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Intimation.

Powell's

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS,

FOR THE RACES.

SMART

COSTUMES,

Light Tweeds, ̈

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY

Intimations.

Messrs. K. A. J. CHO-

A

TIRMALL & (0,

LATH No. 8, D'AGUILAR STREET.

OPIUM IN CHINAS,

SIR JOMN JORDAN AND THE WAIWURU.

JAPANESE IN SAN FRANCISCO,

INMIGRANTS ADMITTED,

During the conference held the other day

A telegram from San Francisco dated' the between Sir John Jonian and the Walwapu, | 24h ultimo states that 400 Japanese immigrants. the former declared that in view of the enor who were refusad permission to land, on the ground that they were "contranted labourer" were admitted on the sand ultimo. They had toyed at Honolulu for one month before proceeding to the Pacific coast.

mous stocks of opium, worth some two or three million pounds sterling, owned by the opiam 04, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, merchants at Shanghai and Hongkong, the period. allowed for the entire prohibition of qų oplum import must be too short in order to safeguard the interests of these merchants After a discussion, the authorities of the Wai wupu made a proposal to have all these stocks purchased by the Chinese Covernment, and to 'deal with those opium consigemonts that have not yet arrived according to the opium. regula tions that were recently promulgated. To this Sir John Jordan urged that the oplum 'which' has been ordered by the merchants shall be treated as that already in the godowns at. Shanghai and Hongkong. But to this the Waiwupu did not give its assent.

FRESH CONSIGNMENT OF

GRASS CLOTH,

AND

A VARIETY OF

LADIES. EMBROIDERIED

DRESSES.

ALSO

AN ASSORTMENT" OF

MALTESE SILK LACE and

COLLARS, &c.

INDIAN RUGS.

AND ALSO

A VARIETY OF

SILKS. Mongkong. 2 th January, 1907.

WANTED.

THE CHINESE VOLUNTEERS, The appearance on the Bund foreshore this week, says the N. C. D. News of Jan. 26, of the Chinese Company as a preliminary to its formal inclusion within the ranks of the Shang hi Volunteer Corps attracted, as it could not fail to do, a large concourse of interested spec: tators, more especially of Chinese. No more promising body of recruits has ever been seen at this season of the year paraded on the green, and while the 'men were evidently anxinus to [43 show at their best, as a tribute to the hard train.

French, Mathematics, etc., one Cream Serges, &c. PRIVATE TUITION FOR BOY in

hur daily. Apply, stating terms, etc., to-

COATS,

Cream Alpaca

and Serge,

Tussore Silk, do.

MILLINERY,

The very Latest from

LONDON & PARIS.

OSTRICH

FEATHER

BOAS,

White, Grey, Black.

DAINTY

BLOUSES.

GLOVES,

FOOTWEAR,

SUNSHADES,

&o., &c.,

&c.

MODERATE PRICES,

Wm, POWELL, Ld.,

HONGKONG.

Hongkong, stat January, 1907)"

"S" Clo Hongkong Telegraph. Hongkong, 5th February, 1907.

(201 HONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAM-

WAYS COMPANY, LIMITED,

IN LIQUIDATION,

TIME TABLE.

WEEK DAYS. 7.00 am. 10 7.30 am....Every 30 minutes. 7.30 am to 9.30 nm. ...Every 10 minutes. 9.30 a.m. to 11.00 a.m....Every 15 minutes. 11.30 am. 12.45 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 12.45 p.m. to 1.15 p.m... Every 10 minutes. 1.43 p.m.....Every 15 minutes. 2.15 p.m....Every to minutes, 3.00p.m....Every 15 minutes. 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 8.00 p.m....Every to minutes.

NIGHT CARS: 8.45 n.. and 9 p.m., 9.45 p.m. to'r1.15 p.m. every half hour.

1.15 p.m. to

1.45 p.m. to

2.39 p.m. to

3.30 p.m. to

5.00 p.m. to

·

SUNDAYS.

¡.

8.00 in. to 9.00 a.....Every 15 minutes, 9.00a.m. in 9.30 .....Every 30 minutes. 19.30 am. 10. 10.30 am....Every 15 minutes. 10.30 am. 10, 11.00 am....Every 10 minutes. 12.00 Nuo 10.1.00 p.m....Every 10 minutes, 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes, 5.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m....Every 10 minutes. 6.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 7.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.n.....Every to minutes.

