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NAPIER JOHNSTONES' "SQUARE BOTTLE"

WHISKY.

- BEWARE OF

UNVARLED FOR

THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN 1745.

150 YEARS.

IMITATIONS.

BOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG:

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.,

and from ALL WIND MERCHANTS [52 A LING & CO.. 19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

FURNITURE, AND PHOTO GOODS STORE.

Photographic Goods of every Description in Stock.

Developing and Printing Undertaken. Hongkong, 31st July, 1907,

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A. TACK & CO.,

25, Les Yeux ROAD, CENTRÁL

KODAKS &

FILMS

DEVELOPING & PRINTING UNDERTAKEN.

Hongkong, 15th Doocinber, 1909.

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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEFS

ITALIANA.

NAVIGAZIONE GENERALE

(Floric and Rnbattino United Companies.)

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM BOMBAY AND SINGAPORE.

THE Steamship.

THE

"ISCHIA," haying arrived from the above Porta, Con- signees of Cargo: by her are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk, into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Go. downs of the Hongkong und Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd., Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained. Perishable Goods to be taken delivery of immediately,

All Claims must be sent to the Office of the undersigned before Noor on the 21st inet, or they will not be recognised,

All Claims will be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 18th inst. will be subject

to rent,

All broken, clafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 20th inst., nt 9:30 AM No Fire Insurance has been affected

CARLOWITZ & Co., gouts.

Hongkong, 11th November, 1909.

FROM EUROPE.

HE HA.L. Steamship

"SCANDIA,"

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Optional Cargo will be married on unless notice to the contrary be given before TO-DAY.

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised.

FASHIONS AND FANCIES.

THE NEWEST DRAPERIES:

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16TH, 1909.

One of the most artistio shades of pale colour

sgo.

A CORDUROY COAT.

becoming than the unwieldy, top-henry hat which anggested the simile of the braas-headed null) to "donoribe a very frahlonably dressed womna. Her clinging garments give her the straightness of the mail, and her hat crowns the shows that it is absolutely imperative if a sub- top as the brass finishes the hall. As for cone agones in going to be run on sound business venienes, those who go about in trains and lines that a foreigner must be appointed if not, motor buses may cry Vive le toque-X.the companies suffer large losses quite indopon-

dout of accidental fres. AND Z. in the Globe.

have known many cases where native agents have been appointed, where companies have paid in full claims, which, if-properly, Juvestigated,} { would have been entirely repudiated. The above.!.

INDIA AND CHINA.

A NEW RAILWAY PROPOSAL.

To mention just another case, I know of London fire company with two agents in Shang- hal, one of whom opened some three years ngo aab-agency in an eatport not a thousand tiles from Shanghai with a foreign firm, whọ have been conducting the business on the usual safe lines as regards limits, hazard, and special

which

business at company,

have been in force ว่า this

that known in the dressmaking world as "old ivory," and it is in great raquast just now for winter austape in cloth stud xibeline, and for orening gowns braided or subroidered in gold Let us take an example of both. A cleth coat, and skirt, the latter vary short, narrow, and untrimmed, are in old ivory colour. The cont fastans up the right side under a band of aknak, and the long sleeves, slightly frilled in at the wriate, are set into rable cuffs. The staff is made of this ivory, cloth with a band of sable

An interesting proposal for the constraction bordering it at either side. A fat stole of similar fur is worn round the neck and thrown over the of a railway between India and China is nd- mapa, oto. The other agents of the sans com shoulder, whence it hangs long and straight. Vanced by Mr. Noel Williamson in a communi- The fur borders the goal, at old fashion revived.ation which he has addressed to the Royal Some of the smartest saal coats are long, with a political officer in the sorrice of the Indian Geographical Society. Mr. Williamson in a border of sablo, skunk, or Persian lamb, afton Government, who while stationed in Upper vory deep, just as they were worn twenty years Assam, has found on opportunity for exploring tho Lohit branch of the Brahmaputra, up to the Another costuma is in corduroy of this do Tibetan frontier. He found no serious natural lightful colour: Though the skirt adheres to difflculties in the way of his progress up the the prevalent meagre shape, the cont is, in this Lohit Valley, and believes it would be an easy instance, mado to it the figues, and is but thrus matter, as a beginning, to connect Badia with quarter legib. It buttons over to the late the borders of South-Eastern Tibat by a good aftor curving away from the neck, and below mule track. The distance frein the plains of As- the third baston if purres sharply back again, san to the border of Tibet is loss than fifty miles The revers are food with black satin; and there in a straight line and little more than hundred in a small collar of the same.

