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Shipping—Steamēts.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1907.

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COY.'S ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE.

Luxury-Speed-Punctuality.

The only Line that Maintains a Regular Schedule Service of under Eleven Days' across the Pacific is the Empress Line,” Saving 5 to 10 Days' Ocean Travel.

11 Daya YOKOHAMA TO VANCOUVER.

PROPOSED SAILINGS,

R. M.S.

"ATHENIAN"

18 Days HONGKONG Tẹ VANCOUVER.

(Subject to Alteration)..

Tons

LEAVE HONGKONG ARRIVE VANCOUVER "EMPRESS OF INDIA"......6,000......THURSDAY, February 14th March 4th

..............3,882...... WEDNESDAY, February 20th... March 16th 'MONTEAGLE

6,163...... WEDNESDAY, February 27th......March 23rd "EMPRESS OF JAPAN"......1,000......THURSDAY, March 14th............April 1st "TARTAR" ......

--- - -4,425 .............. WEDNESDAY, March 27th.........April 20th "EMPRESS OF CHINA"......6,0........THURSDAY, April 11th

April 29th "EMPRESS" steamers will depart from Hongkong si 4 P.3. Intermediate steamers at 17 Noon,

THE Quickest route to CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE, calling at SHANG-

THAL, SAGASAS, CArough the INLAND SEX OF JAPAN), KOBE, YOKOHAMA, and VICTORIA, B.C., connecting at VANCOUVER with a Special Mail Express, and at St. Joha, N.B., with the Company's New Palauial "EMPRESS" Steamships, 14,500 tons register. The through transit to LIVERPOOL being zz1 days, from YOKOHAMA, and 20 days from HONGKONG.

'Hongkong to London, rst Class.......vid St. Lawrence L6o. Vid New York £62.

Hongkong to London, Istemicdlate on

Shipping Steamers.

HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE.

PASSENGER SERVICE,

DY the new steamers HHNANTA," "HABSBURG," and "HOHENSTAUWEN," These steamer offer to the pustic the highest comfort yet attained in ocean ravelling. They are especialty buils or the trop ca with very large well ventilated, cabina, amidship, high:ed throughout by electricity, fans provided in each cabin. The berths are not stranged oue bore the other as it has been the fashion hitherto, but the staterooms clainly resemble ordinary sleeping rooms on shore, the births standing like beds at either side of the cabins. As a novelty, a number of cabins. are provided for single passengers. Phose steamers call at NAPLES and PLYMOUTH. In addition to the abovo sieumers, the s.o. “Silesia" and "SCANDIA" carry first' class passengers. Return Tickets issued at reduced Raies, throughtickets issued to NEW YORK via NAPLES, SOUTHAMPTON and HAMBURG.

NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.

Outward.

FOR SHANGHAI, KÓDE AND YOKOHAMA.

HABSBURG

* 3rd Afarch. RHENANIA ... 11 April.... HOHENSTAUFEN...30th April...

SILESIA

SCANDIA

..3fet May,

30th June.

Hongkong, 9th February, 1997.

COMPAGNIE DES 'MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

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Steamers, and 1st Class on Rallways.

€40.

£42. R.M.S. MONTEAGLE" "TARTAR" and "ATHENIAN" carry "Intermediate " Passengers only, at Intermediate rates, affording superior accommodation for that class.

Passengers Booked through to polats and AROUND THE WORLD. SPECIAL RATES (First class only) granted to Missionaries, Members of the Naval, Military, Diplomatic and Civil Services, sud to European Oficials in the Service of Chica THE Company's Steamship "TONKIN," and lapan Governments.

FOR SHANGHAI, KOBĘ AND YOKOHAMA

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apply to

Hongkong 1st January, 1927.

Homeward.

FOR THE STRAITS, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID. NAPLES, PLYMOUTH, HAVRE AND HAMBURG.

