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INSURANCES

THE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.

THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the sbore Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

CARLOWITZ & Co.

Hongkong, 13th August, 1996.

29

AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN. SURANCE CO.

E

OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.

HE Uadoraigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the chore Company, are prepared to ACCEPT BISKS against FIRE

Current Flates.

REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO...

Agoats.

Hongkong, let April, 1897,

TO LET

TO LET.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 25TH, 1907.

CHINESE RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.

Nothing has been more conspicuous in the regenerated Chits than the mismanagement of ite railways. We are continually hearing of

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES at Praya opposition to the introdution of foreign ospital

East, near East Point. Apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. (137 Hongkong, 3rd January, 1907.

Apply to-

ぜ

TO LET.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT AND AGENCY CO. LD. Hongkong, 1st April, 1907.

of

to the various auterprises that are to make of China a new nation, and that are to show to the world what a regenerated China cau de. But always some hitch oscure which takes the gilt of of the gingerbread. The classic example a mighty work sccomplished when apparently insurmountable obstacles stood in the way is HOUSE i» KNUTSFORD TERRACE, the cleansing of the Augrau stables, but it will AKOWLOOK.

nadonttedly give place to the building and Canton Railway the Hankow It is highly probable that the iron of which its rails are to be made is at present only in a state of deposition, and that not until mized is succeeding wons have rolled hy and it

differentiated from his as WO by a posterity as are different from our pre-anthropoid ancestors, will it become a part of the railway system of this vast Empire Exactly why the enterprise ie thus delayed no man can tell, least of all the wrangling malcontrats at Canton, and their brethren in Hongkong, and it is unch to be doubted whether any of these have the faintest notion about what is all the pother

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TO. LET.

FFICES in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

Apply-

OFFIC

11#

TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN-

TILE INSURANCE COMPANY. TOTAL FUNDS AT 318r Decker, 1905

217,837.119.

AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,00 HUBBCRIBED CAPITAL 2,750,000

1.

PAID-UP CAPITAL........

687,500 0 3,386,720 19 8

0

II. FIRE FUNDS SOMATOM

The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rater.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Agents.

Hongkong, 11th July, 1906.

THE NETHERLANDS

1349

LLOYD OF AMSTERDAM & BATAVIA (FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.) THE Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS at current rat-a

LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & Co.,

Agents.

Ingkong, lel January, 1917.

TO LET

TO LET.

121

FFICES in KING'S BUILDING and YORK

BUILDING.

A HOUSE in WONG NEI CHONG ROAD. GODOWNS in PRAYA EAST.

A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit Road.

FLATS in MORETON TaZRACE

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO. LTD Bongkong, 1st April, 1907.

TO LET.

181

TO. 6. LYESMOON VILLAS, Kowloon, Possession from 1st March next, Five Rent $125 per Rooms and Tennis Court, month including taxes.

*LYEEMOON Apply to-

Care of Daily Press "Office, 211 Hongkong, 21st January, 1907.

TO LET.

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION..

O, HOLLYWOOD ROAD. and No.

NPOTTINGER STREET.

165

Apply to-

ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co., 45, Wyndham Street. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1907.

TO LET,

491

UNHEVED" 38, Robinson Road, or

D FOR SALE

Nos. 27 and 31, SEYMOUR ROAD.

4 New Houses in KENNEDY ROAD, near

Wan Chai.

No. 9 & 91 GODOWN PRAYA EAST.

Apply to

SECRETARY,

A. S. Watson & Co. Limited. Hongkong, 23rd April, 1907.

TO LET.

008]

The prean t body of directora was appointed No Lot Revit.

10. 5, “ORMSEY TERRACE," Grenville specially to meet the wishes of a formar ast of waltonton's, and it has gathered round it a party which worships it as an igaorant negre Apply to-

SPANISH PROCURATION. Worships his master's rifle. Opposed to this Rection is ana in Hongkong which insists on the Hongkong, rd April, 1907.

funds being safely infested in Hongkong TO LET.

poading the settlement of many difficulties and onses of friction.

NO

TO. 2.MACDONNELL ROAD.

