Mails.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDN BDAY APRIL 14 1900.
NOTABLE WIRELESS FEAT
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
STEAMERS
TO BAIL.
WEDNESDAY,
Capt. G. Meisen keskeisere
About WEDNESDAY, 2111 April.
FOR
NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS," GOEDEN*
GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, Capt. B. Wilhelmi .........
ANTWERP and HAMBURG
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE) " DERFFLINGER *.............
and.YOKOHAMA ................ «romana)
—MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINEA,)
BRISBANE,. SYDNEY and MELBOURNE
KUDAT and SANDAKAN.......
"PRINZ BIGISMUND "
Capt. D. Lenz
'I" BORMBO" nam
21st April.
No. 1 DOCK. Length inside 514 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 75 Waterlon blocks, 27.5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours.
T
No. 2 DOCK. Length Inside,.875 ft. Width of entrance, top 60.5 ft. bottom 45.8 Water on blocks, 28,5 It. Time to pumplout, 8 hours,
'IESE DOOKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama kubair and the attention of Captains and Hoglosem to respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and mpairing. Vaasals and Machinery of every description.-----
The plant and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with work and a large, stock of material is always at hand; (plates and angles all boộng taxied by Lloyds sy on).
Two powcial Twin Scraw Towboats are available for taking Vassola in or out of THURSDAY,
Dock, and for taking Sailing Vessels in or out of the bay. The fosting derrick is capable 2nd April, 5 P.M. of lifting 15 toda...
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· { .... Capt. F, Samblll ..................
Beginning of May.
For further Particulars, apply to
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS & CO.,
"GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG" & OHINA.
Hongkong, 13th April, 1909,
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES.
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.
TO and FROM JAPAN vIR SHANGHAI.
FOR
CAPTAINS
STEAMERS
TO BAIL ON SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA,.,OCEANIBE.........36th April, P.M. MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS ERNEST SIMONS...Girard......... 27th April, at a rat.. SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA ... POLYNESIEN Brocoth May, F.M. MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS TOMKIN. Charbonnel...th May, at 1 P.M:-- - Transhipment on the Go's Steamers at Singapore for Batarla; at Colombo for Calcutta, Bombay and Australia; at Port Bald for the Lavant, Constantinople and Black Ser,
Through Tickets to London via Paris from Z17.10 up to £71,10., 20 hours' rallway from. Marselfies to London,
Interpreters moet passengers at their arrival in Marseilles.
For farther particulars, apply to
Hoogkong, 13th April, 1909
P. de CHAMPMORIN,
AGENT,
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.
MESSACERIES CANTONAISES.
FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN Hongkong. Canton and
KOUANG-SI..
5.$." PAUL BEAU," 1,900 tons, 14 knots,
k.S. "CHARLES' HARDOUIN,* 1,900 tons, 14 koois,
The speediest, most luxuriously appointed and punctual sisamers on the lisa Departure from Hongkong at to r.M. (Saturdays excepted). Departure from Canton at 5.75 7.M. (Sondays accepted).
These superb steamers carry og the French Mall are fitted throughout with Electric Light 'and Fans and wars specially built for this trade. Excellent culsins. . -
The Company's Own Wharf near Wing. Lok Street and its berth-in Canton opposite
Shamoen,
For further particulars, please apply to the COMPANY'S OFFICE at Shameen, Canton,
- Hongkong, 9th October; 1908,į
or to their Agents BARRETTO & 00, Hongkong.
HONGKONG-MANILA-
ILOILO-CEBU.
Regular Steamship Service between Hongkong and above ports.
Steamship
Tonnage
Captain
5.S. MANDAL"
8.5. "RIGEL".
Erickson MANILA
Slarant...
Freight or Passage, apply to
Saillog Dates
About soth April,
£1909. About 30th April, 10061909.3.5
BARRETTO & CO.,
gay
IN COMMUNICATION ALL WAY FROM
(YOKOHAMA, TË PUGET SOUNDARAA
The Seille Pon Intelligencer willen av fol- lows in its leave of March; C%-With its wires Ins equipment the Nippon Yusen Kaisha steamship Aki Maru has performed the feat of | completing the passage of 4,240 miles from Yokohama, Japan, to Fuget Sound without being out of communication with either shore. A ra.
of the achievement was made upon the ar- rival of ther steamship In Seattie at noon yester.
day Capt. J. Nagao, master of the Aki Maru,
explains......." that "the 6 wireless service was maintained by the aid of other variels of bis, line and government stations in Japan and British Columbia. To a point in the Pacific: more than 1,000 miles off the Japanese coast the lastruments were almost constantly taking-
messages direct from the Japanese land station.
