THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1913
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FOR PLASTER WORK AND REINFORCED CONCRETE CONSTUCTION
AS
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IN
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IMPORTANT
WORKS
IN
HONGKONG CHOTEL GRILL
THE
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LESSONS IN CHINESE
MR
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ASTHMA
CAN
Be Cured.
THEN why be hali suffocated,
and sit up all right cough-
AND
ROOM
J. H.TAGGART, “Manager."
GRAND HOTEL:
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*
Noted for the best Food, Refreshments, Accommodation and Cezoliness. Cuisine ünder European Supervision.
A first-class string Orchestra renders selections from 5.50 pe
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Special monthly terms for residents and for shipping people.
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Fol. 373
Telegraphic Address: “VICTORIA"
J. WITCHELE
Manageri
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PERFECT SANITATION,
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CRUICKSHANK'S COUGH BALSAM.
JA VALUABLE REMEDY FOR COLDS, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA AND ALL DISEASE OF THE CHEST AND LUNGS. PRICE $1.00 PER BOTTLE.
MARTIN'S MIXTURE.
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PRICE $1.00 PER BOTTLE
VICTORIA DISPENSARY
THE
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Strong, solid and compact. Iron and Nickel Mectrodes with caustic potash in strong iron box. Minimum use of materials. May be charged a thousand times without lowering its efficiency, may be charged and discharged in minimum time and to its full extent without injury. May, be kept unloaded for any length of time and is ab- 'solutely safe from self-discharging when left even
a longer time loaded and out of use. Salt water has no injurious effect on the sccumulator.
An ideal accumulator for sny kind of lighting or ignition devisn. -
OUR
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South China Morning Post
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The
The East African Campaign.
While Beuter has little else to: tell us about than the Indian Civil Service, the breeding of army | horses, and the success of Lard „Derby's recruiting campaign, it may be permissible for a moment to recall that there is a little insist- [ed war in progress in which T
have a direct--interest German East Africa. Germán manace to ̈ ́ ́ British and allied interests in Afzion no longer causes serious apprehen- sion, German South-West Africa fall-to the masterly strategy of General Botha many months ago. It was the most important of all the German "colonies and, when Prussian power - for - mischief making there was effectively crashed, there was general r joiting. In the Cameroons the German resistance to the com.hin- ed Franco-British forces has re- duced itself to guarilla warfare, the law remaining Germana and their respective fallowing
being hounded from pillar to post" at the will of the Allier. It is only a matter of fims when the necessity for farther pursuit will no longer exist and every inch of Cameroons territóry must. [come under the adminiske hen. of the Allies The campaign in East Africa' is in a different category. Hitherto it has been a
British affir, but the milit purely.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF ACCUMULATORS AND CELLS y preparations of the Germans
HAS JUST ARRIVED.
SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA -
Luxuriously furnished Lounge, Drawing, Reading & Wris A. B. THE SWEDISH TRADING CO., LTD.
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irs and gasping for breath when ROASTS READY FOR THE TABLE.
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Please order early from
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Obtainable at Messrs. A&Grand Hotel de l'Europe, Singapore.
WATSON & Co. Ltd. and all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendor.
Price $2.50 per bottle.
GREEN ISLAND GEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT
In Casks of 375 lbs. net. In Bags of 250 lbs. net
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General Managers. Henkkơng. 16th August, 1910
BEST SITUATED · HOTEL IN TOWN.
EVERY ROOM HAS A BATH-ROOM; DRESSING ROOM ATTACHED.
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MOST UP TO DATE SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS,
NEW
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3
M. R. WARING, ACTING MANAGER.
MACAO HOTEL,
PRAYA GRANDE, MACAO.
The above Hotel was opened on August 1st, 1914, under new proprietorship and management The Hotel now fers. for Residents and Tourists, excellent accommodation. 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 Private and Public Bar and Billiards. Terms Moderate. For further information apply to
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THE MANAGER.
LONDON DIRECTORY Baths, electric light and fans
PEAK HOTEL
1,400 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL
(Published Annually) ture, has been a teacher to Eu-Buahles tenders throughest the World to
communicada direct with English ropean officials and merchants in this Colony for over ten years.
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-----Moderate Tariff and Excellent Cuisine, Roof Garden and Social Booms, European Runner meste Steamers,
· P. O. PEUSTER, Manager
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and Hakka
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STEAMSHIP LINES
to write c/o Hongkong Tele-arranged under the ports to which they ph" office or direct to No. 160, szil, and indicating the approximate Wellington Street, second floor.
Bangkoog, 29th Jan. 1912.
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precluded all hope of success with the relatively small forces em ployed to cope with them.
Daily Press.
The Emperor's Election. The elevation of Yusn Shi-kai to the Dragon throne of China is now practically an accomplished fact. The referendum. to "decide the form of Government has
482ited in a unanimous vote in g
favour of a limited monarchy, K226d the President has accepiad.
the invitation to assume the royal- yellow at such time as may be considered convenient in the
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recent disturbance at Shang- bai, the proposed change seems to be regarded with equanimity, it not with indifference, by the Chicese people, who, as cur Canton correspondent points out more concerned with the taxes which they have to pay than with the name in which thom
with are collected. This does
pot, of course, mean that the friendly advice which the Enterta Powers tendered to the GovernD- ment of Oliïns was without justi- fication. The disappointed rebeld leaders, we may be quite suza, would be only too ready to Ex- ploit the present situation by en- 400 gineering an artificial agitation
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Salories.html 2.75 No doubt. Mr. Asquith will, when he makes his promised statement, show good reason why the Government: “do-not intend to propose an all-round reduction in the salarim of Ministers and.. members of Parliament and it would certainly be too much (oran in the nature of intelligent an- ticipation) for us to comment upon what the Prime Minister We must HY, mBYM SŁYM however, that the statement just made will come asĀ ZI unpleasant surprise, to many, for thers can be no doubt the necessity for such a completo all- round - zednetion. Much will depend, no doubt, upon what Mr. Asquith means by the phrase “a}- round," which of course is one of those phrases that may, mes mach or very little indeed. In the words of our Grand Old Man of the House of Commens-(an ap paliation which Mr. Asquith now thoroughly deserves to share with his distinguished prodccomic whom the "name" was zequan Applied) shall whit see what happens before menting farther.
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