Auction.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1904.
Entimations.
· THE HÖNGKONG ELECTRIC co.,
LIMITED.
TOTICE is hereby given that, the FIF
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS will Auction Sale, to be be held at the Company's Offices, No. 4 held on MONDAY, the 11th day of July, Queen's Buildings, on SATURDAY, the 16th 1934, at 3 PM at the Offices of the Public July, at 12.30 P.B., for the purpose of present Works Department, by Order of His Exceling the report of the Directors, together with a lency the Officer Administering the Govern statement of accounts to 30th April, 1904, and ment, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at electing Directors and Auditors. Flantation Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
1.DCALITY.
Rural-Building
Lot No. 113.
Plaatstion Road,
No of Sale.
Registry Na.
Houndary Measurements.
I. st. 1. fr.
Hongkong, 2nd July, 1904.
Ensurance.
Annual Kent.
Upset Price
106 2,22
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NORTH GERMAN PIKE INGIRANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
THE
"HE Undersigned AGENTS of the above
Company are prepared to accept Firs Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS a CURRENT RATES.
SIEMSSEN & Co.
Hangonne, 19th Myo, pn
Notices of Firms.
.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
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R. ALFRED HENRY MANCELL has
My been appointed AGENT for
the GENERAL MANAGERS of the Com. pany, and in that capacity will reside in Shanghai, with general charge of the Company's interests at Shanghai, Hankow, Tientsin and in North Chica
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers.
Hongkong, 1st July, 1904.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
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Moden appointed ACTING
R. JOHN ARTHUR TARRANT has
SECRETARY of the Company.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.
Hongkong, 1st July, 1904-
Intimations.
A. S. WATSON & CO. LIMITED.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 2nd to the 16th, July, both days inclusive.
A WOMAN JOURNALIST. ON"“
KOBE FOREIGNERS.
AN UNFLATTERING PICTURE.
Mr. Helen Jerome, a lady journalist from Australia, spent some months in Japan last year, more especially in Kobe, and on return ing to Australia, in due course wrote a book. We (Kobe Chranicie) 'regret to say that Mrs, feroine did not enjoy her stay in Japan, and has some very uncomplimentary things to say of the Japanese, their cities, their character, their manners, and their customs. Nor was she pleased with the foreigners who have made this country their temporary home. In fact we may say that she was quite displeased with them. As APANESE AMA to look after English foreigners may like to see how they are pictured
BABY. Apply-
by this lady, we reproduce the bulk of a chapter entitled "Europeans in Japan." If there is anything in the old saying, the ears of Kobe
By Order of the Board of the Directors.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.
Agcuts
Hongkong, 19th Junë, 1904.
WANTED.
Hengkong, 5th July, rost.
THE
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C/n This Office.
1709
ROBINSON PIANO
Co., LTD.,
INVITE INSPECTION OF SUME
SPECIALLY®
FINE
ing to treat the servants there with undue kind--[3, nets, though, indeed, I should think it small. barn to try.
Many mistresses call their "boys" "Doy San, and their cooks "Cook San," and their nufics or maids Amah San The servants expect this, and would look upon it as being. dun either to great ignorance or great rudeness if the mistress omitted the "San" of courtesy from her mode of address.
I did not perceive any great yearnings among these ladies to enlighten the heathens of Japan. for spreading the alleged light of Christianity amongst their serving men and 'maids. In faci,
failed to perceive any remarkable fervour in. their own devotions. There seemed to ma to be very little love lost between the Europeans and the natives. Many of the former look with a good deal of contempt upon the recent alliance, and seem to be so disloyal as to con- sider that the benefits thereof are altogether one-sided
There was almost a total lack of enthusiasm
After women have lived for any length of time in Japan they become enervated, indolent, and what is understood in ferpinine verbiage to
apace, but is due as much to the many enforced
Intimations.
CONFIDENCE kald Lord Chatham, "is a plant of slow growth," People believe in things that they sec, and in a brod sense they are right. What is sometimes called blind faith is not faith at all. There must be reason and fact to form a foundation for trust. In regard to medicine or remedy, for example, people ask, "Has it cared others? Have cases like mine been relieved by it? Is it in harmony with the truths of modern science, and has it a record above suspicion? If so, it is worthy of confidence; and if I am ever attacked by any of the maladies for which it is commanded I shall resort to it în full belief in its power to help me." On these lines
To Let.
