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THE HEAD AGENCY of the phora Company has been OFENED at No. 9,
DUDDELL STREET,
R. BISSCHOP, General Agent. Hongkong, let September, 1903.
NOTICE.
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as Partners in our Firm.
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INSURANCES
TORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG
Tho Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are FREPARED TO ACCEPT First Class Foreign and Chinese Risks at Curront Italos,
STEMSSEN & CO.
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THE
ROBINSON PIANO
COMPANY, LIMITED
NOTE.
ENTIRELY
NEW STOCK
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, OCTOBER 6TH 1903.
[ALL RIGHTS KÉRYED.)
GOLF FOR EVERYBODY.
1
HAZARDS,
BY
ALFRED TENNYSON.
diffenity, that the temperament of a golfer |
comes out most. It was said of the late Freddie Tait that he wanted an almost hopeless position
WM. POWELL, LD.,
GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS,
28 & 34, QUEEN'S ROAD.
LADIES' AND
CHILDREN'S
DEPARTMENTS,
OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE (Finst Froon Urstairs),
to make him really play his boat. The last time GENERAL DRAPERS, HIGH-CLASS DRESSMAKERS, AND that he won the Championship his recoveries were so marvellous that he seemed to the spre tators to be gifted with some anporuatural power. Instances of his power of recovery are, as may be imagined, numberless: fet it suffice to "Oh, I had my match weff in hand till I got quote one of them. On ens goonson Mr. Murs into that beastly bunker at the 17th and then I Fergussen and he were left in for the final of the went all to pieces." So says Colonel Foozler St. George's Vaso at Sandwich. At the Inst wearily contemplating the large whiskey and hole Mr,, Fergusson was almost dead at the soda in which he attempts to drown dull care hole-side, while Mr. Tait had to play the old Mr. Tait holod, while Mr. Sometimes he regarda bis misfortune as a visita from the railinga. tion of fate against which it would be impious Fergussen, whose nerves were apparently nut to contend. At others he consigns the unch-proof against sach a stupendous combination of enduring Green Committee and their labours to skill, lack and norve, missed the short one and lost the match. It is the faculty of rising to the pordition, while explaining in heated language that his want of success is his misfortune and occasion which lifts great players above the common bord. Mr. Hilton's wonderful shots their fault. How much abuso de hazards come
at the last two holes, when playing Mr. Low in in for during the course of the golfing the Baal of the Amateur Chacapionship tant and yet they are just as important a feature of the game of golf as putting grasos or losing year, have passed into golling history. To un grounds. It is by the excellence of their derstand to the full the ortraordinary nature of NOW IN EUROPE: hazards that first-class greens are distinguished such a shit turn to what Mr. Horas Hutchin TURKISH
from the second-class, whose name is legion. son says of the seventeenth hole at St. Air And though most peoplo have their days of drews. "After we have piloted our way through misfortune, whon, like Colonel Foozler, they can or round,'or over the corner of the wall osoles-
TO ARRIVE THIS MONTE.
SPECIALLY AND MOST CAREFULLY CHOSEN,
DIRECT FROM THE FACTORIES,
MR.
Hongkong, 29th THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM GREAT
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PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA,
INCORPORATED 1851.
...£625,719.
Cash Security
Total Losses Paid ......£6,769,910
if Undersigned having been appointed ANTS for the above Company, re propared to "EPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
WM. MEYERINK & CO. Hagtang, ISE xj £99
THE BOMBAY FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, THE undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to accept BISKS at Current Rates. ROTZ, JACOB & CO.
¡9160
Hongkong, 30th July, 1943, ̧ THE STATE FIRR INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, OF LIVERPOOL.
I Vadersigned AGENTS of the shove RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
W. G. HUMPHREYS & CO. Hongkong, 3rd August, 1903. NORTHERN ASSURANCE CO.
FIRE and LIFE.
ESTABLISHED 1836.
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BY OUR
ROBINSON
REDUCTIONS
IN OUR PRESENT STOCK OF PLANOB AND MUSICAL GOODS.
.
A QUANTITY OF OLD MUSIC STILL LEFT, BEING SOLD VERY
CHEAP,
CALL IN AND SEE WHAT WE HAVE
BE MOST ALL ENQUIRIES WILL
COURTFOUSLY AND PROMPTLY ANSWERED.
THE APOLLO
PIANO-PLAYER
RECITALS DAILY·
PRICE FROM $150 UP.
PATTI ENDORSES THE APOLLO. Adelina Patti (Baroness Colorstrom) has Piano-player. She was so delighted with
iso play than a handy tud vist the that this second testimonial is even stronger than the first one that she gave..
