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Intim tions.

G. FALCONER & Co..

WAICHMAKERS AND JEWELLERS.

COTEL MANSIONS.

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DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE

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SOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER.

WING KEE & CO.,

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Nom 47, 45 and 46, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL

PROVISION - MERCHANTS, COAL HİP CHANDLERS, SALLMAKERS,

MERCHANTS, ... OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING... SKIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE US A TRIAL.

FRANCISCO TSE TAT, General Manager,

-Hawakong, August 19, 1908.

1017

THE HONGKONG HOTEL,

UNRIVAFLED FOR "COMFORT AND CUISINE. THOROUGHLY UP TO DATE WITH

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MODERATE TERMS

AND BAND AT TIFFIN & DINNER

PEA

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EVERY MODERN LUXURT.

NO‘BITRAB

A. F. DAVIES, Manager.

HOTEL.

✅ ADMIRABLY SITUATED AT VICTORIA” GAF. Adjoining the Tramway Tominus, 1,400 feet above Sea bore. PEN, to the South Windsin Summer and protected from the North-eaes Wlada in

Piter Commandegaaguificant view of Hongkong, the Harbour and adjacent

talands. for forty milea.

A FIRST-CLASS FAMILY, RESIDENTAL AND TOURISTS' HOTEL Terms-From"$5 per day Mox. Telographle Add: Poncofal."

Tows Office: 1. Dis Voeux ROAD.

Foczkong, February 8, 1908.

REMINGTON

Hongkong, March 2,

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TYPEWRITERS

"ALL REQUISITES.

1908

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STRING TARPAULINGS. MOST RELIABLE QUALITIES, FROM

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APPOURTALJE SET:

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GENERAL AGENTS

HONG KONG. CANTON & MACAO

Hongkong, Jananey 27 1908

Co.

PREMIUM BONDS

sr the Taft Dealers to the word in thesa starastive securities, WHAT ARE THESE BONDS ?

hoy are high-class an absolutely safe securition, payable to bearer, jasoed by the

v Governments and antefpalities of Europe they are redeemable at periodical inge, siiber with CashPrémizmos varying from £40 to £40,000, pr,“at the very. beek, at their foll nominal Me,

ASY PAYMENTS

Well those Bonde stoglyjor in combinations of the most advantageous onM, payable by coprentent Monthly Instalments ranging from 15 to £20. Write for Bandbok, "aont post free."

MELVILLE, GLZ & Co., Bankers, 3. £as de la Boume, PARIS (France),

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THE CHINA MAIL.

WATCHING HUNTINGÄÄNTS

„Two. Americang, “Me kid Me D., W. Baobe, who want down into the Venezuelan wilderness to do a little nature work, worn particularly impressed with the hunting- ands of that region. These ants néo torriño:

MITSUBISHI GOSHIKWAISHA horn. Of their batales she writers any,

(MITSU BISHI 00.)

COAL DEPARTMENT

SOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA

SIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, KOJO, |NAMAKUTA, SATO, SHINNEW

and KAMIYAMADA Colleries.

WOne could babali as from a balloon mimio Waterloos and Gettyaburua, and, and to reinte, in the case of unoffensive species, plunder, murder, and abduction by the

wholele." Tho authors this 'further describe the warfare of the hunting-anta,

in Borper's Monthly."

The hosting-ants" surpassed all tho others in intarost. Day after day wo would come across their great armies, and we spent many hours of kaon onjoyment

SOLE AGENTS for KISHIDARE, Mwatching their advance. We had rend YAO, and K101C-KOMATSU (...) of their appearance and habits we had beard them compared to Goths and hördes. of savages, but no description, prepares une for the actual sight. Wo watched in particular one large army which carried on its operations only a short distanes from our house,.

HEAD, OFFICE :—TOKYO.