TO LET
10. 1, RIPON TERRACE is FLATS.
No. 4, RIPON TERRACE.
No.
No. 17 WOND NEI CHONG ROAD, facing
Race Course. Jag m
FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, facing
Polo Ground, MET OFFICES in course of erection, Cox.
- NAUGHT ROAD (near BLAKE PIER). GODOWNS: PRAYA EAST,
No. 1 CLIFTON GARDENS. OFFICES in No. 16, DES VEUX ROAD
CENTRAL
Apply
to
THE HONGKONG LAND.INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO, LD. Hongkong, 27th June, 1904.
TO LET.
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION has won its high reputation among medical men, and the people of all civilized countries. They trust it for the same reason that they. trust in the familiar laws of nature or in the N STEWART TERRACE,
THE PEAK. action of common things. This effective Apply to- remedy is palatable as honey and contains all
the nutritive and curative properties of Pare Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from freak cad
people ought to have been tingling when mean "catty." The sin of scandal flourishes livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Mrs. Jerome was penning the following com-hours of idleness as to personal unkindness. It is, of course, perfectly natural that ordinary
ments:-
This will not be a pleasant chapter, I warn you beforehand, and for the results of Eastern life upon the European you most blame our primæval instincts, not me, the sorrowful rela- ter of those results.
Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. It quickly eradicates the poisonous, disease-breeding acids and other
THE HONGKONGʻLAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.
TO LET.
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women should lose much of the self-restraint toxic matters from the system; regulates and {WO ROOMS on the First Floor of
and unselfishness which the less luxurious conditions at home seem to enforce. Time Promotes the normal action of the organs, "spent in afternoon teas and heavy dinner gives vigorous appetite and digestion, and is parties for the dinner-party is the entertain infallible in Prostation-following Fevers, Anemia, Scrofula, Influenza, Wasting Diseases, There is an old adage to the effect that if / ment par excellence—does not tend to streng-Throat and Lung Troubles, etc. Dr. W..A. voit put a beggar on horseback he will proceed habits. Yet, if they have any resources.
then the character or promote industrious Young, of Canada, says: "Your tasteless pre to ride you down. Now the European in such as music, reading, or gardening it seems/paration of cod liver oil has given me Japo reminds me somewhat of the begg of to me that there could be no life in the uniformly satisfactory results, my patients adage, in that his sudden, elevation to the Eom world more delightful or easier for women thin having been of all ages.". It is a product of mand of a comparative retinue of servants de life in Japan. The sordidness of the comparative moralises—to begin with-his manners. don't know if it be that we Westerners share, as a birthright, the instinct to bully a weaker vas- sel, but I do know that the treatment of East em servants by Europeans suddenly elevated to the dignity of masters, is anything but flat tering to the reports, current in Japan, of our superior civilisation.
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The European population in Japan is as a whole the commercial one-bank clerks, mer chants, and shopkeepers-also a few doctors and journalists. f, the ore intelligent
poverty at home, the struggles with the one maid, the wearisome attemps to cul a figure on a limited income, are all finished with when she goes Japanwards. Life there, even though they clert to grumble and pout at its monotony, is poetic, luxurious, and largely sprinkled with the blessed majority of the male, a fact which every intelligent woman must appreciate—and, between ourselves, does appreciate. For the men, club-life is the rule rather than the excep. tion. A good deal of money is wasted in the clubs, to which every little bank-clerk must be-
SAMPLESongst these I do not speak, but for a bump- long, and rub shoulders with his superior
OF
UPRIGHT PIANOS
RACHALS,
STUART,
(701
&C.,
&c.
ISSUE OF 30000 NEW SHARIS OF $10 EACH.
URSUANT to Resolution the General
PURSU
Managers of A. 8. WATION & Company. Limited, hereby invite applications from the Shareholders of the Company for the issue of 30,000 new shares of $10 each at a Premium of
to per cent, or $11 & share.
