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KONGKONG,

Hongkong, syth April, 1905,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1905.

Intimations.

OFHE MULTITUDES

who have used it, or are now using it, we have

LIVING BOOKS":

"Do you mean buried alive, or is it dead ?— No; is allowed to die it is not particularly wanted probably, and they do not know what to do with it.

and the

painted.

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COMMERCIAL

TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE."

Salling

London-Bank T.T...t/ta 5/16

Do.

Entinations.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD.,

PIANO AND ORGANE

MANUFACTURERS.

JOHN BULL'S GREAT EMPIRE LIBRARY, There was published the other day one of Rarely, indeed, has there been never heard of any one who have been dis the most wonderful books in the world. Yet vivid and terrible a picture of the life of a appointed in it. No claims are made for it nobody has read it. No publisher's, advertise people in the height of its material progress. examination of the heart of an empire. except those which are amply justified by ex-sent to the papers. For it was only a Blac

ments heralded it. No review copies were It is

Do.4 months' sight olid mu1/10]|| Só, if one had space and time, one could go periance. In commending it to the afflicted Book,

through the archives of the Government prin- France-Bank T.T.........

~3.331 we simply point to its record. It has done great Yet no fallacy could be more ridiculous than ters and lay bute a treasure house of informa« America-Bank T.T.................................... ...45t things, and it is certain to continue the excel the fallacy which declares that a Flue Book is tion and experience which net all the encyclonermany-Bank T.T............. ..1.00) ITAVE just received a'shipment of second lent work. There is-we may honestly affirmas dry dust. One of these days British predles in Europe could hold.:' 'Year by year India T.T. squares à 4-612) 10A

1391 H atos from $200 upwards, and a no medicine which can be used with greater at its command and find that it has we build it at our own expense ; some day we

and more reasonable faith and confidence. It Bourishes and keeps up the strength during those periods when the appetite fails and food cannot be digested. To guard agalast 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 palatable as honey and contains the nutritive and curative properties of Pure ( ́od Liver, Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers. com- bined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophos. phites and the Extracts of Mak and wild Cherry. Taken before meals it creates an appetite, aids digestion, renews vital power, drives out disease germs, makes 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, says: "I testify with plentura to its unlimited usefulness as a tissue builder. Its curative power can always be relied upon. it makes a new era in medicine, | is beneficial from the first dose and represents effective medical treatment of the twentiell century, "You can trust it as the Ivy does the Oak." One bottle convinces. Watch carefully against imitations. At all chemists here and throughout the world.

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SANITARY BOARD OFFICE, Hongkong.

TO THE OWNERS. OF DOMESTIC

BUILDINGS.

AKE NOTICE that under No. 5 of the TAKE NOTICE that BEANLINESS th VENTILATION BYE-LAWS (as amended), every Domestic Building or part of such Build- ing within the CENTRAL DIVISION of the CITY OF VICTORIA and the WESTERN DIVISION GI

KAULUNG occupied by members of more than one family must be Cleansed and Lime- washed THROUGHOUT by the owner during the months of March and April.

W-The word "Throughout " used in this notice means that the Houses should be Lime: washed in respect of nit the Walls of cach Room and Staircase, all Cubicle Partitions, Stair Casings and Stair Linings, all Ceilings and the Undersides of Roofs both in Main Buildings, Offices and Servants' Quarters and inclusive of Verandahs.

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Governinent will wake

biggest publishing or ganisation in the world, issuing every year the most fascinating reading the British public could desire. There is no doubt about it. There is not a publisher in England who could not make his fortase out of Blue Books it, the Government would place its organisation at his disposal. He would do what no Government has yet had the enterprise, to do-appoint a Blus Book editor. When he comes, we shall throw aside our novels and pick up our Blue, Books.

Nobody has yet, so far as one has seen, picked out the one really great book of last year. Mr. Hichens made his mark with "The Garden of Allah, Mrs., Thursion made a reputation with "John Chilcote." But the book of the year was not writen by one man, It had sixty-eight authors most of whom had never written a book before. They were thirty-three doctors, six school and factory in specines, eighteen secretaries and social workers, a bishop, a. Salvation Army colonel, two generals, two teachers, three authors, and two inembers of Parliament. Their book had 504 pages and 750,000 words, and it was published under the title Minutes of Evidence Taken Beloin the Inter-Departmental Com- mittee on Physical Deterioration. There is not a page in this astonishing book which does not them with original facts and sugges tions, and the whole of it is vital to the nation Yet, though it costs but 48. id., only a few hundred people have bought it. For it is only a blue Book.

