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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16 1905.

Shipping Steamers. OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LD.

AND

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAV.

JOINT SERVICES.

CO., LD.

FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS FOR LONDON AND CONTINENT. MONTHLY SAILINGS FOR LIVERPOOL

TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING FOR ALL EUROPEAN, NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN, WEST AUSTRALIAN, JAVA AND SUMATRA PORTS.

FROM

EUROPEAN

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL

SERVICE,

OUTWARD. ·

STEAMERS

"ANTENOR"

ULYSSES"

23rd 301h 31st

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL

DUE ,16th August. ...... 10th

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL

'ALCINOUS·

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL

"AGAMEMNON"

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL muona, GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL ......

"JASON"

"TEENKAI".

HOMEWARD.

,FOR

STEAMERS LONDON,AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "DOMENEUS". *GENOA, MARSEILLES & LPOOL "STENTOR " LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "PAKLING " LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "ACHILLES" *GENOA, MARSEILLES & POOL LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP

YANGTSZE " ANTENOR"

* Taking Cargo for Liverpool at London Rates,

....... 6th September,

TO SAIL

17th August. 20th .29th ......12th September.

....20th ..26th

TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE.

OPERATING IN CONJUNCTION WITH

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.

AND TAKING CARĜO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO ALL OVERLAND COMMON POINTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CANADA.

FOR

EASTWARD.

STEAMER

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA, and)

all PACIFIO COAST. PORTS, ^vid "JASON" NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA)

FROM

WESTWARD.

H

STEAMEX

TO SAIL

...3rd September.

DUE

............17th August.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS.

[

TACOMA, SEATTLE, VICTORIA and NINGCHOW"

PACIFIC COAST

For Freight, apply to

Hongkong, 16th August, 1905,

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.

TSINGTAO, CHEFOO and NEWCHWAN(ICHANG

SHANGHAI...

SHANGHAL........

MANILA ་་་་་་་་་

GEBU and ILOILO

and TIENTSIN

FOR

SWATOW, WEI-HAI-WEI,

CHEFOO

STEAMERS.

TO SAIL

11

17th August.

"KIUKIANG "† 18h

***

"PAKHOI" | ... 22nd

Shipping Steamers.

HONGKONG-MACAO LINE.

S.S.WING CHAI"

Captain. T. AUSTIN, R.N.R.

HIS Steamer departs from Hongkong on Teck Days, at 7.30 AM. and on Sun- days at 830 A.M. Departs from Macao an Week Days at 7.30 PM. and on Sundays at 5.30 PM., if tide permits.

FARES-Weak Days, 1st Claes, including Cabin and servant, Single $3; Return Ticket, $5; and Class, $1; 3rd Class, 50 cents.

Every Sunday will be an Excursion, at the following rates-1st and 2nd Class, Single Ticket, St; Retura, Sz 3rd Class, Single, 30 cants, Return, 50 cents; Steerage, to cents.

Breakfast, Tiffin and Dinner can be supplied either on Board, or at the Macao Hotel, for returning passengers only, at an extra charge of $1.

Un Sundays, passengers desiring to have a Private Cabin which has accommodation for two or more passengers, will be charged $3

extra.

First Class Passengers, who do not care to return on the Excursion Sunday, will be allowed to do so the following day (Monday) og, pro;; duction of the Retorn Half Ticket. Should the Steamer not run on the Monday, owing to ibe Boiler cleaning, due notice will be given by the Captain, and the Half Ticket wilt be available for the following day.

The Steamer is it throughout by Electricity, The Steamer's wharf at Wongkong is at the Western end of Wing Lok Street.

¡MING ON & Co.

and Floor, No. 16, Victoria Street, [14 Hongkong, 13th June, 1995.

STEAM TO CANTON. THE New Twin Screw Steel Steamers

Tons Captain "KWONG CHOW"...3;309.%. Je P2 MARTIN,

“KWONG TUNG"... 1,238,. H. W. WALKER.

*Leave Hongkong for Cantos at 9 every evening (Saturday excepted).

Leave Canton for Hongkong about 5.30 o'clock every evening (Sunday excepted).

These Fine New Steamers have unexcelled Accommodation for First Class Passengers and are lit throughout by Electricity. Electric Fans: in First Class Cabins.

"

Passage Fare-Single Journey...54 Meals

..$1 each. The Company's Wharf is a short distance) West of the Harbour Master's Office.

