Shipping-Steamers.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1905,
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LD.
AND
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAV. CO., LD.
JOINT - SERVICES:
FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS FOR LONDON AND CONTINENT, MONTHLY SAILINGS FOR LIVERPOOL,
TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING FOR ALL EUROPEAN, NORTH AND SOUTH AMERican; west AUSTRALIAN, JAVA. AND SUMATRA PORTS.
EUROPEAN
FROM
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
GLASGOW 'and LIVERPOOL .............. GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL .............
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL GLASGOW. and LIVERPOOL GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL w
STEAMERS
SERVICE.
OUTWARD,
DUK
"ACHILLES"
..28th July.
"ANTENOR .....
3rd August.
"MACHAON"
4th
"ORESTES",
Oth
ULYSSES. 9th
11
"OOPACK "
"PELEUS"
16th
"ALCINOUS"
3rd
Joth
11
31st
6th September.
Ja t
"AGAMEMNON" "JASON"
* TEENKAI".
HOMEWARD. FOR
STEAMERS
TO BAJL, LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "HYSON"
.................................20th July. GENOA, MARSEILLES & L'TOOL "TELEMACHUS ", ..34th LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP AJAX
1st August. LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP " IDOMENEUS ............... 15th * GENOA, MARSEILLES & L'POOL "STENTOR LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "PAKLING"...........29th LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "ACHILLES *
GENOA, MARSEILLES & L'POOL "YANGTSZE **************** LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP ANTENOR"
Shipping Steamers.
HONGKONG-MAÇÃO LINE.
5.5. *WING ORAL," Captain T. ADITIN,--R.N.R. THIS Steamer departs from Hongkong ou
Week Days at 7.30 AM. and on Sun days at 8.30 AM. Departs from Macao on Weak Days at 2.30 PM. and on Spadaysfat 5.30 PM, if tide permits.
FARES Week Days, 1st Class, including Cable and servant, Single $31 Raturn Ticket, $5 and Glass, $15 3rd Clues, 50 canta.
TRIPS TO CANTON AND MACÃO.-"
Yuk
THE On Company's' Splendid Steamer
"YING KING,"
1038 tons, Registered. Captain E. 1-Page, will leave Hongkong for Capion every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and. FRIDAY EVENING, at 9:30 PM, returning to Hongkong every.. TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY, about 5P.M.
On SUNDAYS she make an EXCURSION TRIP to MACAO, leaving Hongkong at R30 AM., and returning from Macao about
Every Sunday will be an Excursion, at the following rates at and and Class, Single 7.30.M. Ticket Return, $2; 3rd Clast, Single, so. TheYing Kino" in especially fitted for cents, Retura, to costs Stearage, to cents. these runs, is the nowest, fastest and most. Breakfast, Tiffin and Dinner can be supplied luxuriously furnished steamer on the line and returning passengers only, at an extra charge and cold water is supplied. either, on Board, or at the Macao Hotel, for is lighted throughout with Electricity, also hot
of $3.
FAREA:
On Sundays, passengers desiring to have a First Class single journey to Canton 83.00 Private Cabin which has accommodation for Second, # two or more" passengers, will be charged $3. extra..
matan 1.500.
(to Macao 1,00
First class single journey with Cabin 2,00
First Class Passengers, who do not care to return on the Excursion Sunday, will be allowed to do so the following day (Monday) on pro duction of the Retam Hall Ticket. Should Second, the Steamer not run on the Monday, owing to the Boiler cleaning, due notice will be given by the Captain, and the Half Ticket will be available for the following day. Mar M
The Steamer is lit throughout by Electricity The Steamer's wharf at Hongkong is at the Western end of Wing Lok Street
.MING ON & Co.,
and Floor, No. 16, Victoria Street. Hongkong, 13th June, 1905
11
20th
11
12th September. .......20th
#
.26th 蝉
THE
Taking Cargo for Liverpool at London Rates.
TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE.
OPERATING IN CONJUNCTION WITH
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.C0.
AND TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO ALL
OVERLAND.COMMON POINTS IN THE UNITED STATES.
OF AMERICA AND CANADA.
FoR
EASTWARD.'
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA, and】
STEAMERS
all PACIFIC COAST PORTS, MACHAON *
NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA }"JASON",
FROM
WESTWARD.