Each Registered Shareholder on the 28th day of September, sos, applying for the New Issue will be entitled to one share for every two shares registered in his name Shares not applied for by those entitled to apply will be dealt with by the General Managers in accordance with Article 40 of the Company's Articles of Association.
Applications for Shares in the New Issue will be received by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong from the 28th September, 1904, to the 30th September. 1934, both days inclusive, and the whole amount
AND
&c.,
arrogant, insolest type, commerd nie to the rest. Transported from European and American homes, conducted on the small scale made necessary by the higher price of labour in those countries, on to Japan, where salaries are much higher, living cheaper, and servants a sine qui non; the while man suddenly awakens to the ct that he commands a posi tian, perhaps for the first Strhá life. -
officer. Each man seems to have a great ambition to be the a devil of a fellow, each woman to be comfered a good dancer, per medium of the local balls, and an “e
"exclusive' bostess. A few Japanese ladies who have married rich Furopeans are admitted into the drawing-rooms of Kohe's elect-the said elect being the type of middle-class saburbans in England. The children of the elect are brought up under the almost exclusive care of a Japanese nurse-the Amab
His wife institutes new social gustoms, for he is a luxury in Japan, and revels in the fact that bachelors, young fellows perhaps away for who is generally a gentle, sweet-tempered, the good of their families, are at her mercy. but far too easy-going little woman, who allows The outer world thecom almost a legend.herself to be literally mastered by her small The white residadfs, depending solely upon each other for their amusements, have much time upon their hands wherewith to model each others' characters, which they proceed to do in the way best known to ar sex. Work
charges, who, at a later singe, are sent off to England or America to be educated. Thus is the domestic problem disposed of, and many of the women are eating their hearts out with enùi when the beautiful work of moulding and
BABY-GRANDS, being suspended earlier than At home in the educating their own children is crying out for
BY
WINKELMANN,
(Establishel 1837).
They are only 5 FEET LONG, occupy
of $11 per share will be payable on application. ing the space of a Cottage, but with
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company
will be CLOSED from the 28th September, the fine appearance and TONE OF A 1904, to the 8th October, 1994, both days inclusive.
The present paid-up Capital of the Company is $60,000, divided into 60,000 shares of $10 each, and the New Issue is required to increase the Capital of the Company to $900,000 divided into 90,000 shares of gro each.
The whole of the premium received from the Now Issue will be placed to the Credit of the Permanent Reserve Fund,
The New issue will rank fr Dividend for the three months ending 31st December, 1904, pay. able in May, 1903.
For of application for the New Issue can to obtained at the Company's Offices in Alex: andra Buildings or at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong, Shanghai, and London."
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Manage Hongkong, and June, 190457
ROYAL AERATED WATERS MANUFACTORY,
FULL GRAND,
Hongkong, 13th May, 1901.
them. Some of them will tell you that they are "terribly lonely without the absent children, but would not dream of having them brought up in this barbarous country." I do not ex- aggerate when I quote this as the attitude of most of the English and American mothers in Japan. Vétne cannot refrain from thinking that, as atè, the mother's surroundings can be adjusted to suit her children in most cases, and that Japan's barbarism is entirely a ques- tion of the conduct of the white population.
