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HONGLONG. Hongkong, Japusty 9, 1949.
| SARAWAK GOVERNMENT
COLLIERIES.
BROOKETON
(N.W. COAST BORNEO).
unioniams, perhaps too, rapid, a movament towards democratic innovations without corresponding development of the spirit of responsibility in the classes long disfrau-
on or about December 15, 1909,
at a cost of more than $10,000,000°
10
HLX 1, 1909.
To Let
OFFICES
TO HEL
the Second Floor, No. 8 Des Veszk
Road Central, corner of los Honsa Streat, SIX COMMODIOUS AND AIRY ROOMS with lavatory and kitchen at- tached, for termna apply to
H. PEROY SMITE, F.QA.. Raceiror for L M ALTARH & Co in voluntary dissolution,
·5. Queen's Bond Central
1490- Hongkong, November 30, 1909;
to fuel
TO BE LET
TITH possossion from March 1810: tare conki be taken over as a valuation).
TAN MOR, Peak RoadBiz rommand
chised. Still-messured by thousand GREATER AND MORE COMPLETE THAN EVER semi-detached house commanding a good
Under the idention, management which made it:
famous the world over,
PALACE HOTEL COMPANY.
Hongkong. November 20, 1909.
conditions, the heart and spirit of Britain appears as sound as it was fifty posta ago. The evils of the sime are all in sight, alt classly comprehended, which is only an other way of saying that they may be curable. It is easy to say, so one corros- pondent has said, that the English paca in too slow, Perhaps there are others whose pace is faster, but the race is not always to the swift The English have been a long time engaged in those activities of COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPART-
MENT. production and of commerce in those large and, wide transactions upon which their
which should be PPLICATIONS. A position in the modern world rests; they addressed to the Registrar Gamoral have had more experienes in certain de-are invited for the post of CORINESE partments of enterprise than any other TRANSLATOR in the Supreme Court. The lary of the port is $1,680 a pose poopla ; perhaps they know what they a** | rising to $2,040, about. Oftentimes there are elements of
F. E. MAY. Colonial Secretary,
assurance in going slow; possibly in the
1489 long run the slow way many turn out the sure way. Beginning with
:
THE BOER WAR, the British have had a series of pretty hard
jolts, and it is obvious that they are leau-
NOTICE
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.IN THE SUPREME COURT OF. HONGKONG.
In the matter of the Estate of JAMES -EDWARDS "late of 'Homestead '
Kedoopcciethe Colony of} Hongkong, decessed.
ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
Court has, by Tirine of Section 63 of the Ordinance, 1997, made st FOrder miting the time for sending in Claims against the above Estate to the Slat day of January, 1910.
Creditors and claimants are hereby rq. quired to send their Claims to the Under
day of 1905. J. H. KEMP, Official Administrator.
THE whole of the Valuable Household Dad this on the November, 100
Furniture and Effects balonging to
W. D. GRAHAM to be sold by Public Auction an FRIDAY, the 3rd December, wil be on view TO-MORROW within his residence,Haytor, No. 108, The Peak... 1491 Hoogkong, November 30, 1909.
-
THEATRE
ROYAL
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2ND AND 3RD, at 9 p.m.
fing some practical lessons from these ex
periences. Plainly they have learned the need of reorganizing their military estab lishment, and quite as plainly they have 618 learned some points in connection with the organization and administration of their navy. They bare, too, been shown some pretty serious defects in their domestic social system and there are evidences that they are setting about to correct them. That they will be able to do this effectively: - that they many cure the internal distempery from which the country is suffering, seams a not unreasonable hope, for it must be remembered that for all her patent defects England has still the most stimulating and potent national tradition in the world of modern civilization; that she is on tho whole the most effectively governed country HONGKONG AMATEUR ATHLETIC in the world; that she has by far the grestest accumulation of material resources
LOST.
DETWEEN City Hall and 3, Lysoemoon villas, Kowloos, by way of 11.20 . 7. Ferry, a GULD CHAIN NECKLACE - wish Pearl Pendant
QEING appointed AGENTS for the
Bopied, we beg to state that
they are now in a position to supply their NEW DEEP SEAM COALS at LABUAN or BROOKETON reduced rates.
Brocketou Barbear fren of all Wharf and Harbour Does. Jarze Stocks at
aither of the a boco ports always on hand. Good anchorage.." Pilot sent to west steamera Sale mooring and quick despatch.
