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„ÁGENIS FOR THE CHINA MAIL

LONDON :-F. AL, 11 & 13, Ermeni 'a Ee, Lombard Stresi, E.C. GEOROX STREIT & Co., 30, Carnhill. GorpoN & Gojos, Ludgate Circus, E. C. BATH Hespr & Co., 37, Walbrook, E.G. BAUDEL DEACON & On,, 100 & 154, Leadenhall Street. W. M. WILLA, 151, Canon Street, E.. Rouer WA120, 199, Fleet Street,

PARIS AND EUROPE:-MATenor, Favan & Co., 18, like de la Grange Balelsere

NEW YORK:-J. STEWART HAPFER, THE KUNINGAR Evangelist Öznice, 62, West

224

& Street.

BAN FRANCI800 and American Ports generally-Bar & Bison, San Fr

SECO

AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, AND NEW ZEALAND:-CHADON & GOTOH, MIL bourne and Sydr.cy.

QEYLON-W. M. SMITH & Co., T

APOTHECARITS Co.. Colombo.. SINGAPORE, STRAITS, &.:-KELLY &

WATAH, Tab., Singopers. Жаган,

CRINA:-Macao, A. A. da Onuz. Amoy,.

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KELLY & Co.

Banks.

BANKING CORPORATION.

號四月正年六十九百八千一英 Business Notices.

Lane, Crawford & Co.

MUSICAL DEPT.

PIANOS

FOR SALE, HIRE,

OR ON THE

Batablished

February, 1840.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1896.

Business Notices.

BELL'S ASBESTOS EASTERN AGENCY, Ltd,

MONTHLY PAYMENT SYSTEM.

COTTAGES.

28, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Sole Eastern Agents for: Snowdon, Sons de Co. 'Snowdrift' Manufactures | The Nets Wire Ween Roofing Co | Sphincter Grip armoured Hose.

The Aluminium & General Foundry Co.

SBESTOS PACKINGS to suit all Steam:

Power. Jointings for any work, however great the

pressure and temperature. LUBRICANTS both liquid and solid.

YACHT MODELS.

PLANETTES. SEMI-GRANDS.

CONCERT GRANDS.

DAGGER

MUSIC and MUSICAL XISTRUMENTS of every description.

TUNING and REPAIRING,

W. POWELL & Co.

F

$10,000,000,

PAID-UP CAPITAL...$10,000,000, RESERVE FUND 6,500,00 RESERVI KALABILITY

PROPRIETORA.

ÚOURT OF DIRECTORE —

J. KRAMER, E-Chairman,

4. MCCONAGHIE, Esq.-Deputy Chairman.

Hon.J.J.Rell-Irving, S.C. Michaelaen,Esq,

G. B. Dodwell, Eaq.

D. R. Baascon, Haq.

M. D. Ezekiel, Esq.

B. Shewan, Esq.

R. M. Gray, Esq.

N. A. Bichs, Eaq,

CHIEF MANAGER:

Hongkong-T. Jackson, Esq.

MANAGER:

Shanghai-J. P. WADE GARD'NER, Esq. LONDON BANERES-LONDON AND COUNTY BAXEING CO., Lu

HONGKONG-INTEREST ALLOWED,

On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent, per annum the daily balance,

ON FIXED Deroams ---

For 3 months 2) per cent. por Banana,

12

27

*

FI

11

T. JACKSON,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, December 23, 1895.

340

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

THE business of the above Bank is con

AND

SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA- TION. Rules may be obtained on ap plication

INTEREST on deposits to allowed at 3 PER CENT. per annum. Depositors may transfer at their option balanesa of 2100 or moes to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANE, to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT. par

For the Hongkong and Shanghal

Banking Corporation,

T. JACKSON,

SPECIA I SHOW OF AN OY

DRESS

ALL NEW GOODS.

SPECIALITIES.

Hongkong, January 4, 1896.

