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Entimation.

Powell's

HAVE JUST

OPENED THE

FIRST

CONSIGNMENT

OF

Ladies'

AUTUMN

and

WINTER

COATS,

SKIRTS,

COSTUMES,

ULSTERS

ALSO

A good variety of

CHILDREN'S

COATS.

The cut of these Gär- ments is Superb and the newest colorings are displayed.

only

SHOW ROOMS

AND

FITTING ROOM

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS.

Wongkong, 6th October, 1905.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY OCTOBER 11 1909

Auction.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

to sell by

THE Undersigned have received instructions PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

on

THURSDAY,

the 14th October, 1909, at 2.30 PM, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, comer of Ice House. Street, SUNDRY VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Comprising →

$

SILK TAPESTRY-COVERED SOFA and CHAIRS, OVERMANTELS with BEVEL. LED GLASS, TEAKWOOD BOOK-OASE, | SIDEBOARDS and DINNER WAGGON with BEVELLED GLASS, TEAKWOOD EXTENSION DINING TABLE and CHAIRS, DOUBLE and SINGLE BRASS MOUNTED IRON BEDSTEADS with HAIR MATTRESSES, GLASS, CROCKERY and K.F. WARE, CANTON CARVED BLACKWOOD WARE, COOK. ING STOVE and UTENSILS, SHANGHAI BATHS, ICE CHESTS, &c., &c ;-

- ALSO

2 RICKSHAS.

Catalogues will be issued. TERMS: As Usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers,

[710

Hongkong, gih October, 1909.

Intimations. JUST LANDED:

Per Bot, $2.50

The well-known and famous brandy

Bisquit Dubouche

& Co."

XXX Very Old Fine V.0.0.B. Guaranted 20 Years

Old

QUINQUINA ?

ALSO

QUINQUINA ?

5.50

DUBONNET

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

HINA

THE- PROVIDENT

LOAN

C" MORTGAGE CO., LD.

(CAPITAL-PAID UF 50,000)

GERMAN NEW-GUINEA

Standing on the deck of the N. D. L. steamer Manila the other day, just before she left for

New Guinea inaugurating the new Singapore service to that island, I recalled a visit paid to that part of the world some three years ago,

axis, you see wonderfal trees and shrubs that' fow botanists know, anything about as they themselves have only seen them, like myself through field glasses or a telescope, It is all

woederfel and mysterious land that will grow all the rubber that this world wants and Mars and Saturn into the bargalo,

Public Companies,

CANTON; INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY.

Entimations.

HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

I was coming East again after a trip to But you grow appalled at so much unculti MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will been received from the Military Authori

Africa, and had been through Torres Siraits some six or seven times, so I thought that a look in at New Guinea on the way to the, Philippines might prove interesting..

Outlandish countries have always more at traction about them than civilised ones, and in Gaines there is plenty of primavaloess Clothes are very little worn by the "best" people and as for a cab, a bicycle, a motor car in Harbert. stos-the capital-you might look in vain,

You are informed that New Guinea is reek- ́ joy with malaria, that everybody · drinks, that mosquitoes are as large as bats, în lact you will din in, twenty-four hours t. I was prepared for

all-and wesl.

The Prinz Sigismund, when we'left Sydney was practically empty, but of cargo we had more than enough, jecluding horses, pigs, benzine .and missionaries}

Acxious to know who my companions were I walked into the saloon and found two very dismal man; in the second cabin I encountered ared-haired missionary, and a lady for Manila, whose golden hair was out of a bottle and com- plexion too good to be true,

After clearing Sydney Heads we' ran into a southerly gale, or rather is ran into us, and the benzine stacked on deck bumped and binged about in alarming fashion. The pigs for Simp. 100balen made the atmosphere hideous with squeals and everybody that had a delicate or ganization suffered pitiably. After Brisbane things improved and the vessel's course was set, op or about the 15ud deg. W. Long, for New Britain. I imagine that few person's in

Singapore know where Now Britain is-or. perhaps care, yet New Britain is important and its mountain peaks as they shot above the horizon after our voyage from Sydney were im psing. The capital of New Britain iù:Simp sonhafen,

