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Shipping Steamers.

DMA OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO.,

AND

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY AUGUST 21, 1905.

LD.

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAV. CO., LD.

JUNT BERVICES.

FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS FOR LONDON AND CONTINENT. MONTIILY 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

SERVICE.

OUTWARD.

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL wym

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL

GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL

STEAMERS.. "AGAMEMNON"

DUE .30th August.

"JASON "

3 Est

"TEENKAI"

"DIOMED "

6th, September.. 14th

"KAISOW"

14th

體

"DARDANUS

21st

"TYDEUS"

.28th

..z8th

"CHINGWO"

GLASGOW. and LIVERPOOL .......... GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL ....... GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL ...................... KINTUCK"

HOMEWARD,

STEAMERS

5th October.

TO SAIL tath September,

..........26th ..................................... 10th October. "AGAMEMNON".............. 20th

Fox LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "PAKLING".. *GENOA, MARSEILLES & L'POOL ACHILLES"...oth LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP ANTENOR" LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP ALCINOUS*

GENOA, MARSEILLES & L'POOL LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP

"DIOMED"

* Taking Cargo for Liverpool at London Rates.

TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE.

OPERATING IN CONJUNCTION WITH

..34th.

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.

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

FOR

EASTWARD.

STEAMERS

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA, and) "JASON"

all PACIFIC COAST PORTS, vid NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA)"TYDEUS

FROM

WESTWARD.

STEAMERS

PACIFIC COAST......

.....KEEMUN".

For Freight, apply to

Hongkong, 2131 August, 15

TO SAIL

.......3rd September.

October.

DUL

a8th September. .30th October,

TACOMA, SEATTLE, VICTORIA and)" YANGTSZE "

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

CHINA NAVIGATION CO.. LIMITED.

AGENTS.

STEAMERS,

To Ball

NINGPO and SHANGHAI..

"PAKHOI "

MANILA

"TEAN" *

22nd August.

22nd

SWATOW, WEI-HAL-WEI, CHEFOO)

and TIENTSIN

**OHIHLI "*

25th

KOBE

"CHANGSHA"

6th September:

[

Shipping Steamers.

HONGKONG-MACAO LINE.

THIS

** 5.5, "WING CHAL"* Captain T. AUSTIN, R.N.M. “HIS Steamer departs from Hongkong on Week Days, at 7.30 AM. and on Sun. daya at B30 AM, Departs from Macao on Week Days at 2.30 PM. and on Sundays at 5.30 P.,

tide permits.

TRIPS TO CANTON AND MACAO.

HE Yuk On Company's Splendid Steamer THE

*** YING_KING,"

1,088 tons, Registered. Captain E. J. Page, will leave Hongkong for. Canton every Morning at 8 o'clock, returning to Hongkong every Evening about 5 o'clock, Sundays excepted.

FARES-Week Daya, 1st Clara, including On SUNDAYS she will make an EXCUR Cabin and servant, Single 53; Return Ticket, SION TRIP to MACAO, leaving Hongkong at 8.30 4.M, and returning from Macao about $5; and Class, $11 3rd Class, so centr

Every Sunday will be an Excursion, at the 7,30 P.M. following rates-tat and and Class, Single The "YING KING"-is especially fitted for Ticket, §1; Return, 51 ; 3rd Class, Single, 30 these runs, is the newest, fastest and most cents, Ratum, so cents ; Steerage, to cents. Juxuriously,furnished steamer on the line and Breakfast, Tillo and Dinner cas be supplied in lighted throughout with Electricity, also hot either on Board, or, at the Macao Hotel, for and cold water is supplied. returning passengers only, at an extra charga of $1.

FARES:

On Sundaya, passengers desiring to have a First Class single journey to Canton...$3.00 Private Cabin which has accommodation for Second two or more passengers, will be charged 53 extra..

... 1.50

fto, Macao 1,00 First class single journey with Cabin 2,00

return H

First Class Passengers, who do not care to return on the Excursion Sunday, will be allowed to do so the following day (Monday) on pro Second,, duction of the Return Hall Ticket. Should the Steamer not run on the Monday, owing to the Boiler cleaning, due notice will be given by the Capta's, and the Half Ticket will be available for the following day.

The Steamer is lit throughout by Electricity. The Steamer's wharf at Hongkong is at the Western end of Wing Lok Street.

