Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE
HE Undersigned bave received instruc
tions to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, on
WEDNESDAY,
the 22nd June, 1904, at Noon, alongside Messrs. Douglas, Lapraik & Co.'s Wharf,
The Steam Launch
"FIREFLY," Length 35 feet, Breadth 8 feet 3 inches, Depth 4 feet 6 inches, Engines 2 H. P 4 inches, Stroke 5 inches, Boiler 1.0 lbs, Keel condensing and feed healing,
Three months old. Shelter deck house forward for 10 persons. She has a Government Licence to carry 17 passengers,
TERMS usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 17th June, 1904.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1904.
Intimations.
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED.
1
PPLICATION has been made to the APICAL MANAGERS of this Company to issue to the RUSSO-CHINESE BANK of Hongkong duplicate certificates for Twe Hundred Shares in the above Company or other certificates in lieu thereof upon the State. meat that the original certificates, viz :-- Scrip No. 69 Nos. 17,826/17,850-15 shares in
the name of George Hutton Potts.
Scrip No. 379 Nos. 36,388/36,419-50 shares in
the name of Catchick- Paul Chater
Scrip No. 380 Nos. 16,430/36,479-50shares in
the game of Catchick Paul Chater.
Scrip No. 550 Nos. 44,759/44,783-25 shares in
the name of George Hution Polts."
Nos. 5151/5,475) Scrip No. 873.)
3.326/3.3503 the name of Solomon Sassoon Benjamin.
200 Shares
have been lost or destroyed. Notice is hereby given that if within Thirty days from the
THE Undersigned have received instructions First June instant no claim or representation
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
on
WEDNESDAY,
the 22nd June, 1904, 81 2.30 P.35, at their
SALES ROOMS, No. 8, Des Voeux Road,
(Corner of Ice House Street),
The Wreck of the French Steamer "HOIHAO," as she now lies stranded in South Channel in Hainan Strails, naar Hainan Head.
TEAMSAs usual,
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Tiongkong, 17th June, 1904.
Ensurance.
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NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG
THE
HE Undersigned AGENTS nf the abuse Company are prepared to accepirat Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS A CURRENT RATIS.
SIEMSSENAA
Hongkong, 18th May, 180c
Entimations.
DOCTOR.
ANTED IMMEDIATELY for EMI- GRATION STEAMER. Must be a
WAY
British subject.
Apply-
"TCE D.."
Cja Hongkong Telegraph Office
Hongkong, 15th June, 1904.
WANTED.
TRADE IN HUMAN LIFE,
DREADED OBeaḤman of JAMAICA KILLS FOR GAIN,
In Jamaica, the most beautiful of the West Indian Islands, there slumbers beneath the smiling exterior of things a volcano of dark superstition and savage fanaticism, which occa- sionally becomes active with deadly results. The high priest of Obi or the obeahman, as he is more commonly called, wields a power in the land that the stringent measures adopted against him by the British government have been unable to put down,
A WOMAN'S TERROR.
THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING BLIND,
WHAT DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS SAVED
HER FROM.
Mrs. Young, 87, Yorkhill-street, Overnewton, Scotland, suffered, as the result of almost entire bloodlessness, from a very severe form of chronic Dyspepsia or Indigestion. This led to a diseased state of the Liver, which (as often happens) caused the optical illusion of black specks floating before the eyes. Not under standing her ailment, Mrs. Young was greally alarmed, and thought she was going blind, Anemia or bloodlessness is often a cause of Indigestion.
Conie-
One may read in the Tamaica papers quite frequently of the imprisonment and, where
Our food nourishes us by being dissolved in murder can be proved, the execution of some
the stomach and absorbed by the blood. If this member of the deadly brotherhood of Obi.
The practice of obeah is said to have first blood is in a thin, watery state, which is really arisen in Egypt, taking its name from the idol what Doctors mean when they say we are continent of Africa, and with the importation Anemic, or have "Too Little Blood" (the -50 sharesin of slaves from the Guinea coast to the West same thing put into English) it is unable to
Indies was transplanted to a soil in which it absorb nourishment from the food. flourishes with ever-increasing virulence. The quently we become thin, pale and weak, and old planters were aware of the deadly character the stomach is imitated by the presence of food of the obeahman, and as it was supposed that which it cannot digest, and that is what we he carried his magic, or obeah in his bait, all call Indigestion, or, if we prefer to speak Greek instead of good, plain English, Dyspepsia. The slaves were shaved before being landed.