by the river valley. The route traverses a black velvet hat with gold oxydinad trimming who look to the Indian Government as the With it is worn a country cooupied by a quiet, peaceable people round the high crown and a large plume of neramount power, and the road could be con- black and ivery feathers rising at the left side tracted not only at comparatively little cost and curling over on themselves. A coat in but without risk of tribal unrest. The highest brown corduroy is long enough to form an

altitude occurs in the outer (or firet) range of entire dress. of Princess shape. It fastens ups, where there is a rise of 4,6001t, after the left side with large fancy buttons and ie caught in with a pleat or

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two at the back, each held down with smaller buttons caught together with cords in the colour of the cloth. This coat is Ruished with a little upright collar, which may presage the return of that onos indispensable feature.

́FOR EVENING WEAE,

A pretty frock in eld ivory soft satin, the bodice of which is gold net embroidered in tones of golland pastel green. The skirt is untrimmed, and shot enough to form a short train. Au ivory silk muslin has a lovely embroidery inpale tinted silke, the design very small blossoms with birds and butterflies of minute sise, but looking though sown with jewels. This long skirt, forming a tanie, is over a long skirt of gold- coloured Liberty satin, bordered with pale green. satin, a colour that brings out the tints of the embroidery in very effective fashion.

THE NEWEST DRAFIKNIRS.

The extraordinary manner in which dresses are drawn in about or below the knees is fashion unknown till now in the history of clothes. It is not only dificult to walk granofully in one of these, but absolutely impossible to walk upstairs without lifting the whole siirt well above the knees. One of the latest developments of this queer fashion is seen in a sulphur coloured velvet evening gown, made with a plain trained skirt, and a tunic out in one with the bodise at the back and drawn forward over the bips in a long curving lins at either side, the two meating in front male inches below the knees, thence surving away again towards the back. Eren this is less eccentric than a grey charmense which is draped with some slight fulness from the waist, and gathered into a band of trimming low at the back, halfway between knee and ankle. It used to be considered a racemary feature of a well-made gown that it should have a graceful outward How to back. Now fair is forgotten; and extravagances of the kind described reuder it very difficult for a woman to look graceful, even then she happens to be so hy nature, What with the very ugly huge hate that hide most of the face, the "scrimped skirts for walking, and the curious draperies on long gowns, the present fashious have more thu their fair share of ugliness.

One of the costs that are fastened by being caught together ander the arts is in

wrap for a ball-room, and tended as a Hight

Made of blue net, in the has a poetic sir, lovely shade devised by Worth of Paris, it falls long and straight from the shoulders and is beautifully embroidered in Nile, lilies of a faiutor blue. This trimming edges the side, and is very doop round the hem of the coat, which is finished all round with a quilling of blue crêpe. It is sleeveless. A second graceful evening coat is in rose-coloured crûpe-de-chine, edged all round with a narrow band of tailless ermine and lined with white chiffon. A lace, hood, in a tint cleverly made to look like that of age, hangs at the back, finished with cream. tinted tassels and cords, the tassels in the shape of Canterbury bolis and foxgloves, all worked

A GRACEFUL EVENING

COAT.

miles

which no high altitudes cbstract the way. The banks of the river appear specially suited to serve se a trade route. Large flat tiers running parallel to the Lohit, with easily-maranounted pars extending to the river itself, riss gradually

from an elevation of 1,200ft, near the confluence of the Tidding River with the Lohit to an elevation of 3,100ft. at Sati near the frontier- ma secant of 1,900ft. in seventy miles. In short, the valley offers, saya Mr. Williamson, a natura! highway into Tibet, which only requires the hand of man to render it easy and expeditions.

