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Intimations.

G. FALCONER & Co.,

WATCH-MAKERS AND JEWELLERS. HOTEL MANSIONS.

SELECTIONS OF

NEW

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SOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER.

MIYAKO

HOTEL.

KYOTO, JAPAN,

A NEW AND STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL.

JAPAN

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OOALS.

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

(MITBUI & 00.)

HEAD OFFICE÷-1, SURUGA-CHO, TOKYO, LONDON BRANCH:-24, Tom Srazzz, K.C.

Intimations.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA

(MITSUBISHI 00.)

COAL DEPARTMENT MARUNO.UCHT, TOKIO.

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CABLE ADDRESS: Which applies to all Branch

Al, ABO 5th Edition, Western Union Codes ward,

All Letters Addressed -

MANAGER, MITSU BISHI CO., with name of place undor. BRANCH OFFICES:- NADABAEL, Mon, Kolt, Karitsu, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG AND HANKOW.

AGENCIES: YOKOHAMA : M. ABADA, Esq. OBINKIANG: Messrs GEARING & Co MANILA: Messrs MacondBay & Co.

SOLE PROPRIETORS, of Tekanima, Ochi, Shinnow, Namazuta and Kami- Yemada Collieries and also Hojo Colliery,

HONGKONG BRANCH ;-PRINCI'S BOLDines, Ice Hoven SzBEEZ, FIRST FLOCK, which will shortly be ready to produca on

OTHER BRANCHES

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Telegraphic Address 'MITŠUI' {A.B.C. and A 1 Codea. ONTRACTORS OF 00AL to the Imperial Japanese Navy and Arsense and the Stats Kallways; Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Ball and Freight Steamers.

large scale the best Buzen Coal.

The Head and Branch Officer and the Agencies of the Company will receive uny order for Coals produced from the above Collleries.

T. MATSUEL Manager, Hongkong,

No. 2, PEDDED STREET. Bangkong, April 25, 1908.

FOR BALE

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AN UNSENTIMENTAL MAINE FARMER.

The lone looked for summer boarder had arrived. She had hurried to her room, thrown on a more comfortable gown, and

had repaired to the front piazza to enjoy the scenery. Here she found her farmar host walking to entertain her, while "mother" was preparing supper. During that brief interval the following conversa- tion took place:

"Aren't the mountains just grand 1" "Purty hard placo tur.git timber off from in the winter, Misa.”

"Oh, but n't the sky beautiful?" **Waal tow my mind 'twould look better sf it would cloud 'up an' rain; we need it turribly."

“Isn't the air bmoing?"

"Purty cool fur this time o' year; our garden stuff is all uv two weeks behind."

"Doesn't the lako look pretty?"

E all them acros' av water could be pot intew timber or grass they'd pay batter,"

"You must enjoy those immenso pines, around your house?"!

"Waal, it'll be tow year at least 'fore they'll be big enough tow cut for timber."

"Oh, isn't there anything around here beautiful in your eyes 1"

* |

"Waal, now yew're talkin'; of you'll jeat step out back or the barn I'll show you eight or the purtiost black hoge in Oxford county,"

DOES BRIDGE PAY?

An Export Diseloses His Winning Balance.

As an expert on the game I have for six months past kejita full and careful analysis of my play at the card-tables. I hare done this with the object of testing the possibilities of financial gain in the game and the percontags rather than the amount that a good average, player may

SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Mike, Tagawa, Yamano, and Ida Cost Mines. SOLE AGENTS for Bokoka, Hondo, Kanada, Fajinctans, Mameda, Mannoura, BRICK and STONE BUNGALOW, at expect to handle in the shape of proft.

Onoura, Otel, Banshars, Tsabakero, Yoshinotani, Yeablo, Yunobara, and other Goals,

M. KOBAYASHI, Manager, Hongkong.

Hengkong, January 24, 1907.

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My list comprises the returns of 523 rubbers, played with varying classes of players at 2s. 6d. per hundred points.

Good play must tell in the long run in a game which combines luck and skill in the proportions which bridge does. Where chance alone prevail, as at Monte Carlo, the bank must win its regular percentage in the end, just so far as the odds are con- structed in favour of the bank, So at bridge, instead of self-evident extra chance in favour of one player or another walave the continuous operation of an equally irrevocable law-complicated in its details, but no less certain in its effect-- that the botter player gains something Cevery rubber by his superior play, and is Tconsequently found 2 came out on top in O the eud.

R.

W.G. HUMPHREYS & CO., BANK BUILDINGS. Hongkong, May 18, 1906

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Now, the good bridge player, is ninoty per cent. born and tea per cent, undo. His attributes are very little, known or

understood. Careful observation has shown 1024 mo that a very good whist-player may possibly be one of the worst hands at bridge; a parallel to this being that a olever draughta-player may be quite unable to roaster the intricacies of chess.