2136

W. POWELL & Co,

28

THE HONGKONG BUTCHERY,

Nos. 11, 18 and 15, Central Market.

BELL'S ASBESTOS,

ESTIMATES given for COVER- ÍNG BOILERS and STEAM PIPES, PACKING with our Patent ASBESTOS COMPOSI

TION

-W. JACKSON, Manager.

1794

Dressmaking.

THE

[ONGKONG TRADING Co. respectfully remind their

H Customers that any Requirements for DRESSES for the MASONIC BALL, Feb. 17th, or Costumes for the RACES, all Orders should be placed early, owing to the CHINESE NEW YEAR falling on Feb. 13th,

HONGKONG TRADING Co.,

21

Nos. 1, 3 and 5, D'AGUILAR STREET.

THRIFTS ENAMEL COMPOSITION,

FOR IRON WORK, SHIP'S HOLDS, BEAMS, BUNKERS, &c.

IT: ADVANTAGES. ARE :—

AS good covering powers.

HO cunt is suficient.

Applied as ordinary paint and dries in a few minutes.

日十二月一一十年未乙

PRICE, $2.50 PER MONTH.

Business Notices.

Have you ever had the blues?

Ever had that indescribahis give-up-hope, aust-to-dis sort of feeling; when everything you touched seemed to go wrong, and you felt as if you hadn's

friend on this earth, and very little hope for the future.

Rough and unpleasant wasn't it?

Yet it is the experience of many. A weariness through the whols systern, changeable appetite, Batalensy, sourness, fluttering at the pit of the stomach, herdache, are all merely symptoms of a disordered state of the Stomach, Záves And Bowels, If all Hope seems gone

And all other remedies failed, take Cascara and Podophylila as prepared, by Watkins & Co. It is a Compound Fluid Extract that will cleanse and parily the Laver, give tons to the Stomach, regulate the Bowels, and so inrigoesta the system as to make you the same happy, jovial follow as of yore. Get-s hittle to-day, it is really good thing, ran on la marin and wirs every time.

Cascara

Preserves steel or icon from corrosion and withstands, gaseous and atmospheric.

influences.

M

PRIME

DRIME BEEF and MUTTON.

CORNED BEEF and TONGUES.

AUSTRALIAN PICKLED HOR'S TONGUES.

AMERICAN BUTTER in Rolls and Pate.

GAME, &0., &o, &c.

1677

ASBIPPING AND. COAST PORT ORDERS WILL HAVE PROMPT ATZENTION. "

J. TATAM.

Borgkong. December 2, 1896.

The Public

are invited to witness the

2244

Billiard Handicap

now in progress in the

HONGKONG HOTEL.

WILKINSON'S

Está.. since1822.

1515

Chief Manager...

Hongkong, August 1, 1805.

ESSENCE OR FLUID EXTRACT OF RED JAMAICA .....

SARSAPARILLA

Pronounced by the HIGHEST MEDĪDAL AUTHORITIES the mont

2604

THE NATIONAL BANK OF UHINA, WONDERFUL PURIFIER HUMAN BLOOD

THE

OF

THE

LIMITED.

AUTHORIZED CAPITA£1,000,000. SUBSCRIBED CAPIzaki£ 500,000.

HEAD OFFIHONGKONG

Court of Dvestors.

D. Untes, Baq. H.STOLTERFORT, Esq, i OMAN KIP SHAN, CHOW TUNO SHANG,

Esq.

Esq.

KWAX HOI CHUEN, Esq.

Chief Manager.

Gro. W. F. PLAYFAIR.

Intergat for 12 months Fred & 4.

Hongkong, October 29, 1884.

. MERCANTILE BANK

THE INDIA, LIMITED.

* AUTHORISED CAPITAL

HUBSULIBED,asian PAIN-UP..

Banker

1717

£1,500,000. £1,125,000,

£ 612,500.

