Intimation.
Powell's
ALEXANDRA ·
BUILDINGS,
Des Verns Road,
JUST
RECEIVED.
LADIES'
BATHING
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1906.
Entimations.
K. A. J. OHOTIRMALL & 0). 8, D'AGUILAR STREET.
NEWLY OPENED SILK STORE.
Indian, Chinese and Japanese
Silk Piece Goods, Silver Waros,
Rare Embroideries, Grass Cloths, &c., &c.,
SUITABLE NOTH FOR
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
Ladies' Blouse's.
AND
Gentlemen's Pyjamas
SUITS SPECIALITY,
E.
Auctions.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
to sell by
THE Undersigned have received instructions PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON MONDAY,
the 28th May, 1000, at 11 A.M., at ARMY ORDNANCE STORES, Queen's Road East,
THE FOLLOWING GOVERNMENT STORES at the ARSENAL YARD!—
AXLETREES, BOLTS and NUTS, IRON SAFES ΟΙ PORTABLE MAGAZINES, WHEELS,
COPPER SCALES, VICES,
LEATHER STRAPS, OLD BRASS, GUN
METAL, COPPER, WHITE METAL, ZINC,
STEEL, CAST, WROUG IT and GALVA
A large quantity of OLD BRASS.
ALSO..
ROMANCE OF "PRISCO,
CITY THAT THE "GOLD RUSHI" MADE.
San Francisco, the ninth city, ia' size) in the United Sates and the metropolis of California
and of the Pacific coast, is situated on the end
of a peninsula, which has the Pacific Ocean on one side, and the Bay of San Francisco on the other. The width of this tongue of land within the city limits is about six milce, and its whole |length about 26 miles.
Important changes in form of government. the coming of additional transcontinental rail- inys, the Oriental outlook, caused by the con- trol of the Philippine Islands by the United States, the increased trade with China, Japan, and the islands of the Pacific, caused a remarkable development during the last years, of the nineteenth century.
THE GOLD RUSHI,'
In the early part of 1849 the inhabitants num. NISED IRON, LEATHER, BLANKETS, TENT DUCK, TARRED and PLAIN CAN-bered about 2,000; but at the end of the same VAS, ROPE, DUOSOOTIE BUNTING, year, owing to the gold rush,, the number had WOOLLEN RAGS, OLD WOOL, IRON increased to 20,000 From 1830, when the first DRUMS and CYLINDERS, PAINT KEGS, figures are obtainable, the increase has been PACKING CASES, &c, &c., &c.
phenomenal, as the following figures show: 1830 200; 1849 2,000; 1890 34,000; 1860 57,000; 1870 150,000; 1880 230,000; 1885 234,009; 1890 299,000; 1903 343,000. To-day the population is estimated to be̟ about half a million. Suburban communities have grown up about the city in mushrooin, fashion, and electric and steam railways and ferries bring these into clase communication with the city. There are in the city over 140 miles of electric railways, 77 miles of cable, roads, 12 miles of the steam system, and to miles of horse rail.
A quantity of Old and Part Worn CLOTHING. Catalogues can be had at the Ordnance Office or from the Auctioneers,
►
TERMS OF SALE Cash on delivery. All faults and errors of description at purchasers risk, on the fall of the hammer,
All lots to be cleared within 48 hours.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers,
1581
Hongkong, 19th May, roof.
Prices exceptionally cheap. Inspection earnestly solicited.
1530
Hongkong) 4th May, 1906.
COSTUMES, IN
Comfortable,
Durable,
and
BATHING
Dainty.
CAPS,
EACH.
SPECIAL
NAVY
SERGES
for
BATHING
COSTUMES,
(Guaranteed fast dye).
$1,25
per yard.
WM. POWELL,
LTD.,
Alexandra Buildings,
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, 18th May, 1906.
BANK HOLIDAY,
accordance with Government Notifica tion No. 423 the EXCHANGE BANKS
will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public
PUBLIC AUCTION.
~HE Undersigned have received instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,"
ON
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY,
Business TO-MORROW, the 24th instant, the zith and 30th May, 1906, at ro A.M. each
VICTORIA DAY.
Hongkong, 23rd May, 1906."
