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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1908.

To Let.

TO LET.

To Let.

TO LET-AT CANTON.

LIGHT-ROOMED HOUSE on SHA.

BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine E MEEN.

and Rooms,

15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Top Floor (over Caldbeck, Macgrazor & Co.)

BELILIOS TERRACE HOUSES, to RIKSON ROAD.

Boarding CAINE ROAD, suitable for

Rooms.

House or Club, contains 25

OFFICES in QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

No. 57. PRAYA GRANDE, MACAO.

Apply to

A. B. 89,"

Caro of 'CHINA MAIL' Office. Canton, January 20, 1908.

TO LET

IMMEDIATE PUSSESSION,

་

MOUNTAIN VIEW, the Punk.

192

EGGESFORD (Furnished), No. 114:9,STOWFORD, BONHAM ROAD.

PEAK. Contains Rooms No. 71, Wyndham Street.

Good Center GODOWN No. 3A, Dub- DELL STREET.

LADBROKE, No. 9, CONDUIT Road,. 8 Rooms, Furnished or Unfurnished, from 16th April, 1908. Large servants' quarters and full sized Tennis Court.

No. 8, DUDDELL STREET, Shop and Ist Floor.

No. 1 & 6, DES VEUX VILLAS, Pask:

Apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, April 12, 1907.

ROOM TO LET.

1671

NE LARGE ROOM with Bathroom Ettached, Electric Light, with Board. Suitable for Married Couple, or kro Gentleman, in private family, Kowloon.

Apply

M. E.,' Care of CHINA MAN' Office.

243 Hongkong. February 13, 1908.

TO LET,

6, STEWART TERRACE, the Peak.

Apply

'M. S..

Dare of CHINA MAIL Office; Hongkong, January 4, 1808,

TO LET.

22

GEO. P. LAMMERT

AUCTIONEER.

THE CHINA MAIL.

WORK AND WAGES IN 1907.

A Year of Prosperity.

The Board of Trade "Labour Gazette contains an article on employment, prices, wages, and disputes in 1907. It states that the general condition of employment in the first half of 1907 showed some im- provement as compared with the cor HE Undaraigned las received instruerespanting period of 19, but in the Ttions from H. JENTROY, E, to collocal bill of the year there was by Public Auction,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

on

THURSDAY;

A dealine which was most marked in

the metal, engineering, and skipbuilding.

the 27th February, 1908, commencing at trades. So that on the whole employment

4.3, at bis Residioco, No.

CAINE ROAD,-

A QUANTITY

in the year 1907 was much about the same

as in 1908. Exployment in a number of

industries ja still fairly grad, and in some

vory goal. Returns relating to over 100,000

70 000 SQUARE FEET of LAND VALUABIR HOUSEHOLD numbers of trade unions' shox tunt the

with 200 foot frontage to Kowloon Bay. Mederste Rental.

Apply to

MESH FARRELL & LYSAGHT, Hongkong, August 29, 1907.

AIRVIEW,

TO LET.

-1969

1908.

ROBINSON

No. 1, ROAD, Hongkong, Furnished or Unfurnished, splendid situation, with fine view of Harbour; 6 Big Rooms.

Furniture can bo purchased if desired.

J. ULLMANN & 00., Apply

34, Queen's Road.

249 Hongkong, February 14, 1908.

TO LET.

FFIORS in ALEXANDRA BUILD. HATHERLEIGH, CONDUIT ROAD.

OFFRES

Apply to

SECRETARY,

A. S. WATHON & Co., 3. Hongkong, April 22, 1007.

TO LET.

780

ARGE OFFICE ROOM on 1st Floor

Apply to

RUOHOD

FERD. RORNEMANN, No. 16, Des Viraz Road Central, Hongkong, January 4, 1908.

TO LET.

10

UCTION ROOMS, No. 2. ZETLAND

STREET.

No. 2, FAIRVIEW, ROBINSON B, Kowloon.

WOODBURY, GARDEN ROAD.

* ROSENEATH,' KOWLOON!

4, BALRVIEW, Robinson Rowl, Kowloou.

Apply to LEIGH & ORANGE,

1. Des Voy Road

Hongkong, February 8, 1008

TO LET.

25

ODOWN No. 3, NEW PRAYA

GOWN TOWN.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY Co.. I

Hongkong, February 1, 1908.

TO LET.

IMMODATE POSSEBRION.

130

THOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, CONDUIT ROAD.

OFFICES in YORK BUILDING. GODOWNS is PRATA KAST, Blue Build- ings, and No. 18, De Vaui Roan nort to the Hongkong Hotel.