NIGHT CARS as on Week Days. SATURDAYS.

Extra cars at 11.30 and 11.45 pm. SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at the Company's Office, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, Des Voeux Road Central

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, Liquidators. Hongkong, 27th August, 1906.

A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. This in the age of researchand experiment, when all nature, a to speak, is ransacked? by the scien tific for the cuasfoit and happiness of man. Helenro has indeed male giant strides during ibo pzet century, and among themby pas meanī least im „portant—eacuteries in curdiscine comes that of

-

THERAPION.

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apparatlon is unique SEGnaliyonu of themąsty Kensine and reliable Pateni Meslidines ever intro- de, and line, we understand, been used is the Continental Hospitals by Ricord, Hostan, Jobert, Vripead, Maisuzigetve, the well-known Chinnig nandindred by alt whin are regarded as autho vities an auch zusters, forinding the celebrated. Lallemand, and Reus, by whom it was some tim sino uniformly adquies, and that it is worthy the mstentisɔn of alone who require such a ready wo think there is no doubt, From the time of Aristotle downwards, a potent agent in the seroval of these diseases has tiike the famed philosopher's stone) been the abject of soane la of some Lopriul, generous steds; and far beyond the mere power- Bruch old ever kava bentodiscovered-ul trans- muting the baser ructali into gold is surely the dias covery of a remedy Metent axlaredesist the fail ing energies of the confirates rou in the one case, and in the oiber so effecinally, speedily and safely to expel from the system witförut the aid, "uz open the knowledge of a wond party, the polsons of acquired or inherited disease in all their protran foran to leave no taiator trace behind. Bach,

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY

THERAPION

which may certainly rank with, if not take proce drare of, matiy of the discoveries of our day, about winch a little ostentation and noise bave been madis, and the extensive and ever-increasing de- mand that has been created for this radicine whet evut fatroduced appears to prove that it is don lined to cast' into oblivion all those questionable remedies that were formerly the anla relance of medical men, Therapion may to obtained of the principal chemists and merchants throughout the world.-Diamond Fields Advertiser, Kikaguante Sold by all Chemists.

It is stated that the authorities at Washington instructed the immigration officials at San Francisco to admit the immigrants. Consider. able indignation is reported to have been ax" pressed throughout California at the interfer ence of the Wailington authorities, it being contended that the admission of the Japanese is under the circumstance coutary to the law,

THE LATE MR. BRANK

MAITLAND.

|

1907.

Intimations.

HONGKONG, 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 xath 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. plecting Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be CLOSED from the solb Tanuary to the 17th February, both days inclusivo.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W. E. CLARKE, Secretary. Hongkong, 21st january, 1907, -

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK- ING CORPORATION.

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NOARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF

1906,

In the last bumber of the Godown to hand

TOTICE is hereby given that the ORDIN- the following sympathetic reference is made to the late Mr. Frank Maitland of Shanghall be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on THE SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation "This is an ungrateful world. Twenty-five years SATURDAY, the 16th day of February, 1997, ago there was no more popular man in Shangat Noon, for the purpose of receiving the hai than Frack Maitland. He was then a Report of the Court of Directors together with youngster with an appetite for this life, and a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, outside his business he devoted a great deal of

By Order of the Court of Directors, his time to all sorts of sport. He was an

J. R. M. SMITH, enthusiast about anything that bad four, legs,

Chief Manager, his record in the saddle across country is one

Hongkong, 19th January, 19077 1173 which any sportsmen might be proud of, and: he won his red cont many, many years ago. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK- Later, when weight began to tell, he became

ING CORPORATION. Master of the Paper Hubt Club, and filled that onerous office to the satisfaction of everybody..

hereby given that the RE

ing they have undergone under their own off-but is light was not always what you have: cers during the spring and summer, the keen- ness they displayed must have been particularly known it to be during the last ten years or so, gratifying to the foreign officers who were and we remember the time when we saw him "detailed to bring them into line-with-The rest. riding races on the flat, and he thoroughly or of the force and to the S. V. C. commandant,joyed it.

The gun always went with him on his many who was a critical onlooker. In their bine uniforms, peaked caps and high boots, the p-country trips, and his faithful dogs were men presented in themselves a smartness to ready to fetch the pheasant or teal that his sure natch the alacrity of their movements. They aim brought down. He was one of the origina. were practically at full strength, and it is obers of the now defunct tandem club, and al-

vious that, with a few weeks of foreign instruc tion, they will be at no disadvantage, in mat ter of drill at all events, with any other, com- pany in the Corps..

