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Tourists are cordially, invited to come to our famens

restaurant, recently opened, for FIRST CLASS CHINESE "CHOW.” Chinese Music, Reasonable Prices, Prompt Service

Everything

Strictly

Sanitary

CHINA MAIL SPECIAL, TOURISTS SUPPLEMENT.

THE FACINATING ORIENT

Finding

Latest Style

Furnishings

English

Artistic

Modern

Spoken

Chinese

in

Private

Girls

A

Waitresses

Night View of Our Building.

Dining

Rooms

On 5th floor.

KAM LOONG CHINESE RESTAURANT. Des Voeux Rd., CII. -Opposite Sincere's & Sun Co.

TACK

HING

Wholesale and Retail

GENUINE

JADE,

DIAMONDS, PEARLS, AMBER, IVORY,

GOLD & SILVER WARE.

REASONABLE PRICES.

37, Queen's Road, Ctl. Tel. 24778.

TOURISTS WARMLY WELCOMED.

WHEN YOU ARE

IN HONG KONG

DON'T MISS THE

Romance In Hong Kong

BE OBSERVANT

DERHAPS your visit to the Fur willow pattern land; peopled with so for that. Some of these people,

cherished desires; the fulfilment of modernity

MONDA

The Peak Tram“ between Bowen Road & May, Road Stations.

PICTURESQUE HONG KONG

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PERHAPS to that. ond hotels, pai flirting with the commercial houses, and newspapers. The very rope that tethered your hopes that have increased with the mediaeval, and eloquent with years and the reading of books queër assurance that it is different liner to the quay at Home may have about the Orient. It is so with a from and never will be the same as come from their factories; great great many people who sail into the West. You feel the Great Wall Chinese Generals may have settled Hong Kong harbour on one of the towering above you, shutting off a war in their hotels; the delicious! great immers: they bring with them the East things that are Occidental preserved ginger which your sister romantic Ideas, and often go away as effectively as if there were a real or cousin is eating at this moment

in your Hometown may have been boding for the place had an une tourists, even many residents of the with nothing but coloured beads, barrier.

Pirates and Smugglers bottled in those attractive cherry enviable reputation for rainstorms, Colony, have heard of a district in The typhoons, Įbits of jade, houri coats, and pieces

pirates, poisoners, Hong Kong called "Paddy's Mar Your ship berths at Kowloon and blossom Jars in Hong Kong.

The origin of the name is of carved ivory. When asked about! the fascination of the East they are you take the Ferry to Hong Kong. East, while keeping a strict reserve malaria, and dysentery, and in ket.". rather vague. They found it so Nothing remarkable there, you may and changing not one jot in essen-Britain contempt for the new obscure some enterprising Irish- much like other cities so lacking in say. But odd raft will glide ‘under tials, is lending a hand to the great Colony was expressed in the popular man was at the bottom, of it, un

Kong is said to resemble the remote. that colour they had been led to your bows with a spread of tattered wheel of commerce which turns the song, "You' may go to Hong Kong doubtedly. This section of Houg

Singular Beauty,

shopping sections of old Peking, or expect, that on the whole they were sail and each one, may be, could tall flow of food, materials, embrol- for me." rather disappointed.

a tale of more adventures, thrifis deries, and your kitchens.

Objects of Interest

To-day this formerly despised possibly the "Thieves Market" of Quite Wrang

and mysteries than you will, ever

Round the Island Of course, they are quite wrong. find in the pages of Conrad, or Jack In the streets you will find or possession is one of the world's Shanghai.

What has been well described as The East is fascinating, Irresistibly London, or Lactadio Hearn. Some jects of Interest that should always bustest ports and the admiration,..

Yon without exception, of every visitor so, even when you have lived in ftare honest trading funks, bound for remain in your memorion.

From the sea, and one of the most magnificent drives. for several years. In fact, the Singapore, or Salgon, or Hainan. will find men in strange clothes, to its shores.

in the world is that by motor car the magnificent longer, you live-in it the harder is with cargoes which you would not men in hardly any clothes at all, especially from it to leave and to settle down else-consider valuable--wood, oll, silk, lovely girls in drosses that wouldharbour, which faces the capital, round the Island. The route fol where. There is romance to be sugar, or preserved ginger. Others make Bond Street, or Fifth Avenue the general aspect of Hong Kong is lowed is from Queen's Road Cen- found in the East, too, but great come and go on mysterious journeys or the Boulevard St. Germain stare one of singular beauty. The bills tral, thesce into Garden Road, past dan- with envy. You will find little are generously planted with Japa- Government House and the Botanic. numbers of people will pass it by. which may land them on

temples hidden away in dark alleys; nese fire, and the streams, which are Gardens, along Culce Road, Bon- It all depends on the way you look gerous shoal or on the bet.

