Intimations.
G. FALCONER & Co.,
WATCH-MAKERS AND JEWELLERS, HOTEL MANSIONS. NEW SELECTIONS OF
DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE, HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. LABGE SELECTION OF PRESENTATION PLATE, OUPS, BOWLE, M. FALOUNAR & Co. an AcEWS FOR ROSS'S FAMOUS TELESCOPES AND
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SOLE
AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER.
WING KEE & CO..
Nos. 47, 48 and 49, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL CHIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, PROVISION MERCHANTS, COAL
MERCHANTS, &c., &c., OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING. SHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE US A TRIAL.
FRANCISCO TSE VAT, General Manager. murukung, August 12, 1908.
REMINGTON
TYPEWRITERS
WTLE AZZ RDOVISIRES,
Hongbone, March 2, 1906
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Intimations.
| MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA, (MITSU BISHI CO.)
GOAL DEPARTMENT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE ROMANCE OF CAVADA,
One of the happy results of the Cham- plain Tercentenary is the awakening of ir -terest; the country over, in the romance of
Infant Canada. We are apt. in these days: of copamircial activity, to overlook the labours of the pioneers. Yet there is no story of daring, of military prowess, of
Intimations.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1908.
THE HONGKONG STEAM LAUNCH CO.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:
adventure, and of unselfish devotion to For
PENDIDO
A. B. C. VODE.
TELEPHONE
Orrion No. 742.
WORKS No. 143.
LAUNCHES FOR SALE, HIRE, OR CHARTER..
Picnic, Shooting, Bathing Parties, Towing, &c.
To Let
TO LET.
CHOP, No.--14, QUEEN'S ROAD
CENTRAL, on Lease, Apply to
ÉIGH & ORANGE.
Hongkong, Anguist 26, 1908.
SHAMEEN, CANTON,
great cause that is more instructive or mora alluring there that which tells of the founding of - Osanda and the early explora. For the convenience of our clients the Office will also be open on Sunday from 9 to 11. tion of the West. Hero we are introduced to French noblemen, to ladies of high
Launches for Hire, lying off Blake Pier during the day,ROOMS TO LET, suitable for Oficos.
birth, to coolesiastics before whom a wide
field of usefulness opens in their nativo COLE PROPRIETORS of TAKASIMA, land-all runouusing the boraca and their So
QORI, HOJO, NẰMAZUTA, SATO, Associations to make New France the SHINNEW and KAMIYAMADA Col-bone of their future labours. libriés.
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TEL. ADbasses for abovo: IWASAKI,' Code:-A1, ABO 5th Ed., Western Union,
AGENCIES: ХОБОВАМА: М. Андра» Евца CHINKING: Mesere GEARING & Úc. MANILA: Messrs MACONDBAT & Co.
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For particolare, apply to
H. OISHI,
Manager,
No. 2, PEDDER STREET,
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, August 8, 194-8.
क
Some are encourage1 by the reported possibilities for trade: others desire to colonize; others, again, aro induced to take part in themigration that they may carry the comforts religion to the aborigines. All faco death in the long and tedious voyage across the Atlantic in the fragile vessels of that period. All risk the connoquences of hostile meetings with the Indians." -All are prepared for hardships and for suffering, History informs us that the worst was experienced by any Those who escapai | the set faced the natives. Those tw escaped the natives experienced poverty, and in many cases, starvation. Still the pioneers worked on, until today their descendants are a great and growing race, luding strength to the country, and odd- ing by their industry to the prosperity of the nation. To the history of this people great dames stand out at various, points. | Who can fail to admiro Jsoques Cartier, the dauntless navigator, whose little'ship was the first to press forward to what is now Montres!? On unknown waters, amidst tregoheroua savages, this man of the sea 818 rando his way, and-wayable to curry back to France the story of the Now World as
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, then was. Roberval, brave, but in his
LIMITED.
trentuna of his nieco cruel beyond ex pression, was another adventurous spirit, THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET More arimire than he is Champlain, whose
ING of SHAREHOLDERS in tho sbore Company will be bold at the Coy coming, as the first real colonizing influnce, PANY OFFICES, SATURDAY, the 19this tow being celebrated. It is true that September, at Noor, for the purpose of this sailor and soldier in one Juved life on receiving the Report of the General Mecs-the ccean or in the camp. But he was a gorg together with a Statement of Accounts to the 90th June, 1988.
