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Intimations..

A. S.. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

ISSUE OF 30,000 NEW SHARES OF SO EACH.

PURSUANT to Resolution the General Managers of A. B, WATSON & Company, Limited, hereby invite applications from the Shareholders of the Company for the issue of 30,000 new shares of $10 each at a Premium of ta per cent, or $1 share.

Each Registered Shareholder on the 28th day of Septentber, 104, npplying for the New issue will be entitled to one share for every two shareS registered in his name. Shares not applied for by those entitled to apply will be dealt with by the General Managers in accordance with Article 40 of the Company's Articles of Association.

Applications for Shares in the New Issue will be received by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong from the 28th September, 1904, to the 30th September, 1904, both days inclusive, and the whole amount 01 $11 per share will be payable on application. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSE), from the 28th September, 1904, to the 8th October, 1904, both days

inclusive.

The present paid-up Capital of the Company is $600,000, divided into, 60,000 shares of Sto each, and the New Issue is required to increase the Capital of the Company to $900,000 divided into go,con shares of Sto each.

The whole of the premium received from the New Issue will be placed to the Credit of the Permanent Reserve Fund,

The New issue will rank for Dividend for the

three months ending 31st December, 1904, pay.

able in May, 1995,

Forms of application for the New Issue can be obtained at the Company's Offices in-Alex-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1904.

Intimations,

THE GREAT NORTHERN, TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.

HONGKONG STATION. REFERRING to the Company's notice of 230d March, according to which the rate of collections for TELEGRAM CHARGES was fixed at DOLLARS 045 equal to FR. 1.ob for the quarter ending 30th June, Senders of Telegrams are hereby advised that the said rate will remain analtered, 'subject to revision after 3 months dating from 1st July.

OLAF NIELSEN,

Superintendent.

Hongkong, 22nd Jinë, 1904.

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THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY, LIMITED.

APPLICATION has bee of this in the GENERAL MANAGERS of this Company to issue to the RUSSO-CHINESE BANK of Hongkong duplicate certificates for Two Hundred Shares in the above Company or other certificates in lien thereof upon the State ment that the original certificates, viz:— Scrip No. 69 Nos. 17,826/17,850-25 shares in

Dame of George Hutton Potts.

the

THE "TACOMA'S" QUEST.

THE SEARCH FOR A LOST ISLAND

IN THE PACIFIC.

Mention was recently made in The Shanghai Times of the despatch of the new United States cruiser Tacoma, to cruise between San Francisco and Honolulu, and the former port and Tahiti, in search of a mysterious island nd certain rocks which have from time to time been reported but which are at present un- charted. The lost island sunken rocks are said to be situated in the path of merchant vessels and to constitute a serious menace to shipping. The island and rocks are from time to time

the principal topic of conversation among mariners of the Pacific Coast ports and to shem are attributed some of the unexplainable disappearances of sailing vessels and other craft which every year find their way into the list of maritime disasters.

"

There is in Shanghai to-day, an ex-officer of one of the great steamships which plough the Pacific and he had much of interest to say to a Times' man on the subject of the Tacoma's

mission.

The individual in question stated that as far back as 1850, the back Du Mont de Ville, while Scrip No. 379 Nos. 36, 38 /36,429-50 shares in on a voyage from San Francisco to Tahiti dis-

the name of Catchick

covered a low-lying island which does not Paul Chater.

Scrip No. 380 Nos. 36,43/36,479-50 shares in seein to have been seen since. A few years

the name of Catchick Paul Chater.

ago, Captain Rennie, while taking the 5.8. Mariposa from Tahiti to San Francisco, sighted

Scrip No. 550 Nos. 44.759/44,783-25 shares in a shoal which was not on the charts and from

the name of Gege Hulton Potts,

the presence of birds about the vessel he thought that there was an island in the im- (Nos. 5.151/5,475-50 shares in mediate vicinity.

andra Buildings or at the Hongkong and Scrip No, 873 3,326/3,350 Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong, Shanghai, and London."

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers.

Hongkong, 22nd June, 1934.

WANT

DOCTOR.

the came of Solomon --Sassoon Benjamin,

200 Shares

[754 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 such original certificates is made to the General Managers they will then proceed to deal with such application for duplicates.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 10. June, 1994.

JANTED IMMEDIATELY for EMI- GRATION STEAMER. Must be a British subject.

Apply--

*T. C. E..D.,"

Cho Hongkong Telegraph Office. Hongkong, 15th June, 1904.

A

WANTED.

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SMALL STORE IN CENTRAL OF

QUEEN'S ROAD,

Apply to

"B. C."

1708

Hongkong, 9th June, 1904. –

THE STEAM LAUNDRY COMPANY, LIMITED.

