sails,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY NOVEMBER 16 1909
Intimations.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN.
No. 2 DOCK.
No. 1 DOCK.
Docking Length
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
Width of Entrance ...'80
Water on Blocks 28
+
515 ft. | Docking Length......376 ft.
Width of Entranco... 50
Water on Blocks 1.. a6
10
STEAMERI
· PRINZESS ÁLICE”,.
Gast, P. Grosch
Capt. F. v. Benteṛ
NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS; GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and BREMEN 299.99%. SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBRĮ "Prinz LUDVIO*'........... | About WEDNESDAY,
and YOKUHAMA ........................nsphere 5 MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINEA,)
BRISBANE, SYDNEY & MRL-
BOORN... Åpanciraneus/
TO ME
WEDNESDAY,
17th Nov., Noon.
17th Nov.
"PRINE WALDEMAR".
Oapt, F. Iseko.19 TERI
FRIDAY
3rd Dec., Daylight.
BORNEO *
Middle of November.
KUDAT and SANDAKAN.........api. F. Sambil.....
For further Kıtımları, apply 15
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG' & 'OHINA.
Hongkong, 5th November, 1909.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES.
FORTNIGHTLY SLAVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.
TO and FROM JAPAN vi■'SHANGHAI.
CAPTAINE
FOR
STEAMERS
1 TO SAIL ON SHANGHAI, KUBE, YOKOHAMA... ERNEST-SIMONS... Gizard....Nov. SHANGHAI, KOBK, YOKOHAMA....TONKIN... Charbonnel...zand Nov., P.M MARSEILLES, VIA FORTS ARMAND BERIC ...Guionnet 33rd Nov, at-1 P.M. MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS .. ERNEST SIMONS.Girard... 7th Dec, at a rob
Transhipment on the Co's Steamers 1 Siegapore for Batavia; at Colombo for Calcutta. Bombay and Australia; at Pori Bald for the Lávaní, Constantinople and Black Sea.
Through Ticats to London via Paris from Lay.xo dp to £71,10. so hours' railway from Marseilles to Lendon.
Interpretare most passengers at their arrival in Mamailias,
För farther particulers, apply to
Hongkong, 9th November, 1009.
P. de CHAMPMORIN,
Entimations.
NOTICE.
AGENT,
NO. 3 DOCK. KIN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION.) Docking Length......481 ft. Width of Entrance... 63. Water on Blocks..... 21.5
•HESE DOOKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama harbour and the attention of THE
Captains and Engineers is respectially called to be advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and Machinery'of ovary' description..
* The plant and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly, and chouply, with" work and a large stock of material le always at hand, (plates and anglas alt being tested by Lloyds' surveyors)
POST OPPICE BUMOUN
AMUSING STORIES OF CUZ GREAT
DEPARTMENTS A
+
"There was once a time when the Posi- master-General's annual report was an engerly looked for comic annual
.Bu that time is now no more." So laments Mr, Albert M.. Hyamson, who is "The Humour of the Post | Office" (Routledge, 19, usi), recounts a great number of aner "ates associated with the many departments of one of the most'indispensable institutións in the country. The volume is full of merry records and reminiscences. From
thesa a few extracts havé. been selected at random.
Before the invention of the parcel post, when the difference to the book rate of postage and the letter rate was greater than at present, a poor woman sent a pair of trousers through the post to her son, paying at the book rate. Ou delivery a heavy charge was demanded, and paid. The woman naturally was dissatisfied, and on being told to consult the Post Office Guide replied that "she had consulted the Gaide, and bad found that anything open at both ends could go by book post. She, thate. Storm Launches of Bigal or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Rosts, Bridge fore, asked for the return of the surcharge !" | A bok, and all kinds of Machicory are made on the premises.
As lodicating the popular conception of the. Tenders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be dialogue in a Wiltshire post office is lilominat junction of a post office clark an authenticated Karatead
ing.
Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels la of om of Dock, and for sabing Salling Vestals in, or out of the bay, The Eating-derick to capable of lifằng 40 tons.
The cost, of Docking, and repair, wark, will be foued to compare favourably with that any port to the wor'd
Lady Customer: “I want a dog licensa, but cin I have one cheaper than 79; 6d. ?"-
Post Office Clark: No, a dog licensa cost 71.
A large mooring busin is available alongside our own works for mooring vessels whilst. 6d. ~~ under repairs.
Telephone: Nos, 870, 500, or 881,
Telegrams, "Dook, Yokohama," Codes A. B. 0, 4th and 5th -Edt,
Liebors, Brutta,
A. 1, and Wati in e.
Yokohama, April 18th, 1903.
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JUST LANDED :
Co Let.
1:
TO LET.
The well-known and famous brandy
Bisquit Dubouche Offices and Godawa.
& Co."
XXX Very Old Fine... V.O.C.B. Guaranted 20 Years
Old.......
Per Bot. $2.50
6.60
ALKO
QUINQUINA ?
QUINQUINA,}
DUBONNET |
FRENCH STORE,
Sóle Agent,
fcnne. 30th April, 1909.
