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Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

'HE Undersigned have received instructions

to Sell by

THEU

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF

Captain W. G. SIMPSON, R.M.,

ON FRIDAY,

the 29th April, 1904, at 13.30 A.M., at No. 3, Cameron Vilas, The Peak,

THE WHOLE OF HIS

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

-contained therein.

Particulars as per Catalogues. TERMS:-As usual,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 25th April, 1903,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

1550

THE Undersigned have received instructions

to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

ori

SATURDAY,

the 30th April, 1974, at Noon, alongside the Douglas 5.S. Co.'s Wharf,

The Steam Launch

"BERTHA,"

Length 59 feet

Bread hg feet 6 inches;

Depth 6 feet 7 inches;

Buik of Teakwood, and Copper Fastened, Med Sheathed with Awning Complete. Boiler 4 ft. 4 in. by 6 ft. 6 in. in good order. Certifi cate granted for 75 lbs. pressure. Size of Engine Cylinders 9 and 15 inches by 9 inch Stroke.

TERMS --As usual.

For further particulars aaply to

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Fangkong, 23rd April, 1904,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to

be held ou MÖNDAY, the 2nd day of May, 1904, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1904.

Intimations.

-DAYS ONLY,

THE Ces for the "UP-TO-DATE

SHORTHAND" will be increased.

As the last day of April is on an early closing

day, and Sunday is the 1st of May, the pay. | ment of 556 to completion for the full course of 21 lessons may be made not later than Monday next.

If you enrol before that date you may take your lessons at your leisure-in a month, or 6 months.

The dull pupil pays no more than the bright one. Pupils must be perfect in the 1st lesson before we supply a second.

If may be learned quite as well by post as attending the Studios at Hongkong or Canton. It is not a school or a class; you come for ten minutes, take your lesson, and return smiling for the next. It is so easy you laugh at its simplicity. Those who say "It's no good," ask them their authority. Those who say "It's a fraud," ask for proof. Bring such sceptics to me, please.

Business Training Studios, Hongkong

(near G.P.O.)

Canton:-144, 6hameen.

WARWICK PELLE, Principal.

Hongkong, zóth April, 1904.

Entimation.

A SILLY SAYING.

“It is a common but silly opinion prevailing among a certain class of people that the worse a remedy tastes, smells or hurts, the more efficacious it is." So says a well-known Eng lish physician, He further adds: "For example, let us consider cod liver oil. As it is

extracted from the fish this oil is so offensive to the taste and smell that almost everybody abhors it, and many cannot use it at all, no matter how badly they need it. Yet cod liver oil is one of the most valuable drugs in the world, and it is the greatest pity that we have not thus far been able to free it from those peculiarities which so seriously interfere with its usefulness." This was written years ago; the work of civilizing and redeeming it how- ever has since been triumphantly accom plished; and as a leading ingredient in the remedy called

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION the oil retains all its wonderful curative pro-

A concession was granted whereby all masters of vessels or their agents may now obtain free special telegraphic information Company's office in the Praya or through the from the Observatory by calling at the Telegraph

telephone on calling at the police station at of advantage to masters of vessels on the Kowloon Ioint, and this will doubtless prove

point of sailing.

The acting director (Mr. Figg) reported that the Observatory was well equipped with meteorological instruments.

REDUCED CABLE RATES TO EUROPE. The hope expressed in last year's report that the repeated representations to the Cable Com. panies on the subject of the excessive mates, charged might not be without effect at the International Telegraph Conference in May. 1903, fortunately turned out to be correct, as from the 15th July, 1993, the rate to Europe was dropped from Francs 2 to 5.50, a reduction of over 20 per cent. The competition of the new pacific cable to Manila has been the direct cause of the lower rates for which the committee have been agitating for years past.

CONVEYANCE OF AUSTRALIAN MAILS VIA HONGKONG AND THE SIBERIAN

RAILWAY.

The council of the North Australian league

Intimations.

The ROBINSON PIANO Co., Ltd.

SPECIALISTS

IN

MUSICAL.".

“EVERYTHING

Hongkong, Shanghai, and Singapore.

Hongkong, 29th March, 1904

to trade.

