Telegrams.
The Money Market,
London, 6th December. The renewed rise In the Amèrica currency, premium and the continued demand for gold have prevented a reduction of the Bank rate,
TIGERS
THE HONGKONG
"SUCCESSFUL
BY ENTHUSIASTIC SPORTSMEN,
Whether this story is true or whether it is a figment of the imagination of those sportsmen on the po' insula who sto a tiger or leopard in every emaciated villsga parish dog, must ba left to the credulity of our readers. But ac-
ukibja Russia and the United States,cording to og lufarment, who in The Tear has received Mr. Talt in audi- for his trustworthy wows, 'a party of
caca.!!
The American Embassy in St Peterburg is receiving numerous applications from Rus Bian oficer, offering their services as volun. teers in the Philippines and elsewhere in the
Margene Obituary. The death is announced of Mr. Campbell of the Chinese Customs.
expected upo
TERREY Lo foreign HITELO' WAS
By
i
the delta Sidem
foregone con
ormw-which. mad by all.
of South
and olier.
plying up and down
river were hitherto under which they were supposed to fly the
Thla rugula ·was respectively, registered. more honoured in the breach than in its abiervance in the past. But alace the Brijsh stills has made its appearance all vesstās trading on the liver, without excaption, 'must fly their figs,
MONDAY DECEMBER 91907,
Today's Advertisements.
THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1898.
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARK.
OTICE Is hereby given that VACUUM OIL COMPANY, of Rochester, in the State of New York, in the United States of America, a Company daly incorporated under the the said Slam of New York, have, on the sud day of November, 1907, applied for the stration, in Hongkong, in the Register of Trade Marks, of the following Trade Mark ---
GARGOYLE
à the namo of the VACUUM OIL COMPANY, who claims to be this proprietors thereof.
The Trade Mark has been used by the Applicants in respect of OILS, GREASES and WAXES not included in other classes and TANNING SUBSTANCES (o Class 4. Dated the 7th day of December, 1907.
WILKINSON & GRIST,
halling partly from the, fallway work Sunday morning after two tigers, loon and parity from Hongkonge
been located by mebody on the mainland. The stalking way from all accounté, le finest exhibition of wary vigilance ibat has ever been Been on the bills of Kowlion. The party found,
the spoor" of an soimal, several spoors" in fact, and having done so spent A quiet hour over what is usually called a "recherche cold collation." On resuming, the "gun" made hot on the trail of the tigers and eventually caught sight of a pair of bruter, which at this stage became Jeopards. The whole company fired as one mad and made excellent practica, nobody belog-inJared in the alightest degree. Our informant avers that be certainly killed one if not both of the leopards with bis single shot, but failed to get the skin in proof of his prewers because the It is officially announced in Durban that carcases fell down a mountain 20 feet in Zululand is quiet, but the mištary prepara-eight Darkness, was coming on, and the beri-van Stockhausen, second surviving son of the 15th December, 1907, at It A.M.. at their he 12th Pecember, 1907, at 2.30 P.M., at their
The Trouble in Zululand. A strict censorship of news from Zululand has been established, and the movements of the froops will not be reported..
The mule transport service is defective, and oxen will be used, though the district is infected.
tions are not relaxed,
·Later.
The Mauretania's Eastern Passage,
The Mauretania has arrived at Queens town, in 4'days, zz hours, ag'secs, a record
eastern passage.
Later:
Collision of War Ships H. M. 5. Prince George broke away from her moorings at Portsmouth yesterday even- ing, and collided with H. M. 3; Shannon;
The battleship is badly holed and has been put into dry dock.
The cruiser's upperworks are damaged.
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sporta being tired, the waterf sks also being empty to the last dram, returned to Kowloon well satisfied with, the day's happenings. It in confidently believed that as a result the alives across the mountains will provide pedigreed leopards for, qualified and enthus castic sportsmen, at accessible spots, on every |
unlay in future.
THB CHINESK PROCESS{})}",
A SUCCESSFUL TERMINATION.
