Intimation.
WM. POWELL,
LIMITED.
-ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,-**
LADIES'
DEPARTMENT,
A LARGE
AND
VARIED STOCK OF THE NEWEST. DRESS
MUSLINS
AND
WASHING FABRICS.
PRETTY
BATHING
DRESSES
AND
CAPS.
CHILDREN'S
DEPARTMENT.
NEW WASHING
HATS.
PITH
THE
Intimations.
HONGKONG HIGH LEVEL TRAMWAYS
COMPANY, LIMITED.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY
NURDINARY GENERAL MEETING TOTICE is hereby givan that an EXTRA- of the above-named Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, Alex. andra Buildings on SATURDAY, the 3rd of June, at Noon, în accordaal) with Article for of the Company's Anicles of Association for the purpose of considering the desirability of the dissolution of the Company and for the parpass of passing the following Resolutions, viz,-
LORŲ KŪSABERY ON READING,
ought to read and, the books they ought to buy, which were not by any means the same Lord Rosebery, as Lord Lieutenant of the thing. The amateur adviser as to what and county, opened a public library at West Cal what abt to read he had found an intoler der, Mid Loibian, which was presented by Mr.able person. Such advice had broken up Andrew Carnegie Replying subsequently to `vote of thanks proposed by Dr. Hew Morri son, librarian. Edinburg, ...
25, 1905.
Auctions.
DY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES.
PUBLIC AUCTION, E
MESSRS, HUGHES AND HOUGH have been instructed to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON
MONDAY, the 5th June, 1905, at 1.30 o'clock in the after- noon, at their Auction Room, No. 8, Dea Vaux Road (corner of Ice House Street) THE
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, which is intended to be registered in the Land Office as.
Intimations.
OF THE MULTITUDES who have used it, or are now using it, we have. - never heard of any one who have been dis appointed in it. No clalina are made for it except those which are amply justified by ex- perience. In commending it to the afflicted we simply point to its record. It has done great *hings, and it is certain to continue the excel- fent work. There is-we may honestly affirm ---no medicine which can be used with greater
may be dissolved and that it be wound bounds, and he was glad to find that it referred { worth buying,” He found two further classes of SUBSECTION I OF SECTION N OF MARINE Lor those periods when the appetite falls and food
1. That it is desirable that the Company
up voluntarily.
many friendships. The man who was recom mended to read a novel, and after getting 300 pages into it found it impossible to go on, Lord Rosebery said that when he heard the and yet after having read so much found li propster say that he had found something rela unprofitable to lay it down sworean sternaj tive to him in the variety column of a weekly enmity against the man who recommended to newspaper he broke out in a cold perspiration, him that book. No limitation of means could It was formidable enough to be dealt with in in these days exctice anybody from not buying the matter of fact columus of a newspaper, books. But he distinguished between books but when they went to the variety columns, the to be read and books to be bought. They imagination of the newspaper-writer know no read in 'order to see whether, the book was to nothing but his despondency expressed not books the books that they borrowed from 2. That the General Manager he and they long ago in regard to the popularity of the friends and returned, and the books they bar
are hereby appointed Liquidators.
Waverley Novels. That despondency was not row and did not return. The non-returning of 3. That the Liquidators be and they are
hereby authorised to consent to the re-expressed in Scotland, of course. If he des books had ended more friendships and term gistration of a New Company to be ponded about the loyalty of Scotland in regard inated 'more affections than any other cause named the "PRAK TRAMWAYS COr to the Waverley Novels he would be beyond which he was cognisant. Of course, there was PANY, LIMITED" with a Memorandum the consolations of Joh. But he was sceptical a worse thing than the man who borrowed and Articles of Association which have about England. He was not sure that the your book and did not retuin it, for he might: been prepared with the approval of the Consulting Committee of the Company. Scottish dialect was altogether appreciated borrow a book only in one volume. But the 4. That the Liquidors be empowered to sell south of the Tweed, and he rather thought man who borrowed onetvolume belonging to a to the "PEAK TRAMWAYE COMPANY, that more sensational "pastures" were requir-set and never returned it was a man who LIMITED" the undertaking of this Comed than were furnished by these glorious should be treated like vermin-trapped or shot pany at the price of $200 per share either masterpieces.. in cash or shares of the "PEAK TRAM.
might be extended to the last and vilest of at sight, or any other of the punishments which WAYS COMPANY, LIMITED" at the option of Shareholders of this Company
mankind. and to enter into all necessary agree ments to that effect.
Should the above Resolutions be passed by the requisite majority they will be submitted for confirmation as special Resolutions to a Second. Extraordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
Dated 22nd May, 1905..
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JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers..
CANTON CUSTOMS.
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 73.
TAISHER BABRIER.
