The snoual meeting of the Shanghsi Seamen's Church and Mission Society was beld on Monday evening in the Haobary Institute. The proceedings were presided over by the Right Rev.
J. Molony, v.p., and he wa accompanied on the platform by Sir Havilland de Saosmarez, the Rev. A. J. Walker, the Rev. Ashley Paget Crofton, v.4. (Chaplain) and Dr. A. Wilder (Consol-General for the United States The Chairman la opening the meeting briefly observed that they desired to make their subscription list much larger.
Mr. Walker then read the report of the General Committee, and the reports of the Chaplain and of Mr. C. M. Manners (dealing with the work of the Tostitate) were also read. All three reports will be found in another column.
Sir Havilland de Sausmarez, io moving the reception of the reports, ssid that it gave him great pleasure to do so. What he hed to say would be confined—parti-calorly to the social side of the Io-jon and the effect upon it of certain measures which had been foreshadowed in the reporte, There was no doubt about it that an Institution such 'a8 that io Shanghai was excellent and from what he could see in the reports it vas highly appreciated. There bad been certain amount of difficulty, he understood, from time to time in meeting the requirements of a close who ought. not to be accommodated in such a place as this Tostitate. The point was that there was a certain number of prople—he would not say beachcombers, bat beachcombers and upwards—who had to looked stter because they were unable to find a bite and sap and bed to sleep in. White people could not see men of their own colour pat in the humiliating position of being compelled to sleep out country which was not their own, The result was that they had put their heads together; they were trying to devise shelter, and whilst' giving a man something to lay his head upon and something to put between his teeth, they woald pat an end to promiscuous appeals to people who felt that they were bound to do something for a may sleeping out, and would start a system where it would be necessary for a man to dea bit of honest work for what be got. (Hear hear), The result very likely would be that the undesirables would find that this wa not such s comfortable port as they thad thought; bat men who were trying, fror
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