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HAMBURG LETTER.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2018, 1912.

[SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THỂ “HONGZONG DAILY PASS"]

HAMBURG, August 22nd. According to official accounts sheep

NAPIER JOHNSTONES'd

*SQUARE BOTTLE

WHISKY.

UNVARIED FOR OVER

150 YEARS.

THE SAME TO-DAY AS IN

1745.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.

SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.,

and from Art Wina MinOBANTS.

TO LET

TO LET.

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yond the usual time by wet and cold weather and even at the end of May reliable data as to the total yield had not yet been received. On the whole the results are considered satisfactory, how- ever, the average yield per head of sheep being reported "good" in many districts, as, owing to the mildness of the winter and the abundance of green food in the spring, the animals wore in excellent condition, which, as is well known, has a beneficial effect both on the quantity. and quality of the wool. Some of the, districts on the rivers Wolga and Enjeper, however, which are still suffering from the after effects of the partial failure of the crops last year, make an exception, the clip there being poor in both respects. In spite of the generally speaking satis- factory yield per head, the total is not likely to reach that of last season in consequence of the steadily decreasing number of sheep, as the sheep walks aro gradually being converted into arable land and the cost of wool-growing has risen. Of large socks of merinoes there are but few and these are in the hands of Bond of the great landowners, the

WM. POWELL

LTD.

TELEPHONE 346.

THE VERY LATEST FABRIC

FOR

CURTAINS,

SHORT BLINDS,

CUSHIONS, SCREENS.

IS

STENCILLED

MUSLINS.

SEND FOR PATTERNS.

LARGE SIMSTANTIALLY Front peasantry who are acquiring most of oxceed her exports considerably, having

GODOWN, on Water

Kast Point.

For further particulars apply Property Offes, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD Hongkong, 15th Angust, 1912. ^ 1995

TO LET.

The

the land not caring for sheep and only keeping enough of them to supply the household requirements of wool. falling off is less marked in those sections of the country where sheep producing HOP with GODOWN attached, Nathar is a growing demand there on the part of woal of a coarser kind are bred, for there Road, Kowloon.

ina mufacturers who either export their KOWLOON MARINE LOT No. 49 with goods or sell their yarns to the country WHARF.

Folk to be woven by them at home.

Apply to

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCI

Co., LTD., Alexsadra Buildings.

Hongkong, 16th August. 1912.

TO LET,

ON 2ND FLOOR, No. 2 PODDE ST ONE ROOMED OFFICE.

Apply Property Ofics,

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in value M70,360,000 against M21,310,000. been three times as large last year, viz,

whence the exports of wine last year The chief exporting countries are France, amounted to 153 million Marks, Italy 42 millions and Greece with somewhat figuring with 108 millions, Portugal with

under 15 milliona

PROMOTION IN THE BRITISH NAVY.

Two NEW BANKS,

by Mr. Churchill when introducing the The devil of the scheme, announced

he promoted to commissioned rank, have Navy Estimates, whereby selected war. rant officers and men in the Navy are to been issued by the Admiralty. Two new ranks, acting mate and mate, are to be Established in the service.

VERMOUTH.

MARTINI

and ROSSI TURÍN,

Are the largest producers of Italiau Vermouth in the World.

This Vermouth is the only one with which the well-known Martini Cocktail can be prepared.

GARNER, QUELCH & Co.,

TELEPHONE 636

JOLE AGENTS.

Van

Houten's

Cocoa

The iron trade continues flourishing,

The woollen trade everywhere con-

and as the accounts from the United Candidates selected will not be more tinuing active, the demand for the raw

States are equally favourable, we may than twenty-five years of age and will be chosen from the list of gunners, torpedo- material remains steady, not to say brisk, hope for a return of activity in all-

gunners, and boatswains, and from men and prices are firin, as shown by the last branches of business after the summer

who hold the rating of petty officer and London sales. Cotton spinners and manu- holidays, particularly if the unofficial have passed the examination in senman- ship for warrant rank. A recomenda- facturers are also well under orders but negotiations which seem to be going on

tion from the captain will be indispeu- exhibit no great anxiety to buy as yet at present between Turkey and Italy sable, and the names recommended will in anticipation of a better selection and should lead to the conclusion of peace also be submitted to a committee of offi

The stock Cers of the squadron. between the two Powers. lower prices later on when the new

