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ORIGINAL

CLIFFORD

WILKINSON 'T'ANSAN

TANSAN GINGER ALE`

Sole Agents:

MINERAL

WATER CO., LD..

KOBE, JAPAN,

H. PRICE & CO.,

WINE MERCHANTS,

12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857

GRAND PRIX PAKIS"

The Highest Possible Award. JOSEPH

GILLOTT'S

PENS.

Of highest Quality, and having Greatest Durability nae there- fore, CHEAPEST,

The Only Aware Chicago, 1803

No. 14,880 +ABA+PR-$ 8+=]$+44+=** HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16TH, 1905. Am WatĦ=+¢180AT- PRICE, $3 PER MONTH.

SPECIAL

BULL DOG BLEND

STOUT & ALE IN SPLITS.

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS..

¡a1342

CUTLER, PALMER

*SPECIAL BLEND" WHISKY

THE LAHMEYER

THE

ELECTRICAL CO.. LD..

LONDON.

FELTEN & GUILLAUME-LAH MEYER WERKE FRANKFURT AM.

.

CHUN

SENG.

No. 39, QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGKONG. LATE OF 51, MAIN STREET, YOKOHAMA

DRAPER & TAILOR, GENTS FURNISHING GOODS, & GENERAL OUTF" TTER

ALL NEW GOODS IN STOCK.

A Trial Solicited. Fit and Entisfaction Guaranteed.' Inspection Invited. Hongkong, 27th May, 1995.

FOR ESTIMATES OF ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS OF ANY DESCRIPTION

Apply to- SIEMSSEN & CO., SOLE AGENTS FŐR CHINA,

JOHN ROBERTS

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

-;

USEFUL XMAS PRESENTS.

BEST ELECTRO-PLATED WARE.

ENTIRELY NEW STOCK.

BREAKFAST CRUETS

LUNCHEON CRUETS DINNER CRUETS

BUTTER DISHES

CAKE KNIVES

NUT CRACKERS, por pair

FROM $8.00 CLARET JUGS...

14.50 CAKE BASKETS

16.50 JAM DISHES

(504) BUTTER KNIVES ... 5.00 ¦ CHEESE SJOOPS ...

1,26 JAM SPOONS

FISH KNIVES and FORKS IN CASEN...

T

12

without. " DESSERT KNIVES and FORKS in Cases TEA and COFFEE SETS

& COMPANY.

BILLIARD TABLE MAKERS.,

BOMBAY..

La2065

LTD.

JA NATURAL TONIC TABLE WATER ¡BOTTLED AT TAKARAD- ZCKA JAPAN

Sole Agents:

N

"URIGINAL

CLIFWED-

WILKINSON

TANNAN MINERAL WATER CO., L

KOBE

H, PRICE & CO.,

WINE MERCHANTS,

12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

INSURANCE

EVERY FACILITY

afforded by

́ ́ Undertake to Supply a First-class full sized Billiard Table, desigă No.3, to following Spesifics. tion, viz; on Eight Massive turned Legs, raised panels to Knees, Carved Brackets, Screwed In councation with Life Assurance Business is Mouldings, double bolted, best Welsh Slate Bed, extra heavy solid cushion rails fitted with our new low eet Express Cushions, patent invisible Fooket Plates, best Whipcord Pockets, Six Chalk THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE Cups, Superline West of England Cloth, and patent adjusting toes with lever for forelling complete with the following accessories —

12 Selected Ash Cues

1 Buit Rest with Patent Bruss Head.

I Billiard Rest with Patent Brass Head.

Wall Cue Rack.

1 Wall Butt Rack.

1 Sat Billiard Rales, Framed.

1 Best Billiard Brush.

1 Set " Crystalata" or "Bonzoline" Bild, Balls,

1 Box Best Cao Tips, Assorted.

1 Cue Tip Fastener with Elle.

1 Bottle Cue Cement.

1 Box Silk Spots,

2 Dozen Best White Chalk.

COMPANY.

