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crst of a pleasant voyage for bound up in the determination,indla að lodividual to make it so. A liner is a. or a beaganden as you make.it." Asboro, when bored in a country house, sends an urgent telegram and leaves by an frain. At sea, he must either endure the company,shut himself in a hot cabin, or

denishlinənil....' He is a member of a tem

ry family who should know neither grade hay distinction, one in which even the salt of 196 poink may hobnob with the humblest 1198 Socality has its problems under such condi- rotidő: and a few pitfalls, at the foot of which share Has unpopolarity, may be indicated for the in all" banks shall be

experienced: (Captain Schipper Master of the sa. Dipine,

Put your deck-chalr in the way of deck- belonging to Mensell and Company, of Ham. registered in the Viceroy's yaman, so that those who intend to embark on the attrac did burg, has been decorated by the Emperor of five speculation, of banking, and bandling sportk t

fapan with a medal for saving life at sea. Capotter people's money, shall at least be com. Be eager to as assistance of any stranger, Idin Schipper on December 3111, 1994, during a hurricane in the sex of Taumb in circumpelled to show their parsons, and mesia, their or pester every one who passes for such petits

fitness for the responsibility which they are, or think that every man who, proffers stances of great danger, saved avere si analous of sufuming. The memorialista.refer device or addresses a courteous remark i wrecked Japanese subjects.

to the system which obtains In Kiangul and dyng for love of you. Kiangsu, and affirm that in these provinces. Believe that every woman who is better severe punishment is dealt out to those who looking, or a better taller than yourself, i A Calcutin wire, of the 4th Inst, says that eighteen cases of kingfishers' skins have been are in any way guilly of underhand trickery in something that she should not be. seized on board the Catherine Apcar. The their business speculations. The Viceroy goods were shipped as medicing and tobacco, seems to be in sympathy with the proposed and the seizure was the result of long and care reforms, and has sent the memorial, with his ful surveillance by the Customs officer who "pproval, to the Provincial Treasurer, and detected the contraband.. Bird skins of this ordered the latter to look carefully into the lon are valuable in China where they matter in order to discover whether some effect can be given to the suggested improvements. fgreat and constant demand. Their ex-

Go near the smoking-room, even to the was forbidden by the Government of India It is certain that the confusion which has ob fal years ago because of cruelty, involvedtained in the banking world in Canton, and extent of putting your face in the open ports, tightness in the monby market generally, part-Man havo a right to assume that their conver its trade."

ly at least consequent on the rash speculations #ation there, as at their clubs, is overheard by undertaken in the hope of making large profits their own sex only. during the recent war, have hit many people, And in some cases hit them hard. If the share holders of all nativo banka could be 'registered, a substantial, safeguard would be erected against a danger which has proved itself only too real.

Caimaky yesterday mornin that they declin- ed to form a Government on the Emperor's conditions. Count Cairaky promised to bring the Emperor's reply in the afternoon,

Later

The Hungarian Oppositionists did not wait in Vienus for the reply of the Emperor, but returned immediately to Budapest, where they were receised with a great ovation.

The Trans-Caucasian Trouble. At a conference of the leading Tattar and Armenian Chiefs at Baku, peace has been concluded.

The Suez Canal.

Venezuela Again.

CASTRO ARROGANT.

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The captain of the na. Room was charged by The Canal Company Commission has de Inspector Langley of the Water Police, with Funnecessarily blowing his whistle after anchor cided to blow up the Chatham.

ing in the harbour on the grat-ulto. --It was shown that on the night in question the vessel blew eight long blasts on her whistle. The Vene-captain said the pilot told him to do sa'to warn Junksto keep away from her to avoid a collision, Mr. Langley said he did not wish to press the charge, but without convictions it was very. difficult to suppress the nolaos at night in the harbour, Is Worship said in this case there would be a conviction, but he would not inflict any penalty and defendant must remember it was against the barbour rules to blow his whistle except to avert a collision.

The relations between France and zuela are becoming acute, President Castro having recently closed the French Cable alleging a breach of contract,

M. Taigny, the French Chargé d'Affaires, is endeavouring to negotiate; but President Castro is adopting an'arrogant attitude,

THE CHARTERÈD BANK.

Mr. T.. P. Cochrane, manager of the Charter ed Bank of India, Aŭstralia & China, kindly informs us that, this morning, they received from their London ice a telegram advising that a dividend far been declared for the past half-year to 30th June, 1905, at 12 % per annum free of inconis Taxi zoli

ALLEGED SWINDLER.

WHOLESALE BOGUS CIIEQUES.

