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For EUROPE & AMERICA) INDIA, AUSTRALIA, 30., and for PRIVATE RESIDENTS AT TIM” OUTFONTS

A Comprehensive and Complete Record of the

NEWS OF THE FAR EAST

is given in the

HONGKONG

PRESS,

WEEKLY

with which is incorporated the

CHINAOVERLAND TRADE REPORT

Eulecription, paid in advance,

$12 per annum. Postage to any

part of the World $2.

Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1867

Appointment sto

to HLM. the King,

When you feel thoroughly. exhausted after a heavy day's work, begin your djanër with a

BOVRIL

SOUP

and so ward of indigestioa:

PRICE, $3 PER MONTH.

HOTELS

HONGKONG HOTEL

No. 15,902,

號二百九千五萬一第

日九十月二閏年元就宣 HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL Orn, 1909. 五拜藏

號九月四年九零百九千—英港香

AN

A POWERFUL

∙AND

HYGIENOL

▲ POWERFUL DISINFECTANT

"ALL NIGHT"

DISINFECTANT

GERMICIDE AND DEODORIZER.

A. S. WATSON & CO.. LIMITED,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

AND

KOWLOON DISPENSARY.

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DRUG STORE

You can get what you need at WATKINS DISPENSARY any hour of the night. All that you need do to get prompt, cheerful attention is to press the night bell. This night service is intended entirely as an accommodation to our customers. It is

given willingly-cheerfully.

QUALIFIED ENGLISH CHEMYSTS

WILL ALWAYS BE ON DUTY TO DISPENSE PRESCRIPTIONS.

WATKINS. LIMITED,

The charges during the night hours are the same as by day,

CHEMYSTS AND

DRUGGISTS,

31, Queen's Road Central,

NIGHT AND DAY TELEPHONE: 492.

11039

NEW PIANOS

ON HIRE

$10 PER MONTH,

TUNING AND

REGULAR

ATTENTION

INCLUSIVE.

CUTLER, PALMER & CO.,

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS

LONDON, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.

ESTABLISHED 1815.

S. MOUTRIE & CO..

LIMITEN.

CHAFTER ROAD,

BRANDY

GERMICIDE.

PULICIDE.

MOST EFFECTIVE IN PREVENTING PLAGUE, CHOLERA, MALARIA, ETC. BY DESTROYING FLEAS, MOSQUITOS AND ALL NOXIOUS INSECTS

AND VERMIN AND ALL DISEASE GERMS.

AS SUPPLIED TO AND RECOMMENDED BY THE SANITARY DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, AND USED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

CHEAP.

HARMLESS.

CONVENIENT.

EFFECTIVE.

DIRECTIONS-A teasupfal (quarter pint) to be added to a pailful (three gallons) of water.

To be used for washing floors, clothes, utensilsa, eta, eta

A. S. WATSON & CO..

LIMITED.

HONGKONG, CHINA AND MANILA,

HIS

CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT TO EXCELLENOY THE GOVERNOR.

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LTD

JOHN ROBERTS & COMPANY

UNDE

BILLIARD TABLE MAKERS, BOMBAY

"NDERTAKE to Supply a First-clom Full Sized BILLIÁRD TABLE, design No. 1, to following Specification, viz. ↑ On Eight Massive Turned Legs, raised panels to Caried Bracket Knees, Screwed Mouldings, double bolted, best Welsh Slate Bed, extra heavy solid cushion mils fitted with our now low set Exprem Cushions, patent invisible Pocket Plates best Whipcord Pockets, Six Chalk Cups, Superfine West of England Cloth; and patent adjusting toes, with lover for levelling, complete with the following secessórien S. 12. Belsoted Ask Cuss

Bult Rest with Patent Brass Head. Billard Rest with Patent Brass Head.

1 Mid Butt..

Billiard Marking Board.

Per Cuis

$22.50

20.00

17.00

WHISKY, PALL MALL

20.00

JOHN WALKER & SONS"

OLD HIGHLAND

12.50

C. P. & CO 'A SPECIAL.

BLEND

10.50

PORT WINE, INVALIDS

20.00

Dust Cover for Table.

Hongkong, 1st October, 1908.

[$40-1

»

DOURO

13.50

Straightedge and Circle.

SHERRY, FINO SUPERIOR

1 Beat Spirit Level

14.75

1:Smoothing Iron with Shoo.

LA TORRE

$16.00

OLD EAST INDIA

18.50

Ba. 1,400 bett.

AMOROSO

20.00

ROYAL AMONTILLADO CURIO SOLERA

23.00

26.50

BENEDICTINE, D.O.M. -

QTS. 40.00 Prs. 42.00

THE ABOVE ARE EXCLUSIVELY SHIPPED TO

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT. COMPANY

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks 375 lbs, met $5.50 per cask ex Factory In Bags 250 lbs. net 33.45 per bag ex Fuotery

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers, Hongkong, 29th April, 1908.

