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Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857.

No 13,374 WHRÆRAT2*0# Μ±WA++*+=** HONGKONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 21ST, 1901. $9 號登十弍月正壹点九千英港香 Pics $2龇 PER MONTH

RAINIER

BEER.

It is the best and houlthiest drink for you,

your family and your friends, that money can bay. It keeps in perfect condition a long time,

and cilmate or weather changes do not affect it.

SOLE IMPORTEES→→

A. S. WATSON & CO. LIMITED,

HONGKONG DISPENSARY. ESTABLISHED 1841.

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CUTLER, PALMER AND CO.

WINE SHIPPERS SINCE 1815, Who have consigned their Brands to Hongkong for over half a century, Apply to G. C. ANDERSON,

Hongkong, 18, Praya Central

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TAPIER JOHNSTONE'S

NAPI

SQUARE BOTTLE WHISKY

The sale of this good Scotoli increases menth by month. It is of Superb Quality and of

CUTLER, PALMER & Co's SELECTION,

Sole Agents for it--

417

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

Hongkong..

JOHN WALKER & SONS'

FAMOUS

KILMARNOCK WHISKY.

This World-renowned.

Fine OLD HIGHLAND WHISKIES are shipped

by CUTLER, PALMER & CO., and

aro obtainablo in Hongkong of

SIEMSSEN & CO.

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Hongkong, 26th July, 1897.

CUTLER, PALMER.

& Co.'s

PRICE $10,75 PER DOZEN

NET

"SPECIAL BLEND WHISKY

Blend

of Selected

Distillations of the

Finest Scotch Whiskies

Apply to

CUTLER, PALMER & CO.

ESTABLISHED IN LONDON IN 1815.

SUPERB OLD COGNAC,

SHIPPERS TO CHINA FOR 75 YEARS. Their Brands are favourably known all over the World. The following are some of their Sticks with the undersigned →→→→

C.P. & Co.'s INVALIDS' PORT

$20 PER DOZ. This fire Wine is old, soft, and of grand favour Bee analysis and certificate by Professor Casall

DOURO PORT, $14.25 PER DOZ.

$22.50 PER DOZ.

Distinguished by 4 Stars on the label.

ANOTHER FINE COGNAC, $16.75 per doz.

Loss oki than the above.

· THE ELITE OF WHISKY:----

THE PALL MALL,

$20 PER DOZ.

11 Years old; the finest quality shipped.

Each bottles bears an Analyst's certificate.

C. P. & Co's OWN SPECIAL

BLEND WHISKY,

$10.75 PER DOZ.

Very soft, palatable, and mature.

UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL

AGENCY (LIMITED.)

BOLE AGENTS IN

INSURANCE.

THE

TANDARD LIFE. ASSURANCE CO

is one of the largest and best known of the

Funds exceed Nine Millions Sterling. Annual Revenue over One Millions One Hundred and Fifty thousand,

For full Particulars, rates, &c., apply to

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,

Aganta, Hongkong, 9th November, 1900.

HONGKONG, CHINA, JAPAN, AND THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, FOR THE BRITISH LIFE OFFICES,

UNITED ASBESTOS COMPANY, LTD., LONDON,

CONTRACTORS TO H. M. GOVERNMENT. MANUFACTURERS OF THE BEST QUALITIES OF ASBESTOS PACKINGS Jo, “GLADIATOR Packing, for High Preasures. Recognised by loading Engineers to be the best combination of Metal and ASBESTOS ever introduced. Reduces friction to a minimum or Piston

and Valve Rods, and is absolutely imperishable. "GLADIATOM" and "VICTOR METALLIC BOILER JOINTS SUPPLIED to H. M. and other FOREIGN NAVIES, ASBESTOS "SALAMANDER" Non-conducting Boiler Covering Composition used orten- sively by the British and American Navies, AŠBESTOS FIREPROOF COLOUR and FUNNEL PAINT. “SALAMANDER" Lubricating and Cylinder Oils of the Best Qualities. CAURICEDALE METAL" Anti-friction Plastic Metal, recognized by engineering experts to be the beat Metal in the Market.

A fine, full, and fruity wize.

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AMOROSO SHERRY,

$20 TER DOZ.

