Shipping-Steamers.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 1906.
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COY.'S ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE.
Luxury-Speed-Punctuality,
The only Line that Maintains a Regular Schedule Service of under Eleven Days across the
Pacific is the "Empress Line.
11. Dayı YOKOHAMA TO VANCOUVER.
PROPOSED SAILINGS,
Τους
Saving 5 to 10 Days' Ocean Travel.
18 Days HONGKONG TO" VANCOUVER.
(Subject to Alteration). LEAVE HONGKONG
ARRIVE VANCOUVER
8.M.S. **TARTAR *..........................
.. 4.425....................... SATURDAY, October zo.........November 12 "EMPRESS OF CHINA ". ...6,000........ THURSDAY, 'October 25........ November 12 "EMPRESS OF INDIA"......6,000....THURSDAY, November 22......December to "ATHENIAN * -....................... "EMPRESS OF JAPAN" "MONTEAGLE"
3,882......... WEDNESDAY, November 28...December 22 ...5,000.........THURSDAY, December 20......January 7 ...6,163.........WEDNESDAY, December 26...January 19 EMPRESS" steamers will depart from llongkong at 4 P.Mt.
fotermediate steamers at 12 Noon.
THE Quickest route to CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE, calling at SHANG-
•THO, NEGARA TO, THE INLAND SEA OF JAPAN) KOBS, TOKOHAMA, and VICTORIA. B.C., connecting a VAN "JUER with a Special Mail Express, and Quebec with the Company's New Palatial "&MPRESS" Steamships, 14,500 tons register. The through transit to LIVERPOOL being 221 days, from YOKOHAMA, and 291 days from HONGKONG.
Hongkong to London, 1st Class..........vid St. Lawrence L6o. Vid New York £62. . Hongkong to London, Intermediate on
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£47. Intermediate"
£49. Steamers, and. 1st Class on Rallways R.M.S. "MONTEAGLE," "TARTAR" and "ATHENIAN" carry Passengers only, at Intermediate rates, affording superior accommodation for that class.
Passengers Booked through to all points nud.AROUND THE WORLD. SPECIAL RATES (First class only) granted to Missionaries, Members of the Naval, Military, Diplomatic and Civil Services, and to European Officials in the Service of China And Japan Goveronicats.
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For further information, Maps,-Routes, Hand Books, Kates on Freight and Passage, "apply to
D. W. CRADDOCK, Acting General Agent,
Corner Pedder Street and Praya. Hongkong, 6th October, 1906. · INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD.
{PROJECTED BAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION),
For
Stromship
On
„PINGSANG).WEDNESDAY, 10th October, 4 P.M. SHANGHAI ... SGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA.ONSANG...THURSDAY, Nth October, 3 PM
„VUENSANG*.FRIDAY, 12th October, 4 P.M. MANILA..... SGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA LAISANG * ....TUESDAY, 16th October, 3 P.M.
Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to Chinfoo, Tientsin, Newchwang and Yangtze Ports. * These Steamers have superior accommodato for First-class Passengers, and are fitted throughout with Electric Light.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
Hongkong, 8th October, ago.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
General Managers.
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.
FOR
MANILA perio
CHEFOO and NEWCHWANG..
SHANGHAI........
STEAMERS.
TO SAIL
TEAN ****
4th October.
." KWEIYANG"... 12th
** SHADHSING "†.............. 13th
* The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by these Kreamers, which are fitted throughout with Electric Light. Unrivalled, table. A duly qualified Surgeon is carried.
† Taking Cargo'on through Bits of Lading to all Yangtsze and Northern China Ports,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
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Hongkong, 8th October, 1966.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTS...
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HONGKONG MANILA.
Highest Class, newest, fastest and most luxurious Steamers between Hongkong and Manila.-Saloon amidships-Electric Light-Perfect Cuisine-Burgeon and Stewardess carried. All the most up-to-date arrangements for comfort of Passengers.
CHINA AND MANILA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
For
-Steamship.
Tous. Captain
Sailing Dates,
ZAFIRO
RUBI..
