Shipping-Steamers.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO.,
AND
LD.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
CHIINA MUTUAL STEAM NAV. CO., LD.
JOINT SERVICES.
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
SERVICE.
OUTWARD,
GLASGOW.and LIVERPOOL `.........
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL .......
STEAMERS
DUE
"AJAX"
.zgth May,
GLASCOW and LIVERPOOL
"STENTOR".
"MEMNON"................ 7th, Juss.
7th 14
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
+
PATROCLUS
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL .....
"PING SUEY".
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
"ORESTES"
GLASGOW and' LIVERPOOL
GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL
PROMETHEUS"....... 14th
"OANFA".......
"ASTYANAX "..............
+14th
.18th
5th July.
The 5.5. "Ajax" felt Singapore on the morning of the 24th instant, and in due here on the 29th.
FOR
HOMEWARD.
STEAMERS
AMSTERDAM, LONDON & ANTWERP "JASON" LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "DEUCALION " *GENDA, MARSEILLES & L'POOL
"HYSON" LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "AJAX" LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "PROMETHEUS
•GENDA, MARSEILLES & LPOOL "PATROCLUS" LONDON, AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP "PING SUEY'
• Taking Cargo for Liverpool at London Rates.
TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE.
OPERATING IN CONJUNCTION WITH
TO SAIL
sth June. 19th
#
11
3rd July.
..17th
T
"
.31st
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO.
AND TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO ALI OVERLAND COMMON POINTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND.CANADA.
For.
EASTWARD.
STEAMERS
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA, and)" STENTOR"
101 PACIFIC COAST PORTS, vid} NAGASARI, ROBE and YOKOHAMA "OANFA "
FROM
WESTWARD.
STEAMERS
TACOMA, SEATTLE, VICTORIA and} " KEEMUN ".....
"TEUCER "
PACIFIC COAST......
....
Put Freight, apply to
Hongkong, 25th May, 18.6
TO BAI ..1olti June.
7th July,
DUB 14th June, 13th July.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTS.
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CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.
Fox
MANILA, ZAMBOANGA, PORT DAR=" WIN, THURSDAY ISLAND, COOK- TOWN, CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY & MELBOURNE) NINGPO and SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI..................
·MANILA ...........
STEAMERS,
TO SAIL
** TSINAN **↑
30th May,
161 Juna.
2nd
11
NANDHANG " + **OHIHLI" †
TEAN”* 5th I
The Atication of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accomodation offered by these steamers, which are fitted throughout with Electric Ligin. Unrivalled table. A duly qualified Surgeon is carried.
Ports.
Taking Cargo and Passengers at through Rates for all New Zealand and other Australian
+ Taking Cargo on through' is.ils of Lading to all Yangisin,amt. Northern China Ports.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
Hongkong, 29th May, 1
Steamship.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTS,
TUESDAY, MAY 29 1906.
Shipping-Steamers.
*DEN" LINE OF STEAMERS."'
FOR LONDON AND ANTWERP.
THE Steamship
"BENMOHR."
Captain Webster, will be despatched as above, on or about 4th June.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.
Hongkong, 18th May, 1906.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
HONGKONG-SWatow-Bangkok`LINE.
FOR SWATOW AND BANGKOK. *HE Chartered Steamship
THE
EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,
FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling at Timor, Port Darwin and Queensland Ports, and taking through Cargo to Adelaide, New Zealand, Tasmania,&c) ~HE Steamship THE
"EASTERN,"
Captain Powell, will be despatched for the above" Poni, od SATURDAY, the aud June, at (554 Noon.
"PROMETHEUS,” Captain Cornelinssen, will be despatched a above, on TUESDAY, the 5th June, at ro A.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Hongkong, 18th May, 1906.
HONGKONG-MACAO LINE.
S.S. "WING CHAI," Captain T. AUSTIN, ́R.N.R.
f6or
THIS Steamer departs from Hongkong on TH
Week Days, at 7.32 A.M. and on Sundays at 8 A.. Departs from Macao on Week Days at 1,30 PM, and on Sundays at 5,30 P.M., if tide permits,
FARES:-Week Days, 1st Class, including Cabin and servant, Single 53: Retum Ticket, $5 and Class, Sr: ard Class, ta cents.
On and after Sunday, 29th inst., inclu. sive, every Sunday will be an Excursion, at the following rates:tstand zod Class, Single, ta Return, 53rst Class, Single with Cabin, $3: Return, 55; 3rd Class, Single, 50 cents; Re- turn, do cents.
