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THE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

BLUE FUNNEL

LINE

REGULAR AND FAST

FREIGHT AND

PASSENGER SERVICES |

LONDON SERVICE

POMAELST D-HEMUS

"PARDANU

"HECTOR"

21At Jua 20th Janu 13th July. 28th July

Caliu a Corabianca.

Marseilles, London, R'dam & H'borg Nilles, London, R'dam & 'burg Marseilles, London, R'duw & II'burg Márueillen, London. R'dum & Glasgow

LIVERPOOL SERVICE

BELLEROPION. 1st July 1-nos, 'les, Haver, L'pool & O'ger YANOTSZE" 20th July Oenoa. Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow

20th Aug. Genoa, Havra. Liverpool & Glasgow

*OANFA"

PACIFIC SERVICE

Victoria, Vancouver, Sattle. Victorin, Vancouver & Seattle

via KOBE & YOKOHAMA, TALTHYBIUS 23rd June "PHILOCTETES" 16th July.

NEW YORK SERVICE "LAOMEDON 16th July.. "DOLIUS"

27th Aug.

Now York, Boston & Baltimore New York, Bolton & Baltimore'

PASSENGER SERVICE

"FECTOR"

BARFEDON*

"PATROULUA"

"ANTENOR"

28th July. 6th Sept

20th Oct.

17th Nov.

Singaporn, Marseilles & London. Singapore, Mareeilen & London. Singapo, Marseilles & Loodan Bingapore, arabillas & London

Also cargo-steamora with limita pasager accommodation.at

ity reduced raros.

For freight and passage rates and information apply t

Butterfield & Swire.

CANADIAN

Agents,

EMPRESS

PACIFIC

EXPRESS

QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC 17. Days from Hongkong to Vancouver LARGEST & FASTEST STEAMSHIPS,

Special FARES to EUROPE

£120 £12 £83

VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER

via SHANGHAI, & JAPAN PORTS.

STEAMERS

EMPRESS" OF ASIA

Yokohama Ya'ver Arļve

MONDAY, JUNE

CONTRASTS IN NICE.

AMERICAN ORIENTAL

MAIL LD

The fast Short Route.

to the United States!

SEATTLE & VICTORIA in SHANGHAI-KOBE-YOKOH

8.S. "PRESIDENT McKINLEY” · 8.S. "PRESIDENT JEFFERSON" 8.S. "PRESIDENT GRANT".

June 21st, 5.00 p.m. July 3rd, 5.00 p.m. July 15th, 5.00 pm

EUROPE L120–£112 First Class on the Pacific. First Class on American or Canadian Railway. First Class and Monoclass on the Atlantie. Cholce or Trans Continental Railway. Any Line on the Atlantic. Through accommodation and Booking Arranged.

FOR MANILA S.S. "PRESIDENT JEFFERSON" S.S. "PRESIDENT GRANT" S.S. "PRESIDENT MADISON"

June 25th, 5.00 p... July 7th, 5.00 p.m.. July 19th, 5.00 p.m.

ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE Managing Operators for United States Shipping Board. Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 795. No. 4 Des Voeux Road. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor.

TRAVELIN COMFORT

Aboard DOLLAR "PRESIDENT" LINERS

TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK

VIA MANILA, STRAÏTS, COLOMBO, SUEZ-PORT SAID -ALEXANDRIA - NAPLES GENOA-MARSEILLES

BOSTON and NEW YORK Thence

Fortnightly Sailings

Pres. Monroe

Pres. Harrison...

Pres. Van Buren..........

July 6-8.00 a.m. July 20-8.00 8.m. Aug. 8 8.00 a.m.

TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

TO SAN FRANCISCO, VIA HONOLULU KOBE AND

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Pres. Cleveland

Pres. Plerce Pres. Taft

YOKOHAMA Fortnightly Sailings.