The Germans since their occupation of a portion of New Guinea and out-lying islands 'Have re-baptised' a large number of placer and they become confusing to Britons. New Bri- tain, for instance, in later times has become New Pommern, New Ireland is

DOK Now

vated land, you look in vain for horses, cows, goats, or anything in fact of a homely character. There is nothing of the kind. Nature runs riot and the unfortunate exiles who sit and drink lager beer-their only solace-are merely wait-instant, both days inclusive. ing for the time to come to go home.

he held at the Offices of the Undersigned on FRIDAY, the 22nd lost, at 11 AM, ·

H. M. M.-in Singapore Free Press.

TOWKAY LOKE raw.

SPLENDID DONATION FOR HALL AT

KUALA LUMPUR.

We bave mentioned briefly that Towkay Loke Yow has given the sum of $50,000 to found a Chinese Town Hall at Kuala Lumpur, and in connection with this the following article from the Perak Pionier should be of interesti

The Chinese have made the FM. 9, and. the F. M. 8. have made maoy a man and maghate of the Chinese, but, none of them, except Towkąy Loka Yew, have come forward. to sbew, their appreciation of the land that had given.lhem dame and fame and millions, too, by any sig i or act of public benefaction of public utility. It is true that they hava even been. found ready to put their hands into their pocket in a case of emer gency, or to befriend, bonour. or recognise any public act or fuactiod, but so far as a tangible building or memorial, useful or ornamental, individually or collectively, is 'con- cerped, neither we nor their own countrymen Are bebolden to any one of them, if we except

Towkay Boo English fountain in the Taiping market and the Birch Memorial at Ipoh, shar ed though the latter is by other nationalities.

AN ADDITIONAL PALACE, Towkay Loke Yes, however, is making up for the shortcomings of bis countrymes, and, in addition to bis previous bedefactions, has now come forward with the splendid donation, an stated in our telegraphic special yesterday, of $50,000, a princely sum, to found a Chinese Town Hall Kuala Lumpur, We had no idea

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the Stb. to the aand

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

General Agents.

·CHongkong, 5th October, 1959,

THE DAIRY FARM CO., LD. `·

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

(702

E THIRTEENTH ORDINARY THE

YEARLY MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Company's Town Office, 2 Lower Albert Road; Hongkong' on TUESDAY, tha 19th October, at 11.30 P. for the pur- pose of prescoting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to the 31st July,

1909.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11th to the, 19th October, 1909, both days inclusive.

By Order,

M. MANUK,

-Acting: Secrotary. Hongkong, 1st October, 1909,

Consignees,

Tis hereby notified that information has ties that GUN PRACTICE will be carried out as under;

On TUESDAY, the 17th October

From Lower Balchars in a North-Westerly direction, at ranges up to 6350 yards, commencing at 9 AM, and finishing at ¡P.M. On THURSDAY, the 14th October :-

}

From Saiwan and Gough in a North- Easterly and a South-Easterly direction respectively, at mages up to 6a50 yards, commencing at to A.M., "and finishing ai 1P.M. If the weather is unfavourable on any of the above dates, practice will take place on the following day. ·

All ships, junks and other vessels are: keep dear of the range,

C. W. BEOKWITH, Lieutenant, R.N.,

Harbour Master, 8cc.

[700 Hongkong, 9th October, toog.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

NOTICE.

'N EXTRAORDINARY

GENERAL

(699 A MEETING of MEMBERS of the

AMERICAN AND MANCHURIAN LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

FROM NEW YORK AND SINGAPORE.

HE Steamship

THE

• "BLOEMFONTEIN,”. Captain Linklater, having arrived from the above Porus, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and stored at. Consignees' riak and expense.

All broken, chaled, and damaged Goods are to be left in the tindowns, where they will be examined on TUESDAY, 12th inst,, at 3 P.M.

All Claims must be presented within fifteen' date they cannot be recognized.

