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FOR EUROPE & AMERICA India, Ausfrazra, do, and for,

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HONGKONG

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PRESS,

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ATSONS

COLD CURE

TABLETS

FOR THR

#PEEDY. RELIEF AND CURE oF COLD IN THE HEAD & INFLUENZA.

WATSON & CO..

LIMITED,....

HONGKONG DISPENSABT. ALEXANDRA -BUILDINGS.

*58*

ORDEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY

PORTLAND CEMENT..

In Casks 375 lbs net 2.00 per cask ex Factory. In Bags 250 lbs, net 33,00 por bage or Factory.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers dongkong, 3rd October, 1907.,

AUTOMATIC

POCKET

1938

BROWNING PISTOLS,

CALIBRE 7.65 m.m. With CHAMBER for B. CARTRIDGES FIRING 8 SHOTS in, 2 SECONDS,

SIEMSSEN & CO. 19 Hongkong, 6th March, 1907,

AUTOMATIC MAUSER

PISTOLS.

CALIBRE 7.83 m.,

With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGES FIRING 10 SHOTS in 2 SECONDS. CARLOWITZ & CO. Agents.

Hongkong, 18th March, 1907.

NEW CARTRIDGES.

"575

Y Popular English Manufacturers. In

BY

all Borel Qu

CHOR FLESS POWDER and CHILLED

SHOT. From No. 10 to 8880. at $6, 87-m

CUTLER, PALMER & CO..

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

LONDON, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALJA

BRANDY

ESTABLISHED 1815,

THEATRE ROYAL

CITY HALL.

THE HONGKONG MATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB

WILL PRESENT

THE

LIARS

An Original Comedy, in Four Aote, by HENRY ARTHUR JONES

On THURSDAY, 20th February

FRIDAY, 21st February, and

SATURDAY, 22nd February.

Doors open at 8.30 PM Performance at 9 P.M. Prices $5, $2 and $1. Sailors and Soldiers in uniform Half-price to Pit Stalls and Pit Booking Offos, at The ROBINSON PIANO CO., open on and after. MONDAY, 10th February, at 10 a.m.

Hongkong, 7th February, 1908.

915

INSURANCE

THE STANDARD LIFE OFFICE, (ESTABLISHED 1825;)

THE Accumulated Funds of the Company £11,000,000,

are nearly

and the annual revenue is at the rate of

£8000 PER DAY DorWELL & CO. LO

Agenta.

HOTELS

JOHN ROBERTS & COMPANY. LTD. HONGKONG HOTEL

BILLIARD TABLE MAKERS, BOMBAY,

Per Chee $21.50

19.00

16.00

"

WHISKY, PALL MALL

19,00

JOHN WALKER & SONS" OLD HIGHLAND- C. P. & CO.'S SPECIAL

BLEND

12.00

U

10.00

PORT WINE, INVALIDS

19,00

DOURO

13.00

19.00

LA TORRE

BENEDICTINE, D.O.M. -

Billiard Best with Fatent Brass Hoad.

15.25

1 Long Butt

1 Mid Batt.

40.50

-1 Billiard Marking Board.

1 Dast Cover for Table.

THE ABOVE EXCLUSIVELY SHIPPED TO

Straightedge and } Circle.

SIEMSSEN & CO..

HONGKONG AGENTS,

SHERRY, AMOROSO

CHAMPAGNES.

$7.50 per 100 SPORTING REQUISITES | TELEPHONE NO. 76,~ and AIR GUNS in Variety.

Inspection Invited.

WM. SCHMIDT & CO. Hongkong, 28th October, 1996.

1609

A. TACK & CO.,

2 Bus TauK ROAD, CENTRAL.

JUST ARRIVED:

A LARGE. STOCK

Or

SPECIALLY SELECTED

LADIES' BOOTS AND SHOES.

AMATEURS CAREFULLY

DEVELOPING AND PRINTING.

POR

UNDERTAKEN.