summer months, men fall into the habit of cul- tivating the society of women, their friends' wives, at afternoon tea functions, where pas sibly the enervating heat of the climate makes any conversation of an intelligent nature very fatiguing. The rickshaw takes the visitors home to their excellently appointed bachelor establishments, where a special cook helps to make life pleasant for them. Quite young fel- Į lows have their bachelor establishments, em- ploying from two to five servants, amongst whom is invariably, a "boy" who acts as valet | as far as that pofflation is concerned, to the pampered young clerk, who probably
I did not observa any extraordinary amount blackened, quite willingly, his own boots at of sympathy between the educated men of home. The richshaw takes him to his office, japan and the foreign male residents. I noticed, and brings him home to "tiffin" at mid-day, rather, an absolète division between the two which is, as a rule, a heavy meal of several classes. Judging from my own experience of courses, plentifully accompanied with wine, Japanese men, I cannot wonder at it, for besides liqueurs, and coffee. The o'clock dinner, being strangely lacking in any pratensions to however, is a still heavier, and still more plen easy manners, the Japanese male is a strangely tifully accompanied with liquid refreshment. humourless animal. I don't remember ever I think I saw more steady drinking done in seeing him laugh. He strikes me as a little, | Japan than anywhere else I have bị jo, Jerky, suspicious, unpolished, ill-mancëred per- Then their "clique" are very amusing. The son, with a correspondingly large idea of his women one meets in the East are, as a rule, | own importance. Perhaps he strikes the Euro- not conspicuous for unselfishness or charity. pean residents of Japan in the same way. They grow painfully superior to the "mere In any case, he does not seem to be a globe-trotter," through taking too seriously the sociable or clubable person; he always up- peared to me to have little to say, and a most servants attached to one household. The unpleasant manner of saying it. His manner 'globe-trotter," on the contrary, take it for to women is hopelessly discourteous; he has what it is worth, and, conscious of the servant not the remotest conception of the treatment problem at home, does not allow herself to be due to a woman, or at least the treatment we '783 come spoilt. The parrowness of the white are accustomed to. No doubt it springs from woman in the East is largely due to her limited | his earcation, which, as we all know, as far as "environment, as contact with the outer world is the women of his own race are concerned, is rare indeed, and the imaginary kingdoms out of all proportion to their merits, The gen. which she sees floating around her owe their tleman of Japan has much to learn before he existence to her sudden translation to an can with safety clasp hands with his Western atmosphere where servants are her portion.brother.
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FFEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Casks of 375lbs. net 94.75 ex Factory.servile politeness and numbers of Japanese
In Bags of 25lbs. net $2.86 ex Factory.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Bonekana, (th August, ron).
JUST UNPACKED.,
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F
ORODUCE the highest Class AERATED WATERS in the Far East on account of
F
A CONSIGNMENT OF RESH PROVISIONS
from Messrs. CROSSE & BLACKWELL and PHILLIPE & CUNARD'S,
ALSO
..
We Australians, who flad it the best policy to Thus does Mrs. Jerome justify her connection sink class questions in the domestic servant with that pleasant publication, edited by ons
their High Class Machinery and also of the superior ingredients they use in the manufacture Messrs. HUNTLEY & PALMER'S Varied Assort problem, have no conception of the haughti- of the most high-minded of Western gentle-
of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c., are all under strict supervision of Europeans only.
REPORT OF AN EXPERT.
The representative of Messrs, BRATBY and HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED, Aerared Water Engineers and Chemists. Manchester, visited our factory recently in the course of a tour amongst Easterni 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. Healso expressed him- self strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our whole establishment, which he assured on was equal to say he had yet visited and superlor 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 exercised in the course of their manufacture.
Order Books and Price List." Please apply to FACTORY and OFFICE, West Point. Tel 36y. Depôt, Ice House Street. Tel 574-
Dr. V.DANENBERG & F. P. DANENBERG,
General Managers. ' Hongkong, 20th May, 1904.
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ment of
BISCUITS AND CAKES..
AND
CADBURY'S Bent Assorted CHOCOLATE SWEETS, Inspection Farnestly Solicited..
H. RUTTONJEE, No. 5. D'Aguilar Street,
or
36 to 38, Elgin Road, Kowloon. Hongkong, sth July, 1904,
SAVARESSE'S SANDAL CAPSULES
"Efficacious because absolutely pune: English, Oil. Not made of gelatine,
Full Alpactiona. All Engilarang tusiskons
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ness and exclusive superiority to which our men, the Australian Truik. own kind attain when they go East. The King's Court in London is not a circumstance
to the importance of the European Concession of Kobe, for instance. Thairs is a mimic
LEARN SHORTHAND AT HOME
་
world of society and social functions, and by correspondence. Io weekly lessons will new comer, should she be good to look upon,
is not welcomed with a smile exactly. Whilst make you perfect.
being by no means true of all the foreign wo
men in Japan, I think this is fairly illustrative of the great majority. Their lives are delight- fully and perhaps demoralisingly easy-so ensy that time must drag very heavily, robbed as their lives are of almost every household duty
OBTAIN HIGHER SALARY.