GENTLEMEN'S DEPARTMENT,
25, QUEEN'S ROAD (Opposite HONGKONG HOTEL),
WM. POWELL. LD.
TROPHIES
CIGARETTES
do nothing right, and their drives seem out of ing the stationmuster's garden, and have furnod malice aforethought to pick out the most in-up towards the right with our soconds, than we accessible spots of the most espacions bunkers see that little garden of Eden where the hole is to settle in, yet there are few to whom it is not lying between Soylla and Charybdis, that given for some golden days in the year to have horrid little round baker on one side, and the that most splendid of all sensations, to feel that hopeless hard road on the other." Read this their eys is in. Then it is they laugh to searn and remember that it was the final of the the bunkers and tangled bents where they are Championship. Not loss famous is Mr. Joha wont to tread, and with gladsome heart watch Ball's morvollons abot, when to ease the game ho MADE FROM THE CHOICEST TURKISH TOBACCO, ARE THE BEST. Ask their ball dy like a living thing towards the
distaut hole.
NATURAL, ARTIFICIAL HAZARDS.
had to drive a ball over a bunker 180 yards distant, against a stiff wind and from a bad lie,YOUR DEALER FOR THIS BRAND.
and did it. This is where golf is such a fine game. Not so much that, it needs poworful hitting, sad accurate iron-play-not, so much because it is a game of consummate skill, as that it calls upon the torner qualities of a man's nature. The ordinary golfer seems often quite paralysed when he gets into a bunker: 899 tim stand them, grasping his uiblick, more as if ho contemplated driving the ball further into the and than attempting to get it out. After a few ineffectaal strokes, vigorously delivered, and not infrequently accompanied with an obliggato of saitable (or moquitable) axocraticus, he usesads woury and perspiring to give the hole to his more fortauste adversary. Very often too be imagines that he, Brown, is the object of slici. ous hatred to Jones, one of the Greau Commitee,
Perhaps the most. Important thing about a bazard is its position. Londoners and all those who are not dwellers on the const are necustomed to see all their bunkers planted by the hand of man just where the exigencies of golf demand. No doubt this is fair enough and as good ns can got but how tame! There are sundry places upon the shores of these favoured British Isles-places thirty years ago utterly unknown to fame-whitre bonatiful Nature, not otherwise Irish of her gifts, bas so canningly laid a carpet of relvet turf amongst sandy dunes and ragged whing or beats, that to the golfer's ey: the scene becomes a thing of beauty. It is on links like these, rather than on the levelled sward of inland course, that eye and band are placed that hole is the luffy face will catch you if you are short, and woe betide if you slice into that patch of whios. This little burn tristling beyond the green mast kave spoilt many a fine score: first of all English courseN in point of fame, comes Sandwich with its two mighty hazarde, the Sabara and the Maiden- åld not Mr. Hilton on one occasion take eight instead of three to socomplish the latter ? Then there is another fine evures to wit, the Royal Norfolk Golf Club, where the holes are perhaps, with the single exception of St. Au- drews, of the most perfect longth in the world. Where every shot must be played far and vors to keep out of harm's way. Hoylake lies in Rottish country-in fast indifferent players SUITABLE OFFICE in a Central have been sacrilegious enough to call it rather HE Undorsigast, having been appointed position, for the STUCKBROKERS' } dull; but on no course is the world is it more delightful is it, too, to watch, un iron shot pitch
488OCIATION.
given another great testimonial to the Apolo tested to the uttermost. See how arifall, and that the litt a trap banker by the groon in
THE Undersigned are prepared to accept First Clasa Foreign and Chiness RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
Als in necept proposals for LIFE ASSUR- ANCE. Prospectuses on application.
TURNER & CO.,
Agents.
73 Hongkong, 23rd September, 1903.
UN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON
FOUNDED 1710.
Fre Undersigned having been appoint AGENTS for Ons alive Company, to pro- pared to ACCEPT RISKS agaiasi #1 PB & Current Rates.
SIEMSSEN & LO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 16th May, 1892. SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
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AGENTS to the shove Company, are prepared to ACCEPT TISKS against FIRE
at Current Rules
HOTZ JACOB & CO. Hong ag, 2nd April, 1900
P
HENIX FIRE
Mme. Patti hat "the Apollo never has given for the slightest trouble and that the now concert grand is one of the most wonderful and perfect piano-players that she has ever seen."
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W XIZANTED, in Kowloon or Hongkong. unfurnished, TWO ROOMS, or ONE FLAT with Bathroom, or a small house, for a Single Gentleman from the 1st of November.
Apply
"I Y. Z." Care of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 1st October, 1908.
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OFFICI.
The Undersigned are now prepared to GRANT POLICIES of INSURANCE. against FIRE at Current Rates.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & 00.
WANTED.
