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Intimation.

Powell's

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS.

FOR THE

RACES.

SMART

COSTUMES,

Light Tweeds,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH DERIDẠY FEBRUARY 1907.

Intimations.

Messrs. K. A. J. CHO-

TIRMALL & Co.,

645 QUEEN'S ROAD-CENTHAL,

A

LATE No. 8, D'AQUILAR STREET,

FRESH CONSIGNMENT OF

GRASS CLOTH,

AND

A VAHILTY Or

LADIES EMBROIDE

DESIED

DRESSES.

ALSO

AN ASSORTMENT OF

MALTESE SILK LACE aud

COLLARS, &0.

INDIAN RUGS.

AND ALSO

A VARIETY OF

SILKS.

Hongkong. 2th January, 1907. THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED..

Intimation

SAINT-RAPHAEL

TONIO, RESTORATIVE: DIGESTIVE WINE

“Very palatable.

Known throughout the world and prescribed in all 'cane) of Ancomia, Debility and Convalescence, to young women, children' and the aged. Inváluable in hot climates,

DORS: Ope Wine-glass after the two principal meals. ~~~~~ Fach-bottle of rënuine VIN SAINT-RAPHAEL bears, in addition

to the registered trade-mark :

Y

JE

(t) THO WARRANTY STAMP OfİDS UNION DER KARRIGANTE.

(1) A METAL SKAL advertising/KFZ.BTEAM.

„Ís✨a MELIBKA‘and MINT cordial

CLETEAS which surpasses all others by its

purety and faultless preparation. To be taken on a lump of sugar. DOMPAGNIE d« VIN SAINT-NAPHAELİ' Valerios (Drüme-Franos).. CALDBECK MACGREGOR & Co., Hongkong,

DEATH OF MR. FRANK J.

MAITLAND.

cousin Mr. Andrew Maitland'a few months spo is still the theme of general regret.

THE POMERIL.

Auctions

“PUBLIC AUCTION.

instructions

TO-MORROW,

TUBLIC AUCTION,

"(SATURDAY), MONDAY AND TUESDAY,

4 and 5i6 FEBRUARY, 1907, commencing, each day at a PM, at his

· SADES ROOMS; DUUDELL STREET,

PANA MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION or

JAPANESE ART CURIOS AND SILK EMBROIDERIES,

COMPRISING :—

PORCELAIN -Very Fine Satsuma, Kinkouan, Imari, and Külani, dic. 'ERONZES—Old Jars, Flower Vases; and Figures, &c.

J

IN CLOISONNES-A Choice Int of Vasos, Incenso Jass in Silver,&c.

WOOD CARVINGS,~Very, Old Temple Raminas, Shrines, and Figurer; &c.

VOI. Yi-Beaua u ly Co ved Figures; &c.

SILKS-Old Tempio and Palace Hangingi, Diperies, Biracades, Court Kimonos, Table

Cloths, Bedspicade, Cushion. Usvetaj &o, &djeliminoul tip, PICTURES. –Silk Embroidered and Cui Velvet, &c.

SAND

A Quantity of útber CURIOS,

Some-Pieces of CHINESE | ORCELAIN and BRONZES,

N.B.-The above collection, of about 1,200 lots arrived from Kjolb and will be sold: 'WITHOUT KESERVE, “A rare opportunity for Collectors.

N TERMS—As usual,,:

Catalogues will be issued.

Hongkong, 1st February, 1907,

PUBLIC AUCTION,

'HE Undersigned bave received instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW,

and February, 1907, a1 3.30 P.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, comer of Ice House Stiert, SUNDRY

At 4 pm yesterday, the last solemn scans was The Shanghai Times, of 28th ult, devotes enacted in the Crematorium, in the presence three columns in an obituary notice of the late of a great and truly grief-stricken gathering. Mr. F. Maitland, from which the following are of friends. The coffin as it lay in the Mortuary TH extracts:As described in our Sunday Issue, Chapel was buried deep beneath a mammoth

· [43 | Sport and Goisip, yesterday, the whole compile of wreaths and floral crosses; and many as munity was shocked and grieved on Saturday were these emblems of piety, and affection, to learn that Mr. Francis John Maitlaud, the thore can be no doubt that their number would the esteemed “taipan" of the firm of Maitland have been largely augmented had it not been the Cream Serges, &c. NOTICE is hereby given that the EIGH & Co., Ld, had died that morning at the for the opinion which some of his friends knew

TEENTH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will General Hospital after an operation performed that Mt. Maitland had beld, namely, that the on Friday. No kinder or better man over cane provision of flowers at funerals was rather.io be held at the Company's Office, Victoria Build- ings, on MONDAY, the 4th February, 1907, at 12 to the Far Fast, and none has ever been more the nature of a waste of money that could be o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the sincerely mourned by a wide circle of friends much more beneficially employed in charity, in Report of the Directors together with State then he will be. To the staff of this paper, leeding the hungry or some other little act of It was a ment of. Accounts for the year ending 31st although he was managing director of the kindness towards the distressed. December, 1906. -.