Fex.

most to his last day you might see him in his high dogcart, looking, sad and reflective as be sat perched on high. He was a man who loved naimals, and there is always a great deal of good in any man who makes friends with the

mute ones...

I

On the stage-well, shall we ever forget the

When the Chinese Physical Association was first formed we confess to have shared, with' most foreigners in Shanghai, a.certain amount of distrust in regard to its motives and purpo-time, years and years ago, when Frank Mait- As a distinct organization of a military land used to appear on the boards of the local Lyceum and made us feel ashamed of ourselves character, with headquarters either in or on

because he had really given us more than a the borders of the Settlement, it offered to promote friction from time to time between the three-dollars' worth laugh? Whatever he under- foreign and Chinese authorities here. Events took to do he did well, and spared no effort to get every ounce out of the ability with which then recent had proved the necessity, in any

he had been endowed, time of emergency, that all the organized armi ed forces in the Settlement should be under

Or, do you remember his successes in the Amateur Circus? Until a few years ago was anything ever going on in Shanghai in the way of sport or public entertainment in which Frank Maitland did not take a prominent part, for the pure love of the thing? Think of it, the amount of work this man has done for my and your own entertainment! There was never any grumbling beyond the inevitable little tils inseparable from all amateur endea yours, and the Amateur Circus was a child born out of his fancy, of which he might feel jastly proud,

About twenty years ago Frank Maitland began to scribble, One fine morning the old brigade round the coffee table read an account of the training then going on, and everyone smiled.

The training notes were signed "Daybreak," and many guesses were made as

the direct control of the foreign authority, and there was not too much disposition, at that time to ragaid say help from the natives of this country as likely to be trustworthy, The subsequent course of events and the negocis. tions leading up to the inclusion of the Chinese Company in the ranks of the 8. V. C. fave been, however, a testimony to the good faith of those who organized the new body, and to the good sease of the representatives of the foreigo community, in recognizing a real de sire to the part of Chinese, who have a stake in the Settlement, to take a practical part in- the defence of those interests. At all times admission to the Volunteer Force is rightly conditioned by such regulations and safeguards ALB will guard against a decline from its effici- ency as our principal line of defence. Vo lunieering, unless undertaken in a serioas spirit, is of litle value either to the individual or the community, and however gladly an access to the numerical strength of the Corps is welcomed, the co-operation of representa tives of so many nationalities under our muni- cipal banner renders it specially necessary that care be exercised, before a fresh unit is admited Sport and Gossip about ten years ago he was led, to secure that it is prepared to live worthily. about in the zenith of his local sporting fame. upon the motto 'of "Omnia juncta in uno." But he forgot that even his mild-mannered The possibility of a clash of sentiments in the pen would sometimes, perhaps, unwittingly, breasts of members of a Chinese company write in a fashion that did not quite please raised peculiar difficulties, to be surmounted certain parties, and as he was of a soft and before this certainty could be plodged in their mild disposition bimself he resented the little cane. That a working basis has been reached lights that would sometimes be the inevitable is a mark of the more cordial relations which consequence of his scribblinge. He did not" have lately prevailed between foreigners aud have philosophy enough, nor could he steel Chinese at this port and all will hope that the his armour sufficiently, to ignore such incidents successful carrying through of this negotiation inseparable from the life of a man who puts. will be the prelude in a more general under-pen to paper in public. standing.

NGISTER OF SHARES of the Corpora tian will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the th, to the 16th day of February, 1907, (both of Shares can be registered. days inclusive), during which period no Transfer

By Order of the Court of Directors,

J. R. M. SMITH,

Chief Manager,

· Hongkong, 29th January, 1997.

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HONGKONG IGE COMPANY, LIMITED,

Entertainmer

HEATRE

CITY HALLA

THES

TONGKONG AMATEUR DRÁMATIO

VAR CLUB AN

i will present

A FARCICAL COMEDY

ENTITLED A "FACING THE ́ MUSIC,”

A by

CHARLES HENRY DARNLKY,.

אם

FRIDAY, 15th February, 1907.

SATURDAY, 16th

MONDAY, 18th

.*

Prices...... *** 83, %1. and $t.: Sailors and Soldiers in uniform half-price to Pit Stalls.and.Pit.

