the theory that the scene was a belated event of the New Year sports.
Fortunately the officers did not catch the soldiers; had they done so there would no doubt haya been a row, and, in all strictness, the French officers would have been guilty of an assault. Perhaps, however, the magistrate would have dismissed them with an admonition.
It is high time this sort of thing was stopped. Quite recently a British naval deserter on a French mail steamer was able to bid defiance to the British flag in British porte, and would. have escaped but for his own imprudence. Now we have foreign officers chasing their soldiers through our streets and making themselves liable to be accused of common asemalt.. It may be very funny, but it is not how two great sations should manage their buisness,
Commenting on the above in a leaderette the Straits Times says:-A little paragraph in which we relate how thres soldiers jumped arbore from a French transport as it came alongside the Singapore wharf to coal is of greater importance than at first sight would ap. pear. The trouble is that by aur laws we have no power to capture these deserters por to permit sthers to do so. Nay, if in place of three men leaping ashore a couple of hundred had done sa, wa would still find ourselves in the awkward position of having no sight to interfere with these men until they had rabbed, or plundered,
or in some other way had brakes our laws. Up till recently the situation has been amelio- rated by the fact that without having any legal right to do so 'our police have captured or made efforts to capture deserters, and although the difficulty of doing so was great when the men were Asiatica (as many of the Netherlands men are) all the knowledge that deserters were caught by the Straits police had a wholesome effect in preventing men running away from their ships. Very recently, however, the Straits Government (presumably instructed from hom) gave strict orders that the leller of the law was to be kept; and as conarquence the police are now forbidden to Interfere in any way. The result may be awkward. For instance, we have it that these three deserters rushed from the wharf into the town in fear and baste. That was unnecessary. Had they chosen they might have sit down on the wharf and made auch gestures of contempt na seemed fit to them. For, if they had been arrested on our soil we would have had 'to reclaim them.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1891.
constantly present to expose its villainy the Country will generally go to wreck. And after due consideration of government in general, there seems to be sufficient reason for this assump. tion io almost every case. Moreover, when the Government is ejected from office, and the other party. takes its place, the same precautions are invariably regarded as essential, from which It would appear that the other party is likewise A A despicable object, and not to be trusted comprehensive glance at the history of the other party in general affords gond reason for a belief in the soundness of this theory likewise; and consequently par y politics my be briefly defined as a systers by which two low-minded organisa- tions are hired to expound each other's Infamy for the public benefit, and to prove to the country that the other side is an association of grasping brigade, to whom honor is a myth, and ordinary decency a delusion, and fruth an "old forgotten thing of no account. And as a rule both sides prove this fict with such vigour and success that it becomes a matter of surprise that The nation does not immediately discharge both of them and start afresh an, some basis which will offer less scope for an exhibition of all the bad qualities of humanity.
It is one of the gilded fictions ofthis cumbreus system that each faction is contending for a principle, bo even admitting this obvious le to be true it goes ralber to prove the awful scarcity of principle than to demonstrate its actual existence, For in the majority ofrepresentative assemblies (wn factions and a few political out casts make op the entire total, and even granting that each body has a principle of some kind to contend for, two of these articles divided among,
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bacure private member in an Australina legisla. | THE HONGKONG BRICK-AND CEMENT
COMPANY, LIMITED, ture when they Isilto crante a favourable im. 130 members is a woefully short allowance.pression on the majority of the Swiss law.
[OTICE is hereby given that a CALL of $3 Yet, considering the unanimity with which the makers, and still the Cabinet pursues the erès
per Share in the shave Company di party in office hangs on to its salary, and the qual tenor of its way until its term of office expires payable on or before the 5th day of February, The Insane ides that a successful Govern. gr, and that all persons not having paid the unanimity with which the party out of office de- mands that salary, it is reasonable to assume that nien: should necessarily resign because it has amount of their Calls will be charged Interest cach side bas only one fixed principle uniong it. been defeated on some obscure dog-tax pro at the rate of 13 per cent. per annum from dus or else that it has sunk all the rest of its convic-posal, or other equally unimportant matter, is date until payment in accordance with the lens lest they should result in disorganisation, and essentially a party axiom, and has never, even Articles of Association, disorganisation should lead to general overthrow. been dreamt of in the Swiss Constitution, and as
W. H. WALKER, the Republican Assembl recognises the impos
.Secretary. sibility of ever farming an immaculate Cabinet, it declines to pledge itxell to follow any Cabinet through good or evil fartune til i landa Iself in ruin. The Al-success of the British principle, according to which the Parliament must either, follow the Government blindly for better or worse, or else construct a new Government which it is prepared to obey to this sime un questioning fashion, suggests that the Helvetien Diet has adopted the only possible solution of the difficulty.
