1911-06-06 — Page 2

Intimations.

G. FALCONER & Co..

LIMITED,

WATCH-MAKERS AND JEWELLERS. Telephone No. 983.

HOTEL MANSIONS.

NEW SELECTIONS OF

DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. LARGE SELECTION OF PRESENTATION PLATE, CUPS, BOWLS, ETC. FALCONER, & Co, are Abenty POR. ROSS'S FAMOUS TELESCOPES AND BINOCULARS, LORD KELVINS NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. ADMIRALTY CHARTS AND BOOKS.

SOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER.

SAL

WING KEE & CO.,

Nos, 47, 48 and 19, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL (HL-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, PROVISION-- MERCHANTS, COAL

MERCHANTS, de, &c., OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING SHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED-TO GIVE US A TRIAL FRANCISCO TSE YAT, General Manager: Barkong. August 19, 1998.

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MEE CHEUNG & CO., 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.

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Tutimations.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SIR ROBERT HART TO RETIRE.

The Now Inspector-General.

On the May lab the Peking correspondent of the Times wired as under :-

Sir Robert Hart completed his three

informed that, in view of blendracoed aga and forble health, and of the immensely) increased work now attaching to the post of Inpector General of Maritime Customs, COAL DEPARTMENT resignation to the Chinose Governments, Sir Robert Hart has decided to tender his

WITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA of absence yesterday. I am

(MITSU BISHI 00.)

SOLE

Intimations.

BIJOU SCENIC THEATRE,

FLOWER STRUDT.

EVERY EVENING AT 9.13 P.M.

Brilliant Moving Pictures.

VAUDEVILLE,

TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1911.

จ

POPULAR ARTISTES.

POPULAR PRICES: SEE HAND BILLS.

14 Lessee and Manager.. Hongkong, June 3, 1811.

R. H. STEPHENSON.

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which he has served with such devation for 7.18 P.M. Pictures only (OLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA. so many years

SIMA, OCHI, MUTAHE, YO-

It must give keen satisfaction to the SHINOTANI, HOJO, KANADA, aged- Inspector-Gus.ral that Mr Aglen, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW} whom upon his adrian the Chinese florern. and KAMIYAMADA Colleries.

SOLE AGENTS for EISHIDAKE COAL.

HEAD OFFICE:—TOKYO. BRANCH OFFICES:- Nagasaki, Maji, Karatan, Wakamaten, Kobe, Ösaka, Shanghai, Hongkong. Harkow

TYL, ANDRIES for above: IWABAKL Çodem:—AI, ABO 5th Ed., Western Union,

AGENCIES: YOKOHAMA; M. Aeada, Esq. COINETANG: Mesera Gearing &

Co. MANILA: Messrs Macondray &

Co.

ment have selected as his successor, has, during the year that has elapsed since dis appointment as Acting Inspector-General, porformed his difficult duties in a muser approved of by all nationalities, effecting { much-needed reforms and controlling the vist administration with an impartiality and absence of favouritiam worthy of the best traditions of the service.

Commenting on the above, the Times 1

Bays:-

LANTERNS and CANDLES,

SPECIALLY MADE FOR THE CORONATION CELEBRATIONS,

THE under-mentioned Firms has been specially recommended by the Chairman of

the Coronation Committee for sale of RED JAPANESE LANTERNS. The Prices are as follows:

...at $

Per 100.

"100.

11

100.

Sir Robert Hart's decision can cause no

Pinches in disunter...... surprise, for he has long earned his repose. He is seventy-six years of age, and he has

Candles to suit sâme and to burn 4 hours...at passed forty-eight of those years in the It is advisable to Order early to avoid disappointment.

Do.

94 hours...at $1.50

Chinese service.

