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Intimation.

WM. POWELL,

LIMITED.

"ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS"

Den Vieux Roud.

Everything for

Ladies' and

Children's wear.

NEW

CHIFFON

VEILINGS.

RAIN COATS.

BELTS.

LINEN COLLARS.

CORSETS.

DRESS

FABRICS.

NEW

GRANITE TWEEDS.

NAVY SERGES.

FANCY VOILES.

FONLARDS,

AND

A splendid selection

of

NEW MUSLINS

at

Moderate Prices,

GENTLEMEN'S

DEPARTMENT,

28, Queen's Road.

NOW ON SHOW.

SMART SILK

AND WOOL SHIRTS

of beautiful quality, newest patterns.

OPEN KNIT SILK SCARVES.

LIGHT-WEIGHT RAINCOATS.

INSPECTION INVITED.

Wm. POWELL, Ld.

HONGKONG,

Jongkong, 8th March, 1908.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1905.

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

"HEUndersigned have received instructions

to Sell by

THE

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW,

(FRI YAN), AND SATURDAY,

IS KINDERPET CONQUERED!

OPINION IN THE - PHLIPPINES,

the 10th and rith Match, 1005, at 11 A.M. each would undertake such a proposition. He said

day, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street,

A LOT OF

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES,

Comprising

ELECTRO-PLATED TEA SET, Sheffield KNIVES, FORKS and SPOONS, JAM and BISCUIT JARS, SARDINE BOXES on

E-P. STANDS, GLADSTONE BAGS, SILK UMBRELLAS, BLANKETS, COUNTER

PANES, PERFUMERY, GLASS FLOWER HOLDERS, &c., &c., &c.

TERMS-As usual,

T

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkongth March, 1905.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

"HE Undersigned have received instructions from the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy,

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION, TO-MORROW,

the 10th March, 190g at Noon, on the premises, at No. 35, Connaught Road Ceatral, THE GOODS AND CHATTELS OF THE

HANG ON FIRM,

Cumprising:

47 Casks GUINESS'S EXTRA STOUT, 28 Casks BASS'S BEER, (bout ed by E. and J. Burke),.

19 Cases ASSORTED SYRUP, Cask SODA,

&c.,

&c. TERMS-As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Government Auctioneers. Hongkong, 9th March, 1905.

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF

&c.

quarantine against the impostation, of cattle” suffering from infectious diseases, would almost eliminate the malady."

Intimations.

YOU WILL NOT

never that any large business honse is guilty of them, no matter what line of trade it follows. here can be no permanent success of any kind based on dishonesty or deception. There never was, and never will be.

The men who

Dr. Slee says that the department is carrying be deceived. That there are cheats and frauds forward a persistant campaign against the fur in plenty everybody knows; but it is seldom About two weeks ago The Manila Times published an interview with Major Carter, the her spread of trinderpest. Between four and commissioner of public health, in which here thousand head of cattle are inoculated each advecated the starting of a dairy here, asserting month. The veterinary department now has that there was money in it for the man who half dosen men in the field who, Dr. Slee says, are performing a thorough and effective inoculation throughout the various provinces. that almost daily he was in receipt of letters This work is something that cannot be allowed fry that are simply fools and soon come to to cease. The department must be aver watch Brief-as they deserve. Now many persons ful, and trips are made again and again in there, nevertheless, afraid to buy certain same districts where the inoculation virus is ad-dvertised articles lest they be humbugged ministered to cattle regardless of their showing confidence in published statements of the and deluded; especially arc they slow to place

merits of medicines. The remedy known as

from American mothers asking him why it was impossible to get fresh milk here such as-is obtained in Hongkong and some other citias

in the East.

Since the publication of that article The Timer has heard from two or three men who have to do with stock is these islands, all maintaining that the statements of Major Car

ter are erroneous and apt to induce some man. to put his money into a dairy here with the inevitable result that he will lose all or practic ally all that he put into it.

Said one prominent caltle dealer: "I am surprised at Major Carter's statements. It is the height of folly to talk of running a dairy in Manila with the risks to castle such as they are now. I would not give forty pesos a head for

mitch cows laid down here if a çondition were that they be used only for dairy purposes.

"Just how Major Carter sees things as he does I don't know. You might ask him how it was that Dorr and Washburn lost some thirty odd head of as fine Australian dairy cows as If I remember rihtly they spent about thirty thousand pesos on the deal and all there is left to show for it is one cow wh ch Dorr removed to his honse and which

one ever saw.

escaped the rinderpest which infected the others and is, I believe, still alive. Nice show- ing that, ch? One cow out of thirty.

symptoms of disease,

held accountable for the spread of several new The existing laxity in the quarantine laws is diseases which have only recently appeared among the island cattle. It is claimed that dis, and China some form of malady soon ap- with each importation of cattle from Java, In-

pears and adds to the burden of trouble with

which the veterinary department must contend. An illness known as surra made its appearance during the latter part of 1got, and it has proved most difficult to eradicate. The malady affects cattle about the same way as does an attack of malarial fever on man. It is an organization found in the blood, and it is believed to have come from cattle which were imported from Java some years ago.

