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Mails.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4 1908.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

BREMEN.

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

For

STEAMERS

TO'SAIL

SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE? "LUTZOWA

and YOKOHAMA ofnanaca, Capt. C. DowOIS

About WEDNESDAY

9th September,

NAPLES, GENOA ALGIERS,)"DERFFLINGER"

GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON,

Capt. G. Meiners

ANTWERP and HAMBURG ............

MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINEA,“

BRISBANE, SYDNEY Lod MELBOURNE......

THURSDAY

Nova, rolb September.

Intimation.

THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.

No. 1 DOCK.

Length inside 514 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 75 it. Water on blocks, 87.5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours,

No. 2 DOCK.

Length Inside, 875 ft. Width of entrance, top 80.5 ft. bottom 48.8. ft. Water on blooks, 26.5 ft. Timė to pump out, 9 hours.

[^HESE POOKS-are-conveniantly situated to Yakobama harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description.

The plant and tools, are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with work and a large stock of material is always at hand, (plates and angles all being tested by Lloyde 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 floating derrick is capable

CMITS,

AND ALL ABOUT THEM,

This subject is one of the greatest importance. to the wise (or otherwise) young men who come to the East, and as such sunuld be treated with due dignity and respect. "If the subjsci were dealt with la book form, as it deserves to be, it should have, in the first place, a magnificent 'tite-page, bearing, a title both extensive and comprehensive, something after this style :- CUITS :

What they are, and Why, ~

A description of their lise and abuse in the wilds of the Far East; With special reference to Clubs and other institutions

in Singapore':

That would be something like.

When one had drawn cash' for the total amount one could write out another chit. The tblog is simplicity itself |`

The old established chit-aigner in Blugapore; that is to say, the old resident, gets a great deal of fun out of watching the flounderings of the new arrival who endeavours to suit himself to the ways of the place. This fun might be added to greatly if, say, once a year a special kind of tournament or competition were held. Only newcomers should be allowed to enter and the object should be to see who could run up the largest number of bills, or the largest billa, in „the shortest space of time. This would provide.. afias test for the abilities of the chit-signer new to the game..

As to winning the prize I am afraid that 1,

Being a Complete Guide as to How to Avoid, at any rate, shouldn't stand an “eartbly, "! 6

also low to Reach, the

*Bankruptcy Court

(By One Who Kuawa),

"That just about shows what ground we have

to cover,

When we come to grips with the question we are faced immediately with this question, Who lovented monthly pay days?

Preserving a perfectly impartial mind,, we should thes ask: Ought he to have a statue erected to his memory, or ought he to be treated à la Guy Fawkes? The answer will vary according to whether the individual is one who receives chits,_or_one_who_sign_them.

|

C.V. H. in Singapore, Fres Préza,

Entertainment.

VOLUNTEER CONCERT..

GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT

A will be held on the VOLUNTEER

·Farade GROUND at 9.15 P.M. on SATUR DAY, the rath September, 1908, sunga

By kind permission of Lieut-Colonal R. F. B. Glover, D.SO, the Band of the 3rd Middlesex Regi, will attend. Volunteer Headquarters and Mears-Kally & Tickets $2 and $t can be obtained from Walsh.

A. CHAPMAN, L.-COL, Commandant H.K. Vol, Corps..

Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Lighters, Steal Buildings and Roofs, Bridge There will no doubt be many possessed of an ever-growing banking account who will rise up Work, and all kinds of Machludry are made, on the promises...

and say, "Blessed ba the inventor of chits" Tendar will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be And there will be others who-but "auff said, ¦ ¦ Hongkong, 31d September, 1908. + 1811

as the poet pals it. - -

af lifting $$ too.

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{" MANILA"

Oapi. Minisen

} THURSDAY

5 P.M., 10th September.

KUDAT and SANDAKAN.

BORNKO." Capt. F. Sembil!

Beginning of September guaranted.

For further Particulars, apply to

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.

MELCHERS & CO.,

GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.

Hongkong, 1st September, 1908.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

FRENCH MAIL LINES.

FORTNIGHTLY BERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL..

TO ́and FROM JAPAN vis SHANGHAI,

FOR

STEAMERS

CAPTAINS TO SAIL ON SHANGHAI, KOBË, YOKOHAMA.......,VILLE DE LA CIOTAT... Barillon 14th Sept., PM MARSEILLES, VÍA PORTS. .....AUSTRALIEN „ó.............. Vetroa...........15th Sept., 1 P.M. SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA .....CALEDONÍRN ................................Martin ..............28th Sept, P.Mi MARSEILLES, VIA FORTS ...... ERNEST BIMONS......... Girard......29th Sept., at i P.M. Transbipiment on the Co's Steamer at Singapore for Batavia; at Colombo for Calcutta, Bombay and Australia; at Port Said for the Levant, Constantinopis and Black Sea.

