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Intimations.

G. FALCONER & Co.,

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

DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE, HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. LARGE SELECTION OF PRESENTATION PLATE, CUPS, BOWLS, 170. G. FALCONER & Co. AAN AGENTS FOR HOSS'S FAMOUS THEROES AND

BINGOULARS, LORD KREVINS NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ADMIRALTY CHARTS AND BOOKS,

BOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER.

M. MUMEYA,

JAPANESE ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER. ENLARGEMENTS ON BROMIDE PAPER

AND FINISHED IN ORAYON,

ALL KINDS OF WORK DONE FOR AMATEURS, VERY FINE PANORAMIC VIEWS OF HONGKONG,

8 QUEEN'S ROAD OENTRAL,

REMINGTON

•

VITR

Hoogkour, March 2, S

8123

TYPEWRITERS

ALL RNOUISITES

SIEMSSEN & CO.,

SOLE AGENTS.

TYPEWRITERS

FOR SALE, REPAIR AND HIRE

Price

Very Cheap.

New Bicycles (Humber') $100 each

REPAIRS UNDERTAKEN.

Intimations.

THE CHINA MAIL.

JAPAN AT SEA.

The Growth of her Merchant Skipping.

To those who have not followed the conansorcial as well as the belligerent developinent of Japan in the last for years, Sir Thomas Sutherland's statement made recently at the annual mosting of the

MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA P. and O. Company. "That the whole of

BISHI 00.)

(LIT 80

COAL DEPARTMENT MARUNO-UCHI, TOLIO.

CABLL AUDGENS 'IWASAKL' Which applies, to all Branch OB008.

Ocdes card,

All Lotters to be Addressed :-

MANAGER, MITSUBISHI 00, with name of place under.

their colonial trade between Bombay and Japon had been wiped out by their Japanese competitors," must have come a surprising, if not incredible, fact. But while the rising power and oficioney of the Japanese Imperial Navy have engaged public attention, the concurrant steady growth and enterprise of Japanese merchant shipping have almost escaped notice.

Along these two different linas of defonce AI, A BO 5th Edition, Western Union and commerce, Japanese power at sca has been developed hand in band, from the very beginning of the outward movement which Japan began to make when the visit af Commodore Perry in 1804 broke down her two centuries of isolation. That policy of isolation had been initiated by the decree of the Shogun Iyoyasu in 1638 ordering: the destruction of the vessels which William) Adams, the English anilor shipwrecked there in 1600, Ind taught the Japanese to build and rig on AGENCIES:

the European YOKOHAMA: M. ABADA, Esq.

model. The same docres ordered big CHINKIANG: Messe GEARING & Co. Japanese janks to be reduced to a third of their size, and only amaljunks for MANILA: Mesere MacoxdRAY & Co.

casting purposes were permitted to be built in future, so that oking vessels for deep-sen mut long voyagos all inter- coureo with foreign countries was rendered i imposible. The end of that ora of spelusion

BRANCH OFFICES - NAGARAKI, MOST, Kos, Karazhu, SHANGHAI, HONgkong and HarKOW.

SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashima,

Ochi, Shinpew, Namazata and Hojo Col- Beriss; and SOLE AGENTS for Mlyse and Rishidake

Coals.

T. MATSUKI, Manager,

Hongkong,

No. 2, PEDDER STEEKT. Hongkong, April 25, 1908,

Intimations.

Don't Worry!

THURSDAY, MARCH 19 1908,

To Let:

TO LET

Sith Bathroom attached, without

MALL FURNISHED BEDROOM,

Board.

Don't worry!

Why Worry?

CONSULTA

PHAROS,

The Mystic and Modem Astrologer

YES, WHY WORRY?

BOUT your Busiusse, Health, Pleasures, Friends Abroad, your Love. Affairs and A Chauces in Tifo, Yes, Why Worry? Consult Phares, He is able to advise you, Console you sud Warm you. Elle ambition in this life is to help those in trouble, and must not be chased with the run of Palmists who us their Supposed Gifts to make money. Pharos is independent of this. Willing and able to help all in trouble and roller their anagly to the best of his ability and experiance.