OF

The Safest and,

most

halabje Jomady for

TORPID LIVER, Indisputable Evidence.

DEBILITY, ERUPTIONS, POORNESS OF BLOOD, &c.

To be

Chemrod of att··

and Doslers

„OME ARAZAž speak too highly of them.

A

per penation that way

KAWAN DE POKEA Sikujua A. Congak,

KARIEZARIZA*Megtan Bo

usly prepisation the removing

wint may be edited the sequelmet a Meeti

etrial bouing, "BUR/MIN.

Cure mover without it, when

16 Leapers quit) WSTUS JO, 530 20 pumazhay

farizu,

dose or two salater mi-

The late Kamb CADE

**oar nuthor of TLRD: TAMASSA BARELY Ciarata cared me of a turbid Lawn When all other asedicider háð 12575. mixxL OF A.KOR 18.

Has Maintained

for Quer SIXTY YEARS,

THE

HIGHEST REPUTATION

it 2-ngeanted-on-the

best authority CAE.

little taken caly F PREVENTIVE

IMPORTANT CAUTION, Beware of Worthless and Inju...... rious Imitations,

BÓZÁROND; DAXIN. CRUTOKORANK & Co, A. S. WATSON & Co., &o.

KELLY & WALSH, LTD.

LONDON JOINT STOOK BANK, L'TP. IMPERIAL ENGLISH & CHINESE DIARY 1896.

Interest allowed on Current Accounts at IMPERIAL DATE BLOOK

the Rais of 2 % per Ausum on the Daily TETTS' DIARIES & DATE BLOCKS.

Balanos,

ON NEW FIXED DEPOSITS ---

For 13 Months,nez

For-6 Months

Far: 3 Month.................. DEPOSITS RENEWED ON OLD TEEKS.

JW. R. TAYLOR,

Manager, Hongkong,

Hongkong, December 18, 1893,

978

THE OHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CELEBEER 1858.

HEAD OFFICE, LONDON.

CAPITAL PAID-UP DA RER LIANINITY OF SHARK.

FOLDERS...

£800,000

INTEREST allowed on Current AccoRAÍ

at the rats of 9 % per sunum on the Dally balances.

On Fixed Deposits for 18 months 4

ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURERS.

1896. 1896.

COMMERCIAL STATIONERY of every description.

ESTIMATES ON APPLICATION,

JohannisTM

The King of Natural Table Waters.

SUPPLIED BY

ROYAL WARRANT.

8%

Z E WHITEHEAD,

Hongkong, September 16, 1896. "

*840

MIXES

Burgeon Dentist

No. 10, D'AQUILAR EEREET. TERMS VERY MODERATE.

Consultsilan Free,

2478

To HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

Supplied to the HOUSE OF LORDS and the HOUSE OF COMMONS.

IN BOTTLES AND HALF-BOTTLES.

equally well with Wines, Bpirits,

Fruit Syrups and Lime Juice.

SOLE AUBNTE for Dosith China and Paulippings,

WATTS &

Invaluable for lower holds and bunkers.

Presents a highly poltiled surface of a bright red colour.

Bote Agents for Ching and Japan, WATTS & Co.

AND

This Preparation is carefully Monstared by a Éponsi Piosk fram those well-known Kamoilue, in combination with Confider, eating the peniberation for any loss of Hena of the medical virtues of the systal ingredients. It is a vainable remedy for Habitat Coneripation, Sluggish Låven, Tiles, Rick Headache, Billoun, and big assess koled son- plaints caused by a unhaalthy stato of the Liver, stessaan and Bowly.

Podophyllin.

WATKINS & Co., APOTHECARIES HALL, 66, QUEEN'S ROAD CARRAAL,

HONGKONG.

Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co.,

2278

Wine and Spirit Merchants.

Notices of Firms,

NOTICE.

TELEPHONE Nɔ. 76.

HONGKONG, 15, Queen's Road.

SHANGHAL, 4, Foponów Road.

