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Business Hours -8.30 .. to 6 p,.
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Hongkong, 9th December, 1904,
THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1904.
___________ Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
V, R. C RAGAITE
Following are further details of yesterday's incing received after we had gone to press last evening
The Boys' Race saw half-a-dozen youngsters. from the Diocesan School venture, the crews THE Undersigned have received instructions being distinguished as the "Powerful and
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION;
ON
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY,
H.M. NAVAL YARD, SUNDRY NAVAL, VICTUALLING; OBSOLETE AND CONDEMNED STORES,
Comprising:-
'BOAT'S ENGINE, ELECTRIC CABLE,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received instructions
to Sell by
tion Club.
THE RUSSIAN PERSANTRY
SORDID PICTURE,
(From the Globe's St. Petersburg: Correspondent)
Intimations.
THE BRIGHT SIDE
of life. It is a feeling common to the majorly of us that we do not get quite the amount of Happiness we are entitled to. Among the count res things which tend to make us more or less miserable ill bexith takes first place. Hannah More said that sin was generally to be attel-, hned to biliousness. No doubt a crippled liver with the resulting impure blood, is the cause of more mental gloom than any other single thing. And who can reckon up the fearful aggregate of pain, lost and fear rising from the many ailments and diseases which are familiar to mankind ; like a vast cloud it hangs over a multitude no one can "umber. You can see these people every where. For them life can scarcely be said to have any "bright side " allance the
at eagerness with which they search for relief and cure. Remedies like
An official raport drawn up recently by a district officer engaged in the European Terrible" respectively. The first named with Goverment of Veronezh gives a truly heart I. E. Edwards, a promising stroke, won easily reading account of the woe-begone existence by a length, A steam launch was literally led by the moojiks in that large. Government, the 13th and 14th Dec-mber, 1004, at to A.M. packed by the schoolmates of the contestants which, of the fifty. Goverments of European
each day, at
who followed the race, and cheered with might Russia, stands thirteenth on the list as regards and main. Korablume admirably caplained by density of population, with Icg persons to the 14. A. Seth, accounted for the Chinese Cup. square mile. The medical officer's report after a strong up-hill fight with Rose. The deals mainly with two large villages, which final race, the laterport, Pair Oars, saw Canare inhabited by about 1,200 Great Russians, ton snatch their second victory. The Hong. Although each of these villages has had its MACHINES SHAPING, PLANING and ong boat was the first away, and led by a school for twenty years, yet in one village the DRILLING, LATHE, BRASS, COPPER, length for a time. They pulled, however, much men who can read amount to 33 per cent, and IRON, PAPER-STUFF, CANVAS, FURNI shorter than their rivals who covered the course the women only to 3 per cent, while in the FURE, PROVISIONS, IMPLEMENTS, &c. without apparently any exertion or anxiety, other these figures are 16 per cent. and a per
Catalogues will be issued. TERMS OF SALE:-As customary.
galling the better of a stiff race by balf a longtb. cent respectively. In the wide-stretching, HUGHES & HOUGH,
Fime 7 min. 50 SECS...
treeless Steppe the mpujiks live in huts made Government Auctioneers. BOY RACE-(Open to all schools in the of trodden clay, and a huge stove takes up of brick or wood; the floors of these huts are Hongkong, 6th December, 1904. 11316 Colony). Distance, half-mile. Each school about one-fifth of the living room, with the to be represented by one crew only. Age, result that each inmate, on an average 15 and under. Entrance free. To be rowed has only from 27 to 50 cubic feet of air, in boats the property of the Victoria Recrea- which is from six to three times less than the quantity required by the laws of health, In some huts the cubic space per head was only 20 feet. Moreover, calves, sheep, pigs, and hens are housed together with the people calving of the cow. Naturally enough, the in in the living room, which witnesses even tho terior of these hots presents a sorry sight. The wails are bare, and the furniture, consists of plank beds, stools, tables, and shelve, all rough ly put together, while the bon chold utensils are of paltry make. A few gamonts and out door tools complete the picture. The table: serves alike for taking meals and for all kinds of household works; it is scarcely ever covered by a cloth, for only very few families possess one. The people sleep on the plank beds and owned beds. Straw is used both for bedding on the stove, and out of 158 buts only two and for covering. Only 60 per cent, of all the families possessed pillows, and in these cases pillows were not used by all the family, while only 6 per cent. of buis boast of being able to use quilts or counteipanes. At nightfall straw is laid down for the animals living with their owners. Such breathing ale as is possible under these conditions is destroyed by the dust given off by the straw and by the making of being. When the hemp is tewed there is raised | GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, such a dust-that-objects.cannot be made out across the room, ev n on the brightest day. Thedast thus raised. is so caustic that people
PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
On
THURSDAY,
the 15th December, 1904, at ir AM, ai their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vœux Road, comer of Ice House Street,
'A QUANTITY OF
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES,
Comprising:-
TELES-
CAMERAS, MICROSCOPES, COPES, FIELD GLASSES, SEXTANTS, MUSICAL, DRAWING and DENTAL INS- TRUMENTS, &г., &c. &c;
A1,50
AN ASSORTMENT OF BOUTS AND SHOES,
Catalogues will be issued. TERMSAs usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 7th December, 1904.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTOAGEE, of
[(374
ALUABLE LEASEHOLD
VAL
PROPERTY,
situate at Yau-ma-ti, Kowloon,
. in Six Lots,
ON
FRIDAY,
the 16th day of December, 1904, at 3 PM. at the premises,
DY
Measta. HUGHES & NOÙG“, Auctioneers,
LOT -All That piece of ground registered in
the Land Office as Section M of Kow Joon Inland Lot No. 43 with the messu. age therena known, as No. 49 Temple Street.
