Notices
THE HONGKONG : TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1913.
ORDER YOUR CAR AT ONCE!
Overland Model Gaz
A number of Overlands, itave now arrived and are finding " ready Sale,
Sole Agents,
DRAGON CYCLE DEPOT. (Prospective Buyers can try this Car free of charge.)
ERICSSON
TELEPHONES.
Evary Description of Wall-, Table- & Fiold Tolephone Instru- mouts, Switches, Protectors, Hand-Midros, Buses, Dry Cells, also Portable Telegraph, fu trasats and Fire Alarms of Latest Pattern are now to bo huu.
From STOCK.
Through our Agents for Hongkong & South China
ARTHUR NILSSON & CO.
THE IDEAL LAUNDRY
DRESS SHIRTS A SPECIALITY
Mrs. M. MASON,
Propt 30, Austin Road, Kowloon.
LESSONS IN CHINESÈ.
MR. LI HON FAN, it Chinese.
Lure.
FINE CURIO STORE. Embroidered Screens
Wall Hangings, Lacquered and Bronze Ware, etc., etc..
NIKKO & Co.,
Queon's Rond,
WE
Trava mučių pleasure in refvatincing to our attimetode patrons, and customers that we have opened
A New SILK STORE
"
the 11: p-to-dare myle ami fashion at the urge
gruluato versed in litern, Commodious Premises No. 38 & 40
has boon a teacher to: Queen's Road Central, European officials and merchants erly pet by Mover. E. Rutonjce & Son, in this Colony for over ten youth, see we wis drplaying an contrdly a hand
flo has a good method of train-orgeous stock al
ing Europeans to pass, in the Silk Good, & Jewellery Ware Chinese examinative, and 155 Foto descriptions in a variety of new, elegant and possessed of a first rate certificate designy mat patterns
as a Chinese teacher. He has
The stock chiles a chinos selection of
also a good knowledge of Manda: Turkish, Persian & Indja Silk,
rit and Hakka.
i!
!
Carpets & Wrollen Rugs
in island elegans patterns.
Prices spelly releed for summer.
Those who nitend learning the Chinese language are requested Tole- to 37!!
• to write c/o “Hongkong. graph" office or direct Hollywood Roud, Ist Hour,
Hongkong, 29th Jan., 1912.
Cheagent kun in the Colony.
An early wit carnestly soliated,
* D. CHELLARAM. Hogkung 2014 July, 1913.
CAMPBELL, MOORE & CO.
THE BEST BARBER SHOP IN THE COLONY! CHIROPODISTS, MANICURISTS AND ·
LADIES CHAIR DRESSERS
HONGKONG HOTEL BUILDINGS,
ASAHI BEER
OBTAINABLE EVERYWHEKE
SOLE. AGENTS:
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA,
Hongkong, June 11th, 1913,
ASTHMA
CAN Be Cured.
THEN why he half suffocated, and sit up all night cough- ing and gasping for breath when
SINGLE dose of
„NOBBS' ASTHMA 'GURE
will give you certain, prompt
relief and ensure a good night's. rest? This, the only genuine cure for Asthma, discovered by Mr. NOBBS, a qualified Chemist, und a sufferer for many years, will, if akun when necessary, effect a adical cure of this orstwhile in- curable malady.
Obtainable at Mosers. A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. and all Chemists and Patent Medicine endora.
Price $2,50 per bottle."
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
Portland, cemMENT
"In Gusks of 375 lbs, not. In Bags of 250 lbs. not.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. General Managers.
“làngkong, 16th August, 1901
LAW & SONS
Sindebake
No. 3 Duddell St.
Sole Agents,
Notices
BEAR BRAND
MILK.
NATURAL SWISS
MILK STERİLised.
This Milk once opened, keeps longer than ordinary Milk and can be used for any purpose for which ordinary Cows' Milk is generally used."
SOLE AGENTS.
Tel. 66.
F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING;
Wotels
.HONGKONG HOTEL
'A LA CARTE GRILL ROOM.
Now 0,00.
Hongkong, 20th April, 1911.
J
GRAND HOTEL.
