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Intimation.

POWELL'S Alexandra Buildings.

LADIES'

FOOTWEAR.

SPECIAL BARGAINS.

ENGLISH-MAKE

BLACK GLACE

LACE WALKING

SHOES,

$6.75, $8.75, $10.76, $11.75 pair. BLACK GLACE

STRAP WALKING

SHOES,

$6.75, $11.75 pair.

TAN GLACE

STRAP WALKING

$6, 80.75, $10 pair.

TAN GLACE

SHOES,

LACE WALKING

SHOES

$6, $7.50, $8.75 pair.

TAN WILLOW

CALF, BUTTON

WALKING SHOES

$0.50 pair.

WHITE CANVAS

LACE & STRAP

SHOES

$4.75, $7 pair.

WHITE KID

SLIPPERS-

Pain and Strap,. $6.75, $0.25 pair. WHITE SATIN

SLIPPERS--

Plain and Beaded. $7.50, $0.50 pair.

PLAIN BLACK

AND BRONZE EVENING SLIPPERS, $7. $7.75, $8.50 pair. BLACK & BRONZE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1906,

Intimations.

CHINA TRADERS'. INSURANCE, COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA

ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above-named Company will be held at the Registered Offices of the Company at Queen's Buildings, Victoria, in the Colony of Hon kang, on SATURDAY, the Tenth day of March, 1906, at 12 o'clock, Noon, when the Resolutions set out below which were passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the Sixteenth day of February, 1906, will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions.

By Order of the Board,

JAMES WHITTALL," Seciclary,

Hongkong, 16th February, 1906,

KESOLUTIONS,

That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered in the following

manner:-

"The following Article shall be substitut ed for Article 130, namely:-130. The Board, through 3 Secretary, shall make Yearly Sintements of the Accounts of the Company from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of December in each and every year, which shall be duly audited and presented to the Shareholders, at each of the Ordinary Meetings of the Company, together will a Report on the general pasition of the Company.

2 That the Board, through its Secretary, shall make a talement of the Accounts of the Company as from the 1st day of May, 1905, to the 31st day of December, 1905, which shall be duly audited and presented 10 the Shareholders, at the next Ordinary Meeting of the Company to be held during 1906 and that, inasmuch as the Accounts of the Company have already been audited and presented to the Shareholders to the 30th April, 1905, no further or other Statements of the Accounts of the Company for the year 1995 shall be called for by or preserted to the Shareholders in respect of [138 Article 130 as this day substituted.

THE HONGKONG. VOLUNTEER RESERVE ASSOCIATION.

HE FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE MEMBERS will

be held at the City all, on TUESDAY, the 13h March, 1956, at 5.30 P.M.

Sir HENRY BERKELEY, Chairman of the Association, will preside.

4

W. H. TRENCHARD DAVIS,

Hon. Secretary,

Hongkong, 6th March, 1906.

THE JUBILEE OF THE V.C.

.

Entertainments.

NOTICE.

Mrs. D. E. Brown, Mrs. Gordon, Miss Hum phreys, Mrs. Kruger, Mr. Chalmers, Mr. Gonzales, Mr. Jokl, Mr. Koenig, Mr. Leckie, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Grimble.

ALSO

Ji

By kind permission of Admiral BREUSING the Band of the Flagship SM.S. Fürst Bis- marck, under Bandmaster KARL JESSIEN, will play four selections.

George White and Sir Erolyn Wood-ic] one Admiral of the Fleet (Sir Nowell Salmen).. It is fifty years ago since the Victoria wenty seven general officers (including Sir Redvers Baller, Sir R. C. Hart, Sir Dighton Cross was insituted by Queen Victoria, o Probyn), and faur naval officers of flag rank.

[NDER the distinguished Patronage of His January 29, 1856. As everyone knows, the including Admiral Sir A. K. Wilson (Comidance. Sir MATTHEW NATHAN, Cross is made of cannon taken af Sevastopol der-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet) and Rear- and is intrinsically worth 44d. It is a Maltese Admiral C, Lucas, who has the distinctlodX.C.M.D., Governor of Hongkong Cross bearing in the centre a crown sution. It is lateresting to notice that in a lew

of being the first person to receive the decora A CONCERT

will be given the CITY HALL, an SATUR- mounted by a lion, and below is the instances more than one member of a family

DAY, the th March, at 9 P.M., in aid of the legend "For Valour"; and it is this simple has won the V.C. There are three Gought-UNION CHURCH NEW OROWN FUND, by the legend that makes it, in spite of its cheap and General C. J. S Gough, and General Sir H. H.

