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SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1911.
SHIPOWNERS COMPOSITIONS, GREYHOUND BRAND ANTIFOULING PAINTS.
SOLE AGENTS
OWEN B. WILKS & Co.,
1st Floor, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. PHONE 909. Telog: WANDEROOS,
G. P. SPECIAL ANTIFOULING FOR YACHTS,
Hongkong, December 1, 1910.
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Banks.
ONGKONG & SHANGHAI
H BANKING CORPORATION.
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Sterling
£1,000,000@ 2/--- $15,000,000 Silver...
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PROPRIETORS
231,000,000 OF $15,000,000
COURT OF DIRKOTINS.
G. BALLOCH, Esq.-Chair ROBERT SHEWAN, Eq.--Deputy Chair,
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G. Friesland, Esq. W. Logan, EM.. Hon. Mr Tonry G.H. Medhurst E.
Kenwick.
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C. R. Lenzmunu, Esq,
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HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
THE_basiners of the above Bank is con-
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ducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAL BANKING CORPORA TION, Rules, maybe ablained an ap plication.
INTEREST on deposits is allowed at 3 PER CENT. per annum. Depositors way transfer at their option balances of 8100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT. per
Anniin
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Hongkong, July 18, 1010.
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For 12 months.
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XTERNATIONAL BANKING
CORPORATION,
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Gold 23,250,000
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(shout £1,500,000),
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Apply to
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and Agency Co., Ltd. Hongkong, January 15, 1911.
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FOR SALE on TO LET ENLIS, The PEAK; Soron Roums:
Verandahs: American heat Large ing apparatas installed, making the house dry and comfortable throughout the year; Vegotable and Flower Gardens, Croquet
THE CHINA MAIL.
RAIDING RUSSIAN
ROOKERIES,
Theosophy and sal-piracy are a curious combination to be found in any man's life, but when wo add to them, the tamer rOCA- tions of sailor, car-repairer, composer, mil hand, artist, watchman, and post, we may be sure of a peculiar career. Such, accord- Ing to the San Francisco Call, has been the varied fortune of Ross Buell, whoso days are now spent in operating a chickon farm near Sorastopol. Strangely enough. the earliest adventures of Buell waro
La 15 minutes walk from tram, 7 the most exciting of his changeful ex- minutos by rickshaw. One of the best parience. As a boy of fifteen; Kfter a situations at the Peak, cool in animor year's Whaling-not the common land or warm in winter.
Apply Commander BASIL TAYLOR, R.N.,
Harbour Department. Hongkong, January 10, 1911.. 48
TO LET.
woodshed variaty, be it noted-be ship pud before the makt on the schooner Anastasia Casliman. So thoroughly, was, this youth a sailor that he corded in finding a girl in one of the
Buc-
MODOWN NO. 5A, DUDDELL first porta entered, only to hid her. a
STREET.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY O»., ·Ln.
Hongkong, January 4, 1911.
TO LET.
sailor's farewell. Seal skins were the prize, and feminine charms could not held the ship to Kamchatka. Let him tell his 200
own story: -
From Kamchatka we sailed for Copper Island, which was Russisu territory and
MOUSE, to let in KNUSTFORD the rookeries there had been chartered by TERRACE.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY Co., LD. Hongkong, January 4, 1911.
TO LET.
1342
GODOWN No. 4, NEW PRAYA,
Town,
the Alaska Commomial Company. On our first incursion to the islands we got 500 scals, We then sailed away to avoid detection, but when a thick fog came down we sailed back to the roskaria:
Lesving the captain and cook aboard, the rest of us manned the boats and rowed in
under the cliffs, which rosa sheer 100 feet
above our heads; rugged, menacing, but with Apply to THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.the tops hidden in fog.
MENT & AGENCY Co., Ln.
1052 Hongkong, January 4, 1911.
TO LET.
LARGE FLAT, suitable for Offico or
Show
..
