Intimation.
WM.
POWELL,
LIMITED.
-ALEXANDRÀ BUILDINGS.—
FURNISHING
DEPARTMENT,
(FIRST FLOOR BY `LIFT.)'
NEW
LACE
AND
MUSLIN
CURTAINS.
DAINTY
UPHOLSTERING
AND
ART FABRICS.
LAMP
SHADES!!!]
CANDLE SHADES !!!
ELECTRIC-
LIGHT
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DAINTY AND
ELEGANT,
Prices from 50 cts. to $27,50 each.
A Splendid Variety of
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY MAY 8, 1905.
Notice of Firm.
NOTICE.
7E have authorized
THE NEWSPAPER " BABEL" OF. NEW YORK CITY.
W SALING ME. FREDERICK very fair French, offering to sell me
this date.
Hongkong, gik May, 1905.**
REISS & Co.
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
My work as a newspaper compositor de- mands a quick eye
and band and an alert
brain,"said be. "When
"A mas sent me a circular the other day in
I began this work” I. Greek
was still growing fast. tri-weekly newspaper-"with excellent pro-1 was far from strong spects:" Now, I feel sum it is not known in constitution, and [544 generally that New York City is by far the soon broke down up- most cosmopolitan place in the universe, as der the strain. may be seen from the fact that there are just upon one hundred newspapers and magazines published on Manbattan Island in languages other than English,
HE Undersigned have received instructions
to sell hy.
THE
PUB' IC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE; CONCERNED,
OD
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
Of course, by far the greater number of these ate in German. A long way behind comes the the Italian tongue, with five or six dailies and six or seven weeklies. One astonished to
the 12th and 13th May, 1975, commencing each find, too, that there are six daily newspapers in
day at 2. P.M. sharp,
New York printed in Hebrew, and there are seven or eight Spanish periodicals-twa of
at their Sales Room*, No 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street,
A VERY FINE COLLECTION OF
Comprising:-
SILK EMBROIDERED PALACE and TEMPLE HANGINGS, CED COVERS, CUSHIONS, Very Fine SATSUMA TEA
them weeklies.
It is curious to notice how enterprising these JAPANESE CURIOS & WORKS OF ART, foreign journals are, and how totally different on the business as well as the editorial side from similar publications in their own mother country. Even the Bohemians have two dailies in their own language, and each has its weekly and Sunday edition, for all the world like a miniature New York Herald,
SETS, VASES, WALL PLATES, INCENSE BURNERS, BRONZE and BRASS VASES, BILK-EMBROIDERED SCREENS, GʻLD and SILVER CLOISONNE WARE, IVORY CARVINGS, GOLD) LACQUERED CABI• NET, &, &c., &c.
Catalogues will be issued, TERMSAs usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 5th May, 1905.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
"I began by feeling out of sorts, and at for ing-witboul en-
ergy to start any occupation or recrea tion. I was evidently outgrowing mystrong- th. By degrees I became very weak and sickly, I slept heavily and arose tired. I always felt ex- hausted, at work or at home.
Ifr. Baltta, a Compositor euigre his regi Dr. Wullams Pink Pill mada i were pan of hầm.
"1 do not make flesh, and friends used to lay 'How thin you are! I fell into such a low state that I needed something more than ordinary tonics to build up my strength and stay the awful wasting away. Luckily for me found the right medicine in Dr. Williams' able; the second bottle set me up wonderfully, Pink Pills. Their good effect was soon notice. and by the time I had finished it I was com pletely restored. I felt well, and could eat well: and my food satisfied me. The weariness
Intimations.
CANTON DISTRICT.
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 73.
Intimrations.
THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
·FINAL NOTICE.
Removal of the Tai-shek Barrior. ALL SHAREHOLDERS who were entitled a proportion of the NEW ISSUE and who have not applied for such must apply immediately,
Back. Reach.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Steam Dredger "CANTON RIVER will commence work at the TAI-SHEK BARRIER on or about the 14th inst.
Masters of vessels should continue to navi. gate the Uld Channel until farther notice, slew down when approaching the Barrier and pass only at such a rate of speed as is compatible with safely.
Dredging operations will be commenced si a position 400 feet to the South of the present Beacons,
The Dredger will 'exhibit by night the utual lights of a vessel at anchor, Re, A white anchor light forward and a stern light,
Approved:
J. HOWELL MAY,
Harbour Master.