Perties with no had smell or taste whatever. It is palatable as honey and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil. extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and Extracts of Malt and forwarded resolutions in favour of the quicker rapidly prove a great convenience and incentive THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. Wild Cherry; creating a medicine of unequaled transit of London mails to Australia and the power for the diseases most prevalent and fata desirability of inaugurating as soon as the among men, women and children. There is Adelaide-Port Darwin Railway line is com no other remedy to compare with it. It in-pleted of a mail service vid the Trans-Siberian creases the digestive power of the stomach and Railway to China and thence vid Hongkong or Canton by first steamer service to Pert in Blood Impurities, Weakness, Loss of Flesh,

Darwin. Throat and Lung Troubles, Nervous Dys pepsia. Scrofulous Affections, Thinness and Slow Development in the young, it gives quick and certain relief and cure. Dr. G. C. Shannon,

ELECTION OF A REPRESENTATIVE TO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

H.E. Sir Henry Blake informed the Chamber

ARBITRATIONS. Daring the year eight differences between

buyer and seller were referred to the Chamber by members, and the expert survey reports made on the goods in dispute were in all cases accepted by the applicants.

As one of the objects of the Chamber is to encourage reference to arbitration in trade dis- putes instead of by redress in the law courts,

1. ICE HOUSE ROAD,

HONGKONG.

CABLE ADDRESS,— Telegraph, Hongkong

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[549 of Canada, says: "I shall continue its use with, that he had granted a year's leave of absence the committee consider it satisfactory to plac HE leading English Newspaper in China

THE CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,

LIMITED.

HONGKONG EXCHANGE.

I am sure, great advantage to my patients and satisfaction to myself." Has all the virtues of cod liver oil none of its faults. You may trust it fully; it cannot disappoint or fail. One bottle convinces. Sold by all chemists.

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THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

(Continued from page 5.) The committee at that time expressed the opinion that the above recommendations, if carried into effect, would, they hoped, put an

Works Department, by Order of His Excellency SUBSCRIPTION 5, end to the delays in the inspection of vessels

the Officer Administering the Government, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, ot Star Street in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Na of Sale

Registry No

LOCALITY.

Boundary

Measurements.

H.

5.

W.

t. I ft.

St

it

Upset Price.

Star Street

14 8549.69.65-938 | 54 | 2,387

Hongkong, 25rd April, 1904,

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Ensurance.

NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUBANGF COMPANY OF HAMBURG.

Undersigned AGENTS of the above

THE red to accept First

Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at CURRENT RATES.

SIEMSSEN & Co.

Hongkong, Vin, pRge

Notice of Firm.

NOTICE.

TE bave this

157

day authorized Me

W. .C. BONNAR to sign the name

of our firm in Hongkong and China, by

procuration,

PAYABLE QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE.

EXCHANGE LINES: $25 Per Quarler.

NO CHARGE FOR INITIAL

INSTALLATION.

N.B.-A Special Charge is made for Lines

I more than average length.

DESK TELEPHONES

For a small additional annual charge Desk

Sets can be supplied.

ELECTRIC SUPPLIES.

BATTERIES,

CHEMICALS,

[$40

CIBH, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 22nd April, 1904.

For Sale.

G COAL

ENUINE

FOR SALE.

CARDIFF AND JAPAN

Apply to

RITCHIE & Co.,

39, Des Vœux Road

Hongkonx. 22nd April, 1904.

FOR SALE,

INC

ELECTRIC BELLS,

INSULATORS,

SWITCHES

TELEPHONES,

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&C.,

&C.,

&c.

'NCANDESCENT GASOLINE

LAMPS

OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, from the best makers,

INCANDESCENT

MANTLES,

CHIMNEYS,

CLOBES,

SHADES, &c.

for.. GASOLINE AND Gas LAMPS

at the most moderate prices.

Lamps fixed up for Buyers free of charge

Naphtha of the bes kind kept in stock,

TẠI KWONG BÀ

56, Lyndhurst Terrace;

Hongkong, 2nd April, 1994

SEND FOR PRICE LISTS,

that had occurred in the past, and therefore agreed to His Excellency's suggestions.

to the Hon. R. Shewan as from the 5th August last and therefore requested the nomination of a temporary member of Council in his place. A special general meeting of the members was held on the 12th idem, at which Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., was elected by 63 votes to 54 for Mr. E. A. llewett. His Excellency afterwards signified bis approval of the nomination.

IMBECILE PERSONS INTRODUCTION

ORDINANCE, 1904.

Also widely circulated in

on record the increased inclination on the part: China, Ceylon, India, and of manufacturers and merchants in Europe to require surveys to be conducted under the generally. auspices of the Chambers of Commerce.

FINANCES.

The Pinnacle Rock Fund amounts with in. terest to $4.256.84 and is separately invested, partly in Hongkong Hotel Co. 6 per cent. debentures purchased on 31st December last at par, and the balance in 48 per cent. Hong-

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A daily newspaper with weekly edition published for despatch by the homeward mail The daily is recommended as more geneilly suitable, except for subscribers in Europe or America.

A special feature is made of full and accur- mands have been made on the fund during the ate reports of local occurrences, and of mat- year for discovery of rocks dangerous to navi-ters of general interest. gation.

