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Shipping Steamers,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY JULY 9 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 to Days' Ocean Travel,

11 Days YOKOHAMA TO VANCOUVER 18 Days HONGKONG to VANCOUVEṚ..

Proposed SaiLINGS,

(Subject to Alteration), Ton's

ARKIVE VANCOUVER LEAVE HONGKONG R.M.S. 'ATHENIAN"

.............. 3, BB...... WEDNESDAY, July 17th Aug. 19th "EMPRESS OF INDIA 6,000......THURSDAY, Aug. Int............Aug."19th- "MONTEAGLE

6,163...... WEDNESDAY, Aug, rịth....................Sept. 7th "EMPRESS OF JAPAN ”...........6,000......THURSDAY, Aug, 29th... ....Sept. 16th "TARTAR..............4, 425................ WEDNESDAY, Sept. 11th...Oct. th "EMPRESS OF UHINA*........6,000......THURSDAY, Sept. 26th Oct. 14th

*EMPRESS steamers will depart from Hongkong at 4 P.M. Intermediate steamers at a Hoon.

†`H&'Quickest route to CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE, calling at 9HANC- HAI, NAGASAKI, (through the INLAND SEV OF JAPAN), KOBE, YOKOHAMA, and VICTORIA,"B.C., and af QUEBEC, with the Company's Now Palatial" EMPRESS " Steamships, 14.500 tons register. The through transit to LIVERPOOL being 21 days, from YOKOHAÄMA, and 29) days from HONGKONG.

Hongkong to London, 11f Class....vid St. Lawrence C66. Vid New York £61) HongKong to London, Intermediate.on

H

£30.

Steamen, and Ist Class on Rallwayt:

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

Passangers Booked through to all points and AROUND THE WORLD. SPECIAL RATES (First class only) granted to Missionaries, Members of the Naval, Milliary, Diplomatic and Civil Services, and to European Offcials la the Service of China and Tapan Governments.

For further information, Maps, Routes, Hand Books, Rates of Freight and Passage,

D. W. CRADDOCK, General Traffic Agent for China, apply to

Hongkong, 4th July, 1957.

***Cörnar Pedder Street and Praja.

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INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD.

·(Projected 'BaILINGS. FROM HONGKONG, -SUBJECT TO ALTERATION)

For

SHANGHAI VIA SWATOW,

TIENTSIN.................. SANDAKAN MANILA

Steamship

KWONGSANG{...WED'DAV, toth July, 4 PM.

CHRONGSHING THURSDAY, 11th July, 4 F. MAUSANG ↑ ......THURSDAY, 11th July, 4 P.M. ........... YUENSANG "......FRIDAY, 12th July, 4 Pošta

REDUCED FARES, TO STRAITS & CALCUTTA.

Hongkong to Singapore rst Class

Ponang. Calcutta

Single. Return.

130 250

*These Steamers have superior accommodation for First-class Passengers, and are fitted throughout with Electric Light. Taking Cargo os through Bills of Lading to Charoo, Tientsin, Nowchwang and Yaogiste Poris. Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to Kudat, Labad, Daly, Simporna, Tawao, Usukan,

Jesselton and Labune. For Freight or Passage, apply in

· Hongkong, 9th July, 1907..

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LD.,

General Managers.

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CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.

FOK

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

YOKOHAMA & KOBE...................................................... CEBU and ILOILO

SWATOW & SHANGHAI

HAIPHONG

- STRAM EXI

TO SAIL.

“ CHANGSHA"*1. roth July, 4 PM

OHINGTU "*

" KAIFONG "

IRE 1311

11

utaalam "YOCHOW"

"CHIHLI"

16th .. daylight.

* The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by these #eamers, which are fitted throughout with Electric Light. Onrivalled table. A doly qualified Surgeon is carried.