Shorthand is nowadays indispensible to everybody.. Utilize spare time. Very moderate fee. We procure positions. Write for free bookist,
A European mistress, seen by a Japanese ser- vant doing any menial work in her own home, immediately falls in that servant's estimation. Should the go into her own kitchen to cook, "the chef” of those regions' at anca confides his opinion” to a fellow servant that "Oxane!” ['(Madam) must have been a cook once herself,
I don't know whether it is oven a wise proceed. | 781]
CENTRAL CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGE,
15, Temple Chambers,
after the old style modes of treatment have the skill and science of to-day and is successful
been appealed to in vain. To try it is to trust to it forever after. It cannot disappoint you and is effective from the first dose. Sold by chemists everywhere.
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THE CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,
LIMITED.
S
HONGKONG EXCHANGE.
UBSCRIPTION.S.
PAYABLE QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE.
EXCHANGE LINES: $25 Per Quarter.
NO.
CHARGE FOR INITIAL,
INSTALLATION.
N.B.-A Special Charge is made for Lines
of more than average length.
DESK TELEPHONES
For a small additional annual charge Desk
Sets can be supplied.
ELECTRIC SUPPLIES,
BATTERIES,
CHEMICALS,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. Apply to--
SECRETARY,
A. S. Watson & Co., Limited,
[729]
Hongkong, 16th June, 1994..
TO LET.
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION. FOR 18 MONTHS.
"LEIGHTOR," THE PEAK.
.. Apply
JEBSEN & Co.
Hongkong, 27th April, 1904.
TO LET.
WWANGHAI ROAD, Comfortable and DELL BUILDINGS, No. 147
Airy Flats of 2 or 3 Roome, from Sas inclusive of Taxes,
And others to suit various requirements.
S. A. SETH, Land and Estate Broker, Dairy Farm Co., Ltd.
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Hongkong, and May, 1904.
TO LET..
L
ARGE HOUSE. SIX SPACIOUS ROOMS and many others. No. 35, Caine Road.
Apply to-
YEW KEE BANK,
133, Queen's Rond.
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Hongkong, 18th June, 1904.
THE WINE 'GROWERS SUPPLY co.
THE Undersigned, having been appointed.
AGENTS' for the WINE GROWERS SUPPLY COMPANY or PARIS, are now prepared to answer inquiries and receive orders for all kinds of WINES and SPIRITS, at 32 and 24, Bank Buildings.
BARRETTO & CO.
CLARETS.
Bottled by Julen Merman & Cie., Bordeaux. Per Case. Per Case.
St. Estephe........ 16.00
Pauillac
I doz, qts, a doz. pts. ....$1400. $15.00
Cotes......
Medoc......
10.00
17.00
Chateau Ludovice 17.00
18.00
Galic................... 18,00
19.00
ELECTRIC BELLS,
19
Margaux uniin 20,00
21.00
#
Mouton d'Armailbacq, 24.00
15,00
N
Pontet Canet...... 36.00
37.00
N
Marburet Merman... 17.00
28.00
"
Rauran ........******** 30.00
32.00
SPANISH CLARET.
INSULATORS,
SWITCHES,
&
&CH
Bottled by La Compania Vinicola del Norte
TELEPHONES,
de España, Bilbao.
Per Cam.
WIRE
Rioja Clarete
I doz. qts, $14,00
SEND FOR. PRICE LISTS,
ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS,
Estimates given for all kinds of Electrical
Worki
ADDRESS, ICE HOUSE ROAD,
W. STUART HARRISON,
AM.I.CK,
Manager,
Temple Avenue, London, B.C.
Hongkong, 13th April, 1903,
H
BEER,
APANESE
"KABUTO" BRAND.
Per Case 4 dos, qtu............... $10.50
18 doz pta imum $tarė:
IRANO
WATER,
"PEACOCK BRAND.
Per Case 4 dos, pts, suduod Hongkong, seth June, 1904.