fembers of the firm in Hongkong wore Present. The Chinese numbered about two hundred and fifty, representing the various branches of trade, and they were entertained by Chinese marionnettes and music.
On the request of the Chinese guests, Mr. Ng Kwai Shang, Secretary to the Chief Manager of Messrs. Wingkee & Co., was selected as spokesman.
Mr. P. Sachse, having shaken hands with his guests, the spokesman stepped forward and said Mr. Sachse and members of the noble house of Messrs. Carlowitz and Co. It is my most pleasing duty to address you on behalf of the Chinese merchants of this colony who have had business transactions with your firm for several years and who are invited here this evening by your noble house to celebrate the jubilee anniversary of your establishment in China. There are other gentlemen who would be far better able to perform this very pleasant task than myself, but I hope you will excuse any shortcomings on my part. Gentlemen, the address which I will presently read will convey
our real sentiments and feelings on this auspicious occasion, and it is unnecessary for me to say more.
With your permission I will now read the address:-
Hongkong, 28th December, 1895. To Mesra Carlowitz & Co., Merchants, Ice House
Street, Hongkong.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
However, that our firm has been prosperous and successful, our thanks are in a very great measure due to the Chinese, who have supported us largely in our export, import, shipping, and insurance departments, and who have stuck to us in friendship and faithfulness, and when on this occasion I express my heartiest thanks to the Chinese merchants and traders for all they have done towards us in the past, I sincerely trust that they will in future also favour us with their valuable support and stick to us in friendship and faithfulness as hitherto.. In expressing my heartiest thanks once more I wish you all prosperity, a dourishing trade, and long life and happiness.
Mr. FRANCIS TSE YAT. Chief Manager of Wingkee & Co., replied to this toast on behalf of the guests in a very fow well selected words.
Several other toasts were then drunk and the proceedings terminated with a toast to the health of Mr. Man Kwong Thin, compradore of Messrs. Carlowitz & Co.
The following was the bill of fare: 1. bird's nest: 2 sharks fius with grabs 3. béche de mer and pigeon: 4. boiled pigeon eggs; 5, turtle with almond soup; 6. fish maw; 7, roust fowl; 8. stewed fungus; 9. boiled shell- fish aud scallions: 10. fried pork; 11. minced quail: 12, fried chicken and ham: 13, stewed champignons with chicken: 14. crabs and chry. santhemum 15. garoupa 16. stewed seaweed; 17, fried prawns and bamboo shoots; 18. chicken juice and green vegetables; 19. partridge
Gentlemen,-We the undersigned merchants, compradores, and traders, residents of Hongkong, who have had business dealings with your good-gruel; desert, pastry, and fea. selves for very many years past, desire, on your celebrating the Jubilee of your firm, to offer you our hearty congratulations and to express the high regard and esteem we entertain for you,
We have found you straightforward, very oblig- ing, and most liberal in all your transactions with -us and we very greatly appreciate the courteous
treatment we have always received at your hands.
The numerous signatures appearing in the ap pended lists, representing the business class of the Chinese community, will afford you the best testi- mony of the widespread appreciation entertained of your business transactions in Hongkong.
(Here follow signatures.)
Mr. NG KWAI SHANG then proposed the toast of Messrs. Carlowitz & Co., wishing them suc. cess in all their undertakings, coupled with the -name of Mr. Sachse.
The toast was drunk amidst enthusiastic cheering.
THE MISSIONS TO SEAMEN TEA AND MEETING.
The annual tea and meeting in connection with the Hongkong branch of the Missions to Seamen was held on the night of the 27th Dec.. in the Sailors' Home. Alout 150 persons sat down to tea, after which Commodore Boyes pre- sided at the meeting. The room, which had been prettily decorated, was packed and the proceed In conclusione trust that our connections withings were pleasantly interspersed with carols by your firm will be ever increasing and we earnestly wish you and the individual members of your firm
the choir and songs by ladies and gentlemen.
The CHAIRMAN said he was glad to see 80 health, wealth, and prosperity.We renain, your most obedient servants,
many present who were interested in the suc. cessful working of the mission, and it was gratifying to know how many seamen of the merchant service had attended the different services. supported him the sincerest thanks were due; To Mr. Iliff and all those who had
apparent even to those closely connected with the good work done by them was not altogether the mission; the real amount of good done was known only to God. Many men had been able through the afforts of the mission to preserve their self respect; they were able to distinguish what was good from what was bad; in the moment of temptation, they had done what was good. We had all done good and bad actions. Take the good actions, and forget the bad. Perhaps only one or two know of the good ones, such as being generous, charitable, and kind. Perhaps the doer had had no reward and not many thanks, but in times of sickness it was a great solace to him to know that he had done worthy acts towards others. Every one hoped that Mr. Goldsmith would benefit by the holiday he was now taking in England. When he left Hongkong he could scarcely speak; he was pale and thoroughly worn out, and the work had so fatigued him that he (the speaker) thought he would never be well enough to return. Everyone wished him good health and strength. (Applause). There was a great necessity for building in Hongkong an institute similar to the one in Kowloon, where men could go and get a good meal, a bed, and a read with- out spending anything for the "good of the house;" where they would not spend a lot of money on liquor which perhaps they did not want. Mr. Goldsmith was now busily engaged in collecti subscriptions in England towards the funds necessary for the erection of such a needed building, and it was to be sincerely hoped that the money would soon be forthcom- ing. (Applause).
