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Futimations.

PYROLA,

PYROLA,

PYROLA.

PERFUME

OF

EXQUISITE

FRAGRANCE.

WATKINS

LIMITED.

Chemists and Perfumers. No. 66, Queen's Road Central.

Hongkong, 1st October, 1901.

(7140

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

$3.30 Bag of 250 Ds.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1901.

Co-day's Advertisements,

THEATRE ROYAL

CITY HALL."

THE

EMPIRE COMEDY

COMPANY.

Instantaneous success of the Funny Barlesque Skit (on a Trip to Chinatown). A Continuity of Funny Situations, Whimsical Oddities.

&o., &o...

continuous roar of uninterrupted laughter

specialties by our great Vaudeville

Artists received with bursts of enthusiasm.

STANLEY. LIVINGSTONE,

A Real Mirth Provoker.

TIME AND PRICES AS USUAL.

SPECIAL TRAMS TO THE PEAK AFTER THE PERFORMANCE.

PLAN AT THE ROBINSON PIANO COMPANY, LIMITED.

Co-day's Advertisements.

BAZAAR

IN AID OF

THE POOR CHINESE ORPHANS

OF THE

" 'ASILE DE LA SAINTE ENFANCE. (Under the distinguished Patronge of His Excellency Sir H. A. BLAKE, G.C.AL.G.)

HE French Sisters have the honour to THE

announce that their ANNUAL BAZAAR will be held at the CITY HALL, on TUBSDAY, he tath instant, at 2. o'clock in the afternoon.

They request the presence of the Community in order to inspect the different Needle and Fancy Works thate by their Poor Orphans."

Hongkong, 4th December, 1901.

THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, LIMITED.

FOR FOOCHOW YIA SWATOW AND AMOV,

THE Company's Steamship

"ANPING MARU,”

Captain S. Atsumi, will be despatched for the above Fort, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th instant,

Daylight.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, Agents. Hongkong, 4th December, 1903.

Intimation.

A. S. WATSON & Co.,

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841,

GLARETS.

8.96*.8.7.50

ST. ESTEPHE

ST. JULIEN..

· 9.00

LA BOSE.

12.00

CHATEAU HAUT BRION

{321c

LARRIVET

18.00

CHATEAU MOUTON d'ÁR.

MAILHACO

21.00

CHATEAU PONTET CAR-*·

25.00

Hongkong. 4th December, 1001. 1320 AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA

SANITARY

BOARD.

WNERS of HOUSES situated in the Western Division of the City of Victoria who have not had their Premises LIME- WASHED and CLEANSED in accordance with Law, are reminded that the period during which this work should be FINISHED ends on the 31st day of DECEMBER, 19ot, and the Sanitary Board being convinced of the necessity of Cleanliness in its efforts to Stamp.out.Plague,- is determined to rigorously prosecute any Owner in default after the above named Date.

By Order of the Board,

G. A. WOODCOCK,

Secretary.

Sanitary Board Office,

1st December, 1901. Notes:-The Western Division of the City lies to the West of Morrison and East Streets.

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PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL S.S. CO.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

NOTICE.

TION COMPANY.. STEAM TO YOKOHAMA AND KOBE. THE Company's Steamship

T

"MARIA VALERIE," Captain Berberovics, will leave for the above places, on THURSDAY, the 19th instant, P.M. The steamer, has capital accommodation for passengers, Electric light. A doctor is carried.

For Fraight or Passage, apply to

!.

SHOOTING AT 200 YARDS on the Tai- hang range on Sunday, in a police competition, Sergeant Cameron made 48, two short of a possible.

THE MISSIONS of Yunnan and northern Manchuria have satisfactorily arranged with the Chinese Government all the questions arising out of the Boxer troubles.

SOME of the chief Chinese business men of Hongkong are away for a few days in Canton busily engaged in preparing to open a branch of the Elias Kndooric Schools in that city.

