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HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS,

A

PROMENADE CONCERT

will be held at

Volunteer HEADQUARTERS,

OB

FRIDAY, September and, at 9 P.M.

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$2 and $1

Tickets May be obtained from Messrs. Kally & Walsh or Volunteer Headquarters.

Tickets already purchased for August 17th hold good for this date. -

Hongkong, 19th August, 1904,

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1904.

Intimations.

DIOCESAN SCHOOL AND ORPHANAGE.

Sc

'CHOOL DUTIES will be resumed TO.

MORROW, 1st September. Hongkong, 31st August, 1904.

WHAT IS THE SEA SERPUNZI.

A PROFESSORY VIEWS.

THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHIPS

There appears to be no limit, remarks a writer in Page's Magazine, "in the building of ships of colossal dimensions. At the end of the nineteenth century, the number of mer

Intimations.

HONGKONG FROZEN, FOOD SUPPLY DEPOT

3. ICE HOUSE STREET.

Intimations,

VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB..

TH

Prof. Charles L. Edwards of Trinity College told the Hartford Scientic Society recently a [982 tot about the sea serpent, and had shown on a

screen pictures of the monsters calculated to half a dozen, but since then huge steamers chant vessels of 10,000 tons and over was under scare an innocent youngster out of a year's have multiplied to a great extent, and at present been PURCHASED by the DAIRY FARM CO. | Austin Road, Kowloon. Spons commence es

THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN CO., LD

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

(9835 per cent. (Two Dollars and a Half per

THE Undersigned bas received instructions

to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

ON

SATURDAY,

the 3rd Sept., 1914, commencing at 2.30 P.M., at his

SALES ROOMS, DUDDELL STREET, A FINE COLLECTION

of

JAPANESE CURIOS,

Comprising:-

HANDSOME SATSUMA WARE

(BOWLS, VASES, INCENSE BURNERS, &c.), VERY FINE SILVER CLOISONNES, FINE KUTANI TEASETS, DAMASCENE CIGARETTE CASES, CUT VELVET PIC TURES and WALL HANGINGS, SILK EMBROIDERED SCREENS, BED COVERS, HANGINGS and D'OYLIES, and a variety of other Curios.

TERMS:-Ar Customary. Catalogues will be issued.

A N INTERIM DIVIDEND at the rate of Share) for the Six Months ending 30th June, 1904, will be paid on application to those Persons who aro Registered as Shareholders in the above Company on the 31st August, 1904, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th to 31st August, both days inclusive.

EDWARD OSBORNE,

Secretary, Hongkong, 15th August, 1904. .

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

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they are not far short of one hundred More than half belong to this country, and are em played in trade with the United States, Ger- many already possesses twenty-six steamers of orer 10,000 tons each, and is preparing to build more. Ere long, Germany may aim at the construction of vessels that will rival the “Baltic” in dimensions, and the new Cobar, ders in speed. Such vessels do, however, put

growth. Unfortunately, none of the pictures was an actual photograph, but the lecturer seemed to tend to the belief that there was something doing in the monster line, and Rev. James Goodwin, the President of the Society, said at the close of the lecture that he for one believed more in the thing than ho had before, As to how great that previous belief had been he did not say. Prof. Edwards, in the first part great strain apos the resources of the ports of his lecture, had thrown on the screen pictures of the United Kingdom and other nations. The of sea monsters as represented in years past, creation of great ships has been quicker than He explained in his talk that, while he spoke the arrangements for their reception and berth. of "sea serpents," the so-called and oft-repeating. The Clyde Trustees have been foremost ed sea serpent could not be a big snake, but in designing docks to meet the wants of the some other kind of a monster (if it was any largest of steamers, and in obtaining the sanc thing);

