Intimation.
Powell's
ALEXANDRA
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1906.
Entimätions,
K. A: J. CHOTIRMALL & 00..
-8, D'AGUILAR STREET.
NEWLY OPENED SILK STORE.
Indian, Chinese and
Japanese Silk Goods.
Just Arrived.
SOCKS (Linen) LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S
GENTLEMEN'S SILK UMBRELLAS. SILK KIMONOS, LADIES' BLOUSES AND SHAWLS.
SANDALWOOD BOXES (INLAID), HANDKERCHIEF BOXES, GLOVE
BUILDINGS BOXES.
FOR
FASHIONABLE
MILLINERY
and
FIRST-CLASS
DRESSMAKING.
MODERATE
"
MONEY BOXES, &c.
LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, JAVA SERONGS.
MANDARIN COATS, COTTON SHIRTS.
Auction.
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of
the by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 13th day of Angust, 1966, at 3 P.Mat the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellancy the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, North of Barker Road, in the Colony of Hong
kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option
of renewal at a CROWN to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
LOCALITY.
No. of Sale.
Rural Building Lot No.
Registre N
North of
pposite RuralTM
Euilding Lot No. 93.
Houndary
hfeasuremente.
31 Pearww.:
Th f ft.
Hongkong. 3rd August, 1906.
To Let.
SILK LACE SCARFS AND SHAWLS. N°ply to
Prices exceptionally cheap. Inspection carnestly solicited. Hongkong, 28th May, 1906.
T"
HONGKONG GUN CLUB,
TO LET.
Square Ibel
Ups! Price.
*Annual Rent.
13. A 84
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O. 1, OLD BAILEY.
ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co., 45, Wyndham Street. Hongkong, 8th August, 1906. -.
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TO LET FURNISHED. FROM 1ST OCTOBER TO 39TH APRIL NEXT,
(539
**
NEUK," MOUNT KELLET, PEAK, Room Bungalow, Tennis Court
་
HE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING and Garden.
will be held at the CLUR HOUSE, at Apply by letter only to- 4.M., on SATURDAY, the 14th August; 1956.
L. A. M. JOHNSTON,
Hon. Secretary,
Hongkong, 4th August, 1905.
KO TUNG,
[807
Hosgkong, 31st July, 1906.
TO LET.
Idlewild,"
Seymour Road..
[786
THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMUQAT COMPÁNY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE EIGHTIETH ORDINARY HALF-
TEARLY MEETING OF SHARE- HOLDERS'in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, Hotel Mansions, TUESDAY, the 14th August, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Direc tors together with a Statement of Accounts, declaring a Dividend, confirming the appoint meat of a Director and electing Directors and Auditors
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSEL from the 1st to the 14th August; both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. E. CLARKE,
Acting Secretary.
+749
Hongkong, 19th July, 1906,
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK- ING CORPORATION.
NOTICE is hereby given that the ORDIN
ARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS this Corporation' will be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 18th day of August next, at Nooo, for the purpose of receiving the Report
CHARGES. of the Court of Directors Lugether with a
SATISFACTION
GUARANTEED.
WM. POWELL,
LTD.,
Drapers, Milliners,
and
Costumiers,
Alexandra Buildings,
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, sed August 1956
Statement of Accounts to 30th June, 1906,
By Order of the Court of Directors,
H. HUNTER,
Acting Chief Manager.
Hongkong, 30th July, 1996.-1
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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK-.
ING CORPORATION.
[OTICE is hereby given that the RE
BABKS BORN AT SHA,'
New York, July 4,7–Sik robust babies were added in the passenger complement of-the- North Gen an Lloyd liner Kaiser Grouser Kerfurst on the voyage from Bremen which ended yesterday. The Kerfurst was hardly
the ship's physician, was summoned to the steamge at midnight, and before daylight announced that Mrs. Leah Polinsky had be come the mother of triplets, two girls and a boy. Three days later the doctor was called to the second cabin to attend Mrs. A. Cobham,
out two days from Bremen when Dr. Starke
who brought into the world two bably girls.
