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Intination.

Powell's

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS.

WHITE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JUNE

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

on

SATURDAY,

the 6th June, 1908, at 2.30.P.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Streat

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF JAPANESE CURIOS,

Comprising:

OLD JAPANESE TEMPLE BUDDHAS, DAYMIO'S CLOCKS, NETSUKES, INFO, GINGASA, OLD LACQUERED WARE, IVORY CARVINGS, BRASS BRONZE FIGURES BOWLS and VASES ARITA and MAKUDZU WARE, KAGA TEA-SKIS, KINKOSAN VASKS and, TEA SETS SILK-EMROIDERED WARF, MOTHER. O-PEARL INLAID SCREENS and PANELS, CARVED CHERRYWOOD TABLES, CHAIRS and SOFA, &c, &c.

Catalogues will be' issued. TERMS: As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Boogkong, 30th May, 1908,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

1:556

1ER INDIAN INFERNO.

A DAY IN THE HOT WEATHER. No green underfool; po blue overhead. No clouds, no colour anywhere, but dun and khaki, and the copper of the earth meeting the copper

of the sky in a meiallic borizon.

the khaki-coloured plain, adding another cloud- to the track of the bon-coming cattle. And the Arab, which needs a Felbam bit and a pair of bands in the cold weather, slugs along. inertly in protest.

The supreme moment of the day comes with the iced drink afer the eveoing's exercise. Fer existence in the hot weather is divided into two states, ice or no ice, conditions as foal and distinct as in the most bigoted Cal vinial's map of eternity. Sh

Work began at alk. At elevon Dae can still bang oo' because there in relanse at twelve But at 7.30 one feels that a few moral'übres need tightening lest bon sick into drowsy capi

The iced drink mellows one for the trials of tulation. Insidiously one is being attacked by the night. If a leaf is stirring, it is better to the malady" which infects the East, breeding have a bed carried out into the garden; but, apathy and surrender. The punkat coolie basinside or out, sleep needs a deal of wooing, succumbed. The sentry in the verandah is The brain-fever bird bricks in crescendo, asleep.

"brain-fever, brain-fever, brain-lever, brain The strings of the day's work are being feeverrr. The sacred bull of Siva has broken collected. Oficials, clarks, servants are giving into the garden and is grunting in the wither an account of their stewardship with great fertility of invention. Servants lie glibly, clerked rose-bumbes In the neighbouring fields prevaricate, officials deprecate the naked and indelicate truth. The daily tale of shirked responsibilities is repeated. A depended on B, who depended on C, who is sick, or gone

relative"

chips are beating tin to frighten the bats away from the mango trees. The white man lies in the still air without a sheet's coverings for the very rays of the moon seem to emit beal, and as she wheels her car across the sky

hade.

1908

Intimations.

CONFIDENCE

TO LET

TO LET.

said Lord Chatham, is a plant of slow growth, People believe in things that theyOOD OFFICES at 2, FEDDER STREET. so, and in a broad sense they are right.

Apply to-

---JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., La What is sometimes called blind faith is not faith at all. There must be reason and fact to

Hongkong, 28th May, roo8

[548 form a foundation for trust. In regard to a medicine or remedy, for example, people ask "Has it cured others? Have cases like mine been relieved by it? Is it in harmony with the truths of modern science, and has it aOFFICES ROOMS DeVoeux Road record above suspicion ? If so, it is worthy of Central (formerly occupied by Messrs. Shewas, confidence; and if I am ever attacked by any Tomis & Co.) of the maladies for which it is commended shall resort to it in full belief in its power to help me. On these lines

10 attend the marriage coromony of he must rise and drag his bad farther into the remedy is palatable as honey and contains all

་,”

He is not awake, though he hears all the

and on the rut and and

Apply to THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT Jardine, Matheson & Unj Ltd.,

Contunght Road Central Hongkong, 14th February, roof.

deference. "It shall be done. To-marrow your hours strike;"he is not asleep, for he knows livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Room

More orders are given and listened to with

honour will see. Yesterday the Contractor" did not come.""Very good words" It shall be obeyed,"

MUSLIN THE Undersigned have received instructions Presence for a reprimand. The man's policy

BLOUSES

$3,75

4.25

5.00

6.25

750

8.00

8.50

9.75

11.00

12.25

15.75

NEWEST OBTAINABLE.

