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THE

DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE

FOR 1913.

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No.17,281 號一十八百二十七做一

日三十二月八年签癸 HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23xD, 1913.

INTIMATIONS

THE

YOKOHAMA DOCK CO.

LEMOS.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks 575 lbs. het

In Bago 250 liis. not..

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers. Hongkong, 6th June, 1018,

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MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA

(MITSUBISHI CO.)

COAL DEPARTMENT

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF TAKASIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, YOSHINOTANI, KIOHIDAKE, HOJO, KANADA, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW AND KAMIYAMADA Collieries, AGENTS FOR

SAKITO AND OYUBARI - Coals,

HEAD OFFICE:-MANUNOUCHI,

TOKYO.

BRANCH OFFICES-NAGABARI, MOJI, KARATSI AVAKAMATSU,

LIMITED.

Telegraphic Address:-"DOCK," Yokohama.

Codes used:-A.B.C, 4th and 5th Editions, Lieber's, Boott'e, AI. and Watkin's, DRY DOCK DEPARTMENT:--Telephone Nos. 30, 506, or 681.

NO. 1 DOCK. Docking Length $15 ft.

NO. 2 DOCK.

Docking Langth, 376. ft.

THE ONLY LEMON SQUASH THAT RETAINS THE NATURAL

FLAVOUR OF THE LEMON.

NO. 3 DOCK; Docking Length 481 ft.

Every description of repair work is undertaken. A largo essortment of material. CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.

laclading tuil shafts aro kopt in stock. Two powerful tow boats, floating derrick to litt 15 tons, preumatic, electric, hydraulic plants, sto. Manufacturers of engines, boiler, tugs, lightera, constructional steel work, ote. Tenders on short notice by letter or cable,

WAREHOUSE DEPARTMENT :-

92 buildings, principally of brick and steel, 310 entrances. 37 buildings ace private bonded warehouses. Floor oven 63,248 square yards, nr 14.1 sores.

Custom-house brokerage and insurance undertaken. Rates moderate. Mooring Hasin, 600 feet by 100 feet by 25 feet deep, adjoining the docks and warehouses

A CHOICE SELECTION

FRY'S KING GEORGE V.

AND

(718

QUEEN MARY CHOCOLATES.

OFARU MURORAN KOBE, OBAKA, CADBURY'S IMPERIAL CHOCOLATES. TOKYO, YOKOHAMA,

NAGOYA,

SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, HANKOW,

Cabis Address for abová: "IWASAKL"

Sades: A1, A.B.C. 5th Ed., Western Union.

AGENCIES.

CHINKIANG☺Messrs. Graving & Co. MANILA-Messra. Moonday & Co. SINGAPORE-Messrs. BORNEO-CO., LTD.

For farticulare, apply to

No.

K. KATO,

Manager,

Pedder Street, Hongkon

Hongkong, 24th April, 1913.

SIEN TING.

URGEON DENTIST,

[600

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

Consultation Free.

Hongkong, 22nd September, 1913.

NEW

CARTRIDGES.

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Ball Bores and Sizes.

Y popular English Manufacturers. Iñ

SMOKELESS POWDERS and CHILLED

SHOT From No. 10 to SSSG: at 80, 87

and $7.50 per 100

SPORTING REQUIS-

ITES and AIRY CUNS in Variety,

A SPECIALITY:

FRESH HOME-MADE CHOCOLATES.

WEISMANN, LIMITED.

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SOUTH

MANCHURIA

RAILWAY.

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

TIME TABLE TO APRIL 30TH, 1914

THRICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, composed of excellently equipped

and Class Cars,

in connection with the Trans-Siberiau Express Trains and with Daixeu-Shanghai Diraot. Mail Steamer Service by the s.s. KOBE MANU and SAKAKT MARU (each Equipped with Wireless Telegrapla) as follows --

ESTABLISHED 1864).

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MITSU BISHI DOCKYARD

AND ENGINE WORKS.

