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Mails.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26 1908-

Intimation._________

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.

BREM EN.

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

FOR

NAPLES, GENOA, GIBRALTAR;}" LUTZOW"

SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP

STEAMERS

TO SAIL

and HAMBURG

Capt. G. Dewers,

WEDNESDAY,

Noon, 7th October,

"SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE "PRINZESS \LICE"...

and YOKOHAMA

Capt. G. Rott.

About WEDNESDAY,

7th October.

MANILA YAP, NEWGUINEA,`

BRISBANE, SYDNEY and MELBOURNE......

PRINZ WALDEMAR "

› THURSDAY,

Capt. W. v. Senden

P.M., 8th October.

KUDAT and SANDAKAN.

BORNEO

Capt. F. Sembill i

Middle of October,

For further Particolars, apply to

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & CO.,

No. 1 DOCK.

at de Bis ft. Width of Length inside. entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 75 it. Water on blooks, 27.5 ft. Time to purap out, 4 hours,"

No. 2 DOCK.

TO LET OR RENT-ZA BORT.

Notice is hereby given that the lease for 'soʻ years will be put up to auction of all that piess of isúd known as the old for at Tan- jong Katong, having an atus of eight acres mil roads and sins poles. Upset price-

Intimations.

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICES

[R. C. PEMBERTON bas bean appointed

33,200 a year. Lessee must build as hotel, MSECRETARY to the Company hom

capable of accommodating 100 persons || this date. __within_two_years. The land-shall be used"

for the parpore of an hotel only, one 'Such is the main purport of so advertisement Length inside, 375 ft. _Widthlof which drowsix adventurous speculators in Hotel entrance, top 80.8ft. bottom 45.8operty to the Land Office, Singapore, yester day (16th September). What happened is soon ft. Water on blooks, 26.5 ft. Time old. One gentleman pointed out that there was no public road to the Fark, and that there would to pump out, 2 hours.

`not be one till (said with severity) ** the Munici- pality carry out their obligation and complete the road they have promised to make." The Lentleman in charge of the sale, with great suavity, said that no doubi thơ Muolcipality

THESE DOOKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama harbour and the attention of Oaptains "and Kngineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing, Vessels and Machinery of every description,

would carry out its obligations, and disposed of that objection. Another practical prospective bidder prospective at that time, for zube quently he did not eventuale in the bidding cap.city-asked whether the Government would guarantee a ficasso from the Licensing Justice, without which a hole! could not be carried on. It might be assumed that the Licensing justice would grant a license; but of course the Government could not guarantee that. That was no obstacle to bidding. What

on?' was the question of another prospective (at this stage) bidder. Oh, of course, it would not beà Hotel de l'Europe. The plans must be passed by the Municipality. But a sort of bungalow hotel would be the thing-Gov. The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be lound to compare favourably' with that erament would not be strict on a holet buiti of any port in the world.

The plant and tools are of recent patterni for dealing quickly and cheaply with work nad a large stock of maiorial is always at hand, (plates and angles all being tested by Lloyds' surveyor).

Two powariel Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels in or out of Dock, and for taking Sailing Versals in or out of the bay. The floating derrick is capable of lifting 35 tons.

Staum Launches of Breel or Wood, Lighters, Steal Buildings and Roofs, Bridge sort of a hotel would the Government insist. 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 guarscted.

•

Telephone: Nos. 876, 608, or 681,"

Telegrams, "Dook, Yokohama," Codes A. B. 0. 4th and 6th Edt.

A. 1, and Watkins.

GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.

Liebers, Scotts, Yokohama, May ́23rd, 1905, -

Hongkong, 25th September, 1908.

18

Shipping Steamers.

CHINA-JAPAN

-REQOLAK --Thank-Waally—SERVICE.

PETWEEN

JAVA, CHINA, AND JAPAN.

JAVA-C

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

FRENCH MAIL LINES.

FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.

