Intimation.
POWELL'S
GENTLEMEN'S
DEPARTMENT, 28, QUEEN'S ROAD.
NEW GOODS
LIGHT WEIGHT
ZEPHYR
SHIRTS,
$20, half-doz.
THIN
SINGLETS,
from $11.50 dozen.
LISLE THREAD
AND
SILK-PLATED
SOCKS,
Exclusive Designs and Colourings..
THIN CEYLON
AND
SILK & WOOL PYJAMAS.
INDIAN PITH
HELMETS,
from $4.00 each, Good quality.
A.S.A.
SWIMMING
COSTUMES.
BATHING
SUITS,
One and two-piece.
POWELL'S
Queen's Road
GEON
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY MAY 20 1908.
Consignees,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
THE Steamship.
"ARRATOON APCAR,"
having arrived from the above Poris, Con sinces of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed at once, at Consignees and expense.
Cargo remaining on board after 4 P.M., of the zoih inst, will be laoded, at Consignees' risk and expente,...
Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE are requested to take IMMEDIATE DE LIVERY of their Goods from alongside, Buch Cargo impeding the discharge of the vesici will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
DAVID SASSOON &«Co., LIMITED,
Agents.
Esra ongkong, 18th May, 1908.
FROM EUROPE.
HE H. A. L. Steamship
THE
"ANDALUSIA,"
Captain Block, having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and, to take immediaté delivery of their goods from alongside,"
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before TO. DAY.
Any Cargo impeding ber discharge will be landed at Consigade's risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong. kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Co Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
•
All Claims must be presented witbia tep days of the steamer's arrival here after which dalo, they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 25th inst., will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 25th inst., at 3. P.M.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINJE, Hongkong Office.
Hongkong, 18th May, roo8.
1513
14,000,000 UTSTERS
INFURIATED FISHERMEN FOUND THEM. TO. DUST,
Four million oysters were destroyed, at Cancale by infuriated fishermen on April 7...
This immense cargo arrived in a vessel from St. Malo, which anchored off Cancale. The local fishermen immediately held a council of war, at which it was, decided that forcible meatures should be adopted to protect, the. local market for their own products. In digoant aponkere declared that profits were already almost at vanishing point, and that this importation would absolutely kill their trade.
16 408 silently, without a spark of light, show- officers on the ridges or in the Kittle
bre watching the horizon.
10 uide the port the flotills farms up in order of attack, and increases speed till under the bows of each boatshows a white cloud of spray
Auction.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The torpedo tubes are ready and loaded,THE Undersigned have been favoured with instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, each with its Whitched-though of late the practica ase of torpadoss has been forbidden in the British Navy in most cases for economy,
Then the search for the hostile flest begins.
It may be long and tedious search, for the enemy is cenain to be cruising.
LIFE-REVIVING PUMP
A body of 150 fishermen was thereupos AMERICAN PROFESSOR'S GREAT--"DISCOVERY. selected to capture the unwelcome steamer
New York, "April 2000; and destroy her cargo. They put out in boets and surrounded the steamer. Clambering The Virgicis scicotist, Prof. George Poe, says he hit invented an artificial respiration aboard, they took possession of the vassal, an !
mac ins for injecting oxygen into the lungs of brought her in alongside the jetty.
The sacks of oysters were then handed out, a patient at the poist of death. la the Jay emptied by the crowds on the jelly and pound. vernacular it might be called "the brass heart ed to powder on the stones. Not a single or the human lyre pamp,” shell was left intact, and the efforts of the local police to get near the scene of operations were frustrated by fishermen' specially told off to keep them away.
There were fierce struggles' between these men and the police, some of whom were badly injured by stones and the sticks wielded by the
fishermen.
The owners of the oysters have issued sum mosses for the destruction of their property.-- Advocate of India.
LIFE ON A TORREDOBOAT DESTROYER.
HARD AND ROUGH WORK.
"A Dog's life't". That is the way, the officer of years and experience describes ence in a destroyer such as the Tiger.