[$87
FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
OF HONGKONG,
NSURANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED
JOTICE is hereby given that FIRE IN
for the Transaction of Public Business TO. MORROW, the 24th: instant, VICTORIA DAY.+
By Order,
Hongkong, 23rd May, 1996,
A. R. LOWE, Secretary.
1587
THE STAR FERRY COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE is
Kiven
the
hereby
that EIGHTH ANNUAL ORDINARY MEETING of the Company will be held at
1 day, at H. M. Naval Yard, SUNDRY NAVAL, VICTUALLING, OBSOLETE AND CONDEMNED STORES,
Comprising:-
OLD STEEL WIRE ROPE, REFRIGE. HOLLBRS, CHAIN CABLE and GEAR, RATING MACHINE, BOATS ENGRES
ELECTRIC CABLF, STEEL WIRE HAW- SERS,OLD BRASS and IRON, RIVETS, LOAM, PERSTUFF, CANVA, PRO VISIONS, IMPLEMENTS, CASKS and CASK STAVES, CLOTHING MATERIALS, BLANKETS, OFFICERS' MESS TRAPS and TOBACCO.
Catalogues may be bad as spofication. TERMS OF SALE:-As customary,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 16th May, 1906.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE..
f565
ways.
The steep hills caused the invention in San Francisco of the cable railway, now used in many cities of the world.
To Let.
'TO LET.
TWO GODOWNS at East Point, close to the Water, suitable for the storage of Any Cargo.
Floor Area 6,103 square feet each. Apple
་
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hongkong, zoth January, 1906.
TO LET.
$1
HAYTOR
Apply to
THE Immediate Possession,
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Intimations,
PEAK.
THE POPULAR
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.
Hongkong, 17th March, tort,
TO LET.
KOWLOON.
15. KNUTSFORD
Apply to-
TERRACE,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
UMENT- & ÅGENCY CO., LD. Ilangkong, 30th December, 1905.
(71
TO LET
"ODÓWN No. 3, NHW PRAVA, Kennedy
Town. Apply to
THY HONGKONG LAND INVEST
MENT & AGENCY CO, LU, Hongkong, 27th June, 1905.
TU LET.
SCOTCH
IS
"BLACK&WHITE"
The mesh se izmise
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Market-st., which has practically been wiped OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING and YORK
out, is the artery. from which diverge all the. principal streets. It is, or rather, was, pavedi with. bituminous rocki
BUILDING.
GODOWNS on PRAYA EAST.
A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, Con-
duit Road.
རྞ་
A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE. FLATS in Moreton ParŘACE. ply com
The city bas 195 miles of paved streets, and In remarking on the fact 305 miles of sewers. that in the early days the number of wooden dwellings was considerable, the Encyclopedia Brittanica" adds, a little precipitately, that "builders are no longer hampered by the fear of earthquakes!"
"ROSS" RULE.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Tecknag, 12th May, 1906
After many years of notorious Boss", rule, the city in 1896 elected a refarm mayor. This was the most important movement for good N
government in the history of the city since the vigilance committee of 1856. The city's control is centralised, giving more power to the mayor. The city is connected with the eastern sintes by three overland railways, the Central acific, The Southern Pacific, and the Aitchison, Topeka and Santa Fé routes. Besides these, it, has Traffic connections with three big Transcouti nental roads.
TO LET.
OLD
годя
BAILEY,
2, Apply 10-
ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co.,
45. Wyndham Street, Hongkong, 26th April, 1906.
The original site of San Francisco was sa A. uninviting that many of the pioneers doubled if a place of much importance could ever spring op there. The hills, Russinn-hill, Telegraph- bill, and many others, were barien and pre cipitous, and the interspaces, especially on the westerly side, were made up largely of shulting
the City Hall, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th MR. CEO, K. LAMMERT has been sand-dunes.
instant, at 12.10 2.40, for the margins of an, ceiving the Report of the Directors, together with a Statement pl Accounts to 30th April, 1900.
The REGISTER OF SHARES will be CLOSED Iram WEDNESDAY, the 23rd instant, to WEDNESDAY, the 30th instant, both days inclusive,
EDWARD OSBORNE,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 21st May, 19:6.
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MARK
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THERAPION NO.1 S
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led thashed, it will be found onsumisingly, alle ne pas albiding pranga artin! when the word
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F. BLACKHEAD & CO.. SHIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKEN
COAL AND PROVISION MER- HANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTOR ·
AND GENERAL COMMISSION
AGENTS, GROUND FLOOR,
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING,
HONGKONG.
SOAP AND SODA MANUFACTURERS,
SOLE AGENTS FOR
HARTMANN'S RAHTJEN'S GENUINE
COMPOSITION RED. HAND BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY PAINT, DAIMLER'S PATENT MOTOR LAUNCHES, &C..
Soft Agents for FERGUSON'S SPECIAL CREAM and
*..
