1907-01-26 — Page 3

Intimation.

Powell's

Ladies' Outfitters,

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS.

ELEGANT

FOOTWEAR

at

Reasonable Prices.

BLACK

$0.25

GLACE

SLIPPER

Two Strap

LACE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JANUARY 26, 1907.

To Let.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

On or about the 15th

fanuary

Messrs. K. A. J. CHO.

TIRMALL & Co.

will remove

to

NEW FREMISES.

No. 64, QUEEN'S ROAD

CENTRAL, formerly occupied by the

Travellers' Hotel.

1-

Hoogkang, Eth January, 1997.

TO LET.

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IMMEDIATELY the capacious premises on the Ground Floor of No. 2, PEDDER STREET, at present occupied by Messrs. HARRIS KEENEY CO., LTD.

Apply to--

GILMAN & Co.. "Hongkong, 22nd January, 1907. (150

TO LET..

From 1st March, 1907.

Intimations.

THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that the NINE TEENTH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's Offices, Victoris

Auctions.

"CHANNEL TUNNAL.

PROSPECTS OF GUING TO FRANCE

BY TRAIN,

'The ortente' cordiale and the progress of science have revived the project" of a Channel, fennel, and from the office of the Channel Tunnel Company comes an interesting bro.

oft-deutel theme

Intimations.

THE TRUTH "ALWAYS" "When you are in doubt tell the truth. It was an experienced old diplomat who said this to a beginnst in the work. It may pass in some, things, but not in business Fraud and depep

|· Tuildings, on MONDAY, the 18th January, held on MONDAY, the 28th day of January,chure which throws a flood of Ight upon this lion are often profitable so long as concealed;

1907, at 11:30 o'clock A.M., for the purpose receiving the Report of the Directors, together with Statement of Accounts for the year end ing 31st December, 1906. :

The REGISTER or SHARES of the Cont pany will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 19th January, to MONDAY, the 28th January, (both days inclusive), during which period NO THANSFER OF SHARES can be registered

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the Hongkong Land Invest- ment and Agency Cp. Ld, Ceneral Agents for the West Point Build- ing.Co., Ld.

Hongkong, 14th January, 1907:

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. DARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Saic, to be

1907, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of ilis Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, of One Lot of CROWN. LAND, at Yau Ma Ti, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 7.5 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Regiairy No.

{13

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY, COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO BINARY MEETING NOTICE is hereby given that the NING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will he held at the Company's Offices, Victoria Buildings, on MONDAY, the a8th January, 1907, at 13 o'clock Noan, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, together with Statement of Accounts for the year end. ing 31st December, 1906.

The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Com-.

Locality.

Boundar Moasurements.

L

W.

fout foot fent fost

83% 540

360

.15 355

Hongkong, 19th January, 1907,

Square feet

Annual Rent

Upses Price.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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The idea of the tunnel" has appealed to the imagination of scientists and "engineer for many scores of years. A century ago it was liscussed by Napoleon and, the English states- man Fox, and the First Consul enthusiastically described the tunnel as "one of the great things we could do together Queen Victoils and Prince Albert also viewed it with markad (vour.".

vet detection is, cortain sooner or later; then comes the smash-up and the punishment. The best and safest way is to tell the truth all the time. Thus you make friands that stick by you, and a reputation that is always worth twenty shillings to the pound everywhere your goods are offered for sale. We are able modestly to affirm, that it is on this basis that the world- wide popularity of

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION rests. The people have discovered that this. The brochure, which is whiten by M. Sau- medicine is exactly what it is said to be, and tianux, the general manager of the Northern that it does what we have always declared it

·Railway of France, gives a mass of interest will do. is'nature also has been frankly made ing details showing how the proposal was

known. It is palatable as honey and contains, taken "up-and-endorsed by the Eglish and all the nutritive and curative properties of Para French Governinents. In particular, it was

Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod: explicitly approved "Ey Lord Granville, the livers, combined with the Compomid Syrup of besal Foreign-Secretary, and a memoran Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and dum was drawn up by the British Ambassa Wild Cherry. A combination of supreme stor, Lord Lyons, embodying the understand-excellence and medicinal merit. Nothing has ing which had been arrived at...