WHAT A BLUE BOOK MEANS.

ilall know that it is worth exploring--Er..

TOLD BY THE TELEPHONE.

The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat

'Shakespeare, "Codlin's the man: not Shot".

Dickens. 10th January, Short-Central office, connect me with

4.378."

Is that you Skimpole?" Simpole-"Yes," who are you?" . Skimpole, there has been a spurt in Long Cats Short and am at the Stock Exchange." "I say today, and shares have been placed at Ti. 335 Better take them, as it is a moral certainty that they will be 400 before the end of the month."

Skimpole. Do you really think that they are all right at that figure??

Short" Don't you funk them. They aro O.K. The Chinese are buying and they, know.more about Long Cats than the directors.” Skimpolo "All right: puttes book, so Long Cats at Tls. 335 per picul."

11th January. Short," Central office, connect me with 41378

"Is that you Skimpole?" Skimpole."Yes,"

Short. I'm Short. I say, Skimpale, I When the Government Editor comes along have 200 shares Shindy Chinas I can sell (or bo will reissue this great book in handy form, March at Tis. 95. I am sure they will touch and we shall all give up our evenings to read-T., too in a few days. True, their business ing "The Decay of England: By its Closest don't pay, but they insure their own ships and Thinkers and Observers. At present it is make enough out of that account to pay a de- only what Professor Huxley called "A parlin cent dividend." mentary paper which nobody reads."

Do. demand...recapetisieszappanuman140 Shanghai-Bank T.T. ............koisam Japan-Bank T.T. ........................... (aya-Bank T.T................

911

Buying

months' sight L/C.......

1/103

5 months' sight LC...1/10|

„30 days' sight Sna Francisco & New York, 431

months' sight

do.

461

10 days' sight Sydney and Melbourne

2.371

5 months' rights

..7.39 1.95

1 months' night Francs .................

1 months' nighs Germany.

ar Silver ... visie ak-some

Bank ogland rate........ 7.

QUOTATIONS.

|--To-day's questations are as follows (-

Walwa New

Skimpole "O. K., putter book. 200 Shin- dy-Clinas for March, 'Í'ls. 95."

24th March. Codlin.-"Central Office, connect 4,378.*

#Is that you Skimpole ??

In a maze of underground passages under a maze of narrow streets in the City, packed closely in thousands and tens of thousands of cases, are the typed pages of last year's Blue looks. If you were to count them they would. Skimpole."Yes, I'm Skimpole." run up, perhaps, to six figures. Even Mr Eyre, Codlin. "Well, I'm Codlin. Short being who has handled Blue Books here for filly seedy, I am looking after the settlements. You years, or Mr. Hugh Spottiswoode himself, have to take up 50 Long Cats and 200 Shindy. must be lost sometimes in the narrow ways be Chinas on the 30th-settling day. There is a tween these "formes" of type which reachdemnition loss on them. Will you take them from floor to ceiling. They weigh 1,600 Inns, up or pay the difference? 1-suppose you have and represent in capital and labour a tolerable fortune. They représen, too, the energy of clerks and Consuls and ambassadors all over the earth. They are the sum of the labour of in vestigators and thinkers in every sphere of life. They are the canvas on which is pictured the condition of the world.

not covered ?"

Skimpole. "No, I've not covered." Codlin-"Well, what do you propose doing?"

Skimpole. "What do you make the loss to be?"

Codlin-Let me see. The so Long Cats Here in these cellars of His Majesty's Print-show 'a loss of Tls: 85 a sharp. That will be ing Office is the Licensing Act, which created Tis. 4.ago. The 10 Shindies lose 1 is. 7, that's a storm in the House of Commons. There is Tin. 1,400, and our com-let me sea so Long the report of the Coal Commission, telling us Cats at Ts. 335, that's Tis. 16,750, and 200 that we have still a hundred thousand million Shindies at 75 95 equal Tis. 19,000; balf per tons of coal to mend our fires with for four cent is Ths. 178.75. Please wait a minute and hundred million years. Over there, being will let you know the exact amount."(All the good condition, however, need not he Lime-printed as fast as the fastest machine can print time Codiin has a detailed account in his hand.)

