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Intimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1904.

THE ROBINSON PIANO CO., LIMITED.

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Auction.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

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PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of

the letting by Public Auction Sale, to

be held on MONDAY, the 16th day of May,¦ 1904, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Publici Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, of One Lot of CROWN LÄND, at Jun: Hom

in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term

To Let.

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IRST-CLASS FURNISHED ROOMS, FIRS

with or without Board, close to Post

Apply to--

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N. N.. No. 98, this Office,

Hongkong, 9th May, rood.

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O. 1, RIPON TERRACE in FLATS.

No PON TERRACE.

No. 17, WONG NEI CHONG ROAD, facing

Race Course.

FLATS IN MOLETON TEXLACE, facing

Palo (round.

OFFICES in course of erection, CON-

NAUGHT ROAD (near BLAKE PIER). GODOWNS; PRAYA EAST. "ROSENEATH," KOWLOON.

Apply to

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виба Hongkong, 6th April, 1904.

TO LET.

HOUSE KNUTSFORD TERRACE.

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.

1554 Hongkong. 25th April, tona

TO LET

1, STEWART TERRACE,

NTHE PEAK

of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor A

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 26th March, 1994.

TO LET.

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ILD DELL WILDINGS. No. 147. WANCHAL ROAD, Cornforble and Flats of 2 or 3 Rooms, framt $25 inclusive

of His Majesty the KING, for une further term of Taxes. of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Reglatry Locality.

No.

Hong Ho

Boundary Measurementa,

$. C.

Ter feet, feet foot

Hongkong, 6th May, 1904.

For Sale.

FOR SALE.

Contents

Square fe

Upset Price.

36,023

1594

ENUINE CARDIFF AND JAPAN

COAL.

Apply to

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Hongkong, aznd April, 1904.

FOR SALE.

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CRIME AND RELIGION.

ROAD TO LHASA THE DIRTIEST

PLACE ON EARTH.

Icy winds and suffocating smoke are not conducive to literary style, though they some times inspire a rude eloquence that is quite unfit for publication, says Edmund Chandler, the Daily Mail's Thibetan correspondent.

As I scribble this by the messroom brazier- our youngest optimist would not call it a fire- I catch an occ sional and incisive phrase that exactly expresses the situation. Then I envy the freedom of speech of those who come in from a spell of fatigue duty and can say whai they like for the rest of the evening, while I, who wr to--for an enlightened public, must sacrifice force to euphemism.

A week at Phari dispels all illusions; only a bargee could adequately describe the place. Ym the clen ents are trusty councillors, who feelingly persuade me what I am and they may perhaps inspire me with some of the eloquence of discomfort.

PHARI JONG.

In my inst letter I described the sylvan valley of Gauisa, where the air is scented with the fragrance of warm pine trees, and there is no indication of winter save the ice on the Amma Chu. The torrent roars boisterously beneath its frozen surface, and throws up little tentacles of frozen spray, which glisten fantastically in the sun. Three miles further up the stream the woodhelt ends abruptly; then after another three miles one passes the last stunted bush. Aker that there is nothing but brown earth and yellow withered grass. All the plain is under- mined with the warrens of marmots and voles. who sit on their thresholds like a thousand Hittle spies, and curiously watch our approach, then dive down into their burrows do tell their wives of the strange bearded invaders. One envies them their warmth and snugness as one rides against the bitter winds that penetrate to the bone.

Twelve miles from Gautsa, a turn in the valley brings one into view of Phari Jong. Al first sight it may be a huge isulated rock, but as one approaches the bastions and battlements become more distinct. Distances are decep tive in this rarefied air and objects that one imaginės to be quite close are sometimes found to be several miles distant

INSIDE THE FORT.

The fort is built on a natural mound in the plain. It is a huge, rambling building, six stories high, surrounded by a courtyard, where mutes and ponies are stabled. As a military fortification Phari Jong is by no means con- temptible. The walls are of massive stone- work, which would take heavy guns to demolish, The angles are protected 1 om attacking parties by machicoulis galleries, and three enormous bastions project from each flank. These are crumbling in places, and the Pioneers might destroy the bastion and breach the wall with two bags of gun-cotton. On the eastern side there is a square courtyard like an Arab cara- vanserai, where cattle are penned. The fortress would hold the whole Tibetan army with pro- visions for a year. It was evacuated the night before we reconnoitred the valley.

The interior of the Jong, is a warren of stairs, landings, and dark cavernous rooms, which would take a whole day to explore The walls are built of stone and mud and coated with century-old smoke. There are no chimneys or adequate win lows and the filth is indescribable.

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From which it must not be inferred that one class is more cleanly in its habits than another, for nobody ever thinks of washing. Soap is not included in the list of sundries that pass the Custome House at Yatung. If the Lamas are dirtier than the yak-herds and itinerant merchants, it is because they lead an indoor life, whereas the pastoral, folk continually exposed to the purifying winds of the table- lands, which are the nearest equivalent in Tibet to a cold bath.

1 once read of a Tibetan saint, one of the pupils of Naropa, who was credited with a hundred miraculous gifts, one of which was that he could dive into the water like a fish. Wherein the miracle lay had often puzzled

Entimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

1, ICE HOUSE ROAD,

HONGKONG.

CABLE ADDRESS, Telegraph, Hongkong

me, but when I met the Lantas of Phari | "THE leading English Newspaper in China Gompa I understood at once that it was the holy man's contact with the water.

Phari is eloquent of piety, as it is understood in Tibet. The better rooms are frescoed with Buddhistic paintings, and on the third floor is a library, now used as a hospital, where xylo- graph editions of the Lamant Scriptures and lives of the saints are pigeon-holed in lockers in the wall. The books are printed on thin, oblong sheets of Chinese paper, enclosed in boards, and illuminated with quaint coloured tail pieces of holy men in devotional attitudes.

