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Give Us Water That We May

Drink'

The

TANSAN'S A VOY

PUBE, Exquisite in Flavor, Stimuls. tlax without itemotion, this fe-giving, Natural Mineral Water gushes out of the mountainside at Takaradtka, near Kobe, Japan.

将

PORITY. Its source is amid hard volcanic rock, beyond reach of contact with soy has belag, sad. It is conveyed by gravity through a rock-hown tunnel and concrets aqueduct to a sheltered enclosure, where, without pumping, bailing or touch of human hand, it is placed by machinery in sterilized bottles and packed a initial In cases for shipment; thus, from ita source protecting the water against possible taint of any kind Percolating through several strats of virgin rook, it is saturated with their insullied-mineral properties, and no chemical skill can duplicate the living Tanzan any more then the laboratory osn volvo a living tree.

FLAVOR. Taosan gladdens the painte with a me peculiar to itself, clean, crisp, Derel, and delicious. Its appetizing taste thank savor of a smacks of satisfaction, wit feeling of fulness, however freely indulge

TANHAN is Nature's own distillation, and because of its aimolute purity it blende with spirits, wines, atout, milk, and other liquors without altering the natural flavor, except to unfold it.

A

STIMULUS. Tanaan is refreshful, and, by reason of its native qualities, it excites the appetite and alimulatee the nutritiva functions. It is persistently regulative without being lazative, and it elimiustes from the problem of life the allments attributable to the liver and

kkinays.

The supply is inexhaustible, being an even flow, entirely independent of surface conditions of a wet or dry season, and there. will carer be necessity for uzanse for the artificial adufectare of Tansan, so that it will be forever free from the obnoxious taste peculiar to all maltod and fabricated

M. ELLA

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GRAINUSZ - On July 6, 1008, at No. 17. North Szechnen Road, Shanghai, the wife of 8. J. GRAINGER, 1. M. Customs Service. Shanghai, of a Daughter..

General Memoranda. SATURDAY, July 14

Noon-Meetings Hongkong High-Level Tramways Go Id., at Registered Uffico.

THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1906.

BY TELEGRAPH.

LOCAL AND COAST NEWS.

very good wheat harvest is expected

The Kube Eport Exhibition was closed on the let inst.

The Board of Education le desirous of systematizing the schools of Cirina.

magnificently equipped fire hringdes. What are the local authorities doing shout our brigade and its appliances in Japan There has been much talk of bringing the equipment up to date but latterly the matter seenis to have dropped out of sight. It would be gantifying to lava some authoritative assurance that within 2.30 p.m.-Anction of Ladies' Dress Ma

torials, &, st Mr V. I. Remedios a reasonable time we are to have fire Sales Rooma 4p.co-Aquatic Fete at Y.R.O.a En.fighting appliances of a capacity

closare, Kowloon.

commensurate with the value of the MONDAY, July 16 :--

Transfer Books of The Hongkong Land property within the city confines."

Inreement & Agency Co., Id., elose from this date to 28th July inclusive. Goods per Armand Behlo uncialmodi after this date at Noon will be subject to rent and landing charges. TUESDAY, July 17-

Goods per Banlarig undelivered after Gooda per behi not cleared at 4 p.m.

this date subject to rack

on this state subject to rent. THURSDAY, July 19 :---

8 p.m.-Auction of Leasehold Property, at Haare Hughes & Hough's Salos

Rooma,

3p.m.-Auction of Leasehold Property, Messrs Hughes & Hough's Bales Rooms

TURIDAY, July 4

Noon-Auction of the Pulk Meeance by Merr Hughes & Hough, on Board."

The China Mail.

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for

A. S. WATSON

& Co., Ltd.

water. Visitors to the Spring Bind the BEAUTIFYING

petare plant open to inspection-there in nothing to conceal.

TANBAN conduces to vigorous Hesith.

it is Loan Costly than Plouterativa. DRINK TANSAN.

THE CLIFFORD-WILKINSON

TÅNSAN MINERAL WATER Co.. Ld...

KOBE, JAPAN.

