FOR BALEN
NAPIER JOHNSTONES' "SQUARE BOTTLE”
WHISKY,
UNVARIED FOR
FASHIONS AND FANCIES,
THE HONCHIANG DALLY DRESS, MONTATTOT ANGE
TILE BAGE FOR FURBAN The Italian word *webbla ? worms miere sai prosive than the French •* forear”
sad oren more than 3th offer
“CHINESE IN LONDON,
THE "ASIATIC AS A COLONIST.
IMPROVED FINANCIAL STATUSI KAUPASTEL OF BLYMPET
A report to hand from Bangkok pontains an instructive soocant of the finansial progrses of BE AN AUSTRALIAN VIRETORIO DA
Slam, as revealed in the Budget statements Bendon, almost the list place in the Empire
for the last have" year The equort Əle diawn" English sister word furors," and the strongest of to be to ill-favoured, is now gessing Chinese up by Mr. W. J. F. Williamson, the finnawakal them all is needed to express the sentiments quarter. In this it follows Vancouver, Sydney advisor to the Blames Government who shows with which fuis art regented by the art Melbourne, Capetown, and, of course, the British at wherese the gatimates of the online wonzen of this sesson. They are so hinded Battlements in Asia John Chinaman bevonte and expenditure for the year 1907-3 by it that they cannot see how ludicrous they steady affection for the British fia, and when anticipated a deficit of over fire And D look when enveloped in fars from neck to erer it floats socks to establish himself, for the half million ticals, the actual deficit was heel, with heads and talle hang all about them Britisk flag means "fairer das!" for they just over two-thirds of a million tioals. and Sensient Feathers for half-d-loben en stranger than any other that greets the grinds of Last year the estimates were framed to show doar cocks sticking straight out at the back the world. Why London has been so long spared
a defeit of nearly two million tieals. The of their for turbans. Tie enough to make on a Chinese invasion may be explained by ite angel weep, if woop they over do. One can't remoteness from Fax Cathay." The supplant, imagine iti A little lady descended from horing of British women by Chinese ch some ship motor in the Champs Elysees a few days ago, ping lines has lately discovered this city to and attempted to walk with the tall young man the Calestial Empire, and Tondon may look who accompanied for. But how call be forward tot om tis Conton Province, which walk P
the lower part of her very Immigration from the exiguous cdfasul coat was band of B Wares for workers are not extravagantly high estimated that the ordinary ravshine, will yield nearly half a yard in depth, and battoned- tightly round her, as was the rest of her post, of whlah It formed part Tails hung in profusion from her "tie and muft, the lattor large enough to warm half-a-dozen pair of haude. First, the little lady tried to undo the baltons tint held the skunk about her Like
bandage round the knoos, Then her compation accompliated this for her, but the skirt of her black velvet grown had got so twisted and was, in any case, so akimp and tight that she had to give up the effort to walk, and returned exhausted to her motor. Is not this quite idiotic?
AS
150 YEARS.
IN 1745.
THE SAME TO-DAY
IMITATIONS
SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG:
THE SOFA PILLOW MUFF. Can anyone remember the hard and horrid thing once called a sofa pillow!? It was
supplies most of the Chinese emigrants.
accounts for the year had not been finally closed when Mr. Williamson drew up his report In September last; but he was able to state for certain that, so far from there being a deflat the actual receipts and payments for the year two million tons, would result in A surplus of considerably over
The current financial year,
1909.10,
in England but even so, the Chinaman can
sixty-three million ticabs, and the ordinary under out them. Ho can live in one quarter expenditure amount to seventy-one thousand the cabical spaso of a white man, his font costa toate loss. It is prescribed in the Gold him has than a quarter of the sus necessary to that the unit of the Slamase monetary system Standard Act which was protauigated last year koop a white man as an efficiant worker, family shall have a value squivalent in English money life is not a 2000sity to him (though, to be fair, bo is an excellent, pateryamidine when he mar. to about 18, 614,, or thirteen ticals to the pound rles). In short, he is fim Ideal Free Trade sterling. In Engll equivalents, thedure, worker. In laundry work, in small culture, in the new Siamese Badget may be set to provide tailoring, shopkeeping, and cabinet-making the for small surpins after meeting an expenditure Chinese will always displace the British worker of about £4,840,000. Increases in the revenus ** | are anticipated under the head of spirits, oréharil if allowed to-do so,
tax, forests, poll tax, and capitation taxes, while the only reduction of any importance is under the head of mines, from which a decrease in the revenne la anticipated owing to the fall in the price of lin. Ås in previous years, provision is
construction, chargeable to loan account. Tils year suchi expenditure is estimate, deo million ticals. At the end of March I otal of 524 miles of line had been opened he diamers State Railways nyste
The Chinese quarter in London is in the Limehouse district. It is as yet a small one, but is growing, and as the Chinese sailors return to their homes with news of this country it will grow more quickly. At present two streste
is not checked by legislation, it will swarta, withert s denkt, over a whole district, as in New York, in Vancouver, and, to a lesser extent, the Australian cities.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO., stuffed as tight as the capacity of it world sailsfy its needs. In n few years, if its growth made for extraordinary expenditure on railway
dan allow, and sometimes covered with an "atró and from ALL Wine Merchants, [46 cions material called horsehair, which had sharp little ends sticking out of it that FOR SALE.
