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THE HONGK NG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER
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VERONG.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., Ltd.
BREMEN.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE
FOR
STEAMERI
TO BAIL
WEDNESDAY,
NAPLES, GENOA ALGIERS)) "GOEDEN"
GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON,
ANTWERP and BREMEN
Capt. B. Wilhelmi
·SHANGHAI, TSINGTAU, NAGA-) "DERFFLINGER
SAKI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA3 · Capt. G. Meiners ......
MANILA, YAP, NEW GUINEA,
BRISBANE, SYDNEY & MEL- BOURNE.....
"FRINE WALDEMAR "
Capt. F Isekę
16th December.
About THURSDAY,
17th December.
THURSDAY,
SP.M., 31st December
BORNEO
KUDAT and SANDAKAN..
Beginning of January,
Capt. F. Sembill'
1909.
For further Particulars, apply to
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
WELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.
Hongkong, 12th December, 1908,
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MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES.
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via BUEZ QANAL.
TO and FROM JAPAN via SHANGHAI.
Fon
STEAMERS
CAPTAINE TO BAIL ON SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA „TONKIN.. «Charbonnel...21st Dec. 1.M. MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS ................................DUMBRA ............................Boyar ....................2nd Dec., t.1 P.M. "SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA.....SYDNEY ......................................Hearic..................... 4th/Jan./09, P.M.
MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS ERNEST BIMONS Girard... fb Jan./09, at IP.M.
Transhipment on the Go.'s Steamers at Singapore for Batavia; at Colombo for Calcutta, Bombay and Australin ; at Port Said for the Levani, Donstantinopin and Black Sea.
"Through Tickets to London via Paris from £17.10 up to £7130, so`hours' railway from Marseilles to Londan. *-
Interpreters mest passengers at their arrival in Marseilles,
For further particulars, apply to
Hongkong, 8th December, 1908.
No. 1 DOCK.
Length inside 514 ft Width of entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 75 it. Water on blooks, 27.5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours,
TH
No. 2 DOCK.
Length inside, 375 ft. Width of 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 altuated in Yokohama harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vassels and Machinery of every description.
The plant and tools are of recent patturas, 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 Vassals in or ant o Dock, and for taking Silllag Vousels in or out of the bay. The Boating derrick is capable of lifting 25 tons.
Steam Launches of Bisel or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Roofs, Bridge
Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises..
Tenders will ha máda -up when required and the-workmnoship and material will be guaranted.
FLOUR, RATE.
CONFEZINTS OF YUGET BOUND”MILLERUPA;
The Seattle Pest of Nov. 11 says—There was an unexpected turn in Oriental rates you. terday, whan W, D. Beasap, agent for the Transpacific Tariff Bureau, announced that the rate on flour 10 Hongkong had bean reduced from $3.50 to 53 per ton of 2,000 pounds. This `change took effect at onca, although there was Do sailing for the Far East yesterday,xcept the Nippon Yasen Kaisha nar Tosa Marw, whose cargo was not affected.
RY OF PITIFUL HARDSHIP TOLD BY A
·LITTLE GIRL
In the Editor's letter box yesterday mor ing (Nov, t) was the following pathale linlo missive loquant in its very simplicity from an Edmonton child of ten im D
Dear Mr. Edoser, if you please will you pat my letter in your paper than Perhaps sum kind Lady or Gentleman will help my dada' has been out of work nearly a year and be
is not well I have two sisters and two little It is understood that this sudden action was ↑ brothers they were all put out in the street a taken at the request of Puget sound milles fourtaight go they have no food, no Site, and who have been complaining of poor business | no boots and no where to go Has they were in the Orient. The suspicions of the millers taken in for a day or two but cannot stay there. have been aroused by the heavy shipments of | Dada as bean befor the Board of Gardians a flour from Portland while the movement of this fountaight ago they promised himfa ̈day or cammodity from Pagat sound has been ex- two's work he has been before them again t tremely light for months.
day they say that he must wait till next whak they did not "give him any food I am staying with my Grandmother she does all she can for Dada but Grandfather is very old my little brothers and sisters wake up ip the night and cry for bread and. mother bas. not aof-to give them I am ten years old and my name iss
That the millors suspect that their compati tors on the Columbia river am getting some `unfair advantage is an open secret. What this is no que will state positively, but it has been intimated that rates on four are being secretly cat from Portland. No direct chargon of this | caldre have been laid bafore the Transpacific Tarifi Borers, but by laqueado the ärgertion bas been made...
