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Mails.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6 1908.

Intimation.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.

BREMEN.

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

FOR

NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS,}#KLEIST

GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON,

ANTWERP and BREMEN

TO SAIL

No. 1 DOCK.

`Length inside 514 ft. Width of entranos, top 95 ft.; bottom 75 it. Water on blooks, 87.6 ft. Time to - pump out, 4 hours.

No. 2 DOCK.

Length inside, 375 ft. Width of entrance, top 60,5′ft. bottom 45,8 ft. Water on blooks,80,5 ft. Time to pump out, 2 hours,

THESE DOOKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama barbour, and the attention of Captains and Engineers is sospectially called to the advantages offered for Docking Noon, 18th November, and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description.

WEDNESDAY, '

STEAMERS

Capt. Rud. Meyer

SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE) "GOEBEN"

and YOKOHAMA

• Capt. B. Wilhelm.........

About WEDNESDAY,

18th November

MANILA, YAP," NEWGuinea,

BRISBANE, SYDNEY.& MEL- BOURNE..........

"MANILA "

Ompt. J. Miussen................................

THURSDAY,

Noop, 3rd December.

KUDAT and SANDAKAN.

BORNKO". Capt. F. Semblil"

***** Middle of November.

For fanter Particulars, apply to

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & CO.,

GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.”

Hongkong, 6th November, 1908,

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

FRENCH MAIL LINES.

FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via BUEZ CANAL.

TO and FROM JAPAN via SHANGHAI.

Fox

TO-FAIL ON

STEAMERS' CAPTAINE SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA...ARMAND BEḤIC ........Guldanet... 9th Nov., P.M. MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS.......................POLYNESIEN...............Broc......................1016_Now, at 1FM, SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA ...DUMBEA .................Boyer ......23rd Nov, F.M. MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS TOURANE .................Lancelię,,,24th Nov, at 1-2.4 Transhipment on the Co.'s Steamers at Singapore for Batavia'; at Colombo for Calcotta, Bombay and Australia; at Port Bald for the Levant, Constantinople and Black Sea.

~Through Tickets to London via Paris (rom £27,10 up to £71,10. 20 hours' raliway from Marsellies to London.

Interpreters meet passengers at their arrival in Marseilles.

For further particulars, applý to

Hongkong, 27th October, 1008.

P.

NALIN, "KING AGENT,

QUEER'S BUILDINGS.

CHARGEURS REUNIS.

FRENCH STEAMSHIP Co.-HEAD OFFICE: PARIS.

ALL ROUND THE WORLD LINE.

Outward: ANTWERP, DUNKIRK, LA PALLICE, MARSEILLES, GENOA, NAPLES, COLOMBO, VIA SUIZ, SINGAPORE, HONGKONG, CHIN- WANTAÓ (Peking, Tientsin), KOBE, YOKOHAMA,

GENOA TO HONGKƠNG IN 30 DAYS. NAPLES

20 *

11

Calque opportunity to make a tour in North-Chips.and Japan with the Greatest Speed

Sa oty and Comfort.

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

Connecting with the Canadian Paolio Railway. FREIGHT to OVERLAND .................

PASSENGERS to OVERLAND and EUROPE via VANCOUVER. YOKOHAMA¬VANCOUVER................I DAYS.

"

*

LONDON and PARIS

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

VIA MAGELLAN STRAITS.

Proposed Sailings:

1 CORSE.................20th Nov.

AMIRAL MAGON ................IIth Jan, 1909,

† Now Twin Screw 16,000 Tous displacement, rst class accommodation, splendidly

equipped with single berth cabins.

* Intermediate class and'rates of passago,

All round the woëld ticket by those bosis, &c.

The plant and tools, are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with work mad a large stock of material is always at hand, (plates, and angles all being tested by Lloyds, surveyors)..

Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels in or out o Dock, and for taking Salling Vessels In 'or out of the, bay, The Ecating derrick is capabla of liftlug 35 tons.

Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Lighter, Steel Buildings and Roofs, Bridge

· Work, and all kinds of Machinery am'made on the premises.

:

1:

Tenders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be

guaranted.

