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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY APRIL 14 1910
Intimation.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
For
STRAMERI
NAPLES, GENOA ALGIERS, PRINE LUDWIG"......), WEDNESDAY,"
GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and. HAMBURG...
F. von Bincer
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SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE ; "BULOW"
TO JAIL
20th April, Noom.
.1 About WEDNESDAY,
20th April.
......... and YOKOHAMA......................... Opt. H. Formes ...........................)
MANILA, YAP, ANGAUR, NEW- GUINEA, BRISBANE, SYDNZY & MELBOURNE
YOKOHAMA and KOBE
*COBLENI "....FRIDAY,
Capt. H. Racgener ................... f.
șand April, Daylight
¡" PRINE.WALDEMAR "
Ompt. F. Isoke rezon
About SATURDAY,
goth April..
End of April.
Capt. F. Semblik 'series cursos.
KUDAT sad SANDAKAN............
KAN BORNEO "
For fanse Particulars, apply to
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS & CO.
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & OHINA,
Hongkong, 8th April, 1910.
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MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
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FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.
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SHANGHAI, KORE, YOKOHAMA „ÁUSTRALIEN ..............Riquier_......25th April, P.M. MARSKILLES; VIA FORTS OCEANIEN ....Salifer......:25th April, at 3 P.M. SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA....TOURAME........... Lascell............ 9th May, F.M. MARSEILLES, VIA FORTS...................Magnes..... Toth May, at 1 P.M.
Transhipment on the Do's Steamers at Singapors for Batavis at Golombo for Oriratta, Bombay and Australia at Port Bald for the Levant, Constantinopin and Black bea.
Through Tickets to London via Paria from £37,10'ap to £71.10. so honre' railway from Marseilles to London.
Interpreters mact passangers at their arrival in Manellian:
For fasther particulars, apply to
P. THOMAS,
AGENT,
QUEEN'T BUILDINGS,
Hongkong, zath April 1920.
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Entimations.
EYES
RIGHT:
N. LAZARUS, OPHTHALMIC OPTIOIAN, CORNER OF D'AGUILAR STRERT AND QUEEN'S ROAD.
VILL iusi your eyos izbe of charge; and if they are wrong will put there right Lasses Ground.
All kinds of Rapalra, Spectacles for all requiiaments. Ask, or write, för llustrated Bookies on "Defective Sighi,“—tres.
LONDON,
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SHAKENNAR
19. Bráľogk "ro"
485, Nani Ing Rond
VETARZO BRAIN AND
No. 1 DOCK..
Docking Length 515 ft. Width of Entrance Water on Blocks
TH
80
$1
No. 2 DOOK.
Docking Length........376 ft. Width of Entrance......... 50 ùì ̧ Water on Blocks #G
+
NO. 3 DOCK.
KIN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION, Docking Length......481 f Width of Entrance... 63- Water on Blocks...... $1.5'i
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CHASE, DOOKS are conveniently, sitasted in Yokokama harbour and the attention of Captains and Enginner in respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vassals and Machinery of every description.
The plant and tools are of recent pattems for dealing quickly and chaaply with work and a large stock of material is always at hand, (plates and angles all being tasted by Lloyds' surveyors).
Two powerful Twin Scrow Tunicata" are available for taking Vessels in or out of Dock, and for taking Sailing Varists in or out of the bay. The floating denick is capable of tiles 40 1053 ...
CHINO MING,
OKLEBRATING POPULAR CHINESE FESTIVAL"
THE FEAST OF TOMBI,
The Strafft. Tiwas in 'indeblod to a correz, pondent for the following article
Yesterday, the universet festival of Paro Brightness was celebrated by tens of thousands of Chinoen in Singapore and Malzen, and wherever they are found outside their own 'country; as well as by the taeming millinas
foreigners know an, China, in the Central Kingdom as they still call, what
In a custom, followed by hundreds of mil- Hont of the people, there must be many mil tions of dollars spent in the maklar, prepara tion and carrying to the graves, by a. mender of conveyances, of the tons of gold and diver paper, the incense sticks, and the many differ
which are apreed on the graves, a baret in eat kinds of paper representations of things.