TRIPS TO CANTON' AND MACAO. “HE Yuk On Company's Splendid Steamer ΤΗΣ

"YING KING,"

..... 1,088 tons, Registered.

Captain E. 1. Page, will leave Hongkong for Canton every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY EVENING, at 9.30 P.M., returning to Hongkong every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY, about 5 PM. On SUNDAYS sho make an EXCURSION TRIP to MACAO, leaving Hongkong at 8.30 A.M., and returning from Macao about 7.30 P.M.

The "YING KING" is especially fitted for these rugs, is the gawest, fastest and most luxuriously furnished steamer on the line and is lighted throughout with Electricity, also hot and cold water is supplied.

FARES: First Class single journey to Canton ...$3.00 Second

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... 1.50

(to Macao 1,00 First class single journey with Cabin 2.00

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31

return. "

Second

(to Macao 1.00 {with Cabin. 3.00

80 Cents. ...... $1,50

· 30 50

133

15

Third

return

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single return H » Single Breakfast, Tiffin or Dinner $1 each only, Wine and Spirit of the best brand are used.

The wharf in Hongkong is at the West end of Wing Lok Street.

The wharf in Macao is the same as the

S.5. Perseverance.

For further information, apply to the Office of

YUK ON S. 5. Co., L.D., No. 216, Wing Lok Street, Hongkong,

· or to Messrs. WENDT & Co., Canton Agents. 5. A. NORONHA, Macao Agent. Hongkong, 17th May, 1905.

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REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE

TO NEW YORK,

VIA PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL, (With Liberty to Call at Malabar Coast),

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG,

About

Steamship "SHIMOSA". .... 27th August, 1905. "SATSUMA" ............ 25th September, »

For Freight and further Information, apply

DODWELL & Co., LIMITED, Agents

SHIV ON S.S. CO., LD., and to YUEN ON S.S. CO., LD.,

No. 8, Queen's Road West. Hongkong, 26th June, 1905.

17 Hongkong, 15th August. 1905.

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD.

(PROJECTED BAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.—SUBJECT TO ALTERATION),

For

Steamship

Са

SGAPORE,S'RABAYA & SAMARANG..FOOSHING ......THURSDAY, 17th August,,3 P.N.

.................YUENSANG* ...FRIDAY, 18th August, 4 P.M.

.KWONGSANG †.SATURDAY, 19th August, 3 P.M. S'GAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA...KUTSANG *......TUESDAY, 22nd August, Noon.

ESANG....FRIDAY, 25th August, 3 PM,

TEAN........... 22nd

MANILA

"SUNGKIANG " *.

*... 22nd

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SHANGHAI.

"CHIHLI "

*****...... 25th

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i Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangisze and Northern China Ports.

• The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by these teamers, which are sited throughout with Electric. Light. Unrivalled table. A duly qualified Surgeon is carried.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Hongkong, 16th August, 1905,

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

AGENTS.

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HONGKONG MANILA.

Highest Class, newest, fastest and most luxurious Steamers between Hongkong and Manila.-Saloon amidships-Electric Light-Perfect Cuisine-Surgeon and Stewardess carried. -All the most up-to-date arrangements for comfort of Passengers.

AND MANILA CHINA

STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

For

Steamship,

Tons.

Captain.

ZAFIRO

RUBI

2540 R. Rodger

MANILA

2540 A. H. Notley...

13

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Hongkong, 14th August, 1905.

S

A

Sailing Dates,

SATURDAY, 26th August,

at Noon. SATURDAY, 2nd Sept.,

at Noon,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

GENERAL MANAGERS. ·

HONGKONG-NEW YORK.

AMERICAN ASIATIC

STEAMSHIP CO.

FOR NEW YORK via PORTS AND SUEZ JANAL. (With Liberty to Call at the Malabar Coast). Steamship "SIERRA BLANCA".

For Freight and further information, apply to

Hongkong, 17th August, 1905.

BOO CHEONG,

昌

STATIONER AND PAPER MERCHANT,

No: 20, Pottinger Street.

on hand all varieties of

About ...20th September..

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Agents.

TIENTSIN

* These Steamers have superior accommodation for First-class Passengers, and are fitted throughout with Electric Light.

Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to Chefoo, Tientsin, Newchwang and Yangisze Ports,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,

General Managers.

