THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY
Hails
Intimations.
MARCH 5
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
No. 1 DOCK. Length Inside 514 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 78 it. Water on blocks, 27:5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours,
No. 2 DOCK. Length inside, 376 ft. Width of entrance, top:80.5ft. bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blocks, 26.5 ft. Time to pump out, 3 hours.
THESE DOCKS are conveniently situated to Yokohams harbour and the straation of Captains and Roglucers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking 3th March, and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description.
STRAMERS
TO SAIL
("PRINE WALDEMAR
Dapt. 1seki
About FRIDAY,
¿PRINZESS ALICE”
Oapt. P. Grosch Granır.
About FRIDAY,
FOR
YOKOHAMA and KOBE
NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS, GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and BREMEN .......
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SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBĖĮ "PRINZ LUDWIG •
and YOKOHAMA
Capt. F. v. Binzen................com.
WEDNESDAY,
Both March, Noon
The plans and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and chasply with work and a large stock of material is always at-bind, (plates and angios all belog tested by Lloyds' surveyors). **
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Two powerful Twla Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels to or on fath March. Dock, and for taking Salling Vessels la ex out of the hay. The boating denick is capable
of liftlug 13 tons.
Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Roofs, Bridge -25th March, 5 PM. | Work, and ali kinds of Machinery are made on the pismiker.
·MANILA, YAP, 'NEWGUINEA,) BRISBANE, SYDNEY and MEL- BOURNE
"PRINZ WALDEMAR
Capt. (suki
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THURSDAY,
For further Particulars, apply to
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
Hongkong, 2nd March, 1909.
MELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES.
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via BUM CANAL,
TO and FROM JAPAN vía SHANGHAI,
"STEAMERS—
Tenders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be guaranted.
7900
OFF
Blus la the sky and blue the water, and to port and starboard placid green hills that lie grand and beautiful about the city of Naga saki. Trees and abrubbery, one acre of which would make a mora basutiful balaalcal garden:
than say artificial creation since Adam strolled,
FROM THE HONGKONG OBSERVATORY
METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALS
Meteorological signals,ars, hoisted on
in the delectable orchards of Eden. mast in front of the Water Police Station al
A little launch, white winged with form,
here,
Siraal
mot
steers straight for the liger. Ca ber spotless Tsim Sha Tsui for the information of mastars. deck little toy Customs officials stand in groups of vessels leaving the post. of twos and thress, for all the world like snapscessarily imply that bad weather is shot Nelsons. "Clear the gangway," shouts n bull-necked Plymouth quartermaster, a gigantic Gulliver follow compared with the midget men who a minute later come trip. ping on deck out of the lunch with a laugh and a smile. An American Bear me, who has been chawing cheap tobacco since wa left Shanghai and is still chewing, vows that af one of those carmine Japs touches his kit be
will shove him down a bunker. The Customs men pass quietly over the ship. They come down ali where we, the submerged tento, bive congregated. There is fire in the eye u. the man from Chicago, but there is no bunker trick, for the Customs man hits his hat and "vis les and is so delightfully polits that we could aus have received more countexy bad wo bean kings. I lift my hat to the man of Nippon who has good behaviour written all over him from bis tule tiny shiny boots to his little tiny peak
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Hero is a craft, a real creation of Nippon, with one gigantic towering, sail tibbed like a
French shutter-a buge scroll of a mail on which you could have written the Lord's Prayer in ren-foot letters. It is as if they warn holding: At Home in Mars and the hall carpet The cost of Docking, end repair work; will be found to compare favourably with that had rolled right down from there to Nagasaki. of any port in the world.
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Telephone: Nos, 876, 506, or 681.
Telegrams, " Dook, Yokohama,” Codes A. B. O, 4th and 5th Edt.
Liebers, Scotts,
Yokoheme, May 23rd, 1905.
FURNITURE WAREHOUSE.
LIKWONG LOONG & CO.,
GABINET-MAKERs and Art DECORATORS, from Shanghal, has re-opened their FURNITURE STORE
at
No. 39, DER VUX ROAD CENTRAL The only Shop in Hongkong with this name.
Wof every-description can be made to THERE HIGH-CLASS FURNITURE
order in any desiga muqazed,
A. 1, and Watkins,
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PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY
7.00 $0.
LIMITED.
TIME 1RLE
WEEK DAS.