again, it may be that neither of the opposing lesguer has any canviciion at all except that it wants 1.500 a year and any other pickings that may come in its way, and in most cases, nn doubt, this is the more correct explanation of the two. A politician with convictions of any kind is
necessarily a fallure, for if his opponents osly remain long enough in office they are aimest The situation is unpleasant. It is inconvent. certain, sooner or later to borrow his principle ent for the town that ill-behaved soldiers and from him, and then it is his duty as a party poli- scamen should be encouraged to launch them tician to curse them for doing what he previously selves into its mirst with no means of anbaistearsed them for leaving undone, and to prove ence and seldom any refuge but to steal and reh. It is inconvenient for the coaling-port that foreign war-vessels should be afraid to come alongside lest their men step ashore and remain there. Yet it is not quite easy to paint a remedy. Or rather it is impossible to suggest a complete remedy within the reasonable competence of municipal law. But if foreign governments want us to surrender deserters, and if we want to surrender deserters, it is quite practicable for statesmen to agree on a joint esurse of action which shall be followed by all `concurring nations in all their ports, Such conventions already exist on the continent of Europe.
PEKING.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The recent edict of the Emperor, granting audience to foreign ministers, has given the greatest surprise to all. It seems too good to be true that the contenting of year should be granted without a final struggle. The diplomats had little idea of the step that has been taken, The precedent set by Tung Chib has bad its frence, not only in suggesting the audience, but also in designating the place. Here in the weak point of the decree. The place of audience is outside of the Forbidden City, or palace grounds, and is where the Emperor Dever. goes, and perhaps never would, except to see the barbarian ministers. No wonder objec. tion is raised to the place, and the question will not be settled until Europeans are received with as much courtesy as Tibetans and Koreans. It would not be treating a guest with decent cirility to invite him, after his credentials had been examined and found antisfactory, to awali you in the gate-house. It is to be hoped that the Russian Prince who has deferred his visit till next year will insist upon baing received in the accredit & form and set a good precedent for all who follow him. Without doubt, bis refusal to visit Peking without receiving a proper greeting As an Imperial Prince has had something to do In bringing the Government to terms.
The Emperos has just received in Peking the two ice-basis, or cutters, made in Germany at a cost of Tls 5 000 each. The ane the writer sa bas the brdy of a small coach, made for only one occupant, and set, on steel runners, terminating in front in a large, erect brass 'dragon which glares upon all in bla presence.
is in a la provided with a watch fixed. In its place, mirror, and sockets in which may be placed articles for use and comfort. By a slight more- ment of the foot a sharp-toned bell can be struck which will bring the animals (men) drawing the play-thing to a standstill. Up B the four corners are fastened brass dragons, with yellow silken tussels suspended from their mouths. The body of the vehicle is painted a bright red and the trap-ings arm in yellow: Under specially favorable circumstances, with very strong Ice not covered with dust, a Peking ico always in, we can conceive that his Majesty could take pleasure in this costly tay.-N. C. Daily News.
PARTY GOVERNMENT.
their villainy in accomplishing what he formerly proved them to be inhuman ruffians for not accomplishing, and if his moral sentiments stand in the way it is time for him to retire and make room for some person of greater scope and fluency.
