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Intimations.

G. FALCONER & Co.,

WATCH:

MAXERS AND JEWELLERS,

NEW SELECTIONS OF

DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE; -

HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES.

LARGE AS9ORTSIENT OF SPECTACLES.. PINCE-NEZ AND EYE PREBERVES.

G. FALCONER & Co. ABS Atuers von ROSS'S FAMOUS TELESCOPES AND GINOCULARS, LORD KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ADMIRALTY CHARTS AND BOOKS.

EASTMAN'S KODĀKS AND FILMS.

64. QUEEN'S ROAD.

M. MUMEYA,

JAPANESE ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER ENLARGEMENTS ON BROMIDE PAPER

AND FINISHED IN CRAYON

ALL KINDS OF WORK DONE FOR AMATEURS. Ba QUEEN'S ROAD VENTRAL.

JAPAN

GOALS.

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

(MITSUI & CO.)

*4205

HEAD OFFICE:-1, Svavea-cho, TOKYO, LONDON BRANOH :---34, LINE STREET, E.U. #NGKONG BRANCH :-Pasce's BUILDINGS, ICE HOUSE STREET, FIRST FLO05.

OTHER BRANORES:

How York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Sourabaya, Manila, Amos, Bhaughat, Chefoo, Tientsin, Newchwang, Port Arthur, Seoul, Chemulpo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka, Kohe, Misidzuru, Kure, Shimonoseki, Moji, Waka matan, Karatau, Nagasaki, Kuchinotsu, Sasebo, Maidzuru, Mike Hakodate Taipeh &

Telegraphio Address: 'MITSUI' (A.B.C. and A 1 Coder.)

CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Novy and Arsenals and the Stato Railways: Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamets.

SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Miike, Tagawa, Yaroann, and Ida Cos] Mino SOLE AGENTS for Hokoku, Hondo, Hanada, Fujinotara, Mameda, Mauneura. Ondura, Otauji; Suashura, Tuubakuro, Yoshinctani, Yoshio, Yunokibara, and othe Josl

K. INUZUKA, Manager, Hoagk ug-

Hongkong, April 28, 1903.

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131

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Intimations.

THE CHINA MAIL.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

INFORMATION has hoon received from the MILITARY AUTHORITIES that GUN PRACTICE will be carried out from the uadermentioned Batteries, and on the dates as specified opposite :~.

Stonecutters West in a South-Westerly

Intimations.

(ABBREVIATED) PROSPECTUS.

THE

ANGLO-JAPANESE

Intimations.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 109,

GENUINE "SINGER" MACHINES

ARE MADE ONLY IN

LONDON LETTER.

(From Qar Orca Correspondent.)

Lonnor, October 2.,

Politica at home these days can be summed up in the words fiscal reform ;*

LOCOMOTIVE AND ENGİNEERING ENGLAND and AMERICA beyond this subject our ministers will

COMPANY, LIMITED.

incorporated under The Companies Ordin-,

unces, Hongkong, 1863 to 1809 whery. by the liability of 'a shareholder_is Hraited to the amount of his shares.] CAPITAL, Yen 1,000,000, divided into 10,000 shares of Yen 100 each, payable as

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direction at a range of about 2,0 0 yards, on the 20th November, 1003. Lyonun (Brian) at a range of anal

4,000 yards to the North of Fatefulto Ohau and 4.800 yards along tho Western shore of Jank Bay, on the 21st November, 1903.

Practice will commence at shout. 9 a.m.

Yen 50 on application, Yen $5 on Allotment, and the balance when called for.

daily, and end abunt 11 nan. daily, if the Of these 10,000 shares, 0,450 are now offer- range is clear,

i for subscription.

If the weather izanfavourable on any of the above dates, pricifer will be carried out

on the 23rd instant.

By Cummiatal,

F. II, MAY, Colonial Serreftry.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, November 11, 1993. S208

BUMPHREYS' ESTATE & FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEET-

N

ING of fluxritney's ESTATE and FINANCE COMPANY, LastED, will be held at the COMPANT'S OPTICES, NOR. 38 and 10, Queen's Hoa Contral, Victorin, Houg kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of November, 1903, at Noon, when the Sub- joined Resolutions which were passed at a Beating hold ou the S1st October, 1913, will bo submitted for confirmation as Special Resolutions -

1. That the Capital of the Company be jucrensed from $1,000,000 (divined into, 100,000 shares of $10 each) to $1,500,000 (divided into 150,000

MANAGER:

ROLAND FINCH, Esq., of Yokohama, Japan.

