Intimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15 1908,
GRAETERS ON THE CHINA
COAST.
the police made the coolle paint "bla ficoase number in uprawling white ideographs on the hinter side of the glossy crown,S
The Cb ne coast from Singapore to Vladivo-
After that Yokohama never tired of sening stock is the pasture for the gentleman adven-Reilly trundling down Main street behind the turer, the confidence man and the beachcomber sweating, almost naked coolie and the rakish
from overy paralial. They take in the coast eaming had going. If ever there is a bit of toplessantoor with the police of Berlin, St. Petersburg, Chicago, or San Francisco the
plug hat adorned with white ideographs, Raily always pointed with pride at the giddy 'rickshaw boy as he passed acquaintances. (
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DONE BY CRYING.NZ
Nobody can tell what he can do till he tries, When a thing ought to be done the modern
Entertainment.
THEATRE ROYAL
CITY HAL
spirit moves us to keep working away at THE HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC
until it is done. In the face of this idea the "impossible", vanishes. Where there's a will,
It was that same Reilly who one night, glow-there's a way... "If we could but rob cod liver
SHAW renteel highwayman makes for the land that leg with Collic fun, bethought himself of play. oil of its sickening taste and smell and then
WHITE GOODS
LINENS
SHEETS:
Plain, per pair,
9 × 3 yds., $12.00 to $25.00 24 x 31 yds $14.50 to $30.00
Hemstitched,
lies cast of the 1801h meridian, there to come to a sure, reward that is golden, and take a "Hittie"pleasure” in'passing,"27"
tog circuit was in a largu Japanese ten combine it with two or three other ingredients house, wherein paper screeds only separated we should possess the best remedy in the world for certain diseases that are now practically the rooms.
Reilly arose from his mat in one room at the incurable. So said a famous English physi All this comes about because the colasies o far, and of the house and plunged through all clan twenty-five years ago. But it will never Europeans #cattered from the Straits op stopy of the shoji, or paper partitions, as a circus be done," he added.". You can no more furn the "coast to the frozen circle are always rider plunges through the paper hoops, until cod liver oil inte a pleasant palatable medicine,
quillible owing to their insularity". Provincial from long living away from the whir of things In Europe and America, the people who coo- stitute the little foreign colonies in the various ports of China, Japan and Straits Settlements fall easy prey to the suavo tongue and polished manbers of the wayfarer who plúnders.
After one colony is fleeced the discriminating rogue moves on to another faving, behind a broad track of bitter memories. There is the instance of the polished gentleman who drop ped into Yokohama a faw years ago with a batch of letters of introduction from hypotheti.
cal persons in India.
This Capt. Binak was so dashing a fellow that the English set in Yokobama took him up with gusto. He lived at the best hotel, ordered expensive suits from Tom the Chinese tailor and was dined on the Bluff with ail the comical eclat that is of the English colony colonial.
Then Capt Blank consented-to-lake-the leading part in some private theatricals. Be wooed the daughter of a bank manager at re. 2 x 3 yds., $18.50 to $35.00hearsals, borrowed 5,000 yes and a diamond ring from the girl's father, and on the eve of the performance eloped with the daughter, the dia- mond ring and the money. He cast the girl off at Hongkong and travelled light into the unknown waters beyond,
21 × 31 yds., $21,50 to $45.00
PILLOW CASES:-
Plain,-
$12.50 to $37.50 per doz.
Frilled
$2.75 to $16.75 per pair
Hemstitched,
$2.76 to $21.50 per pair
TOWELS:
Huckaback, Hemmed,-
$5.75 to $11.50 doz.
Hemstitched,
$6.00 to $21.50 doz..
Fringed,-
$6.75 to $18.50 doz..
Disper and Damask Towels,
$10.50 to $27.50 doz. :
TABLE LINEN:-
2
* 2 Yds. from $6.75 each
2 x 3.
21 x 3
8.50
*
2
x. 81
10.50
10.75
15
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12.60 12
11
15.00
+
+1
15,00
16,50
19.50
2 × 31
"
24 × 4
21 x
5
Serviettes to match:
ALL LINEN TABLING
2 and 24 Yards by any Length From $125 per yard.
POWELL'S
ALEXANDRA
BUILDINGS,
DES VEUX ROAD,
Fand
he came up against the wooden wall at the far ond of the building. He paid the damages kladly the morning after, it was worth the fun, said Reilly."
