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The Directories and Descriptions aro of
-CHINA Wuhn Kowklang
Peking
Tientsin
Teitaibo
Taku
Nowelwang
Daloy
Port Arthur Chefoo
Weihaiwoś Kisschau
Hankow
Yochow
Shangi Ichang Changking
Hangchow Ningga Wenniaw Santu Foochow Amoy
Swatow
Canton Whampoa Kowloon Kappa Samahni
Kongmoon
Wudlowfu Kwangchanwan Pakhoi Hoihow Langchow Mengtze
JAPAN AND FÖRMOSA
BILIOUSNESS.
Bilicusness (or bilicus sttack) needs filte description to the nofortunata sufferer, Food cannot be retained, the tongue furred, there is a bitter taste in the mouth, the head throbs and I aches; the patient is constipated, exceet. ingly weak, depressed and miserable. Doan' Dinner Pills will give relief in a few hours, but the sufferer should assist the medicine by taking rest, keeping quiet, and avelling worry. During an attack, abatinen e from food and Klonholio, stimulants is desirable.
NAVAL AND MILITARY,
According to the fatest list, 175 officers of the British army, are now serving with the forces of the Khedive of Egypt.
Meesia Vickers, Sons, and Maxim have
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of an order from the Peruvian Govert WILL "BUY A CASE OF m. for a swift cruiser complete with guns and ammunition.
According to the Kie correspondent of the Globe the German Navy Estimates are almost certain to demand for men to enable experiments to be carried out for the purpose of securing the best type of submarine boat.
One of the-gunners of the United States batleship
uchloved the Artstucky s extraordinary record, with a fia, gan, of hitting the target thirteen times out of fourteen shote in one minute. The target. was lift, by 21ft, and 1,603
yards distant.
Thore subject to bilionsnoss should pay care ful attention to dirt, and avoid fatigue, anxiety, and exposure to cold. After too larg a meal one Dona's Dinger Fill will ward off any ill aftor-effect by giving the digestive organs, the liver and bowels, tho additional help trey nend, Thie medisine should always be kept handy, and dong taken whenever you find your food
There are living in the small town of Swaff repeating" or disagreeing with
ham, Norfolk, no fewer than fone nacal and Doan's Diaper Pilla are
Natura
wn military me who wore present at the storming medicine for liver, bilioumes, and all stomach of Subastopol ifty years ago. They are Roar tranbles. They are made from pure roots and Admiral A. K. Wilson. General Montagu, herbs which not gully and in harmony with
Captain R. H. Jex-Blake, and Private W. Kew. Nature, driving out the clogging impurities, The German navy authorities are adopting allaying infammation and irritation, aud
steam turbines. Two turbind driven vessels, restoring a regular and natural action to the
vor, bowels and digestive system, without a scaall cruiser, the Labeck, of 10,000 b.p. and 24 knots, which practically follows the Doan'a Dianor Bills are the best Amethyst of the British Navy, and a torpedo medicine for billousness, indigestion, constipa.. ( of the brand de hauts, inve recently tion, for headache, rotoking, dizziness, distress
been built. Both vessels are quipped with after eating, poor appetite, yellow eyes, heart- hers, wind, eta.
Doan'a Dinner Pills are 1/1 a tex, or boxes for 6 Of all chemists and medicine dealers, or direct from the prop istors, the Foster-McClellan Co., 8. Wells Street, Oxford Street, London. Bagland, post free on receip! inf prica
For Itching, Piles, Ringworm, Eczemu, and avery Irritating Skin Complaint, Don's Dintment is a sure and lasting care. Doan's Oistment is 2/9 a pot, or 139 for 6 pots. It is sold by all chemists and druggists, or muy b bad, post free on reaipt of price, direct from tho proprietors, the Foster-McClellan Co., & Wells Street, Oxford Street, London, England.
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TURATIES WITH COREL Japan, 1876 Japan Supplementary, 1876
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Nanking
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MITSUBISHI GOSHI-KWAISHA
(MITSUBISHI Co.) COAL DEPARTMENT
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Cable Address, "IWADAKI," which applies to all Branch Offices And Hong Long and Shanghai Agencies, A1, ABC 5th Edition, Western Unior Codes used.
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HONGYONG AND ITS DEPENDENCIES
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STRAITS SETTLEMENTS Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Prov. Wollesleg MALAY STATES
Johore
Pahang
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TREATIES WITH SIAM Great Britain, 1856 and 1899; France, 1993
and 1901; Japan, 1893: Russia, 1809. Great Britain and France, Samose Frontier. Great Britain and Russia, Railway Convention
1899.
CUSTOMS TARIFFS TRADE REGULATIONS China, Japan, Siem, Come
RECENT CHINESE LEGISLATION. Revised Regulations for the Construction
Railways in China,
Experimental Rogalations for the Registration
of Trade Marks.
Labuan British N. Borneo Temporary Mining Regulations in China,
LEGAL DOCOMENTS Orders in Council for Government of H.B.M.'s Subjects in China and Core, 1885, 1877, 1978, 1881, 1384-1884, 1886, 1880, Rulos H..B.'s Suprema and other Courts in China, &c.; Tables of Court and Consular Foes Charter of the Colony of Hong. kong, Malay States Federation Agreement; Table of Hongkong Court Foes: Admir alty Rules, Foreign Jurisdiction Act; Roga- for the Consular Courts of United States United States Courts
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LIST of RESIDENTS. ALPHABETICAL- contains the names of over
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20,000 FOREIGNERS. carefully arranged, with the Initial as roli the Surnames in strictly Alphabetical Order, that any namo can be found instantly.
The PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES IN CHINA, JAPAN AND COREA are
All Letters Addressed:-- MANAGER, MITSU BIBHI Co., with name of arranged in a special separate list,
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BEANCH OFFICES:- NAGASAKI, MOJI, KOBE, KARATSU AND HANKOW.
AGENCIES SHANGHAI IL. J. H. TRIPP.
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YOKOHAMA: M. ASADA. CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Im perial Japanese Navy and Foreign Navies; the Traperial Arsecale; the Imperial Railway; Hour, Kinshu and the other Principal Rail ways; Industrial Works; Home and Foraigu Mail and Freight Steamers,
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SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashimaa, Ochi, Shinner, Namarata and Kami-Yamado and also Hejo Calliery, which will -Collieries shortly be ready to produce on a large scale the best Kuzou Coal.
Sola Agents for Kigio, Komatan (Tagawa) and Yeshiromachi Coal (Karsten).
The Head and Brunch Offices and the Agen cies of the Company will receive any order for Coals produced from the above Collieries.
Coal sold in 1904 by the Company amounted to 1,520,000 tons.
THE MAPS AND PLANS have been engraved by oneof the most ominon Firing in Great Britain and sie corrected and bought up to date. They consist this year of fourteen of the following:- COLORED PLATE OF FLAGBOF FOREIGN HONG. MAT OF THE FAR EAST PPAS OF YOKOHAMA PLAN OF KOBE AND HYOGO PLAN OF FOREIGN SETTLEMENTS, TIENTSIN PLAN OF THINOTAU (KILOCHAU) PLAN OF FOREIGN CONCESSION, SHANGHAT: PLAN OF HONGKEW (SHANGHAI) with Inset including TSS WITH CHINE Great Britain:-Naoking, 1842 Tientsin 1858 Tariff Agreement and Rules, 1859. Convention, 1860; Rales for Joint Investiga, tion of Castems Beizures, 1869; Chefoo-
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A DIARY OF THE WAR,
The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY, «l. though condensed in every possible manner, con. lain every year more pages.
Person's turbines.
Tho Thetis, cruiser (Capt. J. C A Wikin
which arrived at Plymouth late on June ard from the Chins Station, Loft on Saturday morning for Chathat. Tao Thetis, which was commissioned at Cha bm on November 24th 1902, will be paid off and recommissioned with oncleus crow for service in the Chatham- Sheerness Reserve Division.
All Indian Army candidates for staff employ ment will in future be required to have passed for promotion to the rouk of mujer, unless they are graduates of the Staff College, or, as an exception to those cases, where a certificate of promotion to the rank of major is not required.
a qualification for stall employ.
Viscous Kitchener of Khartoum, Com> mander-in-Chief in India, attained his 75th birthday on 24th June. In his brilant career he has gained five medals thirteen clasps, a bronze star, right mentions in despatchie, seven orders tine.uding that of Merits, two special promotions, the thanks of Parliamost, and a petrago.
Lord Balearres stale that the expenditure defrayed by the Commissioners of Works on the Admiralty buildings from January 1st, 11887, to January 31st last was £11,514, for alterations to the old bail tings, and £319,938 when the new building of the latter amount 213,16) wat
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aral purposes.
Admiral the Hon. Sir E. R. Fremantle;- speaking at the installation bouquet of the Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers, said he did not approve of giving up submarine mine tolds and supplanting this with sub- marine boots, and that view was founded upon. are raisons. In the first place, we had not a sufficient number of submarine boats; secondly. these boats were not reliable; and thirdly, whenever a raid was made on our counts it would be
thick and foggy weather, and he did not sos that in suo's circumstances the submarine boat would be of mach good.
The official trial of the submirme signalling apparatus by the German Admiralty has taken at Kiel harbour. A belt weighing 1 was suspended at a depth of 2) fest from the Gablefssch Lightship. The sound of the bell- was heard with such distinctness at a distance of three miles and a half that its position o ald be readily located with precision. At a distance of five miles and a half the sound was heard in sufficient volume, but was disturbed by other soups in the harbour. The result of the trial was considered thoroughly satisfactory, and an order for the adoption of the epparu'us was given. Among those present was Sie William White, formerly Chief Contractor to the Admiralty
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The following particulars concerning the submarines and submersibles in the Franch-
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It was years ago universally pronounced to be the cheapest work of the kind anywhere published, sad although very much enlargedy are given in the Moniteur. There are 49 ten different types-namely, one and improved in every way, the price in silver of the Gymnote of 30 tons, one of the Zede of 270 tons, thres of the forse of 140 tous. four, is now greatly below the equivalent of Clo at which it was originally published.
of the Farfadst of 200 tons, 20 of the Naiade of 70 tons, one each of X. L. and Z. of 165, 225, six of the Emeraude of 15) tona, and 213 tons, find tens of the Giepe of 45 tons. Of sabmer sibles there are ten of the different types- namely, one of the Narval of 117 tous, four of the Sirene of 157 tons, two of the Aigrette of 157 tops, two of the Nuori of 350 tons, and oue of the Omega of 390 tons. These numbers" include those which have been ordered, but in onsequence of the report of the recent cum- mittee on submarines and submersibles, it is probable that the building of four or five sub marines of the Gaepe type, and of several of the Emerauds typo will be abandoned.
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