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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1912,

Garner Quelch & Co.,

WINE MERCHANTS.

Des Voeux Road,

TELEPHONE 636.

Supply the highest quality Wines, Spirits, Cigars and Cigarettes obtainable, consistent with price. All Wines and Spirits Gottled in Europe by Shippers of world wide reputation.

Hongkong. December 12, 1911,

Banks

ONGKONG & SHANGHAI

HBANKING CORPORATION.

PAID-UF CAPITAL..

LESERVE FUNDS —

Starling

1580

Banks

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA

AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA.

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¿PROPRIETORS'........................................

COURT OF DIRECTO US, H. MRDHURST, Esq.-Chairman.

E. SHELLIM, Esq.-Deputy Chairman. F.H. Armstrong, Esq. W. L. Pattenden, Andrew Forbes, Esq.

G. Friesland, Esq.-F. Lieb, Esq;

C. S. Gubbay, EsHon, Mr C, É, Roas

G. R. Laurenz, EH. A. Siebe, Esq.

CHIET MANAGER!

Hongkong-N. J. STABB.

MANAGER:

Shanghai H. E. R. HUNTER,

LONDON BANKERS-LONDON COUNTY" AND ¡VEITSISTER BANY, LIMITED.

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HONGKONG-TEREST ALLOWED.

Un Currant Account at the rate of Two per cent. per xanum on the daily balance.

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Chief Manager.

Hongkong, October 5, 1911.

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK..

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ECCENTRICITIES.

Mental Specialist's View of Harmless Whims.

HJ

The varieties of eccentricity were die cassel with a member of the "Stoudard, a mental scientist, sita stuf, by sporial reference to the opening of the two sealed ranms of the late Mr G. E. Dering, and the discovery of hunting boots, riding conta, ned cravats laid by from the day of

hia father's last huut.

"Three kinds of eccentricity doght to

sistirs, to keep them hanging in her locked. Rosarie room for privata enjoyment, and sub-Robin sequently to give them away. The game Sandpiper port of eccentricity was, perhaps, bobind Snipe the fact that when George IV. diod Jaka hundreds of the coats, waistcoats, and Tamar broeches or which he was famous were Tual fuit in his wardrobes, and in the Thistle pockets therow re loose bank notes Virago Aunting, out of all the pockets," to Waterwitch £10,000. I do not know, however, whether Whiting that was eccentricity or just a rich man's Widgeon

slackness,

receiving ship river gunboat rivor gunboat

torpedo boat destroyer aurreying ship

torpedo bent destroyes river runboat

Wood.cook

"So you could multiply the oddest. Woodlask wildest whiras, unconnected with normal 38 ometies or connected with normal comotion, 37 but pushed to abnormal limits in action. 18 diversifying our life. One man nay koep. and tand and murturs wasps. When he comes out of his conservatory, where these pesta of ordinary men are fondly fostered, he will entertain you well on literature or art, or some phase of aport. Such man ArD I eccentrics proper, absolute eccentrica, not Bachrapebically, por physically diseased, and

ba distinguished," said this oxport. First, there are whims and actions that are really due to an undeveloped physient maindy of the mind. "Secondly, there are ideas which aise from what I may call a psychicny malady of the mind. This second form of eccentricity-note that I am referring to hinta and indications of a disease that may never reach a ruinous conclusion-is expecially common in Our time. believe that tho mund of

BRANCHES-Singapore, Penang,pationte, if one may so terms them, is they certainly add to the gainty sod Shanghai, Rangoon, Samarang, Sourabaya, generally under the infuence of some variety of nor private circles," Djember, Charbon, Tegal, ocalongan, occult but quite existent and real forca Pasoerbean, Tjilatjar, Bandoeng, Padang, Bredan, Tebing Tinggi (Don), Palembang, Rots-Radja, (Achoen), Macassar, Bandjor

masin.

&c.

that works, and perhaps intends to work, their ruin. I could take you d'aong people

in London at the present moment who

Dr Belille, a Franch naval doctor, has

puselise witchcraft that is to say, among rocently examined the physical affects

Nank

river, gunboat river gunboat submagias

waboosting

suburarine

Lt. -Comfir, G. §. A. Mulosk

Vice Admiral Alfred L. Winelos, E.0.B., C. V.O., C.M.G., Commander-in-Chief.

Foreign Men-of-war on the China and Japan Station

Correspondents. at Bombay, Colombo, Madras, Pondicherry, Calcutta, Bangkok, Saigon, Haiphong, Hanoi, Amoy, Toko people who definitely invoke psychic in-produced by the Hartzian wares on the Kaiser Frans Joseph 1 Austro-Hungarian cruiser 4000 hams, Robe, Melbourne,

Dupleix t TIBE business of the above Bank is conYork, San Frazciaco, eydney, Nesences of au unauthorised kind to aid the operators of wireless telegraphy. He con-

bed by the HONGKONG AND

LONDON BANKERS-The Union of performance of vile, or even regular, actions.cludes that such operators should invariably

Again, I have met persons who bear wear yellow glasses and indiarubber gloves. Kleber SHANGHAI" BANKING CORPORA. London and Smiths Bank, Limited.

The Bank bays and sells and receives for ́voicea' guíding them in their conduct and The yellow glasses are to afford protection. Décidée TION. Bales may be obtained on a collection Bills of Exchange, issues letters plication

of credit' on its Branches and correspond.

