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¡Foz BÜROPE & AKEPTON INDIA, AUSTRALIA, dn, and for PRIVATE RESIDENTS AT THE OUTPORTS

A Comprehensive and Complete Record of the

NEWS OF THE FAR EAST

is given in the

HONGKONG WEEKLY

PRESS,

With which is incorporated the

CHINAOVERLAND TRADE REPORT

Babsaription, paid in advance,

$12 per annum,” Portage to any

[part of the World #2,

Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 185 7.

BOVRIL

Everyone should keep a

bottle of Bovril In tho

house. It is so handy for Intproruptis meals, Invalid cookery, and tasty dishes. Made in a minuto,

No. 16,027.

誠七十二零千六萬一第

日九十月七年元銃宜 HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd, 1909. 五㟖素 就三月九年九霁百九子一英港香

CALL

CUTLER, PALMER & CO.,

TRADE

The GOLD MEDAL for Quality in the

AT

MOUTRIES'

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS

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LONDON, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA,

ESTABLISHED 1815.

FOR

THE PIANO

36 YEARS' EXPERIENCE.

BRANDY ★★★

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

S. MOUTRIE &

CO., LIMITED.

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KOWLOON HOTEL

HE ONLY FIRST CLASS

ESTABLISHMENT ACROSS

THE WATER.

SINGLE and DOUBLE BOOMS. To Let with or without Board

Franco-British Exhibition has been awarded to

199 To. His MAJESTY

WHITE HORSE" "NG.

WHISKY.

MACKIE & CO. DISTILLERS LTD. LAGAVULIN Distillery, ISLAY.

BOLE AGENTS:

LANE. CRAWFORD & CO.

By Royal Appointment.

Estab, 1742

Quality.

the Secret of Success.

$15 PER DOZ.

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

will be refusedsupplies.

[#34.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL

STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

Mizr

OBTAINABLE AT ALL STOBES

Per Chee

OR FROM THE

$23.50

21.00

17.75

WHISKY, PALL MALL

21.00

JOHN WALKER & SONS'

OLD HIGHLAND

13.25

°C. P. & ̈00'S SPECIAL

BLEND

11.25

PORT WINE, INVALIDS

$21.00

DOURO

14.25

SHERRY, LA TORRE

16.75

21.00

BENEDICTINE, DO.M.

Qrs. 42.00 Prs. 44.00

THE ABOVE ARE EXCLUSIVELY SHIPPED TO

SIEMSSEN & CO..

Telephone No. 75.

AMOROSO

HONGKONG AGENTS.

[#51

"AQUARIUS.”

A PURE,

DISTILLED TABLE WATER

EN

QUARTS, PINTS AND SPLITS.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.,

O. E. OWEN,

Proprietor.

(692

Hongkong, lat September, 1909.

GEEEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Carks 375 Ibe, not $5.50 per cask er Factory In Eage 250 the net $345 per bag or Factory

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

Getal MA

Maingers.

· Hongkong, 29th April, 1908.

PEAK TRAMWAYS

7.00a.m.

LIMITED.

TIME TABLE.

WERK DATA.

[3827

COMPANY

7.30 mm. 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 minutes. 1245 pm. to 1.15 p.m....Every 10 minutes. 115 pm to 145 pan....Every 15 minutes. 145pm. to 2.15 p.m.... Every 10 minutes. 2.15 p.m. to

Every 15 minutės.

3.30 pm to 5.09ery 15 minutes.

5.00 pm to 8.00 p.m.... Every 10 minutes. NIGHT CABO.

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

eyery hour.

SATURDAYS.

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

BUNDAYS..

8.00 am to 9:00 am...Every 15 minutes. 9.00 am to 9:30 am....Every 30 minutes. 9.30 am to 10:30a.m...Every 15 minutes, 10.30 am to 11:00 n.m.

...Every

10 minutes.

11.45 am, to 12.00 Noon. Every 15 minutes, 12.00 Novato 1.00p.m. Every 10

1.00p.m. to, 5.00

6.00 p.m. to

7.00p.m.

iniantes 5.00 pm. ...very 15 minutes, 5.00 pm to 6.00p.m. Every 10 minutes. to 7.00 pm...Every 15 minutos. to 8:00 p.m....Every 10 minutes. NIGHT CARS at 8.45 pm, & 9.00 .p.m.;

11:15 5p.m., overy half hour. SPECIAL CARS by arrangement at the Company's Office, Alexandrs Buildings, Des Vaux Road Central.

9.45 to.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Manager.

Hongkong, 1st April, 1909.

THIS

DR. M. H. CHAUN.

1549

MIES Talent Method of the AMERICAN

SYSTEM of DENTISTRY.

33, Qomis's Road ÜBNTRAL,

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

Hongkong, 17th April, 1907.

TIEN TING

[1162

SURGEON DENTIST

No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREET.

TERMS VERY MODERATE.

