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BETABLISHED A.D. 1841.
FANCY
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ARTICLES-
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Silver-mounted, in tancy leather
MANICURE SETS:
Silver-mounted
CUT GLASS PERFUME
BOTTLES
OUT GLASS TOILET
BOTTLES
Silver-mounted,
GILLETTE RAZORS
(Pocket) Gold and Silver-mounted.
THERMOS FLASKS
Perfume Sprays,
Hand Mirrors,
Shaving Mirrors.
GREAT VARIETY.
Experience.
Satisfaction
Guaranteed.
| Malta, £00: The money 10 Kietted
to be expended either in the formation.' of classes under suitable instructors or exp in wubsidising touchers with a view to individual officers being enabled to obtain tuition at special rates. Officer are to be encouraged to visit foreign countries on leave for language study, and will, with the sanotion of general
officers commanding, be granted all or portion of the leave for which an offeer is ordinarily aligible, in addition to language leave.
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD. Roumanian, Hungarian, Bulgarias,
Hongkons. April 16, 1907.:
MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
Auctions.
10a.m.--Auction of Naval & Victailing
Storos at H.M. Naval Establishmante:
deat
*NEWS" OF THE
Lawrence's famous portrait of Welding ton was sold at Mostrs Robinson sed Fisher's rooms for 2,000 gulsene.
Tha peale of charges for medical treate
ment at the Government Ciril Hospitals and Asylums are publised in the Gazette.
woek.
to keep the circulatión: sá ) and clergy, enjarad
genad old Christmas heu herald angule sing.
Frandering by the chair of
in In The Anthem Hosts (West), and was
on Friday, when in big Christmas Tras will now & common for & stripped on the ground of the Cyti Berrion" fanture of the servion
Recreation Clab, which was in home. to its members and their children: The issue of the election writs bas been postponed until January 10th Mosers Lane, Crawford & Co., Ltd, their annual staff dinner in the stu The Unionists denounce the post-
covers being laid for over 60, and most enjoyable time was spent f
ponement as a trick to enable the first palling to take place on a Saturday. At the Victoria Hospital Bir Henry May which will be farourable to the Lassumed the robes of Santa Cilaca and with
the help of Lady May and their dan
The came of He Ian Lat has been berals. added to the list of Chinese mediasi proOn the new register there are 92,000 and other friends helped to unload a hip tioners trained in western medical wioner,
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more voters than on the old.
incontested
the Kesistant ́kfami
The Hongkon
entrained large compa
the City HIME it was a huge
the oltar under the directi Fullar, the organi the Bishop of Victoris spoks Inspiringly and
The scale of grants which may be
Only three seats are uncor earned by officers who qualify us st According to Lloyd's Register sight the Unionists Fifteen are Class Interpretors after Jaunary sight vessels, aggregating 108,562. bous, of
which oven reseta were Brit 1, have by the Liberala There are numerou 1910, will be as follows:-French, bom lot or condemned since Juna 30 --
triangular contests. In mix Condit uencies the Unionista are divided
dance on Chilstuna. Ava £24; German, £50; and Italian,
The Shanghai Dook and Engineering Lord Milner addressed a noisy, meet-i and like, as `iz former, Spanish, Dutch Daniab, Norwegian, Co., Ld has declared an interim dividending at Cardiff. Elia Lorahip's speech sucos, Ver 300 gab
wedish Modern Greek, Portuguese, of 2 per cent, payable on January 6th was subject to constant interruptions, salves of the generous hospitality of tlie
for the balf-year ondod October 31
the andiance shouting as a chorus, guardians of our person, St. George's Hall "Damn the consequences."
was the dancing room and here, sa well no Czech, and Serbo-Croatian, £30 each. There are ton in the family, and my Lloyd: George, Chancellor of B Andren's Hall, where supper
husband earned 3. last week, and some The highest grant, £30, is awarded for times he rara nothing," said the wife of a the Exchequer, travelled for twelve served, and the grand staircase the decora Wales Crowds | finns were all in harmony with the associa
1. It is true in the wideness of ita ares, Rasaian. Officers who qualify as 2ndjadgment debtor at Shoreditch County hours Court,
assambled at the stations through tions of the season Music was supplied by
The Kingdom of Jesus Christ ba... NO Clan Tatarpraters under the same con-
which he passed and demanded a Machado's band. L. S. Cooper sod P. Ofrontier. Its fasion is wide as the ro ditions after January 1, 1910, will
speech. Decorations were every where Stewart ware M1.0's and the progisme Its benefactions are independent of
comprised ~ 24 dances incloding five tionality. Its benedictions avast Caledonians, two barn dances, two wallz childhood. Gibbon says that chilliya, Strathepoy rael, two Roman father's has the Cassian circles, two polkas, two lanes, mere thing
- 10.