ALMUST STRUCK BY A MEIBOR.

Willia McKinngu, the rg-your-old son of Mr. Angus McKinnon, Duncan, B.C., recently an derwent a most startling experience and had a

* Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

miraculous escape from death while working in THE Undersigned have received instructions

his father's garden. A meteor about tea inches in diameter was hurled through space and buri- ed itself in the ground about eight feet from 1. where the boy was standing. The rheteor could be the heard coming for several minutes before it struck the earth, but the lad thinking it was a tmin passing, took no notice until the celestial vinitor

truck the earth, sending the rocks flying in every direction and causing an effect like an earth- quaks in that vicinity. On the lad's parents visiting the spot it was found that the meteor was still intensely hot, and not for over half an hour could it be handled. The meteor, or whatever it was that falf, looked much like an ordinary boulder, except that it was almost as round as a marble and the surface was deeply scored with what resembled hieroglyphics. The meteor had passed through the branches of two trees in its flight, snapping them off like mat- ches. It fell at: wo angle of about forty-five degrees and was travelling in a northwesterly | direction when it sirock the naṛth.

TROPICAL MEDICINE,

The address delivered by Sir Patrick Manson to the students at Charing Cross Hospital or the question of tropical diseases shows how

great an advance has been made in that sub. ject during the last ten or fifteen years. There was some opposition to the first suggestion of

The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that studying tropical medicine as a distinct departs of any port in the world,

Telephone: Nos. 376, 506, or 881.

Telegrams, "Dook, Yokohama," Codes A. B. 0. 4th and 5th Edt. Liebers, Bootta, A-1-and-Watkins. Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905.

Shipping Steamers.

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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

TJILIWONG

REGULAR THREE-WEEKLY SERVICE

BETWEEN -

JAVA, CHINA, AND JAPAN.

Expected "d

Will lanya for

On or abou!

Steamer,

From

or about

JAPAN

First 'hall

No

TJIMAHE...... TJILATJAP... : SHANGHAI TIIKINI

JAPAN

JAVA

JAPAN

JAVA

First half

JAVA

AMOY

First ball Nay! Second ball

Nov.

Nov.

First half

Second half Nov. Second half Nov.

JAVA

Second ball

Nova:

Nov,

Eiral hai Dec

JAVA

SHANGHAI

JAVA

Second ball

Nov. Second half Nov. First half Dec.

TJIPANAS

THIBODAS

The Steamers are all fitted faronghent with Electric Light, and bare Accommodation for silmited number of Saloon Passougars, and will taks Cargo to all Netherland India Ports on through Bills of Lading,

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For Particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to

Telephone No. 375,

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

-York Buildings, 1st floor,

Hongkong, sth November, 1908,

MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.

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

V

5.5; "PAUL BEAD,” 1,500 tons, 14 koots.,

RS. "CHARLES HARDOUIN,",1,900 tons, 14 knots,

The speediest, most luxuriously appointed and punctual steamers as the lion.. Departure from Hongkongật tổ ra. (Saturdays excepted). Departure from Canton at 5.15 P.M. (Saadiys excepted),

to sell bytu

· PUBLIC AUCTIONEER 'FOR' ACCOUNT "OF THE CONCERNED,

TO-MORROW, MEN AL ab November, 1908, at 2.30 F.M., at their "Salos Rooms, No. 8, Des Foux Road,) corner of Ice Hours Street;

& LARGE ASSORTMENT, OF W JAPANESE CURIOS,

Comprising

HAND-PAINTED KAGA and NAGOYA" TEA SETS, SILK EMBROIDERED SCREENS, HAND BAGS MONEY PURSES, WALL HANGINGS; FINE IVORY CARVINGS, GOLD and SILVER CLOISONNE BOWLS, VASES and TEA SETS, KINKOSAN SATSUMA WARE, PLATES, INCENSE BURNERS and TEA SETS BRASS and BRONZE CARVED VASES, BOWLS, LANTERNS, BUDDHAS, FLOWER POTS, MAKUDZD, IMARI and 'ARITA WARE, GOLD DAMASCENE BANGLES, BUTTONS, MOTHER-O'- PEARL INLAID SCREENS and PANELS,

Catalogues will be issued. TERMS As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH, *Auctioneers. Hongkong, 6th November, 1908.:

(966

PUBLIC AUCTION.

