Shipping-Steamers.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY AUGUST 71907.
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COY'S
ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE.
Luxury-Speed-Punctuality.
The only Line that Maintains a Regular Schedule Service of under. Elavan Days across the Pacific is the "Empress Lino." Saying 5 to so Days' Ocean Travel
11 Days YOKOHAMA TO VANCOUVER
"
PROPOSED Sailings, R.M.S.**
Tons
18 Days HONGKONG TO VANCOUVER.
(Subject to Alteration). LEAVE HONGKONG". ARRIVE VANCOUVER , MONTEAGLE"
..6,163......WEDNESDAY, Aug 14th... .....Sept. 7th "EMPRESS OF JAPAN"......6,000......THURSDAY, Aug, 29th....... "TARTAR".....
-4425..............WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1th
...Sept. 16th
Oct 5th
.Oct. 14th
EMPRESS OF CHINĄ"......6,09.................THURSDAY, Sept. 26th..... ATHENIAN......... 3,882...... WEDNESDAY, Oct. 9th............Nov, and "EMPRESS OF INDIA".......6,000...... THURSDAY, Oct. 34th......Nov. 11th
EMPRESS" steamers will depart from Hongkong at ̧4 P.M.'
Intermediate steamers at 12 Noon.
"HE Quickest route to CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE, calling at SHANG- TAGGART, (through the INLAND SEA OF JAPAN) KOBE, YOKOHAMA and VICTORIA, B.C., and at QUEBEC, with the Company's New Palatial "EMPRESS " Steamships, 14,500 tons register. The through transit to LIVERPOOL being zx days, from YOKOHAMA, and 29) days from 11ONGKONG,
Hongkong to London, 1st Class...........vid St. Lawrence 60. Vid New York £62. Hongkong to London, Intermediate on
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 all poluts and AROUND THE WORLD.. SPECIAL RATES (First class only) granted to Missionaries, Members of the Naval, Military, Diplomatic and Civil Services, and to European Officials in the Service of Chips and Japan Governments...
Shipping Steanters."
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
159 Doean Steamers
with
912,000
Br. Reg. Tons,
PASSENCER SERVICE.:
RHENANIA,-HABSBURG, HOHENSTAUFEN,-SILESIA,~SCANDIA.
HIGHEST COMFORT, ONLY
LOWER BERTHS.
Laundry on board, Doctor, Stewardessss carried.
Ports of call: NAPLES, PLYMOUTH, HAVRE, HAMBURG.
NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.
Outward.
RHENANIA
SILESIA
1st Oct,
2nd Nov,
Hongkong, 7th August, 1907,
FOR NEW YORK. (With liberty to call at the Malabar Coast),
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For further information, Maps, Routes, Hand inoks, Rates ni Freight and Passage,
D. W. CRADDOCK, General Traffic Agent for China, apply to
Hongkong, 1st August, 1957.
Corner Peddler Street and Präya.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD.
(PROJECTED HAILINGS FROM Hongkong-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION)..
For
Steamship
Un
SAMARANG and SOURABAYA........................ONSANG THURSDAY, 8th Aug, Noon.. SGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA LAISANG * TURSDAY, 8th Aug. 3 P.M. MANILA... YUENSANG......FRIDAY, 9th Aug., 4 P.M.
[WINGSANG) ......SATURDAY, toth Aug,, 5-P;M. - SHANGHAI
REDUCED FARES TO STRAITS & CALCUTTA,
Hongkong to Singapore 1st Class
Penang +1
Calcutta
JI
....$ ö
**65*
Single. Return.
$100 - 130 250
These Steamers have superior accommodation for "First-class Passengers, and pre filled
throughout with, Electric Light.
Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to Chalon, Tientsin, Newchwang and Yangtsie Ports.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
Hongkong, 7th August, 1907:
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LD.,
General Managers.
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CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.
FOR
HOIHOW and HAIPHONG
SWATOW & SHANGHAI
SWATOW & CHINKIANG.............................. **ICHANO"* TSINGTAU, CHEFOO & NEWCHWANG... "KWEIYANG'
STEAMERE
* OHITLI " "KASHING'
TO SAIL 8th Aug,, daylight.
4 P.M.
9th
10th
SWATOW, AMOY & SHANGHAI
***BHANST'
Tath
JAYA...
"SHANTUNG'
13th
MANILA..........
• TAMING",
13th
HAIPHONG
"HUPEH "
14th
SWATOW, CHEFOO & TIENTSIN
"HUICHOW"
14th
4 P.M.
15th
YOKOHAMA & KOBE
MANILA, ZAMBOANGA, PORT DAR-Y
WIN, THURSDAY ISLAND, COOK. TOWN,
CAIRNS,
TOWNSVILLE,
BRISBANE, SYDNEY & MELBOURNE)
"TBINAN
* TAIYUAN"
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anylight.
