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No. 16,241. 號一十四百二千六萬一第 日五初月四年二銃宜 HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 13TH, 1910. 五鲜超
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AT
"MOUTRIES"
TO PURCHASE
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∙LIFE
INSURANCE CO., LD,
OF SHANGHAI,
DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS. ALEXANDER MCLEOʊ, Esq., Chairman.
C. STEPHARIVS, Esq.
LEB YUNG SU, Esq.
JH. MCMICHAEL, Esq...........
C. R. BURKILL, Esq.
J. A. WATTIE, Esq., Managing Director,
A. J. HUGRES, Eng., Secretary.
B. NEILL
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PILA. Actuary.
A strong British Corporation Begistered
and under Life
under Hongkong Ordinances and
Assurance Companies' Acts, England.
Insurance in Ferod
Assetu
A
Income for Year ...
...$34,054,152,00
7,114,490.08
3,073,834.81
Total Security to Policyholders 7,883,852.53
LEFFERTS KNOX, Esq., Hongkong, Can
District Manager.
3. W. TAPE, Esq.
District Secretary,
ton, Macae and the Philippines.
1472] AGXANDRA BUILDING, HONGKONG,
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY
PORTLAND CEMENT.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
(TELEPHOSE 97).
CHEAPEST PAINT IN THE WORLD FOR ALL PURPOSES.
"THOMPSON'S EMISSARY
ELASTIC
NON POISONOUS PAINTS.
NOTICES OF FIRMS
have
NOTICE.
Won This Day Established our HONGKONG HOT BALDING, DOB Vore Bend, and have admitted as a partuse to this smið Branah, MR. DENIS EWART DONNELLY, under whose management the business will be conducted.
GARNER QUELCH & Co.,
Wholesale Wina Merchants, Hongkong, 6th May, 1910
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NOTICE.
IN USE BY THE LARGEST STEAMSHIP COMPANIES, RAILWAY THE UNDERSIGNED are GENERAL
COMPANIES, AND GAS Companies,
PARTICULARS UN APPLICATION TO---
LANE,
CRAWFORD
LONG HING & CO.,
PHOTO SUPPLIES.
17, Queen's Road, Centrale.
PHOTO GOODS of every description, KODAKS & KODAK FILMS. DEVELOPING & PRINTING
BREWER
A SPECIALITY.
CO.
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(B1465
CO., LIMITED.,
PEDDER ST., Adjoining Main Entrance HONGKONG HOTEL, TELEPHONE, No. 696.
Night Signals of World's Shipping, by
Bernard
NEW COLONIAL NOVELS $1.75 EACH, OR
A Winter's Comedy, by Halliwell Straffer, A Man of the Moors, by Halliwell Sutcliffe, Joan Mar Defective, by M. C. Leighton The Prime Minister's Secret, by W. H.
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Ship Construction, by G. Niopl Bron's Digugur Dista" of Trade
175
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Plans
Handy Work Book, with
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da. Currents and Low Storms Bernard's Nautical Star Chart
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: 80
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The Broken Suare, by L. Lewisohn. Miss. Pilsbary's Fortune, by C. R. Shand, The Comedy of the Unexpected, by Appleton. A Woman of Mystery, by A. K. Green,
CHINESE PORCELAIN, SY GULLAND,
HOW TO IDENTIFY OLD CHINESE PORCELAIN, W. HODGSON. VEHICLES DE THE AIR, BY VICTOR LOUGHEED..
THE WHOLE ART OF BILLIARDS, ET HOTINE, SL 20
REPRESENTATIVES throughout the FAR EAST for the following Firms
ACEEBMAN-LAURANCE (Estbd. 1817), Cham
pagne Shippers, St. Hilaire, St. Florent,
France.
JAMES BUCHANAN & Co., LTD., Scotch Whisky Distillers, London and Glasgow. CUNLIFFE, DOBSON & CO., (Estbd. 1804),
Claret Shippers, Bordeans.
DENIS, MOUNIE & Co., (Estbd. 1838), Cognac
Shippers, Cognac.
EDOLEL & HOTUNINSON, Wine Shippers,
London.
By: Appeteent
Zhe King
ress. BOVRIL
第三十月五年十一百九千一其港香
WANTED
WANTED
SMART TYPEWRITING and CORRESPONDENCE OLERK
(Clifnese), Must be projet in R quick at figures. Only Experienced typists need apply-
MANAGER, Caro of "Daily Press” Ofioè, Hongkong, 6th May, 1910.
G for One Girl aged ten years,
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WANTED.
LOVERNESS, at Sharp Peak, Fooohow, Apply
Box No. 61. Care of "Daily Press" Offe. Hongkong, 10th May, 1910.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE.
