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Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

THE Undersigned have received instruc

tions to Sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

- TO-MORROW,

(FRIDAY), the 2nd Sept., 1904, at 2.30 F.M,

at their

*

Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des'

Vœux Road, (Corner of Ice House' Street),

SUNDRY

FRENCH MAKE

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.

TERMBAs usual.

PUBLIC

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, rst eptember, 1904.

AUCTION.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I 1904.

Entimations.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

WITH

possible the force available for the A view to increasing as far as

His Excellency the Governor has decided to Defence of the Colony in case of emergency, invite Senior Residents who are British Subjects to form themselves into an Association to be called

THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEER RESERVE ASSOCIATION. ander the following conditions:-

RUSSIA AWAKES.

A GREAT UPHEAVAL IN THE TSAR'S

DOMINIONS.

The subjoined article was written several

news of the assassination of M. de Plehve came days ago, and was in our possession before

to hand, says the Daily Chronicle,

L-THE FOUR PLAGUES.

The country seems all asleep under the blazing sun. League after-league-of these prairies and forests where three-quarters of the Tsar's subjects labour with axe and saw and wooden plough for their precarious bread, swings past us; immense fields of thirsty grain and grass, bounded by an interminable dark border of fir and birch, and over all the relent less dome of unbroken blue. The scene is so

The age limit for Members to be 35-50. 2-The Members to undertake not to omit the Association within 1 year of joining it without leave, and to enrol themselves in the event of necessity under the Volunteer Ordin- ance as the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve

vast, so changeless, sa devoid of human more. Company. Upon enrolment Officers of the

ment, and that the tired eye seizes greedily THE Undersigned has received instructions Company will be selected from among the

Members and commissioned by the Governor.upon the leasi"sign"of"life—a glimpse of pea 3-The Rules of the Association to be sants in coloured skirts and smocks bending at frained by a Committee of Management elected the furrow; a cart just visible over the rippling by the Members from among their own number. tops of rys; a group of children driving their 4-The Members to practise Rifle shooting little flocks of geese and a few gaunt caitle to so as to become efficient shots for which par pose they will be lent Rifles by the General Pasture. Officer Commanding, and will be supplied with Ammunition at cost price.

to Sell by.

PUBLIC AUCTION,

ON SATURDAY,

the 3rd Sept., 1934, commencing at 2.30 F.M., at his SALES ROOMS, DUDDELL STREET, A FINE COLLECTION of

JAPANESE CURIOS,

Comprising:-

HANDSOME SATSUMA WARE (BOWLS, VASES, INCENSE BURNERS, &c.), VERY FINE SILVER CLOISONNES, FINE KUTANI TEASETS, DAMASCENE CIGARETTE CASES, CUT VELVET PIC- TURES and WALL HANGINGS, SILK EMBROIDERED SCREENS, BED. COVERS, HANGINGS and D'OYLIES, and a variety of other Curios,

TERMS

As Customary.

Catalogues will be issued.

On view from FRIDAY, the 2nd September.

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 27th August, 1904.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

PARTICU

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ARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 5th day of September, 1904, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, at Tra! Tsz Mui, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KINO, for one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale.

Taland Lot

Registry No.

Boundary Maasutemania.

LOCALITY.

N,

x.

k.

Ct. (t.

135

Hongkong, 27th August, 1904.

Saate fee

Abou

Upses Price

12,673 247 | 5.303

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

975

PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 5th day of September, 1904, at 3 P., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Austin Road, Kowloo`, in the Colony of Hong. kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 14th day of March, 1904, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.

Kowloon, laland

Registry N

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Boundary Measurements.

LOCALITY.

Ne

L.

berley Road, Kowloon

..

it.

Hongkong, 27th August, 1904.

ONE

Annual Rent

20,945 230

For Sale.

FOR SALE.

NE ICE-MAXING MACHINE

GAS ENGINE complete.

For full Particulars, apply to

Upset Price.

6,100

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S-The use of the Volunteer and Police Range will be reserved for the Association one day in the week, and the Members will have the right to use the Range at all times when not otherwise occupied.

All those intending to join will oblige by sending in their names to the Undersigned before the 15th of September, 1904.

By Command,

F. H. MAY,. Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office-

Hongkong, 30th August, 1904.

Here a peaty stream makes"an oasis, a mea- daw gay with gentian, buttercups, and heather bells. There a wildernes "of "charred leg speaks of the scourge of a wooded land, line of dusty highway, with its whitened boun dary stones that will be looked for anxiously on winter nights, breaks the green expanse. We pass villages of a dozen dilapidated log. cabins, and, more rarely, cross a stream, fallen to its lowest ebb in the great heat, encumber- ¡ed with rafts ready for the passage to some

hopelessly distant sea.

