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Intimations.
BANK HOLIDAYS.
THE EXCHANGE BANKS will be
CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business on 23rd and 4th instant, "WHIT MONDAY" and "VICTORIA DAY," res- pectively.
Hongkong, 17th May, 1904.
THE
THE
Insurance.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1904,
NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,
THE
HE Undersigned AGENTS of the abuse Company are prepared to accept First Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at 1625 CURRENT RATES,
ROBINSON
PIANO
Co., LTD.,
INVITE INSPECTION OF SOME
SPECIALLY
FINE
SAMPLES
OF
UPRIGHT PIANOS
RACHALS,
STUART
&c.,
&c.,
AND
&c.,
BABY-GRANDS,
BY
WINKELMANN,
(Established 1837).
They are only 5 FEET LONG, occupy- ing the space of a Cottage, but with the fine appearance and TONE OF A FULL GRAND.
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Hongkong, 18th May, 180c
For Sale.
"THE LITTLE GENERAL"
KUROPATKIN'S DEPARTURE FROM ST. PETERSлURG.
St. Petersburg, March 12th. I have just been down to the station to see General Kuropatkin leave for Manchuria; and, at the same time, have had my first taste of
a Russian crowd.
About five o'clock we hailed an isvoschik and went skimming down the Nevski Prospaki over the newly fallen snow. At first our sledge was only one of the invariable procession of troikas and wheeled carriages that throng the Nevski at all hours of the day and night. The TEAM LAUNCHES, New or Second- pavement was, as usual, full of pedestrians,
STEAM
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hand.
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Hongkong, 17th May, 1904.
FOR SALE
treading silently in indiarubber shoes.
Almost every sledge that passed as held one
or two grey-coated Russian officers; carriage RITCHIE & Co
39, Des Voeux Road,
after carriage went by full of important per 1627 sonages, corneets and armorial bearings on the panels, the servants in Imperial liveries; or else driven by a species of Father Christmas, long-haired and prodigal beard, wearing the padded caftan and bright velvet head-dress that is the national and distinctive uniform of the Russian coachman. Now the pavements were crowded, and it seemed that there were almost as many policemen as sightseert.
NCANDESCENTI
GASOLINE
LAMPS
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, from the best makers.
INCANDESCENT
MANTLES,
CHIMNEYS,
GLOBES,
SHADES, &c.,
for
GASOI INE AND GAS
LAMPS
for
at the most moderate prices. Lamps fixed up Buyers free of charge.
Naphtha of the bes kind kept in stock.
TÀI KHONG CO
56, Lyndhurst Terrace,
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Hongkong, 2nd May, 1904
To Let.
TO BE LET.
No. 2. CONDUIT ROAD. ‹ Rooms, en- trance from Conduit Road and Robinson Road. Rent $130 a month, inclusive of Taxes
AND
No. 2, LEIGHTON HILL ROAD. 4 Large Rooms, all facing the Road, 15 minutes' drive from Clock Tower. Furnished, if required. Very low Rental. Healthy I cality,
Apply to-
AHMET RUMJAHN,
63, Queen's Road. Hrngkong, 13th May, 1904.
16:2
TO LET.
The people stand several rows deep, and over- Anwed into the roadway. They were just like n London crowd awaiting a roval procession.
In the station-yard they were assembled in their thousands, and to each dozen there was a policeman. I have never seen so many police as were on duty in St. Petersburg between five and six o'clock this afternoon. The ordinary constable is dressed in black, the superior is grey; and there is another kind that wears a brown frieze cloak and busk decorated with a shaving brush ornament. All carry swords and revolvers.
