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INTIMATIONS

THE

ROBINSON

PIANO Co.

PARIS POSTSCRIPT.

PARIS, 10th June,

The hay fever epidemic now raging in this metropolis shows as yet no signs of abating. The annoying malady buffles the French medical profession, and as Parisians are anything bat familiar with it, there is nothing to be done except to grin and hear it, as the saying is. The only redeeming featurs about the fire des foins LD.thut boing the name given to the affection by Parisian-is that it is more vexatious than zorious. Skilled physicinna adınil their inability to effect, a cure: the epidemic of the hour usually seizes one in the early days of June; exposure UPRIGHT IRON to the sun, a draught, heavy perspiration, such are efficient to bring on a fit of sneez. ing, which soon becomes incessant. Huy fever is nothing else, and can well be compared to influenza in point of prevsilence. The meczing may continue for six works or even two months, during which time one's handkerchief is never out of the hand Though a now and disagree able complaint, it is happily not a grave one. There is no cure for it. One doctor states that a patient of his has had hay fever regularly at thm and of each spring since "quarter of a century, the ferer never failing to seize her, as moon as she goes into the sun. As ao ono-at least in France-hus been able to discover the cause of the epidemic so far, no remedy can bo

GRANDS

MANUFACTURED BY UN

ARE TO BE

ABSOLUTELY DEPENDED ON

THERE IS NO PIANO SO WELL proscribed. All that is known is that the son

ADAPTED TO STAND THE

HONGKONG CLIMATE.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 16тn, 1904.

[“ P.&O." HALF-YEARLY REPORT, | buoyancy, as regards rates of freight, than for I

some time pust. Certain circumstances have THE The one humired and twenty-seventh hulf-proved widitionally unfavourable, such as the yearly Report of the Board of Directors of the export cotton trade from Manchester, and the Penimdar Oriental Steam Navigation cessation of the trade between Bombay, China Company as follows:-122. Leadenhall and Japau, due to tho inflation of cotton prices. Street, London, 31st May 1904-The directors and to the war between Russia and Japan. The have now to submit their Report for the Half-Company's intercolonial stonmers have, there. year which ended on the 31st March last, and fore, not hoon able to Bud their usual employ- at the same tính to transmit (under separate mort covers the warrants for the interim dividend, which will be payable on and after the 1st June next.

FLEET. The stul particulars of the Fleet are set forth in the table prefixed to this

Report. The tonnage is 36977 tona.

The four steamers of the "Moldavin" class

are all now fully at work, and their performance has already established their reputation.

The Bombay" and "Shanghai," like their sister vissol the "Canton," have boon sold, not on account of age, as they are capable of useful work for many yours, but simply because, as Cargo Steuners, they were not equal to the requirements of the Company's work in the present day.

The Victoria." Britannia.” “'Arcadia." Oceana," "Peninsular." and "Oriental" are being extensively re-fitted and improved, to enable them to capo with the New Mail Servico which will comments next year.

A few years ago the "Rome" was lengthened.

and the first warm days of summer play a pro-reboilered, and to a great extent it may be. penderating part in the spring affection, and said rebuilt. But as this vessel is no longer that there can be no question that within meent required for the mail servies, she is being yours la fièvre des foins har greatly increased.

sited up as a cruising yacht, und will take Everything comes with patience, even the her departure to Norway and the Far North in converting of the space in the vicinity of the July. Her name now appears in the Flust List THE MATERIAL IS OF THE BEST Eiffel Tower from a rubbish heap into a graco as the "Vectis."

ful and verdant park, resembling more the work of years than a fresh creation. It took exactly four years for the Municipality of Paris and. the Government to come to terms as to whe

AND THOROUGHLY

SEASONED IN THE COLONY.

WE GUARANTEE THEM FULLY

PRICES $400: Upwards.

P

BABY

GRANDS

ONLY 5 FEET LONG..

Hongkong. Sth June, 1904.

HIRANO WATER. THE QUERY OF TABLE WATERS.

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Prax, SPARKLING, INVIGORATING THE LEADING MINERAL WATER OF THE EAST Bottled in Japan by UI E. RersELL & Co.