F. J. MAYERS,
Acting Commissioner of Customis. Custom House,
Caaton, 3rd May, 1905.
WANTED.
Interest will be charged at the rate of Twalya per cent. per annum on Sto the amount pay- able in respect of each Share from the 31st day of March, 1905.
3txt day of May next.
No Application will be received after the
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers..
Hongkong, 26th April, 1905.
THE FAMOUS Mab
ASHARP LITTLE SHAVEI
[514
Razor
* WEIGHT LESS THAN BOUNCES)
THIS DWARF RAZOR has superseded
THIS
the old fashioned clumsy Razor and by its use Shaving becomes a pleasure. It is manufactured in Sheffield, England, from a [546 special amalgam of steel which makes imita-
tion impossible, and in copsequence it'onjoys. the largest sale of any Rator in the World. Thousands of Testimonials testify that the little" MAB" is the finest shaving implement ever produced.
ORA GERMAN GENTLEMAN in
The Ilungarians have four or five newspapers, had vanished; 1 was fit for work or play, and English Family Heard and Residence,
a couple of them published daily. Stranger | still, there are five or six periodicals for the Syrians and Arabs-a couple of dailies and three weeklies among them. The latest comer 1539
is a Polish daily, which has two other com. petitors in the same laugu igé; and there are three Danish, two Finnish, and two Swedish journals, one of the last-named being a labour paper, as one might expect, having regard to the immense proportion of Swedish working men immigrants.
HY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGER of VALUABLE · LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, situate at Caine Road, Victoria, Hongkong. ON FRIDAY,
the 12th May, 1905; at 3 P.M.,
DIY Mr. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer, at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,
TH
"HE Premises are Registered in the Land Office as Section A of Inland Lot No. 433 and Section A of Inland Lot No. 523 with the Messuage and Buildings thereon, known as DINDER." No 51, Caine Road, and contain in the whole 29,138 square feet, and are held from the Crown for the residues of the res pective terms of 999 years. Annual Crown Rent $76.65,
For funber particulars and conditions of sale, apply to-
EWENS & HARSTON, Solicitors for the Mortgages,
4
or to
GEO, P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 5th May, 1905,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
|
The Japanese in New York City' have their own weekly newspaper, and also a monthly magazine. Even the Chinese and the Russians have their weeklies in this wonderful city. Al. together there are now three Greek newspapers in New York, but strangely enough only one in French. One is surprised, by the way, how few French people there are in New York,
There in a paper in Croat, one in Servian, others in Slovak and Sloven. Here, then, we have upwards of twenty different tongues. There used to be an Armenian paper, but it moved to Boston. It is queer how nil these journals appear to thrive, the only sickly one on the list being a Lithuanian weekly, which appears to have "gone under." Even the Swiss have their own very thriving weekly, published in German.
Nor is Park-row, with its huge skyscrapers, the only Fleet street of New York City, for it is represented on both the east and west sides. [538 At East Broadway and Rutgers-street we come upon the quarter of the Jewish or Yiddish papers. As one might suppose, the Jewish dailies, both morning and evening, are tho. roughly up to date, have the best and most ex- pensive telegraph service, with composition done on linetypes of special construction, and
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of
the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be
held on MONDAY, the 15th day of May, 1905, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWŃ LAND above Conduit Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, com. mencing from 19th July, 1897.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
of Sale.
Reguur No
Boundary Beaurements.
LOCALITY.
N.
1.
W
ft.. fija.
Hongkong, 6th May, 1905.
Coalents in
Square feet.
*[Annual Reni.
Upset Price
15
0,568
Intimations.
CAFE WEISMANN.
|
in as good health as 1 could wish."
