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Intimations.

G. FALCONER & Co.,

WATCH-MAKERS AND JEWELLERS. HOTEL MANSIONS.. NEW SELECTIONS OF

DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE, HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES.

LARGE SELECTION OF PRESENTATION PLATE, CUPS, BOWLS, ETC

Intimations.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA

...

(MITSU BISHI (0),

To Let.

TO LET.

ANE GODOWN at ET PT vloge 1

any. Carpet

Ons suitable for the Storage of

Floor Area 6,100 square feet,"

Apply to

MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1908.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

UNRIVALLED FOR COMFORT AND CUISINE. THOROUGHLY UP TO DATE WITH EVERY MODERN LUXURY

̈MÓDERATE TERMS AND NO IITRAB

B. HAYNES, Manager,

WHISKY DELUGE.

Distillery Tanks Barat Open in Vlasgow.

By a remarkable xncident at the distil- lery of teasrs O. and D. Cray (tho,Scottish

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. HOTEL BALTIMORE LATE HOTEL AMERICA Distileries Co.), Muirhead-street, Glasgow,

H..ngkong, Gatober 16, 1900,

T LEX.

4. FALCONER & Co. AGENT FOR ROSS'S FAMOUS TELESCOPES AND COAL DEPARTMENT No.

BINOCULARS, LORD KELVIN8 NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, "ADMIRALTY OHARTS A BOOKS.

SOLD AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER.

MIYAKO HOTEL,

KYOTO, JAPAN,

A NEW AND STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL.

JAPANESE

M. MUMEYA,

ARTIST AND

PHOTOGRAPHER.

ENLARGEMENTS ON BROMIDE PAPER

AND FINISHED IN CRAYON.

ALL KINDS OF WORK DONE FOR AMATEURS

BA, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

JAPAN

ITSUI

BUSSAN

(MITSUI & 00.)

OOALS.

KAISHA

HEAD OFFICE ;-1, BURU94-uño, Toxro, LONDON BRANCH :-34, Tox STREET, EO.

2181

-2123

NGKONG BRANCH-PRINCK'S BUILDINGS, le fleca S, FIRST FLOOD

OTHER BRANCHES :

fork, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Sonmbaya, Manila, Amoj, thanghai, Cheloo, Tiental, Newchwang, Port Arthur, Seoul, Chemulpo, Yokohama, fokoenka, Nagoya, Czaka, Koba, Maidenrn, Kure, Shimonoseki, Mojl, Wak aatan, Karaben, Nagasaki, Kuchinotsa, Basebo, Maizura, Mika *ipel, do

Tolographia Address MITSUT' (A.B.Ç. and A 1 Oodon.)

Hakodata.

MARUNO-UCHI, TOKIO.

IWASAKI,'

CABLE ADDRESS: Which applies to all Branch Offices, [A1, A BO 5th Edition, Western Union Codes used.

All Letters Addressed :-- -

MANAGER, MITSUBISHI CO.,

with name of place under." BRANCH OFFICES NAGABAKL, MOJE, KONE, KARATU, SHANDHAT, HONGEONG AND HANXOW.

AGENCIES:

YOKOHAMA : · M. Arada, Esq. CHINKIANG: Mesars GEARING & Co MANILA: Mosers. MACOKURAY & Co.

SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takasima Oohi, Shinnow, Namita and Kami Yamada Collieries and also Hojo Colliery, which will shortly be ready to produce on a Large conle the boat Buzen Cosl.

The Head and Branch Offices and thei Agencies of the Company will receive any order for Coals produced from the above Collieries,

T: MATSUKI, Manager, Hongkong,

No. 2, PEDDER STREET. Hongkong, April 25, 186,

816

0931

NO. 1, WEST END TERRACE, SHA

NEEN, CANTON,

Apply fo

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY, In Hongkong, December 10, 198

TO LET.

2, WYNDHAM ~TREPT FIRST-CLASS HOTEL under European Management. NICELY FURNISHED, AIRY ROOMS. EVERY COMFORT FOR RESIDENTS AND TOURISTE, EXCELLENT CUISINE.. Three minutes walk. Irom the for y Wharf, Tens NEOVALLE,

THE MANAGER Apply to

2872-

HIGH GRADE CYCLES

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TER-

ABAOR, KOWLOON.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT-&-AGENCY: Co, Ln.