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QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.
Captain P. A; LAPICQUE, representative of the Compagnie Francaise des Inden et de l'Extreme
Orient, having opened a Firm in Hongkong, the Agency of the MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES at this port will be transferred by mutual consent from Messes, BARRETTO & CO. to the said NEW FIRM from the 1st of November
next.
、Captain LAPICQUE'S OFFICES are situated at No. 4. Queen's Buildings, in the premises accupied until now by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co.
Telephone No. 950,
BARRETTO & Co.
P. A. LAPICQUE
[Hongkong, 16th October, 1909.”
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EYES
REGRET
You will NEVER if you
VISIT
MOHIDEEN & THAHA,
in
D'AGUILAR STREET,
the
la No. 5, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Victoria: Building, Rooms suitable for Offices.
ROOMS in College Chambers, No. 1, WYNDHAM STREET.
Apply to
Lady Customer: I ought to be allowed to have a license for less than 74. 6d., as my little dog has got grown a bit during the past year.
QUAINT IDEAS ABJÚT, THE TELEGRAPH. The recent erection of telegraph wires in a Northamptonshire village aroused the interest of one old lady, who was overheard remarking Wall that's a tum 'ap! I can hear them eer wires a hummin,' but I ain't seen one of them eer yaller envelopes came up ext.
Consignees,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
THE P
; P. & 0, 9. N. Co.'s Steamer
"ASSAYE,"
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS.
Consignees of Cargo, by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are. being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
Tala vassol brings on Cargo:-
From London, &c, dx 5.5. Mongolia, From Calcutta, är 5.5. Sunda..
From Faralan Gulf, ax B.1.S.N. and D. &
P. S. N. Co.'s Steamers. Optional Goods will be landed hare` unless nstructions are given to the contrary within
bours.
Goods not cleared by the 18 à November, at 4 P.M., will be subjaci la real
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever.
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative at an aps pointed hour.
;
All claims must be presented within ten days” Dthe steamer's arrival here, after which dato they cannot be recognised.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods. have left the Godowna..
E. A. HEWETT,
^ Superintendent
Hongkong, 17th November, 1900.
"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM EUROPE, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.
THE Company's Steamship
"DENBIGHSHIRE,"
Goods not cleared by the 20th inst, at 6 AH. will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be affected by an in any case whatever.
having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Mistakes will happen even in the best.com Company's hazardons and/or extra hazardous ducted telegraph' effices A pleasure party | Godovaťat Kowloon, where each consignment [N.No, 6, DES VŒÜX ROAD CELTRAL,elegraphed to some friends that they had ar-will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery rived "all right." It was unfortunate, how can be obtained as soon as the goods are
Innded. ever, that the word should have been rendered into "night,' during transmission. The off- cials of the Returned Letter offices must at times find their work peculiarly conducive to merriment. A general impression stems to prevail among the citizens of to-morrow that the R.L.O, officers combine the duties of natur-10 AM on the 19th inst. No Claims will be alists with their everyday functions. The num ber of frogs that are found escaped from postal packets is still a source of perplexity, but if the youthful corespondents of 'then G.P.O. had 'ODOWN, No. 4, ṛRiva, Kennedy Town. their way the animals thus stopped in transit would be readily cared for. Cats, equimals, Apply 10-
pigeons, lizards, dormice, saakes, cuckoos, and moles, "all alive ob," add life and movement and no little perplexity to this department of postal activity..
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LD.. |. Hongkong, 15th September, 1909,
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TO LET.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENØY CO., LD, Hongkong, 22nd October, 1909. (730
TO LET.
K"
"ING'S BUILDINGS, OFFICES facing the Harbour from aboni October, at present to occupation of Messrs. Jardins, Matheson & Co., Ld.
Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY.CO., LD, Hongkong, 3rd June, 1909.
OF
TO LET.
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FFICES and ROOMS on the and Floor of No. 14, Des Voeux Road Central (formerly occupied by Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.);
·
Apply to- THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT
E, D. Sassoon & Co.,
Queen's Road Cesiml Hongkong, th Sep umber, 1970.
TO LET.
ப்
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1.
SAVINGS BANK HUMOUR.' Post Office Bank books sometimes pasa
All damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined at
admitted after Goods have left the godowas, after to days of vessel's arrival hero, peither will they be recognized if presented
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, Ltd.,
Agents. Hongkong, 13th November, 1907 (730
*BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
S.*. "BENLOMOND,” FROM LEITH, LONDON AND STRAITS,
CONSIGNEES of any landed
Informed that all Goods are being
through curious experiences. One applicant wrote that the elephant in bis circus ate part of his cost, and the bank book with it. “1 at their risk into the bazardous and/or extra enclose the fragment,” be concluded, and one Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. bazardona. Godowns of the Hongkong and hopes that be obtained bis mooty, Other dewkence and/or from the wharvas dallvery positora have furnished photographs and details | may be obtained.
of their physical peculiarities to guard against No Claims will be admitted after the Goods the withdrawal of their money by unauskorined | bave left the Godowns, and all Goods remalo. persons. "Oze, app'shensive lest bis, booking undelivered after the 22nd instant, will be might fall into other hands furnished the dale subject to rent. of his birth, and stated that he had a scar under his left arm, known only to himself requesting that a payment of his money should be made
septed to the Undersigned on or before the All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- 29th instant, or they will not be recognised.
to anyone who could not give satisfactory into be left in the Godowns, where they will be. formation on these points."