Touchingly pathetic in its humous was the instance of the homesick American who took nolay farewell of Yokohama after he had been frosted and shrivelled by the English aloofness of the place. From Chicago was this American, loafing, about Japan sa pleasure bent.
than you can turn the Codfish itself into a Bird of Paradise. Yet he lived to admit that in SWAMPOLE'S PREPARATION the "impossible" had bean accomplished. It palatable as honey, and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites, Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. This remedy is freed from the bad it is precisely the splendid medicine be wished. pecuharities Dr. Frothingham so detested, and fox, Use it freely and confidently for Anemia
CLUB WILL PRESENT
"THE LIARS"
BY
AN ORIGINAL COMEDY, IN FOUR ACTS,
HENRY ARTHUR JONES,
ON
THURSDAY FRIDAY
Bad
SATURDAY...
Doom open at 8.30 PM.
Prices
20th February
Performance at 9 PM.
.........$3, $2 and $1. Sailors and Soldiers in uniform falf-price to Pu Stalls and Pita Booking Office at the ROBINSON PIANO CO,, open on and after MONDAY, the 10th February, 1908, at 10.
Hongkong, 7th February, 1908.
To Let.
TO LET.
When he struck Yokohama he discovered that he was a bounder, he could not get put up Rt the United Club, he could not get an invHysteria, Wasting Complaints, Blood, Impuri.FFICES and ROOMS on the 1st and 2nd.
tation on the Bluff, he could not do anythingles, Asthma, and Throat and Lung Troubles but play billiards and drink Japanese, Martini Dr. W. B. B. Aikins, F. R. C. F., Londen, cocktails at the Grand Hotel bar.
This gentle American learned to hate the Toronto University, Consulting Physician to M. D. C. M., Victoria University-M. B. English with a consuming hatred, and in Home for Incurables, Physician to Toronto justice to him it most be said that the type of General Hospital, says: "I am much pleased Zoglishman who makes the Eastern ports bis to state that the results from using Wampole's home lays himself open to dislike because of Preparation of Cod Liver Oil have been his overbearing priggishness. But after all, the man from Chicago, finding that he could not uniformly satisfactory; it appealed to me break into Youbama society with a cold as being prepared according to correct scien chisel decided upon returning to the my influences the digestion of food; it is delicious tific principles." It increases the appetite and warmth of his native city. Ele arranged. to to take, will not disappoint you and is effective have his farewell à grand one.”
from the first dose. "It represents the dawn-
On the morning, that the steamer sailed thereof progress." At chemists' everywhere. was a sound of revelry along the Bund. ' Mem- |bers of the United Club and guests at the hotele along the wide water atrast burried to their windows.
Hardly bad. Yokohama society recovered from the shock of this experience when Mme. Nemo, the name will fit as well as any other, dropped into town. It was during the Russo- Japanese war.
They saw the Chicago man reclining luxur. Mme. Nemo said that she was accredited as¦iously ́in a 'rickshaw, with another similar a correspondent of the London Mail to write vehicle following piled high with his luggage, some of the real inside history of the war. She Before him. marched the execrable band of bore a letter, subsequently found to be forged, Japanese.musicians who play syncopated airs from London editor to Mrs. nugh Frazer, then the Grand Hotel verandah at nights. well known writer on things Japanses and wife "Hail to the chief," "The Star Spangled of a former Minister of Great Britain to Japan. Banner" and "Thero'll Be a Hot Time in the Mme. Nemo came to town in November. It Old Town" were the tunes that shocked the was chilly-buat the engaging lady with the-are-of-Yokohama as the Chicago man-made slight Scandinavian accent' wore her summer
his triumphal way to the ship's pier, lawns. Shortly after she arrived the story crept up the corit that her trunks bad been held for a board bill by the Astor. House in Shanghai,
Mrs. Frazer and others who had accepted the lady as genuine flouted the story and she ́obtained a temporary, advance. from some of bar admirers among the ladies of the English calony. She blossomed out in the new suits and her faded beauty was brightened by the change. She attended all, the exclusive func- tions given at Yokohama and Tokyo and was high in the social world when'suddenly she left town.
It was only after she had taken a steamer at Kote for Shanghai, on money wheedled out of a rich American in the former port, that is be- Fenme known' that she had worked a blackmail game on au Englishman who lived on thin ice in Yokohama, borrowed various hundreds of yen from the women who had befriended ber, and had been suspiciously dear to spying on some of the Japanese secrets.
Mme Nemo afterward borsewhipped a Rui- siap secretary of legation in the Astor House at Shanghai and disappeared. Yet the folk in Yokohama, still speak of her as "such a really charming person."
The Dane in the red dinner coat was the ten days wonder of Shanghai a few years ago. It was the red dinner coal that did it all.
Because he dropped in the dining room on the evening of arrival garbed in scarlet all of the men who maka thë Astor House their club and the centre of their existence jumped to the canclusion that the Danish gentleman, whose name appeared on the register with a title pre- fixed must be a person of circumstance,
Red dinner coats were immediately ordered
That man left behind him the reputation he had established. He certainly was a bous. der...Sun.
