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"(NOW "RECONSTRUCTED).
NGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER-MAKERS, BR198 ad IKOS
ENGINEERS SE work done in this astablishment is used the over thirty years' experioncu. We own to Slipways and can accommodate any craft si 200 feet long,
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Hongkong, April 1, 1912,"
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1918.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA (MITSU BISHI 00.).
COAL DEPARTMENT.
SOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA.
HIÁTA, OCHI, MUTÄBE, YO SHINOTANI, KISHIDARL, HOJO, KANADA, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW · And KAMIYAMADA Collerian.
AGENTS 10 BAKTTO, & OTUBARI COALS.
HEAD
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T:
TYL ADDREMEL for above; IWASAKI.' Codos:—AT, AB35th Ed., Western Union.
AGENCIES: CHINKLANG: Messrs Gearing &|
Co.
The
Standard Tobacco.
"CAPSTAN"
For Flavour. NAVY CUT- For Quality.
THE OLD FAVOURITE.
THE DAILY DRAMA AT VICTORIA STATION.
MANTLA. Mesers Macondray &
SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo Co. THE DEPARTURE OF THE TRENCH
Co
Ltd.
GLASGOW: Messrs A. R. BrowE,
McFarlane & Co. Ltd.
For particulars, apply te
K. KATU,
Manager, No.. ELEL STRANI.
BONGEONO,
818
SILIMPOPON (SEBATTIK)
COAL,
TRKIN
YOUR EYES
SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTED, At the first symptom of eye strain you should consult us, We test eyes scientifically and fit glasses to individual re quirements
•SCIENTIFIC_OPTICIANS -
TORK BLOGS, CHATER RO
HONGKONG
HONGKONG & MANILA,
ELECTRICITY IN CHINA
NEED FOR BRITISH EXPERTS."
"Cassior's Magazine" says In com parison with the rest municipal under: takings of this country-Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, and Liverpool-
WAR ON GERMAN TRADE.”
BRITAIN'S CHANCES AGAINST THE Shanghai stands fifth on the fist. At the present moment there is a great con HUN IN CHINA.
troversy which is attracting much intercat in the Far East regarding the position of A Chinese Trader" in England, and the Department which controls this huge: head of one of the largest and meet and growing undertaking. At present _A_good_cure for pussimism, says a dicential firms, in discussing the question of an evolution upon the lines of the Hone gewspaper, is to go to Victoria war on German trade, said, says the chinese Customs servico which it has long
Evening Standard: Statiou say morning and watch the
The educational authorities. I sos, po- outgrown, the Municipal Council exercises departure of the trench train. For pose to practiae rigid economy during the supervision without knowledge. Thuis.in
ionths the rcuch train left at 1.15 p.m., war by the suppression of the Chairs for auence is very hampering, and it is now in & tumult of good cheer und god luck Experimental Pailosophy, Logic, and officially suggested that the Committes that drowned the abrisk of the locomo-Chinese. Sines the Boxer rising the GF should accept juli responsibility"fer ita
affairs, subject Baly to approval by the ratepayers of actual financial outlay, did by the Council of questions of principle and policy.
mana have most sasiduously cultivated itive. But this work the time table has China, which they rightly regard se ono of been changed, and it now, leaves early the largest of the world's markets. They in the morning..
established a college for teaching yours Tommy, in his love for old friends, still. Germans with linguistic leanings to foreign call it Old one-fiftees. He also calis are then sent to China, net, mar
languages, chiefy Chinese. The Footba
you,
to Mr. T. H. V. Aldridge, the Shanghai Is the good-bye train and the Pots dawdle their time on the concessione, such as electrical engineer, thinks what is badly dam-non-stop. but he prefers Old one Shanghai, but to visit the interior provinces needed is the employment of consulting THE Undersigned having been appointed eten although it leaves Down 0.00, in order to acquire the various dialects; or advisory engineers to advise the dit
afterwards they return to Germany. I they have proved efficient, they rank so fall ferent Chinese authorities on the question commercial travellers, and arn sent back to of electricity supply in their cities. These China with designa and samples to make engineers should have no interest in any contracts.
manufacturing firms they should be met With commendable proscience, the
"À GESTS for the COWIE-HARBOUR COAL CU., LTD. Are prepared to quote prices for best quality SILIMPOPON COAL trimmed into Dunkers at SEBAT- "IK or SANDAKAN (British North Borneo)
SILISIPOFON COAL compares favour Ahly with the better grades of Japanese Coal and gives goud results on a very moderata comsumption.
