N°. 2225.
Banks.
RULES
OF THE
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG SAVINGS.
BANK.
1. THE BUSINESS. of the above BANK·
will be conducted by the HONGKONG
AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, on their premises in Hongkong. Business Houre on WEEK- DAYS, to to 3; SATURDAYS, 10 to 1. 2.-SUMS LESS THAN $1, or MORE THAN $250 at one time will not be received. No Depositor may deposit more than $2,500 in any one year.
3-DEPOSITORS in the SAVINGS BANK,
having $100, or more, at their credit, may af their option transfer the same to the HONG- KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION on fited deposit for 12 months at 5 per cent, per annum interest.
Entimations.
FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1889.
ROBERT LANG & CO..
TAILORS, HATTERS, SHIRTMAKERS, AND GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS.
HAVE RECEIVED THEIR SECOND DELIVERY
OF
Notices of Firms.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED,
D
NOTICE.
URING the temporary absence of the Undersigned Mr. W. J. SAUNDERS By Order of the Board,
INTER COATINGS TWEED, and DRESS SUITING, TROUSERINGS and will act as SECRETARY of the Society.
WIN
ULSTER TWEEDS.
A very stylish selection.
OUR OUTFITTING STOCK IS ALSO COMPLETE IN SEASONABLE GOODS.
QUEEN'S ROAD (Opposite HONGKONG HOTEL)
Hongkong, 14th January, 1889
188
W. POWELL & CO.
-INTEREST at the rate of 3% per LADIES,
annum will be allowed to Depositors on their daily balances.
5.-EACH DEPOSITOR will be supplied gratis with a PASS-BOOK, which must be presented with cach payment or withdrawal.
· Depositors must not make any entries them. velves in their Pass-Books, but should send them to be written up at least twice a year, about the beginning of January and beginning of July,
6-CORRESPONDENCE”as to the Business of the Bank, if marked ON HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK BUSINESS, will be forwarded free by the various British Post Offices in Hongkong and China. 7.WITHDRAWALS may be madeon demand,
but the personal attendance of the Depositor or his duly appointed Agent, and the production of his PAES-BOOK, are necessary.
FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION,
G. E. NOBLE,
EX "ARRATOON APCARY
NEWEST SHAPES
IN
GENTLEMEN'S
AND
CALCUTTA PITH HATS.
Covered in any material to suit Purchasers.
Victoria Exchange, Hongkong, 30th April, 1889.
A. HAHN,
CHILDREN'S
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PIANO TUNER AND REPAIRER.
ON HIRE
PIANOS
FOR SALE
Address: c/o HONGKONG HOTEL or No. 95, CAINE ROAD. -Hongkong, 24th December, 1888.
W. BREWER.
OHNET--Le Docteur Rameau,
Volonté,
Zola-Le Rêve.
NEW FRENCH BOOKS.
Chinequy-Le Prêtre, La Femme et le Con-
Chief Manager
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Hongkong, 1st January, 1889. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
PAID-UP CAPITAL `........................... RESERVE FUND
$7,500,000, 4,300,000,
RESERVE LIABILITY OFI
PROPRIETORS
7,500,000
... Couar oF DIRECTORS — CHAIRMAN W. H. FORBES, Erq.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN-H. L. DALRYMPLE, Esq.
W. G BRODIE, Esq.
T. E. DAVIES, Esq.
J. F. HOLLIDAY, Esq.
Hon. J.J. KESWICK. Hon. B. LAYTON,
|S.C.MICHAELSEN,Esq.
J. S. Moses, Esq.
L. POIANECKER, Esq.
N. A. Sixbs, Esq.
E. A. SOLOMON, Esq.
CHIEF MANAGER. HONGKONG G. E: NOBLE, Esq. MANAGER,
SHANGHAI-EWEN CAMERON, Esq. LONDON BANKERS LONDON AND COUNTY BANK.
HONGKONG-INTEREST ALLOWED.
N CURRENT DEPOSIT ACCOUNT at the rate of 2 per cent, per Annum on the daily balance.
ON FIXED DYPOSITS →→
For 1 months, 3 per Cent: per Annum. For 6 months, 4 per Cent, per Annum. For 12 months, 5 per Cent. per Ännum. LOCAL BILLS DISCOUNTED, CREDITS granted on approved Securities, every description of BANKING and EXCHANGE business transacted. ANXI
and
fessionaal.
-Marie Fougère,
Ager's Telegraph Codes.
