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Begin from TUESDAY, the 3rd March.
Pressebar we will need to our New Shops on the 7th inst.
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MITSU BISHI COSHI KWAISHA
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COAL DEPARTMENT MARUNO-UCHI, TOLIO.
CABLE ADDRESS: 'TWASAKI.' Which applies to all Branch Offices.
Codes used.
THE CHINA MAIL.
IS JOHN THE "FITTEST"?
In the "Pacifio Fra "Mr Michael J. Des Iclains that if the fittest is to survive we should seriously coneider the claims of John Chinaman to be regarded as a claimant for the proud: title of "Ettost."" Though much of the article is moro likely to amuse than instruct. Portion of the article is worth studying, Mr Des says:
A coupleuous factor in the battle of life ie omnivormusuuss, or divorsity, of feeding. That animal which has but a single plant, for instance, which it ents use for food may be similisted, by a frost or grab or any other use which would remove that That which plant for a single season. feeds indiscriminately on all plants will find abundant sustenance under more ad- verse circumstances. That whose stomach
Intimations.
Worry!
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 1908.
Intimations.
Don't Worry: THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO.,
Why Worry?
CONSULT
PHAROS,
The Mystic and Modern Astrologer
YES, WHY WORRY?
LAMITED.
THE THIRTY NINTH ORDINARY [THE
MEETING of Shareholders in the Company will be held at the CoMPANIE OFFICES, No. 3, Queen's Road Contral, Victoria, on THURSDAY, the 6th March, 1008, at 12 o'clock Noor, for the purposs of Receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directars for the year anding 81st December, 1907.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pay will be CLOSED from 20th instant
the bh March, both daya inclusive,
By Order,
BOUT your Buslanes, Health, Plessures, Friends Abroad, pour Love Affairs and A Chances in Life. Yes, Why Worry Consult Pharov. He is able to weigto you, Console you and Warn you. His ambition in this life is to help those in trabl sad must not be classed with the run of Palmiste who use their Supposed Gifts to make oboy, Pharos is independent of this. Willing and able to help all in trouble and elave their anxiery to the best of his ability and experience.
PHAROS HAS A MESSAGE TO YOU”.
GEO. L. TOMLIN
Secretary..
Hongkong, February 13, 1909.
LIMITED.
241.
Da se apxjens to put your een to a business that he will prosper. Will your THE HONGKONG MILLING CO., receives vegetable or uninul food with daughter bo happy in her married life? You ste in love. Have I made a wise choice
'n mate Sball I take a partner into my businessa? Should 1 be, wise in going shroad equal favor is a still better chance of
All these questions Pharca can answer and advice by the aid of netrolioy. Why not THE THIRD ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, enveloped to A1, ABO 5th Edition, Western Union Huiving; and that which can catch the put this to the test? Sond P,0. value 1. and addressed, stamped
most various sort of proy is more apt to
with your Birth Date, Full King's Buildings, at 12 o'clock Noor, on have prey always at its command than that Pharos, Ders. 14 46, Union Street, Glasgow, Name, and Titis and Tow nor SATURDAY, the 7th Bitch, for the whose powers in the chase, whose couragbounty of Birth if possible upon receipt of name Pharos will send written Test purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounte or whose strength can overtake or overcome Horoscope.
With the above Phares will send you Free a written Forecast of your to the Slet December, 1907. only the most slow-moving or weakest ani.
Future. mals. Mau, the most perfect of animals,
Hongkong, October 31, 1907. and the one who in the prosent conditions of the cach could surrire all others, bas attained to his position of mastery largoly because he is, of all animals, the most omnivorous.
All Letters to be Addressed :-
MANAGER, MITSUBISHI 00., with name of place ander.
BRANCH OFFICES:- NAGASAKI, MOл, Konz, KARATU, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG AND HANKOW.
AGENCIES: YOKOHAMA: M. ABADA, Esq.
Of all the varieties of mass the Asiatic, and especially the Chinaman, is most
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
UHINKIANG: Messra GEARING & Co diverso-in-his food. All is meat to him-} CHRISTMAS « NEW YEAR CARDS WELL ASSORTED PARCEL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS
MANILA: Mesere MacondRAY & Do.
SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashima, Ochi, Shlanew, Namazuta and Hojo Col SOLE AGENTS for Miyao and Kishidake
Coals.
T. MATSUKI, Manoger,
Bongkong,
No. 2, PEDDER STREST. Hongkong, April 25, 1906,
You cannot
beat the best
Don't turn up your nose, Fido, it's Van Houten's; the very best!
