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Intimation.

Powell's

GENT'S

OUTFITTERS,

28, QUEEN'S

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1906.–

To Let.

TO LET.

No. 8, D'AGUILAR STREET,

suitable for SHOP AND DWELLING

HOUSE

at present occupied

by ROAD, MONSTS. K. A. J. CHOT B-

(OPPOSITE THE ULOCK TOWER).

ENGLISH

BOOTS.

FINEST

ENGLISH

BEST

LEATHER.

ENGLISH

MALL & Co.,

who will shortly remove

to

No. 64, QUEEN'S ROAD

CENTRAL.

Apply to

Intimations.

HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY,

Sc

COTSMEN are invited to SUBSCRIBE to the ST. ANDREW'S BALL to be held in the City Hall at 9 F.M. os FRIDAY, 30th instant.

For particulars, please apply to

W. ARMSTRONG, Hon. Secretary, (C/o Butterfield & Swire), Hongkong, zand Novembar, 1906,

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THE LIFE STORY OF THE EMPRESS EUGENIE

There are a hundred ways of writing history, "and" at least ten ways of writing biography. Your modern writer is far too fond of bringing

his own theories, and even hie conjectures, to

ing he had raised to the nost, brilliant, place the world' could then offer were those of an Adoring lover to his mistress, and certilbly boti those of a European sovereiga, 10 bis consort, Thee all too soon his feelings, of passion te affection cooled into a sentiment of affectionate respect and regard for the woman who was the mother of his heir, and who had been to him so loyal and so faithful a

helpmeet

Intimations.

AAS WATSON & CO. LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS..

N INTERIM DIVIDEND during years which were not quite as unclouded and A of the year 1906, of Forty can on account take the place of those undoubted facts which are as they had appeared to the outside will be payable at the Hongkong and Shanghal World. But neither during the first stage, or Bank, Hongkong, on and after WEDNES enable each reader to form his own opinion) dur The latest and by far the beit Life of the Emring: the far longer second infe of their DAY, 28th November, 1006, on Warna

married life, did Napoleon III. over regard his be obtained at the Company's Offices.

The Dividend will also be payable at the press Eugenie is that just published by Jane A. wife a counsellor or friend; be bad never

had, and he was not likely to acquire comp Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Shangbai, on Stoddart. In this volume the writer has oratively late in life, any use for Women in and after the same date. "only written an Interesting book, but she has either sexless role. provided a mass of invaluable material for This perhaps explains more than the world

MEMBERS desirous of RENTING ACCOM.sans and biographers were wil deal with the life of the only feminine regent France has ever had in a way which cannot be attemp! ed during the-lifetime of their subject. Vary diferent, and far less to be commended, was the last book published on the Empress Eugenie, that written by Mist Clara Schud), which fargely consisted of the writer's personal view of her subjecì's character.

MODATION at the Race Course for the Current Season will oblige by applying to the Undersigned before FRIDAY, 30th instant.

By Order,

T. F. HOUGH,

Clark of the Course. Hongkong, 21st November, 1900. 11a SCOTTISH MASONIC "QUADRILLE - ASSOCIATION.

ME

EMBERS of the above Association are requested to note that the next DANCE OF THE SEASON 'takes place on MONDAY, 3rd December, in the City Hall, at 9 P.M. Invitations should be obtained as early as possible, as none will be issued after the even ing of the and December.

Empress Eu.ezie made the one fatal mistake of her career as stateswotaan-her fight from Paris alier the disastrous news of Seden:

The Life of Empress Fugenia," By Jans T. Stoddart. London, 1906 Hodder and Staughton. tos. 6d, met.-Morning Leader.

Consignees,

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN.. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

J

ACMPLICATED CHARACTER,, Donbtlass by some Miss Stoddarl's biography will be taken to be simply an intelligent piece of book-making. It is far more than that, for she has brought together and marshalled with spring clearness every ascertainable fact THE Steamship. conceming the Empress Eugenie's long and curiously romantic life. No pains have been spared in trying to procure not only new facts, For the convenience of the Kowloon Memba, in a sense, new contemporary readings, of bers a late Ferry will run at t..

the Empress's complicated and subtle charac- JJ. BLAKE, ter. And Miss Stoddart has further had valu

Hon. Secretary.able assistance afforded her by esveral of those (1114 distinguished Frenchmen who were brought joto close personal relations With Napoleon, it, and his consort, while the published

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Hongkong, zoth November, 1906.

