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HONGKONG RUSINESS DIRECTORY

BOOKBINDING

DAILY PLESS" OFFICE,

The only office in China having, European taught workmen, Equal to Home Work FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN CHEE & CO., Eatablished 1859.

Frary Household Requisite. Depot: for *Fastman's Kodak Films and Accessories;

17. Qusan Bond Central,

JEWELLERS.

MAISON LEVY HERMANOS,

Diamond Merchants and Watchwistera, 4/1 Watson's Bulding, Queen's Bead. Also Cost Shanghai, Manila, Paris and Iloilo

PHOTOGRAPHER

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Road Central.

PRINTING

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STOREKEEPERS

BLACKHEADE CO. The Navy Contractors, Shipchandlers, Sail

makars, Provision and Coal Merchants,

* Prays Contral, next Hongkong Hotel.

BISMARCK & CO.,

Navy Contractors, Bhip Chandlera, Provision and Coal Merchants, Bail

INSURANCES

THE HONGKONG DAILY

NILE INSURANCE COMPANY,

TORTH BRITISH AND KEBUAN

TOTAL FUNDS AT 81ST DEọzMBER, 1801, 215,722,808.

I.

AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000.0 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL 2,750,000 0.0 0 PAIN-UP CAPITAL ...................

687,500 0 0 II. FIRE FUNDS

2,695,648-82

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

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

Agents, Hongkong, lst July, 1802.

(1706 ESTABLISHED 1836. NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. THE Undersigned AGENTS of the above T First Class Foreign and Chinese RISKS against Company are prepared to ACCEPT FIRE at Current Rates.

TURNER & COn, Hongkong, 21st October. 1902. GENERAL MARINE INSURANCE- COMPANY, LIMITED, OF DRESDEN.

rezas

THE Undersigned, having been appointed TAGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS.

·HOTZ, s'JACOB & CO. Hongkong, let September, 1902. THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM [2327

PANT OF TORONTO, CANADA. INCOLFORATED 1851.

2023,719 ...£0,769,240.

Cash Security

Total Lösnes Paid

WHEE

SR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1902

PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT,)

THE SEVEN SECRETS,

WILLIAM LE QUEUX (Author of "The Under Secretary," "The Day of Tamptation," "Of Royal Blood," "Whoso Findeth is Wife," &o, &c.).

[COPYRIGHT.]

CHAPTER XXVII

MR. LABE'S ROMANCE

other and yet connected each one in itself a The Seven Secrets, cash distinct from ench complete enigms, formed a problem of which even Ambler Juvene himsef could not discover the solution.

Contrary to bis usual methods, he allowed me to accompany bim in various directions, making carious inquiries that had nothing apparently to connect them with the mys ery of the death of Mr. and Mrs. Courtesy.

either to suicide, or foul play. The former aremed to me the most likely

Well ? naked Ambler, riding from his kness when I bed concluded the examination of the dead man's akinny, ill-nourished body. "What's your opinion. Balph ?".

Hea takon poison." I declared "Posun? You believe he's been poisoned." It may have been wilful murder, or he may have taken it voluntarily," I answered. "But it in most evident that the symptoms are those of poisoning."

Ambler gare rent to a low grant, half of grant well When on the verge of any discovery Ratisfaction, half of suspicion. I knew that he always emitted that guttural sound.

"We'd better inform the police." I remarked. "That's all we can do. The poor fellow is dead."

"Dead! Yes, we know that. But we must find out who killed him."

we're quite sufficient on our hands without Well." I said, “I think at present, Ambler, In reply to a wire I had sent to Ethelwynn poor man may have been in despair and bare attempting to solve any further problems. The eutirely prostrated, therefore she could not at a despair!" echoed the old man. "No en a message saying that her mother was taken poison wilfully." pressut leave her. This, when shown to fear. Lanky was happy enough. E was t Ambler, cansed him to praise his lips and raise the sort of fellow to harry himself out othe his shonblers with that gesture of suspicion world. He liked life too jolly will. Besides, which was a peculiarity of his. Was it possible ad a tidy bit of money in the Sarin's Bank- that he setantly suspected her ?

for interruptiu'." 'E was well orf once, wer' Lauky. Excuse me

The dame of Slade sesmed over in Jevon's mind. Indeed, most of his inquiries were regarding some person of that usme.

