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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JULY 24

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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.

BREMEN.

No. 1 DOCK.

No. 2 DOCK.

Docking Length

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES

515 ft Width of Entrance, ..."80° ;, Water on Blocks

28.

Docking Lengi...376 ft. Width of Entrance... 50 Water on Blocki a6a

FOR

NAPLES, GENOA ALGIERS,) "KLEIST")

GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and BREMEN ............................

SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOSE Į "GORDEN*

and YOKOHAMA

MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINEA,”

BRISBANE, SYDNEY & MEL- BOURNK

STRAMERI

TO SAL

WEDNESDAY,

Capt. O. Pabuke monaster.

4ར**་བནས་ བ་13བ་བབ་་ས་ Capt. B. W.ihelmi "............................

28th July, Noon.

About WEDNESDAY,

28th July.

*COBLEÌ 2

7 FRIDAY, Capt. 1. Racgener .....................**)

KUDAT and SANDAKAN.

BORNRO

Beginning of August.

For further Particulars, apply to

Hongkong, 17th July, 1909.

13th August, 10 A.M.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & CO.,

GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

FRENCH MAIL LINES.

FOLTNIGHTLY 88RVICE TO and F30€ BUBOF:Asin 8UE?] ANAL ↑

TO and FROM JAPAN via BHANGHAI,

FOR

STEAMERI

CAPTAINE TO SAIL ON

SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA.....TOMKIN........... „Charbonnel.....2nd Aug, P.M. "MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS.............CALEDO IN Cazanova...jed Aug, at 1 P.M. ¿HANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA...AUSTRALIEN..........óth Ang., ÉM MARSEILLES, VIA FORTS ERNEST SIMONS.Girard................. 17th Aug., at 1 P,M.

Transhipment on the Go's Steamers at Singapore for Batavis; at Columbo for Calcutta, Bombay and Australia's at Port Bald for the Levant, Constantinople and Black Sea..

Chrongh Tickets to London'vis Paria from £27.30 up to £71,10. 20 hours' railway sun

· Marseilles to London, de a

„Interpreteri meni passengers at their arrival in Marretilos,

For further particulars, apply 10

Hongkong, 20th July, 1909.

P. de CHAMPMORIN,

AGENT,

QUEEN'S BUILDINO),

MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.

FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG, CANTON and

KOUANG SE

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

"US" "CHARLES"HARDODIN,"′′-1,gao tons, rq knots.”

The speediasi, mozi luxuriously appointed and punctual steamers on the line. Departure from Hongkong at 10 2.1. (Saturdays excepted). Departure from Janton at 5.75 F.M. (Sundays excepted).

These superb støømars camre'ng the French Mall are fitted throughout with Blectric Light and Fant and ware specially bulk for this trade. Excellent cutslos..

The Company's Own Wharf near Wing Lok Street and its baith in Canton opposita Shamsen,

·

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

(or to their Agustu BARRETTO & CO., Hongkong.

Bongkong, th October, 1908,

EYES

RIGHT!

N. LAZARUS, OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN,

CORNER OF D'AGUILAR STREET ND QUEEN'S KOAD/

WILL tost your syni fron of charge, And if they are wrong will pur

W

All kinds of Repairs,

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NO. 3 DOCK. KIN COURBE OF CONSTRUCTION

Docking Langth......481 L Width of Entrance... 63 Water on Blocks.... 21-5 »

“HRSK DOCKS are conveniantly, simated in Yokohama harbour and tl's attention of THES

Captains and Boginners is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Dockl 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 largå stock of material is always na hand, (plates and angles all being tested by Lloyda' surveyors).

Two powerful: Twin Screw Towkosts are avaliabin for taking. Vassels" in or, om" of Dock, and for taking Salllog Vessels in or out of the bay. The floating derrick facpable of lifting 40 tons.

The recent death of Mr. Norman Cookson is an event in the annals orchidology. He was not the first amateur to practise hybridisation ; (bat honour belongs to Dean Herbert, of Man- chester. But Mr. Cookson was second, par haps, and the most famous. ¿ He has told how tim impulse scized bim Reading Darwin's

··· Fertilidation of Orchids ons Sunday after DOOD, be remembered that some plants of Cypripedium were flowering in his own grean house; mud carried the book thither to test its Information practically. A pocket pencil was the instrument used. To hit futensa surpriza the ovaries began to swell in a few days, and enlarged, a onth after month, until, in due time, the seed ripened. Such was the humble be- ginning of the wonderful collection at Wylam on-Tyne, about 1870, if not before..

