Shipping-Steamers.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHE MONDAY OCTOBER 71 1037.
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." Saving's to xo.Days' Ocean Travoli
11 Dayı YOKOHAMA TO VANCOUVER. 18 Days HONGKONG TO VANCOUVER.
PROPOSED SAILINGS. R.M.S.
Toni
#MONTEAGLE"
"ÄRRIVE VANCOUVER "EMPRESS OF INDIA".....6,000......THURSDAY, Oct. 24th Nov. 1ith
163......WEDNESDAY, Nov. 6th........Nov. 30th
(Subject to Alteration)i. LEAVE HONGKONG, .....
6,00 THURSDAY, Nov. Esta
0,030
6,030 THURSDAY, Jan. 16th
"EMPRESS
EMPRESS OF JAPAN "EMPRESS OF CHINA",
EMPRES OF INDIA
THURSDAY, Dec. 19th
steamers will depart from Hongkong at 4P.M. Intermediate steamers at 12'NOOD,
Dec. gib
Jan. 6th
Feb. 3rd
THE to TER INLAND SKA OF JAPAN KO CH, YOKOHAMA THE Quickast route to CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE, calling at SHANG. and VICTORIA, B.C., and at QUEBEC, with the Company's New Palatial EMPRESS ". Steamships, 14,500 tons register. The through transit to LIVERPOOL being 21 days, from YOKOHAMA, and 391 days from HONGKONG.
Hongkong to London, 1st Classla St. Lawrence River Lines or New York £71,10, Hongkong to London, Intermediate on
Steamers, and 1st Class on Railways..vid St. Lawrence £40. Vid New York £41. First-class rates include cost of. Meals and Berts in Sleeping Car while crossing the American Continent.
R.M.S. "MONTRAGLE" carries " Intermediate Farscagers only, at Intermediate rates,. affording superior accommodation for that class.
Passengers Booked through to all points and 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 Governments.
For further information, Maps, Routes, Hand Books, Rates of Freight and Paiinge,
D. W..ORADDOOK, General Traffic Agent for China" apply to
Corner Pedder Street and Praya.
Hongkong, 26th September, 1907,
İNDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD.
{PROJECTED BAILINGS FROM HONGKONG-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION},
For
SHANGHAI VIA NINGPO
SHANGHAI ngan
MANILA, soak
TIENTSIN..............................
I
Steamship
ΠΟ
KWONGSANGI...TUESDAY, 8th Oct., Noon. „TUESDAY, 8th (^ct."4 P.M. ................ „VIRSANG †
LOONGSANG* „FRIDAY, Tith Oct., 4PM. CHEONGSHING®.SATURDAY, 12th Oct; Noon,
SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KOBE) FOORSANG*...........MONDAY, 14th OCL, 4 P.M. MANILA. .......................................... YUENSANG* ......:FRIDAY, 18th Oct,„, 4 PH. SGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA.KUPSANG*............. „SATURDAY, 19th Oct. Noon
REDUCED FARES TO STRAITS & CALCUTTA,
Blogle. Return.'
$100 130
Hongkong to Bingapore fil Class.........................$ 65
Penang
Calcula
#
"kuraturaesumtious 165 150 These Steamers have superios accommodation to First-clast Passengers, and are fitted
throughout with Electric Light. Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to Chefoo, Tientsin, Newch wang and Yangtze Pont.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
Hongkong, 7th October, 1937.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LD.,
General Managers.`·
CHINA NAVIGATION CO.,
Foù
HOIROW and HAIPHONG
MANILA ...)
ILOILO and CEBU....
MANILA, ZAMBOANGA & COLONIES... “ CHANGSHA ".
[6
LIMITED.
TO SAIL
8th Oct, daylight..
SIRAHEKS.
