Just Unpacked
New Consignment of the following goods from the
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JOHN GRAYS SCOTCH" CONFECTIONERY
FAMED MARMALADE JAMS and JELLIES
in Bottle.
in tins &.. CONFECTIONERF in Glass, ASSORTED CHOCOLATES.
SOUTHWELL'S ENGLISH
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•
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Rongkuas. April 19, 1912,
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ONGKONG & SHANGHAI THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE
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Ellvor...
* 17,000,000
KU LA BILITY OF
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COVEX OF DIRECTORS.
$32,000,000 $18,000,000
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8. H. Dodwell, Esq. W. L. Pattenden,
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Hongkong-N. J. STABB,
ACTING MANAGER;
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1
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31 12 $3
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Okier Manager, "Hongkong, November 27, 1912.
BONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
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TAKEO TAKAMICHI,
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THE CHINA MAIL.
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IN BLUNDERLAND.
sra told that "Leeds is where the manu- facture of bootball teams on cards is When the schoolboy, ever fresb alcarried on;" that the infvonco of Roman original, announced that milk-kino are male rows," and that "a Papel bull is sort of cow, only larger, and does not give milk," it seems that the revealing of these things, and such as those to the ! world, was owed to it as a debt. It was
civilisation must be strong and alivo to- day in England, for the people of Win- chester still retain the Roman accent;" that "et Chester they make choose;" that the North Sea, being noted for fisheries, is called this Herring Pond:"
favourable to the rearing of cattle, has given a name to the famous breed of Scotch shortbreads,"
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE RECALLED,,
1
Judge's View of an Amazing Defenos.
An extraordinary defence, involving the
not right thus gems of this brillianer-and. shat the land of Scotland, being chat Hydrostatus is when a mad dog bites you; it is called bydrophobia when the dog is mad; or hydrostatics when the man catches it should be left to waste their lustre in obscurity. Mr. M. J, C. Meiklejohn, therefore decided that, ke Esau, be would sell some specimens of this New Loarning to the Scotsman" newspaper for a bottle of potash," us promising youngster misquoted. Bible Lessons, according to Mr. Meiklejohn, ford the finest scope for schoolboy mis- understanding. I would be hard to in- prore on the statement that "Herod's theory of a double consciousness, and one con was Herodotus," and that **a may-which Justice Serutton said was raised solemn is so called from Moses, the first for the first time in English Courts, was mat buried in a tomb. Perhaps over better, however, is the answer to the £1,500,000 question, Why did the eunuch go away
It rat £1,125,000 rejoicing 2-Acts vii., 39. £582,500 Beene Philip had done teaching him."' is not that a perfect schoolboy.nswer? According to another youthful authority, in whe" is sometimes called the Sacred Lad, or Land of Canino," there dwelt Noah's wife, whose nauté was Joan of Arer and Summaria is bounded on the rast by the Jurdan, and on the west by
l other side of Jordan.**
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10.3.
For the Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation,
N. J. STABB,
Cater Manager..
Hongkong, July 1, 1912,
1617
Kandy. Galle,
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OF
985 000
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Paraphrase is often a rich mine for the collector, Canst thou net-ministų to a mind diseased " might, so thought one aspirant, bave just us well have been ren- Jered. Can you not wait upon the lona Masa JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, And when Fitzjames, in the 'Lady of the Lake," observed of his expiring horse, that:-
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steed
he would have been equally intelligible
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put forward by Mr. Hago Young, F.C.. A Band West at. Derby Assizes recently. It was ad. vanced car Behalf of a young man, named Forge Rowland Chetwynd, engineer, who
was charged with the theft of a doctor's Prisoner was excedingly motor-car. well-cerinected and had been on terms of intimacy with procettor.
Facts, which were admitted, showed that after driving away with a car which was obtained by forcible entry into a garage 'during the night, prisoner altered the identification number, and being without imena obtained petrol on credit. He was arrested near Aberystwyth. Chetwynd on oath said he remembered nothing from June 2, when he was leaving the territorial camp where he had been with the Bucks Hussars, till he was in a police cell a month later.
Dr. Hyslop, a mental expert of London,
bud be said, "I bad an idea that Scot.described prisoner's condition during that
THE OHAKTERED BANK OF INDIA, agents and Correspondents all over the ish birds of proy would ever make a meal period as que of mental automata, which
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7
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...£1,200,000 ...£1,850,000
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+
114
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking business transacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for 1 year or shorter perioda atritos which will be quoted on application.
WM. DICKSON, Manager.
Hongkong. April 12, 1912
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www midway between somnambulism and w minor form of epilepsy. A person no affected could perform complicated mental have resullection on recovering his und physical actions of which he would
the time what it was doing, but that the
normal self would have no recollection of
this. It was as though there were tiro
istine) personalities in the one body.
of thy quick legs, my dear horse."*
Pour it is to her and ants on for the rarest flowers. Rome stands on the Tiger. Though the remains of many wonderful buildings are still there, yet its glory has departed, save in thermal state. Ho agreed there were cases of mental automatism in which the tourist season. The chief of the remains brunnal responsible self did know ut is the Vatieun and the Catacombs, the sidence of the Pope." Herds of wild eattle and wild horses drawn up in battle array form the characteristic features of The Russian Steppes. In the winter, when they are wovered with snow, the fare of the sun is to brilliant that the cattle are provided with stoked specta ules. This is to save theft from the fate of the fish in the waters of the Norwegian foris, who bave become so used to the comperativo darkness that they are now barn blind." The follow. ing account of -Arabia contains some pic turesque toughes:- Arabia being so hot a country, nothing will grow, with the QAPİRAL AND Ramxerz $7,060,00 exception of the oasis, which are found
Equal... £1,180,000,
now arid again." And the chief occupa EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANK-tion of the Arab is to convey sand from the banks of the river Nile further iat the country, so as to enable the river to opened on the
Bombay. Calcutta, Canton.
