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Intimation.

Powell's

ALEXANDRA

THE

Entimations.

K. A. J. CHOTIRMALL & 00.,

8, D'AGUILAR STREET.

NEWLY OPENED SILK STORE.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1906

Indian, Chinese and

Japanese Silk Goods.

Just Arrived.

Notice of Firm.

NOTICE.

MR. H. D. NORONublic is hereby not R. H. D. NORONHA baving left our fied that we are not responsible for any order given by him in our name.

NORONHA & Co. #ongkang, 7th August, 1906.

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To Let.

TO LET FURNISHED. FROM IBT OCTOBER TO 30TH APRIL NEXT. "THE

NEUK," MOUNT KELLET, PEAR, B6-Room Bungalow, Tennis Court

SOCKS (Linen) ADIES' AND ' GENTLEMEN'S.

GENTLEMEN'S SILK UMBRELLAS.

SILK KIMONOS, LADIES' BLOUSES AND SHAWLS.

SANDALWOOD BOXES (INLAID).

HANDKERCHIEF BOXES, GLOVE

BUILDINGS BOXES.

FOR

FASHIONABLE

MILLINERY

and

FIRST-CLASS

DRESSMAKING.

MODERATE

CHARGES.

SATISFACTION

GUARANTEED

WM. POWELL,

LTD.,

Drapers, Milliners,

and

Costumiers,

Alexandra Buildings,

HONGKONG.

Hoopkope, jid August, 190d.

MONEY BOXES, &c.

LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, JAVA "ERONGS.

MANDARIN COATS, COTTON

SHIRTS.

SILK LACE SCARFS AND SHAWLS.

Prices exceptionally cheap.

Inspection earnestly solicited. Hongkong, 28th May, 2006.

HONGKONG GUN CLUB.

and finden.

Apply by letter anly lo-

KO TUNG,

"Idlewild,"

Seymour, Road.

Hongkong, 31 July, 1906..

Νο

TO LET

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2. OLD BAILEY. Apply to-

ARRATOON V. 'APCAR & Co.,

45, Wyndham Street. Harpkony, 8th August, 1906

1817

TO LET.

GODOWN, No. 1. NEW PRAYA, Kennedy

Town.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT & AGENCY CO.L".

(79 Hangkong, 1st August, 1906.

TO LET.

is

WOMEN AND LAUGHTEN, "

DY CLARENCE ROOK.

It is a very common complaint that the

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

to sell by

· PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW,

not so good it used that the younger service is going to the dogs, that "Pooch," is THE Undersigned bave received instructions generation in lacking in respect to the elders, that the sun is losing beat, and that the world growing chillies, mare serious, that humour in decaying and we are threatened with an era in which we shall all grimly clutch each other's throats and demand not a repartee, but hard cash. An era in which Social Probl-ms may raise millions of money, but never a smile!

The awful, prospect has been set before us. by Mr. Lawrence in the "Bouk Monthly." though it should be confessed that he bar not

painted the situation in such Jurid colours. Be seems to think that we are losing the art of laughter-that the chuckle of the Englishman

so more-that we have no more fun; and he looks back to the old days when Douglas Jerrold, Thomas Hood, Sydney Smith. Theo- dore Hook and Charles Lever were facetious, and the Englishman could guffaw at an "Honest bad pun."

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A CHANGE OF VIEW.

Humour-one may Imagine-is always da caying, to make manure for fresh growths, and cach generation has the chuckle that, sults its constitution. We on longer laugh at a lame

mas Trying to mount a motor omoibur in a hurry. But the very gods would have laughed at him in the days of Homer, who tells how the unquenchable laughter arose among the im mortal gods when Hephaestus limped round the table. We would not laugh at a lame waiter nowadays, even if he could get an is no longer engagement. Physical infirmity is, a matter that arouses merriment, though the stammerer now and then comes in for a gibe. since he may so easily cure himself by the simple method Isadopted in my own case. We no longer laugh at Shylock, who in hakespeare's time appears to have been as comic a character as the very devil of the the morality plays an immortal clown to be scored off, banged over the head and sent,