White "it is known that the reduction was mads to afford Puget sound millers an even break, another expected result in to head off the
10.
*- LILLIÓN HARDINO, My Dada does not know I am writing this.... A representative of the Morning Leader who
called yesterday at the address kiven, was able to satisfy himself that this pitiable story of un employment was unhappily true in every detail.
PATHER IN ILL HEALTH. A
| competition of tramp tonnage which is likely to enter the fold at this 'season., One-tramp.
For over 12 months the father has been steamer is now on the Bound loading for Japan | ruffering from abscesses in the head, acceler and the members of the tariff bureau are an rated by consumption. He is a house-painter, xious to get all the business possible. Cargo a Berkshire man, 35 years of age, and highly respectable. Despite his ill-health he has been lines have been deprived of overland freight | able to do one or two small jobs during the they are closely guarding what local merchan- past 12 months, but he cannot now obtain em disa is offered for transportation.
ployment of any kind,
The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that has been light for months, and as the Oriental of any port in the world,
Telephone: Mon, 876, 506, or 881,
Telegrams, "Dook, Yokohama," Godes A. B. 0, 4th and 5th Edt. Liebers, Scotta, A. 1, and Watkins.
Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905,
Shipping Steamers.
MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES,
FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG, UANTON AND KOUANG-SI
S.S."PAUL BEAD," 1,900 tons, 14 knots.
8.5. * CHARLES HARDOUIN," 1,900 tons, 14 knots,
The speedles,Imost luxuriously appointed and punctual steamers on the line, Departure from Hongkonghi to P.M. (Saturdays excapiad). Departure from Canton at 5.15 P.M. (Sundays excepted),
£39
-These superb steamers carrying the French Mail are fitted thronghoot with Electric Ligh and Fans and were specially built for this trade. Excellent cuisine.
The Company's Own Wharf near Wing Lok Street and its berth in Cantor opposite, Shemoon,
For further particulars, please apply to the COMPANY'S OFFICE at Shameen, Canton.
or to their Agents BARRETTO & CO., Hongkong.
P. NALIN,
ACTING AGENT,
QUEEN'S BUILDINGL
Hongkong, 9th October, 1908,
REQUIAL TERRE-WYYTI SERVICK
LAVA-CHINA-JAPAN
EK WEIN
JAVA, CHINA, AND JAPAN ́
AN LIJN
Stammer.
Expected or
From
Will leave for
On or about -
or about
TJIBODAS
TJIPANAS TILIWỒNG
JAPAN
First half Dec. First hall
Dec.
First bull
Jan..
TJIKINI
JAVA
First, ball
"Jab.
TJIMAHI.....
JAVA
First ball
Jan.
TJILATJAP...
Java
First half
JAVA
SHANGHAI
JAVA
XJAPAN.
SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI
First half
Dec. First half
Dec. First half
Jav.
First ball
Jan, First hall
Jan.
Feb.
First half
Feb.
The Steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric_Light and have Accommodation for
a limited number of Saloon Passengers, and will taka Cargo to all Netherland India Ports
on through Bills of Lading..
For Particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to
· JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
„Telephone No.375,
·YORK: BUILDINGS, 1st floor,
Hongkong, 30th November, 1908.
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WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP
THES
"HH Steamers
COMPANIES.
HONGKONG-WUOROW
*LINTAN" and "SAN-UI*
LINE.
Entimations.
SAINT-RAPHAEL
TONIO, RESTORATIVE, DIGESTIVE WINE
Very paleṭable.
