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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY APRIL 9 1908.
Intimration:
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
FOR
NAPLES, "GENOA, ALGIERS, GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and HAMBURG
STEAMERS
POLU"}
TO SAIL
'PRINZ REGENT LUITPOLD"} WEDNESDAY,
Capt. H. Kirchner......... Noon, 22nd April.
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE Į "PRINZ EITEL FRIEDRICH " About WEDNESDAY,
nad YOKOHAMA
MANILA, NEWGUINEA,, BRIS. BANE, SYDNEY and MEL· BOURNE
Capt. E. Malcbow
22nd April.
"PRINZ WALDEMAR "'
Capt. W. v. Senden.........
.....THURSDAY,
P.M., 13rd April.
PRINZ SIGISMUND", Capt. D. Lenzetsuenci
About FRIDAY,'
1st May.
KUDAT and SANDAKAN.......
BORNEO "
Capt. F. Sembill
Middle of April..
For further Particulars, apply to
YOKOHAMA and KÖBE
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD
Hongkong, 8th April, 1908.
MELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES.
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(ETNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.
TO and FROM JAPAN.vis SHANGHAI,
FOR,
TO SAIL ON
No. 1 DOCK. Length inside 614 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 76 it. Water on blocks, 27.5 ft.: Time to pump out, 4 hours.
No. 2 DOCK.
Length inside, 875 ft. Width of entrance, top 60.5 ft. bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blooks, 28.5 ft. Time to pump out, 8 hours.
THESE DOCKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Pocking and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description.
The plant and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with work and a large stock of material is always at haid, (plates and angles all being tested:by" Lloyds' surveyors).
SIX DAYS ON WRECK IN
ATLANTIC
*SUFFERINGS OF CAPSIZKO SCHOONER'S CREW,
Six days on a wreck in mid-Atlantic was the terrible experience of the crew of the American schooner William H. Shumer, of Baltimore. They were landed on Saturday moming (March) at Belfast by the ss. Bray
Hand,
The story as told by Capt. Griffis forms a from Georgetown, South Carolina, on 14 Feb, thrilling narrative. The ill-fated vessel salied for Newhaven with a cargo and load of dressed
Jumber.
She bad been out only one day when she sprang a leak, and, despite the exertions of those on board, the water toon gained hend
way.
To make matters worse, the vesuai - was, struck by a violent squall, and with the water
in the hold becoming gradually deeper, and the gale increasing in velocity, the plight of those on board was desperate.
AFTER THE SQUALL,
In the height of the gate the little craft cap-` sited. Fortunately, each of the crew managed to cling to the side of the vetsal.
Meanwhile 'beavy seas, sweeping over the
Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels in or out of Dock, and for taking Sailing Vessels in or out of the bay. The Boating derrick is capable, carried away everything on the deck. of lifting 35 tons.
Intimations.
WANTED.
TWO Qualified MEDICAL OFFICERS
with British Qualifications. A.
Apply tomm
Dr. D. R. P. PAUL, China Commercial Steamship.
The Company,
Between 10 and za amand stop.m No. 1, Estel Mansionsk Hongkong, 2nd April, tonß.
MUSIC LESSON
ESSONS in Violin, Mandoline and Guitar
for Dances and
at pupil's residence. Evening engagements for Concentr Buy
Apply to
E. J. LOPES, Clo Hongkong Telegraph Office, Hongkong, 9th March, 1908 JU Isoa
WHERE ARE
YOU GOING?
The men, numbering some half-dozes, made WHY, TO CHAZALON & CO., whayshift they could with the scanty accom
Steam Launches of Steel, or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Roofs, Bridge modation at their disposal, and after the squali Work; and all kinds of Machinery are made on ne premiies,
Tenders will be made up when inquired and the workmanship and (material will be guaranteed.
The cost of Docking, and repair work, wil bs found to compare favourably with that of any port in the world.
Telephone: Nos. 178, 508, or 681.
Telegrams, "Dook, Yokohama," Ogdes A. B. O. 4th and 5th Edt. Liebers, Scotts, A. 1, and Watkins, Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905.
Shipping Steamer.
£39
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
REGULAR THREE-WRKLY SERVICE BETWEN
JAVA, CHINA AND JAPAN.
