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Entertainment.

THEATRE ROYAL,

THIS SATURDAY AND "MONDAY, JUNE 4TH AND 6TH,

(Under the Patronage of H.E. the Officer Administering the Government and The Elite of Hongkong.)

FREEAR

in bis

FAMOUS

'FRIVOLITIES,"

ALSO IN

"THE AMERICAN MINSTRELS."

AND THE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1904.

Entimations.

THE CHINA LI HT & POWER

COMPANY, LIMITED" THE THIRD ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held in the Company's Offices, No. 14 Des Voeux Road, Victoris, on THURSDAY, 9th June, 1904, at 11:30 AM for the purpose of receiving Statement of Account and the Keport of the General Managers for the year ending 29th February, 1904, and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Monday, 6th, to Thurs- day, 9th June, both days inclusive..

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 1st May, 1904.

MAD

NOTICE,

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ADAME FLINT & Co. beg to notify their clients that they have secured more commodinus premises, (No. 4, DES VIEUX ROAD, next dour to the HONGKONG LOOKS LIKE ME BANK) and will, move, therein this week.

"SCREAMING FARCES

"THE FELLOW THAT

"DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCE,"

AND

MATRIMONIAL BLISS."

REEAR is the man who made King

FRE

Edward and Queen Alexandra laugh (on

During this period they will be compelled to close business, but the appointments made with Ladies for Dresses will be kept at the old address, CONNAUGHT HOTEL.

Hongkong, 31st May, 1944.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER

CO., LTD.

Following are the accounts appended to the annual report of the above company :-

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.

February 28th, 1903, to July 31st, 1903.

Balance brought forward.........$ $7.953.76

Auditors' fee Consulting Committee's fees......... Interest.................. Charges... Exchange Amount written off as depreciation Balance of Canton working account Balance of Kowloon working account

Dalance applied to reduction of capital in accordance with the special resolutions passed on the 27th June 1993 and confirmed on the 13th July 1903

BALANCE SHEET.

Liabilities.

Capital 15,000 shares at $20 each

fully paid [673 China Provident, oan and Mortgage

Co., Ltd. Sundry Creditors Company's Bankers .........................................................

two occasions). The King of Siam, King George This day been REMOVED from No. 36,

of Greece, the ultan of Turkey, and numer

ous other Putentates, and Princes in all parts

of the world during the past 12 years.

FREEAR, wil make you laugh here as his Sister Miss LOUIE FREEAR has made you Ile has crowded the Thea- laugh in London. tre Lefore and Lopes ia do so again, for people will go a long way in any country to obtain a good wholesonie evening's laughter. It is a rare commodity, not to be missed; it is the best of all Tenics; it makes you forget your toils and trouble, you forget your business obligations, you forget mournis g over your depreciated dollars and will resign yourself wholly, and solely, to jollity and unrestricted hilarity, and will return home to sleep in happiness and peace, to dream of the enjoyable evening you have spent. Book your seat at ROBINSON'S, where Freear's Credentials are on view with the Sultan's Gold Medal of "Fine Arts," p e- sented to Freear by the Sultan in Yildiz Palace, Constantinople.

Late Car to the Peak after the performance

each night.

Last Kowloon Ferry al 12.

Enormous Success in Shanghai, Peking.

Tientsin and Yokohama.

Hongkong, cst June, 1904.

To Let.

TO LET:

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No.1, RIPON TERRACE in FLATS.

4, RIPON TERRACE.

No. 17, WONG NEI CHONG ROAD, facing

Race Course.

wit

FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, facing

Polo Ground,

OFFICES in course of erection, Con

NAUGHT ROAD (near BLAXE PIER).

GODOWNS: PRAYA EAST.

"ROSENEATH," KOWLOON,

No. 3, CLIFTON GARDENS, CONDUIT

ROAD.

Apply 10~~

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

9

Hangkene. 20th May, 1904.

TO LET.

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THE OFFICES of the Undersigned have QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL 10 ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

EWENS & HARSTON, Soliciters, Hongkong, 35th May, 1904.

THE

Assets.

85-33 625.00 8,070.94 4,761.70 172,00

MAMESE DEMONS AND SORCERERS.

Entimations.

