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COAL MERCHANTS.
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~Y. KUBO, MANAGEE, HongKoNG,
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY
Hongkong, 7th November, 1907
DENTAL
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Coaks 275-lbs.net $5.50 per csak ex Factory In Bags 250 lbs, net $3.85 pèr bags as Factory
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers,
Hongkong, 29th April, 1908.
COLD STORAGE.
AMI
ER HONGKONG ICE Company, LtD., have now 40,000 Cubis Feet of Cold Storage available at EAST POINT. Stores wit be Open at 10 AM. and 4 P.1. dally. Bunday excepted, toʻreceive and deliver perishable goods-
- G. K. HAXTON, Manager. Hongkong let April, 1908.
A. TACK & CO.. 26, Das Vaux ROAD, CENTRAL,
Just Länded a Large SroCK OF WRATTEN and WAINWRIGHT PLATES.
43.
EASTMAN'S KODAKS and:"FILMS.
DEVELOPING and PRINTING UNDERTAKEN.
Hengkong, 4th March, 1907.
MITSUBISHI GOSH KAISHA
(MITSUBISHI CO.)
COAL DEPARTMENT MARUNO-UGHT, TOKYO,
Cable Addrem, "IWASAKI” which applies to all Branch Oto
AL ABO 5th Ed., Western Union Codes used-
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BRANCH OFFICES I
NAGABAKI, МОЛ, КОВЕ, KARATSU
SHANGHAI HONGKONG, &
HANKOW
AGENOTEN -
No. 5, Queen's Road Central.
HYGIENE.
Antiseptic Aids to the Maintenance of Personal Health
LISTERINE
The Standard Antiseptio Preparation THERE BIZIė $0.70, $1.25 AND $2,00.-
LISTERINE TOOTH POWDER
A Frictionary Dentifrice for Employment in Conjunction with Idsterine 70 ^Centi ÷PER - BOTTLE.
LISTERINE DERMATIC SOAP
TELEPHONE No. 706,
An Antiseptic Detergent
70 CENTS PER TABLET. LISTERINE
AND
LISTERINE SPECIALTIES
FOR BALY IY
WATKINS LIMITED.
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS,
· ÆERATED-WATER MANUFACTURERS
81, Queen's Road Central.
Hongkong, 18th June, 1908.
WHITE HORSE" WHISKY
MARK
SOLE AGENTS
BOTTLED IN SCOTLAND
FROM THE
ORIGINAL RECEIPT or 1740,
LANE. CRAWFORD & CO.
BILLIARDS"
$1884UB New Patent Low Set Express. Cushions can be fitted to any BILLIARD TABLE
making it for playing purposes as good as new.
*1918.
CUTLER, PALMER & CO..
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
OF
LONDON, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA
ESTABLISHED 1815.
BRANDY
(Freight on a case of Cushions to Bombay, Rs. 4/- only)
BEST AFRICAN IVORT BILLIARD BALLS, THOROUGHLY SEASONED..
CRYSTALATE AND BONZOLINE BALLS ALL SIZES.
WEST OF ENGLAND BILLIARD CLOTHS A SPECIALITY.
WE HOLD THE LARGEST STOCK OF BILLIARD TABLES, ACCESSORIES
AND MATERIALS OUT OF LONDON..
HOTELS
HONGKONG HOTEL
FIRST-CLASS AND UP-to-Datu.
Dinding accommodation for 300 Persone Well Furnished Reception Roomster Private Bar and Billiard Room for Hotel
Bouldents
Eletric Lifts to each Floor, Electric Lighting and Foun Talepkenes on every Floor.
Every Comfort
Ledion Afternoon Tea RoomE
Ladies" Cloak Koonis
Matron in attendance
CHARGES: MODIBATE, AND No ExtraB. AF DAVIES, Managər,
39
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL
Ladies Afternoon Tea-Roo73,
Private Bar and Billard-RoomB, Hot and Cold Water throughout. Electrically Lightað Electric Fan (it
required).
Electric Passenger Elevator to each floor, Table D'Hote at reparate tables.
For Terms, &o, apply to the-
Hongkong, 24th July, 1905,
MANAGER.
