Intinations.
G. FALCONER & Co..
WAICHMAKERS AND JEWELLERS.
HOTEL
17.
MANSIONS.
NEW SELECTIONS OF
DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARX MIGE-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. KAAGE SELECTION OF PRESENTATION PLATE CUPS, BOWES, ITO. « PALJONIN & Co, axı daæres roa. K0658 FAMOUS TELESCOPES. ANTE BONOCULARS, LORD KELVIN S- NAUTIQAL INSTRUMENTS, ADMIRALTY CHARTS AND BOOKS.
51( = 25
Intimations.
THE CHINA MAIL.
NAVAL MARATHON.
Why England can. Dont Germany.
(BY & STATISTICIAN,) Vonro having some very frank, tilk about German armaments, and, while some deplone this, the average man will
| MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA that pink spouch is much moro
(MITSUBISHI Co.)
COAL DEPARTMENT.
likely to lead to mutual understanding between Germany and Britain than caro- fully wrapped up phrases about “friendly Fowors."
I proposa with equal fraukness, to com
SOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA-paro British inspcial strength" with that. SIMA, OCHI MUTABE, HOJO, of Germany. Turse power es behind Armaments, and when the pawns of the NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW atal game are battleships worth about
£2,010,000 (or 40,000,000 miarka) apices, it j umy bo well for the Garmano not marely to SOLE AGENTS toe KISHIDARE, Moonsider the British naval programe. cf
TAO, and RIGTO-KOMATSU Coxin
SOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER. and KAMIYAMADA' Collorios,
WING KEE & CO.,
Nos. 17, 18 and 19, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL HIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, PROVISION MERCHANTS, COAL MERCHANTE, de, &c., UF FIFTY YEARS STANDING SHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE US A TRIAL.
FRANCISCO TSE YAT, Gonqal Manager.
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Hamakong, August 19, 1905.
REMINGTON
TE
Hongkong, March 9, 1908
TYPEWRITERS
ALL REQUISITOS.
SIEMSSEN & CO.,
SOLE AGENTS.
#
1117
CROWN ROYAL EXTRA CANVAS
HEAD OFFICE :—TOKYO,
BRANCH OFFICES :— Nagasaki, Moji, Karatet, Wakamatsu, Kobe, Osaka, Shanghai," Hongkong, Hankow,
TEL. ADDRESS for above: IWABARI Code:-1, ABC 8th Ed., Wastara Unten.
AGENCIES: YOKOHAMA M. Asada, Esq.
1900-10, but the further British naval pro gramme which would assurely follow it fa certain eventualities
The genuine
mineral- water of
VICHY
French state's springs
HE CAREFUL TO NAME WHICH SPRING
VICHY CÉLESTINS
Stat, Gravel, Babet,
complaints.
VICHY GRANDE-GRILLE VICHY HOPITAL
LOZENDES — SALTS COMPRIMES VICHY-ÉTAT
UR
WEISMANN, LIMITED.
Hongkong, April 29, 1909.
THE ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO..
LIMITED
None but the very blind fails to sea that Business has been REMOVED to No. 14. DES VŒUN ROAD CEN- Germany has of Inte years made remarkable | TRAL (Lately pecupied by Madamo Jay); progress. Germany is at Inst exbibiting
579 complete recovery from the effects of de- vastating war. The gifts of her people havə, |always been conspicuous, and they are ex
arcised, let it be remembered, in a country which is one of the three great coal nations of the world. Germans have schiored. greatness alike in the arts and in the sciences, in peace sud in war. · Above all they have exhibitad a patriotism which has fonnd expression not merely in armaments,
CHINKIANG: Messrs Gearing & bat in a determination that every Gor
Co.'
MANILA Messrs Macondray &
For particular, apply to’
Co,
"EL, OISHI,
Manager,
No. 2. PEDDZA STREIT,
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, January 9, 1909,
WANTED.
man kill shall be trained to bo.. real source of wealth to the Fatherland.
ENGLAND GREATER WEALTH.
But, great as has been German recovery | from the dark days when she was trodden Lander the healof Napoléon, Germany does not yet pussits the finapoint resources of the United Kingdom.” This will be clear 818 from a comparison of the respectivo aggre
gate incomes of the two nations.
From the respective official ineorae tax
Have To-day handed over charge of the Company's interests to Mỹ B. AL WENNINE.
N. G. M.. LUTEX. Hongkong, May 6, 1909
I
NOTICE..
613
Have This Day resumed my BUSI NESS of ABARE and GENERAL BROKER.