FROM THE ROCKS in the harbour the body of an unknown female child was yester- day taken and a post mortem examination showed that death was due to tuberculosis.

WIRELESS TELEGRAPI'S RECORD distance over water, has, according to the Lon don Shipping World," been reached by H.M.S. Arrogant, which signalled the land 162 miles out atįser.

9.80 THE AMERICAN DESERTER, Frank C. 13.92 Meekin, who became an insurgent officer, and was after' capture sentenced to be shot, has 19.20 bad his sentence commuted to one of twenty

years' imprisonment, 22.20

.NET CHATEAU LA TOUR CAR-

NET

30.00 CHATEAU BAUZAN at 42.00 ...... 49.00 OHATEAU LAFITE..

These CLARETS are bought direct from the leading French growers, [1317 The lowest priced are of exceptional

SANDER, WIELER & Co.,

·Agents, Hongkong, 4th December, igor.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

PAQUEROTS-POSTE FRANCAIS.

· NOTICE.

STEAM FOR

SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, PONDICHERRY, MADRAS, CALCUTTA, DJIBOUTI, EGYPT, MARSEILLES, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX; ALSO

85.50 Cask of 375 bs. Net ex Factory.I HAVE This Day RESUMED CHARGE PORTS OF BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Hongkong, 1st June, 1907.

of the business of the above Companies. J. 5. VAN BUREN, Agent. fra "Hongkong, and December, 1901. - [13210

KELLY & WALSH, LD,

JUST LANDED.

Ex 5.3. Chusan.'

CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF

"GRAPHIC,"

LLUS. LONDON NEWS,"

"ILLUS. SPORTING & 'DRAMATIC NEWS," "SKETCH,'

"BLACK & WHITE"

"PEARS' ANNUAL"

With Coloured Plates...

HK. V. C..

A Handsome Souvenir of the 1901 CAMP.

**

15 PHOTOS and DESCRIPTIVE LETTERPRESS.

Price....

$1.50

CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY.

..75 cents each.;

Price !!!

Hongkong, 27th November, 1901.

$2.25

[690c

WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED.

28 & 34, QUEEN'S ROAD.

DRESSMAKING.

AN MUNDAY, the 16th December, 1901, ON MUNDA te Company's Steamship "VILLE DE LA CIOTAT," Captain-Fiaschi, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Part for MARSEILLES, via Ports. of Call, WITHOUT TRANSHIPMENT.

Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon- don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.

Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon, Cargo will be received on board until 4 P.M. Specic and Parcels until 3 P.M., on the 15th instant. (Parcels are not to be sent on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office.) Con. tents and Value of Packages are required.

For further Particulars apply at the Com- pany's Office.

P. DE CHAMPMORIN, Acting Agent." Hongkong, 4th December, 191,

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

[10b4c

FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP, LONDON, PORT SAID, COLOMBO

AND SINGAPORE.

THE Company's Steamship

"SADO MARU,"

value and guaranteed to be the genuine product of the juice of the grape.

CHATEAU LA TOUR CARNET, CHATEAU RAUZAN AND

CHATEAU LAFITE

are commended to the notice of Con- noisseurs as high-class after-dinner Wines.

We guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine only when bought direct from us in

the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports.

A. 6, WATSON & CO., LIMITED, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

DEATH..

On the 3rd instant, at the Peak Hospital, FINLAY GLEN HENDERSON, aged zṛ, son si Mrs. Henderson, of Ashton Terrace, Glasgow

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The Hongkong Telegraph

A CONFERENCE micets at Rome shortly to settle the question of the frontier of the Soudan, and Erythrea. Sir Rennell Rodd and Captain Harrington, the British Agent in Abyssinia, represent Great Britain. Captain Harrington afterwards returns to Abyssinia.

A LARGE ASSORTMENT of ladies and gentlemen's jewellery will be sold by public auction at Messrs, liughes and Hough's sale Saturday, the 14th December next. Full parti- rooins, 20, Des Vœux Road at 11 o'clock on

culars will be found on reference to our adver- tising columns.