SAXONIA

........24th February SCANDIA *...16th March. SLAVONIA. 20th March. BRASILIA. ....24th March, HABSBURG

5th April," BELGRAVIA............. 19th April,

* Call at Lisbon.

To Let.

TO LET.

No. 6, PEDUAR'S HILL, comprising of 5 Rooms with Out-houses, occupation

Entimation.

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BOSE 1 One wine-glass after the two principal media,

~ Each bottle of genuine, VIN SAINT-RAPHAËL bears, in addition

to the registered trade-mark :

(1) The WARRANTY STAMP of the UNION DES FARMIJÀNTO,

.. (1) ́A METAL SEAL advertiging CLNTMAS.

CLETEAS

is & MELISSA and MINT cordial which surpasses all others by its

purety and faultless preparation. To be taken on 'a lump of sugar, COMPAGNIE dụ VIN BAINT-MAPKAEL, Valence (Drôme-Franor), CALDBECK MAUGREGOR & Co, Hongkong.

A MYTH OF THE ARCTIC,

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.

INTELLECTUAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO UNIVERSITIES.

The Oxford mould dues seem to press more

It was proved by Peary, in his long journey westward along the coast of Greenland last spring, that the Paleocrystic Sen dees not! exist. It was thirty years ago that the world heavily and durably upon the unformed charac- first heard" of it. When Nares sailed up ter than the Cambridge mould. Oxford, to through the Smith Sound channels to the put it differently, is the more organic university Arctic Ccean he saw, instead of the open sea of the two; a Cambridge man is somewhat less that Kane had reported, an ocean blanketed prone than an Oxford man to regard himself with floe ice deeply covered with snow. Ris. as a part of a great whole that is something. were huge masses of ice, not at all like the That is why one hears, for good or evil, much ROOYS on Second Floor of Victoria Build-Greenland icebergs with sharp paints and more about the Oxford manner than about ing, No. 5, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

irregular domes; but presenting vertical walls the Cambridge manner "; that also one con- Apply to-

and flat upper surfaces like the enormous Jectures to be the reason why Cambridge, for

·DAVID SASSOON & Co, LD: cubic blocks of ice that are seen in Aptarctic all its lack of the " enchantments of the middle Hongkong, 4th February, 1907. (197

ages," has produced greater poets-and also.

For further information, Maps, Routes, Hand Banks, Rates 1 Frolght and Passages Captain Charbonnel, will be despatched as ROAD including a Strong Room and Servanting here and there, above the general level more than the sum of its component items.

D. W. CRADDOCK GA! Traffic Agent for China

Corner Pedder Street and Proya, Tan

It

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD.

(PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG,-SUBJEct to Alteration),

For

MANILA....

SHANGHAI

Steamship

On

YUENSANG* .....SATURDAY, 16th Feb., 4'T.M. ...KWONGSANG) „WEDNES, zoth Feb, daylight, SGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA.KUMSANG * *......MONDAY, 18th Feb., 3 P.M.

TIENTSIN...pen

CHEONGSHING".SATURDAY, 23rd Feb., 4 P.M..

* Tbara Steamers have superior accommodation for First-class Passengers, and are filted throughout with Electric Light,

+ Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to Chefoo, Tientsin, and Yangtze Ports.

above, on or about MONDAY, the 18th inst.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent Hongkong, 12th February, 1967.

ORIENTAL PACIFIC LINE.

MONTHLY SERVICE FROM HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO, VIA KOBE AND Yokohama. HE Steamship

THE

"DAKOTAH".

"................................About 25th February. For Freight and further particulars, apply to.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

Agents.

Hongkong,atst January, 1997.

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EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED..

For Freight or Passage, apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON

CO.,

General Managers,

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Hongkong, 15th February, 1907.

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., "LIMITED.

FOR

MANILA.................................

SHANGHAL...

CEBU and ILOILO

MANILA, ZAMBOANGA, PORT DAR-Y WIN, THURSDAY ISLAND, COOK. TOWN, CAIRNS. TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE,SYDNEY & MELBOURNE.

