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ROBINSON

PIANO Co. LD.

SPECIAL

NEW YEAR

PRESENTS.

MASER TIANO PLAYERS

ON

TO LET

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1905.

NE ROOM, so the First Floor of

Alexandra Buildings. Apply to

SECRETARY,

A. S. Watson & Co., Limited. Hongkong, 10th Dacombor, 1904.

TO LET.

*86"

SCIENTIFICO MISCELLANY.

pared a curative sarum, with which he has very successfully treated both acute and chronic rheumatism.

ELECTRICAL GERM-KILLING - PRESERVED

BRAINS- NOVEL, SURGERY-EVERY DAY

A peculiar sign of lead poisoning is known as PAINS -A HIDDEN PERUTHE NEW

the dead line. This is મ black deposit of lead ELECTROMOBILE & GAUGE OF ADULTERA-sulphide between the inner surface of the TION-INSANITY AND THE HAIR-THE LATEST SERUM-THE DEAD LINE,

The electrical treatment, of savage, as tried by Dr. Rideal, at Guildford. Eng, scopus to have proven simple, inexpensive and effective. A TODOWN No. 3, New Praya, Kennedy solution of salt and water, or area ordinary s

T Town. Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkomis. 22nd November. 1904,

TO LET.

NOS. 19 & 21, SEYMOUR NOAT).

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gums and the teeth, and a late melical writer notes that it is almost invariably prosont whenever there is the slightest space between the gam and the beeth. The smullesi distinct fragment is as significant as a larg- deposit: THE

CHELTENHAM'S" APPEAL

DISMISSED.

ARGUMENTS AND JUDGMENT.

water, is decomposed in a special elec trolyzer of large surface and using a large volume of current, and the so-called oxychloride solution resulting is molded to the sewngo le

Vice Admiral Avellam prosided last mouth gunntity varying with ciremastauces. Any kind of sowage liquid may be treated. The

at an Admiralty Cuncil constitating the worst forms are madily made as free from Supreme Naval Prize Court, at St. Petersburg, bacteria as drinking water, and raw of the British stearer Chettenkung, which was –

to investigate the circumstances of the seizure receiving 181 gallons of solution. per 1,900 gallons showed a reaction of organisms from captured by the Russians and taken to Vladivo Nos. 74, GAINE ROAD.

23,200,000 to 540 per cubic centimetro in fiertok carly in July last. The membury included GODOWNS Now, 34, 31, 34, Praya Bant hours, bacilli aflied to those

Admiral Kagnakoll and Professor de Martens. typhoid dim. The result has always been regarded lure as a inishing from over 1,500,000) to none, Apply to...

foregone conclusion, but the case for the owners "COMPRADORE'S DEPARTMENT,

Stadents of the brain are hampered by the was presunted to-day by the advocates MM Nippon Yusn Kaisha.

Feurcity of specimens of famous brains.The Bulatzel and Lachovetsky with such forensic Hongkong. 1st December, 1904.

French Société Mutuelle d'Autopsie. founded skill that when the court was cleared for the in 1881. now has ten brains or more, including consideration of the verdict the issue was those 62 Grubofia. Bertillon und G. de

believed to hang in. the balanes. Mortillet the Cornell Brain Association of the Cheltenham submitted three arguments founded by Prof. Wildor in 1889, has bequeath. in favour of the revocation of the verdict of the

to it seventy brains, of which thirteen my Vladivostok Prize Court:-

$32, 8495. $595. $700. Possession from 1st January, 1905.

TESID YEARS IN HONG KONG

WITHOUT A FAULERE..

EW SINGING

MACHINES./

NO A PHONOGRAPHIC ATTEMPT

L

TO LET.

181

TWO ROOMS, with Verandah und Bath Rooms, on the 1st Floor of College Chambers.(No, 31, Wyndham Street).

Apply to

DAVID SASSOON & CO., Hourkong, 30th December, 1904

HONGKONG CLUB.

TO LET.

LD.

(3021

UT AN ACTUAL REPRODUCTION AL Surround Floor of the Annex, suitable for SUITE of TWO ROOMS, on the Offers. For particulars apply to the undersigned.

C. II. GRACE, Secretary. Hongkong, 4th June, 1934,

F THE VOICES OF THE WORLD'S

FST SINGERS AND BANDS.

$00 To $125.

JECHSTEIN

TO LET,

VICTORIA BUILDINGS. Hongkong, 29th December, 1904.

