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THE

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1904.

Intimations.

BANK HOL'DAYS.

BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public

HE Undersigned have received instruc. THE EXCHANGE

tions to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW,

the 21st May, 1954, at 2.30 PM., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street,

SUNDRY

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.

Comprising:

DOUBLE IRON BEDSTEAD with WIRE WASHSTAND, TEAKWOOD WARDROBE with GLASS, VIENNA CHAIRS, TEAK- WOOD HATSTAND with GLASS, DINING TABLE and CHAIRS, GLASS and CROC KERY WARE,

and HAIR MATTRESSES, MARBLE-TOP

&c.,

BC.,

ALSO

&c.;

A Quantity of AMERICAN SHOES, BICYCLES, CAMERAS, PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS and LENSES, FANCY GOODS,

AND

212-BORE FOWLING PIECES. TERMS:49 usual.

Insurance,

NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE. COMPANY OF HAMBURG,

Business on 23rd and 24th instant, "WHIT THE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept First Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS CURRENT RATES.

MONDAY" and "VICTORIA_DAY,” res- pectively,

Hongkong, 17th May, 1904.

THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY,. LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

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SIEMSSEN & Co, Hongkong, 28th May, 1895.

For Sale.

FOR SALE.

hand.

TEEZING OF SHAREHOLDERS HE SIXTH ORDINARY ANNUAL in the above Company will be held at the STEAM LAUNCHES, New or Second- Company's Office, No. 2, Connaught Road, at NOON, on WEDNESDAY, the 1st June, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, with a Statement of Accounts to 30th April, 1904.

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· The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the asth inst. to 1st June, both days inclusive.

EDWARD OSBORNE,

Secretary.

Iloogkong, 18th May, 1904.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

THE

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 20th May, 1901.

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PUBLIC AUCTION..

THE Undersigned have received instructions

to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

ROBINSON

PIANO

Co., LTD.,

ON

TUESDAY,

AND

WEDNESDAY,

the 24th and 25th May, 1904, at 10 AM,

st

H. M. NAVAL YARD,

SUNDRY NAVAL AND VICTUALLING, OBSOLETE AND CONDEMNED

STORES,

Comprising:-

BOATS ENGINES. OLD BRASS, COPPER, IRON, PAPER STUFF, CANVAS,

FURNITURE,

CLOTHING,

&c.

IMPLEMENTS, STAVES, PROVISIONS, & C &c.,

The NAVAL STORES will be sold on TUES- DAY, the 24th May, and the VICTUALLING STORES on WEDNESDAY, the 25th May, Catalogues will be issued.

TERMS OF SALE-As customary.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 19th May, 1904.

SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION..

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE

OF

INVITE INSPECTION OF SOME

SPECIALLY

FINE

SAMPLES

OF

UPRIGHT PIANOS

RACHALS,

STUART,

S

&c.

1636

AND

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY,

situate in

QUEEN'S ROAD WEST, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,

ON

TUESDAY, the 31st day of May, 1904, al

3 o'clock, on the Premises,

BY

Mr. G. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

THE Property is Registered in the land

THE

Office as Section A of Inland Lot No.

Scr..

BABY-GRANDS,

BY

WINKELMANN,

(Established 1837).

They are only 5 FEET LONG, occupy-

Boo with the Messuages and Buildings thereoning the space of a Cottage, but with known as No. 386, 188 and 390, QUEEN'S

ROAD WEST, and is held from the Crown for the fine appearance and TONE OF A

the residue of the term of 999 years granted by

A Crown Lease of the whole of Lot No. 800 dated the 20th April, 1863, subject to the pay- ment of the annual Crown Rent of $31.

For further Particulars, apply to~

EWENS & HARSTON, Vendor's Solicitors,

or to

Mr. G. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 17th May, 1904,

Intimations.

FULL GRAND.

Hongkong, 13th May, 1904.

JUST UNPACKED.

CHUTNEY. CHUTNEY.

For Particulars, apply to

RITCHIE & Co.,

39Des Voeux Road.

Hongkong, 17th May, 1901.

FOR SALE.

INCANDE

NCANDESCENT GASOLINE

(627

LAMPS

OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, from the best makers.

THE SALE OF WIVES.

SELLING OF ONE'S „IELTMATE & CUSTOM IN

ENGLAND.

Readers of Mr. Hardy's novels have been reminded of the opening chapters of "The Major of Casterbridge" by the case at Mari- brough street police court the other day, where it was shown that the defendant had got rid of his wife by selling her for a couple of shillings. For precedents of this commercial form of divorce some journalists have searching the records of a century ago an! produced numerous instances of wives being led to the

cattle market and there knocked down to the highest bidder. But it is not necessary to go back anything like a hundred years for such sales of wives. There are sufficient modern instances to maintain the asser.ion that wife

selling is still a British custom. There are hundreds of people who still believe that to transfer a wife to another man for a cash pay. ment is a legal transaction and a valid dissolu- tion-of matrimonial ties. As a popular error it ranks with the idea that if husband or wife be

absent and unheard of for seven years the other

MANTLES,

is free to marry again. In Yorkshire generally, CHIMNEYS, and in Sheffield in particular, this doctrine of

GLOBES. wife-selling is still so firmly established and SHADES, &c, frequently practiced that it has little less than

the force of a local law, says an exchange.