Steamers calling s SERATTIK or SANDAKAN exclusively for SILIMPO HON COAL (either cargo or Bunkers) e exempt from payment of all Port charges.
4.IX.
There is an elderly inspector as the station, who takes a fatherly' interest in the women who stream through the gates
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED,
CHAREHOLDERS desiruns of making inquiries in respect of the Debenture Iman should apply to the Company's Office in Hongkong.
All applications for dabentures masat be sent în Befark the 99th February, 1918. Forme may be had on application.
1 -R. M. DYER,
· Chief Manager.
Hongkong, Dea. 30, 1316.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOOK CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, THE GENERAL MEETING of the Company which was adjourned on the 13th day of December last will be
continued on MONDAY the 17th day of
January, 1916 at 19 o'clock Noox at the Ofices of the Company in Hoggkong when. tha Barolution for the adoption of New Articles will be proceeded with, Dated the 6th January, 197
R. M. DTER,
Chief Manager.
Hongkong, Jan. 8, 1916.
THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD,
NOTICE,
LL SHAREHOLDERS who have Atiken op-and-paid-for-the--Nam- Shares offered to thom can obtain the Certificates therefor on application at the Company's Uttice in Hongkong on and after che 13th instant.
By Order
זין
R. M. DYER,
Chief Manager
Hongkong, Jan. 12, 1916.
NOTICE
#NGLISH LADY wishing to return ko' England would be glad to take chargs,
of Children in retura for passage.
Apply
0/0 *Cuwa Mam.' 'Oflen.." Hongkong, Jan. 11, 1918.
.99
NOTICE.
HAVE This Day established myself under the Style and Firm Name of JOHN WILKIE & Co., IMPORTERS EXPORTERS AND COMMISSION Agents, and will carry on business at Hotel Manions, lat flock, and a Missions' Balding, Canton.
Hongkong, Jan. 1, 1918.
JOHN WILKIE..
...
NOTICE.
to say the last good-bye. Froin inpaths Garman Government, in its enthusiastic, high integrity and man who would P.-W. A. WILKIE to Sign our Fir
uary gift of intuition, and with psycho. logical exactitude can tell at a glance whether a Tommy is a husband, “a son.
brother.
YE HAVE THEs Day authorized Mr
per procuration.
JOHN WILKIE & CO. Hongkong, Jan. 1, 1918.
NOTICE
of experience amid these departure scenes
support of the training college, decided maad implicit trust. They must not this old man has developed an extraord- that if they were victors in the present be figureheads and their advice should be war, the acquisition of the entire Chicese followed. If the drawing up of scheuces trade would lead to a hoped-for domination were placed in the hands of such engi- of the world's foreign trade, and if they
neers, not only would the Chinese stand. were not victors, then the. moze nied at all cost to support the training college, to benefit by having suitable schemes because as it has been in the past, so it will drawn up for them, but the marutse. be in the future-Germany will rise Lom turers would also be in a position to THE Businesson of Architects and Civil
THE the ashes through its trade alone.
quote for better machinery than they do Engineers carried on by CoLsSQUEKE under the existing conditions, because Le in Hongkong and by F... ADAMS and MABAHALL WOOD, (under the style of *Don't
they all would have a definite plan to THOMAS, ADAMS and WOOD) in Canter let us think thesos
"young Germans have been called back from Ubins tender to und know that the lowest teu-hare amalgamated as from this fate and to the Army. They are, and will remain, der would not necessarily be accepted. will henceforth be conducted by the in Chias, doing as loyal work as fighting in but the one which, all things considered,
trenches,
Hurry up and take your sweetheart At Sebattik Steamers are berthed along. slong with, you, or he'll miss the train." side the Coinpany's wharf where there is a he may be heard sg remark. minimum depth of 27 to 28 feet at low
.*'Ow do you know he's my awoot- water Spring Tides.
Chata of Sibako Bay (Schattik Barheart?" the young woman to whom the hour). Prices and all other information remark addressed may apply. What concerning the Port CAD he had on check!” application to the Agents.