BRANCH OFFICES — Nagasaki, Moji,” Karatan, Wakamatsu, Kobe, Osalem,

Long before we came withiat sight of the Shanghai, Hongkong, Hankowants themselves their presence would be

TEL ADDRESSES, for above: IWASAKI Oodes;—A1, ABO 5th Ed., Pastern Unin

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AGENCIES: YOKOHAMA: M. Asada, Esq. CHINELANG Messrs Geuring &

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H. OISEL.

Manager,

No.: 2 PEDRER STAKE.

HoNdZONG Honakong, January 9, 1969. “

NOTICE.

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hamided by the Book of Sirds which kept just in advance. Most of them wore wood-

birds which kitched up the tree trunks nad howers big, cinnamon-colored, creoporlike

row and then swooped downward to the ground. As we drew nearer, a stringe rustling sound reached our san, like the regular pattaring of raindrops, and before

we knew it we were standing in the midst.

of thousands of active ants who rushing add scrambling about over the dead

leaves caused the loud rustling." In a few sends (twonty or thirty ants had climbed upon and above our shoes, and their sharp |-zipping bites aent us in haste to the flanks cf the army, where we freed ourselves from the terce éreatures. These ants are not large, varying from a fifth to a third of no inch in longth, dark in colbr, with lighter red abdomens..

Tatil one becomes necustomed to these scenes of carnage the sight is really cerrible, WILES & JACK, LTO, "

especially when one lies down, fat and takes ELECTRICAL ENGINERES & CONTRACTORS.an" ant's-eye view of the sold of battle. Yat such are the Herceness and savage füry on ne ride and the hopeless terror or frade efferts to escape on the part of the viotims that it me ds but little imagination to stir deeply one's sympathies.

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AROM this date the name of the abore firm has been changed to WILLIAM C. JACK & CO., LTD.

PERCIVAL E, NYE,

Acting General Manager,

Hongkong, July 10, 1909,

OUR

NOTICE.

In place of the stondy advance, of a well- drilled army, presenting a solid front of "serried ranks, the formation of the hunting. ants may be compared to an innumerable

The genuine

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Agents for Hong-Kong: SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.

Hongkong. June 26, 1909

THE CHINA MAIL, LTD.

UNDERTAKES -

UR Firm has been established over 20 host of cavalry, scouts who quarter the years for the manufacture of FIRE ground in every direction, the whole army CRACKERS for export and has gained very good reputation for the superior quality slowly advancing and including per and moderata price of our goods. HUNG territory in the scene of operations. Fre- such HING & Up. ars, our SOLE AGENTS quent flurries or louder rustlings follow the in CANTON, at No. 17, Yim Tad Street, discovery and the aubsbquent, tertible West. Any end attempting to forge our struggle of one quarry of noble size-A pains will be dealt with according to law.

SUN LEE & CO.,

huge beetle or nighty lizard. Tang Koon District. Hongkong, July 9, 1909.

883

One fact impressed us from the fist: every creature aroused by the ants seamed

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Use of Chicora Main" Olom Hongkong, July 10, 1908,

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Hongkong, July 16, 1908,

10 LET. 2.

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Hongkong, July 2, 1909.

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ESIRABLE GROUND: F'LOOK SHOP in Chater Road, Hongkong

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TB. LL

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NODOWNS-Nos. 95, 96 & 97; PRATA- UT BAST.

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OHATER & MODY. Hongkong, October 17, 1908.

TO LET

FIVE-Roomad HOUSES, aà Kowloos.

New and Commodious SHOPS, Nautam Road, Kowloon, Immediate, possession. Cheap Rentals.

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FO LEE..

OFFICES ↳ YORK BUILDING.

GODOWNS' FEATA EAST, Blue Balld-

ALL SORTS OF ARTISTIC JOB-PRINTING and No. 165, Tzs Vaux Road QIXH

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FLATS in MOBETON, TERRACE. No. 10, Drs Vertx Roan OrarEAL,, INN- Floor.

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INVITATION CARDS, MENUS, DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT in RIPON TERRACE.