MANAGING AGENTS: Besar, SAMOEL SAMUEL & Co, Yokoliaint,

Japan..

HONGKONG AGENT: GEO, K. HALL BRUTTON, Eq. (Temporary).

BANKERS:

THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING

CORTOMATION,

SOLICITOR

INSTRUCTED FREE OF

CHARGE.

BUYERS

EVERY MACHINE SOLD IS QUARANTEED

FOR FIVE YEARS.

Simple, Silent, Strong and Speedy.

take no very keen interest; not ever with the Passive Resistance of the Education Bill, or when Sir Wilfred Lawson and Mir Arthur Chamberlain, discourse emphatically, but not always wisely, on the temperance' question. Br Balfour bas delivered his Sheffield speech, but although it has been looked forward to with eagerness, it was really discounted when he laid before the Cabinet the scheine of retaliation which he intends to paraue as the Govern ment's best policy. Mr Ritele and Lord George Hamilton have been tel- ling us that they were trapped into their resignations, but the publication of the correspondence between them and Mr Balfour does not tend to endorse this statement. In their letters they

said it would be impossible to remain

GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON, q, of Nos. 33 BUY THE BEST FOR CASH, OR ON SMALL ĝin the Cabinet as they were unable to

and 41, Des Voeux Rand, Hongkong.

AUDIOR:

A. R. Lowe, Esq., Hoogkong. REGISTERED OFFICES :

Nos. 30 and 4. Des Vooux Road,

Hongkong.

The Company bsa been formed for the purpose of acquiring land in Japan and of erecting wor slops thereon for the con struction and repair of locomotive engines, railway rolling stook, iron and steel bridges,

MONTHLY PAYMENTS.

THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO.,

3A, WYNDHAM STREET, HONGKONG,

and 64 ELGIN ROAD, KOWLOON.

To Let.

FURNISHED ROOM-TO LET,

Auctions.

agree with the Prime Minister's intend- ednction; now they say they would, have resined if they had knowu Mr Chamberlain was, leaving. They seem to forget that Mr Balfear and Mr Chamberlain are in accord as to the ropudiation of Cobdenism, and also that members of the Cubiust do not instrue-forsake their posteliccause their opinions

PUBLIC AUCTION...... INCLUDING Small DysaNG HALL, Largo in to sell by Públic Auction,

HE Undersigned has received Alibres of $10 each) by the orcation of structural ironwork, iroafounding and BATHROOM and Bor's Room, WYND- ;

60,000 now shares of 810 each to General engineering work. offored and if accepted 'to be allotted

to the present shareholders of the Company at par in the min

dahlg of one new share for every proportion two old share in the Company held by the respective shareholders thereof, the amount payable on each of such now shares respectively to be paid at each time er times and in such matmer as the Company by its General

Managors may hereafter determine.' 2. "That Article No. 82 of the Articles of Association of the Company Lo can -celled and the following Article-sub.

alitued therefor :-

The remuneration of the General Managers shall be a sam ust er- ceeding $8,000 per annum (which 433l cover office rent and salaries of Sucretary and other employoca) and a commission of por cent. of the net profits of the Company for each year that such profits amount to 7 per cent, of the Capital of the Company. Dated this 2nd day of November, 1903.

"JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers.

232

THE DAIRY FARM COMPANY, LIMITED.

|

Apply to

In addition to the manufacture of locamo-AM STREET. $50, domand, this Company will undertako 10- tive enginey, for which there is a constant pair-work of all lands in connection with tailway rolling stock.

There is to the knowledge of the Mausg- er only one mali workshop in Japan which. undertakes work of a similar charactor to that proporcil to be espried on by this company. It will readily be seen, therefore,

that there is a great want in Japan for a company with modern macme-tools and thoroughly efficient equipment capable of carrying out work in accordance with the Memursadum of Association.

The smaller railways using a large propor- tion of the total number of locomotives and railing stock hard no repairing chaps, and suffer great inconvenience and expaura in consequence, as it is difficult for them to get the necessary repairs and ronewsis attended to without serious delay. From these repairs very profitable source of income will

Alone

be realised,

The Manager has for several years designed engines for the East. Thuso destens hare bort sent home, and the Ougines constructed from these designs have, when completed, givéu universal satisfaction. Fra his intimate knowledge of the varions, Japanese Railwage, he is thoroughly acquainted with thers require. mente, as well as with the diffe" ont "types" of locomotives now in servico, new on order, and other contemplated, and for which orders have not yet been placed In

Care of CHINA MAN' Office, Hongkong, November 10, 1903.

