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For Terms, &c., apply to the
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MANAGER.
"KINGSCLERE,"
PRIVATE HOTEL
1945
APPROACH FROM KENNEDY ROAD AND
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TYLECTRIC LIGHT, Hef and Cold Water throughout. Billiards Tonnie, Croquet, putting greep and fine.stabling for horses.
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F. DOMBALLE Propriétaires. M. MAILLE
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CHINA),
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AB been re-opened under Europand Hernient and most strict supervaciou
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THE MANAGER.
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SHAMEEN-CANTON.
FIRST CLASS EUROPEAN HOTEL On the British Concussion.
Electrically Lighted."
Every Modern Comfort and Conve: jedice nt. Reagorable Rats
Under the Personal Superintend nce of
-H. HAYNES, hate Manager Hongkong Hotel.: MACAO HOTEL.
TELEGRAMS-FAIMER, MÃcao, MACAO, CHINA.
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COLD STORAGE.
THE HONGKONG IC COMPANY, LTD., hare now 40,000Cubic Feet of Coll Storage available at EAST POINT. Stores will be Open at 10 AM, and 4 P.M. dei'y, Sunday -exceptod, to receive and deliver perishable goods.
W. PARLANE, Manager. Hongkong, 18th November, 1901