TO LET,

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been delivered and preserved; and the American Anthropometric Society, started in Philadelphia in 1890, has six. brains of scholars. In Sweden. Retzius is making a comparison of the brains of an astronomer, a mathematician, a physicist, and a. pedagogue.

1. That there was 21

The owners

reason from the Bassian legal standpoint for considering Fuann an enemy's port.

Tout the Fusan-Seoul Railway was private concern, largely owned by British and French shareholders; and

3. That the proportion of contrabandubio to uncontrabandable cargo had not been determin-

In reranting a needle from the Bech, Dr. Rontgen rays, then moves the limb about natil E. W. Shenton first locates it by means of i ed. the needle appears as a single point. An ink spot is placed over each ond, ant the two spots are pressed together, slowly foreing the sharp point of the needle through theskin.

pre-

Vague pains, worse on rainy days are among the most frequent complaints that physicians ODOWNS No. 100 and 101, Praya East, and dispensaries are called upon to treat. Dr.

with Water Frontage.

James J. Walsh, of New York, states that it is Apply to

no longer the general rule to attribute these to so called muscular rheumatism, or a [disposition to uric acid poisoning, but the fact is becoming recognized that the pains result from a variety of causes, largely dependent NE LARGE GODOWN, No. 112A, Praya upou ocenpation. Different work tends to

East

fatigue different muscles, persons lifting heavy weights being able to lumbago, while Fossession from 1st January, 1905.

motormen and others who use the legs actively Apply to- D. DORABJEE,

King Edward Hutol. may be expected to suffer from sciatica. Rainy day pains result from low barometric Hongkong, 25th December, 1914.

pressure, which forces the blond to the surface. and causes sensitive nerve endings to be pressed upon just at the time when lack of nutrition from slow circulation makes them irritable.

ROYAL PIANOS

0

AND THE BEST MAKERS OF

EUROPE.

UR OWN MAKE

$400 TO $550.

CASH OR

TO LET.

ORD FLOOR, snitable for Office.

3RD

Apply to--

CREDIT

SYSTEM.

Hongkong, 9th Decensber, 1994.

TO LET

TO LET.

12360

AYRIE Unfurnished, to Let in about 2 months. Newly repaired, Painted und Colourwashed.

No. 1, RELILIOS TERRACE, ist Row. No. 1,

3rd Row. 2nd Row.

14

Nos, 11 & 14, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, No. 14.

st. Floor.

BUNGALOW (Furnished), at New Terri ory, Kowloon, 4 Rooms, low rental.

Apply to-

LINSTEAD & DAVIS.

Hongkong, 12th Decomber, 1904

TO LET UNFURNISHED.

DESIRABLE RESIDENCE

190

189

WING CHEONG, 35, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 3rd June, 1904.

[91

TO LET.

T East Point, a NEW BRICK-BUILT TWO STORIED GODOWN with Water Frontsge. Apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. Hongkong, 26th November, 1904.

TO LET.

88

¡NE GROUND FLOOR for Shop and ROOMS for Offices on 2nd Floor of New Buildings, next to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Fedder's Street. Electric Lift.

Apply to-

AHMET RUMJAHN,

61, Queen's Road. Hongkong, 2nd January, 1985,

(138

TO LET.

HREE

FIRST-CLASS SHOPS, European Style, in Kowloon. Posses- sion on or about 31st August, 1805. Moderate

in Rentals.

A MACAO, Excellent position and near

Praya Grande; contains 12 Rooms.

For arms sad particulars, apply to-

SUPERINTENDENT, E. E. Telegraph Co.

Hongkong, 16th December, 1904,

TO LET.

NE FURNISHED BEDROOM, in Das Voeux Road. Central position, Light and Airy. Or can be let as an Office.

Apply to-

"F.," Curs of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 31st December, 1904.

TO LET.

NO.1, RIPON TERRACE. ›

A.

.95

HOUSE In WONG-NEL-CHONG

ROAD, facing Race-course.

FLATS in MoLETON TERRACE, facing the Polo Ground,

OFFICES in course of erection, CONNAUGHT ROAD (near BLAKE PIEE).

GODOWNS;

Apply to

PRAYA BAST.

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.

Hongkong, 29th June, 1904.

TO LET.

181

EUROPEAN HOUSE, No. 158, Praya Fast, Four Rooms and Kitchen, Ser-

nts Quartars, Bathrooms, Hot and Cold Vater, "Good Sea View.

Apply to-

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. Hongkong, 8th August, 1904.

BACHELOR QUARTERS TO LET.

87

LARGE AIRY ROOM, in the Central District, with Bright Versudah, and throom and Kitchon attached. Terms

derato...

