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Intimation.

Powell's

GRAND

XMAS BAZAAR

NOW OPEN.

TOYS

INNUMERABLE From 20 cents to $50 each. Tea Bets, Kitolion Sets, Pianos, Doll's. Houses, Doll's Furniture, Doll's Perambulatora, Soldiers, Foot. balls, Air Guns, Trumpets, Bosts, Trains, Carts, Swings, Noah's Arks, Cricket Sety, Booking Horses, Hobby Horses, &c., &c.

DOLLS

From 50 cents to $30 each. Dressed Dolls. Undressed Dolis, Rubber Dolls, Woollen Dolls, Sandy Dolls, Walking Dolls, Squeaking Dolls, Bug Dolls, and all sorts of Dolls.

.

ANIMALS

:

A Regular

Menagerie."

BARNUM and BAILEY are

nowhere in it,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER 8, 1906.

To Let Ce

TO LET

No. 8, D'AGUILAR STREET,

suitable for

SHOP AND DWELLING

HOUSE,

at present occupied

by

Messrs. K. A. J. CHOT:R- MALL & Co.,

who will shortly remove

to..

No. 64, QUEEN'S ROAD 'CENTRAL.

Apply to-

K. A. J. QHOTIRMALL &.00. (530 Hongkong, rath November, 1906.

TO LET.

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE on

Apply to-

Point.

PRAVA

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.

·₤1542. Hongkong, 16th November, 1906.

TO LET

GODOWN, at EAST POINT, clasę to

ONE Water, suitable for the storage of any

Cargo.

Floor Area 6,100 square feet.

Apply to-

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

TO LET.

[1009

UROPEAN SHOPS, OFFICES, and Storage) at No. 14. Des Vieux Road Central, (formerly occupied by Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.

Apply to

EODOWNS uitable for Dry Goods

"HỌ TÙNG

Compradora Department,

Jardine, Matheson & Co.

* 1949 Hongkong, 26th September, 1996.

2,

TO LET...

Elephants, Camels, Lions, Tigors, No 2 "HILLSIDE" THE PEAK.

Rhinosri,

Leopards, Bears, Wolves, Foxes, Cows, Pigs; Sheep, Goats, Monkeys, Goril las, Squirrels, Cats, Pug Dogs, Setters, Pointers, Greyhounds, Bloodhounds, Short Dogs, Long Dogs, Big Dogs, Little Dogs.

GAMES

Pip-Pip, Spring Heeled Jack, Pluck- ed Roosters, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Min- nows-in-Wells, Piggeries, Tívoli Board, Frog Skittles, Hooker,

&o., &0..

&c. Many of which are' enough to make a UAT LAUGH.

Thousands of

XMAS TREE

ÖRNAMENTS.

&c.,

&c.,

&c.

POWELL'S

BAZAAR.

Hongkong, 8th December, 1956.

OFFICES in KINO'S BUILDING and

YORK BUILDING,

CODOWNS on PRAVA EAST

A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, Con-

duit Road,

A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE.

A HOUSE in WONG-NE)-CHONG ROAD, FLATS in MORETON TERFACE.

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVES”. MENT & AGENCY CO. UP..

Hangkang, 16th November, inc.

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION

THE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell by

FUBLIC AUCTION, "FOR"ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

On

TUESDAY,

the tub December, 1906, at ti aj at their, Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, comer of Ice House Street,

THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITTANNICA 10th Edition-36 Vols. with Revolving Bookcase,

CENTURY DICTIONARY::. with Atlas and fictionary of Proper Names

16 Vois, with Bookcase, LIBRARY OF FAMOUS LITERATURE 20 Vols.

TERMS As usual,

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers

[1171 Hongkong, 5th December, 1906,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instructions

10 Bell by

PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, '

св

TUESDAY,

the 11th December, 1966, at 2.30 P.M., st

corner of Ice House Street, SUNDRY

Auction

PUBLIC AUCTION

HB Undersigned have received instructions

All to sell by

- PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNTS, OF THE CONCERNED,

on

BONE COMONDAY,

the 10th December, 1906, at 4 PMA What their Sales Roomi, No. 8, Des tax Road, corner ofice House Street, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF TOYS AND FANCY GOODS,

+

ALSO

A Number of GOLD RINGS, (suitable for X'mas Presents) TERMS:-As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 6th December, 1906.