The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Com-limited company which owns it and Sport and sentiment entirely in keeping with Mr. Mait pany will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY,Goutip, he stool more in the relation of a kind lan 's character, and we have no doubt that a the 30th January, 10 MONDAY, the 4th and generous friend than, in that of an em- great many people yesterday acted upon it in, February (both days inclusive), during which ployer, and our sense of loss is consequently all way that would commoud-itself exactly to Mr. Maitland's ideas with regard to the finess of period so Transfer, of Shares can be registered. the greater.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

things. •

· A. SHELTON, HOOPER, Secretary to the Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Co., Ltd,

Agents for the

COATS

Cream Alpaca

"and Serge,

Jussore Silk, &c.

MILLINERY,

The very Latest

from

LONDON & PARIS.

OSTRICH

FEATHER

BOAS,

White, Grey, Black.

DAINTY

BLOUSES.

Kowloon Land & Building Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 25th January, 1907. [159 THE SHIU ON STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF THE COMPANY will be held at the Com pany's Registered Office No. 8, Queen's Road West, Victoria, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 23rd day of the 12th Moon of the 32nd year of Kwong Sui (the 5th day of February, 19.7), ai 120'clock hoon, when the following Resolutions will be proposed, viz.

-That the capital of the Company be in- creased from $150,000 to $350,000 by the issue of 5,000 fully paid up new shares of $20 each ranking for dividend, voting power and in all other respects pari passu with the existing shares of the Company: 2. That such new shares be offered in the first instance to the persons who on the 19th day of February, 1907, shall be the registered sharehold rs of the Company in the proportion of one new share for every old share held by them and that such offer *be made by notice specifying the number of shares which each such registered shareholder shall be entitled to take up and limiting the time within which the offer if not accepted by payment of the full amount of $20 per share will be deemed to be declined and that the Directors be empowered to dispose of the thares no taken in response to such offer as they consider expedient in the interests of the Company.

By Order of the Board,

CHAU CHEUK FAN,

Manager, Shiu On Steamship Co., Ltd. 18 Hongkong, 25th January, 1907, PONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY," LIMITED, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS..

THE EIGHTY-FIRST ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, Hotel Mansions, on TUESDAY, the 12th February, at 12 o'clock, Noon, for the purpose of receiving | a Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts, declaring a Dividend, confirming the appointment of a Director and electing Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 30th January to the 12th February, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors, --

W. E. CLARKE, Secretary.

Hongkong, 21st January, 1907.

GLOVES,

FOOTWEAR,

SUNSHADES, N

&c., &c., &c.

MODERATE PRICES.

Wm. POWELL, Ld.,

HONGKONG.

pakong, gist January, 1907,

[138

As mentioned in Sport and Gossip rester-j day, Mr. Maitland was n Scotchman of Just'n' little over 50 years of age. He came to the East in 1876 or 1877 to join the firm which had been founded by the late Mr. Cornelius Thorne and his brother Dr. Thorne, and which, under the bong-name "Yuanfong" by which it is still known to-day, had already established an enviable reputation far and wide in Chine

The flags at the Race, Cricket, Recreation and other Clubs were at ballimast all day on Saturday and yesterday in consequence of Mr. Maitland's death.

Shipping Steamers.

• COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

Subsequently Mr. Maitland's count, Mr. J. A Maiiland, succeeded, to the managerial chair, to be followed in turn by, the late Mr. J. G Purdon, on whose retirement in the early sine ties Mr. Frank J. Maitland, whose loss we are now deploring, became manager, and so has continued, with one short interval at home, THE Company's Steamship

ever since.'

After Mr. O'Dowd's death Mr. Maltland ac

FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

"AUSTRALIEN,"

Captain Verron, will be despatched as above,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

or about MONDAY, the 4th February.

G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent. Hongkong, 28th January, 1907.

