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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1913.

TYPEWRITERS

NEW MODEL No. 20

VISIBLE WRITING

Standard Keyboard with Fractions up to 16ths.

"suitable for

MERCHANTS,

ENGINEERS.

BROKERS.

BANKERS, ETC.

BRIEF MODEL

For Lawyers, Accountants, etc., etc.

FRENCH MODEL

For Foreign Correspondence.

Special Monthly instalments if desired.

MACEWEN,

FRICKEL & CO.,

اره ای

THE WISE

Notices

Forward Their Parcels and Cases, etc.

BY THE

CHINA EXPRESS CO.

THE OTHERWISE

TAKE THE CONSEQUENCES.

Connections with the principal Express and Forwarding Agencies throughout GREAT BRITAIN, THE COLONIES, AMERICA

and the CONTINENT of BUROPE.

4,

PACKING AND WAREHOUSING, -

Teisphoes No, 66.

BAGGAGE STORED or TRANSHIPPED. CHINA EXPRESS CO. (ESTABLISHED: 1844)

Hotels.

1. Daddell Street.

HONGKONG HOTEL

A LA CARTE GRILL ROOM.

Now Open.

Hongkong, 20th April§1991.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager. [33

GRAND HOTEL.

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. TEL. ADDREIS "COMFORT "

Central Position; Large Airy Roomy; Hot, Cold and Shower Baths; Ele trio Light and Fans Throughout; Large Comfortable Lounge ;· Private and Public Bars; Billiard Rooms. HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS. Monthly Rates for Tiffin and Dinner: SPECIAL DINNERS AT SHORT NOTICE. CUISINE ENTIRELY UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION. Spesial Rated For Marrie Familier On Application To --

TEL. No 197.

FREICHMANN,

PROTRIETOR.

ASTOR HOUSE

(LATE CONBAUGHT HOTEL.) QUFEN'S ROAD, HONGKONG.

[62

"ENTRALLY afloated, up-to-date Hotel, Resently renovated, and unde

entirely Now Management. Large And Comfortable Rooms, Exallant Cuisine under the supervision of an Experienced FRENCH CHEF,

Have been appointed Sole Agents for the above for operate Tables, Hot and Cold Baths, Electric Light throughout. Term

South China

་

4, DES VŒEUX ROAD, HONGKONG,

SHAMEEN, CANTON.

THE OVERLAND

1913 MODEL.

Why pay fancy prices when you can get quality, workmanship and finish combined in the Over land for about $2,600? The price is $400 less thán other makes of a similar car...

!

A full line of accessories in stock at all times, DRAGON CYCLE DEPOT. (Prospective Buyers can try this Car free of charge.)

J. ULLMANN & COMPANY.. We are the BEST Jewellers and also have the BEST

ass, and Fancy Goods of all varieties.

Cut

"Queen's Road, (Corner of Flower Street),

CHARLES J. GAUPP & CO.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, !

GOLD AND SILVER

CHATER

WRIST WATCHES

IN ALL VARIETIES,

K. A. J. CHOTIRMAL & CO. CHEAP SALE!

ROAD

FOR ONE MONTH ONLY FROM TO-DAY. SILKS, AND CHINESE GOODS OF THE BEST VARIETIES! No. 37 Queen's Road.

B. L. M. SHERIFF BROS.

Fealers in

PRECIOUS STONES

OF EVERY KIND And the FINEST OF CHINESE JADE. 8^, Queen's Rd. Opp. Clock Tower.

"GRACA & CO. Under Hongkong Hotel,

ASIATIC AND FOREIGN

POSTAGE STAMPS.

KWONG CHEONG. IYORY, SANDALWOOD,

GOLD AND SILVER

LACQUERED WARE.

ORNAMENTS,

43, Queen's Rond.

WING HING HIGH CLASS TAILORS AND EXPERIENCED CUTTERS, Perfect Fit Guaranteed! 64, Queen's Road, Central,. Tel. 1117.

NOTICE.

