NOTICES.
THE RED HAND COMPOSITIONS LIMITED, LONDON.
Contractors to the Admiralty, India Office, War Office,
Crown Agents for the Colonies, &c.
"THE RED HAND BRAND."
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Antifouling Compositions for Ships Bottoms, Antisive Paints, Ready mixed, for all purposes..
Supplies available from:
DODWELL, & CO. LTD.
SOLE AGENTS.
THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
New Scheme for Children's Early Endowments-
Principal features: Small Premium, Liberal Surrendar Value, No Medical Examination, Return of Premia in the Event of Death, and Kamera Options at the Age of 25,
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WRITE FOR PAMPHLET AND FULL PARTIDULARS TO
DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.
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YALE CHAIN BLOCKS.
TRIPLEX, DUPLEX, & DIFFERENTIAL TROLLEYS & TROLLEY TRUCKS. CRANES &c.
BOLE AGENTS
BRADLEY & CO., LTD. MACHINERY DEPT. QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING
ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF
PURE MANILA ROPE
8 STRAND
14 to 15"
CABLE LAID 5" to 15"
4 STRAND
3" to 10 CIRCUMFERENCE
SIROÜM PERENOK. CIRCUMFERENCE
Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 fest in length. Prices, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO. General Managers.
CANTRELL
&
COCHRANE'S
BELFAST.
DRY IMPERIAL
GINGER ALE.
SOLE AGENTS :
CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO.
Central
15. Queen's Road,
Telephone No. 75.
YOUR NAME
Blank forms have been sent to every known, address. Please fill same and return to:-
DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO. P.O. Box 431.
or to KELLY & WALSH Chater Road.
"HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSACE ASSOCIATION,
WE beg to notify the Public that we, the undersigned, being proper and fully certificated- Massuers, have this day formed the above Massage Association.
Mr. U. SUGA S Mrs. A. SUGA
Mr. 1. HONDA
Mrs. S. HONDA
54 Queen's Road Central,
NORTH BRITISH
AND
MERCANTILE
INSURANCE CO.,
| in which are vasted the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO. LTD,
AND
THE RAILWAY PASSEN- GERS ASSURANCE CO.
The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against | FIRE at Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agerite:
Yorkshire
[InsuranceCo.,Ltd.|
ESTABLISHED 1884.
The Undersigned AGENTS för the abore Company
| prepared to ACCEPT BISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
AGENTS.
1918 Photos of
RACE MEETING
also
The DERBY DAY CATASTROPHE AT HAPPY VALLEY, MEE CHEUNG
PHOTOGRAPHER
Ice House Street, Telephone 1013,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1918,
TRIU
HOTELS AND GAFFS.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
ANDER
GRILL ROOM.
J. K. TAGGART,
THE
Manager.
HOTEL.
1.800
PEAK
FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. 15MINUTES FROM LANDING STAGE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. BLAIR.
GRAND HOTEL.
A first-class and up-to-date Hotel, most sentral location within the vicinity of all the princiyal Banks Noted for the best Food, Bafroshimanis, Ancomemodation and Cleanlines
Cuisine under European Bspertizion.
à first-class string Orchestra renders selections by 5.30 2.3, to 11.3 FM
Special monthly terms for residents and for Shipping People. For further particulars apply
W. BARKER, Manager. Telegraphic Address, Telephone No. 197.
'COMFORT."A
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
CENTRAL LOCATION. ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR -HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS. 261, 371."
Telegraphic Address: *VICTORIA "
J1 WITCHKIAL,
Manteni
THE CARLTON HOTEL.
[THE ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE COLONY..
ICE HOUSE STREET,
Under American
Management
Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks and Central District 43 Bedrocms. Ficellent Cuisine, Scrapulously Clean. Moderate Terms. Monthly and Family Bates on application to the Proprietress.
Telephone 812.
MRS F. E. CAMERON.
EUROPE HOTEL, SINGAPORE.
UNDER NEW BRITISH MANAGEMENT.
THE PREMIER HOTEL., FINEST SITUATION. EXCELLENT CUISINE.
FINE
For the COMPLEXION.
It beautifies and preserveS
the complexion, and may
he freely used po' delicate
· and sensitive stint which Ordinary 101:et sompi would irrilaid and coarsen,
TEL
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ARTHUR E. ODELL. (Late Grand Hotel, Southcliffe, England and Royal Palace Hotel, London, W.)
NOTICES.
YARDLEY'S OATMEAL
The purest and finest of Soaps, scientifically com- bined with an Oatmeal specially treated for the extraction of its bland. soothing, superfatting
qualities.
SOAP
For the NURSERY.
A perfect (Nursery Soap, it soother as l·l cleazzes, lis use enables Baby to wind life with a healthy and benslfa) Kalu sad to male- tain its beauty" through Youth to Age.
PRICES Cts..60. a Box of 3 Cakes.
COLONIAL DISPENSARY, 14. QUEEN'S ROAD
CENTRAL.
DRACON MOTOR CAR CO.
MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE & SALE. PROMPT SERVICE
Sole Distributors for South' China and Macao for the OVERLAND, HUDSON and CHANDLER Motor Cars, and the HARLEY DAVIDSON Motor Cycles.
KOWLOON BRANCH, 26. MATHAN ROAD. TEL, X. 220; -
PROPRIETOR: C. LAURITSEN.
Tel. 482.
METALS
of all kinds, especially for ship building and engineering works Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony.
SINGON & CO.,
Catabhed A. D. 1880.3... HING LUNO ST. Phone 315.
GREEK ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND BAKENT.
In Casks of 375 lbs, nat. In Bags, of 250 lbs, mat.
SHEWAN, TOMES & co. At General – Managers. Hongkong, 16th August, 1916.
