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THE HONGKONG TBI

SATURDAY

Hails

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.

BREMEN.

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES

FOR

NAPLES, GENDA, ALGIERS, GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and BREMEN

and YOKOHAMA ............n

STEAMERI

TO SAIL

No. 1 DOCK. Length inside 514 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 75 ft Water on blocks, 27.5 ft. Time to pump oat, 4 hours.

many: overy year. Unfortunately North

land,and on the Continent almost an equal number of hats are sold as Paname which have never been within a thousand mile radius of the Isthmus, and have No. 2 DOCK.

only a very distant relationship to the

genuine article. For example, a hat is very largely Length inside, 875 ft. Width of sold in France which comes fmm Java; and entrance, top 60,5 ft. bottom 45.8′ | the French Consul draws attention to a recent report to the strides which the hat fadustry It Water on blocks, 26.5 ft. Time has made in that country in recent years. The to pamp

out, & hours.

majarity of these are made from the young leaf of the bamboo plent and indeed prove a very satisfactory substitute for the real thing. The cause of the wholesale fraud in the

THESE DOCKS are conveniently situated in Yokohams harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineem is respectfully called to the advantages offered for. Docking and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description.

The plant and tools are of recent partarus for dealing quickly and cheaply with work Noom, jid Jans. ad a large stock of material is always at hand, (plates and angles all being tested by

*BULLOW

WEDNESDAY,

Capt. H. Förmes Jaunie

SHANGHAI, Nagasaki, KOBE Į " KLEIST";

Capt. R. MayeTresserrasses)

About WEDNESDAY,

3rd June.

MANILA, (NEWGUINEA, BRIS-"

BANE, SYDNEY and 'MEL- BOURNE

"MANILA "

Capt. Miasson ama

THURSDAY,

{"BORNEO

Capt. F. Sembill

About the end of Juga.

For further Particulari, apply to

KUDAT and SANDAKAN...

Lloyds' surveyors).

Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels in or out of Dock, and for taking Sailing Vessels in or out of the bay. The Boating derrick is capable of lifting as toma.'

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Caaks of 375

(n. Bag of 150

SHEWAN TOMES & ̈06, General Managers Hongkong, 28th April, 1998,

JAPANESE MASSAGE, F. KAWASAKI

Panama bat trade is the enormous tecrease in GRADUATE

the demand for these hats and the absolute

impossibility of meeting this demand with the South and Central American hat.

The varitable Panama is manufactured from which grows wild in the swamps of Central the Planta de Toquilla, or Carludovica Palmets, America. Of late years this plant, which is low and shrubby la appearance, has been cultivated extensively, but without the success which was anticipated. They mature in about a year and a half, and live to the age of forty or fifty.

The leaves used in making bate are the young

expanded. They are then boiled in water in which a little lemon juice has been mixed, and

Steam: Launches of Beel or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Rools, Bridge ones which are plucked before they have fully | PAL, 18th Juno, | Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises

Tenders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be afterwards hung up to dry in an airy though guarant ed.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & CO.,

shady spot. Throughout the operation of bat plaiting the straw is never exposed to the glare

The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that of the sup, for the hat would have in that case a of any port in the world;;

Telephone: Nos. 376, 508, or 681.

Telegrams, "Dock, Yokohama," Codes "A. B. 0. 4th and 5th Edt.

Idebors, Bootts,

Yokohama, May 23rd, 1903.

GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.

Hongkong, 29th May, 1908.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

FRENCH MAIL LINES.

FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.

“TO and FROM JAPAN via SHANGHAI.

FOR

STEAMERS CAPTAINS

TO SAIL ON

8th June, F.M.

SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA.....POLYNESIEN........BIOCAT MARSEILLES, VIA TORTS ERNEST SIMONE ... Girard ....................... 9th June, at i PM, - SHANGHAI, KÓDK, YUKURAMA...UALEDONIEN ..........Martin.............. ...22nd June, P.M. MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS ...............

TONKIN........ Charbonnel...33rd June, 5 PM, Transhipment on the Co.'s Steamers at Singapore for Batavia ; at Colombo for Calcutta, Bombay and Australia ; at Port Said for the Lavant, Constantinople and Black Sea.

Through Tickets to London via Paris from £27.to up to £71,10. 20 hours' railway from Marseilles to London.

Interpreters most passengers at their uzrival in Marseilios.

For further particulars, apply to

P.

NALIN,

ACTING AGENT,-

QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.

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Hongkong, 27th May, 1908.

CHARGEURS RÉUNIS.

FRENCH STEAMSHIP Co.-HEAD OFFICE: PARIS,

ALL ROUND THE WORLD LINE."