June 2012 noon July 4-12 noon July 18-12 noon. Dollar President liners offer you luxurious travel comforts. All statercoms are outside rooms, well-ventilted and cooled by electric fans. They are furnished with heils (not berik), each having an electric reading lamp Staterooma with private hath predominate, and all have hot and cold running water. The spacious steel swimming funk is always filled with clean.es.water Decks are broad, and the use of oil-fuel insures their cleanliness DOLLAR LINE cuisine in world-famonaveriod fure prepared under the direction of skilled chefs. Orchestra music enlivens the voyage. All these travel advantages are yours when you sail on Dollar Presistent liners

Pres, Pierce

TO

MANILA

June 26-8.00 p.m. July 6-8.00 a.m.. July 9-8.00 p.m.

For passenger and freight rates, apply to BONOKONG AND Buangual BayR BUILDING. GROUND FLOOD,

Telephone Central 2-77,2478 and 795.

Bengkong Rangkai

L231*

.H.b

Дента

Jun. 24 Jun. 27

EMPRESS OF ASIA !

July 9 July 12 July 22 July 25 Aug. 6 Aug. Aug.19 Aug. 22 Sept. 3 Sept. 5 Sept. 16 Sept. 19 Oct. 14 Oct. 17

Jun. 30 July 14 July 28

Pres. Monroe

July 3 July 12

Fres. Taft..

July 17 July 26.

July 31 Aug. 9

EMPRESS OF CANADA.

Oct. 29 Oct. 31

EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF 'AUSTRALIA EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

Aug. 11. Aug. 14 Aug. 25 Aug. 25 Aug.28 Sept. 6 Sept. 8 Sept. 1 Sept. 20 Sept. 22 Sept. 25 Oct. 4 Oct. 20 Oct. 23 Nov. 1 Nov. 3 Nov. 6 Nov. 15

(E/Asia and E/Russia call at Nagasaki the day after departure from Shanghai)

HONGKONG-MANILA-HONGKONG-SERVICE

Leave longlong

Arrive.

Manila

June 16 June 18 June 30 July 2

Leave

"Mapita.

E/ASIA June 19 E/CANADA July 3

Passenger Departmen!!! Freight and Express :

Tel. U. 752 Tol.0. 42.

Arriva

Honghong

June,21 July 5

Cablos "GACANPAO." Cables NAUTILUA"

AMERICAN PIONEER LINE

Operated for

United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation

by

ATLANTIC, GULF. & ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP CO.

Dollar Steamship Line

INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION Co., Ltd.

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. Destination.

STRAITS & Calcutta SANDAKAN

TSINGTAU via S'hai. OSAKA via Moji Kobe.. STRAITS & Calcutta. TIENTSIN

HAIPHONG

Sailinge.

noon.

.Steamer.

Fooksang Mon. 14th June at 11 a.m. ..Hinsang Wed: 16th June at 2 p.m. Kwongsang Wed. 10th June at

Yuensang Fri. 18th June at 7 a.m. Namsang Satur. 19th June at 3 p.m. Chipshing Wed. 23rd June at 7a.m. Mingsang Wod. 23rd Juge at 10 a.m.

Boon.

TSINGTAU via S'hai. Yatsbing Wed, 23rd June at OSAKA vin S'hai Moji Kobe Latsang Satür. 26th June at 7 a.m.. TSINGTAU via S'hai.. TIENTSIN

Fooshing Wed, 30th June at noon.

STRAITS & Calcutta ..........

.Cheongshing Mon: 5th July at noon. Kutsang Mon, 5th July at 3 p.m.

June 16th

A FAMOUS WINTER RESORT.

SERVICE CONTRACTUELS-DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,

des Etrangers, is like leaving CONSIGNEE NOTICES. Rivington street in the Lower East Side of New York for Broadway above 72d street. Where the now Nice spreads out in all its come Nice. People may, and people plexity and perfection, before the do, vehemently censure Nice French Revolution there were Thoy can. They say, for example, rocks and a pasture for the goats. The Steamship "PORTHOS," that one walks along one side of Wo see as far as the eye can

