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Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instructions

to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT of Captain W. G. SIMPSON, R.M.,

ON

FRIDAY, the 29th April, 1904, at 11:30 AM, at No. 3, Cameron Vilos, The Peak,

THE WHOLE OF HIS HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Cuntained therein. Particulars as per Catalogues. TERMS:-As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 25th April, 1904.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1904.

Intimations.

4 DAYS ONLY.

HE fees for the UP-TO-DATE THE

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 $50 to completion for the full course of a 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 inore than the bright

one Puplis must be perfect in the 1st lesson 1550 before we supply a second.

THE Undersigned have received instructions

to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

h SATURDAY,

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

The Steaur Launch

"DERTHA,"

Length 59 feet;

Brent hq feet 6 inches;

Depth 6 feet 7 inchies;

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

TERMS-As usual.

For father particulars aply to

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Fongkang, 23rd April, 1904.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

)ARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of

PARC by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 2nd day of May, 1904, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public

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 tea 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:44, Shameen.

WARWICK PELLE, Principal.

Hongkong, 26th April, 1904.

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THE CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,

Works Department, by Order of His Excellency S

the Officer Administering the Goverment, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, at 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

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

years.

No. of Sale.

Lot No. 1,315

Registry No.

LOCALITY.

Boundary Measurements.

Upset Price

LIMITED.

HONGKONG EXCHANGE.

UBSCRIPTIONS.

PAYABLE QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE.

EXCHANGE LINES: jag Per Quarter.

1. ft. ft.

TO CHARGE FOR INITIAL

Star Street

7489 496;50,6· 3031· 54 |2,361

INSTALLATION.

Hongkong, 23rd April, 1904.

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insurance.

NORTH GERMAN FINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.

THE

"HE Undersigned AGENTS of the above. Company are prepired to accept First Class BOUGX and CHINESE RISKS A CURRENT RATES.

S'EMSSEN & AG

провестира, привнева ва одат еї гум

Notice of Firm.

NOTICE.

WW.C BONNAR to sign the name

TE have this day authorized Mr.

of our firm in Hongkong and China, by procuration.

N.B-A Special Chuge is made for Lines

more than average length.

DESK TELEPHONES

A COASTING STEAMER IN JAPAN.

Let us take a trip in a steamer of medium size, 600 tons or thereabouts, probably now engaged in transporting troops to Korea, but to-night she is on her daily run to Shikoku. A prolonged hooting tells that in half an hour she will be off, and the busy little "toya," or steamer agent, through whom-for nothing can be done directly in Japan-we have taken our tickets, comes round to collect our luggage in a small hand-truck and to assure us that it is time to start. Our lodging, at what used to be called the Foreign Concession in Osaka in passport

days, is close to the wharf, so we may dispense with rickshaws" and walk down past several steamers, each with a huge lantern bung at its side announcing its destination in big black characters painted on the oiled paper. Our boat is just getting up steam, and we must follow the "toya" across a rickety fanding-stage and clamber in at a dark hole in the side of the ship whence issues a scent in which the dried- fish cargoes of many past years are commemo. rated and the presence of much edible seaweed and a large concourse of third-class passengers is unmistakably announced. We pass these latter on our way to the better accommodation provided for us. On either side of a narrow passage are three broad shelves sprend with coarse matting, on which, dimly visible in the feeble light of a small oil lamp, squat or lie rows of blue-clad forms, some few composed to sleep, but most of them men and women alike, smoking to while away the time and comfort their hearts, so that the air is somewhat thick, and we turn with relief into the fishy passage and hurry past the engines into our first-class

ing. By and by the boy approaches and begs us to lake some breakfast; and we watch the lacquered trays, each with red and black bowis of fish, soup, and rice, with greens and dried radish of a doubtful odour, go below without feeling any desire to partake.

Now we are at the river's mouth, and must wait for the quarantine officer to come on board. escorted by two policemen in neat white-faced uniforms and round caps, somewhat formidable- seeming swords clanking at their sides. First they inspect and count the crew, who are drawn up in line, a somewhat ragged regiment, in grimy coals and trousers, the officers distinguished by

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Intimations.

The ROBINSON PIANO Co., Ltd.

SPECIALISTS

IN

“EVERYTHING

MUSICAL."

Hongkong, Shanghai, and Singapore.

Hangkong, 29th March, 1904

others who-poor things are suffering as you to publish particulars of my cure so that

have suffered may hear of the way to get better.

bed, being so weak and thin, and in the morn For months and months I had to be carried to

ing 1 had to be taken out and dressed again. The people next door thought I was going to die, and I used often 10 sit in my chair and cry for hours at a time."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

1, ICE HOUSE ROAD,

HONGKONG.

