HONGKONG
ELEGRAPH MONDAY TUNE I
Mails.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
Fox
NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS,
GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON,
ANTWERP and BREMEN
STEAMERS
TO SAIL
BUELOW"
.............................. ) WEDNESDAY, Capt. H. Förmes.........
Noon, 3rd Jane,
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE Į " KLEIST";
and YOKOHAMA
Dapi. R. Meyer......
„About WEDNESDAY,
3rd: June.
MANILA, ĮNEWGUINEA, BRIS->
THURSDAY,
No. 1 DOCK. Length inside 514 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft., bottom 75 ft. Water on blocks, 27.5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours.
No. 2 DOCK
lichear that cling
the fungus, the odour of
toinbre silence, which cur
On the bloss languid petale that atrew:
the soaking ground.
My
then the brake on my angry exc shuffling of feet
“Length inside, 875 ft. Width of There are few towns of any size to speak of rushed into the room
entrance, top 60.5 ft. bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blocks, 26,5 ft. Time to pump out, 3 hours.
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THESE DOCKS are conveniently stunted in Yokokama harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineer is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description..
The plant and tools are of recent patters 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 sarveyors)..
Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats ars available for taking Vessels in or ont of Dock, and for taking Sailing Vessels in or out of the bay. The foaling derrick is capable of lifting 35 tons.
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that do not possess at least one house having
the reputation of being haunted.
nciscs proceed
sea of dust created For choice it is a detached residence situ- ated in its own grounds and reached by whiteness from which there rosu. Amidst falling timber, a small bed
winding avenue where some of the hardier' shrubs and flowering plants strive with commendable tenacity to pass a struggling and precarions existence, waging perpetual warfare with the noxious weeds and rank grass, that wine and twist in desperate efforts to throttle the adversary. The former represent the work of man, the well regulated sober life, amidst crowd of rakes, loose livers, given up to depre. dation and untidiness and flourishing on the laxity that has been permitted to obtain.
Such a place should for preference have been the scene of a ghastly murder, in which weak nest and purity were sacrificed to strength and vice, where jealous passions or sordid tempia tions struck the felon blow, or at least where the legend of a mysterious disappearance of the
gathering strength with time, g
Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Roofs, Bridge previous occupant has been handed down
5 P.M., 18th June. Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the promises
Tenders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be guarant.ed.
BANE, SYDNEY and MEL- BOURNE
"MANILA:"
Capt. Minsten.
(" BORNEO "
KUDAT and SANDAKAN,
Capt. F. Sembill.....
About the end of June.
For further Particulars, apply to
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
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of a Japanese dwarf beckoning over his right shoulder to unseen friends, the bed only to find them crambling forward I grasped the slender, iron pillars
and, and now I could fool the fist of a child drumming on my heart and for the first tims
chill of fear crept over me, as I realised strength giving way! before the cantibuons beating. With a cooperaio effor buru away and rushing downstairs ipad over the oft, earth, diring to look back only at the turning of the avenue, when it appeared to me a crowd of men and women were leanirg over the front verandah gesticulating rod jab. bering, pointing me out with mock ng Gingers, and jeering at my cowardice. Banting with breathlessness and terror written in my face I gained the highway, at the other tids of which sat un pid, Malay adjusting the bait 10 his fah- ing tackle, A sudden calmness came over me and as he glanced up at my appearance.he plow.
M THE TH been to the rumah hantu, and bas seen what it in forbidden to look upon. Let him kasten to the place where his fathers worshipped, so that the spirit of both Mabamet and lua may rest upon him, giving peace to his heart, for is not Allah the Merciful greater than all the powers of darkness ?”
The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that stillness of the dying night; and the burriedly nodded his hood, saying, of any port in the world,
Telegrams, "Dock, Yokohama," Codes A. B. 0. 4th and 5th Edt.
A. 1, and Watkins.
Telephone: Nós, 376, 608, or 881.
Liebers, Bontts,
Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905..
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA,
Hongkong, 29th May, 1908.
MELCHERS & CO.,
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES.
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ OANAL.
TO and FROM JAPAN via SHANGHAI.
FOR
4
Shipping Steamers.
JAVA CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
REGULAR THREE-WEEKLY SERVICH
BETWEEN
JAVA, CHINA,” AND JAPAN.
JAVA
JAPANTM
Steamer,
From
Expected on or about
Will leave for
TO SAIL ON
TIPANAS
THIBODAS
TJIKINI
T}ILATJAP..
TIIMANI .....
TJILIWONG.
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SHANGHAI
JAYA.
