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TAC

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

THE Undersigned have received instructions to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW,

the 14th June, 1904, at 11 AM) at their

Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vœux Road,"

(Corner of Ice House Street), SUNDRY

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising:

MARBLE-TOP SIDE-BOARD with BE- VELLED GLASS, WASHSTANDS, TEAK WOOD OVERMANTELS with REVELLED

GLASS, MOROCCO.COVERED DINING ROOM SUITE, WRITING TABLES, VIENNA CHAIRS, TAPESTRY-COVERED SOFA and CHAIRS, COOKING STOVE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH › MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1904.

Eutimations.

THE INDOCHINY STEAM NAVIGA® TION COMPANY, LIMITED.

BRITISH TRADE IN CHINA.

4 INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY,'

APPLICATION has been made to the to issue to the RUSSO-CHINESE BANK GENERAL MANAGERS, of this Company of Hongkong duplicate certificates. for Twosages:-- Hundred Shares in the above Company or

other certificates in lieu thereof upon the Siate

ment that the original certificates, vix zam Scrip No. 69 Nos. 17,816/17,850–25 shares in.

the name of · George B *Hutton Potts. ---

Scrip No. 379 Nos. 36,380/36,419-50 shares in

the name of Catchick ... Paul Chater.

Scrip No. 550 Nos. 44.759/44783-25 shares in

the name of George

Hutton Forts,

and UTENSILS, CROCKERY and GLASS Scrip No. 873 (Nos. 5.451/5.475-50 shares in

3.326/3,350) WARE, BRONZE BUSTS, &c, &c;

the name of Solomon Sassoon Benjamin.

ALSO

* New SINGER'S SEWING THREADLE MACHINE, 3 IRON SAFES, and JAPANESE RICKSHA.

Now

TERKSA usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hangkong, 14th June, 1924.

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF

200 Shares have been lost or destroyed. Notice is hereby given that if within. Thirty days from the First June instant no claim or representation in respect of auch original certificates is made to the General Managers they will then proceed [713 to deal with such application for duplicates.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

General Managers. Hongkong, toh June, 1904.

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, situate at Victória, Hongkong,

to be sold on FRIDAY,

the 17th day of June, 1904, at 3 P.M.,

BY

Mr. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer,

at bis

SALE ROOMS, DUDDELL STREET,

Victória,

HE Property is Registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 796 together with the Buildings thereon known as Nos, ziz,

214, 216, 218, 220, 223, 224, 236, 138 and 230, THIRD STREE, abutting on the North and West sides thereof on Battery Road and mea- suring thereon 178 feet 8 inches and 197 feet os the East side thereof on Inland Lot No.797 and measuring thereon 195 feet, and on the South side thereef on Pokfulam Road and measuring thereon 154 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 Lesse of the Lot, dated the 17th day of June, 1882. Annual Crown Rest $324.

For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale, apply to-

EWENS & HARSTON, Vendor's Solictors,

or to

Mr. GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Hokong, 4th June, 1903,

PUBLIC AUCTION. '

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Intimations.

COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED,

FIRE, MARINE, TYPHOON, ACCIDENT, TOTAL FUNDS exceed $70,000,000.

FIDELITY GUARANTEE and PLATE GLASS POLICIES ISSUED.

W. H. TRENCHARD DAVIS, Branch Manager and Underwriter, Hongkong, 11th June, 1904.

NOTICE.

Canton, 11th June, 1904.

Approved:

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becoming more numarons and more formid able. They came in flattering imitation of him self, and at first fast at the fest of Gamaliel,' but have by this time learned all there was to Mr. Acting Consul General Playfair's Report learn, and have in many ways bettered his in on the trade of Hankow farbe year 1903-8struction, His best resource is now to sit at the unusually prompt and Informative document feet of his quondam pupile, and learn, like them, contains sonie interesting remarks on the to pick up the crumbs that fall from the table. the Far East. We quote the following pas-with a big 'C, has passed out of his hands, and rivalry to which British trade is now subject in Except in shipping and banking, commerce, nothing seams left him but trade with a small British trade in China, that is to say, tradet Though British shipping has yearly in conducted not only in British goods, but by creased in tonnage and, during the current British hands, bas undergone a transformation. year, also in percentage, the number of British The change has beeti gradual, and has extend firms of repute doing business as merchants ed over many years.. The majority of those either in imports or exports is falling off, and engaged in it have found it difficult to adapt those still here find it daily harder to compete themselves to the new methods which they will with their foreign rivals. When first British have to follow if they with to maintain their merchants established themselves at Hankow grasp and not see their livelihood slip away they confined themselves to the tea trade, of Scrip No. 380 Nos. 36,43/36.479-50 shares in from them. The metamorphosis is not in the which Hankow was then the centre, and treated