TOTICE is hereby given that two BEA. NO CON will shortly be placed to mark the Northern edge of the Channel now being dredged across the TAISHEK BARRIER. Ar Boon as this area has been cleared to a depth of so feet at Low Water of Spring Tides, the dredger will commenca work in the chan. nel now used by shipping, and vessels will then be required to use the new channel; which, will be marted as follows:-
Two Beacons each bearing Red shape and showing a Red light by night will mark the Northern edge of the channel. Two Beacons, each bearing a Black shape and showing a Green light by night will mark the Southern edge of the channel. Vessels will known that the old channel across the Taishek Barrier is closest to them when they see that the dredger is at work there, and that the shapes have been removed from the Taishek Beacons and have been placed on the Beacons marking the newly dredged channel.
Vessels are required to go at slow-speed when approaching the Darrier and to take every precaution.
J. HOWELL MAY,
Harbour Master.
Approved :
F. J. MAYERS,
Acting Commissioner of Customs.
Custom House,
Canton, 22nd May, 1905.
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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 Cons- pany in relation to transfer of Shares entered in such branch register.
Dated this First day of May, 1905. 524]
BRADLEY & Co,
Lord Rosebery afterwards addressed public gathering in the People's Hall of the town. He said the first thing they bad to do was to thank Mr. Gainegie, who had given them the library, and the best form in which they could show their gratitude to Mr. Carne Kie was to use the library as much as possible, Mr. Carnegie had given scores of libraries all over the kingdom. It was the main use to which he had devoted his enormous wealth, and he had been the means, therefore, of con- ferring incalculable benefit upon his country. But that was not an unmixed benefit. There has been hundreds of speeches dalivered on the same topic le which Mr. Carnegie's bene factions had given rise, and he considered such a multitude of speeches a great curse to the country. Anything that tended to the multiplication of speeches was a curse to the Country,
W36 bat
The subject upon which he had to speak had been drained to the dregs, and he was not prepared to come before them, and them that knowledge was power. Of course tell them of the virtues of reading, and to tell
| knowledge was power. In a certain sense
that was a great truth,, but it the while truth. Knowledge was power, but that did not necessarily mean book know tedge. Book knowledge was only a part of the knowledge that constituted power. Books were excellent things. It would be high treason if he were to deny that, coming there to open a free library; hut‹a gluttony of books was just as bad as a surfeit of anything else. There were a great many excellent people he knew in this world who spent all their days in reading, and who were of no use to themselves
of
This Property comprises Nos. 84, 85, 68, & 90,
NUMBER SEVENTY-ONE, IN ONE LOT..
and more reasonable faith and confidence. It nourishes and keeps up the strength during
out on every bottle of "Wampold's. Prepara cannot be digested. To guard against imita lons and substitutions, our trade mark" is.
tion," and without it none is genuine. It is palatable as honey and contains the nutritiva and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver, Ou, *xtracted by us from fresh cod Ifrem, com bined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophos. . phites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry, Takan before, meals it, creates an MESSRS, HUGHES AND HOUGH have appetite, aids digestion, renews vital power,
Ko Shing Street, Victoria, Hongkong. Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be obtained from the Vendors' Solicitors,
Mestri. DEACON, LOOKER & DEACON,
1, Des Voeux Road Central,
Hongkong, sand May, 1905.
and also from the Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON MONDAY,
T583
the 12th day of June, 1905, at 3 P.M., at their Sales Roome
The following
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY,
via:-
His ideal index would be that which told them the best book to reat on any subject that they might ask for; but his fear was that they would get nobody to frame any such index, be situate at Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, cause his life would not be safe; Authors and publishers who did not find their names and their books on the list would seek his life, and he might have to sit, like the newspaper edi. tor in the Western States of America, with a couple of revolvers in bis drawer ready to shoot at sight the first complaining, person that should a pear. There was another it dex that he was anxious to see. He wanted a com. mittee that should frame an index of books that were superseded, and which they might get rid of from their shelves in order to find room for more. Every year there fell upon the earth an enormous shower of books--not a shower like
situate at Victoria aforesaid registered in the All that PIECE or PARCEL or GROUND Land Office as foland Lot No. dogs, Area 37.935 square feet or thereabouts. Term 997 years. Annual Crown Rent $74-40 together mount," Bonham Pond, Victoria, aforesaid. with the messunga thereon, known as "Green-
For further particulars and conditions of ale, apply to Mens JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Vendor's Solicitors,
Messa HUGHES AND HOUGU, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 13th day of May, 1905, · [560
Or
Consignees.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
snow, because that melted.but a solid shower of solid books that they could not get rid of. As these layers of books, annually superimposed one upon another, accumulated, they found at last that they were biding the forms of great writers of old, who gradually disappeared up. der the superincumbent-be would not say rubbish, because he was an author himself but THE Steamship the superincumbent matter, just as Pompeil was shrouded by the ashes and lava of Vesuvius.