7.30 am to 9.30 im ".....kvery 30 minutes. 9.30a.m. to 11,00 am. ...Every 15 minuter, 11.30 am to 12.45 p.m. ... Every 15 minutes. 12.45 pm. to 1.15 pm....Every to miantes, 1.15 pm. to 1:45 pm, ... Every 15 minutes. 1.45 p.m. to. 2.11 p.m....Evoy to minutes, 1.15 pm to 3.00 pm....Every 15 minutes, 1.30 p.m. tn 5.00 p.m. ... Every 15 minutas, 5.00 p.m. 10 8.00 p.m....Every 10 minutes
NIGHT CAR!.
un
And the sail drifts by, and behold 1. Nagasaki, lying like a jewel at the foot of green bille, 'and' up a hill more green than the rest a red road that lins sinuous among the trees and winds. -over-the-crest-to-end at Moji on the far side, "Moji so beautiful that the gates of“Paradise-
must be pear at hand.
But what of Nagasaki, and how 'can,one describe it? That were impossible. When you see it for the first time you want to pick it up' and wear it on your watch chain, or take it home and put it on the drawing-room manis!- piece for an ornament.,
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Barges are putting off from the shore crowded with little Noah's atk men and women and little toy boys and little toy girls. There is so much laughter and happiness real mother tincture of joy about them that one at first mistakes them for a picnic party instead of ́au average gang of coolers. Then the barges waar alongside and the men and boys and girls sort themselves out.. In a dash ladder platforms are run up from the barges to our buuksis, ladder platforms that look like hot- house flower-pot stands. And the women and
Have been patronised by the Hongkong 449 pm; and'y p., $45 pm to 11.15 p., girls spring on to them and take up their
Club, Hongkong Hotel, Telegraph Co., Messrs. A. 5. Watson & Co. Firms and other
-CAPTAINS.................. TO BAIL ON SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA CALEDONIEN ............................................15th March., F.M. " MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS TOURANE...Lapcelio...... 16th March, at x 2.M, SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA.....ERNEST SIMONS ...Girard)....29th March, P.M. MARSEILLES, VIA FORTS....NERA...................Martin....... 30th March, at i P.M.leading Establishments in the Colony, to
Transhipment on the Co's Steamers at Singapore for Batavia; at Colombo for Calcutta, Bombay and Australia ¡xt Post Bald for the Levant, Constantinople and Black bea.
Through Tickets to London via Paris from £37.10 up to £71,10, 40 hours' milway from Marsellies to London.......................
Interpreters meet' passengers atʼtheir arrival in Marsoliles.
For forher particulars, apply to "
Hongkong, and March, 1909
P. de CHAMPMORIN,
AGENT
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS,
MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.
-FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG, CANTON, AND
„KODANG-SI
S.S. "PAUL BEAU," 1,900 tons, 14′′kopts,"
HS. "CHARLES HARDOUIN," 1,900, tons, ra knots;'
The speediest, most luxuriously appointed and punctual steamers on the llos. Departure from Hongkong!at xo P.M. (Saturdays excepted). Departure from Canton at 5.15 P.M. (Sundays excoplad).
Thase superb steamery carrying the French Mall are fitted throughout with Electric Light and Fans avid were specially kulli for this trade. Excellent cuisine.
The Company's Own Wharf near Wlog Lok Street and its berth in Canton opposite Shameen,
For farther particulare, please apply to the COMPANY'S OFFICE at Shameen, Canton.
Hongkong, 9th October, 1908,
EYES
or to their Agents BARRETTO & CO., Hongkong.
RIGHT!
'N. LAZARUS, OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN, CORNER OF D'AGUILAR STREET AND QUEEN'S ROAD,
W
FILL test your gyms free of charge, and if they are wrong will put them right.
Lane Ground - All kinds of Rapalı, “ * Spectacles för all requiram
Ask, or waits, for Illustrated Booklet on "Dalactive Sight,
LONDON,
BALOUTTA 19, Bentinck Street)" John Strant, Bedford Row, W.0. Kanghong, dih March, 1928,
SHANGHAI
166, Nanking
whom reference can be made as to the Superior Workmanship and Materials of the Forniture, &c., supplied.
Mesars. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd, write as follows:-
"We have pleasure in stating that. Mr. Li KWONG LOONG furnished the Annexe to our Dispensary and gave us every satis faction."
(Sd) A. S. WATSON & ̈Co,
ORDERS punctually attended to, and CHARGES most moderate.
