No.Competitor allowed to twice more than two first prizes during the two days. All races, diving, &c decided by the Umpires. Excellence In diving consists in: form, distince, entry and recovery,
No second prize given unless four start. In the event of entries for any que ce exceeding eight in number, competitors drawn to swim in heats.
Umpires Mr. J. Sampson, and Tient, Meynell. Referee Mr. C. H. Thompson, Starter:-Me WH. Potts Omcial Time- Keeper-M. M. A. A. Souza, Handicappers:
Mr. J. Sampson, and Mr. A. Deolann. Mrs. Stewart Lockhart has promised to present the prizes in the gymnasium on Monday next, st 5.30 p.m.
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We de moi paciully endorse the oplelena niepensand by
Correspondants in this column.] -
"THE V. R. C. AQUATIC SPORTS. TO THE KONTOR OF THE "Homkom Telmorars." SIR-There are several statements in the16 "Daily Preis to-day which are, incorrect, and la the interests of the Cish they ought to be put right. therefore beg that you will make thera few corrections, as the morning paper does not publish any more until Monday ret
Flest, the conditions of weather were, not "most favourable," nor did the min hold off. The water was very cold-ar all of us who were in it know, and the wind was bitterly cold for those who had to wait for their races in scanty clothing. The weather was so threatening that the attendance was only about two birds of the average of other years. "militated against complete success. Several Items have been omitted from this programme-the breast stroke race duck hunting, and others. One circumstance which
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,
and an unconquerable leward weakness, so that, to nine cases out of ten, the individual who happens to survives violent seizure finds himself unable to decide whether it would not, on the whole have been better for him had he gone quietly off to limbo when he was first attacked,
Absolute and perfect isolation is still the only means of preventing the disease from decimating the community in which it appears, since there is no mement, from that in which the sufferer. receives the contagion, until that in which he is pronounced perfectly well, when he may communicate it to anybody about him. He lafects the air be breathes, the clothes be wears, the furniture be uses, the house he inhabits, the wind that passes over him, and the ground he If his own case a light freads upon. one the chances are that he will com
more virulent and manicate heavier form of his aliment to any receptive subject, and the result is that no one comes within ball of bim who can possibly keep away. If by chance it breaks out in a crowded London court or alley inhabited by the very poor, there nothing to be done but to imprison the wretched people in their miserable homes ont it has passed away, and the attendants hare.to Those who have been sucessfully and recently share the imprisonment and take their changes vaccinated or base themselves suffered from the disease escape, but even thedical science can do little for the sufferer who is once Infected. If the terrible irritation can be allayed, the air pauigen kept open and the strength maintained, the victim may live through it, and to these ends the doctors address their utmost skill, very often in vain, since, after the period of incubation is over and the nature of the attack is unmistake- able, there are still from fourteen to
artires and the balance inclines towards life or death.
II wo wish
keep smallpox out of Australia we must fight at the outports. Our first quarantine station should not be in Fort Philip nor at Put Jackson, but at Colombo, Before the Australian liner starts from that pert, the strictest medical investigation should be
made, In order that as person may embark who has placed himself in danger There is no danger at present of persons who come more than a feinight's Journey bringing infection without the knowledge of the medical lospectors, A man who leht England with the needs of the disease to his constitution would be to fair bere, if he lived to complete the voyage. It is the people who come from infected places within a fortnight's sail of our shores we have to regard with suspicion, and there ought not to be much difficulty to arranging for proper supervision of those persons before they begin their journey Sydney Bulletin.
France will not permit the lottery schema to secure relief moneys for the starving people of Russia.
The Paris 'Figaro declares that the police have discovered an Anarchist plot to blow up the Bourns and other public buildings in Paris,
A 10 per cent reduction to wages has been decreed by the Lancashire master cotich spinners, and a big strike or lockout is threatened.
SEPTEMBER 3, 1892.
Berry, the Colonial Treasurer, raising the import duties on spirits, beers and wines. It is estimated that the increase thus produced in the rerinne will amount to £200,000,
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A new patent night sight, which has been adopted by the British Admiralty, will shortly, be filled to the craters lying at Devonport. The device is an ingenious arrangement designed to faciliate the alm of gunners at night time. A bead of electric light is attached to the gun sight.