DOUGLAS, LAPRAIK & O... General Managers, Hongsong, September 1, 1908.
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gently natured man, and voluntary banish-
The DRANSFER BOOKS the Comment to the week which was to beecine tha, pany will be, CLOSED from the 8th to the Quebec of to-day mast have bece a serious 10th September, both days inclusive.
duty for such as ho. Three hapdred year ago this French gentlesean come to Canada. Not only did he lug the foundatious-of the City of Queher, but across the country he journeyed, traversing the Otten, and reaching by northern waters the Take of the Hurone. Marvelous was the progress of this newcomer hrough a territory that was strange to him, and among people who were not particularly pleased to re- ceire him. If Champlain laid the found
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HONGKONG.
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BEPAIRS UNDERTAKEN.
TELEFHOS No. 769.
HOW TO DO MORE BUSINESS.
NY AMERICANS have built op grest commercial enterprises, by the nae of Trade-wena items supplied by our OLIPPING BUREAU : Chinese mer chauts can do the same if they follow American methods.
in state, performed with solene core-- monies the same duty for Moutreal. Frou- tenne went further afiel, and hoped to find the water route to China; while La Salle dissarend the near West, and lowed the way to what are now Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans. Nor must it be forgotten that in the more distant Wagt French enterprise was curly in the field. De Grasselier, the son-in-law of Abraham Martin, whe gave his anma to
the Plains of Abraham, was in the Hudson Bay before the Tudson's Bay Company' was chartered, and Le Varandrye was the
We clip business news from more than first white an to penetrate our own
MOTOR LAUNCHES FOR HIRE from $2 per hour. 50,00 papers monthly, and send these North-West. In exploration the French
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DRAGON CYCLE DEPOT, Note New Address: 33 & 35, Des Voeux Road.
Hongkong, March 3, 1905.
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ERGE "FRUIT BALT" resists the Fansions of the Lizbe, Howels, Shin, and Kidungs by Natural Moana ; thus the blood la freed from poisonatis or other barzand matters, the foundation and grant danger of Quills, Fever, Worry, Blood Fabets, &c. There is no doubt that, where it has twan Zaken in the earliest cutages of a diasasa, it has, in innumerable instances, prevented a serious Ulzana,
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did great work for Canada. They were to the fore in every enterprise, and to them do we owe the beginnings of Canada. Nor must we forget the heroic romen, somo
then reliensely brought up ladies, who became religeuse, or else heads of inmities in the now land. To these fell they did their duty. Madus de la Pel- havy work, and amidst grent dangers
Suppose, for instance, you are a maker find in home payer an item saying that of Postery: our Clipping Dureau might
2216 big, wholesale Pottery concern was being
organized in a certain town:-we, of trie, the first teacher; Jean Mance, wh coume, would send you that business-nows founded the first Eospital; Marie de Item, and give you a chance to do bastueas Incarnation, the first Quebec nun; Mar with that firm,
guerite de Bourgeoise, who left case and comfort to work among the colonists ;. Madeline de Vorcheres, who defeated the hostile Indians when besinged in her home -those inkle women form a part of the fistory of Canada.
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We can supply you with advertisements of all the great American merchants and manufacturers, so that you may assimilate their ideas and increase your business in China the way we do here.
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Consular referencos.
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So do those Joquit
missionaries who entered the wilderness to-
carry the Gospel to the Indians, and who suffered torture and death in the prosecu tion of their religious labour.
OFFICES: ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING (SECOND FLoos),
·GORDON & CO., General Managers.
Hongkong, June 1, 1908,
OLIVER
Hongkong, Dex ambar 12, 1907.
OLIVER
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811
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HEAVY MANIFOLDER,
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Sole Agents
CHAMPAGNE
THE LEADING BRAND
G.H.MUMM & C°
REIMS
BY SPECIAL APPCEVIENT TO
Sherven Comes & C
GENERAL AGENTS.
For
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Hongkong. Juansky 27, 1908,
DINNEFORDS
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MAGNESIA MAGNESIA
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(THE GREAT TRANS-SIBERIAN
ROUTE TO EUROPE).
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To Let.
TO`LER
14
HOAL YARD. Immediato Possession.