Booking Office at the ROBINSON PIANO CO., open on and after MONDAY the 12th February, 1907, at 10 A‚Megjeg

Hongkong, 4th February, 1907.

།།

Auction.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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AT the Undersigned's Salon Room,

2, Zetland Street,

ON

SATURDAY,

the 9th February, 1907, at 2.30 P., HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE of all descriptions,

·ALSO..

2 Now TYPEWRITING MACHINES. On view Friday. TERMS:-As usual

F. KIENE; ¡

Auctioneer, Telephone No. 574.

Hongkong, 5th February, 1907.

To Let.

TO LET

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TO. 6, PEDDAR'S HILL, comprising of N°..

Rooms with Out-houses, occupation from 1st proximo.

GROUND FLOOR of No. 4, DES VEUX ROAD including a Strong Room and Servant Quarter.

HE TWENTY-SIXTH ORDINARY THE

ANNUAL MEETING or SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, at 11.30 A.M., oo MON. DAY, 18th February, to receive a Statement of the Company's Accounts to 31st December, 1906, and the Report of the General Managers.ing,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be CLOSED from the 8th to the 18th February, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

Genarai Managers." Hongkong, zad February, 1907.

(188

ROOMS on Second Floor of Victoria Build

No: 5, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Apply to-

DAVID SASSOON & CO., LD: Hongkong, 4th February, 1907. [197

TO LET.

THE SHIU ON STEAMSHIP COMPANY, NOS 4 and: 16, LEIGHTON HILL ROAD..

LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-

NOT 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 THURSDAY, the 9th day of the 1st Moon of the 33rd year of Kwong Sul (the 21st day of February, 1907), at which were passed at the Extraordinary 2 12 o'clock noon, when the subjoined Resolutions General Meeting of the Company held on the 5th day of February, 1997, will be submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions:

1.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 päri passu- with the existing shares of the Company.

2. That such new shares be offered in the 1 first instance to the persons who on the 19th day of February, 1997, shall be the

the proportion of one new share for every old share held by them and that such offer be made by notice specifying the number.

to who hid himself bebind that happy mom-de-registered shareholders of the Company in plume. The soles were bright, crisp, and not a trace of the vitriolic Godown candour could he found between the liner. They were & great success-and deservedly so-for we bad never seen anything like it in Shanghai before,' time passed on, and when Frank Maitland start-

Frank Maitland became sadder every day,

2

Apply to.....

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

No. 8, Queen's Road West.

-{88- Hongkong, 22nd January, 1907:-

TO BE LET.

ND FLOOR, No. 23, CAINE' ROAD."

Apply to-

SIN TAK FAN. Hongkong, 19th January, 1997, [037

TO LET.

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES at PRAVA

EAST; Bear East Polat, Apply to-

JARDINE, MATHESON: & Go Hongkong, 2nd January, 1907, ¡y [78

TO LET.

of shares which each such registered GODOWNS (suitable for Dry Goods EUROPEAN SHOPS, OFFICES; and shareholder shall be entitled to take up:

Storage) at No. 14, Des Voeux Road Central, and limiting the time within which the offer if not accepted by payment of the full (formerly occupied by Mesirs, Showan, Tomes amount of $20 per share will be deemed & Co. to be declined and that the Directors be

Apply to- empowered to dispose of the shares not: taken in response to such offer as they consider expedient in the interesis of tha¦¦ Company

By Order of the Board,

CHAU-CHEUK FAN, Manager, Shiu On Steamship Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 5th February, 1907.

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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

Misfortunes never come singly, and when, SHAREHOLDERS will be held in THE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING therefore, one morning a couple of years ago the Offices of the Company, Queen's Buildings, he fell from his home and broke his leg his New Praya, on MONDAY, the 25th February physical distress rivalled his "mental troubles 1907, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of From that day he withdrew to "Back and receiving the Report of the Diractors and the Beyond, miles away from the haunts of his Statement of Accounts to the 31st December

will be CLOSED from the 11th to the asth February, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

'Secretary,

No demonstration is required at this and at last but few of his old friends were left late day of the capacity of the Chinese to understand him and to comfort him, for military service when properly equip. ped and led. The Ever Victorious Army, the Weihaire Regiment, the many, col- China, [Q lege corps now drilling all over

the provincial forces of Viceroy Yuan Shih- kai and Chang Chib-tung have testified in their

Shipping Steamer, several degrees to the possible qualities of the former exploits, and our little village world of 192 The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company: 2.

