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Intimations.
G. FALCONER & Co.,
WATCH-MAKERS AND JEWELLERS. HOTEL MANSION S.
NEW SELECTIONS OF · DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE, - HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, LARGE SELECTION OF PRESENTATION PLATE, OUPS, BOWLE, ETC. G. FALCONER & Co. an AGENT FOR ROSS'S FAMOUS TELESCOPES AND BINOCULARS, LORD KELVINS NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ADMIRALTY CHARTS AND BOOKS.
SOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER.
M. MUMEYA,
JAPANESE ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER, ENLARGEMENTS ON BROMIDE PAPER
AND FINISHED IN CRATON.
ALL KINDS or WORK DONE FOR AMATEURS. VERY FINE PANORAMIO VIEWS OF HONGKONG.
BL, QUEEN'S ROAD OENTRAL.
TYPEWRITERS! TYPEWRITERS!! Typewriters repaired, cleaned, overhauled, and broken parts duplicated under expert supervision.
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Intimations.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SMART LADIES WHO DO NOTE,
PAY THEIR BILLS,
People used to say in Germany, wheri anything very unexpected lap pood, "Ein Lieutenant bezahlt seine Schulden"-"A lieutenant pays his debts!" It probably required a stratch of the imagination to picture such a thing happening oven in the
MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA slow-moving Fatherland; and if we sut-
00.)
(MITSU BTO COAL DEPARTMENT MARÚNG UCHI, TOKIO.
'CABLE ADDRESS: IWASAKI.' Which applies to al. Branch Offices. Al, A B C 6th Edition, Western Union
Codes asod...
All Letters Addressed
MANAGER, MITSUBISHI 00,
with name of place under. BRANCH OFFICES:- NAGARAKI, MOJ, Kone, KARATED, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG AND HANEOW.
AGENCIES:
YOKOHAMA : M. Anadá, Esq. OHINKIANO: Messes GEARING&Co MANILA: MOSES MACONDEAY & CO.
SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takasima, Oohi, Shinnew, Namazata and Kami Yamada Oollieries and also Hojo Colllery, which will shortly be ready to produce on large scale the best Buren Coal.
The Head and Branch Offices and the Agenotos of the Company will receive any order for Ocals produced from the above
Old Machines Renovated. Terms Very Moderate.ollarla
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
BICYCLES
FOR SALE, REPAIR, EXCHANGE AND HIRE.
THE DRAGON CYCLE CO.,
11. D'Aguilar Btroot.
Hongkong, February 16, 1907,
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THERE IS NO DOUBT
·
THAT
Where King's 'Fruit Bali' has been taken in the earliest stagos of disease ti bas lu innumerable Instances provented a serious Mixes, The effisob of
ENO'S "FRUIT SALT'
open any disordered, sleepless, or fetarial condition la simply marvations and mumtrpanol. In tot 16
IS
NATURE'S OWN REMEDY
JAUTION.-Bromine the Capsule and see that it to marked ENOS'FRUIT SALT,
.....therwire you hate the sincerest form of flattery-IMITATION. Prepared anly by J, CENO, LEI, “FRUIT SALT' WORKS, London, SLEL Eng, by J. C. ENO'S Patent.
Sold by Chemists and Stores everywhere.
USE ONLY & USE ALWAYS
ATKINSONS
A LUXURIOUS PERFUME
IN HEALTH.
A NECESSARY
RESTORATIVE
IN SICKNESS.
MOST REFRESHING.;
Ear Superior to the German Kinds.
EAU DE COLOGNE
HOLLOWAYS
For Indigestion, Heartburn, Biliousness, Jaundice, and all Complaints of the Liver and Kidneys.
THEY ARE INVALUABLE
FOR THE USE OF FEMALES.
Manufactured only at 28; New Oxford Street, Londda., Seld by pil Chemizwant Medicine Vendors
HILADELPHIA
OAKEYWELLINGTON
#T
KNIFE POLISH
FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING CUTLERY 0601/ 2/0 24/=
KNIFE BOARDS
PREVENT FRICTION IN CLEANING &INJURY TO THE KNIVES. JOHN OAKEY & SONS BLACK LEAD MILLS LONDON
JOHN OAKEY & SONS LH, WELLINGTON Milza London."
T. MATSUKI, Manager, Hongkong
No. 2. PEDDER STREET, Hongkong, April 26, 1906,
816
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LID.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of $9.50
atitute "fine lady" for lieutenant, and England for Germany, the contingency in even more remote. What talos some of the West End shopkeepers could tell of bills ecat in over and over again, of civil requests for payment, of firm requests, of truculent requests, all ignored with the utmost calmness by the lady of fashion who has probably long before flung aside as unt of date, the articles for which pay nout in asked! Sho would be very much! surprised, and not a little hurt, if you compared her to the foamle shop lifter who is so much in evidence at the spring and summer sales in the great drapery establish- ments of London.