As far back as Joh mention is tion of Parliament for widening and deepening ISSUE OF 30,000 NEW SHARES OF $10 EACH. made of a great leviathan, and accounts of some the navigable channel by which these docks are PURSUANT to Resolution the General great things are found in all early histories: same. How far these big ships are Justine by

of A, 8, WATSON & Company,One myth seems to have come from a sperm Limited, hereby invite applications from the whale and another from the aquid. Even the the condition of the ocean-carrying trade is Shareholders of the Company for the issue of Indians had a belief in a monster serpent, and doubtful. If they can obtain an ample supply 30,000 new shares of Sto each at a Premium of thought one lived in the great lakes and broke of cargoes, their size has decided advantages, up the ice in the winter when it became irritated as their working expenses compared with Prof. Edwards gave a long list of dates when smaller vessels are proportionally less. But the great sea serpent has been reported and such cargoes are not always obtainable and the related some of the circumstances. They ports which can take in these monsters are few. stretch from 1639 down into 1904. A bishop, Commodore Preble. crews of British warships, and many other persons have made the reports. A noted appearance was at Gloucester and Nahant. Mass., 1817, when hundreds of reput able citizens saw something and testified to it.] It is estimated that from six hundred to saven hundred persons saw it, and people even fol- lowed along the beach in crowds, keeping up with it as it swam along off the shore. Prof, Edwards said there was no doubt that some- thing was seen at that time.

to per cent, or $it a share.

Each Registered Sharehider on the 28th day of September. 1904, applying 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 Hanglong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong from the 28th September, 1904, to the 30th September, 1904, both days inclusive, and the whole amount [978 of Sit per share will be payable on application,

. On view from FRIDAY, the and September.

GEO, P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 27th August, 1904.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of

the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 5th day of September, 1904, at 3 F., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, at Tsat Tax Mui, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KIND, for one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

| Na, of Sale

Registry No.

Locality.

Boundary

Measurement6.

H. 4

E

4. It

B

Hongkong, 27th August, 1904.

Contents in

Square feet.

*Annual Kent.

Upset Frice.

1

67,679 14 3,393

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th September, 1904, to the 8th October, 1904, both days inclusive.

The present paid-up Capital of the Company is $603,000, divided into 60,000 shares of $10

each and the New Issue is required to increase the Capital of the Company to $900,000 divided into 90,000 bares of to 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, 1905.

Forms of application for the New Issue can be ob'ained at the Company's Offices in Alex; andra Buildings or at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong: Shanghai, and London.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, 22nd June, 1904,

WANTED.

It is always described as black or brownish, with eyes in the upper part of the head, swim- ming at a speed of five or six koots, carrying its head out of water, generally with mane, and proceeding with a humping motion like a caterpillar. A curious appearance was one reported in 1898-1899 in a Swedish lake, where, it was declared, a huge animal had been seen a number of times and had been watched through glasses for long periods. Finally, a newspaper sent an eminent naturalist to in- vestigate and he reported as bis conclusion that several monsters from six to four feet long had certainly been seen in the lake.

Prof. Edwards said that probably in all the [754 many cases reported something had been seen, for it is impossible to believe that all these people were liars. The universal declaration that the thing proceeded with an undulating motion does away with the theory of its being

SITUATION as GENERAL ASSIST.

AANT in a Mercantile Firm. Advertiser has knowledge of BOOK-KEEPING and TYPE 975 WRITING. First-class testimonials.

Apply to-

PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of

the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 5th day of September, 1904, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of das Lot of CROWN LAND at Austin Road, Kowloor, in the Colony of Hong kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing From 14th day of March, 1904, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 yesi,

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Registry No.

Kowlooo, Faland

| Na, of Sale.

LOCALITY.

Road, Kwina

Boundary Magstraments,

W

L th. ft. ft.

Square feet.

Annual Rent

**Upset Price.

"W"

Cjo Hongkong Telegraph. Stantony 6th August, 1904.

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WANTED..

SECRETARY FOR THE SINGAPORE

A CLUB. Applicants should send in, as soon as possible, particulars of their previous employment with copies of Testimonials to the Chairman of the Committee, Mr. E. C. ELLIS, to, Collyer Quay, Singapore, from whom all particulars can be obtained.

17th August, 1904.

THE

-A. G. HILLS,

Secretary.

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NOTICE TO SHIPPERS..

actually a big snake. He showed that the stories might arise from the appearance of a manates, a big stingray, a gigantic squid (one was caught with arms and body 100 feet long] a basking shark, whales or school of porpoises. A few years ago what was called the Florida monster was found near St. Augustine, with arms nearly 100 feet long. The basking shark grows to forty feet long certainly. There'is no known limited to the growth of fishes.

SHALL WE EVER VISIT THE MOONI

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justified

PROPOSED] FEDERAL CAPITAL

OF AUSTRALIA.

