1
Intimations.
OPENING OF AQUATIC SEASON.
THE
HE COMMITTEE of the V. R. CLUB
request the pleasure of the Company of the LADIES OF HONGKONG at the CLUB ENCLOSURE, Kowloon, TO-MORROW, the 11th ist., At 4.30 P.M.
7. Competitors.
The Secretary's Launch will leave Blake Pier at 4 P.M. sharp to convoy Spectators and
Entrance fee:-Non-Mimbers, 50 Cents:
HAROLD C. AUSTEN,
Acting Hon. Secretary.
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Hongkong, 10th June, 1904.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
NOTIC
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the Company in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, on WEDNESDAY, the gth of June, 1904, at II A.M., when the subjoined re- solution which was passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 31st of May, 1904, will be submitted for con- firmation as a Special Resolution.
RESOLUTION,
That the Capital of the Company be in- creased to Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars by the creation of Thirty Thousand Now Shares of Ten Dollars each.
By Order,
A. H. MANCELL, Secretary.
Hongkong, 3rd June, 1904.
NOTICE.
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R. ATUAIS, formerly OFFICER in the
Mservice of the OCCIDENTAL AND
ORIENTAL S. S. Co., is requested to kindly communicate with-
T. C. MACKAY,
THE
Intimations.
NOTICE TO Shippers.
THE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA are prepared, during suspension of their Trans-Pacific Service and until further notice. to BOOK CARGO and ISSUE BILLS OF LADING to SEATTLE, WASH., VICTORIA, B.C., and PACIFIC COAST PORTS, also to OVER- LAND POINTS in the UNITED STATES and CANADA in connection with the GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY FROM SEAT- TLE, as hitherto, by the Steamers of the NORTHERN PACIFIC S. S. Co., BOSTON STEAMSHIP and TOWBOAT Cos., 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,
Hongkong, 20th May, 1904.
THE
Manager.
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ROBINSON
PIANO
Co., LTD.,
INVITE INSPECTION OF SOME
at the offices of the SPECIALLY
P. M. S. S..Co.
Hongkong, 9th June, 1904.
WANTED.
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SMALL STORE IN CENTRAL OF
QUEEN'S ROAD.
Apply to--
Hongkong, 9th June, 1904.
NOTICE.
COKE AND TAR.
"B. C."
+
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FINE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE
MAY DAY IN WARSAW.
SAME SPIRIt as at gen-SEN,
small Japanese trading vessel by the Vladivos- tock Squadron in Gon-san Bay.
Out in the allés a policeman was beating two - women who would not get out of his way fast | enough. As his repeated blows were attract-
Warnow, 1st May, A convenient peculiarity about Warsaw doing the undesired antice of a group of foreign monstrations is that you can forecast the time onlookers a sergeant apparently gave him a and place of their happening to a nicety, and hist to desist, which was the only sign I saw make your arrangements accordingly. Instead of attempted restraint. The Chief of the Civil of spending a restless morning in furtive ob- Police and the Chief of the Secret Police were servation of ominous-looking groups, or strain-standing less than a hundred yards distant from ing your ears for the gallop-clatter of mounted the police quarter, and their officers and agents gandarmes, you pick out the friend whose
were going to and fro all the time, as that there house commands the best view of the coming was no lack of supervision. Exactly a twelve- disturbance, and invite yourself to tea for the month ago I was at Safonica in the midst of an occasion days beforehand, taking care merely attempted revolution, and during the panic and to arrive before the streets have become un-
fury which prevailed I noticed that the Turkish comfortably crowded. In choosing a house officers when on the spot exerted themselves to fronting on the Ujazdowska Allés for my ran-
keep their subordinates in check. And here dezvous, I was guided by the consideration that it was flanked by a large private yard in which Cossacks and police were sure to be quartered.
10, 1904.
Intimations.
EXCURSION TO MACAO.
ON
SUNDAY, 12TH INST. THE New and Fast Steel Twin-screw
Steamer
"CHARLES HARDOUIN,"
Capt. Merlin, will make an Excursion trip to 1,400 tons, 14 knots, MACAO, leaving the Company's wharf in Hongkong, at the end of Queen's Street, Praya West, at 9 A.M., and leaving Macao at 8 PM., on the return voyage.
