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GARRICK
· TOBACCO
AND
CIGARETTES.
A. S. WATSON & CO..
LIMITED,
CIGAR MERCHANTS
AND
TOBACCONISTS,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
SHEPHERD'S LIGHTNING
ICE CREAM FREEZERS
MAKES THE SMOOTHEST AND LIGHTEST CREAM,
ICE SHAVES
ICE BLANKETS ICE CHESTS
ICE BUCKETS, ICE. TONGS,
ICE PICKS.
1005
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Caske 975 lbs. net 84,50 por cask ex Factory Io Baga 250 m, net 32.70 per bag ex Factory.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 3rd October, 1966. a1946 NEW CARTRIDGES.
BY Popular English Manufacturers.
all Bores and "Sizos.
In
SMOKELES8 POWDER and CHILLED SHOT. From No. 10 to 8886. at 86, 87 and $7.50 per 10%, SPORTING REQUISITES and AIR GUNB in Variety.
Inspection Invited.
WM. 8CHMIDT & CO. Hongkong, 26th October, 1906.
AUTOMATIC
DOULTON'S FILTERS,
"BILLIARDS"
making it for playing purposes as good as new,
QUE New Patent Low Set Express Cushious can be fitted to any BILLIARD TABLE
• Freight on a case of Cushions to Bombay, Rs. 4/- only.)
BEST AFRICAN IVORY BILLIARD BALLS THOROUGHLY SEASONED.
'CRYSTALATE AND BONZOLINE BALLS ALL SIZES.
WEST OF ENGLAND HILLIARD CLOTHS A SPECIALITY.
WE HOLD THE LARGEST STOCK OF BILLIARD TABLES, ACCESSORIES AND MATERIALS OUT OF LONDON,-
ALL ORDERS DESPATCHED BY RETURN MAIL STEAMER
Illustrated price lista, giring prices and particulars of everything pertaining to billiarde, com be bad on application from the Offees of this paper.
JOHN ROBERTS & CO., LD..
LANE. CRAWFORD & CO.
Hongkong, 23rd July, 1907,
433
BILLIARD TABLE MAKERS AND IVORY TURNERS, BOMBAY. Hongkong, 6th April, 1904.
TRADE
CUTLER, PALMER & CO..
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
DF
LONDON, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN;AND AUSTRALIA
ESTABLISHED 1815.
1771
BRANDY ★★✰✰✰
BROWNING
PISTOLS.
CALIBRE 7.65 mm.
TEN YEARS OLD.
$13 PER Dozen. ·
(697-2
BOTTLED IN SCOTLAND
FROM THE
ORIGINAL RECEIPT or 1746.
WHITE HORSE" WHISKY
SOLE AGENTS:
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
CHAMPAGNE
MUMM &
THE MOST POPULAR WINE.
MARK
For Cas
65
$21.50
19.00
35
16.00
a' 07
WHISKY, PALL MALL
19.00
46
JOHN WALKER & SONS'
OLD HIGHLAND -
12.00
C. P. & CO.'S SPECIAL
BLEND
With CHAMBER for B CARTRIDGES
FIRING 8 SHOTS in 2 SECONDS.
SIEMSSEN & CO.
Hongkong, 6th March, 1907.
AUTOMATIO MAUSER
PISTOLS.
CALIBRE 7.63 m..
With CHAMREE for 10 CARTRIDGES FIRING 10 SHOTS in 2 81CONDS. CARLOWITZ & CO. Agenta,
Hongkong, 13th March, 1907.
PEAK TRAMWAYS
7.00 h..
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE,
WEEK DAYS.
PORT WINE, INVALIDS
675
#
COMPANY,
7.30 am to 0,80 ajm. ...Every 10 minutes, 9.00 nam, to 11,00 a.m. ...Every 15 minutes. 11,80 a.m. to 12,46 p.m. ...Every 15 minutes 12.48 pm to 116 p.m....Every 10 minutes. 1.18 pm to 1.45 pm,...Every 15 minutos, 1.46 pm to 2.16 p.m....Every 10 mimates. 2.18 p.m. to 8.00 p.m... Every 15 minutos. 8.80 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. .....Evory 16 minutes -6.6-pam to 8:00 p.ai, ...Every 10-minutes. —
NIGHT CARN.
8.45 pm. & 9.00 p.m., 9.45 to 11.15 p.m.,
every horr. BATUBCA18.
AUNDAIR.
Ertz, Cam & 11.80 pm, and 11,45 p.ш,
8.00 a.m; to 9.00a.m....Every 15 ininuten 9.00a.m. to 0.80 a.m. .....Every 30 minutes, 8.80 8.10.
to 10.80 a.m...Every 16 minutes 10,40 km/ to 17,00 mm. „., Fvery 10 minutes, 11.45.a. to 12.00 Noor...Every 15 minutes. 1200 boon to 1.00 p.m. ««livery is minuter, 1.00 pm to 5.00 p.m. .. Every 15 minutes 5.00 pm to 6.00 p.m. ...Every 10 minutes. 18.00 p.m. to 7.00 pon....Every 16 minutes. 7.00 .m. to 8,00 p.m. ...Every 30 minutes,
→ NIGHT CARS at 8.45 pm, & 9,00 p.m., 9.45 to
11.16 p.m., every half hour.
