Intimations.
A GOOD DIET
is of the greatest import- ance during illness and convalescence. A beef
tea that contains the smallest amount of fat or is weakened by foreign ingredients ofton hinders, Instead of helping, recovery,
Lemco (Liebig Company's Extract) is the strongost preparation of beef that science knows. It is quito free from the fat that so often spoils home-made beef teas. Keeps perfectly in any climate.
LEMCO
(11.0 estiula of Leddy's Extrnet of Meat Da.
New Trado Mark for the Qonuine
LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT.
Signed
Jodieliz.
in BLUE.
Intimations.
TELEPHONE No 329,
THE CHINA MAIL.
To Let.
TO LET
For Sale
FOR SALE.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 18 1901
ENGLISH COUNTRY INNS,
We have published during the past.
TSANG FOO & CO. 12 ECROPEAN HOUSES: Nos. 14. THE Hell-known, RAIN ACFIT tow daya a considerable number of let DART newly overhauled and inters complaining, more or less strongly
典榮
SAM WING HING,
COAL MERCHANTS,
No. 48. Des Voeux Real Contral. Hongkodig, September 21, 1001.
NAKAZAWA,
DEALERS IN
1958
CLOISONNE, SATSUMA, LACQUERED
A
BRONZE WARES..
TEA SERVICES, PORCELAIN GOODS PICTURE FRAMES
AND ALL KINDS OF
JAPANESE FINE ART CURIOS, AT MODERATE PRICES.
11. BEACONSFIŻSO ARCADE, Opposite City HALL Elongkong. August 6, 1901.
1827
THE MUTUAL STORES, WHOLESALE & RETAIL GROCERS,
PROVISION DEALERS, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, $ und 10, 1) Ágrilla» Street..
Orders promptly attended to. Retail Price Lists may be had on appli cation.
Hongkong, August 20, 1901, - 1709
G. FALCONER & Co., COME AND LOOK
WAP.MAKKES AND JEWELLERS
NEW SELETIONS OF
DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE, HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES.
LARGE ASSORTMENT OF SIECTACLES. PINCE NEZ AND EYE PRESERVES.
G. FALCONER & ARE AGENTS FOR ROSSFÍ FAMOUS TELESCOPES AND PINGULARS LORD KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. ADMIRALTY CHARTS AND BOOKS,
BASTMAN'S KODAKS AND FILMS.
*A QUERN'S ROAD.
M. MUMEYA,
JAPANESE ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHEN ENLARGEMENTS ON BROMIDE PAPER
AND FINISHED IN URAYON.
ALL KINDS OF WORK DONE FOR AMATEURS.
84 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
MAY BLOSSOM
JAPAN
ARE
IGARETTES WORLD
RENOWNED
Inert ang Butler. Lan. London, England
COALS.
9223
128-2
THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA
(Or MITSUI & 00.)
HEAD OFFICE -12, & AKANoro-en's TosYO LONDON OFFICE-31, IME STREET. E,O. HONGKONG OFFICE, Ive here: Sra#K).
BRANCH OFFICES-
New York, on Frame, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Saurabaya, Mania. Amey, Shanglu, Hankow. Chefee, Tientsin, Newchwaag, Port Arthur. Seoul, Chemaipo, Yokohama, Yokoenka, Nagoya, aka, Kobe, Kure, Shimonoseki, Moji, Waka. matsu, Karateu, Nagasaki, Kuchinotso, Sasebo, Mike, Hakodate, Taieb, c.
Tolographic Address for all the Office: MITSCI."
A.B.C. and A Codes used.
CONTRACTORS OF CUAL to the aperis fapanese Navy, Arsenals and Railway; Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steaners.
SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Mike. Tagawa, Yamane, and Ida Coal Mines. SOLE AGENTS or Fukumo, Hokoku, flimur, Kannda. Kishina, Mannoia, Opcura,
18, 22, 20, 28, 30, 34, 36, 38, 42, 44 and 46, Leights Hill Road. Apply to
CHEAP SALE FOR 15 DAYS. Jush A
received
NEW GOODS
VASES,
PASELS
SILK ALBUMS,
SILK FIRE SCREENS, JAPANESE RUGS,
JAPANESE KOBE TOYS, TEA SETS (42 piece) and a large
Variety of other Toys, Etc.
FUJIYAMA & Co.
·Hungking, October 3, 1901.
2050
C. E. WARREN, BUILDING CONTRACTOR, No. 3, WYNDHAN STREET, SANITARY Appliances Supplied and
Fixed.
