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CUR JOBKING DEPARTMENT

ITAVINH DỊ BAPLEN. ISKED with a large as- sortment of the latest EunerKAN and, AMEXICAN NOVELTIES, We are prepared to exeouts

orders for FANCY WORK with

asatness and, desputob, and at

wry moderate rates,

922

China Matz' OFFICE

No. 10,691.

The China Mail.

號一月六年七十九百八千一英

Business Notices.

SCOTCH

WHISKI

NB

Established February 18487 HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1897.

Business Notices.

Sold by LANE, CRAWFORD & Co., G. GIRAULT, at THOMAS'S GRILL ROOM, and all Retail Stores.

ZETLAND

No. 635 2.0.

LODGE,

Regular MEETING of the above LODGE will be held in the FREE- MABONG HALL Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, the lat Jane, at 8.50 for 9.00 p.m. precisely. VIITING Barture are cordially aNITED to attend.

Hongkong, June 1, 1697.

UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY,

LIMITED.

SOLE AGENTS IN

HONGKONG, CHINA, JAPAN AND THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS,

FOR THE

UNITED ASBESTOS COMPANY, Ltd., LONDON,

Pioneers of the Asbestos Trade.

BELL'S ASBESTOS EASTERN AGENCY, Ltd.,

HONGKONG HOTEL-PRAYA,

SOLE FASTERN AGENTS FOR:

ALUMINIUM & GENERAL FOUNDRY SVN. LTD.,

SNOWDON SON'S & Co., 'SNOWDRIFT,?

BERGER & SON LID., PAINT & VARNIER,

BELL'S ASBESTOS,

New WIFE WOVE ROOFING CO.

GEITEL'S STEAM Tear.

CURTON Bass, & MATTHEWA' SEZEL Goods.

W. WILSON COSHEIT, (SATOEN AND SCANDINAVEL BELTING).

Bell's Packings and Jointings are used by the British, French, Russian, Italian, Swedish and Spanish Navies, also by Principal English, Colonial and South American Railway Companies.

B'

W. JACKSON, Manager.

LANE CRAWFORD & C

SEASONABLE DELICACIES.

BOOK TROUT, MACKEREL is TOMATOES, DEVILLED CRABS; CURRIED RABBITS, FOWL, MUTTON, CHICKEN, &-PATE A LA DIABLE SAVOURY PATES-PILCHARDS IN OIL, PRESERVED LAX, ROAST GROUSE, ROAST TURKEY, TUNNY FISH; SPICED SARDINES, SARDINE PASTE, FILLETTRO HERRINGS, &o, &c,

CROSSE AND BLACKWELL'S LUNCH PATTIES.

COMB HONEY in 1·Ð ́ and 4 lb Glass Jars.

AMERICAN CO00A-NUT TAFFY CAKES.

BATH OLIVER BISCUITS.

1050 Contractors to H. M. Government, and the Principal Buylish, Indian, Colonial and LOGI Foreign Hallways, including the Imperial Railways of Japan.

A. 8. WATSON & (3., LIMITED.

MANUFACTURERS OF

THE FINAL DIVIDEND for the Year The best qualities of ASBESTOS and RUBBER GOODS for the Very Highest

MALDIVIDENDO CRNES

Pressures. Cacapar qualities for Low Pressures.

per SHARE (or FIVE Per Cent, on the Capital of the Company, making TEN for ; The "VICTOR" METALLIO PACKING has been adopted by the Lords of the Cant. for the Year) is PAYABLE at the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK, Hongkak, on and after this Date, the 26th May, 1897, on WARRANTS to be obtained from the Undersigned. LOCAL SHAREHOLDERS ETD requested to apply at the Company's Office for their WARRANTS.

The DIVIDEND is also Payable at the Hongrong and Susonal Hang, Shanghah on prescutation of Warrants there, on and after the same Date,

́A. H. MANOKLI,

Secretary.

HOVIS FOOD BISCUITS

TENNIS, GOLF AND DIGESTIVE BISQUITE, OATCAKES (THick and Tais),

WHEATEN AND ALBERT BISCUITS,

MAULAREN'S CANADIAN CHEESES, Small and Labor Jaiz, de

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEA M

named

NAVIGATION COMPANY

日二初月五年四季

THE *HONGKONG CHHIESE MAIL"

【日字華巷 (Hongkong Wa Tu Fat-Pu.). 18BURD DAILY,

CHUN UN MAN, Manager and Publisher

SUBSCRIPTION:

Fice Dailors a year, diltrerable in Hong

kong. Odporis, Ji1.40 perman

Including poings.

