NOTICE OF FIRM NOTICE.
FROM this dato, Mr. HO YUK LAU is no longer in my employs Compradore.
I am not responsible for any Contracts entered ito by him on my behalf
MESSES LAU KUK CHAU and IP LAN CHUEN have this day been appointed OOM. FRADORE to my Firm, and are responsible for all future dealings.
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CHAPTER III.
THE BAOR-EASTWAED, Bassia's railway advanos inta Asia began nearly twenty years ago; her Trans-Caspian, Trans-Cancasarian and Trans-Siberian lines have been termed strategio, built with a view to NADBURY'S CHOCOLATES, FRENCH the rapid mobilisation of troops on the different SWEETS, CALLARD and BOWSER'S frontiers of the empire. That ie the English, ASSORTED SWEETS, CRYSTALLIZED FRUITS, WAS CRACKERS, XMAS or rather the Anglo-Indian, view. All Russian CARDS BRAGAT XMAS CAKES, Lines serve a military purpose. In the Russia
empire, as in the Garman and the French, FIGS, NUTS, ko,, &e. TSHI,
H. RUTTONJEE,
No. b, D'Aguilar Street;
has been disregarded. Evidently it is expected that the line will make the country, and the Daw saltlements will be on virgin soil, spart from those sections of the country already inhabited.
The trains on the Siberian lines are all orowded. In the express trains are travellers doing the tour round the world, offloads going to distant posts, the wires and childron of oflcers stationed in Manobaria, a fer com- mercials, and some experta or anvants. There sro seven trains on this service; fivo only have the luxurious appointments known to the world through the exhibit at Paris last year. The others are plain Pullman car trains of ordinary type. Their cosmopolitan character is known to all who tour the Continent.
Then there is the fast train each day. This
takes in the first-class, officials, commercials, and traders working from town to town. Seond class, the wealthier artisans and traders
The people of Siberis are the exiles and com- viota and their descendants; the now settlers the railway hands-by far the most common
and natives, with imported coolies from China and Cares everywhere east of Lake Baikal And the best part of Siberis is that which has been improved by the labour of the Chipsman; ho is advancing westward, and it is with the Chitess question that the Russians will have to deal in settling the country. It is the wish and the intention of the Government to secure Siberia to the Russian race sleolutely, the Siberia for the foreigner is not wanted." Russians is the ory, and it is to that end that the immigration department has been organised, with the Siborian milway at its disposal as the means to its accomplishment.
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糖新賀恭 A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
財發喜恭
MOTTOIS:
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Dollar come alla same ruin
Wishing you Happiness and Longevity
Suocess Crowns your Undertakings
My chin chin in Hongkong. Makes you happy and strong
Everything as you wish
FOR SALE AT
In this way, if in no other, the railway justi-MESSES. KELLY & WALSH, LD. fes its existence, It in an all-Eassian line, MESSES. W. BREWER & CO. and if it has cost much more to construct than
would have been the ouse had the work been
is state policy to garrison districts with troops migrating towards the sunrise; third blast, given to foreign contractors, the Russians
raised in some far distant part of the country;
Nos, 30, & 40, Elgin Road, Kowloon those from the east go to the west, those from free, immigrants and settlers. Another train have gained what they needed ladly
Hongkong, 20th December, 1991.
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KIUNGCHOW DISTRICT.
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS,
No. 1b.
HAINAN STRAITS.
HAINAN REEF BUOY.
ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the HAINAN REEF BUOY has dragged
of second, third, and fourth class passenger and goods wagons conveys tho officers of the immigration department, Tree and State-aided settlers. There are special trains for the milltary, police and convlets, goods and railway construction material. Compared with English and European railways, and even with the Stato lipoe in Russia, the traffic is numerically nimportant, Excluding the military, the pas only 56,000; last year, owing to the disturbed ways, people left and subsequently returned to Eastern Siberia. This year the mining traffe
practical axperience in carrying through enginering work of the first ordor. The value of the individual experience is to some extent lost to the state owing to the fact that the con- a network of lines is entrusted to new bands. tinuation of the work of covering the east with Instead of employing the men who have gained their experience at the cost of the state, those now engaged are, with few receptions, young
長久壽福
遂順事諸
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thur
MESSES. KRUSE & CO.
MESSRS. ACHEE & CO.
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AND OTHER STORES..
RUPTURE RELIEVED AND OFTEN CURED
of
BY THE USE
OF OUR
·PATENT TRUSS INVENTION.
the body, and is very effective."
The Lancet, October 3rd, 1885, saya: “It is comfortable, adapta itself readily to the movement
British Medical Fouraul, May, 1885, mya: ̈· It is a very ingenious and successful truse." Medical Times and Hospital Garlie, 1885, maya: ** Hodges & Co. have for years past devoted their attention and skill to the improvement of trusses, for the treatment of various kinds of
the north to the south, and garrisons are not allowed to remain in one district long enough to become part and parcel of the locality. There is constant movement, and these frequent changes of station are facilitated by railways, whether they are strategic or commercial The Siberian lines were intended to open up the country; that was their primary purpose.
