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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1908.

Business Notices.

W. S. BAILEY & Co., Ltd.

ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS.

OFFICES AND WORKS,

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Hongkong. November 18, 1969.

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FROST AND FEUIT GROWING.

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(Contributed),

In a recent number of the *Illustrated London News is a full-pago picture, by Cyrus Conus, of American-fruit growers in Grand Valley, Colorado, working to save their crop, worth 3,000,000 dollars, from the frost.

Twenty-seven miles of orchard ware heated by fires, kept burning all night The during the inclement weather.

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worked day and night preparing and THE MERRYMAKERS

lighting these fires. Both card and oil were used, and the Ares were lighted in pots, from 0 to 80 pote being needed for sach sere. As a result of this great under. taking the temperature of this buge oz. panse of orchard was raised 8 degrees above, that of the surrounding country, and the whole frait crop was saved from destrue-

tion.

THE MERRYMAKERS

THE MERRYMAKERS.

Finishing their season on Saturday, December 11th.

TABLE DECORATIONS CRACKERS. COSAQUES.

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USEFUL PRESENTS

Wo look upon America as a country for TO-NIGHT LAST NIGHT OF PRESENT PROGRAMME IN ALL DEPARTMENTS.

now ideas and large enterprises, but in this

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boen in usu, on a-small scale, for hundroda of years among the vinegrowers of the “Austrian Tyrol.

Every yest, early in May, comes a critica time for the sines, then just bursting foto lent and blossom. A night or two of sharp Irvet is apt to occur, and blight the vine

to let of Kent B STANZIANINYASINI

imperiled. So frequently does this sudron change of weather occur about the same tia cach year, that the Tyrolese peasants call the 5th and 6th of May--the vigil and least of St. Sophia-the days of the evil St. Bophia." All night a watch is kept.and when the_tem- perature falls low an alarm in wounded. Immediately the dark vineyards are alive with sturdy peasants in their picturesque national dress, who light great bonfires at

~ TOMORROW

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Hoogkong. Desembar 1, 1908.

NOTICE

AVING been appointed AGENTS in Hongkong for the WESTERN

the windward side of the vineyard, so thing | ASSURANCE COMPANY, wo are pre-

the heat may be carried over the young parad to accept approved European and vines, and thus nip of the frost may be Chinese risks at current rates, averted.

The watchman of the vineyard" is a -recognized member of the community. He úa called a "Saltner," and is distinguished by his peculiar and imposing head gross of foxtails and feathers, no doubt onlculated to strike awe Into, the hearts of any gril -door who may be meditating a miď on the vineyard. He carri saxo and spear, and is of course munt. in cridence, as the time of

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, Hongkong, Segust 1909.

NIGHT STEAMER TO

CANTON

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harvest draws near and when in the golden S.S. SAN CHEUNG

Autumn daya the parle clusters bang ripe

and tempting, and the time of sanicus on- sortainty is passed a fe

A Thus, lu, the Old World as well as the New King Frost cín be held no bày by tho Watchfalvene and energy of men whose Hvelihood depends upon the preservation; of the kindly traits of the earth,

COLDS ARE DANGEROUS. more people would make an attempi I to getrid of the bolde from which the

200 sufering, 44 sealt of this changeable. wether there vid be a decided deorsine. in the number of cases of pneumonia,

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