Gough, brothers and Lieat-Colonel following artists :--- rather poor design, the most highly-prized de Gough, the son of Sir H., H. Another case of coration which a British subject can wear. The brothers is that of Major-General E. Royal Warrant instituting the decorationSartorius and Major-Geustal R. W. Sartorius, ordains that it is only to be awarded for signal whiled second case of father and sod', winning service in the presence of the enemy, and, the Victoria Cross is supplied by Lard Roberts and his gallant son, Lieutenant the Hon. F. H.S. with a view to placing all persons on a per Roberts, who last his life in wlosing it. fectly equal footing in relation to eligibility for the decoration, neither rank nor long service, nor wounds, nor any other circumstance or condition whatsoever, save the merit of con. spicuous bravery, shall be held to establish s sufficient claim to the honour." The warrant further ordains that the Cross shall be suspend. ed from the left breast by a blue riband for the Navy and by a red riband for the Armyte that anyone who after having received Cross shall again perform an act of bravery which, if he had not received such Cross, would have entitled him to it, such further act shall he recorded by a bar attached to the riband by which the Cross is suspended, and for every additional act of bravery an additional har may be added." As a matter of fact, the bar has never been awarded, though the V.C. has many times been awarded to an officer or a soldier for more than ons act of bravery. Since the foundation of the decoration fifty years ago, it has been awarded to 572 officers and men,

ITS DISTRIBUTION.

and

Cross

POSTHUMOUS V.C.'S. There is one important alteration lately made in the rules governing the award of the V.C, which must not be passed over. Formerly if the Crors was awarded to a man who died before the decoration could be given to him, his name was gazetted as that of one who if he had lived; but no Cross was given to his "would have been awarded the Victoria Cross relatives. When Lieutenant the Hon. F. H. S. Roberts, who won the V.C. for conspicuous ravery at Colenso, died before the decoration could be given to him, the Cross was given to ques his father. This, of course, opened the tion of posthumous V.C's, and on August 9. 19oz, it was ordered that the should be presented to the next of kin or re presentatives of some half-dozen heroes who in the South African campaign had fallen in winning the decoration, This is as it should be; but the new rule was not made retrospect. ive, as it ought to bave been. There are not more than nine or ten cases at the outside to be considered; and when we remember how seams a vast pity that it was refused, especially since among the list of cases in question are ihe names of Salkeld and Home, who are famous in the history of the Mutiny for sacri. ficing their lives in 'blowing up the Cashmere Gate at the siege of Delhi; and of, Melvil and Coghill, who made a gallant effort to save the colours of the 24th Regiment at Isnudibwana a deed that will live in memory as long as there is a British Army.—Pall Mall Garetie.

it is only natural when we consider that leally all, our fighting has been done on luring the past half-century all, or prac-greatly such a concession would be valued, it land, shat, the great bulk of the decora

jons have been won by the Army. The fallowing table will show the various branches of the services with the number of Crosses won by cach

Royal Navy

Royal Marines

Cavalry of the Line

Royal Artillery

Royal Engineers

Foot Guards

41

4

L

49

***

кар

41

27

12

... 238

2

Infantry of the Line

West Indian Regiment Army Bervice Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps... Army Hospital Corps Ordnance Corps

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Chaplains Department

་་

Imperial Yeomanry....

Indian Army.......

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Indian Civil Service Indian Police

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE TWENTY-THIRD ORDINARY HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Company's Office, St. George's Building, No. 6, Connaught Road, Victoria, on WEDNESDAY, the 14th March, 190l, at if A.M., for the purpose of receiving a State meat of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1905, declaring a Dividend and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the oth March, to WEDNESDAY, the 14th March, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 27th February, 1906.

