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日七十月一十年丑
HONGKONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15TH, 1918.1
INTIMATIONS
SOUTH
KELLY
&
REEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY.
RAILWAY.
Pamifal Illustrate by Willy Pogany 19.00
Walter Tendale's An Artist in Italy With Rod and Gun,
Denholm AFGE Rumiyat of Omar Khayyam. Ilinstrated
by Willy Fogany. Elgar Allan Pose The Bolli and Other
Coms. Illustrated by Edmund Duka: 12,00 Early Pooms of Win Morris. Illustrated
by Florence Harrison..
Illustrated by
....16.00
8.00
4.00
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PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Casky 375-ibe. net
In Bags 250 Iba net.
SHEWAN, TOMES & OD., General Managers.. Hongkong, 0th December, 1913. (1407
ITBU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA
MI
(MITSU BISHI CO.) COAL DEPARTMENT
GOLE PROPRIETORS or
OCHI, MUTABE,
MANCHURIA
SHORTEST AND QUICKEST ROUTE: BETWEEN THE FAR EAST
·AND EUROPE, VIA DAIREN.
TIME TABLE TO APRIL. 30TH 1914.
NHRICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, composed of excellently equipped Dining, and First and Second Cines Sleeping Cats, is operated between Dairen and Changolun in connection with the Trans-Siberian Express Trains and with Dairen-Skaughai Direct Mail Steamer Service by the ze. KOBE MARU and SAKAKI MARU (each Equipped with Wireless Telegraph) as follows:-
NORTH BOUND.
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YOSHINOTANI,
KICHIDAKE, HOJO, KANADA, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW AND KAMIYAMADA Collieries. AGENTS FOR
SAKITO AND DYUBARI Coals.
HEAD OFFICE:-MARUNOUCHI, TOKYO.
BRANCH OFFICES:-NAGASAKI; MOJI, KARATSU, WAKAMATSU, OTARU, MURORAŃ, KOBE, OSAKA, TOKYO, ТОКОНАМА, NAGOYA, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, HANKOW.
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Dable Address for above: "WASAKI.” Blodes: A1, A.B.C. 5th Ed., Western Union,
AGENCIES:
CHINKIANG-Messrs. GEARING & Co. MANILA--Messrs. MaconDBAY & Co.. SINGAPORE-Messrs. BORNEO Co., LTD.
For Particulars, apply to
K. KATO,
Manager,
No. 2, Peddor Street, Hongkong. Hongkong, 24th April, 1913.
SIEN TING.
URGEON DENTIST,
[609
No, 10, D'AGUILAR STREET.
TERMS VERY MODERATE.
Consultation Tree.
Hongkong, 22nd September, 1912. [1101
NEW CARTRIDGES.
SMOKELESS POWDERS and CHILLED
*Russian Train Time is 23 minutes faster than the S.M.R. Time.
The sbore fares do not include the Express Train Borth Fee. THE "SAKAKI MARU."-This vessel, which leaves Shanghai every Monday and connects with the Wagen Lita service on the Trans-Siberian Railway, is a new Tarbine Steamer of 3,450 tons specially built for the Bhanghai Dairen Line. She has a speed of 19 kaste per hour, and is fitted with every up-to-date appliance for comfort safety, and con- renience. Accommodation: 63 First-Class (including 4 special cabins and 3 family cabins), 20 Second-Class, and 164 Third-Class. First voyage from Shanghai, August 18th.
Thrice-
Service between Changchun and Fusan without change, establishing dircot link between the Trans-Siberian Express Service and the Imperial Japanese Govern. ment Ferry and Railway Service, reducing the journey between Manchuria and Japan by pearly two days and diminishing the sea-voyage to a few hours; also connecting Poking and Tokyo by rail with the exception of the short passage between Fusan and Shimoncɛeki. London to Tokyo in 13 days; Feling to Tokyo in 4 daya.
Weekly Express & NG LINE.-MANCHURIA-CHOSEN THROUGH SERVICE.
Tamalo") At
RAILWAY HOTELS. YAMATO HOTEL (Tel. Add. Dairen, Port Arthur, Mukden, Changchun, and Hoshigaura (the finest sea-sido rosort in North Chius), all under the
TICKET AGEN Company's management.
