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OF

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FURNISHING

GOODS.

NOW

PROCEEDING.

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ESTABLISHED A.D. 1941,

CONFECTIONERY.

We have just unpacked our new seasons Confectionery, im- pected from the LEADING

LONDON AND ·PARISIAN

HOUSES.

FULLERS

CONFECTIONERY

#kocolate Almonds.

Chocolate Caramels.

Peppermint Creams.

Butter Toffee.

Assorted Sweets.

Cocoanut Bquares.

Peppermint-Lump3.

Walnut Toffee.

Assorted Caramels.

IS COMPLETE

WITHOUT A VICTOR

$10

THE CHINA MAIL.

with this matter of new coinage. dxcept as part of a cond

NEWS OF THE DAY,

krbellashure which was fixed to take schomo ve currency reform, and pisos at the YM0A en Monday evening, of systematic redemption.

has been postpos

FRIDAY JOVEMBER

NDENNTE.

WEDDINGAS

231 the reception held at the reiðence of Mr and Mrs. H... Dennya, (Craig Ryrie, pik the Peak) after the warrings of thede

a scheme would be rejected by Eis Majesty'ʼn Ministars at Home The Hon. Mr MURRAY STEWART, whose révolution on the agenda brought the subject up for debate, though not ming quite soch

The hopes of Hongkong are there- emphatic language, was entirely opposed fors centred on China and the sooner J. Crawford has accepted a College daughter to Lious A. N. Paxton, R., to Mr Ossonats scheme. He thought that ancient empire carries out its pled- that it would not work and that bourges, pledges all duly set out in the ever fattractively it was put forward it lackay treaty, the sooner will the

"Tha" Surrey amateur orickeber, Mr

mastorship si Adelaido..

General Flequart, French Minister of to axclude criminals from the army War, is proposing a sobome of legislation

the bonith of the Bride and Bridegroom was proposed by Sir Henry Berkeley, K.C in a pleasing and appropriate speech which was suitably responded to by the Bride

was proposed by Mr Shenton.

MONO-RAIL IN ENGLAND.

SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.

(Renter's Service, to the China Afurile

LANDON, November Experiments made with a full-size Brennan gyroscople mono-rail car at Gillingham were attended: with the

PER MONTH was not defensible while it would Colony emerge from the subsidiary leren thousand criminals were enrollonim. The health of the Bridesmaids greatest success Filty passangers :

WILL PURCHASE ONE.

A STOCK OF

not care the inconveniences from which

we are at present suffering He admitted that the whole subject was very debateable, but one point apon which he was very firm, and-a. point on which he hathatha sympathy of the Council, was that thongh politically Hongkong is a unit of the British Empire, commercially it is a part of China. Therein lies the crucial diff culty in the whole wide field covered by the debate. We cannot cat ourselves 10,000 Records adrift from Chins commercially, unless

200 Machines

and

TO SELECT FROM

in the October conscription.

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coinage troubles now hanging like millatone round its neck. It is cold Although complete datails from the aomfort, but that is all there is. to be interior have not been received, it is esti- and about it to-day from the Governmated that the deaths caused by the Westars Bengal cyclone do not exceed one hundred. The damage to inland shipping ment's point of view,

will hardly fall short of a.million sterling,

NEWS OF THE DAY. The French Mail of the 19th October was delivered in London on the 11th inst.

A London wine say that orders in Cornell barbosa, iued which provide for quiakor promotion in the British Navy

་་་་་་"" སྐ་. we wish to commit suicide, and thero-Miss E. Soires summoned two chair fore we must move in this matter coolies at the Magistracy to day for using on parallel lines with the Middle abusive language and a fine of $5 each was

S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ld. Kingdom. There is no doubt that imposed.

Kengkons. April 16, 1907.

BUSINESS NOTICE

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The cruiser Terrible, which arrived ab Plymouth on the 4th Cotobar with the relieved arewe of the Cambrian, Flors. Fegasas and Plonest, ships of the Australia and Ohins Stations was paid off at Devon part and taken to Portsmouth. The crews of the Cambrian and Flors vere given an additional week's lenne because of thair hard work on the Australia and China Stations respectively.

