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Foz EUROPE & AMERICAN INDIA, AUSTRALIA, do, and for

PRIVATE BESIDENTS AT THE OUTPORTY

A Comprehensive and Complete Record of the

NEWS OF THE FAR EAST

is given in the

HONGKONG

WEEKLY

PRESS,

With which is incorporated the

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Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 48 57

No. 15,993.

號三十九百九千五萬一第一 日十初月大年元銃宜

HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 26TH, 1909,

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PIANOS

ON HIRE

AT

$10 PER MONTH.

TUNING AND REGULAR

ATTENTION INCLUSIVE

KELLY & WALSH, LTD.

Barberry Sheep, by R. Hichens

Where Billows Roll, by Allen Raine

Fights Forgotten, by H. Sayers ...

The Golden Key, by Desmond Coke

The Trickster, by G, B. Burgin

The Old Man in the Corner, by Baroness

Orezy

Black Magic, by Margery Bowen ... Sparrows, by H. W. C. Norte Araminta, by J. G. Braith

The Liberty of Love, by J. Blyth..

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The GOLD MEDAL for Quality in the Franco-British Exhibition has been awarded to

“WHITE

HORSE"

WHISKY,

"MACKIE & CO. DISTILLERS LTD. LAGAVULIN DISTILLERY, 18LAT.

275

***

22.50

STARE

OBTAINABLE AT ALL STORMS

2.75 4,50

OB FROM THE

$1.75 The Firing Line, by R. W. Chambers... 84.50

1.75 Is Shakespeare Dead By Mark Twain 1.75 A New History of Methodism, by W. J. Townsend, H. B. Workman and G. Dayre 2 Volumes, Illustrated 1.75 A Treatise on Plague, by Major G. E. and Dr. J. Thomson; Cheap Edition 1.75 Aseptic Surgery, by C. B. Lockwood 1.75 The Precious Metals, Gold, Silver and 1.75

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Internal Combustion Engine, by W. M. 1.75

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The Winning Post" Summer Annual - 8080 Sea Shells, the "Pink 'Un". Summer

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Hydraulic Tables and Diagrams for Practical Engineers, by Captain A. Garrett, B.E.

The Modern Mother. Guide to Girlhood, Motherhood and Infancy, by Dr. K. Laing Gordon...

35 The Practical Cricketer,

BOLE AGENTS:

5.25 LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

10.507

9.00

80

13.00

5.25

P

A Stroke of Luck, by Nit Gould... Emotional Moments, by Sarah Grand Paid For, by C. Garvice...

20.35

"W. G.'s Little Book

80.

J. N.

Crawford

Diana of the Crossways,

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Moredith

35

The World, in the Church, by M

Riddell...

First Aid to Dogs and Kenel Emer.

Chardon Stables gencies, by The Chaufear's Companion...

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24

35 Bootch and Irish Terriers, by

Caspar Brooke's Daughter, by Adeline

Sergeant

J. Martee Tasty Dishes, Simple and Economical The STATESMAN'S YEAR BOOK

80

80

9:00

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S. MOUTRIE &

CO.. LIMITED.

Campion Court, E. J. Worboise

CUTLER, PALMER & CO.,

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS

LONDON, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.

ESTABLISHED 1815.

La40-2

KOWLOON HOTEL

THE ONLY FIRST CLASS

ESTABLISHMENT ACROSS

THE WATER.

SINGLE and DOUBLE ROOMS To Let

at Moderate Rates,

Excellent Cuisine. ·

OF

To His MAJETY THE KING.

Estab. 1742

By Royal Appointment.

Quality

the Secret of Sacos.

$15 PER DOZ.

NOTE-Any persons proved guilty of re-filling our empty bottles with inferior Whisky

will be refusedsupplies,

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SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY CO.

SHORTEST AND QUICKEST ROUTE BETWEEN

THE FAR EAST AND EUROPE, VIA DAIBEN.

SUMMER SCHEDULE.

THRICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE..composed of excellently equipped Sleeping, Dining and 1st class Cars, operated between Dairen and Changekun in connection with the Trans-Siberian Express Trains and with the Dairan-Shanghai Direct Steamor Service by the 8.8. KOBE MABU" and "SA1x10 Máxy" (2,677 tons each) NURTH-BOUND. as followe te

Thursday Lenya-Shanghai (Steamer) Artive-Dairen

Saturday

Saturday or Sunday

Monday or Tuesday Tuenday Friday

Wednesday Saturday

Wagon-Lits from Moscow

Baturday

H

Ar.

----Müzden

Lv.

11 A.m. Sunday 8.50-p.. 9.15 p.

Ar.

Changchun

5

LY.

(Russian Train)"

Ar.

A.D. 6.55 Jn. p.m.

Monday

Per Case.

BRANDY

$22.50

20.00

Connecting st Harbin with

BOUTH-BOUND,

Connecting at Harbin with

State Express for Moscow.

Wagon-Lite for Moscow,

State Express for St. Pet'g.

**

17.00

(Emanina Leave Harbin Arrive-Changchun (

Q

a.m.

Stuto Ex- State

press from Express from

6t. Pet's.

Moscow.

Tuesday Thursday

t

WHISKY, PALL MALL

20.00

Lv.

Ar.

Makdon

2.10 m.

Wednesday

Friday Bunday

JOHN WALKER & SONS'.

OED HIGHLAND

Lv.

2.30 a..

12.50

Ar.

-Dairen

12.30 F.m

Lv.

(Steamer)

afternoon,

Sunday

Ar. Shanghai

Friday

Tuesday

C. P. & CO.'S SPECIAL

BLEND

10.50

O. E. OWEN,

Proprietor.

PORT WINE, INVALIDS

20.00

DOURO

13.50

[a692

"

16.00

AMOROSO

20.00

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY

PORTLAND CEMENT,

In Caska 375 lba. nst $5.50 per cask ex Factory In Bags 250 lbs. not 83.45 per bag ex Factory

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 29th April, 1908. {x827

PEAK TRAMWAYS

LIMITED.

TIME TABLE.

WEEK DAYS.

COMPANY

7,00 am 7.30am to 10.00 am... Every 10 minutas. 10.00 am to 11.00 am. Every 15 minutes. 11:30 am to 12.45 p.m.... Every 15 minutes. 12.45 p.m. to 1.15 p.m....Every 10 minutes. 117p. to 1.45 p.m....Every 15 minutos. 145 p.m. to 2.15 p.m..... Every 10 minutes. 2.15 p.m. to 3.00 p

Every 15 minutes. Every 15 minutes. -3.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.. 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m....Every 10 minutes.

NIGHT CARS.

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

этогу

Lour. SATURDAYS. Extra Cars at 3.15 pm: 11.30p.m. and 11.45 p.m.

BUNDAYS.

8.00 a.m. to 900 am...Every 15 minutes. 9.00 a.m. to 950 am...Every 30 miuntes. 9.30 am. to 10.30 am. Every 15 minutes. 10.00 a.m. to 11.00a.m...Every 10 minutes. 11.45 am to 12.00 Noon. Every 15 minutes, 12.00 Noon to 1.00p.m....Every 10 minutes. 1:00 p.m. to 5.00p.m....Every 15 minutes, 5.00p.m. to 6.00pm Every 10 minutes 6.00 p.m. to 7.00p.m. Every 15 minutes. 7.00 pm to 8.00p.m... Every 10 minutes. NIGHT CARS at 6.45 p.. & 9.00 p.m., 9.45 to 11.15 pm., every half hour. SPECIAL CARS by arrangement at the Company's Office, Alexandra Buildings, Des Vaux Road Central,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.

(549 Hongkong, 1st April, 1909.

DR. M. H. CHAUN, ·

HE latest Method of the AMERICAN

TSYSTEM of DENTISTRY.

33. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

From the University of Pennsylvania, V.S.A.

Hongkong, 17th April, 1907.

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SHERRY, LA TORRE

"

BENEDICTINE, D.O.M.

