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INSURANCES

THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM. PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA,

INCORPORATED 1661,0 CAPITAL...................£110,000.

THE

THE Undersigned, having been avointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared 46 ACCEPT RISKS »gainst FIRE at Current Rates.

WM. MEYERINK & CO..

Agents

Hongkong, 18th May, 1900..

1185

SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY.

KE· Undersigned, having been. sppointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT FISKS against FIRE at Current Bates. NI ALTRACS

HOTZ, 8ʻJACOB & CO. Hongkong, 2nd April, 1900, 190

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TRAN

TRANSATLANPIŰ FIRE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG-

The Undersigned, -karing been appointed AGENTS for the above. Company, azo pre- pared to ACCEPT BISKS against FIRE st Current Rates

SIEMSBEN & CO.

Agents. Hongkong, 16th November, 1872 AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- BULANCE CO.:

OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL

THE Undersigned, having been appolated. AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE

at Current Rates.

REUTER, BROCHELMANN & Co.,

By Agenta, Hongkong, 21st April, 1897 12 NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY.

194

HD Undersigned AGENTS of the above

Company are PEEPARED to Accur FIRST-CLASS Forman and CHINESE RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

TURNER & CO.

(2021 TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN.

TILE INSURANCE COMPANY. TOTAL FUNDS AT 3167 DECEMBER, 1900, £14,732,881.

Hongkong, 9th August, 1901,

I. AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 0.0 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL 2,750,000 0 0

PAID UP CAPITAL.......

II. Free Fuxný

667,500.00) 2,683,716 14 4

The Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are pre pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at. Current Raten,

SHEWAN, TOMES & 00

Agents

Hongkong, Sed July, 1901

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HŒNIX FIRE OFFICE

The Undersigned are now prepared to GRANT POLICIES of INSURANCE against FIRE at Carrsat Rates.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.

Agents for the Phicenix Fire Office.

Hongkong, 17th August, 1887. ...--

URHAINE”

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Lp.

(Established 1888,) - *.

TO LET.

TO LET.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH, 1901,

LODOWN, NO. SA, DUDDELL STREET

Apply to-

LABOUR OF THE GOLD COAST.

A writer in the financial columns of To-Day for the 1st August says →→

In our last issus we pablished sccnimunication from a correspondent who has intimate acquain tance with affairs on the West Coast and know- THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-edge of the mineral wealth of the country. It

MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD.

may be remembered flat he warned our readers Hongkong, 5th July, 1901.

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TO BE LET.

No. 1, BEACONSFIELD HRCADE facing Parade Ground.

OFFICES and ROOMS on 2nd Floor in Beaconsfeld Arcade.

For Particulare, apply to-

TURNER & CO. Hongkong, 7th September, 1991. 19286

TO LET.

with AURNISHED, TWO ROOMS,

Kiteben and Bathroom, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

Apply

F

F

TO LET.

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down and slept on the ground around the platform to be sure of an advantageous post- tion when the first numbers should be called out, or to remain, perhaps, until late in the evening, when the last of the 1,000 envelopes to be drawn to-day should have been picked from the wheels of fortune..

The first break of dawn found every one on the alert and moving with a common impulso

ON SALE.

THE

against a large number of new voupasties toward the all-important point. All had been CHRONICLE AND DIRECTORY

recently formed with the avowed object of working for gold on the West Coust, who hare neither title nor land of value. In further communication, our correspondent argues, as we think, with much force, that the labour difficulty can only be got over by the importation of Chinese. It is pretty safe to say that the negroes on the coast will not work Stand Chinese labour seeing the most

for that deadly country- "But will it be cheap " is the question I have been frequently asked. Well, here is how the matter stands. The wages of the West Coast negro have daring the last eighteen months goes up more than 100 cent., and, like the shares in some of the strongly financed Tarkwa companion, are still rining

· Ber

MANAGER, Daily Press Office. Now, on the other hand, the Chinese, who Hongkong, 7th September, 1901.

in their thousands are working in the tin mines of the Malay Peninsula, are only being pail go to $10 month for twenty-six working days. TO LET. POBSESSION, AUGEST IST.