Even were his health

stil robust, he might fairly claim at his time of life to be relieved from the heavy burden bo has so long borne. The o xieties and the responsibilities he has

undergine have been of a character to

hreak down the strongest constitution, and it must Lo remembered that he has been obliged to enduro them

THE HONGKONG HOTEL SINGAPORE: Mesers Borneo Co. in conditions unfaventable to the phy

11

UNRIVALLED FOR COMFORT AND CUISINE, THORJUGULY UP TO DATE WITH EVERY MODERN LUSURY MODERATE TERMS AND NO EXTRAS

196

"

PEAK

Ltd.

For parties, apply to

Y. SHIBUYA,

Manager, No. 1, PADKA STREET

HoxAKONG.

J. H. TAGGART, Manager,

Hongkong, April 29, 1911.

HOTEL.

ADMIRABLY SITUATED AT VICTORIA GAP. Adjoining the Tramway ernimus. 1,400 feet above Sea Level.

PEN to the South, Winds in Summer and protected from the North-east. Windu in Winter Commanding a magnibuent view of Hongkong, the harbour and adjacent island for forty miles.

A FIRST-CLASS FAMILY, RESIDENTIAL AND TOURISTS HOTEL

Terms From 85 per day Mex

Telegraph Add: Peaceful.

Town Office. 4. Dra Vorex ROAD.

tongkung February 8, 1908,

WING ON Co..

TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS. EXPORT AND IMPORT MERCHANTS

HAVE JUST RECEIVED NEW SHIPMENTS OF

Drapery, Grocery, Ironmongery, Crockery, Glass and China Ware, Furniture, Watches & Clocks. -- The Cheapness and quality of their Goods have no equal.

909-213, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL.,

--

107 & 108, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL (Trams pass the Door}

Telephone 180, Hongkang, Angent lá 1450

779

J. ULLMANN & CO.

JEWELLERS, WATCHMAKERS AND OPTICIANS..

Always carry a large and varied Stock of HIGH CLASS JADE AND CHINESE-MADE JEWELLERY SOUVENIR-SPOONS.

THE FINEST ASSORTMENT EVER SEEN IN HONGKONG:

Prices right.

Weismann, Limited,

sical and mental exertion of Europaans. Three years ago he was forced to recognisa that he was unable to contique in the por formance of his exacting daties without a long holiday. Ea obtained leave of absence

for a year from May 1, 1909, but it was 618 generally fult that, when the veteran administrator left Peking, he left it for ever. His leave, it is true, has eince boan extended

PEAK TRAMWAY COMPANY, LTD. for two successiva. twelve months, but these

NOTICE.

10 additionni enes wil be run:

and after lith instant the following

WERK BAYN:

M154.3. 3.15 ..

8.10 P.M.

10.00 P.31. 10.30 r.. 11.00 ..

11.30 P.M.

SUNDAYS

9.15 A 8.10 P.. 10.00 r.. 10.30 r.x. 11.00 P.M. 11.30 ..

The above service between 7.30 A,, and 8 A.M. on week days will be every quarter of an hour instead of every 10 minutes.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Mujo JR, Hongkong, June 2, 1011.

NOTICE.

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In addition of the steamship business we are handliaz Oregon Pine, "Redwood, Canation Cream, etc. Any inquiries will hare our most prompt and careful atten.

THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO. Hongkong, June 2, 1911.

tion.

extensions have bean regarded as the kindly concessions of a country, where age is held in the highest honour, to an old and valued servant of the State. Now that he has been absent for three years from his post, ne must himself acknowledge that there is no prospect of his being able to, resume it with advantage to the wonderful service which he has built.op or to the Government to which he has given his life's work. For a considerable period before he came home there were signs that the strain. of the in-

too severs for a man of his advanced years, creasing daties of his office was becoming

Na devotion and no colage ein withstand the inroads of time and of lailing health. Sir Robert withstood the assaults of both,

We have also in stock Small Lanterns (8 inches in diameter) cost 84.00 per 100.

DOBASHI & CO., Opposite.Clock Tower & opposite City Hall. NAEAZAWA.

D'Aguilar Street.

DALBUTSU & CO., 2, Queen's Road East.

Hongkong, June 1, 1911.