Such a gem as the following was worthy of being rescued from oblivion. A person on Office Savings Bank was asked to stale the'' applying for an insurance through the Post
cause of his father's death. · The following was | his answer: 'I don' koow; can't remember i
but it was nothing sericus,*"
Some good stories are told of freak addresses A letter addressed "25 March Clifton," was cor- rectly delivered to Lady Day at Clifion. A
derchath found the famous soap firm.
NEW JEWELLERS N° MORRISON HILL, also rough sketch of two pears with "London" un
AND DEALERS in
CEYLON PRECIOUS
STONES
of every description, and other GEMS.
*
RIGHT!
Hongkong, irst August, 1900.
fóro
To Let
TO LET.
N. LAZARUS, OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN, CORNER OF D'AGUILAR STREET AND QUEEN'S ROAD
LEILL, tast jour ayas frou of charge, and if they are wrong will put them right.
Cousas, Ground.
All kinds of Repairs, Spectacles for all require || Ask, or jerita, för Illustrated Booklat on “Defective Sighis.
oku Street, Bašlo d Raw, W.0.
QALOUSTA, P 49, Bassfuck Strapi.
NTOWN, two extensive
05, 20 and 11, PRAYA, KENNEDY two-storiad
OFFICES at No 2 PEDDER STREET. Apply 10-
Mesim, JARDINE, MATHESON
& Co., LTD. Hongkong, agih May, 1909.
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TO LET.
OFFICE
FFICES, No. 3, CONNAUGHT KOAD,
3rd Floor, EXMOOR, CONduit Road,
No. 5 CLIFTON GARDENS, CONDUIT
ROAD.
́A HOUSE fa' WONG-NHI-CHONG ROAD. A HOUSE la RIPON TERRACE. OFFICES in YORK BUILDING, GODOWNS in PRAYA EAST, BLUR
BUILDINGs, and No. 161, DEI Vœux |; ROAD next to the Hongkong Hotel, FLATS in Moreton Terrace. No. 10, DES VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL
1st look.
Apply 10-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY 004 LD.
semi-detached godowns, ground surface of: # nokrag, 1st November, 12g. cement concrete.
No. 1A, Praya, Kennedy Town, onsextantive two-storied godawa, ka
All are in first class condition, suitable for starlag Rica; Flour, &c.
Renta moderata.
SHANOMAL
Apply to----
aking Boad
DAVID SASSOON & Hongkong, th November, 1900
LR]
GODON
TO LET.
‘ODOWA 0, $A, DUDDELL STEKET.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
·MENT & AGENCY CO., LDJ): hongkong, 1st June:19pg|
1
Intimations.
YUEN HING,
No. 4, D'AQUILAR STREET.
*ACTORY -SWATOW' KIA
FACTORY
MANUFACTURE WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALERS
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are,
examland on the 22nd instant, at II ÂM, No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigued by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents. Bangkong, 15th November, 1909.
ta
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
'FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,
PH2 Steamship
THE
"JAPAN,"
baving arrived from the above Pons, Con signees of Cargo are hereby-informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside, stilist Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed at ence, at Consignees' risk and expense.
Cargo reinaluing on board after 4 2, M., of the 17th inst will be landed at Consignees' risk and expense.
Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE: LAK. and PENANG are requested to take IM
MEDIATE DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside, such Cargo impeding the dis charge of the vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expensa, ni
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the... Undersigned,
Ja all kinds of hand-made DRAWN and EMBROIDERY CHINESE LINE GRASS CLOTH, PEWTER
WARE, &c, all of the best quality. Hangkong, tih Angust, tone
LEE YEE HAIR DRESSING SALOON.
Has Always On HAND
CIGARS, CIGARETTES
AND
TOILET REQUISITES FOR SALE VIE D'AQUILAR STREET,
HONGKONG,
· DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED,
Agents. Hongkong, 13th November, 1909-. 1773
AN APPEAL.
*HE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN. THE
CONVENT, CAINE ROAD," bags: mort respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong and the Coast Ports, for chair, kind patronage and support, und dasirus to penta, thai, thu will be plsssed to receive ardere for all kinds of NEEDLE WORKMO, ARREPAS
Gentleman's Shirts made to order, and Capi and Collars cosewed on old ones,Į
Ladles and Children's Under-clothing, Dol dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embrofi Materials can be suppilad, if reqóln
| The Superioress will also be most gratefu for any PAVER, or old Envelopes to be madi
to Books for the Children of the Poor Sch
win are taught by the Elstars,