Solected candidates will undergo pre- American cotton begins to come in more

markets are apparently waiting for a

liminary courses, and after them will be fresh stimulus of that kind, for although given the rank of acting mate, proceed. freely, the quality of which is said to bo very good. As to the size of the erop

there is little speculative demand, prices ing to Greenwich for six month instruc MR. MONTAGU'S VISIT TO INDIA. estimates vary, but they have increased do not give way, quotations for shares in. They will be classed as ward-room officers and will receive 28. a day messing

Mr. Montagu's visit to India, the| again of late owing to an improvement of the large shipping companies, such as allowance, and B. a day pay. After aires says, will probably occupy about the Hamburg-America Line, the Nord further examination they will become our months. Accompanied by his Ni Cangren Road, Kowloon, from the where they were needed, whilst they had advancing tendency. Money is somewhat be promoted to lieutenant's rank, and Mrjoja on October 4th for a holiday

deutsche Lloyd, etc.. showing

anmates, and, after from two to three years younger brother, Mr. Lionel Montagu, service as acting mate or mate they will he sails from Marevilles by the 9.8. ceased in sections where precipitation tighter, as is usually the case at this will thereafter be eligible for promotion visit chielly designed to widen had hitherto been excessive; southern time of the year owing to the barvest to commander exactly as other lieuten acquaintance with men and things con- Texas alone is reported to be still suffer-

neoted with the Dependency acquired by ing from drought. Prices have const-

requirements.

A further regulation provides for the more than two and a half years of quently dropped close upon a penny per THE FIRST MAN AND THE FIRST rank, where such axists, of all deserving Prime Minister and Lord Crewe.

promotion to commissioned

office warrant does so with the hearty approval of the Under Secretary for India. He warrant officers after fifteen years' ser the visit of the latter for the Durbar as Like

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD Fongkong, 23rd May, 1912.

TO LET.

[735

TEW First Class SIX ROOM HOUSES

1st of October next. Moderate rent.

Apply to

SPANISH DOMINICAN

2, Seymoar Road.

PROCURATION,

Hongkong, 27th August, 1912.

TO LET.

Apply Property Office,

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in the weather, rains seem to have fallen

pound during the last three weeks and n further decline, as already stated, is ex-

WOMAN TO LAUGH,

ODREINAGH, 21, The PEAS, for Sixpected by many, sering that the crops in hearing the title,Why the World M Months from 1st November.

A book has recently been published India and Egypt promise well; in fast Laughs":- new colton is already coming into the

The author has tried to catch the the day of world's laughter from market in Alexandria, which is much Adsin in Eden to the day of Mark At the same time, Twain in America, Adam was surely however, 6d. to Bld, for middling would the first to laugh and start all the

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LT Hongkong, 4th September, 1912. (1046

TO LET.

carlier than usual.

ants.

vice.

LENGTHENING LINERS AT

GLASGOW.

Steamship surgery has assumed a con-

as

the

Minister in attendance on the King: Emperor, the tour marks a new de- parture, for this will be the first occasion on which a Parliamentary Under Score- tary for India has gone out to that coun try during his occupancy of the appoint ment. But the visit differs in character from that of Lord Crewe in being on-

ODOWNS in No:94A and No.94c, Prays appear quite a reasonable price consider. I chuckles, guffaws, knee-slaps, digs instructive phase. There is now a growing tirely unofficial. Mr. Montagu will have! ing the enormous consumption that is the ribs that have brightened the world tendency to bring big liners up to date neither the opportunity nor the desire to

Apply to-

KWONG SANG HONG, LTD., 248, Des Your Road Central. Hongkong, 7th September, 1912.

TO LET

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No. 13, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE First Floor,

No. 113, PRAK, KIRKENDOA, FIVE

ROOMS, Famished, imediate possession.

No. 19, SHELLEY STREET,

LARGE ROOMS, Central Position, Cheap

Rent.

You by splicing in new sections on the lines discharge while in India the ordinary now and again in serious times. going on. Planters in the southern States may imagine that first laugh. Adam ante few years ago for the repair duties of his appointment.