FARE $3 RETURN TICKET. Private Cabin, Tiffin and Dinner extra. Tickets to be had on Board. For further particulara, apply to-*
I. LANDOLT. Agent to J. Trevoux & Co. [706
Hongkong. 9th june, 1004. ESPECH ALSOLD TOM GIN
Marshall and
Elvy's
Satinet
in Warsaw the people were not throwing bombs and blewing up public buildings: they were not even throwing stones and smashing windows. They were not carrying flags (I On arrival, about four o'clock, I found the believe red flag was displayed and cap. yard in possession of a half-sotnia of Oren tured in another part of the town) or singing burg Cossacks and about a score of mounted revolutionary songs, or even shouting. The gendarmes, while an oathouse had been im majority, perhaps, had never left the sidewalk. provised into a palice office, and a cellar was
They were implý indulging in a silent demon. being prepared is a temporary lock-up. The station againat a Government which certainly Cossack ponies, useful, rough-haired little ani- does not labour to endear itself with the people mals of fourteen hands, made a picturesque .Stories were told me of rough treatment of array, looking as wild and unkempt as they the injured, and certainly the groans which probably did when they left the Orenburg came from the lock-up were not reassuring; steppe, and their harness was worth inspection. but I prefer merely to record what I personally The headstall and bridle was a simple arrange». witnessed. If these things were done in a ment of undressed thong, with a plain snaffle Turkish province it would be correct to indulge bit, primitive and at the same time eminently in rhetoric about "the sands running out.” But practicable; the saddle was not so commend- ❘ a political conscience has its watertight com able, being a bunched-up affair, worn over a thick cloth numnah, and having buckles in places where one would scarcely suppose their presence would be appreciated. The Cossacks wore the fut Russian Service cap instead of the fur shapka of the typical Cossack uniform, and on the left side of the head an up-titled curt represented the plaited side-lock of former
SAMPLES time.
OF
UPRIGHT, PIANOS
HE HONGKONG AND CHINA GAS RACHALS,
COMPANY beg to notify the public
that Mesus. KUNG HING & Co., 474, Des Voeux Road West, are the SOLE AGENTS for the Sale of the Company's COKE and TAR and that all Orders should be sent to the said Agents direct.
GEORGE CURRY, Local Secretary.
Hongkong, 8th June, 1904.
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NO TOILET REQUISITES ARE COMPLETE
WITHOUT THESE SOAPS.
PLANTOL FLORAL BOUQUET SOAP, Guaranteed made from Fruits and Flowers, and to contain no animal fat. It is most amoothing and refreshing
to delicate skins,
STAR LIGHT SOAP,
Pure and economical, agreeable, highly per fumed and a perfect toilet and numery Soap. AND ALSO
CEDAR GLYCERINE AND TAR SOAP.
Now on Show.
H RUTTONJEE,
No. 5. D'águilar Street,
STUART,
&C12
&c.,
AND
&C..
BABY-GRANDS,
BY
WINKELMANN,
(Established 1837).
They are only 5 FEET LONG, occupy-
36 to 38, Elgin Road, Kowlooning the space of a Cottage, but with
Hongkong, 8th June, 1994.
ROYAL AERATED WATERS MANUFACTORY.
73 the fine appearance and TONE OF
FULL GRAND.
PRODUCE the highest Class AERATED
WATERS in the Far East on account of their High Class Machinery and also of the superior ingredients theyuse in the manufacture of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c., are all under strict supervision of Europeans only.
REPORT OF AN EXPERT.
The representative of Messrs, BRATBY and HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED, Aerred Water
Hongkong, 13th May,
A
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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Mengkennu. 15th August, 1903,
FOUND.
ID
Meanwhile, the allée was beginning to pre- sent an appearance of restrained animation. The stream of promenaders had grown thicker, though its volume was not remarkable seeing that it was a holiday and that the parks in which the people usually congregate had been closed. It was a composite crowd in which the labouring-class element was not very strongly represented. And except that the throng steadily swelled in numbers and hung inert
partments.---- Aforning Post (London).