STEAMER
TACOMA, SEATTLE, VICTORIA «nd) “ TELEMACHUS "
PACIFIC COAST..........
"NINGCHOW"
For Freight, apply to
Hongkong, 19th July, 1905.
TO SAIL 7th August.
..3rd September.
DUR
...oth July,
77th August.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTS.
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.
FOR
SWATOW, WEI-HAI-WEI, CHEFOO)
and TIENTSIN
YOKOHAMA and KÖBE.
ILOILO.or
SHANGHAI..
MANILA
CEBU and ILOILO
MANILA, ZAMBOANGA, PORT DAR- WIN, THURSDAY ISLAND, COOK. TOWN,CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRIS- DANE, SYDNEY and MELBOURNE...)
STEAMEKE
TO SAIL
"OHIHLI
1st July.
"TSINAN'
22nd
"KALGAN"
22nd
YOUHOW"
aand
** TRAN ***
25th
"BUNGKIANG "*
29th
** TAIYUAN".* ‡.....) 2nd August,
+ Taking Cargo on through Bịth of Lading to all Yanytsie and Northern China Ports.
* The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by these -steamers, which are fitted throughout with Electric Light. Unrivalled table. Á duly
qualised Surgeon is carried...
Ports.
Taking Cargo and Passengers at through: Rates for all New Zealand and other Australian
For Freight or Passage, apply to
Hongkong, 19th July, 1905.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS.
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HONGKONG-MANILA.
Highest Clast, newest, fastest and most luxurious Steamers between Hongkong and Manila.—Saloon amidships-Electric Light-Perfect Cuisine-Surgeon and Stewardess carried. -All- the most up-to-date arrangements for comfort of Passengers.
CHINA AND `MANILA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,
Steamship.
Tons,
Captain.
ZAFIRO
.......... 2540 R. Rodger....... RUBI.............. 2140] A. H. Notlay...
For Freight or Passage, apply to
Tiongkong, 15th July, 1905,
S
A
MANILA
Salling Dates.
SATURDAY, 22nd July,
at Noon, SATURDAY, 29th July,
at Noon.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
GENERAL MANAGERS.
STEAM TO. CANTON,
HE New Twin Screw Steel Steamers
Toas Captain
"KWONG CHOW”.....1,309...]. P. MARTIN.
Third
n return H
tingle
11.
retum
H
to Macao 2.00 [with Cabin 5.00 ........Bo Cents.
$1,50
SOC 30 R $0
single return " Breakfast, Tiffin or Dinner reach only, Wine and Spirit of the best brand are used.
The whực in Hongkong is at the West end of Wing Lok Street.
The wharf in Macao is the same as the 5.5. Pixieviranci,
For further information, apply to the Office of
YUR ON S. S. Co., LD., No. 316, Wing Lok Street, Hongkong,
Messrs. WENDT & Co., Canton Agents. S. A. NORONHA, Macao Agent Hongkong, 17th May, 1905,
(5*3
or to
"KWỌNG TUNG"...1,138...H. W. WALKER RECULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE
every
Leave Hongkong for Canton at evening (Saturday excepted)..
Leave Canton for Hongkong about 5.30 a'clock every evening (Sunday excepted).
These Fine New Steamers bare unexcelled Accommodation for First Class Passengers and are lit throughout by Electricity. Electric Fant in First Class Cabins:
2
Passage Fare-Single Journey ...54 Meals
..$t each. The Company's Wharf is a short distance West of the Harbour Manter's Office.
TO NEW YORK, VIA PURTS AND SUEZ ÇANAL, (With Liberty to Call at Malabar Coast)..
PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG,
Steamship
About
Intimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
ICE HOUSE ROAD
HONGKONG.
CABEM ADDU688,–Zelagraph, Hongkong.
HE
leading English Newspaper in China Also widely circulated in Japan, Cochin China, Caylon, India and the Far East génermily.
A daily newspaper with weekly, edition published for despatch by the homeward mail The dally is recommended as more generally
suitable, except for subscribers in Europe or
America.
A special feature is made of full and accur
ate reports of local occurrences, and of mat-
ters of goneral interest
ADVERTISING DEJARTMEN I.
SUBMARINE DESERTS,
(BY "TOK"LAU.")
Professor Alexander Agassiz- has reported that he had discovered-an unknown submarine desert, 3,000 miles long by 1,200 miles wide, in the Eastern Pacific; between the Galapagos Islands and Easter Island.”
