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Intimation.

70m.

Powell,

LD..

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS.

THIS WEEK.

First

Consignment

Novelties

for

The Fall.

Fashions

of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18 1908

Public Companies.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO, LD.” I

"HE ORDINARY" "GENERAL MEET- ING OF SHAREHOLDERS in the aboys Company will be held at the Company's Offices, TO-MORROW, the 9th Septembar, Nopu.. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, 19gather with a Statement of Accounts to the 30th Jane, 1908. 5 1986

ut 5.15 P.M.

Hoogkong, 15th September, 1908.

VANDALISM IN CHINA.

Tactor will come the desire to exhibit them; Cam will then be taken of the monuments, if it be pot too late, and museums will house the portable works of art. Meanwhile a first step in the right direction, will have been made, !{ foreigners endeavour to take under their pro rection the monuments that: China in slow to protect herself.-N. C. D. New

THE RESTLESS EAST,«

only disproving but reverting him. If the The Oriant in disproving Tennyson-zol

present); rata = lų, maistained, "Sfty years of, Catbay will soon be better than a cycle of

urope. It is we of the Well nowadays who be moved. It is the East that is restless, are foert, wrapped la immemorial calm, pot to, calmorous, experimental, and excited. Throw your eye from Chins to Pera, and wherever it lights upon a patch of the Orient, there it finds commotion. And the commotion, at its-tost, is of Western origis, the reflex of ̧ Westem ex- perients, the result of Westers influences and propinquity. There are those who deny that Europe ever has influenced Asia or ever will, who hold that the domination of nections ul Asia" by Europeans will not only pass away bat will leave no permanent trace behind it, and who are convinced that all the English pave accomplished in lodia and the Russians China will ultimately count for as little as what in Northern Asia and the French in Southern

Entimation.

SAINT-RAPHAEL

TONIO, RESTORATIVE, DIGESTIVE WINE

Very palatable,

Known' throughout the world and prescribed in all cases of Anamia, Debility and Convalescence, to young women, children and the aged. Invaluable in hot climates,

DOSE : One wine-glass after the two principai msala, Each bottle of genuing VIN BAINT-RAPHAËL bears, in addition to the registered trade-marks

({}) The WARRANTY STAMP of the UMON DÉS FABRICANTS. (3) A' METAL DEAL advertising CENTRAMUNT

[s & MELISSA and MIRT cordial

CLETEAS which surpasses all others by fis

purety and faultless preparation. To be taken on a lump of sugar. "COMPARNIK'du VIN SAINT-RAPHAEL, Valence (Drême-France),

CALDBEOK MAOGREGOR & O...., Hongkong.

Consignees

“MOGUL" LINE OF STEAMERS,

It is with no little satisfaction that we laar -of-a-movement.as lost to check the vandalism

that has made its appearance in Chins of recent years. During the upheaval caused by the Boxes outbreak, it was inevitable, abat pil lage ned destruction should run riot for a time, for normal destinations between warm and fuum, to become qumbed, amid the igni The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company of fighting; but the unfortunate spisodes will be CLOSED from the 8th t to the 19th of those days can forms no precedent for September, both days inclusive,

subsequent visitors to this country." No doubt DOUGLAS, LAPRAIK & CO.

** General Manager,

the work of destruction begun in 1900 has Hongkong, 18th September, 1908, [Bay encouraged the minor depredations of initer-day yandals, frike morals of a certain type of HONGKONG ST ANDREW'S SOCIETY. Curio-bonis can be expected to be proof THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING against the filching of a claw or a car from a That the above Society will be held in the status ibat bas already lost a leg or a tail, CY HALL, on FRIDAY, the 25th instant, The offence argues often thoughtlessness rather at 5.30 PM, for the purpose of receiving the than viciousness, and for this reason will, in Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st August; of electing office most cases, be amesable to an appeal to the bearers for the ensuing year, &c.

betler sense of the perpetrator Funsmuch as DAVID WOOD, *** the evil has to be laid exclusively to the door of Acting licnorary Secretary, the foreigner, it is right that steps to check Hongkong, and September, 1908,

1609 it should be initiated by foreign enterprise The present movement, as we understand KOWLOON CRICKET OLUB.