But, except that ono conducts her operations by stealth, while the other is rather proud than otherwise of "dros- sing on nothing" (at the expense of the modists and milliner, bien entendu}, tluere is little to choose between them.
It is, indeed, impossible to be blind to the fact that many ladies of fashion nowadays deliberatoly run up bills and order fine clothes, intending by every nips in their power to evade payment, And if this is so, there is a very fav line of distinction to be drawn between them and the "lady" of another class, with a deop pocket to her-underskirt, who, when Be shopwalker's eye is off her, will lay hold on'] such unconsidered trifles as ribbons, Incas, or even dress-lengths. The chief difference
is that whereas the vulgar shopliftor is almost certain sooner or later to be caught
A per Share for the Six Monthe ending and haled before the nearest "beak," 30th June, 197, will be payable on the the fine Indy gets off scot-free as a rule, 25th instant, on which date Dividend War-
rants may be ehtained on application at and, having half-ruined one dressmaker by a bad debt, proceeds to make fresh depreda the Company's Office.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-tions on another who, perhaps newly pany will be CLOSED from TUESDAY,
the 16th instant to THURSDAY, the 26th started in the trade, is a little dazzled at instant, (both days inclusive).
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Secretary.
Hongkong, July 9, 1907.
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THE WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LIMITED
the prospect of making For a lady whose name the constantly sees in the society columus of the papers; and is ill-advised enough to give her new customer all the credit she wants.
The woman of fashion is certainly-loar ing the moral side of the question out of A. The per Share for the Six Months
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Dollars the reckoning-in a very strong position. ending 30th Jane, 1907, will be payable on When Madame Chiffon writes, either with the 29th instant, on which date Dividend persuasion or meances, she tosses the Warrants may be obtained on application letters into the waste-paper uskot. at the Company's Office.
Madame threatens a writ, or even sarves one? So quch the worse for her, for then she will be voted a "horrid woman" by all the friends of the lady she has "writted," and they will promptly remove their cus
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com. pany will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 18th instant, to MONDAY, the 58th lastant, (both days inclusive),
By Order of the Board of Directors, A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Secretary to THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-tom elsewhere; and as among most sinart.
-MENT AND AGENCY Co., LD General Agents for THE WEST POINT.
BUILDING CO., L. Hongkong, July 11, 1907.
Read
SEABREEZE'S
MARVELLOUS
NOTE
NEW LABEL
WATSON'S
TRADE MARK
FOR"
E
E
QUALITY
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1907.
To Let
WHISKY
?RADE MARK
WATSON'S
VERY OLD LIQUEUR.
Scotch Whisky
Aswatsony
LIMITED
HONGKONG CHINA & MANILA.
ESTABLISHED A.D.1841.
:-TAL BONDER AND Trade Mange On The LATEL ARC IN GOLD; THE LETTER
E' LITHOGRAPHED IN BLACE. 18 ALSO SHADED IN GOLD; WHILE THE THRES CENTRAL LANES WATSON'S VERY OLD LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISEY' ANE LITHOGRAPHED IN RED; THE OTHER PORTIONS OF THE LABEL ARE IN BLACK,
THE CAPSULE ALBO BEARS FACSIMILE SIGNATURE. Hongkong, July 1, 1907.
SECOND-HAND
TYPEWRITERS
SELECTION OF VARIOUS MAKES
AT
PRICES RANGING FROM
$50
UPWARDS
1096
PURCHASERS will have the option of changing for OLIVERS
within 9 MONTHS when full amount paid for Second- Hand Machine will be deducted from price of New
Machine.
OLIVER TYPEWRITER Co., Ltd.,
1, PRINCE'S BUILDINGS.
Hongkong, July 10, 1907.
To Let.
TO LET.
NOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Na owing to the INCREASE of the BUSINESS of Mesans H. PRICE & CO., Wine Merchants of No. 12, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, the business fins boen formed into a Company with Limited liabiDES SHAMEEN
MESSBA lity under the name and style of H. PRICE & CO., LIMITED, with MR A. E. ROBINSON as its Manager.
ladies friends are a certain number who pay, the result is to throw good 1142 money after bad. Even should Madame Chiffon proceed beyond the writ stage to more extreme measures, if the lady be married ele cannot be made a bankrupt; if olberwise, there is little to be get cut of bankruptcy proceedings in the way of hard cash, nothing as regals retaliation, for it is rather the fashion than otherwise to have a receiving order made against one in those days. There is a tradition that many years ago a yeng lady's wedding presents were Fecizou on the eve of her wedding day by the tradespeople who had supplied the H. PRICE & CO., LTD. troussen. Bat though this Vulgar p coeding was inconvenient at the moment some of the presents being good and it had only a mementary effect, for the lady became one of the smartest of young
STORIES.
