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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY NOVEMBER 9 1909

Intimations.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.

BREMEN.

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES

FOR

NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS, GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and BREMEN .....

SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE)

and YOKOHAMA..........

MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINEA,” "BRISBANE, SIDNEY &¬MEL-

BOURNE...APARİSDİ BAR SAUTI KEE

KUDAT and SANDAKAN,

STRAMERI

PRINZESS ALICK ".......

Capt. P. Grosch WEDNESDAY,

"PRINZ LUDWIG“ ..................

Dept. F. v. Benzer

„Pring WaldEMAR".

Uapt, F. Isekenka manus.

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BORNEO" -Caps. F. Sembli

For further Particaiars, apply to

No. 1 DOCK.

Docking Length...... 515 ft. Width of Entrance ... 80" Water on Blocks...... 28 „*

No. 2 DOCK.

Docking Length. -376 It.

Width of Botrance.... 50 Water on Blocks .4 16 1

NO. 3 DOCK.

(IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION.) Docking Length......481 ft. Width of Entrance... 63 Water on Blocks...... 21,5

HESE DOCKS are convaaleally skumed in Yakobams harbour and the attention of THESE

Captain and Engineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vassale and Machinery of every description.

The plant and tools ace of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with work and large stock" of material is always at band, (plates and anglés all being tested by Lloydy' samovars).

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KOBBER INVESTMENT”

In the course of an article in the Financier and Bulionista correspuadawi, after giving a long list of rubber invas1niet to, saya :

Consignees.

FROM EUROPE,

"The above tabular statement of probable THE HA L. Steamship profits may well tempt the most prodeat of io-

"SILESIA," vastors, and it is doubtful if in the world's his».

Captain v. Hoff, having arrived, Con- tory of commerce any other industry was ever signes of Cargo are hereby informed; that in the position to estimate such results. Even their goods are being landed and placed st the companies lowest on the list give every their risk into the bazardous andfor extra premise of dividends, averaging in per cent. hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and during the next six years on their already bigh whence delivery may be obtained against Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Co., Limited, capitalisation, and the results are more likely Bills-of-Lading countersigned by the Dader- to exceed iban fall short of the above estimate, | signed.

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days of the steamer's arrival here after which All' Olaims must be presented, within_ten date they cannot be recognised,

No Claims will be admitted after the Gojdi have left th Godowas, and all Goods remaining undelivered after' the 9th lost., will "ua" sabi ject to razt.

There is hardly one rubber company whose Optional Cargo will be carried on unless returns and profits are not already greatly in notice to the contrary ba given before TO. excess of those estimated in their prospectuses, | DAY. and when a company taken higher up in the list-such as Linggi-shows every promise of making a profit during the next yearn which will enable dividends of to per cent, to be made on the already high capitalisation, er 110 per cent, on the original capital, and accumulate a reserve fund of one million pounds sterling, I think this a suficient answer to the question which is often asked-namely, are not share valous already too high? . In my opinion, and in the opinion of everyone who knows anything about rubber, the answer to give to such ques-

TO SAIL

17th Nov., Noon.

About WEDNESDAY,

17th Nov.

FRIDAY

3rd Dec., Daylight,

Middle of November,

Steam Lesoches of Staại 'er Wood, Lighters, Steel Bolldings and Rook, Bridge | present." . Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises.

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THE EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE.

Tendars will be made op whan required) and the workmanship and material will be

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD

Hongkong, 5th November, 1909,

MELCHERS & CO.,

GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

FRENCH MAIL LINES.

FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.

TO and FROM JAPAN via BHANGHAI.

FOR.

TO SAIL ON

CAPTAINE STEAMERS SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA ERNEST SIMONS...Girard........Novi, E.M.' SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA..... TONKIN............................. Charbonnel....aand Nov., F.M MARSEILLES, VIL PORTS .........ARMAND BEHIC.Guionnet, ...33rd Nov., at ́t Pik MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS ERNEST SINONS...Girard........ 3th Dec, 1 1 7,M.

Transhipment on the Do's Steamers at Singapore for Batavia jai Colombo for Calcutta: Bombay and Australia ; að Port Baid for the Levaci, Constantinople and Black Sea.

Through Tickets to London via Parit from £27.10 up to £71.10. so hours' railway from Marseilles to Londor,

Interpreters meei passangers at their arrival in Marssiller.

For farther particulars, apply to

Mangknog, gib November, 1959.

P. de CHAMPMORIN,

Intimations,

NOTICE.

AGENT,

QUEEN'S BUILDINGS,

Captain P. A. LAPICQUE," representative of the Compagnie Francaise des Indes et de l'Extreme Orient, having opened a Firm in Hongkong, the Agency of the MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES at this port will be transferred by mutual consent

from Messrs, BARRETTO & CO. to the said NEW FIRM from the 1st of November

next.

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Captain LAPICQUE'S OFFICES are situated at No. 4, Queen's Huildings, in the premises occupied until now by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co.