NOTICE is hereby given the tre above

Company with all existing Contracts bas LTD., who will conduct it on their own account due to the HONGKONG FROZEN FOOD on and after 1st September next. Accounts SUPPLY DEPOT will be collected by the DAIRY FARM CO., LTD. Accounts against the HONGKONG FROZEN FOOD SUPPLY the present management as soon as possible. DEPOT to 31st August should be rendered to

LAU KUE TONG, Manager.

Hongkong, 39th August, 1904.

EXCURSION TO MACAO,

THE Splendid Steamer

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AQUATIC SPORTS, 1904.

THE ANNUAL AQUATIC SPORTS will-

be held on the 5th, 6th, 7th and 17th September, in the CLUB ENCLOSIN 5th and 6th at 4.30 PM, and or 7th and 17th at 4 PM. sharp, og de

Admission for Gentlemen, non-members, 50 cents each day. Soldiers and Sallors lu uniform, bet prision-may be obtained at the Gate, or from the Undersigned, c/o Mesr

Tickets for Gibb, Livingston & Co.

The Secretary's Launch will leave Blake. Fit on MONDAY and TUESDAY, the eth and h at 3.45 P.M. sharp, and on WEDNES- DAY SATURDAY, the 7th and 17th at 4 P34 sharp, to convey Spectators and Com- petitoks.

HAROLD C. AUSTEN, Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 29th August, 1904.

VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB,

AQUATIC SPORTS, 1904.

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"YING KING," Captain Page, will make an EXCURSION leaving the Company's wharf at the end of TRIP TO MACAO, on EVERY SUNDAY, Wing Lok Street, at 5.30 AM., and returding THE COMMITTEE of the VICTORIA

Macae at 7.30 PM. The Steamer will lay alongside the S.5. Perseverance's what at Macao.

**

FARE:

1st Class Single Ticket $2,00, with Cabin $3.00

Return

11 $3.00, H $5.00 Tiffin and Dinner may be had on Board at $1 each meal.

YUK ON & Co., LD. Hongkong, 8th August, 1904.

FRESH ARRIVALS.

RECREATION CLUB request. the pleasure of the Company of the LADIES OF HONGKONG at the CLUB ENCLOSURE, Austin Road, Kowloon on WEDNESDAY, 7th, and SATURDAY, 17th September, at 4.P.M. sharp, on the occasion of the Annual Aquatic Sports.

By kind permission of Lieut-Col. C. N.. Watts and Officers, the Band of the 1st Bat. Sherwood Foresters will play selections during the afternoon.

HAROLD C. AUSTEN, Hon. Secretary,

Hongkong, 29th August, 1904,

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BY GIVING A VERY LARGE ORDER,

WE HAVE SECURED THE

CO-OPERATION

The Melbourne correspondent of Page's IMPORTANT NOTICE. Magazine sums up the engineering outlook in Australia. The biggest national scheme on the tapis referred to is the building of the Federal Capital of 'Aqutralja. No reliable estimate of the amount involved in creating a beautiful city in the bush of Australia has been produced, though Senator Styles, no mean authority, talks in millions when he is criticis- ing the public buildings proposed for the capital' alone. This much, however, the merchant and manufacturer having business with Australia should know: the tendency in the National Parliament is to select the site at once and push on with the erection of necessary buildings without delay. Australian legislators want a'] 66 worthy home of their own. Provided there be decent wool and grain harvests in 1904-5, and no sudden drought sets Australia back on its haunches once more, these gentlemen will get their way, and hundreds of thousands of pounds will find their way to London, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, and Belfast, for the myriad esser tials of city life which even the nimble-witted Australian cannot monufacture for himself.

COMMERCIAL.

TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.

Selling. London-Back T.T. .................................

Do, demand. France-Bank T.T........

Do, 4 months' sight America-Bank T.T. Germany-Pank T.T... India T.T. .....................

Do. demand Shanghai-Bank T.T. ................. Japan-Bank T.T....... Singapore-Bank T.T.,

Jara Bank TT.

Buying

4 mosthe sight L/C.. 6 months' sight L/C..

.1/9 9/16

1/9 13/16

2,26

1.831

[34]

134

.....Nominal .....108].

