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Intimations.

G. FALCONER & Co..

WATCH-MAKERS AND JEWELLERS.

EO*DL MANSIONS.

NEW ABGEOTIONS OF

DIAMOND JEWELLERY. AND ENGLISH SILVER WARI

HIGH-CLASS GOLD 'AND SILVER WATCHES,

'BARDE BELEUMON OF PRESENTATION PLATE, COPS, BOWLS, no.

"Intimations.

MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA (MITSU BISHI CO.)

"TALOONER & Co. ans Adesu re 9038 FAMOUS TELESCOPES ACOAL DEPARTMENT,

BINOCULARSA, LORD KEELVENS NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. ADMIRALTY OHARTS and BOOKS.

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SOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER,

WING KEE & CO.,

Nos, 47, 48 and 49, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL

| HIP:CHANDLERS, BAILMARIELS, PROVISION MERCHANTS, COAL

· MERCHANTS, &c., £o, OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING. SHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE US A TRIAL;

FRANCISCO TSE YAT, General Manager. Seaghank Aures 12, 1944.

Thousands of Dollars are saved by the expenditure of as many conts,

12 TILE VIS OF

OLIGNUM

1117

THE CHINA MAIL..

SOME IMPRESSIONS OF

HONGKONG

Intimations.

From Weariful Willum's Folii PHARSON'S HYCOL

of Vlow.

(CO-ESFICIENT 18/20)

"Oh, don't ask my wint I think of Hongkong. Atallovents, if you expect me.The most POWERFUL DISINFECTANT in the WORLD. Guranteed 18/10 TEST on TYPHOID GERMS Certificate of strength given to ench buyer. TIMES more effective than pura Carbolic Acid under GOVERNMENT STANDARD NON-POISONOUS and NON-IRRITANT to HUMAN and ANIMAL NON-CORROSIVE.

drivel about the beauties of the harbour which may remind you, looks very like any other bay on a mapund to toy in

[

the nook overrated Posk, "pen'ro a trile provious.""

He was long and hungry-looking, wat'A

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topos at least six sizes too big for him and

2

COLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA- was altogether a depressing joke. Then

SIMA, COHÍ, MUTABE, HOJO,he centibudl NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW and SAMIYAMADA Colleries.

SOLE AGENTS for KISHIDAKE, MI YAO, and KIGIO-KOMATSU Coais.

HEAD OFFICE :—TOKYO, BRANCH OFFICES ——

Nagasaki, Moji, Karatau, Wakamaten, Kobo, Dsakın, Shanghal, Hongkong. Hankow,

"You must remember I've come out 3rd

..

ONE GALLON will make 400 GALLONS of Efficient Dinfectant FËRFEOT EMULSION IN WATERS

PRICE

$3.00.

19.50...

9.00..

per 1 Gallon „Druza, ..per 5 Gallon Dram,

per 1 Gallon in Balk

class, which constituted a sideous night. PEARSON'S SAPONIFIED CRESOL

mare with its awful tucker, the Caucaity: for sharing Intelios with coolies and sailors, and the total lack of civilized passengers to talk to, and I atu, as a consequence, power- Jest to take in impressions; my mind is n dack, afaginnt pool nad I am absolutely. absolutely crumbling from mildew."

**Besides, Hongkong is not the only town I bare, seon which sprawls about all over a mountain Gibraltar. Naples, Genes,

OF THE Wood and Brickwork Precorvativa.which really does what is claimed for it... IT / TL. ABERESTE for above: "IWASAK. zight away. It's really like this, I was

13 ABSOLUTE DUATH, TO THE WRITE ASTS. Extensively used by the British Govirament at Home and Abroari, by H.M. War Department at Horgitong, the Imperial Maritime Customs and all large local Conceras,

Prospectus samples and all information from the General Agenta,

Hongkong, December 7, 1000.

SIEMSSEN & Co., {Macuiseur Dert,) BosomɔNG.

