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date, Tennis Court attached; near Kawvants loon Ferry, Kowloon.
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174
NE COMFORTABLY FURNISHED
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BOBINSON ROAD.
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J. ULLMANN & CO., 34, Quem's Road,
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9381
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TO8. 17, 19 & 21, SEYMOUR ROAD,
Nos. 6, CASTLE ROAD. Nos. 74, CAINE ROAD.
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1710
No.1,
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HOUSE
in WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD, facing Race-course.
FLATS in MORITOS TERRACE, facing the
A
Polo Ground.
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175
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44 Hongkong, 15th October, 1904,
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TO. 6. DES VOUX ROAD (oppositeHREE
King Edward Hotel), ONE or TWO Burcyona Style, in Kowloon. FLATS of Five Rooms each and Servants' Quarters.
sion on or about 31st August, 1995, Moderato Rentals.
THREE LARGE ROOMS with Servants' uarters in No. 3, QUEEN'S ROAD CEN- TRAL, on the same Floor as that cocupied by the China Fire Insurance Co.
Also ONE LARGE ROOM with Vorandah and One Small Room in ICE HOUSE ROAD (next to the Mercantile Bank), at present in tha occupation of Mr. Layton.
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DAVID SASSOON & CO., LD. Hongkong, 28th September, 1904.
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ARGE BEDROOM, with Board,
LA
12922
in
AMERICAN GOLF HUMOUR.
The New York Sua publishes an amusing, if somewhat vulgar, speech made by Mr. Ford, the man who "teained Travis," at a dinter given to the amateur golf champion. When me and Travis started to cross the heaving billows (said
· Mv. Ford)--"und by the way the billows was not the only thing that heaved on the way over our champ is a champ on lund O.-K., but on the waters he is a clump, and though he never eings in we saying when me Travis syne I was saying when me and Travis started over that 3,000 mile ferry across which the Transatlantic lines are now yuuking the seur of Europe at £2 10s per scum-but us I was saying when me and Travis started to cross the briny ocean (and I am going to get
duction, is able to cause detonation, but will
only make it buru slowly. The atmosphere has THE
PHILIPPINE OILS.
no effect on it, nor has rougli vibration caused by transport. Some of the features most in- teresting to miners and quarrymon are that it is extremely easy to use, on account of the prepared cartridge haing ready for the primer," detonator and fuse, and to the less number of holes required for blasting, owing to the enormous power which it exorts in ronding large areas at a minimum of labour and cost. With other explosives often sickly zuil poisonous gases prevail, but with Cytouits the fumes mute are purely a disinfectant, und will be helpful from a health point to miners. Another great advantage lained is that it can be supplied at just half the cost of any other explosive, The Patent Rights have been bought and across this time if I have to swim
it neraugemements are male for its introduction W24 with intention of adding any into Bugland, with a view to supply the fresh laurels to the' slightly shopworn ones World's Market. which blocked our respective brows, but to see and prolit by the example of the great masters of the art of golf with whose deeds we had become familiar by reading the works of that delightful old fuming. Horace Hatchin- son, who looks like sixty, plays like sixty and yet confesses to but. 45.. Well, we got across the oOOSIL Travis was about the bum
Auon the other products of econoidie miest looking champton yon ever saw at Heil. his brow sicklied over with the pale east of value in the Philippines, ilang ilang oil us an thought" and he spent the major portion of export snout.nl to 123:82 dels.. or about 50 his time leaning over the rail. perfecting his per cent. inrrense over the trade in 1992 the follow-through and easting his broad upon the shipments to Frangg advancing in about the His heart was stout, but kis stomach. sta proportion. Sonus Ponsider the ni s Travis's play was about equal in perfnine to aftar of rises, and by thos was weak. the worst you over suw. A babe in aras could greater yield of ossentre furnishing a less expen- have beaten him. I almost heat him myself ive lase, it becres a strang competitor of the Everybody licked him, and, finally he got licked latter, the perfuniers of the United States to into shape. At St. Andrew's we saw Johnny whom, exporting house in Manila shipped Lorne and Balfour Melville and Tom Morrisarly 10,000 dels, worth last year, making it and the other historie ruins for which the place the base of some of their most expensive is famons. Then we moved on to Troon and extracts. The ilang-itsig itres grows best in saw the ladies' tournament.
the Philippines, end it takes about 75lbs. of the flowers, worth from 8 to 15 cuts gold per Ib.. The cost of manufacture to yield 11b, of oil. is about four dois.. and it sells readily for from 40 to 55 lols, in open market, with the supply mequal to the demand.”