Apply to-
"A. S," Clo Hongkong Telegraph, Ilangkong, zgth April, 1995,
[sta
THE HONGKONG
STUDIO
Mrs. Battle, who was present at the inter view at 18 Jackson street, Birkenhead, Eng. land, added that before her son took Dr. Williams Pink Pili he seemed to lose all interest in life. "He was bent, and 'stooped,” she added, " until he took these pills. I knew they would do him good, for they had cured my daughter of Anemia. Now, both are strong and well. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make men bright for business. They have cured the most serious forms of nervous disorders, including Paralysis and Locomotor Ataxy, while thous ands have testified to their value, in St. Vitus' Dance, Sciatica, Rheumatism, Anaemia, Indi DORTRAITS, GROUPS and ENLAR gestion, loss of Appetite, general muscular weakness, and the ailments of women. purgative, but a true tonic. Obtainable of most medicine dealers, also from Dr. Williams' receipt of 23. 9d. for one bottle, or for six bottles Medicine Co, Holborn-viaduct, London, on
138. 9d. post free.
Entimations.
Not a
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·BELL'S ASBESTOS EASTERN AGENCY, LIMITED,
BRANCH REGISTER OF MEMBERS of this Company on the EASTERN REGISTER has this day been established under The Companies (Colonial Registers) Act 1883 and will be kept at the Office of the Undersigned who are duly authorised to exer cise all the powers of the Directors of the Com- pany in relation to transfer of Shares entered in such branch register.
-Dated this First day of May, 1905, 534)
BRADLEY & Co.
the printing on fast presses of the lastest type, The very type-writers and cash registers, in the THE WISE MAN business departments of these journals bave Yiddish characters.
BUYS A "SINGER"; IT'S TRUE ECONOMY.
FREE INSTRUCTION;
It is not difficult to account for the thriving Condition of these journals in Hebrew, for there 5 YEARS' GUARANTEE are upwards of five hundred thousand Jews in New York City alone, so that it is no wonder the principal Hebrew journal claims a circula- tion of seventy thousand or seventy-five thou- sand copies daily.
is in Greenwich-street that we come upon the Croatian daily and the Sloven weekly; and in Washington street and West-street respecti tively, we find the offices of the journals print. In sixth-streel the passer-by would not suspect the existence of the Hun. garian "Fleet Street," since the newspaper 318 shops appear to be hidden away among hare bers' shops, bakeries, and public-houses. In William-street are located the Chinese and Japanese weeklies; one of the Greek dailies will be found in Stone-street; the Servian paper in Eleventh-avenue, and the Russian weekly in East Seventy-second-st ect.
ed in Arabic. 60 | 1,985
CROCKERY, THE Puble are invited to pay a vial to
comprising TOILET SETS, DINNER SERVICES
JUGS, CÚPS & SAUCERS,
&c., &c.
and
A Selection of DAINTY GLASS
FLOWER
VASES.
&c., &c., &c..
our new TIFFIN ROOMS.
visit
The only place of its kind in Hongkong,
•
A. VERITABLE FAIRY LAND.
REAL GERMAN FASS BEER ON -
DRAUGHT.
Entrance-
No. 1, WYNDHAM Stueet. Hongkong, 22nd April, 1905.
· Naturally, the smaller papers bave no news service of their own but merely translate from their big brothers, such as the Herald, Worlds Journal, Sun, and Tipies. In most cases ode small room is both the editorial, composing, and business office, while the press work is
done at a jb printer's outside. A weekly letter from the old country is always a "star" feature.
And the editor is "1," as they say in "New" York: If you want to talk to anyone about machinery, he is the man.
The same,
with
[46 politics, news likely to interest his country. men, estimates for printing-in short, he is the whole business.
LEVY HERMANOS. DIA
TAMOND MERCHANTS, JEWEL
LERS AND WATCHMAKERS.
FABTMAN'S 'KODAKS and FILMS.
Sole Agents for "OMECA" WATCHES. "OMEGA" is the best, "THREE YEARS" guarantee given to every purchaser.
511
40, QUEEN'S ROAD),
-Watson's Building.
NOTICE..
THE
'HE_Public are hereby informed that no change has been made in the Rates of Subscription to the Hongkong Telegraph and they are warned against paying more than
Wm. POWELL, Ld. TEN GENTS (to cts) per Single Copy...
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, 8th May, 190j;
THE MANAGER,
No city in the world can show such a Journalistic record; and, of course, it is the natural outcome of the shiploads of amazing specimens of humanity that land in Ellis Island, there to be received and overhauled by the Imigration Department.--Br.
THIN YOUNG MEN
WHO LACK VITALITY NEED DR. WILLIAMS
PINK PILLS.