It is
The reason why few Governments survive a general election is that the crunify is weary of hoth sides alike, and would gladly consign the whole race of party politicians to oblivion if it only knew how to do it, or how to get anything else instead. But the system of Government by Contradiction has become so deeply rooted that the nation finds it difficult to conceive the possi- bility of any other form of administration the recognised axiom in all Anglo-Sazon com. munities that the Legislature must necessarily consist of two factions, and that each should assert that everythingthe other does is wrong; and the fact that each faction generally proves the truth of its assertion is only a uivial aggravation of the evil. The choice does not even lie between. the devil the country knows and the devilft does not know as a rule it is intimately acq ainted of them. with both devils, and hates the pair But as the mental and moral wretchedness of the party in office is the more conspicuous of the two, the country gradually ge's up a species of melancholy enthusiasm on behalf of the other side. It would gladly beave a brick at both of the erson who seems to deserve the smaller them, but being driven to a choice It votes for
brick. The whole system of party requires that every man should sink his prin ciples-if he ever had any-and his honor, apposing him to be furnished with such an article, for the sake of dishing" the man opposite, and a politiciau being thus accessarily a man without any honor or principle worth mentioning, a constituency must either choose between two unprincipled 'Individuals, or return somebody who will belong to neither party, and who will consequently be neglected by both when the loaves and fishes are going round.
A few other disadvantages of more or less importance attach themselves to this unwieldly system of administration, The, leader who has scrambled into power, either because he is the less of two grievous erils, or because the other evil looks larger for the moment through having been placed too conspicuously before the naked eye, has the sole power of selecting his colles pues, and he may fill the highest offices of the State with publicans, usurers, and drunkards at his pleasure. The party bas either to accept or reject this gang in their entirety, and as rejection means handing over the reina of authority to the bated individuals opposite, they generally take the lot. If the Hous wishes to rid tell by force of the most conspicurus imbecile in the Ministry it can only do it by rejecting the whole Cabinet, and giving the leader on the other side an opportunity to form a Ministry of his онд with some equally irremoveable human Incubus in it. Consequently the final result is a strangely anomalous one. The Parliament itself is chosen by the people, generally because they don't know any better. The Premier is selected within the House, not by a direct vete, but generally by accident, or because his voice is so loud and vociferous that it drowns all objection. And finally the Premier's colleagues are appointed without any appeal either to the House or the people, sometimes, it may be, because they have had financial dealings with their chief, some. times because their middle-headedness is e gua. rantea that they will not interfere with uncalled. for suggestions, and sometimes for an earthly reason that either they or any one else can ever discover. The spectacle of Sir Bryan O'Lophien as Premier of Victoria without a following, and of Sir Patrick Jennings as the newly-clerated leader of an Assemblythat had hardly recognised bis existence, are samples of the possibilities « the modern Parliamentary system.
of
No Ministry that, ever was ever will be constructed deserves that serve shedience which is the only condition under which an Australian or British Government can possibly maintain a post fon.
Moreover, the Swiss Constitution recognises the absolute impassibility of finding eight or nine statesmen in one small Assembly who can profess, without unscrupulous mendacity, to be practically unanimous on all questions of public policy, and it makes no effort to secure such a collection of phenomena. 1 two separate members of the Cabinet Insist on proposing
one has
mensures of a diametrically appasite character they can do so, and the House can reject one or both at its pleasure. Should any one or any half-dozen Ministers desire to retire there is Do unseemly scramble for a dissolution, for nobody has anything to gain by dissolving; the vacant places are filled up by a vote of the House, and the little commonwealth goes on its way as before. There are no frantic efforts to snatch a party victory, for the system allows no scope for the formation of parties, and even if they did exist no any special use for a party at all, and a vale of, confidence is of no valde in an Assembly which shows its entire confidence in each individual Minister by the appointment of the Cabinet, and which can get on about equally well whether it has confidence or not. There for buying up venal opponents or unreliable is no opportunity for intrigue, and no necessity. adherents, for the Government's position is secure. till the end of its term, and yet-it has little chance of abusing its trust, for it has me personal supporters whatever, and the House has no crisis to fear when it throws one Government measure
Hongkong January, 18or
THE DAIRY FARM COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. “HE Fourth Ordinary Yearly MEETING
175
TSHAREHOLDERS In the chore Com. pany will be held at the Company's Office, No. Stanley Street. Victori, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 25th day of January, 1891, at 4 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of presenting the the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to the gath.November last,
Entimations.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
INFORMATION has been received from the Military Authorities that ARTILLERY FRACTICE will take place from the East and South Shore Batteries, Stonecutters' Island, firm the 8th to 10th January, next, both days inclusive, between the hours of 9 am, and 5 p.to. daily.
