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INSURANCES
TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN-
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY;
TOTAL FUNDS AT 31er DecRMBRE, 1907 £18,114,624,
I Authorised Capital..................... £1,000,000 Subscribed Capital... 2,750,000 Paid-up Capital IL Fire Funds
687,500 0 0 3,085,374 -157
The Undersigned, AGENTS for the shore Company are prepared to ACORPI BISKS against FIRE at Current Lates
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Agents.
1019 Hongkong, Slat July, 190, AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- BURANCE CO.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
HE Undersigned, baving been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS agalust FIRE. at Current Bates.
WH METERINK & CO., Agenta,
Hongkong, 5th September, 1908.
114.
THE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANY
THE
OF HAMBURG.
THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE
At Current Rates.
CARLOWITZ & Co
Hongkong, 18th August 1906
DR. M. H. CHAUN,
THE Istest Method of the AMERICAN
TSYSTEM of DENTISTRY.
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Hongkong: 17th April, 1907.
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G. K HAXTON, Manager, Hongkong lit April, 1905
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ad AIR GUNS in Variety,
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THE LOOK OUT IN LANCASHIRE.
WHAT LED UP TO IT
Glagow, says the floottish correspondent of the Times, has acquired unenviable notoriety recently on account of the obstrepezons conduct
The past ootton-season in Lancashire bas of so-called unemployed, who have invaded the boon, greatly attached by the circumstanoss PROOF ALLOYS-INS ALTOSEIFIED TRENDS. muntelpal chamter, hosted a Prince, and tried which preceded it. For two years previous to FROM
to disturb worship in the venerable esthedral. September let, 1907, a surprising activity of ons trade had prevailed. Profits were large, and An earthquake warning service is the latest Consurrently, and doubtless partly by orders plentiful, Shipments to the East were device of science for safeguarding humanquegos, extraordinary statistics of naamplay on a very large scale, and there seemed for the interests against natural phenomena. Forment have been ciraslated in the London Press time to be no limit to the demand for goods number of yenes great-earthquakes in any part and the idea has been conveyed that the second and yarns. On that situation came an American of the globe have been first made kapwa at the city in the land is dominated by rast band of panic of the Brat magnitude. The Bank of Eng seismological observatories of Germany and starving and desparate men who are on the seriously deranged. Li quickly became appareat land rate rose to 7 per sont, and trade was Italy, the shocks being often indiested by the verge of causing bread riot or worse. This is that buyers had over-bought themselves. Trade instruments esveral days in advance of telo an entirely untras picture. In the first place fall away, pr.its
succeeded. As the spring came the American panic slowly passed bat trade had been too mach injured to recover quickly. Mean ims the American orep to be 12,000,000 or 15,500 000, disappointed such which at the opening of the seson was supposed , and has sizes shown a formidable
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. "BEN LINE OF STEAMERS. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
#ĦS" BENAVON"--
LONDON AND STRAITS. MIDDLESBROUGH, ANTWERP,
that all Goods are boing landed at their YONSIGNEES of Cargoare hereby informed
the basardous and/or extra risk into hasardens Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, may be chain will Ltd, whose and/or from the wharves deliyory after this Goods No Claims will be admitted undelivered after the 20th Ost, will be subject All Claims against the Steamer must be pro- to rent sented to the Undersigned on or before the 27th All broken, obafed, and datanged Goode are Ort, or they will not be recoguised. to be left in the Gedowns, where they will be
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
GIEB, LIVINGSTON & Co.
Agents
1432 Hongkong, 13th October, 1805
graphis news, and since the San Francisco and there is be evidence to connect the genuinely and short time itally disappeared, and i have left the Golowne, and all Goods remaining
Valparaiso oarthquakes the Ludications at the three stations of Gras, Hamburg and Strasburg have been promptly combined to show just No. 27, Des Voeux Rond, opposite the P. & O's where the great disturbance took place. The
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time of beginning of the first, second and citizens ashamed and induced considerable denotation compared with its predecessor, examined on the 20th Oct., at 11 Ax
gree of nervousness in the authorities maintain deficiones when
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drawn around the stations on a globe, and an Intersoting point is found that is the exaction of the earthquake. Oa Dec. 4, 10:16, tracings of the previous day at Strasburg and Hamburg alone were found to locate an earthquake is the Lesser Antilles. Those days later news of the CHAIRS, TABLES, SETTE & earthquake of Kingston, Jamaica, was tele
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graphed from New York, and not until the BAMBOO, BLINDS, MATTINGS 28th was the dato Endra as the 3rd and not orthodox trade pulonímia are asociated with, matters which contributed to the depr being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in the
the 5th.