"KUPEH"
'TAMINO" - komm Bit
4 P.M.
SHANGHAI & CHINKIANG muidige
." PAOTING"
9th
19
** SUNGKIANO" „.
9th
****
\ SHAOHSING" ...
roth
"CHING TU"
"SINGAN"
rith
"YOOH W "........ 16th
"KW£LYANG" 18th "KUEICHOW'... as
and
*
SWATOW & SHANGHAI
YOKOHAMA & KOBE
HOIHOW, PAKHOI & HẢIPHONG
SWATOW & SHANGHAI
CHEFOO & NEWCHWANG
CHEFOO & TIENTSIN
• The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by these
qualified Surgeon is carried,
steamers, which are fitted throughout with Electric Light. Unriralind table. A. daly Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangisse and Northern Chins Ports. Taking Cargo and Passengers at through Rates for all New Zealand and other Australian
For Freight of Passage, apply to
nekong, 7th October, 1907.
Ports.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTS.
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HONGKONG MANILA.
Highest Class, newest, fastest and most luxurious Steamer between Hongkong and Manila.-Saloon amidships-Electric. Light-Perfect Cuisine-Surgeon and Stewardess carried. All the most up-to-date arrangements for comfort of Pamengers.
CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP COMPANY. LIMITED.
For
Shipping Steamers
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
159 Odean Steamers
ith
912,000
OGRHEB
ISSUED
THE HONGKONG "OBSERVATORY.
METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALB
Meteorological algoals are hoisted on the
the
slonate
mit in front of the Water Police Station the Sunset land of Mogrbab Tim Sha Tsui för the information of master hidequa mockery. For what of vessels leaving the port. They do not Allah shown 10 Morocco?.. necessarily imply that bad weather is expected here
4,COME point upwards
Br. Regu Tons.
PASSENGER SERVICE.
RHENANIA, HABSBURG, HOHENSTAUFEN, SILESIA-SCANDIA.
HIGHEST COMFORT, ONLY LOWER BERTHS.
Laundry on board, Doctor; Stewardesses carried."
Ports of opll; NAPLES, PLYMOUTH, HAVRE, HAMBURG.
NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.
Outward.
Homeward.
HOHENSTAUFEN...30th Oct.
SILESIA
SILESIA..
.Iith Dec.
Hongkong, 26th September, 1907,"
TOYO KISEN KAISHA
SOUTIF AMERICAN LINE. REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE 2 BETWEEN..
HONGKONG, CALLAO
AND"
IQUIQUE vin JAPAN PORTS (KARATSU, KÚBE and YOKOHAMA),
A
With option to call at MEXICAN and other Coast ports. Steamers Capt. Toon To stil [THURSDAY, KASATO BARU...D. Mori..6,100 Oct 10; Nees
KATHERINE PARK „5,000 || Nov,
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
CALCUTTA.
THE Steamship
"GREGORY:APCAR,"
Captain S. H. Baison, will be despatched for the above Ports, TO-MORROW, the 8th inst at, 3 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON &.CO., LIMITED, Agents Hongkong, 7th October, 1997.
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND CALCUTTA
About End of THE Steamship
Taking Freight and Passengers to other Eastern and Western Coast ports of South America in connection with Steamers of the
Pacific S. N. Co..
For further information as to Freight and Passage, apply to
K. MATSDA
Manager. York Building
Hongkong, 30th September, 1907.20
EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,
A CONE point upwards Mandy a UMA
below.
6.
A DETM
AO NB. polat down wards and DRUM below.
A CONE point down. WAids-
A CONE poist down,
wards and BALL below -
A BALL
(893
B.
A CONE.. point 'upwards and BALL below:
"CATHERINE APCAR," Capt. W. D. A. Thomas, will be despatched for she have faits, on FRIDAY, the toth inst.,
For Freight and Passage, apply tʊ... 3PM
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED, Agents. Hongkong, 5th October, 1907.
NORTHERN PACIFIC LINE.
[902
SODO
| heat of oppression presses relunt
groans of those beneath; it go.
Compassionate, who hears them not.
it is a land afflicted of God.
Indicates Typhoon I stood, not long ago, la the fdk ("Mich to the North of the | the market-place) at
Colony,
Indicates a Typhoon to the North-East of the Colony,
Indicates a Typhoon to the last of the Colony
indicates a Typhoon to the South East of the Dolony.
indicalesa Typhoou to the South of the Colony.
indicatesa Typhoon to the Eonth West of the Colony,
Vindicatesa Typhoon to the West of the Colony:
indicatesa Typhoon to the North-West! of the Colony.