At the Magistracy this morning, before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, Charles Rice,, unemployed, and giving an address in Queen's Road East, was charged with unlawfully, knowingly, de signedly, falsely to prented to one Fred. Oram| proprietor, East Hotel, in this Colony, that a certain paper writing which he then produced and delivered to the said Fied. Oram:

was a good and valid order for the payment of money, to wit, Sif, and that he, the said Rice, had authority to draw a cheque upon a certain Bank, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, by means of which said tilse pretences the said Rice then unlawfully obtained $4 cash and pretend ed to pay for goods valued at $11, delivered to the said Rice on various dates between the 17th August and asth inst. Similar charges were also preferred by Kim Sang, master of the Wing Choong tailor shop, 8 Queen's Road Central, in respect of $10 worth of goods sold and $4 cash delivered; Pau Lai, master of the Red Woo tallor-shop, Queen's Road, Central; în res spect of $18 worth of goods sold and delivered, and Si cath returned, by Kim Sang, tallor, in respect of $20 worth and Mr. A. F. Davies, manager of the Hong kong Hotel, in respect of Szo cash paid.

Asked ip plead prisoner said it was all done when he was under the influence of liquor,

His Womhip I cannot accept any state mant of that sort now. You must plead either

guilty " or " not guilty.”

Prisoner Guilty, to the charges: Inspector Warnock, asked for a remand to asks further inquiries, as it was underito, d that there were other changea to be preferred, sexow the defendant.

"Remanded patil Monday, the and prox. it stated that the police did not have für to look for the man as of Monday night he fell asleep fu a chair, and the chair coollen carried him lo

the place whore he was most wanted, the Cen:

tral Police Station,

THE WEATHER.

PRÓGRESSIVE SWATOW.

A RECORD YEAR.

THE PROPOSKB CH1ÚẨN HÄN RAILWAY.

Keep your maid more than necessary on the promenade deck, unless she is uncom- monly comely,

5. Bring children when they can as well be left behind, or, bringing them, let them play at Togo and Rozhdestvensky over other people's feit...

root,

MEN, DON'T-

Imagine the boat belongs to you. Use strong language outside the smoking.

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To-day's Advertisements.

NOTICE.

LUIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR H'

will be "AT HOME" at Mountain Lodge, on FRIDAY, the 29th instant, 4.30 P.M. In 6.30 P.M.

Hongkong, 27th September, 1905. 1966 CRAIGENGOWER CRICKET CLUB

Imagine every handsome womna on board THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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6. Expect the best deck-cabin on the ship to yourself unless you have specially arranged for it, or behave churiishly to the stranger who shares your accommodation. Remember that he is quite as anxious to be quite of your com piny as you of his.

to be either easy or desirous of conquest,

4. Shirk deck sports without good reason, or forget to subscribe to the good work of the sports committee.

Si-Expect your bunk to be a feather bed or A Soochow letter states that news has been your meals to be served à la Ritz, received there from Chico,tu, the capital of Szechuan province, 10 the effect that, owing to the energetic action of H.E. Viceroy Hsi Liang, representative members of the gentry and merchants of that province have taken in band with much enthusiasm the scheme for the construction of a railway between Ch'engtu and Hankow, a line, which the fear that French syndicate (which had been working for it) would succeed in getung from the ministers of the Waiwupu and Shangpu, spurred the officials, gentry and mercantile classes of that province into energetic action to strongly op pess The presant zuimalo of the, cont of a railway from Ch'Eugtu pert, the border inte Hupeh province" (to which Hankow belongs is about ten million tatls, and as far as Han

***. Smoke below stairs,” Apart from the risk of fire, it may be infinitely distressing to some delichte woman occupying the same alley-way.

CHILDREN, DON'T-

9. Be bora until your parents have done with occan travel for good and all.-F. G. Afajo, In P.M.G.........

Mr. John G. Darling, chief steward of the Pacific Mail.. Ching, died of hemorrhage of on August 13th, when that vessel was between the lungs Yokohama and Honolulu. His death was sudden and painless. Mr. Darling was one of the best liked officers in the Mail Company's service, and was a man of unusual ability. Mt.