Entimations..
WANTED.
LONGINGS, preferably in Kowloon. State
Apply to-
Jabs
A. B.. Clo Hongkong Telegraph, Hanekenk, 37th January, 1968 ..
PARST BREING COMPANY, `-MILWAUKEE ·
FRESH SUPPLIES ALWAYS KEPT IN STOCK
BY
#
F
SIEMSSEN & Co., Agents for. HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA, Hoogkong, 29th July, 1007,
OPEN
Ice
CYCLE
RACE.
from the Chinese tailors of Shanghai and over- FIRST PRIZE: tures were made for the Danish gentleman's
acquaintance. He held aloof for jail the
THE TRADE MARKS ORDINance, 1898.
Application for Registration of Trade Mark,
N FEUSTELL NFL, a firm duly organized JOTICE is bereby given that FRIEDRICH under the German Law and Carrying on. business under this style at No. 5, Brahms strasse in the city of Altona in the German Empire, Manufacturers, and of which firm Wilhelm Hugo Hermana Noack is the sola Owner, bave, on the 31st day of December,' 100%, applied for the registration in trangkong in the Register of Trade Marks of the follow- ing Trade Mark :'—–
PROFESSOR
SPRO
DNIELS
FINSENS
HÆMATINALBUMI
Friedrich Feustell NFI
ALTONA
in the name of FRIEDRICH FEUSTELL NFL, who claim to be the Sole Proprietors thereof. "The Trade Mark has been used by the Ap. plicants since at least 8 months in respect of Hæmatin Albumen (a blood preparation), dietetic food, chemical and pharmaceutical substances for ule in medicine and pharmacy, medicines, medicated salves, ointments, pow. dom, jellies, solutions, pills, capsules, tablets, globules, suppositories, &c., io Class 3.
A facsimile of the Trade Mark can be seen at the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hong- koog and also at the Offices of the Under signed...
Dated the 10th day of January, 1908.
107]
B.
NOT!
Flaan of No. 14 Des Vœux Road
4
Central (formerly occupied by Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.)
HOUSE No. 11, Seymour Read, powly. CONE FIVE-ROOMED BUNGALOW, painted and colour washed..
The Neuk No. 84, Mount Googh, Peak Garden and Tenols. (From 1st April next).
Apply to
THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong, 4th February, 1908.
NO
·TO LET.
(IBS
OS. 4 6 & 8, LEighton hill
ROAD, Apply to-
HONGKONG AND KOWLOON LAND AND LOAN CO.:LD. No. 8, Queen's Road West. Hongkong, 14th January, 1908,
[126
TO LET FURNISHED..
Road. SIX-ROOMED HOUSE on Robiason
Apply to-
"X," Clo Hongkong Telegraph. Hoogknap. 10th February, Toră,
TO LET.
1215
A HOUSE is KNUTSFORD TERRACH
Apply.to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY 0, LD. Hongkong, 1st February, 1908.
-T› LET,
FFICES on TOP FLOOR, No. 2, CON- NAUGHT ROAD, facing the Crickel Ground.
No. 10, DES VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL,
1st Floor,
* HATHERLEIGH, Conduit Road, A HOUSE in Clayton Gardens, Com
duil Road.
OFFICES in YORK BUILDING, - . GODOWNS is PRAYA EAST, BLUE BUILDINGS, And No. 168, DES Vœux ROAD next to the Hongkong Hotel, FLATS in MORETON TERKACE, Apply to--
THE HONGKONG LANG INVEST. KENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hanckons, 6th February, 1008.
TO LET.
MATTHEW ID. STEPHENS, NO. 5, MORRISON Hill.
Solicitor for the Applicants,
R
[OTICE is hereby given that the PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY have sub. mitted to the Government revised plans showi ing the route of the proposed new Tramway from the Queen's Road end of Battery Path via Glenealy Valley to the Peak. The route now proposed cuts the lower part of the Nonh- Now Humber Bioyole. eastern edge of the Public Gardens and then
psychological period, tantalizing the men and 'SECOND PRIZE :: fascinating the women.
•
Then he allowed two of the wealthiest men
Fair Dunlop Tyres.
in the foreign colony of Shanghai to become. THIRD PRIZE :
his intimates, sold them several thousand taels
worth of stock in a tin mine in the Malay
States and moved on. There was no more red
'dinner coats in the Astor dining room after that, and for some months Danes were,as scar- ce as the tin in the 'Malay mioes.
