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HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF YOUR
XMAS DINNER?
AND WHAT ABOUT THE
WINES?
REMEMBER THAT WE ONLY STOCK THE
BEST.
WE ARE AWAITING YOUR ORDERS.
GREGOR & CO..
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, 1ST FLOOR
3725-13
(OPPOSITE POST OFFICE).
BOARD AND RESIDENCE
INSURANCES
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN-
SURANCE CO.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL.
HE Undersigned, having been appotun Terse whore company, a prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FICE at Current Rates.
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.,
Agents,
Hongkong, 21st April, 1897
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY DECFMBER 15TH, 1904.
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
R. 8. GILLANDERS
"GLENWOOD, 27, CAINN ROAD. Hongkong, 19th March, 1904.
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"TANG YUEN." BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT. European Supervision. Excellent Cuisin
· MANAGERESS, Apply-
Macdonnell Road
NORTHERN ASSURANOB CO and Accommodation.
FIRE and LIFE.
ESTABLISHED 1896.
HE Undersigned are prepared to accep First Class Foreign and Chisess RISKS against FILE at Current Rates,
Also to accept proposals for LIFE ASSUR ANCE. Prospectusas on application.
TURNER & CO.,
Agonte. Hongkong, 23rd September, 1909. [267 TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN.
NILE INSURANCE COMPANY.
TOTAL FUNDS AT 31ST DRCEMBER, 1908 £16,898,650.
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+
AUTHORISED Capitak... £5,000,000 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL.... 2,750,000. PAID-UP CAPITAL......... 887,500 0 0 11. FIRE FUNDS
3,056,901 12 9
The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
› SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 18th June, 1904,
THE
(1888
WESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANT OF TORONTO AND LONDON, INCORPORATED A.D. 1831,
MARINE BRANCH.
THE undersigned having been appointed AQENTS for the above are prepared to accept risks at current rates,
ALEX ROSS & CO. Hongkong 28th April, 1804
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L'UNION OF PARIS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED
HE Undersigued having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company aro propared to accept Risks against Fire at current Tates.
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 1st January, 1904.
M
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1280 'BISHI GOSHI-KWAISHA
(MITSU BISHI CO.)
COAL DEPARTMENT MARUNO-UCHI, TOKIO,
Cable Address, “IWASAKI,"
#bick applies to all Branch Ofless and Hong-
kong and Shanghai Agencies.
A1, ABC 5th Edition, Western Union Codes
used.
All Letters Addressed.::---
MANAGEE, MITSUBISHI Co., with name of
place untler,
BRANCH OFFICES.—
NAGASAKI, MOJI, KOBE, KARATSU
AGENCIES:--
AND HANKOW,
SHANGHAI: H. J. H. TRIFF.
or
FAIRALL & CO., Queen's Road Hongkong, 2nd March, 1903.
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ROOMS, with Board.
SOIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
HOW BOILER-STXEL SHOULD TESTED
BE
reached, it is fixed in a solution which removes | the unaltered dye compound. The paper is then re-coated, this time with the collodion for the red print, and exposed in exact registor ING ADULTERANT-CARDENE---ELECTRICAL under the green negativa. After this is Bxed, the third coating is made, and the yellow image is devoloped under the blue negative.
ANTHRAX ANTI-TOXIN-A NIGHT-DESTROY
PURIFICATION OF FLOUR-A FACTORY OF THE AGEG -THE LATEST COLOUR PHOTO. GRAPHY A GARDEN NOVELTY-THE NEW CARBON COMPOUND
Acadonis de Cuisine of Paris, who declares that it is finer in flavour than asparagus and can'ilayer, which it suggests. The roots are boiled in salt water and seasoned in butter, a salad of young leaves and slices of root being another dainty luxury.