Nightfall finds us still parsuing our perfect- [950 ly straight track through the dead silence of wood and prairie. A reedy pool catches more A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, light than the sky seems to give. On the edge of the forest a lamp twinkles in a lonely ISSUE OF 30,000 NEW SHARES OF SIO EACH. dwelling with a weird brightness; another

facts, he makes up now by keener suspicions of any official report or excuse. He knew, by every. day experience, the corruption and stupidity of

Intimations.

CONFIDENCE the general body of the civil service, To-day said Lord Chatham, is a plant of slow he know-and I confess to having shared the general disillusionment-that the army and growth." People believe in things that they

the most powerful in the world, are not only form a foundation for trust. In regard to a navy, built up and maintained at so frightfulsce, and in a broad sense they are right. an expense, and, the former at least, reputed What is sometimes called blind faith is not faith at all. There must be reason and fact to broken, but disgraced.

medicine or remedy, for example, people ask, heen relieved by it? Is it in harmony with "Has it cured others? Have cases like mine the truths of modern science, and has it a record above suspicion? If so, it is worthy of confidence; and if I am ever attacked by any of the maladies for which it is commended. I shail resort to it in full belief in its power to help me? On these lines

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION

Intimations.

VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.

AQUATIC SPORTS, 1994.

TH

HE ANNUAL AQUATIC SPORTS will

Austin Road, Kowloon. Sports commence on be held on the 5th. 6th, 7th and 17th September, in the CLUB ENCLOSURE,

5th and 6th at 4.30 P.M., and on 7th and ryth at 4 PM. sharp.

Admission for Gentlemen, non-members, 50 cents each day. Soldiers and 'Sailors'in' uniform, half price.

Tickats for Admission may be obtained at The Gate, or from the Undersigned, c/o Mosers, Gibb, Livingston & Co.

The Secretary's Launch will leave Blake Pier on MONDAY and TUESDAY, the 5th and 6th at 3.45 PM. sharp, and on WEDNES DAY and SATURDAY, the 7th, and 17th at - 4 P.M. sharp, to convey Spectators and Com.

petitors.

HAROLD C. AUSTEN, Hon. Secretary,

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Hongkong, 29th August, 1904.

VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.

AQUATIC SPORTS, 1904.

THE COMMITTEE of the VICTORIA

The record of Kuropatkin being compara- tively clean and weighty, he knows what has to be laid at the door of the Viceroy Alexeief and the Court favourite Bezobrazoff. He begins to see that Nicholas II. is a mere tool in the hands of the arch-reactionary Plahve and the wonder-workers of the Church, Since the Red Cross peculations he begins to realise that nothing is sacred; since Kishinieff, that no weapon is too base for the official comarilla. has won its high reputation among medical edge becomes the most dangerous kind of They trust it for the same reason that they After long compression this sort of know-men, and the people of all civilized countries. dynamite. War has always had a radical effect trust in the familiar laws of nature or in the on Russian society. The Napoleonic struggle action of common things. This effective led to the Decembrist revolt. The Crimean remedy is palatable as honey and contains all War gave birth to theearly form of "Nihilism," the nutritive and curative properties of Pure and necessitated the liberation of the Serfs. Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod The Russo-Turkish War brought about the livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Active revolutionary movement of the late Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and seventies. What will happen when next winter Wild Cherry. It quickly eradicates the falls upon the stricken fields of Russia, when poisonous, disease-breading acids and other famine stalks the land, and the commercial and toxic matters from the system; regulates and industrial crisis has reached its height; shove all when, the last fan long spent, M. Flahve gives vigorous appetite and digestion, and is promotes the normal action of the organs, is at his wits end for money?

infallible in Prostration-following Fevers, Anemia, Scrofula, Influenza, Wasting Diseases, Throat and Lung Troubles, etc. Dr. W. A. Young, of Canada, says: "Your tasteless pre- paration of cod liver oil has given me uniformly satisfactory results, my patients having been of all ages." It is a product of the skill and science of to-day and is successful after the old style modes of treatment have GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, been appealed to in'vain. To try it is to trust to it forever after. It cannot disappoint you and is effective from the first dose. Sold

G. H. P.

german ruNS AMOK ́AT

CHRFOO.

Chefoo, 25th August.

A certain German who is now in charge of important works at Chefoo, had a quarrel with a certain Japanese a few days ago but as the Japanese showed a revolver, the matter then

URSUANT to Resolution the General/sparkles against the deep gloom, than another, had been ended. From that time the German by chemists everywhere. PURS

Managers of A. 8. WATSON & Company, Limited, hereby invite applications from the Shareholders of the Company for the issue of 30,000 new shares of $to each at a Premium of 10 per cent. or $1 a share.

