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Intimations.

G FALCONER & Co.,

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BOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER

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JAPANESE ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER. "NLARGEMENTS ON BROMIDE PAPER

AND FINISHED IN URAYON,

ALL KINDS OF WORK DONE FOR AMATEURS. VERI FINE PANORAMIO VIEWS OF HONGKONG,

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TYPEWRITERS

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Hongkong, March 8, 1906

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FOR SALE, REPAIR AND HIRE. Price Very Cheap.

New Bicycles ('Humber") $100 each

REPAIRS UNDERTAKEN.

Intimations.

THE CHINA MAIL.

WARFARE.

THE USE OF THE MOTOR IN enormous power of hanlage, which onebles it to drag heavy gaus into position. The tests to which it was subjected in the Long Valley at Aldershot consisted in climbing. Just as motor traction is bound to hills at a gradient which, undoubtedly, gradually supersede the ordinary vehicular have proved too much for the ordinary trastion engine, finally unchings position on traffic on our roads, so in mechanical the crost in which finster soented inevit transport, says the United Service able. It crossed a deep ditch, five or sit feet in width, and manœuvred with emo Gsmette," destined to replace all other in its own length. The whole ides camo forms of military tanisport in the near to Mr Wright when he w the un- Africa to pull our heavy guns op the eight of this contingency, and bave been kopjes. Any number of them got stock Beginning to experiment carefully making provision for it through and were lost. the median of the Mechanical Transport years ago. Mr Wright gradually built are the machine now reported upon from detachment, which forms a part of the Aldershot, Its noceptance by the War COAL DEPARTMENT, Army Soyige Corps Training Depot at

|MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA fate. The Army Council have not lost wieldy traction engines seat out-to South

(MITSU BISHI CO.)

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AGEN OIES':

ice is a foregone conclusion, after the wonderful functions it has been proved capable of performing, but it will probably be dispatched for usa, either in India or Egypt, while other automobiles of a similar pattern will be made in this country.

TO EXPLORE PAPUA.

A Hazardous Undertaking.

Aldershot The announcement just de by the Army Council of the offer of a priza for a suitable light tractor is further evidenes of the fact that developments in the motor transport service nie in ) contemplation by the military authorities. That some measure of success in the direc tion of providing for motor transport in onas of national emergency, has been schier. ed by the Army Council is shown by tho

Mr Donald Mackay, who is looking for Annual Report of the Mechanical Trans-new worlds to conquer, left Sydney by the port Committee for 1907, which has just steamer Aramic on June 23 for New ben issued.

Guines. Mr Mackay is a brother of Colonel Kenneth Mackay, and be has spent most of his life in travel and exploration.. He has been through Japan and the Fast, AL first as well as most other parts of the world, and the record of his experiences in un- civilised places would make a bulky and interesting volume. In 1990 be, in con- pagy with two friends, "cycled around Australis. After accomplishing that fost fr Mackay sought the advice of Mr rácst Farenc. "Where can I and thing now?" he asked. Some her where white men have not boen?" · "Fapea is about the only place left," Mr Farene told him, and so he decided in favour of Papua

According to this-report the scheme for the registration. of motor vehicles, which was formulated by the Army CABLE ADDRESS for above: IWASAKI Cone some time back; has been put Godas:~AL, ABQ 6th Ed., Western Union.to working order. It was

thought that touch could be obtained with owners through the Nations! Trac- tion Engine Users Association and the Commercial Motor Users' Association, or by means of advertisements, but it was found that many owners were not mumbers of these associations and did not see the advertisements. The total number of vehicles registered during the year was 82, thear consisting of light tmctors and lorries. The experiments

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For particulara, apply to

E. OISHI,

Manager, No. 2, PIEDER STREET,

HONGLONG.

Hongkong, August 8, 1908.

BY APPOINTMENT SUTTON'S ROYAL SEED GESTABLISHMENT.