Talephone No. 950.

Two powerfa! Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels In or out of |--Dock, and-for-sklog Salling-Vesselite or out-of-the-fxy, The-floating- trick is capabla" | tione-is-abort-bat emphalic--There-never-was-a-

of lifting 40 toal

ed

time when the shares of the older rubber com- panles bald out such promise they do at

One of the most interesting French ladies now living is undoubledly ex-Empress

All broken, chaled, and damaged Goods must be left in the Godoway, where they will be examined on the Hiù inst,, at 3.P.M.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever. ¦ :

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,

Hongkong Ofca. Hongkang, 3rd November, 190g?

1755

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN..

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that Bugdee, who coused to be Empress of the ath THE Steamship

of any port in the world,

A large mooring basla is available alongside our own works for moorin, vessels whilst at one o'clock in the morning sitting declared ander repairs.

Telephone: Nos 876, 506, or 881.

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

JUST LANDED:

To Let.

PAUDE

TO LET.

September, thirty-nine yaari ago. On that day Paris ceased "dancing on 'ite volcano," and

for a Republic. The Empress had not the faintest inkling of this turn of events; it came as a 'complete surprise, and found her without resources for leaving the country. Even when a coach was secured she and her companion fonád themselves with only three france is their purses, so, in fear of not having anough to pay their fare at the end of their journey, they left the vehicle, and ultimately found their way to the house of that hospitable dentist, Dr. Evans. The flight to the coast, the voyage arer to England in Sir John Burgoyne's yacht, are incidents that must still be fresh in the

The well-known and famous brandy

TN No. 6, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, aged lady's memory, although thirty-nine yours Bisquit Dubouche Offices and Godowa.

have elapsed since their accutronco,

There is another version of that cabride, says lar No. 5, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Victoria Building, Roomin suitable for Offices. M.A.P., which is far moen picturesque and pro- ROOMS in College Chambers, No. 31,bably far lens true. It is said that when the WYNDHAM STREET. -

question of the face urose Enéais, drew a Apply to-

Bracelet from her wrist and handed it to Jeha DAVID SASSOON & CO., LD,

with the assurance that if he sent it after her to England she would reward him with double its Hongkong, 15th September, 1909. [58

value. Jebu was a doubting person, so, instead of sending it to the address which the Empress ́had, no doubt, obligingly faroisbed, he pawned the 'bracelet. In an old curiosity shop it was

& Co."

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

Old

.......................... 5,50

TO LET.

“ODOWN, No. 4. PRAYA, Kennedy Towa-recognised many years afterwards by a member

ALSO

QUINQUINA'?

QUINQUINA

DUBONNET

Apply 10-

FRENCH STORE,

Sole Agent.

Hewakang, 30th April, 1909.

REGRET

140

You will NEVER if you

VISIT

MOHIDEEN & THAHA,

in

D'AGUILAR STREET,

the

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT & AGENCY CO. LD.' Hongkong, 22nd October, 1909. 1730

KING'S

TO LET.

"ING'S BUILDINGS, OFFICES facing

present in occupation of Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ld.

Apply

TO LET..

of the Chaulnes family, who bought it and offered it to its original owner. Eazćale beg. ged him to keep it as a souvenir of a fallen dynasty. He did so, and from one hand to another it passed until it came into the posses. sion of the Duchesse de Chaulnes, at ong time Miss Theodora Shonts..

AN INDIAN SNAKE STORY,

STRANGE NATIVE BELIEF

A curious story is reisted of a young native woman in Calcutta who was bitten by a snake

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- and who had succumbed to the effects of the

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD, bite. Abou z p.m. on Wednesday, the 2nd. Hoogkong, 3rd June, 1909,

[463 ultimo, the woman, who was the wife of an employee, in the Hooghly Mills, living at Siegerbati, Gardes Reach, went to a well to draw water, and was bitten, by a snake on the righ hand, on the fleshy part between the thumb' and index finger. There was no help wear at band and the woman was too scared to go for it, but later some neighbours arrived to her at- sistance.

OFFICES Rod ROOMS on the 2nd Floor of No. 14, Des Verbs Road Central (formerly occupied by Messen, Showan, Tames & Co.)

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Apply to THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT.

E. D. Sassoon & Co

Queen's Road Contral. Haagkong, Tith September, 2009,

TO LET

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Her husband was informed, and with the assistance of follow-workmen, they carried ber on a charpoy to Munshigange, in the Wat gonga Disteci, where she was taken to two of three "snake doctors" for treatment, · Here these men introduced a number of charms and

"KLEIST,"

having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby. informed that their Goods, with the excepti of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables,` are being ‚ landed and stored at their risk into the hasardous andfor extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Go down Company, Limited, Kowloon, and West Point Godawas, bance delivery may be obiained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goode remain- ing undelivered after the toth of November, will be subject to rent,

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

All claims must reach us before the 14th of November, 1909, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected..

undersigned,

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the

THIS STEAMER DRINGS CARGO Ex S.S, Scutori from Smyrna.

