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7 PER CENT. SILVER LOAN OF 1894, E.
41ST HALF-YEARLY DRAWING,
INTERÈST due and DRAWN BONDS of this Lau WILL BE PAYABLE at the Offees of the Corporatioti on or after die 2nd APRIL, 1907. List of deawo Roads can he chiainel on application to the Undursignal.
CORPORATION
Agouts issuing the Loan.
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AUCTION
PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE InvING, to sell by THE Undersigned have received instructions
Public Auction,
TO-DAY (TUESDAY), the 2nd April, 1956, at 2.30 p.m., within his residence, No. 57, Kinta," Mt. Kollet. the Pauk
THE WHOLE OF HIS
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
TRESSES,
THEREIN CONTAINED,
Comprising
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES, TUESDAY, APRIL 2ND, 1907.
· LORD QURZON ÖN REFORM OF THE
LORDS.
AN EXAMPLE FROM JAPAN,
The following correspondence has passed between Lord Nayton and Lord Curzon of
Kedleston :---
February 3rd.
THE ART OF ADVERTISING.
Mr. W. Teigmouth Shore, in the Fortnightly Review, writes on the graft of the advertiser. Is insints that advertiging is as old as trading self, and is a perfectly legitimate adjunct to most overy business, Whether we like it or for, it is a faot:-
the
or
We drive
hone the
Our daily life is permented with advertising, My dear Curzon,--When you were a member rectisements in our paper and is our of the House of Commons you took a great "rrespondeuse at breakfast, advertisements in interest is there form of the House of Lords and he tenin, throughout the stations, on omnibusse, I remember sonte articles written by you in the pardings, shopfrouts, and a the sky-line; **National Review" in which a definite schemo įdvertisments" in the often correspondènos, as propoun ed As you are probably aware, hrobably on the blotting pad and the banging SOFAS AND CHAIRS, TRAKWOOD I have just introduced a Bill which, I bine, nee; advertisements on the table, if a dino EXTENSION DINING TABLE and will come on for discussion at an early date. an lutai or restaurant; advertisments blazing CHAIRS, DINNER WAGGONS, BOCK-Had you been a member of the Lords I should som komastops a CASES, BEDSTRAUS with WIRE MAT | havs Impol to receive your support, but on you rem bestre
concert. wher WASU-me, nufortuna'sly, not at present a member of brogeaming was disguised in advertisments; MARBLE FOP
use of Parliament, I euclose a copy rem Os hour Wi rise to the hour | STANDS, TEAKWOOD WARDROBES, br
GLASS and CROCKERY WARF, &o, &c. of the Hill, and write to ask whether the se retire we are assailed by advertisements.
Also on wet of ENCYCLOPÆDIA gueral scheme meets with your approval, and The Englishman is to ready to look upon.
BRITANNICA- Vols.
whether you consider that. it is dozirable the advertising as a mora oʻijungt to his business, Conservative party should associata itself with a ind, therefore, in treat it with roantaclentisa and
d-nite policy y of reform of the Upper Cham, the American' alias that it is an essential, ber. Yours etc.,
sither making him elf a meter of its arte, or -February 25th. emplosing
ing the inest expert advion that he can My Dar Newton, --I have rand your Bill for brain the surries of a fire elas advertising
bay. The
Burlishman bøllevas that he can the reform of the House of Lords with prest interest, and am glad that you have introduced it, mon for the salary of a chief clark: the Admitting that the future of that House is American will pay a price which would bo certain at no distant date to be brought before startling if offered to the manager of a busicoss the electorate, there appear Labs three methods in this county. The Englishman is slipshod i
Aud
ironey by which the Unionist party might deal with the American spends time, thought,
over every detail. The Buglialas gimsat To defend the existing House without what he thinks will prove good enough; the American is not content with anything that he
A quantity of Plants in Pots. Catalogues will be issued, PERMAR usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers. Hankong. 98th March, 1907, 1869
PUBLIC AUCTION.
GEO. P. LAMMERT has received instructions from the Mortgages to sell 1y Public Auction, "
TODAY (TUESDAY),
it
the 2nd day of April, 1:07, at P.M., at his alteration.
SALES Rooms, Duddoll Street,
IN ONE LOT
THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTIES,
NEWTON.