A1, ABC., Western Union, Bugineering and Bentley's Complate Please Codes used.. Brillers and Ropairess of Steps. Engines and Boilers, and Electrical Engineers. Maunfacturons of Contrado Auxiliary Machinery, Woir's Auxiliary Machinery, Stone's Manganese Brouza, Paksomoter and Engineering Co.'s Refrigerating Plants and Parsons' Steam Tarbines, etc., etc.

AT NAGASAKI:-Telegraphic Address: "DOCK," NAGASAKI

Length on

Breadth at Entrance

Keel Blocks.

on Bottom.

No. 1

510

77 it.

950

53. ft.

714 ft

88 it,

Depth of Water. on Keel-Blocks,

28 ft. 24 ft. 34 ft

(No. 3

HOTELS

HING KONG

HOTEL.:

Recently Refurnished and Redecorated Large Airy Public Rooms. Electric Lighting, Lifts and Fans.

201

Suites de Luxe.

Bedroom with European Bath and

Lavatory attached. Perfect Sanitation.

ALA CARTE GRILL ROOM.

3. H. TAGGART, Manager

KING EDWARD

All

HOTEL.

CENTRAL · LOCATION.

Entrance

Electric Truma Pass One Minutes Walk from Ferry. Telephonics on All Floors.

Electric Lifts, Fani and Lighting. European Baths aul Sanitary Fittings. Hot and Cold Water System Throughout. Best of Food and Service.

Hotel Launch Meets All Steamoré.

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Telephone No. 373.

Tel. Address: “VIOTORJA,”

R. H. NORTH,.

Manager.

GRAND HOTEL.

QUERN'S ROAD CENTRAL

A FIRST CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL.

ENTIRELY UNDER EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT

THIS HOTEL has recently been thoroughly has endly cularged, and

3 Dry Docks No. 2

Fatent Slip capable of lifting vessels up to 1,000 tons. The Salvage Steamer "OURA MARU," 16 tons and 12 knots speed, is always ready and Fans. Large and Comfortable Lounge.

at short notioá.

AT KOBE-Telegraphic Address: “ WADADOCK,” KOBE.

Floating Docks.

No. 1.

Lifting Power

7,000 Tons.

Moz. Length of Skip taken in

460 Fent

No. 2. 12,000 Tons. 560 Feet:

Max. Breadth

66

.66

Max. Draft

26

The Salvago Steamer **ARIMA. HARU," pumping capacity per hour 2,000. tons./

Floating Sheerlege, capable of lifting 40 tons weight.

ANY ORDERS WILL BE PROMPTEY ATTENDED TO AND ESTIMATES SENT ON APPLICATION,

28th May, 1913.

BREWER

& CO.,

FEDDER STREET-(Adjoining Hongkong Hotel Main Entrance)

TELEPHONE No. 600.

is now luxurious y furnished and up-to-date in every respect, ituated in the most central position: Large and Airy Roems, Hot, Cold, and Shower Baths, Electric Light Throughout

Private and Public Bare and Billiard Rooths, CUISINE ENTIRELY UNDER. EURO

· PEAN · SUPERVISION; Sanitary Arrange ments of the latest. HOTEL LAUNCH: MEETS ALL STEAMERS. Monthly Rates for Tiffin and Dinner, Special Rates for married families on application to

FREDERICK PRICHMANN,

Proprietor.

(Late Manager of . H. Lyons (Trocadero,

leading Caterers in London, and GRAND ORIENTAL HOTEL, Colombo.) TELEPHONE No. 197.

"COMFORT,"

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:

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81.75 The Silence of Dean Mailland, by

Maxwell Gray

Hongkong

PEAK HOTEL.

1,100 Fix Anovi: Sea LevÉ), FIRST-CLASS RESIDENTIAL AD. TOURIST HOTEL. Unrivalled for

Confort, Health and Convonicaco, Telephones in Every Room, prompt connection main tuinvil by six lines to Central. ·

Fifteen Minutes from Principal Landing

Moderato Tariff and "Excellente Stage Cuisins, Rocf Garden and Social Rooms, European Runner pets Steamers.