BY
CAPT. JOHN MARCHANT.
ON SALE
AT
BOOKSELLERS.
PRICE.
Hongkong, April 30, 1907.
50 Cents: 776
BELLE VIEW HOTEL (LATE METROPOLE HOTEL), SHAUKIWAN ROAD,
THE BATHER'S RESORT OF HONGKONG.
married women, and has over since been one of the best-dressed Indies in society.
(Continued on Page 3.):
Anctions.
PUBLIO AUCTION.
THE Undersigned has received Instrue. tions from WM. RAMSAT, Esq, to Sol by Public Auction,
V
SATURDAY and MONDAY, the 20th and 22nd July, 1907, commencing each day at 2.30PM, at his Residence
No. & MORRISON HILL,
THE WHOLE OF HIS
Pleasant Drive along the Sea Front,VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
either by Tram or Rickahu.
BEST OF WINES, BOWLING, BILLIARDS, &0.
A Colonious MATSUED FOR THE USE OF
BATHERS AND VISITOR
FURNITURE
Comprising BATSTAND with BEVELLED MIRROR, SILE TAPESTRY COVERED DRAWING ROOM SCITE, TZAK OVERMANTELS with BEVELLED MIR ROBE, BEASE FENDERS And FIRE BRASER, JAPANESE LACQUERED CASINET and TABLER, ENGRAVINGS and ODNÁ CLOISONNE VARES, LAGE CURTAINS CAURETS, SATRUMA and THEMES, S
TABLE TELEWOOD EXTENSION DINING TAT BIBEROAED" with BEVELLED Miunoz and CAIFONIER with BEVELLED MIE LOE, DISNEE WAQQON, WRITING- Drose, 1010, 0.
MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT EVERY NIGHT THROUGHOUT
SUMMER SEASON.
TELEPHONE No, 993. Hongkong, Juno 14, 1907.
PHAENOR
JEYES
FLUID
SOLE AGENTS.
BECOTRADS, DOUBLE BRAM MOUNTED WARDROBES. with BEVELLED Hinson MABBLE TOP WASESTANDS, TOILET TABLES Iith BEVELLED MCB80 (INCLUDING ONL
CAMTHOR WOOD BEDROOM SUFTE) &c. &o. CUTLERY, GLASS, and OROOKERY WABE BATHROOM, PANTRY, and Kironen Re- QUIBITED.
મિનળવાmpit
Also
A Fino Selection of CAFor BLACK- WOODWARE
I COTTAGE PIANO by F. Gear.
2. Kickstas in GOOD CONDITION,
and
A'Large Quantity of PLANTS and PALME in Porsg
TEAMS oustomary.
WG HUMPHREYS & CO. July, 1907.
BANK BUILDINGS, Hongkong, May 18, 1006
1024
On View from Wednesday, the 17th
GEO P LAMMERT,
Auctioneer. Hongkong, July 19, 1907.
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All Debts die to, and owing by, the late arm will be received, and paid, by MERSER
HL PRICE & CO, LTD. H. PRICE & CO
$1099 Hongkong, July 1, 1902.
A
KUNG YIK GODOWNS. NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the
Godowos, Nos. 171 to 178, BHAI Toxa TRUL, Penya West, on (M. Lot Nos. 204 to 205, formerly known as the Po On the lease for which having hata becu taken posession of My the Landlords, and business will be bere. after continued under the name of the KUNG YIE GODOWNS. The owners are preparod
pared to accept goods on stotage at very moderate rates, and avail of the opportunity to give notice that loana st most favourable rates of interest may be obtained from the Undersigned against Boods stored in the KowG YIK GODOWNL The KONG YIE GODOWN, Agente The SAM WAS LAND INVESTMENT LOAN AND AGENCY COMPANY, LID.
SAM WANG & CO., LTD.,
TELEPHONE No. 32L ADDRESS 81, Queen's Road Central
U YUK CHI, Managing Director. Hongkong, July 2, 1907,
1169.
CARMICHAEL AND OLARKE,
CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS, SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS BETAXES PHOMPELY 'ATTENDED TO.
KLEGRAMS: "CARETOHALL, HONGXORO. A. B. U. Codo, 4th Ediator. A. 1 Oode.
Elebers Standard Code. TELEPHONE 232
CHEE WING & CO.
1005
GUDOWN on the Canal Street, British EVEN LARGE ROOMS and
or to
Apply on the premises, 244, Shameen, CHINA BAPTIST PUBLICATION
SOCIETY, Canton, China. Hongkong, July 16, 1907.
TO LET.
H
TO TET.
[ATHERLEIGH, Cosport HOA..
