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FOR SALE. Tel. 482
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IT
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INSPECTION INVITED.
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MACHINERY DEPARTMENT.
OREGON PINE LUMBER.
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EXPRESS" TO ANY ADDRESS
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WE FORWARD TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
THE HONGKONG PARCEL, EXPRESS & STORAGE CO.
Telephone 1209,
J, Duddell Birost
HOTELS.
THE HONGKONG
GRILL ROOM.
HOTEL
AND
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
General Managers.
Telephone No. 41.
Hongkong, July 14, 1914.
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MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA. Hongkong, June 11th, 1913.
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J. H.TAGGART,
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GRAND HOTEL.
A first-class and up-to-date Hotel, most central location, within
Noted for the best Food, Refreshments, Accommodation and Cleanliness. Cuisine under European Bupervision.
the vicinity of all the principal Banks.
A first-class string Orchestrá renders selections from 5.30 p.m. to 11.30 p.m.
Special monthly terms for residents and for shipping people.
For further particulars apply —
Telephone No. 197.
OUR NTEMPORARIES.
South China Morning Post.
* Business in : Hongkong. We miss, of course, the German and Austrian lines which made Hongkong a port of call, also the vessels of one of the British lines which have been employed since the war on other than merchent service, but other ships are beginning to take their places and the freights carried by those vessels which have been able to "CeTry on" without a break are abnermally large and profitable. Hengkong hos indeed been wor derfally fortunate since hostilities brake out. Not a single hostile orciner has dered to approach the colony and not a ship has been
36 H.P. PENTA MARINE MOTOR uk or molested this side of
FOR
AS MARINE
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A.B. THE SWEDISH TRADING CO.
IN CHINA LTD.
YORK BUILDING (TOP FLOOR.)
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co.
MANAGER. Tel. Address "COMFORT."
ESTAB.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
All
CENTRAL LOCATION. Electric Trams Pass Entrance.
Telephones on 'All Floors. Electric Lifts, Fans and Lighting, European Baths and Sanitary Fittings. Hot and Cold Water System Throughout,
Best of Food. and Service.. Hotel Launch meets all Steamers.
FRANK L. COOKE, Manager Address; "VICTORIA"
One Minute's Walk from Ferry.
NOBBS, a qualified Chemist, and Telerrrphic
a sufferer for many years, will, if taken when necessary, effect a radical cure of this erstwhile in- curable malady.
Obtainable at Messre. A 8. WATSON & Co., Ltd. and all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors.
"Price $2.50 per bottle.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT
In Casks of 375 lbs. net. In Bags of 250 lbs, net.
THE CARLTON HOTEL.
PERFECT SANITATION,
DOW'S
Tel: 379
SOLE AGENTS FOR
HUNTING INVALID ARMADALE
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High Class Accommodation for Families at Moderate Prices Those desiring Economy combined with Comfort, Quiet and a Most Refined Home, Free from Household Annoyances, should inspect. these Residential Quarters.
Luxuriously furnished Lounge, Drawing, Reading & Writing
Under Personal Management of
Rooms..
O. E. OWEN, Proprietor.
Lipton's No. I Tea, 95 cts. per lb. Foochow Buds. 80.cts. per lb. Our own special Blend of India & China Teas, 85 cts. per lb. Roasted & Ground daily, the Best Java Coffee, 75 cts. per lb. Absolutely the best Cup of Tea, Coffee, Cocoa, Scones, Cakes, &c. In Hongkong. Otainable only at THE ALEXANDRA CAFE.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Grand Hotel de l'Europe, Singapore.
General Managers.
Hongkong, 16th August, 1910
-THE
LONDON DIRECTORY
MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS
(Published Annually). MR. LI HON FAN, & Chinese bien traders throughout the World, to graduate versed in litera communicate direct with English tare, has been a teacher to European officials and merchants
in each class of goods. Besides being a this Colony for over ten years completo commercial guide to London& He has a good method of train-its suburbs, the directory contains lists of ing: Europeans to pass in the
EXPORT MERCHANTS Chinese examination, and is possessed of a first rate certificate with the Goods they ship, and the Colonial a. Chinese teacher: He has and Foreign Markets they supply: also a good knowledge of Manda-
́ ́STEAMSHIP LINES ein and Hakka.
Those who intend learning the arranged under the parts to which they Chhese language are requested gall and indicating the approximate to write c/o Hongkong Tele- raph office or direct to No. 14, Graham Street, lat floor, Hongkong, 29th Jan., 1912.
WING KEE & CO.