Apply to-

3.

Care of Daily Press Office. Hongkong, 24th December, 1904.

TO LET.

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„FFICE ROOMS at Nos. 12 &.14, Queen's

Road Central (Corner House); 's GDOWNS at Back. Can be let separately holly. Roat aederate, cheaper if the whole itiken on a long loase,

ETEN EUROPEAN HOUSES, late Blackbead&Co. and Shewan, Tomes & Co.'s Oce Ground Floors and Top Floors with

•Gowns can be 1st separately on leases.

pply to CHUNG SEUN KOO,

12 & 14, Queen's Road Central. songkong, 24th December, 1904.

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HUMPHREYS' ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., LD.

The mysterious deviations of ships com- passes, which have caused many vessels to go far ont of their courses are being in Testigated by August Krogh The Danish vessel Belge, which was wrecked last Jane on the Rockall rocks, seems to have been led 25 miles from her intuled route by some strlen perturbation of the needle, and other observa tions tend to prove that magnetic changes occur in this vicinity that are more sudden and greater in degree than have been recorded at any land station. Within a few miles of the spot two captains have noted compass varia- tions of deg, or 10 dag., a distant sorore borealis being visible in one case.

A novel French electric motor carriage uses slow-speed motors directly connected to the axios instead of high-speed actors working chains or gearings Accumulators supply Lars rent, and the saving by avoiding gear friction is estimated at 20 to 30 per cent. The fire speeds range between 2 und 19 miles an hour.

A logacy of $125,000 is to be applied by tho University of Leipsic to the study of the his- tory of medicine through a medical museum and a seminary for students of medical history.

The watering of wine, or adulteration in

many liquids or even solids, is infallibly sold by the telephons in the novel method of M. Manourrier, of Paris Two glasses, one con- taining the wine to be tested and the other the same quantity of wine known to be pure, are placed on an instrument resembling a pair of scales. The telephone is in contact with both liquids, and if both are pure no sound is heard, Lat if one contains water the telephone sounds until a pointer is moved to such a point on dial that the conductivity of the liquids is JO. 1, STEWART TERRACE, the Peak squalized. The number indicated on the dict is Apply to

Hongkong, 21st June, 1904.

TO LET

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THE HONG KONG LAND INVEST. MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD. "Hongkong, 28th March, 1904.

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HIRANO WATER.

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F. BLACKHEAD & CO., AGENTS. Hongkong, 31st July, 1903.

*TO

IMPORTING HOUSES,

GENERAL

SUPPLY STORES,

Ladies' 8 Gents' Outfitters, &c.

2578

Donald Mackegg

$7, miten St., MANCHESTER, EKG. Buy on Commiunion for Foreign & Golonist Firms 1 yener porsonal experience at the traás both at home and,

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and Bankers: The ifanchester "Pour Li Hashing Co., kidn Morchester, Colonial sternocu gáyesi

ou sypkaskus.

THE AMERICAN SYSTEM

ENTISTRY

Dr. M., H. CHAUN,

1700

37, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, HONGIƠNG From the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Hongkong, 3rd June,, 1904

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then read, what reference to a previously pre- pared chart shows the exact amount of water.

An investigation in asylums of the United States, Canada and England, with a total of 16,512 patients, has shown Hobart Lungdon only 703 insane people with light hair, and caly 66 with red or auburu kair. That is, 96 per¦ cent of the insane are brunettes, with brown or black luir. Among the blonde ingans, howorer, the percentage of incurables is much the greater, a fact, like that first stated, for which no explanation appears.

For two years the conviction Las been grow ing upon Dr. Menzer, of Hello, that articalar rheumatism is a parasitical disease, due to a streptococcus tha', enters the organism through the lungs. Acting on this theory, he kas pre-

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THE NECESSITY

hrushing the teeth morning and evening becomes a pleasure if you use

CALVERT'S

CARBOLIC

Tooth Powder

with its delicate perfume-and-agreeable-Aarte,

It preserves the teeth by thorough and antiseptic cleansing, and also gives them the requisite polish without injuring the enamel.

Calvert's Prickly-heat Soap

is verticeable in hot dimates as a picventive of prickly heat and other irritation of the skin. It is pleasantly perfamed and contains ro Crystal Carbolic. These articles can or readily obtained from most Chemists and Storckupen.

F. C. Calvert & Co., Manchester,

ENGLAND.

