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FOR EUROPE & AVERICK, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, &c., and for PRIVATE RESIDESTE AT THE OUTFORTS

A Comprehensive and Complete

Record of the ':

NEWS OF THE FAR EAST

is given in the

HONGKONG NAWEEKLY

PRESS,

With which is incorporated the CHINAOVEBLAND TRADERSPORT Subscription, paid in advance,

$12 per annum, Postage to any

part of the World 82.

No. 16,076.

Hongkong Daily Press.

BLISHED 1857

BLTANÆRØY HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30TH, 1909. 號六十七零千六萬一第

CALL

AT

"MOUTRIES'

FOR

THE PIANO

36 YEARS' EXPERIENCE.

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LIMITED.

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THE

DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE

FOR 1909.

Complete Edition

Small...

$10.00 6:00

Ordis may be eant to the Hongkong Daily Press Office and to the Local Booksellers

六奔號十三月十年九零百九千一英港香 PRIOR, $S PER MONTH.

PEARSON'S HYCOL PENINSULAR &

STEAM

(CO-EFFICIENT 18/20).

The most POWERFUL DISINFECTANT in the WORLD. Guaranteed 18/20 TIMES more effective than pure Carbolic Acid under GOVERNMENT STANDARD TEST on TYPHOID GERMS. Certificate of strength given to osch buyer.. NON-POISONOUS and NON-IRRITANT to HUMAN and ANIMAL Hfe. NON-CORROSIVE. UN ONE GALLON will make 400 GALLONS of Exfolent Disinfectant,

PERFECT

PRICE

EMULSION IN WATER.

$3.00 PER 1 GALLON DRUM. $12.50 5 GALLON DRUM

$ 2.60 1 GALLON IN BULK

$2.

PEARSON'S SAPONIFIED CRESOL

Co-EFFICIENT 10; IN 1 GALLON DRUMS.

5; IN 1

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To be obtained from usual Dealers. Prices on application.

Ask other Manufacturers of Fluids for a GUARANTEE of the GERMICIDAL, STRENGTHE 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 valuo of a GENUINE DISINFECTING FLUID.

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SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG, SOUTH CHINA & JAPAN

FOR PEAUSON'S ANTISEPTIC Co., La.

(a1133

CUTLER, PALMER & CO.,

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS

ON

LONDON, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA,

·~ ESTABLISHED 1815.

KOWLOON HOTEL

THE ONLY FIRST CLASS

ESTABLISHMENT ACROSS

12.

THE WATER.

SINGLE SED DOUBLE ROOMS To Let with or without Board,

O. E OWEN,

BRANDY

'IMPERIAL WHISKY'

A MAGNIFICENT BRAND, SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR THE FAR EAST.

WHISKY, PALL MALL

РЕАК

WEEK DAYS,

Proprietar.

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COMPANY

THIS

S.S.

ORIENTAL

NAVIGATION CO.

▪ MACEDONIA.” (10,500 TONS.)

CAPTAIN C. D. BENNETT, R.N.R.

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

MARSEILLES LONDON

FARES TO LONDON

APRIL 16TH. APRIL 23RD.

IST SALOON £71.10 SINGLE; £106.14 RETURN.

£48,8

£ 72.12

2ND

For Further Particulars, apply to

F A HEWETT,

SUPERINTENDENT:

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LONG HING & CO.,

17, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL.

DEALERS IN

PHOTO GOODS of

all descriptions,

EASTMAN KODAK FILMS.

&0., 80.

DEVELOPING & PRINTING

A SPECIALITY.

fa809

JOHN ROBERTS & CO., LTD.,

BILLIARD TABLE MAKERS, BOMBAY,

UNDERTAKE to Supply Phat-class Full Sized DILLIARD TABLE, design No. 1; to following Specification, viz.: On Eight Massive Turned Lega, raised panels to Carved Bracket Kriens, Screwed Mouldings, double bolted, best Welsh Slate Bed, extrs heavy solid cushion rails fitted with our new low set Express Cushions, patent invisiblə Pocket Plates, best Whipoord Poskots, Sir Chalk Cups, Superfine West of England Cloth, and patent adjusting toes, with lover for levelling, complete with the following accessories 12 Solectod Ash Cues

PRICES

JOHN WALKER & SONS

OLD HIGHLAND C. P. & 00.'S SPECIAL

BLEND

ON

APPLICATION.