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Hongkong, 16th August, 1905. PORTLAND & ASIATIC STEAMSHIP CO.

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG, VIA SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,

FOR

PORTLAND, OREGON,

OPERATING IN CONNECTION WITH

THE OREGON RAILROAD AND NAVICATION COMPANY, ·

..

Топа

"NUMANTIA"...$370...

"ARABIA"

H

11

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To Sail at Daylight on Steamship

Captain "ARAGONIA".. .... 5. 198...............Schuldt................September 1st, 1905. "NICOMEDIA"...4,370........Wagemans.........September 26th,

Feldtmann.....October 14th, -4,483.............. Metienthin. November 7th, The S.S. "Aragonia" left Portland on July 3zad, and is expected to arrive here on Angust zand, Through Bills of Lading issued to Pacific Coast Points and all Eastern, Canadian and United States Points. For through rates of Freight and further information, communicate with or apply to

12)

"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS. FOR MARSEILLES, LONDON AND

ANTWERP,

HE Steamship

THE

S. SILVERSTONE, Acting General Agent.

"BENLARIG," Captain Wallace, will be despatched as above, on or about the 27th instant.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.

[800 Hongkong, 3rd August, 1905,

EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED. FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling at Port Darwin and Queensland Ports, and taking through Carge to Adelaide, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.)

THE Steamship

* EASTERN," Captain Ellis, will be despatched for the above Ports, on WEDNESDAY, the 6th September, at Noon.

This well-known Steamer is specially fitted for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham- (ber, which ensures the supply of Fresh Provi

sions, Ice, etc., throughout the voyage.

TSANG FOO & CO., COAL MERCHANTS AND STEVEDORES,

48, DES VEUX ROAD.

H. Stationery, Priuting and Note Papers, SHIPS Coaled from alongside at the shortes!

Copying Presses also Automatic Cyclostyle

and Ellama Duplicator.

Hongkong, sjrd February, 1903.

(64)

notice, and with all possible despatch. Prices Moderate. Telephone No. 319. Hongkong, 1st October, 1904.

This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric Light.

duly qualified Surgeon and Stewardess are carried.

electric fans fitted in staterooms,

A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. This is theage of iesearch and experiment, when nistature, Fotosprak, is raissacked by the scientific for the rulert and happiness of mat Seicoce he indeed made giatil strídeschuring the past century, and anong the by no incans east important alberic medicine comes tiral of Therapion, particulars of which will be found is another cold. The preparation is unquestionably one of the rust genaine and reliante l'atem Medicines crintindifced and has we understand, been used in the Continental Hospitals by Ricard, Rostas, I tolpeck. Maisonneuse, the well-known virasmgna", mud indved by all those who are gordatlutitles auch matters, including Die eriturated Lallemand, and Roux, by whom li w.ame time since ordformly adopted, and that it is worthy themtention of those whorequire such A remedy we think there le no doubt. From the time of Aristotle downwards, a potent agent tu the removal of these diuenser link (lice the famed plit- It's stoar)bres the object of search of some hopeful generous minds; að far beyond the mere

If Ruch cridever have been discovered of iranting De braèr metals into gallis surely the discovery of a remedy sa potent as to replenish the fallug energies of the comfirmed row in the one case, and hi the other so effectuaily, speedity and safely to expel from the system without the aid, or even the knowledge, of a second party the poisons of acquired or inherited disease inalither protean formas na to leaverolaint or trace behind. Such is The New French Remedy Therapton, which my certainly rank with, if not lake precedence of many of the discoveries of our day.about which No little ostentation and noise have been ninde, Andiheextensive and ever-increasing demand that Jan een created for this medicine wherever latro- duced appears to prove that it is destined to cast La obliviour all those questionable remedies that were formerly the sale tellance of medical sen. Therapion ay be obtained in England direct from the proprietor, and of the principal Chemists and Merchants throughout the Colonies, India, Chins, Japan, &c., not even excluding such remote districts as Ceutral Africa, the Fiji Islands, BL leleng Rec.-DiamandFields Adverilir KIMBERLEY

Sold by A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., w

Hongkong, China and Manila.

NOTICE

N.B.-To assure the additional comfort of THE Public are hereby in the Rates of

change has been made passengers the steamers of the Company have Subscription to the Hongkong Telegraph and they are warned against paying more than TEN CENTS (10 ct.) per Single Copy.