That portion of the Pacific, from the Gala pagos-through which the Equator parser op the one side, to Easter Island, the barren rocka of Sala-y-Gomer, Pitcairn, and Dacle falande, qn the other, has long been known 18'R HEA unusually barrentof life, alther on the surface, or below. Sea birds, though they abound on. Pitcairo, Oeno and'Ducio Islands, and the’Ga« :
lapagos, are rarely seen in the wide area be and from Pitcaim Island to Joan Fernander. tween the Equator and the tropic of Capricom,
Sometimes one may see, high in air, above this desolate sea, the widespread wings of a frigate bird, sweeping towards land that may be a thousand miles away, but the acaan liself scams, devoid of life. The writer of this 'article woll' remembers, making a passage in a small schooner from Easter Island to Manga Rera, Easter Island and Pitcairn Island we met with in the Gambier Group. Midway between
what our American captain described as a "blazing, furious calm For six days we lay baking auder a torrid sun with the pitch bub bling up in the deck seams, and during that time we did not see a single living thing of any kind-either bird, fish, or any of those floating minor organisms usually met with when a ship Is becalmed in tropic seau. When we left Mas- ter Island we had been attended by seven pilet fish, which kept with us for four or five days, Then, as the wind died away, they left a most unusual thing, for, as a rule, these beau tiful creatures will attend a ship for many days, even weeks, Evidently, they knew that there was no food for them in this desert part of the
further,
་
Tuo tiongkong Telegraph' is the best ocean, and so declined to keep us company any
medium for advertising in China. It circulates
I have knowledge of two of these barren. ocean patches in the South Pacific. One is off largely nniong all classes of the community, the island of Run, in the Tongas Archipelago, the other at Niué (Savage Island), three is the largest daily newspaper, and has a hundred miles to the eastward., One day 1, accompanied by a native lad, was pigeon shoot.
"ST. HUGO " ...........12th August, 1995. wider circulation than any journal in the Faring on Eua, and stopped to rest and lunch on "SHIMOSA"to follow,
SHIU ON S.S. CO., LD., and to YUEN ON S.S. CO., LD,
No, &, Queen's Road West
Hongkong, 26th June, 1905,
For Freight and further Information, apply
-DODWELL & Co., LIMITED,
Agople.
fiz] Hanzkand, igth July. tổng.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD.
(PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG,--SUBJECT TO ALTERATION),
For.
SHANGHAI VIA NINGPO.. MANILA
Steamship
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TUNGSHING}.THURSDAY, zoth Jaly, 3 P.M. .................YUENSANG* :„„. FRIDAY, 21st July, 4 P.M. S'GAPORE,S'RABAYA & SAMARANG.CHUNSANG......SATURDAY, 22nd July, ↑ P.M." SHANGHAI....
„HANGSANG †.....SATURDAY, aznd July, 3 Fat, Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to Chèfon, Tientsin, Newchwang and Yangtze Ports. * These Steamers have superior accommodation for First-class Passengers, and are fitted throughout with Electric Light.
For Freight or Pasango, apply to
Eas
the summit of the north-easter cliffs, which bere start sheer up from the sen four hundred feet below. My companion, although he had
Special attention given to effectively display. undergone two years' tuition in the Wesleyan
ing adve isements,
The lye used 15 a standard for setting
advertisements is similar to this, unless we are
instracted display the advertisement, when
any effective style of type will be adopted This standard runs exactly eight lines to the
inch, and about eight words to the line.
DOMESTIC OCCURBENODI,
❘
|
College at Nukuslofa (the capital of Tonga) Ip view of his being turned into à "ininister," was still a highly intelligent and active lad, and had not yet acquired the smug, Chadband-like ex pression of supreme plety and godliness that invariably, impresses itself upon the counten. ances of young Tongans and Fijians destined to be parsons or policemen. To be a parton or a policeman in the valion d'iire of the average Tongan or Fijian youth-fust as it is with the Jamaican "nigger. Avoidance of manual foil; to obtain authority, spiritual or physical, over his fellows, is his delight and hin Olympus. If he cannot, as a policeman, club or blackmail the godless person who smokes “ on Sundays and hate him to prison, he, as a parson, can, from the pulpit, condemn, him to toŕmenis atargal.
