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Kutimation.

WM. POWELL,

LIMITED.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.-

LADIES'

DEPARTMENT,

A LARGE

AND

VARIED STOCK OF THE NEWEST

DRESS

MUSLINS

AND

WASHING FABRICS.

PRETTY

BATHING

DRESSES

AND

CAPS.

CHILDREN'S

DEPARTMENT.

NEW WASHING

HATS.

Entimations.

THE

THE "STAR PERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS..

NOTICE is hereby given that the SEVENTH ANNUAL ORDINARY

MEETING of the Company will be held at the City Hall, Tri-MORROW, the 27th instant, at 12,35 MM, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, together with a State ment of Accounts to gath April, 1935.

The REGISTER OF SHARES will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 20th instant, to SATURDAY, the 27th instant, both days

inclusive:

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1905.

ADMIRAL TOGO AS A YOUTH.ith a Prayer Book, but I was distinctly given to understand that no proselytising was to be attempted. .....

The Revi A. D. Capel, MA, contributes the Strand Bagaring the following interesting sketch of Admiral Togo's days in England

Some two or three years after the revolution

which restored the Mikades of Japan to their former power a considerable number of yeaths

were sent to Europe and America to lear Western languages, customs, and manners These were distribued over the different coun- tries, some at schools and others elementary training establishments, while others were sent to privata tutors. Of these last three or four were sent to Cambridge, of whom one was sent to me, another to a brother clergyman who is now a dignitary of the Church, and the other [591 two, if there were two, of which 1 have some doubts, to other private tutors. The youth sent to me was Heihachiro Togo, known now to all the newspaper-reading folk in all the

EDWARD OSBORNE,

Secretary.

Hongkong, 26th May, 1905.

HONGKONG HIGH, LEVEL TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-world.

ORDINARY GENEAL MEETING of the above-named Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, Alex andra Buildings un SATURDAY, the 3rd of June, at Noon, in accordance with Article 101 of the Company's Articles of Association for the purpose of considering the desirability of the dissolution of the Company and for the purpose of passing the following Resolutions,

Viz.:-

1. That it is desirable that the Company may be dissolved and that it be wound up voluntarily.

2. That the General Managers be and they

are hereby appointed Liquidators.

י.

When Togo came to me he spoke but very little English, and two huge quarto, diction. aries, with which we conversed, became a regular adjunct at the table at dinner and other meals. If a word was used which he had not heard, or anmething he had not seen appeared on the table, I showed him the word in the English-Japanese dictionary, and he would look out the word in the other volume, where he would find a fuller description of the thing in question.

Consignees.

I know that my admiration for my Japanese pupil was very much what was experienced by the othertutors in Cambridge who had received Japanese students into their houses for theirHEH. A. L. Steamship Pupila. The two tutors that I knew. both spoke of them in the highest terms.

FROM HAMBURG, BREMEN, ROTTER. DAM, ANTWERP, PENANG AND SINGAPORE

I shall ever have the most pleasing recollec- tions of the kindness, the thoughtfulness, and, above all, the marvellous patience of Heihs- chiro Togo. Little indeed did 1 think that had under my care one who was destined to make history that all the world would read, not only now, but in distant ages.

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Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE,

of.

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY,

situate at Caine Road, Victoria, Hongkong,

ON

THURSDAY,

the 1st June, 1905, at 3. P.M., DY

-Mr. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer, at his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.

THE Promises are Registered in the Land His progress in English during the time he

Office as Section A of Inland Lat. No. 423 was with me was by no means great, but owing and Section & of Ialand Lot No. 523 with the Messuage and Buildings thereon, known as to his illness, of which I shall have to speakDINDER," No. 51, Caine Road, and contain

3. That the Liquidators be and they are

hereby authorised to cunsent to the relater, his stay with me was only one of two or in the whole 29,138 square feet and are held gistration of a Sew Company to be named the "PPAR TRAMWAYS COM three months. In these months, however, few from the Crown for the residues of the res PANY. LIMITED" with a Memorandum as they were, he made rapid strides in elemen-pective terms of 999 years. Annual Crown Rent

$76.65. and Articles of Association which have tary mathematics,' about which we were soon been prepared with the approval of the able to converse with a fair amount of case sale, apply to-

For further particulars and conditions of Consulting Committee of the Company whereas in the ordinary conversation of every:

EWENS & HARSTÓN, 4. That the Liquidors be empowered to sell

Solicitors for the Mortgages, to the "EAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, day life he seemed to have great difficulty, and LIMITED" the undertaking of this Com this must have lasted for some time after be pany at the price of $200 per share either left me, as shown by his letters to my wife. in cash or shares of the "PEAK TRAM- WAYS COMPANY, LIMITED" at the aption of Shareholders of this Company and to enter into all necessary agree-f ments to that effect.