1519

MEE CHEUNG & CO., ART PHOTOGRAPHER, ICE HOUSE LANE, #PECIALIST IN ENLARGING AND BROMIDE WORK

Select Views of Hongkong and South China. Special Department for Developing and Printing for Amateure

CAMERAS FOR HIRE.

1718

WHITE ANTS.

AVENARIUS CARBOLINEUM

THE BEST

WOOD PRESERVATIVE.

30 YEARS' SUCCESS

THE ONLY EFFECTIVE AND-

LASTING PROTECTION

LENIVDY

WHITE

ANTS,

GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER TESTIMONIALS.

SOLE AGENTS:

MELCHERS & CO.

THE CHINA MAIL, LTD.

UNDERTAKES -

ALL SORTS OF ARTISTIC JOB-PRINTING

uch as:

INVITATION CARDS, MENUZ, DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMMIES, CIRCULARS, PAMPHLETS, BOOKS, PROSPEC. TUBES, WIKE LISTE, ETC, ETC., ETC.. Optain quotations from,

THE CHINA MAIL OFFICE, 5. Wyndham Street.

Moderate Prices.

European Supervision

DINNEFORDS

The Univeral Hamady for Acidity of the Blomash, leadache, Heartburn, Indignation, Beur Bructalloas, Bilious Affectivas.

DINNEFORD'S [MAGNESIA}

The Physician's' Cure for Gont, Rheumatic Gout and. Graml:

Bafest and mosk Elocfive Aporisat for Regular Use.

Jodex:-A1, ABO 5th Ed., Wostaru Unlos,

AGENCIES: YOKOHAMA : ME. Asada, Esq. CHINKIANG Messrs Gearing &

Co... MANILA Messrs Macondray &

Co.

for particulara, pply to

H, OISHI,

Manager,

No. 2, FENDER STREET,

HONGKONG. Hongkong, January 9, 1909,

818

OWEN B. WILKS & CO.,

for instance. Not thatI wish to discourage |you, and 14 you'll ocly stund me xa ited drink-Wher, Fl call the place beautiful,

sickened of your harbour at the outset because our boat meandered inconsequently about fer filly half-an-hour before firally deciding to settle down in life. Among other things the skipper allowed the Rogny launch to hold as up before we had got more than about six inches inside aud after that I took a royage in a jumpaa. This bad, at first, seemed the easiest and best way of getting ashore; at first') "possesses significance However, later on when I have become more accustomed to

PRICES,

Co-Efficient 10; $1.95 per 1 gallon Drum,

5; $1.75 per 1 gallon Drum.

Ask other manufacturers of fluida for a Guarantee of the Germicidal Strengths of their products (in relation to Pura Carbolio Acid) under the Standard Test on Typhoid Gorms and then compare the result with our HYCOL-This is the only way you can strive at the Germ Hiling properties and at the true value of a Genuine Disinfecting Fluid.

DODWELL & CO., LTD.,

SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG, SOUTH CHINA & JAPAN FOR

PEARSON'S - ANTISEPTIC - CQ, LD.”

Hongkong. May 5, 1910.

HONGKONG ICE COMPANY.

A MEETING of SHAREEULDERS N EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL

will be held at the Offices of the Genera July, to consider the proposed extension Managers, at Noon on MONDAY, 4th of plant and premises.

JARDINË, MATHESON & Co., Lu,

General Managers. Hongkong, June 93, 1910. 79

civilization. I will tell you eariously was THE BIRD IN think of your city."

"Well, after this ampan-navigators had done their little best to have a written of in the past tense, I reached the Praya. Much to my disgust I discovered, whet I at last succeeded in tracking them to their laire, that there wasn't an Editor to be

GENERAL & COMMISSION.""

AGENT.

STOCKS KEPT 01.

SHIPOWNERS ANTIFOULING

COMPOSITIONI

TOE SALE BOTTOMS (GEZYпOUNT BLAND),

ANTIFRICTION METALS,

"GRIPOLY" BELTING, MISTALLIO FILAMENT and other. ELECTRIO LAMPS, FANS AND

SUPPLIES

46, Connaught Road Contral,

TELEGRAM, WANDEROOS,

Hongkony August 3, 189.

