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EPECIALIST IN ENLARGING AND BROMIDE WORK. *elect Views of Hongkong and South China. Special Department for Developing and Printing for Amateurs. CAMERAS FOR HIRE
solicit your kind patronage of our leading blends of
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Intimations.
MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA
(MITŠU BISHI 00.)
GOAL DIPARTXIEN SOLE PROPRIETORE ef TAKA-
SIMA, OGRI, MUTABE, YO SHINOTANI, HOJO,' KANADA; | NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW
and KAMIYAKADA Collerton.
AGENTS for KISHINAKK & SAKITO
COALS.
HEAD OFFICIŲ–TOKYO,
BRANCH OFFICES —– Nagasaki, Moji, Karatan, Wakamatsu, Kobe,¡Ozaki, Otaru, Shaughal, Hongkong, Hankow.
TEL, ADDERULES for above: 'IWASAKI.- Code:mal, ABO 5th Ed., Western Un'on.
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Co. MANILA: Messrs Macondray &
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--Ltd. For particulars, apply to
Y. SHIBUYA,
Manager, No. 2, Pabox ÉTERET.
Ускоково.
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THE CHINA & MANILA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE TWENTY-NINTH ORDINARY 17 GENERAL MEETING of MFLARE.
FOLDERS in the above Company will be hell at the Company's Offices, Et. George's Buildings Connaught Road, Victoria, on SATURDAY, the 22nd June, 1912, KE Noon, for the purpose of receiving a a Stato ment of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending 31st
Committee and Auditors.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.
(NOW RECONSTRUCTED).
NGINEERS A SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER-MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have Over thirty years' experiance. We own two Slipways and can accommodate any crit af 200 feet long.
Town Ofice, 48, CosyAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, Hongkong. Telephone No. 459, Shipyard, Sham-Sui-Pu, Kowloon, Hongkong,
Telephone No. K.V. Estimates furnished on application.
WONG PING WA, Manager
Hongkong April 1, 1912 ·
Weismann,
hakers
Limited,
Confectioners,
Restauranteurs.
456
Caterers,
14, DES VOUX ROAD CENTRAL,
Hongkong, July 20, 1910.
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RHEUMATISM.
I Am More Tanz Gratefal
Dr Williams: Pink Pills for My Recovery.”.
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Medium this purpose, xe has bean proved ovat and
In 20's Packets or 50's Air-Tight Tins.
Manufactured IN BRISTOL from the finest arades of Virginia Tubieco with all the skill which W, D. & H. O WILLS have noquired during the 200 years which have elsgard since their business was established. They have a value which convinces the smokor, because they are the result of expert choosing and handling from Tubarco Seld to the packet or tin.
COAL IN CHINA."
Wealth of the Fushun Fleid.
For the past six years, writes. A cor.
over again,
the remedy pre-eminent over all others is Dr Williaing' Pak Pilla.
No sooner had I gotorer a bout of low futer sans: fourteen months ago. than Rheutantie rains attacked one of my legs," said Mr Dolicis, whe a compositor in the "Siam Observer" Office, at Bangkok
The muscles of the leg became tight and Agonising switching pains dart d through them. My calf swelled up so painfully that
ME AT. DELICES, OF RANGKOK," SIAM.. (From a photograph).
.
sold bed of splendid coal varying from I was unable to walk. In spite of medical 120% to 175ft, in thickness, which is treatment the Rheumatism became mare known to thus exterid, with but a few pronounced, and for weeks, I could do no trivial faulty or partings, for ten square sleep: I became exceedingly, irritable and work. It was impossible to get proper illes. The workings below are like lo spirited because of the over nagging respundent of The Times," the Chi. huge railway tunnels, or great avenues,Seeing a cure of Rheumatism by Dri and the revolution is but the beginning iluminated with electric light and electric | corded in the newspaper I gave those Pills of a new era. The Chinese have given trolly lines quietly and swiftly bringing curnest of talents and powers for which the tubs to the shafts, of which there few would, ten years ago, have hardly are five pairs. The air below is Besh and given them any credit. Previous to the col, as the ventilation is almost perfect. great revolution there had been a force Fire-damp is unknown, and yet all the lampe. Most of the pumping and other wear Clanay and Davy safety machinery in I am glad o say, of British make Water gives no trouble, and is
miners
sert uniting and consolidating the widely distinct peoples. Western nations have not really, as yet, understood the Chinese people, and coming in close con- thet cinly with, one might, our scan-thways kept well in hand. Chinese of the South, whilst the much Last year the output was about 5,000 finer. physically, real Chinese in the
tu 6,000 tons per day of good coal, which North were less known. In any case the machinery and divided into different was all quickly sorted and sifted by potential wealth of China is so enormous amd her people are so industrious that now, with better education and a new
trial. After taking the contents of the first two bottles. I was agrembly surprised at the change for the better in eind After a further course of the Pills the vanished, I could sleep well and eat well, swelling disappeared, the Rheumatic pains
fitter in my life. I am mera than grateful in fact. I was quite cured, and never felt to Dr Williams Pink Pills for my recovery."