Bourier--Les Seins de Marbre. Theuriet-L'Amoureux de la Prefète. Rachilde La Marquise de Sade. Salis-Contes du Chat Noir, Daudet L'Immortel.
Bourier-La Belle Olga.
AND MANY OTHER 'NEW GOODS.
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Hongkong, and May, 1889.
NOTICE.
N. J. EDE, Secretary.
Shipping.
STEAMERS.
EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
{
FOR SYDNEY, MELBOURNE AND ADELAIDE... (Calling at PORT DARWIN and QUEENSLAND PORTS, and taking through Cargo to NEW ZEALAND, TASMANIA, &c.) HE Steamship
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THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED.
R. EDWARD OSBORNE has been
above Company from this date.
M appointed ACTING SECRETARY of the
J. J. KESWICK, Chairman. Hongkong, Ist May, 1884
NOTICE.
1520
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED:
MR. AUGUSTUS SHELTON HOOPER is appointed. SECRETARY of the Com-
J. J. KESWICK, Chairman.
pany,
Victoria Buildings, Hongkong, 1st May, 1889.
NOTICE.
[çar
HE Procuration granted to Mr. C. H. TSCHMIDT by our Firm is withdrawn. WM. G. HALE & Co.
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Saigon, 13th April, 189g, NORTH CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
N and after Tomorrow, the 24th instant,
"TANNADICE,"
Captain Shannon, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 7th May, at NOON.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
RUSSELL & Co.
Agents... Hongkong, 27th April, 1889.
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STEAM TO YOKOHAMA, VIA NAGASAKI, AND KOBE. [Passing through the INLAND SEA.) HE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship
**ANCONA"
4
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will leave for the above places on TUESDAY, the 7th May, at NOON.
E. L. WOODIN, Superintendent. Hongkong, 75th April, 1889. NAVIGAZIONE GENERALE ITALIANA (FLORIO AND RUBATTINO. UNITED COMPANIES),
STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND BOMBAY, having connexion with Company's Mail Steamers, to ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID, MESSINA, NAPLES (LEGHORN), and GENOA; all MEDITERRANEAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANTINE, and SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS up to CALLAO, Taking Cargo at through rates to PERSIAN GULF and BAGDAD.
Mr. B. C. T. GRAY will act as Agent of THE Company's Steamship
the Company at this Branch.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
W. H. PERCIVAL,
Agent.
Hongkong, 23rd April, 1889,
Insurances.
'Parisienne Leather and Fancy Goods consisting of Card Cases, Pocket Books, Cigar and Cigarette Cases, Purses, Work Bags, Perfumed Glove and Handkerchief Sets, Fans, Blotting THE FUNDS Cases, Lamp Shades, Scent Dressing Cases, Toilet Sets, Workboxes, Hand Glasses, &c., and New Pianos by Broadwood, Collard and Collard, and Kirkman; on very reasonable terms: Organs by Mason and Hamlin, and Cornish Dilw. Large stock of New Tennis Shoes, Hongkong, 13th April, 1879.
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KELLY & WALSH, LD.
RECENT WORKS RELATING TO CHINA AND JAPAN.
REIN'S INDUSTRIES of JAPAN.
Dyer Ball's How to Speak Cantonese. Dyer Ball's How to write Cantonese. Dyer Ball's Cantonese made easy. Dyer Ball's How to write the, Radicals." Dyer Ball's Easy sentences in Cantonese. Dyer Ball's English and Chinese Vocabulary. Giles' Chinese, without a teacher. Giles' Chuang Tse-Taoist Philosopher. Carle's Life in Corea. Howarth's History of the Mongol Little's Through the Yangise Gorges, James' Mancharia.
Boulger's History of China, 3 vols,
Mrs. Gordon Cumming's Wanderings in China, The Curse of Koshin by Hon, Lewit Winfield. William's Middle Kingdom, 2 vols. Giles' Strange Stones from a Chinese Studio. Ballan's Notes from my Chinese Scrap Book. Ng Shan's Book of Chinese Games of Chance. Oxenham's Historial Atlas of China.
DRAFTS granted on London, and the chief commercial places in Europe, India, Australia, | Interesting.) America, China and Japan.”
+
G. E. NOBLE,
Chief Manager.
Hongkong, 27th April, 1889.
THE NEW ORIENTAL BANK
CORPORATION, LIMITED.
· AUTHORISED CAPITAL .....................£3,000,000. PAID-UP CAPITAL ........................ 500,000. Registered Office, 40, THREADNEEDLÉ STREÉT, LONDON.
BRANCHES IN INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND THE COLONIES.