One of the largest cametlla trees in Europa is that which is just now in full blooms at Pillaltz, Dear Dresden. It forma one of the nights of the district. -- It was imported from Japan-about-750- years ago, is (bout seventeen yards high 'and'
un un annual average of 40,000 blossoms.
Lipton, the London tea and provision mer chant, paid the other day in a single check to her Majesty's customs the sum of nearly $77,000.
In five years the consumption of beer in Ger many has increased 17 per cent, while the Increase in population has been only 4 per cent.
A Huning-hora la Limoges enamel, made in the year 1430, and which formerly belonged to
M. Spiridon, a wealthy Frenchman, has offered Horace Walpole, has been sold for 6,300 guinea.to loan to the World's Fair to be exhibited in the The greatest oculists of Europe will soon be Department of Fine Arts, the original model of called in to consult upon the condition of the St. Peter's Cathedral is Rame. The model will eyesight of the Czarina, which grows from had
come with an authenticated history, showing it to wOTED.
to be the one designed by the architect, San
It is said by those within the pale that over-Gallo, in 1540. indulgence in intoxicating beverages la lament ably on the lacrease among fashionable women in England.
and. It would surprise no ons If the present Norway is moving steadily toward a Republic, agitation ended with a change in the form of Government.
Electricity is making great progessin Japan. Tokio has su electrical society having over 1,000 members and Nippon is forming an electric light association.
The Duke of Portland has added 10,000 acres to his shooting preserves. This gives him solely for shooting.
A girl of twenty-one, who won the last prize for beauty at Turin, has been found murdered at
mutilated, probably by a stone, in order to Trieste The body was disfigured by two shot wounds and seven stabs, and the face was prevent recognition. The murder is thought to be connected with a love affair.
3rd September, 1891--At so metil,
STATION.
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Ang OTHER 'Honakook Victoria Pack Yours
Holbar enormoskat Bolase
Cape St.,
«Baromatue visin g.' Gradients madernia for south-east winds, “Weather 1-mencher osol sad asawery. (Imoeda) 16.aya,mĮ
1-Barometer radaced to level of the sea in inches teach and lsdradita, -Tamparatura in the shuộc, in degrom, Fah. mahali. Humidity in parowerge of entonation, tha bankdity of air saturated with molature being 100, 4-Direction of the whed to two plate orce of the whad sccording to Beamfort State of the weather, & Zoosky, # Desched conda, Betaling ruin, ♬ Fon, e Cocky, & Han, 7 Lightning. * Overcast, ♬ Fusing showers, e Somály, v Rain, a Beow,? Thuzadar, w Philly, w Dew" wet), "puRais_la buche,
W, Dorsc bethe mid fundrecht.
Hongkong Observatory, 3rd September, 18ga:~~-
The snake scate in Calcutta, increases, and it- is now-established beyond doubt that muall snakes about the sizeoforma, are simply-Roster
warming in the filtered water suply. It is be Ilved that the various reservoirs in the town aro teeming with these reptiles, for they have not
Next, there were several circumstances which | days to be passed before the crisistent cone Sc,000 acres, or 135 square miles, reserved | been properly cleaned for years.
aid millate" considerably was the low state of the-ilde p-of course; le le not razy to avoid that; but it does affect the sports badly. as the water is dirty, the sewage is plentiful, and the diving is necessarily inferior.
The total screnge of Scotland is 18,946,694. Of this comparatively small fanded area one nobleman owned 1,316,000 acres and his wife 149,879 acres more.
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In the recent British elections the Bleyclist Touring Club put forth strenuous efforts to obtala from each Parifamentary candidate a pledge to vote in favor of making the carrying of lights by Hongkong Observatory, and September, 1892. all vehicles at sight compulsory. Many a close Krupp has arranged, with the Russian Gover-500,000 riders of bicycles in the United Kingdom. The Novorit of St. Petersburg says that Herr | contest was decided on this polat, for there are
ment to establish works for the manufacture of
guns at Ekatelaoslav.
A dwarf residing at Shigaken, Osaka, in thirty- six years old and but seventeen inches high. He is well educated nod gains a livellhood by teaching penmanship.
A bill-posting machine, which sticks bills on of a ladder or paste pot, is said to be doing successful work in Paris.