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION is as safe and genuine an article to purchase as flour, silk or cotton goods from the mills of manufacturers with a world-wide reputation. We could not afford to exaggerate its qualities or misrepresent it in the least; and it is not necessary. It is palatable as honey and con.

Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh tains the nutritive and curative properties of

cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Elypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry; and how valuable such a blending of these imponant medicinal agents must be is plain to everybody. It is beyond price in Anemia, Insomnia, Weakuess and lark

Entimations.

YOU WANT

PROVISIONS

AND

WINES

IN

1905.

GET YOUR SUPPLIES

FROM

of Nervous Tone, Poor Digestion, Wasting A. CHAZALON & Co. Diseases, La Grippe, Lung Troubles and Blood Impurities. Science can furnish nothing better perhaps nothing so good. Dr. W. H. Dalfe, of Canada, says: "I have used it in my practice valuable tonic and reconstructive." It is a and take pleasure in recommending it as a

"Then bow did the government lose all but altempt to raise cattie either for food, or to be bright and aggressive medical investigation.

seven of its fifty-one pr sixty-one head of cattle - very expensive lot, too? Then how about the nineteen odd cattle Worcester imported not so very long ago? All dead but one, if I [339 remember rightly. Then bow about the Spanish woman at Nagtajan who ran a dairy on Calle Echague, only the other day she lost

JAPANESE SILK EMBROIDERIES AND her twelve head of cows,

ART CURIOS,

THE

"HE Undersigned has received instructions

to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

ON

MONDAY, the 13th March, 1905,

AND

TUESDAY, the 14th March, 1905, commencing cach day at 1.30 PM, at the CITY HALL,

Chamber of Commerce Room,

A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF

Then how about Jose Flameno. He lost his first bunch-not inoculated, and on the advice. of a cattle dealer he had his second lot thoroughly dosed with the serum. Did they survive, not much. Inoculated by the govern- meat too! They were left out in the govern- ment laboratory and worked on for weeks na a sort of st case. But even with all the effort spent on them and the best that the laboratory can give they went under. Then how about

JAPANESE SILK EMBROIDERIES AND the Australian called McGinnis, who came here

ART CURIOS, -

Comprising:-

with about twenty odd head thinking he had a good thing? His bunch were all inoculated EMBROIDERED PALACE WALL and he thought he was on a fair way to fortune HANGINGS, PRIEST'S ROBES, TEMPLE BROCADES, OLD FUKUSAN, COURT but they all keeled over too-every last one of KIMONOS, SILK VELVET PICTURES them. I should like to know what Major Carter (Landscapes and other designs), &c, &c. has to say abouì those cases. Oh yes, there's

Very Fine GOLD LACQUER BOXES, money in a dairy proposition, INROS, OLD ZONSE! LACQUERED SCREENS and TABLES, &c..

CHOICE SELECTION of EMBROIDER ED SCREENS, EIGHT OLD PALACE DOORS, with choice designs;

FINELY EXECUTED DAMASCENE and SILVERWARE.

A Quantity of OLD BRONZES, KAKI- MONOS,

A Pine Selection of SATSUMA and other PORCELAINS.

'ALSO

1 FINE DIAMOND RINGS and 1 CAR. VED GOLD RING.-

TERMS:-AS usual.

"As a matter of fact," continued the cattle dealer," you must count on a loss of ninety-five percent—yes, ninety-five, on all the milch cows you import

"As to inuculation against rinderpest being. a success in these islands I may say that after all my experience, I have come to a state where

I don't care whether my caute are inoculated or no. 1 seem to lose just about the same number either way. Sometimes I have had 4, bunch of cattle doing nicely without inoculation and then I have had them inoculated in res

The above, which is equal to anything thatponse to representations on the part of the has been offered for sale locally, will be on

health authorities and the next thing I knew exhibition from Thursday, the 9th March,

Catalogues will be issued.

those cattle were dying like flies.

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer. Hongkong, 6th March, 1905.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. PARTIC DARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS, of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 13th day of March, 1905, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, East of Mount Gough Reservoir 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 KING, for one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

LOCALITY.

No. of Sale.

Registry No.

Near Mount Gough

вверове

Boundary Measurements..

N.

5+ R. 14+

It

f. ft. f.