The income shows a satisfactory increase over that of the previous year, chiefly resulting through the increased membership, but on the

other hand the expenditure has been greater. The surplus is $694.37. bringing the reserve fund up to $12,847.29 at the end of the year.

This bill, which became law on 23rd Feb-kong & Shangbai Bank fixed deposit. No de- ruary, 1904, was introduced in the Legislative Counc❘ last August under the name of Imbecile Immigration Ordinance. Its con ditions were so aneous that the Chamber strongly opposed each stage in Council through This hope unfortunately was not fulfilled the acting representative of the Chamber, Mr. and the chamber found it necessary to again H. E. Pollock, K.C.. and the Government were draw the attention of His Excellency the Officer induced to somewhat restrict the proposed Administering the Goverment to the incon- liabilities under which owners. charterers, venience and loss suffered by the large ship agents, consignees and masters of vessels were ping interests of this Colony through the new

to be subjected to for landing persons in the arrangement not having produced the anti-Colony who afterwards became lunatic. etc., cipated result, as in cansequence of the health officer of the port and his deputy being engag ed with their private practice in various parts of the city, it not infrequently happens that when their official services are required they are inaccessible. Dr. Keyt is thus often the only. officer available to attend the ships coming into the harbour, with the result that delays are of frequent occurrence.

His Excellency has, however, not seen his way to follow the committer's suggestion to employ a Government official without private

and a charge on the rates within 6 months of such landing. The period of 6 months was finally reduced to three months, the aggregate expense limited to $5,001, exemption permitted if it could be proved that such person became hundile, div, after embarkation at the port or place from which ne shipped and she sight, given to demand from the authorities a cer- tificate of refusal of permission to land.

With these concessions the committee had to be content, but they regard with some con- cern the recurrent desire of the Government to

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ADVERTISING department.

The Hongkong Telegraph is the best medium for advertising in China. It circulates

It will be noted that in order to obtain a largely among all classes of the community, larger income in future years, the bank depo is the largest daily newspaper and has a sits on general account have been withdrawn wider circulation than any journal in the Far and re-invested on 31st December last in East. Hongkong Hotel Co., and Hongkong & Kow-

loon Wharf and Godown Co. 6 per cent, De. Special attention gives to effectively display - bentures bearing interest at 6 per cent. per, ing advertisements. annum and 5 per cent, per annum respectively.

Intimations.

WANTED.

The type used as a standard for setting advertisemente is similar

instructed to display the 20t

opted

any effective style of type will be This standard runs exactly eight lines to the

practice but with a qualified assistant, and the saddle the shipping intarests with expenses AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING CHINESE inch, and about eight words to the line.

committee regret having to record this decision as they feel their suggestion is the only remedy for the delays now experienced. JUNKS FLYING FOREIGN PLAOS TO EVADE PAYMENT OF "CHING-PEI” TAX LEVIED

DV THE VICEROY OF THE

TWO KWANG. Following up the representations made last year, the committee again drew the atttention of the Government to the fact that a large number of trading junks using the harbour as native craft after leaving the waters of the Colony hoist certain foreign flags under Con- sular Authority and proceed to Canton as foreign craft. Mr. James Scott, H. M.'s Consul General at Canton, referred to the matter in his annual report for 1902 as a state of affair which is obviously unsatisfactory both as regards the Hongkong Government and the Imperial Maritime Customs in China. Certain suggestions were therefore made which, it is hoped, will be acted upon, so that the harbour master inay be kept informed as to the names and registered numbers of such junks to enable him to refuse them the right of entry and clearance in the Colony. The improper use of alien flag by Chinese junks will then be discouraged

STORM WARNINGS.

which threaten to deprive Hongkong of its ad- vantage as a cheap transhipping port. Your Committee have had in mind throughout their deliberations on this ordinance that the reten- tion of freedom from direct taxation and the repression of useless restrictions is the policy which the shipping passing through the har bour should be treated if its present volume is to be maintained or increased,

The shipping firms and agencies supported the action of the committee by addressing a pati tion to His Excellency the Officer Administer- ing the Government in which very strong arguments were brought forward for the with- drawal of the bill, but unfortunately His Ex- cellency refused to comply with the wishes of the petitioners.

MEMBERS.

The present membership is 144, showing an increase of & firms and public companies and 3 private individuals, who now number 117 and 27 respectively, Messrs. Deacon & Hastings and Edwards, Piry & Co., Ld, have resigned their membership, and the Holland-China Trading Co. took over the membership of

Messrs. Hotz 'Jacob & Co.