2339 Hongkong, Augusi 1, 1808.

No

TO LET.

MO 4, CONDUIT ROAD, 5 Rooms with Photographer's Dark Room, Newly done up, healthy feality. Fins Vlow of the Harbour, with immediate possession.

19

NORMAN COTTAGE, West, Posk Rond, 6 ROOMS, fully furnished, Bath "TRO1157 Possession-from-let-Desember,

B. Low Rest HARPERVILLE," GARDEN ROAD, Rooms with Tensis Court and detached Servonta Quarters. Possession from ist Jan., 1907.

Apply to

PEROY SMITH & BETH,

Accountants, Auditors, &o,

5. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Hongkong, December 13, 1908. 2327

TO LET.

CAMERON VILLAS, Prax.

ITONGRONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAM- 3. DES VIEUX, VILLAS, TRAK HWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED

(IN LIQUIDATION)

TIME TABLE

WEEK DAYS,

7.00 a.m. to 7.30 a.m....Every 30 minute, 7.30 .m. to 9.30 am....Every 10 minutes, 9.30 am to 11.00am...Every 15 minutes.

3, ARBUTHEOT-ROAD. 78, WYNDHAM STREET. BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine Shopy, Ofiggs Mid Dwelling Roome,

15, Queen's FOAD CENTRAL, Top Floor (over Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co

171, Queen's Road CENTRAL Rooms on Front Part. Top Floor (over Arbas'

Co.)

BELILIOS TERRACE HOUSEN, Ro-

«TRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Navy and Arsena and the 11,80 a.m, to 18.40 p.m.Every:30 MINDEN ONDUIT ROAD.

State Railways; Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Homs and 12.40 p.m. to 1.15 Fuery 16 runni

Foreign Mail and Freight Steamore.

1.15 pm to 1.16

1.40

p.m. to 2.16 2.15 p

to 3.00 p....Every 15 minutes. 3:80 p.m. to 5.00 p....Every 15 minutos. 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m...Every 10 minute

No.

pn...Frery 10 minuter.

s

GLENWOOD, Okna Ross, suitabis for Boarding Houlas or Club.

1115

NIGHT OKEN.

SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Mike, Tagawa, Yamann, and Ida Uus! Bilnes. 10LE AGENTS for Bokoko, Hondo, Kanada, Fujinotana, Mamoda, Mannoura, Daaurs, Gall, Sambars, Tabakuro, Yoshinotant, Yoshio, Tunokibara, and ether

Hongkong, October 4, 1996.

S. TANAKA Manager, Hongkong,

ALL THAT IS NEEDED

TO APPLY

RUBEROID ROOFING

15 YEARS

RECORD FOR DURABILITY AND

EFFICIENCY.

LIGHT-COOL AND WATERTIGHT.

SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES

TO THE SOLE AGENTS: THE UNITED ASBESTOS

ORIENTAL AGENCY, LD. DODWELL & CO., LD,

General Mà ages.

van

A perfect beverage, combining Strength Purity and Solubility."

--Medical Anal

Houten's

**What does Van Houten's' mean, Mother?"

It means the Best Cocoa, my dear.”

TO LET of FOR SALE.

New House on MOUNT. KELLET, Rural Building Lot No. 117. ROOMS,

ARDSHEAL.' No. 1, PEAK;

en

Please Call

1151

yesterday morning, reports: The Standard of Nov. 22, from 187,000 to 207,000:- Allons of spirit wash "bbra out of the tanks in which they wore conlowd. This to'ume of liquid, roshing down in the kop of the tower on which the lanks were situated, flooded the promises below, doing considerable damage, and injuring a num brof mer, one of them fatally. Fourteen men had a narrow escape from drowning.