„it;, contemplates_nothing more-than-the- THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: formation of a Society that would attain of Members will be held in the Club suficient influence to arrest the tendency of Pavilion on MONDAY, the 18th September, travellers towards thoughtless muiltation of China's monuments, and to promote a public T. CHEE, Hon. Secretary,

sense of responsibility in the matter of their (840 preservation. By placing an authoritative rethe Romans accomplished in Britain. The very moontrance in public places and upon such fact that white men once ruled over parts of the monuments as are in danger of mutilation or older world will be forgotten or remembered destruction the greater part of the vandalism. poly as a curious historical incident. Europe, that has to be lamented to-day might be atop according to this view, will be recalled to the ped. Against more organized destruction wo

"mind of the Aulatic of the fatore, only by the the scale alleged to have been contemplated at occasional sight of some crumbling work" of ope time in connection with the Nestorian table: applied science. But the inner life, the tradi

tional habite and instincts of the Orient will at Sianfu more drastic measures will be ra quired; but certainly a path would be cleared have been left wholly unaffected. There¬li for these by the success of the initial move one dubious return we are now making. We are importing lato Asia, or Asia is borrowing It is more particularly in North China that from us, a contrivance which is not merely the great increase in vandalism in recent years material--the contrivance of representative 19 to be noted. Of the thirty-six monoliths at government. We may yet have to throw over the Ming tombs six are effectually deficedo cherished theories. We may have to give

np the idea that the Occident can never in GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, nearly all the remainder are mutilated, while fluence the Orient, and we may have to abandon have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain. the white marble tablet of Yung Eah basahe notion that Asia cares nothing for self-ing undelivered after the 220d instant will be foreign name chiselled upon it. Complaints government. For what do we see? We see subject to rent. have been made by the Chinese authorities of portions of India almost convulsed by a move outtages of a similar nature in the Temple almost for the expansion of popular liberries, Heaven enclosure in Peking; other depreda We see Russia, which conforms in more ways tions have led to the closing to visitors of the templa Ta Kao Tien in the Imperial City. When thin-one to the Oriental type of State, strug it is remembered that most of the vandalism at gling to obtain and to extend the institutions of democracy. We see the Siamess at Bang the Ming Tombs has occurred since, the

kok agitating the same problem. We see opening of the railway to Naskou less than two

China promising herself a Parliament in 2 years ago, it will, be realized that the extension

years' time, and sending out a Commission to of railways augurs all for China's monuments unless public interest can be aroused on their report upon the governmental systems of behalf. Oop of the first duties of the proposed Europe. We see the Filipinos working self. government with a quacity that not even a society will be to secure corresponding mem

Dublin Convention, could exceed, and we see bers throughout the Empire, who will help to compile a list of all important antiquities in the Japanese in fol and practised possession of all those forms of representative rule which their neighbourhoods and will indicate the

we used to be assured no Oriental could either wish for or appreciate.

Intimations.

PABST BREWING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE

FRESH SUPPLIES ALWAYS KEPT IN STOCK

BY

SIEMSSEN & Co.,

Agents for

HONOKOKO & SOUTH CHINA. Hongkong, 20th July, tony.!

LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks of 375 Do. nei $5.50 per

ex Factory In Bige of use to, bet $8.48 per

ex Factory

『 ྃ་

Cask Bap

SHEWAN TƏMBŞ & Co, General Manag23

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Razvang, 15th August, 1908,

To-day. Build and Design

NEW GOODS

IN EVERY

DEPARTMENT.

Exclusive

New-

Productions.

Prevailing

from

Styles

London

and

Paris.

meat.

Rubber Tyrebes method of preserving them. Art is inter Dational; but the treasures of Chins can only became a heritage for the

RICKSHAWS

What is the molding of so strappe a

A

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. "

STEAMSHIP "PATHAN”. FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL AND

STRAITS

"ONSIGNEESof Cargo are hereby informed'

that all Goods are being landed at their risk into, the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at delivery may be obtained.. Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves

Optional Cargo will be forwarded notice to the contrary be given,

unless

.

H

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- scuted to the Undersigned on or before the 14th October, or they will not be recognized.

.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be. examined on the 22nd instadt, at 3 P.M. No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,

Agents. Hongkong, 15th September: 1008

“BEN" 'LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

[841

S.S. "BENDORAN," FROM MIDDLESBRO, ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby

world at, large when they are known Phenomenon? The plain fact is that wherever informed that all Goods are being landed i

Conditions

Bod Accurately described. of travel as well as the relations between Chin. ese and foreigners have prevented the an

East and West are is "contact, wherever the Oriratal is suffering from the aggression of Occidental civilisation, wherever he is belbink-

ing himself of how to get rid of this uncomfort able and disquieting supremacy, he is turning with one nedard to the device of representa five government-probably with some reg contrivance which hitherto bas buttressed,

at their risk into the basárdaus "and/or extra hazardous-Godowns of the Hongkong and Kawloon Wharf and. Godown Co., Ltd.,

whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

Consignees.

"NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THER2 & O. S. N. Cole Stoamer

"ORIENTAL,"

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO-AND

STRAITS,

Consignees of Cargo by the above-named Tessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Company's Godowas at Kowloon, where each. Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown

mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as consignment will be sorted out" mark; by,

the Goods are landed.