· ́" KINGSCLERE,”. PRIVATE HOTEL
ALL ORDERS DESPATCHED BY RETURN MAIL STEAMER,
Dilustrated price lists, giving prices and particulars of everything pertaining to billiards, won Telephone No: 154. be had on application from the Offoes of this paper;
JOHN ROBERTS & CO.. LD.. BILLIARD TABLE MAKERS AND IVORY TURNERS, BOMBAY.
Hongkong, 8th April, 1904.
643-2
THE TOR HOTEL LIMITED. KOBE, A STRICTLY FIRST CLASS HOTEL.
Accommodation for 200 Guests, Large and spacious Outside Rooms only. Telephone & Ball system,
French Chef de Cuisine.
Vintage Winem
Cold Storage.
All Bedrooms with Bathrooms attached.
·Hot and Cold Water-service.. Latest Sanitary Arrangements. Complete and Latest Fire Alarm Bystem. Electric Light and Fans Ibroughout,
Extensive Gardens and Pleasure Grounds.
Magnificent View over the whole-Town, the Harbour, Awaji, the Entrance [4955
to The Inland Ses, and Osaka Bay. European Representative meets all Steamers.
Tel. Add. "TOR" KOBE.
W. A. MARTIN, Manager.
KELLY & WALSH, LTD.
FROM PEKING TO MANDALAY,
A Journey from North China to Burma through Tibetan Bush'uan and Yunnan, by R. F. Johnston; Ilustrations and Map
Life of Bir Halliday Macartney, by
D. C. Houlger.....
Kelantan, A State of
the Malay Peninsula, by W. A. Graham The Tragedy of Korea, by F. A.
Mackennis...
The Trade and Administration of the
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B. Driault
Americains et Japonais. L'Emigration aux Hawsi, Californie Canada do, by L. Aubert
For Cass.
$22,50
20.00
17.00
WHISKY, PALL MALL
20.00
JOHN WALKER & SONS'
OLD HIGHLAND
12,50
0. P. & 00.8 SPECIAL
BLEND
10.50
PORT WINE, INVALIDS
20.00
DOURO.
13.50
Hora
SHERRY, FINO SUPERIOR
1475
LA TORRE
16.00
OLD EAST INDIA AMOROSO
18.50-
20.00
ROYAL AMONTILEADO CURIO SOLERA
23.00
26.50
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and
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Bole Agents for MIYAO and KISHIDAKE COALS.
-16]-
Y, SHIBUYA, Acting Manager,
No. 2 Pedder Street, Hongkong,
TEAK
7.00
TRAMWAYS
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS,"
1.30 am to 8,80,aan. ...Every 10 minute 9.00 .. to 11.00a.m. Every 15 minutes. LEB0 am to 12,46 p.m. Every 15 minutos 18.46 p.m. to 1.15 p.m....Every 10 minutes. 1.15 pm to 11pm....Every 16 minutes, 1.45 pm, to 2.16 p.Every 10 minutes. 8.16 pm to 8:00 p.m. Every 16 minutes. -6.80 p.m. to `8.00 Jam, ...Every 15 minutes. 5.00 pm to 8:00p.m...Every 10 minutes.
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every 3 hours:
SATURDAY8.
Kalia Gun at 11,50 p.m. and 11:45 pm.
"TOMDATH. 8.00 to 9,00 8,32 E
Very
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11.16 p., every half hour.
SPECIAL CAES by arrangement at the Com pany's Office, Alexandra Buil lings, Don Ver
Boed Central.
JOHN D. HUMPHREY & SON,
General Managerą.
·Hongkong, Vib May, 1907,2′′
BENEDICTINE, DOM.`-
D'Eure, by A. Michie
Navigoison and J. T. Douglas.
of Ships in a Fog, by C. D.
A MAP of the SUN ÖN DIS- TRICT Including HONGKONG, KOWLOON and The NEW TERRITORY and Showing all the Pathe, Roads, Passes," Railways, Contours and Soundings, Names in ENGLISH and CHINESE, Scale in, to 1-Mile...... Brassey's Naval Annns! The Paris Salon
APPROACH FROM KENNEDY ROAD AND
MACDONNEL ROAD.