PATRONS of the STEAM LAUNDRY

are informed that several instances have recently come to the notice of the management when Private Servants have MALICIOUSLY DAMAGED and DIRTIED their Masters' Clothes with the idea of injuring the Laundry Company. To prevent this, ALL COLLECTED CLOTHES are now returned in Sealed Baskets, and Customers are requested to examine their Clothes directly after the Scat is broken.

F. G. ALLEN, Manager.

Hongkong, 20th June, 1904.

ROYAL AERATED WATERS MANUFACTORY.

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PRATERS in the Far East on account of

RODUCE the highest Class AERATED

their High Class Machinery and also of the superior ingredients they use 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 nad HINCH LIFFE, LIMITED, Aerared Water Engineers and Chemists, Manchester, visited our factory recently in the course of a tour amongst Eastern Aerated Water Makers, and was greatly surprised at the compactness of our factory and also the methodical way in which

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS,

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HE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA are THE

prepared, during suspension of their Trans-Pacific Service and until further notice, to BOOK CARGO and ISSUE BILLS OF LADING 10 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 5. 5. 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, 20th May, 1904.

THE

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ROBINSON

PIANO

Co., LTD.,

INVITE INSPECTION OF SOME

everything pertaining to the making of Aerated SPECIALLY

Waters wascarried out. He also expressed him- self strongly on the absolute 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 was exercised in the course of their manufacture.

Order Books and Price List. Please apply to FACTORY and OFFICE, West Point. Tel. 367. Depôt, Ice House Street. Tel. 374.

Dr. V. DANENBERG & F. P. DANENBERG, General Managers.

Hongkong, zoth May, 1904-

NOTICE.

COKE AND TAR,

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HE HONGKONG AND CHINA GAS

COMPANY beg to notify the public that Messrs. KUNG HING & Co., 474, Des Vieux Road West, are the SOLE AGENTS for the Sale of the Company's GOXE and TAR and that all Orders should be sent to the said Agents direct.

· GEORGE CURRY, Local Secretary.

Hongkong, 8th June, 1994. |

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ESPECIAL OLD TOM ́GIN.

Marshall and

Elvy's

Satinette

DOUBLY DISTILLED.

AND OF

MATURED AGE.

FINE

He further stated that when he was master of a wind jammer his chart had a notation to the effect that "a cluster of five islands here-

abouts" was to be watched for. The chart gave them somewhere between 16 and 17 South Latitude and from 130 to 132 West Longitude.

"There is a group of sunken islands between Honolulu and San Francisco continued the ex-" "officer," which it would be well worth the Unit- ed States Government's time and money to lo- cate. I am firmly of the opinion that in the winter gales many vessels which have mysteriously dis- apppeared have run upon these sunken peaks and gone to the bottom. A United States sloop. of-war left Honolulu for Panama in the early '50's and was never heard of again. "But one piece of wreckage was ever found to indicate what be came of the warship and I believe that she ran foul of this group of sunken rocks with every- thing lashed and went to the bottom like a stone with everybody and everything on board. About six months ago a sailing vessel, I think it was the Helen Brewer, left San Francisco for the Hawaiian Islands and has not been heard of since:"

There has from time to time been consider- able space devoted to the subject in the San Francisco papers and one of the rock is said to be three fathoms from the surface and the next peak five fathoms. They are difficult to locate for the water does not always break over them. One of the rocks is known as Redit's Rock, and was named after a vessel which discovered it and which flew the Tahitian dag. It 1650 the Hawaiian schooner Hana bound from San

Francisco to Papecte located the sunken rock and hove to and sent out a boat. The distance to the highest peak was ascertained to be about five fathoms.

One of the crew of the boat who was recent ty interviewed said that the presence of breakers made the submerged rock known to those aboard the Hana. The rock, be stated, was in Longitude 13 and Latitude 377 20, or nearly in the latitude of the Farallone Islands.

SHIPPING TRUST LOSING £1,000,000 A YEAR

It is reported, on good authority, in shipping circles in New York that Mr. Ismay, the new head of the Shipping Trust, has raised a small empest among a group of stockholders in the Trust by reiterating his determination that the combine shall pay no dividends for some time

to come.

Intimations.

·To Let.

TO LET.

Possession from 1st July, Apply to-

ROZARIO & Co., No. 47, Wyndham Street.-

[752 flongkong, 22nd June, 1904.

TO LET..