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs Kruzer, who were married

at the Peak Church on the 8th instant, are passengers by the a.. Assaye, leaving to day for Shanghai During their stay here they have been the guests of Bishop and Mrs:Lander. The wedding was a very

HMS. Kant is now set of dry dock! the Chinese Government is honestly dead to-day has been scaling in preparation sirous of reforming its currency and for her voyage to Chlombo with the home setting its financial house in order. going crew Edicts, memorials, special commissions,

The annual dinner of the Straits and a variety of interesting reports, and Settlements Association will take plaod at quiet one...

the Hotel Métropola, on Tuesday, Nov. 16. Sir Frank Swettanham, G.C.M.G.. will provide.

RATES OF SUESCRIPTION (Payable in adrazes). [CHINA Mart (daily) 13.00 per authggestions which have emanated from Including postage, #3.50 per month. Peking during the past two years testify OTERLAND CHIna Man (weekly) $15.00

per year; including postage, $17.00 to this sincerity of purpose. Unfortun- per year, Froe delivery to all addresses accessible ately, however, the inchoate state of the by messenger, including all Peak, Kowloon Empire precludes any co-ordinated and Quarry Bay residences.

Single copies, Daily, ten certa; Wookly, movement. The great Viceroys are still{ thirty cants; for cash.

semi-independent satraps, while, the Telegraphic Address, Man, Hongkong, extreme diversity of interests, which in-

Code, A. B. O., fifth edition.

THYEONE NO. Auence them and their subjects quite

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OHINA MAIL, LIMITED.

MEMOS FOR-TO-MORROW.

Auction.

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2,30 p.m.Anction of Household Farni- ture as No. 7. Ormsby Terrace, Gran ville Road, Kowloos.

Amusementa.

9 p.m.-Ferformance at City Hall.

General-Memoranda.

MONDAY, November 15:---

Hally

TUESDAY, Novembor 18 :----

hure at No. 7. Des Voeux Villan (No. 64, the Peak).

FRIDAY, November 19:-

Church, West Point,

Cal. George McBride Davis, who died on Oct at Wimbledon, in 1900 acted as "The steamer Venotin, bound from principal medical offer of the expedition Delagea for Calcutta, has strived at Diego ary fores in China, was mentioned in des Busres with her boilers barst Two men Patches (September 1901), and received the were killed by the explosion and an en-medal with two clasps.. He was granted a

good service pension in 1900. gineer wounded.........

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Barrett

Stanley, edited by his widow, has been Department, died on the 8th October at The autobiography of Sir H. M.Kopp, Inte Commissariat and Transport published. The London papers describe it

Kensington aged 74. The deccosod officer

apart from the wishes and interests of as a great book and a remarkable revelation served with the Damauli Irregalar Cavalry

Feking tend to clog the wheels of pro gress and make concerted action all through the empire something very like an impossibility. It is quite in accord ance with Obinese ways of thought for every unit of the Empire to willingly render homage to

the EMPERON, but to strictly fashion his way of life to the particular interveta

of a religious sentimentalist.""

were carried and the car, travelled. The band of the Buda was in attendanon

their readering of very pretty selections. during the afternoon and pleased all by with smoothness and ease.

The following prosenta were not „iz-

AN ANGLO-GER MAN

ENTENTE 7"

CHANGED GERMAN SENTI-

(Reuter's Service to the China Mas

LONDON, November 19.

clided in the list published last night: Silror embres handle, Mr G. G. Alaba- ter: Silver salt cellar, Ca and Mrs Waller; Japanoso tablo contro and doilies, Capt. and Mrs Murray; Silver nahi tanyag Mr Walker, HN.; ice bucket, Me and Mita Gok: Jade Sah pondant, Col. and M Bayard; Silver rose bowl. Major Hart Synott: Silver dish, Mr and Mrs Becker Japanoon coffee sot, Mr and Mrs von Wiper : - Chinese van, kles, and hias| gifitios i „of an entanto cordiale with Saches Pictara, Mr and Mrs Ede: Silver England has been ravived by Mr

mous dishes, Mr Murray South; Japanese buckle, Mr and Mrs. Caslay Silver tes Asquith's recent speech in which he atminer, Mr Bowdler.

declared that nothing stood in the way. of a full understanding between the two Powing

UNION CHURCH LITERARY CLUB.

حب

Talk in the German press of the pos-

The Daily Chronicle believes that

Bethmann Hollweg as Chancellor

LONDON MISSIONARY

SOCIETY.