PRICE, $2.50 PER MONTH.

Business Notices.

Booming Ahead.

8.32

A LEAP INTO FAME!

TRADE

SCIAT

SCHLI

A BUMPING SUCCESS!!

WATKINS & Co,

Sole Agents

Green Island Cement Company,

MXVING

GRICKS

Limited

MANUFACTURERS OF

VILES

RAVING

DRAIN-PIPES

- WORKS,

YO FIRECLAY G

RICKS

GREEN ISLAND, MACAO. DEEP WATER BAY, HONGKONG,

Admiralty for us throughout Her Majesty's Navy,

The VICTOR METALLIC JOINING MATERIALS for Steam and WILL despatch VESSELS to the Undermentioned PORT on the DATES SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., GENERAL MANAGERS, HONGKONG. Hydraulic Joints, Manhole and Mudhole Doors, &c., are also need on every Battle- ship, Crainer, Gunboat, Torpado-boat and Transport in E. M. Service.

**BALAMANDER" Non conducting Composition for Boiler, Hot-water Tanks, Piper, & IN TWO QUALITIES.

1281

1068

Hongkong, May 25, 1897.

OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE, COMER PANY, LIMITED.

Har the above Company, we are

TAVING bean appointed AGENTS

prepared to accept Marine RISKS at Current Rates.

DODWELL, CARLILE & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, May 6, 1697.

NOTICE.

SPECIAL QUOTATIONS FOR QUANTITIES. Superintendent:

TED SKINNER.

DODWELL, CARLILL & Co.

General Agents.

W. POWELL & Co.

JUST LANDED.

ICE CREAM FREEZERS,

(NEWEST PATEN IS). 1 QUART, 2 QUART, → QUART. 4 QUART, 6 QUART, 8 QUART, 10 QUALE,

IOS SHAVERS,

ICE CHIPS, ICE CREAM POWDERS,

929 !

Noorkane. May 28 1807.

T the time of gathering the best quality of KOO LOO and other variaties of TEA, we personally visit the well-known; bills, and spare neither patos nor cost in adapting these toas to the palate;

their Barour therofors is unrivalled. Of TEAS far the market we have HANG MEB sunted Koo Loo,

06. TU MEL HANG Tat Kos Loo, POU CHONG, CHRONG Chooy, Finest Sau Chand, ROSED SAY GROND, THAT NGAN

LAN, CESONG Foos,

We have been established as TEA MER CHANTS for over Forty Years, and are much inde

indebted to the public for their patroniga, by which the lame of war tes has been widely extended,

We beg-to-

draw

public attention to the

fact that, beside the Principal Fis

at

PAK HOK CHAU, Ho Nan of Canton in

Telephona 75. 15, QUEEN'S ROAD.

-W. POWELL & Co.

'AQUARIUS.'

3099

THE TABLE WATER OF THE FAR EAST

SECOND TO NONE.: -, la tele

·Being made of TREBLE DISTILLED WATER ONLY it has a PURITY that natural" Mineral Waters oxanot hops to attajo,

Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co.,

Wine and Spirit Marchants..

Hoogkong, Joas 1, 1891.

DICK'S (LATE. HANNAY'S)

1110

PATENT COMPOSITION.

the Kwong Tang Province, and the Branch The Cunard Steamer LUCANIA,' which holds the record for

17

Firm within the Kwong Mow Tai, No. Boshain Strand, Hongkong, we hars no cifice or agency elsewhere. We confers however with regret that frand has been committed by several nazorapalons persons. who have imitated our Trade Mark and successfully imposed on the public. To put a stop to this nefarious practice, wa have applied to the English Authorities for the Registration of our Trade Mark, which has been granted, the chronomaster being recoguled as the

as the guarantee of genuine less

of our one

# prepamtion

192562

hoe may be detect

Bowever frequently they may

ed and poufshed socording to law, there

quickest passages across the Atlantic is coated with

this Composition.

Also in Use by the EMPRESS Line of Steamers.

HARRY WICKING & Co., Bola Agenir in Hongkong.