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HE Cutter Yeoht "BRYNHILDE," as she lies off AR Kɔno's, with all Gear and. Stores, Bedding and Mesa Traps on Board.
Length over all, 42 fout; Beam, 10 fest 3
5 foot, Lead Koal Copper Fastened.
FOSTER & SONS, LTD. (Estbd. 1829), Beer and inches; Dranging 7,030 lbs. Teak Built,
Stout Bottlers, London. HUNT, ROOPE, TEAGE & Co. (Estba, pre-
vions to
and 1735), Port Shippers, Oporto
HUMPHREY TAXLORE & Co., (Estbe. 1770),
Ligueur Distillers, London. MARTINI & ROSSI, Largest Vermouth Mann-
facturers in the World, Turin. HECT'S BREWERY CO., LTD., (Estbd. 1764),
Beer and Stont
Brewers, London.
TANQUERAY, GORDON & CO., (Estba. 1769),
Gin Distillers, London,
GARNER, QUELCH & Co.,
Wholesale Wine Merchants, Hongkong, 6th May, 1910,
[615
NOTICE.
N connection with the above advertisements
we have This Day Appointed Massas LANE, CRAWFORD & Co., RETAIL AGENTS for the Sale of the above Wines and Spirits, to
When mil. amyizirisa should be addressed.
CADAUER PILELCH & Co.
9th May, 1910.
NOTICE.
by
"AVING This Day been Appointed HMESSES. GARNER, QUELCH & Co.,
RETAIL AGRETa for the Sale of the above Wines and Spirits, we are prepared to supply Every Article sume at Reasonablo Prices, mentioned on our Wine and Spirit Price List, which will be supplied on application, is BOTTLED IN EUROPE by the Shippers. LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. 9th May, 1910.
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Hongkong,
NOTICE.
assigned my Share and Interest
In Oaks 375 lbs. net 85.50 per cask ex Factory JUTSUM'S HAND SEMAPHORECARDS MY AMERICAN TRAVELS, BE HARRY HAYING ON TRADING CO., In Bags 250 lbs, not $5.45 per bag ex Factory
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers.
Hongkong, 29th April, 1908.
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DR. M. H. CHAUN.
DENTAL SURGEON,
35, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
ST FLOOR, ROOMS 2 and 3. From the
University of Pennsylvania, V.SA,
Talephone 126.
Hongkong, 27th January, 1910.
SIEN TING
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₤1364
TELEPHONE No. 75..
SURGEON DENTIST,
No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREET
TERMS VERY MODERATE.
Consultation Free, dy Hongkong, 21st September, 1905.
РЕАК
TRAMWAYS
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
DAYS...
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COMPANY
WERK DA 7.00 B. 7.30am to 10.00 am.... Every 10 minute 10.00 am to 11:00 am... Every
15 minutes. 31.30 am to 12.45 pm....Every 15 minutes. 12:45 pm, to 115pm...Every 10 minutes. 1.15 pm to 1.45pm...Every 15 minutes. 1.45pm to 2.15 pm. Every 10 minutes, 2.15 p.m. to 3.00p.m... Broty 16 minutes. 3.30p.m. to 5.00 pm
15 minutes.
5.00
to 8.001
Every
p.m....Evory NIGHT CARS.
10 minutes,
8.45 p.m. & 9.00 pm, 9.45 to 11.15 p.m.
every hour,
SATURDAYS,
3.15
-
SUNDATE,
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BOORD'S
LAUDER 80 Cents.
OLD TOM
AND
DRY GIN.
SOLE AGENTS-
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.
15, Queen's Road Central,
PEARSON'S HYCOL
CO-EFFICIENT 18/20.
The most Powerful Disinfectant in the World. Guaranteed 18/20 times more effective than Pers Carbolic Acid under Government Standard Test on Typhoid Germs, Certificate of Strength given to each buyer. Non-Poisonous and Non-Irritant to Human and Animal life. Non-Corrosive. One Gallon will make 400 Gallons of Efficient Disinfectant. Perfect Emulsion in Water,
PRICES:
$3.00 per 1 gall, Drum. $12.50 per 5 gall. Drum. $2.60 per 1 gall, in Bulk.
Wries Cars at 325 pin 130p.m. and 11.45pm. Pearson's Saponified CRESOL
8.00 am to 9.00am
.....Every 15 minutes,
(19.00 sim, to 9.30.a.m., Every: 30 minuter. 9.30 a.m. to 10.30 am....Every 15 minutas, 10.30 am to 11.00am. ...Every 10 minutes. 11:45 am to 1200 Noon Every 15 minutes. very 10 minutes. 12.00 Noon to 1.00p.m....Every
Every 16, raintes;
1.00 p.m. to 5.00 m. very 10 minutes.
pm, to
5.00
- 6:00 pm to 20 B Tory 15 minutes.