BEWARE OF B GUS IMITATIONS !||| The only genuine Tansan bears be name of J. Clifford-Wilkinson

on the label

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If there were any doubt felt as to whether the Commission, which is in- quiring into the administration of the Banitary Department, mount business, any such doubt will be dispelled by the official announcement that Sham Lot, a Chinese witness, has been committed to

Trifle on a portion of the of the Hiusku zailway, Japan, has been tem- porneily exsponded by foods,

NAVAL VOTE DIS- OUSSION.

THE SECOND DREADNOUGHT,

(Exclusive Servier, supplied by Beuter, vin Bombay).

LONDON, July 11.

The discussion on the Naval Vore

H.E. Hu Wait, Chinese Minister at Petersburg, urgea biz government to com- in the House of Commons has been postponed in order to enable the mezce mining and railway enterprises.

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Cabinet to further consider the proposal

The Japances Government in mid to hava asked the Russian authorities toto abandon the building of another notion the establishment of a quemlats battleship on the lines of the Dread-

nought.

at Vladivostok.

The Nanfangpas says that owing to the trendous opposition of H.E. Chao Erh-son, the establishment of a Chino-Japanese bánk in Fangtion will probably not take place.

ĮKEUTER'S SERVICE.] MR CHAMBERLAIN ACTIVÉ.

Tariff Roform,

LONDON, July 10,

Mr Chamberlain, addressing 14,000 peoplo in Birmingham yesterday, dwelt qu Tariff Reform, which he said was necessary to unite the wapire. He was confident. that the Frea Trade superstition must go? they were not at present moving as fast as some might desire, but quite fast enough for him, and he hoped to see his cherished idone ancoessful at an carly date.

He referral with disgust and indigna- tion to the conduct of Ministerialists in regard to the recent Egyptian executions, and to Natal.

RUSSIAN COURT MARTIAL.

Rozdestvensky Acquitted.

LONDON, July 10.

At a Court Martial held at Kronstadt,

the sentonoo of death was passed on four officers of the Biedovy." (T. B. D.), for surrendering the ship, but owing to exten ning circumstances, the Court recom mended a commutation of the sentences to dismissal from the service.

gaol for three months for contempt of court. The Commission is of course holding its sittinge in private and until the examination of witnesses je

Although the report has already been completed and the report is in the hands exploded, the Nanfangpo. Riven car of His Excellency the public cannot ready to the statement that the Japances expect to know how the investigation is have sold old and worthless guns to H. shaping. But it is a satisfactory Chang Chih-tung. evidence of the spirit in which the

H. E. Chao Erhsen, Tartor General of Commissioners are attacking their very Fanglies, according to a, Peking dispatch, responsible duties to find them prepared has successfully opposed a scheme proposed to send a man to gaol who fails to assist by certain Japanese to establish a Bank in them in their endeavours to lift the dark Manchuria to be called the Jih-Taing or INFLAMMABLE CITIES.

cloud which is thought to be hanging Japan-China Banking Corporation. The over the department, The effect of this project is now postponed sino die. Isarmer doubtless by the San Francisco dotermined action will be to impress

A considerable amount of excitement die ter the Engineering Magazine has upon witnesses the necessity of putting and amusement was caused amongst been accumulating data in regard to the the Commission in possession of all the bathere at the back of Stonecutter's yester information they may have, under day afternoon by a launch, which had havoc caused by fire in the United penalty of severe punishment. It is ventured too far inshore, getting aground. States. The figures given are startling, undoubtedly a useful thing to have it Distress signals were made and two other | launches want to her assistance but the fret Incidentally it is shown that the broadly known at the outset that the couple of pulls to get the stranded launch Americans are far behind the European Commission will not stand any nonsense of only resulted in brisking the two ropes, cities in regard to the laws which The investigation has a much greater However, inter efforts were more successful chance of being productive of good and the various parties returned to Blake control building operations.

Pier triumphant. results now that it has given such an reason for this of course is that lumber omphatic demonstration of its hous is casily accessible and cheap in America fides.. while in Europe it is more profitable to build with more enduring and less in flammable substances. The annual fire loss in the United States is estimated to be about £5 per family. The total loss by fire in 100 in the Republic was DRUGGISTS £48,000,000 or an average daily loss of £126,000. The terrific aimount of loss, much of which could, miloubtedly be mankind. Ther gave us an immense The famous repatriation offer to the provided against, can be the better amount of manual labour. But in the Dind Mining realised when the figures, tabulated by we have practically let the sun alone.spired a full page cartoon in Punch, under The contract will come into force in

the title of "The Bogey of Freedom," Sir February, 1908. the National Board of Fire Underwriters, He "circles in his brazen aky" and Henty Campbell Bannerman is depicted are studied. It is shown that in the past boyond helping our crops and per pointing the way through the open door of Commonwealth, and will employ white twenty five years losses by fire totalled forming general services of that nature, a compound to freedom, and at his feet in labour.

