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Hongkong, 22nd July, 1905,
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GENERAL STORekeepers, Ship CHANDLERS AND COMPRADORES, COAL MERCHANTE AND STEVEDORES OF SIXTY
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, zard Fehmary, rent
Consignees,
FROM HAMBURG, BREMEN, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
THE H, A. L. Steamship
THE HA
"SCANDIA,"
Captain Von Boehren, having arrived from the above Parts, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before TO-
DAY.
Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited. and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods
have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain ing undelivered after the 19th instant will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowne, where they will be examined on the 19th instant, at 3 P., No Fire Insurance has been effected,
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office.
· Hongkong, 13th August, 1905.
"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
S.S. "BENGLUE," FROM ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
CONSE
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ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co, 1 td, whence, and/or from the wharves delivery may No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and, all Goods unde- livered after the 22nd August will be subject
be obtained,
to rent,
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre sented to the Undersigned on or before the 29th August, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 22nd August, at LX A.M. No Fire Insurance has been effected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents, Hongkong, 15th August, 1905.
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INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY, LIMITED,
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
"HE Company's Steamship
THE
"KUMSANG"
having arrived from the above Ports, Consigncos
· of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo Impeding the discharge or remaining op board after 4 P.M. the 18th instant, will be
Wm. POWELL, Ld,,aded at Consignees' risk and expense,
HONGKONGL
Hongkong, 9: August, 1905,
Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
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Consignees.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steamship
"PREUSSEN " having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Gonds, with, the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being fanded and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before IX A.M.,
TO-DAY.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the and 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 22nd instant, at 9.30 A.M.
All Cinims must reach us before the 28th instant, or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
MELCHERS & Co.,
Agents.
Hnngkak, côth August, ngay.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
“HE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamer
"CEYLON,"
THE
FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, MALTA,
PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS.
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FAMOUS FORGERY CASES,
HARD FACTS.
"Forgery," said Chabot, the great hand- writing expert, "is one of the most unsatis factory crimes a man can commit nowadays. It can be so easily 'discovered."
That was not always the case, says "Answers." There was once nothing easier than Imitating handwriting so sucessfully that the fraud could not be discovered, and the skilful forger was one of the least often detected and most success. ful scoundrels in the criminal world. How common dad how successful he was exporte who have had ancient documents put before them well know. It la wonderful how many of these, the genuineness of which has never been suspected, the expert is able, by the aid of modern science, unhesitatingly to pronounce
forgerla..
Intimation.
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HONGKONG,
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OF THE MULTITUDES
who bave used it, or are now using it, we have never heard of any one who have been dis- appointed in it. No claims 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 things, and it is certain to continue the excel- lent work. There is-wo may honestly affirm --na medicine which can be used with greater and more reasonable faith and confidence. It nourishes and keeps up the strength during those periode when the appetite fails and food HE leading English Newspaper in China caract be digested. To guard against imita. ilona and substitutions, our "trade. mark" Is China, Ceylop, India and the Far Easton," and, without it none le genuine. It is Also widely circulated in Japan," Cochin put on every bottle of "Wampole's_Prepara-
CABLE ADDRESS-Telegraph, Hongkong.
By nature and habit individuals contract &nerally. system of forming letters which gives a char- acter to their writing as distinct as that of the human face, declared Natherclift, the first res cognized handwriting expert. It seems, perhaps a startling saying but it is true, as thousands of criminals have found to their cost.
Neil Cream, the mysterious poisoner of wo men in the south of London in 1892, found a certain peculiarity in his handwriting of material assistance to the police in dragging him to the fate on the scaffold he so well de. served. It was Cream's pratice to poison a [3
woman and then to send a black-maiting letter, generally to a doctor-Nell was himself op American M. D.-demanding money, under a threat of the recipient being charged with the deed. These letters were, of course, in a dis
Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark, and delivery can be obtained as so00 33 the Goods are landed.
Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before
3 P.M., TO-DAY.
Goods not cleared by the 22nd instant, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever,
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignee's
and the Company's representative at an ap- pointed hour,
All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.
guised handwriting, and Neil had devised an ingenious method of baffling detection. It was not good enough, however, and when the leters were collected and compared with others, ad- mittedly written by Neil, there were remarkable similarities in each which made it clear that they were all the production of the same man.
AN EXPERT.
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Recognized specialists in the examining and comparison of handwriting appear to have been unknown in England till a lithographer, Joseph Netcherclift, came before the public as an expert,
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After his decease will after will and codicil after codicit were discovered hiddan in ceilings, under floors, in chimneys and in No claims will be admitted after the Goodso-day, under a codici making him sich, secret drawers. The relative who rejoiced
have left the Godowns.
