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Honghong Daily Press.

No. 15,669. 犹九十六百六千五萬一第

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S. WATSON & CO.

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ESTABLISHED 1857

THE

DIRECTORY & CHRONIC

FOR 1908,

Complete Edition

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B+WAX40+=** HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8TH, 1908.

MIYASAKI & CO.

TRADE

TEN YEARS OLD.

$14 PER DOZEN.

COAL MERCHANTS.

HEAD OFFICE -- Sakayemachi, Konu, Japan,

BRANCH OPFICK-Nahinohashi, SHIMONOSRKI, Japan, and HONGKONG,

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~Y. KUBO, MANAGEE, HongKoNG,

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

.82

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY

Hongkong, 7th November, 1907

DENTAL

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Coaks 275-lbs.net $5.50 per csak ex Factory In Bags 250 lbs, net $3.85 pèr bags as Factory

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers,

Hongkong, 29th April, 1908.

COLD STORAGE.

AMI

ER HONGKONG ICE Company, LtD., have now 40,000 Cubis Feet of Cold Storage available at EAST POINT. Stores wit be Open at 10 AM. and 4 P.1. dally. Bunday excepted, toʻreceive and deliver perishable goods-

- G. K. HAXTON, Manager. Hongkong let April, 1908.

A. TACK & CO.. 26, Das Vaux ROAD, CENTRAL,

Just Länded a Large SroCK OF WRATTEN and WAINWRIGHT PLATES.

43.

EASTMAN'S KODAKS and:"FILMS.

DEVELOPING and PRINTING UNDERTAKEN.

Hengkong, 4th March, 1907.

MITSUBISHI GOSH KAISHA

(MITSUBISHI CO.)

COAL DEPARTMENT MARUNO-UGHT, TOKYO,

Cable Addrem, "IWASAKI” which applies to all Branch Oto

AL ABO 5th Ed., Western Union Codes used-

All Letters to be Addressed: MANAGER, MITSU BISHI Co.

BRANCH OFFICES I

NAGABAKI, МОЛ, КОВЕ, KARATSU

SHANGHAI HONGKONG, &

HANKOW

AGENOTEN -

No. 5, Queen's Road Central.

HYGIENE.

Antiseptic Aids to the Maintenance of Personal Health

LISTERINE

The Standard Antiseptio Preparation THERE BIZIė $0.70, $1.25 AND $2,00.-

LISTERINE TOOTH POWDER

A Frictionary Dentifrice for Employment in Conjunction with Idsterine 70 ^Centi ÷PER - BOTTLE.

LISTERINE DERMATIC SOAP

TELEPHONE No. 706,

An Antiseptic Detergent

70 CENTS PER TABLET. LISTERINE

AND

LISTERINE SPECIALTIES

FOR BALY IY

WATKINS LIMITED.

CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS,

· ÆERATED-WATER MANUFACTURERS

81, Queen's Road Central.

Hongkong, 18th June, 1908.

WHITE HORSE" WHISKY

MARK

SOLE AGENTS

BOTTLED IN SCOTLAND

FROM THE

ORIGINAL RECEIPT or 1740,

LANE. CRAWFORD & CO.

BILLIARDS"

$1884UB New Patent Low Set Express. Cushions can be fitted to any BILLIARD TABLE

making it for playing purposes as good as new.

*1918.

CUTLER, PALMER & CO..

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

OF

LONDON, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA

ESTABLISHED 1815.

BRANDY

(Freight on a case of Cushions to Bombay, Rs. 4/- only)

BEST AFRICAN IVORT BILLIARD BALLS, THOROUGHLY SEASONED..

CRYSTALATE AND BONZOLINE BALLS ALL SIZES.

WEST OF ENGLAND BILLIARD CLOTHS A SPECIALITY.

WE HOLD THE LARGEST STOCK OF BILLIARD TABLES, ACCESSORIES

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HOTELS

HONGKONG HOTEL

FIRST-CLASS AND UP-to-Datu.

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Bouldents

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Every Comfort

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Ladies" Cloak Koonis

Matron in attendance

CHARGES: MODIBATE, AND No ExtraB. AF DAVIES, Managər,

39

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL

Ladies Afternoon Tea-Roo73,

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required).

