1910-04-05 — Page 1

M. MUMEYA JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHER,

All kinds of Fhotorophie Waik Jons ju Istost alien.

DAYALOPING AND PRINTING FOR

AMATEURS A SPECTALITY,

·88, QUEEN'S ROAD

37. CENTRAL.^

The China Mail

號五月四郎十一百九千一共55

ANLISABD

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1910.

日六十二年二窟

Business Notices.

No. 14,652,

OLD. VAT

Business Notices.

No. 4

W. S. BAILEY & Co., Ltd.

SCOTCH

WHISKY

SOLE-ANTA

HONGKONG,.

CHINA

MANILA

A.S. Watson & Co., Ld.

As supplied to the

House of Lords'

and

House of Curzon,

CHINA MUTUAL LIFE IN SURANCE CO., LD, OF SHANGHAL

DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS,

Alexander McLood, Esq., Chairman.

C. Stophatios, Esq.

I. H. McMichael,

C. R. Burkill,

Lee Fung Sa, Esq.

Erg.

J

A. Wattlo, Esq., Managing Director.

A.

J. Hagher, Esq., Secretary,

S.B. Feill. F.LA., Actuary.

THE PERFECT LUBRICANT.

River Steamers, Tugs, Launchies, Barges, Fleming's Patent Solidified Oil.

Motor Boats,

Castings, Forgings, Roofs and Bridge Work. SLIPPING AND REPAIRS AT LOWEST RATES.

SALES & AGENCY DEPARTMENT. Engines, Boilers, "Launches, Fumps, Engineer's Fittings

and Supplies both New and Second-hand. PNEUMATIC PLANT FOR SALE, COMPLETE WITH RIVETERS, DRILLS AND HOSE,

W S. BAILEY & Co., Ltd.

TELEPHONE, K 21.

~KOWLOON BAY

THE HONGKONG. CANTON & MACAO,

STEAMBOAT CO., LTD....

S.S.

SUI-TAI 1,265 Tons and SUI-AN' 1,285 Tons. Departures frou Hongkong to Macan on week days at 6, and 2 r.M. from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf.

Departures from Mnoho to Hongkong on week daya at 7.30 .. and 2 P.M.

· EXCURSION TO MACAO.

A strong British Corporation Registered The Company's Steamship SUI AN,'

andar Hongkang Ordinances and under

Lt Assurance Comparing' Acts, England.

Insurance in Fores...

Алеся

Income for Year..

Total Security to Policy-1

.)

holders.

Laferta Koor,

$ 3,054,154.00.

7.114,490.09.

3,073,834.81.

GREAT REDUCTION IN FARES.

1st-Class Ratera$2.00....

Single........... 1.60,

19

2nd-Cisas Rotura.........$1.00. Singlo...... 0,80.

SAVES TIME AND MONEY.

Vown strugbart the World in newly all the Stasera of the Perkakas Blank

the entire satisfaction of Engineers and Owngri. THE MORTONOMICAL LUBRICANT KNOWN. ABSOLUTELY FURE AND PERFECT IN EFFICIENCY.

GUARANTEED FREE FROM ACID AND WATER. „DOES NOT HELT ON RUM) UNDER 212o FAHR.

A. B. FLEMING & CO., Ltd., Patentees & Manufacturers.

CAROLINE PARK, EDINBURGA."

Sale Local Agents ... BRADLEY & CO., 4, Queen's Building, HONG KONG.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

TELEPHONE No. 97,

ARE NOW SHOWING NEW DESIGNS

IN

LACE CURTAINS

4, 44 and 5 yards long...

NEW CURTAIN MUSLINS

N.B.The Company also runs a ahoamor from Micio on Sunday morning at 7.30 Plain, Figured, Spot, Lace and Insertion, etc.

7,886,252.63. 4.35. and frum Hongkong at 1 r. from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf.

steamer counces with the returning weamer from Macan.

This

"District Manage:

Hongkong. Cantos,

-B.-W. Tap, Esq.,

Macao and the Philippines.

Farther particulars may be obtained at the Office of the

HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LD, HOTEL-MANSIONS, -(FIRST FLOOR). Hongkong, January 1, 1809.

12

LATE, OR TỪ FORLD có Co.

GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE

14

THE

1424

Bistric: Secretary.

Alexandra Building, Hongkong.

Hongkong, November 18, 1900,

ITEMS AT THE COURTS.

A Chinaman found searching for frogs by

the aid of a lamp was charged at the Magi-

HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB

stracy to-day with being a rogue and vaga | 66 bond and was remanded.

Fur stealing a leather pocket-book from the Kowloon agent of the M.B.K. an office boy was convicted at the Magistracy to day but discharged with c ̈cution by Mr E. R Hallifax.

SPEED OF WILD DUCKS.

"In Dead Calm They Average 58 Miles an Hour.