MING ON & Co.,

2nd Floor, No. 16, Victoria Street, Hongkong, 14th June, 190g.

[14:

STEAM TO CANTON. THE New Twin Screw Steel Steamers

Tons Captain "KWONG CHOW"...1,309...J. P. MARTIN.

"KWONG TUNG"...1,238...H. W. WALKER,

Leave Hongkong for Canton 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 ...$4 Meals

(

The Company's Wharf is a short distance West of the Harbour Master's Office,

Third single

(to Macao 1.00 {with Cabin 3.00 singla

***................. 30 Cents. rotam 要

* $1.50

30 1 return. " Breakfast, Tiffin or Dinner $1 each only. Wine and Spirit of the best brand are used.

The whari in Hongkong is at the West and of Wing Luk Street.

The wharf in Macao is the same as the $.S. Perseverance,

ན་

For further information, apply to the Office of

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

or to

Messrs. WENDT & Co., Canton Agents. S. A. NORONHA, Macao Agent,

[523 Hongkong, 17th August, 1905,

REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE

SHIU ON S.S. CO., LD., and to VUEN ON S.S. CO., LD,

No. 8, Queen's Road Weit Hongkong, 26th June, igos.

'17

TO NEW YORK,

VIA PORTS AND Suez Canál, (With Liberty to Call at Malabar Coast),

Entimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

ICE HOUSE ROAD

HONGKONG,

CAULE ADDRESS,—Telegraph, Hongkong.

THE PASSION FOR GAMBLING.

NO. 1,

WHERE LOAFERS CONGREGATE.

AFTERNOON AT A HAZARD BOROOL

The "bookmakers' strike" now in progress has drawo a lot of attention to the subject of gambling, and a Bill in being drafted to deal with gambling in general and betting shop in particular. But the turf is not the only medium' of gambling that exists in Sydney. Turf gam HE leading English Newspaper in Chinablers need good information to justify them in ́Also widely circulated in Japan, Cochin staking any money, and this laformation they China, Ceylon, India, and, the Far East cannot always get. Also, the odds about turf

events are absurdly short, and every gambler: generally,

knows that the chances are very much against

A daily newspaper with weekly edition published for despatch by the homeward mail The daily is recommended as more generally suitable, except for subscribers in Europe of America

A special feature is made of full and accur- ite reports of local occurrences, and of mat.

ters of general interest.

ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.

The Hongkong Telegraph is the best medium for advertising in China. It circulates

largely among all classes of the community,

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG. is the largest daily newspaper and has a

Steamship

wider circulation than any journal in the Far

East

About

„27th August, 1995, "SATSUMA" ............25th September,..

"SHIMOSA

For Freight and further Information, apply

DODWELL & Co, LIMITED, Agents Hongkong, 15th August rook.

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD.

(PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.-Subject to AlterATION),'

For

Steamship

S'GAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA...KUTSANG *.......TUESDAY, zzad August, Noos. SHANGHAL.....................AMARA.....WEDNESDAY, 23rd Aug¬3 P.M.

BSANG .................FRIDAY, 25th August, 3 P.M. S'GAPORE, SRABAYA & SAMARANGSUÏSANG ..........FRIDAY, 25th August, 3 P.3.

TIENTSIN

+ Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtze and Northern China Ports. * The Attention of. Passengers is directed to the Supérés Accommodation offered by these MANILA...................................................LOONGSANG*„FRIDAY, 25th August, 4 P.M. steamers, which are fited throughout with Electric Light

qualified Surgeon is carritd.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Hongkong, 21st August, 1905

Unrivalled table. A duly

* 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 Porti.

For Freight or Passago, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Hongkong, 11st August, 1905.

AGENTS.

HONGKONG-MANILA.

Highest Claus, newest, fastest and most luxurioui Steamers between Hongkong and Manila.-Saloon amidshipt-Electric Light Perfect Cuisine-Burgeon and Stewardess carried. -All the most up-to-date arrangements for comfort of Passengers.

CHINA AND MANILA

STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

Steamship.

Tons.

Captain.

1540 R. Rodger

ZAFIRO

RUBI......zier) 2540 A. H. Notley...

For Freight or Paisage, apply to

IIongkong, 14th August, 1905

For

MANILA

Sailing Dates

Saturday, 26th August,

at Noon. SATURDAY, 2nd Sept,

R! Noon.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

Genkral MaxAQERE,

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,

General Managers.

