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INSURANCES
NORTHRITISH" AND "MERCAN
TILE NSURANCE COMPANY.
£15,722,699.
PUBLIC COMPANIES
"GEO. FENWICK & COMPANY, LINITED.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, MARCH 9tır. 1909
THE NEW GERMAN BATTLESHIP, Brindisi st lost. The one-man-one-bag-process
now commences again, and continues for GENTLEMEN'S A new and very formidable recruit for the three weary hours. The scene is interesting. growing Germosa Imperial Navy was launched
battleship of the dist-class. She and her sister of the porters. They are not of the wall-fed, at Kiel, in the Braunschweig, a heats amoured however, and is perhaps not unworthy of record. The first thing that strikes one is the appearance ships will be largest warships yet constructed
of 13,200 tons.
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OUTFITTING.
I. AUTHORIED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 MARCH, at NGON, or the purpose of re. for ermany, as they will have displacement | blue-bloazad Colals type, but are as motley a SHIRTS & COLLARS ARE PERFECT FITTING, BEING SCIENTIFI
SUBBOLIND CAPITAL.... 2,750,000 0 0
687.500 0 PAID-UP JAFITAŬ ............. II. Fran FD9... 2,695,548 5-2.
FOURTEENTH TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1901. GENERAL MEETING of SHARE ORDINARY HOLDERS will be bold in the HONGKONG. HOTEL, THIS DAY (MUNDAY), the 9th ceiving the Report of the Directors, declaring a Dividend, and electing Director and Auditor. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th FEBRUARY until the 9th MARCH, bota days inclusive.
By Ordor of the Board of Directors,
W. G. WINTERBURN, General Manager. Hongkong, 9th March, 18;
$685 HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED.
The Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS or the above Company, are pre pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Ree.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents. Hoogkog, lat July, 1902.
[1706 AACIEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- SURANCE CO.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL TIPE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are -prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE
st Current Rates.
REUTER BRÖCKELMANN & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 21st April, 1897
1113 NORTHERN ASSURANCE CJ,
ESTABLISHED 1830.
Tre prepared to accept First-class Foreign HE Undersigned Agents of aboro Company and Chinese RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates
TURNER & CO. 14th January. 19-3. Hongkong, GENERAL MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,
OF DRESDEN.
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TENTS for the abors Company, ste THE Undersigned, having been appointed prepared to ACCEPT FOREIGN CHINESE RISKS.
NOTICE TO. SHAREHOLDERS.
THE SIXTEENTH ORDINARY TANNUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the shore Company will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICE. No. 2 Connaught Road, at Noox, on THURSDAY, the 12th MARCH, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, with a Statement of Accounts to the 31st December. 1902
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 2nd to the 12th MARCH, both days inclusive.
EDWARD OSBORNE,
Secretary. Hongkong, 24th February, 1908.
HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
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ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY
TMENTING SHARESOLDERS Will be held at the COMPANY'S DOTEL on FRIDAY, the 13th MARCH, 1903, at NOON, of for the purpose of Receiving a Statement and
Accounts of the Company to the 31st December, 1902, with the Report of the Directors, and to discuss any matter that may be competently brought before the Meeting.
HOTZ, JACOB & CO. Hongkong, 1st September, 1902. [2327
HENIX FIRE OF FIVE
PHOND
The Undersigned are now prepared to GRANT POLICIES of INSURANCE against FIRE at Current Rates:
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & 00,
Agents for the Phoenix Fire Offon.
Hongkong, 17th August, 1887.
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"THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM-
PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA. INCORPORATED 1851.
Cash Security Total Losses Paid
...£625,719 ....26,769,240
THE
THE Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
WM. MEYERINK & CO. Hongkong, ad July, 1902.
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will to CLOSED frons the 7th to the 13th The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company MARCH, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
C. MOONET.
Basratury.
681 Hongkong, 2nd March, 1903 LUZON SUGAR REFINING COMPANY LIMITED.
NOTICE.
THE TWENTY-FIRST ORDINARY T
ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS of the Company will be held at the OFFICES of the General Agents. Pedders Street, on TUESDAY, the 17th MARCH, 1003, at 11 A.M., for the purpose of ressiving the Report and distament of Accounts to 31st December, 1902.
The Braunschweig is 400ft. long and hoa # beam of 73ft, and the arrangement of her armament will not be very unlike that to be followed in the King Edcard and other ships of her class now being built for our-own Navy
crew of human beings as could probably not be
CALLY CIT.......
met with esorber Except at Port Sail, Aden, or NECKWEAR. OUR PATTERNS ARE EXCLUSIVE IN THE EAST.