TU LEI.

No. 1, RIFOR TERLAGE; In FLATS.

Ou

SATURDAY

do not coincide with their colleagues- but with the Prime Minister, The. general feeling is that if the Cabinet is the 14th November. 1913, at 11.4.3. at reconstructed on anything like sound 2278 No. 10, Jen HOUSE STREET (Top Flourlines there will be no dissolution till

A QUANTITY OF

HOUSES in Wose Net Chong Road, facing the Race Coarse-

PLATS in MOBETON TERRAOL, facing the Poln Ground.

OFFICES, now in Course of Erection, Cossatuur Roan (near Blake Pior),

GODOWNS in BLUE BUILDINGS. GODOWNS for COAL or YARN, Prays East,

Apply to

2254

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Cɔ.. Lab. Hongkong, November 12, 1903. **TO LEF. TURNISHED.

TOUSE on the ROBINSON ROAD

LEVEL.

Apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS. Hongkong, November II, 1993. 2280

10 LET.

Apply

ny sale

will be seen, therefore, thst the Manager NOS Land 2, ALVESTON TERRACE, has an intimate knowledge of the type of enginen required for the Japanese Railways, and the cest innufacturing and deliver- ing these engines and the prices, actually. Hongkong, October 31, 1903, pain for them by the buyers.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. TEALTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in the alive Company will his Held at the Courany's Town Devon, 2. Lower Albert ad, Hongkong en THURSDAY, the 10th day of Novensber, 1409, at 3 o'clock ea, for the purpose of The hand which the manager proposes to presenting the Report of the Directies and acquire for the Company is si usle st Statement of Accounts to the 31st July, Kannguan, Yokohama, Japan, and is 1903.

suitable for the purposes of the Company The TRANSFER LOOKS of the Com-ss it adjoins the railway and water. pany will be CLOSED from the Gil to the 19th day of November, 1990, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

S. A. SETH,

Heerchumi. Hongkong, November 3, 1905, 221

THE HONGKONG STEAM WATER

BOAT CO., LTN.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, THE THIRD ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in to huyo Campany will be Held at the Company's Office, No. 37, Connaught Road Central, on TUESDAY, the 24th day of November, at Noos, for the purpose of prosenthig the Torore and Biurpose of

Accounts to the 30th of September, 1903-

The TRANSTER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from the 15th to the 24th November, both days inclusivo.

J. W. KEW.

Manager. Hongkong, November 12, 1903. 2295

IUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED.

It is estimated that the buildings fully equipped can be completed and ready for work ten months after building, oporations comments, and that 25 locomotive engines will be completed within six months of the completion of the workshops, and that manntacture will go on at the rate of 2 cugines for each half year. Thest could be sold for cash un completed.

YEW KEE BANK, 183, Queen's Road Central.

TO LET.

2819

WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION,

YORNER HOUSE, No. 9, LOWER

CASTLE ROAD. Apply to

LI KIN TONG, 11, Remedios Terrace. Hongkong, October 22, 1903, 2163

TO LET

T Moderato Rentale, High-chuss ALEXANDRA OFFICES, in BUILDINGS, occupying the best basiness position in the Colony...

Apply to

Extensive orders a very frequently given for steel railway and other bridges for the East, and in view of the develop. ment of railway construction, such orders will continue be issued in increased volume for many years to come. It is the Stention of the Company to undertake the construction of such work, from which large Profits are expected to be reflised.

Foz.

past there has been a doinaud by the smaller of the Japanese Railways for the purchase of ecomotives

rolling stock ur bu pult for on the FDecember let, -roomed HOUSE

Hongkong

SECRETARY, Watson & Co., Limited. September 23, 1902, 1981

TO LET.—FURNISHED.

Two or Three months, from

Apply to

hire-purchase sfatem; hitherto no English near the TRAM STATION. Ponk. builders have seen their way to supply any rolling stuck on the terms neaed, and it is the intention of the Company to supply auch denunds under proper guarantees for payment, and from which large profi ́s ars; also expected to bo ronised.

DENISON, RAM & GIBES, Hongkong, November 7, 1903, 9288

TO LET-AT THE PEAK.