offering for the benefit of the hungry and augi lected naked ghosts in the poreen” world ou
takes, whose behalf this great expense and trouble is
ANCESTRAL WORSHIP. The Chipers nation is that a man has three sonis one of which goes to the grave, ope'is preserved in the ancestral tablet, and one is in the earth-prison, or realm of darkness, a nut at all happy land, when thought of at all. But there the spirits of the dead are supposed to be
Steam Launches of Best of. Wood, Lighters, Slesi Balldings and Roofs, Bridge in want, and have pead of clothes and money, Work, and all kinds of Macklonry are made on the premisas,
so as to buy and sell sad live much as they did when alive. So, on these occasions, paper
Tanders will be made op whan required and the workmanship and material will be houses, furnitate, money, slaves, and whatever ** kranten:l
is thought desirable and needfal are passed by are into the other world. There is a great deal
The cust of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that of confusion of thought among the Chinese on of any pon la the world.
A large mooring basko is avallable alongside qur bwo works for mooring vassals whils under repales.
Telephone: Nos, 876, 108, or 081,,
Tolograms, "Deck, Tokobama," Codes A. B. C. 4th and 5th Edt.
Liebers, Ecot*», ' A. 1, and Watkins. Yokohama, April 18th, 1903.
To Let,
TO LET.
ARTMOOR, No. 13, CONDUIT ROAD,
DA
A HOUSE in Clifton Gardens, and
CENTRAL,
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For Sale.
FOR
OR SALE AT YOKOHAMA, JAPAN)
..as a going concars, the whole of the property of the CLUB HOTEL
Situated on Lot No. 5, the Buad, with streat OFFICES, 16, Das VOUX ROAD on three sides, Land measures some 1,500 T'aubao,
For Particulara, apply to
THE CHAIRMAN, Board of Directors,
Club Hotel, Ltd, Yokohama,
GODOWNS, PRAYA East, formerly oc
cupied by M. B. K.
OFFICES, No. 1, CONNAUGHT HOAD,
3rd Floor,
A HOUSE p Woxo-nel-cHona Road,
A HOUSE in KIPON TERRACE, OFFICES YORK BUILDING..
No. 1o, DES VOLUX NOAD DENTRAL,
in Floor,
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FOR SALE
AT
:
4
GRACA &.00.
27, DES Vaux ROAD...
this subject, as formerly among the Greeks and Roman and the nations of antiquity, as also among the ancient Hebrews, untli Christ shed His light upon the nations of manklad,
But the worship of ancestors, and the hops of benefiting the dead by offerings, is not to be thrust aside with a laugh and a sneer: Dr. W: A. P. Martin, one of the ablest Chinesa scholars, and a missionary still resident In Oblos, after well nigh sixty years servics, writer in his Hadila Papers: The wombip of ancestors springs from some of the best principles of human nature. The first concep tion of a life beyond the grave was, "it is with deceased parents. And, if it is untural thought, nuggasted by a desire to commune
that children, should follow them with their thoughts and affections, to it not equally back by the offering of such things as they require while living?" Dr. Martin further naturs that they should seek to call themi
says: "I do not object to ancestral worship as a 'system, bat solely to those parts of it which ascribe diving attributes to the souls of the dead."
HONGKONG LAND INVESTASIATIC POSTAGE STAMPS hero-boy, He lost his parents when young, and
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.,
Hongkong, 3rd Jans, 1909.
TO LET..
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No. 5, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, I" Victoria Building Rooms suitable for
Dfces.
FIRST FLOOR of No. 4, DES VEUX ROAD recently vacated by Institution of Enginners and Shipbuilders.
ONE GODOWN in MASONS LANE.
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DAVID SASSOON & Co, LD, Hongkong, 4th April, 1910.
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GODOWN, No. 4. PRAYA, Kennedy Town,
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THE HONGKUNG LAND INVEST- MENT I AGENCY CO. LO Hongkong, sind October, 1909.