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFAC. TURING COMPANY, LIMITED,

GENERAL MEETING or SHARE-

Indian Medical Service

Colonial Troops

Conada

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South Africa... New South Wales.. Victoria ... West Australia New Zealand... Tasmania

Total

---

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10

2

*** 22

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

"HE Undersigned have received instructions T

In sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW,

the 8th March, 1906, at it AM,.at

Tickels, $10 each, may be hnd at Massrs. LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. (Music Dpt.) and WM. POWELL, LTD.; also, of siembers of the Ladies' Committee of the Church, or the Undersigned.

A. MACKENZIE,

Hoo, Secretary. J.394

Hongkong, sth Match, 1906 HONGKONG SCHOOLS'ATHLE FIG SPORTS, 1906.

PHE ANNUAL ATHLETIC SPORTS of the HONGKONG SCHOOLS will be held by perraission on the Race Course, Happy Valley, on MONDAY, March 26th, at ra Noon. Entry forms can be obtained from the Com- mitten and must be returned to the Secretaries, not later than Murch roth. Preliminary Heats will be run off on SATURDAY, March 24th. There will benĮ MILE RACE open to the Navy,. Army and Polica (European), and also a MILE FACE open to the Army, Navy and Police (Asiatic). Post Entries and Twa 'Prizes

in each case.

R. E. O. BIRD.

Hon. Secretaries. H.L. O, GARRETT,

1307 Hongkong, 3rd March, 1955.

To Let.

OFFICES TO LET.

OFFICES on the Second Floor of No. 1,

QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, facing the Praya and the Queen's Statue, lately vacated by the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited, to whom please apply for particulars,

Hongkong, 6th March, 1906.

TO LET

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TWO GODOWNS at East Point, close to the Water, suitable for the storage of

their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, any Cargo.

-corner of Ice Ilouse Street,

A QUANTITY OF MANILA CIGARS.

TERMS-As uang).

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 7th March, 1906.

PUBLIC, AUCTION,

[318

THE Undersigned have received instructions PUBLIC AUCTION,

to sell by

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

on.

SATURDAY,

In looking at the above list we must remeny ber that the old Indian Artillery and Engineers have been absorbed in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, and are not included in the Indian Army, which now consists of native troops. So, too, of course, old Indian line regiments in which the men were Europeans the roth March, 1906, at 2.30 PM, at their are now included in "Infantry of the Line," such regiments having been renamed and regimepted in the British Army. At first sight [281 fifty-four seems a small number of Crosses to be won by the Indian Army, but it must be recollected that native Indian officers and men have their own decoration for bravery and are

HE TWENTY-SECOND ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE. HOLDERS in the Company will be held in the Company's Offices, St George's Building, No.6, Connaught Road, Victoria, on WEDNES. DAY, 14th March, 1996, at 11.30 AM, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts EVENING SLIPPERS and the Report of the General Managers for

BLACK & BROWN

inclusive.

the year ending 31st December, 190;, declaring --Beaded, a Dividend and electing a Consulting Com- $9.50, $10.75, $11.75, $12.25, $13.50 pair.mittee and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 1oth, WEDNESDAY, 14th March, both days

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 27th February, 1906. (282 CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, -LIMITED.

CALF & GLACE

BOOTS, $10, $11.50, $12.50 pair.

TENNIS SHOES, $2.25 to $7.50 pair.”

AMERICAN MAKE BLACK GLACE LACE WALKING SHOES,

$0, $12, $13 pair. TAN GLACE LACE

WALKING SHOES, $11,75, $12.50, $14, $15, $16.50 pr. BLACK & BRONZE EVENING SLIPPERS

-Boaded,

$10.50, $18.50 pair. PATENT WALKING

$16 pair.

SHOES,

BLACK GLACE,

PATENT CAP,

LACE BOOTS.

$16 pair.

The Anest Material and Work- manship obtainable. Inspection invited. Wm. POWELL, Ld.,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS; - Des Faux Road,“ HONGKONG.

Hongkong, a8th February, 1906.

NOTICE..

|

Soles Rooms, No. 8,. Des Voeux Road, comer of Ice House Street,

A FINE COLLECTION OF OLD PEKIN CURIOS,

Comprising

VASES, WALL PLATES, INCENSE BURNERS, OLD BRONZES, TEA CUPS,

Floor Area 6,100 square feet each, Apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hongkong, 20th January, 1905.

TO LET.

[147

OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING and YORK

BUILDING,

GODOWNS on PRAYA'EAST...

