Matis.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRA!
THURSDA
TOBER 11908,
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
STEAMERS
TO MIL
For
NAPLES, GENOA, GIBRALTAR
SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and HAMBURG....
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE
and YOKOHAMA ............
MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINEA,” BRISBANE, SYDNEY and
LUTZOW!!
Capt. C. Dewa!
"PRINZESS ALICE"..........
Capt. G. Kolt
WEDNESDAY,
Noon, 7th October,
About WEDNESDAY,
7th October.
*PRINZ WALDEMAR
Capt, W. v. Senden.
THURSDAY,
5 P.M., 8th October,
KUDAT and SANDAKAN.
embill
Middle of October.
For further Particular, 'apply
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINĄ.
Hoogkong, 35th September, 1908.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES,
EUROP via SUEZ CANAL. "SERVION, NO and From
TO and FROM JAPAN via SHANGHAI,
...
No. 1 DOCK. Length inside 614 ft. Width of entrance, top 35 ft.; bottom 75 t Water on blocks, 27.5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours.
No. 2 DOCK..
Length Inside, 876 ft. Widtbfor entrance, top 60.5 ft. bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blocks, 26.5 ft. Time to pump out, 2 hours.
“HESE DOOKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama harbour and the attention TH
Captains and Engineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vossals and Machinery of avary description,
NEW
VATION
SINSPEKING
KRSITY:
Some time up, the Board of Education in Peking obtained permission from the Empress- Dowager to establish" a ficht class National University to the capital, which is to constat & colleges, ir
Chinese Ilterature. 2-Science. 3-Foreign languages 4. ❤Medicine. 5-Engineering." 6Commerce,
---Mining, E-Agriculture.
Each of these colleges is to be instructed and governed by only experienced foreign and Chineso teachers, who are to be engaged from foreign countries with the exception of thous teachers who will take charge of the instruction of ancient Chinese literature.
Now the difficulty has not been in the lack of fands, because the Emprum-Dowager has an ready granted the samef Tis.1,000,000 formes
The plast and tools are of recent, parteinn for dealing quickly and cheaply with work and a larga stock of material is always at hand, (plates and angles all being tasted bying the marding expenses, but in the selection, Lloyds survayam),"
Two powerful Twin Scmw Towboat are available for taking Vessels in or out of Dock, and for taking Selileg Vessels to or qui of the bag. The fouting derrick is capable of lifting is tons. ·
Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Roofs, Bridge Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises.
Tanden will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be
guaranted.
of the teaching and governing staff
Although telegrams have been sent to the various Chinsus Ministers accredited to the courts of foreign countries for competent for oiggers and foreign educated Chinese for fil ling the responsible positions in the proposed university, yet only Lord Li Ching-fang and H.E. Wu Ting-fang have recommended some
replied an yet: peraoss, while all the other ministers have not
'This, coupled with the time it requires to
The cost of Decking, and repair wok, will be found to compare favourably with that build the premises, randers it impossible to of any port in the world,
Telephone: Nos, 878, 506, or '081. Telegrams, Dook, Yokohama
Liebers, Scotts, Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905.
Codes A. B. C. 4th and 5th Edt,
A., and Watkins.
Shipping Steamers.
JAVA-CHINATAPAN LIJN.
REGULAR THREx-Weekly" SERVICE
BETWEEN
JAVA, CHINA, AND JAPÁN,
-Second-half-
On or about
„First” Fulf Oct, Second ha
Oct. Becond ball
Steamer
From
Expected on or About
Will leard for
JAVA
First, half Oct
SHANGHAI & JAPAN
“JAPAN
Oct/
JIKINI
JAVA
Sex nd-half
TJILATJAP...
JAVA
Second half Oct.
"TJIMAHI.
JAVA
First half
JAVA
JAPAN SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI
Oct. Second half Oct. First hall
Nov.
THIBODAS
VÀ
First half
JAPAN
Nav.
Nov. First half Nov.
CAPTAINSTM-
TO FAIL ON STEAMERS! FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA.....POLYNESIEN ' ............ Broc....................ath Oct., P.M. MARSEILLES, VIA FORTS.VILLE DE LA CIOTAT...Barillos 13th Oct., at I F.M. THILIWONG. "TJIPANAS".** SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA... TOURANE... Lancelis ...,26th Oct; Fis
MARSEILLES, 714 PORTS.CALEDONIEN... Martin 27th Oct, at 1 .M. Transhipment on the Co.'s Steamers at Singapore for Bataviajat Colombo for Calcutta, Bombay and Australia; at Port Said for the Levant, Constantinople and Black Sea.
