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THE CHINA MAIL.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 191L
Hongkong Steel Foundry Company, Ltd.
SPECIALISTS
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AND
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MERCHANTS, &c. &c., OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING SHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE US A TRIAL. FRANCISCO TSE YAT, General Manager. Bangknag. August. 12, 1908.
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Always carry a large and varied Stock of HIGH CLASS JADE AND CHINESE-MADE JEWELLERY SOUVENIR-SPOONS.
THE FINEST ASSORTMENT EVER SEEN IN HONGKONG"
Prices right.
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CARBORIC DISINFECTING FLUID,
168 CHEAPEST AND MOST RECOMMENDABLE FOR GENERAL HOUSE
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he Teredo, Barnaclea Marine Growths, etc.
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'Hongkong, May 8, 1968.
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$10.50 per Ton
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Steet
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-RAPID GROWTH-OF-GOLF,
In the London "Alagrizine for September Sir Henry Leach has a striking paper on the business of golf. He says:-
· Ireland." "Ime"it"be added that there wore
Fifty years ago there were only two golf clabs in England, one at Manchester and TYL Abaar for above:-IWASAKI probably not two hundred members belong the other at Blackheath, and they had mosi Oods:-1, ABO 5th Ed., Western Union.ng to them. They had only a few clubs ID Scotland; there was not one in Wales or two in Tadin, one at Pan in France, and YOKOHAMA: M. Asada, Esq.perhaps una or two in Amerion. There CHINKTANG: Mesars Gearing & were no others: that was the whole world
Col
of golf. There was only one club-house with aug pretensions to size, comfort, and convenience, and that belonged to the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews,
MANILA: Messrs Macondray &
Co. SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo. Co.
Ltd.
For partlamlars, applje to
Y. "SHIBUYA,
Manager,
No. 7. PanorY STRIX,
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, April 29, 1911.
106,000 ACRES GIVES UP TO THE SIDET.
In 1885 the London Scottish Club Segah to play the gama at Wimbledon. In the lato eighties and early nineties progress began to be made quickly. In 1907 there were 3,525 clube: probably another thou $18 shave since been added.
There are now about 2,000 golf cluts and
THE VETERANS,
This is the day of the old wan,-romarks
Intimations.
BOXING veris Ju-Jitsu and -4-STAR-PRELIMINARIES, P
the Daily Mail. Lord Roberts in his BOXING Į BOXING! 201 anty-ninth year in ighting an active] campaign, for compulsory service that Strathcona has just returned from his might well tax the energy of youth.Lord
back, a mere holiday jaunt for this youth seventeen days' trip to Winnipeg and EMPIRE of ninety-one. When someone contrati lated him on his performance he genially SATURDAY, 18th November, 1011. replied that in years to come we shall look on ninety-one as middle-age for
THEATRE
OPFITE CENTRAL MARKET.
TIAD. Doors upon at 8.30 pm
The new Lord Mayor of London is nighty- ne Tale is not the triumph of youth; it
Conimousing at 9 p. n. sharp
MAIN EVENT: 10 ROUNDS Jack Blackamore, Aus Professor Yama
tralia, Boxing.
B. ROUNDS Stoker Chalk,
!!
H.3LS. Minotaur.
the triumph of youth and activity sustained long past the usual apoll. Al around us, in business, in law, in medicine, and in politics, we see the voterans holding their own. In the House of Commons a man of forty is looked upon as a mero giddy youth, but if he is very good, very cloves, and very trustworthy, and has many influential friends he may be Sapper Miles, given an Under-Secretaryship to encourage him for when he reaches the years of roat responsibility. The fathers are keeping
IN THE MATTER OF THE COAT. Bocieties in the British Isles, of which their grip at home; the sons in many cases
PANIES CONSOLIDATION ACT 1908 (ENGLAND)
AND
neatly three-fourtha have courses of their own. "Estimates of the number of mem. bara vary between 200,000 and 300,000. It is difficult to lay out a satisfactory eightcon.
R.E
Ju-Jitsu.
BicGhee,
5.0.A.
B ROUNDS
Corporal Champi
KQY.L.I.
N
8 ROUNDS
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Stoker Harwood,
H.M,S. Minotaur.
ara-building up grest undertakings ir the lands beyond the aras.
A generation ago Private Mayall, a favourite question was, How can a man
| IN THE MATTER OF THE NATIONAL hole course on less than seventy acres of live to old age? To-day the form of the BANK OF CHINA, LTD (land. Some of them occupy over 200 acre question has buen changed. Bere living
LIQUIDATION).
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NOTICÊ_TO-CREDITORS. NOTÉ HOLDERS, tc.
NICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Creditors of the above-named Com
1
Hall-sized or nine-hole courses, which are pumerous, beed about forty acres.
Taking the averago at about seventy. acres we came by the calculation that 100,000 acres of land in our country are devoted to golf. That is nearly as much
́BAILWAYI FED BY T
The clabs spend anything from £1,000 ko £8,000 a your. About 7,200,000 balls are used up in Britain every year. The High Land Railway Company has shown an Increase of £10,000 in the revonne, chiefly due to golf and grouse
in placid retirement has little charm. None of us envies the old man of 10 who has celebrated his birthday in = Workhouse, What we ask is that we may live as the Strathecans, the Crosbye; and the Roberts live, in the fall current of activity, retain
eres ap to the ninetica enunj interesti and power. The danger of course is that the young man often does not gat a fair. chance to exercise great power and assume high repousiblility until the best of his energies are gone.
THE PRICE OF FOOD.
pay, which is being voluntary TUNDA Elsad as there is in the county of Rutlanding in the inte avantics, eighties, and are required, on or before SATURDAY, 30th December, 1911, being the day for that purpose fixed by the Undersigned, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, and the names and addresses of their Solicitors, if any, to the Undersigned, the Liquidator of the said Company, either at St. George's Building
Chater Road, Hongkong, or Thorner's Chambers, Ingram Court, Fon- Church
Street, London
(when either such claims will be paid or if not admitted notice in
in writing from the said Laquidator will be given that they by their Solicitors must come in and prove their said debts in Scotland they have conceived and and claims at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice) or in default thereof they will be excluded from the beneft of any distribution made before auch debts are prosed
A R. LOWE,
Liquidator. Hongkong, August 10, 1911.
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THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND
`MINING COMPANY, LIMITED. “
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FINAL DIVIDEND of ONE SHIL. LING per Sharo, frea of tax, has been declared by the Directors of the above Company, making a total of 10 per cont for the year ending 28th February, 1811.
COUPON No, it is payable on the 2nd November at the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, and the Russo-Asistic Bank at Tiontain and Shanghai.
Hongkong, October 91, 1011100
CANTON KOWLOON RAILWAY,
-[(BRITHE SECTION).
NOTIO E.
YOMMENCING TO-DAY and til further notice the expreon trains
The railway companies are keenly alive to the importance of gulf to them. In some
All of the as have felt the burden of in
most successfully carried out the idea of creased prices of late; and with house. making their own golf cabs and courses in held bille going up week by wock, it is isolated places, laying railway lines to join small comfort to be sasured, as we are them up to the main systems, building by the Grocer journal which speaks hotels specially for the golfing visitars, and with authority on such a subject--that generally controlling the whole gulang little modification of present prices is to The short be expected for some time. cause of the rise is that at the present moment the world's requirements are in- erenaing, while the, world's cupplies, owing
enterprise.
FROM A DESIET TO A GOLFERS' PARADISE. In places from twenty by forty miles out
of London Eins golf epurses have been to the universal drought, are diminishing.
K.O.Y.L.I.
Seninn Ritchie,
6 ROUNDS
H.31,8. Kent.
Corker,
H.M.S: Kaw
BEYERZE: J. DEMPSEY.
PRICES OF ADVeszów; -85, 83 & $2, Soldiers and Sailors in uniform $1 to the $2 sesta only.
Booking at MOUTHIE'S.
Late Trams. Hongkong. November 6, 1911.-1
Popular
14:
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OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE.
SOLE AGENTS
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mado, and the land about them, formerly Sugar, for instance, ir op in price, and-will- not worth more than £50 an acre, la being remain up for several months, because i sold at from £200 upwards. At Sandwich heavy deficiency in the Continental bost six years ago, there were 230 seros of crop is anticipated. Coffee and too, par sandhills which were attached to a farm ticularly the cheaper varieties, which ara really thrown in with the other land be mainly drank by the poorer classer, the MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA. longing to it. A few sheep,nibbled on it, very classes which cannot afford any dis that was all. Then it was seen to be turbance of prices--both show a tendrocy magnificent for golf. £60,000 were ex-to rise. Tinned goods are dearer because pended, and it became a golfers' paradise. aapplies hate fallo Rice and indead THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE Now the price of land out there is £000 an most cureals, are up. Stocks_jo_cold SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES, acra. Intimcit will be a beautiful city of golf, storsgs are below those of lest your a with nothing but the fine bouses of wealthy fact which is alone enough to affect prices rolf outbasiosta round about the links unfavourably to the purchaser. Butter Seaside resurte have established municipal and milk have both risen in consequence courses, invariably with the most splendid of the drought, and the Colonial batter results. There are now about a quarter of supplica are late in arriving. The rise of J. T. HAMILTON, GENERAL MASA
million members of golf clubs, with as prica is unavoidably, and no legislation or
FOR THE EAST, TOKYO,
$11.50 per Ton for Kowloon at 84, and 2.25 2.31. annua! expenditure of £7,000,000.