750

2003:

350

2012040,000 230

Hongkong, 4th March, 1905,

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instructions from the REGISTRAH, SUPREME COURT,

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

ON

TUESDAY,

the 14th March, 1905, at 11 AM., on the premises, at No. 108, Queen's Road Central THE GOOD WILL, STOCK-IN-TRADE, FURNITURE,

&c.,

TY

&C..

OF THE

SING FIRM,

as a going concern.

TERMSAs usual,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Government Auctioneers,

Hongkong, 3rd March, 1905.

18

TSANG FOO & CO., COAL MERCHANTS AND STEVEDORES, 48, DES VEUX ROAD,

"From all I have seen tinderpest is a very peculiar disease. It seems to break out where castle are crowded and penned together only. Now there in Shanghai it is unknown outside. of a ten or twelve mile radius and caule in the surrounding country never have it. Then in Hongkong they were free from it so long as the cattle were imported from one part of China but as soon as they began to import them fram anaher section of the country rinderpest broke out I have had beef caule inoculated at Shang hai and then inoculated again by the govern ment here, but all to the same purpose. From the time you get the cattle till the time of actual delivery you must count on about fifty per cent of deaths. That is in cattle for the market, which is a different thing from milch cows. which seem to be especially susceptible to the ravages of rinderpest,

"I believe the only way to save cattle is when they are brought in to ship them at noce up

With proper quarantine laws protecting the islands against the whalesale importation of diseased cattle, the veterinary authorities are confident that the time will come when beef cattle can be raised in the Philippines without fear of their almost total annihilation. Until something is done along the lines suggested for the stamping out of these maladies the

risk, thinks Dr. Slee. The person going into used for daily purposes, would involve a great this line of business has absolutely no guaran tee that the project can be carried through to a successful culmination. dairy or cattle ranch involves too great an ex- The stocking of a penditure of money and time. The venture should not be attempted unless those backing it have every assurance that their stock will be afforded every protection against infectious diseases.

COMMERCIAL.

TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE. Selling.

rondon-Bank T.T........................./19/16

D)

De

demand

4 months' sight France-Bank T.T.

America-Bank T.T.

Germany-Bank T.T. India T.T........

Do. demand Shanghai-Bank T.T........ lapan-Bank T.T. Java-Bank T.T

Ruving.

4 mouths' sight L/C,

6

· months' sight L/C...........

...... 10

10 13/16

remedy that can afford to appeal to its record and represents the science and knowledge of

disappointed in it.". Like all good things it is Effective from the first dose. "You cannot be

imitated. world.

Sold by chemists throughout the

THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN CO., LD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY

HOLDERS will be held in the CITY HALL, TO-MORROW, the 10th March, at 12.15 RM, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1934,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 3rd to the toth March, both days inclusive,

EDWARD OSBORNE,

2.37.

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Secretary.

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Hongkong, 9th March, 1905.

.140

·₤314

„140) | CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY,

71

.92)

113

... 1'10 15/16, ......1/11/16 30 days' sight San Francisco & New York 461 < months' sight

47

de.

30 days' sight Sydney and Melbourne 1/11 36 4 months' sight Francs...

6 months' sight

4 months' sight Germany Rar Silver...........

Bank of Enviand rate

OPIUM QUOTATIONS,

To-day's quatuors are as follow. -

Malwa New...

Old

11

Older

Oldest

Patna New Benares New Prizian Paneri

..241

.+.97 -27 3/16

Per est @ 1,105,170

..@ 1.15»fr,18% ....@ 1,190/1,230 ... 1,250/1,330

@ 1,150

@ 1090 @ 87aloto

Intimations.

F. BLACKHEAD & CO., HIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS

COAL AND PROVISION MER- HANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTOR

AND GENERAL COMMISSION

AGENTS, GROUND FLOOR,

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING,

HONGKONG,

LIMITED.

NOTICE.

(SUCCESSORS TO

G. GIRAULT)

6, QUERN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

Opposite Connaught Hotel.

Who are Suppliers of High Class

Wines, Spirits and Provisions,

French Bakers,

Navy Contractors,

and

Commission Agents.

BRANCHES :

Hongkong, 22nd February, 1905.

[31.

"HE TWENTY-SEVENTH ORDINARY | HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, HANKOW. THE

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHAKE- HOLDERS of the Company will be held at DAY, the 23rd March, at Noon, for the purpose the Offices of the General Agents, on THURS.

of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December,

1904-

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will he CLOSED from 10th to 23rd March, bath days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents.

Hongkong, 4th March, 1905.

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LUZON SUGAR REFINING COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE.

HE TWENTY-THIRD

ORDINARY

TANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE-

HOLDERS of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Pedder's Street, on THURSDAY, the 23rd March, at 17.30 PM., for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1904.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the roth to 23rd March, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents. Hongkong, 4th March, 1995.

