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Intimations.

G. FALCONER & Co.,

WATCH-MAKERS AND JETELLERS.

NEW SELECTIONS OF

DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE, HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. LARGE ASSORTMENT OF SPECTACLES. PINCE-NEZ AND DVE PRESERVES.

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EASTMAN'S KODAKS AND FILMS.

M.

64, QUEEN'S ROAD.

LEMCO

The Cenuine Liebig Company's Extract,

la the most concentrated meat essonce made. Invaluable in Kitchen, Sick Room, and Hospital, and on the Battle Fløid.

The only Meat Extract

aver connected with

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AND FINISHED IN ORAYON.

ALL KINDS OF WORK DONE FOR AMATEURS. B QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

JAPAN

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THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

(Or MITSUI & CO.)

HEAD OFFICE:-42, SAKAMOTO-OHO, TOKYO. LONDON OFFICE:~34, JAME STREET, E.C.

HONGKONG OFFICE - Ics hooke STREET,

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A.B.C. and A i Codes used.

THE

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Intimations.

Intimations.

MUSIC LESSONS.

MR. L. 4. GRACA receives Pupils for the VIOLIN, MANDOLINE and GUITTARNA,

For Terass, Etc..

Apply to THE STUDIO,

ES VILLA.'

No. 19, DAINE ROAD.

Hongkong, December 27, 1901.

NMASTE

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MAESTRO A. CATTANEO,

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AND

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PAYMENTS CAN BE MADE BY

INSTALLMENTS.

Intimations.

THE

ANGLO AMERICAN

STORES.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1901.

FISHBITE FAULTS IN CABLES.

which

LATE TELEGRAMS.

Obituary.

Allan, Decamer 10.-The Pioneer regrets to Jestn that Colonel Walter Spaukie, Cantumaat Magistrate, Now- gong, died suddenly on Sunday morning of heart disease on leaving for Calcutta to take his duties as Additional Member of the Vicuroy's Council,

The Eastern Extension Telograph Com pany have brought to the notice of the Press an interesting, fast in ∙opance- tion with the interruptions, due to vari Qua agencies,

aro continually recurring i etib-narito telegraph cables.. Faults arently due to fishbitas have been removed from time to time from several of the shallow-water nee

Fatal Sbooting Accident. tions of that Company's system, which Kotchen, efficiating Commumlant, ist Bat- Calcutta, December 12-Captain S. D.

haye either totally interrupted telegraphia talion, Kerraer Militin, was accidentally communication or havn seriously afooted shot dead in Monday by hie alikari on the the working of the lines. Cables establish was brought to Paraolinar laro on the same

Safed Koh above the Maulana.

The body

No. 1 WELLINGTON ST.ed in doeper waters have not hitherto, evening.

WHEELER & WILSON'S Under European Management. go from the Company's Sydney-Nelson

SINGER'S

Arity 20

AND

MACHINES.

DOOLITTLE & POLLOCK,

No. 8, WELLINGTON SRTFET.

SEND FOR CATALOGUES & LISTS, SEN

To Let.

1627

B

COME AND LOOK.

"THEAP SALE FOR 15 DAYS. Just

received:---

NEW GOODS

VASES,

PANELS,

SILK ALBUMS,

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JAPANESE RINGS,

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Hongkong, August 1, 1901.

N. INUZUKA, Manager.

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UNTOUCHED BY HAND.

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SWEETS, CRACKERS, CHRY STALLIZED MIXED FRUITS. CAKES, NUTS, FIGS, CARDS, Etc., Etc. -

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THE

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TELEPHONE

AND

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COMPANY

LIMITED.

NEW REGULATIONS.

...................

SUBSCRIBERS are no tified that when A CALL

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QUIRED, instead of Listen- ing until this Person can be found it is better to give their Name and Number to anyone an- swering, and then TO RING OFF.

WHEN THE PERSON RE- QUIRED REACHES. THE INSTRUMENT, A FRESH

CALL CAN THEN BE MADE FROM THAT END.

For fall particular, &c,

Apply to

W. STUART HARRISON,

Manager

September 10, 1901.

CHINESE SCHOOL BOOKS:

Lam Taz King. IT-Ts Est Man Translated into Farglish

by Dr. E. J. EITEL PRICE 20 Cents the Set CHINE MAIL Office 6. Wyndham Street.