But for weather caditions over which the promoters had no control the memorable Chinese procession of last week has been British Cotton Spinning Profits
pronounced on all hands to have been on A statement of the cotton spinning profits unqualified success. Not ply was the success ore I am the spectacular point of view, but we for 1907 shows that it is the most remunera-
have it on the authority of Mr. le Kom Tong, tive year ever experienced in Lancashire,
the publ c-spirited and energetic promoter of The profit of 65 mills amounts to £877: the pageant, that financially the project has 541 on the combined share and loan capit-resulted in material benefits in the three public als, working out at 94.57 per cent,
institutions it was designed mainly to donate any surplus from the funds io, after the expenses have been paid. So far as it has been possible to ascertain the approximate balance at this early stage, Mr. Ho Koi Tung reckons that there will be au available sum of $12,000 odd to replenish the depleted coffers of the Alice Memorial Hospital and the District Dispen saries and for the projected Yaumati Pospitel. The tet,lamount which the committee collected was $19,300, and their expenditure was the moderate sum of $17,000 which included two. Thirds cost of the lantern procession, the allier Mr. Taft has leit Berlin for Hamburg, en hird being paid by the Salt Fish Guild. route to America,
The M. U. Ó. Australia.. In the match, Australian Eleven . Eng. land, the former made 299 and the latter 61 for 1 wicket.
The Navy.
7th December. The new British destroyer l'artar on her trisi trip made 35-952 knots per hour.
Mr. Taft's Tour,
Interviewed, he denied that his tour bad any political significance, except in regard to the Philippines, the development of which was satisfactory. There was no question of abandoning or of selling the islands.
[N. C. D. Nees] Viscount Aoi's Recall. THE AMBASSADOR INTERVIEWED.
Tokio, December 4. His Excellency, Viscouni Aoki, who has been interviewed at Washington, states that he is returning home for the purpose of reporting verbally to his Government on a number of subjects, including immigration, i return can in no way be construed as an indication of any unfriendliness between the two nations, for the American Government knows very well that Japan is disposed to be one of her best friends.
The adjustment of the immivation question, said the Ambassador, presented no problem of ‘any,serious nature.
FURTHER EXPLANATIONS..
|
SHANGHAI WADDING.
VON STOCKHAUSEN-KLOPTER,
The M, C. D. News of 4th inst." says :—A large congregation assembled at the Fres Christian Church yesterday aftercoon on tha occasion of the marriage of Mr. Augustus Ro
the lato F. W. G. and Mrs von Stockhauser, of Hongkong, to Miss Mary Elixibeth Klopfer, only daughter of Captain, 1. Klopfer, of the Chipa, Merchants' Steam Navigation Company. and Mr. Klopfer;; of Shanghai. The civil pait of the ceremony took place at the British Confulate before Sir Pelkim Warren, KC M.G. The Ray. H. H. Willett Bevan officiated at the Free Christian Churcfi, which was very inistically decorated, with bamboor, white chrysanthemums, geraniums and ferns, the bride and bridegroom'standing beneath a huge floral bell suspended from the centre of an arch of evergreen, fere and white flowers, The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of silk calienne trimmed with paint lace, with full court train. The tulle, veil was surmounted with a'wreath of orange blossoms and she carried a bouquet of white roses and Carnations. Mr. G. Burton Sayer was grooms man and the bridesmaids were Miss Parroll and Miss Ethel Parrott. The bridesmaids were and they wore black pictu a hats and carried attired in dresses of pale grees Watteau musligi
bouquets of pink and white carnations, Messrs D. R. Donnelly and F.. Hiscock acted as ushers and Mr. C. F. Gammon presided at the organ The hymns sung were "O perfect Love" and "O Saviour, Guest most Courteous." The reception was held at the honie of the bride's parents, Woosung Terrace, after which Mr. and Mr. von Stockhausen left by, the Manchuria for Japan, where the toneymoon
will be spent.
GILBERTIAN CHINESE VARSH
quoted by a writer in the Shangh si Timer, who The following delicious piece of fooling is
says
It is in ition of the well-known Brave Alam Bey" of. W. S. Gilbart. It is only a further proat that even sicologues (atrocious babarism of a word!) are human and may have a turn for fan and fancy. I do not know that it has any name ; but it does not need one.
In Yuen ming-yuen all gaily arrayed
in malachite kittles and slippers of jade. 'Neath the wide spreading tes-tree, fair damsels
All
arc scen
singing to Jors on the soft candareen.
T
PUBLIC AUCTION..
