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AUCTION

NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at

the request of the Chinese Authorities The HUNG FEI" with all her belong- ngs as she now lies in Canton Harbour will be Rnd at PUBLIC AUCTION at 11 m. on. FRIDAY, the 20th inst, st the CUSTOM House, Canton.

Hor dimensions are ma

Length Breadth

Depth

95 th

35 ft 5 in.

Tonnage ...

65.28 tona The Steamer may be inspected any time on application, and will be at purchaser's risk from the fall of the hammer.

TERMA-Cash.

TA MORGAN, Commissioner of Customis,

12953 Canton, 18th November, 1901-

Custom House,

NOTICES OF FIRMS

NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

PARTNERSHIP AT WILF hith rto anhsisting between FRANK WAPSILARE WATTS, THOMAS EDWARDS, and NG CITI MI has been and is DISSOLVED as ba and from the 14th day of November, 1901. Dated this 15th day of Novemba 1901.

THOMAS EDWARDS. NG CHIT MIN NOTICE

THE UNDERSIONED have been up-

Τ pointed SOLE AGENT of Mess

INSURANCES

THE HONGKONG DALY PRESS, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 27th, 1901

THE; WESTERN ASSURANCE COM. PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA, INCORPORATED 1851.

CAPITAL

£110,000,

AGENTS for the above Company, THE Undersigned, having bonopointed prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE st Current Butes.

Wr MEYERINK & CO.,

Agents.

Hongkong, 18th May, 1900,

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|ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]

MISS PHOEBE'S SECRET,

LK RITCHIE.

宜

"So you here not ontgrown the fascination of grand old Betty's charms, Derethy P

The Rector of Monkford aroused his young daughter by the query from a rovorio before well-executed painting of the beautiful Lady Betty Hastings of pious and benevolent fame, who lived and died a entury and a half agone!! NATER COMPANY OF HAMBURG

TORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR-at sweet Ladstone Hall, risible on a clear day

from the Rectory windows.

Rates.

It was the morning following Dorothy Keen's The Undersigned AGENTS of the above return home after ber last terin at school.

Before coming back to her native West Bil- Company are PRETSEED TO ACCEPT First Closs Foreign and Chinese Risks at Carroning of Yorkshire a few days ago, she had at tained the dignity of eighteen years and had be- SIEMSSEN & CO.

coma possesed of the music and the hayaago TS diplomas for which she had been studying bard Hongkong, 29th May, 1895.

at Heidelberg. AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- SURANCE.CO.

'OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL.

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THE Undersigned, having been appointe AGENTS for the above Company, prepared in ACCEPT RISKS against FILE at Current Rates.

LEUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & co..

Agents, Hongkong, 21st April, 1897

NHLE INFURANCE. COMPANY

ORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1960, £14,732,681.

AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000, 00 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL.... 2,750,000 0

· PAID-UP CAPITAL................. 487,500 0 £ [I. FIRE FUNDS..... 2-83,716 14 4

ONEILL, WARNEFORD & CO., in this I. Colony, South China and Maulla.

TEDWARDS. • Dated the 18th day of November, 1901. [2944|

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Call and inspect our large and varied stock of Christmas Cards of the most exquisite an varied designs: prices ranging from one cunt- upward.

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The Undersigned, having been appointe AGENT8 for the above Campszy, are pre pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE - Current Rates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.:

Agenta. Hongkong. 3rd July, 1901.

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“UN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDOX

FOUNDED 1730.

The Undersigned having been appointe AGENTS for the sbave Company, are pr pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE a Current Rates.

SIEMSSEN & CO..

Agents.

Hongkong, 18th May, 1892.

URBAINE"

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, L. (Established 1838.)

THE Undersigned, having been appointed GENERAL AGENTS for, the shore Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS

at current rates.

P. 'LEMAIRE & CO. Hongkong, 7th February, 1901. [129 (293RANSATLANTIC FILE INSU

OF HAMBUR

OWLOON INLAND LOT NO. 615 Khaving vrocted herson the HOUSE known as ERANI BUNGALOW. The Lot hse as area of 64,222 square feet, and has road frontages of $45 feet 6 inches on Observatory Road, 201 feet on Kimberley Road and 176 feet 6 inches on Des Voeux Road.

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The Undersigned, having been appointe AGENTS for the above Company, ure pre pared to ACCEPT RISKE against FIRE BIEMSSEN & CO., Carront Rates.

Agents. Hongkong, 16th November, 1872. [29

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SELECTED CODE WORDS.

HENIX FIRE OFFICE

The Undersigned are now prepared t GRANT POLICIES of INSURANC against FIRE at Current Rates.

·DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,

Agents for the Phoenix Fira Ofer Hongkong, 17th August, 1887. SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.