Outward : ANTWERP, DUNKIRK, LA PALLICE, MARSEILLES, GENOA, NAPLES, COLOMBO, VIA SUEZ, SINGAPORE, HONGKONG, CHIN- WANTAO (Peking, Tientsin), KOBE, YOKOHAMA,

GENOA TO HONGKONG IN 30 DAYS. NAPLES

29

*

Dalque opportunity to make a tour in North-China and Japan with the Greatest Speed,

Saety and Comfort, Transpacific: VICTORIA (B.C.), VANCOUVER, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO.

Connecting with the Canadian Paciño Railway. FREIGHT to OVERLAND..............................? PASSENGERS 10 OVERLAND and EUROPE

via VANCOUVER.

YOKOHAMA-VANCOUVER.IS DAYS.

LONDON and PARIS...

#

Homeward: MEXICO, RIVER PLATE, BRAZIL, LA FALLICE, LIVERPOOL

VIA MAGELLAN STRAITS..

Proposed Sailings:

A. 1, and Watkins.

Shipping-Steamers.

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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,

REGULAR THREE WELLLY SERVICE

[BETWEEN (N

JAVA, CHINA, AND JAPAN.

Will leave for

On or about

First half June

First half

Steamer.

From

Expected on or about

JIPANAS..... SHANGHAI

гJIBODAS

FJIKINI “NJILATJAP...

FJIMAHI

JILIWONG.

First half

Just

JAVA

JAPAN

SHANGHAI

*JAVA"

JAVA

First hall

JAVA

JAPAN

Jane

First half

JAVA

June First half

Janb

First half

Jube

Second half June

Second half

JAVA SHANGHAI JAPAN

Juse

First half

June

Jupe Second half June Second half-

Jana

The Steamers are all ätted throughout "with Electric Light and have Accommodation for: a limited number of Saloon Passengers, and will take Cargo to all Netherland Indin Ports on through Bill of Lading...

For Particulars of Freight and Pastage, apply to ~

l'elephone No. 375,

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

YORK BUILDINGS, 121, ROOT,

Hongkong, 27th May, 1908.

MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.

FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG., CANTON AND KOUANG-SI.

S.S."PAUL BEAU,” 1,900 to0i, 14 knots,

85. CHARLES' HARDOUIN," 1,900 tons,

kdota.

The speediest, most luxuriously appointed and punctual steamers on the linn, Departure from Hongkong at zo P.M. (Saturdayɛ excepiad). Departure from Canton at 5.15 PM. (Sundays gxreprod).

streaky appearance, all the strips not being bleached to the same purity, When the leaves are almost dry they are split op into very bar row strips all of the same width, and then again tied in a bunch and left to dry. When this state is quite reached the plaiting of the hats can commence. This work is done almost satiraly by women, four of them being employ- ed on each bat. One of the best quality will take many weeks to finish, for they cannot be worked on during all the hour of the day. After the plaiting Moished the bate are cleaned with soap and lemon juice, polished and then sent to the market. The natives employed in this industry declare that the most difficult part of the whole wook is the balling of the straw, which con stitutes, a real ast. It is only after this stage that they can decide the quality of the bat, op which its future and the plaiters' wages depend. A market is held in the principal town of each district every Saturday morning and li in gon-- erally crowded by the inhabitants of the country, side bringing their hats for sale. The largest

of KOBE MASSAGE:

SCHOOL

No. 36c, PRAYA EAST, WANCHAI, HONGKONG, Telephone $64.

EFFECTIVE TREATMENT

BERI-BERI AND RHEUMATISM.

Attendance at Fatients' Residence Hongkong, and May, rood.

PABST BREWING COMPANY MILWAUKEEN

FRESH SUPPLIES 'ALWAYE KEPT IN STOCK

SIEMSSEN & Co.

'Agents for Hongkong & South China, Hongkong.201b_{nly, Jón7.

COLD STORAGE..

THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY

COL STORAGE available at EAST POINT. LTD, have now 40,000 Cubic feat of

Stores will be Open at to A.M. and 4 THE daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver "perishable goods.

WM FARLANE, Manager.

Hanaka, and Tuna,, ront,

TYPEWRITERS

PRICE VERY CHEAP

market of the bat industry of the West Indies FOR SALE; REPAIR AND HIRE, and Central and South America is at Azoquny, já Ecuador, where last yar more than five thousand dozen were sold. There are com paratively few bat manufactories, the majority of the work being done in the houser by the women, p

The Republic of Ecuador is rapidly ap NEW BICYCLES

proaching the first place among the hat-pro ducing countries, both in the quality of the goods and in the number manufactured. Bai sides the great number exported, almost an equal number are retained for home wear and go across the border to Peru. The handicap

to Ecuador is the total absence of a good port

́and a great portion of the supply for Europe

finds its way across the "whole conilnent of South America to be shipped from Park on the

(HUMBER')

$100 each

Repair Undertaken.