1540
1540
R. Almani.......
R. Rodger MANILA (DIRECT) SATURDAY, 13th October,
at Noon. | Saturday, 20th October,
at Noon,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
Thongkong. 8th October, 1908.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., |
GENERAL MANAGERS,
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HONGKONG-NEW YORK.
S
A
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AMERICAN ASIATIC
STEAMSHIP CO.
FOR NEW YORK via PORTB AND SUEZ CANAL.
Steamship
(With Liberty to Call at the Malabar Coast).
*SOUTH AMERICA" **BRAEMAR*
For Freight and further information, apply to
Hongkong, 8th October, 1906,
About
...16th October. ....20th November.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Agents,
Shipping Steamers.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
BY.
PASSENGER SERVICE.
Y the new steamers, “RHENANIA," HABSBURG," "HOHENSTAUFEN" and the "SCANDIA" and "SILESIA," The steiners are specially built for the tropics Cabins Amidship, and have luxurious Passenger accommodation first class. lighted throughout by electricity, cabins fitted with fans. loctor and Stewardesses carried. Laundry on board. Return tickets issued at reduced rates for two years available, through Tickets to be had to 1.ondon via Havre and to New York via Naples and Hamburg
NEXT SAILINGS OUTWARD).
FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, TSINGTAU, CHEFOU AND TIENTSIN VIA SHANGHAI.
.Capf. v. Hoff
RHENANIA ROHENSTAUFEN ...........................................................
SILESIA
SCANDIA mandarma
M
Jaeger Babie
Isi November, 2nd December.' 2nd January,
v. Dochren....... 1 February.
NEXT SAILINGS HOMEWARD.
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID, NAPLES, HAVRE, (LONDON VIA HAVRE) AND HAMBURG.
HABSBURG
RHENANIA
HOHENSTAUFEN
SILESIA
SCANDIA HABSBURG
RHENANIA HOHENSTAUFEN
..Capt. Filler.
9. Hoff
2nd November, ..................................... 14th December. Jaeger...................Ilk January.. Battle........ 8th February. Doehren...22nd March.
Filler
v Holi Jaeger
...... 5th April ....................17th May. .........ta.........ial4th June,
FREIGHT SERVICE.
NEXT SAILINGS OUTWARD. FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA. SITHONIA. 14th October.
....SEGOVIA. FOR YOKOHAMA & KOBE
·FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA...RHENANIA FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA...ANDALUSIA
NEXT SAILINGS HOMEWARD. -
VIA STRAITS, COLOMBO AND ADEN,
18th October.
1st November. 13th November,
Taking Cargo at throughrates to Antwerp, Amsterdam, Koiterdam, Copenhagen,'
Lisbon, Oporto, London, Liverpool, Glasgow, rieste, Geod, Ports in the Levante, Black Sen and Baltic Peris, North and South American Ports. Also via Aden or Port Said by the Arabic Persian Service to Arabian and Persian Gulf Ports.
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FOR HAVRE, BREMEN & HAMBURG....SUEVIA ... 10th October. FOR HAVRE; ANTWERP & HAMBURG...SENEGAMBIA...6th October,
HABSBURG. 2nd November, FOR HAVRE AND HAMBURG
BRISGAVIA 16th November, FOR HAKVE AND HAMBURG FOR HAVRE AND HAMBURG
„SITHONIA................... 30th November Hongkong, 6th October, 1906.
THE ORIENTAL PACIFIC LINE., FOR MOJI, KOBÉ AND SAN FRANCISCO. THE Stewnship
TUSCARORA "
will be despatched for the above Ports, on or about the rath instant.
For Freight and further particulars, apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & cal
Agents.
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EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM- SHIP.COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling at Manila, Port Darwin and Queensland Ports, and taking through Cargo to Adelaide, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.) HE Steamship.
THE
"EMPIRE," Captain Helms, will be despatched for the above Ports, os SATURDAY, the 27th instant, at Noan.
This well-known Steamer is specially fitted for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham-! ber, which ensures the supply of Fresh" Provi- sions, ice, etc., throughout the voyage.
This Steamer is installed throughout with; the Electric Light.
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A Biewardess and a duly qualified Surgeon are carried
N.B.To assure the additional comfort of passengers the steamers of the Company have electric taps fitted in staterooms..