INDIA,vă. CHINA TEA. William Ashman, who came from the Atlantic Coast on the P.M. 1.1. Køran ax chief steward,

COMPARISON OF CULTIVATION, METHODS, and has ever since filled that position on this big liner, has been assigned to the China, tokow six millions or so more. Advices received Mr. L. A. Lyall who is accompanied by some succeed the late Mr. Darling, and he was to at Sonchow from Ch'englu state that, so far, Chinese gentlemen to study the Indian me all in the Chind on September 6th as head of ten million taels has been guaranteed by the thods of tea cultivation, in an interview with a the commissary department. Mr. Arhman is a

gentry and merchants of Szechuan (this having representative of the Englishman, said the worthy successor of Mr. Darling, and popularity the repute of being one of the wealthiest pro Chinese les estates are not comparable in any of the China'service will not suffer while vinces of China Proper), who on the other hand way with the Indian and Ceylon tea gardens. Mr. Ashman steward.

have been promised by Viceroy Hsi Liang that They have been stuck with the large and any sum failing short of ten" million tarls will economical scale on which everything is done be made good by their Provincial Government in India. The Chipaman combines tea with The plan now is that as those in Szechuan are other cultivation.on, the same land, besides ready to contribute ten million, of the sixteen which the Indian and Ceylon soil is more pio to twenty million taels needed to complete the ductive. They intend seeing what can be done proposed railway, an appeal to natives of Sre by using the methods of cultivation, pruning, According to Mr. Acting Consul Willia the chusn who are in the other seventeen provinc, which they have seen. The Chinese trade of Swntow has proceeded during the past ces, either as officials or as merchants, ought gentlemen with bim have been given every year along its normal channels with results to be made calling upon them to contribule opportunity of practical observation and whe that cannot be considered otherwise than satis. their share and to use their influence with the ther useful results follow or not it will not be factory. The gross trade for 1904. exceeded monied classes amongst whom they are resid. their fault, but it will all depend on whether the fifty million taels, and estimated either lo tacising to subscribe to, and buy shares in, the pro- Indian methods cais he grafted on the Chinese or sterling is the bighest on record since the posed railway. This appeal has now arrived system. In bis opinion it was absolutely opening of the port. In the course of his in Souchow; the first to receive it being Total necessary to form a company on their return to remarks on the trade of the port the acting Chên Yu, Chief Commissioner of the Japanese bay up gardens for Amslagmation and to work British Consul refe to the shipping during the modelled Gandumeris of Soochow, who of ons large scale and also to use British me.. year under review, and says that the decrease course is a native of Frechuan, and who hai thods of treating the bushes, in British shipping is due mainly to the with- also received official permission from Viceroy drawal of the British India Line from the emi. Bei Liang, of Szechuan, authorising him to gration traffic, already mentioned, and the sale tablish in Soochow city an office for the sale to foreigners of two or three steamers of the of shares in the Chuan-Han Railway. It is. Douglas Steamship Company of Hongkong, thought that, by this method of appealing to which formerly plied regularly between that their felice provincials throughout the Empire, part and Foochow or Formosan parla, via there need be no fear on the part of the people Swatow and Amoy. The gain to German and of Szechuan province of failure in procuring Norwegian shipping is at the expense of the the necesary funds-that is to say, if those áp- Japanese, four Japanese steamers of the Osaka pealed to have the necessary faith, not so much Shosen Kaisha Company rueping on the same in the ultimate success of the venture, as in line as the Douglas boats having been with the bonesty and probity of the people "hand- drawn on the outbreak of hostilities, and Gerling the cash,”—N.C.D. ^ ews. man and Norwegian vessels having been char tered by the company to replace them.

THE RAILWAY.

Fu, be writes:

Remarking upon the railway to Chaochow

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A NEW ACTIVE VOLCANO. The London Missionary Society's steam yacht John Williams returned to Sydney on Ang, at from another successful cruise in the South Sexa.

Quite the best tea he had seen in India or Ceylon, was the Darjeeling tea. It was very like good China tea and of the same flavour, Those with him were able men who were form ing their own impression and the views of the whole party would be placed before the Vice regal Government on their return to China.

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of the above Club will be held in the Pavilion, Wong-nei-chong Recreation Ground, TO-MORROW, the 28th instant, at 5.30 P.M.

A. E, ASGER,

Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 27th September, 1905.

CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE TWENTY-FOURTH ORDINARY TGENERAL MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned at 12 o'clock (Noon), on FRI. DAY, the 20th proxima.

REPAIRERS.

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ESTIMATES FREE.

"OWN MAKE"

PIANOS

FROM $800.

IMPORTED

PIANOS

FROM $875,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company | SECOND HAND PIANOS RETURNED will be CLOSED from the 6th to the 20th proximo, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ganeral Agents, Canton Insurance Office, Limited.

1968 Hongkong, 27th September, 1905.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instructions 10 sell. by PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW,

at (THURSDAY), the 28th September, 1905, it A., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street, SUNDRY HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

FROM HIRE AT LOW PRICES.

INSPECTION INVITED; Hongkong, 23rd September, tong

Trado

TELEPHONE NO. 135.

