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NOTICES OF FIRMS

THE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TA: 1969

CHINESE AMERICAN COMMERCIAL ROBINSON PIANO

COMPANY,

A# #:

IMPORTERS, EXPORTERS: AND

MANUEACTURERS.

ST\H18 Company's Offices are Established at No. 20 20 21; CONNAUGHT ROAD

opposito Donglas Pier,

Hongkong, Ist May, 1903.

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THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK.

M

RICHARD A. McCundy, President.

ORGANISED IN 1843.

R. GEORGE ECKLEY has been appointed AGENCY DIRECTOR of the abova Company and a Bracol Offco has been-Opened in the Hongkong Club Annex, Ground Floor, Chator Road.

By Order,

BASIL H. BETTS,

Special Representativo for Hongkong, China and Japan, Hongkong, 17th August, 1993.

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THOMAS P. HALL,

COMPANY, LIMITED

NOTE.

ENTIRELY

NEW STOCK

TO ARRIVE THIS MONTH, - SPECIALLY AND MOST CAREFULLY

CHOBEN,

DIRECT FROM THE FACTORIES,

BY OUR

MR. ROBINS ŐˆN

NOW IN EUROPE.

FL Steamship Company, Limited,

OR many years Master in the Service of GREAT

has the honour to inform the Shipping and Morcantile Community that he has this day -established himself as á

MARINE SURVEYOR.

OFFICE: 1, PRINCE'S BUILDINGS. Hongkong. 19th August, 1903.

NOTICE.

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THE HEUNG KONG STEAM-BOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

ILI WAI TONG of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Gentleman, formerly & Permanent Director of the above named Company, HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that I no longer bold,nay Shores in the said Company, that I am no longer a. Permanent Director thereof, and that I have covered all connection dirot or indirect therewith, Dated this 21st day of August; 1933. 371]

LI WAI TONG.

PO ON STEAM-LAUNCH CO., LD.

NOTICE.

HAVE this day Resigned my position us General Manager of the Yo On Steam- Launch Company, Limited, and have handed over all responsibility to the Committee-s Messrs, Leung Yuen Hin, Leung Yiu Tong and Leung Hok Lum.

J. V. DODD. Hongkong, 2nd September, 1905. [2482

PO ON STEAM-LAUNCH CO., LD,

NOTICE.

HE Accounts handed over to us by Mr. TJ. Dodd, the former General Mouages

of the Po On Stenin-Lausch Company, Limited, on the 31st August, 19:3, are satisflatory.

LEUNG HOK LAM,

On behalf of the Company. Hougkong, 2nd September, 1983 [2483 PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL, S. S. CO. TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

DURIN

NOTICE

URING my absence from the Colony, and until further - notice, Ms. J STUART THOMSON will assume Charge of this Agency of the above Companies as Acting Agoat, aftor the sail me of the Q. & U. 2. 7. "Doric," September 1, 1903

B. W. TILDEN,

Agent. Hongkong, 31-: Angust, 1903.

NOTICE,

REDUCTIONS

IN OUR PRESENT STOCK OF PIANOS AND MUSICAL GOODS,"

A QUANTITY OF OLD MUSIC STILL LEFT, BEING SOLD VERY

CHEAP.

CALL IN AND SEE WHAT WE HAVE. ALL ENQUIRIES WILL BE MOST COURTEOUSLY AND PROMPTLY

ANSWERED..

THE APOLLO

PIANO-PLAYER

RECITALS DAILY

PRICE FROM $150 UP.

PATTI ENDORSES THE APOLLO.-

Adelina Patti (Baroness Cederstrom) bas given another great testimonial to the Apollo Piano-player. She was so delighted with the fostrament that was purchased by her last year that this second testimonial is even stronger than the best que that she gave.

Mme. Patti says that "the Apollo never has given her the slightest trouble and that the now doncert grand is one of the most wonderful and perfect piano-players that she has ever seen.”

Hongkong, 3rd September, 1943.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]

A LURKING PHANTOM:: A STORY OF LOVE AND MYSTERY.

DF

JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON (Author of "The Hispaniola Plate." "The Year One," "A Vanished Rival," &c.).

CHAPTER IL

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times if one can walia from what is not really f slagpand present with her, too, the next morn ing. Present with her as she bada ber French maid, Séverine, dress her in dark materials since it was, as she said, a wet morning; and prosent as she sent down orders that the warringe waa to be ready at eleven to take her to her dress makor's.