THOMAS I. ROSE Hongkong, May 1, 1909,
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FRIDAY MAY 7, 1909
To Let
LaLLand Comfortably Furnished
WROOMS co je at the OCCIDE
TAL HOTEL, Kowloon, with separate kitchens and bathe for each set of Roomas Rent from $13,80 nud upwards, Good ac onmmodation:
Apply to H. RUTION- JEN & SON, & D'Agular Street, or 45, Elgin Road.
Hongkong, April 24, 1909)
TO LET
THE ROOM next to the Pastu Baz,
Boing Das Voux Road
Apply to the SECRETARE of the Hors
KONG HOTEL.Co., Las..
Hongkong, January 29, 1909.
TO LET.
Hiper RTREAT
SPACIOUS BUILDING
P
buronqus Garden, including all Furade tura for restaurant only,**
Apply to CHINESE MAIL Tah. Tie Tat Po No. 6, Wallington St. Forge. December 23, 1908, 1730
To Let
TO LET
HOP and DWELLING HOUSE, No. 76,
Queen's Road Cantral Apply to
8. J. DAVID &00
Prz Baildings. Hongkong, Marce 25, 1909, ---
194
TO
Na
TU TANI
TO LET
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Shop); (opposite the Post Office).
WYNDHAM STREET, suitable for Chiles and Godown,
No S, D'AGUILAR STREET, quitable FIODOWNS No. 95, 96 & 97, PRAYA for Offles and Godown.. UWELSTAN
All the above are at present occupied by Weiswand, Lod,?
Apply to
+
POHATER, & MODY.. Hongkong, October 17, 1908. 1428
TO LET
[
694 NO 18 and 10, WINDHAM STREET coutaining Large Rooma sanh. Qua be let together or separately.
THL CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY,
LIMITED
NOTICE
WALTER GEORGE DARBY will
Mtake over the General Management of the Company's business and affairs
Portuguese Gentleman with sover statistics of Great Britain and Prussia, during my absenco.
years of mercantile experience desires combined with an estimation of the income of persons who do not pay income ta the Ports no objection.
following deeply interesting comparison is Please address:---
derived:-
SIKONG TARPAULINGS, MOST RELIABLE QUALITIES, FROM POSITION. Good references, Chins
#
M. C. THOMSON & CO., LTD.,
GLASGOW,
ALWAYS IN STOCK WITH
SOLE AGENTS":
MELCHERS & CO.,
AND THE PROMINENT SHIPCHANDLERS:
Carbonic Acid in Steel Cylinders and
Aerated Water Machines
ALL ACCESSORIES FOR SAME,
() MELCHERS
"
CHAMPAGNE -
THE LEADING BRAND
G.H.MUMM & Co
REIMS
SPECIAL APPOINTHER
Shewan Comes & C
GENERAL AGENTS
for
HONG KONG CANTON, & MACAO
Hongkong, January 27, 1998
Co.
DINNEFORD'S
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LACK LEAD MILLS LONDON JOHN OJEEY & 8038 Laserá WELLINGTO
BOOKING," Care of China Mail' Úfice, Hongkong, May 4, 1908.
607
WANTED, IMMEDIATELY,
FURNISHED HOUSE, self contain
A ed. State full particulars co
'0'
Care of CHINA_Mart' Office, Hongkong, April 29, 1909.
NOTICE.
880
GENERAL AVERAGE 5.5. ́ASSAYE' DECEMBER, 1993.
ANY Claims against the GENERAL A AVERAGE on sccount of damage to Cargo caused through extinguishing the fire on this vessal must be lodged on or before 17th May, 1909.
E. A. HEWEIT,
Superintendent,
P. & O. 9. N. COY. Hongkong. May 4, 1909.
VAN
HOUTEN'S
COCOA
Children never tire of its
exquisite natural flavour and
it is as healthful as it is
delicious.
BEST &
GOES FARTHEST.
800
DRITISH AND TAUSTAN INCONEK COMPARED.
(a) 5,000,000 persons have an aggregate income of not less than (it is probably more than).
(b):39,000,000 persons have
J. WHEELEE,
General Manager, Hongkong, April 30, 1969.
586
CHINA EXPRESS CO.,
3, DUDDELL STREET:
£900,000,000 SPECIAL THROUGH SERVICE.
TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
1
30 aggregate income of about 900,000,000
Total Britisk aggregate in
£1,800,000,000
chine
(2) Prussia :--
(a) 17,000,000 persons have an aggregate income of
(b)21,00,000 personshare an aggregate income of pro- bably less than
£600,000,000
DARCELS. PACKAGES CASES conveyed at Spacin) Rates, including delivery, cheaper than Parcel Post, without
limit to weight.
Boogkong, Dec 20, 1907 ~ 300,000,000
Total Prusian aggregato—. income?**** £0.0,000,000
BEYTISH GERMAN INCOMES.