Singapore, Tell, short medium-sized, alothed, very much partially clothed, boots, bootle, PYJAMAS, young, eld, grave and gay, all besily intent on emptying the vans and transferring the mails into the hold of the splendid 20-knot slcamer
· SILK AND WOOL PYJAMAS ARE A LUXURY,
although the heavy 9.2-inch guns will be absent. of the P. and O. Company which is made fast to/BOOTS ALL BOOTS ARE MADE OF ENGLISH LEATHER ON AMERICAN
the quay.
LASTS. A GUARANTEE OF WEAR AND STYLE.
At the foot of the gangway stands au officer with a bar divided into tan sections, each of which holds ten bamboo sticks-tallies. Esch porter that enters with a bag is given one of the tallies, which he delivers at the bead of the OUR SUMMER STOCK. gangway to an officer who deposits it in another ten-holed box, and at the same time shouts out
a clark sitting of a near his
HOSIERY & UNDERWEAR.
THE BEST MAKES PROCURABLE, A RANGE OF SIX DIFFERENT SHADES.
WILL BE ABSOLUTELY THE FINEST IN THE
FAR EAST.
ture care of an electric blou lanp, particWM. POWELL, LD.,
The new German battleship will have a com plete belt of Krupp stoel at the water-line 9ís, in thickness, but tapering to dia. forward and aft of the two principal barbettes. On the top of this will ban Gin. belt amidships 7ft. in width, sud, above this again, more dia. plating forming central battery for the greater number of the game comprising the secondary battery. These reapons ure, of course, quickfiring, and of 6.7. inches calibre, and are fourteen in number, ten being on the main deck and the remaining four of the destina ion of the bags Hongkong,, in hooded barbettes of Gin. armour placed in re-Shanghai," Bombay" "Biogapore," China cesses in the corner of the superstraators. Her Fleet," and so forth, hour after hour. As the main urmament consists of four 11-inch guns box at the top is filled, it is carried is the placed by pairs in turrots or hooded barbottes of
bottom and replaced by its ompty fellow. It is 10ia, armour, while on an auxiliary battery she will mount when completed twelve 20-poun
an admirable system of check, which has been ders and the same number of 1-pouzders. Five futroduced from China by the sternship com torpedo-tubes will be installed, all of the pany. Upon the delivery of the last bag submerged type. One will be right forward accounts are examined; and given that the underneath the rom, the remainder two on
totals aro matnally in accord, the steamer each broadside.
cheers off on route to Port Said, while the officer-in-charge, dog-tired, rotires within the mosquito-curtain of his bed at the neighbouring hotel to dream of home and St. Martin's.
The flotation of the Braunschweig is protected not only by the extensive side armour, but by an armonred-deck 3in, thick and cellaloes packing. There is also another splinter-proof deck loin. in thickness. Altogether she will carry a caicass weighing no less than 4,200 tons. Like
construction the new German battleship will many other foreign men-of-war of recent
be provided with three wirow propellers and is expected to realise a spood of 18 knots. Her coal supply, however, will not be very great for ship of her tonnage, as she is not intended to slow more than 90 tons of coal or 704 tons of cost and 20 of oil. At a time when there is so much discussion as to the merits and demerits of water-tube boilers it is interesting to observe that the Germans have begun os it were to "beige," so that the Braunschweig will have eight Thornycroft-Schalts water. tabe boilers and six of the old-fashioned cylindrical boilers.
She will have three lofty fansels and twe military maste of what is now the regulation
THE NEW RIFLE AND EQUIPMENT.
Every branch of the Servis (the Military Hail says) is to be supplied with the new quiversul pattern rifle. The eract design of this weapon has been finally approved, and a sealed pattern is in the War office. So far os the breach mechanism is concerned there is no change, except that the new rifle cartridges ure faded in a clip, exactly the same as the Boer Mauser, only the clip is oxydised justend of bright. The new ride equals the existing type as regards velocity, trajectory and penetration, but the back sight is worked on the principle of the sighting of the Maxim gan.
Possibly the greatest difference is in weight; the new rifle weighs exactly eight pounds four bances, or one pound less than the present rifle. This lightness is a very desirable quality, and
CHUN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON W be: CLOSED from the 3rd to the 17th 7po for German battleships, and this design has been obtained by. shortening the barrel,
FOUNDED 1710.
The Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are pro- pared to ACCEPT RISKS again FIRE SIEMSSEN & CO..
Agents.
