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FOR EUROPE & AMERICA, INDIA, AUBTHalra, &c., and for

FRIVATE RESIDENTS AT THE OUTFOETS

A Comprehensive and Complete-

Record of the

NEWS OF THE FAR EAST

is given in the

HONGKONG

WEEKLY

PRESS,

with which is incorporated tho CHINAOVERLASETRADE BEPORT Subscription, paid in advanco,

$12 per annum. Postage to any

part of the World 82.

No. 15,962.

Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 19TH, 1909. 日二月五年元統宣 批二十六百九千五萬一第

CALL

AT

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FOR BATHING PARTIES.

TELEPHONY No.. 75.

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CHERRY BRANDY,

CHERRY WHISKY,

ORANGE GIN,

PEPPERMINT,

SLOE GIN.

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15, Queen's Road Central,

THE PIANO

Hongkong, 4th June, 1909.

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THE ONLY FIRST CLASS

::.:

ESTABLISHMENT ACROSS

THE WATER.

SURROUNDED BY Dalmazzul GARDENS,

·Excellent Cuisine.

O. E OWEN,

Proprietor.

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GREEN IBLAND CEMENT COMPANY.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

CUTLER, PALMER & CO.,

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS

OP

LONDON, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.

ESTABLISHED 1815.

六拜禮

辅九十月六年九二百九千二英港香

THE

DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE

FOR 1909.

Complete Edition Bmail...

$10.00 6.00

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Hongkong Daily Press Offee and to the Local Booksellers.

PRICE, $3 PER MONTH.

HOTELS

JOHN ROBERTS & COMPANY LTD. HONGKONG HOTEL

UN

BILLIARD TABLE MAKERS, BOMBAY

TAKE to Supply a First-class Full Sized. BILLIARD TABLE, design to following Specification, viz.: On Eight Massive Turned Logs, raised panels to Carved Broket Knees, Screwed Mouldings, double bolted, best Welsh Slate Bed, extra heary solid setshion raile fitted with our new low Bot Express Cushions, patent la visible Focket Fakes best Whipeord Pockets, Six Chalk Caps, Superfine West of England Cloth, and patent adjusting toes, with lever for levelling, complete with the following accemories ;— 12 Selected Ash Cues.

1 Butt Reet with Patent Brass Hood.

1 Billiard Rest with Patent Brass Head.

1 Long Butt.

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Per Case.

BRANDY

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20.00

**

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In Casks 575 Ibai, net 35.50 per oak or Factory BREWER

In Bags 250 be, not $3.45 per bag ex Factory

BHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers. -

Hongkong, 29th Apr 1908.

THE

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GRAND HOTEL

› DIVISION STREET, KOBE.

FIRST-CLASS CUISINE.

COMFORTABLE & AIRY BEDROOMS. Bitusted in close proximity to the Harbour And Ballway Statim.

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BEST WINES AND Liquors SUPPLIED. Special arrangements for a long stay.

F. DOMBALLE

Propriétaires. M. MAILLE

PEAK TRAMWAYS

7.00 8.01.

LIMITED.

TIME TABLE.

WERK DAYS.

COMPANY

7.30 am to 10.00 am....Every 10 minutes. 10.00 am to 11.00a.m.... Every 15 minutes.. 11.30 am to 12.45 pm....Every 15 minuias. 12.45 p.m. to 1.15 p.m... Every 10 minutes. 115 pm to 1.45pm. Every 15 minutes. 1.45 p.m. to 2.15 p.m....Every 10 minutes. 2.15 p.m. to 3.00 p.m....E

...Every 15 minutes. ...Every 15 minutes. 5.00 pm to 8.00

3.30 p.m. to 5.00 Tery 10 minutes.

CARS.

NIGHT 8.45 p.m. & 9.00 p.m., 9.45 to 11.15 p.m.

evary hour. SATURDAYS.

Extra Cars at 3.15 p.m. 11.30 p.

Op.m. and 11.45 p.to. 8.00 s.m. to 900 11.

Every 15 minutes.

SWEDAYS.

9.00 a.m. to 930 30 minutes. 9.30 am. to 10.30 am... Every 15 minutes. 10.00 am to 11.00 am. Every 10 minutes. 11.45 am. to 12.00 Noon...Every 15 minater

10 mirates. 12.00 Noon to 1.00 pm Every

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10 minutes. 6.00 p.m. to 7.00p.m.... Every 15 minutes. 7:00pm to 8.00pm Every-10-minutes. NIGHT CARS at 8.45 p.m. & 9.00 pm, 9:45 to 11.15 p.m., every half hour, SPECIAL CAES by arnagement at the Company's Office, Alexandra Buildings, Des Your Road Central.