DILAINS, TRAPS, WASTE PIPES, Etc.. Cleansed and Repaired.
attemary Board Notices receive prompt
attention.
AGENTS FOR Mosate Trzas Prices on Application. Hongkong, August 2, 1901
First-Class.condition." --**
his reputation as a host at all points, The well-known call of Horses on a mest every hour in the day, as carriage. after earringe drove up to the fan door,
ing of in the general toge nutî wanngé. would become less frequent if any fall Complete with 2 cute of Nails, Moorings of the deterioration of our country insment of the house anda itself visible
whs, within THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON Dingy, etc., etc., very suitable for touring whose boasted excellence
LAND & LOAN Co. L21,"
among the frequenters of the road in the memory of living men, something that case, my Lord of Sir John might Fries $376, No. 8, Queen's Rand, West.
May be inspected at Ah King's Slip. more than a tradition. With the intro Hongkong, October 4, 1901.
be seen some fine day changing horses duction of tables hot and such imita at the Swais or the George instead of at 2015 | vay, Wande
Apply to 'E. R
tions of French cookery as are now sel the Old Red Lion The country Inn Care of This Paper. before the guests at provincial hotels, it of those days depended very largely on Hongkong, October 18, 1901.
is said that all the old-fashioned comfort the support of the upper classes, and FOR SALE.
and genuine good cheer of the old
tere frequented for years together by
TO LET.
Kozoos. Inaadiste Kutry. TUS. 3 nud 4, ORMSBY TERRACE,
Apply to
PUN HUNG, 85, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, October 7, 1901.. *1490
TO LET
Apply to (ODOWN, No. 5A, DEDDELL STREET
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Bengkong, July 4, 1991.
1999
TU LEE
HOUSE in NIPON TERRACE,
THE RETREAT,' MOUNT KELKTI. Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LT," Hongkong, August 24, 1901. 1700
TO LET
TOS, 1 to 8. WİLD DELL.'" Was-
CHA Rear, Apply to
SANG KEE,
208, Des Voeux Rond Centrai. Hongkong. August 31, 1901.
TO LET
1200
NO. 1, STEWART TERRACE, The
PRAS. Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
MENT & AGENCY Co., LTI. Hongkong. July 16, FROL
TO JET,
1478
Apply to
G. C. ANDERSON. Hongkong, October 16, 1001,
2121
purposes.
H
detailed Particulars.
2127
TOUSES and LAND at the PEAK. "For fashioned hostelry have disappeared, the sang individuals and the shins Of course, charges have risen 3 pro families This established bond portion to the assumed 'elegance, of the
of
union between the land new regime, and innkeepers are ad monished that they would find it greatly possibly exist under present cir at and bis customers which cannot
Apply to
DENNYS & BOWLEY,
Solicitara, Supreme Court. Hongkong, September 28, 1901.
2007
FOR SALE,
TOUK GRAHAM'S Choice • FIVE CROWN' PORT.. Well-known zo connoisseurs in the East.
JOB
G. C. ANDERSON,
20. Des Voeux Road. Hongkong. September 14, 1901. 1909
Auctions.
to their own advantage to return, as far as possibly to the ancient ways. About the facts, we take it, there can be no dispute. From the reign of Elizabetli to the reign of Victoria wo have an un- broken dain of evidence in favour of
* the high character of our country inns Macauny, in the first volume of Ins History,lins dashed off n rupid sketch of them which may most be called the locus elasneus, off the subject. Our PUBLIC AUCTION.
superiority in this respect, was recognis, THE Code:sigued have received instructed by foreigners; and travellers admit
tions farm the Executer of the late ted that there was nothing liko Mr J. J. FRANU, K.C., to Sell by Pullic Auction,
English im to be found anythiere on the Continent. Shenston plaintively acknowledged that he had always found his warmest welcome at an in, and it was when dining with Roswell at an excellent inn at Chapel House, & quiet" country pince about teu roiles from Woodstock, that Dr Johnson uttered his famous eulogy upon English ints in general, Sir Walter Scott, in Kenil
Di
TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), the 19th October, commencing at 11 M. within the Residence, MxGIKAKAIN, TERRACE,' Mkazise Gar,
THE WHOLE OF THE
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
therein contained,
Comprising
RECHERCHE BLACK WOOD TABLES, STOOLS etc.. Drawixa-ROOM FURNITURE, PEKİNG: CERIS, SILK GOODS, IVORIES, ETC., 1Tr.worth, has given us a graphic descrip MASSIVE SILVER LANTS, one LAMP ON OLD tion of what was a village inn in the DRESDES CHINA STAND, Une pair READING
cumstances. Nor
by die poating and coaching business that the character of the connery inn was formed It was a little local cen tre for the Magistrates and their wives and doughters when they came to the Bench
They put their carriages in the
yard, funched in the house, and had hair, joke with the landlord or landlady as they passed in and out......... Railways and bicycles have done away with this kind of local life. Nor is the change in question confined to inus alone. It as effected country shops in very very much the same manner. In the old days,, when a journey to town whe an expensive business, most of the country families, the clergy, and otlier professional men dealt with the Incl tradesmen, who, as a matter of course, kept goods of the best quality, and were themselves in their dress and demeanour totally different from the provincial shopkeepers of this present day.