ONE of the largest and wealthiest of the

Provident Institutions of the United Kingdom. Forms of application and all information will be promptly afforded on application to

DODWELL & CO., LD.,

Agents.

$1566)

HOTELS

Packed and delivered free on Board Hongkong or Shanghai Harbour for the sum of Rs. 1,400 | HONG KONG HOTEL

FROM $1200

18.60

1 Long Balt.

9.00.

1 Mid Butt.

1 Billiard Marking Board.

1.25

1 Dust Cover for Table.

2.00,

Straightedge and ↳ Cirelo, -

1.50

1 Best Spirit Level.

+

1 Smoothing Iron with Shao.

FROM $35.00

A B'esd

of Belented

Distillations of the

Finest Bootch Whiskies.

pur sel

}

por dozon pairs 27.00 50.00

0.09

melt.

LANE. CRAWFORD & CO.

Hoogkong, 18th December, 1905.

$

-136

PEERLESS.

SCOTS WHISKIES

OP

$10.50 For Case.

Apply to

SIEMSSEN & CO., Hongkong.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY

[a65

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casis 375 lbs. not $4.75 per cask ex Factory. In Bags 250 lbs. net 82.80 per bag er Factory,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Hongkong, 1st October, 1995.

WANTED

F42773

Wendle the CENTURY THERMAL

ANTED GOOD BUSINESS MAN

BATH CABINET. 500,600 sold in Great Britain. Large discounts. Big profits. All advertising frer. Address COLONIAL," 250, Century House, 203/205, Regent Street, London, W.

WANTED.

2686

Bligh Correspondent

Yan xperienced young PORTUGUESE

Shanghai

and Bookkeeper a position in a Mercantile Firm. No objection to outports. preferred.

Apply to

"CLERK" Care of Daily Prése" Office. Hongkong, 11th December, 1905,"

Two

FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

2791

WO MOTOR-BOATS suitable for Office

Work or Ferries to the Shipping. For particulare, apply to

MOTOR."

Care of Daily Press" Office. Hongkong, 5th December, 1905, 12734

FOR SALE.

LARGE WELL-BUILT GODOWN suitable for storing and discharging goods. Situated at Fong Chinon, Canton, went to Degera. AENHOLD, Katberg & Co.'s Godown.

Apply to

TUNG YUEN, 163, Wing Lok Street. Hongkong, 17th November, 1905. (2397 NOTICE.

GE

EO. FENWICK & CO., LD., Engiffoers ,&c., are open to receive OFFERS FOR THE PURCHASE OF THEIR WANCHAI

PROPERTY, comprising portions of Marine Lots Nos, 31 and 36; approximate ares 43,000 square feet.

For further particulare apply to the Company, Hongkong, 12th July, 1906.

133

THE HONGKONG FROZEN FOOD

SUPPLY,

REDUCTIONS IN PRICES.

NUSTOMERS are requested-to-note-the-

following reductions ju prices.

Australian Smoked Mullet ... 50 eta. per lb.

Schnapper 50

*

Oystow doz. bottles $1.00 per bot. Houphour, 9th November, 1905 2598

1)

1.90

SUN FAT & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN LADIES AND CHILDREN'S UNDERWEAR,

EMBROIDERIER, LAURS, SILKS, PONGENS,

GRASS LINEN, SHAWLS, HANDKERCHIEFS, BLANKETS, TRUNKS, EBONY FURNITURE AND FANCY GOODE, No. 12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

Any Order Promptly Attended To. Hongkong, 12th January, 1905. -

HAIG & HAIG, Ln., DISTILLERS SINCE 1679.

3 Star, SPECIAL-The finest of all" Peg" WHISKIES at

Illustrated price lists giving prices and particulars of everything pertaining to billiards can be had on application from the Offices of this paper.

Hongkong, 1st April, 1904

HIRANO.

THE LEADING MINERAL WATER OF THE EAST, ·

1871-1

THE HIRANO MINERAL WATER CO., LD., KOBE.