A now vegetable for table use is the Crambe The tonsile strength of steel at varions tem-tataris, an umbelliferous plant resembling sun peratures has heon tested by C. Bach, who has kale. The sweet roots, raw and cooked, are found an increase up to 300 dag. C., and a
Baten by Tartars and Cossacks, and for these decroase at greater heat. One specisen, for and the sprouts also it is recommendet for example, showed a tensile strength of 27 tone cultivation by a prominent member of the per square inch at ordinary temperature. 30.7 tons at 300 deg. and 31 tons at 550 deg. The effects of compression were less at 200 dag then at ordinary temperatura or at 300 deg. or higher. Prolonged action of the load hud no effect on the tensile strength at ordinary temperature, but caused a slight decrenes at 300 deg., and a still greator decrease between The new carbon-melybdenum compound of 400 dog, and 500 deg. It is made evident that Henri Moissan is obtained by heating melted steel for steam boilers, piping, etc., should be molybdenum and aluminium in the electric tested at higher as well as ordinary temperature. furnace. The metallic product is treated with a concentrated solution of potash, when neade The loss of life from anthrax, er wool.crystals of the new compound are obtained. The substance is very hard, scarcely attacked by acids, unaffented by water or steam below 600 deg., and promises to be of value for molybdenum sterls.
sorters' disease, has been much reduced among
sheep and cattle through the work of Pasteur, but some cases still occur and the disease is transmitted to persons handling wool. The serum of Prof. Sclave, of Sienna, Italy, is the, latest remedy, its action being similar to that of diphtheria anti-tor. In 160 cases of anthrax reported from different parts of Europe, the serasa has reduced the percentage of deaths to 6, as compared with 25 per cent. of fatal cases in Great Britain in the last five
years.
Wood alcohol is much more dangerous than was formerly supposed. A recent laborious investigation through American physicians and health officers bas traced 142 cases of blindness and 62 dentla directly to this substance, either
pure or in adulterated esences, extracts, and other preparations. Even the vapour from lisiment may cause partial or total loss of sight.
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
OMFORTABLY FURNISHED. A prize of 6,000 francs has been offered for an electric-current master by the French Society Apply to Mrs. MATHER.
of Manufacturers. 2, Pedders Hill. Hongkong. lat January, 1892.
HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
BOOKBINDING.
DAILY PRESS" OFFICE.
The only office in China having European taught workmen. Equal to Home
work.
A discovery that may open up a new use for
CHINA'S DEBTS.
A GREAT DISCOVERY. The amazing richness of the Australian Continent in hesling roots and herbs has long bean the wonder of scientists. For untold ages the natives of that country had only the juices and essences of those roo's and herbs for medicine. How effective they proved, oven in their crude form, is evinced by the extra- { ordinary health which the natives enjoyed as borne out by Captain Cook, the discoverer of Australia.
MITSU BISHI DOUKYARD
AND ENGINE WORKS,
NAGASAKI.
CODE WORD: "DOCK," NAGASAKI. A.1. A B.C., Soutis and Engineering Codes Used. DOCK No. 1 (at TATEGAMI.) Extrome Longth... Longth on Blocks Width of Entrance on Top Width of Entrance on Bottom... Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
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523 feet. 513
89 77 + 28.
371 foot,
350.
53
DOCK No. 2 (a) MUKAIJIMA.) Extremo Length... Length on Blocks
411
Width Entrance on Top Width of Entrance on Bottom... Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
PATENT SLIP (at KOSUGE). Cin tako vessels up to 1,000 fous gross.
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THE WORKS are well equipped with the
LATEST IMPROVEMENTS and cam
exsents any kind of work in SHIPBUILD ING and MARINE ENGINEERING as well as in REPAIRING of SHIPS.
