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COCOA.
For delicione nafarsi favour, delicato aroma, absolute purity, the most important requisites of Best Cocus, it is the Standard.
Ask your Compradore for it
and refuse substitutes.
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Hongkong Daily Press.
No. 17,566 號六十六百五千七萬一第 日大和月七年货甲
INTIMATIONS
EEENISLAND CEMENT COMPANY.
GREEN!
PORTLAND CEMENT.
'In Casks 375 lbs. net,
ESTABLISHED 1587
Ragistered as a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.
號六十二月八年三國志華中
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26TH. 1914. 三拜禮
LIFE INSURANCE.
FOR QUANTITY.
WEISMANN'S
WEISMANN'S
FOR PURITY.
(805
WEISMANN'S
In Bags 250 lbs, net.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co,
General Managers.
Hongkong, th June, 1914,
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"ITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA.
(MITSU BISHI CO.)
COAL DEPARTMENT.
HOLE PROPRIETORS or TAKASINA, OCHI, MUTABE, YOSHINOTANI, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SEINNEW AND KAMIYAMADA Collieries.
AGENTS FOR
SAKITO AND OYUBARI Coals.
HEAD OFFICE—MARUNOUCHI,
TOKYO.
BRANCH OFFICES-NAGASAKI, MOJI, KARATSU, WAKAMATSU, HAKODATE, OTARU, MURORAN,
KOBE, OSAKA KURE, TOKYO, TOKOHAMA; NAGOYA. TSURUGA, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, HANKOW, PEKING,
Cable Address for above: "IWASAKI.” Codes: A1, A.B.C. 5th Ed., Western Union.
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SOUTH
| MANCHURIA
FOR QUALITY.
RAILWAY.
SBORTEST AND QUICKEST ROUTE BETWEEN. THE FAR EAST
AND EUROPE, VIA DAIREN. TIME TABLE
(Effective from May 1st, 1914, to April 30th, 1915).
THRICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, composed of excellently equipped Dining, and First and Second Class Bleeping Care, is operated between Dairen, and Changchun in connection with the Trans-Siberian Express Trains and with Dairen Shanghai Direct Mail Steamer Service by the 8.8. SAKAKI MÁRU and KOBE MARU (each Equipped with Wireless Telegraph) as follows:-
NORTH BOUND.
Cooperilog at Barbis likį for For L
SOUTH BOUND.
MR. E. P. HENDERSON, late-of-the Indian-Civil Service, 42, Leinster Gardens, London, W., who has been consulted over 17.000 times, and has placet Annually LIFE POLICIES exceeding three quarters of a million sterling in amount, offers his advice absolutely FREE OF CHARGE on all matters of Life Insurance, on his conditions, a copy of which can be had on application to the Manager of this Newspaper.
HOLDERS OF DOUBLE ENDOWMENT, DEFERRED (or TONTINE) BONUS POLICIES in suy Office. BRITISH or AMERICAN. should at once communicato with MR. HENDERSON, who can show them how to strengthen thisir plsition under these Policies,
SPECIAL SCHEMES of ALL OFFICES compared and criticised. SPECIAL TERMS FOR TREATY PORTS.
HOME RATES JUST ARRANGED FOR HONGKONG.
If you wish to
(1) MAKE AN EDUCATIONAL PROVISION,
(2) IMPROVE YOUR INCOME after RETIREMENT,
(3) MAKE good. INVESTMENT by INSURANCE,
(4) SECURE your SAVINGS by a SINGLE PREMIUM POLICY. write for
Mr. HENDERSON's confidential PAMPHLET dealing with these subjects.
ONLY. BONA FIDE APPLICANTS SUPPLIED. Please state your Profession.
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FOR 1914.
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J. H. TAGGART,
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KING EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION.
Electric
Trams Pass Entrance One Minute's Walk from Ferry. Telephones vu All Floors:
Electric Lifts, Faus and Lighting: European Baths and Sanitary Fittings. Hot and Cold Water Systeni Throughout Best of Food and Service.
Hotel Launch Meets All Steamers..
Telephone No. 379.
Tel. Address: Vieran."
R. H. NORTH, Manager,
GRAND HOTEL.
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The Americans in the Philippines, by J. A. Le Roy, & Vols...
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The Wonder Book of Soldiers for Boys and Girls
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For Particulare, apply to-
Κ. ΚΑΤΟ
No. 2, Pedder Street, Hongkong.
Manager,
Hongkong, 24th April, 1914.
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SIEN TING.
URGEON DENTIST,
No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREET
TERMS VERY MODERATE.
Consultation Fres.
Hongkong 20th March, 1914.
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NEW
CARTRIDGES.
BY popular English Manufacturers. In
All Bores and Sizes,
SMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLED SHOT. From No. 10 to 8886, at $6, 87 and $7.50 per 100 SPORTING REQUIS, ITES AIR GUNS in Variety.
Inspection Invited
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Hongkong 16th April 1914.
A LING & CO.
19 qua's ROAD CENTRAL.
AURNITURE AND PHOTO GOUDS
STORE.
Fer
Photographic Goods of Every Description
in Stock.
