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LIMITED,
WATCH-MAKERS AND JEWELLERS. Telephone No. 963.
HOTEL MANSIONS"
NEW SELECTIONS OF
DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND`SILVER WATCHES. LAKOE SELECTION OF PRESENTATION PLATE, CUPS, BOWLS, 110: FALCONER, & Co, A AGENTS FOR ROSS'S FAMOUS TELESO PES AND BINOCULARS, LORD KELVINS NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. ADMIRALTY CHARTS AND BOOKS.
SOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER.
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WING KEE & CO.,
Nos, 47, 48 and 19, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL HI-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, PROVISION MERCHANTS, COAL
MERCHANTS, &c., &c., OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING SHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GIVE US A TRIAL FRANCISCO TSE YAT, Ĝeneral Manager. Hongkong, August 12, 1908.
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WING ON Co.,
1768
„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 equar 200-213, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL
Intimations.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SEA SUPÄRSTITIONS.
Intimations.
NOTICE.
WE
TE have OPENED out OFFICE in
There is no class of mao au superstitious se the sailor. To whatever nation he may bolong, and whether he mil in 'a giant- Gunanlar or in a Chinesa junk his waper.
HONGKONG--for the Salu - of *ELLIS' CRIMSON PILLS' and 'RAPID stitions form a most important part of as CURE and have appointed Moura S.D. axistance. Those who go down to the susSETNA & CO. Sola Agents for their Sale io HONGKONG, CANTUN and SOUTH
THE STANDARD CHEMICAL
MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA members of a universal CHINA
(MITSUBISHI 00.)
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brotherhond whoan joys and fears are the tanta from China to Peru. For time im memorial, the adventurer upon the ocesa [COAL DEPARTMENT, has ever been possessed of a temporament incomprehensible to land-men, by resson of his belief in signs and happenings |
SIMA, OCKI, MUTABÉ, TO. BEINOTANI, HOJO, KANADA. NAMAZUTA, BAYO, SEINNEW and KAMIYAMADA Collaries.
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SOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA that are to him emens either of good or of avil. Although many old superstitions diad with our increased knowledge of the globe, and withough the introduction of steam has done much to lessen the terror and mystery of the deep, yet many curious AGENTS for KISHIDAKE & SAKITU beliefs still prevail; and, abourd as these
COALS.
HEAD OFFICE :—TOKYO.
· BRANCH OFFICES -- Nagasaki, Maji, Karatan, Wakamatsu, Köbe, Osaka, Shanghai, Hongkong, Hankow
TFL. AUDRNACES for above ; * IWABAKI. Codes:-ál, ABC 5th Ed., Western Valon.
AGENCIES: YOKOHAMA: M. Asada, Esq. CHINELANG: Messrs Gearing
Co.
$ 107 & 108, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL (Trama pass the Door).MANILA: Messra Macondray
Hongkong, emer 16 19ja.
Telephone 189.
J. ULLMANN & CO.
JEWELLERS, WATCHMAKERS AND OPTICIANS.
Always carry a large and varied Stock et HIGH CLASS JADE AND CHINESE-MADE JEWELLERY. SOUVENIR-SPOONS,
THE FINEST ASSORTMENT EVER SEEN IN HONGKONG.
Prices right.
SHIPOWNERS' COMPOSITIONS,
GREYHOUND BRAND ANTIFOULING PAINTS,
SOLE AGENTS:
OWEN B. WILKS & Co..
No. 14, 2nd Floor, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
PHONE. 195. JJ
Teleg: WANDEROOB. '-
G. P. SPECIAL ANTIFOULING FOR YACHTS.
Hongkong, July 1, 1912.
IALINE
REGISTERED TRADE, MÄRK of.
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BURT, BOULTON AND HAYWOOD LTD., LONDON, FOR THE DISINFECTION OF DRAINS, WATER-CLOSETS, LAVA- TORIES, SICK-ROOMS, FLOORS, WALLS, GUTTERS, &c. IT IS THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL
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CARBORIC DISINFECTING FLUID,
FHA CHEAPEST AND MOST RECOMMENDABLE FOR GENERAL HOUSE. USE, A LOTION OF 2 PER CENT. BEING SUFFICIENT.