Through the blood, these Pills build up the nerves and revitalise the whole system, in this way curing Anemia, Malaria, De- bility, Indigestion, Sciatica, Paralysis,
everywhere, also from the De Williams' Skin complaints, also the ailments of To be had of medicine vendors Hrades within a very few minutes after Medicine Co.. 84, Szachten Read, Shang- reaching the surface. Heavy American hai, 1 bottle for 31.50, 8 for $8, poat free. Jogainatives haul trucks, each with a Commence your cure to-day with De Wil-
women.
December, 1911, and electing a Consulting Government, up-to-date ideas are percapacity of fifty tons. away to the locniliams' Pink Pils for Pale People.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers, Hoogkong, June 11, 1912.
781
of that at 5,000 tons per day this one bed
markets or for export: It is estimated
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Commeating her ranks, who must become s pany will be CLOSED from WEDNESst important factor in the economy DAY. the 19th June to SATURDAY, the the world. 2nd June, both daya inclusive.
As a business man, a mechanic or labourer, the Chinese can quickly learn and soon hold his own with the best. 3illions of lads and young men in China, as in Japan, thanks to the new systems of education and physical exer PROPERTY INSURANCE CO.,ises, are developing into as fire speci ens of the human race as one can meet, and these will soon open up and develop the well-known mineral world and other esmrces of their highly-favoured tand.
LTD. OF LONDON (Fine DEPARTMENT).
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882
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AVENARIUS CARBOLINEUM
THE BEST
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30 YEARS'
YEARS SUCCESS
THE ONLY EFFECTIVE, AND
LASTING PROTECTION
AGAINST
WHITE ANTS.
GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER TESTIMONIALS...
SOLE AGENTS:
MELCHERS & CO.
THE CHINA MAIL
COMBINED COLOURED
TYPHOON MAP & GUIDE Showing tracks and daily progress Gone big Typhoons during the last twenty years.
And enabling ous to locate the centre of a Typhoon, MOUNTED ON CARDBOARD AND TAPED FOR HANGING.
Price 40 cents.
From the CHINA MAIF Off
LEBİCS,
of coal alone will take 500 years before it is worked out. There are other seams below not so thick or of the same quity, but these are not,
as Jet. worked.
NOTICE
"MAN HING CHEUNG & CO., MANUFACTURERS & EXPORTERS The following is an analysis of the
OF HIGH-CLAM con, which is practically of one even RATTAN & SEAURASS FURNITURE BAMBOO BLINDS, MATTING, &c., &c. quality throughout:-Water, seven per nixed carbou, forty-eight per cent; ash, Genera Public that they have now cens. volatile matter, forty per cent.DEG to inform their Customers sad the feur per cent. sulphur only eight per REMOVED to No. 18. QEN'S ROAD Especially abundant are the supplies of cent. ; specific gravity, 1.28; calorife CENTRAL where they have a large Stock of
Chairs. &c. &c. &c. all kinds of coal and anthracite. "The power, 6.80.
Tenderiged, having hem Appointe above Company for Hongkong and its Dependencies, are prepared to accept Far East must very soon have such quati- are well paid, aa wages go in China and The miners and helpers, all Chinese, approved risks against Fire at current ties of ansi as will swamp the European wall cared for, and seem to be contented
and American markets that aru la any and happy. MOW FUNG & CO.,
The foreman, general way open to competition. Considering General Agents.
their respective needs, and the cost of "uperintendents, and clerical staff are ali Hongkong, May 1912.