Current Rales.
T20
Hongkong, 16th May, 1892.
TORTH GERMAN FIRE INSUR NANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG The Undersigned AGENTS of the shore Company & PREPARED TO ACCEPT First Class Foreign an Chinese Risks at Current
Bates.
TRA
STEMSSEN & CO.
Hongkong,QU-May-1895
(27 TRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSUR
ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,
The Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are pre- pared to ACCEPT BISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
SIEMBBEN & CO.,
Apenta
Hongkong, 16th November, 1872. SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
HE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, ars prepared to ACCEPT FISKS against FIRE at Current Rates..
He Jator a toi Hongkong, 2nd April, 1900
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BROWN, JONES & CO., MONUMENTAL AND ORNAMENTAL MASONS,
Have on View and for Sale at their Marble Yard,
ITALIAN MARBLE Statuary Figaros, Angels alongside Creases. Obelisks, Columns, Rustic and Plain Crosses and Headstones; also taken!
AMERICAN MARDLE Crosses, Columus and Headstones; and ABERDEEN GRANITE
Crosses and Headstones
For adults and children's graves.
CEMETERY MEMORIALS made to muy design in Italian and American Marble and Hongkong Gray and Blue Granite.
Special attention paid to LETTERING IN ANY STYLE OR LANGUAGE
in imporishable lead, lead cement, gold, or black
All work and material guaranteed to be the Chest and most durable,
Prices to suit the times.
Designs on application.
Orders from outports carefully and promptly
executed.
Tho TRANSPEE BOOKS of the Company MARCH, both deva inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
General Ag nts, Hongkong, 26th February, 1903. [659 CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
TWENTY-FIFTH ORDINARY
PORNUAL MEETING of the SHARE-
MARCH, both days inclusive.,
has certainly soms points to recommend it. The lower portion is so large that it would take o fair-sized projectile to bring it down, while the masts are not sufficiently lofty to be so top-heavy as were the preposterous castellated maste in vogue in the French Navy some fox years back. The upper masts would appear to be as light as possible. *****
WITH THE EASTERN MAIL.
A BUSY SCENE.
rifle
ia
and remodelling cortain parts which were formerly unnecessarily Leary. The now rifla is 4ft. 8.5in. in length, or 5 inches shorter. than the present weapon; by means of this reduction in length the "new rendered much. handier in every respect........
In appearance the new weapon is not unlike a kind of Maxim gun. The woodou stock ex- tends up to within one inch of the end of the barrel, and almost completely encircles it. This alteration has necessitated the adoption of a fresh method of affixing the bayonet, and the bayonet ring is no longer slipped over the muzzle, bat over a small round piece of steel that projecte from the top of the stock. The hilt of the bayonot is secured by a special spring osteh about four inches below the top of the stock. The bayonet hilt and ring are blued and the scabbard is of plain brown leather with- out any metal fittings,
28 & 34, QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGK NG
NOBEL-GLASGOW EXPLOSIVES,
DYNAMITE,
GELATINE-DYNAMITE.
BLASTING GELATINE AND GELIGNITE,
DETONATORS, SAFETY FUSE,
AND ALL BLASTING ACCESSORIES..
MAGAZINES AND DEPOTS AT
HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, WEIHAIWZI.
AGENTS—
925
JARDINE. MATHESON & CO.
THEODORO VAFIADIS & CO.
ALWAYS
MANUFACTURERS OF Han1-CLA98
FACTORY: CAIRO, EGYPT.
EGYPTIAN CIGARETTE, (Closs to H.E. Nubar Fasha's Pala03.
PURVEYOR TO THE BRITISH FIELD FORCE
CANTEENS IN SOUTH AMAICA.
BRANCHES:
BOMBAT......20, ESPLANADE ROAD.
-----CALCUTTA... 4, DALHOUSIE SQUABE.
RANGOON...72, MERCHANT STREET,
LONDON......19; BASINGHALL ST., E.C.
FRESH AND RELIABLE AT THEIR AGENTS—
MESSES. KRUSE & CO., HONGKONG
LAMBERT & BUTLER'S
A PIPE TOBACCO,
FRONTIER MIXTURE.
FRAGRANT.
COOL-SMOKING.
UNRIVALLED.
This Tobacco is packed in round, air-tight tink, thus preserving in beautifal condition for
an unlimited period its delicate fragranse, irrespective of all climates.
To be obtained of Mesona, KRUSE & CO, in 4-lb. tins
LAMBERT & BUTLER.