To recur to Lord Macaulay, be phinly
LANS, OR BLACKWOOD STANEE, TIENTEIN Sixteenth Century. The Black Boat, fortsaw what has happened since Lo CARPET and Runs, (nearly new) PAINTINGS and Giles Gosling were bat types of the wrote As present, he says, the and ENGRAVINGS, COLCR. CHAIRS, &., BOM 1st January nest, a HOUSE in SIDEBOARD, DINING TABLE And CHAIRS, houses of public entertainment that exist traveller soldum interrupts his journey
Queen's Gardeus.
DINNER WAGOON,
SET OF
VALUABLE ed by the score in every county in Eng merely for the sake of rest and refresh GLASSWARE ono ROSLAN SAMAVOR, NAPERY, CUTLERY and SILVER WAR land; and if anything more were wanted DINNER and DESSERT SERVICE, BRUSSELS to complete the picture, it is that inimit CARPETS, DOCALE and SINGLE BRASS and IRON BRUSTEADS, MABINBURY WARDROBE, with glass door, Boss, and a number of CLASSICAL and other Worms in ENGLISH and GERMAN, MARBLE CLOCK, one pair old DRESDEN CHINA TAHER (hand painted), &a; &c. PANTRY H KITCHEN REQUISITES AS UBUNT PLANTS with For ane
Hotels.
KOWLOON HOTEL
THIS HOTEL is situated in a quiet locality, away from the din and disturbance of the City, and surrounded by
a delightful Garden it is an ideal place of Residence. The building stands on an eminonce, giving a magnificent view of the 1609 Harbour and the City of Victoria. It is
within easy access {{{μ? where the priest Kowloon Wharves -----3 - whink there is a Samaraw,brary service to Hongkong.
TIMBER MERCHANTS.. No. 232, Des Voeux Road West,
Hongkong.
HAVE alwags ON HAND a large STOCK of the following TIMBER :- AMERICAS PINE AND FIR.
BASTROR TEAKWOOD. HARWOOD, ETC, Etc., (in Lags & Pianks). An inspection is respectivly solicited. Hongkong, September 4, 1901.
PAYMENTS CAN BE MADE BY INSTALLMENTS.
1846
howling Alleys and Billiards. The Cuisine is Excellent.
J. W. OSBORNE, J. H. DOWNS,
Proprietor.
Manuger
Hongkong, September 6, 1920.
1850
THE WAVERLEY HOTEL,
ICE HOUSE STREET, HONGKONG.
A large assortment of Paris and other
BICYCLE (nestly now).
TERMSÁB usual,
went. The consequence is, that han dreds of excellent inus have fallen into able description of the Saracen's Fiend- utter docny. - In a short time no good at Towcester, where Mr. Pickwick, houses of that description will be found, alighting wet and weary with My Allen likely to be detained by basiness or except at places where strangers are and Mr Bob Sawyer, was persuaded to pleasure. But oven here, as our Cor put up for the sight, "Lights in the respondents complain, the traveller no de Sun, John," cried the landlord to the longer finds what was once so much prized in an English inn-comfort, fred waiter, This way, gentlemen. Now, dom, good wine, and the best of plain | Johf, the crudles.” The candles were fure. To order our own dinner, to have brought, the fire stirred up, and a fresh it at our own time, and to eat it in our own room, are privileges, Ioseparable. tob of wood thrown on. In ten minutes from the idea of taking one's ease in time a waiter was laying the cloth for one's Inn What a Correspondent calle dinner, the curtain was drawa, the Grethe miserable mimicry of the big hotel was blazing brightly, and everything has ousted the capital English dinners
system to be seen at Little Peelington looked (as everything always does in at which Johnson and Diokens enjoyed decent English inus) as if the travellers so much. The table d'hote system, of THE Undersigned bun re divest had been expected and their comforts a great many more guests that become course, enables a hotel keeper to take in prepared for days before hand. That do if they all had separate sittingsdoms. Sun, we fear, bas set for over, or, at all But the crowd and the noise mob suck a dinner of alt comfort and repose. It where the cookery is not a mere alon may be very lively and amusing, and and the wines are passably good, if mas
On View on FRIDAY, the 18th instant. For further particulars apply to
HUGHES HOUGH,
Auctioneer. Hongkong, October 12, 1901.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
to Sell by
MONDAY,
2110
A First-Class Private the 21st October, 1991, at 2.45 p., at create, cerealy to rise again during the
Family Hotol,
No. 4, Century Crescent, Kennedy passing generation, Where, olt where Road (the Residence of Dr C. Gerare the veal cotlets, roast fowls, tarts, lach).
