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MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA by a wonderful systom of inland navigation,
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YES, WHY WORRY ?
BOUT your Business, Health, Pleasurer, Friends Abrosd, your Love Affairs and A Chances in Life. Yes, Why Worry? Consult Pharos. He is able to advise retarded by the lack of transport facilities. you, Console you and Warn you. His ambition in this life is to help those in trouble, According to the Intest available statis-and must not be classed with the rap of Palmists who use their Supposed Gifts to make money, Pharos in independent of this. Willing and able to help all in trouble and tics, China, with an area of quer 1,600,000 relieve their anxiety to the best of his ability and experience. square miles and a population in excess of 400,000,000 ns under 2,000 miles of rail- ways in operation, comparing with 23.000 miles in the United Kingdom, with an area Al, ABO 5th Edition, Western Union of barely 242,000 square miles and a papu- lation of roughly 90,000,000. Thus while in this country there is a mile of reliway
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PHAROS HAS A MESSAGE, TO YOU, You are anxious to put your son to a business that he will prosper. Will your daughter be happy in her married life 7. You are in love. Have I made a wise choice in mate Shall I take a partner into my business f Should I be wise in going abroad? All these questions Pharos cau sawer and advise by the aid of astrolioy. Why not put this to the test? Send P.0. value 1/- and addressed, stamped.
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With the above Pharos will send you Free a written Forecast of your the people. During the past fow your Fature. railway construction in China has pro- Hongkong, October 31, 1907. coded at a fairly a 'isfactory ento, at first with foreign (mainly British) capital and more recently nuder Government con- trol; and by no means the least interest- ing portion of the report on the foreign
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Sir Alexander Hosie (Acting Commercial Attaché to the British Legation at Peking) to the general features of which we love already referred-is devoted to that sub- jest. In Manchuris the railway lines from Fort-Arthur, Tairen (Dalny), and New.j chang to K'uan-chong-tau, together with a ↑ few short lines which fell to Japan as the
| result of the war, inve bcòn transfäffed to
the South Manchurian Railway Com- pany, which will carry out the terms of the additional agreement between [China and Japan of December 29, 1905. The light line built by Japan from -Moukden to Antang (187 miles in length)
Is also been transferred to the same cmipany, which will maintain, "work, and impare the whole system, "no as to make it fit for the conveyance of the com mercial and industrial goods of all nations." The line, also built by Japan. from the
Uy No. 78 QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL. Begs to inform his Patrons sad the General Fublic that owing to necessary extension of stuck to meet increased bie-Moukden railway station.westward for 30 nosh he will remove to hin ries and more Spacione pr. mives at No. 86 Queen's Busi. Central, doors East of his present pre-
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HAVING hean appointed AGENTS for the above Company, we shall bo pleased to give any information as to ratos, of passage, etc., in connection with above.
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miles has been purchased by China, and has been inongo ated in the Imperial Railways of North Clin, and the alters-Two Cylinder 4/8, 5/9 tion of the gauge from 3 ft. 0 in. to! standard has been practically completed. The line from K'uan-ch'ông-tzu to Harbin and east and west to the Russian frontier resonius in Russian hands as the Chinese Eastern Railway, which in Chinese ter- ritory is now curtailed to 1,072 miles.
The Imperial Railways of North Chips
100 hat er prosperous year; for although the gross receipts fell from 812,113.000 to $19,191,000, there was a balincs of $8,761,000 after niosting all working charges... Deducting repayment. of loan, payment of interest, and other charges, including the reconstruction of Boxer damago, and settingaskie $1,740,000 for unprovements, a stun of $5,068,000 was left, of which $3,574,000 was paid to the Imperial Government and $1,857,000 was | contributed towards the construction öf
SWATOW DRAWN-WORK the Feng-t'ai-Peking-Kalgan line. At
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the dose of September, 1906, the North Chim lincs and A credit lunce Rotail of 26,028,000. The Peking-Kalgau lisio
LL Kinde of DRAWN-THREAL-WORK, was open to traffic at the closa of Septem AEMBROIDERIES, GLASS CLOTES,
PEWTER-WARE and Lanes, &, ko.
No. 38, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong
(LATE OF 52, WELLINGTON STREET). " Boogkong, September 9, 1997.
ber last year as for as Nan K'on, a distance
of 33 miles from Peking, and is in good working order. The rest of the line is being vigorously proceeded with. Wash outs in the Province of Honan interrupted 1436 for a time the truffle on the Peking Hankow Railway during 1906; but a HOW TO DO MORE BUSINESS,auber of new culverts have been added and other measures taken to prevent
MANY AMERICANS ave built up the recurrence of floods. Sir Alogan-
rrent commercial enterprises, by the use of Tende-nows itema supplied by our der Halia gives some interesting particulars CLIPPING BUREAU: Chinese mer of his journey over the line from Hankow chants can do the same if they follow to Peking, and he adds: “Oo an American
rican moeulses, "
We clip business news from moro thang-eight freight tits heavily laden 60,000 papers monthly, and send these passed down during each of the three days items to you while there is good prospect I spent on the line, but with the exception. of supplying what in needed and doing of coal and salt-the latter in large quanti- business.
ties, bound for Hovan from the Lut'ai salt We can send you now and clippings on works near Tientsin-most of the goods any line of business, or any subject, and were carried in covered sesied wagons, you will be shile to know, IN TRUTH, just
what American business methods are like, whose contents it was impossible to and where there are openings for Chinese recortain. Pisco and other foreign gooda merchandise.
Suppose, for instance, you are a maker at the railway station at Hankow left of Postery our Clipping Bureau might no doubt as to the nature of the up- find in some paper an item saying that a freight. In Huge the principal crops big wholesale Pottery concern was being were wheat, pens, beans and paddy, for organized in a certain tom-wo of the rice-seed hads wore being sown; course, would send you that busineN-DAW item, and give you a chance to do business with that firm.
We can do just the same in any lino of business, for there is always something: being on that it might pay Uhingen mer. chants to know
We can supply you with advertisements of all the graat American merchants and manufacturers, so that you may assimilate their ideas and increase your business i Chius the way wo đó berg,
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