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Intimation.

Powell's

WHITE

GOODS

LINENS.

SHEETS

Plain, per pair.-

2 × 3 yds., $12.50 to $25.00 -21 × 34 yds., $14.50 to $30.00 Flemstitched,

2 x 3" yds., $18.50 to $35.00 2 × 31 yds., $21.50 to $45.00

BILLOW CASES:-

Plain,-

$12.50 to $37.50 per doz.

illed-

A

$2.75 to $16.75 per puir

Hemstitched,

$2.75 to $21.50 per pair

TOWELS:-

Huckaback, Hemmed,

$5.75 to $11.50 doz.

Hemstitched,

$0.00 to $21.50 doz.

Fringed,

$6.75 to $18.50 doz,

Diaper and Damask Towels,

$10.50 to $27.50 doz.

TABLE LINEN-

Yds. from $0.75 each

:

X

2

2 x

2+

8.50

21

11

X

3

10.50

23

X

8+

J1

10.75

X

24 x 3+

12.50

15.00

*

21 x 4

24 × 41

5

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15.00 16.50* 19.50

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY FEBRUARY 17 1908.

DOWNING STRBET. AD

MOST FAMOUS STREET IN THE WORLD ABOUT

TU DI CLOSED TO CRATIC

London, Jan. 9;

"The most famous straat is the world, as is is called bare, is about to be closed to the public. This is Downing street, which ex. Ambassador Joseph H. Choate once described the connecting link between England and America, and which certainly is one of the most interesting stents in the world, if it be not the most famous.

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Downing street is the hub of the great British empire, yat na street it is insignificant. In fact, it is worse; it is the dreariest, dinglest cul-de-sac imaginable, and is dignified by he. ing called a street at all. Excepting the big "government buildings which corner it, there are but two houses, Nos, to and 11. One is the "official residence of the prime minister of Eng. land, the other of the chancellor of the ex- chequer. The first of these," "No. 15"" is indisputably one of the most historic buildings in existence../

It is in Downing street that the British cabinet meets. It is here that the most im portant matters affecting the empire are dis, cussed, ministers made and broken, and peace

and war declared.

So it is rather surprising that Downing street should have been owned, laid out and built by

an American. Yet it is so...

There have been whispers that the Suffraget. tes intended besieging the oficial residence of the prime minister and the chancellor of the exchequer In days gone by there have been two riots in Downing street. Perhaps the govemment are heedful of that" wise baseball "Three times and out," and wish to pre-

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vent a third one. At any rate, the street is to be closed, and if the Suffragettes desire to do | any rioting they must do it elsewhere.

THE ORIGINAL DOWNING,

Downing street, as I have said, was started by an American, George Downing. He was the son of Emmanuel Downing, of Salem, Mass. His mother was Lucy, sister of Goy John Winthrop, He was educated at Harvard and was the second graduate of the university For a time he was professor there, teaching the younger studeals. Then he went off to the West Indies, was chaplain of the ship and did a deal of preaching. He eventually reached England. The times were troublous, the civil war' was raging, and Downing sided with Cromwell. He became chaplain to Okey's re- giment. Before he was 30 years old he sud, denly appeared as general scout master to Cromwell's army in Scotland, He was after. wards engaged in the settlement of Scotland and appointed his father clerk of the council of

Scotland.

Downing's forward rise was much helped by his marriage. His wife was Frances Howard, sister of the Earl of Carlisle. He currie | favour with Cromwell and was appointed treasurer of England and later became Cromwell's foreign policy maker, Ha journeyed to Holland, to France, Denmark, Sweden and Portugal and finally, as Holland in those days was one of the most important countries, ha became ambassador at The Hague.

HE WAS ADAPTABLE.