YOU WILL NOT

The men who

be deceived. That there are cheats and fraude In planty everybody knows; but it is seldom or never that any large business house is guilty of them, no matter what line oftrade it follows. There can be no permanent success of any kind based on dishonesty or deception. There never was, and never will be, try that are simply fools and won come to grief-as they deserve. Now many persons. are, nevertheless, afraid to buy certain advertised articles lest they be humbugged and deluded; especially are they slow to place confidence in published" statements of the merits of medicines. The, remedy known as

character. There exists a class of sorcerer supposed to possess the secret of exorcisins them and power to make use of them as docile In bis article in the Revue Indo-Chinoise, a instruments for a multituds of cases, · fo portion of which we (Sium' Observer) translated example, to create love in the heart of a few days ago, M. Hardonin proceeds to deal woman, a young girl or a young 'man; fi with Siamese popular beliefs in demona. We direct the hand of him who draws the numbers continue our translation as follows:-

of a grand lottery, who counts the beans, the "The ideas current in Siam on demons, their shells, or who handles the dire in the gambling- accult power, and the forms under which they houses; to discover the hiding places D show themselves, are nearly the same as in the purloined articles and even to surprise, neighbouring countries. Nevertheless, popular frighten, and kill people. These invocations legends speak of certain "Phi" whose mani take place in the following manner: the festations reveal themselves in a more parti- sorcerer takes from the body of a person lying cular manner. Thus, in every family there is dead from an accident or from any kind of 60,319.07 often a question of "Phi Kaseu"-a demon malignant attack certain special parts, such a

5.711-54

which has the habit of entering into the bodies the tongue, the skin of the forehead, bair or 13,201.66 of aged persons of the feminine sex and make fat. After having placed on a platter thest $150,000 00ing them perform the most repulsive actions, remains chopped small, he recites the prescribis

Fortunately, they are easily recognised formalie to evoke the spirit of the defunct able, thanks, to glimmer of greenish colour person and invite it to enjoy a feast prepared which surrounds their lips and which shines in for it. When the "Phi," who is representer! the darkness like an aureole; that distinctive as constantly troubled by hunger, manifests by sign disappears at the dawn; this is the certain signs its greed, the sorcerer choose: moment when the demon abandons its victim, that moment to enjoin it to perform such. who then regains possession of herself and is action in favour of his client, and one often ready for her daily occupations. The legends finds serious people among the natives who add that those possessed live to a very ad- altest the efficacy of such injunctions. vanced age, and do not die until they have passed into the bodies of ather persons among their relations the "Phi Kaseu" which animates them. Persons of the masculine sex are less. subject to being possessed; for what reasons? 168.591.07 None are given. However, the legends of the 17,951.151.aos speak of a certain "Phi Krabam" which 76,63245 acts on men after the manner of the "Phi Kascu" in making them devour during the $563,174.67

night the most unclean things; only no external sign distinguishes them and they can give up their last breath without transmitting to another the spirit they have received.

$150,001 0

$150,000 00

$300,000.00

Kowloon

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and

5 32,770,18 Buildings and machinery $149,491,70 9.491.70 Less Depreciation.........

Furniture

Lines

Less Depreciation.....

27,970.08 7,970.88

Materials, stores, fuel &c. in stock

valued at........

Canton

ROBINSON

PIANO

-

Co., Ltd.,

INVITE INSPECTION OF SOME

SPECIALLY

FINE

SAMPLES

or

UPRIGHT PIANOS

RACHALS,

STUART,

20,000.co

38,225.16

|

די

(To be continued.)

THE WORLD'S GOLD SUPPLY.

The Stufist, in a recent number, again addresses itself to the interesting question whi it is that while the comparatively small in. crease in the supply of gold that resulted from the pold discoveries of the middle of the last century was followed by a great rise of prices. the vastly larger increase of the past ten years had had hardly any effect on prices. The ex planation usu lly accepted is that, in the The sick who pine away losing their strength earlier period comparatively few countries used each day, are the object of careful and constant gold, whereas in the later period the use of 140,000.00 watchfulness on account of a certain demongold has become practically universal This, 248.00 | called "Phi xamob takla” which is supposed however, our contemporary argues, cannot be to prowl around the dwelling where they are the true explanation, or, at all events, cannot found and to profit by any moment when they be the whole of the true explanation. The in- may be alone in order to reach them and enter

crease that has taken place during the last ten their bodies. Possession by this demon et.