"THE GENERALİ" General Kuropatkin drove up five minutes before the train started Like our own "Bobs," he is a little man, hard as mails, with n face tanned and ruddy from constant exposure to wind and weather, Square-shouldered and alert, he shook hands with the Grand Dukes, Generals, Ministers, and personal friends who had assembled to see him off. Two holy
pictures and a sword of honour were presented to him, and the French colony in St. Peters. bug gave him a magnificent bouquet. One or two very intimate frienda kissed hint. Then, accompanied by the members of his staff, he stepped into the special train, with, kitchen, dining-room, bed-room, etc., that is to be his headquarters for the next three weeks. The Russian engines have; a lady fainted-she is engine bellowed in the melancholy way that
the wife of one of Kuropakin's officers-and, as the train drew out of the station, the whole brilliant gathering broke out into a regular British cheer.
the young man, without producing any visible effect. He seemed, however, to understand that I bad not meant to steal one of his tarts, and began to smile again, and make signs that the injury I had done him was not irreparable.
The
A gentleman reading" a German newspaper had been an amused spectator of this little comedy. Seeing that he read a German news- paper, I addressed him in German, and asked him to apologise to the young man whose tart I had eaten. He said that it did not matter, and then followed quite a pleasani chat. German's son was an officer in the Russian amy-there seemed to be many Russo- Germans-and was on his way to Manchuria. The son had evidently been in a railway accid- ent the day before, for he had sent his father a telegram saying that he was uninjured. So far no news of this railway accident had been allowed to leak out. It was a strange position.
The father had his son's telegram saying that he had escaped injury in some unknown rail. way accident, and all day the father had been wondering what had happened to the train in which his son was faring to the front. An hour 450 the accident was made public. It was wear Tomak, and not of any great consequence.
THE LULL
News is withheld here, not so much, I be. liave, from any desire to keep the public in suspense, but rather because the officials that deal with news do so in their own time, and are the most leisurely creatures imaginable. The Russians do not hurry, and the "hustler" is a biped unknown to the Muscovite zoologist. As hour, or even a day, more or less is of no great consequence.
People do not mind waiting, and pleasure and comfort seem to come before business all the time. The ublic, too, does not seem to be in any great hurry for WAT newi, and at present, particularly, we the midst of a full similar to
are in that which followed the departure of Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener for South Africa. No one expects anything to happen in the Far East for the next five or six weeks. And then the Rus. sian, in common with most other Europenes, expects that the armies of the Czar will over- power the Japanese by sheer force of numbers, and drive "the yellow man" back to his own islands, there to sue ignominiously for peace.
Such is the common Russian view of the
situation, and in France, Germany, Austria, and balf-a-dozen European countries, the same belief is held. There are doubters; there are even pro-Japanese in this country; but among the great bulk of the Russian population Japan is regarded as an impudent and dwarfish enemy who will disappear at the first onrush of the Car's Cossacks-Albert Kinross in Daily Mail.
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
"Furrah I hurrah : hurrah!" they cried. The THE Undersigned have received instructions
little General waved to them, and then all was over. Kuropatkin was on the road to the Far East to grapple with a problem that must either with or without Board, close to Post make him ar break him. Valiant, battle-scar- Office and Banks.
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Hongkong, 13th May, 1904.
ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN.
Marshall and
Elvy's
Satinette
DOUBLY DISTILLED
AND OF
MATURED AGE..
TO BE OBTAINED FROM-
THE MUTUAL STORES,
Des Voeux Road.
Hongkong, th May, 1904.
CHUTNEY.
JUST UNPACKED.
CHUTNEY.
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Apply to-
N. N.,
No. 98, this Office.
(599
Hongkong 9th May, rong.
TO LET.
O. 1. RIPON TERRACE in FLATS.
NN. RIPON TERRACE.
red, a born soldier, flery hearted, never so cool As in the hour of danger, Kuropatkin, whatever his destiny, will go down to history as a soldier of dauntless courage and resolution.
THE RUSSIAN CROWD. The Russian crowd is a silent one. No mighty roar bad swept over its ranks as the hero of the hour drove by on his way to lead the armies of his Emperor. Only a deep and melancholy booming of church bells announc
No. 17, WONG Nki Chong Road, facing ed that some great national event was in pro
Race Course.
FLATS in Moreton Terrace, ficing
Palo Ground. OFFICES in course of erection, CON-
NAUGHT ROAD (Dear BLAKE PIER), GODOWNS: PRAYA EAST, "ROSENEATH," KOWLOON. Apply to--
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., 1.D. Honokane, 6th April, 1904.