CABLE ADDRESS,-Telegraph, Hongkong

139

gold lace on their caps and sleeves. Then

and second class, and lastly ourselves, the doctor comes the inspection of the passengers, third politely inquiring if our hodoutable health is gord. This ceremony being satisfactorily con- cluded, he drops back into his boat with his escort, and we resume our passage up the river, past low sandbanks and rows of crooked pine trees and small wooden houses where housewives are opening wooden shutters and drawing back paper windows to let in the fresh morning air. Now the landing-stage is in sight; rows of rickshaws expectant of fares are drawn up along the river bank, and 190 little red mail carts with two runners apiece in neat blue uniform and large round hats. On the stage are rickshaw men in tight blue leggings and basket hats, several "toya early schoolboys, a little army of newspaper the look out for passengers and luggage, a few men, a few people who have come "mukae ni," e, to honourably meet their friends, and many and various idlers. As we come up alongside, the dozen or so of mail bags are tossed over, and passed from hand to hand till This is a room about eight feet square, car- they reach the mail carts, which start off at peted with ordinary "tatami, the beautifully top speed, with a warning jingle of loose iron woven and padded straw mats of Japan. The rings, towards the post-office. Next the news- red velvet cushioned seat that runs along under paper packages are handed over, and the the three portholes would appear to be for pur-agents of the four rival papers race off with poses of luggage, for our fellow-passcogers have much fun and shouting. Then the policeman already deposited theirs upon it. We must re- goes on board to see that all is well, and at move our shoes before entering, and then the length the cougested crowds of passengers "toya" leads us to the corner reserved for us, waiting in the narrow passage are allowed to and, placing our luggage beside us as we sink disgorge themselves out of the aforementioned on to our heels, he departs with many bows, hole in the steamer's side. This is a somewhat and wishes that we may have a calm passage. lengthy process, as most of the third-class pas- and can go about anywhere and stand any America.

my life. I can do all my work in te house, suitable, except for subscribers in Europe or Then appears the cabin-boy, resplendent in sengers have large "kori," known in England excitement. Strong? Yes, I can now do my black cont and fairly white shirt front and

as "pilgrim baskets," alung on their backs and washing and fetch my bread from the bake- collar, politely bowing his head to the floor, to

A special feature is made of full and accur. ask if we will have "futon "-e, the wadded and their hands full of many-coloured bundles,

tied round their necks with a coarse blue cloth house, which is some distance away from the, ate reposts of local occurrences, and of mat quilts which form a Japanese bed. He soon for in Japan band luggage is tied up in hand-house now, and occasionally take one as a

shop. I keep Dr. Williams' pink pills in the ters of general interest, brings a couple, and spreads them side by side, kerchiefs, except when the more moneyed can a little round bolster stuffed with bran at the afford to buy a brilliant carpet-bag. The wo head of each. Then, undoing our rugs, hemen, too, have mostly babies tied on their begs us to spread ourselves with "honourable slowness" and rest, for boat will soon be start- ing, and the night will surely be calm.

cabin.

"And how did you hear of Dr. Willams' pink i pills?" asked the reporter-"Several people advised me to try them," said Mrs. Hands,

THE leading English Newspaper in China "and I also saw cures reported in the news. Also widely circulated in Japan, Cochin papers. But didn't believe anything coold China, Ceylon, India and the Far East cure me after all the medicine I had taken. generally. However, I sent for a bottle, and I afterwards bought another bottle and soon discovered

that my strength was returning. I persevered: published for despatch by the homeward mail A daily newspaper with weekly edition

look as if I have never had a day's illness in with the pills, with the result that I now almost The daily is recommended as more generally

tonic."

Mrs. Hands is quite right in this respect. No batter tonic has ever been discovered. AD over the land there five strong men and womer

Dr. Williams' pink pills have made strong

ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.

