Page
TO LET.
TO LET.
WITH IMMEDIATE POSSEJMON,
0.9 SEYMOUR ROAD,
N
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8. B.,
Care of Dully Preen Office,
Hongkong. 14th March, 1991.
1740
TO LET.
TOUSE at MOUNT KELLETT SPUR, Dow in occupation of H. MATHERON
H°
BROWN, Esq. Apply to
Hong
A
LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
27th March, 1901.
TO LET.
1876
VERY spacious and well-tontilated
A EUROPEAN HOUSE with & GARDEN and TENNIS LAWN. No. 37, ROBINSON BOAD, known as FERNSIDE," containing
ROOMS, BATH ROOM and OUTROUSES. Possession from 1st June, 1001.
Apply to
Hongkong,
TAM TSZ KONG,
42, Bonham Strand West. 19th April, 1001,
TO LET IN MACAO.
[1008]
No. 15, RUA DA PRAIA GRANDE.
VERY spacious and well vastilated ABUROPEAN HOUSE with GARDEN, situated opposite the Governor's Kesidence.
Apply to
or
No. 17, SHELLY STREET, Hongkong, No. 13. RUA DO PE ANTONIO, Macao. Hongkong. 20th April, 1901.
TO LET.
With Immediate Possession, SPACIOUS GODOWN in ZETLAND ST.;
recently used
Anction Room
Apply to
"HEUERMANN, HERBST & CO.,
14, Queen's Road...
Hongkong, 26th April. 1901
TO LET.
(From 1st April next).
f1105
VIRWO SPACIOUS GODOWNS. with
T
UPPER Froons for Dry Goods, Nos. 1 and 2, facing the Bes, and Situated at BEL. CHEE'S BAY on M. Lot 243-***
Apply to
BOARD AND RESIDENCE
NOMFORTABLY FURNISHED
ROOMS, with Board
Apply to Mia MATHER,
→ Padder's Hill, Hongkong, 1st January, 1892.
HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
BOOKBINDING
"DAILY PRESS" OFFICE,
The only office in China having European taught workmen. Equal to Horne Work.
BUILDERS
KANG ON
Contractor; 30, D'Aguilar Street. Local and Coast Port Buildings, Timber, Brick
and Granite.
Mechanics engaged, Estimates gizen CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS, &c,
THE PHARMACY,
10, Quoer's Roud Central. Family and Dispensing Chemists, Wines, Spirits and
Cigars
THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
Chomists and Draggists, High-class Aera ted Waters, Dealers in Photographic
Requisites, Queen's Ratd. FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN
A CHEE & CO., Established 1859.
Every Household Requisite. Depot for Fastman's Kodak Films and Accessories;
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY APRIL 297-1901
(PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL, ABRANGEMENT.)
WOMAN'S WORLD: DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL.
BY EMINENT WOMEN WRITERS.
[COPYRIGHT.]
ON THE BLIND SIDE OF MAN
AND THE
FOLLY OF ASSUMPTION.
BY SARA GRAND.
+
have been.
their well-earned civil right to sit on Vastrios because they had not dope too well. It was lend that they had ideas of duty which wOKO inconvenient. They actually comidored the poor whom they were there to serve, and paid so respect to rested interests. Woman loves honour and note on her highest perceptions; it is by ethics she tries all causes. When it became evident that the Vestrywoman was not to beat bribed, that the unsafe dwelling world be reported unsafe by her, no matter whose pro perty it might be, and the insufficient water supply would be stigmatised as insuficient, how- ever, much dividends might suffer, Lords and Commons were importaned by those whom her honesty inconvenienced to remove her, and the
of property in London. Loris succumbed. The Lords have a good deal
pleas
nothing nice and worthy of respect was asked of the old maid. Man turned his blind ride to wards this woman; he assumed that she was a stormy petrol; he hurled epithets at her. But in vain. Call a thing in question, and you con demn it. The unhappy old maid of the middle of the century has already disappeared, and is her place we have the "Glorified Spinster" of to-day-busy, active, capable; engaged in every sort of good work; enjoying her own life and helping others to enjoy. No one suffered more than man himself from the maiden lady of his own family, the accredited mischief-maker, Man perks and elfuts and says: "Phe pro-whom he regarded as a useless onsambrance, a per study of mankind is man!"--and womeḥ
tar upon his temper as surely us upon his in looks on and wonders She wonders because
* come. Yot minn had had his way, the self. man seems so simple and easy to study, while, by his own showing, she is le If the problem respecting single woman of our times, that best of good fellows, allindustry and independence,
All this is on. It should not be, and, in conso- of the world. To wemsa ma le as continual s source of wonder as of Borrow. His coloual more ready to give than to take, would never
quence of it, woman is losing her respect for concoil inspires her with a certain respect.