Consultation Froe. Hongkong, 21st September, 1905. · [604

16, Queen's Road: Central,

[636

PEARSON'S HYCOL

(Co-icient 18/20)

The most POWERFUL DISINFECTANT in the WORLD. Gnaranteed 18/20 TIMES more effective than pure Carbolio Adid ́under, GOVERNMENT STANDARD TEST on TYPHOID GERMS. Certificate of strength given to each buyer. NON-POISONOUS and NON IRRITANT 20 HUMAN and ANIMAL 1 NON-CORROSIVE.

ONE GALLON will make 400 GALLONS of Efvisat. Disinfectant.

PRICE

PERFECT EMULSION IN WATER.

$ 3.00 PER 1 GALLON DRUM, $12.50 5 GALLON DRUM. $ 2.60 1 GALLON IN BULK.

"

PEARSON'S SAPONIFIED CRESOL

| CO-EFFICIENT 10; IN 1 GALLON DRUMS.

"

5; IN 1

"

To be obtained from usnal Dealers. Prices on application.

Ask other Manufacturers of Fluids for a GUARANTEE of the GERMICIDAL STRENGTHS of their products (in relation to Pare Carbolic Acid) under the STANDARD TEST on TYPHOID GERMS, and then compare the result with our HYCOL. This is the only way you can arrive at the Germ Killing Properties and at the true value of a GENUINE DISINFECTING FLUID.

DODWELL & CO. LTD..

SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG, SOUTH CHINA & JAPAN

FOR PEARSON'S ANTISEPTIC Co., LD.

{*1133

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

(TELEPHONE 97).

(FORTNIGHTLY CONSIGNMENTS OF)

"GOLF

YORK

BRAND"

HAMS.

THESE HAMS ARE SPECIALLY SELECTED AND CCRED FOR LANE, CRAWFORD & Co., WHO GUABANTER TO EIR EXCELLENCE AND FLAVOUR.

S.S.

· MACEDONIA,

(10,500 TONS.)

CAPTAIN C. D. BENNETT, R.NE.

|\HIS THROUGH MAIL STEAMER FOR MARSEILLES AND LONDON VIA BOMBAY WILL LEAVE HONGKONG ON MARCH 19TH, 1910, STATING AT BOMBAY 24 HOURS ONLY AND IS DUE TO ARRIVE AT :--

MARSEILLES LONDON

FARES TO LONDON :—

APRIL 16TH. April 2380.

18T SALOON £71.10 SINGLE; £106 14 RETURN. 2ND

£48.8

For Further Particulars, apply to

£72.12

E A. HEWETT,

- SUPERINTENDENT.

11075

LONG HING & CO.,

PHOTO SUPPLIES.

17, QUREN'S BOAD, CENTRAL

JUST LANDED...

EASTMAN'S KODAK FILMS.

FOLDING CAMERAS FITTED WITH

**2EISS," "GOEBZ” "ROSS LENSES ON

COMPOUND SHUTTERS

AT MODERATE PRICES.

DEVELOPING & PRINTING

DAS SPECIALITY:

[1809

BREWER & CO., LIMITED.,

FEDDER STREET-Adjoining Main Entrance HONGKONG HOTEL TELEPHONE, NO. 696

CANTONESE EASILY MASTERED If you start at the beginning.

Learn the native way the Chinese way-the same way that a Chinese child learns at school

機有識者

(Knowledge in power)

CHINESE REFERENCES BY FRANCIS Lorraine CLYDE.

Being a translation of Chinese School Text Books explaining the various meinings com best dictionaries and other sources. monly applied to each character, called from the

1ST READER ...

-17

$2.50 83.25 The English in China, by J. Bromley Eames, with many Mape and Mustrations

$16.50

The Life and Letters of Lafesdio Hearn,

by Elizabeth Bisland, in 2 Volumes · 19.00 The New Spirit in India, by Henry

W. Nevinson

NORTH

INSURANCES

9.CO

NORTH BRITISH ́ ́ ́AND MERCAN-

TILE INSURANCE COMPANY. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE ' OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO. TOTAL FUNDS ar 31st DECEMBER, 1908

£19,121,310.

I Authorised Capital Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital

£6,000,000 3,275,000 1.212.500 0 0 3,204,753 7 10

IL Fire Funds

The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Bates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

·Agenta. Hongkong, 14th August, 1909. [908

NOTICE.

H Hongkong for the WESTERN ASSURANCE LEAVING been appointed AGENTS in

CONPARTY, We are prepared to accept approved European and Chinese Risks at Current Batea,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

•Hongkong, 18th August, 1909. (1083

& BON'S MERCHANT: NAVY) :

DWERCHANT BAR

LANE. CRAWFORD & CO.

“Hongkong, 11th August 1909...

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NAVY BOILED

∙LONG FLAX,

RELIANCE CROWN TARPAULING

ARNHOLD, KARÉEEG & CO.

Bola Agents.