But the most serious misrepresentation of the Daily Prass that the swimmers in the Cham pionship got off to a good start. They did nothing of the sort. "Two, at least, went before the word was given, and if the starter had been a man instead of a half-witted idiot they would | way to convalescence before be could sive | walls; even as high-as "fifty feet, without the use have been called back, and would have paid the penalty of their unfair conduct by starting again partly exhausted. The cheating of the com petitors in the two big races, in the matter of starting, was disgraceful, and contrasted very onfavourably with the honest starts of the smaller swimmers, especially the boys of the band.
As to the running header, the Daily Press reperier sagely remarks that "It was a close thing between Lammert and Abrahem for. second
pince"- It may surprise the gentleman who wrate this to know that-it was a tie, and had to be taken over again, and that Abraham aimply wasn't in it on the second shet. “Close thing" Indeed!
Yours faithfully,
A SWIMMER. Hongkong, 3rd September, 1892.
THE "DAILY FRESS." We have received a letter from a Portuguese school-boy whose education is evidently a good deal ahend of Granny's, for he rebukes our con temporary's crass ignorance in's tone that speaks bighly for the confog generation. The letter is #follows:-
Ta The Rorren of the "Honorowa Trinemas.” Six-The Daily Press yesterday had great trouble about the strange motto" Fert," unknown to all ignarians, '-the editor said. It is the old Crusade motto of the Order of St. John, F-Fortitudo. E Ejus, R-Rhodem, T-Tenule,
wy - which the scholar of Latin on the Press should translate-His (or its) bravery was, the saving of Rhodes,
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Youre, etc.,
A YOUNGSTER, Hongkong: September 3rd, 1892,
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NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Milan is to have an electrical exhibition in 1894.
There are 1,000 men to every goб women, In Greece.
The Transvaal has joined the Universal Postal Union.
Dancing is taught in many of the public schools in Scotland.
The houses of rag-pickers are being con. |demned in northem Fails.
Seven-eighths of the bread used in London is made of American wheat.
Bicycles cannot be ridden in Danish cille faster than the speed of a cab,
The total cost of the new municipal buildings of Glugor was OVCI $1,500,000,
For every dollar spent in England on drink only one cent is spent on education,
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A recently discovered manuscript proves that Columbus was born at Savona, Italy.
for divine service on Sunday evenings.
The Cray is said to intend a move on Bulgaria as soon as Gladstone goes into power,
They call the bicycle the devil's chariot in Terkey, and the Sultan has forbidden its use. The fund at London for the relief of the St.
Fifteen of the London theatres are occupied
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Duilog recent trials of speed on the railway between Paris and Lille a train of twelve car- hour and fifty-six minutes. tlages covered a distance of 157) miles in an
Information respecting the cereal exports of the Argentine Republic for the first quarter of 192 indicates a 1-ige increase over the same period in the previous year.
Sir Charles Dike, who has Just succeeded in reintrring Parliament, served for a time during the Franco-Russian War in the ambulaste. service of the German Army.
The Jews in Moscow two years ago bullt for themselves a beautiful place of worship at a cost of 10,000 rubles. They have now received notice through the police to quit and sell their synagogue by the 1st of January, 1893, as after that date the authorities would talce it from them and devote the place to some charitable purpose.
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The London Court Journal nayesian Mr. Gledatane dine out with a regularity and daring that could "not be excelled by a man of half his year. One who meets him often at those gastronomie tournaments says that Mr. G.'s participation in their enjoyments by no means perfunctory. Some men past 60, still dining out, enjoy themselves under severe-restric tions, daintily picking their way through the mean Mr. G., past 50; le apparently under no such resiple-THE Steamskip tloss. He eats what, comes, generally right through the end, and can take his glass of port after his libation of champagne, a text from which many an They wanted to have a great noise in Russia, ardent diner out would shrink. file mental activity Moscow's famous broken bell is twenty-two teetis cu a par with his physical vigour. His conversation In diameter and twenty-one feet three incheule a never flagging flood brimful of interest. If t high. It weighs 443.772 pounds.
were only possible to reproduce à verbatim report of On an average eich Inhabitant of France his conversation at a dinnor-party, where the personal In Paris they do better or worse-with an consumes fifty-litres or quarts of-wine-in-a-year, surroundings-are-sufficientiy-interesting-to-exolto- Average consumption of 196 litres.