worried the skin of anyone brave enough (and stupid enough) to use the thing as a pillow. A proud tassel hang out at the side of this reprehensibly cruel article. Wall, the pewost muff is very much of the lines of this dreadful bolator pillow, but with an added depth of fall an much agam and a supplement of many tails hanging pitifully all in a row. Another favourite shape resembles a carpet bag as any reader of Thursday's Globe over seen a carpet bug. The muff is equally rigid in outline, and if anyone can imagine a carpet bag shade of fur hung round two fides and the base with little pitiful furry tails, they have a correct conception of what Bomaty thinks ap propriate to tau warming of her finger-tips.
Quantity of NETTING for Tenuis
Courts, etc. TABLE BILLIARD SETS, SLATE BEDS, from $40.00
CHINA EXPRESS CO.,
3, Duddell Street. 40
FOR SALE.
THE Cutter Yacht "BRYNHILDE," as she lies off Ait King's, with all Gear and Etores, Bedding and Mess Traps on Board.
Length over all, 42 feet; Beam, 10 feet 3 inches; Draught, 5 foot.
Lead Keel weighing 3,030 lbs. Teak Copper Fastened.
Built,
New Balls, Ared about 1,700 square foot. Large English built Dinghy, Three Anchors, Chain and Hemp Cables, Two Life Buoys, Compass, Lights, &c.
Complete and ready for soa.
MALEIGH & ORANGE.
Prinoca Building,
2 Des Youx Bond Central. Hongkong, 31st December, 1999.
FOR SALE.
₤106
ita
The Chinaman has a narrow and fossilised nationalism. Wherever he goes ho at once seta up a little China. With steady laboriousness lie builds up and destroya nntil his ideal le attained. Window spaces are filled in, for he does not Bollove in fresh air or in light; rooms are broken ny into cubicles, and yory often their height divided bynloft so that one storey becomes two. Still more characteristic, little passages are constructed, with queint elbows and block- ing doors every few yards... the Chinese zaust be like or warren. Fossiges, too, are constructed underground from one house to another. When San Francisco" was recently destroyed by earthquake and fire, then, for the first time the wonderful ramifications of THE CHEBTMAS SHOPS.
underground Chinatown were exposed. Police London is at her fairest on a bright June offer who had made a life-study of the Chinese morning, when the green leaves are out on the quarter, and were certain that they know black trees, when the white olouds are playing ovory nook and cranny,
obliged to confess in the blue sky'“ like lomba in a meadow,” and that bere was quite a elly underground that when sunshine brings its ineffable glory to the they knew not. In Vancouver, Sydney, in scene. That London is very splendid in the worobably no real need in thoso cities for Melbourne the same conditions rule. There is before Christmas Art, not nature, his the rooy, for the elaborate preparations innings then. Nowherein the world is the art of window dressing staplied and practised as it is in London. No other capital can hold a candle to ours in this respot. A walk down Picon-
certain portion of Oxford-street is a real
jpy to the lover of beautiful things. Can the jewel windows in the Rue de Faiz compare Cargin of our own: The designs may be for ocupation. He brings with him a little generally are, it must be admitted-newer, and colony of his countrymen The house of fre more delicate, but wint of the arrangement Proms must shelter ten or twelve men, and then Our English shops sarpass then in this particuor," and "with respect to Vienna and
for sudden fight, that the mazes ahora ground and below the earth belokan. But such things are necessary in China, and the exiled Chinaman to be happy must recreste his
Chian
›EMAINING Portions of MARINE Bond-street, Regent-street, and a his trait is partionlarly noticeable when s
RLOTS 31 and 36, 61 FRATA BASE.