Known throughout the world and prescribed in all cases" of Anaemia, Deblity and Convalescence, to young woman, children and the aged. Invaluable in hot climates,
DOSE: One wins-glass after the two principal musta,"·
Each bottle of genuine VIN, SAINT-RAPHAËL bossa, in addition
to the registered trade-mark :
(8) The WARRANTY STAMP of the UNION DES FABRICANTE,
(3) A METAL SKAL advertising CLETRAS."
ÍB ́& MELISSA and MINT cordial
CLETEAS which surpasses all others by its
purety and faultless preparation. Te be taken on a lump of sugar,
COMPAGNIE du VIN SAINT-RAPHAEL., Valenos (Drome-France),
WALDBECK MAŬ38 3301 & 0ɔy Hoagkong.
INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING OAR
and
EXPRESS TRAINS 03.
(ΤΗΣ
GREAT TRANS-SIBERIAN ROUTE
TO EUROPE,)
AN APPEAL.
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Under special tariff No. 2, affective October 1, the rates on floor and whoat in sacks to Yakobama, Kobe, Moji and Nagusaki is 53 to Shangbai and Manila, 54; to Hongkong, $3.50, and to Amoy, $4.5. The only change
There are five children: Lillie, aged ten ; | Nellie, thisteon; Effis, sevas; Willie, five; and Archie, two. The two youngest are terribly ill-nourished. The children have, for a long time past, been living with the"grand-pareols,
is the reduction of 50 cents in the rate to ❘ and the old people,, despite their brava effons S Hongkong. This schedule applies from Seat to battle with adversity, can hold ou no longer," le, Tacoma; Everette, Victoria, Vancouver, "We have tried to keep ourselves rospact- New Westminster, Astoria and Portland. The able, and to get a bits of food for the children lines which are party to the tariff agresmant are and their parents, but we have travelled as far. the Canadian Pacific, Nippon Yusen Kaishu, as we can go across the bard road, and can ge Portland & Asiatic Steamship Company, China no farther," said the grandmother. Mutual, Ocean Steamship and Great Northern Steamship companies and Weir steamship lines.
BACIS PROM A SCIENTIST'S NOTE BOOK.
Brandy is about 50 per cent alcohol.
* New South Wales has no workhouses...
The Simplon tuowal will holds the record for length...
The first gummed postage stamp was insued- about 1840.
The tropical seas contain the greatest per-. centage of salt,
/
Colombo has four tides daily, and Malta hai none at all
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The old woman has denied herself even the necessaries of life in order to keep her son and grandchildren golug," There is not; a sheet on" the bad,, and everything, available. žar been pawned.
It was not until half no hour before the Morning Leader representative called that the father had an inkling of what- his child-a bright little lassie-bad done,
GUARDIANS' SYMPATHY.
ent
***This very morning," said the man, *!I up to the board of guardians, but they would not give me anything. They said (this ha emphasised with strong resautmont) that I had' never dose a stroke of work in my life.?.53:
The man has lived for 15 yaum, in ́Edmon- ton, and there are many neighbours who would willingly refute the statement if necessary, ↑ The man has been tossed from one house to another, owing to his inability to pay - tha, rent.
The Salvation Army' is operating in fifty-four He and his family were, in fact," to be turned. countries and colonies.
out of their two mi drable moma last evening, There is no alternative but the street,
The earth's atmosphere varies, from 120 to 200 miles in depib,
The man completely broke down while tall.. ing his story, and asked if any reader of the
Tight employment of any kind..
The blind population of the world numbers Morning Loader could sisist him in Godlar sixty-four out of every million,
He belongs neither to trade union our friend-
Smoking lobacco is how dispensed from ly.society. pinoy-in-the-slot machines in London.
Some of the ice fields of Greenland are said to be a mile and a half lo thickneır.
Siberia, long regarded as a barren Country, is now producing a great deal of foodstuffs.
Three hundred Berlin streets are planted with 44 oco treas, which are said to represent a válce of S199, xo Nearly a thou and gardeners and assistants are comployed to take care of them.
Every year there ara ¿to deaths from hunger and destitution in Great Britain..
The amount of wheat ruined by the rust is ex imated at $5,000,000 per year.