SHIPOWNERS COMPOSITIONS,

735

GREYHOUND BRAND ANTIFOULING PAINTS.

SOLE AGENTS:

OWEN B. WILKS & Co.,

1st Floor, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. PHONE. 909.

Teleg. WANDEROOS.

G. P. SPECIAL ANTIFOULING FOR YACHTS:

AGENT: CANTON, H. LEE

Hongkong, December 1-1910.

FOR THE HOT SEASON !!!

If you like a cold drink go and get an

ICE

BOX

so long sa he could resist them witbont serious detriment to the great in cresta i THE ROBERT DOLLARC this charge. When he felt that he could not

their own office at Room No. 7, THIRD FLOOR, HOTEL repal them it became his duty to deliver MANSIONS.

and to endeavour by rest and change of ap his charge into other and younger hands,

climate to restore his strength. Then, as ever, he did his duty to his Chinese orp ployers. Ho did not indeed resign, bu when to transferred the administration to Sir Robert Bredon, and sailed for Europe, he car hardly have fattored himself with the expectation that he would ever be able to resume the heavy lind he had laid down. Any illusion of the kind must at any rate have vanished in the three years that have since gone by. Both in England and in Peking it is felt to be impossible that he ALL SIZES should return.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

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DIVIDEND c.account of the year of THIRTY CENTS per Share will be payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Hongkong, on and after the 2nd Jane, 1911, on Warrants to be obtained at the Company's Offices.

The Dividend will also be payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Shanghai, f-on and after the same dato.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, June 2, 1911.

Popular

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Bakers, Confectioners, Caterers, ASAHI BEER

Restauranteurs.

14. DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL.

Hongkong, July 20, 1010.

IALINE

REGISTERED TRADE MARK of -

699

BURT, BOULTON AND HAYWOOD LTD., LONDON, FOR THE DISINFECTION OF DRAINS, WATER-CLOSETS, LAVA- | TOKIES, SICK-ROOMS, FLOORS, WALLS, GUTTERS, &c.

IT IS THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL

J

OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE,

SOLE AGENTS

Sir Robert Hart have lived life for which we know no perallel. It is, of course, nothing new for Europeans to sarye Oriental Governments, and to serve them with distinction. But the Europeans who have held office under such Governments have seldom, if ever, succeeded in pro foundly modifying the administration of the States in which they lived. It is the unique distinction of Sir Robert Hart the ho has accomplished this foat in the oldest and, in some respects, tha most couservative Empira upon earth. Ea has grafted on to the unwickly and

,

A NEW LOT

HAS JUST ARRIVED.

TO BE HAD AT

7.

14

"REASONABLE PRICES.

F. BLACKHEAD & CO.

NOTICE.

1565

During Miss Massey's absence in

corrupt system of Chineso administration Shanghai enquiries for Belfast Barker

is Department which is model of efficiency and of probity. His success wsa Astonishing. He had little bat his personal character to support him

Marine Motors, Maguetos, Coils, Spares.

in his early efforts to establish the now etc., may be addressed to

Department and he he had great dim- culties to encounter, from without as well; as fom within. It is not a little to the credit of the Chinese Government, a well as to the honour of Sir Robert Hart, that he won, and for many years enjoyed, so large a measure of their con fidence. From the begining of his career be convinced them that they could trast him, and the trust. they placed in him was the condition and the secret of his KUBOGAU. The return of the Castome were, indoed, palpable proof of his

CARBORIC DISINFECTING FLUID, MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, idill and of his honesty, but probably it

THE CHEAPEST AND MOST RECOMMENDABLE FOR GENERAL HOUSE USE, LOTION OF 2 PER CENT. BEING SUFFICIENT.

Recommended by Sanitary Authorities.

Government Analysis et Buyers' Disposal.

TOR.

AVENARIOS' WORLD-KNOWN 'COPPER PAINT.