When the king once more came into his own, Downing's peace was made with Charles II. by Thomas Howard, brother of the Earl of Suffolk, an ancestor of the man who has made Daisy Leiter, of Chicago and Washington, a English counters. {

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DOWNING COLLEGE ESTABLISHED. Sir George “left a large sum fn care of trustees to relative on certain conditions. Before these could be fulfilled that relative and the trustees all died. The will provided that if the conditions were not fulfilled the money should go to Cambridge university for the founding of a collage. The university and the heirs fought the case out for some fifty years and finally the university won. Downing collage, Cambridge, now '92 years old, was the result,

The founder of Downing street built some houses on it, which he sold as well as leased. Nos. 9, 10 and 12 were sold to Lee, Lord Lichfield, Master of the Forte to King James 11. When the king fled to England, Lord Lichfield had to do the same, and his property was forfeited to the crown. In this way, there three houser came into the the possession of the government, old song

....

ball skin

THEATRE

“sing; barfberry-schema, scrofo

the

effects of dieason, mala favara, dysentery):

Tou ladies between youth and middle age they kaya an expecial value during the trying times, and men broken down by overwork, excess THE residence in unhealthy climates are speedily: restored by their use. Obtainable at most shops

bare medicines are sold, and also direct from the Dr Williams' mediclus co., Singa pore, who sand 6 bottles for eight dollars or one battle for one dollar and a hall, post free to any address. It may be added that Mr. de Wet very kindly and graciously endorsed all that her husband. had said,

King George I knocked Nos. 9 and 10 into, one residence and presented it to Baron Both mar, the Hanoverian minister, for life: On Bothmer's death, George Is offered the house. as a gift to Sir Robert Walpole then prime T minister. Walpole refused it for himself; but' accepted it as the office of the first lord of the treasury and perpetual official résidence of the prime minister:

- 'DOWNING STREET'S IMPORTANCE. ·· And thus it came about that Downing, street

is "the most famous street in the world." AL though all the proclamations and official pa pers of England are dated from Our Palace of St. James," they really emanate from Dowa. ing street. For two centuries the British en- pire has been run from the dingy house in this narrow, dull cul de sac, and probably will con- tinee for centuries of the future,

It was the beginning of the nineteenth century this Dowing street began to be wholly an official street. At that time the only official residence on it was the prime minister's, Building were taken for the foreign and colonial offices, for the judge advocate and for the chancellor of the exchequer, and lastly the whole row of lodging booses at the end. These were portioned out among the Scotch and Irish members of parliament as lodgings. In one of bere Smollett tried to establish himself as a surgeon. Benzoin, At that time the greatest African explorer, lodged, there with his wife, on his return from Nubia.

Eight years later in 1828, to be exact, the government decided to demolish the buildings, The first to go was "The Cat and Bogpipe," a saloon and chop house on the corner. famous for its mutton chops and tankards of" musty ale.. Boswell constantly patronized it.

It was

But the government' worked very slowly at the demolition. For years the very important business of the foreign office was carried on in A mean, unsightly double row of building These became so tumbledown that the aid of parliament was fovoked by private members, The only aid given, however, was to shore the buildings up with beams and it was two score years ago that the government departments were hastily removed across. Whitehall and the buildings torn down. The flight was dua to a continuous rain of bricks and mortar-the houses were on the verge of falling down.

Downing street, as it is to-day, therefore, is but thirty-three years old. Its glories will not. dim, though it has been modernized. The public alone will be debarred from entering the street. There is hope for the American tourist, however, for la the summer time, when the holidays come, and the government and the The king reappointed Downing as ambar-prime minister forsake London. Downing street sador to Holland. At the king's instigation he again will be opened for a brief period to sight- brought on a wai. with Bolland. After this

CHARLES BYNG-HALL when again at The Hague he chased and cap. tured three of the regicides, among them Okey, his old colonel, friend and 'protector. Ha ar rested these men, responsible for the beheading of Charles I., by a trick, pretending to be...) friend them.

