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Hongkong Daily Press.
ESTABLISHE 1857.
No 13,382 WESTERED BI+A+*+** HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3TH, 1901 ĦA +AEST VÅTERÆ PRICE, $2) PER MONTH
A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED.
BUNDAY HOURS OF BUSINESS,
FROM this date Tur HONGKONG
DISPENSARY will bo OPEN
BUSINESS on SUNDAYS from
for
"AQUARIUS.”
A. PERFECT TABLE WATER.
QUARTS AND PINTS,
UNEQUALLED FOR PURITY,
ALL INGREDIENTS USED THE BEST QUALITY,
RECOGNISED AS THE CHEAPEST.
IS MOST SUITABLE FOR MIXING WITH WINES
AND SPIRITS.
UNRIVALLED, AND UNQUESTIONABLY THE
SAFEST DRINKING WATER IN THE WORLD.
·CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO..
Hongkong, 24th January, 101.
BOLE AGENTS.
COTTA M
IU A.M. TÓ I P.M,
Medicines and necessaries can be procured at other times from the English Assistant on
duty.
.A. S. WATSON & CO..
LIMITED.
Hongkong. 28th January, 1901.
UTLER, PALMER AND CO.
CUT
WINE SHIPPERS SINCE 1815,
Who have consigned their Brands to Hongkong
for over half a century.
Apply to G. C. ANDERSON,
Hongkong, 13, Prays Central
15, Queen's Road,
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70
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and Nautical Pocket Manual, $2.25.
THE IMPERIAL ANGLO-CHINESE
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DIARY, $1.25.
Military Retrospect, by Major S. L.
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SLAZENGER'S E.G.M. TENNIS EACQUETS.
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REGRETS
DRINKING,
SCHLITZ WORLD
BEER
Cuisine of the best.
Hot and Cold Water throughout
Wines and Groceries imported specially from
Earope and America.
Electric Lighting in the Billiard Rooms.
Wines, &o., cooled by Refrigerator.
All Hotel Linen washed on the premises by
Machinery.
Bedroom Accommodation-132 rooms.
Fire Extinguishing Mains on every floor
CHARGES MODERATE.
A
NAPIER
QUARE BOTTLE WHISKY
SQUARE
The sale of this good Bootch increases month
by month. It is of Superb Quality and of
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CUTLER, PALMER & Co.'s SELECTION.
Sole Agents for it
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.›
Hongkong.
JOHN WALKER & SONS'
YAMOUS
KILMARNOCK WHISKY.
This World-renownal.
Fine OLD HIGHLAND WHISKIES are shipped
by CUTLER, PALMER & CO., aud
are obtainable in Hongkong of
SIEMSSEN & CO.
Hongkong, 28th July, 1897,
CUTLER, PALMER
& 00.8
PRICE $10.75 PER DOSEN
NED
SPECIAL BLEND" WHISKY
Biend
of Selected
Distillations of the Finest Sootah Whiskies.
Apply to
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SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong. [48
HONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAM
COMPANY, LIMITED.
TIME TABLE. WERK DAYS.
7.30 8.m. to 8.30a.m....Every quarter of an hour *.30 am to 9.30am...Every ten minutes. 8.30 ahi, to 10,45 a.m....very quarter of an hoar 1130a.m. to 3.00pan....Every quarter of an hour 3.30 p.m. to 8.30p.m....Every quarter of an hour p.m. to 8.00p.m...Every ten minutes Night cars at 845 pm, and 9 pm, and from
9.4 p.m. to 11.15 p.az.
8:30
every
SATURDAYS.
hour.
Extra Night ears at 11.30 and 11.45 p..
SUNDAYS.
s.15 and, to 10.15am....Every half hour 10.30 am to 11.00a.m....Every ten minutes
Noon to 2 pm. Every quarter of an hour 2.45 pan. to 8 p.m.....Every quarter ofan hour Night cars at 8,45 p.m. and V p.m., and from
0.45 p.m. to 11.15 pan. every half hour. SPECIAL CARS by arrangement at the Com pany's Office, 35 & 40, Quesn's Hoad Central,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, let May 1899.
VICTORIA
CYCLE
EMPORIUM.
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THE pleasure of cycling consists in having Täpstlass soling, and the above me tablishment is always leading in this respect. We are Agents for the famous NEW HOWE" and MONOPOLE" CYCLES, and we also supply fittings of every description. Bargains can be had in second hand Machines. Repairs executed with promptitude and skill.
Enamelling a speciality,
MCKIEDY & CO., 40 & 43, QUEEN'S ROAD EAST. Hongkong, 3rd November, 1899. [#2509
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY PORTLAND CEMENT. $5.00 per Cask of 375 lbs. net ex Factory.. 83.00 per Bag of 250 lbs.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong. 2nd July, 1900,
WILLIAN MACLEOD, DDS, DENTIST,
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BEACONSFIELD ARCADE. (Opposits Hongkong & Shanghai Bank.) Hongkong, 10th November, 1900.
