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THE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANY, OF HAMBURG.
HE Undersigned, having been appointed L AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS agsins: FIRE al Current Rates,
CARLOWITZ & Co. [1585 Hongkong, 13th August, 1906,
L'UNION OF PARIS FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED
HE Undersigned having been appointed.
prepared to accept Risks against Fire at currout rates.
SIEMSSEN & CO.
T AGENTS for the spore Company are
Hongkong, Int January, 1904.
NORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN-
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY.
TOTAL FUNDS AT Bar DecoMER, 1905 £17,937,119.
1.
Äetyorised CAPITAL. £3,000,000 Souscriseo CAPITAL.... 2,750,+08
PAN-UP CAPITAL...
I FIRE FUNDS.
687,500 0 3,386,720 19 8
The Undersigned, AGENTS for the bes Compaty, are prepared to ACCEPT RISES Drainst TIRE at Current Raton.
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OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE P. & O. 8. N. Co.'s Steamer
"DELHI," FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named versel are hereby informed that their Goods being landed and placed at THRIE Max in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's
Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out, Mark by Mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
This vessel on Cargo:-
are
From ... Victoria. From Australia, ox es. Britan:zia. From Persian Gulf, ex B. I. S. N. &
B. & P. 3. N. Co.'s Steamers, Opticual gouts will be landed here unless instractions are given to the contrary before
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Goods not cleared by the 6th Dee., at & P.M., will be subject to reut.
No Fire Lusauce will be affected by mo in Any case whatever,
Duonged packages must be left in the Go- downs for examination by the Cousigues's and the Company's representative at an appointed! boor. All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival hore, after which date they cannot be recognised. No Clans will be admitted after the Goods have loft the Guilowas.
E. A. HEWETT,
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM MIDDLESBRO, HAMBURG, ANTWERP AND LONDON.
THE Steamship
"MONTGOMERYSHIRE,"
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Captain P. Gibson, haring arrived from
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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Golewas, and all floods remaining undelivered after the 6th Dec. will be abject
to reut.
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No Fire Insurance has been effectel. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
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A Lady of Roma. By F. MARION CRAWFORD.
London: Macrailian & Co., Ltd,
THE TIMES" AND THE PUBLISHERS.
The
ja not
That the Times of all papers should identify itself with this foolish attack on tuo. This is a story of modern Raman soviets, and publieiing trade is astonishing and iscom- is concerned with the fate of the Contessa di probausible. During the last twenty or thirty Montalto, whe was changed by her marriage years there has been a progressive fall in the from a bright and fearless girl to a woman with
price of
Pars, and the vast majority on; the Read
now declines to a look in her eyes of contiuun! terror, au o halfpenny.
pay more Times alon
alone adheres to bunted look, the look of a woman wins lives in the price af which it was soll half-a-mentary ago. perpetual dread of a terrible catastrophe.“
It has a perfect right to do so; but In moment of passion she bas
a argument for which it has been balshanring the
or apology for
nu argument, with golden her marriage FOXR, And h which might not be equally need against itself. publishers husband, on ber confession, leaves her. Tho is easy to imagine a parallel case to that of the matter is hashod up, and the Contessa liros with Book Club. Suppose that Mostra, W. H Smith her bar in Home until she is forgisee and her and Sons, who deal extensively in the Times husband returns and they remain happy here good one), wore to
rary (and a after. This is a brief outlins of the story. very subscriber to
the Times at their bookstalls free of which, though stendur, is elaborated in suck a
aud that after certain way that interest never figs, and the sealer more or less coiled copies of the paper would be
hears
in the morning feels compelled to follow the tile from beginning als at Id. or ad, according to the amount af wear that the subscribers had taken out of was. This would be an immenso boon to the
to cucl.
ForF
An iso run a ddenly announce that
in
A pleasant story, containing many fa-like retains maay of the features which
which shows the
Geography of New Zealand, by J. B. MAC. DONALD. Wellington and Christchurch: Gordon and Gotoh Prop, I.
to
to
In the Flower of her Youth, by L.. T. McaDR. Reading Public. The Times in spite of all the
London: George Beil and Sons.
sacontr.cities that have recently discredited its
charactors,
placod it
at the head of English betting a
d'altiosaalis. Most poopla like to have a look at siucere ergon euking after it if they can get the chates, and all (bat stands
in their The days of the heroinesis pablished. Such righteouangan.
way is the prohibitive price at which it chom stave skotched youth were spent in surroundings which are would place it at once within the resch tarted to hard and corrupt a disposition of the humblest newspaper render, who is which yearned to do right, and while she now limited to the Daily Mait or the sought the narrow way her father eulear oare able to Mrs. Smith and Bon. But it woul
Sht; and it night also prore
very profit. to make her an accomplies in a gang of robbare, work hard with the Tour subscription list,
and, His best laid plane in a big conp, however, Book Club. erefore, with the Times:
incidentally, wer frustrated, and the road whe right would bays very light to say that they would the proprietors of the Times the wrong subsequently led the heroine to
not supply any re the altar.
