ENGLİSİ! ILLUSTRATED-
JOURNALS.
Shade of Hans Holbein, of Bernard, and of rare old Thomas Bewick what is the matter with the present generating el Fnglish word engravers of that class, it may be asked, whose tawdry, common place genius comes before the world of the United Kingdom and her Colonies In such unctuous cataplasma' as nearly all the comic. papers, excepting Punch. The quality of the wit in such periodicals, it may be argued, is good enough for the class of readers, but whether that be so or not, the delineating and illustrative abilities of the artists are conspicuous by their absence, and why this should be so it is difficult to understand when we find hosts of school boys and young ladies who are possessed of high artistic attainments before they have entered on their teens,
country.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1878.
without inside partitions. During cyening service it is well lighted by a double row of oil lamps. The pulpit is of plain, unvarnished deal; and in front of it is the harmonium--The snored: edifice can hold about three hundred and fifty people. "Navvies and their wives are paticularly requested to attend.tehould be stated that the services are undenominational." But, in spite of this invitation, the attendances, I was told, seldom exceed more than a hundred. Most of the navvics are Freethinkers-that's the fact, for i have inquired into the matter, with some
interest.
in the water-navvy,
Auctions.
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY TO BE SOLD IMMEDIATELY,
boy can play with him. Bat the Teuton is a monster-do's the work of a baltation of there humans. The German "navvy" is of German invention; was never seen in this country until now, and differs greatly in mechanism from the Yankee. In the first place the German works from
OLD by PUBLIC AUCTION the top of the bank the Yankee from the base.
pursuant to a Decres of the Supreme The German is "a land-dredger,” and therefore works from the surface, just as a water-dredger
Court of Hongkong 'made in a cause TAM scooping up the bottom-works from the surKWAN SHI YAU MI HO, No. 42 of 1878, face of the water; and the principle of construce with the approbation of the ACTING CHEF tionis pretty much the same in the land-lubber as
What may be called the JUSTICE by Mr. J. M. ARMSTRONG the person engine-room of the German navvy is a huge appointed by the sair Court upon the respective
But the
Premises on the days hereinafter mentioned, locomotive shed, on rails, of course. trains of trucks are not drawn up on either side
THURSDAY, of this locomotive shed. They pass beneath the locomotive shed, in the floor of which there is a trapdoor through which the earth and sand scooped up are pitched down into the trucks. Elut how is the earth scooped up, and how does IN it find its way inside the shed into the trapdoor 2 In this wise. From this movable'slied there projects, outwards and downwards, an enormous iron beam, along and beneath which slowly revolves a line of immense buckets, tied to each other by stout chains. Whethe buckets travel the upper surface of the beam they are of course empty, but after they round the corner of the beam and reach the ground, and then turn in- wards, they fix their sharp edges in the soil, and fill themselves as they go cutting and scrunching up the face of the bank. The loaded buckets follow one another inside, and one after the other they turn upside down and spit out their contents as they travel over the trapdoor. This navvy-house being on wheels, it travels along at a creeping pace over each truck in the train, until the whole train is loaded. There are twenty- five or twenty-six of these buckets attached to the revolving chain. This German "navvy" has filled as many as four hundred trucks in a day It scoops up about two thousand tons' weight in | IN twelve hours. Can you imagine a ship as long as two or three Great Easterns, without a deck
with nothing, in fact, but her hull-her bare, empty shell? That will give you some notion of what the "cutting" is like which the German navvy has made at Moore Section in the short space of four or five weeks. That is the grand rate at which the German navvy eats up Cheshire with his twenty-five mouths.
