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VICTORIA HOTEL,

SHAMEEN, CANTON,

BRITISH

CONCESSION.

|OOD Accommodation.

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Excellent Cusine.

Erezy Convenience for Tourists.

T. F. DA CRUZ, Manager.

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Canton, ist October, 1901.

HONGKONG BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

BOOKBINDING

"DAILY PRESS" OFFICE,

The only office in Chius laving. European tanght workmen. Equal to Home Work

BUILDERS

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OUR PARIS LETTER.

Paris, 14th September.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14rg, 1901

Emncs is talking and writing a good deal, in the mountain houss. It is now intended to.

taking a good part in this contest for tho sons, give healthy children short outing during the THEODORO VAFIADIS & CO.

summer holidays also.

A party of gipsies on arriving at Cherbourg looked around" before pitching their tent, Seeing a yacht moored and empty, they boarded it, and were on their way to Jersey when a gunboat captured them.

and upon the sea-in the mercantile sense

During the last 300 years, an inventory anderstood. The United States in going It has been observed that the young lady ahead by leaps and bounds., England, having has brez made of the crowds of industrial who is too well guarded is not guarded at all. remained dazed and stationary in prosense of pentres in France that have disappeared Now the Tsar is so plated with international detectives that they may prove more of a the progress of America and Germany, has owing to the demand for their outputs

them. hindrance than a help. The preosations to displayed at last fresh zeal and determined having ceased, or that now Industries and Thara protoct His Majesty are so many and Protean, resolution, and in making up for lost time. It fashions have superseded as to monoplis all attention. Cui bono, to is the conviction in French maritime circles are four cities, however, that display Ettie Aus- look up a friend ander such circumstances that Germany has reached the zenith of her tuation in their products-Rheims, where the It is next to buying the gold two dear, to lure mercantile marine, and that England will deal Tsar is to visit, før its gingerbrand; Rouen, the Emperor to Paris before promising him with her shipping trade after the South African for its engar barley Verdun, for its lollypops; loan. Manners are said to come from above, wor, in the interests of Imperialism. Franco and Dijon, fer its mustard. from the superior classes, hence the filthy has lost much in tourage since 5 years. In rays of the narighteousness of former centuries total mercantile tonnage as compared with are tending to become too evergreen for the other nations, she now only ranks ifth, and in mean tonnage, her place is but sixth. The prosent day The consensus of opinion favours the stamping out of anarchism; but how? augmentation of her mercantile marine from There is danger to pull up the wheat while 1887 to 1895 was a mean of 19 per cent, but extirpating the tares. What society might from 1898 to 1898, it has only 7 per cent. France. builds sailing vessels when steamers are the boats try is a league of silence around the wild men that of late have attained a parasitical luxuri- required, and all hor constructions are on the ance in the midst of our civilisation. To obtain side of slowness. The sea-ports of France, too, notoriety for their impious leads is one of their are not up to date in accommodation and facilities: in 1890, the total shipping movementa chief aas. The Temple of Ephesus was burn-in ber porta represented only 22 per cent. of ed down because the miscreant wished to impurely French vessels, Internal communics mortalise himself. The Ephesians passed tions with Holland, Belgium, and Germany law condemning his name to oblivion, but tells on her diminishing maritime transactions. Aers-Hercstatus is remembered for his orimo, The whele maritime economy of France is while the barner of the artemis texaplo is closely swaddled in the bounty system. forgotten.. Fausties who care nothing for their own lives can have little consideration for that of others. A tighter grip of the law might be kept on their writings and speeches Free countries like those of Britain and America, ought not to allow the political de- tritus of the Continent to be dumped into their territorica. The anarchists, like the Ishmael ites, have their hand against every man, let everyman's hand be against them, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, not passionately, but coolly, methodically, perseveringly. That process of international attention can alore succed.

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It has cost the French Goverment £50,000 alone, to refurnish, wash, and brush up the Palace of Compeigne to receive the Russian guests. No less than 452 beda hare been set up for high Muscovite and French officials, who have wills and oranks of their own, and the army of clerks of high and low degree, of upper and lower servants, and the begs of the working authorition At Rheims, as at Compeigne the precautions amount to a first cousinship of a Reign of Terror. The oldest inhabitant will not be master of his own house or movements. A good viewing can be also a good assassination point, think the authorities. Men with lean, sallow faces, always "on the grin," and with black hair, smell of anarchic Italy; small, dark men, with black, dirty hair, shaggy and uncouth but with black or blue wandering eyes, looking into space like modal photès, are Slave. Such individuals are always on the prowl. At Rheims the barrack accommodation being insufficient, the soldiers have to be lodged in cellars-if filled with wine, the gitnation would be excellent, if the soldiers had only a gilet to let air into the hogsheads and let out the wine. The heels of their boots, would naturally hold a “stirrup” cup.