Mr. SACHSE replied as follows:-My Chinese friends, it affords me great pleasure to thank you heartily for having accepted our invitation to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the firm of Carlowitz and Co. in China with us and I beg to thank you likewise, Mr. Ng Kwai Shang, for the kind words you have spoken with reference to the firm and myself, and I also beg to thank you all for the kind way in which you have received this toast Fifty years are a very long period in human life and among us assembled here, who number over two hundred and fifty persons, there are hardlý ten or fifteen men who have reached that age. When in 1840 the beautiful sland of Hongkong was ceded to Great Britain y the Chinese Government some enterprising Germans left the shores of the Fatherland for the southern part of China. The most prominent amongst them were Mr. von Carlowitz, Mr. Siemssen, and Mr. Pustan, and 80 in 1841 old Mr. R. von Carlowitz came out via the Cape of Good Hope in a schooner deeply laden with goods manufactured in Germany and went straight up to Whampoa, here he exchanged his goods for articles of China produce, such as gallnuts, musk, cassia, tes, and silk, thereby establishing a regular trade between China and Germany. On the 1st January, 1846, Mr. von Carlowitz founded the house of Carlowitz & Co. at Canton; he retired in 1873 and died in 1886. He was very success- ful in his business transactions with the Chinese and established another branch at Hongkong n 1866, to be followed by another at Shanghai 1877 another at Tientsin în 1886, another at mburg in 1887, another at Hankow in 1891, nd another at Newohwang in 1895, so that firm now has seven branches in all.
Mr. MAKEHAM then read the following report:-
The year that is now drawing to a close pre- sents a contrast to 1894, for which we must be deeply thankful the almost total absence of the plague epidmic. Much sickness has, how.
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munity, and the work of the mission has neces- ever, prevailed amongst the European com sarily suffered through the illness of Mr. Gold- smith, in the first instance, and from the attacks of fever to which both the acting chaplain and the reader have been subject.
been the opening of the Kowloon institute, The most important event of the year has which took place ou 2nd April, thus providing a suitable building for the recreation both of the naval and merchant seamen while on that side of the harbour, as well as for the troops sta- tioned at Kowloop. The Institute was declared open by H.E. the Governor, who was supported. on the platform by his Excellency the General Officer Commanding, Commodore Boyes. P.N., the Right Reverend Bishop Burdon, D.D., and others. After the opening ceremony a tea and social evening were provided for about 200 men. We are glad to say that the building has now for some time been free from debt.
On 11th April the Rev. A. G. Goldsmith left for England, for a period of much needed rest and change. It is with much thankfulness. that we have since learnt of his complete. restoration to health.
The work afloat has been carried on as in former years. Services have been held wherever practicable. A new departure has been made in the holding of regular services on board the Empress steamers on Sunday afternoons. The acting chaplain has, however, felt the difficulty: of taking up the threads of a work which has been the growth of nearly ten years' labour,. and he trusts that allowance has been made by the officers and men with whom he has come in contract for any apparent shortcomings.
A long felt want in the reading room at the; Sailor's Home has been recently supplied in: the present of a new piano through the kind- ness of several ladies and others, and the weekly gatherings have been greatly improved thereby.
The Tuesday social evenings have been con- tinued without intermission throughout the year and our warmest acknowledgments are due to the many friends who have so kindly and willingly provided these entertainments.
On Christmas afternoon a party of about seventy seamen from the Sailors' "Home and ships in port went in a launch to Little Hong: kong, returning in time for a Christmas tea provided by the Home, followed by an entertain- ment in the reading room. The brig Star once again appeared in port and in the course of. the evening discharged her cargo,
The Mission launch Dayspring continues to do valuable service in the harbour. The Hong- kong and Whampoa Dock Co. have again docked and thoroughly overhauled her. For this and many other kind services we give them, our warmest thanks.
We also desire to record bur thanks to those who have contributed by gifts of coal and in; other ways towards the working expenses of the little craft, and to Mr. G. B. Dodwell and Mr. E. Osborne for the kind loan of a launch while the Dayspring was laid up. To the many. friends who have assisted the work by gifts of periodicals, newspapers, &c. we are extremely grateful. Good magazines, &c., are much needed, first for use in the reading rooms and afterwards to be sent to sea
The "Star" coffee house continues to be well patronised by seamen when on shore from their ships. The smallness of the premises is, how- ever, a great drawback and considerably impairs the usefulness of such a necessary resort for those who are "strangers in a distant land." Mr. Goldsmith is endeavouring to raise funds in England so that a more suitable building may be obtained. About £2,600 is needed for this purpose.
To all those who have contributed in any way towards the support of the Mission we tender our warmest thanks. In conclusion, we ask the prayers of all our friends that the "Lord may indeed go before us" and that all our work may be "begun, continued, and ended in Him."
STATISTICS-Ships visited, 1,329, Mission helpers enrolled, 1; Mission associates enrolled, 1; Temperance men enrolled, 172; bibles sold, 36; prayer books sold, 3; bags of reading dis- tributed, 180; seamen attendances at Divine Service (including daily morning prayers), 7,764; Temperance meetings, 2,991, Tuesday concerts, 4,906; services afloat, 1,006; seamen communicants, 98; seamen using Dayspring
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