**En route I had. Lecome obsessed by a desire to get u transfer for the next best to enable me to sea, something of Hongkong before going on to: Yokohama, but as four and fourpares (in three different currencies) was the extent of my worldly fortunes, it was, more or less, necessary that I should carn some money, unless, on the other brand, I could Bad someme willing to kéo mu just for sweet charity's sake.

Failure to see editors decided me to try to find an Institution the idea of which, I had been informed, was to prio imgrenninus out of works with a home and to allow them to pay their bills whenever TEL. 909. they were able to do so. But after travers

977ing almost the whole length of Hongkong on foot I met with mild but sco`id indigea- tion: so far from it being the custom to. trust the impecuniously inclined, "the man øger said he had in no single instanto bean. guilty of such a reckless act. This was dis concerting, to say the lenat, but having beep

PATELL & CO.,

Exporters & Importers directed to the private address of a minister

General Merchants

and

Commission Agents.

#..

Hongkong and Canton

J. T. SHAW

Tailor & Outfitter

connected with the pince, I set out-to quickly lose myself in a labyrinth of Celestial slums with their densa crowds of falsetto |abriaking sons of Hanpa seething inextric- ablo vorter in which to white face was visiblo. At Ist after multitudions: valo aktempts I found an English speaking | Chinman who, and I thank him for it, saw mo eafely into a ricksha and directed the man. Howover this was the beginning of my troubles. I was taken right round China in that ricksha-at pua point da almost reached Cambalae-and as whenerer

THE HAND

(A. BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSA),

*THE bird in the band to the merchant is the customer within the store. It requires some sort of attraction in the first place to get the customer thero-about the beat o traption is a real, live advertisement; something good that will catch the that has been carefully written, artis tically compiled and strikingly set up Advertisements in the China Mall and Overland China Mall read the best, look the best and give the best results.

Hongkong, April 12, 1810.

JAPANESE MAKERS,

THE

盛

672

ASAHI' BREWERY 19 SITUATED NEAR THE ' 'SUITA' SPRINGS.

PERSE Celebrated WATERS are ased

in the manufacture of our Beers. PURITY GUARANTEED. NOTE PRICE LIT:-

'ASAHI* & SAPPORO! BEER,

Per Cuse 4 doz. gts.

$12.00.

Par Case 8 do gt3. $13.50.

TO BE OBTAINED AT ALL RETAILERS. Hongkong, May 19, 1999.

فراد

1

639

RUSSIA INSURANCE COMPANY,

ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.

Total Assez... Bables 73,000,000.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Messrs MELCHERS & CO. have 484been Appointed ons AŬENTS in Hong-

kong.

EVERY KIND

OF

Referring to the above Notice, a bare taken over the Agoncy of the

ROSSIA INSURANCE COMPANY! ST. PETLEBERO KUBALA. And we ate prepared to accept Orders for FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE

Footwear (European and Chinese Riske) at Carront

MADE

ΤΟ

Kates.

"MELCHERS & CO,,, Insurance Dept.

Hongkong, February 4, 1910.

188

930, 1910.

To Let

TO LET

FUR-

†MMEDIATE - POSSESSION,

NISHED BOUSE, modorato rental, suitable for three or four floods, board. could also be arranged if desired.

Further particulars from

UPPER LEVEL,

Cass of: CHIà Maiz1 Ollos.

818 Hongkong, Jupe 29, 1310.

TO LET

6

TIWO Good Furnished BEDROOMS,"

BADKER ROAD tho Park. Apply to

Vare of *CHINA. MAIL' Ošče. Hongkong, June 7, 1910.

TO LET

ODOWN No. 4, PRATA, KENNET

TOWN. Apply

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. SVEIENT & AGENCY Co., Eto,

Energang January 1, 1917,

NO

TO-LET:

1824

TO. 2, CONDUIT ROAD, from Ist July. Five Rooms. Blectro Tight throughont, Sploid Harbour View.

Apply to A. WINE

Care of CHINA MAIL! Office,

os to

Messrs LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Hongkong, May 6, 1910. 2

TO LET.