OF THE MULTITUDES who have used it, or are now using it, we have naver heard of any one who have been din. No. 5, UFFER MOSQUE TERRACE appointed in it. No claims are made for it. except those which are amply justified by ex- perience. In commending it to the afflicted we simply point to its record. It has done great things, and it is certain to continue the excel- The dissenting stockholders are those who lent work. There is-we may honestly affirm had interests in the companies that were inak.no medicine which can be used with greater and more reasonable faith and confidence. It ing large profits before the Trust was formed,

nourishes and keeps up the strength during but are now receiving nothing.

those periods when the appetite fails and food cannot be digested. To guard against imita- tions and substitutions, our "trade mark" is put on every bottle of "Wampole's Prepara- tion," and without it none is genuine. It is

A case in point is the Leyland 'Line, which before it became part of the Trust, earned in 1900 as net profit £269,500. It is believed that he British stockholders, who exchanged their shares in the British line that entered the Trust for Trust stock are losing about 1,000,000 year on account of the inability of the Trust to do more than make both ends meet.

Mr. Ismay is not to be deterred from carrying holders and there is very little doubt that, until out his policy by the grumblings of the stock shipping business is on a much better paying basis than it is at present, he will use any small profits the Trust may earn for improving the service rather than for paying dividends.

NEGRO SUPERSTITIONS.

The negroes of the British West Indies have many curious superstitions. They believe it is unlucky to praise a baby, or to say that it is like its father or its mother. If you say to a jamaica negress, "What a beautiful child"

you are apt to incur her bitter enmity.

To give the baby good luck, they mark it on the forehead with a cross in washing blue, or tig a blue ribbon on its arm. They will never, on any account, measure or weigh a baby, for. that means the worst of bad luck,

If a cock crows at the door, a gentleman is going to visit the house; if a hen-crows, some members of the family will die. If you carry a tree pepper in your packet, you will become poor. If you give a thing away and take it back again, you will have a sty. If you roll your eyes when the moon changes, they will stay crooked. If you kill a spider you will soon break a plate.

palatable as honey and contains the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver, Oil, extracted by as from fresh cod livers. com. bined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophos- phites, and the Extracts of Malt and Wild

appetite, aids digestion, renews vital power, Cherry. Taken before meals it creates an drives out disease gorms, takes the blood rich, red and full of constructive elements, and gives back to the pleasures and labours of the world many who had abandoned hope. Dr. S. H. McCoy of Canada, saya; "I testify with pleasure to its unlimited usefulness as a tissue builder." Its curative powers can always be

is beneficial from the first drşe în i represents effective medical treatment of the twentieth century. "You can (rust it as the, Ivy does the Oak." One bottle convinces. Watch carefully against imitations. At all chemists here and throughout the world.

TWO ROOMS on the First Floor, of

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. ..Apply to-

SECRETARY,'

A. S. Watson & Co., Limited. Hongkong, 16th June, 1904.

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TO LET

No. 4. RIPON TERRACE.

O. 1, RIPON TERRACE in FATS

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 LAKE PIER), GODOWNS: 'PRAVA EAST.

No. 1, CLIFTON GARDENS, Apply to--

THE HONGKONG I AND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., L.D. Hongkang, 21st June, 1904

1747

TO LET.

I, STEWART TERRACE,

relied upon. It makes a new era in medicineN THE STAR.

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THE CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,

LIMITED.

HONGKONG EXCHANGE.

If a lizard jumps into a tub in which clothesSUBSCRIPTION S. are being washed, the washerwoman must not touch them for four hours or they will tear in her hands. If a John Crow (turkey buzzard) flies into the house, some terrible misfortune will happen. When the birds nest in your house a wedding may be expected.

Whenever a negro hurts a black dog he always begs its pardon, because the spirits of black dogs nie supposed to go into men's bodies after death and cause them to walk the earth in the shape of a black dog. When a West Indian negro cuts bis hair he always buries the severed hairs. He argues that they are part of body, and therefore as much entitled to a grave as the rest of him will be.

One of the most useful Institutions of this country promises to be The Diabetic

London, established Institute of

for scientific research into the origin, cause and treatment of Diabetes and the secondary symptoms: gout, rheumatism, carbuncles, etc. Hardly any disease is so little under- stood, and at the same time so insidious and dangerous as Diabetes, which, according to the highest modern authorities, is curable after all, when treated in time. If interested, write to the Diabetic Institute, St. Dunstan's

This rock or group of rocks is estimated as being between eight and nine hundred miles west of San Francisco. For many years a not-Hill, London, E.C., for free information, (728 ation appeared on the charts with the word doubtful" attached. Nowadays no-reference

is made to it upon the charts.

There are other islands in the small, general salling-vessel track which have been lost, Cop- per and Henderson Islands are the names of them. A search was once made for Hender- soo Island as it was supposed to be a guano Island. It was not located however.

Another lost Island is De Greaves' Island. Captain De Greaves, once a sea-captain and later the attendant at the Honolulu morgue,

SAMPLES claimed to have located an island with guano

OF

UPRIGHT PIANOS

RACHALS.

STUART,

&c.,

&c.,

AND

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.

(608 |--Hopgkong, 13th May, 1904.