CHEE WING & Co.
Apply
『』,
PEROY SMITH & SETH.. Hongkong, January 19, 1909.
TO LETA
93
ODOWN No. 4 DUDDELL
STREET.
Apply to
..
TAS FÖNGKONG LAND INVEST
MENT & AGENCY C...... Lp.". Hongkong. May 1, 1909,
TU LEL
709
For Particulars, etc, apply to
YEE SANG FAT & CO.,
Same AddrveE, Sungkong, March 18, 1909..
Hotels.
BELLE VIEW HOTEL.
above HOTEL will RE-OPEN
The ir MAX, 1909, under entirely
Management
Now
AN IDEAL SUMMER RESORT. MEALS A LA CARTE SERVED AT ALL HOURS, SHADY GARDENS.
HARBOUR VIEW.
70,000 SQUARE FEET BAND ONLY FIRST-CLASE WINES
with 200 foot frontage to Kowloon Bay. Moderata Rantil,"
Apply to
ME FARRELL & LYSAUGHT. Hongkong, August 29, 1907.
$
TO LET...
1980
Furnished Four-Roncod HOUSE, at Ferry. Immediate possession
Kowloon with Garden. Close to
Apply
I
7489
"Üäre of '*Canta Mam↑ Office, Hongkong, May 1, 1909.
---- TO - LET-FURNISHED.
597
MUNG SHUI," The PEAK,-To be
-SPIRITS-SERVED. Hongkong, April 30, 1908.
KING'S HOTEL, WEI HAL. WEL.
584
First Cisse Hotel is now under new
Management and bas recently 'boun, thoroughly renovated. It contains spo cous reception bed, and billiard rooma and is very well situated on high groded and commanda. ä fine view of the Harbour and
and is fitted through-
surrounding Country, out with Electric Light. Hat and Cold Water laid on. Terms modarate,For further particulars apply to
›› DUNCAN CLARE, Manager,
WET HAI WEI.
It should be understood that these, 28 and 29, LEE YUEN STREET (W251)] ~ Het Furnished for 8 months or longer- January 14, 1908.
entiantes are only approximately scourate,
bat when that is said it is true that they.
give a perfectly accurate view of the aut All jeet, the possible margin of erfor not being
great enough seriously to disturb, if enr
rected, the respective proportions of the
HONGKONG.. |
DEALERA IN
Sorts or COFFEE; BRASS," STEEL.
IRON WARS, 2.
STEEL GIRDERS AND TEFS,
various aggregates. I am inclined to think | CORRUGATED IRON, PIG IRON, &, the Prussian national income rather less
Suitable for
than £90,000,000; it is probably not wore Surra. LNG A Bocar BULLORE, than £800,000,000, but I am anxious not
to exaggerate, the relative wealth of Britain.
!
But Prussia in but ono State of the German Empire. It contains about 33,000,000 persons out of about 03,000,000 in the whole of the terman Empire. We shall certainly not be under-calculating the aggregato income of all Germany if we 8, estimate the income bf the average Germa to be the same,, as the income of the aver age Prassian.
A simple proportion sum will show the reader that the 63,000,000 Germs may possess an aggrexate) income" of about £1.500,000,000.
To put it in another way, the British income is about £40 per head, while the German income is about £23 por head, but there..are more Gormans than there are British by about 50 per cont.
Consideration of these facts will show the
TELEPHONE No. 789.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Solicitors
Apply to
A Don Vax Road Central. Hoogkona, Nayamber 5, 1908.
1520
TO LET.
EUP, No. 14. QUEEN'S
CENTRAL, on Lense.
ROSENEATH' Ganoze Boat,
ROAD.
70
KING EDWARD HOTEL
༢ HIGH-CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL.
ADIES: AFTERNOON TEA ROOMS,
PATATE BAR AND BILLIARD Rooms, Hot and Cold Water
throughout
Kow-Electrically Lighted. / 1223
CARMICHAEL AND OLARKE, CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS.
Queen's Building, Hongkong 8-5, OBANON ALLEY, SINGAPORI.
CABLE ADDERSET CARMICHAEL, HONGKONG
4
CARMICHAEL SINGAPORE. Codes Used:--Scott's 10th Edition
A.B.U. 4th and 5th Editions; Libber's Standard; Watkins: Western Union and A.I. TELEPHONE No. 232.