Apply
HONGKONG ICF Co., Ian, Bangkong, December 1 11' 140
TO LET
I'wan with a party that was lod by **Dog Faced" Hanson, the second mato, a veteran of the Crimean War, a splendid safer and sailor. but hard as the gravite cliffs. On our first rally we killed 33 soulsand then, round- ing a point into another core. wo found 1,000 cals on the bosch and killed them They were weith 813 aplece. Every time we struck with a club wa knew that there was $13 coming to the ship if we could get the polt salely on board.
We loaded our boats to the gunwales and started to pull for the schooner. When
[NVERUGTE-PEAK ROAD SEVEN-
ROOMS. Electric Light Bttings. Garden or ena bo used as a Tennis Courts gands from the shore, I saw ve puts Rent 8200. Apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Bangkong, December 19, 110. 1543
TO LET
of smoke break from the top of the cliff, for the fog had suddenly lifted. A bullet hit the boat between Hansen and me. Soon they wore whizzing around as like augry becs from an overturned hiver Dar 10DOWNS, 95, 90 and 97, FRAYA boat, the Anastasia Cashman, was lying
EAST.
800 yards off shore, and toward her we pulled while the bullets hit around us.
Apply
CHATER & MODY. Hangkong. December 6, 1910.
р
2474
TO LET. Fowloon. HOUR and Five-Boomed HOUSES,
The captain and cook shot back from the ship to the cli Later we learned that three Russians had been kille on that cliff at that time. But for a while there were fifteen Russians shooting at us from the
New and Coutandious SHOPS, NATHAN ROAD, Kowloon, Immediate possession,top of the cliff. We made, the schoover Cheap Rentals.
and went below, tha hallets ripping into the rigging and piercing the wood- HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE work. Eighty.seven struck the ship.
Co., In.
Apply to
Hongkong, March 23, 1900,
TO LET.
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1 House in BELILIOS TERRACE. count at the mate of 2% per annum on daily balances and accepta Fixed Deposits at the
C.315. PEAK BUNGALOW, Mount Kollet, furnished for 7 months from 1st: following rates-
November, 1910.
For 12 months 4 per cent per kouum. For B
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But first we covered the name of the vessel and the bailing port with canyak.
After a while it became tiresome dayn thore in the forecastle, with nothing to do but dodge the bullets that came through the porta.
**We'll surrender, just like the devil," 'said the captain..
One of the men took a tablecloth and went un deck and waved it. The firing on the cliff ceased The Bossians then started to descend to their boats, so that thos could capture us, confiscate our ship, and oals; and it would be us for Siberia- yes?...
But our captain had no such fate in stora for d
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No sooner had the marksmen started to descend than we were manning the wind- TO LET..
lass, raising the anchor, and breaking out. the rigging. The foresail and the jib were CONDUIT ROAD, Clifton Gardens. the only ones we could make, for the wires
, BOWEN ROAD, lately occapied as
on most of the sails had been aunt away, Artillery Officers Quarters. Suitable for But we made it all right, and before a Boarding House, or na semi-detached parting volley of phots we sailed for the
southern point of Bering Island.
121,
houses.
GODOWNS, 151 to 150, PRAYA East.
There we struck another pirate ship, with A HOUSE in WONG-NIL CHONG ROAD, SEMI-EUROPEAN FLATS, Moderate four Europeane and a crew of Japancos. Rents, PRAYA FART Corner of Ober- Bat no Rooper and we set about to start vation Pinco. The Trams stop at the door. sur work than the Alaska - Gömmercial Also now EUROPEAN FLATS adjoining Company's steamship, the St. Paul, which the now Seaman's Institute. Pryn Bast.
An OFFICE on 1st Floor, 18, Dys was later wrecked off Cypress Point, Montorey, hove in viow, You could not VOX ROAD CENTRAL
OFFICES in KINGS BUILDINGS, nous for canvas. Our alls had been 4th Floor.
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