Forti

Taking Cargo on through, Bills of Lading to all Yangisie and Northern China Portai. Taking Cargo and Passengers at through Rates for all New Zealand and other Australian

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Hoogkungib July, 1997.

Steamship.

RUBI

ZAFIRO

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

AGENTS.

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HONGKONG MANILA.

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

CHINA AND

MANILA

STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

For

Topt Captain

2540 R. W. Almond..

2540 A. Fraser

MANILA

For Freight or Passago, apply to

Hongkong, 6th July, 1907

Salling Dates.

| Saturday, 13th July,

at Noon. SATURDAY, 20th July,

at Noon.

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,

GENERAL MANAGERS. -

Is

HONGKONG-NEW YORK.

S

A

AMERICAN ASIATIC

STEAMSHIP CO.

FOR NEW YORK via PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL

**: (With Liberty to Call at the ̧Malabar Coast),

To sail

·FRIDAY, 23rd August.

for Freight mad further information, apply to

SHEWAN,

ome, sth July, 2007,

Shipping Steamers.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.

159'Ocean Steamers

with

912,000

PASSENGER SERVICE.

WEATHER-FORKOASTS AND THE VIGIL OF THE DOWNS

STORM-WARNINGS ISSUED BROM THE HONGKONG OBSERVATORY.

METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALS,

Meteorological signals are hoisted on the mati biside the Time-ball at Kowloon Point for the information of matters of vessels leave ing the port. They do not necessarily imply that bad weather is expected herojm

Signal

No.

Rog. Tons.

A CONÈ ...`point upwards

KHENANIA,-HABSBURG-HOHENSTAUFEN.

HIGHEST COMFORT, ONLY

LOWER BERTHS

Laundry on board, Doctor, Stewardesses carried.", Ports of call; NAPLES, PLYMOUTH, HAVRE. NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.

Outward.

2

AICONE

point upwards o and DEUM below

DHUM

Homeward.

HABSBURG .............

and Aug..

Hongkong, zod July, 1907.'

SILESIA SCANDIA... HABSBURG

4th Sept. RHENANIA................. 4il Oct.

iath July. 7th Aug.

▲ O HE polat down.

warda And”. DBUM below

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A CONE potat down- wards

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.

REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE BETWEEN

HONGKONG, CALLAO

AND

IQUIQUE via JAPAN PORTS (KAR VTSU KOBE and YOKOHAMA).

REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE TO NEW YORK,

VIA, PORTS AND SUEZ (CANAL, ... (With Liberty To Call at Malabar Coast). PROPOSED SAilinos from Hongkỏng.

FOR BOSTON AND NEW YORK. '. $.S. "SAINT PATRICK1⁄4.....toth July,

ic

For Freight and further information, apply

DOUWELL & Co., LIMITED, Agents.

With option to call at MEXICAN and other Hoogkode, gih July, 1007.

Const ports. Steamers

Tons

To sail on. "KATHERINE PARK"...4,955. July 18; noen

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STEAM TO CANTON."

“KASATO MARU".......6,100 End of Sept. THE New Twin Screw Steel Breamers

Taking Freight and Passengers to other Eastern and Western Coast ports of South America in connection with Steamars of the Pacific S. N. Co..

For further information as to Freight and, Parmge, apply to

K. MÁTSDA,

Menager, York Building.

Hongkong, 27th June, 19077,

EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM. SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling at Timor, Port Darwin, and Queensland Ports, and taking through Cargo to Adelaide, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.}'

THE Steamship

"EMPIRE," Captain Helms, will be despatched as above, DO SATURDAY, the 27th July, at Noon..

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"KWONG TUNG" ...Cipt. B. 'W, WALKER. "KWONG SAI"......Capt. E. S. CROWE.

Leave Hongkong for Canton at 9 every evening, (Saturday excepted),

Leave Canton for Hongkong at 3.30 every evening, (Sunday-excepted).

These Fine New Steamers have unexcelled Accommodation for First Class Passengers and are lit throughout by Electricity. Electric Fans in First Class Cables..