(LOT 2.—AJI That piece of ground registered in
the Land Office as Section N of Kaw loon Inland Lot No 43 with the messu. age thereon known as No. 53 Temple Bircel,
LOT 3-All That portion of the piece of ground registered in te Land Office as Section 1 of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 103 with the messunge therenn known as No. 46
Street. LOT 4-All That portion of the piece of ground registred in the 1 and Office as Section B of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 10; with the messuage thefeon known as No. 48 Temple Street.
LOT 5.-Ali That portion of the piece of ground registered in the Land Office as Section C of Kowl on Inlard Lot No. 105 with the messunge thereon known at No. j Kennedy Street,
LOT 6-All That portion of the piece of round registered in the Land Office as Section.
C of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 105 with the messuage thereon known as "No. 7 Kennedy Street.
The above Properties are respectively held from the Crown for the residues of the respec tive terms of 75 years,
For further particolars and conditions of
sale, apply to-
EWENS & HARSTON, Bolicitors for the Mortgaget,
or to Messrs HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, and December, 1904. [1300
For Sale.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Caske of 375 Dr. net $5.00 per Cask ex Factory, In Bage of ago fbs. net $3.20 per Bag ex Factory,' SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers, Hongkong, and September, 1904.
FOR SALE.
INCANDESCENT
Terrible (Diocesan School)-L. Clement, bow; Brandt, strake; 5. Jex, cox.
Powerful (Diocesan School). Young, bow; H. E. Edwards, troke; T. Jex, cox.
Powerful..
Terrible
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CHINESE CUP-Presented by the Chinese community of Hongkong. For four-cars (Juniors). Distance, one mile. Entrance, Sto To be rowed in boats the property of the Victoria Recreation Club. Kornblume-J. Cruickshank, bow; F. Loureiro, a; C. J. Cooke, 3; H. A. Seth, stroke; R. C. Witchell, cox.
Rose-U. R. Chunault, bow; J, M, Rosa Pereira, 2; J. C. Remedios, 3; W. G. Goggin, stroke; E. Herbst, cox.
Shamrock-11, M. Rain, bow; F. F. Eca da Silva, ; J. J. Watson, as G. B. Macdonald, shokej. P. Jordan, cox.
Kornblume
-Rost~*~
2
INTERPORT PAIR OARS.-Caps presented (Senior). Distance, one mile. Entrance $5.
WAMPOLES PREPARATION have not attained their high position in the confidence of the people by bald assertions and boasting advertisements. They are obliged to win it by doing actually what is claimed for them. That this remedy deserves its reputation is conceded. It is palaiahla as honey and contains the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, combined and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites
Nothing has such a record of success in Scrofuls, Anemia, Throat and Lung Troubles, and emaciating complaints and disorders, that tend to undermine, the foundations of strength and vigour. Its use helps to show Life's brighter, side. Dr. H. L. Reddy, B. A., M. D., L. R. C. S., Edinburg, L. R. C. P., London,--Physician. Woman's Hospital-Professor University of pleasure in stating that I have used it in cases Bishops College, Canada, says: "I have much
of debility and have found it to be a very valuable remedy as well as pleasing to take." You can take it with the assurance of getting || well. It never disappoints. Sold by all chomists. 78+1
LIMITED..
I
To be rowed in boats the property of the whose breathing organs are not perfectly sound ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
competing club or unit. Hongkong-J.Witchell, bowy W. O. Koehler, stroke, Siebs, cox...