Electric Passenger Elevator to each floor, Table D'Hote at reparate tables.

For Terms, &o, apply to the-

Hongkong, 24th July, 1905,

MANAGER.

· ́" KINGSCLERE,”. PRIVATE HOTEL

ALL ORDERS DESPATCHED BY RETURN MAIL STEAMER,

Dilustrated price lists, giving prices and particulars of everything pertaining to billiards, won Telephone No: 154. be had on application from the Offoes of this paper;

JOHN ROBERTS & CO.. LD.. BILLIARD TABLE MAKERS AND IVORY TURNERS, BOMBAY.

Hongkong, 8th April, 1904.

643-2

THE TOR HOTEL LIMITED. KOBE, A STRICTLY FIRST CLASS HOTEL.

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French Chef de Cuisine.

Vintage Winem

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Magnificent View over the whole-Town, the Harbour, Awaji, the Entrance [4955

to The Inland Ses, and Osaka Bay. European Representative meets all Steamers.

Tel. Add. "TOR" KOBE.

W. A. MARTIN, Manager.

KELLY & WALSH, LTD.

FROM PEKING TO MANDALAY,

A Journey from North China to Burma through Tibetan Bush'uan and Yunnan, by R. F. Johnston; Ilustrations and Map

Life of Bir Halliday Macartney, by

D. C. Houlger.....

Kelantan, A State of

the Malay Peninsula, by W. A. Graham The Tragedy of Korea, by F. A.

Mackennis...

The Trade and Administration of the

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20.00

17.00

WHISKY, PALL MALL

20.00

JOHN WALKER & SONS'

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12,50

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BLEND

10.50

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20.00

DOURO.

13.50

Hora

SHERRY, FINO SUPERIOR

1475

LA TORRE

16.00

OLD EAST INDIA AMOROSO

18.50-

20.00

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and

SOLE PE hinnew, and Bojo Collieries RIETORS f Takashima -Qahi, Namsante, -12

Bole Agents for MIYAO and KISHIDAKE COALS.

-16]-

Y, SHIBUYA, Acting Manager,

No. 2 Pedder Street, Hongkong,

TEAK

7.00

TRAMWAYS

LIMITED.

TIME TABLE.

WEEK DAYS,"

1.30 am to 8,80,aan. ...Every 10 minute 9.00 .. to 11.00a.m. Every 15 minutes. LEB0 am to 12,46 p.m. Every 15 minutos 18.46 p.m. to 1.15 p.m....Every 10 minutes. 1.15 pm to 11pm....Every 16 minutes, 1.45 pm, to 2.16 p.Every 10 minutes. 8.16 pm to 8:00 p.m. Every 16 minutes. -6.80 p.m. to `8.00 Jam, ...Every 15 minutes. 5.00 pm to 8:00p.m...Every 10 minutes.

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SATURDAY8.

Kalia Gun at 11,50 p.m. and 11:45 pm.

"TOMDATH. 8.00 to 9,00 8,32 E

Very

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SPECIAL CAES by arrangement at the Com pany's Office, Alexandra Buil lings, Don Ver

Boed Central.

JOHN D. HUMPHREY & SON,

General Managerą.

·Hongkong, Vib May, 1907,2′′

BENEDICTINE, DOM.`-

D'Eure, by A. Michie

Navigoison and J. T. Douglas.

of Ships in a Fog, by C. D.

A MAP of the SUN ÖN DIS- TRICT Including HONGKONG, KOWLOON and The NEW TERRITORY and Showing all the Pathe, Roads, Passes," Railways, Contours and Soundings, Names in ENGLISH and CHINESE, Scale in, to 1-Mile...... Brassey's Naval Annns! The Paris Salon

APPROACH FROM KENNEDY ROAD AND

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Telegraphia Addrem; A.B.O. Code, 5th Ed

BACHSOLA:”

ELECTRIC LIGHT, Hot and Cold Wates

throughout. Billiards. Tenuis, Crequat, putting green and finestabling for horses,

Proprietress, MBS. G. SACHSE.