TO LET.
*463
gress.
The crowd, hundreds deep, and controlled by an abundance of monnied and unmounted police, had looked on as though assisting at some theatrical or athletic display. Rich, poor, and very poor, they elbowed and jostled one another, and, when I joined them, they were Reenly intent on the princes, generals, and other high personages who were driving away from the station.
Every uniform in a terribly-uniformed Empire passed me. Cossackc generals with white astrachan caps, other generals with black astrachan caps; Rokhara magnates with
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW,
the 19th May, 1904, at 10.30 AM., at Messrs. DoDWELL & Co., Ltd. Godowns, Wanchal,
A GREAT ASSORTMENT OF STORES, Comprising :-
PAINTS, ROPE, PACKING, ENGINE and DECK STORES, STEERAGE BEDS and FITINGS, COPPER, IRON, ELRC- TRIC LAMPS and GLOBES, LIFE RAFTS, BOAT COMPASS, LIFE BELTS, 120 SOUNDING MACHINE TUBES (Sir WM. THOMSON'S Patent),
&c.,
ALSO
BzC.
A fireal Quantity of CROCKERY, GLASS and ELECTRO-plated WARE.
Catalogues will be issued. TERMSAs usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.i
Eongkook, 18th May, 1904.
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SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE or VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, situate in
CHUTNEY. A HOUSE IT KNUTSFORD-TERRACE long knives dangling in front of them; students QUEEN'S ROAD WEST, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,
ABSOLUTELY THE BEST.
*ROM the well-known Chutney-makers in
FIndia (Messrs. SRERKISSEN DUTT & Co.)
such as Major Greys, Bengal Club, Cashmere, Mango Sweet Sliced, and others.
Quality will speak for itself.
H. RUTTONJER,
No. 5. D'Aguilar Street,
or
36 to 38, Elgin Road, Kowloon,
Hongkong, 17th May, 1904.
THE HONGKONG
STUDIO,
HIGHER CLASS PHOTOGRAPHER,
41 & 43, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, TOP FLOOR
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PORTRAITS, GROUPS and ENLAR
GING COPYING in all Sigds.
LARGE SELECTION OF VIEWS ALWAYS
ON HAND.
PRICE VERY MODERATE. Hongkong, 15th September, 1903. ⠀
MEE CHEUNG, PHOTOGRAPHER, Top Fibox or Ice House, in La House Bord
I do is position, it his New and Com
modious Fremises, to eclipse, as heretofore, ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRACTICED la the Colony or in any part of the Far East.
GROUPS AND VI
VIEWS
13 Septembr'114%.
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 15th April, 1974-
TO LET.
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in uniform, Ministers in uniform, in sledges, in carriages, and on foot; they formed as amazing, semi-European, semi-Oriental pro- cession as they streamed out of the station. The foreign military attachés were there as well; French, German, Austrian, and Swedishf and the crowd looked on, good-humoured and
[O. 1, STEWART TERRACE, | talkative.
N THE PEAK
Apply Lo--
The police were seemingly doing their best to scatter it. Tha-crowd had been allowed to
ON
TUESDAY, the 31st day of May, 1904, 41 3 o'clock, on the Premises,
Mr. G. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
DY
THE Property is Registered in the Land
Office as Section A of Inland Lot No. Boo with the Messuages and Buildings thereon known as Noa 386, 388 and 390, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST, and is held from the Crown for THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. assemble for a specific purpose, but now that the residue of the term of 999 years granted by a Crown Lease of the whole of Lot No. 800 purpose was accomplished it must disperse. dated the zoth April, 1863, subject to the pay. To me it seemed that the Russian police die-ment of the annual Crown Rent of $31. courage crowds. All their efforts now seemed For further Particulars, apply to— directed towards breaking up the vast mass of
EWENS & HARSTON, Vandor's Solicitors, people who had assembled in the station-yard
or to and in the adjoining streets. "Gentlemer, [
Mr. G. P. LAMMERT, beg you," is the polite formula la ase; and we
Auctioneer,
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.