Owing to a change in the programma, dus Mr Asquith is in possession of proofs of to the delay of E.M., King Alfred is the a changed German sentiment towards North, the speaker at the Union Church England, and that there has been an Literary Club on Thursday, December 18th, interchange of views between the two- will be Mr A. Bellamy Brown, who will countries since the accession of M deliver a lecture on the folklora of the Maori The wanderings of the Maori from the foothills of the Himalaya, through the Malay Peninsula and Oceanis till they finally sched New Zealand will be traced, and the connecting links between their folklore and tribal legends with the primeval stories told by peoples of the Mediterranean, the Northern Pacific, the Celtic fringe of Eumps, etc., will be com- monted on. The lecture should attract (Peuter's Service to the China Afait.) a good attendanen.

LONDON, November 12. Two representatives of the London. Missionary Society, Messrs Martin and Hawkins, have started for Peking via Siberis in order to reorganise the Society's stations in China, -

AUSTRIA, AND GER" MANY.

A TRADE MARK CASE. Again Adjourned.

during the Crimean campaign, and in the The Rev. J. A. A. Baker is collecting China campaigns from 1857 to 1881 he was |

illustrated papers, etc, for the use of the present at the battles of Sinho and Tangku,

This case was again called in the Saprems men going Home by the trooper, and heat the capture of the Taku forts, and at Court this morning before the Acting will be very glad to receive any addressed the surrender of Peking, for which hoce Chief Justice (Mr. W. Bere Dagica) in to him at the Soldiers and Sailors' Home,ceived the China medal with two clnaps which Edward Kemp and others, trading || Arsenal Street.

He retired as Commissary de March 8,as Lanman and Kamp, of New York, neek 1381, and was given the bonorary rank of to nhtain wa injunction against the Kwong Janson, the assistant boror, who mut Lieutenant-Colonel on October 18, 1902. Sang Finn, of 246. Des Voux Road Cen- dered Mr Rutherford, a head boremaster. .“

trai, Hongkong, their servsats or agents, on the olfelde in Deli, appealed to the

from selling or exposing for sale, or pro- High Court at Batavia and had his sentenco

caring to be sold, any Florida water bearing the label annexed to the claim or

of his clan or family. It is 50 increased from eight to ten years rigorson

imprisonment pre

Mr J. H. Gardiner for defendant.

He served

appearing for the plaintif, said he re-

-EEORGANISATION OF CHINESE STATIONS.

VA KOYAL VISIT.

(Reuters Service to the China Mod.).

LONDON, NOT. 12. Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Heir Pre-

Major-General Frederic Taylor Hobson, Colonel The Buffs (East East Bogiment), died at Oxford on the 4th October aged 69. 9 p.m.-Concert in the Volanteor Drill with the provincial governments, they

He obtained his commission in the 3rd any other label so contrived or expressed sumptive to the Austrian Throne), s Regiment (East Kent) on October 30, 1867, as, by colourable imitation or otherwise, to companied by his consort, who was are self-contained, though every official At the Supreme Court this morning Mr and was promoted lieutenant, September represent or lead to believe that the Florida recently created a Duchess, have arrived. 2.50 p.m.-Auction of Household Furai- derives his authority from the fountain. Justice Gompertz gava judgment for Mr I. 30, 1889 captain, June 23, 1966; major, water sold by defendants was the Florida at Berlin on a visit to the Kaiser in Robertson in the case in which he was sued March 10, 1888; ligutenant-colonel, July water manufactured and old by plaintiff order to join in an Imperial shooting

When the case was called Sir Henry party in Hanover. head in Peking. What therefore might

by Kung Cheong, compradore, for $71.061, 1831; colonel, July 1, 1885; nad major Barkley, who wth Mr Eldon Potter. The visitors were met at the be for the good of Kwantung may be half the amount of a megs bill Mr general, September 21, 1897. 5.30 p.m. Organ Fecital at St. Peter's thought next to disastrous for Cheking, Bender Harris was for plaintiff, and in the China War in 1860. taking part in getted to inform his Lordship that Mr station by the Kaiser and heartily

the sction of Stahoard, in the capture of Slade, who was to appear for defendants, corned. and so an Imperial Edict dealing with

Tangku, and of the Taku Forts, for which was in bed with a bad cold and could not both on similar terms becomes a dead All the members of the fire brigade the received the medal with clasp. He was therefore attend." It was therefore unavoid letter. It is this wide diversity of provin Alfreton, Derbyshire, have resigned in a in command of the 3rd Regimental District able that the case should be further ad

body because the townspeople make fun of from 1887 till 1892, and of the troops in journed. cial interests which is so surely hamper them. They have no fire-engine, and their Ceylon from 1897 till 1902, on March 29 of His Lordship--I understand that "Mr HONGKONG, Farbay, Novemses 12, 1909, ing the movements of the central gov-only means of tackling a blaze is from the which year he was placed on the retired Slade is sloga in the case and therefors at ordinary street mains with a hosepipe. list. In May, 1909; he was appointed to adjournment seems inevitable. Under these Many thoughtful observers

