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HONGKONG WEEKLY
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Hongkong Daily Press.
No. 15,884. 號四十八百人千五萬一第
ESTABLISHED 1857
to ELAL
sky King,
Appointment
When you feel thoroughly exhausted after a heavy day's work, begin your dianer with a
BOVRIL
SOUP
and so ward off indigestion.
2
HYGIENOL
A POWERFUL DISINFECTANT
GERMICIDE AND DEODORIZER...
29日八会月二年元銃宜
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 19TH, 1909.
五拜禮
號九十月三年九零百九千一英港香
TRADE
The GOLD MEDAL for Quality in the Franco-British Exhibition has been awarded to
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MARK
WHITE HORSE THING
WHISKY.
199 To MAJESTY
By Royal Appointment.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
MACKIE & CO. DISTILLERS LTD.
"A. S. WATSON & CO.. LAGAVULIN DISTILLERY, IBLAY,
LIMITED,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
AND
KOWLOON DISPENSARY.
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NEW PIANOS
ON HIRE
AT $10 PER MONTH,
TUNING AND
REGULAR
ATTENTION
INCLUSIVE.
S. MOUTRIE & CO.,
LIMITED.
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MALT-MILL
CRAIGELLACHIN,
GLENLIVET
SOLE AGENTS.
Estab. 1742.
Quality
GUINNESS'S
AND
STOUT
BASS & Co.'s PALE ALE,
HORSE HEAD' BRAND.
IN QUARTS, PINTS AND SPLITS.
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO,
TELETHONE No. 75.
the Secret of Success.
$15 PER DOZ.
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Hongkong, 4th March, 1909.
NOTE--Any persons proved guilty of re-filling our empty bottles with inferior Whisky will be refused supplies.
AN
"ALL NIGHT" DRUG STORE
You can get what you need ́at WATKINS DISPENSARY any hour of the night. All that you need do to get prompt, cheerful attention is to press the night bell. This night service is intended entirely as an accommodation to our customers. It is
given willingly-cheerfully.
QUALIFIED ENGLISH CHEMYSTS
WILL ALWAYS BE ON DUTY 20
DISPENSE PRESCRIPTIONS.
WATKINS, LIMITED,
The charges during the night hours are the same as by day.
CHEMYSTS AND DRUGGISTS, 31. Queen's Road Central,
HONGKONG.
NIGHT AND DAY TELEPHONE: 192.
CUTLER, PALMER & CO.,
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS
OF
LONDON, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.
وو
ESTABLISHED 1815.
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WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
15; Queen's Road Central.
(+35
BREWER & CO., LIMITED.,
FEDDER STREET-Adjoining Main Entrance HONGKONG HOTEL. TELEPHONE, No. 696.
A NEW CONSIGNMENT
TENNIS
OF
RACKETS,
BY
SLAZENGERS
FORRESTERS
AND OTHER WELL-KNOWN MAKERS.
INSURANCES
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY: TOTAL FUNDS AT 31st DECEMBER, 1907
£18,114,624.
Authorised Capital
Subscribed Capitol Paid-up Capital
II. Fire Finds
£3,000,000 2,750,000
687,500 0 0
3,065,374 15 7
The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
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SINGON & CO.
RON, STEEL, METAL and HARD- WARE MERCHANTS. Wholesale and Retail Ironmongers Pig Iron and General Store. Foundry Coke Importers, keepers and Shipchandlers. Nos. 35 & 37, HLNG Loose STREET, (2nd Street, west of Central
[660 Markot) Telephone No. 515.
ICE
E. HAVE MET THE CUT and are SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agente.
now Selling Ies from our Depot, Hongkong, 21st July, 1908.
(1019 Nos, 55 & 57, Des Voeux Road Central, for THE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANY | HALF A CENT PER POUND,
We bave the ONLY FACTORY IN HONGKONG Manufacturing Ica DISTILLED WATER and therefore we GUARANTEE ITS PURITY.
OF: HAMBURG.
HE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, aro prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
CARLOWITZ & Co. Hongkong, 13th August 1906,
128
CHATER ROAD.
Hongkong, 1st October, 1908.
#40-1
Per Case.
BRANDY ★★
$22.50
20.00
"
** WHISKY, PALL MALL
17.00
DR. M. H. CHAUN.
-20.00
JOHN WALKER & SONS'
THE latest Method of the AMERICAN
SYSTEM or DENTISTRY.
OLD HIGHLAND - C. P. & 00.'S SPECIAL
BLEND
12.50
33, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. From the University of Pennysilvanis, U.S.A.
Hongkong, 17th April, 1907.
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10.5
CIEN TING
20.00
15
DOURO
13.50
SHERRY, FINO SUPERIOR
14.75
LA TORRE
$5
16.00
OLD EAST INDIA
18.50
"
AMOROSO
20.00
39
2
BOYAL AMONTILLADO CURIO SOLERA
23.00
26.50
QT8. 40.00 Prs. 42.00
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Casks 375 lbs. net $5.50 per csak ex Factory
In Bags 250 lbs. met 83.45 par bag ex Factory
SHEWAN, TOMER & CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 29th April, 1908.