There can be no doubt that wan's attitudo toman; often, towards the close of the century, because of the size of it. She knows that never
he provoked her ridioule The New Woman of in this world, not eron with his kohi, ean her wards woman has told disastrously on his own own self-satisfaction be anything but insigni. Progress as on his own peace. That he began the Nineteenth Century (for there have besu New Women in all couturies), demanded as high a standard of purity for men as for women ant in comparison. Man declares that God pou a wrong assumption in regard_to_women made them both, but made him the more admire apparent now, sud-so-also is the pity of it,
that he was able to impose that ussumption whereupon over the priests promptly called able creature of the two, and thou, in sheer 103 long upon woman was one of his misfortunes, bec immoral. And what did she do? Did she of his own superiority, he goes out and sins indiscriminately.
It was for wenian to enlighten him, but woman retire in shame and confusion Notshe She He proclaims himself the
was apathetic, and also she shrank from the just laughed and the power of the priests to only ruler and law-giver, and makes
task. She foresaw that war mast he waged to degrade her was shaken. And now she is laugh- feast to celebrate his sway, and eate and drinks, and proves himself incapable; It prove her point, and thoughtful women have ing at man. In the ears of the new century
got beyond war, and hate to return to it. that laugh is gounding, and sounding woman is the problem of the world, man is certainly the paradox. With battle and blood. Their way is to collect facts to draw logical antly, for it is an unnatural laugh-the laugh shed he proclainas peace upon parth and get conclusions, to offer arguments, to rely upon of one who is near to tears.
justice. They despise mere physical force us a will to all men. His powers are as undeniable primitive attribute, now out of date When as his limitations are anospected. He cultivates
one man goes up to another and says: "You're his intellect, which is finite, at the expense of spirit, which is infinite His devotion to lisong and I'm right, and if you don't acknow. ridiculous, ne feels sorry for him. Man sees own service is forever discounted by the clever-ledge it, I'll hit you," woman thinks, him at Shanghai, Manila. Faris and Heilo.ness with which he defeats his own ends, He
the surface, be seldom looks beneath. He has PHOTOGRAPHERS
"would be happy by means of every act whisk his brain atei muscle, and he is very proud of makes for wretchedness. In contemplating the them; woman has her disine intuition, and The largest and most completo Studio in marvellous works of man. one is struck by envies him not. She did not appreciate the value
Hongkong. Established 1859. Vlows, nothing more emphatically thou the extraordi- Enlargements, Ivory Miniatures, Onary ingenuity with which he makes misery for
Paintings, &.; Ice House Street.
himself. He has a bilud side which limits to extent of his own vision, und, since he cannot ce upon that side, he assumes. The history of woman is the history of the blind side of zaan. But besides his congenital blindness in respect to woman, man stauds convicted of the blindness of those who will not see. It is not easy to discriminate between the two, nor is it necessary when one comes to the day of reckoning because the consequences are the satue in either man makes his mistakes and pays dearly for them. We need go no further that our own century to be sure of that. It has been an eventful century in the history of the devolopment of woman. All hor attributes good and bad, have been accentuated. In her former state of subjection she was an imitative insect, taking on the colour of her surround ings inevitably. The fault of the material of which woman is made has always been that it is too ductile, ton carily moulded into any form, whether of beauty or of hideousness. The an tural woman is liko puro gold, too soft to be usefal; she requires by way of alloy some staff
17a, Queen's Road Central.