It is a won erful spot, even in the present initiatory stages of the work. There are shops" where the company manufacture their own trucks from the dead bodies of the trees which they struck down two or three months ago. There are smithics, and sawmills-wherein there is scarcely a man who has not had his finger or thumb cut off, or received some other permanent admonition, in some moment of carelessness born of familiarity with danger. On the four and a half miles between Eastham and Ellesmere, twelve or thirteen miles of railway bave already heen laid down for the use of the trucks that carry off the "spoil" dug up by the "navvies," whether of steel and iron or of human muscle. I have already described the work performed by the "American navvy" or "American devil," as he is also called. This "steam navvy," to give him his most common designation, is the invention of Mr. Dunbar, and the manufacturers are Messrs. Ruston and Procter, of Lincoln. It is difficult without a diagram to explain the mechanism of the American" steam navvy," That portion of the machine which is ap cially entitled to the name "navvy "consists of a huge bucket with four teeth on its outer edge. This bucket is fastened to the end of a long iron beam, and the beam itself swings from the centre of another long beat or cratic, which projects borizontally from the roof of the locomotive, inside which is the steam machin ry that sets the whole in motion. Chains from the outer edge, of the bucket pass upwards to the outer point of the horizontal crane, and then along the upper surface of the crane to the locom-tive machinery. When the chains are pulled, up gnes the bucket against the face of the cliff or bank which has to be destroyed. The four huge steel teeth pierce into the sand, mark, or clay, and the masses. which the teeth detach from the bank fall On this section is to be seen perhaps the most into the bucket. The bucket can traverse the beautiful cuttlag on the whole route between whole height of about twenty-three fect, from Eastham and Manchester. This particular the base to the surface of the bank or cliff.cutting shows what the finished canal will be. The "sicam navyy" can bite away twenty-three like. It has not, it is true, been dug to the feet at a mouthful. But observe, the motion of requisite derth yet. But it shows the surface the bucket, is vertical The notion of the crane, width. Its sloping banks are clean cut. And
The work on this, it is straight as an arrow. is horizontal. When, therefore the "navvy has had his mouthfal of rubbish the crane is Eastham por ian. There are only about 200 "Jibbed " round until it stops right above the man-navvies at work; their steam-and-steel truck which is drawn up alongside the navvy-mates" doing most of the work On the way locomotive. Then the bottom of the bucket is to Warrington there is a space where all the,
Their stumps, still pulled open; in other words, the Yankee "navvy trees have been cut down. opens his mouth and spits his thirty hundred white and fresh, exhale a sweet scent, to which weight into the truck. "Spits," is the word 1 piously and unaffectedly say grace-after the which most accurately describes the operation. vitriolic stench of ugly Widnes. It is midday; As I have said before, the Yankee never misses. and the suns of Angk strike work for "grub." On either side of the "navvy" a long train of One giant leans against a post, crosses his legs, and cuts with a clasp knife the bread and beef trucks is drawn up, and when he finishes with a truck on his right, be swings his crane-beam in his red cotton handkerchief. His dog-skin round and operates upon the truck on his left. cap is tilted backwards, and his yellow Saxon All along the sides of the deep cuttings on the hair sticks over hiscyebrows. His chicek bulges Eastham section, the steam navvy" has left out, while he mumbles his reply, and, with the the perpendicular marks of his steel teeth. I point of his knife, shows me the way to takes only three human beings to control this Warrington. He eats like fumbo. They all eat like Jumbo, They are by no means an unpicturesque group, scattered about the place, some leaning against something, others sitting, and almost all of them with red napkins-the navigator's favourite colour. A woman comes from the next village with a large cauldron, of tea, which she sells at a penny a pint.
the 10th day of May, 1888, at 3.O'CLICK, IN THE AFTERNOON, FIVE LOTS the VERY VALUABLE BLOCK of BUILDINGS situate on MARINE LOT No. 4A, MARINE LOT No. 125A, and Section B of MARINE LOT No. 4, and in the best and most Central Chinese business portion of the City and with frontages to three important Public 'Streets viz-Doabam Strand, Wing Lok Street and Cross Street and comprising :- Nos. 1 and 2 Cross Street and Nos. 21, 23. 25, 27, 29, 31, and 33. Wing Lok Street and Nos. 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 45. Bonham Strand. Owing to the favorable siluation of this property the owner or owners thereof can always count upon securing good tenants.