DAINTY.

SMART.

GOOD VALUE.

WM. POWELL,

·LTD.,

Des Voeux Road,

28

and

Queen's Road,

33HONGKONG.

from Mesar. PUNCHARD LOWTHER.

& Co. to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

00

WEDNESDAY,

An official with shifty eyes is called to the is to appear frankly submissive and with dawa cat eyes to admit neglect, and promise reform, He found that meekness paid batter with bis tart chief than equivocation.

"You' muit remember, Babu Raja Ram," the the toth June, 1908, at H.M.'s Naval Yard

Presence concluded, a little mollified. "Wo. Extension, commencing at 11 AM

are all parts of a machine, and if one detail of SURPLUS STORES, MATERIAL, PLANT, the organism fails the whole is thrown out of order. If we thing an Engilsbman hales, it is tones a men undertake work which he does not intend to carry out.".

"By your honour's kindness I will, learn'im. provement. The natives of this country are of too inferior character. The English are very 8

A LARGE QUANTITY OF

ROD IRON, &c.;

ALSO

THE WHOLE OF THEIR OFFICE FURNITURE,

Comprising

WRITING TABLES, DRAWING BOARDS, COPYING PRESS, CHEST-OF. DRAWERS, TABLES, CHAIRS, COUNT- ERS, CLOCKS, BAROGRAPH,3 MILNER'S IRON SAFES

AND

The Steam Launch WALLINGFORD" and 1 LIGHTERS.

N.B.-Special attention is called to the "Milner's Bales mentioned above, as belog in excellent condition, they were imported new and have been in use for only a few years.

On View from This Date, Catalogues will be issued. TERMSAs usual.

"That will do, Babu Raja Ram," intèrrupis the Presence, who prefers the fertile liar.

· ". Cursed, cow-Eating son of a ------,* mutters Raja Ram, as be glides obsequiously out of the room. "May you be mutilated and given over to the crows.{"

The clock is on, the stroke of twelve, The wheels of the dogcart grate in the porch. There only remains the file of petitions for "carpal leave "on the table. Female relations are dead or dying. Daughters, sisters, nieces are being married. Clerks themselves ate "sick." Children are to be tonsured and invested with the holy thread. Anniversary ceremonies are [$45 to be paid to the shades of deparjed parents.

And the Presence is informed that all sorts of social and religious baos and disabilities attend

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers,

Hongkong, 3rd June, 1908, '-'

PUBLIC AUCTION.

"RE Undersigned have received instructions The undersignedhaveARD LOWTHER

&-Coto-sell by. PUBLIC AUCTION,

Qu

THURSDAY,

the breach of any of these functions... "Feor devils!" he thinks. No wonder they want a few days off." And for five minutes he is grant. jag and disallowing with an eye on the pleu sible, and a feeling that he is certainly a fool and probably a brute.

C

As the office door is flung open a furnace the 18th June, 1958, at Noor, at Ma-tau-kok, blast of hot air smites him, and he is struck in OLD IRON, RAILINGS, FURNITURE,the face with the burning grit of a gathering

A QUANTITY OF

&c.

&c.

A Steam Launch will leave Blake Pier at 11AM. to convey intending Purchasers.

Catalogues will be issued, TERMS -As usual

A

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, 3rd June, 1908.

F566

Intimations PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY

7.00 1.m.

LIMITED.

TIME TABLE.

WEEK DAYI,.