As the dai proceeded toward America ske was passed by another steamship in the Nip. poa Yuson Kaisha fleet, bound for Japan. By relaying messages, communication with Japan was unbroken until a steamship was picked op proceeding out of Puget Sound, which, was able to relay messages to stations on the west' coast of Vancouver island. The steamers of tha Nippon Yuron Kaisha fleet were among" the Grit trans-oceanic steamibips to install
Storm Launches of Eteel or Wood, Lighters, Stes! Buildings and Raob, Bridge Work, and all-inds of Machinery are made on the premises.
Tenders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be wireless apparatus. The service was at first ggaranted“.
The cust of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that ‚of say port in the world;
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Telephone: Nos, 876, 506, or 681. Telegrams, "Dook, Yokohama,” Codes A. D. Q. 4th and 5th Eât.
Liebers, Bootts, A. 1, and Watkins.
„Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905,
PHILATELIC NOVELTY
_spitable for
PRESENTS.
BAGS OF USED POSTAGE STAMPS.
Containing
All Asiatic Stamps.
4,000 for $8,00
3,000 11
7,00
2,000 5,00
70011 2.00
150 1,00
All Chinese Stamps. 4,000 for $4.50 3,000 H 3:50
2000 "
2.50
1,000 11 1.50
- 500 11
1.05
Also Stamps in Packets and Sets, and other Philatelic Requisitas at prices to suit evary.
body.
To Let.
TO LET.
SHOP and DWELLING HOUSE, No. 78,
Queen's Road,
Apply to--
S DAVID & CO.,
A
Prince's Buildings. Hongkong, 25th March, 1909.
1) LET.
1
VIEW POSTCARDS, ALBUMS, HINGES, NO. CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit
• Raphael Tuck's Toy BoOKS AND RELIEF SCRAPE,
MANILA CIGARS AND CIGARETTES,
Ecc Inspection invited.
56].
GRACA & Co., No. 37, Des Vœux Road.,
FORNITURE WAREHOUSE; ;
LI KWONG LOONG & CO.
隆事
ÜARINET-MAKERS AND ART DECORATORS, from Shanghal, has re-opened their FURNITURE STORE
at
No. 39, DES Vaux ROAD CENTRAL. The only Shop in Hongkong with this name,
יין
THERE HIGH-OLÁSS FURNITURE W
of every description can be made to order in any design required..
Have been patronised by the Hongkong. Club, Hongkong thotel, Telegraphy Oo, Meth, A. S. Watson & Co., Firms and other leading Establishments in the Colony, to whom reference (dan ba-bada ás to the Superior Workmanship and Materials of the Furniture, &c., supplied,
Mass. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., write as follows:-
"We have pleasure in stating that Mr. Li KWONG LOONG furnished the Annexa to our Dispensary and gave us every satis-*| faction."
(Sd.) A. S. WATSON & CO. '25th May, 189r..
ORDERS punctually attended to, and CHARGES most moderate.
AN INSPECTION INVITED. Reaprong: 64% Angmit, tónl
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THERAFION MAY NOW ALSO BE OBTAINED IN DRAGEE (TASTELESS) FORM. THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY
TRADE
THERAPION
-ROAD.
operated under a limited-power equipment, ‚which permitted communicating "over dis
tances up to 100 miles. Within the past fow months the latest appliances and inventions have been installed, and with additional trans- mission power the ships have been able have their messages read at a distance of "nearly 1,500 miles. Officers of the vessel state thing. while their new record is gratifying `and dua in a large measure to the presence of other vessels with wireless equipment, soy considerable in- "eraasd'injika’number of Pacific klaamotu carry=" ing wireless, will make the latest feat an every. day occurence.
*LAND OF THE NAKED"PEOPLE".
