Tutimation,
Powell's
Ladies'
ers,
HONGKONG TE
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
On or about the 15th
January
FOR
(WE
the 16th and 19th January)
COMINENCÍN 7 each
ZA LARGE"ANS
DA SILVERWAND IVORY:
Mösers. K... A. J. CHO- Cantognes will be issued.
ALEXANDRA
TIRMALL & Co.
Auctione
Hongkong, 15th January,,
BUILDINGS
will remove,
PUBLIC AUCTIONỪ
to
HE Undersigned baya
from the Harbour Mašta
PUBLIC AUC
NEW GOODS
NOW ON SHOW
COLE
JERSEYS
Cardinal
from $5 each.
White and Pale Blue,
White and Navy,
White and Myrtle,
White and Red,
from $5.25 each.
Splendid Value.
COSTUMES
Latest Styles,
Well Cut,'
NEW PREMISES;
THURSDAY:
No: 64, QUEEN'S ROAD 17th January, 1997, at Nobu
CENTRAL, formerly occupied by the
Travellers Hotel.
Hongkong, Ith January, 1907,
TO LET
The Steam Launch=2
PAYUT, SUM,",
Kructions.
Kjer at home to the chances, lims to plague, or some other. where,... estimate the nombar have left to beg their daily bres incis'at a'third of the populi
families, for
fathers, in
poor
as she now lies in Causeway Bay, Length over all
Hreadth extrema—***
Engine.
Depth
Cylinders
Compound Surface
Condensing *::
1.9 in. by 18 in. by
12 in, Stroke, ¡Boiler Pressure .............125:lbs;;)
Hull, Boiler and Engine.built in Hongkong. jin,x900, p.
TERMSAs usual,- [43
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers
1191
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makeup vithel
Lumers Ubus glage, having consu Kava from this res many familias" who' who are now reduced day.a horrible mixte
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¡receiving a Stat
Report of the General
and
fendingofisti faecambars
1906,
Conto
we are only at the beginning frightful misery. The winter will for the people who have no mone necessaries and, of course without means to redeem the winter clothing they (is cos. tomary) pawned in the spring, and for, many there is no prospect but death from eithe banger or cold. Toʻsif these horrors, in added. that of brigandage ; and much robbery. If not mpre seriousjronbië is anticipated,MEN Mo/Tò come to the question which interesis Syan, «shöst, I shall try to give you approximately the number of famiae stricken. It is not an easy Lijak to do, for we do not know for certain "HE Undersigned will: Let by Rablicht the population it. But judging from as formation gathered from the best population from what I have sunn myself in a large 'nom«"
Hongkong, 11th January, 1997;
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES at PRAYA
EAST, near East Point,
Apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hongkong, and Januáry, 1907.
Tan
No
TO LET.
.ti
JOS. 8 and 16, LEIGHTON HILL ROAD No.15, WONG-NEI:CHUNG, ROAD... Apply to
HONGKONG & KOWLOON (LAND & LOAN CO., LTD.!
No. 8, Queen's Road West. Hoogkong, 7th November, 1906..
TO LET.
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`UROPEAN' SHOPS, OFFICES, and
EGODOWNS (suitable for Dry Goods Storage) at No. 14, Das Vœux‹ Road Central, (formerly occupied by Messm. Shewan, Tomes & Co
Apply.co-
... HỌ TỪNG
Compradore Department,
Jardine, Matheson & Co. Hongkong, 26th September, 1906.
TO LET
now occupied by
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THE Premises known as Nh. 199, WANCHAI
&Co.'s Engineering Werks., Possession, zat February,, 1997...
Apply to
THE HONGKONG: LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Dongkong, 4th January, 19079,
TO LET:
Canton..
(81)
PO. 1, WEST END TERRACE, Shamsen,
No.
Apply to.....
Smurt,
from $30 each.
DAINTY TAILOR-MADE
SKIRTS
Bergo,
Tweed,
Volle,
Cloth,
and Flannel,
from $9.50 each.