Much nonsense has been written respecting have been overpraised, they have been ruthlessly either very good or very nil; some are much better than others Altogether it is just a light railway, nothing more. Originally it was in-has diminished. The goods traffic amounted long tannet, or a bridge like that over the GREGRECKE
Particulars'
about 100 yards to the South East of its former the "Grint Siberian Railways." The lines songers numbered £8,000 in 1808 und in 180gineers fresh from the technical colleges, Hernia, following the principles laid down by Professor, Word, of King's College Hospital."
Due notice will be given when it is replace condemned. There are poor sections; none is state of Manchuris, the number increased both railway presented no very serions gugineering HODGES & CO., 80, COLLEGE STREET, CHELSEA, LONDON, S.W.
position,
is position.
Approved:
G. A: FORSAITH,
Harbor Master.
JAMES ACHESON,
Acting Commissioner of Customs.
Cristom House,
Kiangchow. 16th December, 1901. IEN TING.
& double
Un the other hand, it must be allowed that the
dificulties; severe winter weather was the most troublesome elemust. Nowhere has the line a
Krishna, or the Forth; when it is not running on a dead level it winds like a serpent or a menataiu' railway over hill-preser, and the few
10 and 20, FEATHERSTONE
LONDON, E.C.
(2702
STREET
& CO..
ESTA BLISHED NEARLY A QUARTER OF A CENTURY.-
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: "OREGRECKE, LONDON.”
way. The Trans-Sibarinn railway is grent only engineers of such a line as our Cambrian rail-
its length and by reason of the purpose it is GENERAL PRODUCE BROKERS. intended to seITO.
· MANUFACI URERS OF SAUCES & DELICACIES.
in
If is the trunk from which branches will be run
to 584.000 tons in 1898 and 639,000 tons tonded that the line should be af narrow gauge; then the advantages of. having the standard in 1890. The gross receipts aforage less 3251 gauge became apparent and the gango was made than £700 per mile per annum. It is, then-cattings through rock would be trifles for the
five foot. The rails weigh from forty-two to fure, ridiculous to contend that forty-eight pounds the yard; they are too light track is necessary. The Perm-Timon line, for the heavy engines and rolling stock of the the only railway in Siberis, is also single SURGEON DENTIST,
stato railways. They are just able to sustain track, but it carries over a million passengers No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREET.
The per mile yearly and its gross receipts are over the weight at low speeds, and no more. TERMS VERY MODERATE.
embankments are too narrow and too steep, the £1,000 per annum. Consultation Fres.
On all trains there is greater comfort than (2400 cuttings the same, the sleepers too soft and too Hongkong, 23rd September, 1897.
this. As a narrow-gauge railway. itile fault one expects to find; even the third-olasa pas INSURANCES
would have been found with it, but its stann-sengers have a place for their bedding, and the chest champions admit that it is inferior to the sourth has broad, rough benches and shelves, which serve the same purpose. The trains are ORTH GERMAN FIEE INSUR-average railways in Europeau Ruszió,
ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG
There are pectious which ought to be kept clean, the service is good; in short, the The Undersigned AGENTS of the above perfect, according to theory. That is to say, working staff of de line are competent men Company are PREPARED TO ACCEPT First that by the engineering text-books the embank efficiently directed and controlled, and travell- Claes Foreign and Chinese Risks at Curren
ing by train in Siberia is more comfortable than it is in Russia. The Siberian is a pioneer railway; it cannot have any large trafle until the country it traverses becomes more settled.
Rates.
ments are at the right angle, the steepers are slose enough together, and the rails strong SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 29th May, 1895.
131 auough to carry the weight. Everything has RANSATLANTIC FIRE INSU been securately calculated; but everything, too, TANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG he been made just as specified in the calculated It has no loop lines of importance; it does not
The Undersigned, having been appointe AGENTS for the above Company, are pre pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE Current Rates
SIEMSSEN & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 16th November, 1378. THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM PANT OF TORONTO, CANADA,
INCORPORATED 181. .....
CAPITAL
minimum and no margin allowed for possible compete with the river-waya, nor is it largely diference of soil and material. Consequently, served by them; neither has it diverted any con- there are, and always will be, subsidences of the siderable traffic, excepting, perhaps, the trade track, falls of loose earth in the cuttings, and in European sea-botne goods to Krasnoyarsk, spreading of the rails; therefore delays to the by the discarded Kara Sea route, and a share of traffe, which even the proposed roballasting of the caravan trade from Tarkassan. the track with broken stone will not prevent.
