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Mails.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY OCTOBER 31 1908.

Intimation.____

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., L..

BREMEN.

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

STEAMERI

FOR

SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBEĮ "PRIN2 Ludwig ".

and YOKOHAMA

NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS, GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, {"ANTWERP-and-HAMBURG-...

MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINEA,

SAMARAI, BRISBANE, SYD.} NEY and MELBOURNE

Capt. F. v. Binter

"PRINZ SIGISMUND

Capt. D. Lent ........

* PRINZESR ALICE " Capt. G. Rott.99.

ΤΟ ΚΑΙΣ

1 About WEDNESDAY,

4th November,

WEDNESDAY,

Nope, 4th November.

THURSDAY,"

5 F.M. Sth November.

KUDAT and SANDAKAN.

BORNEO

Middle of November.

Capt. F. Sambil massörte,

For further Particulars, apply to

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & CO.,

GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.

Hongkong, 23rd October, 1908

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MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

FRENCH MAIL LINES.

FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via BUEZ CANAL.

TO and FROM JAPAN vis SHANGHAI,

No. 1 DOCK. Length inside 614 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft.;/bottom 76 it. Water on blocks, 27.5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours,

No. 2 DOCK.

Length inside, 875 ft. Width of entrance, top 60.5ft. bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blocks, 26.5 ft. Time "to pump out, 3 hours.

THESE DOOKS EN CORVEantly slinated in Yokobsons harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking, and repairing Vassals 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 alware at hand," (plates and angles 'all being tested by❘ Lloyds' surveyors).

Two-powerful Twin Screw Towboats Jen available for taking "Vessels in or cat o Dock, and for taking Sailing Vessels in ar out of the bay. The floating derrick is capabla of lifting 15 tonu.

Garanted.

BALLROOMS And bedrooms.

› LAVISH - EXPENDITURE BY AMERICANS. £1,000,0% SPENT IN A HOUSE. Eight hundred thousand pounds is a large sum for a best and its lining, but even this colossal expenditure bas been exceeded by

more than one American millionaire. Mr. Cornelins Vanderbilt paid a million pounds sterling-5,000,000 dol--for his wonderful honie at the corner of Fifty-seventh-wreet and Fifth Ayenue, New York. Outside. It is a building of no great pretensions, though it boneis tur rets and baillements, but its internal decoration and furnishing are such as might(make a Sul- tán anvicus.

...

The balkoom alone,t'is said, cost a fortune,

* with, its ceiling of painted cupids and nymphe, pata exquisitely-modelled dowers, from such of which an electric-light flashes. Its immesse chandeller and walls decorated with the most

costly art of America. The garden is but a

small one, but a £25,doo house was pulled down to make.room for it, and £100,000 in all was squandered on it. And this is but one of several houses in New York-including those of Mr. George Gould, Commodore Gerry, and Mr. Stephea Marchand-which, with their con. tents, represent Hitle less than £1,000,000 & placa

The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that alone, of elaborately carved ebony and ivory of say pon in the world,

Telephone: Nos, 876, 506, or 681,

Intimations.

WANTED

IN HONGKONG FROM 1ST DECEMBER,

20

FURNISHED HOUSE for 6 or 12 months by married couple. Na children.

Apply to--

BOX,

- Cjo Hongkong Telegraph. ***, 23rd October, 1908

MUSIC LESSON,

LESSONS in-Violin, Mandoline and Guitar

at papil'e residence. Evening engagements for Dançer and Concerts.

Apply to

E. J. LOPES, Olo Hongkong Telegraph Ģffico. Hinnuke me, g h March 1008)

PABST BREWING COMPANY,

MILWAUKEE,

FRESH SUPPLIES

ALWAYI KEPT IN. STOCK -

SIEMSSEN_&_0%). Ageats for Hexaxoxo & SOUTH CHINA. Hoogkong, 19th July, 1007.

COLD STORAGE.

THE HONGKONG IOE COMPANY

LTD. have now 40,000 Dubic feet of COLD STORAGE available at ELIT POINT. Stors will be Open at 10 avand 4 P.M. daly, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods.

