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Futimation.

POWELL'S

LADIES'

DEPARTMENTS,

Alexandra

- Buildings,"

Des Viruz Road.

NOW SHOWING

SKIRTS,

TWEED

CLOTH

SKIRTS, MOIRETTE

UNDERSKIRTS.

COATS,

CAPES,

SILK

and

JACKETS.

THE

Entertainment,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY JANUARY 9 1906.

THEATRE ENROYAL,

CITY HALL.

HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC

CLUB"

THE NEW BOY?" A Farcical Play in 1 Acta, By ARTHUR LAW,

13

H

11

will be produced 'on' FRIDAY, fath January, 1906, SATURDAY, 13th.... 'MONDAY, 15th Doors Open 8.30 P.M. Performance 9 P.3.

Prices' ' ....... $3, $3 and $1. . Sailors and Soldiers in uniform half-price to Pit Stally and Pt..

Booking Offee at ROBINION PIANO CO. Open on and after MONDAY, Bíh January, from 10 A.H. 10 4,30 13. eàch day.

M. S, NORTHCOTE, Business Manager. Hongkong, 8th January, 1906. ^

Insurance.

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NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,

THE

HE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept First Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at Current RateS.

SIEMSSEN & Co... tangkong 18th May, 1995,

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To Let.

TO LET.

Auctions

_____ TUN GAMING IN THE NORTH,

PUBLIC AUCTION, THE U

¤`Undersigned have received instructions,

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,✨ FOK ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, W

TO-MORROW,"

the 10th January, roc6, at 11 AM, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vœux Road, comer of lee House Street,

A LAROE QUANTITY OF CHANDELIERS, GAS-BRACKETS,"

&CH

&c.

&c,

ALSO SUNDRY

TEĽMI SÅK smual,"

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong. qili-January, 1906,

(BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGERS),

PUBLIC AUCTION,

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MESSRS, HUGHES AND HOUGH Have received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

ON MONDAY,

the 15th day of January, 1996, at 3 P.M«,

at their SALES Rooms,

THE FOLLOWING

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY,

situate at Victoria, in the Colony of long

|

kong, vit,:-

All that PIECE or PARCEL of GROUND, situate at Victoria, aforesaid, and registered in the Land Office ns SECTION.A ∞ MARINE LOT NO. 10, containing by superficiat men- sure rent 2,800 square feet and having a front- age to Queen's Round Central of

30 fee

feet and 6 incher or thereabouts and a depth of Fo, feet, On this Section stands the very valuable house 15, KNUTSFORD TERRACE, Cential. All the said premises are held for and premises, known as No. 35, Queen's Road the residue of a term of 984 years granted by a Apply to-

Crown Lease of Marine Lot No. to and which Lease in dated 16th April, 1859.

For further particulart and conditions of sale, apply to-

No.

KOWLOON

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 30th December, 1905: [74

TO LET.

ODOWN No.

Apply to-

NEW PRAYA, Kennedy Town.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT & AGENCY.CO., LD,

· Hongkong, a7th June, 1905.

BLOUSES, A

VIYELLA

BLOUSES,

DELAINE

SHIRTS.

GOLF JERSEYS,

KID BELTS,

SILK BELTS.

Slate, Tan, Beaver,

White and Black

KID AND SUEDE

GLOVES.

SMART

TRIMMED

MILLINERY.

NEWEST

DRESS

FABRICS

for Morning, Afternoon, and Evening Gowns,

FIRST-CLASS

DRESS-MAKING

MODERATE CHARGES, -

Satisfaction Assured.

TO LET.

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,

Solicitors for the Mortgages;

or to

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The Japan Chronicle bas, received a com modication "from" Mr. J. H. Da Forest, on behalf of the Famine Relief Commitice, in which public attention 'is again' called to the preansg needs of this inhabitants of the famine. stricken 'districts." - Mr. De Forest, also for wards to us for: inspection a specimen of the rice-beads which have to form the food of these starring people.the husks are practically void of grain, and can only be compared to so much claff. There can surely be no nutriment whatever in this rice, and it is imporsible that men and women can be hope alive if their sp. called "food" is not supplemented with some thing more substantial. We note also that tha" | Hongkong and Shanghai Bank has kindly pliered toʻrecrivo rubicriptions for the sufferers, Describing the state"`of'affa'en "on the sóik; instant, Mr. De Forest may-

"Our appeal of three weeks aga seems to have come as a surprise to everybody. How could "famide come so suddenly? It might Have been forebeen' and the public forewarned of the coming enlamity,

"The raply is two-fold. The Japanese thrm selves foresaw no such distress. They early know there would be no good crop, but they never dreamed of the calamity that has come le spite of the long, dreary weather the heads of rice seemed to be filling out to a consider, able extent. I you look at thêm évan ́now a | few feet away they look fairly normal. But the other day I life a huge bundle of rice, about two feel in diameter, and estimated its weight, those heads were filled to an average crop, you straw and all, at about twenty pounds. If

couldn't lift it,' said the old Samurai who was showing me the fields. 'Ordinarily in a'bundle of that size there should be five são' of cleaned rice. As it is, there is not's quarter of a zo, In other words, its value in money had fallen from 75 sen to 4 sen. And this is a better pro- portion than in many other places, where only per cent, is gathered, where the rice is not. worth the cutting;

Intimations.