THE Firm of KUHN & KOMOR, Hongkong (A. Kuhn, Proprietor) has been Sold to Messrs. KOMOR & KOMOR, (8. Komor. Pro- prietor), as a going concern, and all Accounts due to the said A.! Kuhn have been assigned to the haid S. KOMOR. Z

All Accounts owing by the said A. Kuhn have to be presented for payment on or before the 10th day of April, 1913. After that date Claims will not be recognised. Theahid B. Komor will continue THE SALE OF THE STOCK IN QUEEN'S ROAD for a short time; and will continue the Business ImDes Voeux Road Central, Alexandra Buildings, under both numes KUHN & KOMOR and KOMOR & KOMOR,

moderate, First Ulass socommodation for Families and Tourists..”

PROPRIETORS. For particulars and rates apply to Telephone, 170

Telegrams "Astor,”

BOA VISTA

VISTA HOTEL,

MACAO.

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. DON'T FORGET. NEXT SUNDAY'S BOATS LEAVE HONGKONG AT 9 A.M. AND 12.30 P.M. Tel. No. 48, MACÃO, Telegrams "BOAVISTA."

ST. GEORGE'S HOUSE.

HOTEL WITH EVERY COMFORT.

A MODERN

KENNEDY ROAD,

Tel. 115.

THE ONE PLACE FOR A GOOD MEAL!

THE IMPERIAL GRILL. SUPPLIES IT

OPPOSITE THE VICTORIA THEATRE,

THE TOKYO HOTEL.

*

The BEST of Food served in the BEST way Not only cheap But GOOD! Try it and YOU will be satisfied.

TEL. 078

KING - EDWARD HOTEL.

A FIRST CLASS HOTEL Under Furopean Management. Blectric Light and Lifts. Latest Improvements, Reasonabe Rates.

Telophore 378.

H. HAYNES, Manager.

8A CONNAUGHT LO D.

THE TAIWAN RAILWAY HOTEL.

TAIPEH, FORMOSA. Under the Direct Management of the Taiwan Railway Dupt

EXCELLENT, QUISINE, AND· GOOD BERVICE, BATES

6 YEN AND Ur,

Unarmed hotel por

porter meets. All trains and steamers, Luggage. uza ranged for without any trouble to

Hongkong, 1st Feb., 1912,"

Hung! osg, let Aug., 1912. 166 EUROPEAN

HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN. PLUNKET'S

GAP

The Peak, near the Tram Terminus Tel. 66.

ARTHUR KUHN.

SIEGFRIED KOMOR,

For Terms apply to the

MANAGER,,

AND CHINESE

DINNERS

WILL BE SUPPLIED Bylbe

NEW PROPRIETOR

The Old Skating Bink:

WE

Notices

BEG 70 ANNOUNCE

that we can now manufacture on our premises the new Kryptok invisible bifocal Lens.

The old style of cement bifovals with their disfiguring and annoying dividing line has beon supplanted by a new lens with two fool, the upper portion of the glass for distance and the lower for reading, ground from one single piece of glass,"

You who wear two pairs of glasses may now use one pair instead. No one can tell that you wear bifocals. Nocement to blister; no thin segments to lose off.

Call and inspect this line. Kryptoks in regular or torio form.

We grind

WE LEAD, OTHERS FOLLOW.

@LARK & Co.

SCIENTIFIC YORK BLOGS,

OPTICIANS

RD

CHATER HONGKONG

MANILA

OFFICE

78, ESCOLT

BREWER & CO., LD.

FORTNIGHTLY LIST

NEW GENERAL LITERATURE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING : China's Revolution 1911-12, by Edwin J. Dingle 1llast $12,01 The Changing Chinese, by S. ▲ Bʊs $3 40

A History of Japan, by kisho Saito, Tren by Elizabeth Iee $1,00 Japan as 1 Saw. It, by A. 8. Exner $6.00 The Fighting Spirit of Japan, by E. 1. Harriton Illust $1,00 Fourteen Years of Diplomatic Life in Japan, by Paroness Alberts d'Anetton $5.60 Treatment of Children in the Tropics, by Dr. G, H. Haretoo $6.00 The Microscope, by Jabes Bogg, M. K. C. 8, F. R. M. 8,' Cancer, The Problem of Its Genesis and Treatment, by F. W. Forbes Rona $4.00 Adventures of War with Cross and Crescent, by Philip Gibbs and

Batasid Great Il'a. $13.00 (The Firet Book on the Turkish War) } The Putumayo The Devil's Paradise, by W. E. Hardenburg Illust #6.10 Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, by The Canadian Kipling $2.75 Pepper's Boys Playbook of Science, by J. Mastin M. A., D. 8o., Ph. D. six-bundred eliastrations $1.00 The Complete Association Footballer, by B. S. Evers & O. E. Hughes

L

Darios $2.40

Latin America Its Rise and Progress, by F. Garcia Ca'čatun with s

Perface by Baymmi Potea re $9.40

The American Annual of Photography $2.75

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

South China Morning Posl.