Although he was generally condemned for this, the king was pleased. Downing was made a baronet and given a grant of land in Whitehall. This is the land upon which Down

iog street now slands;

SCERS/

TRIED FOR HIGH TREASON. A FAMOUS BOER MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. Mr. "Pony" de Wet, member of Parliament forthedistrict of Dordrecht, Cape Colony, had the unpleasant experience of beingsried for High Treason during the last Anglo-Boer War, He as acquitted, and it was whilst on his way home after the trial, accompanied by his wife,

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Auction.

PONIES] PONIES! PONIES !

*HE Undersigned will hold their annual

sale of Race Ponies

by

PUBLIC ROUP, opposite the City Hall,

WEDNESDAY,

the 19th February, 1908, ht 3 P.M.. 50.LOTS, TERMIA issual.

HUGHES & HOUGE,

Auctioneers, Dongkong, 17th February, 1958.

Public Companies

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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

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THE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Offices of the Company, Queen's Buildings, New Praya, on MONDAY, the 24th February, 1908, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1907.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 10th to the 24th February, both days inclusiva.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

THOS. I. ROSE, Secretary,

(175 Hongkong, 29th January, 1908,

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF

·COMMERCE.

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the M CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will be held on. MONDAY, the 24th February, 1908, at 4 F.M. in the City Hall, for the following purposes, viz:-

berk of the HONGKONG GENERAL

1. To receive the Report and Accounts of the Committee for the year. ended grat December, 1907.)

1.3.

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2. To elect a New Committee.

1o consider the following Resolution:- That in consequence of the importance *1 of the trade' existing between this portal "and Bombay it is resolved under Rule "XXIII to increase the number of the "Committes from 9 to 10 so 28. to, #include ́& Merchant interested in the "Bombay trade.".**.

4. To transact any general business,

By Order,

E. A. M. WILLIAMS, Secretary: Hongkong, 14th February, 1908.

Entertainment.

ROYAL

CITY HALL.

HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC

CLUB

WILL PRESENT:

"THE LIARS"

N. ORIGINAL COMEDY, IN FOUR ACTS,

· HENRY ARTHUR JONES,

PSONS

THURSDAY.vaimpor

FRIDAY

SATURDAY of span

Doors open at 8.30 PM. Performance at g P.M

Prices...........................

February

183, $2 and $1.

Saltors and Soldiers in uniform halßprice to Pic Stalls and Pit, - Booking Office at the Rosinson FIANO CO., open on and after MONDAY, the toth February, 1908, #t ́10 À.M.

Hongkong, 7th February, 1908.

Intimations.

It is from France only,

made with FRENCH BRANDY, and the herbs cultivated in the gardens and those indigenons to and grown on the pastoral mountains of the eftate of LA GRANDE-CHARTREUSE and used

that 800 after being gathered,

•pofsible to obtain the liqueur known all over the world as: "CHARTREUSE

WANTED:

LODGINGS, preferably in Kowloon. State

Apply to--

A. B

To Let.

TO LET

and on the

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Cia Hongkong Telegraph. OFFICES DE ROOMS Des Voeux Road

Hongking; 27th January, 1908)

"HINA

THE PROVIDENT LOAN MORTGAGE CO., LI (CAPITAL PAID UPF .

(157 Central (formerly occupied by Mounts. Showang-

Tomer & Co.) 25-

HOUSE Na.. 11, Seymour Road, newly- AND painted and colour-washed, and re

$1,000,000)

Loans on Mortgaga of House, Property, &c. Goods received on Storage. Advances made on Merchandise. Losos made on the Providapt System.

(Rates and Particulars on application). THE OFFICE OF TRUSTRE, EXECUTOR OF WILLS, ATTORNEY, &c. Undertaker and Executed.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

Genem! Manggen-

Hoogkook, and December, 1907.

ONE FIVE-ROOMED, BUNGALOW, "The Neuk" No. 84, Mount Gough, Perk." Gården and Tennis, (From 1st Aprli next).