Mesars, Veitch had been hybridising for iwanty years, of course. Their admirable fore- man, Dominy, kad evan flowered crosses of bis own raising. But for a century it had been' laid down, as a rule of nature, in books, that cacti and orchids cannot be fertilised artificial- ly. The bulk of man cling to such maxims long after the select faw have discarded them. I am not aware that any nurseryman in Ku- rope followed Domlay's lead for years, and very few amateurs, if any, preceded Mr. Cookson, But it was an amateur, without practical experiènce,

Steam Launches of Beal or Wood, Lighters, Stoel. Buildings and Rooks, Bridge perhaps, who denounced the old superstition- Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises,

Mr. John Harris, surgaon, of Exeter, of whom nothing more appears to be recorded. He Tendar will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be taught Dominy how to bybrídies orchids in 1813. gazzanteed.

The cust of Docklog, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that of any port in tks world.

A large mooring basin le available alongside our own works for mooring vessels whilst under repain.

Telephone: Now 878, 506, or 681.

Telegrams, "Dook, Yokohama," Codes A. B. O, 4th and 5th. Edt. Edebern, Bootta, A. 1, and Watkins. Yokohama, April 28th, 1903.

For Sale.

FOR SALE.

146

For Sale.

FOR SALE.

RICKSHAW with BICYCLE RUBBER DEST FIRE-PROOF SAFES,

The ancient cily of Prague han raised a fine statue to Benedict Roert, the "Collector," and the Emperor came to unveil it. But it is not to be imagined that the ancient city of Exclar will commemorate Mr. John Harris.

If it were any use decrying inventions which upset the immemorial balance of things, or dained by Nature itself, scientific, botanisti might reasonably protest against hybridisatión

A TYRED WHEELS in Good Condition B SHIFT KEYS, Manufactured by The Lw applied to the great family of Odontoglots,

Apply 10-

8. D. SETNA, No. 6, Des Voeux Road. (Hongkong, arst June, 1909. 2

To Let.

TO LET.

of orchids especially. As was predicted long ago, it is confusing species, and even genera to a degree which is becoming more and more distracting, not every month only but almost every day. The simple experiment. tried by Mr. Cookson that Sunday has been carried so far that reckless theorists begin to question the clearest of our time-honoured distinctions, suggesting that they have no real foundation,' For many years it was admitted that the old

GODREY LOD BOYCE MANUFACTURING CO. of at least they could not be hybridised artificial. Hombay, Ong Sale $ feet by 3 feet 84 in, by 2 | ty. But in 1891 Mi Laroy, gardener to: Baron fool 6 in. 2 Safes each a feet t is. by a feet y ip. Edmand de Rothschild, autounded the world [497 by a feel

of orchidists by showing a hybrid of Od, cria Also a few Large PADLOCKS for Godowns pum and Od, isteopurparsam la fwer. Old In the same Make.

fashioned botanists must have exclaimed-this is the beginning of the end. Forthwith almost every owner of orchids began crossing. Odon. toglets, marvelling how he could ever have been so dull as to fancy them excepilons to the general rale." In the rosdit, M. de B. Orawshay 1517 took a first-class certificate last Tuesday" for a bybrid of Od. Pescatorei and Cochlloda Nber linna,, which was all vivid scarlet-no trace of white remaining! And an expert, observing it, cheerfully prophesied that "we shall see a red crispum in a year or 'two } """

KING'S BUILDINGS, OFFICES facing Harbour from about October, at prasent in occupation of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ld...

Apply-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY.CO., LD. Hongkong, 3rd June, 1909, -

TO LET.

[463

N°53&55 WONG-NRI-CHUNG

ROAD.

Apply to-

HONGKONG & KOWLOON,LAND

`& LOAN CO, LTD. No. 8, Quesa's Road Wort Hongkong, 9th March, 1909.

TO LET

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MORRISON HILL, ́also

Also one OLIVER TYPEWRITER is good condition.

Apply to

PHIROZSHA E PÉTIT & Co., 6, Des Vœux Road. Hongkong, 5th July, 1909.

FOR SALE.

"ADLER'

TYPEWRİTERS

„THE PERFECT VISIBLE.

SSD ED

FROM THE HONGKUNG OBSERVATORY.

METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALS

Meteorological algoals are hoisted mast in front of the Water Police Stati Taim Sha Tsui for the information of m of vessels leaving the port necessarily implyithat, bad weather. here Signal

∙A CONE point upwards

A CONE point upwards and 1KUM below

A DRUM

A-0. NE 'point down wurds and W DRUM below.

À CONE point down- wards

6. A CONE point down- wards and BALL below

HALL

A CONE point upwards and BALL below

Indicates a Typhoos to the North of the Golony.

indicates a Typhoon Plug to the Northklinət

01, the Culpay,

indicates a Typhoon to the Fest of the Colony,MO

adicatesa Typhoon "to"; "tha"BoulABAES

of the Colony)

indicatesa Typhoon to the Bouth of the Colon

indicatesa Typhoon to the fouth-West: of the Colony.

Indicates a Typhoon "to the West of the

Colony.

Indicates a Typhoin to the North-Was⠀ of the Colony

Red Signals Indicate that the centre 1. bollered to be more than 300 miles away from the Colony.

