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Telegrams.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

SERVICE

PEKING.

PRINCE CHUN APPOINTED.

REGENT N

namn.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14, 1908

ON THE SOUTH MANCHURIAN.

ancure sleeping-car tickets, which benevolent

faced man laboriously compiled in triplicate with a lead pencilThe price per beith being THROUGH COMMUNICATION" TROM HARDIN five yea, we tendered the amount in Yokohama GRANot Specie Bank notes, Newchwang currency, after The re-organized through train service fruthe-conom-of-precious-gears. Thettupon, Harbin, via Mukden, to Peking, sud vid Daley with a heavy, sight but no spoken word, he to Shanghai, came into affect on October 31 made an elaborate calculation on the back of bringing Landon within 14 days from Peking an envelops, checking it twice, (oblivious of and 16 days of Shanghai-(allowing for difference in time, the actual journey in eight the clamorous crowd) and said " Two Yen fity bours less) writes T. C. in the N. C. D. New more" from which we drew vague but insutia Leaving London via the Hook of Holland factory conclusions about bimetalliem. Even on the evening of October 15 with good tually, after securing gold yen (paper) from a Jack making the several connexions at Bete money changer conrealed in a little wooden llo, Warsaw, Moscow and Harbin, wo arrived box at the other end of the shed, we got those at Peking on the morning of November 1. Pullman tickets, but noted with forebodings Of the journey to Harbin it is nonecessary of evil that they bars un numbers nor other to speak-the thing is ricus feus to some a signs intellig.ble to the European. We tried panoramic delight of movement and changing nur japanese on the benevolent man, while scene, to other only's weariness of body and the crowd swayed in its wrath behind, but he soul, its greater or lesser misery: depending on only sighed again and bigpitied something climatic conditions and the vagaries of cooks that sounded like "wakarimten" So we left. and chefs da imin. For myself, while recoge that weary man, and the raging crowd, in their nising, that gust homines tot sententias, I cannot respectiva fains and proceeded, yop once rgain, understand that any rational being should con- to register our baggage. We had to baol it Some unusual occurrence has dema himself to thirty odd days of the terrore ourselves 10 the Receipt of Custom, but the taken place in the Capital:

and tedium of the sea, when he can reach bis Fulimas palaces now abone brightly ahead, poo, with a sphinx face aplace, looked at us, looked at those wandering trunks, and then went on writing confidential reports to the Government, no doubt, **

[By courtesy of the." Sheung_Po."]

Poking, 14th November,

p Yesterday, an Imperial Decree was issued by the Empress Downgor appointing Prince Chun to be the Regent and his son to be brought up and educated in the Palace.

Laiter.

1

HERCIAL

YARN MARKET,

In their report dated rath instant, Messri, Phirossha F. Pelit & Co write

Out last curentar was dated the 16th inst* The progress of harvesting operations in the country has been rasponsible for the retarded cleffances that have taken place during the past fortnight. Owing, however, to centiuned thortage of supplies of desirable, threads in im- vorters' hands and to the farther fall in exchange on Todia, prices have continued to advance notably in favourite chops of No, tos, queta fions for which show an appreciation of from St to Sa per bale belter than a fortnight ago, * Large parcels bays arrived from Bombay during the phat two weeks; the bulk of the cargo is in fulfilment of forward sales effected during last month which, in erety, instance,

have resulted profitably to dealers—a mult

which opens out a favourable, and bopeful out look for the immediate future.

At present the disinclination of Chinese to operate more freely is accounted for by the fact that settlements concluded at the moment New Year's period when trade becomes tem- porarily paralysed by the dictates of "olo. cus. tom." Whatever dealer boy new are for it mediate requirements only.

To-day's Advertisements.

NOTICE

THE OFFICE of Mr. O. D. THOMSON, EO REMOVED 10 NO fo QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. "Hongkong, 14th November, 1908.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.

(958

ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. ACTION NO. 155 OF 1908..!

