Intimation.
Wm. Powell, Ld.
Hours 8.30 AM to 8 P.M.
SEASON 1904-5.
ON MONDAY, OCTOBER ård,
we shall have on view the following fiue selection of
NEW GOODS.
LADIES' DEPT.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
Silk and Satin Ribbons.
Rich Trimmings.
Dainty Motifa
Plain and Fancy Dress Materials.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1904.
Intimations.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
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24 ↑ Korat WE SVET entertain fo the country: The LA CZARS UNLUCKY RING
Kaiser is not a stickler for imposing naval or The widowed Empress of ussia, when military demonstrations, but is well satisfied ·if toward the close of 1897 she was looking he can see something-saliently practical in the through the drawers of a desk that had only way of manceuvres or reviews, afternating thes occasionally been used by her husband, hap-diversions with a little shooting in the preserves NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
pened to find a peculiar looking ring, consist at Sandringham. His last visit to this country OTICE is hereby given that the THIRTY.ing of a heavy band of gold, in the centre of cost the Government only the vory moderate NOTICE ONDARY YEARLY MEET which was set an extraordinarily heautiful opal, aura of £5.300. ING of the Society will be held at its Head flanked by two diamonds of the finest water. Another inexpensive Royal guest is the King Office, No. 1, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong. It was contained in an envelope on which of Italy, whose recent it to these realms cost on THURSDAY, the zoth October, god, at Alexander III. had written that the ring was the nation the modest sum of £4,000. The Noon, for the purpose of receiving the report one which had been worn by his father, on the biggest items on this bill were cheques held for of the Directors, together with Statements of Accounts for the year 1953 and for the half little finger of his left band. When that un-boxes at the Royal Opera, of which his Italian year ending 30th June, 1904, and of declaring fortunate sovereign was blown to pieces by Majesty is most passionately fond. Dividends, etc
the nitroglycerine bombs of the Nihilists in 1881 his entire left hand was shattered with the exception of the little finger, which remala- ed intact with the ring on it, the rings worn on the third finger being completely destroyed. Alexander II, took it from his father's tom and mangled hand, placed it in the envelope and hid it away in the drawer, where it was found by his widow after bis death.
Empress Marie, not thinking that there was any ill-luck attached to the ring, took it with her to Copenhagen on the occasion of her next visit to Denmark in the spring of 1898, and
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from the 19th October to the 20th October, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE, Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 21st September, 1904. [1057
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
$
THE
HE TWENTY-THIRD ORDINARY HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned at 12 o'clock (Noon), on FRI- DAY, the arst proximo.
GENERAL MEETING OF SHARE-
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 7th to the 21st proximo, both days inclusive,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents, Canton Insurance Office, Limiled. Hongkong, 29th September, 1904.
Trimmed and Untrimmed Felt A Apply to
and Straw Hats.
Lace Fichus and Boarves.
Viyella Flannels.
Flowers and Foliage.
Wings and Quills,
Fancy Chiffons.
Bilks and GauzOS.
Smart Winter Jackets.
FOUND.
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CAPTAIN SUPT. OF POLICE. Fongkong, 28th September, 1904.
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CAN ION DISTRICT,
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS,
No. 67.
Removal work at Canton River Barriers; precautions to ba observed by passing vessels.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that removal work at the Cantoh: River Barriers will shortly commence, and that, with a view to avoid endangering the lives of those engaged on it, the following rules should be observed by passing vessels.
1. When a red and white fag [International H] is shown from a barrier, or from a boat in the neighbourhood of a barrier, it will indicate that the wash of a steamer is liable to endanger life and property,
FURNISHING DEPT. possible.
Madras Curtain Muslins
Printed Sateens.
New Cretonnes.
Hemmed Linen Pillow Cases and
Damask Cloths.
Linen Huckerback Towels.
Teneriffe Tray Cloths & Doyleys.
Und these circumstances a steamer should pass that neighbourhood at as slow a speed as 2. When a red flag is shown from a barrier or from a boat in the neighbourhood it will indicate that a vessel must not, so long as that flag is flying, attempt to pass the barrier.
This latter is an emergency signal to meet possible contingencies,
J. HOWELL MAY,
Harbour Master,
Approved.
S. M. RUSSELL.
Deputy Commissioner of Customs. Custom House,
Canton, 1st October 1904.