Recommended by Sanitary Authorities.
Government Analysis at Buyers' Diaposal,
SOTOR.
21
AVENARIOS' WORLD-KNOWN COPPER PAINT.
For the Bottoms of Vessels and Boats and for the Coatings of All Wooden Structures of Wharves and Docks. Penetrates deep nto the wood, thus rendering same immune against attacks of The Teredo, Barnacles Marine Growths, etc...
Sole Agents.
&
may appear, to ono whose nights aro apent anugly abad on land, it is unwisa to impart auch opinion to a sailor... His environment tends toward a belief in signs and portanta, and however clear-headed a man he may ba, he is seldom, if eror, free from thisdrand of some invisite menace. Among the ancient marinara the wildest superstitions were rife; but their beliefs in the existence of enchanted spots, such as the airon island | of Calypso or on those islets which Sinbad likonai the Gardens of Paradise, Mare mare picturesque and romantic than the
FACTORY
or NEW YORK, BERLIN AND SHANGHAI, Hongkong, August 12, 1911.
NOTICE
1093
WE, the UNDERSIGNED, have been aprinted the SOLE AGENTS for the Sale of "TELLIS' CRIMSON PILLS' and 'RAPID CORE' manufstared by the STANDARD CHEMICAL FACTORY of NEW YORK, BERLIN 2 SHANGHAL
·S. D. BETNÁ & CO. Hongkong, August 12, 1911
ORIENTAL BREWERY, LID..
NOTICE
1034
TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Price of ICE is REDUCED to ONE CENT per b. from This Dato.
ÖRIENTAL BREWERY, LTD. Hongkong, August 7, 1911.
1010
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1911.
Intimations.
The Wrong
WAY TO READ.
-If you have to hold the print too far away to soo clearly, thể sjeo will be strained to make out the fine print. If you have to hold the print too clase that will strain the muscles of the ero.. Either way is bad.
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See us and have the satisfaction of using a pair of right Atting, right seeing glasses.
@LARK & CO.
ENTIFIC
PORK BLOGS,
OPTICIANS
CHATER RA
HONGKONG
Hongkong, February: 34, 1811.
gloomy and prosaic imagining which occupy BACON & HAM BIJOU SCENIC THEATRE,
the mind of the modern seaman.
"All are aware of the ill-luck which is said to belong to the ship whose anime has been changed; but it may not be so generally known that a belief prevails among seafar- &ing men that the vessel whose, name endr Fin A. rests, also, underan evil spoll. Indeed It wouldamcat seem that the latter superati- tion is not wholly unfounded, if we con- sider but a few of the disasters at sea în our own times, wherein the fated whipa have borne aames which ended with the fiest letter of the alphabet. For instance, H.M.S.Victoris," sunk in the Mediter 818ranean, is still fresh in the memory of
SINGAPORE: Mesars Borneo Co.
Ltd.
For partleales, apply co-
Y. SHIBUYA,
Manager, No. 2, PADDER STRIKT,
Hongkong, April 29, 1911.
Do you want-the best for your
* table ?
SEND US YOUR ORDERS.
We stock absolutely fat quality Australian mild cured Bacon and Hams.
"Prices · Moderate.
Englishmen. Othor well known instances THE DAIRY FARM,CO., LTD:|
aro, the Stella, lost off the Channel I-lands;
HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LTD. the Arequipa, nahore so the west coast
NOTICE.
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Price of ICE is REDUCED to ONE CENT per b. from This Date.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
General Managers. Hongkong, August 7, 1911.
1008
of America the "Cobre," estroger" which-bmte ber back in the Nortle Sext on her maiden voyago; ngi the Sardinie, burned" in harbour st Malta The fate of the last-named vessel, in the light of the two superstitions sireatly inentioned,
Hougtong, November 12, 191
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FLOWER STREET.