ON
FRIDAY,
the 11th day of May, 1888, at --3-O'CLOCK-IN-THE-AFTERNOON. SIX LOTS the VALUABLE PROPERTY situate on INLAND LOT No. 2050 in the best part of Hollywood Road and compris. ing Nos. 209 and 211, Hollywood Road and 1, 2, 3, and 4, Ng Kwai Fong, also, the three storied house No. 132, Hollywood Road - situate on the RemainingPortion of Inland Lot No. 384 and the three houses Nos. 14, Lo, and id, Possession Street situate on Inland Lol No. 212C and the Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 2120,
ON
SATURDAY,
periodicals should," above all things, have a first from the centre of which the bucket rod swing section is tuuch less advanced than that on the IN ONE LOT PIECE of VACANT GROUND
"The Graphic" ton, that popular rival of "the Illustrated" is not above the honest criticism of those who would desire, and reasonably expect, the countrymen of Bewick to lead the world in. their own particular sphere. There was a time in its history when it seemed to do this, but that is half a generation ago during which the wood engravers of Berlin, of Madrid, Paris, and especially of New York have come up to the English in a canter, and are actually leaving the artists of the Strand in a dim and hazy distance. What our countrymen intend to do we know nat, but are assured of this, that if they do not determine to keep up with the progress of the world, that world must leave them. We could have-thought-that having at one time led the world in wood engraving they would i have brooked taking a second place in that condition of excellence which an educated public has a right to expect and even to demand. Thus we observe the more enter prising publishers of " Harper's" and other New York houses actually invading the fastnesses of Fleet Street and winning battles in the enemy's Like Wellington the famous, those publishers have wrested from the grasp of their rivals' fortress after fortress, have crossed the Pyrances, and are winning great victories in the home country. It matters no! where we' Jonk through the sheets of the two London illustrated papers we find something irregular in their pictures and grotesquely unreal either in perspective, in outline, or in shadow. For a great maritime Empire like our own, those
class marine artist, but if such an individual cx'sts we find no evidence of his being in their pages. Since the death of Wilson who was "on the "illustrated," we look in vain for such specimens of "frozen poctry" as his magical touches have left behind. A few horizontal lines and three or four thrown in at random as perpendiculars are Dow made to pass muster as the ship in all her sitrjesty of swelling canvas," and all that is required to complete the picture-so that there shall be no mistake, is some kind of an explanation underneath to inform the bewildered student that this is a ship," in case he should take it for a haystack. Nowadays nearly every school boy can fairly delinente a house, a horse, a man, a tree, or a dog, and in looking through the pages of the two London weeklies that is about the extent of all the genius we find on hand. One of them, we
are not quite sure which, set itself out a few months ago to give the world a sketch of Hongkong from Kennedy Road, and but that it was explained under nrath, the casual subscriber might have taken the attempt as belog a picture of Rio. Only a week or two ago The Graphic" favoured us with some of the conspicuous personages of the German Empire amongst whom walking out with the present Emperor was a demented Jooking wretch which the editor wished his readers to believe was a portrait of Sir Morrell Mackenzie. As a fact, it was no more like the Harley Street Doctor than it was like the Shah of Persia, further than this, that the effigy had a clean shaved face and a longish nose. Whether it was sketched by an artist on the spot, at San Remo, or by a small school boy in the Strand who was working from a written description, sent to him in a letter; it is equally unlike the individual it represents, If the London "Graphic" would like to see some good wood engravings of public men, which are really postmits, we can recommend it to dip into "Harpers weekly's" from New York, or even one or two periodic illustrated papers published in -Madrid, which Englishmen would think, ought not to surpass London in its illustrative and delineating abilities,
monster,
Co-day's Advertisements.
FOR SHANGHAI.
THE Steamship
The next busiest section on the canal line is between Runcorn and Warrington, to which the visitor may proceed round by Liverpool. The excursion steamers have now begun their spring service, and leave Eastham Ferry for Liverpool every hour. It is a pleasant sail of about five or six miles; and the railway run to Widnes on the north bank of the Mersey, opposite Runcorn on the south bank, to which you must cross, occupies about 20 minutes. From Runcorn, you may drive, or walk, to Moore. The village of Moore, on the south side of the Mersey, is about half-way between Eastham and Man- chester, the two extremities of the Ship Canal. It lies in the fifth section of the route; Eastham to Ellesmere being the first section, and Barton to Manchester-a distance of about three and a half miles-being the ninth Captain G. Heuermann, will be despatched for and last. One advantage of approaching Muore the above Port on SATURDAY, the 5th inst., at from Widnes, on the northern, or Liverpool side 4 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to of the Mersey, is the opportunity- or rather the necessity of a walk across the famous Runcorn bridge, the admiration of engineers. This railway bridge, joining, Widnes on the north bank, with Runcorn of the south bank, of the Mersey, is seventy-five feet above. high water. The view from it is superb-of its kind. But it is a dismal kind. Widnes is the dirtiest, ugliest, most depressing town in England. The sinoke of
THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL, its innumerable shafts of dingy-red brick pour out
- (FROM THE LONDON “DAILY, NAW? "
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
MOORE, NEAR WARRINGTON,
March 20th, 1888.