·P. 0. PEUSTER,

Manager.

NORTH BOUND.

1st Class Fares

8 40.00

Y 1435

Inspection Invited.

Shanghai (Strames) Dairen

Makdien

Lv. Ar

(S_M‚I. Train). Is. AP

Forennon

3.20 p.m.

Mon. Woul Wed.

Mon,

Fri. Bat.

Y 11.50

W. SCHMIDT & Co.

Changchun

(RussianTrain).......LT.

R 960

Ár,

1... Ar:

11.95 11.50

6.50-5.09. 800 2.00 p.m.

Tue. Thurs

Eldorado, by Baroness Orizy

Bravo Brigands. by May Wynne

1.75

Hongkong, 17th April, 1918.

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Connecting at Harbin with

SINGON &

Stuto Wagon Express Lits

from for Moscow Moscow

State Express for St. Pet'g.

The Red Mirage, by L. A. R. Wylie

1.75

The Double Four, by E. Phillips

Oppenheim

1461

Until Seventy Timés Seven, by L. G.

· Moberly

The Brass Bounder, by David W. Bon

1.75

Vogel

The Opening Dor, by Justus - Milg

Forman

Wruck, A Tale of the Sea, by Maurice

Thake...

90

Lits from Moscow

Fri

1.75

Lord Strankigh Abroad. by Robert Barr-

The Great Gay Road, by Tom Galloni

1.75 How to Make a Small Business Pay

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Large Selection of New Sixpenny Norels,

4 for $1.00

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1880.

CO.

TRON Steel, Metal and Hardware Mer.

cbant, Wholesale and Retail Iron- mongers, Pig Iron and Foundry Coke Importers, Goueral Storekeepers and Ship- chandiors. Nos. 35 and 37. HING LOOKG Briser (2nd St. West of Central Market),

Telephone No. 510.

PEAK TRAMWAY

LIMITED.

SOUTH BOUND.

Connecting at Harbin with

·(RussinuTraini).... Lv. 1*

...Ar. *.6.30. (S.M.G. Train). Ly )...Ar.

Blate State Express Express From St. 1 from

Moscow Pet'g.

Mon. Wed

71-960

Harbin Changchun!

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16 s.m.

7.00 ..

Y 11,50

Makdon

1.50 p.m

...Iv. 9.10

COMPANY,

Y 14.95

Dairen

...Ar. · 10.20

Y 40.00

(Steamer) Shanghai (

Lav Ar.

Noou Forenoon

Thurs. Sat.

Bat. Mon

FOR

TIME TABLE.

WEEK DAYS.

7.00 a.m. to 8.00 a.m....Every 15 minutes.

11.00

8.00

» 10.00

10

#3

10.00

18

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11.80

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12.45 pm.

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12.45 p...

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5:00

8.10

10

- NIGHT CARS.

8.50 p.m. and 9.00 pm., 9.30 to 11.00 p.m.

Every Hall-Hour.

11.00 p.m. to 11.45 p.m.

Every Quarter-Hour.

SUNDAYE.

8.00 a.m. to 10.30 .Every 15 minutes.

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*Russian Train Time is 23 minutes faster than the S.M.E. Time.

Tho aboro faros do not include the Sleeping Car Supplement and Express Extra Fee. THE SAKAKI MARU."-This vessel, which leaves Shanghai every Monday and connects with the Wagon Lits service on the Trans-Siberian Kailway, is a new Tachina Steaper of 3,450 tons specially built for the Shanghai-Doiren Line. She has a speed of 19 knots per hour, und is fitted with every up-to-date appliance for comfort safety, and conveni- Accommodation: 63 First-Class (including 4 special cabins and 3 family cabine), 20 Second Class, and 164 Third-Class. First voyage from Shanghai, August 18th.

ente.

