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ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION.

PALIO SCHOOL BATTALION,

HE ADMIRALTY have given officini: permission for raising a Battalion of 1,000 men, which will be strictly limited to Pabllo Bakool or University Mon and who will sorvo together as a Unit,

-Training is now going forward.

Applicants desiring to enrol should

apply at once to

ROYAL NAVÁL DIVISION,"

6, 7 and 8, Old Bend Etreet, W.

GOD SAVE THE KING

Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857,

No. 17,714.

號四十百七千七萬一第 日五初月正年卯乙 HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH, 1915. 四开道

THE HOME MAILS.

"TO ARRIVE.

Feb. 1th-The English Mail (viá, Siberín),

per S CHITUEN.

TO DEPART.

Feb. 18th -Europe vid Siberin, at 3 p.m.,

par 8.8 Anox

Feb, 20-Eürapy vid Siberia, at 4 pm. per s... LIANGOROW.

Feb. 22ad,-Eurepo, vid Biberis, at I p.m.,

per 8.2. SEATTLE MARU

Feb. 23rd-Shanghai, North China, Japan via Nagasaki, Honolulu, United

Feb. 23rd

Feb.

States, South America and Canada via San Francisco and United Kingdom vid Canada, at 11 an, per 8.S. SHINFO MARU. Europe vid Siberia, at 11 a.m.,

per 8.8 SHINTO Manu 24th.Shanghai, North China, Japon via Moji, United States and South America vid Victoria, B.C., and United Kingdom vid Canads, at 11 a.m., per s.. MONTEAGLE

Feb 24th-Europe vid Siberia, at 11 a.m., per 6.5 MoxrZAGLE

Jeb. 26th Straits, Barmah, Ceylon, Ado- Inido, Western Australia, India, Aden, Egypt and Europe, at 11

.m., per s.8. MALTA

Feb 27th-Saigon, Straits, Burmah, Ceylon, Adelaide, Western Australia, India, Aden, Egypt and Europe,

at 4 pm. per 8. VILLE DE LA CIOTAT.

N.B. For further returns and for Mails to and from the Coast Ports, Manila, Biam, etc., see the Post Office Notice

n the last page of this issue.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casin $75 lbs, net.

In Bag 250 lbs. nét,

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Managers.

Hongkong, 9th December, 1914,

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MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA.

(MITSU BISHI CO.) COAL DEPARTMENT

BOLE PROPRIETORS OF TAKASIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, YOSHINOTANI, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW AND KAMEVAMADA Colferies.

--⠀⠀⠀ AGENTS FOR

SAKITO AZID OYUBARI Coala, HEAD OFFICE HARUNODCHI,

TOKYO.

BRANCH OFFICES NAGASAKI, MOJL

KARATBU WAKAMATSU, OTARU, HUBORAN, HAKODATE, KOBE OSAKA KURE, TOKYO, TYOKOHAMA, NAGOYA TSURUGA, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, HANKOW, PEKING

Cabis Address for above:IWASAKI” Oodos: A1, A.B.C. 5th Ed., Western Union.

CHINKYANG-Mesers, GEARING & Co. MANILA-Messrs. MACONDEAY & CO. SINGAPORE-Mesars BONHO CO., LTD. GLASGOW-Messrs. A R. BxOWN,

HOFARLANE & Co., LTD.

For Particulars, apply to

K. KATO,

Manager

No. 2, Pedder Streat, Hongkong. Hongkong, 24th April, 1914, -

SIEN

TING.

URGEON DENTIST,

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S No. 10. D'AQUILAR STREET

TERMS VERY MODERATE.

Consultation Free,

Hongkong, 21st September, 1914,

192

PEAK TRAMWAY COMPANY.

LIMITED.

TIME TABLE.

WIE DAYS.

1.00am to 8.00 am... Every 15 minutes.

8.00

10.00

to 10.00

to 11:00

11.30 13:45 pm. to 1:16 ta or p

to 12.45 p.m.....

*** to 1.45

150 6.00

8.00 40 8.10

** 1

8.50 pan, sud 9.00 p.m., 9.30 to 11.00 p.m. Every Half Hour.

100 p.m. to 1145 pm.. Every Quarter-Hour.

SUNDATE.

7.45 am to 10.30 am....Every 15 minutes.