The men were at work in the draif house, on the strent level, when they were startled by a roar like thunder, and in an instant they were anveloped in a flood of spirit wish mixed with draff, which literally washed them out into the strook,” The vo- lume of liquid and the force with which it poured out on to the streak can barimagined when it is mentioned that the mark of the wave is shema"on" the opposite buildings above the firs atoray. Tu workmen and a score of farmers' cute, with their horses and drivers, wore swept kither and thither like work in a soothing mass of hot liquid A scene" of-indescribable confusion followed, the street for a time being a swirling fland f steaming quid, tossing debris of all kinds up and down. Straggling men, iroa beams, large piper, and weckage of all kinds were swept along in cầu rush, and, 5001 the houses in the vicinity were flooded. Thuan of the distillery workmen who had esa-pel the rush of ha spicit wash soon. DR. HARRY FONG,

esme out of the distillé y, and "waded lo the rescue of their less fortunato: follows,. AMERICAN TRAINED DENTIST.

who were struggling to gain their foet in LECTRICAL and Latest Improvera plata of semi-suffocation owing to the

applínuoos.

CHEAP SALE FOR 15 DAYS ONLY.

WILLIAMS GIBSON, MCKIEDY & CO.. DRAGON OTOLE URFOT, 11, D'ÁGUILAR STRET Rongkong, November 17, 1806.;

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned bave received instruc

tions to Ball by Public Auction, POE ACCOUNT OF THE

OOKGERNED On

THURSDAY,

the 3rd January, 1907, at 11 a.m., of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and

Godown Co.'s. Godowns, at

Kontour- FOUR MOTOR BOATS. (more or less damaged). TEMA pual.

Dentistry.

51, QUEENS" ROAD CENTRAL,

2915

137

Dr M. H OHAUN,

THE Latest Method of the AMERICAN THE SYSTEM of DENTISTRY. 37, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, From the University of Pennsylvania, 2462 U STAT

HUGHES & BOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, December 27, 1906.

PUBLIS AUCTION..

THE Undersigned has received instruc

8.45 pm, and 9 p. 345.9 to 11,1 (FURNISHED) from 1st March, 1908, forsions to Soll by Public Auation,

P,. every wall bour

BUNDAYS.

8.00 a.m. to 9.00 am...Every 15 minates, 9.00 am to 9.30 am... Every 30 minutes. 9.30.m. to 10.30 am..Every 15 minutos 10.30 am to 11.00a.m., Every 10 minutes, 18.00 Noon to 1.00 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 1.00 pm. to 5.00 pm...Every 15 minutes? 5,00 m, to 6.00 p.m...Every 10 minutan, 8.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m...Every 15 minuteri 7.00 pm, to 8.00 pm...Every 10 minuter.

NIGHT CARA as on Week Dayz. SATURDAYE.

Extra Cars at 11,80 and 11.46 p.m. SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at the Company's Of ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, Dos Vacui Road Central.

JOHN D.-HUMPHREYS & SON,

Eriquidatori Hongkong, August 27, 1906

A

1961

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sex 50 Centa, Dara Mart Odes, 6 Wyndham Streut. Hongkong.

HOMOGENEOUS NATURAL MILK.

REMARKABLE PROBEYS. IN THE ART OF PRESERVING MILE.

PURE NATURAL COWS MILK

about 20 months.

Apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS. 3rd Floor, Alexandra Beildings. Hongkong, November 24, 1906. 1716

TO LET.

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.

O. 4, MOSQUE JUNCTION. Ren NS160 Apply to

00

THURSDAY,

the 3rd January, 1907, commencing at 2.45 F.., at No. 39, MORBISON HILL

ROAD-

A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

(Particulars from Catalogue),

On view from Wednesday, the 2nd Jan., 1907.

TERMS: As Customary.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer, Hongkong, December 27, 1908.

P

2406

2390

LOWE & BINGHAM,

Bt. Gorge's Buildings." Hongkong, December 22, 1936,

TU LET.

FROM 18 DecкMEZE, 1800,

YALTA, MOUNT KELLET, PEAK.

Apply to

HARRY WICKING & CO.,

St George Buildings, Hongkong, Noromber 3, 1906. 2320

TO TET.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received ipatrno

tions to soll by Public Auction,

EXC

WEDNESDAY,

the £3rd January, 1907, commencing at 3P.M., on BOARD the Bambler,

the following: HL.M. Surveying Vesnol

RAMBLER

IEN.

TING, Jurgaon Denisab,

1886

No. 14, D'AQUILAN SHEET.