BRANCH
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO
HOLDERS of the Company will be held at the OFFICES of the General Agents, on TUES. DAY, the 17th MARCH, at NOON, for the
If the conscientious India Mail Officer died purpose of receiving the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, suddenly at his post there shoud be found writ. 1902,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company ten on his heart, says Mr. R. W. Hotswell in will be CLOSED from the 3rd to the 17th St. Martin's le Grand, the number of bags committed to his charge, and the number of rail. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
way waggons in which the bags were stowed. General Agent. Hongkong, 23rd February, 1903.
It is these two items which the officer-in-charge, [634
be he old at the business or new, must constantly HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK have in mind during his 48 hours' railway
COMPANY, LIMITED.
jaunt soross France and ¡Italy. Immediately The equipment is also of brown leather, and NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
he flads them ho must needs make s note is very similar to the ordinary Shade. Wallace thereof, or pay the penalty in loss of sleep equipment, bat far lighter and not as sumber- MONTRIBUTING SHAREHOLDERS
are requested to end in a Statement of and in the suffering of any vexations
some, and, of course, minus the straps and Business contributed during the Year ended throughout the trip, The serious business buckles necessary to carry the valise. Three MADE BY Slut December, 1902, on or before the 15th of the India Mail (floor's life commences. men and a sergeant of the Scots Guards, wear- instant, on which date the account will be closed.nt Calais, whither he has proceeded on Fridaying the new equipment, and carrying the
By Order of the Board of Directors,
GEO, A, CALDWELL,
morning. It is a busy scene. Upon a steamer universal-patterá rifle, paraded recently before Acting Secretary.
being mode fast and communication established the King. His Majesty desiral to see the effect Hongkong, 3rd Mnreb, 1903.
(712) by means of gangways, swarms of blue-smocked of the brown leather belt and strapa in contrast porters stream aboard and disappear into the with the red tauico. Lord Roberts was present THE CHINA BORNEO COMPANY.
LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION). - hold. An instant after the ship disgorges men upon the occasion, and the King expressed his and bags in a thin blue line-oue mas, one bag, approval of the new equipment, and he was NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in
of Section 130 of the is the order of the day. The bags are carefully highly satisfied with the affect produced- this pursuance Companies Ordinance 1965 that a GENERAL checked into the waggons; and when the last is indeed good news for Tonumy, as it will mean MEETING of the Members of the above of the consignment is placed under lock and less polishing end no pipeclay. named Company will be held at No. 4 key the India Mail Offer adds to his list the QUEEN'S BUILDINGS. Victoria, in the
CARTRIDGES. Colony of Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the number of bags in his possession. ninth day of APRIL, 1903, at 12 o'clock Noon, Good-bye, Calais! Sloop, until Paris is for the purposef having an account laid before reached, and then mere waggons--the Franch them, showing the manner in which the winding Travelling Post Ofs-are added to the train. up has been conducted and the property of the Company disposed of, and of hearing any At Modane, the frontier town, there is much explanation that may be given by the Liquida- bustle, many formalities, in which the two tors, and also of determining by Extraordinary great items of the number of the bags and Resolution how the balance of the 25,000 fully- pald-up shares of the new Company to be alleges play the principal part, and then through allotted to the shareholders of this Company, the Mont Cenis Tunnel into Italy. Sleep, with being the fractional shares of such 25,000 interruptions at Paris and Bologas, notil the shares, shall be dealt with and the manner in blus Adriatic comes into view. Towards mid- which the books, accounts and documents of the Company and of the Liquidators thereof shall night there is a sudden cessation of the ever- be disposed of,
lasting grind of the wheels and rattle of the Dated the 6th day of March, 1908,
carriages; much knocking at the door
N
A. G. WOOD, C. S. SHARP. J. WHEELEY, Liquidators. Witness to the signatures of Alexander George Wood, Charles Stewart Sharp, and John Thomas Martin Wheeldy,
JOHN HAYS,
Solicitor, Hongkong.⠀
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Office No. 17A, Queen's Road Central, lat HONGKONG ST. ANDREWS SOCIETY.
Floor, Marble Yard:-No. 18, Morrison Hil
Road, Hongkong.
Hongkong, 9th January, 1908.
TT is requested that all OUTSTANDING
[3462 I BILLst the Bariety, may be
TO BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY.
A NEW STREET INDEX,
BY
ARTHUR CHAPMAN, Government Assessor.
Intending Subscribera are requested to send,
as early as possible, Orders for nu many copies
as they may require, ta
THE GOVERNMENT ASSESSOR,
.Hongkong, 19th February, 1903.