TO LET

DELLEVUE, PEAK ROAD, from 1st

January.

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY, CO., LL. Hongkong, December 4, 1991.

TO LET.

2482

NO. 1. STEWART TERRACE. Tho AY PEAR

HIGH-CLASS PROVISIONS.

2219

THE MUTUAL STORES, -8 and 10, D'Agular Street.

HAVE JUST OPENED

and

however, beon similarly attacked. We now learn that fault removed a few months

The Bank Robberies. Lordon, December -Goudin Fection at as great a depth as 330 fathoms Liverpent rohbaries wore brought up at cthors connectad with the Bank of was found to contain a tooth firmly fixed Bow Strest. The prosecution showed that in the core of the cable, although the orra Gondio must cleverlyfrged huge cheques -or interior partsen of tw calle contain-amounts to his contensed who were book

and manipulated the books. He sent lurge ing the conductor-was protested by the maskers and whom he trusted blindly, and

sm sheathing of thick irim wires and fobrained practically nothing hitaself. outer coverings. An export. oxamination of the tooth proved it to belong, undoubt edly, to a species of shark, the exact variery of which could not be identified; but it

IN EXCELLENT ASSORTMENT OF appears that five known varietics of sharks

Raphael Tuck & R

are found to exist at a depth of 30 fat. homs, and one at a depth of even 500 fathoms.

NEW YEAR CARDS. Very low prees 10% discount for cut. IsSPECTION INVITED. Hongkong. October 20, 1901..

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY Co., Lan. Hongkong, July 16, 1901

H

1478

TO LET.

TUROPEAN HOUSES Nos. 4, 5,

Reab

Apply to

WILD DELL, WANOGAL

SANG KEE, 72, Wing Lok Street. Hongkong, December 18, 1901.

TO LET.

1260

2159

The Queen of Holland, Nets mossage says -The publication in Caleatts, Docamber D.-An Indian Dady the English press of Renter's statements regarding serious differences between Queen Wilhelmina and her barbund has created official deniale have been made of all the great indignation in Holland. Categorical statements of Router and we are asked duels. The Dutch Court is furious and pro- to belleve there was naquarrel, no insult, no Boerisus is simpant it the Hague.

Commenting our this, The Standard saysServe of the unexpected perilatlost await submarine cables, seen in the depths of the ocean, are described in a commani: cation printed in another column. Thongb the Jargest waves in a storm probably do not appreciably disturb the water bayond the first hundred fathomes,-if, indeed, they go so far, currents are sometimes strong detailed Particulars. OUSES and LAND at the PEAK. For enough to fray the cable against some subtitution to make it an offence if any vessel

For Sale.

FOR SALE.

Apply to

DENNYS & BOWLEY,

Solicitors, Supreme Court. Hongking. September 28, 1901

Auctions.

The Australian Customs. London, December 10.-With regard to the writ issued against the Captain of the for bouch of Australian Customs Mill, the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Oceanio Supreme Court at Motherine bus given that Parliament is empowered by its cons judgment adverse to the Oceania holding

cutore an Australian port with broken senis, as matter where broken,

-

The Soudan. December 8.--The Khusties left Khar- toun for Ceiro and expressed his pleasure at finding the country more advanced lam

Mra Ross's Case..

marine crag, and various living creatures wil do itamischief. Arnongtharu fishos barnlong been suspect, and now the charge has been 2007 proved in the cable connecting Sydney with Nolion. A defect was detected, and on ex. aining the plece a shark's tooth was found ambolded in the sheathing. As that con-Ire imagined. sisted of the usual thick iron wires and their outer covering, the aggressor must have given a hard bite. The motive is not easily divined. Could the shark have mistaken the cable, in the imperfect light, for a new species of conger, or did it, which seems more likoly, blunder against it at a place where it did not torch bottoin, and re- swordfish will express its resentment Have its temper by a vicious snap? A

against a vessel by driving the boyonet at the end of its nose into the planks, and a narwbal will use its lance of ivory in siurikar fashion; smak, like the shark, to its own detriment, for is illustrates the maxim

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Undersigned has received instruc

CDOWN, No. 52, DUDDELL STREET. THE 6 Sel by Posite ACTION

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, July 4, 1901.