One of the most noted men of Jamaica, Liver suffers along with the stomach from the in respect of such original certificates is made to the General Managers they will then proceed Judge Joseph Huriburi, in sentencing an obeah-inability of the blood to do its work, and then to deal with such application for duplicates. man convicted of the poisoning of an entire we have Bile, a nasty, dull pain between the family to death recently, said: "It is my belief shoulders, spots floating before the eyes (asen JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
that a special statute should be put into effect by ourselves, but of coke invisible by other General Managers.
against this baneful practice. 1 do not doubt people), and presently disease of the Kidneys, Hongkong, 10 h June, 1904.
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many men quite as dangerous as this prisoner which gives rise to a pain in the small of the are at large to-day.. Obeah is the most serious back and other symptoms. .
Now, the old-fashioned way of treating such problem the modern West Indies have to face.
a state of the body is to excite the stomach by No man can be said to be safe from sudden
opening medicine, antibilious death until this thing is stamped out by the purgatives
pills, and other irritating drags, still ignorantly most stringent measures,"
Outwardly there is nothing to distinguish taken by many people. But the new, scientific the obeahman from the ordinary villager, unless cure is to remedy the cause of the disease by it is perhaps his sinister look and peculiar taking something which enriches the blood and Dr. Williams' Pink slouching gait, as, carrying in one hand a long purifies it of bad matter. stick and in the other a cotton bag containing Pills for Pale People make New Blood, This bits of broken bttles, cats or dogs' teeth, nails, New blood, rich, pure and (what is very im- bones, pins, bits of cloth, &c., he shuffles along portant to women) regular, absorbs nourishment the country roads or back trails on some deadly from the food, and not only cares the lodiges- mission. Besides his more sinister trade of tion itself, but also greatly strengthens the body, death the obeahman deals in love philters and giving plumpaess and a good colour to the charms. It is, too, a well-known fact that in cheeks and lips. It is, in fact, New Life. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People give New cases of law suit an obeahman is retained as well as a lawayer. Usually be "works" at Bload with every dose, and their wonderful home on the case, but occasionally he accom-effect is quickly felt, especially in the appetite panies his client to court for the purpose of and digestion. casting spells on the prosecutor and his
THE
ROBINSON
PIANO
Co., LTD.,
INVITE INSPECTION OF SOME
SPECIALLY
FINE
It was this modern, scientific treatment which
witnesses and influancin the judge and jury.cured Mrs. Young. She says:-
The obeahman is well versed in all the vegetable poisons of th - island, and sometimes cultivates in some remote valley in the moun- tains a patch of deadly plants. He knows that the presa ce of vegetable poisen is much harder to deleer than that of mineral. One of his favourite methods of poisoning, which is
SAMPLES diabolical in its ingenuity, is to soak the under
OF
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UPRIGHT PIANOS
RACHALS,
A SMALL STORE IN CENTRAL OF
QUEEN'S ROAD.
Apply to--
Hongkong, 9th June, 1904.
NOTICE.
COKE AND TAR.
garments of an imended victim in a strong decoction of poisonous herbs. The poison in, of course, absorbed by the perspiring body of the owner of the "doctored" garments, and his mysterious death soon follows.
Fqually dreaded with the obeahman are the "mail people," or the "fan-eyed." The mail; man is believed to injure his own orbis clients' enemies by depriving them of their shadows. It is believed that once the shadow of any
STUART, one is taken he can never be healthy, and
"B. C."
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&C..
&c.,
THE HONGKONG AND CHINA CAS COMPANY beg to notify the public
-AND-
&c.,
that Messri. KUNG HING & Co., 474 Des BABY-GRANDS,
Voux Road West, are the SOLE AGENTS
for the Sale of the Company's COKE and TAR and that all Orders should be sent to the said Agents direct.
GEORGE CURRY, Local]Secretary.
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Hongkong, 8th June, 1904.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
BY
WINKELMANN,
(Established 1837).
In Casks of 375lbs, net $4.75 ex Factory.
They are only 5 FEET LONG, occupy- In Bags of a gobs, net $2,85 ex Factory.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
ing the space of a Cottage, but with Gederal Managers, Hongkong, 15th August. 1903
the fine appearance and TONE OF A ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN. FULL GRAND.
Marshall and
Elvy's
D
Satinette
DOUBLY DISTILLED
AND OP MATURED AGE.