LA TORRE SHERRY,

$16.75 PER DOZ.

A natural and most pleasant wine to the taste.

BENEDICTINE LIQUEUR—

D.O.M.,

$39.75 PER DOZ.

EVERYBODY SHOULD TRY THESE ITEMS; THEY ARE UNEQUALLED AT THE PRICE

AGENTS

-SIEMSSEN & CO., HONGKONG.

EXTRA SPECIAL EINEST

Telephone 75.

LIQUEUR WHISKY.

0361

ESTIMATES GIVEN FOR EVERY DESCRIPTION OF WORK.

Chief Superintendent Superintendent

ASPARAGUS.

THOMAS SKINNER. ARCHIBALD RITCHIE.

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, General Manager

CLUB

WHISKY

$12 FEB Doz.

H. PRICE & CO.,

12, QUEEN'S ROAD.

VEGETABLES.

GREEN CABBAGE.

4 ARTICHAUDS FOND D'. WHITE CABBAGE, ·

A BLEND COMPOSED OF THE FINEST HIGHLAND WHISKIES, THOROUGHLY MATURED IN SHERRY

CASKS IN BOND.

MILD AND MELLOW,

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WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

BEETS.

FRENCH BEANS.

YOUNG LARGE BEANS.

WAK BEANS fór BALAD. STRING BEANS. CARROTS. CELERY.

RED CABBAGE.

CHERYIL.

CAULIFLOWER.

CORN EXTRA.

CEPEJ A L'HUILE.

PARSNIPS. GREEN PEAS. SOURCROUT. SPINACH.

TOMATOES, &c., &c.

HABICOTS FLAGEOLETS. DRY VEGETABLES. JULIENNE.

MACEDOINE.

PARSLEY.

ASSORTED BEANS and

LENTILS.

ALSO DRIED. EVAPORATED FRUITS—

·APRICOTS, APPLES, FIGS, PEACHES, PEARS, PRUNES, &c.

Apply to

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G, QUEEN'S ROAD,

BREWER & CO.

EDITIONS.

WHITAKER'S ALMANACK, 1901 ($1.75 Macaulay's Essay. Excellent Edition,

H

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HOTELS.

ONG KONG

H

OTEL

A First Class Hotel in every respect

Elegantly Furnished Reading, Music, and

Snacking Rooms.

Dining Accommodation for 250 persons.

Hydraulic Elevators to every floor.

Cuisine of the best.

Hot and Cold Water throughout

Wines and Groceries imported specially from

Europe and America,

Electric Lighting in the Billiard Rooma.

Wines, &c., cooled by Refrigerator.

All Hotel Linen washed on the premises by

Machinery.

Bedroom Accommodation-132 rooms.

Fire Extinguishing. Mains on every foor

CHARGES MODERATE.

THE

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PEAK HOTEL.

City Office: 7, Daidoll Street.

HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN.

Pra Terminus.

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Tel. 56.

For Terms, apply to the

MANAGER..

Hongkong. 2nd July, 1900.

(1020 THE WAVERLEY HOTEL.

ICE HOUSE STREET, HONGKONG.

A '70 | FIRST-CLASS PRIVATE HÖTEL.

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W.

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2.00

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Wildman

3.50

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DRESS SHOES.

As Talked in the Sanctuai, by Consul-

General Wildman

Cloth Coral Reefs, by Darwin, Excellent

Edition, Cloth... Complete Prose Works of Emerson,

Excellent Edition, Cloth Livingstone's Travels, Excellent Edition.

>$1.50

2.50

DRESS TIES.

DRESS GLOVES, &c., &c.

Celebrities of the Army, Volume

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Twizt School and College, by Gordon

Stables...

2.00

NEW STOCK.

Gutta Percha Willie, by George Mac

donald Long Live the King. by

1.50

Gay Boothby

REGRETS DRINKING.

The Woman of Death, by Guy

Boothby Quisanté, by Anthony Hope

Stickit Minister's Wooing, by Croc.

kett

Colo- nial Series $1.50

Gentlemen's Black and Brown Boots and Shoes. Gentlemen's Patent Leather Boots and Shoes. Gentlemen's White Buckskin Boots and Shoes. Ladies' and Gentlemen's White Canvas Tennis

Blogs.