HE Ciphers are selected from the "OFF-HE Undersigned, having been appointed T

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KOTZ, s'JACOB & CO. Hongkong, 2uil April, 1906

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and FIXED, Specially Designed for Bathrooms and Verandahs in Stock. Agent for MOSAIC TILES. Application.

másdod curate, Monkterd too, got a much With Warade, an outlying and ag

Lasted dis

those triệt, as his principal care, while as for

rtain young parsons reprehensible in Ma.” Phoebe'a jos as being inclined to flirting, there searied little probability they would have any great practice, as far as the curate was concerned, so multifacious were the schiemas of usefulness into which he launched with heart and soul atfuns to the guiding spirit of the rector-in his turn not above taking counsel of Dorothy, who, as if by magis, had successfully aided him to set in working order many good works, which, alone, he had despaired of atte apting.

Miss Phceba conlinned worldad to the care of

her ample and over increasing wardrobe and the culture of her personal charms, professedly shocked at Dorothy's indifference to the same subjects on her own score, yet secretly awake to the fact that there was over a captiva ing grano about the girl's meat astudied attire an that there was little fear of diappointment in the impression she woull make in any company.

Dick Tarabull, the doctor's young nephew and pasistant, bad hold an even more Battering Both those were so landatory that her father opinion of her than this from the moment-now jokingly told her he quite feared he unde & Rix months ago when he had first mot the reg mistake, for he seemed to have educated her tur's daughter, and Gerald Aastin, the doctor's above the very ordinary intelligence of her inebria o guest, would fain have believed him- futurs home associates. These constituted himself Dick's succus fai rival, if he could. In any self and his maiden sister.

cuse he moant to light for the coveted position valiantly,

Doreily's hiu liust reciprocal fesling mean- while never rose above pity for him, as hali- ppad by his terrible failing, which had already blighted the opening years of his manhood.

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CHRISTMAS

PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS of HONGKONG, CANTON, MACÃO and PEKING Mounted as CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR CARDS, with CHINESE GREETINGS Stamped in real Gold in Chinese Characters with English Translations.

Моттова

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Planty chance, largeo gain;

Dollar come alla same rin

Wishing you Happinesa nai Tongarity

Suocess Crowns your Undertakings

Miss Phoebe," as the latter Eked to be culler, was a fall decade older than her brother, the kindly, jovial rostor, who now neared his forty fifth year, and she was jealously careful to con- coal overy indication of Timo's outstaps on har path.

After Xmas, the night of the annual Volun For this cause she used paint and powder

teen Bali, which Monxford society was always' in latish, bus van, endeavour to produce a complexion on a par with the youthful style of expected to patronise, was occasion for a mixed costume in which she loved to say herself.sambly in the Drill Hall, pottily decoratul

"Yes, father;' I think hor's my mother's for the ocasion.

To Gerald Austin it seemed the vary op the loveliest pictures horo," Dorothy answeet his query anent Lady Betty, why was a far portunity to stea as marth on Dick Tarata. MESSRS, KELLY & WALSH, LD.

B late who, be knew, could only ba away ancestress on her mother's side. f-

and

It was long so the roster had faid his wife to rest in the churulyard, and he remembered her brief influence in his life as chiefly momer- able to him in the existence of his young daughter, who had grown up an early as possible the image of his bride of twenty

years ago.

And she is a very winsome creature who stands tenido him this perfect sammer toorning, Ler soft, fair features the index of her true and gentle heart. Her wavy auburn hair catching tho, sunbeams, gleamed like burnished gold her gave was slim and full of the captivating grace wlack is almost invariably the characteris tio of a lover of active parsnita.

"Yet it was not so much the striking likeness of her lost parent which brought a moisture to her father's eyes, as the half-buried thoughts hor words awoke within him.

How you must haya mil my mother's know if she had help in your work, dad! Oh, lived she would have been your right hand always,"

Yet he answered somewhat brasqusly:

My work, chill!"ther died "drearity: Oh, there is little onough of that to be a trouble oven to your out-of-dute, old dad, Dorotby"

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to the festive gathering. As a matter of fact MESSES. W. BREWER & CO. Dick was acting substitute for his ancle in u professional visit to a louee distant half an hour's drivo, to suable the doctor to bs with his ward on nu e sim which, impossible of being robbed of temptation for the laster, it was safer to take ms.us to safegnard Despite this

watchful care, young Austin contrived to elesie

observation, and in a dying visit pa to the supper room he quickly became much elsted by the forbidden liquor of which te partook freely, Ho plumed himself it would be the mas of bringing qarage, when addressing Dorothy, to admirable stats of boldness and fre doin f. ditidence, to which he was never altogether a stranger in her company,

When the optunity came, Dorethy could only disclaim any abjury to respond to bus adoring affection, while very cincerely assaring kim bo had her bust wishes for his happines

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She turned quickly away from the pictured loveliness of the dead parent to gaze, bewildered, en the misaly strength of the living. Hnd shout, like moltes fire, the wine of which he had been wrong, blind, in her estimate of the lat purtaken so freely burned in Austin's brain and ter? Surely not! In the tall and prepossessing a left or in anger to repair again to the figure by her side was no sign of decaying suppor tooni. Dr. Turnball now awake to the vitality; why then did he speak as if his best fact thus his vigilance, in some way, had been days were done?