Each Registered Shareholder on the 28th day of September, 101, applying for the New Issue will be entitled to one share for every two shares registered in his name. Shares not applied for by those entitled to apply will be dealt with by the General Managers in accordance with Article 40 of the Company's Articles of Association,

Applications for Shares in the New Issue will be received by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong from the 28th September, 1904, to the 30th September, 1924, both days inclusive, and the whole amount of $11 per share will be payable on apl'cation. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th September, 1904, to the 8th October, 1904, both days inclusive.

The present paid-up Capital of the Company, is $10,000, divided into 60,000 shares of Sto each, and the New Issue is required to increase the Capital of the Company to Spo0,000 divided into 90,000 shares of$io each,

The whole of the premium received from the New lasue will be placed to the Credit of the Permanent Reserve Fund.

The New Lisue will rank for Dividend for the three months ending 31st December, 1904, pay able in May, 1905.

Forms of application for the New Issue can be obtained at the Company's Offices in Alex- at the Hongkong and andra Buildings or Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong, Shanghai, and London.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, 22nd June, 1954,

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HONGKONG FROZEN FOOD SUPPLY

Νο

DEPOT.

3,Ice HOUSE STREET.

'OTICE is hereby given that the above Company with all existing Contracts has been PURCHASED by the DAIRY FARM CO, I.D., who will conduct it on their own account on and after 1st September next. Accounts SUPPLY DEPOT will be collected by the DAIRY FARM CO, LTD. Accounts against the HONGKONG FROZEN FOOD SUPPLY DEPOT to 31st August should be rendered to the present management as soon as possible. LAU KUE TONG, Manager.

due to the HONGKONG FROZEN FOOD

Hongkong, 29th August, 1904,

EXCURSION TO MACAO.

"HE Splendid Steamer THE

and another, like glow-worms.

Yes! in this mute, immeasurable land there are living hearts, faithful and hopeful amid the tragedy of the times. The demon of War is abroad, ravishing these humble homes, leaving

women in despair and children fatherless. The sister plague, Famine, is already brooding over fields patched and robbed of their proper labour. 'Twas a red sunset; have a care, your Majesty, least a bloody dawn herald the inevitable to- marrow of Russia's manhood

They keep St. Vladimir's Day in Moscow with a procession the like of which perhaps no other land could show, for the Roman Church cannot, rival the splendid pageantry of the Orthodox rite, and the Llamas of Tibet are eclipsed by the brazen confidence of this ap peal to the grossest credulity. Rank after rank of priests, stout and bearded, in vestments of velvet and cloth of gold, pass, chanting as only to Russian Church knows how. Each group carries its Jewelled icons and relice on poles or in cases, scores of them; and at the rear a small crowd, mostly of women, is held back by a line of police..

It is a slow business, for at every church or monastery or shrine there must be a stoppage; and I am glad to get away to my favourite evening niche under the canopy of the Alexan der 1. monument, on the terrace of the Kremlin.

The air is hot and full of the whistle of swal- lows, the clattering of droshkies in the cobbled streets, the boom and tinkle of bells from now one, now another, of the hundred towers that rise between us and the distant hills. What Asia may hold, I know not, but there is surely the castellated wall of the Kremlin, with its no scene in Europe like this. Just below runs

ancient turrets of red and green brick; below that again the river, Garrow and unromantic, divides the city.

has had an animus against all Japanese he comes across. Last evening (14th) the German got drunk along with another and then be took a revolver and a slick with him and paraded the street of Chefoo and whoever he met if he was Japanese he assaulted him. The Japanese | Consul hearing the news, personally went to the scene and the German threw stones at the Consul, when the Consul knew the person who was behaving in this disorderly manner was a German, he caused him to be arrested and handed him over to the German Consulate, This German had several w unds and many japanese had also been wounded.— Universal Gazelle.

THE KWANGSI REBELLION.

ANOTHER CITY RAIDED.

A Canton dispatch states that on the 4th inst as a large band of Kwangsi insurgents were passing the city of Trienchianghsien on their way southward from Chingyuanfn, en toute to Sztofu, the officials of Ts'ienchianghsien were

so

WANTED.

6

A ANT in a Mercantile Firm. Advertiser SITUATION as GENERAL ASSIST- has knowledge of BOOK-KEEPING and TYPE- WRITING First-class testimonials.

Apply to-

"W"

Cio Hongkong Telegraph, hongkong, 6th August, 1994.

WANTED.