At present, it must be admitted, trade along the route is infinitesimal. It may reasonably be hoped, however, that improved communications would lead to a speedy development of trade. At present Bouth-Eastern Tibet (or the Rong. as the country is called) has no industries bo- case there is no incentive to the develop ment of its resources, A great qasatity of wool is wasted annually because there is no market for its sale. This is true not only as regards wool of ordinary quality, but sa regards the costly variety called bash, from which shawls are made. If communications were improved along this natural outlet for the trade of South-Eastern Tibet. facilities for export would be brought within the reach of all. Matual intercourse is impossible at the present moment, because Tibet is a forbiddon land; but a good bridle path leading down from the frontier to Sadiya, a place in close proximity to the attrat Tibetans to trade in Assam. Moreover, terminus of the Dibra-Sadiya Railway, would the Chinese Government is known to be taking stepe to strengthen its hold on Tibet, and it has been reported that a new Chinese previnos will shortly be formed out of the Hong. In any case the enterprising: Chinese trader may expected to be koonly alive to the advantages and 3r. of a communications with AssÐIÐ, Williamson, in addition to his modest proposal, a inle track along the for the opening up of Lohit Valley, emphasises the fact that, so far as engineering obstacles are concerned, the running of a railway up the Lohit towards Stechnin would be a distinctly feasible project.

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pany lare recently opened as agency in the samo pert with a native in charge and under man knows nothing of the conditions as I have previously described. This prosent in force for the samo and his general agents in Shanghai have given him permission to cut the old rates, particular port for some four years. He is thus to the position to take as much basiness as he can possibly get, and is cutting on the foreign representative with his cheaper rate, which the foreigner sannot use by instractions from the Shanghai offles. I am wondering what the London offloe will think of this when it is reported to them. Is it not time that hond agencies, and see, above all, that reliabla offices in Londen investigated their Chins foreigners are appointed in all cases? This, I can are them, will put many companion outport agencies on a paying besis instead of a

sing ono, as many are at present.

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THE RESULTING TRADE, EXPANSION. As far as Rims, on the Tibetan alle of the frontier, there would be no very serious difficulty in building the liue. Beyond that the country in certainly difficult. To reach Szechuan varion high asses would have to be crossed, as well, as the Salween, Mekong, and. Tangise rivers. This is undoubtedly a formidable array of obstacles. But the obstacles in the way of AS SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND HOUSE OF COMMONS. railway communication between India nad China are great by any route, and it must be romemb

mbered that the altitudes of the parser do not represent their hoights above the surround.

are the rivers the giant log country, nor waterways into which they develop further south. Whatever the cost of the undertaking." indeed, Mr. Williamson believes that compensa tion would be found in the facilities afforded for quick communication between India and Western China. Such facilities should lead to ад enormous expansion of trade between the two ene countries. At present, exports from India to Szachuan bave to be carried by ses t the mouth of the Yangtze and there commence another Foreheads are disappearing under the new long and difficult voyage up the river. coiffure, which is pushed forward by the thick Sahuan were placed in direct railway comunica plait of hair or band of velvet or oxydised tion with India an immense impetus would be“ trimming which gire anch a Greek effect to given to the development of the natural re- a prutty heal. That it is a mistake to cover sources of the province, cone of the richest up the forehozd is beyond a doubt. Not desired, the linking up of India and China by in China. Though often proposed and long only the scalptor and the artist could tell as this, but the student of human nature kaowa railway may still be regarded as a visionary what a loss of intellectual expression follows ideal, but as has been said by fir Thomas upon the hiding of the forshead, especially Holdich in connection with another project

in silk ercelm.

THE ECLIPSE OF THE FOREHEAD.

HIRE INSURANCE IN CHINA.