AN ENGLISH LANDOWNER in Sicily, bamed Barten, has been murdered with his wife and his son. The crime is believed to bave been committed by the Mafiä secret society, out of revenge for the imagined be trayal by Mr. Barton of its secrets. No arrests bave yet been made by the authorities. THE DIVORCE COURT has made absolute

the decree niti for the dissolution of the 'mar riage between Earl Russell, and Mabel, Lady Russell whom he married in 1892; on the 31st the Earl re-married Mollie, Mrs. Somerville, strength of a divorce obliained in America.

to whom he was married in 1900 on the

THE ANNUAL BAZAAR in aid of the poor Chinese orphans of the Asile de la Sainte Enfance will be held at the City Hall on Tues. day next, the oth inst.,' at two o'clock in the afternoon. It is an institution which is doing much useful work in the Colony, and deserves the patronage of all who have at heart the wel- fare of the native orphans.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1901. teader to accompany the Discovery to South

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

having arrived fromthe above Pons, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Gedown Company's Godown at Kowloon, where each A PRO-BULLER DEMONSTRATION. consignment will be sorted out mark by mark

WINTER JACKETS AND CAPES.nd delivery can be obtained as soon as the

WINTER HOSIERY AND GLOVES.

TOYS AND XMAS PRESENTS,

IN ENORMOUS VARIETY.

goods are landed.

Optional goods will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary before 4 P.M., TO-DAY.

Goods not cleared by the 11th instant, will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

The largest stock of all the above goods in the office before the 14th instant, or claims in

East.

THE

ROBINSON PIANO COMPANY,

JUST UNPACKED.

A NEW SHIPMENT

THE CELEBRATED

OP

R. G. HECKFORD,

Manager.

LIMITED.

APOLLO PIANO PLAYER,

Inspection invited.

Hongkong, 22nd November, 1901.

A. CHEE & Co.

17A, Queen's Road, Central.

ESTABLISHED 1859.

FURNITURE DEALERS:

IMPORTERS OF EUROPEAN GOODS OF ALL KINDS

All ship-damaged packages must be left in the Godowns and Notice of same sent to this connection therewith will not be recognised.

NIPPON YUSEN KÄISHA. Hongkong, 4th December, 1901. [1322c

For Sale.

FOR SALE, CHEAP..

A Three years old, in Excellent Condition. COTTAGE PIANO by BORD, of PARIS, THE ROBINSON PIANO CO. (565e

LONDON, December 2nd. An orderly pro-Buller demonstration has taken place in Hyde Park.

TUE BRITISH ADMIRALTY were excep tionally busy last months on experimental work, notably in regard to new fuel, a new system for-toaling at sea, and submarino telegraphy enabling cables to be tapped.

THE STEAMERS of the China Mutual Steam Navigation Company, recently reported as having been acquired by Mr. Alfred Holt of " Liverpool, are 13 in nomber, three of which, of 8,000 tons gross each, are building,

CAPT. TILLARD, R.N., who left Hongkong a short time age in command of II.M.S. Dido, homeward bound, is the step-father of young Lient. Cecil, who married Miss Jesse Bain the other day under romantic conditions.

MADAME FREED is giving another per- formance at Canton on Friday evening, and afterwards stie made possibly appear in public at Foochaw. From the great reception accorded her last evening she should have no difficulty in securing full houses at either place...

THE STABBING AFFRAY in Hollywood. Road last week in which a Chinese musician stabbed another in the abdomen, necessitating his removal to the hospital, has now taken another turn. The man died in the Govern ment Civil Hospital on Monday night, and Dr. J. Hell has since made a post mortem examination the result of which showed that death was due to acute peritonitis.

MR. A. FONSECA, atter an immensity of hard work is resigning the management, of the Connaught House, and Mr. J. H. Wainwright is stepping into his place. During Mr. Fonseca's term of office, the Hotel has acquired a reputation for civility, attention and general lield by the incoming head of affairs, and no good management that we are sure will be up-

body is more capable of carrying on and in- creasing the business than Mr. Wainwright..