Apply to

COMPRADORE'S DEPARTMENT. Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Magkang, 3rd June, 1905 TO LET

197

OND FLOOR of No. 6 ICE HOUSE STREET: Centrally situated and within y racit of the principal Banks and busİLLƏRS houses. Apply on the promises to-

TATA & CO. 205 Hongkong, 24th Ducsiaber, 1906.

N°

TO LET.

4. OBSERVATORY VILLAS, Kowloon. Five Booms: Electric Light; Tennis Court etc.

Apply to-

ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co, 45. Wyndham Street Hongkong, 3rd April. 1907

TO LET-FURNISHED.

66

700

Still another section wants the funds to be invested, in part, at any rate, in the Canto

there are aad Kowloon railway. Finally

naher of sections which do not know what they

want, except that they want their Bomines on the directorate, as they to distrust seem to have those who are already in that body. With nil these rival factions clavouring each for its own way there is little wonder tha the late Viceroy of Canton, no less than bis successor, finds his worent out for him in attempting to adjust all the little difficulties of the situation.

The latest phase of the matter seems to be amore in the direction of getting a complete outsider to act as dictator, and he name of Tang Shan-yi has been rantioned as having heen invited to cleanse the Augen stabls. The suggestion of a dictator has arisen from the fact that the directors have been bolding private meetings for the appointment of president and a

tin rail fice-president

wishes 17 way, ignoring altogether the the shareholders in the matter. The abare holders bearing of this stormed the offices and afterwards held a meeting of their own to attempt the settlement of things. If Tang

over things he would be

of

LEWKNOR, NO SLADE, fruto Shu-i could be and to an admirabin man for

Property of Mr. M. W. this date to end September.

Apply

GILMAN & CO. flongkong, 10th April, 1907.

44

TO LET.

300

LENWOOD" Caine Roan, suitable for a Boarding house or Club. Con- taining 28 Roouss. This property would be divided into two or more houses to suit tennata.

"BANGOUR" PEAL

CLOVELLY," Peak Rod (Partially

Furnished.

LARGE FURNISHED ROOM with Bathroom nad Drassing Room, Kitchen, so.. Close to Barker Road, Tram Station. Suitable for one or two bachelors"

BUNGALOW (furnished) at Now Territory, Kowloon, 4 Reoms. Low Routal.

BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine Shops Offices and Dweiling Rooms.

No: 13, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Top Floor, tover Caldbeck MacGregor).

TERRACE HOUSES. BELILIOS ROBINS IN ROA IN

No. 3. ALBANY.. WESTBOURNE Besham Road.

Apply to

VILLA NORTH.

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Bailding.

1109 Hongkong. 22nd March, 1907.

TO LET.

the post, not the least of his many qualifications being the fact that he is himself i Cantone, and should have some knowledge of the ragarins of the Cantouses character and ought to be able to pour oil on the troubled waters. Moreover, Director-General of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway he has had experience of a thoroughly successful concern, and has worked in co-opera tion with the present Viceroy of Canton in the furtherance of this impor aut project.

One thing is clear, and that is that whilst all this squabbling, so edifying to all is going on time and money are being wasted, and the actual building of the line gets no further. the only perseus whom this slate of affairs will suit are the Japanese and Nor wegian euglovers who have been engaged for the work, and who are presumably enjoying so unearned furlough.

SPECIAL WIRELESS

TELEGRAMS."

*Furnished exclusively to the Saturday Eren. ng Review by the Amalgamated Wireless Press Association," says the new Shanghai, paper from which we clip them : ----

THE MIXADO 18 WROTH,

Tokyo April 20th-The Emperor of Japan is very angry at Marquis Ito because he has failed to obey the orders sent him to retara Korea to the Koreans, and send all Japasose troops to their homes. It is beloved here that the emperor will send the crown prince to Koraa to slap Marquis Ito on the wrist for his witful disobedience of orders.