A-GARDEN CITY IN AFRICA::--
A highly interesting description of the peoples of Central Africa and thair cultivation of the [292 land is given in a report by the Governor of Ugauda, Mr. H. Hesketh, Ball, on a tour through the Eastera Province, just issued by the Colonial Office. He says in
"Bukodi--meaning the land of the naked people is a vast plain of very fertile soil, sheiving gradually up towards Monst Elgon, Pasturage is good, and all kinds of grain crops thrive to perfection. Most of the country, in deosely populated by primitive and warlike tribes, who possess no political organization, and who, for the most part, are absolutely asked and "unashamed. My trip through the Bugishu country filled me with amaze
A. HOUSE I WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD.
A HOUSE is KIPON. TERRACE. OFFICES YORK BUILLING. GODOWNS I FRAYA EAST, BLUE BUILDINGS, and No. 165, DRE VIRUX ROAD next to the Hongkong Hotel, FLATS I MOLston TerjaCK.
Isi Floor.
No. 10, DES VOUX ROAD CENTRAL, Apply to m
**HE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.” Hongkong, 1st April. rong.
TO LET...
TOS, 51, 53, & 55, WONG-NEI-OHUNG
ROAD.
Apply to- HONGKONG & KOWLOON LAND & LOAN CO, LTD. No. 8, Quear's Road West, Hongkong, yth March, 1909,
TO LET.
HOUSES in AUSTIN AVENUE,
Apply lo
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Езза
E. M. RAYMOND, cfb Messrs. E. S. Kadoorie & Co.,
St. George's Building. Hongkong, 8th April, 1909.
TO LET.
ODOWN No. 5A, DUDDELL STREET.
Apply to~~
GODOWN
THE HONGKONG LAND, INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 1st April, 1909.
TO LET.
ta
ment. We travelled for four days through
enchanting scenery, and traversed a coupiry. the like of which is probably not to be seen in any other part of Africa. The great green mary of Mount Elgon, 14, confeet high, tower up into the clouds, and its mighty, buttresses atretch far out into the surrounding plalo, Between these spurs lie broad and gently slop. ing valloys, each with its swiftly flowing stream of limped water.
WEATHER
STORM
PROM THE HON
OBSERVATORY
METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALE.
Meteorological signala aze hoisted on the mast in front of the Water Police Tsim Sha Tsui for the infor of vessels leaving the port. necessarily imply that bad weather la expecta hare :-
Signal:
Ro
A COME
{"polut'upwards
VA.COME point upwards and UKUM
·below.
A DEUT
A-CONE point down wards and DRUM below
5.
A CONE point down. wards
6. A CONE"
point down. wards and BALL below
BALL
8&CONE *point_upwards and BALL balow
Indicates a Typkocs to the North of the Golonys
Indicates a Typhoos wn to the Worth-East
of the Colony.
Indicates a Typhoon"
to the East of, the Colony,
Indicates a "T
Typhoon to the South-East) of the Colony.
indicates a Typhoon
to the South of the Colony,
indicatean Typhoon
to the South West of the Colony.
Indicatesa Typhoon: to the West of the Colony.
indicatesa Typhoon
to the" Borth-Wes · of the Colony,
Red Signals Indicate that the centre i believed to be more than 300 miles away from the Colony.
Blich. Signal Indicata that the centre is
believed to be less than 300 miles away from
the Colony,
hoisted only when typhoons exist in such The above signals will, as heretofore, be positions or are moving in such directions that information regarding them is considered to leaving the barbour. be of importance to the Colony or to shipping
....