years in the gold stocks held by the principal pecially manifests itself by a return of strength countries of the world is statistically shown to and appetite; the sufferers appear to return to amount in the aggregate to 320 millions ster- health and show a desire to eat pork, fowl ling. But the output of gold in these years | and the choicest meats. If at the moment of totalled rather more than 30 millions sterling; this sudden hanger nobody happens to be near

so that more than 270 millions sterling worth to stop them, they get up and go to satisfy the of gald remains unaccounted for by there in- 303.73 hunger which devours them, but in so im creased holdings Besides, as the writer ob-

moderate a minner that they die of indiges.

serves, the gold in the great central banking tion. In order to conjure away this catastrophe institutions of the world constitutes the ulti- and exorcise the demon, the dried skin of a particular kind of toad, known to native doctors, is employed; it suffices to place it under the bed of the sick persons thus possess. 777-74ed to make the "Pai xamob takla" flee at #1,154.45

once. In quitting the body of its victim it 5.05.55 leaves behind it a characteristic corpse-like Balance of Profit & Loss Account... 150,000.00 odour which affords evidence of flight.

$563, 74.67

Buildings and machinery 170,220.45

Less Depreciation......................

Furniture

34.720.45

306.95

Less Depreciation...........

3.21

Lines.........

22,233.61 Lers Depreciation......... 7,133.61

Materials, stores, fuel &c. in stock

valued at....... Proportion of premia on current Fire Insurance policies............................................. Sundry ebtors......... Cash in hand

135,500.00

1,100.00

13.436.91

We have compared the above statements with the books and vouchers of the company, and found the same in accordance therewith.

W. H. POTTS,

Auditors, A. O'D. GOURDIN, Hongkong, 11st August, 1903.

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT, July 31st, 1903, to February 29th, 1904. Auditors' fees

Consulting Committee's fecs

Interest...

Charges...........................

Exchange

&c.,

&c,

&c.,

Balance carried forward

- AND

BABY-GRANDS,

In a country where belief in the interven tion of demons and spirits is no deep-seated it is not surprising that sorcery flourish with all its train of diabrlic practices. Although the laws of the kingdo inflict different incapacities on all those who devote themselves to occult sciences in general, the peonie, convinced of the efficacy of their spells, profes toward them a timorous deference. The most no torious among them are the exorcisers of the "Phi pob," reputed the most terrible of the $116.67 infernal spirits. To cause an enemy to perish there is no need of steel and poison which 875.00

leave compromising traces; some sacramental 16,763.59

words of evocation pronounced, the "Phi 1,617.37

87.41 pob" penetrates into the body of the enemy in 3.739.03 question and does slowly but surely its work of destruction. This is how the sorcerer pro- $13,199.07ceeds: he takes a skin, fresh and entire, of an Balance of Canton working account $9.543.810x or a buffalo, and sprinkles it with clear water, while making invocations according to consecrated rites. Under the influence of these incantations the skin contracts and shrivels andil it becomes as small, light, and thin as an atom. In that condition it is borne away on the winds towards the person desig- nated around whom it flatter until it is drawD Then the in by the breath and swallowed. skin distends itself and develops little by little so as to regain its original dimension; this ends by suffocating the victim. In the absence of the skins of beasts, the sorcerer can equally well employ pigs' feet, quarters of meat, hair, bonés, human or animal, and bewitch them in 116,285.55 the same manner.

$4,167.78

•

Balance of Kowloon Balance outside contracts account...

1:26

BY

WINKELMANN,

(Established 1837).

1554

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.

Hongbang, 25th April, von

TO.LET.

[O. 1, STEWART TERRACE,

NO THE PEAK

Apply to-

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

They are only 5 FEET LONG, occupy-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-ing the space of a Cottage, but with [436 the fine appearance and TONE OF A

FULL GRAND.

TO LET.

FIRST-CLASS FURNISHED ROOMS,

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

Apply to-

N. N.,

No. 98, thle Office. Hongkang. th May, 1004.

TO LET,

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WILD CHAT ROAD. Comfortable and XILD DELL BUILDINGS, No. 147. Airy Flats of 2 or 3 Rooms, from $as inclusive

of Taxes.