Through Tickets to London la Paris from £37.to ap to £71,10, 20 hours' railway from Marseilles to London.
47%
Interpretars moet passengers at their arrival ja Marsellias
For farther particulars, spply to
La
Hangkour, 29th September, 1008,
P. NALIN,
AOTING' AGENT,
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.
CHARGEURS RÉUNIS.
FRENCH STEAMSHIP Co.-HEAD OFFICE: PARIS.
ALLROUND-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:
20
Dhique opportunity to make a tour in North-Chine and Japan with the Greatest Speed
Saety and Comfort. Transpacific: VICTORIA (B.C.), VANCOUVER, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO.
Connecting with the Canadian Pacific Railway. FREIGHT to OVERLAND - ............e-t-time? PASSENGERS to OVERLAND and EUROPE)
via VANCOUVER,
YOKOHAMA VANCOUVER....3 DAYS..
LONDON and PARIS...28
Homeward: MEXICO, RIVER FLATE, BRAZIL LA PALLICE, LIVERPOOL,
VIA MAGELLAN STRAITS
Proposed Sailings:
* AMIRAL OLRY3th Oct. + CEYLAN
......26th Nov.
↑ CORSE
New Twin Screw 16,000 Tons displacement, rst class accommodation, splendidly equipped with single berth cabins.
Intermediate class and rates of passage.
-All round the world ticket by these boats, &c.
T
For further Particulars, apply to
Honghong, 19th September, 1908,
NALIN, FRENCH-MAIL-OFFICE-
[460
WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP
COMPANIES.
HONGKONG-WOOHOW
LINTAN" and "SAN-DIA
LINL
FAIL FROM HONGKOKO TWICE, A WEEK AND COMPLETE THE ROUND TRIP IN 4 Days.
Art These steamers' bave Excalient Saloon Accommodation, and are Lighted Throughout by
Eléctricity,
The Steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and have Accommodation for a limited number of Saloon-Passengers, and will take Cargo to all Netherland India Ports on through Bills of Lading..
For Particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to
Telephone No. 375,
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
YORK BUILDINGs, ist floor,
Hongkong, ist October, 1908.
MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.
FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG. CANTON AND KOUANG-SI
S.5. " PAUL BEAU,” 1,900 tons, 14 knots.
AS. CHARLES HARDOUIN," 1,900 tons, 14 knots.
Toe speedieri, mast lexgriously appointed and punctual stormers on the liar. Departure from Hongkong at to PM. (Saturdays excepted); Departure from Canton at 5,15 P.M. (Surd ys excepted),
open the university for the reception of students before the end of 1910, as desired by H.E. Chang Chib-teng, Comptroller-General of the Board of Education; who in conjunction with the Mongol President, Jung Ching, is doing his best to promote Western learning in China, with a view to prevent the Chinese students from suffering ill-treatment and despisement at, the hands of foreigners, when they go out to seek for up-to-date education for future services to their own country,
Thus it is the intention of H. E. Chang to enable those Chiness students who have com- pleted their studies in the various Provincial colleges in China, to further their learnings,in the proposed university, without going out to foreign lands in future.
"HE'Unders
PUBLIC
· FOR" ACCOLTIT OF
the 3rd October
Sales Rooms, No. 8, Dei
-corner-of-Ice House Stron
A LARGE ASHORTMENT OF JAPANESE CURIOS.
Comprising
GOLD DAMASCENE WARE CAR IVORY FIGURES and ORNAMEN OLD BROWARE, BOWLS VASES BRASS FLOWER POTS, VASES, KIN KOAN SATSUMA VASES, BOWLS WALL PLATES, INCENSE BURNERS, MOTHER O PEARL INLALD SCREENS, PANELS, SILK-EMBROIDERED WALL HANGINGS, TABLE COVERS, BED: COVERS CHERRY WOOD CARVED CABINET SQW CASE CHERRYA WOOD CHAIRS, TABLES and FLOWER STANDS, &c, &c
pat so
OLD TAPANKE ARMOURS, CLOOKS, and CARVED WOUD SUUDHAS
Catalogues will be issued. V TERMS AS USUalia
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers,
ongkong, 28th September; 1908
To Let.
TO LET
ATHERLEIGH, CONDUIT ROAD,
HA
·A HOUSE in Wong-net-CHONG ROAD, LA HOUSE' in RIPON TERRACE. .OFFICES In YORK BUILDING.