'THE MATTER OF WILLIAM

POWELL, LIMITED,

BRAND

IN THE MATTER OF THE COM-

PANIES ORDINANCE 1865.. OTICE is hereby given that the Order of the Supreme Court of Hongkong dated the 10th day of November, 1908, .confirming. the reduction of the Capital of the above-named. Company from $150,000 to $105,000 and the Misute (approved by the Court) showing with respect to the Capital of the Company 21

For some dave the Grand Coun./dastination in ball that time and for less money and we did it nobly. Three sdas of Dai Nip. become due towards the approach of China | attered the several particulars required by the

cillors have not been received in audience...

'Pince Ching," who was on his way to visit the Imperial Tombs, has been recalled.

by land.

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Observe that I say "he" for in the maiter of travel, woman is neither a rational being nor (by reason of her pausal tendency to baggage aud babies) suitable for transportation by "les Grands Express.”k/

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"Sir," said I, to the oan that looked most burao, “I atti a strangor in a strange land But some details of the now service from have been sorely buffetted this day and'1 ask Harbin may be of interest to the curious and your help-1 want to get into that Pullman car the peripatetic. The impenetrable secrecy call me names, take my money, walk all [Our enterprising Chine contemporary preserved by the Wagons Lits Company and over me-but please register these tronks.”. issued the abova telegram is an Extra to-day. its accomplices, in regard to the movements of I think there must have been a sob jo my Prince Chun is a younger brother of Emperor sheir trains (a secrecy only to be overcome by voice, or a wild look in my eye, for one of the Kwang Hou; his y, who is therefore a

getting into them and personally investigating three sphioxies came up, and silently took the naphaw of His Maresty, in a boy only six yours their habits in loco) prevents me from giv-trunks away, white another cane and looked at of age. Prince Chun is an interesting personing your renders any information in regard my ticket, and gave me the brass tokens of ality. He was delegated by the Chinese to the voyage porthwards, but no doubt this happy dispatch all without a word. It felt just Court to proceed to Germany aller the Boxer will be forthcoming froin travellers in due like playing in a pantomime, Trouble to tender bis Government's apology for season. But, in the meanwhile, let no mau be the murder of the German Minister in Peking. deceived by any official statements, or official Prince Chun, when passing through Hongkong, information for like all Gsul, the Railway Was, a guew of the then Governor, Sir Henry system between Harbin and Peking is divided A. Blake and left an interesting souvenir to into three parts, each of which works with the Coway in the group photograph taken at complete and glorious disre; ard of the other two, hoping above all things to keep its arrange, Pisce Ching is an uncle of Emperor Ewangments and time-tables a dead secret. Thus Su. Ed., H.K.T.}

it came to pass that a representative of the Wagons Lie Company who person ally escorted us 14 the Ruisian train from Harbin

to Kuanchengtzu," told, ui,

Goverment House

„EMPEROR'S ILLNESS

NO AUDIENCE GRANTED. [By courtesy of the "Shrung. Po"]"."

Peking, 13th November. On the 12th inst, the Emperor did not, occupy the Throne and attend to State affairs..

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(it wasn't his fault, poor man!) that there would be no connexion at Mukden qext morning betwees the Japanese and Chinese trains, on the strength of which statement several simple souls completed arrangemesis.

And so we came at last into the derited haven, the resplendent Pullman, and straight way we made for the sleeping car, where we found three youthful attendants making up those virgin beds, Chatsing the nearest, bright smiling lad, we gave him one both tickets and asked him for the numbers. He was top of a stepladder at the time, but he 100k the tickets and balanced himself, adroitly to study them. After awhile, he smiled gaily, drew in his breath and said-I give bis exac words."

"It is not dictation,"

(One of us a weaker vessel-collapsed). "All right," said 1, "let as agree that it isn't. Bat can you tell us where are we to sleep?.

This was evidently not la his book, so he re-

No. 20-A moderate business transpired in elected breads at an advance of Si per bale,

No. 16-No business reported. No.xas-Selected threads changed hands at an advance of 51 to 52 per bale.”.

