per cent, had lived more than ten years; while of the daughters only two hundred and five, or thirty-eight. per cent, had lived ten years. The hundred and sixty women, according to their own statements, hnd destroyed a hundred and fifty-eight of their daughters; but none had ever destroyed hoy. As only four women
bad reared more than three girls, the probability is that the number of infanticides confessed tois considerably below the truth. I have occasionally been told by a woman that she had forgotten just how many girls she had had, more than she wanted. The greatest number of infantic des owned to by any one woman is eleven."
Infanticide will never cease in China, unt the notion that the dend are dependent for their happiness upon sacrifices offered to them by the living shall have been totally overthrown.
V.Secondary wives. Concubinage is the natural result of the Confucian theory of ancestral worship. The misery which it has caused and still causes in China is beyond comprehension. Nothing can up-root it but a decay of faith in the assumption underlying all forms of wersbip of the dead.
VI.-Suicides of wives and daughters. The preceding causes, operating singly and in com bination, are wholly sufficient to account for the number of suicides among Chinese women. The wander, rather, is that there are not more. But whoever undertakes to collect facts on this sub- ject for any given district will not improbably be greatly surprised at the extraordinary prevalence
REGISTER.
25th July, 1890.--At 4 p.m.
Wind
STATION,
Wativestocker Tokyo... Neguaki.... Shanghal Wenche ..... Foochów... Amoy Swatow Hongkong Canton ... Macao....
Haiphong-pade
Anping Balinao Manila
B:93
471
70.75
29.88
wody i lage** & ***
Barat 1: Humidity.
Colony, Mr. J. W. CROKER is appointed FXTENSION DINING TABLE, and SIDEBOARDS, WHATNOTS, Acting. MANAGER for Geo. Fenwick & Co., Ltd. į CHAIRS,
GEO. FENWICK, PLATED, GLASS, and CROCKERY WARE,
General Manager. | &c.
[995 DOUBLE IRON BEDSTEAD with Patent Hongkong, 2nd July, 1890.
WIRE MATTRESS, Lady's Double WARD- ROBES, with plate glass door,. MARBLE- TOP WASHING STANDS, DRESSING TABLE. WRITING DESK. CHILD'S IRON COT, BED ROOM FURNITURE. &c., &c., &C Catalogues will be issued previous to Sale, and the above will be on view on Monday a.m.
TERMS OF SALE-As customary.
Insurances.
£1,000 STG. Tayable at Age 5, or
at death if previous-may be secured by
a payment at the rate of
£7.7 5 per quarter if commenced at age
£8 14 24.
₤10 II 2
NW
£13 4 10
15
8
£27. 12 6
A
25th July, 1890.-At 10a.m.
STATION.
Wladivostock....
Tokyo.................. Nagasakitt Shaphat... Wenthow Foochow............
Amoy in Swatt Konako
Macad..... Hoihew.......
Haiphong Anplag... Balizão
Mazils keuses
arometer →
Tempera
Humidiary.
#75
1671
IW
10.65
sy.38
Wind,
°°°⠀⠀⠀ | Weather.|
Kata last
The barometer continues falling and gradients are moderate for south-east winds. Clourly, cool and damp weather preva is. Much rale may be expected in connection with local thunder- NIONS.
1-Harameter reduced to level of the sea in loches, teaths and hundredths, Temperature in the shade in degrees, Fali- renheit. 3-Humidity, in percentage of saturation, the humidity of air saturated with moisture being 100, 4-Direction of the wind to two palata, 5-Force of the wind according to Beaufort scala. 6-State of the weather, & Bion sky, Detached clonds, Drizing rain, Foz, Gloomy, & Hall, Lightulog. Overeat, Parsing showers, e Squely, Rain, Snow, i Thunder, Visiblity, Daw wc), 9-Rala la taches, tenths and hundredthi.
W, DOBERCE Hongkong Observatory, 25th July, 1890.
Co-day's Advertisements.