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NERVE FOOD, No. 3 CANTON VILLAS, Kowloon,
This remarkable compound, the result of the latest developments and achievements of maden chemistry;- pharmacology, and therapeutics, is without equal in all cases of defective nerve power, whether induced by wOTY over-work, unhealthy ciliate, disalpation, excess, youthful in prudence, or other defluences incidental to the wel and tear and haste of oversltdu of modern fe. Sleeplessness, trumblings, palpitation, mervons dyspepsia, Jaw Mplstis, mental and body prostration, muscular and loca! weakness, general and nervous debility, faulty sutrin premature decay or deficiency of the vital forces, impaired vialty, harassing dreams, aight disturbances, guides Mar dimes of sight, defective hearing loss of memory, ability to perform the various duties of time to Enjoy pleasures, restlessness that can settle to nothing, irritability of temper, female complainte, hysteria, painiui perioda, backache, bearing down sensations, nervous basische, wasting disease, night events, and all other phases of Lewin and nerve exhaustion, ses successfully combated by this highly scientific preparation ca the system generally, it gives tone to the healed DETTER, SITES:s all wendening wasting discharges, Lavalantery loases, &c. I restores the falling energies, and imparts new life and vigour to what had so reosully séczied warn osi, "ssed up," and vaípežesa, (J
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Never before was there anything like it, nor can lie marvellous properties ever be equalled in all cases of pope. neas, Impurity, or other imperfection of the blood from whatever cause arising. No sooner le it habibed into the system than it permeates and penetries to the talpulert capillaries, overomming and expelling the virus of disease, wheresoever and in whatsoever for xes with removing all inteles, pimples, scurt, scurry, scrofulong and ›glandular swellings, discolorations, roughness and unsightly paiches Acc. Ita effects are almost magical in the treatment of go sheumation, sciatics, Intiago, pains and swellings of the joints, dacharges, secondary ymptoms, ecsem", lepes, paostasia, bad legs, bad breasts, abscesses, wlders, sores, golire or Derbyshire nack, it Empropee the peace bealth, and quickly remores jong-standing broochiile, asthme, sad bitching, straining, senamadia cough, ton of in the practitser of consumption
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corner of Observation Place, the Trams stop at the door,..........
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and
VIEW POST] CARDS. Stamps in Sets, Packets, Bags and Single,
moment of Stamps and, Post Card
Albumi.
Postage Stamps Catalogues for 1910, Stock Books, Duplicate Pocket Bookst Transparent Envelopes.
Gauges."
Tweezers, Magnifying Glasses, Perforation
Novels Books for parlour and household
uso. Toy Books for Children,
Prayar Books, Religions Pictures, Pendants, Medals, Statuettes, Flower Seeds.
Rellel Scraps and Scrap Albums, ·
·MANILA CIGAR AND CIGARETTES:
$5+
Inspection lavitad, Hongkong, 12th January, 1910,
LEE YEE HAIR DRESSING SALOON
ORIGIN OF CHING MING, The idolatron ceremony of Ohing Ming look his rise for the benefit of neglacied ghosts, and it is required of government officials as well as the common people that it should be observed, owing to the fact that the Brot Em- peror of the Ming dynasty was in childhood ́a had no knowledge of the place of their Inter- ment. When be reached the threña, being unable to sacrifice at the grave of his ancestors, | he commanded his; officers throughout the Empin to sacrifica, to the shades of those whose graves were Beglected. Thus, the Feast of Sonis bolde sway to-day over the millions of Obluese, and they "pity the an. fortuostas" by helping, as they beat know how, in many cases with genuine pity and respect, largely from fear of consequences should they resent being neglected, but the fact remains that they worship, at the tombs. is cutting at the bottom of such custome, but The spread of rationalism among the Chinese the bait elements in them may wall be saved and conserved, and, under wiss teachers, the 'Chinese, when as 'hatlan they become Obris- tians, will not be unmindful of the best things in their long roll of traditions and custom which have come down to them. Much resent ment has been aroused in the minds of some of the best of the Chinese, from the fact that
ATHER-FORBOAST AN JORM-WARNINGSKIBSORD
FROM THE HONGKONG OBSERVATORY.
METROROLOGICAL SIGNAL&
Meteorological"" signals are hoisted on the mast in front of the Water Police Station it Tsim Sha Tsui for the information of masters of vessels leaving the port, They do not necessarily imply that bad weather is expected
Bignal
NE
A COXE point upwards
A CONE polat upwards: and DRUM below
A DRUM
A CONT polat down. wards and DEUM below
5
A CONE polat down-- wards
5.
A.COUR polat down. wards and BALL befow
RAFL
8. A COME
polat upwards and BALL below
Indicates a Typhoon to the North of the Colony."