Entertainment.

BAZAAR

[1175

IN AID OF THE POOR CHINESE ORPHANS

OF THE ASILE-DE LA SAINTE ENFANCE, Under the Dirtinguished › Patronage of His Excellency Sir MATHEW NATHAN,'X.C.M G.

their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Roads Trounce that their Annual Bazaar will "HE Sisters have the honour to be held at the CITY HAUL, on TUESDAY, the 11th instant, al 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

They request your presence in order to ine pect the different. Needle and Fancy Works made by their Poor Orphans,

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising:-

TEAKWOOD WARDROBES and SIDE. BOARDS with BEVELLED GLASS, TEAK- WOOD BOOK-CASE, TABLES, MIRRORS,

CHAIRS, SILK TAPESTRY-COVERED SOFA and CHAIRS, GLASS and CROCKERY WARE, PICTURES, &c., &o, &c.;

ALSO

One SEMI-GRAND and One COTTAGE PIANO.

Catalogues will be issued. TERMS: As usual,

HUGHES & HOUGI, Auctioneers.

11170 Tongkang, 5th December, roof

PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received instructions PUBLIC AUCTION,

to sell by

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

on

FRIDAY,

the 14th Decembar, 1906, at 2.30 PM., at their Sales Rooms, No. B. Des Vœux Poad,

corner of Ice House Street,

SUNDRY ' HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising:

TEAKWOOD WARDROBES and SIDE- BOARDS with BEVELLED GLASS, TEAK- WOOD BOOKCASE, TABLES, MIRRORS, CHAIRS SILK TAPESTRY-COVERED SOFA and CHAIRS, GLASS and CROC KERY WARE, PICTURES, &c. &c. &

"Atile de la Sainte Enfance,

Homekong, 7th Decembar, roce.

Intimations.

INALTUMN.

This delicate day speaks tenderly of daath,

And the dismantled trees before her attem

Leaval that are lovely, too Scorch'd to a flame-like semblance by bit breath" Who glow'd for them the summer through

„A settled and rasa haunts the line whereby, In April, primrose were new and sweat

Yet, after dust and heat' urpassing, what a freshness in the sky, And mosses cool for loitering feet)--

is as though the mellow tinted earth Trifled with sorrow, that she must confess

When woods are flowerless; Clasping a joy that shall outlive the deartb

Of garden, field, and "hedge'ne leis, And truly, as I think, a warm heart glowa z

Ev'n in death's bosors, when she lays berhard

Tenderly on the land, Whispring to blossoms pallid neath her brasth,

Words I may never understandi

is

BARLY WOMall Garlie,

RAILWAYS.

Intimations

THE BRIGHT SIDE

¡of life," › It is a feeling comman to the

of us that we do not get quit the amount happiness we are entitled to. Among the less things which tend to make, mora miserable ill health takes fitif phosky Hig More said that sin was generally to be attri buted to biliousness, No doubt a crippled liver with the resulting impure blood, is the cause of more mental gloom than any other single thing. And who can reckon up the fearful aggregate of pain, loss and fear arising from the many ailments and diskinn, which are familiar to mankind like a vast cloud it hangs over a, mulutudo, no one can umber. You can see these people every where. For them life can scarcely, be said to have any "bright side at all. Hence the eagerness with which they search for relief and cure, Remedies like