Phari Fort, with its casual blending of East and West, in full of incongruous effects; but the oddest and most pathetic incongruity is the dis. play on the roof, from which, amid praying flags and pious offering of coloured raiment, fluiters the Union Jack.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

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DIVIDEND at the Rate of Twenty per cant, being Twelve Dollars per Share, on the Paid-up Capital of the above Ass ciation, has been declared payable in Tacis at Exchange 73 at the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China or the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Shanghai, on and after this date to Shareholders of record on the 12th April, 1903.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W, S. JACKSON, Secretary,

Shanghai, 22nd April, 1904.

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When Phari was first occupied eighty coolies THERAPION NO.1ably

were employed a whole week clearing refuse. Jud. ng by the accretion of dirt a newcomer

might class the building as mediaval but filth

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Intimations.

A STRANGE LITTER.

The fort is most insanitary, but a military

THERAPION NO. 3.

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which are p eva'ent among officers and men are due to impurities of the air, which affect the lungs. Cartloads of dirt are being scraped away every day, but gusts of wind from the lower stories blow up more dust, which pene. trates every nook and cranny of the draughty rooms to that there is a fresh layer by night. fall.

To clean the lower stories and cellars would be a hopeless task; even now rooms are found THE SAM WANG CO., LD.

in unexpected places which emit clouds of dust Hongkong, 5th February, 1904. [218 whenever the wind eddies round the basement. Yesterday I explored the ground floor with a lantern, and was completely lost in the maze of passages and dark chambers. When we occupied the fort two months ago they were filled with straw, gunpowder, and old arms. The danger of fire or explosion at Phari was more serious than the danger of a possible attack. The labyrinth was explored thoroughly; a hundred and forty maunds of interior gap- powder made locally, were destroyed and the arms now litter the courtyard. These the

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Tibetans themselves abandoned as rubbish, The rusty helme, shields, and breastplates are made of the thinnest Iron plates, interlaced with leathern thongs, and would not stop an arrow. The old ball-mouthed matchlocks, with their wooden ground-rests, would be more dan. gerous to the Tibetan marksmen than the The slings and bows and arrows arp enemy, reckoned obsolets even by these primitive warriors.

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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

SIGNALS.

A NEW CODE.

We have received from the Hongkong Observatory a now codej of meteorological signals which comes into, farce at Hongkong on New Year's Day. They are the same as those at present in use at Shanghai, and will be hoisted on the mast beside the time-ball at Kowloon Point for the information of masters of vessels leaving the port. They do not neces sarily imply that bad weather is expected. The signals are as follows:-

A coon point upwards indicates a typhoon to the North of the Colony.

A cone point upwards and drum below in. dicates a typhoon to the North-East of the Colony.

A drum indicates a typhoon to the East of

the Colony.

A cone point downwards and drum below indicates a typhoon to the South-East of the Colony,

A cone point downwards indicates a typhoon to the South of the Coloay.

A cone point downwards and ball below indicates a typhoon to the South-West of the Colony.

A ball indicates a typhoon to the West of the Colony.

A cone point upwards and ball below indicates a typhoon to the North-West of the Colony.

Red Signals indicate that the centre is believed to be more than 300 miles away from

the Colony.

Black Signals indicate that the centre is believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony,

The above signals will, as heretofore, be hoisted only when typhoons exist in such posi- tions or are moving in such directions that in- formation regarding them is considered to be of importance to the Colony or to shipping leay- ing the barbour.

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

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the roof. The wheels are covered with grime, 14 QUEENS ROAD CENTRAL application to

the grime of Lamas' hands.

FIETY AT PEARL

Dirt and religion are inseparable in Tibet. The Lamas themselves are the most filthy and

fr3 malodorous folk i have met in the country,

Hongkong,

A. STEVENSON,

Chemist.

Hongkong, 25th April, 1904,

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THE MANAGER, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH Co, La.

1,Ice House Road,

Hongkong,

Two lanterns hoisted horizontally indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is expected to back.

The signals are repeated on the flagstaff of the Godown Company at Kowloon, and alsó, by day only, at the Barbour Office and on H M's Receiving Ship.

LOCAL STORM-WARNINGS.

The Colony itself is warned of approaching typhoons by means of the Typhoon Gud placed at the food of the mast, which is fired whenever a strong gale of wind is expected to blow "here,

NOTICE BOARDI,

Notice boards are placed at:-

Joint Cable Companies' Office.", Ferry Company's Pier, Ice House Street; ¿ Blake Pier,

Post Office,

Harbour Ofce.

Ferry Company's Pier, Kowloon.

WEATHER FORECASTS and STORM. WARNINGS are exhibited on the above boards daily about 11 am, and also at other hours, day or night, whenever necessary. Informa tion of importance is also issued by "Express."

THE CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER is exhibited at the same places daily about noon. It contains observations made at Hongkong and at a number of stations in the Far East, together with Remarks, Weather. forecasts, and information regarding the exisi- ance and movements of typhoons based thurson.

SPECIAL INQUIRIES.

Masters of vessels or their agents may, whenever necessary, call at the Telegraph Company's Office in Connaught Road and send relegrams to the Observatory asking for special information without charge. Such inquiries may also be sent from the Police Station at Kowloon Point which is connected with the Observatory by telephone.

THE LAW OF STORMS.

Further Information concerning the weather: to be expected while signals are holsted, and

sailing directions, are given in "The Law of | Btorms in the Eastern Seal”

F. G. F100,

Acting Director, Hongkong, Observatory, sad January, ipak,