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HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

country, taking care that they are not lightered SOAP AND SODA MANUFACTURERS. THE DIVIDEND of $34 per Share, for the

into any boats or cascoes that have once had cattle in them. The government authorities

SOLE AGENTS FOR

may talk all they please about the efficacy of HARTMANN'S RAHTJEN'S GENUIN

disinfection, but I would take no chances with vessels which have been used even once to transport cattle-though they were disinfected a hundred times. Yes, that may not be science, but it is what I have learned by dear-bought experience,"

MAJOR CARTER'S STATEMENT. When the foregoing facts were submitted to Major Carter he said :——

"We know more about rinderpest now than formerly Rinderpest can be prevented by proper inoculation. It is accomplished in other countries and should be the same here. As regards the caule of jose Flameno, which died at the labaratory, it would be necessary to know who inoculated them and also how they

were inoculated. The laboratory officials might be about to give some explanation,"

DR. SLEE'S STATEMENT.

When Dr. Slee, chief veterinarian, who is in charge of the work of inoculation, was seen he, said:

"If the United States will give to the Philip pine Island the best quarantine laws obtain able, and also provide for their strict enforce ment, I can safely state that rinderpest, and other infectious diseases to which the cattle of these islands are subject, will be reduced to

SHIPS Coaled from albugside at the shortest the lowest posible minimum.?

notice, and with all possible despatch. Prices Moderate. Telephone No. 329,

Ess Hongkong, 1st October, 1904.-

"As far as rinderpest is concerned, I think that it is safe to say that the troublesome com (61 | plaint is under control. Two years of rigid

COMPOSITION RED HAN BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY PAIN

DAIMLER'S PATENT MOTOR LAUNCHES,

---

KC..

XC..

&C.

Sole 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. Hongkong, 7th March, 1905

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

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MR. RUTTONJEE begs to announce to

his numerous customers that his Bakery in Kowloon being burat down, he has hired another in a healthy part of the town, where BREAD will be baked and prepared under 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 kindly requested to send their

orders as usual,

H. RUTTONJEE,,

No. 5, D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong- No, 37, Elgin Street, Kowloon, Hongkong, 4th January,;1903,

year ending 1st December 1903, declar- ed at to-day's Ordinary Annual Meeting, will he payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and Hongkong Share holders are requested to apply for Dividend Warrants at the Company's Offices, Pedder's Street, after to AM. TO-MORROW.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 6th March, 1905.

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GOVERNMENT KOTIFICATION.

INFORMATION has been received from the Military Authorities that GUN PRACTICE will be carried out as under :--

On MONDAY, 13th March

From Pak-sha-wan, towards entrance to Junk Bay, at ranges of 600 to 4,000) yards, commencing at 9.30 A.M., and finishing at 1 A.M.

On WEDNESDAY, 15th March :-

From Pinewood, in a North-Westerly direction, at ranges of 2,000 to 6,000 yards, commencing at 9.30 AM, and finishing at 11, AM,

On FRIDAY, 17th March-

From Pinewood, in a North-Westerly. direction, at ranges of 2,000 to 6,000 yards, commencing at 9.30 AM, and Pat finishing at 11. A.M.

If the weather is unfavourable on either of the above dates, Practice will take place on the following day. keep clear of the range

·All ships; judks and other vessels are to

L. BARNES-LAWRENCE, Captain, R.N.,

Harbour Master, &c. Harbour Department,

Hongkong, 8th March, 1905,

THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.

TRADE MARK

BARRETTO & Co.,

General Agents, Hongkong.

PORT WINE.

Direct shipments from the COMPANHIA AGRICOLA E COMMERCIAL DOS VINHOS DO PORTO, (Successors to Donna Ang^nia A.Ferreira).

Monopoly fr China of THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.

Per Case of 1 Doren,

Dry No. 1

Quinta do Porta Dry No. 3

Selected Old Port $50.00

1

"},

11

I 35,00

14 30.00

25.00

**

1

1

20.00

M

15.00

14.00

Quinta da imaj Tawny, 1887, Vintage Tawny, (White Label)...... Medium Tawny, (Brawa Label) 13.00 White Tawny, (White Label) Full Wine, (Brown Label).......... White Tawny, (Brown Label) Light Tawny, (Brown Label)

MELROSE WHISKY

Scotland's Best. Delicious Mellow

and Matured.

PROPRIETORS

Bowen & McKechnie.

12.00

11.00

10.50 10.00

CEPA RUBY RIOJA CLARET,

per dozen.

$6.00

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

BARRETTO & Co.,

and gents jet alk

Nos. 22 & 24, Bank Buildings Queen's Road Central

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[345 Hongkong, 36th January, 1905,