At Eastham, partly described in a former letter, the labourers have established their first calony. The hut, as they are called, are the first things that strike the eye of a visitor tanding by the steamer from Liverpool. But they are large hate-some of them eight or ten-roomed double houses, with an upper alorey, These are, in fact, neatly built, substantial wooden houses, such as a rancher in Tears would call palaces. The Eastham colony has its aristocratic quarter, where the "wells" of the savvy community live. These are the "gangers," the navvies who by good conduct, strength of biceps, and force of will have worked their way to the top of their calling, and to positions of authority. The biggest and most moscular man I ever saw was one of these "gangers. He was trundling a barrow-load of clay, almost heavy enough, one would think, for a brewer's horse. These navvies, in the lower ranks of the profession as well as the highest,
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are mighty specimens of physique, They are picked men. Not a man among them, I was told, who does not consume three or four pounds of beef a day,
The rent of half a house is six shillings per week—a heavy deduction from a navyy's weekly wage; but the men who rent them are married, and their wives take in lodgers; husbands, wives, lodgers sitting, like Spartans, at a common table. Among the nine hundred men who are at present employed on the Eastham-Ellesmere section-there will be two thousand, by and by then plications for but, and rooms
--there are
in hüte, than can be supplied. But new huts are in process of building. Besides, there are vilinges round about where many labourers may lodge, and still be close to their work.
ils" chemicals" ascends forever and ever, › From
volumes of glaring white scam, or of coal smoke, that gradually méht away into the brown-black canopy which blots out the sky, and through which a fragment of sun appears, like a rag
of sickly pale-yellow orange peel. That bilious
" PEKING,"
SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1888.
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FOR SINGAPORE AND PENANG. THE Steamship
T
"DEUTEROS,"
Captain Iwersen, will be despatched as above on MONDAY, the 7th inst., at 4 P.M. For Freight or Passage, apply to
“AH YON & Co. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1882.
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FOR PENANG.
"DAFILA,"
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
“ONSIGNEES of One Lot ONIONS ex Steamship" BORMIDA " from Bombay marked 2-3 & K are hereby informed that as the above Gods are rapidly putrefying, they will be sold by Public Auction, unless taken delivery of up to the 5th instant, at 9 AM.
sun, reminds me of many a face I have Just passed in those horrible streets of Widnes. Captain C. Nielson, will be despatched as The yellow Widnes face is the result of above, on SATURDAY, the 12th Inst., at 4 F.31. the alkaline and other exhalations, which, i
For Freight or Passage, apply to the bleaching-powder factories, are so danger-
AH YON & Co. ou to life, and otherwise so vile, that no
Hongkong, 3rd May, 1888. "muzzle over his nose and mouth, and even workman must face them without a thick cloth then for only a few minutes at a time. The street atmosphere of Widnes being a confusion of competing stenches, the marvel is that any- body escapes without a yellow fate Runcorn is the ditto of Widnes-only less. When the wind blows from the north-west, Widnes pours its poisonous smoke into Runcorn, When it blows from the south-east, Runcorn returns the compliment. When there's no wind at all, they enter into a criminal plat choke up the fair vault of heaven-as they are doing to-day, while between their greasy; leprous-yellow foreshores flows the Mersey, like turbid olk with sinuous scum on its surface. The seagulls streaks of scu have
demoralised that they may be become so
seen wheeling about in the smoke of Birken- head, and their shrill cry heard amidst the dio of steam pipes, But surely no fish can be so devoid of all sense of decency, and so lost to self-respect, as to venture into that stream of sewage. But though the details are mean and repulsive, the whole prospect-the vague glimmer of the Mersey, vanishing, remotely, in mist; the haze and smoke hanging like curtains over dimly indicated or unseen towns, from Warring- ton and Latchford eastwards to Garston, towards Liverpool, in the west-all this has the grandeur and fascination, at any rate of vastnes, and even
with.