THE
“HE BANK_receives MONEY ON DEPOSIT, Buys and Sells Bilta 'or EXCHANGE, ISSUES LETTERS OF CREDIT, forwards BILLS for COLLECTION, and Transacts Banking and Agency Business generally, on, terms to be had on application.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS:
'Fixed for 12 months, 5 per Cent, per Annum.
19
6
4
1
ÖN CURRENT DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS
a per Cent, per Annum on the Daily Balance,
APPROVED CLAIMS on the ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, in "Liquidation, or the BALANCES of such claims, purchased on advantageous terms.
AGENCY OF THE NATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
E. W. RUTTER, Manager. HONGKONG BRANCHL
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HONGKONG HIGH LEVEL TRAM
WAYS COMPANY, LTD.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS.
8 to to AM, every quarter of an hour.
ta to da PM, every half hour,
4 to 8 P.M. every quarter of an hour,
THURSDAYS.
NIGHT: TRAMS at 10.30 and 1X P.M.
SUNDAYS.
10.40 AM.; 13 to 1.30 F1, every quarter of an
boor.
14 to 8 P.1. every quarter of an hour.:
9, 10, 10.30, 1 FM
Special Cars may be obtained on application
to the Superintendent,
Single Tickets are sold in the Cars; Five-Cent Coupons and Reduced Tickets at the Office.
MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co. Magna Goneral Managers". Hongkong, x May, 1857,
Three
Beal's Life of Hiuen Tsiang. Dragon, Image, and Demon or the Religions of China, by H, C. du Bose. Dr. Eitel's Three Lectures on Buddhism. Dr. Eitel's Hand Book of China Buddhism, being a Sanskrit-Chinese Dictionary with vocabularies of Buddhist-Terms. Hepburn's New Japanese Dictionary. Japanese Storics, for Children with native
illustrations.
Collection of Japanese Koko Music, Hughes' Among the Sons of Han,
Colquhoun's Across Chryse.
Colquhoun's Among the Shans. Colquhoun's The Opening of China.
Brereton's Truth about Opium.
General Mesny's "Tonquin, Colquhoun's Truth about Toaquin.
Parker's Chinese account of the Opium War. Wade's Tzu Eh-chí, New Ed. ̧.·
Steven's Around the World on a Bicycle, (the chapters relating to China and Japan are very Agents for the Publications of the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs. Hongkong, 16th March, 1889
THE
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HALL & HOLTZ C. CO..
LIMITED.
ARTISTIC DECORATORS,
AND FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS.
ARE
ΟΙ ΤΗΣ
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wius free from the
"BORMIDA"
will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY the 8th May, at Noox.
At Bombay the Steamers are discharging in Victoria's Dock.
For further particulars regarding Freight and Passage, apply to
CARLOWITZ & Co., :
Agents,
1516
Hongkang, 30th April, 1889.
SAILING VESSELS.
STANDARD LIFE OFFICE RE invested entirely within the British
complications which might arise in time of war. Mit now amount to Six and three-quarter THE Millions Sterling, and are increasing yearly. A marked preference continues to be shown for STANDARD POLICIES, and every year since 1865, New Assurances for upwards of £1,000,000 Sums Assured have been placed on the books n result continued uninterruptedly for so long a period by no other British Office.
THE BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED, 669-1]
Agents, Hongkong,
THE
NOTICE
"HE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY
LIMITED.
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED.......................................$1,000,000.
The above Company is prepared to accept MARINE RISKS at CURRENT RATES on Goods. Xc. Policies granted to all Parts of the world payable at any of its Agencies.
WOO LIN YUEN
Secretary.
HEAD OFFICE, No, z, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST. Hongkong..1st February, 1882.
GENERAL NOTICE."
. FOR SAN FRANCISCO.
A. I. American Ship.
"CONQUEROR"
Frost, Master, shortly expected, will load here for the above Port, and will have quick despatch.
For Freight, apply to
PUSTAU & Co.
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Hongkong, 17th April, 1889.
FOR NEW YORK.
THE 3/3 A. I. I. American Bark
SIX DOLLARS PER QUARTER.
Mails.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
NOTICE.
STEAM FOR · "SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ," PORT SAID, BRINDISI, GENOA, ANT- WERP, BREMEN AND HAMBURG, PORTS IN THE LEVANTE, BLACK SEA AND BALTIC
PORTS:
ALSO,
LONDON, NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, NEW ORLEANS, GALVESTON AND SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS.