Telegraphia Addrem; A.B.O. Code, 5th Ed
BACHSOLA:”
ELECTRIC LIGHT, Hot and Cold Wates
throughout. Billiards. Tenuis, Crequat, putting green and finestabling for horses,
Proprietress, MBS. G. SACHSE.
BRAESIDE,"
FRIVATE HOTEL,
~TANDING in its own grounds with Tennis and Croquet Lawns, Large Airy and Well Furnished Bedrooms, every home-comfort Fine View of the Harbour, Kedzsed. Terms for the Summer Months, Telephone, No. 90.
· Apply^to^|_ Mrs. F. W. WATTS,
"Braeside,” 20, Kasdonnell Road, Hongkong, 4th December,1907. *1840.
THE
GRAND HOTEL DIVISION STREET, KOBE
FIRST-CLASS CUISINE. COMFORTABLE & AIRY BEDROOMS Situated in close proximity to the Harbour.
· and Railway Station.
$13.00
An English and Cantonese Dictionary, by J. Chalmers Revised, by T. K. Dealy Cantonese Made Easy
80.00
·8,00
8%
How to Speak Cantonese :
5,00
17.00
"How to Write Chinesa
5.00
4,50 How to Write the Badicals
75
2,50
Hakka Made Easy...
2.00
Easy Soutances in Hakka 5:00 The Sun Wni Dialect
4.00
Readings in Chinese ColloquialTM
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The Pith of the Classics. Quotations from the Cleanics in Colloquial Use 2.50 Things Chinese...
1.50.|| Five Thousand Years of John Chinaman
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BEST WINES AND LIQUORS SUPPLIED,
Special arrangements for a long stay.
F. DOMBALLE) M. MAILLE
Propriétaires
MACAO HOTEL.
100 SPECIAL REDUCED SUMMER RATES —~50 - PIR-DAY-$5 to $7 socording to Room selected
200
WEEK 125 to $40° do. do.
do. MONTE 890 to $150 do -do. do.
2.00 | WEEK-ENDS-Saturday afternoon to Monday 7,50
morning-$7 to $10.
75 Two persons occupying one room, will be
charged a rate and a half only. Children under 12-half rates
3.00
1,00
SPECIAL TERMS FOR FAMILIES.
|· Excallent. Cooking by An Cunoye, for over seventeen years Chief Cook with the Into Mr. J. W. OSFORNE.
5.00
The Celestial and His Religious
Rhythms and Rhymes in Chinese Climos,
Chinese Poetry and Poets
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10,50
2.40
Progressive and Idiomatic Bentonces in Cantonese Colloquial, by A. A. Fulton... Select Phrases in the Canton Dialect,
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4175
1932
75
The Telandere, by Veronica
1.00
Progressive Lessons in the Chinese Written Language, by T. L. Ballook
60,00
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PIPPERMINE
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175
175
250
TELEPHONE NO. 75,
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250
Hongkong, 3rd July, 1908,
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325
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Hongkong, 30th June, 1908,
ON-SALE
A TABLY OF THE
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HONGKONG
For Demand Drafts on London on the day if or proceding the departure of the English Mails; also Table of the Yearly Approximate Averages for 34 Year FROM 1874 TO 1907,
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Hongkong, 4th October, 1903.
WM FARMER,
Proprietor.
"BOA VISTA” (HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH ·
CHINA), MACAO.
THE Hotel is under Europasu manage
mont and most triot supervision as to food, cleanliness and hygiene of the place.
Al comforts of a home.
A most plassant retreat for those desirous of a few days rest and quiet,
Comfortable socommodation for travellers paying a visit to the historical and picturesque colony of Macso.
Másão is 10 miles south-west of Hongkong. Two steamers (8.8. Sui An and Suí Tan) daily to and from Hongkong, and two steamers to and from Canton, give easy communication with both these centres.
Cable Address--" BOLVISTA ” Fer Tarms, apply to 216
THE MANAGER.
A LING & CO.
19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Next to Mear, KUEN & KOMOR).
FURNITURE AND PHOTO GOODS STORE.
Photographia Goods of every Description in Stock:
Developing and Printing Undertaken. Hongkong, Slet July, 1907,
730