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION
ог
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, situate at Victoria, Hongkong, to be sold on FRIDAY,
the 17th day of June, 1904, at 3 P.M. BY
Mr. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer, at kis
SALE ROOMS, DUDDELL STREET,
Victoria.
DOUBLY DISTILLED
AND OF
MATURED AGE.
TO BE OBTAINED FROM---
THE MUTUAL STORES, Des Voeux Road.
(608
Hongkong, 10th May, 1904. THE CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,
LIMITED.
HONGKONG EXCHANGE.
Office as Inland Lot No. 796 together THE Property is Registered in the Land SUBSCRIPTIONS, with the Buildings thereon known as Nos. 212, 214, 216, 218, 220, 222, 214, 216, 228 and 130, THIRD STREET, abutting on the North and West sides therenf an Battery Road and mea-
round certain cmss-roads it could not be said to indulge in actual demonstration. One or two boys, with the temerity of youth, wore red favours, and a few women and men indulged in buttonholes or ties of the same colour, but the great mass of loiterers were silent and watch-uring thereon 178 feet 8 inches and 197 feet ful. Except for the impatient clanging bell of the horse trame a weird stillness brooded over the allée, while the human mass edged itself blacker and blacker across the roadway. On every balcony could be seen groups of specta- tors watching for the outburst which never seemed to come.
SUDDEN RUSH OF THE POLICE. And then of a sudden the police on foot made a rush to thrust back the pressing crowds, and a shrill hurricane of fear and anger voiced in human shrieks broke out on all sides. The mounted gendarmes came out in a scrambling gallop, wooden barrier were set up at the side streets to hold back the crowds, and gorgeously uniformed police officials rushed hither and thither with hoarse screams of " Nazad * (back)
and threats of firing. There was no bustling or
charging on the part of the demonstrators; they
on the East side thereof on Inland Lot No.797 and maxsuring thereon 195 feet, and on the South side thereof on Pokfulam Road and measuring thereon 254 feet containing in the whole an area of 49,000 square feet and is held from the Crown for the residue of the term of 999 years granted by a Crown Lease of the Lot, dated the 17th day of June, 1882. Annual Crown Rent $324.
For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale, apply to-
EWENS & HARSTON, Vendor's Solictors,
PAYABLE QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE,
EXCHANGE LINES: $aj Per Quarter,
NO CHARGE FOR INITIAL
INSTALLATION..
N.B.-A Special Charge is made for Lines
or to Mr. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
of more than average length.
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Hongkong, 4th June, 1904.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
simply melted away into nothingness, and in a THE Undersigned have received instructions minute or two re-formed at some other point
and drifted back to the strom centre. A thin stream of arrested persons began to dribble in, composed for the most part of students or mere schoolboys, whose size teemed disproportionate to the magnitude of their escorts.
As the crowd still kept intermittent posses- sion of the sidewalks order was given to call out the Cossacks, who were waiting in reserve: The little cloud of dun-coloured horses whirled
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNBU,
on
SATURDAY,
the 18th Jun, 1904, at 2.30 P.M., at their Sales Room, No. 8, Des Vœux Road, corner of Ice House Street,
A FINE COLLECTION
of
into the allée, and took up a position, not in OLD AND RARE POSTAGE STAMPS, conventional military order but in a huddled
of sheep in the presence of an intruder. From this centre the horsemen could dash off in any direction at a moment's notice, though, as a matter of fact, their services were never serious. ly needed. The police continued to haul cap- tured individuals into their yard, and as I saw a man being subjected to a certain amount of rough treatment on his way thither, I went round to the side windows, which gave me a
Engineers and Chemists, Manchester, visited In Casks of 375lbs. net $4.75 ex Factory.circle, with heads facing outwards, like a flock our factory recently in the course of & ton! In Bags of 150ths. net $2,85 ex Factory. amongst Eastern Aerated Water Makers, and was greatly surprised at the compactness of our factory and also the methodical way in which everything pertaining to the making of Aerated Waters was carried out. He also expressed him. self strongly on the absclate' cleanliness of our whole establishment, which he assured us was equal to any he had yet visited and superior to a great many. He also reported that the quality of our goods was of a first class nature, and they showed that scrupulous care wai exercised in the course of their manufacture.
