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THE HONGKONG
THE UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER
"The Machine you will eventually buy."* HORNSBY-STOCKPORT CAS ENGINES AND SUCTION CAS. PLANTS.
OVER 10,000 IN DAILY USE »
HORNSBY OIL ENGINES.
AGENTS FOR:
"THE EXPANDED METAL CO. LTD. EXPANDED METAL FOR REINFORCED CONCRETE.
TAKAYES' MACHINE TOOLS.
FAIRBANKS MORSE & CO.
A Kinds of Machinery and
Engineering Suppli
DOUGLAS & GRANT.
Rice Mills and Steam Engines.
FRANCIS WEBSTER & SON, Cantan, Twines, ân, -
LLOGERWOOD MANF. CO Hoisting Engines, Pile Driver, &c. SUTER HARTMANN AND RAHTJEN'S COMPOSITION CO. LTD. OF LONDON. THE "RED NAND” HRAND, Anti-Foul" and Anti-Comoriva Paints.
AND VARIOUS OTHER MANUFACTUBEÈS. Quotations for any description of Michinery or Engineering Plant on applicați»u to
DOOWELL & CO. LTD.
Machinery Dept.
THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment:
Principal features: Small Premium, Liberal Surrender Value, Na Medical Examination, Return of Premia in the Event of Death," and Numerous Options at the Age of 25. WRITE FOR PAMPHLET AND FULL PARTIDULANS TO
DODWELL & CO., LTD. Agents.
SOLE AGENTS:-
GANDY
BELTING
f:0:)
THE EASTERN ASBESTOS CO. QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG,
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING G
ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF
PURE MANILA ROPE
8 STRAND
Le to 15"
TLEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1917.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
AND
GRILL ROOM.
J. H. TAGGART, Manager.
PEAK
HOTEL
1,400 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL.
FIFTEEN MINUTES FROM PRINCIPAL LANDING STAGE.|||
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"ERRORENTIAL ## TOURIST HOTEL, Verftened ter Camburi, Koci, st
www Templenes in Every Bosch ; prompt workseiden saarniaimed by six Mast to Contrat End Standart Camps, hoot Esedon and Bostel Soome shrugeben. Jetztene
·P. O. "PEUSTER, Manager.
GRAND HOTEL.
▲ text-slam, and up-to-date Howl, mos penzi location, within the vicinity of ste principal Banks Noted for the best Food, Refreshments, Aromamodtám and C'ésinem. Cusine auder European Supervision
A first-ci String Orchestra rendars selections from Kap: 10 ILMU DA Special monthly terms for residents and for Sh:rain For further particulars app y CHARLES MORRIS
Man ge
cupie
Telephone No. 197. Telegraphic Address "COMFORT:
KING EDWARD ́HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION. ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING. TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR. HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS. Tel. 373.
Telegraphio Address: “ VICTORIA
J. WİTCHELL,
Manager.
STATION HOTEL,
KOWLOON.
First class and most up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel, we'minutes from the Ferry. Moderate tariff and most excellent culsion under entirely European management," Honthly and Family rates can be arranged on most reasonable tarina.
Apply:-THE MANAGERESS, Kowbop. Telegraphic Addres: "TERMOTELA" Code Food; 1.B.C. 5th Ed.
CABLE LAID
"15" 1
4 STRAND 3" to 10" CIRCUMFERENCE.
PRIVATE
CIRCUMFERENCE. CIRCUMFERENCE.
On Driving Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length, Prices, Samples and full,aoticulars will be forwarded on application.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
LIME JUICE,
CORDIAL
SIRDIR.
SOLE AGENTS;
CALDBECK MACGREGOR
& CO.
No. 15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
Telephone No. 75.
NORTH BRITISH
AND
MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,
in which are vested the shares of THE OCEAN. MARINE *INSURANCE CO., LTD.
AND THE RAILWAY PASSEN- CERS ASSURANCE CO. The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to "ACCEPT BISES against FIRE at Current Rates. SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents
Yorkshire
General Managers.
ASTHMA
CAN BE CURED.
T
~HEN why be half foffocated, and sit up all night coughing and gasping for breath when a £12912 dose of
NOBBS' ASTHMA CURE
will give you certain, prompt relief and aware good night's rest? This, the Daly rennine cure for Asthma, discovered by Mr. HOBBS, a' qualified Chemist, and enfferer for by year will, & taken when necessary, effect a radical cure of thie erstwhile incurable malady,
Obtainable at Hestra, &. S. WATSON &Co., Ltd. and all Chemist and Patent Medicine Tendom.