7.30 a.. to 9.30 am...Every to minutes 9.30 a.m; to 11.00 a.m....Every 15 minutes, 11.30 am. 10 12.45 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 12.45 pm to 1.15 p.m..., Every 10 minutes" 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m....Every 15 minutes 1.45 p.m. to zis p.m....Every so minutes. 1.15 p.m. to 3.00 pm.....Every 15 minuter. 3.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes, 5.00 pm to 8.00 p.m.... Every to minnier.

NIGHT CARE.

dust storm. The cloth has fallen from the seat in the trap, and as he takes the rains he feels that his nether limbs are impaled on a gridiron, To reach his bungalow he must drive through the city, The sirects are deserted, and the burcing air in refracted from the walls behind which the unhappy citizens are trying to doza through the day. The thermometer is 173.in the shade, and anything in the sun. The leat has the effect of driving everything out of the wine man's heal, the office and its responsibilities, the comparative comfort of his

TO LET.

·FROM 16TH JUNE

188

THE FURNISHED FLAT on Top Floor of Massra, Douglas I spraik & Co.'s Offices, Four Rooms with Kitchen and Bath

· Terms on application to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co

No. 1, Douglas Street.

WAMPOLE'S PREFARATION has won its high reputation among medical mea, and the people of all civilized countries. They trust it for the same reason that they trust in the familiar laws of nature or in the action of common things. This effective the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. It quickly emdicates the poisonous, disease-breeding acids and other toxic matters from the system; regulates and promotes, the normal action of the organu, gives vigorous appetite and digestion, "and is infallible in Prostration-following Fevers, Anemia, Scrofula, Influenza, Wasting Diseases, SHOP and DWELLING HOUSE, No. 98, Throat and Lung Troubles, etc. Dr. W. A. And so another day and another night and Young, of Canada, says: Your tasteless pre- other mornings, until the rains bring relief,paration of cod liver oil has given me which is followed by another kind of discom-uniformly satisfactory results, my patients fort, a clammy steaminess, which is more having been of all ages." It is a product of enervating than any drought. One does not the skill and science of to-day and is successful think kindly of ndia during August and Sep-after the old style modes of treatment have been appealed to in vain.. To try it is to trust tember; but in October the cold weather sets so with zephyrs and fragrant scents at night, to it forever after. It cannot disappoint and Allah showers compensation on exiles who you and is effective from the first dose. Sold

that be in in bed trying to sleep. His brain, receiving the images of sleep, is only half de ceived by them. Intrigues thicken around him. At twelve be despises them as vain menaces; at one he is a little troubled by them; at two they become uncomfortably insistent; ai three he is mercifully in their grasp, and at five he is waken by the sun, feeling more tired

than at any bour in the twenty-four.

have endured so much.-Pall Mall Gorette,

Intimations.

KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB.

by chemists everywhere, .⠀

A. CHAZALON & CO.,

6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

MEMBERS are informed that: H.E. Sir A FRESH supply of French and English.

F. LUGARD, K.C.M.G, has kindly contented to open the CLUB HOUSE D SATURDAY AFTERNOON, the 6th inst.

T. CHEE,

Hon. Secretary.

[563

Kengknagrind Jane, 1918.

BANK HOLIDAY,

N accordance with Government Notification No. 359 of 19th May the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction Public Basiness od MONDAY, the 8th inst.

HIT MONDAY,"

of

forgkong, 2nd June, 1908.

(562

SANTA CASA DA MISERICORDIA OF MACAO,

NOTICE,

TT is hereby notified for public information

that, at Three o'clock in the afternoon of the 30th June of the current year, before the Board of Directors of the Santa Casa da Misericordia of the Macao, the adjudication by Public Auction, will be made of the LEASE of the "BOA VISTA HOTEL SANATORIUM for a period of THREE YEARS, commencing from the 1st July proximo to the end of June, 1911. TENDERS must be submitted in SEALED COVERS."

The conditions for bidding are as followe 1. Persons desirous of bidding. must DE

preserves just to hand :— TRUFFLED SAUSAGE,

BREAKFAST BACON,.