For Particular apply to
AAGAARD THORESEN & CO.,
(Cable Ad¿:
view of the harbour. - Tennis Court. nad Vegetable Garden.-*
Four and Fire-Roomed HOUSES, 14 Kowloon.
Raw and Commodiona 880ES, NAIMAX, ROAD, Kowloon. Immediate possessien. Cheap Rentals,
Apply to
BUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCK
Oo, I Hongkong, March 25, 1809.-
TO LET.
B. Kowloon
'DERYL No. 1, HAXHOW BOẢN,
Apply to
H.. Y.-H. NEMAZER, 41, Wyndham Stat. Hongkong, November 24, 1208, 149
TO LUE
ARKSPUR, No. 22. Robinson Rasd U- 7 RUUMS, Possession from 31st December, 1809.
Apply to
M2 LEUNG KIN ON." do Netherland Trading Society. Hongkong, November 17, 1909. -1419-
TO LET.
KING'S BUILDINGS.
YFICES lacing the Harbour; from
about October. At presets in occupa tion of Moser Jardins, Matheson & Co. Ltd.
Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. TMENT & AGENCY Co., Lo!
Finder will be substantially rewarded THE WINSON COMPANY Hongkong, December 1, 1909. (on returning mme to
NECKLACE, Care of CHINA, MAIL" Office. or to 3 Lyrerocon, Villar. Bengkong, November 20 1908.
ASSOCIATION.
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will be baid on the KOWLOON TRACK on SATURDAY, Desember 18th, The creats are:--Championships; High Jump: Long Jump: Hurdles Mile Half Mile; Patting the Weight: Handi- cape-120 yards, 440 yarda.
in the world. It is going far to stigmatizeTHE ANNUAL ATHLETIC SPORTS as degenerate & country of which all this may be said. We note in a letter from Over Hongkong) Whatcom Washington, signed M," printed in these colamos last week, a SARAWAK GOVT. AGENT,
reference to (Cable Add.: Msy Labuan). Hoursong, October 18, 1909
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PATELL & CO.,
Exporters & Importers
General Merchants
and
DEGENERACY OF THE ENGLISH
ARISTOCRACY
on the basis of rapid sport and soul. deadening dissipation." Why the writer should have joined these two diametrically opposite things in a single sentence we do not find it easy to comprehend Soul-
deadening dissipation" this oxplains and
justines itself. But why this condemnation of sportas "rapid" and inferentially as tend."
gtodegeneracy. We have been sccustomed
to regard the English sporting habit as the particular saving grace of the English scheme of life, tending to build up and sustain the
Commission Agents, physical powers of those who participate
in them, to distinguish the British among the aristocracies of the earth most whole. semely and helpfully. It was the Duke of Wellington, as we recall it, who 'once re-
Hongkong and marked that Waterloo aros won on the
Canton.
CHEE WING & Co.
27, 23 and 22, LEE YUEN STREET (WEST) HONGKONG.
cricket field at Eton. And other authori. ties equally competent hasa cocamended the system for its stimulus to the rational ritality, for its prompting to manly ambi
Fatrance Fes, 31 for each event. The data of closing entrance will be announced later,
TUTE. L.. O. GARRETT,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong November 26; 1909.
KEATING'S
OZENCES
ALBE WORST COUGH Cós gīvas zaliat. -- An Intrngsing. Linda of covat do pesce žu a certaŽEN - test of their mazvalious valug
REMOVAL NOTICE.
HAVE NEMOYED'
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from No. 38, WELLINGTON STREET. to their New Premises
(lafely socapied by Madame Flim). Hongkong, November 19, 1908.
0.
CHINESE MAGICIANS, ACROBATS AND CONTORIONISTS
(ON THEIR TOUR TO EUROPE)
BEN WILL EXHIBIT THEIR “ MARVELLOUS NEW FEATS.
2 NIGHTS ONLY 2
Booking now open at
TEE ROBINSON PIANO CO., LTD:
PRICES..... $3, $2 and $1.
Hoogkomy, November 26, 1909.
BOXING
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BOXING!
CITY HALL
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1909.
MAIN EVENT:
BILL LEWIS, 140 Lus. - Hongkong,
T.
STOKER PASCALE, 182.
MR. Montrorith, SEVEN PRELIMINARIES. Booking and Plans at ROBINSON PLAN Cổ. I. D.
Into Our to the Peak,
Manager: B, H. WHITTAKER,
PRAYA EAST HOTEL Hongkong, November 25, 1809.
3, DUDDELL STREET
1107
Telephone. 688. P. O. Box 154.