This vessel brings on.

Cargo

From London, &c.ex 5,8, Britannia, From Persian Gulf, « B.J.S.N; and B, &

P. 5 N. Co. Steamers

Optional Goods will be landed háre unless instructions are given to the contrary before 6 hours.

Goods not cleared by the 22nd instant, at 1 F.., will be anbject to rent,

No Fire Insurance will be effected by usa la aby case whatever.

Damaged Packages must be: laft in the Godowas for examination by the Consignse's and the Company's representative at an Appointed hour.

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.

No Claima will be admitted after the have left the Godowns, p

F. J. ABBOTT,

Acting Superintendent. Hongkong, 16th September, 1008.

FROM EUROPE,"

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods THE H, A. L. Steamship have left the Godowns, and all Goodé remain-

subject to rent.

"SILESIA,"

Standard make or to quities of the country from filling adequately their place among the educative influences handed down from the past. It will be a poor service for the West to render to the East, #ides that representative government is the ing undelivered after the aznd' inst. will be the advent of the newer civilization should be synonymous with the destruction of the monu. meats that testify to the best of Chinst the supremacy of the West, the root-cause,sented to the Vadersigned on or before the their Bills of Lading for countersignature

order.

Rchievements. Unless, however, measures are -taken on the lines indicated, we may expect to STOCK ACCESSORIES see the vundatiam (which has already been noticed with dismay by Chinese and foreigners alike increasing to a disastrous extent,

AND

REPAIRS OUTFIT.

DEPOT KOWLOON:

DRAGON CYCLE

1

DEPOT,

H JAD OFFICE and SHOW.

ROOMS,

At first sight it may appear strange that the task of preserving Chiga's monuments and works of art should be allowed to devolve upon foreigners. But apart from the fact that the latter are, responsible for the depredations, wo have to reckon with the inevitable desire of the Chinese to avoid international complications by enforcing legal penalties against the sube jects of other Stales." It may be doubted, in- deed, whether - Chinese philosophy` makes provision for the novel situation; that a monument which has stood intact for centuries as an object of wonder or veneration, to __Chinese_should, excite in the minds of ather, men merely a desire to desecrate it. Where such destruction affects something which still serves a special purpose, the Temple of eaven, where the annual-sacrifices are still made, or the Ta. Kao Tien,, the exclusive side. of the Chinese character revolta and the builde ings are summarily closed to foreign visitors. But for the Ratues at the Ming Tombs wad

· similar antiquities no archaeological Instincts) have been awakened in the country,' and (i „must be the aim of any Society formed to pre

33.35, Des Vœux Road, Central, serve Chinese monuments to arouse the Go-

"Hongkong.

D. NOMA,

PROFESSIONAL TATTOOFR

AND

iophort, of Occidental victories in peace and war. Some such notion, greatly en con aged, do doubt, by the example of Japan, Appears at any rate to be working in the Oriental mind. To us, of the West, who. hays bad our fill of democratic institutidos, and are; if anything, tiring of them, the notion seems absurd enough. But its absurdity is vailed from the Oriental, because he has pover yet had a chance of traoslating it into practice.

Sydney Brooks in Datly Mail.

Intimations.

E,

R.

VICTORIA, BRITISH SCHOOL.

per 181b, at GAM. "CHOOL RE-OPENS FRIDAY, Septem- Applications for admission should be made to the

.HEADMASTER. Hongkong, 16th September, 1998;

THE

~HINA: PROVIDENT LOAN

- MORTGAGE CO., LD.

$45

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre.

toth inst, or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godswas, where they will be examined on the azad inst., at 11 A.M.

No.Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading, will be countersigned by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 15th September 1907.

1842

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

THE

"HE. Steamship

"GREGORY APCAR,".. having arrived from the above Ports, Consigneea of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside. ·.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed at once, at Consignees' risk and expense.

..

Cargo remaining on board after 4 PM, of the 18th instant, will be landed at Consignens'

· risk and expanse.

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

**** Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the AND Undersigned:

(CAPITAL PAID U? ..................$1,359,000}"

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

(Rates and Particulars on application).

THE ÖFFICE OF

TRUSTEE EXECUTOR OF WILLS,

vemoment to a sense of its responsibility in. this matter. Already the apathy of the nation [as and its intensibility to the artistic and to its

-own-interests-have-allowed-the-bulk-of-the- memorials bequeathed by a more practical and mara energetic generation to fall into a state of almost hopeless disrepair... When we think of the present state of the Grand Canal, and of the temples where oukempt priests watch und concerned the accumulating dust and decay of yaani, there is little cansa'for wonder that no 150R

WM. POWELL, THE EXPERT REMOVER OF TATTOO

LTD.,

General Drapers, Furnishers,

Des Voeux Road,

and

28, Queen's Road,

HONGKONG,

ongkong, 7th September, 1908)

MARKS,

No, do QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL.