IMPORTANT
FRESH ARRIVALS,
NOTICE.
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THE FUTURE OF ENGLISH VERSE.
Intimations.
THE HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB,
A MORROW, the 8th instant, (weather Tthe Fourth Meeting to be held TO-
permitting), POST ENTRIES will be accepted for the LADIES NOMINATION RACE. Entrance fees $5, to be paid at the time of entry,
GEO. K. HALL BRUTTOY, Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 7th October, 1904.
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GOVERNMENT BILLS.
ENDERS for SPECIE, BRITISH and MEXICAN DOLLARS, current in this Colony, in Exchange for Sterling Bills drawn In the current number of The International at 10 days' sight on the Lords Commissioners Quarterly, Mr. Henry Newbolt has a sugges-of His Majesty's Treasury, London, will be itive paper on the future of English verse. He received by the Chief Paymaster, Army Pay has great confidence in that future, which is Department, until II A.M., on the ioth October, more than some of his contemporaries have. The late Frederick Myers assured him one day at Cambridge that English poetry had come to an end. "Blank verse is worked out," he declared, "and the thymes have all been used
up. The only one left was Araven and Devon, and now that has been taken there are no
more new ones." Other critics have been
talking in the same vein. "Mr. Newbolt Ends that the majority of those who review poetry in the English press "are firmly of opinion that
1904.
The Tenders to state the total amount (in Pounds Sterling), and the amount for which each Bill should be drawn, but no Bills will be issued for less than £100.
Notices of Firms.
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
DURING
HONGKONG AGENCY,
NOTICE.
URING my Absence from Hongkong Mr. L. BRIDOU will take charge
this Agency.
G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agant,
Hongkong, 1st October, 1904.
NOTICE.
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Termin me of Cut My Stor which the Undersigned has been and is the Sole Proprietor will henceforth be known as "RUMJAHN & Co", 64, Queen's Road.
AHMET RUMJAHN. Hongkong, October 1st, 1904.
THE CURREEM & Co.,
For Sale.
FOR SALE.
The Tenders to be in Duplicate, and in sealed Army Pay Department, and endorsed "Tenders A COTTAGE PIANO, covers, addressed to the Chief Paymaster, for Government Bills."
Tenders is reserved.
The right to accept or reject any or all of the
left it there in charge of her mother, who died in the same year. Finding it among the ef fects of the dead Queen of Denmark, the Empress took it back with her to Russia and presented it to her second son, George, whose sudden death a short time afterward, quite alone by roadside near Tiflis, in the Caucasus, created such a sensation. Curiously enough this ring has disappeared since that time, and was not found among the Grand Duke's be-Tribune, with those reviewers. The fantastic. His Majesty's Treasury Office, longings after his death,
is an offence against literature to use any rhythm which has not been used before." We sympathize a little, comments the New York
alities of some of our latter day versifiers are A NEW BYRON POEM.
anough to drive even the most liberal of critics to the entrenchments of pedantry. But Mr. One of the biggest literary events for some Newbolt, going carefully into the matter, shows time past is the publication in Good Words for that the poet-need not loss heart, that poetry July of a new poem by Lord Byron. It is as a mine with more than one old seam political satire and. is entitled The King of the unexhausted and a number of new seams Humbugs. "Of the authenticity of the M8.," almost unopened." He gives chapter and says Good Words, there cannot be the small- verse to justify his beliefs. At the same time cat doubt.
Besides having been found amongst in pointing out that Tennyson's In Memoriam a number of Byron's letter to, in itself a is written in a form of stanza pronounced by sufficiently reasonable proof of both letters and
one.authority as "evidently unfit for use” în 119. having been derived from the same source, English, he reminds us, unconsciously, that a careful comparison of the handwritings of the the question is not, after all, whether a given one and the other has shown them to be identi- mode of writing verse is legitimate or not. cal; while a further examination of the frag Any mode will do-if you have the inspiration ment side by side with specimens of Byron's of the true poet. handwriting reveals such peculiarities as the commencement of the lines with capitals of
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TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE,
Sailing.