The speed of the trains can never be great. Short trains with a light load like the Siberian express may be able to average twenty miles an hour, the heavior, ordinary trains do not heavy goods trains rumble along like traction engines on a country roed.
WHOLESALE EXPORTERS OF
SHIPPING SUPPLIED.
POULTRY, EGGS, RUTTER, AND FARM PRODUCE.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 12750
WOODFORD GREEN
to the gold fields of the north and south. In a very short time the most important branch, that through Mobgolisto Peking, will be commuured: CONTINENTAL AND COLONIAL PRESERVED PROVISIONS,
AND DRIED FRUITS, VEGETABLES, &C. long before its completion it will live intercepted
(BEST QUALITY ONLY).· the caravan tracks and deviate the trafic în tex from the gll road and river routes to Muscovy. DEALERS IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ITALIAN Other branches will reach the mineral regions of the upper Tenissi, the Vitim gaki-fields, and tap the valley of the Zeia. By that time many cradities of the existing trunk-line will have improved. It will not be necessary for the locomotives to take reserves of water in tubs. on tracks, or for it to be pumped half a milo, or more, to tanks; the line will be properly ballasted; there will not be falls of earth down the banks every time a train passas; with the settlement and subsequent drainage of the lands adjacent to the railwaye the subsidences caused by flood water will cease,
The Siberia opened up to Russians by the railway is a land of great promise; it is not the alduindo some picture it, most certainly it is very different to the desolate waste Siberia in generally considered. Nowbers throughout its hole length does it cross or approach barred commonplace country such as one expects to find in any great British colony, and its like cau he extended far to north and south by other railways. The "Failways Siberia will want soon, but at present it wants only men, and it
wants those roan badly.
THE Undersigned, having been pointed offen zeeed twelve miles the hour, whilst the water. The post steamers are laid up in pool land. The Siberia of the railway is just plain,
AGENTS for the above Company, in prepared to ACCEPT RISKS Against FIRE at Current Rates.
WM. MEYERINK & CO.,
Agents:
1:85 Hongkong, 18th May, 1900,
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE. IN. SURANCE :00.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL
THE Undersigned, having been appointer
AGENTS for the above Company, a prepared to ACCEPT RISK! against FIRE at Current Rates.
REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & CO.,
Agents, Hongkong, 21st April, 1897
194
UN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON
FOUNDED. 1710::
The express is the safest train by which to travol; the long freight trains bring down the falls of earth and cause sabaidences of the track, and so themselves sometimes come to grief. The expresses are merely delayed by having to wait for the track to be cleared. From them strictures tas extrome eastern actions the Eastern Chinese railways-must be exempted; they are of a more solid character.
The Siberian railway consists of five different sections, the Western Siberian from the Urals to Ob, the Central Siberian from Ob to Irkutsk,
the Eastern Siberian from Irkutsk to the Man- churian frontier, the Eastern Chinese across Manchuria, the Ussari from Pogranichnaya to The Undersigned having been appointed Vladivostok, to make a through route the AGENTS for the above Company, are pave yet to be connected by the Circum-Baikal pared to ACCEPT EISKS against FIRE at line round the southern shores of the lak, Current Rates.
SIEMSSEN & CO., De Agente. Hongkong, 16th May, 1899.
L'URBAINE”-
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LD.
(Established 1898.)
EE Undersigned, having been appointed TGENERAL AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS
•st current rates.
To be cont sued.)
F you want your Boots well polished, tell your Valet or the Maid to ask for
WALTON'S BOOT CREAMS
AND VARNISHES.
The continuation of the line by the, Chilka and Amar rivom will some day have to be audertaken, as the rivers are sitting ay and each year there is less snow, owing to the destruction of the forests, and consequently less unable to pass either up or down, to settlements on the river banks. The traffic, passenger and goods, therefore passes into the hands of the private companies. It must also be said that the enptains of the Government boats will not take the risks the owner of a private boat will run. A fast steamer drawing only 34 fast has et attempted a shallow where the minimum
attempt a passage an a few inches margin if depth was five feet. The private stamer will she gets aground she backs off if she can-if she touches a bank or boulder she expects to be carried over the obstruction by the wave she has left in her wake. Going down the Amur when the water is low, is as exciting na akating over thin ice. With good luck you may be on a sandlar until all the provisions are con sumed, until the deck-passengers become Imagry and riotous, and you escape robbery and death by paying salvage rates to some passing steamer or raft. Being myself in no particular hurry, I had the barron satisfaction of the quickest passage in the month, and mat Eunson, the American boy who was racing round the world, with his pacers towing a leaky pont up- stream just as though they were out for an afternoon's holiday at Twickenham, his steamer being fast aground a few versta further down stream. The route by the river Amur does not. furnish a through connection between fast and west; it is moroly a makeshift until the railway Janary or thereabout. is opened for general trafic. The Amur valley is fairly settled, but on both banks there is some
The intention of the projectors being to open aup new country, the line does not follow the
old poet road for any considerable distance, 1 does not ran from town to down-even Tomask, the capital of Siberia, is served only by branch line some forty-eight mile long and therefore as a tourist route it is disappointing. There is plenty of interest to see in Siberia, but not from the railway. For the following ro son: Central Asia, from the Embs to Laka Baikal, is a shallow basin grooved with old waterways. Along these waterways, but above the present level of floodwater from existing of the best country for Eussian colonists in all streams, the line proceeds uniformly. For thousands of miles the passenger's views restricted to a portion of a particular valley, There is no wide expanse of open country, no bird's-eye glimpse of Siberia from the top of an elevated plateau or ridgeway. The Siberian is railway in a long, wide ditch, and the line slinks
PLEMAIRE & CO.