"Are you there Skimpole?" Skimpole-Yes."

The Back Yard should have its containing Walls Limewashed up to the level of the first floor.

Carved, l'ainted or Polished Woodwork in

washed but must be Cleansed,

The Central Division of the City lies between Gilman Street and Peel Street on the East and Tank Lane and Cleverley Street on the West.

Kau-lung is divided into the Eastern and the Western Divisions by Robinson Road and a straight line drawn from the north end thereal through the Yau-ma-ti service reservoir to the northern boundary of Kau-lung.

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G. N. ORME, Secretary. Dated this 31st day of March, mog

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,

NOTICE.

“HE HALF-YEARLY THE

GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS will be held in the CITY HALL, on SATURDAY, the 29th April, 1955, at 3.30 ..

By Order,

T. F. HOUGH,-

Clerk of the Course.

1476

Hongkong, 14th April. 1905)

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

AN INTERIM

Cent, upon contributions for the year 1904 has been declared.

WARRANTS will be issued on the 3rd May.

lly Order of the Board,

C. MONTAGUE EDE, Acting Secretary,

Hongkong, 13th April, 1905.

THE YANGTSZE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, LIMITED.

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it, is an account of the cotton mills of China; on another machine is an Act of Parliament which gives somebody the power to run electric trams through the High-street at Mortlake And upstairs an old geolieman who knows every Blue Book published for thirty years is harding the finished books over a counter, where one or two in a million of the British people think it worth while to spend twopence half, enny for a document which has cost hun- dreds of pounds.

SMALL CIRCULATIONS,

Though Blue Books are perhaps the cheap

est things in the world, if we compare the seil- ing price with the cost of them, the finance of them is very striking. Let us look at the won-

derful Fiscal Blue Book-Chamberlain 1.," as it is known at the publishers.counter The type in which it still stands set up is worth 3,400, and, reckoning its setting-up alone, not considering any other labour in connection with it, it represents fifteen thousand hours of work Onefficient compositor, that is to say, uld have set it up, if he had made haste, in seven years "Chamberlain 1.,” as is natural

Codlin. "The exact amount due to us by your is Tis. 5,828 75. What do you propose doing? Will you take up the shares or will you pay the difference?"

!

Skimpole.I'm awfully sorry, but I can' possibly take them up, and equally I can't stump up the difference.

Codlin-Well, what do you propose do

ing?"

skimpole can't do anything, am higher than a kite."

Codlin "You must do something. What salary do you get?"

Skimpple."I get Tls. 150 a month, s. 25 of which I have been paying to another broker for the past two years.".

make a proposal"

Codlin-"This is shocking. But you must

Skimpale.-Well, I can give you Tis. 25 a month; not a red cent more. That leaves me only is 10 a month for me to live and pay my club bill."

Codlin-"What's your age?".

enough, had a good circulation--8,000 copies Skimpale shall be 30 next birthday." were sold in all. But the sale was due tots, 300 a year. Now let me see, it will take Codlin. Let me see. Tis. 25 a month or obvious circumstances, and "Chamberlain 11,"

fell 10 1,000. The War Commission Report you just about 70 years to pay us off. You sold nearly 5,cos, the l'ost Office Wages Com-will then be 50 years old, just the prime of mission 10,000; the last issue of the Education life. However, I'll see and let you know." Code 35.000; the Valuation Bili for last year 10,00 The Home Rule Bill still sells Bat hundreds of Blue Banks sell only a handful of copies.

That, and not the cost of it, is the tragedy of

however, miher from the ignorance of the public than from the dofness of the book.

principal covered the shares?"

Skimpole. By the way, Codlin, has your

Codlin, No, but if you will take up your contract, we can honour them from friend Shylock. Good-bye."

Codlin-Central office, connect 5137.

Short. "I'm Short."

Who nic you?

Codlin- I'm Codlin. I say Short, what did you do at the course this morning? I look hand at poker last night and didn't turn in till daylight, so I didn't turn up"

the Jobber and he went in his old Champion Short."I had the whole string out. I rade form. Better put a bit more on him at the

best odds you can get.

