INSURANCES
TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN- TILE INSURANCE COMPANY.
No
TOTAL FUNDS AT 31at DECEMBER, 1907
£18,114,624,
Authorised Capital...
Subscribed Capital
Paid-up Capital
II. Fire Funds
COMING
COMING!
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14TH, 1909.
ECHOES FROM EVERYWHERE,
MAD LOVERS.
HARMSTON'S degree to a boy of thirteen named Nino Rossi, Love never loads to madiness. Dr. Berillon
GRAND CIRCUS
£3,000,000
2,750,000
687,800 0 0 3,065,374 15 7
ROYAL
The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS
against FIRE at Current Ratos.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agente. Hongkong, 21st July, 1908.
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AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- BURANCE CO.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
HE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are
THE
AND
MENAGERIE OF
PERFORMING WILD ANIMALS.
ARE ALL STAR LONDON AND CONTINENTAL ARTISTS.
30
IN NUMBER
GRAND OPENING NIGHT
30
prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE ON MONDAY, JANUARY 18TH
st Current Rates
WM. MEYERINK & CO., Agents.
Hongkong, 6th September, 1908.
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THE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
HE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the stove Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Bates.
CARLOWITZ & Co. Hongkong, 13th August 1906.
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A YOUTHFUL, 'COMPOSER, The Conservatoira at Bologna has awarded a who has worked bis way through the course in ten months, although four years fo the allotted time. Rossi is now at work on the composition of an opers. He is a remarkable lad in other respects, for he weighs over alaren stone."
THE BEDOKIN'S BED.
One of the most interesting patients at the medical mission at Haifa,Palestine, is Bodoniu, who had never been inside a house with windows, and had never seen a bedstead. He wanted to sleep under the bed, foaring to fall off if he tried to sleep on it, saying, "I can't stay awake all night holding on to this bank: hosides, it will nat keep still." It was a spring
mattuose.
DONANDO'S DRINK.
Dorando intends to remain in Amerion pend. ing the organisation of further long-distance contesta which will prove that he is nut merely a one-day champion of the world. The Italian ranner now admits (says a correspondent) that the liquid refreshment he sipped during the race from a Chianti bottle was not really Chianti, as his brother declared. "I drink. Chianti when LOCATION OF OUR TENTS-CAUSEWAY BAY. training," he said," bal net during a race. What I drank was a coffee mixture, the compe sition of which I do not care to disclose. Suffice it to say that it keeps me fresh and makes me run fast. No it was not a drug!"
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Examples of episcopal lottors given in "The MATINEE PERFORMANCES -
Old Time Parson" show that bishops' lotters are EVERY WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY.not necessarily dull. Here are two examples by the historian Bishop of Oxford, the late Dr. Stubbs: A fussy clergyman wrote him along and tiresome letter, asking his lordship's opinion as to whether it was requisite to have permission to place some curtains behind the altar of his church as a reredos" He received the prompt reply
Doors Open at 2.30 P.M. Performance at 3.30 PM. sharp. Children Half-Price at Matinees only to all parts of the Circus.
Tram Cars will run after each performance. Booking et ROBINSON PLANO Co. Hongkong, 14th January, 1909.
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On another occasion an overworked clergyman appealed for leave of absence for three months to visit the Holy Land. The bishop replied gonially:
"My dear A-Go to Joricho,-Yours ever,--W: OxoU. "
THE "BILLYCOCK" BAT.
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Mr. C. A. Phillips, who died recently, was principal in the well-known firm of Hall and Phillips (Limited), Nancaton, hatinakers. The business was established about two centuries ago at Athers one, and subsequently pass Whore by pur.
chase into the hands of a Joseph family conducted it for more than a hundred years. As early as 1745 the round hats made of soft felt, then known as "Atherstone cocks," were not only sold largely in Great Britain, but sent to the American plantations. Mr. Willday so increased the manufacture of these cheap felt hata that they became known as "Willday cocks, from which name arose the term "Billycocka," The English armies which fought in America, India, and at Waterloo were supplied with hats from Willday's factory.