These islands are

Australia has shot a bolt from the blue for France by announcing abë intende having her Monroe Doctrine for the Islands of the Pacific, and will oppose all European grabbing of same. This is in great part intended for the French Foreign Office, and its Fashoda-like intrigues, with the New Hebrides. under the dual control of England and France, only the latter is preparing to say, “The house is mine, be off-a policy John Ball is not now. inclined to accept. The other disturbing vows is that Australia intends that the Common wealth shall have a navy of its own, and build vessels as quickly as possible. Greater Britain

PUBLIC COMPANIES,

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF

CANTON, LIMITED. -

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

DIVIDEND of $20 por Share for the Paid-up Capital of $50 per Share, has been year 1800, equivalent to 46% on the declared.

Warrante will be issued on the 17th October.

Hy Order of the Board.

W.J SAUNDERS.

Secretary. Hongkong, 10th October, 1901,

CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

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TWENTIETH ORDINARY TGENERAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the OFFICES of the Undersigned st 12 O'CLOCK (NOON), on THURSDAY, the 17th instant

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 3rd to the 17th instant, both days inclusive,

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.

General Agenta, telling foreigners to remember she will

Canton Insurance Office, Limited. Hongkong. 26th September, 1901. insist on a hands off" policy. She intends to

WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED. darelop New Gaines, and makes no secret of her resolve to annex New Caledonia. in case of

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. any rupture with the British Empire. In

TOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN that the planning their "ensy schemes" for the invasion of England, General "Dreyfus" Mercier and NRY GENERAL MEET Colonel Delaunay should take note of that ING of the above Company will be held at the PREMISES of the Company, Queen's Road type of msistance.

Central, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 19th day of OCTOBER, 1901, at 12 o'clock Noox

By Order of the Board of Directors.

For WILLIAM POWELL, LIMITED,

R. G. HECKFORD,

Manager. Hongkong, 11th October, 1901.

The Tear's visit has spoiled ore înstitution this year-gunning. This is the height of the to chance some game, or anything season ehotable. If not early at the scramble, little will be left for the comic opers sportsmen, except their get up, to astonish house-porters of both sexes, and workroom girla. Every Frenchman with 23 fr. pocket-money to spend can take out a gun-license for all France, to slaughter feathered friends. But the next act in the comedy is to secare a ground to shoot over. Every one of the 38,000 coramanes in France can charge fewlers generally 10 ir to shoot over its area excepting cockrot ins and sparrows, rarely any. thing else in the ordinary cemaunts is to be had.

The poachers net, snare, or shoot any game that there is the day before the opening The mesting of the "Three Emperors for of the season; but he can secure a good bag for the King of England is one-recalla in a way the you, if you purchase from him all you want. flight of other days. They are, it seems, all for Every tradesman and well-to-do shopman, tits peace, and represent the European Powers, himself out in a hunting or rather "sporting” otwoon whose hands lie the issues of peace and costume. Tyorluse hat-especially with hig WAT. There is no Hague sentiment and feather-canvas or sorduroy suit, leggings, a drollery in their chat; tranquility will be up-game-bag, bandoliere for cartridges, and back strap for gun. Before he sets out be is photo. held, because all are afraid to indulge in a war.

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It is the International Peace Society, that graphed, and parades his locality to astonish

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LAUTS, WEGENER & CO. Hongkong-Canton, 1st October, 1901 2490

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Canton as MERCHANT and COMMIS- HAVE This Day established myself in STON AGENT ander the name and style of A. PUSTAU.

A, TON PUSTAU:

Canton, 1st October, 1901.

