Mails.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY APRIL 11 1908.
Intimation.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
FOR
STEAMERI
KUDAT and SANDAKAN,
f." BORNEO "
Capt. F. Sembill
SAIL
Į SATURDAY,
⚫9 A.M., 18th April.
NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS,PAINZ REGENT LOITPOLD") WEDNESDAY,
GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and HAMBURG
M
Capi, H. Kircher
...)
Noon, 22nd April.
No. 1. DOCK. Length inside 514 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 75 it. Water on blocks, 37,5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours.
No. 2 DOCK.
PEAR'S FIRES:
OFFICIAL REPORT.
There were 39 fices and 76 incipient fires during last year as Against jo and 67 in 1906, reports Captalo Superintendent F, W. Lyons The estimated damage caused by fires was $214,710.65 and by incipient fires: 31,541.90 The Brigade turned out 56 times during the your. There was constant supply of water in the fire mains throughout the your. One fire occurred in the harbour during the year. The conduct of the Brigade han barn good.
'The condition of the Government fire es-
Length inside, 975 ft. Width of entrance, top 80,5 ft. bottom 45.8. It. Water on blocks, 26.5 ft. Timess is reported as follows: de pag to pump out, 8 hours,
HESE DOCKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama harbour and the attention of THESE
Captains and Engineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description.
The plaut and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with work and a large stock of material is always at hand, (plates and angles all being tested by „Lloyds) surveyors)..
Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels in or out of Deck, and for taking Sailing Vessels in or out of the bay. The floating derrick is capable
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBEĮ "PRINZ EITEL FRIEDRICH “Į About WEDNESDAY,' | of lifting 35 tons.
Capt. E..Mslchow and YOKOHAMA
MANILA, NEWGUINEA, BRIS.” BANE, SYDNEY and MEL. BOURNE
22nd April.
FRINZ WALDEMAR
Capt. W. v. Senden ..................
A
THURSDAY,
P... 23rd April.
YOKOHAMA and KOBE
{"
5“ PRINZ SIGISMUND!
Capt. D. Leuz
*About FRIDAY,
1st May,
For further Particulars, apply to
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD
Hongkong, 11th April, 1908,
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MELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES."
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANÁL
TO and FROM JAPAN via SHANGHAL.
FOR
CAPTAINS STEAMERS
TO SAIL ON
Steam Launches of Steel or Wood Lighters, Steel Buildings and Roof, Bridge Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises.
Tenders will be made up when required and the workmanship and Įmaterial will be guaraninad.
It is this damand for capitaly frontier developments in the realm try that periodically puts so great a strain upon the credit of the whole system. Yet there arms to be no way of excaping. These results will come- long as science in andowed for the purpose of material development. The only other alter- native is to become stationary-and be gobbled up by some power armed with the inventive genius.
"Nor will this purpose of promoting in. vention be weakened, even without endowment, so long as the standards, of human living are capable of being raised and improved with the
Steamer No. 1 Floating Fire Engine by increase in available wealth. Enthusiasm for Shand, Mason & Co.-The new hull was com-humanity has too much headway," Food supply pleted on the roth September and after a satis is potestially unlimited, if science is to be believed. Demand is volimited, if the hopes factory trial of both pumping and propelling of the idealists are entertained, who sea in machinery the vessel was placed on her station for duty and has been regularly used at drill betterment. Possibly from this latter point of material progress the conditions of a superior for drivers and fires. The hull, boiler and view we may see villors and dream dreams, as Professor Francis G. Peabody would have machinery are all in good working order,
Steamer No. Land Engine by Shand, us do, of a fatura in which invention and discovery may father and mother the race in Mason & Co. The boiler of this engine is 10
ita onward path without causing it to Increase years old. It has been regularly used and
ils numbers faster than they can guarantee tered at monthly drill for drivers and fires, and is now is good working order.
Steamer No. 3. Land Engine by Shaod,
te prosperity."
Intimations
Mason & Co-This engine was thoroughly overhauled in November and a new outer shall fited to boiler, after completion of repair it WHERE ARE
was tested under steam and found to be in good working order.
Steamer No. 4 Land Engice by Shand, Mason & Co.-This engine has been over- hauled as required during the year. It was'
YOU GOING?
regularly tested at drills for drivers and used at WHY, TO CHAZALON & CO., *The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that fires, and is now in good working order. of any port in the world,
Telephone: Nos, 876, 506, or 681.
Telegrams, "Dock, Yokohama," Oodes A. B. C. 4th and 5th Edt.
A. 1, and Watkins. Liebers, Sontts, Yokohama, May zjed, 1905,
Shipping-Steamer.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
REGULAR THREE-WEEKLY SERVICE
BETWEEN
JAVA, CHINA, AND JAPAN..
Expected on or about
Will leave for
Os or about
First balf
Steamer No. 5. Land Engine by Shand, Mason & Co, A new boiler supplied by Shand, Mason & Co. was fitted to the engine in August and the machinery thoroughly over- hauled, it has been tested and used at drills for drivers and fires, and is now in good working order.