The Eclair has for some time past boon con salting prominant mon in the medical profes.. sion on the grave problem whether love cau lead to madness Dr. Briand says emphastically eays a distinction must be made there are two. kinds of madness, an incurable and transitory; and it to the later term that love may
lead. The consensus of opinion appears to be contrary to Dr. Briand's theory. Most of the groat alionista hold that love, which in itself is transitory madness, can quite well load to durable madness, sometimes ourable, often incurable. Dr. Voisin, of the famous Sal- pêtrière Hospital, supports this view." It is very delicate question," he says. "Love has many aspects. There is ideal love, there is animal love; but however you take it, real love, and if intense passion is thwarted, and a person violent love, inn passion that is to say, a mutudy; be prelisposed by birth and temperament to feel acutely the deceptions and disillusions insepar able from disappointed love, there are many chances that be will go mal. The evil influence of depression consequent upon commercial, financial, political, artistic worries, and the like may quite well drive a man mad; why, then, should not disappointed love, which destroys your dream and rains your life, also send you
mad
THE BEST HOUSEWIFE, While half a dozen English and Continentäl representatives of a large wolusi provision firm were watching the throngs of visitors at tha opening of the Grocers' Exhibition one of their propounded this question; "Where do we find the ideal housewife nowadays, in Eng. land, France, or Germany?"
No need to go out of the home country to anewer that question," declared an Englishman. "No shrewder bayer exista than the English housewife. Every shopkopper I do business with is agreed upon that point. Give her eighteen shillings and she will make it ge further than many people would a pound. It is im possible
to foist indifferent goods upon English wives; they are far too shrewd, ‘In the management of their bemes they manage to combine absolute good taste and a firm economy."
The French housewife," said a Frenchman, has won my admiration bearse she is for over devising now ways of doing old things-contriv ing new dishes out of old ingredients. She goes shopping with two ohjects in view-variety and frugality. Manufacturers are often at their wifs' end to tompt. her with something which is novel and at the same time inerpensive. I think the Franch housewife touches the ideal because
raried." her ideas are so fresh and
AN ECCENTRIC DOCTOR, The famous Russian Dr. Zaharin, who has died in Moscow, and left over £200,000, was "CAPRI," having arrived from the above Ports, Cou-noted for his eccentric methods: When sum- signees, of Cargo by her are heroby informed monod to attend Czar Alexander III. in his last that their Goods are being landed at their risk, illness, Dr. Zaharin required the same prepars- into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous tion for his visit to the Palace on to any of his Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf patients' homes. That is to say, all dogs had to and Godown Company, Ld., whence delivery kept out of the way, all clocks stoppel, and razy be obtained Porishable. Goode to be taken every door thrown wide open. He left his furs
in the hall, his overcoat in the next room, dolivery of immediately
goloshes in the third, and continuing, arrived at the bedside in ordinary indoor costume. He |· · sat down after walling every few yards, and every eight steps in going upstairs. From the patient's relatives, and everyone else in the house, he required absolute silence until he spoke to them, when his questions had to be answered by "Yes" or "No," and nothing more.
All Claims must be sent to the Office of the andersigned before Noox on the 16th inst, or they will not be recognised.
All Claims will be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 15th inst., will be subject to rent.
All broken, élite, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas where they will be examined on the 15th inst.. at 9.30 A.M.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
CARLOWITZ & Co.,
Agente.
Hongkong, 6th January, 1909.
BEN LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
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9.8. BENLARIG," FROM MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS. ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby in- that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra Jazardous Gotowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf und Godown Company, Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goade bave left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 16th January, will be subject to rent.
All Chime against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 23rd January, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are
to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 16th January, at 11
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co,
Agents. Hongkong, 9th January, 1909.
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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP, LONDON, COLOMBO "AND" SINGAPORE.
HE Company's Steamship
THE
"AWA NARU,”
SHERLOCK HOLMESAW
his
A good story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's experience with a Parisian-cabby-which has appeared in the Figaro is sent by the Daily Telegraph correspondent.
Coming up from the Riviera, he took a cab at the Gare de Lyons, and drove to his hotel, where he tipped the driver substantially,
"Meroi, Monsieur Conan Doyle," said the rocher, to the astonishment of Bir Arthur, who asked how on earth he knew his name.
Voici," mid the cabby. I read in the papers that Sir Doyle was to arrive in Paris from Nice, after stopping at Marseilles and Lyons on the way.
Now I noted that you had bad your hair cut at Marseillos, and that you had Lyons mud still on your boots. Therefore you must be Sir Doyle."
The creator of Sherlock Holmes was more armazed than ever.
"Do you mean to my that was all the evidence you had to go upon?