First half
June
First hali
Juno
JAPAM
SHANGHAI
JAYA.. JAYA
First half
Лице
First half
Jang
Second half
Juve"
Second half
JAVA
JAVA
SHANGHAI
JAPAN
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June.
STEA VERS CAPTAINS SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA.....POLYNESIEN...B10. 8th Jane, P.M. MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS ........ERNEST SIMONS...Girard
La............, 9th Juno, at 1. P.M. SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA....CALEDONIEN ...... Ma tin.......22qd' June) 'P.M. MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS TONKIY.........Charbonnel... 23rd Jane, i P,M...
Tracshipment on the Co.'s Steamers at Singapore for Batavia; Colombo for Calcutta, Bombay, and Australia; at Port Said for the Levant, Constantinople and Black bea
Through Tickets to London via Paris from £27,10 ap to £1,10, 20 hours! railway from Marseilles to London.
Interpreters meet passengers at their arrival in Marcill
For further particulars, apply to
Hongkong, 17th May, 1908,
L3D
On or about
First half June First half
'June
· First half'
Juop
First half
June Second half Juna Second half
'jas
The Seamers are all fitted throughont with Electric Light and have Accommodation for a limited number of Salaca Passengers, and will take Carge to all Netherland India Ports on through Bills of Lading...
For Particulars of Freight and Passage, Apply to
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
P. NALIN,
́ACTING AGENT,
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.
Telephone No. 375,
York Buildings, ist-door,”
Hongkong, 27th May, 1908.
CHARGEURS RÉUNIS.
FRENCH STEAMSHIP Co.-HEAD OFFICE: PARIS.
ALL ROUND THE WORLD LINE.
Outward: ANTWERP, DUNKIRK, LA PALLICE, MARSEILLES, GENOA, NAPLES, COLOMBO, VIA SUEZ, SINGAPORE, HONGKONG, CHIN- WANTAO (Peking, Tientsin), KOBE, YOKOHAMA,
GENOA TO HONGKONG IN 30 DAYS, NAPLES
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Unique opportunity to make a tour in-North-China and Japan with the Greatest Speed,
Saaty and Comfort,
Transpacific: VICTORIA (B.C.), VANCOUVER, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO.
Connecting with the Canadian Pacific Railway, "FREIGHT to OVERLAND - .................................
PASSENGERS to OVERLAND and EUROPE via VANCOUVER,
YOKOHAMA VANCOUVER
3 DAYS.
14.
LONDON and PARIS...26
Homeward: MEXICO, RIVER PLATE, BRAZIL, LA PALLICE, LIVERPOOLT
VILMAGELLAN STRAITS.-
Proposed Sailings:
↑ AMIRAL MAGOM..... 4th Juno:---
* AMIRAL EXELMANS 25th July.
† OUESSANT .......................27th Aug.
1 MALTE....
1 CEYLAN
I CORSE...
No passengers. Intermediate class and rates of passage.
12th Oct. 16th Nov. 11th Jan.
New Twin Screw 16,000 T. displac,, 1st class accommodation, splendidly equipped with single berth cabins, All round the world ticket by these boats,
For further Particulars, apply to
Hongkong, 8th May, 1908,
P. NALIN FRENCH MAIL OFFICE,
(460
WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP
HB Steamers
TH
COMPANIES.
HONGKONG-WUCHOW LINE.
LINTAN" and "SAN-VI*
FIG FROM HONGKONG TWICE A WEEK AND COMPLETE THE ROUND TRIP IN 4 DAYK. steamers have Excellant Saloon Accommodation, and are Lighted Throughout by LIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS IS EVERY FINE AND EXHILIRATING,BEZA formation apply 10-)
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HUTTERFIELD & SWIFE,
MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.
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FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG. CANTON AND *KOUANG-SI.
S.S."PAUL BEAU," 1,900 tons, 14 kudis.
8.S. "CHARLES HARDOUIN, 1,900 tons, 14.knotr...
The speediest, most luxuriously appointed and punctual steamers on the lius. Departure from Hongkong at 10 P.M. (Saturdays'excepted), Departure from Canton at 5.15 2.1. (Sundays excepted),
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'It' is corlaid at any rate, that sounds have bean beard, which could have proceeded from no natural source; interrupted footfalls in the
stup of the passing grass-culter tempted by the nearness and richness of the spoil, betrays, a feverish anxiety to lengthen the distance from the house, at which he casts furtive and fre quent glances of fear while plying his sharp sickle.