BEWARE OF JAPAN ESE IMITATIONS.

F. BLACKHEAD & CO., Agunta. Hongkong, 31st July, 1993

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CLARKE'S B 41 PILLS constitutional Discharges from the Urinary Organs, Gravel, and Pains in the Back. Free from Morgar Established upwards of 80 years. Sold by all Chomists and Patent Medicino Vondors throughout the World. Proprietors, THE LINCOLN AND MIDLAND COUNTIES DRUG COMPANY, Lincoln, England.

warranted to care in either sex, all acquired or

AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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THE Undersigned bave received instruction

to sell by Public Amotion

T

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED), TO-DAY (SATURDAY),

should clear the ground of the vacated pavilions. The State refused to do so on the plea that it was the duty of the city authorities to pat the site in apple-pic order; at this the City Fathers became most indignaat, and replied that the whole of the expenses of such removal should be borne by the Government and nobody else. A compromise was finally arrived at. which brought about the present spectacle-quits n-paradise of this corner of the city. Artistic gardening comesasnatural to the French as cook- ing and dancing; nowhere is the truth of this remark more clearly visible than wherethe Paris Exhibition of 1990 stood, like Solomon in all its glory. The unsightly reminders of the once great show cartainly did not add to the embellishment of the City of Light. Satisfac- tion is general since the debris have been cleared away, and the longstanding wrangis brought to a close.

That Santos-Dumont is as great nu ital of Parisians of the fair sex in particular-us over, was confirmed by the enthusiasm that attended is departure from Paris for the St. Louis Exhibition, where he has gone to compete for the great prize with his latest airship, No. 7. Many of his admiters had missed the young Brazilian, and his period of comparative silence had become the subject of general discussion. When last week once more he emerged from his shed, and indulged in various trials round his ground at Neuilly, with his "No. 7," he received quite au ovation. The fact is, he had been working almost day and night, applying the finishing touches to bis latest invention, destin-

A contract has been made with Mossra, Caird & Co. for the construction of a mail and passenger steamer of 10,000 tons of the "Walda- vias. This will be the filth vessal of this

type included in the Fleet.

Coal will prove slightly dearer during the currency of the present financial year, and the labour charges continue, in every direction, on a very heavy scale.

INTERIM DIVIDEND.-Tho not effect of the half-year's work shows, however, on the whole, a fair result, and the Directors have declureil the usual interim dividend on the Preferred Stock, at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, and on the Deferred Stock at the rate of 7 por cent. par annum, payable on and after the 1st June.-- By order of the Board of Directors, Ġ. F. JOBSSON (Sestury.)

NOTICES OF FIRMS ·

A. S. WATSON & CO.. LIMITED.

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CIGARETTES OF THE

FUTURE.

ONCE SMOKED ALWAYS SMOKED.

E. D.

FINEST

LOTUS,

PROTOPAPAS & CO.

ALEXANDRIA & CAIRO, EGYPT,

EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES.

TRADE MARK.

Large Size $5.00 per 100

Goid Tipped Medium Size

83.75't

5 per 100

ZAFAR, Large Size $160 per 100 Medium Size £4.20

KARIM,

Large Size $3.75 per 100

Medium Size $3,50

THABIT.

Large Siza $3.00 per 100

Medium $2.75 per 100

SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG:

TH. JOHN ARTHUR TARRANT has 16151 KRUSE & CO.,

M

This Day been appointed ACHING SECRETARY of the Company,

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JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Manag

Hongkong, 1st July, 1904,

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

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TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that during the Undersigurd's Temporary Absence from this Colouy Mr. S. HIROI will have charge of this offlee.

'T. ARIMA. Manuge

Hongkong, 13th July, 1914.

CHAIRS,

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A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

HENRY MANCELL

tsulot has been accapted from Messrs. M14 The Day boon Miniatad NGENT Barclay, Curie & Co. to build two 10,000 tons cargo boats, identical in ull respects with the

three vessels of the "Palermo" class now actively engaged in the servies.

It is satisfactory to note that the oxɛm sive services in which the Fleet has been engaged have been performed with the nil regularity and without delay or accident of any material

kind.

