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ND FLOOR No. 12, QUEEN'S ROAD AS from the lot. August next, No. 5,

CENTRAL

No. 38, CAINE ROAD.

AUCTION ROOMS, No. 2, Zetland Street. Nos, 1 & 2, FAIRVIEW, ROBINSON ROAD, Kowloop.

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LEIGH & ORANGE,

1. Das Your Rond.

Hongkong, 26th August, 1907.

TO LET.

FFICES ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

OF

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A.-S. Watson & Co., Limited. (800

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0.2, HOLLYWOOD ROAD.

No

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ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co.,

45. Wyndham Street.

Hongkong, 2nd March, 1907.

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0. 2, MACDONNELL ROAD. “

No.

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491

MORRISON HILL.

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MESSES, JARDINE, MATHESON

& Co., Lap. Hongkong, 1st July, 1907.

TO LET.

1151

THE WHOLE of the SECOND FLOOR of No. 34, Queen's Road Central, (opposite the General Post Office). The Rooms are light, spacious and well ventilated 13 in number beside kitchen, pastry, bathroom, servants quarter ste Very moderate rent. Immediate possession. Apply to

TEE BANG FAT & CO,.

Same Address. Houghnag, 7th October, 1907.. 182′′

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OUSES in H

AUSTIN AVENUE, Howloon. Apply to E. D. SASSOON & CO., -

Compradore Department Hongkong, 22nd August. 1967, 1382.

TO LET..

AT08. 2 and 5 Observatory Villas. Kowloon. Moderate Rental. Tenuis Court and

Electric Lights.

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COMPRADORE'S DEPARTMENT,. Nippon Yuson Kaisha.

Hongkong, 3rd June, 1805.

TO LET.

NE FOUR ROOMED HOUSE at Praya

East, near East Point.

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JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD. Hongkong, 2441, June, 1907,

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1104

DERIL" No. 1, GARDEN ROAD,

Containing 3 Rooma and Garden. Possession Let Jane, 1907.

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922

H. 1. H. NEMAZEE. Hongkong, 29th May, 1907.

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GODOWANS No. 95, 96, 97 and 100, Prays

East:

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CHATER & MODY,

Victoria Buildings.

Hongkong, 20th Juns, 1907.

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1089

66 CITONḤEVED 35, Robinson Road,

No. 52, CAINE ROAD.

Nos. 27, 28, 31 and 83, SEYMOUR

ROAD

SAM WANG CO., LTD..

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81, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1907.

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HOUSEin KNUTSFORD TERRACE

KOWLOON.

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, Int Octobor, 1907,

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Possession 1st November, 1997, Apply to

ÁRRATOON V. APCAR & CO..

45, Wyndham Street, Hongkong, 5th October, 1907. 1620

66 T

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H No. 1, RIPON TERRACE, BONHAM ROAD.

OFFICES in KING'S BUILDING and YORK BUILDING.

"ATHERLEIGH”, CONDUIT ROAD.

GODOWNS in PRAYA EAST.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8r¤, 1907.

SAN FRANCISCO SLACK SEASON.

A REPORTORIAL EFFORT.

Somewhere around about San Francisco bay a huge whale is bumping among the islands and shipping and other protuberances, as undasy as though he had half a dozen Jonaha to anlond and was willing to pass them up to any body that happened to be near. He careened into Alcatraz island Friday, and the artillery. mon turned nose a three-inch rapid-fire gun ou him, and next he bumped into the launch of of Meiggs wharf, upset the official, dignity of Fitzgerald of the Merchant's Exchange the port as well as the craft, and then went off blowing a barrel or two of water thirty feet in the air.

Mike

clinging to the end of his launch and watching Fitzgerald thought that one experienos, after the whale de jiujitsu stanie off the for ard quarter, would do for him; hat Saturday the Inviathan was back and ready to usurp the lime light

again. But on the last visit Fitzgerald stayed ashore. Whales para alt right in their place, mid Fitzeraid, but that place wasn't ander his thirty-foot launch,

After wiggling his tail at the Merchants Exchange man Saturday morning, Mr. Whale headed for Helvedere to onlisen the houseboat colony. The steamer Eureka was heading out the Golden Gate, Capt. O. Neran pesce fully pacing the quarter-dook, when his ship gave a list to part end then began to wobble. All hands were piped aft in lower the boats, when the Enraks slid off the obstruction, and it was seen that a big black whale had simply bees scratching his book on the propeller-that

was all.