And others to suit various requirements,

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

Hongkong, and May, 1004.

TO LET,

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION,

FOR IB MONTES.-

EIGHTO REE PEAX.

Apply to-

JESSEN & Co ch Hongkong, 27th April, 1904.

∙1539.

'L

Hongkong, 13th May, 1904

THE HONGKONG STUDIO,

HIGHER CLASS PHOTOGRAPHER, 4143, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, TOP FLOOR.

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DORTRAITS, GROUPS and ENLAP GING and COPYING in all Sires.

Large SulzCTION OF VIEWS ALWAYS ON HAND.

PRICE VERY. MODERATE. Hongkong, 15th September, 1993:

MEE CHEUNG,

PHOTOGRAPHER,

TOP FLOOR or lot HousE, IN

Ta-House Roid,

TS now in a position, in bls New and Com modlinds Premise:, to eclips, te heretofore, RACE, KOWLOON, ALLPHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRACTICED

It the Colony or in any part of the Far Best

GROUPS AND VIEWS -

No

10:6:BARROW

Availabla ret

Apply

AM WANG

Hongkong, 5th February, 1904

Hongkong, aand

3,676.53 9978.71

$23,199.07

BALANCE SHEET. July 31st, 1903, to February 29th, 1994. Liabilities. Capital.

Authorised 300 ashs, at $10 each Issued

15,000 shs, at $ro, each $150,000.00 Debentures, at 8 per cent ........... 150,000.00 China Provident Loan & Mortgage

Company, Ltd..................................... Sundry Creditors

Company's Bankers...

Balance of profit and loss account...

Asis.

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION as safe and genuine an article to purchase as flour, silk or cotton goods from the mills of manufacturers with a world-wide reputation. We could not afford to exaggerate its qualities or misrepresent it in the feast; and it is not necessary, it is palatable as honey, and con tains 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 the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry; and how valuable such a blending of these important medicinal agents' must he is plain to everybody. It is beyond price in Anemia, Insomnia, Weakness and lack of Nervous Tone, Poor Digestion, Wasting Diseases, La Grippe, Lung Troubles and Blood Impurities. Science can furnish nothing better -perhaps nothing so good. Dr. W. H. Dalfe, of Canada, says: "I have used it in my practice and take pleasure in recommending it as a valuable tonic and reconstructive." It is a remedy that can afford to appeal to its record and represents the science and knowledge of bright and aggressive medical investigation. Effective from the first dose. You cannot be disappointed in it." Like all good things it is imitated. Sold by chemists throughout the world.

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THE CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE: AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,

LIMITED.

HONGKONG EXCHANGE.

mate banking reserve, upon which the business SUBSCRIPTIONS,

of the world is conducted, and therefore we ought to strike out the State bank figures, he cause they are part of the gold which is moving the markets. The real exolanation, our con. temporary contends, is to be found in the fact that, owing to the change that has taken place in the interval in the conditions under which it is mined, the cost of production of gold has during the past ten years been vastly greater than it was in the middle of the last century and the profit comparatively small. The price, or, in other words, the purchasing power, of gold is the quantity of commodities it will exchange for, so that if the cost of produc tion has increased, or a given quantity of gold exchanges for a larger quantity of commodities, the effect of the increase of production in rais- ing prices is so far neutralised,

Entimations.

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS.

THE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA are

prepared, during suspension of their to BOOK CARGO and ISSUE BILLS OF LADING Trans-Pacific Service and until further notice, to SEATTLE, WASH., VICTORIA, B.C., and PACIFIC COAST PORTS, also to OVER- LAND POINTS in the UNITED STATES NORTHERN RAILWAY FROM SEAT- and CANADA in connection with the GREAT TLE, as hitherto, by the Steamers of the NORTHERN PACIFIC S. S. Co., BOSTON STEAMSHIP and TOWBOAT Co., OCEAN S. S. Co. and CHINA MUTUAL S. N. Co.

For further Particulars, apply at the Com pany's Local Branch Office in PRINCE'S BUILDINGS, First Floor, Chater Road.