The professor, claims that the apparatus will be invaluable in cases al coma, or suspended "Thimation, or gas asphyxiation, The instru
meat is 18io, in height, consisting of two cylinders, corresponding to the ventricles and suricles of the heart, and the inlet and outlet Valves Double iubes enter the larynx and
ostrils of the patient one set drawing off the poisonous guide and gases from, the lungs, while the other is forcing in the life-giving охудев
Experiments have been made upon rabbits, the eye-witnessing "specialists declaring that the invention is sure to supplant the existing methods of application of oxygen to the dying, A pet rabbit was given two grains of morphine,
MONDAY.
the asth May, 19:8, and on the following days,
ALL THE FURNITURE
within the residence of the late Mr. A. H. RENNIE,
"THE FIRS," Magazine Gap Road.
Sale to start at a P.. oach day,.
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
COMPRISING
"American-make-Settees and Batstand combined with Bevelled Glait, Silk-embroidered Wall Haugings, Bronze and Brass Ware, Tipestry and Plush cavend sofas and Chairs,- Morocco Leather-covered Sofas and Chairs, Arge Assment of Cacios Carved Blackwood Ware, Carved Rosewood Desk and Chairs, Bronze Figures with Electric lights combined, American-maks Extension Dining Table and Chaira, Cabinets, Plate Chest, Lauble and Single Iron Bedsteads with Wire and Hair Maitresses, Marble-top. Walbilandi, Overmantela," Wardrobes with Bevelled Glass, Marble-top Bureau with Bevelled Glass, Glass, Crockery, E.P. and Silver Ware, Dioner Service, Carpet and Rugs, A number of Steel Engravinge, &n ALBO
&C
One Large Clock by John Noble, One Grainaphon's and Records, One Full-sized English: Billiard Table by John Roberts with Accessories complete, One fron Safe by Meilinks, One Lo of Books, A farge quantity of Wines add Spirius, Stores, &c,&c.”).
after which four ounces of ether were adminis A. tered. The physicians' unanimously asserted The machine "WAS naval that life was extinct. exist.applied, the effects of the poison and the anesthetic were off, oxygen was injected, and in three minutes the rabbit fumped up from the table and hopped away,
The apparatur was also turned on a human being who was hilariously inebriated, and made him to all appearances a sober citizen in less than five minutes., 1.
The work is bard; the food often atrocious when the vessel in at sea, for the simple reason that in anything like rough weather it is, im possible to cook or eat a meal jo nay comfort, the motion is harassing and violent—so harast ing and violent that it used some years ago. when the writer spent a day in a destroyer, to be a favourite pulime in torpedo vessels whening circulated in Virginia. He is called the ever they put to sea to arrange a sweepstake raiser of the dead, and has been obliged public-
Exaggerated stories of Pro. Poe's fame are be.
in the little wardroom, the prize going to they to insist that the machine retains, and does officer who drew the name of the last victim to ap create, life. He is inundated with letters beseeching him to revive people who have been succumb.
deat for weeks, months, and even years.
The invention is to be tested in the leading hospitals of the country.
The space below deck is cramped and con- Ained, intensely hot in summer, bitterly cold in winter, for the plates of the vessel are of the thinnest and conduct the heat, or cold, to per.. fection. All weight is cut down'to the utmost,
THE "SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS, or was cut down. jo' the older destroyers, of
'LIMITED.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
which the Tiger was one, and when the enor
Notice of Firm
A
On View from FRIDAY, the 22nd instant. Catalogues will be issued. TERMSA usual.
Hoogkong, 19th May, 19e8.
Entimations
CHAZALON & CO.,
6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
FRESH supply of French and English
preserves just to hand TRUFFLED SAUSAGE,...................
BREAKFAST BACON,
CALF'S HEAD & HAM,
PEAS & HAM,
PORC, MUITON & VEAL CUTLETS,
CHICKEN & HAM,
VEAL & GAME PATES,
MUTTON & CHICKEN CURRY,
ASSORTED SUPS, FRENCH JAM &
FRUITS IN SYRUP, &c Hongkong, 8th May, 1908.
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nously powerful engines were running at top INTERNATIONAL BLEEPING CAR JAPANESE MASSAGE,
speed the vibration was consequently most trying.
The older craft displace from 300 toss up. FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, LONDON Wards, and they are built for the 'most perilous
AND STRAITS.