TO BE OBTAINED FROM---
THE MUTUAL STORES,
Das Vaux Road.".
Hongkong, 11th May, 1904,
FOUND..
(608
T ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, on the
Owner can havs same on application to--
THE DIRECTOR,
A erasing of the 13th gilt, an OVERCOAT.
St. Joseph's College, Robinson Road
Hongkong, 13th May, 1904
THE HONGKONG STUDIO,
HIGHER CLASS PHOTOGRAPHER, 41 & 43, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, TOP FLOOL
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DORTRAITS, GROUPS and ENLAR
and COPYING is all Sizes.
Large SELECTION OF VIEWS ALWAYS
ON HAND.
-PRICE VERY MODERATE, Hongkong, 13th September, 1903-
MEE CHEUNG,
PHOTOGRAPHER,
: TOP FLOOR OF JER HOUSE, IN
Acu-House Roit,
he
Mrs. Young. (From Photograph by Turnbull & Sons,
Glasgow.)
"Some time ago I was operated upon for a in the event of his failing to recover it
must inevitably pine away and die. serious inward complaint, which left me weak The shadow, when taken, is supposed to take and ill. I hardly had strength enough to walk. Everything I did was painful. I seemed up its habitation in the giant cotton or ceiba almost bloodless. If I walked but to the end trea. This tree, like the Druidicai oak, is still of this street I felt so faint that I clutched at worshipped in Jamaica, and sacrifices are offered the railings to avoid falling, I could see black at its roots to appease the wrath of the "dup-specks in front of my eyes, making me partially blind. This greatly alarmed me, as I bad a pies," or evil spirits. So great is the Jamaican great horror of going blind. In the moming veneration for the cotton tree that one is never felt sick, my month was dry, and my breath cut down, it being the belief that in such a case horrible. I really thought that I was slowly "the deaths," dwelling in its buttresslike roots, but surely dying. would enter the ax-wielder's soul.
The ceremony of recovering the "taken shadow is very curious. The "shadow-catchers are known as "angel men." They charge ex orbitant pricer for their. work, and are the aristocracy of their profession. The person desirous of regaining his shadow must neither drink nor smoke for several weeks.
When he is declared "fit" by the "angel man" the whole village troops to the bearest cotton tree and, forming a ring, dances about the "worker" and his client, chanting:
Lord, have mercy, ob! Christ, have mercy, oh ! Obeah pain hot, ohl Lord, we come le (for) pull he, obl A no we put he, oli!
A pirit tek be, oh!
An' we come fa puli he, oh! Shadow, you fadder want you, oh ! Bway, you fadder want you, ch Bwoy, your modder want you, oh! Foster and faster the ring circles, till many fall exhausted. When the angel man" con cludes things have gone far enough he gives the signal to stop, and declares his client restored to health. Then the cotton tres is pelted with eggs and newly killed chickens placed at its roots to compensate "the desthe" for the low of their shadow.
However childish the obsahman and his devices may appear to the enlightened foreigo reader, he is a very real and very serious mentes to the West ladies.
With a compound of the fine far from the Inside of the bamboo he inoculates his white enemies with the sends of tuberculosis. With ground glass placed in their food he prepares the way for an agonising death. So fully does be work that the victim, while conscious of feeling ili, doar not realize till too late that he has incurred soms servant's hatred for some probably fancied injury, and that the obeshman (I has been called in.-New York Times.
*
LEARN SHORTHAND AT HOME by correspondence to weekly lessons will make you perfect. ...
"I chanced to read of a person who had been cured of a similar complaint by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and I decided then and there that I would try them. I was amared at the improvement even before I had got through the first bottle. Food, for which I had had such a distaste, was now enjoyable, and by the lime 1 bad finished the contents of the second bottle, I was in splendid health. I could walk about with ease, and could mount the stairs without stopping for breadth; and I had no more of the fearful headaches which had been so overpowering. The nasty taste in my mouth also disappeared, as well as the sickness in the morning. I used to be as white as the tablecloth, bot since taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I have had a healthy colour. And they bave had another effect on me. Before taking them my hair began to come out; now it has grown thickly again. No doubt my hair was affected by the general weakness of my con- stitution. I have been altogether a different woman since taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." Dr. Williams' Pink Pilla for Pale People are not a cure-ail. They cure the one thing that is the cause of numerous diseases-poor blood. Acting on the blood, and on the nerves through the blood, they bave cured Anemia, Bile, Con- sumption, Bronchitis, Eczema, Fits, Gost, Heart Diage Paralysis, and the ailments which women suffer in silence. The full name on the pink wrapper is a guarantee of genuine. ness. Refute pink pills that don's bear Dr. Williame name. You can sand direct for the pills to Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Holborn-viaduct, London, enclosing the price, 25. gd. (or 13%. 9d. for six bottles): but the best plan is to sak for them at a shop where they sell you what you ask for and don't try to palma off Substitutes upon you. Substitutes never cured anyone, but they bring more proft to the shopkeeper who try to sell them, and who would rather make more proft for themselves than supply what will really do you good. You should avoid Substitutes and the people who keep them.