FURNISHED HOUSE, with Five

The Company therefore start work under A Rooms.

vory favourable conditions and within con-

cent. of the local manufacturing capacity of pection already established to about 66 per

the works, which is suficient in iteglf to pay bandsume dividends to the share-

r

| TUB SHARE CERTIFICARE No. 4985 | bolders; and in view of the devolopment of

Vie Numbered 61851. railway in the East as -61900 iuclusive standing in the Regiator in pated in securing order to keep the. Coin- NALD TIDDES pang's works constantly going to its utmost TULLOCH, R.A. of Hongkong, having capacity. The Company will have no been lost, NOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN dificulty in genuing all the skilled labour that unices the said Certificate be produced Docossary on the spot, which will be direct

the Offices of the Company, 39 and 40, ed by the Manager and acpervised by Queen's Road, Central, Victoria, Hongkong, thoroughly skilled foremen from hom |bokrá 20th November, 193,-A N- Railways arenkoin cœurso of construction

Certifieste for the said shares will bejestred and the Old Certificats will thereafter be

held by the Company as Null and Void.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers Hongkong, October 22, 1908,-

DANCING.

PLEASE NOTE

and extension in China, Manchuria, Corca, Siam, Borneo and Burns, and very large nurbera of locomotives as well as other olling stock will son be pecdied on these railways, the whole of which will be import ed. The Company proposes to endeavour 2170 tó seento a portion of that work,

The following contract, has been made, namely. A contract dated the Bily day of July, 1903, boserver Roland Fish, Esq, ok Yokobama, Japan, Geotioman, of the une part, and Edward Cinrence Davia. Esnja, of the same pince, Gentlemen, an Trusted for M PROFESSOR F

RS. DONALDSON (DAUGHTER or the Company, of the other past.

WALLACE, of

Copies of the Aloinorandum and Artides ROSEMOUNT DANCING ACADEMY, GIGOR) of Association of the Company and of the begs to inform the Residents of Hongkong Contract above tocutioned in be inspected azd District that her Cleases are now form at the office of the Company's Solicitor.

BEGINNER'S CLASS

ADVANCED CLASS

Apply to

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, the end of next year. I do not On view from Friday, the 13th think the Free Traders will surviva as November.

Terios:--Cash on deliver

GEQAMMEHT,

cancer.

Honkong, November

12, 1903.

PUBLIC AUCTION OF TOYS FOR CHRISTMAS.

THE Undersigned han received instruc--

Sell by Public Auction,

SATURDAY

the 14th November, 1909, 'nt. 12 o'clock Noos, at his Sales ROCHE, QUEEN'

ROAD,--

A GREAT VARIETY OF TOYS OF DIFFERENT QUALITIES, Ja Lots to quit purchasers. TERMS OF SALE-As Chetomary,

V.L. REMEDIOS,

Auctioneer, Hongkong, ; November 10, 1003.

FOR" "SALE" BY AUCTION AT SINGAPORE:

MONDAY, 1ère NOVEMBER, AT 2.20 PM.

2270

[ESSAS I. L COGIILAN & CO. árg instructed to sell by Public Auction, at their Bales coma, 2, L'Almacids Street, Singapore,

A body against Mr. Balfour. When Parliament reassembles, the Prime Minister will propose a resolution which · will give the Government power to- retaliate against matiufactured goods. This would have nothing to do with the taxation of food, so his opponents: would be divided, and with his present largo majority he would be saved. It is almost impossible to foresee what will happen when Parliament meets because So much depends on what the country will think whon Mr Chamberlain takes the platform. That he will be listened" to very earnestly is evidenced by the enormous salo which the pamphlet enti tled Imperial Reciprocity' has enjoyed. To the second edition of this Mr Chaps berlain has written a preface setting. forth why he considers a change in our fiscal policy necessary.

Around the Lyceum Theatre we have woven our sweetest traditions of the drama. There this greatest actor of our age-there is on occasion to mention the Bame of Sir Henry Irving has shown [(With appurtenances; no she now lies in us the thoughts in Shakespeare's brain

The Singapore Harbour).

The dismasted and rudderless ship

·O. EL WATJEN,"

DESCRIPTION, German Sailing Vessel C. H. WATJEN, Steel Ship built in Vegesack (Germany), in 1880,

Length 24% fect

Breadth 39 feet. & inolies Depth 23 feet 9 inches Tonnage Groes 1,823

Underdeck 1,831-

Noc 1,734

lous dead weight.