Arrived at that establishment she gave orders that the coachnau was not to wait for hor: ake did not know, sho said, how long she might be detained and Sir Geoffrey did not like the horses kept out in the rain. She would get`s cab home when she was ready:

Yet Mudame Von Visel-who, as bocano a

CAN THE DEAD LIVE AGAIN? “The dinner party at the Dowager Peeress's to which Be Gpoffroy and Lady Bottrell went, accompanied by their daughter, was a large important function, nec3:stating a cousilerablo celebrity, called heraslf with humility "Van amount of chronicling in the columns of fashion, Vloot" simply, and was a Frouchwoman whe able papers the nort day, and since Oro Guest was the widow of a Datoh man and now the wife had supervised the list of invites before himself of an impreunions English gentleman whon appearing at it, it is easily to be understood she supported in grast wealth and luxury. what an exclusivo affair it was. It was indeed, could scarcely havs boon gratified with the

dinner at which notis could possibly be present

morning's work. except those whose rank, or bivil, or ominant position gave them indubitable right of entry a fuuction to which no amount of log-rolling by indiscreet friends and admirers could have forced opon su entry for my ne; u gathering at which the great hound and the great boomsters might gusalt their teeth in vain.

Amongst those pressut no woman was more beautiful than Lady Bottrell, although, to | zight, to Sir Geoffrey's deep regret, his wife

was not, as he considerat, at her best, in their own drawing room before getting out, **You are," he said; as she stood bofors him

more pale than I live, seen you for a long while to my recollection. It is a pity. I wish it could have been otherwise. Maud will doubt less he congratulated on all hande; so, too, shall we. Yet, I declare ono wight think that, you were more, wall !-aanged at her engageweit than pleased."

I am sorry if my appearance does not suit you," Lady Bottrell said in reply. “ but I have a headnobe. The heat has been very great to. day, and-"

it is to me always charming," her husband "My dear Rhods, whatever your appearing,

made haste to say. Yon do not need me to

tell you that. I have always been your lover as well as your husband, and you know it. I may be excused, thorofors, if I do happen to regret that, to night, you are not quite at your hest. And I had hoped you would be. You were radiant at launch today.

Bat, whatever Sir Gooffroy may have thought of his wife's appearnace, at least there was no perception testified by any others prosent at the dinner party of that appearance being aught that it should not be. Every raan prosat, from the most eminent personnage d wwwards, showed

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AND

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OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE (FIRST FLOOR ÚTSTAIES).

GENTLEMEN'S DEPARTMENT,

28, QUEEN'S ROAD (OPPOSITE HONGKONG HOTEL),

WM. POWELL, LD.

HAVANA

CIGARS.

JUST RECEIVED DIRECT FROM HAVANA A SHIPMENT OF FIXE HAVANA CIGARS,

**For, figurez-vous, tax chère,” she sai | letar to her foowoman, as they discussed a choice little luncheon sout in from a restaurant and half a bottlost Clicquot (which French people GENUINE consider possesses the grout advantage af being non-intoxicant) out of Van Vloet's own cellar, which was a capboard, "figurez-vous, mitadi took up half-an-hour in talking about the shade of half-a-dozen ribbons. And I thought she had come to order the trouseran of Meer Maud. Mon Dieu! these English! Bat they are eccentric. Ecoentric? Like my foot"

But, moanwhile, or rather before the period of Van Viest's luncheon, mailadi bad descanded the stairs, biddon the porter call her a cab and had departed for Charing Cross Railway Station. After which she had provede ta the book stall and bought a paper, bad takin another cab and boon driven to the Cosmopoli tan Hotel, leaving the papot, af which abo bai never lookel, in it.

Is Mr. Ira Challis in ?" she asked of the huge Tentou arrayol in a tasteful uniform of green and gold, as the man helped her to alight, while holding the basket-shield to the wheel to prevent her dress being made muddy.

"Hoisin, matam," the man said. In the salon de lecture. Will matun gif bor name ?"

Toll him it is the lady ho called upon yes- torday, Lady Bottroll replied, not lifting her veit which she had warn sisce sho left Van Vleot's and which she had pat in bor pooket when Séverine was out of the room. “I will wait horo."

Then came back a nomput later and

bobind him came the other man whoss na was Ira Challis, his mansor quist, courtcoa 4 » aud soif-contained as before.

We can. But we can do so botter there. This hall is noisy and draughty, and," he said, with a slight indexion of his voica," there ara many people ahout, especially at this time. Fashionable people," he said, looking at bur,

come here to lunch a good deal.”