FOR HOME.

Having fired the law in this way, it is naturally to be expected of me that I should give some idea of what constitutes a

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estimate will be generally accepted, for it is somewhat in advance of the present iden of the game.

What qualifications are necessary for the constitution of a successful, and there-

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Intimations.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK. ING CORPORATION.

[OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ther

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ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the UITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 16th day of February, 1907, at Noon, for che parpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a State- inent of Accounts to 31st Dessiner, 1906,

By Order of the Court of Directora,

JB. M, SMITH,

Chier Manager. Hongkong, Janhary 29, 19.7.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK- ING CORPORATION.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from BION DAY the 4th to the 16th day of February, 1607, (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Bhares can be re gistared.

By Order of the Court of Directors, J. R. M. SMFTH,

Chief Manager,

Hongkong, January 23, 1907.

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HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LTD,

THE TWENTY-SIXTH ORDINARY

ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, at 11.30A.M., on MON- DAY, 18th February, to receive a State- ment of the Company's Anquants to 31st December, 1808, and the Report of the General Managers.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com pany will be CLOSED from the 8th to the 18th February, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co..

General Managers.

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Hongkong, February 2, 1907. HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

ARTY MEETING

THE ORDINARY YEARLY

of 8HAREHOLDERS will bábald in the OFFICES of the COMPANY, Queen's Buildinge, New Praye, on MUNDAY, the 25th Tebruary, 1907, at 12 o'clock Noor,

the for the purpose of

Report of the Director and men of Accounts to the 81st December, 1908,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com pany will be CLOSED from the 11th to the 25th February, both days inclusive, y By Order of the Board of Directors,

THUS I ROSE,

Secretary.bis Hongkong, February 1, 1907. 215

HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE THIRTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY MENTING of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the Undersigned at 11.30 AM, on THURSDAY, the 7th March,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com pany will be CLOSED from the 21st inst. to the 7th March, both days inclusive.

JÄRDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

Brand General Managers, Hongkong: Fire Insurance Co., Ed. Hongkong, February 11, 1907.

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TOTY WIRTH ORDINARY

THE THIRTY-EIGHTH

MEETING. of Shareholders in the - Company will be held at the Company's Offices, No. 3. Queen's 7th March, Road Central, Victoria, on

THURSDAY,

1007, at 12 o'clock NOON for the purpose

the

of receiving a Statement of Accounts and Report of the Direstora for the year

31st December. ICU. euding

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from the 21st inst.

BICYCLE ROAD RACE!! began the

1ST PRIZE A NEW MARICAN BICYCLE, valued at

$125.00.

fore a good, bridge player! In my opinion 2ND PRIZE-ONE PAIR OF 1ST GRADE. DUNLOP TYRES.

all the following are essential, but they

are of relative value in the order in which they are stated, víz :---

1. Capability of assessing the skill and style of the opposition and the parfuer,

$17 per Annum (including Postage), and discretion in using the knowledge

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2. Napoleonic power of altering ono's plans quickly, decisively, and in accordance with No 1.

3. Impetuosity and restraintas dictat-

NATURAL MILK. d by varying circumstances.

RESTABEABLE PROGRESS, IN THE ART of PRESERVING MILK.

PURE NATURAL COWS MILK PREȘELVES IS GOOD TAMIN IN ANY CLIMATE.

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INFANTS

·AND INVALIDS.

CASE OF 2/1 Liber Tina,

BOLE AGENCY EAST ASIATIC TRADING Co.,

HONGKONG. Hongkong, July 14, 1908,

4. A good card memory and intelligence. 5. Playing to the table. 6. Calling to the score.

Following is the summary of six months' play at bridge. The turnover is small, bat the winnings, at the ordinary country house price of El a hundred would amount to £110 6s.-so that at the gamling rate, of £10 a hundred a good player would make au income of over £2,000 year

Played. Won. Sahi Won, Sum Lost *July *******

65 303 10 6.118 9.

322 109... 1:33)

51... 28 2 70... 1 49

Aug....

Bept.

Oct.

90

Nov.

100 68

Dec.

134

60 15 13 9... 1 153) 71803 36j

756.60 4100

513900 £23 7.0 £13 16 3

Rabbers won in excess of those lost, 87. Money received in excess of money paid,

£14 10%. 9d;

Giving an average actual profit por rub” bor played of tja, about 19. par hour at j the tablo.

In the face of these facts no offer con- elosion can be arrived at than that bridge does pay the clever player-Charles Fidal Diehl in the Overeens DM.

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