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THE GRAND HOTEL.

DIVISION STREET, KOBE.

FIRST-CLASS CUISINE.

COMFORTABLE & AIRY BEDROOMS. Situated in close proximity to the Harbour and Railway Station

BEST WINKS AND LIQUORE SUPPLIED,

Special arrangements for a long stay.

SIEMSSEN & CO..

HONGKONG AGENTS.

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LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

ARE NOW SHOWING NEW DESIGNS IN SELECTED TEAK FURNITURE.

F. DOMBALLE) Propriétaires. SIDEBOARDS AND DINNER WAGGONS,

M. MAILLE

PEAK · TRAMWAYS

7,00 am.

LIMITED

TIME TABLE.

WEEK DAYS....

DINING TABLES. CHAIRS, DESKS,

COMPANY BOOKCASES. FOLDING CARD TABLES

7.30 am to 10.00 am. Every 10 minutes. 10.00 am to 11.00 am....Every 15 minutes 11.30 am to 12.45 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 12.45 pm to 1.15 pm. Every 10 minutes, 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 pm... Every 15 minutes. 1:45 pm to 215 p.m. Every 10 minutes. 2.15 p. to 3,00 pan. Every 15 minutes. 3.30 p.m. to 3.00p.m... Ivery 15 minutes, 5.00 pm to 8.00 pm. Every 10 minutes. NIGHT CAES. 8.45 p.m. & 9.00 pm, £45 to 11.15 p.m.

overy hom SATURDAYS.

Extra Cars at 3.15pm. 11.30 p.m. and 11.45 p.m.

*8.00

G.m. to 900 a

| am

9.00 am to 930 a. 9.30 am to 10.30am.

Eyery 15 minutes. Every 30 minutes. Every 15 minutes. 10.00 am to 11.00a.m. Every 10 minutes. 11:45 am to 12.00 Noon... Every 15 minutes. 12.00 Neonto 100p.m. Every 10 minutes. 1.00p.m. to 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes. 5.00 pm to 6.00pm. Every 10 minutes. 6.00 pm to 7:00 pm...Every 15 minutes, 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm...Every 10 minutes NIGHT CARS at 8.45 p.m. & 9.00 pm. 9:45 to

11.15

half hour,

HALLSTANDS. HALL CHAIRS, BEDROOM SUITES, WARDROBES.

FIRST CLASS

LANE.

Hongkong, Sth April, 1209.

SPECIAL CARS by argoment at the TELEPHone No. 75.

Company's Office, Alexandra Buildings, Des

Vous Road Centralize

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

Feneral Managers“

Tongkong, lat April, 1909.

WORKMANSHIP

INSPECTION INVITED.

CRAWFORD & CO.

GUINNESS'S

AND

1 Wall Cue Rack,'.'

1 Wall Butt Back.

1 Bet Billiard Eules, Framed.

Best Billiard Brush. Bene

Set "Crystalne or Duzelina? Hill Balis.

1 Box Best Cue Tips, assorted..

1 Cue Tip Fastener with File:

1 Bottle Uus Cement

1 Box Silk Spets.

2 Doton Best White Chalk.

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

Illustrated 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.

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"CLAN MACKENZIE”

SCOTCH WHISKY.

$15.50 PER DOZ.

AN OLD MATURED WHISKY OF FINE MELLOW FLAVOUR.

AS BUEPLIED TO THE Hover or Commons,

LANE. CRAWFORD & CO.

BOLE AGENTS..

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BREWER & CO., LIMITED.,

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

Hydrogmphical Surveying, by Wharton and Field: New Enlarged and Revised Edition

$17.00 Modern Gas and Oil Engines, by F.

Grover

4.20

The New Spirit in India, by H. W. I

Nevisch

9.00

NEW NOVELS $1.75 EACH, High Life in the Far East, by James Dalziel:

Author of "In the First Watch."

Septimus, by William J. Locke Author

of Beloved Vagabond

Adventures of Louis Blake, by Louis Bocke. The Tempting of Faul Chester, by Alice *** and Clando Asków. *

The Crime on Canvas by F. M. White. Bir Norcombe's Marriage, by Florence

Warden,

The Capture ofPaul Beck, by M, McDonnell

Fizer-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE.

Dining nocommodation for 300 Persons. String Band Plays during Tin and Dinner. Well Furnished Reception Rooms. Private Bar and Billiard Room for Hotel

Residenta.

Electric Lifta to each Floor. Electric-Lighting and Fans. Telephones on every Floor. Every Comfort.

Ladies Afternoon Tea Rooms. Ladies' Cloak Rooms.

Matron in attendance.

042)

CHARGES MODERATH, AND NO EXTRAS,

A. F. DAVIES, Manager, KING EDWARD HOTEL.

A HIGH CLASS FRIVATE HOTEL,

Ladies' Afternoon Tea-Rooms. Private Bar and Hilliard-Rooms. Hot and Cold Water throughout, Electrically Lighted; Electric Fans (if

required).