The Company's Railway and Steamer Tickets are obtainable
at all tho Agencies of the INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING CAR & EXPRESS TRAINS CO Messrs. TROS. COOK & BON; REISEDUREAU DER HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINTE; the NORDISK RESEBUREAU; and the NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, Shanghai; from whom all information, time-tables, pictorial guide-books, etc., can be obtained free, or direct from the
SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY CO., DAIREN. Tel. Add. "MANTETSU.”
Codes: A.B.C. 5th Ed., Al, and Lieber's
For Passage, apply to-
BOOKS FOR XMAS GIFTS. ELEGANT BINDING, ILLUSTRA TIONS IN COLOUR.
Barrie' Quality Street, a Comedy in four
and 0.50
Acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.. $12.00 Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Illustrated by
Lewis Baumer"
12.09 Dickens Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated
by Frank Reynolds
12.00 Shakespeare's The Tempest. Illustrated
by Elnurd Dulae Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Illustrated by Charles Robinson
... 10,00 Frincess Badona (Arabian Nights). Imirated by Ednanod Dulag.
***. 8.00 Lucas The Open Road. Illustrated by
Claude Shopperson
12,00 Bheknovo Lorna Doone.
4,50
4.50
11
"
Illustrated by
Gordon Browne... Dickens The Chimes. Illustrated by Dicks A Christions Card. Illustratiel
by A. C. Michael...
4,50
Hants with Jorrocks. Illustrated by
Denholm Armour
4.50
Longfellow's The Story of Evangeline.
Mustrated by M. 1. Kirk George Eliot's Adam Beda. Elastrated
by Gordon. Browne
6.09
8.00
4.50
Mills The Life of a Ferhound.
Illustrated by T. Shepherd
BOOKS FOR JUVENILES, ALL THE NEW ANNUALS. STO RY BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS, &c. The Children expect to be renombered at Xmas. The last present is an entertaining and instructive Book. Prices to suit all Pockets. SHOWN TO THE CHILDREN" Serioz. Each with 49 plates in colone. $2.00 each. Beasts. Will Flowers. Birds. The Sea Shore The Farm, Troca. Butterfios, Nesta and Eggs Stars. Gardens. 93. Architecture.
TOLD TO THE CHILDREN" Series. Each contains 8 colored pictures. 80 conts ench, 40 titles,
CHRISTMAS CARDS IN GREAT VARIETY. A Christmas Card reminds your friends that you are still alive and saves the tronble of writing a letter.
WASHABLE DISTEMPER
"SYNOLEO."
HOTELS
HONGKONG HOTEL.
Recently Refuruished and Redecorated. Large Airy Public Rooms. Electric Lighting, Lifts and Fans.
Suites de Lux
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Bedroomas with European. Bath and Lavatory attached. Perfect Sanitation.
A LA CARTE GRILL ROUM,
J. H. TAGGART, Manager.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
All
CENTRAL LOCATION.
Electric
Trans
Pass
Entrance.
One Minute's Walk from Fer:7. Telephones on All Floors.
Electric Lifts, Fans and Lighting 'European Daths and Sanitary Fittings.
Hot and Cold Water System Throughout. Best of Food and Service.
Hotel Launch Meets All Steamers.
Tolephone No. 373.
123'-
Tel Aadress:
#
VICTORIA."
PAINT
58)
Requires only the addition of cold water to be ready for use.
Absolutely dependable in its resulta.
MANY ARTISTIC TINTS STOCKED IN HONGKONG.
PARTICULARS OBTAINABLE ON APPLICATION TO THT MAKERS:
RACINE, ACKERMANN & Co., Booking Agents, Shanghai. THOMAS COOK & SON, Booking Agents, Shanghai, NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, Agents, Shanghai,
APPLY TO THE MAKERS:
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BREWER & CO.,
PEDDER STREET(Adjoining Hongkong Hotel Main Entrance)
TELEPHONE No. 698.
...$1.75 Y popular English Manufacturers. In Black Bilence, by Marie C. Leighton B
Youth Will Be Served, by Dolf Wyllardo 1.75 Bl! Bores and Sizes.
The Passionate Friends, by H. G. Wells 1.75 The Romance of a Few Days, by Pottam
Weblo... xillionaire's Island, by Max Pumberton The Coryston Family, by Mrs. Humphrey
Ward
BHOT.
From No. 10 to SSSG, at $6, 87 asd $7.50 per 100. SPORTING REQUIS-
TES and AIRY GUNS in Voriety.