In this onection I must point out that in the Straits and in the further East the actual THE GODOWN in WEST POINT value of the dollar is only 28. TH (Kennedy Town) known as Feather A plausible reason put forward against the Factory, now occupied by the Hongkong and importation of John Chinaman is that his presence would be looked upon as an intrusion Kowicon Wharf and Godown Co., La.

For particulars, apply to—

by the local native population, and would. as a LAUTS, WEGENER & CO.

result, lead to serious disturbances, which would Hongkong, 9th July, 1901.

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probably have for their sequel the stoppage of Asiatic immigration by the Colonial Office.

This sounds all very well to those good people who, fortunately for themselves, have never 66 LERNSIDE." No. 37, ROBINSON had to deal personally with the Fanter and his fellow tribesmen. Odd enough se it may read, I have the temerity to assert that the West Apply to

Const negro is in erme things a bit of a philoso- Care of Thomas's Grill Room.pher. He is, and perhaps over will be, too Hongkong, let August, 1901.. [1937 constitutionally indolont to work, except when the pressure of a a oraving for Hamburg" ram" impels him to occasionally give his sturdy frame a few days' exercise as a two-legged boast of YODOWN-PRAYA, KENNEDY TOWN burden; and instead of looking upon the yellow man as an inconvenient interloper, he will Apply to-

stranger from parts unknown as a veritable blessing, The West Coast nagre lives per- petual dread of ghosts, fetishes, and other undesirable things. But he lives still more in fear of being compelled by the white man to resume bir proper place in the economy, of nature that of doing manual labour, for the benefit of his white master.

ROAD.

8. A. RAMJAHN.

TO LET.

readiness for hours. The Government olerk wished the task of placing the envelopes of the applicants in envelopes and of tying them in bundles ready to be placed in the wheels, and the wheels had been tested for the last time yesterday afternoon. The only detail that remained was the selection of the ten persons who should perform the actual drawing of the oblong receptacles. These were young boys of good families, and, were named at the last moment. They were all under age, and soas of persons who have not registered for claims. for the purpose in the open air a few blocks The drawing took plico on a platform built from the centro of the El Reno. Situated at the foot of several small bills, which formed a perfect amphitheatre, the platform was the onoare of thousands of eyes. People oc- cupied every inch of the space round about, and arery movement of the Gorerament officials

on the small space below was watched. with intense interest.

The drawing had been set for 9 o'clock, but the transferring of the bundles of envelopes holding the applications from the general receptacle to the wheels. which was by lot, was se slow that it was 10.50 o'clock before the first name was drawn.

It was announced to-day that in tabalating | the registration it was apparent that more than 2,000 repenters" had registered at the various booths, mang giving the identical name, address and personal description, All of these were

阎

FOR

CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS

SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA,

PHILIPPINES, BORNEO, &c..

FOR

1901.

THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL ISSUE.

The DIRECTORY covers the whole of the ports and oitios of the Far East, from Nothar- lands India to Siberis, in which Europeans reside.

Not only is the Directory as full and complete in each case as it can be made, but each Colony Fort, or Settlement is prefaced by a DESCRIPTION, carefully revised each year, most of which will serve as accurate GUIDES FOR THE TOUR1st, giving evory detail in connection with the places, their History, Topography, &c., &c.

The Information in these Descriptions, consisting of a hundred interesting articles, pasked with facte sonnisely set out, and containing statistics of the TRADE of each Country and Port, would alone syfilce to fill a large volume.

JAPAN

own out and the applicants will not have entitled to. It is also reasonably certain that even the one chance they were originally

They will be forreted out whon äilings are made. many others registered under different names. Besides those the registration office has thrown out hundreds of applications because of illegible THE plaint. It was found, it is stated, that a writing, and against this there is bitter com- majority of those applications illegibly written, and which it is presumed the rules will excinde, are from the Lawton district, where most of and the Indian Territory. Legal complications are likely to result.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. rather welcome the advent of the hard-working the homesteadors came from Texas, Arkansas

MENT & AGENCY, CO., LD.

Hongkong, 4th September, 1901. (2231

TO LET.

TO. 8, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

Apply to

No.