Red Signals indicate that the centre is believed to be more than soo milés away fron the Colony.
Black Signals indicate that the centre is believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony.
The above signals will, as heretófore, be BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY:oisted only when typhoons exist in such positions or are moving in such directions that information regarding them is considered 10 be of importance to the Colony or to shippi leaving the harbour.
Connecting, at Tacoma with NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY ·
COMPANY.
FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling at Port: Darwin, and Queensland PROPOSED SAILines from HongKoNG FOR
Ports, and taking through Cargo to Adelaide,
VICTORIA, BC, AND TACOMA, New Zealand, Tarmania, &c.)
VIA
HE Steamship
THE
"EMPIRE."
Captain Helms, will be despatched as above,
OD SATURDAY, the 26th inal, at Noon.
This well-known Steamer is specially tied
MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
Steamer
Топк
Kumeric*
Captain
6,232 (D. Baird
Sailing.
25th Oct
for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cher Shawmut 9,606 E. V. Roberts 6th Nov. ber which ensures the supply of Fresh Provi sions, Ico; &c., throughout the voyage. "99!
The Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric Light.
A Stewardess and a daly qualified Surgeon are carried;
N.B.-To assure the additional comfort of passengers the steamers of the Company have! Blectric laos fitted in staterooms.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
* Cargo only.
CHEAF FARES, EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION,
ATTENDANCE AND CUISINE, ELECTRIC · ·
LIGHT, DOCTOR AND HTEWARDESS.
The twin-screw - Shawmut and Tremont- are fitted with very superior accommodation GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.
for first and second class passengers. The [881 large size of these vessels ensures steadiness Hongkong, 1st October, 1907.
at so Electric fan in each room: Barber's
REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE
TO NEW YORK,
VIA PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL, (With Liberty to Call at Malabar Coast);
PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG FOR BOSTON AND NEW YÖRE
5.S.
Steamship.
Tons
Captain.
Salling Dates.
ROBI.
ZAFIRO
2540 Almoad:
MANILA
2540 FraseRİ",
SATURDAY, 12th Oct.
1907. SATURDAY, · 19th Oct.,
1907.
to
·
For Freight or Passage, apply\tov SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,
14ngkong:7th October, 1007, -
A
GENERAL MANAGERS,
* This steamier has excellent Saloon Accom wodation for First-class Passengers at mode. For Freight and further information, apply
DODWELL & Co., LIMITED. Akcase Hongkong, 5th October 1907.
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STEAM TO CANTON.
$5
THE NE
HONGKONG-NEW YORK.
ASIATIC AMERICAN
STEAMSHIP CO.
· FOR NEW YORK vin PORTS AND BUEZ CANAL.
(With Liberty to Calliat the Malabar Coast),
Steamihip #OCEAN MONARCH". ..................
To sail ...On the and November, 1907.
*Freight and further information, apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Hongkong, 15th Beglass)
`HE New Twin Screw Steel Steamers
:
These rigoals are repeated at the Harbour Office, H.M.S. Tamar, Green Island Signal Mist, and the Flagstaff on the premises of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company at Kowlood.