"Rope Boots," made from twisted rope, are now in favor int France for people who have to walk long distances, They do not blister the feet like shoes made of leather,
Negotiations are going on in Brussels for placing in Russian bands the tramways of Teheran and the short railway with right of extending it to the adjacent quarries.
The third Republic of France has just attained its majority. It is now twenty-one years old, lived so long since the Revolution,
him to talk, there would be produced a volume of interest, blographical, autobiographical, and torical. His memory is marvellous, and i powar of graphically recalling'an incident is the admiration. of even "the gentlemen behind the chairs," Mr Gladstone is to be congratulated on possessing perfect Ever, not all men can say the same; tho
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and is the only French-Government which has slightest over, indulgence in eating or drinking, is JAPANESE CREPE SHIRTS, WHITE and RAHTJEN'S GENUINE COMPOSITION
John's, N.F., spfferers, amounted a week ago to devastated by a plague of potato bugs and, turnip to moh a most distressing discass, that I
£8,000.
Mias Terry's tile slice for ber share of the Irving-cum-Terry_Bout_In_America_zjext_year_js
$50,000.
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Buffalo Bill was one of the lions of the evening stone of Mrs. Mackay's recent London receptions.
The English mint possesses an electrical machine which counts coin with precision and
accuracy.
The increase of population in France during the last five years amounted to only one-half of 1 per cent.
The cemeteries of London' cover 3,000 acres,
There are many hundreds of Australian medical men who have never seen smallpox and would not knew it if they did see it. There are many scorer of thousands of Australians who look upon the disesse as extinct, whe regard it much as they do the plague or the Black Death, and chafe mightily at the precautions which are adopted to prevent lis entrance or to siamp it out when it manages to creep within our lines. This it often does, and will do more frequently as the speed of steamers Increstes and voyages are shorter. When it does come we scream and swear and hunt down the victim and quarantine him or her, rather brutally now and then, and Near Nisch, Serris, a building wholly con- kometimes pay heavy compensation when we structed of human skulls and bones was recently have nabbed the wrong man, and then sit down | discovered. and plume ourselves on the
The Imperial diamond, owned by the Prince tessures by which wa "stamped out" the enemy. But, excepting in our mements of of Wales, weighs 182 carats and is valued at panic, we can hardly be brought to believe in 17,000,000f. the enemy's existence. We adect to thick
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good many of ns-that the long-continued TsPages of smallpox were merely due to the defective sanitary arrangements of our forefathers And to the crowded condition of their cities; and
• treat it something that will disappear mankind learns better how to live. So, for that matter, will typhold, consumption, and insanity, but just now it cannot be too clearly understood that our paris! immunity is due to conditions which are rapidly disappearies. Smallpox is always saging In Africa, where overcrowding at any rate, is not a role of life. It is rampant fa Chins, and sovereign in Ceylon, whence Indeed, comes our most recent danger, and it is always hovering about those lands of the southern archipelago whence the Kanakan ære presently to be brought into Queensland to cultivate gadīipesu and the sugarcane.
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and the land they occupy represents a capital of $1,000,000,
One-twentieth of the working population of Germany are engaged in the liquor trafe in some capacity.
A street-car Hen la now being built in Taik end, the capital of Russian Turkestan, by a French company.
The consumption of beer in England, which declined from the years 1884 to 1859, now shows a tendency to rise..
The Duke of Newcratie is making a tour in the southern counties of England in a gipsy van called the Bohemian,
worth of gold and silver annually for plate, Europe consumes upward of $30,000,000 Jewellery and ornaments.-
Forty-four million oysters were landed in England and Wales in 1891, against something under $7,000,000 in 1889,00
All the pawnshops in Moscow, owned by Jews, will be closca before the end of this month by order of the Government, g
Small-pox is one of the many gifs which the Holy Land conferred upon the Crusader who took it back with them to Europe, where it reigned unchecked and scattered death broade Verdi has consented to compose a Cantats or cast for more than 700 years. Indeed, even after symphony in honor of the Columbus celebrn. Jenner discovered, in 1999, a countersecting dis- tion at Genos this antutan, i order, cow-pox, which,
to this time, has
The Shah has forgiven the little boy who so proved the best it took so years Eghting to reduce smallper within manageable seriously Impe tied age life of the King of Umite la Kugland alone. It is only within the Kings a little time sgo, Hietime of the present generation that Bridsh medical 1 men have felt themselves fairly able to cope
with the malady or that the sight of pock-marked person has ceased to be com mon in the London streets,. Even yet coni- signments of the disorder come regularly to that city from Smyras, and Aleppo, from `Con- stantinople and Caire ; and no man who boards asailing ship on Ita sariwal from the Levant can
A trolley line. Is now operating between Marselles and St. Louis France, and on a opened in Bremen recently, and a volum
It is said that only are passengers were killed on all the rallways of Great Britain and Ireland during the whole of last year. toner find
Germany has a boarding establishment for birds, where the feathered ones are taken care of while their owners are away.