Comprising: DOUBLE BRASS BEDSTEAD, with. WIRE MATTRESS, SINGLE IRON BED. WIRE and RATTAN STEADS with

WARD. MATTRESSES TEAKWOOD ROBES and SIDEBOARDS with BEVEL THE FAVOURITE BRANDY OF THE LED GLASS, MARBLE-TOP WASH. STANDS, VIENNA CHAIRS,

FRANCH IS WARE, PICTURES, CLOISONNE VASES, TEAKWOOD DRESSING TABLE with BEVELLED GLASS, &C., &C., &C.;

ALSO

GLASS

Two BILLIARD TABLES, OneCOTTAGE PIANO, One 1RON SAFE, One RICKSHA and a quantity of AMERICAN BOOTS and SHOES,

TERMS:-As usual,

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.. Hongkong, 27th September, 1905.

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND

CALCUTTA

THE Steamship

1969.

"ARRATOON APCAR," Captain E. Fey, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 3rd October,

at.3 P.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED,

Agents.

Гобл Hongkony, 27th September 1905.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"SUNDA,"

FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, MALTA, PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each const gpment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed, de This vessel brings on Cargo

SCHOONER ON A'ROCK.".

IMPROVING THE SAILOR'S MENU. "Hamdummick," "dog's body," and other strangely named, and just as strangely-com-THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamer poopded, disbes have disappeared the sailor's menu. But he still getu." schooner on rock and boiley bake"-too much of it, investigating lower deck cookery. "Schooner according to the committee who have been on a rock, it should be explained, is a joint of meat cooked over potatoes, and a boilay The concession for the long-mooted railway between this port and Chaochow Fu has been, When on the way from Valtupu to Apia the bake is meat ball bolled and half roasted as mentioned in my preceding report, granted John Williams passed Savall, and a new vol- The culinary department is usually the loast to one Chang Yloan, a Chinese merchant who

cano was sighted in active eruption; The efficient aboard ship. Small wonder, either, as three men, ill supplied with galley stormer was about 18 miles off the land, but accomodation, have to do the cooking for a bas for many years been resident in the Dutch Indies. The contract for building the line, at night time the scene presented was an whole ship's company. According to the naval Great masses of Hame correspondent of the P. M. G., the food is The following report is from Mr. F, G. Figg, which is to be 32 miles in length, with seven awe-inspiring one.

prepared by bluejackets, stokers, or marines, First Assistant of the Hongkong Observatory Intermediate stations, and for the supply of were leaping for hundreds of feet into the press knowledge is less than rudimentary, and On the 26th at 4.45.9.m. The typhoon is rolling-stock, was given by the conccasionnaire air, and huge volumes of dense smoke were the dishes are selected according to the whim raging in Manila

Oct the wil 11.05. The barometer has to Japanese syndicate. Work on the line issuing from the interior of the mountsin, of the mess. Then they are takes to the risen quickly over the Philippines and N. China, commenced in September last, but, owing to Immense streams of lava were running towards galley, where the ship's cook does the best be can with them. Very often his efforts fead to And fallen stightly in the neighbourhood of the marshy sature of the ground in the vicinity the sea, and at frequent intervals the volcand complaints and an Interview with the officer of The Chanpon her fantered the China Sea and of Swalow, proceed biz slowly, brail in January, belched forth enormous quantities of stone thatch; But one more inclped le now hitated to the W. of Luzon. It appears 1905, it was delayed for some three months by The officers of the John Williams express the sympathise with the cook than to blame bin an unfortunate outbreak at Anpo, a market opinion that the volcano is quite new, and is To make good dinners out of the heterogenous to be moring WNW.EP

Profsure is high over Central China. town, of considerable slen about so miles situated more in the centre of the island, than make of ill-prepared dishes brought to his gally is iomible For years this matter has been Chadfeftare Hoop on the Chine coast and distant from Swatow, in which two japanese the one previously is eruption. This great prin lupon the notice of the authorities, whe NE Fals may be expected in the Formosa

were killed and the property of sight was witnessed less than a fortnight Agorac taken the only map that can re. Chance, and Nato NE. gals over the N. pártwork

mogs the cause of the dissatisfaction,Dorog handon (several Chin

in ibg. of the rallway, and it is therefore presumed that the volcag

sach of the China Sea

Sixt six monļls aboard 'one ship. Bige windes freshening fairy company, Awith some railway material, ki mil metr

#food #fthg cooked,

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No Fire Insurance will be effected by me lo any case whateve

Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative at an ap pointed hour

All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamrede arrival here after which date they cannot be recognisedags No claims will be admitte have left the Godown

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