the name of Catchick

British trader himself, but in those with whom with contempt the so-called 'muck and truck, Paul Chater.

the trade is conducted-viz; the Chiness; and leaving it entirely in the hands of French and unless the British merchant recognises facts German firms who got hold of the connections conformity with Article III of the General and can accommodate himself to the novel which they still retain. The Hanlow tea trade,

Regulations of the Chinese Pilotage Ser conditions, he will find himself supplanted by being been wounded to the death, as far as the

vice, a Board of Appointment will hold a Com- those who are more pliant and adaptable. The United Kingdom was concerned, by the push-petitive Examination at the Harbour Mastora 1'alted Kingdom bas taken a large and laudable ing Arms of India and Ceylon, and having con

Office, Canton, at 11 AM. on TUESDAY, atst share in promoting the education of the Chinese.sequently fallen almost entirely into Russian June, 1904, to fill one vacancy for a PILOT in We have preached to them and exhorted them hands, British merchants found it increasingly the Canton Pilotage Service. and entreated them to adopt larger views, difficult to do any business, the more so as the

Only those who have served an Apprentice. and to assimilate the wisdom and superior Chinese merchants began to purchase their im-ship are eligible for appointment. methods of the West. We have impressed ports at Shanghai and Hongkong, instead of

J. HOWELL MAY, on them that they are really ignorant through the agency of the local firms. The Bri-

Harbour Master. people, and that they cannot possibly tish, since their Concession adjoins the native Cottom House, move forward unless they model themselves city, hold the most advantageous position on the on European lines. Tacitly and meekly they river, yet as soon as the Pei-Han Railway is in have recognised this. Silently they have full working order, the centre of trade may be avowed their own shortcomings. So upasienta expected to gravitate towards the French Con. tiously and in that so skilfully, bas the trans-cession, immediately behind which is the rail. 718] formation been effected that in many ways they way station, and to the German Concession, [714] have turned the tables on us, and we have been through which a branch line of the railway is to blind to the fact. Their education has been so be carried down to the water's edge. The Ger complete and their adaptability so thorough maus and, toʻa certain extent, the Belgians seem that they have shouldered us out of positions to have secured for themselves all the Chinese which we formerly occupied unquestioned. Government contracts for machinery of every The volume of British trade is not here spoken description, the local arsenal, Ironworks and of; that continues to increase yearly, and no mint being fitted out with their manufactures. doubt will go on doing so as long as we have The Japanese are to provide rifles for the something to sell which the native of China Chinese troops, as rifles of Japanese mike are wishes to buy or the converse. British trade, both cheaper and more effective than those be said to flourish exceedingly, but, in the con- firms. The blame for the lack of success of in the abstract, still flourishes, and may indeed that have hitherto been supplied by German crete, its profits are no longer distributed in the British firms in these, as in other branches of JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.

same direction, nor do they benefit the same per- trade, though commonly ascribed to the supine Hengkong, 10th June, rong.

(710 sans. The trade of China is like the Egyptian attitude of British Consular officials towards Nile. In the old days, in making its way to the efforts of British merchants, would seem to the sea it overflowed and enriched with fertilis lie in reality with the firms themselves who Ling alluvium the regions through which it make no serious effort to push their goods in passed. We have, with the best of motives, opposition to those of other countries. At the canalised it, so that it enters the sea in even most they send a price list to the local Con- greater volume, but it no longer enriches all sular representative with a request that he will and sundry who tarry on its banks. They hand on to some local agent; but they over- await in vain the lavish overflow to which they look the fact that the Chinese Government pre. and conserved that, unless they are wise en- that the local firms have no facilities for bring were accustomed. The stream has so nursed lers to deal direct with the manufacturers, and ough to make use of the hundred and one ing their goods to the direct notice of the au irrigation channels into which its waters have thorities. The only effectual method is to send been diverted, they find at last that its benefits accredited agents with full particulars to the are no longer for the first comer as they used officials in charge of factories in order to ex- to be, and that its profits are much barder to pound the advantages of British-made ma come by. There was a time when the British chinery, or to native merchants in order to merchant had very few rivals in the field. point out the superiority of the article, which Now he has many, and some are of his own they are trying to sell, and to secure orders making His European competitors are yearly therefor."