PROGRAMMES, CIRCULARS, PAMPHLETS, BOOKS, PROSPEC TUSES, WINE LISTS, ETC., ETC., ETC,

to know instinctively of the awful danger. Obtain quotations from, and bring orders to;

THE HONGKONG ELECTIC CO., L. Whether through odour or sight or sound, the farm always carried its full meaning., Insects which would escape the collecting"

NOTICE.

NOTICE se hereby given that THREE not by a single quick mction, hero dashed Share Certificates for the following away with such terror that they often faw Thirteen Shares numbered 23304/- against our clothes or a tree and were 17296/17209, 17338/58. 17719/1772), || puried to the ground.. Lizards took shelter 19154, and 219337/21938 in the above under our shoes or shot of like streaks of named Company, standing in the name of

JOAO ANTONIO da LUZ (deceased) have light for many yards. Our presence and boen lost and should the same not ba that of the predatory birds was disregard- produced within a fortnight new Certi ed in efforts to avoid the danger which frenta for the sama shares will bo issued in generations of inherited experience "had

made the most vivid in life.

favour of the mid JOAD ANTONIO d■

LUZ (deceased) and the original Certificates will be declared by the Company as null. and volu.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON &

·Con Agents, THE HOSOKONG ELECTRIC Co., Lru. Hongkong, July 12, 1900.

DICTIONARY.

New EDITION.

INLARGED to 1.800 Pages.

THOROUGHLY REVISED.

cortain death in the thickest of the host is in did to anięty in the van or on one side of the ant army. Even wings were not

THE CHINA MAIL OFFICE,

European Supervision.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPART MENT.

Insects which usually feigned douth Na a means of escape, when disturbed by these HONGKONG OPIUM FARM. ants uned all the motor organs "given them by nature to flow from the dranged foe- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Sealed Tenders will be received at Escape seemed to be. the result of accident the Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, with all wingless creatures, ovun with those till Noca on Tuesday, the 31st day of possessing good eyesight, fat, the fierce, August, 1900, for the purchase of the Fatta GILES'S CHINESE AND ENGLISH blind terrified sush as oftan camed them to grivileges mown as the Opium

established under The Prepared Opium Ordinances, 1891-1909," that is to say, the sole privilege of preparing Opium and of eurety Lescape. Twice I saw moths within the Colony, (Including the Territories), Opium so prepared, in- arine heavily from their hiding-placce clusive of, the lege of collecting dross

parilege abalf dozen of the little flanded of preparing and dealing

Dross clinging to their legs and wings. Ong was pram, for three years from the 1st of smpt up, ants and all. by a big dycatcher. March 1910 and the other fell among the quarter- master's brigade in the tear, then overy ant within rasch dropped his load and hurled bitualf upon the nowcomes..

and Hero I there one might observe good of ants rolling about, and in the centre would be some hard-cased bootle or other insect, who gave up only after killing and maiming a scure of his assailants. We dropped five big black sata into the midst of the marauders, and witnessed a ecmbat,as thrilling as Rie contest between the Greeks, and Persiana. Four of the imesta alighted on a small rounded stone over which thece hunting-ants were scurry.

Fascicule 1. (296 pages) will be ready for delivery, in fly

Price to Subscribers 25.6.0, payable on delivery of Fascicule Lu

Prospectus and Specimen pages upon application.

KELLY & WALSH, LD. Hongkong, June 18, 1909.

193 sized balls.

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fiction No. 401 of the Sug July, 1008.

A., M. Lucrson

Colonial Secretary.

2nd July, 1909....

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ing. Without hesitation the black giants PREMIER, HALL OF HONGKONG.

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the loss of only half a leg. This is not a serious handicap to one when ons has five and a half robust limbs left The fifth big fellow dropped upon a mass of únta piled like foot-ball players upon a struggling scorpion, whose sting was lahing: the 1995 || sit in "vain. The big ant started another ripple upon this pool of death, which soon

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