77-9

+

The contention of the defence that Koron

could not be considered as enemy's country was supported by the fact that the Korean Minister

still remained at St. Petersburg, notwith standing the Japanese declaration on the subject. Couns- admitted that the question was a complicated one, but maintained that il

AAN

DADFRING

TRACK MARK

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Fine Skin

is made finer, and bad is made better by

'DARTRING' 'LANOLINE'

Na insitation can hear the Danring"

No imitations can be called Partring'

DARTRING TOLET LANGJINI

Lors de mes

TARTRING LANDLINE FOILET SOAP

Demand the genuine

Whote.ale:

6. Heltora drainét, Zanas, big,

GREGOR & CO.,

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WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

HONGKONG.

SANDEMAN & CO's. PORTS.

SANDEMAN'S INVALID PORT

SANDEMAN B TWO CROWNS PORT

SANDEMAN'S FRUITY OLD PORT

Per Case Quarts $20.00

21.00

22.00

SANDEMAN'S FIVE DIAMONDS PORT

32.00

SANDEMAN'S VERY CRUSTY OLD PORT

12.00

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N.B-All our Wines and Spirits are Bottled ob Home, thereby ensuring to oar

Customers all the advantages necrning from bottlings done af komo ander the direct supervision.

of the Growers and Distillers, as compared to bottling, dons in Chist by Chinamen at the service

of European Firs.

THE

maritime law that owners were not punishable if any doubt existed.

fundamental principle is Russa THE

The cargo of the Cheltenham ransisted chiefly of 67,500 sleepers and logs, and 375 cases of beer. The wood, it was contended, was not necessarily intended for war purposes. If a ship Tere sizable the contrabandable cargo must videnes to show that the wood curried by the then the beer. It might as well be argued that Cheltenham was greater la weight and bulk if matches were entrained a hundred boxes. would justify the confiscation of the ship, despite the presence of fifty cases of uncon trabandable machinery. It was as reasonable to contend that raw wood ought to be can- fiscated because it might eventually be trans- formed into military uniforms.

exceed the uncontrabandable. There was no

Counsel asked that a Commission should be appointed to ascertain the weight and bulk of the respective portions of the cargo, which was still at Vladivostok.

The Procurator, in his reply, ignored the extraneous issues, and confined himself to the main question whether the consignment of sloepare and other wood was calculated to aid and abet the Japane e.

At the opening of the court some sensation was caused by the reading of the official state. mout of the facts, wherein it was assorted that the captain of the Cheltenham bad informed the Russian Lieutenant Gervais, who was

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CIGARETTES OF FUTURE.

ONCE SMOKED ALWAYS SMOKED,

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ALEXANDRIA & CAIRO, EGYPT.

FINEST EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES.

LOTUS,

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Gold Tippe Medium Size

- $7.75 par 100

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Large Size $460 per

Medina Size 4.20

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KARIM,

Earge Size $3.75 per 100

Medium Size 53,50

HABIT

Large Size 80,00 per 100

Medium $2.75 par 100

SOLE AGENES POR JUNGAONG · ·

ineed in charge of the ship, that he had been 1615) KRUSE & CO.,

instructed by the owners to hold himself at the disposal of the Japanese Government.

The Court deliberated for twenty minutes. The judgment upheld the seizure of the ship. and declared that there was no reason to inquire farther into the question of the constitution of the eargo.

Mr. Wardrop, the British Consul-General, watched the proceedings.

M

13U BISHI

GOSHI-KWAISHA

(MITSU BISHI CQ.)

COAL

which

DEPARTMENT

MARUNO UCHI, TOKIO. Cable Address, "IWASAKI," applies to all Branch Offices and Hong-

kong and Shanghai Agenoiss.

used,

Al, ABC 5th Edition, Western Union Codes

All Letters Addressed:- Manager, MitsubiSHI Co., with name of place under. BRANCH OFFICES:-- NAGASAKI MOJI, KOBE, KARATSU AND HANKOW.

AGENCIES - SHANGHAI: H. J. H. TRIPP.

BONGKONG: H. U. JEFFRIES.

MANILA: COMPANIA MARITIMA

YOKOHAMA; M. ASADA. CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Im porial Japanes Nary and Foreign Navies; the Imperial Arsenala; the Imperial Railway; Sanyo, Kinshu and the other Principal Rail ways; Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mall and Freight Steamers,

EXPORTERS OF COAL to Hongkong, Shanghai, Hankow, Singapore, Manila, North China, Korean ports and America.

SULE PROPRIETORS of Takashima, Oobi, Shinnew, Namazata and Kami-Yamada Collieries and also Hojo Colliery, which will be ready to produce ou a large scale the best Buzau Coal from 1905.