NEW SHIPMENT JUST ARHIVED

OF

DOHERTY TENNIS RACKET ;

ALSO

SLAZENGER'S CHAMPION- SHIP, 1909, TENNIS BALLS. PACKED IN AIR TIGHT TINS,

We make a Speciality of Fountain Pens carrying a representative Btook of

the following

Oneto Self-Filling Fountain Pen. Conklin Self-Filling Fountain Pen, Waterman Ideal Fountain Pen. Moure's Non-leakable Fountain Pen.

+32

THE DAIRY FARM 60., LTD.

BUTTER. Worst that, owing to a sharp rise in

the price of Butter in Australia and to the low rate of exchange ruling here, we are compelled to raise the selling price of our “DAISY brand Butter to 80 conte per lb. from 1st September next, when the following prises will Fule:--

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“HONEYSUCKLE" brand: $100 per lb. "DAINY" brand-

B0 "DAIETMAID" brand "BUTTERCUP" brand

GRACA & CO.,

(Established 1896.)

PRICE, $3 PER MONTH,

HOTELS

|HONGKONG HOTEL

FIRST-CLÁSS AND UP-TO-DATE.

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

Private Bar and Billiard Room for Hotel

Residents.

Electric Lifte to each Flouri

Electric Lighting and Fass. Telephones on every Ficor. Every Comfort.

Ladim' Afternoon To Rooma. Ladies' Cloak Rooms.

Matron in attendance.

CHARGES MODHEATS, AND NO EXTRAS.

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A. F. DAVIES, Manager,

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL,

Ladies' Afternoon Tea-RoomIA

Private Bar and Billard-Booms, Hot and Cold Water throughout, Electrically Lighted; Electric Fans (it

required).

Electric Passenger Elevator to each Boor. Table. D'Hote ́st seperata tables. For Terms, &o, apply to the

Hongkong, 24th July, 1995.

MANAGER,

"KINGSCLERE,”

PRIVATE HOTEL.

T$998

APPROACH PROM KENNEDY ROAD AND MacDonnel Road,

Telephone No. 134,

Telegraphic Address :-

*SACHIOLA.” A.B.C. Code, 5th Ed.

LECTRIC LIGHT, Hot and Cold Water throughout. Billiards, Tennis, Croquet, patting green and fire stabling for horses,

Proprietrens, Mrs. G. SACHSE. BRAESIDE,"

45].

PRIVATE HOTEL

TANDING in its own grounds with Tennis and Croquet Lawns, Large' Airy and Well Furnished Rooms, every home comfort. Fins View of the Harbour,"

Telephone, No. 690,-

Apply to MES. F. W. WATTS,

"Braedde," 20, Msodonnell Bead. ***Hongkong, 4th December, 1907. (844

ORIENTAL HOTEL

TÉLEPHONE 197.

No, 2, QUEEN'S BOAD CENTRAL,

Ms. M. MATTHAEY, Propristrous. A thoroughly First-Class and Up-to-Dato Hotel

"Largo and Airy Roomas, affording every comfer to Revidenta asid Tourista,

Table D'Hôte at Separate Tables. MODERATE RATES. Telegraphic address: "Comfort" Hongkong.

For Particulars, apply to

M. USCHMANN,

Proprietress Hongkong, 5th October, 1908.

[#43

"BOA VISTA " (HOTEL-BANITARIUM OF SOÚTH CHINA). MACAO.

146 Hotel is under European manage

zont and most set supervision as to food, cleanliness, and hygiëne of the place.

All semforts of a home,

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

Comfortable accommeation for travellers paying a visit to the historical and picturesque colony of Macao.

Two steamers (8.8. But An and Sui Tas daily to Maono is 40 miles south-west of Hongkong. and from Hengkung, sad two steamers to and from Canton, give easy communication with both these centres.

Cable Address* BOAVISTA,”. For Terms, apply to 196]

THE MANAGER.

VICTORIA HOTEL

SHAMTEN-CANTON,

MANAGER-MB. H. HAINES. Telegraphic address VICTORIA, SHAMKEN. SITUATED ON THE BRITISH CONCESSION.

MACAO

HOTEL.

MACAO. Telegraphic address "FARMRE, Macao,” SITUATED IN THE CENTER OF PEATA GRANDM Bath Hotels electrically lighted, and under experienced European Bapervision. GUIDES AND Chairs ProvideD, Every information and Special attention givem to Tourists. REASONABLE RATES.

WM. FARMER,

Proprietor.

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No. 27 DEB YEUX ROAD,-·

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'AND

VIEW POST CARDS. Just Received a Selection of SENT'S ILLUSTRATED

POSTAGE STAMP ALBUMS

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THE

GRAND HOTEL

DIVISION STREET, KOBE,

FIRST CLASS CUISINE.

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

BET WINES AND Liquors SyfPLIED.

-Special arrangements for a long stay.

F. DOMBALLEI

Propri AMA MAILLE