No. 10s. A few selected threads found buyers at no advance of St to $3 per bale. No. 85, and 6.- No business reported. The Market closes firm. Sales:-1,907, bales of No..ron, Boo bales of No. 128, and 1, 50 bales of No. 2012; in all about 3750 bales,

·Arrivals –Per stommers Japan and Catherine pear, (from Calcutta), and Moyori, Mar Capri, Oceana and Yathi Mare (from Bom bay), of about 14.56a bales.

Usiold Stock: About 7,000 bales. Vacleared Stock -About 15,000 bales. Exchange-We quote to-day as follows:- India T. T. at Rs. 1191 per cent.

Demand

13. London T. T.

Demand

19

Sh. 1.84d, $

1.8 11/168.-5.

Shanghai..

**Tix, 753=$100. "Silver"

.234 per os.

WEEKLY SHARK REPORT. Reviewing the share business for the week, Mesats. E. S. Kadcorie & Co. write on igth inst.:-

Y

A small and general business has been tran sacted since we last wrote, and the principal feature of the week has been the rise in Hong- kong and Shangbai Bauka.............

Banks-Hongkong and Shanghai Banks

This fact, gave rise to reports research by discovering that a Chinese express The subsequent proceedings in that sleeperbava improved to $815, closing with farther.

His Majesty was ill.

Information has been gathered from another source that the Ein- press Dowager is seriously ill also.

THE DALAI LAMA: AN UNFOUNDED RUMOÚR.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pol"}

Peking, 13th November

It was rumoured in Tibet that the Dalai Lama-had-been-murdered in Peking.

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to spend the day with Mukden friends. It sumed work on the appar bunk, merely obser- seemed a curious way of inaugurating a through ving cherrily over his shoulder that he was a train service, but then East is East, is'nt it?tation master. Whereupon we gave it up, Nevertheless, several experts reserved their dumped our bags in the nearest lower bunk, judgment, and were rewarded-after some and left those happy children-to-their-play- to Peking would leave Mukden, three bouts were something in the style of a French bayers, after sales at rising rates from $805.. The London quotailan has advanced to after our arrival there. The Chinese Railway farce, but it was not conducive to sleep. In had even gone so far as to publish a time- any case, and under the best conditos, a rail | £8t. 10%, *** table on the previous day, but this might have way that deliberately exposes passengers, been metaly a rose. From the point of view to the unnecessary horrors and discom- of the other Companies it was, at all events, fort of the American corridor bank system, most unsportsmanlike, (Dace, in Hankow, when all civilized people, unfettered by trusts met a curiously earnest Agent of the Wagons and emigrant traditions have adopted sleeping Lin, who implored me, as I was going home cars that permit of quiet and privacy, owes RD: via Siberia, to lead him some definite inform-explanation to the public at large. One should ation about the journey, but that is another not be asked to pay nowadays to spend theat story, and he was wacked, anybow.)

night classifying Anorers and domestic dis cussions within a thisty-foot-area,

· But to return. - The trans-Siberian dropped an at eight in the morning at Harbin, where

we learned of the new order of things and of the departure of the rain for Kuancheng zu at to mm. instead of 9 p.m., a change that erodot fail to be grateful to many Harbin ra- Tho natives became greatly agit.sidents, despite their notorious hospitality, ated-in-consequence

AN EXPENSIVE VISITOR,

BUDDHIST FONTIFF URGED TO RETURN TO TIBET,

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]

Peking, 13th November. The stay of the Dalai Lama, with, bis followers, in Peking, costs $5,000 a day.

Marine Insurances.-Cusion. Insurances are Giner and buyers prevail at the improved rate of 380, Nonb Chicks are lo demand al Tis. 871. There are buyers of Unions at $784, while Yanglazes remalo unaltered at $1671.

Fire, Insurances.—China Fires are wasted at

$98. Hongkong Fires have weakened to $330,

which rate they are steady. Shipping. There sellers of Chipa and Manilas at $15. Douglases have buyers at the reduced rate Macao Steamboats have been dealt in at $9, rate of $33, Hongkong, Canton and

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And when you came to think of it, why should British capital have been spent by tần South Kanchuria Railway Company.io introd ducing these trans-Atlantic atrocities?