For Freight or Passlige, apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 4th October, 1956.
1979
THE AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE
FOR NEW YORK.
(With liberty to call at Malabar Coast) THE Steamship
"YEDDO,"
Captain Cowley, will be despatched for the above Port, on or about the 13th November..
For Freight, apply to
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FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND CALCUTTA
THE Steamship
"GREGORY APCAR," Captain S. H. Belson, will be despatched for the' above Ponts, TO-MORROW, the 9th instant, at 3 P.M., instead of as previously advertised.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
-DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED,
Agents.
Hongkong, 8th October, 1906.
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To Let.
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TO LET.
UROPEAN SHOPS, OFFICES, and GODOWNS (suitable for Dry Goods Storage) at No. 14, Des Voeux Road Central, (formerly occupied by Messrs: Shewan, Tomes & Co.
Apply to-
HỌ TUNG, Compradore Department,
Jardine, Matheson & Co.
1949 Hongkong, 26th September, 1906.
TO LET..
OFFICES in
KING'S BUILDING and YORK BUILDING.
GODOWNS on PRAVA EAST.
A HOUSE in Clifton Gardens, Con.
duit Road,
A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE.
A' HOUSE in WONG-NEI-CHONG Road,
KLATS in MORETON-TERRACK.`
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.
Hongkong, 5th September, 1906.
A
1975
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,
Aganta, Hongkong, 3rd October, 1906.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.
Regular Steamship Service between! HONGKONG, SALINA CRUZ, CALLAO and IQUIQUE, VIA JAPAN PORTS. Will be sent to VALPARAISO if sufficient inducement. THE Steamship.
"KASATO MARU," 6,000 tons, j. Captain W. B. C.S. Filmer, will be despatched as above, middle of December.
Taking Freight and Passengers to other Western Coast Ports of South America.
The above Steamer bus splendid Accom- modation and is fitted throughout with Elec- tric Light. A daly qualified Surgeon is carried.
For further information, apply to
K. MATSDA, Manager,
Hongkong, 4th October, 1906,
TO LET,
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HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE,
KOWLOON.
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.
Hongkong, 31st July, 1906,
Ho
TO LET.
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OUSES in Morrison Hill GAP ROAD. 4 Rooms with necessary Bathrooms and Servants' Quarters. Cheap Rentals
EUROPEAN FLATS in "WILD DELL" BUILDINGS, No. 147, Wanchai Road. Each suite contains Bathroom and Kitchen. Very Low Kent.
* GODOWN, No. 9, "WILD DELL" BUILD-
INGS, -
Apply to-
PERCY SMITH, & SETH;
Accountants and Auditors, &c,
York Building.
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5, Queca's Road Central Hongkong, 24th July, 1906, ·
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Entimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
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HONGKONG.
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A special feature is made of fall and accur ate reports of local occurrences, and of mat.
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Hast.
VALPARAISO.... THE LAND UK EARTHQUAKES,
"Valparaiso has been twice sacked, thrice has it been racked by earthquakes, thrice bar it. been scourged by, fire and once bas it been. drowned by flood. No city of South America has received so many visitations of evil as this "Valley of Paradise," inaptly so named by a Spanish discoverer in the sixteenth century.
Don Juan de Saavedra, a captain under Almagron, Spanish voyager, and soldier of fortune, sailed into the crescent bay where `ths city afterward stood in the year 1532. He was struck by the beauty of the spot and immediate. by christened this new bay on the little explored western coast by the name that it has born.
through much tribulation since. Pedro de Valdivia visited the place in 1543 and formally affirmed the choice of the name given the then struggling colony by its faster father. Don Luis de Avala, one of the early governors of New Upniu, medewho settlement a municipality under royal charter in 1791 after it had been sorely tried by many years of misfortuns.
In 1578 Sir Francis Drake sailed into the harbour of Valparaiso and bombarded the town, afterward sacking it of its treasure and putting many of its inhabitants to the sword. Sir John Hawkins, gentleman slave trader and pirate, visited the Spanish settlement later and again the town was given up to pillage.