10.30 to 11.00-

to 18.00 noon

1100 noon to 1.00p.m.

Upm, to

3.00

5.00 to 3,00

6:00 to 7.00 19 pàg

7.00

to 8.10

15

NIGHT OAKS & on Weak Days. SATURNATE.

Fairs Car at 19 Midnight,

FPECIAL CAPS by arrangement al The Company's Office, Aerandre Buildings,

R

Des Voeur Road Central,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Manager Hangkong 19th May, 1914.

MITSU

BISHI

DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS,

A.1, A.B.C., WESTERN UNION ENGINEERING AND BENTLET CODES USED. Builders and Repairers of Ships, Engines and Bollers, and Electrical Engineers, Manufacturers of Contralo Condensers, Stone Unganese, Brenta Castings, Parson's Steam Turbines and Turbo-Alternator, dc, ka

NAGASAKI

TELEGRAPHIC Annness →→ DOGK," NAGASAKI. GRAVING DOCKS AND PATENT BLIP,

Dock No. 1. Door No. 2. Dock No. 3, $10 feet 350 feet 714-foot.

Length on Keel Blocks

Width of Entrance on bottom.

Water on Blocks at Spring Tide

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PATENT SLIP-Capable of lifting vessels up to 1,000 tons gross. The Salvage Steamer OURA MARU, 716 fons and 19 knots,

Two Floating Cranes of 60 and 30 tons each, Besides 150 tons Giant Craze

· TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:→" WADADOCK" KOBE. FLOATING DOCKS

- KOBE.

Max. Length of Ship taken in

Lifting Power

Max. Breadth of Ship taken in Max. Draft of Ship taken in

Registered as Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.

𫘝八十月二年四國民華中

PUBLIC AUCTION.

A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF

ANTIQUE CHINA AND CURIOS

(Just arrived from the North, being the property of the well-known collector, Mr. LAH VEN KEE). THE Undersigned has received instructions to Sell by Public Auction,

(FRIDAY) AND SATURDAY

TO-MORROW

| THE 19TH AND 20TH FEBRUARY, 1915, COMMENCING EACH Day

AT 2.30 P.M., AT HIS SALES ROOMS, DUDDELL STREET,

A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE CHINA AND CURIOS FROM SUNG TO MING DYNASTIES AND KANGHI TO TOWKWONG PERIODS.

COMPRISING

5-Coloured, 8-Coloured and Blux AND WHITE VASES, PLATES, BOWLS. CUPS AND FIGURES, Ero

No. 1 7,000 tons. No. 2 12,000 tons.

469 feet.

→

380 foot

66

*

The Salvage Steamer" ARIMA MARU," Pumping opacity per hour 3000 tons.

HIKOSHIMA (Near Shimonomak!).

TELEGRAPHIO ADDRESS :—" DOCK" SHIMONOSERI

VE GRAVING DOCE

Length on Keel Blocke

Breadth at Entrance on bottom.

Floating Crane capable of lifting £0 tona weight.

Depth of Witer on Blocks at Spring Tide

368 feet 0 fach.

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THE NAGASAKI, KOBE AND HIKOSHIMA DOCKYARDS

are closely connected with each other, enabling them to oo operate in the prompt execution of work and to suit the convenience of customers.

Em Any Orders will be promptly attended to and Estimates sent an application,

SANG-DE-BOEUF VASES, Write "Gondzes of Mercy," MING.

OLD GOLD INLAID BRONZES, MING

FINE CRYSTAL VASES AND SNUFF BOTTLES:

A PORCELAIN AND AGATE SNUFF BOTTLES -

GREEN AND RED JADE ORNAMENTS:

OLD LACQUERED SCREENS WITH 5-COLOURED DECORATION AND BLACK- WOOD SCREENS with Blue And White and 5-Colour KANGHI AND KIENLUNG. PORCELAIN PLACQUES, PORCELAIN PICTURES INLAID is Wood, Erc., Ere.)

ALSO

A FEW PIECES OF FINELY CARVED SOOCHOW REDWOOD.

B-The Undersigned will give a week guarantee as to the genuineness of the articles offered; #-

Catalogues will be issued,

On View from WEDNESDAY, the 17th February, 1915. TERMS-Cash on delivery.

