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INTIMATIONS

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD,

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

DIAMOND BRACELETS, RINGS, BROOCHES. SILVER OUPS, TEA SETS, CIGARETTE 04939;

etc

AGENTS FOR

D

etc.,

BENSON'S ENGLISH MADE WATCHES.

THE CHINA MAIL.

INTIMATIONS

| MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA (MITSU RISHI CO.)

COAL DEPARTMENT

SOLE

(OLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA. SIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, TO- JHINOTANI KISHIDAKA, BOJO, KANADA, NAMASUTA, SATO,

KOTEL MANSIONS: OPPOSITE GENERAL FOST; OFFICE. SHINNEW and KAMIYAMADA

WING KEE & CO.,

SHIP CHAND

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MERCHANTS, .,.." OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING SHIP CAPTAINS ARE RIQUESTED TO GIVE US A TRIAL FRANCISCO TSE VAT, General Manager Ronatong, Anginx . 18.

.T8

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Co., Ld.

Established 1883

MANUFACTURERS OF.

PURE Manila ROPE

STRAND

CABLE LAID

4 STRAND

1 to 15"

5 to 15

CIRCUMPRARNCE.

3" to 10"

CIRCUM PRAENOR.

il Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length.

Pelos, Bauples and fail particulars will be forwarded on suplication to

Shewan Tomes & Co., General Managers.

Hongkong, April 11, 1914.

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501

TOURIST, STEAMSHIP & FORWARDING AGENTS,

BANKERS, etc.

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TRANSLBKK. AN RAILWAY.

TOURS arranged to ALL PARTY of the World.

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1!

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CRICT OFFICE LUDGATE CIRCUS, LONDON, EC.

THE KAILAN MINING

ADMINISTRATION.

KAIPING COAL

Nuw well-known thlonghout the East for

25RAM RAISING, JURGING, STEFL MAKING, SHIPS' BUNKERM

HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES.

KAIPING COKE

Compute with the out quality English: Ooke for YUNDRY, EMELTING AND HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES.

HIGHEST

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THE CHINA MAIL

COMBINED

COLOURED

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Showing tracks

daily progress of the big Typhoop

during the last twenty years.

And enabling one to locate the centre of a Typhoon.

MOUNTED IN

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Collerias.

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Ltd. GLASCOW: Messrs A. R. Brown

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For particulare, apply to

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'No, 2, Proper STREET,

Исускова.

DAIRY FARM NEWS

The

Old English Squire

ol song and story was the one kindly old

mortal who certainly knew real comfort.

A generous item in his daily joys was A cou Churchwarden Clay and a palm full of ripe, Mellow tabasco.

CURVE CUT Pipe Tobacco

OPEN LETTERS TO THE ISLANDERS OF HONGKONG.

VIE

TO A ST BALTERN.

816 My Dear Me Dash,

We are always in a position to supple you with the best obtainable

LOCAL & AUSTRALIAN MEATS, SMOKED FISH. SAUSAGES,

PAMS. BACON, „CORNED PORK. "CORNED BEEF.

AND WE Ixron

Absolutely the best Table Butter that money can buy.

THE DAISE" BRAND.

BB

CAE TRAMITATS COMPANY,

PEAK LIMITEL

TIME TELF

Old English Curva Cut carries out that gwe tradition of anoke." it is a distinctve od aristocrat amung pipe tobacco. The curved slice te a pipe fili" day in which "Old English" is picked absolutely prevents the tobacco from becoming dry and tindery, and preserves its ori. ginal freshness and fragrance.

You have been most patient in wilting All these werks for the open latter, which is to make you famous.

But my dear boy, you are already famous the wide world over, and have been so evat since the days when the celebrated Mrs. John Strange Winter Brst made you are in her featfly and wonderfully made in'litary romances. What society in this long would do without you I fail to imagise.

F

I should

You are a most popular kind of misa, exprelly mocgst women-folk. way the most popular werp it not that your ailer cuusio indisputably occupies that alace amongst. UN..

Why does he take the first plus ! Well, to begin with he is always jolly and never bored. In whatever festivities he taken part--a picnic, a dance or a charity anar-he throws his whole heart into the work of the moment and makes things go with a wing

Now, you sometimes her a way of being "fed upon such occasions which com- parva uninsurably with the hearty rollick in manner of your cousin.