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& CO., LIMITED.,

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

Royal Academy and New Gallery

Pictures for 1909

A

80.80

The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Being historical and critical Comments on the Military Polley and Fower of Russia, and on the Campaign in the Far East, by General Kuropatkin; 2 Volumes 25.00 The English in China, being an Böcount of the intercourse and relations between England and China from the Year 1600 to the Year 1843, by James Browley Eames

16.00

John Chinaran At home, by E. J.

Hardy

4.00

1.75

1.75

Things seen in China, by J. R. Chitty Things seen in Japan, by J. E. Chitty... Every Man's Own Lawyer, Including the Legislation of 1908 a handbook of the principles of Law and Equity

5.00

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Johns,

1 Billiard Marking Board.

Straightedge and Circle.

1 Best Spirit Level.

1 Smoothing Iron with Shoe.

1. Wall Cae Rack.

1 Wall Butt Back.

1. Bet Billiard Rules, Framed.

1. Best Billiard Brush.

1 Set "Creatalats" or "Bontollno" Bild. Balls.

1 Bor Best Cue Tips, assorted

1 Cue Tip Fastener with File.

1 Bottle Cue Cement.

1 Box Silk Spots.

2. Dosen Best White Chalk.

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

Ra 1,400 nett.

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

Hongkong, 1st April, 1904.

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LONG, HING & CO.,

DEALERS IN-

17, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL

PHOTO GOODS of every description, "KODAKS. KODAK FILMS. & KODAK ACCESSORIES. DEVELOPING & PRINTING

A SPECIALITY.

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SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY CO.

SHORTEST AND QUICKEST ROUTE BETWEEN THE FAR EAST AND EUROPE, VIA DATREN.

SUMMER SCHEDULE.

THRICE" WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, composed of excellently equipped Sleeping, Dining and 1st class Cars, operated between Dairen and Changchun fo coupection with the Trans-Siberian Express Trains and with the Dalren Shanghai Direct Steamer Service by the 8.8. "KOBE MABU" and "SAIXIO MARU" (2,877 tons each) as follows →→→

NORTH BOUND,

- Leave --Bhanghai (Steamer)

Arrive-Dairen

1

---Mukden

تمور

p.m.

Frithy

Saturday

FIRST CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE.

Dining accommodation for 300 Persons. String Band Plays during Tiffin and Dinner, Well Farnished Reception Rooms. Private Bar and Billiard Room for Hotel

Residents.

Electria Lifts to each floor.: Electric Lighting and Fans. Telephones on every Floor.. Every Comfort.

Ladies Afternoon Tea Looms. Tadies' Cloak Rooms. Matron in attendance.

CHARGES MODERATE, AND No Extras, 142]

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

A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL.

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

required).

Electric Passenger Elevator to each floor. Table D'Hots at separate tablos. For Terms, &c., apply to the

Hongkong, 24th July, 1905.

MANAGER.

«KINGSCLERE,"

PRIVATE HOTEL.

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APPROACH FROM KENNEDY ROAD AND MACDONNEL ROAD,

Talephone No. 134,

"SACHSOLA." Telegraphlo Address:1 A.B.C. Code, 5th Ed.

TILECTRIC LIGHT, Hot and Cold Water Uthroughout. Billiards, Tennis, Croquet, patting green and fine stabling for horses.

a45] Proprietress, Mas, G. SACHSE "BRA E-SIDE," PRIVATE HOTEL. STANDING in its own grounds with Tennis and Croquet Lawns, Large Airy and Well Furnished Beams, every home comfort. Fine View of the Harbour,

Telephone, No. 690. –

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Apply to MBS. F. W. WATTS,

"Braeside," 20, Macdonnell Bond. Hongkong, 4th December, 1907. ORIENTAL HOTEL

TPHONE 197.

No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

Mrs. M. MATTHAEY, Propristress.

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

- Largo and Airy Rooms, affording every comfort to Residents and Tourists.

Tabla D'Hote at Separate Tables, MODERATE RATES.

Telegraphic addresa: "Comfort," Hongkong.

For Particular, apply to

M. MATTHAEY, Proprietress.

Hongkong, 5th October, 1908.

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VICTORIA HOTEL

SHAMEEN-CANTON. MANAGER-MR. H. HAYNES Telegraphic address--" VICTORIA, SHANEEN, BMZULTED ON THE BRITISH CONCESSIO

MACAO HOTEL.