URKE'S

BOTTLINGS.

are always cunning impestors ready to BASS & On's FINEST PALE ALE,

BURKE

deceive the public, by slightly allasing the GUINNESS EXTRA FOREIGN STOUT, ... figures of the obronomoter or by inserting

Home Chine characters or English a orda

FORL

BEEAMSHIP.

OAPTAIN.

DATE.

LONDON, &o.......Rohilla *...F. COL.Noon, 3rd Jane. JAPAN...........................adncona iyo. W. D. MUTE.................... Noon, 4th June, LONDON........ G. D. ANDREWS.About 10th Jana,

* Soo Special Advertisement,

For Freight or Passage, and further Particulars, apply to

P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Office,

Hongkong, May 29, 1897,

724

ASK

PECIAL

OLARET ZINFANDEL RIESLING

These are

BURKE'S

OTTLINGS. HOCK

Per czak of

4 dos, qla, 8 dos, pints. $17.20 $22.30.

17.50 -4275

CONDITION GUARANTEED.

on the davice, or by using similar charac | BURKES BOTTLINGS ARE THE ONLY RELIABLE BOTTLINGS OF THESE

<which

1653

tera as the eight. Chinese trigrame, nat to mention other methods of deception wh are too summerone to be detailed

As our printed sign-marks have in coursa of time becoma Indistinct, wa beg to inform the public that, from the 1st of Jane 1897 we shall begin to put into each obest of tes a printed notice in both English and Chi Dee, and to paste on the outside now, fù. tolligible siga mATËN.

1072

HANG MER Canton..

Kinghorn & Macdonald,

Conraiting. Mechanical Enginares

Sand Bluresyonay my Поствастом гов тия восках О KINDS OF MAUBINERY AND --

PECIFICATIONS, DESIONE and

STEAMSHIPS, MAUDINERY BOILERA

New Work and Repairs nupervised Burveys undertalet and Reports prepared

Telephone,

FAMOUS BEVERAGE.

HARVIE & Co., Agente.

L. MARTEL & Co.,

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS AND COMMISSION AGENTS, 24, QUEEN'S BOAD. CHABLIS.

POMMARD.

CHAMBERTIN,

BREAKFAST BE After Disper WIRE, Red and White.

All our Wins are guaranteed purs and unadulterated. Prios List on Application

W. BREWER & Co.

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. The Soldier's Pooket Book, by Lord Under Erive Rule

by Witte 2100 Key to Reen & Buggineers Hand Book 4.00 300 The Joals Book by Budyard Kipling 8.25

Lodia his

100 The Bate Joby Ludyard Kipling LS

FOR

H. A RITORIE, Superintendent,

VACUUM OIL COMPANY

OF

ROCHESTER & OLEAN, N.Y., U.S.A.,

BOLE MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF

VACUUM OILS,

WAIDA ARS RUPTLLED ONLY DIRECT FROM MANUFACTURERS to CONSUMER

1113

1035

OFFICE-NEW VICTORIA BUILDINGS, Toe House Street, Hongkong. CELEBRATION OF THE SIXTIETH | THE GREEN ISLAND OMENT. CÀ

ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEIGN OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

FERGUSON'S

P. & O.

SPECIAL LIQUEUR, 10 YEARS OLD HIGHLAND WAIKY.

FERGUSON'S

SPECIAL CREAM

BREADALBANE HIGHLAND WHISKT, Those are the finest productions of Scotland; devoid absolutely of all doleterious matter.

THE CRÈME DE LA CRÈME OF WHISKIES. PURE AND MILD. Sole Importers,

COTCH WHICK)

F. BLACKHEAD & Co.

CALIFORNIA WINES.

1 doz quarta.

$4.00.

3 do, pints

$150.

4 dos pinta

£6.4

4.60

5.00.

7.0),

5.00. $.00

6.00.

'G 00.

e Genuine GRAPE WINES, full bidiad, with ittle paktity.

An allation of Fifty Oents per Duz n is made for the empty Pints when return. to Our Godown.

1088

GANDE, PRICE & Co.,

Wine and Spirit Merchants,

12, Queen's Road Central

THE HONG KONG

BUTCHERY

LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that an EX- TRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Green Island Cement 188 Vadereigand will be very glad to Co., Limited, will be held at the Company's Toz SUBSCRIPTIONS to the

abore FUND,

1067

T. JACKSON,

HOR. Treasurer. Hongkong. May 26. 1897.