JEWELLER
MAISON LEVY HERMANOS.
Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers, 40, Watson's Building. Quean's Road. Ako
A FONG,
MEE CHEUNG,
JOSEPH & CO,
M.
1 Daddell Street.
F865
Hongkong, 28th March, 1901.
TO-LEI
DAVENSKILL EAST."
RAVE
Apply to--
DEACON & HASTINGS.
Hongkong, 24th April, 1901.
2ND
OFFICES TO LET.
[1095
Ies House Street. Top Floor, Permanent Enlargements, Groups, Views, atc; Derel opment Works, Amateurs Requisites. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ARTIST.
Bromide au Crayon Enlargements and also colouring Photos and relief Photos. Views of Chins and Manila. Work done for Amateurs; No. 8a, Queen's
Road Central.
K. YERA,
Japanese Photographer, 14, Beaconsfield Arcade, Queen's Road C., also Wanchai
Amateur's Requirements & Specialty.
PRINTING
ND FLOORS of Nos. 62 and 64,"DAILY PRESS" OFFICE.
and GROUND FLOOR
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
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No. 68
ON CHAT & CO.. 2nd Floor No. 52. Gage Street, Hongkong. 10th January, 1901.
TO LET.
HOUSE in RIPON. TEZBACH.
Apply to-
1294
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 18th Mareli, 1901.
TO LET.
[04
-66 CUTILLINGFLETE." PEAK ROAD.
Proofs read by Englishmen.
STOREKEEPERS
F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,
Navy Contractors, Shipchandlers, Sail
makers, Provision and Coal Merchants, Praya Central, next Hongkong Hotel
Case:
BISMARCK & CO..
that is sterner than her awd metal to keep her Nary Contractors, Ship Chandlers, in shape. In every amalgam usod four
Provision and Coal Merchants, Sal-
makers, &c. Fresh Water supplied to Pose, discipline should be the princi igre.
Vessels in the Harbour,
dient. Unfortunately, in the days won man was by way of moulding woman, he brought EWONG BANG BỊ CÔN
less discipline to the task than tol The head Shipohandlers, Sailmakers, Hardware,-{
Engineer Toole, Brass and Iron Mer of a great institute for the trai
chaute, 144, Des Voeux Road.
once said to me: "I would
40 and 45, Des Voeux Road. Shipchandlers, Sailmakers, Riggers, Commission Agents
:
6 ROOMED HOUSE from 1st May..
Apply to
ABRATOON V. APCAR & CO. Hongkong, 14th March, 1901.
MORE & SEIMUND, /
[741
TO LET
NOS
YOS. 1 & 5, RICHMOND TERRACE
Imediate Posision. Apple to
LAU OHU PAK, Care of A8. Watson & Co., Ltd. 1612 Hongkong, 2nd April, 1901,
Possession from May 1st.
£1079
TO LET
ICHMOND HOUSE, 11, ROBINSON
Apply to
LTV. M, Care of Office of this Paper. Hongkong, 22nd April, 1901
TO LET
TWO very apacions and well ventilated TWO STORIED EUROPEAN EE- SIDENCES with GARDENS and TENNIS LAWNS, BH containing 6 DoOME, BATH- BOOMS and OUTMODIES, in MACDONNELL ROAD, en Inland Lot No. 1,509-
Apply to
TANG LAP TING,
Quben Street, Hongkong, No. 18
.or to MOK MAN CHEUNG,
Butterfield & Swire..
TO LET.
Hongkong, 10th March, 1901-
-1068
LAURNISHED, The EYRIE," a spacious
and grandly situated bungalow at Peak. For Particulars, apply to
RC WILCOX,
8, Begronsteld Arcade.