Price: $2.50 per bottle.
CREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Casks of 375 lbs. nat. In Bags of 250 lbs, net. SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
General - Managım. Hongkong, 18th August, 1916.
{LESSONS IN CHINESE,
M
Sale Colony for ten years,
Be her, good metod of training Berenssen to pass Chambe martoons, and is poss efectiñosio si a Chinese
Ha ban also a good knowledge of Mandaria and Enkh
of
Those who fiend, lasening the Chinem language se zagoosted to write, ou *Hoogking Telegraph amne or direst to No.
160 Welington Birus, First Book.
MEE CHEUNG
PHOTOGRAPHER.
InsuranceCo.,Ltd. Ice Hou-a Street
the
ESTABLISHED 1884.
Undersigned AGENTS for above Company are ed to ACCEPT RISKS Hem FIRE at Current Rates.
AN TOMES & 00.
Telephone 1013.
NEW FILMS ARRIVED.
CHEAP SALE.
LEE KEE
|- BUILDING CONTRACTOR. · «BEALER INʼSÄRITARY BOOBS, MANUFACTURER OF MOSAIO FILES. FIRE BRICKS AND SANITARY STORE- WAKE BRAIN PIPES. IMPORTER AND EXPORTER OF SUILDING MATERIALE:
1458,0#69&#
HARTING
HOTEL.
AUSTIN ROAD, KOWLOON, VERY Comfort. Large and airy Rooms, table for Married For tingle Ladies or Gentious Excelent cuisine
under the Personal Supervision of the Proprietress
MRS. E. O. MURPHY, Proprietress. Tel. No. K 296.
CHEUNG CHAU (DUMB BELL
ISLAND).
SEASIDE HEALTH RESORT. WITHIN FAST REAGH OF HONGKONG. Bathing. Boating Fishing, Wading Briones. Brez For Boosts or wroomodation, with all particžiarn.
Address: S. D. HICKIE.
TEL. 669.
Act. Hon. Secretary.
NEW MACAO `HOTEL.
PRAYA GRANDE, MACAO, ·
The above Hotel was opened on August 1st, 1974, under new proprietorship and Hazagupeast, The Botel now offers, for Resident and Tourists, excellent accommodation. Large dining room facing the sex. It has been entirely reported throughout, and newly forlibed, and it now up-to-date it every respect Largs and alry 3000, xcellent sanitary a/2zgements, Hot and Cold Each, Rectric aught and fass. Private and Pablle Bar and Billiards. Termas Moderate. For further information apply se
Trigraphie Address "Phania.
THE MANAGER
Grand Hotel de l' Europe, Singapore.
UNDER NEW BRITISH MANAGEMENT.
THE PREMIER HOTEL. FINEST SITUATION. EXCELLENT CUISINE.
TEL. NO. 1877.
ARTHUR E. ODELL.
(Late Grand Hotel, Southclifs, England, and Royal Palace Hotel, London, W.E)
NOTICES.
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TEL. NO. 1877.
MACKENZIE'S FOOT RELIEF POWDER.
is especially adapted for overcoming the undue per- spiration and sensitiveness of the feat during hot weather., This powder will be found invaluable for correcting those. uncomfortable conditions of the feet which arise from excessive perspiration, fatigue, burning,
PRICES FIFTY CENTS" PER TIN..
eto.
THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY.
CHEMISTS & DRUGGISTS
14, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL," HONGKONG.
FRENCH
LESSONS.
C. MOUSSION,
ison Hill Road,
NOTICES.
glato
Gold Medal International Medival Congress Exhibition. By Royal Appointment to the Court of Spain."
Builds Bonnie Babies
To[be obtained at all Chemists & Stores. ASK YOUR DOCTOR?
The "ARCHIMEDES "
2-Cylinder Portable Boat Motor.
The "Archimedes"
is Indisputably
casier to
manipulate
than a one-cylinder motor.
It is easler
to start, more
powerful and more reliable. Swedish make..
2 H.P.
2 H.P. MOTOR
5 H.P.
The only 2-Cylinder Portable Boat Motor on the Market.
High Tension Magneto Ignition.
STOCK KEPT BY THE AGENTS:
Perfectly.
balanced.
