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Nos. 47, 48 and 19, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL HIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, PROVISION MERCHANTS, QUAE MERCHANTS, &,' OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING. INIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE US A TRIAL.
FRANCISCO TSE YAT, General Manager. Hoogkong, Augner 12, 1908.
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FCURIOUS STORY OF OFFICIAL.
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A mau in the Tangffing district kept a pig, which he was rearing to sell to pay his rent. Somehow this pig got loose, and as it appeared to have no owner, apparently some one hunted and wounded the animal
MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA but did not ill-it Moanwhile [1′′ (MITSU BISHI 00)
ils' owner
the scene. camo upon The hog waS hurt too badly to live, but if wore killed, as it was not market day, there could be no regular salo
GOAL DEPARTMENT. for the pork. So he reluctantly consontod
VOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA- SIMA, QCHI, MUTARE, HOJO, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW and-KAMTYAMADA. Collories.
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Co. MANILA: Messrs Macondray &
Co.
:
for particulars, apply to
H, OISHI,
Manager,
No. 2. PEDDER STREETTM
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, January 9, 1909.
816
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` J. ULLMANN & CO.
34. Queen's Road Central Opposite General Post Office
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL
(LA) E CONNAUGHT HOTEL). QUEENS ROAD
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Now Management. Large and Comfortable Rooms, Excellent Cuisine, under the expervision of an experienced Franch Chel
PARTICULARS AND RATES on application to MANAGER. L. GAMEAU -Proprietor.
Jongkong. October 3, 1908
TRY
=
N. BLUMENTHAL, Manager.
0.11
910
WEISMANN'S FRESH COFFEE
PURE FRESH
Roasted and ground on our premises daily.
IN LB. AND 1 LE. TINS.
Hongkong, July 20, 1910.
RESERVES.
CORPS of RESERVES being A enrolled under the Volunteer Re Barve Ordinance 1910, All British subjects being Ex-Service men, (including Volta tears) and Civilians wishing to be enrolled under the Ordinance are requested to communicate with the Undersigned as early sa posalblo.
A. JENKINS,
Hon. Secretary. King's Buildings,
Hongkong, September 18, 1910.
The
to a rompromise, and sold the pig to a dealer for six dollars. Meanwhile, a local |-official thought the opportunity of turning over a dollar or two too good to be lost sight of. Be therefore ordered a coroner's inquest aver the defunct, animal. co-called coroner brought back news that the animal was discssed. Then the official: swooped, down upon those who had any dealings in the transaction, fining one ten dollars and another air. The man who was fined ten dollats, being of
a timid disposition, paid the money; the other rebelled. The result was that he was arrested had flogged. The Account says that the inan, rescired a thousand Isshus. It took three main to deliver the full number, taking turns to carry out the sentante. The reporter states that the blows fell upon the man's body, a tho Sound of the chopping knife falls on the ment block, when meat is boing minced.. Indeed, the man's skin was cut to pisers Flo was then removed to the prison. Such in the story; if it is true we can woll under.. stand how such deeds om bitter the common people against their rulers.
-
DINNER WITH THE NEGUS.
A correspondent of the Corriere della Sera writes an account of the pablic dinners that the Emperor of Abyssinia gives to his subjects once a week.
On the three great annual festivals this "ghober" becomes a spectacle probably. unequalled in the annals of court dinners. The background of the barnlike structur
which serves as dining-room in all but
filled with the famous throne bed which the French republic had presented to King Monelik; the present Negus on the occasion of the Stato dipper sat on the edge of it when the European visitors, the first to enter the room, fled past him, ach ons hetung received with a smile and a shake of the band. As soon they were scated and began to eat, King Jesu also 1130 began, but his state dignitaries have to wait!
till their lord gives the sign that they also may fall to.
HONGKONG COTTON SPINNING, WEAVING & DYEING COMPANY,
LIMITED.
The Abyssinian royal men's is a surprise on the Europes who has expected either Lhe food of primitive man or the concoctions of a French chef. There are six courses, but they do not vary much, the chief in- gredient of all being the flesh of fowls,
The table service is a curious medley of costly, beautiful gold vessels and broken crockery of the cheapest kind. The Eu
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE ORDINARY ANNUAL MENT. ING of Shareholders of the above hald at the Office of the ba Dompany will General Managers on SATURDAY, the 24th September, at 11.15..., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Consulting Committes and Statement of rapcane ane kuirog and forks, the Abys sintana nev led by slaves. Silenco pervades Accounts to 31st July, 1910.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-the room during the three hours from 10 pany will be CLOSED from the 17th to the s.m., 1 p.m. While the feast is going on. 24th September, both days inclusive.
and you hear the distant sound of the great JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD Crawd waiting impatiently for admittance
General Blunagers
and the beating of the drums in honour of Hongkong, September 12, 1910.
Archangel Gabriel at the church close by.