MOTHERS SHOULD KNOW. The troubles with multitudes of girls'in a want of proper nourishment and enough ́of it' Now-aways, they call thin” condition by the; learned name of Anemia. But words change

facts. There are thousands of girls of this kind anywhere between childhood and young ladyhood. Disease finds most of its victims among them. They are too weak and frail to resist. Some of them are passing through the mysterious changes which lead up to maturity and need especial watchfulness and caro. Alas, how many break down at this critical period '; the story of such Inises in the saddast in the history of home. The proper treatment migh have saved most of these household treasures; if the mothers had only known of 1.5.

WAM OLE'S PREPARATION and given it to their daughters, they would have grown to be strong sad healthy women. It la palatable as honey and contains all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined, with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry, In building up pale, puny, amaciated children, particularly those troubled with Anemis, Scrofula, Rickets, and Bono'and Blood dirénsen,“ nothing equals it ; its tonie qualities are of the highest order. A Medical Institution says "We have used your preparation in treating children for coughs, colds and inflammation; its application has sever failed us in any case, onlapneum. The chlidren like it, and it builds even the most aggravated bordering on

up their bodies ; many little children owe their lives to it." The more it is used the loss will be the ravages of disease from infancy to old age. It is both a food and a medicine,- modern,, scientific, and effective from the 'first' dosé. It never deceives or disappoints, and fa the medicinal triumph of our time," "There is no doubt about it." Sold by chemists.

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CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE COMPANY,

LIMITED.

"Even aller the full extent of the coming disaster was known, the officials did not wish to make public appeçla for aid.” Their purpose in to do everything possible to save the self-respect of the sufferers by giving then work, and assure THE NINTH ORDINARY ANNUAL ing them that they shall not be left to starve so

MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS, in the Company will be held at the Offices long as they will help themselves. They of the Company, St. George's Building, No. 6, frankly say that mukitudes would drop right Connaught Road, on SATURDAY, zoth down from energetic efforts to save themselves January, 1906, at 11 Accounts and the for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Report of the General Manager for the your dend and electing a Consulting Committee and ending 3rat December, 1905, declaring a Divi- Auditors.

if they saw that wide benevolent measures were in sight,

Messrs. HUGHES & HOUGH,

Government Auctioneers. Hongkong, 30th December, 1905. [1304-F]

VALUABLE SUGAR ESTATES FOR "And this, we must say, is the very best way SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION, for officials to deal with this gigantic problem. They must assume the hard heart and tell every PROPERTY OF WELLESLEY (PENANG) one to work, and not expect to eat rice again

ESTATES, LIMITED.

until next summer. Yel they are doing their utmost to keep the markets open for wood and charcoal, and to open new avenues of labour for all who need work.

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THE

BUILDING. ạt Causeway Bay, formerly in' occupation of the Steain Laundry Co., Ltd.

No. 17, WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD.

No. CLIFTON GARDENS, Condult

*****Road.

No. 1, RIPON TERRACE. FLATS in MORRTON TERRACE,

Polo Grensil. *

ceg

By Order · f the Trustees for the Debenture Holdern.

ESSRS, KENNEDY & Co and Mesers,

MAA THONY & Co. will offer for sle by Public Auctions at The Georgetown Sales Room, Novas, Beach Street, Penang, on WEDNESDAY, the 7th day of February, 1900, at I AM. precisely, subject to such Conditions of Sale as shall be read therest

will be CLOSED fram WEDNESDAY, the The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company 12th January, until SATURDAY, the 20th fanuary, 1906, hoth days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Managers.`. Hongkong, 5th January, 1906

W

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

XE have this day REMOVED our Office West Side).

