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Shipping-Steamers.
THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7, 1907.
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COY.'S ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE.
Luxury-Speed-Punctuality.
The only Line that Maintains a Regalar Schedule Service of under Eleven Days across the Pacific is the Empress Line." Saving 5 to 10 Days' Ocean Travel.
11 Days YOKOHAMA TO VANCOUVER.
PROPOSED SAilinos, R.M.S
'EMPRESS OF INDIA"
"ATHENIAN.”
Tons
18 Days HONGKONG TO VANCOUVER.
(Subject to Alteration).
LEAVE HONGKONO ARRIVE VANCOUVER 6,000.....THURSDAY, February 14th........March 4th 3,882........ WEDNESDAY, February 20th March 16th-- * MONTE AGLE "
........4163.............. WEDNESDAY, February 27th......March 23rd "EMPRESS OF JAPAN"......6,000......THURSDAY, March 14th...............
...April 1st "TARTAR".....415..... WEDNESDAY, March 27th.........April 20th. "EMPRESS OF CHINA......6000....THURSDAY, April 11th .............................April 29th
"EMPRESS" steamers will depart from Hongkong at 4 P.M.
Intermediate steamers at iz Noon...
HE Quickest route to CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE, calling at SHANG-
THA NAGAGAMI (through the INLAND SEA OF JAPAN), KOBE, YOKOHAMA, and VICTORIA, B.C., connecting at VANJOUVER with a Special Mail Express, and at St. John, N.B, with the Company's New Palatial "EMPRESS" Steamships, 14,500 tous register. The through transit to LIVERPOOL being zal days, from YOKOHAMA, and 291 days from HONGKONG.
ttoogkong to London, 1st Class
Vfd St. Lawrence L6o. Via New York £62.
£40.
**
Hongkong to London, Intermediate an Steamers, and 1st Class on Railways
£47. R.M.S."MONTEAGLE #TARTAR" and "ATHENIAN" carry "Intermediate Passengers only, at låtermediate mates, affording superior accommodation for that class,
Passengers Booked through to all points and AROUND THE WORLD. SPECIAL RATES (First class only) granted to Missionaries, Members of the Naval Mary, Diplomatic and Civil Services, and to Europeas Oficials in the Service of Chins and Iapan Governments.
For further informatiou, Maps, Rontes, Hand Hanks, Rates of Freight and Pissage, abply to
U. W. CRADDOCK. General Traffic Ageul for China. gkong, 21st January, 1797.
Corner Pedder Street and Praya,
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.. LD.
(Projected Sailings From HONGKONG-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION).
For
Steamship
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S'GAPORE,, PENANG & CALCUTTA.NAMSANG* ...FRIDAY, 8th Feb., 3 PM, MANILA......
SHANGHAI
Shipping Steamers.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
PASSENGER SERVICE.
By these steamer, offer to the public the highest comfort yei attained in ocean
the new. steamoza RuzNANIA," HAUSBURG," and "HOHENSTAUFEN.“ iravelhog. They are especially bail or the tropics with very large well ventilated cabins, amidship, lighted throughout by electricity, fans provided in each cabin. The berths are not arranged one above the other as it has been the fashion hitherto, but the staterooms closely resemble ordinary sleeping rooms on shore, the berths. standing like beds at either side of the cabnis. As a dovelty, a' number of cabins. are provided for single passengers.. These steamers call at NAPLES and PLYMOUTH. In addition to, the above steamers, the s.s." "SILESIA" and "SCANDIA" carry first class passengers. Return Tickets issued at reduced Rates, throughtickets issued to NEW YORK via NAPLES, SOUTHAMPTON and HAMBURG.
NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG. Outward.
FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA. SCANDIA......i....10th February."
HABSBURG ............................. 3rd March, RHENANIA ......................., 1st April. HOMENSTAUREN ...30th April, SILESIA ..................31st May.
SCANDIA
30th June.
Hongkong, 4th February, 1907.
FOR_SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
CALCUTTA
"THE Steamship
LOONGSANG.SATURDAY, 9th Feb., 3 P.M., „CHOYSANG SATURDAY, 9th Feb. 4 P.M. These Sibamers have superior accomment for First-class Passengers, and are fitted
throughout with Electric Light.
Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to Chefoo, Tientsio, (via Ching Wan Tao) and
Yangisze Forts,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
Hungkong, 71 February, 1907.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
General Managers.
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CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.
FOR
SWATOW, NINGPO, SHANGHAI and?
CHINKIANG ....................................... SHANGHAI...
STEAMER
and}
* TAIYUAN
TO SAIL
** TAMBUI" † 8th February, Noon.
"YOCHOW "†.............. xxth
4 p.m.