SPECIAL CAB8 by strangement at the Com- pany's Office, Alexandra Buildings, Dee Youx Road Central,
JOHN D. HUMPHREY & SON,
General Managers. Rongkong, 9th May, 1907,
M
ITSU
BISHI
677
GOSEI-KWAISHA
(MITSUBISHI CO.)
COAL DEPARTMENT MARUNO UCHI, TOKIO,
Cablo Addror, IWASAKĮ," which applies to all Branch Offees.
A1 ABC 5th Ed., Western Union Codets need All Letters Addressed:
MANAGER, MITSU BISHI Co.
with orme cf place under.
BRANCH ORVICES
NAGAFAKT, MOJI, KOBE, KARATSU
SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, &
HANKOW.
AGENCIES:-
YOKOHAMA: M. ASADA, Esq. CHINKIANG: Messrs. GraRing & Co. MANILA: Mosors, MACONDRAY & Co. SOLE PROPRIETORS of Takashima, Ochi, Shinnew, Namazata and Komi-Yanada Collleries, and also Hojo Colliery, which will shortly be ready to produce on a large scale the best. Bazen Coal.
DOURO -
SHERRY, AMOROSO
LA TORRE
BENEDICTINE, D.O.M. -
99
G.
H.
CO.,
SALEB IN THE UNITED STATES EXCEED THE TOTAL OF ALL OTHER
10.00
19.00
Can be had in the following qualities:--
13.00
EXTRA DRY (Gout Americains,
BRUT
(Cordon Rouge).
19.60
15.25
40.50
THE ABOVE EXCLUSIVELY SHIPPED TO
SIEMSSEN CO.,
HONGKONG AGENTS.
151
Hoogkong, 1st June, 1907.
HIRANO.
THE LEADING MINERAL WATER OF THE EAST,
THE HIRANO MINERAL WATER CO., LD., KOBE.
AGENTS: F. BLACKHEAD & CO.
Hongkong, 16th August, 1905,
IMPORT
MITSUI
BUSSAN
KAISHA
MITSUI & CO)
EXFORT
AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
HONGKONG BRANCH-PRINCE'S BUILDINGS, Ios House Street, M. KOBAYASHI, Manager.
HEAD OFFICE:1, SURugacho, ToxYO,
OTHER BRANCHES.
1588
London, New York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Calentts, Bombay, Rangoon, Singapore, Bangkok, Sourabaya, Manila, Canton, Swatow, Amey, Fooshow, Tsingtan, Shanghai, Hankow, Chefoe, Tientsin, Nowchwong, Tairon, Angtung, Feoul, Chezoolpe, Yokohama, Yokosuke, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Kure, Maizuru. Moji, Wekamatsu, Karateu, Nagasaki, Kuchizotzu, Sasebo, Mijke, Hakudate, Sapporo, Taipeb, Tainan, ko,
Telegraphic Address: "MITEUI" (A.B.C. and AI Codes).
CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperiel Japanese Navy and Mint and Arsenals; the State Railways: Principal Railway Companies; Industrial Works; and Home and Foreign Mail end Freight Steamers.
SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Mike, Tagawe, Yamano and Ido Coal Mines and SOLE AGENTS for Fujinotans, Hokoku, Hendo, Karade, Mameda, Obtsuji, Obnoura, Sasabers, Tsukaburo, Teshie, Yanokibars, and other Cosle,
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The Head and Branch Offices and the TELEPHONE NO. 75. Agencies of the Company will receive any order
or sale produced from the above Collieries.
814)
T. MATSUKI, Manager, Hongkong.
No. 2, Fodder Street.
TRY
CALDBECK'S
VERMOUTH
COCKTAIL AND
113
GIN COCKTAIL
$1.00 PER QUART BOT TLF.
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.,
15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
Hongkong, 7th July, 1907,
*34
BRANDS.
SERVED IN ALL CLUBS AND FIRST-CLASS HOTELS, AND OBTAINABLE
AT ALL WINE MERCHANTS IN THE COLONY.
PHOTOGRAPHIC
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. EASTMAN'S KODAKS AND FILMS,
(81017
GOODS
ILFORD PLATES AND PAPERS. DEVELOPING AND PRINTING UNDERTAKEN.
Hongkong, 1st June, 1907.
and
LONG. HING & CO...
17, QUEEN'S ROAD.
KELLY & WALSH, LTD.
JUST PUBLISHED.
CANTONESE MADE EASY
Part 2: Third edition, revised enlarged, by J. DYER
RHYMES IN CHINESE CLINES: A Lecture on Chinese Pestry and Poets and Translations of Chinese poems, y.J. DYER BALL...