Should the above Resolutions be passed by the requisite majority they will be submitted

for confusion as special solutions to Second Extraordinary General Meeting which will be ubsequently convened.

Dated 22nd May, 1905.

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JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.

CANTON CUSTOMS."

LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 73-

Taishek BaRRIER.

Νο

JOTICE is hereby given that two BEA- CONS will shortly be placed to mark the Northern edge of the Channel now being dredged across the TAISHEK BARRIER. As soon as this' area has been cleared in a

But it is rather of the youth himself, than of him as a student, that I wish to speak. As I sad at the beginning of this article, he,'with. many others, came to learn Western.manners. Whist he was in my house was constantly urging my pupils and others to learn Eastern

mean.

manners. He had, I thought then, and I think now, ore consideration for the feelings of his, fellows than anyone I have ever had much to to with. On we occasions, which I remem ber vividly, he was certainly annoyed, but, at the same time he showed no resentment. One of my pupils bad copied as well as he could on a post-card some Japanese writing and sent it to him, without having an idea of what it was supposed to

When the postman brought it Togo looked at it and at first was evidently puzzled, but after a time realised it was a hoax and threw it away with the one word, "Silly," ́A small son of mine, whose only idea of japanese was that they were all wonder. ful acrobats, was the other cause. About the time that. Togo lived with me there was, as many will recollect, a celebrated troupe of tapanese jugglers, including a wonderful boy who was called "All Right." My boy was very anicious as to whether he knew him. He was certainly, fur the moment, "vexed; but succeeded in explaining that jugglers and pub. lic entertaining belonged to a different class of society, and that therefore he knew not hing about lalle "All Right," of or any of his companions

depth of to feet Low Water of Spring Tides, the dredger will commence work in the chan- nel now used by, shipping, and vessels will then be required to use the new channel; which, will be marked as follows;

Two Beacons cach bearing a Red shape a: d showing a Red light by night will mark the Northern edge of the channel. Two Beacons, each bearing a Black shape and showing a Green light by night will mark the Sonthein edve of the channel. Vessels will known that the nfl channel acus the Taishek Barrier is closed to them when they see that the dredger is at work there, and that the shapes have een removed from the Taishek Beacons and have been placed on the Beacons marking the newlying the room where he was amusing two of my dredged channel.

btle girls, one of them greeted me with shouts

when approaching the Barrier and to take esses are required to pn at slow speed every precaution.

J. HOWELL MAY,

Harbour Master.

Approved

F. J. MAYERS,

Acting Commissioner of Customs,

Custom House,

Canton, 22nd May, 1905.

PITH

HATS.

SHARP UTTLE SHAVER

*WEIGHT LESS, THAN ||

THE FAMOUS Kab D

!OUNCES.

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One of the most striking features in hist character was his love olchildren and his ex- ccosive kindness to them. One day, on enter.

or to

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.. ¿Pongkong, 25th May, 1905.

'BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES..

PUBLIC AUCTION.

"ABERLOUR," Captain Burnet, having arrived · from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading tor. countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside,

Optional Carge will be forwarded unless notice to the 'contrary be given before TO

DAY.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's'arrival here after which I dale they cannot be recognised.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 1st June will be subjeci

to rent.

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined as the 1st June, at 3 P.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,

Hongkong Office.

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Hongkong, 25th May, 1905.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

HE Steamship

THE

"ZIETEN"

990

LÜTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO., IMPORTERS.

Intimations.

CIGARS.

FIREST HAMBURO MADE

ROLAND VON ́HAMBURG

AT

$4.00 per hundred,

FLOR DE MONDEGO

AT

$5.50 per hundred.

Sold in

AIR-TIGHT TING

AT

TUNG CHONG WO,

98, Queen's Road Central,

Opposite Central Murkti,

LŪTGENS,

EINSTMANN & CO., IMPORTERS.

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Hongkong, 25th January, 1905.

BELL'S ASBESTOS EASTERN AGENCY, LIMITED.

BRANCH REGISTER OF MEMBERS

REGISTER has this day been established under The Companies (Colonial Registers) Act 1883 and will be kept at the Office of the Undersigned who are duly authorised to exer. cise all the powers of the Directors of the Com pany in relation to transfer of Shares entered in such branch register.

Dated this First day of May, 1905;

A of this Company on the EASTERN

having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the excepline of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the Gndowns sas nd the Hongkong and Kowinon Wharf and· Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be shinined.

„Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless (594 notice to the contrary be given before 3 o'clock

THIS AFTERNOON,

No Claims will be adamited after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 30th instant will be

MESSRS HUGHES AND HOUGH have subject to ch

been instructed to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

ON MONDAY,

the 5th June, 1995, at 7.30 o'clock in the after

non, at their Auction Room, No. 8, Des Vaux Road' (corner of Ice House Street)

THE

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, which is intended to be registered in the Land Office as SUBSECTION : OF SECTION N OF MARINE LOT

NUMBER SEVENTY-ONE, IN ONE LOT, This Property comprises Nos. 84, 86, 88, & 90,

All broken, chafed, and danged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined pa' TUESDAY, the joth instant, at 9.30 AM.

All Claims inust reach us before the 5th of June, or they will not be re gnized.

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.

MELCHERS & Co., Agents.

Hongkong, 24h May, 1905.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP AND LONDON,

Ko Shing Street, Victoria, Hongkong, Particulars and. Conditions of Sale may be obtained from the Vendors' Solicitors,

Messrs. DEACON, LOOKER & DEACON,

J, Des Voeux Road Central,

and also from the Auctioneers.THE Steamship

1523 Hongkong, 22nd May, 1905.

Intimations.

THE HONGKONG STUDIO,

HIGHER CLASS PHOTOGRAPHER, 41 43, (QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, TOP FLOOR.

GING and COPYING in all Sizes:

LARCH SELECTION OF VIEWS-ALWAYS ON HAND.

"MONMOUTHSHIRE," Captain G. E. Warner, having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, at Kowloon and stored at Consignces' risk and expense.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 29th inst. will be sub ject to rent

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Agents.

following her eyes I saw a little piece of paper of "Look, look, papa! Look at my fly!" PORTRAITS, GROUPS and ENLAR examined on the 29th inst., at 3.30 P.M.

moving about the room, and on further investi. gation I found, to my intense astonishment, that this little piece of paper, on which leven.. tually found written "Ella's Fly," was attached by a hair of her own head to a fly. This Togo 'presently caught, and most deftly--so clever was he with his fingers-removed the hair from the fly, which flew away seemingly none the worse for its semi-captivity.

As I hinted before, while with us he bad a

Razor very serious attack in his eyes, which necns-

sitated very stringent and painful measures to cure; in fact, so harsh were the methods ne cessary that on more than one occasion my

PRICE VERY MODERATE.

Mangháng, 10th September, ront

MEE CHEUNG,

PHOTOGRAPHER,

TOP FLOOK * tex HouSK, IN

fre House 'out!

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Snow is a position, in his New and Com

modious Premises, to eclipse, as heretofore, ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRACTICED

BOYS' & GIRLS' THIS DWARF RAZOR has superseded wife found out that he had had no sleep what to the Colony or in any part of the Far East.

SANDALS.

SUITS.

its use Shaving becomes a pleasure. It is manufactured in Sheffield, England, from a special amalgam of steel which makes imita tion imprissible, and in consequence it enjoys the largest sale of any Raror in the World, Thousands of Testimonials testify that the little MAB is the finest shaving implement ever produced.

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

To be obtained from THE MUTUAL STORES, WATKINS, LIMITED, and all first-class atores in the Colony...

Sole Agents for Far East, HOWARD & Co.,

DRESSES 29. Des Vœux Road, Central, Hongkong,

AND

Agents wanted in every port.

For particulars and terms, apply to-

HOWARD & Co. Hongkong, 24th November, 1904.

·Marshall and

Elvy's

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BATHING ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN.

COS- TUMES.

&c., &c., &c.

Satiner

ette

INSPECTION INVITED.

Wm. POWELL, Ld.

HONGKONG,

Hongkong, hand May, 1905.

DOUBLY DISTILLED AND OF

MATURED AGE.

TO BE OBTAINED FROM-

THE MUTUAL STORES, Des Voeux Road.

Hoogkong, 11th May, 1904.

ever during the night. His patience and quiet endurance of all this suffering were quite a revelation to us. Had I not bad this personal acquaintance with the way in, which Japanese can endure and bear, I should almost have doubled the truth of many of the stories told of them during this present war, whereas with the remembrance of Trigo so indelibly printed on

memory I could believe them all. When he was with me he had, so far as 1 |could understand, no intention of becoming a sailor. One day I asked him what he was thinking of being, when he said he was going to be a sailor on dry land, which after many questionings, to say nothing of references to the big dictionaries, we discovered to mean that he hoped to go into the office which would correspond with our Admiralty.

Owing to his illness, however, I had, to any great disappointment, to lose him as a pupil. The leading surgeon of Cambridge, whom wa

felt constrained to call.in to consult with our

GROUPS AND VIEWS a speciality. Haagkono, vend Sentambr, FROM

TRADE

BIC

OURES

MARK

MEN & WOMEN B150 is a non-poisonous remedy for any unnatural discharge and infiammation, Irritation or alceration of mucous membranes. Palaior. instantsed not to stricture. Prevents contagios.

