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NOW READY. DIRECTORY &

CHRONICLE.

FOR CHINA, JAPAN, ETC. 1917 Fifty-Fifth Annual desue.

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BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, LD.

No. 18,867

INTIMATIONS

Hongkong Daily Press

Registered an a Newspaper at the Chr

Post Offer in the United Kingdom.

WELECTRIC

LIGHT with

NO TROUBLE

for smill un-country houses, &n We recommend the wonderful *Watermas " Oulât. Ask B to show it working.

ALEX ROSS & Co.,

4 Des Voeur Road,

DAG WL-Ħ=4AUR PRICE, $3 PER MONTH.

CIRQUE

ESTABLISHED IOS7.

Metsa=tɅK-8 BtMACHÆET HONGKONG THURSDAY, MARCH 29ru, 1917.

CLARKE'S

TO-NIGHT!

AT 9.15.

REEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Gasku 3785 lemon

In Bags 250 lb. medi

General Managers

A

MITSUBISHI

SHEWAN, TOMES & O6.

DOCK YARD

137.

OTARD'S

BRANDY.

shipped by

OTARD, DUPUY

AND ENGINE WORKS. 14 ABC, WESTERN UNION, ENGINEERING AND BENTER CODES URID. Builders and Repairers of Ships, Engines and Bollers, and Electrical Engineers, Manufacturers of Contraflo Condensers, Stone's Manganese Bronze Castings Farson's Steam Turbines and Turbo-Alternators, de, do

NAGASAKI,

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS "DOCK, NAGASAKL GRAVING DOCKS AND PATENT SLIP.

Door No. 1 Door No. 3 Door No.

.360 $10 feet

Length on Keel Blocks

Width of Entrance on bottom

Water on Blocks at Spring Tide

PATENT SLIP-Capable o lifting vessels up to 1,000 toms gross,

714 foot.

83

#

Two Floating Cranes of 60 and 30 tons aach, besides 150 tons Giant Cranes.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS" DOCK" KOBE FLOATING DOCKS.

Lifting Power

DOGNAQ

Max. Length of Ship taken in Max. Broadth of Ship taken in Max. Draft of Ship taken in

KOBE.

No. 17,000 tons. No.

460 feet.

18,000 tons. 580 feet.

56.

"

SOLE AGENTS.

CALDBECK,

HIKOSHIMA (Near Shimonoseki). TELESIAPHIC ADDRESS:—" DOCK ? SHIMONOSEKL GRAVING DOCK.

Length of Keel Blocks *

Breadth at Entrance on bottom..

Depth af Water on Blocks at Spring Tide

Floating Crane capable of lifting 20 tons weight.

THE NAGASAKI. KOBE AND

HIFOSHIMA DOCKYARDS

MACGREGOR&Co. are closely connected with each other, enabling them to co-operate in the prompt execu

blon of work and to rais the convenience of customera.

Any Orders will be promptly attended to and Estimantes sent on application.

THE GREAT NEW

PROGRAMME!

Children Half-Price,

Afternoon Performances :-

WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS AT 5.30,

BOOKING AT ROBINSON PIANO CO.

(408

LTD

HOTLUS

THE

HONG KONG HOTEL

AND

GRILL ROOM.

J, IL. TAGGART, Manager.

KELLY & WALSH.

LIST OF NEW BOOKS.

|| JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPB 1918 818 201 With Serbia into Exile, by Fortior Jones $4,50.

A Domino Dismisand, by A. S. Neill 2,00 Defest ? The Truth about the Betrayal

Allies in Art: a collection of Works in

of Britaio, by Arthur Mee and J. §. Holden...

KING EDWARD

HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION.

FLECTEIO LIFTS AND LIGHTING, ". TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL BzzAMERG

Telephone: No. 373.

Tel. Address: # VIDTORIA,”

J. WITCHELL, Massager.

18, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Telephone No. 70.

121

NEW CARTRIDGES.

Ypopular Englis

Ball Bores and Bise.

Manufacturare.

SMOKELESS POWDER and OHILLED SHOT. From No. 10 to 888G. at 86, 87 and #750 per 100, SPORTING REQUISITES and AIR GUNS in Varisly,

Inspection invited.

WM. SCHMIDT & Co.

f100

A LING & CO.

19 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

FURNITURE STORE.

AUENITURE AND PHOTO GOODS

Photographie Goods of Every Description

in Brook.

Leveloping, Printing and Eularging. Canton Marbles in Varlons Shaden. TELEPHONE 1938.

PEAR TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED

TIME TABLE.

