心
Entimation.
WM. POWELL,
LIMITED.
‘ALEXANDRA
BUILDINGS,"
Don Vœux Road.
LADIES'
DEPARTMENT.
JUST ARRIVED
A Consignment of
MILLINERY,
SUNSHADES, NECKWEAR,
GLOVES,
&c., &c., &e.
DRESS FABRICS
New Voiles,
Crepolines,
Delaines, &c.
A fine range of Viyella Flannels. Embroidered Robes, Muslins,
eto.,
ats.
eto,"
LADIES' BOOTS
AND
SHOES.
A large variety of High-grade Black and Brown Boots and Shoes,
at moderate prices.
CHILDREN'S BOOTS & SHOES
in large variety.
FURNISHING
DEPARTMENT.
NEW PRINTED SATÉENS, &c.
A GOOD ASSORTMENT OF OUS"IONS.
ENGRAVINGS,
PICTURES AND
ART PANELS
by well-known Artists.
NEW GOODS ÄRRIVE EVERY WEEK.
THE
Intimations,
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1905.
RACE MEETING, 1905.
TO-MORROW (SATURDAY) OFF-DAY, 25TH FEBRUARY,
TICKETS OF ADMISSION to the GRAND STAND and ENCLOSURE may be obtained from Messrs. KELLY & WALSH, LD
or at the Gate,
Tickets for the Off-Day, 52.
No one admitted without a Ticket to be shown to the Ticket Inspector at the Gate. T. F. HOUGII, Clerk of the Course.
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Hongkong, 24th February, 1905,
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. THE STEWARDS request the pleasure of The reward of the LADIES at the GRAND STAND and ENCLOSURE during
the Races on the 25th instant.
A Stand and an Enclosure will be reserved for Members and Members' Wives and Fami lies, Tickets for which will be sent out with the Members Tickets after WEDNESDAY, 15th instant,
All tickels must be produced to gain admission,
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course.
Hongkong, 23rd February, 1905.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
[246
TO SERVANTS will be allowed inside the
during the Race Days WITHOUT TICKETS which can be had on application to the Under signed.
T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Course.
(247.
Hongkong, 23rd February, 1905.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE. Ha
‘OTICE is hereby given that the Racing Colours DARK BLUE, SILVER BRAID" are withdrawn from the forthcoming moet'ng,
NOTICE
Ponies starting from the "JOHN PEEL" Stable will by permission of the Stewards carry the Colours "ALL PURPLE."
By Order,
T. F. HOUGH, Clerk of the Course.
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Hongkong, 20th February, 190".
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE.
is hereby given that the Racing
MOROCCO FROM THE NATIVE
POINT OF VIEW.
A very holy man was once falsely accused of a crime, and condemned by the Governor of the town to be beheaded.
It was in his power to prove his innocence,
and his reputation for sanctity would have given his ples the strength which innocence alone would have lacked. All his life, however, he had bowed to the will of Allah in small things as in great, and, convinced that it was the Divine will that he should suffer for a crime which he had not committed, he kept silence, and the sentence was soon carried out.
To the terror of the executioners the head, savered at a blow, fell to the ground, but the bady remained standing.
made in putting them down, and welcoming crime as a justification for pillage.
Unfortunately, it is not enough that the Moors should muddle along in their own peculiar way, and retain a certain material. prosperity. Largely against her witi, Morocco has been brought in contact with Europeans and European interests, and her vagaries offer
pretext, if they do not actually call for, European interference.
Whether the Sultan and his people will gaially submit to this is largely a question of the depth of religious feeling in the country, and time slous can give an answer.
For all practical purposes the religion of Morocca has been for many years a matter of great indifference to foreigners. They have been as free to travel or do business in the country as though the inhabitants professed" a religion that prided itself on its toleration, and strong enough to mother any display of religious prejudice that might interfere with
Intimations.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THEONUS of 2% per Share for the six DIVIDEND of Share and
mouths ending 31st December, 1904, declared at Monday's Ordinary Yearly Meeting, will be payable at the promises of the Hongkong and Shangbai Banking Corporation, on and after holders are requested to apply for Dividend TUESDAY, the 31st February, and Share- Warrants at the Company's Office, Queen's Buildings, New Prays.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THOS, I. ROSE, Secretary, Hongkong, 26th February, 1909.