The Hongkong Telegraph is the best who were once miserable invalids, but whom

medium for advertising in China. It circulates These pills are not a cure all. They care the largely among all classes of the community, one thing that is the cause of most diseases is the largest daily newspaper and has

backs, so the passage through the three-foot hole is not easy; but at last it is safely accom But first let us take a look at our fellow. plished, and we stand on the b nk, waiting till passengers. A stout old gentleman in rustling

our rickshaw men have disentangled our heavy silks, probably an Osaka merchant; is medita-ggage from a pile of "koris" and white pig skin boxes and bundles tied up in matting. tively smaking over the charcoal brazier in the The boy brings our rugs and receives a silver / poor blood. Acting on the blood, and on the wider circulation than any journal in the Far

middle of the cabin. Two men in faultless

MIC WU

cassing education; prodibly ey scholastic dignitaries of the provincial town for

Dupen for i in una pulies to wire tipe in Japan

East.

merves through the blood, they have cured foreign attire are likewise smoking and dis. coin carefully wrapped up in a sheet of white anemia, bile, consumption, branchitis, eczema,

"naked," ie, without a covering. We slip it ailments which women suffer in silence. It is ing advertisements.

mis, gout, heart disease, paralysis, and the Special attention given to effectively display. which we are bound. In the corner is a lady to his hand, mormaring "Cokuro sana," ie. the genuine pills, no: substitutes (which some

"honourable rouble" (you have taken on our shopmen push), that cure. account), and he bows low and begs us to again the pink wrapper is a quarantee of genuineness advertisements is similar to this, unless wO BIG The full name on The type used as a standard for setting hourly rede in his cabin, and we get into

Refuse pink pills that don't bear Dr. Williams' instructed to display the advertisement, when name. You can send direct for the pills to Dr

clad in soft, grev silks, with her hair elaborately. arranged into large smooth black bows, and her neck poised on the velvet-covered stand, five inches high, which serves her as a pillow without interfering with her coiffure.

Her eyes are closed, and she is passively awaiting the terrors of the tossing deep. Beside her an old lady, her shiny head, guiltless of a single hair, is calmly smoking a long pipe; and two priests with shaven crowns and black and yellow robes make up the party.

There is a great trampling overhead. The mails have just arrive, and are being stowed in a small cupboard on deck. Then the ropes

For n smali additional annual charge Desk are loosed, and with a long-drawn trumpeting,

Sets can be supplied.

ELECTRIC SUPPLIES.

BATTERIES,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Cn. Hongkong, 22nd April, 1904.

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CHEMICALS,

For Sale.

FOR SALE.

́ ́ENUINE · CARDIFF

COAL.

ELECTRIC BELLS,

INSULATORS,

SWITCHES

TELEPHONES,

AND JAPAN

Apply to

RITCHIE & Co.,

39, Des Voeux Road. (530

¿LC..

&C.

&c.

Hongkong, 2nd April, 1904.

FOR SALE.

NCANDESCENT

INCA

GASOLINE

LAMPS

OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, from the best makers.

INCANDESCENT

MANTLES,

CHIMNEYS,

GLOBES,

SHADES, &c.,

for Gasoline and GAS LAMPS

at the most moderate prices.

Lamps fixed

up

Buyers free of charge.

for

Naphtha of the best

SEND FOR PRICE LISTS,

repeated every few minutes, our boat is fairly

off, feeling her way in the darkness down the crowded river. Our boy reappears, and pro- ducing a round wooden tray with many tiny bowls, he puts a handful of green tea into a minute teapot Then, taking the steaming kettle off the brazer, he pours some of its con. tents into a china conler and thence into the teapot, and then runs the leap round the bowls, depositing a teaspoonful or su of straw. coloured liquid in each, warm and clear, with a soupeau of tea-leaves at the bottom.

These, with a bowl of tiny, squashy red-bean takes, be hands round to each of us, begging is to "hancurably life" it (to our lips). Our friends nw compose themselves for the night, while the boy discreetly removes his shirt-front and collar, hanging them up on a peg on the danı in readiness for the next port, and, begging us all to honourably rest, he retires.

our rickshaws and are off.-Ez.

4 WOMAN WHO WORKS.

There is a story of a Monumental Artist who, being bidden to carve on a tombstone the well- known text,

Williams' medicine company, Holborn-viaduct. any effective style of type will be adopted London, enclosing the price, two shillings and This standard runs exactly eight lines to the ninepence for a bottle, or buy them at any ach, and about eight words to the line. honest shop, where they sell you what you ask

for.

Intimations.

WANTED.

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"A GOOD WOMAN IS A CROWN TO

HER HUSBAND," found himself short of space, and put instead clever woman and a good wife, who has "is 5s, to her husband"! The life history of a certainly been worth many a crown to her AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING CHINESE

husband, comes from a Welsh mining town. Mrs. Mary Hands, well known at Merthyr Vale, keeps Greengrocery and General Shop for herself, and keeps it remarkably well, while her

B

A CLEVER WOMAN WORKER,

busbed pursues his own calling at one of the neighbouring pits, where he is well known and respected.