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SECRETARY FOR THE SINGAPORE

RECREATION CLUB request the

pleasure of the Company of the LADIES OF Austin Road, Kowloon,' on WEDNESDAY, HONGKONG at the CLUB ENCLOSURE,

4 P.M. sharp, on the occasion of the Annual 7th, and SATURDAY, 17th September, at

Aquatic Sports.

By kind permission of Lieut-Gol. O, N, Watts and Officers, the Band of the 1st Bat Sherwood Foresters will play selections during

HAROLD C. AUSTEN, Hon. Secretary.

the afternoon.

Hongkong, 29th August, 1904).

LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

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InCaskeof 375lbs.net 85 per Cask ex Factory. In Bags of 250 Bs. net 88 per Bag ex Factory.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managera. Hongkong, 1st August, 1904,

Entertainment.

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HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.

A

PROMENADE

will be held at

CONCERT

VOLUNTEER HeadquarterS,

TO-MORROW.

(FRIDAY), September and, at 9 P.M.

Tickets

$2 and $:

the

A CLUB. Applicants should send in, as soon as possible, particulars of their previous employment with copies of Testimonials to the Chairman of the Committee, Mr. E. C. ELLIS, May be obtained from Messrs. Kelly & Walsh 10, Collyer Quay, Singapore, from whom ali particulars can be obtained.

A. G. HILLS,

Secretary.

17th August, 1904.

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completely taken by surprise that they had❘ IMPORTANT NOTICE. no time even to shut the city gates. The conse quence was that the insurgents poured into the city without restriction, and there being no resistance no blood was shed, the insurgents contenting themselves with only taking posses.

FRESH ARRIVALS.

or Volunteer Headquarters,

Tickets already purchased for August 17th hold good for this date.

Hongkong, 1st September, 1904

1983

sion of whatever caught their fancy and then BY GIVING A VERY LARGE ORDER, THE WINE GROWERS.

leaving the place to continue their journey to Sz'enfu, in the neighbouring hills of which 'prefecture they have their fastnesses and lairs. The Government troops made no pursuit, although there were said to be nearly 3,000 of insurgent depredations.-V. C. D. News. them within ten miles of the scene of the

WHERE ARE THE REBELS The Kwangsi rebels have divided themselves into two parties, one going towards Hunan, and the other towards Kweichow and Kechow, Consequently, the borders of these regions are now more strictly guarded than ever-Eastern Times.

COMMERCIAL

Behlad us, with brilliant effrantery, from the cradle and citadel of the Romanoffi-palace, church, and treasury, with their ochred walls, green roofs, and gold or blue cupolas bearing heavy gilt crosses. Southward, in front of our alcove, spread miles of coloured roof and walls, pointed with a few factory chimneys and many more church towers, always culminating in gay bulbous steeples. Away to the left the white mass of the Foundling Hospital flanks the river; | London-Bank T.T................. | to the right rises the huge pile of the Temple [987 of the Saviour, with its five gold crowns against

a sky of darkening grey.

"YING KING," Captain Page, will make an EXCURSION TRIP TO MACAO, on EVERY SUNDAY, with leaving the Company's wharf at the end of Wing Lok Street, at 8.30 A.M., and returning

HUGHES & HOUGH,

8, Des Voeux Road,

Hongkong, 47th June, 1904.

FOR SALE.

INCANDESCENT

GASOLINE

from Macao at 7.30 PM.

The Steamer will lay alongside the S.S. Perseverance's wharf at Macao.

FARE:

14

[769 1st Class Single Ticket $2.00, with Cabin $3.00 Retura $3.00, 18

11 $5.00 Tiffin and Dinner may be had on Board at $1 each meal.

YUK ON & Co., LD. Hongkong, 8th August, 1904.

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LAMPS

OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, from the best makers.

INCANDESCENT

MANTLES,

OHIMNEYS,

GLOBES,

for

Gasoline AND GAS LAMPS

་

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS.

THE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA are prepared, during suspension of their Trans-Pacific Service and until further notice, to BOOK CARGO and ISSUE BILLS OF LADING

to SEATTLE, WASH., VICTORIA, B.C., and SHADES, & PACIFIC COAST PORTS, also to OVER LAND POINTS in the UNITED STATES and CANADA in connection with the GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY FROM SEAT TLE, as hitherto, by the Steamers of the NORTHERN PACIFIC. S. S. Co., BOSTON STEAMSHIP and TOWBOAT Cos, OCEAN

at the most moderata prices. Lampa ized up for Buyers free of charge.

Naphthe of the best kind kept in stock. TAI KOWNG 00.

56, Lyndhurst Terrace.