He has no think it too low even, for according to alone, asleep under a tree; perhaps the of the White Star boat Suevia.

intention of making speeches, giving Remarkable operations of this character instructions, or in any way concerning the papers the "Southern States Cotton very fig-tree on which his trousers were

are being conducted upon the Clyde for himself officially with the ordinary Corporation" have decided to send their growing. And the world was dull and

He had nothing to laugh at the Thompson Line of steamships. Two machinery of administration. lonely. accretary, a Mr. Geo. D. Wadloy, to Remember he had no mother-in-law, no important twin-screw boats, the Maruthon No First Flour

TO. 13. BEACONSFIELD ARCADE Germany for the purpose of finding the clothes to lose in a bathing expedition, and Miltiades, each of 6,755 tons gross, are to be so treated that they will gain and no public-house, no lodger-and no money for a kind of cotton valorisation woman, and no twins he had, indeed, an increased length of 50ft., an additional HOW THIN PEOPLE MAY riddling up to 15cs, and to keep it at laugh at: wei scheme which is to put the pries of nothing whatever of inconvenience to tonnage of 1,215, and proportionate

a solemn, easy- and

increases in the passenger and cargo

PUT ON FLESH. sleepy world with no complications, accommodation. that level. We of the old world may be And no joke.

But if you will read

GREAT DISCOVERY BY EMINENT becoming somewhat senile, but it is hard again those verses of Genesis, you will

SPECIALIST. to believe that we are so far gone as to find that splendid legend of the birth of It was a dig provide the means ourselves for raising in the ribs, a dig that stirred man to

humour--a gift of God.

Judging from the countless prepara- tions and treatments which are the price of one of the most necessary accept the God-given boon of laughter.

tinually being advertised for the purpose raw materials artificially against us. For the woman came, and man began to

of making thin people fleshy, developing laugh. The prospects in the agricultural dis- He world laughed, not as the byena,

ugly hollows and angles by the soft curved the arms, neck and bust, and replacing! tricts in this country and in most parts but critically-the intelligent world. The

lines of health and beauty, there are) of northern Europe have changed first man found his first joke in woman, The extraordinary part of this opera evidently thousands of men and women and the first woman no doubt replied tion lies in the fact that although the who keenly feel their excessive thinness, for the worse since the beginning of the with a mention of that dig in the ribs tonnage will be increased nearly one-sixth and it therefore gives us real pleasure to month, heavy rains and a low tempera-. And over the two was that finest of short and extra accommodation provided for publish herewith a simple prescription ture, such as has not been experienced in stories of the man and the woman who 220 third-class passengers and 30 first-which by correcting faulty metabolism

looked at each other and laughed, the month of August for many years, rather hopefully, pas chinks, when the class passengers, it is estimated that the and stimulating the activity of certain having done serious damage to the cereal first woman and the first man attained

coal consumption and also the speed of sluggish vital organe quickly produces a OFFICE ROOMS on the Firet. Floor crops in the fields, although it may be the God-given privilege of contemplating inden, a sister boat built by Megays. marvellous transformation in the appear- hoped that the damages will prove less laughter. That first joke was not about Millindes, a Messrs.ance; the increase in weight frequently Alex Stephen & Sons in 1904, will averaging from 4 to 5 pounds the first mother-in-laws or bonnets or babies, or

For Bale. "HARTING and BOGATE" on part of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1154.

Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,

3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings Hongkong, 18th September. 1912 1128

OFF

TO LET.

FFICES in KINGS BUILDING.

Apply

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT AND AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 1st September, 1912. {121

TO`LET.

54 and 56, Queen's Road Central, Apply to

N. MODY & Co., 54 and 56, Queen's Rond Central Hongkong, 11th September, 1912.

TO LET

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ON SHAMEEN, BRITISH CONCESSION,

WIX ROOMS and LAEGE OFFICES.

recently in occupation of Standerd Oil Best business situation.

Apply to-

T. E. GRIFFITH, Canton.

- Canton. 3rd August, 1912,

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.

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THERAPION NO. 1 THERAPION No. 2

CURIT BLOOD TOUKON, RAD JEGS, SKIN KEUPTIONE,

THERAPION No. 3

CULISCHRONIC WEAKNESSES, DRAINS, LOSTYIOON, EL- SOLD BY LEAVING EKEMISTS, FRAGE IN ENGLAND, 15 SERE STAMP ADDRESS ENYALOK FOR AQUELL FREE BOOK 10 DR. LA CLBAO MED. Co.