Through Tickets to Londen via Parls from £37.10 up to £71,10, so hours' railway from Marseilles to Landon.

Interpreters most passengers at their arrival in Marselllos.

* For further particulars, apply to

Hongkong, 3rd September, rood.

CHARGEURS

Can it be that the late lamented Sir Stem-- The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be fosad to compare favourably with that ford Raffles invented. Singapore and chito at of any port in the world,

Telophone: Non, 376, 508, or 881.

Telegrams, "Dook, Yokohama," Codes A. B. O. 4th and 5th Edt.

Liebers, Scotts, A. 1; and Watkins,

Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905..

Shipping-Steamers.

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The Steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and have Accommodation for a limited number of Saloon Passengers, and will take Cargo to all' Netherland India Ports on through Bills of Lading..

For Particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to

P. NALIN,

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"QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.

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Telephone No. 375.

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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,

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Unique opportunity to maka a'tour in North-China and Japan with the Greatest Speed,

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Connecting with the Canadian Pacific Hailway. FREIGHT to OVERLAND ....................?

PASSENGERS to OVERLAND and EUROPE via VANCOUVER,

YOKOHAMA-VANCOUVER.13 DAYS.

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LONDON and PARIS....36 “.

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

VIA MAGELLAN STRAITS. ́..

„Proposed Sailings:

QUESSANT. 5th Sept.. AMIRAL OLRY .......... fath Oct.

1 CEYLAN 1 CORSE

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YORK BUILDINGS, 1st floor,

Hongkong, 29: August, 1908,

MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.

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

S.S. "PAUL BEAD,", 1,900-tons, 14 kaits. -AS,-"OHARLES-HARDODIN,a 1,900_fans,.14.knots.

The speedlest, most luxuriously appolated and punctual steamers on the line, Departure from Hongkong at 10,P.M. (Saturdays excepted), Departure from Cantón at 5.15 P.M. (Sundays excepted),

the same time?. It may be so. The fact may have escaped the notice of his biographers. Imagine the soul of Sir Stamford entering for a space, some sunny evening, into the bronze statue on the Plain, With folded arma be stands proudly surveying the result of his handiwork, and soliloquises thus: "Here we are. This is Singapore, This is what comes of being enterprising. Look at all that shipping, spread out miles in length. Look at this esplanade. See these young men playing cricket (nearly all of them bankrupt). Look at those 'fine buildings. See what the com merce of Singapore is

and all buil up on chite!"

But it cannot have been Sir S. He's got his statue, sure and safe. People only get statues. erected to their memory when everybody agrees that they deserve them; and if there had been

any thought that he invented chits--and month- ly pay-days-tbere would have been a differ ence of opinion-as to the statue idea. So it couldn't have been him.

Wo have got the

- Anyway, there we are. system, and we have got to make the worst of! it at least, that is what most of us do,

What is a chit? In plain and simple language, a'chit is an ingenious and pleasant- looking contrivance for causing you to buy, absolutely against your will; a lot of things (chiefly in liquid form) that you have very little use for, that are not good for you and that you have really very little hope of ever being able to pay for.

Do you know the story of the Hebrew gen.. tleman, who like most of all bis co-religionista, was a genius at business? Speaking to one who was not of his persuasion he remarked": What astonishes me is where you Christians

get all the money that we get from you!"

TO LET.

OUSES in AUSTIN AVENUE, Kowloon,

Но

at $45 plus taxen per month,

Immediate posteassion.

Apply to--

A. RAYMOND,

Hongkong, 4th July, 1008.

Cjo S, J. David & Co.

(601

TO. LET.

'ATHERLEIGH, CONDUIT ROAD,

A HOUSE in WONG-NEI-Chong Road.

. A HOUSE in Ripon Terrace. OFFICES in YORK BUILDINO, GODOWNS: in FRAYA EAST, BLUE BUILDINGS, and No. 1ón, Dei Vaux ROAD next to the Hongkong Hotel, FLATS IR.MORETON TERRACE, No. 10, DES VOUX ROAD CENTRAL,

1st Floor,

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Appy to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

·MENT & AGENCY 00., LD. Hongkong, 1st August, 1008..