Eleanor, by Mrs. Humphrey

ROSS' PATENT

SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong 142 SCHLITZ WORLD FAMED

FONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAM:

HWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.

TIME TABLE.

WEEK-DAYS.

7.30 am to 8.30 am...Every quarter of an hour 8,30 8.m. to. 9.30am...Every ten minutes. 920 BB, to 10.45 am...Every quarter of an hour 11.30am to 3.00p.m. Every quarter of an hour. 930 p.m. to 6.30pan...Every quarter of an hour 6.80 p.m. to 8.00p.m. Every ten minutes

Right cars at 8.45 pm and 9p.m. and from 9.45 p.m. to 11.10 pm every half hour, SATURDAYS. Extra Night cars at 11.30 and 11.45 pm, SUNDAYS

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quarter of an hour

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9.45 pm to 11.16 pm every half hour, SPECIAL CARS by arrangement at the Com- pany's Office, 88 £40. Queen's Road Central.. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers 1st May 1899.

· Hongkong,

VICTORIA

CYCLE

EM POE IU M..

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THE pleasure of cycling consists in having a first class Machine, and the above. Es tablishment is always lending in this respoet. We are Agents for the famous "NEW HOWE and

MONOPOLE CYCLES, and we also supply fittings of every description. Bargains can be had in second hand Machines. Repairs executed with promptibada and skill

Enamelling a speciality.c

HOKIRDY & CO.

43 & 431, QUEEN'S ROAD EAST Hongkong, 3rd November, 1999.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY

PORTLAND CEMENT. $5.00 por Cask of 375 lbs. net ex Factory, $8.00 per Bag of 250 Iber

BEER

IS

THE

BEVERAGE ONLY

ONE

NEVER

TONIC AND REFRESHING.

SOLE AGENTS-

WATKINS, LIMITED,

CHEMISTS, AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS, AND

·COMMISSION AGENTS,

HONGKONG.

PHOTOGRAPHIC

PLATES, PAPERS AND CHEMICALS. EASTMANS KODAK'S, FILMS AND ACCESSORIES, DEVELOPING AND PRINTING UNDERTAKEN,

A. CHEE & Co.,

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(113

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Handsomely Furnished and Exceedingly Spacious Booms.

Very MODERATE TERMS to FAMI LIES by the DAY or MONTH.

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HOTEL.

THE CONNAUGHT

Gold Flake Tobacon, Sweet Caporal Cigarettes,

Mathilde Habans Cigars, Flor Fine. Boxing Gloves, Ascot Race Game, Tennis A

Backets, &c, ko., &c.

PRISMATIC

BINOCULARS.

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FIRST CLASS HOTEL of 45 Bed- rooms, elegantly furnished.

The Hotel is situated near all the Banks and Principal Offices in the Colony.

Special Attention paid to the Comfort et Gnestar

Caisine excellent under Experiónced Ma-

WITH THE FIELD AND POWER OF A TELESCOPE IN THE COMPASS OF | asgement,

AN OPERA GLASS.

OTHER FIELD AND OPERA GLASSES IN STOCK.

ACHEE & CO.,

17A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.

KELLY & WALSH, LD.

BOOKS BY LAST MAIL. Whitaker's Almanzek

Paper Ea. 70 cents, Complete Ed. $1.75 Who's Who, 1901

2.25 Hazell's Annual, 1901

THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY British Journal of Photography Atmaasek

SIMPLE AERATED WATER.

HONGKONG.

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LEMONADE.

SARSAPARILLA,

TONIC WATER.

SPECIAL TERMS to Hotels, Clubs, Mosses and other large consumers.

Figaro Illustrée, Xmas No., with Two

Coloured Plates...

The Daily Mail Year Book, 20,000 Facts of the Day, Biographies, Tables, Dingrams and Maps for 1901 Report from H. M. Minister in China

te Events at Peking Schoak's Theory of the Determination of

Bex

BOOKS BY LAST MAIL The Footsteps of a Throne, by Max

Pemberton

TongusN of Conscience, by Robert

Hichens

70 The Journal of a Jealous Woman, by

Percy White

225 The Sky Filot, by Ralph Connor ...

In White Raiment, by W. Le Queux In Male Attire, by Joseph Hattou... Campaign Pictures of the War in South Aftien (1899-1900), by A. G. Hales (Daily News)

70

40.