The moment the Europeans have ended DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LD.
their meal the curtains are drawn aside and THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET. through every door the stream of antives ING of the Shareholders in the above pours in. There are eighty tables, each in Company will be held at the Company's charge of an overseer and four assistants, Offices, on SATURDAY, the 24th Septem and from five to six thousand Abyssinians ber, at Noon for the parpose of receiving
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the Report of the General Managers, to are in an incredibly short time engaged in gether with a Statement of Accounts to the feeding and talking at the same time at the 30th June, 1910.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be ULOSED from 9th to 24th Bin September, both days inclusive.
*DOUGLAS; LAPRAIK & Co.
General Managers. Hongkong, September 9, 1910.
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"Hongkong, April 12, 1910.
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HAS ALWAYS ON HAND
A Large ABBONAMENT OF
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top of their voices.
Each table is served by oight slaves, who are kept hard at work supplying the diners with great lumps of raw ment, with which they eat the leaves of a native vegetable. the anghera. 7 eat enormous quantities
They of both, drinking baney water, the national beverage out of gigantic horns.
As soon as one crowd is stisfied it has to make room for another, and all the time the musicians are doing their utmost on trumpets, futes and other instruments to add to the deafening din. Last of all a cluster of singers group themselves round the Negas, chanting a bymu in his praise. of which, however, he cannot possibly hear A single word.
One of the costliest books ever isated is the "Official History of the South African War," the foal volume whereof has just bean published. The four volumes coutain 2,608 pages, and the total cost of producing the work was £34,000. Eight years' work for many hands is represented in the four volumes; the first volume sp- peared in 1906, and the second in the following your, but after volume IL was published in 1908, nothing came out until June, 1910. To obtain fullness and ab- Bolute accuracy of detall, tons of documents have been examined and arranged. They
Intimations.
J. T. SHAW.
Tailor & Outfitter,
·HONGKONG HOTEL Qomer's [Road.
Bangkong, November 1, 1900.
MARTIN'S
APIOL STEEL
PRACÍPILLS
Pranab Ramady for allferngularistan I of Luché oikean kosa DƏR BU KAPENA PARK in the honen, en than on the re En of any irroguiary of the Bryan a
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FRON, STEEL, METAL and HARD and Retail Ironmongera Pig Iron and Foundry Coke Importers. General Store keepers and Shipchandlers. Non, 36 and 37, Ema Looxo Brazer, (2nd Street, wor of Central Market) Tolophoze No. 515.
Hongkong, September 4, 1909, 1124
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OR.
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78, Escolta, Manila.
Hongkong.
1910.
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SAINT RAPHAEL
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To Let.
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FROM Jar FOVEMEZB, 1910.
ICTONA Five-Roomed EOUSE-
BON MOUNT GOTO
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Bolicitora, Hongkong, August 8, 1910.
TO LET.
970
ODOWN No. 6, DUDDELL
GREET
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TO. LET.
709
FEICES IN DES VEUX ROAD ENTRAL, Parner of Leo House St. Apply to Mosers PERCY SMITH & FLEMING, 5, Queen's Road. Hongkong, June 1, 1910.
300
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ODOWN No. 4. NEW PRAYA,
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OUR and Five-Roomed HOUSES, si
Kowloon
New sad Commodious SHOPS, NATHAN ROAD, Kowloon Immediate cossession. Cheap Rentals.
Apply to HUMPHREYS' ESTATE & FINANCE
...Co., LTD. Hongkond. Mareb. 23, 1909,
TO LET.
408
KING'S BUILDINGS. FFICES facing the Harbour lately 1032 copation of Messrs Jardino,
Matheon & Co., Ltd.
included official dispatches, officers' private | PATELL & CO.,
latters, newspaper reports, and even the letters written home by Tommy Atkins.
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ENGLISH MASTER
CERTIFICATED ENCLupus for FRI- VATE TÜTEION in English. Resionable
tartus.
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to
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680
ZEN
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shop.
No. 67, PRAYA GRANDE, MACAO.
1 House in BELIOS TERRACE.
OMB. PEAK BUNGALOW, Mount
To Let
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FFICES, ROTEL MANSIONS.
OFFICES,
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اری
877
HENRY HUMPHREYS,
Alexandes Buildinga.
Hongkong, August 31, 1910.
TO LET
10637
91 CONDUIT ROAD, Clifton Gardens. TÉ, BOWEN ROAD lately occupied an Artillery Officer's Quarters. Buftable for Boarding House,
GODOWNS, 151 to 155, PRAYA EAST. OFFICES, No. 2, CONNAUGET ROAD, Erd Floor."
A HOUSE in Woro-N-Choxe BOAD.. OFFICES in YORK BUILDING. No. 19. Drs Vaux Road CxNzkaz, lat Floor
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WING ON CO.,
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AVE JUST RECEIVED NEW SHIP.
MENTS OF
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ember, 1910
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KOBE MASSAGE SCHOOL.
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Hongkong.