O. BEURMANN hae This Day ADMITTER PARTNER in our

Firma in Hongkong and China.

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co. Hongkong, January 1, 1806, NOTICE.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAMTE have This Day authorised

WEDWIN ALFRED STANTON Siaw our Firm par Proonration.

NAVIGATION COMPANY

WILL despatek VESSELS to the Undermentioned PORTS on the DATES

named

TOR,

STEAMSHIP.

DATE.

STRAITS & E’BAY Brindin..... About 13th Jan......

ESMARKS.

SHANGHAI..... Pekin. About 12th Jan.........Freight or Paisage.

Freight or Passage (calling at

COLOMBO, it suficient induso ment offers), LONDON... Masagen...... About 15:1 Jan.........Freight or Parnaga. LONDON, &.......K'sari-Hind Noon, 16th Jao......Ses Special Advertisement. JAPAN........................................ Arizona..............Noon, 17th Jan.........Freight or Passage. LONDONłapan ..................About 24th Jaaw...Freight or Passage,

For further Particulare, apply to

F. & 0.3, N. Co.'s Office,

Hougkong, January 4, 1896.

ALF. WOOLLEY, Aoling Superintendent.

Apollinaris

THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS."

da

More wholesome than aerated water which Art

any

can

supply."-THE TIMES.

SOLE AGENTS:

CARLOWITZ

2 & 00,

No

3

Mr.

to

Intimations.

GOVERNMENT BILLS

ENDERS for ETECIE, Mexican Dol- lare, current in this Colony, and woighr

ing 7.1.7, in Exchange for STERLING BILLS, drawn at 10 days sight on the

TREASURY, LONDON, will be RECEIVED by the CHIEF PAYMASTER, Army PaY D partment, until 11 a.m., on TUESDAY,

Lords Commissioners of HER MAJESTY'S

DEACON & Co. the 7th Instant.

Canton, let January, 1898.

[OTICE in hereby given that

Mr. ALFRED F. O. KRAUSS, and Mr. PHILLIP BERNARD

SCHMACKER RariaBD from our Firm on the 31at December, 1895, and that

Mr. FRIEDRICH CARL PAUL

SACHSE

Mr. CHARLES ERNEST RAYNER, Mr. GUSTAV ADOLPH DEGENER

BÖNING,

baro To-day becn ADMITTED PARTNERS.

CARLOWITZ & Co.

Hongkong

Hamburg, 1st January, 1896, China,

1

THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE

FROM

this data, during the Abashes of Mr. JAS. B, 000GHTRIE from the lony. Mr. GEO. L. TOMLIN has been appointed ACTING SECRETARY to the Com- paty.

A. MCCONACHIE,

Chairman, Hongkong, December 3, 1895.

NOT LOL

2300

TIRE. Istatxat and RESPONSIBILITY of

TM, JACOB SILAS MOSES in our Firm in Hongkong and China hays CHASED This Day.

ED. 8A8800N & Co. Blongkong, December 81, 1898,

NOTLØE,

FR. FREDERICK DAVID SASSUON

The Tenders to ateto the Total Amount required (in Pounds Sterling), and the Amount for which each Bil should be drawn, but no Bills will be issued for summa less than £100.

The Tenders to be in Duplicate, and is Sealed Covers, addressed to the Chief dorsed Tanders for Government Bills. Paymaster, Army Pay Department, and en- The right to accept or rejas aug er all of the Tenders is reserved.

