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to and September,

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life Hampelmayor will be elequently silent in massos of her people some day," I observed. Possession, 1st February, 1907. Apply to

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT AND AGENCY Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 6th January, 1907.

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this topic the other night ith a man who, though born Leipziger, with a bas done as the honor of becoming a natural ised" Englishmas.

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Vaterland. "It," said I. that you and not only

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QUAKE CLAUBE," From San Francisan on January 5th the Tunes surrespondent writes

In the salt against the Williamsburg City Company in that the validity of thst company's 14 "earthquake clanse," the Stats Superior Court has overruled the onimant's-demarrer to the company's answer. This is in effect a decision in the company's favour upon the main question

as

to the liability of the company for dire loss canned by carthquake. The decision leave open for proof in each case the question whether, av

that without even going near the country's intonation that was a proot to his haring put capital once in a blue moon!"

in part of his fifteen years of voluntary axila this side the Middle Passage, "That's A German who has spent a good faw of his best years draussen, as you observe, generally ends HUMPHREYS' ESTATE & by staging there, should fortune base kindly

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REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co.,

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Hongkong, 20th January, 197.

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999

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NROAD

Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 SUN WAT LANE.

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ARRATOON V. APÇAR & CO.,

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Hongkong, 24th October, 1903.

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"Yea but why?" I insisted.

TIXTRA COPIES of Daily Press are on sale daily at the KOWLOON BOOK- STALL, Mr. URUTTONJEE'S KOWLOON STORE, No. 38, Elgin Road & Mr. AH YAU'S FERRY WHARF STALL.

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regarda lo realting from a sproud of the HEIDSIECK MONOPOLE CHAMPAGNE

original earthquake, dra is to be attributed to the earthquake, or to some independent inter

There were some 120 fre insurance companion locally involved in the San Francisco losses, and the policies of sight or ten contained an He took a pell at the Golden Pilsener, et afbrake clause"that is, the mention of down the Seidel, not omitting to close the lid.earthquake was among or in addition to the asal other exceptional exurer of fire for whisk insurance companies Two or three of the decline to be responsible. protected decided, to waive the

companies thus

JO. 1, WEST END TERRACE, Shameen, and continued: "Ja! seh'n sa 'mal, des engere

Canton.

Vaterland, ist ja ganz nett; but—but, you see Apply to

the fact is, my dear fellow, I've ou'grown It! I called for two more Fülsener, and suggested Häring Salat," wherent his eye beamed; and, not to be outdone by me, he bade the Keller furnish Pampernickel and a couple of Papriks Kaschen, the sight of so much familar fare calling forth the ejaculation of

HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 11th Doomber, 1805 (93 TO LET

OND FLOUR No. 12, QUEEN'S ROAD

CENTRAL.

GREENCROFT, GARDEN ROAD,

Kowloon, from March 1st; Redecorated, Electric Light, Tennis Court.

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LEIGH & ORANGE,.

1. Des Voeux Road.

Hongkong, 1st June, 1906,

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91

"Sappertot! is' dan 'msi nob-l!"* Then my Englishmuse" dropped into the vernsenlar of this country once more, and wazed communicativo.

but

one-the Williamsburg City Cake

the

1AB

outset took a firm stand upon its clause and declined all liability for the cond gration Jesses following on the sarthquake. Three woll-koore English compari-s (and their subsidiaries), after obtaining fatt inform st

ation to the facts and local conditions, eventually decided to offer compromison based on locality of less. Thes companies wer mercial 'nien, and Nervich the Allians, Com- proof that the fire was and each casa on the companied by art banke lay in

company that is, it lay po the companies to prove to the satisfaction of San Franciscan or Californien jarins and popular- elected

ges that the I judges t

Facto ware such an to

Union. The onusof

"It's on old thing." qoth he, but as you may bave observed-in spite of our virility se a people we yot have a fatal way of getting absorbed wherever we come in touch with the Anglo-Sazon rate. Think of the unmos both hare and in the States-not only Jewish names, bat Gentile as well-the owner of which are, if bring the loss within the operation of the of earthquake olgar, and the companies decided German parentage. Where The mother's 2.14 on a scheme of compromise as being American the trick is done straight away!te the uncertainties of litigation. The Williams preferable hut, even where every family tradition has been burg City Company Bually abandoned ite flat of the old counter the second generation is to refusal of all all intents and purposes a English or policies કળતું

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A HOUSE in Riron TaaRACH, FLATS in MGERTON TERRACE. Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD Hongkong, lat March, 1906.

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!91

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1 and 3 ORMSBY VILLAS GRANTILLE ROAD, Kowloon. Apply to-

SPANISH PROCURATION. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1907,

[136

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TO: 6, LYEEMOON VILLAS, Kowloon,

Nossession from lat March next, Five Booms and Tennis Court. Roat $125 per month including taxes.