*The Attention of Passengers is directed in the Superior Accommodation offered by these teamers, which are Guted throughout with Electric Light. Unrivalled table. A daly qualified Surgeon is carried.
Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to ali Yaugisze and Northern China Ports. 1 Taking Cargo-and. Passengers at through Rates for all New Zealand and other Australian tons,
For Freight or Pastage, apply to
!
kingkong, 7th August, 1997.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
AGENTS.
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HONGKONG MANILA.
THE Steamship
"TUDOR, PRINCE," Captain McDougall, will be despatched for the above Port, on or about THURSDAY, the 15th August.
For Freight, apply to
ARNHOLD, KARBERG-&-Go, — Agents..
1671. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1957,
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
Salling,
MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
Steamer. Tous. Captain,
Shawmust... 9,606 E. V.. Roberts15th Aug. Tremenst... 9,606 T. W. Garlick.roth Sept. Suverte*
'Est Oct. Kumeric"
5th Oct.
* Cargo only. Very superior accommodation for first and second class passengers. The large size of these vessels ensures steadiners at ICE.
Electric fan in each room, Barber's shop and steamdoundry. Cargo carried in cold storage, CHEAP FARES, EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATIÓN, ATTENDANCE AND CUISINE, ELECTRIC
LIGHT, DOC/OR AND STEWARDESS.
The twin-screh 1.2. Shawerut and Tremont are fitted with very superior accommodation for first and second class passengers. The farge size of these vessels ensures steadiness at sea. Electric fan in each room. Barber's shop and steam-laundry. Cargo carried in cold storage.
PARCEL EXPRESS TO THE united STATES AND CANADA. For further Information, apply to
General Agents. Queen's Buildings.
"Hongkong. 6th August, 1907
*SOUTH AFRICAN" LINE OF STEAMERS,
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,
Highest Class, newest, fastest and most luxurious Steameri between Hongkong and Manila.-Saloon amidships-Electric THE Light-Perfect Cuisine---Surgeon and Stewardess carried, -All the most up-to-date arrangements for comfort of Passengers.
CHINA AND MANILA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
For
Steamship.
Tous. Captain.
2540 Almond
MANILA
2540 Fraser
·For Freight or Passage, apply to
RUBI
ZAFIRO
Hourkane, 3rd August, 1907.
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FOR DURBAN, Steamship
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'HELIOPOLIS," Caplain Martin, will be despatched as above on or about zoth August.
For Freight, apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents. Hinavkong, 35th July, 1906,
FOR VLADIVOSTOCK.
Salling Dates,
THE Steatnship
SATURDAY, 10th Aug.
at Noon. SATURDAY 17th Aug,
at Noon.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,
GENERAL MANAGERS.
fs
HONGKONG-NEW YORK.
AMERICAN · ASIATIC
STEAMSHIP CO.
FOR NEW YORK via PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL.
'To Jail
(With Liberty to Call at the Malabar Coast),
„FRIDAY, 23rd August.
Steamship
·ABERLOUR ".........
For Freight and further information, apply "to
Hongkong, sth July, 1907.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Grewal agents.
1688
"VINE BRANCH," will be despatched as above on or about 10th September,
For Freight and further Particulars, apply to
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,
Agenta. Hongkong, 3rd August, 1907.
·{717.
STEAM TO CANTON.
HE New Twin Screw Steel Bicamers:
THE
...Capt. U. W. WALKER. la } “KWONG TUNG"
"KWONG SAI" ......Capt. E. S. Crowe,.
Leave Hongkong for Canton at 9` every evening, (Saturday excepted).
Leave Canton for Hongkong at 5.30 every evening, (Sunday excepted)..
These Fios New Steamers have unexcelled Accommodation for First Class Passengers and ara lit throughout by Electricity. Electric Fans in First Class Cabins,
Passage Fare-Single Journey ...........$4. Meals ...............51,25. each The Company's Wharf is situated in front of the New Western Market, opposite the old Harbour Office."
YUEN ON 8,5; CO., LD.,
and
SHIV ON &S. CO, LD,
-No, &, Quaan's Road West,
Hongkong, zed July, 1907,
WEATHER FORLUASTS AND STORM-WARNINGS ISSUED
FROM THE HONGKONG OBSERVATORY.
METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALB
-Meteorological signals are hoisted on the mast in front of the Water Police Station at Tsim Sha Tsui for the information of masters of vessels leaving the port. They do not necessarily imply that bad weather is expected Thero :—
Signi No.
A,COME point upwards
A CONE polat upwards and LLUM below
A DRUM
A COME poiut down. w.rds and DRUM below
Homeward.
