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S.S. "BENCLEUCH," FROM ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
informed that all Goods are being landed CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby at their risk into the Gedowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
COMEDIAN'S LOST WILL.
HERBERT CAMPBELL'S ROMANCE.
The lost will of the late Mr. Herbt, Campbell: (his real name was Herbert Edwd. Story), without whom no Drury Lano pantomime was complete, was the cause of litigation in the Probate Division last month. The estate -involved was valued at £7,000,--The executors
Hall, Holborn, and Mr. J. L. Graydem of the Mr. Juo. Brill, formerly of the Royal Music Middlesex Music Hall-sought to have pro pounded the lost will, which they stated was made at the end of 1900, and which was lost. No Claims will be admitted after the Goods Only the draft, in pencil, remained, and its have left the Godowns, and all Goods unde- purport was mainly in favour of a lady ksowa livered after the 5th September will be subject | as Mrs. Campbell, although she was not his
wife..
to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 13th September, 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 5th September, at 11 A.M.
No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., ' Agents.
Hongkong, 29th August, 1905.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
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THE Business hitherto carried on by the Undersigned have been amalgamated, and will future be carried on under the name of PERCY SMITH AND SETH, at No. 5, Queen's Road Central.
·H. PERGY SMITH, FGAI S. A. SETH:
J. HENNESSEY SETH, Hongkong, 29th August, 1905.
Auction.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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THE Undersigned has received instructions from CHAS. S. Cor, Esq., to sell by. PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON
SATURDAY,
the 2nd September, 1905, commencingal 11 AM (with an interval from 12.45 to 2.30 P.M.), at his residence, No. 31, Caise Road, THE WHOLE OF THE VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
Comprising:-
"ROON,"
haring arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed 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 5 o'clock, THUS AFTERNOON.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain. ing undelivered after the 4th of September, will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will he examined on MONDAY, the 4th September, at 9.30 A.M.
All Claims must reach us before the 9th of September, or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected
WILL MADE IN A MUSIC-HALL. The actual making of the will took place. said Mr. Priestley, in the Royal Music Hall, when, in conversation with a Mr. Lovekin, be expressed much distress over the fact that a friend had died intentate, leaving the lady with whom he lived and their children unprovided for. Mr. Campbell added that he thought he ought to make a will, but that he had hesitated because it seemed like signing his death-war. rant. The document was duly executed the following Saturday during the afternoon per- formance, Mr. Lovekin and another gentleman witnessing it. The other gentleman could not
be traced.
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"YES-ALL."
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HE leading English Newspaper in China Also widely circulated in Japan, Cochin China, Ceylon, India and the Far East generally.
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A special feature is made of full and aceur. ate reports of local occurrences, and of mat-
When Mr. Campbell was dying the lady with whom he lived asked him if he had made his will. "Yes-all," he replied. Alter evidence had been given by Harry Randall, Johnny Danvers, and Frea. Williams, all well known on the music-ball stage, Ellen Maud Bartram. said that she had lived with Mr. Campbell for ters of general interest. 12 years, and unless she benefitted under this will she would have nothing at all. "Mr Campbell," she plaintively remarked, "would have married me, only there was a difficulty." Finally his lordship pronounced for the will as contained in the draft.
SORCERERs power.
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The Hongkong Telegraph is the best
medium for advertising in China. It circulates
There is little to be jubilant about in connec-. tion with the report for 1904 of the Administra-largely anong all classes of the community, tor of British New Guinea, says the Melbourne
correspondent of the Daily Chronicle. Sorcery is the largest. daily newspaper and has a seems to have as powerful an influence over
the native mind as it had when the territory wider circulation than any journal in the Far first passed under the British flag. Every offi cial bemoans its power, and cites dozens of shocking examples of its dire results. War
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the has been declared by the authorities upon this Undersigned.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
MELCHERS & Co., Agents.
Hongkong, 29th August, 1905.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steamship
"WILLEHAD "
having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed 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 TUES- DAY, IQ A.M.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 4th September will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godówas, where they will be examined on MONDAY, the 4th September, at
7.30 AM.
¦
Enst.
Special attention given to effectively display.
ing alvarisements.
The type used as a standard for setting advertisements is similar to this, unless we are
terrible plague, but without appreciable result, Captain Barton, the Administrator, states in his report: Natives who have been in close contact with Europeans for many years, and have bad frequent opportunity of observing that sorcery has little or no effect on the habits and customs of such European people, still cling to their old beliefs and practices, and, in spite of a close watch being kept for opportuni- ties of checking this baneful habit, it is seldom that offenders can be caught and punished. So great is the fear of natives of what may befall them if they betray a sorcerer that it is extremely difficult for a case to be proved in the law courts, and the sorcery goes on, and has its effect on almost every action of the This standard runs exactly eight lines to the native's daily life, and the steps taken to inch, and about eight words to the line. eradicate it appear as bul a drop of water in the ocean.
Hospitals appear the only successful antidote to the sorcerer. Yet so ingrained is the native mind with the belief in sorcery list when a Papuan is cured at the native hospital at Samurai he regards the cure as merely clear. evidence that the white man's enchantment are more powerful than the local sorcerers.
But, says the Report, "even in that case a step will have been gained, inasmuch as it belittles the native sorcerer's powers."
instructed to display the advertisement, wher
any effective style of type will be adopted
DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.