THE ABOVE ARE EXCLUSIVELY SHIPPED TO

6 p.m.

p.1.

*Russian Trein time is 23 minutes earlier than B. M. R. time. TICKET AGENCIES The Company's Hallway and Stonmer Tickets are obtainable at all the Agencies of the International Sleeping Car and Express Trains Co. and Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son,

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

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

FUSHUN COAL

Qrs. 40.00 PTS. 42.00 FRESH STOCK ALWAYS ON HAND AT DAIREN AND NEWCHWANG DEPOTS.

SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY COMPANY, DAIREN.

Tél. Add: “MARTETSU." Codes: ABC., 5th Ed., AI, and Lieber's. [137-722

SIEMSSEN & CO..

HONGKONG AGENTS.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

(TELÉPHONE 97%*

LONG HING & CO.,

PHOTO SUPPLIES.

51

JUST LANDED-

"GRIFFIN EXTRAS"

ASPARAGUS

THE BEST IN THE MARKET

95 CENTS

THIS ASPARAGUS IS

PER TIN.

PACKED WHERE GROWN AND

PLACED IN THE CAN IMMEDIATELY AFTER CUTTING; THUS INSURING ALL ITS FRESHNESS AND DELICACY OF FLAVOUR,

LANE. CRAWFORD & CO.

Hongkong, 14th July, 1909.

·1833

KUPPER'S PILSENER

BEER.

THE LEADING BEER

IN THE

FAR EAST,

TELEPHONE No. 75.

BOLL AGENTS:-

TERMS. VEDLY MODERATE

Consultation Frea Hongkong, 21st September, 1905.

1504

Hongkong, 21st July, 1909.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., ́

15, Quaea's Road: Central.

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NIEN TING

SIEN

SURGEON DENTIST,

No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREET,

17, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL

EASTMAN'S KODAK FILMS.

"ZEISS,"

FOLDING CAMERAS FITTED WITH

辅

17

" BOSS GOERZ,"

: COMPOUND SHUTTERS

AT MODERATE PRICES.

LENSES ON

DEVELOPING & PRINTING

INTIMATIONS.

E.

B.

A SPECIALITY:

[0809

SITUATION WANTED.

YOUNG BRITISHER SEEKS POSI *TION. Several years: commercial

HOTELS

HONGKONG HOTEL

FIRST CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE,

Dining accommodation for 300 Persons. String Band Plays during Tifin and Dinner. Well Furnished Reception Rooms.

Private Bar and Billiard Room for Hotel

Residents.

Electric Lifts to each Floor!

ectria Lighting and Fans. Talophones on every Floor. Every Comfort

Ladies Afternoon Tea Rooms.

Ladies' Cleak Room

Matron in attendance.

CHARGES MODERATE, AND NO EXTRAS 142]

A. F. DAVIES, Monoger

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL.

Ladies' Afternoon Tea-Rooms.

Private Bar and Billiard-Rounan.

Hot and Cold Water throughout,

Electrically Lighted: Electric Fans (if

required).

Electric Passenger Elevator to tuch, Ecor. Table D'Hot st separate tables.

For Terms, &c., apply to the

Hongkong, 24th July, 1905.

MANAGER.

"KINGSCLERE,'

2+

PRIVATE HOTEL..

La999

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

"BACHSOLA.**

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

ELECTRIC LIGHT. Hot and Cold Water

throughout. Billiards, Tennis, Croquet, patting green and Bne stabling for horses.

45 Proprietress, "MEB. G. SACHSE.

"BRAESIDE,

PRIVATE HOTEL

"

CITANDING in its own grounds with Tennis and Croquet Lawns, Large Alry and Well Furnished Room, every home comfort. Fire View of the Harbour. Telaphone, No. 690,

Apply to Mas. F. W. WATTE,

"Braeside," 20, Macdonnell Road. [$44 Hongkong, 4th December, 1907, ORIENTAL HOTEL

TELEPHONE 197.