ING CORPORATION.
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The news of the miracle soon spread, and the trading instinct of the Moors has been HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK- among others who came to see it with their the victim of false accusation. own eyes, was a friend and rival in austerity of
This friend, realising the cause of what to others was a miracle, addressed the body, and reproached it that, having through life faultless ly obeyed the will of Allah, it now, at this last trial, presumptuously disputed it
-The body, acknowledging the justice of the reproof, at once fell to the ground,
This story is a great favourite among the Moors, and they make more effort to reach the ideal which it describes than any of the many others which they are fond of praising, and leave quite out of sight in matters of daily life. From the point of view of despotic authority, it is an the efforts of subjects, and in Morocco, admirable object for as, no doubt, in many a Mohammedan country, a feeble Government has often owed its immunity from serious attacky in part, at least, to the parsive attitude whichgloss re- pugnant to Eastern than to Western minds the mass of the population, encouraged by the | teaching of religion, as a rule adopts.
That part of Morocco which has been ac, customed to recoguise the rule of the Sultan and that excludes a considerable part of the north, most of the mountainous districts, and much of Sun-has now been for more than two years in a state of practical anarchy. In the towns, Governors, appoined by the Sultan, have continued, rather timidly, to exercise their authority; but in most of the country districts the tribes either ignore the nominal Governor, or have turned him out, and keep order either by means of a substitute—appointed by them. selves or council of forty," chosen from the principal men of the tribe.
For many months past the first question NOTICE DARK BLUE SILVER which every Moorish merchant in the interior
BRAID AND BUTTONS, CHRISE CAP are withdrawn from the forthcoming meeting.
Ponies arting from "MR. JOHNSTONE'S" Stabia will by permission of the Stewards carry the Colours "YELLOW, BLACK CROSS AND CAP."
By Order,
T. F. HOUGH,
Clerk of the Course.
Hongkong, 10th February, 1905. [274 GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
LIMITED.
HE SIXTEENTH ORDINARY AN THENUAL
MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS is the Company will be held in the Office of the General Managers, St. George's Building, Victoria, TO-MORROW, 25th February, 1905, at 11 AM, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year | ending 31st December, 1904.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, 24th February until WEDNESDAY, Bth March, both days inclusive,
́SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 24th February, 1909,
NOTICE.
has naked each morning, has been, "How are the roads " and it has been comparatively rare that the answer received has been the confident, "There is no fear in them.
A fair "eaten up," tribes fighting between themselves or attacking a Governor's house such, and similar, disturbances have in turn temporarily blocked each of the roads to the coast. In countries accustomed to good gov: time, dislocate all business, but in Morocco it ernment, such a state of things would, for the
has caused nothing more than vexatious delay, and the giving of longer credit to those to whom the goods stopped on the roads have been consigned.
The Moor, rich or poor, townsman or coun tryman, is, above all things, a trader, and a cognises that his amusements, among which must at present be reckoned Governor-hunting and inter-tribal fighting, must interfere as little as possible with the course of business, and when free from Government control, he takes much care to see that things done.
profitable commerce.
is
ostensibly an attack on a Sultan who has The unreality of the present rebellion, which been untrue to the faith, has aided the belief that anything in the nature of a holy war is Impossible in Morocco.
It may be so; the nation is one which those who have never been farther than Tangier understand thoroughly, but about which those who have lived in all parts of the country, and have spent their lives in as close touch with native feeling as is possible for Europeans, confess that they know but little.
When the first rumour of French interference
was popularly understood that the Sultan had reached the south, now nearly a year ago, it
told the country to the French, and when a report came that the French had landed at Mogador, the tribes talked of electing a new Sultan of the south, to oppose any attempt at invasion; but the rumours and agitation were soon forgotten.