PRESENT

MICE and MEN,"

A Romantic Comedy in Four: Acts,

BY

MADELEINE LUCETTE RYLEY.

On 12th, 13th and 16th April, at 9 p.m..

My observations were made with mallard Booking at ROBINSON'S from 10 a.m., on Tuesday, the

and widgeon just of the can, and coming in at the evening fight, such birds not bar. ing got fully under way, having traveled About two miles or a mile and a half, according to the state of the tide. The times varied from 10 miles an hour in the teeth of a herrinco to 190 miles an hour with balla gale driving thera forward, their speed with a full gele being below this.

In a dand dim they average 58 miles an

Hongkong, April 1y 1910.

5th. April.

-THE-

Empire Cinematograph Theatre.

DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL (OPPOSITE CENTRAL MARKET),

hour, but as I have mentioned, they wers The Victoria Cinematograph. has removed to the above place.

not travelling at top speed. Other species

uf duck Sy much faster than this, the spood

of a merganser going down wind being Will Open To-night

something terrific, and if I mentioned my rough calculations mande as to his speed with a stiff breeze behind his no one would believe mo, so I will refrain from doing so. One day in Match, when a franh breeze was blowing down the Høy Sound, it Orkney, mergansers, were lost sight of io

BEST ARTISTES. Hongkong. Apr 2, 1010

five seconds after passing the point span BOXING! BOXING!!

which I was sitting. They are without

doubt the fastest of our web-footed birde

Although other of the diving ducks, such as the golden-eys, fly at an enormous velocity.

The speed at which birds are travelling

is very deceptive; for instance, swallows

SATURDAY, APRIL 9TH,

AM WE

CITY HALL.

MAIN EVENT

appear to be going very fast but rarely SEAMAN WILLIS,

attain a speed of 30-miles an hour, whereas

wild goes appear to be travelling very slowly when meant a distance. but ser thom pacing over you at dawn about fifty yards overhead and their wings look like. Bywhcela,ving the birds the appearance of hogy bees in the half-light, so fast are their wings vibrating,-A correspondeat to The Scotsman

According dispatches from St. Petersburg a Bill has been prosanted to the Damn that provides that legisation in regard to Finland, except in connexion with purely local affairs, simll Le vested in the Imperial Legislature. The Finnish diet

ياج

SEAMAN STEER. 4-PRELIMINARIES.

Lato Car.

Late Ferry. Booking at ROBINSON'). Hongkong, April 4, 1910.

£50

BEER

IS MADE FROM BEST OBTAINABLE MATERIALS AND BY MOST

- SCIENTIFIC METHODS.

Price $12.00 -

Per Case.

THE BEST AND MOST HARMLESS TONIC IS-

BOCK BEER

TAKEN WITH YOUR MEALS. $14.00 -

Per Case.

From your dealer, or from the

ORIENTAL BREWERY, LTD,

Depot 58-87, Des Vœux Road

Will Open To-night. DIAMONDS AND GEM-SET JEWELLERY

MAGNIFICENT FILMS.

"

NIGHT STEAMER TO

CANTON

4.

NEW THIS BOREW STEAMKE,"

441

S.S. SAN CHEUNG

Rings, Brooches, Ear rings, Pins, Pendants, Hair-combs, Charms, Chaius, Links, &c.

Jade Stone and Chinese Made Gold Jewellery, GOLD & SILVER WATCHES, CLOCKS, OPTICAL GOODS. Repairs of Watches and Jewellery offected by experienced Europeana

ULLMANN & CO.

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

Fited throughout with werde at Pure Drinking Water.

and Tin supplied is ill Casins.

(Captain J. MoGITTL

LEAVES Hongkong for Canton at 92.1.

SUNDAY TUESDAY & THURSDAY,

E. C. WILKS, Laser Canton for Hongkong at 5.50 7. M. on

M.L MECH, E. A.M.LN.A.

will elach one member to the Council of LATE OF WILKS & JACK, LD.

the Empire and five representatives to the

Duma. Dispatches from Helsingfors state CONSULTING ENGINEER

What the Absorption Bill, under which all legislation not dealing with purely local affairs would be vested in the imperial Legislature,, been received calmy,"

regarded as

SURVEYOR & VALUER

OF ALL CLAJSES MACHINERY & EFFECTS.

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY, Faro, Int-Class.$9.50 single passage, Meals

each. Sucrants paysagra maga ho paid for, CHEUNG ON STEAMBOAT CU., LD.,

No. 265, Your Bead Central Hongkong, Narember 12, 1908

BERKEFELD FILTERS Drip Filters, in Glass and Stoneware. Pump Filters,

Pressure Filters. Prices on application.

VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

Although it is generaly repified of a bead Annual Stocktaking of Eng: THE GRAND CARLTON HOTEL

Assault on the liberties of Finland.

THE JAVA RUBBER SYNDICATE.

neering and Allied Trades;

NOTICE IN BELEBY GIVEN that Ma

a speciality.