Black Signal Indicate that the centro, 19 believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony."

The above signals will as, beretofore, be boisted only when typhoons exist in "anch positions or are moving in such directions that Information regarding them is considered to be of importance to the Colony or to shipping, leaving the harbour,

These alguals are repeated, at the Harbour Office, H.M.S. Tamar, Green Island Sigual Mast, and the Flagstaff on the premises of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godows Company at Kowloon,

But it is not the scientific oply who have cause to feel alarm at the progress of hybridian- tion. As with other.inventions, this has a dia. astrods eff con established trade. The public reads, from time to tinie, with unceasing astonishment, of hundreds, even thousands of pounds for a plast which would stend in a breakfast cup. The case is not really more re- markable than that of Holbain's Duchess. Such plants are unique or very rare. But their peculi arity is dus is most cases tox foreign strain-per-that the wind may increase to full typhoon haps several to natural hybridization, in fact, force at any moment, the following Urgent through the agency of insects, Evident!f, it must Signal will be made at the Water Police 7 very unusual complication, since examples Station, and repeated at the Harbour Office —-**

The latest 1909 Model No. with the latest improvement, thero few. But the human agent'stadios tha NOFFICES at No. 1 PEDDER STREET: lightest touch, the strongest and the accidental union of two or more varieties-per-

beet ever produced.

Apply to

Mesirs, JARDINE, MATHESON

-&-Co.,LTD:

Hongkong, 19th May, 1909.

TO LET.

(408

¡FFICES, No. 2, CONNAUGHT ROAD,

3rd Floor.

No. CLIFTON GARDENS, CONDUIT

ROAD.

URGENT SIGNAL.

“In addition to the above, when it is expected ¦

THREE. EXPLOSIVE HOMES, ÁT-INTERVALS

OF TEN SECONDS. A Black Cross will be holsted at the same

time, superior to the other shapes.

marvel, conclades that it is the progeny of ́an'

haps species and forthwith takes "plants of these from his own collection, which he Jolas in-anholy-matrimony. Thus at the cost of We sell our Adler under our shillings, if his theory proves correct; be will

The following Night Bignals will be exhibit. obtain, in five years, as many examples as head from the Flagstaff on the roof of the Water guaranteed terms.

likes of a plant which was unique, worth bun Police Station at Kowloon, the Harbour Offre dreds of pounds. It has been done my Flagstaff, and H.M.S. Towar

A few lines will bring the Adler times already, and will be more and more fre quently as hybridisation spreads.—FREDERICK to your office free trial.

BOYLE in Pall Mall Gazette,

We sell various makes of second-

A HOUSE in WORD-MEI-CHONG ROAD, hand Typewriters

A HOUSE la RIPO# TERRACE, OFFICES in YORK BUILDING. GODOWNS in PRAYA EAST, BLUI BUILDINGS, and No. 161, Das Vævs ROAD next to the Hongkong Hotel: FLATS in MORETON TERLACE?? No. 10, DES VIEUX ROAD CENTRAL

mi Floor,

Apply to=

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENOV, 00., LD. Hongkosz, rst Jana, tong

TO LETA

d

OTIONS NO 14 Das Voems Road TFICES and ROOMS on the 1st and Central (formerly occupied by Mosers, Shewas Tomes & Co.). Renta low.

Kpply to

THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT,

E. D. Sassoon & Comi

"Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 14th February, roog,

GODO

AND

Rent out by day or week.

REPAIR IS.OUR SPECIALITY.

DRAGON CYCLE DEPOT,

88-85, Dos Voux Road, Central,

Hongkong

LEE YEE

HAIR DRESSING SALOON,

HAI ALWAYS OW HANDƐ- CIGARS CIGARETTES

UISITES

Intimation.

O. C. MOOSA,

1 & 8, D'AGUILAR STRFFI

-NIGHT-SIGNALS.;-

1. Three Lights Vertical, Green Green Green, Indicates that a typhoon is bollerod to ba situated more than 500; miles from the Colony,

II. Three Lights Venal, Green Red Green; indicates that a typhoon is believed to be situated less than goo miles from the Colony.

**III. Thren Lights: a tical, Red Green Red, Indicatas, that the wind may be expected to Increase to Inli typhoon force at any moment,

No. 111 Signal will be accompanied by the

NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON: Explosive Bombs, as above, in the event of the

Trimmed and Untrizmed

information conveyed by this signal baing Arse published by night."

Bộ Those Night Signals will: bo

HATS, RIBBONS, FLOWERS, Day Signals at

FEATHERS,

dial necessary, be altered dur

SUPPLEMENTA

LACE SCARFS, MOTOR VEILS For the benefit of Nativ

VARIOUS COLORS;

MOUSQUETEIRE GLOVES

WHITE, BLACK & COLORS.

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

LADIES and CHILDREN'S

Ocean Vessels, a Cono each of the following stations that any of the above Day

In the Ha

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