Per monotony, as
monotony of the desert. "And we are a healthy population. This was said by a Widnesite with a face as yellow as a We seldom guinea, Healthy how so !"
I spent some time in a "hu," the floor of have fevers, or small-pax the cases as we do "which was nicely matted ; there were flowers in have are Imported ; and that's because the acid "Vases on a round table, a good supply of booksfumes kill all the gerous.”.
CARLOWITZ & Co.,
Agents, Steamship Bormida,
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the 12th day of May, 1888, at 3 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON.
registered as INLAND LOT No. 473 and situate at "Bowrington between Matheson and. Percival Streets and suitable_for_the_ erection of Kerosine Godowns.
The sale plans can be seen at the Office' of Messrs. WOTTON & DEACON, Solicitors and at Mr. J. M. ARMSTRONG, the Auctioneer. obtained on application at the offices of Messrs. WOTION & DEACON, Solicitors, Hongkong, of Messis, CALDWELL & WILKINSON, Solicitors, Hongkong, of Mr. EwENS, Solicitor, Hongkong, of Mr. WEBNER, Solicitor, Hongkong, and of Mr. J. M. ARMSTRONG, Auctioneer.
The sale has been POSTPONED for a week owing to the inclement weather.
Particulars, and conditions of sale may be
Dated this 3rd day of May, 1888.
ALFRED G. WISE, Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court.
'PUBLIC AUCTION
To sell by Public Auction, on
HE undersigned has received instructions
SATURDAY,
the 5th day of May, 1888, at Noon, at his Sales Rooms, Queen' Road.
⚫ (FÓR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED.) The American steamer "SAN PABLO," as she lies wrecked near Turnabout Island.
ALSO
Whatever Cargo there may be on board the. versal.
2
The Vessel and Cargo will be sold separately, Terms-Cash on the fall of the hammer.
The Vessel and Cargo to be at the risk of the Purchasers on the fall of the hammer.
J. M. ARMSTRONG, Auctioneer. Hongkong, 30th April, 1888.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Consigners.
OCCIDENTAL ·AND. ORIENTAL STEAM. SHIP COMPANY."
OTICE
ONSIGNEES of CARGO per
"OCEANIC."
Masonic.
ZET LAʼN D
No. 525-
EODGE,
'REGULAR MEETING.of the above
Steamship A LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS
The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to kend in the Bill of Lading for Countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from along side.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vesse! will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
C. D. HARMAN, Agent,
Hongkong, 1st May, 1882.
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HALI, Zelland Street, TOMORROW, the 4th May, at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely, Visiting Brethren are cordially invited. Hongkong, 27th April, 1858
Entimations.
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PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. A GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL
CONSIGNE
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
NEES of Cargo per Steamship "CITY OF SYDNEY" are hereby notified that their Goods are being laaded and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained on Countersignature of Bills of Lading. Goods remaining unclaimed after the 4th proximo, will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
CHS. D. HARMAN,
Agent.
Hongkong, 28th April, 1888.
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· NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
STEAMSHIP NEW GUINEA," FROM HAMBURG AND SINGAPORE.
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed
that all Goods, are being landed at their risk, into the Godowns of the Kowloon Wharf Company, whence
'GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
WARDMASTER is required at the
Finoluments of the office $50 PER MONTH, rising by annual increments of $5 in $60, with uniform, furnished quarters, fuel, and light.
Applications with testimonials to be forwarded to the COLONIAL SURGEON not later thari the 21st instant, at the GOVERNMENT CIVIL
HOSPITAL,
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary.
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 2nd May, 1888,
WANTED.
SURGEON for the British steamship
"ZAMBESL"
Apply to
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ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agents, Canadian Pacific Line.
Hongkong, 2nd May, 1888,5-
WANTED.
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and Grown Cowhares delivery may be A Children in Hongkong. obtained.
N ENGLISH NURSE to take care of
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 8th instant; will be suhjeci 'to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned an or before the 8th instant, or they will not be recognised. No Fire Insurance has been effected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
ADAMSON, BELL & Cop
Agents
Hongkong and May, 1888.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
J
STEAMSHIP MORAY,”
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Apply to
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clo Hongkong Telegraph.
Hongkong, 2nd May, 1888,
HONGKONG CLUB. "
TANIED A LIBRARIAN.
letter to the SECRETARY, Hongkong, 1st May, 1888.
