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HHAD OFFICE – TOKYO
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SHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE ́UB A TRIAI,
FRANCISCO THE YAT, General Manager
Boogkong, Aagant 12, 1908.
SAINT-RAPHAEL
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Very palatable,
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Each bottle of genuine VIN SAINT-RAPHAËL bears, in addition
to the registered trade-mark :
10 The WARRANTY STAMP of the UNION, DIE FABRICANTU.
(3) A METAL SKAL advertising CLITEAS.
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purety and faultless preparation. To be taken en a lump of sugar.
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THE STORY AS TOLD IN NEW YORK AND LONDON.
TEL. ADDRESSES for above:
Na Fonx, May 1, Codes:-A1, ABC 5th Ed. Western Union.contined to surround the wreck of the Down to a las hear last night mystery
Patio Mail Steamship Coxapany's liner Siberia of Al count of Forces. The vessel, which was ont
Sun Franssen to Manila, carries, * voyaga
it is stated.. 221 passengers, and a crew of about 200 on board. The passengers inclado the wife of Mr. Harries, Singapore: Messre Borneo Co. Mrs, entiers, with of the British Consul Governor Charral of the Philippines, and Ltd.
is Manila GLASGOW: Messrs A. R. Brown, McFarlane & Co., Ltd.
MANILA: Messrs hlacoudray &
Co.
For particulars, apply to
K. KATO.
Mor No. 2. PEDDER SZENT,
HONGKONG.
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THE "STAR" FERBY CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAKEHOLDERS.. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ANNUAL MEETING of this Company will be held at the fices of Mesars, JARDINE MATREON & CO., LTD.. on THURSDAY, the 26TH MAY at 18.30 r.. for the purpose of receiving the Report the Directors together with a statement pf Accounts to 30th April, 1914.
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from SATB PaY. 23rd to THURSDAY, 28th instant
the SIXTEENTH ORDINARY
of
inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directorai
W. S. BROWN,
Secretary,
Hongkong, May 16, 1914.
IA. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED
N°
627
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-NINTH ́ANNUAL
INVITATION Cards, Manus, Dance and ENTERTAINMENT Programmes, Circulars, Pamphlets, "Bonk, FROSPEC-ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of "USES, WINE LISTS, ETC., ETC., ETC
Obtain quotations from.
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Wireless sighs were hard Japan down to ten o'clock lass tight (Japanese time), but havo dos cessed, and this fact causes grave anxiety.
Steamers and warships have gone to the rescue, but nothing has yet been heued from them...:
Grave Reports.
·
Min W. F. Bywit, who was on her way to the Philippines to be married,
Insured for #350,000......
ON HIS MAJESTY'S "SERVICE.
TENDERS are invited for the supply af
CARPENTERS, FITTERS BLACEBSITES, HIMMERNEN. CAULKER PLATERS. PLUMBER.
PAINTERS & Scraters.
Our Magine Insurance Correspondent
dominate the market has been that ar writes a casualty that yesterday
the Pacifio. Steamship Company's Linear
beria, which has gone ashore on Sama- Seas: When the Siberia stranded she mana Island, of Formosa, in the Chine
was a voyage from San Francisco to Manila, via Tapou. The insured value of the hull £250,000, a large part of which!
British cruiser Yarmouth has proceeded is covered by British insurers.
Too
|_ SADEMAKERS on LastlyONEERS. to her assistance, and a salvago steamer to H. M. NAVAL YARD. has also left Hongkong for Formoss. If 4. Forms of TENDER can de obtained ut necessary powerful salvage steamers will the Chirr Constrictar's Orvice. H&M. be sent from Japan. The seriousness of NAVAL TARD, Hongkong, and should this casualty is rofected in the rate for be Blted in and returned as indicated in reinsurance of 50-55 guiness per cent. Tender. Form not later than noor SATUR- This is the third serious casualty in re-
DAY, 6TH JUNE, 1414.
cont years to Amèrican steamers in these Far East Waters, the others being tha Dakota and the Empress of China, which together ran into nearly half a million.
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ER. BATE, M.IN.A.
