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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, "SATURDAY, APRIL -5, * 1913.
YOST TYPEWRITERS
NEW MODEL No. 20
VISIBLE WRITING
Standard Keyboard with Fractions up to 16ths.
suitable for
MERCHANTS,
ENGINEERS,
BROKERS,
BANKERS, ETC.
BRIEF MODEL
For Lawyers, Accountants, ofc., etc.
FRENCH MODEL
For Foreign Correspondence.
Special Monthly instalments if desired.
MACEWEN, FRICKFL & CO.,
THE WISE ... ·
Notices
Forward Their Parcels and Cases, etc.
BY THE
CHINA EXPRESS CO.
THE OTHERWISE
TAKE THE CONSEQUENCES.
| Connections with the principal Express and Forwarding Agencies throughout GREAT BRITAIN. THE COLONIES, AMERICA and the CONTINENT of BUROPE.
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PACKING AND WAREHOUSING,
Telephone No. 60.
BAGGAGE STORED or TRANSHIPPED. CHINA EXPRESS CO. 1. Baddell Street,
(ESTABLISHED 1944)
Hotels.
HONGKONG HOTEL
A. LA CARTE GRILL ROOM, Now Open.
Hongkong, 20th April, 1911.
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager. [25
GRAND HOTEL.
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. TEL, ADDRESS "COMFORT !!
Central Position; Large Airy Rooms; Hot, Cold and Boner Baths; Electric Light and Fans Throughout; Large Comfortable Lounge; Private and Pablie Bars; Billiard Rooms. HOTEL LAUNCH, MEETS ALL STEAMERS. Monthly Rates for Tiffio and Dinner. SPECIAL DINNERS AT SHORT NOTICE, CUISINE ENTIRELY UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION, Special Bates For Married Families Os Application To -
TEL. No. 197.
REICHMANN,
PROPRIETOR.
F
F.,
ASTOR HOUSE
(IATH CONNaught hotEL.) QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGKONG.
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"ENTRALLY silnated,' up-to-date Hotel, Basently renovated, and 'under entirely New Management. Large and Comfortable Rooms, Excellent
Have been appointed Sole Agents for the above for Cuisine under the supervision of an Experienced FRENCH CHEF, C
*South China
4, DES VŒUX ROAD, HONGKONG,
SHAMEEN, CANTON,
THE OVERLAND
1913 MODEL.
Why pay fancy prices when you can get quality, workmanship and finish combined in the Over land for about $2,600? The price is $400 less than other makes of a similar car.
A full line of accessories in stock at all times.: DRAGON CYCLE DEPOT. (Prospective Buyers can try this Car'free of charge.)
T. SHAW THE GENTLEMEN'S
Nettleton
for Me
Special Agency
THE FINEST FOOTWEAR
IMPORTED TO HONGKONG.
Cut for Quality
Made for the Man's Comfort
Economy and Good Appearance,
HOUSE.
21, HONGKONG HOTEL BUILDINGS, QUEEN'S ROAD.
KWONG CHEONG.
AMERICAN IVORY, SANDALWOOD,
CORSET
STORE.
[MANILA BLOUSES, RUFFLES AND HATS. Both Imported, and made to
order.
New Stock of IRISH
Crochet.
Our EXCLUSIVE designs In dress panels and dainty. Hats,
LACQUERED WARE.
GOLD AND SILVER
ORNAMENTS.
43. Queen's Road,
2.
WING HING HIGH CLASS TAILORS AND
EXPERIENCED CUTTERS, Perfect Fit Guaranteed! $4, Queen's Road, Central, Tel. 1147
S. L. M. SHERIFF BROS.
Teslom in PRECIOUS STONES UF EVERY KIND
and the
OF CHINESE JADE, J's Rd.
separate Tables, Hot and Cold Bathe, Electria Light throughout. Term moderate, First Olass accommodation for Families and Tourists."
PROPRIETORS. For particulars and rates apply to
Telegram Ta'ephone, 170
" Astor,"
BOA VISTA HOTEL,
MACAO.