AN INSPECTION INVITED, Hongkong. 6th Augnat, 1859,
To Let.
TO LET.
HATHERLEIGH,' CONDUIT ROAD.
TA
A HOUSE in WONO-NEI-CHONG ROAD,
A HOUSE lu Ripon Terraçe.
OFFICES 16 YORK, BUILDING,
every all hous, SUNDAY!.
8.00 sm, to 9.00 am....Every 15 minutes, 9.00 .m. 10. 9.30 am. Everyʻjö minutes, 9.30am. 10 10,30 a.m. 1..Every 15 minotes. 10,30 m, to 11.00 .... Every to minutes, 11.45.m. to 12.00 noon...Every 15 minutes. 11.00 Noon 10,1.00 pm....Every 10 minutes. 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. ...Every 15 minutes 5.00 pm to 6.00 p.m....Every 10 minutas 6.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes' 100p.m. to 8.00 p.m. ...Every 10 minute'
NIGHT CARS as on Wash Days.. SATURDAY!. Extra cara al 3.15 p.m., 11.30 p.m. ind 11.45 pm.
SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at the Jompany's Office, ALEXAndra. BuildinG), Dis Vœux Road Central,
JOHN, D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hacking, ath them, ront,
"PHILATELIC NOVELTY
suitable for
PRESENTS.
BAGS OF USED. POSTAG 1 STAMPE. Containing :
GODOWNS I PRAYA EAST, BLUB | All Asiatic Stamps.
BUILDINGS, and No. 165, DES Vaux ROAD Baxt to the Hongkong Hotel.
FLATS in MORETON TERRACE. No, 10, DES VEUX ROAD DENtral
1st Floor.
Apply to-
4,000 for $8.00
3,000 1 1,000 »
7,60 5.00 700 200
"
.300 11 1.00
All Chipete Stamps. 4,000 for $4.50
3,073 1 3.50
2,007,
1,003. 1
·2.50 · 1.50
500 n 1,03
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Alto Stamps ip Packets and Sets, and other Philatelic Requisites at prices to suit every-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST· | body,
MENT & AGENCY 00, LD. Hüszkong, 1st January, 1009
GOOD
TO LET.I.
'OOD OFFICES at 4, PEDDER STREET,
Apply to JARDINE; MATHESON & CO., LTD Hongkong, 14th January, 1909,
TÓ LET.
·ODÓWN No. 54, DuDDELL STREET.
Apply to
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
·MENT & AGENCY CO, LD. Kangkong, 1st January, 1970 |
TO LET.
FFICES and ROOMS on the 1st and 2nd
Central (formerly occupied by Messrs. ShawLU, Tomes & Co.). "Rents low
OFIS No Mi Des Voeux Road
Apply to 20 THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT,
E. D. Sassoon & Do..
Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 14th February, 1900,
VIEW POSTCARDS, ALBUMS, HINGES, Raphael Tuck's Tux BooKS AND RELIEF SCRAPS, MANILA CIGARS AND CIGARETTES,
*&c.
Inspection invited
GRACA & Co.) ~No, 17, Dai Vœux Road”
Dentistry,
TSIN TING,
LATEST METHODS OF DENTISTRY,
STUDIO AT NO, 14, D'AQUILAR STREET,
REASONABLE FEES
Consultation Free. Hongkong, 10th Jung, 1904
Dr. M. H. CHAUN,
THE LATEST METHOD
AMERICAN-SYSTEM OF DENTIST
15. QUEEN'S ROAD Centrál, From the University of Pennsylvan is, 17,5,6
Hongkong, 16th April, 1905.
- A CONE' We point upwards
A CONE Point upwards :
and shUM below.
DRUM
A:CONT point down. wards and DRUM- below
SA CONE
point down wards
6. " A CONE. point 'down.. wards and. -BALL-below
BALL
8. A CONE
paint upwards and BALL below
Indicates a Typhoon
to the North of the Colony
indicater
to the North Ea of the Colony,
indicates a Typhoon to the East of the Colony.
Indicates a Typhoon" to the South-East of the Colony.
indicatesa Typhoon to the Bouth of the Colony.
indicatesa Typhoon to the South West
of the Colony..
Indicatesa Typhoon to the West of the Colony.
Indicatesa Typhoon
to the NorthWest of the Colony.
Red Signals Indicats that the centre is believed to be more than goo miles away from the Colony.
