NOTICES.
EXPANDED METAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1918,
FOR PLASTER WORK AND RE-INFORCED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION
AS
USED, IN
NUMEROUS
IMPORTANT
WORKS
IN
FOR
FLOOR,
ROOF, "
FOUNDATION,
WALL,
ETC.
GREAT BRITAIN and AMERICA,
PRICES ON APPLICATION. STOCK LIST, PAMPHLETS, AND
Quotations for description of Madilvery or Fadneering Pint on application to DODWELL. "& CO. LTD. Machinery Dept.
THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment:—
Principal features: Small Premium, Liberal Surrender Value, No Medical Examination, Return of Premis in the Event of Death, and Numerous Options at the Age of 25.
WRITE FOR PAMPHLET AND FULL PARTICULARS TO
SOLE AGENTS --
DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.
GANDY BELTING
THE EASTERN ASBESTOS CO.
QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING
ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF
GO.
PURE MANILA ROPE
8 STRAND
1 to 15"
CABLE LAID
5." to 15
4 STRAND
CIRCUMFERENCE.- CIRCUMFERENCE
3" to 10" CIRCUMFERENCE
Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3000 feet in length. Prices, Samples and full particulars 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.
HONGKONG JAPANESE
MASSAGE ASSOCIATION...
MR. VI SUGA
ME. 1. HONDA
Mrs. A. SUGA
Mrs. S. HONDA
8 Queen's Pond Central
Hongkong.
METALS
of all kinds, especially for ship- building and engineering works. Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony.
SINGON & CO.,
Established A. D. 1880.3 HING LUNG ST.
MEE
Phone 515.
CHEUNG,
PHOTOGRAPHER.
PHOTOS OF DECORA- TIONS AND ILLUMINA- TIONS TAKEN ON ARMISTICE DAY READY!
FOR SALE
&
General Managers,
NOTICES.
NORTH BRITISH
AND
ri
MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,
fa which are reated 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 RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.
Yorkshire Insurance Co,
Limited.
ESTABLISHED 1884.
الم
The Indersigned AGENTS for the above Company are Prepared ts ACCEPT RISES 2g-inst FIRE at Current Ea es. SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. ARENTS.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
AND
GRILL F ROOM
J. H. TAGGART,
THE
1,500
Managgi.
PEAK HOTEL. FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. 18 MINUTES FROM LANDING STAGE, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF
'MRS. BLAIR.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
CENTRAL LOCATIONS: ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING. TELEPHONE «ON "EACH FLOOR. “HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS. Tel, $73.
Telegraphic Address: "VIUTORIA
J WINHELL,
Kamagur
THE CARLTON HOTEL.
(THE ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE COLONY.
ICE HOUSE STREET.
Under American Management.
Moderate
Nica and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks and Central District 43 Bedroom Fxcellent Cuisine, Scrupulously Clean. Terms. Monthly and Family Rates on application to the Proprietress.
MRS F. E. CAMELON. Telephone 812,
EUROPE HOTEL, SINGAPORE.
UNDER NEW BRITISH MANAGEMENT, THE PREMIER HOTEL, FINEST SITUATION, EXCELLENT CUISINE.
ARTHUR E. ODELL
(Lata Grand Hotel, Southcliffe, England and → Boyal Palace Hotel, London, W.)
Falco.
Tel L PALACE HOTEL KOWLOON, TA
Corner of Haiphong and Bankow Roads
Two Mirates from Ferry and Kallway station. This Hotel has just been completely renovated and refurnished, la now up to dase in every respect and under English Management
Cuisine under personal supervision of the Proprietor: «
BAR AND BILLIARD BOOKS.
TERMS MODEBATR
Special Arrangement for Fatefiles on Application to 1
FINE
For the COMPLEXION.
Il beaistālies and preserves the complexion, and may be freely used on, delicate and sensitive skins which ordinary toliki songs would Irritate and coarses.
TEL.
NOTICES.
YARDLEY'S: OATMEAL
The purest and finest of Soaps, scientifically com- bined with an Oatmeal speetally treated for the extraction of its bland, soothing, superfatting
qualities.
J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.
SOAP
For the NURSERY.
A perfect Nursery Soap, itsch as it cleanses. Its use cables Baby to start life with a healthy and begin skin and to main- Lata is beauty through Youth to Age.
PRICES Cts. 60 a Box of 3 Cakes, COLONIAL DISPENSARY.
14, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
FRENCH GOVERNMENT LOAN 1918.
J
Price of Issue Fcs. 70.80.
Not Interest Produced 5.65% running from October 16th, 1918.
473
Subscription List Closing November 20th, 1918. Special Facilities for French Exchange: Advances Granted Against Scrip. Full Particulars on Application to the
RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED.
Hongkong, 26th October, 51918.
*PORTLAND" CEMENT.
In Casks of 375 lbs, net In Bags of 250 lbs. net;
SHEWAN, TOMES
R. A. RODGERS,
Manager.
