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SPREME

COUR

JUN 3

The

No. 419.

For Sale.

ECONOMY IN GAS.

SUGG'S FLAT FLAME BURNERS

GIVE A

SILENT WHITE FLAME

AND EFFECT AN ECONOMY IN GAS OF 30 per cent. /

they can be readily attached to ordinary Gasaliers and Brackets.

SUGG'S NEWEST BURNERS with Artistic shades for DRAWING ROOM and DINING

ROOM.

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co., Agents for Hongkong.

ARTISTIC PORCELAIN

STANDS..

MENU

Hongkong Telegraph.

Notices of Firms.

.NOTICE.

R CARL F. STIEBEL will hold Our

MPower of Attorney and Sign the Name

of OUR FIRM from this date.

SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1883.

Intimations.

KELLY & WALSH'S

S

£416

DEETJEN & Co.

Hongkong, 29th May, 1883..

MR

NOTICE.

To be Let.

TO LET.

ELECTED

An Old Fogey*******

LIST O.F CHEAP AND LIGHT LITERATURE.

25 CENTS EACH.

Wm. Black. Wm. Black. ...W. Clark Russell. Miss Braddon.

Illustrations.

A Ride to Khiva...... Captain Marryatt.

Intimations.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

A

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

FIRST INTERIM BONUS of TWENTY

has this day been DECLARED the Year

188a has

WARRANTS may be had on Application at the Office of the Society on and after the 21st

instant.

By Order of the Board,

DOUGLAS JONES, Acting Secretary"

£400

SIX

DOLLARS

PER QUARTER.

Shipping.

STEAMERS.

THE CHINA AND MANILA-STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY.

THE Company's Steamship

" ESMERALDA," Captain Wright, will be despatched for the above Poris, on MONDAY, the 4th instant, at

For Freight or Passage, apply to

FIVE P.M.

RUSSELL & Co.

General Managers. Hongkong, 1st June, 1883.

[420

FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE. (Calling at PORT DARWIN, THURSDAY ISLAND, COOKTOWN, TOWNSVILLE, and BRISBANE, and taking through Cargo to ADELAIDE, NEW ZEALAND and TASMANIAN PORTS, NEW CALEDONIA

and FIJI)..

FR. JEHN ROSSELET is AUTHORISED

Jatin Inglesant....e ...........J. H. Shorthouse. The Beautiful Wretch to Sign Our Name per procuration from The Interpreter ............Whyte Melville. Shandon Bells this date.

Max Adeler. An Ocean Free Lance J. ULLMANN & Co.

So they were Married.........Besant and Rice. Asphodel

Hongkong, 7th May, 1883. Hongkong, 16th May, 1883.

1389 Harry Joscelyn.......

.....Mrs. Oliphant. Early History of Charles Jaimes Fox....

..240 For her dear Sake......................... ...Mary Cecil Hay. Paul and Virginia..

CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE .........James Payn. An old Maids's Diary.............. High Spirits

COMPANY, LIMITED. Reminisences of Thomas Carlyle

Voyage in the Sunbeam......Lady Brassey. ..Captain Burnaby. It was a lover and his lass.........Mrs. Oliphant.

NURDINARY GENERAL MEETING ATOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA The Wreck of the "Grovesnor "...W. C. Russell. Masterman Ready

W. Stuart Trench of the CIUNA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, .......Joseph Hatton. Realities of Irish Life To Day in America.................

W. MI, Thackeray Romance of the 19th Century...W. H. Mallock LIMITED, will be held at the Head Office, W. S. Gilbert. Less black than we're painted. J. Payn, Victoria, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 12th

Collins. ...... Wilkic Chas. Dickens. The Black Roba......... ........................................A. H. Miles. A Hero of the Pen......E. Werner. day of June, 1883, at THREE O'CLOCK, in the

may. AFTERNOON, when Resolution will be proposed THE Steamship Selected Essays of Thomas Carlyle Coals of Fire...David Christie Murray for the Subdivision of Shares and the Increase of Readings of Charles Dickens, arranged by Poor Miss Finch .......

himself.....