A BUILDING at CAUSEWAY BAY, formetly in occupation of the Steam .Laundry Co, Ld.

A HOUSE in CLIFTON Gardens, Con-

duit Road.

A HOUSE I WONG NÉT CHỐNG ROAD. A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE. FLATS iD MORETON TERRACE......... poly lo

THE HONGKONG, LAND INVES

MENT AGENCY CO, UD. Hongkong, 28th February, 1956...............

TO:LET.

Izi

not eligible for the V. C. One other point to BOTTLES, KAKEMONOS, &c, NO. 5. KNUTSFORD TERRACE,

be noticed is that the seven V. Cs in the Royal Army Medical Corps and the three in the Indian Medical do all the

fifteen others; eleven are included in the regiments to which they belonged, for until 1873 surgeons did not belong to a separate department, but were attached permanently to regiments; and there are four included in the

doctors who have been decorated; there are

Colonial recipients. The solitary chaplain to win the V. C. was the Rev. J.W. Adams, who died last year.

WHICH REGIMENT HAS WON THE MOST.

&c. &c.

Catalogues will be issued. TERMS-As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 6th March, 1906.

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

KOWLOON,

Apply to

(312

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.

[74 Hongkong, 30th December, 1905.

TO LET.

MESSES HUGHES AND HOUGH have

received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

ON

MONDAY,

afternoon, at their SALES ROOMS,

in Ice House Street, IN ONE LOT

THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY, registered in the Land Office as INLAND LOT No. 576 and FARM LOT' No. 65.

It is impossible in short space to give a list of regiments with the number of V. C.'s won by each, and we must be content with a glance at it. Taking the cavalry first, we find that the Household Cavalry have never won the Cross, the 12th day of Varch, 1956, at 3 o'clock in the and that of 31 cavalry regiments of the line 19 have secured the decoration. The 9th Lancers head the list with 13, of which 12 were won in the Indian Mutiny campaign, in which the re- giment won the nickname "The Delhi Spear- men." No other cavalry regiment boast of more than five V.C.'s-indeed, only two, the 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars and the 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers-have won so many. The 2nd Dragoon Guards Queen's Baya) have won 4 and 21st Lancers

one or two each. Now let us turn to the in- fantry. All the regiments of Foot Guards have won the Crom except the Irish Guards, whe have hardly had a chance of winning it. Of the 60 infantry regiments of the line 58 have The following regiments had V.C. winners, have won ten or more Crosses :- South Wales Bor. Seaforth Highlan

derers...... 16 ders Rillo Brigade 15 Cameronians (Scot- *** King's Royal Ri- tish Rißes)....... 10.

Леб

13 The Black Watch 10

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY TANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE- HOLDERS of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, on WEDNES3: and the rest of the regiments have secured DAY, the 21st March, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year coding 31st December, 1905.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 8th to 21st March, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

General Agents. Hongkong, 27th February, 1905.

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F. BLACKHEAD & CO., SHIP CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS

COAL AND PROVISION MER- CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS AND GENEral commiSSION AGENTS, GROUND FLOOR,

ST. GEORGES BUILDING, HONGKONG,

GAP AND SODA MAÑUFACTURERS.

SOLE AGENTS FOR ARTMANN'S RAHTJEN'S GENUINE

BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY PAINT, DAIMLER'S PATENT: MOTOR LAUNCHES, &C &c..

&C.

Sõle Agents' for FERGUSON'S SPECIAL CREAM and P&O. SPECIAL LIQUER SCOTCH WHISKY,&c. EVERY 'KIND OF SHIP'S STORES AND REQUISITES. ALWAYS IN STOCK

REASONABLE PRICES.

HARTMANNS RED HAND

| [4x ||| Hongkong, 716 March, 1903.

Gordon Highlanders........13 CAMPAIGNS IN WHICH THE V.C. WAS WON. The Victoria Cross has been awarded for bravery in over forty campaign, and it is in. teresting to note which produced the largest number. An examination of the list will show that the following are the principal campaigns (in chronological order) in which the V.C. has been won:- Russian War (Bal. tic and Crimes), 1854-56 Indian Mutiny,

Afghanistan, 1878-

82

16

These properties comprise No. 4, SEY- MOUR ROAD and a house now in course of erection known as 'GLENSESKIN.". The total area of the above Lots is 103,450 square feet. The total Crown Rent is $88.

Particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained from the undersigned,

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 18 March, 1906.

NOTICE.

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THE SALE BY AUCTION of ALMA, TDATU KAWAN AND FRYE ES TATES stands postponed to a future date, of which due notice will be given..

| Zululand, 1879 ... 23

N, W. Frontier, 1857-59.182 India, 1897-98... 10

Boer War, 1899- New Zealand, 1863-

64........ 12 || 1903 78 In no other campaigns have as many as ton V.C.'s been won,"

PERSONALITIES,

Of the 522 V.C's that have been awarded, 256 have been won by commissioned officers (including thres Indian Civil Servants) and 266. by non-commissioned officers and mes. The

democratic nature of the decoration is ema: phasised by the fact that while there are many Peers and sons of Peers who have won it, at the other end of the social ladder are three man

KENNEDY. & Co. A. A. ANTHONY & Co. } Penang, 16th February, 1905.

CODOWN No. N

NEW PRAYA, Kennedy

GODOWN

Apply to

Town.

THE HONGKONG, LAND: INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 27th June, 1905.

Wotels.

KING EDWARD HOTEL:

A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL

LADIES' AFTERNOON TEA-ROOMS. PRIVATE BAR and BILLIARD-Rooms, HOT and COLD WATER throughout, ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED, ELECTRIC FANS

(if required).

ELECTRIC PASSENGER ELKVATOR to each

floor,

[30

伯

Intimations;

THE POPULAR

SCOTCH

IS

BLACK&WHITE

JAMES: BUCHANAN & 00, SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLKIS By Appotriment b HM. THE KING

and

HRH the PRINCE of WALES

Supplied at all the LEADING" CLUBŠ¬ ind HOTELS, and to be obtained from [sa the principal Stores."

[A

TUBORG BEER.

FIRST Class PILSENER DEER guaranteed free from Salicylic Acid, and any other Chemicals,

PRICE $10.50 per case of 48 bottles (quarts) or 6 dos pints,

:

Special Prices for Quantities,

Sole Agents

SIEMSSEN & CO.

162

Hongkong, toth January, 1993.

THE WINE GROWERS

SUPPLY CO.

TORDE MAR

BARRETTO & Co.,

General Agents, Hongkong.

CLARETS.

St. George........ 84.00 Per Dozen Quarta,

Cru-Wynbron...... 4.50

TABLE D'HOTE at separate tables.

For Terms, &c, apply to them,

MANAGER, Hongkong, 4th December, 19as." OCCIDENTAL Cotes

HOTEL

EXCELLENT CUISINE.

5.00,

Montferrand

.5.50

Medoc

6.00

6,00

1276

ELECTRIC FANS

St. Estephe

6.50

TO ORDER IN

EVERY ROOM, ·

St. Julien

7.50

Auctioneers,

Notice of Firm,

MR.

NOTICE,

MODERATE PRICES. St. Emilion

EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT.

ELGIN ROAD, KOWLOON. Hongkong, toth May, 1904.

R. RICHARD HANCOCK is authorised ORIENTAL HOTEL, Procuration.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Hongkong, 26th February, 1905.

Insurance:

T

MACAO..

St. Estephe Su-:

perior........ 9.00

Chateau Margaux 9.00

[273 A Care of Praya Daud, with age the Chateau Leoville 9.00

NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.

of colour. According to Whitaker's Almanac, THE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept First which each year publishes a list of surviving Class FOREIGN '154 CHINESE RÍSKS at V Cg there were at the beginning of last December 201 recipients of the Cross still living. This list contains (the ""names" of 1st thren Field Marshalg Lord Roberte Sir

CURRENT Rater

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EXCELLENT, CUISINE. WINES AND SPIRITS of the best quality, BILLIARD TABLE, the best in the Far East.

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TOURISTS. For Teras, &c, apply to

THE MANAGER. Maçao, 16th October, spog,

{19

Chateau Lafite (.. rd.bo'

Chateau Larose... 10.50.

BARRETTO & Co., Agents:

Nos, 21 & 24, Bank Buildings,

Quran's Road Centrades

Hongkong, agih Any, spas.