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TO LET.
| LENWOOD" CAINE ROAD, suitable
"Gore Boarding hours or Club. Doa-
Laining 26 Rooms. This property would be divided into two or more houses to suit Leganta.
"BANGOUR" PEAK. "CLOVELLY."
Furnished
Peak Rod (Partially
BUNGALOW (furnished) at Now Territory. Kowlona, 4 Rooms, Low Rental.
BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine Shops Offices and Dwelling Rooms,
No. 15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Top Floor, (over Caldbeck MacGrager),
BELILIOS TERRACE
ROBINBON ROAD.
No. 3 ALBANY.
WESTBOURNE
Bontmen Road.
HOUSES,
VILLA
NORTH
Apply i
LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Hongkong, 22nd March, 1907.
OFFICE TO LET..
ONE
3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings,
1102
NE ROOM is PRINCE'S BUILDINGS from
let February. Beut 350 per mouth.
Apple-
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co.,
Princo's Buildings.
Hongkong, 39th January, 1907.
TO LET.
299
9-ROOM HOUSE, 13, MCDONNELL
RUA Commauding Good View of -Harbour, with fire-Tennis Law.
Apply te→
DR HO KAL, 28, Des Vœux Road. Hongkong, 5th April, 1907-
TO LET.
710
4. OBSERVATORY VILLAS,
Nowloon Fire Roumus; Electric Light;
Tennis Court etc.
Apply to-
ABRATOON V. APUAR & CO., 45. Wyndham Strest.
Hongkong, 3rd April, 1907,
TO LET FURNISHED.
EWKNOR," No. 116, PEAK. the
this date to and September.
Apply
SLID, from
GILMAN & CO. Hongkong, 19th April, 1907.
TO LET
300
[O.1, WEST END TERRACE, Sharon,
Canton.
Apply to--
HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 1st April, 1997.
TO LET.
Partially
194
HUMMER HOUSE" Monat Kullett,
Furnished.
the TEAK, Possession from 1st April, 1907. Low Ront.
Apply-to-
PERCY SMITH & SETH.
5, Queen's Road Central,
330 17.
Hongkong, 8th March,
TO LET.
NO 25, LRIGHTON HILL ROAD.
Immediate Possession
Apply
THE COMPRADORE.
Nippon Yusen Kaisha. 135
Hengkong, 4th February, 1907.
TO LET.
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION. 7′′ELLBURN, No. 81 the P&AK.
WEL
Apply to-
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,,
York Buildings. Hoagkoog, 2nd January, 1907.
TO LET..
FROM 1ST MARCH, 1907.
254
TO, 3, CARNAVON VILLAS, and No. 6,
NOCHIEL TERRACE, KOLOR
Apply to-
HEWAN & Co.
No. 15, Connaught Road, West. Hongkong, 1st February, 1907.
TO LET,
324
TO. 21, CONNAUGHT ROAD CEN
NBA for dll:os and Codera.
Apply on the Promises.
Hongkong, th Marob, 1907.
TO LET.
610
DUNUEVES, Robinson Road, or
FOR SALE.
Nos. 17 and 31, SEYMOUR ROAD.
New Houses in KENNEDY ROAD, near Wan Chai
No. 90 & 91 GODOWN PRAYA EAST.
Apply to
SAM WANG CO., LTD..
81, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 13th November, 196. [103
TO LET.
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES at Prays
East, near East Point.
Apply to-
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO
[137 Hongkong, 3rd January, 1907.
TO LET.
HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE,
KOWLOON.
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD. [92 Hongkong, 1st April, 1907.
TO LET.
TO. 2, MACDONNELL ROAD.
N
Apply 10-
COMPRADORE'S DEPARTMENT, Noyon Yaera Kaisha. Hongkong, 3rd Jann, 1975.
TO LET
597
OND FLOOR of No. 610E HOUSE STREET; Centrally situated and within pasy reach of the principal Banks and business houses. Apply on the premises t
Hongkong, 4th December, 1906.
TO LET,
TATA & CO. 105
IN ALEXANDRA Root.
N ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS Smail
Apply
SECRETARY,
A. S. Watson & Co., Ld.
Hongkong, 4th January, 1907.
[150
TO LET
TO LET.
POSSESSION FROM 1ST APRIL NEXT. Semi-attacked HOUSES, Nos. 130 and
13c. MACDONNELL ROAD, Eack with 7 Rooms, Bath-Rooms, Kitchen, Servants' Quarter and Grass Tennis Court.
Apply to-
CHUNG CHINAM,
Yon On Marine & Fire Insurance Co, Ltd.
482 Hongkong, but larch, 1907,
TO LET ON LEASE.
FROM 1ST JANUARY, 1907.
ROAD.
Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 SUN WAI LANE. Apply to
AKRATOON V. APCAR & CO.,
45, Wyndham Street. Hongkong, 24th October, 1906.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1907.
A WHITE MAN'S WORLD.
The world of modern intellectual life is in roality a white man's world." An', adda Mr W. S. Thomas in no article "The Mind of Wows and the Lower Racos" in the January number of the America Journal of Sociology few women, and perhaps as bucks. have ever ontored this world in the fullest sense.
Men and women, he points out, still form two distinct
not in free classsa that ATO communication with each other
Not only are women unside and unwilling to be communicsted with directly, uncontentionally and truly on many subjects, but men are ma willing to talk to them. I do not have in mind situatinus inrolring questions of proprinty or
Bo
ON SALE.
the monument to Japan he had the approval of those who must be regarded as competent to
It is contended by Mr. DOUND VOLUMES of the HONG KONG give such approval.
whose communication to that WEEKLY PRESS, July to December Hulbert, paper prompted the accusation in question, 16. With INDEX. Price $7.53.
On sale at the " HONGKONG Daily Presa " people parods belonged that the
Ofice. Kuras and the Emperor or his Ministers bad the right to therefore, neither
of
the
that.
We are afraid that Mr. Hulbert give it away. will find it rather difficult to make his point good. Originally a property of the royal house to which the present dynasty succeeded, the pagoda was prosented to à Baldhist temple near Song do, which has long since cossed to exist. Under the civeimstances, according to the Korean custom, it seeme ransonable to esclude that the monument raverted to the prävent royal house. It was therefore, given away by thus who had the right to part with it.
TOS, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14, HOLLYWOOD delicacy alous, but is certain habit of restraint. originating doubtless in matters relating to 89x,
It is demanded that the pagoda should be extends to all intercourse with women, with the
that they are not really adusilted to the restituted. We sincerely bope that Vonat result intellectual world of men, and there is not paly Tanaka may see his way to returning it to the a reluctance on the part of men to admit them, plac where it stood and where we with it to : bnt a reluctance or rather, a real inabili y-stand to the end of time. It must, however, be
part to enter.
with reference concerted that nobody has any right to demand Modesty
ite restitution, for, we have stated alive, it to personal habits has become to ingrained and
as en taken away with the approval of those habitual, and to do anything freely in forlen
who had the authority to issue such approval, to woman, that oven free thought is almost of the nature of an immodesty in her.
TO LET.
(301
FFICES in KING'S BUILDING and YORK
BUILDING.
A HOUSE in Wose NE CHONG ROAD. GODOWNS in PRATA EAST.
A HOUSE in CLJYTON GARDENS, Conduit Road
FLATS in MORNTON TEREACE. Apply to
their
Humaa pa' are does not drift into intellectual pureuits voluntarily, but in fed into them in connecting with the urgency of praction activities Women as a whole have pot in the Tast been compelled as a sex to undergo the physical activity which results in the develop THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.ment of intelligence. They cannot be called MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD at the present time intellectual, because they are un tanzht to know an nianipulate the Hongkong, 1st April, 1967
materials of knowledge. This lack of practice makes woman an amateur :—
TO LET.
'91
70. 5, “ORMSBY TERRACE," Granville
Rond No. KIMBERLEY VILLAS," Koz.
loon,
Moderate Rentals. Apply to-
SPANISH PROCURATION. Bongkang, 18th April, 1907.
TO LET.
756
AT0.6, LYEEMOON VILLAS, Kowloon, Possession froin 1st March next, Five Rooms and Toavis Court. Rept $125 per month including taxes.
Apply to-
"LYBEMOON " Care of Daily Pres" Of co 241 Heugkong, 21st January, 1907.
TO LET.
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
O. 2, HOLLYWOOD ROAD. and No. NOTHINGER STREET.
Apply to-
ARRATOON V. APGAR & Co., 45, Wynilham Street.
491 Hongkong, 2nd March, 1967.
TO LET.
FFICES AL No. 11, DES VIEUX ROAD Central (Formerly occupied by Messrs. SHEWAN, TOMEs & Co.).
Apply to
HỒ TỪN
Compradors Department,
Jardine, Matheson & Co. Hongkong, 12th April, 1907.
TO LET.
753
OND FLOOR No. 12, QUEEN'S ROAD
CENTRAL.
ROAD, GREENCROFT, GARDEN Kowloon, Rodecorated, Electric Light, Tounis Court.
FAIRVIEW, ROBINSON ROAD, Kowloon, from March 1st.
Apply to
LEIGH & ORANGE, 1. Des Voeux Road. Hongkong, 19 February, 1907.
TO LET.