Orisoto

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Venice. NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & Co., General Agents.

Hongkong, 3rd November, 1909.

"BARBER" LINE OF STEAMERS:

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

STEAMSHIP "SHIMOSA,” FROM NEW YORK.

Is

~ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all.Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whence and/or from the "whirres delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowas, and all Goods remain. ing undelivered after the ith instant will be

subject to rest.

All Claims against the Steamer must be pro- seated to the Undersigned on or before the soth instant, or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 11th instant, at 3 P.M.

& Fire Insurance has been offected.

·Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, Agenti,

Hongkong, 4th November, 1909,

1757

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY, LIMITED.-

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

recited several "muntras" and west on with THE Company's Steamship the usual practices appertaining to their

THE "jadu." They also applied to the wound, the

NEW JEWELLERS NOFFICES ANG PENDER SIRET juice of the celebrated "Neem tree as an

at 2 STREET,

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Meseri, JARDINE, MATHESON

& CO, LTD. Hongkong, 29th May, 1909.

TU LET.

Apply tom

BARRETTO & Co.

AND DEALERS

.in

P. A. LAPICQUE.

CEYLON PRECIOUS

Hongkong, 16th October, 1909.

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STONES

EYES

of every description, and other GEMS.

RIGHTI

Hongkong, sest August, 1900,

1610

To Let

TO LET.

N. LAZARUS, OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN,

CORNER OF D'Aguilar STREET and Queen's road.

WILL last your ayas lens of charge, and if they are wrong will put them right.

Lenses Ground. All kinds of Repaisa, Spectacles for all requirements.

Ask, er wrhe; for Illustrated Booklet on "Defective Sight,"--free. LARGE LONDON,

BALQUITA,"

Now, two extensive

́OS. 20 and 21, PRAVA, KENNEDY (wo-storied semi-detached godowns, ground surface of

cament concrets.

No. 1A, Prays, Kennedy Town, uncextensive' two-storied godown.

All are in first clasa condition, suitable, for ́storing Rico, Flour, &c.

Rente moderalo,

& Jain Street, Badlard Row, W.C.

[ab March 1967,

19. Mantingy Sigant

SHANGHAI, 566, Narklag Road

Apply to.......

DAVID SASSOON & CO., LU Hongkong, ich November, 1909

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OFFICES, NO, 2 CONNAUGHT ROAD,

Floor,

EXMOOR, CONDUIT ROAD,

Batidote, but notwithstanding all these efforts to save her life, she expired at about 6 p.m. is the presence of a number of natives and several Europeans, who were driving by, and alighted to witness the performance.

Even after the woman was deed, the native, element in the crowd whose faith in the doctors is remarkable, still believed that she would yet come to lifs, and even in the presence of some of the European spectators, some of the men gave out that the woman had suddenly come

No. 3 OLIFTON GARDENS, ConduIT back to life. They maintained this so strongly.

ROAD.

A HOUSE la WONG-NEI-CHong Road A HOUSE in Riro# TERRACE, OFFICES in YORK BUILDİNG. GODOWNS I PRAYA EAST, BLUS BUILDINGS, and No. 163, Dzà Vauv ROAD next to the Hongkong Hotel, FLATS IN MORKTON TERBASK No. 40, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL

1st Floor,

Apply

to

*** HONGKONG LAND ́INVEST MENT. & AGENCY 00, LD Hematoma, 1st November 1059

thai one of the gonilameu present went up to

"KUMSANG"

having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees

of Cargo by bee are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside,

Cargo, impeding the discharge or remaining on board after a PM, the toth inst, will be landed at Consignze's risk and expense.

-No Fire Insurance will be effected.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LP,

General Managers. 14nnukine. 8th November. 1000.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS, /?-

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the corpse and examined it for himself to FR

`ROM-and-after-1st~January,–1909,-the- satisfy himself that the woman was really dead. Telegraph (dally and weekly issues) will be as rates of Subscription to the Zonghong follow-

It took same time for several of the crowd to believe that the woman bad really passed AWAY. An examination of the woood showed that the snake, which was said to be a cobra, bad inflicted a deep wound, and had lacerated the flesh to a great extent, A search, was made for the scake, but it was fruitless.

LEE

YEE

HAIR DRESSING SALDON,

HAI ALWAYI on Hard

DAILY-336 per annum. WEEKLY-513 per annum.... The rates per quarter and por mensem, pro- portional Subscriptions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a full 'month.

The daily issue la delivered frog when the address is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can bare_their copies delivered, at their residences without any extra chargs. On coples sent by post an additional $130 per quarter is charged for postage."" The postage on the weekly isine to any part

of the world is 30 cents per quarter,

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AND

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THE MANAGER, Hongkong Talagraph Co.,'"