The year 1730 witnessed the first great earth- quake that shook Valparaiso. Practically the whole town was destroyed in this convulsion and only after many years of slow progress did it recover. In 1812 a second earthquakes came to shako.down what had been rebuilt. In this catastrophe many lost their lives. A great fire swept the city in 1841, destroying $1,000,000 worth of property. Hardly had the fortunes of the community begun to mend when a second fire licked up five times at much wealth as had the first. This was in 1858.
When the Spanish made the last futile at tempt to destroy the republic of Chile in 1886 they sent a fleet into the harbour of Valparaiso and the town was mercilessly bombarded. What with the damage wrought with the shells and the fre that followed $10,000,000 was the loss counted up. The last great disaster preceding the one which the Chilean city has just suffered came in 1888, when a large dan back of the city barst and a portion of the business district was washed away with great
Special attention given to effectively display. loss of life. The city had at the last census a ing advertisements.
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jach; and about eight words to the line.
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JOBBING DEPARTMENT.
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PROGRAMMES.
PAMPHLETS,
CARDE,
population of 141,050.
Travellers say that the first sight of the city af Valparaiso confirms the belief in the fitness of the baptismal name conferred upon it by the old Spanish voyager. After passing through a sea gate very much like the one that gives entrance to the bay of San Francisco, a pas seager on an incoming steamer sees the city, unless it has again been wiped out, piled up in terraces of sun-browned buildings upon the s'eep hills that rise almost immediately from the waterfront. The white towers of cathedrals and the red tiled roofs typical of all southern cities fillin the mosaic picture of the huddled city under the steep peaks of the mountains.
The city proper takes on roughly the form_of.. an amphitheatre, the circling ridge of hills up. on which it is built terminating in two horns of rock at either boundary of the bay. On nearer view the extensive artificial embankment, or malecor, that follows the shore nearly its whole distance along the city front, seems to form a restraining wall that keeps the heaped up city from slipping into the bay.
Running parallel with the malecon are the principal business streets of the city, blocking off the land between the sea and the crowding hills in irregular squares. The cerros or ridges. in the mountainside that rise abruptly from this narrow strip of ancient sea beach, with cleanout arroyos between them, are covered with villas and wooded at their tops. From the city be death the cliffs cogwheel railroads lift the people. home from their daily work to the windswept cerros above, very much as the dwellers, in Hongkong go several hundred feet up the cliff 10 sleep every night.
The port district is that which lies below.the cerros and along the waterfront. The custom houses along the embankment are the first buildings to be passed by a passenger coming in from the sea. They are handsome and com. modious structures, thoroughly equipped with. hydraulic machinery for the lifting of goods from ship's holds. On the waterfront, too, are two floating docks, capable of accommodating ships of 4,000 tons burden.
In the centre of the Port district stands the Plaza Sotomayor, the downtown park of the city. A monument to the heroes of the last Peruvian war, surmounted by a statue of the Chilean general, Arturo Prat," stande in the centre of this square. At a little distance are the Tribunals of Justice, massive buildings. constructed on the characteristic architectural lines of Latin America. Near this plata is the fine Marine Government House, overlooking the Malecon Faeso, a broad explanade along the embankment, which is the favourite pro- menading place for the Valparaiso folk on long summer evenings. During the summer season FXPRESSES military band holds forth on the Malecon--
every night and the procession of carriages bearing veiled senoritas and punctilious gran dee's winds round and round the music stand in formal line of state.
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West of the Malecon stand the Membrillo and Playa Aucha popular bathing Houses situated on the white strip of beach that fringes the bottom of the cerros. What Wai Kai-kal beach is to the summer folk of Honolulu the Playa Ancha is to Valparaiso, Horse cars runnning to this spot are daily crowded to thels : utmost capacity. The park of Playa Ancka, situated on the bluff that marks the western- terminus of the bay, is laid out in broad avenues and filled with flowering plants of rare species.
The eastern part of the city, where it' broadened out between the Malecon and the cerros, is the most modern section. Through this quarter runs the Avenida Brasil, the maid thoroughfare, which is split by a middle band of cemented boulevard, ornamented by foude tažas and statuary. The portion of the city on!