TRANSPORTS.--The Company bare still four ships engaged in transport work, the ~ Assaye," Plussy," "Sicilia" and Sondan." but their, engagement will and next month..

NEW CHARTER-A confirmatory meeting of the proprietors was held on the 30th December last to adopt the charter, which is now in operation.

MAIL CONTRACT.-The present Mall contract

comes to an end early next year. After pro- longed negotiations, the Directors have agreed with the Postmaster-General for a new contract. te carry on the same services as at present, but with a considerable acceleration, during a period of three years from February, 1905.

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The most important feature in the new service will be this acceleration of the Indian Mails by twenty-four hours, aud their regular delivery at Bombay in a little over thirteen days from

ments stipulated for (which include a more rapid Charing Cross. This, and the other improve transit, both of the Australian and China Services), wit: involve a large additional ex- anlitara, towards which the Post Office will contribute £10,000 a year, being an addition of that amount to the present subsidy, but which. in certain orentaglities, may hereafter be

reduced.

ad to be one of the wonders" at the St. Louis World's Fair. Though the trials in public at Neuilly were compulsorily short, they were not the less conclusive and afforded mony interested in ner Statics an opportunity of

The Company spent a táillion and a half ster- judging of his machine. No. 7 may be desling last year in the constraction of only four cribed as much like its predecessors, being shaped liko a cigor, and carrying the usual frail framework below. It is driven by a 60 hp. Charron engine with 4 cylinders, capable of

the 16th JULY, 1904, at Noon, at their making 1,200 revolutions a minute. In the

BALES ROOMS. No. 8, Des Voeux Road (Corner of Ice House Street),

IN ONE LOT

The Wreck and Cargo of the British Steamer "ALGOMA,"

as she now lies partly submerged, stranded off Tongmi Point, His Cbe Chin Bay, about 20 miles from.Hongkong.

The Cargo consists of 4,300 tous Japanese

Coal.

opinion of several people. No. 7 is a dangerous airship, since the proximity of the motor to the balloon, with its 1,500 cubic metres of inflammable gas within six feet of the sparks of the motor, constitutes a grave danger 'for the aerchant and his assistants. M. Santos-Dumont, however, laughs at danger

Greater éclat than ever has been given this TRAME: Cash on full of the Hammer. The Hall and Cargo to be at the risk of the year to what is known in the Paris fashionable

purchaser from tho. full of the Heromer.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers,

Hongkong, 16th July, 1904.

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PUBLIC AUCTION, THE Undersigned have received instructions

to asli by Public Auction,

(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED), TO-DAY (SATURDAY),

world as La Grande Semaine, which is u wock given up to frivolity of the wildest, and enter- tainment of the most exciting kind one can imagine. Moany is supposed to be, and is, spent, liberally by wealthy classes in all sorts of Re dinner partie, balle, and receptions, staurants are crowded, wuitors are frenzied, and cooks driven mad with orders. Paris never was more full of visitors who have come over for tlie

the 16th JULY, 1904, at 11, at their Grande Semaine and the Grand Prix next

SALES ROOMS, No, 8, Des Wour Road

(Corner of Fos Horse Street),

A QUANTITY OF PROVISIONS,

Comprising

ESSENCE of BEEF. COMPRESSED 'VEGETABLES, SOUPS, CHOCOLATE, PICKLES, CORNED BEEF, BISCUITS, .&c., &c., &c.,

And

185 lbs. TOBACCO. TELMS As usual,

JPUGUES & HOUGH, .Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 12th July, 1904

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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THE Undersigned bus received instructions

to Sell by Public Auction,

TO-DAT (SATURDAY),

the 16th JULY, 1904, at 230 P.M., at his

SALES ROOMS, Queen's Road,

A Small Assortment of

VERY HANDSOME JEWELLERY,

Couprising

Sunday. All is bustle and excitement, every one, rich and poor, being boat on enjoyment.

ROWLAND'S ODONTO

WHITENS THE TEETH

SWEETENS THE BRE

PREVENTS DECAY

SHLO BY STORES AND CIEMISTS

+3 83-3

DIAMOND, PEARL and RUBY RINGS, AUTOMATIO MAUSER EARRINGS, BROOCHES, Sruds LADIES' CHAINS,

and

GOLD WATCHES, BRACELETS, and -GOLD COIN BROOCHES, &c,, &c.