Frango-Bank T Tapos paman Amarica-Back Tit, German-Rank T.. India T.T.
abnormal size, and the variations between the looped and unlooped 'fs. That the metre in which the staugas contained in the MS, are written is one which has come to be regarded | London-Bank T.T............ No distinctively as Byron's own perhaps does
demand not go for so much in the way
Do. proof, metres
4 months' sight being open to imitation; but the most curancy persual will afford ample and convincing evid ence of their Byronic origin, in the easy, al- most conversational, flow of the language, the ingenuity of the rhymes, and, above all, the tone of intense sarcasm pervading the whole com position--sarcasm of that kind in which Byron had made himselfso eminently a master. The MS., it appears, is contained in three loose sheets of the hand-made notepaper of the time, used for the rough draft of the composition and the Josting down of ideas and rhymes as they might occur, and a small quarto copybook in which a fair copy has been made of the finished stangas, Facsimiles of the poem are given lo Good Words.
WHAT ROYAL VISITS COST.
FORTUNES SPENT IN REGAL HOSPITALITY. On those comparatively rare occasions, when the illustrious representative of a Royal house in some other realm sees fit to honour our
Splendid Selection of Damask BY GIVING A VERY LARGE ADER, island with a personal visit, it is only consistent
Napkins and Table Cloths.
Carpets and Carpet Squares.
Rugs in all makes and sizes.
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GENTS DEPT.
́28, QUEEN'S ROAD.
Hours-6.30 AM, to Ê P.M.
Black Felt Howler Hats.
Straw Boaters
Tweed "Kenyon" Hats.
A good Selection of Motor Caps
Dress Shirts and Dollars.
Walking and Dress Boots.
Patent Oxford Pumps.
Flannel Pyjamas
Fine Selection of Travelling
Rugs
Winter Underwear.
WE HAVE SECURED THE
with British tradition and dignity to spare no reasonable expense in making their sojourn here-be it lang or short-as pleasant as pos›
CO-OPERATION sib'e; and this invariably entails a heavy draft
OF THE MAKERS OF THE
APOLLO MASTER PLAYERS"
on the Government funds.
Few people (writes W. Coen In Houshold Words), however, have any adequate concep tion of the actual sums that are expended on such occasions. For the enlightenment of your readers on this subject the following authentic details have been carefully compiled.
The King of Belgians is a moderately ex-
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Buying,
........./9 13/16
110 3/16
2.39
...44
1.861
+136) 1361
Nominal TOY
months' sight L/C/10 5/15 months' sight L/C/10 7/16 30 days sight San Francisco & New Vork...45 4 months' right
45.
de,
30 days' sight Sydney and Melboume..1/10 9/10 4 months' sight Francs ................2.334 6 months' sight
4 months' sight Germany,...
Bar Silver **********
Bank of England rate
QPLUM QUOTATIONS. To-day's quotations are as follows Malwa Newto
Old
H
.....26 9/16 -3 %
application.
Copies of Forms of Tender can be bad on
GEO. H. FERRIER, Colonel, A. P. D.,
H.M, Treasury Chest Officer.
Flatcher Street,
Hongkong. Hongkang, 5th October, 1904
LJONGKONG
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HIGH-LEVEL TRAM. WAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.
TIME TABLE
(on and after 1st October, 1904.)
WEEK DAYS,
6.45 a.m. to
7.30 am. to
8.00 am to
8.30 am to 9.30 am, to r2 45 p.m. to 11.30 a.m. to
1.15 p.m. to
1.45 p.m. to
2.15 p.m. to
7.00 à.m. ...Every 15 minutes. 8.00 am....Every 10 minutes. 8.30 am....Every 15 minutes. 9.30 am....Every 10 minutes. 11.00 am... Every 15 minutes. 1.15 p.m....Every to minutes, 12.45 p.m....Every 15 minutes.
1.45 p.m. ...Every 15 minutes. 3.15 p.m....Every to minutes. 3.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes.
3.30 p.m. to
5.00 p.m. to
500 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 8.00p.m....Every 10 minutes.
NIGHT CARS.
8.45 pm, and 9 p.m., 9.45 p.m. to 11.15 p.m. every half hour. SUNDAYS, 8.00 am to 9.00 am....Every 15 minutes, 9.00 8.m. to 9.30 am....Every 30 minutes. 9.30am to 10.30 am....Every 15 minutes. 10.30 am to 11.00 am...Every to minutes. 12.00 Noon to 1.00 p.m....Every 10 minutes, 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 5.07 p.m. to 6.00 p.m....Every to minutes, 600 pm to 7.00 p.m...Every 15 minutos. 7.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m....Every to minutes,
NIGHT CARS as on Week Days, BATURDAYE.