"In Bavour it is perfect, pure and well prepared."—
British Medical Journal.
VAN
HOUTEN'S
COCOA
M. O. O. TURKISH VIGARETTES,
HE BEST on the MARKET.
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animal or vegetable, in thoair, on the earth or in the waters under the earth. Hocan gorgo himself with joy on tho abundant neat diet of the Englishman, he can dine! comfortably and happily upon a brace of mice, or eke out life for weeks upon a fow
handfuls of rice. And all the time he can work without ceasing. He caur pack more of his kid upon an acre of ground than any Now York ténement life cau ebow, and live there in what be regards as tolerable comfort. In this he has precisely the same advantage over the white man as the European had over the original inhabitants of this country and as the Englishman had over the natives of Australia.
It is really, therefore, those charne- teristics of the Asiatic with we tuosi despise and which ire regarded ng consci- tating his inferiority to ourselves - his ! niserable little tigure, his pinched guil wretched way of living, his slavish and tireless industry, his indifference to high and costly pleasures which our habit of generations almost makes necessities, his | capacity to live in swarms is wretched deus where the white man would ret if he did not suffoente-all these make him most formidable rival for ultimate survival as the fittest not only in America but wherever he may gaiu a foothold.
Cur ancestora emerged from the brand and roomy environment of pastoral ani Savage life only a few centuries ago, and our life-sustaining faculties repro- sent what has heen stored up by herudity in the period which has since elapsed. The eastern Asiatic emerged from those condi tions at a period so remote that no human record or tradition, can be found su elá as
to refer to a time when China and Indu
were not too populous for the conditions
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ROSENSTOCK'S
of savage afe. The accumulated experience DIRECTORY
of countless ages if therefore stored up in the Asiatic's food-getting and fondgaying capacity, and those nges properly and fairly represent his superiority over us in the battle for the survival of the fittest, if that battle is to be fought in fair field with no favour, in open and undisturbed cor- petition.
OF
HONGKONG
MANILA,
AND SHANGHAI,
FOK
FIRST HALF
Another advantage in the battle of life: which the Chingman enjoys, although it is one with which the pathologist rather than the political economist should be familiar, ishiy immunity from diseases which prey upon the Western races. His civilization is so old that he has probably eliminated a thousand varieties of his own ruce which Aple and Persigt. Rosideos, were susceptible to these diseases and has Directory of the Government Offices, Pablle
1908.
CONTAINING :
Complete Alphabetical List of Business,
at Inut developed a type more or lessing and Private Schools, Churches, Benevolent mune. Be can apparently live in tolerable Literary and other Associationb, td, and
complete. health and comfort in the midst of fill
CLASSIFIED
which would breed a desolating postilence Among Western people. He has had time to undergo every experience of which the human animal is expable, to adjust himsel to it and regard it, howsoever abhorreat it might bo to Europeans, with indifference.
COMMERCIAL
DIRECTORY
OF EACH OTHE Azerz Orres,
For Sale by
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HOW TO DO MORE BUSINESS.
MANT
TANT AMERICANS have built up great commercial enterprises, by the nee of Trade-news items supplied by out CLIPPING BUREAU: Chinese mer chants can do the saine if they follow American boathoda.
HE THIRTY-NINTH ORDINARY will be hold at the Offices of the Under- signed, at 19.30 P., on TUESDAY, the 10th March.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Co- pany will be CLOSED from the 25th inst. to the 10th March, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON &O, L.,
General Managers, HONGKONG Fire Insurance Co., Ln.
269 Hongkong, February 18, 1908.
THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO.,:
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE TWENTY-FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE. HOLDERS will be held in the CITY HALL, on SATURDAY, the 14th March, at 12.30, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the State- ment of Accounts for the year ending 31st, December, 1807.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from the 8th to the- 14th March, both days inclusive.
EDWARD OSBORNE,
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Bougkong, February 27, 1908.
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INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING CAK & EXPRESS TRAINS; COMPANY,
(THE GREAT TRANS-SIBERIAN ROUTE TO EUROPE).
HAVING bean appointed AGENTS for the above Campany, we shall be pleased to give any information as to rates of passage, etc., in connection with above.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents.
Hongkong, August 7, 1907.
1285
DEAR TRAMWAYS COMPANY.
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS.