BRAESIDE,"

FRIVATE HOTEL,

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· Apply^to^|_ Mrs. F. W. WATTS,

"Braeside,” 20, Kasdonnell Road, Hongkong, 4th December,1907. *1840.

THE

GRAND HOTEL DIVISION STREET, KOBE

FIRST-CLASS CUISINE. COMFORTABLE & AIRY BEDROOMS Situated in close proximity to the Harbour.

· and Railway Station.

$13.00

An English and Cantonese Dictionary, by J. Chalmers Revised, by T. K. Dealy Cantonese Made Easy

80.00

·8,00

8%

How to Speak Cantonese :

5,00

17.00

"How to Write Chinesa

5.00

4,50 How to Write the Badicals

75

2,50

Hakka Made Easy...

2.00

Easy Soutances in Hakka 5:00 The Sun Wni Dialect

4.00

Readings in Chinese ColloquialTM

***

The Pith of the Classics. Quotations from the Cleanics in Colloquial Use 2.50 Things Chinese...

1.50.|| Five Thousand Years of John Chinaman

ד

BEST WINES AND LIQUORS SUPPLIED,

Special arrangements for a long stay.

F. DOMBALLE) M. MAILLE

Propriétaires

MACAO HOTEL.

100 SPECIAL REDUCED SUMMER RATES —~50 - PIR-DAY-$5 to $7 socording to Room selected

200

WEEK 125 to $40° do. do.

do. MONTE 890 to $150 do -do. do.

2.00 | WEEK-ENDS-Saturday afternoon to Monday 7,50

morning-$7 to $10.

75 Two persons occupying one room, will be

charged a rate and a half only. Children under 12-half rates

3.00

1,00

SPECIAL TERMS FOR FAMILIES.

|· Excallent. Cooking by An Cunoye, for over seventeen years Chief Cook with the Into Mr. J. W. OSFORNE.

5.00

The Celestial and His Religious

Rhythms and Rhymes in Chinese Climos,

Chinese Poetry and Poets

***

5.00

10,50

2.40

Progressive and Idiomatic Bentonces in Cantonese Colloquial, by A. A. Fulton... Select Phrases in the Canton Dialect,

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4175

1932

75

The Telandere, by Veronica

1.00

Progressive Lessons in the Chinese Written Language, by T. L. Ballook

60,00

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a45

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IN

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PIPPERMINE

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175

175

250

TELEPHONE NO. 75,

250

250

Hongkong, 3rd July, 1908,

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325

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Hongkong, 30th June, 1908,

ON-SALE

A TABLY OF THE

RATES OF EXCHANGE AT

HONGKONG

For Demand Drafts on London on the day if or proceding the departure of the English Mails; also Table of the Yearly Approximate Averages for 34 Year FROM 1874 TO 1907,

Price: $2 Cash. On sale at the "DAILY PRESS" Offlon, or Local Booksellers,

Wine & Spirit Merchants.

VISITORS TO CANTON

Bhould parolase ** FROM HONGKONG TO CANTON,

BY, THE PEARL RIVER.”

CAPTAIN C. V. LLOYD (5.6, "FATIHAN With Illustrations, Mam and Plana. Price $1.99

"In Bale at

BY

Hongkong> "DAILI

PRESS" Ofice. Mess. KELLY & WALSH, Merors, W. BETWEE & Co. Canton: Mests. A ́9. Watson & Co.

Hongkong, 4th October, 1903.

WM FARMER,

Proprietor.

"BOA VISTA” (HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH ·

CHINA), MACAO.

THE Hotel is under Europasu manage

mont and most triot supervision as to food, cleanliness and hygiene of the place.

Al comforts of a home.

A most plassant retreat for those desirous of a few days rest and quiet,

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

Másão is 10 miles south-west of Hongkong. Two steamers (8.8. Sui An and Suí Tan) daily to and from Hongkong, and two steamers to and from Canton, give easy communication with both these centres.

Cable Address--" BOLVISTA ” Fer Tarms, apply to 216

THE MANAGER.

A LING & CO.

19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (Next to Mear, KUEN & KOMOR).

FURNITURE AND PHOTO GOODS STORE.

Photographia Goods of every Description in Stock:

Developing and Printing Undertaken. Hongkong, Slet July, 1907,

730