Extra cars at 11.30 and 11.45 pm. Company's Office, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at the
Des Voeux Road Central.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, rst October, 1904.
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H.M.S. "ALACRITY." Hongkong, 3rd October, 1904.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT
In Casks of 375 br. net $5.00 per Cask ex Factory, In Bags of ago lbs. net $8.20 per Bag ex Factory. SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General ManageTE.- Hongkong, 2nd September, 1904. D83
HOTEL DES INDES.` Nos. 1 & 3, STAMFORD ROAD,
SINGAPORE,......
TH
HIS First Class newly opened Hotel bas excellent accommodation. for FAMILIES, TRAVELLERS and permanent BOARDERS.
CHARGES FROM 4-6 DOLLARS PER DAY.
It is situated in the immediate vicinity of the commercial houses and Esplanade.
Spacious Refreshment, Dinner and Billiard Saloons.
E. C. VAN MARLE, Proprietor.
H. T. BARRE, Manager,
Singapore, 4th October, 1964.
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THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
BARRETTO & Co., General Agents, Hongkong.
CHAMPAGNES.
WANTED.
Per Case. Per Case,
Per chest
I doz qts. a doz. pts.
@ 1,030/1,100
@ 1,120/1,120
A
@1,105 @ 1,оба
880/940
Apply to→
P. O. BOX 326. Hongkong, 6th October, 1904. [1113
FIRST-CLASS COMPRADORE for Lucien Rozet, Carte Orange $20.00
Office Work. Good knowledge of Victor Clicquot, Cuve
Speciales
24.00 Lucien Rozet, Carte Blanche 28.00 Victor Clicquot, Carte Noire 30.00 Lucien Roset, Carte d'Or... 32.00 Lucian Rozet, Selected
$25.00
32.00
36.00
39.00
SPARKLING WINES.
Older .............@ 1,200/1,240 English essential. Security and reference
@1,300/1.320 required.
Oldest Patna New Benares-New Persian (Freeri
Intimations.
NOTICE.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GEORGE MANINGTON, LATE OF VICTORIA, IN THE COLONY OF HONG. KONG, JOURNALINT, Deceased.
CANTON DISTRICT.
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 68.
Establishment of Lights in the approaches to Canton.
NOTICE is hereby given that all CRE.NOTICE is hereby given of the establish-
DITORS should send their CLAIMS against the above Estate to the undersigned before the 16th day of October, 1904, failing which they will not be recognised.
Dated this 16th day of September, 1904.
E. A, SNEWIN,
Executor.
approaches to Canton
ment of the following LIGHTS is the
BLAKE POINT LIGHT. This light was exhibited for the first tin sunset on the 26th ultimo.
pensive visitor to entertain, The accommoda. tion of his Majesty and his retinue usually costs the nation about £5,co a week. He is not very partial to naval displays, but is pas, sionately fond of impossing military manœuvres, IN LOWERING THEIR PRICES, AND Í and a few of the latter, at a collective cost of
about £4,000, are generally prepared for his 1943] WE NOW OFFER THEM FROM entertainment. A month's visit from King Leo-
pold will cost the Government not less than ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN. every 30 seconds, thus £10,000,
$385.
NEW
CONSIGNMENT
Marshall and
Elvy's
Satinette
A rather more costly guest to entertain is bis dusky Majesty the Shah of Persia, whore lart sojourn in these realms cost us the round sum of £35,000. Of this amount, about $10,000 went to maintain the Shah and his extensive suite in London for six weeks, Grand con- certs, dramatic entertainments, and a score of regal banquets involved the expenditure of another £8,000, while special naval and mili. tary displays swallowed up not less than £9 000. Last, but not least, a number of unique and WE WILL SUPPLY AN,UPRIGHT | costly gifts, comprising horses, guns, and jewel-
JUST ARRIVED
IRON GRAND' AND A PIANO
lery, went to swell the gross amount.
When the Tear of Russia last visited this country the astounding sum of £50,000 was
PLAYER FOR $825. CASH OR spent in boarding and entertaining our Im-
CREDIT TERMS.