PHAROS HAS A MESSAGE TO YOU."

ou are, anxists to put your son to a business that he will prospor. Will your T daughter be happy in her married life? You are in loro. Have I made a wise choice In mate 8ball Itske s partner into my business? Should I be wien in going abroad? All these questions Pharos can answer and advise by the aid of astroligy. Why not put this to the test ? Send P.0. value 1/- and addressed, stamped enveloped to-

with your Birth Date, Fall Pharos, DEPT. 1445, Union Street, Glasgow, Name and Title and Tow nor County of Birth if possible upon receipt of same Pharos will send written Test Horoscope.

With the above Pharos will send you Free a written Forecast of your Fature,

Hongkong, October 31, 1907.

1000

PICTORIAL POSTCARDS.

་་

1748

100 ASSORTED Scotch, English & Irish Views, etc., for 16.

Actresses, Songs, Animals, Lovers and Comic Cards for 15- English and Continental actresses hand tinted real elossy Photographs 15 per groen. CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR CARDS WELL ASSORTED PARCEL,

100 Carda tor - Vaine 1d., 2d., 3d., 4d. and dd, sach, 600 ASSORTED Carde for 20/-.

1 Gross Jewelled Cards for 9-.

Foreign or Colonial Stamps not accepted. Kindly send Money Order.

BRITANIA POSTCARD CO., 45, Union Street, Glasgow, Hongkong. October 31, 1907.

in 1834 was marked by the withdrawal of VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH.

this ancient veto, and the Shogunate built

vessel wellsumed the Phonix-on European liaca. From the squat untivo 816 junk, with its single que sail, Japau passed immediately to the possession of twin-screw steamships purchins from Егоро Government subsidies to the THE TWENTY-FIFTH ORDINARY Kaise Kaisha, the first Jazunese steamship GENERAL MEETING of Share-ompany criabled the establishment of s holders in the above Company will be held

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP CO., LTD.

MOTOR LAUNCHES FOR HIRE from $2 per hour. at the CostPANT'S OFFICE, St. George's regular service between Tokyo and Osaka

SOLE AGENT FOR

The Famous Humber

Cycles.

DRAGON CYCLE DEPOT,

Building, 6, Connaught Road, Victoria, on in 1868 Dockyanis were built, and Ear-

the fist March, 1908, at SATURDAY, Noos, for the purpose of receiving a State-an sailors engaged to teach navigation. Japan's little was with Fortnosa in 1874 ment of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending Blst compelled the Government to purchase December, 1997, and cleating a Consulting thirteen steamers from Europe for trus Committes and Auditors.

The TRAN "ER BOOKS of the Com-port, and when pence was restored the OSED from WEDNES vessels were utilised to establish a regular pany will be DAY, the 18. March, to SATURDAY, service between Japan and Shanghai. In Note Now Address: 33 & 35, Des Voeux Road, the 21st March, both days inclusive.

1875 the Government handed over its Hongkong, March 3, 1908.

twenty steners to the Mitsubishi Kaisha 364 (Fire Diamanty Shipping Company), and by a grant and annual subsidy the company was ended to buy qp the Yokohama.

ENO'S 'FRUIT SALT'

A HOUSEHOLD REMEDY FOR

All Functional Derangements of the Liver, Temporary Congestion arising from Alco- holic Beverages, Errors in Diet, (Eating or Drinking,) Biliousness, Sick Headache, Giddiness, Oppression or Feeling of Melan- choly, Vomiting, Heartburn, Sourness of the Stomach, or Constipation. It is a Refreshing and Invigorating Beverage, most Invaluable to Travellers, Emigrants, Sailors, and Residents in Tropical Climates.

FRO'S "FRUIT SALT" azals the Functions of the Lavor. Bowels, Skin, and Kidnaya by Natural Moana thus the blood is freed from poleptous or other hariful matter, the fornitation and great danger of Okills, Fever, Worry, Blood Polabs. There is no doubt that, where he been taken in the earliest stages of a dienase, it has in facamerabis fastances, prevented a serious illuces CAUTION -Ezamine the Capausle and as that it is marked ENOS FRUIT SALT; othersdae pos Turve the sincerest form of flattery-IMITATION.

