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Intimations.
G. FALCONER & Co.
WAICHMAKERS AND JEWELLERS,
HOTEL
MANSIONS.
NEW SELECTIONS
LARGE SELECTION OF
ΟΥ
DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE
HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES A
PRESENTATION FLATE, CUPS, BOWIN, ZO. O TEJNER & Oo, Kon 108 BOSS'S FAMOUS TELESCOPES AND MINIGOUEARS, LORD KELVINS NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. ADMIRALTY CHARTS AND BOOKS.
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Intimations.
MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA (MITSU BISHI CO.)'
THE CHINA MAIL.
WONDERS OF 75 YEARS.
The season for school and lyceum debates
Intimations,
LIMITED.
is approaching. Horo is a proposition that THE OHINA FARE INSURANCE CO., may be worth threshing out," remarka the Hartford (Conn.) Times.
Resolved: That the past seventy-five years have been the most interesting period afburan history and that human lois not likely to be so interesting during any
qual period in the futuro.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1909,
Intimations.
SANITARY BOARD OFFICET, HONGKONG.
TO THE
OWNERS OF DOMESTIC BUILDINGS. TA DOMESTIC CLEANLINESS and TAKE NOTICE that under No. 5 of the VENTILATION BYE-LAWS (as amend
Hotels.
KING'S HOTEL,
WEI-HAI-WEL
TS First Cho Hotel is now soder now Management and has recently been. It contains epay thoroughly renovated. elous reception, bad, and billiard roomas commands a fine view of the Harbour and Hob and Cold and is very well situated on high ground and
out with Electric Light, Water laid Terme moderate. For surrounding Coantry, and is fitted through
THE FORTIETH MEETING of Bharo- holders in the above Oompany will be id at the EDSIPANY'S ONTOLA, No. 3, Central, Vistoria, on Queen's Road PHURSDAY, the 4th March, 199, at 12 clock Noor, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the liepors of the Directors for the year ending 3ta: December, 1908.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com
sach building within the WESTERN of Victoria, to 4th March, both days inclusive.
of the City Division By Under,
occupied by Members of more than one Jabuary 14, 1930. C. PEMBERTON,
Recretary.
family, except those within the European Ro- servation or those parts of a domestic build. KING EDWARD HOTEL Hongkong. February 18, 1909,
COAD DEPARTMENT,study and some useful oxercise of the | pany will be CLOSED from 28th Fabruary ed), every Domestie Building or part of further particulara apply to
VOLE PROPRIETONS of TAKASIMA, SOL
OCHI, HOJO, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW and KAMIYAMADA Uol-
SOLE AGENTS for KISHINAKE, MI YAO, and KIGIO-KOMATSU Coala.
SOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER. orles,
M. MUMEYA,
PHOTOGRAPHER, ARTIST AND ENLARGEMENT ON BROMIDE PAPER AND FINISHED IN CRAYON.
JAPANESE
ALL KINDS OF WORK DONE FOR AMATEURS. VERY FINE PANORAMIC VIEWS OF HONGKONG, BA. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
WING KEE & CO..
Special attention is invited to the fact that the well-known Coat Mice MUTABE, near Kayatan, has lately been taken over by the Company, and is now being worked on a larger scale.
- HEAD OFFICE:-TOKYO.
BRANCH OFFICES:- NAGAR, MO, Kabazou, WakamATSU, KORE, OSAKA, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, HANKOW
TEL, ADDRESSES for above: 'TWASAKI.' PROVISION MERCHANTS, COAL Codes:-Ai, ABC 5th Ed., Western Union,
Nos. 47, 48 and 49, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL HIP-CHANDLERS, NILMAKERS,
SE MERCHANTS, &c., &, OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING.
SHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE US A TRIAL.
FRANCISCO TSE YAT, General Manager.
Hergkong, August 12, 1908,
REMINGTON
WIET
TYPEWRITERS
Hongkong, March 7, 1908
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SIEMSSEN &
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For
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Hongkong, January 27, 1908)
& MACAO
IALINE
REGISTERED TRADE MARK
- of -
1137
Co.,
HURT, BOULTON AND HAYWOOD LTD., LONDON. FOR THE DISINFECTION OF DRAINS, WATER-CLOSETS, LAVA. TORIES, SICK-ROOMS, FLOORS, WALLS, GUTTERS, &c.