KWONG CHEONG WO,

No. 239, Des Voeux Road. Hongkong. Oth July, 1901. TO LET.

HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE.

1784

The presence in his country of an unlimited number of strange people who are only too ready to toil the day through will remove big apprehension on the score of compulsory labour. In a word, there will be no friction between the black and yellow races on the Gold Coast. Further, there is no reason to believe that owing to climatic conditions Chinese-labour THE RETREAT," MOUNT KELLETT,

will be found ausuitable in West Africa. Dur Apply to--

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.ing the Perak War of 1875, I had an extended opportunity of seeing a good deal of the densely MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.

wooded Peninsula of Malacca. Thers the whole Hongkong, 13th July. 1901.

of the labour in the great tin-mining companies is in the hands of the Chinams, and he, in the matter of health, does very well indeed. Now,

TO LET.

..

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OFFICE I UBEN'S ROAD: No. 15, the clinton of the Straits Interior and the

FIRST FLOOR, from the 1st October. immediate interior of the Gold Coast ure vary similar. Another argument against my scheme Apply to

is that on the Congo the Chinese died off with such rapidity as would charm the heart of an Australian tarrikin or a West American "tough," but the reason for this, and the solo reason, was that down on the Congo the Chinese labourers were treated abominably and worked to death.

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L. M.. Care of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 2nd September, 1991. [2228

10 LET.

TGENERAL AGENTS to the above

THE Undersigned, having been appointedWO BEDROOMS (FURNISHED),

TWO YEAR, WANGHAL.

Apply by letter to Company, are prepared to AUCEPT RISKS at current rates

P. LEMAIRE & CO.

Hangkong, 7th February, 1901.

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ORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR

A.. Z., Care of Daily Press Oce. Hongkong, 5th September, 1901. [2265

TO LET,

With the presence of Ah Sin in the land of gold, the white employee will be ablo for the first time in the epicurean records of West Africa to get fresh vegetables and eatable poultry, Many years ago, at Axim, on the Gold Coast, I thoroughly thrashed out the Chinese Labotir question with these mighty mm of travel, the late Sir Richard Burton and the late Captain

NANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG NO. 32. LEIGHTON HILL HOAD, Lovett Cameron, R. N. Since then I lave gone

The Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are. PREPARED TO ACCEPT Firát Class Foreign and Chinese Riake Current

Rates

SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 29th May, 1895-

UN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON

FOUNDED 1710.

The Undersigned having been appolaced. AGENTS for the above Company, ara pro- pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates Re

BIEMSSEN & CO.,

Agente.

Hongkong 16th May, 1892.

BAILEY & MURPHY.

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

SURVEYORS

THE VIEUX ROAD. 30 & 62, Dus

Talophone No. 187. Telegrams "Contract."

W. 8. BAILEY, MI, MECH, E

from 1st October next.

ARUMJAHN,

10. D'Aguilar Street.

[2260 Hongkong, 5th September, 1901.

TQ LET.

JÖSSESSION from September. "THE CASTLE," on CASTLE ROAD. Apply to

No. 5, SEYMOUR TERRACE. Hongkong, 30th August, 1901, 12210

N°.

TO LET.

TO. 26, WYNDHAM STREET.

Apply to-

C. F. DE CARVALHO. Hongkong, 31st August, 1901.

TO LET.

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ST, 2ND. and SED FLOORS of No. 35 1ST

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, next to Messrs LANE, CRAWFORD & Co., now nearing Completion. Suitable for Ofees.

Apply to...

{ WING CHEONG, Nos. 18, D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong, 31st August, 1901. [2218

TO LET.

into the subject both in Singapore and at. Hongkong and Shanghai. For which reasons I have presumed to commit myself to the above remarks, which are directed to what is now a subject of much interest to those who are open. ing up our West African dominione.

AN AMERICAN LAND LOTTERY,

HONGKONG BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

BOOKBINDING

'DAILY PRESS" OFFICE,

The only office in China having Europe

taught workmen. Equal to Home Work.

BUILDERS.

KANG ON,

Contractor; 30, D'Aguilar St and Coast Port Buildings, T

and Granite.

Mechanics engaged, Estiu.