$30A HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE, down to his own

Twill be held at the CLUB HOUSE, nt

HE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

4 RM, TÓ-MORROW, the 11th August, 1956

L. A. M. JOHNSTON, Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, cách Augul, 193%..

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THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACÃO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE EIGHTIETH ORDINARY HALF-

THE YEARLY MEETING OF SHARE-

HOLDERS in the Company will be held m the Office of the Company, Hotel Mansions, on TUESDAY, the 14th August, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Direc- tors together with a Statement of Accounts, declaring a Dividend, confirming the appoint ment of a Director and electing Directors and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 1st to thờ 14th August, both days inclusive,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

J

W. E, CLARKE,

Hongkong, 10th July, 1906.

Auting NarratsTV.

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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK- ING CORPORATION.

OTICE is hereby given that the ORDIN-

NOTICE

Apply to--

KOWLOON.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST: MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 31st July, 1905.

TO LET.

(789

ODOWN, NO. DUDDELL STREET.

Apply to THE HONGKONG land invest

MENT & AGENCY CO.,LD. Fongkong, 30th July, 1006.

N

SHAMEEN, CANTON.

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TO LET.

[02, WEST END TERRACE.

Apply to THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 5th July, 1906.

64

H

TO LET

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PEAK.

AYTOR," THE

Immediate Possession. OFFICES Án King's Building and

YORK BUILDING.

GODOWNS on Prava East.

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the ith August, 1906, at 11 AM, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vœux Road, corner of Ice House Street, SUNDRY

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

ALBO

A quantity of GLASSand CROCKERY WARE

AND

One COTTAGE PIANO by W. Schonlein, Berlin, TERMS As usual,

ba

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkang, aoth August, 1906

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Intimations.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILD- INGS ORDINANCE COMMISSION.

TAKE to enquire into and report on the following matters, viz. 3—

TAKE NOTICE that a Commission has

1. Whether the administration of the Sani. lary and Building Regulations enacted by the Public Heath and Buildings Ordin anco, 1903. As now carried out is› satisfác tory, and, if not, what improvements can be made.

3. Whether any Irregularity or corruption exists or bad existed among the officials charged with the administration of the aforesaid Regulation.

to

The Commission earnestly invite the in. habitants of Hongkong and Kowloon Co-operate with them by forwarding any COM. plaint they may have to make or suggestion 30 offer in connection with the matters aforesaid to the Undersigned.

Any person-examined as a witnus in the ARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of Commissioners makes a full and trus disclo

enquiry aforesaid who in the opinion of the PART

the letting by Public Auction Sale, to sure touching all the matters in respect of be held on MONDAY, the 13th day of August. which he is examined will receive a certificate 1906, at 3 F.Mnt the Offices of the Public Works from the Commission which will protect the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND.ings which may be instituted against such Department, by Order of His Excellency the witness against any civil or criminal proceed- North of Barker Road, in the Colony of Hong witness in respect of any matter touching kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option which he has been examined. of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed

By Order, by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for

one further term of 75 years.

No. of Sala

Registry Na

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT,

Boundary

LOCALITE.

Merramenta

...

Hongkong, 3rd August, 1905.

Square feet

**Upset Price

19,090

301,504

Intimations.

W. BOWEN-ROWLANDS, Secretary.

Hongkong, 6th July, 1906

WANTED.

(709

A STEAMER for CHARTER or PUR-

CHASE, state particulars and terms. ·

"AGENT,"

Cfo Hongkong Telegraph Office.

Hongkong, 4th August, 1906,..

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F. BLACKHEAD & CO., HIRCHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS COAL AND PROVISION mer.