"Well, it be didn't commit nioide," I remarked, "then according to all appearances, poisen was administered to him witfally."

Ambler said. "Here wo bare still a further "Timt appears to be the most feasible theory," mystery."

very characteristic. As every medical poisoning, except in a few instances, are not Of course the post-mortem appearances of

intent, is generally in such a dose as to take Aware, poison, if administered with a criminal man is

immediat effect-lthough this is by no means

Que evening, after dining together, he took Hotel, at Aldga-wher, in the saloon bar, me in a cab nero the City to the Three Nous we sat drinking. Before setting out he had arged me to put on a shabby suit of clothes should not attract attention un swalls. As for and soft hat, so that in the East End we his own personal appearance it was nertainly not that of the spruce eity man. He was sh adopt at disguises, anel on this occasion wore a reefer jacket, a peaked cap, and a dark violet.essary, as there are numerous absince scarf in lieu of a collar, tuns presenting the

which accumulate in the system, and when given in small and repeated quantities ultimately prove of most upproved sailor's type, and as we sat together in the saloon he told me sen stories, in order that a group of men etting near might

wakers, Mo. Fresh Water supplied to Undersigned having been appointed aspect of a seafarer aahore. He smoked a pipe fatal-notably, sntimony. The diagnosis of the

Vessels in the Harbour,

KHONG BANG & CO,

Shigehandler, Sailmakers, Provisioners, Conf Maschants, Hardware, Engineer Tools, Brass and Tron Marchants,

144, Des Vox Boad.

MONE & SEIMUND, J

23 and 45, Dow Faux Bout. Shipohandlers, Sailmakers, Biggers, Commission Agents and GentralStorekeepers: Bole Agents for Bhipowners Composition ("Grey. hound Brand") and Blundells Spence & Co's Componiilou. WATCHMAKERS

DROZ & CO,

14. Queau's Road Central Repaira of Watches and Clocks by coinpotent European experts ht moderate rates.

FOR SALE.

THE Undersigned bave been instructed to Loffer for pals privately, Sundry Lois of Machinery at the Waxeur MACHINERY GoDOWNE and ENGINEERING ESTABLISH

DONT ORADA LÀ " Hongkong,

Comprising ---

STEAM LAUNDRY MACHINERY, MABINE SUREW ENGINES BOILER TUBES DRIVING ENGINES, LATHES, WINDLASS CRANES. WINCHES, FIRE ENGINES, THEL BOILER STEAM SLEARING EAR BEAM HAMMER. Om MELEWER'S PATENT STEAM FIRE ENGINE DONKEY PUMPS HYD'AULIE BAILING PRESS, HYDRAULO JAOKS (us) from to 2) Tone FARKER'O PARALELL VICES, Ona STRONG BUREWING MACHINE, Four New CAPSTANT Que set PLATE-BEND ING ROLLERS & &c., A

S And

Large Quantity of ANGLE IRON ROUND and SQUARE PTEEL BARS or Vacions Fizes, and Elx Case of BRASS CONDEN TUBES, anitable for Con-

AGENTS for the above Company, sif prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

WM. MAYERINK & CO. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1902,

[1427 AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- SURANCE CO.

OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL

overbear.

effect of irritant poisons is not so diffenit as it is in the age of narcotics or other neurotics, vuisious, or other forms of lise se of the brain. where the symptoms a very similar to those produced by apoplexy, epilepay, tetanus, con

That he had some object in all this was quite certain, but what it was I could not gather,

Suddenly, after an hour, however, a littleBesides one of the most difficult facts we have undersized old man of dirty and neglected 10 contend with in such anses is that poison may appearance, who had been drinking at the bar, be found in the body, and yet a question may THE Undersigned, having been appointed hier up to us, and whispered something to arise as to its haring boon the cause of deal prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE disregarding the fresh whisky and soda he had AGENTS for the above Company, are nevertheless, caused any companion to start, and Ambler that I did not catch. The words. at Current Bates.

just ordered, he rose and walked out—an example which I followet,

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REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & CO.,

Agents. Hongkong, 21st April, 1897 WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW

about a life aur LBCH COMPAJy is just what you

would want to know

about a bank er any

other lastitation

In which you

thought of investing:--

What is the company's.osrning ability as shown by its peat Lietory?

What is the ontlook for future dividende as indicated by its accumulated surplus f

These two ques-

tions answered,

and the rest is of secondary importance, Any

agent of the Equitable

will answer

these questions

or any others-to

your satisfaction.

F. KIENE;

Hongkong Manager, EQUITABLE LIFE,

14, Des Voeux Road.

Hongkong, 20th October, 1902.

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"Lanky sent me, sir," the old man said, addressing Ambler, when we were out in the Rerest. "He coutin't come hisself. E said you'd like to know the news.”

Of course. I was waiting for it replied my companion, alert and eager.

**Well," he said, "I suppose I'd better tell yer the truth at ouce, sir."

Certainly. What in it" "Well, Lanky's dead."

Dead?" aried Ambler.

was waiting for bim."

Impossible. I

** i know. This marning in the Borough Market he told me to entre ore and flud you, because he wasn't aris to come. 'E bad a.

k

• previous engagement, Larky's engagementa were always interestin"," he added, with a grim smile

Well, goon, said Ambler, eagerly. What followed ?

E tok me to go down to Tait Strest and no im at sight o'clock, as 'o had a message for you. I went, and when I got thore 3 found 'im lying on the floor of bis room stone dead,”

You went to the police, of course?" No.1 didn't; I came here to see you instead. I believe the pear bloke's been murdered. was a good un, too-poor Lanky Lan!"

"What!" I exclaimed. "Is that man Laze.

deadTM P"

"It seems so," Jerons responded. “If he is then there we have further mystery."

"If you doubt it sir, come with me down to Shadwell," the old man said in his cockney drawl." "Yobody knows about it yet. I ought to have told the perlice, but I know you're better at Luman Street ".

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{7% ANY QUANTITY of FVEN FRESHTANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.

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A NEWMAGAZINE "THE CAST OF ASIA."

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SIEMSSEN & CO.,

Agents, Hongkong, 16th November, 1874. NUN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDO›

FOUNDED 1710.

spread even to that class known as the submer- Jevona fame as an investigator of crime kad god tenth. How fashions cunnge! A year or two nga it was the mode in Society to go "slum- ming."

To-day only social reformers and mis- sionaries make excursions to the homes of the lower class in East London. A society woman would not dere admit to day that she had been farther east than Leadechall Street..

PRESS NOT, CES,

reader the best description of the Southern This volume places before the English French lonies in the Far East that has yet

poured." SHANGHAI MERCURY,"

Many of us in the Far East have read. knowledge of things as they are there to-day, books on Tonkin, ancient and modern, bat a Let's go and see what has really happened,"outer's administration is far from common, of what hes bean accomplishet under M. Ambler said to mo. If Lane is dead, then it proves that his enemy is yours."

"I can't see that. How?" I asked,

must occupy ourselves with his death, and see "You will see later, Far the moment we whether it is owing to natural cases or to foul play, He was a heavy drinker, and it may have been that."

im in Commercial Road at seven, talkin' to a "No," declared the little old man, “Lanky, wasn't drank to-day--that I'll wear.

feller wot's in love wie "is sister,"

J Ba

The author has written what he set nat to do, a very rube and Secarafe sketch ofthe colouy anitiaat present.... Altogether, THE BOOK WILL BE FOUND TO BE À COMPLETE this is a book to remiL"--" BANGKƉE TIMES."

1

GUIDE 10 THE HANOI EXPOSITION. Hongkong, 17th October, 1902.

ST. GEORGE'S BALL. MEETING

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of yours?" asked my companion.

The Low do you account for this discovery GEORGE'S HALL, City Hall, on

I can't account for it, guv'nor. I simply

season. bility of giving a St. George's Ball this

wil be held in ST. WEDNESDAY, 24 OTTOGER. 1902, at found in lying on the flour, and it give me a rpm, to consider the question of the advisu shock. I can tell you. E was as cold as ice."

Let's go and see ourselves," Ambler said [25se together we hurried along the Whitechapel monger market, and along Commercial Read High Stret, at that hour busy with its conter East, arriving at last in the dirty insalubrious class of humanity. Tait Street, Sandwell. thoroughfare, & veritable hive of the lowest

AGENTS for the above Company, are pr

The Undersigned having been apprime

Up the dark stairs of one of the dirtient of pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE the dwellings our conductor guided us, lighting Current Rates.

our steps with wax vesins struck upon the wall, SIEMSSEN & 40.. and on gaining the third floor of the evil-

igante.

smelling place be pushed open a door and we Hongkong, 16th May, 1892,

found ourselves in an unlit room. ORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR.You may fall over 'im. "E's right there, just "Don't move, gentlemen," the old man urged. ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG where you're standin'. I'll fight the lamp."

fickle light we saw the hody of Lane, the Then he struck another match, and by ita street-bayker, lying full length only a yard from us, just as our conductor had described.

The Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company s PoEPARED TO ACCEPT Firm Class Foreign un. Chinese Risks at Curreal Bator.

SIEMSSEN & CO. Hoogkong, he lay 1895

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JUST ISSUED

CONTAINING A

Profusely. Ilan

People, Customs

ongkong othe

Special Interest,

CON

UMBER

Hongkong, 14th February

The Undersigned are GRANT POLICIES

now prepared to of INSURANCE Agabist FIRE Current Rates

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.

Agente for the Phantz Fire Offen, Hongkong, 17th August, 1887. SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

HE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the shoe Compute pared to ACCEPT TISKS against FIRE Cprrent Rates

TLC JACOB & CO. Hongkong, 2nd April, 1900,

The cheap and smelling parafin lamp being lit, I took a hasty glance around the poor man's holds. There was but little farcitare save the bed, a chair or two, and a riskotty table. Upon the latter was one of those fat bottles known as

consent to preside.

His Houear the CHIEF JUSTICE bus kindly

matter are iavit d to attend.

All Euglishmen taking an interest in the

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL STAMP

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DEALER,

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Will be glad to mend STAMP'S or approved to any address on receipt of satisfactory refer

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NOTICE.

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IN CASES OF ABOUT

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MARK

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LODGE "EASTERN SCOTIA," No. 923 5.C.

THE INAUGURATION CONSECRA

TION, and KECTION of the above- named LUDGE and INSTALLATION OF its FIRST OFFICERS, will take place TO-DAY (SATURDAY), the 25th inst at 8 pm, at Sir PAUL CHATER'S BUN GALOW, at Kowloon kindly lout for the occasion by the Olours of the 3rd Barthe Light Infantry

Visiting Brethren are most cordially invited to attend.

Arrangements have been made for launches to return to Hongkong after the ceremony.

W. M. EVERALL, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 23rd October, 1902:

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VICTORIA PRIORY. BEGULAR MEETING of the Victoria A Priory will be held at the FREE- MASONS HALL, on MONDAY, the 27th 11801 OCTOBER, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting Sir Knights are cordially invited to attend.

"PEKING AND TIENTSIN TIMES."

DAILY EDITION.

Hongkong, 21st October, 1902.

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EOTHEN MARK LODGE, NO. 284, 1-

A

REGULAR MEETING of the EOTHEN DARK LUDGE will be TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on FRIDAY, the Blat OUTOBER, instant, at held at the FREEMASONS HALL, On

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quartern." Our first attention, however,

designed has been appointed was to the prostrato man. A single glance was for the NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE AGEN for Hongkong and Vicinity enficiant to show that he was dead. His eyes COMPANY from this date. were closed, his bands clenched, and his body was bent is though he had expired in a final paroxysm of agony. The teeth, too, were hard Bot, and there were certain features about his appesrauce that caused me to entertain a grave suspicion from the first. His thin, consumptive though the muscles bad suddenly contrasted, face, now blancked, was strangely drawn, as and there was a shaonce of that composting generally expects to Sud in the fact of those of the above Company

THAVE This Day RESUMED CHARGE who die naturally,

GEO. L. TOMEIN,

Aas medical man I very soon noted anfeient [29 appearances to tell me that death his bean dus

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE. COMPANY, LIMITED.

Hongkong, 21st October, 1902.

or about lat OCTOBER 1902, the 8.80 for 9 P., precisely. Visiting Brethren "PEKING AND TIENTHIN TIMES" will be issued DAILY as well as weakly.

The Daily Issue will be Crown size of 8 or more pages with 3 columns of printed matter Herald, or Calestial Empire"). on each page (about the size of the "North China. TERMÒ (exclusive of. Postage):

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