#TO EXPLAINS,

Seoul, April 20-Marquis Ito has sent a long persunal telegram to the Mikado explaining why he has not yet returned Kores to the Koreans. He says that the Korasus bare objected to such

course and he does not want to injure their feelings. When be issued orders for the troops to return to Japan he found that all of them wore engaged in oramercial pursuits and would

go.

not

KOREANA FRAR JAPS WILL 10,

Beoal, April 20. In so interview given exclusively to the Amigamated Wireless Presa Association's correspondent, the Emperor of Kores says he regrets very mzah the decision of the Japanese government to get out of Korea, He says he told Marquis Ito that he loved lim as a brother, and explained that if the Koreans were forced to take charge of their own government again, be the operor)

would commit suicide. The city of Supul is in deep mourning, and mass meetings are bein held all ore the kingdom protesting against the It is generally Japanese quitting the country. believed that if they insist upon returning the country to the Korenus there will be serious. rioting.

ROOSEVELT AND HARRIMAN FACIPIMUL

'AN

Washington, April 20-President Roosa- velt and Edwin H. Harring base agreed to bury this hatchet and call off the war. in an official statement Roosevelt says that he did not aty Harriman is a liar." bat

Harriman

bas liar." B

Harriman

The Crea accepted the apology as a firebrand. regiments of insuley and five batteries of artillery which had been ordered to proceert Street have been recalled. against Wall Rosevelt and Harriman dined teg-ther inst night and latter attended the theater; where they lad the audience in singing the chorus of the latest topical song Peace, Peace, There Ain't Nothing Like Peace."

HEAVY EXPLOSIONA EXPLAINED. Tomisk, April 19th-Daring the last week the air in this vicinity has been filled with crackling explosions. Scientists have been phenomes. To day Prof. Findemoutely covered tha the explosions were due to the thawing out of commands given by officers of a tegiment of Siberian troops stationed here. The words became frozen last December, and the spell of mild weather now ing experienced has

great buzzing Pong the nuut ky dis

be-

thawed them vat.

HONDURAS WILL OPPOSE PEACE, Loudon April 19. h.-Much alarm has been felt in cabinet circies over the receipt of a telegram from the government of Honduras positively declining to participate in the Hagus conference if Great Britain insists upon making disarmsment one of the principal subjects for discussion. It is believed that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman will withdraw from the position he has taken in regard to disarmament,

THE SUCCESSPUL ALESHIP.

months.

will be started within sir

The promoters of the company decline to accept a government subsidy.

New York, Apri: 20.- antos Dumont arric The batics papers were talking the other day od here at B5 this morning in his airship the about the awful example of the Shanghai NanFlyer." after a six hours' Crip from Paris. He king Bailway. It may ha un awful example, sails for London at noon and will attend the but it is at any rate being built, and that is theater in that city te-night, He was accom-

The more than can be said of the Carton and Han.panied by fifteen personal friends. kow line. The pity of all this is that the railway airship service biten Lonton and Shanghai might have been all but completed now if the origiasi arrangements al been kept to, sad the original concessionaires or their immediate successors tad been allowed to go on with the work. But that was not to be. The wad wolto of China for the Chinese," whatever it may mean, lead the responsible officials to put difcalties in the way, and whilst the northern arm of the great trunk has been built and pat! into regu's running the southera arm is

NE OFFICE ROOM on Second Floor practically untouched, its funds Iving ille, if not indest disappearing, and its completion as PRINCE'S BUILDINGS.

far away as the thirty-first of this month.

0%

F103

SAM WANG CO., LTD.,

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

TO LET.

ND FLOOR No. 12, QUEEN'S ROAD

CENTRAL. GREENCROFT,

GARDEN

ROAD.

Apply fo

REUTER, BROECKELMANN & 06.

705 Hnykon. 23rd April, 1907,

TO LET.

TO. 1,

LEGS AND THE MAN.

Tailors of New York hare decided that it would be impossible to revert to knee-breeches, It is all the fault of the average City mas. His legs bave so deteriorated in grace and strength, be is commonly so splodia-shanked and karck. kneed, that it is really a rary fortunate thing. for bin that modern des comesals these unfortunate members.

What is true of New

Kowloon, Redecorated, Einetric Light, Toonis. 1, WEST END TERRACE, Shamsen, digested aglomeration of forsiga "ologies in said of Sir Willoughby Pattern, “He has a leg

FAIRVIEW, ROBINSON ROAD, Kowloon,

Court.

from Marob 1st.

Apply to

LEIGH & ORANGE,

1. Des Voeux Road. Hongkong, 1911 February, 1907.

TO LET.