to KING'S BUILDINGS (3rd Floor,

MACDONALD & CO.... Hongkong, and January, rocó,

"We foreigners who live in Sendai knew the facts as they matured, and a month age formed committes of relief. We consulted freely with the heads of the various Departments of the three provinces. We visited some of the ice crop and specimens of the coarse food worst districts, and collected samples of the already being eaten by thousands of peo ple

met the Emperor's apa Those well-known and valuable Sugar and Tapioca Estates, known as PRYE, BATU had been sent here to inspect the famian. cial representative. Viscount Hor, who KAWAN and ALMA, situate in the Central|rafí

region and to Apply

repon to: His Majesty, While and Southern Districts of Province Wellesley, all these officials are very careful not to ask us THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. Comprising a total area of about 12,809 scres to join in the work of relief, they are, from the hold under Government Statutory Grants, highest to the lowest, very grateful for any Government Grants and Government Leases. 172 of which a total of about 6,787 acres ara'undortim eigners will do to expres at this Stores will be Open at 10 A.M.'and3⁄44 P.M.'

thing Their nymphy. It is exactly at it was

OFFICES _in_course of erection, Com NAUGHT ROAD (near Blakx Pler)," GODOWNS: PRAYA EAST,

MENT & AGENCY GO, LD. Rongbane, 2nd December, 1005.

Hotels.

KING EDWARD HOTEL,

A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL,

LADIES' AFTERNOON TEA-ROOMS. PRIVATE BAR and BILLIARD-ROOMS. HOT and COLD WATER throughout.

cultivation with all the buildings and fixed machinery and plant appertaining thereto.

THE PRYE ESTATE comprises a are of about 4.738 acres of which about 593 arres are cultivated for Sugar, about 296 acres are planted with Chenanuts, about 127 acres are Paddy land, and about 9.8 acres are Fallow

in all forms of soldiers relief work, the sympathetic aid that foreigners gave Was everywhere met with profound gratitude.

Anything that foreigners can now do to show their sympathy with these 700,000 men, women and children in distress will be mei with sincerest grailtude, not only on the part

THE

COLD STORAGE.

HE' HongkonG ICE COMPANY, COLD STORAGE Available at EAST POINT.

LTD., have now, 40,001 Cubic foot of

daily, Sunday excepied, to receive and deliver perishable goods.

WM. PARLANE, Manager. Hongkong, 22nd June, 1005.

171

land. About 66 acres of the Kalate are covered of those who are destitute, but also of those in A. CHAZALON

with canale, drains and roads, and the remainder 14 jung'e land of which about 666 acres are suitable for cultivation..

authority upan whose shoulders rests the heavy burden of caring for this army of sufferers for the next six months.

THE BATU KAWAN'ESTATE comprises "We do not care how the money is raised, an ares of about 5,399 acres of which about por to whom it is sent, so long as it gets lo 334 acres are ultivated for Sugar, about 54 those in need. The snow has begun to fall on acres are planted with Coconuts, about 13 the high lands of the famine regions, Chin acres are planted with l'apioca, about 53 acres | maans that no more acorns, bitter though they are Paddy, land, and about 1,689 acres are are, can be collected; no more roots can be dug there. The daily Journey to the hilts for

ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED ELECTRIC FANS Fallow land hout-67 acres of the land ared and charcoal, which in some cases is

(if required).

covered with canals, drains and roads; and the ELECTRIC PÅBARNCER ELEVATOR to each remainder is jungle land of which 1,066 acres

Ador..

are suitable for cultivation.

TABLE D'itore al separate tables. For Terms, &c, apply to the-

MANAGER.

4

Hongkong, 4th December, 1905.

OCCIDENTAL

HOTEL.

EXCELLENT CUISINE.

#

3

MODERATE PRICES.

ELECTRIC. FANS

TO GADER IN

EVERY ROOM."

EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT.'

ELGIN ROAD, KOWLOON. Hongkong, 19th-May, 1981,

(2)

ORIENTAL HOTEL,

A

MACAO.

FIRST CLASA HOTEL situated in the Centre of Praya Grands with splendid view of the Harbour,

LARGE AND LOFTY ROOMS, Elegantly Furnished.

EXCELLENT CUISINE.

WINES AND SPIRITS of the best quality,

& CO.

6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

NOTED for their WINES, SPIRITS

ten miles each way, will soon wear out the and PROVISIONS of which they have courage and strength of the men and women who tramp through the snow on starvation food,

"As to the distribution of relief, we have carefully learned from officials their minute conclusions as to the number of people in need, and we are satisfied that the heads of the coun trics know exactly where and when relief can be applied to the best advantage. They have all

THE ALMA ESTATE comprises an area of about 2,679 acres of which about joc acres are planted, with Tapioca' and about 62 acres with Citronella grass, and in addition to the above about 300 acres are planted by Chinese Squatters with Pina, Apples in which the Vendora have the right to plint l'ara Rubber and there are about 1,340 acres of Fallow land suitable for planting Fapinca and Rubber,

machinery for rapid and inexpensive dis The remainter of the stair consiste chicny without loss, We shall do all we can personal.

tribution, and all funds will reach the of Forest land of which about yoo acres ara suitable for cultivation. There are about 5,000 famine that involves 700,000 people, successful to aid in the distribution of food, but in

yung trees_about one year old)