Atlantic coast. It is, however, confidently MOTOR LAUNCHES

expected that in a few years, when the T'anams Caval is at last finished, the port of Guayaquil -will become tha principal p ́rt of the South American Pacific coast; and in that event the position of Ecuador would be immensely Improved

A large quantity of the straw is exported for manufacture abroad. "This is done up in a per-, fectly dry state in ninety pound balen. This straw fetches about eighty cents a pound, though during the past year the record figure of ninety cents has been touched. The vast increase in the demand for Panama hata/may, ba judged from the fact that only six years ago the price was fifteen cents the pound, The very finest bats in the world came from the Manabi province, and fetch in the open market a minimum price of $150 each. Owing to the | very fine straw which must be vard and the long time it is necessary to spend on each bat, only about one hundred and fifty dozen of

These superb atsamom carrying the Fmoch Mali arī fitted throughout with Electric Light these are made each year. Their technical and Fans and were specially built for this trade. Excellent cuisine.

The Company's Own Wharf near Wing Lok Striat Canton Agents Mesir, E, Pasquet & Coll For further particulars, please apply to...;

Hongkong, 28th March, 1908,

† AMIRAL MAGOM.............. 4th June.

AMIRAL EXELMANS ..25th July,

† OUESSANT

comm27th Aug.'

CEYLAN CORBE

+ MALTE......12th Oct.

26th Nov. ...rik Jan.

Intimation.

No passangers. Intermediate class and rates of passage.

Naw Twin Screw 16,000 T. displac, 1st class accommodation, splendidly equipped with single berth cabins. All round the world ticket by these boats.

For further Particulars, apply to

P. NALIN, FRENCH MAIL OFFICE..

Hongkong, &ch May, 1908.

$450

WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP

THE B

COMPANIES.

HONGKONG WOOBOW LINE

*LANTAN and “BẢN TÌM

TAIL FROM ITOxOxong Twics: A WEEK AND COMPLETE Ten Round Taip 10 4 Days. These steamers have Excellent Saloon Accommodation; and are Lighied Throughout by * Electricity,

THE CLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS 18

PAVERY FINE AND EXHILIRATING RE For further information apply to-

BARRETTO & co Agents,

name in the district is Especiales da Monte Cristo. At the opposite end of the scale comes the Partida Corrinate, of which about- seven hundred doxes are exported every week, The Germans seem to control the trade, as they do many of the minor industries of South America Hamburg is rapidly becoming the principal port of distribution for the European supply,

It is likely that the hat industry will continue to increase and bring a considerable amount of prosparity into the faterior of very poor

IMPERIAL BREWING COMPANY, cousity. It would seem that it can only bo

LIMITED

PURE CREAM BEER.

For samples and prices please to

WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.

BARRETTO & CO:

limited in its expansion by the amount of straw zonually available, and by the ability of the natives to turn that straw into bute-Pall Mall Ganite,

THE

HINA PROVIDENT LOAN, AND

MORTGAGE.COM:LD,

{CAPITAL FAID UP

$1,250,000)

Loans on Mortgege of House Property, &c. Goods received on Storage.. “Advances inade on Merchandise.

Losus made on the Providem System:

(Mates and Particulars on application).

UTOR OF WI

FOR HIRE from $2 per hour,

SOLE AGENT FOR

THE

FAMOUS HUMBER

CYCLES.

DRAGON CYCLE

DEPOT,

NOTE NEW ADDRESS 1

33 & 35 DES Vœux Road. Hongkong, 4th May, rood.A

SELF CURE NO FICTION! MARVEL UPON MARVELI

MARINO SUFFEREN NIE NOW DESPAIR" but we sing a doctor's bit or faÜNE. the doctrach of quackery, may safely manėlis and neintes cally sure himétel without the know Ledge to stond party. By the latroduction Wi- *MES NEW PARKOM REMEDY S

1 ERAPION

a complete revelaties parben pergli le ehli dei years previously had been morala danzada -THERAPIONE MOST-44 shown, the way of

THERATION NET -ALEMN Handy Jar primary and secondary |

'jad; sarsapariliniame popularly, but are supposed to cura:&Tha preparation whole traces through the blood ant

HERAPIO

WEST RIVER BKI

Mongkong, sand Celohet,

Geral Agents,