Whether we interpret hamanity ar, Abst
Christ an· Lord.
11.Anation of Old Rope, Stoel receive one-half of the above som. Christmas very quintly and temperately displayed along the route. The walls, Highland schottischis, schottische, social barriers. It gave a new?
&o, at Norddeutscher Lloyd's Godown.
Kennedy Town.
Amusements.” 9p.m.-The Best-Feople, by Band mann Comedy Co., at Theatre Royal.
General Memoranda. WEDNEDAY, December 29:
9p.m-Facing the Music, by Band. Pasan Comedy Co., at-Theatre Royal
THURSDAY, December 30:-
3 p.m.-Auction of the Eie Lima, on board, at Kowloon Docks, Hanghom, 3 p..Keeting of China Light, and
Power Co.
5.30p.m.esting of St. George's Club. 9 pm & Pair of Bpootseles, by Band msan Comedy Co., at Theatre Royal FD7, December 31,
Last day of Exhibition of Chinese Iitara. tars at V.M.0.A. Rooms, Queen's Rd. SAUDAY, January 1-----
Pubilo Holday.
Banks and Insurance Officer Clore. Supreme Court Xmas Vacation emir.
2.16 p.m.-Childrens' Sports at Kowloon 5.30 p.m.-Orgin Recital in Et. John's
Cricket Club.
Cathedral.
MONDAY, January 3:— '
Public Holiday.
Banks and Insurance Offices-Close. FRIDAY, Jannery 7 toe.
p.m.-Philharmonic Coneert.
TUBIDAY, January 25 :--
in Cape Dutch the grant is to be £30, and £15 for a 2nd Cinas Interpreter Lahip.
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spall of very bitter weather at Christmas time. At Shanghai the thermomonieter
without
rights,
Apparently the Chinese spent the
for there were extremely few cases, to be
Chancellor spoke in
Welsh at For qualifying as a lat Class Intrepre- dealt with by the Magistrates at the Preilich, declaring that the time had come to settle once and for all with ter-in-Arabic,Turkish, Persian or Magistracy this morning.. Amharic (Abyssinian), the reward will
Judging by the meteorological tables the feudal lords who were demanding | two valete, and one military twestPr| Wherever Christ comes there ulioi be £110, and ns & 2nd Class Interpreter issued by the Hongkong Observatory, that Great Britains should return to The decoration committes, who are to be the coronation of the child o £60 For a 1st Class Interpretership Japan and North China. must have had a tha dark ages, when oven Russia and warmly congratulated on the outcome of the buoysut period of boyhood received a
their efforts, consisted of P. S. Wilson model of gladsome and gladanning Turkey were winning their freedom.
P. S. Par, P. S. Grant, L.A. Ogg, P. C. ease. The Carpentar of Naisteth gare) D. C. Cockle, P. C. Glendinning, and P.O. dignity to honest toil which the world had
not recognised before. Higher wi P.C. Fergnant were the Bar Committee, formed into wealth as Sheyardship. and L. 8. Ong while P: 0:Bell looked after practised. So, all through from the man the card room, and P. S. Lee as secretary to the stone and the throne, whenever the
The good tidings, ranched human life, achieved a manifest enjoyment of all present was elevated and ennoblet it givin patené Zrom start to Bnish, w
significance and beauty Most of the Naval and mercantile vessels In harbour were decorated, with evergreen and busting, and on Christine night saverat of the war vessels were illuminated, creat ing beautiful sight.
Special regulations, says our contem- porary, are laid down for the Study of
Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Can- tonese, which provide for a limited number of officers being anlected for a year's course of study and residence is Russia, and for a two years cours of study and residence in China and Japan. In the case of the latter two
also was very low, with a high mango of JAPAN'S MINISTER TO Mackelvin, P. Kendall, P. G. Spillet, and
barometer.
If it came to accap,” said the Mayor of Fulham. Mr H. G. Norris, to a deputa tion of unemployed who threatened to obtain their aims, whether by orderly ar disorderly means," he would have no basi tation in taking part against any disturber Lin the council chamber gallery."
Ten days ago a nativo was banished: from the Coleaz, but yesterday be returned, only, however, to be quickly discovered. At the Magistracy to-day he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and six hours”, stocks He told the Court that he wa only passing through the Colony on his way to Sing paro.