HE Undersigned have received instructions
V to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, ENTOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
on
FRIDAY,
Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road,
corner of Ice House Street, TANNA Quantity or MISCELLANEOUS GOODS,
Compriting
SHOOTING BOOTS, MACINTOSHES' TELESCOPES, MICHOSCOPES, BELL HATS NEW SUITS OF CLOTHES' HEZZANITH SEXTANTS, BINOCULARS, SILK UMBRELLAS, BANJOES, CLOCKS, BAROMETERS, DRAWING INSTRU MENTS, BILLIARD BALLS and CUES OVERCOATS, FANCY GOODS;..
ALBO
Solicitors for the Applicants.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Intimations
THE
ROBINSON PIANO
co LD.
INVITE INSPECTION
NEW STOCK
THE Undersigned have received instructions Steinway,
'to'sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,"
THURSDAY,
Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road; corner of Ice House Street,
A LARGE QUANTITY OF DULLS, MECHANICAL TOYS,
*C.,
&c. 1 TERMS—As usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers, Hongkong, 9th December, 1907. [1074.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE
THEODOLITE IN CASE and LEVEL, THE H.A. L. Steamship SINGLES ONE DIAMOND RING.
TERMS:-As usual,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
- Auctioneers. Hongkong, 9th December, 1907, DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED;
*DORTMUND,"
Captain Malchow, having arrivad, Consignees
Cargo are hereby requested to send
Bechstein,"
Russell,
Krauss,
Rombildt,
Werner, &c.
GRANDS & UPRIGHTS
a their Bill of Lading for countersignature BUILT UNDER OUR PERSONAL SUPERVISION
by the Undamigned and to take immediate
75
telivery of their goods from alongside, na
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW. THE Company's Steamship THE
"RAICHING,"
Capizin Hodgins, will be despatched for the above Poris, os FRIDAY, the 13th ingt, at to o'clock AM.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CDM
General Managers. Hongkong, 9th December, "1977. Fro76 COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARIMES.
FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,
THE Company's Steamship.
"ARMAND BEH CHE Captalo Guionnet, will be despatched for the above Ports TO-DAY, the 9th December, at
12.P.M.
·
For Freight or Passage, apply to
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless hotics to the contrary be given before TO- DAY.
Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be |landedinto the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf signees' risk and expense. and Godown Co., Limited, and stored at Con-
All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Coods remain- [ng, undelivered after the 16th. Inst., will be
subject to rent.
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•All broken, chased, and damaged Goods are -o be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on the 16th inst, at 3 P.M.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA- LINIE;' gan Hongkong Office, Pinay Hongkong, 9th December, 1907. V
1073
S.S. "ARMAND BEHIC.“
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES
MARITIMES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES..
J. MILLET,
Agent. Hongkong, 9th Damen ber, 1907. NAVIGAZIONE GENERALE ITALIANA,
(Florie and Rubaliono United Companies)CONSIGNEES of Cargo from London ex 1.5. and Charente, from St Nazaire. STEAM FOR NAPLES AND GENOA ex. ss. Ville de Rochefort, and from Bordeaux (without transhipment in Bombay.) exas. Leroy Lallier, in connection with above Steamer are hereby informed that their **VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
Goods, with the exception of Opiam, Tren .BOMBAY.
sure and Valuables are being landed and (Taking cargo at conference rates fess 2/6d.stored at their risk into the hazardous andjor
and usual rebates.)
extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong Having connection with Company's Mail and Kowloon Wharf and Godowe Co., Limited
Steamers to MESSINA and
at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained' LEGHORN, also
immediately after landing.
What the actual cost of the entire procession has been, the committee are not in a position to stale since the sections contributed to by the virious Guilds in the Colony will be paid for by each one respectively, It may not be generally known that Me, llo Kom Tong had only twenty-nine days" at his disposal within which to provide an "amusement for the mif tlons of such gigantic proportions. It speaks much for his organizing ability when it is mentioned that the Macao pageant took three months in getting up and was of considerably smaller dimensions, Mr. Chau Siu-ki was up able lieutenant, and to him also belongs much of the credit of the success attained last week. It is estimated that bot less than 8,000 Chiness were di cetly connected with the "show" in one form or another. Of that number'quite half were resident Chinese or those who have crossed over from the New Territories. Their wages were for contics 70 cents 10 $1 per day, and for the children. $1.50 per day. The lanterns which formed such picturesque feature of the illuminate pro-As from the pagoda she bade me chin-this.THE Steamship ceision by night were all made in Honi kong by experts in this special branch of art brought over from Tai Leung. They were made of fine gauze, mika and rice paper,
New York, December 4.