Waters.
The Monthly Summary of ommerce of the Philippine Islands contains a review of the tande of those Islands during the year 1963. from which the following extract is taken :--
The women certainly are the bone and sinew of Great Britain certainly the bone. Most of thom arsbuilt on early Gothic lines. "But they play golf...
And so we moved on to North Berwick, and then we saw the then champion, Maxwell. human battering ram. who can drivo a ball half a mile, aud Laidlaw
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C. H. GRACE, Secretory. Hongkong, 4th June, 1904.
Kowloon.
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LARGE British CooNO 12 Contes
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Hongkong, 17th June, 1904.
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ND and SuD FLOORS, No. 35, QUEEN'S
OND
ROAD CENTRAL; suitable for Offics.
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WING CHEGNG,
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Hongkong, 3rd November, 1903.
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▶ANGOUR (PEAK).
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THE EYRIE (PRAK).
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of BELILIOS TERRACE.
BELILIOS TERRACE. Now, 11, 13 & 21. BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, No. 14.
1st Floor.
ONE SHOP in BEACONSFIELD AR- CADE.
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LINSTEAD & DAVIS. Hongkong, 3rd October, 1904. 12363
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58, CAINE ROAD, European NResidence, consisting of SIX ROOMS, with Verandab, Separate Kitchen, Bathrooms, and a Fine View of the Harbour. Possession 1st January, 1903.
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MANAGER, Chiun Merchants S. N. Co. [2448 Hongkong, 15th October, 1904.
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WO ROOMS, on the First Floor of
Alexandra Buildings.
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SECRETARY.
A. S. Watson & Co., Limited. Hongkong. 17th June, 1904.
TO LET.
MMEDIATE Possession, ONE ROOM,
of Buildings,
THE
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CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC
COMPANY, LIMITED,
HONGKONG EXCHANGE.
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PAYABLE QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE,
EXCHANGE LINES:
$25 per Quarter.
NO CHARGE FOR INITIAL INSTALLATION.
I didn't say where to go to, but I wil "go to. Unless you girl up your loirs and do
battle for the honour of America. I will ride into the breach myself. and you know how anbecoming riding breeches are to me-witlı more to the saine effect."
As Mr. Ford proceeded, the golfers stood up and cheered again and again with a will war ing of handkerchiefs. Whenever the orator seemed disposed to stop there were cries of "Don't hole out" and "Tas up." and the golf mutch was still in progress at midnight.
PURR, SPARKLING, INVIGORATING,
TLRADING MINERAL WATER OF THE HAsp Bottled in Japan by H. E. Rurnalt & De.
BEWARE OF JAPANESE IMITATIONS.
F. BLACKHEAD & CO., AGENTя Hongkong. 31st July, 1903.
1898
ROYAL AERATED WATERS
MANUFACTORY.
PRODUCE the Highest Class AMRATED of their High Class Machinery and also of the superior ingredients they use in the manufactace of their goods, and the cleanliness, kc, are all under atriot supervision of Europeans only.
WATERS in the Far East on veroant
REPORT OF AN EXPERT.
The representative of Messrs BRATBY and HINCHLIFFE. LIMITED, Aerated Water Engineers and Chemisis, Manchester, visited our DISCOVERY OF A NEW EXPLO-factory recently in the course of a tour amongst
SIVE IN CEYLON.
Busteru Aerated Water Makers, and was greatly surprise at the compactness of our factory and to the methodical way in which everything pertaining to the making of Aerated Vaters wax carried out. He also expressal himself strongly on the absolute cleanliness of oar whale establishment, which be assured us wus equal to any he had yet visited and superior to great many. He also reported that the quality of our goods was of a first-class nature, and they showed that scrupulous care was exercised in the course of their manufacture.