TERMS OF SALE-As Customary/

V. I. REMEDIOS, Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 13th July, 1904.

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PISTOLS.

CALIBRE 7.63 m.m.

With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGES. FIRING 10 SHOTS in 2 SECONDÀ, SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, rd October, 1900.

now steamers, in anticipation of a renewal of the muil contract, and considering the large capital embarked altogether in the Postul Bervico, the Directors would naturally have preferred a longer term of contract. But the impossibility. of arranging the future conditions of the Colonial portion of the service with the Australia Commonwealth rendered a tentative arrangement meessary in the judgment of the Port & ice, and to this decision the Directors loyally subscribed by offering the most advan- Lageous service within the Company's power.

SUMMARY.-The return

of troops from South Africa practically ended the Transport Servies, which had been continued for three years during the war in that country, and the Company's receipts show in that respect a considerable decline during the past. half-year, compared with the figures in the corresponding period of 1902-03.

The return of a number of vessels to their normal employment has, however, been the ings to a considerable extent, notwithstand ing means of improving the general freight earn.

the continuance of very low carrying rates,

The Passenger receipts contrast unfavourably with the figures of last year, which is partly due to the fact that the comparison is made with a period which embracel the traffic arising from the Indian Durlar, and partly to the effect of a lower tarif (inter alia the removal of the coal surtax) and the extension of the Company's return tickeź system, of which the public have largely availed themselves.

·

for the General Managers of the Company, and in that orpacity will reside in Shanghai, with general charge of the Company's interests at Shanghai, Haukos, Tientsis and in North China,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & 8)N. Get wal Managers. Hongkong. Ist July, 1904.

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昌寶

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Hongkong, 18th July, 1904.

A MOMENT'S NOTICE.

RIP

TELEPHONE 400,

HEAD BACK

LEGS

ACHE

Ache all over. Throat sore, Eyes and Nose running, slight cough with chills; this is La Grippe.

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taken in hot water, sweetened, before go- ing to bed, will break it up if taken in time, There is only one Painkiller, **PERRY DAVIS."

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JOHN ROBERTS & COMPANY. LTD

BILLIARD TABLE MAKERS.

BOMBAY

Undertake to Supply a First-class fall sized Billiard Table, design No. 1, to following Specifica- tion, viz: on Eight Massive turned Legs, raise pansls to Knees, Carved Brackets, Scrowed Mouldings, double boited, best, Welsh Slate Bed, extra heary solid cushion rails fitted with one new low set Express Cushions, patent invisible Pocket Plates, best Whipcord Pockets, Six Chalk Cups, Superfius West of Eugland Cloth, and patent adjusting toes with lover for levelling complete with the following accessories :-

I Selected Ash Croa

1 Butt Best with Patent Brass Head, 1 Billiard Rest with Patent Brass Head, 1 Long Butt. 1. Mid Batt

Billiard Marking Board. 1 Dust Cover for Table. Straightedge and Circle, 1 Boat Spirit Level.

#mgething Iron with Egg

1

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ngit.

I Wall Cne Rack.

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1 Set Billiard Raise, Framed.

1 Best Billiard Brush.

1 Set "Crystalate" or "Bonzoline" Dild. Balls.

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Hongkong, 1st April, 1904.

JAPAN

GOSHIKWAISHA

MITSUI

(MITSU BISHI CO.)

COAL DEPARTMET

MARUNO-UCHI TOKIO. Coble Address, "IWABAKI," which applies to all Branch Ofleas and Hong- kong and Shangbai Agencies. AI, ABC 5th Edition, Western Union Codes used,

New

BUSSAN

1927--1

COALS.

KAISHA

MITSUI & COJ

HEAD OFFICE-1, SUEUGA-CHO, TOKYO, LONDON BRANCH:-34, LIME STREET, B.C.