IN
BRADLEY CO., LTD.,
Agents Cowie Harbour Coal Company, Limited. Eongkong, Dec. 2. 1915.
I'm getting used to saying farewell to yum", said an officer to his wife,
Let's see hot many times have I goue to the front ? Ah, yes! This nukes the 1097eleventh!**
I come every day to see the train off, said an old lady; "wouldn't miss it for works. ly son is in the trenches, and I promised him 1 would be at the station every day: then he would know exactly where I was and what I was
DAIRY FARM NEWS ding, d
¿
Some of our
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PRESSED BEEF, COOKED HAM, DRIPPING, *LARD,
CORNED TONGUES,
SMOKED TONGUES,
GAME PIES.
01
WONG PING WA, Manager.
PORK PIES,
&ci, Which cannot be Excol'ed for Quality,
sa
Appropriate, always.
With certain dishes, such as Game, LEA & PERRINS' SAUCE is always appropriate. It is the recognised sauce for such use.
In fact, for everything with which a sauce
I can be used, LEA & PERRINS' is invariably the BEST. It has a refinement of flavour that suits the most delicate dishes and appeals to the most exacting palates-
Lea Perrin
The Original & Grewing WORCESTERSHIRE,
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the
GERMAN PERTINACIÓT.
With Government support behind would be essentially the best, and give them, the Germans taks infinite paine to the best results in operation. supply Chinese wants. They offer them There is excellent material in China to resscoable terms for payment, and a work upon, add my experience shows English manufacturers and exporters that under proper direction the Chinese decline to isang price-lists in Chiassa be trained to perform responsible characters, and insist on cash payment în exchange for shipping documents, also work, and I believe there is a very great telling Chiron anxious inquirers if they future industrially and in the engineering don't like the goods and conditions to lump field for China; but the country must then.' it is little wonder they believe the recognise that this result cannot be Hon of the German travellers that Germany is a much wealthier country than England, obtained without a long apprenticeship Women don't cry when the trench train which enables its agents to give credit to being served, and that for a long time. moves, says the Daily News and
help must as far as I can see, come from Baude." But the tears ato gathering. I know my Chips well, and also the the foreigner who has generations of and they wait until it has vanished readinfinito pains British exporters take to
training behind him. Other countries that bead outside the station. The groundvortise hir ignorance. A young man have also benefited from the indux of say from the Oxford University, is sent our that cheers the men off to the coast is to represent a firm. He takes no trouble foreign blood, and I cannot but think. natically a crowd of women. And it is to learn the language or the ways of the that if China would less grudgingly open carious thing that Torsing wile or natives. As he esnout trade direct be out the country and allow the foreigner mother always sees him off in her Sun employs buskers, whose name is legion, to help build up the industries and open and who absorb all the profit. He reluros day best.
bomu
Chinese customers
and tells bis principals ac prostable up the mineral wealth, the great Chinese Occasionally there will be a group of business is to be done, it is a rotten nation would forge ahead to an extent mothers, wives and sisters on the platenuatry, and they had better confine their comparable with other progressive 'coun- form secing some of the Bermondsey trade to countries such as Wales or Mexico, tries Globe.".
nd yet thero is an immensity of
of pro- boy's off to the front. They may wear large bleo feathers and plenty of cheap per cent, to be done if conducted direct fitable business, yielding on an average 50 jewelry and throw confetti over one of with consumers., by anyone familiar with the boys wearing a white silk bow in his the dialecta and the Chinese character. cap. He has made good pasa of his few days' leave by taartylag
There is a serp of unwritten cliquette on the tranch train that when the moment comes for the last good-bys the married men shall have the privilege of i tesaing out of the open window, and the single men must do thus bat they from behind bolbiby aboulders or through the side windows.
BEEFSTEAKS FROM FAPER!
THOSE ENGENIOUS GERMAN
PROFESSORS I.
Undersigned.
The New Firm Name will be LITLE,
Anas and Woon and the business of the
„ärn will be carried on at their Offices in
Hongkong and Canton as heretofore.