TERMS VERY MODERATE -

Copanitation Free,

JEYES

FLUID

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628

thick nature of the drst and spirit mixture. It was conjectured that one of the hug tanke must have burst, and this was Bob stantiated by the fact that the action of the building in which were housed four hage tinks or vala was a complete wreck. What added to the confusion in the street was the stampede of the score or so of farmors' horse, which had been waiting in rum to cart away the dr ff for cattle feed. ing purposes.

When the flood of whisky subsided, it was seen that one of the waste phargers. had bur", and had carried away part of the foundation of the spirit wash tank. which is situated on the very top of a tower, This tank contained: 70,000 gallons of spirit ready to pass into the fermenting cham- ber. The huge weight of spirit `mingled with the contents of the wastecharger, and the whole volume of 100,000 gallons foll su a shover on the draffhcuss, weeping everything before it, and suddenly burst- ing in one huge wave into the street. It is remarkable that the accident was not accompanied by great loss of life, so great Nwas the fores of the liquid as it Itriad to find an outlet. The liquid was bested up to 80 degrees, and was there- fore, not sufficiently bot to scald, but many of the men were severely burned, though, their injuries were mainly bad

W.G HUMPHREYS & CO., bralec, fractures of the leg or arm or ribs,

BANK BUILDINGS. Hongkong, May 18, 1906

owing to their being es ruthlessly dashed 1024 against the building opposite.

Ambulaopes were very soon telephoned: for and soon eloven of this 14 men'. buri were on their way to the infirmarion. The

A HOUSE in WONG NEI CHONG Bugle See Shothed Textile Manufacturer hora were tested on the appt, by modlead

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OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING and YORK BUILDING,

·GODOWNS on Praya KamA

A HOUSE to CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit Road.

A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE. FLATS in MORETON TERRAOR,

BANFURLY," CONDUIT Road,

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVES). ...MENT & AGENCY ... I, Hongkong, December 11, 1986.

TO BE LET-FURNISHED.

2254

PRESERVES IT GOOD TASTE IN AND CLIMATE. TROM the 2nd week in April next

26

BEST MILK IN THE MARKET

FOR

INFANTSEND INVALIDS.

-CASE OF 24/1-Liter Tins 49/1

SOLE ADENOT EAST ASIATIC TRADING CO.,

Чококово, Hongkong, July 14, 1806

JAN MOR PEAK ROAD, Six good Rooms, Bath Rooms, Drying and Store Roams, graph tennis court, Moderato rental to Lood tenant.

Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

00., D. Hongkang, December 18, 1906.

TO LET.

(ETHER IN WHOLE OR IN PART).

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HOLE MIDGE,. ate Twin-Saree Gun Vessel, 609 Tone, Composito Bailt, Copper Sheathed. LENGTH ................... Basapra

155th Oin. - 25 ft Old: To be sold Be they now lie in

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toon, Ons man, James Ballantyne, died soph after admission to the bospital, the others were more or less hurt. In mora that one instance the clothing of the men was torn off by the rushing liquid,

The men who wore immersed rolste thrilling experieocas. One of the carterm says that he was carried along, the flood

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740

E. M. HAZELAND, 35, Queen's Road Central;

or to

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34, D'Aquilar Street.

2928

Hongkong, July 18, 1906,

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AND FLOOR, No. 12, QUEEN'S ROAD

CENTRAL SEMI-DETACHED BUNGALOW (Sir C. P. Chater's) ROBINSON ROAD, Kowloon,

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for any errors in leseription of Ship, Fit tinga Storer oto

The vessels will be opon, to inspection for seven daga before date of sale, between 10 & X, and Noon sred 2 and 4 F.M. (Satur day and Sand-scepted)

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95 por TERUS-Cash before delivery. 35 p sent of the purchase money to be paid on the fall of the h mor; balance and the clearance to be effected within seven days after date of exle

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers to the Government. Hongkong, Desember 20, 1998.

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2470

FROM 187 JANUARY, 1907. 1709, 8, 8,-102 and 14, HOLLY-

WOOD BOAD.

SUN WAI LANE.

YAPAR & CO.,

25, Wyndham Street. Hongkon, Octybar 21, 1908/3

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