615 Living the modern minets are by no
well-educated and highly-paid Japanese.
It is said that the company amnesses the menn unjustly treated, and they will improve more and more as their markets at about us. to 45. per ton. The freight cost of coal, unscreened, at the pit mouth.
to Tairen (Dalny) or Newchwang is not heavy, hence It can place this good gas and steam fuel on board ship at a very low rate.
THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., GENERAL MANICera, Horɑxong.
"
J. T. HAMILTON, GENERAL MANIGES FOR THE HAST, TUKYO,
to 20öscarater
Assets amount to..
Surplus amounts to
increase.
CONDITIONS, OUTPUT, AND PROFIT." Not only is inbour good, reliable, and abundant, but to the natural'advantages of, coal and iron being found close la In Manchuris alone there are great gether and near to either convenient aes-varities bf coal and anthracite awaiting Ports or to the great, inland waterways, to be exploited, and quite near the Fu- should be added the zest with which shur mines is a peculiar kind of almost electricity labour saving device are being pure anthracite which resembles toke, New Insurance Paid for £25,887,500 coal mines near Hankow or the even in an old volcanic region where the introduced. I could write much on the sure and then steamed. This is found Outstanding insurance amounts
£282,653,220 relier ones in Chikli. Province near Tien- strata are broken, but the searns are £104,068,45 tin-or the great anthracite beds in difficult to work. It ismokeless and,
17,829,76
Hocan, or the fine steam coal of Anhui-under a strong drought, has enormous but I will merely give a brief descrip- heating powers. 10,575,187 53,439,280 tion of the pow famous coal mines which In Korea, quite near a seaport, are 10,392,032 are worked by the South Manchuria rich beds of very hard, bright, and almost 21,046,628 | eturia,
Railway. Company near Fushun in Man-smokeless coul! In the island of Sagla
lien, especially the section ceded to 4.48%
This coalfield seems to have been Japan, are coal and oil fields, and the 722 known and worked with quite scientific whole emtral regions of China nerthi and means, ages ago, by sono prehistoric and south of the Yangtze River, are known non-Mongolian race and then when this to have abundance of con). region caine into Chinese possession," awing to superstitious fears, it was not touched until the Russians, for a con- siderable sum, obtained & concession,
Dividends to Policyholders
1910.
Total paid Policyholders 1910 Total Expenses for 1919 Grosi carnings from interest and Rants for 1910...... Gross rate of Income from investment,1910. Hongkong, Feb. 23, 1912.
FORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE
- INSURANCE CO.
WITH WHICHI I INGGETORATED THE
OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE`OU, which, inter, reverted with the railway to Japan-Here we have, lying from 500ft.
کھے
Tutuh Tang of Human has circulated
a telegram announcing that Hunan. sol. diers bave voluntarily agreed to accept a lower wage in order to relieve the
TOTAL FUNDS IN 31ST DECEMBER, 1910, to 1,000, below the surface, an almost country from Sinancial stress.
£21,252,688.
T-Authorised Capital £8,000,000
Subscribed Capital £3,814,845 Paid-up Capital.£1,667,997 5 U Il-Fire Funds. $,842,215 4 2 III-Life Annuity Funds 15,845,125 97 Sinking Fund Account 87,36518. A
£91,252,693-17-3 Revenus Fir Lraneh. 2,373,269 '17 7 Life & Annuity 11,954,631-4-9:
Branches Other Recripta
843,81€ 10-F
24,971,215 17. 6
The Actufted Funds of the Firs and Late Departments are free from lisbisty In "respect of oach other.
SHEWAN, TOMES & COM
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TING,
Burgeon Dentish
"No. 14, D'ÁGUILAR STRERT,
TERMS VERY MODERATE
COUGHING INTO CONSUMPTION
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WATERBURY'S HETABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND
The finest picparulion
for combating severe coughs CURES
only a cough. Very
OF ALL CHEMISTS
الحمد
PRICES REASONABLE. Inspection Cordially Invited. Orders Promptly arguted. Hongkong, May 18, 1912.
BUTTER!