180 Hongkong, 7th February, 1901.
HENIX FIRE OFFICE PHEN
The Undersigned are now prepared to of INSURANCE GRANT POLICIES against FIRE at Current Rates
DOUGLAS LAFEAIK & CO,
Agents for the Fhouix Fire Once Hongkong, 17th August, 1887.
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TILE INSURANCE
1. FIRE FUNDS....................
1. AUTHORISED CAPTRAX, £3,000,000 00 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL 21750,000 00 PAID-UP-CAPITAL I
687,500 00 2,838,716 14 The Undersigned, having been appointed. AGENTS for the above Company, are pro pared to ACCEPT BISKS against FIRE at
SHEWAN, TOMES & COM
Hongkong, 3rd Jaly, 1901 SALAMANDEL FIRY INSURANDE COMPANY
from watershed to watershed, unobserved.
Siberia, and it will be oconpied long before central Biberis is colonised. The far east of Siberia, particularly the Ussuri valley, is even better; it is the pick of all Sibaria, and much of it is settled by immigrants who have arrived from Odessa by the sea route.
WALTONIAN CREAM, WHITE & BLACK. JANUE MOSCOVITE, TAN-3 SHADES. PARISIAN DRESS-BOOT POLISH.
Order from Stores or Wholesale to--
JOHN WALTON (PARIS),
MANUFACTURER,
176, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, LONDON. (275
WANTED.
HOUSE on the PEAK from 1st of
G B., Care of Daily Press Ofoe. Hongkong, With December, 1901.
NOTICE,
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Firm of JAMES WHITFIELD & CO. known in Chiness by the name of TONG- CHIONG, as obanged kanda,
All Debtors and Creditors of the Firm are requested to communicate with the undersigned as soon as possible, in order that there may be a proper settlement of their ses nnte. J. MACGOWAN, Executor of the Estate of the late
JAMES WHITFIELD. Amoy, 19th December, 1901,
+3188 ENTERTAINMENT HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
SUBSCRIPTION DANCE
To the visitor Siberia is slow to reveal herself; mid-Siberis is a land without a bill-top Thère aro villages and towns on the route, Farther east the traveller exchanges the dry TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMBRE, 1900, but as it was not for them the line was co-ditch of the milway for the wot ditch of the
£14,732,691:
strooted the stations are so far distant that it waterway. High banks chacure the view: seems a mockery to name them after the sette often the banks themselves are hidden by the ments. In fact, the statione, like the sidings, smoke from huge smouldering forest fires, hy are made at regular intervals, and the pro- the heat haze, and on the far north-east by the prinquity of a town appears to be accidental. banks of sea-fog driven inland by the provalent Where, at Petropavlovsk, the railway east wind. The beauties of Siberis, zast be sought necessarily skirts a town, the station is placed out like the big trees in the great forest, they not at the nearest convenient place to the torn are not apparat to the gaze. In verdure Siberis itself but at a point some miles away, fromis rieb, sad the further esat one goes the richer which the town can scarcely be seen. This and mors varied the growth. Sandy steppes in aid of the above SOCIETY will be held in Agenta. (1641 appears to be wilful, not accidental, the objmerga with forest, then the forest turns to apparently being to run a line through the glorious woodland with bright green prairies settled country, with stations aff zien, to and hilt stops overed with hazel and will accommodate immigrants. Repairing shops Tine The grass is breast high in the meadows, nooueary establishments, are stationed at the orchids, white sad parple. in endless variety. engine and wagon-works, offices and other gay with yellow poppies, orange Flies, and points most convenient for the railway, not whilst butterfias larger than humming birds, East Point, or from Heubers of the Committee because the spot is near a town or river, mear and brighter bund, are plentiful as cabbage of the Bocisty,
Hong kong 19th December, 1901. fasool or iron, Old Siberia, existing Siberia, moths in an English lane.
Current Rates.
T AGENTS the move Company, are THE Undersigned, having been appointed prepared to ACCEPT E1858 gast FIRE at Current Rate
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