But the world Perdition.

warid goes on laughing in its sleeve, though the bumour of the middle nineteenth looks down that typical list of jokers that Mr. century. Is not the humour of to-day. One

Lawrence gives, and admits that at this moment there are few humorists that can compare with Dickens and Thackeray-they have not been dead long enough to ripen in reputation. To rank as a real humorist you must be very much dead, and your works must be mostly spacry- phal, And Mr. Lawrence in probably entan- gled in the traditions of great names. Douglas Jerrold is a synonym for facetiousness Theodore Hook's name suggests the ready, rude

and witty retort Sydney Smith stands for the clerical view of both worlds Thomas Hood made the most amazing punt, all of them honest and some of them bad. But the jokes are-most of them—as dead as the makers.

GREAT NAMES. Everybody knows these great names. Yet I will wager that not one man in a thousand whom you may meet between Charing-cross and Kingsway will know anything whatever of Douglas feirold, or Theadora Hauk, or Thomas Hood except that they made people laugh They are reading the men of some time ago to-day

who are turning the world upside down SOAP AND SODA MANUFACTURERS, and exhibiting its funny side. And so long as Shaw and Barrie, and Jacobs, an Barry Pain

and the firm of Lucas and Graves remain solvent of the hard facts of life (this list of our funny men has no claim to completeness) I

A HOUSE in CLIFTON Gardens, Con shail chuckle in the intervals of labour at

duit Road.

A HOUSE in RiгON TERRACE.

FLATS in MORETON TEPRACE. Apply to

world in which men and women are the crowd. ing and triumphant absurdity.

But Mr. Lawrence has his eye upon the Cir.

Fitted B

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST Ming Library-day are

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD Hongkeun 1st June, 1955.

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#2

TO LET.

Women.

Woman, it seems, has descended upon the world in cold, hard,” black type, and cast a wet blanket over our laughter. She is solemu, problematical, and very earnest, one gathere. The Englishwoman who writes novels no longer raises the chuckle. It must 0.1, ANTRIM VILLAS, Des Voeux Road, be admitted that the ladies who have attained

KOWLOON,

ARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF NO.1,ANT

THE SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on, SATURDAY, the 18th day of August next, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 30th June, 1906.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

H. HUNTER,

Acting Chief Manager. Hengkning, 30th July, 1966,

(on the sea front),

the

"largest circulation in the world" are im mensely serious, having adopted the Sarah

A Five-roomed House with a Large Square Hall. Grand manner. You may not laugh-until

Apply to-

HUGHES & чOUGH,

8. Des Vœux Road Central. Hongkong, 28th July, 1906.

TO LET

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you have gone into your closet and shut your door-at Mrs. Humphry Ward or Miss Mario Corelli. And then-having chuckled-you

will remember that neither is Enlish in the

fullest spase of the "word. Mrs. Humphry

Ward was born on the other side of the world -in Tasmania, and Mise Corelli announces

784 HOUSES in MORRISON HILL GAF ROAD, one could hardly talian and half Scotch. But

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK ING CORPORATION.

NOTICE is hereby given that the RE-

GISTERS OF SHARES of the Corpora- tion will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the | fausth to the eighteenth day of August next (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

H. HUNTER, Acting Chief Manager,

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Hongkong, 30th July, 1906.

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

HE ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will

ΤΗ

be held in the Offices of the Company, Queen's Buildings, Connaught Road, os MONDAY,

Rooms with necessary Bathrooms and Servants' Quarters. Cheap Rentals.

EUROPEAN FLATS in "Wild ¡DELL" BUILDINGS, No. 147, Wanchai Road. Each suite contains Bathroom and Kitchen. Very Low Rent.

GODOWN, No. 9, "WILD DELL" BUILD- INGS. ·

Apply to-

PERCY SMITH & SETH,

Accountants and 'Auditors, &c.

5, Queen's Road Central.

1767

Hangkong, 24th July, rood

TO LET.

TWO GODOWNS at East Point, close to Two

the Water, suitable for the storage of any Cargo.

Floor Area 6,100 square feet each. Apply to-

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hongkong, 20th January, 1000.