Cinematograph Vaudeville 9.15. EVERY EVENING 9.15 x.M.,
Mia VIOLET BONNETTA
Ma R. H. STEPHENSON,
7.15 .. PICTURES ONLY 7.14 P.M.
See Hand Bills.
Lessee and Manager;" R. H. STEPHENSON. Honging, Angint 1, 1911.
934
YEE SANG FAT CHEN KWONG & CO., LD.
may be fairly said to have been pro. OPPOSITE OLD POST OFFICE. orlained: for, in addition, to her name
ending with the letter A, she had dering TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAT
her career, borto at least one other, viz., Gulf of Corcavado. Needless to say, BANKING CORPORATION.
(many ships base bear wrecked whose NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVES that the names did not bear the unlucky fins
ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in letter, and there are hundrede afout which this Corporation will be bold at the CITY do possess it and in which it is safer to HALI Hongkong, on BATURDAY, thetraval than on the railssý. A very com- [Pth day of August, 1911, ar Noox, fur ha purpose of receiving the Report of the
Court of Directors together with a State Teas of Accounts to 30th June, 1811.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MON- DAY, the 7th August, to SATURDAY, the 19th August, 1911, (both days îndu- sive), during which period no transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Director,
N. J. STABB,
Chief Menager. Hongkong. August 2, 1911.
Popular
987
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OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE.
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superstition among sailors of today
is that which attaches an evil influence to particular member of a trow, and some- times to a passenger. Equally common is the belief which attaches to a particular man, the contrary reputation of possessing a personality or quality bending to good luck, and according to which the vessel he sails in is blaaged by his presence, lussmuch
as whatever the vicissitudes of the voyage, the inate will be favourable.
Turning to the picturesque superstitions of the ancient Eastern mariners, we find, in the first rayage of Sinbad the Sailor. that, baring, landed upon, a small island the master of the ship, standing upon it side, called out with his loudest volce, O ye passengers, who may God preserve I come [up quickly into the ship, histon to embark
New Stocks
ENGLISH-MADE.
Trunks, Suit Cases, Kid Bags, Dressing Cases,
(Silver Tittings).
LADIES' HAT CASES. BATH ROBES, · -BATH MAT -COLOURED SHIRTS,
AND
LEATHER SHIRT CASES. Hongkong, Sept. 20, 1910.
GENERAL IMPORT & EXPORT.
CANTON'S LARGE WHOLESALE & RETAIL
STORE: MURNITURE, Draperies, Groceries,
Buot and Shoco.
Makers of Jewellery, Lacquerch Crockery Ware. Iron-mongery,
Wind
and Spirits. Foreign Clothes for gentlemen made, to
order by our own tailors, Large amortment of Chinese Silks and Farmign Goods of every description.
All goods sold at ressouxble Prices. The Cheapest and Best place in Canton to buy Chinese and Foreign Gooda,
SUP PAT POO STREET,
CANTON
TEL NO. 1406.
Canton, August 1, 1971
194 JAPANESE MAKERS.
THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., GENERAL MANAGERA, HONGKONG.
ave yourselves from destruction: J. T. HAMILTON, GENERAL MANAGER
for this apparent island upon which ye arc, is not really an island, but it is a great fish that hath become stationary in the midst of the " In his second royage, the same famous matiner "relates how he encountered the roo--a bird of such enor mous size that ebon it flow in the air it obscured the light of the can.
There is a certain similarity between these Ambian phantasms and the incidents of Homer's voyage of Ulysses, for the same enchanted islands occur in both, and in both we have fabulous monsters in human and animal form. Can we imen the moder #porstitions back to the parentage of the horrors and enchantments of the ancient Acax? Is the Ken-so-pent a descendant of Sichad's me? Can it be that the fabled bird of the Arabian seaman has become the
MELCHERS & Co., Hongkong & China. MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, marine monster of the latter-day sailor?
Hoogkong, May 6, 1908.
MARINE-MOTOR
CRUDE OIL ENGINES.
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MOST EFFICIENT AND ECONOMICAL FORM OF MARINE PROPULSION.