1 Butt Rest with Patent Brass feed..

1 Long Butt.

Billiard Rest with Patent Brass Head.

1 Mid Butt.

1 Billiard Marking Board.

1 Dust Cover for Table.

Straightedge and Cirolé.

1 Bast Spirit Lovel

1 Smoothing Iron with Shoe.

1 Wall Cne Rack.

1 Wall Butt Rask.

1 Set Billiard Rules, Framed.

1 Best Billiard Brash.

1 Set "Crystalate" or Brazoline" Bild. Balls.

1 Bor Best Cue Tips, assorted.

1 Cue Tip Fastener with File.

1 Bottle Cae Cement.

1

Bor Silk Spots.

2 Dozen Best White Chalk.

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

Its. 1,400 net

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

HOTELS

HONGKONG HOTEL

.FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DAth.

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

Residents

was sp

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

Ladies Afternoon Tea Booms.

Ladies' Cloak. Rooms.

Matron in attendance.

CHARGES MODERATE, AND NO BITEAS.

A. F. DAVIES, Maunger.

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KING EDWARD HOTEL.

A HIGH CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL.

Ladies Afternoon Tra-Rooms.

Private Bar and Billiard-Rooma. Hot and Cold Water throughout,

Efcetrically Lighted; Electrio Fans (if

required).

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

Hongkong, 24th July, 1905.

MANAGER

"KINGSCLERE,"

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

"BACHBOLA." Telegraphic Address A.B.C. Code, 5th Ed.

LECTRIC LIGHT, Hot and Cold Water

Tennis,

patting green and fine stabling for horses.

B45] Proprietress, MRB. G. SACHSE.

"BRAESIDE,"

PRIVATE HOTEL.

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

Apply 10-MES F. W. WATTS.

"Braeside," 20, Macdonnell Road, [044 Hongkong, 4th December, 1907.

VICTORIA HOTEL

SUAMEEN-CANTON. MANAGER-MR. H. HAYNES. Telegraphic addrəsə--“ VICTORIA, SHAMBER. SITUATED OF THE BRITISH CONCESSION.

MACAO HOTEL.

MACAO Telegraphic address FARMER, MACAO," SITUATED IN THE CENTER OF PRATA GRAND Both Hotels electricsily lighted, and under experienced European Supervision. GUIDES AND CHAIRS PROVIDED. Every information and Special attention given to Tourists. REASONABLE RATES.

HONGKONG AGENTS.

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FRADE

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

NEW STOCK OF

CALF

$14.00

WHITE HORSE”

WHISKY,

• To His MAJESTY THE KING. By Royal Appointment.

MACKIE & CO. DISTILLERS LTD. LAGAVULIE DISTILLERY, IBLAY.

Estab, 1742.

MARE

́OBTAINABLE AT ALL STORES

SOLE AGENTS:

Quality the Secret of Success.

HEL FOTK XO

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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY

PORTLAND CEMÉNT.

In Casks 375 iba nat $5.50 per cask er Factory In Bags 250 lbs. net $3.45 par bagi ex Fastery

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 29th April, 1909.

7.00 3.1.

TRAMWAYS

LIMITED.

TIME TABLE,

7.30 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 p.m....Every 10 minutes. 1.15 pm to 1.45 p..... Every 15 minutes. 1.45 pm to 2.15 p.m....Every 10-minutes. 2.15 pm to 3.00 pm....Every 15 minutes. 3.30 pm to 5.00p.m....Every 15 minutes. 5.00 pm to 8.00pm. Every 10 minutes.

9.45 to 11.15 pm. every hour. SATURDAYS.

8,45 p.m. & 9.00

NIGHT CARS.

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

SUNDAYS. 8.00 am to 9.00 am....Every 15 minutes. 9.00 am to 9.30 am....Every 30 minutes. 9.30 am, to 10.30 am....Every 15 minutes. 10:30 am to 11.00am...Every 10 minutes, 11.45 am to 12:00 Noon Every 15 minutes. 1200 Noon to 1.00 pm...Every 10 minutes. 100p.m. to 5.00p.m....Every 15 minutes. Every 10 minutes. 5.00 pm, to 6.00p.m.

6.00 pm to 7.00...Every 15 minutes. to Ev 10 minutes.

pm. & 9.00 pm., 9.45 to

7.00p.m. to

NIGHT CARS

11.15 p.m., every half hour.

SPECIAL

Company's

Vanx Road

by arrangement at the

Alexandra Buildings, Des

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

• General Managera

Hongkong, 1st April, 1909.