AGENTS: F. BLACKHEAD & CO.

*...18,00 ...122.00

Hongkong, 16th August, 1905.

5 Star, Liquer-Exquisito, best in the World for Club or Private use at...

Stop drinking rink. Smoky Staff, because it comes through the Sona." Try Halo & HATO's WHISKIES; pare, wellow matured, non-smoky, delicate Davors. Onse tried, preferred to all others, Solo Agents for Hongkong:

2664

F. BLACKHEAD & Co

THE COSMOPOLITAN

À MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

„Everyone is bound to appreciate | certainly a heterogenous collection of the departure from the stereotyped canons wit and widem. but it is the ident of which this magazine promises...its a Por Eastern magazine, for it will pages are bright without being shocking, sober the over-spirited or brighten the Its articles are crisp, origital, and will gloomy, just, as the epirit moves the written, ils ilustracions are artistic and rendor... Taken all altogether THE enhance the value of the journal....."--| COSMOPOLITAN is brightly written. Hongkong Daily Press, 27th October, up-to-date, and entirely interesting..... 1905.

-Hongkong Telegraph, 29th September. ***The praise which we gare to the first. 1905. cumber the COSMOPOLITAN may honestly be repeated iz reforemen to the weeend mabar. There thing very attractive in the unity which pervades the magazine through its being a one-tour affair, and that ons man bring such an aente student of passing events and wielding such ai vigorous per-N-C. Daily News, 30th October, 1995,

The

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k doubt success -Shanghai Tires, 20th September, 1905, -

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"......Le champ d'observation de notre eaven confréro si si vaste que nas merovous que la copie ne lui manquera pas, et nous lui souhaitons tout le succes desirable."-Ecko de Chine, 2011. September, 1905,

quite a new feature in Far Eastern joarulisin the quality of the lettorpés in. well worth the band- some setting. We have found a good deal of sound common

articles as well as little fun nod huon... matters calenlated to interost Chinese Treaty ports, hat in Japan" not only the foreigner in Shanghai and Japan Chronists, 12th October, 1905-

Though the language of the alaff is not English, the English of Tux Cosmopolitang idiomantically and gram- matically is irreproachable.

"... It is a very promising publication. "China Gazette, il September, 1905.

The pictures are excellent... OLD WOR: "...... Among these are The Art of dors how it is to be produced math after Eating a witty and observant is.month."-Japan Daily Mail, 13th Octh- course on modern table manners..... It is ber, 1905,

In a few months the magazine will be written for subscribers only, and you will not be able to buy single copies.

The Christmas Number will contain about 150 pages with nearly 100 illus trations and will cost $200 to non-subscribers whereas subscribors will get it at the asual price of $1.00.

SUBSCRIPTION.-20.00 for six months plus 50 cents posinge. Sub- scribers joining now many still get back-uumbers from September, but as wo haye only 81 copies left for September and 53 for October it will be necessary. to apply at occo to:-

THE COSMOPOLITAN,

35, SZECHUEN ROAD, SHANGHAL Please note my name as a subscriber to the CosxorOLITAN for 6 months beginning from

Enclosed please find 36,50. Nowe of Subscriber

Address

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Special quotations for Balls, Dances, Pienica, &c.

· SOLE AGENTS—

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15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

Hongkong, 9th November, 1905.

1=37

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23 & 25, QUEEN'S ROAD.

[1905

NEW STOCK 175 ORRISTMAS GAMES in Great Variety. 1.75 INXSTANDS, DATE STANDS, CARD CASES, WRITING CASES, LETTER CASES, PURSES, FRAMES, &C.

John Chingman at Home, by Bay, Hardy 35.00 Captaingal, by Jacobs

The Brighton Tragedy

How to Collect Books

$4.75

5.00

How to Speak

Lee's Laws of Shipping and Insurance

11.00

Life of Matthew Arnold

2,50

Stege of Port Arthur

190

First Aid to the lojured, by Cantlic Ships and Shipping

40+ 0.85

Donald's Engineers' Almanack

0.85 SETS OF FRENCH CURVES.

LARGE STOCK OF DIARIES BY LEADING

PUBLISHERS.