Mecklenberg, German New Guinea itself re- that a Town Hall for Chinese was on the tapis days of the steamer's arrival bars, after which joices in the high sounding title of Kaiser Wilhelm Land and the Archipelago, in general, is known as the Bismarck,"

at the Federal capital, or even required, but in view of the progress of that town and its im portsace in the fature, is not of the present, it is no doubt a desideratum, and this sum alone, if not supplemented by other contributions, will give an additional palace to the already budding town, if not city, of palaces. Our Chi- ness" friends-down south-will-no-doubt-take- care not only to snap at the magnificent offer, but also to hit upon a site as much to the fore as that of the other palaces and put up a struc ture which will via with the others, both in architectural beauty and design.

All this sounds very foc and large but the practical question arises What is Germany fio doing with, the place?" I am talking now

of three years ago

when things were in a most primilive condition and this, it mast AND be remembered, after twenty years of occu- pation." You will be told that everything is wonderfully improved since then but I am doubtful. Let me sketch Simpsonhafen for instance. A dozen or so of primitive houses on a marsky plece of land that after rain is 'a stough, of dispond. The general post office, with an enormous spread eagle on its portalstioned, is the richest man in the land, and, is about the size of an ordinary hotel bed room, while the only flourishing looking building is the hotel, where the whole Colony congregates to drink lager beer and play billiards. The capital and teat of Government is Farbert- shoe, some eight or ten miles from the Hafen, but I understand now the buildings bava beso 'shift fted from the capital and the Hafen bas become the centre. Simpsonhafen is undoubtedly pic- turesque, and has a splendid ́ land-locked bar- bour that might accommodate several navies, but beyond a Government yacht and an old coal-bulk or two I saw no shipping.

Losos on Montgigs of House Property, &c -Goods recalvad on Storage.

Advances made no Merchandise. Loans made on the Provident System."

(Ratos and Particulars of application),

THE OFFICE OF

FROSTER, EXECUTOR OF WILLS, ATTORNEY, &c. Undertaken and Executed.

SHEWAN, TONES & 01,

General Managers.. Hongyang, 10th March, 1968.

NOTICE.

R. LI HON FAN, a Chinese graduate

M versed in literature, has been a teacher

to European officials and morchants in this Colony for over ten years.

He has a good method of training Euro peans to pass in the Chinese examination, and 1s possessed of a first rate certificate as a Chinese teacher. He has also a good know. ledge of Mandario.

Those who intend learning the Chinsie language are requested to write, care of Hongkong Telegraph office or direct to:37 Hollywood Road, ad floor.

ifongkong, 6th September, 1909.

-For Sale.

JUST

FOR SALE.

RECEIVED:

• A SELECTION OF ..

(638

FLOWER, VEGETABLE AND FRUIT SEEDS

I packet of 10 cents each

AND

Parcels from $1 to $10 each.

LAWN GRASS SEEDS.

FERTILIZER.

|

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the lath just will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading, will be countersigned by

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 6th October, 1909.

(703

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, IMPERIAL GERMAN HAIL LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEKS."

HE Steamship

"PRINZ-REGENT LUITPOLD,* having Arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Oplam, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and storedat their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong- kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com- pany, Limited, at Kowloon, and West Point Godowns, whence delivery may be obtained.

EARLIER BENEFACTIONS, Towkay Loke Yew, it needed hardly be men.

perhaps, has no confrére to equal his wealth' either in the States, Straits Settlements or Hoogkong. He it as good as he is rich, and is as entorprising as he is careful in his ventures and as lucky in them now as he was unlucky in the past. This is by no means the sum total of Towkay Loke Yew's generosity, for, it will be remembered, that when a quarantine

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods station was needed in Singapore he offered the Government the necessary funds; and when have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain this magnanimous offer was declined, being undelivered after the 13th of October,

will be subject to rent. spent a like som, as he is now giving 'for the Town Hall, in improving the Tan The general aspect of the surrounding coun-Tock Seng hospital for Chinese in that try and much of the vegetation covering the city, in recognition of the fact that it was hills brought to mind the sugar lands of North there originally that he started in life Australia. The heat is equatorial, Simpsonha- as far back as 1858, when he was only thirteen len lying in 4 deg. S. enclosed by an amphitbe-years old, and saved ninety-nine dollars by It was atre of mountains and few residents, if any, working in a shop in Market sircet.