Chinese poldier. Slackness, dishonesty pro- EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM-vincial jealousies and the ingrained sentiment

SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling at Part Darwin and Queensland Ports, and taking through Cargo le Adelaide, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.) THE Steamship

1

"EASTERN," Captain McArthur, will be despatched as ahove, on SATURDAY, the 2nd March, at

Noon,

Shanghai scarcely ever saw anything of him. The gay, the boisterous, the jovish and kindly sportsman, the ever helpful public entertainer was almost forgotten, not only by the villagers but by many of his former brothers-in-arms.

It is the way of the world, and Maitland lacked the only condition which could counter- balance the tedium of his isolation: he had. no enemies. If he had but a few enemies to keep his spirits up he would never hava with drawn from the world; he would hava. raised heaven and earth to give them a taste of hla friendship. That would have kept him alive.

which has placed the soldier in the lowest social class, have yet to be overcome before the Government at Peking can have any mili- fary power worth consideration behind is. Amid the chaos of new ideas now permeating the Empire, it is noteworthy, however, that the profession of arms, not for bucaveering, pur poses, but as a means of enhancing the national self-respect, is making some headway. The progress and history of the Chinese company at Slangbai, we may be sure, will be watched

Friends, if you do not wish to die young, aut throughout the Empire with the most caresti attention, and the welcome accorded to by of pure disgust with an ungrateful and sordid the foreign companies and by the community world, you must arrange to have one or two at large will, wa believe, be accepted every first class enemies to keep you alive friendliness of foreigners towards China, and where as an instance of the good with and Love wall, hate well; and you will live well. their desire not to humiliate her, to pa ruien her, nor to rob her of her just rights and digniĄ electric fuos filled in staterooms,

ties, but to meet her at the earliest opportunity For Freight or Passage, apply to

on equal terms for that mutual benefit which GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.

-Agents,:36 comes from intercourse în commerce; in literai | that...ty Dia delle Can Hongkong, 29th January, 1997.

Saturday, sikh January 1997, [171 -tars and in sét, ke

This well-known Steamer is specially fitted for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham ber, which ensures the supply of Fresh Provi- sions, Ice, etc., throughout the voyage..

This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric Light,,

A Stewardess and a-duly qualified Surgeon aro carried.

N.B.-To assure the additional comfort of passengers the steamers of the Company have

The world is a very ungrateful one. It will suddenly remember all this to-morrow when wa are going to lay him at his last rest-and forget all about it the day after.

But Frank Maitland was a good one for all

་

HỌ TỪNG Compradore Department;

Jardine, Matheson & Co. Hongkong, 26th September, 1906:

-TO-LET

・

THE Premises known as No. 199, WARUHAI ROAD, now occupied by Messrs. Macdonald & Co.'s Engineering Works. Possession, xat February, 1907.

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY.CO, ED... Hongkong, 4th January, 1907,

TO LET.

Canton.

NOWEST END TERRACE, Shameen.

Apply to

"THE" HONGKONG LAND INVEST ¡MENT &'AGENCY 00, LDİ:

[67 Hongkong, roth December, 1906-

THOS. ROSER

Hongkong, 1st February 1007

SANITARY DEPARTMENT.

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FREE VACCINATION is performed at the following Hospitals as follows, Sundays excepted:

GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL 2 P.M. to

4 F.M. daily,

ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, To A.M. 16

Noob, daily.

NETHERBOLE HOSPITAL, 10 AM, to Noon;

daily, a phrey

TUNG WAH HOSPITAL, 10 AM to 4 PM]

dailymai

J. M. ATKINSON, Frin. Civ. Mod.. Officer, Hongkong, 1st February, 1907,

TO LET,

ANFURLY" CONDUIT MOLD,

OFFICES in King's Building and

-YORK' BUILDING." -

GODOWNS on FRAYA EAST.

A HOUSE.in Clifton Gardinij Con..

duit Road.

A HOUSE in KIPON.TERRACE.

A HOUSE in WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD. FLATS in MONETON TERRACE. Apply to Holst lauluk

THE HONGKONG LAND: INVEST. MENT & AGENCY DO, LIM

165 Hongkong, 14th December, roof,

TO LI

A HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE

Apply to My A BOA THE HONGKONG KARİN TUT MARVELMENT & AGENDY (187 Hoogkongia