ATTORNEY, &c, Undeştaken and Executed.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO,

General Managers.' Hongkong, toth March, 1908,

48

DAVID SASSOON & CO., LIMITED

Ageats. Hongkong, 17th September, 1908, 5AUM[848|

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN,

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE NOTICE TO CONSIGNERS. *HE Steamship-

THE

of Cargo are hereby requested to send in. Captain von Hoff, having arrived, Consignees

by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside.

:Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before TO- DAY.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge' will be landed at Consigbee's risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong." kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Cp, | Limited, and stored at : Consignoes' "risk" qöd"

expense.

All Claims must be presented within tan days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised."^

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining- undelivered after the 18th just, will be sub- ject to rent.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 17th inst., at 3-XMİ

13

-- No Fire Insurance has been-effected,

HAMBURG-AMerika linie, Hongkong Office.:{ Hongkong, rith September, rood. 1835

S.S, VILLE DE LA CIOTATAN

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES. „MARITIMES."

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"ONSIGNEES of Cargo from London ex

11. Cordomam and? Chorante, and, from!! Bordeaux ex ax, Ville de Rochefort, în cone nection with above „Siekier, are hereby, EgH formed that their Goods, with the exception of "PRINZ WALDEMAR",

Opium, Tressure and. Valgablas, are being)): baving arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby, landed and stored at their risk into the haray- informed that their Goods, with the exception. dous and/or extra' hazardous. Godowns of the of Optum, Treasure and Valuables, are being Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown. landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous Co., Limited, at Kowloon, whence delivery andjor extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong. may be obtained immediately after landings: kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown, Com Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless

DATRONISED by Prince of Wales, then | Organization'exișts to see to the preservationi RARE COPPER AND SILVER COINS, pany, Limited, at Kowloon, and West Point Intimation in received from the ConsignesSJ

H. R.. H. The Duke of York, and

H. R. H. The Emperor of Russia, and having

of possibly meaningless stone relick Bater FOR SALE: with the introduction of the new order

| 4,500 testimonialsfrom all sources,

landed bare

are Noon, TO-DAX, requesting it to be

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersignad. / Goods remaining ïunciâimed:@?

Godowns, whence delivery may be obtained, "- No Clalma will be admitted after the Goods MOST Valuable, and Rare Collection of have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain hope for more enlightened, attitude to Ancient consisting of those of

ing undelivered after the 14th of September, My 34 years experience in iaudoing is a wards at and archaeology. Between Chick's SALAD, CORNER, CHALCO BACIA, will be subject to rent p

MOM guarantee of good work and prompt execution. present system of his faire and the INDO-SCYTHIAN, AND EARLY HINDU DYNAS: All broken, chaled, and damaged Goods-are after MONDAY, the 2861 September, at Norm, My colours.sre absolutely fast and poria¢219"}; hurah regulations la vogan lo Italy and | TIKA," THE÷SULTANS-OF DELA!': (includiùr to be left in the Godowns, where they will bew will be subject to vaht and landing char harmless, and produce a charming effact not attained by any other, as their composition is Greece affecting the removal from these Pathan and Suri Kings) AND or KASHMI, examined on the 24th of September, at 9.30 4.3. All claims must be sent le to me on or before

THE:MOGHUL EMPERORS, THE AMIRE OF || All Claims must reach, us before the 28th of the 21st September, or they? oply known to me. In tattooing unlike some countries of antiquities there is a practical AFGHANISTAN AND OF BUKHARA, THE September, 1906, or they will not be recognised cognised, E species of engravings, care must be taken to misao, which, while not impoverishing The SHARK OF PERSIA,, TOGETHER WITH OTHER * No Fire Infomace' will be effected, from have the work done in a perfect; high toned ↑ Empire, will allow the world to benefit by MISCELLMEROUS COINS OF GREAT NUMIS-

- Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the master. In order to take special precaution Chian's magnificant heritage. Today the MATIC INTEREST, BEAUTY AND RARIT Undersigned.. against possible dangers, I tie frash materials

Rayshonte Country's vast wealth in obfels d'ars affords Apply tem

NORD

LLOYD little satisfaction to its own people and less

CHERS & Co. advantage to stúdenta abi [boa" "preciation" of their vaine us; any educatipuni

The copying of Portraits with distinct miantanaes a speciality, opa bayr

Hongkong, ist September, 1998:

Supreme Court,

Hongkong

All damaged packages MONDAY, the 214 Septen