Hongkong, 2nd Deember, 1907.

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A LING & CO..

18, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Next to Mesara. KUHN & KoxoR).

FURNITURE AND PHOTO GOODS STORE,

Photographic Goods of ovary Description in Stock.

Developing and Printing Undertaken. Hongkong, 81st July, 1907.

PEAK

2.00

30.

TEAMWAYS

LIMITED..

TIME TABLE

WHIK DAYS

POMMERY & GRENO.

BOLLINGER & GO. GIESLER & CO..

POL ROGER.

LANSON PERE ET FILS,

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DUC DE MONTEBELLO. PAUL DOMMIER · 26. CO.

SOLE AGENTS— CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & 00,

Hongkong, 31st January 1908--

WIND AND SPIRIT MERCHANTH, 194

15, Queen's Road Central.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

SPECIAL VALUE IN

"WOLSEY.” UNDERWEAR

PURE WOOL, UNSHRINKABL

FLANNEL

PYJAMAS

$6.00 $8.50 $10.00 PER SUIT.

NDERTAKE to Supply First-class Fall Sized BILLIARD TABLE design No. 1, to following Specification, vis: On Eight Massive Turned Legs, raised panels to Carved Bracket Knees, Screwed Mouldings, double-bolted, bert Welsh Slate Bed, extra heavy solid onshion rail fitted with gur now low sat Express Cushions, patent invisible Pocket Plates best Whipcord Pockets, Six Chalk Caps, Supertine Wast of England Cloth, and patent adjusting toes, with lever for levelling, complete with the following accessories :→→

12. Selected Ash Cues.

Butt Reet with Patent Brass Head..

1Best Spirit Level-

1-Smoothing Iron with Shoe,

1 Wall Cue Rack.

1 Wall Butt Rack..

1 Bet Billiard Rules, Framed

1 Bost Billiard Brush;

1 Bot "Crystalate" or "Bozzoline" Bild, Balle.

1 Box Beat Cue Tips, assorted.

1 One Tip Fastener with Fils.

1. Bottle Cae Cement.

1 Box Suk Spots...

2 Dozen Beat White Chalk.

Packed and delivered free on Board Hongkong or Shanghai Harbour for the sum of

Rs. 1,400 nett

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

Hongkong, let April, 1904.

TRADE

TEN YEARS OLD.

$14 PER

DOZEN.

(097--

WHITE HORSE" WHISKY

MARK

SOLE AGENTS:

BOTTLED IN SCOTLAND

FROM THE

ORIGINAL EECEIPT or 1746.

LANE. CRAWFORD & CO.

BREWER & CO., LIMITED.

PEDDER STREET-Adjoining Main Entrance HONGKONG HOTEL. TELEPHONE No. 696,

Social Shanghai, January, the enthrone- mont of the Bishop of Victoris The Far Eastern Review, Portrait and..

Sketch of the Life of the late W. Denby ......

Hazell'e Annual, 1908

FIRST-CLASH AND UP-TO-DATE.

Dining accommodation for 300. Persons)] Well-Farnished.Reption Rooms

Private Bar and Billiard Room for Hotal

Residuats

· Electric Lifts to esch Floor",

Electric Lighting and Faus Telephones on every Floor." Every Comfort

Ladies Afternoon Tea Rooms

Dailing Cloak Rooms ser Matron fir attendamos

CHARGES MODERATE, AND NO EXTRAS. 639 j

A. F. DAVIES, Maunger.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL.

Lailler Arbernoon Tes-Boom. ~Private Bar and Billiard-Room

Hot and Cold Water throughout, i

Electrically Lighted Electris Fang tit

required).··

Electric Passenger Elevator to ob teor.. Table Hote at separate tables." For Terms, &c., apply to the

Hongkong, 24th July, 1905.

MANAGER.

KINGSCLERE;"

PRIVATE HOTEL.

#233..

APPROACH FROM KENNEDY ROAD AND MACDONNEL ROAD.

