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Intimation.

THE HONGKONG Telegraph, tuesday feBRUARY 14, 1905.

Intimations.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI, BANK- ING CORPORATION,

WM. POWELL, NOTICE is hereby given that the ORDE

LIMITED.

"ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS,"

Des Vaux Road,

FIRST FLOOR BY LIFT,

OUR FURNISHING

JOTICE is hereby given that the ORD

HALF YEARLY MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS in this Corpom. tion will be held at the CITY HALL, Hong kong, on SATURDAY, the eighteenth day of February, 1995, at Noon, for the purpose of re- ceiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1904.

Bly Order of the Court of Director,

J. R. M. SMITH,

Chief Manager.

JUNK RÜN DOWN

BY US, CRUISER.

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sighted at any odd moment, and if necessary thrown away after a few whiffs. Moreover, a very large proportion of those who began the practice of smoking with the mild little fare- The United States cruiser Cincinnati which igner and, thus arquired a tasis for tobacco, went to the pipe or clar. It thus enor arrived in this port from Chefco last week, Jays mously increased the number of devotees tot-o- the Manila Cablenews, of 8th inst, ran foul of a bacco. At no period did the cigarette appoir to Chinese junk in the neighbourhood of Hong-check the sale of cigars or pipes. It proved a kong on her way out from here several weeks clear addition to the tobacconist's business, and ago. The junk was standing out to sea, itself and develop, consumptions increased when the new habit bad had time to establish night, with no lights displayed and the first enormously. warning those on board the cruiser had that any other vessel was near their path, was the crashing of timbers and the shudder that ran over the Cincinnati as she rammed her nose.

into the ribs of the unwary celestial craft. The Hongkong, 31st January, 2015.

196 terror-stricken éries of thirty or forty Chinese startled from sleep by the collision rang out in HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK-

the darkness and the captain of the Cincinnati ING CORPORATION.

thought for a while that bo was sending several [OTICE is hereby given that the REGIS. hundred to the bottom. The boats were

will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the fourth,

NTER OF SHARES of the Corporation

days inclusive), during which perind no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

DEPARTMENT Hongkong, 31st January, 1095,

is completely stooked with all the newest

Art Tapestries.

Muslins.

Velvets.

Plushos.

Cretonnes.

Roma Satins, etc., eto.

CARPETS OF

EVERY

-

DESCRIPTION

AND MAKE.

-

Several hundred Smart Carpet Squares,—all sizes and prices,

Bedsteads, by the very best makers only.

Upholstering done in Arst-olass5

style.

Houses completely furnished, Special attention given to thạ Shipping trade.

BLANKETS!

BLANKETS!

BLANKETS!

SPECIAL

PURCHASE OF BLANKETS

NOW ON SHOW.

LADIES'

DEPARTMENT,

FOR THE RACES,

New Millinery, Sun- shades, Dress Fabrics, Gloves, &c., &c.

Ladies requiring Costumes are requested to pay us an early visit.

Wm. POWELL, Ld.

HONGKONG.

Hongkong, 2nd February, 1905.

J. R. M. SMITH,

Chief Manager.

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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE ORDINEROLDERS will be held in YEARLY MEETING the Offices of the Company, Queen's Buildings, New Praya, on MONDAY, the 20th February, 1905, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts to the 31st December;

lowered at once and preparations to render

CIGARETTE SMOKING.

Intimations.

WHAT IF WILL LO.

· A woman buys a sewing machine for what it will absot as an article of turalture. A man carries a watch to tell him the time; not as an envestment of surplus. capital. The same principle when one is ill. We want the medi.

cure. The friend in need must be a friend cine or the treatment which will relieve and