The line of fire will be in a South-westerly
direction from the Batteries.
All Ships, Junks, and other Vessels are cautioned to keep clear of the range.
lly Command,
4.
F. FLEMING, Colonial Secretary, Colonial Secretary's. Office,"
Hongkong, 10th December. 1890.
NOTICE OF STH AND FINAL CALL.
LABUK PLANTING Co; LIMITED. NOTICE is hereby given that the sth and FINAL CALL of $15 per Share, on the 4,000 Shares, numbered 1001/5000 is payable to the Hongkong and Shanghaf Banking Corpora tion on or before the 13th January, 1891, and Call not paid on said date are liable to pay
· Interest af the rate of 17 per cent per annum.
The TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the thin the 15th January, 1891, both days inclusive.
TURNER, & Cost
General Managers. Hongkong, 13th December, 1800.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
the
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
A
Intimations
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of the bare Club will be held at the City Hall, an TUESDAY, the 17th of January, at 4.30 p.m. at which the following Kule will be submitted for the approval of the Meeting:-
RULE.
"If the Stewards or any tea Members of the Club who shall certify the same in writing shall
be of opinion that the conduct of any member, ither within or outside of the Class premises, ind either in matters connected with racing or therwise, has been injurious to the 'character, inforests, welfare, good sider, or credit of the Club, the Stewards shall request such member to resign, and if the member so requested shall not resign within one month after such request, the Stewa da shall convent, or call, Extraordinary eneral Meetings of the Club for the purpose of expelling the said member. Such Extraordinary General Meetings shall be convene; called and held, and the resolutions thereat shall be passed, confirmed, and circulated, in the manner prescribed by rules 31 and 32 of the Club,"
This Meeting has been called in consequence of the following written requisition, which is signed by tos resident Members of the Club.
Hongkong, gist December, 1890. To the Stewards of
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
Gentlemen,
We, the undersigned resident members of the Hongkong Jockey Club are of opinion that it is desirable for the interests of the Club that a Rule. (1700should he forthwith passed and confirmed, pr
Club of any member whose conduct, either within viding for the resignation or expulsion from the
or outside of the Club, premises, and either in matters connected with racing or otherwise; hus been injurious to the character, interests, welfare, good order or cre lit of the Club. call Fxtraordinary General Meetings of the Clu under rules 30, 31 and 32, for the purpose of passing and confirming such a rule as abara mentioned, and we suggest that such rule might be worded somewhat as follows.
NOTIC in hereby given that an EXTRA- CORDINARY, · MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, on MONDAY,
19h January, at Noon precisely, for the purpose of Confirming the Special Resolu- tinn passed this day, that the Articles of Associa: oftion of the Green Island Cement Company; Limited, te arded by adding at the end of Article oth the words following:- "Any Share, in respect of which all the Instal
"ments shall not have been paid on or "before the Sixteenth day of January, 1791, "-1) he forfeited, and any Shares so .“ forfeited shall be deemed to be the absolute *property of the Company and may be "re-allotted or otherwise raposed of as the *General Manager shall determine, and Many Member, whose Shares-shall have * been forfeited shall, notwithstanding such "forteiture, be liable to pay to the Company "all Instalments due in respect of such
Shares at the time of forfeiture," And by inserting the figures ago in the place of
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be "LOSED from the 12th to 26th instant, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
E. W. MAITLAND, Secretary, Hongkong, 8th January, 18ot.
THE HONGKONG ATHLETIC CLUB.
A
1104
MEETING of the COMMITTEE is called
for THURSDAY next, the reth fastant, at 4 o'clock pm, at the Hongkong Hotel.
BUSINESS. Election of New Members,
To decide upon the date of First Athletic
Meeting.
V. H. YOUNG, Honorary Secretary,
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Hengkang, izth January, 1891. THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, THE undersigned is prepared to purchase FRACTIONAL CERTIFICATES at current market rates. Persoas holding same are requested to apply at the Company's Office No, 4, Prays Central,
Secretary.
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EDWARD OSBORNE,
Hongkong, and December, 1890,
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB. LAWN TENNIS. SINGLE HANDICAP. ENTRIES for the above 'wil! CLOSE· on SATURDAY, the 17th inst. Members hing to enter will please sign the lists which now lying Is the Hongkong Club and ket Pavilion.