1... Arch
**TEINAN" "TAMING " *'.
12th
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12th
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MANILA, ZAMBOANGA, PORT DAR- WIN, THURSDAY ISLAND, COOK. TOWN, CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY & MELBOURNE) YOKOHAMA and KOBE.......
MANILA
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Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtze and Northern China Ports. The Alteation of Passengers is directed 14 the Superior Accommodation offered by these steamers, which are fitted throughout with Electric Light. Unrivalled, table. A duly qualified Surgeon is carried.
Ports.
Taking Cargo and Passengers at through fates for all New Zealand and other Australian
For Freight or Passage, 'apply to
Kong, 7th February, 197.
Steamship.
'ROBI..
ZAFIRO
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTS.
7.
HONGKONG MANILA.
· "CATHERINE' APCAR,"
for the above Ports, on MONDAY, the 11th Captain W, D. A. Thomas, will be despatched
instant, at 3 PM.
For Freight of Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED,
Agents. Hongkong, 5th February, 1907,
T
"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS.
· FOR LONDON AND ANTWERP. HE Steamship
GLAMORGANSHIRE"
will be despatched for the above Ports, on or about the 20th February.
For Freight and further particulars, apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
Agents.
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Hongkong, 17th January, 1907,
EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SYDNEY AND' MELBOURNE, (Calling at Port Darwin and Queensland Ports, and taking through Cargo 10 Adelaide, New Zealand, Tasmania,&c) HE Steamship
THE
"EASTERN," Captain McArthur, will be despatched as above, on SATURDAY, the 2nd March, at Noon.
This well-known Steamer is specially fitted for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham ber, which ensures the supply of Fresh. Pravi- sions, Ice, etc., throughout the voyage.
This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric Light.
A Hiewardess and a duly qualified Surgeon are carried.
N..-To assure the additional comfort of passengers the steamers of the Company have electric fans fitted in staterooms,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
GIBD, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents.
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Hongkong, 29th January, 1907.
To Let.
TO LET.
No. 6, PEDDAR'S HILL, comprising of
5 Rooms with Out-houses, occupation
from 1st proximo.
GROUND FLOOR of No. 4, DES VUX ROAD including a Strong. Room and Servant, Quarter,
ROOMS on Second Floor.of Victoria Build- ing, No. 5. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
Apply jo-
DAVID SASSOON &. Co., LD.
[197 Hongkong, 4th February, 1907,
TO LET.
Highest Class, newest, fastest and most luxurious Steamers between Hongkong and Manila.—Saloon amidships-Electric Light-Perfect Cuisine-Surgeon and Stewardess carried. NOS 4 and 16, LEIGHTON HILL ROAD..
All the most up-to-date arrangements for comfort of Pausengera,
CHINA AND MANILA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
Tans. -Captain:
R. Almond... 2540
2540 R. Rodger
For Praight or Passage/apply. to
Hongkong, sth February, 1907.
A
For
Salling Dates.
MANILA (DIRECT) FRIDAY,
8th
Feb., a: 5 P.M. [SATURDAY, 16th Feb.,
at Noon.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CÒ.,
GENERAL MANAGERS.
Homeward.
FOR THE STRAITS, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID, NAPLES, PLYMOUTH, HAVRE AND HAMBURG,** SILESIA *
.....................10th February, SAMBIA ......................................15th February. SAXONIA ................22nd February, SLAVONIA. SCANDIA BRASILIA ..... HABSBURG.........' 5th April.
13th March. 20th March, 24th March,
HOHENSTAUFEN.....29th May:
* Call at Lisboa.
To Let...
TO LET.
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GODOWNS (suitable for Dry Goods EUROPEAN SHOPS OFFICES, and Storage) at No, 14, Des Vaux. Road Central, (formerly occupied by Messes, Shewan, Tomes & Co.
Apply to-
..
HỌ. TUNG. Compradore Department,
Jardine, Matheson & Co. Hongkong, 26th September, 1906.
..TO LET.
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IN AUSTIN AVENUE, KOWLOON, Nos. 1, 7, and 12. From 1st March, 1907.
Apply to-
COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT, E. D. SASSOON & Co. Hongkong, 31st January, 1997.
TO LET.
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THE Premises known as No. 199, WANCHA! ROAD,now occupied by Massrs. Macdonald & Co.'s Engineering Works. Possession, 1st February, 1997. Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.
(81 Hongkong, 4th January, 1907.
TO LET.
RANFURLY CONDUIT Road:
OFFICES in KINO'S. BUILDING and
YORK BUILDING,
GODOWNS on Praya East.
A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, Con-
duit 'Road,
A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE,
A HOUSE in WONG-NEI-CILong Road, FLATS in MORETON-TERRACE:-
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.
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Hongkong, 14th December, 1906;
TO LET.
Intimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
1, ICE HOUSE ROAD,
HONGKONG.
CABLE ADDRESS:-Telegraph, Hongkong.