WEER DAYA.. 1.01.m, to 8.00 .. Every minuter. 8.00, 10.00 .... very 10wiraaten. 10.00 am to 11.00 ... Every 1 minutes 11.90 am to 12.4% prvery mintas. 12.45 p.m. 115 p....very muutes. 115 p.m. p.m...Every 10 minutes. 1.45 p.m. to 2.15 p.m...Every 10 minutes, 2.15 p.m. to 6.00 p... Every 10minutes, I suppose that the blaze and distingue 5.00p.m. t. 8.10 p.m... Every 10 minutes,airs which you the acquired y la now Suda

NIGHT CAMP.

1.50 p.m. and 9 pm 9 pm to 11.00 p.. every bai: 1r.

The truth is that you get a little spoil! directly you leave Sandhurst or Woolwich, while you are still in your teens and before you are sent abroad.

little diet to drop.

"A sailor is never long enough in one place to become spoffed and so again he has the 11.00 p.m. to 11.45 p.m. every quarter ni idrantage of you.

SCHDAT 7.45am to 10. a m... Every 15 minutos 10.30m. to 11.00a.m...very 10 minutes, 11.80 to 19 Noon....Every 15 minutes 12.00 Noon to 1.00p.m...Every 10 mintres. 100 p.m. to 5.00p.m... very 15 minutes. 6.00p.m. to ...very 10 minutes, 6.00 p.m. 10 7.00 pm...Every 15 minutes, 7.007 m to 8,10 p.m...Mvery 10 minuter,

-NIGHT CARS na on Wook Daye.

SATURDAYS.

Extra Car at 12 widnight." SPECIAL CARkh by armagvinent at the Company's Office, Aura

Du Voruz Hoje Cestial,

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A great friend of years once drew a delightful word picture of yua and your ind which I am sure you will like to have and keep, so here it is:

** Take," he said, “a cents worth of wit one pound of foily, a pinch of vanity, a dash of malice, favour the whole with responsibility, and you have-s subal- tean."

Had I made the diaga-sis. I should have exer dad the pinch of vanity.

When one comes to think of it vanity is very much underated virtue considering ail it does for its poses. An entirely vain man is a perfectly happy ms.

Et i imporsible Ln lower is self Evitcom. Clod from head to foot as it wern fa bulletprov! stmoar he denies the world to be un ppreciative of bie superior qualities. A sub is to him as walor on a duck's back. Everything be Senging to him he considers of vital public

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SUN

Grammer MANAJE

PATELL & CO

interest

Wa bad one young subaltern out here me long ago who and never known what in was to luck this virtue, vanity.

Whenever be me you he would

"I say, did you ever see such a perfect as the cost of mine sunt it back to

Exporters & Importers the tailor-man to be altered Sra zimes, but

Diw it really is perfect but is 1

And then he weald maila.complacently

as he softly struked the fazen down winch

a called bis momacho.

bo

ab a ball or Goveentgent Homoane

-General Merchantsight an after the aesiral of this pr

and

wing south in the Colony, 1 st bim Loving his way though the crowd towarĽA the refra-bu ant room.

He nodded pleatly to me. "I'd have a dance with you only · I'm feeling so teastly slick," he said,

ommission Agents. My reply was fortuustaly drawsed

by the band, which struck up at that gory moment.

bappily for him, berp ab as the sparks fly apware. The curios

: HONGKONG. DANTON, thing in than as he grows older he loses bis

pretty conceit. SHANGHAI AND

HANKOW

Qua never-wall hardly ever hears of a baig Colonel JAN

In que, the regiments once rationsd here there was a delightful example of bogists ingenuity who went by the name of Willi Wigkis.

Be was short of status with a round, STUU ALEXANDRA CAFE Cannot be pheobic, lighly scorbutie counsenso

Besten, if Escalled, Fan Bread (and fair wirez hain - Before he had been 3 low, Gentseginners, Mogia wika Mizan da bual boom rug jang Wille (el Thejoptly la

|

Tz is male the pipe only-hand prewed slice

plagamuk ensures a slow.

niog, cool smoke.

'Sold by all High-Class Tobacconists.