INTRANCE FEE $1.
..
ARTHUR K, TRAVERS, Hop, Secretary, H.K.C.C. jangkong, oth lanuary, 1891. C
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after another into the ash-heap. And as a respit of all these things there are no violent amaults, no strong language, and no excitement whatever nelther is there the slightest necessity for executing expensive public works on top of un inaccessible mountain peak to gratify any ina Autatial member, for that disappointed individual can't go over to the Opposition by way of a plc. turerque revenge-Switzerland has never owned sa Opposition sluce the present constitution camo Into existence a century ago. And afterviewing the matter in all its bearings, it appears to us that this country might reasonably abandon that poll ical system of shreds and patches which she copied from the grand old mother-land, and let | ↑ government by contradiction have a rest, and attempt smething on the Swiss model in lis 1 LDERS in this Company will be held at the stead, as the basis of the Consiliution of C = Hall, on MONDAY, the 26th January, Federated Australia, If there is any latent 12, at is clack nuon, for the purpose of exparity for unselfishness and honesty in the reving the Report of the Board of Directors to ther with Statement of Accounts for the chance to manifest itself; and if any ordinary yo endler 31st December, 1500.. political world, it would then have at least a
messure of honesty, is too much to expect, there
would at least be some consolation in the knowledge that our statesmen were dishonest under considerable difficulties.—Sydney Rulletin. |
Co-day's Advertisements.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, AND
CALCUTTA
THE Company's Steamship
"KUTSANG," Captain Young, will be despatched as above on SATURDAY, the 17th fast, at 3 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co,
General Managers, Hongkong, 14th January, 1801
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It is one of the proudest boasts of the average Briten that the constitution of his beloved country was not built on any definite plan, but that it grew up" in a gradual, uncertain sort of way according to the requirements of the nation. It grew somewhat lopsided, too, and became - shapeless and patchy is its formation, but the Briton regards it with a feeling of blissful con- fentment because of its growth. That lamented 'person, the recent Prince Consort, after a vain effort to discover how bis adopted country was governed or who goremed It, snce offered The peaceful little Republic of Switzerland is ate in existence which has the remark that "representative Institutions | probably the only State were upon their trial,” and whether he made | learned how to run a constitutional government
NOTICE: this observation all by himself or whether utterly respective of party considerations. In be hired somebody to assist him, it WALK
【OTICE has been received at, this Depart that plain, undigalfied" commonwealth the really brilliant suggestion for a prince to make. Premier is elected by a direct vote of the ment that the Bridge on the Pokfulam And it deserves to be kept in remembrance, for Assembly, and thus those strange eventualities, Road will be IMPASSABLE for CARRIAGES t was the only original expression he is ever by which a tenth-rito politiciză may 'rise to on the 19th and 20th instant owing to the trans. known to have made use of, and when be died at sudden eminence because he moved a vate of part of a Gun. his post a little while later, with his income in censure which met with unexpected success, and his right hand, he was still trying to fathom the chaos of party politics, and still wondering why he had never seen anything resembling the British Constitution before.
fall again as suddenly when he has reduced the
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Captain Superintendent of Police.
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ffairs of the nation to chaos, have no place in Central Police Barracks, Swiss polilties. His colleagues are elected in a similar manner, and, consequently, the Premier,
someone who bar
countries which have adopted the British system | average politician only
The first great principle of govemment in all ‚Is a than without follow following, for the
is that there must be always somebody on hand offices to distribute. The Cabinst holds office for
ready to rise and contradict the Cabinet, and
three years, and it is never defeated in the ordinary
-Hongkong, 14th January, 1891..
LOST. $10-REWARD 1
OST on or about Christmas Day a large, that the Cabinet and its supporters, must be acceptation of the terms, because the House has L BLACK RETRIEVER DOG. Answers prepared at any hour of the night or day to state never pledged itself tofollow is dictates. Its chief to the name of "HERO". Is partially blind and In general terms that the other pasty is a llar. duty is to transact ali necessary routine business deaf, de This process of incessant contradiction is under and to attend to the details of administration, Anyone returning same to the undersigned, or stood to be essential to purity of administration, but if it Introduces menines which are contrary furnishing such information as will lead to the and when there is a falling-off in the violence of to the general sense of the Diet, they as never recovery of the dog, will be rewarded as above, the contradiction it is felt that represesistire in- | passed on any mere party considerations, for the Apply to atrulions are on the decline; In other words, it sufficient reason that no pzilies exist. ...... Its in waiversally recognised that the Government is" "messuren are thrown out with the same prompthi of a low charscter, and that unless somebody 30 1,4ude, and lispartially. x5.19999 al. the,, most.