The Treasury
forwarded to the undersigned not later than MONDAY, 16th MARCH
DAVID WOOD, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 6th March, 1903.
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·AVID CORSAR & SON
D MERCHANT NAVY
S NAVY BOILED.
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LONG FLAXYDAY EDLIANCE CROWN TARPAULING
CANVAS.
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & CO.
Sole Agents.
HEACHE
LEGS
Ache all over. Throat sore, Eyes and Nose running, slight cough with chills; this is La Grippe.
Painkiller
taken in hot water, sweetened, before going to bed, will break it up if taken in time. There is only one Painkiller, "PERRY DAVIS',"
IMPORTED EVERY MONTH, THERE.
FORE ALWAYS FRESH. LEY'S, BCHULTZE'S, AMBERTTE E and KYNOCK'S SPORTING CARTRIDGES 8, 10, 12, 16, and 20 BORE. and NEWCASTLE CHILLED SHOT in all Sizes, Nos, 10 to 888G. AIL GUNS and AMMUNITION in Variety,
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WM. SCHMIDT & CO. Hongkong, 28th November, 1949, AUTOMATIC MAUSER
PISTOLS.
CALIBRE 7.63 mm. With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGES FIRING 10 SHOTS iz 28ECONDS. STEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong 3rd Ootriber, 1943,
THE HAPPY RETREAT, HAPPY VALLEY.
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THE above well-known establishment has now been BE-OPENEU under change
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of Mansrement, and Refreshments may be ind at all hours..
Dinner Parties a specialty. When you are down at the Happy Valley, don't fail to give this place a call.
COMPANY, LIMITED.
WANTED.
NOTICE.
149
WEISMANN, Proprietor of the
HOUSE of Six Rooms, eligibly located.
American Consulate.
Hongkong, 7th March, 1903.
Partly furnished if convenient. Call H. European Bakery, begs to notify bis
•
WANTED AT ONCE. PORTUGUESE as MASTER of
Stess Lighter running between Rong
(762 Hongkong Customers and the public in paneral that he will OPEN on 1st MARCH, or as soon after as possible, a DEPOT in connection with his Bakery, at No. 13, W EL- LINGTON STREET (cert door to Ramsey & Co, bicycle shop, D'Aguilar et.), to enable bis customers to more easily obtain their Bread. and Cakes, &c.
kong and Macao.
Applicants must have necessary Certificates.
Apply-Office of
THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT
CU, LD. Hongkong, 7th March, 19-3.
WANTED.
This Depot will be fitted up as a Refreshment Room, and Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Mineral Water, Ice Creams, Cakes, &o., will be always 1763 ready.
A
N EXPERIENCED CHINESE CLERK to act us Storekeeper and Acconstant.
Apply to-
Mr. WEISMANN has had experience in the Pastry Cock and Refreshment business in Australia and America as well as in Europe, and thoroughly understands the requirements of the business.
H. WEISMANN. Hongkong, 14th February, 1903.
(742) ASK FOR
C. L., Care of Daily Prens Office Hongkong, 6th March, 1803."
WANTED.
HOUSE in the Central part of the Town
suitable for a Studio, Apply to
1 $49
C. W. CLARK, Post Office Box No. 142. Hongkong, 4th February, 1903.
WANTED,
1761
KL ON,
CONTRACTOR,
MALE TEACHER Apply by Letter tom
M. M. B.. Care of Daily Press Ooo, Hongkong, 16th February, 1903: R CHADWICK
[540 KEW
Hongkong, 7th March, 1903.
安
SHIP AND HOUSE
་་
PAINTER, CARPENTER, GILDER, SAMPAN CONTRACTOR AND BRICKLAYER
No. 31, GOUGH STREET. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1903.
DENTAL SURGEON, No. 89, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.}
CORONATION CUP.
1537
A most delightful beverage just produced by a "well-known firm in Manchester.
VI-KOLA.
A drought of this stimulating refresher brings on quickly a sense of vitality and buoyancy that makes life worth living,
STONE GINGER BEER.
A celebrated beverage filled in Patent Codd. bottles as to avoid structural contamination of any kind, which the earthern bottles could not prevent, being decorated in their interior surface with a network of dist, &c., through "scamping workmen, especially Chinese.
Apply to
of common
THE ROYAL RATED WATER MANUFACTORY OFFICE, Telephono 367;
DepofIce House Street; Telephons 874.
F. P. DANENBERG, Manager
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Office Hours-9 AM to 5 P.N. Hongkong, 19th March, 1902.
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