As it has been said the introduction of the indeed-something, or somebody, with a little paper smoke among Englishmen may be reputation, with a good record, with a history taken to date from the chumming of our mili- | that justifies our confidence. There should be tary men with the French and Turks in the no guesswork in treating disease. People have Crimean War just about fifty years ago. the right to know what a medicine is, and what Within five and twenty years our total tobacco it will do, before they take it. It must have importation very nearly trebled inell To a great extrat, of course, this was due to the increase of population and to the advance in the general wealth; but all authorities were agreed that a very large proportion of the expansion was due to the addition of the

cigarette, to other facilities for smoking, and to

tween the two

behind it an open record of benefit to athers for the same diseases,-a series of cures that proves its merit and inspires confidence. It

is because it has such a record that

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION the initiatory training it afforded to beginners. | is bought and used without hesitation or doubt. the people have in it; and a good name has to be cared by good deeds. For the purposes for which it is commended it is honest, true and` practical. It does what you have a right to expect it to do. it is palatable as honey and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry, In Scrofula, Anemia, Nervous and General Debility, In plaints, it is to be thoroughly relied upon. Dr. fluenza, Blood Impurities and Wasting Com-

J. L. Carrick says: "I have had remarkable success with it in the treatment of Consumption, Chronic Bronchitis, Catarrh and Scrofulous Affections. It is of special value in nervous prostration and depraved nutrition'; it stimulates the appetite and the digestion, promotes assimilation, and

to the eighteenth day of February, 1905, (both assistance in event the luckless, craft should In America the thing has become almost as its Good Name is the.solid basis for the faith sink were hastily made. Investigation reuniversally popular as it has with us. The vealed the fact that the junk had been cut probability is that, if accurate figures were ac nearly in two but her water tight bulkheads cessible, there is not now much difference be countries in this respect, -provented her going to the bottom. The Can Fifteen years ago the Americans were a good clamaff took the injured boat in tow and took way behind us. They were then smoking ber into port, where her master was given about 400 millions a year. Four or five years $25.00 to cover a portion of the damage and back trade figures were given which seemed to the cruiser went on her way. The junk was show that of the forty-two millions of our po

pulation about four millions were smokers of entirely at fault, as she was found violating the cigarettes and it was thought that upon an rule that requires vessels to display lights, at average they probably consumed five a day. That would come to twenty millions a day, or that their folly and negligence did not cost is since his for autorious 1723 ladies night and those on board her may be thankful

a total umption the year of 7,300 mil. them more dearly.

and young boys have been freely cultivating the habit. It seems an incredible total, but one London firm are boasting that they them: selves are running machinery by which they are able to turn out six million cigarettes à day, which would give a total for this single business of over 2,000 millions a year. But in with that of America, it should be borne in any attempt to compare our own consumption mind that in this country figures must of neces- sity be very largely conjectural. There is nothing in the form of official figures to be had. In America, on the contrary, they can tell to a nicety what they are doing, since every packet of cigarettes must bear & Government stamp, the value of which depends on the number the packet contains. There is no scope for the fights of fancy. But the development of the markable. Less than a generation ago all trade in cigarettes has certainly been very re- these little whiffs were made by hand, one by no. Now they are practically all made by machine, of which there is in, the market at least ous which takes in tobacco and paper at one end, and at the other shoots out cigarettes, beautifully rolled, gummed and printed, at the rate of from two hundred and fifty to four

1904.

will be CLOSED from the 6th to the oth February, both days inclusive.

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By Order of the Board of Directors,

THOS. I. ROSE, Secretary. Hongkong, 26th January, 1905.

HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE THIRTY-SIXTH

The English habit of cigarette smoking The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company must be regarded as one of the incidental results of the Crimean War, Before that time it was practically unknown in the country, and, in so far as anything was known of it, this method of tobacco smoking was generally looked upon with the contemptuous amuse- ment with which Englishmen were wont to regard the habits and customs of the finnick- ing foreigner. For staid old English fogies in their armchairs or on the public-house settee there were long clay "church wardens, for younger men ar those going about their business there were shorter clays; while for those who could afford them there werd meerschaum pipes or cigars. It was our military men who brought home from the Crimea the trick of cigarette rolling which

ORDINARY THE

ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE. HOLDERS in the above Company, will be held at the Offices of the Company, Peddar's Street, on MONDAY, the 6th day of March, 1905, at 11.30 A.M., to receive a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1904, and the Report of the General Managers, and to eles they had borrowed from their French and hundred a minute.

a Consulting Committeo and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the zoth February to the 6th March, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 8th February, 1935. HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

Nafter this date Interest at the rate TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on of 8% per annum will be charged upon all Calls in respect of SHARES NOT FULLY PAID UP from the day appointed for Payment of such Calle, namely 3rd January, 1905.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, 11th January, 1905.