Chief Constructer,........ Hongkoon, May 25, 1914. j. -652
NOTICE
The Business, and goodwill of t
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
New Youx, Friday. Revu unxiety is felt here for the safety
The Siberis is a twin-screw steamer, of of the Pacifia mail steumer Siberia, bound 11,284 bons grows, and is 551, long by for Masila, which is reported to have 6ft 5ean. She was built at Newport foundered near Formosa She carried Nows, in 1901, for the Pacific Mail Firm of ARTHUR NILSSON & Company 1 passengers and a crew of 200. The Steamship Company, of New York, and carried on by War A Yox at York Build- British cruiser Minotaur was reported to is fitted with submarino, signalling 84|ing, Chater Rod. Hongkong under the have reached the scene of the accident, but no details of rescue are forthcoming. According to the latest information, which coines from Hongkong, the Siberia is ashore on Samasana, ng island of the Foros st. She left San Francisco on April 7. und was fast reported from
Sagasaki, bound for Mamis.
Among her passadeurs sro Jm. Francis Burton Harrison, wife of the Governor General of the Philippines, and Mrs. John B. Rentiers, wife of the newly-appointed British Consel of Manila.
Despatches from the capital of For mosa bring an alarming intimation that Chinese pirates bad something to do with the disaster.
from the Siberia were heard on the const Repeated wireless calls for sevistanca the Company (since its registration) will be of Japan from an early hour this morn- held at the HoxONG Horts, Harghong
on FRIDAY, the 20th day of May, 1914 ing and up to ten o'clock ab night. Then
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Al. for the purpose of receiving ther crised muúdonly, the Repot of the Goastal Managers to gether with a Statement of Accounts to the
MARTY SIGNALS,"
all sa wiralem..
style or Firmade of MAB
of ABCBUR Suma Sana, upon which, according to NILSSO Company has This "Day besu acquired by AB. THE SWEDISH the information received at Lloyd's the TRADING Company in CHINA (Limited) Siberia struck, is a small island shout twonty miles distant from the South Fastorn cost of Formos, almost parallel with the town of Pion. The whole.
loudity is an extremely dangerous DUF for navigation, abounding, as it does, in rocks, many of them still uncharted. Between the southern and of Formosa and the island of Lusen (Philippines) thero is an unbroken chain of rocks and small islands.
SUBMARINE, SIGNALA.
Heard at Miles Distance.
جنيه
In his report on the work of the Hydro- graphio Department of the Admiralty for last year, Captain Herbert Cut C.B.,
Compay duly registered in Stockholm is sccordance with the requirements of the Jaws of the Kingdom of Sweden.
Dated Vils 25c3 day of May, 1914.
LBTHE SWEDISH-EADING- COMPANY IN^CHINA' (Li».)
A. NILSSON,
Managing Director.
NOTICE.
THE DOLLAR MARK
(Submourbar mac siden ohi nyegime, service the Brat consideration here is perfeck vatisfaction in ginenea and zar patrons never find reason to cumplain of our charges.
We use every scienti- 'fo method of value, in,
testing the sight.
«FOR-ALL-RYE TROUBLES" CONSULT US.
CLARK & Co
YORK BLOGS,
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FOR SALE.
ABOUT 800 lbs. ENGLISH TYPE
Clarendon and Nompstall (Madsen)
somplete Brunt, Incimting fals
HAVE This Day REMOVED par W Offer from Queen' Building to Tork Building (Top F1 or) Chater Road.
A. B. THE SWEDISH TRADING PAR
COMPANY IN CHINA (LAD)
(Incorporated in Sweden)
A. NILSSON,
Managing Director.
Houghoog, May 23, 1914.
651
31st December, 1913.
The Siberia signalled repeated for aid The 3 REGISTER of SBARES of the from Int. 22.40 long. 121.10, but did not do some intorssking experiments HONGKONG & CHINA GAB Co., Lơn. Company will
CLOSED from TUES-explain the exact nature of the disaster i made incidentally by the surveying ship DAY. the 28th May to TUESDAY, the sha was then er Kasbo Island, siz
Endeavour, under Captain F. C. Leas
NOTICE 2nd June. 1914 both days inclusive, during
THE OHINA MAIL OFFICE 5, Wyndham Skreen
Buropean Supervision
Moderate Price, registered,
A Natural
Remedy
Time was when disease was thought to be due to the direct influence of evil spirits, and exorcism and magic were invoked to cast it out
Science has taught us wisdom The evil spirits exist still. We call them "Disease Germs," and they also must be cast out. Once lodged in the stomach or intestines, fever with it hallucinations, or biliousness with its aches and pains, is the result.
