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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY MAY 4, 1969.

Intimations.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.

BREMEN.

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES,

For

NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS,BULOW

GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON,

STEAMERI

ANTWERP and BREMEN......... Capt. H. Formes"..................

TO BAIL

I-WEDNESDAY,

5th May, at Noon.

SHANGHAI NAGASAKI, KOBE?"PRINZ E11EL FRIEDRICH" About THURSDAY

and YOKOHAMA

6th May.

Capt. E. Malchow

.

MANILA, YAF, NEWGUINEA,

BRISBANE, SYDNEY MELBOURNE

"MANILA "

FRIDAY,

and

Capt. 2. Gathemant .................

21st May, 10 A.M,

"BORNKO"

Capt. F. Sembill

WEDNESDAY,

5th May, 9 A.Kr

For further Pardcolars, apply to

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

Width of

No. 1 DOCK. Length:inalde 514 ft. W entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 75 it. Water on blocks, 87.5ft. Time to pump out, 4 hous.

No. 2 DOCK.

Length inside, 875 ft. Width of entrance, top 80.6 ft. bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blooks, 26.5 ft. Time to pump out, 2 hours.

THESE DOOKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineem fa respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking ́and enpairing 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, engles, all being tested by Lloydı' surveyors).

ENGLANDS defence UR OPIUM,

THE RECENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.

WEATHER-FORMOAST AND "STORM-WARNINGS-ISSUAD KROM THE HONGKON

OBSERVATORY.

Bogland, with a disinclination to part with METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALS, au industry that nets the Government of India some $10,000,000 annually, and employs over a Meteorological signals are hoisted on the million and a half cultivators, appears to have mast in front of the Water Police Station at overbalanced the combined influences of Japan, Tsim Sha Tsui for the information of maaars Siam, Persia, Rusia, Germany, France, of vessels leaving the port. They do not Holland, Portugal, Turkey, and the United necessarily imply that bad weather is expected States in the recent International opium con- here; ference at Shanghai. The conference, is thus Signal looked upon by the American press as an almart total failure. The conference, was pro posed by the United States; and its object was to arrive at "definite suggestions of measures which the respective governments might adopt looking to the gradual suppression of opium cullivation, traffic and us within their Eastern

possessions, thus assisting China in her perposs of eradicating the evilin the Empire."

That little was accomplished outside of the cadorsement of beneficent resolutions is looked pointment," and the Hartford Courant believes upon by the New York Post an "a sad disap

that the report of the British Commission that the practise of smoking opium when indulged Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats aro ́arellable for taking Versals in or out of in with moderation it relatively harmless in "Dock, and for.takleg Sailing Vossels-to-or-out-of-the-bay-The-fontlog-derick-is-capable bound to make a stir if not a stench in the

of lifting 35 tons.

world." "The one thing that prevent" a general movement the might be effective is the Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Lighters, Steal Buildings and Roofs, Bridge Indian trade and its relation to Indian Work; and all kinds of Machloory are madb'on the promisas,

revenues," says, the Chicago Rotord-Herald. "The New York World discusses thus the dow

1.

Tenders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be world-wide movement against opium:

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, | guaranted

MELCHERS &

CO

GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.

Hongkong, 30th April, 1999)

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

FRENCH MAIL LINES.

FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL

FOR

TO and FROM JAPAN vie SHANGHAI.

STEAMERS

CAPTAINE TO BAIL ON Broc. Toth May, P.M. Charbonnel... 11th May, at y P.M.

24th May, P.M ...........25th May, at i P.M. Trasshipment on the Co.'s Steamers at Singapore for Batavia; at Colombo for Oalcatta, Bombay and Australja ; at Port Said for the Levant, Constantinople and Black Sea.

SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA .....POLYKOSIEN ` MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS ....................TONKIN............... SHANGHAJ, KOBE, YOKOHAMA...SYDNEY MARSHILLÉS, VIA PORTS

„OCEANİEN...