Codlin I say, Short, if you have time you might run up to the office.

There are not many questions men ask every day which could not be answered, if we knew where to look, from a Blue Book. 11 is the best possible companion of the newspaper "ow many horses are there in the United Kingdom? How many pigs? Not a man in a hundred could tell you; but the latest Blue Book tells us that the numberof horses is two millions, and of pigs twice as many. What is the healthiest life to li.e? A Blue Book tells us that among 1,000 professors and students, 214 have a defective physique; 726 are defec: tive in 1,005 shopmen and clerks ; 733 in 1,000 tradesmen and only 635 in co agricultural Inbourers. How do we make our living? The DIVIDEND at the Rale of Twenty-five Blue Book tells us. In England and Wales per Cent, being Fifteen Dollars per 86,030 of as make iron and steel. In France Share, on the Paid-up Capital of the above 500 make pins, In New York 1,10s make Association, has been declared payable in Taels perambulators. In Antwerp 33, men make Ausaalia and China or the Lengkong and Durham earns his bread by making bedsteads at Exchange 73 at the Chartered Bank of India, knives and razors. Only one man is there were a loss, especially such a loss, but

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

مند

Shanghai Banking Corporation, Shanghai, on

and after this date to Shareholders of record on the 1st April, 1995.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W. S. JACKSON,

"Shanghai, 12th April, 1913!

Secretary.*

1489

CAPE WEISMANN.

HE Public are invited to pay a visit

* our new

TIFFIN ROOMS.

The only place of its kind in Hongkong,

VERITABLE FAIRY, LAND, .

REAL GERMAN FASS BEER ON DRAUGHT.

Entranco-

NOIA WYNDHAM STERET. *Hongkong, aand April, 1905,

EMPIRE IN 1,000 COLUMNS,

Short. I'm afraid I can't manage it before 3 o'clock, as my swell pointer is a bit off colour, and the vet won't be here before two.

Codlin "All right. By the way, I have been ringing up Skimpole about the settlement He wore he can neither take up his shares or pay the the difference. The best he can de is to let us have Tls: 25 a month." would never be able to pay the difference if Short-"That'll be O. K. I knew that he

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Auctions.

. 1,740

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PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received instructions TH

from £. H. HINDS, E1q,, to sell by. PUBLIC AUCTION, TO-MORROW,

the 28th April, 1905, at a P.81, within his residence, "Glenshial," The Peak,

THE WHOLE OF HIS

VALUABLE

14, QUEEN'S ROAD, FIRST YLOOR,

written guarantee for a test period of TWO Years given for each instrument

A large consignment of records at the low figure at $1.80 each, 57, on wholesale orders.

The largest and most varied 'Stock of Music in China. Inspection solicited. Our work... men are experienced men.

WE-DEFY COMPETITION. 15

INSPECTION INVITED. Hongkong; Tith March, 1905.

T

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Will be mailed to any address on receipt of the price (82), post free,

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Sole Agents for Far East, HOWARD & Co., 29. Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong, Agent: wanted in every port.

For particulars and terms, apply to-

HOWARD & Co.

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Hongkong, 24th November, 1904.

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AND

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A Large Assortment of PLANTS in Pots Catalogues will be issued. TERMS --As usual

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers,

· Hongkong, 27th April, 1995.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

DARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of

РА

the letting by Public Auction Sale, to he

held on MONDAY, the 1st day of May, 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 al Causeway Bay, in the Colony of Hongkong. for a term of 75 years, with the option of re newal at a CROWN REST to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.

No. of Sale, |

Inland Registry No.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Boundary

Measurement

LOCALITY.

Canteway Bay

fl. fl.

16. f

Square feet.

233 100 | 147

71

10,000

Hongkong, 22nd April, 1905.

TH

* Antual Rent

**Upset Price.

Notice of Firm,

NOTICE.

503

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: AND OF MATURED' AGE.

TO BE OBTAINED FROM-

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Hongkong, 11th May, 1904. -

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THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.

STA

BARRETTO & Co.,

General Agents, Hongkong,

GUINNESS'S STOUT.