be sure that he will not catch it himself or A favorite dish of the East Indies is an ant convey to his family. And smallpox is mash. The insects are caught in pits and the most contagious of all febrile diseases, the most dangerous, the most distressing, the most masked by handiale like raising, in
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The Hungarden wheat crop is estimated at about $36,000,000 bushels, which is a little larger than last year, but less than that of 1890, says the Liverpool Corn Trade News.
The crops on Prince Edward Taland are being flies. In several districts the damage is so great that the farmers are sowing turnips galo.
The Russian leatenancy of Caucasia is reported to be invaded by innumerable swarms of locusts, which are destroying or have destroyed all the green corn in many of the districts,
Charles Wood, druggist of Haricaton, Eng land, has a brood of white blackbirds, a fact which is vouched for by Land and Water and by several prominent ornithologists and natural fata
The largest cak now standing in England Is the "Cowthorple," which measures 78 feet in circumference at the ground. At one time this tree and its branches covered more than an acre
of space.
The London Times, which tiled to rola Mr. Parnell through a series of Pigott letters before bo-bad-ruined-bimself-in-nów-coddling-the- Parnellites, who are wavering la their support of Gladstone,
The current eruption of Mount Etna has wrought havoc in the chestnut woods, which is much the same for Italy as widespread destruction of the wheat crop would be for the
United States.
The exhibit to be made at the World's Fair by Krupp, the celebrated gun maker, will repre- sent an expenditure of $1,500,000. The largest cannon ever made, weighing xas tons, wil bo in the exhibit.
One million dollars, is the price of the five chains of pearls forming the collar women State occasions by the Baroness Gustav de Rothschild, and those worn by her sister are scarcely leis valuable.
Raimundo Induera Palacio, ex-Dictator of Veneruela, has unived at Paris, with $15,000,000 as a golden solace for the Ills of defeated am- bidon. He says the good of his country was all he desired, but he got more.
A man named Bulan, of the reputed age of one hundred and six years, committed suicide at Ekaterinoslav, Russia, because at ba explained in a letter be left behind, he began to Find lle insipid and uninteresting.
The German Government has expended $400,000 in building a factory at Spandau, for the preserving of all kinds of provisions for the
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sufficient with some people to upset the liver and causa bilions attacks; these eventually lead to serious disease and make the sufferor's life ons conă” tinual maleery. Timely as of Clemente Tonle with na occasional dose of Dr. Fletcher's Pills will alwaya ruchasfod by Mr. W. Kelly, Albury, NSW. cure the most serious cases, as shows
the proof by
who "For nearly twelve months I have been subjected to thought my constitution was
I had Breaking up. most neuto piss in my chest, and my livar wit 51 enlarged that I could not lie on my right side, ther were also sharp pains around the kidneys combinedi with severe headaches simply unbearable, causing but only experienced when my condition was was treated by doctors great physical weaknots,
temporary rellef from my complicated most arditest I was persuaded to try Clemente Tonio, wilch I took with Dr. Fletcher's pills, and after the ase of the first bottle of Clements Toxlo my paine vanished like magio. I used in all three bottles of Clemonts Tonic and two boxes of Fletcher's Fills, and the swalling of my liver was removed. I have galed greatly in weight and my chest and lungs are stronger than ever. I am well known as an old her." resident and my recovery has szolted much interest
CONSUMPTION, Wasting Diseases, and General | Debility. Doctors disagres as to the relative valus of Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites; the one supplying strength and flesh-the others giving nerve power and acting as a tonic to the digestion and entire systent, But in Scott's Eutuision of Pure Cod Liver O Oll with Hypophos phites the two are combined, and the effect is permanent benent from other preparations have wonderful. Thamanda who, kave derived no been cared by this. Bcott's Emulsion" is per fectly palatable, and is easily digested even by those who cannot tolerate plain Cod Liver Oil. Any Chemist can supply it. A. 8. Watson & Co. (Limited), agents in Hongkong and China,
Adut.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE, -
Prom Manen, Den, Falmer & Ci's Baginar.). Tanday.
army, and about five hundred and fifty operators CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
are tu be regularly employed there.