Jaojai (George), however, was, unlike mosti. Tongaps, an unassuming, good-natured young Notices of Births, Deaths, and Marriages fellow, an excellent shot, and, like myself,
St each insertion in the Daily and Weekly.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
General Managers:
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Hongkong, 19th July, 1905. PORTLAND & ASIATIC STEAMSHIP CO. PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG, VIA SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,
PORTLAND, OREGON, OPERATING IN CONNECTION WITH
THE OREGON RAILROAD AND NAVIGATION COMPANY,
Steamship
To Sail at Daylight on "NUMANTIA”.. --4:370...................................Feldtmann ...........July zand, 1905.
Toss
Captain
"ARABIA"...4483.Metreathin
...August-rath,
H
"ARAGONIA "......................§.198......................Schuldt.......Saplember 1st, “NICOMEDIA"........437.................................. Wagemang............September 26th,
CONTRACT ADVERTISEMENTJ,
| devotedly fond of deep-sea fishi-g. He had formerly been employed on Messrs. Parker'a sheep station on Eua, and had learned to speak very good English. -- He showed me that written "character," he had received; it was father amusing: "Juoti; Kubu has been in our employment as a shepherd for three years, and has behaved well. He is neither a thlef nor a liar, is—for a Tongan-industrious "and" Special Rates for standing advertisements moral, and we regret that he is now golog to
can be ascertained from the Manager,
Advertisements for the Daily should reach
the Hongkong Talagraph Office not later than
noon of the day they are intended to appear,"
the bad" (ie, becoming a divinity student), -¦ “Jaojai,” I said, as we looked down at the Amooth blue ses, "the water is very deep here,. the cliff come straight up from the sea. It should be a good place for big fish.
"No, indeed. It is no good at all. - Them is nothing lives there; it is ogs (literally," "hungry, foodless"). You might fisk all day, either closs into the cliffs, or for half a league s
Unless otherwise specified all advertisements away from them, and catch nothing, except a
The 5.5. "Arabia" left Portland on the and inst., and is expected to arrive here on August 3rd.will be repeated and charged for anti) counters.
Through Bills of Lading issued to Pacific Coast Points and all Eastern, Canadian and Dufted States Points. For through rates of Freight and further information, communicate with or apply to
12)
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,
PAQUEBOTS-POSTE FRANCA19.
FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
HE Company's Steamship.
[s
THE
HONGKONG NEW YORK.
AMERICAN ASIATIC
STEAMSHIP CO.
FOR NEW YORK via PORTS AND SUEZ JANAL. (With Liberty to Call at the Malabar Coast), Steamship "INDRAWADI "SIERRA BLANCA"....
For Freight and further information, apply to
Hongkong, 17th July, 1005.
BOO CHEONG,
*
STATIONER AND PAPER MERCHANT,| No. 20, Pottinger Street.
T
AS always on band all varieties of Stationery, Printing, and Nets Papers,
About
.....20th September,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Agents.
"SYDNEY,",
Captain Combe, will be despatched for the above Ports, on or abont MONDAY,the Instant.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
an
G. DE CHAMPEAUX, “İ
Agent. Hongkong, 17th July, (pos.
TH
Intimation.
AN APPEAL.
ALLAN CAMERON. General Agent.
~Entimation.
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY,
and hue, ble
Trials sheage of resessch and experiment, when *alínstur „»otospeak, is ransacked by the scíentida for thee infort and happieces of man" delence has Indredanade gimui išzéles during the past century, 44the veris in medicine comes that of Therapios, *and stirbug the sby no means least hoportanti
particulars of which will be found la another "column. ¿Thla preparatšou la unquestionably one 2 of the most
Medicina verintrodurre and ~ in the Continental storpliais by Kleord, Roslan, Velpesu, Blaisonneuve, the well-knowa - J='+19
Erina ziguas, aud indeed by eli ties who are repong authoritiesin such matters, including the cricbented Tallemand, and koux, by, whicus fi mas suire linte since uniformsly adopted, and that Wilfa morthythe attentionof those wharequiresuch avernedy we think there la to doubt. From the
• tiue of Aristotle downwards, e potent agent fo the Pemaya) of these diseases nra ilke the fansed ph jen "rr's sideti been the onfret of search of armo brutal génerosu mlade; a) ilfar beyond the mere drner-fanche uld ever have been discovered-of This saporise the buserpostais luta goldja surely Lilian pysty of a relundy so potens na id replenish iku fui kam epergirs of its comfirmed rou? in the. ont pray and in the other so effectually, speadily.