IS
THE
ONLY BEVERAGE ONE NEVER
TONIC AND REFRESHING.
SOLE AGENTS-
WATKINS, LIMITED,
CHEMISTS, AERATED WATER' MANUFACTURERS, AND
COMMISSION AGENTS,
HONGKONG.
PHOTOGRAPHIC
·PLATES, PAPERS AND CHEMICALS. EASTMANS KODAK'S, FILMS AND ACCESSORIES, DEVELOPING AND PRINTING UNDERTAKEN.
A. CHEE & Co.,
17A, QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGKONG..
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CLUB
WHISKY
$12 PER Doz.
H. PRICE & CO..
12, QUEEN'S ROAD.
UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY (LIMITED)
SOLE AGENTS IN
THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY HONGKONG, CHINA, JAPAN, AND THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, FOR THE
HONGKONG.
AERATED WATERS.
SODA WATER.
GINGER ALE.
SIMPLE AERATED WATER.
LEMONADE.
SARSAPARILLA.
TONIC WATER.
RASPBERRYADE.
LEMON SQUASH,
SPECIAL TERMS to Hotels, Cluba, Messes and other large consumers.
FURNISHING
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UNITED ASBESTOS COMPANY, LTD., LONDON,
CONTRACTORS TO H M. GOVERNMENT. MANUFACTURERS OF THE BEST QUALITIES OF ASBESTOS PACKINGS &e., GLADIATOR" Pasking for High Pressures. Recognized by loading Engineers to be the best opmbination of Metal and ASBESTOS over introduced. Reduces friction to a minimum or Piston and Valve Bods, and is absolutely imperishable. "GLADIATOR" and "VICTOR METALLIC BOILER JOINTS SUPPLIED to H. M. and other FOREIGN NAVIES. ASBESTOSSALAMANDER" Non-conducting Boiler Covaring. Composition used erten. sively by the British and American Navin ASBESTOS FIREPROOF COLOUR and FUNNEL PAINT. SALAMANDER" Lubricating and Cylinder Oils of the Best Qualities. “CAURICEDALE METAL" Anti-friction Plastic Metal. recognized by engineering experts to be the best Metal in the Market.
DEPARTMENT.4)
WINTER SEASON'S GOODS JUST ARRIVED.
*COMPLETE HOUSEHOLD FURNISHING. LARGEST STOCK OF BEDSTEADS, CARPETS, LINOLEUMS, CURTAINS,
&c., IN THE EAST.
ESTIMATES FREE.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
CUTLER, PALMER & CO.
ESTABLISHED IN LONDON IN 1815.
SHIPPERS TO CHINA FOR 75 YEARS. Their Brands are favourably known all over the World.
The following are some of their Stocks with the undersigned :-- SUPERB OLD COGNAC,
$22.50 PER DÓZ.
Distinguished by 4 Stam on the label.
ANOTHER FINE COGNAC, $16.75 per doz.
Les old than the above..
THE ELITE OF WHISKY:—
THE “PALL MALL,
$20 PER DOZ.
11 Years old; the nest quality shipped.
Each bottles bearman Analyst's certificate. C. P. & Co.'s OWN SPECIAL
BLEND WHISKY,
$10.75 PER DOZ.
Very soft, palatable, and mature.
ESTIMATES GIVEN FOR EVERY DESCRIPTION OF WORK.
Chief Superintendent
Buperintendent
rit
THOMAS SKINNER. ARCHIBALD RITCHIE, DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, General Managers
ROSS' PATENT PRISMATIC BINOCULARS.
WITH THE FIELD AND POWER OF A TELESCOPE IN THE COMPASS OF
AN OPERA GLASS.
OTHER FIELD AND OPERA GLASSES IN STOCK.
ACHEE & CO.,
17A. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.
W. BREWER & CO.
NEW STOCK.
38 Spencer's
Indian Cigars
Java Barrel,... 500 for $10,00
Also Beaconials Torpedoes, &c.
Cigars
C.P. & Co.'s INVALIDS' PORT
$20 PER DOZ..
This fing Wine is old, soft, and of grand flavour See analysis and certificate by Professor Cassall
DOURO PORT,
$14.25 PER DOZ.
A fine, full, and fruity wino.
AMOROSO SHERRY,
$20 PER DOZ.
LA TORRE SHERRY,
$16.75 PER DOZ.
A natural and most pleasant wine to the taste.
BENEDICTINE LIQUEUR-----
D.O.M.,
$39.75 TER DOŽ.
EVERYBODY SHOULD TRY THESE ITEMS; THEY ARE UNEQUALLED AT THE PRICE
AGENT SIEMSSEN & CO., HONGKONG.