197

Hongkong 11th Febrowry, 1915,

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

KAIPING COAL:

«Now!well-known thronghons tha, Dank for ....

STEAM RAISING, FORGING, STEEL MAKING." SHIPS' «BUNKERS AND HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES.

KAIPING COKE;

Competes with the best quality English Coken or FOUNDRY SMELTING AND HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES. HIGHEST FIREBRICKS GRADE

FIRECLAY.

STOCK ALWAYS ON HAND.

OFFICE QUEEN'S BUILDINGO, HONGKONG, TIL AUD. MAISHAN, HONGKONG,

TELEPHONE No, 1084,

DODWELL & CO.,

Hongkong, 1st October, 1814.

AGENTS.

SOUTH

MANCHURIA

LTD..

RAILWAY.

DR.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

AUCTIONEER..

MOTOR

CYCLES: & SIDE CARS

LOW PRICES.

Call writs or Photo fo

ALEX ROSS & Co.,

4. Des Voenz Road;

Tel. 27

PRICE, $3 PER MONTH.

HOTELS

THE

HONGKONG HOTEL

AND

GRILL

ROOM,

16]

J. H. TAGGART

Maneger

KING EDWARD

HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION.

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING. TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.

Telephone: No. 373.

Tel, Address: "VICTORIA."

FRANK LA COOKE,

GRAND

Tere

KELLY & WALSH, LTD.

The Orobard Pavilion, A. C. Benson... $2.75

From the Bottom Up A Life Story,

Alex, Irvine

Manager.

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HOTEL.

QUEEN'S ROAD ÜZRTSAL,

FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL, most Central Location within

the vicinity of all the Principal Banks,

Ncted for the teet Foco, felicalment Accommodation and Cleanliness, Lile LLCB

The Trail of the Sandhill Bing, E. T. European Bapervision. A First-Clae string

$5.500

VERBES IRREGULIERS FRAN."

CAIS SANS ABREVIATION,

Nng. Blanche Jaquan Bonvin

Euffs Turf Gaide, Winter Edition

Motor Cycles, Side Cars and Cycle Can,

Page

Warships at a Glance, Billionattes of the

World's Fighting Ships, F. T. Jans 200

Words and Places, or Etymolaglesl Imtrations of History, Ethnology

480

and Geogaphy, Taylor and Palmer 2.40

A Manual for Nurses, Bydney Welham 80

A LARGE SELECTION OF COLONIAL

LIBRARY (SLIGHTLY SHOPWORN)

aba OFFERED AT 60 CENTS EACH, OR TEN FOR

$5.00

The Master of the World, Jules Verne.

MY HEARTS RIGHT THERE, Florence L. Barclay (chh xài Ziek THE HONGKONG RACE BOOK

CURTIS TORKE'S NOVELS, 50 CESTS EACH.

The Girl in Grey Erresponsible Kitty. Only Betty

The Other Bars. Mollie Deveril

Rusian Literature, Baring: Elisabethan Literature, Rob-rison, Waze: between England and America,

Smith The Church of England, Canon Watson

2.00

2.75

Orchestra rondere selections from 5.80. P.M. to 11.30 P.M.

Special monthly terms for frondents and for 89 Shipping people at ht

For further particulars sppis---||

Telephone 197,

MANAGER.

Telographic address: "COMFORT.

120.

PEAK HOTEL. 1,400 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL

80

$80

83 88

SHORTEST AND QUICKEST ROUTE BETWEEN THE FAR EAST BLACKLOCK & MACARTHUR, LTD. prompt connotac

AND EUROPE, VIA DAIREN.

TIME TABLE

(Effective from May 1st, 1914, to April 30th, 1815),

ITIHRICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, composel of excellently equipped Dining, sud Flrst and Second Claes Sleeping Cam, it operated between Dairen, and Changchun in connection with the Trang-Siberian Express Trains and with Dairen-Shanghai Direct Mail Stemmer Service by the ea, BAKAKI MÁRU and KOBE MARU (esch Equipped with Wireless Telegraph) as followe

NORTH BOUND,

CareMeting at Markis Wha – LUTY 2012 JA

Changchen

BOUTH BOUND.