or even the knowleder, of a second part mad anffy to expet fjort, the system without the
HE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN CONVENT, CAINE ROAD, begs mont respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong and the Coast Ports, for their kind, patronage and support, and desires to state that she will be pleased to receive orders for all kiride of NEEDLE WORK.
of scquired or inherited lease in their junteon forms as to leave notaiul or trace dahlad, Such is TheNew French Remedy Therapion, which my ccrtalaly rank with, if not take, precedence at in ny of the discoveries of our day, about which na little onleptátioq'and poise have been mada,
five liguu sreated for tila medlelue wherever intro- (dua) appears to prove that it is destined to cont Jeto ublivion mit tijose questionable remedies thei were formerly the sole reliance of medlen, men.
[[11 | | Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuffs, sandile extensive and qvendngjanleg demand that
TSANG FOO & CO., COAL MERCHANTS AND STEVEDORES, 48, Des Vœux ROAD.
notice, and with all possible despsich. HIPS Coated from alongside at the shortest
Prices Moderate. Telephone No. 129: 164) - Hongkong, 1st October, 1954.
Copying Presses also Automatic Cyclostylo and Ellams Duplicator.
Hongkong, 3rd February, 1905.
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and Collars renewed on old ories,
proprietor, and of the principal Chemieta and Merchaista throughout the Colonies, India, Clima Japan, &c.: potoren/ districte de Central Afetes, the Viji. Tarnás, 21.-
en excluding such remote
Ladies and Children's Under-clothing/Cany Materials can be supplied, if required in dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery,Theraply be ofisined in Kagian direct
The Superioress will also be most gradatit for any PAPER, or old ExYKLOVE to be made lato Books for the Children of the Poor Schools, who are taught by the Gistere
Hoorkerz, resi Sp
Sold by A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd,
Hongkong, China and Manila.
manded.
JOBBING DEPARTMENT.
Job Printing of all descriptions undertaken.
PROGRAMMES, -
"PAMPHLETS,
CARDE..
OIRCULARS
EXPRESSES.
All job printing is done under European
fow small rock cod.". "Why is it so !"
"Because there is nothing there for the fish! to eat-no growing coral no renwend. It is because of the strong current, I think," which sweeps through the stralls between this island and Tongatabu, and than cives around this" point. The bottom is of hard, dar mck, with here and there great pites of smooth white. stones. When there is no wind you can look down for twenty fathoms and see the bottom and the stones, but naught else." There are other places like it in Tonga between Kan and Toloa, where fish cannot live. But there it is oge because of the volcano, which sometimes causes the sea to boil, and the water is poison ed with sulphur and ashes from the great eruption long since.”
A day or so later. I took a boat and waited round opposite to the cliffs, and anchored in filty fathoms. For an hour fished without getting a bite, then went in close under grim cliffs, and with a water-glass examined the bote tom as a depth of about twelve fathoms; i could see nothing alive-not even a crab
Sailing round the weather side of the island; I brought to agala off the south polast, and here, in less than an hour, my, crew of four and
fish, principally great red rock cod, and a fish like the New Zealand "yellow tall
vopervision, wall tymned out, free from errors, myself caught several hundradweight of fine
and remarkably cheap at
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
OFFICE.
The burien patch at Savage Island jiep off point between the villages of Alofi and Avatele, It is about Sve miles in circumference, and devoid of life, the bottom covered with huge white boulders, and not a living bit of coral to beseen. Thera 2110 10ch another and much more extensive-sea desert near the volcanic island of mbrym in the New Hebrides and a fourth between 'the islands of Malua, and
place is a patch of rock, sixty fathoms below the surface and of about. a mile la circums ference. I discovered its existence in 1875. during clam by sounding, and at once began also ope Almost anywhere else in the South 10 fish in two hours I was, satisfied. It was Pacific thousands of dah would frequent such a, comparatively staitow spot and eagerly take tile hook--P. Mi
Estimates given for all clames of work on Tutila in the Samoan Group. - This fatter,
application to
THE MANAGER, BONGKONG TELEGRAPH CO, LD.
Ice House Road
H pgkong