HO

TU LEI.

1399

OUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS,

CONDUIT ROAD,

A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE,

THE RETREAT,' MOUNT KELLET GODOWNS at BLUE BUILDINGS. flovSES AT CAUSEWAY Bax, FACING THE POLO GROUND HONGKONG LAND INVEST

SATURDAY,

the 28th DECEMBER, 1901, at 2,80

his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, EIGHTY PIECES OF VERY FINE IVORY CARVINGS;

Also,

A Quantity of JAPANESE PORCE. LAIN WARE,

Comprising:-

ou Mrs Rossi, the accused in the piano case, Mandalay, December 1.-Tho sonter.ca has been reduced to two months" on appeal rocate is taking the case ap on rovision to to the Beastone Court. The aroused's Ad- the Court of the Judies Commissioner.

Trusts in America. the Amalgamated Copper Trust, which in Tandon, December 9-The position of the earliest of the huge American trusts, is causing much concern and the New York tiori in copper shares in the list ton days is Stock Market is agitated. The deprecia- estimated four millions sterling Tho

TEA SEA, DESSUT SITE, COFFEE CUPS | Con't you leave it alone,' by luwing the decline is largely due to manipulation of

and SAVCERS, TEA POTS, PLATES, VASES, JARDINIERES and STANDS, &e., &c.;

And

A Few Pieces of CANTON BLACK

WOOD FURNITURE,

Apply to

MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, November 29, 1901. 2441

ber.

TO LET.

ROOMED Bangalow "Rheda," Bun ham Road. Beginning from let January, 1900,

Apply to

LIAO TZE SAN, China Merchicks Steam M. Cù,,

38, Des Voeux Rund. Hongkong, November 30, 1901. 2140

TO LET.

FROM the 1st of January, 1902,. aa

OFFICE. Apply to

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, Superintendent's Chee,

a, Queen's Building, Top Floor. Hongkong, December 14, 1901.. 2540

TO LET

SMALL BUNGALOW IN KOW.

LOON.

Apply to:- THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT and AGENCY 00, LD,

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer. Hongkong, December 23. 1901.

2026

weapon of offence. The conflict between ahark and cably sccurred three hundred

and thirty fathoms below the surface, a

powerful adverse interests.

The Sugar Conference. Os View from Friday, the 27th Decem-depth which formerly was supposed to be December 11-The British delegates at

almost lifeless. But 2cap

the Sugar Conference includo Sir Edmund TE--Cash on delivery,

sea. dindging Phipps. Ministering Brussels, and repros during the last thirty or forty years told neptatives From the Foreign, Colonial and different story. In the open ocean living India Offices, The expert advisers include

Sir Novila Lobbook and Mr Maitinamu. greatures generally do not descend below a few hundred feet, theagh they are often enormously abundant in this upper layer the home of countless files, molluscs erustacea, and in many plecs of clouds or tiny foraminifers and radiaların, with corresponding abundanga of seaweeds, large and small. But living creatures, fol-

ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE Attention of Advertisers is drawn Advertisements and Corrections to Adver- tisements :-

low the ocean slopes downwards to very

Disturbances in Tripoli. December 8-Six Als and two Turkish soldiers were filled and many and population near Tripoll, where a state wounded in a coufic between the troops of siege has Leon proclaimed.

Trade Returus.

The British imports for November show

Alterations and addition to Advertisent depriu. Sponges, at least certain ments on Pages 2, 3, 6 and 7, should be kinds, go far below the thousand fathom a decrease of 22,025,197, due to miscellane sentto this Office not later than 11s.m. New line, a hydroson riso yards long wasdred-ous causes, and exports a decrease of

yuantity and price of ensl

Advertisements should be sent in before ad up bytho Olalichugur firm 2900 fathoms 1,882,215. owing to a decrease in the

8 pm.

BAIN & REID.

CHINA MAIL Offico, Dec. 1900.