WA
NOTICE.
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Apply by '[458
THE WONG-NEY-CHONG DAIRY FARM
having received by the steamer Changsha
a supply of Much Cows from Newcastle, Australia, is now prepared to supply the General Public with PURE COW'S MILK (guaranteed) at 9 cents per ordinary, pint (reputed), deliverable
GA.M. and jo P M.
FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL, LONDON to order, anywhere within the Colony, between
AND SINGAPORE.
CONSIGNEES Cargo DAIRY FARM, or to date
that all goods, are being landed at their risk, into the Godowns of the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Optional Carge will be forwarded unless
Orders sent direct to WONG-NEY-CHONG
BERG, at H. M. Naval-Yard, will be promptly attended to..
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notice to the contrary be given before NOON,W
TO-DAY.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining after the 4th May, will be subject to rent at the rate of ONE CENT per package per day.
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All claims against the Steamer must be pic- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 4th May, or they will not be recognised..
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
ADAMSON, BELL & CO.,
Agents.
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Hangkong, 38th April, 1888.
THE CHINA SHIPPERS' MUTUAL
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. -
FROM LIVERPOOL AND SINGAPORE.
OOPACK"
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having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon," whence Mortgagees Mr. H. N. MODY will Sell by Celivery may be obtained.
INDER Instructions received from the
Public Auction, on
THURSDAY,
the 17th May, 1888, at 4 O'CLOCK P.M.,
At the Premises.
ALL THAT VALUABLE PIECE of GROUND situate at BELCHERS BAY, LAP SAP WAN, Hongkong, abutting on the North side thereof on Belcher Street and measuring thereon 200 feet on the South side thereof on portion of INLAND LOT No. 905 and measuring thereon 200-feet on the East on Davies Street and measuring thereon 200 fact and on the West on Cadogan Street and measuring thereon 200 feet containing in the whole 40.000 square feet and registered in the Land Office as SECTION A of INLAND LOT No. cos. Together with the Furnace workshops and buildings thereon lately used and accupied by the HONGKONG AND MACAO GLASS MANU- FACTURING COMPANY as they now stand, and which said Piece of Ground is held for the residue of a terms of 999 years, subject to the annual Crown Rent of $528.57.
The property will be offered for sale in One
Hongkong, 3rd May, 1888.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED,
OTICE hereby given that the Lot...
For further particulars and conditions of sale, apply to
NORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the Company will be held at the HONGKONG DISPENSARY, on MON; DAY, the 14th day of May next, at 3 O'CLOCK in the Afternoon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Manager, together with a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1887.
The REGISTER of SHARES will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the gth instant, MONDAY, the 14th instant, both days due can be registered period no Transfer of
in
Shares
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JOHN-WILLMOTT, Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1888..
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. SILVER SPOON COMPETITION, OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION,
SILVER SPOON will be shot for every ASATURDAY AFTERNOON, at FOUR O'CLOCK
n the shelves, and signs of taste everywhere. At this town of Runcorn, by which the salt The view of the Mersey from the front windows trade passes from the river Weaver into the the stream there is about twovand-a-half Mersey, and at which one of the five principal niles vide-was itself worth six shillings sets of canal works is to be constructed, there is week. It is the labourers own fault if they little doing at present. The main work on the do not live falily happy lives there. There are line between Runcorn and Warrington is, at Grganizing musical tea parties, at which the already said, at Moure. It is here the German ladies of Eastham district will preside and ansigt, navy la at work This German invader is
No Entrance Fee-7 Shots at 200 Yards. A They may have more "culture" in a week, thote much less humans in a movements than Handicap of 3 points for fat Spoon and one point navvy sons of Anak: than the Batons of past themy inker, In fact, it will be better to for every subarquent Spoon won. times had in their life-lims. They have a refuse him the masculing pronoun altogether, church, even; a wooden but," like the other and call him it. The German navvy hate to the aristocratic quarter, but of course I land-dredger--that's what he is, and a small
a
Hongkong,
WOTTON & DEACON,
Solicitors,
35, Queen's Road,
or to
H. N. MODY,
Auctioneer,
Victoria Buildings,
Queen's Road. April, 1885.