Prepared only by 3.0. NO, Ltd., *PRUIT SALT' WORKA, London,

BL., Bing, by 3° C. ENO'S Patent.

Sold by Chemists and Stores everywhere,

DELPHI

AKEY WELLINGTON KNIFE POLISH WELLINGTON SILVERSMITHS BLACK LEAD SOAP PLATE

"FÜR GLEANING

-"POLYBRILLIANT METAL POMADE NEVER BECOMES DRY&'HARD LIKE OTHER, METALPASTES

JOHN VALEY & SONS' LİNIŢE», "* WELLINGTON MILLS LONDON.""

Garder

The tulisdom of the Demands

the Westeangive

Hong Kong Agents for

ons

Fundie

Watson's Dundee Whisky (No. 10),

Watkins, Ltd., Apothecaries Hall, Hong Kong,

2213

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. Hongkong, March 5, 1919.

THE OHINA BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE FIFTH ORDINARY YEARLY

of the above Company will be held at the Company's Office, St. George's Building, on THURSDAY, the 26th March, 1908, at 11.30 AM, to receive a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1907, and the Report of the General Manager and Consulting Committee and to alect a Con- salting Committes and Auditor.

THE MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS

STEW FILMS.

NEW SONGS AND DANCES

IY THE

SISTERS AND BROTHERS ENGEL,

AND OTHER ARTISTS.

CHANGE OF PROGRAMME EVERY SECOND DAY.

APPARATUS FOR SALE.

Two Performances Nightly.

Don't Forget the Address;

1748

DES VEUX ROAD (POTTINGER STREET CORNER). Hongkong, December 25, 1907. HOW TO DO MORE BUSINESS.

have built up

To Let.

TO LET.

1744

ПOWER HOUSE; Ten Rooma; Ken-

NEDY ROAT.

Apply

Mas G. SACHJE, KINOSULFRE. Hongkong, September 2, 1907. 1419

TO LET.

ODOWN No. 3, NEW PRAYA

KENNEDY TOWN.

Apply to

M. GAINS,

Hotel Mangions,

4377

Hongkong, March 18, 1908.

TO LET.

FFICES IN HOTEL MANSIONS,

Floor

Apply to

Once of 'China Majz' Oilton.

439 Hongkong, March 18, 1908.

TU LET.

ARGE OFFICE ROOM ou lat Floor of No. 36, DES VEUX ROAD. Apply to FERD, BORNEMANN,

No. 16, Doa Veux Road Central. 19 Hongkong, January 4, 1908,

TO LET.

ROOMS suitable for Office, Pad Floor, 19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Apply to

A LING & CO.,

Furniture Store. Hongkong, March 16, 1908. 424

TO-LET

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, the Peak.

STOWFORD, BONHAM ROAD. ·

5, STEWART TERRACE, the Peak.

*M. 8.,' Apply

Care of 'CHINa Mart' Office. Hongkong, January`4, 1908.

TO LET.

NE ROOM in PRINCE'S BUILDINGS,

Top Floor, apply to

8. J. DAVID & CO. Hongkong, February 28, 1908.

826

TO. LET.

SQUARE FEET of LAND'

70.000 i 200 foot frontage to

Kowloon Bay. Moderate Rental:

Apply to M2386 FARRELL &.LYSAUGHT. Hongkong, Augüst 28, 1907.

· TO LET-FURNISBED,

1969

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-Non; from 1st November. 40.

TÓ. 1, SALISBURY AVENUE, Kor

MENI & AGENCY Co., LD. Hongkong, March 1, 1908,

TO LET-MARCH 1.

130

GEO. P. LAMMERT.- Hongkong, September 35, 1987... 1547′′

TO LET.

Ded, in TOGO TERRACE, KENNEDY Four-Ronmed Henas, at PRAYA

ESTRABLE FLAT, just colour wash.

HOLD. Rent 830 per month.

'P.

Apply by letter to

Care of CHINA MAIL' O00, Hongkong, February 25, 1908, 307

TO LET.

Shanghai service, and shine of the Proife MANY AMERICANS Mail SS. Company and American business.ge of Trado-use items supplied by our

great commercial enterprises, by the TA HACIENDA, East, Mount Kellot, The Sarsons Rebellion in 1877 again com- CLIPPING BUREAU: Chinese mer middle or end of April next. For particu The Peak, unfurnished. from the

chants can de the same if they follow lars, apply to the Undersigned, American methods.

