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| - A Comprehensive and Completa Hecord of the

NEWS OF THE FAR EAST

is given in the

HONGKONG WEEKLY

PRESS,

With which is incorporated the

CHINAOVERLAND TRADERSPORT:

Subscription, paid in advance,

$12 per annum. Postage to any

part of the World $2.

Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857.

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to B.M. 5 King

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HOTELS

|HONGKONG HOTEL

No. 16,009,

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日八会月大年元統宜 HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13TH, 1909. 五㟖駕 第三十月八年九零百九千——英港暫

CALL

CUTLER, PALMER & CO.,

AT

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS

OP

LONDON, INDIA, CHINA, JAPANĽAND AUSTRALIA.

ESTABLISHED 1815.

PHOTO STU

17, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL.

JUST LANDED :-

MOUTRIES"

FOR

THE PIANO

BRANDY ★★★

Per Case

$22.60

20.00

17.00

WHISKY, PALL MALL

20.60

JOHN WALKER & SONS'

OLD HIGHLAND

"

12:50

C. P. & CO.'S SPECIAL

BLEND

10.50

20.00

13.50

16.00

20.00

- QTS. 40.00 : PTs. 42.00

DOURO

AMOROSO

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SIEMSSEN & CO..

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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks 375 lbs. ast $5.50 per cask ex Factory In Baga 250 lbs. net 83.45 per bag ex Factory-

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers, Hongkong, 29th April, 1908,

PEAK TRAMWAYS

17.00 LI

LIMITED.

TIME TABI.E.

WEEX-DAYS,

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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 p....Every 15 minutes. 1245 pm to 1.15 p.m....Every 10 minutes. 1.15pm to 1.45 p.a....Every 15 minutes. 1.45 p.m. to 2.15 p.m...Every 10 minutes. 2.15 pm to 3.00p.m. Every 15 minutes. 3.30 pm. to 5.00p.m... Every 15 minutes, 5.00 pm to 8.00p.m....Every 10 minutes.

NIGHT CARS.

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

every hour, SATURDAYS. Extra Cars at 3.15 p.m. 11.30 p.m. and 11.45.p..

SUNDAYS,

8.00 mm. to 900 a.m....Every 15 minutes. 9.00 am to 930 am....Every 30 minutes. 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 1.00 p.m....Every 10 miuntes. 100p.m. to 5.00p.m.Evory. 15 minutes. 5.00 pm to 6.00 pm...Every 10 minutes. 6.00 pm to 7.00p.m....Every 15 minutes. 7.00pm to 8.00 pm... ...Every

10 minutes NIGHT CARS at:

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

5 p.m., every half hour. SPECIAL CARS by arrangement at the Company's Office, Alexandra Buildings, Das Voeux Road Central.

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

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DR. M. H. CHAUN,

HE latest Method of the AMERICAN

IL SYSTEM of DENTISTRY.

33, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRALA From the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Hongkong, 17th April, 1907.

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SUPPLIES.

EASTMAN'S KODAK FILMS.

FOLDING CANERAS FITTED WITH

ZEISS," **GOERZ, "ROSS "

COMPOUND SHUTTERS

AT MODERATE PRICES.

LENSES

ON

DEVELOPING & PRINTING

A SPECIALITY.

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SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY CO.

SHORTEST AND QUICKEST ROUTE BETWEEN

THE FAR EAST AND EUROPE, VIA DAIREN.

SUMMER SCHEDULE.

THRICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, composed of excellently equipped Sleeping, Dining and 1st class Cars, operated between Dairen and Changchun in connection with the Trans-Siberian Express Trains and with the Dairen-Shanghai Direct Steamer Service by the SS. "KOBE MARU" and "SAIKIO MAEU" (2,877 tens each) as follows:-- Leate-Shanghal

6.55 Ai. 1.3 p.m.

FIRST-CLASS

UP-TO-DATE.

Dining accommodation for 300 Parsons, String Band Plays during Tifa and Dinner. Wall Furnished Reception Rooma,

Private Bar and Billiard Room for Hotell

Revidenta.

Electric Lifts to each Floor, Electric Lighting and Fans. Telephones on every Floor.

Every

Comfort.

Ladies' Afternoon Tea Rooms, Ladies' Cloak Rooms.

Matron in attendance.

CHARGES MODERATE, AND NO EXTRAS. #42]

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

A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL

Ladies' Afternoon Tea-Reoms. Private Bar and Billiard-Rooms.. Hot and Cold Water throughout,

Electrically Lighted; Electric Fans (it

required).

Electrio Passenger Elevator to each floor. Table D'Hota at separate tables.

For Terms, & apply to the

Hongkong, 24th July, 1905.

MANAGER.

“KINGSÚLERE,"

PRIVATE HOTEL.

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

"BACB8OLA." A.B.C. Code, 5th Ed. ALECTRIC LIGHT, Hot and Cold Water

ELECTRIC LEs, Tonis, Croquet,

$45

putting green and fine stabling for horses.