The following have been admitted to mem- bership subject to confirmation at the annual meeting Messrs. Goddard & Douglas, Bar-

THE OENERAL COMMITTEE.

MASTER for SA1-YING-PUN SCHOOL. Salary $30 per month.

Apply to--

INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS. Hongkong, 25th April, 1904.

WANTED.

1555

ADVERTISEMENT RATES,

(per inch)

One week....... One month

...$ 2.85

7.20

Two months

13.00

Three

Six Twelve

10.00

+1

M

37.50

73.00

ITUATION by BOOKKEEPER, young

European. Salary required $300.

Please apply to

K. L.,

Clo Hongkong Telegraph. Hongkong, 20th April, 1904.

WANTED.

No charge less than one dollar, Discount allowed on-

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THREE COMPOSITORS,

Apply to-

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" CO. Hongkong, 19th April, 1004.

To Let.

TO LET.

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE.

Apply to→

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LD, Hongkong, 15th April, ro24.

The exertions of the committee in 190a were rewarded by H. E. the Governor agreeing in retto & Co., Lamke & Rogge, E. G. Wilkı &

A WIRE, May last to totroduce the flag system of Co. Chuo On Fire Insurance Co., Ld, Shiu weather signals as worked at Shanghai for the On S. S. Co., Ld., Osaka Shosen Kaisha, Java- information of shipmasters, but without dis-China-Japan Lijn, China & Japan Telephone placing the cone system in use. His Excel & Electric Co., Ld, Deacon, Looker & Deacon, lency's opinion and that of his expert advisers Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., Mr. G. C. Moxon, and was stated as being that the cone system was Mr. A. M. Essabhoy, a better and safer system and familiar to the local junk population. It will be remembered that at the commencement of the discussion the Chamber suggested the introduction of a dag system, but His Excellancy then arrived at the conclusion that an alteration in the Hongkong system of signalling storms was not desirable and that a system of fag signals to convey wasther information was, for the rea- sons indicated by the acting director, not suited to local conditions. Eventually the

ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS,

Estimates given for all kinds of Electrical

Work.

ADDRESS:-1, Ice House Road,

TO LET.

$554

O.1, STEWART TERRACE,

Apply to-

3 Months Contracts......$ per cent.

.

"I

LOKAL

1

25 »

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCEN,

Notices of Births, Deaths, and Marriages fr each insertion in the Daily and Weekly,

CONTRACT ADVERTISEMENTS, Special Rates for standing advertisements can be ascertained from the Manager.

Advertisements for the Daily should mach the Hongkong Telegraph Office not later than | noon of the day they are intended to appear.

Unless otherwise specified all advertisements will be repeated and charged for until counter- manded.

JOBBING DEPARTMENT.

Job Printing of all descriptions undertaken,

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- | PROGRAMMR),

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.

Since its election at the last annual meeting NoTHE PEAK. in May fast, the only changes taking place have been the temporary substitution of Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., for Mr. R. Shewan an ex-officio member in Auguet last, and Mr, C. Michelau having left the Colony in January, 1904, Mr. A. Haupt was invited to re-join the committee.

REUTER'S POLITICAL TELEGRAMS. Since the last meeting the committee have

Chamber drew an extended code of symbol made a contract with the Reuter's Telegram: signals for day, and lantern signals for night Co., Ld, for five years at a monthly subscrip work, to meet the objections raised against flagation of $500,

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as well as on economical grounds. Now that the PROPOSED DIRECT PARCEL POST EXCHANGE Government has introduced the Shangbai fag BETWEEN HONGKONG AND UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA, system it is felt that at least a fair trial may be given to it and objections raised later if found The committes have pleasure la reporting that the joint representations of the Chamber,

necessary, assN

The committee's suggestion that an ad- } and that of Amoy, to the Hongkong Govern-

TO LET.

1436

ONE OFFICE ROOM on second floor,

Prince's Buildings. Apply to-

REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & Co. Hongkong, 6th April, 1904.

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TO LE1.

W. STUART HARRISON, ditional signal station should be established at mens which were strongly supported by H. E. MEIRION, Nos. 1 and 2. Cape Collinson and Green' Island' was vetoad | Sir Henry Blake, and referred to in last year's on the ground that these places were not in report, have had a satisfactory issus. direct telephonic communication with, and the ⠀⠀⠀ Pazosis may now be sent direct from Hong- signals could not be verified by, the Obser- | kong by post to places in the United States, [61 valory officials.

and there is little doubt that this service will

· Hongkong, 13th April, -1904-

BOWRING VILLAS, No. 2. Apply-

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Hongkong, and April, 1904,

8, Des Voeux Road,

$465

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CIRCULARS,

EXPRESSES,

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