STEAMERS,

TO SAIL

*TEAN** *.......... 19th February, 4 p.m.

19th ++

** KIUKIANG"

" SUNGKIANG"*. 26th

" TSINAN "

8th March,

↑ Taking Cargo on through Bils of Lading to all Yangiste and Northern China Ports.

• The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Stiperior Accommodation offered by these Ateamers, which are fitted throughout with Electric Light. Unrivalled table, A duly qualified Surgeon is carried.

I Taking Cargo and Parsonkers at through Rates for all New Zealand and other Australian tons.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Hongkong, 15th February, 1907:

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

ACENTS.

HONGKONG MANILA.

Highest Class, newest, fastest and most luxurious Steamers | between Hongkong and Manila-Saloon amidships-Electric Light-Perfect Cuisine-Surgeon and Stewardess carried. -All the most up-to-date arrangements for comfort of Passengers,

AND MANILA CHINA

STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

Steamship.

Tons. Captalo,

ZAFIRO

ROBI....

R. Rodger... 2540

2549 R. Almond......

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Hongkong, 11th February, 1907.

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For

FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling at Port Darwin and Queensland Ports, and taking through Cargo to

Adelaide, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.} .'

HE Steamship

"EASTERN," Captain McArthur, will be despatched as above, on SATURDAY, the 2nd March, at Noon: .ན་

fram 1st proximo.

GROUND FLOOR of No. 4, DES VEUX

Quarter.

NOS

· TO LET

OS. 4 and 16, LEIGHTON HILL ROAD.

Apply to-

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

No. 8, Queen's Road West, Hongkong, 22nd January, 1907.

TO LET.

FORK BUILDING.

FFICES in KING'S

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BUILDING and

A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE.

·GÓDOWNS on PRAVA EAST,

waters,

Nares therefore changed the name of this greater novelisis than Oxford. The original fiterary artist is, from the academic point of part of the Arctic Ocean from the Open Sea view, a freak; and the freak seems to breath

to the Paleocrystic Sea, or in other words, the sea of ancient ice. Freely found Inter me freely on the Cam than on the Isis. that while the park ice rarely exceeds seven or eight feet in thickness.many of these erratic blocks were from ninety to nine hundred feet

thick.

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These things or rather, the reasons for them-are mysteries; but, in so far as the differences between the two universities are intellectual, one may perhaps find a partial ex- planation which both universities will admit, Greely also discovered that these masses Ai Cambridge, where the mathematics prevail, were not composed of frozen sea water but a man is merely taught how to think; at Ox- that they originated on the land. The theory ford, where philosophy is the medium, he is was adduced that they were formed on com also liable to be told what to think, paratively level plains and were pushed for The antithesis, of course, must not be pushed ward into the sea and set adrift as ice rafts. too far; but it explains a good deal neverthe- For many years there, was much speculation less. It explains, for instance, the Oxford as to their place of origin and the distribution movements. Oxford thinks collectively, and therefore we find everybody at once toying

A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, Conover this part of the Arctic Ocean.

duit Road.

A HOUSE in Wong-nei-cuong ROAD. FLATS in MORETON TERRACE.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LANÚ INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO, LD. Hongkong, 15th February, 1907.

TO LET.

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This well-known Beamer is specially fitted for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham ber, which ensures the supply of Fresh. Provi-EUROPEAN SHOPS, OFFICES, and GODOWNS (suitable for Dry Goods Storage) at No. 14, Des Voeux Road Central, (formerly occupied by Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.

Apply to-

sions, Ice, etc, throughout the voyage..

This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric Light

A Biewardess and a duly qualified ́ Surgeon are carried.

N.B.-To assure the additional comfort of passengers the steamers of the Company have electric fans fitted in, staterooms,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agebis. Hongkong, 29th January, 1907.

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*.

.

HỌ TUNG, Compradore Department,

Jardine, Matheson & Co. Hongkong, 26th September, 196,

TO LET.