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Even the most-serious women of the present day stand, in any work they undertake in
amateur standa to the professional in games. precisely these relation in men that the They may desperately interested and rosy work to the limit of endurance at fiare; but, like the antes, they got into the game late, aud have not had a lifetime of practice, or they do not have the advantage of that pace gained oaly by competing incessantly with players of the very first rank. No one will contend that
nervous the amateur organisation bess fitted to the game than the professional; it is admitted that the diffaranga
ill
billiards bas B
Que consolation about Lao matter is that the
Rsidency-Ceneral is entirely few from our complicity in the transaction which, so far as the securing of the necessary permission from
the Korean authorities was concerned, seems to
|
markong, 27th February 1907
STORAGE,
FOR COAL, TIMBER, &C.
TO BE LET, a Portion of MARINE LOT
for above Purpose. EXTENSIVE WATER FRONT. DEEP WATER.
Also FOR BALE
Portious of MARINE LOTS Nos. 31 & 36 O PRAYA EAST. Approximae AREA £3,000 SQUARE FT. 399 YEARS LEASE.
For Particulars, apply→
GEO, FENWICK & Co., Lri, langkong, Sth June, 1906
Mrsu
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BISHI GOSHI-KWAISSA
(MITSU BISHI CO.)
COAL
DEPARTMENT
MARUNO-UCHI, TOKIO.
have been conducted by Vlacount Taraku per wenally, the rest being attended to by the curio dealer in question. The authorities of the know saything Residency-General did not about it notil the moment when every arrange: meat had been completed for the shipping of Al ABC 5th Ed., Western Union Codets unl the pagoda. We are sure that the shipping of it would never have taken place, had Marquis Ito been here at the time.
JAPANESE TOBACCO MONOPOLY,
The result of the working of the Tobacco Monopoly for the past year has been very satisfactory, according to the vernacular Press. The profit for the ith Bad year, which closer at the end of last month. amounted to Y3,250,009 in round figures, an excess of Y2,290,000 over the estimate. As the consumption in tais
Cable Address, "IWASAKI," - which applies to all Branch Udlecs
All Letters Addressed : MANAGER, MITSUBISHI Co
with
name of plass unter. BRANCH ORFICES:— NAGASAKI, MUJI, KOBE, KARATSU
SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, &
HANKOW
AGENCIES:-
YOKOHAMA : M. ASADA, Exp CHINKLANG: Messrs. GEARING & Co. MANILA: Megers MacONDRAY & Co. SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashima, Ochi, Sbinne. Namazute at Kami-Yamunda Cellieries, and also Hojo Colliery, which wil!
bent Bazen Coal.
lies in the ernstant practice of the professional country of tobaren aputianes to increase year shortly be ready to produce ou a large scale, the
the more exacting standard prevailing in the professional ranks, and constant play in fast company." A group of women would make 4 sorry spaotact in competition with a set of men who made billiards their life work. But how sad a spectacle the eminent philosophers of this world wonk make in the same competion! Mr. Thomas admits that a tonacions memor is a characteristic of wore. But a good memory is, a maintains, the mark of an inferior or undeveloped intelligensa: -
after year, the Monopoly Bureau has decilet to raise the price paid by the Government for lef tobacen by some 10 per con, which will cost the Government Y1,000.00) mory a past, and thus encourage, the cultivation of tehacen. The Tozai Tobucen Company, agents for the export of cigarettes to Manchuria and Korea, has also revalved to further employ its energy in extending the market. especially by advertisement, ond the Gorerament is rowdy to gira all possible facilities to the company to Sabunce the market. The rains of cigarettes to is expected this year is estimated at about 2.500,00, The Dist approved at the Inst Ression at appropriation of Y13,000,000, to be defrayed up to 1915, for the construction of so factories for the tannfacture of Japanese eat tolaceo. When these factories are compistei,
It may even be said that a good memory for details is a sign of an untrained or imitative mind. As the mind becomes more incantice. the memory is less concerned with the details of
or to find place to find the d-tails when they sro ended in any special problem.
Even in America, he contends, women do not lead a perfectly from intellectual life tu common
with meu:-
The personal liberty of women is, compar atively speaking, so great in America, suggestion and copies for imitation are spread broadcast so copiously in the schools, newspapers, books and lotures, and occupations had interests are becoming se varied, that a number of women of natural ability and character are realising But these some definite aim in a perfect way. are sporadic cases, representing usually some d-finite interest rather than a full intellectual if, and resembling alag in their nature and rurity the elevation of a peasant to a position of minence in Europa..
When the ebasm has been bridged that at present divides the intellectual life of the twe sexes, and the fully-developed intelligouce of women in added to that of men, we may expert a new and a higher civilisation:-
It is certain, at any rate, that our civilisation is not of the highest type possible in all of our relations there is too much of primitivo TO: 8 GRANVILLE AVENUE, Kow. men's fighting instinct and technique, and it is
L'ON.