Not all of the strange gentry that circulato «through the ports of the coast are bensis 'of prey. Some are delightfully unique and also harmless. The antics of Capt. Miles Reilly of | the steamship Montara is a case in point.
Capt, Reilly had taken one of the Spreckels steamers out of San Francisco, bound for Petropavlosky, on the Siberian coast. The strip was laden with contraband of war, and two Japanese cruisers intercepted Capt. 'Reilly just before he make the desolate northern
Fort
Pair of Inner Tubes, one Bell, and one Lamp.
ALL PRIZES PRESENTED
BY
THE DRAGON CYCLE
COMPANY.
The Scratch Road-race for the
They brought the Montara down to Yoko, above prizes will take place on bama and held Capt. Relily as a" wilnext to
testify at the prize court proceedings Japanese CHINESE NEW YEAR DAY over never do anything in a hurry. Court adjourned course to be announced later. for the hot mouths just after Capt Reilly arrived in Yokohama.
He chafed and swore at delay and' his soul irked him so that be turned to strange, plea Paures The Best thing be did was to give his
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ENTRANCE FEE
28 QUEEN'S ROAD, thaw boy who pulled him ENTRIES CLOSE ON JANUARY 31, WITH
HONGKONG
boy was promptly arrested by the polica
lon' that he had stolen the hat,After
THE
CYCLE
passing on trestles along their Westem ex tremity, and within 100 yards of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, cresses Robinson Road about yo yards to the East of its junction with Condult Road, Couflauing upwards it passes within 130 yards of Inland Lot No. 1568 and edjojos the Peak Road opposite Inland Lot No 1145, keeping after that to the Eastern slope of Victoria Feak.
Owners of adjacent property and the general public who may be interested in the effect of the Tramway upon the Public Gardens can inspect the plans and drawings at the offices of the Director of Public Works for a period of aze month from this date between the hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.
By Command,
F.-H. MAY, Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary'' Office,"
Hongkong, 18th January, 1908,
SWATOW DRAWN WORK COMPANY,
38, Wellington Street.
ONE FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE, PRAYA EAST, near East Point,
Apply to
160
¿ JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LD. Hongkong, 19th October, 1907.
TO'LET..
...[60
A-ROOMED HOUSES in Gap·ROAD near
the Race Course within easy access to the Lower Level Tramway. Rent very moderate. FLATS for Europeans Tih ·WILD DEL BUILDINGS, NO. 147, Wanchai Road.
Apply to
1. PERCY SMITH & SETH.
· Hongkong, 16th. December, 1907.
TO LET.
ODOWN NO. 3. NEW Prava, Kennedy
Towd.
. . . .
Apply to
THE HONGKONG-LAND, INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO, LD. Hongkong, 1st February, 19085
[159
TO LET.
[114 TOUSES in AUSTIN AVENUE, Kowloon.
Himmediate Possession,
Dealers in all kind of
'HAND-MADE DRAWN CHINESE
LINEN, GRASS CLOTH, &C.,
all of the best quality;
"ÁLSO. SWATOW BEST PEWTER-WARE
BROIDERY Id CHINESE
LACES,
Apply to
E. D. SASSOON & CO.,
Compradore Department. Hongkong, agth January, 1908,-
LEE YEE HAIR DRESSING SALOON.
HAS ALWAYS ON HAND;
| (177)
Auction.
-PONIESÍ. PONIES I PONIES !
"HE Undersigned will hold their and
THE
sale of Race Ponies
A by
PUBLIO ROUP,
apposite the City. Hall,
0 WEDNESDAY, next, the 19th February, 1908, at 4 PM.
~50 LOTS,
TERMS —As usual,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, rath February, 1908.
Consignees.
BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
* STEAMSHIP "KUMERIC," FROM TACOMA, VICTORIA, "YOKO- HAMA, KOBE, MOJI AND
MANILA
--
"HE above Steamer having- arrived, · Con- t Tignes of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Countersigna ture, and to take immediate delivery of ibeir Goods from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vassal will be landed and stored at Cansignees, risk. and expense.
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,
Agents.
Hongkong, toch February, 1908. [19:33
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steamship
"GOEBEN,* having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Go- down Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted, after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain- | ing undelivered after the 19th of February, will
be subject in rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are. to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 19th of February, at 9:30 AM. all claims must reach us before the agrd-of February, 1908, or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected." Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the undersigned,⠀ TOWN
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS B.Com
Agents.
congkong, 12th February, 1908, 4
For Sale.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND GEMENT.
In Csake of 375 Dr. net 85.00 per Cak ex Factory.
In Bags of 150 hs. net $8,00 per Bag ex Factory.
SHEWAN TOMES & Co.,
General Manager, Hongkong, 3rd Octobim, 1009:1
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