Now the news comes that the same feeling is again excited, and a general rising against the Saitan, despised for his feebleness, and hated for his religious unfaithfulness, may at any time take place.
neighbour, and where successful treachery is In a country where every man distrusts his
as creditable as honour, a very exceptional motive is needed to bind men together in a dangerous cause,
European interference, which might seem to threaten their religious prejudicas, their national would supply just such a motive; and the re existence, and even their individual possessions,
sult would be either a rebellion, infnitely more real and widespread than the present one, or the forced acceptance by the present Sultan of
a definitely anti-foreign policy,
THE
THE DIVIDEND declared for the half year ending 31st December, 1904, at the with a Bonus of One Pound Sterling per Share rate of One Pound and Ten Shillings together
the 20th day of February current, at the Offices of the Corporation where Shareholders are re- of $125, is payable on and after MONDAY,
quested to apply for Warrants,
By Order of the Court of Directors,
J. R. M. SMITH,
Chief Manager.
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Hong ong. 18th February, 1905.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,
of 8% per annum will be charged upon all Calls NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on and after this date Interest at the rate
in respect of SHAREB NOT FULLY PAID UP from the day appointed for Payment of such Calls, namely 3rd January, 1905,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 11th January, 1905.
THE
NOTICE.
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"HE HONGKONG AND CHINA · GAS CO., LTD., beg to notify the Public that the PRICE OF GAS will be REDUCED from $3.50 to $3.00 per 1,000 cubic feet as from the st February, 1905.
GEORGE CURRY, Local Secretary. Hongkong, 1st February, 1905, 198
WHY NOT THE BEST?
SEVEN GRAND PRIZES
AWARDED TO
AT THE
Intimations,
YOU WANT
PROVISIONS
AND
WINES
1905.
GET YOUR SUPPLIES
FROM
A. CHAZALON & Co.
(SUCCESSORS TO
G. GIRAULT) --
6, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL,
Opposite Connaught
Hotel.
Who are Suppliers of High Class
Wines, Spirits and Provisions,
French Bakers,
Navy Contractors,
and
Commission Agents.
BRANCHES :
Hongkong, 22nd February, 1905.
It is always recognised that the poits and the coast-line are at the mercy of a European fleet, the frigates of war," as they call them, are beyond understanding or possibility of SINGER SEWING MACHINES HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, HANKOW. resistance, but on fand it is a different matter, and the Moors have the strongest belief in the irresistible might of their horsemen,' whose fighting is not unlike their "powder play," noisy, picturesque, and rather dangerous to the performers.
ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION.
SHOW-ROOMS; WYNDHAM STREET.
Cash or Easy Monthly Payments. Hongkong, 28th January, 1905.
Auctions.
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The mugged districts of the north, and all the | ******* mountainous country, might indeed be able to offer formidable resistance to European forces, but in the rice plains which border on the PUBLIC AUCTION OF Atlantic, the heart and wealth of Morocco, it is hard to conceive that the Moors, even united, and fighting with the bravery that once was theirs, could hold out against a well-appointed expedition, which would find in every coast on a possible base, and could always rely on having short and easily defended llues of com. munication.
FINE ART CURIOS AND SILK EMBROIDERIES.
of the defensive power of Morocco being put Fortunately, there is no immediate prospect
Most of the important triber have decided in their councils that the roads must be kept safe, [259 and safe, so far as robbery and murder go, they
have, for the most part, remained, While benefit from Europe than Europe can hope for fighting is actually taking place on or quite many years to come to derive from the Moors,
to the test. The Moors derive much more
THE Undersigned has received instructions
to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON
MONDAY,
the 27th February, 1905,
AND
TUESDAY,
the 28th February, 1905, cómmencing each day at 2.30 Pit, at his
Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.
A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF
THE WINE GROWERS
SUPPLY CO.