Expected o
Will leave for
On or about
First balf
·April First bats
April Second half
From
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First ball
April
First half
¿April Second hal
April
ritas kall
May
Java
First half
May
JAVA
First half
JAVA JAPAN
JAVA. SHANGHAI SHANGHAI
JAPAN
April
First half.
May
May First half
Mar- First balf Мар
Steamer.
TJILATJAP... SHANGHAI
TJILIWONG. JAVA STEAMERS. CAPTAINS
TJIBODAS HANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA,.,AUSTRALIEN..............
JAPAN Verron......13th April, afternoon, TIIMAHI.. MARSEILLES, VIA FORTS..... ...... TOURA TE... Lancelio......14th April, 1-P, M.
JAPA SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA... YARRA .... Sellier......27th April, afternoon, MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS...ARMAND Bruc Guiounet ... 28th April, 1 F.M.
Transhipment on the Co.'s Steamers at Singapore for Batavia; at Colombo for Calcutta, Bombay and Australia; at Port Said for the Levani, Constantinople and Black Sea
Through Tickets to London via Patis from £27.10 up to £71.10. 20 hours railway from Marseilles to London.
Interpreters meet passengers at their antival in Marseilles.
For further particulars, apply to
Hoogkong, 3rd April, 1008.
J. MILLET, AGENT,
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.
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WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP
THE Steamers
COMPANIES.
HONGKONG WUCHOW LINE.
" LINTAN" and "SAN-UI"
"
SAIL FROM HONGKONG TWICE A WEEK AND COMPLETE THR Round Trip in 4 DAYS, These steamers have Excellent Saloon Accommodation, and are Lighted Throughout.by Electricity,
THE CLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS. IS VERY FINE AND EXHILIRATING.
For further information apply to
Hongkong, 26th March, 1908.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS, WEST RIVER BRITISH S.S. COMPANIES.
MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES,
FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG. CANTON AND
KOUANG-SI.
5.S. 4 PAUL BEAU,” 1,900 tons, 14 knots.)
86" CHARLES HARDOUIN," 1,900 tons, 14 knots):
The speediest, most luxuriously appolated and punctual steamers on the line, Departure from Hongkong at to P.M. (Saturdays excepted). Departure from Canton at 5.15 PM. (Sundays excepted).
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These superb steamers carrying the French Mail are fitted throughout with Electric Light
and Fans and were specially built for this trade. Excellent cuisine.
The Company's Own Wharf near Wing Lok Street.
Canton Agents-Messrs. E. Pasquet & Co.
For further particulars, please apply to-
Hongkong, 28th March, 1908.
T8IN TING"
Mentistry.
LATEST METHODS OF DENTISTRY, STUDIO AT NO 14 UILAR STREET,
BARRETTO & CO., Agents.
Dr. M. H. CHAUN, THE LATEST METHOD
of the "
AMERICAN SYSTEM OF DENTISTRY
35, QUEENS ROAD Chentr From the University of Pennsyirii U.S.A
"JIPANAS TJIKINI
The Steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and have Accommodation for no through Bills of Lading. 4 limited number of Saloon Passengers, and wit take Cargo to all Netherland India Pons
For.Particulars of Freight and Pasiage, appțiò
JAVA-CHINA-APAN LIJN,
Telephone No. 375,
YORK BUILDINGS, 'ist door,
Hongkong, 7th April, 1908.
Entimatons.
IMPERIAL BREWING COMPANY,
LIMIED
PURE CREAM BEER.
For samples and prices please app to
had subsided they lashed themselves together to the wreckage.
Provisions had been reduced to 4lb, of pra served meat, and at day succeeded day, sud there was no sign of a sail or of smoke from 5.steamship, it appeared as if the sailors would perish from hanger and thirst.
**
· "LIKE MADMEN;"
There was no drinking water available, and. the scanty supply that was gathered - while some rain fall was paringly distributed. To use Capt. Griffis' own words, the sailora drank
like madmen."
?
For six days and nights this terrible state of affair lassed, the crew clinging to the wreckage. and maintaining all the while a keep look out,
The hopes of the little party strengthened on- one occasion asia steamer was sighted, but the signals of distress were unobterved..
Hope was all but abandoned when on the morning of 12 Feb. they beard what turned out to be the whistle of the Bray Head.
'GREAT EXHAUSTION."