Hongkong, and May, 1904. -

S. S. Co. and CHINA MUTUAL S. N. Co.

For further Particulars, apply at the Com pany's Local Branch Office in PRINCE's BUILDINGS, First Floor, Chater Road,

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A. S. MIHARA,

Manager. Hongkong, 20th May, 1904.

Do. Do.

TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.

Selling,

demand........

4 months' tight France-Bank T,T. America-Bank T.T. Germany-Bank TT.

Do. demand Shanghai-Bank T.T. Japan-Bank T.T. Singapore-Bank T.T... Java-Back T.T.

A splendid outlook, if one is content not to dee below the surface to the squalor of this | 1-dia T.T.................................... vast bedraggled village that is the heart of the Tear's domains. A city in the Western sanse we could not call it, especially in these days, when broken households and ruined business tell on every hand the cost of war. Two powers there are that do not suffer so-the palace behind, the churches that give childish colour to the scene in front. Yet let us not be too

aure.

Buying. months' sight LIC.......

6 months' sight L/C

WE HAVE SECURED THE

CO-OPERATION

OF THE MAKERS OF THE

APOLLO MASTER PLAYERS"

IN LOWERING THEIR PRICES, AND

SUPPLY CO.

BARRETTO & Co.,

General Agents, Hongkong.

Per Case, Per Cas.

HOCKS AND MOSELLES:

91

1,9 11/16

WE NOW OFFER THEM FROM | Rudesheimer 1900

1 doz. qta 2 doz. pts.

$17.00

$19.00

Verziger 1900

18.00

20,00

2.27

1.84

$365110 $850.

1897

Rudesheimer Engerweg? 18.00

20,00

135

Johannisberger 1897...... 22.03 Zeltingerburg 1900

24.00

24,00

26,00

135

NEW

88 Nomiau)

1/10 1/10)

30 days' sight San Francisco & New York..441 4 months' sight

do.

45+

CONSIGNMENT

JUST ARRIVED

jo days' sight Sydney and Melboume......1/iot 4months sight Francs..............................................................}} 6 months' sight 4 months' sight Germany..... Bar Silver....... Bank of England rate

,2.32

PER S.S. "EMPRESS OF CHINA"

The city seems all asleep under the blazing sun; but I know that, bebind abuttered win- dows, brave hearts are speaking- of the day when this most unclean pest, Superstition, and its sister Despotism, will be beaten back, and the Russian mind, freed from the chains of centures, will take its own high place in the vanguard of Western progress. Have a care, your Majesty, for in that awakening of your Malwa New... worker of Cronstadt, nor Monsieur Philippe, the Parisian mesmerist, will have any help to give you.

I shall have little to say in these articles, ex-

cept indirectly, about the conflict which is pro ceeding at fearful cost in Manchuria. My concern is rather with those, to the outer world, less visible circumstances and movements of which the war is an aggravation and a stimulus The secret history of recent Rusalan policy in the Far East-commonly believed in Rurala to have been determined by investments of the Tsar and the Dowager Tsaritsa in forest lands on the Korean border-and of the conduct of

the military defence, will some day make a pretty commentary on the theory of an inspired autocracy.

If, thanks to the consorship, the averaga Rusi (64) | sian has been slow in learning the deplorable

OPIUM QUOTATIONE. To-day's quotations are as follow:-

WE WILL SUPPLY AN UPRIGHT

IRON GRAND AND A PIANO

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CLARETS,

Per Case.

1 dos. qts.

$4.00

4.50

5.00

5.30

6.00

6.00

6.50

Montferrand.........................................

Medoc........

St. Emilian....2482913612-22

St. Estepho...79249481971981) Kireta

St. Julies......................aitzute 7.50

SPANISH CLAREȚ.

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C 1,000/1,070 @ 1,130/1,200 | CREDIT TERMS.

Old

TI

Older

@ 1,230/1,300

19

Oldest

Patna New

ears New Persian (Paper)

@ 1,300/1.350

1,180

1,140

@ 860/930

SAVARESSE'S SANDAL CAPSULES

{filentios, because absolutely *Engilah. 011. Nor made of gein pull directions. All Chenhi tused in YAWARE

de España, Bilbao,

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Per Case.

.'

x doz. qtv.

$12.00

These Players have been tested in Hongkong Rioja Clarete................

for 5 years (at Peak included) without a Single Failure, which can be said of no other

Ployer.

THE

ROBINSON PIANO Co., Lá,

Hongkong, 3rd August, 1904,

JAPANESE BEER,

"KABUTO" BRAND,

HIRANO WATER

** PEACOCK * BRAND. [39 Hongkong, 320d August, 1994.