All Meals can be supplied on Board at $1 each Meat.
This well-known Steamer is specially fitted for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham- ber which ensures the supply of Fresh Provi- Įsions, Ico, &c, throughout the voyage.
This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric Light.
A Stewardess and a duly qualified Surgeon are carried.
NE-To sisure the additional comfort of passengers the Steamers of the Company have electric fans fitted in staterooms.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Agants. Hongkong, a9th May, 1906.
THE
(514
STEAM TO CANTON. *HE Now Twin Screw Steel Steamers
Tool Captain "KWONG CHOW"...1,309......T. R. MEAD "KWONG TUNG "...1,238,.,..., R. RAMSEY.
Leave Hongkong for. Canton at 9 every evening (Saturday excepted).
Leave Canton for Hongkong about 5.30 o'clock every evening (Sunday excepted).
Accommodation for First Class Passengers and are lit throughout by Electricity. Electric Fans in First Class Cabins,
These Fine New Steamers have unexcelled
Fassage Fare-Single Journey ...$4
...$1 ench,
Also
Excursions to MACAO-every SATURDAY
at 6 P.M., and every SUNDAY at 8.30 AM. First Class Passengers, who do not care to returning on SUNDAY at' to A.M. and 6.30.
return
מים :
the Excursion Sunday, will be allowed | P.M. to do so the following day (Monday) on pro. duction of the Return Half Ticket. Should | FARES:- tbe Staamor not run on the Monday, owing to} The Boiler cleaning, due notice will be given by the Captain, and the Hall Ticket will be available for the following day.
The Steamer is lit throughout by Electricity The Steamer's wharf Hongkong is 'ht the Western end of Wing Lok Bernet.
SAM WANG Co.
Hongkong, Joth May, 1996,
1st Class single Sz with cabin $3.00.
return $3
5,00, and Class single Si, return * 1.50 Breakfast, Timlin and Dinner St.oo, ench. The Wharf in Hongkong is nearly in front of the new Western Markel, opposite the old Harbour Office.
SHIU ON S.S. CO., LD., and YUEN ON S.S. CO., LD.
Hongkong, zzud May, 1906,
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Shipping-Steamer.
FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA' AND
HE Steamship
THE
КОВЕ.
"RIENANIA," Captain von Hoff, will be despatched for thp. above Ports, TOMORROW, the goth instant,
At 4 P.M.
The Steamer has splendid accommodation for Passengers and carries a duly qualified Doctor and Stewardestos.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,
Hongkong Office. Hongkong. 29th May, 1905.
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THE
Consignees.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamer
"PALMA,"
FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, MALTA, PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo 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 Godowo Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark. by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
This vessel brings on Cargo:-
From London.
From Italy.
Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before 6 hours.
Goods pot cleared by the 3rd proximo, at 4 P.M.; will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in
any cast whatever,
'Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees' and the Company's representative al appointed hour.
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All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.
THE FRENCHMAN'S SNAILS,
HOW MILLIONS OF THEM ARE RAIBED TO EAT.
With French gourmets the snail is a popular tidbil. The markets of Paris alons are called upon to supply about tan tons a year in order to meet the demand,
1%
At one restaurant in that city 5,000 sualla are prepared and exten daily lawson. Of late the demand has been so great in Paris and has to increased elsewhere that the sup«. ply har been loadequate.
This demand has led to the development of anall farming. In Italy, Germany and Switzer- land, as well as in France, "small farms" are now becoming commen.
Thousands of the slimy creatures, amounting to tons in weight, are fattened annually for consumption in the big cities of the Continent. This occupation furnishes work and revenue to a large number of person's,
Looking upon a "snail farm" for the first time, the uninitiated observer would declare it nothing more nor less than a big cabbage patch.
Cabbages are raised to provide green pro- vender for the snails. The plants are growa in rows and planted in boxes, which are used to restrain the wandering propensities of the little captives.
On one farm, which may be taken at a speci men, there are grown annually 68,000 cabbage plants to sustain nearly 3,000,000 snails.
The boxes in which the plants are set extend as far down the field as the sight carries clearly. Each won six feet long, three feet wide, and a few inches high, and eich box is the prison house of many snails.
Cabbage plants grow about the sides. After dozing comfortably all day in their beds of moss in the centre, protected thus from the lient of the sun the snails wake up in the cool of the night and feed upon the cabbage leaves, So great is hiero gluttony that they consums
a large quantity of the green provender each
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods night. There are 1,700 shelters or boxes on
have left the Godowns.