Canton Rowing Club-R. Leslie, bow; W. Imboof, W. Parnell, cox.
Canton
Hongkong...
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FOR CRUISING YACHTS-European rig. (Owned by members of the Royal Hong. kong Yacht Club). This is the first of a series of 4 races for a cop presented by His Excellency the Governor. Entrance Fee $5.
FOR
.. H. M. 8. *** 3 35 55 3 30 45 3 31 55 .... 3 3842
retired.
Mr. G. H. Potis' Haidee Mr. A. H. Ough's Brynhilde Mr. Hazeland's La Cigale Mr. R. H. King's Rita ... Mr. Reynolds' Alexandra.
CRUISING · YACHTS—Chinese rig. (Owned by members of the Royal Hong- kong Yacht Club). This is the first of a “Teričs or a fazer mit pse predbu the Fon, F. H. May, C.M.G., Commodore of the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club. Fee, $j.
Tamir Officers' Tavy..... Mr. C. W. Kew's Australian
Mr. A. B. Route's Snipe
Entrance
H. M. B. 3 54 35
3 58 15.
4
4 17:30
Mr. J. Hastings' Dorotky FOR ALL OPEN BOATE-Any rig (Chinese owned hoats excluded). Keela allowed. Entrance fee, $3. Handicap..
D'ATS.
Tamar's cutter,.. Vengeance's cutler Rugerkarken Rudergrinen 11 Thells' galley
·Gig III
K. M. S.
www 3 4 30 3 4 48 3 12 18 3 16 15 3 16.45 3.14 40 43 18 40 3 18 sa Thelis' cutter
3 41 30
JAPANESE SPIES IN RUSSIA,
REPORTED CAPTURE OF TWO NAVAL OFFICERS.
Rudergrinen 1... Gig !!
are obliged to leave the hut.
The chief food of the moujiks is rye bread, potatoes and millets Meat, milk, cabbages, and vegetables are eaten only in extremely small quantities. Of fatty foods 55 per cent. under the normal amount is consumed. The poorer villagers consume 62.29 grammes of vegetable albumen, 13:37 grammes of fatty foods and 380 grammes of proteids. It is in- conceivable how men can exist on a consump tion of 13-37 gramiren of fatty matter, when the smallest amount that ought to be raten varies medical officer ascribes this living hunger 'to between 40 grammes and go grammes. The
the existing scarcity of land..for every three to four persons the available supply of rys varied from 150s, to so and of millet from 108ths. to 360 ls, which is below that aval'able in ather districts. Thus, even in times of good harvest, adequate nourishment is out of the question. Nevertheless, the owners and tillers of the land have to make up the taxes, which, with the arreass, amounted on an average to 16, 9d. per house. In indirect taxes the two villages paid £79 on vodka. £ 6. 3d. en to bacco, 10328 od petroleum, end 5 165.rod, op tea and sugar, that is, a yearly total of about ala may be judged only too well from a com
The piltalte simta në village life.in Rus- parison of the indirect tax paid sa vodka, that is, brandy made from rye, and of the indirect taxes paid on tea and sugar..
TOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA- the SHAREHOLDERS of the above Com. pany will be held at the Company's Offices, St. Hongkong, sa WEDNESDAY, the 14th day of George's Building, Praya Central, Victoria, December, 1904, at 11 A.M. when the subjoined Resolutions which were passed at the Extra- ordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 26th November, 1904, will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions:--
1. That the Capital of the Company be increased from $1,000,000 (divided into. 10,000 shares of Sro each) to $1,500,000 (divided into 150,000 shares of $10 each) by the creation of 50,000 new shares of Sto each to be offered and if accepted to be all-tted to the persons coast tuting the shareholders of the Company according to
the Company's Register of Shareholders on the 28th day of February, 1905, ata premium of Sr. for each and every single share of such 50,000 new shares in the ratio and. proportion of one new share for every two old shares in the Company held by the respective. Shareholders thereof the amount payable on each of such new shares respectively (including the said premium of $10 per share) to be paid as to -one aquai-half part thereof on the gist day of March, 1905, and as to the remainder thereof (including the balance of the said premium) on the 30th Juns, 1905.
And that failing auch allotment, as aforesaid the said new shares be disposed of by the General Manager in accordance with the Compasiy's Articles of Association.. And that for the purpose of facilitating the carrying into effect of the above Reso lution the Transfer and other Books of the Company be closed for the space of seven days as on and from the 1st day of March, 1905.