On Sunday night, while Dr. Statke and the second officer ant smoking together the surgeon remarked that he hoped there would be no mare births before the ship docked. The words were hard and anounced that another uttered when a stewardess came hurriedly
Notice of Firm.
NOTICE.
Memployment, the public is horoby aali R., H. D. NORONHA having left our fied that we are not responsible for any order given by him in our same.
NORONHA & Co. Hongkong, 7th August, 1906.
(814
Intimations.
GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH NORTH BORNEO,
REVENUE. FARMS FOR 1957, 1908, 1909,
TENDERS will be received by the SECRE-
birth was imminent.
This time it was in the first cabin, and Mrs. Friedenburg added the sixth baby to the re-T
cord list of births on the Kerfurst. Mrs. Friedenburg's husband came from Seattle to meet the steamer, and was overjoyed when he boarded the ship and found another heir.
THE UNITED STATES
THE WICKEST NATION IN THE WORLD.
Under the above caption the weekly publica tion "Answers" has the following to say. We leave it to our readers to judge whether it is justifiable or otherwise :—
And no
TARY to the Governor at Jesselton, on or before 26th October, 1906, for the following REVENUE FARMS for the year 1907, or for the three years 1907, 1908, 1909.
OPIUM FARM.
SPIRIT LICENSE FARM. PAWNBROKING FARM. CUSTOMS FARM. GAMBLING RESTRICTION FARM. For Particulars, apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Hongkong.
•Hongkong, 1st August, 1905.
WANTED.
[790
STEAMER for CHARTER or PUR-
"AGENT,"
Clo Hongkong Telegraph Office. Hongkong, 4th August, 1906.
in an age which in frankly commercial, which the nations of the carth live by the peaceful aris of commerce, it may be admitted that the country which is the most grievous offender against the laws of common business. honesty may be fairly accounted the wickedest.
this basis one country alone among A CHASE, state particulars and terms. the civilised proples of the world stands brand ed as the worst. That country is the free and independent United States of America. Russia has long been held up to obloquy as the master villain of humanity; but Russia's offences, bad-rankly bad-as they undoubted. ly are, are largely political. The people are under the heel of the aristocrat, as is the manner of his kind, uses the people for his awn purpose. But political tyranny is nel so degrading as the tyranny of trade, and there are few among us who would not prefer the ife of a Russian moujik to that of a Chicago meat packer.
THE LAD OP BIG THINGS. fhe, revelations with which we have been recently edified are evidence of an unhealthy state of things in the land where they exia, For the guileless ment-packer, when the worst has been said of him, is no greater an offender than the rest of the millionaiie breed which ZODOWN, No. 3, NEW PRATA, Kennedy bas its home in the land of Uncle Sam,
Town.
The boastful Yankee ofttimes points the fin Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.ger of pride towards his own country as the land of big things, The biggest businesses, MENT & AGENCY CO., LI
the bigges: fortunes, the biggest "movements, the biggest fires, the biggest earthquakes---all Hongkong, is August, 1906.
have their hone in the United States, fiut
is the thing which is biggest not always the best generally quite the reverse. Mere big-
A
TO LET.
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WANTED.
COMPRADORE, with Good Security.
Apply 10-
"AGENT,"
Cla Hongkong Telegraph Office. Hongkong, 4th August, 1906.
COLD STORAGE.
(810
!
THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LTD., have now 40,000 Cubic feet of COLD STORAGE available at EAST POINT, Stores will be Open at to 4.M. and 4 P.M, daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver penshable goods,
WM. PARLANE,
Manager,
Hongkong, aand June, 1905.
171
HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE, ness is not greatness. The thing which is only A. CHAZALON & CO.
Apply to-
KOWLOON.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.
[789 Hongkong, 31st July, 1906.
TO LET.
