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HONGKONG

RUSINESS DIRECTORY. FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN

A CHEE & CO., Established 1959,

Every Lousehold Requisite. Depot for Eastman's Kodak Films rnd Accessories,

17a, Queen's Road Central. -CHEONG LEE & CO., Fornituro Sture. Established over 20 years. Importers rid Exporters, Teakwood Furniture, Blak- wood, Juwellery, &e, highest grade, host and sheapest. F, Queen's Bend

Central

JEWELLERS

MAISON LEVY HERMANOS

Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers, 40 Watson's Building, Queen's Road, Aino

TO LET

TO LET

TO. 70, DUDDELL STREET (Godown).

No

No. 5. STEWART TERRACE, PRAE, Furnished, from 5th Jane to 31st August. 1903. WESTBOURNE VILLA,' NOUT! BONHAM ROAD.

No. 1, CAMELON VILLAS. MOUNT KELLETT.

Nos. 7, 11, 15 & 18, BELILIOS TERRACE, BIBNEE VILLA," PORFULUM ROAD Land on ses front Kowloon Marine Lot No. 5, and admirably suited for the stage of coal.

For torms and portionlara, spply to--

LINSTEAD & DAVIS. Tong kong, 23rd May, 1903,

1046

TO.

TO LET UNFURNISHED.

at Shanghai, Manila, l'aris wait foil No. 33 CAINE ROAD Available from COOMBE, MAGAZINE GAP. Avail.

PHOTOGRAPHFR

M: MUMEYA, JAPANESE ARTIST.

Bromide and Crayon Enlargements and also colouring Photos and relief Photos.

,

Vios of China and Manila. Work

done for Amateurs; HD. 84, Quoou'r

Road Central STOREKEEPERS

F. BLACKHEAD & CO.,

Navy Contractors, Sailmakers, Provision and Coal Merahants, Sol Agents for Hartmann Ratjon's Genuine Ca

position Red Hand Brand.

BISMARCK & CO.,

Chandlers,

Navy Contractors, Ship

Provision and Coal Merchants, Sail- makers, &o. Fresh Water sapplied to

Vessels in the Harbour

KWONG BANG & CO.,

Shipchandlers, Sailmakora, Provisionera, Coal Merchants, Hardware, Enginter Tools, Braes and Iron Merchants,

144, Des Voeux Road,

MORE & SEIMUND,

25 and 28, Connaught Road. Praya Central. Shipshandters, Sallmakers, Riggers, Commission Agents and General Storekeepers; Sole Agents for Shipowners Composition ("Grey- honnd Brand") and Blandelle Spence & Co.'s Composition WATCHMAKERS

DROZ & CO.,

14. Queen's Road Central. Repairs of Watches and Clocks by compotont European experts at moderate rate

TO LET

TO LET.

ROOM in a Fully Furnished House at the

Prak.

One Gentleman required to make up a Mess of Four Tennis Court and Garden.

Apply-

A 17,

Care of Daily Prea: 06co.

[1529

Hongkong, 25th May, 1903.

GODOWNS TO LET.

PRATA Seriod. Godowns. Sritabla

DRAYA EAST. Spacious Two-storied

for Yaru or Cla

Also Land for Coul storage.

Apply 10-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.

1002 Hongkong, 31st. March, 1903.

TO LET.

66

DUNIEVED."

Road. Robinson Available from June 1st. Having Six Spacious Booms with well. ventilated

1st March.

able from 1st April,

Apply

Daily Press Omes. Hongkong, 16th February, 1903.

TO LET.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 28:Ħ, 1903

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

AND NEWS.

UNFORTUNATE DARONETA..

There is, besides Sir William Macgregor and Sir Thomas O'Connor Meore, austler baronet

in a somewhat lowly position. Sir Thomas Echlin, a sixth baronet of an Irish creation of 1721, entered the Royal Irish Constabulary as a sab-constable, was in due course promoted to the rank of nonstable, and is now a clerk is the Constabulary Offee, Dublin.

THE CRICKET SEABON,

WM. POWELL,

LD.,

DRESSMAKERS, DRAPERS, AND GENTLEMEN'S

OUTFITTERS,

"A DISTURBANCE OF THE TRAFFIC”. To be arrested on a charge of holding one's skirts too high on a rainy day suggests, of esurse, America. Joplin, Missouri, was the precise scene of the incident, and. Miss Flo Encsell, its victim or hercing. It was charged against her, quite in the Addisonian style, that the height at which she hold them created enough commotion to amount to a distarkuses of traffo. Her youth and prettinom, if they did not aggravate the offence, did aggravate the commotion; and a policeman arrested her. Miss Russell, in her defense, said that ako was wearing a new and particularly handsome Filli potticoat, and ather “things” equally now and equally handsome, and that she hold her skirt GENERAL DRAPERY GOODS OF EVELY KIND ALWAYS.