E. S. JOSEPH,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 26th September, 1908. 12689
WANTED IMMEDIATELY. DVERTISER requires FURNISHED A HOUSE fx Six Months.
Apply Agents for the Phoniz Fire Of "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LD,"
15. Connaught Bond Central Hongkong, 17th August, 1887. AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- Hongkong, 22nd September, 1903. [265%
SURANCE CO.
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO GOVERNMENT.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL.
E Undersigned, having been appointon AGENTS for the above Company, BIE prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Bates.
REUTER, BRŐCKELMANN 3 Co.,
Agonte. Hongkong, 21st April, 187
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NORTH FRITISH AND MERCAN
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY.
TOTAL FUNIS AT 51ST DECKENDER, 1902. J:36,378,771.
+
1. AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000
SUTHORIZED, CAPITAL... 2760,050 0 PAID-UP CAPITAL „.
687,500 00 II. FIRE FUNDS 2,807,215 11 10 The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Compony, ur prop:red to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE Current Rates
-----BIFOWAN, TOMES &
Agents. Hongkong, 19th June, 1905.
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WANTED.
'CHINESE OVERSEER of Publis Werks in Sandakan, about 25 years of age, with experience and able to do bis own planning. Mast speak and write English.
Salary
875 per mensem. House Allowance
-18 Horse Allowance Second-class passage provided to Ban takan
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which ho has lately been expending his anergies, is put thors simply and solely to give him
who says, with a look of resignation, mingled annoyance; even worse thau Brown in Swith with despair, "whys wretched lack-here is my ball unplayable, while you, who were only a yard or two to the right, are lying right on the green." Vain is it to explain that the banker was placed 325 there with the express purpose of catching balls Just those fow total yards off the line. Very likely thith would deny that his ball was off the line at all, if one had the courage to ask him.
Inexpressibly delightful is the sensation of a clean shot from the too when a gentle breeze. helps the ball on its way, and there is just that right amount of nip in the ground which puts yards on to the rau of a drive. Inexpressibly on to the green just a bit to the left of the hole, and you away almost deal, but the finest of all sensations in the game of golf is to retrieve a bad stroke er a bit of bad luck with one of those splendid recoveries. Wain the lumps are lit in the smoking-room, and a bright fire crackica choorily in the hearth, and with your glass of grog at your elbow, you talk of matches lost and won, then in no vein-gloriens spirit, but with only a feeling of thankfulness that some- times you are capable of better things, the memory of these shots comes back to you. Axl
necessary to drive straight-edges, ditches, and rabbitholes lie in wait for the nuwary on every side, aud on more than one occasion dar- ing the round the player has to make use of that most difficult and treacherous shot, which only Arst-class players can master, the stopping shot with the meshie. The hazards of St. An- drews, the centre of the golfing world, as is only right, have a feature peculiar to themselves -it is the artful way in which they are planted round the hols, Al the very first bols-fatal bole, which has to be played before the golfer has thoroughly warmed to his work-right in midnight strikes you wil: knock vnt your front of the green lies that treacherous trickling
little bora-stream almost as celebrated as Simois and Scamander, where the corpses of golf balls his thick together, wept and lamented for. At Westward to the golf is as differ- ent as can be it is a country of great ssuð bankers with precipitous cliffs and mountainous sandhills, which rightly hear the noble name of the Alps. All round this course bristle beds o
pipe and finish off your glass, and go to bed with a host of great and noble intentions and may your dreams be sweet and your sleep sound!
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE- GRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.
HONGKONG STATION.
DEFERRING to notice of 20th December Telegraras are hereby advised that from 197 OCTOBER, 103, the currency equivalent of the feand will, subject to revision after three months, be fixed at Dollars 0.46, at which rate the charge for all telegrams will be collected from said date.
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Devonshire links, we are glad to any. Hero il Apply to-
is not only necessary to drive far--for the m-st GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.
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ball bit absolutely straight. Then there are plenty of inland courses which provide a fine test of golfing skill, such as Woking or Byfleet, where an unskilful drive will land you in heather or pius-woods respectively, and the new course at Sagaing-lale seams to abound
NOTICE.
THERE a VACANCY în the
TENT ULVIL MODICE DEPARtDENT for
6 PROBATIONER NURSE (Nou-Chinese).
Salary, oto, $480 a year, rising to £500 by annual increments of 30, with auiform, atten dance, furnished quarters, and an allowance of $84 a year for fuel and light,
Applications, with certificates of character, atcie
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of
Age, For further particulars apply to the Matron at the Government Civil Hospital hetween the bours 9 a M. pud 1r.x
J. M. ATKINSON, Principal Civil Medical Oficer, Hongkong, 1st October, 1903.
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...$2.55
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