THE GRAND HOTEL
DIVISION STREET, KOBE.
FIRST-CLASS CUISINE.
COMFORTABLE & AIRY BEDROOMS. Situated in close proximity to the Harbour and Railway Station.
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BEST WINES AND LIQUORS Bupplied.
Special arrangements for a long stay.
PORT WINE, INVALIDS
BENEDICTINE, D.O.M. -
THE ABOVE ARE EXCLUSIVELY SHIPPED TO
SIEMSSEN CO..
РЕАК
7.00`a.nl.
F. DOMBALLE)
Propriétaires.
M. MAILLE
TRAMWAYS
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DATR.
COMPANY
7.30 am, tua 9.30 ..... Every 10 minutes. 9.30 am. to 11.00 a.m... Every 15 minutes. 11.30 B.. to 12.45 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 12.45 p.m. to 1.15 p.m....Every 10 minutes.
1.15 p.m. to 1.45pm... Every 15 minutes.. 1.45 p.m. to 2.15 p.m... Every 10 miuntes. 2.15 p.m. to 3.00p.m....Every 15 minutes.
15 3.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.....Every minutes. 5:00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m... Every 10 minutes.
NIGHT CARЯ
8.45 p.m. & 9.00 pan., 9.45 to 11.15 p.m.
every hour.
SATURDAYS.
Extra Cars at 11.30 p.m. and 11.45 p.m. SUNDAYS
8.00a.m. to 900 a.m....Every 15 minutes. 9.00 am to 930a.m...Every 30 minutes. 9.30 am to 10.30a.m...Every 15 minutes. 10.00am to 11.00a.m....Etory 10 minutes. 11.45 am to 12.00 Noon...Every 15 minutes. 12.00 Noonto 1.00p.m. Every 10 minutes. 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 pan. Every 15 minutes. 5.00 p.m. to 6.00 p... Every 10 minutes. 6.00 p.m. to 7.00 pin... Every 15 minutes. 7.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. Every 10 minutes. NIGHT CARS at 8.45 p.z. & 9.00 p.m., 9.45 to 11.15 p... every half hour. SPECIAL CARS by magonent at the Company's Office, Alexandra Buûîlings, Des Your Road Central.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, Teneral Managers Hongkong 9th May, 1907.
1374
1.66
SURGEON DENTIST.
No. 10, D'AGUILAE STREET,
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TERMS VERY MODERATE.
Consultation Free, Hongkong, 21st September, 1905. -1327
FILM FILM!!
KODAK FILM.
DEVELOPING AND PRINTING
ĮSPECIALITY.
from
ORIENTAL BREWERY LTD.
[474 Hongkong, 16th March, 1909.
SUTTON'S SEEDS. Special Selections for South China, CHINA EXPRESS CO.
3, Duddell Street, Hongkong,
Shipping and Insurance Agents. Hongkong, 22nd January, 1909. ↑ [50 HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LTD.
■T 18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that on and I after This Dato, the Selling Price of Ice, will be Reduced to HALF A CENT per pound.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lrý,
General Managers, Hongkong Ion Company, Ltd. Hongkong, 17th March, 1909.
ATTENTION!!
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PRICE, $3 PER MONTH,
HOTELS
|HONGKONG HOTEL
FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE. ·
Dining accommodation for 300 Persons, -String Band Plays during Tiffin and Dinner.
Well Furnished Reception Rooms.
Frivate Bar and Billiard Room for Hotel
Residents.
Blootrio Lifts to oach Floor.
Electric Lighting and Faus,
Telephones on every Floor,
Every Comfort
Ladies' Afternoon Tea Rooma.
Ladies' Cloak Rooms.
Matron in attendance.
CHARGES MODERATE, AND NO EXTRAJ a42]
A. F. DAVIES, Manager.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL
Ladies' Afternoon Tea-Rooms.
Private Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Hot and Cold Water throughout,
Electrically Lighted; Electric Fans (it
required).
Electrio Passenger Elevator to each floor. Table D'Hote ot acperató tables.
For Terms, &o., apply to the
Hongkong, 24th July, 1905.
MANAGER.
“KINGSCLERE,” · PRIVATE HOTEL.
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APPROACH FROM KENNEDY ROAD AND MACDONNEL ROAD.
Telephone No. 134.
SACHIOLA." Telegraphic Address : - A.B.C. Code, 5th Ed.
FILECTRIC LIGHT, Hot and Cold Water Eroughout. Billiards, Tennis, Croquet,
putting green and fine stabling for horses.
a45] Propristress, Mrs. G. SACHSE.
"BBAE SIDE,
PRIVATE HOTEL.