816

carried out with the chain tractor" were highly satisfactory, and the results ars reported to have far exceeded the expecta ticus of the Mechanical Transport Com. mittee. It crossed two ditches, che of which was five yards wide and eighteen inches deep, with doping banks, and hauled a loud across county which no other vehicle could attempt to over. For a first year's work this may be said

MOTOR LAUNCHES FOR HIRE from $2 per hour. Lists may be seen and Unters received by to be fairly satisfactory, but obviously the

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The Famous Humber Cycles.

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Hongkong, January 27, 1908.

22115

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AND THE PROMINENT SHIPCHANDLERS.

Carbonic Acid in Steel Cylinders and

Aerated Water Machines.

ALL ACCESSORIES FOR SAME.

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KNIFE POLISH

AND POLISHING

OAKEYWELLINGTON

KNIFE BOARDS

THE KONVEŠ

CHINA EXPRESS CO.,

LABUAN JOAL.

PANY, LD, are now prepared to bunker steamers at LABUAN with good fresh quality LABUAN COAL, double screened and straight from the minus. For further particulara, spply to

BRAULEY & CO.,

Agents.

rate of registration must prezd more rapidly in the second year, if the degree of afficiendy necessary to complete the scheme of national preparation for defence is to be quickly reached, -

FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1908.

Van Houten's Cocoa

Do you want a Pure Cocoa? Then drink Van Houten's. Do you want the cocoa which possesses the finest flavour? Then drink Van Houten's. Do you want the cocoa which is most readily digested?

Then drink Van Houten's. There is no

other cocoa which combines these three

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and

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To Let.

*1079

TU LET.-

FFICES in HOTEL MANSIONS.

Apply to

HENRY HUMPHREYS,

Alexardes Baŭdings. Hongrong, August 1, 1908.

20 LET,

\FFICES in ALEXANDRA BUILD.

Apply to

SECRETARY, A. S. WATSON & Cá, Ln. Hongkong. April 22, 1997.

750

TO LET.

At the outset Mr Mackay endeavoured. to enlist the sympathies of people whoINGS. would finance the expedition, but ho found

ather remarkable lack of enthusiawn in. relation to the exploration of Papus, and he, thereforo, decided to bear the whole expcuse of the undertaking-estimated at £1400 or £1500-himself.

Mr Mackay will have with him on the,

trip to unknown regions Mr William Little,

[F"OWER HOUSE: Ten Rooms; Kes-

WEST ROAT

Apply

ARA G. SACHSE, KINÜSCLIAL-

TO LET,

M.LO of Papus, whose local knowledge-Hongkong, September 2, 1907. $418 should be of great value, and the party will be accompanied by Mr A. E. Pratt (brother of Mr F. L. Pratt of Hongkong) licensed surveyor, as well as an oruithole.

to oxist in localities now believed to be

To Let.

TO LET

TURNISHED ROOM, with Board, on Upper Level. Cool situation. Apply

* QUERY, Care of CHINA Man' Offion.

1093 Hongkong, August 6, 1908.

TU LET.

CHOP, No. 14, QUEEN'S

CENTRAL.

BOAD

OFFICES, Nos. 13 & 14, QuEET's Road CENTRAL, 1st Floor.

毒

No. 2, FAIRVIEW, Reumaon Road, Kowloon.

Apply to LEIGH & ORANGE. Hougkang, June 13, 1908.

TO LET.

(ATHERLEIGH, Cosper Roan.

OFFICES A YORK BUILDING, GODOWNS in PRATA EAST, Blue Balid.

Engs, and No. 16a, De Your Road next

FLATS in Mousson "TanŁACH,

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TER to the Hongkong Hotel.

BAUE, KOWLOON. Apply to

THE YOKONG LAND INVEST. ATE & AGENCY Uỡ, X. Hongkong, ugust 1, 1908,

20

TO LET.

CDOWN No. 6, DUDDELL

STREET.

Apply to

Go

No. 10, Das Vaux ROAD CENTRAL, 1eb Floor.

A House in RIPON TERRACE.