B
A son voyage of 22 days, without once stopping the engine, has been mule fy
che Crudoleo* fitted with a BOLINDER direct reversible engine.
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POWERS FROM LE400 ILP.
FUEL CONSUMPTION et ex. per HP. Hour.
FAY & BOWEN Kensine fagines and lighting sets, FERRO Gasoline (Petrol) engines for plusuru and speel craft. –
ALL TYPES OF MOTOR CRAFT DESIGNED AND BUILD, ESTIMATES FREE,
June 18, 1911.
ULDERUP & SCHLUTER,
Bokke, December 17, 1910
Or can we more legitimately trace tho 1592 bistory of the sea-serpent, to the living isand upon which this much travelled navigator found himself?
RIGHTS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF SHAREBROKERS.
*
It would perhaps be futile to soak for any explanation of most of the curions" beliefs held by sailors; but we can readily understand the superstition attaching to any hitch in the saleran ceremony of auch. ing a vessel; for it is obvious that should any such bitch occur at kunching, il-luck VERY man and woman in Hongkong in not merely threatened but has actually hould read the series of articles attended upon the craft at the very ontset appearing in the Hongkong. Telegraph of her carsor. A ship at der launching
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FOR THE EAST, TURIO.
Total Assets Dec. 31, 1910. G.8194,715,923
Surplus
-85,095,459 Dividends to Policyholdera
1910
Total paid Policyholders 1910 Total Expenses for 1010 ... Gross carnings from interest
and Rents for 1010. Greas rate of Income from
Investimesta 1910
41
Hongkong May 30, 1011.
10,675,157 63, 430,360 10,392,032
21,646,528
水力廸士
4.48)
727
HOME-MADE SEINERAL
WATERS.
BETTER THAN FACTORY MADE
Why pontious purchas ing factory-made Mineral Water! Make your own. Mineral Waters at huma at n cost o 90 cents a
379 ĺ
EVERY KIND
Auctions.
PUBLIO AUCTION.
Particulars and Conditions of the Lasting by Tublio Austion Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 31st day of August, 1911, at-3 r. at the Officon of the Table Works Department, by Order His Bxcpliancg the Governory of One Lat of Croen, Land, at May Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a berm of 20 years, with the option
of renewstat a Crown Bant to be fzel by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one farther term of 75 years.
8p. of Bite.
Particulars of the Lot.
Locality.
Bouth of lovelly.
Inland Lot
Boundery Maste
denta
w
Th
22.
| 148 | 143 | 125 |:135 26,675 | 114;
To Let.
TO LET.
L. M.
1038
FURNISHED HOUSE with Tennis
Court on higher level.
Apply to
c/o Emina - Mar Ofice. Hongkong. August 1, 191
081
TO LET.
LODOWNS, 95 & 96, PRAYA EAST.
Appir
CHATER & MODY. Hongkong, December 6, 1910. 1474
TO LET.
ODOWN No. 5A, DUDDELL LT STREET.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Có,, Lə. Hongkong, August 1, 1511.
· TO LEĽ
G. Kennedy Town,
709
ODOWN No. 4, NEW PRAYA,
Apply to *
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY Co., LD. Hongkong, August 1, 1971.
TO LET.
1059*
D'AGUILAR STREET suit- Vienda Cafe Co-last.
Apply to
Nable for godown, etc., nesupied by
YEE SANG FAT & CO.,
34, Queen's Road. Central. Hongkong, June 39, 1911.
203
TO LET.
TILATS in NATHAN ROAD, Kowloon.
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES no painted and colour washed throughout. Cheap Bent.
New and Commodious SHOPS, NATHAN ROD, Kowloon, Immediate possession, Cheap Rental
Apply to HUMPHREYS' ESTATE & FINANCE
Co., LTD. Hongkong, March 3, 1909,
TO LET..
408
WODOWNS in MASONS LANZ good for
storage
of Wines and other articles.
Footwear Rent anderate.
MADE
AUTO ORDER
CHERRY & CO.,
(35, ¿WELLINGTON - STREET, "Hongkong, May 31915 6728
NOTICE.