Mr. Ho Kom Tong was asked as to the re-. It is reported that Viscount Aoki, Japanese Ambassador at Washington; has informed Pre-port we printed on Saturday as to the protest sident Roosevelt that he has been summoned to Tokio for a conferer ce on questions pending.
between the United States and Japan.
A belief is prevalent that this in reality means the Ambassador's recali, such a decision having been prompted by the antagonism of the Progressist party,
Mr. Root, Secretary of State, kays that there is no break in the relations of the two countries, THE SIGNIFICANCE-OF THE RECALL,
Tokio, December 4.
The recall of Viscount Aaki, Japanese Am. basader to Washington, is confirmed; but the step has not been taken with a view to maks
Japan's policy in America more aggressive,
the relations between the Inasmuch countries remain most, friendly, and Japan Bopes to make them still closer,
1.
SPITTING IN PUBLIC PLACES,
QUESTIONS TO THE SANITARY BOARD,
At the meeting of the Sanitary Board, to to held to morrow aftercoo, My, Henry Hum phreys, pursuant to notice, will ask:-
(a) Does the Medical Officer of Healib con- sider the filthy habit of spitting in buildings and public vehicles which obtains unfesreally smingat the lower classes of Chinese detri- ̈mastal to the Public Healib?
is not this habit accountable in great for the spread acte de rens
But fairer by far was the small-footed maid Who sat by my side is the sandalwood shade, A-sipping the vintage of sparkling Lychee And warbling the songs of the poet.Maikee.
VENICE and TRIESTE, ali MEDITER-
RANEAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANTINE and SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS
up to CALLAO......
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless. intimation is received from the Consignees before 6 P.M. TO-DAY, requesting it to be
Ohl fair are the flowers in her tresses that glow, (Taking Cargo at through Rates to PERSIAN landed here The sweet-scented cumshaw, the blue pum
melow;
And dearest I thought her of maids in Pekin
One eve, in the twilight, to sing she began As touched the light apter of jewelled sampan, While her own jetty finger-nsile, taper and
long,,
Swept enitly the chords of a tremolous gong. She san; how "a princess of fair Fechelze
Was carried away by the cruel Sycee, And married by force to that tyrant accurst, That Portuguese caltiff, Pyjamah the First Tho' her eyes were more bright than the yaco-
pin's glow;
And whiter, than backsheesh her bosom of
snow
from the Opium Farmer against the anti-opium demonstration. He admitted to our represent. ative the substantial accuracy of the statement. That special section of the pageant was intro duced upon the application of the Anti-pium League in Caston, organized by Chiness doc. tors, dentists, and others. It may be semaiked that a similar demonstration was made in Sin gapore a few months ago, although it lacked | • the details and completeness of the genera! Yet atas for the maid she is captive, and now get-up" which characterized the tableaux Lier caged in thy fortress, detested Macao.*** parading the streets of Hongkong in so grotes But she muffled her face in her sohoire's fold, que a mander lost work.
*And the grafer she bribed with a tao-fal of
gold, THE Peking Government has instructed U.E." And away she is fled from the traitors Vang Shibich, Special Commissioner, to visit
harem, Chinese subjects residing in the Sovib Pacific
"Tho' the punkabs may flash and the com. islande, to conclude a tariff treaty with Siam, pradores gleam.”
Two Chinamea-Kong Fu, a furniture maker,
•
CULF And BAGDAD, also BARCE- LONA, VALENZA, ALICANTE, -UN ALMERIA and MALAGA).
"LEVANZO," Captain Belsito, will be despatched as above OR THURSDAY, the 12th Lecember, at Noon. For further Particulars regarding Freight and Passago, apply to
CARLOWITZ & Co.,
Agents Hongkong,gth December, 1997,
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after MONDAY, the 16th December, ai, Noon, will he subject to rent and landing charges.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 16th December, or they will not be re- cognized,
All damaged packages will be examined on MONDAY, the 16th December, at 37.4. No Fire Insurance has bono affected.
EMBODYING 30 YEARS' LOCAL
EXPERIENCE.
ongkong, 5th December, 1907.
