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Notices

YOST

TYPEWRITERS

NEW MODEL No 20.

VISIBLE WRITING

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Standard Keyboard with Fractions up to 16ths.

suitable for

MERCHANTS.

ENGINEERS.

BROKERS,

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BANKERS, ETC.

BRIEF MODEL

For Lawyers, Accountants, etc., atc..

FRENCH MODEL

For Foreign Correspondence.

Special Monthly instalments if desired.

Mc EWEN

FRICKEL & CO.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESWAY, JULY 15, 1913.

Notices

THE

CHINA EXPRESS CO.

Have Connections with the 'principal Express and Forwarding Agencies throughout GRBAT BRITAIN, THE COLONIES,

AMERICA and the CONTINENT of EUROPE, '

For the better security of parcels Lahreden's Patent Fasteners are (employed on all cases forwarded by us.

PACKING AND WAREHOUSING,

BAGGAGE STORED or TRANSHIPPED.

Telephone No. 668 CHINA EXPRESS CO.

(ESTABLISHED `1944).

3. Duddull Street.

R. F. BARRATT,

Manager.

J. ULLMANN & COMPANY.

We are the BEST Jewellers and also have the BEST Cut Glass, and Fancy Goods of all varieties. Queen's Road, (Corner of Flower Street).

Hotels

HONGKONG HOTEL

́ ́A LA CARTE GRILL ROOM.

Now Open

Hongkong, 20th April, 1911.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager, [25

GRAND HOTEL.

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.TEL ADDRESS “COMFORT "

Central Position; Large Airy Rooms; Hot, Cold and Shower Baths; Eleotris 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. Special Rates For Married Families On Application To:-

Tal. No. 197.

F. REICHMANN,

PROPRIETOR.

BOA VISTA HOTEL,

MACAO.

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. DON'T FORGET. NEXT SUNDAY'S BOATS

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Have been appointed Sole Agents for the above for LEAVE HONGKONG AT 9 AM AND 12.80 P.M.

South Chipa

41

DES VŒUX KOAD, HONGKONG.

SHAMEEN, CANTON,

י.

CAMPBELL, MOORE & CO. THE BEST BARBER SHOP IN THE COLONY! CHIROPODISTS, MANICURES AND

LADIES HAIR DRESSERS.

HONGKONG HOTEL BUILDINGS.

ASAHI BEER

OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE.

SOLE AGENTS: MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA Hongkong, June 11th, 1913.

ASTHMA

CAN Be Cured:

HEN why be half suffocated, and sit up all night cough- ing and gasping for breath when & SINGLE dose of

NOBBS'ASTHMA Cure

will give you certain, prompt

T'alegrama "BOAVISTA."'

Tel. No. 48, MAÇAO.

Notices

WE BEG 10 ANNOUNCE®

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

The old style of cement bifocals with their disfiguring and annoying dividing line has been supplanted by a new lens with two foci, 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 Dow Ee one pair instead. No one can tell that you wear bifocals. Nogement to blister; no thin segments to lose off,

Call and inspect this "line, We grind Kryptoka in regular or torio form,^/

WE LEAD,'OTHERS FOLLOW.

CLARK & Co.

SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS KORK BLOGS, CHATER RO

HONGKONG

MANILA

OFF ICE

78,ESCOLT

BREWER & CO.

Padder Street (Adjoining Hongkong Hotel, main Entrance.) TELEPHONE No. 696.

NEW BOOKS

The Big Game of Central and Western China, by Harold Frank Wallace, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. $12.00 The Flowery Republic, by Frederick, McCormick $12 00 A Wayfarer In China, by Elizabeth Hendall 38.40 The Révolution In China, by Sinophilus 50 cents

China To-day, by Cosmos $100 Panama and What It Means, by J. Foster Fraser $3,75 The "Dally Mail" 'Chart of the Panama Canal 80 cents-

"Social Environment and Moral Progress, by

Alfred Russel Wallace $2.75

,

History of the Jews in China, by S. M. Perlmann $1.69 The Encyclopaedia of the Kennel, by Vero Shaw, Illust. $4.00 The Truth of Christianity, by Lt.-Col W. H. Turton, D.8.0. $2.09 The Snark Summer Annual 80 cents,

KUPPER BEER.

OUR CONTEMPORANIES.

Daily Press,

Payment of Chinese Legislators, The world would have thought

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the more highly of the Republican movement in China had the members of the two Houses of Parliament shown the strength of their convictions by gratuitous public service until such time as the finances of the country had been put upon a sound footing, enabling this heavy charge upon the Treasury to be borne without embarrassment. But that is too much to expect. The patriot in Chins, with but very few excep- tions, estimates the value of, his patriotism Ju ounces of silver. We had an instance of it in Canton recently when the late- | Governor-General, on the eve of relinquishing the office, ordered the repayment of gifts made by "patriots" to the Revolutionary funds, with interest at the rate of 50 per cent, added-at a time of great financial stress, too. The resolution of the Senate, that members of the two Houses of Parliament should be paid $6,000 a year each, belongs to the same category.

China Mail.

Water Supply Problems.

