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Mails.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY DECEMBER 24 1908.

Intimation.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LT.

BREMEN.

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.

NAPLES,

FOR

GENOA, ALGIERS,' GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and HAMBURG

ן ני

STRAMERI

'BUELOW "

Capt. H. Formes *****

TO SAIL

WEDNESDAY,

Noon, 30th December.

MANILA,

NEW

GUINEA," BRISBANE, SYDNEY & MEL- BOURNE

"PRINZ WALDEMAR"

Capt. F. Iseka

THURSDAY, **5 F.M, IN December.

SHANGHAI, TSINGTAU, NAGA-7 "PRINZ EITEL FRIEDRICH "Į About THURSDAY,

SAKI, KOBE and YOKOHAMAZ | Capt. E. Malchow............................

31st December.

KUDAT and SANDAKAN.................

{

·BORNEO '

TUESDAY, Capt. F. Semblil ............ Noon, 29th December,

For further Particulars, apply 10

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & CO.,

GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA...

Hongkong, 21st December, 1908.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

FRENCH MAIL LINES..

FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE, TO and FROM FUROPE via SUEZ QANAL

TO-and-FROM-JAPAN vi■ SHANGHAI.......

Гол

STEAMERS

CAPTAINS.. TO JAIL ON

SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA.....SYDNEY .............................Rebutat 4th Jañ,/09, P.M MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS „Ernest Simons .....Girard....................... 5th Jan./09, at 1PM. SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA „Polynesien“ ..............Broc....................................18th Jan., P.M.. MARSEILLES, via PORTS.................... TONKIN...Charbonnel;.. 19th Jan., at 1. P.M.

Transhipment on the Oo's Steamers at Singapore for Batavia; st Colombo for Calcutta, Bombay and Australia ; at Port Bald.for the Levant. Constantinople and Black bea

Through Tickats to London via Paris from £27.to up to £71,10. zo hours' rallway from “Marsallies to London.

Interpreters meet paisangers at their arrival in Marsellion.

For farther particulars, apply to

P. NALIN,

AOTING AGENT,

QUEEN'S BUILDINOS,

Hongkong, 24th December, 1908.

AVA-CHINA-JAPAN

KECULAR THREE-WREKLY SERVICE

BEZWEEN-

JAVA, CHINA, AND JAPAN,

Steamer.

2nd balf Dec JAVA

LIJN

From

Expected t Drabort

Will leave for

On of about

.....zod half Dec.

ist ha'! Jan.

1st-half Jan.

******...................] 2nd hall Jan.

TJIPANAS SHANGHAI

TJIMÄHI... JAVA .............." ...

TJILIWONG:| JAPAN.

TJIKINI

TJILATJAP

JAVA.

JAVA

TJIBODAS

... JAVA (49) 27

1st half Jan. SHANGHAI ..... Tel-ball

·Jao. | JAVA-

zod half Jan. JAPAN

1st half Feb. SHANGHAI

JAPAN

The Steamers are all őtted througboat with Electric Light and have 'Accommodation for

a limited number of Salona Passengers, and will take Cargo to all Netboriand India Posts

on through Bills of Lading.

For Particulars of Fraight and Passage, apply to`

Telephone No. 375,

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

YORK BUILDINGS, 1st foor,

Hongkong, 14th December, 1908.

Ix6

WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP

COMPANIES: | \----

THE Steamers

HONGLONG WUCHOW LINE

* LINTAN" and, “SAN-UI”.

TAIL - PROW' Hanazona Twice A Werk and COMPLETE THE ROUND TRIP IN 4. DATI. !: Theos Migamare kars Excellent Saloon Accommodation, and amn Lighted Throughout.by Klectricity, i

THE OLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS IS

·VERY FINK AND EXHILIRATING.

netkár information apply to--

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

· WEST RIVEN BRITISH 5.5, UDMPANIES

No. 1 DOCK.

Length inside 514 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 iv., bottom 75 it. Water on blooks, 87.5 ft. Time to pump out, & houra,

No. 2 DOCK:

Length inside, 875 ft. Widthlof entrance, top 60.5 ft. bottom 45.8. ft. Water on blooks, 86,5 ft.' Time to pump out, 2 hours.

THESE DOCKS are conveniently sheared in Yokohama barbour and the attention of Captains and Engineers is respectially called to thojadvantages 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 angios mil being tested by Lloyds' surveyors).

Two powerful Twin „Screw Towboats are, available for taxing Vassels in or out a Dock, and for taking Sailing Vessels in or out of the bay. The doating derrick is capable of liftlug 35 toni.

Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Ligntere, Staal Buildings and Roofa, Bridgs Werk, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises.

AMPRESS EUGENIE'S SCOICH

SANCESTRY.