MOTOR CARS
EMIR MARIANO A
FOR SALE OR HIRE
ORDERS BOOKED IN ADVANCE. APPLY:-
EXILE CARACE
BES VIRUX POAD,
TELF. 1083.
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NOTICES.
Scripps
27 H.P. SCRIPPS' MARINE MOTOR MODEL H.B.
Four cylleder 4-cycle motor Two-unit slectric starter Sabebler teropene carbOTOZZIT High vonalon magneto,
Splash force feed ofling
Faragon reverse gear.
Reverse gear on sme hri
Czy, 3o Wize exposed Mywheel allezzalosed 24 volt el ampare battery Knavelled blink and grey Complete equipment
A two-cylinder 14 h.p. SCRIPPS Marine Motor powered
a 35 ft. boat across the Atlantic in the summer of 1912.
ALEX. ROSS & CO.
4. Des Yeux Road Central. Machlaery Department. Telephone 27.
NOTICE.
THE
LONDON DIRECTORY.
(Published Annually)
ENABLEB trade throth
Ward to communioase direct with English
MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS
In each class of goods, Besides being a complete commercial guide to London and
seburbs, the Directory contains lists of
EXPORT MERCHANTS
and Foreign Markets they supply;
PROVINCIAL THADE NOTICES
G.
NOTICES,
B.
Any European, Non-Asiatic or Indian desiring to leave the Colony should apply in person at the Central Police Station between the hours of 9 am to 1 pan, and 2 p.m. to 4 pam: daily, Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identifica tion papers.
GENERAL NEWS.
"The Only Thing that Matters.** The Bishop of London presid ed at the annual meeting of the London Dingesan Church Beading Unido, at Bon College, and dis tributed certificates to the suscSES- fal essayists. Bishop Bord Carpenter, in an addrem desling with the lives of St-Dominio and. 8, Franois, said that one of the most important things to insist apon to-day was the ficut Article in the. Creed, "I believe in God." The lessons of hatory showed that if the official Church could not girs to the people a religion which went to their heart, then it would be sought elsewhere. It Way St. Francs whose teaching was expressed in the beautifol sentence." What we are in the sight of God, that is the only thing that matters.
Our Total Sugar Imports.
Mr. Lough, having seked what was the total import of sugar in the years ending March 31, 1917 snd 1918, including: all supplies sent abroad either to the Army or the Navy, and what this quantity works ont at on the average per head of the population, Mr. Stanley Baldwin states, in s written reply:The quantities of sugar, refined and unrefined imported into the United King- dom were-1917, 1,442,000 tone;" 1918, 1,368,000 tons. "As, how- ever, these figures represent the amount imported, not the amount consumed in the United King dom, to divide them by the estimated population revident in the United Kingdom would clear. |ly give a misleading result.
The Nomads England. · When the gypsies first appear- in England in the fifteenth century the name gypsy was given to them by the English people, who believed them to ha come from Egypt. The French by a similar mistake called them Bohemiana. But a careful study of this race, and especially of their language, shows that they
me originally from India. The 87per language is derived from the Sanscrit as are the other Aryan languages of Indis. A similar.error was made by the English when they called a dia- All persons with certain exceptinctively American birds turkey,
who remain in tions
the under the impression that it was Colony for more than 7 days are
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required to Register themselves importation from the Ottoman under the REGISTRATION of Empire, and by the French when
with the goods they ship, and the Galanial PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. they called the same bird ooq Forms of Registration giving the d'Tade, believing that it oame particulars required may be, from Indis. obtained at the G. F. O. and at *Miners and Coal Supply. all Police Stations.
A national conference of the The Penalty for non-com-Miners Federation of Great pliance is fine not exceeding Britain was held in the Topiady Hall, Whitefield's Tabernacle, to consider the question of coal
of leading Manufacturer, Merchants, etc., in the principal provincial towns and in- dustrial centres of the United Kingdom.
A copy of the current edition will be for warded freight paid, en receipt of Portal Order for 25%. ...
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$50.
CAST IRON
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supplies. Mr. Robert Smillis presided, and about 120 delegates
themade cards for El, or larger a RAINWATER PIPES from all parts of the country
Dealere seeking Agencies can advertina:
mente from £3.
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THE LONDON DIRECTORY, DO. LTD..
5. Abchurch Lane, London, R.C
AND EITTINGS-- FRANK SMITH & CO.
G DES VEUX ROAD, CENTRÁL
TEL. 2090. NONGKONG,
PIANOS
FOR.
HIRE
AT
$10
PER MONTH.
ROBINSON'S
attended. The proceedings were private. Mr. Gay Calthrop, the Cost Controller, addressed the conferenos regarding the output of casl and the necessity for economy in its mas for both domestic and industrial purposes: He strongly urged the miners to put forth their utmost efforte particularly to meet the demands of the munition factories, gas worke, and shipbuilding yards. Many questions were asked and saswered, after which a hearty vote of thanks was given to the Coal Contioler.
British Empire Trade, The Oversesa Trade Borean, is receiving many applications from British firme oversess desiring to be put into touch with maroksats and manufacturers in this country, with a view to preventing their markets Loing recaptured by Germans. The following inquiry, for instance, comes from one of four brothers at present serving with the New Zealand Forces :- Before the war we were engaged in importing soft goods, olething, c., into the Dominion. Unfor- tunately these were chiß Ger- man goods, and now that these markets will be premanently' closed as far as New Zuland is concerned, I am desirous of obtaining some good agencies for British manufacturers. The lines ws can handle embrace clothing, mercary, hoote, general drapery, fancy goods, &o. In-New Zwland, thare will be, without question, a splendid market for British manu facturers who can supply the right article at a reasonable price. The Baresu is a department of the Overseas Club and Patriotio League, General ~~ Buildings, Aldwych, W.O.2
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