At first they thought they might have been deceived, and, said the captain,."I did not like taraiso a false alarm'amongst my men. There was a mistaking the second whistle, however, and I called, 'Shaut for your lives!
"They shouted for their lives, and great was j our joy to see in the gray light of the morning the Belfast liner beating down on us,”
All the men when rescued were in a state of great exhaustion. They have nearly recovered, and will return to America during the week,
ATLANTIC ROMANCH.
TREASURE
ASURE IN THE LONELY GUANO ISLANDS, Tho-passion for exploration and adventure it once more demonstrated in the latest under prospectus of the South Atlantic Trading Com taking just explained by the publication of the pany, Limited, which has been formed for gathering guano from Coaccesible Jaland, Nightingale Island, and Gough Island, which are all within hailing distance of the lonely fale of Tristan da Cunha. In the intervals of guado gathering the company will hunt for seats and whales.
The capital of the company is £100,000, in 100,000 shares, and is has been formed to ac quire an exclusive license "granted by his Majesty King Edward VII, to Thomas Caradoc Kerry," and to take over that gallant and fierce little commander's-yacht, the Pandorą.
6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Where I am sure to find the best FRENCH BONBONS,
LIQUEURS,
BURGUNDY,
BORDEAUX,
CHAMPAGNE
and
CLARET.
·Hongkong, 20th January, roof
To Let.
TO LET.
A HOUSE I KNUTSFORD TRE
Kowloon.
No. 3 CANTON VILLAS.
Apply to....
→ THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO, LD, Hongkong, ayrd March, 1908.
TO LET
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HOUSES IR AUSTIN AVENUE, KOWLOOD,
Immediate Possession, Apply to-
4. RAYMOND,“
C/o S. J, David & Co. Hongkong, 23rd March, 1908
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TO LET.
HAMBERS in No. 2, WYNDHAM CH
STREET, late Hotel Baltimore, rent moderate. **
Quarter, Central, containing 6. Rooms and Servants! First Floor of No, & QUEEN'S ROAD,
ONE ROGM with Verandal' and a SMALL ROOM on the Second Floor of No. 8 Dia VIEUX ROAD CENTRAL, above our office, suitable for Business Premises or Dwelling,
Apply to
De DAVID SASSOON & Co., LD. Hopetong, 6th April, 1908.
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TO LET.
NE FOUR-ROOMED HOUse,
PRAVA EAST, near East Point, Apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., ED. Hongkong, 21st March, 1998,
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TO LET.
OFFICES and ROOMS on the 1st and 2nd
CHARGE OF STEALING DINLES, Hoth Mr. Kerry and the uim Pandora are known to fame, for their glory has been told in the prosaic atmosphere of our English courts of lawding to the gaiety of nailons-there- by. In 1956 Mr. Kotry was charged at the: Old Bailey with the extraordinary crime of stealing Bibles, hymo books, and other aids to piety flombis own yacht, the Pandora. Tristan Central (formerly occupied by Masus, Shewan, of No. 14. Des Voeux Road da Cunha is one of the toneliest and most inacets ble, of our islands in the South Atlantic, and once or twice a year its inhabitants receive a.call from a British steamer (sometimes a war ship) with mals and, provisions from far | away civilisation, *.
Three years ago Mr. Kerry, arranked with the Colosill Office to take out in his yacht; any parcels that might be sent out to Tristan's lonely natives: This fact was duly advertised, with the result that large, boxes and cases of
Tomes & Co);
Apply to THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT, Jardice, Matheson & Co. Ltd, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong, 24th February, too.
TO LET
WINE GROTERS SUPPLY CO. Bibles, hyme books, clubes, and some deli. HATHERLEIGH, CONDUIT ROAD.
Hongkong, 22nd October, 1907,
BARRETO & CO.,
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. This is the ageofresearchandriperiment, when all natur, so to speak, is ransarked by the scien tific for tscomfort and happiness of man. Seleme has indeed ado giant striden during the past century, and among the by no means lost in- portant-discoveries in medicine comes that of "
THERAPION.