THE WORK BEGUN, The French Government subiequently com- municated to the Conservative Ministry, which had come into power in England, the Act by which it proposed to grant a concession for

pany will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the | DARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of making the tunnel, and the British authorities was indicated but could not be taken by the

19th January, to MONDAY, the 28th January (both days inclusive), during which period No TRANSFER OF SHARES can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary. Hanýkong, 14th January, 1907.

[116 THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED.

TEENTH ORDINARY MEETING

NOTICE is hereby given that the EIGH

OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's Office, Victoria Build- ings,os MONDAY,the 4th February, 1907, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with State ment of Accounts for the year ending 31*1 Décember, 1906.

The REGISTER or 'SHARES of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY.. the 30th January, to MONDAY, the 4th

6, 7, and 12, AUSTIN AVENUE, February (both days inclusive), during which

Pair.

Nos. 6,

KOWLOON.

Rent Moderate.

Apply to--

BOOTS

Softest Glace Kid,

E. D..SASSOON & Co.,

Compradore Department.

Hongkong, r2nd January, 1907.

NOS

2

$9.50

Pair.

IDEAL LIGHT

WALKING

SHOE

Black Glace

Tan Calf

$8.50

Pair,

with

LOUIS HEEL Superior Finish $8.50 pair.

INSPECTION INVITED.

Wm, POWELL, Ld.,

HONGKONG.

--Hongkong; 19th Jannkry, 1907,

2.

TO LET.

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OS. 4 and 16, LEIGHTON HILL ROAD,

Apply to-

HONGKONG & KOWLOON LAND & LOAN CO., LTD.,

No. 8, Queen's Road Wert. Hongkong, 22nd January, 1907. As [88

TO DE LET.

period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the

Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Co., Ltd.,

Agents for the

[rso

Kowloon Land & Building Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 15th January, 1907, HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS..

THE HALF-YEARLY

EIGHTY-FIRST ORDINARY.

the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 28th day of January, 1907, at 3 P., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the (fficer Administering the Government, af Two Lots of CROWN LAND, at Fo Tau Chau, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to | be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the

KING, for one further term of 24 years less 3 Edays,

PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS...

Registry Na

* Hai Kung Taland

Lot No. 37.

Sai Kung Farm Lot No. 1.

LOCALIST.

Fu Tau Chau

Boundary

| Measurements.

As par plan

Hongkong, 19th January, 1907.

Contents

Atonal Kent.

Upset Price,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

+30 75

(134

"HE Undersigned have received instructions THE

from M: GASTON LIEBERT, Consul- General for France, to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

ON

TUESDAY.

the 29th January, 1907, at 2.30 F.Mwibia bis residence, No. 10, MacDonnell Road,

THE WHOLE OF 19 VALUABLE

HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE,

*THEREIN CONTAINED,

approved the course of their French colleagues. The master thereupon entered on the prac tical stage. In the year 1875 a company was formed in France to construct the French part of the tunnel. This company, which is still in existence, spent more than two million francs in shafla, soundings, and galleries; and all the works and installation are preserved in a satisfactory state, so that at any moment definits operations could be resumed,

In England three companies were formed,

been so successful in Anemia, Serofula, Bron chitis, Influenza, Loss of Flesh", and Wasting Diseases, Weakness and; Low Nervous Tone, and all complaints caused by Impure Blood, Dr. Austin D. Irvine, of Canada, says: "I have used it in cases where cod liver oil

patient, and the results following were very gratifying" It is effective from the first dose and agrees with the most sensitive and nervous" stomachs. It cannot deceive or disappoint you, and comes to the rescue of those who have received no benefit from any, other treatment

stands for the medicinal triumphs of the age. "Watch carefully against imitations." Sold by chemists throughout the world.".

10

viz, the Channel Tunnel Company, the South A. CHAZALON & CO.,

Eastern ailway Company, and the Submarino Railway Company. These three concams subsequently amalgamated. As in the case of

the French company, practical work was

"6; Queen's Road-Gentral.

begun, and towards the end of 1882 there was, "W"

THO have just received the Finest As-

at the fool of Shakespeare's Chiff at Dover, a

gallery 14 miles long, about 1,700 yards of itsortment of ENGLISH #and; FRENCH- being under the seo.