*HE loading English Newspaper in China Also widely circulated in Japan, Cochin China, Ceylon, India and the Far East
generally,
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A daily newspaper with weekly edition published for despatch by the homeward mail The daily is recommended as more generally suitable, except for subscribers in Europe or
America
A special feature is made of full and accur ate reports of local occurrences, and of mat-
ters of general interest.
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT, ·
The Hongkong Telegraph is the best
medium for advertising in China. It circulates
THE TYPHOON,
"BOSS OF THE STORM,” -
The typhoon is the boss of all storms known to the sailor-man, says a writer in the Afcago, Record-Herald, and its home is in the China and Japan ŝtas. Ask a Chinese sailor what a | typhoon' iz aud he will reply," the number one pidgin stormi,” meaning, thereby, that it in the "best ever." Ask the American or European sailor what a typhoon is and he will declare that's hell, and then some."
Ask the resident of Hongkong the definition of a typhoon and he will tell you that it is, per- laps, the greatest curse of his city. Ask the scientific man what a typhoon is andha will you that it is a circular storm of resiùtiéns, power, and fury and then give you a dozon theories of is cause and origin, any one of which you are at liberty to accept. Ask the man who makes the sen charts what he knows about typhoons, and he will say that a typhoon is number twelve on the chart which contains only twelve gradba of sea storms.
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Interest in the typhoon and its habits bas een sharpened by the terrible visitation which Hongkong had last year, when many buildings were destroyed, 10,000 lives lost, twenty-one" ships sunk in the barbour and many more badly damaged, to say nothing of the loss of life and property occasioned on the high seas.
"This was not the first visitation of the kind experienced by the British colony, which forms the gateway to Southern China. Thrice has Hongkong been practically destroyed by'a typhoon, the last event being in 1874, when $5,000,000 worth of property and all the ship. ping were destroyed and 2,000 lives lost." The first great typhoon experienced by the colony was on July 1st and 22nd, 1841, when it was practically wrecked. Alf the buildings includ- g the hospitals, which were filled with fever patients, were levelled, six (oreign ships were. sunk and four were driven on shore, twenty-. to others were dismasted and an appalling 1ss of life was caused among the Chinese population.
largely among all classes of the community,
In 1874 and again in 1876 there were visita- is the largest daily newspaper and has ations, and in Foo another terrific storm. Two
tassles with the typhoon satisfied the people of wider circulation than any journal in the Far
Hongkong that they must change the style and architecture of their building material. Ac- Fast..
cordingly the visitor to that city now looks with astonishment at solid phalanxen of solid Special attention given to effectively display granite buildings around which run deep por ing a 'vertisements.
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any affective style of type will be adopted, This standard runs exactly eight lines to the
inch, and about eight words to the line.
DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES,
Notices of Births, Deaths, and Marriages
St each insertion in the Daily and Weekly.
CONTRACT ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Rates for standing advertisements
HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE, can be ascertained from the Manager.
KOWLOON. Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
-MENT & AGENCY (O, LD. Hongkong, 31st July, 1906.
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Intimations.
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TONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAM WAYS COMPANY, LIMITED,
IN LIQUIDATION.
TIME TABLE,
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WEEK DAYS,
7.00 a.m. to 7.30 am....Every 30 minutes. 7.30 am to 9.30 am,...Every to minuica. - Apply to--
9.30 a.m. to 11.00 am....Every 15 minutes. HONGKONG & KOWLOON LAND 11.30 3.m. to 12.45 pm....Every 15 minutes. 12.45 p.m. to 1.15 p.m....Every ro minutes. & LOAN CO., LTD.,
115 p.m. to 1.45 pm....Every 15 minutes. No. 8, Queen's Road, West. 1.45 pm. 10.2.15 p.m....Every 10 minutes. Hongkong, 22nd January, 1907: [88 2.5 p.m. to 3.co p.m....Every 15 minutes. 3.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m....Every to minutes.
NIGHT CARS.
TO BE LET.
ND FLOOR, No. 23, CÁINE ROAD. 845 pm and 9 p.m., 9.45 p.m. to 11.15 p.m.
2ND
2
Is
HONGKONG NEW YORK.
AMERICAN ASIATIC
STEAMSHIP CO.
FOR NEW YORK via PORTS AND BUEZ, CANAL.
(With Liberty to Call at the Malabar Coast),
Steamship "LOWTHER CASTLE"
.....
For, Freight and further information, apply to
Hongkong, 17th Janunty, "1907,
Arrival
The end of January.
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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Agunta,
Apply to-
SIN TAK FAN: Hongkong, 19th January, 1907. (137
TO LET,
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES пt PRAVA
EAST, near East Point. Apply to-
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
[78 Hongkong, and January, 1907..
TO LET. MMEDIATELY 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.