It is none too easy a task to be a good woman of business and a good housewife as wdl. Mrs. Hands is both. "To look after the of her feling on the matter, and if she were shop ida plaasure, was her cheery summary

asked give up the business, she would assured regard the proposal with no favour. Dr. Willams' pink pills are what enable her to be so bay and so happy: and faw who see her would think that she was once a terrible sufferer.

The air of the cabin is somewhat soporific. and, despite our hard couches, we fall into light slumbers, broken, however, in a couple of hours WIRE, by renewed trumpetings and much noise on deck as we come up alongside the landing. stage at Hiogo. Then for an hour is heard the weird rhythmic song with which the coolies lighten their tail as innumerable rice bales are passed from hand to hand. The door opens, and another passenger appears and somehow manages to insert himself among the tecumbent forms. A fresh bellow from the funnel, and we are off again. It soon becomes apparent that fresh air is a commodity somewhat scantily supplied on our little steamer, and towards morning we have evident tokens that we are lo the agitated neighbourhood of the great Naruto whirlpool, so that altogether it it a relief to see daylight through the port-holes and to dis- cover that our fellow-passengers are stirring,

"Sik yire since I was laid low with a terrible We go up on deck and take a look round. Many of the passengers are on deck. Several attack of heumatism; three years later I had are performing their moming ablutions, turn enteric fear, which left me prostrated with by turn, in a small tin basin, supplied from a dropsy aid, heart disease. But thanks to Dr. bucket drawn up over the side. This is fol. Williama pak pills for pale people I am now

ged by the assiduous use of a long-handled a strong and healthy woman.

brush as they stroll up and down the deck, not being apparently indispensable to this operation in Japan. Here is an old gentle W, STUART HARRISON, man gazing at the eastern sky, and as the first

ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS.

Extimates given for all kinds of Electrical

Work

ADDRESS:~3, ICE HOUSE ROAD,

AMICE.

kind kept in stock.

TAI FANG Đ

'56, Lyndhurst' Terrace,"

Hongkong, and April, 1994.

(Hongkong, 17th April, 1904.

Manager,

Talkin to the representative of a local news- paper her home (12 Aberfair-crescent, Merthyrale, Wales), Mrs. Hands, who is 27 years old said:

"Many of my friends have expressed surprise at my relovery. I need not tell you how terrible th' pains of rheumatism are. A slight

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

Apply to-

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

T

WANTED.

Esss

HREE COMPOSITORS

Apply to--

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH " CO. Hongkong, 19th April, 1904.

NOTICE.

HE Public are hereby informed that n THE

change has been made in the Rates a Subscription to the Hongkong Telegraph and they are warned against paying more bu TEN CENTS (10 cts.) per Single Copy.

THE MANAGER, Henghong Telegraph Co., Lt Hongkong, 30th September, 1903

A

To Let.

TO LET.

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 25th April, 1024.

N°

TO LET.

$354

O. 1, STEWART TERRACE,

THE PEAK. Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 26th March, 1904,

TO LET.

EIRION,

attack glas people a lot to grumble about, but MBORING VILLAS, NO. 2.

my of the rising sun gilds the surface of the had it if its worst form, and went through water be solemnly bows three times and claps agonisingsalon. When I had further to cope bis hands at his morning devotions. At a little with drop and heart disease I felt sure I could sink the cook is busily washing greens, and the not le much longer. No tongue could (6 all-pervading fan smell takes on a tings of cooks | describe was I have gone through, and i want

Apply

HUGHES & HOUGH,

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8. Des Vœux Road, Hongkong, and April, 1904.

£463

ADVERTISEMENT RATES.

(per inch.)

One week..........................................

One month

Two months.......

Three 14

Six Twelve

It

No charge less than one dollar. Discount allowed on-

2.85

7.20

13.00

10.00

37.50

73.00

Mouths Contracts......

3 per cent

10

25

12

11

DOMESTIC OCCURRENURS,

Notices of Births, Deaths, and Marriages $1 each insertion in the Daily and Weekly,

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CONTRACT ADVERTISEMENTS.

can be ascertained from the Manager.

Special Rates for standing advertisements

Advertisements for the Daily should reach the Hongkong Telegraph Office not later than noon of the day they are intended to appear,

Unless otherwise specified all advertisementa will be repeated and charged for until counter- manded,

JOBBING DEPARTMENT. Job Printing of all descriptions undertaken. PROGRAMMES,

PAMPHLETS,

CARDS,

CIRCULARS,

EXPRESSES

All job printing is done under European supervision, well turned out, free from errors, and remarkably cheap st

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

OFFICE

Estimates given for all classes of woż application to

THE MANAGER, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH CO, La,

1, Ica House Road, Hongkong.