70

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2.25 70

Philosouly. Ilustrated Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, Billiards for Beginners, by Roberts Foster's Bridge, A Complete Bystem of Instruction in the Game, by R. F. Foster

The King Christmas Nuraber

Truth

FURNISHING DEPARTMENT. Celebrities of the Army, Vol. 1

WINTER SEASON'S GOODS. JUST ARRIVED.

COMPLETE HOUSEHOLD FURNISHING..

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers

(23102 LARGEST STOCK OF BEDSTEADS, CARPETS, LINOLEUNS, CURTAINS,

Wongkong, 2nd July, 1900,

WILLIAM MACLEOD, D.D.S.,

DENTIST,

&o, IN THE EAST.

S ESTIMATES FREE.

9661

LANE CRAWFORD & CO.

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BEACONSFIELD ARCADE. (Opposite Hongkong & Shanghai Bank.) Hongkong, 10th November, 190).

The ENGLISHMAN in CHINA **DURING the VICTORIAN EZRA CAN? "Illustrated in the Career of WIE RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, SEK.C.B, D.Ø.L... Cousal and Minister In China and Japan. By ALEXAN-

DER MICHTE, 2. Vols.

The TIMES HISTORY of the WAR in SOUTH AFRICA, · 1899. 1900, Edited by L. S. Amery, Photo- gravures. Portraits, Maps and Battle Plans, Vol. 1

3.50 The CHINA COASTERS"

70

70

9.00

20.00

VARBOLINEUM-AVENARIUS

USED FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS.

Throughly reliable preservative for Woon and Stone against White Ants, Demy, Fungus Ret, and Dampness.

Hole Agents for Chins, LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO., Hongkong, 31st August, 1897.

139

TIDE

'TABLE and NAUTICAL POC- KET MANUAL. Contains List of Lights, Buoys, Beacons, Signals, &, &c., with Chart of Shanghai Harbour

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1,50

Terms Modorate.

A. FONSECA,

Manager. Hongkong, lat Dacomber, 1899. KOWLOON HOTEL.

THE

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THIS HOTEL is situated in a quiet. locality, away from the din and distor- hants of the City, and surrounded by a delight- ful Garden, it is an ideal place of Residence. The building stands on an eminence, giving magnificent view of the Harbour and the City of Victoria. It is within easy access of 150 the Kowloon Wharves, where the principal Mail Steamers disembark Passengers, and from 1.50 which there is a regular ferry serrice to Hong-

Bowling Alleys and Rilliards.

The Cuisine is Excellent.

1,50

kong.

1.50

1:30

J. W. OSBORNE,

Proprietor.

1.50

$9.00

9125

THE IMPERIAL ANGLO-CHINESE DIARY, Size 18 by 8 in., 3 Days to Page, Interleaved with Blotting Paper,

31.25.

MANUSCRIPT MUSIC.

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TCLASSES OF MUSIC (with or without THE Undersigned undertaken to COPY all accompaniment), atvery Reasonable Prices, with Neatness and Correction.

Apply to

"EUTHERPE," 26, Des Voeux Road. Hongkong, 12th January, 1901,

[9/7

J. H. DOWNS,

Manager.

TRU

Hongkong, 8th September. 1900.

TE

HING KEE HOTEL.

(ESTABLISHED. 1873)

MACAO.

Com-

HIS First-olass and well-famed establish– ment is pleasantly situated in the centre of PRAYA GRANDE, facing sonth, with a charming view of the ses on the front. fortable and well furnished Bed-rooms.

Cuisine Excellent. Prompt Attendance.

Tarms very Moderate.

L. HING KEE. Proprietor. Telegraphic address HINGEEE". [1910-

TACK CHONG

LOONG NAVY & MILITARY TAILOR.. DEAPER AND OUTFITTEE.

NARMENTS made by hand; guaranteed perfect fit. Hats. Shirts, Socks, Silk Handkerchiefs, Boots, Shoes, Be.. for Bale. New and Fashionable Goods. Prices very moderate.

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No. 65, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. Hongkong, 18th October, 1900.

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