Captain Cook, but from their own observations, Not only from the writings of such men as
scientists have for a long time hean aware of the great superiority of vegetable medicines over those containing mineral poisons; and some years back, Mr. Charles Forde, an eminent scientist, conceived the idon of an utilising the essences of certain Australian plants that their healing properties might be made useful, to modern man. By long and careful investigation and experiment, he at last gained the knowledge required. He found himself the discoverer of a natural vegetable subatenco which acted on the liver and digestive organs directly and more effectively than say medisine known. The bast laboratories, the most modern plant, and all that science dictated as being best for the purpose, was requisitioned in the compounding of this substance into convenient medicins form, and the result of it all was the productio à for years back of the most perfect medicine of modern times. This medicine was produced in for action on the liver, wars called "Bile Beana." the form of small boans, which, being prepared Being the product of recent soience, Bile Beass, on their first appearance, experienced a hard fight of science versus quackory; but the issue was soon decided by the public with the reault that Bile Beans began to rapidly displace the old, imperfect, and in some cases harmful medicines, which have been in use for fifty or sixty years, and which, like all old forms, ara behind the times, and corresp adiugly imper. feet. Most of those remedies contain bismuth, iron, or some harmful snimal or mineral sub. stance, and if taken in quantities, produce evils Bile Beans, without the slightest discomfort, worse than these they may tomporarily relieve. prompt the liver and digestive organs to ant in nature's normal way, leaving those organs strengthened and stimulated to continue the performance of their duties without further sssistance. They produce a gentle action on the wels, ridding the system of all T imparities. Their price brings thom within the reach of all, and they are the safest family
With reference to the decision of the Chinese Government, apportioning to the varicus pro- inces of the Empire the amounts to be paid by each, by the end of this year, towards making good the money-Tls. 10,400,0K)—st!ll due the Powers on changing the payment of the War Indemnity to a gold basis, news has been receiv ed from Peking to the effect that more than one half of the Viceroys and Governors con- cerned have professed their inability to pay the sums required from them within the time demanded by the Central Government. As the money must be paid and every day's delay would mean many thousands of taels in interest, Prince Ching, seanrding to a recent Peking letter, suggested to the Emperor at a meeting of the Grand Council the other day, that he could get a temporary loan from a certain
Bils Beans eure biliousness, indigestion, foreign Bank of the amount still due from
condition that the provinces, on
the debility, constipation, piles, liver disorder, malarial fovers, influenza, chills, sp sus of the undertaking delinquent provinces give to repay the loan within a stated the stomach, dizziness, fulness after musis, wiod, His Majesty seemed ine'ined to lister to nervous disorders, that tired feeling," rheums Princ thing's surgestion, but H. E. Chaotism, neuralgia and soistica, kidney and urinary of disorders, steeplessness, headache, bad breath, Erh-sen, the President of the Board Revenue, strongly opposed the measure, on the aramia, sickness of the stomach, blood im purities, pimples, ulcers, sourvy, etc., and all
medicine.
cine vendors, 75 coats (Max.) per bottle.[2010-1
PURE FRESH WATER.
The COMPANY has a SALVAGE STEAMER, 712 TONS GROSS, FITTED with POWERFUM SALVAGE PLANT READY at SHORT NOTICE.
1703
JUST OPENED,
NOTHER PARCEL of Messrs. RAP- A HAEL TUCK & SON'S XMAS and NEW YEAR CARDS of the Most Elaborate and Fancy Designs.
Inspection is earnestly solicited.
H. RUTTONJEE, No. 5. D'Aguilar Street, แช
30 to 38, Blgia Road, Kowloon, Hongkong, 14th December, 1904. (2904
COLD STORAGE,
THE Hosakano Ics Company, Lo,, have now 40,000 Cabic feet of Co.,
Storage available at EAST POINT, Stores will be Open at 10 AM. and 4 P.M. daily, Sunday, exopted to receive and deliver perishable goods
W. PARLANE, Manager.
175 Hongkong, 18th November, 1901.
AMOY ENGINEERING CO., LD., AMOY
CALL FLAG E,
DEPAIR WORK to Steamers and
AT
J. D. EDWARDS, Manager. Amoy, 3rd December, 1903.
ON SALE,
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poor coals has been made by Auguste Lemoine, ground that hina was already greatly orFilments arising out of a disordered liver and Launches. Castings in Brass and Iron.