No. 1, EAST AVENUE, Kowloon,
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
FINANCE CO., LD.,
676
Hongkong, 21st March, 1907,
MARTIN'S
VAPIOL&STEEL Afor Ladies. PILLS
• bolum, No Lrat ze sho
Franch Ramady for 1) for Thomandat Cadies koop & box al Elastima Pills 31 Arst ages of Roy Aregularity of the fystems dimaly does me adamtered. Then who are las Escrimand Chan,tares best common sale, stallchemists and Stoess, or poRSSEN UN
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not impossible that the participation of woman and the lower races will contribute new alements. change the stress of attention, disturb the equilibrium, and force a crisis which will result in the reconstruction of our habits on more sympathetic and equitable principles.
and the works now ontrasted to private indivi deals. taken over by the Mouopoly Buresu, commission, freight and godown rest will be largely saved, and this conmy-combised with the increased sales-will, it is estimated, bring in a net profit of some Ten 45,000,000 ed with the work sumber about 50, who are after 1913. At persent the contractors entrust. paid commission to the amount of Y-a 4,900,00 for their services, and private factories being The located at over 90 different plac ®. freightage ou
ont les is to be borne by the Government, and as Savarnment factories are to be set no at 22 different places centrally situated, freightage will be larg dy saved whan the work is entirely taken over by the Govern-
ment.
"The
A QUESTION OF MORALS. There is a good deal of anconscious humour in the world, and no small portion of it comes from Americs. The latest example is provided by the will of a Miss Louise H. Leclerc, of New York, who bas left a considerable portion of her fortune to French educational societies in order to raise the moral tone of Fragos." words of her will ars, My intention in leaving so largo a part of my fortune to French edn. cational establishments, is to enixe France from thelow moral state in which she at present is, and to prevent her from doing barm to the United States, in which she exercises such a powerful influence."
The money goes to French societies in New York aut in Protestant
Were France, and amounts to a large sum. It is our painful duty, so early in the caroor the money left by the ordinary American it of the Seoul Fress under its new ownership would have been a piece of colossal impo- and management, to have to record la its deuce, bat the absurdity is in columns an action on the part of a prominent discounted by the fact that Miss Leclare was of Japanese, which, for his own sake and for the French extraction, and that she gained her sake of his country, we sincerely wish he had not money he teaching Froach to three gerera- takon. We mean the removal of the Pagoda tions of rich New Yorkers, It is a strang near. Song do by Viscount Trunka. When example of the irony of fate that the details
meationed in the matter was first
the of Miss Leclerc's will should have been
columas
JAPANESE IN KOREA.
THE PAGODA INCIDENT.
one Rens
of orr English contemporary published during the Thaw trial, and just hero, we did not attach any credence to after the revelations concerning the Stanford A few months ago the the allegation, which we regarded as ore White coterie.
have arousel so much
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of those instances of hurried and pre- begnest might not judiced accusations based on more of these Bardante laughter as it does just now in
which the reading public Europe-Globu groundless ramburs
f Sapul kas been accustomed during the past few years, But, trour deep regret, we now find
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The facts, so far as we have been able to Specialities for the Skin are the study of a i
When Visconat lifetime, A. B. Watson & Co., Ltd, Sole Agents, rather, seems to be as followe Tanaka was here in January last, he was approached by a Japanese caricdealer with a
raluabl saggaation as to the practicability addition being secured to his fice collection of care objects. Viscount Tanaka is conscientious ficial, liked and respecial by those who know. Lim, whether foreign or Takness, but he is an ardent virtuoso and collector, and it appears that in this instance his collector's eagerness got the batter of his sober judgment and discretion. In Ruy case, he mentioned the matter to the Korean Ministers of the Interior and of the Household and b'ained their approval, and, through them, the Emperor's sanction for the removal of the pagus in question. The actual work of the removal was Folrusted to the dealer who made the unfortu ante suggestion, and who seems to buse undertaken the job with his ebaracteristic skill and audacity.
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NONTAINING Articles of Special Interest Profusely stated, descriptive of the people, customs, &c., of the Far East.
The kindly Pross criticisms, both Continental and Americas, that the production of this Magazine has evoked is eloquent testimony of he sterling merit of the publication.
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We deeply regret the removal of a historis monument of such value from a country which is far from haring enough to spare. Equally regrettable is it, because of the bad impression it is sure to produce in the minds of the resu people. It will vartainly not smooth the way for the illustrious statesman who is housUp and consisinotly trying to better the condition of the Korean people for when be sntertains the warmest sympathy.
Sincerely regretting the incident, as we do, we find it difficult, however to agree with the Japan Chronical in regarding the transaction as a theft. Viscount Taasks has undoubtedly been guilty of a very deplorabls folly. But it seems, under the circumstances, a gross in- justice to charge him with a theft. In taking
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