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HOTEL MANSIONS,

Bu husust, at declack No2s, for the pur Runished, as Offices or Chambers.

páse of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts to the joth Juse, 190*%

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 6th to the zoth August, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

THOS. 1. ROSE, Secretary. Hongkong, 26th July, 1905.

1770

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

TN accordance with Article XVI Section 7 IN

of the Articles of Association the General Managers havothis day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the half year ending 30th June; 1906, of SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS par Share, payable to all Shareholders whose names were on the register on that date.

DIVIDEND WARRANTS may be obtained on application at the Office of the Company on and after FRIDAY, the 3rd August,

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co,

General Managers, Hongkong, jist July, 1905,

[79%

OOMS TO LET on the 4th Floor, Us-

Apply to-

one could hardly place these writers among the humorists.

WOMEN HUMORISTS.

Searching the soul, for the women writers who have raised the chuckle, I remember the Elizabeth of the German Garden, But she exchanged a Scottish name for a German one. Sarah Jeannette Duncan,

who is Dow Mrs. Everard Coles, has rained the chuckle with her "Simple Adventures of a Memsahib," and many other books, and she comes from Canada. Kate Daugias Wiggin, who has given us the Cathedral Courtship" and the rest, is an American, as is also the inventor of Mr. Wirgs of the Cabbage Patch." Mrs. John I

| C

so

who chaffe England

merrily in her "Champagne Standard," caught sa Engl eh publisher in the United States and married him, one suppores, with a view to making us laugh at ourselves. But Can you find upon your library list a woman writer born in England who can really see and set down the faa a of things?

it would be a dreadful conclusion to arrive at-ihat laughter, the intellectual disinfectant, has been abolished by the Englishwoman, born in a fog and buried in a Mag snowstorm with a life between lived in a serious contem- plation of Sex Probleme. I am not so silly and so observant as to share in the foolish tradition that women have no humour. Forl THE SECRETARY, have consorted with Jane Auster, and the gonial Jane has many successors among her country. Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.

women It may often Барред that the

light Hongkong, 9th July, 1906,

[714] difference of sex, environment, experience, throws up some little vaying bus of funniment. But the man who has not met many women with t

the sence of fun in their hearts, the capacity to turn the world upside down and sen il stand. ing OD its head, the intellectual agility to circle the bar and appreciate the absolute absurdity of things in general—the r

ne man who has not met such a * Woman at dinner-well, he has been

|A. CHAZALON & CO.

JUST UNPACKED.

ANCHOVY IN OIL (Boneless).

STUFFED OLIVES. Sardines (Boneless).

Do. AU. CITRON, FISH PASTE FOR SANDWITCH. PUREN DE Foie Gras Ds.

sadly neglected by Providence and the people

WANTED.

[Bog

COMPRADORE, with Good Security.

Apply to

"AGENT."

Clo Hongkong Telegraph Offico.

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Hongkong, 4th August, 1906.

WANTED.

CHANTS, NAVAL. CONTRACTORBY & Young Lady a situation as TYPIST,

AND GENERAL COMMISSION

AGENTS, GROUND FLOOR,

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG,

SOLE AGEnts for JARTMANN'S RAHTJEN'S GENUIN

HAROMPOSITION RED HANI

BRAND, HARTMANN'G GREY PAINT, DAIMLER'S PAtent motor LAUNCHES, &C..

C

&c.

FERGUSON'S SPECIAL CREAM....

And

P, & O. SPECIAL LIQUER SCOTCH WHISKY, &c.

EVERY KIND OF SHIP'S STORES. AND REQUISITES ALWAYS IN 'STOCK

AS

REASONABLE PRICES. Hanglenny, 7th March, 1005.

[3.

FURNITURE WAREHOUSE.

LI KWONG LOONG & CO., 商廣李

CABINET-MAKERS AND ART DECORATORS, from Shanghai, has re-opened their FURNITURE STORE

-

at

No. 35, Des Vaux ROAD CENTRAL, The only Shep in Hongkong with this name.