..Sellier

Through Tickets to London via Paris from £37.10 up to £71,10., so hodes railway from. Marsailles to London.

"Interpretats ranoi passengers at their arrival in Marrofiles. »

For further particulars, apply to

Hongkong, 27th April, 1909.

P. de CHAMPMORIN,

AGENT,

QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.

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MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.

FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG. CANTON AND

KOUANG.SI,

S.S."PAUL BEAU,”. 1,900 tons,

AS, "CHARLES HARDOUIN," 1,900 "tons, 14 knots;

The spoedlest, most luxuriously appoloted and punctual singmers on the line Departure from Hongkong at 10.P.M. (Saturdays excepted). Departure from Canton at-5.55 P.M. (Sundays excepted).

These superb steamers carrying the French Mail are fitted throughout with. Blectric Ligb

und Fans and were specially bullt for this trade. Excellent cuisine... -

"For years the United States has been per tered by opium-smuggling-on-the-northarm

The cost of Dock!pg, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that frontier. The annexalian of the Philippines of any port in thô world,

Telephone: Nos, 876, 606, or 881.

Telegrams. "Dock. Yokohama," Codes A. B. C. 4th and 5th Edt,

Liebers, Scotts,

Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905.

To Let,

TO LET..

100MS suitable for Offices in No. 10, ICE

RHOUSE STREET, in rear of David

Bassoon & Co.'s premises.

"FAIR VIEW" No. 1 Robinson Road, containing Six Rooms and Severa! Small

Rooms and Large Outhouses.

Apply to-

DAVID SASSOON & Co. LD, Hongkong, 30th April, 1909...

33

TO. LKT.

A. 1, and Watkins.

16

JUST LIND:D:

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The well-known and famous brandy

Bisquit Dubouche

& Co."

Per Bot. XXX Very Old Fine $2.50 V.O.C.B. Guaranted 20 Years

Old

SHOP and DWELLING HOUSE, No. 78, QUINQUINA?

Road,

Apply to

S. J. DAVID & Co

Prince's Buildings.

r. Hongkong, 25th March, 1909,

TO LET.

Taga

NOS, 31, 53, & ss, WONG-NEI-CHUNG

ROAD.

Apply to- HONGKONG & KOWLOON LAND & LOAN CO, LTD. No, 6, Queen's Road West. Hongkong, th March, 1909.

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'TO LET.

*ODÓWN No. fa, Duddell STREET,

Apply to→

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST:

MENT AGENCY CO., LO. -- Hongkong, 1st April, 1909,

TO LET.

ALSO..

QUINQUINA F

5.50

DUBONNET

FRENCH STORE, Sole Agent. Harckoner 30th April, 1909.

0. C. MOOSA,

1 & 8; D'AQUILAR STREDI

brought many users of the drug" under our control and endangered the American soldiery sent there, some of whom became addicted to it. In 1909, upou the report of a commission, a three-year period which bas now expired was set to opium leportation there. The Shanghai conference was called in September, 1977. On the day it mét, the House passed a bill prohibiting the importation of opium isto, this-country, which the Senate also passed.

"The civilized world is now moving against opium. "France in 'moved to energetic action

the fact that naval officers acquire the vice

in Tonkin. Japan isuppressing it in Formosa by registering incurables, to whom the drug is permitted, but refusing it to the young.

**China, the great centre of the opium habit, is bestirring itself. Arevolt against opium was one of the first effecs of revival of national pride; 1906 the late Emperor decreed 'tapering-off' policy, lo last ten years. 'Offici

als above sixty years of age whose cravings are great, were to be treated leniently, but the younger once must reduce their consumption gradually. Opium-dens were to close in six months-and they are being closed-and, im- portation was to stopla 1916.

1. A COME

point apwardi

A COME point upwards and DKUM below.

1. A DRUM

4.