Order Books and Price List. Please apply to PACTORY and OFFICE, West Point. Tel. 367. Depôt, Jon House Street. Tel. 374,
F. P. DANENBERG.
General Manager. Hongkong, 11th May, 1994,
122
A new explosive named Cylouite" has just been inrouted by Mr. J. U. Gonsalves of Colombe. Writing to the Ceylon Times on the subject, Mr. A. Harris, the mining engineer. says:-Throughout Ceylon the explosive bas been subjected to a large number of tests, both by Europeans and principal native miners. with the results, as claimed by the inventor, that it has given far better results tiun dynamite or gelatine. It may be used as ammunition and for other military purposes. The several natures which this composition possesses per- mits them to be utilised with great success hitherto unattained, mors especially for military arms and ammunition. It is defined as Cylo- nite. Cylonite No. 1. Cylonite No. 2. Cylouite
NB.-A special charge is made for line of only has more particularly to da with military more than average length,
DESK TELEPHONES For a small additional annual charge Desk Sets can be supplied.
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CHEMICALS,
ELECTRIC BELLS,
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purposes and can be used for war purposes with awful effect, especially in shell form. In dealing with the merits of these explosives the inventor sims at explaining only the practical characteristics as to the safety of manufacture, storage, transport, economy and soccass in use, and the suggestions that warrant confiilence in the invention is through practical knowledge acquired by blasting experiments in wood and metal. chiefly in hard rock. extending over a period of ten months, and, on the other hand,
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SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG:
KRUSE & CO, CONNAUGHT HOUSE.
ARNHOLD, KARBERG
Hougkong, 1st October, 1994.
M
180 BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA
(MITSUBISHI CO.)
COAL DEPARTMENT MARUNO-UCHI, TOKIO. Cable Address, "WASAKI," which applies to all Branch Offices and Hong- kong and Shanghai Agencies, A1, ABC 5th Edition, Western Union Codes nsed. All Letters Addressed:-- MANAGER, MITSUBISHI CO., with same of place under. BRANCH OFFICES :--- NAGASAKI, MOJI, KOBE, KARATSU AND HANKOW. AON NOTES:- SHANGHAI: H. J. II. TEIFP.
HONGKONG: H. U. JESFEIKS.
MANILA: COMPANIA MARITIMA.
YOKOHAMA: M. Asada. CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the [m- perial Japanese Navy and Foreign Navies; the Imperial Arsenals; the Imperial Railway Sanyo, Kiusha and the other Principal Rail ways: Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers,
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& CO.
LARGE STOCK
OP
LIGHT RAILWAY
MATERIAL
INSURANCES
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AACHEN- AND MUNICH FIRE IN- SURANCE CO.
THE
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL.
THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
PH
Agants.
9
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.,
Hongkong, 1st April, 1897 DHENIX FIRE OFFICE.
The Undersigned are now prepared to GRANT POLICIES of INSURANCE Against FIRE at Currant Rater.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
Agents for the Phonix Fire Ollon Hongkong, 17th August, 1697.
29 NORTHERN ASSURANCE ()
FIRE and LIFE.
ESTABLISHED 1896.
THE Undersigned are prepared to accep THE
First Class Foreign and Chinese RISKS. against FIRE at Current Rates. ANCE. Prospectases on application.
Also to accept proposals for LIFE ASSUR-
TURNER & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 23rd September, 1993. [267
AND
TILE. INSURANCE COMPANY.
SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashimu. ochi, Shinnow. Namaanta and Kami-Yamada TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DECEMBUR, 1908 Collieries and also Hojo Colliery, which will be ready to produce on a large scale the best Buzen Coal from 1905.
Bale Agents for Kigio, Komatsu (Tagawa) and Matsushima Couls.
The Hoad and Branch Offices and the Agu cies of the Company will receive any order for Coals produced from the above Collieries.