Well, to be honest, no," answered the cabby with a grin, "I also saw your name written on your box"
BABEL IN CHICAGO.
•
The German housewife," abserved a Berliner, combines so many admirable qualities that she can scarcely be expected to shine in any one direction. Above everything, she has such sound common sense. The German housewife runs up no bills; whatever the insome at her disposal, she always lives within it. You some. really times hear a woman described as 'a wonderful manageress Well, that is tho German housewife'
TARIFF REFORM BUDGET.
HOW UNIONIST POLICY WILL BE PUT INTO PRACTICE.
Mr. George Wyndham indicated, in a speech at, Liverpool recently, how and when the Tarif Reform policy, which the Unionist party hne place in the front of its programme, will be He declared that the rat Unionist Budget given effect when the parly returns to power, would be a Tariff Reform one, and that it would include a
Two shilling daty on wheat, with a preferi
ence to Lapada. No daty on wool;
A small duty on wood.
We are told (said Mr. Wyndham) that the tire has gone by for mere rhetoric and single instances of trades that have suffered from hostile tarifi. You want something more practical. Then let us be practical by all means. must, however, respectfully decline to sketch at the end of 1908 the Budget which ought to be introduced at the beginning of 1910, but I may be asked three questions:
What do we aim at? How will we proceed? When do we mean to bogin? I will attempt to deal with the third question first.
The answer isDirectly the general election has been won. If we are to raise adequate revenus for defence, to giro stability to our skilled trades, and some chance, better than the workhouse, to those who hore never learned a trade we must take action, and we must take it HOUD, And now let us face the difleulty. We used to be told that for this purpose we must tax grain and four, and that this will ingresso the cost of living. That has ceased to alarms. Nobody now seriously contends that a two shilling daty on wheat with a preference to British possessions would increase the price of bread.
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The Tariff Commission has for the last fire years been considering the training of a scien life tariff. An enormous amount of evidence has been taken from representatives of every important trade in the country and carefully collated. The result of this work is that all the material necessary for the framing of a scien- tifie tariff is ready at hand, carefully collated and scheduled.
The shilling without a preference was followed by a decrease Two shillings with a preference would lead to the same result. Mr. Asquith declared, "You cannot do justice between the As stopmother to the nations of the world Coleaics unless you tax raw material" and there seems none to dispute the pre-eminence of said that he had received no answer. Chicago. In the Christmas "Atlantie" Pro-me give the answer again: No fessor W. Z. Ripley, of Harvard says that special the sister States has naked for this from the study of the linguistic conditions in Chicago Mother-country or from any other of the sister PROCEEDS GIVEN TO WIDOWS AND OEPHANS. well illustrates our racial heterogeneity. Among States. Mr. Asquith exclaimed, "What about
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the people of that great city-the third in size corn, meat, wool, and wood!" I have told you! A flatter has been caused in the highest in the United States-fourteen languages are about corn. Our argumente in respect of meat Court circles at Berlin by the discovers that of not less than ten thousand are of greater force in view of the large home the Crown Princess Cecilla has sold a diamond spoken by Newspapers are regularly pub-productions and the ilimitable supply that can i dindem valued at over £5,000 to obtain imoney persons each. lished in ten languages, and church services, be derived from the rest of the Empire. Iu for contribution to the fund to relieve the are conducted in twenty different tongues. respect of wool, we should certainly not impose widows and orphans of the victims of the resent As SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF Measured by the size of ita foreign linguistic any duty, because 142,000.000lbs, came from colliery disaster in Westphalia.
The rown Prince had already contributed colonies, Chicago is the second Bohemian city, foreign countries, and 622,000,000 from
INFLUENCE OF A PLAY,
Mr Martin Harvey, a contemporary says, has received a letter from a husband and wife who were recently reconciled, after an estrangement'
NO DRAKER LIVING,
our
in the world, the third Swadish, the fourth British possessions. As for woot it is quite £250 to the fand, but the Crown Princess, Polish, and the fifth German (New York being unnecessary to place a duty on wood in order to whose kind heart was touched by the terrible the fourth). There is one large factory in obtain a preference from Canada. That can be sufferings of the women and children do Chicago employing ever four thousand people, done by the two shillings on wheat, but in view prived of Imsbands and fathers, determined to representing twenty-four distinct nationalities of wood and timber each year, I throw it out for give a far larger sam for the amelioration of their distress. After secretly eeling the diadem Rules of the establishment are regularly printed, consideration that we could add to in sight languages,
revenue and encourage afforestation by a duty she gave the entire proceeds to the reliet fund. so low that it would not add to the cost of the
When the Crown Princo was informed of his wife's successful attempt
he to raise Money timber props which we need for our raines.