Those signals sen repeated at the Harbour Ofce, H.M.S. Tamar, Green Island Signal Mast, and the Fixgstaff on the premises of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company at Kowloon
'URGENT SIGNALKA
In addition to the above, when it is expected. that the wind may increase to fall typhoon "The ́oya was almost equally charmed by force at any moment, the following" Urgent the sight of almost unparalleled cultivation." Signal will be made at the Water Palice Right through the smiling valleys and up to | Slation, and repeated at the Harbour Office —– the very summits of the hills nothing but continuous. fields of bananas, millet, and · THREE EXPLOSIVE BOMBS, AT INTERVALS wimbi could be seen. It is no exaggeration to state that over 80 per cent, of the land is under cultivation. The fow green patches of grass that one could see here mod there had evidently. only been spared so as to provide pasture for the herds of cattle and goats: Fig
↑ CALM SECURITY AND PRICE.-
** The whole of this "garden is cut up into small rectangular plots, each carefully defined - by hedges of giant thistles. So clearly and, nestly are the boundaries of all the plots mark-- ed that the countryside reminded me of the vineyards of Switzerland or of Southern France; and the whole scane gave me an impression of so much calm security and peace, that it was hard to realise that we were in the heart of wildest Africa. N
“Not only do the Bagisha eschew clothing of
OF TEN SECONDSUS
A Black Crois will be hoisted at the same time, superior to the other shapes,
NIGHT SIGNALS
The following Night Signals will be exhibit- ed from the Flagstaff on the roof of the Water Police Station at Kowloon, the Harbour Office Flagstaff, and H.M.S. Temas,
1. Three Lights Vertical, Green Green Green, indicates that a typhoon is believed to be situated more than 300 miles from the Colony,
Thras Lights Ves al Green Rod Greet indicates that a typhoon, is believed to. situated less than soo miles from the Colony
III. Three Lightstical, Red Green Red, any sort, but they are addicted to dannibalism | indicates that the wind may be expected
of a particularly revulting knd. They do not increase to fall typhoon force at any moment, bust and kill people for the sake of their flesh; TWO AIRY RODMS in house on but they consider that burial is a wanton waste 1. BELILIOS TERRACE, Erst row, entrance of food. The population numbers 400,000, from Robinson Road. Moderate Remal: For The northera Bakedi take amusing precautions particulars, apply to MARE..
with regard to bachelors.
“This'nozcanful and birtly popular remedy, used-in- Continental Hospitali by koord, Kostan, Indect, V-paused athors, combissa all toy dividerata in be singly a 4 medicine of the kind, and surpassos warys thing Lesherty wmployed.
THERAPION NO. THA
ably short time, often a lave dazu only, removes all dise charges, effectually supersoding 'Enfections, the use of which does irreparabin harm by laying the foundation sickture and oinar serious dianaon, Indysadlary, piles, irritation of the tower bowel, cough, bronchitis, Adhma, and some of the more trying complainte of this kind, will be found autooleidoglymicasisen, affording prompt relief where other woli tried rusundice kays been powe komm,
THERAPION N02
purity of blood, acurys, pimple spots, blotches, palus and weak
of come out th
and all dinsson fee which a bera Ton much fablom to waploy mercury, sarsapariling Boo; to the destruction of sufferere seath and rak of health. This preparati
• partire the whole system thungh the Blood, and thon roughly eliminates all polsonous malted from the body,”
THERAPION N03
thou, thepleseeds, and all clater-wag constances of disipation, worry, overwerk, wurly perocjenorms, he. T pomanes surprising power in maturias strongsis, and Neanor to those se dering from merenjing kulisonous bi
tong row bence in hot, unhealthy cibuang (2)
THERAPIONE
Blytta obrirse Khons Trade Marki which sau facilities
T
“HOUSEHOLDER,”
"Cjottonphony Teligraphik Houčkong, sth March, 19c9
(359)
TO LET.
OFFICES and ROOMS on the rat and and Floors of No. 14. Des Vocar Road Central (formerly occupied by Messrs. Shewan, @Tomas& Co.). -"Rests low.
pet Apply toda
THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT,
E; D, Sassoon & Co,
Queen's Road Contrat. Hongkong, 24 h February, 1009.
R
desa la Nott
Bathroom saudɔnsa, WYNDHAM STREET
known as a Col
BOONE
HUMAN-RIGEON-COTES-
"All the Inds and unmairled young man arb made to sleep in small specially constracted hots raised high up so posts. The door of these buts are so small that the occupants have
to wriggle in on their bellies. Access is only gained by a ladder, which is carefully removed as: 1000 as the young men have been safely disposed of for the night, I was told that among some of the tribas Gah aches are strewn under these human pigeon-cotes, so that fell. tale footprints would indicate any nocturnal excursion."
No. III. Signal will be accompanied by the Explosive Bombs, as above, in the event of the information conveyed by this signal belog fru published by night
~~These Night Signals-will-
the Day Signals at sunset, necessary, be altered during the
/ SUPPLEMENTARY WARNÉ For the benefit of Native Craft and passing Ocean Vessels, a Cone will be exhibited at cach of the following stations during the that any of the above Day Signals are in the Harbour.
Sue Gin Rock.
Stanley
·Cape Collinson, A