GOT

JU, 3, CANTON VILLAS, Kowbon. À HOUSE la KNUTSFORD TER RACE.

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY Co., Lu Een kong, February 24, 1910.

TO LET

BUKEY LODGE, CAINE ROAD,

saltable for a Boarding House, School College, or Family Rosaruso, recondly painted and renovated throughout. Im- mellato poncesion. Apply to

"OHATER & MODY. Hongkong. May 14, 1809,-

TO LET

KING'S BUILDINGS.

863

OFFICES facing the Harbour lately

in occupation of Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd.

Apply

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

IMENT & AGENCY 00 Ls. Bengkend. Detomber 1, 1909.

1ST SEPTEMBER

TO-LET,

734

BOWER ROAD,

17ESTERN BLOOK of DWELLING Artillery Officer's Quartors.

HOUSES at present occupied as

Suitable for Boarding House,

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LẦND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY Co., LD. Hongkong. June 28, 1910,

Kowlook.

TO LENT.

R and Five-Roomed BOUSES, New and Commodious SEOPS, Nathar ROAD, Kowloon.. Immedlite possession.

Apply to..

ORDER FORTH BRITISH AND HEROANTIL Cheap Rentals.

CHERRY & ̈CO.,

35, WELLINGTON STREET. Hongkong, May 5, 1910.

678

we were in a vicinity where Europeans WING ON CO., were to be found I thought we certainly

were on the right track I omitted to seek TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS, direction for my 'destination, and when

in the Chinge quarter, of the City was,

NBURANCE COMPANY,

TOTAL FUNDS AN 81ER DEUXMEXE, 1907. £18.114,424 (Authorised Ospitat £8,000,000 Subscribed Capital £2,750,000 Paid-up Capital £687,600 08 I-Fi Fanda 3,065,874 15 1 -Effe&Annuity Fands 14,315,842 10 9 Sinking Food Account 45, BOY 5 H

HUMPHREYS', ESTATE & FINANOG

Oo., LTD.

Arngkong, March 23, 1909. '--

403

TU LET (IMMEDIATE POSSESSION

*LUGINSLAND EAST,

No. 18. PEAK. ROAD, 218,114,624 111NTINE-ROOMED HOUSE, Ravence Fire Br280,652 13 1

Night Attings Effe Annuity 1,847,924 18

Branches!

Binking Fond Accoun!

£4,135,153 16 11

The Accumulated Fands of the Firs and

ille Departments xza free frota Hability (s

of course, unable to do. 30. Dit when HAVEJUST RECEIVED KEN SHIP.pen each other,

I had been in the bone-shaking, serve

wicking thing no loas, than an hour

MENTS OF

Drapery, Grocery, Iron-

I considered it timely that I should eater-mongery, Crockery, Glass and

atically seek guidance, end, at last, prery- thing else having foilud I hit on the idea of trying to find the nearest police station,

China Ware,

buing subsequently directed thesto y Furniture, Watches & Clocks.

11

picturesqus Indian policoman."

"According to sa Amusingly-ial The Cheapness and quality of Celestial constable wo were actually quite their Goods have no equal. close to our destination, the placo I sought,

*

SHEWAN, TOME'S CO.,

Agmis

A. HISTORY. OF UNION.

CHURCH,

Bathrooma and W.O's. Below the fog line.

Hallway to the Peak.

Mestre

Rent $200 per month lncluding takes,

Apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES &'Co.' Hongkong, April 28, 1920,

TO LET.

OFFICES!

[

45

in YORK BUILDING,

GODOWNS la PEITA EAST, Blue Balle. inge.

DY the Rev. G. H. BONDFIELD And Floor BDYER BARE, HRAS

* Edited by Rav, 0.HL, HICKLING:

No. 10, De Vaux Road, Ontreal, lat

A House In RIPON TERRACE A House in Wosa Na! Chose Zoaz. OFFICES, No. 2 CONNAUGHT ROAD, 3rd Floor."

baing just at the top of a street: just 209-213, DES VEUX ROAD Too bad, the ORA MAIL, OFFIOBA 18, Des Vietty Road Central.