Black Signal Indicate that the centre is believed to be fair than you miles away from the Colony.
These signals are repeated, at the Harbour, Office, H.M.S. Tamar, Groon Island Signal Mast, and the Flagstaff on the premises of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company at Kowloon. •
positions in a zig-zag lion." In a moment hundreds of little baskets, little strawberry. The above signals will, as heretofore, be basket affairs, filled with, coal are being tossed hoisted only when typhoons exist, in such up from one girl to the other and emptied into positions or are moving in mich directions that the bunkers. The empties go flying back to Information regarding them in considered to. the barges, where the men have already filled | be of importance to the. Colony or to shipping scores of others. I have seen a fair number ei | leaving the harbour, basket tricks in my time, but this beats them all. And the workers laugh and chat and shou to one another. Then it is all over, the ladders are down, the hawsers loose, and the barges drifting back to the quay, And over the water comes that ceaseless ripple of laughter which seems to say: Isn't conling a joke, just one huge joke? Just as the ballet dancer appeare more attractive in the limelight, so doss the twilight add a greater charm to Nagasaki and its glorious hills, in the cool of the evening I watched the lights breaking out in red and -yellow and greau dou all along, the quay, and off the lantern-adorned verandabs of the tea houses among the trees
There run the 'rickabaws, each with its little rad light flickering across the water. It is as if the whole city were dusted with stars, Nagasaki at night, like a diambod, glitters. with a splaadid brilliance. From thousands of verandahs multi-coloured lanterne swing in the. breese.
And the little people walk along the quay and behold the glory of their city. In vain I look for a drunkard reeling home, for the mind of the Nippongin is too beautiful for that
And than a stillness falls over the city, and the last lantern flickers out among the trees, and darkness settles on the water goill the dawn ripens and the red sun of Nippon fismes in the sky.—MOKRO ANDERSON in Pall Mall Gazette, S
Intimations.
GREEN, ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,|| LIMITED..
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Casks of 375 bi. net $5.50 per Carà ox Factory.
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Lo Bags of go br. not. 88.45 ́per Bag ex Factory "SHEWAN TOMES & UG., General Managers Hongkong, reth 'August, roof.
URGENT. SIGNAL.
In addition to the above, when it is expected that the wind may increase to fall typhoon force at any moment, the following Urgent Signal will be made at the Water Police "Station, and repeated at the Harbour Office
THREE EXPLOSIVE BOMBS, AT, INTERVALS
OF TEN SECONDS. YOU
A Black Cross will be holsted at the same time, superior to the other shapes, sizes
NIGHT: SIGNALS"
The following Night Bigoals will be exhibit. ed from the Flagstaff on the roof of the Water Police Station at Kowloon, the Harbour Office Flagstaff, and HLM.S. Tamar. S
1. Thred Lights Vertical, Green Green Green, indicates that a typhage is believed to be
stated more than 300 miles from the Colony, II. Three Lights Veal, Green Red Green, indicates that a typhoon is believed to be situated less than 300 miles from the Colony,
III. Three Lights e tical, Rnd Groen Red," indicates that the wind may be expected to increase to full typhoon force at any moment,
No. 111. Signal will be accompanied by the Explosive Bombe, as above, in the event of the information conveyed by this signal being firm ́published by zight.
These Night Signals will be substituted the the Day Signals at sunset, and will," when necessary, be altered during the night.
KUPPLEMENTARY: WARNINGs,"
For the benefit of Native Craft, and passing. Ocean Vessels, A Cone will be exhibited at oach of the following stations during the time. 36 that any of the above Day Signals are hole of
o the Harbour
THE “HINA PROVIDENT. LOAN AND
CHINA MORTGAGE CO. LD.
(CAPITAL PAID UP: mom,$1,250,000)
Loans on Mortgage of House Property, &c. Goods received on Storage; AA GA Advances made on Merchandise, 0) Loans made on the Provident System."
{Rates and Particolars on 'application) SHAN THE OFFICE OFRE TRUSTEE EXECUTOR OF WILLS, ATTORNEY" ME, Undertaken and Rzac
SHEWAN TOURS & CO.
, 19th March," zp0%.
Gap Rock
Waglen.
Stanley,
Gape Collason,
This will indicate that there somewhere in the China Sea, and's Warning is hoisted in the Harboz
Farther details can always be given to Oçoan Vessels, on demand, by ülgnal, from “Lher