Passage Fare Single Journey..............54.

·Meals stim

...S1.25 each

The Company's Wharf is situated in front of the New Westera Market, opposite the old Harbour Office.

YUEN ON S.S. CO, LD,"

and SHIT ON 5S. CO., LD.,

No, 8, Queen's Road West.

Hongkong, 3rd July, 1007

This well-known Steamer is specially fitted F. for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham

For Sale.

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BLACKHEAD & CO.,

ber which ensures the supply of Fresh Provi"SHIP CHANDLERS, SÄILMAKERS, sions, Ice, &c., throughout the voyage..

The Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric Light

▲ Stewardess and a duly qualified Surgeon are carried.

N.A.-To assure the additional comfort of passengers the meimers of the Company have electric fans fitted in staterooms.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 3rd July, 1907.

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NORTHERN PACIFIC LINE.

BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

Connecting at Tacoma with NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY

COMPANY.

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM · HONGKONG FOR VICTORIA, B.C., AND TACOMA,"

VIA ...

MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,

Steamer

TOLL

Captain. Sailing.

About Shawment"

506 E. V. Roberts 7th Aug, Tremont 4,606 T.W. Galick.. 10th Sept.

CHEAP FARES, EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION, ÁTTENDANCE AND CUISINE, ELECTRIC LIGHT, DOCTOR, AND STEWARDESS.

The twin-scrow Li, Shawmut and Tremont ́are fitted with very, superior socommodation for first, and second class, pusengers. - Thi

COAL AND PROVISION MER- CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS

AND GENERAL COMMISSON

AGENTS, GROUND FLOOR, -

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG, SOAP AND SODA MANUFACTURERS.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

HARTMANN'S RAHTJEN'S GENUINE COMPOSITION RED HAND BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY PAINT DAIMLER'S PATENT MOTOR LAUNCHES,

&c.

Sole Agenis for 'FERGUSON'S SPECIAL CREAM

and

P. & O. SPECIAL LIQUER SCOTCH' WHISKY, &c.

EVERY KIND OR

· SHII'S STORES AND REQUISITES

ALWAYS, IN STOCK.

NAT

REASONABLE PRICES. Hongkong, 7th March, 1907.-

COLD STORAGE.

6.

A [ONE point down-i wards and BALL below

7.

A BALL

8. A. CONE

point upwards ind BALL below.

indicatesa Typhoon to the North of the Colony.

EPSOM ON THE EVE OF THE DERBY,

„SCENES AND INCIDENTS-BRIÓKS, THE GREAT

RACE!

it was a sony árening for the campers out. lut night on Epsom: Down. Therd, was a blie in the air which was too reminiscent of Hermit's year, when the favourite, had chil- blains and soit. The Dawns were misty and the tramps and the gipsies and "the-r doleful, though all through the long evening

deram op the make” drifted dustify along its wluding white roads like diimal ghosts--has- gry und ibiraty kod tired. With thàní trával” - led strings of shaggy bosses, with heads down. and shoulders humped, as tired and as forlorn at their brown-skinned masters. It was a mournful procession, made more mournful now and again by the blat of broken winded I con indicates a Typhoon certinas, wheezing out the apologia for jestful to "the_Horfĥ-Kaat | music of thà "Hi-hi-bi!! comle music-ball of the Colony.

varifty. Up the long bill to the Downs, under the shadow of the derkening tress, the footsore dotsam and jetuam of good sportsmen mored, and the reek of shag smote the chill mie, 0)); There was an amazing number of small children in the

the, fuzzy

zzy crowd-some riding on to the last of the creaking old carts, drawn by creaking old

Indicatoa Typhoon

Colony,

horace, whose fosh any decently minded cat would refuse, no matter how daintily. It was skewered. Little boys, undergrown, in' body," indicate a Typhoon but shamefully overgrown in the knowledge to the fouth-East | and the blasphemies of this world,, fed regis of the Colony, ments of decayed mustangs along the way, and cursed them into proper marching order. “Altogether, it 'war: • Danteique picture, with the abandonment of hope, stamped hard on the. grim features of wearly everybody, from the four-year-old child to the Roman-posed, m lang sising one and twenty,

indicatesa Typhoon to the South of the Colony.

indicatera Typhoon to the feath-West of the Colony.

indicates a Typhoon to the Weat of the Colony,

indicates a Typhoon to the North-West of the Colony.