Thla preparation tungdealonlir one of chemtest gesuina and rullebla Patent Medicines ever latro duced, and has, wo understand, been used in slan Continental Hospitals by Kicond, Rostan, Jobert Velpeau, Maisonneuve, the well-kapwa Chasmig. pac, and indeed by all who are regarded an autho nities in such mations, including the celebrated Lallemand, and Maux, by whom li was gone time since uniformly adopted, and that it is worthy the attention of those who require such a remedy wei think there is no doubt. From the time of Aristotle downwards, a potent agent to the removal of three diseases har (Uke the famed philosopher's stone) heed the objret of search of stay hopeful, generous mindes and far beyond the mere poter imh could ever have been discovered mos kennS- : tuting the base metal inte guldis surely the dis covery of a remedy so poimat as toseplepiad the fall ing energies of the confirmed row in the paper And in the other so affectually, speedily and safely to expel from the system without the aid, or eva the knowledge, of a second party, the poisons of acquired or inherited discasa is all their prosean forms to leave no talni ur trace babies, Buchla THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY
THERAPION
which way certainly rank wkb, not take p dence uf, miny of the discoveriestfour day, about
which so litle satentating and size have bead made, and the vitostíre and arcffcrsaslag dan
General Agents.
THE
HINA. PROVIDENT LOAN AND
MORTGAGE CO., LD
(CAPITAL PAID UP.........$1,250,000)
oans on Morgage of House Property, &c. foods received on Storage.
dvances made on, Merchandise. okos made on the Provident System:
(Rates and Particolars on application),
THE OFFICE Or TRUSTER, EXECUTOR OF WILLS,
ATTORNEY, & Undertaken and Executed.
"SHEWAN, TOMES & General Managers.
Hongkong, 19th March, 1908.
COLD STORAGE,
La
cacies were sent to the Pandora. Upon Mr. Kerry's return to England he was charged with stealing many of these articles, and the alle gation against him was that he had some of the cases broken open and their contents dung overboard, The case was carried to the Qld Bailey, and, with Mr. Kerry as the central figure, it proved a lively and entertaining trial, in the and of which Mr. Kerry triumphed and "was discharged."
ADVENTUROUS CAREER.
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A HOUSE I CLIFTON GARDENS, CA
duit, Road,
OFFICES is YORK BUILDING GODOWNS ID PRAYA EAST, BLUE BUILDINGS, and No. 168, DBS VELUX ROAD next to the Hongkong Hotel. FLATS in MORETON TERRACK, OFFICES DO. TOF FLOOR, No. 7, CON
NAUGHT ROAD, facing the Cricket Ground,
No. 10, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL,
1 Floof!!...
HOUSES in WONG NEI-CHONG ROAD. Apply to
MENT & AGENCY COLD THE HONGXONG; LAND INVEST.
Hongkong, it April, an 8
TO LET
Mr. Kerry has had a gorgeous career. He was born in New Zealand, and from hir boy hood had a pretty taste in adventures and ex- ploits in out-of-the-way corners of the globe, He was the first white man to penetrate the mysteries of the interior of New Guinea; he. has had many hand-to-hand encounters with savages, and once took his place in a queue of whites who were waiting to be eaten by can. nibal. Kerry, however, managed to escape. Hemmad is by war canger; he and four other explorers in a small boat tan the gauntlet suE- cessfully of a raging tornado of naked savages.-ROOWED HOUSES in GAP ROAD near Reaching the coast, a sailor named Scott went off in search for belp. He never returned. Seven years later, Mr. Kerry, then a member of the Royal Geographical Society's expedition to the same island, came upon a skeleton. By the skeleton lay a koife, and on the knife was the name "T. C. Kerry. It was Scott's skele -ton, and the koife was
asons Kerry bad lent him years before,
THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, THE GOOD OLD PANDORA, TA
LTD have now 40,000 Cubic font of The Pandora-now, sacrificed to the god LD STORAGE yailable at EAST: Poner Guano hai had almost as eventio) history
mand that has been grand for Lapendlelagerte fits will be Open at 10 A4 and was her owerShe was origianly a British
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cwendies that werk firmwly the main relianÉS OF Kaplama Therapion may be obtained i
· Pelocipal chemista And Marcian theoughnuts
subast, and, an the sa. Newport represented the British Government at the openings of the kben she was engaged in: Polar Mr. Costs, of Faliley, mrn-
the Race Course within easy access to the Lower Level Tramway. Rent very moderate.. BUILDINGS, No. 147, Wanchal Road,
FLATS for Europeade in WILD DELL
Apply to SA
PERCY SMITH & SETH. Hongkong, 16th L'ecember, 1007.
TO LET.
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