F.A VAN BE LOO' Agreement

8 and 10, Ice House Road

FIRST CLASS THE BEST IN EVERY RESPECT.

with the above Syndicata is terminated and YORK BUILDINGS, Renowned Cooking Central forall Theatres, Chief Places of Interest and Fashionabl

he I no longer, authorised to,

on l

E. KING BILLER,

HONGKONG

Ofice Tel 195. Residence K20.

Sacy, to the Syndicate. 1, Tal. Address: Wirkenwork, Estucond

Hongkong, Apell 24, 1909, (72

Shanghai, April 7, 1909, 35

Shopping District.

Moderate Terms.

OE OWEN

BUSINESS NUTI

CHINA, MAIL" (duly)}

month↑ Inaladin e por per mdath. OVERLAND CHIKA-MAIL

·BIA80° par great pinalit (postings) 17,00 per pan.) Single ooplaDally" tir Weekly, thirty cintay for

Telegraphio Addr

Hongkong, Codey fifth edition. Telephone No.

CHINA MAIL LIT

PRION, 88.00 Fer Month,

Business Notices.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LD

PORTLAND CEMENT

in Casks be 375 lbs, at $5.50 per Cask, ex Factory

la Baga of 250 (0s, net. $3,45 Bag, ax Factory

Shewan, Tomes & Co.,

GENERAL MANAGERS,

FAIRALL & 00.

ARE SHOWING

A FINE DISPLAY OF NEW DRESS LINENS,

ALSO

MEBROIDERIES.

TELEPHONE 644.

7 & 9, PEDDER STREET.

& 00.,

MEE CHEUNG

ART PHOTOGRAPHER, ICE HOUSE LANE, SPECIALIST IN ENLARGING AND BROMIDE WORK, Select Views of Hongkong and South China. Special Department for Developing and Printing for Amateurs

CAMERAS FOR HIRE.

1718

KELLY & WALSH, LTD.

Lord Loveland. Discovers America

by C. N. and A. M. Williamsop... $1.75 The Thief Virtue, by Eden Phillpotta 1.75 Berenice, by E. P. Oppenheim

.. 1.75

Joan Mir, Detactive, by Mario.

Connor

Leighton

1.75

Poppy, by Cynthia Stockley 178 Margarita's Soul, by Ingraham Korolf 1.73

A Man of the Moors, by Halliwal

Sutcliffe

****

1.

Love Besieged, by C. E. Pokros ... 173 The Caravanure, by Author of Eli

zabeth and Her German Garden' The Settler, by Ralph Connor The Prime Minister's Secret, by

W. Huit White ...

1,75

1.75

LTE

# W.

the River,

The Naturalist og

Kemp's Engineer's Year Book,

19k...

$8.00

A History of Sarawak Under Ita Two White Rajabs, by S. Baring Could and C. A. Bamplyide

kv 13.00 Very Far East, by C. W. Lechmere

Ulift, Das. Autobiography of H. M. Stanior ... 17.00 The Fran 12 Book, by L. H. Bailey 6.75 Orpheus 4 General History of

3.10

Religions, by 8. Reinach 7.00 The Sam Roana Its Architsetare

and Surroundings, by A. Marin 175 Manhood. Lost and Regained, by

J. Nicholson The Survival of Man. A Study in Unrecognised Human Faculty, by

Oliver Loige

Amazone, by H. Bates....50 Mao and the Universe, by Bir Oliver

Suif Belp, by Smiles

Sinai and Palestine, by Dr A P

Stanley

80

Sir

6.50.

.30

Lodge

6.60

.80

12

by T. N. Kolysack

Infancy. National Health M

Manuale,

Ode Hundred Masterpieces of Sculp

ture, by G. F. Hu!

Michel Angelo, by G. 8. DATI

9.00

The Churches and Modera Thought,

by K. Vivian...

10.50 Cookery Up-To-date, by May Little 2,25

10

J. L FlammET

Billiards in Twelve Lessons, by W.

Ritchie

20

2,00

The Feathered World Year Book, 1910. For Poultry and Pigeon Koopera

.301

ww

The ORIGIN of TYPHOONS, bý

JUST LANDED./

AYRES & SLAZENGER'S TENNIS BALLS,

Cadbury's

IS AN INVALUABLE LIQUID-FOOD IN THE FORM OF A DELICIOUS BEVERAGE.

FOR STRENGTH, "PURITY AND NOURISHMENT, THERE IS, NOTHING SUPERIOR TO BE FOUND.".

MEDICAL MAGAZINE,

ROURNVILLE

19 A HIGILCLASS COCOA WITH A DISTINCTIVE "FLAVOUR DEVELOPED BY A SPECIAL PROCESS. PREPARED EY CADBURY'S FROM THE FINEST COCCA/

Honkong. December 10, 1907.

Boord & Son. OLD TOM

and

DRY GIN

Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co.,

March 21, 1910