THE NEW CHRISTMAS VOLUMES.

POST CARI 6--Views or HONGKONG

50 Cents Per Dozen,

BALL POINTED PENS,

BOXES OF PAINTS.

A Bpecial New Selection of

PLAIN AUTOGRAPH CHRISTMAS CARDS.

Now this Year.

A Very Fine Sclection of

JUVENILE BOOKS, FOR ALL AGES, TOT BOOKS IN PAPER OF LINEN, from 25 cts. to 5,00

A Choice Selection of Xmas PRESENTS.

CUTLER, PALMER & CO.

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

OF

LONDON, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.

ESTABLISHED 1915.

BRANDY

****

**

*******

•

47

FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE,

Lining accommodation for 300 persons. 191 Bedrooms.

Elegantly Farrished Reception Roomy. Private Bar and Billiard Rooms 1nt Hotel..

residents.

Bydraulic Lifts to each Floor.

Electric Lighting and Fans.

Every Comfort,

Ladies' Afternoon Tea Recmu.

Ladies' Clonk Rooms

Matron in attendance.

CHARGE MODERATE, AND NO EXTRUS

A. F. DAVIES,

Acting Manager. KING EDWARD HOTEL.

A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL.

Ladies' Afternoon Tea-Rooms, Private Bar and Billiard-Room. Hot and Cold. Water throughout, Electrically-Lighted.

required).

Electric Faux fi

Electric Passenger Elevator to each floor. Table D'Hote et separate table.

For Terms, &o, apply to the

MANAGER.

Hongkong, 24th July, 1905.

(a35

A

CONNAUGHT HOTEL.

[12410

FIRST CLASS HOTEL Situated near

the Banks and Principal Officer,

Excellent Cuisine and Wines

Large and Lofty Rooms, Elegantly Furnished Hydraulic Elevator, hot and cetri' water throughout.

Special Rates for Tourists. Launch Service for Guests, For Terma, apply to the

MANAGER.

Hongkong, 31st October. 1902.

"BOA VISTA" (HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH

CHINA), MACAO.

www

AS been re-opened

under European

H management and mest strict supervision

as to food, cleanliness, and hygione of the place.

All comforts of a home.

A mest pleasant retreat for those desirous of Low days and quiet, Comfortabl

accommodation for travellers · Fisit to the historics) and pieturesque of Marso.

Por Care.

$22.50

20.00

16.75

WHISKY, PALL MALL·

20.00

JÓHN WALKER & SONS'

OLD HIGHLAND-

2

12.50

O. P. & CO'S SPECIAL

BLEND

10.50

PORT WINE, INVALIDS

20.00

13.75

20.00

16.00

40.50

· SHAMKEN-CANTON,

DOURO SHERRY, AMOROSO

LA TORRE BENEDICTINE, D.O.M.

THE ABOVE EXCLUSIVELY SHIPPED TO

SIEMSSEN & CO..

HONGKONG AGENTS.

094

KOWLOON HOTEL. KOWLOON.

CARLE AUDEZ58 (--" CHEF.”

DELIGHTFUL SITUATION. UNEXCELLED RESORT FOR TRAVELLERS AND RESIDENTS.

BILLIARDS AND BOWLING, LAWN AND GARDENS,

Matso is 40 miles south-west of Hongkong One steamer (sa. Hengshan), daily to and from Hongkong, and two steamers to and from Canton, give easy communication with bosh these centres

Cable Address=“BOAVIFTA."

For Tarms, apply

8241;

THE MANAGER,

VICTORIA HOTEL.

On the British Concession.

MACAO HOTEL.

MAGAO, CHINA.

In the Centre of the Praya Grande...

Both Hotels under experienced European Management.

Every Comfort and Convenience for Residents and Touriste.

JAS. W. OSBORNE, PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER.

2745

26967

WY. FARMER,

Proprietor.