Κε
P. & O. SPECIAL LIQUER SCOTCH WHISKY, G.
EVERY KIND OF SHIP'S STORES AND REQUISITES ALWAYS IN STOCK
LT
REASONABLE PRICES, Hongkong, 7th March,'1905.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON TUESDAY,
;
the zyth day of May, 1906, al 3 PM, at his Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, Victoria,
IN ONE LOT..
The VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PRO- PERTY registered in the Land Office as SECTION D OF INLAND LOT No. 585 with the Messuage and Buildings thereon, known as No, rt, SEYMOUR ROAD, held under a Crown Lease dated the 14th recein-
Afr
metropolis Phe found the commercial Straits of Carquinez, it was evident that no other place within easy distance from the occan possessed so many advantages for the site of a city as this barres peninsula,
GOLDEN GATE.
The Bay of San Francisco is reached from the ocean through the Golden Gate, a strait about five miles long, and averaging one mile
width. This great inland water is well sheltered, and is, for the most pati, navigable by the largest cratt. Within the decade from 1890 to 1950, the Golden Gate was fortified in the most approved modern manner. Within
ber, 1859, for a term of 999 years. Proportionike bay several islands are also strongly fortified. of Crown Kent payable $1.65.
For further particulars, apply to~~ Messrs. EWENS, HARSTO V & HARDING,
Alexandra Buildings,
Vendor's Solicitors,
or in
Hongkong, 21st May, 1906.
The Auctioneer.
15$
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received instructions
sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
an
THURSDAY, the 14th June, 1906, at 11 Adf., at the Hong kang and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's premises, Kowloon,, -COMPLETE CEMENT FACTORY, Originally intended to be put up as the Kwan
tuusk Cement Factory, hui landed in Hongkong an account of the Russa. Japanese War, will be sold, by order of. proprietor Mr Hereditary Honorary Citizen Anatoly Charlampicwitch Te jukow of Saigrajewo.
The Plant of this Cement Factory, which has been fitted out with the latest technical inventions for manufacturing Cement, by the dry system, consists among others of :- LOCOMOBILES................... (Wolf, Magdeburg). MULLING MACHINES.....(Smidi, Copenhagen), Cooling INSTALLATIONS (Atlas Fabr. ELECTRICAL
(Allg. Elec. Comp.) TRUCKS, &c.
....(Orenstein & Koppel). &c., &c &c. All in all the whole plant is very nearly the same as the Factory Kljaksdorph, near Malmo in Sweden.
Specifications of the Machines and acces- anries as well as any further information may be obtained from-
SIEMSSEN & CO.,
Hamburg & Hongkong,
and LAWYER BURNOFF,
in St. Petersburg, Wassild Östrow, 4 Linic, Haus No. 5,
as well as from the Auctioneers,
Messrs, HUGHES & HOUGH. Hongkong, 1st May, 1906,
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COLD STORAGE.
"HE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LTD, have now (40,000 Cubic feet of
The presidio, or fortified settlement of San Francisco, was founded on 17 Sept, 1776 and | the mission, San Francisco de los Dolores, in the following October. In 1830, the population of the presidio consisted of about so Spanish soldiers and officers; these, added to the mis. sion, made an aggregate population of about In the stimmer of 1846 an American 200. man-of-war took possession of the place. The fast Legislature of California granted a charter to San Francisco on 1 May, 1850.
CITY OF WOODEN BUILDINGS, Within a few months of the establishment of municipal government the city sufleted severely an more than one occasion fuin Gre. The fire of May, 1850, destroyed property to the value of about 6:0,0:0; another, in the following month, was still more destructive-tco,000; and the dainage resulting from a third in Sep- zember was estimated at 100,000. These disas ters naturally led to the employment of mare substantial building material, gianne being im ported from China for some buildi gs, and iron and brick being used for others; but to this day nearly all the private dwellings of the city are of wood.
Througboat a considerable part of the city the streets are laid out in rectangular form, and nowhere with any reference to the natural elevations.
The most important business croughfare is, as has been, stated, the ill. fated Marketest,, which extends from the water front at the ferry landings to the hills on the, west, a distance of three miles or more. Many of the big streets are still paved with cobble stones, and basalt rocks, but of recent years asphalt, on a stone or concrete foundation, has begun to be used. The greatest attraction in the city is the Golden Gatė-park of 1,050 acres, having the ocean for its extreme westerly houndary. The greater part of this area was formerly a shifting sand dune,
ITS COSMOPOLITAN CHARACTER,
The City is of a peculiarly cosmopolitan characte; more so, in fact, than any other city in the United States. In igo, when the popu. lation was 343,000,117,000 were foreign-born. The Chinese population was then estimated at 25,000. Noi the least remarkable feature of San Francisco is the Chinese quarter, which Bes between Stockton, Sacramento, Kearney (one of the streets which has fared the worst), and l'acific streets, and consists mainly of tail tenement buildings, divided by narrow alleys, and swarming with occupante.