[460

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 NAVIGATION COMPANY.

Steamship

"ARAGONIA”.

Tons

• Captain ....5,198...........................................Schuldt.

To Sail at Daylight on September 1st, 1905. ...September 26th,

" NICOMEDIA" .....................4:370.............................. Wagemann "NUMANTIA". 370. Feldtmann......October 14th, "ARABIA"...........4,483.c... Metienthin November 7th, The S.S. "Nicomedia" left Portland on August 17th, and is expected to arrive here on or about September 16th,

Through Bill of Lading issued to Pacific Coast Points and all Easter. Canadian and Balled States Points. For through rates of Freight and farther information, communicate with or apply to

#2]

"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS,

FOR MARSEILLES, LONDON AND

ANTWERP.

THE Steamship

HONGKONG-NEW YORK.

ASIATIC

AMERICAN

STEAMSHIP CO.

FOR NEW YORK via PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL, (With Liberty to Call at the Malabar Coast),

Steamship "SIERRA BLANCA...

For Freight and further information, apply to

Hongkong, rath August, 1905

BOO CHEONG,

STATIONER AND PAPER MERCHANT, No. 20, Pottinger Street,

FAS always on hand all varieties of Stationery, Printing and Note Papers,

HAS

Copying Presses, also Automatic Cyclostyle and Ellams Duplicator,

Hongkong, and February, 1908.

164

About

...... 20th September.、.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Agents,

TSANG FOO & CO., COAL MERCHANTS AND STEVEDORES,

18, DES Vœux' ROAD,

HIPS Coaled from alongside at the shortest

retice, and with all possible despatch: Prices Moderate. Telephons No, J25. Hongkong, 1st October, 1904.

"BENLARIG,"

S. SILVERSTONE. Acting General Agant,

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. PAQUEBOTE-FOSTE FRANCAIS, / FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

Captain Wallace, will be despatched as above,THE Company's Steamship

on or about the 27th instant..

For Freight or Passage, apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co... Agents. Hongkong, 3rd August, 1905.

(Boo

EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,

FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling at Port Darwin and Queensland Ports, and taking through Cargo to Adelaide, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.) THE Steamship

"EASTERN," Captain Ellis, will be despatched for the above Parts, 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 Freak Provi slons, Ice, etc, throughout the voyage.

This Steamer is installed throughout with

Taled throug the Electric Light.

A duly qualified Surgeon and Stewardess' are carried.

N.B.-To sure the additional comfort of passangers the steamers of the Company have electric fans fitted in staterooms.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.

{$20 Hongkong, 13th August, 1905.

ERNEST SIMONS,"

Captain Ailland, will be despatched for the above Ports, on or about TUESDAY, the aand instant,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent. Hongkong, 19th August, 1905.

FOR SINGAPORE AND CALCUTTA.

THE Steamship

THE

"SAMBIA," Captain Lübning, will be despatched for the above Poris, on WEDNESDAY, the 23rd instant, at 5 P.M.

For Freight, apply to

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office."

[837 Hongkong, 16th August, 1995..

NOTICE.

HE Public are hereby informed that no THE

change has been made in the Rates of Subscription to the Hongkong Telugraph and they are warned against paying more then TEN CENTE (10 cia,) per Single Copy.

THE MANAGER, Honghong Telegraph Co., Ltd. Hongkong, gotb September, 1903.

blm. The bookmaker and betting-shops keeper. hai to make a profit to live, and the gambler knows this and feels lukewarm about betting on turf, contests if he can get anything else to

bat on.

A very favourite method of gambling in the "hurard school"—an unlawful game-but one in which the chances are mathematically fair.

Every afternoon in Sydney, in rooms in the busiest parts of the city, several hazard schools are carried on, and the following account of a visit to one of them by an Evening News, representative is "taken from life":-

THE SCHOOL.

Up a flight of stairs from. Pitt-sireet to landing, then a dozen or so staps, in a cross*: flight were climbed, and the writer and his friend, who had undertaken to put him “Ay ol a hazard school, halted in front of a closed deal door. The man who knew the ropes. kpocked. A slide was lifted in one of the panes, and through an aperture six inches long by two deep looked a pair of ferretty eyes.