A.B. THE SWEDISH TRADING CO. FIL. IN CHINA, LTD.,
YORK BUILDINGS, TOP FLOOR TELEPHONE. 171.
LACTOMALTINE.
An ideal. Focheforming Food containing all the valushie properties from the obrabred of the FINEST EXTRACT OF MALT
CREAM. FINEST SCOTCH BARLEY together, with MILK and
MOST DIGESTIBLE.
EXCEEDINGLY PLEASANT TO TAKE.
HIGHLY
CTOMALTH NUTRITIOUS.
MALT, MILK & CREAM] al Flesh Forming
HARKNESS BEAUMONT
PRESCRIBED BY THE MEDICAL FACULTY.
LACTOMALTINE far surpasses all preparations et Cod Liver Oil in Palatability, Aminality and Digestibility, and for its fic moy in the formation of times of stable texture. OBTAINABLE FROM ALL CHEMISTS, ETC.
JUST RECEIVED NEW SHIPENTS OF THE FINEST ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PIANOS BY
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BRINSMEAD, BACON,
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FROM
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GENERAL NEWS
"Sheep Worrying.
Sheep worrying" han "of inte caused serious losses to Lothian- farmers, and a number of dogs caught chasing the sheep were abot.
Award: for French Captain. For rescuing a shipwrecked British oren, Captain Jean Baptiste Erol, muter of the
Caen, has been awarded a piece of French steamship Marguerite, of plate by the Board of Trade.
German Gunpowder.
Two of the principal factories of the German Gunpowder Trait have declared dividends of 20 per cent and two others of 16 par cent. The Atma Munition Com- play of Berlin has declared a dividend of 30 per gent"
U. S. Food Economy, For the purpose of economising the food supply, the United States Senate has adopted an amend- ment to the Espionage Bill for- bidding the use of grain in the proddetion of intoxicating liquore daring the war.
A Straage Death.
An extraordinary osse of a man who bled to death after the ex- trsation of a tooth was revealed at an inquest at Manchester on: Arthur Richardson. It was atated. that Richardson, a young man, had been `peouliarly liable to bleeding, and be had been warned. that the extraction of a tooth would probably cost him his lifs,TM.. bat in fear of being laughed at he did not mention the warning to the dentist who operated on "him. A verdict of "Death by anized venture” was returned..
Mauled by a Caged Bear. When a man named Kawara Kiyoshi, an asaistaut at a men- agerie and cirens giving perform ances at Minsta Machi, Seahoku Gan, Oaka, was feeding a bear recently, the aminel suddenly spring upon him, and bit his in the back of the head' severely: On hearing his criss, a number of the employees ran to the bear osge and eventually encceeded t releasing the man. The poor fellow was taken to a hospital Bot there is every likelihood of his izjarisa, prving fatal, says the Kobe Herald.
-German Wives in England.
German wiyes of British sub- jects are causing the suthoritise anxiety, my the Daily Mail. By law they are. British. In this they have an advantage cwar the unfortunate British-born women married to a German.
However loyalshe is to the country of her birth, she is an alien in the eyes of the law and treated is wach. If the police authorities had their way, no doubs the German-born wires, would be restricted in their moverments. Awit is they are free to eat ind waste as much so they like, while British "women dre striving to "Sconomies.
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Polished Rice.
It is well-known in India, mya a correspondent of the Day" Mar, that the native labourers led on polished rice report a terioration in physique, and Dr. Monekton Coremen in a recent lecture declared that poly neuritia, which is anslagous to beri-beri, can be readily indused experimentally, in pigeons by feeding them on a dist of polished rice. As this polished rice in produced. merely for ap
sake, and is valuable fodě odse troyed, why should; nor gain polishing prcome be probíhated. forthwith by Government, so that the population may not be tempt ed to buy the rice on its "face" valne, seeing that it is deprived of all value in 's food, ene
Standard Dil-Profita. The Standard Oil Company of New York's statement for 1916 is one of the mostūragssikablo ever made by a Etandard OD Company, mays the Carilion Buenas Monitor. #. Its surplus CF more than $68,600,000 in egust -to 90 per cent, of its entive stook. Is surplus last year more then $42,000,000 past two years the surplus grown $52,000,000
mately $11,000,000 öf in surplus less Appreciation in ment of subsidi notably the B'an tion Company, transparifation took over the the "New Taster half,