GODOWN, No. 9. DUDDELL STREET,
委员
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
MENT & AGENCY CO., LI. Hoogkong, 3th July, 1906 *
SHAMEEN, CANTON.
TO LET.
(78
4, WEST END TERRACE. Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD, Hongkong, 5th-july, 1906.
1703
big is bloated, fat, and repulsive, and America's concerns are only big. They are not scrupul
us, not cleap, not honest, not trustworthy,
So is a hog. noly big.
In the light of recent revelations, it would seem that scarcely one of the much vaunted American concerns is waithy to be trusted. Tako finance. What finance is so corrupt and unscrupulous as American finance? Acrois the Atlantic the financier is nothing worthier than an unscrupulous trickster, with a heart of a tiger and the brain of a swell mobsman. The hairless old money-manine who has huilt up for himself the biggest fortune the world has ever known upon a foundation of lies and decait for the "secret rebates" are nothing less than these--is a figure for honest men to chudder at.
can.
"BUSINESS IS BUSINESS!"
Who was the man who tried to "corner" the world's bread, to in manipulate the corn mar kets that people should have to sus to him for the commonest necessity of life? An Ameri- And did this notable figure of American finance ever allow the prospect of the millions of starving men, women, and children who would not be able to pay the price he meant t demand for his corn when he had got it all to interfere with his plans? Not one fats! If they had to starve, that would be their look- out. Business was business. OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING and Fortunately, he failed; but only because
YORK BUILDING.
another of his tribe view jealous of the millions which would have flowed into his pockets had
TO' LET.
AYTOR,"
THE PEAK.
H Immediate Possession,
GODOWNS on PRAYA EAST.
A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, Con- he succeeded. This could be allowed; no one
to must live who would not bow the knee
mil. duit Road.
lionaire No. 2, and so the weight of his big bags of gold was brought to bear upon the man who meant to starve the world if he could, and the big bags crushed him, whereupon villain No. a was acclaimed the deliverer.
A HOUSE in RIPON FERRACE. FLATS in MORETON TERRACE,
NISTERS OF SHARES of the Corpora. Apply to
tion will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the fourth to the eighteenth day of August nexI (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
H. HUNTER, Acting Chief Manager,
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Hongkong, 30th July, 1906,
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE ORDINARY HALF YEARLY
MEETING or SHAREHOLDERS will Buildings, Connaught Road, on MONDAY,
THE HONGKONG LAND, INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hangkoby, ist June, 1956,
TO LET.
And now the deliverer in his turn has treated the world to the spectacle of the gentle ait of 72 millions-making by the aid of consumptive slaves, who scrape filth from floors and drains. and cesspools, and turn it into food for people, anything in America sound? One's
Is
NO.1, ANTRIM VILLAS, Des Voeux Read, thoughts roam from the nightmare of the in-
KOWLOON,
(on the sea front). A Five-rooned House with a Large Square Hali.
Apply to-
HUGHES & HOUGH,"
8, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong, 28th July, 1926.
[777
TO LET
be held in the Offices of the Compasy, Queen's H 20th August, at 12 o'clock, Noon, for the pur-Servants' Quarters. Cheap Rentals. pase of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts to the 30th June, 1906.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 6th to the 20th August, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THOS. I. ROSE, Secretary. Hongkong, 26th July, 1905.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
IN
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
1770
Naccordance with Article XVI Section 7 of the Articles of Association the General Managers have this day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the half year ending 30th June, 1906, of SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS per Share, payable to all Shareholders whose names were on the register on that date.
DIVIDEND WARRANTS may be obtained
LOUSES in Morrison Hill GaP ROAD. 4 tooms with necessary Bathrooms and EUROPEAN FLATS in "WILD DELL" BUILDINGS, No. 147, Wanchai Road, Each suite contains Bathroom and Kitchen. Very Low Rent.
GODOWN, No. 9, "WILD DELL" BUILD.
·INGS.