These Players have been tested in Hongkong for 5 years (at Peak incinded) without Single Failure, which can be said of no other Player
THE
DOUBLY DISTILLED
AND OF MATURED AGE.
..
perial guest. Out of this generous amount
11,500 went to provide food and shelter TO BE OBTAINED PROW→ the Muscovite monarch is extremely food for the Tsar and his brilliant retinue. As
of grand military reviews, a monster, te view was arranged for his special defecta- tion, at an aggregate cost of £13,700. The powder blown away In Royal salutes on that" occasion accounted for £8,000 of the gross expenses. An enormous police and detective organisation for safeguarding our illustrious guest during, kis, sojourn bare cost another
THE MUTUAL STORES, Des Voeux Road Hongkong, 11th May, 1904,
Wm, POWELL, LA, ROBINSON PIANO 6700, and every penny of 10,000 was royally
HONGKONG;
Hongkong, 1st October, 1904.
Co., Lt
Hongkong, ath September, 1904.
lavished on 'decorations by day and flumina tions at night.
From an economical point of view, the Geri man Emperor. ls about the most reasonable-
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JUST LANDED. LARGE variety of PERFUMERY of the well-known make in Fancy Bottles of various sizes, and STATIONERY in all Styles to suit various requirements.
· ÎNSPECTION Earnestly SOLICITED. H, RUTTONJEE, No. 5, D'Aguilar Street,
For
36 to 38, Bigin Road, Kowloon, Hongkong, th October, 1904.
At
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric group occulting, of the sixth order, showing a fixed WHITE LIGHT varied by four eclipsen
+
Light..........................16 Seconds, Eclipse... a " Light............ 2 Eclipse... 3
11
1
1
Eclipsa... 2
가
Light............ 2
Light........... 2
Eclipse... 2
and so on.
The light, which is boisted on a mast and is
elevated 40 feet above high water, should be
visible in clear weather at a distance of to nautical miles.
AMHERST POINT LIGHT.
This light was exbibited for the first time at sunset on the 30th ultimo,
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric of the 6th order, showing a fixed RED LIGHT.
The light, which is hoisted on a must and is elevated 40 feet above high water, abould be visible in clear weather at a distance of 7 nautical miles.
Per Caso, Per Case. I doz. qts. a doz pts.
Sparkling Duc de Mousseux $16.00
Comtade Montalbert 17.00 18.00 Baron de Valmont;.. 19.00 20.00 Duc de Montchault 32.00
· SODA WINE,
Sparkling Soda Wine $20.09 per Case of
4 dozen Soda Bottles.
BRANDIES.
Per Case, I dox qta
P. Beauvilla*** Special Selected U. V. P. C,nômm 1600
L. ROZET & Co. BORDEAUX,
SPECIAL BRANDS OF COGNAO, Cognac, ***
13
31
静
#
S. O. P... 18,70 Very Old Fine Champagne ..... 32.50 Grands Fine Champagne,
Blue Ribbon,
Guaranteed 12 years old
Grande Fine Champagne, Green Ribbon,
Guaranteed za years old
Grande Fine Champagne,"
Red Ribbon, Guaranteed yo years old
St. George
Cru Wynbron
Côtes P
Montferrand ..........nupsýrezatim
TIDE POLE LIGHT. This light, on the right bank of the river in Belcher Reach, was exhibited for the first time Medoc errécocharian on the 4th instant.
$1.50
46.70
156.00
OLARETS.
Fer Case.
x dox, gls.
4.50
$,00 1.50
6.00
6.00
6.50 7,50
JAPANESE BEER,
"KABUTO" BRAND,
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric of the St. Esteph........................................... seventh order, showing a fixed RED LIGHT, St. Julien.......
The light, which is hoisted on a must, and is elevated 40 feet above high water, should be visible in clear weather at a distance of 4 sautical miles.
Approved,
J. HOWELL MAY,
Harbour Master.
8. M. RUSSELLarg
Deputy Commissioner of Customan in
charge. Custom House,
Canton, 3th October, 1904
Per Case of 4 dozen qikumise ..$12.00
H
FIRANO WATER,
"PEACOCK" BRAND,
A Hongkong, 19th September, 1904.
Per Case of 4 dozen
13.00
1701