Illustrated. Hard Cash ................Chas. Reade. Don Quixote (a parts)....

lilustrated. Connigsby .......... ........................Disraeli „Illustrated." Witch Stories.............Mrs. Lynn Linton Charlesworth. The Pirate........................Sir Walter Scott. Max Adeler. Robert Falconer ...........George Macdonald Miss Slimmens in search of a Husband The Blunders of a Bashful Man For Cash only.......

jas, Payn

FOR ONE YEAR from June next, the New

BUNGALOW at the PEAK on R. B. Lot) 20, now roofed in and nearly completed, the HAND-ETCHED MENU AND NAME property of Mr. J. ENSTON SQUIER

For all information, apply to

BIRD & PALMER Queen's Road, Hongkong, 19th April, 1883.

CARDS.

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

DEVOE'S NONPAREIL KEROSINE, 150 Degrees fire test, a perfectly safe Oil

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

[340 Hongkong, 29th May, 1883. -

Insurances.

GENERAL NOTICE.

THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY,

(LIMITED.)

CAPITAL TAELS 600,000, EQUAL.$833,333-33 RESERVE FUND........ .......................... $70,858.27.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS. LEE SING, Esq....................... LEE YAT LAU, En LO YEOK MOON, Esq. CHU CHIK NUNO, Esq. MANAGER-HO AMEI.

MARINE RISKS on GOODS, &c., taken at CURRENT RATES to all parts of the world.

HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 9 PRAYA WEST. Hongkong, 1st September, 1882. NATIONAL MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, LIMITED.

1

The Fatal Boots....

Bab Ballads

A Christmas Carol

The AT Elocutionist

(307

Gulliver's Travels

Ministering Children

Random Shots......

TO LET.

OLD BAILEY STREET.

No No 6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, lately occupied by PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

Apply to

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. Hongkong, roth April, 1883.

TO LET.

...Mrs.

........Wilkie Collins.

Capital, and for such Amendments, and Addi- adetions to the Articles of Association as may be necessary for that purpose also for Amendments and Additions to the Existing Articles of Associa tion making provision as to Transfer and Trans- mission, Cancellation and Res lotment of Shares, Meeting of Shareholders, voting power of Share- holders, Investment of Funds, Constitution of Board of Directors, Appointment and Powers of Agents and Committees, and Interim Division of Profits.

A

VIOLIN MUSIC WITH PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT.

17

Home Sweet Home......... Last Rose of Summer........................... Blue Bells of Scotland.................... Life let us Cherish.........

...Henry Farmer.

do. do.

10.

Hope told a flattering tale........

do.

The Keel Row, Swiss Air and Gentle Zitella... Sounds of Joyful (Sonnambula). Les Cloches de Corneville........ The Ministrel Boy......

The Harp that once...diatoren,

do.

TWO STOREY HOUSE (6 ROOMS) A

with GARDEN, in Mosque Junction. The above has Gas and Water laid on; and in- mediate possession can be had

For Particulars apply to

D. NOWROJEE,

Hongkong Hotel Hongkong, 6th April, 1883.

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THE

"HE Undersigned as AGENTS for the above THE to accept RISKS on MER- CHANDISE by STEAMERS and SAILING VESSELS from Hongkong, China, and Japan to all parts of the world.

For further information apply to

ADAMSON, BELL & Co., Agents.

Hongkong, 18th May, 1883

For Sale.

FOR SALE.

HE American Bark

"JOHN WORSTER,"

Built at Medford, Mast, in 1867, as she now lies in Hongkong Harbour, with all her SPARS, SAILS, STORES, &c &

For Particulars, apply to

RUSSELL & Co

Agents.

£395

Hongkong, 19th May, 1883.

FOR SALE.