Electric Passenger Elevator to each floor, Table D'Hote at separate tables, For Teras, &c., apply to the

Hongkong, 24th July, 1905.

MANAGER.

"KINGSCLERE,"

PRIVATE HOTEL..

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APPROACH. FROM KENNEET ROAD AND MACDONNEL ROAD. Telephone No. 134,

Telegraphio Address:A.B.C. Code, 5th Ed.

"SACESOLA."

ALECTRIC LIGHT, Hot and Cold Water throughout Billiards, Tennis, Croquet, patting groon and fine stabling for horses.

245] Proprietress, Ms. G. SACHSE.

"BRAESIDE

PRIVATE HOTEL.

TANDING in its own grounds with Tennis And Croquet Lawas, Large Airy and Well Furnished Rooms, every home comfort. Fine View of the Harbour, Telephone, No. 690.

Apply tomm. Mas, F.. W. WATTS, 2

*Braeside," 20, Macdonnell Road. Hongkong, 4th December, 1907. [344 ORIENTAL HOTEL

TELEPHONE 197.

No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL MRS. M. MATTHAEY, Proprietress.

A thoroughly First-Class and Up-to-Date Hotel

Large and Airy Rooms, affording every comfor to Bezidents and Tourists.

Table D'Hote at Separate Tables,

· MODERATE- RATES,

Telegraphic address: "Comfort," Hongkong.

For Particulars, apply to

M. MATTHAEY, Proprietress.

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Hongkong, 5th October, 1908. VICTORIA HOTEL

SHAMEEN-CANTON, MANAGER MR. H. HAYNES Telegraphic address- VICTORIA, SHAMERN. SITUATED ON THE BRITISH CONCESSION

MACAO HOTEL.

MACAO. MANAGER MR. F. N. BEAUKEPAIRE. Telegraphic address"FARMER, MACAO." SITUATED IN THE CENTRE OF PRATA GRANDE Both Hotels electrically ligted, and under experienced European Supervision. GUIDES AND CHAIRS PROVIDED. Every information and Special attention giyer to Tourists, REASONABLE RATES.

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WM. FARMER,

Proprietor.

"BOA VISTA " HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH

CHINA). MACAO.

HE Hotel 18 under European manage

ment and most strict supervision as to food cleanliness and hygiena of the place.

All comforts of a home....

a few days rost and quiet..

A most pleasant retreat for those desirons for

Comfortable accommodation for travellers paring a visit to the historical and picturesque colony of Macios

Personal Religion in Egypt before

Christianity

2.25

Three Plays of Shakespeare, by

Swinburned d

$2.25

My Experiences in Cyprus, by Basil

Stewart

4.50

Boman Life and Hamer, by L

Friedlander

4.50

Botkin

The Art of Modern Conjuring

2.75

The House Called Herrüh, by Rita."

Cole's Fun Doctor

1.75

Another Hardy Garden Book..... The Fernandez Reciter: Popular and

Наметова.

5.50

The Iron Heel, by Jack London.

2.75

Moberly.

Regulations Relating to the Examination

"This My Son René Barin.

STOUT

of Engineers Res

Regulations and Suggestions as to the Survey of the Machinery of Steamships

We of the Never Never, by Mrs.

Grum

The Conventionalists, by R. H. Benson,"

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1961

BASS & Co.'s PALE ALE,

HORSE HEAD" BRAND.

IN QUARTS, PINTS AND SPLITS.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.

1549

Fongking, 4th March, 1909,

WINE & STISIT MERCHANTS.

35, Queen's Road Contral

Macas is 40 miles south-west of Longkong

The Sino Alison Daring, by L. G. Two steamers (8.8. Sui An and Sui Tan daily to

and from Hongkong, sad two steamers to and

Arnessom Canton, give easy communication with

THE DAIRY FARM CO., LTD. | THE DAIRY FARM CO., LTD.

EXTRA

CHOICE

BACON & HAM.

This is a Special Line and will be found of exceptional quality.

Price-Cut or Unent-Only 60 Centa alb.

Hongkong, 29th March, 1909.

(520

BUTTER.

Buttercup" Brand "Dairymaid "

73 cents per lb.

Daisy

also

60

Fine Pastry Butter Best Cooking Batter

ON AND AFTER 1ST APRIL, WE WILL MAKE No EXTBA CHARGE FOR CASH PURCHASES IN MALL MONET

both these centres.

Cable Address" BOAVISTA."

For Terms, apply to boga

THE MANAGER.

KIALAT HOTEE,

SWATOW

IF you go to Brator don't forget to slay at the KIALAT HOTEL. Nice Comfortable Rooms, excellent cuisine. Sitaated five minutes run by rickshaw from Gorman Consulate.

M199 WILL

Hongkong, 29th March, 1909.

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Sastow, 1st April, 1909.

Proprietress

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