The Medical Department at St. Petersborg is distributing cholera disinfectants at cost prices. The Czar presided at a discussion of the appoint- ment of an officer with dictatorial power to combat the epidemic in the Volga provinces, 10
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STATION.
About - one-half the area of Aiglers, which comprises 330,000 square miles in the bound. aries of Sahars, is being put under successf cultivation by means of artesian-well– Irrigation..) Zaklampe There are now over 13,000 wells in activo operation...
debilitating and the most disgusting, it can be. All the tickets for next summer's performance easily understood that it is by no means wel at Beyruth have been sold: $140,000 in all has come or desirable visitor. It makes the victim been received for the twenty performances, fifty nests and 150 birds. The herons subsist
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An object of horror to those who love him best, and of dread and loathing to those who are othes- wise always sympathetic and kalpin It leaves
Latest advices from the Argentina Republic stain that wagon"ars apała going up in the solenia, pwing to the great scarcity of farm
Hongbong
Not many Londoners are aware that there" | Ang still exists close to them the City Heronry. Its to a corner of Wanstead Park. There are about ver chiefly on the food which they obtain from the Essex marshes, and
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THE BOTTOMS OF IRON SHIPS, HARTHANN'S GREY PAINT, specially manic- factured for coating the Inside of STKEL SHIPS,
SPECIALLY SELECTED EXTRA PRIME’PORK and BEEF in Barrels. Also
AMERICAN PRIME SUGAR-CURED
HAMS and BACON." CHR. MOTZ & Co.; BORDEAUX CLARETE, CEMENT from she celebrated. Factory of Hemmoor.
+
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MACHINERY AND TOOLS.
.. EVERY KIND OF
SHIP'S STORES AND REQUISITES ALWAYS IN STOCK
**** AT
REASONABLE PRICES.
ALL KITTE OF COALS SUPPLIED AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE, Das Cotanur il sir finest old BRANDY, COGNAC, 4 Stars, selected expressly for F.B.& Co, Sole Agents."
SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA AND JAPAN
*FOR THE
TULE LIFE PRESERVER AND RAFT. Manufactured by the LEDUC TULE IMPROVEMENT COMPANY,
SAN FRANCISCO, CALI
Creolin
Acknowledged by the scientide world as the
DEODORISER and GERMICIDE,
MOST EFFECTIVE DISINFECTANT
Is neither poisonous nor caustic, may be used by everybody without the slightest apprabmis.om
danger. Hongkong, 8th March, 1Ɛaz.
DENTISTRY.
FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP
Terms Moderate.
R. HELLWIG, Propeletos.
M2
£838
Amoy, 1st September, 1892.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
HE HONGKONG TELÉGRAPH" will THE
be on sale at the Hongkong and Victoris Hotels, opposite the Hongkong Club, and at Fodder's Wharf, EVERY EVERáth, from 5.30 to 7.30 o'clock.
PRICE TEN CENTS. Copies ordered from the Office will be charged the usual rate-15 cents.
Advertisers are reminded that the Henghong Telegraph has by far the largest circulation of By Kaglish newspaper published in the Far East, THIS 16 GUARANTEED, Terms on application.
Hônghong, 141) Ostober, 18gri
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MODERATE YERS,
WON GOAT AL-'E:O N'G.
Surgeon Dentist,
(Formerly articol Apprentice, and latterly assistant to Dr. Rocker), HAS REMOVED
THE
BANK
BUILDINGS, QUEEN'S ROAD, (Opposite Hongkong Hotel), CONSULTATION-FREE, Hongkong, 27th Talparkgr...” is,
SIEN TING SURGEON DENTIST, WE No. 10, D'AGUILAR STREET. TERMS VERY MODERATE, Consultation free. Jyth March, 1894,
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