*HE Undersigned have received instructions THE Un

from Lient. A. H. GOIT, to sell by public auCTION.

po TUESDAY,

the toth November, 1938, at 2.30 г.M., at No,'xo, Austia Avenue, Kowloon, SUNDRY

meat of the profession; but few would now dispate the necessity of special schools and training for the subject; and the results are more than gratifying. It is not too much to say that the science has made unhealthy tropical.countries.comparatively-bealthy;-and- that even district which were supposed to be absolutely deadly`are now no more than rather trying for the white man if he exercises proper care and takes the right diet--with zot too much drink. Il' is the drink and food that lay the foundation upon which disease builde; but with a more exact know. THE Undersigned have received instructions

ledge of what one may and may not do, and more attention paid to hygiene, the white man of good constitution now finds most parts of the tropics open to him. A great part of the im provement cannot be ascribed solely to the study of tropical medicine; but though that is at present only in its infancy; it has come near to revolutionising the tropical world. And what has been achieved is little in comparison with what will be achieved as the years bring more experience. That knowledge may have to be bought by experiments, which cause some suffering, is true; but if thousands of tives are saved thereby, the world will hardly pay. much head to the groans of anti-vivisector. Globe

HYGIENE OF FEMALE: APPAREL.

Dr. Bulstroda having attacked the wearing of corsets as bad for the lungs and other or 'gans, and having attributed the decrease in

pulmonary tuberculosis to a declins la popa larity, of corsets, Dr. Lilian Chesney replies that women are not giving up stays, and, mora- | over, that the latter are not in any way inju rious to health.

BOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Particulars from Catalogue. “TERMI :—As usual,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

AuctionĒRTS. Hoogkong, 5th November, roo8,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

to sail by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

.00

WEDNESDAY..

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the 11th November, 1908, at 1.30 PM, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ies House Street, SUNDRY HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

ONE COTTAGE PIANO by Hanke,

ALSO..

· AND

TWO FOWLING: PIECES. TERMS —ÂS usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

rongkong, 5th November, 1908,

Intimations.

(970

CHINESE ENGIneering"&" "mINING" CO, LTD.

DIVIDEND of One Shilling AINA Ponce per Share, free oil and been declared by the Directors of the above Company, making a total of 15% for the your onding 29th February, 1908, ****

Coupon No. 11 is payable on and November According to Dr. Chesnoy, it is the suspen-st the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & sion of garments from the shoulders, which is China, and the Kone-Chinese Bank at Tign-

tain and Shanghai.. the great hygienic evil,, sartorially speaking,

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co, and is responsible for the preferential invasjon

A Agonia, of the, pulmonary apices by the tubercle ba

Hongkong, and November, 1903, cilluft Bhe goes on to defend the custom, of wearing low-secked evening dress, this shoes and stockings, and atanly underwear at dinces and other forms of evening amusement.“

LEE YEE

HAIR DRESSING SALOON.

HAS ALWAYS ON Hand

AND

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“Il might well be supposed that to alteronte violent exercise with exposure to draughts while only partially clad, in spolia, of five minples reach for half the night, is to invite pulmonary diseases; but Dr. Chesney says that, CIGARS, CIGARETTES is point of fact, women very rarely catch cold in, tha, evening: there is far less harm, sha thinks, in uncovering the chest, head, fcc., for a portion of the day than in coddling them the whole clock round, and sho'is especially insist- 'ent on the detriment of heavy woollen under-

garments.-The Hospital

0. C. MOOSA,

These superb steamers Carrying the French Mail are fitted throughout with Electric Light||| 1 à 3, D'AGUILAR STREET, d'Fans and were specially built for this trade. Excellent cuisine.

The Company's Own Wharf near Wlag. Lok Street and its borth in Canton opposite Shameen.

For further particulars, please apply to the COMPANY'S OFFICE at Shameen, Canton,

or to their Agents BARRETTO & CO., Hongkong.

