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Don't Forget

TO ORDER THE

· OVERLAND

CHINA MAIL.

REFORE GOING HOME

No. 14.872

The China Mail.

LISHND

號八周五學九零百九千一其

Intimations.

Business Notioas -

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1909.

Business Notices:

Joseph

Gil ott

PE

THORNE'S

$15

PER

CASE

OLD VAT

Aquappliad

to the

Ecase of

Commu

THIS VAI WAS STARTED BY THE LANG ROSENT THORNS

ON GALINGEMAND HAS BESN BOLBAR WA SIKÖY 18:30

SCOTCH WHISKY

SOLE AGENTS IN

HONG KONG, CHINA & MANILLA..

A. S. WATSON & CO,LTD.*.

Hongue, May 1. 19 7.

193

BANK NOTES AND SPECIE.

The "returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended April 30th, 1909 as certified by the Managers of the respective Banka ahow the, „following particulars:-Chartered Bank-

bank notes 33 545, 615: specic. 82,700,000. | Hongkong and Shanghai Bank-bank notes, #12,814,040; specie, 812,000,000 National Bank of China-bank note, .2,577;

■pecial, nil

MACAO NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondens),

Macao, och Hay.

日九十月三年元就室

W. S. BAILEY & Co., Ltd. BELL'S ASBESTOS EASTERN AGENCY, LIMITED

ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS

Engines, Boilers, Steam Pumps and Fittings.

MOTOR HOUSE BOAT FOR SALE.

Hotel Mansions.

ASAHI BEER

SOLE AGENTS FOR BELL'S'ASBESTOS CO., LTD., LONDON),

SAVE FUEL BY COVERING YOUR BOILEES AND STEAMPIPES

ASBESTOS NON-CONDI

"TalzahaṀs' Asbestos, Hoxoxoxo,

00MPOSITION,

ESTIMATES GIVEN

FOR WORK YENISHED "OOKTZITE,

OR SUPPLIED IN

Bags of owt saab.

OFFICE

QUEENS BUILDINGS.

TELEPHONE. No. 501...

PRICH, 88,00;

Business Notices

WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION for

over THREE-QUARTERS of a CENTURY

WILKINSON'S

¿Estabitatea since: 1920.), ZKERENOR OR:FLUID. EXTRADT.

Wå endnot speilt.

"100: highly ut in

met

SARSAPARILLA,

2-Pronounench-ban + thà› HIGURÁT (MEDICAL.-

WONDERFUL PURIFIER of the HUMAN BLOCK

THE SAFEST & MOST RELIABLE.

Torpid Liver, Debility, ERUPTIONS & WILKINSON'S INDISPENSABLE TO

SARSAPARILLA ALL WHO VALUE HEALTH BEWARE OF IMITATIONS AND SUBSTITU TX-

HONGZONG DAZM, CaviCHINX & Co., A. 8. Wamon

YEBISU BEER LANE, CRAWFORD & CO. GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO.,.

A LARGE SELECTION OF

SAPPORO BEER BATHING COSTUMES

OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE

SOLE AGENT MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

DIAMONDS AND GEM-SET JEWELLERY

Rings, Brooches, Ear-rings, Pins, Pendants, Hair-combs, Charme, Chains, Links, &c.

A sum of 1472 was raised in one day Jade Stone and Chinese Made Gold Jewellery.

among merchants, and property holders to

AND

SWIMMING SUITS.

BATE ROBES AND TOWELS.

P

NEW STOCK OF

Summer

LANE,

Underw

AWFORD &

defesy, the cost of the wise that was sent on GOLD & SILVER WATCHES, CLOCKS, OPTICAL GOODS NESTOR SANITARY FLUID

3rd fast, to the Minister for the Colonias

in pursuance of the resolution adopted at the Town Hall. Telegrams of uniform import were also forwarded to ex-Minister Castello Branco of the 1904 traaty famo, and the Journalistic Institute of Lisbon. It is surmised that the order given General Machado to expedito his departure ont here for the Delimitation Inquiry was a

Repairs of Watches and Jewellery affected by experienced Europe

J. ULLMANN & CO.

34, Queen's Road Central, Opposite General Post Office.

A RELIABLE DISINFECTANT

One Gallon Tins $2. Pint Tins 50 Centa: SUN GLASSES. SUN GLASSES.

MONDAY, MAY 10th,

E. C. WILKS,

direct oute me of the cablegram sent Home. THE EVENT OF THE SEASON.

Sr. Farin Main, a civil engineer connected

M.T. MEC, B. A.M.I.NA.

HOUSEHOLD AMMONIA

with our Public Works Department, has left AN ESTABLISED POPULARITY. LATE OF WILKS & JACK, L. For the Bath and all Toilet Purposes, Delicately Perfumed,

for Japan to survey a dredger of which our

government has been offered the refusal.