COLBOURNE LITTLE FRIB.4. s: F.R. J. ADAMS, A.MLM.E MARSHALL WOOD, ARI.B.A. Hongkong, Jan. 1, 1916.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
and after the 1st of March, 1916, the present Light at Capa Callinson will be replaced by a 5th. Order Ags Light of the following
Character-Flashing-one, second light followed by 5 seconds darkness making in all 10 Rashes per minute. This light shows bright to Hart ward from ** NON, W, to 9.8.3 and red to West
wa, Vessels are warned to keep in bright sector.
O, W. BECKWITE, Commander,
Harbour Mastur, &c. Harbour Department, Hongkong, Jan. 10, 1918,
TOYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
I im not hopeful of Britain succeeding in capturing the Chinese market, svou though the
the Chinesa-dotest the Germane The official countenance and support
the
PROVIDED that sufficient entries are Germans get from their Government puts
forthcoming the British Section of them in a position to defy Chinese opinica. The "Himburger Nachrichten," rays a the Kowloon CANTON BAILWAY HATS They ca
underself us; and until our outer Amsterdam correspondent, pub-kindly offered to pferent CUP for
Ladies Singles match play competition shaders get more active, support from our lishes a vigorous exhortation by a Professor ander bandeap to be played over the Government is must witness the under mining of what little trade we possess by Melner not to bum old newspapers and FAN LING Course on dye other than an crupulois conduct.
SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS and PUBLIO HOLIDAYA
But there are some soldiers who have a m
ORDER rendy said the last good-bye long haiore
CHERRY & ·00.,
PEDDES STREET,| Cypodio Bangkong Hote -Tolopbana" No. 4912
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
THE ALEXANDRA DAFE Cannot be Besten Al Equiled, For Brand Oakes Confertione reale with Wine &
they march up the platform. You will find them in the Gast-class carriages- men with big responsibilities, and whose thoughts are divided between the trenchce and those they have left behind. They pretend to read the papers or the mua. zines they have bought at the bookstall. They turn the leayea. Over and over, back', and forth, but their eyes ses nothing.
This little bit of war drama, enacted daily at Victoriaa good deal belter than I've noon on flie stage, porter observed is witnessed by bun dreds of people who for countless res sions And in irresistible défraction. There are tests, of course, when the curtain falls, but they are not the tears of despair or hopelessness.
as a
OR a goot solid meal, a is carte of Table Pote with. Wires & Liquor
The Man Who Gets There.
In the man who has blood- rdal rich red blood and plenty of it-in his body.
WATERBURY'S - METABOLIZED ́ COD LIVER OIL- COMPOUND"
makes blood-lots of it-ife glvlug, brain nourishing strength replenishing blood.
OF ALL CHEMISTS
PAIONS: $1.35 und 32 19:
other paper waste, which he asys can be turned to the best account as litter far bedding cattle.
I straw litter is replaced by per litter," he says, the problem of feeding the catale is facilitated and that of feeding the people rendered enitor.
The professor also declares that processes may be applied which will make paper itself available na fodder.
And so we come to this," he says, **that the masses of old newspapers which already fed men's minda in town and country will then lead cattle and that old brown paper and cardboard boxes will yield milk and basinbenkia
Entries should be sent IN. WRITING te the Endoraigned and will be raceived, up to the 16th instant.
in
TW HILL, Leling Ami Becretary. Hongkong. Jan. 5, 1913.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- “MENT, AND AGENOT CO, LTD.
LOST.
THE SHAKE CERTIFICATE NO. 1909 - For renty-five shacas numbered 4901. to 4925 incluşlun, standing in the Register the name of Frank Barrington, Descon STRAIGHT AT IT.
baying boon lont Noken = harobý given TETRE is no use of our "beating around that unless the maid Certificate, be produced the bush. We might as well out at the Office of the Company & Queen's with it first at last, We want you to try Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on os Chamberlain's Chugh. Ropiedy: the next before the Third day of February, 1918, m time you have a cough or coli. There is now Certificate for the said shares will be ini na Fason so far as we can see why your med and the old. Certiäcate will theremitas should not do so. This properation by its be held by the Company us nell and vold." remarkable curea hained world wide!
MOWBRAY 5. NORTHCOTE, reputation, and pengdu Cverywhere speak of
Acting Secretary, it in the highest terms of praise. 316 in for
JAY, 3, 1910,