Inspection Invited."...
W. SCHMIDT & Co.
Hongkong, 18th October, 1913 [1218
SINGON & CO. ESTABLISHED A.D. 1560.
TRON, Steel, Metal and Hardware Mer-
chonts, Wholesale and Retail Iron- mongers, Pig Iron and Foundry Coke Importers, General Storekcopers and Ship- abandlers. Nos. 95 and $7, HING LOONG Bramer (2nd St. West of Central Market).
Telephone No. 615.
PEAK
DEAK TRAMWAY
LIMITED.
{50
COMPANY,
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS.
7.00 am to 8.00 a.m....Every 10 minutes.
8.00
10.00
18
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12
12
£0.00
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11.00
15
11.30
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10
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1.46
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2.15 5.00
10
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8.10
10
12.
NIGHT CARE.
1.60 p.m. and 9.00 p.m., 9.30 to 11.00 p.m.
Every Half-Hour.
11.00 pm to 11.45 p.m.
Every Quarter-Hour.
SUNDAYS.
9.00a.m. to 10.30 am...Every 15 minutes.
دو
وو
$0.80
*
11.001
10
£1.45
12,00 noon
18
00 đoàn,, 100 pota.
10
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10
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45
7.00 NIGHT CARS ns on Week Days. SATURDAYS
Extra Car at 12 Midnight.
SPECIAL CARS by arrangement at the Company's Office, Alexandra Buildings,
Des Voeux Road Central.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS &
General Managers. Rengkong, 1st October, 1913.
SON,
(1152
TLU
175 1,75
1.75
Tho Winds of God, by Hamilton
Drummond....
The Mischief Maker, by E. Phillips-
..Oppenheim....”
THE
Shipmaster's Handbook to the Merchant
Shipping Acts, by Sanford D. Cole $4.00 The Pharmaceutical Pocket Book, 1912-13 2,75 CHRISTMAS CARDS
... CALENDARS... ANNUALS: BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
175 CHRISTMAS NUMBERS, Graphic, Holly Leares, London News, Sphere, Pears, &c.
1.75
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YOKOHAMA DOCK CO.,
LIMITED.
Telegraphic Address " DOCK," Tokubema
Codes used-A.B.C. 4th and 5th Editions, Lieber's, Scott's, Al, and Watkin's DRY DOCK DEPARTMENT:-Telephone Nos. 376, 506, or 681. NO. 1 DOCK. Decking Longst Docking Lang 36.
“NO, 2 DOCK,
3
DONK
Every description of repair work is undertaken. A large assortment of material including tail shafts are kept in stock. Two powerful tow boats, fosting derrick to liit fons, preumatic, electric, hydraulic plants, etc. Manufacturers of engines, bollers, tags, lighters, constructional steel work, sto. Tenders on short notice by letter or cable.
WAREHOUSE DEPARTMENT
92 buildings, principally of brick and steel, 310 entrances. 37 baildings are private bonded warehouses. Floor area 68,248 square yards, or 14.1 sores.
Custom house brokerage and insurance undertaken. Bates moderate. Mooring Basin, 600 fost by 100 feat by 25 feet deep, adjoining the dooks and warehouses.
WEISMANN'S
FOR BREAD.
WEISMANN'S
FOR CAKES.
WEISMANN'S
(712
FOR CHOCOLATES.
733
R. E. NORTH,
Manager.
GRAND HOTEL.
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
A FIRST CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE
HOTEL.:
A FIRST-CLASS STRINGED ORCHESTRA Rendors. Selections during Tris and DINNER daily, and at 11.15 a.. and 5.45p.m.
ENTIBELT UNDER EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT.
THIS HOTEL has recently been thoroughly
Trenovated, astounirely enlarged, and
is now luxuriously furnished and up-to-date in every respect, iitunted in the most central position. Large and Airy Rooms, Hot, Cola, and Shower Baths, Electrio Light Throughont and Fans. Largs and Comfortable Lounge, Private and Public Rars and Billiard Rooms, EURO-
WILKINSON. HEYWOOD&CLARK. LD.. CUISINE ENTIRELY UNDER
INCORPORATED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,
(Proprietors o DAVID STORER & SONS),
LONDON AND LIVERPOOL.
HONGKONG OFFICE,
.887-4]
ALEXANDRA BUILDING,
MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD
AND ENGINE
WORKS.