WAMPOLE'S" PREPARATION'S have not attained their high position in the confidence of the people by bald sertions and boasting advertisements. They are obliged to wits it by doing actually what is claimed for them. That this remedy deserves its reputation is conceded. It is palatable an honey and contains the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, combined It is not known with suy certainly when the with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphitas" first pair of parallel tracks for wheeled traffic and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry, was laid downs in Great Britain, or whether it Nothing has such a record of success in Scrafsiaj was of wood or of slope. Ierhaps the former Anemia, Throat and Lung Troubles,, sad the more probable; the material being: found emacisting complaints and disorders, that tendy everywhere and its long shape being much to undermine the foundations of strength and more suggestive of fitness for such a purpose vigour. Its use helps to show life's brighter than stone. But so long as each neighbourside. Dr. H. L. Reddy, B. A., M. D, Ly R. Ch bood produced everything it wanted such things were not needed: At last the destruc [1178 tion of timber near London: made the: uan of

coal indispensable. This could only be cop veyed by son, and one of the few places where it could be got with the limited appliances and skill of those days was the valley of the Tyne. just above and below Newcastle. About 5oo years ago a considerable trade in coal for ship-Chemists.

nent began there, which soon led to difficulties as to getting it from the mines into the boats.. The distances were small, but the art of road making had died out and in bad weather' pack horses could not carry enough to render (their use profitable. Some unknowa benefactor to his species at last laid down two parallel lines of timber for carts to run on. Probably they were merely stout planks at first, but the sinking at the joints would soon suggest that other planks shaùld be placed under them, the structure than be coming fairly efficient: When flanges, either on the wheels or the rails, were first invented, or by whom, is not known, but it was apparently toward the end of the seventeenth century.

THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1998.

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARK.. NOTICE is hereby given that THE NAN N VAN TOBACCO CO, LTD., whole Revistered Office is at Victoria, Hong

on have on the 4th day of October, 1906, applied for the Registration in Hongkong, in the Register of Trade Marks, of the follow- ing Trade Marke, being representations of :-

1. The Earth on a fancy background and

the words "The Globe."

A Raven hovering over a stick and the words:" The Raven an eight-pointed Star with the letters N.Y. thereon and a bowl with smoke issuing therefrom,

3. A Fly.ng Horse and the word "Horse." 4. A Chinese Girl, the word "Belle" and a leaf with a spray of flowers upon it. 5. The Chinesa character ) meaning

long life surrounded by five bats;

in the name of THE NAN YAN TOBACCO CO.,LTD., who claim to be the sole proprietors thereof..

The Trade Marks are intended to be used by ALSO

the applicants, forthwith, in respect of the fol- BLACKWOOD BOOKCASE with BElowing goods- VELLED GLASS, BLACKWOOD' OVAL:

CIGARETtes, 'in Class 45.,' TABLE, BLACKWOOD OVERMANTAL Facsimiles of ibe Trade Marks can be se00 with BEVELLED GLASS, DESKS, at the office of the Colonial Secretary of CHAIRS, SOFAS;

Hongkong,

Dated the 8th day of November, 1906,

DENNYS & BOWLEY,

Solicitors for the Applicants.

AND NEW CARPETS and LARGE IVORY CARVING.

Catalogues will be issues. TERMS:-As usual,

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 7th December,.1906

BAR

PUBLIC AUCTION.

(1179

1080]

THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1898.

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARK,

NOTICE is hereby given that Cor

BROS. AND CO., LTD., of 10, Lord Nelson Street, Liverpool, England, Tobacco Manufacturers, have on the 3rd day of April, kong, in the Register of Trade Marks, of the fellowing Trade Mark-

THE Undersigned have received instructions 1906, applied for the Registration in Hong

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,.

ON

TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY,

the 18th and 19th December, 1906, at 10 AM. each day, at

H. M. NAVAL YARD,

SUNDRY NAVAL, VICTUALLING, OBSOLETE AND CONDEMNED STORES, Comprising:- LATHE, TURNTABLE, BOATS, "OLD HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE. CABLE CHAIN, ELECTRIC CABLE, IN:

Apply to-

TO. LET.

KOWLOON.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 31st July, 1906,

TO LET.