The steamers will call at Port Said, when ho feels inclined, he does not attitude of suppliéstion is ́s Chinaman. the gigantic sum of £700,000,000. This

shoulder any of our burden. But he is The cartoon is elucidated by the following Colombo, and Fremantle. is almost double the whole national full of power--as the resident top side letterpress: C.-B. (throwing open door debt of the United States. The loss of finds out when the porfidious chair of compound): My poor down-trodden life as a result of the prevalence of coolie has concealed himself and he has brother, you are no longer a slave-you are free to go home! The Downtrodden Alimsy and “infanumble buildings dur- to walk. Mr Henry 8 Pritchett, Brother: Oh, please, sir, anything but ing 1904 amounted to 7,000, an in a recent magazino, prophesies that, that I will be good, if you will only let in the future, we will make the sun do average of nineteen per day. A cond-

most of the work that has to be done! parison of statistics in regard to tres in on earth. "When the sun is nearly Russian Activity.

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INVIGORATING.

Punch: We are surprised that mere fuss has not been made about what must easily be the most wonderful engineering Scientific men are making so many fast in the world. The Daily Graphic draws weird discoveries nowadays and are so our attention to the new Yellow River Brid altering our outley k upon the things in,ge in the Far East. It is built, says dur on, and around the world that the mere contemporary, entirely of atcel, with ná ordinary man sometimes feels it difficult masonry whatever, and moxsures 1663 milor from end to end. We think our even to conceive dimly the possibilities contemporary is fustified in calling this, as which are so clear to the investigators.it dess in its title to the paragraph, A Big Wind and wave and waterfall are all Bridge?" now more or less tractable servants to

mabop!"

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Admiral Rozdestvensky, who went on heard the "Bicdovy" after the battle of This, and was there at the time of the surrender, was acquitted by the Court Martial.

AUSTRALIAN MAIL LINE.

An All-White Bervice.

LONDON, July 10, The Australian Commonwealth has con cluded a decennial contract with Laings of Sunderland, for an accelerated quail service

;trous Betulioi-

1. The steamers will by the fag of the

THE SCAVENGING CON-- TRACTOR.

Again In Trouble.

The remarks made at last meeting of the Sanitary Board with regard to the frequency

American cities and those of equal size overbead," he declares, "he delivers A Peking message states that HE with which the Board's Scavenging Con in Europe showe that the number of power at the surface of the earth at the Ten Chi, Imperial Resident of Mongolia, tractor finds himself in trouble were borne fires reported during the year is rule of more than two horse-power for has wired the Waiwapu that the Russians out at the Magistracy this afternoon. The generally about the same but that the pack yard of surface. This means that are trying to build a telegraph line from contractor was summoned at the instance

there is delivered on each aquare yard

Kplan to Siberis, and requests that the of the Medical Officer of Health, by Detective Earner, for breach of the fires in America are ten times

an onargy able to lift a weight of 33.00 Rusday Minister be naked to pot stop to Ordinance by allowing his employees to

ir. more destructive. This it has to pounds one foot in one minute, and this

be remembered is in spite of power is continuoua." This unfolds The Opening of Tibet.

matter.

dump rebbish while on the way to Chin Wan.