Telephone No. 134,

Telegraphie Address:

**SACHBOLA," A.B.C; Codų, 5th Ed.-

ELECTRIC LIGHT, Hot and Cold Water

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throughout. Billiards. Tepuis, Croquet, putting green and fire stabling for horses.

Proprietress, Mas, G. BACK8E,

"BRAESIDE,"

PRIVATE HOTEL.

TANDING in its own grounds with Tonnia and Croquet Laws, Lega diry and Well Farmished Bedroom, every bene comfort. Fine View of the Harbour; forms moderate. Telephona, No. 690,

Apply to Mrs. F. W. WATTS,

"Braeside," 20, Macdonnell Bond. Hongkong, 4th December, 1907. [04/0

THE GRAND HOTEL, DIVISION STREET, KOBE.

FIRST-CLASS CUISINE.

COMFORTABLE & AIRY BEDROOMS -Situated in close proximity to the Harbour

and Railway Station.

$1.00

3.10

Whitaker's. Almanack, 1908; 70 cents & Strand Magazine; New Volume The New Theology. by Dr. Campbell Between Ourselves, by Man O'Rell Why and Whereforo of Bridge, by

Atcheson and Lindwall N..

2.00

Guide to the Great Siberian Railway F

Illustrated...

12.00 The Other Side of the Lantern, by Bir

Frederick Traves

$10.50 Present Day in Japan, by Campbell

Davidson; Illustrated

4.50

4.75 275

Adventures on the Roof of the World,

by Mrs. Le Blood

3.50

2.75 Signs and Portents in the Far East,

by B. Cotes

3,50

2.00 Early English Prose Romances, by

W. J. I homes. ...

3.50

2.50 The Counters. Pembroke's Arcadis,

by irhilip Sidney

3.50

2.2583

400 Darwin's Origin of Species ... 3.50 Darwin's Descent of Max

2.25

2.25

8.00

Dawn of the Nineteenth Century in

England, by Ashton Card and Table Games, Latest edition,

Including Bridge

2.25

5.50,

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BATH ROBES. DRESSING GOWNS. The Garden of Asia Impresious from

HOSIERY AND GLOVES.

LANE. CRAWFORD &CO.

Hongkong, lat February, 1908,

1691

MIYASAKI &

CO.,

COMPANY,

7.80 a.. to 9.80 ... Every 10 minutes. 9.80 mm, to 11.00 sm...Every 15 minutes 11.30 a.m. tỷ 12/46 p.m....Every 15 minutes 19.45 pm to 1.15 p.m....Every 10 minutes. 1.16 Fam, to“ lik5pm. Every 16 minutes, 1.45 pm to 3:16 pm. Every 10 minuten. 215 pr to 8.00 pm. Every 15 minutes. 1.80 p.m. to 5.00 pm. Every 15 minutes 6,00 pm to 8.00 pm. Every 10 minutes.

NIGHT CABS. €2,45 p.m.-k 9.00 pm, 9.45 to 11.15'p.m.)

every hour.

HATURDAYIZ

Batre Cus at 11.80 p., and 11.15 p.m.

SUNDATS,

8,00 am to 9.00 a... Every 15 minutes. 9.00 am to 0.89 am...Ecery 23 minuta. 8.30 am, to 10.80 am....Every 15 minuta, 0.80... to 11.00a.m....Every 10 minutes. 11:45 am. to 12.00 Noon...Every 15 minutes. 1200 Noon to 100 p.m....Every 10 minuto, 1,00 p.m. to 6.00 pm.....Evory 15 ministes 5.01 p.m. to. 8.00 p.m....Every 10minutes. Ep.m, to 7.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes, 7.00 p.m. to 8.00 pm,...Every 10 minutes. NIGHT CARS at 8,45 p.m. & 9.00 p.m., 9.45 ko”

11.15 p., every half hour,

SPECIAL CARB by arrangement at the Com- pany's Offles, Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux “Road Centrst

JOHN D. HUMPHREY & BON, General Managers. ¦ Hongkong, 9th May, 19077

#39

COAL MERCHANTS.