*4.
HABSBURG
RHENANIA
* 4th Sept.
******** 4th Oct,
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A'CONE paint down.. wards
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.
REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE BETWEEN
HONGKONG, CALLAO
AND
IQUIQUE via JAPAN PORTS
· (KARATSU, KOBE and YOKOHAMA). With option to call at MEXICAN and other Coast ports. Steamer
To sail on Tons "GLENFARG" *: ....................3,500. Middie of Aug. *KASATO MARU”..............6,100..End of Sept.
Taking Freight and Passengers to other Eastern and Western Coast ports of South, America in connection with Steamers of the Pacific S. N. Co.
* Passenger only. For further information as to Freight and Passage, apply to
K. MATSDA, Manager,
York Building..
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Hongkong, 16th July, 1907. REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE TO NEW YORK,
VIA PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL,'. (With Liberty to Call at Malabar Coast)
PROPOSED Sailings from HonakONG,
"FUK NEW YORK. . s.s." SATSUMA"
7th Sept. FOR BOSTON AND NEW YORK, S.S, "GHAZEE" ... 14th Sept.
For Freight and farther Information, apply
DODWELL & Co., LIMITED. Agents. Hoogkong, 30th July, 1907.
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For Sale:
FOR SALE.
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“WO VERY VALUÂBLE PIECES OF
TOLANDED PROPERTY situate at
CANTON near the Hongkong, Cacion and | Macao Steamboat Company's wharf and facing the river. Title Deeds can be seen at the office of the undersigned.
For further particulars, apply to~
"GOLDRING and BARLOW, Solicitors,
6.
A LONE -point down.
wards and BALL below
A BALL
8A COME
point upwards and BALL below
indicatesa Typhoon to the North of the Colday.
indicates a Typhoon. to the North-East of the Colony.
indicates a Typhoon
to the Fast of the Colony.
indicatesa Typhoon to the South-East of the Colony.
indicatesa Typhoon to the South of the Colony.
indicatesa Typhoon to the Eonth-West
of the Colony.
indicatesa Typhoon to the West of the Colony.
"indicates a Typhoon to the North-Weat of the Colony.
Red Signals indicate that the centre is believed to be more than 300 miles away from the Colony.
Black Signals indicate that the centro is believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony.
The above signals will, as heretofore, be hoisted only when typhoons exist in such positions or are moving in such directions that information regarding thèm is considered to be of importance to the Colony or to shipping leaving the harbour.
THE GAME OF BRIDGE
'HOW IT 18′′ POSSIBLE TO CHEAT
BY AN EXPERT CARD PLAYER
That bridge is the most delightful card game ever invented all those who have penetrated into its mysteries, and have felt their spirits stirred by the stress and excitement of no trumps, doubled and redoubled, or benite at sixty-four trick, will readily admit,
But it has one very serious defect. It is pain-- fally easy to cheat at it. One in entirely at the mercy of an unscrupulous apponent, for the than who is so minded can, by unfair means, secure advantages for his side, which the skill of the finest players in the world would fail to counterbalance. I do not say that chesting is at all common at the bridge table, or that bridge players yield more readily to temptation thao other people-neither supposition is borne out by my own experience, but it is possible to play the game unfairly, and, of course, there are black sheep in every flock.
DIFFICULTY OF "FAKING
Now, there are divers ways in which a man may cheat at bridge if he pleases. In the frit place, if he is the possessor of sufficient leger demain, he may "fake" the cards, dealing him self and his partner better hands than their opponents. But this form of cheating' is not easy, and would only be practised by a com- mon swindler; moreover, it may safely be asserted that anyone who "faked" the cards at bridge or any other game would be found. 'out sooner or later. Chests of this kind are! observed to win habitually, are watched and detection follows as a matter,of course. After that their cardplaying days as over.
Again, it is very much larder to cheat in a club, where there are sure to be one or two on- lookers, tban is a private house or rooms where there may be none. Under the latter con- dition marked cards may be introduced, with far less difficulty, or a carefully selected party of" rooks" may have congregated by arrange ment to pluck one confiding pigeon. This sort of thing has probably been done ilmes without number, but one does not hear of it. The plucked one, as a rulé, pays up, half-suspecting that he has been "done" perhaps, and bides his discomfiture from his friends. - But-in ja club-unless it be an extremely disrepptable one-it may be taken for granted that tamper- ing with the implement of the game is possible, and the company cannot be selected. "More. over, it is very unlikely that a player who would resort to these methods could ever obtain ad- mission, for a man must have sunk pretty low before he turns his hand to this sort of busi»
ness,
How is it possible to swindle in a club, then ?" the reader will ask; or a private house. of a respectable character." The answer is: In a variety of ways.