The official promise has been kept: Mr..Z. has been set at liberty; the magistrate has been removed; and several of the tax-collectors have been arrested, and are awaiting punishment.

RUSSO-BEITISH AGREEMENT.

In announcing that the Convention was good at St. Petersbarg by representatives of the British and Russian Governments, for the the interests of both Powers in Asia, thō Timce purpose of settling certain questions affecting remarkod: That negotiations were proceeding

o between the two Governments has long been known,

but the nature of the agreement enched has not yet been revealed, and unti the text of the agreement has been made pible no judgment can be formed as to the manner of the world or to the maintenance of the rights in which it may contributs either to the peace of Great Britain. That an agreement with Russia will appeal to the sentiment at present doubted. Bat sentiment is rather the accom prevalent in this country can hardly be paniment than the substance of national action, and the serious criticism of acts done by a Government on behalf of the nation, though it must always take sentiment into account, ought to conelst in measuring the policy actually adopted by some intelligible canon or standard. In discussions of the foreign policy of Great Britain there is unfortunately no generally recognised canon: Of Inte унага

early every agreement, congestion, or alliance has been as warmly welcomed as it would in the preseding "poried have been condomaed. The agreement with Russia following at no great interval of time the agr

agreements with France and the Treaty of Alliance with

with Japan, mark: mä stage the development of a new order of ideas. British floveruments have passed

a few years from the tradition of hand" and from the idea that alliances were

advanced

"Free

The Lady Mine, a small schooner at anchor, was the next craft to get awash from the rising of the leviathan and then it charged one of Peterson's launches off Yerba Buena island and all but capsized it. By this time the shipping

tanglements" into a belief in the value of la the barbour had got as drvous as a bavy of rements and of cooperation with other schoolgirls at graduation, and skippers Wars Powere. The pr jadios against treaty obliga halling one another from all points of the tions, which dominated British foreign policy compass and wondering who would be next, during the Gladstonian epoch, bas basa sucosed- And just then the whale appeared under the

ed by so strong a reaction in favour of agres- bow of the freighter Melville Dollar, entering menis that the original alliance with Japin, its ports from Guaymas, and started to rub nose.

renewal and extension at the loss of the war, The Dalla lat à ebriok out of her siren and the agreements with Francs ware recived whistle and Mr.Whale ambled off blowing a by the public with satisfaction that unde cubio yard

two of water into the air. Theoriticism, the examination of the exact purpose-

A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit steamer 3. D. Peters, which was aarrying a of the negotiations and of the fitness of the

Road.

FLATS in Moreton, TERRACU. Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- -MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD Hongkong, 1st October, 1907. 1130

TO LET.

HANG YUEN 18 and 188, Macdonzell TA

Roud, two storied Houses with Bathrooms, &c., at moderate rental

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WING CHEONG CHAN,

-5, Conanaght Road, West. Hongkong, 2nd October, 1907. 1602

TO LET.

TWO GODOWNS, No. 7, Wanchai Road, Toad No. 3, Fraya Eust, at moderate rental.

Apply to

WANGHAI GODOWN CÓ.

Wing Cheng Chan, Agent,

3, Connaught Road, Weat, Hongkong, 2nd October, 1907.

TO BE LET OR SOLD.

WITH PORSERSION FROM 1ST JUNE

IN WANCHAT ROAD,

1603

ODOWN, built of brick, with tiled roof, Gjust thoroughly repaired, and 4000 FIRST storage of any

Joon.

IRST Claes European Houses, Lochiel square feet space, concrete flooring. Ba table

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*K." Care of "Daily Press "Ofte. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1907.

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HEWAN & CO., Cars of China Merchants S. N. Co. Hongkong, is October, 1907. 1590

TO LET.

Bail of 3 LARGE and ONE SMALL ROOMS with Bath Boom attached, and Verandab all round; on the First Floor in College Chamber, No. SI, Wyndham Street, facing "Glenealy". Cau bave the use of a Kitchen, can be rented singly or the whole..

GROUND FLOOR of No. 4, Des Voeur Road including a Strong Room and servante' quarter.

ROOMS on Second Floor of VICTORIA BUILDING, No. 5, Queen's Road Central, suit- able for Offices.

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DAVID SA9800N & Co. LTD. Hongkong, 24th May, 1907.

821

TO LET.

ARGE AND SPACIOUS GODOWNS

LARGE ANDA, SE, 90 and 19, PRAYA

EAST, formerly in the occupation of the Admiralty.

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HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT

AGENCY CO, LD" Hongkong, lat October, 1907.