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"LYEEMOON" Care of "Daily Fress" Ofoe. Hongkong. 1st January, 1907. 241

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Furnished

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Hongkong, 1st February, 1907.

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323

TO. 28. LEIGHTON HILL ROAD.

Immediates Possession.

No. 28. LEIGHTON HILL ROAD. Por session 1st March, 1907,

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MMEDIATELY, the Capacious Tien on the of Nu. 2, PEDDER STREET, at present occupied by Mesers, Harrie Keeney Co, Ltd.

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GILMAN & CO. 260 Hongkong, 23rd January, 1907.

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IN AUSTIN AVENUE, Kowloon, News. 2,

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Compradora Department,

E. D. BASSOON & Co. Hongkong, 1st February, 1907. 325

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POS6288ION FROM 1ST MAROH NEXT,

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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,

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J. S. VAN BUREN, Care of Nippon Yusan Kaisha. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1907. {138

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JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hourkong, 3rd January, 1907.

337

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'TATA & CO. Hongkong, 24th Decembar, 1996. ...105. 'TO LET.

HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE

KOWLOON.

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

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(SITHER IN WHOLE OR IN PART),

THE GROVE," having 20 Bocms, with detached Out-Houses and Kitchens, eituated in Robinson Road, Kowloon

Well ventilated, with Electric Lights and Balla completed installed.

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E. M. HAZELAND,

or

35, Queen's Road Central,

WING-ON, Contractor,

94 D'Aguilar Street.

Hongkong, 19th July, 1906,

196

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BELILIOS TERRACE HOUSES, ROBINSON ROAD,"

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LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandes Buildings, Hongkong, 2nd November, 1806.

[102

Britisher who arrived in the train of the

legal

months

companies.

ago Bulls were Sted against or his cousin who put out the the Williamsburg City Company to test the Awer!".

must be some psychological reason for these things." said I. "I happen to have been in Johannesburg at 110

Thore

Laker

scope or effusoy of its earthquake clause. olange used in the majority of the English earthquake companies policies declares thom exempt from firs }oneag 'caused direc of all that pather about the franchise-and there or indirectly by earthquake wherea wasn't an Englishman worth his salt who would American

company's exemption is from it--not if given away with a pound fire Jasses occasioned by or through

earth- of Les-bile the Britisher who gave up his quake. It seems to be generally accepted nationality would never have been the stamp of that, always provided they can prove the facts, man to make a dependable burgher, and they the compaties shaving the frst-named clause are

new that quite well at Pretoria

it a strong position, but asits were filed against With us it is in many ways different."

the American company, on the contention that rejoined friend thoughts has probably

the father of its clause does not apply to fires caused, not by or American ench Acglo o

warthquake itself. but by fires spreading frem quitted his engoren Vaterland for the sole earthquake-sued fires. These suits resolved purpose of

business facilities-in fact, greater to commercially better himself. He may in

his leisured intervals sigh for some 'Gretchen,' / Win in affeos, into actions on damarrar,

admitting the clanse be

to their case. Separate

were

but if he does not return-ay, for five years it nearly simultaneously brought before three will then be to see things with different eyes: ssceral Judges of the Californian Superior in fact, his own feelings will come ass surprise Court, and the remit has been awaited with maybe as a shock to him. The old conditions interest. The fact that the scope and appli of life seem mail-you know our term 'kleinlich ability of a particular form of sarthquake clance the police are after you the moment you arrang was to be decided on by the Court was widely What is your business? Why have you comes regarded by claimants as a test of the validity and How long do you mean to stay? Socially of any earthquake clones at all, you are more or less bound to stick where you were; if ja tinance,' well, every your probable creed, ob and that is a drawbs-k- in your engeres Vaterland! If a Gentile and yet undistinguished from the ruck by the saving grace of a 'von before your surname,' well— your place remains along that heavy, though worthy, cultured class whose outlook on life has of necessity been narrowed by perpetually circumscribed means. Of course, as you know, there is nothing like the serdil and shabby

genteel

poverty as it exists among the English upper middle classes to be found with ns that is probably due to the wider diffusian of very moderate means throughout the entira ancial structure, if I may call it so, of the land; there is, taken as a whole, a saner view of

lifo ne false theme about thrift, and scouemy in short, a far r smaller percentage of

Baty

neverthless, though all this may be put down to the credit of our engeres Vaterland* the man

who goes back in the Aush of his best pours feels himself pulled up as it were at every turn. The society that he has been mixing in abroad, and to which as au educated and cultured gentleman ba feals ha has now acquired the right of entrés he knows better than to approach. And lastly there is Gretchen, well, the Germen girl mast be plucked as a bad for our women don't wear well, nor do they seem to have the hang,' don't you call it ? of putting on their clothes like other Women 60 you see the native returns to ozile, voluntarily enough, and after marrying Mendie over here or Hattie ont yonder becomes an exemplary Englishman or-Amurrican,"

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