No. 535,
LODGE,
A REGULAR MEETING of the above
BONS HALL, Zetland Street, on FRIDAY named Lodge will be held in the FREEMA- NEXT, the 1st August, at 8.30 for 9 PM. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
Hongkong, 25th July, 1890
11088
of this practice. It is even adopted by children, Z ETLAND and for causes relatively trifling. At times it 'appears to spread, like the small-por, and the thirst for suicide becomes virtually an epidemic. According to the native newspapers, there are parts of China in which young girls band them: selves into a secret lesgue to commit suicide within a certain time after they have been betrothed or married. The wretchedness of the lives to which they pre condemned is thoroughly appreciated in advance, and fateis thus effectually checkmated. It would be wrong to overstate the evils suffered by woman in China, cvils which have indeed many alleviations, and which are not to be compared to those of her sisters in India or in Turkey. But after all abatements have been made it remains true that the death.
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF
VALUABLE MACHINERY & PLANT, &c. THE Undersigned have received instructions
to Sell by Public Auction, on
FRIDAY,
roll of suicides is the most convincing proof of the 8th August, 1890, commencing at 11.30 a.m.,
the wors endured by Chinese women,
VII.-Over population. The whole Chinese race is, and always has been, given up with a single devotion to the task of raising up a posterity, to do for the fathers what the fathers have done for the gr ndfathers. In this particular line, they have realised Wesley's conception of the ideal church in its time, where as he remarked the members are 'Ali at it, and always at it, War, famine, pestilence sweep off scores of millions of the population, but a few decades of peace scum to repair the ravages of the past, which are lost to sight, like battle-fields covered with wide areas of waving grain. How ever much we may admire the recuperative power of the Chinese people at a who'e, and in dividually, it is impossible not to feel righteous Indignation toward a system which violates those benefice laws of nature, which would mercifully put an end to many branches of families when "Buch branches are unfited to survive. Ich-im- possible to comtemplate with equanimity the deliberate, persistent, and uniform propagation of poverty, vice, disease and crime, which aught rather to be surrounded with every..es riction to prevent its multiplication, and to see this pro pagation of evil and misery done, too, with an air of virtue, as if this were of itself a kind of religion, often indeed the only form of religion in which the Chinese take any vital interest.
It is this system which loads down the rising generation with the responsibility for feeding and clothing tens of thousands of human beings who ought never to have been born, and whose existence can never be other than a burden to
themselves, a period of incessant struggle without respite and without hope.
Tothe intelligent foreigner, the most prominent fast in China is the purerty of its people. There
at bls Sale-Rooms, Duddell Street,
AN INVOICE OF
MACHINERY AND PLANT,
(a,b.)
..20
25
G. R. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 24th July, 18ọn.
35
Hotels.
FTER the Policy has been three years in
force-the-Paliry-holder will be entitled
to receive on application a Free Paid-up PolicyTHEMOVE
[1086
been
HING KEE HOTEL, MACAO. establishment has REMOVED to a better and larger House' for proportionate amount of the Sum Assured, on Praya Grande Central, as explained in Prospectus, should be wish to
L. HING KEE, Proprietor.
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discontinue payment of premiums.
952-21
ADAMSON, BELL & Co,
Agents, Hongkong STANDARD LIFE OFFICE,
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF 1877 IN HAMBURG.
HE Undersigned having been appointed Tend 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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HE Undersigned having been appointed TH
"Agents for the above Company, are pre pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE and LIFE at Current Rates.
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co., Hongkong, 1st July, 1889.
THE
NOTICE
157
~HE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY
LIMITED.
Macao, 8th July, 1890.
Intimations
THE VICTORIA HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
INCORPORATED UNDER THE COMPANIES URDINANCES 1865 to 1886 OF HONGKONG.