TOMAN BAMPSTEAD, LONDON. FOR YU)]

(TASTELESS) PONS OF MAST TO. TAXX

BAYS AND ZASIENOSURE. SEE THAT TRIDE MARKED WORD, THERATION OF 175} JBRIZ, SOFT, SZÁMÚ ARSIZED TO ALL GENUINE JACKETÉ NINSIST ON HAYING THERATION,

THERARION

The Marathon is already in the hands Messrs. Alex. of the ship surgeo Stephen & Bons have eut her into two from rail to rail, and, having drawn the forward part ahead for a distance of ft., are now engaged in building a new When this is complete an additional funnel will be added for the boilers.

section between the points of severance.

con-

than appears at present. Roots on the Jothes or anything, but the suddon undergo a similar "operation" when the week, and very rarely less than 2. This other baud have benefitted by the rains, laughter. of the man encountering Marathon leaves the dock in the autumn. increase in weight also aizies with it a

and the effects of this have manifested woman, and the reply of the woman, themselves in the sugar markets, which who, we may suspect, already "laughed have for some time shown a downward at being laughed at, Undoubtedly it took only a man and a woman to pro- tendency. Potatoes alone seem to have duce laughter. suffered, for although the yield promises

to be unusually large the disease is

RANGOON CLERGYMAN

ARRESTED.

"MRS. PANKHURST, VICEROY,""

general improvement in the health. Catarrh, dyspepsia, and nervoliness, which nearly always accompany excessive thinness, all gradually disappear; dull A Hindu, writing to the Times of eyes become bright, and pale checks glow India on Buffragettes, says: ---

with a bloom of perfect health,

I, Buffragiste allowed in House of Parliament they make the world topside down.

First of all they mako Mrs. Pankhurst

The prescription, which contains no drugs and is absolutely harmless, calls making its appearance in. almost all

for oz. Tincture Cardamoms Com- quarters The unseasonable weather ie At the instance of Ronald Ady, &

and B.P., 2 02 Entrada Compound, most severely felt perhaps in the wine-broker, the District Magistrate, Ran Viceroy of India and Mrs. Pethick oz. Elixir Simplex and enough water to fill an 8 oz. bottle, and can readily be growing districts, where the month of goon, issued a warrant for the arrest of Governor of Bombay.

Rev. R. H. Madea of the American Your St. Paul is very clever follow. August is looked upon as a most critical Baptist Church on a charge of libel. He knows all the foolish things of the prepared by any chemist. One to two tablespoonfuls should be taken about period in the development of the grape. The accused was arrested and released womans. He says very strongly womans 20 minutes before sach meal. Eat all you It was in a very great, measure, dne to the on bail with two sureties of R100 each. must shut the mouth.

The alleged libel consisted of the No talking about business or anything. want, but chew your food thoroughly,

CAUTION: Although the above pre- two letters, said to Everything must ask to the husbands and last year that the vintage is said to be be grossly

nervousness, indigestion and catarrhal The envelopes womans to talk. 16th to complainant. superior to almost any eince the famous 160

were both addressed: "R. Ady, king of But what the womans care for St. troubles, it should not, owing to its re- one of 1811, the year of the comet, as it liars, Merchant Street." The first letter Paul. He is poor fellow and not pass-markable flesh growing properties, be is called. It may not be generally known atates: "The curse is now on you" and ing M.A. and B.A. like them and their used by anyone who does not desire to that the imports of wine into Germany is signed with a Telugu signature. The husbands perhaps only passing fourth or put on flesh,

second says: "Your life is in danger.' fifth standard.

high temperature prevailing at that time accused detamatory, on July 10th and he will tell you. Shame, shame for seription is unequalled for relieving |

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When

"Only Middling'

your health is very far from satisfactory. The slightest knowledge of pathological science is sufficient to inform us how precarious is the con dition of the person who is "only middling." The power of disease-resistance is practically ail, & an ordinary atmospheric change or dietetic irregularity may lay you up for weeks.

Take

care therefore that you possess nothing less than vigorous, robust health. Just as nothing succeeds like Success so there is no better guarantee of sus- tained health than never to let Conse- yourself run down. quently if you are not feeling up to the mark get yourself into tip-top condition at once, by taking a few doses of

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BEECHAM'S PILLS.

Specially suitable for Females of all ages.

Selieverywhere in boxes, prima võc). (16-sikini,

(1/4), (56 pilis) and afu (#68 pilla),

CHAPOTEAUT'S

MORRHUSL

Superior to Emulsions or Cod Liver oil.

Each tiny Morrhuoi capsule re- presents the medicinal value of a teaspoonful of oil.

Recommended at the Paris Aca- demy of Medicine, for loss of appetite and flesh, to patients with consumptive tendencies,

Bold in bottles of 100 Capsules.

· Said by all Chemtite.

· 113-5

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