CALF'S HEAD & HAM,

PEAS & HAM,

PORC, MUTTON & VEAL CUTLETS,

CHICKEN & HAM,''

VEAL & GAME PATES,

MUTTON & CHICKEN CURRY

ASSORTED SOUPS,

FRENCH JAM &

FRUITS IN SYRUP, &c. Hongkong, 8th May, 1908

(53

MUSIC LESSON,

at pupil's residence. LESSONS in Violin, Mandoline and Guitar Evening engagements for Dances and Concerts,

Apply to

E. J. LOPES, Clo Hongkong Telegraph Office. Hongkong, gb March 1908"

13

TYPEWRITERS

before the opening of proceedings, the Sum of Sigo as a PLEDGE of the bona fides of their FOR SALE, REPAIR AND HIRE, offer, which sum shall be returned to all those who may not be awarded the lease, im- mediately after the adjudication.***

bungalow, his wife in the bills, the English mail which he may expect to find on kis table,POSIT with the Provedor of the Sauta Case, Bois simply hanging on in a kind of absent minded trance.

There is staying power in abstraction. ~~Arrived at the bungalow, the Presence is ad mitted by a servant, wha-opens and closes the door furtively to exclude the pursuing volume of hot air. The very lizard on the wall shrinks from the draught. Ioride the house the tam perature is 16 deg. lower than in the verandah, All the doors and windows have been shut since seven in the morning,

The Presence has been too, hot, for many weeks to bother about things of the house, though he has become increasingly aware of a B45 p.m. and 9 am, "9.45 p.m. to 11.15 pm slackness in the menage, To-day he notices

every half bour,

SUNDAY&

8.00 am. to 9.00 am....Every 15 minuten, 9.00 am to 9.30 am.....Every 30 minutes. 9.30am. to 10.30 a.m. .....Every 15 minutes, 10.30 am to 11.00 am. Every to minutes. 1649 am, to 12,00 poon.....Every 35 minutes,

2. The TENDERS, which must be in sealed covers, addressed to the Provedor, must be DELIVERED to the Board as soon as ad- judication proceedings are declared opened, together with the Deposit Note.

3. Those failing to make the Deposit will not be allowed to bid, nor will their tenders be accepted...

4. The GUARANTEE, which must be given by the successful bidder, immediately after the award it made, will be the equivaloci IN CASH of ONE YEAR'S RENTAL.ora Deposit Note for a like value of any Bink. that a dozen rulos of housekeeping observed payable to the Order of the Santa Casa | under the Memsahib's eye have been neglected, personal bond being unacceptable. The plate is tarnished; the polish of a table ing. The UPSET VALUE of the lease is disfigured by rings left by standing glasses; THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED dishes are carelessly served; all the little refine: DOLLARS per annum, corresponding to meats of a well-ordered house are being forget. $300 a month.

The clabies of the Agreement for Lexis can

PRICE VERY CHEAP.

NEW BICYCLES

(HUMBER') $100 each

Repair Undertaken.

Hongkong, and June, 1908,

TO LET.

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL ONE ROOM in PRINCE'S BUILDING, Top

Apply to-

Floor.

S. J. DAVID & CO.,

Prince's Ballding, Hongkong, 1st June, 1908.

TO LET.

[$59

No. 16, CAINE ROAD, Six-roomed Dwell. ing House, Furnished. Rent moderato, - HOUSES in AUSTIN AVENUE, Kowloon,

facing barbour, cheap rental.

Apply to-

A. RAYMOND,

C/o S. 1. David & Co. Hongkong, 1th May, 1908. - A 1484

TO LET.

HATHERLEIGH, CONDUIT ROAD.

A HOUSE E RIPON TERRACE. OFFICES in YORK BUILDING.. GODOWNS in PRAYA East, Blue BUILDINGS, and No, 163, DES VOUX ROAD next to the Hongkong Hotel. FLATS in MORETON TERRACE. OFFICES on TOP FLOOR, No. 2, Cor. NAUGHT ROAD, facing, the Cricket Ground. No. 10, DES VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL,

rst Floor. Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST, MENT & AGENCY GO, LD. Hongkong, 9th May, 1908.