CAPITAL
.............$750,000
Divided into 15,000 Shares of $50 each, of which 5,000 Shares are to be issued and credited with $25 a share paid up in part payment of purchase money; 7,000 shares have been applied for and will be allotted, and the remaining 3,000 shares are now offered to the Public and are payable for as follows, viz.:—
Sto per Share, as Deposit, on Application. $15 on Allotment,
N
$25 when and as the same shall from time to time be called up under the provisions contained in the Articles of Association of the Company.
BOARD:
The Hon. HO KAI GEORGE RICHARD STEVENS, Esq. DORABJEE NOWROJEE, Esq.
BANKERS!
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, I, Queen's Road, Hongkang.
SOLICITONS:
THIS
Intimations.
is applied for, the surplus will be appropriated in whole or in part, as the case may be, to tha payment of the amount due on allotment.
Three Agreements have been entered into and are respectively dated the arth June 1890, the 28th June 1999, and the 11th June, 1890,
Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be obtained from the Company's Bankers, and at the Office of the Campany' Solicitors, Messrs: Wotton & Deacon, 35, Queen's / Road, Hongkong, and should be filled up and forwarded to the Company's Bankers on or be fore the 28th day of July, 1890,
A copy of the Memorandum and Articles of. Association of the Company and of the Agree- ments may be inspected at Messrs. WOTTON & DEACON's office aforesaid,
Share Lists will close on
day of July, 1890 at 3 p.m.
Monday, the 28th
Dated the aist day of July, 18go.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
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In the Matter of a Deed of Release and Assign- ment by ALEXANDER MCGLASHÄN HEATON of the First part, ADA ELIZABETH FANNY HEATON of the. Second part, all the Creditors of the said ALEXANDER MCGLASHAN HEATON of the Third part, and CHARLES DAVID BOTTOMLEY and CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, therein described as Trustees, of the Fourth part. And in the master of Ordinance No. 7 of 1873.
Messrs. WOTTON & DEACON, 35, Queen's Road, Hongkong. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. HIS Company has been formed for the purpose of purchasing or otherwise acquir. ing all those pieces or parcels of Land stunts PURSUANT to an Order of the Acting Chief at Victoria in the Island of Hongkong, and Justice of Hongkong made herein on the Registered in the Land Office as Sections A. B 17th day of June, 1890. All Persons claiming to and C and the Remaining Portion of Marine Latbe interested under the above mentioned Inden- No. 13, and Section A of Marine Lot No. 12, ture dated the 24th November, 1999, executed together with the tenement and buildings thereon by the sakd ALEXANDER MCGLASHAN known as the Victoria Hotel, and all the rights | HEATON, late of Victoria, Hongkong. Broker, of the Vendor to reclamations and extensions for the benefit of hin Creditors, are by their seawards in respect of Section C and the remain- Solicitors, on or before the 1st day of September ing portion of Marine Lot No. 13 under and by next, to come and prove their Claims at the virtue of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance 1880, Chambers of the Acting Chief Justice of Hong- and also any rights of the Vendor (if he has any kong, Supreme Court House, Victoria aforesaid, such rights) under the same Ordinance, in or in defaul; thereof they will be peremptorily respect of Sections A and B of Marine Lot No. excluded from sharing in the distribution of the 13, and also of purchasing or otherwise acquiring trast fond. the goodwill of the business of Hotel Proprietors and Tavern Keeners as now carried on by Messrs. Derabjee Nowrojce and Hing Kee at the Victoria Hotel, together with all the Plant, Furniture, Fixtures and Stock of the Hetel.
The main object of the Company is to carry on the business of Hotel-keepers, and other businesses incidental thereto, on the premises at present known as the Victoria Hotel, and if need be to acquire other sites and erect other buildings
Memorandum of Asociation.
neque aborsi, cancerpwered by the
The present Victoria Hotel has been carried on under the successful management of Mr. Dorabjee Nowrojee for the last 6 years. This gentleman has had 19 years' experience as an Hotel Manager, and on the formation of the New Company he has consented to act as Manager of the Hotel, and Mr. Ismail Pulley Madar, who has been in the service of Mr. Dorabjec Nowro- jte for 19 years as Book-keeper and Assistant Manager, is willing to continue to act as General Assistant, The Company will, if it, is thought desirable, also retain the old experienced staff of servants with which the Hotel for the last six years has been so successfully brought to its present position..