TO LET.
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WILD DELL BUILDINGS, No. 147: WANCHAI ROAD. Comfortable and Airy Flats of 2 or 3 Rooms, from $25 inclusive | obeyed. of "Taxes.
And others to suit various requirements,
S. A. SETH. Land and Estate Broker Dairy Farm Co Lid,
Hongkong, 2nd May, 1904.
TO LET.
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION, FOR 18 MONTHS.
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THE STOLEN TART.
Hongkong, 17th May, 1904.
TQ HAND,
(623
a Large and Varied Stock of Toilet Preparations, LIME JUICE
At present my acquaintance with the Russian language is limited. Where everybody of Im- portance speaks either French or German this does not matter, but it led to an amusing lòn tretemps for me this afternoon. I went into a and assorted SYRUPS for the hot weather.
confectioner's shop for a cup of tea. Tel is
"chal," or the first syllable of "China" One
learns the word at once here, the Russian QRUGS, PERFUMERY, PROPRIETARY being as great a ten-drinker as the Englishman.
I also wanted some pastry, and on a neigh- bouring table were at least six jam and EIGHTOR," THE PEAK. | custard tarts on a plata A young man
Apply to--
sat beside them, but had. his back turned to JEBSEN & Co....
them. I thought they were for sale, so want Hongkong, 17th April, 1964.
[459 over and took a custard- tart, which I kits, and
for which I was prepared to pay.
TO LET.
Presently the young man cast an eye on the
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A special feature is made of full and accur ate reports of local occurrences, and of mat lers of general interest.
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Special attention given 'to effectively display. ing advertisements.
The type used as a standard for setting
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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
SIGNALS
A NEW CODE.
We have received from the Hongkong- Observatory a new code of meteorological signals which comes into force at Hongkong on New Year's Day. They are the mume na 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 cone 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 Colony.
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 contra 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 siguals will, as heretofore, be hoisted only when typhoons exist in auch 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 leav ing the harbour,
NIGHT SIGNALS.
Two lanterns hoisted vertically indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is expected to veer.
Two lanterns hoisted horisontally 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 also, by day only, at the Harbour Office and on H M's Receiving Ship.
LOCAL STORM-WARNINGS.
The Colony itself is warned of approaching typhoons by means of the Typhoon Gun placed
at the food of the mast, which is fired whenever strong gale of wind is expected to blow here.
NOTICE BOARDS.
Notice boards are placed at:-
Joint Cable Companies' Office. ' Ferry Company's Pier, Ice House Street, Blake Pier.
Post Office.
Harbour Office.
Ferry Company's Pier, Kowloon.
WEATHER-FORECASTS and:8TORM. WARNINGS .are exhibited on the above boards daily about 11 a.m., 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 Remarkt, Walker- forecasts, and information regarding the iriste. ence and movements of typhoons based thereon,
SPECIAL INQUIRSEL
Masters of vessels or their agents- may, EXPRESSES. | whenever necessary, call at the Telegraph Company's Office in Connaught Road and send telegrams 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.
All job printing is done under European supervision, well tumed out, free from errors, and remarkably cheap 41
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6 BARROW TERRACE, KOWLOOK. They were his tarts evidently he had chosen Available 1st March.
plate, and discovered that start was missing. 35W 14, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, #|application to
Apply to
them at the counterwand I, so it seemed, was expected to do likewise. The walter explained
THE SAM WANG CO, LD...... I was the culprit. I stepped out and Hongkong, jib February, 1904. ...fast j'upologised in French, German, and English to
Hongkong.
A STEVENSON, Chemist.
Hongkong, 17th May, 1904.
THE MANAGER, HONGKONG TELEGRAPE CO., LD
*, Ice House Kenchy Hoogkong
THE LAW OF STORME,
Further information concerning the wast to be expected while signals arm. sailing directions, are given in: "The Stoma in the Eastern Soës,”
Houghongy Che
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