A mild semtion was created by the pro-

sence of picket guards who were sent out

to patrol the streets yesterday evening!

THE

CONSULTING ENGINEER,

HIPPODROME SURVEYOR, VALUER

The unwonted spectacle afforded by the CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE little armed squnds of horse and foot

soldiers and bluujockets, aut afloat a host of LOCATION: CAUSEWAY` BAY. most alarming rumours, the micut startling being the one which told of intelligence

having been received by the authorities

to the effect that a band of lawless agit ators had left Canton ri.. Honkong for this end, with the express intention of setting fire to, and looting the native banks and Fantan shops. The excitement prosailing in the principal nativo orough- fures, where an unanual crowd of the rag- tag and Lobtail Burged to and fro, and,

TO-NIGHT!

TO-NIGHT

SECOND CHANGE OF

PROGRAMME.

N.B GRAND RIDING COMPETI- TIN OPEN TO ALL COMERS.

fact, land colour to the report. The The Successful Competitor riding 3 times probability is that the step was but pre-round the ring'ina standing-Position will cautionary mesenze called for by the dia- be awarded $10. Next. Beat Attempt $10. aflection resultant upon the seizure, by

the local authorities of the premises as well as of the goods and chattels per-!

taining to the Opium Farmer, yesterday

at noon. It would be rush to venture

TIME AND PRICES AS USUAL.

!

into captious details relevant to the Next Matinee Wednesday.

incident till reliable sources are tapped

for nome ducidativa ples to vindicata

which, to say the least of it, may be

Hongkong, April 12; 199-

507

viewed as i most unhappy move at BU PAR CHINESE ENCHE ZERING AND

uneasy juncture like the presont. Withal, the fact remains that the Government re- jected the proposal of the Opium Syndicate to prolong the Monopoly a reement at i reduced annual contribution of 280,000 in lion of the original price of $334,000 and have now gone to all lengths to make the most of the bargain. The security bond of 8111.000 was confiscated, and yesterday

MISING CO., LTD.

ΝΟΤΙΟΥ

IN INTERIM DIVIDEND of. Onz A SHILLING AND SIIPINO par Share; free of ux, on account of you ending 28th February, 1909, has been declared by the

a representative of the Provincia) Ex-Directors of the shore Company. thequer along with the Civil Magistrate, Torres No. 12 is payable on the Ist

Br. J. Mariano Gracias, attonded by two May, at the CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA. armed tables too's forgiblo possession AUTRALIA AND 'HIWA and the

mas

of the Opium Farm building and its ad- CBS Banx at TIXIN A SHANGHAI

at first

juncts, incurring what appens thei

blush a most highbanded inviolability of private property which in ensured by a constitutional government, In the absence of the Chief Manager, the locum tenens in charge of the concern made a vehement protest against what he con idured a most arbitry procedure, alleg. ing that no foronotico whatever had been scut him on the matter, by the competent legal authorities. He was eventually coerced into compliance, and submitted, an ho said, to the tight of might The

J. S. DOBIE, "Agente. Hongkong, April 80, 1993. >:)

A

AND ASSESSOR

WORKS,

OF

WHARVES

A

“.

Half Pint Bottles 60 Cents.

VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

FACTORIES, THE HONGKONG HOTEL

AND ALL CLASSES" OF MACHINERY & EFFECTË.

YORK BUILDINGS,

196]

UNRIVALLED FOR COMFORT AND OUÍSINE,

WITH THOROUGHLY UP TO DATE

VERT MODERN AD NO EXTRAS MODERATE TERME

BAND AT TIFFIN & DINNER.

LUXURY.

516

fier Foon), HONGKONG, Office Tel. 195. Residence K20 Tel Address: WICKERWORK, Hoxoxong.

Hongkong, April 14, 1909.

MAGISTRACT.

TT in hereby notified that & MEETING of HIS MAJESTY'S JUSTICES of the PEACE for the Colony will be held at the MAGISTRACY, at 2.th, r., on FRIDAY. the 14th May, 1909, for the purpose of con- sidering the following application under the

Liquor Licenses Ordinances, 3 of 1898 and

8 of 198, viz -

From ene RICHARD FRANOW DALY for the innafer to tim Im one J. E. Nawsold of the adjai et?a licence to sed by retail int xicating liquors en premises numbered 29 and 31, Des Tour Band Centre), under the sign of The Owl Gril Riam,

J. H KEMP,

P-lice Magistrals. Hongkong, May 4, 1940, ***

THE

NOTICE.

619

MANAGER of KENNEDY'S STABLES b.ge to inform ise Beri-)

588 dental Kowloon and District, that, provi red enficient support be forthcomi g he will be prepared to establish Shoeing Forge 21

NIGHT STEAMER TO #Kowloon where horses and pomes can be

CANTON.