youre

Consignees of Cargo from MAR- a.wide avenue and risks sunstroke, reach up the cross streets from SDS, &c. "PRO" and down the other side shortly the Boulevard Victor Hugo into afterward, and experiences a chill the distant hills-white marble are hereby informed that their goods In connection with above Steamer. They say-after all, it does not and re-enforced concrete in violent with the exception of Oplum, Trea matter what they say, for the competition, hotels, palaces, villas sure and Valuables are boing, landed popularity of Nice continues to and sumptuous shops, everything and stored at their risks into the Go- grow in leaps and bounds, likewise that is eloquent of wealth, com-Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd. Kowloon downs of the Hongkong, Kowloon its population, which is the true fort, elegance and pleasure. The whonco delivery may be obtained. yardstick of opinion,

permanent population of this New immediately after landing, Nice is the nearest thing they Town is between, 176,000′ and have to Los Angeles in Europe: 200,000. a lively throbbing city in a semi-

Along the edge of the Mediter tropical foliage fanned by marine rancan, like a pearl necklace, curls breezes and carpeted most of the the

famous "Promenade des tine by bright sunlight. While Anglais, which has for its eastern famed as a health-giving winter extension the Quai des Etats Unis, resort like the Southern California where in the sixteenth century the metropolis, It is also equally Duke of Savoy built wooden ships attractive in the summertime, bar- of war. ring a few mosquitoes."

Optional Cargo will be forwarded' on unless intimation is received from the Consignees before 7 a.m. "to-day" requesting it to be landed, here.

Bills of Lading will be counter- maining unclaimed after Monday, the signed by the Undersigned. Goods re- 14th instant, at Noon, will be subject. to rent and lading chargos.

effect-

All claims must be sent in to me on or before tho Thursday, the 17th inst, or they will not be rezognised. Here we find ourselves upon one All damaged packages will be ex- What first strikes the stranger of the grandest walks in the entire amined on Monday, the 14th instant, who arrives here from any capital world, a truly cosmopolitan pro-at 10 am, by Messrs. Goddard & in Europe is the building work menade that grades the human that is going on-new apartment family from A to Z. It is a soared. houses, villas, hotels, business side esplanade where East meets structures. They are pushing West and North meets South. No farther back into the hills the race is missing: every colour, orchards, the vineyards and the every plans of life, every kind of truckfarms. The capital for the dress is there, construction is foreign as well as

The afternoon is dis-

No Fire Insurance has bẹon

J. LIMAGE,

Agent. Hongkong, June 8, 1026,

THE EAST ASIATIC CO. LTD.

From COPENHAGEN,

"MALAYA”

French, and includes Polish, Of the four great. Riviera re- Italian, Swiss, British and some sorts, Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo Ameriönu.

and Mentone, Nice draws the greatest number of French There are really two cities of visitors. The time for the The Steamship, Nice, the great Ville des Etrangers fashionables on the Promenade on the right bank of the Paillon des Anglais is from 10 to 12 in the

the "Alpine torrent" which has

having arrived, Consignees of cargo- morning. given rise to so many jokes on

are hereby informed that all goods are being landed and placed at their account of its wide dry, stony bed tinctly French. for the larger portion of the year! Groups of sheet music sellers, risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong and the Riquier quarter and Old some with string instruments and & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd.,. Town, on the left bank, which is some with accordions, congest the where delivery can be

obtained as goods are landed. the original Nice, into which regular flow of people. The vend-soon as

No claims will be admitted after visitors seldom venture.

ing is done in two languages, the goods have left the Godowns and George all goods remaining undelivered after

Italian and French.

to rent.

subject to

goods are to be left in the Godown, where they will be examined by Megere, Anderson & Aaho on the 17th. of Jane, 1926, 1at 10 a.m.

The population of the Old Town Henry Payne, Tax Commissioner the 18th of June, 1928, 4 p.m., will has not changed in a hundred of New York, declared the scene he years back to 1826 when it was beat anything he had ever seen, a little provincial place, of about and he bought all the songs. 25,000 inhabitants, incorporated in the kingdom of Sardinia, living peaceably at the foot of its ruined castle.