Approximate Aros, 43,000 Square Feet,
ΤΟ BE LETTOR SOLD IN LOTS TO SUIT TENANTS OR PURCHASERS,
MARINE LOT Bonin the same is true.
No. 235 EXTENSIVE WATER FRONTAGE, DEEP WATER.
Apply
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Hongkong, 8th June, 1906.
GRACA & CO..
27, Day Voux BOAD. The Dealers in
ASIATIC POSTAGE STAMPS AND
PICTORIAL POST CARDS. UBT Beceived a Selection of POSTAGE BLAMP CATALOGUE FOR 1910, Picture and Painting Books, Novels, Fostage Stamp Albans with Moveable Leaf, Puzzle Past Cards, Solcel and Shopping Bags, Dolls, Toys, Cigara, Cigaretter, &o, &c.
Inspection Invited:
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AUTOMATIO BROWNING POOKET PISTOLS.
CALIBRE 7:65 mm.
With CHANCHER for 8 CARTRIDGES
ĮSIRING 8 SHOTS L1:2 BECONDS.M
SIEMSBEN - Co Hongkong, 6th March, 1907.
SINGON & CO. TROK, STEEL, METAL and HARD. WARE MERCHANTS. Wholesale Retail Ironmonger Pig Iron and
With mom fokos warm, by, in Australis,
a comfortable white man's house
Low
they will use only one room for themselves, derot ing the others to use as store-roome. In this one They will eat "and" sloop and have their Being Two-flars of banks around the walls; a Long
table, some croking, tellings Bud oplam papon--that is the furniture. The walls are decorated with strings of dried fab, of meat, snd of onions, The bunks are used not only! for sleeping, but for the storage of vege
THE FLOWER SHOPS. During the last twenty years London has blossomed out in fewer shops, to her own great ornament and the joy of "bor childron, America has influenced ns in this love of fowars, and we are the more grateful because tables and fruit.
ing
|
it is not always that Trans Atlantic influence is The world-traveller can always make his way so benignant. It is good to see the crowds of--to the Chinese quarter of any city if given the kappy youngsters round the lovely flower shops alightest indication of its whereabouts. He is in the Royal Arcade this week, their eyes find-guided by the languid, vague smell of Asia- ing fairly tales in the horring dovas aboys a: Borić, parvasive, although vagues which Beerus snowy Inttics enyresthed with greenery encics to be mingled of vegetation, growing too rankly, Lowering plants and decked with frosted of opium, and of the dead fames of inconse holly. Goldan baskets filled with spring flow burned to long into dead gods. Wherever in era, lily-of-the-valley, tulipa, hyacinths, warm the world the Chinese gather there is that same
young imaginations, and the little red languid smell, whether it be in a city of Chim Anterns, with their holly berries and mistletoe and scarlet ribbons ready to hang in the hall to trap the unwary address themselves to the fancy of the adult as wall sa that of the nursery, This bit of Old Bond-street is as much in re quest sa was the now forgotten Lowther Arcade in the olden days. And what a growth. in tarts the change expressen!
THE CHANGE IN SLEEVES. There is one point in which fashion has altered very much for the better during the last few years. The exorescences on Leerős have disappeared, and now they outline the Arms with absolute delity. The artistic value of this is greeter than the casual ob- sörtar thinks. "But take a parallel. A horis with protective leather round his legs is a cass in point. The beautiful line, the symmetry, the admirable proportion of leg to body, all are effaced. And this was exactly the affect that puffed droves hind when they were worn. Is it believable that our sleeves made un messure 25 inches serons brit ten years since? How could
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or the Chinese suburb of Melbourne, Honolulu, Burs, Vancouver, San Francisco, New York, London, for everywhere that he goes the Chias- man smokes opium, barus joes satrakes, and esta what hesitates between food and garbage
In cities of older Chinese settlement a trip lo Chinatown is a picturesque feature of the tourista itinerary. The London Chinese quarter is as yet not picturesque. It lacks
■ jons-house, a Chinese tasetre, and those. gorgeously decorated but insanitary where rish Chine live. A for sailors, laundry- mek, and shopkeepers so far wake up the London Chiusse quarter. The rest there la unfortunately too good reason to suppose will come in
time Unfortunataly for the Chinaman, ""despite all his trides, in not desirable aften. He is thrifty, law-abiding (except as regards Banitation), fimdustrious, kind," "patient. His opinmumoking hus
$2 Casia. On sale at the "DarkE been exaggerated into a vice. As a matter PEESS" Office, or Local Booksellers. of truth, with most Chinsmen it is no more and no lees of a bad habit than the average European'a alcohol. A few. Chin man over-
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we have been such goose? And the worst of it indulge in opsam, just as a for Europeans is the certainty that we shall be quite sa abaard indulge in drink. The average Chinaman, is s so moderate anoker and Hads in opium the again about something else.