GENTLEMEN OF FORTUNE.“

Yet they were all out for the "great day- out for the shekels which were to be picked up on the Tom Tiddlar's ground of Epsom on the morrow. The ancient man with the. twisted face and three thimbles is his pocket was there, accompanied by his brow" |ther, whose nimbleness with "three play,

ing-cards-spread out tempilagly upon"the" concavity of a faded ombrella cam bia beer and bread and cheese and an odd sbilling or two to speculate on' the dire uncertainty of' a "daad cert"; the bent-legged man in the cust-off clothes of a jockey rubbed along with the throng with his pat, the Jackal, sumping behind, with a blackened inch of "fag" suck " like a pon behind his ear, greed on his fics, and the red flag of chronic'alcoholism flaunting at the base of his nose. These two gentlemen of fortune will be on the course to-day-ibe

. Red Signals indicate that the contre isjeckey selling fabulous fottuons for sixpence ■ believed to be more than 300 miles away fro the Colony.

Block Signals indicate that the centre is believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony.

time (from stable, information), and Mr. Jackal sdepking among the crowd and picking pockets

Itimid, merry world, mỹ,maiters,—on the road the night before Derby Day;_You_ kee all the fun of the fair "en deshabilla) bev The above signals will, as heretofore, before the curtain goes up on the most wonderful holsted only when typhoons exist in such sight in the world."

"IN CARAVAN TOWN, positions or are moving in such directions that information regarding them is considered to be of importance to the Colony or la shipping leaving the harbour.

These signals are repeated at the Harbour Office, H.M.S. Tamar, Green Island Signal Myst, and the Flagstaff on the premises of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company at Kowloon,

URGENT. SIGNAL.

1.

At the top of the hill the crowd; breaks away into multitudinous branches, and loses itself amid the mist, which bangs, smokily, over the Dowos. Here, in the cup of the, tableland,, a tows has sinthe strangest town you ever saw. For the most part it is a town of painted wood on wheels-Carrati Town. In a day or two some magician will swoop down, pack it all upon his magic carpet, and whink it sway into thin air, with all its strange sound and sights and smells. But on the eye of the Derby it is alive and solid and intensely real-Levertheless, if you sindd po the hill be Tatiopham Corner, and look down, it strikes you as a phantom picture, as filmy" and as changing as a dream. You can bear. 2|the thod, thud of unseen" beetle *** driving homa invisible stakes and test poga, the petul- antiqueals of horses, the jap of hungry dogs,

In addition to the above, when it is expected that the wind may increase to full typhoon force at any moment, the following Urgent Signal, will be made at the Water. Police Station, an! œpeated at the Harbour Office

THAKE EXPLOSIVE BOMBS, AT INTERVALS

OF TEN SECONDS.'

- A Black Cross will be hoisted at the same the wail of babies and brawlings of the tent- time, superior to the other shapes.

NIGHT SIGNALS.

Bwellers, married and unmarried, in bel hngry lives,

Walk down into this weird conglomeration The following Night Signals will be exhibit» } bf humans and beasis; and except for a tiny ad from the Flagstaff on the roof of the Waler beggar or so, no one will design to nolice Police Station at Kowloon, the Harbour Office yoo. "Harmless nomads, these," to a mig Flagstaff and H.M.S. Tamar,

and to a woman: Behind every van, trying. pins are sizing. Aromatically "with bacon,"

1. Three Lights Vertical, Green Green Green, indicates that a typhoon is believed to be situled more than 300 miles from the Colony,

H. Threa Lights Vertical, Green Red Green, indicates that a typhoon is believed to be situated less than 300 miles from the Colony.