TEN TING

SURGEON DENTIST,

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

Consultation Jongkong, 21st September, 1905.1221

DR. M. H. CHAUN.

THE latest Method of the AMERICAN

SYSTEM of DENTISTRY.

TH

33, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

From the University of Pennsylvanis, U.B.A..

Hongkong, 17th April, 1997,

PORT WINE, INVALIDS

DOURO

SHERRY, LA TORRE

AMOROSO

BENEDICTINE, D.O.M.-

THE ABOVE ARE EXCLUSIVELY SHIPPED TO

SIEMSSEN & CO..

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

OAKMORE BOOTS

(ENGLISH MADE).

BLACK AND TAN

$12.50

EXTRA HEAVY SHOOTING BOOTS

LANE. CRAWFORD & CO. NOTE.—Any persons proved guilty of re-filling our empty bottles with inferior Whisky

will be refusedamp plias..

11260

(BLACK and BROWN) $12.00 $17.00

LEGGINGS.

PUTTEES.

LANE. CRAWFORD & CO.

Hongkong, 12th October, 1909.

CHAMPAGNES,

SHERRIES, AN

MARSALAS,

BRANDIES,

GINS

MADRIRAS,

PORTS

WHISKIES,

CLARETS.

VERMOUTHS,

BREWER & CO., LIMITED.,

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

LETTS'S DIARIES, 19 0.

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THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC

FOR 1910 ABRIDGED EDITION

$2.00

-80

BURGUNDIES, BITTERS, HOCKS and MOSELLES,

LIQUEURS,

ALÉS, BEERS and STOUT.

TELEPHONE No. 75.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.,

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

15, Queen's Road Control,

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Hongkong, 12th October, 1909:

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BROWN'S NAUTICAL DIABY DAY'S WORK BOOK (Corn) $1.50.

AND

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ANNUAL, GIVING FIGURES, FACTS! AND FORMULE OF PHOTO- GRAPHY...

...$0.80

!!

NEW COLONIAL NOVELS, $.175 BACH,

OR 3 FOR $5.00.

THE MEN OF THE MOUNTAIN,

BY S. R. CROCKETT

A House of Lies, by Sydney Warwick, The League of the White Hand, by Oswald

Crawfurd.

The Solitary Farm, by Fergus Hume, Teter Homuncalne, by Gilbert Cannan. Syrinx, by Laurance North.

Fraternity, by John Galsworthy,

Pink Purity, by Gertrude-de-8. Wentworth

James.

In the First Watch, by James Dalziel, High Life in the Far East, by James Dalziel Oh! Christian, by Author of Wee

MacGregor

The Scribblers Club, by. Charles Garris For Light and Liberty, by, Bilas K.

Hocking In Spite of Fate, by Silas K. Bickong AUTOMATIC PENCIL SHARPENER. The Heart of Man, by THE ONLY PERFECT MECHANICAL.A. Bonnie Saxon, by

DEVICE IN THE MARKET.

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$0.80 80

30

80

BO

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WM. FARMER,

Proprietor.

"BOA VISTA "

(HOFEL SANITARIUM OF SOUTU

THE

CHINA), MACAO.

Hotel is under European manage. ont strict supervision as to food, cleanliness and hygiene of the place

All comforts of a home.

A most pleasant retreat for those desirous for

a few days rest and quiet.

Comfortable accountscuation for travellers a visit to the historical and picturesque paying a colony of Macao,

Two

Medao is 40 miles south-west of Hongkong, steamers (8.4. Sui An and Sui Tar) 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

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BY

THE MANAGER.

NEW CARTRIDGES.

Y popular English Manufacturers,

all Borse and Sizes.

SMOKELESS POWDERS and CHILLED

SHOTS. From No. 10 to SSSG. at 86, 37 and $7.50 per 100, SPORTING REQUISITES- and AIR GUNS in Variety.

Inspection Invited.

WM. SCHMIDT. & Co.

[1314 Hongkong, 26th October, 1906.

AUTOMATIC BROWNING POCKET PISTOLS.

CALIBRE 7.65. mm,

With CHAMBER for 8 CARTRIDGES FIRING & SHOTS in 2 SECONDS. -

SIEMSSEN & CO.

The Lilac Banbonnet, by 8. B. Crockett The Ending of My Day, by Rita.

80

Hongkong, 6th March, 1907.

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