Apply to THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT, Jardine, Maibason & Co., Ltd,

Connaught Road Central, Hongkong, 4th February, 1908.

ROAD.

TO LET.

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N&& LEIGHTON HILL

Apply to (48

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks No 375 fbs, net 86.00 per Cask "ex Factory,"

HONGKONG AND KOWLOON LAND AND LOAN CO, LD,, No. 8, Queen's Road West, Hongkong, 14th January, 1908,

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TOʻLET.—FURNISHED.

SIX-ROOMED HOUSE 09 Robinson

Apply to

[122 la Bag of 50 to, bet $8.00 per Bag A Road.

ex Factory. SHEWAN TOMES & Co., General Managers, Hongkong, 3rd October, 1007.

HONGKONG, CANTO AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THALF-YEARLY

EIGHTY-THIRD ORDINARY

MEETING

THE

EASTERN CYCLE Cò. 13 ARSENAL STREET, WANCIAL.

SHAREHOLDERS in this Company, will be held at the Office of the Company, Hotel Man- signs, on TUESDAY, the asth February, at 12 o'clock Nooo, for the purpose of receiving Report of the Direcion, together with a Statement of Accounts, declaring Confimtag the appointment of a Director and BICYCLÉS--BICYCLES. electing Auditors.

The man's actions in arresting the regicides | that he related the following facts to a reporter. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company so angered the Dutch that a mob went after who chanced to be a fellow-traveller in the Downing, and he fled from The Hague. On 'train:—

arrival in England he was clapped into the ***, must tell you what happened to my wife Inwer for leaving his past without leave. He some six years ago,” said Mr. de Wet,, “One remained there only a month though, for that sowy day in winter up at Wodehouse, doll-faced Frenchwoman, the Dutchess of Port- Dordrecht, she caught a bad cold whilst driv- smooth, one of the king's mistresses, inter- | Ing out in a cart, and the chill brought on a ceded for him.

RECOMES Treasurer of ENGLAND.

Soon after Downing, was restored to favour the king made him the chief treasurer., Down Serviettes to matching gave the proff gate bing all the money he wanted and in several pamphlets defended hit royal master. He also saw that the king's three chief mistresses, the Duchess of Ponts mouth, Lady Castlemaine and Nell Gwynn, tiad their share of dips into the English trea. sury,

ALL LINEN TABLING

and 24 Yards by any Length

From $1 25 per yard.

He was such a great sycophant that he secured a grant of $400,000 from the king. He served in all the parliaments and was known as the boara bell to call xil the 'cour- „tiers to yote !

POWELL'S nod estates, and this won married the eldest

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS,

E DES VEUX ROAD,

and

28, QUEENS ROAD, HONGKONG.

·

severe attack of rheumatism that greatly troubled her for months afterwards, Mrs de

will be CLOSED from the rath to the 25th February, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W. E. CLARKE,

Secretary, Hongkong, 4th February, 1908, [199

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK-

ING.CORPORATION,, •N

DIVIDEND declared for the Hall

CHEAP BALE,

FOR A SHORT PERIOD ONLY. COMMENCING FROM JANUARÝ 10, 1908,

MACHINES FOR

LADIES and GENTLEMEN FITTED, with -2 and 3 SPIT GEAR, OF ALL,

MAKES.

ear ending 31st December, 1997, at the rate of Two POUNDS STERLING per Old Sharp, and ONE POUND ABG, TEN SHILLINGS GRADES and GUARANTEED ENGLISH STERLING per New Share, is Payable on ahd after MONDAY, the 17th day of February, current, at the Offices of the Corporation, WHERE SHAREHOLDERS ARE REQUESTED TO APPLY FOR WARRANTS.

By Order of the Couri of Directors,

J. R. M. SMITH,

Chief Manager.

(230 Hongkong, 13th February, 1908,

Notice of Firm.

