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THE HỒNGKONG LAND INVEST.
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members proved themselves good sailors; but, as usual, the farmats, whose feat are so frm on their native heaths, had great difficulty in finding their ses legs. In the Brit team, one of the farmers invariably replied, when asked how he was enjoying the voyage. Tm 10 richt.” In the second-team, a worthy veteran agriculturist was heart to T. MASTER OF MIRACLES, WILL be e
Focarerted into a FIRST
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SCOTTISH LETTER.
...(From Our Own Correspondent).
EDINICKOU, April 16.. CENSUS. IN THE GREAT. CITIES: The details of the Scottish census in the large cities are now published, and some interesting figures emerge from the long tables. In Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dundee there is a diminution in the number of persons under 50 years of age, she only kennts-hoc munkle. I was GRAND CHANGE O and an increase in the number over 30-payin" an" hoo little I was catin.''
When in Canada, of course, the teams partly explained by a redined birth-rata. and partly by emigration. The sex dis- were regular in their attendance at the tribution in the three cities also shows a | Kirler and the sermons they heard were preponderance of females. The figures cften quite topical. At one service, the for Dundee 125.0 females for every 100 preacher, in order to bring home's point, j.............* males are remarkably close to thosa rë used an illustration from the roarin' FROPERTY. INSURANCE turned for Edinburgh, a residential city game. I heard a man," he said, it re With a large number of domestic servants,
mark concerning a certain curler in the but show a much greater disparity than Bonspeil, that be was 'naver beaton until” TOTO KISEN KAISHA —in the case of Glasgore. In Dundee, the the last rock was played.*** relatively large number of women is King's Buildings,
Hongkong, May 9, 1912.
843 accounted for by the demand for female work in the hemp and juta mills. Two- thirds of the women employed in reg munerative occupations in Dundeo, áre
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TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Ms S. MORIMOTO has been appointed AGENT of the TOYO KISEN KAISHA at HONGKONG with effect from this date, en the transfer of Ma K. MATSDA to
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WE beg to announce to the Public that engaged in theas mills; and it is a notice. the Centro part able fact that whereas only 5.1 pc. of of a block of VALUABLE GREEN aarried wemon in Edinburght and 5.5 JADESTONE of the most famous and pc. in Glasgow are returned as having popola LO HANG () quality remunerative occupations the percent. very transparent and of first water. Inge in Dundee is as high as 29.4. In weighs 76 lbs of which 9 lbs. are bright Edinburgh und Glasgow there is a large chrysoprase and can be made into numerous increase of young women employed in.
valuable ornaments. Ita total value in
estimated to be at $100,000 odd Visitors are welcomed to make inspection.
PO WO CHEONG. No. 287. TAI SAN STAKER,
(Grest New Streat),
CANTON,
Canton. April 30, 1912,
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LOCAL OPTION AND "THE REFERENDUM,
The Local Option Clauses of the Scot tiaa Tamperanco Bill are avowedly in tended not so much to take the voice of
the People as to destroy the Itado. They real the epigram of the late Lord' Nearer, the Scottish Judge, on the Fer.. missive Bill of his generation
A little Bill designed to pass incog-i to permit me to prevent you: From having a glass of grog.""
It is curious to note that while the
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LTD. OF LONDON (FIRE DEPARTMENT).
CO.,
THE Undersigned, having been appoints:
above Company for Hongkong and ite Dependencies, are prepared to accept approved risks against Fire at current
Brew
rates.
General Agenta. Hongkong, May 1, 1919.
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present Government decline to accept the SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND principle of the Referendum on Home Rule and other Imperial matters, they are yet proposing to introduce a local referendum into this Scottish Bill; that they have already introduced it into the Shop Hours Act; and that they practic ally recognised a trade referendum in the Maximum Wage Act.
THE GLYWANDEIZES.
Cowal hills,
And the Clyde is a siker
But Lever again will her glory light
The Coval hills for me.
There's a rich land across the Atlantie
WAVES
"
And wealth by an alien shore, But the wandering man free struth and
glend Return to them no more.
genteel" occupations-typewriting and the like. Perhaps the most interesting figure in regard to Dundee is one brought about by recent education and social legislation, the great decrease in the number of occupied children between 10 199 and 18 years of age. In 1901 the boys between those ages numbered 1,180, and the girls 1,081, the majority being en PIONIC PARTIES.
gaged is juta manufacture. In 1911, the boys only numbered 70 and the girle 8 Oh, the mom's rising white o'er the LAUNCH FOR HIRE. SHIPPING RIVALRY IS THE EAST
Rivalry in the Far East shipping trade THE Handsome "KING EDWARD optionally keen at present, auga-the London correspondent of the Scote HOTEL" Launch can be hired," and irritation over the recently for PICNIC PARTIES by the Hour established service of the Nippon Tusen or Day,
Kaisha between Kobe and Calcutts does For forms apply to the MANAGER, not seem to decrease. As a matter of fact, the conference lines have already HL HAYNES...
granted a rebato of 50 p.a. to shippera Hongkong March 1, 1912,
293who use their vessels exclusively, but the
Japanese Company, notwithstanding the Not a sound will thera bo in the silent fact that its boats are almost empty when sailing from India, has retaliated, while the British India Co., of which Lord Inchcape is chairman, has gone a step further by the purchase of a Cal-Oh, eutta feet with a view to strengtligning its services on the router in question. Important developments are, I hear, also in progress through the acquisition by the Elder Dempster Co. of the Glen Lino. which carries on a service from Antwerpt per1b.iddlesborough, Hull, and London, 10 the Straita, China, and Japan. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. is also asociated with this
is enterprise, and in connection with the Shire Line, which t Also, powerful community of in- terests will soon be established in" Fur „Eastern waterm ded
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COMBINED COLOURED
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!! REDUCTIONS¦!
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THE DAIRY FARM CO, LTD.
Honeboor, November 12, 1910,"
For some years past, Ex-Sheri Wal lace has brought off a golf match between. 56 ministers and, elders of the, Church of Scotland and their neighbours ** oyer lås way in the Timited Free Churah during the scanion of the General Assemblies. This year the Bev. And chaplain of the Merchisten arranging for a curi
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TYPHOON MAP & GUIDE General Merchants
Bhowing tracks and daily progress of the big Typhoons
during the last twenty years.
And enabling one to locate the centre of a Typhoon.
MOUNTED ON CARDBOARD AND TAPED OR HAN
Price 40 cents.
From the CHINA
şamı
Commission Agents
played on one of the redsntly amifruct would be a
To tell the days gone by, But the sough o' the wind slang the bills
And the peowit's mournfu' cry..
'twas cheery, the smoke o cot and .: Idem
And the welcoming face by the door, But the kindly lights of the living glen
Willphine there nevermore
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Sue they wander o'er of the earth and
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Alexandı. Buildings. Hongkong, March 20, 1912.
TO LET
OND FEODR, No %, PEDDER
STREETR
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Can be divided to suit tennats.
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TO LET.
EUKNOR 116, The PAs, Fontal-
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TO BE LET.
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Central light and airy on First, Second, Third Floor, in new building being ere for Mosses WHITHAWAY, LAIDLAW & COT, LAND. Entrance from, Dec Yous Road, Electria Laft to all form, Electrio Tight throughout
158 Plan can be seen and sil partimlara obtained at the Officer of MESSES PALMER & TURNER, BUILDINUM, JE VL
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