ĮWagon: į Berries: Mabe

Moscow Tražiowoom

Russian Train Time is 23 minutes faster than the S.M.R. Time, The above faros do not include the Express Train Berth Fee.

With regard to the above Time-Table, the Four Express Trains per week connecting fre each way with the Burian State Expresses are temporarily suspended, owing to the partial suspension of the Trans-Siberian Passenger Traffic on account of the European War.

remain in operation as shoved and Direct Mail Steamers will

The Two Weakly Express Trains connecting one each way with the Wagon Lita Expresses, all Ordinary Trains, and the Two

Chang

To the daily train leaving Dairen at 9 F.M. for Changebun and that learing chun at 11:20 AM for Dairan a Compartment Car has been attached, on which First Class Parrengers can secure sleeping accommodation on payment of Yen å ta

RAILWAY HOTELS YAMATO HOTEL (TN. Add: Yesto")

At Dairen, Port Arthur, Makilen, Changchan, and Hoshigaurs (the finest non-ado resort in North China), All under the Company's management,

TICKETAGENCIES The Company's Railway and Beamer Tickats are obtainable tall the Agencies of the INTRENATIONAL BESEFING CAR & EXPELAS TRAINS CO. Mess, THO COOK & SON REISEBUREAU DE HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIS the NORDISK ROSEBUREAU; and the Nirros TUBER KAUKA, Shanghai from each of whom all information, time-tables, pistorial guide books, etc., can be obtained tree, or direct from the

SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY CO., DAIBEN Coden ABC 5th F4, 41, and Lieber's.

Tel. Add's MAXIMISU.”

FUSHUN COAL

THE BEST STEAMING COAL IN THE FAR EAST, Fresh stooks always on hand at Dairen, Port Arthur, Newchwang, and Tientsin Dapotis and also si Chefoo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore, and Penang.

MINING DEPARTMENT.

SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY 00., DAITBEN.

196

味

CLYDESDALE PAINT AND OIL WORKS,

GLASGOW.

MANUFACTURERS OF

WHITE LEAD, PAINTS. COLOURS. VARNISHES. OIL REFINERS, ETC., ETC.

CONTRACTORS TO HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT, COLONIAL AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP COMPANIES, ETC.

PRICES AND FARTICULARS (FROM

WM. STEWART & CO.. ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

SOLE REPRESENTATIVES.

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Hongkong, Isi December, 1914.

WM. STEWART & CO.

TIMBER MERCHANTS, MEASURERS, AND TIMBER EXPERTS. 5, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

MPORTUES of Toak, Hardwoods, Oregon Pins and Japanese Cak in Logs and

Planks,

Tosk and Hardwood supplied Machine Bawn to any Dimuns ons, Flooring Bizes to Order,

Philippine Hardwood Whart Piles in lengths up to 60 feet.

The attention of Architects, Civil Engineer and Contators is directed to the uplendid range of Philippine Hardwoods suitable for constructional purposes.

Prices and Bamples on application.

Telegrams-Bonewood, Hongkong, 2nd May, 1914

Telephone No. 14N,

PO. Box No. 639

and TOURIST HOTEL. Unrivalled for: Comfort, Health and Convenience, Telephones in Every Room, maintained Fifteen Minnes from Frincipal Landing Stage. Moderate Tari and Excelent Cuisine, Roof Garden and Social Home, European Huoner meets Steamer

P. O. PEUSTER, Tanzgez,

F9B

THE NEW MACAU HOTEL.

THIS LARGE and ROOMY HOTEL OPENED under NEW MANAGEMENT, The place has been 16. acrated throughout and entirely refurnished Situated on the Praia Grande facing the sos, cool breeze is enjoyed all the year round. LARGE AND COMFORTABLE DINING 2001 facing the Cuisine under experienced supervision. Terus moderate,

For furaber particulars, apply to

THE MANAGER,

Macan Tel. Add. "Phoenix," Macan.

15 February 1916.

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VICTORIA HOTEL

SHAMEEN CANTON,

Telegraphic Add. "VICTORIA, SHAMBEN BITUATED ON THE BEITISH CONCESION.

Hotel electrically lighted, and under experienced European Supervision. GUIDES AND CHAIRS PROVIDED, Every Information and Special Attention

Pade given to Touriste,

REASONABLE RATES.

WM-FARMER. Prontistor