Proprietress, Mus. G. SACHSE. "BRAESIDE,

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PRIVATE HOTEL.

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TANDING in its own grounds with Tennis

NURTH-BOUND,

teamer

Arrive-Dairen

Liv.

Ar

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Lov

11 8.50 p.m. 9.15 p.m.

a.m,

Thursday Saturday Bunday

Saturday or Sunday Monday or Tuesday Tuesday Friday

Telegraphic Address :

Ar.

-Changchun

5 $.E.

Monday

Wednesday Saturday

Lv.

(Russian Train)”

Ar,

--Harbin

(651

Connecting at Harbin with

SOUTH-BOUND.

Connecting at Harbin with

Stato Express for

Монсог

Wagon-Lifs for Moscow,

State Express for St. Petig...

*

Leave Harbin (Kussing Train}TM Arrive Chauguhan (

9 8.31.

State

State Wagen-Lite press from Express from from

St. Pet'g

Moscow. Moscow

Tuesday Thursday. Saturday

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7.

p.1.

(FORTNIGHTLY CONSIGNMENTS OF)

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2.10 am

Wednesday -Friday

Sunday

2.30 2.m.

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Sunday

Shanghai

Friday

Tuesday

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(TELEPHONE. 97).-

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THESE HAMS ARE SPECIALLY SELECTED AND CURED FOR LANE, CRAWFORD & Co., WHO GUARANTEE THEIR EXCELLENCE AND FLAVOUR.

LANE. CRAWFORD & CO. Hongkong, 11 August, 1909,

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TELEPHONE No. 75.-

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FAR EAST.

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Hongkong, 21st July, 1909.

15, Queen's Road Central.

(8.35

BREWER & CO., LIMITED.,

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

A Sense of Hurcur, by Cosmo Hamilton The Cage, by Harold Begbie Misa Pilebury's Fortune, by C. R.

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John C. Trantwine

Neath Austral Skica, by Louis Besk

1.75

Russian Train time. ie 23 minutes earlier than 8. M. B, 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 & Bom,

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: "MANTETSC," Codes: A.B.C., 5th Ed., Al, and Lieber's.

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

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THE KING. By Royal Appointment.

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the Secret of

Encosts.

$15 PER DOZ.

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

will be refusedsup plies.

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FOR SALE

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EMINGTON TYPEWRITER, with

AUTOMATIC BROWNING POCKET PISTOLS.

R TABULATOR AFFIXED, in Good With CHAMBER for CARTRIDGES

Condition.

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Telephones, their Construction, Installa

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4.00

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SURGEON DENTIST,

No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREET. TERMS VERY MODERATE:

Consultation Free. Hongkong, 21st September, 1905.

The Wild Widow, by Gertie de Shent-

worth James

2855 Mayfair, by Frank Richard

David Baring by Joseph Hockin

7.65

FIRING 8. SHOTS in 2 SECONDS,

SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong, 6th March, 1907.

NEW CARTRIDGES.

Bores and Sizes.

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SMOKELESS POWDERS and CHILLED SHOTS. From No. 10 to 8980: at $6, $7 and $7.50 per 100, SPORTING REQUISITES and AIR GUNS in Variety.

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WM. SCHMIDT & CO. Hongkong, 26th October, 1906. [623

GENTLEMEN,

WE

and Croquet Lawns, Large, Airy and Well Furnished Rooms, every home comfort. Fine View of the Harbour.

Telophone, No. 690.

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Apply to Maя. F. W. WATTS,

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

TELEPHONE. 197.

No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Mas, M. MATTHAEY, Proprietress.

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

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

Table D'Hôte at Separate Tables. MODERATE RATES.

Telegraphic address: Comfort," Hongkong

For Particulars, apply to

M. MATTHAEY, Propriotrom.

Hongkong, 5th October, 1908.

"BOA VISTA"

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. (HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH

CHINA). MACAO.

THE Hotel is under European manage.

THE ment and most strict supervision as to

food, cleanliness and hygiene of the place.

All comforts of a home.

a

A most plesesnt retreat for those desirous for low days rest and quiet.

Comfortable Rocoiamocanon for travellers

paying a visit to the historical and picturesqu colphy of Macro.

Macao is

is 40 miles south-west of Hongkong.

Two steamers (s.a. Sus An and Sai Tai) daily to and from Hongkong, and two steamers to and from Canton, give teay communication with both these centres;

Cable Address BOAVISTA," For Terms, apply to *196]

THE MANAGER.

VICTORIA HOTEL

SHAMEEN-CANTON MANAGER-MR. H. HAYNES Telegraphic address" VICTORIA, Shamren

SITUATED ON THE BRITISH CONCESSION.;

MACAO HOTEL.

MACA O. Telegraphic address FAENZE, Madao,” SITUATED IN THE CENTRE OF FRAYA GRANDM Both Hotels electrically lighted; 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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THE

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-COMFORTABLE & AIRY BEDROOMS, Situated in close proximity to the Harbour and Kailway Station.

BEST WINES and Liquors SUPPLIER,

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