CONFECTIONERY from the best makers

A GOLD DOUCHE.

Then, suddenly, a bold fit succeeded the hot enthusiasm which had, up till then, prevailed on the subject in England. It was largely caused by a brillianly imaginative 'pamphlet, which pictured Dover being invaded, on the arrival of an excursion train, by'a "band of trippers, im- posing in number, but of most peaceable ap- pearance. The tourists quietly went to sleep in the rooms they had previously engaged at the hotels. Then suddenly, during the night, at a given signal, getting out of bed, and for tively creeping towards the harbour, they seized a stock of rifles brought by a couple of steamers That decided the fate of Britain. Dover WAL taken and the garrison, butchered; the tonnel incessantly poured forth men of all arms; I on- don was invaded, and England, within a few hours, lay helpless under the heel of the French conqueror.' '

MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be, held at the Office of the Company, Hotel Mansions, on TUESDAY, the 12th Februar at 12 o'clock, Noon, for the purpose of receiving

Comprising:- a Report of the Directors together with a

TEAKWOOD HATSTAND with GLASS, Statement of Accounts, declaring a Dividend,

WALNUT-COVERED BRASS HANDLES ND FLOOR, No. 23, CAINE ROAD. confirming the appointment of a Director and

HALL TABLE, COCOA-NUT TABLES, electing Auditors.

MARBLE-TOP BLACKWOOD FLOWER

A TEMPORARY FUNERAL.. Apply to-

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company STANDS, TABLE LAMP, (Oil and Electric

The notion shuddered, and the Egyptian SIN TAK FAN.

will be CLOSED from the 30th January 10 combined) ELECTRIC CEILING FAN, Hongkong, 19th January, 1907. [137 the 12th February, both days inclusive.

OVERMANTELS with GLASS, TAPESTRY: question and pamphleteering admirals fed the By Order of the Board of Directors, COVERED DRAWING ROOM SUITE, fears which were thus awakened. The Cón-

TEAKWOOD W. E. CLARKE,

EXTENSION DINING Secretary,

TO LET.

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES at PRAYA

EAST, Rear East Point,

Apply to-

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hongkong, and January, 1907.

TO LET.

Hongkong, 21st January, 1907

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WAR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS.

EUROPEAN SHOPS, OFFICES, and

GODOWNS (suitable for Dry Goods

TENDERS will be received at the Head Office, Fletcher Street, until 12. o'clock Noon, on FRIDAY, the 15th of February, 1907, for the undermentioned. SUPPLIES and

TABLE and CHAIRS, DINNER WAGservative party took alarm, and the schems of GONS, TEAKWOOD SIDEBOARD with the Channel funnel was laid quietly to sleep REVELLED GLASS, DINNER SERVICE upon the shelves of the Government Depart- (10pieces), GLASS and CROCKERY WARE,ments."

ICE CHEST, Ona FILTER by Bush & Co. Recently, however, with the French and En- glish nations warmly embracing one another,

MARBLE-TOP MOTHER-OPEARL IN LAID

SIDE TABLE; BLACKWOOD

MOROCCO COVERED CHAIRS, TEAK the project has been brought up again, and M. WOOD BOOKCASES, ELECTRIC LAMPS Sartiaux enters a powerful plea for il realika- and FANS, BED ROOM SUITE, TEAK- tion. He takes up the military objection, and WOOD DEESSING TABLE and CHEST- shows that the danger of invasion by mail

OF-DRAWERS with BEValled GLASS,

Storage) at No. 14, Des Voeux Road Central SERVICES, for the period of 12 months from DOUBLE BRASS-MOUNTED BEDSTEAD through the tunnel cannot be considered

(formerly occupied by Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.

Apply 10-

HỌ TUNG

Compradore Department,

Jardine, Matheson & Co Hongkang, 26th September, 1906.

"HE Premisas

TO LET.

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TRO miss known as Mo, 199, WANCHA & Co.'s Engineering Works. Possession, 1st February, 1997. Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Bongkong, 4th January, 1907.