[ANDSOMELY FURNISHED and
HExcertingly Spacious Rocks.
THE WHOLE OF KIN
and tidiness' which rejoiced the travel-sometimes be an agreeable change. This Youy MODERATE TERMS to FAMIYALUABLE HOUSEHOLD lers on that memorable occasion? niagem counterfeit, the Fronch menit, is the genuine article. But the Bram LIES by the DAY or MONTH.
Hongkong, December 18, 1900.
2690
NEW VICTORIA HOTEL.
ROTISSERIE,
Mert's a
La Cat
YROPS, STEAKS, etc., etc., at any time, between 7.30 a.m. and 11
FURNITURE,
Comprising:-
FINELY CARVED BLackwood Tadies 2014 FLACQUES, BOOKCASE?, MAMINAURA ÖVER- MANTELE, WARDROBES, WATSTANDS and WRITING TABLE DINING TABLE, DINNER WAGONS, CHIFFONIER, HASTANDS, CAR- PHOTOGRAPHIC GEAR, &c., ko, ez PATS, Hum, and CURTAINS, & Quantity of
Als?
Were is the sound okl port Mr Pich consisting of dishes which are rich with- wick never drank bad-which they go. 2ut favour, and wines which are awest - tried after dinner, some of which is juice of the grape this is the abominat or sour, as the case may be, without the said still to linger in the cellars of out- tion against which we glidly join in s of-the-way, tunable-down intis on the old Protest; a repast many travellers of tourists would not gladly exchange for conching amula? We ourselves have
the cuisine of the Saracen's Head, and always regarded this report as a pleasore which, if they are sensible men A QUANTITY OF PLANTS ia. POTS
fant fiction; and certainly you may ask they will wash down with a tankard of Bass stend of the heck, claret, or in vain nowadays at such uns as the champagne, which are pure impostures. On View from Saturday, the 19th Octanceus fend for anything of the Whether motor car drivers and cyclists
ጨ ነገ
Monthly Tin at Moderate Bates.
Madar & Farmer,
Proprietors Hongkong. Misy 1. 1809
ber.
1797
Catalogues will be issued. TERMS-Cosh on delivery.
Otsuji, Tohuayama, Tabakute, Yoshinocant, Yoshio, Yanukabura, and other Coal WHEELER & WILSON'S Pelham House,
Mines,
Hongkong August 1. 1901.
N. INUZUKA, Manteger.
1118
SINGER'S
APPLY TO
Ideal Milk
DEAL MILE
EXOCEED WITH GREA
ENRICHED 20 PER CENT.
WITH CREAM
Sterilized-Not Sweetened.
A PERFECT SUBSTITUTE FOR FRESH MILK
"HARLENE"
THE VERY FINEST DRESSING.
SPECIALLY IDEATED AND DELICATELY PERFUMED;
RESTORES THE HAIR
STELAGTHENG. THE KOOTS.
PROMOTES THE GROWTH,
ARRESTS THE FALL...
REMOVES DANDRUFF,
ELAY ALL IRRITATION
·
AND
FAMILY HOTEL.
MACHINES.
803
WYNDHAM STREET. M. MOORE,
Proprietoress.
THE
DOOLITTLE & POLLOCK
WELLINGTON SHTIET.
SEND FOR CATALOGIES & LISTS.
*$482
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS IN
ADVANCE.
AS EABLT OPPORTUNITY m'tugas WISH- IN TO GENT GREETISCS TO THEIR RELATIVES AND FRIENDS at Home,"
Peak Hotel.