(2) To reform it upon lines not inconsistent believes can be batterial. The American lewes no stone unturned in order to spend his aclver- with its constitution.
(3) Terubstitute for it a new Chamber, cen- tising allotment to the best advantage, hone
Fo maka structed on rom different basis.
every cent fell; the Englishman too The proposal to lease the House of Lords frequently works at haphazard, many ponade of 1 and The Remaining ortion of Section Dofalne, but to destroy or to curtail its rete, car be expriditars failing to tell the blams being Inland 1. 4 No. 2014, with tan Bridings therem known as Nos 2 und 3, TUN WÒ LANK, Victoria, Hongkong.
Rezisternd in the Land Cffice as Sub-Suction
Particulars anil Conditions of Sale may be
from the Auctioneer and from th Vendor's Holaitor, M. H. K: HOLMES, 54, Queen's Road Central.
Hongkong, 21st March, 1907.
1820
PUBLIC AUCTION. DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of For the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING Pettine by Public Auction Bals, to be held on MONDAY, t th day of April, 1987, at 3 pat, at the Officer of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order of His Exellency the Governor of One Lot of Crown Lant on South side of new road from Que's Gurbans to Magazine Giny Road and about yards East of Clovelly" in the Colour of Dengking, for a term of 75 yists with the op- Sion of renewal at Crown Itent to be fixed by the Surviser of IEs Majesty the King, for one 671 further term of 5 years.
Hongkong, 30th March, 1997, Je HIM YICK OPIUM AND YARN PIRM. Late of No. 307, Das Vaux ROAD, HONGKONG. ERTAIN MONIES have been recovered from the partners in the above Fire which it is intended to divide rateably athong the Creditors.
A MEETING OF THE CREDITORS of the above Firm will be held at our Oilite No. 38, Queen's Road Central, on MONDAY. the 15th day of April. 1997, at 3 selors in the Arturnoos, for the purpose of dividing the monies so recuserad,
Creditors are requested to send their Chai us
Jo us on or before the 14th April next,
Pafed the 27th day of March, 1977.
HASTINGS & HASTINGS.
Solicitors for H
FOOK and
other Creditors,
SWATOW DISTRICT.
LÔCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS,
No.
DOVE ROCK WHISTLING BUOY REPLACED.
No Whitting they, notified us having FOTICC is hereby given that the Dove
broken adrift on the 15th insk, hus To-day, burn replaced by a similar Whistling Buoy.
Bany bears from Dave Rock 8.76 E. and distant about. Là cables.
Approved -
K. A. CURRIE,
A. HOLZ,
Harbour Master.
Acting Deputy Commissioner of Custom
in charge.
Custom House, -
Swatow, 24 March, 1907.
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hriously make no appeal to us, sine it is only laid by him on advertising instead of on the sassination in a thin disguise, and if we ar advertisements. The Ameriain is ever seeking to out of the arms and logs of the Upper Homesį to discover new ways of applying old maBOS, might as well out off it hear at once. new methods of making his advertisements
ETON COLLEGE CLOCK.
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Of the methods open to our party, 1 earnestly more attractive and more compiling. hope that we shall associate ourselves with the cond-bat is, a definite nud well though out play of reform, desigard to meet the prin cipal criticisms aread against the House Lorde, panely, its uzduo numbers The Eton College Chronicle" devotes tha Sparse affordance, the songs from Iding artiels of the current issue to a cou- representatives of important class, and the sidoration of the school clark Having recalled excessive predominance of one palitical parts the gloom out over the school when, on a day Thaco always argued that the process of sole aleren months ago, it cease to strike the casto- tion from the existing boly of hereditary mary hours and quarters, our coats mporary poors cui be best effected by applying the to chastras: Spanol clock is, as clock: 8,
is digoiti- of public serion, and I therefore heartiere lent institution. His expression sympathise with this future of your propossied, but not truculent his voice musical enough, The member of one party can satisfy any suct specially at a distans; and his timekeeping test as easily as the member of another, an exemptionable. But, for airasivas we think a there can be no suspicion of party manipt slook is somewhat dull; we should prafer some tios. Whether the farther reduction of thing more pistaresque à sandal woakl be existing numbers should be brought about very nice, bat its eastbacks are almost too A large hourglass would the election of a certain somber of pours brious to point out. their own order is perhaps more open to argi be better: the dreary coramony of absence would meat, sines here, eten with minorily represente ha relieved beyond reangaition by the iztensely tins, the criticism that one party would coutior interesting wait for the last grain to fall. Best ta bu tudnly represental might boheld to appl