THE COMPANY'S STEAMERS WILL CALL AT SOUTHAMPTON TO LAND PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE,
N.B.-Cargo can be taken on through Bills of Lading for the principal placez în RUSSIA.
ON
N WEDNESDAY, the 8th day of May, 1889, at4 P.M., the Company's Steamship "BAYERN." Capt. J. Mergell, with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE and CARGO, wil leave this Port as above, calling at GENOA
Shipping Orders will be granted till 10 am, Cargo will be received on board until p.m., Specie and Parcels until 10 a.m., on the 8th of May, 1889. (Farcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the AGENCY's Office). Contents and Value of Packages are required.
The Steamer has splendid Accommodation and carries a Doctor and Stewardess. For further particulars, apply to
MELCHERS & Co Agents. Hongkong, 15th April, 1889
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CANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, CANADA, THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE,
Ψιλ
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY
·AND OTHER CONNECTING RAILWAY LINES & STEAMERS.
HE British Steamship
THE
"PORT AUGUSTA " 2,833 Tons Register, Draper, Commander, will be despatched for VANCOUVER, B.C via. KOBE and YOKOHAMA, on THURS- DAY, the 9th May, at NOON.
To be followed by the S. S. "PARTHIA" on the 23rd May and S.S. "PORT FAIRY " on the 6th Jane.
Connection will be made at Yokohama with Steamers from Shanghai and Japan Ports, and at Vancouver with Pacific Coast Points by the regalar Steamers of the Pacific Coast Steamship' Company and other Steamers.
Through Passage Tickets granted to England, France, and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines of Steamers.
First-class Fares granted as follows:-
To Vancouver and Victoria...(Mex)$185.00
To all Common Foints in Canada and the United States ................................
230,00
To Liverpool..........................................mer 300.00 To London........
305.00 To other European Points at proportionate. rates. Special reduced rates granted to Officers of the Army, Navy, Civil Service, and the Imperial Chinese and Japanese Customs, to be (440 obtained on application.
"TEWKSBURY L. SWEAT,” Gooding, Master, shortly expected, will load here for the above Port, and will have quick despatch.
For Freight, apply to
PUSTAU & Co. Hongkong, 10th April, 1889.
FOR NEW YORK. “HE 3/3 A. I. L American Skip
TH
"AGENOR,"
Lothrop, Master, shortly expected, will load here [152 for the above Port, and will have quick despatch,
For Freight, apply to
THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, (LIMITED.) CAPITAL TAELS 600,000,
RESERVE FUND
$833.333-33 $318,000.00.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
LEX SINO, Esq.
Lou TSO SHUN, Esq.
1
4
PUSTAU & Co. Hangkang, 10th April, 1889.
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FOR LONDON AND HAMBURG, “HE 3/3 L 1.1. German Bark TH
"PAPA,"
Henne, Master, shortly expected, will load here for the above Ports, and will have quick LO YEUX MOON, Esq. despatch.
For Freight, apply to
· PUSTAU & Co. Hongkong, roth April, 1889.
MANAGER-HO AMEL
MARINE RISKS DR GOODS, &C., taken
world.
at CURRENT RATES to all parts of the
HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 9, PRAYA WEST. Hongkong, 17th December, 1885.
Shipping.
STEAMERS.
FOR SHANGHAL.
THE Steamship
"PEKING,"
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UR MR. W. S. MARTEN, the Manager of the CABINET and DECORATING DEPART- Captain G. Heuermann, will be despatched for
MENT of SHANGHAI, is now in HONGKONG,
ESTIMATES and DRAWINGS for FURNITURE and DECORATIONS FREE,
NEW DESIGNS in INEXPENSIVE ART FURNITURE.
OUR NEW and EXTENSIVE SHOW ROOMS now open for Inspection."
HALL & BOLTZ CO-OPERATHILD
Hongkong, 17th April, 1889.
COMPANY
FOR SALE, NEW MUSIC.
NEW SONGS,
my
MATTEI, GOUNOD, STEPHEN ADAMS, DENYN, MOLLOY, and DIETI
NEW PIANO SOLOS,
PLANQUETTE'S NEW COMIC OPERA “PAUL JONES,
Also,
LARGE SUPPLY OF ALL THE SONGS IN THE LATEST GAIETY BURLESQUE OPERA "FAUST UP TO DATE":
mg, 3rd April, 1889
LANE CRAWFORD&C" 3
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the above Port TO-MORROW, the 4th inst,
at 4 F.M.
1530
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong, and May, 1889. THE CHINA AND MANILA› STEAMSHIP
COMPANY. LIMITED.
FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY.
THE Company's Steamship
Mails.
(439
STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, ADEN, PORT SAID, MALTA, GIBRAL- TAR, MARSEILLES, BRINDISI, TRIESTE, VENICE, PLYMOUTH, AND LONDON; ALSO, BOMBAY, MADRAS, CALCUTTA AND AUSTRALIA.
N.B-CARGO CAN BE TAKEN ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING FOR BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF PORTS, MARSEILLES, TRIESTE, HAM- BURG, NEW YORK AND BOSTON. SPECIE ONLY LANDED AT PLYMOUTH.
'PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY'S
Steamship "CLYDE" Captain J. L. Parfitt, R.N.R., with Her Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for LONDON, VIA BOMBAY and SUEZ CANAL, on SATURDAY, the 4th May, "ZAFIRO," Captain McCaslin, will be despatched for the at NOON. above Ports, TO-MORROW, the 4th Instaut, at
For Freight or Passage, apply to
RUSSELL & Co.,
General Managers. " Hongkong, and May, 1889.
4 P.M.
THE "GIBB" LINE.
1533
FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling at SINGAPORE, SOURABAYA, FORT DARWIN, and QUEENSLAND PORTS, and taking through Cargo for ADELAIDE, KARAVAN TASMANIA, NEW ZEALAND, (KG) (TNG THE British Steamer
AFGHAN Captain Golding, will be despatched for the above Ports, on or about the 8th inst.4;
For Freight or Passage apply tomo
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.
·Managers..
Cargo will be received on board until 4 PM. Parcels and Specie (Gold) at the Office until 4 P.M., on the day before sailing,
Silk and Valuables for, Europe will be transhipped at Colomboj Tea and General Cargo for London will be conveyed via Bombay with out transhipment, arriving one week later than by the ordinary, direct route via Colomba,
Consular Invoices to accompany Cargo des tined to Points in the United States, should be sent to the Company's Offices, addressed to Mr. D. E. BROWN, District Freight Agent, Vancouver, B.C.
Freight will be received on board until 4 PM. on the 8th May.
All Parcels must be sent to our Office and should be marked to address in full; and the same will be received by us until P.. the day previous to asiling.
•
For information as to Passage or Freight, apply to
ADAMSON, BELL & Com
Agents.
Hongkong, 27th April 1889
OCCIDENTAL
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"AND ORIENTAL STEAM. SHIP COMPANY, TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, THE UNITED STATES,„ MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, AND
EUROPE
VIA
AND
THE OVERLAND RAILWAYS,
ATLANTIC AND OTHER CONNECTING STEAMERS.
THE Steamship.
THE
" ARABIC". will be despatched for San Francisco, vid Yokohama on SATURDAY, the 11th May, RI I P.1.
Connection will be made at Yokohama with
All PARCEL PACKAGES should be mailed to Steamers from Shanghai and Japan Forts. [address in full ; and the same will be received at the Company's Office until FIVE PAL the day previous to salting,
First-class Fares granted as follows in To San Francisco.................................. ****....$200.00 To San Francisco- and, return, available for 6 months.......................... To Liverpool...önnia i............="325,00. To London...
* 330.00
350.00
To other European Points at proportionate rates. Special reduced rates granted to Officers of the Army, Navy, Civil Service and the Imperial Chinese Customs, to be obtained on application.
Passengers by this line have the option of proceeding Overland by the Southern Pacific and Connecting Lines, Central Pacific, Northern Pacific or Canadian Pacific Railway
Passengers, who have paid full fare, re-embark ing at San Francisco for China or Japan (or: For further particulars regarding FanIGHT and vice versa) within one year will be allowed a PABBAGE apply to the PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL discount of 10 per cent. This allowance, dets STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Office, Hong-not apply to through fares from China and kong.
Japan to Europi,
Consular Invoices to accompany Cargo, dess The Contents and Value of Packages are ro quired to be declared prior to shipment.tined to Points beyond San Francisco, in the Shippers are particularly, requested to note United States, should be sent to the Company a the terms and conditions of the Company's Offices; addressed to the Collector of Custorns,
San Francisco, CA A Black Bills of Lading.
This Steamer takes Cargo and Passengers for Marseillon
N
EL WOODIN, Superintendent
P.&O. & N. Co's Office, Hongkong, 25th April, 1880.
For further information as to Freight Passage, apply to the Agency of the Company, No. 5oy Queen's Road Centralej obligé d
CD. HARMAN,
Agent Hongkong, 24th April, 1879,
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