TO BE OBTAINED FROM-

THE MUTUAL STORES,

Der Vieux Road. Hongkong, 11th May, 1904.

desposits many years ago. Captain Lawless of

ΤΗ

Auction.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instruc

tions to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

by Order of the Supreme Court of Hongkong (Original Jurisdiction), TO-MORROW,

lies in Causeway Bay, The Steam Launch

the s.s. Australia when the vessel was on the the 24th June, 1914, at NOON, where she now Tahiti run, also sighted an island which was uncharted and which was urobably the one discovered by De Greaves. The United States Government at once sent an expedition to the bearings indicated by Capt. Lawless, but the search proved futile,

NEW STAMPS.

"KHONG LO,

Length 60 feet, Breadth 13 feet 2 in., Depth 7 feet 5 in., Gross Tonnage $1.12. Net Tonnage 31.28.

A Steam Launch will leave Blake Pier at 11.30 A M. on day of Sale lo convey intending,

TERMS: The Launch to be at purchaser's risk on fall of the Hammer.

The Louisiana Purchase commemorative series of stamps has been issue). Three hun purchasers. dred and fifty thousand were received, in 1, 2, 3, 5 and 10-cent stamps. The -cent stamps are green and have engraved on them the portrait of Robert R. Livingston, minister to France, who conducted the negotiations for the Louisiana purchase.

The 2-cent stamps are red and have on their face the portrait of Thomas Jefferson, president of the United States at the time of the purchase. On the face of the purple 3-cent stamp is the picture of James Monroe, special ambassa- dor to France, who assisted Mr. Livingston in the negotiations

The blue 5-cent stamps bear the picture of the murdered president, William McKinley, who approved the acts of congress in connec- tion with the commemorative exposition.

The to-cent stamps are brown, and on them is a map of the United States, showing the extent of the purchase:

LEARN SHORTHAND AT HOME by correspondence. to weekly lessons will make you perfect.

OBTAIN HIGHER SALARY.

Shorthand is nowadays indispensible to

•

The purchase money to be paid in full to the undersigned on day of sale.

HUGHES & HOUGH;'

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 23rd June, 1904.

Insurance.

PAYABLE QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE.

EXCHANGE LINES: $25 Per Quarter,

NO CHARGE FOR INITIAL

INSTALLATION.

V.B.-A Special Charge is made for Lines

of more than average length.

DESK TELEPHONES

For a small additional annual charge Desk

Sets can be supplied.

ELECTRIC SUPPLIES.

BATTERIES,

CHEMICALS,

ELECTRIC HELLS,

INSULATORS,

SWITCHES

TELEPHONES,

&C.,

&C

&C.

SEND FOR PRICE LISTS,

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NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,

THE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept First Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at CURRENT RATES.

SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong, 28th May, 1805.

(sa

FOUND.

AT ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, on the

everybody: Utilize spare time. Very A evening of the 15th olt, an OVERCOAT.

moderate fee. We procure positions. Owner can have same on application to--- Write for free booklet.

THE DIRECTOR,

CENTRAL CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGE,

WIRE,

ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS.

Estimates given for all kinds of Electrical

Work.

ADDRESS:, Ice House ROAD.

W. STUART. HARRISON,

AMICE,

215, Temple Chambers,

St. Joseph's College, Robinson Road.

Manager.

-[39737]

- Temple Avenue, London, EQ.

Hongkong, 8th June, 1998.

---Hongkong; 12th April, 1994.

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.

[436 Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.

"

TO LET.

ROOMS and a BATH-ROOM, in a

Apply to-

Hongkong, 16th June, 1904.

Thouse facing the Sea, at Kowloon.

"L

"X. Y. Z.," Clo Hongkong Telegraph.

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TO LET.

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.

FOR 18 MONTHS.

EIGHTOR," THE, PEAK.

Apply to-

JEDSEN & Co.

Hongkong, 27th April, 1994.‹ ›

TO LET..

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DELL BUILDINGS, No. 147,

WWANCHAI ROAD: Comfortable and

Airy Flats of 2 or 3 Rooms, from $25 inclusive ol Taxes.

And others to suit various requirements. ↑

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

[49 Hongkong, and May, 1904. -

TO LET.

LARGE HOUSE. SIX SPACIOUS ROOMS and many others. No. 35, Caine Road.

Apply to-

YEW KEE BANK,

133, Queen's Road. Longkong, 18th June, 1904.

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THE WINE GROWERS-SUPPLY CO.

THE

HE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the WINE GROWERS SUPPLY COMPANY OF PARIS, are now prepared to answer inquiries and receive orders for all kinds of WINES and SPIRITS, at 23 and 24, Bank Buildings.

BARRETTO & CO.

.[703 Hongkong, 9th Junė, 1901.

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