The object of his affections was, luckily for him. very charining married woman 4least fifteen years his son ier, Mis, Angy by name. She was rather amused at ha precocity and trested him as she would hade treuted a foolish child

Willie daily poured forth the assurance of an undying and all I suffering a fection i In sories ul letters whose ungrammatica) melodramatic style would have made

acellent supy Miss Masia Corelli. They filled many wasta-paper beskats and continued in spite of protest until hi divinity went to Japan for several month and the postage rates had to be considered.

On her return Hongkong three or four months later Mra. Angel heard greatly to her relief that Willie Winki. Savocteen_ was engaged to be married to a Sweet

An orderly bearing an over-sealed chit in Willie's handwriting arrived at Mm. Angel's boss the morning after her arrival from Japan.

Dear Mrs. Angel (ma the nate)

I am the happiest man on earth far I am engaged to Mies Sweet Seventeen.

1

Will you be so kind se to send me back all the letters and puems I once wrote you.

I am sorry to have to ask you for them that I think it is the wisest pián as far as 1. am concerned..

I hope you had a nice holiday in Japan?

Yours sincerely..

JJ

WILLIK VISKIE. Mrs. Angol quickly dispatched the or derly with the following reply. Dear Mr. Winkie,,

For your sake I much regret that I am able to return the Etorsture for which,

you ask.

With each letter and poem as it came i used to light my after-dinner cigarette." I did not keep the asher.

It was the isoat plan as far as you were concerned.

I congratulate you most heartily on being the happiest man in the work.

Yours very faithfully,

CORDELIA ANGKL,

Ah well! When sil is said and done you all have a good time out bera

Little work and plenty of play makes you any buys,

You of course pretend that your work i tubes and your serial dutice to JuizOKOGA for words.

.**hink alone of the evils we have to pay"-you sy. But you must honestly jouless that your aim and art in paying alla is to find pe pilo out vo khat you may 'shoot bų“ record numbers of vizitím ade in one afternoon. Also that numeroas we the dedum you resort to to that end.

nd are you but rewarded for your pains rew!

For avery valable piese of post-beard, 101 **shout oỡ” in an alternuda do pod int receive intine listwinvitations to dinner, 5 fin, or tex ? All the women sin swfully

you, you know,

Do you not look forward to the day in the whole world will be ruled by round 1 lupe it will be in your life-

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And won't the world be «. funny plaeo

When it is ruled by gilla, When every man has lost his place,

And soldiers wear coeluszew curls i And now farewell, tinie and space will not allow me forthee ur. I could go ou talking to you lui erer"

Yours most sincerely,

VERONICA,

COUGHING INTO CONSUMPTION Only a Cough but you stop, while it is ONLY a cough."

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER DIL COMPOUND

The Angstpreparaisos te for combating, sevaza, ton CURES only a cough

OLPERBEG

BLUEJACKET'S DIARY FOR HIS

MOTHER.

A graphio description of a British war-

OCTOBER 18: 1914.

shin clearing for aethon and rushing to THE DOLLAR MARK

dont with an armed serului" In given

la the following extracts fav British

| blúsjacker's "Jetter to his mother --

* You must, I know, bo waŋying about -me now-ibatiwa' byvo^fallen out with Germany. You need and be maxious over me, as we are alf right and expect: to remain Ro

"..

Wo' arrived abion August B. conled.

and left the isms night. All excitement

MES

Fogland is on the verge of war. Laft Garbene with band playing Rule, bri- annia. All the town Fame to Wed" tis go out. Very impressive Arrived

tartet patrol duty with 'ether, warships. letion evidently expected.

PLANO IN THE BEL

Started, throwing all wreden, things wwerboard so as to lessen the danger of ire. Two pianos just gone over and an

rever "obscuros par idea of ayagina" pervicetha frst avnsideration, hac in perfect satisfaction. In-glamen ahdi cur patrons never find resson to complalo of our chargse

We use every scienti- fa method of valne in testing the sight.

FOR ALL EYE TROUBLES

CONSULT US.

ENTIFICAUPLICIANS -

TORK BLOGS, CHATER RO

HONGKONG

Hongkong, May 25, 1914.

149

on. Chairs and tables fuit. Want' Advertisements

Mcom" things being thewa over, li

just like throwing a gentleman's drawal

ng-nam into the sex. The other ships

PREPAID

ith us are doing the same The thing 1 per inch .................. 3 Insertions.

hat go inating by; (Wo are following.

ast) ecfas, tables, chair-verything hat can be thrown over is going! We have thrown over about 11,000 worth of

Luff.

it'

WANTED.