Indicatesa Typhoon to the North of the Colony

indicates a Typhoon. to the North-East of the Colony.

indicates a Typhoon to the East of the Colony.

A OJNE .point down-

wards

and

·DRUM below

Indicatesa Typhoon to the South-East of the Colony

3. A CONE polat 'down. wards

6.

A CONE point down. wards and BALL below

7.

A BALL

A COME palot upwards and HALL below

indicatesa Typhoon -to the South of the,

Colony,

indicatesa Typhoon.

to the SouthWest: "of the Colony,

indicatesa Typhoon to the West of the Dolony.

Indicatesa Typhoon

to the North-Wen- of the Colony

Red Signals Indicate that the centre is

belleved to be more than 300 miles away from the Colony.

·Black Signal Indicate that the contra is believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony,

?

"The great obstacle to opium reform, bas

The above signals will, as heretofore, be been England, which established the opium hoisted paly when typhoon exist in such monopoly in India in 1793, forced the trade on China in a disgraceful war in 1840, and confirmaformation regarding them is considered to positions or are moving in such directions that

4° ed it by treaty in 1893, So late as 1895 'a Par- liamentary commission found that opium was not so badaud that'sayhow India needed the money! But the national conscience has grown sensitive. Sir Edward Gray, on November #7, 1907, pledged the Goveronicat to the support of any reform action Chlea might take. Britain's consent to the conferace was grudging, but

NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON.she did consent."--Literary Digest."

Trimmed and Untrimmed

{a} HATS, RIBBONS, FLOWERS,

FEATHERS, &c., &e.

FFICES, No. 2, CONNAUGHT ROAD,

Erd Floor.

HOW TO RAP,A FLEA,

That the flea is elative is proverbial, but that the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of Agricultura in Washington has hit upon a plan

be of importance to the Colony or to shipping: Icaving the harbour,

These signals are repeated at the Harbour Office, H.M.S. Tamar, Green Island Signal Mast, and the Flagstaff on the premises of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company at Kowloon,"

URGENT SIGNAL

In addition to the above, when it is expected that the wind may increase to fall typhoon force at any moment, the following Urgent) Signal will be made at the Water Folice Station, and repeated at the Harbour Office in

to circumvent" the inlating-little-insect is not | "THREE EXPLOSIVE BOMBE, AT INTERVALS

No. 1 CLIFTON GARDENS, CONDUIT LACE SCARFS, MOTOR VEILS generally known. According to Van Norden

ROAD,

A HOUSE in WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD,

A HOUSE In RIPON TERRACE. OFFICES la YORK BUILDING, GODOWNS I PRAYA EAST, BLUE BUILDIKOS, and No. 16, DES VOUX ROAD Baxt to the Hongkong Hotel, FLATS in MORETON TERRACE. No. 10, DES VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL,

In Floor,

Apply tom

*B HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY OO., LD. nagkong, 19th April org

TO LET.

TWO AIRY ROOMS in a house on BELILIOS TERRACE, first rów, entrance

The Company's Own Wher! near Wing Lok Street and its berth in Canton opposite from Robinson Road. Moderate Rental. For Shamees.

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

Hongkong, 9th October, 1908, '-

or to their Agents BARRETTO & 00, Hongkong.

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HONGKONG-MANILA-

ILOILO-CEBU.

Regular Steamship Service between Hongkong and above porta.

Steamship

5.S. RIGEL"

3.9." MANDAL

Tonnage Captain

1,750... Sievert MANILA

Ericksen 1,017...

Do..

For

Sailing Datos

About soth April,

1909.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BETTO & CO.,

particulars, apply to

HOUSEHOLDER,"

Cjo Hongkong Telegraph. Hongkong, sth March, roog.

Or

TO LET.

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FFICES and ROOMS on the 1st and 2nd Floors of No. 14. Den Vaar Road Central (formerly occupied by Messrs. ShoweD, Tomes & Co.). Rants low.