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

A thoroughly First-Class and Up-to-Date Hotel Large and Airy Rooms, autoriling every comfort to Residents and Tourists, Table D'Hôte at Separate Tables, MODERATE RATES. Telegraphic address: "Comfort," Hongkong

For Particulars, apply to

M. MATTHAET, Proprietress.

Hongkong, 5th October, 1908.

(843

"BOA VISTA” (HOTEL-BANITARIUM OF SOUTH

CHINA). MACAO.

Hotel is under European manage Tent and most strict supervision as to Leod, olesaliness and hygiene of the placo.

All comforts of a home.

"A most pleasant retreat for those desirous for a for days rest and quiet.

Comfortable accommodation for travellers paying a visit to the historical and picturesqua Colony

of Macso.

Masse is 40 miles south-west of Hongkong. Two steamers (s. Sui An and Sui Tai) daily to Bad from Hongkong, nad two steamers to and from Canton, give easy communication with Both these centres.

Cable Address" BOAVISTA.” For Terms, apply to 196)

THE MANAGER.

experience at Home and in Hongkong. Br- VICTORIA HOTEL

pert bookkeeper and thoroughly conversant in COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPART every branch of Office Work. Would deposit

MENT.

$10,000 as security or as an investment if dosired. First-class references. D. W Care of "Daily Press " Office. Hongkong, 23rit July, 1909.-

HONGKONG OPIUM FARM.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

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COLD STORAGE. THE HONGKONG IOE COMPANY, LTD.

NOTALED TENDERS will be received at the COLONIAL SECRETANT'S OFFICE, Hong- kong, till Noor on TUESDAY, the 31st day of August, 1909, for the purchase of the privileges known as the Opium Fanm established under The Propared Opium Ordinances, 1891 1909, that is to say, the sole privilege of phe paring Opinen and of Belling, within the Colony, (including the New Territories), Opium so pre- pared, inclusive of the privilege of collecting Dross in drons and of preparing and dealing Opion, for three years from the 1st of March, 1910.

Full information as to conditions of tendering", etc., can be obtained from the Colonial Treasurer, and the conditions of tendering and form of grant have been published in Government Gaute as Notification No. 401 of the 2nd July, 1909.

A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary. Hongkong, 2nd July, 1909,

COAL..

(926

UNKER COAL can now be Supplied,

here now 10,000 Cubic Feet of Cold Storage available at BAST POINT. Stores will Open at 10 AM. and 4 PM daily, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goode

G. K. HAXTÓN, Manager. Hongkong 1st April, 1908,

UTTON'S

₤48

SEED-3--- Special Selected Collections for this Climate. VEGETABLES. AND FLOWERS IN AIR-TIGHT CASES. To be obtained from

CHINA EXPRESS CO., 3, Duddell Street. Telephone 658.

HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that, on and after the 19th current, the Selling Price

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Btract the Doop Coals of SARAWAK OF ICE will be INCREASED to ONE CENT

GOVERNMENT MINES, at Labnan and Brookston, Fer Pound.

at Reduced Rates. Large stock always on hand. Apply SARAWAK GOVERNMENT AGENCY, Labuan. Telegrams: May, Labuan,

[939

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,

General Manager®, Hongkong Too Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 13th July, 1909.

[957

SHANEEN-CANTON. MANAGER-MR. H. HAYNES.

Telegraphic address" VICTORIA, SHAMBEN, SITUATED ON THE BRITISH CONCESSION.

MACAO HOTEL.

MACAO. MANAGER-ME. II. N. BEAUREPATRE. Telegraphic addrem -"FARMX2, MAÇAO.” SITUATED IN THE CENTER OF PRAYA GRANI Both Hotele electrically lighted, and under experienced European Supervision:-: GUIDES AND CHAIRS PROVIDED. Every information and Special attention given to Tourists. REASONABLE RATES,

a16233

THE

WM.-FARMER,

Proprietor.

GRAND HOTEL DIVISION STREET, KOBE.

FIRST-CLASS CUISINE.

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

BERT WINES AND IAQUORS BUPPLIED; Speciel arrangements for a long stay.

F. DOMBALLE

Propriétaires M MAILLE