"ZIETEN" having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Gonds, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the GodowoDE of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
notice to the contrary he given before 3 o'clock Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless
THIS AFTERNOON.
No Claim's will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 3oth instant will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on TUESDAY, the 30th instant, at
No Fire Insurance will be affected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
MELCHERS & Co., *-
Agents. Hongkong, 24th May, 1905
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP AND LONDON,
THE Steamship
"MONMOUTHSHIRE," Captain G. E. Warner, baving arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong informed that their Goods are being landed at and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, at Kowloon and stored at Consignees
Of course there were the great figures of the world-the Homers, the Dantes, and so on, whom they mighi go on taining books on for ever without biding their shape or form. But there were losser idols which were getting gradually hidden, and as to which he thought some reminder should every now and then be ar anybody elsa. The fact was that an ap-addressed to the people who listened and who petite for reading-more, reading of impres road. He thought that in literature they need sion, without digesting, and without fruit-was as uewholesome as any other form of gluttony, on the tower of the mosque summoning fauth- ed one who should act the part of the muezzin It seemed to him that when they left school or
fol Mahomedans, to prayers-one who should college the true knowledge they had to acquire raise bia voice and recall the names of good was that with reference to the adoption of their books and good authors which stood in danger. 9.30 AM. trade or profession in life, the adjustment of their pilgrimage to the performance of their duty. To all that book knowledge could offer everything. The man of vigorous life among a great contribution, but it was by no means men would beat the man of books always, and a1 everything in this world. But when saying that he was not disparaging the institution which he had spened. Mr. Carnegie, when he gare. them libraries, gave them the tools with which they could work out their own salvation. The only object of his remarks was to war people thay reading, would not do everything for them. Reading was only a partial aid to that know. ledge of life which made for the perfection of mankind. They should have their hours of study, but should 'not. for their hours of study neglect their hours of action. He believed THE FAMOUS a way that the great difficulty that lay before any man of energy in this world was to adjust the Kazor balance between his life of study and his life of action. Mr, Glidatone, by the aid of Im menge industry, was perhaps the only man he had ever known who was able to carry out the BOYS' & GIRLS' THIS DARK RAZOR has supersty balance satisfactorily to himself and to others.
Razor and by its use Shaving becomes a pleasure. It is There was, however, one case in which manufactured in Sheffield, England, from a books were certainly an end in themselves, special amalgam of steel which makes imita and that was to refresh and to recruit after tion impassible, and in consequence it enjoys the largest sale of any Razor in the World. fatigue. When the object was to refresh and Thousands of Testimonials testify that the to exalt, to lose the cares of this world in the little "MAB is the finest shaving implement world of imgination, then the book was more -ever produced.
than a means. It was an end in itself. It refreshed, exalted, and inspired the man. From any, work, manual or intellectual, the man with a happy taste for books could come in tired and, soured and fall into the arms of some great author, who would raise him from the ground and take him into a now heaven and a new earth, where he would forget his bruises and rest bis limbs, and return to the world a fresh, and happy man. And the best of that refreshment was that it did not require the assistance of whisky of any other stimulant. Whisky and any other alcoholle stimulant was incompatible with the refreshment of which he spoke. A quist pipe was a different thing. It might aid not immaterially in the process to which he wished to lead them.
HATS.
SANDALS.
SUITS.
DRESSES
AND
BATHING COS- TUMES.
&c., &c.,
&c.
INSPECTION INVITED.
A SHARP UTTLE SHAVER
WEIGHT LESS THAN BOUNCES.
}
Will be mailed to any address on receipt of the price ($2), 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., 19. Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong. Agents wanted in every port.
Co.
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For particulars and terms, apply to-
HOWARD & Hongkong, 24th November, 1904.
ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN, Marshall and
Elvy's
Satinette
Wm. POWELL, Ld.
HONGKONG,
"Hongkong, 2and May, 1905,-
DOUBLY DISTILLED
AND OF MATURED AGE.
TO BE OBTAINED FRÖM-
THE MUTUAL STORES, Des Voeux Road.