San Francisco is one of the wealthiest cities of the world, its City Hall, which is now in mins, cost nearly four million dollars, and there are an extraordinary number of mam moth hotels. In one part of the city signifi canly known as Nob Hill, numerous million- aire mining and railroad magnates, reside in palatia! buildings, standing in beautifully. wooded grounds. Besides its vast mining interests, the city ranks third among the por.s of the. Unies in the total value of its foreign commerce, which amountsteabout 450,090,000. [71 | Morning Lauder,
THE COLD STORAGE available at EAST POINT, Stores will be Open at 19 A.M. and 4 P.M. daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods.
Wы. PARLANE,
Manager. Hoogkong, aand June, 1908,.
A
Intimations.
CHAZALON & CO
JUST UNPACKED. -
NEW Consignment of the following →
ANCHOVY (Norwegian) in Keys. SALMON BELLIES.
I
*
11
MACKARELS GERMAN SAUSAGES in Tin (Assorted),
in Skips.
11
ASPARAGUS.
וי
VEGETABLES (Assorted).. FRENCH FRUITS IN SYRUP (Assorted). STUFFED OLIVES.
Anchovy in 011. (Boullers).
ALSO
PASCALL'S ASSORTED SWELTS and TOFFEES.
Hongkong, 17th May, rgob.:
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MUPTON AND BEEF.
THE Undersigned is prepared to SUPPLY FRESH MUTTON and, BEEF, at Moderate Prices.
Should patrons find any Meat supplied men' to be fresh, full price will be refunded on the return of the Ment to the Stull,
J'
:
TUNG WING,
No. Stall, Central Market, Hongkong, rạth May, 1906,
NIKKO CO.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, DEALERS,
JAMES BUCHANAN & CO.
SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS. By Appointment to: B.M. THE KING
and
HRH the PRINCE of WALES
Bupplied at all the LEADING CLUBS and HOTELS, and to be obtained from the principal Stores.
TUBORG BEER:
FIRST. Class PILSENER BEIR
A guaranteed free from Salicylic Acid,
and any other Chemicals.
PRICE $10.50 per case of 48 botiles (quarts) or 6 doz. pints.
.:
Special Prices for Quantities.
Sole Agents,
SIEMSSEN & CO.
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Hongkong, roth January, foot.
THE WINE GROWERS
· SUPPLY CO.
BARRETTO & C S
General Agents, Hongkoma.
(561
WHITE
WINES.
in all kinds of APANESE FINE ART CURIOS, TEA
SETS, and SATSUMA WARE,
At Moderate Prices,
Orders Prompily Executed.
No. 5, ARSENAL STREET, Hongkong, Komplane, 28th April, 1996.
FURNITURE WAREHOUSE.
LI KWONG LOONG & CO., ¤ A * M *
CABINET-MAKERS and Akt DECORATORS, from Shanghai, has re-opened their FURNITURE STORE
at
No. 35, DES Vœux Road CentrAL. The only Shop in Hongkong, with this name.
Graves......
$7.00 Per Dozen Quarts.
'BOTTLED BY
JULES MERMÀN & CIE, BORDEAUX,
$10.00 Per Dozen Quarts.
Graves
Sauternes.......
10.00.
.
Chateau d'Arche
20,00
BOTTLED BY
of every description can be made to EMMEL, DESPUJOL FILS & PICQ, THERE HIGH-CLASS FURNITURE
order in any design required.
Have been patronised by the Hoogkong Club, longkong Hotel, Telegraph Co., Messrs. A.
S. Watson & Co., Ld., Firms and other leading Establishments in the Colony, to whom refer
BORDEAUX.
ence may be made as to the Superior Work Barsac $14.00 Per Dozen Queita, manship and Materials of the Furniture, &c., supplied.
Mesers. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd, write as Sauternes ......... follows:-
We have pleasure in stating that Mr. Li Chateau Guiraud
KWONG LOONG furnished the Annexo
10 our Dispensary and gave us every satis faction."
(Sd.) A. S. WATSON & Co., Ld. ORDERS punctually attended to, and CHANGES most moderate.
AN INSPECTION INVITED. Hongkong, te March; 1906.
A
20,00
"
"
29,00
BARRETTO & Com
Agents,
Nos, 22 & 24, Bank” Buildings, Queen's Road Contral
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Hongkong, rath Jann, 1905,