Fever with this sum that he first established himself, bave escaped tha ravages of malaria,

in business under the chop Heng Loong, now like most things lo life, becomes second nature

so famous throughout Malays, Towkay. Loke after you have had several bouts and as a resident in this place remarked:

Yew's benevolence did not end at the Tan "I have it every week or so; in fact I Tock Seng hospital, for he gave away shortly should feel lonely without it."

afterwards $30,000 to found the Technical College at Kuala Lumpur, now known and named after Sir William Hood Treacher, as the The Old Men Treacher Techoical School. and Cripple's Home for Chinese at Kuala Lumpur has also received $30,000 from their generous countryman. In addition, he has done a great deal of good and helped a good deal, stealthily, as all those in the know,

Wherever you go in New Pommard you will bear two names mentioned, these are Hera sheim and Co. and the New Guinea Company. The former sports dog carts, the only vehicles in the place, imports all the liquar and," runs the pub. I asked why Hernsheim and Co. had Do offices at Simpsonhafen and was told that the Hafen.is no man's land. That is to-day the New Guinea Co. bas agreed to stay at Fried-koow. rich Wilhelmsbalen so long as Herosheim stay at Matapi a place near Simpsons, leaving the port neutral ground. I took a trip to Matapi through the jungle as thick as Johort, and 'I im-

FURNITURE WAREHOUSE,

agine a difficulito make roads through Mymosi KWONG LOONG & CO.,

vivid recollection of this trip is a large yellow snake that darted out in front of me and disap peared in the undergrowth. I came across a good many young boys and girls who bad become converts to the R. O, faith with large glass Garden Boots with wooden soles and thick crosses banging round their necks, which they ware anxious to dispose of for a consideratios, felt lining.

Pictorial Guide to Gardening, &c. &c. &c.

larpection invited-

GRÁCA & CO.,

27, Des Voeux Road,

Hongkong, 9th October, 1000

LEE

YEE

*

GABIMÉT-MAKERS AND ART DECORATORI, from Shangbal, has re-opened their FURNITURE STORE

át

No. 39, DES VOUX ROAD CENTRAL..

as there were plenty more where those came The only Shop In Hongkong with kkis namo. from.

Friedrich Wilhelmshafen and copra are WHERE HIGH-CLASS FURNITURE every description can be made to synonymont terms, the whole surrounding order to any design required. country being coco-groves and anfar as I can

Have been patronised by the Hongkong see this is the backbone of German New Guinea Club, Hongkong Hotel, Telegraph Oc though in a few years rabber will be exported Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co, Firms and other (6 in large quantities.

12. Ing tatab:lshraunts' in the Colony, to whom reference can be made as to the Though New Guinea is attractive 'from

Superior Workmanship and Materials of the botanis's point of view and for the explores, Furniture, &c, supplied.. I do not think it will ever be sought after by Australians as bome. Its beat is Mesers, A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd., write as sweltering. There are no roads, no tele- follows;—. graphs and, of course no, railways, · though in past years short telephone lines mod port. able tramways for freight have been added, Homes simply go to pieces, becoming covIN ed with boras on which large voracious fies sottle and drive the poor brutes crazy. The New Guinea rivers are magnificent, and a splendid trip can be made up in a motor launch as far as you like, but this is the only way, You see the far off mongan where cannibals still

HAIR DRESSING SALOON.

'HAS ALWAYS ON HAND CIGARS, CIGARETTES

AND

TOILET REQUISITES

... FOR SALE 19 DÁMUILAR STREET, HONGKONG,

**We hays plossare la stating that, Mr. Li KWONG LOONGʻfarnished the Aunaze to our Dispensary and gava ne ovary Katik- faction."

(54) A. S. WATIO a do

*25th May, 189ɛ. KER PAN

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 13th of October, at 9.30 AM.

All Claims must reach us before the 17th of October, 1909, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bilis of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned, 7.-

THIS STEAMER BRINOS CARGO, Ex S.S. Alberto Treves from Venice,

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELOHER'S & Co., Gendral Agonis.