HONGKONG BRANCH-PRINCE'S BUILDINGS, ICE HOUSE STEEMT

OTHER BRANCHES:

York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bouhay, Singapore, Sourabaya, Manila, Amoy, Shanghai, Chefoo, Tientsin, Newchwang, Port Arthur, Seoul, Chemaipo, Yokohama, Yokosaks, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe. Kara, Jhimoncsoki, Maji, Wakamatsu. Karaton, Nagasaki, Kucbinets, Saabo, Maidzura Miike, Hakodate, Taipeh, &c.

Telegraphic Address: "MITSUI" (A.B.C. and À 1 Ocdon) CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Navy and Arsonals and the Stars Railways; Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Homs and Foreign Mail and Freight Stomers. SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Miike, Tagawa, Yamano and Ida Coal Mines; and SOLE AGENTS for Hokoku, Hondo, Kanada, Fujinotaun, Mamoda, Mazours. Onours Olsuji,

Sasahara Tsubakuro, Yoshinotami, Yashia, Yanakibara, and other Costa.

8. MINAMI, Manager, Hongkon

All Letters Addressed:→→ MANAGER, MITSUBISHI Co., with name of place under. BRANCH OFFICES:- NAGASAKT, MOJI, KOBE, KARATSU AND HANKOW. AGENCIES: SHANGHAI: H. J. H. TRIPP.

HONGKONG: H. U. JEFFRIES.

MANILA: COMPANIA MARITIMA. YOKOHAMA: M. ASADA. CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Im- parial Japanese Navy and Foreign Naries; tho Imperial Arsenals; the Imperial Railway; | TONG Sanyo, Kisshu and the other Principal Rail ways; Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers.

EXPORTERS OF COAL to Hongkong, Shanghai, Hankew, Singapore, Manila, North The Eustora trade has shown no greater China, Korean porte and America.

TO REPEL MOSQUITOES,

always use at Bedtime

CALVERT'S

20

per cent.

CARBOLIC SOAP

A popular Soap in hot clinenten, as it le mori rele hing for the toilet, in addition to the bene- Beiul properties aforted by the high pernentage- of Gaivers Pure Carlolic.

7. C, CALVERT & D., Manchester, Eng.

68-2

SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashima, Uchi, Shinnew, Namuzota and Kami-Yamada Collieries and also Hojo Colliery," which will be ready to produce on a large scale the best Buzen Coal from 1905.

Sole Agents for Rigio, Komatsu (Tagawa` Bad Matsushima Coals.

The Head and Branch Offices and the Agen- cies of the Company will receive any order for Coals produced from the above Collieries.

Coal sold in 103 by the Company smounted to 1,210,000 lous.

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CHONG WO * 00- No 8, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

Manufacturers, of Hand-made Pure

HAVANA CIGARS AND ÕIGARETTES They are made of best Havena leaves and possess a mild and choice flavour. Inspection courteously invited. Hourkong, 26th May, 1904

E sad

CARTRIDGES.

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IMPORTED EVERY MONTH, THERE. FORE ALWAYS FRESH

TAKASHIMA COAL.

MALEY'S, SCHULTZE'S,. AMBERITE Now and additional shafts at the Takashima CARTRIDGES & 10, 12, 16, and 20 BORE. KYNOCK'S SPORTING Colliery have been completed and this well- and NEWCASTLE CHILLED SHOT in known best and most egonomical steum Coal ill Bizes, Nos, 10 to 8996. AIR GUNS and the EAST is ow produced in abundance and AMMUNITION in Variety, can be supplied in any quantity. Hongkong, 26th April, 1901,

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WM. SCHMIDT & CO. Hongkong 29th November, 1902.

QUAN WAH & CO. GRANITE AND MARRLE MERCHANTS. EXPOUTERS AND CONTRACTORS.

Sole Agents of

QUAN TAI & CO., Time Manufactures. All descriptions of GRANITE AND MARBLE FOR EXPORT. Dealers in

GRANITE and MARBLE MONUMENTS Prices & Estimates on Application. No. 1, QUEEN' ROAD EAST. Hongkong, 17th October, 1899,

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SAVARESSES SANDAL CAPSULES

Efficacious becauan absolutely pose English Oit. Nol made of geishihe

Fut directions. All Cheinista, „ci. Insist on SAVARESSES

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