Ranjitsinhji contributos nu interesting article on the coming cricket conson to the Telegraph. In regard to the relative chances of the various counties in the championship contests, the just high vạough to prevent them from being following is his forecast of the order in which muddied, but not un inch-higher. To clinch the they are likely to stand at the core of the matter, she had come dressed in the identical season :--Yorkshirs, 1; Lancashire, 2; Notts, clothes, and was ready, if the judgo desired, to Surrey, Sussex. 3; Kent, Middleser, Warwick - Į give a demonstration in cont. The judge, of shire, Somerset, Essex, Leicestershiro, course, jumped at it; « space was cleared, and [54 Gloucestershire, Derbyshire, 6. Ranjitsiskji the court became so unjudiciously fascinated denies the report that there is to be any change with the performance that it took him fifteen n the Sussex captaincy this season.

minutes to discharge hor, with squlogies. And so progress cantinace, even in America,

66 BROAD.

ENSFOOT," UPPEL Richmond

Apply to

DEACON & HASTINGS,

10. Queen's Road. Hongkong. 30th October, 1902

TU LEI.

176

BUGAR.

Sugar was the onteams of Moorish citilla- tion. The Crusader brought back with him the "sweet powder" the children Jored. It was long posterior to the Grecian and Horse civilisation, to say nothing of those of Egypt

such and Assyria, that engar as made in any quantity. The sugar cane was known to the Chinese at a very early period, and was introduced into the island of Cyprus from the interior of Asin but its intro duction into the West Indies, not long after 95this discovery, was the practical commencement of the production of sugar us an article of

FFICE. "Airy and Commodious, No. 3, QUEEN'S BUILDING, 3RD FLOOR, Apply

ON THE PREMISES. Hongkong, 30th March, 1903.

1987 TO LET.

ПWO SPACIOUS GODOWNS-Nos.

and 96, PHAYA EAST. Apply to

H. N. MODY,

Victoris Buillings. Hongkong, 2nd December, 1902.

TO LET KOWLOON.

NE LARGE ROOM with

F82

Cominerce.

MR. KRUGER's MISUNDERSTANDING. A Birmingham correspondent, who wrote to Mr. Chamberlain as to the cause of the South African War, has received the following reply through the right hon. gentleman's private wesocretary "I is true that the war was caused primarily by the sitimatum and the invasion of British territories. Looking back further, it was due to the desire of the Boer jeaders to maintain a position of superiority throughout Banth Africa as explained in Mr. Chamberlain's speech at 2 Seatbamp- ton, but it is also teas to say that the

THE WILL OF A FAMOUS FRENCHWOMAN, '

A human document of particular obarm and interest in the last will and testament" of Madame de Maintenon, now for the first time Verbal and Separate Bathroom, printed in the Revue de l' ifistari: de Versailles.

Apply to-

Care of Daily Press Office, Hongkong, 20th May, 1903.

per month.

RYO.

10 LET.

R. S..

The original of this document is still in existence, and one recalls, at the mention of the white anvelope containing the one word Tesic- [116nient in Madame de Maintenon's band-writing, how, after writing it a few days before her death, with trembling hand, she turned to Mdile. NO. 17. SEYMOUR ROAD or WOOD. d'Anmale and said with a bright smile. This is LANDS WEST to Rent from 15 still rather firm writing." Some $0,000 franes

bat was all which the most almired and Apply to--

E. H.,

celebrated lady of the brilliant Court of Louis Cars of Daily Press Office.

XLV left. Half of this sum was absorbed in Hongkong, 16th May, 190, 3."

small legacies; the other half want, gool bourgeois fashion, to her nieces, her nearest

JUNE.

No

TO LET.

[143

TOS. 1 &3," MAGDALEN TERRACE," Corner houses, MAGAZINE GAr.. Apply to-

SPANISH PROCURATION. Hongkong, 1st January, 1903.

TO LET FURNISHED.

73

No Months from middle of June.

TO. 2, CAMERON VILLAS, PEAK.

Apply-

(1496

H. W, BIRD,

Palmer & Turner. Hongkong, 21st May, 1903,

TO LET. ST and 2ND FLOORS MARINE HOUSE, No. 17, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. Apply to

LI KWONG LOONG,

No. 1, Wyndhata Strost, [1543 Hongkong, 27th May, 1903.

TO LET.