......

1 Three Lights Vertical, Red Green Red, Indicates that the wind may be expected to ir crease to full typhoon force at any moment,

No, III. Signal will be accompanied by the Explosive Bomba, as above, in the event of the information conveyed by this signal being first published by night,

These Night Signals will be substituted for Lathe Day Signals at sunset, and will, when

necessary, be altered during the night.

SUPPLEMENTARY WARNINGS.

For the benefit of Native Craft and passing Ocean Vessels, a Cone will be exhibited at

THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, COLD STORAGE available at BAST POINT. LTD. have now 40,000 Cubic feet of Stores will be Open at toʻAM, nhỏ 4 PM. each of the following stations during the time daily, Sunday excepted, to receivse and defiver' that any of the above Day Signals are boised

perishable goods. '

WM PARLANE,

Manager,

Hongkong, 22nd Jess, 1993,

··LIMITED.

large sise of these vessels ensures steadiness GREEN 'ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, at sen, - Electric (a in each room. Barber's shop and stamm-laundry, Cargo, carried--in cold storage.

PORTLAND CEMENT,

PARCEL EXPRESS TO THE UNITED In Casks of 375 Bbw, zel #4,50 per Cask

STATES AND CANADA.

For further Information/apply to

DODWELL & Do"TIM

dich's Buildin

In Bage of #50*be: not 68.70 per Bag

SHEWAN, TOMES & O«,

Hongko

in the Harbour.

Gap Rock

Waglan.

Stanley,

Cape Collinson,

-Aberdean. Sai Kung Taj Fo.

This will indicate that there is a depression. somewhere in the Chine Sca, and that a Storm Waining is hosted in the Harbour, Me

Farther details can always be given lo Ocean |'Vesseli, on demand, by signal, from the light

house

27th May, 1907)

or bac" In the ple supper of the an-dweller. In the glare of a naphtha her arms and her shoulders over a pall of lamp a gipsy girl is unashamedly willing

*eaming water, with her black hair trailíngy? The light glints on her heavy metal caniogaz the rest of her barbaric dsery hangs on tie, Jaw door of the van—a scarlet neckerchics, no

·bodice of uliramarine and a 5pṛnish" brid=" dress of green and spangled gold. You may meet her this mornjoy, mesodiously imploring or the silver,which is to buy your fortune from her ruby lips, GA

ARCADIA AT FROM?

· Here are half a dozen dødkeys tethered in a bunch. They are talking to oss another in language of their kind; their eam wagi sem- hphorically, There's a wonderful wealth of Janguage in darɔwa, ging➡ifyou only know how it is a peaceful scene, Astadia at Epsom, wit to do it, as King Midas did, cons and monuiçð,, how and again the jan. Io of gipsy land break. Ing into it like tás 'harsh, cry of a "jay in * quiet wood. Far awaycare, the swiak- Bing lights of 'Epsom town, where they are I'making amerry against the morning! Epsom does not go to sleep on the night o highth--no fear! Wine runs, corks pap, Lles “ and legends of past victories and past tragedier imtold over and over again, fortunes are me and lost over pots of four alt, and there's.00)

bed to be had in the town for love or knonay 1BAY * But on the downs slaap comes sarly, tonihag caravans, in spite of the clamour of late arrivals sa, for to them, De by Day is the busirat of the 1 year, and it requires a keep brain if mankind ins to be cajoled or swindled or bested out of his led gold in the morrompellit RE NAWANA B-Far, far overheid, in the illimitable distance, (be sporting stars are already, shouting the odds to one srothers and if you look up. through a break in the difileg (clouds, And