JURY LIST, 1905.

Turkish allies at a time when their supply of cigars rau short. What the military officer, home returning from a victorious war, thought proper to do, readily became the correct thing for everybody to do, and the little papery roll [216 tucked in beneath a moustach-also a foreign introduction of about the same dale-began to be very familiar in London. The progress of the cigarette at first was but slow. English men could not really pick up the digital dexterity of the foreigner, under whose deft manipulation the little whiffs appeared to take form autematically, and it seemed very im- probable that the time would ever come when & Chancellor of the Exchequer would suggest after dinner cigarette smoking as the probable _[122] explanation of a diminution in the consump. tion of wine. For a time every man had to make his own cigarettes, for there were none to be had ready-made. It was slow, fidgeting work, and the pipa and cigar-smoker the beneath contempre a good many who tried home-made cigarette was, of course, a thing the new art had not the dexterity for it or the patience to acquire it, and after a while they were accommodated with little packets of foreign smokes already made up. A new industry sprang up for girls, who could earn half-a-crown a thousand at the making of the new weeds, and soon acquired a facility in the work that even the Spaniard or the Southern Frenchman could not rival. This gave an enormous impetus to the new foreign fad, which soon began seriously to alarm those in the trade in pipes and cigars, who apprehended that the new craze would be very bad for 3 business. Every effort was used to check it. There were individual testimonies to the dangerous character of the new habit, stories of poisonous papers and of mouth diseases contracted from the girls who licked the

IS HEREBY GIVEN that, NOTICE to the vision of THE JURY CONSOLIDATION ORDINANCE, 1887, I have this day caused to be posted at the chief entrance to the Court House a List of all persons ascertained by me to be liable to serva at Jurors,

The maid List will remain so posted until THURSDAY, the 15th instant, in order that any person may apply by notice in writing to me requiring that his name or the name of some other person may be respectively either added to or struck off from the said List, upon cause to be duly assigned in such notice.

ARATHOON SETH, Registrar. Supreme Court House,

Hongkong 1st February, 1905

IMPORTANT NOTICE,

is

MR.BUTTONJEE bege it a that

kis numerous customers Bakery in Kowloon being burnt down, he has hired another in a healthy part of the town, where BREAD will be baked and prepared ander his usual personal supervision and thus ensuring, to his numerous patrons, the cus. tomary supply of the same wholesome Bread

made of the finest flour and materials, that he

has all throughout supplied,

Customers are kladly requested to send their

H. RUTTONJEE,

orders as usua},

No. 5, D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong. No. 37, Elgin Street, Kowloon. Hongkong, 4th January, 1905.

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F. BLACKHEAD & CO., SHIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS. COAL AND PROVISION MER. CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS

16, DES YEUX ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG,

SOAP AND SODA MANUFACTURERS,

HARTMANNS TION RED HAND

kc..

&C

SOLE AGENTS FOR

RAHTJEN'S GENUINE

BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY PAINT, DAIMLER'S PATENT MOTOR LAUNCHES, &C.

Sola Agents for FERGUSON'S SPECIAL CREAM and P.&O. SPECIAL LIQUER SCOTCH WHISKY, &c. EVERY KIND OF SHIP'S STORES AND REQUISITES ALWAYS IN STOCK AT

· REASONABLE PRICES, [39] Hongkong, 15th December, 1903.

med edges of the slips. Then came rollers, and these for a time had a great vogue, various forms of little mechanical cigarette though they were none of them very satis factory.

THE VIRICE OF THE "DUTCH WIFE,"

An article on “Hill Diarrhea in the Plains,"

enters directly into the circulation with the food. I consider it a mar- vélous success in medicine," Every dose effective. "You cannot be disappointed in it." Sold by chemists.

TUBORG BEER.

5

guaranteed free from Salicylic Acid, and any other Chemicals. A FIRST Class PILSENER BEER

PRICE SIOSO per case of 48 hotlles (quarts) ar 6 dor, pints.

Special Prices for Quantities. Sole Agenisom

SIEMSSEN & 10. Hongkong, rath Trainiy, root,

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Entertainment,

HONGKONG PHILHARMONIC.