SOLD BY CHEMISTS.

Circular malled on request.

· MANUFACTUKENLY The Evana Chemical Ch.

CINCINNATI, O.

BOO CHEONG,

昌:

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family practitioner, felt it his duty to tell me it STATIONER, AND PAPER MERCHANT,

would be cruel to keep him in Cambridge, so l wrote in the Embassy, who removed him to Portsmouth, or its neighbourhood, from where

be went to join the "Worcester."

Daring his stay at Portsmouth he wrote my wife a few short letters, which, in his ignorance of English, were most funnily expressed and even addressed. I have no doubt, these letters. are mnit carefully preserved somewhere, but i cannot lay my hand on them. One sentence 1

No. 20, Poltinger Street

AS always on hand all varieties of Stationery, Printing and Note Papers, Copying Presses, also Automatic Cyclostyle and Ellams Duplicator

́Hongkong, zyrd Febmary, 1905.

[NOTICEM

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Hongkong, 23rd May, 1905, PORTLAND AND ASIATIC STEAMSHIP .COMPANY.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

5.S. " ARABIA," FROM PORTLAND (OR) YOKOHAMA,

KOBE. AND.MOJI.

THE above steamer having arrived, Con- signees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Countersigna- ture and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the vesicl will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.

ALLAN CAMERON, General Agent. Hongkong, 20th May, 1000.

FURNITURE WAREHOUSE.

LI KWONG LOONG,

CABINET-MAKER AND ART DECORATOR, from Shanghai, has opened a FURNITURE STORE

at

No. 45, Des Vixux ROAD CENTRAL The only Shop in Hongkong with this name.

WHERE HIGH-CLASS FURNITURE every description: cat, be made, to

order in any design:required.

Has been patronised by the Hongkong Club,

BRADLEY & Co.

TSHIR

WILT

As Supplied to

HARRIS'S

His Majesty'

The KING

BACON

HAMS

Gold Medals PARIS 1889 & 1900

Regd

GRIS

Brand

HARRIS,CALNE WILTS-England.

REPRESENTATIVES FOR HONGKONG & CHINA,

HOWARD & Co..

50, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.

Hongkong, 19th May, 1905.

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THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.

KARK

BARRETTO & Co., General Agents, Hongkeng."

GUINNESS'S STOUT,

。

"THE CELEBRATED PIG-BRAND STOUT"

is the Finest Bottling of Guinness's Stout,

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND.

- STOUT" is the very Finest Stout brewed by Messis. A. Guinness, Son & Co., Dublin.

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND .STOUT.

is not medicated nor chemicalized,

."THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT 1 Consumers wishing to drink perfecily pure Siaul of the very finest quality should. drink Pig Brand Stout.

THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND

STOUT" Pig Brand Stout is better bottled, better packed, and has stronger packages than its rivals.

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND. STOUT."

Pig Brand Stout gently assists digestion.

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT."

Pig Brand Stout is a food as well as a drink,-~

"THE 'CELEBRATED PIG BRAND

STOUT."

Pig Brand Stout may be recommended by medical men to their most delicate palients. "THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT

Hongkong Hotel, phy Co., and other leading Pig Brand Stout has been celebrated for thirty Ld Joint Telegraphs

Establishments in the Colony, to whom refer ence may be made as to the Superior Work manship and Materials of the Furniture, &c, supplied.

∙Mussra, A.-5, Watson & Co, Ltd, write as follows

"We have pleasure in stating that Mr., LI

can quote as a specimen of many others of the NHE Public-are hereby informed that no KWONG LOONG famished the Annexe;10

same kind. Writing of his progress in English, he says: "I shall be conversation to under

stand when next we meet.

When he was with me he always went to the church where I was officiating, us he liked to hear the singing and to follow the servico

change has been made in the Rates of Subscription to the Hongkong Telegraph und they are warned against paying more than TEM CENTE (10's) per Single Copy.

THE MANAGER, Hongkong Telegraph Co, Ltd. Hongkong, toth September, 1909.′′

*tion."

our Dispensary and gave us every satisfac

(54) A. S. WATSON & Co., Ld. ORDERS punctually attended to, and CHARGES most moderate,

years in the feading Colonial and Foreign Markets,

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND

STOUT"..

Pig Brand Stout is only slightly higher in price than other bottlings of Guinness's. Per coal of 8 dozen prints $24.00 quans Sto.oo

BARRETTO & Co

Agenti

Nou 23 & 24 Bank Buildings

the Road Central

AN INSPECTION INVITED. Hongkong, 6th December, 1994.

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Hongkong, 16th March, 1905,