INCANDESCENT

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 KHONG C

56, Lyndhurst Terrace.

far

Hongkong, 2nd May, 1904.

To LM.

TO BE LET.

LEGENDS OF SHEFFIELD.

Legends of Sheffield grinders who in drunken houts sell their wives for a quart of ale are well known. But nowadays such transactions are no longer conducted off-hand. They are invested with formality, as witness this document which figured in a case at the Sheffield county court in 1887 At the Royal Oak, Sheffield, 1. Abra- ham Boothroyd. agree to sell my wife, Clara. to William Hall for the sum of (s." In an other case the bargaining was accidentally over. head in a public house by a Sheffield journalist. A coiller's wife had transfurred her affections to another man, and the husband was willing to renounce his claim for suitable compensa-

Intimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

1, ICE HOUSE ROAD,

HONGKONG.

CABLE ADDRESs,—Telegraph, Hougkong

THE leading English Newspaper in China

Also widely circulated in Japan, Cochin China, Ceylon, lodia and the Far East generally.

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

A special feature is made of full and accur· ate reports of local occurrences, and of mat- tors of general interest.

ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.

The Hongkong Telegraph is the best medium for advertising in China. It circulates largely among all classes of the community,

is the largest daily newspaper and has a wider circulation than any journal in the Far

East.

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 same as those at present i use at Shanghai, and wifi be hoisted on the mast beside the lime-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 siguals 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. Special attention given to effectively display a typhoon to the North-West of the Colony. ing advertisements.

The type used as a standard for setting advertisements is similar to this, unless we are instructed to display the advertisement, when

tinn. So the parties assembled in a public any effective style of type will be adopted There was the hus. This standard runs exactly eight lines to the en-house to arrange matters. Nuance from Conduit Road and Robinson bass, with a femal, his wife, with her father

2, CONDUIT

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 1 cality.

Applyin→

and mother, and the prospective purchaser,inch, and about eight words to the line. with a friend, The husband demanded £3 for his wife; she herself said it was too much, and

her new man said he wouldn't give more than a sovereign. Finally 30s. was the sum agreed upon; it was paid over, and this document AHMET RUMJAHN,

drawn up, signed and witnessed: "Mr. Taylor 62. Queen's Road. to have my wife, Plizabeth Smith, free from Hongkong, 13th May, 1904.

1612 me forever, to do as she has a mind, this day,

December 11th, 1873."

TO LET.

FIRST-CLASS FURNISHED ROOMS,

with or without Board, close to Posi Office and Banks.

Apply 10-

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

(599

Hongkong 9th May, 100g,

N°

TO LET.

O. 1, RIPON TERRACE in FLATS.

No. 4, RIPON TERRACE,

No. 17, WONG NEI CHONG ROAD, facing

Race Course.

FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, facing

Polo Ground, OFFICES in course of erection, CON-

NAUGHT ROAD (near BLAKE PIER). GUDOWNS: PRAYA EAST. "ROSENEATH," KOWLOON.

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CHUTNEY.

ABSOLUTELY THE BEST.

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

'461 Hongkong, 6th April, 1904.

Apply to

TO LET.

(623 FROM the well-known Chutney-makers in A HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE. THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

BSPECIAL OLD TOM GIN.

Marshall and Elvy's

Satinette

DOUBLY DISTILLER

AND' OF

MATURED AGE,

TO BE OBTAINED FROM-

THE MUTUAL STORES,

India (Messrs. SREEKISSEN DUTT & Co.)

such as Major Greys, "Bengal Club, Cashmere,

Mango Sweet Sliced, and others.

Quality will speak for itself.

H. RUTTONJEE,

No. 5, D'Aguilar Street,

of

36 to 38, Elgin Road, Kowloon.

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Hongkong, 17th May, 1904.

THE HONGKONG STUDIO,

HIGHER CLASS PHOTOGRAPHER, 41 & 43, QUEEN'S ROAD Central, TOP FLOOR.

J

PORTRAITS GROUPS and ENLAR.

GING and COPYING in all Shes.

LARDE SELECTION OF VIEWS"ALWAYS

ON HAND.

Des Voeux Road.

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PRICE VERY MODERATE. Hongkong, 15th September, 1903.

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Hongkong, 11th May, 1904,

SAVARESSE'S SANDAL CAPSULES

Mat made of Onličine, echt

Fall direction

MEE CHEUNG,

PHOTOGRAPHER,

TOP FLOOK or ler HogBF, IN.

[Snow in a position, in his New and Com

m dions Pramites, to eclipsa, as heretofore, SLEPHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRACTICES

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 25th April, 1004

TO LET.

'554

O 1, STEWART TERRACE,

NTHE PEAK

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 16th March, 1904.

TO LET.

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TILL DELL BUILDINGS, No. 147 WI

WÄNCHAI ROAD. Comfortable und Airy Flats of 2 or 3 Rooms, from Sas inclusive of Taxes.