Hags to riches all in a dense throng that extends for a quarter of a mile under a blue sky with

All claims against the vessels must. bo presented to the Undersigned be- fore the 21st of June, 1926, or they

No Fire Insurance will be affected. Bill of Lading will be counter- signed by

a blue sea for one border, and a will not be recognised. This Old Town is irreconcilable string of magnificent hotels, villas to modern civic developments, and and terrasse restaurants midst fortunately has been left intact green follage and flowers for the to serve as a contrast. Here one other border back of a wide bou- finds a maze of narrow crooked levard for equipages. streets filled with strong smells, and

IL

JOHN MANNERS & CO. LTD. Hongkong, 12th June, 1926.

dirty children, littered- Few towns as small as Nice TOTTEN vegetable shops and flapping have produced so many remark Sir John Simon's little confer- family wash; cula-de-sac, but able men. It gave to the worldsion that he has sometimes stakeď tresses, windings, venerable Massena, the General, Napoleon's half a crown on a game of golf trembling houses, crowds of Beloved of Victory, and Garibaldi, suggests the question whether Ashermen and their wives and in the champion of the people; anyone can claim never to have the Rue Droite the still beautiful Pacho, the explorer, and Bayastro, betted on anything, Gladstone palace of Lascaris, which dates the coreair; the painters, Vanloo, certainly had no taste whatever from the thirteenth century, when Fricers, Biscarra; the astronomer for gambling, but there is one Theodore Lascaris, driven from Cassini; the naturalists Risso and record of his making a bet when his Byzantine throne, took refuge Barla and the poet Rancher, he risked a sovereign on the. in Nice and soon gathered about besides a host of others. The amount of Lord Overstone's pro- him a court of splendor.

natives speak a local patois Nocois bate. On the other hand, if a list

The Lascaris Palace is now a and French they are French and could be compiled of eminent men sordid tonernent reeking, of garlic not Italian, and decidedly prefer who can boast that they have and fish, its handsome frescoes Briand and Herriot to Mussolini never made a bet, it is believed looking down upon grime and squalor where once trailed velvet- and lace.

that the list would include: one or two great racing owners, includ ing a great territorial magnate of

There was a story. jour own time,

of one of these who was persuad- ed to risk sixpence with a lady handsome wide tree-bordered Bou-to steer safely to a given point in and paid her the coin set in a levard Victor Hugo, of the Ville the thickest fog..

Delicate instruments have been To recross the bridge over the Paillon from the Old Town to the invented, which enable an aviator

brooch of diamonds,

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS MANIFESTO, HONGKONG.

Codes Used Al, A.B.C. Fifth Edition, Engineering, First and Second Edition, Western Union and Watkins. Dock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers, Iron and

Brass Founders, Force Master, Electricians,

8. §. "OAKPARK":

will sail....

for

“HAVANA, BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK“

and BOSTON vio PANAMA CANAL

also PANAMA

providing sufficient inducements offer

For Freight and Further Particulars

Apply to

ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE-Agents.

4, Des Voeux Road Central. Telephone C.795, C.2477, C.2478

For freight or passage apply to

JARDINE MATHESON & CO. LTD. Telephone 215. Contral

General Managers

Mayfair, originally Brookfield, banks, hasty pudding eaters, fire- received its present name from a enters, eausage tablets, col-divern, fair being held here by grant of ass-racing, up-and-downs, dice James II., to commence on May 1 and continue 16 days? The fair tables, merry-go-rounds, bull-balt- was suppressed in 1708, but was ing, grinning for i bat, running afterwards revived, and not finally for a shift, and cock-fighting. abolished until late in the reign:

of George III." The fair's many The site of the May Fair is now attractions included; according to occupied by Curzon-street, Hert- a contemporary writer, booths for

ford-street, and adjacent Jugglers, cudgel and backsword play, boxing matches, mounte- thorough-farea.

T. S. S.

SIANG WO

Fassenger & Cargo River Steamer, built and engined at Kowloon Dook, by the Hongkong and Whampoo Dook Co., Ltd, to the order of the Indo' China Szehm Navigation Co. Ltd

for service on the Middle Vantage, Hankow-Lohanging

lease address enquiries to the Chief Manager

§. H. DYER, M.I. Sc., B.N.AN D Kowloouce, Longkun

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