Manual Engines & Gear All the manual ́engines and gear, hose, recli, ladders and sup ply carts have been kept in repair and are now in good working order.
1
STRENGTH OF THE FIRE BRIGADE,
Superintendent
Deputy Superintendent
Assistan!
“Engineer ...........................
Europeans, Chinesa.
I
Assist. Engineer and Station Officer '1 Clerk.......
Engine Drivers ..........divia
.
Assistant Engine Drivers in 3. Fitter
N
Blacksmith
Carpenter......
Saltmaker *.. Hens
Stokers podnos
+6, Queen's Road Central,' Where I am sure to find the best
FRENCH BONB1NS;
LIQUEURS,
BURGUNDY,
BORDEAUX,
CHAMPAGNE
and
CLARET,
Hengkong, 20th January, 1908.
JAPANESE MASSAGE,
F. KAWASAKI,
GRADUATE of KOBE MASSAGE
SCHOOL,
No. 36c, PRAYA' East, Wanchai,
Hongkong,"
Telephona 564.
TERMS!
SINGLE ENGAGEMENT (one hour)...S
Steamer,
From
TIILATJAP... FJILIWONG
TIBODAS..
SHANGHAI
JAVA TAFAN
First half
April
First half
April
Becond half
J'ava
JAVA:
April Firat half
First half May
May
CIIKINI
JAVA
First half
JAVA JAPAN JAVA
SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI
JAPAN
Overseer of Water Works
April
First half
April,
Second half
April
First balf
Inspector of Dangerdus Goods...... Assistant of Dangerous Goods...n Foremed murundaunangan & 3. Assistant Foremen .......
ONE WEEK
ONE MONTH...
*
4
May
Firemen
22
First half
Interpreters
May
Floating Engins.
First half
Foreman and Engine Driver
May
May
Coxswain
SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA.....AUSTRALIEN.........Verroa.................13th April, afternoon. TIIMAHI.... MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS....TOURA'IE ... Lancelia14th April, 1 P.M.
гJIPANAS... SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA... YARRA ...........Sellier... 17th April, afternoon. MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS ............ARMAND BEHIC ...Gaiounet...... 28th April, '1 P.M.
Tranthipment on the Co.'s Steamers at S ngapore for Batavia; at Colombo for Calcutta, Bombay and Australia; at Port Baid for the Leviat, Constantinople and 1NICK SEL
Through Tickets to London via Paris from £27.10 up to £71.10. 20 hours' reitway from Marseilles to London.
Interpreters meet passsagers at their arrival in Marseilles."
For further particular, apply to
J. MILLET, 2
AGENT,
Queen's BuildINGS, -
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The Steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and have Accommodation for riimited number of Saloos Passengers, and will take Gazgo to all Netherland 'lodia Ports on through Bills of Lading,
For Particulars of Freight and Passagej apply to
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
Telephone No. 37,5,
YORK BUILDINGS, 18: floor,
*Hongkong, 7th April, 1908.
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Engine Driver....
Stoker compon Seamed...
Hongkong, 3rd April, 2008.
WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP
COMPANIES.
! @ D
HONGKONG.WUCHOW
LINE.
THE Steamers
.." LINTAN" and "SAN-PI
SAIL FROM HOMOKONG TWICE A WEEK AND COMPLETE THE 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 loformation apply to-
Hongkong, 26th March, 1963.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
MAKE APENTS, WEST RIVER British S.S, COMPANIES.
MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.
FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG. CANTON AND
KOUANG-SI.
S.S, "PAUL BEAU,” 1,900 ions, 14 knoti,
E,5, "CHARLES HARDOUIN," 1,900 tons, 14 knots,
The speediest, most luxuriously appointed and punctual steamers on the lion, Departure from Hongkong at 10 P.M. (Saturdays excepted), Departure from Canton af 5.75 P.M. (Sundays excepted).`
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These superb atsamers carrying the French Mall are fitted throughout with Electric Light Fan and wore 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, a8th March, 1908.
THIN TING.
Dentistry.
CHODS OF DENTISTRY, STUDIO AT NOTIS D'AQUILAR STREET,
∙BARRETTO & CO., Agents
,
Dr. M. H. CHAUN,
THE LATEST METHOD
AMERICAN SYSTEM DE DENTISTRY
BOAN CEN
Entimations.
Total
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POSSIBILITIES OF INFENTION.
The Wall Street Journal says: "It takes something of a scientific imagination to think out the financial possibilities of inventions. which are constantly coming to light. This flow of discoverica gives a recaniness in our progress which soon makes new things old.
IMPERIAL BREWING COMPANY, Most of the great invections that have taken
LIMITED.
PURE CREAM BEER.
For samples and prices please apply to
WINE GROWERS SUPPLY
BARRETTO & CO.,
Hangkoog, aznd October, 1907.