INSPECTION, INVITED.
POWELL'S
HONGKONG.
"THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AGENCY CO., LD: Hongkong, Toth December, 1906.
TO LET.
ANFURLY," CONDUIT ROAD,
"
RANFURLY,
167
T
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Auction,
ONGS... THURSDAY,
›Comé
Chronic
Sold chemists.
Dividers and electing mutek and Auditorias blažu Thị TRANSFFF7BOOKS %f the Company | Affecti buy the will be CLOSED tom WEDNESDAY,
-266 23rd January, until SATURD January, 1907, both days indimai vals
SHEWAN TOMAS & Con
General Managers. Hongkong, 8th January, ago,
193
THE HON KONG LAND RECLAMA: TION COMPANY, "LIMITED." TOTICE is Archy given that the SIXTH HOLDERS will be held at 156: Compaby's Offices Victoria, Buildings, 09 SATURDAY BROO the sub leuary, 1907, at 12 o'clock Mopp, for the purpose of forelving the Report of
Directors together with a Stalemast of Ac copatafjr the post andipy 314 December, 2006. TEA REGISTER or SHARES of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from PRIDAYSUNG 18th January to SATURDAY, the cfth Jutuary (both days inclesive), daring which perind He Transfer of Sharea can be registered.
the 17th January, 1907, at 3 PM, on the spot, ber of villages I give think a very low estimate
The Several Lots Numbered to 19 on Plan, to be seen at the Auctioneers Office, for erect
::
BOOTHS' AND MATSHEDS.
on the Government Ground adjoining the Race Courts, North of the Grand Stand Enclosum.
TERMS :-Cash.
when,1,say that after deducting the number of those who have made their way south, there (must be ja auch sub-prefecture at least 150,000, starving people; and there are in addition, all those who are encamped in the neighbourhood of Telngkiang and whom the officer are try-
For Plan and Conditions of Sale, apply to-ing to induce to return to their homes by pro-
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government. Acctioneers, Hongkong, 11th January, 1007. "
[tos
PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received instructions to sali by PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOX ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,. on SATURDAY,
theigth January, 1907, at 12/A.a., at their Salni Rooms, No. 8. Des Voeux Road corner of Ice House Street, The Revenue Schooger
"PENG FRI
as she now lies at Saikok North of Samshuipo,
I
Her dimensionsareismit Length over all.......................78. feet. Breadth
1. megay manipu7
· Depth ...........................i 9
Tekk with Tron Frames by the Built of Tank: The running gear, sails, anchors, &c. are Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. in 1898. lying in the Godown of the Imperial Maritime Customs and will be sold with the vessel.
TERME-As usual! For further particulars, apply to
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneer. Hongkong, 12th January, 1907.
PUBLIC AUCTION. HE Undersigned have received Instructions THE
to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,"
ON WEDNESDAY,
mises of rice distribution theme and of money, But taking the sub-prefactares of which, 1 have charge namely Peichow, Such'ien, Halen, Shining, Hai Chow and multiplying go to 175 thousand by fire a total of clean on 1,000,000 is reached.