No. 1, RIPON TERRACE, BONHAM ROAD.
OFFICES la KING'S BUILDING and YORK BUILDING,
GODOWNS an PHAYA EAST,
A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS Conduit Road,
FLATS IN MOBETON TERRACE,
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Hongkong July 1, 1907.
TO LET,
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TO8. 3 and 4, OBSERVATORY¿VIL- Tennis Court and Electric Lights, gl
Apply to
NLAS, Kowloon Moderato Rental.
ARRATOON V. AFUAR & CO.,
45, Wyndham Btreet; Hongkong, May 1, 1907..
TO LET.
POSSESSION FROM 1ST APRIL NEXT.
B01
SEMI-ATTACHED HOUSES, Not 19 and 190, MADONNELL Road, Each with 7 Rooms, Bath Rooms, Kitchen, Servant's Quarter and Grass Tennis Court.
Apply to
CHUNG CHI NAM YAN ON L. & F. INSURANCE Co, LD, BAY Hongkong, March 1, 1907.
11
1150
SHOPS and FLATS in DEG VORUS ROAD
CENTRAL. Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
100, LD.
Hongkong, July 13, 1907.
TO-LET.
1149
HOUSE KNUTSFORD TER
A RACE, KOWLOON.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENDY U., LD. Hongkong, July 1, 1208,
TO BE LET.
AS from the 1st August next, No. 6, A MORRISON HILL
Apply to Messrs JARDINE, MATHESON & UK,
LID.
1087 Hoogkong, Jane 29, 1807.
TO:LET.
NO. 1, WEST END TERRACE, SHA-
MEEN, ONION AN
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., LD Hongkong, July 1, 1907. -
TO LET.
PRAVA EAST, near East Point. NE FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE
Apply to
JARDINE, HATHESON & Co., LD, 18 10 Hongkong, January 8, 1907.
27, 28 and 59, LEE YUEN STREET (WEST), HONGKONG.
DEALERS-IN
AU Sorts of COPPER, BRASH, STEEL,
IRON WARY
STEEL GIRDERS AND TEES, CORRUGATED IRON, FIG IRON
Suitable for
TO LET,
FFICES I INGS
ALEXANDRA BUILD.
Apply to
BEURETARY, A. S. WATSON & Co., LD Hongkong, April 92, 1907,
SHAMEENCANTON.
TO LET.
TO LET.
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
YODOWNS Nos.: 95, 96, 97, and 100,
Apply to
OBATER & MODY, Victoria Baildings.
Hongkong, June 19, 1907,
'TO LET.
.103
OND FLOOR, No. 12, QUEEN'S ROAD
ČENTSÁ
No. 38, CAINE ROAD.
AUCTION ROOMS, No. 2, ZETLAND - STAKET.
GREENOROFT, GARDEN ROAD, How- toon, Redecorated, Electric Light, Tennis Courts
No. 1, FAIRVIEW, Rosby ROLD, Kowloon.
Apply to LEIGH & ORANGE,
1, Des Voeux Road, Hongkong, February 19, 1907.
TO LET.
FROM 1ST JULY,
ARGE and Spacious GODOWNS Nos "9, 91, 93, 90 and 10, FRAYA EAST,
at prosent in the occupation of the Ad- miralty,
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY 00., L.
744. Hongkong, July 1, 1907,
TO`LET.
DETACHED ROUGE at 1. Korleon,
Furnished and with Tennis Court. Apply to H, K. HOLMES,
Solicitor Queen's Road Central, Hongkong. 1189 Hengkong, July 8, 1907.
TO LET.
ATO. 2, HOLLYWOOD ROAD,
No.2
61, POTTINGER STREET. Imme diate Possessibu
Apply to
ARKATOON V. APOAR & Co.,
45, Wyndham Street. Hongkong, April 4, 1907.
"Q
TO LET
UARNDON the Peak; Furnished
or Unfurnished.
Apply, by letter, R. HEMMINGS,
c/o HONGKONG HOTEL Hongkong, April 2, 1907.
613-
A TO LET VARs. DEACONSFIELD AROADE Fine
BAGse and Dwelling, Rooms.
16, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Top Floor (ovor Caldbook, Macgregor & Co.)
BELILIOS TERRACE HOUSES, Ro DINSON ROAD,
GLENWOOD, CASE ROAD, suitable for a Boarding House or Club, contains 28. Rooms This property would be divided into 8 or more houses to suit tenants.
No. 8, BELILIOS TERRACE, Corner House, Ist Коя.
Nos. $ and 4 ALBANY, No. 6, DES VEUX VILLAS Pear Nos, 1 and 2, ARCADE.
Apply to
FIELD
INSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildinge.
Hongkong, Apell 12, 1997.
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$6 per Annum delivered in Hongkong $12.50 al Coast Ports,
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