TO and FROM JAPAN via SHANGHAI,

STEAMERS

CAPTAINS TO SAIL ON SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA „CALEDONIEN ........Martin.....28th Sept, P.M. MARSEILLES, VIA.PORTS, ERNEST SIMONS... Girard... 29th Sept., at 1 P.M. SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA POLYNESIEN Bros..... 12th Oct., P.M.- MARSEILLES, VIA FORTS ...........VILLE DE LA CIOTAT..BarilloḤ 13th Oct., at 1 PM. Transhipment on the Co's Steamers at Singapore for Batavia; at Colombo for Calcutta, Bombay and Australia; at Port Baid for the Levant, Constantinople and Black Sea.

Through Tickets to London via Paris from £37.10 up to £71,10-20-bours! railway from--TiKINI- Marseilles to London.

interpreters meet passengers at their arrival lo Marsellles.

For further particulars, apply to

FOR

Hongkong, 14th September, 1908..

P. NALIN,

AOTING AGENT, ...

QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.

CHARGEURS RÉUNIS.

FRENCH STEAMSHIP Co.-HEAD OFFICE: PARIS.

ALL ROUND THE WORLD LINE.

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

GENOA TO HONGKONG IN 30 DAYS, NAPLES

20

Taique opportunity to make a tour in Norb-Chine and Japan with the Greatest Speed

Saety and Comfort,

Transpacifio: VICTORIA (B.C.), VANCOUVER, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO.

Connecting with the Canadian Pacific Railway. FREIGHT to OVERLAND......... PASSENGERS to OVERLAND and EUROPE)

TIR VANCOUVER.

YOKOHAMA VANCOUVER.....................................13 DAYS,

LONDON and PARIS...26 11

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

VIA MAGELLAN STRAITS,

Proposed Bailings :

CORSE

* AMIRAL OLRY............ 13th Oct,

$CEYLAN ...................26th Nov.

<

rtë.Jan, 1909.

† Now Two Screw 16,000 To01 displacement, I class accommodation, splendidly

equipped with single berth cabins,

Intermediate class and rates of passage,

All round the world ticket by thess boats, &c.

For further Particulars, apply to

Hongkong, 19th September, 1908..

P. NALIN, FRENCH MAIL OFFICE

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WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP

THE Steamers

COMPANIES.

HONGKONG-WUOROW

LINE

“LINTAN" and "SAN-U[+20

JAIL FROM Hoxaxona TwiCE A WEEK AND COMPLETE THE ROUND TRIP IN 4 DAYS. These steamers kavo Excellent Saloon Accommodation, and are Lighted Throughout by Electricity. THE OLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS IS

* VERY FINE AND EXHILIRATING.

Deʻfurther information apply to='

<alth March, 190,

First half Oct -Second-half-

LIJN.

Steamer

From

Expected on

Will leave for

or about

TJIBODAS ...

TJILIWONG.

АРАН

Second half

Sept.

1-JPANAS-7

TILATJAP...

JAVA

-JAPAN-

JAVA

Java-

Oct. Second half Oct. Second half

Oct.

Java

First balf

¡JAVA

SHANGHAI

JAVA

SHANGHAI

JAPAN

SHANGHAI

Nov.

TJIMAHI......

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On or about

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Second hall Sept. First ball Oct. "Second ball' Oct. Second half Oct. Second ball Oct. First half Nov.

The Steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and bave Accommodation for

a limited number of Saloon Passengers, and will take Dargo to all Netherland India Ports go through Bills of Lading,

For Particolars of Freight and Passage, apply to

Telephons No. 375,

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

York Buildings, såt floor,

Hongkong, 25th September, 1908.

MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.

FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG, CANTON AND

KOUANG-SI

S.S. "PAUL BEAU," 1,900 (oni, 14 knots,”

B.S. "CHARLES HARDOUIN," 1,900 fong, 14 knots.