(2 Chlor's Awakening, Within our own time much of the wealth of Hongkong has been transferred to the Chiness. The real yellow peril, as Mr. Bland sees it, is the unceasing struggle for existence of three hundred million Asiatics who, are, ready to work for wages and profits on which their white competitors would warre. The settlement of China therefore la of seriouA CON- cern to the white, ions. Speeches recently delivered by Mr. Shellim, Mr. Mackay and Mr. Keswick agread in their general estimate of the Chinese as a 'trad- ing race. In avoiding uprizings and government intrigues as far as possible and sticking to their last" as traders and workers liog the real salvation of Chinn and, if the present insatiable de tre for reform and power is not modi fied, the eventual discomfitare of the foreigner.

China Mail,

The State Railways of Japan. The advocates of railway con- struction point out that during the forty years that have elapsed since the opening of the Tokyo Yokohama line, Japan bas con- structed 5355 miles of track, se compared with 15,537 miles of track constructed in the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1870- that is during the first forty years of railway building-that is, Japan only accomplished about a third of what was done in the United Kingdom in the samo interval of time; but the com-

; parizon is scarcely fair to Japan, when we consider her industrial

pared with that of the United and commercial position as com-

out that to-day after 82 years of Kingdom. It is førther pointed work, the United Kingdom, with an area of some 20,000 square miles less than Japati prof er, bas 23,280 miles of railway. As regerds mileage, the United Kingdom has constructed. 284. miles per annum since the new started, while Japan has barely accomplished 134 miles a rear.

New Season's Goods Arrived. means as communication were

CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF GENUINE ENGLISH GOODS, DRESSES, PETTICOATS, CHILDREN'S FROCKS AND NECK WEAR.

FIRST QUALITY Hand-made irish CROCHET LÁCE. PHILIPPINE HATS, BLOUSES. AND NIGHTGOWNS.

FOR STYLE AND COMFORT TRY THE ROYAL WORCESTER BON TON CORSET.

Daily Press.

Hongkong Civil Servants' Salaries;

The Hon. Mr. Ede intimated that the question must come up. again, bat it is unlikely that the decisions taken by the Secretary of State will be reviewed im. mediately, The proposals have

The American Corset Store, been approved subject to their

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(Between THOS, COOK & HONGKONG HOTEL),

LEE BROTHERS. The ONLY opticians worth visiting 1-

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AQUARIUS:

THE MINERAL WATER

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COME TO MEHTA & CO

being liable to re consideration at the end of every three years, in view of the pos Biblility that the exchange value of the dollar might vig the fature rise and remain so high as to make the arrangement # BoBrce of serious embarrasament to the Government. Mr Harcourt further reserved. to himself and his successors in office the right to reconsider the system'as soon as any steps were taken to place either the Chinese or thể Hongkong currency gold basin.bat" Time arrives this question of salarien is: always likely to be a troublesome one for the Govern ment and the community general Jy. So far as China is concerned, we doubt if currency reform is any nearer now than it was ton years ago. Bat has not the time, arrived when the question of placing the currency of this Colony on a gold basis might be reconsidered? SQUA

Wireless in Thursday Island #kand New Guinea,

Wireless telegraph stations have now been installedin ezoh of the six Australian State capitals, as well as on Thursday. Island in Torres Strait and Port Moresby in British New Guinea. Other stations are at Mount Gambier, 8. Australia, Townsville, Cook- town and Rockhampton, Queens- land, while stations are being erected at Port Darmio,«Wynd- ham, Broome, Roebourne, Gerald- ton, and Esserance, by which the

cantinent will be com Apstralian pletely encircled,

For a good Maze Care for Table D'Ho

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