94

TO.S GRANVILLE AVENUE, Kow.

LOON.

No. 1, EAST AVENUE, Kowloon,

Apply to-

HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., LD.,

Hongkong. 21st March, 1:07.

676

EIGHTEEN

BARKER ROAD, THE PEAK,

TO BE LET FURNIAWRD FOR

MONTES.

SEVEN-ROOMED HOUSE with

A Garden and Good Servants quarters.

A. L Apply to

Care of Daily Press" Office. Hongkong, 19th April, 1997.

TO LET.

POSSESSION on 1st APRIL NKXT.

784

Semi-attached HOUSES, Nos. 13 and 13c. MACDONNELL ROAD, Each with 7 Rooms, Bath Rooms, Kitchen, Servants Quarter and Grass Tennis Court.

Apply to

CHING CHINAN. Yan On Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Hongkong, let March, 1997.

TO LET ON LEASE,

FROM JT JANUARY, 1907.

Canton. Apply to

HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, Isf April, 1997.

TO LET.

[93

66 UMMER HOUSE" Mount Kellett, the PRAK, Partially Furnished. Possession from 1st April, 1907. Low Heat.

Apply to

PERCY SMITH & SETH,

5. Qun's Road Central, Tiongkong, 8th March, 1907.

TO LET.

589

TO. 28. LEIGHTON HILL ROAD.

Immediate loasussion. Apply t THE COMPRADORE,

Nippon Yusen Kaisha. 333 Hongkong, 4th February, 1907.

ΤΟ ΣΕΤ.

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION. WELLBURN, No. 81 the PEAK.

Apply to-

W

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,

York Buildings Hoogkong, 2nd January, 1987.

TO LET.

The opening up of China by means of railways is exe of many of China's treaty stipulations still lacking hona fide falfiment, and the real patricts in China-put the hysterical foreign- eiad youths with ill-regulated minds and an ill- their patas abrogating to themselves the title of civilised-are painfully couscious that both this unseemly squabbling exposes their country men to the ridicule of foreign harbarians and this failure to full treats obligations exposes China to suimadversions on her good faith.

The only hopeful sign is that the Viceroy evideully knows his own mins, and is doing all be can to put matters on a sure and solid foundation, and it is to be hoped that his effects will not be thwarted by the irreconcilable animosities of hostile factione. Mercury,

THE LODGER'S LAWYER.

Considerable amusement was caused in the action Shoreditch County.court, during an for rent brought by a landlord against a Inte not owe the money and raised a legal point.

There is nothing in that, Judge Smyly you will have to pay if that is your only defanor.

is

work is doubtless true of the Loadon City mon, of how many could it be said, as his great admirer

it of very few. Much exercise on golf-links, true, bas given to many a ta a leg mufficiently well-developed to carry knickerbockers without exciting the ernal wit of the small boy; but even in such casas it is seldom the sort of leg that would look well in silken bose and buckled shoes. Apart from the sedentary life that the City man is compelled to load, bis physique has suffered because deportment is no graces in which a gentleman is schooled, Digzited carriage bas gone out with ruffles and rapiere. Round shoulders and knock-knaoj do well enough for the waitz; they would have been impossible for the minust.-Daily Graphic.

tenant. The defendant protested that he did A

"The Defendant (heatedly): Will I Then, I'll just show you something you don't know (Laughter 're bad this by me for a good many years and it has been a good old friend that has never failed me. He produced a well- thumbed book whick, be said, ws The Lodger's Lawyer," sad, thenating it out to the judge with a gesture of impatience, Now what do you say? (Rears rammarkeat

laughter.) Judge Smyly (after carefully perusing it): Unfortunately for you this weighty law book does not assist yon in this case.

254

of

From 1ST MARCH, 1907.

LOCHIEL TERRACE, Kowloon.

HEWAN & Co.. Apply to---

No. 15, Connaught Road, West. Hongkong, lat February, 1907.

NO. CARNAVON VILLAS, und No. 6,

N° 482

NROAD

JOS. 6, 8, 10, 12 and 19, HOLLYWOOD Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 SUN WAI LANE. Apply to

ARRATOON V. APCAR & CO., 45, Wyndham Street. Hongkong, 24th October, 1906.

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