With a view to alleviating this distress, and preventing disorder, the officials had consider. alle quantities of wheat and rice brought up
-
NORDINARY MEETING OF SE
By Order of the Board of Directors,
MENMOWBRAY 9. NORTHCOTE, "^
Br Bermatary, 199 Hongkong, tofb, Jandary, Too7 J
THE WBATA POINT BUILDINGS! COMPANY LIMITEDÜĞME
EDRO
Hou
PPLICATIONS, are invited for the eva, appointment", ól das "EUROBEAN [102||WARDMÁSTER, ROW Vacant, in the CIVIL MEDICAL DEPARTMENT (OF HONGKONG, Applications with cortificates of character, etc. should be forwarded to the Principal Civil Medical Officer at the Civil Hospital gol Jateg than Noon of the and löstant,
hereby given that the NINE NTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING Salary, etc., 110-ning, by triennial Incro- OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Company willments of £30 to £150'a year, with uniform and be held at the Company's Onces," "Victona" ||free furnished, bachelor's quarters." Buildings on MONDAYy the 8th January! Applicants must be under thirty-five years. 1997, ak18-19 o'clock AN for the purpota 21 of age. with Statekent of Accounts for year receiving the Report of the Directors, togelber
December, 1995,
Kibe Grand Canal, for sale at cost price. Many wogiL-REGISTER OF SHARES of the Com-
merchant availing themselves of the examp tion from taxation granted to relics grain, did pany will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the the same, but once the grain had arrived, they 10th January, to MONDAY tbwahhtjurpary) (both.deya.inclusive), during which period NG would only sell it at exorbitant prices, makiDE TRANSFER OF SHARES can be registered. large profits from the sale. Thus though there By Order of the Board of Directors, **** may be supplies of wheat and rice, the people. A SHELTON HOOPER, will still die of hunger, because they have not the wherewithal to purchase it."
art.
Secretary in the Hongkong Land Investo ment and Agency Co, Ld.. -Ceneral Agents for the West Point Build
ing Coz IA, Hongkong. 14th Jangary, 1997 THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT; AND AGENCY COMPANY.
LIMITED EAGUE
·By Ozd#!porter
J. M. ATKINSON Principal Civil Medical Officer, Civil Medical Department,
Innukong, rath January, 1907. THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO
In connection with this letter, attention, may
Thomas informs us that the very poor in this ex. be usefully directed to two points. First, Pere
tensive prefecture have endeavoured to escape from certain death by fecing southwards, the nomber of refugess being estimated at fully age third of the population; that the well-to-do farmer class, cultivating 6 or 8 acres of their NOTICE is hereby giren that the NINE IN TEENTH ORDINARY MEETING own land has already reached the famine stage; or SHAREHOLDERS is ubs Company will at that very many families still better off are be held at the Company's Offices Victoria cow reduced to eating a mixture of leaves and Buildipas, of MONDAY, tbp. 28th January, roots once or twice daily. Photographs tob 1907, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of have been received from these districts which receiving the Report of the Director, together shew all the trees in sight are stripped of their With Statement of Accounts for the year ead bark to a height that a man's outstretched arming srat December, 1906. will reach is order to provide the starving with something that it is hoped will alleviate the craving for food. Second, Pere, Thomar esti mate of a million starving people in the five districts ander his clerical charge exclusive of the 600,000 refugees in camps round Tsing. klang Pu takes no account of Antang Helen. In this place Miss Reid's, letter (already, pub. lished) tells us that provision should be, made for 350,000 more, half of whom are in dire distress, "their only food, if food it can be called being the bark of trees, dried potato, leaves and any weeds that can be picked out of the frozen ground while S. E of this district sgain a most lamentable condition of things must exist; for Mr. Caldwell states that vast tracts of country Hast of the Grand Canal are even now still under water, be having Condensing Heilsailed for 5 consecutive days, without posses DEAT LANCHI KOK, and Owner and/or 12990 zontal, by rider sibility of landing, over fields which should One Griffith's Gun last autumn hare bome rich crops, mcial.
ground is already frozen hard so that this vast .......Three Cylindrical | iske will soon be covered with thick ice. Direct Tubular preventing evaporation and the country most remain as it now is under water until late in the spring.
OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING and the a3rd January, 1907, commencing at 3 PM
on Board the "Rambler,” (be following- H.M. Surveying Ventel......
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, FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, Apply to.....
THE HONGKONG LAND, INVEST, MENT & AGENCY CO, LD.. Hangkang, 14th December, 19cá,
TO LET.
1165
A HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE
Apply to
· THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO. LD. :Hangkong, zist July, 1906.
Auction.
PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION;;
....FOR.ACCOUNT: OF THE CONCERNED;}
FRIDAY,
vghovz8th January, 1907, at 11-A3, at their
Sales Rpoma, No P. Des Voor Road. comer of Ice House Street,
"A LARGE QUANTITY OF}~ NICKEL SILVER AND GOLD
WATCHES.
HUGHES 201
RAMBLER," Single Screw, Composite built, Copper Sheathed, Displacement .................................:835 LODE. Indicated Hows Power...650 N:D." Extreme Length.......... „,163 ft. 3 in.
Extreme Brendibu Built Engines...
......20 ft. 6 in. 1880, Compound Surface
Propeller
Boller..
Load on Safely.Valves 1,60 lbs. Distilling Condeo Two Normandy's Single No. zo dinliling 2,688 gajlons of water per 24 hours,
-HULK " MIDGE,"
Late Twin Screw Gun Vesselj 603 toda, Composite built, Copper Shearlied. Length......155 Api4. Breadth ............... 25 ft.ain.
The
Messrs. Malchers and Co., the Agents of the Norddeutscher Lloyd, have consented to itakce shipments of grain and issue free passages from. Shanghai to Chinkiang,lo.connection with famies relief under the same conditions as agreed to by the other shipping companies.
Shanghai Timai,
THE SITUATION IN CHINKIANG.
To be Sold as they now lie in Hongkong Telegraphing from Chakiang on the 8th Harbour, with all Fittings, &c., on-board.
A list of Fittings, &c, to, be Bold with .M8, the ACID. Nisu corespondent by *Rambler may be seen at the Office of the From a comprehensive survey of theckituation in the camps, and after consultation with lead- Naval Store Officer, H.M. Naval Yarding, men officials, civilians and missionarlo, "The Admiralty" will not be rasponable for | l'animate that there are 17,000 refugees in the saya errors. În, description of Stops. Fiulogo, vicinity of this town. Of these: 5,000, show Stores; &c.,
widence of acute dintress, while the rest uroda The Vessels will be. OFEN TO INSPECTION normal condition physically, hutarn autreme for Seven days before date of Sale, between 10 ly fliby, and covered with vermin. There are Aw, and Noon and a soil 4 P.M. (Saturday and - 5,000 able-bodied men, at a minimum compula "Sunday excepted), la Tessa Liibu simong them. The buta ära icktterød about Impecting Orders can be obtained from the pell hell, the camps are unorganized and ins Auctioneers. A POM
most insanitary condition, wo and a half
Tanks Cath before delivery 25 pet cats of rice are being cooked daily and being
„of the purchase money to be paid on the Jalig The hammer balance and the clearance to
focied within 7 days after date
HUGHES
d'aributed la the morning by, the Aschalk, Maný, žomfers who labui
There is no work ining and no
made, to organies (misau lab while the thorougþjar
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Com pany will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, THE 19th January, to MONDAY the 28th Janar, (both days inclulive), during which period NO TRANSFER 01 SHARES can be registered, By Order of abe Board of Directors, dust,
-A.SHELTON-HCOPER;" Secretary, ed. Boaging, 14th January 1907.
NOTICE.
BARRETTO & Co..
General Agents, Hongkong.
SYRUPS.
Girm
Grenading
Raspberry
Lemons
WNERS and/or Consignees of Cargo on & board the 5.5.4 KWONG UROW" on the 18th (Septembar, 1906 when she was sunk in the Typhoop of that date are hereby informed Red Currant that the Cargo is being put into Junks along side the S.SKWING CHOW. now Lime
Consignees are hereby required to identify Winegir their Gunds and take delivery of same pro the 15 h instant after which datali. Cargo which in saleable will be #0) expenses of removal and the remi destroyed; AN AREA THE SHIU
COMPANY Hongkong, 17h Januaryje
THE ALL NATIONS HIGH SCHOOL
S AND GRADED COLLEGE
TH
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Kowloon, or address Mr.-F. L. CLYDE, the Principal, at the College KIA DA
Hongkong, 26th
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