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REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE TO NEW YORK,

VLA PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL, (With Liberty to Call at Malabar.Coast),

PROPOSED Salangs from HÔNGKONG

FOR NEW YORK. S.S."MUNCASTER CASTLE".2th March. S.S. "LOWTHER CASTLE"...21st March.

*This sleamer has excellent Saloon Accom- modation for First-class Passengers at mode: rate rates..

Salling Dates.

to

For Freight and farther information, apply

"HE Premises known as No. 199, WANCHAI ROAD, now occupied by Messrs. Macdonald & Co.'s Engineering Works. Possession, 1st February, 1957. Apply to-

Peary has now shown that the place of ori with Ramanism, or embracing Liberalism, or gin of these prodigious, flat-topped masses pelting Herbert Spencer with neo-Hegelian of ice is not far to seek. As he went Gest-missiles, or living up to blue china, or founding ward on his journey to complete the survey Oxford settlements in the East End in order to of the Grant Land coast he discovered that introduce the higher life to the lower orders to the west of Cape Heels all the shore Cambridge, on the contrary, thinks-individual- are covered with a continuous glacial massy, and so.escapes the contagion of all such having a width of from one to fifteen miles transitory enthusiasms. Individual ambridge This extensive ice formation has no enormes men- may be stirred by iliem, but Cambridge elevation, bot every headland is buried under As an oraganism is not.

Our antithesis again may account for the it and all the bays are filled with it; and from its outer edge in summer huge fields of the ice difference between Oxford and Cambridge break off, forming the so-called paleocrystic journalism, and between Oxford and Cam- Roes. As the current is to the east they are bridge theology. floated away to the Lincoln Sen, where Nares gravitates towards the editorial staff of the Times, to become the mouthpiece of corporate and Greely saw such numbers of them,

NEW YORK'S NEW OPERA-

|

The Oxford press man

Peary's 'discovery increases the probability opinion; the Cambridge press man prefers a that, as has beer conjectured, the higher masses position of greater freedom and less respon- 47 of this glacial ice are formed by enormous ice sibility on the staff of Punch. Similarly with religion. The Oxford clergy incline to ritualism, pressure which crushes some of the blocks and while defying the Bishops and the Court of together and forces others under the mass. A Arches, profess the profoundest severence for any rate they are at of ancient origin, and the

|ths` vague collectivity which they call the name Paltocrystic Sea is a misnomer.

Church;_the_Cambridge clergy_more_readily" topt the anarchical principles of the latitu dinarian and evangelical schouls of thought.

Similarly with metaphysics. "The difference between the Cambridge man who knows how to think and the Oxford man who knows-or thinks he knows-what to think, is perhaps "Elevators to the left and right lead to the more conspicuous in this than in any other loyer and boxes, and two staircases at the ex-branch of human study. Lisadly speaking. FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES at PRAVA treme ends lead to the second and third bal-one may say that in the matter of philosophy

EAST, Dear East Point,

conies of the Manhattan Opera-house. The Oxford produces the missionary and Cam main auditorium rises from its structural base bridge the sceptic. The typical Cambridge · through a peristyle, containing forly proscenium philosopher is Heary Sidgwick-a most scute boxes, supported by columns, which also act thinker, who never knew what to think' dalil as the supporting base for a semicircle of lages the end of his days, and then inclined to the view and the two balconies above. The prosce that there probably was more in the methods Dium boxes are crowned at either side of the of Mr. Sludge than in those of either. Koat or

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 4th January, 1907,

Apply to-

TO LET.

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

TO LET.

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HOUSE...

DUDWELL & CO., LIMITED. NO.1, WEST END TERRACE, Shameen, stage with a superstructure rising sighty feet Hegel. The typlenl Oxford philosopher is T.

Agents.

Hongkong, 29th January, 1007.

MANILA

仆

SATURDAY, 16th Feb.,.

at Noon, Saturday, 23rd Feb,

at Noon,

For Sale.