We clip business news from more thati 50,000 papers wonthly, and send these items to you whib there is good prospect of supplying what is needed and doing business.

We can send you news and clipplugs on Buy 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 Chinese merchandise

peiled the Government to purchase wire ships from abroad, and when their military uso had ended they were added to the Japan ese merchant navy. Lighthouses were creet. ed round the const, barbours constructed and a new shipping company was establish- [ed by Government sid. But in 1885 this The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-company and the elder Mitsubishi Kaisha pany will be CLOSED from the 12th to the were amalgamated into the new wall 26th March, both days inclusive.

known Nippon Yusen Kaision, the premier shipping company of Japan. At the same 389 time a law was made forbidding the coa- struction after 1887 of nus junks of over one hundred tous, so that by this means the clumsy native beats were doomed to die out, and he repliced by vessels of European build. In 1892 was begun be- business, for there is always something We can do just the same any line of tween Bombay and Japan the regular being on that it might pay Chines

chants to

Wto know.

can eapply you with advertisements of all the great American merchants and manufacturers, so that you may assimilate their ideas and increase your business in Obina the way we do here.

J. WHEELEY,

General Manager. Hongkong, March 9, 1908.

CHINA SUGAR REFINING CO., LD.

NOTICE.

HE THIRTIETH ORDINARY THEANNUAL MEETING of Share- holders of the above Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents on THURSDAY, the 28th March, st Noox, for the purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year soding 31st December, 1907.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from the 13th to 26th March, both daye inclusive,

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., L.,

General Agents.

Hongkong, March 6, 1998.

NOTICE.

372

steamship service which has now moné,

(Continued on Page 3.)

INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING CAR & EXPRESS TRAINS COMPANY,

THE GREAT TRANS-SIBERIAN ROUTE TO EUROPE)

LUZON SUGAR REFINING CO., LD. Habove. Compass, we shall be (AVING been appointed AGENTS for pleased to give any information to rates of passage, etc., in connection with above.

SHEWAN, TOMES & 50.,

Agents,

1285 Hongkong, August 7, 127,

THE

THE TWENTY-SIXTH ORDINARY

ANNUAL MEETING of Share holders of the shore Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents on THURSDAY, the 20th March, at 12.30 P., for the purpose of resolving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1907.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com pany will be OLUSED from the 13th to 26th March, both days inclusive. JARDINE, MATHESON &

Go, L., General Agents,

Hongkong, March 6. 1998.

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU- FACTURING- 00. LTD.

171

THE TWENTY FOURTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the above COMPANY will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICE St. George's Building, 6, Cunraught Road, Victoria, on MONDAY, the 30th March, 1308, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving Sistement of Acoonets and the Report

of the General Bougers for the year

ROSENSTOCK'S DIRECTORY

HONGKONG, MANILA

AND

SHANGHAI

FOR

FIRST HALF

1908.

CONTAINING

Complete Alphabetical List of Busines

onding 3lat December, 1807, and electing A Pirus and Foreign Residents,, a

a Consulting Commiting and Auditore.

Directory of the Government Offices, Public

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com-sud Frivate Schools, Churches, Benevolent,

of Pottery: our Clipping Bureau might Suppose, for histence, you are a maker had in some paper an item saying that big wholesale Pattery concern was being course, would send you that business-nows organized in a certain town-wo, of item, and give you a chance to do business

with that firm,

mar-

To avoid delay, send ten dollars (Mex.) for one month's trial order. Subsequent rate can be determined according to service. It won't cost any money to send for our fine Book which fulls all about our service and how much it costs. Send for it to day.

Consular references. INTERNATIONAL PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU. DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO, ILL

U.S.A.

1897 Hongkong, Soptember 24, 1907.

JEYES FLUID

SOLE AGENTS.

BANK BUILDING),

C. H. GRACE, Care of Secretary's Office,

HONGKONG CLUE. Hongkong, February 7, 1908.

211

TO. 6, MORRISON BILL,

EAST, ONE East Point.

Apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. LTD Bongkong, September 27, 1907. 1556

TO LET

STORE in Gond. Position, No, 14, Queen's Road Contral, including First Floor, and Godown at back, with Lease.

Apply ne

74, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Hongkong, February 25, 1908.---

TO LET. UCTION ROOMS, No. 2, ZATLANDINGS.

STREET, immediate possession.. OFFICES, 13, Quees & Road ÜENTRAL, 1st Floor.

Kowloon,

No. %, FAIRVIEW, Robinson Read,

WOODBURY,' Garden Road, "ROSENEATH," KOWLOON.

4, FAIRVIEW, Robinson Road, Kowloon..

TO LET,

318-

FFICES in ALEXANDRA BUILD-

Apply to

SECRETARY, A. B. WATSON & Co., Lo. Hoogkong, April 22, 1907.

730

TO LET.

WYNDHAM YHAMBERS in No. 2,

STREAT, lato Hotel Baltimore, rent

14, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL-moderato. Shop.

Apply to LEIGH & ORANGE,

1. De Vox Roid, Hongkong, March 17, 1908.

TO LET

4 and 6-ROOMED HOUSES in KOW LOON. COMMODIOUS SHOP l» Des Vaux ROAD CENTRAL, Hongkong. Immediate Possession. Moderate rantais. WINDSOR LODGE, Kimberley Road, Kowloon. Six-roomed House fitted with Electric Light and full use of Tennis Court.

Apply to HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE

Co., Lin, Hongkong, August 13, 1907,

TO LET.

1521

DEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine

Ofoes and Dwobing. Rooms,

18, Quarn's ROAD CENTRAL, Top Floor over Caldbeck, aggregor & Co.)

BELILIOS TERRACE HOUSES, Ro KINSON ROAD."

GLENWOOD, CAINE Hoad, suitable for

ROCKE!

• Böbrding House or Club, containe 26

OFFICES in QUEEN'S ROAD, URNTRAL. E No. Y PRAYA GRANDE, MACA

EGGESFORD (furnished), No. 114, CPEAK. Contains a Reuse.....

"LADBROKE, No. 9. CONDEIT ROAD,

ZRÁCHOR

First Floor of No. 6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, containing 6 Rooms and Ser vanis' Quarters,

Apply to

DAVID SASSOON & CO. LTD.

911 Hongkong, Fobruary 25, 1908,

TO LET.

LEMEDIATE FOSAKESION.

PDOWNS Nos, 88, 98, 99 and 99,

PRAYA EAST.

SECRETARY, Apply to THE HONOSONG, CANTOS & MACÃO B.B.

Co., LTD.,

Hotel Mansions. Hongkong July 23, 1907.

TO LET

1200

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TER A. RADE, KOWLOON.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG. LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY 06., Lø. Hongkong, March 1, 1808,

TO LET.

✔ CITILLINGFLETE, PEAK ROAD, Broomed House with fine view of the Harbour. Moderate Rent.

*HARPENVILLE, GARDEN Road. B

Rooms, Electric Light and Tennis Court.

Apply to

8 Rooms, Furnished or Dafurnished, from 15th April, 1908. Largo dervants' quarters Rand full sized Tennis Court.

No. 8, DUDDELL STREET, Shop and·lat jug Floor.

Nos. 1, 2 & 6, DES VEUX VILLAS, Pork

Apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Brd Floor, Alexandra Buildings Hongkong, April 12, 1907.

W.G. HUMPHREYS & CO.

Hongkong, May 1, 1908

1024

SIR ROBERT HART'S

MEMORANDUE:

Series of Articles on Sir R03

will be OLUSED from WEDNES. Literary and ochier Associations, etc., and a A HART' Sommaus for the fimprove HA

pany 30th March, both days inclusive.

DAY, the 25th March, is MONDAY, the completo

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Bunagers. Hongkong, March 18, 1908,

440

THE REVENUE OF CHINA,

▲ SERIES OF ARTICLES. Beprinized from The Odra Mall, WITH AN APPENDIX

·To beʻhai xb, the UFFICE OF THIS PAPELI 8 Queen's Road Central,- Price 60 canta.

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