The district is a very billy one, and in one moceed the late General Sir J. Raines se circumstances there is no xitarastire bot to

It has been decided that in future all think that Peking under the present or two instances they have been practically Unlonel of the Buffi. ····

adjourn the case until Monday. I should regime will never be strong enough to en- tisalass, with the result that they have been

have been very glad, ir Henry, to have Chinese Ministers accredited to foreign laughed at by the onlooker.

complied with the suggestion you made countries shall be attached to the Board. yesterday, tost is, to call the jury 10 as to of Foreign Affairs on the expiry of their suable the other jarurs to be discharged, office as Councillors.

The China Mail.—

HONGKONG'E, CURRENCY.

ernment.

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LICENSING.

CHINESE DIPLOMATIC

SERVICE.

(Wah Tap Yat Po'e Service)

PERINO, November TL.

MINING CONCESSION.

SCEFENSE is always bad, for the in-force its will throughout the-length and dividual as well as for the community. breadth of the land in the same way as

The Teasury has withdrawn the maži- | slaughter charges laid against W. I. Bud-

A meeting of His Majesty's. Justices of but I find that in the case of social juries Since the Hoa. Ar DaDORNE reintroduced Tokyo governs the Japanese empire, ley, the manager of the hairdressers de ho Poses was held at the Magistracy this the law provides a daily remuneration, and the subject of the subsidiary currenty Yet Peking can accomplish a good deal partment of Harrod's Stures, Ltd., and afternoon, for the purpose of considering I feel I should scarcely be justified in of Hongkong, in the course of the debate when it resolutely sets abeat it. But Beatrice Clarke, a hairdresser, in connecthe following applications under the Liquor placing the special jury in the box, which tion with the death of Miss Dalrymple Licences Ordinances, 8 of 1808 and 8 of would involve remuneration for the day

(Wah Tax Ya-Po's Service) on the budget estimates, a good deal of then China is a veritable nest of an owing to the effects of inhaling tatrz 1908, vize-From Ismail Pillay Madar for although in fact to duties ware discharged quiet discusion has been going on in oalies and its exceptions are na chloride of carbon white undergoing eating liquors on premises numbered 142 the presence of the special jury as a whole a publican's license to sell by retail intoxi. That being so, I must reluctantly require

FExixo, November 11.

the Colony as to the probable attitude numerous as its rules.

The Prince Regent was very concern shampoo. The manager of the stores pro-and 160 Queen's Road Central, and 29

ed on receiving the report of HE. of the Government upon this very

We have, however, like the speakere ohloride of carbon.

mised to discontinue the use of tetra and 101, Wellington Street, under the on Monday morning.^__

sign of "The Grand Hotel"; from Frederick

Tuan Fang, respecting the mining insistent question. For it will be re- at the Council yesterday, rather wander-

Reichmann for a publican's license to sell SAVE MONEY BY BUYING CHAMnegotiations in Chihli Province. membered that His Excellency the ed from the direct subject. Mr MURRAY How singularly offensive some people by retail intoxicating liquors on premises

BERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY. Governor, in summing up the debate on STEWART, in the course of his speech,

can be in asking what should be a plain numbered 2, Queen's Road Central, under

of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy ai that occasion, promised that the matter said he was willing to withdraw bis Gianell, MP, in asking for various bits of

question, says the Overland Maik Mr the sign of The Oriental Hotel you will pay just as much the a buttle Both applications were granted an for any of the other cough medicines, but you save money by buying it. The mring should have the earrest attention of the motion if the Government would give information the other day about the eminiously OTHER KINDS IN GREAT Goverument. The Colony was therefore him a pledge that it would not deal the bad taste and impartinance to Bude to Silverunan for a licenso with regard to the table remedy, and you get results when of Chamberlain's Dolin, Choleesőn azda strength of the forces in North China, had The adjourned application of Fando in what you get, not what you pay. The you have an attack of diarrhoea, you will aure-to-cute-you quality in in evary, bottle | be pleased to know that can or twoïdones: 14, a state of suspense, an uneasy condi- with the question of a new coinage ex- the native troops there as men of colour, Glebe Hotel was considered and Mr J... gott fake It For sale by all chemists and Diarrhoea Remedy wil cure it. For sale tion of things which Thursday's debate cept as part of a comprehensive scheme and to ask whether the Foreign Secretary Wood, sated applicant why he had not storekeepera.

etc., atc, etc.