Hongkong, 20th Apel, 1901.
TO LET. POSSESSION APRIL 18T.
TO 1, STEWART TERRACE.
No!
Apply to-
Hongkong, 6th March, 1901.
M
1833
NJ, W. NOBLE,
[681
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
RS GILLANDERS
« GLENWOOD,"
21, 0LINE RAD Hongkong, 20th September, 1900.
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
MRS SIDNEY
TERITASPO
1869
JEFFREY
BEACH BOAD WEST,
UZ FOLIESTOWE, SUPFDLE, -
ENGLAND. Hongkong, 28th August 1900,
twice the number of young men.
are
mnurge
Kemén
so undisciplined." "But why are they 60 undisciplined "ous naturally asked. He
and General Storekeepers; Sole Agents shrugged his shoulders, as at a defect of nature.
D. 6. DADY BUEJOR, «LOS FILIPINOS," Importer of the Best Manila Cigars; 25.
Pottinger Strost..
WATCHMAKERS
DROZ & COL
14, Queen's Road Central Repairs of Watches and Clocks by competent European experts. at moderate rates.
OREGON LUMBER. THE Undersigned, being closely connected
of her own possession until of late, but now she knows. When frst she awoke from her apathy, be was impatient of the raany mistakes of man. and all the more inpatient because, although she knew them to be mistakes, she could not prove it. She had disarmed herself of her in fluence by long ages of servile submission; only be attend to her. He was blind to the possibility of anything beyond the limits of his own narrow kop, and she was powerless it enlighten him. Her impotence was aronising; she found her. self facing her enemies alone without a weapon; she saw her friends drifting to destruction, and could not help them. Two courses, wors open to her: sither she must develop the best that is in Her, and go out into the world to work for the world, or else she must abjure responsibility and remain a chattel-a domestic drudge or a puppet of fashion, only considered for her services cr for the outward show of lax-the cut of her clothes, her shapo, and the colour of her skin. When a woman abjures responsibility, some man must pay for it, and plenty do.
when she echood the sentimenta of man would
The record of the blind opposition of men to
every move that woman makes to improve her own position and thereby aid in the advance: ment of the race at large, makes sad reading. The insults offered to Dr. Sophia Jex Blake when she knocked at the gates of the University
NOTICE OF FIRM
NOTICE.
TE. the undersigned, hare This Day been W
appointed AGENTS by Messrs. T. M. STEVENS & CO. of PORTLAND, UR, for tice sale of WEINHARD'S BRANDS of AMERICAN BEER in Hongkong.
DOOLITTLE & POLLOCK Hongkong, 1st April, 1901.
(1049
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YARD REQUIRED. Must be of Good
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1957
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DY YOUNG MAN, EVENING WORK, BY
whether in the line of Bookkeeping, Rarising of Acconuta, Typewriting or General Oles work. Hours:-5.30 to 8 o'clock.
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T425 Hongkong, 6th February, 1901.
CARMICHAEL & BARLOW, CONSULTING ENGINEER, SURVEYORS, AND.| CONTRACTORS,
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.
hinburgh and claimed the right to becomeIGNS and Specifications prapased for any class of Steamships. Launches and medical practitioner if she had the capacity, light-draught vessels a speciality. Contractors the poisonous attitude of the doctors towards for the supply and roeting of any type of
ürst lady-nurses, the disgraceful slanders machinery. New work and repairs supervised.
Now and second hand Launches for Sale. which never failed to be resorted to in order te
Telegrams," CELESTE, "Hongkong. stop any and every venture made by a woman Telephone, 232. in a new direction, make sorrowful betrayal to
18 to-day of the blind side of man, and of the
"H. P. CARMICHAEL,
B. J. BARLOW. Hongkong 1st June, 1899.
MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD. AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKI.