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. DON'T FORGET. NEXT SUNDAY'S BOATS. LEAVE HONGKONG AT 9 A.M. AND 12.30 P.M. Telegramas "BOAVISTA,”.
Notices
WE BEG TO ANNOUNCE
that we can now manufacture on our premises the new Kryptok Invisible bifocal Lens.
The old style of cement bifocals with their disfiguring and annoying dividing liue has beon supplanted by a new lens with two fool, the upper portion of the glass for distance and the lower for reading, ground from one single plece of glas3,
You who wear two pairs of glasses may No one can tell now use one pair instead. that you wear bifocals. Nocement to blister; no thin segrents to lose off.
Call and inspect this line, Kryptoks in regular or torio form.
We grind
WE LEAD, OTHERS FOLLOW
& Co
CLARK &
SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS YORK BLOGS, CHATER RO
HONGKONG
MANILA
OF FICE:
78, ESCOLT
BREWER & CO., LD. FORTNIGHTLY LIST
$1.75 EACH OR 3 FOR $5.50 NEW NOVELS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: The Night of Temptation, by Vistoria Cross. The Knave of Diamonds, by Ethel M. Dell. Guinea Gold, by Beatrice Osim-baw.
The Lady Married, by the Author of The Lady of the Decoration.
Cotporal Cameron, by Ralph Connor. A Babe in Bohemia, by Frank Daby. The Wrath of Man, by 8. K, Hocking.
Lord Petworth's Daughter, by Florenes Wanden. The Lee Shore, by Rose Macaulay,
The Harvest Moon, y Justus Miles Formad. The Knight of Spain, by Bowen, Child of Storm, by Rider Haggaid.
CHARLES J. GAUPP & CO.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
GOLD AND SILVER
CHATER
ROAD
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
South China Morning Post,
Competition in the Field. It is a great game and China is unconsciously resping the benefit, in that the best markets in the world are' vieing in the ffort to exchange the greatest possible volume of trade with the Orient. So much has been said of the opening of the Panama Canal that there has been ad 'inclina. tion to forget the great markets- of Canada and Australia. Julg. ing from their actions up 14. the present neither je anxit us to be left behind in the race. Both have business to give and to take which owns DO etcok, in the "big ditch." Almost a quarter of the people of the earth are located within the far- flang boundaries of Ching. It is absurd for anyone to attempt an estimate of tho extent of the wave of progress and develop- ment, which is destined to exert an influence over a much wider. sphere than the benefciary porte of the Panama enterprise. Canada and Australia mean to make a hold bid for whatever is going in the way of sale or purchase.
Daily Press.
The Tai On Piracy
It is naturally a subject of. mach comment that so large an armed gang should have embark- ed on the Tai On" without the police on duty detecting that they The lady were well armed. missionary who was on board estimates that there were eighty- pirates and that they had bet- ween them at least 250 re volvers, each having two or three and some" four. It has been assumed that these armis might have been carried on board by women. Women and their baggage are as liable us are the men to be searched by the detectives, for the special purpose of preventing the smuggling of arms and opium, but the fact is that on these small rivor steamers every passenger has his parcel, and it would require a very large detective force indeed to make a search of every package and every passenger, We have been inform- ed that many of the pirates had their revolvers fastened to their arms by means of red tape, the inference being that the weapons had been hidden up their sleeves, and, being held by the piece of tapo,
would fall on the lowering. GUARANTEED!of the arm just far enough to be
WRIST WATCHES IN ALL VARIETIES.
K. A. J. CHOTIRMAL & CO. CHEAP SALE! :
FOR ONE MONTH ONLY FROM TO-DAY. SILKS, AND chinese 00333 OF THE BEST VARIETIESI
No. 37 Queen's Road.".
LEE BROTHERS. The ONLY opticians worth visiting!
Tel. No. 18, MACAO, | ALL FACILITIES POR TESTING EYES,
AND THE BEST WORK
ST. GEORGE'S HOUSE.
A MODERN HOTEL WITH EVERY COMFORT.
KENNEDY ROAD.
Tel, 115.
THE ONE PLACE FOR A GOOD MEAL !