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be Armenian. The Porto cannot very that day out suffices. There is no fox hunting, "Sublime," since France has let young Turkey it may be said, in France, nor any preserves hare & free hand.

except of a score of lurge estate-holders or those rich enough to rent a preserve, singly or on the joint stock principle, where you are one or two days in the week to blaze away. Thurs is a little deer-hunting and wild boar-chasing. Some of the State, but not official forests, can be rented by a syndicate. There are also many of the poor nobility who preserve their hold ings, and let them, along with their house, to sporting people; they themselves come up to Paris to live till March. Other small land- owners farm their proserves themselves and supply partridges, pheasanta, rabbits, and hares to the Paris markets. That is almost their sole means of existence. It is from Russia that France obtains her main supply of partridges and woodcock; hares, dear, roebucks, phoasunts, come from Germany. There is no grouse in

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delighted the American President is palling through bis suffering; his rapid recovery wil ease the aariety that set in as to the unknown in can be died. The Anglo-Saxon sympathy for the President is very real and strong. Then he has been wetsoned in stilesmanship, and schooled in the practical dealing with mon Bat for a new ralar, the horoscope can be at fault; because it can find no focus point where

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France, and Great Britain sends but little. America formerly sent prairie-hous, but they were not prized.

The Malakoff crime is cleared up.

A

M. Santos Drumont, is to ba pitied. After sir attempts, and the constraction of three balloons, to demonstrate the steerability of his airship, the Aeronautic Club iutandy He. ie a to place spokes in his wheels. Brazilian, be will not become a naturalisod Fronchina, and he has never concealed his admiration for England. He is contesting the Prize of 100,000. fr. offered by a Frenchified wou hired an apartment at Malakoff, on the German, to whoever will succeed in steering a road to Chatillon, outside Paris. Sho deposited balloon from the Park of St. Cloud round a large heavy trunk, promising to return with the Eiffel Tower and back to the Park again further impedimenta. As she did not, the land. -a distance of 12 miles. Morally, Santos bas lady and her daughter had their suspicions. It accomplished that feat. But an ugly majority might be a second edition of the Gouffe- of the julges are jealous of the Brazilian Gabriello Bompard trunk tragedy. With some wining all the glory from France. They have neighbours they resolved to consult the Com- made a new condition, that the balloon must missary of Police: he acted at once, had the room opened, and nort the chest. The latter return to the "tour yard" of the Aeronautic Club, which is a very torn-up piece of ground, contained the doubled-up body of a man, in a that can wreck his balloon. He says he does four months' stage of decomposition, and not not want the prize-£4,000-the glory is what recognisable. Every precaution had boon be corete. He states he is very rich, and if he won taken to suppress the offensive adour. he would divide the prize between the city appeared to have been a cyclist. But the charities and his numerous faithful work woman who left the trunk and the cabman? The police traced the woman to the south of There are one million bicycles in France, Franes, "at Cavaillon, with her son, aged 18

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of that is the number that pay duty. The months. On the police arriving at her hotal trade is really in the hands of a few large two shots.wer heard; the woman had killed firms that have purchased the interest and herself and mortally wounded her child, since plant of other firme who have taken up the dead.. A lotter was found in har dress, confess- anto-car business. The latter are about fing she had committed the murder four starting on automobile racing ground-or months ago, to prevent the young man, who TELEGRAMS: “ CARMICHAEL HONGKONG."auto-drome on the plan of a Boman had seduced her, from marrying her rival.

amphitheatre for chariot contesta. Motor The School Colonies have been very well busses are required into the suburbs, where supported this year, funds having beer liberally the fares will be low, and the time of transport supplied. Only the back and sickly pupils are [1554 | one-half less time than now,

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Hongkong, 1st June, 1901.

R. SHEWAN, Chairman.

[245 Hengkong, 27th September, 1991.

JOHN BROWNHILL, DECEASED. MARY BROWNHILL, DECEASED.'

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all N'Persons, Firns, or Companies having any Claim or Claims against the Estates or Effects of either of the above named deceased persons mast send in the particulars of their respective Claims on or before the 8th DAY OF NOVEMBER next to the Administrator and Executor JAMES ROBERT MUDIE, whose address is at the Office of C. EVENS, Solicitor, 36, Queen's Ross Contral, Hongkong, after which said date the said Administrator and Executor will pro- ceed to wind up and distribute bath Estate.

Dated this 8th day of October, 1901.

NOTICE.

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TBLE for any DEBTS contracted by his wife PALMYRA AUGUSTA TERCIO DA SILVA, and every person is hereby prohibited from giving her any Credit.

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