THE OWL GRILL BOOM
reader why it in that the Germans are HAS REMOVED finding it so difficult to raise new taxes to TO MORE COMMODIOUS PREMISES meet the recent increase in their arms
29 & 31. Da Vaux ROAD, ments. The taxable capacity of the Ger-
Near the MUTUAL STORES. mans is still far less than the taxable capacity of the British.
turg
SPECIAL RATES FOR MOSTLY CLIESTS. TIFFIN
20 par Month. FULL BOARD ........$40. h
The
JUST LANDED American Salmon, Corned Oysters Yar y mouth Dicaters, Kippara, English
Haddooks, and New Zealand Whirio and Blue Cod, Prereza SMALL GOODS ALWAYS OF HANIN HARRY NEWBOLD, Proprietor Hongkong, May 19, 1908. 9781
Ioon.
1, FAIRVIEW, Bobinaon Road, Kow. toon.
Apply to INRIGH &, ORANGE. Hongkong, Angust 25, 1908.-
TO LET.
25
OUR and Fire Roomed HOUSES, at
Kopioon.
Now and Commodious SHOPS, NATHAN BOLD, Kowloon. Immediate possession. Cheap Rentals,
OFFICES on the 1st Floor BozL MAN- SIGNS Iataly occupied by Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd.
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., LTD. Hongkong, March 23, 1909,
TO LET.
OFFICES YORK BUILDING...
408
GODOWNS in PEATA Bier, Blue Balid Inge, and No. 16, Dz. Yaux Boan next to the Hongkong Hotel
FLATS in MONTON TERRACE,
No. 10, DE FEUX ROAD CENTRAL, Ist Floor
!
A Board in RIPON. TERRACE
A House in Waka Nes CHONG ROAD.
"Electric Fans (if required). Electric Passenger Elevator to each, Floor, TALS D'HOTE. Az Stranate Tastes, Talu, Addram : • VICTORIA, Hongkong,
For Terms, sto, apply to the
MANAGER. Hongkong, October 2, 1908. 1300
BRAESIDE,'
PRIVATE HOTEL
STANDING ↳ its own grounds with
Tennis and Croquet Lawas, Large. Airy and Well Farolshed Rooms, Brary home comfort. Fine Flaw of the Harbour.
Talephone, No. 800,
Apply to MES F. W. WATTS, '
** Braeside. 20, Macdonnell Rosd, Bongong, September 9, 1908.
1914
KINGSCLERE,'
PRIVATE HOTEL."
and Madonnell Road. PPROACHED from Kennedy Road
Tel No. 134. Teing. Address : ↑ SacasoKA.
2. A.B.C. Coda, sta Ed.'
Electric light, hot and cold watOF LEFORZR- Billiarda, tennis, croquet, putting.
Date
No. 3, CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit & croon and fine stabling for horasa, Bord.
ose to let No. 2, CONNAUGHT ROAD, Bed Floor,
Apply to
Propristress, MR. F. SACHSE
1208 Hongkong. September 1, 1968,
THE HONGKUNG LAND INVEST. VICTORIA HOTEL
-MENT-& AGENCY Co., Erp. Hongkong, May 1, 1909)
TO LET
Fine
SHAMEEN, CANTON,
Manager Mr H HATTEL Telegraphic Addres Vistoria Shamsen,"
Situated on the British Concession.
PATELL & CO., BE Shone Olow and Dwelling Rooms MACAO HOTEL,
THE EMPIRE BEHIND HEITAIN. But it is important to remember other factors. In the first place, the personnel of the, Eritish Army and Navy have to be paid at such rates as seguro voluntary" servico (although the voluntaryism of paid personnel is a disputable matter). The Germans, having conscription have not, of course, to find the heavy pay for their sailors which obtains hore. It is curious tow often this important fact is forgotten in comparing British and Garman hayal expenditure
Far more important it is to remember that the United Kingdom is the head and front of a great ampire. It is unfor tanately true that, an far, the colonies. bara done little by way of financial con- tribution to the Imperial Navy, which in effect save each of them anormous expen- STORES, diture. the present competition in armaments were to continue, however, it is diffeult, to believe that the colonies would not awake to what the British Navy means to thom. If it came to beggar-may-neighbour between Britain and Germany Germany would rely Save to reckon not merely with the fact English, American & German
that Britain' fins a longer purse than Ger- many, na bàn boen shown, but that the British Empire has purse longer stül
- THE MAN BEHIND TITE BUN,”
Tonogloot nitogether the important point just madó, if cannot be too clearly (Continued on Pags 3.)
SHAMEEN CANTON,
NOW OFFERING
WINES, SMOKES
́OF XHOWN: BRANDA
AT MUDERATE PRICES
This wall reputed Stores facilitates the
demands for d
Provisions
RELIABLE QUALITY
TRIAL: Order. Estomers;
DWELLING ROOMS and OFFICES In QUEEN'S BOAD UESTRAL ERKASA
GODOWNE la DEDDELL STREET. BELILIOS TERRACE HOUSES, Ro
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No 2&3.BRACONSFIELD ABOADE
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