URGENT SIGNAL
-
space, bounded by the southern
“Christian ridden city
M
of the
crowded with
Nogroe
All bad
men and beasts; Berbere,." and men from the Rif: something to sell, and the clamour of their crie rose, with the nameless abomination of the city odours, to the white hot sky. A mean squalli rig-wrapped crowd if was; and the force, lean, swarthy faces, framed in the shroud like folds of their "baiks," glared out at me with, Hatred is their oyer. O, a white bearded Moor, leadi Ing a miserable, half-ráw'donkey, drew a large following after him. Presently he came to a vacant space between the foul, lættered tents of the fruit sellers, and commenced his perform ance. In his hand berbeld a sticky with a sharp. I painted nail at its end, and, in obedience to its gentle persuasions, the melancholy ass stood upon its hind legs and danced. The onlookers" yelled with laughter, and many of them gratui tously assisted the showman by prodding the animal (with a nice judgment as to its most recent sore places) with sharp - weapons: In went away sick at heart; but presently i learn- ed "to"make" allowances. These prople were themselves treated in jest „ihe'sumo manner;" and anyway a beast is lower than a'ranteren if some men can be lower then; any beasti
|
Then I adventured-afar-to-many cities and villages in this unfortunate country, living the extreme simple life, and travelling for the most part on mulos, which are not ariable steeds, There are no wheeled vehicles in El Mögtheb; if there were, there would be no roads for them. In course of time I came to a town set |in the midst of orange-gardens and surrounded by groves of olives and junipers. Seen in the light of the rising aun, it rose fair and white against the waking sky; but once inside the gales (outsida: which crowds of horrible lepera clawed at us for "Boos") the old familiar. odourearce and compassed us about. Hamsida (who travelled with me" for a consideration, and because he spoke the villainous Magtheb bio which 1 could not master) guided ma to the Kasbab, and thence, to the prison.
There the scales fell from my e
my eyes, and I understood all about the donkey at Tån- gier, the camels at Maxigan (which story I have not related), and other inhomin practices witnessed in the dark places of the earthi': If man treats his fellow man like a beast, his fellow-man can scarcely do lese than treat bis beasts as something worse. The Moorish prisons on the coasts are swept and tidled and made presentable for the casual tripper from abroad/"Those inland arn different. be Mogrish Maghren does not feed its prisoners in the Casbah; their friends oulaido have to do this, if they cannot soll liuló wicker- work biskets to the Roumis. And in the towns of the interior there a e'no” Roumis to buy the little baskets; consequently ihu captiva - with no friends? stands · bur a post chance of ever coming out alive. I remember the prison at Magan-seen from the loof-fops an a hole in the ground-where (Allah forgive m
In addition to the above, when it is expected that the wind may: increase to full typhoon force at any moment, the following Urgent
for a Philistine and a globe-trotter 1) I threw Signal will be made at the Water Police down " 108about sixteen to the penny--- Station, and repeated at the Harbour Office amongst the rabble, They actually jeered at
THREE EXPLOSIVE BOMBS, AT INTERVALS.me (which I thoroughly deserved) and refused to scramble a promised by Hameidh or TEN SECONDS.
"Ingleste shillin'!" yelled a precocious youth, A Black Cross will be hoisted at the same He had seen globe-trotters before, b time, superior to the other shapes:
NIGHT SIGNALS.
The following Night Signals will be cabibit ed from the Plagstaff on the roof of the Water
cold soream-laundry. Cargo carried in Police Station at Kowloon, the Harbour Office
Flagstand H.M.S. Tamar
..
PARCEL EXPRESS TO THE UNITED. Three Lights Vertical, Green Green Green,
STATES AND CANADA.
indicates that a typhoon is believed to be For further Information; apply 10
situated more than 300 miles from the Colony
DODWELL & CO, LIMITED, General Agents Queen's Buildings.
Hnngknág. 4th October, 1007.
But that was in Matagan; and on the coast a show place for trippers. Id the town of which Trow speak (for my own reasons I do not mention its game) the state of affir is very different.
That very rich man once said 'Hameid, pointing to a decrepit wretch with red, eyeless sockets, and claw-like hands. “Dusha no 1ke. Like wife, Him much money. So he come bere."
*
A novel in a nutshall, if ever there was one!
1. Three Lights Vertical, Green Red GreeAnd it explained the whole working of life in [12 indicates that a typhoon is believed to be Morocco,
situated less than 300 miles from the Colony,
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY
7.00 LM,
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS.
7.30 am to 9.30 am....Every ro'mianter 9.30 am, to 11.00 ....Every 15 minuter. 1.30a.m. to 1245 pm Every 15 minuter. 12.45 p.m. to 1.15 pm.....Every IDʻminutes 1.15 p.m. to: 145 pm. .....Every 15 minutes 1.45 p.m. to 2.15 pm. .....Every 10 minutes, 3.15 pm, to 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 3.30 p.m. to 5.00 pm...Every 15 minuter. 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 pm....Every to minates.