BARRETTO & Co., General Agents, Hongkong.
PORT WINE,
Direct shipments from the COMPANHIA AGRICOLA E COMMERCIAL DOS. VINHOS DO PORTO,
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF close to the road, cautious camal-drivers do not and every class among them realises how much JAPANESE ART CURIOS AND SILK (Successors to DONNA ANTONIA A.FERRKIRAX
COMMERCE.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL Mokong
MEMBERS of the General Chamber of Commerce will be held on TUESDAY, the 38th February, 1905, at 4 P.M., in the Old Chamber of Commerce Room, City Hall, for the following purposes, víz ;-~
J. To receive the Report and Accounts of
the Committee for the year ended 31st
December, 1904.
z To elect a New Committee.
like to paas (though they could often do so without any risk), but, as soon as news arrives that one of the two sides has bad enough of the noisy display which fighting in Morocco often means, caravans of goods will start to traverse. the scene of the recent conflict with perfect
confidence.
Every few days a caravan, loaded with
specie, leaves the interior for the coast. The
fact, even the number of thousands of dollars in each load, is well knowo, and, as a rule, no guard of any sort accompanies ; but robbery, or interference is almost unknown, and the caravan performs its journey with greater sale. ty than, with similar absence of precaution, would be possible in England.
of its daily comfort depends on free intercourse with foreign countries,
If France acts with the discretion she ap pears to wish to exercise, means may yet he found to reconcile foreign interests with native prejudice.—Ex.
COMMERCIAL
TO-DAY'S EXCHANOR. Selling.
..T'10
2.971
..45f
EMBROIDERIES,
Comprising
CADED PRIESTS ROBES; FINE SILK EMBROIDERED WORKS of ART, such as HANGINGS (Landscapes, Floral Design, Birds, &c.), MANTEL DRAPERIES; BED. SPREADS, TABLE COVERS, KIMONOS, CURTAINS, SCREENS, &c, do, i
OLD TEMPLE BROCADES and BRO.
Monopoly for China of THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.]
Dry No. 1
Per Case of :Dozen.
Selected Old Port $10.00
H
*
It
11 35.00
Quinta do Porto Dry No. 3 Quinta da Granja
+
DE
+ 30.00
骨手
13 25.00
#
動 #
20.00
Tawny, 1887, Vintage, #1 # ∙15,00
VERY FINE DAMASCENE WARE CIGAR and CIGARETTE CASES, MATCH, JEWELRY and POWDER BOXÉS, CARD CASES, UMBRELLA HANDLES, BUT TONS, &c. 1
CHOICE SILVER WARE-JEWELRY | Tawny, (White Label)........... 14.00 and POWDER BOXES, VÁSES and Medium Tawny, (Brown Label)
* 13.00 BOWLS, &c.;
White Tawny, (White Label) Full Wine, (Brown Label)
13.00
11.00
FINELY EXECUTED GOLD LAC- QUERED
SCREENS, BOXES and STANDS, RED and BLACK LACQUERED White Tawny, (Brown Label) mmm... tajo CABINETS, TABLES and CHAIRS; Light Tawny, (Brown Labol)
OLD BRONZE VASES, FINE SAT· 193 | SUMA and IMARI WARE, CUT VELVET 140) PICTURES (Bilk) and a variety of other
3. To discuss and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolutionThat the Com "mittee be authorised to write to the "Government requesting that before en
I onder-Bank T.T. ................................................to tering into any arrangements with the "United Kingdom, India, or the Colonics,
Do. demand - mat '10 11/16 "which may affect freedom of action in
Do. 4 months' sight "trade matters within the limits of the
The end of two years of practical anarchy France-Bank T.T..... "Colony, His Excellency the Governor sees the country people wealthier and happier America-Bank T.T.....................................
will be good enough to direct that details " of any proposed legislation ba forwarded than in the best of previous Sultanates, and the Germany-Bank T.T................