NOTICE.

WE LANDALE, and

JE have authorized

Mr. DAVID Mr. WILLIAM ARTHUR CARRUTHERS CRUICK SHANK to sign our Firm and to Mr. HERBERT IRVING BELL and to Mr. CHARLES EDWARD ANTON we have given the signature per.procuration.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

NOTICETRAORDINARY

[OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an GENERAL

MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices, of the Company in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, on WEDNESDAY, the 15th of June, 1904, at 1 A.M., when the subjoined re- solution which was passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the firmation as a Special Resolution. 11st of May, 1904, will be submitted for con-

RESOLUTION,

That the Capital of the Company be in creased to Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars by the creation of Thirty Thousand New Shares of Ten Dollars each.

By Order,

A. H. MA CELL,

Secretary,

Hongkong, 3rd June, 1904

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A

THE Undersigned have received instructions

to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

Πο

SATURDAY,

the 18th June, 1971, at 2,30 P.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street,

A FINE COLLECTION

of

OLD AND RARE POSTAGE STAMPS, Including :-

TRIANGULAR CAPE, OLD CEYLON, MULREADY COVERS, HAWAII, OLD

1683

WANTED.

SMALL STORE IN CENTRAL OF

QUEEN'S ROAD.

Apply to-

Hongkong, 9th June, 1904,

NOTICE.

COKE AND TAR.

"B. C."

THE MYSTERY OF THE FLYING EAR.

"About eight years ago," said Mr. Laverack, as he pushed aside his plate from the well spread table, "I was at Ousefileet, Scotland, бve miles from home, for some shooting with a friend, with little idea that this day's sport was to bring me an adventure which it would take five years to see the end of.

"We were walking side by side across the stubble, looking for rabbits, when my com (708 panion, thinking he saw something move, fired into a sheaf of whea". At the same moment I felt a sudden shock over my right temple.

"I called out I am shot!'

**My friend turned at my shout. We could not see what bad injured me: yet'something had struck me; and on looking at my head we shot, had flown backward in some mysterious found that an ear of wheat, scattered by the

my forehead.

vexed with her for, as I thought, throwing good money after bad), and she persuaded me to take them.

"You see it isn't a faith-cure! I expected nothing. But before I had finished the first bottle the stinging and burning of the face had grown very much less, and as the pills, not being a purgative, but a strengthening remedy, are quite safe to use regularly, I went on with

I

R. DE LUCA,

Acting Commissioner.

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS.

THE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA are Trans-Pacific Service and until further notice, prepared, during suspension of their

to BOOK CARGO and ISSUE BILLS OF LADING to SEATTLE, WASH., VICTORIA, B.C., and PACIFIC COAST PORTS, alto to OVER- LAND POINTS in the UNITED STATES and CANADA in connection with the GREAT

OEHERN RAILWAY FROM SEAT 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, Manager.

Hongkong, 24th May, 1904.

THE

Insurance.

· WORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF. HAMBURG,

Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS A THE nderigned AGENTS of the above

Company are to accept, First

· Current RátES, PURANAD

SIEMSSEN & Co.

Hongkong, 18th May, 180C.

To Let

TO LET.

NO. 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, COX-

NAUGHT ROAD (dear BLAKE PIER), GODOWNS: PRAYA BASE. :- "ROSENEATH" KOWLOON. No. 1, CLIFTON GARDENS. Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO, LI Hongkong, 7th June, 1904.)

TO LET.

A HOUSE in KNUTSFORD RACE

嗯

Apply tomir

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

Hongkong, 15th April, 1004.