Indicates a Typhoon to the_North-East. of the Colony,
Ludicates a
to the East) of, the dalony.
Indicatesa Typhoon to the South-East
of cha' Colony,
Indicatos Typhoon to the South of the Colony.
indicatora Typhoon"
to the South Wes of the Colony,
IndicateraTyphoon
to the West of the Colony.
indicatesa Typhoon to the Herth-Waa of the Colony
Rad Signals Indicate that the centre 17 ballared to be more than 100 miles away from the Colony.
Black Signals Indicate that the centre is belleved to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony,
Tos above signals will, as heretofore, ba bolated only when typhoons exist in such 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 harbours *
These signals are repeated at the Harbour Omes, H.M.S. Tamar, Green Island Signal Mast, and the Flagstad on the procilses of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown. Company at Kowloon,
URGENT. SIGNAL
In addition to the above, when it is expected
that the wind may increase to fall typhoon
Station, and repeated at the Harbour Ofic#!-- Signal will be made at the Water Police force at any moment, the following Urgant
THREE EXPLOSIVE BOMBE, AT INTERVALE OF TEX SECONDS,
time, superior to the other shapes.
A Black Crous will be hoisted at the same
NIGHT,SIGNALS,
[53 those who have set themselves to be their ined from the Flagstad on the roof of the Water.
HAS ALWAYS ON HAND CIGARS, CIGARETTES
AND
TOILET REQUISITES
FOR SALE.
17, D'ANDILAR SYRERE, HONGKONG. Hongkong, 3rd September; 1907.
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Dentistry
Dr. M. H. CHAUN, DENTAL SURGEON,
31. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRĀL, INT FLOOR, ROOM 3 and si
From the University of Pennsylvania, 13,5.A
Telephone 126. Hongkong, 27th January, 1910,
TSIN TING
LATEST METHODS OF DENTISTRY,
KKUDIO AT No. 14; D'AQUILAR STAKET,
Hongkong,
structors have not sought to know and appre ciate their past history, literature and religions, bat kave in gross ignorance, in soms intances at least, sought to uproot and destroy what they had instead of giving them light into the way to walk along a more excellent paib, which brings 'the fruits of righteousness as do Diker way does to the sama extent.
Intimations.
A TOO STABLE. LEIGHTON HILL ROAD,
(next to No. 1, Police Station).
The following Night Signals will be exhibit. Police Station at Kowloon, the Harbour Offer Flagstad, and H.M.S. Tamar.
1. Three Lights Vertical, Green Green Green, indicates that a typhoon is bellaved to be situated more than 300 miles from the Colony.
II. Threa Lights Vei`za), Groen Rad Green, indicates that a' typhoon" la' believed to be nitiated less than goo miles from the Colony,
I Three Lightstical, Rad Groan Rød, Indicates that the wind may be expected to Increase to fall typhoon forċa at any moment,
*No. III. Signal.will be accompanied by the Explosiva Bombs, as above, in the event of the
HL HOING Hond pallaked by alght. ETAS established a SHOEING FORGE ar - Information conveyed by this signal belog Arve-
Ponies can be shod by EXPERIENCED SHANGHAI FARRIERS by arrangemente
Sboeing of Horses and Ponies also under taken at Kowit on on receipt of Owners instructions,
PRICES
The
Night Signals will be substituted" the
the Day Sigoals at sunset, sad will, whos necessary, be altered during the night,
SUPPLEMENTARY WARNINGL
At the Stables or anywhere in Hongkong. For the Beneft of Native Craft and passing Sa per solmat.
At Kowloon, 53 par`animal,
A TOO STABLE,
Leighton Hill Road. Anaginse, azid March, 1910.
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JAPANESE MASSAGE.
wear MEIJI SHA,
GRADUATE OF
·KOBE MESSAGE ́SCHOOL ATTENDANCE-AT. PATIENTS, § RESIDENCE, 6. 171, WANCHAT ROAD,
GROUND, FLOOK.
Ocaun Vesselő, a Cons" will be arhibited at sach of the following stations during the tima that any of the abova Day Signals are hots ad 3p the Harbour.
Gap Rock Waglam
Stanley.
·Cape Collinzon,
This will indicate that there in somewhere in the China Sea and Warning la hoisted in the Harlons.
Further detalls can always be given sa Cica Vorsals, op damaad, by signal, from
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