ENO'S
FRUIT SALT
is the approved remedy for driving out disease germs. Its action is quick and thoroug
clears the intestines, rouses the torpid liver to new life, stimulates the mucous membrane to a hea action and cleanzes and invigorates the whole digestive tract.
It may be safely taken at any time by old.
effect
under what circumstances the submarine
In good condition Band offers to
*TIPO,"
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NEW DRESS MATERIAIS
SMART HATS
MENATOR ARO
SUMMER WEAR
BAINCOATS, EMBRELLAS.
KALSUNT
Ready Made Dresses.
BON TON
which period no transfer of shares can be miles. Taito,and vessels sent from mouth, to ascertain at what distance and REDU EION IN PRICE OF GAS.
Karenko would take six hours to reach bell of the recently established Swarte THE HONGKONG CHINA GAS JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, her 27
Bank Light, vessel could be heard, The COMPANY LTD, begs to inform General Managers.`.. An early report said the line was sink result of these experiments was that the public that on and from the 1st July Hongkong. May 29, 1914
644ing, while a later message conveyed the
of One for all purposes Information that she was schors six miles under the most favourable circumstances exf the of the south-east mainised of Formos, bell was heard up to a dietazos often cable feet
with the ship under way the submarine WILL BE REDUCED to $2.00 per 1,000 WORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE |lighting"" Boating, cooking, or powerám
Island. The Japanese Government des patched the steamer Kanto Mar from the ship placed ab right angles to the same date,
miles, and with the engines stopped sąd Formoss to aid her wi soon as the new of thus trouble was recived, flip
The first wirsice message came dizant BIOGRAPHIES of ur ociety and of from the Siberia curry this morning, to
WHO'S WHO IN JAPAN EDITED AND PUBLISHED 28. KURITA The first (1813 edition already insid
are well-known in of
several bumired fordgaery isscciated with the Japanese wireless station at Aseta Japan appear in the book quite newly off the cost of Klushiu Island 1 materials and accurate sketches, both being conrayed the information that the steam- utterly free from prefadios.
er had pues with an accident, and was in Castrese.
Many portraits are inserted. The book ontain over 1,400 pages.
The
a price is yen 5 (12/.) or 83 per cong, Order for the book should be accompanied by payment.
Subscribers for the second annual edition:
The message was mutilated, and no farther definite, intelligence could be gleaned from it
of Who's Who in Japan) will be allowe. The plight of the Biberia was communi
a redaction of one yen.
direction of the light vessel the bell w ward up to a distance, of
AMERICA
Launch of Shamynak IV
Lipton's latest Americs Cup, shal
The launch of Shamrock, LV., Sir Tho
has now been', fized to faks Meera Camper and Nichelin
mated by "wiceless also, to the steamer - Gosport on Monday, May
The registered postage in 15 ten, to Kores | Mimosova, df the Great Neethara Stento. Those will bezia in the Brus and Obins 40 seu and to Europe & America ship Company, whit 70 non or 35 canta,:""
way to Naganki,
IT a Goon ADVzETISING. MEDZOMAARU yer Minotaur." The
mod
making, hoz, m
Adors will be principe
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course entirely
Many insuential papers of the world would have lakan her to the east of Forester and notel
noticed this work in the highest terms,
For example, The Daily Mail mystere Yet another Who's Who and this abou time from Japan 1: The reader is Kpt'al first to regird it as a evriosity, A SU that the East has now become Western practically almost to the last detail, Ban Who Tu Japan - fa fare moka, they
orsons in thog fag the second,"
In Earo
SHINAKED STRATEG
COUGHING CONS
All discounts will be withdrawn, from.
By ouler of the Directors,
GEORGE CURBY,
Local Secretary,
SEKS ENSTTRAKCE
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