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g the fair name of the city. There is a Buch, however, has been the falling off of
has this deficiency neighbourhood, but the so-styled riotons pro The American spintere their takings great deal of nasmployment in Glasgow and offxive demand for goods and yarns that cedings are not the outcome of desperation, to a surprising extent. The Continental spins They do not in any sens represent the revolt of mors had carried over large stooke of ootton multitude of starving men who actually despair from the abundant supply of the previous year. of getting their wants attended to. They have Lancashire carried over some stooks of cotton, been deliberately organized by agitators, in the bnt for a short way into the season was
on old orders Later in the yarns storest of Sool list in general, and the Right garded by contracte still in hand to dali var to Work Bill in particular. There is no mistake about this. The Socialista profess to be angry season such orders were filled, and were not succeeded by new ones. A dragglag wall when they are blamed As a matter of fuelmess followed, looms stopped, and
spindles they do not deny that they are art and part,"
presently resorted to short time. Among other
the of the later part of has been the low price of silver. sion
the Bootch lawyers say, and plead only that them. There is an excutive, of a kind, golding the various demonstrations, and vaguely threat ening others, but only a for, if any, of its mem bars ars out of work.
of
Reason
At the entry of the season silver wahads higher The novel life-boat of C. J. F. de Vos, of
than the year before. Later it has for some time ruled about Ed per ounce below the prices of a Rotterdam, has a halt made entirely of cate
In Glasgow, as elsewhere, there har or wickerwork, and in claimed to possess ramer- lato years been a large preaching organiza year ago, with a necessary prejudice to business ous advantages. It is practically unbreakabletion in the Socialist case, The accelerating with China and the East. One of the peculiari
Blackness
of work in the city has provided ties of the season has been the position of "points ou" in certain grades of American and quite unsinkable. It is not liable to leakage, the preachers, with a text, and the opportunity requires no protective painting, is cheaper than has been seized to get resenite, and to rub in the cotton. The market heard with some sarprise other bosts, lighter than ordinary wooden-boats, inadequacy of the present social and industrial daring the autumn that certain staplas were and has more than the usual room for storing systems by frightening the well-to-do through selling at Sid and at did on the price of the the elected municipal representatives. There near position. Such a position bas since provisions and water.
wrath about any of the collapsed to a considerable extant, but points on “demonstrations,
few years ago,
Among the rapidly dimppearing wild animals. is the eland or Cape ells, which is a native of South Africa and one of the largest of the antelopes, and is especially prized as furnishing
has been the small-crowds stat listen | still range distinctly higher than they ruled a
to the street preachers are well-fed and com fortably oad. There is no evidence whatever to connect the considerable number of toemployed work men with this Socialst-Labour attempt to prove, by what is, after all, a very the best of all venison. Bohemes for pre-mild form of violence, that the State, se repre- survation include plap for domesticating sented by the corporation, is not doing its daty
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HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com plexion, Mra, Ellen's Crime Charmante, Lair Charmant and Special Skin Tonio sad Pontre Charmant will enable you to do it. Hat it and making it perform an important, share and is indeed incapable of doing so. As for the Specialities for the Skis are the stady of s demonstrators threats et works to come, nobody lime. A 8. Watson & Co., Ltd., Sole Agents of the farm work of Cape Colony. The is really frightened by them. The polios are beast is easily captured, thrives under the new being overworked in a way, but they are quite conditions, and in an experiment in the able to cope with any development of the agits AS SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF M'Chekwe district of Mashonaland two elandtion, and there are plenty of soldiers on the spans were used for a considerable time for drawing wagone, proving docile and tractable, Healthy calves were born in captivity. The animal seems to be proof against the common diseases of farm stook, and its flesh is desirable for beef and its hide för leather.