Coaf sold in 1903 by the Company amounted to 1,210,000 tons.
TAKASHIMA COAL
Now and additional shafts at the Takashima Colliery have been completed, and this well- known best and most economical steam Coal in the EAST is now produced in abundance and CARBOLINEUM-AVENARIUS can be supplied in any quantity.
Hongkong, 26th April, 1904.
FOR WHOLESALES CASK or
ABOUT 450 LES, NET
TRADE
BOLING
MARK
PER TIN.
FOR PRIVATE-CUSTOMERS IN
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Known all over the World as a thoroughly
by experiments made with regard to its effective preserver of Wood against White Anta sensibility to friction, blows, bent of sun and Fungus, Dry-rot, Decay. fire, heavy prassure, shot. &e. As all these TELEPHONES,
considerations have been provided for, attention Wins, &c., c. might be called to the fact that the explosives are composed of both Western and Eastern products. The latter is not known in Europe. The individual characteristic of the explosive is that it is rather soft and plastic. It is made in the form of cartridges or cylindrical plugs, to
[1515
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Hongkong, 2nd July, 1904.
3. J. DAVID & CO.
[1618
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INSTALLAT
TO LET.
LLATIONS
CONS.
NEuropeen residence, just ronovated,
10., UPPER MOSQUE TERRACE, Estimates given for all kinds of Electrical work printed and colourwashed; immediate possession
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Care of A. R. Marty.
[239]
Hongkong, 28th September, 1904.
TO LET
ro. 1, STEWART TERRACE, the Peak.
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 28th March, 1994.
TO LET.
Addros:-No. 2, ICE HOUSE ROAD.
W.STUART HARRISON, A.M.I.C.E.
Maunger.
Hongkong, 16th April, 1904.
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS
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TEITHER the CAPTAIN, the AGENTS, nor
865 the OWNERS will be RESPONSIBLE for any DEBT contracted by the Officers or the Crew of the following Vessels during the
KENTKERE, British Ship, Tr E. Burol-
Standard Oil Co.
INE LARGE STORE, in Queen's Boadatay-in-Hongkong Harbour,
Central (Best Part). Apply
Hongkong, 6th September, 1904,
X.
Care of Daily Press Office.
[2161
E. B. Surros, American barque, Johusov,--
Order-
any size required a part moulded solid and the other part prepared so that it can hold a specially prepared primer, detonator, and fuse when intended to be charged. This explosive has not the tendency to detonates by itself and no high heat, however sudden or slow its intro
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"THE EAST OF ASIA."
(Published Quarterly,)
MONTAINING Articles of Special Interest, Profusely Illustrated, descriptive of the people, Customs, &c., of the Far East,
CON
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ON SALE.
THE
ROVINCE OF SHANTUNG.!
PROSPECTS.
BY M. O'S. Reprinted from the "HoyaxONG DAILY PESES.
Price, 50 cents Cash, Messrs. Kelly & Waleb. or Daily Press Office
Hongkong, 31st January, 1900.
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MITSU BISHI DOUKYARD
AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKI.
CODE WORD: “DOCK,” NAGASAKI.
A.1, ABC., Scotte' and Engineering Cod
Used.
DOCK No. 1 (at TATEGAMI.) Extreme Length... Length on Blocks
523 feat.
513
Width of Entrance on Top Width of Eutrance on Bottom. Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
89
77
26..
DOCK No. 2 (at MUKAIJIMA.) Extreme Length... Length on Blocks
371 feet
14+
350
Width of Entrance on Top
66
Width of Entrancs on Bollem...
53
11
Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
#
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687,500 0 0 3,056,981 12 3
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(1888
THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANY OF TORONTO AND LONDON. INCORPORATED A.D. 1851.
MARINE BRANCH.
THE undersigned having been appointed TE
AGENTS for the above are prepared to accept risks at current rates.
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11121
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105
L UNION OF PARIS FIRE INSURANCE- COMPANY, LIMITED
THE Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to accept Risks against Fire at current
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, let January, 1904.
BOARD AND RESIDENCE "TANG YUEN,” BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT:
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