"Fire Insurance Agent" writes to The Times--

Certain Shanghai agents make a practice of appointing ativo agents for their firo nompanine in outports, and it is of this I wish to

sposk particularly The Chinese agent is in every

if the jaw should incline to be heavy. The for carrying a railway into Tibet, it is not more ideal forehand is broad not high, at least not visionary than was the idea of a modern hotel at the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi a quarter Captain V. Dohren, having arrived, Consignees, high in the sense of being free from any of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods growth of hair. An inch and a half to two-of-scentny ago.. are being lauded and placed at their rink in the inches above the brows, varying according hazardons and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of to the arch of these, should be the space the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown of white brow showing. The line should not Company: Limited, whence delivery may be recado above the asse. The way in which the obtained against Bills-of-Lading countersigned hair clusters round, the temples and cars is by the Undersigned.

sometimes a very great aid to good looks.. But the new way of doing the hair pushes it forward almost into the eyes. For the rest, the back should be swathed about with more or less crepe hair, allowing the shape of the case gaite incompetent to look after the business head to be indicated without any too great of a foreign fire company as it should be tightness. This up-to-date version of the conducted. He is generally a man who has no clignon should not be worn too high, and real knowledge of the rieks he is taking, nor below it there should be some softening locks has he had education enough to calculate wall of isir.

the business he accepts Moral hazard does not count at all with hi and the physical hazard is geterally left to lack. What he does do is to accept as many risks as possible for If himself, and in case of fire SIBAZO." he intends to be really dishonest (und 1 bate nover yet mot an honest Chinamea according to our idens, although perhaps to his own) le lass tremendous field for frand. No official

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Gedowns, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 20th inst. will be subject

to rent.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods must be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 18th inst., at 3 PM..

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No Fire Insurance will be effected by ne in back especially. With the smaller coiffure, companies, incidentally commission for

any case whatever...

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Hongkong Office. Hongkong, 14th December, 1909.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

From SHANGHAL, YOKOHAMA, KOBE

AND MOJI

HE Stearathi

THE

"JAPAN,"

having arrived from the above Ports. Consignees of Cargo are hareby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.

Cargo impoding the discharge will be handed at Consignees' risk and expensa into the and/or extra hazardous Godowas of hazardous the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by.... DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD., Agents. Hongkong, 13th December, 1909.

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The tricorno hat bas caught on, one of its skarme being that it shows the hair, at the smaller hats must inevitably come in. The turban and the toque are superanding the very large hat, but they are themselves quite ex- treme

in size, in fact enormous. The swathod velvet turbans give a very top-heavy look to the

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wearers.

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OTHER OFF-party.coloured cloth costume investigation is made in native cities of the WARE MERCHANTE..

tricorne of ermine is worn, a huge bunch of Bauses of fires, and I have never known of any Pazzao violets and a white pigrette a triming offender being brought to Look, To-day many An immense merik is covered with ermino, a astire cities have thefr. forsign-attire," khaki gold band round the crown. This accompanies a clothed police force. This innovation is, how white coat faced with emine and a very large whether inquiries will be made by them in the aver, in most cases of very recent date, and erming muff. A band of metallic trimming au- eireles the high crowns of some of the velvet hats.

immediate future I cannot say, Unless adjoin-

A black velvet brim, mach gathered, accompanies ing buildings suffer lose in the cases of suspect- fawn moire crown, a banel of saberginė roses ed arson nothing eau bu found out, and should composing the (rimming. The toque worn over one be able to get sny. information is werke one eye must not be forgotten in the list. It than aseless to charge a person at the magis is raised on the other side with a m188 of trate's yumen, as nothing is done except that flowers beneath it.

runners attached to the Tamen have a profit- able source of "squeeze," and that is all,

With native agente the foreigner in Shanghai

THE SMALLER HAT. Paris has now become accustomed to the setting of fashions by London, Will the or elsewhere has no means of finding out the Parisienne adopt the smaller hat as worn by suitability of the risks taken except for an some of our greatest and smartost women at the occasional visit, and it must happen that many

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