MUKDEN-ANTUNG LINE. MANCHURIA-CHOSEN THROUGH SERVICE. Thrice Weekly Express Service between Changshan and Fusan without change, establishing direct link between the Tmus-Siberian Express Service and the Imperial Japanese Govern ment Forry and Railway Service, reducing the journey between Mancharis and Japan by nearly two days and diminishing the sea-royage to a few hours; also connecting Teking and Tokyo by rail with the exception of the short passage between Fusan and Shimonoseki. London to Tokyo in 13 1/3 days; Poking to Tokyo in 14 days.

RAILWAY HOTELS.-YAMATO HOTEL (Tel. Add: “Tameto"). At Dairch, Port Arthur, Mukden, Changchun, and Hoshigaure (the finest sea-side r North China), all under the Company's management.

resort in

TICKET AGENCIES. The Company's Railway and Steamer Tickets aro obtainable at all the Agencies of the INTERNATIONAL SLEEPING CAR & EXPRESS TRAINS Co., Mesars, Thos. Cook & SON, REISEBUREAU DER HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE: the NORDISK RESEBUREAU; and the NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, Shanghai; from whom all information, time-tables, pictorial guida Losks, etc., can be obtained free, or direct from the

SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY CO.

10.30

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10

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12

11.45

27

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1

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1:00p.m.

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17

6.00

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6.00

10

12

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6.00 $7.00

7.00

15

8.10

10

Tel. Add." MANTIISU,”

99

NIGHT CARS as on. Week Daya,

*

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SATURDAYB

Extra Car at 12 Midnight.

SPECIAL CARS by arrangement at the Company's Office, Alexandra Buildings, Des Vour Road Central.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Managers. gking 1st April, 1915.

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FUSHUN

Codes: A.B.C. 5th Ed., A1, and Limber's.

COAL

THE BEST STEAMING COAL IN THE FAR EAST.

Fresh atooks always on hand at Dairen, Port Arthur, Newchwang, and Tientsin. Depots, and also at Chefon, Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore, and Penang.

MINING DEPARTMENT

BRAESIDE.”

PRIVATE HOTEL.

TANDING in "is own grounds, with Tennis and Croquet Lawns, Largy Airy and Well Furnished Rooms, every bonit comfort. Pine View of the Harbour.

Apply to

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Mrs. F. W. WATTS, "Braeside," 20, Macdonnel Road,

VARNISHES OF FIRST CLASS QUALITY VICTORIA HOTEL

SALOONS

HOUSES,

OF SHIPS, FURNITURE, RAILWAY COACHES, MOTOR CARS, LOCOMOTIVES,

&0..

RAILWAY

AND MOTOR BODY VARNISHES. TEAK VARNISH, PALE COPAL VARNISH. BEST FRENCH POLISH. FURNITURE VARNISH.

HARD OIL FINISH FOR FURNITURE. SUPER BLACK JAPAN FINEST WHITE DAMAR,

&c. &c.

IN STOOK IN HONGKONG.

APPLY TO THE MAKERS?

SHAMEEN-CANTON.

Telegraphic Address: VICTDELA, SHAMEEN," SITUATED ON THE BRITISH CONOREDION.

MACAO HOTEL

Telegraphic Address: FARMER, Macao." SITUATED IN THE CENTRE OF PRAYA GEANDA Both Hotels olcotrically lighted, and under experienced European Supervision. GUIDES AND CHAINS PROVIDED. Every Information and Special Attention given to Tourists. REASONABLE RATES.

WILKINSON, HEYWOOD & CLARK, LD.. F

SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY CO., DAIREN.

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887-X

INCORPORATED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,

LONDON AND LIVERPOOL.

HONGKONG OFFICE, ALEXANDRA BUILDING.

WM. FARMER,

Proprietor

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A LING & CO..

19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

URNITURE AND PHOTO GOODS

STORE.

Photographic Goods of Evary Description

in Stock.

Developing, Printing and Enlarging Canton Marbles in Various Shades. TELEPHONE: 1210

Hongkong 16th April, 1918.