EX STEAMSHIP “LAERTES.” CONSIGNMENT OF HOCKING'S

[393 A PATENT FRESH WATER

AN GTSZE INSURANCE

ASSOCIATION.

CAPITAL (Fully Paid-up).........Tla. 420,000.00 PERMANENT RESERVE......T: 230,000.00 SPECIAL RESERVE FUND...T. 318,335.56

TOTAL CAPITAL 'and }

ACCUMULATIONS, 31at ..Tis. 968,135.56 March, 1883292.

DIRECTORS.

F. D. HITCH, Esq., Chairman.

CONDENSERS.

THE BEST & CHEAPEST EVER MADE. Capable of Condensing Three Thousand Gallons per day.

Apply to

G. FENWICK & Co.,

Victoria Foundry, Hongkong, 25th April, 1883.

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FOR SALE..

Henry Farmer,

do.

do.

dó.

..G. Jacebi.

A LARGE SELECTION OF OPERATIC GEMS, CLASSICAL AND DANCE MUSIC ARRANGED FOR THE VIOLIN AND PIANO.

KELLY & WALSH-HONGKONG.

Hongkong, 19th May, 1883.

W. BREWER.

HAS JUST LANDED.

CIGARETTES:

[560

Copy of the Proposed Resolutions can be scen by any Shareholder at the Company's offices in Victoria before the date appointed for the holding of the said Meeting

Should the Resolutions be passed by the re- quired majonty they will be submitted for con- firmation as Special Resolutions to a Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subse- quently convened.

By Order of the Board,

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W. H. RAY,

Secretary. Hongkong, 21st May, 1883. THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

N EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF A SHAREHOLDERS in the above Com

WEET CAPORAL CAPORAL FULL CAPORAL, STRAIGHT CUT, SULTANA with any will be held at the Company's Office, No.

ENAMELLED MOUTHPIECE.

NEW CIGARETTE TOBACCO.

THE NEW PATENT CIGAR LIGHTER. PHOTOGRAPH S

OF MRS. LANGTRY; COLORED AND UNCOLORED,

NEW.GERMAN. LIBRARY.

45. Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 19th day of June, 1883, at THREE consideration O'CLOCK P.M., in order to take into a Special Resolution to add a Regulation to the Existing Articles of Association of the Company authorizing the Company so far to modify the Conditions contained in its Memorandum of Association as by Sub-division of its Existing

THE NEW PATENT AMERICAN AIR GUN. Shares to Divide its Capital into Shares of

NEW

NEW SEASIDE LIBRARY 1

GEMS OF ENGLISH SONG.

GEMS OF SCOTTISH SONG.

WORLD OF SONG.

GEMS OF THE DANCE.

WALDTEUFEL'S ALBUM.

MUSICAL FAVORITE. NEW ENGINEERING BOOKS, AND A QUANTITY OF AMERICAN NOVELTIES NEVER BEFORE IMPORTED.

Hongkong, 31st May, 1883.

NEW

W. BREWER, QUEEN'S ROAD,

[703

GOODS.

(202)

smaller amount than is fixed by its Memorandum of Association, in accordance with the provisions of Sections XX and X. of "The Companies Ordinance, 18773.

By Order,

JAS. B. COUGHTRIE,

Secretary.

Hongkong, 26th May, 1883.

HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.

{412

THE DIRECTORS are now prepared to

receive TENDERS from suitable persons for a term of FIVE YEARS, for the lease of the HONGKONG HOTEL, with FURNITURE com- picte.

The Building (together with a powerful pas- lift) will after proposed

"NELSON," Captain Thom, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the 6th June, at DAYLIGHT.

For Freight or Passage, apply 10:

GEO. R. STEVENS & Co. Hongkong, 26th May, 1883.

[411

FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, VIA SINGAPORE (Calling at PORT DARWIN and QUEENSLAND PORTS, and, taking through Cargo to NEW ZEALAND, NEW CALEDONIA, TASMANIA and Fiɲ).

t

THE Eastern and Australian Steamship

Company's Steamship

"VORTIGERN"

will be despatched as above on or about WED. NESDAY, the 6th June.