AN EFFECTUAL STOP IB YUT TO ALL ANXIETY

THE NEW. GUARANTEED CASH VALUE POLICY

OF THE

'EQUITABLE.''

This Pokey provides thron things; (1)}) Protection for the family; (2) Provision for the assured's later years; (8) A valizable investment.

When three annual preminus" have been paid the poltoy Boquilon yearly thereafter three distinct GUARANTEED values in (1) pažï-up estdranos; (2) Cash; (8) Loan TỬ Ở TẠI BẠCH

This policy to pronounced by experienced men of business to be the best and most liberal contrast of Life saxurance over Luu- ed; and it is offered by su office having the splendid SURPLUS of £3,800,000 sterling to support the GUARANTEES,

Fall Particulara and Ellustrations from the GENERAL AGENTS.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

or

J. T. HAMILTON,

Managor for the,East. Hongkong. Cober 27, 1896.

BLOT

Orris, No. 8, Praya Ueniral, Haugkong, on SATURDAY, the 8th day of June, 1807, at Noon, when the subjoined Resolu tions will be proposed.

Should the Revolutions be duly passed they will be submitted for conflrmation sa special resolutions to a nevond Extraordin sry General Meeting which will be sub- sequently convened,

THE RESOLUTIONS.

(1)-That the Capital of the Company ba jugremned to the rúm of #500,000 Hongkong Carrenoy by the imas ol Thirty Thousand NEW SHARES of Ten Dollers Buch to be lesued as a prens tim

sach, auch Price of of Dollars

cach and slao such premium of Ten Dollars each be payable in such amounia, at such times and oh anch conditions as the General Managera shall from time to time determine. (2)That Twenty Thousand of auch Naw SHARE be offà ed to the pornope. who on the lat of July, 1897, shall be the Registered hareholders of the old or existing Shares in the

*proportion of

oos New Share for every old or sziating Share and such offer shall be made by a notice spesifying the number of New Shares which ok anch Registered Shareholder shall be entitled to take - up and huiling a time within which the offer if not accepted in writing will be deemed to be not accepted, and all not accepted Shares shall be disposed of for the boneft of the C¡mpany un such conditions as the General Man+ agsże shall determine.

KELLY & WALSH, LTD. (3) That the roumaining Ten Thousand

NEW BOOKS.

The LIFE of NELSON, the EMBODI- Masrof the SEA POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN, by Captain "A. 2 MAHAN, ¿ Vols, Illustrated... 820,00 Kyabe's Law Relating to the Attorney

and Solicitor-General of England 1.00 War. Famine, and Our Food Supply. B. B. Marston, Illustrated., Biographiesof Eminent Permars-Re.

rinted from the Timis Vol. VI. 3.00 Light Thrown on a Hideous Empire,

by An Oriente Widow Alons in Chine, by Jelisa Ralph-

Illustrated

Beod's

1.23

1.28

AT TH

4 30

Polyglot Guide to Marine E

gines English Fravesti -- Deutsch-Norse

Irad's Lóva-An Idyll of the land of

Beather, by 8. D.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL 4 Onstad of the Greeks, by i

REDUCED RATES FOR

CERTAIN ROOMS,

Levatt Yeath

The Macarenes, by Ouida

The Statesman's Your Beck, 1897 Who's Who 1 1807. ⠀

112

1.25

New Shares be allotted to the General Managera, who have guaranteed. to apply for and accept that number,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers, Hongkong, May 23, 1897.

1004

NOTION OF REMOVAL

M MOVED bis DENTAL Roche to No

WAR. CHADWICK KEW, BE.

39, Queen's Head Central, opposite his la'e premises and abova Atacka Furzibure Store,

CHAD, T. KEW, Hongkong, May 3, 1897.

CEMENTIGHT.

PAINT —zon.mndootor of Het DE

1.95 |AL, Cold, impervious to dampness, and 1.25 10 Fire Front

8.00 Specially Suitable for the Covering of 280 Balldings,

Our Graslam Quer, 1887, 1807

0.38

KELLY & WALSH, LIMITED. Hongkong, May 29, 1897..

A protection againal high and low tem Peraturan

1100

A preserver of all kinds of Timber s

TOB BALE OASEL

H

AD · Indestructible Faley on Aron and every description of Planteri Vament

Tox farther

passion

"OGSERADE AND BARRELS

Wile saming trios öfored.

Postal Addre

GHORN

London

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