1. S. LEWIS,
inngkene, 16th August an
Enst.
Special attention given to effectively'display.
fing advė· isements,
The type used ar a standard for setting
advertisements is similar to this, unless we are instructed in display the advertisement, when
was in a few days' time thrown into despair by Acing Superintendent. the discovery of some dirty piece of paper, [perhaps found projecting from a rat hole in an attic, which proved to be later document executed by James Wood, leaving him nothing. any effective style of type will be adopted Ware these willend codicils true or false? It This standard rins exactly eight lines to the was a question in which handwriting expert was decidedly necessary
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
P, & O. S, N, Cp.'s Steamer
"PEKIN,"
THE P. &
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS,
Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
This vessel brings on Cargo :-
Netcherclift, the isch, and about eight words to the kne,
lithographer, wis called in, and from the as- sistance he was able to render the puzzled in- vestigators in the case, he became famous. From that time he was kept busy.
In not one case out often in which he is con. sulted does the expert in handwriting appear in court. The others are compromised or hushed up. The most common occasions on which he is consulted are matrimonial matters, libellous letters, abusive and threatening epistles, From Persian Gulf, er B.L.S,N. and B. & P. suspected signatures to wills, erasures in docu-
5. N. Co.'s Steamers, Goods not cleared by the zoth instant, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever,
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Godowns for examination by the Consignees Damaged Packages must be left in the and the Company's representative at an appointed hour.
All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns,
L. S. LEWIS, Acting Superintendent. Hongkong. 14th August, 1905.
" INDRA" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL.
HE Company's Steamship
THE
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"INDRASAMHA," having arrived from the above Port, Consignoss of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkongand Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.
Goods not cleared by the 17th instant, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent...
any care whatever,
|ments, and valentines. The valentine crop has, however, been enormously reduced of years. Not many years ago the offensive and anony. mous valentine that found its way to the hand. writing expert's table was very common,
The forger of signatures works either by copying the real signature, by simply writing
an imitation of it as it lìon before him, by trac-
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ing it, placing the original signature with the can be ascertained from the Manager, document to which the forgery is to be attach- ed on, say, a window, paus, zolng over the signature in pencil, and then covering the mark
Advertisements for the Daily should reach
with ink, or by tracing it straight off with ink. the Hongkong Telegraph Office not later than
All these methods are easily distinguishable by the expert.
A FAMOUS CASE,
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One of the most sensational pieces of expert work performed by a handwriting specialist was in connection with the trial of Christiana Edmunds, of Brighton, for poisoning a child. will be repeated and charged for until counter- Having bought some sweets, Edmunds im. pregnated them with strychnine, and then, manded, walking out, distributed them to various chil dres she met. One child died and others had
narrow escapes.
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At the inquest on the victim it came out in evidence that a certain lady, who had not been identified, had bought strychnine at a locki chemist's and bad signed the name "Wood" in his register of sales of poisons, Christiana | PROGRAMMES, Edmunds, learning that importance was attach-
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us ined to this signature, actually waule a letter to the chemist, which she despatched to the shop by a boy, requesting him to hand the bearer the register book for examination.
All damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, and a corticate of the damage obtained from the Godown Company within ten days after the vessel's arrival here, after which no claims will be recognised.
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JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 11th August, 1905 BRITISH_INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED,
FROM RANGOON AND STRAITS.
HE Company's Steamship
THE
"FALAMĠOTTA," baving arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alonguide,
Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining
The book was suspectingly handed to the hoy, who carried it to Edmunds, who tore out what she believed was the entry, and then re- turned the volume by the messenger.
At the trial it appeared that Edmunds had,
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The signature, the letter forged in the supervision, well turned ayi, free from errors, coroner's name and letters avowedly written
by Edmunds, were all undoubtedly written by and remarkably cheap at the same person, and the trick was discovered. Edmunds was sentenced to, death, but the capital punishment was afterward commuted to penal servitude for life, upon the suspicion that the wretched woman was inKane,
CROSSING THE “***
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
In the famous Great Matlock will caso the on board after 4 P.M., SATURDAY, the 13th | crossing of the "t" in the word "to,” settled instant, will be landed at Consignees' risk, and ¦ the que tion whether the codicils of a will, wern expense,
genuine or false.. In the will, which was in the dead man's handwriting, the "to" was uncross- ed fritimes, wholly crossed 5 times but half crossed paver. In 50 of the dead man's letters the "t" in "to" was uncrossed 131 times, wholly crossed 14 times, but never half pressed. In the disputed codicils the "i" was always half crossed. ↑
This Vessel brings on Cargo ex Purnea and Zamanta, from Madras and Pondichery, No Fire Insurance will be affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
Agente Hongkong, 11th August, 1903.
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