Parcels (all of which must be sent to our Office) will be received until 4P.M., of the previous day. Contents and Value of the Parcels must be declared.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 25th May, 1883.

[407

UNION LINE.

FOR YOKOHAMA.

"HE Steamship

THE

EUPHRATES,"

.

Captain Mitchell, dur, on or about the 7th inst, wil have immediate despatch for the above Port.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Hongkong, 1st June, 1883.

RUSSELL & Co.

(421

UNION LINE,

FOR YOKOHAMA.

THE Steamship

Port.

"YORKSHIRE,” Captain Amoid, due on or about the 8th instant, will have immediate despatch for the above

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Hongkong, 1st June, 1883.

RUSSELL & Co.

[422

SAILING VESSELS.

FOR HAMBURG. (DIRECT.).

C. LUCAS, Esq WIL MEYERINK, ESQ. G. H. MUMM & Co.'s CHAMPAGNE EX S.S. "GLENFINLAS” & OTHER LATE ARRIVALS. terations and additions have been completed, THE 3/3 A. L. L. Danish Brig

A.J.M. INVERARITY,Esq. | G. H. WHEKLER, Esq.

HEAD OFFICE-SHANGHAI,

Messrs. RUSSELL & Co., Secretaries.

! LONDON BRANCH,

Messrs. BARING BROTHERS & Co.,

Bankers.

RICHARD BLACKWELL, Esq., Agent, 68 and 69, Cornhill, EC. POLICIES granted on MARINE RISKs to all parts of the World.

Subject to a charge of 13 per cent, for interest on Shareholders' Capital, all the PRorms of the UNDERWRITING BUSINESS are annually dis- tributed among all Contributors of Business (whe ther Shareholders or not) in proportion to the premia pald by them.

A

RUSSELL & Co.,

Agents.

[83

Hongkong, 25th May, 1883.

PHE Undersigned have been appointed

TAGENTS to the NEW YORK BOARD

of UNDERWRITERS.

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & CO. Hongkong, 15th June, 1881.

RECORD of AMERICAN and FOREIGN

1:

Agents, ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co. Hongkong, 15th June, 1881.

NOTICE.

LIMITED.

QUARTS............ FINTS..

823 per Case, Apply to

MELCHERS & Co. Hongkong, and March, 1882.

$22 per Case.

FOR SALE.

PRICE $1,000 ONLY,

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A BEAUTIFUL SUMMER RESIDENCE in MACAO, comprising BUNGALOW, with spacious FLOWER and VEGETABLE GAR- DENS, occupying a cool and healthy situation and commanding a magnificent view." Excellent spring water, and sea bathing only a few yards distant.

For Particulars, apply to

J. NEVES & SOUZA.

Pharmacia Lisbonense,

Macao.

[352

Macao, 12th April, 1883-

FOR SALE CHEAP.

SEVERAL GOOD PONIES, suitable for

Hacks, Carriage Ponies or Jumpers. Apply to R. FRASER-SMITH,

Hongkong Telegraph Office. Hongkong, 3rd March, 1883.

THE CITY OF MANILA CIGAR STORE,

HAI FOR SALE. “

[457 Celia, Londres, Nuters Ha

IGARS of all Brands, Imperiales, Caballeros,

HE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY, from the Parisian markets, Meerschaum Pipes,

ΤΗΣ

(CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED.......................$1,000,000.)

The above Company is prepared to sccept MARINE RISKS at CURRENT RATES on 'Goods, &c. Policies granted to all Parts of the world payable at any of its Agencies. PAR

banos of all makes; quality guaranteed. TOBACCO of all Beunde, at moderata prices. FANCY GOOD Jewellery of Chasto Dealgna. Sun Hats, &c, &c.j. Comin'stions Executed.