TO LET.

1354

NO SEW

O. 1, STEWART TERRACE,

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

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

[643 WI

ROBINSON

PIANO

Co., LTD.,

INVITE INSPECTION OF SOME.

them, taking a dose after every meal. I grew SPECIALLY

steadily better in my general health, my appetite and my spirits, as well as in the skin. But the most obvious effect was in the fast, and I am most willing' that the case should be published in the newspapers and made as widely known as possible, because I want to recommend Dr. medicine and tonic ever discovered. Day by Williams pink pills as the most valuable

THE HONGKONG AND CHINA GAS TCOMPANY beg to notify the public deeply in of day my blood grew purer. The sores healed, that Messrs. 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 Agenta direct,

GEORGE CURRY, Local Secretary,

Hongkong, 8th June, 1994.

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HONGKONG (includi R 96 Cents Vellow ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN.

Brown), MAFRKING RESJEGED, NEW

SOUTH WALES SYDNEY VIEWS,

VARIOUS ERRORS, &c, &c, &c

Catalogues will be issued.

TERMS:-As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 8th June, 1904.

Intimations.

Marshall and

Hvy'a

Satinette

(701

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,

LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

DOUBLY DISTILLED

AND OF

MATURED AGE.

In Cake of 375lbs, net $4.75 ex Factory, TO BE OBTAINED FROM—

In Bags of agaibs, net $2.85 ex Factory.

THE MUTUAL STORES,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.

Des Voeux Road. Hongkong, 11th May, 1904.

Hongkan, 15th August, 1903

'D

and new skin, clear and bealthy as the skin of grain and thought no more of the matter. But disappeared."

With my pocket knife I cut out the hard a child, formed on my face, and all my trouble

as the wound healed, a kind of scarf spread Of course, Mr. Laverack, whose intelligent from it all over my face. A little thing may features show no sign of his late trouble, puts lead to a deal of trouble; and this trouble went the whole matter in a nutshell when he says:

FINE

SAMPLES

OF

UPRIGHT PIANOS

RACHALS,

STUART,

&C.,

&c.,

&c.,

-AND

BABY-GRANDS,

BY

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TO LET. (FILD DELL, BUILDINGS, No. 147, WANCHAI ROAD, Comfortable ind Airy Flats of 2 or 3 Rooms, from 525 inclusive of Taxes.

And others to suit varings requirements.

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

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Hongkong, and May, 1904.

TO LET,

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION, FOR 18 MONTHL

"LIGHT OR THE PEAL.

Apply to-

JEBSEN & Co. Hoogkong, 17th April 1904.

ROYAL AERATED WATERS

MANUFACTORY.::

PRODUCE the highest Class AERATED

WATERS in the Far East on account of their High Class Machinary and also of the superior ingredients they use in the manufacture of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c., ars all under strict supervision of Europians only,

REPORT OF-AN-EXPERTAMA.

**** Tha representative of Messrs. BRATBY and HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED; Aurred Water Engineers and Chemists, Manchester, visited our factory recently in the course of a tour amongst Eastern Aérated 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 Aurated Waters was carried out. He also expressed him- self strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our whole, establishment, which he saldred li was equal to any, he had yet visited and superior to's great many. He also reported that the quality of our goods was of a first class nature, “ and they showed that scrupulous care was exercised in the course of their manufacture

Orat Books and Price List Plately to ACTORY and OFFICE, West Print TOP 6 Depillos Hausa Street:/ Tel. 374

JENBERG&LY: DANENE

THE HONGKONG STUDIO,

“I called out* I am shot!' My friend, turned”

WINKELMANN,

(Established 1837),

They are only 5 FEET LONG, occupy-

on for years, gradually getting worse and worse. ↑ "Day by day my blood grow purex.” . This is [608

It was only a year ago that I found the way out no doubt that the eczema and chronic erysipelas of it-thanks to a newspaper article about Dr. froth which he suffered for so long, and with Williams' pink pills, and bit for them I believe apparently so little hope, arose from blood I should be suffering still. At times, the pain pounding lar or by the accident of the flying All over my face was unbearable. The first ear of What, and the reason that the medicines. doctor who saw me attributed the discared state he tried did him no good was that ordinary ing the space of a Cottage, but with of the skin to eczema: but before long I found medicins does not go to the root of the disense,

HIGHER CLASS PHOTOGRAPHER,

---41 & 43, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, *TOP FLOOR.