SOCIETY.

Entimations,

YOU WANT

PROVISIONS

AND

WINES

IN

1905.

GET YOUR SUPPLIES

FROM

R. Perez & Co.

(SUCCESSORS TO

A. CHAZALON & CO.

AND

G. GIRAULT)

6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

Opposite Connaught Hotel.

Who are Suppliers of High Class Wines, Spirits and Provisions,

French Bakers,

Navy Contractors,

and

CONCERT will be given by the Commission Agents.

by Dr. P. A. Nightingale, appears in the Lan-A Society in the THEATRE ROYAL, on cet of Nov, 19th :-

One of the commonest ailments to which a

newcomer to Bangkok is subject is early morning diarrhoea which runs a course identi cal with the hull diarrhoea described by Manson and Crombie, Now Bangkok is the centre of a large rice district and is only a few inches above high-water mark, especially during the wel season when the river is in A od. These cases of diarrhea occur for the most part during the rains, are more common in the new than in the old resident, and in males than in females. The Bamere themacives are not subject to attacks. The only special point of interest to note here is that in the older resi dents the possibility of a commencing aprue should be carefully borne in wind.

THURSDAY, 16th February, at 9 PM, under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency Orchestral Pieces, Solos and the Naval Can- the Governor. The Programme will consist of

tata "THE REVENGE," Tennyson's Poem

set to music by C. V. Stanford, performed by

the Choir and Orchestra,

Tickets: price $3, $2 and $1, oblainable at the

RODINSON PIANO CO.

Hongkong, 8th February, 190*

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

10 Sall by PUBLIC AUCTION, TO-MORROW,

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(WEDNESDAY), AND THURSDAY, ・・ the 15th and 16th February, 1905, at 10 A., each day, at

H, M, NAVAL YARD, SUNDRY NAVAL, VICTUALLING, OBSOLETE AND CONDEMNED STORES, Comprising →

With regard to the prophylaxis I was in_the nel gyjamas of Chinese trousers to be worn at habit of laying stress upon the following: flan THE Undersigned have received instructions

night, a proper native sleeping mat to be placed over the sheet, a blanket to cover the feet, and large "Dutch wives' (a kind of bolster some six feet long) for the patient to lie be tween. This Dutch wife," well known in Java, the Malay Peninsula, and Siam, I am in- clined to think of the utmost value, for it is ment to sleep with, hat acts as an excellent not only a cooling and comfortable nrrange. cover to the abdomen against the early morn ing breeze, and when there is one on either side the whole trunk is guarded in a way that is most complete and valuable. A study of the Siamese, and Chinese brings these "Dutch sleeping compartments of well-to-do Malays wives" into great prominence, so that they might perhaps be introduced with benefit into those other, tropical climates where hill or early morning diarrhea is common and where their use is not known or fully appreciated from a prophylactic point of view.

The points which I should like to emphasise are that, in my opinion, (1) "early morning hoa" since out of India the disease is com diarrhoea" is a better name than hill diarr monly met with on the plains; (2) a chill to her of attacks; (3) it bears a close resemblance the liver is the sole origin of a very large num to the marly stages of sprue and not infrequente "Dutch wite is a more valuable guard to the by develops or lapses into it; and (4) the abdomen at night than a cholera belt.

COMMERCIAL

Meanwhile, however, it began to be perceived that, the popularity of the cigarette, so far of the tobacconist, seemed to be tending very from proving deirimental to the general trade decidedly the other way. After fifty years, this introduction has indeed proved to be one of the most curious experiences in modem trade, and from the anti-tobacconist point of view has been nothing short of a calamity. Instead of being a substitute for pipes and cigars, the cigarette has proved to be a clear addition to the previous total consumption, and it is not difficult to understand why it London-Bank T.T.............

11 should have proved so. The peculiarly per Do. demand.

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have denounced it as the most injurious of all Americo--Bank T.T. forms of smoking. This opinion ja, no doubt; | Germany-Bank T.T. quite correct when the smoke is inhaled, but | India T.T.

TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE. Selling

of course it is not necessary to do that, and Do. demand probably the fairly unanimous testimony of Shangbai–Bank T.T. .....