1/9 15/16 ...................1/10 3/16 30 days' sight San Francisco & New York.,444

45 4 months' right 30 days' sight Sydney and Melbourne 1/10 3/16 months' sight Francs ......................30 months sight

11

do.

4 months sight Germany........... 1.88 Bar Silver ........................

*****26 316 Bank of England rate

..3%

OF THE MAKERS OF THE

"APOLLO

MASTER PLAYERS"

IN LOWERING THEIR PRICES, AND

WE NOW OFFER THEM FROM

$365 TO $850.

NEW

CONSIGNMENT

JUST ARRIVED

PER S.S. "EMPRESS OF CHINA"

WE WILL SUPPLY AN UPRIGHT

IRON GRAND AND A PIANO PLAYER FOR $825,

CREDIT TERMS.

DASH OR!

These Players have been tested in Hongkong for 5 years (at Faak included) withont a

OPIUM QUOTATIONS. To-day's quovations ère as follows !~~

Per chost Malwa New...

@ 1,000 1,070 .@ 1,130/1,200

@1,230/1,300 Single Failure, which can be said of no other ..1,300/1.350

In any age but the present this question, if seriously asked, would have been answered by: a chorus number of jeers, says a writer in a recent number of Munsey's Magazine. So far, beyond the pale of possibilities has the visiting of other worlds always appeared that writers of HE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA are

fiction bave felt free to treat the idea sportively; prepared, during suspension of their

describing thrilling journeys through space in Trans-Pacific Service and until further notice, to BOOK CARGO and ISSUE BILLS OF LADING impossible vehicles, while their readers bave to SEATTLE, WASH., VICTORIA, B.C., and no more been misled than by a tale of Aladdin's PACIFIC COAST PORTS, also to OVER- lamp. Nevertheless, the thought of exploring LAND POINTS in the UNITED STATES distant planets, pausing en route to view the and CANADA in connection with the GREAT further side of the moon, so tantalisingly turned-Patna New....... NORTHERN RAILWAY FROM SEAT- from us, is one that fires the human imagina,Benares New [974 TLE, as hitherto, by the Steamers of the tion most profoundly. It is a dream to awake Persian (Paper)

NORTHERN PACIFIC S. S. Co., BOSTON he enthusiasm of children and the keen inter- STEAMSHIP and TOWBOAT Cos,, OCEAN❘est of sober maturity. Moreover, it is not, like S. S. Co. and CHINA MUTUAL S. N. Co.

For further Particulars, apply at the Com- pany's Local Branch Office in PRINCE's NE ICE-MAKING MACHINE with BUILDINGS, First Floor, Chater Road.

100

Hongkong, 27th August, 1904.

15,943 136 6,100

For Sale.

FOR SALE,

GAS ENGINE complete.

For full Particulars, apply to

HUGHES & HOUGH,

-B, Des Voeux Road.

Hongkong, 27th June, 1904,

FOR SALE

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perpetual motion squaring the circle, a fogical impossibility. The worst that can be said in

#

Olds. Older ..... Oldest

..@ 1,180

..@ 1,140 ....(à 860/930

Intimations.

that it now looks as difficult to us as the cross GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,

ing of the areat Atlantic must once have ap peared to the naked savage upon its shore,

A. S. MIHARA, Manager.

with no craft but a fallenftree, and no paddle

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Hongkong, zoth May, 1904.

ROYAL AERATED WATERS

·MANUFACTORY.

RODUCE the highest Class AERATED NCANDES in the Far East on acceant of SCENT, their High Class Machinery and also of the Gasoline, superior ingredients theyuse in the manufacture Lamps of dil of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c, are all descriptions under strict supervision of Europeans only. .from the best

makers.

REPORTO AN EXPERT.