"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS.

quired possession of The Shanghai Times, which, with Sport and Gossip, has since passed into the hands of a limited liability company, of which. Mr. Maitland has been one of the directors. Easy-going and confiding, his news- paper experiences were not always pleasant or advantageous to him from a worldly point of view, nor was he always fortunate, in the selection of those whom be associated with him from time to time in these enterprises. There can be little doubt,, indeed, that the anxieties attendant upon the conduct of these businesses went a long way towards under mining his health, and. that, added to the accident already mentioned, the injury which they inflicted on his constitution was too much will be despatched for the above Ports, on or for him to bear up against when real illness about the 20th February,,

overtook him. He had been in hospital for a few days some weeks ago, but got so much better that he came out and resumed' business,

FOR LONDON AND ANTWERP. HE Steamship

THE

"GLAMORGANSHIRE"

For Freight and further particulars, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co

Agents,

[130

ORIENTAL PACIFIC LINE.

MONTHLY SERVICE FROM HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO, VIA KODE AND YOKOHAMA.

GEO. P. LAMMERT, "Auctioneer,"

To Let.

--TOLET,

GROAD including a Strong Room and

Servant Quarter, ..

ROOMS on.Second Floor of Victoria Build- lóg, No. 5; QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

Apply to-

DAVID SASSOON & Co, LD. Hongkong, 31st January, 1907,

[To

TO LET.

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising TEAKWOOD WARDROBES and SIDE

WOOD. BOOKCASE; TABLES, MIRRORS, BOARDS with BEVELLED GLASS, TEAK- CHAIRS, SILK TAPESTRY COVERED NOS. 4 and 16, LEIGHTON HILL ROAD, SOFA and CHAIRS, GLASS and CROCKERY WARE, PICTURES, &c., &c, &c,1

ALSO One Set of

ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA Catalogues will be issued. TERMS ¿—AS Usual.”

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 1st February, 1907.

Intimations.

[178

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S 'DEPART

→MENT.

NFORMATION has been received from. the Military Authorities that FIELD FIRING PRACTICE: will be carried out as follows...

On MONDAYS, the 4th and Irth February

From Gindrinker's Bay in an Easterly

direction against Smugglers' Ridge.

- Apply fo̟-

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

No. 8, Queen's Road West, Hongkong, aznd January, 1907.

[88

TO BE LET.

‚ND FLOOR, 'No, 13, CAINE ROAD.

Apply to-

SIN TAK FAN, Hongkong, roth January, 1907. [137

TO LET.

FOUR ROOMED HOUSES I PRAYA

· East, near East Point. Apply to-

"JARDINE, MATHESON &. Hongkong, and January; 1907. E

TO LET.

178

On FRIDAY and WEDNESDAY, the 8th EUROPEAN SHOPS, OFFICES and

GODOWNS (suitable for Dry Goods

Apply to

and 13th February *- From Gindrinker's Bay in a North Storage)' al "No, 14, Des Vœux-Road Central, Westerly direction against lower slopes | (formerly occupied by Messrs. Shewan, Tomes of Taimosban.

-& Co. The actual firing will probably continue between 12 Noon and 3.P.M. or thereabout.

F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.

[163

Hongkong, 1st February, 1997,

COLD STORAGE,

THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, THE

LTD., have now 40,000 Cubic feet of COLD STORAGE available at EAST POINT. Stores will be Open at 10 N. and 4 P.M. daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods.

W. PARLANE,

Manager.

Hongkong, 12àd Jess, 1975).

Monday last was the last day he was in town, Hongkong, 17th January, 1907. for on Tuesday he was indisposed again and. feeling too ill to come in from his well-known bungalow, "The Back o' Beyond" on the Soochow Creek above Jessfield. On Wednes. day night his condition became so serlopu 'that bis brother, Mr. Harry Maitland, who was looking after him, hurriedly called Dr. Tooke from St. John's College by whose advice Mr. Maitland was sent in to the General HospitalTHE Steamship next morning. His regular medical adviser, Dr. Macleod, was in prompt attendince, and did all that was possible. Friday morning Mr. Maitland seemed to be something better, bol as the day wore on he became worso again, and by the afternoon his condition was so grave (he was suffering from an intestinal-trouble) that after consultation with other medical moo, Dr. Macleod decided it was necessary to operate, EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM:11:30 am to 12.45 pm....Every Sumipute

After this had been done, Mr., Maitland seemed to rally for a white; but he sack again during

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK- | the night and early on Saturday morning it was

'ING CORPORATION..

TOTICE is hereby given that the ORDIN

ARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the tóth day of February, 1997, at Noon, for the purpose al receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1906,

By Order of the Court of Directors,

J. R. M. SMITH,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 29th January, 1907, [173 HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK.

*ING CORPORATION. 1 NOTICE is hereby given that the RE NGISTER OF SHARES of the Corpora tion will be CLOSED from: MONDAY, the

dth, to the 16th day of February, 1907, (both

days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.

seen that all hope was over. The end came soon after, 9 o'clock on Saturday morning.

"DAKOTAH....................About 15th February, For Freight and further particulars, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

Agents.

