Intimation.
Powell's
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
UPHOLSTERY
DEPARTMENT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21 1906.
Kutimations.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, HONGKONG, AND SHANGHAI BANK-
ING CORPORATION.
DEATH OF A CHINESE CONSULAR OFFICER.
The death is announced of Mr. G. J. L Litton, British Consul at Tengyuth, an
THE ANNUAL TRENTING ORDINARY NOTICE is hereby given that the OR to whom the mercantilo, comprunt officer
LIMITED.
SEVENTEENTH
DINARY HALF-YEARLY MEET HOLDERS in the Company will be held in ING or THE SHAREHOLDERS in this the Office of the General Managers, St. George's Corporation will be held at the City Hall, Building, Victoria, an SATURDAY, 24th Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 4th day of February, 1956, at 11.30 ., for the purpose February, 1956, at Noon, for the purpose of of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the receiving the Report of the Court of Directors Repurt of the General Managers for the year together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st ending 31st December, 1903, declaring a Divi- December, 1905. dend and electing Consulting Committee and Auditors..
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, 20th February, until SATURDAY, 24th February (both days inclusive),
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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers, Hongkong, 6th February, 1906. HONGKONG AND WHAMPOĄ DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING oF SHAREHOLDERS will be held in The Offices of the Company, Queen's Buildings, New Prayn, on MONDAY, the 26th February, 1906, at 12 o'clock Nooo, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1905.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 12th to the 26th
IS UNDER THE February, both days inclusive.
PERSONAL
SUPERVISION
OF
COMPETENT
AND
PRACTICAL
MEN
FROM THE
LEADING
LONDON
AND
PROVINCIAL
FURNISHING
HOUSES.
THE
WORK
IS
GUARANTEED
TO BE OF THE
HIGHEST
CLASS ONLY.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THOS. I. ROSE. Secretary.
Hongkong, 31st January, 1906.
HUNGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY! TANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE. HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, King's Buildings, Connaught Road, on WEDNES DAY, the 7th day of March, 1956, at 12 o'clock (Noon), to receive a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1905, and the Report of the General Managers, and to elect a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 21st February to the 7th March, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
J. R. M. SMITH,
Chief Mannger.
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Hom the Hon, the Harbour Master,
*
goon have been deeply indebted for bis earnest
HE Undersigned have received instructions labours in Yunnan on their bebatt, No details
to sell by have been received, but it is understood Mr.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
TO-MORROW, Litte died of fever on January 9th, on the eve of his departure on well-earned leave. Mr the 22nd February, 1996, at 11 AM at
their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Litton, who was thirty-six years of age, was educated at Eton and at Oriol College, Oxford,
corner of Ice House Street, and entered the Colonial Civil Service in 1891, FIVE CASES RIFLES AND EXPLOSIVES, first serving in the Straits Settlements where
N.B.-Inspecting Orders can be had on he was a Chinese cadet. He was then trans-application at the Government Gunpowder ferred to the China Consular Service with a Depot, Green Island. Civil Service camificate under clause VII. of the Order of Council of 1870 on December 5, 1895. He was promoted to 2nd Class Assis is hereby given that the RE
tant in 1897, and was Acting Consul at Chung- NGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporaking from April 1, 1898, to March 19, 1899. tion will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the in 1899-1990 he was attached to the Burino- 10.h, to the 24th day of February (both days Chinese Boundary Commission and was then THE inclusive), during which, period no Transfer of posted to Tengyueh. Mr. Litton had a high Shares can be registered.
reputation in the service, and his premature death will be deeply deplored.
Hongkong, 1st February, 1906, (B) HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK
ING CORPORATION. '
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By Order of the Court of Directors,
J. R. M. SMITH,
Chief Manager,
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Hongkong, is February, 1956.
Entertainments.
THEATRE ROYAL, HONGKONG. Leesee & Manager: MAURICE E. BANDMANN. FOR A SHORT SEASON ONLY. IMPORTANT ENGAGEMENT OF THE WORLD RENOWNED
BANDMANN OPERA CO.
UNDER THE PERSONAL DIRECTION OF MAURICE E. BANDMANN, And by special arrangement with MR, GEORGE EDWARDES And the GAIETY THEATRE, LONDON,
FRIDAY, Feb, 23rd, and SATURDAY, 24th. The present Great Prince of Wales' Theatre, London, Success, the Excellent Musical Co.nedy
While Mr. Litton was attached to the Burmo. Chinese Boundary Commission he nearly lost his life. Accompanied by Major Kiddle, of the RA.M.C, and Mr. Sutherland an official of the British Shan States, Me. Litton visited the snarket of Menglung. They were unexpectedly | attacked by a number of Was (u savage tribe of head-hunters), armed with swords and guns. Mr. Litton was knocked senseless, but was eventually saved by the bravery and presence of mind of a Chinese soldier; his two com- panions were killed and their heads borne in triumph to the village of a Wa chief. Reprisals followed, the escorts of the Chinese and British commissioners acting in concert, and about 60 Wa villages were destroyed.