"WEATHER MORKOMST SAND STORM-WARNINGS ISSORD. FROM THE HONGEONG OBSERVATORY:

The cheque for £5 which the ex-Empress! Eugenie bas sent to the Glasgow Dumfriesshire Bociety, to which she writes, 1am united by the most ancient family ties,” is a reminder

· METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALS. that her grandfather was a certain William Kirkpatrick, who at one time kept a grocer's,

Meteorological signals' are hoisted on the mast in front of the Water Police Station at shop in Belfast. The grocer amigrated to America, prospered, and was sent to ʼn alaga as Tsim Sha Tsui for the information of `masters United States Consul, where he married the of vessels leaving the port, They do not oldest daughter of a Belgian named Gravigny, necessarily imply that bad weather is expected A daughter of this marriage married the Marbers quis of Montijo, and on the dealt of the Sigul Marquis bis widow took her daughter Eugenia on a European tour, during which tits latter met Prince 'Louis Bonaparte, avowed horself ope of his adherente, and eventually married him. Her connexion with Dumfries arises from the fact that her grandfather, the Belfast grocer, was a lineal descendant of a George Kirkpatrick who went.in 1690 to Irelied from

Closeburn, Dumfries.

THE VANDERBILT FORTUNE,

"AN ORIGINAL CHARACTER...

The Vanderbilt fortune, "once the grantest fonncial power in the United States," probably amounts at the present moment, according to Mr. Barton J. Hendrick in the Novembar Dar fers to not far from 300,000,000 dalk · Of this, William Kistam Vanderbilt, who control the

Tendars will be made up when required and the workmapibly and material will be majority of the family properties, holds in the goaranted.

neighbourhood of 100,000,000. dola, wbile

The cost of Ducking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with cust of any port in the world.

Telephone: Nos. 376, 508, or 681.

Telegrams, “ Dook, Yokohaına," Codes A. B. 0. 4th and 5th Edt.

Liebers, Soutts,

A. L

and Watkins.

Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905-

Shipping Steamers.

MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.

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

S.S." PAUL BEAU," 1,900 tons, 14 knots.,,

BS. "CHARLES Hardouin," 1,900 tonn, 14 knots

The speediest, most luxuriously appolated and punctual steamers on the line. Dipast in from Hongkong at 10 mm. (Saturdayn excepted), Dopaiture from Canton at 5.15 .M. (Sundays excepted).

These superb steamers carrying the French Mail are dited throughout with Blesthe Light and Fans and ware specially built for this trade. Excellent colalne.~.-

The Company's Own Wharf near Wing Lok Street and lits berth in Canton opposite Shameen.

For further particulars, pleasă apply to the COMPANY'S OFFICE at Shamsen, Canton,

or to their Agents BARRETTO & CO., Hongkong.

Hengkong, 9th October, 1908.

Intimations.

SAINT-RAPHAEL

Tonic, RestoRATIVE, DIGESTIVE WINK

ery palatable.

Known throughout-the-world-and-prescribed in all cases of Ancemia, Dability and Convalescence, to young women, children and the aged, Invaluable in hot climates.

DOME : Une wise-glass after the two principal momain,

Each bottle of genuine VIN SAINT-RAPHAËL bears, in addition

to the registered trade-mark:

́(1) TƉO WARRANTY STAMP of 158 UNON DES FABRICANTS,

(3) A METAL BEAL advertising CZARKYMAS,

CLETEAS & MELISSA and MINT cordial

"which surpasses all others by its

purety and faultless" preparation. To be taken on a lump of sugar,

COMPAGNIE đủ VÍN BAINT-RAPHAEL. Valence (Dröme-France). ...

GALDBECK MAGGR500A & Co., Hongkong,

Dentistry.

TSIN TIKĖ.

AN APPEAL

THE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN CONVENT, Oains(Road; begs mont

LATEST METHODS OF DENTISTRY. respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of

STUDIO AT NO. 14, D'AQUILAR STREET.

REASONABLE FIL

Consultation From Hongkong, noth June, 1904.

Hongkong and the Coast Ports, for their kind "patronage and support, and desires, to state that she will be pleased toʻrocalen ördara för all kinds of NEEDLE WORK A

Gentlemen's Shirts made 10 'order, and Cuffi- 16 and GoBare renewed on old ones."

Dr X H CHAUN, TER LATEST - METHOD

[of the... AMERICAN SYSTEM OF DENTISTRY 11. QUEEN'S BOAD] CENTRAL,

InsyİTESİR. USA;

Ladies and Children's, Under-clothing, Chil 'dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery, Materials cas be supplied, if required. ?!

**The Superioress will also be most grateful for any PAPER, or old ENVELOPES to be made ints Books for the Childr the Poor Schools Who are Fanghi by the Slitters

Kangkong stad April 19,

| twelve or fifisen descendants of the Commodore share among themselves the remaining 200,000,000 dots. The development of this for- tune ir, Mr. Headrick consider, the most Important chapter in the railroad history of the United States The Commodore made his, `money, as is well-known, by obtaining control

of a number of the American railways,

Though ambitious to found a great Ameri- can dynasty, the Commodore, Mr. Hendrick xalates, was on notoriously bad terms with nearly all his children. "I have eleven chil· dren," he once said to a friend, "and there ain't one of them that's worth except Bill! He apparently resented the fact that of his thirteen children ten had bear girls. Somesse once, in Vanderbilt's presence, praised, the children of one of his daughters, Mr. W. K. Thorn. "Oh, yes, they're nịca children," he replied, "but they ain't Vanderbilts.” His great- est embitterment came through his second son and namesake, Cornelius Jeremiah, who quar- relled with his father at eightton, afterwards became insane, and finally blow out bis brains in a New York hots);

Entimations

PABST BREWING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE.