One week.

Tukwing" right prepared for action. | TXERIENCED Transistor séð Intar- Good and stretcher party havo got out the preter is open to engagement. tretchers to pick up the wounded. Rufuruncus. Please Appy to Box 678:

Ya'ro rushing full speed form.No, sleep hat night. Did a bit of cleaning in the aorning. We all got to slip in the fternoon, except those on watch

-4 p.m., tea, walk on duck, listen, to he band playing ragtime.

Care of CHE MALL: Office Hongkong, October 19, 1914. 1(88

WANTED.

·DOSITION WANTED by an experienced

8 pm, again cleared for setion. IF BOOK-KEEPER with good know.

gain being out the stretchers to "pickledya of Shipping and Insuruce. Reada and writes. Chinese. Boat References,

p the bits."

11 p.nl. ragines stoppist. Lights out, Replies please address Box X.XX.

Ojo Chika Min' Offen. orts closed. The air is stifling. No We talk

Hongkong, Oct. 12, 1914

Bu can get on the mess-deek.

a whisper. They load the guns all; ---

aly to fire..

"IN CHASE OF SOMETHING."

ו.

11.30 p.m., w aro fushed full, speed thead in chao at something. No sleep hot night Stay on deck to get it. sleep next afternoon.

Tuesday night, going dead slow. I an on deck unable to sleep. Watching ho sos by the moon. Elght bells is truck: 13 midnight. Suddenly we tura round and rush full speed down leal with an armed cruiser that might to trouble,

Don't worry, mother. Our ship will

all righn It is most likely we shall omo boine as soon as this is all over,

THE KAISER AND GOD.'

I njoico. with you in Wilhelm's first Actory. How magnificently God sup ported him! "-Telegram from the Kaiser to the Crown Princes

Led by Wilheiro, as you tell. God has done extremely will: You with patronising nod Show that you approve of God. Kaiser, Iseo a question now... This doce God upprova of you?

Dinoken pledora, treaties komu Your Grst pago it war aduru; . We on fouler things, must look Who road further in that book, Where you did in time of war AE that you in pezu forsword When you, burkurously wise, Dud› pour soldiers terrorize, Where you nïsdo-the deel was fae- Women wereen your firing line, Villages burned down to dust, Torture, murder, bestial lust, Filthis foul for printer's ink, Critics from which the spea would

shrick-

Strange the offerings that you 'press

Un the Ged of lighteousness!

v Kaiser, when you'd decorate

Sons or friends who sirve your State Not that Iron Cross bestow

But u Croan of Wood, and som So remind the world that you fin „Have made Calvary anevedo

Kaler, when you'd kneel in prayer Look upon your hands, and there Let that deep, and awful stain From the blood of children slain Turn your very soul with sham, "TU"your daru not Breathe that Name,

That now you glibly odcutie- dvd as one of your allies.

„Luspious braggieh," you forget; God is not your conscript yot You shall earn in dumb ha That His ways des not your waya That, the mire throught which you frod ✅ Is not the high white rond of God,"

whom, whichever way tho

.1087

· NORTH; BITISH & MERCANTILAR.

INSURANCE CO. -

#BICH ARE TIRŻED THE SHARKS OF THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LAR..

and

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THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE OD,

£73,829,183,

TTAL FURS 31ST DEG, 1913,

Authorised Capital £8,000,00 Bubscribed Capital £1,500,000

"Paid-up Capitat ammum £2,437,500 Tire Fend

3,809, 114 ILife & Anity Funds... 16,13,160

sfaning and Acquant

88,51%

Ravanus Fire Branch...........

**

£22.501,268

2,567,138 Life and Annuity.

Branchios

1,973,280 Reyanue. Marine Departurent.... 264,499 Other Receipts

430, 103

25,233,312

The Accumulative Funds of the mrious franches ses separately. Invested, and, by Act of Parliament, are not aside..to meet the claims under the respective Depart ments of the C∙mpany's Business.

SHEWAN, TOMRA &,00. Aventu

JAPANESE MAKERS.

Every kind of Footwear.

XADE

TO

ORDERA

CHERRY & Co. PEDDER STREET,

Op quite Hongkong Hotai, Telephone: No 491. Hongroug. March 20, 1914

LIENTES G.

BurgonyDentiit.

Now 11, D'ASEILAK STELET,

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