INTEREST' on deposits is allowed 3 PER CENT, per annum. Depositor asy transfer at their option balances of $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, to be placed on

tents in the East, on the Continent in Great acta banking business of every description.

Britain. America, and Australia, and trans-

INTEREST ALLOWED.

going a minutely into it na to drive them to buy pair of shees at this ship and not

at that.

You may think that these persims are

more than eccentric. You would be On Current Accounta 2% per Annum oorong, because although intimately they will explain to you all the magical muddie

balances,

against the flashes in the rotina, Argus the extreme sensitivity of the sight,

Vigilante and the pains behind the eye and in the temples, which he discovers to be com- Peihe mon in wireless operators. Tho in- diarubber gloves and mittens are not for

FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT. PST Fixed Deposits 18 months 4% por Annum of superstition by which they live, they adornment, bat for protection against Esturgeon

For the Hongkong and Shanghai

Banking Corporation,

N. J. STABU,

-Chief Manager.

Hongkong, January 24, 1911,

1517

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ORPORATION.

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CAPITAL, PAID-UP REALAVE FUND

Do.

mcnthe 91%

Rear Admiral Colloch de Kerili

Eng and description.” Tone Guns, BP.

Captains

Last report

Capt. Alfred Cicoli

French armoured cruiser French

1st-class cruiser

10,814

Saigon

97 X

Saigon

French gunboat

1900 Lions, de Lânarna

Saigon

French river gunboat

180

Eient d'Estionna

Canton

French gunicat French

500

Lient. Biscall

Canton

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Licut, Puech

Tongku

Chief, the French China Station,

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French sub-marine

Lout. Combot

Esigan

are generally quite piactical in affairs, the eczema which attacks the barg Lynx

of the operators. Dr Bolillo They are literally, eccentric,' off their skin balance, but not utterly unbalanced, and also advises that na. operator should work the incipient malady of their minds is at a station for any long period on account psychic rather than physical, cecuit rather of the nervous disorganisation which st OF than susceptible of scientific analysis. It is tends the work.

the sort of thing that the erorcian of the Church was devised to meet and treat. Now £1,500,000 to these ruinous deformations of the mind 21125,000 the usual sort of "eccentricity" does nati ...£582,500 belong. Indeed; when one considera cer; 325,000 sin eccentric people, one is often puzzled

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3000

Baigon

Protce

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Idout Mortu

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Styx+

French armoured ganbest

Lieut. Berich

Saigon

Frondo

French destroyer

Saigon

Ther

French destroyer

Takou

Trench destroyer

Pistolet

French destroyer

Balgon (Barva Hangey

Морадной

French destroyer

Vauban

French torpedo-depol

Sigar Hongay

French torpedo-depati

Veteran

Manche

Franch surveying ship

1625

Lieut. Bibel 3000Comdr. Ragut de Touche

Op St. Jsay'

Do. -Do.

A. F. VAN REES, Agen's Hongkong, January 13, 1912.

THE MERCANTILE BANK

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For 6

11

For 3.4

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Hongong, February 20, 1911.-

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ESTABLISHED 1890,

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to know whether, after all, and in the end of temporal things and temporal standards, they are not the only central and sane people. This type of eccentricity one may define as an action or actions following from motive which does not luipel the ordinary run of men lo such lengths, or fromi a motivo to which an Impulsion felt by the ordinary run of men corresponds. a

THE TOWEL DF8ESTIMENT, The lato Mr During's rooms wore JARDINE, MATHESON &¡Lo., filled, with the dond furniture of sentiment.

IAD.

But the santiment was noble, intelligible, common its fifty.topixty years' endurance, it incarnation, so to peak, in the two sealed rooms alane constituted its eccentri city. Wo ordionry mon-seal and close

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Every description of Banking and Ex-from light our whole houses when shange business transacted, and Stocks a death occurs; the 'Into Mr Dering: and Shares bought and sold an account of simply accentuated that action. But annstituents. Letters of Credit granted on

gents and Correspondente all over, the eccentricities world.

2%

Interest allowed on Current Accounts at per annum on the Daily Balance sad 20 Fixed Deposita as ndar

Vor 3 months 2 per cent per annum.

4

13

4 要看

-F. U. MACDONALD,

Acting Manager. Hongkong, July 18, 1911)

Mra oltan "much more

smusing, and out of the way. For in stance, in Ohio quite sivilised man took op his abode in a tros. No doubt hin neighboursshouted and stared and made him a moment's wonder ; yet that habit might | simply have been the logical development

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Supplies the blood with the wanted parishing and healthy flesh building materials. Very palatable

Leipzig

German cruiser

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Taingia

Lachs

German gunboat

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German oraiaor

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1350

Comdr, Lappe

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Capt. Leat, Graf Dohns-Sch

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SHOW will be held on the 1st and MARCH, on the cant ground oppo Adder

Intending Exhibitors should send their Albany Entries to the Hon. Secretary not Later Bainbridg than the 22nd February.

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of the simple lif, to which those neighbours its the Hongkong Club. nominally aspired. Or one may noto some 14 of the many animal eccentrics, so to all them. Olu men who was always exothing of a mystery to his landlord was riddenly | distrained upon; history does not say how

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