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Ob, father, what is it what is wrong?" tho eriud

That his words should have aroused ynol ́a When Dick Turnbull entered the ball rooza query was is murprise to him, and he made no he saw at a glanes that the girl he loved was thinking of something quite apart from the reply.

should think; with the mission-room at Lancers" in which a bashful young sergeant Weirside and the old parish, there is just nows her partner. For a memout Dick kept in and of a fell" She tried another method of the shadow of ome patriotic beating near the drawing him out.

entrance, following Dorothy's graceful move- ments with sa iutant gase; then it broke apo his notice that his mucle and Gerald Aastin were absent, and soon he learned from Mrs. Turabati of the unpleasant episode that had came to spoil the doctor's vening.

We have not a miss on at Weirside; I never got it s ́arted."

A shade of unrest, of heart weariness, which had escaped her before, she (raced now in his clear-cut features, and Inrking in the expressive grey oves, heavily fringed like her own.

There was a rostle of silken skirts and Miss Phoebe, with kitten-like playfuluoss, danced into the room. Lastinctively Dorothy felt the interrupted conversation had better, for the press, drop, even before her father, after submitting to a bird-like pack, as morning salutation, from the lips of his six.er, himself gave corroboration to the thought by opening the Fretch window and going out by it into the garden.

No sooner was he out of hearing than Mis Phosbo gate practical illustration that little pitaners have long us," or, in other words, that her railing entunes a moment ago could only bave icllowed upon a somewhat lengthened

pause upon as threshold,

To Dondly, fresh from a sphere where work- any rate, were de rigueur, thore was something TRAPS-day clothes, in the earlier part of the day, at almost grotesque in Miss Phoebe's marvellousy L'ices on alaborate and fashionable toilet of duro.coloursit [2480 cashmere on a mach be-frilled rustling silken fanndation, the high-heeled backled shoes, and above all, the milk und, rose complexion which represented half a morning's artistic labours. Although als bud expected eccentricities of the. kind in her fatisere sister, whom even us a child

it she had known as peculiar, was only the de pressing is fasce at first hand again, which could make Dorothy fathom all the unconfessed Trials of her father's past.

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"Oh, peer fear daddy her heart sighed, as she watched him meditatively pacing the garden. Miss Phoebo regarding her with an air of quiazi- cal scrutiny, chirped out in usage whisper

Mine to, I a atraid," was Dick's responses, for if he's had to get the young beggar home I'd better follow." A few moments later he held Dorothy's hand in brief greeting and good. bye in one.

And then, what an instant before had seomed to him un impossibility, was the possible, the actual: he felt himself in possession of drous post, and the entrancing knowledge that his diaspointment was here also,

wia.

You wii not stay much longer, will you? you will not give ay dauce to someone else, if [ ask it" the words had come to his lips Itapul Rively,

***I am tired," she acknowledged, and u rosy black swept for her sweat features.

"I counted on asking you a great deal more than tuis, to night-may I to-morrow, Doru-

And she did not say him nay. thy he whispered.

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"My dear! You mustn't be led away to encourage my brother. A finess things would have come to, if I hadn't get my foet down: Yes-you've to thank me there is no mission-room for to slave away in! Of

Vou course there's no earste either, which makes it dull for all the flirting young poisons who'd profit by John keeping one. But for you, my dear love, I have very excellent parti in view! He is-oh, I can't tell you how rich! There is only one drawback and that will soon made all right. He is one of those who gives way to-to-well-something that is not. INDIAN, Chinese and Japanese Silk Good very good for them. But he ie young and his for Ladies and Gentlemen, and other Articles.father has done the best possible thing for him. Oriental Embroidery, Rugs and Carpets, Ho les seat him all the way from the West Jewelry, Costumere Shawls, Ivory, Sandalwood Indies to an old friend here, Dr. Turnbull; and Tortoiseshell Wares, Carionies and Fancy who will effect his care. When you see him, Goode

my dear, I know you will think he is a veryMPORTERS and EXPORTERS, and fascinating young man and be quite ready to [2801 say I chow well for you."

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