1789

TOS. 8 and 16, LEIGHTON HILL ROAD. No. 51, WONG-NEI-CHUNG ROAD. Apply to-

HONGKONG & KOWLOON LAND & LOAN CO., LTD,

No. 8, Queen's Road West Hongkong, 7th November, 1906.

A

TO LET.

[1073

FLAT and THREE ROOMS, sear the

Moderate rental,

Apply to-

X, Y, Z. Cio Hongkong Telegraph Hongkong, 17th October, 1906, [1013

Insurance.

NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,

HE Undersigned AGENTS of the above THE

1. Company are prepared to accept First ¡Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS &

CURRENT. KATELJ

'SIEMSSEN'& Co Hoarkong 18th May, 18phot

These wooden railroads seem to have survived throughout the greater part of the following century, and even into the nineteenth' in some cases.

The Middleton colliery railroad at Leeds, for instance, was of wood until it was relaid, for the use of Blenkinsop's rack-rail. engines. These were started in 1813 and ware. unquestionably the first commercially success- tal locomotives. Many other wooden railroads bad existed in the same neighbourhood for fifty

years previously, and's daught in w colliery districts as well"' Upe was laid down' near Shaffeld, for instance, so early as about i713, from the Duke of Norfolk's colliery at The Manor into the town, searly one and one half miles down bill. It lasted till 1775, when it was destroyed in a riot. Next year it was reconstructed with the first cast iron fanged tails by James Outram, their inventor, -A wooden railroad long existed at Bath, it was laid down in 1737 by-Ralph Allen, who, having gained a fortune by post office con tracts, acquired and developed extensive quar. ries of the celebrated Bath colite stone on Combe Down. These being at a great height, and away from dny regular mode of transit, it became necessary to devise a means of bring

A Rectangular label, in the centre being a

disc against which is the representationing down such a heavy material. The wooden of a swallow in flight, at the top of the railroad occupied the site of what is now called label is the name Cape's and at the Prior Park road, and was laid partly upon low bottom upon an ornamental scroll the walls and partly on the ground, “like the wag- word "Swallow";

of England. onways belonging to the collieries in the nonth

in the name of COPE BROTHERS AND COMPANY, LIMITED, who claim to be the sole proprietors thereof,

CLINED HAND LAMPS for SEARCH- LIGHT PROJECTORS, OLD METAL, IRON, PAPER-STUFF, CANVAS, FURNI-at TURE, MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS, RLANKETS, WINTER CLOTHING and MATERIALS CASK STAVES, KNEE BOOTS, PROVISIONS, OFFICERS' MESS TRAPS, TOBACCO, &c, &c.) &c."

Catalogues may he had on application. 'TERMS OF SALE:~As customary.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Government Auctioneer'

· [168

Hongkong, 5th December, 1906,

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES.

ESSRS, HUGHES AND HOUGH have

PUBLIC AUCTION,"

Mreceived instructions to sell by

THURSDAY, the 20th day of December, 1906, at Noon, at their Sales Rooms, B, Des Voeux Road Central,

THE FOLLOWING

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD

PROPERTY,

IN ONE LOT.

The Trade Mark has been used by the applicants in respect of the following goods:

TOBACCO, IN CLASS 45.

"

The colliery lines about Newcastle used; in the eighteenth century, rails of beech wood, to cross pieces, which were even then termed carefully placed on the top and pegged down "sleepers." Longitudinal timbers in addition

S., Edinborg-L. R. C. P., London-Physician Woman's Hospital-Professor University of Bishops College, Canada, says: "I have much pleasure in stating that I have used it in cases of debility and have found it to be a very valuable remedy as well as pleasing to take.* You can take it with the assurance of getting well. It never disappoints. Sold by all

(6)

BARGAIN

FOR to DAYS ONLY.

LARGE CONSIGNMENT

or

HENNESSY'S

BRANDY.

·AT

$21.00 PER CASE OF 1 ́ Döz, (CABR). ́ Orders will be received by---.

A. CHAZALON: #001,

6; Queen's Road.' Hongkong, 7th November, 1906. THE WINE GROWERS

1

SUPPLY CO.