JOSE M.. BASA No. 51, B, QUEEN's ROAD, CENTRAL. Hongkong, 1st May, 1883.

WOO LIN YUEN, FIVE

Secretary.

HEAD OFFICE, No 2, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST, Hongkong, tit February, 1883.

CHS. J. GAUPP & CO. CHRONOM

CHRONOMETER, WATCH, AND JEWELLERS, SILVERSMITHS, AND OPTICIANSAN CHARTS AND BOOKS. NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS.

CLOCK-MAKERS M

Louis Audemars. Watches jawarded the highest Prizes at every Exhibitions and *9*

for Voigtländer and Sakify

CELEBRATED OPERA GRASSES

GLASSES AND SPTOLS. 1 QUEEN'S ROAD DER

EWEST DESIGNS IN PRINTED SATEENS.

NEWEST

PLAIN SATEENS ALL' COLORS.

viz !--

THE BASEMENT. Two Grand Entrances from Pedder's Street and Queen's Road. Bar, Billiard, Reading and Smoking Rooms with separate Entrance from

WHITE DRESS MATERIALS. Pedder's Street

SPECIAL LINE OF NUNS' VEILING, AT 45 CENTS PER YARD, ALL COLORS, - CHILDRENS' WASHING SUN HATS and BONNETS,

CHILDRENS' FANCY SUMMER BONNETS and HATS

of the most. Fashionable Description. LACE GOODS IN FISHUS, COLLARS, AND COLLARETTES. CHILDRENS' WHITE MUSLIN AND EMBROIDERED DRESSES.

INFANTS ROBE S.. UMBRELLAS AND SUNSHADES. ›

&C.,

&C

&ic.

ROSE & CO.

31 AND 33, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

Hongkong, 26th May, 1883.

SAYLE & CO.'S SHOWROOMS.

SAYLE & CO.

́ ́NEW SPRING GOODS.

EX 5.5. "GLENCOE"

JHITE DRESS MATERIALS.

1343W CREAM DRESS MATERIALS.

FOR SALE CHEAP.

TO SIX HUNDRED TONS

EN LOTE TROH-ONE TON UPWARDE COAL TAR IN BARREL'S.

CHOY CHEW,

NUNS' VEILINGS in every Color. SUMMER BEIGES in every Color, GALATEAS for Boys Washing Suits. WHITE INDIA MUSLINS. MULL CORD MUSLINS. WHITE VICTORIA LAWNS. BLACK and COLORED SUNSHADES. LADIES' PATENT LEATHER SLIPPERS, LADIES & CHILDRENS' BOOTS & SHOES:

230 PRAYA WEST. Hongkong, 5th April, 1883.se/ [262] A WILLIAM SCHMIDT & CO. UNMAKERS & AMMUNITION GUN DEALERS,

BEACONSFIELD ARCADE.

Arms, Ammunitions, and Requisites of **

every description

Arme Repaired, Cleaned, or Converted at moderate charges

Spenting Guns and Antmanit Babwaya

LIBERAL

Hongkong, 4th April, 1883.

..

EX 5.S." GLENOGLE."

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A handsomely fitted up Ladies' Room, for the use of visitors and others

Manager's and General Offices, Kitchens, Store Rooms,

"FANO,"

M. N. Mortensen, Master, will load here for the above Port, and will have quick despatch.

For Freight, apply to

Hongkong, 31st May, 1883.

PUSTAU & Co.

FOR LONDON (DIRECT),/^ HE A 1 Austrian Barqua

#DIO FILI,”

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C

&C+

FIRST FLOOR.

A Public Dining Room capable of dining up Bernedich, Master, will have quick despatch. wards of 170 persons at the same time. ONE LARGE BREAKFAST ROOM. FIVE elegant and beautifuly fitted up suite of

For Freight, apply to

G..R. LAMMERT.

Hongkong, 26th May, 1883.

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FOR NEW YORK.