IT IS THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL,
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Government Analysis at Buyers' Disposal.
TOR.
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For the Bottoms of Vessels and Boats and for the Coatings of all Wooden Structures of Wharves and Dooks. Penetrates deep into the wood, thus rendering same immune against attacks of the Teredo, Barnacles Marino Growths, etc.
Sale Agents
MELCHERS & Co., Hongkong & China.
Hougkong, May 6, 1908.
ENO'S 'FRUIT SALT'
A HOUSEHOLD REMEDY FOR
All Functional Derangements of the Liver, Temporary Congestion arising from Aloo- holic Beverages, Errore in Diet, (Rating or Drinking,) Biliousness, Sick Headache, Giddiness, Oppression or Feeling of Melan- choly, Vomiting, Heartburn, Bourness of the Stomach, or Constipation. It is 8 Refreshing and Invigorating Beverage, moet Invaluable to Travellers, Emigrants, Sailors, and Residents in Tropical Climates. Eno's "FZUTI SALT" analvis the Pinokion the Liret, Eowels, Skin, sind Kidneys by Natural Mease; tha the blood is freed from polsongs or other hurtful matter, the foundation and great danger of Callin, ver, Worry, Blood Foone. Thượợ ln nợ đôabs that where 1 has been inkan ir. the earliest stages of silicam, it be, in innumerable astmoss, pratented a serious illne CAUTION-Esamine the Capsule and any that it is marked ENUS FRUIT SALI”
other softs you have the sincercat form of flattery=+IMITATION... Frepared only by J. C. BRO, LAI FRUIT SELT. WORKS, Londen,
Signa, Ends by 7. 6. MK0'8 Patent Sold by Chamists and Stores everywhere.
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AGENCIES
YOKOHAMA M. ANADA, ESQ.
CHINBIANG: Merers GRAZING & Co. MANILA: Mesars MacondraT & CO.
For particulars, apply to
H. DISHL
Manager,
No. 2, PEDDIE STREET,
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, January 9, 189,
One little Boy bad YAN HOUTEN'S.
HOUTERS
THE COCOA
THE CHILDREN
ENJOY.
And one little Boy had soma.
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NOTICE.
221
THROUGHOUT by the Owners during the
hg used as & shop, office or godown, most be CLEANSED and LIMEWASHED montke of February and March.
N.R.-The word throughout mand in this notice means that the hostes should be BALF YEARLY Limewashed in respect of all the Walls of THE ORDINARY
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS each Room, all cubiolo partitions, Stair will be held at the COMPANY'S HOTEL, on Casings and Stair Linings, all Ceilings and SATURDAY, the 6th March, 1909, at 12 the Undersides of Roofs In Maiu o'clock Noox, for the purpose of recaiving Buildings, Offices and Servants' Quarters The Backyard must have its Containing Statemons of Accounts of the Company and inclusive of Verandahs.
Walla Limewashed up to the level of the First Floor.
On this per may be hung much historical imagination. The youthful debater who undertakes the affirmative side of th proposition will have to assemble a good many facts as a basis for his argument, We will mention a fow of those facts.
Soventy-five years ago a great part of the HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LD. surface of the earth was unexplored and undescribed. The present day grandfather“ and grandmothers could not learn anything at school about the interior of South America or Asia, and only 50 years ago the interior of Africa was wholly unknown. At the same time thatlases used in all American schools shed in the centre of the map of the United States a huge district labelled the gap American desort: It stretched from the Missouri River to the Rooky Mountains and included all of what is now Western Kansas, Nebraska and much other territory. Now there is no nyators about any part of the globa cleared up by navigators of the air in a except the poles, and that mystery will be
year or two
a
to the Stat Decomber, 1908, with the Report of the Directors, and to discuss any matter that may be competently brought before the Mouting.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com pany will be CLOSED from the 28th Febrany to the 6th March, both days inclusive.
Bostik By Order of the
C. MOONEY,
Becretary.