E. A. HEWETI,
Superintendent. Honkong, 28th May, ron,
S.S. "OCEANJEN.” COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES
MARITIMES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
No. 8, Queen's Road West CONSIGNEES of Cargo from London ex 8.5. Crimde and Aředat, from Havre ex s.s. Crimte, and from Bourdeaux ex 8.5. Ville de Gonstantine, in connection with above Steamer, are hereby informed that their INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD. Gonds, with the exception of Oplum, Trea sure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing,
{PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION).
For
Steamship
SGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA.NAMSANG* SHANGHAL...
MANILA...
On
WEDNESDAY, 30th May, 3 P.M. „HANGSANGA ...THURSDAY, 3111 May, 4 P.M.
„LOONGSANG* ...FRIDAY, 1st June, 4 F.M.
* 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 and Yangtze Ports.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
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Hongkong, 29th May, 1905.
HONGKONG MANILA.
Highout Claus, 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.
CHINA AND MANILA
BTEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,
For
Tous. Captain.
Sailing Dates.
ZAFIRO
............... 2540
RUBI
40
R. Rodger
R. Almond......
MANILA (DIRECT) | SATURDAY, 2nd June;
at Noon. SATURDAY, 9th June,
at Noon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
Itongkang, 26th May, 10c6.
S
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
GENERAL MANAGERS,
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HONGKONG-NEW YORK.
AMERICAN ASIATIC
STEAMSHIP CO,
FOR NEW YORK via.PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL.
(With Liberty to Call at the Malabar Coast),
Steamship "ANGLO SAXON",
For Freight and further information, apply to
Hongkong, 22nd May, 1906.
Insurance..
About ........ Beginning of July,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Agents,
NOTICE.
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NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR-THE Public are hereby informed that to change has bean made in the Rates of Subscription to the longkong Telegraph and
ANOE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
“HE Undersigned AGENTS of the above they are warned agalast paying more than
Company are prepared to accept First TY GRAZE, (to cta.) per Single Copy. Class FOREIGN 104 CHINESE RISKS L
THE MANAGER, Hongkong Telegraph Co., Ltd, [58) Hongkong, 10th September, 1903,
CURRENT RATES.
SIEMSSEN & Co.
Mongkong 18th May, 1895.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
General Managers.
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PORTLAND & ASIATIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG, via SHANGHAI, INLAND
SEA OF JAPAN, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,
FOR
PORTLAND, OREGON,
OPERATING IN CONNECTION WITH
Tons
Captain El...
THE OREGON RAILROAD AND NAVIGATION COMPANY,
Steamshin
To Sail at Daylight on
June 6th. ....June 218.
July 14th.
-" ARAGONIA "....... 5,198. "NICOMEDIA" ........4,370........Wagemans
"NUMANTIA"..
"ARABIA"!
·4.370....
Feldmann ***
...... 4 4 4 83......... Metzenthin
Theong Bills of Lading issued to Pacific Coast Points and all Eastern, Caunding and Onited States Points. For through rates of Freight and farther information, communicate with apply to
S. SILVERSTONE. Acting General Agent. 16)
To Let.
TO LET.
"HAYFOR
THE PEAK. Immediate Possession,
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 17th March, roof,
1363
TO LET
No. 1 KNUTSFORD
KOWLOON.
TERRACE,
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 30th December, 1905;
To Let.
TO LET.
"WO'GODOWNS at East Point, close to
Water, suitable for the storage of any Cargo..
Floor Area 6,100 square feet each, Apply to--
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hongkong, 20th January, 1906.
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TO LET.
[74 N° Apply 10-
OLD
TO LET. 'ODOWN' No. 3, New Praya, Kennedy
Town. Apply to--
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD, Bengkong, a7th June, 1005.
TO LET
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OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING and YORK
BUILDING.
GODOWNS on Praya EasT,
A HOUSE in Clifton Gaudens, Con-
dult Road,
A HOUSE la RIPON TERRACE, FLATS in MORETON TERRACE.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. KENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 12th May, 1906.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless intimation is received from the Consignees before Noon TO-DAY, requesting it to he landed here.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned, Goods remaining unclaimed after TUESDAY, the sth Jaar, al Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before, the 5th Jupe, or they will not be recognised.
All damaged packages will be examined on | TUESDAY, the 5th June, ut 3 P.M.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent. Hongkong, 28th May, 1906.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
"GLEN LINE OF STEAMERS.
ANTWERP.
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FROM LONDON, MIDDLESBORO' AND THE Steamship
"GLENESK " having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
Optional Goods will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary before 4 P., TO-DAY."