CODE WORD:: “ DOCE.". NAGASAKI. A.1, A.B.C., Scotts and Engineering Codes
Used
DOCK No. 1 (st TATEGAMI), Extreme Length... Length on Blocka
Width of Entrance on Top Width of Entrance on Boftom... Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
523 feet. 613 29
77
31
231.
871 Enet:
3530
66
+3 20
DOCK No. 2 (at MUKAIJIMA:) Extreme Length... Length on Blocks: ............ Width of Entrance on. Top Width of Entrance on Bottom Water on Blocks at Spring Tido
PATENT SLIP (at KOSUGE). Can take vessels up to 1,000 tons gross.
for Shipowners L'omposition ("Gray- | Man applied practical principles to the rourly of assumption. When it was a question bound Brandy and Blundell,ng and education of boys; his girls were the ut the medical profession one gathered from the
Spenco & Cala Composition.
eletions of theory. Men had his opinion on the catery that all women were about to become subject of all that girls could do and were fit medical practitioners. The higher education. TAILORS
for; out of those opinions he formed convenon was to have brenght about the tious;
and upon those conventione girls were physical deterioration of the whole sex; and R. HAUGHTON & CO.,
Naval Military and Court, 18, Queen's Road. made to run as upon rails to cerinin, arbitrary
Jitical aspirations must result in the end Opposite Kala's Curio Store.
Kmits. When a "women" oversteppeil, those of all true romanliness. Now, at the beginning TOBACCONISTS
`limits, man did not see in the fact an indication of the new century, we find that not a slugle of powers still latent in the sex at large, and.
a) of these prognostications has been fulfilled. claiming attention; on the contrary, he sat that T dismal prophecies of what would happen woman down as almortual, a mere freak of nature,anced women had their way still ring inf only to be considered as an oddity. With his Car wars. Advanced wonen heve had their own attitude be was entirely content, and when women arose whic doubted his wisdom and de-au considerable timo, and are still advanc. termined to experiment for themselves, he; but, as yet, nothing untoward has resulted pronounced them a danger and a disgrace. He increase of plague, pestilence, and famine, had made nothing himself of the splendid ne deterioration of morale and manner-far otherwise, for there, mover, was un’nge when, material he had in his hands; ho had not eron suspected its value. All his energy had been in your, manuets was more insisted upon, but directed towards dobasing it, curtailing its with this difference that we couple morals with sphere of usefulness, limiting its potentialities maners nowadays, and so strike anew the note and that, not because Lo was malicions, but upon whiel, the progress of the world depends. with the leading: MILLS at PORT LAND and PUGET SOUND, are always pre. because he was blind and assumed. He as It is evident by this time that the whole ten- pared to book orders for any specifications at sumed the right to control women, and she deney of the woman movement is towards the beautifying, towards the ennobling, towards LOWEST RATES.
submitted passively to his misguidance; SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong. 14th February, 1901.
the overlasting reproach of women is that the perfecting of life. Still man opposes. And 150
the consequences of his attitude are all unlove-THE WORKS are well equipped with the she submitted. Man might have made woman POHOOMULL BROTHERS noble by an admixture of discipline and prin- ly. His want of foresight might have been
57 & 59, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ciple, instead of which he has marred her by pardoned, but his want of fairness is inoxonsable, suggestion. Looking. within he found all his and his want of principle a shame. Take the IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS, Have for Sale,
own imperfections in transferred them to her. Borough Councils for example. It is well known INDIAN, Chinese and Japanese Silk Goods There is no end to the trouble ho has made by those who were in the thick of the straggle for Ladiesand Gentlemen, and other Articles, suggestion, nor to the folly of his assumptions, that woman were not deprived by the Lords of Oriental Embroidery, Rugs and Carpate. For example, he assumed that to marry was the A HELPLESS CRIPPLE! Jewelry, Cashmere Shawls, Ivory. Sandalwood and Tortoiseshell Wares, Curiosities and Fancy one ambition of woman; that should sho fail to Goods.