burdened with her foreign debts and that each additional loan was like adding so many more faulty assimilation. Of all Chemists and medi- Moderate charges. Work solicited fotters to the body politie and plunging the Empire into irretrievable bankruptcy. Further that anyone could read from history the lesson that a debtor ecantry is a slave of the creditor Power which has the prerogativo moreover ofHE HONGKONG STEAM WATER BOAT 00., LD., is propare to supply retouping itself by seizing territory in lieu of
FRESE MAP payment of loan temporarily, if money he ANY QUANTITY of PURE forthcoming to liquidate the debt; perpetually, WATER to the Shipping, both for Dock and if the debtor is bankrapt beyond recall. Boilers.
Call Flag W. Under these circumstances, "therefore, declared the President of the Board of Revenue, he "would respectfully oppose the sugg tion made by his Higliness the Prince." "The question of ways and means was then laid on the table and the Council broke up without anything definite being arrived at. "Perhaps," remarks the N.-U. Daily News correspondent, THE
a French chemist. Noticing that a small quantity of good coking coal failed to produce good coke on sudden heating, he inferred that something had been driven off, and. after long investigation he has isolated the substance from the tars. It is a new compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, to which he has given the name "carbene." It resembled bituminous carbon, is black, solid and friable, and shows MAISON LEVY HERMANOS
a tendency to crystalliza. A fragment heated Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers, 40 in a test tube coats the interior with a tens
Watson's Building, Queen's Road. Alrocious bleak varnish. This varnishing a little
at Shanghai, Manila, Paris and Iloilo
in advance of actual distillation, sticks the PHOTOGRAPHIX
particles of coal together, and when two per cont. of carbene was added to a few ounces of
JEWELLEES
M. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ARTIST.
Bromide and Crayon Enlargements ane also colouring Photos and relief Photos. Views of China and Manils. Work
Road Central.
PRINTING.
DAILY PRESS" OFFICE. Proofs read by Englishmen.
STOREKEEPERS
poor coal a splendid coke was produced in the crucible.
In the electrical trastment of four by the dous for Amateurs; 11o. 84, Queen Lately patented process of J. N. Alsop, the apparatus consists of two are lampe in parallel. with a coil made to yield an are as much as 18 inches long. The arcs are enclosed by tubes, and the air within these is electrified, producing a gaseous mixture containing nitrogen peroxide and traces of ozone. The gus is drawn off into a revolting hexagonal dram, where it is throughly incorporated with the flour. treatment not only blaches and purifies the flour, but is claimed to add to its nutritive quality, chemical analysis showing a considerable increase of nitrogen,
BSMAROK & CO.,
Navy Contractors, Ship Chandler.
Provision and Coal Merchants, Sail-
makers, &c. Fresh Water supplied t
Vessels in the Harbour
KWONG SANG & CO.,
Shipchandlers Bailmalers, Provision ere Cool Merchants, Hardware, Engineer Tools, Metal, Tron and Stool Worchant-
57, 58 & 59, Counnaght Road, New
PrayaCentral,
The
The oldest workshop in Europa, it is believed, has been unearthed at Winznau, Switzerland It is in the cave of Koesloch, which seems to have been inhabited before the Neolithic epoch CARBOLINEUM-AVENARIUS and to have been constantly tenanted from 3000
FOR WHOLESALER CASE OF
AROIT 459. LES
TRADE
CARBOLINE
FOR PRIVATE-CUSTOMERS IN
TINS OF 45 LB9. AT $8 10
PER TIN,
Known all over the World as a thoroughly effective preserver of Wood against White Ants Fungas, Dry-rot, Dosay.
Number of Testimonials from Authorities as well as from Private Customers.
LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO
Sole Agents for China.
161 Hongkong, 19th July, 1904
THE SWATOW GRASS CLOTH SILK, and DRAWN THREAD WORK
HONGKONG: H. U. JENTRIES.
MANILA: COMPANIA MARITIMA.
YOKOHAMA: M. ASADA, CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Im perial Japanese Navy and Foreign Naviss, the Impurial Arsenals; the Imperial--Railway; Sanyo, Kinshu and the other Principal Bail ways; Industrial Works; Homs and Foreign THE SWA Mail and Freight Steamers,
EXPORTERS OF COAL to Hongkong, Shanghai, Hankow, Singapore. Manila, North -China, Korean ports and America,
SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashima, Ochi, Shinnew, Nataszata and Kami-Yamada Collieries and also Hojo Colliery, which will be ready to produce on a large scale the best Buzen -Coal from 1905,
Sole Agents for Kigio, Komatsu (Tagaws) and Matsushima Conls.
The Head and Branch Offices aud the Agen cies of the Company will receive any order for Coals produced from the above Collieries.
Coal sold in 1903 by the Company amounted to 1,210,000 tons.
TAKASHIMA GOAL.
Now and additional shafts at the Takashima Colliery have been completed and this well- Iknown best and most economics! steam Coal in the EAST is now produced in abundance and -can be supplied in any quantity, Hongkong, 26th April, 1904,
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DEPARTMENT.
Wholesale and retail quotations particulars and enmples, will be sent free on application to
the above depôt.
A
Swatow, Sth June, 1904.
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FOR EUROPE and AMERICA,
INDIA, AUSTRALIA, &C., zuk or PRIVATE EKSIDENTS AT THE OUTPORTS. COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE RECORD
OF THE NEWS OF THE FAR EAST is given in the
HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, with which is incorporated
"THE CHINA. OVERLAND TRADE REPORT." subscription, if paid in advance, $12 per annua Postage to any part of the World $2.
to 1000 BC. The remains include not only stene instraments and pieces of decorated vases and oyster shells, but many bones of men, ruminante and wild animals.
In a study of cancer at Fontaineblean, where 759 out of 11,048 deaths were due to this disease, Foneault has shown that the cancer houses were always dump, badly ventilated, and little exposed to the sun.
a.
had H. E. Chao Erh-san and those with him who opposed Prince Ching's suggestion that day, bad the least inkling that this alleged foreign loan was in fact money deposited by the Prince himself and the Chief Eunuch, Li Lien-ying, who could get better interest for their money by lending it to the Central Government than by annual deposit in a foreign Bank, the President of the Board of Revenue and his party would not have opposed the suggestion so vigorously."
SHANGHAI SHOPKEEPING
METHODS.
A writer in the Shanghai Mercury on December 3rd says:--
Our storekeepers one and all seem to have taken the advies of the Soottish minister who was sorely in need of current coin for the needs of bis church. "We're done everything honest that I can think of," he said, "the only thing left now is to try a lottery!"
So the lotteries are there. Almost every window tempts you to try your fortune. That's where the genuine clairvoyant would score. She (they're always women) would know before. hand what the winning numbers would be and would act accordingly, Various visits of Fuble's van would be necessary to bring home the proceeds. Then at auction, and a flit elsewhere to repeat the process.
J..W. KEW. Manager,
1st Floor, 37, Connaught Roat Hongkong, 13th June, 1903.
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AP OF THE SIKIANG or WEST
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Opened to Foreign Trade, 1897. Published at Daily Press Price 25 Centa, Cash.
Hongkong, lata pril.
CIGARETTES FUTURE.
Mce.
1807
OF
THE
ONCE SMOKED ALWAYS SMOKED,
E. D. PROTOPAPAS & CO.
ALEXANDRIA & CAIRO, EGYPT. FINEST EGYPTIAN
LOTUS, Large Size 85.00 par 10 ) Gold Tipper Medium Size
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$3.75 per 100-
ZAFAR, Large Size $4.60 per 100 Medium Size $4.20
CIGARETTES.
