Café de China THE
THE CHINA MAIL
Limited.
配雞
The Dining Room of Cafe de Chine
China Building, Hong Kong.
WEING HING CHINAWARE CO.
(Established 1897)
33B, Queen's Road, Central
Telephone 32123
Dealers in Canton Green and Gold Designs of Tea and Dinner Services, various kinds of porcelain vases and porcelain figures, etc., etc.
INSPECTION cordially iNVITED.
LOCK HING
ESTABLISHED 1870
DEALERS IN
CHINESE CURIOS,
SPECIAL TOURIST SUPPLEMENT
Canton, Shanghai Silk, Grass Clothes, Embroideries, Crepes, Shawls, Ivory, Bronze; Lacquer, Cloisonne,
Porcelain, Ornaments.
MANUFACTURERS OF
BLACK WOOD FURNITUİRE INLAÏD & CARVED
Thursday, 30th March, 1939
"FRANCONIA"
WORLD
CRUISE
SHANGHAI COMPANY EMBROIDERED. SILK UNDERWEAR AND DRESSES
PHONE 21290
10, PEDDER STREET.
(Opposite Hongkong Hotel)
PICTURESQUE
HONG KONG....
A1
de Chin
Limited
HONG KONG
CHINESE RESTAURANT
(ENGLISH SPOKEN
Top Floor, China Bui
Queen's Road, C. (Opp.
Telephone
Manufacturers of SILK LINGERIE TABLE LINENS & HANDKERCH CAMPHORWOOD CHESTS
A VAST. SELECTION OF IVORY WARE, PEKING
JEWELLERY,
MEN'S
DRESSING
GOWNS,
PYJAMAS,
HAND-BAGS
GUARANTEED
HAND
SCULPTURED
WORKS OF ART.
WHOLESALE AND HEPATI
SWATOW LAFI
16 PEDDER STREET. COLTO ***
MONG the more accessible of sina, Rio included-can show so Prior to 1841 there was no recog- the world's beauty spots exquisite and fairy-like a scene. nised name, for the Island. The Hong Kong may justly claim high To appreciate its beauty to the anchorage at Aberdeen (a pic- the rank, whether for the loveliness full one must view it from Kow- turesque fishing village on of its harbour or of the island it- loon or, better still; from mid- side, opposite the Harbour) was self; indeed there are few places harbour. The water front is one known to sailors as Heung Kong. where so much beauty is found in continuous blaze of brilliance The Chinese characters represent- so small a space as here. - ... from end' to end, white, green, ing that name may be translated 15
blue' and red; behind, the lights by "Fragrant Streams" or "Fra- The first view of Hong Kong thin gradually as they mount the grant Harbour." Another possible which presents itself to the tra- hillside; long lines of lights show rendering is "Heung's Harbour,” veller's eye as he enters the har- bour, either by the Lyeemun Pass climbs the steep. Then comes a named Heung.
here and there where a roadway the haunt of a notorious pirate or the Sulphur Channel, is an un- patch of blackness, where neither Kowloon (the mainland opposite forgettable one-the steep, tree-
road. nor house can cling to the Hong Kong) is the anglicised clad slopes of the island, dotted
precipitous rock; and above that form of the Chinese Kau Lung with residences, sweeping up ma-.
are the lights of Lugard Road, (nine dragons). This name is jestically from the blue water of
that encircles the Peak, looking derived from the ridge of nine the harbour, while the crowded
like a jewelled necklace upon the hills which form a rampart along buildings of the city on the water's edge seem almost like a bosom of the night. Here is a the northern side of the harbour memory of loveliness that the and seem to be guarding the ap- wave of masonry that has splash-
proach to China. You may see ed and hardened on the hillside. visitor can never lose.
them from your ship-quite plain- Opposite, on the mainland, rise We shall have to begin with a the hills of Kowloon and, faint little history. In the first Land wisty in the distance behind -täna. thetro sonde Hong Kon
ly.
Hong Kong. became a British
WELCOME TOURISTS
OF “FRANCONIA
WE HAVE ON HAND ALL SIZES AND LATES STYLES IN DRESSES, ALSO A LARGE VARIE OF EXÐUSTTELE
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