An old boy employed by Mr HP. White stole in order book on Mossry Lane, Crawford and Co. Ltd., in October, and on
countries the selected officers will receive, in addition to the ordinary pay of their rank, a consolidated allowance of $150 per annum, payable quarterly in arrear, while in the country. They will, also receive a reward of £100 on November 29th forged an order for goods p.Brotch Concert in Theatre Royal. passing and obtaining 75 of the total to the value of 320. At the Magistracy marks for the examination held at the to-day ho, was sent to prison for three
months with hard labour. end of 12 months' residence in the
On Thursday evening, Mr and Mrs country, and a further reward of $75 Piercy were the resipients of a beautiful passing and obtaining 75 of the silver saiver and cheque from a number total marks in the final examinations. of "old boya" of the Diocesan School. The presentation was made by the Rev. F. Considered ne a whole the new regular. Johnson, M.A. who in a speech reviewed tions, in the opinion of the United the success of the work of Mr Piercy since Services Gazette, are of a liberal chathis arrival in 1878, Mr Piercy made a
suitable reply charged with deep feeling. actor, and should certainly conduce to the encouragement of linguistic studies among officers of the British Army.
The China Mail
Hoxoxorg, Mornay, Decexx 27, 1909,
THE ARMY AND FOREIGN
LANGUAGES.
The reproach that Englisk military officers, outside of course the Indian service, know only one language, and that their own, is steadily being' oli. minsted from the record. Like their brother officers in the Senior service the ghotlamen who don the King's
uniform zad hold his commission
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Commodore and Mrs Lyon gaso a very large dinner party on board the Tamar on Christmas night.
The Hou. Dr Eo Kai hisa been appointed have advanced rapidly to meet the member of the Medical Board for a für needs of the times, and the num-ther terms of three years.
to
Mir Calhoun, the newly appointed Ame. rican Minister to China, leaves for the Orient at the end of Frebuary
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"{Renter's" Service so the China Ma3.)
LONDON, December 25, President Taft has received Mr, Uchida, the new Japanese Minister to Washington:
CONTINENTALY RAIN DISASTER.
TEN LIVES LOST.
(Benter's Service to the China Mn)
Lonzor, December 25. The Prague-Vienus express came into collision with goods train at Chotzen (Behomis).
Ton persons were killed and 25 injured, ma
memorable cauccess.
|
II. Bus the anomaly is the fact that is un ie a joy bringer even to those who Inject its chief good. It is not strang in Christian Churchow and in the house of out and out thristiana Joy should ind choruses of "expression. – Bus hag
triumph is that wherever ire me
The Lordship said it was an inspiring service because it commemorated a gros benediction upon all people,
been curied, it sheds the light historic fact and because all feel the follow they profess and call themselves Christ |ship, there was amongst all who is spirit or not. Ita': sscondary, blossing brig:
worshipped the Intrusts Lord. Fellowship the He of the community, the uath here though perhaps kiungo to one sa-sed every year. introsalugly the wo
Christines gifta pames without. Jarge. Many other, and fellowship with Christians any distinct thought of the other throughout world as the rising sun awakens which led to the custom-G brethren and relatives under western skies | Son to be the Saviour of the world.
to join the Herald angels song An old mesage, Matt. 1. 21, Thou shalt af his name Jesna for he shall save His people from their sins." The naine very important 1 A GERMAN HONOUR.
to a Jow. It was to express his office or his character. The Angel twice {Bester's Fervice to the China Mail) facetold the name of Mary's Son
Loxos, December 25.The name not uncommon,
4 Berlin telegram states that the Kaiser has conferred the Order of the Rad Eagle, Second Class, on Major General Nakamura, serving in North China
DR. COOK
FURTHER HUMILIATION."
(Bester's Berrics to the China Mail.) LONDON, December 25.