perhaps would be a wall-regulated Whatever may be settled about this, I shot clepsydra, which The advantages of hope, in any reform, to see the principle of hascination and beauty would ad that admitted on a large scale, partly as of being strictly classical. Talking of Prag
untorpulse to the hereditary canon, part lopsrdcas, we hare often wondered how
#1 a view to representing classes of tin
wad reckoned
instance, in, for or of the public serrion, such as the Olymple (Fms. Did the julges own such manity different religious denominations other than article as a stop-waterelock? and, if so, did- Church of England, the labour organisations, they sannance, may, that Mogiele had won the Indian Civil Service, the Colonies, and other mile in the estremly gooitin- of a pint and important interests at present unrepresented
quarter? It sounde unsatisfactory, ένι
bat બ inadequately represent in the House of Lord, are way it woull have bon r stata of Might not the power also be given to a Prim thugs for to the bence of rosity liable Minister to recoin mend the appointment o
i-keeping, it is vidut that record-huuting, considerable (though not unlimited number curse of all-meilern-athleticien, can tha
great inthanes qu Hepers in the first Session of a bow Paris have had no very ment, so as to produce a closer corresponders, popular mind, if desired, boten the strength of parties in 11 Houses
I helt most strongly that the hereditary per who is debarred from the House of Lords should be at liberty to enter the House of Commons, but I agrok with you that his che, if so made, should be final. Personally, I sheld likato re the Ministers of the Crown perated to speak in both Honges, as is done in my foreign countries.
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*RUSSELL OF THE "TIMES!"
tho
Mr. Arthur à Beckett, in his "Recollections of a Timoarist," tells an excellent story of the at Sir Willion Howard Russell, and the furare he created when his war letter b gan to Que wake the nation up in military matters. of the big ga în the Civil Service in those days was Me (afterwards Sir John) Milton, and no being ordered of to the Crimen to requirt Lon
To the War Ofes ou the state of affairs to the Front, he waited on Lord Penmure, then Sacre-
These, however, are details or nosserie of No, 10, D'AGUILAR STREET any shine of reform, and much discussion
doubtless, be required before a meu cabe dorised which will menucile the aspirations of all the reformers of differnt schools,
The important thing is the adoption of refertar for War, to receive instructions, as a privicple by the party he whom slane, Befarture
sea bo seen, it is at all likely to be snewss fully carried into effect: There are, I am en- Finder, hundreds of thousands of rotors - betiere that one day we shall find them to be a majority who lace unt sufficient confidoric
TERMS VERY MODERATE. Consultation Free. Hongkong, 21st September, 1905
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BRANCH ORFICES
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The Head and Branch Offices and the Agencies of the Company will receive any order vols product from the above Collieries T. MATSUKI, Manager, Hougho
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The Honse of Commons to wish its measure to
Milton promised that he w old beerncilia and ovaricons to every our-yes, every
Milton bowl agalu, and waited for his final instruction.
will have pleasant journey. Don't forget,
Be civil to Russ, of the 72"
Quite right, Mr Milton; I son that the Department has made a wise election. Yes, wise selection. But I particularly wantal-I artignarly wanted to call your attention to one parson of importance you will meet in the be free from all ravision or control, and who crimen very probaby. And that, in faer, was therefore regard a Second Chamber as indis the reann i legged on to favour n with this pensable, but whose respues for our existing interview I begged you to favour me with
•huken, will this interring" Upper Houre, so fer from being be greatly enhanced if its supportere nolue for ward with a plan of reform which, we voluntarily rendering any of the privileges you will be courtecure and crucilistery and now enjoyed by the Pers, will obtain by this everything that is pleasant in that rather severa sacrifios a Second Climber entitled to the last critic of our methods, Mr. Resall, of the of reasonable men of all parties. If the Peers Tim Good-day. Mr. Milton, I hope you theeeres were to take the initiative in sasa u proposal, us they have already twice done, in the marrander, Brstly, of the privilege of roking by proxy, and, secondly, of the right of sing legal appeals, they would be playing a similar pati to zon, por ajo 21 for plexion. Mrs. Ellen's Crimes Chur sharf, Luit
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