Developing, Printing and Enlarging, Canton Marbles in Varions Shades.
TELEPHONE 1219,
Hongkong, 18th April, 1914..
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*Russian Train Time is 23 minutes faster than the S.M.R. Time. The above fares do not include the Express Train Berth Pe THROUGH REGISTRATION OF BAGGAGE.-By the International Through Pessenger Truffe via Siberis, through tickets are jeened from Shanghai (and the principal stations via Siberia) to London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, and vice versa, and holdere of these tickets are also entitled to through registration of their baggage. Travellers mast, however, ask specially for the "International Through Passenger Trafic via Siberia' tickets in order to secure this facility, which is not obtainable by the ordinary booking.
MUKDEN-ANTUNG LINE-MANCHURIA-CHOSEN THROUGH SEVICE Thrice-Weekly Express Service between Changchun and Fasan without change, establishing direct link between the Trans-Siberian Express Service and the Imperial Japanese Govern.
ment Ferry and Railway Service, reducing the journey between Manchuris and Japan by nearly two days and diminishing the ses voyage to a fow hours; also connecting Poking and Tokyn by rail with the exception of the short passage between Fasar and Shimonoseki. London to Tokyo in 13 days; Poking to Tokyo in 4 days.
RAILWAY HOTELS. YAMATO HOTEL (Tol. Adå. Tamato A Dairen, Port Arthar, Mukden, Changchan, and Hoshiganra (the finest sea-side resort in North Chins), all under the Company's management,
TICKET AGENCIES. The Company's Railway and Steamer Tickets are obtainable at all the Agencies of the INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING CAR & EXPRESS TRAINS Co.; Messra. Thos. Cook & SON: REISEBUREAU DER HANBURG-ÁMERIKA NIE; the NORDISK RESSBUREAU; and the NIPPON TUSEN KAISHA, Shanghai; from each of whom all information, time-tables, pictorial guide-books, etc., can be obtained free, or direct from the
SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY CO., DAIREN. Codo: A.B.C. 5th Ed., Al, and Lieber'r. FUSHUN COA L
Tel. Add. MASTETSU."
THE BEST STEAMING COAL IN THE FAR EAST. Fresh stocks always on hand at Dairen, Port Arthur, Newekwang, and Tientsin Depots, and also at Chefoo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore, and Penang,
MINING DEPARTMENT,
SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY CO., DAIREN,
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OREGON PINE.
DEAK TRAMWAY COMPANY. THE
PEAK
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS,
7.00 am, to 8.00 a.m....Every 15 minutes.
10 15.
11. **
15 to 12.45p.m....
8.00
to 10.00
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to 11,00
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15
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15
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NIGHT CARS,
او
8.50 p.m. and 9.00 p.m., 9.30 to 11.00 p.m.
Every Half-Hour.
11.00 p.m. to 11:45 pm,
Every Quarter Hour.
SUNDAYS,
7.45 am. to 10.30 am... Every 15 minutes.
CHINA IMPORT AND
EXPORT LUMBER CO., LTD.
Hongkong, 27th June, 1914,
1729
THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO.,
LIMITED.
Telegraphis Addreta :--" DOCK," Yokohams.
Codes used-A.B.C. 4th and 5th Editions, Lieber's, Boott's, Al. and Watkin's. DRY DOCK DEPARTMENT:-Telephons Nos. 376, 506, 681, 2050, 3470.
10.30 *
to 11.00 11.80. to 12.00 noon
10
11
15
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12.00 noon to 1.00p.m....
1:00p.m. to 6,00
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NO. 1 DOCK. Docking Length 515 ft..
15
+
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6.00"
to 6.00
10
31
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6.00
to 7.00
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7.00
to 8.10
NIGHT CARS se on Wook Days.
SATURDAYS.
Extra Car at 12 Midnight.
SPECIAL CARS by arrangement at the Company's Office, Alexandra Buildings, Dee Yux Road Central.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers Fongkorʻg, 2941 May, 1914.
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NO. 2 DOCK. Docking Length 376 ft.
NO. 3 DOCK. Docking Length 481 #t.
Every description of repair work is undertaken. A large assortment of mataris including tail shafts are kept in stock. Two powerful tow boats, floating derrick to lift 45 tona, pneumatic, electric, hydraulic plants, ote. Manafacturers of engines, boiler. tuga, lighters, constructional steel work, etc. Tenders on short notice by letter or cable.
WAREHOUSE DEPARTMENT :-
99 buildings, principally of brick and steel, containing private bonded warehouFDS and sugar consumption tax covered warehouses. Floor ares 67.917 square yards, or 14 cores. Every description of warehousing. Custom-bease brokerage and insamanos. under- taken. Baten zaoderate.
Mooring Basin, 600 foot by 180 fost by 25 feet deep, vijoining the docks and warehouses.
Imperial America, by JM. Kennedy
The Cure for Poverty, by J. Calvin Brows
Good Whist and How to Phy 18
Mere Literature, by Woodrow Wilson.