A House in WONG NEI CHONG ROAD.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY Co., Em,

24 Hongkong, August 1, 1809.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTA FRESH CONSIGNMENT

MENT & AGENCY 00., LD, Hongkong, August 1, 1909.

S, Dudlell Streit. CABLE ALDRES; EXPEDITION' A.B.C. COBY ED. Telephone: 668. P. O. Box 101, AGENTS FOR Contractors TO. IMPERIAL GERMAN & ROYAL

At the last annual dinner of the Muturgist. The main object of the visit is to DANISH PARCEL POST. Shipping, Forwarding & Insurance Agents. Union, General Sir John French, who was map out unknown parts of the country. 1049 present, referred to the bearing and in while incidentally a sharp lookout will be Hongkong, Dec. 20, 19u"

finence of motoring on the science and kept for anything in the nature of mineral- practice of war. Owing to the great dore-bearing country, though Mr Maclay is really actuated by the spirit of adventare: lopment of modern firearms and the enor- mon hosts which every great Power in the He entortsins the theory that the in THE LABUAN COALFIELDS COM-world, except ourselves even an island terior of New Guinea will prove very Power Eke Japan maintained, the size of different from what it is popularly sup modern battlobelde had become infinitely posed to be, and anticipates that grazing greater than in former days. The front lands of considerable extent will be found dering the Battle of Mukden was fifteen ordenes sortib twenty times as great as that of Waterloo.

After leaving Cooktown the party will go Owing to this state of things commanders direct to Samarai. There Mr Mackay will of armies in the field had lost the power anlist the services of a bearers, who ar which commanders of old enjoyed, the great baing gathered together by Mr Little power given by the exercise of personal The beators will be mos from the adjacent induent and control over the fight. The larva and from the western division field telegraph arid telephone had improved Merrie England will convey the party of Papua. The Government steamer matters, but the great, drawback, had been from Samarai to the Perari Rivor, on left ever since the Franco-Gertaan War the south coast of Papua, where From the experiments carried out of late same trouble recently occured with the Pald-up Capital 2887,500 0 0 years, both in his country and abroad, the natives. From there the party intends to

No -Fire Fauds 8,065,371 15 military authorities have come to the con- strike across country in a north-westerly clusion that in the next big war they would direction into unknown regions towards find that the motor had, in a great measure, what is supposed to be the head of the Fly restored the lost power to the commander River, about 200 miles from its soures. in ohief, who, by its aid, would be able The point indicated is about 100 miles to exercise nearly as great an influence higher up than Sir William Macgregor, over the fight as was exercised by the who mapped the river out for 60 miles, grant commanders in the days of Welling went. If they strike the river, the energies ton and Napoleon. The motor has not only conferrea this tremendous advantage,

Telegraphic Address;

* LABOR LABUAN,' Hongkong, February 10, 1908.

98

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTE

İNSURANCE COMPANY

---

£18,114,624.

TOTAL FUNDS AT SIAR DACENSE. 1907, --Autborleed Capital £9,000,000 Seteribed Chiplést £2,750,000

Life Annuity Fans 14,315,842 10 Staking Fant. Åœcount 45,90768 *18,114,624 11 1 Revenue Fire Branah... 2,280,662 13

Tile & Annuity 1,847.221 18 4

Branche... Sinking Fund Ascount 8,289 5

TO LET.

109

Immolate PosSESSION.

YODOWNS Noa.. 38, 99 and 194,

PRATA EAST. Apply to SECRETARY, THE HONGKONG, OASTON & HAOLO 8.3.

Co., LTD.,

Hotel Mansions. Hougrong July 23, 1907,

TO LET FROM JUNE 1.

1900

TO. 2, ANTRIM VILLAS, Das Ver ROAD, Kowloon. Five-Roomed Hopise.

Apply

MIES FARRELL & LYSAUGHT. Hongkong, March 25, 1908.

TU LET.

474

OF

EYSSEN'S

EDAM

CHEESE.

Choicest Quality.