But the dining car was an unmitigated success, the dinner grateful and comforting, and Inasmuch as it will relieve them of much diffi.everything therein, on this, its first journey -cult-bear-lending:~~Two hours-was-just enough well-and-care oily pre-arranged. So, forgetting to get breakfast in the Art Nouveau Railway the labour and heat of the day, we drank Restaurant, to retrieve and rehegister our bag. success to the Dalny Expres. gage and to pack up some miscellaneous "yittals" for the day'a journey. (N.B. The magnificence of the Restaurant's decoration was only eclipsed by its charges for those "vittals, and thrifty travellen may be pleas ed to lown that whereas the price, of roast chicken at the hands of Chinese hawkers en roule is thirty cents, the Harbin Buffet's charge for a fowl of the stone age was $1.65. Ex pads Berculam-but the buyer in a

burry is ever fair gadie),

At 6.35 p.m. the Russian train, after puffing The Central Government is argits.slow and dignified way through that rich ing the Buddhist Pontiff's feturn to Manchurian land, whereon lies still the heavy shadow of the Imperial dream that led up to Tibet without further delay.

so gives a nightmare, came to the end of its tether, müd Russia's right of way, at Kazochangtzu, and we bide farewell, not without regret, to the stalwart sops of the Great White Trar. And right harn at our cousins. say, we began to appreciate the comfort and joy of the 'through service'; for, although we had tickets from Harbin to Kuan

[Reuter's.]

The German Reichstag,

At 4 am they called us, in that darkest hour which precedes the dawn, and wa gathered ourselves and our kit together from be embroglio of the sleeper and were der. posited on the Mukden plaiform at 5 o'clock, And there we fit upon a forlom hotel runner, erstwhile of Poland who had discovered goodness knew how - that a Chinese train would leave at 8,40, -So,tp make auro,-wo walked along the line, through soft white esiots that rose to meet the dawn, to the spot to which the exigencies of Japanese politics have legated the terminus of China's railway, two miles from the capital of Manchuria. We found the train, and found it to be a genuine through train, the last link in the new system and by no means the least.

TIMELY RESCUE.

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more can be placed at the rate. Shell viradsports remain quiet at 45/-

Refineries-China Spgars ure weaker with sellers at S116. Lazans are again on offer at 522 and Perak Sugars at Tls, gɔ,

Above · Ordinance, were reguntered by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies on the 13th day of November, 1908, And Notice is atso hereby gives that the said Minute is the words and figures following ;-

The Capital of William Powell, Limited,' is $105,0x divided into. 15,cco Shares of $7 each instead of the Original. Capital of

each. At the time of the registration of this $150,000 divided into 15,000 Shares, of 110, Minute, the full sum of $7 per Share has been Fund is to be deemed paid up on each of thị

said 15,000 Shares of $7 each.”

Dated the 13th day of November, 1908.

MATTHEW J. D. STEPHENS, 18 Bank Buildings, Hongkong, Solicitor for the Company,

9t91.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

*FOR SWATOW.

HE Company's Steamship

THE

HAITAN,"

Captain Roach, will be despatched for the above Port, TO-MORROW, the 15th instant at 10.30 o'clock A.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK &.00.......... General Managers.

1979 Hongkong, 14th November, 1908. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP· COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW.

THE Company's Steamship

* HAIMUN * Captain Evans, will be despatched for the above Port, on TUESDAY, the 17th instant,

at it o'clock. A..

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managera,, Hongkong, 14th November, 1908.

ORIENTAL

STEAM

COMP

[999

THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

STEAM.

A FOR

STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRA! IA, INDIA.

·ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN "PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON.

Mining Chinese Esgineerings bave sallers (Through Bills of Lading Issued for.BATAVIA,

in the North at The. 15. Raubs have been sold at $6), closing with buyers at $7.

Docks, Wharves and Godowns....Kowloon

Persian GULF, CONTINENTAL, AMERI-' CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTI.)

THE

Wharves are easier at $46 and sales ire reportE Steamship ed as low as $45. Whampoa Docks have declined to Bozi wt whch price they have been sald. Shanghai Docks are on cffer at the re- duced rate of Tis. B3 and Hongkong Wharves at Tis. 1534.