In Old
gradual interpenetration of human libe the influence and power of the good w "is a partial falliment of the snagud morze
in surely by intimation of the ultimate world-wide triumph
"HI" But it is not only the secondary in Aueen of Christianity
here. The secular and social obse
of God, kecáma man and ac
of Christmas Day do not fill out the po gramane of the geoming in the song, --JORKS Tetament forms, Joshus, it meant Jehovah, Christ as the Son of God Saviour, reminder to us that Jesus not Fatherhood of God mrs our Saviour than the Heavenly Father.all people Jesus Christ by the He needs no one to bend his, love towards deal for the mind, in the But Christ is the manifestation of God Christianity a earliest promise in Himself as Saviour. The main work end of its historical programs in the thereal mission of the housh to produce self acrificing Colle we dan 100, Christian character. A good Christian He rightfally, claims the
world
belongs to "Jesus
not only good Church goer a reader of His own. He is the unique Bible or sayer of prayers, but a good man of dorp, strong, tender, lasting pr or a good women. Sin the barrier to this to all people Wa may gather a hint
the onward progress and certainty in evory formation of character. The mood of our instance where the spirit of the gospel har agoz deepened sénas of sin.the sverage overflowed its institutions and uplifted life-
Frickshaw and dispensed with the services of It is reported from New York than of the world thinks very little about sin' It has been said that if all the thoughts in t
A party of four bluejackets from the U.SIS. Pennsylvania had a fierce time in Ship Street this morning at about three) o'clock. After doing a great deal of daminge in a Chinese restaurant they got hold of a
the coolie. One of the number got between the shafts, another rode and the others pushed. In the end they had the vehicle to pieces. They were later arrested and all the money they possessed between them
was five cents.
There was a slight electric car accident this morning shortly after 10 o'clock. Car No. 31 was proceeding along near the Naval Xard gate when a Chinese conductor who was walking along the footboard caught his foot in some wooden framework being carried by a
za trock just overtaken. – He was
and
hence his light-hearted indifference to reli- the literature of the world, which have been the committee of the Explorers Club,gion. It is the old story they that be whole inspired by the Bible were to be omiteit from tam hocks which, men hare written, which has been investigating Dr. need not the popsician. Christ name not to there would scarcely be volum Cook's claim that he climbed Mt, all the righteous but sinants to repentance, undisturbed. And it is equally
The Christmas Menge is of the Advent of christianised cirillation that, McKinley, has reported adversely. Savions. The Bishop concluded with an secular spects and slame Dr. Cook has been pelled from appest for the Dicoma Girls School and arcely beatiful sound
become dominant The lives of the Club.
Orphanage, Bonham Road, where any social amenity whiedy komedis European and Eurasian orphans are pro- | | fristion" of "hamar, inte rided with secmfortable home and good philanthropie
institution nOR, 12) educatima
ide which In the Gospel
is
FORMER HONGKONG DETECTIVE DEAD,
Bester's Service is the Ching Mail.)
LONDON, December 20
was death," is announced of- ex Mon
Hongkong Police.
and when picked up it was found that Detective Inspector Stanton, of the on
and bruised, had been badly shaken although apparently no bones were bruken, After being medically treated at the Naval Yard surgery the suffers was taken to hospital.
[Noto-For failing to report a common gaming house in Wa Lane in 1877 several officers were dismissed from the Hongkong Police Forte. Amongst the number Detective Inspector Stanton.-EDOM3
ber of military men who are nOW qualified in various languages is really vary considerable. This is only
His Excellency the Governor has been as it should be, we admit, in an Army pleased to appoint Mr G. M. Fletcher such as ours which seer service to bo Registrar of Trade Marks with effect pesatically in every quarter of the from January 1, 1910, AND OTHER ARTICLES IN globe, but it is only of late youre The Rt. Rev. Bishop Ingham, omtral Becretary of the C.M.S., left Hongkong by that the Authorities in Pall Mall the English Mail on Saturday, bound for have
given distinct encouragement the Straits säd Indis, officers to pursue linguistic His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr E. Jonas to act as A. S. WATSON & CO., studies. The present Minister of War Assistant Harbour Master and Mr A. E
Hoa, R. B-HALDANE, he manifested Davey to act as bret. Boarding Officer, F Admized Moore tells a good story oka LIMITED
sonsiderable interest, along this parti
Several sportsmen took occasion of the peppery old naval offer under whom he color line and as a consequence new holidays to organise shooting parties in served many years ago, During syma fast- the New Territory while some more ical operations one of the ships of the regulations have been faced which adventurous, wont farther fold. They grou had made some bad blundars, and should materially help towards raising were favoured with glorious weather length the Admiral completely lost. his temper. He stated about his quartar-deck VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH. the linguistic abilities of the army-
and informed all near him of his opinion of the offer in command of the arring abin. When He paused for want of breek years was English chaplain at Robs and furgad to the signaller and said to him, While there a noted camarone, Mr Awann And you can tell him that, "gie 1. The
on the list of competitors for Bir Willian blaajacket scratched his head in malt how at Rames Hartley's prize for the far ligh mmanding-in-chief at cert
Liverpool to Manchester. Hahas plane, modification of test of centros to provide for the Damont, with as, engine
of office in French and and is making daily telala
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