The speedlest, most luxeriously appointed and punctual steamers on the line, Departure from Hongkong at 10 e.. (Saturdays excepted).. Departure from Castop at 5.75 r.M. (Sundays excepted).

on town lines. And then further suggestions were made that it might be made into a sort of "—but here "official discretion stopped' in," and wa may not divulge what plans" might have been considered to make Tanjong Katong tha" Ostend of the Straits. It was only a mile and a ball from the Trams, a fashionable mode,of, conveyance, and 31 miles from Town, when the new road, started five years ago, was finish ed. Wb. about the old' fossa? There would

E SHELLIM Vidaus Chairman. Hongkong, 24th September, 19087, b: 1869

KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB"

THE EXTRAORDINARY: GENERAL T

MEETING. of Mumbers will be held in the GLUB PAVILION as MUNDAY, 18th inst., at 5,15 P.M.

BUSINESS.

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As set out on the Notice Board,

T. CHEE

Hongkong, 25th September, 1908,

*KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB,

Hao, Se

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THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

of Mambars; advertised för the 28th init... has been FOSTPONED ustil further notice.

MAT, CHEE

Hon. Sec Hongkong 25th September, 1908. 20: [871

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

"HE

NOTICE

HALF-YEARLY MEETING- of

the above Club will be held on SATUR DAY, the 3rd October, at 1,30 P.M., at the Office of the Jockey Club on the Ground for of the Hongaong Club Anooze, Chater Koad.

By Order,

"

T. F. HOUGH,

Clerk of the Couric. Hongkong, zzod September, 1908, 1801

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPART·~.

SMENT.

apt be any difficulty, about that. The lessas Notification No. 191 of 13th July, 1968,

might fill it up; or conyert it into the fish mar ket of the Hotel; or use it for panny steamboat rider: 'Mosquitoes? Oh, that'is'a-quietion of taste. There was a solid silence when bids. were naked for, except when a balf-muttered calculation was made something to this affect, $150,00 for building; eight per cent. $1,000 a month; add $167 a month

for tent; profil neoded $1,267 a month; 103 Kuests; couldn't yet 'em; more likely fifty; profit per guest $15.34 a month'—and a long sigh indicated that the calculator did not see his way. No bids ?. The Government has had an offer of $3,703 per annum (incredulity ex- pressed) and wants to know if anything further. is offered. Still no bids. Auction closes.・・・ This of course is all extremely mercenary and distasteful about the only Moated Grange we have in the island (if a Chipere house in Mt Echo-rd is excepted, which is a toy). The history of Fort Tanjong Katong is interesting.

·Soop after the foundation of the City, there was bullt Fort Fullerton on the south side of the river, and its old foundations are even DUW VEX- ing the practical 'soul of the contractor of the new bridge. Battery-rd led to the Fort and rhu trees grew where the festive allug is Dow quaffed, and unfortunate seilor men are baled up on matters concerning their tickets, History does not relate where the old Post Office stood, but it was probably near the Central Police station; Anyhow the spit of land that ran to Fort Fullaiton was a pleasant shady path which lads and lasses ured. It was, in short, the only fort of the place at the time. Some time in the seventies, Singapore came into notoriety an a caling station of Imperial importance, and of course country lanes leading to. forts were impossible. The islands most be fortified. And Fort Palmer, Henry Edward McCallum set to work and devised so wondrous a series of island forts' that for many years the Imperial Government could co acé its way to find guas for them; and it was anly when the Editor of the Free Press paid out of bis owo pocket for a standing adver- tisement in the London papers "Who shall Singapore at Inst, get its long-promis ed gun," that Wo-lwich responded Then some wise, City Father in bis after tiffin cogi- tations, asked himself, "And 'where would the Town, be if a cruiser anchored in the Harbour and shelled my godown?" And be look 'it, so' much to heart that he got up an agitation for a Fort to protect the Town. Those wicked military authorities put a tongue in the

Those superb atcamers carrying the French Mail are fitted throughout with Electric Light left cheek. Ab, yes. Bai Jove, we forgot it. and Fans and were specially built for this trade. Excellent cuisine.