WANTED.

K. A. J. CHOTIRMALL & 00. A JAPANESE to TEACH THE LANGUAGE the quoted occupy five pages of print.

Hongkong, 12th November, 1908

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TO LET.

1530

O. 2, HILLSIDE" THE PEAK. OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING" and

YORK BUILDING...

GODOWNS on PRAYA EAST,

A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, 'Cou-

duit Road,

A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE."

A HOUSE in WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD. FLATS in MORETON TERRACE.

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO, LD. Hongkong, 16th November, 1906

TO LET.

about four hours a week.

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“PRINZ REGENT LUITPOLD."," having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the hazardouï and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong. kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com pany, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained,

„Optional. Cargo will be-forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before TO MORROW (THURSDAY), 10 A.M.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on TUESDAY, the 27th instant, at 9.30 A. M.

of December, or they will not be recognized.

All Claims must reach us before the 3rd:

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. *

In one sense the main incidents of the life of have left the Gedowns, and all Gonds remain. No Claims will be admitted after the Goods the Empress Eugenie are familiar to all Eng-ing undelivered after the 27th instant, will be lish readers who take the slightest interest subject to rent. either in contemporary history or in what Michelet used to call les petita colés de l'his- tore. But only now are those concerned with such matters beginning to realise the truth as to the Empress's influence on the history of MAH TO. TRAVEL TO HONGKONG, the last century. For thirty years—that is, A by LADY With YOUNG BABY leaving from the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War till the publication of Busch's Bismarckit was repeated in every language and in every class of society all over Europe, that Eugenis had been more or less responsible for the Franco-Prussian War; and with a self-control and dignity which were amazing-and most cynics would declare singularly unfeminine the ex-Empress concerning this momentous ques tion kept a rigid silence.

London about.end of January nex).

Please address-

M. M,

C/o Mrs. Caesar,

24, Victoria Road,

Stroud Green,

London, N. Hongkong, 21st November, 1906. [1123

SITUATION WANTED. ·

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A

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE,

KOWLOON.

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WORKMANSHIP.

BLACK.

BROWN.

PATENT.

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Comfort.

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NOS 8 and 16, LEIGHTON HILL ROAD,

No. 51, WONG-NEICHUNG ROAD. Apply to-

À' CONSORT'S AMBITION.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & Co., Agents,

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Harpkong, 2161 November, 1906":

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE...

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

+

"PRINZ SIGISMUND,"

informed that their Goods, with the 'exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the hazar dous and for extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and/or West Point, whence delivery may be obtained.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before 4 P.M, TO-DAY.

LADY STENOGRAPHER and TYPISThis shan four years of the end of the THE Steamship

(English), at present in Japan, desires a great war, now known to have been.engineered position in a China Port, Salary required and provoked by Bismarck, the fate Lord Ly having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby $175. 5 years experience.

ton, then attaché at our Paris Embassy, wrote Copies of Testimonials and Reference open to a friend Bimaack is playing with this to inspection at the Office of this Paper, unhappy country as a cat doen with a mouse."' and all the world learnt later, another Apply to

"E G."

Franco-Prussian war at that time was averted Clo The Hongkong Telegraph. obly by the determined action of Queen Vic- Hongkong, 20th November, 1900.. fario toria, who had been told of the new Bismarc

kian plot by her eldest daughter, Who can doubt, now that so much is known and that so much more is becoming known month by month, that the Empress Eugenie was a mere

Notice of Firm. HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE.

HONGKONG & KOWLOON LANDD Colony Mr. JOHN ARNOLD will act URING my temporary absence from the as SECRETARY to the Company.

& LOAN CO., LTD,

No. 8, Queen's Road West, Hongkong, 7th November, 1905.'

TO LET.

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FLAT and THREE ROOMS, near the

Moderate rental.

A Hongkong Bank, suitable for Offices.

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X. Y. Z. Clo Hongkong Telegraph. Hongkong, 17th October, 1406,

[1013

TO LET.

ONE GODOWN, at EAST POINT, close to

the Water, suitable for the storage of any Cargo,

Floor Area 6100 square feet

"Apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Eongkong, 15th October, 1906.

[1009

TO LÉT.