SHEWAN, TOMÈS & CO.,

GENERAL MANAGERS,

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HONGKONG NEW YORK.

AMERICAN ASIATIC

STEAMSHIP CO.

{"FOR NEW YORK via PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL..

(With. Liberty to Call at the Malabar Coast).

Steamship "LOWTHER CASTLE"

For Frolght and further information, apply to

Hongkong, xyth January, 1907,

Arrival ................ The end of January.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

'Geisrel' Agents..

--NIKKO CO.

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A HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Q., LD. Hongkong. 31st July, rŋo6. '

AN APPEA Lv

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•HE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN TH

CONVENT, Caine Roan, begs most respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong and the Coast Ports, for their kind patronage and support, and desires to state tha! ibe will be pleased to receive order for all kinds of NEEDLE WORK,

Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuff

and Collars renewed on old ones orbing, Gan. dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery, | Materials can be supplied; if required

The Superioress will also, be most grateful for any PAPER, or old ENVELOPES to be made loto Books for the Children of the Poor Schools, who are taught by the Slaters.

Hongkong, aand April, 1891,

above the orchestra floor, and designed to form H. Green, to whom, even when one had the a background for two sculptured figure groups, greatest difficulty in understanding · him, one representing enius, flinked by the arts always felt templed to apply the line: "He *Painting and Sculpture! The main ceiling, knows about it all; he knows; he knows, and Too feet high, with a shallow dome, elliptic-in connection with whose teaching the Oxfoɣd al in shape; forms a background, for the Spectator circulated the report that the "Abs main sculptured group of nine figures, solute" had been "got into a comer,"

elsewhere.

in the centre of which are Orpheus and the muses, Euterpe, Calliops, Melpomene

Ships Passed The Canal. and Terpsichore: The centre of the gold 22nd January-Benglos, Flintshire, Dinčígs ellipse incloses a painting in allegory contain hall, Glaucus, Manila, 20th January-Fac ing upward of forty figures, suggesting music Radnorshire, Slavonia, Suevia, Tonkin, Print Eitel Friedrich, Kamakura Mars. Print attended by various allegorical deities. The Allie. 29th January-Kouang St, Poly main electrolier contains 1,000 lamps. Twenty- phemus, Teenhal, Breconshire, Drumgelik, four minor electroliers augment the necessary Elkantara, Glenstrae, Rasdara, St. Domingo, illumination for the auditorium and ceiling, St. Patrick. 1st February-C. Ferd Lotit, Calchat, Dardanus, Verona, Yarra, Namur, and 5,000 incandescent lamps are distributed Nile, 5th Febinary-Dentaters, Bexlemend

Kiemun, Parsta, Alderney, Blutcrois, Habs- "The proscenium frame is surmounted by a barg, Liberia, Siberien, 8th February-Cay. mural painting 60 x 20 feet, sei in a tympanum, Sanuki Maru, Amberton, Bellerophon, Hohen

Ion, Antenor, Bruest Simont, Hitachi Maru, Herein are represented the operas at the staufen, Kwongeng, Prins Ludwig, Vandalia, shrine of the goddess Music, More than 109 12th February—Neptuno, Kirakarsog; Franu figures are shown in the various operatic Ferdinand,

scheme of

Arrivals January-Poly- Characters the style of nous decorails and meth, Sithonia, Trieste, Pelly-Poly pold. gth January-Mertonetkakire, Myami- vailing colors are mural grounds of deep red dos. a8th January-Masagen, zoth January with decorations in contracting shades of buff-Rhenania, 1st February-Glanavon, Prins tias, relieved in ornaments in gold. The pro- Ellet Friedrich, Yeddo, Benmohy, Braemar, scenfump frame is treated in gold throughout.

Pak Ling.4 February-Formota. 5th February-Kennebec, Segovia, Yarra, Kanse The proportions of the stage are 97 × 175 kura Maru. 17th Febmpry-Glaucus, Slam, Jaat”—New York ́Foming Post,

Elkantara,,