MAGNESIA REDUCTION IN PRICE round the sorride. Upon leaving the polico

NATURAL

ENO'S

HEALTH-GIVING

FRUIT

REFRESHING

SALT

INVIGORATI

TO CLEAR OFF TO MAKE

ROOM FOR NEW" STOCK

IN OTHER LINES.

office I not unnaturally sought to Ind

CENTRAL,

among the wildly gesticulating and weird 107, CONNAUGHT ROAD conglomeration of shrieking rickslw-coolles | the one who had jolted me right round the Chinese Empire: but I was unsuccessful. He had vanished, along with tho hig Into ha and oxdited from are in my guilles ignorance."

“It soon bomme, apparent that I had again beca misdirected, and just as I had

PITH HELMETS mad up my mind that I was really test in

(TOPEES)

FROM $3.50.

CENTRAL, (Trame phra the Door). Telephone 189. Hongkong, June 18, 1819.

6, Wyndham Street.

Prico

81.60

To Let

TO LET.

772

156

SINGON & CO.

";

PRATA EAST, Irora at Juur,

plac OFFICES at No. 2, PEDDER STREET, from 1st July.

DARTMOOR, No. 13, Condula Poùs. A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS,

GODOWNS, Praya Eformerly occupied by M.B.X.

SEMT-EUROPEAN FLATS," Modersta Beats, PRATA EAST-Corner of Obsor vation Place. The Tramu stop at the door. Also Daw EUROPEAN FLATS adjoining the now, Sosman'a Institute, Prays. Last,

Apply to

- THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY Co., Lo. Hongkong, January 1, 1910.||

TO LET.

stanga sad with no English-speaking TRON, STEEL, MEFAL and HARD.Apply, MozsraJARDINE, MATHESON & THOR SALE, TOR CREST, ab Posk

person to tail to excepting myself I uplod In housh with an inmistakably British EO on the door-plate., Being entirely sickened by my prodigal wanderings I had hesitation in storming the citadel, which, in reality, possessed "nothing mors formid. abla than four ovcet English genglewomen: and I loved thign for their charat und) graciousness. Upon recounting the md

WARE MERCHANTS, Wholesale and Betal Troumongors Pig Iron and Foundry Coke Importers. General Store- koopers and Shipchandlers" Nog, 50 and 7, Hise Loong Grazzz, (2nd Street, wast of Dustral Market) Telephone No. A10.

Hongkong, September 6. 1909, 1120

LABUAN COAL

Ayres and Slazenger apponings which, led hefollon me she? TOTIE This COAL can infy by

Tennis Balls

soon put me in possession of various obtained from Tix. LABUAT COAL topographical facts which hope will some FIELD Co Ld. who are now prepared O Jay be uncial to me, But at the time supply fresh Conl streight from the bifner fouling discouraged and depressed, I Steamers load at the Wharres

despatch. 49 decided to go back to the ship; and go on ** Telegramer ALLMOR

BRADI

to Yokohanu direct

However, my luck was on the lisen

got a joby and lote Fam 1"

Hougkeng

Co, LTD.. Hongkong, May 31, 1910..

commanding magnificent view of the 695 Harbour and adjacent islands..

Premises at SHAMEEN, CANTON, lately in occupation of the Cauton-Kowloon TO LET

Railway

Nos. 15 & 23, SHELLEY STRENT, FFICES DES VEUX ROAD Now Broomed Hono

CENTRAL, comer of o

of Ice Hones St. 3. Apply to Messrs PERCY SMITH, & FLEMING, 5, Queen's Road. Hongkong, June 1, 1916, ́ ́

No, U, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Shop:

Wall FURNISHED HOUSE, Kerrison, with use of Tennis Court, Froz 530-140 Jane, 1910.

CHELTONDALE NA 100, PEAR,

ghed for Softeniber and Octo

* Nd, 6, DES VEUE

ISUELE STREET.

Bellding