THE MANAGER, Hongkong Telegraph Coyledi Hongkong, gab Supieraber, '1903

For Freight or Passage, apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.

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Hongkong, zath August, 1905;

HONGKONG METROROLOGICAL

SIGNALS.

A NEW.CODE,

ABOUT VARIOUS COUNTRIES.

THE SENSIBLE WIJS.

Our friends of the picturesque costumes and custorns who dwell within the shadow of the

We have received from the Hongkong Alps are a pretty level-headed folk. While in a sense isolated from the busy world and living Observatory a now code of meteorological a life almost Arcadian in its simplicity, the signals which comes into force at Hongkong Swiss are by no means laggards in the march: on New Year's Day. They are the same as of progress. We delight to boast of our public- schools of Switzerland is an many respects those at present in use at Shanghai, and will school system, but the education given in the be hoisted on the mast beside the time-ball at | more comprehensive and practical than that. Kowloon Paint for the information of masters offered in our curriculums. The girls, for in- and spell, but to cook, to wash, to sew, % 78 of vessels leaving the port. They do not neces-tance, are taught not only to read and write sarily imply that bad weather is expected. The

Robert Webster Jones in the March Ho keeper. In addition to being trained for siguals are as follows:-

duties of homemaking and housekeeping, cach

A cone point upwards indicates a typhoon to girl is taught some utefal trade. Many of the pupils are daughters of rich parents, and there the North of the Colony.

is little likelihood of their ever having to earn their own living, but the paternal Government takes the view that every member of society should possess the ability to be self-supporting. even though the necessity to exercise that ability should never arise. No expense has

A cone point upwards and drum below in- dicates a typhoon to the North-East of the Colony,

>

A drum indicates a typhoon to the East of been spared in equipping the schools of Switzer

land for the teaching of domestic science. the Colony.

.

A cone point downwards and drum below indicates a typhoon to the South-East of the Colony.

The boys, too, have not been neglected in the Swiss system of education. Physical cul- ture and manual training have prominent places in the curriculum, and every boy on leaving the public school is equipped to earn his own living. Fads and frills are absent from the Swiss schools. The hard-headed taxpayers

A cone point downwards indicates a typhoon want to see some return for their money. to the South of the Colony.

A cone point downwards and ball below indicales a typhoon to the South West of the Colony,

They demand that the education for which they pay shall be practical and useful in after life. Are they not right?

LYNX-EYED SPIES OF RUSSIA.

Russia is pre-eminently the land of spies. Democratic and socialistic trance has mised the spy system to a state function, but in Rus- sia it is the very soul of the state, In Moscow,

A bail indicates a typhoon to the West of in the streets, agents of the police are stationed every 500 yards in addition; secret the. Colony,

agents watch the houses day and night

A cone point upwards and ball below'indicates a typhoon to the North-West of the Colony.

Red Signals indicate that the centre is believed to be more than 300 miles away from

the Colony.

Black Signals indicate that the centre is believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony.

The above signals will, as heretofore, be hoisted only when typhoons exist in such posi- tions or are moving in such directions that in formation regarding them is considered to be of importance to the Colony or to shipping leay ing the harbour,

B

NIGHT SIGNALS.

Two lanterns hoisted vertically indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is expected to veer.

Two lanteras hoisted horizontally indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is expected to back.

The signals are repeated on the flagstaff of the Godowa Company at Kowloon, and also, by day only, at the Harbour Office and on M's Receiving Ship.

LOCAL STORM-WARNINGS.

The Colony itself is warned of approaching typhoons by means of the Typhoon Gun placed at the food of the mast, which is fired whenever a strong gale of wind is expected to blow here.

NOTICE BOARDS,

Notice boards are placed at:-

Joint Cable Companies' Office. Ferry Company's Pier, Ice House Street.

Blake Pier. Post Office.

Harbour Office.

Ferry Company's Pier, Kowloon. WEATHER FORECASTS and STORM- WARNINGS are exhibited on the above boards daily about 11 a.m., and also at other hours, day or night, whenever necessary. Informa tion of importance is also issued by "Express,

THE CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER is exhibited at the same places daily about noon. It contains observations made a Hongkong and at a number of stations in the Far East, together with Remarks, Weather forecasts, and information regarding the exisi- ence and movements of typhoons based thereon.

SPECIAL INQUIRIES.