No. 1, WEST END TERRACE, Shameen,
Apply to-
Canton,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
"MENT & AGENOY CO, LD. Hongkong, roth December, 1906,
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every hall hour,
..SUNDAYS,
8.00 am to 9.00 am....Every 15 minutes. 9.00 am to 9.30 am....Every 30 minutes. 9.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m....Every 15 minutes. 10.30 a.m. to 11.00 a.m....Every 10 minutes. 12.00 Noon to 1.00 p.m....Every 10 minutes. 1.00p.m. to 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 5.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 6.00 pm to 7.00 pan....Every 15 minutes, 7:00 p.m. to 8.00 p.n....Every 10 minutes.
NIGHT CARS as on Week Days. SATURDAYS.
Extra cars at 1.30 and 11.45 pm. SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at the Company's Office, ALEXANDRA BUILDING), Das Vœux Road Central.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
Liquidators. Hongkong, 27th August; 1906.
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WHOLESALE And Retail DEALERS, in all kinds of APANESE FINE ART CURIOS, TEA
SETS, and SATSUMA WARE
At Moderate Prices.
Orders Promptly. Executed. No. 5, ARSENAL STREET. Hongkong, Hongkong, 18th April, 1906,
Advertisements for the Daily should reach the Hongkong Telegraph Office not later than noon of the day they are intended to appear.
Unless otherwise specified all advertisements will be repeated and charged for until counter
manded.
JOBBING DEPARTMENT,
Job Printing of all descriptions undertaken,
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CIRCULARS,*
ticoes sustained by massive pillars. He mar. vels at such constructions in a semi-trópical climate, and begins to think that he is among a queer people until he hears about the charac teristica and the habits of the typhoon. Should The chance to visit the colony during the season when this scourge likes to pay its annual visit and is unfortunate or fortunate enough to be present when it calls be will cease to marvel at the great granite structures beneath the barn. ing sun of the Far East.
In describing a typhoon an ancient writer has said :-"They rage with such intensity and fury that those who have never seen them can form no conception of them; you would say that heaven and earth' wished to return to | their original chaos "*.*.
The English colony now jokingly declar that the typhoon is largely of American manu, facture, for strangely enough Luzon and expe cially the vicinity about Manila is the main "Medicine Hat" of the China Sea. Formosa · runs a close second in the breeding of typhoons, but the Englishmen of Hongkong declare that everything bad, including typhoons, comes from Manila. The books say that the typhoon season is from May to November. As a matter of fact the latter part of August and the month of September belong to the typhoon. What the scientists say regarding the cause of typhoons will not greatly interest you after you have spent two weeks in Hongkong in the month of August. Then you know that is weather and nothing but the weather tha breeds typhoons. It is weather that breeds in saint and sinner alike a disposition compared to which vinegar is sweet. With A thermometer anywhere between 80 and 130," with a sun that comes straight down from, the heavens instead of slantwise, with an atmos phera which is on an average of '60 per cent water, with days that are awful and nights that are worse with a tongue swollen with thirst and no water drink except that which they tell you is microbe-ridden, It's small wonder that typhoons are bred. They come sweeping.... along the coast of the China Sea, spreading death and destruction, it is truo, in their path way, But nevertheless bringing welcome relief... from weather conditions which make demons of decent men and which are indescribable, and unbearable. To Hongkong, a typhoon means cool weather, and thus it is that they always prova a blessing though sometimes a
scourge.
One evening in August I sat on the deck of the steamer "Kin-Shan" on the way from Can- ton to Hongkong, watching the most gorgeous sunset I hadeversean. Soindescribably beautiful was it that it held one spellbound with admira tion. From the horizon to the centre of the FXFRESSFO, Vaulted dome of the heavens was afire with a weird and beautiful blend of colours. Just where the waters of the China Sea seemed to meet the sky, was a broad band of bright yel low, stretching far into the distance. Distinct.. ly outlined above this and yet nicely shaded into each other cams all the colours, of the spectrum. Through this mare of glorious colouring the outlines of the disc of the sun could be dimly seen as it seemed to be about to fail through its parti-coloured bed into the depits of the Yellow Sea
All job printing is done under Rumpean
supervision, well turned, our, free from errors,
and remarkably cheap at
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
OFFICE.
The sunsets of the Golden Gate of“Pugaţ Sound and of the Painted Desert_all put-to-
Estimates given for all classes of work on gether are not much when compared with that, application to
THE MANAGER,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH CO., LI
I, Ice Bonsa Road,
i- Hongkong,
are they?" demanded Captain Lossius. "Do you know what that is? Well it's a typhoon, We get that sunset every time that a typhoon starts and it always seems to me that Nature. in doing her best to fool poor mortale isto. a sense of security just as she is about to yût on one of her ugliest moods,”
The captain was right, for when we tied op to the Bund next morning above us in the big
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