Apply to-
PERCY SMITH & SETH,
Accountants and Auditors, &c.,
5. Queen's Road CentraL Hongkong, 24th July, 1906.
1767
TO LET.
The Water, suitable for the storage of *WO GODOWNS at East Point, close to any Cargo.
Floor Area 6,100 square feet each. Apply to-
surance scandals to the terrors of the wheat pit, from the pitiful Standard Oil Company to be blatant Tobacco Trust, the corrupt police, Civil Service, and politicians, and what is the con. clusion to he arrived at?
STEEPED IN SIN.. George Washington, the great-hearted gentle- man, born under the British flag, and bred under its traditions, must writhe in his grave if be can contemplate the present condition of the country which he led in freedom." That beautifu, free, and independent land, where every master is a niggardly slave-driver where fellow-beings are steeped in oil and burned at the stake without trial, where with few exceptions, every public servant and most of the men to whom the political destinies of the country Ric entrusted has price, where all is rush and turmoil and bustle, and the beautiful thing the thing which will sell! Who would not be an American?
Of course, the cry will be raised that the many must not be condemned for the wrong. doing of the few. But that is just where the trouble. lies. A community must necessarily be judged by its leading citizens, the men who come to the top must be typical of the people underneath, and the leading citizens of America are the millianalies.
A TARDY AWAKENING.
JUST UNPACKED,
ANCHOVY IN OIL (Boneless).
STUFFED OLIVES. SARDINES (Bonelces).
Do AU CITRON. FISH PASTE FOR SANDWITCH. PUREL DE FOIE GRAS Do.
AND
Other Pic-nic size tins of PRESERVÉS. FRENCH BISCUITS.
HUNTLEY & PALMER'S BISCUITS and CAKES.
CROSSE and BLACKWELL'S SAUSÃOES; STREAKY BACON, BATH CHOPS, &C.
ALSO
GERMAN SAUSAGES, ASPARAGUS, and other VEGETABLES.
Hongkong, 21st july, go.
Intimations.
HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT,
INFORMATION has been received from
the Military Authorities that GUN PRAC TICE will be carried out as under :----
On the 7th, 13th, 17th, 20th and 21st August, from West of Siónecutters Island, in a South-Westerly direction, at ranges up to 6,000 yards, commencing at 9:30 AM. and finishing at 12 Noon.
Į On WEDNESDAY, 230d Augustli...........
From East of Stonecutters · Island, in á Westerly direction, at muges up to 8,000 yards, commencing at 9.30 AMą and finishing at 11 A.M. ̧
On FRIDAY, 24th Augusi :--
From Ellie, in a North-Westerly direc tion, at ranges up to 8,000 yards, com mencing at 9.30 A.M., and finishing at
11 A.M,
If the weather is unfavourable, on any of the above dates, Practice will take place on the following day.
All ships, junks and other vessels are to keep clear of the ranges,
L. BARNES-LAWRENCE, Captain, R.M.,
Harbour Master; &c.
$799.L
Hongkong, and August, 19c6, “
THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILD- +INGS ORDINANCE COMMISSION.
TAKE NOTICE that a Commission has been appointed to enquire into and report on the fallowing matters, viz. :—
1. Whether the administration of the Sani- tary and Building Regulations enacted by the Public Health and Buildings · Ordin- ance, 1973, as now carried out is satisfac- tory, and, if not, what improvements' can be made.
2. Whether any irregularity or corruption: exists or has existed among the officials! charged with the administration of the aforesaid Regulation.
The Commission earnestly invite the In habitants of Hongkong and Kowloos to co-operate with them by forwarding any com plaint they may have to make or suggestion to offer in connection with the matters aforesaid to the Undersigned.
Any person examined as a witnces in the enquiry aforesaid who in the opinion of the Commissioncs makes a full and tree disclo sure touching all the matters in respect of which he is examined will receive a certificata. trom the Commission which will protect the witness against any civil or criminal proceed. iugs which may be instituted against such witness in respect of any matter touching which he has been examined.