Bangkong, 9th October, 1988,

*For further Particulars, apply to

:

P, NALIN, FRENCH MAIL OFFICE. INTERNATIONAL SILEEPING CAR

Hongkong, arst October, igo8.

1460

WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP

COMPANIES.

HONGKONG-WUCHOW

THE Steamers

"LINTAN” and “SAN-UI?

JAIL, PROM; HONGKONG TWICK A WEEK AND COMPLATE THE ROUND TRIF in 4 Days, These steamers have Excellent Baloon Accommodation, and are Lighted Throughout by Electricity.

and

EXPRESS TRAINS Ja,

(THE

GREAT TRANS-SIBERIAN.. ROUTE

TO KUROPE.)

COLD STORAGE,

NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON.

Trimmed and Untrimmed HATS, RIBBONS, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, 0., &c..

· TOILET REQUISITES FOR SALE. 13, D'AQUILAR STREET). HONGKONG,

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY

7.00 .

LIMITED,"

TIME TABLE,

WIEL DAYI,

7.30 ..tọ. 9.30 am. .....Every so minatas.: 9.30 am, to 3100 KM. ...Every 15 minutes. 11/30 8.m, to 12.45 pmos.Every 15 minute"." 13.45 pto 15.15 p.m. .....Everyý zo minutes. 3.15 p.m. to 1:45 pm....Every 15 minuter. 1.45 pm to 2.15 p.m. Every 10 minutes," 1,73 p.m. to -3.00 p.m. Every 15 minutes. 3.30 p.m. too p.m. Every 15 minutes 500 p.m.took p.m... Every 10 minutar,

NIGHT CARE.”

THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LACE SCARFS, MOTOR VEILS 8.45pm; and 9/120, 945 p.m. in 12.15 pm ITD, LAV BOW 40,000 Unble feat of

GOLD STORAGE available at Hast 'Porter, Stor will be Open at 10 AM, 80₫ 4 2M/ dalls, Bullday accepted, to receive and deliver perialafils gooda,

WM. PARLAEN, ... Manager... Hongkong, sand fana, 100s.

GREEN ISLAND OZMENT COMPANY, LIMITED,

HAV

AVING been appointed AGENTS for ***

the above Company, we shall be

PORTLAND CEMENT.

IN

VARIOUS COLORS. ;.

MOUSQUETEIRE GLOVES

WHITE, BLACK & COLORS,'

WOOLEN DELAINES, NUNSVRIL INGS, VOILES, &c., &c.

THE CLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS IS pleased to give any information as to rates o Lo Carks of 375, net 85.50 per Cask LADIES and CHILDREN'S

VERY FINE AND EXHILIRATING. Š

Forfarther Information apply

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, WEST RIVER BRITISH S & COMPANIES

predags, dej in connecilon with abova.

THI WAN. TO LEN A Đo

12st Inly, 1937.

ex Factory,”

'le Bige of age be. not. 68.45 per Bag ex Factory SHEWAN TOMES & Co,”

UNDERCLOTHINGS.

Samples on application, ort orders careful

every half hour, SUNDAYS.

1.00 am to 9.00 8.m. .....Evasy 15 minutes. 9.00 am to 9.30 am. ...Kvary 30 mlantes, 9.30 xm, to 10.30 aan. „Erosy 15 mingtas, $10.50 am 10:11,00 am Every to minuter. 11.45 & 10 13.00 noon...Ery. 13 minute 12.00 Noon to 1.00 p.m....Every to minutes. -1,00 p.m. to: 5,00 p.m.2Every 25 minutan! 5.00 pm to 6.00 pm, .....Etsy to minutas,

· 3:00 p.m. to... 7,00 p.m. ulivary 15-minutes. 7.00 pm to 8.00 3.16. „Evoy xö mianten:

NIGHT CARS au on: Week Days;).

· Extra'cars at 415 pm), 12:30p.m ANALOGUEIR45 pm. SPECIAL" CARS b Company's-OSES?

Coast Das Vasar Bond Central

DAN JOHN DÀ HUI