HE: Steamship
THE
"CARDIGANSHIRË,” Captain Tyers, having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby in
her goods are being-landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong" and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consignees risk and expense. ..
•* ́No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining
undelivered after the 25th inst, will be subject
to rent.
All brokes, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godownt, where they will be examined on MONDAY, agih inst,, at 3 P.M.
No Fire Insurance has been effected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Agents. Boogkong, 18th May, 1908.
"MOGUL" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
{STA
STEAMSHIP "BRAEMAR," FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL AND
STRAITS.
ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their isk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon. Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whence and/or from the whatves delivery may be obtained..
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain ing undelivered after the 3rd instant will be subject to rent.
work that falls to fighting men in war.
In blockadé it is their duty to close in at night upon the the hostile port, facing the danger of floating mines, which again and. again damaged the Japanese destroyers off Port Arthur.. At other times they may have to attack the enemy's battleships. "The crew number some sixty officers and men, the officers being a lieutenant, a sub: lieutenant, a guader, and an enginess-lieuten. Apt. There is no doctor, for the simple reason that there is no room for him. :-
The officers are berthed aft in tiny cup. board, ep ning hot of a little wardroom, or in the wardroom, where they try to eat and sleep whep off duty. But their number is so small that they are almost continously at work, and hence, owing to the speedy exhaustion of her crew, a destroyer cannot long keep the sea.
The seamen are berthed forward and sleep to what are generally known as “lamory suits," thick, warm, garments suited to the chilly tem perature of a destroyer's forward
compartment. All the crew receive "hard-lying money, or A small addition to their pay to recompense them for the hardships undergone. The work is, indeed, cruel hard," as they would tell the public, and nowhere is" it harder than in the stokehold and engine-room when the destroyer. is running at any speed in bad weather.
For then she tosses and pitcter, flinging the men this way and that amid the whirling machinery, while the battening.down of the hatches makes the temperature and smell almost insupportable,
The deck when the boat it running at high speed in a seaway is almost costinuously
swept by the sea.
Everyone is in oilskins, and the waves from time to time-break over the little "bridge. forward, from which the vessel is worked. The difficulty of navigating a destroyer is thus
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre-really great, for there is no sheltered place on sented to the Undersigned on or before the acth prox., or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the aged insinut, at to A M.
4:
No Fire Insurance has been affected. - Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,
Agents. 1008. Hongkong, 16th May,
NOTICF
HE Paolic are hereby informed that so
·
Tango has been made in the Rates of Subscription to the Hongkang, Telegraph and they are warned" against paying more than TEN CENTS (10 cta,) ver Sin;
deck.in which to spread a map or chart.
Yet, despite the scute discomfort of the walk, the incessant drenchings, the alternate suffering from heat and cold below, the diffi culty of eating and sleeping, and the perpetual danger, destroyer, li'e is not dopopular in the Navy,
The severity of discipling is gematig relaxed so long as the men do their work, and they are permitted to smoke, and enjoy themselves if ejayment is possible at hours when in the orthodox warship, they would be doing drill or holystonias the docks. HoThe officers
expected,
ofia: destroyCE” ATO
Ind
and
EXPRESS TRAINS 09
F. "KAWASAKI,
GR
RADUATE
pf
(THE
KOBE MASSAGE SCHOOL
GREAT TRANS SIBERIAN ROUTE
TO EUROPE.
TAVING been appointed AGENTSTM for
AVING
the above Company, we shall be pleased to give any information as to rates of psisage, &c., in connection with above. -
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
agents.
› Hongkong, em July 100%,
Intimations.
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Reen island cement company,
LIMITED.
PORTLAND GEMENT.
Casks of 175 Dr. Det $5,50 per Cask Factory.
Bage of ago. Da net $8.35 per Bag
ex Factory SHEWAN TOMES & Co
General Managers," Hongkong, 18th April, 1908,
A BROKEN-DOWN SYSTEM.