B. F. TAYLOR Sailor's Home, Hongkong, 14th January, 1891).
THONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT
ND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED. FOTICE is hereby giren that the Third Ordinary MEETING of SHARE.
the REGISTER of SHARES of the Com❘ will be CLOSED from Monday 10th ta. Monday 26th January, 1291 (both days inclusive) Boring which period no.Transfer of Shures can be registered: ?
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A SHELTON HOOPER, Secterary. Hanzkona Bih January, that,
fror THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY,
LIMITED,
OTICE is hereby given that the Second
Ninary Yearly, MEETING of SHARE
HOLDERS in this Company will be held at the City Hall, on MONDAY, the 26th January, 1891, at 11:30 am, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 18go.
Sol
The REGISTER of SHARES will be CLOSED from Monday the sath to Monday the 20th January, 1891, (both days inclosive), during which period nó Tracsafer of Shares can bo registeredi
By Order of the Board of Directora.
N
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the fieures 2.000 in Articles at and 47.
And for the purpose of confirming the appoint- ment of Mears, ARYHOLD KARBERG & Co., as General Managers.
C. EWENS, General Manager.
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Hongkong, 3rd January, 18or.
N°
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED,
TOTICE is bereby given that an EXTRA- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the City Hall Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 6th day purpose of confirming the following resolution of January, 1891, at 12 o'clerk noon, for the pused at an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held at the City Hall on Thursday the Bh January instant, viz.:-
{
Accordingly we hereby request that yen wil
(Here follows the Rule as above get out and the rames if the ten resident members).
By Order of the Stewards of the Hongkong Jockey Club.
E. H. GORE-BOOTH, Clerk of the Course, Hongkongi 9th January, 18on
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THE SHANGHAI CHROMO AND PHOTO LITHOGRAPHIC COMPANY,
(LIMITED),
Chromo Lithographers, Photo Lithographers, Lithographers Colourprinters, Colour
Manufacturers, etc. -
CAPITAL PAID UP
**--:50,000 TAELS. [********.........................” 30,000 TAELS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS: H. VINAY, Esq., Chairma JOHN MAITLAND, Esq. N. E. CORNISH, Esq. YUN ZIN CHAI, Esq. LUK KING NAM. Eq. TSO TSZE CHIM, Esq.
GENERAL MANAGER: R. A. DE VILLARD, Esq.
RANKERS: THE DEUTSCH ASIATISCHE BANK.
THE Company assisted by foreign (English) Chrome Artists and under foreign manage. ment undertake Artistic works of any kind, es reproduction of Paintings and Lithographic Art works, colour printing of any kind (almanacs, show cards, placards, plans, maps, charts, labels of every kind, Chops, etc.) in foreign and Chincas style. Embossing and printing of Monagrams, fine art letter paper, cards, programmes, menus,
"That in pursuance of the Companies (Memorandum of Association) Ordinance, 1500, the provisions of the Company's existing Memorandum of Association with "respect to the objects of the Company beet, etc. "altered by eliminating from the and and
3rd lines of the 3rd clause of the sald "Memorandum of Association the words! in #the colony of Hongkong and its Depen "dencies (but not elsewhere) and by "substituting therefor the words in any "part of the world,"
By order of the Board of Directors,
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary. ¡Hamplesse, 8th January 1801.-
NOTICE
1
1102
THE
“HE JUBILEE PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION
BALL 218 January, at 9 p.m. Admission for Gentlemen or Male Members of a Family by Ticket-only Price of Ticket Five Dollars. Ladies, Foreign Officials and Naval and Military Officers will receive invitations from the Com rhittee.
'Tickets can be obtained at the stores of Messrs. LINE, CRATFord & Co. and Masers. KILLY & WALSH, LD.