Thursday

Saturday

IS.

Ar

'11 á 8.50 p.m.

Bunday

Saturday or Sunday Monday or Tuesday Taesitay

1

-Changehaa

Ly

(Russian Train)*

Train)*

9.15 p.m. 5 6.55 a..

a.m.

Monday

Wednesday

Connecting at Harbin with

State Expressfor Moscow.

Wagon-Lita for Moscow.

State Express for St. Pet'g,

SOUTH-BOUND.

Connecting at Hurbit with

Leave-Harbin

Arrive-Changchun (

(Ruseina Train)

9 6

BIL

State Ex press from "St. Pet'g.

Tuesday

State Express from Moscow.

Thursday

p.m.

7

Lv.

Ar. —Mukden

p.11. 2.10 am.

Wednesday

Friday

Sunday

LY.

2.30 a.m.

-Dairen

12.30 pm.

(Btemmer)

afternoon.

Sunday

· Ar.

Shanghai

Tasnday

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The Church and Chieftian, by May Wynne, The Fault, by C. T. Podmore.

The Necklace of Parmona, by L. T. Mende, A Fair Refugee, by Morice Gerard. Arrows from the Dark, by Sophia Cole The Story of Thyrza, by Alice Brown. Only April, by Gurner Gillis. Kingsmead, by Baroness Von Hutton. Gervase, Mabel Dearmer, at denn The Key of Life, by A-A. Methley.

LANE, CRAWFORD &

(TELEPHONE

CO.

THERMOS FLASKS.

INDISPENSABLE TO SPORTSMEN

A BOON IN THE NURSERY.

THESE FLASKS WITHOUT THE AID OF CHEMI- CALS WILL KEEP HOT DRINKS HOT FOR 24 HOURS AND COLD DRINKS ICE COLD FOR A LONGER PERIOD.

PINT SIZE

-$12.00.

QUART SIZE

$18.00

LANE. CRAWFORD &

CO.

· L549.

Hongkong, 17th June, 1909.

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JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers Hongkong, 1st April, 1909.

Friday

Wagon-Lita from Мовот

Saturday

*Russian Train time is 23 minutes earlier than 8. M. R. time, TICKET AGENCIES The Company's Railway and Steamer Tickets are obtainable at all the Agencies of the International Sleeping Car and Express Trains Co. and Messrs Thos. Cook & SoD.

RAILWAY HOTELS YAMATO HOTEL (Tel. Add.- “YAMATO")

At Dairen (with enlarged accommodation), Port Arthur and Changchun, all under the Company's management,

FUSHUN COAL.

FRESH STOCK ALWAYS ON HAND AT DAIREN AND NEWCHWANG DEPOTS, SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY COMPANY, DAIREN.

Tel Add: "MANZETIU.” Codes: A.B.C., 5th Ed., AI, and Lieber's. [137-722

"CLAN MACKENZIE"

SCOTCH WHISKY.

$15.50 PER DOZ.

AN OLD MATURED WHISKY OF FINE MELLOW FLAVOUR. AB SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

SOLE AGENTS.

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MACAO.

MANAGER-MM. H. N. BEAUREPAIRE. Telegraphic addres "FARMRE, MACAO." SITUATED IN THE CENTRE OF PRAYA GRANDE Bath Hotels electrically ligted, and under experienced European Supervision,

GUIDES AND CHAIES PROVIDED. Every information and Special attention given to Tourists, REASONABLE RATES.

WM. FARMER,

Proprietor.

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"BOA VISTA (HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH

CHINA). MACAO.

TE Hotel is under European manage

Tment and most strict supervision, as t food, cleanliness and hygiene of the place.

All comforts of a home.

A most plesesnt retreat for those desiróns fort a few days rest and quiet-

Comfortable accommodation for travellers

colony Paying a visit to the historical and picturesque

of Macso,

Maese is 40 miles south-west of Hongkong. Two steamers (es. Sui An and Sui Tai) daily to and from Hongkong, and two steamers to and from Canton, give easy communication with both these centres.

Cable Address" BOAVISTA.** For Terms, apply to

1967

THE MANAGER.

KIALAT HOTEL,

SWATOW...

IF you go to Swetow don't forget to stay.

at the KIALAT HOTEL. Nice Comfortable Rooms, excellent cuisine. Situstel five minutes run by rickshaw from German Consulate.

Srator, 1st April, 190a

MISS E. WILL

Proprietres.

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