VARIETY. T

་་་།་་

Applicant I came a few minutes late

brings to an end, for we now can go on of local currency reform. He pointed rasintenance of troops of an inferior and was ontaîds the court,

was aware that the Chinese sented the attando ai the annual licensing meeting our way again knowing that we have out that the chances of China race. It is pleasant to know that Sir

8. WALBON & CO. stil_to ahoulder the burden of our deforming her currency werɑnow brighter Edward Gray administered a rebuke which here on time.

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preciated silver.

be demonetized and

ALEXANDEA BUILDINGS

AND KOWLOON DISPENSARY,

was grected by the House with “cheers."

His Worship You ought to have been

The application was granted." The application of Mr G. Berto'one for adjunct licouse was again adjourned for the attendance of the applicat who is out of the Colony

Asked why he had not attended MD.

isaved which should be exchangeable areable distance. The Hon Mr an amendment of the law corresponding to Daly, who applied for an adjunct license

to

EMICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH pieces bad passed into China as a Sir FEEDERICE LUGARD said that thembject to the stigma attaching to imprison-an applicant does not attend he is liable to

PREMIER HALL OF HONGKONG. Da Yaux ROAD OXSTEAL.

Mr. Ossouse's proposal shortly. Was this he was supported by the Hon Mr than they had ever been, and in

that the present subsidiary coins should

The text of the Naval Discipline Bin, Hawers, who thought that

currency presented by Mr Mesemba, First Lord of # new scries

roform in China was within mos. the Admiralty has been published. Tho object of the Bill is to effect for the Navy at par, and ha legal tender up

OSBORNE, in his two dollars. The honourable member

reply, thought that his that which was affected for the Army by with regard to the Owl Grill Room, ap plicant mid he said not seen the notice in scheme if amplified in certain details Amy (Annual) Act of 1938-namely, a newspapers and did not know anything argued that the old Hongkong silver.

to prevent mailom convicted of offences about the libensing meeting. was quite feasible, but His Excellency purely against naval discipline from being His Worship-You understand that if merchantable commodity and therefore

This object fe affected by the crea hare his application refused.

Mir Gardiner, who appeared for applicant, Hon Member's idea that in regard to ion of a new punishment, to be termed and that he had seen him immediately the Colony had no moral concern in thair redemption. This suggestion has dealing with Hongkong's coins the detection. Sailors sentenced to detention afterwards and he had come up to the court

From will be formed sailors undergoing detention, but it was then too late.

Bis Worship You understand CHANGE OF PROGRAMME Evrak 5 Days, not found favour with bis fellow mem- Government of the Colony could and the places in which they will be

bere on the Legislative Council. The dissociate itself from the community canned will be termed caval detention bonylation against him; p

of the Colony was an impossible con- Hon Mr Hewers, for instance, who re

tection. His Excellency, who had CROUP QUICKLY JURED. presents the Hongkong General Cham ber of Commerce at the Council boards an

vidently well weighed all the argu – FEW doses of Chamberlain's Cough "La Remidy" brings murprising resnica said that to repudiate the present Hangments for and against the scheme was when sahild shows symptoms of group bub in law of the conviction and standa kong coins was not only absolutely in therefore quite prepared to

Thar no expe: foe alarmi? wham"? chin - we men web sallanadewiththi ayin which madining isin, the house, it is rarely takes the house irm defensible, but politically immoral, and

mamurandes saked for by the Han" Mr more than three or four dones to bring 5. Applicant was warend tube more inreful

*** | about, a complete cure. It has never failed in future he expressed the opinion, a Tory Mount MURRAY STEWART, that is that the oven in the mood vers and dangerous M.JAR. Wood provided and there were me dinder the circumstances, that such Government do not intend to desi

TONIGHT!

TO-NIGHT

SUCCESS of the Celebrated Artiste MIES DORIS MAULEY.

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Mr Gardiner-Yes, que comviction;

His Worship At that time the licensee

pleaded guilty, made no defence and gave

ne promise nos bo offend again.

By Gardinarit was not intentional and

he will give such a promise.

He Worship—We grant the applicatio

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