Hongkong, 6th October, 1900.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE P. & 0. 5. N. Co.'s Steamer

"PALERMO,"

Fe

FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, MALTA, PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed of their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed

Optional Goods will be landed hore, unless instructions are given to the contrary before 6 hours.

Goods not cleared by the 14th instant, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be affected by me li any case whatever.

Damaged Packages must be lab in the, Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative at an

appointed hour,

All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival hare after which. date they cannot be recognised.

No claims will be admitted after the goods bare left the Godowns.

E. A. HEWETT;

Superatesdent Hongkong, 8th October, 1000.

{་';

YUEN HING, No. 4 D'AQUILAR. STREET,

FACTORY SWATOW

KIA LAK.

MANUFACTURE WHOLESALE & RETAIL" DEALERS

In all kinds of hand-made

ORDERS punctually attended to, and DRAWN and EMBROIDERY CHINÉSÉ

LINE GRASS CLOTH, PEWTER. JHARGES moni moderate, on

INSPECTION INVITED Houghing, 4h August 192,

WARE, AC

at of the bot quailty.

Hongbong (ih August 1997

above Club will be held on SATURDAY, the 23rd October, 1909, at 12.15 P.M., at the Offices of the Jockey Club on the Ground Floor of the Hongkong Club Anneze, Chater Road, notice regarding which is being sent to each ||Member.

!!

By Order,

T. F. HOUGH,

Clack of the Course. Hongkong, 6th October, 1909.

(705

THE

SOUTH CHINA ARTISTIC BAZAAR.

EXHIBITION HALL

.00

FIRST FLOOR OF NO. 15 DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL (opposite the P. & D. S. N. Co office.)

PENED DAILY : ̧

From 11 A.M, to §.PM.

From 7 PM to 11 PM.

Ivory, Silver, China, Paper, Wondon and Bamboo Ware.

Embroideries, Silk, Oil-and-Water-Calour- Paintings.

Carlos and Perfumes.

Screens, Pictures and Photo Frames,

· Prasarves and Canned Goods: Writing Inks and Paper: &c.

Hongkong, 25th September, 1909.

PRAX, TRARWAYS COMPANY

7,00 am.

LIMITED.

ו '

TIME TABLE.

WEEK DAYI.

7.30 a.tn. to 10,00 am....Every to minutes to 00 am, to 11,00 am. ...Evary 15 minutes. X1.30 mm. to £1.45 pm ...Every 1ỹ míantesi 13.45 p.m. to 1.5 p.m. .....Every to minutes. 1.15 p.m. to. 1.45 pm....Every 15 minutes 1:45 pm. to 1.13 p.m. .....Every 10 minutes. 1.15 p.m. to. 1.00 pm....Every 15 minutes. 1.30 pm to 5.00p.m....Every 15 minutes. 5.00 p.m. to 8,00 p.m....Every to mläuter, NIGHT GARL

B45 pm and 9 pm, 945 pm to 11.15 pm.

very half hour,

SUNDAYE

8.00 to 9.00 am. .......Avery 15 minutes, .9.00 am, to ja LE...Brery 30 minutes

9:30 am, to 10.30 am. ...Every 75 minutes, " 10.30 am to 11,00 am....Every ra miinnites, 11.45 a.m. to 12,00'poon.....Kvety 15 minuten- 1100 Noon to 1.00 p.m.... Every toʻminutes. 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes, 5.00 pm to 6:00 pm. Every zo mindrës, 6.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. ... Kvart 15 musttov 7.00p.m. to 8.00 p.m. Kvary zo zulmate".

NIGHT CARS as on Week Days. SATURDAYS. Extra cars at 8-15 pm, 1080p.m. and/

11.45 Palle SPECIAL CARS by Angement at the Uompany's Once, ALEXANDRA "BUILDING", Des Voeux Road Guntrak.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON

General Misagers.

! Hongkong, vi kwell, voon.

BENGERS

Food

quite distinct from

any other. It possesses the remarkable property of rendering, milk, with which it is mixed when used, quito eary of digestion by children, invalide and convalescents,

"Bengers: Food: 7swold By

"Tins by