CHEMISTS DRUGGISTS, &e.

-neal ick

ren

THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY,

Chemists and Druggists, High-class Aera-

ted Waters, Dealers in Photographio.

Requisites, Queen's Hood.

FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN

A

CHEE & CO., Established 1859.

Every Household Requielto. Depot for Fastman's Kodak Films and Accessories;

17a, Queen's Road Central.

JEWELLER

MAISON LEVY HERMANOS,

Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers, 40, Watson's Building, Queen's Road. Also at Shanghal, Manila, Paris and Hollo

PHOTOGRAPHERS

A FONG,

An El Reno, Oklahoma, telegram of the 29th July describes an exciting scene. It says:

Oklahoma's great land lottery was begun boro in earnest to-day, and when the Commis- sioners appointed by the Federal Government adjourned the drawing for the day, 1,000 of the choicest of the 13,000 180-acre claims in the M. Kiowa-Comanche country had been awarded. One hundred and sixty-six thousand men and women still hope for farms, but 154,000 are doomed to disappointment.

The largest and most complete Studio in

Hongkong. Established "1839.

Views, Enlargements, Ivory Miniatures, Oil Paintings, &c.; Ice House Street.

MEE CHEUNG,

Ico House Street, Top Floor. Permanent Enlargements, Groups, Views, oto; Devel- opment Works, Amateurs' Requisites. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ARTIST.

Bromide and Crayon Enlargements and also colouring Photos and relief Photos. Views of China and Manila. Work done for Amateurs; No. BA, Queen's

Road Central

PRINTING

PRESS" OFFICE. Proofs read by Englishmen.

STOREKEEPERS

The day was one of koon excitement, replete with interesting scenes. It is estimated that fully 25,000 persons witnessed the drawing. The immense throng was wrought up to the highest pitch. The drawing of the first "DAILY few names was followed by a mighty shout that reverberated between the hills and must have been heard for miles over the prairies. Each succeeding winning name for a time was met with shouts of applause and merriment. All was pleasantry. Every man, TOS, 1 to.3, WILD DELL, WANCHAI though he did not draw a prize from the wheels

ROAD, Apply to

SANG KEE, 298, Des Voeux Rond Centra Hongkong, 16th August, 1901. [2064

E. 0. MURPHY, WH, 80. A... KECH. E. Hongkong, 4th January, 1901,

(1

No

WING CHEONG.

Dealers

JEWELRY, PEARLS DIAMONDS, CURIOS, JADESTONE ORNAMENTS. BRONZEN andCARVED TYORY WARE, FINE SILES and GRASSCLOTHS General Exporters of t ANISEED and CASSIA OILS, do, &c., Block always on Hand.

AN INSPECTION in BespectfulLYSOLICITED. Note-We beg to announce that we also Buy kinds of Curios at Moderate Prices.

& D'AGUILAR STREET

(Behind Hongkong Dispensary).

TO LET

NPRAE

YO. 1, STEWART TERRACE, the

Apply to-

"THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 17th July, 1901.

{1799

BOARD AND RESIDENCE.

Hongkong, 18th April, 1901 (1811 MRS.

PIANOFORTE TUNENGAND

REPATRING.

TR. E. A. BROWNE is prepared to

Mundertake the above at ressonable rates.

All Repairs done persémaily,

TUNING

$3.50,

GILLANDERS

"GLENWOOD

}

21, CAINE CAD. Hongkong, 20th September, 1900.

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BOARD AND RESIDENCE.

OMFORTABLY FURNISHED are of DRAGON CYCLE STORE. C BOOMS, with Board.

-Apply to Mra. MATHER,

9, Pedder's H Hongkong, 1st January, 1892.

TEN TING

D'Agullar Stresta Hongkong, 4th September, 1901

[2250

KONG HUNG, YUEN,

TIMBER MERCHANTS,

No. 252 Des Vaux Bokn Wis. Hongkong, Have always on hand s Large Block of

the following Timber

ERICAN PINE!

and FIR BANGKOK TEAKWOOD, HARDWOOD, &, kuri

.... (in Løgs and Planks)

An Inspection la respectfally, mui Hongkong, 5th September 1901,

SURGEON DENTIST, No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREET,

TERMS VERY MODERATE..