7.00 am to 7:30a.m. Every 30 minutes. 7.30 am to 9.30 am...Every 10 minutes We clip business news from more than
9.30 a., to 11.008.m... Every 15 minuter 60,000 papers woonthly, and send these items to you while there is good prospect 11,30a.m. do 13.45 p.m., Every 15 minutes.
10 mln
minutes of supplying what is needed and doing | 12.45 p.m. to 1.15 p. 15 minste
1.16 p.m. 50 1.45
tokiness.
We can send you news and clippings on any line of business, or any object, and you will be able to know, IN TRUTH, just what American business mothode are like, And where there are openings for Chinese marchandise
for instance, you are a maker Suppose for of Pottery: our Clipping Bureau might find in some paper an item saying that a wholesale Pottery concern was being big organized in a certain town:-we, of Would eend you that business.news purse, item, and give you a chance to do business with that firm.
like
of
We can do just the same in any like business, for there is always something being on
that it might pay Chines mer chants to know.
Wo can supply you with advertisements of all the great American merchants and so that you may assimilate manufacturere, s their ideas and increase your business, in China the way we do bere, pl
(Mex.)
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BREWER & Co. LD. PEDLER ST. rate can be determined according to service. KELLY & WALSH, L., CRATER. RD.
Mess Pattick and Simpson havo sold the first portion of the works of art of Messrs S. N. Nyburg ud Company, of Rogent-strect, by direction of the Receiver. The more important articles include a pair of old Chinese rases and covors, the contro portions onnullal with peony and Ho-Ho A bird, or white ground: the upper portion with reserves of flowers and utensils, with yellow borders, the cover surmounted op. kylius, height, including carved stand., of f-1.35 quinens
VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH.
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NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE LATEST NOVELTY. E
INSURANCE COMPANY.
TOTAL FUNDS AT Bler DEORDER, 1906,
£17,837,119.
Authorised Capital 29,000,000
Subscribed Capital £2,750,000 Paid-up Capital *****£687,500 0 HI-Fire Funds
*3,886,790 198
III-Lite&AnnultyFonds 18,752,898 86 £17,837,119 81 Revenue Fire Branob... 2,001,044 19
Tilə & Annuity
1715,808 19 10 Branche......
£8,774,853-198
The Accumulated Funds of the Fire and Elle Departments are free from liability ir respect of each other.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
SISTERS AND BROTHERS
ENGEL
SONG AND DANCE.
AND OTHER ARTISTE
Don't Forget the Address: DES VŒUX ROAD, (POTTINGER STREET CORNE Hongkong, December 23, 19:7.
or
It won't cost any money to sand for our fice Book which tells all about our service much it costs. Sond for it to.. and how much day.
Consular refarcucca,
1.45 p.m. to 9.16 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 2.15 p.m. to 3.00p.m...very 15 minutes. 3.80 p.m. to 6.00 pm...Every 15 minutes. 6.00 p.m. to 200 p.m...Every 10 minutes.
NIGHT CABR.
8.45 pm, and p.m., 9.45 p.m. to 11.10.
p.m. every half hour,
SUNDAYS.
8.00 am to 9.00 am...Every 15 minutos.“ 9.00 4.m. to 9.80 am... Every 30 minute 9,30a.m. to 10.30 am..Every 15 minutes 10.30a.m. to 11.00a.m. Every 10 minutes, 11.46 am to 12
16 minutes,
to.
18.00 Noonantes
1.00 p.m.
15 minus,
5.00 pm, to 6.00 p.m...very 10 minutba 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm. Every 16 minutes 7.00 pm to 8.00 p.m... Every 10 minutes.
NIGHT VARS A On Week Days BarunPAVÉ. Bitza Cars at 11.30 aud 11.40 p.m. SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at the Company's Office, ALEXANDRA BOILEDres Das Vouz Rood Central,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON;
Genera Managers.
DIRECTORY. OFFICE, 12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Hongkong, February 8, 1909, 254 INTERNATIONAL PRESS CLIPPING THE
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Don't Forget
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LABUAN COAL
THE LABUAN COALFIELDS COM. PANT, LD, ate bow prepared to bunker steamers at LABUAN with good fresh quality LABUAN COAD, double screened and straights from the mines. For further particular, apply to
BRADLEY & CO.,
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DEING a kerter addressed to Rest
Admiral Lord CHARLES BEFOR 6.B. M.P. And an article in reply bo
OHINA THE SLEEP AND AWAKENING.
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HONGKONG
DOOKS.
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