Tho facts were not contested

the fact that American fire-fighting possibilties which fairly make the braib The Imporial Resident in Tibet bas but Mr W. J Daniels, who ro presented the defendant, took the appliances are admittedly superior reel The energy which is lost in the wired to Peking requesting the appointment point that the Count bed no jurisdiction

burning sands of the Solars could, on of a Chinese Commissioner of Customs to Under the provisons of the contract the to those used in the old world. The this estimate, supply the power to tlo attend to the opening of Tibet to foreign M. O. H. could impose a fine, and no explanation is, of course, that the all the world's work: The people who trade. The Waiwapn is now consulting doubt there was a civil remedy. His Wor. national and municipal authorities do come after us are going to have a with the British Chargé d'Affaires on the ship said that he would have liked to have the question argued. He had (holding in not exercise the supervision in America splendid time of it-that is to say if

his hand a large bunch of papera) 19 cases that is deemed necessary in practically perpetual idleness is considered the Regulating Misiónaries.

in which the Scavenging Contractor had every important European state. There most desirable goal of life: The elenients

Prince Ching has approached the been fined for various offences under the seems to be tittle likelihood, even in the will do all their work and as there is Foreign Ministers with a view to draw-contract. On the point raised the sum

not much likelihood of strikes for shorter ing up special regulations to control mons was dismissed. face of the lesson of San Francisco, that

bours and better pay, existenco will be the Christian Missions in China to emper- shorn of all its anxieties.

The only preparation the Americans will adopt the sensible

course of laying an embargo upon sky- scraping buildings. At, New York at

The Nanchang Affair

upon current events, and special pages de-of its kind which does the present time the "highest biking The Jih Jeh states that merorial |

voted to SPORTING of all kinds, LITERATURE, LOCAL GOSSIP, BERVICE and CHURCHI NOTES,

STORIES, sut matters of intent to not lose its perfume instruction. It will be fire proof of course

readers. It is proposed furthermore to include Rome striking special features to which further allusion will be later,

if the enterprise.is gond on

Sedulous care, will be taken to maintain

a good "tons" in connection with the

paper

endeavour will be made to

hot water.

Heat only

at

An

sede or enlarge on the. iudefinito, clausen in the existing treatise. The Ministers are said tibivongreed to receive and refer to their Governments for consideration China's suggestions.

FARMER “BLWITCHED."

The ascent by balloon and absequent mysterious manner

Ellen Hayward, a widow, nged 70, resid- ing in the Forest of Denn, was charged at Little Dean Petty Sessions with prétend- in the world is in process of con- tablots in memory of the late magistrate

ing to be a witch. The case rested on the Chiang of Nanchang are to be erected

evidence of a Worcester farmer named but as has been well mid fire proof the temple in Peking dedicated to worthy Lady Parachutist Killed.

officials, and his son will have an hero A fatal parachute accident occurred an Davies, who consulted the defendant.

Juno 11 when Miua. Lily Goye, of London, because things had gone wrong with his buildings are of little use unless they ditary rink conferred on him; this, as the met her death at Haworth, near Keighley, stack, and he himself felt it in a are built in a fire proof city. It the and 7. Timer points out, is if true an

in Yorkshire

and

d every mako ib bright without being offensively serves to enhance its Americans are sufficiently wise to profit early and dirt breach of the agreement personal or skating on thin loo.

by experience they will adopt the system We would be obliged if intending subscribers would fill in the accompanying

of limiting the height of buildings to

Bankruptcy Petition Distlased. twice the width of the streets and ca-

The creditor's petition in the forcing regulations which would render ruptcy action, Hop Wo Uhan ex parte Yick Cheung and the Shing Ki frin,WEG it obligatory that every building, in the dismissed by the Faime Judge this mers death ensued within few minutes. town or city should be fire proof. If ing. Mr H. E. Holmes, who appeared for

SUNSHADES. form and return it without delay to the

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this were done it would probably save America several millions of pounds per But, while the most essential annara.. point is the prevention of fires, of almost equal importance is the establishment of adequate extinguishing appliances for ure when they do occur. Probably America's loss would be about double what it is now were it not for her

just concluded.

He went to her descent by parachute should have taken cause he thought that he had been cast place at a charity fête on Saturday, but

awing to a deficiency of gas the performance under a spoll" by some witol, and ke was postponed. On Monday afternoon the wanted Mrs. Hayward to bewitch the sament was safely edo, but when Miss witch." bank-Core cast off from the balloon the paracoste

failed to open, and she fell in fold near The defendant donied being anything Pondon reservoir:“

more than herbalist. The case was She was unconscious when picked up and dismissed.

the petitioning creditor, stated he had

WANTED AT ONCE. made inquiries and found that the prompsl

editor sould not he found and that there A no end of trouble Think of the pain LITTLE forethought will often sare

word only about $100 asocia

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