7.00 pm to 8.00p.m. Every 10 minutes, 7.00pm.
CARS at 8:45 pm. &9.00 pm., 945 to NIGHT 115 pm, every half here.
SPECIAL CARS by arrangement at the Company's Office, Alexandra Building Day. Voux Road Central.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General ManagAZN)
-1476 Higsong, let April, 1909,
PRICES:
Co-Efficient 10; $1.95 per 1 gallon Drum. 5; $1.75 per 1 gallon Drum.
Ask other Manufacturers of Fluids for a Guarantee of the Germicidal Strengths of their products (in relation to Fare Carbolic Acid) under the Standard Test on Typhoid Gerns, and then com
as the resale with our HYCOL. This is the only way you can arrive at the Gert Killa Properties and at the true value of a Genuine Disinfectant Fluid.
SOLE AGENTS for HONGKONG
DODWELL & CO.
CO., LTD., SOUTH CHINA and JAPAN For Pearson's Antiseptic Co., Limited.
1135
No. 34, Queen's Road Central, to ME. LO IP SHING, Notice is Horeby Given that my Responsibility in the said Firm CEASED as from the 1st May, 1910.
LO YOK KEE. [594 Hongkong, 4th May, 1910.
MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKL
CODE-WORD “DOOK,”
A.1, A.B.C., d Engineering Cods Uned NEW DOOK NOW OPEN.
DOCK No. 3..
Extreme Length
722 fest. Length on Blocks
714 Width of Entrance on Top ... 96. Width of Entrance on Bottom Water en Blocks at Byring Tide. 34,
DOCK No. 1. Extreme Length... Length on Blocks Width of Entrance on Top Width of Entrance on Bottom... Water op Blecks at Spring Tide
**DOCK No. 2. Extreme Longth...”
Length on Blocks
Width of Entrance on Top
Width of Entrance on Bottom Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
PATENT SLIP.
Suitable for vessels up to 1,000.
523 feet.
371 feet.
350
THE WORKS are well equipped with LATEST PLANES and APPLI ANCER to undertake BUILDING REFALBING SHIPS, ENGINES
also ELECTRICAL BOILERS, and WORK A
STOCK of MATERIALS LAEGE The COMPANY has the ywerful steamer ways kept on hand "QURA-MARU (712 toney 700 LH.P. specially built for SALVAGE PURPOBLE equipped with necessary gear, sinaya, roody
1805 Short Notice
New Sails, Ares about 1,700 square feet Largo English-built Tinghy Three Anchors, Chain and Hemp Cables; Two Life Buoys, Compass, Lights, &o. ⠀
Complete and ready for sen.
LEIGH & ORANGE.
Princes' Building,
2. Des Voeux Road Central," Hong kong, 31st December, 1909.
FOR SALE.
(106
-makis deliatous bouillan, rich." -lasty gravios : 'adda favour and wirenikh to, stews, hashes. -zentrees, vid
BOVRIL is the truc economist in the Kitchen.
PRICE, $3 PER MONTH.
HOTELS
HONGKONG HOTEL
FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE.
Pining accommodation for 300 Persone. Well Furnished Reception Rooms. Private Bar and Billiard Room for Hotel
Residents.
Electric Lifts to ench Floor.
Electric Lighting and Faus.
Telephones on every Floor
Every Comfort.
Ladies' Afternoon Tea Rooms. Ladies' Cloak Rooms.
Matron in attendance.
CHARGES MODERATE, AND NO EXTRAS.
A. F. DAVIES, Manager,
353
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 Fins (it
required),
Electric Passenger Elevator to each-floor. Table D'Hôte at separate tables: For Terms, &o., apply to the
Hongkong, 24th July, 1905.
MANAGER. [4563
ORIENTAL HOTEL No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
A THOROUGHLY FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL. SITUATED in the most central position. Large and Airy Rooms. Hot and Cold Gas and Electric light Water Baths. Private Bar and Billiard Rooms, Monthly Caiting entirely under European Supervision. Rates for Tiffin and Dinner. Terms moderate.