The representati Mears, BRATBY and candescent HINCHLIFFEN DATED, Acrared Water Maples, Engineers and Cats, Manchester, vizited Chimneys, our factory recents the course of a tour Alobes Bus amongst Eastern Aerated Water Mrkers, and des, dec., for was greatly surprised at the compacincts of our Gasoline and factory and also the methodical way which Gas Lamps everything pertaining to the making of Aerated at the most Waters was carried ont. He also expressed him moderate self strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our prices

whole establishment, which be assured us was equal to any he had yet visited and superior Lamps fixed to a great many. He also reported that the up for Buyers quality of our goods was of a first class nature; free of charge and they showed that scrupulous care was

exercised in the course of their manufacturé. Naphtha of she best kind FACTORY and OFFICE, West Point, Tel. 367. Order Books and Price List. Please apply to kept in stock Depot, Ice House Streat, Tel: 374-

TALIW03 0

56, Lyndhurst Hoppkong, 17th November, 1905.

but his empty hands. This impossibility of li

LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

the savage became the triumph of Columbus In Casks of 375 s.net per Cask ex Factory: and the daydream of the nineteenth century In Baga of ago tha. net 88 per Bag ex Factory. may become the achievement even of the twentieth. And there is no doubt in the mind of the present writer that before many generations pass scientists will begin to treat the question of sky travel as a problem worthy

4

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co, General Manageri.

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Hongkong, let August, 1904. --

of careful and sympathetic investigation. The BSPECIAL OLD TOM GIN. query may, now arise-? What is the moon good for even if man succeeds in reaching it? Marshall and We know it to be a barren, rocky world, withs

out air or moisture, unspeakably cold at night, and below the freezing point even at poor, However, men could abide there for a time in thick-walled houses, and could walk out of doors in air-tight divers sults... Scientista would find in the lunar wastes fresh field for exploration. Tourists of the wealthy and ad venturous class would not fail to visit the satelį. lite, and 'costly botels must be malotained for their accommodation. History is not always particular to follow the precise path laid out for it by the prophets, yet in the long run never fails to achieve larger things that the 1907 dared to predict. Is it too much to suppose

Hvy's

Satinette

DOUBLY DISTILLED "AND OT MATURED AGE,

that, after visiting the Queen of Night of TO BE OBTAINED FROM

only near neighbour, pioneers will try the long

Dr, V, DANENBERG & F.P. DANENRERG, | voyage to Venus, Mare, and other planets of

General Managers.

Hongkong, zoth May, 1904-

THE MUTUAL STORES, Das Visux Road.

our system, finding some of them even more in [5771eresting than the moon?

Hongkong, rith May, 1904

Player.

THE

ROBINSON PIANO

Co., Ltd.

Hongkong, 3rd August, 1904.

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THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.

TRADE THERAPYN MARK.

This micconcial and highly popular remedy, used in the Costinestal Hospitals by Ricord, Rosban, Jobart, Vilpass and others, combines all the dosidomain to be sought "" medicios of the kind, sad surpasses everything hitbarta employed.

THERAPION N 1245

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NEW SEASON'S Selected GINGER AND FRUITS of Standard Quality.

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Packed in RICH SYRUP AND BEST SUGAR STEM GINGER FOR TABLE D'HOTE Specially recommended. Delicious and Wholesome. Fixed prices for different assortments. Orders will be promptly executed. Hongkong Office at No. 3, Sal On Lane, facing Des Voeux Road, West, near Gas Works.

Hongkong, 19th August, 1904,

Masonic.

ZETLAND

A

No. $95, EC.

1954

LODGE,

REGULAR MEETING of ZETLAND LODGE will be held at the FREE the 1st September, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. 'MASONS' HALL, Zetland Street, TOMORROW, Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend.

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Hongkong, 31st August, 1904.

THE WINE GROWERS. SUPPLY CO.

BARRETTO & Co.,

General Agents, Hongkong.

HOCKS AND MOSELLES.

Per Case. Per Case. I dor, qta a dos, pis

Rudesheimer 1900........ $12.00 Leniger 1900.pederackierte 18.00 Rudesheimer Engerweg)

1897 Johannisberger 1897 " Zeltingerburg 1900

St. George Kereye

$19.00

20,00

18,00

20,00

22.00

24.00

24.00

26.00

Cru Wynbron...+84-99481&13AAN

CLARETS,

Per Case.

I doz. qts.

4.50

-5.00

Montferrand

5.50

6.00

St. Emilion1313......... St. Estephe.....9324562200ṛtai St. Julien,

6.00

6.50

7.50

-SPANISH CLARET... Bottled by La Compaala Vinicola del Norta de España; Bilbao,

Rioja Clarete

Per Casi I dos qts. $14.00

JAPANESE BEER.

* KABUTO"· BRAND.

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PEACOCK BRAND Hongkong, 22nd August, 1904e