to the Chamber of Commerce, as repre- merchants, European and natives, bewalling, | India T.T........... "senting the Commercial Community, in not the insecurity of life and property, but the order that the Community at large, of issues of debased coinage, which make tran that section of it which may be affected sactions depending on a more or less fixed Why the proposed agreement, or agree,
ments, may be given an opportunity of rate of exchange impossible, and the indepen, expressing thale views on the subject." dence of the untaxed farming classes, which 4. To transit any general business.
bas caused the process of bargaining for pro By Order.
duce to be less one-sided than it was previously, months' sight L/C..............1/11
6 months' aight L/O.........1/£1 'If the capacity to govern themselras_li_y'] measure of the moral attainment of a people so days sight San Francisco & New York 461 | inhabitants of Morocco, judged by the record - 4 months sight
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A. & LOWE, Secretary, Hongkong, 11st February, 1905.
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE
Do. demand Shanghai--Bank T.T. Japan-Bank T.T.
Bank T.T.
Buying.
do.
1404 .....72 ..gat
472
CURIOS.
TERMS:-As usual,
The Collection will be on Exhibition from Wednesday, the sand February,
Catalogues will be issued,
GRO, P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer,
Hongkong, 17th February, 1905,
PUBLIC AUCTION,
of the last two years, must have some good sight Sydney and Melbourne....1/11 THE Undersigned have received instructions months sight France.................2,414 qualities.
Long accustomed to a system of oppression, which, with the Court for its starting-polate HE THIRTY-SIXTH ORDINARY | was used to pillage steady downwards till it ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE reached the beggart in the gats, and searched HOLDERS in the above Company, will be their rags for possible hoards, the Moors held at the Offices of the Company, Pedder's might well have been excepted to employ their Street, on MONDAY, the 6th day of March, 1905, at 11.30 AM, to receive a Statement of unexpected freedom in wholesale riot and Accounts to 31st December, 1904, and the lawlessnext, Report of the General Managers, and to elect a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company Wm. POWELL, Ld. will be CLOSED from the doth February to
the 6th March, bush days inclusive. · HONGKONG.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. General Managers.
Hongkong, 16th February, 1901,
Instead of this, untaxed and ungoverned the main, preserved the general: peace of the happy in their growing prosperity, they bars, in
country, and life and property have boɑn, kj
4
6 months sight
months' sight Germany.............. Bar Silver Bank of England rate
พ
..........37 11/16 1.971
SAY GOO
OPIUM QUOTATIONS, ''To-day's quotations are as follows :-
Per chest Malwa New............ ......@ 1,130/1,150
Old H
..................... 1,160/1,200 'Older mimi...© 1,240/1,00 Oldest
.....@ 1,310/5,350 least as safe as when each "Kaibab had ■ Paizs New ................nine® 1,170 powerful Kald, with a horde of raffianly soldiers; | Benares New amunaut Hongkong, 8th February, 1905. [116] ready to foster tislags, that money might be | Parsian (Paper
H
© 780/910
to Sell by
'PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
THURSDAY,
the 2nd March, 1905, at 5 PM, at 'AH KINO's Slipway, Wanchal,
The Cruising Yacht
10NA, Length Water Line 35 ft. 6 in, Breadth 8 ft., Depth 3 ft. 9 in., Sall area 6¤¤ Square feet, This Yacht will be sold ready for sea with all SPARE GEAE, CABIN FITTINGS, CUTLERY, PLATES, &c., &c, &c, TERMI>-ƒ Usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers." Hongkong, aoth February, 1905,
MELROSE WHISKY
Scotlands Best, Delicious Mellow
and Matured,
PROPALETIN
Bowen & M'Kechnie.
CEPA RUBY
10.00
RIOJA OLARET, $8,00-
per dozen
Direct Importers of Wine, Beer and Spirits from well-known Growths, Brewers and Distillers. Price List on application."
BARRETTO & Co
Agents, "?
Nos. 22 & 24, Bank Buildings:
Queen's Road Central,
Hongkong, 25th January, vnesi