A. S. MIHARA, Manager.

Hongkong, 20th May, 1904,

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This category of sorcerers does not appear GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, 73,031.51 to be very common, thanks to the difficulties 3.739.03 attending the initiation to the riles. In effect, $547,223.68

c.

in order to become masters, the novices ought to have endured with success a 'series of tests of which the last is decisive. It consists in

Kowloon Land

..................... 33,770.18 Buildings & machinery...$140,000.00 Since expended...ancisse 418.50 140,418.50

248.00 17.00

LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.

having the body baried to the waist in a hole. In Casks of 375lbs. net 84.75 ex Factory. In that position they recite formule invoking In Bags of a gobs. net 82.86 ex Factory, the "Phi pob" to come to possess them, while the initiator sprinkles them with clear water. Those whom the spirit bas touched get up by themselves out of the hale and are proclaimed doctors in the occult arts. Having become masters, they must make enchantments ance Since expended............ 5.678.58 25.678.58 | every seven days, whether or rist a victim is

Furniture Hince expended.........................

Lines.....

20.000.00

265.00

55,675-44

Hoogkong, 75th August, 1905,

fD

NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS.

TEITHER the CAPTAIN, the AGENTS, Dor the OWNERS will be RESPONSIBLE

'AN APPEAL.

THE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN

designated; if they fail in this rule the objects which they have enchanted and which have for any DEBT contracted by the Officers or Materials, Stores, Fuel &c. in stock

valued at......!!

not received any destination return to their the Crews of the following Vessel during her Canton

authors, penetrating into their bodies and stay in Hongkong Harbour: Buildings & machinery... 135,500.00

suffocating them. Their power extende equally TRONGATE, British barque, A. Hulton, Master. Since expended........ 51,185.04 185,786.04 to other kinds of action the consequences of which are less terrible. Thus, under the Furniture mé

101.72 Since expended.inna 29,95

333.68 influence of their invocations, myriads of Insects All the dwelling of the victim de- Lines 15,100.00

signated, grasshoppers, descend on his rice. Since expended........$1,453.91 26,551.91 felda, hidpans toads cover his garden, etc. Fortunately for all this power is not irresistible. Materials, stores, fus &c. in stock

Good people, say the chronicles, will not be valued atras

****** 35,028.92

conscious of being assailed; and among these Proportion of premis on current :

last should be included all who de acts of

Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuffs. Fim Insurance policies .........! -431.96

merit, for example, by sacrificing to the tutelary Sundry debtors main :39558.03

genies or by giving to the bontes and pagodas. | and Collars renewed on old ones, perenni

Ladies and Children's Under-clothing Lan Cash in hand

2.95465

The exorcisers of the "Phi pob” are rare in $347,239.68 the Siamese provitices and towns properly dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery We have compared the above statements called; they are aspecially found among the Materials can be supplied, if required. with the books, and voncham of the company, Laotians,' the Kariena, the Chongs, and the and found the same in accordance therewith," || pavage people to the north of Cambodia. ⠀

W. H. POTTS Anditom.

A, O' D. GOURDIM.

Hongkong, 14th May, 1904.

CONVENT, Caine Road, bege most respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong and the Coast Parts, for their kind patronage and support, and desires to state that she will be pleased to receive orders for sil kluds of NEEDLE WORK, BA

The Superioress will also be most grateful

for any Ra7, or old, ENVELOPES to be made

-It hagaiready been said that persons whose Into Books for the Children of the Poor Schosis, death his been caused by violence or accident | who are taught by the Sisters.

| become “Phi* ci, a violent and dangerous |--Winagkong, 130d April, 1892,

PAYABLE QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE

EXCHANGE LINES: $25 Per Quarter.

NO CHARGE FOR INITIAL

INSTALLATION..

N.BA Special Charge is made for Lines

of more than average length,

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DESK TELEPHONES

For a small additional annual charge Desk

Sets can be supplied.

ELECTRIC SUPPLIES,

BATTERIES,

CHEMICALS,

ELECTRIC BELLS,

INSULATORS,

SWITCHES

TELEPHONES,

SEND FOR FRICE LISTS.

'WIRE,

ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS,

Estimates given for all kinds of Electrical

Work

·ADDRESS>----3, Icz, House-ROAD,

W, STUART HARRISO

Hongkong, 12th April, 1904.