Hongkong, 21st January, 1907.

Ti40

SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE,

(Calling at Fort Darwin' and Queensland Ports, and taking through Cargo to Adelaids, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.) HE Steamship".

The news spread rapidly through flown and everywhere it was discussed with unaffected sorrow and regret.. It is not gites, indeed, that T

the death of a resident is so universally deplor

ז'י

HEASTERN,"

ed in the community, but Mr. Maitland was Captain McArthur, will be despatched as such a familiar figure and so immensely abare, on SATURDAY, the 2nd March,.at popular with all classes, that bine people out Noon,

of ten falt his death as the loss of a personal This well-known Steamer is specially fitted

163

HONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAM-

"WAYS COMPANY, LIMITED,

IN LIQUIDATION,

TIME TABLE,

* WEEK DAYS

7.00 am to 7.30 p.m....Every 30 minutes. 7.30 am to 9.30 am....Every to minutes.... 9.30 am to 11.00 2m... Every ry minutes.

1245 pm. to 1.15 pm....Every 18 minutes. 1.15 pm. la 1.45 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 1.45 p.m. 10.1.15 p.m... Every 10 minutes." 1.15 p.m. 10 3.00 p.m. .....Every 15 minutes,:: 3.30 p.m. to 50 p.m....Every 15 minites. 5.00 p.m. to 8,00 p.m. Etary to minutes.

NIGHT CARS, T

8.45 pm, and 9 pm, 955 pm, to 11.15 pm. every half hour.

SUNDAYS,

8.00 am, to 9.00 am. .....Every 15 minutes, 9.00 am, to. 9.30 am. ...Every, 30 minutes. 9.30 am, to 10.30 am....Every 15 minutes, 10.30a.m. to 17,00's.....Every to minutes.

and beloved friend, and so, one heard nothing for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham-12.00 Noon to 100 p.m....Every id'illinutas. but expressions of sorrow on every side,

ber, which ensures the supply of Fresh Provi- sions, Ice, etc., throughout the Pojkge.

This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric Light,

קי -

Mr. Maitland was married, but his wife, a most charming lady, who is held in the warmest recollection by all who had the pleasure of acquaintance out here, has been at home for are carried. some years, and it is sad to reflect that one of

Stewardess and a duty qualified 'Surgeon

N.B.-To assure the additional comfort

of

the cherished plans, which Mr. Maitland had ist passengers the steamers of the Company Have view for the future, was an opsly trip home telectric facă fitted in staterooms, rejoin Mrs. Mailland and bring her out to

For Fraight or Passago, apply to Shanghai again. - Bo had no children; wa be-

CIBE, LIVINGSTON A CO lieve, but as all'@kanghai khows,' ko, leaves, A brother here, Mr. Harry''Maitland, kad [[174 | sevarai relatives behind him. The death of his

By Order of the Court of Directors,

J. R. M. SMITH,

Chief Manager.

Hongkong, 29th January, 1907.

Hongkontr

·Agents,

1.00 p.m. to 5.00 pm....Every 11 minutes.. 5.00 p.m. to 6:00p.m... Every to minutes, 6.00p.m. to 7.00pm Every 15 minutes. )! 7,00 pan, to: 1.00 pm...Every 10 minutes.

NIGHT WARS 'on' Week Days. - HANNA BATURDAYE

HỌ TÚNG, Compradora-Department,

Jardine,

Valbman & Co.. Hongkong, 26th September, 1906.

TO LET.

HE Premises knowitas No.199, "WANCHAI & Co.'s Engineering Warks. Possession, Ist February, 1907.

TRAD, pow occupied by fears, Macdonald

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG 'LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO” LD.

· Hongkong, "zih' January, 1907,

NO

TO LET.

[81

[ O. 1, WEST END TERRACE, Shimeon,

Canton. Apply 10-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY CO., LU. Hongkong, roth December, 1906,

TO-LET.

ANFURLY" CONDUIT ROAD.

RA

* [67:

OFFICE9"%s' Kiko's "Bonding" and

·YORK, BUILDING,

GODOWNS on PRÁVA EAST,

A HOUSE in CLIFTON SHARDENS, Côn

duit Road..

A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE.

A HOUSE in WONG NEI-CHONG ROAD, FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, >ply tomm*

*** THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY CO. LD, Hongkong, 14th December, 1906,

Extra cars al 11.30 and 11.45 pm.. SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at the

A HOUSE

413 Company's OffORY ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

| Des Vœux Road Central, SNE

"JOHN-D, HUMPHREYS & SON,

Liquidators,

Hongkong/'17th stagiat, 1906,

TO LET

KNUTSFOR

PACE!