HEAD OFFICE :-Sakayemachi, Koyr, Japan. -

BRANCH OFFICHs-Nishinobuhi, Saimonoseki, Japan, and HosGKONG.

CARIE ADDERASER

"MIYASAKL," applying to Head Office and Shimonoseki Branch. “YUTAKA,” applying to Hongkong Branch only.

ATB. C. 5th Edition used."

THE HEAD ́ ́and'

BRANCH OFFICES will receive any Order

JAPAN COALS.

Y. KUBO, MANAGER, HONGKONG,

No. 5, Queen's Road Central.

Hongkong, 27th November, 1907,

PHOTO SUPPLIES. LONG HING. & CO.,

17, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL.

DEVELOPING & PRINTING

UNDERTAKEN.

a1884

a80

Japan," by Farrer

An Australian Cricketer on Tour, by

Frank Laver's

A

2.00

4.50 Life of Charles Darwin

Kim, by Kipling: Illustrated Edition. Five Years la Ireland, by McCarthy A Year in Russia, Maur ce Saring Mountaio, Stream, and Corert. Sketches of Country Life in England and Scofland; Illustrateil Cassell's Dictionary of Practical Gar-

dening, by W. Wright; 2 Volumes 22.50

CHAMPAGNE

CO.,

G. H. MUMM &

THE MOST POPULAR WINE

Can be had in the following qualition —

EXTRA DRY (Gout Americain).

BRUT

(Cordon Rouge).

SALES IN THE UNITED STATES EXCEED THE TOTAL OF ALL OTHER

BRANDS.

SERVED IN ALL CLUES AND FIRST-CLASS HOTELS, AND OBTAINABLE

AT ALL WINE MERCHANTS IN THE COLONY, AND FROM

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. SOLE AGENTS. Hongkong, 1st June, 1907.

COLD STORAGE.

THE HONGKONG ICH COMPANY, LTD.,

Tare now 40,000 Cabio Feet of Cold Storage available at BAST POINT. Stores will be Open at 10 AM. and 4 v.m. daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods.

AS WE PARLANE, Manager. Hurgkong, 18th November, 1961 48

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FRENCH LESSONS,

FRENCH TAUGHT entirely by Con- Tersation and without translation by a Frenchman (a Teacher in Government Schools) and ENGLISH LESSONS by an English Lady.

Apply by letter to B. B

Care of "Daily Fross" Office. Hongkong, 13th November, 1906.

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BEET WINES AND LIQUORA BUPPLIED.

Special arrangements for a longstay.

F. DOMBALLE)

M. MAILLE

Propriétaires.

"BOA VISTA"

(HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH

CHINA), MACAO.

HAD been re-opened under European management and most striol supervision

as to food cleanliness and bygiens of the place

All comforts of a home.

A most pleasant retreat for those desirous of Low days rest and quiet,

Comfortable accommodation for travellers paying a visit to the historical and picturesque colony of Macso

Macao is 40 miles south-west of Hongkong. Two steamers (an. Bui An und Bui Tai) daily to and from Hongkong, and two steamers to end from Canton, give eary ocio murication with both theee centres,

Cable Address...“ Boavista.” For Terms, apply

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THE MANAGER

VICTORIA HOTEL.

SHAMEEN-CANTON, S

FIRST CLASS EUROPEAN HOTEL "On the British. Concession. S Electrically Lighted.

Every Modern Comfort and Convenience at

Reasonable Rates."

Under the Personal Superintendence of

H. HAYNES, late Manager Hongkong Hptal

MACÃO HOTEL.

TELEGRAMS FARMER, MACAO,

MACAO, CHINA

In the Centre of the Prayn Granda, Bath Hotels Electrically Lighted and ander experienced European. Management.

Every Comfort and Convenience for Residente and Tourivia 1911 WM, FARMER, Proprietor.