MR. LI HON VAN, a Chinese graduate versed in literature, has been a teacher Karopean atheins and merchants in Colony for over ten yours.
He line a good method of training Euro- peans to pass in the Chinese oxamination, and Chinese tech. Has also a good know- is passossed of a firef rute certificate un a
ledzo of Mandarin.
The Building now in occupation of The Mercantile Bank of India to bo lut from Int January, 1919.
Apply to
་
....・・ DAVID SASSOON & Co., Ep.
Bungkong, April 22, 1911. .
TO LET.
DOWNS, 151 to 106, PLAYS. KAST... SEMI-EUROPEAN FLATS, Modesta Rents, PRAYA EAST-Corner of Über vation Place. The Trams stop at the do Also new EUROPEAN FLATS adjoining the new Seaman's Institute, Praya Esat.
10, MACDONNELL ROAD.
CREGGAN, 39, The PEAK, "GODOWNS to let st Blue Buildings 4, PRAYA East
¡Apply to
dozen Syphons, Then Those who intend learning the Chinese N you KNOW the water is language are requested to write care of pure, and contains no Gann My office or direct to 37, Holly
With the od Road, Lit floor.
Hongkong. Dacam oor 24, 1910.
Сіневно ректомі
PRAKA
SPARKLET SYPHON
and a dozen Bulbe you
make
lozen
蝣D
Syphons of delicious Mineral Water and the cost less than if you buy
and Stores sell Prana Sparklet Syphras factory-made Mineral Water. All Chomista
on The Rights, Duties and Lișbilitios of addressed as a living thing, and winnie and Bulbs. Sharebrokerk."
The Law is clearly stated.
The Faults of the Hougkong system
criticised.
obligatory in her christening. For the origin of this ceremony we must clearly hark back to remote tins, and in the sprinkling of the wine, as well as in the breaking of the bottle, we perceive at once
Two articles have already appeased but back numbers can be obtained on applicabo. Pegan libation
tion...
Beof the Jundaman as he may at the Further instalments will appear superstitions of the milers, while the ocean SATURDAYS until cumpletion of the wears the eternal clock of pystery, those whose daysare spont upon its vastness, whose nights are filled with the music of it.
Beries,
DON'T MISS THEM
They will interest you deeply, and a waters, with the awe and grandeur of its
world preserving.
HONGKONO TELEGRAPII,
47. DesVieux Roso CENTRAL. 1003
Office: 21, Connaught Road,
Hongkong, August 7, 1911.
being, must ever, with Sinind the Enilor.
and Ulysses the hero of Ithaca, dri
day dreams of wonder and people the night
watohes with phantous of dread. The Globe.
Price of Syplucas. 82.00 cach
Bull 0.00 per box.
Syphon per doz810.00 £9,ho
Wholeanto Price:
Bulbs per dos boxes 8.00 £.0.b.
KWONG. SANG HONG," LTD.,
WHOLESALE AGESTS,{" 246 and 348, Des Voeux Roadtrail,
HONGKONG.
司公限有行生 港香
Hungkelig. Me-ol 1, 1911,
1535
PATELL & CO.
Exporters & Importers
General Merchants
and
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
KENT & AĢENUY Co., Lo. Hongkong, August 1, 1911.
TO LET.
67. PRAYA GRANDE, MACAO.-
BEACONSFIELD from 1st June, 1911. The EXBIE, No. 18, PEAK, newly painfed and colourwashed, og gard
OFFICES on Ground and Ist Floors CHEATER ROAD (very central position).
No. 8, BEACONSFIELD AROADE (Shop)
* KELLETE CREST,': from it August, 1911
**08, Peak,
No. 7, DUDDELL STREET, 1 God/WTT.
A
FOR SALE, TOR CREST, "it" Pouk, commanding, magnificent view of the Far ́bour and adjacent islands.
Apply to IN BA
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandru Buildings, Hougking, Aug, 2, 1911.
Commission Agents. SAVARESSES
SANTALNI
HONGKONG, CANTON CAPSULES
SHANGHAI AND
HANKOW
BULL KIRECTIONS
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