BUTTER
684
We are please to announce still {FURTHER REDUCTIONS.
The following prices now rule:—
*DAISY·· BRAND 80 cents per lb.
DAIRYMAID
"
* BUTTERCUP
'PASTRY'
68
THE DAIRY FARM CO, LTD.
Hongkong. November 19, 1910.
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WHO
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No annuying reflections from the back; the eyes turn naturally with- 000 pemesitating the turning al the entire head, ne the curve of the TORIO Inon conforms to the corre of - the aye giving equally clear vision at. all angles. TORIO los can be set much closer to the eye than the or 'dinary flat kidd without touching the vi
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• SCIENTIFIC JPLICIA
PORK BLOGS.
ATER RA
Hooghorg, February 14, 1912-
To Let
TO LET.
· A" BERTHOLWYN." "PRAK ROAD, Six-
roomed HOUSE from Let July.sert SHOP with Godown attached, NATHAN- ROAD, Kowloom.
Kowloon Marina Lot No. 48 with whaz£. HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
Apply to
Hongkong, June 1, 1012,
TO LET
STREET
2ND FLOOS, No. 9 FEDDER Two-Rommed OFFICE, entry on or JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., L about 1st Jans. Apply Property Office
Hongkong, April 30, 1912.
TO LET.
ODOWN No. 4, NEW PRAYA.
Kennedy Town.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCY Co., Lo. Hongkong, June 1, 192
1052
BEACONSFIELD
WILL be onverted into ⚫ FIRST CLASS BOARDING HOUSE, with large-Dining Room, Thirty Bedrooms and Eighteen Bathrooms. 'Plans to be seen at our Offic...
"Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong. March 20, 1972.
TO LET.
OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING
لصور
RANFURLY, . CONDUIT ROAD, from 1st June,
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY Co., La Hongkong, June 1, 1917.
1594
TO LET.
COMS, FURNISHED OF UNTUK- RISHED, in a healthy locality in KOWLOON. Very breezy and airy. 3. minutes walk from Star Ferry. Moderate
·E,
terms.
Apply to
cjo *Ostya Matly Offion, Hongkong, May 22, 1912.
TO BE LET.
SHOPS and OFFICES, Tin
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
Apply
A. S. WATSON & Co., L.,
Alexandrs Building.
Hongkong, May 21, 1912.
TO LET
TO. 15, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE,
No Flo
ROGATE Atatin
66 from 1st April:
PATELL & CO.
Road, Kowloon,
No. 12, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fint Boar
No. 1, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, First floor.
1 LARGE GODOWN in. No. 3, Ind dell Street, 1st floor.
1 SMALL GODOWN in Duddell Streat (Godown D.)
Exporters & Importers FOR SALE WITH OR WITBOUT
FURNITURE.
"TOR OREST," Na; 8, The Peak, with tancia court, Commanding a magnificent view of the harbour and adjacent inland w
It is announced that women of the General Merchants FOR SALE CHARTING and ROGATE
Union League Society at Chefoo have formed
a Society to collect contributions from women only in order to rescue the nation from financial stress.
Philatelists will be interested to
know that for the purpose of advertising
and
Commission Agents
the Calkirk Centennial in connection with HONGKONG, CANTON;
the Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition of
1912, all letters, passing through the Win-
nipeg Post Office from now until July 10 will, when the Exhibition commences, have the stamps obliterated by a special cancellation stamp.
ALL DANGER AVOIDED! URING the ammer months mothers
Dof sunng chakiren Ahruid watch for amrunnational hot new Cf the
When giyon, prompt attention at this tim
cious bronbila may be avoided. Chamber- Iain' Colic | Cholers and Diarrhoes i Remedy always “bo, dapanded upon,
AIS Ohsasiate and Stopekreger
SHANGHAI AND
HANKOW
THE
CHINA MATL
Typhoon
Guide
an part of Kowlood Inland Lot No. 1254.
Apply to May
KALINSTRAD & DAVIS, Sed Floor, Alexandrs Duildings Fongrong, Ang. 2. 1913,
NOTICE.
LESSONS IN OHINESE,
Chinese gradini
FAN
M-versed in literature, has b
to European officials end-
LOR OVEN tod Fe has a good pens to pass int.