HIGH GRADE
HAVANA
CIGARS.
EXCELLENT SMOKES,
La Chanzi,
Gran Valor
Espagnola in s Marca Roja
Honey Suckla
$4.50 per 100 in boxes of so
4.50
4,00
4.00
4.00
El Oro 3-75
Asta...
*3.50
3.00
J. MILLET,
Agent. [655] Homekong: 9th December, 1009. A [Brevas
KULANGSU (AMOT, MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
CHINESE RAILWAYS,
ידי
Flor Fina...
Royales......
Teja stated, that the northern part of the Tientsin Chinkin Railway will be constructed, Companeros The following are the minutes of a meeting equipped, and worked og behalf of the of the Council held at the board room, on the Imperial Chinese Government by the Deutsche Houris,... 19th November last, There were present Asiatische Bank; and the southern part con
structed, equipped and worked on behalf of Mensen, A. F. Olidioër (vice-chairman), Huang| Ts'an-chow, W. Krose, S. Okuyams, W. Wilson, the Government by the British and Chicere the Health Officer and the Secretary. The Corporation, Limilai, Negotiations with a view to a final agreement have been going on atcretary wat jnstructed to write to Mr. Wing Ting Sing asking for further particulars cons of a period of five years. In 2005 a draft for
[[be full contraft way f
intrat was formally laid before: cerning bis application to open a pawnshop on
the Chinese Government The terms of Kalangst. The Superintendent of Police re- ported the following cases having been beard the document are not yet officially
'CONNOISSEUR'S SMOKE.
TEOFANI'S
In the Mixed Confs since the last meeting available, but it is believed that by it for HIGH-CLASS CIGARETTES. Thus she ceased-and a bumper of opium weAllowing pigs and cattle to stray 8; humanit minus is changed to Fukou, opposite Nanking, Kod: the loan is increased to £10,000,000, of theft ; assault aj being abroad after 19 p.n.
look,
and Ching Chan, a shoemaker-were priesto4 And we smoked the ginseng from a coral without a light; housebreaking 11 being which £65,900,000 is to be Gemnym, and
is th: Central district yesterday, and a girl
chìbouque,
chill, about four years of age, who they were And we'daintily supped upon birdat pests and alleged to have kidnapped, was restored fo her mother. On the th instant, the information.
Sinails,
goes, the chil-Lo Yes-was playing And catties, and maces and piculs, and tseis. outside her mother's house-3, Kiu Yam "Then we slew a joss-pigeon in honour of Fo. Lane She was wearing at the time a pair And in preiss of Fesgahai wa made a kotow! gold earrings. A few misctes favor the childAnd soon the most beautifni girt in Pakin - was missed and the matter, seported to the police. After a search fasting four days Le Fell asleep in the sems of her own wandatin. Vaas found yesterday in the custody of the
@diseases 1, and, if, sq, what does the accused. Her car-rings, it was stated, bad bech TRE Chinese Engineering & Mining Co
SARAS of deaths arising annually from i diguakoy sappoin of bos Infected palem) bear
ned feralleged kidnappers were arriīga."
ad at the Police Court, this morning, on charges of enticing the child sway and with the larcey of ker sir-ridg
ing a good business in ita: Bra and othe
e cargo having just felt
for Hankow, in their own steamer the
a cuisance 3 contempt of court ∙rogue and a vagabond 1; theft a; committing
breach of slaughter house regulations
in possession of stolen property 1.
order
being raised in the form of Chinese Plate Saras 361s amount is now it is said on the point of Zenidjeh being per cent loan for three milliock. It would appear that various demands recently made for the cancelling of the concession, and the substitution of a Chionss group for the Anglo-
43,00,000, British capital-The Erst part of
THE wing of the Club Hotel, Kohe, sleuated at German, syndicale have falled and that the the back of the main building, was destroyed present concessionaires are now, after vary
Landon Life
by fire ou auth ult. at 7.30 o'clock. About many vexations delays, to be placed in a posl H. PRICE & Co. Ltd.
doten 1000m, nape of which were occupied tion to commence work-Bhaugdal Timas.
the lime of the conflagra
"The fire was don” to the,
himpey
FIRE broke out in the Oriental Hotel, in Kobe,
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
SES, QUEERS ROAD CENTRALA
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