Order Books and Price List. Please apply to FACTORY and OFFICE, West Point. Tel. 367. Depot, Ice House Streat Tel. 374- Dr.V. DANENBERG & F. P. DANENBERG, General Managers.
Hongkong, zath May, 1904.
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THE HONGKONG
STUDIO,
HIGHER CLASS PHOTOGRAPHER, 41 & 43. QUEENE ROAD CENTRAL, TOP FLOOR
PORING COPPING Sixes.
TRAITS, GROUPS ENLAF
LARGE SELECTION OF VIEWS ALWAYS
ON HAND.
PRICE VERY MODERATE, Hongkong, 15th September, 1903,
MEE CHEUNG,
PHOTOGRAPHER, TOP FLOOK OF ICE HOUSE, IN
Ica-House Raid
6. now in a position, in his Now and Com- modious Premians, to eclipse, a heretofore,į ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRACTICED In the Colony or in any part of the Far Eart
GROUPS AND VIEWS
Hongkong, sand Sastambe, 1898,
T ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, on the A evening of the 15th ult, as OVERCOAT
Owner can have same on application to--
THE DIRECTOR,
St. Joseph's College, Robinson Road.
Hongkong, 8th Jane, 1904.
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. This is the age of research and experiment, when All contra,so to speak, is misscked by the refentiác for the confort and happiness of man@science hri Indeed made glant virides during the past century, javul among the -by no means least importante
Bewerits in medicine comte that of Therapion, Heglan of which will be found in another
This preparation is unquestionably ons bine d genuine and reliable Patent kedicines Stroduced, and has, we understand, been used
Carlimenta? Hmapitals by Ricord, Rostany - Joffri. Velpenu, Maiskuttuye, the well-knowg Chumalguae, and indeed by all those who a trznel mauthorities in such matters including. the visited Lelleraand, and Roxx, by whom i wore time since uniformly adopted, and th it la worthy the attention of those who require megin. a remedy we think there is no doubt. From thus of Aristotle downwards, a potent agent in 2 removal of these disenses ang flike the famed pilte. Ingopher's slope been thæobject of search of some hoped generous månday and far beyond the recre pet such engid ever have been discovered-pf inting the baser metals into gold is purely Die die unity of a remedy potent us to repļenină sir failing energien of the comfenied raw? la the case vugo and in the other so effectually, spredity and anfcly lo expel from the system without the wist or gven the knowledge, of a second party, the po monta of anquiced or inherited disease fupli thele protenn formé as to leave gofalni ortrace behind. Auch ja The New French Resży Therapion, walch, my bertally rank with, i ks saka precedence of, may of the discoveries it char day, shout which no little ostentation and noise have been sinĀM, and th extensive and ever-increasing demand thei has been created for this medicines ducet appear to prove that it in den stro
to cart
· Seto obition all those quesijonable remades inst were formerly liha mole wlaze of ledles! men. Therapon ay be obtrize in Ragtanda örect » from the proprietor, and of the principal Useanlata Mechwitz in roughout the Golemies, India, China, Japan, an not ruts endading machi remote districts as Gefitini Afries, the Fiji Islanda? BL
•26+lena.&6:- Diamond Pielisk dverilin KINESKENY
Bold by A. S. WATSON & Co. Ltd., Hongkong, Chits and Manila.
view of the mora private proceedings.
Including :-
HULREADY COVERS, HAWAII, OLD TRIANGULAR CAPE, OLD CEYLON, HONGKONG (including 96 Cents Yellow Brown), MAFEKING BESIEGED, NEW WALES SYDNEY VIEWS, SOUTH VARIOUS ERRORS, &c., &c. &c.
Catalogues will be issued TERMS-As usual,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers,
Eongkong, 8th June, 1904.
Insurance.
DESK TELEPHONES
For a small additional annual charge Desk
Seis can be supplied.
ELECTRIC SUPPLIES.
BATTERIES,
CHEMICALS,
ELECTRIC BELLS,
INSULATORS,
SWITCHES
TELEPHONES,
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$20.
&c.,
kc.
NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,
HE Undenigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept First as FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS
My vantage ground had not been ill-chosen, and the police, on getting their man into a quiet comer, were not quite aware that their position had been outflanked.·. One seized the prisoner by the hair and held him, while four | others kicked him and beat him with their Icabbarded swords and thick sticka.. This went on for about two minutes. An officer was standing by, and others ware passing and repassing, but no disposition was shown to check the men, and the victim was kicked and | JURRENT RATES. beaten till he disappeared into the police office. ] ; Thesa man, be it understood, wars sot Cos- sacks but Russian police. When the foreign gendarmerie officers have succeeded in estab- |lishing Eumpean, methods of discipline in
Macedonia there is a field for their services in [ Warsaw
SIEMSSEN & Co.
Hongkeny, 15th May, that
AN APPEAL.
152
CONVENT, CAINE ROAD, begs moat
Another man was dragged in half fainting, THE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN with his face a mass of blood; he was too respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of dazed to need holding, so his captors set on Hongkong and the Coast Ports, for their kind him and kicked him at their leisure., "A touch | patronags and support, and dasires to state that
of comedy was given to the proceedings when she will be pleased to receive orders for all kinds three' tall policemen marched into 'the yard | of NEEDLE WORK.
with a small newsboy of about ten years old, Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuffs but the comedy evaporated when they began | and Collars renewed on old ones.
the same pricées of beating and kicking him,
gri-Ladies and Children's. Under-clothing Can- thrusting him in among the dismounted Co-dren's Dress, and all kinds of Embroidery, sacks so that they might lends hard. Though Materials can be supplied, if required. big enough to be battered he apparently did
not reach the size limit for defendim and was The Superioress will also be most grateful allowed to escape as the child sealed out of the Children of the Poor Schools, If any PAPER, or vid ENVELOPES to be made the yard, holding his head with both handa, 24
one understood the spirit of the lang official who ste mingit by the Sisters...... despatch which announced the destréiction of a - Hongkong: 1198 April, 18ợp.
SEND FOR PRICE LISTS.
To Let.
TO LET.
NN. RIPON TERRACE.
1, RIPON TERRACE in FLATS.
No. 17, WOND NEI CHONG ROAD, ficing
Race Courts.
FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, facing
Pola Ground.
OFFICES in course of erection, COX.
NAUGHT ROAD (near BLAKH PIER). GODOWNS; PRAYA EAST. {"ROSENEATH," KOWLOON.
No. 1, CLIFTON GARDENS, Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong. 7th June, 1904.
1699
TO LET.
HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE.
A Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 25th April, rong
_TO-LET.
NO THE PEAK.
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TO_1, STEWART TERRACE,
Apply to---
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.
WILD
TO LET.
{435
WILD DELL BUILDINGS, No. 147, WANCHAI ROAD. Comfortable and Airy Flats of a or 3 Rooms, from S15 inclusiva of Taxes,
And others to suit various requirements.
S. A. SETH,
Hongkong, and May, 1904.
Land and Estate Broker, Dairy Farm Co., Ltd.
[49
"L
TO LET.
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
Foa 18 MONTHS.
EIGHTOR," THE PEAK.
Apply to
JEBSEN & Co.
[$39
Hongkong, 17th April, 1904.
TO LET.
Available 1st March.
No. 6, BARROW TERRACE, KOWLOON.
Apply to→
THE SAM WANG CO.,ELD. Hongkong, 5th February, 1904-
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THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
THE Undersigned, having been appointed
AGENTS for the WINE GROWERS SUPPLY COMPANY or PARIS, are now WIRE, prepared to answer inquiries and receive orden
for all kinds of WINEs and Spiksra, az 52 and 24, Bank Buildings, -
BARRETTO & CO. Hongkong, oth June, 1904.
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ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS,
Estimates given for all kinds of Electrical
Work.
ADDRESS:-2, ICE HOUSE ROAD,
W. STUART HARRISON,
AMICE,
Manager.
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Hongkong,|11th April, 1904.
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS.
IN
EITHER the CAPTAIN, the AGENTE, nor the Ownzas will be RESPONSIBLE
the Crows of the following Vessel during her for any DEBT contracted by the Officers or
stay in Hongkong Harbour)
TRONDATE, British barque; A. Hatton, Master,
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.