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
TAU&t
Manager (26
TEL ADDRESS ·· OʻFORT "
Central Position; Large Airy Rooms; Hot, Cold and Shower Baths Electric Light and Fans Troughout; Large Comfortable Lounge; Privato and Public Bars; Billard 'Rooms. HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS, Monthly Rates for Tin and Dinner. SPECIAL DINNERS AT SHORT NOTICE. GUISINE ENTIRELY UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION. Special Rates For Married Families On Application.
"The Grand Hotel orchestra will play selections during tiffin and dinner and at intervals during the day."
TEL. No. 197.
F REICHMANN,
PROPR ET
THE CLUB HOTEL,
YOKOHAMA.
This favourite Hotel with its new y built annexe, refurnished throughout with modern conveniences. offers every comfort and facilitles for Travellers.
TERMS MODERATE. CLUB HOTEL, Limited,
No. 5, Bund, YOKOHAMA.
KING EDWARD
HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION.
All Electric Trams Pass Entrance,
One Minute's Walk from Ferry.
Telephones on All Floors. Electric Lifts, Fans.and Lighting. European Baths and Saaltory Fittings.
Hot and Cold Water System Throughout,
Best of Food and Service,
Hotel Launch meets All Steamers Telegraphic Address: Tol. 373.
VICTORIA"
"
R. II. NORTH,
HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN.
PLUNKET'S
Cable Address CLUB HOTEL” Tolaphie No. 465.
THE TAIWAN
'RAILWAY HOTEL
TAIPEN, FORMOSA,
Under the Direct Mausgement of the Toiwan Hallway Dept
KXCELLENT QUISINE
GOOD ERVICE. RATES 6 YEN AND Ur,"
AND
Uniformed hotel porter meets all and steamer, Luggage aru ranged for, without say trouble to 8its.
Notices
HONGKONG PARCEL, EXPRESS,
AND STORAGE CO.
REPRESENT THE FIRST CLASS SHIPPING COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
3. Daddell Street.
Telephone Nɔ. 1208
JUST ARRIVED.
Ex. s.s. EASTERN.
·SMOKED FILLET HADDOCKS. KIPPERED HERRINGS. Also in hand. Fresh Deep Bay Oysters."
Open till Midnight.' .
ALEXANDRA CAFE Co.
MAKE IT A HABIT-USE REGULARLY.
Perfect sanitation being so neces-, sury for health, disinfection is im-
perative
Make a practice of
IZAL
using IZAL everyday-just a A TRIUMPH OF CONCENTRATION. little, diluted with water-pouring it down'drains, sinks and we,'s, and sprinkling it in dustbins or other harbours of fith. Get IZAL, bacause it positively kills disease gorms, stops infection and instant- ly removes had smells.
ZAL
Manugor..
MEE CHEUNG.
GAP
NEW
The Peak, bear the Tram Termions
To'. 56. For Tarms apply to the
MANOFR
EUROPEAN ACENCY. WHOLESALE buying agen.
cios undortaken for all. British and Continental goods, including
Books and Stationery, Boots, Shoes and Leather, Chemical and Druggists' Sundries:
China Earthenware and Glans- ware,
Cyclos, Motor Cars and Ac- cossorios,
Drapery Millinery and Piece Goods,
Fancy Goods and Perfumery. Hardware, Machinery and Metale.
Jewellery, Plato and Watches, Photographic & Optical Goods, Provisions and Oilinon's Storer,
otc., etc.
Commission 24% to 5%. Trude. Discounts allowedź Special Quotations on Demand, Sample Cases from £10 upwards. Consignments of Produce Sold da Arconnt
WILLIAM WILSON
(Established 1814).
ART PHOTOGRAPHER
HONGKONG,
TELEPHONE NO, 1013,
Developing, Priating & Enlarging Harglook. 1896 Jale. 1918 1
"OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
Dail, Press.