Bacement Servants Quer ers lotnahel), Veriu. HARTLEY STONY BROOKE

dabs, Tennis Court and large Garden.

Apply to

THE SAM WANG CO.. LD, 81, Queen's Road Central

[1494 Hongkong, 22nd May, 1903.

TO LET,

TO, 10, SEYMOUR TERRACE.

No. 10,

No. 4, CAINE ROAD.

Nos. 1, 2 and 3, CORONATION TERRACE.

And others to suit various requiremonts.

8. A. BETH, Land and Estate Broker. [1396

Hongkong, 22nd May, 1903,

TO LET.

TWOODLANDS VILLA EAST,

ROAD.

"INGLEWOOD," RionMOND

Apply to--

LAU CHU PAK, Care of A. S. Watson & Co., LA, Hongkong, 7th March, 1908.

(150

TILATS

TO LET.

MORETON

rointivos.

PRACTICE AT GOLF,

war

would never have taken place had there beca a better understanding: If for instancs, Mr. Kruger had understood the powers of this conatry, if he and understood that the stories of Continental assistance were untrue, and if he had understood that the Capo colonists woukt Dat rise in general roballion, it is certain that there would have been no war. This explanation will enable you to see that the war may be described as duo either to its immediate canso, or to the misunderstanding which was behind that cause."

AT NO TIME IS MAN SECURE FROM ATTACKS

of such disorders of the stomach na cholern morhas, cramps and diarrhea; but these com- plaints are common during the heated torm when it is dangerous to neglect thora. Pain- killer is a remedy that has never fail and the Reverest attacks have been cured by it. Avoid substitutes, there is bat one Painkiller, Parry [299-15 Davis'.

28 AND 34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

́DRESSMAKING UNDER EXPERIENCED EUROPEAN-

SUPERVISION.

IN STOCK,

EVERYTHING FÖR LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S WEAR.

GENTLEMEN'S DÉPARTMENT THOROUGHLY, UP-TO-DATE. SHIRTS, TIES, COLLARS, EOOTS, PANAMAS,

RAINCOATS, ETC.

In his amusing book on the Art of Golf, the

BACK & CO., Importera and Exporters late Sir Walter Simpson observes that, looking of Foreign and Colonial POSTAGE ent from the clubhouse (any clubhouse) about STAMPA, 53, Pal Street, Hongkong, have starting-time in the morning, yon are sure to just received for sue at their stall at Hongkong Hotel Corrider a large variety of nico Picterial see sundry golfers teaching thom-olves trip- Post Card Albuns, Pictorial Post Cards: plad swinga"-that is to say, loosening their Panoramas of Hongkong, Macao, Canton, maseles with some practice swings at daisies or Chinese Costumes, Views, &c., &c., iu Phototype New

and Coloured Colotype, Assortment of Postage at nothing. It all bels. There is the tradi-Stamp-Albums, Lenses, Hinges, Tweezer and tional man who says, "Eb. I'm a pairfect marvel other Philatelic goods. Prices to suit all atswinging at a daisy and sie like; but when it Customers, Correspondents wanted. Foreign {1113 comes to the ball-oh, for There are many order promptly attended to. Cash with order of whom this candid critic of himself is the type

Lord Wellwood, in his chapter in the Badmin tou book, talks of the terrible tis incrlie of the golf-ball. And though this is, perhaps, essened by an indiarubber inside, still wo all know what it moars, writes Mr. Horace Hatch- inson in the Westminster Gouette,

AN ART SCANDAL, The exhibition for the present season of the artists at the Royal Academy is considered the best frat has occurred for dany years (we quote from the Times of April 15. 1803). In the course of hanging the pictures a very singala: ircumstanes happened, which is the subject of

FCAUSEWAY BAY CITY N TERRACE general conversation among the professors ind

No. 1, RIPON TERRACE. GODOWNS at BOWRINGTON (PRAYA

EAST!

HOUSES in LEIGHTON HILL ROAD, Apply to--

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, Ist January, 1903,

(71 TO LET

amateurs. By the rale sad practice of the Institution no picture is allowed to be received, which has at any former exhibition been offered

or Jet class reference

D

5631

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AGENTS-

925

JARDINE. MATHESON & CO.

JAPAN

MITSUI

BUSSAN

COALS.

KAISHA

MITSUI & COJ

HEAD OFFICE =-1, SURUGA-cho, Tokyo,

LONDON BRANCH :-94, Lame Ariser, E.C.

HONGKONG BRANCH:—PRINCZ's BUILDINGS, Top Horan Šrasi T.