«TOLET.

ODOWN No. Ja, Duddell StreeT.

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENOY CO., LD,

Hongkong, 1st August, 1908.: **

There is a world of truth in it; and same- A HOUSE

how one is led to think that chits were-but no, There is no need to stir up racial animosities, over the question of who invented chits, though it is quite likely that the real and original culprit was proud of his achievement.

The chit evil is deep-teated, deep-rooted, Whether or not it was first established in the East-for it may not have been-it is very cer-

TO LET.

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-- KNUTSFORD TERRACE

Apply to... “THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AGENCY CO., LD Hongkong, 1st August, 1968,

TO LET.

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tain that the disease has spread far and wide.FIRST FLOOR of No. 6 QUEEN'S In point of fact, the moment you step on board

IIROAD, Central, containing 6 Rooms and Bervants' Quarter. the P. and O, bont at Tilbury you enter Chit- land. Drinks and smokes and a lot of other things can be bad through the simple medium of a little printed card, with blanks on which -to-sign your name and cabin number,

.....

Apply to-

DAVID SASSOON & CO, LD, Homebog, zzad May, 1908,

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TO LET FROM`IST SEPTEMBER.

ÁT SHAMEEN, CANTON.:

Then there comes the end of the week-not mooth, in this instance-and you are presented with a neat bundle held together with an elas. tic band. On the back of the last one is an awful legend in blue-the total of your indebt-HOUSE No. fos (Kwan How Buildings) at present in the occupation of the 1. M, Customs.

Apply to

edness.

When you get over the initial shock you' go on, just as bad as ever. The result is that when the boat dumps you at Teluk Blanga you. are a confirmed chit-signer, and Singapóra is ready to receive you with open arms. Which

These superh steamers carrying the French Mail are fitted throughout with Electric Light | is dons. and Fans and were specially built for this trade. Excellent cuisine.

The Company's Own Wharf near Wing Lok Street, Canton Agents-Mostra. E. Pasquet & Co,

26th Nov.

11th Jan., 1909,

For further particulars, please apply to-

Hongkong, z8th March, 1908,

‡ Now Twin Scrow 16,000 Tons displacement, 1st class accommodation, splendidly

-equipped with single berth cabins,

Intermediate class and rates of passage,

All round the world ticket by those boats, &¤ ̈

For farther Particulars, apply to ---

Hongkong, 25th August, 1908,"

P. NALIN, FRENCH MAIL OFFICE.

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bong, 4th March 1908,

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SHANGHAL

1954 Nanking Road

・ ・ The disease of chit-ulgoing is rarely found to be curable. There have been cases where

strong men have tried to struggle with the fatal habit, only to fail. There have been instances where men have, in desperation, fled from these shores to the place from whence they came, where chit are not known; but the deadly "desire has seized them again, and they bavo bastened back, slaves to chit-itis. The sight of a chit pad lying on a hotal table has been. known, to throw such people into a state of frenzy. They have wopt tears of joy on behold- ing the welcome sight once more, after an absence of years.

There are only two things, to be done with ́the chit systemi. Either it should be abolished --which it, of course, impossible-or it should be extended to all branches of commerce. Why not pay for rikisha rides by chits ? : Why not give tipa in chits? Why not give chits over. 'the counter when you buy stamps?

Do you remember the case of the lady whose banking account was-overdrawo ? : What did she do?-Calinly wrote out a cheque for the. amount ! Now, chits might be used something after this fashion,....... Why not sisi a banking "account with chits? How splendid it would be -to go into a local basle and reaching for the

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO, LD Hongkong, 1st August, 1908, 2.

TO LET

Floon of No. 14, Des Voeux R Central (formerly occupied by Messrs. Show Tomes & Co.)

\FFICES ̄and ROOMS on the isID":

Apply to- THE COMPRADORE DEPARTME

·ED; Sassoon & Com

"'Quoca's Road Contral Hongkong, 9th June, 1908.

Dentistry.

TSIN TING. LATEST METHODS OF DENT

STUDIO AT NO, 14, D'AQUILAR SI

REASONABLE FEIL

Consultation Fre Hongkong, 20th June, 1904.

Dr. M. H. CHAUF

- THE LATEST METHOD Mannend of the

13, QUEEN'S ROAD

chit pad mask to the clerk, "I want to open AMERICAN SYSTEM OF an accoúst here.. Stick that down to my Burna.* (handing him a chir with *10; U. From the University $50,000" written on (1)