The mouliks are compelled to occupy land, on which there are arrears of debt, and also to follow certain occupations. Thus, unless there was this form of compulsory work, the country certainly die of hunger, and he holds out no surgeon is of opinion that the mouļiks would, hopes of being able to "civilize the moufiks 16 any great degree, for he regards them as being really very little removed from the stage of civilization attained by savage races. In ali these circumstances it can be understood easily that the rate of mortality is very high. The average rate of mortality throughout the whole of Rus-ia in 1902 was 348 per 1,oco in the 1313] villages in question the rate was 33.71 per 1,000, The deaths occur chiefly among the children. While in the whole of Russia the death rate
Dated this 5th day of December, 1904.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. General Managers,
THE
among children under one year of age was 371 CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE
per 1,000, it was 330 per 1,000 in these two villages, and 546 children between one and five years of age died in them. From these figures it will be seen that the villages are des tined to vanish under such a high rate of mortality.
AND
ELECTRIC COMPANY, `LIMITED.
This is a picture of life in a Russian village lying bidden from the outside world. But such counted throughout the vast Empire of the ELECTRIC BELL was-begona spots are too numerous to be
Crar, and it is fro a them that the soldiers hail who are falling on the battlefieldt of Manchuria at the bidding of a rouen and selfish bureau. cracy, which refuses to read the handwriting on
the wall.
COMMERCIAL
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE, Selling.
A despatch from St. Petersborg, to the Manchurian Army Daily News says ---.
On September 19th in St. Petersburg, two Japanese naval officers were arrested, charged with explonage. Both had resided in this city under the guise of modest shopmen in a tea store. One of them, called Saratori, up to the beginning of the war had served as mer- chant's clerk in the warehouse of Messrs. 783 Vasilieff, Dementjeff and Co. (Nevsky Pro
spect)1 and being discharged immediately after | London--Bank T.T, umeam/201 the villainous Japanese attack upon
. Do. Russian fleet, he expressed a desire to remain for ever in Russia and to embrace Orthodoxy, under the pretence of his af fection for a Russian girl and his intention to marry her. The change, of his religion and the marriage were as & matter fact carried out. Sartori received at the ́baplismal fout the name of Conglantine, and
GASOLINE
LAMPS
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, from the best makers,
INCANDESCENT
MANTLES
CHIMNEYS,
GLOBES.
for
GASOLINE AND Gas
VLAM PS
at the most moderate prices
the
|
of
at the and of April was lying with his wife in
Do.
demand..................... 1/10 15/16
Intimations. CHRISTMAS.
WHAT BETTER GIFT
AC THAN:A⠀
SINGER SEWING MACHINE.
CASH OR EASY PAYMENTS.
Showrooms, Wyndham Street.. Hongkong, 9th Decembar, 1904-
BAZAAR
IN AID OF THE POOR CHINESE ORPHANS
OF THE A ASILE DE LA SAINTE ENFANCE. UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR SIR MATTHEW NATHAN,X.CM.G
HE French Sisters have the honour to
the 14th instant, at a 'clock in the afternoon. be held at the CITY HALL, on WEDNESDAY,
Tunce that the'r Annual Bazaar will
They request your presence in order to ins made by their Poor Orphans. pect the different NEEDLE and FANCY WORKS
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Hongkong, 9th December, 1904.
THE DAIRY FARM CO., LIMITED,
PRIME FRESH BEEF.
(OWN FEEDING.}
the 13th instant, we will kill a few Stall Fed Animals in prine condition. Orders (FROM OUR CUSTOMERY ONLY) MUS sent in at the very latest by 5 PM on MON- DAY, the 12th instant.
be
•
The Beef will be ready for delivery to MESSENGERS at our Town Depot, Wyndham Street, between 6.30 AM. and I PM, on the 15th instant.
י,
PRICE LIST.
Sirloin Roast 30 cents per 2. Prime Rib Roast...... 30. Rump Steak...... 25 Porterhouse Steak
Round Steak....... Boiling Beef
25
20
18
Soup Meat.mnar 12:
Soup Bone........ 10 Suet...mano 10
Note: To prevent disappointment, we -would-advise Customers to include a substitute
order in case they are too late for the pa originally ordered; ...: Hongkong, 7th December, 1994..
STOCKBROKERS' ASSOCIATION,
NOTICE.
DECEMBER SETTLEMENT,
HIS Month's Settlements will commence THIS
on THURSDAY, the 29th instant. By Order of the Committee,
E. S; JOSEPH,
Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, and December, 1904 [1297
NOTICE.
BO CHEONG, of No. 10, Pottinger
Street, has always on hand, M FIRST-CLASS WRITING AND-PRINTING
PAPERS, AND STATIONERY of every variety. Hongkong, a4th November, 1904. -
11370
THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
BARRETTO.&.Co. General Agents · Hongkong.
PORT WINE. Direct shipment from the COMPANHIA AGRICOLA E COMMERCIAL DOS VINHOS DO PORTO,
(Successors to DONNA ANTONIA A. FERREIRA), Monopoly for Ching of THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
Per Case of
1. Dozen.
Dry No. 1
Quinta do Porto Dry No. 3 INSTALLATIONS, Quinta da Gran{u
FITTED AND MAINTAINED.
ELECTRIC SUPPLIES)
4 months sight.[1] BATTERIES, France-Bank T.Tummansona sun2.39) America-Bank T.T....... Germany-Bank T.T........ India T.T.
Do. demand Shanghai-Bank T.Te pue Japan-Bank T.T. Singapore-Bank T.T... "Java-Bank-T/T-ce
Buying,
munionių 1.94] ..1422 143
..Nominal
ELECTRIC BELLS,
SWITCHES
TELEPHONER,
INSULATORS,
WIRE,
ལ། །
Taway, 1887, Vintage
19
Selected Old Port $50.00 $35.00 30,00 15,00 20.00 15.00 Tawny (White Label).......... 14.00 Medium Taway, (Brown Label) 13,00 White Tawny, (White Label) 32,00 Full Wine, (Brown Label), 11,00 White Tawny, (Brown Label) safa Light Tawny, (Brown Label) Zussy" (0,00
OLARETS,
St. George m Cru-Wydbrownuminium d-59: Côtes in, 5:00
Montferrand...somme
Módoc
$5.00
5.50
6.50
(6,00%) 7.00
St. Emiliopáninnumáng 6,00 7,00 St. Estephen50,
St. Julien aansporitt-7.59. B.59 St¿Esteph Supariar .......
PT. 9.00
Chateau Margaux. 900 Chateau Leoville
10,00 20 9,000 10,00)
10,00 Chateau Lafftam.............10.00 Chateau Larose 10,10 ILJO
BURGUNDIES,
Per Care Per Case'.
Quarts, Pinks,
Volnay vin 1893...······· **$14,00 $16.00 Monlina Vent in 189314.50 4.16.59. Macon vin 1899
Nults vin 1893
.1.00
SEND FOR PRICE LISTS
AND
ESTIMATES
a bourding house in No. 11, Italian Road, A 4 monthe sight L/C, mengecams!/117 short time after this they were joined by an.
6 months' sight LIC.. SHADES, &c, other Japanese from Tokyo, called Tokki 30 days' sight San Francisco & New York ...47
4 months' sight.
do Mamatsu, a Buddhist, sacording to his passport, | 30 days' sighi Sydney and Melbourne „........1/11) who also pretended to be an ex-clark thrown a' months sight Francs impotriviriidat3} ous of his situation owing to the war. Sarator months sight
.2.45 and Mamatzu lived in one room, for which Bar Siwa......27 '4 months' sight Germany interna they paid about fo roubles; they lived in easy | Bank of England salari circumstances and were wall supplied with money. From the beginning of the war a watch on both was instituted and despite the | great prudence of Saratori and Mamaten this surveillance brought them to arrest. On a andden swoop being made, they were found in their room along with several documents, which proved their criminal intent and their real [status as Japanese naval officers.
Lamps fixed up for Buyers free of charge.
Naphtha of the best kind kept in stock. " TAI: KHONG C
56, Lyndhurst Terrace,
Hongkong, and May, 1904.
·OPIUM QUOTATIONS. "¿Today's qupiasione sie au foliowa
Par chart. Malwa Now....
@ 1,080f1,119. ** Old ........................@ 1,140/1,180
Older
1,200/1,340 Fama New
Oldest,
1380/1,300 Renars New Persian (Paper)
ADDRESS:-1, Ice House ROAD,
1,092 Bycjočo
Hongkong, and November, 1904.
Musigny vin 1893 Carton vin 1893 Chablis vin 1893. Beaune vin 1893 Pommard vin 1899 -2.371 Red Burgundy Chambertin vin 1899 Romance vin 1893
37.00-19.30
$18,50% 10.50
18.50
20.50 19.00, (21,00%
$600
31.00 30.00 32,00 3900 42.00 ......40,00 45.00 BARRETTO & Co
Aganis
Nos. 21 & 24, Bank Buildings, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 19th October, 1904.
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