Lands, Hotels and Buildings-Hongkong Hotels hava strengthened to 50,with probable buyers, Humphrey's Estates are in request at $93. Kowicon Lands have hardened, and there are buyers at 518. 'Shaugħal Lands are in demand at Tia 1169;

Colton Milla. Ewos are slightly firmer with buyers at Tis. Gal Hongkong Cottons are offering si Siol.

Miscellaneoui Bells Asbestos can be placed

at $8.** China Bombos bad been sold and there are farther buyers at Sco. China Providents are firmer and boyers prevail at $93 Green Island Cements are in demand at 510, while Hongkong Electrics have sellers at Srip. In While on the voyage between Singora, and the North Langkats have experienced a further Lacon, Captain Schmish of the Siam.mart rise during the week closing with buyers. showing signals of distress. Fe at once steam Tia 118. 'ed over and found that the vessel› in,néed of assistance was the Siam Sri Zalais, which had lost its propeller twadays before. During this period the vessel had bean drifting about helpless and when the Biriöst arrived on the scene there was no water left and very litle provisions.."

Exchange The Banks selling rate on Lon don is 1/8 1/1.1/6 on demand. The T/T rate on Shanghai is 754.

LONDON, 12th November.. Herr von Kiderlen Waechter, the acting Foreign Secretary, in his maiden speech, in which he defended-the-overworked-Foreign Office, was jɛered at and shouted down by cheng zu apd from Kanchanpiza to Makdeo, Boribat, atw at 1 o'clock one morning ́a vessol l-at Tis. 760 and Sumatras are also higher at the Radicals and Socialists, who were not called to order.

Speeches were made declaring that. Im perial puperlatives were imperilling the Em pire, that the Admiral of the Atlantic must now be styled the Admiral of the Pacific, and denouncing the insane cult of the Kaiser who was allowed to pose as an authority on science, art and religion, claiming a special personal relation to the Almighty

The Kaiser was the recreator of the national unity, but it was a unity of indignation.

The British Navy,

they mide ps get put at the Russian terminus and buy a 45 kopeck ticket which tack us," on that same Russian train, to the Japanese line head,, 6 minutes' ride; and there we had to retrieve our heavy - baggage again, in the dusk' and ⠀ without porters, paying | 10" kopacka, aapiece" for it in addition to the original freight charged. All these things we did in the gloom of a'uurrow wooden abed, that brought back to memory the wayside stations of Dai Nippon, and surrounded by all the smiling impenetrable uniformed mysteries of the Japanese system. But in the background of our work and worries gleamed the effulgent glory of the brand new Dalny Express, a radiant vision of fresh paint, soft-footed attendants and electric light, and so we struggled bravely on - Patana-Siam Offerzer, * "towards that lodu star of hopeczka

Mr. Asquith, in the House of Commons, bus accepted the definition of the Two-Powen Standard sa xo */ over the strength of the next two strongest Powers,

“It is believed that this foreshadows the building of six more Dreadnoughts, anks

«The Annexation of Bosnia and

Herzegovina,

Have been introduced in Vieans and Budapest railfying the Konexation of Bornia

And it look a bit of straggling. No doubt

TODAY'S EXCHANGE.

Salling,

Londer-Back T-T.

Dr. demandiniamentopics, PIT Do. The vessel, which was to or 15 miles from France-Baak Tika kem

4 months' sight. ....... the coast when she was found, was taken lamerica-Baak TT. tow by the Boribat and taken to Lacon. The Germany Bank T.T. .... 'crew and the thiny passengers, which the Bri

adi casa podeur des Do.demand...... Palama, bid on board when she was taken inanghal-Bank T.T. *** tow were brought up to Bangkok..