'The product of the British shipyards amounts
to 20 or 75 per cent, of the whole
* Coffee was first produced in Arabia early in the Afteenth century.. It was not imported into England until about 165“..
Married men of Belgium bara two votes and and the single ones but one. Priests and some other privileged parsoon bave three,
A new piece of highway appliance it in use in Washington, D. C., for the 'cleaning of snow from the gutters. The apparatus is-u two- wheeled vehicle drawn by two homes, and have ing a steel blade about eighteen inches in width. projecting beyond the wheel into the gutter at an angle with the curb, which blade is con- trolled by a lover operated by the driver from his sest, it was found that à plough can clean the snow from approximately three miles of, guiters per hour. A labourer using a shovel. will not clean much more than half as many 'milès of guitars in sight hours as a golier plough will in one hour,
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Intimrations.
GUNS
RECT from the manufacturers at lowest' pilces. (12 bare - Double · Brechlosdary from 30% each. Instrated catalogue of latest model Sh Guan Combination, Guns, Fporting Rif., &c. post free. 1). JAMES & REYNOLDS, George Street, Misories, Lon dop, E,C. England.
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COLD STORAGETM
[HE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY! LTD. have now 49,000 Cubic feat of COLD STORAGE available at RAFT POINT). Stores will be Open at to AM, and A. PA dally, Sunday Excepted, to rescire and deliver perishab'e goods.
WE FARLANE
Monzkneg, send fana, vont.
THERATION ́MAY NOW ALSO BE OBTAINED IN DRAGEE (TASTELESS), FORM. SELF CURE NO FICTION! MARVEL UPON MARVEL:
HO. SUFFERENT NI NOW, DESPAIR, but wyk, saning a doctorʻa till or jalbog sk
sich of quackery, may safely, speedily) and Port Sally cure klerself wilkout the knew e
zond party.” By the introdution of 112 NEW FRENOM 'REMIDY}",
ERAPION
a completa gaiolation has been wrought in chlad
•partment of madicsă science, whilst thousands bará kram restored to beslis sed - kapplatama saha ker youro pogýšonsky had boon marsky drugging daz
HIRAP ON No. 1-A Sovereign: Lions, the mag of which dan inseparable baru by
2) serious diseases.
laying the foundation wiJAMIN NA
THE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN CONVENT, CAINE ROAD, begi most respectfully to APPRAL to the Residante.cf Hongkong and the Coast Ports, for their kind patronage and sipport, sad desires to stata that she will be pleased to receive orders for, all kinds of NEEDLE WORK.
Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Calls four-year course in agriculture has been revised with a view to introducing into the first: two end Collars renewed on öld ones. (AVING, been appolated AGENTS 401 bere bid ENCARA LATERA
yours a number of wobjects bearing directly upon farming, instead of confining the fric the
¡years of the course i sa barstolom, to
scientific work,
With the idea of increasing, the practical value of the lostinction in agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, a twa-yent course bas. been arranged to includo the maximun amount of scientific and practical work. The presented to cre
HAVING
LIL FROM HONGKONG TWICE A WEEK And Complete the Round Trip in « DATE. VALUE [For Those stanzen have Excellent Saloon Accommodation, and are Lighted Throughout by
THE OLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS IS Pased to give any information as to sales
passage, &c, in connection with above.
SHEWAN, TOMES. & CO“
́VERY FINE AND EXHILIFATING.
For Further Information apply
BUTTERFIELD & BWIRK
RIVER BRITISH 8.5. COMPAT
Lidles and Children's Under-clothing, Chit dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery,
of Materials can be suppilad, if required.
The Superiors will also be most for way FAFER, of old ENVELOPES to
sto Books for the Children of the Poor Eet
Gradu 2 from high school
THERAPION; No. 2-A Syverkkos 1 Ramady for primary sig secondary, sha senúcions, ulcerations, palus and swellings of the Spinta, and all those complainte which smarown and samaparilla ant popularly but weren cost
hold system thronger, and mo SANKHERAPIONAMOY 8:
vitality, along lanan