"Always eating, but never growing fatter en it," is the story of many young men between sixteen and twenty-six. Painfully thin, lasiera- jawod, pale, and dark eyed, during their year of development, young men lack vitality and are ill fitted to resist colds and chills, let alone more serious ailments and
Mr. Battle, an intelligent man of twenty, Hongkong Telegraph Co., Ltd. | speaks from experience of the 'difficulties aria- Hongkong, goth Saptember 190g.
lng at this age.
EASY PAYMENTS
It's something you need.
Show-Roous:-1, Wyndham StrEET. Hongkong, 25th March, 1905.
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A FOOK & Oo,,
12, Pottinger Street, Central.
GENERAL STOREKEEPERS, SHIP CHANDLERS AND COMPRADORES, COAL MERCHANTS
AND STEVEDORES OF BIXTY YEARS STANDING,
ALL kinds of Provisions, Coal, Water and Ballast supply from alongside at the shortest notice and with all possible dispatch.
Moderate terms.
Orders solicite.. Hongkong, 23rd February, 1905
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THE REAL THING AT LAST.
LUSSELL'S PURE FUSSEL
RICH THICK CREAM which, by the bye, is always known by the golden butTERFLY" on the tin, keeps excellently anywhere and everywhere. When opened, it is as fresh and sweet as though it had just been skimmed from the freshest dairy milk.
Nothing but praise has been received from those who have had it.
NO PRESERVATIVE OF ANY KIND IS USED. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY QUARANTEED. Fuller particulars, prices, booklets and samples on application.
SOLE AGENT :--
H. RUTTONJEE,
5, D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong. 37, Elgin Road, Kowloon.
Hongkong, 19th April, 1903.
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TOP FLOOR.
GING and COPYING in all 55105.
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PRICE VERY MODERATE. Hongkong, 15th September, tona.
MEE CHEUNG,
PHOTOGRAPHer, TOP FLOOR OF ler HOUSE, IN
Ice-činute Road.
Will be mailed to any address on receipt of the price (82), post free.
To be obtained from THE MUTUAL STORES, WATKINS, LIMITED, and all first-class stores in the Colony,
Sole Agents for Far East, HOWARD & Co., 29, les Vreux Road, Central, Hongkong.
pants wasted in every port.
For particulars and terms, apply to
HOWARD & Co.
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Hongkong, 24th November, 1904.
ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN. Marshall and
Elvy's
Satinette
a position, in his New and Com ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRACTICED nindicus Premises, to eclipse, as heretofore,
in the Colony or in any part of the Far East.
GROUPS AND VIEWS a speciality. Mangiang, Ansul Seprambe, the #
FURNITURE WAREHOUSE..
156
LI KWONG LOONG,
CABINET-MAKER AND ART DECORATOR,
from Shanghai, has opened a FURNITURE STORE
At
No. 45, DES Vœux Road CENTRAL. The only Shop in Hongkong with this name.
WH
THERE HIGH-CLASS FURNITURE of every description can be made to order in any design required.
Has been patronised by the Hongkong Club, Hongkong Hotel, Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ld., Joint Telegraphs Cos, and other leading Establishments in the Colony, to whom refer ence may be made as to the Superior Work. manship and Materials of the Furniture, &c., supplied.
Messrs. A. 5. Watson & Co., Ltd, write as follows:-
"We have pleasure in stating that Mr L
KWONG 100NG furnished the Annexe in our Dispensary and gave us every satisfac tion,"
(Sd) A. S. WATSON & Co. Ld ORDERS punctually attended to, and CHARGES most moderate.
AN INSPECTION INVITED. Hongkong, 6th December, 1994.
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Unequalled Purifying Agent
AND IS
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"Sanitas" Disinfecting Powder Is the best, air purtier known, and a rodger maxiseptic and deodorani than carbolic ack, beider sing pleasant and refreshing,
"Sanitar" Eucalyptus Soap
is specially recommended by the medical faculty for use in hot climates, suse of its fina disinfecting qualities and is ingrance
Kingzott's Fomigating Candies
supply the seẩmt and most convenient mzaza), of sulphy fumigation For the disinfection of infected places, badding, 'clocking, etc., they su bois scicacious, and soonomical, “Destroy all Innacza, -
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THE MUTUAL STORES, Des Voeux Road.
Hongkong, rith May, 1904.
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Kangkong, 16th March, 1903,