What, that, of the unemployment problem in Glasgow? It is srious enough. The present generation- does not recall such slackness in sil industries, and, of course, in commerce, which depends on the activity of the workshops and factories. Or rather, one would put it that the outlook for the winter is the worse that the. rmen hare faced. So far there has been younger r The ordinary parlour stove is used by Herr shortage of work, but no stoppage. One ship. Gutesh, of Berlin, as a receptacle for an electrio building yard ban not a vessel on the stocks, and radiator consisting of a wire or carbon of suit shird of its fall complement of workmen.
another large one is employing only about a The ableresistance,.—and in this way isconverted into dominant fact is that there is no life to ship- an electric heater more satisfactory than those building, no prospect of any revival, no orders hitherto tried. Too great local drying of the in sight of any considerable magnitude. There air is a usual fault of electric heating. With fore, it is feared that the winter will be a very and the Clyde cannot look for industrial health. the new arrangement, the air aroniation hard one. Until shipbuilding revives Glasgow. produced by the stove rapidly distributes the Bat, at the moment, it osunot be said that the heast and at the same times gives ventilation and distress is acute, and certainly the ploture of the prevents excessive drying. The ordinary carcity's Industrial conditions that has been rent consumption warns an averaga zoom in about an hour. With the large tie stoves sƠ common in Germany the heat is retained a long time, and the cast of keeping the room comfortable is moderate. '
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painted in. Loudon is false. There are not 100,000 men out of work. Cautions estimates put the total number, including labourers, at from 20,000 to 10,000. That is serious enough bat an unemployed roll of that magnitude is not unmanageable.
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701 HONG KONG, CHINA & MANILLA.. A. S. WATSON & CO,LTD.
Other garde are that is fully employed employing and other odd: percent ages of their normal number. The largest forge has reduced its staff from 4.0.0 to 2,500. Tre locomotive works are on a short week, and, though they have got fair order be compelled to make recently, they expect to reinctions. The railway shops bave eat down their staffs on sooount of economies. Fifty per out of the masons are out of work, and 25 per cent, of the plumbers. In the textile trado non of the factories have stopped, or contemplate. atopping. Bat most are on short time or keep- ing down their output, so that women's wages are in fact reduced from 18%, or 199, to 10s, or 19 Half 100) dockers are unemployed. The providens socistics tell rather doleful tales. T
The large animals of the world's land seemed to have become known long ago, and mack surprise was caused when, in 900, Sir Harry Johnston announced the discovery in the Konge Life policies are lapelig all round. But, while
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES THE BWEDISH EAST ASIATIC CO., LD, GOTHENBURG, NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
HE Steamship
CANTON,"
Emparatively few savings bank accounts are having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby
if
NOTICE TO CONSIGNENS.
THE P. & 0. 8. N. Co.'s Steimer
"ASSAYE,"
STRATES.
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
Contiguess of Cargo by the above-med vessel are hereby informed that their goods are Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company'e Godowas at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted cat mark by mira,
and delivers can be obtained as soon as the
This vessel bringe on
Cargo
4 China" From London, do; 01 8.9.. Goods are landed.
From Calcutta, ex 8.3. "Palawan." From Persian Gulf ex BIS, N. &
B. & P. B. N. Co.'s Steamers. Optional goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary within 6 hours
Goods not dared by the 22nd Oct, st 4 P.M. will be subject to rent.
"
No Fire Insurance will be effected by mə la
whatever, any case
Damaged jackages must be left in the Go- downs for examination by the Consignees and the Company's representatives at an appointed bear. All Chime must be presented within ton days of the steamer'a arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised. No hava Ciniza will be admitted after the goods
eft the Godown.
F. J. ABBOTT Acting Superintendent. Hongkong. 15th October, 1908.
FROM EUROPE
FAHE H. A. L. Steamship
SENEGAMBIA,
Captain Eckhorn, having serived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bill of Lading for countersignature by
the Undersigned, and to take immediate
Any Cargo
delivery
landed at her disaiarge will be
of their Goods, from alongside,
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless ootice to the contrary be given before To-Day, risk into tus hazardous and/or extra hazardons Gedowns of the Hong-
Godown kong and Kowloon Wharf and Laited, and stored at Consiguses risk and Arpose RERA MANA, MO All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised.
dow
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Good; remaining undelivered after the 23rd Oatobe, will ba subject to rent.
All brokos, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the dodowas, where they will be examined on the 22nd October, at 3 P..
A Fire Insurance has been effected.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Offoo
1444
Hongkong, 16 h October, 1908. AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NÁVI GATION COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM TELESTE, PORT SAID, SUEZ.
COLOMBO, ADEN, BOMBAY,
PENANG AND SINGAPORE. THE Company's Steamship
"CHINA,"
anting arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risks, into the hazardous and/or extra Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence
This Stamer brings Cargo from delivery way be obtained.