★THERE HIGH-CLASS FURNITURE

:

Open for immediate engagement.

Apply to-

"

"X. Y. Z.,"

C/o This Paper. Hongkong, 11th July, 1906,

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THE

COLD STORAGE.

HE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LTD, have now 40,000 Cubic feet of COLD STORAGE available at EAST POINT. Stores will be Open at to A.M. and 4 P.36. daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods,

WM. PARLANE,

Manager.

Hongkong, sand June, 1905.

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*TUE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.

SC

BARRETTO & Co.,

General Agents, Hongkong?"

WHISKIES.

SCOTCH.

Wevery description can be made to Black's Fine Old order in any design required.

Have been patronised by the Hongkong Club, Hoogkong Hotel, Telegraph Co., Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Ld., Firms and other leading Establishments in the Colony, to whom refer- ence may be made as to the Superior Work- manship and Materials of the Furniture, &c., supplied.

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Messrs. A, S, Watson & Co., Lid, write an follows

"We have pleasure in stating that Mr. LI KWONG LOONG furnished the Annexe to our Dispensary and gave us every satis- faction,"

(S.) A. S. WATSON & Co., Ïd.

CHARGES most moderaLS,

ORDERS punctually, attended to, and

AN INSPECTION INVITED, Hongkong, at March, 1006.

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KONG SANG CO. No. 70, WELLINGTON STREET.

·ENERAL DRAPERS, MANUFAC-

and Children's Underwear, Silk, Porgse, Grass- cloth, Fancy and Piece Goods, &c.

Latent style of Ladies' Blouses and Gentle, men's Shirts made to order,

TRIAL ORDER SOLICITED, Hongkong, rst February, 1006,

who give dinner parties. There is only a grain CTURERS and DEALERS is Ladies of truth in the saying that women have no senza of bumour-just that grain that dif ferentiated the sauce for the goose from sauce for the gender. For here and there is an absurdity/that/woman will take seriously, Bat

thess amorou wamen will not write for nothing to money the comments they hand for the man who sit by their side at dinner

At the table. They are laughing at us (I am qolts, aurs of that), but they

ill pay print the laughter, any more than a man will print, opinion of a frust that crushes and eriam alive, The Englishwomen who write adopt the Grand manner, and threaten spanking that may be faced--if one may invert a phrase, GERMAN SAUSAGES, ASPARAGUS, and other But no man likes belog laughed at, unless be

AND Other Picnic aire tins of PRESERVES. FRENCH BISCUITE, HUNTLEY & PALMER'S BISCUITS and CAKES,

STREAKY Bacon, Bath CHOPS, &c.

CROSSE and BLACKWELL'S SAUSAGES,

ALSO

VEGETABLES.

Hongkong, arst July, 1306.

sses the joke. The awful question arisesguas 7 patch a twinkle in a woman's eye-hat she a (6: | joke that i cannot see?

MUTTON AND BEEF.

Scotch

Neil McLean, Old

بریم

$8.00 Per Dozen Gate.

Scotch ........... 10.00 Ronald Rennie,

Green Seal ... 13.00 Glen Alva * *... 13.00. Neil McLean, Finest

Liqueur........... 13.00 Ronald Rennie, Per-

fection im 14.00 Melrose............... 16.00

Ronald Rennie,

Finest Liqueur... '16.00 Melrose ** (12)

Years Old) 20.00

IRISH.

Michell's Old, Green

[180 Label: 10.00 Per Dor, Case,

Mitchell's Liqueur,

White Label $5.00

FRESH MUTTON and' BEEF, at THE Undersigned is prepared to SUPPLY Moderate Prices.

Should patrons dod any Meat supplied not to be fresh, full price will bestefunded on the

torn of the Meat to the Stall,

TUNG WING, No. 1 Stall, Central Market. Hongkong, 14th May, 1900,

BARRETTO &:00. Agents,

Nos, 22 & 24, Bank Buildings, Queen's Road Central

Hongkong, 8th August, 1906. –