The Archive · 1898

THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE PEWMANEN'T MEMORIAL FUND

The following are new subscriptions Messrs.

Reiss & Ca.. Tls. 100.00 Hopkins, Dunn & Ca. 1" 50.00 Arbuthnot 10.00 W. Bel 3 10.00 Siva 1" 10.00 Tittle one" s 10.00 Some friends per. A Ciatke, Esq. 42.49 Per Central Hotel list— the credit is justly due of having been the first to open up the way to this broad and MO"S, magnificent field for the enterprise of the Christian missionary, the philanthropist, andthe merchant, it is only during the gloomy reign of ignorance that the Chinese and other ustions.who do oriel things themselves think other nations cruel too; cruelty begets cruelty; ignorance in a nation produces in the national mind the belief in monstrous atrocities on the part of other nations of which those nations were never guilty. In the intellectual ocean of human_thought there is great need of many a Vasco da Gama to show the world that every nation ought to be united to every other nation in brotherly relationship. Cruelty and bloodshed will cease altogether when the nations of the world know each other better and have a.better understanding with each other.

On Friday night the decorations on the Bund were set to the greatest advantage, there being no wind to interfere with the thousands of coloured lanterns that were 88333883

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