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Café de China THE

THE CHINA MAIL

Limited.

配雞

The Dining Room of Cafe de Chine

China Building, Hong Kong.

WEING HING CHINAWARE CO.

(Established 1897)

33B, Queen's Road, Central

Telephone 32123

Dealers in Canton Green and Gold Designs of Tea and Dinner Services, various kinds of porcelain vases and porcelain figures, etc., etc.

INSPECTION cordially iNVITED.

LOCK HING

ESTABLISHED 1870

DEALERS IN

CHINESE CURIOS,

SPECIAL TOURIST SUPPLEMENT

Canton, Shanghai Silk, Grass Clothes, Embroideries, Crepes, Shawls, Ivory, Bronze; Lacquer, Cloisonne,

Porcelain, Ornaments.

MANUFACTURERS OF

BLACK WOOD FURNITUİRE INLAÏD & CARVED

Thursday, 30th March, 1939

"FRANCONIA"

WORLD

CRUISE

SHANGHAI COMPANY EMBROIDERED. SILK UNDERWEAR AND DRESSES

PHONE 21290

10, PEDDER STREET.

(Opposite Hongkong Hotel)

PICTURESQUE

HONG KONG....

A1

de Chin

Limited

HONG KONG

CHINESE RESTAURANT

(ENGLISH SPOKEN

Top Floor, China Bui

Queen's Road, C. (Opp.

Telephone

Manufacturers of SILK LINGERIE TABLE LINENS & HANDKERCH CAMPHORWOOD CHESTS

A VAST. SELECTION OF IVORY WARE, PEKING

JEWELLERY,

MEN'S

DRESSING

GOWNS,

PYJAMAS,

HAND-BAGS

GUARANTEED

HAND

SCULPTURED

WORKS OF ART.

WHOLESALE AND HEPATI

SWATOW LAFI

16 PEDDER STREET. COLTO ***

MONG the more accessible of sina, Rio included-can show so Prior to 1841 there was no recog- the world's beauty spots exquisite and fairy-like a scene. nised name, for the Island. The Hong Kong may justly claim high To appreciate its beauty to the anchorage at Aberdeen (a pic- the rank, whether for the loveliness full one must view it from Kow- turesque fishing village on of its harbour or of the island it- loon or, better still; from mid- side, opposite the Harbour) was self; indeed there are few places harbour. The water front is one known to sailors as Heung Kong. where so much beauty is found in continuous blaze of brilliance The Chinese characters represent- so small a space as here. - ... from end' to end, white, green, ing that name may be translated 15

blue' and red; behind, the lights by "Fragrant Streams" or "Fra- The first view of Hong Kong thin gradually as they mount the grant Harbour." Another possible which presents itself to the tra- hillside; long lines of lights show rendering is "Heung's Harbour,” veller's eye as he enters the har- bour, either by the Lyeemun Pass climbs the steep. Then comes a named Heung.

here and there where a roadway the haunt of a notorious pirate or the Sulphur Channel, is an un- patch of blackness, where neither Kowloon (the mainland opposite forgettable one-the steep, tree-

road. nor house can cling to the Hong Kong) is the anglicised clad slopes of the island, dotted

precipitous rock; and above that form of the Chinese Kau Lung with residences, sweeping up ma-.

are the lights of Lugard Road, (nine dragons). This name is jestically from the blue water of

that encircles the Peak, looking derived from the ridge of nine the harbour, while the crowded

like a jewelled necklace upon the hills which form a rampart along buildings of the city on the water's edge seem almost like a bosom of the night. Here is a the northern side of the harbour memory of loveliness that the and seem to be guarding the ap- wave of masonry that has splash-

proach to China. You may see ed and hardened on the hillside. visitor can never lose.

them from your ship-quite plain- Opposite, on the mainland, rise We shall have to begin with a the hills of Kowloon and, faint little history. In the first Land wisty in the distance behind -täna. thetro sonde Hong Kon

ly.

Hong Kong. became a British

WELCOME TOURISTS

OF “FRANCONIA

WE HAVE ON HAND ALL SIZES AND LATES STYLES IN DRESSES, ALSO A LARGE VARIE OF EXÐUSTTELE

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