284 Hongkong, February 25, 1909.
BONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE FORTIETH ORDINARY MEET- ING of SHAREHOLDERS will be hold at the Offices of the Undersigned at
The TRANFER BOUKS of the Com- pany will ka CLOSED from the 23rd inst to the 9th March, both days inclusivo.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., L.,
General Managere. Hongkong Firo Insurance Co., Ltd.
968 Dongkong, February 20, 1909.
Seventy-five yours ago the railroade war just beginning to be operated. Now there are 600,000 miles of railways threading: all the continents, which have enst over fifty billions of deles. Even in Africa there are over 20,000 indès of railroad track. The first steamer crossad the19.80 M., OG TUESDAY, the 9th Mstob. Atlantic peeat in 1819-in twenty-five days but steamers were not used for transatlantic trafic until 1838, just 70 years ago. The Lusitania and the Marro tania of the Cunard line are about thirty tlines as large as the first Cuard steamers which began service in 1839. Railways nad steamship are revolutionised, the commerce and industrios of the world. No future change in the conditions of human existence comparable to that which has becu efected by stean transportation is conceivable.
Seventy-five yours ago most of that part of the human race which wore any clothes at all wes dressed in the skins of animals or in clothes woven on haud looms. Now the cutito human race may be said to wear the products of power looms. More than half a million of people Sud employment. and about a billion of dollars Bra invested in the cotton, woollen, silk and knitting mills of the United States which produce less than a quarter of the textile gonds of the world. The use of cotton cloth had scarcely begun seventy-five...voips
sougas the racs shall exist? Newspapers as we know them did not really begin to exist until after the Civil War-about 50 years ago. Paper made from. word, the fast preases, the telegraph. machines to replace typesetting, and all that goes into the mechanism of a modern news paper were unknown a little more than half a century ago. What Improvements in printing are possible compared with thuse here mentiored ?
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS OF HONGKONG.
(INCORPORATEN, 1891).
8.45 r.M., on
Carved, Painted or Polished Woodwork in good condition, however, need not be The Western division of the City lies to the West of Tank Lane and Olevarly Limewashed but must be Cleansed.
Street.
The Government Limewashing Contrae- tor is prepared to cleanse and limewash Boors at the rate of $1.00 per floor on application being made to the Secretary of the Sanitary Board.
A. GIBSON, Secretary.
Dated this 1st day of March, 1909.
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HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPAR”. MENT,
DUNCAN CLARK, Manager,
WEI-WAL-WEL.
70
HIGH-CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL
LADIES' AFTERNOON TEA ROOMS,
PRIVATE BAR AND BILLIARD Roque, Got and Cold Wstor throughout.
Electrio Fans (if required), Electrically Lighted. Elestris Passenger Elevator to each Floor TABLE DHOT AT SEPARATE TABLES. Telo. Address: 'VICTORIA,' Hongkong
For Terms, etc., apply to the
MANAGER. Hongkong, October 2, 1902. VICTORIA HOTEL,
TT is horoby notified that information bas been received from the MILITARY AUTHORITIES that GUN PRACTICE will be carried out na under On. TUESLAY, the 2nd March-
From Western B... Balchars and Stone- cutters in a South-Westerly to Westerly direction, at ranges up to 10.000 yards, commencing at 10.30 A., and finishing at 2 P.M. From Stonecutter's in a Westerly
WEDNESDAY, the 3rd March :---
direction, at ranges ap to 6,000 yards, commencing at 10 a... and finishing st From Lyman F. C., is a South-Easterly THURSDAY, the 4th March:
direction, at ranges up to 14,000 yarde, commencing at 10.30 and frishing at 1 P.M.
THE EIGHTEENTII ANNUAL GEN-On ERAL MEETING of the Members will be held in the Rooms of the Institution, No. 3, Des Voeux Road, THURSDAY, 11th March, to recaive the Report of the Commitee of Management, together with the Statement of Accounte for de year ended 31st December, 1908.
T W. ROBERTSON, Esq., President, will proside.
Ey Order of the Committee,
Secretary.
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-G. E.-LIBRAUID, Hongkong. March 1, 1909.
BINA SUGAR REFINING CO., LTE.