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
This is the age of researchand experiment, when s all natura to speak, is ratacked by the scle thetoricomfort and happiness of man. Sela bas indeed made giant strīdas during the pat century, and among the by no means ipast fortal-discovesice in medicine comer that of
THERAPION.
This preparation is unguritianably one of the most
sand rallabin Patent Medicines ever lato... dused, and has, we understand, been stand in the. Comiliental Hospitais by Kkord, Kostan, Jobert, Velpas, Malazioeuty, the well-known Chasisig. nac, and indead by all where regarded as alého rities in such matters, including the celebrated Lallemand, and Roux, by whom it was some time Dnes normaly adopted, and that it la worthy the attention of those who require such a remoốt wa think there is no doubt. From thatime of Ariityle downritdi, poteni agent in the removal of these disse has (like the famed philosophąga stone) been the object of march of same huyeful, gensenminde; and far beyond the mere povest if such could ever have been dinezvezedici traan- muting the baser medals inte gold is surely the dis Dovery of a somady so potent autoreplemiah the fail. log energies of the confirmed noul in the vastuse, wad in the other so attactually, speedily and fel Do capel from the gystan without the ald, or avcht." || the kaveledge, of a second party, the poles ofâ. "angalted or inherited dimsso in all their protean.
formando devono taltor kenca Eiktad, Macks is THE NAY. FRENCH REMEDY
THERAPION
which máy certainly rank with, if not take pi-CB dance of, many of the discoveries of one day, shout which no ditāla detontation and molso have been minds, and the cutmuşire and evje-incrasslar dav mand that has been created for this medicina mla ever introduced apposisse prona that is is daa tiond to cast date philvios all those venaitionals le - comodiya that were formerly the mole valance of GARDEN HAMILThemden May be obtalaté of
Prachotoma and Marchants thrombat the
General Agents.
"THE HINA PROVIDENT LOAN
MORTGAGE CO., LD,
CHINA
hold of the modern world are so recent that people who have passed half the span of their natural life can remember the time when there was nothing of the kind. The word electricity. suggests the fact that the first exhibition of the telephone was in 1876, at Philadelphia, where
Attendance at Patients' Residence... Hongkong, 31st March, 1908,
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PASST BREWING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE,
FRESH SUPPLIES ́ALWAYS KEPT IN STOCK
BY
SIEMSSEN & Co.,
Agents for
HONGKONG & South ChinA. Hongkong, 29th July, 1007,
50 PER CENT
LESS.
it was looked upon as more of a toy than as an WE WILL SELL OUR ENTIRE
indispensable adjunct of modern business.
"Bus the field of electrical inquiry his pro- occupied popular attention to the neglect of what chemistry and physics are doing in
STOCK OF
other directions. Among these is the power BICYCLES and
of fertilizing the soil from the atmosphere
with unparalleled possibilities in its effect on values. Another consists in the production of
CO. anificial looda. The chemist, for instance,
(CAPITAL PAID UP.........Si,a50,000)
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knows just what elements constitute a piece of
ACCESSORIES
bread, and straightway.hit problem is how to at 50% less than usual
make a substitution, for bread by composition
of these elements at a price of possibly one-
for one week only,
teath that of the product of the bakery. The prices for
elements of a biscuit are water and carbon,
The problem is to combine the two to make to clear our old stock
biscuits as cheap as water from the infinite
AND stores of these constituents. But synthetic;
Loans on Mortgage of House Property, &c. Goods receivéd'où Storage,
Adrances mede on Merchandise. Loans made on the Provident System,
(Rates and Particulars on application),
THE OFFICE OF TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR OF WILLS,
ATTORNEY, &c, b Undertaken and Executed.""
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.
Hongkong, 19th March, 1908.
COLD STORAGE.
chemistry will yot invent a means of doing it, and make room for our
"These reflections make one think of the
effect of such inventions and discoveries upon
the future of the earth's population. If food new shops at Nos. 33 &
were so cheapened as to cost one-tenth, as
much as at the present time, what effect would'
it have upon the increase in numbers 1,35, Des Voeux Road,
the more
as part of the nation's policy," the pre- mium were put on quality of population instead of quantity, would" the balance of power be shifted against highly developed patioas and in favour of the numerically larger once, or would the tide of empire turn in the other direction? All these {48
are speculations, on which the bistory of the past, as outilbed by students of populations, has thrown some uncertain light,
"But one thing le absolutely certalo, that the progress of invention and discovery is day
THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, TLTD, HATE 20W, 40,000 Cubic feet of by day laying out fresh fields for the willisation COLD STORAGE available at HanT POINT. of capital and at a faster rate than ever before Stores will be, Open at 10 AM and 4 in human bistory The pioneering spirit of disly, Sunday exceptad, to receive and deliver discovery it far in advance of the capacity of perishable goods
LANE capital to take up the handreds of loviling op portunities which are open for profitable anter
Bogin from TUESDAY, the. Srl
MARCH
Remember we will Remove to our Shops on the 7th inst.
DRAGON CYCLE
Hongho
DEPOT