CITY OFFICE,
7. DÚDDELL STREET. HOTEL ORAIGIEBURN.
HAVE at Opened s Parcel of XMAS DLUNKEYS CAP.
and NEW YEAR CARDS of verious.
THE PEAK,
pretty designs und descriptions, specially near the Tan's Tersuara. TELEPHONE 56. selected to suit the taste of Young and Ol
16 - Discinant for Cad
The luir prizes we astonishing,
Inspection is kindly solicited.
H. RUTTONJEE,
Nos. 5, D'Aguilar Street, H.K. Nos. 39 and 40, Elgin Road, Kowloon;
And, bo from Mosses, Cover & Co.. No. 1932, Wellington Street, H.K.
- FOR THE
Hongkong, October 16, 1901.
HAIR
Full description and directions for use in 20 languages supplied with every littl
Baby and (3 m. d. size) 48, per Bottle, from Druggista, etc; all over the well
*REWARDS HABLENE CO; 95 & 5 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, ENG
三子餐
3121
-THE TRIMETRICAL CLASSIC. 千字文
Per Terran
Apply to the MANAGER. 741
THE BAY VIEW HOTEL.
UNDER ENTIRELY NEW MANAGEMENT.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer. Hongkong, October 16, 1991.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned has received in structions to sell by Poste Aucries,
on
TUESDAY,
kind.
will ever bring the road into fashion again, and create a fresh lemand for country quarter of a different description, remains to be sein. The old roadside or village im public house; and in many of our staller has now degenerated into an ordinary
towns the principal in a little better, but whether the now mode of travelling
-The change, however, as our Corres pondent, Home-brewed." puinta ont, $125 | is not altogether the fault of the fun
keepers The social conditions under which the ok country inns flourished have disappeared Macaulay say this will every prove a substitute for the but he did not see the whole truth stage conch the private chariot, th When travellers spent a much longer the post-chaise, is, potius, a little finie
upou the road than they do now doubtful. Innkeepers, no doubt, as one the 22nd October, 1901, at 3 p.o. on board, it was necessary for there to be able to keeper, points not would be gird of our correspondente,, himself an int THESTEAM LAUNCH CHUK DEEN break their journey at certain points, enough to attract customers by reducing LENGTH: 45 BEAN 7C" BUILT THROUGHOUT Families posting up to London from their pelacs aut altering their bill of
of TRAK, and COPPER BEKATEED.
Yorkshire of Devonshire, or even from But unless the whole stron of traffic. fare, if they thought it would answer. counties nearer to the Metrigolis, often could be turned back upon the roads preferred to rest a might on the road, we hardly see how any such inni could They would find capital inns all als be runde to pay. Rendes, we must re- member what our Correspondents ap- the Northern or Western routes, accus pear to forget, that maily persons who tomed to receive such guests, and partly now sit to these tenth rate tables There 2004 dependent on their patronagu,
really like them, and if they are showing their good taste by méferring. then to more old-fashioned dinners- The Standard
Speed: 10 miles an hour. Completed in
January 180L
On view opposite Tung Tui's Works, Manubit.
TERUS :- Cash on delivery.
GED. P. LAMMERT.
Auctioneer Hongkong, Cetuber 11, 1901.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE Attention of
class to which they generally bel expected from the landlord what tum cheerfully rendered
Tet Atte bune. Advertisers is drawn and attention to when they
Advertisements and Corrections to Adver- tomed at home, and wie and tigaments A
sence of gunsts
· Alterations 200, adelitions to Advertise. Ecarcely, if at all, inferior to shart menta on Fages 2, 3, 6 and 7, should be all or the Abbey, sentto this Office not later thanila.m. New THIS HOTEL is picssantly situated on Advertisements should be sent in before
the SHAU KI-WAN ROAD Very con venient for Private Dinner Parties, which
BAIN & REH the Management make a speciality
WINES SPIRITS and MIXT LIQUORS OF HE vory best Broda only kept in Brock.
2 THE THOUSAND WORDS POEM The Hotel adjofus pscious Marquee,
Translated from the Chinese
by E. J. Erre, PH.D.
Taba had-Price 30 Coats the not-from
the GHINK MATE ORO & Pondelta Strom
suitable for Cercents, Danser &c.
3 μm,
· Chisa Mart Office, Dec. 1900.
THE COMMERCIAL LAW AFFECT ING CHINESE -/
PARTNERSHIP REGISTRATION: 5
With Special Reference to
roof made the land
different person
of our own tree
ed
Hi
TYPICAL SOI
R. Larson,"