accepted the accomplished fact with good Such duties would not increase the cost of humour. Many courtiers, en the contrary, are Spitable for vessels up to 1,000.
having arrived from the above Ports, Con- HE WORKS are well equipped with signes of cargo are hereby informed that their of years, through seeing that charming play living or the cost of production in this country. deeply shocked at the procedure, which they I und Little Christina," "I visited the They would yield a revenue, and give our manu- regard as a violation of etiquette. They hold LATEST PLANTS and APPLI- Goods, are being landed and placed at their risk Adelphi last Tuesday, wrote the lady, and facturers a preference in all the markets of the it to be highly improper for a member of the ANCES to undertake BUILDING or in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf und
Public opinion, however, applaudis the gen REPAIRING SHIPS, ENGINES, and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where was just taking my seat when I expied my hus! Empire. We are told that the professional man, imperial family to raise money by selling, jewels, BOILERS;
ELECTRICAL each consignment will be sorted out mark by band, whom I had not seen for years, sitting the doctor and the barrister, has nothing to gain
mark and deliver can be obtained as soon ans WORK
in another part of the theatre: our eyes from this change. My answer is that in the erous act, which has greatly enhanced the instinctively met from time time during absence of this change he will suffer more than popularity of the Crown Prince and Princess.
It was well on towards any other from the piling up of direct taxation
HOW TO DE BEAUTIFUL-Keep year coul- Optional Goods will be carried on aniss the performance.
of the performance when the and of municipal rates. Last of all we are instractions are given to the contrary before the end
linus
•We mon musi came,
think first urged by Mr. Asquith not to strike a blow at plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crime Charmante, Lait NOON, TO-DAY.
Goods not cleared by 18th Jan., will be of womou: think of them very tenderly, very one predominance as bankers and breakers. Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Ponder
That
is the crux. Bankers and brokers are - Charmant will enable you to do it. rently. They are weaker than we; you know. aided in their own interests. I am not prepared Specialities for the Skin are the stuly of a. subject to rent,
At this moment mine and my husband's eyes No Fire Insurance has been effected, Damaged packages must be left in the met with a look that they had not contained for to deny that we, as bankers and brokers, inske ifetima. A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd. Solo Agents. Godowns for examination by the Consigues's four long years. The play over, I left my seat large profits es commission agents on au oversea
ON SALE. caa exist by banking, and, moreover, and the Co's representatives at an appointed and made my way to the exit, when, strange to trade of £100.000.000 a year, but no nation going abroad, when too large a portion
DOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG Jentary to June, too large a portion of human waifs are set to 1908. With INDEX. Price $7.50.
On sale at the "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS ** unpredactive tasks, then no business is more
Ofice. surely threatened with destruction than that of banking and broking.
Hongkong, 23rd July, 1908.
A LARGE STOCK of MATERIALS in the Goods are always kept on hand.
The COMPANY has the powerful steamer "OURA-MARU 712 tona, 700 LHP.) spacially built for SALVAGE PURPOSES equipped with neccesary gear, always ready Short Notica.
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NOTICE TO KOWLOON RESIDENTS
is
when
XTRA COPIES of Daily Press are on hour. All claims must be presented within feu say, we mat almost face to face in the readthe nation are clerks on office stools, and far WEEKLY PRESS.
sale
daily at the following stores KOWLOON BOOK STALL, Farry Wharf Messrs. H. RUTTONJEE & SONG, Kow
loon Store, No. 36, Elgin Road. Messrs. HUNG CHEONG, Elgin Road. Mr. AH YAU, Hongkong Ferry Wharf Stall
in a moment I felt my husband's hand squeeze mine and he whispered in my ear, We must think first of women, I responded with ned, and before we knew where we were we found ourselves in-n cab speeding towards home, the first time for four years."
days of the steamer's arrival here, after which and date they cannot be recognised. No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Hongkong, 11th January, 1909,
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LORDS, AND HOUSE OF COMMONS.
THORNE'S
PER CASE
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$15
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