H. BUTTONJEE & SON, Wine & Provision Merchants.

Hongkong, Februney 27, 1908,

CHER WING & Co.,

to the works of building dugouts and canoes, NKOWLOON. 6 Reem house with 21, 28 d 29, LEE FURN STREET (WEST) of the party will for some time be devoted. 3, OBSERVATORY VILLAS,

£4,136,169 18 111 but it has also proved of the greatest valge to be utilised in an endeavour to trace these of Tennis Court, The Accumulated Funts of the Fire and in the training and instruction of troops for source of the Fly, exploring the country

Elfe Departments as free from Habitleyin Wospecs of aach other.

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The party will return to the mouth of the Fly River and cross in canoes to the Island of Daru, where it is understood a mission station has been established, but it will have to wait there an indefinite. period till some-one can take it off.

Although mechanical traction in the Army is only of comparative, recent growth, it has already rendered very food service to the State. It received its first trial для the South African War, where its use first taught us the lesson that an efficient repair station, capable of acting as a mobile base in time of war, was an absoluto Recessity;

It is expected that the trip will entail of a leason that the Army Council have not walk of about 800 miles. MF Little antia failed to proßs by. Lability to heakdown pates that a lot of the country is so densely is, of sparse, a factor of motor traction covered with scrub that they will have fre- which must always he provided against and gaently to chop their way through. In that in the field it becomes, without adequate event progress will necessarily be slow at provision for controuchoies, a menace times-probably not more than a couple of to the efficiency of an otherwise well-miles a day. Mr Mackay hopes, on the con

TO LET-FROM 1ST SEPTEMBER.

A

859

AT SBAMEEN, CANTON,

OUSE No. 108 (Kwan How Buildings) as prednut in the pcenpation of the I. M. Customs. Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

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to the successful ase of mechanical tran expedition will not be surprised if it is Kowloon Bay. Moderate Rental. sport during the war, and it is owing to Gaished in three months. the fact that this requirement has since boun mat by the Army Coul, that with are concerned, the party will set out So far as the nativas likely to be met mechanical transport now forms such an in absolute ignorance, but it hopes to coma INFANTS AND INVALIDS To-day, perhaps, it may be only right to Lewers may be obtained and replenished. incourging feature of our manoeuvres.

across villages where food supplies for the say that the mechanical transport depart They are advised, however, flant in addition ment of the Army is one of the most to the usual risks of fever and such thinge and 8-ROOMED HOUSES: la KOW any line of busssss, or any subject, and eficient and progressivo branches of the associated with Pappa and incidental to the 4 LDON. SMALL SHOP in Des Tax you will be able to know, IN TRUTH, jost work of exploration generally, they will Road OTEL, Hengkeng Immediate what Ameriona business methods are like, Probably Bud the nativos troublesome on Possession, Moderate rentals,

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It was Austria that was probably the first to perceive the possibilities of the

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Me Mackay will take with him provisions HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE very first the Vienna War Office have been sufficient to meet the needs of feat men

Co., LTD. constantly experimenting with now types for ox months, The Inggage will also of cars for transport and other purposes include quantity of tobacco, jaw-harpe Quite recently a car was built to carry benda, cloth, and other items likely to two persons and equipped with a power tickle the fancy of the natives and prove ful searchlight capable of illuminating useful for the purpose of inducing lande several miles of country. It provod sud supplies of food for the bearers. It quitɔ a success, and a number of cars, the unfire Villages expected are not found of like pattam have, in consequence on the way will be extremely con- hoon ondered. Transport automobiles of a venient, sa it is impossible to carry large now and interesting pattern are also being supplies of food for the bearers, constructed. Each car in fitted with 40 Mr Mackay is taking a large medicine horse power motors, one in frons and one chest along with him, so that the terrors behind, so that the breaking down of one of filrea may be guarded against as fer motor would not put the car out of so ion as possible. When he comes back he They can be run at high speed albing level will be willing to place y mas o reads, and are also extremely good lill compiles and my information he collects Climbers Wagons of a special type are at the disposal of the Federal Government, ing built for attachment to there motore, if desired

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