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prepared, during suspension of Trans-Pacific Service and until further notice,Possession. Four large Rooms, Bath Rooms,
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135 Queen's Road. pany's Local Branch Office in PRINCE'S
Hongkong, 18th June, 1904 BUILDINGS, First Floor, Chater Road,
A. S. MIHARA,
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"WO ROOMS on the First Floor of
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DRODUCE the highest Class AERATED WATERS in the Far East on account of their High Class Machinery and also of the superior ingredients they use in the manufacture of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c, are all under strict supervision of Europeans only.
TWO ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
Apply to--
SECRETARY,
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A: S. Watson & Co., Limited, Hongkong, 16th June, 1904.
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TO LET.
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1730
TWO a
TO LET. ŢO. 1, RIPON TERRACE in FLATS
No. 17, WONG NHI Chong Road, facing
Race Course.
NRIPON TERRACE.
FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, facing
Polo Ground. OFFICES in course of erection, CON-
NAUGHT ROAD (Dear BLAKE PIER), GODOWNS: PRAYA EAST. "ROSENEATH,” KOWLOON.
REPORT OF AN EXPERT. The representative of Messrs. BRATBY and HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED, Aerated Water Engineers and Chemists, Manchester, visited our factory recently in the course of a tour amongst Eastern Aerated Water Makers, and was greatly surprised at the compactness of our factory and also the methodical way in which everything pertaining to the making of Aerated Waters was carried out. He also expressed him. self strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our whole establishment, which he assured us was equal to any he had yet visited and superior to a great many. He also reported that the quality of our goods was of a first class nature, and they showed that scrupulous care was Apply exercised in the course of their manufacture.
Order Books and Price List. Please apply to FACTORY and OFFICE, West Point. Tel. 367. Depot, Ice House Street. Tel. 374- Dr. V. DANENBERG & F.P. DANENBERG, General Managers.
Hongkong, 20th May, 1904.
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THE CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,
LIMITED.
S
HONGKONG EXCHANGE.
UBSCRIPTIONS.
PAYABLE QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE,
*EXCHANGE LINES: $25 Per Quarter
NO CHARGE FOR INITIAL
INSTALLATION.
N.I.-A Special Charge is made for Lines
of more than average length.
DESK TELEPHONES
For small additional annual charge Desk
Sets can be supplied.
ELECTRIC SUPPLIES.
BATTERIES,
CHEMICALS,
ELECTRIC BELLS,
INSULATORS,
SWITCHES,
TELEPHONES,
WIRE,
&C.
&t,
80.
SEND FOR PRICE LISTS.
ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS,
Estimates given for all kinds of Electrica),
Work.
ADDRESS ICE HOUSE ROAD.
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Hongkong, 18th April, 1904.
No. 1, CLIFTON GARDENS.
to-
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1699
THE PEAK.
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NO STEWART TERRACE,
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MENT & AGENCY CO. LD. Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.
TO LET.
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ILD DELL BUILDINGS, No. 147,
Airy Flats of 2 or 3 Rooms, from $25-inclusira of Taxel.
And others to suit various requirements.
S. A. SETH, Land and Estate Broker, Dairy Farm Co., Ltd.
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WINCHAL ROAD. Comfortable and
Hongkong, and May, 1904.
TO LET.
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION, FOR 18 MONTHS.
"LEIGHTOR,"
THE PEAK.
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THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
“HE Undersigned, having been appointed ΤΗΣ
AGENTS for the WINE GROWERS SUPPLY COMPANY or PARIS, are now prepared to answer inquiries and receive unders for all kinds of WINES and SPIRITS, at 23 and 24, Bank Buildings. ·
BARRETTO & CO. Hongkong, 9th June, 1904.