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TERMSAs usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers. Hongkong, 21st February, 1906
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PUBLIC AUCTION. HEUndersigned have received instructions
lo scil by PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON SATURDAY,
the 24th February, 1906, at 1 A.M., at No. 9A,, Praya Enst, (the property of a Gentleman who is leaving the Colony), 'SUNDRY HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
Comprising
TEAKWOOD SIDEBORDS with RE- VELLED GLASS, BRASS-MOUNTED BEDSTEADS 'with WIRE and HAIR MAT- TRESSES, VIENNA CHAIRS, SHANG. HAI BATH, COOKING STOVE and UTENSILS, &o, &c., &c.;
ALSO One COTTAGE PIANO by Robinson Prano Co., Ltd.,·
AND
One GRAMOPHONE and MUSICAL PAY-DAY ON THE PANAMA CANAL BOX combined with Records..
Catalogues will be issued. TERMS:-As usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers, Hongkong, 23th February, 1906
THE UNLOADING OF A TRAINFUL OF MONEY.
No more interesting scenes could be imagin ed than those in the various camps on the Panama Canal, when the great anny of labourers employed by the United States Graverantent are paid their wages from a special train filled with money-chiefly bags of a thousand dollars ench, weighing about sixty pounds. The skilled white labourers and office employees, about 2,500 in all, receive their pay Still crowding the Prince of Wales' Theatre, once a month, amounting to about £50,000, in much the same way as ordinary Government Of the clerks are paid in Washington. MONDAY, Feb. 26th, TUESDAY, 27th, and labourers, however-largely Jamaican negroes -there are at present 15,000 at least, and they WEDNESDAY, 28th,
draw about Lizq00 a month in fortnightly payments.
LADY "MADCAP,"
London.
NIGHT, AND MATINEE.
For the first line in the Far East. Pruduction [218 on a most gigantic scale of Mr. BANDMANN'S
first Calcutta Pantomime.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 13th February, 1906.
CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above-nained Company will be held at the Registered Offices of the Company at Queen's Buildings, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on SATURD VY, the Tenth day of March, 190 at 12 o'clock, Noon, when the Resolutions set out below which were passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the Sixteenth day of February, 1906, will be submitted for confirmation, as Special Resolutions.
isy urder of inc bora,
JAMES WHITTALL, Secretary.
Hongkong, 16th February, 1906.
RESOLUTIONS. 1.That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in the following
manner.
The following Article shall be substitut ed for Article 130, namely:-130. The Beard, through its Secretary, shall make Yearly Statements of the Accounts of the Company from the 1st day of January 10 the 31s: day of December in caclf and every year, which shall be duly audited and presented to the Shareholders, at each of the Ordinary Meetings of the Company, together with a Report on the general position of the Company.
"ALADDIN"
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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THE Undersigned bavareceived instructions
to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
SATURDAY,
the 24th February, 1906, at 2.30 P.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. B, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street, SUNDRY HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
Comprising: -NEW DOUBLE BRASS BEDSTEADS, a quantity of CANTON BLACKWOOD WARE, CARPETS, MARBLE-TOP SIDE. OARD with BEVELLED GLASS, SILK TEAKWOOD WARDROBES with BE VELLED GLASS, MARBLE-TOP WASH.
Intimations.
THE POPULAR
SCOTCH
IS
"BLACK&WHITE"
JAMES BUCHANAN & CO. SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLENS. By Appointment to EM. THE KING
And
HRIL the PRINCE of WALES
Supplied at all the LEADING CLUBS and HOTELS, and to be obtained from the principal Stores..
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TUBORG BEER.
FIRST Class
PILSENER BEER
Written by HICKORY WOOD jauthor of Drury the jungle. The other day at Panama I saw TAPESTRY DRAWING ROOM SUITE, A guamateed free from Salicylic Acid,
(AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP'), Lane Pantomines) Music and Lyrics, arranged by Warwick Major. The entire production carried which ran for Ten Nights and Two Matinees at the New Opera House, Calcutta.
SPECIAL MATINEE, Wednesday, Feb. 28th,
al 3.39, at Ropular Prices, $2, $t acd so cents.
THURSDAY, March 1st.