Consultation Free Hongkong 23rd September, 1891.

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to day, had steadfast faith that to-morrow or next day will surely see him the possessor of a alip reading him a title to 160 acres of Okla. bona's land, Se, in the success of friends or relatives, unfortunate ones to-day, instead of bewailing their fate, chevred lustily when fami. liar names were called out at the Commissioners platform.

The crowds fairly exhausted themselves, and when the close of the drawings for the day waY announced at siz o'clock, hundreds who had neither eaton nor drunk during the day, sank to the ground where they stood from sheer fatigue or dragged themselves to better places of rest, or to refreshment booths up town. The day was remarkably free from quarrels, and gene: 1 satisfaction with the Government's meth of the disposition of the land was expressed.

F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,

Navy Contractors, Shipchandlers, Szil. maker Provision and Coal Merchants, Praya Central, next Hongkong Hotel BISMARCK & CO.,

Navy

Contractors, Ship Chandlere, Provision and Coal Merchants, Sail- makers, &c. Fresh Water supplied to

Vessels in the Harbour

KWONG SANG & CO..

Shipehandlers, Sailmakers, Hardware, Engineer Tools, Brass and Iron Mer-

chuuuits, 144, Des Voeux Road.

MORE & SEIMUND,

El Reno yesterday cared for fully 15,000 people, and the trains that came in during the night and this morning swelled this crowd to fully double that number. Sunday was spent quietly. But as night came on and the hour R. for the actual drawing approached, men and women, many of who had waited patiently for months for the morrow's event, or had come thousands of miles at the last monat to participate in it, became anrious. Wern oht with days sof burdships and nights of noor D. accommodation, they were keyed to a high o2, but withal the thousands were cheerful tension, and hopetal Everyone seemed confident that ors the insky number. ALE would

prove Thousands of others had gone home im mediately after registering content to await news of the result by telegraph. Hundreds remained awake, walking the streets or vainly gazing at the drawing platform. Many lag.

43 and 5, Des Voeux Road. Shipshandlers, Bailmakers, Biggers, Commission Agents and General Storekeepers; Bolo Agents for Shipowners Composition (“Gray. hound Brand")" and Blandell Spence & Co's Composition

TAILORS

HAUGHTON & CO.,

Naval, Military and Court, 16, Queen's Bead,

Opposite Kahn's Curio Store.

A TORACCONISTS

S. DADY BUTOR, LOB FILIPINOS,"

Duporter of

Manila Cigars; 25 Pottinger

WATER CAKERS

DROZ & CO.,-

10, Queen's Road Central Repairs of Watches and Clocks by competent European experts, ut moderate rates:

COALS

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

YOR MITSUI & CO.)

HEAD OFFICE:-43, SAKAMOTO-CHO, TOKYO, LONDON OFFICE :-- 34, LIMR STEEFT, E.C. HONGKONG OFFICE-6, Joe House STRAAT.

BRANCH OFFICES:

New York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Sourabaya, Manila, Amoy, Shanghai, Hankow, Chefeo, Tientsin, Newchwang, Port Arthur, Seoul, Chomulpo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Kare, Shimonoseki, Moji, Wakamatsu, Karstwo, Nagasaki, Kuchinotas, Sasebo, Mike, Hakodato, Taipeh, &c.

Telegraphic Address for all the Offloor: "MITSUI,"

A.B.C. and A 1 Codes used,

CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Navy, Arsenals and Railway Bureau; Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Homo and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers. SOLE PROPRIETURS of the Famous Mike, Tagawa, Yamang and Ida Coal Mines; and SOLE AGENTS for Fakimo, Hokoku, Iohimara. Kazada, Kishina, Mannours, Ouoms, Otsuji, Tohmiyama, Trubakaro, Yoshinotani, Yoshio, Yuuokibara, and other Coal Mines.

N. INUZUKA, Manager.

[18- Hongkong, lat August, 1901.

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18 THE BEST DENTAL PRESERVATIVE.

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Sold by all Chemists, Stores, &c.

F. C. CALVERT & Co., Manchester, England.

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PACKED IN

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$1735