BRANCHES : HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, HANKOW.

(31 Hongkong, 7th January, 1905.

THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.

BARRETTO & Cấp General Agents, Hongkong.

PORT WINE.

Direct shipments from the COMPANHIA AGRicola e COMMERCIAL DOS VINHOS DO PORTO,

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BOAT'S ENGINES, WILLAN'S ELEC, TRIC LIGHT ENGINE, ELECTRIC CAHLE, MACHINES VENTILATING and (Successor to DONNA ANTÒNIA A.FERREIRA) IRON, MANGANESE BRONZE, PAPER. DRILLING, LATHE, BRASS, COPPER, STUFF, CANVAS, FURNITURE, BLAN KETS, PROVISIONS, IMPLEMENTS, &

TERMS OF SALE:-As customary.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Government Auctioneers, Hongkong, 14th February, 1995.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Monopoly for China of THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.

Per Case of 1 Dozen.

[221 Pry No. 1

THE Undersigned have received instructions from the Official Administrator, to Bell" by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

For Account of the Estate of the late ALFRED WRIGHT, TO-MORROW,

the 15th February, 1905, at 2.30 7.M., within his residence, No. 7, Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon,

THE WHOLE OF KIS HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

Catalogues will be issued, TERMS:-ÅS Usual,

no. 1.97

.1437 ominal

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Government Auctioneers) Hongkong, 14th Febniary, 1905. [231

PUBLIC AUCTION,

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the smoking world, if it could be ascertained, Japan-Bank T.T、anmamın94

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4 months' sigh! L/C,............... 6 months' sight L/C,

ponding area of the pips or cigar it is quits 30 days sight San Francisco & New York: 47

4 months' sight

do,

would be that the cigarette is the highest and least potent of all forms of tobacco smoking. When the area of the burning end of an ordi nary cigarette is compared with the correl obvious that it must be so. It is one to three ar four, fadeed the comparatively small quantity of the smoke of acigarette in just the reason why some persons are able to inhale it, though they cannot do it with a pipe or cigar. At all events, it was found that not only ware there many people who could manage a cigarette though they were unable to smoke a pipe or cigar, but even babitual sinokers soon began to take to them without giving up pipes or cigar Today's quotations are as follows:- There were, it was discovered, many occasions" when a little peccadillo in the form of a

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OPIUM QUOTATIONS,

Per chest

cigarette might be indulged, but a pipe would Malwa Nex mammadamman@$1,075/1,100

#

be impossible and even a cigar questionable. Then again many heavy smokers, it was found,

Old @ 1,153/1,180

# Older ......@ 1,2c0/1,200

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Oldest mua 1,300/1,310

would take one or two of the new whiffs when

they had had enough of their pipes and did not

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“HE Undersigned have received instruction

to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

- FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

FRIDAY,

the 17th February, 1905, at 11.4.3, at their Salas Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street.

A GREAT ABSORTMENT- DF ENAMELLED WARE GOODS,

Comprising:

TIFFIN.CARRIERS, TEA and CO. PIE POTS, SAUCEPANG, SOUP LADLES

&c.

&c., ALIO

A Quantity of AUSTRIAN · RUBBER SHOES,

TERME MÁS Usual,

* HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers, Hongkong, 9th February, 1903,

Selected Old Port $50.00

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# 2

+

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35.00

Quinta do Porto

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30.00

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Quinta da Granja Tawny, 1887, Vintage, 13

B 15.00 Medium Tawny, (Brown`Label) ...... Tawny, (White Label).............................. 14.00 13,00 White Tawny, (White Label)

11.00 Full Wine, (Brown Label)....................... 11.00 White Tawny, (Brown Label) in 10.50 Light Tawny; (Brown Label).......................

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MELROSE WHISKY

Scotland's Best. Delicious Mellow

and Matured,

PROPRIETORS

Bowen & M'Kechnie,

CEPA RUBY

10.00

RIOJA OLARET

per dozen,

$6.00

Direct Importers of Wine, Beer and Spirits from well-known Growers, Brewers and Distillers Price List on application,

BARRETTO & Co, NaNAgents,

Noa 23 & 24, Bank Buildings. Queen's Road Central,

(230 Hongkong, 26th January, zoog