THE DEATH has occured of an old and much respected Chinese resident of this. Colony, in the person of Mr. Chao Chee Bée, who was for over 30 years compradore to the China Sugar Refining Company. The deceased was & Straps-born Chinaman ärd came to this Colony many years ago. He was noted for his charita- ble disposition, and was a justice of the Peace. His illness was of short duration, and he suc combed at the age of 65 years, leaving a large family to mourn his loss.

SIR THOMAS LIPTON is determined to

test the truth of the old saying that the third trial has the charm: Speaking to an interviewer at Queenstown, where the Celtic: touched on her homeward voyage, he declared that he would race for the America Cup next year again. The fact that this year's contests were so close encouraged another attempt to win the Cup. Sir Thomas Lipton denied that there was friction on board Shamrock II. On the contrary, harmony prevailed throughout. He further most emphatically denied the rumour that Shamrock II, is for sale. ·

..

MR. ALEC, MARSH is giving a concert at

SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM, President of the Royal Geographical Society, admits that the_voyage to Cape Twon_showed the Dis- Shanghai to-morrow, and the following notica covery to be a poor sailer and somewhat leaky.from the WC Daily News-will-be-of-interest- Her coal consumption wasjalso excessive. Sir to many reader's. "The lovers of music, in Clements Markham is appealing to the public Shanghai-and they are innumerable-are for £10,000 to complete the equipment of a looking forward with pleasurable expectancy to the concert which Mr. Alec. Marsh is pre- paring for the night of the 5th December. Mr. Polar regions.

'Marsh has already built up a reputation here, not only as a singer of the first class, but as a most admirable concert organiser, and his pre- sent efforts in this direction will no doubt be attended with the same success as those made in the past. Several ladies and gentlemen whose names are well-known in local musical coteries have promise Mr. Marsh their assist ance. One of the features of the concert will be a portion of the new duct from Wagner's

FALSE AND WICKED, is the description given by His Honour Mr. Justice,O'Connor to a statement recently made in Irish journals that, in certain land cases, Roman Catholics were excluded from jurics simply because they were Roman Catholics. The grounds of exclusion in 'the particular cases cited were, he says, quite different from those alleged, Judge O'Connor has warned the Cabinet that boycotting Sligo has attained such dimensions that wings

';

THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. The Brussels correspondent of the Lon-there are becoming very serious. don Post says that ex-President "Kruger's latest reports are said to show an increasing want, of ammunition, arms, and provisions amongst the Boers.

CAPE_PREMIER ON THE WAR. Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, Premier of Cape Cape army in the field numbers i8,000 men Colony, speaking at Capetown, said that the

The Colony had incurred considerable debt in maintaining these troops, but the prospect was not discouraging, and he was confident EVERAL MODERN BOOKS on Ens that the war was being rapidly brought to a

gineering Subjects. For List, apply

For Price, &c, apply to

Hongkong, 27th May, roor. FOR SALE.

SEVE

(STEAM,"

C/o The Hongkong Telegraph. Hangkang, roth August, 1901.

Intimations."

LOBT.

from HARPERVILLE, Robinson Road,

close.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

AT NIJINI NOVGOROD, a city in Russia, 276 miles east of Moscow, several Government officials, who are charged with having cm- bezzled the sum of £50,000 have been tried. The money was received in instalments in connection with engineering works on the River Volga, which were supposed to be

in the conspisacy, who pocketed the bulk of completed, but which, as a matter of fact, have "not yet been commenced. The leading man the stolen money, has received the very len.ent sentence of a year's imprisonment in a

fortress.

Flying Dutchman," which Mr. Marsh and Mrs. Lanphier will produce. It is probable that some other Wagner items will be sung, and in that case a new and welcome departure will have been made in Shanghai concerts."

AT THE MAGISTRACY.

41

December 4th.