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods.. have left the Godowns, and all claims must be sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before NOON, on the 6th May, or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 6th May, will be subject to rent,****
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before To A.M. TO-DAY;
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co,,
Agents.
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Hongkong, 30th April, 1888,
For Sale,
BEER.
FOR SALE,
GERMAN
BRAU
↓
KIEL
RAUEREI "ZUR. EICHE,"
`87.25 per Case of 4 Dozen Quarts.
9.00
$ Pinta. EDUARD SCHELLHASS & CO.,
Sole Agents, Hongkong and China. Hongkong. 3rd May, 189
FOR SALE.CHEAP.
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G. FALCONER & CO.
ATCH ANG CHRONOMETER
MÂNUFACTURERS AND JEWELLERS,
NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, CHARTS AND BOOKS. 1996 Amepote ndan CeNTRAL
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
·NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS.
A FIRST INTERIM BONIS of TWENTY
per cent, upon Contributions for the year 1887 has this day been declared,
Warrants may be had on application at the above, Office on and after the 5th May.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Agents, Canton Insurance Office, Limited. Hongkong, 19th April, 1888.
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THE
HONGKONG AND: KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN. COMPANY;
LIMITED,d!
THE Company is prepared to Tranship Cargo
from its Godowns at Kowloon or West Point to any Steamer in the harbour, and to bring Cargo across from Kowloon to any place on the Praya at the usual rates.
By Order,
ISAAC HUGHES,
Secretary. Hongkong, 20th April, 1828.
1438 HONGKONG TIMBER YARD, WANCHAI,
REGON PINE SPARS AND LUMBER
ALWAYS ON HAND,
1 MALLORY,
Proprietas,
BOWKINGTON FOUNDRY, EAST POINT, HONGKONG.
A. G. GORDON & Ca,
AG. GORDON & Co, are prepared to
undertake every description ENGINEERING and 'SHIPBUILDING WORK, both afloat and ashore, on most reasonable terms,
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PUNCTUALITY AND FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED, ESTIMATES FURNISHED. FOR THE CONSTRUC- TION OF STEAM LAUNCHES, REPAIRS TO THE ENGINES AND BOILERS of STEAMERS, CASTINGS, &C., Hongkong, at January, 1888.. CHS. J. GAUPP & CO., "HRONOMETER, WATCH, AND. CLOCK-MAKERS, JEWELLERS, SILVER-SMITHS, AND OPTICIANS. CHARTS AND DOOKS. -NA-U-T-I-GAL-I-N-STRUMENTSV
SOLE AGENTS for Louis Audemars' Watches; awarded the” highest Prizes at overy Exhibition'; and for Voigtländer and Sohn's
ABOUT TEN TONS OF ASPHALTE.C
Apply to
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A. A. DE MELLO & Co.,
Macao.. “Macao, 3rd April, 1888,
1367
FOR SALE AT"MACAOP
ON MODERATE TERMS. GROTE has this day been admitted of the town, consisting of TEN -N-extensive property, on the business PARTNER in our Firm.
STRONGLY BUILT GODOWNS, with Raims above suitable for Offices or Dwelling Houses: Six small Dwelling Houses, attached to a Chinese Hong; and a piece of spare ground suitable for building purposes,
CHATER & VERNON. Hongkong, rat January, 1888.
NOTICE.
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MRBONIFACIO D'AQUING has This Day been admited a FARTNER in the WONG-NEY CHONG DAIRY FARM.
SVI DANENBERG, [469 | Hangkang, 38th April, 1808,
A SHELTON HOOPER,
Hon. Secretary.` Hongkong, 3rd May, 1888,
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There are two separate entrances to the the Steamboat Co's Who Harbour close to Wharf.
For full particulars, apply to
"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH” OFFICE.
Hongkong, 3rd April, 1888,
1366
CELEBRATED OPERA GLASS88, Marine
· Glasses and · SPYGLASSES. ·
No R QUEEN'S ROAD.CENTRAL 201
„MITSUI BUSSAN 'KAISHIA.;.
THE
SOLE AGENT FOR
MIIKE COAL MINE
Steamer lying in the harbour or coming UNKER COALS can be supplied to any alongside the KOWLOON: WHARF on application
to the Undersigned, Ambados,
MY. FUKUHARA,
Body Acting Manager, Hongkong, 19th January, 1658.–
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