Chinese Customs Revision.s Mr. Morso mentions Kwang- ing as more typical of the ouѕ try. "Here between Canton and Wuohow, a distance of about two hundred miles on the West River, there are six lekin "barriera,' cooli constituting a barrier to the free movement of traffic, and each involving delay, vexation and payment." In that part of Kiangsu, ying South of the Yangtze, that ra over 250 stations, collecting or preventive. To get at the amount paid by the people is more difficult, in this case of lekin, Mr. Morse ays, than of other ta es, the collection being much more in The hands of the officer in charge of Fanch barrier and his subordinatea than is possible with other taxes. Ile quotes an instance in which he proper charge was Tho 'accrations" on this charge neltage fos, loss on melting freight, costs of transmission and sonoral office expenses amount- ed to a furthar "$6.50-an "80- cretion" of 182 per cent. This pparently does not include collectors, oharges," and Mr. Morse says that students of things Chinese would promptly reject a
IZAL-the guaranteed disinfectant) of un- rivalled strength-is the pioneer modern high-uggestion that the addition for power germicide
Officially adopted throughout the British Empire. Mixes equally well, with salt, brackish or Iresh water. Write for Free Booklet-" Practical Dis-
infection
RULES OF HEALTH.
One Gallon of IZAL makes 400 gallons of efficient disinfecting fluid.
Agents:
W. R. LOXLEY. & Co.
Caldbeck Macgregor & Co.
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ESTAB,
DOW'S
INVALID
PORT
1864.
DOW'S HUNTING PORT
DOW'S
ROYAL DRY
PORT.
MAPPIN & WEBB, LIMITED.
CONSIGNMENTS STERLING SILVER WARE. PRINCE'S PLATE (Guaranteed for 30 Years). CUTLERY. From the Sole Agonts
CHS.
J.
GAUPP & CO.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, CHATER ROAD.
SAN MIGUEL
ollectors' charges, the personal moluments of the notive agents, an be as low as 10 per cent. This llustration will suffice to make plain to the general reader: how lekin hampera trade and coinmer- ce in China, and will also suggest the immense difficulties in the way of its abolition until the Central Government has streng thened its control over the Provinces.
South Chini Morning Post,
Disposal of the Dead. The need is flongkong of a public crematorium, as advocated in these columas, come jers go, a omphasised by the dis- ssion which took place at l'uesday's meeting of this Sani- ry Bard. Those members who expressed views on the ubject favoured the scheme, and n. a cosmopolitan community. ike Hongkong, where already a considerable section-the Japan- Band Sikhe religiously observe he practice of the eremating the dead, there seems to be no real. Jason why the Government hould not erect and maintain`a modern crematory which would ..... meet the needs of all olasses. From many points of view, if old pre- judices, which are hard to kill, are disregarded, cremation on modern scientific principles has much to commend it. Hongkong, where space is limited, is already txed to the limit with grave» · yards. Respecting the
sent-
iments of the various races and creeds represented in the colony, the Government has provided each with its own God's'acre, but the time is rapidly drawing nigh vhen the interests of public health will demand either that" one of these be closed entirely or hat they bo considerably xtended..
China Mail.
The Year's Work of Lloyd's
Register... Another important point is the fict that of the 851 new vessela. registered, 120 exceeded 5,000 toos, and nine exceeded: 10,000 ons, these latter ranging up to
DRAUGHT BEER, the two Canadian Pacific steamers
ALWAYS HAVE ONE
Telophone 1463.
AT ELEVEN.
bailt at Fairfield-the Empress. sf Asis, of 16,909 tons, and the Empress of Russia, of 16,810 one. There aro still in progress troaty stoainers exceeding 12,000- tons, and many others between 10,000 and 12,000 tone. Not
MICHAEL & CO. Agents, only do Lloyd's provide for the
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| 25, ABOHURGH·LANE, LONDON, E.G.
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HAHN
Obtainable:-All Dispen- sarles, Respectable Stores.
Wholesale.
MELCHERS & Co.
formal passenger and cargo ship, bat modifications and departure are arranged for, and during the phat year plans have been ipproved for vessels of Buch ypes as a constguard cruiser, a ou-propelled reck-cutter, barge, umping steamora for land re claration, a steel screw light- hip, and a train ferry for service Ganda, beside dredgers, harges, motorlaunchies, &o. Tho most notable ship of the year, of cour a, was the Aquitanin, laun- ched at Clydebank, for the Ouanaril Company, which is of 48,000, tɔns großBS,,
in
For a good solid meal a la Carter or Tablo D'Hoto with Wine & Liqueurs of the Besp "PAL":FANDIA CAFF,