Dated, the 18th day of July, 1890.
WOTTON & DEACON,
106r)
THE
Solicitors in the matter of the Petition, 35. Queen's Road, Hongkong.
HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF
AND GODOWN Co., LD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL
A MEETING SHAREHOLDERS in the
above Company-ill be held at the Chamber of Commerce Room, City Hall, at 12.30 PM, on TUESDAY, the 5th August, to confirm the following Resolution passed at the Meeting held this day."
"Resolved that Mr. C. S. Tavlor and Mr. H.
Wicking, elected by the Shareholders and the Hon. C. F. Chater and Mr. L. Poes- Becker, elected by the Directors, be and hereby are appointed a Committed to inves- tigate, examine and report upon the work. ing of the business of this Company."
By Order,
Secretary,
EDWARD OSBORNE,
Hongkong, 19th July, 1890,
NOTICE.
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THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED.
The average yearly profit for the last three years is $18,026.60, and as it is proposed to expend at once about $35,000 in building and furnishing 29 additional bed-rooms to the exist ing Hotel, and in making other small but much THE BOA VISTA.
needed improvements, it is anticipated that with these additional rooms and the consequential N accordance with the provisions of No. 104 of the Articles of Association the General BISHOP'S BAY, MACAO.
increase in the consumption of Wine and Managers have this day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the half-year ended 30th June, the Coast in one of Liquors, the nett annual earnings of the Com THIS House, situated ones parts of Macao pany should not be less than $40,000, as the of tight per cent. upon the paid up capital and commanding an admirable view facing the running expenses of the Hotel will not be South, will be OPENED its vor materially increased by such additions, 1st July next.
Every comfort will be provided for visitors with
excellent cuisine and choice Wines.
Hot, Cold, Shower, and Sea Water Baths. Large and well Ventilated Dining, Billiard, and Reading Rooms, and well supplied Bar.
A
A small dairy is attached to the premises.
MRS. MARIA B. Dos REMEDIOS,
Proprietres.... Macao, 28th June, 1890,
1978
THE SHAMEEN HOTEL
BRITISH CONCESSION, CANTON, "HIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL, admirably THIS
situated within a few minutes walk of the River Steamer Wharves,' is now open to receive Visitors.
The Bed-rooms are cool, airy and comfortably furnished, and the spacious Dining Room, Sitting Rooms, and accommodation generally will be found equal to the best Hotels in the Far East. The Table D'Hôte is supplied with every The above Company is prepared to accepixury in season, and the cuisine is in experi- MARINE RISKS at CURRENT RATES on GOODS. enced hands.
Wlues, Spirits, Malt Liquors, etc., of the beat &c. Policies granted to all Parts of the wod
quality only. payable at any of its Agencies."
C. BOND, WOO LIN YUEN,
Secretary. HEAD OFFICE,
-Hongkong, 14th July, 1890.
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED..............................$1,000,¤ x.
(217
N 2, QUEIN's' Road West. des plena Tat February, 1ÃÃ2.
GENERAL NOTICE. THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, (LIMITED.)
CAPITAL TAELS 600,000,
$833-133-33 EQUAL TO RESERVE FUND $318,000.00
Manager.
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Intimations......» KUHN & CO.,
JAPANESE AND CHINESE FINE ART DEPOT.
21 & 23, QUEEN'S ROAD. Hongkong, 21st July, 1890.
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LO YRUK MOON, Esq. S. MARTEN,
BOARD. OF DIRECTORS. LE SING, Esq.' LOU TSO SHU, Esq.
MANAGER-HO AMEI.