For the Bottoms of Vessels and Boats and for the Coatings of

ul Wooden Structures of Wharves and Docks. Penetrates deep

ofismeà ong, Druumber 17. 1800

"

1322 would have been thrown away upon the Chinese hat for the personality of the Inspector-General. He had in a

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CAREFUL ATTENTION TO ALL ORDERS BAND ENQUIRIES YOU LADIES & CHILDREN'S

HATS, GLOVES, EMBROIDERY, BLOUSES, SHPES, HABERDASHERY,

&c., &c.

Ws 'GIVE THE BEST VALDE

SAVARESSES

uto the wood, thus rendering same immune against attacks of THE DRAPERY EMPORIUM, SANTAL NIIL

bó Teredo, Barnacles Marine Growths, etc.

Sole Agents

MELCHERS & Co., Hongkong

Hongkong, May 6, 1908,

&

China

38, WELLINGTON STREET,

Near D'Aguilar St,

TELEPHONE, No. 107. Hongkong, April 18,"1911,

CAPSULES

ÆFAHRENEES OF OIL - CERTAINTY OF CURI

KWAAMO “INCONVENIENCE PICS REDACTIONS.

FORSSAVAREND

Messrs ARNDT & Co.,

38, Queen's Road.

Hongkong, August 93, 1919.

"The Beer That's Brewed to Suit The Climate"

O. B. BEER

Just Try It"

Intimations.

The Wrong

WAY TO READ.

If you have to hold the prin too far away to see clearly, the oyes will bu strained to make out the fine print.

If you have to hold the print too close that will strain the muscles of the eye. Either way in had,

See us ind have the satisfaction

of using a pair of right fitting, right sooing glaceos,

OLARA

LARK & CO CIENTIFIC OPTICIANS YORK BLOGS, CHATER RD"

HONGIANG

Hongkong, February 14, 1911. 77

THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General ManARERS, HONGKONG.

J. T. HAMILTON, GENERAL MANAGER FOR THE EAST, TOKYD.

Total Asecta Dec. 31, 1910...G.8494,715,923

Surphan

Dividends to Policyholders

1910

Total paid Policyholders 1910 Tatal Expenses for 1910 Gross earnings from Interest

and Rents for 1910...... Gross rate of Income from

Investments 1910....... Hongkong, May 30, 1911.

85,005,459

10,575,157

53,430,380

10,392,032

21,548,828

4.48. 127

Have you tried our

CORNED BEEF,

CORNED PORK,

BEEF SAUSAGES

AND PORK SAUSAGES,

Send us your trial orders. We

guarantee entire satisfaction.

THE DAIRY FARM CO., LTD.

Hongkong. November-12, 1910.

88

YEE SANG FAT,

OPPOSITE POST OFFICE.

TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS.

STYLE AND FIT

GUARANTEED.

PJ

NEW STOCK

Helmets (Cork and Rubber).

RAIN COATS,

BATH ROBES

AND

SUMMER UNDERWEAR.

Hongkong. Bept. 20, 19

溝水心力麺懃士

HOME - MADE MINERAL WATERS.

1814

BETTER THAN FACTORY-MADE.

门

Why continue purchas ing ischory-made Mineral Water! Make your own, Mineral Waters að koma at a cost or Ecouter a dozen Syphons. Then you KNÓW the watoz is pure, and contains no disonsagerups. With the PRAKA SPARKLET SYTHON and i dozon Bulbs you can make 8 Idozsa Syphons of delicious Mineral Water and the cost ls than if you buy Eactory made Mineral Water. All Chomista.

and Stores sell: Pram Sparklet Syphons

and Bulbs.

Price of Syphon...... 32.00 ench.

Bulls 0.50 per box. Wholesale Price—)

Syphon pur được

..810.90 Zuh.

Bulta per duz. boxes8 8.00 f.o.b.

KWONG SANG HONG, LTD., WEGLESALE ADENTS,

246 and 298, Des Voeux Road Central,

HONGKONG] =

行發

司公限有行生廣港香

Hoggart Darah 3, 1911