One might think that the pay-clerks in their train-load of specie would feel uncomfortable among this army of dusky giants, especially when the train halts in some small tropical. camp and great sacks of silver are unloaded in sixty thousand dollars pui on the pay car for the so-called 'silver men" working at Tabernilla, San Pablo, Cristobal, Gatun, and Bahia. Some Jamaican coloured police were walching the negro boys bringing out the sacks of silver, and others stond by the waggons while the money was put on.
"Sixty," exclaimed Mr. Waldrop, the chief cashier. A policeman climbed on to each
The record of the last London Season, the truck, the whips cracked, and off went the exceedingly funny Musical Comedy
42 TL ART. AND THY AIDS: Which ran for 700 Nights at the Lyric and Adelphi Theatres, London,
"
tenies of mules, with the cashier and pay clerks bringing up the rear in cabs. Mr. Waldrop thousand-dollar bags unguarded on the railway station, where altogether there there must have
Prices of Admission 53, $2 and $been nearly two tons of coined silver. The Seats can now be booked. Plan at Ronts pay car is, of course, specially constructed, and pay of labourers face its side doors. SON PIANO Co,
These are in pairs, and the men climb up on the car tracks in one of the double doors, receive their money, pass out at the other, and leap down..
Doors Open at 8.30. Commence usual time. Hongkong, 13th February, 1996.
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AN ORGAN RECITAL will be given in
CATHEDRAL
JOHN'S
.by
Mr. DENMAN FULLER, F.R.CO1 I. R.A.M.,
ON TUESDAY,
February 27th, at 5.36 P.M.
The program will consist of Organ Ar rangements and Two Moletts by the Cathedral Choir,
Collection in aid of the Cathedral Choir Hongkong, 17th February, 1906,
2. That the Board, through its Secretary,
'shall make a Statement of the Accounts Fund. of the Company as from the 1st day of May, 1905, to the 31st day of December, 1905, which shall be duly audited and presented
to the Shareholders at the next Ordinary Meeting of the Company to be held during 1996 and that, inasmuch as the Accounts of
Insurance.
1240
the Company have already been nudited NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR and presented to the Shareholders to ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG. the 30th April, 1905, no further or other Statements ofthe Accounts of the Company
for the year 1995 shall be culled for by or presented to the Shareholders in respect of Article 130 as this day substituted. (238
THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
T
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE DIVIDEND at the rate of $1.00 per Share, declared at the Ordinary Half- yearly Meeting of Shareholders, held this day, will be PAYABLE at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, on and after FRIDAY, the 16th February, 1905.
Shareholders are requested to apply to the Office of the Company for Warrants,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
T. ARNOLD,
Secretary,
Hongkong, 15th February, 1996.
EYES
POWELL'S WIL
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, 15th February, 1995.
N. LAZARUS,
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THE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept First Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at CURRENT RATES.
SIEMSSEN & Co. Yongkong 18th May, 1895.
158
For Sale.
FOR SALE.
BROWN WALER (MARE) "KITTY," and a double set of Harness, complete, in good order and condition. Also a Second-
and VICTORIA for Single or Pair Horses.
Can be seen any day at Kennedy's Horse Repository, Causeway Bay.
No reasonable offer refused. Apply
"A, B.,"
Elo Hongkong Telegraph.
[312 Hongkong, 7th February, 1905.
RIGHT!
OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN, 8,[PEDDER STREET, HONGKONG.
1
JILL test your eyes free of charge, and if they are wrong will put them right.
All kinds of Repairs. Spectacles for all requirements. Lenses Ground.
Ask, or write, for Illustrated Booklet on "Defective Sight "-free.
SHANGHAI, LONDON,
CALCUTTA, 59, Bentinck Street. 566, Nanking Road.
*1, John Street, Bedford Row, W.C. Hongkong, 27th November, 1995,
148
The pay counter runs the entire length of the car, close to the doors, and only one man can stand in front of it at a time. Each
applicant presents a pink pay certificate giving his number, the amount of wages due to him, and the signature of an official, who certifies hat the bearer is the proper person to pay and has given a receipt by signing his name on the Lertificate.
STANDS, DRESSING TABLES, TEAK- WOOD EXTENSION DINING TABLE, CHAIRS, E.P., GLASS and VIENNA CROCKERY WARE, &c., &c. &c.
Catalogues will be issued. TERMSAs usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 20th February, 1906. {257
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received instructions
POLICE, to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
En the CPTAIN'SUPERINTENDENT OF
ON MONDAY,
the 26th February, 1906, at 11 A.M., at the Central Police Station's Compound, SUNDRY OBSOLETE AND CONDEMNED STORES, Comprising:-
KICE,
SUGAR, OLD METAL, CLOTHING,
&c.