secure for her very own a precious specimen of N. Bongart, of Norborne, says For nineteen himself, she must become a being of no account months I lay a helpless cripple from Rheumatismi.
blighted, embittered, a trial to her friends, The weight of my body was reduced from 17lba. HOKKAIDO COLLIERY AND RAILWAT Co.)
to 130 lbs., a proof of the terrible pain I had to an object of ridicule to the world at large; and endura. During all this time, I sought a cure, AMERICAN MACHINERY.
woman accepted this view of herself in that but after wing everything I heard of, such as WE Have OPENED MACHINERY position. The old maid of those times, answer- animents, electricity. Turkish Baths, and above W DEPARTMENT, and are prepared ing to expectation, carefully developed in
ill uselessly employing physicians, I considered myself incurable, especially so, when the last to Furnish Prices, &c., on STEAM ENGINES. GAS and OIL ENGINES. BOILERS, herself, all that was synonymous with old physician told me that he would not recept any PUMPS LATHES, DRILL PRESSES, maidishness. Those were dark days for women, more money from me, as the case was beyond PLANERS PNEUMATIC TOOLS, WOOD the dark days of their captivity, when they su svarte coont in one of the morning to your WORKING MACHINERY HOISTING fered such restraint and wore cramped into zoordere Little's Oriental Balm with very little
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"L'URBAINE"
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LD. (Established 1838.)
E Undersigned, having been appointed GENERAL AGENTS for the sbore Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS
current rates.
P. LEMAIRE & CO. Hongkong, 7th February, 1901, [499 UN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON
FOUNDED 1710. The Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the abovo Company, are pre- pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE
SIEMSSEN & CO. Current Rates.
Agents, Hongkong, 16th May, 1892.
F30 SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
AGENTS for the above Company, are Undersigned, having been appointed prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
$6)
„HOTZ,-8JACOB & CO. Hongkong. 2nd April, 1900,
TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN-
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY, TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1899 -214,409,089,
ADTRORISED CAPITAL. £3,000,000 ̈ ́0
+
SUESCRIBED CAPITAL.... 2,750,000 0.0 PAM-UP CAPITAL CROA 887,500 0 0 II. FIRE FUNDS......
• 2,731,183 13
The Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are pre- pared to ACCEPT-RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents
Hongkong. 22nd June, 1900,
1872
TRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSUR
ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG
The Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are pre- |pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at
Current Rates
SIEMSSEN & CO.,
Agents, Hongkong, 16th November, 1872. [29 PHONIX FIRE OFFICE
The Undersigned are now prepared to GRANT POLICIES of INSURANCE against FIRE at Current Rates.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
Agents for the Phenix Firs Offee, Hongkong, 17th Angust, 1887.
[32
THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM- PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA, INCORPORATED 1851.
CAPITAL.....
.££10,000,
AGENTS for the above Company, are THE Undersigned, having been appointed prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Estes.
WM. MEYERINK & CO.,
Agents,
1513 Hongkong, 18th May, 1909.
́ORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR-
ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG
The Undersigned AGENTS of“ the, nhere Company are PREPARED TO ACCEPT First Glass Foreign and Chinese Risks at Current.
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 29th May, 1895.
[31
'AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN-, BURANCE CO.
Rotes.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL
THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & co.,
Agoats. Hongkong, 21st April, 1897
"L'UNION"
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Lo. (Established 1828),
THE Undersigned, having been appointed
THE GENERAL AGENT for the... aboro,
Company, is prepared to ACCEPT RISKS at current rates.
Claims saided direct, without reference to the Head Offico.
A. E. MARTY, Agent Hongkong, 1st August, 1900,
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Hongkong, 18th March, 1901,
C. E. WARREN, BUILDING CONTRACTOR, No. 25, ABEIDDEN STEBET,
ANITARY APPLIANCES ŠUPPLIED
and "FIXED, DRAINS WASTE PIPES, &e.,. REPAIRED. Sanitary prompt attentior. [94TILES. Price on Anal
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