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of lending Manufacturers, Merchants etc., in the principal provincial towns & industrial centres of the United Kingdom. A copy of the current edition will be forwarded freight paid, on receipt of
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Danloru sasking Agencias enn advertíne :their trade cards for $1;or larger adrør
tisements from £9.
"THE LONDON DIRECTORY CO., LTD, 25 Abchurch Lane, London EC.
Dr. C. L. CHOW.
DENTAL Surgeon,
BEST SITUATED HOTEL IN TOWN.
AVERY ROOM HAS A BATH-ROOM; DRESSING ROOM ́ ATTACHED.
MOST UP TO DATE SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS.
Under English Management.
H. R. WARINO,
ACTING MANAGER.
NEW MACAO HOTEL.
PRAYA GRANDE, MACAO,
The above Hotel will be opened on August 1st, 1914, under new proprietorship and European Management. The Hotel now offers for Residents and Tourists excellent socommodation. Large dining room facing the sea. It has been entirely renovated throughout and newly furnished, and is now up-to-date in every respect. Large and airy rooms, excellent sanitary arrangements, Hot and Cold Baths, electric light and fans. Private and Public Bar and Billiards. Terms Moderate. For further information apply to, 0.0 MOOSO. Tel. Add. Phoenix."
HONGKONG TURKISHBATH &
TOILET CO., LTD.
NOW OPEN.
LADIES CAN USE THE BATHS EVERY FORENOON.
CHARGES
Turkish Bath
$3,00
Electric Bath
3.00
Complete Body Massage
Simple Bath
For Medical Bath
Prescription
$2.00 75 cts.
Wanted.
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Penang Thanks to the strength of our defences and the vigilance, of the navy Hongkong has suffer ed comparatively little as the result of the war and the best way in which loyal Britishers can ahow their appreciation of the work so well done on their behalf is to abun the pessimist, carry on veel as for as possible and do all they can to inspire a feeling of confidence in the minds of our near neighbours, the Chinese, many of whom are unfortunately. too prone to look upon the black side of things at the least pro vocation.
Daily Pres.
The Press Bureau,
If one of the objects of the Press Burean is to prevent the British public from becoming "heady," then in this direction, at all evente, it is remarkably successful. Anything in the usture of a scare or food for abnormal elation has been so dexterously handled that people with temperaments which can be disastrously played upon have never been allowed to fire up with shouts of victory or to moan aloud at defeat. And at a time. of such strain and tension, tho literary leavening' of the nature now being carried out daily at the Press Burean officea cannot but be of service to the nation at large, Waiting for news is a proceeding which invariably jingles the nerves of the most cool-headed, but to, persons whe seem to be made up wholly of nerves it acts in the na'pre of a narcotio. They have nothing te feed them, pad, though perhaps very restless, have to remain quiet and harmless bath to themselves and to others. The danger comes when, following such a period of waiting and watching and, we have had to experience many such · blank perioda daring the progres of the war sozeational and fully "drossed" story either of or defeat is launched public already trembling with expectation.
victory or
upon.
A
China Yail.
German Art Destruction. The German Governor General of Brussels, we learn from ID article in the Literary Digest (New York) to hand, is much con- cerned about assuring the world that only in a casual inspection"
Telephone No. 1683 of the damage done at Louvain
RAMSEY & CO.
12, POTTINGER STREET, HONGKONG. TYPEWRITER SPECIALISTS, Typewriters Cleaned, Repaired, and Broken Parts Replaced, PITTSBURG VISIBLE TYPEWRITER, (Best American make) Price $170,00 Ribbons for all Machines and Carbon Papers of different sizes and colours, Typewriter Erasers, Oil and everything: Me saada relative to Typewriters, ⠀⠀
FOR SALE Clipless Paper Fasteners, Cheque Protectors, Numbering Machines, Safety Pocket Lighters, etc. Selected novels by well-known authors. Cycle and other machinery cleaned and repaired. Prices very moderate.
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Factory at Yaumati OFFICE, No. 36, Des Voeux Road, W
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by the invading Germans will it Beem much greater than the actuality. This statement of the worthy Von Der Goltz, of Turkish upon a report issued recently by a Army fame, is said to be based whose duty in stated body of men to have been the protecting of art treasures, alter Brussels and other Belgian towns had fallen into the hands of the Belgian
know that the Germans German vandals. It is good to to take of art treasures, cognizance civilised enough regarding which their troops have shown a deplorable lack of reverence while engaged in their mission of destruction. It appears that the report of the Commission traverses the ground passed over by the conquering forces, and a careful estimation of the eneding damage is attempted,
Printing & Bularging- v neki
July, 1918
are
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