“I thought your would doms,” he said, while by his courteous: hamage that. Khoda Poltrel | Lady Cottrell noticed that he used us title in was still peerless; waile-which Way BA- | addressing her. “I have a sitting-room on this doubtedly very much more to the purpoe-the floor which I usa for business purposes while in 2484 other ladies, lunking at her, sokoowledged also London. Will you please to follow ne?"

that she was flawloss. As to her pallor, that "We cannot talk here?" was nothing, aud. honestly--though inwardly -they confessed it. For they know the many reasons there are for a wompu of fashion to ba more pale one day than another; they knew, to usa their own expression, "how the racket of the season takes it out of a woms of the world." And one other thing they knew, or thought they know, namely, that, of all women in the world of fashion, Rhoda Bortzell was the last likely to have any of those little oarking troubles that best so many others among them.

Clarke's Blood Mixture

**FÖR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE." 2470THE WORLD-FAMED BLOOD PURIFIER AND

RESTOMER

COSMOPOLITAN HOUSE...

account of the expiration of the lease the business of the above establishment is now CLOSED. All Claims to be set in to the undersigned within one month from date. KWONG BAM “YU,

Conoanght House Hotel. Hongkong, 1st September, 1903. [2459

NOTION OF REMOVAL.

THE SPANISH CONSULATE has this day boon EEMOVED to No. 20, DES VEUX ROAD, noxt to P. & O. S. N. Co.

Hongkong, 1st September, 1963. [2162

NOTICE OF REMOVAL

THE OFFICE. of the undersigned has this day bon REMOVED to No. . DES VEUX ROAD, next to P. & O. B. N. Co.

A. E. MAKTY. Hongkong, 1st September, 1903, WHAT FINER CAN YOU DRINK THAN

[2463

JOHN JAMESON

·ANDSONS' (DUBLIN) "OWN CABED" Very Old BLACK-BOTTLE.

WHISKEY.

Please seo you got it with Metal (BLUE-One Star.

PINK Two Stars. Capsules

(GOLD-Three Stars

OF ALL DEALERS

Solo Export Bottling Agents to J.KES—

C. DAY & CO, LONDON.

859-1

IS WARRANTED TO CLEAR THE BLOOD from all impurities from whatever sonso arising. For Sorofula, Scurry, Eozoma, Skin and Blood Dis enans, Blackhande, Pimples, and Sores of all kinds, it is a never-failing and permanent Cure. It Cures Old Sores.

Cures Soren on the Nock. Chess Bore Lege

Carne Black-henda or Pimples on the Faço. Caron Scurvy. Cares Ulours.

Cures Blood and Skin Diseason. Cures Glandular Swellings.

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"Very well," and Indy Bottrell, under. standing perfectly what the man meant, rose and fallowed him to a door at the oed of a corridor in which, the lift was.

The room into which Ira Challis ushered ber was the usual hotel sitting room known to all They thought they knew, while knowing travellere; and to one of the armchairs placed nothing; while being unaware that the woman on either side of the table ho now motioned sitting at the tabis smiling at the words, the | Lady Bottrell. Then heʻsaid: jeste, the implied admiration tendered to her, was racked with the fear and dismay of au impending lerror, an impending horror against which there was no armoar, no bulwark that could ward it off. Noae, unless that horror, | that terror, could in some way be silenced or

strnet dumb-or dead.

•

Clears the Blood from all impure Matter from what

ever canso arising. It in a ranl specific for Gout and Rheumatic poina.

-" And to day--to-day---only this afternooð,” It remover the oanse from the Blood and Bozzon.

As this Mixture is pleasant to the taste, and war- the woman was saying to herself, even as she ranted free from anything injurious to the most delimited with others of a little storyette which | nata constitutions of either sex, the Proprietors solicit

was being told in quist murmurs to all at the anfforera to give it a trial to tost its value.

Mr, Stephen Morgan writes: "I have suffered since table by one who was the quickest to glean 1856 with a varicose ulcerated log, and have beou nn. der fire doctors. I also attended two hospitals, but everything worth gathering in London-"Bot and the other that I should have the veins leschel at one they suggested that I should have my leg off five hours ago I said to myself that there was.

од;

And still the little story went o tha decument was reached; the ripples of langiter rang babblaJike round the table-that wellbred laughter which is acianless yet appreciative

and tied up. You may gutes my foolings, therefore, to nothing that could step in to mar Maud's find myself now cured by taking Clarke's Blood happiness, My God!" Mixturs and opplying Clarice's Mimeulous Salve, especially as I have a family of eight chulder. My log measured 19 in. rogol against 14. the other, and part of my work I have done on my kneus. The mat. ter coming from my leg was as black us.noot, but it has now completely healed up, and I am out of agony a thing not known to me for the past eight years, must say I think my case a marvellous one. I com and she joined ía it and smiled with the others, menced taking Clarke's Blool Mixturo' in July, 1898, and wondered how one half of her brain could and the cost has been one small bottle to try the effect

first, and finding the proper remedy, then ton large think and connect itself with those by whom she ones, also a tow pots of the sive, and my leg not I was surrounded, while the other was remote and off. I have spent pourida in other remedios, but they

have been no good to me. I shall be pleased to answer detached from them and using on far different any questions, and afflicted brothers and sisters can things. see my leg for themselves, You can make any use of this letter for the pablic good

$1. Molker-rond, St. John's road, Upper Hollo way, London, N., May 25, 1899."

THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS OF WON- DERFUL CURES FROM ALL PARTS

“I dreamt last night," that other, that escond half was meditating, “for the first time for years that a clond was hanging over us, nud, though I woke more than once afterwards, I Clarke's Blood Mixture is sold a Battics, Es. Du, porer thought it pointed to that which I fear ouch, and in cases containing six times the quantity, now. Fear! Is it fear or certainly? Which? Us suficiat to effect a permanent cure in the front Ah! What else can it be but the latter?"

OF THE WORLD.

majority of Jony-aladding cases BY ALL CHEMISTO

and PATENT MEDICINE VENDOES throughout, What?" the world. Proprietorn, THE LINCOLN AND MID- LANDS COUNTIES Dave COMPANY, Lincoln, England.

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'No. 59, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL):

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As thus she reflected while still alla amilol at

all the talk and chatter-relieval' sometimes CLARKE'S BLOOD MIXTURE. CAUTION--Purobasors of Clarke's Blood Mixture bat not often, by an absolutely witty saying! should see that they get the genuine article. Worth-she was repeating to herself the words less imitations and substitutes are sometimea paimed: off by unprinciplet vendors. The words "Lince which the card bore that the elderly, grey-

| and Midland Candles. Deng Sampazy, Linoole, Eng-kaired man baì given her. The words

land," are engraved on the Government Stamp, and “Clarke's Worlil-famed Blood Mixture," blown in tho, bottle, WITHOUT WHICH NONE ARE GENUINE

"57

"In Challis, Jurisconsett, Boston, Masa"

Not much to remember in that; not much one would think to strike fervor to a woman of PURE FRESH WATER

| position, of wealth; one against whow not even the faintest thistletown of gossip-scandal in THE

THE HONGKONG STEAM WATER-

har case was impossible had ever blown! BOAT CO., LD., is prepared to supply ANY QUANTITY of PURE FRESH Yet those words coupled with the man's WATER to the Shipping, both for Dock and whispered remark: I have come to England Boilers.

to see you privately," ware pregnant with some Call Fing W.

moaning which was anongh to bring a chill of loy fear to her beact.

J. W. KEW. Manager.

lat Floor, 37, Cannaught Bowl, Hongkong, 13th June, 1903,

-[1703

That fear was present to her all through the night that followed, causing her to wako a dozen

"It is possible you may partly game what I have come to England for."

"No. It is impossible," she replied, speak. ing almost imperiously. But once in Boston

there was someone in whom-" "You were deeply interested,

A long time ago. Twenty years ago all bat a few months." "Ya," Lady Bottrell said. "Yes," and as she spoke she looked into the man's eyes, while the haughtiness of her tone had given place to a subdued one. "Yes. Twenty years ago."

**Someɔne-some person," the man went on Á man.”

"My God," ake* whispered beneath her breath; the other not hearing.

"Yes," he repeated. A man. Supposed to be lost at sea-

"Supposed!' her lips white as marble as abo spoke.

**-between New York and Babia, to which latter place he was going."

Supposed she said again, "Yes, until six months ago,”

My God! And now alive P** "Yea. Alive."

Then, suddenly, the man started from his chair and rushed towards Indy Bottrall crying: Nay, Nay. Do not faint nor swoon. Hate no fear. None. Be prudent and all will bo well. Be prudent, I say," while, as he spoke, he flung the window open more widely to give

(To be continued.)

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NOTICE TO LADIES.

[ADAM FLINT wishes to inform her Publis

that she has now REMOVED to the CON- NAUG IT HOTEL, FIRST FLOOR, where she is quasing ah, on a more extensive seale, DRESSMAKING Bod MILLINERY

which will be known PARLOURS, MADAM FLINT & CO.

MODE DE PARIS. MATAM FLINT in fearing for Paris on the 11th INSTANT, and will be pleased to receive orders from Ladies desiring any special goods, in the way of LINGERIE, DRESSES, and HATS in any particular fashion or design, &s. She will also, bring out now goods for the BALL and RACE SEASONS.

MADAM FLINT also begs to inform the Hongkong Ladies that, in order to make room for the New Stock, she will hold a ULEAR- ANCE SALE at her new establishment commencing on the 5TH INSTANT, when some very cheap bargains will be offered,

Hongkong, 3rd August, 1903. 12188