little streak of colour shot through the wood of life so the white worker finds in beer or
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.:
HONGTRONG
6
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which
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$19,121,310,
I. Authorised Capital ... £6,000,000.
Bubscribed Capital 3,275,000 Paid-up Capital
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For Demand Drafts on London on the day of E
or proceeding the departure of the English
Mall; also Table of the Yearly Approxíniste Averages for 35 years
FROM 1874 TO 1906.
Price
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL,
REGISTER.
·Hongkong Obamerstoey, January 23rd··
LOONG STREET," (2nd Street, west of Central When in Paris Rīta tank do very gingen on this caid, the Chinaman is not a Temperature |
and Foundry Coke Importers. General Store- keepers and Shipchandlers. Nos. 35 & 37, HING
Market) Telephone No. 515.
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Tet with [583
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ugly brass, headed mail outline which, for the moment, she insists, spon for her daughters desirable citizen. Economically, be is undesir. It is ugly enough to last for ever, on the stle-unless one sccepts the full Free Trade principle that the brightest things "fede the faith-for he can always undercut the white feetest," and inferentially the ugly one last worker. Socially he is undesirable, because, for all long. Is this not true about gowns and hate? his good qualities, his outlook on life is so utterly Do not the pretty ODOS speal? But Zenobia 50 91% at incredible different to that of our white civilisation that he uggests wings a deep taint of degradation to the white
that this be because they are more oftan
people with whom he comes intó contract. There
the Noah's Ark costame seems to have taken is good reason behind the avage antagoniam firm hold. In The House Opposite which our race in each one of the Oversong
*
FILMS pretty Mise Mariel appears in a Dominions displays towards Chinese immigra most fascinating. Yekating oostame adtion. That antagonism is not merely, as some
apted to motoring Her part requires her suppose, due to the objection of the working DEVELOPING & PRINTING to kodal down beside her friend, bat batere she classes to a cheap competitor. It is shared by
UNDERTAKEN.
Hongkong, fom Decembir, 1909,
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A LING & CO.
19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
FURNITURE AND PHOTO GOODS STORE.
Photographis Goods of every Description in Stock.
Developing and Printing Undertakan. Hongkong, 31st July, 1907
can do so she is obliged to unfasten three but toma that hold her coat, tight round her about the kuoca. She could not sit in a motor with atty comfort in so tight a cont. That is the Noah's Ark or tenpenny nail silhouette.
THE RAGE FOR GOLD, This other rabbis" is spreading. A well- known equipago, bolonging to a celebrated besuty, has the harness picked out with gold, and she herself exhibits gold-embroidered wheos when stepping into it, or perhaps even more when stepping out Hats, coats, gowns for outdoor or for evening wear, and now footgear, all show the tonch af gold that would at one
every dass of the community. It is founded on the knowledge that each Chinese houss in B possible centre of degradation to the "white population. It would be of advantage to British statesmen to consider the growth of Chinese immigration to England in the light of the knowledge soquired by other nations of the Empire, for it is of present necessity that the police satharties should have some further powers of supervision over the Chinese shops and houses in the Limehousa quarter.
ON SALE.
time have bean regarded as valgarity itself, bat, BWRENLY PRESS. January to Jane,
sa a post of the day has remarked.
Morality is but local etiquetto”
and manners follow in the same category.
1347
AND Z. in the Globe,
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Hongkong, 9th August, 1909,
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Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned, Goods remaining unclaimed after the 24th inst, at Noor, will be subject to rent and landing charges.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 24th inst, or they will not be recognised.
All damaged packages will be examined on the 24th inst., at 3 r..
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
F. THOMAS, Agent Hongkong, 17th January, 1910,
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