Such a house there is in Singapore, but for | obvious reasons details had better be avoided, since the Asiatic owner may saturally feel aggrieved at any references which might tend to depreciate, what he has so long hoped might become the property of an unsuspicious pur" chaser.
But the land boom has come and gone, and
be opportunity of acquiring a charming sites a rock bottom price has somehow been allowed to pass. The place has gone to wreck and rula, the woodwork brokes and worm-eaten, the iron rusty and crumbling at the touch, the brick. work affected by an unhealthy damp, and the garden a tangled mass of creeping jungle shrubs with bera and there a la roots and bulbs that were once tended by a former dwel ler. About twenty years ago, the owner-a gentleman of Continental nationality, was found dead in bed, and as he had led a somewhat eccentric life and was known as a dabbler in chemistry, there had arisen a native rumour that other occupants, of a less harmless char acter had been seen gliding behind the trees in the garden watching to spring go the un fortunate passer-by.
He had kept but one house servant, an old Japanese, who each morning went forth to do the necessary marketing, and declined all anful attempts to be lad into discussing the affairs of his master, so that the peculiar mode of Hving both of master and servant leat a colour to the vague stories that floated around- Therefore, although the medical man who' had been called la, certified the cause of death to be natural, the Malays and Chinese were, wiser, and declined to accept such a simple verdict. Who was the tall stranger muffled in a long black robe that had been seen at long intervals coming out of the gateway, and always disappearing with, rapid steps in the expiring twilight?" What was the explanation of the frequent expla sicos, and the piercing cries that had been heard by more than one suspicious listener? No, the doctor Tuae might be very wise but be had not heard what was known to them, or
bas-
-Clan la Singapura Free Press
Notice of Firm
INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING CAR
and
EXPRESS TRAINS Co
(THE
GREAT TRANS-SIBERIAN ROUTE
HA
TO EUROPE.)
TAVING been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, we shall be pleased to give any information as to rates of passage, &c, in connection with above,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
Aganti.
Honokang, 110 July 100%,
Intimations.
PAST BREING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE,
FRESH SUPPLIES ALWAYS KEPT IN STOCK
BY
SIEMSSEN & Co,
Agents for:
HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA, Hongkong, 29th July, 1007:
TYPEWRITERS
he might have observed some of those secret FOR SALE, REPAIR AND HIRE signs on the body, which it is well-known are always to be found on the person of those serving the spirits of evil. We
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Built for a European residence it was÷ac- quired by an Arab after the death of the eccentric Mr. Mand bad bean let to three
PRICE VERY CHEAP.
different occupante, none of whom stayed NEW BICYCLES
longer than a couple of months, and on my mestioning the matter to one of them, with whom I was acquainted, and who had felt burriedly after the experience of one night
These superb steamers caring the Freach Mail are fitted throughout with Elecule Light only, he assured me he would not have the ni Fans and wage specially built for this trade. Excellent comine.
The Company's Own Wharf near Wing Lok Street. Canton Agents Messrs. E. Pasquet & Co
For fortber.particulars, please apply to
Hongkong, 28th March, 1908,
Intimation.
BARRETTO & CO., Agentfor
house at a gift, but firmly declined to discuss the subject further or afford the slightest enlightenment,
One Sunday morning, when passing the gateway," emboldened by the bright son, carlosity led me to venture up the avenue to
(HUMBER) $100 each
Repair Undertaken,
the frost of the house. Not a soul way visible MOTOR LAUNCHES
and an 8 broken silence rested over all, even the twittering of birds being conspicuously absent The, door of the large dining room dowasi fis opened at a touch, rusty iron and rotten woodwork falling before it. There was
IMPERIAL BREWING COMPANY, ohing however to attract attention, only *
LIMITED
PURE CREAM BEER.
For samples and prices please apply to
dark emptiness, damp with a smell of stagnant water. Yet the imagination suggested that this exposure to the light of day was resented as an, Intrusion and peopled the place with ghastly in- water threatening vengeance on my aggressive proceedings.
The stairs creaked under my feet, and the
FOR HIRE
from $2 per hour-
SOLE AGENT FOR
THE
broken rails of the banisters lay across hers FAMOUS HUMBER
and there. The front verandah with a broken chair and a round table covered with the, dust of years, boasted the only articles of furniture felt,The doors were closed and the windows shut on all sides, and as I pushed my way fes the side posts and Antel fell with soft crash on the shaking floor, like a dried skeleton
WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.ot of which the tap and life had long since
BARRETTO & CO
CYCLES
DRAGON CYCLE
DEPOT
WEST RIVER BRITISH SS COL