FREDERICK REICHMANN, Proprietor and Manager,
TEAH Launches, Steel Lighters, Wooden Lighters, Stoom Cranes (travelling and stationary), Steam Hoists, Lidgerwood Steam File Driver, Diving Pump and Dress, Hand Grabe, Capstain, Hand Winchos, Driving Pulley, Bolts and Nate, Hock Bolts, Clatoh Shoes, Chain Hoists, Tron and Brass Screws, Bolts, Barrel Bolta, Galvanized Spikes, Pilo Differdange Piles, Rolled Steel Joists, Steel (late Manager of J. Lyons & Co. (Trocadero) Channels, Corrugated Iron Roofing, Roofing Wegbers. Angle Iron, Cast Iron Columns Patent Fire Esatpe WELLS LIGH
KITSON Light, Acotylene Lamps, Hand, Pump, Theodolite and Leveling Staff, Roneo Duplicator, Comptemeter. Telescope (on tripod), Office Desks and Cupboards.
Apply to
KUGHES & HOUGH; Auctioneers.
[595 Hongkong, 4th May, 1910.
leading Caterers in London, and of the LAMANDÚRIENTAL HOTEL Colombo).
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS
Hongkong,
Hongkong, 16th April, 1910.
[0542
"KINGSCLERE.”
PRIVATE HOTEL..
APPROACH FROM KENNEDY ROAD AND MACDONNEL ROAD.
Telephone No. 134. the Telegraphia Address:
NOW ON SALE.
ONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS
of the MEETINGS of LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL for Session 1909.
Ho
the
"BACHSOLA
A.B.C. Code, 5th Ed.
ELECTRIC LIGHT, Hot and Cold Water throughout. Billiards, Tennis, Croquety patting green and toe stabling for horses, .**
837] Proprietress, Mas. G. SACHSE,
LEVISED BY THE MEMBERS. PRICE
$3.
**
DAILY PRESS. OFFICE, Hongkong, 21st February; 1910.
1316
FOR SALE.
BRAESIDE."
PRIVATE HOTEL.
CITANDING in its own grounds with Tonnia and Croquet Lawns, Large Airy and Well Furnished Boons, every home comfort.
REMAINING Portions of MARINE Fine View of the Harbour.
31 36, at PRAYA
Approximate Area, 43,000 Square Fest
TO BE
LET OR SOLD
IN LOTS TO SUIT TENANTS OR PURCHASERS,
MARINE LOT
No. 285 EXTENSIVE WATER FRONTAGE, DEEP WATER.
Apply---
G. FENWICK & Co. L
ENGINEERS, &C PRAYA EAST, HONGKONG. 184-168 Tongkong, 8th June. 1906.
THE SWATOW DRAWN WORK Co,
17A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL ANUFACTURERS of the best quality of
MAFACTURERS
Telephone, No. 690,-
Apply to Mrs. F. W. WATTS,
"Brexide," 20. Macdonnell Road. Hongkong, 4th December, 1907. [636
VICTORIA HOTEL
SHAMEEN-CANTON. MANAGER-ME. H. HAYNES. -Telegraphic-addrere VICTORIA, SHAMDEN,
SITUATED ON THE BRITISH CONCESSION.
MACAO HOTEL.
Kay MACA O
Telegraphis address →Fansen, Macao,” SITUAZED IN THE CENTRE OF PRAYAGBANDI.
Both Hotels electrically lighted, and under experienced European Supervision.. GUIDES AND. CHAJES PROVIDED. Every information and Special attention given to Tourists REASONABLE EATES.
Grass Cloth All kinds of Silk of best quality, Canton Embroidery and Chinese Laces from 1623) the latest French Patterns,
Hongkong, 25th December, 1909,
INSURANCE
1432
NELLE INSURANCE COMPANT
ORTA BRITISH AND MEECAN-
WIE WHICH IN INCORPORATED THE OCEAN HAEINE INSURANCE CO TOTAL FUNDS 31st DECEMBER, 1901
£19,121,310.
£6,000,000 3,275,000
11212.50000
and I, Authorisen Capital Bubscribed Capital - Paid-up Capital
3204,753 7 10 II. Fire Funds
The Undersigned, AGENTS for the shave Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE and MARINE st Current Rates,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents.
[908 Hongkong, 15th January, 1909,
WM. FARMER
Proprietor.
“BOA VISTA ”
(HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH
CHINA), A MACAO.
Betel is under European-manage ment and most strict supervision as to
food, cleanliness and hygiene of the place.
All comforts of a home.
few rest and quiet,
“A most plassent retreat for those desiroza for Constable accommodation for travellers paying a visit to the historical and pictaresque colony of Messe
Maeso is 40 stiles south-west of Hongkong, Two steamers (ss. Sui An and Sui Tui) daily ko and from Hongkong, and two stoamers to and from Cantos, give easy communication with both these centres.
Cable AddreceTM BOAVISTA.** For Terms, apply to
THE MANAGER