A YOUNG, THRE

A coolic, aged 14 was ordered to be detained

value of $11 the property of the Hongkong and in prison for 48 hours and to be given 12 strokes of the birch for stealing property to the Whampoa Dock Company. There was a

previous conviction for larceny recorded against him.

·THEFT.

IN A PAPER on "Bridges in Western China, read before the Mechanical Section of the A wandering fowl, valued at 30 cents, ran foul British, Association recently, it was stated the of Chan Hung who picked it up and was TUD Chinese had learned to use their materials within for theft. He does seven days."),

A DIET OF PINEAPPLES is said to be the considerable skill, and a thorough investigation

of

their handicraft

possibly would reveal latest cure for beri-beri.

whether they had developed a formula for their guidance or whether by long experience their

ON SATURDAY, the 30th November, RICKSHAS, spick and span, to the number of & WHITE BULL TERRIER DOG, 8 months a hundred have just been licensed for street old. number 766, on collar!"

Finder will be rewarded on returning same

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to

Silver Plated, Glass and China Waics, Iron Bedsteads and Mat tresses Cutlery and Dinner Services; Cooking Ranges and Kitchen Utensils, Aspinal's Enamels, &c., &c.

hire.

DOUGLAS, LAPRAIK & CO., Ballarat will close at 3 pm on Friday, the PARCEL MAILS for Europe, &c, per 1.3. Praya Central. Hongkong, 3rd December, 1901.

WANTEDA

6th ins

UNIFORMED BUT UNSOLDIERLY.- An Indian watchman, Mahomed Khar by name, was attired in a tunic and trousers of His

bridge builders had learned to turn out good Majesty's military forces although not serving work by empirical methods Investigation of in any Regiment. He paid $5 and saved him. the subject would certainly yield results of self fram donning prison garb for 14 days. great interest when compared with mediaval. and modern work in Europe.

*

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION.

Lau Fuk, a marine hawker, and Tsoi Kau,

AN EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER has a cinder boatman, were found in unlawful pos just passed away in a Carinarthenshire gentle session of a boller plate, valuo $3 and as. man, named Evans. Mr. Evans devated his could not give a satisfactory account of it they,

No Lo

"WO AMAHS for HOSPITAL for Soldier's THE OXFORD STROKE, (Mr. Seymour) in

Wives and Children.

the last Inter-varsity Boat Race is reported to life to witnessing hangings, making the acquain-were hauled up before the Magistrate be dead.

who Apply to

tance of executioners, and collecting relics of was fined $2 or seven days, and. No. murders. In the early days of public hang- has already seen something of prison life, bad NO. 38 COMPANY, Southern division R. Angs he would travel any distance to see a man a fine of $5 imposed upon him or the alter will not arrive in Singapore from Hongkong "turned off. He was so fascinated by the native of 14 days.

OFFICER IN CHARGE, STATION HOSPITAL WELLINGTON BARRACKS

Hongkong, 28th November, 1901. [1297

NOTICE OF REMOVAL, BEG to interm my Pattons and Public Generally that I have-REMOVED my

Our store is situated between the Principal Banking Institutions and Stores from No 13 to No. 5, D'AQUILAR

Hotels, in Hongkong.

Hongkong, 25th July, 100),

7776

STARET

HRUTTONJEE MyD'Aguilar Street... "27th April, 1900.50), [34

till January.

THE MEMBERS of the "Naraland Military" Lodge are holding a supper and a smoking concert at the Masonic Hall on Friday next,

COP NEW SCARVES and

THE DOUBLE, D/7" WBP. Busk, a stoker on H.M.S. Blenheim,

Business that on the death of Calcraft he ab plied for his post. As this was not granted, he set up a gallows in his own house and in- vited his friends to test the noose Birming caught, the "brewer" on Tuesday night, and ham Daily Gazette,

ZOTTAM & CO. FOOTBALL KNIC

KERS

when under the influence of drink created

OTTAM & CO. FYJAMAS for AL

WEAR