4; NIGHT CARE, ...
“KWONG TỤNG! „¿Capt.-H. W. WalKER! | B45 pm; zud 9 pas, 9.45 pm to 11:15 pm "KWONG SAI” ....Capt. E. S. CHOWE
Leave Hongkong for Canton at 9 every evening, (Saturday excepted),
every half hour. SUNDAYE.
8.00 am, to 9.00 am....Every 15 minutes, 9.00 am to 9.30 am...Every 30 minuter,
Leave Canton for Hongkong at 5.30 every0.30 am to 10.30 am....Every is minuter. evening, (Sunday excepted),
These Fine Now Steamers have ucexcelled Accommodation for First Class Passengers and arolit throughout by Electricity, Electric Fahe in First Class Cabina.
10.30.2m to 11:00 am; ...Every yo minuter. rasa.m. to 12.00 poor... Every 15 minuter. 1200 Noon to 1.00 pm....Every to minuter,"
1.00 pm to 5.00 pm. ...Every 15 minutes........ 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m....Every 10 minutes, 6.00 p.m. to 7.00 pm. ... Every 15 minuter. 9.00 p.m. to 8:00 pm Every 10 minute Stás, each | NIGHT CARS as on Week Days,
The Company's Wharf is situated in front out Extra cam at 3.15 pm) 11,30 pm, andų of the New Western Market, opposite the old |---- Harbour Office,
Passage Fare-Single Journey....54 Meals
YUEN ON. 5.S; CO., LD.;
SHIU ON 5.8700, LD400,
No. & Queen's Road-West. Hongkong, gıd July, 1907,
SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at the Company's Office ALEXANDRA" BUILDINGS. Das Vents Road Central,
1. Three Lights Vertical, Red Green Red, indicates that: the wind may be expected to increase to fall typhoon force at any moment.
No. III. Signal will be accompanied by the Explosive Bombs, as above, is the event of the information conveyed by this signal being first. published by nigh'.
These Night Signals will be substituted the the Day Signals at sunset, and will, when necessary, be altered during the night.
SUPPLEMENTARY:WARHINOS -
Torkim that hath, to him shail' be given etc. The Bashan the town had coveted this man's wife, the man had relused: to trade. There was a tramped up charge (such things are easy in a land where the iron heel-rules and the Sulan is far away)' and tha result was this eyeless wreck, logironed, and with hands transformed into claws” by thà salt-torture, slowly starving in the pestilential prison of
I looked at the hopeless, miserable facon the lean forms and ragged karmer is of the others confined in this noisome pest house, "When will they be liberated?: 1'asked?
Hameida laughed, "Inshallah bukra," he said.
This was the equivalent of the Spanish For the benefit of Native Craft and passing manana with adavo tatrichment. "Please. Oceny Vessels, a Cone will be exhibited a God, to-morrow, any the Arabs, Lurig the each of the fallowing station's during the time that any of the above Day Signals are hoisted epigram of laziness,<
in the Harbour.
Cup Reck Waglan. Starlaya Cape Collicson,
Aberdean Sau Ki Wan. Sal Kosg Sha Tan Kol. Tal Po
This will indicate that there is a depression somewhere in the China Sea, and that a Storm Warping is boisted in the Harbourd
After this I went away and saw hénds'im. paled over pajer, Lones' and'other things un- speakable displayed to the valgar and dis- interested gaze; and was properly and most righteously sick. Then the Barba"gave" ma. mint-198-three glasses--and I looked at his portly build and wondered Wondered potil a big black slave came before him, and asked alm something about an execution." (Soʻlamekla translated.)
*** The yellow tinted whites of bir eyes never Funker details can always be given to Ocean changed. He waved his hand with a Vastels; on demsed by signal, from the light/imperial gesture; sod boda females
wildly
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, UNION THE Generní MaEEZEENA Hongkong, 4th Jowej 1907-
FG.Fico
Director
Take birwead bil, and don't bother me