OTHER BRANCHES,

York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Sourabaya, Mani, Amay. Shanghai Chefco, Tientsin, Newaliwang, Port Arthur, Beonl, Chemulpo, Yakobmas, Yokosuka Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Kure, Shimonoseki, Moji. Wakamatto. Karatau, Nagasaki Kachinot, Sasebo, Maidzura Miike, Kukodate, Taipeh, &c.

Telegraphic Address: "MITSUI" (A.E.C. and A 1 Cotesy CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Navy and Arsenals and the State Railways; Principal Railway Cotapanies and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Fraight Steamers. SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Farus Miike, Tagawa, Yamano and Idu Coal Mines; and CAN VAR. SOLE AGENTS for Hokoku, Hordo, Kanada, Fujinotana, Mameda, Manusura, Ouvara Olsuji

Sasahara Taibakuro, Yoshinstani, Yoshio, Yunokibars, and other Coala.

N. INUZUKA, Manager, Hongkong.

GEM CIGARETTES.

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & CO.

Solo Aconte NOTICE.

ANG HING, WA

JEWELLER. has REMOVED to No. 10, QUREN'S ROAD CENTRAL (opposite Mesara, KELTY AND WALSH) and has alan kept his old Shop as a Branch Establishment, named WANG HING & CO.

Hongkong, 23rd March, 1903.

ON SALE.

THE

AND For

1472-

CHRONICLE CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHER- LANDS INDIA. PHILIP- PINES, BORNEO, &c., WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED THE CHINA DIRECTORY

to the judgment of the public. Among the pro-DIRECTORY dactions of art, however, lately seat to Sommer cet House, was 'n large historical-picture from the poncil of the President, representing "Bagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness." This picture was immediately recognised and chai angod by one of the members of the Council, He atated that it was originally painted for Lord Cremorne, and publicly exhibited in the year 11581776. Upon the front, however, of the pictura

Seymour Road, Six-Roomed Semi-WO SPACIOUS NEW GODOWNS, detached House. Good Viow of the Harbour:

Apply to

D'ALMADA & MILLAB,

16. Des Your Road Central, [1465 Hongkong, 19th May, 3903.

BOARD AND RESIDENCE.

MRS.

GILLANDER

"GLENWOOD"

21, CAINK ROAD.

Hongkong, 20th March, 1903.

*TANG YUEN." BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT.

European Supervision. Excellent

and Accommodation..

Apply-

very suitable for Dry Goods. Apply to

W. LYSAUGHT,

153. Wanchai Road. Hongkong, 15th April, 1903,

TO LET,

was written in strong characters, according to the usual practice of the artist, his name, TO. 3 STEWART TERRACE, the together with the date, 1863; and, up the

SNP.

[915

Cuisine

MANAGERESS,

Macdonnell Road;

or

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 8th April, 1903,

TO BE LET.

[1108

the BUNGALOW TURNISHED,

FERNSIDE PEAK, with Immediate Possession, to 30th Jane next.

For Terms and Particulars, apply to

TURNER & CO. Hongkong, 7th May. 1993.

1383

faith of this inscription, it was determined that the performance should be received. Boms doubts, however, still remaining, the catalogues was found that a were inspected, and it painting, desa.iptive of the same story, had been exhibited by Mr. Went in 1776. This led to a second and more minute examination of the pictare; the result of which was that the date 1776 was discovered in an obscure corner im- perfectly obliterated. The members of the Council, indignant at the deception, regarded ach other for wome-time-it-rilent astonishment At length it was resoired that the Secretary should write to the President, requesting Lim to withdraw the performancu.

CARBOLINEUM-AVENARIUS FAIRALL & CO., Queen's Road. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1903

[681

GARD AND RESIDENCE

B°

Apply to

9, SELBORNE VILLAS,

Kennedy Road.

Hongkong, 14th February, 1903.

PRIVATE BOARD AND RESIDENCE

TOS. 12 and 14, QUEEN'S ROAD

NOS.

Street

CENTRAL. Entrares by Zolland

Hongkong, 3rd March, 1903

BOARD AND RESIDENCE.

1700

IN CARES OF

USED FOR OVER 25 YEARS,

TRADE

CARBOLINE

MARK

LINEUM

VENARIUS

NBT.

IN TINE OF 45 131.

Throughly reliable preservative for Wood

NOMFORTABLY FURNISHED and Stone against White Auta, Decay, Fungus

ROOMS, with Board,

Apply to Mrs. HATHER, Hougkong, 1st January, 1892

2, Pedder's HBL

Rot, and Dampress.

LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO., Sole Agouts for China.. Hongkong, lat July, 1902

Refreshing and Agreeable.

CALVERT'S

CARBOLIC

TOILET SOAP.