The Company's Own Wharf anar Wing Lok Street. Canton Agents →→Mosara. E. Pasquet & Co

Fortfarther particulars, please apply to

Hoogkon, 28th March, 1908,

WILL

EYES

BARRETTO & CO.,

¡Agents,

RIGHTI

N. LAZARUS, OPHTHALMIC OPTIOIAN, CORNER OF D'AGUILAR STREET AND QUEEN'S ROAD.

FILL test your eyes free of charge, and If they are wrong will put them right..

Lenies' Ground. All kinds of Repairs, Spectacles for all requirementi.

Ask, or write, for Illustrated Booklet on Defective Sight

LONDON,

QALOUTTA, -19, Bentinck-stres

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

AGENTS, WEST RIVER BRITISH, 5.5, COMPANIES, 31, John Straat, Badford Row, WO

"Hongkong, 4th March,rool

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653-With reference to Government

wach is hereby cancelled, it is notified that, - on and after 1st Jaquary, 1509, the. Fens (pay. able monthly) at Queen's Colloge will be $48 per sonum in all classes.

F. H. MAY, .. Colonial Secretary.

ተራ

Hongkong, 15th September, 1908.

FRENCH

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STORE

(late A. Chazalon & Co.), '

6, QUEEN'S ROAD central,

HAVE just received a Fresh Assortment

of AMERICAN GOODS comprising the following

-SALT-HERRINGS,

MACKERELS,

SALMON BELLIES, CADFISH

BLOCKS, SPICED NORWEGIAN

ANCHOVIES, SARDELLES, CANNED FRUITS, ASPARAGUS,

kcj &c.

Hongkose, 22nd August,, roof, -

PAPST BREWING. COMPANY, MILWAUKEE,

FRESH SUPPLIES 'ALWAYS KEPT IN STOCK

BY

SIENSSEN & CO.,

Agents for

Hongkong & SOUTH CHINA, Hongkong, 20th, fule, 1907).

HARE COPPER AND SILVER COINS. FOR SALE

A MOST Valuable, and Rare Collection of

Ancient COINS consisting of those of SASSANIAN, GREEK, GRAECO, BACTRIAN, INDO-SCYTHIAN, AND EARLY MINDU DYNAS- TIES, THE SULTANS OF DELHI (including Pathan and Suci Ksage) and of KashmIA, THE MOGRUL EMPERORE, THE AMIRS OF AFGHANISTAN, ́AND,. or SEARS OF PERSIA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER

·BUKHARA, THE

MISCELLANEOUS COINS OF GREAT NUMIS- MATIC INTEREST, BEAUTY AND RARITY,

Apply to-

LUMIRZA,

Supreme Court,

Hongkong,

You shall have a fort at Tanjang Katong, and two lovely eight inch guns that China now cannot, afford to pay for, and we don't want to get to Chips So Font Tatjang Katong-was duly constructed-with the Colony's money: well constructed, as the Engineer Volunteers found, when ibay tried to blow op some of Tit. And all the while it was 'down in the scheme of defences that Tanjong Katong was to be immediately abandoned în caşa of attack | Still the Volunteer Artillary used to go over there and have a very good time.alitat Camps. They had a dasce-in be old Tanjong Katong Hotel and a very fina dance it was, with a specially constructed temporary pier, of a most delusive crookedness after I am. The S.V.A. bad firing practice there, and for many yours sigus of their prowess... were to be seen in a half-moon bliten out of the teak semaphore that had baan srected to make the thing look soldier-like. The hii was made in this way. The officer in charge of the 'gan reported that the target was partially obstructe. ad by the semaphore. There was a sporting "Governor and a sporting G.O C. at that time. "One said 'Nonsense.” The other''said ¦ Bet you five dollars it don't clear." "The word was given, the gun was fired, the slipt bit the semaphore, and five dollars passed.

Such are some of the memories of Fort Tan Jong Kalong sop to the fears of ignorant SHANGHAI

townspeople. But not bid for atʼAN suction'as a sea-side resort, till times are better and that. 166, Nanking Road. "Ford is made.

W. M. in Singapore Fra Prun –

Hongkong, 14th August, 1008.

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