:

Masters of vessels or their agents may,

whenever necessary, call at the Telegraph Company's Office in Connaught Road and send telegrams to the Observatory asking for special information without charge. inquiries may also be sent from the Police Station at Kowloon Point which is connected

with the Observatory by telephone

THE LAW OF ETORKS,

Such

Further information concerning the weather to be expected while signals are hoisted, and sailing directions, are given in "The Law of Storms in the Eastern Seas"

F. G. FICO,

·Acting Director, Hongkong, Observatory, and January, 1904.

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one being allotted to every four houses; and in every house is another spy, the porter. Go where you will, you are never out of the watch- fut eye of the police. You brush against spies in your hotel, as in the theatres; in a res'au. rant, as in the drawing-room of a friend. It is ridiculously easy to recognize those you meet in the fashionable resorts. They have evident- ly been instructed to disguise themselves as gentlemen, and for one of them the livery of gentleman is a frock coat, a silk hat, and, al- ways-by rain or sunlight-an umbrella. The famous third police! A stranger might fancy that, in an open cab-talking French or En glish to his friend-he would at least be safa from surveillance but his friend will touch him significantly and speak of the weather. The fat cabby on the box, somnolent, with white hair and good paternal eyes, may be a spy, more skilled in the languages than the travel. ling stranger; and, if the cabman has been found loitering near the great clubs, the hotels, or the embassies, the chances are strong that he is. A subtler police than that of the third section the akrana, which has its ramification in every capital in Europe and America-com- pletes this great system of espionage. Its meth is aver every man in Russia; no one goes un- watched-save only old Count Tolstoi.-Vance Tompson in Burceis.

THE PAPAL FLAG.

The Papal flag is comparatively unfamiliar outside of the Eternal City. The war flag of the defunct temporal power of the Pope was white, and in its centre stood figures of St. Peter and St. Paul, with the cross-keys and tiura above them. The flag of the merchant ships owned by the subjects of the States of the Church is a curious combination, half yellow and half white, with the design of the cross key on the white. In the banner used by the crusader king of Jerusalem, Godfrey, the only tinctures introduced were the two metals, gold and silver, five golden crosses being placed upon a silver field. This was done with the in- tention of making the device unique, as 'in ail other cases it is deemed false heraldry to place metal on metal.-Chicago Journal.

THUNDER,

How many people understand the scientific explanation of thunder? The sound is dun to the fact that the air traversed by an electric spark, that is, a flash of lightning, is suddenly raised to a very high temperature, and its volume, moreover, considerably increased. The column of gas thus suddenly beated and expanded is sometimes several miles long, and as the duration of the flash is not even a mil- lionth of a second, it follows that the noise bursts forth at orce from the whole column. though for an observer in any one place it com mences where the lightning is at the least distance. The beginning of the thunder clap gives us the minimum distance of the lightning, and the length of the thunder clap gives us the length of the column.

INTELLIGENT FISH.

"I will avail myself," writes a correspondent of the Literary Gusetis, "of this opportunity to draw the attention of your numerous readers. among naturalists to a fact fately witnessed by my daughter, Lady Dillon, on whose veracity every dependence may be placed, and which, to me, and to all to whom I have hitherto com municated the fact, is quite new, and appears. unrecorded. The social disposition of the fish, although admitted as regards the carp and some few other species, does not seem to have been acknowledged in relation to other and larger fish, and the cerebral organisation of this class of animals' would not lead one to ex- pect much development of that character. At Logan, N.B, the seat of Colonel M'Dowall, there is a pond cut out of the natural rock which is accessible by steps, and in this pond.. to which the tide has regular entrance, various fish, among other cod and ling, of considerable size, are kept and fed for the table. They are submitted to the care of an old woman, whose voice seems to be familiar to the fishes, and to whose call they readily pay attention. No. sooner is her voice heard than the heads of umerous fish may be seen projected from the surface of the water, and they eagerly proceed to the side of the pood, there to receive from the hands of their keeper sustenance in the form of limpots, which are most eagerly seized and rapidly swallowed. This docility in the obtaining of food is, however, not the most re- markable circumstance connected with their: habitation here, for so thoroughly domesticated are they by this attention to their wants, that they readily permit themselves to be taken out of the water, fondled and shook about, ap- parently to the great satisfaction of the animals, 1 am not aware of any instance of such or similar docility being upon record, and as an interesting fact in the natural history of this class of nature, I beg to make it known to your readers,"

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