By Order,
W. BOWEN-ROWLANDS, Secretary,
Hongkong, 6th July, 1906.
BY
WANTED.
(709
Ya Young Lady a situation as TYPIST.
Open for immediate engagement
Apply to
* "X. Y. Z.,"
Hongkong, 11th July, 1906,
C/o. This Paper.
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THE WINE GROWERS
SUPPLY CO.
SIC
161
ני
F. BLACKHEAD & CO., SHIP.CHANDLERS, ŠAILMAKÉKS COAL AND PROVISION MER- CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTOR. AND GENERAL COMMISSIÓN AGENTS, GROUND FLOOR,
י
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING,
HONGKONG,
SOAP AND SODA MANUFACTURERS.
SOLE AGENTS FOR ARTMANN'S RAHTJEN'S GENUINE COMPOSITION RED HANI. BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY PAINT DAIMLER'S PATENT MOTOR LAUNCHES, &C.,
Solr Agent for FERGUSON'S SPECIAL CREAM and
&C.,
.
·&c.
F.&O. SPECIAL. LIQUER SCOTCH WHISKY, &c.
EVERY KIND OF -HIP'S STORES AND REQUISITES ALWAYS IN STOCK
REASONABLE PRICES. Hongkong, 7th March, 1005.
ba
KWONG SANG & Co.
[st
No. 70, WELLINGTON STREET.
*ENERAL DRAPERS, MANUFAC
TURERS and DEALERS in Ladies' and Children's Underwear, Silk, Pongee, Grass- cloth, Fancy and Piece Goods, &c.
Latest style of Ladies' Blouses and Gentis-
what he is, but what he has.
A man is not judged in the United States by men's Shirts made to order.
TRIAL ORDER SOLICITED, Hongkong, ist February, 1906.
The Americans abuse the men under whosa brazen heels they squirm, but it is the abuse of jealousy: they are not ashamed of the fact that such people are Americans. Neither are they ashamed of themselves for having allowed tha [147 condition of affairs to build itself up under
which abuses are possible.
--JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hongkong, zath January, 1905.
HOTEL MANSIONS.
an application at the Office of the Company on Rurnished, as Ofices or Chambers.
and aker FRIDAY,,the 3rd August.
ASSIEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
General Managers.
Hongkong, Just July, 1906..
(792
OOMS TO LET on the 4th Floor, Un
Apply to-
THE SECRETARY, Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. Hongkong, pth July, 1900,
(714
But they are waking up to the fact that the in' money, whole duty of man does not consist grabbing; they are gradually realising that honesty, simple truth and a regard for the country's weal are not old-fashioned, out-of- dale notions, but are vital necessities to preserve the very existence of a civilised community and there is much to ba haped far In this.
MUTTON AND BEEF.
BARRETTO & Co.,
General Agents, Hongkong,
WHISKIES.
SCOTCH.
Fine Old.
$8.00 Per Dozen Case.
Black's
Scotch Neil McLean, Old
Scotch Ronald Rebnic,
Green Seal
10,00
12.00
Glen Alva✶✶ *... 13.00 Neil McLean, Finest
Liqueur............ 13,00
Ronald Rennie, Per.
fection .......... 14.00 Melrose.............. 16.00 Ronald Rennie,
Finest Liqueur . 16.00 Melrose * * (12
Years Old) ...... 20.00
IRISH.
(180 Mitchell's Old, Gréen
Label Mitchell's
THE Undersigned is prepared to SUPPLY FRESH MUTTON and BEEN, at Moderate Prices.
Should patrons find any Meat supplied not to be fresh, full price will be refunded on the return of the Meat to the Stall,
F
TUNG WING; No. 1'Stall, Central Market. Hongkong, 14th May, 1906,
Liqueur,
White Label
$9.00 Per Doz: Cake"
75.00*
BARRETTO & Co., Azenis,
Nos. 21 & 24, Bank- Buildings, Queen's Road Central. --
Hongkong, 8th August, ipod,