TO LET
ODOWN 'No. 54, DODDELL I STRIFE.
Apuly' ta
TAR HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENOT Co. L Hongkong, December I. 1809
TU LET
YODOWN. No. 4, PRATA, KINSIDY
ToWN
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST...
MENT & AGENCY Co., Ltd.
1323 Hongkong, December 1, 1909.
TO LET
TOS. 13 MORRISON HILE,
Also Officer at No. 2, PEDDES STREET.
Apply
Messen JARDINE, MATHESON
Co., Ltd. Hongkong, May 12, 1909.
*TO LET.
ODOWNS Nos, 7, 8 and 10, and the" Top Floor al No. 5, (Tang Ting's Lap Godowas East Point)
Immediate Posesalon, Bent exception- ally moderate.
HAM FOOK,
107. WILLINGZON- STEKES, (behind the Stag Hotel) or Keeper of No. 8, Godown (on'the Spot).
T1B Hongkong, May 29, 1909.”
TO LET
LODGE, CAINE ROAD, Baltabe for carding Elonas, Rchool,
IMPORT SERCIALET Breda suitable, for Gallega, or Family Bendetice, recently
growing in this Climate,
painted and renovated, throughout, Im- madiste posesion.
EXPORT SPECIALITY:--Clears in any qua
deed one does not need to be a socio- tions and to clens habits of living. InTTER SWATOW DRAWN WORK OU CHINA EXPRESS CO., logist or a physiologist to observe CBI tain marked differences which distin- guiar the average British from the Average French aristocrat, differences whose No. 17A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL ganesis... may, ba tenced to the sporting habita of the one race and the lack of them ia the other. He who looks upon sport in the field or in the gymnasium as "apid" would do well to compare indradual youths in Bagland and in other countries, brod upou one hand under the system of sport ing games xvd on the other undet A system BILDER,hich rejects these site to development, physic and moral hardihood, clean think- 1993 ing, and manly doing. If
All Sorts 21 COPPER, BRABS, STEEL,
IRON WARE, &*** STEEL DIRIJERS AND TEES. - CORRUGATED IRON, PIG IRON, &c. Suitable for
Sara. Kasprza AND HOUT
Tejarrows. No. 769.
YUENT
HING
NG 4 VAGUILAR STREET. SWATOW KIA LAK FACTORY.
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· Dealer in all kinds of Hand-made Drawn Work, Embroidery, Chinese Linen, Graas "Cloth, Pewter Wäre, etc. - **
ALL OF THE BEST QUALITY. HONGKONG Hongkong, August 10, 1991005
ASAHI BEER SAPPORO BEER
TO BE OBTAINE
TICE ENGLIKE SYSTEM OF APOLLEN
be indeed ** vapid" then Germany, to-day the most progressive country in the world along certain lines, must be making a griavons mistake in adopting and imitating the English practica. That it is no mistake is, however, the commda opinion et obser- vore. Within the weak the editor of the drgonent has received a letter from a foraian now travelling in Germany, in which siphatic commendation is given to the csuparatively new system of physical main- ing growing up in that country under the stimulus of new and practicaly univerzal passion for athletic game. And we have only just now read, in the latest of com mentaries upon, German life that the taats for sports among the younger generation se regarded by the highest authorities s sign of advancing i
Eational spárit and bardis
17. In our own pountry we are bagimming
to ave the effects of that system of stulstice which took popsession of our collagen spe other schools some fifteen or twenty year ago Botte of us, to be sure, have regarded Jéhn athletic, practions of our sobobis sup "thing", souiswhat overdone, and yes whe has not observed a tremendou aptove- meat in the physical condi general' get-up and wof-up........ brad youth se compered with gougrafiem, go to whom th was tinknown In one ma siderationi The college brød
Lentory in the
J. T. SHAW.
Tailor and Outfitter Hongkong Hotel Boldings and 14. Des Voux Road.
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TO LEE
FFICES to YORK BUILDING,
OFFICES
650
GODOWNS in Praza Law, Bina Balk if desired, so that they are delivered abso-ings, and No, 188, Du Taux Road bezr, Italy free.
Price
A RAMBLE THROUGH
SOUTHERN FORMOSL
With Woodcuts.
1489
To be bad at the Corwa MAIL Office.
ING
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THE THIRTICAL CLASSES, Flated by K. JET, FB.D; had at the Caixa Man Off; Priča
For Sale,
NE full size Burroughs BILLIARD TABLE
If good condition." Apply to
to the Hongkong Hotel
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