· comprising :- One10lach STROKE SHAPING MACHINE, One 12 inch TURNING & BORING LATHE, One 25 inch PILLAR DRILLING MACHINE, One 12 inch SHAPING MACHINE, One 12 to 16 inch S. & S. LATHE, length of bed 194. feet, Two SCREWING MACHINES, One of lach HAND LATHE, SUNDRY SMALL DRILLARINE RISKS on GOODS, &c, lakin ING MACHINES and HAND LATHES.
One Large BRASS TELEGRAPH COLUMN and DIAL with all necessary gear, One Small BRONZED dito, a quantity of JUNCTION, SPRING, SAFETY, and STOP VALVES, SALTER'S SPRING SAFETY VALVES, Patent HAND BLOWERS, TAPS and DIES, ANVILS, ASBESTOS ROOFING,
&c.
&c
B
"orid.
at CURRENT RATES to all parts of the
HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 9, PRAYA WEST. Hongkong, 17th December, 1885.
ARTISTIC DECORATOR,
AND
The property proposed to be bought by the Company is at present in lease to Mr. Dorajes Nowrojce.
An Agreement has been made for the Assign. ment of this lease to the Company, and for the sale of the Goodwill, Plant, Furniture and Stock of the Victoria Hotel for $150,000, of which $75,000 will be paid by the allotment of 3,000 shares in the proposed Company, on each of which $25 will be credited as having been paid ich is sum of $150,000, the sum of $50,000 up; is to be paid for the lease to Mr. Dorabjee Nowrojet, $50,000 for the goodwill of the Victoria Hotel, and $50,000 for the Plant, Furniture and Stock-in-Trade of the Hotel.
Dividend Warrants will be issued to Share- holders on FRIDAY, the 8th August, -
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 29th July until the 8th August both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 23rd July, 1800.
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THE SONGEI KOYAH PLANTING COMPANY, LIMITED.
SECOND CALL of 35 per Share due 7th TOTICE is hereby given that unless that June, 1890, on Shares of the above Company, bearing the following numbers:-2021/2030, 2751/2760, 3571/1580, 3591/3620, 1395/1430, 1221/1260, 3496 3520, 1016/1050, 1316/1325. 1346/1365 1376/1380, 4606/4659 2463/2485 is paid to the Hongkong and Shanghai Backing Corporation on or before WEDNES DAY, the 6th August, 1890, the said Shares will be FORFEITED in accordance with the power given in the Articles of Association.
· GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,.'
General Managers. Hongkong, 21st July, 1890.
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MERCANTILE MARINE
An agreement has also been made with Mr. Li Sau Lam, the present owner, for the purchase of Sections A, B and C and the Remaining Por- tion of Marine Lat No. 13 and Section A af Marine Lot No. 12, together with the messuages and tenements erected thereon, now known as the Victoria Hotel, and his rights to reclama tions and extensions seawards in respect of of Section C and the Remaining Portion Marine Lot No. 13, under and by virtue of the Praya Reclamation Ordinance 1889, and also any rights of the said Li Sau Lam BRITOFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF
(if he has any such rights) under the same Ordinance, in respect of Sections A and B of Marine Lot No. 13, the purchaser agreeing on completion of the purchase to repay to the Vendor all sums which the Vendor shall then have paid under any Reclamation Agreement, and the purchaser agreeing to assume and take over, as from the date of such completion, all the liabilities under any such Reclamation Agreement.
The total purchase money for the premises is $525,000, including a Mortgage for $400,000, leaving only $125,000 to be paid to the Vendor of which, $50,000 will be paid by the allotment to him of 2,000 shares in the proposed Company, on each of which $25 will be credited as having been paid up, and the balance of $75,000 will be paid in cash.