AN EXPENSIVE. DEDROOM. And when a man speeds)£200,000 on a bed. room and £40,000 (ontļa,staircase, the marvel Steam Launches of Best or Wood, Lighters, Steal Buildings, and Roofs, Bridges, not that his house bas cost so much, but Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises.

that he has made £1,000,000 cover his 'outlay. Tenders will be made up what required and the workmanship and material will be Nearly 1,000,000 dol—or tolbá exact £193.740 -is given as the cost to Mr. Marchand of a single bedroom in his house. The bedstond inlaid with gold, cost £38,000;the richly-carved walls, with their enamel and gold, account for nearly £13,000 more; £3.870was spent on carving and decorating thefceiling; to pairs of curtains averaged £319a"pair, the wardrobe was a bargain at £29,000, the dressing-table at £12,400, the washstand at £7,200, and the en tire suite left little change out of £100,000. Add to al this bed hangings at £5 a yard. £1,330 CH for a chimney-piece and overmantel, £2,000 for the four doors giving access to the room, £4,000 for the ivory trophy at the head of the badstead, and one can easily sen how to spend a million dollars on a bedroom.

Telegrams, "Dock, Yokohama," Codes A. B. d. 4th and 5th Edt. Liebers, Soutta, A. 1, and Watkios. Yokohama, May zjnd, 1905. -

JAVA-

Shipping-Steamers.

JAPAN LIJN.

REGULAR THREE-WEEKLY SERVICE

BETWERK

JAVA, CHINA, AND JAPAN.

FOR

STEAMERS

Bombay and An

Transhipment. on the Co

CAPTAINS, TO SAIL ON SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA...ARMAND BENIC.........Guionnet... gih Nov, F.M. SHAWULLES, VIA PORTS...POLYNESIEN ...........Brocoth-Nov-at-i-F‚... MARSEILLES, VIA FOIKOMAMADUNIA... Boyer 23rd Nov. F.M.

TOUHANE COLOREA ........Lancelio .....24th Nov, at 1: P.M. | TJIMAHI .............

Steamar,

From

Expected on or about

Will leave for

TJILIWONG.

JAPAN-

JAVA

Fint half....

Nov. First half

JAVA

SHANG SAI

JAPAN

Second half

Marseilles to Londos.

Nov.

JATA

Second half

NOT.

JAFAM

First half

JAVA

SHANGHAI

JAVA

Dec

יי

Brough Tickets to London via Pails from £27.10 up to £71.30. 20 hours railway from JIKINI

Interpreters meet passengers at thole strival lu' Marrvilles.-_

For further-paniculier, apply to

Hongkong, 17th October, 1908

P.

NALIN, ACTING AGENT,

QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.

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CHARGEURS REUNIS.

FRENCH STEAMSHIP Co.-HEAD OFFICE: PARIS.

ALLROUND THE WORLD LINE,

Outward: ANTWERP, DUNKIRK, LA PALLICE, MARSEILLES,. GENOA,

NAPLES, COLOMBO, VIA SUEZ, SINGAPORE, HONGKONG, CHIN WANTAŬ (Peking, Tientsin), KOBE, YOKOHAMA...

GENDA TO HONGKONG: IN 30 DAYS. NAPLES

29 11

Unique opportunity to make a tour in North Chine and Japan with the Greatest Speed

Sa ety and Comfort,

Transpacife ; VICTORIA (B.G.) `VANCOUVER, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO.

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

VANCOUVER,

YOKOHAMA-VANCOUVER.13 DAYS.

भ

LONDON and FARIS....26

H

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

VIA MAGELLAN STRAITS,

CORSE......

Proposed Sailings : -

,,25th Nov.

1 † AMIRAL MAGON ..........11th Jan, 1900. Naw Twin Screw 16,000 Tous displacement, 1st class accommodation, splendidly equipped with single berth cabins.

* Intermediate class and rates of passage.

All round the world, ticket by these boats, '&c.

For further Particulars, apply in

Hongkong, 2141 October, 1908,

"TJIPANAS

TJIRODAS

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On or about

First half -Nav. First bali Nov.

A

-- kats Second half Nov. Second half Nov.

First half *Dec,

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

For Farticulars of Fro'ght and Passage,"apply to

Telephone No.375,

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.'

York Buildings, iạt door,

Hongkong, 30th October, 1908,

MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.

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

S.S." PAUL BRAD," 1,900 tros, 14, kpots.

BS. "CHARLES HARDOQIN," 1,900 tops, 14 kpots,

The speedlest, most luxuriously appointed and punctual stormers on the line, Dapurtare from Hongkong at 10 9.14. (Saturdays excepted). Departure from Canton at 5,75 PM. (Sundays excepted),

These superb slaamers carrying the Franch Mall are fitted throughour with Electric"Light"| and Fans and were specially bollt for this trada. Excellent cuisine.

The Company's Own Whad near Wing Lok Street and its berth in Canton opposite

Shameen.