Lista will also be furnished to the Hongkong Club, the Club Germanis and the Club Lusitano, for the convenience of the Members.
By Order of the Committee.
H. E. WODEHOUSE, Hon. Sec., Jubilee Committee, ¿Hongkong, 6th January, iŝax. :
THE SHAMEEN HOTEL AND LAND, COMPANY, LIMITED.
· FINAL, NOTICE,
WALTER W. BREWER,
Sole Agent, for Hongkong and the Southern ports. Hongkong, roth November, 1890.
143 HONGKONG, CANTON, AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE Forty-ninth. Ordinary Hull-yearly MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Comi- pany, No, 18, Bank Bulidings, Queen's Ros4 Central, on FRIDAY, the 30th Instant, at a 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 Aeditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 17th to 30th instan inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
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T. ARNOLD, Secretary.. Hongkong, rath January, 1801..
THE PFAK HOTEL AND TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, OTICE is hereby given that the_FINAL
191 CALL of 10 (Tos Dellare) per Share is
OTICE is hereby given that unless the
NCALS due on the cadermentioned Shares are paid to the Company on or before MONDAY, the 19th day of January, 1891, the Shares in respect of which such cails are due, will in terms of the Company's Articles of Association bo'declared forfeited with out further notice,......
1150/1171 '. '1885/1944' 2035/2084 1335/1349
161/310 1350/1449
6761695 706 450/125
1260/1284 G14/623 1090/1104 1105/1149
531/522 533/532
711/775 695/710 594/603
10:0/1089 1700/1719
1104T1/4600
2010/1054 F1810/1819 211/310
.930/979
341/360
8447003 664/663
631/543
1740/1749
980/1019
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the Hongkong Land Investment & Agenty Co., Ld.' General Agents for the West-
Point Building Co., Ld. Honekong, 8th January, bigt, vermeľkos THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED, TOTICE is hereby given that ibe-Second
General MEETING, of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the. Com- pany's Office No.5, Queen's Bead Central, on MONDAY, the 19th January, 1891, at 19 o'clock, noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a State-1- ment of Accounts for the twelve months ending pai 31st December, 1891, 24ur
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Monday the rath to Monday the 19th inst, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer can be registered. BPW WAS SHELTON HOOPER,
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Secretary to the Hongkong Land “
Investment & Agency Co, Ld thelg Agents for the Kowloon Land and
Building Co., LA ghing, tad January,siginklumat £79:
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1750/1799 76/13
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1055/1979 669/673 797/939 1800/:824,
By order of the Board of Directors,
'J. A. BARRETTO, Secretary: Hongkong, 3rd January, 1891..........
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,
COMPETITION for the SUBSCRIP❘ TION HANDICAR CHALLENGE CUP RANGE SPOONS will be held on SATURDAY next, the 17th: insty at 5.30. 7,1, Distances Foolyarda and 900 yards.:| Ten shots at each. Any position. Entrance Fin 30 cents. A Launch will leave the, P. & O. Pier at 3 3.M. to take oYCE
and
ANC. VIVIAN LADDS,"
Hon Secretary? Mongkong, 13th January, rigść
the abova Company is hereby made, and is Payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- Ling Corporation, on or before January 20th,
189r. will be charged on all Calls overdue. interest at the rate of 12 per cent
per annum
By Order of the Board of Directors, de J. WHEELEY, Secretary. Mongkong, zoth December, Roo
THE CHINA BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED,
· NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. Tis hereby notified that the FIRST CALL
the above Company is payable to the Hongkong and Shanghat Banking Corporation on or bekwa MONDAY, the 19th January, 1891..
Interest at the rate of 12 per cent per BONEM will be charged on all calls overdon
GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co.
Arte on Agents....... Hongkong, 16th December, 1890, ·(1719.
THE CHINA SHIPPERS' MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED. A
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,... TT is hereby notified, that a CALL of £1 per Share on the original Shares to the pre Company, and a fumber Call of La per Share on the New Shares, is hereby made and le piyable to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corps- ration as follows,
The Call on the original shares on or before the roth March, 1891, and on the new shares on or before the roth April, 1891, 2nd Rensei Interest at the rate of zo per cent, per sHARA, will be charged on sil calls overdue.
LEARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.
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