&.c.;
&c.,
ALSO
'JEWELRY,"
TERMS As usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers. Mongkong, 16th February, 1955.
For further security the labourer shows A quantity of SILVER, GOLD and DIAMOND his diamond-shaped metal tag with his number stamped on it. This usually hangs from his belt, but at the pay counter he holds it up in his left hand, puis down his certific te, grabs off his hat, and holds it out for the shower of silver. The pay clerk compares the numbers, glances at the signature, and then reaches under the counter, and throws rolls of coin and loose silver into the extended bat.
The ralis usually contain twenty-five dollars done up in packages by Chinese boys whom the disbursing office, after having tried white clerks and guis, have found to be the most rapid and accurate counters on the isthmus. Two of them are champions-Chang and Leon. These will count and roll up in $15 packages over 65,000 worth of silver dollars in a day and never make a mistake. These two Chinese boys have counted and wrapped millions of dollars, and not one package has ever been found wrong. Their pay is about £15 a month.
The scene in the travelling pay train is most interesting. The Canal labourers are paid at the rate of eight a minute at each door, or twenty-four a minate for the entire car. This rate can be kept up, provided no forged or imperfect certificates are presented. Forgeries Thas three dollars will be altered into thirteen there are, of course, but of a very stupid kind. in the figures on the order to pay and not in me receipt. Detection and arrests occur every pay-day.
These Jamaican negroes would never dream of stealing money from the pay car in the ordinary way, but such of them as are, not wholly illiterate simply glory in trying to demonstrate to their fesa "cultured" brethren what a valuable thing "education" is, and how it can be turned into money.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
letting by Public Auction Sale, to be PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of held on MONDAY, the 26th day of Febru ry,
Works Department, by Order of His Excellency 1906, at 3 P.St., at the Offices of the Public the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND,
at Peng Chau Island, in the Colony of Hong kong, for a term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Boundary Measurement
Registry Na
Island
LOCALITY.
La Territory
ศ.บ
W.
Hongkong, 17th February, 1906.
About 45 acres
Annual Rent,
ני
Upset Price.
!2s! 1,500
and any other Chemicals,
PRICE $10.50 per case of 48 bottles (quarts) or 6 doz. pints.
Special Prices for Quantities.
Sole Agents
SIEMSSEN & CO.
Hongkong, roth January, 1913.
THE WINE GROWERS
SUPPLY.CO.
BARRETTO & Co.
General Agents, Hongkong.
LIQUEURS
L. ROZET & CO., BORDEAUX.
Special Brands,
Apricot Brandy...
$2.50 Per Hottle Quarts.
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Blackberry Brandy 2.50
Cherry Brandy 1.75
Cherry Whisky
1.60
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. ARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of
PART Cing By Public Auction Sale, to be Croix. Jaunne ... 2.75
held on MONDAY, the 26th day of February, 1906, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Warks Department, by Order of His Excellency
Brandy
On goes the pay train into the jungle at Tabernilla and Gatun, as well as the smaller camps, where the negroes, after getting paid, run screaming with delight into the bush, and play like children or monkeya witli the glitter the Governor, of Cue Lot of CROWN LAND, Imperial Orange
at Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a ing silver. The matter of currency in the
term of 75 years, commencing from the zand Istmas is most intricate, Heavy Mexican dollars are furnished by the Panama Govern-day of January, 1906, with the option of ment to the Canal paymaster for the "silver" renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by men; but the "gold men" are paid or the the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for
one further term of 75 years. fourth of every month in different currency allogether. The pay certificates are returned to the divisions for distribution once more to the men and the time-books, time-rolls, and pay-roti are sent to the disbursing officer to be checked and examined.
น
This official is under heavy bonds, and must audit every figure on the rolls. He is therefore obliged to go carefully over 31,500 names on the 1,700 big shecia every month, before he will pay out a dollar. In a few weeks' time thousands of other labourers will be imported into the Isthmus, when the actual work of making the dirt fly" begins, and then the pay train will be longer and its staff. larger than ever before.-P. My.G,
No. of Sale
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
S No.
Aussia Avenu
Locality.
Boundary
Measurements.
N. SE, 2,
feet feet feet fcoi
Contkom in
➡Į Annual Resi
Upset Price.
106 63 to 37 12,050 451 | 7,613
Hongkong, 17ili February, 1996.
2.75
Mandarine Brandy 2.50
Peach Brandy
2.50,
BARRETTO & Co.,
Aganis,
Nos, 22 & 24, Bank Buildings, Queen's Road Centrale
(245 | Hongkong, 17th July, 1995.