COMMODORE GERRY'S MAKELL STAIRCASE,

To this more than regal bedroom sae ought to mount by such a maircase, as Commodore Gerry, another American of many millions' boasts. It is of the purest marble, cut to all appearance out of one shormons solid block, and rises by a single flight to the first lading, from which it divides into two sweeping stäite The very stair rails are thickly plated with gold; they skilfully hide the joins in sho marble, while the balustrades are of ironwork of intricate and exquisite design.

cases:

Mr. George Gould, probably stimulated by the Commodore's example, decided to "go ane better, and had the whole of his staircase and balcony thickly plated with gold.

FOR AN

IMPRESS

an empress ; but its cast rem tìns a secret lock- ed in her breast. It is a copy of the eigh- foemh century French state chamber; but pari haps what appeals to one mire than its costli ness is the calculated loxuriousness of its equip ment. At the head of the bed' are two gilded Cupids, each holding a spray, of lights which shed their radiance, at the touch of a handy button, softly over the pillows, at the exact, augls required for comfortable reading. Be neath the Cupids in a row of keys along the bed's panel. One key summɔus the lady's maid jaq- other rings a burglar alarm ; a third releases an electric cairent which warme the bed ; and so on through the gamut of ingenious mod luxu. rious devices.

£10,000 FOR A FIANO.

WM. PARLAEN, Manager.

Hongkong. azad Tuna, 1005.

THE

"HINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND

MORTGAGE CO., LD..

(CAPITAL PAID UP.....................$1,250,000)

Loans on Mortgage of House Property, &c. Goods received on Storage. Advances made on 'Marchandise. Loans made on the Providant System.

(Raton and Particulars on application),

THE OFFICE OF TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR OF WILLS

ATTORNEY, & Undertaken and Executed.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managem.

Rongkong, 19th March, roof,

SWATOW. DRAWN WORK COMPANY,

38, WELLINGTON' STREET,

Dealers in all kind of FRAUD MADD DRAWM CHINESE LINEN, GRASS CLOTH, &c., ail of the best quality ;.

ALSO

SWATOW BEST PEWTER-WARE, CANTON EMBROIDERY and CHINESE

LACES,

all from the best French pattern?}," HONGKOND AND SWATOW, "Hongkong, 19th October, 100%,

.......... If any doubt roma'os as to how- £1,0:0,000

can be expanded on and in a house. it will | THE surely be dissipated when we learn that Mr. H. G. Marguand paid £10,000 for ous of hir pianos, a miracle of paintings by Alma-Tadema, and of precious stone, while Mr. Corection

Vanderbilt püid23.500 for another; and as much as 40 for the accompanying stool. For asiogle picture, Fortuny's Choice of a Medel, Mr. W. A. Clark paid £10,150, outbidding ■ rivaj millionsjte, Mr.G.Gould, by the add 150 bid and Mr. Pierpont Morgan is said to have spent little under £1,000,000 on his marvellous collection of works of art and bric-a-brac, | among them being a single silvar omament, only 15 inches high, which is valued at £10,000.

0. C. MOOSA,

8, D'AGUILAK STREET

For further particulare, please apply to the COMPANY'S OFFICE at Shameen, Canton, NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON.

Bongkang, 9th October, 1908.

P. NALIN, FRENCH MAIL OFFICE.

Саба

Hotel.

WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP:

THE BIARREES

COMPANIES.

HONGKONG-WBOHO W LINK.

*LINTAN * and “SAN-DI".

'JAIL FROM HOXOKONG TWICE a Werk and Cọkriate tax Round Trip 1/4 DATI. Thane seaman have Excellent faloos Accommodation, and are Lighted Throughout by Klectricity, THE CLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS: 18

· VERY FINE AND EXHILIRATING.

Forfarther informatio='apply to-

or to their Agents BARRETTO & CO., Hongkong.

HOTEL PLEASANTON,

No. 17, Water Street, Yokohama,

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WEST RIVER BRITISH SJ, DOMPANIES

Honghong, záth July, zgod.

HENRY LUTZ,

Trimmed and Untrimmed HATS, RIBBONS, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, &c., &c.

LACE SCARFS, MOTO 1 VEILS

VARIOUS COLORS,

MOUSQUETEIRE GLOVES

1x

WHITE BLACK & COLORS,

WOOLEN DEL'AINES, NUNSVEIL- INGS, VOILES, &c, &c.

LADIES' and CHILDREN'S *

UNDERCLOTHINGS.

Samples on application. Const

| Port orders carefully executed,

Hongkong, goth September, 190ß..

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PROFESSIONAL TATTOOER

··AND-

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--MARKS,"

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In tattooing unlike some have the work done in's perfect, high toned manner. In order to take special precaution against poisible dangars, I use fresh materials daily.

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The copying of Portraits with, distinct minuteness a speciality,

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