TO LET.

809

HOPS and FLATS in Des Voux Road,

Central;

No. 6, CAMERON TERRACE, Kowloon, No. 14, SALISBURY AVENUE, Kowloon, No. 3, EAST TERRACE, Kowloon.

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HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., LD, Hongkong, 15th July, 1907- 1155

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taining 26 Rooms,

BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine OBces

and Dwelling Rooms,

No. 15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Top Floor, (over Caldbeck MacGregor). OFFICES in Queen's Road Central. EELILIOS TERRACE HOUSES, ROBINSON ROAD.

"THE EYRIE" Peak Furnished) for 3. Months from lat September 1907, Rental.

Cheap

BISHOP'S LODGE SOUTH (PEAK) Party Furnished, Immediate PossessHIOD.

No. 6, DES VEUX VILLAS (PRAE). No. 2, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE No. 56, ELGIN-STREET (Corner Houss),

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LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandrs Buildings. Hongkong, 25th September, 1907.

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piculo crowd to El Campo and had broken down antract concluded for the purpo939 aimed at, off Washington street wharf, was the next partscom cold blooded and unsympathetic. In the

of call and when the whale thrashed sixty feat 200sideration of an agreement with Russia two of blank sbining tail in the picnickers faces distinct questions bave to be asked and answered, and sprinkled a few autumn hats there was s

In the first place, we must form some ides of immediate, u svimous vote that it was a bad the purpose and place in a British policy of day for a picnic anyway, and it was much nicer any agreement with Russia. If it should at home.

*ppear that some specific purpose can be served by an agreement the further question arisss whether that particular purpose is in fact.pro muted by the particular agreement reached. This further question clauot be discussed until the fort of the agreement is known. The prelimi "ary question is the more important, and there ona be no object deferring the attempt to

But the whele was only fooling; he ambled off into deep water Saturday night and hasn't been seen since, though the bag shipping is prepared for all sorts of hazards to day. Still, being a legal holiday, maybe nothing will be doing unless the subensrite joker finds another El Campo pionic in distress. B.: F. Chronicle.

SNOW, MOON, AND FLOWERS.

JAPANESE AND THE WORLD OF NATURE.

As

answer it,

The object of Britial policy is to maintain the independence of Graat Britain, by waioh is meant the power of this nation to have ita ow way in regard to its own affire, among which are included the administra tion of India, the supervision of the admini etration of Egypt, and the maintesanes of

A Japanese friend of mine, says Mr. L. Binyon in the Saturday Review lived in Paris for a year. Waking on a winter's morning, haec relations between the British Island and found that mow had fallen in the night.

the British Colonies as are greeable to their a matter of course ha took his way to the Bois populations. To maintain this power is the alti de Boulogne, to admire the beauty of the snow

mate end, Lad aim of British statesmanship upon the trees. What was his astonishment, using at its discretion and acording to circum. when with his companion,

stances the instruments with which it has to compatriot, he arrived in the Bois, to find it entirely solitary provide itself-its Foreign Offles and Diplomastic and deserted! The two Japanese paid their Service, its Navy and its Army. In the last yons to beauty in the whiteaze and the still resort, if and when this power is challenged, ness of the morning, and at last beheld in the the appeal is to foros, he Government distance two other figures approaching. The force pe it has beforehand organised, or call, in that case has at its disposal just so much were comforted. We are not quite alone,

In theory, they said to themselves. There were at least organise during the struggle. two other just do In that city of the in- of course, the whole, resources of the Empire- different and the blind: The figures, drew are available, but in practice no Govern-

They also were Japanese Threemant oau during a war, mike

effootive 28 things above all in the world of nature have of resoarem for the utilisation of which uo impressed their charm on the mind and the art preparation has been made in advance. In the of the Far East; the beauty of the snow, the past Great Britain bus from time to time had to beauty of moonlight, and the beauty of blossom mest challenges to her independence in the ing fwers. In each of those is the songs of an Beuse above defined, though with narrower apparition; of a presence and a power revealing geographical limits. Her effective weapon has itself, withraws and again renewed,

been her Navy, seconded by a sms' Army rendered mobile of the success of the Navy. In most of the great crises, however, the mana te British ind-pdeno, cam› from so & Funer ho so on was las dangerons to the froswill

nearer.

other Powers, and acedingly Greal Britain in the eras of onniot usually was one of