Wet tried everything for it; she had doctors medicines, and I spent lots of money in trying to get a cure for it. The pains were over the whole body. She was in bed for two months, and was very restless and sleepless at night from the agonising pains. The rheumatism obstinately refused to go away and at times was very severa. But Mrs. de Wet never got any better until she tried Dr. Williams' pink pils for pale people. They completely took away the theumatism after using a few bottles in accordance with tbs directions, and, although that was six years ago, it has never since returned to her at any time. · Certainly" nothing cured her but Dr. Williams! plak pills On being asked for permission to INTERNATIONAL SLEFPING CAR publish his interesting statement, the M. L. A. replied: By all means. We willingly give you permission to publish the facts of the case to other sufferers may benefit thereby.

In 'South Africe, as in most other civilised

people held first place as a recognised family médicine. For the past twelve years they have been used in that vast land by. Boer and Britos alike, and people in all ranks of South African Society have given, like Mp de Wet and his wife, public expression of ibeir}| thanks for bencdis derived from their use H

Pepys, in his diary, tells of Downing's niggardly habits and how he ill-treated and starved his mother, who died long, before bor time from want of the comforts of life,

Downing left, son to succeed to his title

daughter of Lord Salisbury, He in turn bad ai son, but as the second baronet was weak-mind- |.countries, Dr. Williams' pink, pills for pala ed the son was brought up by his uncle. Sir William Forester, who married another daugh- ter of Lord Salisbury. Sir William, when the son was 15. secretly married him to Mary For ester, his daughter, aged 13 Soon afterwards the son went travelling and when he returned he repudiated the marriage. His career was

that of a profligate He made ducks and it is by their remarkable curativa action on

and

EXPRESS TRAINS Co.

:(THE

GREAT TRANS-SIBERIAN" "ROUTE

TO EUROPE.).

PAVING been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, we shall be

drakes of the enormous estate of his grand | the whole system througe the blood that Dr pleased to give any information as to rater of father, but was unable to spend ironlle Williams' plak pilly cure. The

paver married, but faft, several illegitimate

children whom he remembered in"

im to be the great

This will caused one of the most femoris

@people

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NEW BICYCLES FOR HIRE.

Repairs Undertaken. - Exchanges-

EFFECTED

THE

EASTERN CYCLE CO., 3, ARSENAL STREET, WANCHAL Hongkong, 15th January, 1008;

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To Let.

TO LET.

Cļo Hongkong Telegraph, 2 Hongkona, 10th February, 1908

TO LET

A HOUSE ID KNUTSFORD TERRACE.

Apply to...

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY • Q, LD.; Hongkong, rst February, 1908,

O"

TO LET.

\FFICES on Tóz FLOOK, No. 2, Com- NAUGHT ROAD, facing the Cricket Ground."

No. 10, DES VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL,

tat Floor.

'HATHERLEIGH, Condolt Road

A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENs, Com

dujt Road, the dens OFFICES in YORK BUILDING,ant GODOWNS do Praya" East, Blue, BUILDINGS, and No. 169, Daa Vaux Road next to the Hongkong Hotel,

| FLATS in MORETON TERRACE Apply trimm

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AGENCY CO. LD Honchon, &th Febrasry, to 8.

TO LET.

No. 5, MORRISON HILL.

ONE FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE, PRATA EAST, near East Point,

Apply tóma

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. Hongkong, 19th October, 1907.2}}

TOʻLET.

|-ROOMED HOUSES in GAP ROAD ¤Bar the Race Course'within easy access to sho Lower Level Tiamway." "Host vary modenta. FLATS for Bar opeane in® WILD DEE BUILDINGS, No. 147, Wanchal Road, 5/ [23) Apply to-

OUSES in AUSTIN AVENUE, Kowloos.

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BASSOON:

PERCY SMITH & SETH' Hongkong, 16th December, 1007,

TOʻLET.