The Mortgage for $400,000 is not repayable. until the 30th June, 1896, and until the expira- tion or sooner determination of the Lease to Mr. DORABJEE NOWROJEE, the Mortgagees, in lieu of any fixed rate of interest on the $400,000, have agreed to receive and accept by way of interest 1574 the rents and profits of the said premises so demlised to Mr. DORABJEE NOWROJEE, vis. $1,250, and on and immediately after the expir. ation or sooner determination of the term granted. in by the said Lease. Interest at the rate of $6 per cent per Annum is payable on the said sum of $400,000 until the geth June, 1896, A821 P6This in itself represents a loan to the Company of $400,000 at $375 per cent per annum setli the 30th June, 1894, and thence until the 30th June, 1896, at $5 per cent. per annum, and until this mortgage becomes due it is not anti-
HOUSE AND ESTATE AGENT, 2, DUDDELL STREET, HONGKONG. Hongkang, 6th April, 1890, 7*-
TO LET UNFURNISHED, From August. 1st. SHIP'S COMPRADORE & STEVEDORE, The caine Rond. Rent moderate.
WO GOOD ROOMS, with Bath Room,
Splendid View of the Harbour,
Apply to
W. S. MARTEN, 3. Duddell Street Hongkong. rd July, 1890.
A HA FOOK,
PRICES.
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Fruits. 19 Porkçe j 9
The above-are-now-on-view-at-my_Sale_Cabin:Beef......................st. 7 ceats per D.
Crew Beef................i μ -✪ rooms..
TERMS OF SALE. Cash on delivery.
G. R. LAMMERT, Auctioneer. Hongkong, 25th July; 1800
"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS. FOR NAGASAKI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA, VIA INLAND SEA
HE Steamship
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CARMARTHENSHIRE," Captain Clarke, will be despatched on or about the 1st August.
For Freight or Pamage, apply to
ADAMSON, BELL & Co. Agents.
Trogo Hongkong, 15th July, 1890.
Fish and Frawat. 9
Vest ......
Fowls and Ducks $3.60 per
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80 cents per 100 40
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WING WOO STREET, „Hongkong, 21st July, 1890,"
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Geo. Fenwick & Co., cipated that any further call will be needed.
LIMITED, VICTORIA FOUNDRY, WANCHAL
The proposed Reclamation, of Sections A, B and C and the Remaining Portion of Marine Lot No. 13 is 13,866 square feet, at a cost of some $30,229,33, and if on completion it is determined to erect a new Hotel on the reclaimed site, the NGINEERS, IRON and BRASS present property can doubtless be disposed of at a remunerative figure, donde peplat FOUNDERS, GOVERNMENT & GENERAL forwarded to the Bankers of the Company, Applications for shares should be made and
CONTRACTORS, ENTER)
"Established 1880. Hongkong, aoth January, 1890,-
together with the amount payable on applica Arto Hon/Where to allotment is made, the deposit www-56 returned in full, but without interest, and
· (193", in case a less number of shares be milstied than
HONGKONG.
This Association is formed for :- I-The purpose of counteracting influences
that are, and for a very long time have been, acting against the Interests of officers of the British Mercantila Marine.
IL-To watch over and guard the interests of
its members.
11-To maintain the proper dignity of the pro-
fession.
N.B.-PUBLIC MEETINGS of this Associa- tion will be held at 8.30 P.M., every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at No. 2, HIGH STREET-the temporary quarters-until further notice.
All Masters and Officers are cordially invited to join.
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By direction of the Committee, Hongkong, z8th May, 1890. HONGKONG, CANION AND
MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, THE Forty-eighth Ordinary Half-yearly
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
the Company, will be held at the Office of the
Company, No. 18. Bank Buildings, Queeo's Road Central, on FRIDAY, the 1st August, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors together with a State ment of Accounts, declaring a Dividend, and“ electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company, will be CLOSED from 19th July to rat August, inclusive, ma
By Order of the Board of Directors,
T. ARNOLD, Secretary
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Hongkong 14th July 1890
CAPTAIN GEORGE TAYLOR, INLAND SEA and JAPAN COAST PILOT.
Telegraphic Address
Hongkong, tih April, 1899,
POWERS,OWE
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