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT"

is the Finest Bottling of Guinness's Stout,

"THE CELEBR VIED PIG BRAND

: STOUT"

is the very Finest Stout brewed by Masers, A. Guinness, Son & Co., Dublin,

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT" is not medicated nor chemicalized...

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND

STOUT". Consumers wishing to drink perfectly pure Stout of the very finest quality should drink Pig Brand Stout.

.....

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND

STOUT".

THE Business of Dressmaking and Millinery hitherto carried on under the name of FLINT & CO. will, from the 1st proximo, be carried on in the name of and styled Pig Brand Stout is better bottled, better packed,

and has stronger packages than its rivals,

MAKING PARLORS, No. 4. Des Værva MADAME JAY'S MILLINERY and DRESS. Road, under the same proprietorship.

Hongkong, 26th April, 1905.

Intimations.

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**THE CELEBRATED PIG BRANDI

¡STOUT,"

Pig Brand Stout gently assists digestion..

"THE CELEBRATED PIG, BRAND STOUT."

masker, the pidgin we did with him steadied THE WISE MAN Pig Brand Stout is a food as well as, a drink.

BUYS A "SINGER"; IT'S TRUE ECONOMY.

the market, and gave us time to unload to In a remarkable Blue Book which has just those sailor fellows who can pay. Hurry up. appeared for the first time, & Statistical Abstract | Accept his offer and insure his life in one of of the British Empire, the empire, with its the new companies. 11 Fagin is in the rooms flourishing commerce in every market of the ask him what he will lay against Bagdad for the world, is seen at a glance in a thousand Derby. I rode him this morning, and he went 5 YEARS' GUARANTEE; parallel columns, and there are thousands of like greased lightning, pull as I would." Blue Books dealing with the life and habits: Codlin-Hold on, I'll see. Are you there,

and condition of almost every race of people on the earth, Let us turn haphazard through the pages of "CI). 2,175"-the report, already' referred te, on Physical Deterioration. Sir to Frederick Maurice is speaking of the decline in the physique of men in great tawarin

"I see the sort of population that comes day after day to watch the Guards parade at St. James's Palace, and it so happens that on Mafcking night I walked down from Charing cross to Cannon-street by chance, and I went through the whole crowd, and 1. did not see a dozen men that I could have enlisted.”.

Shon? Fagin says he will lay 1,000 to 100 against Bagdad.”

„Shor. Take it and ask bim to double it." Codlin."O. K, he'll double. He tells me that he has had a regular facer in Docks and is trying to compound. As a matter of fact, be offered Smith 25 per cent, and was refused.

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"THE CELERATED-PIC"BRAND". STOUT."

Pig Brand Stout may be recommended by medical men to their most delicate patients.

"THE CELEBRATED.PIG BRAND

ASTCUT."

Pig Brand Stout has been celebrated for thirty years in the leading Colonial and Foreign: Markets.

I know the beggar has coin stowed away some-MPLOYE de commerce, Agé de 29 ans, where and could pay up, but he won't part de nationalité Suisse, ayant déjs occupé, Wild horses won't drag it from: hie How do d'importantes fonctions dans de grosses maisons, Pig you stand with him? -

wer connaissant à fond de comptabilité en partic Short-Ah yes. You remember. I had double, parlant couramment le Français, l'Al Jobber in his book last meeting, but he demand, le Hellandals, Italien et l'Anglais, hasn't paid up yet." Pai désirerait une situation dans l'une des villes de

Codlin-1 know he's got the coin, but it la côte de China pag seems most of it is settled on his wife. Get the

Here is another passage, from Miss Dowding, a lady witness. She is speaking of "horrible and ghastly tales" of life in Willshire:

Very often the baby is really neglected, pointer seen to at once and turn up in the whether wilfully or not I do not know. But office chap chop. Good-bye. (Solto voce) when the mother dies, the baby is nearly al-"Thank God the settlement is passing off

Bailefacto

· [46] waye buried with tier,

6.poo dallues per an, Ecrire aux initiales Très bonnes références-Appointements: de

Vau journal "POpinion" do Saigon. Salgon, le a Mara, 1901,

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND

STOUT".

Brand Stent is only slightly higher in price

than other bottlings of Guinness's. Per cask of & dozen prints $14.00

BARRETTO & Co,

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

Lija | Hongkong, 16th March, 1903,