Kingapore-Back T.T. per

· A salvage, agreement, wo understand, was Japan--Bank T.T. signed by the Captain and owner of the Sri-sava=~Bisk-T«T,

when the through train service comes to be re- The Ministry of Finance his sauctioned a loan"

startin

aviar mill ibd city of.

months sight L/Cemen

| mouths"sight L/C,....i

(10 days) sight fax:Francisco, & Haw

"moothe" sightander

France:

¿cognized as a highway of international (as dis- of Tiga ago, co to the Government of Chloese']; jo days, sight, Sydney & Melbourn

Hluct from purely Jocal) traffe, the sleeping-car Ticket vendors and rightrare of expected to speak some European language, but at present, if they know

"OCEANA Captain, T. H. Hide, N.a, carrying His Majesty's Maila, will be despatched from this, for BOMBAY, &c. on SATURDAY, the 28th November, si Noon, taking Passongårs (and Cargo for the above Parte in connection with the Company's 9,8. Moldavia, 9.500 tons, from | Colombo, Passangers' accommodating in which vessel is secured before departure from Hous kong

Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, and Tea for London (under arrangement) will be transhipped at Colombo into the MMil staamar proceeding direct to Mamelles and London, aiber Care for Londen, &éu will be conveyed vin Bombay by the RMS. Och due in London or 9th January, 100B

· Faxcala will be received at this Offös until 14.7.M, the day before sailing, The Combents

and Valss of all Packages are required.

For funbar Particulars, apply to

E. A. HEWETT,

....... Soperintendent Hongkong, 14th November, 1908.

Intimations.

CU.S. RIFLE-ASSOCIATION MEETING.

Peeting will be presented by

for all Competition in the abova

"H.E. THE GOVERNOR,

uật | on the King's Park RanGE=00 MONDAY, A November röth

-- Major E-R. I. Chitty and the Officers irasth Mahratta Light Infantry will be At Home to their friends on the above range at 4 2.M.)

Hongkong, 13th November, 1008, A

1985 CHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING CO, LTD.

FINAL DIVIDEND of One Skilling and

A BADLY of the Ef been declared, by the Directors of the above Company, making a total of 15% for the year, ending 19th February, 1908, we

* Coupon No. 11:35 payable on and November at the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, and the Rasso-Chinese Bank at. Tien- tsio and ShanghOSTA KO

WE

BHIWAN TOMES & Ca

Intimations.

NETHERLANDS LLOYD OF AMSTER-

PAN DÂM AND BATAVIA,

HE. Undersigned having been appointed

"prepared to accept Fire and Marine Riskā at Current Rates.

CRUZ BASTO & 00, Hongkong, 11th November, tood. (078

THE IMPERIAL COLONIAL OLUB

THE above Club is formed chiefly for

COLONIAL and OVER-SEAS MEM-

·BERS; it is situated at No. 84, Piccadilly (the centre of Clubland), opposite the Groen Parka

The Club has a Bridge Section, Reception, Dining Billiard Room, Smoking Lounge, Reading Room and Library.

Ladies are eligible as Members,

scription, Five Guitres.

· · Entrance Fee, Five Guinnas, Annual Sabi

Further particulars from

THE ORGANISING SECRETARY,

1999 84, Piccadilly, W. London, 19th August, 1908.'

To Let.

TO LET.

GODOWN No. 5, DUDDELL STREET.

Apply to-

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT. & AGENCY CO, LDA Hongkong, 1st November, 1908. [490

TO LET.

A HOUSE IS KNUTSFORD

Kowloon.

Apply to

· THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MÈNT & AGENCY CÓ LD. Hongkong, 1st November, 1908

TO LET.

HATHERLEIGH, CONDuiz Road,

A HOUSE in WONO-NEI-CHONG ROAD. A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE. OFFICES in.YORK BUILDING.' ...GODOWNS is PRAVA KAST, BLUE BUILDINGS, and No. 163, DES Vœux ROAT next to the Hongkong Hotel. FLATS in MORETOK TERRACE, › No. 10, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL

1st Floor,

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

·MENT & AGENCY CO., ́LD. Hongkong, Ist November,, 1008.

Motel.

166

KOWLOON

HOTEL

SPORTING

DINNER

ON

SATURDAY NEXT

the 14th inst., at

7.30 P.M.

SPECIAL

MENU

O. E OWEN

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