Cabu. Colc Empire. Hongkong. Hankow.
Lobe.
Manila.
Mexico.
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Peking.
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overflow itu banke."
TSUN FOO COY., 48, Das Vinux Road Central. Hongkong. December 5, 1919. 1532
I
1913.
TO LET.
USCULUM, 136, BASKER ROAD, Fur- nished; for one year from 1st March, APRANE, CRAWFORD & CO. Hongkong, December 7, 1912.
THULENT.
1611
UROPEAN FLAT NATHAN ROAD, Kowloon, from 1st November nexă SHOP with Godown attached, Nathin ROAD, Kowloor.
Kowloon Marine Lot No. 48 with wharf. HUMPHREYS ESTAFE & FINANOR
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Blongkong, June 1, 1912.
TO LET.
an FLOOR, No. 2 PEDDER
STREET,
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Hongkong, April 30, 1912
- TO LET.
OFFICES in HING'S BUILDING.
GODOWN, 102, Friya East.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AGENCY Co., La. Hongkong, deptember 2, 1912.
1994
Justice Scrution said it was a pity Dr. Jekyll was never tried for the crimes of Mr. Hyde. It would have furnished sort of procedent. The question here was whether prisoner, knew he was dolog wrong when he stole the car, not whether In his opinion he remembered it now. Dr. Jekyll would have been banged for the murder Mr. Hyde committed If it.) were proved Mr. Hyde know what he U. 118. The Furnished from
was doing. His Lordship had an uncom- fortable feeling that if prisoner had not teen so well-dressed but had appeared in corduroys, and if his defence instead of being put forward by an eminent King's counsel and supported by medical experts had been spoken from the dock, the jury | "would have thought little of it.
Prisoner was found guilty, and con- tenced to four months' imprisonment in the second, division.
Not for nothing, it scoms did we wage war with the Bous, for now we know ail about the Cups Town Peninsula; it BILLS BEGOTIATED & COLLECTED is in the south of Africa; the Hindu MAILS and TELEGRAPHIC REMIT-till resides thore, but every nation is LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS represented. The Hindus' chief plessuro granted on all the principal cities in the is hunting for tigers, and it is their chief EUROPEAN AGENCY. World."
TANCES made..
ING BUSINESS transacted. CURRENT ACCOUNTS usual terms.
DEPOSITS REUMIVED, fired for me 22.60,000,000 (£5,000,000-/-) year at 41. par annum or for shorter periods, at rates which may be ascertained PUD-UF... 45,000,000=(£3,750,000-/-)-on application.
CAFECAL REKRY
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On Current Accounts 3% per AneuM OR
balanoes.
Przed Deposits-12 months 4 % par zum
Doge months 847
8 months 8.
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Hongkong, July 18, 19124
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COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CRE DFT issued.
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י.
PURCHASE and. SALE of Stocks and Shares, efected.
TRAVELLEBS - CHECKS sold and
GEO. HOGG,
Manager, 'No. 9, Queen's Road Contral, Hongkong, November 1, 1919.
THE
CHINA ¿IL
Washing Books.
ambition to catch them alive so that theyWHOLESALE Indente promptl can chain them to a cart, and, drawn by lowest cash prices for in axon, they proceed round the town. all iduds of British and Continental goods,
But why should we trouble about, the ncluding Capé Are there not plums of informa tion shout places nearer at home? We
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ELDON POTTER,
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TO LET.
1420
ARGE substicitially built GODOWN,
aftuated on Water Front East Poist For further partieulits-apply Property Office, JARDINE, MATHESON 00.
Hongkong, August 14, 1912.
-1025
TO LET.
20 PEAK, MOCHT Ktter, partly for 68 nished with immediate possession to 81st May, 1913, 4, 20
From La Fobrancy, HEIRION, No. 10, Peak, furnished or unfurnished. 6 Boons EGGERFORD, No 114, Peak To let fumched or unfumihid from 1st of
January, 1013. & Booms Be
No. 6, DES VŒLUX VILLAS, 58, The PEAK, from 1st March, 1917: Premium will be thoroughly repaired, painted and | colourwished,
No. 21, SHELLEY STREET No. 25, CAUSE BOLD, ʼn rooms.
PUNK FOR SALE.
HARTING and KOGATE, was part of Bowloon Inland Lot No. 1154
Solo Manufacturers: 1. T. DAVENPORT, LIZ.,
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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Co., Ld.
Established 1883
MANUFACTURERS OF...
PURE Manila ROPE
3 STRAND
*" to 15"
CIRCUMFERIENCE.
CABLE LAD
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5" to 15"
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3" to 10"
CIRCUMFERICE.
Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length.
Prices, Samples and fall particulars will be forwarded on application to
Shewan Tomes & Co., General Managers.
Hongkong, April 11, 1912.
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Bong, April 1, 1918.
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FFICE to let, 1st Floor, very central, and One Small Bocus Small Godown. Apply
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TIKET Class Central accommodation, Light and siry on Fint, Second,ors amount to.. Third Floor, in new building being erected Samius, amdanta bo for Mesas WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & Dindanda to Policysokim COY., LTD. Entrance from Dos Von 1910cmagesim Rood Electria Lift to all Floor, Electric Total paid Folley hokimas 1910
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