1. THE TRI-METRICAL CLASSIC

千字文

and occasionally a comt er some near relation may be found at as great a depth. A well-known species of the former was

Kussia and Germany. brought up on a talegraphs cable froin maze

A communique to the Russian papers. than eleven hundred fathome, and Dr.in its present form Russis will sdopt a tariff thrusters that if the Geraan tariff is passed.

tubers,

Carpenter obtained mollasch, generally of retaliation against Germanufac found in shallow water, from not much 2.—THE THOUSAND WORDS' FOEN, depthe ss low as Mount Everest to high, less than fifteen thoueaud feet. Even at

Strikes in Australia. by E. J. TEL, F.D.

living creatures have boob obtained, The Sydney Parliament has passed the To bo had-Price 39 Cents the act from

but they are comparatively low in organis- Industrial Arbitration Bill impelling the CHINA MAIL Office, Wyndham ation. Still, fshes have beet saptored at courts, and punishing with fine and im. referencs of labour disputes, to spacial.

Hongkong. Decearber 16, 1901. 2563 Translated from the Chinese

Dwa

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WELLING HOUSES, GODOWNS,

Ogrines, ele. Owners of Property | wishing to Let their Premises should communicate with the Undersigned.

S. A. SETH, LASU AND ESTATE AGENT AND BROKER

Top Floor, 37. Queen's Road Central Hongkong, December 18, 1901.

TO LET

2580

Street.

Bangkok Times.

THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN SIAM

A STEWART TERRACE.

AT the PE (FURNISHHO), No. 7 And widely circulated in Malaya, Cochin

Apply to TELEPHONE CO. 2 Ice House Road, Hongkong, December 18, 1901.

TO LET.

259)

A ROOMS, with Kitchen and Bath- T KOWLOON, TWO UNFURNISHED rooms; uyer Telephone Company's Pro mises in CatERON RA

Apply to TELEPHONE Co. Jes House Rond Hongkong, December 18, 1901.

TO LET.

2391

TONYHURST, MAGAZINE GAP.

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THE JONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Baked, November 27, 1901.

TO LET.

China, the Straite Settlements, and Burm.

i

A DAILY NEWSPAPER, with a weekly Mail

Edition (20 pp.)

SUBSCR by DAILY (postage extra), de

Hivered free locally, $30 a year. WEEKLY, Post Froe, $20 a year. ADVERTISING RATES. Per inol (8 Knes),

$120, one insertion: $2.80, threa thanks

$4, a wock, SS, a flint mouth subsequent mouths, $4.

the lowest depths, in which eases they are prisonment strikes and lockouts before or

Germany and Poland.

often bind. Even where they have oyes,ording such reference. those in that region of eternal night would be useless, if they were not able to tpra on the light at will, by being provided with The severe treatment of Prilish school phosphorescent organs. It is, however, children at Werschen. In East Prussia, and unusual to find a shark co deep as nearly and the imprisonment of parents who the crder to compel the to speak German. Their testhave, indeal boon dredged couple of thousand feat from the surface.

in nodules of tanganese oxide, but these

ap from profound depthe, om hedded

have dropped from tar jaws of fishes which RIGAUD'

have Hired and died in this upper waters,

and settled quietly down to the hartom.

Sbaiks in geuerit keep near to the surface,

& habit which makes them such a terre to bathers. Still, one kind of shark, more nearly related to the dog-fishes than to the dreaded ble shark, is brought up from depths greater than theme spentioned. Thu. A UNIQUE FEATURE of the Bangkok genus, which contains sovrtal species, has Times" is its Siamese version. Thus the wide range, and spear-like tooth, one of advertiser is enabled to talk aa it were with

the Siameso in their own tongue withous which may have done the mischief. Oft the knowing one word of it, the Bangkok Portuguese court there is a regular fishers. Times" doing the translations required. for a species of this fight, which is about fire Literary communications should be adfeet long; it is caught with lines, at depths dressed to the Trou Business dota of four, and occasionally fire, hundred munications to the MANAGES Cheques fathoms. As it in necustomed to live under and Post Ofen Orders in favour of MANA

pressure of abuat sightly, ethicspheres GER, “Brugkok Times."

Orders bunked by MANAGER, China brought to the surface.

it 15 dead pratically safented when-

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TU. 2, ORUISEY TERRACE, from

1st Telartiary, 1902 Apply to

PUN HURO, 185, Queen's Road Central. Hengkong December 11, 1901. 2588

THE BACK DOOR"

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