TO LET.

ODOWN No, sa, Duddell Street.

·Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

· MENT &-AGENCY CO., LD.

Fago Hongkong, 8th May, 1908,

TO LET.

NO and 8, LEIGHTON" HILL

ROAD, Apply to-

HONGKONG AND KOWLOON LAND AND LOAN CO., LD, No. 8, Queen's Road West

[125 Hongkong, 30th March, 1908,

·! TO LET.

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE,

A Kowloon.

No. 3, CANTON VILLAS.

Mad

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 1st April, 1908,

TO LET.

[195

FDA Count, containing & Rooma

TIRST FLOOR of Fo, 5, QUEEN'S

'and Servants' 'Quarter,

Apply to--

DAVID SASSOON & Co. LD- Hanekang, and May, 1908,

12.00 Neon to 1.00 p.m.... Every 10 minutes,ten; and every breach left unreproved increases pdf teen at the Office of the Secretary of the MOTOR LAUNCHES F. BLACKHEAD & Co.,

5:00 pm to 5.00 pm. Every 15 minutes.

5.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m....Every to minutes, 6.00 pm to 7,00 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm.....Every 10 milente"

NIGHT CARS as on Week Days. SATURDAYS. Extra cars at 3:15 pm. 11.30 pm, and 11.45 p.m. SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at the Company's Offics, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. Des Voeux Road Central,

י,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers, Hongkong, 4th June, 1007.

LEE YEE HAIR DRESSING SALOON..

157

HAS ALWAYS on Hand OIGARS, CIGARETTES

AND

TOILET REQUISITES--

FOR SALE.

12 DAQUILAK STREET,

Hongkong

the general decadence. Rage gather in the dania Cass, where they can be considered by

beart of the Presence. A tub and tiffin and a intending tenderers, long drink have restored vitality, The Khan saniah and the Goanese butler are called in.

"What work of coolias is here? Look at this silver and that tabing observe the cloth Do you eat my salary for this ? What would the Memsahib say? Would she accept such service?* 2°

Ob, no, Sahib! This would not do for the Memsahib 19:

Then, why the devil-

But the Sahib has rissu, and the Khansamah bas fled with enough consternation in his heart to e-sure reform for at least another week.

Sleep under a drowsy, flapping punkab engages the next two hours, during which the intermittent returns of consciousness are the most physically oppressive moments of the day. Dry hot stones seem to be grinding in the bead. The throat is parched, while the par- spiring neck soaks the pillow,

With ad ffort the white man shaken of alumber

'assimilatad

him until

ANTONIO MARIA INNOCENCIO

MAHER, Secretary to the Board of Directers, Santa Casa da Misericordia. Daled at Macáo,

Chambers, of the Santa Casa da Miseri

cordia,

C543 26th May, 1908.

THE HINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND

MORTGAGE CO., LD.

(CAPITAL PAID UP

1.$1,250,000)

Losus on Mortgage of House Property, &c. Goods received on Storage... Advances made on Merchandise; Loans made on the Provident System.

(Rates and Particulars on application)

NEW THE OFFICE OF M

TRUSTEE EXECUTOR OF WILLS,

ATTORNEY, &c Undertaken and Executed

FOR HIRE from $2 per hour.

·SOLE AGENT FOR

THE

SHIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, 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 LTARTMANN'S RAHTJEN'S GENUINE. IN COMPOSITION RED HAND

DAIMLER'S PATENT MOTOR!

CARTILAUNCHES,

FAMOUS HUMBER BRAND, HARTMANN'S GREY PAINT

CYCLES.

FERGUSON'S

DRAGON CYCLE

P.&O.

DEPOT

"SHIP'S

NOTE

RESS

CREAM: