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HONGKONG

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

AUCTIONEER.

C. DE M. G. VIEINA-RIBEIRO,

Auctioneer. Consigaments sclisited. Account Sales rendered. nad settlement affected promptly No. 84, Queen's Road

Contra, Hongkong. BOOKBINDING.

DAILY PRESS" OFFICE.

The only office in Chins having Europosó thagh! workmen Equal to Home

work.

IRON MERCHANTS,

BINGON & CO.,

Iron,

Stoel Merchurts.

Motsi and Hardwar

Retail Wholesale and Ironmonger. Pig Iron and Foundry. Cake Importers. General Store keepers and Commission Agents 33 & 37. Hing Loong Street Est Street West of Centrs! Market. Telepho No.515 PHOTOGRAPHER

M. MUMEYA, JAPANKHE ARTIST.

Hiromide and Cragon Eulargement and

a colouring Photos and relist Photos, Views of Chins and Manila. Work done for Amateurs; lío. 8a, Queer a

Bol Contest.

PRINTING.

DAILY PRESS" OFFICE

Proofs read by Englishmen

-TYPEWRITERS......

F. A. V. RIBEIRO,

Typewriting Work Ludertaken, Cleaned, Repaired, Overhauled. Charges moderats. late of the Hongkong Typewriting Baronu) 8. Quoon's Road Contrai

(First-Boor).

FOR SALE.

LADIES' AND GENTS' BOOTS AND SHOES,

FERFUMERY & TOILET REQUISITES

EASTMAN KODAKS, CAMERAS

AND

PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS.

PRICES MODERATE.

TACK & 00..

A

26, DES Vac ROAD CENTRAL

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Hongkong. 20th December, 1906.

M

1180 BISHI QOSHL-KWAISHA

(MITSU BISHI CO.)

OOAL DEPARTMENT MARUNO-UCHI, TOKIO.

Cable Address, IWASAKI," which applies to att Branch Off004.

Al ABC 5th Ed., Western Union Codes used, AU Letters Addressed:

MANAGER, MITSU BISHI C,

with

of place under

BRANCH OFFICES:-

NAGASAKI, MOJI, KOBE, KAPATSU SHANGHAI, HONGKONG LD. HANKOW.

A4ESCIES:-

YOKOHAMA: M. AHADA, Es CHINKIANG: Mosara. GEARING & CO MANILA: Messrs, MACONDRAY & Co. SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashicon, Ochi, Shinzew, Namznta and Kai-Yamedi Collieries, and a Hojo Colliery, which will shortly be rondly to produce on a large acate the best Buzen Coal

The Head and brauch Oicos and the

Agencies of the Company will raosive say order for Cosls produced from the above Collieries. T. MATSUKI, Manager, Hongkong.

No. 2, Pedder Strest.

48]

TO LET

TO LET.

N ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS Small

Once a Seond Fleer.

Apply-

SECEFTALLY,

A. S. Watson & Co., LÀ. (150

Hongkong, 4th January, 1987.

TO-LET

08. 1.and 3, ORMSBY. VILLAS

NBRAILLE ROAD, Kowloon.

Apply to

SPANISH PROCUBATION. Hougkong, 3rd January, 1907.

TO LET.

[136

THE PREMISES known as No. 199, WANCHAI ROAD, new occupied by Messrs, Macdonald & Co.'s Earineering Works.

Possession, 1st Fəbruary, 1907.

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT AND AGENCY Co, Lt. [155

Hongkong, 5th January, 1907.

TO LET-(WELL FURNISHED).

BIRNAM BRAE, CONDUIT ROAD,

TIGHT-roomed House-Billiard Room, with full-size Table, 3 Bath-rooms, Drying Room, Store-room and Pantry-Go Teania Lawn. Electric Light and Ball, and a Telephone. For 6 or 9 months, from 1st April.

"G. M. B.. Apply to

Care of "China Mail" Offer. Hongkong, 8th January, 1907.

TO LET.

{168

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES at Praya

East, near East Point

Apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1907.

[137

TO.

Canton

TO LET

TO LET.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17T8, 1907.

POOR PARÍSIANS' “CHOW,"

París is about the only city in the’world where one pood not go bungry, provided they bare

EFFICE OF TWELVE-INCH SLL. Is the battle of the Japan Fea a turret of cus of the Russian battleships was strook simultaneously by two huge 12-inch sheib, bat from

typo far las powerful then the of a

mounted in the favicible. Observers tian sary description are offered for sale to whole turret seemed to open up, roof of all the year round. This strange spectacle in to heavy steel rose in a fountain of

fame as

as high the bo soen daily at the Marche de la Madelcise, as

lower top un

the wainmest: overy human whore-Balı, flesh, fomi-vegetables, frait, pasiry being in the turret was killed on the

Yet powerful at are the Invencible'a gaat and woapons

No. 1. WEST END TERRACE, Shamsen, only a few sous in their reformin to the poor is the other Bratian ship the ro

Apply to-

HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong. 11th December, 1908.

TO LET.

(0)

ND FLOOR No. 12, QUEEN'S ROAD

CENTRAL. GREENCROFT, GARDEN ROAD,

Kowloon

10

•upot,

onfectionory and shoessara sīl here rapresezied their projectiles, even more power British

ready cooked, but ootd, and arrauged (not on platen ger dishes, se on might suppose, but marely quarter and half sheels of newspapers, It is from priucris cafes and restaurants thai the heterogenous portionnoome. Just imagine

ora reported to

to be projected

It is said that ships to he laid down in 1998. thens vasasie will be gigantic reproductions of the Invincible, carrying eight guns weighing 80 or 85 tons each, and Sring bells weighing more than half a lon. Sach projectiles would to yourself one pile consisting of the leg of spieres about fire feet of iron and nearly two partridge, the remnants of an omelette, the tail feet of hardened stool at haltla range.-E.c. of a fried sole, two ribs of a jugged hare, a spoonful of haricots, a sorap of filet of beeľ, a ent pear, baudful of salad, a slice of tomato, FFICES in Kino's BOILDING and York and a dab of jolly! The pild constitutes ́s por-

BUILDING.

Apply to

LEIGH & ORANGE, 1. Dos Voax Road. Hongkong, Int. Jane, 1906.

24

TO LET,

RANFURLY," CONDUIT ROAD.

A HOUSE in WONG NEI Chong Road. GODOWNS in PRAYA EAST.

Band.

A HOUSE in BIPON TERRACE. FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY CO., LT Hongkong, 1st March, 1906.

tion, nid is to be bought for resour. There are portions as cheapan two sore; indeed, the seal of prices is most elastic in ascending and les

th

endi

PEACE AND WAR

STAM

for the and ita

Na portion of President Roosevelt's mes age to Congress in more clearly thought out deals with the ethics of war and pence. Other or more weightily expressed, than which that portions treat of American problems, or of A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit sending. There are piles here to suit all the particular forms in which general pro-

blems present themselves in the

the United Bistas pockelu. Are your funds at A very low ebb indeed! On scrap of paper, you But in his observations apen pesce and war sad upon the daty of every wil-respecting will Gud a hard-boiled egg. the gizzard

and prudent nation to be effectivo dofence of its convictions, of a fowl, two pickled gherkins, and a macaraon. Are you somewhat in cash ? Behold outspread vital interests the President occupies wider -3 whole, seal chop, a golden store of cold fried ground and lays down principles of universst Ho reminds the world that war is validity. polatoos, nu artichoke, a sumptuous piece of not

not only justifiablo bat imperative пров Roquefort choose a salad, and the remains bunurable men and upon an honourabl of a Charlotte Russe. There are loftier lux tries nation won peace can be maintained only in bad still as for instancs, a warde fowl by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare, Though peace is creat the moisty of a steak and mushrooms, the rolice

god, to be promute! by every nation that of a saddle of multon, the remains of a Sole à la | seeks to do right, by straining every nerve to defcaties to all with whom it han dealings. Normande, the ruins of a Brisson d'Ecreased f

there are yet occasions on which the duty of peace is superseded by the higher duty

TO LET

ND FLOOR of No, ICE HOUSE STREET, Contrally situated and withia may reach of the principal Banks and busines hauses. Apply on the promisse to

TATA & CO.

··105- Hongkong, 29th December, 1906; -

A

TO LET.

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE

KOWLOOK,

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 1st August, 1906,

[92

TO LET.

(EITHER IN WHOLE OR IN PART).

THE GROVE," having 20 Rooms, with Teched Out. Houses nud Kitchens, situated in Robinson Road, Kowloon.

Well ventilated, with Electric Lights and Bells completed installed.

Apply to-

E. M. HAZELAND,

35, Queen's Road Contral,

or to WING ON, Coutractor-

34, D'Aguilar Street.

Hongkong, 19th July, 1906,

TO LET.

half a dozen oysters, the bick-bone of a photing wrong. Peacs, says the Profile

BIG NAVAL, GUNS.

to

and that

or

and some truffles. There are sauces galore. All dishes are marked in plain figures; there, normally coincides with righteousness, but it is ie no deception. The quality is guaranteed by righteout to bind the conscience of snation. net pance, that exalteth a nation the itary inspectors. An will be soon there Headds, following some of the wisest of mankind is no need to starry in the street of Paris, in the past, that just war is in the long run. With only a few soup earned during the day, far better for a ustion's soul than the It is easy to procere a meal, however, so humble. prosperous prane obtained by acquiessence in wrong or injustice. This is tra even if by Other cities might follow the example.

criminal unpreparedness or by eril fortune nation is defeated in war. A beaten nation is Bot Docessarily a degraded nation, bat the uation or min is disgraced if the obligation to defen right. is shirked. There uet in sight The British public has heard much about the at prosent any kind of international powor doing. Dreadnought that gigantic battleship which is which can effectively obiect the first of the now order of warships. But it although by Hague conventions and other know itle of the magnificent type of armour. means we are all trying to establish sons Fiser, of which tires aro now building for international conscience and public opinion the

British

Nney

which may some day develop such a power. These vessels, known as the invincible class, We have to deal with things as they ara, ant with 50, ars as startling departure from past prection as with things as they might the Dreadnought. They have been designed things as they seem to be to visionaries and and 196 constructed in secret, and little about them sentimentsliste. Things being as they are the

han a

only chance that justice and righteousness mazy yet been permitted

In print. Some idea od when to state the battle power esa bo obiliu be made to prevail over tyranny and wrong.

Their battiopea

fact that they can fire me doing lies in the radius of astions that fewer than eight mammoth 12 toch guns on the believe to right to defend right effectively. broadside. These huge weapons are of the Hence, as the President

onclude it is a foolish and oril thing for a

a great and free nation to latest pattern, and possess amazing power.

Some faint ides of the terrifio foros which deprive itself of the power to protect its own they develop can be from the flot that, rights and even in exceptional class to staud

the energy up for the rights of others. hea discharged simultan00283 imparted by them to their projectiles Would The That this belief, though mly and confused. Ruthcient to lift a 17.900 ton ship-which is they hold; fies dep in the heart of civilized min displacement of the Invincible class-no less is proved even by the notions of the sentim than 2011 ap

In the air. From this the blow talists whose horror of war loads them to which they are capable of dealing to hostila clamour for fatal rednotion of pational arma ship t

esn bo understood, and also the shock and

andments. For they are the very people who sonoussion caused in the ship which fees them a giren occasion, when their weath is Only the stontest construction will stand stirred by conspicnsus wrongdoing, says in the

Leavy Baikuus or in Armenis, are the first such a shock. On board a ship when

glamour bea for intervention by this country. They are the is fred the semeation is like that of) traio suddenly einated, provided the aberrar terror of every Foreign Secretary who seals to well away from the line of the blast of the Lushand the resoaress of the country by abstain-

provocative interference when there is Kuns Anywhere near the blast or in thing from ling uf it there my bo great danger. These no clear all of national daby Boy real and no clear. of being of men haring prioration of the condition of the world. are instanges on record in

mil+ to been killed by the mere rush of the air acOnly let their conscienes be pricked and they companting the discharge of a heavy gue and

"For Bourding Hos B e Club.

LENWOOD CAINE ROAD, suitable

No. 8, CAMERON VILLAS, PEAK. No. 7, DES VEUX VILLAS, PEAK. No. 4 CONDUIT ROAD.

Nos.

3 & 5, ARBUTHNOT ROAD. No. 73, WYNDHAM STREET. BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine Shops Offices and Dwelling Rooms

No. 15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Top Floor, (over Caldbeck MacGregor)

No. 17A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Rooms on Front Part, Top Floor, (over Achee).

BELILIOSAD

TERRACE

HOUSES, ROBINSON

TO LET OR FOR SALE, NEW HOUSE on MOUNT KELLETT, Five Roome, on Eural Building Lot No. 117.

Apply to-

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings, Hongkong, 2nd November, 1906. | 102

TO LET ON LEASE,

FROM 1ST January, 1907.-

gua

war

to

At the battle of Lbs. Yala several offers ounce of ending some aquity that happos the passage of's weighty projectile near them become at once the most bellicons-of-wen

rendy

a Continent in fes upon the board one of the Chinese ships were throw chance down and bruised and injured by the na to

AYOB. 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14, HOLLYWOOD {expasted disebarge of a heavy gun over at hand. af to them. They have the conscience

ROAD, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 SUN WAI LANE. Apply Lo-

ARRATOON V. APCAR & CO..

45, Wyndham Street. Hongkong, 24th October, 1900. [101

TO LET.

Apply to-

DEACON, LOOKER & DEACON.

[104 Hongkong, 5th December, 1906.

TO BE LET, FURNISHED.

Over and above the shock, there is the terrible noise, which is deafening and, over- powering, Far draws are spt to split, and bleeding from the month and nose caused when the guus are fiting rapidly.

A

for war in a just cause, but it is sally aninformand, it is not gaided by wide enongh knowledge of the Doral conditions, and it responds spismodically to a ortain kind of stimulus and to no other. It needs some amount of consecutive stady to understand the world in which a nation lives,

ives, and to perceive dangers or iniquities which do not happen at the moment to be burnt into the brain

by some sensational with the game to sex move or two shear, and occurrence. It also needs so sintasos to take conlinnons atops to avert evils ail the more to be feared because others are preparing thom in silence and with ostentation.Time.

THE

NOTICE.

In the Dreadnought a broadside of eight big 12-inch guns was fired during the ship's trials The shock was great, resembling a rigorous ROAD DAVENSHILL WEST No. 3, PARK un cress say serious injury. Continued push to the ship, bat the concussion did not do heavy firing, bowever, such ae will lake place in battle, will impose u far severer strain upon the buman nerves muid physical organisation,

boge 12-inch guns which the farimible The carries are weapons of prodigious power. At a distaues of a thoreand yards they will put their great

blot, weighing 850lb. of forged steel. through nearly four feet of iron, it battle E Tubert and Responsibility of MR. ROBERT HUNTER BRUCE in our range, which in our times bas increased to thres Firm CEASED on 31st Dacamber, 1900, miles, a distance ut which a large

We have Admitted Mr. WILLIAM WIL the wok speck upon the

to lay the

they will OHLY Partners in our Firm from This Date. hardened

TAIT & Co. pierce with ease the best and thickest stal afoat. With the new pattern shell at this Amoy. 1st January, 1907. distanes

which is so hard that drills hite it with great difficulty, and earry the

charge

of high explosiva into the interior of the ship.

The range of these weapons is so anor mone that if one of them were placed at Kingatos, it would throw its shell right over London to point beyond Ilford. Or, again, Aring from Croydon, it would drop its monstar 85010. shell from the sky somewhere ta the north of Enfield, Firing from Dover, a projectile could be dropped on the French coast.

Rooms, 3 Bath Rooms, Drying aud; bare to be omple that ship is SON and Me. RICHARD NIKOLAUS

ROM THE 280 WEEK IN APRIL NEXT, TAN MOR" PEAK ROAD, Six Good Store Boonus. Grass Tennis Court. Moderate rental to good tenant.

Apply to-

HUMPHREYS' ESTATE & FINANCE CO., LD. Hongkong, 18th December, 1906.

TO LET.

No. 2, MACDONNELL ROAD.

[117

Apply to

COMPRADORE'S DEPARTMENT, Nippon Yassu Kaisha, Hongkong, 3rd Jone, 1905.

TO LET.

NO. 27, SEYMORE ROAD.

-197

4 New Houses in KENNEDY ROAD, near Wan Chai,

No. 18, MCDONNELL ROAD, Tang Yunk."

No. 90 & 91 GODOWN PRAYA EAST.

-Apply to-

SAM WANG CO., LTD.,

81, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 13th November, 1906. [108

TO LET.

FULLY FURNISEED--from April 15th,

LTEDENA, BARKER BOAD, the PEAK, Seven Rooms wih ample Bath and Dry Rooms. Apply to

J. 8. VAN BUREN, Care of Nippon Yusen Kaishe. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1907,

1159

• Kropp will bore a hole through in. of

Ev

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·WANTED..

TAUROPEAN NURSE to take charge of a

yanng baby. Apply with recommenda tione and stating anlary required, to-

MES, OSWALD. Foachow. Foochow, 10th January, 1907.

211

SITUATION WANTED.

PORTUGUESE CLERK with 6 years, Fxperisue in Mercantilo Firme, "bar. Good References, WANTSSITUATION; Goast. Ports no objection.

Apply to

R.E." Care of Daily Press" Ofoe. Hongkong, 8th January, 1907.

212

One astonishing foxture of the modern hasrying gun is the oase with which it is manipulated All the operations are carried out by el-ctric pover, though there is als hydraulic power, and, in the last resori, hand power to fall back upen. The gans, mounted by pairs in tarrots bebind thick armour, are trained, rotated, and

VACANCY. elevated by electricity: the gigantic breech block is nusorewed and drawn hack by

invited for the elastricity the monster

the

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WARDMASTER, now Vacant, in the Cry L boos

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on.Applications with Certificates of Character afs tha thegan-polater is training on the enemy. The moment the leading would be forwarded to the PRINCIPAL CIVIL MEDICAL OFFICEE at the Cell Hospital not he

the button which Bros in complete

presies

later than NOON of the 22nd instant the oberge by electricity, and with a tanning rear the gun goes off siding a great spont of crimson famo

faint cloud of dest from it mustle. The shell osa generally be seen travelling through the air, both from the turret whence it is fire and from the unfortanste

at which it is simed. ship

No situation more terrible can be conceived than that, of a captain who sees one of these monster pro- jevtiles coming straight at him.

and

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