OFFICES,

GODOWNS (suitable for Dry Goods. Storage) at No. 14, Des Vœux Road Central, (formerly occupied by Messrs. Showan, Tomes & Co.

Apply to-

HỒ TUNG,

Compradore Department,'

Jardine, Matheson & Co.

Hongkong, 26th September, roof.

THE HONGKONG STUDIO,

1949:

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PWn-at any rate in this one matter of the

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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods unde livered after the 27th instans will be subject wir which lost her husband and her son 'their

All broken, chated, and damaged Goods are kingdom-in the powerful hands of the Gerto be left in the Godowns, where they will be man Chancellor ?

examined on TUESDAY, the 27th instant, at

To the readers of Miss Stoddart's much || 9,30 A.M.

documented volume, a curious and perhaps hitherto unsuspected fact becames curiously clear. The Empress→who, it must be remem- By Order of the Board of Directors,

bered, was no girl, But a brilliant, headstrong, and highly cultivated cosmopolitan beauty, W. E. CLARKE,

close on thirty years of age, when she married Acting Secretary. Napoleon III.-ispired from the first to play (izio ber husband's life the role which she saw Prince Albert playing in that of the then British sovereign.

Hanowong, 21st November, rood.

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION, 'HE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell, by

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· PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

TO-MORROW, --

the zeth November, 1996, at 2.30. F.M. at their Sales Rooms, No. B, Des Vaux Road,.corner of Ice House Street, A LARGE Assortment OF JAPANESE CURIOS,

Comprising:-

On the occasion of the Imperial couple's first visit to Englund—that is, in the April of 1855-Prince Albert was far more the ruler of England than was his adoring wile-nay, Queen Victoria gl ried in ber submission to her husband, and who can doubt that during the many long private talks which she and the Empress had together there was placed before the ardent, enthusiastic young woman to whom life was now presenting itself as a series of cachanting surprises, a strangely fascinating picture of what married life, and especially of what royal married life, ought to be? .

A DIFFICULT TASK.

At first, perhaps, the impression produced on Engenie's mind by her English mentor, and

All Claims must reach us before the 3rd of December, or they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Dills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.

MELCHERS & Co.,

Agents.

Hongkong, arst November, 1006..

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"GLEN LINE OF STEAMERS.

FROM MIDDLESBORO', 'ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

THE Steamship

"GLENROY"

The REGISTER or SHARES will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 26th instant,

until FRIDAY, the 30th instant, both days inclusive, during which period NO TRANS. FER or SHARES will be affected.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers, Hongkong, 2nd November, 1004). [1131

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MANAGER, KENNEDY STABLES; ·

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•Hongkong, zând Novambar, 1906,

SALE OF HM,S," "PHŒNIX"

TENDERS FOR THE SALE of the above Vettel as she lies all standing at Kowloon Coaling Depot will be received by the NAVAL STORE OFFICER, H.M. NAVAL Yard, Heng- kong, up till Noon the goth November. The purchaser will be required to remove and break up the vessel within a reasonabla time

Naval Yard the Ship's Boilers and Anchors. and will be called upon to deliver to the

Intending purchasers can inspect the vessel on and after the 17th instant on application during Yard working hours.

The Highest Tender will not necessarily be accepted:

The particulars of the Ship are as follows:

Steel Twin Screw Coppered Sloop of 185 feet length, 31" 6" beam, Displacement 1,050 tons, fitted: with Vertical Triple Expansion Engines.

sale to be obtained on, application to the Further information and particulars as to

NAVAL STORE OFFICER; HIM! Nával Yard, Hongkong..

Hongkong, 22nd November; 1906: : [rand.

期

TROOPS MOVING.

THE CHAPLAIN TO THE FORORS will be glad to receive any number of old or dow "MagazinES” for the use of the Troops- on the Transports. Send to Hongkong Hotel - or a chit will ensure their being fetched.

Hongkong, 13th November, 1906.

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KWONG SANG 2 Goi NO. 70, WELLINGTón Street."

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TRIAL ORDER SOLICITED. - Hongkong, 1st February, 1906.

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FRENCH CLARETS.

BOTTLED BY

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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 Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, at Kowloon, Godowns of the Hongkong, and Kowloon where each consignment will be sorted ont mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods she landed -

Goods not cleared by the 27th instant will Coter be subject to rent.