Notices of Births, Deaths, and Marriages:}
There are only $73 whites--453 men and $1 each insertion in the Daily and Weekly. 120 women in British New Guinen to-day. Most of the men are on the Yodda goldfields, where, with the aid of a number of indentured blacks, they net an average income from alluvial workings of about £200 a year, As, however, sugar costs 15, 6d. a lb., candles 25, and tea 39. 6d. per lb., soap 25. 6d. a bar, meat rs. 6d, a lin, calico 35, 6d. a yard, and batter: Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the 39, a lb. at Yodda, living cannot be said to be Undersigned.
All Claims must reach us before the 9th September, or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
MELCHERS & Co,.
Agents.
Hongkong, 28th August, 1905.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamer
"PERA,"
FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, MALTA,.
PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed of their virk 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:--
From London, &c., ex S.5. Persia. MARINBURK MADE SHANGHAI BROCAVED SILK COVERED DRAWING
Optional Goods will be landed here unless ROOM SUITE, PILE CARPETS, FINE Instructions are given to the contrary before LACECURTAINS, TAPESTRY GOBELIN, 3 P.M., TO-DAY. BRASS FENDERS ánd LAMPS, BRONZE Goods not cleared by the 4th proximo, at FIGURES, COLOURED ENGRAVINGS, | 4 P.M., will be subject to rent. WATER COLOURS, CANTON BLACK- No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in
aby case whatever.
.
WOOD TABLES and STAND8, etc., etc.
MARINDURK MADE SIDEBOARD,
Damaged Packages must be left in the DINNER WAGGON and OVERMAN- Godowns for examination by the Consignee's TELS, MOROCCO COVERED COUCH and the Company's representative at an ap- and ARMCHAIRS, MANTEL CLOCKS, pointed hour. REVOLVING BOOK STAND, BOOK-
All claims must be presented within ten days CASE, WRITING DESKS, FRENCH PORCELAIN DINNER
of the steamer's arrival here after which date SERVICE, ELECTRO-PLATE WARE, CHAM- they cannot be recognised PAGNE FRAPPE MACHINE, MUSIC No claims will be admitted after the Goods
kaya left the Godowns."
L. S. LEWIS, -
Hongkong, 29th August, 1905.
STANDS, etc., etc,
DOUBLE BRASS and BRASS MOUNT- ED BEDSTEADS, MARINBURK MADE WARDROBES with BEVELLED GLASS DOORS, MARBLE-TOP BUREAUX MARBLE-TOP WASHSTANDS, RUGS, etc., etc.
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GAMBLING OR BUSINESSİ
CONTRACT ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Rates for standing advertisements,
can be ascertained from the Manager..
Advertisements for the Daily should reach,
The decision by the Second Judge of the Court of Small Causes in the case of Nundo the Hongkong. Telegraph Office not later than. Mulla. Keshab Prasad is one of the greatest importance to a very large portion of the trad
Unless otherwise specified all advertisements
ing community of Bombay and one which noon of the day they are intended to appear. might well be settled definitely in the High Court reeing that at least seventy-five per cent of all the transactions in stocks and shares are speculative and not for investment, this decision renders the business of a stock-braker will be repeated and charged for until counter. almost impossible. The traffic in "future" is a very large one and no amount of legis. lation will put a stop to it. Neither is it manded. altogether desirable that it should do so. Any attempt to suppress gambling must meet with approval, but no hard and fast line can be drawn between gambling and perfectly legiti mate business in dealing in fatures. To pro- bibit such purchases would be to put a very se rious obstacle in the way of business houses de- sirous of buying in the best market by contract. ing in advance for a price which is likely to be advacced when the goods are actually needed.
JOBBING DEPARTMENT.
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it were idle to deny that every commercial PROGRAMMES. transaction, where buying and selling is con- ducted by the same hands, contains some element of gambling, and an attempt to alter the laws of commerce in Bombay alone were as foule as it would be foolish.".The effects, however, would not stop here. Every buyer of produce with a fluctuating price would have the power to disown his bargain when he found a fall in the market and a possibility of purchasing at a cheaper rate, while the seller, if the market rose, would only have to state that he did not hold the article in question and only sold in expectation of a fall to obtain legal aid in the commission of a fraud. The enforce
All job printing is deve under European
Acting Superintendentment of such a reading of the law would, there supervision, well turned out, free from errors,
fore, bring local trade to a standstill There is one other and even more important considera.
AN APPEAL,
tion. A large portion of the trade of Bombay and remarkably cheap at
is sea-borne, Le, with other countries all over the world, and Bombay merchants would be
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
OFFICE
THE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN | left at the mercy of the market fluctuations of CONVENT, CAENE ROAD, bege most the world without having any protection by respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of skilful buying and selling according to their Hongkong and the Coast Pons, for their kind estimate of the rates of supply and demand, patronage and support, and desires to state that | One has only jo look at the cotton crop to api The will be pleased to receive onders for all kinds preciate how necessary it is that dealers should of NEEDLE WORK,
have the right to buy or sell when the price Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuffs best suits their purposes. The question of and Collars renewed on old ones. de
intention at the times of the transaction is one Ladies and Children's Under-clothing, Call-which, to the Courts, must depend on hard application to dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery, Materials can be supplied, if required.
The Superioress will also be most grateful for any PAPER, or old ENVELOPES to be made into Books for the Children of the Four Schools, who are taught by the Bisters, [875 Hongkong aand Aprili siqa,
GEO, P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
Hongkong, afth August, 1905:
swearing, which brings up the further question of the value of a gambler's oath in gambling transactions. The decision" in the case in point can only act as an aid to sharp practices, to call them nothing else, and a deterrent on the carrying out of legitimate busin111-BIM “day Gentía, g
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