THE IMPERIAL GRILL.
SUPPLIES IT
OPPOSITE THE VICTORIA
THEATRE.
THE TOKYO HOTEL.
The BEST of Food served in the BEST way)
TEL. 078
Not only cheap But GOOD L Try it and YOU will be satisfied.
18A CONNAUGHT RO ́D.
KING EDWARD
HOTEL.
A FIRST CLASS 'HOTEL. Under Furopean Management. Electric Light and Lifts.
Latest Improvements, Reasonabe Rates,
Telephone 378.
H. HAYNES, Manager, Hongkong, 1st Aug., 1912.
Opp. Clock Tower HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN
GRACA & CO. Under, Hongkong Hotel,
ASIATIC AND FOREIGN
POSTAUE STAMPS,
PLUNKET'S
The Peak,
THE TAIWAN RAILWAY HOTEL.
TAIPBH, FORMOSA. ·
Under the Direct Management of the Taiwan Hallway Dapt
EXCELLENT CUISINE AND GOOD.SERVICE. BATES 6 YEN AND UF,"
Uniformed hotel porter mesta all' trains · and " steamers, Luggage are ranged for without any trouble to guests.
Hongkong, 1st Feb., 1912, †182
[88 EUROPEAN
GAP
near the Tram Terminus
-
Tel. 66, 20
For Terms apply to the potat MANAGEE
AND CHINESE -DINNERS
WILL BE SUPPLIED
Tom By the
NEW PROPRIETOR
of the
The Od 1Skating Rink:
16, L'AGUILAR STREET,
MACGREGOR'S
"V. O. S."
"PARLIAMENT LEND
CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO
AQUARIUS:
THE MINERAL WATER
PAR EXCELLENCE.
COME TO MEHTA & CO.,
FOR FINE OLD EMBROIDERIES AND SILKS.
“WE ARE THE SILK MERCHANTS I
HONGKONG HOTEL BUILDINGS.
NOTICE.
readily grasped in the hand. Ae thousands of passengera leave Hongkong every night by the steamers Tuoning to Canton and West River ports, it would be a very large order indeed to expect that the police should search every parcel ard every person going on board; but this pireoy mokes it plain that increaset polico vigilanca at the wharves is desirable..
China Mail.
The Development of British Trade With China..
Roferring to the recent in auguration, under the presidency. of the British Engineers Associa tion to cultivate trade relations with Chine, Engineering." saysIn the inception of this Association patriotiem plays ita part, but not to the eclipse of commercial acumen." It is
pro- posed to have advisers the roughly versed in Chinese sffairs, and that Sir Walter Hillier and Dr. Mor rison, the past and present advisers to the Chinese Govern- ment, are honorary members, is proof that good work will be done in this direction There are also to be agents in China whose sole business it will be o to keep the -Association informed of prospect ive openings for trade, and such information will be common to ell members of the Association, but to them exclusively. In respect of Government interference or of possible Government help, the Association will bold a watching brief, and as they will representi a large body of manufacturers, i1 i hoped they will be more
THE Firm of KUHN & KOMOR, Hongkong (A. Kuhn, Proprietor) successful than any individual has been Bold to Mesars, KOMOR & KOMOR, (S. Komor. Pro- firm could be in inducing the prietor), as a going concern, and all Accounts due to the said A. Government to use their power Kuhn have been assigned to the said S. KOMOR.
and influence to help British
All Accounts owing by the said A. Kuhn have to be presented trade more freely than has been
for payment on or before the 10th day of April, 1913.
After that date Claims will not be recognised. Thesaid S. Komor will continue THE SALE OF THE STOCK IN QUEEN'S ROAD for a short time; and will continuo the Business In Des Voeux Road Central, Alexandra Buildings, under both names KUHN & KOMOR and KOMOR & KOMOR, EKIPA
ARTHUR KUHN,
SIEGFRIED KOMOR,
the case up to now. There is thus co-ordination of cfort and
Co-operation in execu
For a good Bolid mal à la Carts or Table D'Holt with Wines & Aquan of the Fest ALEXANDRA CAFE