The

poor

Coconut trees on this Estate (pred relief work can best be done through the herd' between the Tapioca plants, and about 1500s for years as trusted and honoured men.

officials magy of whom have been known to Para Rubber frees of about 3 years, old on

"The

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank has

Pubber Plants have alıp been planted between the Tapioen within the last 3 months.

various parts of the state... About 6,00 Para kindly agreed to take charge of the famine

fand www.

give our thanks to all the news. The sale will include the Goodwill of the have started subscriptions. If aey should pre - papers that have published our appeal, and business of Planters and Manufacturers offer to sand direct to a Japanese agency, the Sugar, Tapioca, Citronella and other products Skinse is receiving subscriptions, and its carried on by the Wellesley (enang) Estates, fist has already passed the 10,000 limit." Limited,

Plani of the Prye and Batu Kawan Estates showing the position and area of the fields and lunda can be inspected at the Office of Messrs. Paterson, Simons & Company, Weld Quay, Pecang, from whom and from Maisro, Pres grave and Matthews; Solicitors, Penang, or the.

and to whom application for particulars and Auctioneers, further particulars can be obtained

conditions of sale should be mide,

Penang 6th December, 1003

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THE HONGKONG STUDIO,

HIGHER CLASS, PHOTOGRAPHER,

41 & 43, QUEEN'E ROAD CentraL, TOP FLOOR,

For Sale.

FOR SALE.

REMINGTON TYPEWRITERS new and in good condition, BARGAIN PRICES. From $135 to' $250..

Apply to

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H. RUTTONJEE, No. 5, D'Aguilar Street. Hongkong, 4th January, 1000.

GREEN" ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,

LIMITEDA

PORTLAND CEMENT.

BILLIARD TABLE, the best in the Far East. PORTRAITS, GROUPS and ENLAR In Cusks of 1375.000, net 94.75 per Cask

Wm. POWELL, Ld., EVERY COMFORT FOR RESIDENTS AND

HONGKONG.

Hongkong, 4th January, vood,

TOURISTS. For Termi, &c., apply to-

́THE MANAGER. [47] Maca, 16th October, 100g,

.

GING and COPYING in all Sizes,

LARGE SELECTION 'OF VIRWS ALWAYE' ok Hand,"

PRICK VERY MODIZATE. Hongkong, 14th September, 1905

CX Factory

In Baga of ago Benet $2.80 per Bag ex Factory, SHEWAN, TOMES & COM General Managers,' kong, gosh September, 1905.

always a large assortment in stock,

The oldest established EUROPEAN BAKERS in the Colony,

་

Hongkong, 30th September, 1905,

Supplied to

HARRIS'S

His Majesty'

BACON & HAMS

PARI

ARRIS

Intimations.

THE POPULAR

SCOTCH

BLACK&WHITE

JAMES BUCHANAN & CO. SCOTUM WHISKY DISTILLENS, By Appointment to EM. THE KING

and

HPH the PRINCE of WALES

Supplied at all the LEADING CLUBS. and HOTELS, and to be obtalasd from the principal Stores,

A

TUBORG BEER.

FIRST CPILSENER BEER guaranteed fee from Salicylic Acid, ind any other Chemicals,

PRICE $10.50 per case 'di 48 boilies (quarta) or o doz. pints.

Special Prices for Quantities

Sale Agents.-

SIEMSSEN to.

Hongkong, toth January, 1917.

THE WINE GROWERS

SUPPLY CO.

BARRETTO & Co.,

General Agents, Hongkong

CLARETS.

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St. George...... 84.00 Per Dozen Quarts.

Cre-Wynbron 4.50

Montferrand 5.50

-Medoc

6.00

St. Emilion .....

6.00

Gold Medals PARIS 18898,1900

Regd

St. Estephe

6.50.

St. Julian....... 7.50

Brand

St. Estephe Su

perior.......... 9:00

Chateau Margaux goo

59, Queen's Roid Centrál,“ Hongkong.

Chateau Leoville - 9.00

Chateau Lafite 10.00

Chateau Larose... 10:50

HARRIS CALNE WILTS England

REPRESENTATIVES FOR HONGKONG & CHINA,

HOWARD & C

Hongkong, roth May, 1905,

Notice of Firm.

CHINA AND COAST PORTÉ STEAM."

"SHIP COMPANY;"

HAVE This Day," been appointed, as

MANAGER.

1 MicDandell Road;"

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GEO, KEEBLE.

BARRETTO & Coj!

Apauid,

NoL 21 & 24, Bank Béildiago,

Qomen's Road

Hongkong, rath Decembaï ¿905;). [1234m Hongkong, 19th May, 1995,