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ESTABLISHED 1857

No. 15,119. †Ã—TIB~# #=+=** HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2618, 1906.

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THE

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HE EDITION of the "HONGKONG WKEKLY PRESS" Containing the Accounts

of the devastation wrought by the Typlicon being entirely sold out, we have had the

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MAZH

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ON SALE:

RATES OF EXCHANGE AT HONGKONG,

FOR

DEMAND DRAFTS ON BOMBAY, On the Day Preceding the Departure of the English Maile from the Year of the Closing of the Indian Mints to the Free Coinags of

Silver

FROM 1893 TO 1905;

ALSO

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and other Useful Information.

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POLITICAL NOVEL

ABSORBING INTEREST,

or

By CHAS. J. HALCOMBE (Formerly of the Imperial Chinese Customs.

Service, Author of "The

Mystic

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Hongkong, 16th April, 1000,

DAILY PRESS" Offico.

Hongkong, 23rd April, 1908.

7.00.m

WAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.

IN LIQUIDATION.

TIME TABLE,

WEEK DAYS.

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Liquidators. Hongkong, 27th August, 1:06

RATES

ON SALE.

A TAILE OF THR

179

OF EXCHANGE AT

HONGKONG

for Demand Drafts on London on the day of or precoding the Departure of the English Mails also Table of Yearly Approximate Averages

FOR 31 YEARS.

FROM

1874 to 1904.

Price $2 Cash. On Sale at the "DAILY 'RESS" OFFICE, orLocal Booksellers.

MITRO

BISHI GO HI-K WAIKHA (MITSU BISHI CO.)

COAL DEPARTMENT

MARUNO-UCHI, TOKIO.

Cable Address, IWASAKI"

which applies to all Branch Offices.

11 ABC 5th Ed., Western Union Codes used. All Letters Addrosund:

MANAGER, MITSU BISHI Co.,

with name of place under

BRANCH OFFICES

NAGASAKI, MOJI, KOBE, KAI ATSU,

SHANGHAI, HONGKONG

HANKOW.

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The Head and branch Offices and the Agencies of the Company will receive suy order for Coate produced from the above Colliaries, T. MATSUKI, Manager, Hongkong, No. 2. Tedder Street,

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