And others to suit various requirements.

S. A. SETH, Land and Estate Broker Dairy Farm Co., Ltd,

Hongkong, and May, 1904.

TO LET,

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION. FOR 18 MONTHS,

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RECENT CASES.

There are merely two recent cases which have come to light. The majority of such sales of wives never attain publicity. At Leeds assizes in 1805 Benjamin Gibbons was tried for bigamy. He admitted that he had married a woman while his first wife was alive, but he pleaded that as he had sold her he was entitled to marry again. She was a young woman and unruly; even though he constantly gave her good hidings she troubled him, and, tiring of her, he sold her to a soldier for 11. 6d. She went quite willing, and had married her pur- chaser.

Again, at Leeds assizes three years ago another bigamist offered the same defence. On his arrest he stated: "When I married her I knew I had a wife living, but I sold her for 50s," More recently at Stockport an elderly man told the magistrates that he thought he was eatitled to marry again, as he bad sold his first wife to a chimney sweep for 180.

ADVERTISEMENT RATES.

(per inch.)

One week....

One month

..$2.85

7.20

Two months

13,00

Three

20,00

#4

Six

+1

37.50

Twelve "

73.00

No charge less than one dollar.

Discount allowed on-

3 Months Contracts......

5 per cent.

6

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DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES,

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

In each case it will be noted that the purchase money is small. This is not due to a low valuation of the woman, but a nominal sam is agreed upon to make the bargain an actual one. The legal doctrine of "value received" is so far understood by the vulgar can be ascertained from the Manager. mind. The sale, indeed, is the poor man's

CONTRACT ADVERTISEMENTS,

Special Rates for standing advertisements

divorce. His honesty in this matter is shown

Advertisements for the Daily should reach by his retention of the children of the marriage, | the Hongkong Telegraph Office not later than and his maintenance of them. In a case at noon of the day they are intended to appear. Doncaster in 1896 the purchaser, instead of paving cash, agreed to take over the vendor's four children with the wife. This was the document which figured later in the police court:

"New Conisbord, March 18th, 1896.-1, Enoch Childo, la quite willing to take your wife and children as mino; that is, your wife, Ellen Tart, and Sarah, John. Henry and Elira. Signed, Ellen Tart, Enoch Childs”—

IN DERBYSHIRE,

Though Lancashire in so kin to Yorkshire no sales of wives are known in the County Palar tine. But at Afterton, in Derbyshire, a colller sold bis wife for fourpence in 1882. In 1873 there was a remarkable case at Belper; the wife of an absconding debtor had a halter placed about her neck and was led into the market place on Saturday afternoon and offered for sale by suction as one of her husband's assets. Bat there were no bidders and no sale. About [49

four years ago Inthlingboro', usar Northampton, supplied a southern instance. A shoemaker paraded the streets with a bell calling upon all perons to know that he had that afternoon **sold and bequeathed" bis wife to Joha—. He proclaimed the names of two companione as

"LEIGHTOR" THE PRAX.

Apply to

JEBSEN & Co. Hongkong, 17th April, 1904. -

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witnesses to the transaction. The purchase

money was 21. Mr. Baring Gould cites similar sales in the west country, and to go back more than thirty years would mean the extention of this subject to intolerable length, for a century ago wife selling was almost common. That it

the Colony or in any part of the Far East.No. 6 BARROW TERRACE, KOWLOOM. is practiced as frequently as it is will come as a

GROUPS AND VIEWS

a specialite.

sand, Rostembe, 1703,

TO LET.

Available xst March. Apply to

surprise"to most readers. In addition to these northern instances many a wife is sold today in the east end of London, but of all such cases over the country only a faw are revealed to (s18 | public knowledge.

THE SAM WANG CO., LD, Hongkong, jih February, 1904.

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

manded.

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

Black Signale indicate that the centre is believed to be less than 300 miles away from

the Colony.

The above signals will, as beretofore, 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 leav ing the harbour,

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NIGHT SIGNALS.

Two lanterns hoisted vertically indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is expected to veer,

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

The signals are repeated on the Bagstaff 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 a 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 Piar, Kowloon,

WEATHER FORECASIS and BroRM- 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 dally about noon. It contains observations made at ~jod Printing of all descriptions undertaken. Hongkong and at a dumber of stations in the

PROGRAMMEA,

JOBBING DEPARTMENT.

PAMPHLETS,

CARDS,

VIRCULARS,

EXTRESSES

All Job printing is done under European supervision, well turned out, free from errors,

and remarkably cheap #

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

OFFICE.

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· Estimates given for all classes of work on application to

-

THE MANAGER,

谶

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH Co.; LD.

1, Ice House Road,

Hoogkrog.

Far East, together with Remarks, Weathers joracasts, and information regarding the świsti ence and movements of typhoons based therson,

SPECIAL INQUIRIEL,

Masters of vessels or their agents may, 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

THE LAW OF STORMI.

Further information concerning the weather to be expected while signals are boisted, and

sailing directions, are given in: "The Law of Storms in the Rastárn Seas."

F, G, F100,

Hongkong

ory and January, 1994€