NOTICE.
Un
1 P.3.
..
If the weather is unfavourable on any
of the above dates, Practice will take place on the following day.
All ships, junts and other vessels ara to koop clear of the ranges.
BASIL TAYLOR, Commander, R.N.,
Harbour Master, do,
23P Hongkong, February 28, 1969.
To
ANNUAL MEETING of the SharAS REMOVED holders of the abova Company will bo be.
the Offices of the General Agate, King'a Building on FRIDAY, the 19th March, at Noor, for the purpose of receiving th Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1908.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- March, both days inclusive. pany will be OLOSED from the 6th to 19th
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., La.,
General Agents. Bongbong, March 2, 1959,
909
LUZON SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED,
NOTICE.
Electricity, now the greatest of the world's working forces, may be said to have begun to be usefully employed in the opera- tion of the telegraph in England in 1837 and in the United States in 1844. There are people in Hartford who can remember THE TWENTY SEVENTH ORDIN. when Morse's first line was opened between ARY ANNUAL MEETING of the Washington and Baltimore in the latter Shareholders of the above Company will
whe Now there bu hold at the Cffices of the General year, 64 years ago.
elegraph cables under at the oceans. Agents King's Building, or PRIDAT, The Sist electric lights began to glimmer the 19th March, at 12.30 PM., for the pur-
in our streets in 1876, and the telephone hose of receiving the Report and State-
TO MORE COMMODIJUS PREMISES
2931, DES VOX ROAD, Near the MUTUAL STUME,"
SPECIAL RATES FOR MONTHLY ČERENTS. TIFFIN.
...$20 per Moath, FULL BOARD ...$40.
SHAMEEN, CANTON, Manager.....
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.....Mr H. HAYNES Telegraphic Address Victoria Shameen," Situated on the British Concession,
MACAO HOTEL,
MACAO,
Manager.........Mr H. N. BEAUKEPALNE.. Telegraphio Addrosa Farmer Macao. Situated in the Contre of the Praya Grand. Both Hoteis electrically Eghted and under experienced European Supervision. Guides and Chiaras PROVIDED.. Every information and special attention to Tourists. Reasonable Rates.
WH FARMER, Proprietor. Macko, May 13, 1808. BRADSIDE PRIVATE HOTEL,
730
TANDING in its own grounds with Tennis and Croquet Lawns, large Alry and Wall Furnished Rooms, Every home comfort. Fine Viow of the Harbour;
Mas F. W. WATTS, Telephone, No. 630.
Apply to
Braeside, 20. Macdonnell Road,
1214 Hongrong, September 2, 1808. KINGSCLERE,"
A
PRIVATE HOTEL. PPROACHED from Kennedy Road
And Macdonnell Bond.
Tel. No. 134. Telog. Addréery BroMSONAL"- A.B.O. Code, 4: Ed. Ecotric light, hot and cold water through- a. Billiards, tennie, croquet, putting green and fina stabling fee bas
Proprietress, Mas F. SACHSE,
or 1, 1908.
1208
BOXING.
CITY HALL,
SATURDAY, 6th March, 1900.
20 ROUNDS. JUST LANDED
MCFADDEN, American Salmon, Corned Oysters, Yar H.M.S. King Alfred..
mouth Bloaters, Kippers, English
Haddocks, and
Now Zealand Whirio and Blue Cod. PEPPERS SMALL GOOIS ALWAYS ON HAND, HARRY NEWBOLD, Proprietor, Hongkong, Say 19, 1908
704
CARMICHAEL AND ULARKE, JONSULTING ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS,
7. SHAMAN URANT,
H.M.S. Kent,
10 ROUNDS. FULL GARLIC 5. STOKER DUýsky, .. H.MS. King Alfred. H.M.B. Bedford.- And Other Freliminaries.. Manager: RH. WHITTAKER,
PRAYA EAST HOTEL Booking and Plans at the ROBINSON PIANO Co., LTD.
Rongkong, February 27, 1909.
WEST RIVER TRIPS FROM HONGKONG.
