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NAKAGAWA,

1828

DEALERS IN CLOISONNE, SATSUMA, LACQUERED

AND

TUESDAY DECEMBER 8 1901.

FIFTY YEARS IN SHANGHAL CROSS CHANNEL SUBMARINES.

Disadvantages of the Intro duction of the Telegraph.

Revolution in Sen Travel-

Promised

Fame, Oct. 23.

A prominent English merchant just To make a voyage from Calais to returned from Shanghai after a resi Daver in a submarine passenger vessel dence there of If a century has given may suem a project destined to be to the Daily fail some interesting realised only in the dim and distant notes and opinions on the progress of future but there are those in this the English settlement at Shanghai country who think that before very long since he went out there in the early we may enter a A submarine Channel fifties.

steamer with as little hesitation as we

now embark on the underground milway, The idea of a submarine Channel

Life in Shanghai, he says, is very different from what it was fifty years ngo. Then young men went out on servico is due to M. Emile Duboc, who large salaries, confidently expecting to in M. Vaillaane's journal. Le Yacht, make their fortunes and return to demonstrates the feasibility of the England in a few years. Nowadays during scheme. I saw M. Duboc this HIGH-CLASS PROVISIONS. they go out on small salaries with the morning and obtained from him some

Under European Management.

For Sale.

FOR SALE.

2210 idea of remaining there, if not for good,

at least for a number of years.

Khaving erected thereon the HOUSE, OWLOON INLAND LOT No. 616,

known as EKANI. BUNGALOW. Te Lot has an area of 64 222 square foot, and has road frontages of 345 feut 6 inches on Observatory Road, 201 feet on Kimber- ley Road and 178 feet 6 inches on Des Voux Road..

For Particulare, apply to

MESSRS, N. MODY & Co.,

044 58, Queen's Road Central Hongkong, December 2, 1901.

FOR SALE.

2450

This fact has brought about a strik. ing alteration in the mode of life among the English out there. For instance, gether in a jolly, Bohemians, way they where formerly young man lived to

no

marry young and settle down. Where, many years ago, they lived in

further information on this interesting subject. The type of submarine pros posed for the passage between France. and England is the Goubet,

Do you really believe that we may senger service?" I asked M. Dubor hope to utilise the submarine for pas

I

Yes, he replied; 'I do'

•What shall we gain by so doing ?*. asked...

large houses with grounds and gardens,

One advantage would be the absence they now docopy, each with his wife

of sea-sickness, The submarine would and family, small houses in a terrace very much as they might do in a suburb travel at a uniform depth of 45ft. to 50ft and would be gaided by a steel of London. But fortunately the houses, though small, have not yet reached the wire over which it would be drawn by minimum of smallness and discomfort electric motors. It would thus be

TEA SERVICES, PORCELAIN GOODS A NEWLY BUILT STEAMBOAT. achieved by the jerry builder of the maintained in a horizontal position,

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Hongkong, October 23, 1901,

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Length, 110, Width 18.6, Depth 8.6". Boiler, 9x8'6".

Cylinders 19" x 24".

Stroko 18".

Apply to

KWONG YEE ON. Ship Chandler & Provision Dester,

31, Hing Lung Street. Honghong, November 13, 1901,

FOR SALE

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London suburbs. The rooms of the have no stoppages, and move, nt a houses in Shanghai are still large and minimum speed of twenty knots an lofty, though not so fine as they used to

Another advantage is that the sub- be. Moreover, rents are much higher. Shanghai has become modern and marine vessel would not be hindered by Europeanised, which has brought with 20g, and passengers and mails would in increase of comfort and orderliness a

never incur the delays which so often, corresponding decrease in the freedom impede Chunnel traffic in the winter and lack of restraint once enjoyed by time. Neither would rough weather struct the submarine, and the depth at which the vessel travels would oliviate the risk of the collisions which are so frequent on the surface.*

HOUSES and LAND at the PEAS. For the English residents,

detailed Particulars.

Apply to

A

DENNYS & BOWLEY,

Solicitors, Stipreme Court. Hongkong, September 28, 1901,- 2007

FOR SALE.

JUIN GRAHAM'S Choice FIVE CROWN FORT Woll-known to

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Auctions.

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CURIOS CURIOS!! CURIOS ! !!,

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Comprising

IVORY CARVINGS, GOLD LACQUERE, OLD Bad NEW BRONZES, HANDSOME INLAID PANELS and SCREENS, CLOBONE WARKS; OLD SATSUMA VASES and BoWIS, SILK SHAWLS, &

Catalogues can be had on application to the undersigned.

Trans-As usual;

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong. December 1, 1901.

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Though he does not share the pes simism which forecasts the collapse of

British trade in China, our informant admits that the British merchants are no longer paramount, as they once were. This he attributes in a largo measure to

the but that hat consuls at Chinese ports are not able to act on their own initiative in support of the English

'How about breathing down below!" I asked

It would not be more difficult than on the Metropolitan Railway, replied M. Duboc. When the air in the Gonbet becomes vitiated it is expelled and is replaced by fresh air.

merchants, while the consuls of other

When I remarked that the journey countries can and do z0 "Bot. Years

From Calais to Dover would entail a ago, he says, before the telegraphi com nected China with Europe, the English

somewhat lengthy stay underneath the authorities on the spot, whenever any Goubet submarine had more than once waves, M. Dubne replied that the trouble arose, took prompt measures been submerged with the captain and and asserted their rights; nowadays three or four men for six hours at a they have to cable to London for in- time, and that they had suffered no structions and are invariably advised to be careful, to cause no friction and

so forth, with the result that the wily Chinese nearly always gets his own

way.

With regard to the Chinese and their attitude towards. Europeans our inform snt is hopeful. He declares they are becoming more and more Europeansed and amenable to Western ways every day

inconvenience.

when he is in the depths of the sea!' How can the captain see his course

I asked,

He uses a telescopic optical tube In.. vented by M. Coubat in 1890, and sines appropriated by the submarine vessels

vertical less emerging from a dome of other countries. By means of a

above the surface of the sea, the captain Ican obtain a clear view of the horizon." M. Dubou showed me a drawing of the model for the submarine passenger Stearns' Wine of God Liver Oil is

vessel, which measures 80it, long and Sold on a Guarantee. Extonsive ure of Stearns Wine of Cod is intended to be manned by a crew of Liver Oil, in al civilized countrik has five mon, M. Goubet has heen proved it to be meritorious in the highest perimenting with his invention for degree. It has produced remarkable results

where other so-called tonics and reconstruc- twenty years, and although the State tives

have entirely failed. Whereverse has hindered rather than helped him, he

by physicians or public, its praises are

We know what it has done, what is not discouraged.

sounded

www.confidence in

in it is so

Gaed, wo sell it on positive guar

M Vuillaume, the well-known nauti

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