And the feeling which prompts the Japanese to go out in their multitudes when the snow has made the earth white with its "new soft-fallen mask" or when the moon comes glorifying some familiar aspect of lake and sas and mountain, or the load of blossom breaks from the wild cherry trees, is a kind of religions emotion or group of allied Powers, all engagedia. instinct which tells them thst in this trans resistance to some Power that was growing too figuring spirit of beauty life rouchsafes perhaps strong for any one of them alone. It is the glimpses of a parer and inteuser reality than modern growth of Germany, in population, everyday vision apprebends; and at these mani-is territory, in trade and industry, in organisa festations it boboves them to be present, or, aution for pesos and war alike, that has brought the French say,

"to asiat." Bobind this feel. stcnt the ohrugs above noted in British senti ing lies a whole world of tradition, saturated by men, There is a vogne fealing that Germany thought which has its springs in distant ages may in the Twentieth Century play the role and in fadian wisdom, and flows through count of pain in the Sixteenth and of France in the less generations of Chinese as well as

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, and Гарамасе poeta, artists, and philosophers. In Northern this approhension has made com ready to China and Japan certain trees blossoma before welcome any negotiations by which co-operation the suows are gone, and this combination of with other Pats fra min defence in flowers and snow provides just the kind of rare case of need might by facilitated. This feeling and delicate beauty which moves must poignant- is fully justified both historically and logic illy. ly the artists of those ecuatring Already in But it is not u ou written agreements.or the eighth centery such a theme inspired a great contracts that the conduct of nations in poet painter of China, and it was to become one

times of acute crisis is based, Nations, s of those commonplaces in which an art fada perpetual freshness and always new materials, So, too, the three associated bounties of snow, moos, flowers became consecrated as a tradi-ful tional subject for sets of paintings

A CHINESE HAMPDEN,

and

role, take up arms only when their own vital interests are at stake, and the trus preparation for on-operation against a too power- adversary consists in a common perception of tho danger and of the need for union. Moreover, the readiness to stand side by side with an ailè̟, whether the alliance har documentary existen or not depends some extent upon the belief that the ally is boch willing and able to fight. A Chiness Hampden has arisen at Chusan, and determined to upheld its own cause his s In a word, the nation that is organised for war aud his courage has had very beneficial resulta better chance of being one of a ombination to the poor of the district, Oppression has been than the nation which in pesne ignores war. freely practised by the local tax-gatherers, and when the time came for collecting the land tax, necessary opposition. The aim of Rusinn Between Great Britain and Russia there is no which is supposed to be of one amount through. out the Empire, a iemand was made for 320, Centary was territorial, expansion in their dires- policy during the greater part of the Nineteenth and even 330, cash par mox, instead of the legal tions to the south-west at the expanse of Poland 260 cash, There was great indignation amongst aud Tarkey, towards the seath-east in: Central the people, and a militar gradaato nami. Z Asia and towards the Pacific. The three branches giving voies to the general sentiment, refused to pay. He was arrested,

of this p

threaten three British, sent

spalioy appeared to the city of Chinghai. Soon a rumour spread among though also an interest of all the other European interests. It was held to be British interest the people that he was to suffer the extreme penalty of the law, with the result that all the Bosphorus. Tie Russian sévanos in Asia

Great Powars, to prevent Russia from acquiring. business was suspended in Tinzhi city, the in either direction maced British interest in shops were closed, and crowds from the country India or in China. Thus arose the prolonged districts accked to swoll the number of the cis-antagonimu between the two Powers and the contented. The Tinghai yaman was sucked by sentiments that socompasy such artagonism.

mob, who destroyed, but did not steal, the mand rin's fareiture. The people captured two in Rassia which makes an earis return to

Bat the war with Japan has produced a of the magistrate's sons, and held them as hostages for the military radaste's safe's. "If meat of Bussin's Asiatic territory seems

old policy improbablo, and the internal develop- the latter is beheaded," they declared,

"we will

likely kill the sons of the magistrate!! For five days. If the two Governments can reach an to give scope for her energise for some time to the mob, sumbering 30,000 or 40,000 had the understanding as to their intentions in Asia the Chinghai-forts went to Chasan, sad, by the result may well be a change of sentiment in exercis of much-lact, quietenst the malcontents,

bath coug

countries such as may remove for a sud nasured them that justice would be done. That is a result which wenld to some extent generation the former sense of antagonism The people stipulated for the safety of Mr. Zo simplify the task of British statesmanship. In. and on the general promising this they handed that souse, therefore, an agreement with Russia over their prisoners, and reopened their shops may be useful.

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