frm without a guarantee that the paper would be sold at the
published price-at If Mows Smith & Son wars ary rate within a certain period of publication. reply hy publishing broadest calculations showing the hatween the pics of the Tenes, and A compact and strongly bound volume their estimate of its oirnulation), donunciations the out of the paper and printing (based on prepared for the use of senior pupils in the of the great and stapility of the propris. pablic schools of New Zacnid. Tha mauthor is (ora of the Times, and invogatious to the to be complimented on the ar.angement of the public to assist them in breaking down work which describes the Government, political t divisions, features, products and people of the of the Times would have same ground for
grasping monopoly by subscribing their library, I think the proprietors Colony. The 21 maps aud 10 illustratiu con-resenting their proceading The whole basi- tajood in the book are features which should goss is, indeed, a lamentable araibition of the more clearly impress on the papil's mind the ban dragged by its association with the outs
Brominion position into which the Times has lassons he may learn from the letterpress The enterprises that har heen
outside sao in its name, New Zealand actgolboy whis asters its emailouts Who the Book Club project was first in the should have kilo left to learn of the geography air I spoke strongly in these blames of the of his country, and it is as informative for the policy on which the proprietors of the Times adult reader outside.
had embarked. Thore is no impertinente in this, for the Times basic the past gained the position of a
a public institution in the welfare and gond name of which we are all interested-and none more than journalis's. It was not a good day for Eagleir journalism when a paper holding sneh a distinguished p position committed profits of its own business by entering into au alliance with an enterprising Americau for the suis of goole in the name of the Times by unstint- ef useof the arts of the 'swart Yonkse ndvertiser. I never believed that is the long run the Time of grist that might im neliately be brought to would gain try this policy, whatever the quantity ita mill. You may buy gold too dear. That this is sound view is very clearly proved by the questionable means that have bass used to Bordid
goable with the publishing trade the extract a little business capital ont of it, and the discreditable figusa that the Times out in the whole affair. --Truth.
Winton of the Fut" series. London: John Murray.
We have reacived two more of these dainty "HOHENSTAUFEN," Captain Jäger, having arrived Consignees of
little books, "Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom", itself to the risky policy of supplementing the Cargo arehereby requested to send in their Bills "The way of the Bandia". Sadi in trans of Lading for countersignature by the Under- lation does not strike us as superlatively wise; signed and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.
and the interesting story of his life shows that Optional Cargo will be forwarded unle «
he was a human milestone, a guidepost pointing notice to the contrary to given before TO-DAY, a road he did not travel. The other is likely
Any Cargo impeding her dianhares will be to be a very popular guide to tear Budhism landed into the hazardons and/or extra hazard-setting forth simply, in uger to be nader. ons Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon started of the people, what "The way really Wharf and Godawn Company, Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
is. It should do for Buddhism what Tolstoy has tried to do for Christianity. For the Series so far as it has gone we have nothing but praise; but we hope the editors will guard against unnecessary Bowdlerist,
All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which data they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 10th Deo. will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowne, where they will be examined on the 9th Dec, st 3FM.
No Fire Insurance has been effected,
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Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed at once, at Consignees' risk and expense.
Cargo remaining on board after i P. of the 6th December, will be landed at Consigness' extra hazardons Godowns of the Hongkong risk and expense into the hazardous and/or and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited.
Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IM- MEDIATE delivery of their Goode from alongside, such Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vestel will be loaded and stored at Consignees risk and expense.
No Fire Insurance has been affected.
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A novel with a pronounced element of mystery, which it israther difficult to assimilats. The reader is asked to accept as feusable that a girl could be palmed of us the heir to a title and estate, brought up as a boy, and trained as the future squire, and all the time remain ignorant of the fact that she was a girl and a not to blame for the deception. The authoress however tells the story very skilfully, and theYOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the interest of the reader is 'airly well sustained to the last.
Frank Brown, Sea Apprentice, by FRANE T. BULLEN.. Loudon: George Bill and Sons.
CHAIN ROCK LIGHT-HOUSE.
LIGHT on Chain Rook. Boca Tigris. Canton River, was EXHIBITED for the first tims at sunset on the 24th November, 1996.
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The Light Towar la situated on Chain Rock,
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The Tower is painted brick-colour. Approzima'e position :-
Lat
92° 47′ 26" N. Long...
113 37' 20" E. J. HOWELL MAY,
Harbour Master.
It would hardly be fair to say that Mr.Boca Tigris, and the Light which is elevated Bullen's tales of life on board ship make the 33 feat above ordinary High Water level, nautical profession seem less attractive to in- should be visible in clear weather at a distance pressionalde youth. They depict very frith fully of 2 nautical miles. the hardships and rigours to be borne by those who go to sea, and naturally they strip the his realism, with all its nopleasant detaile, is calling of much of its romanas, Nevertheless
not altogher repellant, and the British boy disauraged because of a truer and keener per. who feels the call of the sea will not be ception of what a sailor's life means. In the present work the author tall a very readable story of the experiences of au apprentice in Liverpool sailing ship, and the reader will frud hiraself f following the adventures of this youth with considerable interest.
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190)
1902
1903 1904
1905
The
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