[15 ||| Hongkong, 11th May, 1908,
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He could not forget that his object was to open a library, and he could not help feeling that, he had been throwing into? the wine of books a certain amount of water, · He' would' now proceed to keep mom closely to his sub Ject. They had heard of the Index, which ex isted in the Roman Catholic Church, a list of books which, in the opinion of that Church, It was not well for, people to read. Well, he wanted several indexes. "'e did not want one
All Claims must reach us before the 5th of of being forgotten. As the muezzin was usual-June, or they will not be recognized. ty incapable for other work, physical or mental, it any such official were appointed he was would think the evening of his life extreme thinking of applying for the place. He ly well spent by trying to point out those mathors who, in his judgment and in that. of many better than himself, were in some danger of being neglected in these days. One of the anthers who had been un- duly obscured in late years was Sydney Smith, who would be recollected by many present as the sayer of some bewilderingly funny jokes. That however, was one of the dangers to which bis reputation had been exposed, for the man who joked in this country on public occasions was a lost man. His fear was that under his reputation for humour the real merits of that great man might be forgotten, for he wrote the best sense as well as the best nonsense in the risk and expense. world. He asked them to read him in the bave left the Godowas, and all Goods remaining spirit in which he approached great questions undelivered after the 29th inst. will, ba sub
the broad and tolerant, spirit in which he ject to rent. dealt with great issues. They might think it was not a very fruitful tank to read the works of Sydney Smith when the questions with which he dealt were dead. Yet every man who wished to be educated had read the works of Burke, and the questions with which Barke dealt were, in their concreto form, as dead an those with which Sydney Smith dealt. What he meant to urge was that if they wanted mental refreshment and to take large, broad, and generous views of life they should drink deeply of the draughts of eloquence, wil, and commón, sense, famished by, the works. of Bydney Smith.
Entimations.
BIG
MANK
¿OURES (MEN & WOMEN:
«B10 4 18 4 105-polsonen.s Fremedy for pay unnatural discharge and läksimation, Irritation or ulcersilon, of ASCORS MOODTanas. Painissa Guaranteed get to stricture. Prevonte Sontagios.
DEBOLD BY OHEMISTS,' -
Circular mailed pa request. „MARSFACTUREN JY " “Tha Srang Dhuncal fo.
DINCINNATI, O
BOO CHEONG,
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 29th inst, at 2.30 P.M. No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 23rd May, 1905.
[586 PORTLAND AND ASIATIC STEAMSHIP
FROM
TH
COMPANY,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
- S.S. “ ARABIA,” PORTLAND (OR.), YOKOHAMA,
KOBE AND MOJI.
HE above steamer having arrived, Con. signees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Countersigna- ture and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel. will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk
and expense
No Fire Insurance will be affected by us in any case whatever,
ALLAN CAMERON,
General Agantungan
› Hongkong, zoth May, 1905. BRITISH INDIA'STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FROM-RANGOON AND STRAITS,
HE Company's Steamship
PURNEA,
THE
having arrived from the above Parts, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
for objectionable books, for so great was the STATIONE AND PAPER MERCHANT,Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining
'force of human" curiosity that he was afraid
No. 2, Pottinger Street.
those were the first books that a graat TAS AWAYS Do hand all varieties of many ill-constituted minds would seek. He HAS
Stationery, Printing and Note Papers, wanted in the first place as index free Copying Presses, also: Automatic Cyclostyle from all private infuence of authors and pub. | and Ellams Duplicator, / liebers to tall them what were the booka disay
Hongkong, aird February, 1995......
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on board after 4 P.M. SATURDAY, the oth Instant, will be landed at Consigneas risk and expense.
No Fire Insurance will be offected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
"JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
Hongkong, 19th May, 1905),
drives out disease germs, makes the blood rich, red and full of constructive elements, and gives back to the pleasures and labours of the world many who had abandoned hope. Dr. S. H. McGoy, of Canada, says: " testify, with pleasure to its unlimited usefulness as a tissue builder. Its curative powers can always be
is beneficial from the first dose and represents relled upon. It makes a new era in medicine,
effective medical treatment of the twentieth
Oak." One bottle convinces. Watch carefully, century. "You can trust it as the Ivy does tha
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HILTSHIRE
As Supplied to
HARRIS'S
His Majesty The KING
BACON
HAMS
Gold Medals PARIS 1889 8,1900
Regd
Brand
HARRIS,GALNE WILTS England
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Hongkong, 19th May, 1903.
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THE WINE GROWERS. SUPPLY CO.
BARRETTO & Co., General Agents, Hongkong,
GUINNESS'S STOUT, "THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT"
is the Finest Bottling of Guinness's Ston!.
"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND
STOUT"....
is the very Finest Stout brewed by Messrs. A Guinness, Son & Co., Dublin.
"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT"
is not medicated nor chemicalized
"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND, STOUT" Consumers wishing to drink perfectly purs Stout of the very finest quality should drink Pig Brand Stout.
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Pig Brand Stont gently assists digestion:
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Pig Brand Stout is a food as well as a drink.
"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND
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Pig Brand Stout may be recommended by medical men to their most delicate patient.
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STOUT."-.. Pig Brand Stout has been celebrated for thirty years in the leading Colonial and Foreign Markets,
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Pig Brand Stout is only slightly higher in price, than ather bottlings of Guinness's, Per cask of B dozen prints $24.00 quarte Sig.oo
BARRETTO & Co Agents,
Not: 22 & 24, Bank, Buildings, Queen's Road Central,
[$78. Hongkong, 10th March, 1904.