Round Trip 4 Days,
291
append a little lates. Railway cars ment of Accounts for the year ending at 3, Queen's Building, Hongkong. Comine:able Stesziers--Delightful Olmate, began to be propelled by electric power December, 1008.
about 1895, and the transmission of power
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Cam-
by electricity over long distances came pany will be CLOSED from the 8th to 19th scarcely 10 years ago. Wireless telegraphy March, both days inclusive.
is yet a new wonder. There will doubtless JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lim, come a time when every waterfall in the
Gentral Agents. world will be wholly used in the production
of power and whore are now the falls of
Bangkang. March 2. 1909.
Niagara will be only great dry stone cliffs.
But can anybody imagine such a revolution IDEÁL TOILET
in human conditions occurring again in tha
next ten thousand years as has taken place
since the electric current was harnessed to REQUISITES -
a telegraph line 71 years ago?
The first saulight_pieturo of a hawan face was made only 68 years ago in 1840. Photography came with the introduction of the collodion process u 1851. Photo- engraving which has made the use of pictures
books and newspapers as easy and as cheap as the production of printed matter, thereby revolutionising the art of printing, is a development of the last 25 years. The motion picture which furnishes daily amusement to eight hundred au diences in New York city alone was perfected just 15 years ago. Sorenty-
CHINA EXPRESS CO., read ago only persue of large
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wealth could leave their portraits to those who came after them. To-day pictures of the man or woman who does anything of public interest are put before the eyes of
SPECIAL THROUGH SERVICE. millione of their follow beings. Who that
TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD,
....
has lived for 60 years dank not remember
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Colgate's Delightful Senate in elegant
bottles.
B.,
La-France Rose-Cashmere Bouquet, Italian Violete Frangi Panni,
ett,
etc. Large Parisienne Perfume Boren Pretty for presentation.
PATELL & CO.,
CANTON.
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ae, Provision and General Merchants.
CHEAP AND REPUTED STORES
FOR
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CABLE ADDRESSES
"UARMICHAEL HONGKONG:
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NORTE BRITISH AND MERCANTIES" INSURANCE COMPANY."
TOTAL FUNDS AT 5lar Daczek, 1807,
£18,114,624
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents, West River British S.6. Do. Hongkong, Ustober 25, 1907, 170
LABUAN COAL
THE LABUAN COALFTELDS COM
PANY, LD, are now prepared to bunkor steamors at LABUAN with good freeb quality LABUJAN COAI, donble screased and straight from the mines. For farther particulars, apply to
BRADLEY &· 00%,
Agents.
Telegraphie Address:
•FLABOR LanVAN, Hongkong, February 10, 1908.
Anthorised Capital £3,000,000 Subscribe Capital £2,750,000 Paid-up Capital * £687,500 0 0 II-Fire Bunda 3,085.574-16? IIIe & AnnaltyFeda 14,315,642 10 9 Biking Fund Account 45,907 .5 S
← CHEE WING & Co. £13,114,824 11 1
27, 28 and 20, LEE YUEN STREET (WEST) Revenus Fire Branch. 2,280,453 13 ↑ Life & Anaulty 1,847,224 38.4
HONGKONG. Branches...... Sinking Fand Account 3,382 50
4,138,159 18 11- The Accumulated Funds of the Fire and
respect of each other.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
Agenti
the interest that was added to human life English, American & German Life Departments are free from liability in by the first photograph albuma? With photography may be coupled the pho nograph, which enables as to talk into a
PAROELS, PACKAGES AND CASES machine, soud the wax end to the
conveyed at Special Rates, including other side of the globe and have our veices reproduoad there. What a doop delivery, cheaper than Parcol Post, without chram separates the liver of all the limit to weight.
Hongkong. Dec. 20, 1967
millions of human creatures who lived before the days of photogrpay and the 1940 phonograph and the lives of all by whom
they have been or will be used. It is svar red by the heat authorities that life has existed on this planet for 25,000,000 years. If humanity epäures for 25,000,000 years to come the camera and the phonograph will be in use at the end of the time,
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SE WAN, TOMES & 00.. As the result of the invention of elee. ORIENTAL BREWERY, LD. W. ( HUMPHREYS & CO.
Hongkong, August 1907,
tric storago battery and motor, but the (Continued on Page *)
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