Apply to

THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT,

E. D. Sassoon & Co.,

Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 24th. Fabreary, tong..

Dentistry.

Dr. M. HL OHAUN, THE LATEST METHOD · of the

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AMERICAN SYSTEM OF DENTISTRY SI, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, From the University of Pennsylvanța. O SA

Hongkong, 16th April, roof, wat

THEN - TING.

LATEST METHODS OF DENTISTRY.

STUDIO AT NO, 14. D'AGUILAR STREET.

REASONABLE FRIE

Hongkong, 20th June, zgodn

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VARIOUS COLORS,

MOUSQUETEIRE GLOVES

WHITE, BLACK & COLORS.

WOOLEN DELAINES, NUŅSVEIL- INGS, VOILES, &c., ,&c.

LADIES' and CHILDREN'S

UNDERCLOTHINGS.

Samples on application. Port orders carefully executed,

Wongkong, gath September, TOOR,

Benger's Food is mixed with fresh new milk when, used, is dainty and delicious, highly nutritive, and most easily digested. Infants thrive on it, and delicate or aged persons' enjoy it.

Banger's Food it sold in tins, by off “Chemists, ez, everywkara, j

BENGERS

FOOD

Coast

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the Government has discovered a method by

OF TEN SECONDS.

A Black Cross will be hoisted at the sama

which any housekeeper may rid herself of a time, superior to the other shapes. -visitation, within a-very sbori time:~~~----

Fill a glass three-fourths with water, on top of which pour about an inch of olive oil, then. place a night float (vlittle wick inserted in a cardboard disc or in scork disc) in the centre of the oil. Place the tombler in the centre of a soup plate filled with strong soap-suds. The wick should be lighted at night on retiring or may be used in any dire room. As the soup plato soapsads trap if placed on the floor of the room it does not interfere with the sleeper, and the fleas which we be the flor are at tracted to the light. För outbuildings, such as barns, etc., a large milk pad may be used, and

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MIGHT SIGNALS.

The following Night Signals will be exhibit ed from the Flagstaff on the roof of the Water Police Station at Kowloon, the Harbour Office Flagstaff, and H.M.S. Tamar,

1 Three Lights Vertical, Green Green Green, Indicates that a typhoon is believed to be situated more than 300 miles from the Colony.

indicates that a typhoon ta bellayed to be

1 Three Lights Veral; Green Red Green

situated less than 300 miles from the Colony,

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

instead of using olivenit and a glass, a stable fantern may be placed in the centre of the pan, while instead of soapsuds a scam of kerosene may be put on the wattle the milk pan.

This method, it is said, will rid a house of the Explosive Bombs, as above, in the event of the No. III. Sigual will be accompanied by the pests in a few nights:

Intimations.

INSURANCE MAN, seeks Engagement

· 28, your experiance with Leading Fire- Companies. Open for Hongkong or Ching Coast poris. No objection to abipping or retail stores.

Apply

"VICTOR,"

Cjo Hongkong Telegraph. Hongkong, goth April, 1909.

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GREEN ISLAND JEMENT DOMPANY, LIMITED:

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks of 375 ha, not $5.50 per Cask

information conveyed by this signal being first published by night,

These Night Signals will be substituted the the Day Signals at sunset, and will, whan necessary, be altered during the right,

SUPPLEMENTARY WÄRKIMOS, Ž

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 way of the abovs Day Signals are bois ad in the Harbour.

Aberdeen. San Ki Wan, Sal Kuag

Gap Rock, Waglan

Stanley,

Capa Collinson

Sha Tan Kol.

Tal Pa

This will indicate that there is a somewhere in the China Sea, and that Warning is hoisted in the Harbour.

#50 mi. net: 28.45 pir Bag Further detalls can always be given

Sex Factoryz

SHIWAN TOMES & G¤,

Gebral Managersk

Vessala, on 'densand, by signal, fron