TO LET.

* Canton.

[8

NO. WEST END TERRACE, Shameed,

14

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY, CO., LD. Hongkong, 10th December, 1906.

TO LET.

RANFURLY," CONDUIT Road,

· [67

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 TerraCF. Apply to--

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

** MENT & AGENCY CO., 1.1). Hongkong, 4th December, 1905,

A

..TO LET.

165

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE..

KOWLOON.

Apply to-

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

1st April, 1907-

1. Meat.

2. Hospital Supplies and Medical Comforts.

3. General Supplies and Provisions....

4. Oil, Wick, and Barrack Supplies. Coal, Coke, Wood and Charcoal.

Barrack Services and Scavenging. Washing.

r

8. Transport Services (Supply of Iaunches

Junks, Coolies, &G),

9. Forage. Forms of

be obtained Tender and any particulars can

personally or by letter, addressed to the Officer Commanding Army Service Corps, between the hours of to A.M. and 4 P.M.

The Tenders must be properly filled up, and signed, and dated, and no fender will be noticed unless delivered upon the proper form at the Hend Quarter Office by 12 o'clock Noon on the above date, in a closed envelope, marked "Tender" on the outside.

The right to reject any or all Tenders is reserved..

Head Quarters Offices,

Hoarken. 25th January, 1907. SELF CURE NO FICTION!' MARVEL UPON MARVEL! NO SUFFERER NEED NOW DESPAIR, bul without ronning a doctor's blor falling into the derp dish of quackory, may safely speedily and ocoteally care himself without the know Iedge of a second party. By the introduction of THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY

THERAPION.

a completerovolution kasbeen wrought in thin ds. partment of medical science, whtist thousands baro been restored to health and happiness who fo years previously had been merely dragging out Taiterain existence.

**HERAPION No. 1-A Bovereign

Nemedy for discharges, superseding infec Hons, the use of which does irreparable barm by tering the foundation of stricture and other serious diseases.

Sovereign

Remedy for primary and secondary eroptions, ulcerations, pains and swellings of the Jointa, and all those complaints which mercury and parista are popílarty but erroneouij supposed to care. This preparation parties the whole system through the blood and shorwagbly. eliminatos el noisonous miller from the body,

HERAPION NO. 3-A-Sovereign Remedy for debility.ncerousness, impaired vitality, sloeplearness, distaste and incapacity for business or pleasure, love of solitude, bluzi.feg Indigestion, paina in the bacic and hed, and hi disorders resulting from disdpation, sarly-as cenes, kd, which ibufaculty so poesistabilylguses, becasse sa impotent to cure or even politiske. "HERAPIQ is sejt by principal Chemists KITWEK Bostics world. Fricwin Zagland Kv *** a.ordering, mate which of the Sus numbers required,: had observe that the word TOKEAPTON Appear on British Government Bławn (in white lotiere pe s red ground) ndized- to every package by order of HMS Ho Commissioners, and without which it la n'Forgw

Sold by all Chemleri.

with WIRE and HAIR MATTRESSES; seriously. MARBLE-TOP WASHSTANDS, SINGLE "It is pot admissible," he argues, "that an IRON BEDSTEADSand BEDDING,COOK- | attack like this could be prepared without the ING STOVE and UTENSILS, &c,&c,&c.';

ALSO

A quantity of PALMS in Pots. On view from the 26th instant; at Noon. TERMS:-As usual.

·HUG ́ES & HOUGH, Auctioneers, Hongkong, 22nd January, 1997.

Entimation.

HONGKONG

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HIGH-LEVEL TRAM-

WAYS COMPANY, LIMITED,

IN LIQUIDATION,

TIME TABLE,

WEEKDAYS.

7.00 am..107.30 am....Every 30 minutes, 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 am...Every 10 minutes, 9.30 am to 11.00 ... Every 15 minutes, 11.30 am to 12.45 p.m....Every 15 minutes 12.45 p.m. to 1.5 p... Every to minutes, 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 pm....Every 15 minutes. 1.45 p.m. to 2.15 pm,... Every 10 minutes, *2.15 p.m. to 3.00p.m...Every 15 minutes. 3.30 pm to 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m....Every 10 minutes.