ROOMS, consisting of a Private DINING ROOM, DRAWING ROOM, CARD ROOM READING ROOM, and THE American Bark

BILLIARD ROOM.

TEN Bed Rooms with a Bathroom to each.

SECOND AND THIRD FLOORS Have each 26 lofty, well ventilated and lighted Bed Rooms, opening on to large Verandahs with a commodious Bath Room for each room.

All the Passages and Corridors throughout the premises are wide and weil lighted, most of the furniture will be new and made expressly for the climate...

"ROBERT PORTER," Nichols, Master, will load here for Port, and will have quick despatch.

For Freight, apply to Hongkong, 23rd May, 1883.

the

above

RUSSELL & Co.

1 FOR SAN FRANCISCO,

The special attention of Hotel Keepers and THE 3/3 L 1. 1. American Ship

other drawn to the unusual advantages offered.

Tenders to state sum per anmin, and to include taxes. No Tender under $3,500 per mensem will be entertained by the Directors.

Hongkong, 16th April, 1883.

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·LOST.

""GREAT ADMIRAL,' Thompson, Master, will load bere for the above Port, and will have quick despatch.

For Freight, apply to

RUSSELL & Co. i. hongkong, 33rd May, 1882. '

FOR SAN FRANCISCO..

N WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON between THE 3/3 LL. 1. American Bark ON between

A GOLD LOCKET, with MONOGRAM and

CREST.:

The Finder will be REWARDED, if necessary, on RETURNING the same to the

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH." OFFICE.

Hongkong, 4th April, 1883.

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1403

*** "PENOBSCOT” Eaton, Master, will load here for the above Port, and will have quick despatch.

For Freight, apply to

· RUSSELL & Co,

[301 Hongkong, 19th April, 1883.

FOR PORTLAND, OREGON.

New Patterns in POMPADOUR SATEENS.. Plain Colored SATEENS in every Shado FRENCH PERCALES in every Pattern. Specialities in ZEPHYR CHECKS. CANVAS CORSETS for Summer Wear. SUMMER PAJAKAH FLANNELS. Novelties in LADIES' SILK UMBRELLAS. Trimmed & Untrimmed HATS & BONNETS. A Choice Selection of FLOWERS. OSTRICH TIPS & FLATS in Light Colours S CONSERVATOIRE DE BERGANO and Late

SIGNOR ANTONIO CATTANEO, of the THE 3/3 LI. I. British Barke INKSTANDS in Great Variety.

FOR DISCOUNT

HOME SAYLE & CO..

VICTORIA EXCHANGE, HONGKONG.

G. FALCONER & CO. JATCH AND CHRONOMETER W

MANUFACTURERS

MARRE WELLERS NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS

MANO CHARTS AND BOOKS

No. 45, QUEENS-ROAD CENTRALLY? 1434

CASH

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HONGKONG TIMBER

YARDWANCHAL REGON FINE SPARS AND LUMBER PEAKMUJJALTAYO ON HANDS B

MALLORY,

Hongkong 14th June, 1881.

Proprietor.

INTIMATION

ANTOINETTE,” of the ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA COMPANY has the honor to inform the community that he has Bunje, Master, will load hers for the above arranged to remain in Hongkong, and will give Port, and will have quick despatch.

For Freight, apply to lessons in Music, Singing and the Pianoforte.

RUSSELL & Co. 'CHARGES STRICTLY MODERATE -

Hongkong, 16th May, 1889

[387 Address-Messrs. KELLY & WALSH,

A Queen's Road E

AND RATENNENTS ALE AND Hongkong, 1st March, 1883.

PORTER DAVID CORSAR & SONSU

-- J. M. GUEDES,

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TOUSE AND LAND BROKER, AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION AGENT CHANGE

No 13 WELLINGTON STREET, HONGKONG.

Hongkong, agrd Tantary, 188

MERCHANT NAVYA

NAVY BOILED CANVAS LONG FLAT

GROWN USC

VARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.

g: 13th June, 1881