CAKES
WEDDING CHRISTENING AND COMPLIMENTARY
WIN WALLVARIE
VICTORI
GALL
AT THE HONGKONG CIGAR STORE Co LTD.
AND ASK FOR
"EL PALACIO"
AND
YOU will be convinced that Hongkong is now favoured
with the
best brand
of
NOTICES.
GENERAL NEWS.
An "Irish Klondyke."
For some time the Irish police have been hunting for suspected boards of money, and reosatly it was reported, that in a hours at | Caps Clear, on Clear Island, they had found £639 108. in gold and 4800 in notes. In another beurs”. was £76 in gold and £17 in silver. The inland in regarded Iccally sa an "Irish Klandyke,”
New Thing to Consciences. When Cati-Pailip Schwinde pleaded guilty at Marylebone- recently to being an abeentas, he declared that he was'a conzoien- |tious, objector." "Mr. d'Eynoourt, the magistrate, I did not know there" were any consientious ohjantora of German origin. It is a new thing. You ought to have gone to another plass for that. A fine of 25, or 21 “daya” imprisonment, was passed, end Schwindt was handed over to the military.
Australia's New Tax
The National Government's policy, cutlined at the csuose. meeting recently, involves huge increase in taxation, including 35 per cent incresse in income tax, nearly 20 per sent; increase in the land tax, heavy increases în revenue duties, and an additional
MANILA CIGARS. Halfpenas parece rate on letters,
G.
R..
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 a.m. t.
1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 pm daily. Applicants will be required to produce Passports or identifica- tion papers.
All persons with certain excep tions who remain in the
Business men have implored typewriter companies to build
a
noiseless machine. The
17,
NOISELESS TYPE-
Colony for more than 7 days are WRITER COMPANY
required to Register themselves under the REĢISTRATION of PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. Forms of Registration giving the particulara required may be obtained at the G. P. O. and af all Police Stations.
The Penalty for non-com pliancé is a fine not sxceeding $50-
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MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS in each class of goods. Besides being a 'complete commercial guide to London' and
Enbarbe, it contains lists of
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A copy of the directory will be sent by post on receipt of portal order for £100.
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The war "profita tax will be readjusted to assist new industries and meet the difficulties of the metal industries."
How Big Bertha Was Disguised. A special correspondent of the Temps telegraphs: "The plat form of the last Big Bertha to fire on Paris has been discovered in Corbin Wood. The gun position was composed of two partawan emplacement for a res! gun and emplacement for a dummy gun. The gun turned on's revolving platform, and it was remarkable that only the dummy gun wie cemoviǝged. The rest gun had probably not been hit by our aizmen, but the camouflaged em- placement showed signs of bombardment,
Famous Mansion Burned.
Brayton, the fine mansion în Cumberland belonging to Sir Wilfrid Lawson, was nearly destroyed by fire recently, only a part of the northern wing escap ing. Among the pictures burned- were two portesits by Hoppser valued at £5,000 each. A good deal of the furniture and pista |was saved." A gale epread the flames rapidly, and the firemen |could make little headway. The motor fire engine from Working- ton got bogged and was Iste in arriving. There was a good water sapply from the lake, in which, according to loesl tradi-:- |tion, a former Sir Wilfrid LewBÖR MA
poared the contents of a well-
THORESEN & CO. Flocked cellar when he adopted
Sole Agents for NOISELESS TYPEWRITERS.
DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.
MOTOR. CARS FOR HIRE & SALE. PROMPT "SERVICE.
"Sole Distributors for South China and Macao for thé OVERLAND, HUDSON "and CHANDLER Motor Cars, and the HARLEY DAVIDSON Motor Cycles.
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KOWLOOK BERKON, 26, MATHAN ROAD, TEL. · K. 228. -
PROPRIETOR: C. LAURITSEN. | Tel. 482.
FRENCH
LESSONS.
C. MOUSSION, 15, Morrison Hill Road.
E. HING & CO.
SHIPBUILDING MAT
HARDW
total abstinence. An old manor bouse, Brayton was enlarged in. 1800, and sgein în 1889, when 280,000 was spent on decorations and landscape gardening.
Why "Go to Jericho"!? Towards the beginning of the summer the Tarfa put up a notice somewhere apposite our lines in the Jordan Valley saying: "Don't fear an cffensive from sr. We wil come over later when you are s1 dead from malaria and attend Four abarquies." Bat, contrary to the Tarkish hope and expectation, oar lade, mainly horsemen from Australia and New Zealand, have stood it well. Wherever the ides originated of censigning people to Jericho, no one who has been – into the Jordan Valley this sammer will quarrel with the suitability of the selection, Diy id, day "oul, the thermometer [registers from 105 lag. F. to 125 leg. F in the shade. Das, flies, and mosquitoes are terrible plagasy, but we hsva- tsoklad them enocessfully. Vary un risasant, too, are the poskas... In a hospital in Egypt Lasa woanded Turkish prisoner who had had such a terrible experienes 'that his nervas had
giren way. While lying with a ballst throng
ns from thre