NEW TWIN SCREW STEAMER,

undertaking is now being mapagod by S.S. SAN CHEUNG

Chinese Experts under direct Government

control.

It is long since the .s. Heungshan has

shod by experienced Shah hai tarriers, on stated days, to be arranged interr

Inasmuch as expense will be incurred in hiring agirable premises and in to sp the forge, the Macager hopes that the schee will have general sopportarenga

Those detross of availing themselves of the above are requested to ned in their namen and number of horaes and ponies to Vitted throughout with Electric Light the Undersigned, but diren es

(Captain J. MoGHTT),

"been diverted from the Mano ron, and and Fans supplied in all Cabins rapload by vessels of the shallowest. draught. Bot the roadstand has silted so much of late, that it has been no ungvari aight to on the .. Sui Tal lingering for hour in low of the fraya, before gating into the loner harbour we we

In spite of all the facilities afforded of

late, the price of petroleum continues teadily on the increase and 82, in now being naked per box

L

.

EAVES Hongkong for Canton at 97, UNDAY, TUESDAY & THURSDAY.

00

Lesvos Canton for Hongkong at 5.Mr.K. qu MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY. Fare, let-Class ... $2,69 zingin patago.

TT form of beadache and amiralgis Berraste passages must be paid for..

*LL; formn·

A have at last, no invins ble vietor, in

the form of Bearns Beadache Oprej Fros from all dangerous drugs and put up in angist waloca.

CHUNG ON STEAMBOAT OU, LD. -No. 285, Je Værex Bold Canizal, Hongkong, Novaber 12, 1998, 01148

G. W. GEG, Mangr

KENTEET'S SZABLES,

Hongkong, May 4:1908,

603

FOR

Luxury

and

Comfort,

Quiet,

Freshness

PORTLAND CEMENT

In Casks of 375 lbs. net, $5.50 per Csak, ex Factory

In Bage of 250 lbs, net, $3.45 per Bar,

Tactory

Shewan, Tomes & Ca,

GENERAL MANAGNES.

FAIRALL & CO.

ARE NOW

BIOWEENE

NEW SUMMER STOCK.

AN ASSORTMENT OF MILLINERY TRIMMED AND UNTRIMED. MUSLINS, ORGANDIES LINENS

IN ALL SHADES AND DESIGNS.

EMBROIDERED ROBES

IN LINENS AND LAWNS. Hosiery, Gloves, etc.

7 & 9. PEDDER STREET.

TELEPHONE. 644

MEE CHEUNG & CO., PHOTOGRAPHERS.

SPLENDID PICTURES

"

h of tho

AMERICAN FLEET AT

A. F, DAVIES, Managır. STUDIO-IOR HOUSA STREET.

PEAK HOTEL

ADMIRABLY SITUATED AT VICTORIA GAP. Adjoining the Tramway Tormisas, 1,400 fest above Sea Lovel.

PEN to the Sath Windsin Sammor and protected from the North-east Winde in Winter. Chamsuding amsgnificant view of Hongkong, the Harbour and adjacent lalanda for forty milon..

A FIRST-CLASS FAMILY. RESIDENTAL AND TOURISTS' HOTEL.

Telographic Add: Peaceful.' Terma--Frum 35 par day Mez

Town Offies: 1. Dra Yaar ROAD.

Honkong. Fobrosry 8.1.

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL

(LATE CONNAUGHT HOTEL)

UEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

YENTRALLY tasted; apito-date Hotel Recently renovated (and ander entirely Now Mt. Large and Comfortable Rooms Excellent Quisine, ander the ampervision of inexperienced French Chet.

PARTICULARS AND RATES on application to MANAGER. N. BLUMENTHAL, Manager.

L GAMEAU, Proprietor.

Hongkook, October 3, 1908.

ORIENTAL HOTEL

[o. £.¡Queen's Road ConLTESI

* Telephone No. 197,

Mas M. MATTHAMY,

A THOROUGHLY FIRST-CLA35 AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL. YUISINK ander Eumpesa, Supervision. Grille in short notion. Private Bay and Billard Rooms. Monthly Baton for Tifin and Dinner.

ELEGRAPHE

and

Excellent

Cuisine.

STAY

ADOLES

GHT

COMFORT

HONGKONG.

MATTHAFT, Proprietrza.

GRAND

CARLTON

HOTEL -

SPORT-BEACONSFIRLD; AROL.

ROURNVILLE LOCOA

Roy

Is a high-class Cocos with a distinctive flavour developed by's special process. Made under ideal conditions at the well-known Factory in a Garden at Bournville, where scrupulous care and cleanli ness, the strictest analysis, pure air and ideal to produce Cocoa of the very environment, all help Highest Quality

Tälephone

He. 15,

Cadbury's

COCOA

December 19, 1907,

Champagnes

orts,

Burgundies,

Brandies,

Sherries

Liqu

Beers and Konta

Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co.