The Conduct of Life and other Essaye, by Viscount Haldane
Meditations and Devotions, by Cardinal Newman (new edition) Community of the Besurrection-Euglish Chu-ch Ways, by W., H. Frors Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, by W. Murrell
COLONIAL NOVELS AT $1.75 EACH-
The Else and Glory of the Westall.Browns, by Paul NewmLD.
The Quick and the Dead, by Erin Pugh,
The Meroy of the Lord, by Flora Aunie Steel.
The Price of Love. by Arnold Bennet,
The Bick Peril, by G. W. Hardy.
Tales of Two Countries, by Maxim Gorky.
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MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS.
AL, A.B.C., Western Union, Engineering and Bentley's Complete Phrase Codes used, Builders and Repairers of Ships, Engines and Boilers, and Electrical Engineers, Manufacturers of Contrado Auxiliary Machinery, Wair's Auxillary Machinery, Stone's Manganese Bronze, Pulsometer and Engineering Co.'s Refrigerating Plants mad Parsons' Eteam Tarbines, etc, etc.
AT NAGASAKI:-Telegraphio Address: "DOCE," NAGASAKI
Breadth at Entraree
Length on
Keel Blocks.
3 Dry Docks No. 2
(No. 1
No. 3
510 ft.
350 fb.
714 ft
on Bottom
77 ft.
53 ft.
88 ft.
1 Patent Slip capable of lifting vessels up to 1,000 tons,
Depth of Water. on Keel-Blocks.
26 ft. 24 ft. 04 24.
The Salvage Steamer "OURA MARU," 716 tons and 12 knots, speed, is always ram-iy short notice.
AT KOBE:-Telegraphis Address
"WADADOCK," KOBE,
Flossing Dock.
No. 1.
Lifting Power....
7,000 Tons,
MAI. Length of Ship taken in
460 Fook
Mar. Breadth,
56
11
Max, Draft
1
10
No. 2 12,000 Tons, 590 Feet. '66
H
26
The Salvage Roamer "ARIMA MARU," pamping capacity per hour 2,000 tons. Floating Sheerlage, capable of lifting 40 tons weight.
ANY ORDERS WILL BE PROMPTLY ATTENDID TO AND ESTIMATES SENT ON APPLICATION
& CO.
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WM. STEWART TIMBER MERCHANTS, MEASURERS, AND TIMBER EXPERTS. 5, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. MPORTERS of Teak, Hardwoods, Oregon Pine and Japanese Oak in Logs and
IMPO
Planks.
Tesk and Hardwood supplied Machine Sewn to say Dimensions. Floorings-Sizes to Order,
Phillipine Hardwood Wharf Piles in lengths up to 60 feet,
The attention of Architects, Civil Engineers and Contractors is directed to the splendid range of Phillipine Hardwoods suitable for constructional purposes.
Priess and Samples on application.
Telegrams-Bosewood.
Hongkong, 2nd May, 1914.
Telephone No. 1463.
P.O. Box No. 639.
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
A FIRST CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL
A FIRST-CLASS STRINGED ORCH. ESTRA Renders Selections during TIPIN and DINNER daily, and st 11.15 am and 5.45 p.in.
ENTIRELY UNDER EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT.
THIS HOTEL has recently been
thoroughly renovated, extensively enlarged, and is now luxuriously furnish- ed and up-to-date in every respect, situatod in the most central position. Large and Airy Rooms, Hot, Cold, and Shower Baths, Electric Light Throughout... and Fans, Largo and Comfortable Lounge, Private and l'ublic Bars and Billiard Rooms, CUISINE ENTIRELY UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION, Sanitary Arrangements of the latest, HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS. Monthly Rates for Tilia and Dinner. Special Rates for married. families on application to
FREDERICK REICHMANN, Proprietor. TELEPHONE NO. 197.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: Hongkong.
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"COMFORT,'
PEAK HOTEL.
1,400 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL
FIRST-CLASS RESIDENTIAL and TOURIST HOTEL. Unrivalled for Comfort, Health and Convenience, Tele- phones in Every Room, prompt connec tion maintained by six lines to Central.
Fifteen Minutes from Principal Land- ing Stage. Moderate Tariff and Excellent Cuisine, Roof Garden, and Social Rooms, European Runner meets Steamers.
F. O. PEUSTER,
Manager.
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THE NEW MACAU HOTEL.
THIS LARGE ∞ ROOMY HOTEL Tis now OPENED under EXPERIENCED EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT. The place has been renovated throughout and entirely refarnished. Bitnated on the Praia Grande facing the sea, a cool breeze is enjoyed all the year round. LARGE AND COMFORTABLE DINING ROOM facing the ses. Cuisine under experienced supervision. Terme moderate.
For further particulare, apply to
O.C. MOOSA, Macau.
Tel. Add. "Phospiz." Macno.
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VICTORIA HOTEL
SHAMEEN-CANTON.
Telegraphic Address: ''VICTORIA, SHAMEEN,"
SITUATED ON THE ERITICE CONCESSION.
Hotel electrically lighted, and under experienced European Supervision. GUIDES AND CHALEE PROVIDED, Every Information and Special Attention given to Tourists. REASONABLE RATES.
WM. FARMER, Proprietor.
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