This is a condition (or disease) to which doctory give BAY REMs, but which few of them realy wudarstand. Itisimply weakness-abroak-down, it were, of the vital forces that sustain the sy tom. No matter what may be it causes (for they are almost numberless), Itaymptoms are auch an same; the more prominert being simspiessaan, soase of prostration or weariness, depression.of apisite and want of energy for all the ordinary Adairs of le. Now, what aloneisabsolutely en Walla ali rock casce la inerrazad vitality-vi gös VITAL STRENGTH & ENERGY. to throw off these mould foelings, and experience proven that a sight scoods the day tile may be more cartainly secured by a course of THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY
THERAPION NO. 3.
than by any other kwa zombination. Su sur l
• so it is taken in socordance with the peaked. direction accompanying it, will the shattered health be restored
THE EXPIRING LAMP OF LIFE MELIGHTED UP AFRESH,
And a new eliteson Impacted in place of what had so lately soopad worn-out d up and Talusison, Tala wonderful medicament is purely Tegetable and Inascuous, is agree to the taste suitable for all constitutions and conditions in althorpes; and it in difficult to imagine a case of disease or decangement, whoonmule seatures are show of debility, that will and be meodily and
d by tali navme-falling Facu | permanently glen in destined to GER INLO," obrom wyking that had preceded it for tide
RAPION
No. 3bc, PRAYA East, Wanchai, Нонакока, Telephone 564.
"EFFECTIVE_Treatment
BERI-BERI AND RHEUMATISM.
Attendance at Patients' Residence, Hoogkong, 2nd May, 1908.
THE
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FINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND
MORTGAGE CO, LD,
&cc,
(CAPITAL PAID UP...$1,250,000)
Loans on Mortgage of House Property, Goods received on Storage. Adyances made on Merchandise, Loans made on the Provident System.
(Rates and Particulars an application).
THE OFFICE OF TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR OF WILLS, ATTORNEY, &c., Undertaken and Executed,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
General Managers.
Dongkong, 19th March, 1908,
THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY
TRADE
THERAPION
M
MARK
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This successful and highly popilar romedy, used In Continental Hospitals by Ricord, Kostan, Jobert, Vripras and others, combines all the desiderata to be Meek medicine of the kind, and auga's05 UTMEYİ Ping brite suployed.
THERAPION-No-1””. ・ably abbit Lion, oftetia law days on Celms, the aw of
charges, coactually superseding
sensors alt dia
which does irreparablebarm by laying the foundation ed sricisire and other serious diseases. In dysentery, pilas, irritation of the lower bowl, rough, bronchitis, gathe and some of the more trying complaints of this kind, là'
alfording prom på relief whore cliser trail trieda
will be found astonishing hammer bees Deat
THERAPION NO.2
of blood, scurvy, pimplu vysña, bleščkos, palas and awyd- Jing of Joisle, necondary "symptoms, gopis rheumatima,par and all diretises for which it insteen too minch a faktem to emplay momenry, arsaparille, or to the destruction. of sulfatus teeth and ruin of health, - This preparation puriñon the whole systan through the blood, and thos roughly eliminates all polsonous matter from the bedy,
THERAPION N0.3
Bos, sing susam, and all distressing consequences of: diad patine, worry, everwork, only erem, sacs, possess surprising power in autorike: Memngth'sad figose to those sularing from starwating infusnone of
MERAPIONE
Government
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneer.
Entimations.
COLD STORAGE
HE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, THE
LTD, bave now 40,000 Cobic feet of COLD STORAGE available at EAST POINT. Stores will be Open at 10 A.M. and 4 P.M. daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods.
WM. PARLANE Manager,
Hongkong, 32nd June, 100G.
PARST BRETING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE,
FRESH SUPPLIES
ALWAYS KEPT IN STOCK::
SIEMSSEN & Co.,
Agents for!
HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA, Hongkong, 29th July, 1907.
LEE YEE
HAIR DRESSING SALOON..
HAS ALWAYS ON HAND
GARS CIGARETTES
AND
TOILET REQUISITES
FOR SALE...
11, D'Aquilar STREET, HONGKONG,
Hongkang, trd September, 1907:
TYPEWRITERS
FOR SALE, REPAIR AND HIRE.
PRICE VERY CHEAP
NEW BICYCLES
(HUMBER)
$100 each
Repair Undertaken.
MOTOR LAUNCHES
FOR HIRE
from $2 per hour.
SOLE AGENT FOR
THE
FAMOUS HUMBER
CYCLES
DRAGON OYOLL
DEPOT