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FOR ALL TOGE FEDEZINS, “

STÜKÖPIAN

SUPERVISION.

No. 14.892,

The China Mail.

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Business Notices.

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1909.

THORNE'S W. S. BAILEY & Co., Ltd.

$15

PER

CASE

OLD VAT

As supplied "To the

House of

Commors

ZEHAR WAT WAS STARTED BY THE LATE ROGENY THOMAS

* GERSHOC« AND HAS BEEN LOST AL M° A SURGE (AN

HAVE BUILT OVER 100

FAST LIGHT DRAFT LAUNCHES, MOTOR BOATS, MOTOR BARGES, TUGS, LIGHTERS "AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

Works: Kowloon Bay,

Offices Hotel Mansions.

NOW ON SALE.

SCOTCH WHISKY DETAILED MAP OF THE PEAK.

·SOLE AGENTS IN

HONG KONG, CHINA & MANHILLA. "A.S.WATSON & CO.LTD.

Hongkong, May 1, 1907.

793

IN A QUEENSLAND 'SUBURB.

..

Giving Name, Number & Location of each House. PLAN of City from Pokfulam Road to Wanchai Road, Residential Rords, numbered Small Scale Map of Island, Channels and Kowloon Point, locating Docks, Railway, Green Island Cament Works, etc.

COPYRIGHT AT E. AMASSEY.

to date 1909.

The abere in cloth-bound case with pocket for Map, asmes (in English and Chinese with prononciation) and location of principal Bonds and Streets, Park, City and Kow loon with Legalized Tarif for Chair and Risksha-hire: Price $2.00. Magalons 81.00.

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(Specially written for theCa Mati. "To be had from CHINA MAIL, SOUTH CHINA MOANING POST, EXLEY & WALA,

Bazza & Co. and Thos. Coox & Bex. "} Todoubtedly there is a charm in con-

Hongkong, May 20, 1909. trusts. It is a far cry from Hongkong to this Queensland suburb in more senses than 'ono.

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In pince of the Peak and the heights of 'bur island, here is gently sloping land, with low hills in the distance behind which the sua sete in glory of crimson and gold. Instead of the harbour in a peaofal fiver, untroubled by 'snorting steam launches or

swaying manipada.

Some 7 or 8 miles of country, deared for the most part and dotted with houses, with here and there a piece of bush." remaining, separates this village from what its inhabitants proudly style the city."

That the dwellers in this part of the country have no fear of typheons į evident from way in which the houses are built, These are wooden bangalows perched on piles, or "sturips" as they are called here, sometimes Gorßfeet above the ground, sid sometimes considerably more, if the house is built on a slope. Each stump has round sheet of iron on the top, "like" an inverted tin plate, to prevent white nata from invading the timbers of the house, if they should find their way into a stump, in spite of its coating of tar; the house tool simply rests on these plates, without nails or fastogings of any kind. A house has known to be lifted from its usual position, and set down somewhore olso in a strong gale hut this must At a certain.stage be a rare occurrence. of its Building, new bouse looks like a huge bird cage, with wooden bars, instead of wires.

bean

The roof is almost always of galvanised iron, which in sheap bat certainly not picturesque. Every house liss one or more large-cylindrical tanks of the same useful material to store a

rain

water, for use in the laundry particularly, and often a busy Queensland housewife be heard to sigh for a good полу rain to fill the tanks. The better homes have verwadahs all round, the rools of which are lined with wood. If this

thought

process is omitted for ceoncayor any other reason, the verandalis bemo un bearably hot in the summer time. One fireplace besides the one in the Lit chen is usually to be found in bungalow of any size, and this is

be quite suficient Wood is! the most usual form of fuel. Every house Monday has its own laundry, and here on a morning the servant girl may be seen at the Washtub from dawn till lunch time, while the mistress works in the kitchen."

Very few houses have more than one serrant indoors, and very many have not even that, for in spite of immigrants, satisfactory servants are as hard to find as icicles at the Peak. In our suburb there are more houses without a maid than with one.

The mistress of a house who is scrvant- lewis ju hard case. Charwomen are very few and far between, and they charge Sa. day. So there is nothing for it but to set, to work herself, and to scrub and clean, wash and cool, with her own hands and that is no light task ever in winter ; and what must it be with a temperature of 100" indoors.

tho

Each kangalow stands on its own round and is often separated from its neigh bours by whate grond Cattle wander

will aboat

roade, 90. do fowls in the day time-fedeo frequent disputes ariso among the irate owners who try to collec: their own as

At

the

night.

Our suburb boasts a little wooden church.

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and two dissenting chapels, a butcher's (The shop, and two general stora. One would aspect a deadly rivalry to exist between those inst, but as a matter of fact they are content, for it is the practice of the bousewives to give their eastom to each for a week ass time. There is also a cab. the blur who is kept fairly boss in spite of fact that all the childron run about barefoot by preference, and only don shoes, and stockings on state occasions, at the express command of an ultra-civilised parent. The

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