In another part of his address, Mr C. E. Smith ventured a plea for greater co-operation in eX- perimental work, pointing ont very truly that an immenes amount of research work 18 carried out by engineers of which ao record is ever published. For this we think there are two roas- ons. In the first place, engineers who have taken a considerable risk in introducing innovations" A really good German Beer is very light and in established practice are often healthy compared with the average English Beer prone to consider the data thereby S1. GEORGE'S HOUSE. particularly IN A HOT CLIMATE. This is due to the obtained as a personal asset. We ("Engineering") remember, for low temperature maintained during the earlier opera-instance, a oase in which consider

retention of carbonates, &c [able difficulty was encountered. WITH EVERY COMFORT. tions, resulting in

the that give the "effervescent creaminess in sealing off from a well certain

undesirable. waters encountered: characteristic of good Lager Beers,

in strata, above the phalk. Ulti- mately this was very successfully KUPPER BEER IS REFRESHING AND GOOD FOR THE HEALTH.

A MODERN HOTEL

KENNEDY ROAD...

'Tel. 115.

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

-38A CONNAUGHT R Di

TEL. 978

THE CLUB HOTEL,

YOKOHAMA,

Sole Agents:

This favourite Hotel with its newly built annexe, Caldbeck, MacGregor & Co.

refurnished throughout with modern conveniences. offers every comfort and facilities for Travellers,

TERMS MODERATE,

relief and ensure a good night's CLUB HOTEL, Limited,

rest? This, the only genuine cure

for Asthma, discovered by Mr.

NOBBS, a qualified Chemist, and

a sufferer for many years, will, if

No. 5, Bund; YOKOHAMA.

taken when necessary, effect a KING EDWARD

radical cure of this erstwhile in-

ourable malady.

Obtainable at Messrs. A, 'S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. and all Chemists and Patent Medicine endors.

Price $2.50 per bottle.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED:

PORTLAND," CEMENT

In Casks of 375 lbs. net. In Bige of 250 Iba, -net.

SEEWAN, TOMES & CO. General Managers.

Hongkong, 18th August, 1901

OUR BREAD

PERFECTION.

HOTEL.

A FIRST CLASS HOTEL.

Cable Address

CLUB HOTEL "

Telephone No. 466.

(ESTABLISHED. 1864.).

ONE REASON WHY

THE TAIWAN SAN MIGUEL

"","

RAILWAY

HOTEL.

TAIPEH, FORMOSA.

accomplished by grouting, using

neat cement as a grout; but the engineer responsible asid quite

frankly, when asked for details,

that he did not wish to give away useful knowledge to others. In many cases, however, publication is objected to because the experiments in question have been carried out with improvised plant in a rough and ready way.

· South China Morning Post..

The Land Company and its Critics

The widely different nature of the respective operations of the two companies cannot be so ap- parent to the shareholders at Home as they are to those in the colony, otherwise the proposal to

DRAFT BEER amalgamate, with consequences

*IS

FIRST FAVOURITE

Under European Management. Under the Direct Management of the is because the excellent flavor is not spoiled by Balicilic Acid or at the risk of holding the

Electric Light 'and Läfts.

Latest Improvements, Reasonabe Rates.

Telephone 878,

H. HAYNES, Manager.

Hongkong, 1st Ang., 1912.

HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN

#Taiwan Railway Dept

any other preservatives whatever.

which are so well set out in the letter published yesterday, would never have been made. Suppos ing the Land Company embark- ed. on one or other of the big schemes of reclamation

land unoccupied for years, We supply it to all the Leading Hotels and Saloons.

heavy interest would have to Picnic Parties: For the benefit of Hongkong pionisers, we be paid on money borrowed to carry a stock of small 10 litre kegs of Pilsener, a light beer specially enable the work to be carried adapted for Picnic Parties; customers will be supplied free of charge Uniformed hotel porter meets all with a special pump to draw the beer with conveniently. The Beer out, the dividend would suffer the feeling of trains and steamers, Luggage are is kept in cold storage and in the specially constructed wooden kegs consequently and t ranged for without any trouble to will keep cold for a long time without using ice. No pionie Home shareholdere, some of thems guente.

party, should leave without a keg or two of SAN MICHAEL possibly depending upon returns Hongkong, let Feb., 1912, [18: PILSENER.

EXCELLENT CUISINE

GOOD SERVICE, RATES 6 YEN AND Ur,

AED

C65 MEE CHEUNG.

CAKES AND PASTRY PLUNKET'S GAP

PAR EXCELLENCE

TIFFINS, DINNERS & REFRESHMENTS THE BEST.

The Peak,

near the Tram Terminus

1 Tel 56.

ALEXANDRA CAFE CO. For Terms apply to the

MANAGER

ART

PHOTOGRAPHER

HONGKONG. TELEPHONE NO. 1018.

Developing, Priatlog & Bolarging

nagkong Int May, 1911.

MICHAEL & CO.

Telephone 1463.

AGENTS.

from their investments for a liveli hood in their retirement, may ba better imagined than described. However the correspondence has. served an excellent purpose. It has wakened up local companies to the fact that Home shareholders who

Old Post Office Building, Pedder St. are unable to attend meetings

HOWARD WATCHES. THE AMERICAN WATCH OF

"FINEST QUALITY & HICH, PEFCIS)

and express their views” are not without the means of doing so.

For a good solid meal a a

or, Table D'Hote, with Wines & Liqueurs of the Bos) ALEXANDRAGONROIA

Write or send for Catalogue to THE SOLE AGENTS,

Carte

CO

CHS. J. GAUPP