Delivered free Peak District:
$13.75 per Ton
F. Blackhead & Co..
Coal Merchants.
Weismann, Limited,
1565
Bakers, Confectioners, Caterers, Restauranteurs.
DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL.
July 20, 192).
Canton, and the trains leaving Canton at7.55 and 9.25 ..' for Kowloon are hereby cancelled.
The train leaving Kowloon at 3,40 F
for Fan Ling will run to Shum Chun until PLYING ROUND THE WORLD.
further notice.
By Order,
-g
E. S. LINDSEY,
Manager. Kowloon, 7th November, 1911.
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE
INSURANCE CO.
WITH WHICH INCORPORATED THE
The scusational sanouncement was made 1440 { that two Frenchmen were going to try to By round the world in an-seroplane, but the news, unfortunately, was jush slightly szaggerated, states the Paris correspondant of the Daily Telegraph, Two Frenchmen have been found, M. Mame, the former OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO. pilot of Bleriot neroplanes, and M. Rene Milion. They are thinking of going, goi TOTAL FUND AT SLT DECKaran, 1910.
£91,252,603.
fying, round the world. They will fy Authorised Capital £6,000,000
only when they can. As-M., Mamot Subscribed Capital £8,814,840
explains they will by through France, Paid-up Capital £1,607,007 thence, along the cast of Spain, cross II-Fire Funda............... 3,843,216 4.2
-Life& Annuity Funds 15,640,125 97 the. Strafts, and follow the-cosatline of Sinking Fund Account 9786619-0- Algeria Pords, und Tripoli, and got, it possible, by easy slagen to Egypt. Thence, £21,272,693 17 3 if Aying is too dangerous, they will take a Revenue Fire Erdneh.... 2,373,269 177 steamer to India, They will. By across
Life & Annuity 1
Branches.
1,954,037 2 India, if possible, and will take the stormer Other Receipta 843,914 108 will visit New Zealand and South America, afterwards to "Austrails. After this they
24,971,915. 17-5 Sy over the Pampas, and take the steamer
back to Europe. They will in a words cover as much of the tour round the world as is practicable, by flying. The rost they |will "kuvik"" ry:) dinary means of
The Accumulated Funds of the Fire and Life Departaments are tre from liability in rospect of esph other,
SHEWAN TOMTS & Co
SHRWAN, TOMES & CO., GENERAL MANAGzE, HONGKONG.)
forethought could have stopped it'; but we; may reasonably look to Tan Reform as the Total Annots Duc. 31, 1910...0.8494,716,923 only means which will give higher wages Surplus
to
1910
Total paid Policyholder 10:0 to Policyholders:
Total Expose for 1010 Gross camnings from Laternet.
cope with the increased cost of living: and more employment to enable our people Dividends to
At present they have to deny themselver, or at least to stint themselves, of the very necessities of life, and the effect is boun-1. to be fals on the national physique, as re: cent medical reports indeed have indicated.
Glob
LOSING WEIGHT BY THE POUND
"Under Weight,” a condition of Ill-health, shown your assini- lative powers are decreasing,
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FORALL CHEMISTS.
PRICE: $1.25 and $2.25
85,005,459
19,678,157
53,439,840
10,392,039
and Renter for 910 91,646,528 Gross rate of Income from.
Investments 1910
Hongkong, May 30, 1911
4.487
-777
Intimations.
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TESTING
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Our testing room is finished in dead black and is fitted with instruments that accurately measure sye defecta.
We supply you with right-seeing, right-fitting glasses.
We guarantee every pair.
CLARK & CO.
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HONGKONG
Hoogkbaki February 14, 1911.
THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA-
TION CO., LTD.
Hare This Day RESUMED CHARGE
of the Cdformny,
By Order of the BouT of Directory
HOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Serdary Hongkong, November 10, 1913:
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THE HONGKONG IRON MINING CO., LTD.
Have This Day RESUMED CHARGE...
of the Company. ·
By Order of the Board of Directúra,
MOWBRAY_E-NORTHCOTE,
Secretary.
Bongkong, November 10, 1911.
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APIOL &STEEL
A Frain Rumady for all Trendakorttine
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OPENING OF WINTER SEASON.
GAINE wishes to inform the Ladies
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MONDAY, Novaaber '13th, A SPECIAL SHOW
TRIMMED MILLINERY,
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