Havana Mathilda Flor-Fins, $3.00 per 100 |
Will's Three Castle Cigarettes. Cigarettes Gold Flake Honey-Dow & Tobuces and Navy Cut Tobacco,
Viking Navy Cut & May
Blossom Cigarettes, Lambert & Butler's
Cigarettes and Log Cabin and Flaked
Tobacco
Gold Leef Honez Dow Tobacco. Anglo-Egyptian (Suitans.... .. $2.00 per 100
2.50 Cigarette Co.'s Pashas
Cigarettes. Isis (Cork Tips) 3.00
All in Splendid Coudition.
JUST
RECEIVED IN
NEW STOCK.
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THE
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|PEAK HOTEL.
| City Office: 7, Duddéll Street,“
HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN.
**193
LUNKETS GAP, The PEAK, near the
PL
Tram Terminu.
Tel. 56.
For Terms, apply to the
Hongkong. 2nd July, 1900.
A
MANAGER.
THE WAVERLEY HOTEL.
ICE HOUSE STREET, HONGKONG.
FIRST-CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL.
Handsonisly Furnished and Exceedingly Spacious Rooms.
Very MODERATE TERMS to FAMI LIES by the DAY or MONTH.
THE CONNAUGHT HOTEL.
FIRST CLASS HOTEL of 45 Bed.. rooma, elegantly furnished.
A
|
The Hotel is situated near all the Banks and Principal Offices in the Colony.
Special Attention paid to the Comfort of Guests..
Cuisine excellent, under. Experienced Ma-
nagement.
Torms Moderate.
A. FONSECA,
Manager.
Hongkong. 1st December, 1899. KOWLOON HOTEL
T
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THIS HOTEL is situated in a quiet.
locality, away from the din and distur bance of the City, and surrounded by a delight- ful Garden, it is an ideal place of Residence. The building stands on an eminence, giving a nagnificent view of the Harbour and the City of Victoria. It is within onsy access of the Kowloon Wharves, where the principal GENTLEMEN'S BLACK and BROWN which there is a regular ferry service to Hong- Mail Steamers disembark Passengers, and from
WALKING BOOTS and SHOES.
kong,
Bowling Alleys and Billiards. The Cuisine is Excellent.
Also in PATENT LEATHER and BUCK J. W. OSBORNE,
SKIN.
LADIES BLACK and BROWN `WALK-
ING SHOES.
Very Superior Quality.
23 & 25, Queen's Road, Hongkong.
SPLENDID CONDITION.
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SPICED NORWEGIAN ANCHOVIS IN KEOS.
: SALT HERRINGS IN KEGS.
SALT SALMONBELLIES IN KEGS.
SALT SARDELLĖS IN TINS.
RUSSIAN CAVIAR IN TINS.
BONELESS ANCHOVIS, SARDINES AND MACKERELS IN OIL.
FRIED SWEDISH LAMPREYS IN OIL
FRIED BALTIC HEREINGS IN OIL AND TOMATO SAUCE. "FRIED BALTIC DELICATESS EEL.
رتلة
SPROTTS IN OIL. PRESERVED LAX. STUFFED AND PLAIN OLIVES. FRESH GEUYÉRE, ROQUEFORT, CAMEMBERT, LIMBURGER, & CHEESE. FRESH GERMAN METTWURST SAUSAGES.
THE HONGKONG STEAM WATER BOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE above Company is prepsted to supply the shipping in Hongkong with PURE and FILTERED WATER both for deck and boilers.
Call Flag W.
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J. W. KFW, Manager, 20, Des Vœux Read. Hongkong, 18th December. 1900. [3133
G. GIRAULT,
6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. BAILEY & MURPHY.
CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND
SURVEYORS,
60 & 62, Des VEUX ROAD.
Telephone No. 167. Telegrams "Contract."
W. S. BAILEY, M.I. MECH, E.
E. O. MURPHY, WH. sc. 4.M.I. MECH. E. Hongkong, 4th January, 1901. [13
J. H. DOWNS, Proprietor.
Manager, Hpagkong, 8th Soptomkor, 1900.
HING KẾE HOTEL.
(ESTABLISHED 1573) MACAO,
THIS First-clains mid well-famed establish-
THI
ment is pleasantly situated in the centre
Com-
of PRAYA GRANDE, facing south, with a charming view of the ses on the front. |fortable and well furnished Bed-zooms.
Cuisine Excellent. Prompt Attendance.
Terms vory Moderate.
L. HING KEE, Proprietor. -Telegraphic addresHINGEE** (1919
RAFFLES
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
SITUATION UNSURPASSED. THE Finest Hotel in the East.
Rooms en
suits. Every Room with Private Bathroom attached. Cuisine under two French Chefs.
CURRIES A SPECIALITY
Every Home Comfort.
Electric Bells throughout the Hotel.
Electric Lights.
Electric Fana. Terms. Moderate.
SARKIES BROTHERS,
Proprietors.
*Hongkong, 16th August, 1900.
R
‣UINART PERE & FILS, REIMS
Establisker 1719. CHAMPAGNE GROWERS AND SHIPPERS.
Ship only the Finest Quality Extra Day (Green Seal) LAUTS, WEGENER & CO.
Sole Agents. Hongkong, 17th May. 1895,
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