A pleasant Antiseptic Soup (contalaing pure Carbolic Acid). Should be sed regularly to improve the skin and completion and prevent Infection.

F. C. CALVERT & Co., Manchester, Eng.

[2594-2

AND

THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST FOR

1903.

THE FOTY-FIRST ANNUAL ISSUE,

The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY, though printed in smaller type than formerly. and condensed in every pessible manner, con- tains every year more pages.

HCAKES, decorated

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RICHMOND

RICHMOND GEM CIGARETTES ARE MADE FROM PURE SUMCURED VIRGINIA NATURAL LEAF TOBACCO. ABSOLUTELY PURE.

"THE NEATEST THING OF THE DAY." Packed by a apocial vacium procesa in sir-tight tins of 50's, with bamboo mouthpiess and a handsome curved Gigsmatto Case which fits the pocket.

TO BE OBTAINED OF MESSES. KRUSE & CO.

MANUFACTURED BY

THE AMERICAN TOBACCO. CO.

BRANCH

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO

COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICES OF FIRMS

NOTICE

IR WILLIAM H. GASKELL having MR Waled to the Colony, resumes his

practice as Public Accountant,

Office: No. 4, Des Your Rosi,

Hongkong, May 25, 1903,

CHINA COMMERCIAL STEAMSHIPS COMPANY, LIMITED.

司公限有船輪華屯

Royal Octave-Complete with Fourteen Maps and Plans, pp. 1,574, 39.00 Directory only. pp. 1,179, $5.00.

TTIGH-CLASS OHRISTMAS

... from $1.00

0.60 FILE OFFICES of the above Company have ...from $1 to $5.00 且 been OPENED at No. 33, QUEEN'S

per dozen 0,60 ROAD CENTRAL, 2ND FLOOR, from 150 Hongkong, 21st March, 1903.

Plain Christmas Cakes... Germann Band Cakes Assorted Pastry Cakes Scotch Brus Frenden Stollen

Mince Piss

....

Chicken and Hom Pies Chicken and Ham Pattics... Game Pim

per dozen 2.40

2.00

... from 3.00

Y

2.40 from 5.00 bristmas Priddings &e, to Order.

Please apply to WEISMAN & CO., 142, Fraya East; ANGLO AMERICAN STORES, 64, Elgin Rand; or ROYAL BEATED WATER DEPOT, Tee House Street.

[117-1 Hongkong. 19th Thamber. 1902

WINCHESTER

CARABINES

12 SHOT REPEATING. CALIBRE 44.

Frcellent arm for Travellers in the interior

of China as well as Officers of Coast SteamGES

ALSO CARTRIDGES IN STOCK..

LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO.,

12742 14, DES VEUX ROAD.

924

CHINESE AMERICAN COMMERCIAL COMPANY,

司公美華

IMPORTERS, EXPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS.

THIS Company's Offices are Established at

Nes 20 and 21, CONNAUGHT ROAD,

opposite Douglas Pier.

Honkgong, 1st May, 1903.

CHEONG SHING.

盛

GENERAL EXPORTERS,

DEALERS IN

WANTED,

HELE is a vacancy in the Government

Civil Medical Department for

su

EUROPEAN WARDMASTER

Salary, &o, £110 a year, rising by trienniol increments of £20 to £150 a year, with uniform and free furnished bachelor's quarters.

should

Applications, with certificate of character, 20,

ba

sent to the PRINCIPAL CIVIL MEDICAL OFFICER, at the GOVERN- MENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, not later than Noon of the 20TH INSTANT.

The candidate selected must be a bachelor and under 35,ears of age.

Hongkong, 23rd May, 1903.

WANTED AT ONCE.

[1598

PHYSICIAN with Europeas or British A Colonial Diploma for Consting Steamer.

Apply to

PHYSICIAN," Care of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 27th May, 1903,

WANTED.

1541

COMPRADORE with good Security.

Apply to

昌

JEWELLERY, DIAMONDS, PEARLS, PRECIOUS STONES, SILKS, IVORY WARES, EMBROIDERIES AND CHINESE CURIOS.

DOSHI BROTHERS,

16, Hollywood Road, Hongkong, 15th May, 1903,

[1429 DIED-ABRAM LA RUE—Apart 27th.

Wholesale and Retail Prices very moderate. A requested to be prompted to AMERI

No. 39, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Opposite Messrs. C. J. Gaurr & Co.). Hongkong, 16th May, 1903.

EL CLAIMS-agilst his Estate are

CAN CONSUL ATE-GENERAL for authen-

tication.

Hongkong, 29th April,

1903

(1800