WIEK DATE

2.00 mm. to 8:00 am,«Efoy 16 minut24

to 10,000,0

17

13

8.00 10.00

to 11.00 11.30 % to 19.45 p.z.....

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1.15 to 1.46

4.45

215

120 2,15

to 5,00

5.00

to 8.00

[

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in

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$8,00

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to 11.00

$318.00

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1.00 pm. to: 5,300

6.00

6:30

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NIGHT CARS

to 8.0 Wook Days.

SATURATE A Extra Car is Midalg SPECIAL CABS by arrangemania St the Company's Office, Alexandra Bulldings De Vooks Bond Cestral

Benson and pane tickets available for all sara not already fall running at the time stated in the Company's time-tables, b not for special care, can be obtained on application at the Company's Office, Ne Benson ticket will be issued zutil payment herefor has be made in Bank Naian or

Cheque or Compzedore Order TRUE Notes

EN D. HUMPHRLYS & SON

Glenaril Managers

KAIPING

288 feet lich.

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200

Eclipse or Empire? by H B. Gray and

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The

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Personality: Its Cultivation and Power,

and How to obtain it, by Lily L Allin Some Russian Heroes. Saints and Binners: Legendary and Historical, by Sonia Hos

Outposts of the Fleet, by Edward Noble 50 Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage and

Knightogo The Mark of the Beast, by Sir

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Law

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6,00.

40

Fragments from France, Part 3, by Capt.

Bruce Bairnsfather Al

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The House of Serravalle, by Richard

950

Bogut Down Our Street, by J. E. Buckrose ...

80

Army really thinks of the British,

by Captain P. Millet....

-2.775

Pros and Cons in the Great War, by

Leonard Magim, LL.B.

FIRECLAY

Supplementary Magio, by Elbiquet

2.75 200

THE MODERN FAMILY DOCTOR. A Guide to Perfect Health, Compiled by many Members of the Medios) Profession 83.50

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Time-Table from May 1st, 1916, until Ferther Batien

Owing to the War the TERICE-WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE bõen. temparselly sarpended, and ONCE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, composed af excellently equipped Dining and First and Second Class Sleeping Cars, operated between Deiren and Chargeben la connecting with the Tran Bberian Express Trains and with Dairon-Bottom (Türgise) Ebanghat Hell Steamer Bervice by the B8, BAKAKI VARU" and “KOBE MARU" (onoh equipped with wireless telegraph) sa followi

NURTH BOUND

· 1927ɔm se Ketzwerk.

712-58

BOUTH BOUND,

* Bumier Train Time is 23 minutes faster than 8.M.B. Time, *The above fares de nvt include the Express Train Berta Fes-

To the daily rain leaving Dairen at 8 p.zo. for Changeboz and that luring Changehan at 11:30 for Dairena Compartment Car has been attached, we which Final-Ulam Prangert Fan Bosure sleeping accommodation on payment of Tell, 3.

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, and Hoshigaura (tike finert see-side resers in Nerik (kins), all under the Compas i Managementé

TICKET GENO188. The Company's Railway and Steamer Tiskets are aktainakin at all the Ageneins of the InvERNATIONAL SLEEPING CAS & EXFERIN TRAINS 06, 1 Monry. Teos, Coos & Bor; the Nording RatsgeüRIAU, and the NIFFON YUSET KATRIA, Bhangbal; from when all information, time-tables, pictorial guide-books, etc., men he oblakusé frsa, ar dirend from the-d

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THE AA Mantsisu, a

FUSHUN COAL

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THE LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

FRANT

Established 1836. Incorporated in Grest Britain. 1 Total Angelú excuod £14,000,000,% MB0

COFITS INSURANCE. NIRE, LIFE, MARINE, MOTOR CAR, PLATE GLASS, FIDELITY,

JOHN B. LANCASTER,

Acting Local Manager;

HONGKONG BRANCH,

4, Des Your Road Central,

Tel. No. 200,

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PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO.

U.S. MAIL LINE.

STEAM PR

OPERATING THE NEW FIRST-CLARS B(TÄ)QB," " VENEZUELA AND COLOMBIA

14,000 ton

each.

HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO

VIA SHANGHAI, KOBE, YoroBAMA AND HONOLPLU:.

THE BUNSHINE BELT

THE MOST COMFORTABLE KOUTE TO AMERICA AND EPROPE

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8.8. "ECUADOR"

29th March, at Noon.

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23rd April

*V1st May

VENEZUELA

8.8," ECUADOR"

18th June

These beamers Lase the most modun equ) MELI including ALL LOWER BERTUS and large comfortable sisterooms, (wil single and two bartia only),

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