NIGHT CARS,

invaded Power being put on its guard.

It would be sufficient to simsly have the ton

nel watched by several trustworthy men) to

of London and Patin;

ALSO

A Large Variety of LIQUORS, BOR DEAUX. PORT, SHERRY, WHISKY, &c, &c from the most renowned houses in France and other foreign countries,

Hongkong, 11th January, 1907;-

146

COLD STORAGE.

THE

4400 Cubic feet of "HE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY,

COLD STORAGE available at EAST POINT. Stores will be Open at 10 A‚M. und 4 P.ME.. daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods.

WM. FARLANE,

Manager.

Hongkong, 22nd June, ront...

163

THE WINE GROWERS.

SUPPLY CO

SC

BARRETIOS.Co.,

General Agents, Hongkong.

ensure the impossiblity of any penetration even FRENCH CLARETS.

by a few soldiers only, and two or three mihes placed at the head of the tunnel and exploded from a distance would be sufficient to block the 'end and prevent any ourlet on the English.

side."

ན་

IN THE EVENT. OF WAR.

BOTTLED BY

JULFS MERMAN & CIE.,

Morcover, the tunnel could be so built as to enable it to be destroyed at will.by the guns of Cotes the British fleet

Medic

BORDEAUX.

#950 Per Dozen Quarts,

9.50.

950

13.50

One other hand, it is printed out, ibe tunnel might be a powerful help to this country. St. Es'ephe": in the event of war with any Continental Power Pauillace other than Francë, by, enabling it to forward

Margaux ......... 14'OD relief isilies, or vice versa, to receive it. Moreover, England could ensure a constan Chateau Ludovice” 17:00 18.00 supply of provisions thr aghi be nunrel, her Chateau Galic warship would be released from the nacersity Chateau Pontet

of cor vay these things, and would be set. free for more warlike operations.

Canet..... 20.00

M. Sartiaux goes on to show the positive Chateau. Mutton advantages, accruing from the construction "of

the tunnel. At present only some four or five hundred thousand English people cross every

8.45° p.m. and:9/p.my 9.45 pm to 11.15pm. year to the Continent. The reason why j:umoya

every half hour.

-SUNDAYS.

8.00 a.. to 9.00a.m....Every 5 minutes. 9.00 am, to $30 am....Every 30 minutes. 9.30 am. to 10.30 am....Every 15 minutes. 10,30 am to 11.00 am....Every to minutes. 12.00 Noon to too'p.m....Every 10 minutes. 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 5.00 p.m. to 6.00 pm...Every so minutes. 6.00 pm, 'to - 7.00 pm .....Every 15 minutes. 7.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m....Every 10 minutes.

NIGHT: CARS as on Week Days, *BATURDAYE."

Extra cars at 11.30 and 11.45′p.m. SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at the Company Office, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS Des Voeux. Road Central qa

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS, & SON,

Liquidators. #Hongkong, arib August, kpoð

d'Armaillacq 24,00' Chateau Marbuzet

Merman 27.00

between England and Frauca sta so few are Chateau Rauenn 30:00 mainly the dread of seasickness, and the

| necessity of either passing a sleepless night or

scnficing the half or whole of a day in travel. SPANISH CLARETS.

ting, The tunact would prevent the sea dickness; and put London and Paris within five liours of each other.

· BOTTLED' BY

"THE COMPANIA VINICOLA DEL NORTE DE ESPANA-BILBAO.

COULD BE BUILT IN. EIGHT YEARS, M. Sartiaux shows in detail kow the tunnel could be bored, An, underground electric railway wrold have to be laid to curry away, in Rioja.... the most active period of its traffic, as much as 4oco tons of rubbish a day, and convey at least Cepa Ruby. 1,200 workers,The project, says M. Sartiaux, is not only réalisable, but relatively easy, and could be carried out in seven or eight years. In a few years the passengers using the tumpol would number between five and six millioni while the probable goods truffle has been l'estimated at anything "between 1,500jolo" and

$300,000 tons Morning Lendir,

Lengkong, 2514

$12.00 Per Dozen Quarts.

6.00

BARRETTO