Venise ex 6.4. Metsovich," transhipped
at Trieste,
Trieste ex 88. Afrios," transhipped at
Bombay
Uptional Cargo will be discharged here unless roods
weetera China, that offer possibilities of future has been constantly olamouring for additional undelivered after the 23rd of Oct., be sub-notice to the contrary' be given immediately
discoveries of mammals, and some skins lately sent to London by Mason Mitchell, of the American Consular Service, differ materially from those of animals already recorded. One of these shine is that of a takin, a remarkable rumi- pant of China and Tibet that is usually brownish or golden yallow in colour, The new specimen is gray, and this colour is believed to mark a totally CHILDREN OF FAR CATHAY distinct race for which the name of Budoross taxícolar mitchelli kas been proposed. Another interesting skin is that of a reddish cat vid ently a Chinese race of the widely soattered bay-eat-which a British authority would name Felis temmincki mitobelb....
A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL NOVEL OF ABBORBING INTREEST
By CHAS. J. HALCOMBE (Formerly of the Imparial Chinese Costoma Bervice, Author of "The Mystio Flowery Land,” etc.).
THE VOLUME which consists of 461 Pages, and includes a Sketch Plan of historical interest showing the disposition of the Forces at the battle of wailing is dediosted to Sir Ronger HART, G.C.M.G. and Dr. A.
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No Claims will be admitted after the
und have left the Godowns. Noon on the 23rd Inat, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goode remaining in the Godowns after the
rl inst, will be subject to rant. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SANDER, WIELER & Co.,
Agents
sent to the Ofice of the Undersigned before
How
kong, 18th October, 1908.
Free State of the okapi, a curiously colored now being opsped or added try there, has not been informed that their Goods, with the action hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and ́ ramicant combining abiaracteristics of the hitherto any considerable drain on seein of Opium, Tressure and Valuables, are being giraffe and the deer. This creature is extremely deposits. In short, work is source, and threatens landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown raro and shy, however, so that even now for to heaome searcer, but there is no occasion for and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong
alarm museums have been able to scoure specimens for
ny, Limited, Kowloon, and West Point Measures for coping with the distrez are
delivery may be obtained. study, the zoological museum of Harvard numerong and promise to be adequate. The Cou
itted after the Goods i Godowns, when University being one of the fortunate ones, Burgh Datrous Committee is, of course, still
No Claims will be a Goods remaining have left the Godowns, and ha. There are still some regions, sepsalally in North- in being. In fact it has kept work going on ite so-called form colony all the nammer, and
grants from the Local Government Board in
All broken, chafed, and dam ved Goods are Edinburgh There has been a distloot differ-
examined on the 23rd Oct., at 9.30 ..
the 27th ency of opinion between the two bodies about to be left in the Godowns, where they will be palny and details of work It may be enough
All Claims must reach na before > to say now that the committee believes that
No Fire Insurance will be effected. it may count upon an indefinitely continued
Bills of lading will be countersigned by th Government grant of £300 a week. This it to make work on an estate parohssed by the committes at a considerable distance from the
undersigned.
MELCHERS & Co., city. It is poor land, which may ultimately
Agente
hundred men may be
Hongkong, 17th October, 1908.. be turned into an ordinary arable farm by spade work. Baven or maintained in this way, doing work worth a comparatively small percentage of the wages paid. Farther, the corporation has just bought. a large tract of land adjacent to one of the public parise and decided to lay it out at once the sake of sitonding employment, as a building site; and the vacions committees are now considering what kind of work they can lurry on while labour in qvor plentiful. Then following the example set by the Glasgow Herald the Lord Provost has opened a Distress Band and Liberal, response is being made by the diseas. Doubtless both foadd will be distributed in pure aliment by an organisation which is now being revived. This of last year, w is a central committee formed by experienced town cancillors, C.0.8. officials,
and
othors, which pays out money as required, at its dis- cretion, to a number of local sab-committeas composed of ward committoemen, obarch offina- bearers, and the like. Experience, somewhat dearly bought last year, will, it is hoped, enable this organization to reach all esses of genuine distress, and chest the loafer and sponger of what is too often, in such oirammstances, their easy prey..
Whett euch substances as glass or porcelain cannot be used for saidproof spparatus, platinum has been the one material available, but for many purposes this is too costly. As amb titute, M. Jouvo, a French engineer, has announced a series of alloys which he calls Its domumption of Chinese Soul Custommelfarts. These are silioides_nfirgn, and and Superstitions, combined with the insight it
manganese, with a large percentage of silicon, gives into political conditions in China maket
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