A1, A.B.C., Western Union, Engineering and Bartley's Complete Phrase Codee used. Builders and Repairers of Ships, Engines and Boiler, and Electrical Engineers. Manufacturers of Coninaflo Aaziliary Machinery, Weir's Auxiliary Machinery, Stone's Manganese Bronze, Palzometer and Engineering Co.'s Refrigerating Plants and Parsons Steam Turbines, etc., sta.
AT NAGASAKI:-Telegraphic Address: "DOCK, NAGABAKL.
Breadth at Entrance
Length on Keel-Blocks.
510 ft.
950 1
714 ft
77.ft.
on Bottom.
53 ft.
88 ft.
(No. 1 3 Dry Docks No E (No. 8 1 Patent Slip capable of lifting vessels up to 1,000 tons.
Depth of Water. on Keel-Blocks.
26 ft. 24.ft. 34 ft.
PEAN SUPERVISION, Sanitary Arrange ments of the latest, HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS. Monthly Rates. for Tilin and Dinner. Special Rates for married families on application to
FREDERICK REICHMANN,
Proprietos.
TELEPHONE No. 197.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: "Couror*,” Hongkong.
PEAK HOTEL.
and
1,400 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVRI..
RESIDENTIAL THIRST-CLASS
TOURIST HOTEL Unrivalled for Comfort, Health and Convenience, Telephoner in Every Room, prompt connection main- tained by six lines to Central.
Fifteen Minutes from Principal Landing Excellent Moderate Tariff and Stage. Cuisine, Roof Garden and Social Rooms, European Runner meets Steamers,
P. O, PEUSTER, Manager.
140]
BRAESIDE.”
PRIVATE HOTEL.
TANDING in its own grounds, with Tennis and Croquet Lawns, Large Airy and Well Furnished Rooms, every home comfort. Fine View of the Harbour.
Apply to
Mus. F. W. WATTS,
543 "Braeside," 20, Macdonnel Road.
The Salvage Steamer "OURA MARU, 736 tons and 12 knots speed, is always roody VICTORIA HOTEL
at short notice.
AT KOBE-Telegraphie Address, "WADADUCK," KOBE,
Floating Docks.
Lifting Power
Max. Length of Ship taken io. Max. Breadth,
No. 1 7,000. Tons.
430: Foot
No. 2. 12,000 Tons. 580 Feet.
66
Max. Draft
22
-20
H
The Salvage Steamer "ARIMA MARU," pumping capacity per hour 2,000 tons, Floating Sheerlegs, capable of lifting 40 tons weight. ANY ORDERS WILL BE PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO AND ESTIMATES SENT ON APPLICATION,
28th May, 1913.
THOS. COOK &
SON
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TOURIST, STEAMSHIP AND FORWARDING AGENTS,
BANKERS, &0,
Head Office for the Far East: 16, DES VŒUX ROAD, HONGKONG. SHANGHAI: 2-3, FODCHOW ROAD. YOKOHAMA: 32 WEIER STREET
MANILA-MAFILA HOTEL
TICKETS SUPPLIED to EUROPE by the principal STEAMSHIP LINES and
TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. SHE
TOURS arranged to ALL PARTS of the WORLD. BAGGAGE collected, forwarded and insured at lowest ratis,
LETTERS & CREDIT and CIRCULAR NOTES ISSUED and CASHED, FOREIGN MONTES Exchanged.
CHIFY OFFICE:~LUDGATE CIRCUS, LONDON, EC Hongkong, 21st May, 1913..
SHAMEENCANTON.
Telegraphic Address: "Vicronis, Shimzen," SITUATED ON THE BRITISH CONCESSION,
MACAO HOTEL
МАСАО.
Telegraphic Address: "FARXZE, MACAO." SITUATED IN THE CENTRE OF PRATA GRANDE. Both Hotels electrically lighted, ane under experienced European Supervision. GUIDES AND CHAIRS PROVIDED. Every Information and Special Attention given to Tourists. REASONABLE RATES.
E
WM. FARMER,
Proprietor.
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A LING & CO..
19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
URNITURE AND PHOTO GOODS
STORE.;
Photographic Goods of Every Description
ria Stock. Developing, Printing and Enlarging. Canton Marbles in Various Shades. TELEPHONE 1210..
Hongkong, 16th April, 1913.
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