PRUGS
LOTOL
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SPRAY
T IT T
O FREELY
LOTOL
REFUSE
SUBSTITUTES
PRESCRIPTIONS
when the doctor prescribes he experts the druggist to fill the prescription with pure drugs, The quality of our Drugs. Medicines and Toilet Goods is not surpassed. Hare the doctor's prescription filled here and the result will be satisfactory.
presciptions The Pharmacy.
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The Red Bldg Opposite Iza House 54,
LUX
It only takes a few minutes to wash your silk blouse, your silk stockings, underwear or any. thing dainty and "special"—if you use LUX
The thin, white, silky Lux flakes, which are made by ops own exclusive process, dissolve instantly into a bubbling lather that is as harmless as pure water itself. The lather gently squeezed through the ɓae fabrics quickly loosens the dirt and a few rinsings make the garments beautifully clean.
Lux stands unrivalled for washing silk and other fine garments.
Lux is sold only in sealed packel-dust-proof! AGENTS :-
The China Soap Co., Ltd., Shanghai-Hongkong-Tientsin Hankow-Tsinanfu-Moukden
NOTICE.
THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD.
SILIMPOPON COAL
THE undersigned are prepared
to quote pricas for best quality freshly mined Siimpopon Coal, trimmed into Bankers at | Sebattik or · Sandakan (British North Borneo), and to contrac for regular Supplies of cargo lots at favourable rates.
Steamers calling at Sebattik ΟΣ Sandakan exclusively for Bunkers are exempt from pay- ment of ordinary Port Charges The minimum draft of water alongside the Company's Wharf at Sebattik is 26 feet at low water Spring Tides. Charts of Cowle |Bay (Scbattik Harbour) and any required information concerning the Port
be had may application to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON &
CO, LTD. Agents.
on
The Cowie Harbour Coal Co., Ld.
JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE
DISASTER.
HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.
NOTICE
UBSCRIPTIONS Lists for the above Fund' are open at the following places
Hongkong General Chamber of
Commerce.
Hongkong & Shanghai Bank-
ing Corporation.
Chartered Bank of India
Australia & China
Mercantile Bank of India International Banking Corpor
ation.
Netherlands Trading Society. Yokohama Specic Bank. Hongkong Club.
Cheques should be made out to the Order of the Japanese Earthquake Disaster Hongkong Relief Fund.
By Order
D. E. BLAIR,
Secretary, Hongkong Relief Commities. Hongkong 10th September, 1923.
CUARANTEED ROCERIES
THE BEST BRANDS
OF
WINES & SPIRITS
DELIVERIES ANYWHIRE, UNDER KUZOPEAN SUPERVISION
Telephone X 2 THE
EMPRESS STORE
KOWLOON.
it
Caruso said :-" My VICTOR RECORDS. shall be my biography MOUTRIES:-Sole Victor Distributors.
RADIO EQUIPMENT OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
You can hear the tests being carried out by the
HONGKONG HOTEL Co., Ltd.
At 6 p.m. daily in your own home, but make sure that the set you purchase has been approved by the Postmaster General.
We guarantee our British made sets to .comply with any-future rules and regulations in respect to receiving sets in Hongkong.
For information and particulars visit the
ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT
of THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
E. HING
& CO.
SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIPCHANNDLERS &
HARDWARE MERCHANTS.
PHONE CENTRAL No. 1110.
CAPE TO CAIRO.
Dream of Cecil Rhodes
Almost Realized.
Only a few years ago Darkest Africa was one of the phrases most commonly in use in the newspapers, but now it is quite
but of date.
Africa is still dark in places but it was darkest 30 or 40 year ago and before long it will be difficult to find an African town in which the light of knowledge has not, shone in some degree, however faintly,
The great idea of Cecil Rhodes, for connecting Capetown and Cairo by rail and river is approaching completion. Out of the journey of abou: 6.000 miles a traveller who recently made the journey in 33 days found that he had to walk or be carried only 289 miles and this gap is now being Slled by a railway.
25, WING WOO ST.
Central.
WORLD'S, RICHEST GOLD MINES. Johannesburg. the end of the second stage, has 290,000 people. and stands in the midst of the richest gold mines in the world. It is the third city in size in Africa, being exceeded only by Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt.
From Johannesburg the line runs to Bulawayo, the capital of Rhodesia. The Rhodesian States | has a population of about one and a nearly 40,000 of them being quarter million people. British.
From Rhodesia the railway passes into the rich and rapidly developing Belgain Free State, where the copper mines of the province of Katanga have led to the building of a capital. Eliza- bethrille, which has nearly all the features of an up-to-date Europe- an tow. The Belgain Congo has a population of more than eight and a half millions, of whom over 8,000 are Europeans, Eliza- bethville is 2.300 miles
from Capetown.
The journey overland from the Cape of Good Hope to the mouth of the Nile, will soon be done in The longest part of the journey. four weeks. Already it is possible which is not by rail or water, but to travel in comfort, on a train will soon be by rail, is 200 miles with sleeping and dining cars, in Tanganyika. After Victoria from Capetown to Bukama inNyanza has been reached there |Belgian Congo.
is comfortable steamer travel, The stages of the journey map except for a tramp past the rapids themselves out as follows: Theof the Upper Nile--over 80 miles frst stage is to Kimberley, a before Rejaf is reached, and all place with 17,000 people, in the the rest of the way is either by centre of the richest diamond comfortable Nile steamer or by bearing area in the world.
the railway from Khartum.
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Safety Last!
HOP CHEONG 55, Ouce's
Road, Cen
COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHERS
DEALERS IN
SWATOW DRAWN AND LACE WORK EMBROIDERIES, OLD MANDARIN COATS
SILK, ETC., ETC.
LARGE CONSIGNMENT JUST
UNPACKED.
INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED
JUST RECEIVED A CONSIGNMENT.
OF
Squibb's Dental Cream
(Milk of Magnesia Base)
For the care and preservation of the teeth and gums
to be obtained at---
THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY
Tel 1877. 14, Uncen's Road, Central.
Tel. 1877,
IF YOU POSSESS ONE HYDES EXPOSURE METER We guarantee you will take- photographs with right Exposures.
Sele agents in China. HALL, LAW & CO.
1ER
Tel. 3217.
10, Des Voeux, Road, Central.
HONGKONG HARDWARE CO.
TAI LEE CHAN."
ESTD. 1884
METAL GOODS and HARDWARE.
Tel No. C1993.
DAWSON
SCOTCH Whist
119 Jorvois Street.
Are you
getting
Old whisky
?
If you are not certain, why not taste P.D.,” which is a genuinely old whisky,
Whisky which is matured by time, and mellowed in the only true way, in wood, is none too plentiful to-day. Whether or not you get any of it depends on yourself.
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When you have tasted a really old whisky you do not need to be an exceptionally good judge to tell which is which,
PETER
DAWSON
Scotch Whisky
Agents
H. J. RUTTONJEE & SONS
16 Queen's Road Central, HONG KONG
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IF YOU
ENJOY REALLY
GOOD COFFEE
BUY THAT WHICH IS SPECIALLY SELECTED
AND FRESHLY ROASTED AND UROUND DAILY.
THE GRAECO-EGYPTIAN CO, cine 12, Queen's Road, Centralį:
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