FRESH SUPPLIES ALWAYS KEPT IN STOICE

EY

SIEMSBEN & Co. Agents for

HonaxonG & SOUTH CHINA. Hongkong, roth Inly, ton?.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

A CONE point upwards

A CONE Point upwards. and 11 UM below

A DRUM

A CINE point down wards and DRUK below

A CONE point down- wards

6. A CONE- point down.

wards and

BALL below

7.

BALL

A. DONE point upwards and RALL below

indicates à Typhoon to the North of the "Colony..

indicates a Typhoon to the Norifi.Fast of the Colony.

indicates a Typhoon to the East of the Colony,

indicatesa Typhoon to, the Batifi East of the Colony.

iudicatas Typhoon to the South of the Colony.

Indicatesa Typhoot to the South-West of the Colony.'"

indicatesa Typhoon to the Wost of the Colony...

Indicates Typhoon to the North-West *of the Colony..

And Signals indicate that the centre is believed to be more than 300 miles away from the Colony.

Bloch Signal, indicate that the centre is believed to be less than 300 miles away from. the 'Colony,

The above signals will, as heretofore, be hoisted only when typhoons exist, in such positions or are moving in such directions that information régarding tham la considered, to be of importance to the Colony.or-to-shippi-g- leaving the harbour.

These signals are, repeated at the Harbour Office, H.M.S. Tamar, Greed 'Island Signal Mast, and the Flagstaff on the premises of the fet Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown

Company at Kowloon, w

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'By Order,

THE MANAGER, Hongkong Telegraph Co, Id Hongkong, 22nd December, 198

1101

-THERAPION MAY NOW ALSO BE CRTAINED IN DRAGEE (TASTELESS) FORM, A BROKEN-DOWN SYSTEM'

This condition (or dimar) so which doctori. EN MAY SANes, but which few of them, really anderstand, It is simply weakness a break-down, zzit were, of the vital forene that sustain the sy iem. No matter what may be in caitaos (for they see almost numberinec), ila kyuuptoma are fuck the samec, the more prominsal being sleep,wvwan, s of praradim se, sparinesi, dupta'da spirits, and want of saagy fór síl the i čzary Aairs of life. Now, what alone la absolutel tist in all sockcaven la imorrnand vitality, con VITAL STRENGTH & ENE, SY t'thrum off shone morbid feelings, and spe proves that as night sncceeds the day this in muru Kertainly secured by a course of THE NEW.FRENCH REMEDY

THERAPION No.3

than by any other ki “en combisation. Borry as it is taken. In' sobordanos with the 'priated directions accompanying it, will the shattered THE EXPIRING LAMP OF UFE:

• ~"NIGHTED UP AFRESHWARI png" à son Mistance imparted in place ỏi mass and no intney speed worn-out, "! Hand up,!” Hd WAISHIONERIAN Wondertid madicalment la purely (2) vegetable and innocnoua, ja agrassble to the taste - suitable for all constitutions and conditions, Ja miškas METĮ Kad it in dišienli to imagine a cams of. Ɛdisease or dərsa cemrat, whose munia faktures are. thons of debility, that will not be soddily and

•peratīva sensory, which le Austfind to,can Jata inblivion wverything that had perended la see this {widespread nad a smarang glass of human alimonia,

THERAPION

senulata throughout the searide ?pocket. Przykkanen ***?

URGENT SIGNAL.

In addition to the above, when it is expected that the wind may increase to full typhoon force at any moment, the following Urgent Signal will be made at the Vitor: Police, Station, and repeated at the Harbour Office →→→

THREE EXPLOSIVE-NOMES, AT INTERVAL.

OF TEN SECONDS... "A ̃Black CrossTMwill be hoisted-at-the-same time, superior to the other shapes.

NIGHT SIGNALE,

The following Night figuals will be exhiɓit. d from the Flagstaff on the roof of the Water Police Station at Kowlorn, the Harbour Ofies

Flagstaff, and H.M.S. Tamar,

1. Three Lights Venical, Green Green Green, indicates that typhoon_in_belleved to-be- situated more than goo miles from the Colony,

II..Three Lights Vertical, Green Red Green, | lödicates that, a typhoon is believed to be situated less than yoo miles from the Colony,

III, Three Lights Vertical, Red Green Red, indicates that, the wind may be expected to increase to fall typhoon force at any moment.

No. III. Signal will be accompanied by the Explosive Bombs, as above, la the event of the information conveyed by this signal being first published by night.

These Night Signals will be substituted the the Day Signals at sunset, and will, when necessary, be altered during the night,

SUPPLEMENTARY WARNINGS,

For the benefit of Native Craft and passing Ocean Vessels, a Cone will be exhibited at, each of the following stations during the time. that any of the abova Day Signals are hols ed in the Harbour...

Gap Rock

Wagian. Stanley.

Cape Collinson,

This wil

hoisted!

Vessels, on dainand