U A PORTION of the COMPOUND
been appointed AG hand for 1 st, rising us No. 4, Waaring an the above Company, we shall be | facing the Sea, wood for Storing pleseed to give any information as to rates formerly occupied by Messrs Chit Cheong of passage, etc, in connection with abovè, & Co., Cost Merchants.
SHEWAN, TOMES & 20,, Apply to N, MODY & €0.,
64, 56, Queen's Road Contral. Ágenís,
Hongkong, September 1, 1908. 1207 Honkong, August 7, 1907.
CARMICHAEL AND CLARKE,
1285
CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS, Queen's Ballding Hongkong.
8.4, CHANGE ALIRY, SINGAPORE.
CARLE ADDRESSES : CARMICHAEL, HONGKONG.
TO LET.
ONE OFFICE, 2, opposite Murray OFFICE ROOM, Third Floor,
Pier.
Apply to
1
SCHULDT & CO.
1124
Hongkong, August 15, 1908.
CARMICHAEL, SINGAPORE.G
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A.B.O. 4th and 4th Editions; alebee's Standard; Watkins; and A.I.
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NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY,
£18,114,094
TO LIT.
or Dwelling. Apply to POWEL GRANT.
1200 Canton, August 29, 1908.
TO LET FROM 1ST SEPTEMBER,
AT SHAMKEN, CANTON.
[OUSE No. 103 (Kwan Bow Buildings) at prosens in the occupation of the T. M. Customs. Apply to
!
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & ACENCY Co., ED.
1041 Hongkong, September 1, 1908.
TO LET-FROM JUNE 1,
NO. 2, ANTRIM VILLAS, Das Vœux Five-Boomed ROAD, Kowloan. Fouse.
No.
Apply
MeatES FARREL & LYSAUGHT. Hongkong, March 25, 1908.
TO LET.
A RACE, KOWLOON.
*7*
HOUSE o KNUTSFORD TER-
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'TU LET.
20
TO. 3, OBSERVATORY VILLAS, KOWLOON. & Room House with
use of Teunia Court.
Apply on the PREMISES, or to ARRA-
·TOÓN APOAR & Co.
Hongkong, June 10, 1208.
TO LET,
+ L
OFFICES ALEXANDRA BUILD-
Apply to
SECRETARY,
A. S. WATSON & Co., Lo.
730
Hongkong, April 22, 1907. *
TO LET
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
1ODOWNS Nos, 98, 99 and 391,
PRATA EAST.
Apply to SECRETARY,
THE HONGKONO, CANTON & Macao S.B.
Hotel Mansions. Hongkong July 23, 1907.
TO LET,
1200
BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Five
- Offices and Dwelling Rooms.
13, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAE, Top Floo (over Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co.)
BELILIOS TERRACE HOUSES, Ro BENSON ROAD.
GLENWOOD, CAINE Hoad, suitable for s Boarding House or Club, contains 26 Room
OFFICES in QUEEN's RoÁD CENTRAL- No. 2. DES VEUX VILLAS, Peak. OFFICES in BANK BUILDINGS, Top Floot.
C. MS. PEAK BUNGALOW, Mouns Kellet, Furnished, From 1st October, 1908, to 30th June, 1907, Reut · 9100 à month and taxES,
9. BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, facing the Parade Ground,
Apply to
?
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164
LABUAN COAL
THE LABUAN CUALETELDS COM- PANY. LD., Ste now praparal to bunker steamers at LABUAN with good fresh quality LABUAN COAL, double screened and straight from the mines. For further particulars, apply to.
BRADLEY & CO.,
Agents
Telegraphia Addres
"Tabor Laruan,'
Hongkong, February 10, 1908.-
ADVERTISEMENTS,
THE Attention of Advertisora is drawn
Adres for revolving
[NODOWN B. ba, DODDELL Advertisementa and Corrections to Adver
STREET.
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TAB HONG KONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., L», Hongkong, September 1, 1908. 709
TO LÉT
FFICES in HOTEL MANSIONS. TURAL FUNDS AT 81ST DEORMERE, 1807, Cheap Rental for monthly tenancy.
Apply to
HENRY HUMPHREYS,
Alexandra Bojlings. Hongkong, August 1, 1008.
Authorised Capital £3,000,000 Babecel bed Ospital £2,750.000
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O.
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