TEADS MARK.
KARIM,
Large Size 83.75 per 100
Medium Size $3,50
THABIT,
Large Size $8.00 per 100
Medium $2.75 per 100
SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG :.
KRUSE & CO., CONNAUGHT HOUSE.
THE GRAND PRIX
ST.
LOUIS EXHIBITION
The only thing that really tempte me is the magnificent cooking-range offered by one of the newer stores: What tasty dishes might not emerge from the enamelled recesses of this modern invention! But for those who love a little flutter for their Christies enjoyment there is enough and to spare of choice from type-writers to gramophones, from piotures to piece-goods, and from gems to gimoracks. The HAS BEEN AWARDED TO. wonder is that all the competing firms som to fill their licts and get in their dollars. That of course, is the main thing, next to the annal display of love and good-will to all mankind on the part of the storekeeper,
HIRANO WATER.
Although the problem of colour photography is still far from solved, progress is being occasionally mode. A new German discovery What of Dr Koonigrdates to printing from tri colour nega ives, and depends upon the use of paper coated with collation solutions of colour- THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATER. leas compounds of greenish-blae, cherry-reil, and yellow dyes that derekp the original colours on exposure to light. The set of three negatives is The first made under the usual light filters printing paper is first conted with the solution of the dye tliat is changed by light to greenish- blue, and, after drying, it is exposed about 30 seconds under the negative taken through the red filter. When the required depth of colour is
ROWLAND'S
KALYDOR
FOR THE SKIN
Produces soft, fale, delicato skin, heals ail cutaneous eruptions, and losures a lovely delicate complexion to all who use it 29, 4/6, of Stores and Chemists.
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PURE, SPARKLING, INVIGORATING. THE LEADING MINERAL WATER-OF THE LAST Bottled in Japan by H. E. REYNELL & Co. BEWARE OF JAPANESE IMITATIONE.
F. BLACKHEAD & CO., AGENTS, Hongkong. S1st July, 1903.
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UINART PERE & FILS, REIMS
Established 1719,
CHAMPAGNE GROWERS AND
SHIPERS..
Ship only the Finest Quality Extra Dry (Green Seal)
LAUTS, WEGENER & CO.,
Bola A genta
Hongkong, 18th May, 1903,
D
OF
THE AMERICAN SYSTEM
ENTISTRY
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DR. M. H. CHAUN. 37, DES YEUX ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG, From the University of Pennsylvania, USA {2161 Hongkong, 3rd June, 1904
APOLLINARIS
NATURAL MINERAL WATER.
JAPAN
MITSUI
COALS.
BUSSAN KAISHA MITSUI & CO)
READ OFFICE, SULUGA-CHO, TOKYO. LONDON BRANCH-34, LIM STREET, E.C.
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HONGKONG BRANCH-PRINCE'S BUILDINGS, ICE HOUSE STREET
OTHER BRANCHES:
New York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Sourabaya, Manila, Amoy, Shanghai, Chefoo, 'Tientein, Newalwang. Fort Arthur, Seoul, Cheralpo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Kare, Shimonoseki, Moji Wakamaten. Karatau, Nagasaki, Kuchinotra, Sasebo, Maldruru Miike, Hakolie, Taipeh, &c.
Telegraphic Address: "MITSUI” (AB.C. and A 1 Ccd-e)
CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Navy and Arsenals and the State Railways; Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers, SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Miike, Tagawa, Yamano and Ida Coal Mines; and SOLE AGENT'S for Hokoku, Hondo, Kanada, Fujinotaas, Mameds, Mannors, Onours Otsuji,
Basaharu Trabskure, Yoshintani, Yoshio, Yunckibara, and other Coals.
B. MINAMI, Manager, Hongkong.