"Oo's that wit yer ?" said the cautious voice of the owner of the eyes that peared through the slit in the door, and he of the cognoscenti an swered, “ A pal.”

A bolt was shot, and the door opened suffici. ently wide to permit of the pair sliding into the room, which was heavy with stalo tobacco fames, and though it wanted only about five thi

Special attention given to effectively, display.nutes to 3 o'clock of the afternoon, gas lights

ing advertisements,

were burning. Most of the space was taken up by a billiard table, on which a game' was in'). progress; while at the end of the room; near as standard for setting|| window that averlocked Pitt-street, three or four groups were intent at card playing. There was no exit other than by the door that had afforded entrance, and the dingy walls were un adorned, unless a couple of bills announcing forthcoming fights and an unevenly tattered no- tice, which read, "This club will be open o members on Saturday night," could be reckon.. ed as decorations.

The typiqued as advertisement, is similar to this, un'eas we are

instructed to display the advertisement, when ay effective style of type will be adopted This standard runs exactly eight lines to the 'nch, and about eight words to the line. -

DOMESTIC OCCU TRENCES,

Notices of Births, Deaths, and Marriages

'It ench insertion in the Daily and Weekly.

CONTRACT ADVERTISEMENTS.

Special Rates for sunding advertisements

'can be ascertained from the Manager.

Advertisements for the Daily should reach

"Jigger!” said one of the billiard players, who had just incurred a black look from the marker as the former sprawled futilely over the table, believing he could do without the rest which the marker now banded to him as re quested. The player broke down over an easy pot shot, after scoring jo, whereat he addressed a fervid invocation to the Almighty to deprive him of his eyesight.

KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE.

A banging in the vicinity of the card playeri caused a general move to that end of the room, and a number of limp-looking figures sentèd themselves about the circular table,. covered with green baize. It was the croupier who had: done the banging, and he produced a leather dice box, and some gelatine dice. To this official the writer was introduced, and after- warde allotted a seat alongside. bim. He was further told to watch the proceedings, and he' would non pick up the game.

"You see," remarked the master of ceremo,, nies, "I call the main, and see that everything is fair. See these dice? You can hold them the Hongkong Telegraph Office not later than up to the tight, and see through them. Nothing

noon of the day they are intended to appear.

· Uninas otherwise specified all advertisements

will be repented and charged for until counter.

manded.

JOBBING DEPARTMENT. --

Job Printing of all descriptions undertaken

POGRAMMES

PAN

CARTE

CIRCUL

TXPRESSER

All job printing is done under European

supervision well turned out, fren from errors, And remarkably cheap at

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH·

OFFICE

loaded there,"

The cubes were the colour of the juice of slewed cherries, and they were dotted white: As he said, they were transparent,

"Now, then, whose first blood ?" he began, in a business-like fashion, and a youth with the pugnacious jaw of a bruiser elected to lead off." He threw nine.. "I'll take six to four," he ine vited, and reiterated the offer several timea, be-' fore several came at him, and at each other all- round the table, some taking the "odds," and some laying them.

There were sixteen seated in a ring round the baize, and the faces of most of them made. out a prima facie case against their being de sirable persons to bava in any community, About twenty would be the average age of them One of the number'was a man of intel lactual cast of countenance, whose dim ́oyes fevered behind pince-mer at the rattle of the dice, and who wore a faded check suit, and a celluloid collar which had lost, its pristine lustro, His shirt cuffs also showed the por verty of soiled linen." He wagered sixpence, taking the odds. On either side of him was 4 youth munching a cigarette, one wearing a cap, and the other a straw hat from which the glory bad long since departed. All were bright-eyed, and all were shabby, and all had their fingers, dyed with the nicotine of cheap cigarettes, Nona made a disguise of the fact that he was there in the hip of adding to what money bad in bis possession-got from nobody koew where, but all would be prepared to lay a long price that it was not by work."

The dice rattled, and K'seven was thrown, The man in the faded checks saw his sixpence pushed by the croupier to a fartive-looking stimates given for 'all classes of work on youngster who had bet with him. That was the

THE MANAGER, Honakong TELEGRAPH CO., LD,

1, Ich House Road

Hongkong:

only bet he made the reason was obvious, Ha watched the play like one in a trance, until the croppler called upon him to give up bis sent to blackfellow, who had some shillings, to stake, and whose teeth alone were not decayed and unhealthy looking of all around the gaming table.

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