PRAPING TOMS."
The simplest, perhaps, is to look over your apponents' hands, see whất cardi they hold, and finesse accordingly... This is the easiest thing in the world, and some players do it. habitually-or, at least, they have acquired this unfortunate reputation and are greatly to be pitied if they do not deserve it. Why, there was a member of a card club I wot of who went by the name of "Peeping Tom" on account · These signals are repeated at the Harbour of this propensity? People naturally avoided. Office, H.MS: Tamar, Green Island Signal his society as much as they could, and, when Mist, and the Flagstaff on the premises of the obliged to play with him, held their cards close... Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godownty packed together, with only the Indicators Company at Kowloon.
showing, after the fashion of an expert poker player on an Atlantic liner.
URGENT SIGNAL
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But a subtler and more prevalent form of In addition to the above, when it is expected that the wind may increase to full typhoon fairness consists in giving improper indica force at any moment, the following Urgent tion as to the contents of the hand-indica Signal will be made at the Water Police tions which, if acted upon by the player's paris. Station, and repeated at the Harbour Officer, cannot fail to prejudice the other side. it is using rather a harsh term, perhaps, to cail this cheating, but it is cheating if it is dine deliberately And the unfortunate thing is that a partner may quite unconsciously allow himself to be swayed by information conveyed. in this manner, and so become an innocent confederate of the cheat,
THIREK EXPLOSIVE ROMBS, at intervals OF TEN SECONDS.
من الي
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A Black Cross will be hoisted at the same Aime, superior to the other shapes.
NIGHT SIONALS.
The following Night Signals will be exhibit. ed from the Flagstaff on the roof of the Water to, Queen's Road Central.
Police Station at Kowloon, the Harbour Office Hongkong, azad May, 1907.
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flags fl, and H.M.S. Tamar,
HUMBER
CYCLES.
1. Three Lights Vertical, Green Green Green, indicates that a typhoon is believed to be situated more than 300 miles from the Colony, 1. Three Lights Vertical, Green Red Green, indicates that a typhoon is believed to be situated less than 300 miles from the Colony.
11. Three Lights Vertical, Red Green Red,
increase to full typhoon force at any moment.
THE BEST IN THE indicates that the wind may be expected to
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If the dealer hesitates a long time before, Pissing the declaration, and; when he at leat does so, dummy declares no trumps, or hearts on an absuidly weak hand, you may be sure that there is a screw loose so-newke e." One or both of your opponents are "having you on," and you had better refuse to play with them next time they ask you, being palité but firm in your refusal,
LADIES WHO “brighten us.".
It is, I know, a very ungalfant, thing to Bay, bul the ladies are greater offenders than the men in this matter. Excellently as they have learned to play bridge, during the last year
or so, there are one or two little points of etiquette which they habitually ignore.......... It is No, III Signal will be necompanied by the unfair, for instance, for the dealer's partner, ou Explosive Bombs, as above, in the event of the | looking through her hand, sud ́enly, to brighten information conveyed by this signal being fi*** | up, and ask eagerly, who dealt. If the has published by nigh*.
These Night Signals will be substituted for the Day Signals at sunset, and will, when Becessary, be altered during the night,
*SUPPLEMENTARY WARNINGS,
For the benefit of Native Craft and passing Ocaan Vessels, a Cona will be exhibited at each of the following stations during the time that any of the above Day Signals are hoisted to the farbour.
Gap Rick
Waglan.
Stanley.
Aberdeen.
Sau Ki Wan. Sai Kung. -Sha Tau Kol, *Tai Po..
really forgotten who deak, andshinks she may have done so.herspil, she should 'wait until her memory is refreshed by one of the other players, or until her partner speaks. The question is too much of a cun for the latter to pass the call and should always ) a, answered with a defence spade.
Again, the player wùn, when a trump has been declared, looks at the score before asking if he may play, or before-giving, his partner permission to play, as the case may be, marks himself with a strong suit of trumps. Tho player who pauses perceptibly before follow: ing suit with a small card, when a king in led, shows that he is holding up the ace, The- player who, when forced" to "discard": from strength, instead of from weakness, at, po This will indicate that there is a depression trumps, squirms about in his chair before mak somewhere in the China Sea, and that a Storming up his mind what card to throw, tells his Warning is holsted in the Harbour.
partner exactly what he is doing.
All these are cases in which an improper Further detalls can always be given to Oceaadvantage is taken of the adversary by con Vessela, on demand, by signat; from the light veying information which could pel be con
houses
Cape Coltisson,
26th July, 1907,
F. G. F100,
Director..
voyed by fair manna, Nine times out often, no. doubt, they arise simply through inadvertence;" 'but in the jenth' the offsace in committed
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