FLATS in MORETON TERRACE. OFFICES on Top Floor No. 2, Cox- NAUGHT ROAD, facing the Cricket Ground. No. 10, Des Vaux ROAD CENTRAL, ist Floor.

Apply to

THE HONGKUNG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD, Hongkong, February 1, 1908.

24

ROSENSTOCK'S DIRECTORY

OF

HONGKONG,

MANILA,

AND

SHANGHAL

rot

FIRST HALF

1908.

CONTAINING:

Uomplete Alphabetical Lint of Business Firms and Foreign Residents,

ODOWNS Nos. 98, 98, 92 and 99,Directory of the Governosni Offices, Public

PRAYA EAST

SECRETARY, Apply to THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MADso 5.B.

Co., LTD.,

Hotel Mansions,

Hongkong July 23, 1907.

TU LET,

1200

B3-ROOMED HOUSES in KOW

LON. COMMODIOUS SHOP in DES VINUX ROAD CENTRAL, Hongkong. Immediate Possession. Moderate rentals.

Apply to HUMPUREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Co., LTD. Hongkong, August 13, 1907.

Apply 14

TO LIT.

1321

and Private Schools, Churches, Bongvolent. Literary and ather Asenciatione, etc., and a complete

CLASSIFIED

COMMERCIAL

DIRECTORY

OF EACH OF THE ABOVE CITIES.

For Sale by BREWER & Co., Lo., KELLY & WALSH. L,

or

PEUDER ST. CHATER RD.

DIRECTORY OFFICE, 12, Queer's ROAD OEXTRAL Hongkong, February 8, 1908. 224

HOW TO DO MORE BUSINESS.

FORNITURE,

(Particules from Catalogue).

TERMS -- AA Customary, On View from Wednesday, the 8th Feb.,

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

MILNERS

wenn percentage of members unemployed at the end of each month of 1997 was 4.2, An compared with 4.1 in 1906, 5.4 in 1905. and G.5 in 1904,

-

The upward movement in wages, which began in the second half of 1997, continued throughout 1908 and 1907, and at the end of the year wages stood at a higher levey than at the end of any year since 1893. The not effect of the changes in wages in 1907 was att interener of nutrly £199,600 per week, which thures are oxclusive of changes affeling agricultural laborers, scamen railway servants, palice, and Government mployees. The changes in the wockly

PATENT rs of labour reportal during 1907

FIRE RESISTING

Safes

(As supplied to the principal

banks and mercantile

houses).

NEOPHONES!

THE ONLY DISC-PHONOGRAPH

ON THE MARKET.

alocted only 34,000) workpeople, and resulted in a net reduction in their working tine of 71,000 hours per week.

The number of disputes was 550, involy- ing 143,784 workpeople, with an aggregato duration of 2,180,700 working day. Con pared with the total industrial population of the United Kingdom, the numbers affected by the disputes of the year is small, amounting to less than 11 per cent. The general level of prices in 1907 showed

Arise of over 5 per runt. as compared wi hi

JL

the previous year, and, excluding 1801,

was higher than in any year since 1885,

For the out-and-out champions of the doctrine of sexual equality the fact that the motor end-woman has proved » com plete failure wherever she has been tried seen at Arst blush, a trifle awkward. But it is already being explained away on the ground that, although the fair chauf fases were quite as proficient drivers as their male rivals under equal conditions, they were unfairly handicapped by the nereuses induced by the "chaff" to which they were subjected in the perform ance of their duties. But to put in such a plea is surely to give their whole case away, kince to be "chnfl" proof is an indispens able attribute of every Jebu, whether the wins or the steeringwheel. handling To be acutely susceptible to ridicale is sort of qualification for driving a taxicab

en for assisting to guide the helm of State.

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or

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HOUSE IT KNUTSFORD TERMANY AMERICANS have built A RADE, KOWLOON.

great commercial enterprises, by the AND ase of Trado-name items supplied by our THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-OLIPPING BUREAU: Chineso mer MENT & AGENCY Co., La. chants can de the same if they follow Hongkong, Fabtuary 1, 1908. 20 American methods.

TO LET.

IMMEDIATE POBASSION.

YODOWN No. 101, PRAYA EAST.

Apply to

CHATER & MODY,

Victoria Buildings. Hongkong, Janasry 16, 1908.

TO LET.

8

We'clip business news from more than 50,000 papers monthly, and sand these items to you while there is good prospect of supplying what

needed and doing business.

We can send you news and clippinge on any line of business, or any subject. and you will be able to know, IN TRUTH, just What American business methods are like, and where there are openings for Chinesa merchandise

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