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XMAS AND

NEW YEAR

HAMPERS

(EROM 815. AND Upwards)

Hampers, containing 12 Bottles,

CHOICEST, WINES,

SPIRITS, &c., &0.

Call and make your own selvation.

H. PRICE & CO.,

12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL!

Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 18 5 7

FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON

· CHAMPAGNES Most and Chandon's (Eperner) DRY IMPERIAL

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SPECIAL-

BULL DOG Brand

STOUT & ALE

IN SPLITS.

S. WATSON & CO..

LIMITED.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

-ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

(1949

CUTLER, PALMER

& CO28

"SPECIAL BLEND" WHISKY.

~Apply-Lar

A Blond

of Selected

Dietillations of the

First Sootch Whiskies.

$10.50 Per Case,

SIEMSSEN & CO., Hongkong. [65

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks 375 lbs, net $4.75 per cask ax Factory. In Baga 250 the. not $2.80 per bag ex Factory.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Ganoral Managers. Hongkong, 1st October, -1905.

FOR SALE

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Special quotations for Balls, Dances, Picnics, &e,

SOLE AGENTS-

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Hongkong, 9th November, 1905.

15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

CUTLER, PALMER & CO.

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CP

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NOTICE.

FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF CUSTOMERS.

WILL

LANE. CRAWFORD & CO'S STORE.

REMAIN OPEN UNTIL 6 O'CLOCK P.M.

EVERY EVENING UNTIL SATURDAY, THE 23RD INST.

PASS BOOKS SHOULD BE SENT IN IF POSSIBLE NOT LATER THAN 4 P.M. ON SATURDAY.

THE STORE WILL BE CLOSED FOR THE CHRISTMAS. HOLIDAYS ON THE 25TH AND 6TIL INST.

25.

ATTENTION 18 DRAWN TO A CONSIGNMENT OF

CALIFORNIAN NAVEL ORANGES AND CANADIAN APPLES JUST RECEIVED EXEMPLESS OF CHINA" IN SPLENDID CONDITION.

ORANGES

APPLES

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16. 25,

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.--

Hongkong, 2th December, 1905.

THE

WO MOTOR-BOATS suitable for Office LAHMEYER

TWO

Work or Ferries to the Shipping.

For particulars, apply to

MOTOR,"

Care of "Daily Press" Ofce. [2734 Hongkong, 5th December, 1905.

NOTICE.

EO. FENWICK & CO., LD., Engineers &c., are open to receive OFFERS FOR THE PURCHASE OF THEIR WANCHAI PROPERTY, comprising portions of Marine- Lots Nos. 31 and 36; approximate area 43,000 square feet.

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LONDON.

THE FELTEN & GUILLAUME-LAH MEYER WERKE FRANKFURT A/M.

FOR ESTÍMATES OF ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS OF ANY DESCRIPTION

Apply to SIEMSSEN & CO., SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA.

THE

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ANTED GOOD BUSINESS NAN to handle the CENTURY THERMAL BATH CABINET. 500,000 sold in Great Britain. Largo discounts. Big profita. All advertising free, Address-COLONIAL," 250, Century Homes, 208/205, Regent Street, London, W.

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THE HONGKONG FROZEN FOOD

SUPPLY.

REDUCTIONS IN PRICES.

[USTOMERS are requested to note the

following reductions in prices.

.50 cts. per lb. Australian Smoked Mulat

Schnapper 50 Oysters, 2 doz. bottles $1.00 per bot.

Hongkong. 9th November, 1905

THE

5

*

1.90

PURE FRESH WATER.

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THE HONGKONG STEAM WATER. BOAT CO., LD, is prepared to supply ANY QUANTITY of PURE FRESA WATER to the Shipping, both for Deck and Bollers.

Call Flag W..

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COSMOPOLITAN.

A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE..

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"....Everyone is bound to appreciate certainly a heterogenous collection of the departure from ti estereotyped canons wit and wisdom, that it is the ideal of which this magazine promisés... its a Far Eastern magazine, for it will pages are bright without being shooking, sober the over-spirited or brighten tha Its articles are crisp, original, and wall gloomy, just as the spirit moves the writton, is illustrations e artistic and reader... 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......." Hongkong Telegraph, 29th September,

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"..... Le champ d'observation de notre noavesa confréro est si vante que nous croyons que la 'copie ne lui manquera- pas, et neos lui souhaitons tout le succes desirable"L'Echo de Chine, 20th September, 1905.

The praise which we gave to the first | 1995, number of the COSMOPOLITAN “may honestly be repeated in reference to tho second number......... There is Some- thing very attractive in the arity which pervades the magazine through its being a one-man affair, and that one man being such an acute student of parsing events and wielding such a vigorous pen."-NU. Daily News, 36th October, 1905.

"... quite a new feature in Far Eastern journalism.... the quality of the letterpress is well worth the band. some setting. We have found good deal of sound commen in articles as well as polittle fag and humour..... matters calculated to interest

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.....The many articles are well and brightly written.... there should be little doubt of aneCOSA..... "Shanghai Tinres, 20th September,

1905. ......Though the language of the staff not only the foreigner in Shanghai and is not Buglish, the English of THE Chinose Treaty porte, but in Japan, COSMOPOLITAN, idiomatically and gram-Japan Chronicle, 12th October, 1905.

"... It is a very promising publication. zatically, is irreproachable." China Gazette, 22nd September, 1905.

The pictures are excellent. Among these are The Art of ders how it is to bo preduced month after Eating, a witty and absorvaut dis month."Japan Daily Mail, 1311 Octo- course on modern table manners......It is ber, 1905,

ore won.

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

The Christmas Namber will contain about 150 pages with nearly 100 ilus- irations sad will cost $2.00 to non-subscribers whereas subscribers will got it at the usual price of $1.00.

SUBSCRIPTION.-16.00 for six months plus 50 cents postage. Sub- scribers joining now may still get back-numbers from September, but as we have only 81 copice left for September and. 52 for October it will be necessary to apply at once to

THE COSMOPOLITAN,

35, SZECHUAN ROAD, SHANGHAI, Please note my name as a subscriber to the COSMOPOLITAN for 6 months beginning from

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Address

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内部

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