Romance of Trad.

funeral and wedding processions plentiful, are traced through the ham Road, past the University of at things. You see just what you

of Hong Kong; along Pokfulam Road, When you land you may go to the which have not changed very much uplands and giens by a line want to see; you never can so all that there is to be seen, even if you Hong Kong Hotel for luncheon (we for hundreds, of years, attended by straggling brushwood and herbage. Aberdeen Road, and Repulse Bar, are the most perspicacious observer call it tifin out here) and meet very pipers and little girls in weird The hills, which are mainly com- where a stop can be had forre

business men head-dressen.

posed of granite, rise in irregular freshments or the more enjoyable in the world. Hong Kong is one of ordinary-looking

But this is only a tithe of what masses to considerable heights, the tiffin. Leaving Repulse Bay Hotel the most beautiful places in the solemnly engaged in a discussion on

loftiest point, Victoria Peak the journey is proceeded with to East; on a fine February day when the dollar (the prevalling topic in is to be seen. It is impossible to the sea is blue as the Miditerranean Hong Kong now), and you may visit our Colony and go away with adjoining the residence of His Stanley Bay, Tytamtuk Reservoir, and the arealeas are in bloom, it think that such sights may be seen the feeling that your life has not Excellency the Governor (Sir Wil and Sai Wan Gap and thence to Within a short time seems to combine the colourful every day in London, or Paris, or been enriched with a new and won liam Peel, C.M.G.), reaching

Talkoo Dock is reached, and from warmth of the South of France New York, or wherever you come derful experience. Let part of altitude of 1825 feet.

There abound beautifully laid-out there it is a very short drive back with the delicate and mysterious from; and, you may think that it] Caesar's dictum be your motto-

It is alwae a pity to travel 15,000 miles orl"I came and saw.”

gardens, public and private, and to the original point of departure. ́

The entire drive covers a enchantment of Japan.

solidly constructed roads, mothe of them bordered with bamboos and tance of 26 malles, but the scenery other delicately-fronded trees, and enote cannot adequately be fringed with the. luxuriant growth described in mere prose. It has to The be seen to be appreciated as it de of semi-tropical vegetation:

Next to the ascent and temperature has a yearly range of serves. from 45 to 99 degrees, but it occa-descent of the Peak it is a trip that sionally falls below 40, and ice has no tourist should omit from his pro

gramme of sight-seeing. been known to occur on the Peak)

Places of Interest The Shopping Centre

Statue Square and Cenotaph -Naturally you will be interested Old Howleon City.

FOREMOST HAT MAKERS IN HONG KONG.

THE MANILA HAT SHOP Gloucester Arcade, Des Voeux Rd. Entrance. ̧

(Next to Hong Kong Gas Co.'s Show Room). Manila's Premier Hat Makers,

Wholesale and Retail.

All kinds of Hats for Men, Women and Children, in latest styles.

Affiliated with

Peralta's Hat Factory, Kowloon,

Shaukiwan 2D

di

to hear about the City and the won-ITXddy's Market-Hong Kong. derful shops, both European and Chinese Theatres (Ko Shing, Tal Chinese, which attract the tourist Ping and Lee recommended). from all parts of the world.. The Botanical Gardens;

central areas of the City are well Hong Kong University.

built, the roads and streets are for Peak Tramway to Peak Hotel,

the most part. admirably made and Happy Valley Race Course, and

kept up and many of the thorough- Recreation Grounds.

fares delightfully shaded with well-Anglican Cathedral Grounds. grown trees. The European busi- Recreation Grounds.".

ness quarter occupies the middle of Walks along Bowen and Kennedy

Ronds. the City, from Pottinger Street tal

the Naval-Yard, but with the ex-Man Mo Temple-Hollywood Road, ception of this limited arex almost Tytam Reservoir,

all the lower levels, especially, the Aberdeen Fishing Village. western district, are covered by a Repulse Bay Hotel and Bathing

Beach dense mass of Chinese shops and

tenements. On the mainland new Pokfulum Valley. industrial and residential areas are Chinese Restaurants.

CHINA EMPORIUM LTD.

The most modern large

department store. '

Our restaurants serve the

best hygienic Chinese and

foods.

INSPECTION INVITED

02A

Queen's Road C.

280

TOURISTS. CORDIALLY INVITED TO CALL.

BANKS

| rapidly springing up,-

Talkie Cinemas King's

Queen's

For the lover of the by-ways, and

and Central.

for, those seeking the unusual pur-Victoria Peak-1,823, feet above chase (who does not?), we would

city.

suggest a trip that can be both in-Chinese Amusement Quarter-We teresting And profitable. Few

Point.

THE SHOPPING CENTRE OF HONG KONG.

SIPAULĖ

COLURCE