WILLIAM L. BARB

COLONEL

Chief Paymaster, Okina. HER MAJESTY'S TERASURY OFENS,

Queen's Road, Hongkong, 3rd January, 1898,

NOTICE.

ushasing FIRST-CLASS BETURN N and after 18th January, Pamongers--

TICKETS at the Ormurs of this Dader- mentioned Ocmpanies, from HovaEONG to BEANDRAL, NADAWANI, Kons and YORD Hama will be granted the option of making the return surnay by any STEAMINE the following LINES:-- FENINSULAR & ORIENTAL &. N. C.,

ALF. WUOLLEY,

dĹžiny Superistendent, CANADIAN PAD:120 Railway Doy

D. E. BROWN,DA

General Agent. PADITIO MAIZ &0. & 0.8, 8. COSIPANIES,

V. 8. VAN BUREN,

Agent MESSAGERIES MARITIMES C18,

6. TOURNAIRE,

MEMEL MELOHEES & Co...

Hongkong, December 31, 1895,

Matsen ADMITAD PARTNER in OTICE is hereby given that

our Firms le Bogland, India, and Chins, from the les Instant,

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & 0. Hongkong, January 1, 1898.

Intimations.

HONG KONG, SHANGHAI, CANTON, TIENTSIN, AND HANKOW. BEECHAM'S PILLS

Vinolia

"VINOLIA" 18 A REFINED SOAP.

-It keeps the complexion frosk

and olsar.

No other Soap has received

Buch high awards as "VENOLIA":

ROAP

Don't use

Boiled Soap

for the

Toilet.

Soap

DON'T BOONOMIES AT THE EXPENSE OF YOUR COMPENSION VINOLIA BOATS—All Priess "IKOLLA SHAVING STIONS and CAKES.

VINOLIA CEBAL" (Syr Itching) Jae Byats, o.), and TINGLIA FOWDEE (Ehr the Completion).

WALTER W. BREWER.

ESOCIATION FOOTBALLS

MER'S ALL DANE CRICKET BATS.

LEG QUARDS,!

antoRETING GLOVES

BETS OF YOUTHS CRICKET

HANDSOME NEW YEAR CARDS.

WALTER W BREWEE

Under Hengkung Hole,

wro universally admitied to be Worth a Guinea a Box. MOR BILIQUS AND NERVOUS

DISORDERS,

SICK HEADACHE, LOSS OF APPETIZE,

SCURVY AND BLOTCHES ON THE SKIZ,

DISTURBED SLEEP, JEU. For females of all ages they are invaluable.

Prepared only and acid wholesale and retail by the Proprietor, THOMAS BEECHAM, ST. HELEN'S, LANGASHIRE.

The 1/d. boxes contain 66 Pilla. Prive, OD Omnis a Box.

Sale Agents for Hongkong and the Empire.

of China

IN

2483

EXTRAORDINARY Geser MEETING ọf the HONGKONG BRICK AND 'GEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Orzics of the Company 2 No. 0, Fraga Contral, on SATURDAY, the 11th day of January, 1896, at 13 o'clock, Noon, for the purpose of onsidering and if thought fit passing the following Resolution, that in to asy-

That the HasGKONG BRICK AND CEMEST Company, «Limited," "be" (woned wa voluntarily, under the Prorios of the Companies Onlinärstar 1887 to 1890, and that- Ozuby: Ewens, of Vistoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, ho, and he is hereby appointed Liquidator, for the purpose of auch winding up.

Dated the 23rd day of December, 1805,

By Order of the Board,

W. A. DUFE,

Becretary.

NOTICE.

WITH reference to the above Notions the Business of the Company will mot

be interrupted and Ordste will be reczired

W. AL DUTE,

Becretary,

heretofore by the Undersigned.

Messrs. WATKINS & Co., 'APOTRECARIRA" "Hatz, 66, Qozen's Boas, HONGKONG

10 2693

VICTORIA HOTEL CANTON,

(Late Saimaar Hotel, Canton).

MADAR AND FARMER bave the pleasure to inform Meir Fatrons. Friends and tissoral Fablis that, baving LEASED the SHAMBEN HOTEL shey have He Feastcans, vantly improved 31.10 every department and bevE. RES OPENED more popular. Style of 138 VISTORIA HOTELES

For further Pariloniam, apply ta

THE MANAGER,

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