GODOWNS in PRAYA EAST, BLUE BUILDINGS, and No. 158, DEN VAUX ROAD next to the Hongkong Hotel FLATS in MORET TERRACE.AM No. 10, DES VOUX ROAD CI N TRAL,
1st Floor
3
1dly to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY 00, ED- tina, king, ist October, 2008
TO LET.
166
FIRST FLOOR of No. 6 QUEEN'S ROAD, Central, containing 6 Rooms Servants' Quarter.
The Empress Dowager fully realizes the importance of the proposed National Universis and
ty in Peking, and Her Majesty promises to give more money if the Tis.210,000 are insufficient-China Critic.
CHINA'S CURRENCY,
Chisene Public Opinion says:—A great many foreign papers are now advacating what they consider to be the best policy for China to -adopt in,the matter of a financial.policy, The general consensus of opinion seems to be that China should adopt a 'gold standard. With this, we cannot agree. We emphatically deny" that China needs a gold standard.) q
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co., Honorang, 22nd May, 1908,
TO LET.
ODOWN÷NG SA, DUDDELL
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
SENT & AGENCY.CO% Hongdong, rst October, 2008,
Kowloob.
TO LET
The majority of our people deal in compara A HOUSE I KNUTSFORD tively insignificant sums of money. They buy" their market produce with copper cents and even the insignificant but useful copper cash.
No gold-using country in the world has a coin
of such a' simll value as the " copper cash * of China Without this medium. of ex- change, of so diminutive a value, the mil- lions of China would be unable to live For two or three, cash, less than the old and now obsolete English farthing the Chinese coolie is able to obtain a day's sustenance". Tora the currency of the country into gold and, like the farthings the diminutive coins called "cash" will vanish, and, we shall have the "unemployed" in its place..
Apply tom.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., ID, Hongkong, rst October, roo8.
TO LET.
Figors of No. 4: Des Voous Road FFICES and ROOMS on the fat and 2nd Central (formerly occupied by Mosses. Shewan, Tomes & Co.)
Apply to THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT E, D. Saitoon & Comit
Queen's' Road Central," Hongkong,'oth June, 1908,
Intimations
GREEN ISLAND, CEMENT COMPA
LIMITED,
For Chica there is not only to be coo sidered the origival expense of changing a currency from an errailc silver, copper and alloy basis to a grid one, but the ground of giving an adapt rule item of exchange in the smallest village of the interior which must be considered. Suppose for instance that China adopts a "gold" dollar" standard, similar to that in use in Americi, what will be the pro portionate value of one (brass or copper) cash Where will the effect of this gold standard be come most beneficial? Will the people in the In Casts of 175 Re, net 85,50 per Cak interior benefit by getting their goods at cheaper rates than at present if a gold
to Big of standard" is adopted?
The gold standard if introduced will prin cipally benefit the foreign merchant and the
These superb steamers carrying the French Mall are fitted throughout, with Electric Light so-called "dealers" who trade with him in the and Facy 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 applyšu
Fongkong, 28th March, 1908.
EYES
BARRETTO & CO., Agents.
RIGHTI
N. LAZARUS, OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN;1 CORNER OF D'AGUILAR STREET AND QUEEN'S ROAD,
THE OLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS IS WILL last your eyes free of charge, and if they are wrong will put them right.
BRAVERY FINE AND EXHILIKATING. farther information apply to
Spectacles for all
Lenses Ground.”
"All kinds of Repairs,
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRL,
WEST RIVER BRITISH 3.2. COMPANIE
för Illustrated Booklet de "Defectiva 5lgh;
21, John Street, 256)
treaty ports. I he inferior markets of China. at the present day are not seriously affected by The fluctuations of exchange." Here we wish to state that several months before the merits chant to the fresty ports makes his bargain with, the foreign imponer his "drummer" "bar [22 taken bis order and fixed his price, etc, with the counity retailer. The vagaries of exchange, In the interm, have no interest whatever for this the real purchaser of the goods, w
~~At present China's currency is und subtedly
a terribly muddled condition. We have the
a purely hypothetical medium, of values. We have dollars as variegat colours on the mythical coat of Josep have subsidiary coinage, good dest
ua: We fraudulent, which is of unknown Hava copper Cents which also are of varying. repuls and which cause great trouble to the Customs official owing to the constant transport
of the better quality to the provinces where
Inferior
coinage is graded off on the credulous
native, par
With the trader in the treaty ports or bis foreign confrers, we may need a synchronisa, Non of finance for our export and when this happy time arrives we trust that we may be in
& position to convert our curren standard which we may desire. time, looking at Japan as na ezkaple
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