BALL... RHYHES AND
Upton Sinclair
The Tangled Bkein, by Baronusa Orezy The Journal of Arthur Bidding, by 2885 Mayfair, by Frank Richardson New Chronicles of Rebecca, by Kate
Douglas Wiggia The Burning Torch, by E. F. Montrésor The Queen of a Day, by J. & Fletcher The Fur Fhilanthropists, by
Life of
'Tho
1.00 A 1.50
[1028
of Actits! Togo, by Seppings
Post Summer Anuval
Soul, by Guy Maupassant. Translated by H.
HOTELS
HONGKONG HOTEL
FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE.
Dizing socommodation for 800 Persone 163 Bedroom
Elegantly Furnished Reception Rooms Privato Bar and Billiard Loom for Hotel
Residents
Hydraulic Lifts to eacli Floor. Electric Lighting and Fans Every Comfort
Ladies' Afternoon Tea Rooms
Ladies' Cloak Booms
Motron in attendance
CHARGRA MODERATE, AND NO EXTRAD -
A. F. DAVIES, Manager.
a12
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL.
Ladies' afternoon Tes-Rooms.
Priyala Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Hot and Cold Water throughout. Blooteilly Lighted
required).
Electrio
Pans (it
Electric Passenger Elevator to each floor. Table D'Hote at separate tables.
For Terms, &c., apply to the—
Hongkong, 24th July, 1905,
MANAGER.
41243
"KINGSOLERE,"
PRIVATE HOTEL.
APPROCH FROM Kennedy Road and
MACDONNEL ROAD
Telephone No. 134.
Telegraphic Address:
"SACHBULA,"
A.B.C. Code, 5th Ed. TALECTRIC LIGHT, Hot and Cold Water Econglou, Bilure, Tepuis, Croquet. putting green and fine stabling for horses.
Proprietress, Mas, G. SACHSE,
45
THE
GRAND HOTEL DIVISION STREET, KOBE
FIRST-CLASS CUISINE.
COMFORTABLE & AIRY BEDROOMS Bitvated in alcse piaximity to the Harbour and Railway Station.
807
BEST WINES And Liquors suPPLIKI.
Special arrangements for a long stay.
F. DOMBALLE)
M. MAILLE Propriétaires.
}
VICTORIA HOTEL. TELEGRAMS-VICTORIA, SHAM HEA
SHAMEEN-CANTON,
On the British Concession,
H. HAYNES, Manager.
MACAO HOTEL.
TELRORAMS Farner, MacAD, MACAO, CHINA.
In the Centre of the Prays Grande.
CAPT, T. AUSTIN, R.N.K., Manager.
Both Hotels Electrically Lighted and under experienced European Management,
Evory Comfort and Conveniente for Residents and Touriste.
a1014
WM. FARMER.
Proprietor,
*** BOA VISTA ' (HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH
CHINA),
MACAO.
HA bands atret but pan
management and most strict supervision
as to food cleanliness and bygiene of the place
All comforts of a home.
A most pleasant retreat for these desirous of a few days' reat and
quiet,
Comfortable accommodation for travellers paying a visit to the historical and picturesque 400 colony of
Macao is 40 miles south-west of Hongkong.
70 Two steamers (8.8. Sui An and Saz Tai) daily to
and from Hongkong, and two atanmere to and from Canton, give easy communication with both these centres.
Cable ddress" BOAVISTA."
For Terms, apply
The Clash of Empires, by Rowland
Thirimere....
$2,00
The Unveiled East, by F. A. Mackenzie Lettere fom the Far East, by Bir
Charles Eliot
9,25
6.00
$5.00
The Industrial Republic, by Upton
Sirolair
of Macao.
Wright
Wing
70
de
Blarchamp...
1.10
1.50 1.50
Health in the Home Life, by Honnor
Morten
1,75 217
1,50 1.50
Report by Mr. W. J. Garnett on a Journey through the Provinces of Shantung and Kiangsu. With two
Mops
40
1.50
the
1.80
95 CENTS EACH, CE THREE FOR 81.00.
1.50:
Mason's The Four Feathers.
130
McCarthy Cha
1,20
Wbero Love Leads, by Charks Garvice
1.50
A. Mirror of Shalott, by Rotert Angh
Bens.
1.50
A Full-Tergth Pertrait of Eve, by
Douglas Brewer
1.50
Pemberton's Pro Patria.
The Red Ruth, by L. T. Meade Colonel Daverco, by Percy White
150
1.50
Gaborina's The Lerouge Casa. Marryat's In the Name of Liberty.
author of "Lady Negge
The Pilgrimage, by C. F. I amenco Emancipatie, by Arthur Beckett Needles and Pins, by Jnatin Huntly
NOTICE.
DILLS for all Monica due by me should Br
he presented to me on er before the 15th Septemler, 1967. All entetending accounts duo to me, if not settled on or before the 15th September, 1907, will be passed into the hands of my Solicitore.
J. W. OSBORNE. Hongkong, 15th July, 1907.
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Anthony Hope's Double Harness. Merde's Home of Sweet Content. Q'The White Wolf
ON SALE.
THE MANAGER.
CHILDREN OF FAR CATHY.
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