Goods not cleared by the zad proximo will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
this farm, each containing during the height of the fattening season about 1,000 snails. About forty cabbage plants are grown in a box.
During the summer there is little market demand for snaila, na they form especially cold weather dish, but they require constant care during that time.
Before sunrise every morning men pars along' the rows of boxes, collecting the gastropode and putting them back in the shelter of the mass beds. The blazing heat of the sun is faint to them,
It is in the summar, too, that the supply is replenished. As the snails are kept on the farm solely for stock purposes, new crops must. be gathered annually from the hedgerows and other places where they are to be found.
This work furnisher employment for thous ands of men, women and children in the agricultural communities, who go out with baskets early in the morning and pick up the slimy creatures by the hundred.
Owners of the fattening establishment pay from two to four cents a pound; and some pickers manage to gather twenty or thirty pounds a morning.
That there is profit in snail fattening la shown by the market quotations. Two kinds are raised for sale, the larger, or "gros blancı," And the smaller and inferior "petits grin.”
WIDE RANGE OF PRICES.
Late in the spring the "gros blance" sell for from $1.75 to $2.25 a thousand, and the smaller, variety at 40 to 60 cents. In the fall prices rise to $2.50 or 53 a thousand for the larger and 85 cents for the smaller suails. During the height of the winter demand these prices advance
The farmer begins early in October to select the first of his crop for market, · He goes care. fully along the boxes, picking out the full-grown and fat snails and placing them together in a shady place where uniform temperature is mairtained.
From time to time he raids this pile of fat. tened snails, sending so many thousand to this restaurant and so many to that, as may be ordered.
At the city restaurants they are kept in baskets outside the door or in the window, As one of the oldest and most famous snail cafes in Paris, at almost any time, one may find noted epicures, high livers among the Parisinos ad of the English and American colonies, rubbing shoulders as they discuss the steaming delicacies.
Washed down with a battle of wine, they are said to constitute a dish fit for a king-after ons overcomes the first repugnance,
All damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, and a certificate of the damage
The customer buys them by the dozen, payi obtained from the Godown Company withining a franc or more for the better variety, ten days after the steamer's arrival.
No claims will be recognized if not presented within 14 days of the ship's arrival,
MCGREGOR BROS. & GOW. Hongkong, 28th May, 1906.
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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
*HE Steamship
THE
"PREUSSEN," having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being 1.unded and stored at their risk intothe hazardeas BAILEY. and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong
kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Com- pany, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
ARKÁTOON V. APCAR & Co., 45, Wyndham Street. Hongkong, 16th April, 2006.
TRADI
OBREB MEN & WOMEN
remedy for por unnatur
discharge and infiammation Irritation or alceration a mucous membranes. Painless- (fuaranteed not to siriotars, Irevents copington,
COLD BY CHEMISTE, Circular malled on requesi, MANUFAUTONKO DA
The Evans Chemical Go, k CINCINNATIO.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless [so notice to the contrary be given before Noon,
-TO-DAY.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain- ing undelivered after the 30th instant, will be subject to rent,
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on WEDNESDAY, 30th: Instant,
at 9.30 A.,
All Claims, must reach us before the 5th of June, or they will not be recognized,
No Fire Insuranco will be affected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
MELCHERS & Co.,
Agent
Hongkong, 24th May, 1god.
Not only is the snail considered wholesome, but it has much more taste than an oyster, say
hose who delight to feed upon the dish,
In order to be prepared for the table the anails, are first boiled for five minutes. This kills them, of course; at the same time it opens' and parily cleans them, Further cleaning is given by removing them from their shells and subjecting them to thorough washing.
ARE THOROUGHLY BOILED The next process in order is to thoroughly bail them for two hours by which they are rendered exceedingly tender. During this time the shells are boiled, dried and scoured, so that when the cooked saall is returned to its former habitation it goes into a clean and sweet re- ceptacle.
When the sail is put back into its shell, tha opening is taked up with a specially prepared yellow and green paste. Upon the correct composition of this much of the flavour of the dish depands.
Butter is the principal ingredient. Into this are mixed finely chopped parsley, a generous quantity of garlic and grated eschalots, As much of this paste is used as can be pressed into the shell with the body of the snail
Thus prepared, the experienced cook grills
QVery
the nails. shell and all, over a bot fire for about five minutes. The melting paste reaches nook of the shell and imparte its flavour to the contents. The dish is placed upon the table piping hot, and there are many who de clare that it cannot be beaten for delicacy and [arloks favour.,
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