DORTRAITS, GROUPS. and ENLAR GING and COPYING in all Sizes.

LARGE SELECTION OF VIEWS ALWAYE ON HAND,

PRICE VERY MODERATE. Hongkong, 13th September, 1003.

MEE CHEUNG,

PHOTOGRAPHER,

TOP FLOOR OF LEE HOUSE, IN-

Hongkong, 13th May, 1904.

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I was also suffering from, chronic erysipelas Dr. Willams pink pills have the property of the fine appearance and TONE OF A My face took on all sorts of colours." Some enriching and purifying blood. In fact, they times it was red as blood: once it became actually make 'new blood, and it is by this nearly black. Nothing that I could do or take means that they bave quickly cured many cases FULL GRAND. seemed to clear it, and I didn't care for anyone of skin disease, scrofufa, angemis, consumption, to see it, not evan my own relations. Pasand kidney ailment, gout, and the many other "Ner was this all. The skin always bored troublesome diseases which result from poor or and stong, and a change of the weather always impare blood, when ordinary mediclão bas affected it. After a touch of cold; pieces of skin been tried with no effect. The genuine pills as thick as a penny-piece would peel of my bear the full name, Dr. Williams' pink pills for face, until I couldn't bear anything to touch it. pale people, and may be safely bought (If you The very pillow of my bed hurt me, and I take care to see the whole seven words on the hardly knew what it was to have a decent wrapper) at medicine shops. Dr. Williams' night's rest. It seemed as if the disease would medicine company, Holborn-viadect, London, 11 spread all over me, and I dreaded to take off will send a bottle post free for two shillings and my clothes Work was as great a misery as ninepenes, or six for thirteen and nine. Rheu rest. 1.bad do taste for lood. I didn't care for matism is another disease of which impure exercise or business, tek

| blood in the real cause, though many people

NO TOILET REQUISITES: ARE COMPLETE WITHOUT THESE SOAPS.

PLANTOL FLORAL BOUQUET- SOAP, Guaranteed made from Frails and Flowers,

and to contain no animal fat. It is most smoothing and refreshing

fita delicate skins and

STAR LIGHT SOAP,

* H The escape was nearly as unforeseen si the suppose it to arise from cold or damp. Dr. accident: had begun to segard myself at dis- - William? pink pills core' more cases of theu- figured for life, when one day my wife brought mailam than anything else except anæmia and Pure and economical agreeable, highly pers home from the market town we live in High- the distresses which often amict ladies of all ́ ́fumad and a perisci fallet and pursery Soap. streat;/&winsfest,« near Goole); something ugns: For bile, indigestion, nervous headaches

now in a position, in his New and ComPP up in a piece of newspaper Brits and neuralgia they are marvellous, Mr.

5 modions: Premises, to sclipie

OGRAPHI in the Colony of in say

GROUPS

aretofore

ATPRACTICED of us yur Kart...

strange coincidence, an articla prísted in, that blogsph Henry Laverack, who told, the above scrap, of; the Goole -Newìpaper: happened to sinking and intelligent story, counts as one of describe how Dr. Williams prik pills for sale (the Hipplest chances of his life the coincidence people had cured very tevaka časti of, skin which had him to read the scrap of paper from disease. «k had taken so many didinant things;his wifek parceli föl, as he truly says, that was without the least offset that i had edits lost any an accidest not less remarkable than the one hope from medicine; but my we bought a led to sa much trouble-f}e Adventure [13. bottle of Dr. Williams' pink plits (though I was Piying Eúr of wheat,

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AND ALSO CEDAR GLYCERINE AND TAR SOAP, Now.on Show.

ONJEE

THE WINE GROWERS:SUPPLY CO..

THE

“HE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the WINE GROWERS. SUPPLY COMPANY- or PARIS, Kra`now prepared to answer inquiries and receive orders for all kinds of WINES and SPIRITS, at na and 24 Bank Buildings:

BARRETTO & CO Hongkong, 9th June, 190ži,