Two Decks. Carrying capacity 2,800,000 Circulars announcing conditions of sole will be issued by the Auctioneers.

The Vessel may be inspected by arrange

For further particulars, apply lu

when he conceived those playa which made him England's national poet. And so it is that we look with bitter ness and humiliation at the iden of turning the building into a music hall. Better by far it should be pulled down, and the letter written by Sir Henry and read to the shareholders shows that be evidently thinks so too, although he expresses himself as willing to stand side, rather than the shareholders should suffer further loss. Unfortun ately, the theatre never imas been a pay- ing concern, and since the formation of the company in 1899 it has paid only 220 one dividend to the ordinary shareholder. Sixpence to one and sixpence is now the current quotation for £1 shares,

BEHN, METER & CO., Aperat Telogmphic Addices:

B, Singapore. November 74

THE

*PUBLIC AUCTION-

THE TELEPRONE COMPANY. Undersigned has recived instrue while the preferences are quoted 4 to

Hongkong, November 3, 1903, .2236

TO LEP.

Root House, very modorato rent [O. 9A IIIGH STREET. An EIGHT

Apply to

C. S. LEE, S1, Queen'a Road Contra',

No. 2,

Stroot, Hongkong. October 30, 1903,

TO LET

2211

LAHGL OFFICE on Ground Floor.

of No. 2, WINDELAM STREET, Apply to

THE SECRETARY,

Lo Bowling Club Tu. Hougkoog, October 16, 1903, 2143

TU LET,

CITONEHAVEN ROBINSON ROAD,

BUNGALów and GARDEN, “ HOUSE in CAINE. ROAD, in FLATS. Nu. 33, CospUIT ROAD, G-Rooma Teunis Court.

No. 24. CAINE ROAD. 9Rooirs..

CHEAPEST HOUSES IN THE COLONY. MORRISON HILL GAP ROAD. Nice Houses, 4-Rooms, Bath-rooms, out houses and vor andahs. Only £40, iritsieu of Taxes.

ing in the CITY HALL, and Beginner Forms of application for shares may be

bo wish to be able to Dance This Senson, obtained from the Agent and Bankers. in time for the Scotch Fall, should not Applications for shares ahould be for delay on olling

warded to the Bankers of the Company, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Twice Weekly $10 a month. Corporation, Hongkong, or Yokohama, Japan, from whom copios of the Prospectus may be obtained

Copies of the Prospects and farther in- CAT ROAD Comfortable and Airy Fists formation may also be obtained from the of or 8 Roots, from $25 Inclusive of Bankore of the Company, Hongkong, from Taxes. the 'Maunging Agcute, Messta. Samuel Sempel & Co. Yokoliais, Japan, and from the Agent in Hongkong.

Once a Wook

CHILDREN'S CLASS

$

Once a Week $.4

| PRIVATE CLASSES or PUPILS as

may be arranged.

Pupils enrolled at the ROBESON PLANG Co, Lt

Hongkong, November 2, 1903.

2228

Daten the 12th day of October, 1902

WILD DELL BUILDINGS, NO 147, -W&N•

requirements. And otheja to spit varique"

SA. SETH,

··LANT & ELTATE BROKEN,

DAIRY FARM Co. 9127 Hongkong, November 11, 1903.

2030

tions to Soil by Public Auction,

TUESDAY,

the 17th November, 1993, at 3.30 p... at his Sules Rooms, QUEEN'S ROAD, →→→ AN ASSORTMEST OF

JAPANESE. CURIOS, HANDSOME SILVER CLOISONNE VAXES and BUKLES and KANZES.

Sarsuxia and Kanga Vibes, HandsOME TEA SETS, and ORNAMENTS.

Ivony INI PANELS, PICTURES · Mul ALUUMB.

TERMS OF SALE: As Customary.

V. I. REMEDIOS,

Auctioneer Hongkong, November 19, 1903, 2300

FOR SALE.

ONE NEW · (BROWNLOW PATENT

FIELD SERVICE FILTER.

Full puriculis on appilation to

THE MUTUAL STORES, 196, DES VIEUX ROAD CENTRAL Hongkong, September 22, 1903,

THE BACK DOOR.

1340

THE Serios of Articles entitled THE BACK DOOR, which appeared. in the China Mail, have been reprinted, in may be obtained in Pamphlet Forat.

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