CTANDING in its own grounds with Tennis. STANDING Own Large Airy and Well Furnished Rooms, every home comfort. Fine View of the Harbour. Telephone, No. 690.
MRA. F. W. WATTS, Apply to
"Breeside," 20, Macdonnell Ronil. 244 Hongkong, 4th December, 1907. ORIENTAL HOTEL
TELEPHONE 197
No. 4 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
MES, M. MATTHAEY, Propristress. A thoroughly First-Class and Up-to-Date Hotel
Large and Airy Rooms, afforiling overy comfor“ to Residents and Tourista.
Table D'Hote at Separate Tables. MODERATE RATES. Telegraphic address: "Comfort," Hongkong.
For Particulars, apply to
M. MATTHABY, Proprietress.
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Hongkong, 5th October, 1908. VICTORIA HOTEL
SHAMEEN-CANTON. MANAGER-MR. H. HAYNES."," Telegraphie address" VICTORIA, SHAMEEN. SITUATED ON THE BRITISH CONCESSION.
MACAO HOTEL.
MACAO.
MANACHE Ma H. N. BEAUREPAIRE. Telegraphic address" FARMER, MACAO." SITUATED IN THE CENTRE OF PRAYA GRANDM Both Hotels electrically ligted, and under experienced European Supervision.. GUIDES AND CHAIRS PROVIDED.
to Tourists. REASONABLE RATES
NOW IN GREAT DEMAND Every information and Special attention given
FOR BLOUSE LENGTHS.
WM. FARMER,
Proprietor.
"BOA VISTA" (HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH
· HONGKONG AGENTS.
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A TACK & CO.. 26, DES VEUT ROAD, CENTRAL
Hongkong, 12th March, 1909.
4 yds. INDIAN Gauze Openwork...81.00
34 yds. INDIAN DOTTED MUSLIN 81.25
Ladies' and Children's Belts!
HOOSAIN-ALI & Co.,
*1623)
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LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
AERTEX
TENNIS
CELLULAR
SHIRTS.
$3.75 BACH G FOR $21.
COTELLA
TENNIS
TENNIS SHIRTS. $2.50 EACH 6. FOR $13,50.
BOOTS
$5.00 TO
& SHOES. $12 PER PAIR.
WHITE FELT TENNIS HATS.
AYRES
AND
SLAZENGERS
1909 TENNIS BALLS.
:
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO. Hongkong, 8th March, 1909.
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A LING & CO.
19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
FURNITURE AND PHOTO GOODS STORE.
Photographic Goods of every Description in Stock.
Developing and Printing Undertaken. Hongkong, 31st July, 1907.
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GRAÇA & CO.,
(Established 1896.)
No. 27 DES Vœux Road"
Dealers in
POSTAGE
STAM-PS
and all Philatelic Goota. Pictorial Post Curds. Birthday Cards, MANILA CIGARS AND CIGARETTES Alboms, Novels, Tweezers, Hinges. Linses, Flower Borde,
etc., Inspection solicited.
kta,
etc.
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No. 14, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 18th March, 1909.
F AUTOMATIC BROWNING POCKET PISTOLS.
CALIBRE 7.65 mm. With CHAMBER for 8 CARTRIDGES FIRING 8 SHOTS in 2 SECONDS.
SIEMSSEN & Co. [47 Hongkong, 6th March, 1907.
NEW CARTRIDGES.
Y popular English Manufacturers. In Balores and sizes.
SMOKELESS POWDERS and CHILLED SHOTS. From No. 10 to 868G. ut $6, $7 and $7.50 per 100, SPORTING REQUISITES and AIR GUNS in Variety.
Inspection Invited,
WM. SCHMIDT & Co. Hongkong, 26th October, 1906.
COLD STORAGE.
CHINA). MACAO.
HE Hotel ie ander European manage- THE
ment and most strict supervision as to food, cleanliness and hygiene of the place.
All somforts of a home.
A most pleasant retreat for those desirous to few days rest and quiet.
Comfortable accommodation for travellers paying visit to the historical and picturesne colony of Macao.
Macao is 40 miles south-west of Hongkong Two steamers (6,5. Suí An and SuiTai) daily to and from Hongkong, nad two steamers to and from Canton, give easy communication with both these centres.
Cable Address" BOAVISTA. For Terms, apply to a196]
HOTEL
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THE HONGZONA ICE COMPANY, LTD.,
THE MANAGER
RIPOSO'.
BEXHILL-ON-SEA.!
THE attention of intending visitors to Eng
land is courteously directed to the abo private Hotel, widely renowned for comfort, The now 40,000 Cube Pool and its excellent English catering and cooking. Storage available at EAST POINT Stores will It adjoins good Golf Links and overloaks Sex bo Open at 10 AM and 4 PM. daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods.
G. K. HAXTON, Manager. Hongkong 1st April, 1908..
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on Sorth and West. Climate sunny ár bracing Terms from B/- per day inclurive. Resident Proprietress Mrs. Gibson.
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