Medoc No Fire Insurance, will be effected.

الحمل

$9.50 Per Dozen Quarts

9.50

Godowns, and a certificate of the damage Pauillac .......... 13.50 obtained from the Godown Company, within. ten days after the steamer's arrival.

Margaux ......... 14.00 Chateau Ludovice 17.00 Chateau Galic 18.00 Chateau' Pontet

No claims will be recognised if not presented within 14 days of the ship's arrival.

OLD SATSUMA VASES, INCENSE BURNERS, WALL PLATES. SILVER and GOLD CLOISONNE VASES, TEA SETS, CARVED IVORY FIGURES, SILK-EM-friend was not very apparent, for her task, at BROIDERED SCREENS, MAKUDZU any rate during the first few years of the Em-i-damaged packages must be left in the St Estephe... 9.50 VASES, KAGA TEA SETS WATER peror's reign, was to make the Second Empire COLOURS, PICTURES, &c., &c, &c. widely popular with all classes. Napoleon's

Catalogues will be issued.

Comte de Morny, who had engineered the TERMS AT usual...

Coup d'Etat, ruled France; and ruled her, on the whole, very well. His wife bad ao call to interest herself in Stale malters, though even s early as 1858 we find it on record in Quién Victoria's diary that "the Empress spake most anxiously of the affairs of State-of her hops that matters would go well." The next year, that is, in the May of 1859, Eugenie for tha first time became Regent; she took her duties very seriously, presiding each week over three Councils of State, and henceforth, as is well and clearly explained in Miss Stoddari's book, politics remained her principal interest in life.

But Queen Victoria's ideal of married life of

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HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.. Hongkong, 23rd November, ryoŐ.

PUBLIC AUCTION. "HE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell by

TH

PUBLIC AUCTION, 'FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

оп

FRIDAY,

the 30th November, 1996, at 2.30 P.M., at

MCGREGOR BROS, & GOW! "Hongkong, zist November, Too6. (rijg

"BEN* LINE, OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,---

S.S. BENLOMOND;":- FROM ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

"ONEIGNEES of Cargo ate hereby in

formed that all Goods are being landed

Canet 20.00 Chateau. Mutton

d'Armaillacq 24.00 Chateau. Marbuzet Merman

37.00 Chateau Rauzan: 30.000

their Salex Rooms, No. 6, Des Veux Road, cours required complete assent and mutual under ritkin: What und Godon SPANISH CLARETS:

corner of Ice House Street,

SUNDRY VALUABLE BOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Comprising:-

:

TEAKWOOD WARDROBES and SIDE- BOARDS with BEVELLED GLASS, TEAK WOOD BOOK CASE, TABLES, MIRRORS, CHAIRS, SILK TÁPESTRY-COVERED! SOFA and CHAIRS, GLASSandCROCKERY WARE, PICTURES, &c., &c., &c. 1

*ALSO

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TERMS :—ÁS usual. : {

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, aand November,"rgoð,"<

confidence on the part of both husband and and Kowloon

Co, Lid,

wife, and it was here that Napoleon III entirely whence and for from the wharves delivery may her up through any continuous policy, or per- failed the Empress Eugenie, He never backed be oblaited.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods haps it should more truly be said that he never have left the Godowns, and all Goods unde really regarded her opinion as worthy of era-livered afterthe 24th November, will basubject. ideration-indeed, his Ministers cridestly to rent. bought far more of. Eugenie's judgment than he did.

Every man unconsciously judges women by bose who attract, and are attracted by, him. self; now, we may be sure that under no cir cumstances would Napoleon III, have altract ed, or been attracted by, auch a woman ae was Queen Victoria'in' the forties and the next, de cado.

TIK TATAL MÍSTAKE.

For the first few years of their matriod 'life the Emperor's relations to the fascinating be

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THE COMPANIA VINÍCOLA DEL NORTE DE ESPANA-BILBAO,

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All Claims against the Steamer must be pres Kloja...sessio sented to the Undersigned on or before the 3rd December, or they will not be recognized. Cepa Ruby

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 24th November, at 17 A,M,

No Fire-Insurance has been effected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by "

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co,

Agents. Hongkong, igth November, 1906.

$13.00 Per Dozen Quditi?

6.00

BARRETTO & CO Agente

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