V

SC

BARRETTO & Co

General Agents, Hongkong

COGNACS.

L. ROZET & CO, BORDEAUX,

Special Brands.

$15.00 Per Dozen Cass.

S.. O. P..... 18.30

Very Old

Fine Champagne `22.50

A lacsimile of the Trade Mark can be seen

the office of the Colonial Secretary of were sometimes used, the extra height being Cognac,

of use in enabling, the cross sleepers to be well Hongkong.

Dated the 8th day of November, 1996,

covered up and protected from the action of DENNYS & BOWLEY, the horses' feel. There were usually two Solicitors for the Applicants.lies of rils, the descending one being 1081]

called the main way, the other the bye way. The card held a Newcastle chaldron, or fifty, three hundredweight, 5.936 poundi.' They were built of fir plauks, strengthened with iron | Cognac, forward, having slightly larger wheels at that straps, and had oak or asli solen. They sloped cad which was found to ease the draught. These wheels were of cast iron, the rear pair | being made selid of pieces of beech wood dovetailed and cramped together!. It was sup:

GOVERNMENT BILLS. TE MEXICAN DOLLARS, current in this PENDERS for SPECIE, BRITISH and Colony, in Exchange for Sterling. Bills drawn at so days' sight on the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, London, will be received by the Treasury Chest Officer, until II A.M., on the roth December, 1906.

The Tenders to state the total amount (inposed that brakes held better os wood than an Pounds Sterling), and the amount for which iròn. Some of these wooden lines coded in a each Bill should be drawn, but no Bills will be on timber viaduct, where the land. sloped issued for less than £100.

much to the river, leading to a shipping quay, from which the coal could either be discharged at once down a chula into the "keel" or barga which 'carried it to the ships, or stored if no keals were at band. The wagons opened be low to affect this.

The Tenders to be in Duplicate, and in sealed coyers, addressed to the Treasury Chest Officer, and endorsed "Tenders for Government Bills

The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is reserved.

Copies of Forms of Tender can be had on

All that PIECE or PARCEL OF GROUND | application. with frontages to Carnarvon, Granville and

Himberley Roads, registered in the Land Office

as KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 540, held

J.T. CARTER,

Lieut. Colonel, H.M. Treasury Chest Officer.

for the residue of a term of 75 years created by His Majesty's Treasury Office,

the Crown Lease. thereof dated' 3rd October, 1888, together with the messuages or dwelling hhoses, known as Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, Ormsby Terrace, and 1, 2, 3 and 4, Ormsby Villas...

Annual Crown Rent $566,

Aren 123,332.#q; ft.

Fletcher Street. Hongkong, 4th December, 1905

[1477

1

· COLD STORAGE. THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, Fil. LTD. have now 40,000 Cable fest of Particulars and Conditions of salo may be COLD STORAGE Available at EAST POINT. Stores will bo, Open at 10 AM, and 4′′F.3 obtained from

daily, Bunday excepted, to receive and deliver

· perishable goods;)))

WM PARLANE,

Messrs. EWENS & HARSTON

Vendor's Soliciton, or from

The Auctioneert."

Hongkong, sth December, 1900

[1187

Managers and

· Hongkong, aand Jung, 19°¶ «jai,

In going down bili with a loaded wagon the horse followed behind, so that he might not be Locked down if it got beyond control; which is said to have happened rather frequently. The drivers generally owned the horses, often of a miserable description; and, were paid by the trip or "gait.” -

WATER.in a good conductor of heat upwards, . bbis very bad one of heat downwards."

An ounce of 24 carat gold isworth £4 48211ąd.

· CHOLERA first-æppeared in India, in: thei your !

Grande

Fine Champagne Blue Ribbon

Guaranicen Years Old................

Cognac

Grande

Fine Champagne, ··

Green Ribbon Guaranteed

Years Old...

Cognac, Grande,

Fine Champagne}_{

Red Ribbon Guamnteed to

Years Old

BARRETTO: & Coại

Queen's Ros4 Con