CONNAUGHT HOUSE.

Keep it Handy

For an emergency. When accidents happen, or sudden sickness comes, nothing will bring such prompt rellef as that famous old remedy.

PERRY DAVIS'

Painkiller

It cures CRAMPS, COLIC, CHOLERA, DYSENTERY, DIARRHOEA SPRAINS, BITES and STINGS.

JAPAN

(3516-2.

COALS.

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA MITSUI & CO)

HEAD OFFICE :--),' SURUGA-CRO, TOKYO. LONDON BRANCH :- 34, LIME STREET, B.C.

HONGKONG BRANCH:-PRINCE'S BUILDINGs, Ice House Staret

OTHER BRANCHES :

New York, San Francisco, Hamburg, Bombay, Singapore, Sourabsyo, Manila, Arany, Shanghai, Chefoo, Vientsin, Newohwang, Port Arthur, Seoul, Chemulpo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Kura, Shimonoseki, Moji, Wakamatan Karatan, Nagasaki, Kückinotsu, Sasebo, Maidzuru Miike, Hakodate, Taipeh, &o.

Telegraphic Address: "MITSUI" (A,B,C. and A i Codnot CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial Japanese Navy and Arsenals and the Brate Railways; Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Mail and Freight Steamers,

SOLE PROPRIETORS of the Famous Miike, Tagawa, Yamano and Ida Coal Mines; and BOLE AGENTS for Hekola, Honde, Kanada, Fujinotana, Mameda, Masinoura, Onoura Otenji,

Sasahara Taubakura, Yoshingtani, Yoshio, Yunokibara, and other Coals.

8. MINAMI, Manager, Hongkong.

SITE AT PEAK FOR SALE.

117

FOR SALE

PROPERTY FOR SALE.

TOS. 237 and 239, QUEEN'S ROAD.

FOR SALE, the Piece or Parcel of LAND close to Stewart Gap and Peak Church,

Bole Agents for Kigio, Komatsu (Tagawa) EAST, Suitable for Business premises containing 20,000, square foot there or there

and Matsushima Coals.

The Head and Branch Offices and the Agen. | for Sale with immediate possession.

cies of the Company will receive any order for Coals produced from the above Collieries.

Coal sold in 1903 by the Company amounted

to 1,210,000 tons.

TAKASHIMA COAL.

New and additional ebafts at the Takashims

C. C. T For particulars, apply to

Care of Daily Press Offles. -Hongkong, 30th December, 1904

3017

FOR SALE.

NE VERTICAL ENGINE with Fly Colliery bave been completed and this well-Wheel and Governor, ons Cylinder 9 known best and most economical steam Coal in

abouts.

The ground is at present laid out as a Croquet Lawn and Bowling Green. It is enolased in stone wall, and a Wooden Summer House, a Lawn Mower, and a Roller will be included,

For Terme, apply to--

TURNER & CO. Hongkong, 23rd December, 1904,

2973

TISITORS TO CANTON Should purchase

the East is now produced in abundance and inches diameter by 9 inch stroke. can be supplied in any quantity.

Hongkong, 26th April, 1904. –

One VERTICAL ENGINE with FlyV

DU

PURE FRESH WATER..

THE HONGKONG STEAM WATER.

ANY QUANTITY of POLE FRESH WATER to the Shipping, both for Deck and Boilers.

Call Flag W.

J. W. KEW. Manager, let Floor, 37, Connaught Road Hongkong, 18th June, 1903.

2901

Wheel and Governor, ons Cylinder 124 inchesFROM HONGKONG TO CANTON dinmeter by 18 inch stroke.

BY THE PEARL RIVER."

One VERTICAL ENGINE with Fly Wheel and Governor, two Cylinders 94 inches diameter by 12 inch stroke.

One HŐRIZONTAL ENGINE with Fly Wheel and Governor, one Cylinder 113 inches diameter by 36 inch streke.

One HORIZONTAL ENGINE with Fly Wheel and Governor, one Cylinder 16 inches diameter by 3 inch stroke.

The above can be inspected, and all particulars obtained, upon application to the Manager, Kowloon Docks.

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Hongkong, 12th December, 1904

BT

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CAPTAIN C. V. LLOYD (6.8 HANKOW With Illustrations, Maps and Plans.

Price......................$1.90

On Sale st-

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Hongkong: "DAILY PRESS" Office.

Mesra. KELLY & WALSH. Messrs. W. BLEWER &CO Messrs, A. S. Watson & Co

Canton:

Hangkong, 4th October, 1903.