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EXPANDED METAL

OR PLASTER WORK-AND-REINFORCED CONCRETE CORETRUATIOR

AS

USED IN

NUMEROUS

IMPORTANT

*WORKS

IN

FOR

FLOORS,

ROOFS,

FOUNDATIONS,

WALLS,

GREAT BRITAIN and AMERICA. STOCK LIST, PAMPHLETS, AND (FRIGEN ON APPLIDATION. Questioni for any description of Machlasty or 'Engineering Plant 'en application to

DODWELL & CO., LTD, Machinery Dept.

OREGON PINE LUMBER.

LARGE STOCK OF all sizes on häND.

UNION WATERBOAT CO... LTD. CONTRACTORS TO HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY.

DODWELL & CO. LTD.,

Telephone No. 41.

General Manager.

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

(ESTABLISHED 1823)

This old-established and renowned Company issues polities under all the best and modern methode of Life Assurance to meet varying circumstances..

For prospectus and full particulars apply to

DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.

#FINE CURIO STORE.

Embroidered Screens

Wall Hangings, Lacquered and

·Bronze Ware, etc., etc.

NIKKO & Co.

Queen's Road.

· ERICSSON'

15.

SINGON & 00.

Established, A. D. 1880.

HON, STEEL METAL and HARD- WARE MERCHANTS Wholmile and Retail Ironmongers, Pig Iron and, Foundry Coke Importers, General Store. Loopers and Shipobandiera, Now. 33 und· 17, Hing Loong Street, (2nd Street, Want?

HE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1914.

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SHOPPING MADE EASY.

THE STORE FOR EVERYONE The Queen's Road Central Co.

AND GENERAL MERCHANTS.

UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS.

ONE OF OUR SPECIALTIES: HIGH CLASS TAILORS A EXPERIENCED CUTTERS *Forfect Fit Quarantaad.

1

THE ONE PRICE STORE.

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*MR. LEUNG JAU PING.

DENTAL Surgeon.}

No. 80, Queen's Road

Central, soar the.

Dentral Market ·

of Hongkong.

かい

MAN LOONG.

FIRST-GLASS- PRESERVĖS, GINĜEN AND SOY MANUFACTURERS. Fæstory at Yaumati OFPIJE: No. 39¿D»1 Vəsi Rəif, W. Telephone No. 177 & K. 12.

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WE

WE are the leading Manufacturers in this class of Goods. Our Fruit & Gingers are all fresh and of the first plek.WE, Our Byrup is prepared from the best quality of Sugur, We give our special attantion to our business and siltary arrangements.

Hotels

HONGKONG HOTEL

A LA CARTE GRILL ROOM. Now, O.

--5, 20th Ap∙ll, 1911.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager

GRAND HOTEL.

QUEEN'B ROAD CENTRAL.

TEL ADDRESS COMFORT:

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Tel. No. 197.,

F. REICHMANN,

PROPRIETOR.

TELEPHONES.

Evity Description of Wall, Cable- & Field Telephɔas Lantru ments, Switches, Protestors, Hand Micros, Fuses, Dey Calls, aly ~ Portable Telegraph Instruments and Fire Alarms of Latest Paterno are now to be had.

From STOCK.

Through our Agents for Hongkong & South China.

ARTHUR NILSSON & CO.

OBTAINABLE EVER YWHEKA

SOLE AGENTS) MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA,

Hongkong, June 11th, 1913.

ASTHMA

CAN Be Cured.

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KING EDWARD HOTEL.

·

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Electric Trams Pass Entrance.

•O• Minute's Walk from Forry, Telephones on All · Floors.

·Electric Lifts, Pans and Lighting.

European Baths and Sanitary · Fittings

Hot and Cold Water System Throughout,

·Best of: Food and Service.

Hotel Launch meets All Steamom,

| Telegraphisë Address; "VICTORIA"

Rooms,

R. H. NORTH, Manager.

THE CARLTON HOTEL.

·

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Tel 375.

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BREAD,

Obtainable at Messre. A Grand Hotel de l'Europe, Singapore,

¦ WATSON & Co. Ltd. and all Chemists and Patent Medicine endors.

Price $2.50 per bottle.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

¡PORTLAND, GEMENT

In Casks of 975 lbs.net. In Bags of 250 lbs. net.

BHEWAN,TOMES & CO.

...GeneralManagers.

Hongkong, 16th, Kumont, 1901

LAW & SONS

Studebaker

Ne. 3 Duddell.

*Sola" Agents.

SITUATED HOTEL IN TOWN.

BYERY ROOM HAS A BATH-ROOM; DRESSING ·ROOM ATTACHED.

MOST UP TO DATE SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS.

Under the New Management of

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UNDER EXPERT EUROPEAN SUPERVISION,

Cable Address :- "TOR KOBE."

“HOTEL "CRAIGIEBURN.

PLUNKETS GAP

wir the Trun ́Terminus

"Tal. 58.

›rWar Terms apply to the

H. LUTZ.

MANAGER. Tel. No. 1007 Sannomiya

MEE CHEUNG.

ART PHOTOGRAPHER HONGKONG,

TELEPHONE NO.

1018,

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16-24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

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CONTEMPORARIES

South China Morning Post,

Science of Filght- Those who are closely following the develpement of aviation are freely predicting that the present year will witness a trans-Atlantio fight safely accomplished and the introduction of short-stage pas senger services, $10,000 of Daily. Mail prize money a doubtless many other inducements await the fret man who succeeds in aviating from the old country to the new, or "vice versa." "Wa are living in an age when events | move quickly and no doubt there are men at this moment who are quietly experimenting as to the means they are to employ in the effort to capture the coveted prize. The great difficulty to overcome. is that of carrying anqugh yetrut to last out such a long journey, but after Jules Vedrines, remarkable flight from Paria to Cairo, by a route equally as long, hope zuus.

EXPRESS" TO ANY ADDRESS. very high..

HONGKONG PARCEL

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& STORAGE CO,

POST,

We Forward to All Parts of

Telephone 1208··

CARRY,

TRANSPORT,

STORE,

INSURE. the World.

3, Duddell Street,

Daily Frene.

Chinese Currency.

The stops taken in Osnton-may stand as typical of the state of the country in this respect. The, notes bave fallen to as low as 30 per cent. of their face value; raten of discount have been officially fixed; a special law made it at one time illegal to demand payment in silver of more than 50 per cent of the prica of goods, the remaining half of the price being compal-

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. orily payable in notes; death

ESTAB.

B. L.

GOLD

LABEL

COME

1864.

WHISKIES

WHITE

LABEL

FROM

THE OLDEST DISTILLERY IN EUROPE.

THE

BEER THAT IS TAKING HONGKONG BY STORM.

SAN MIGUEL DRAUGHT

& BOTTLED BEER.

under martial law has been de creed as the punishment for those refusing to take notes. at 75 per cent. of their face value, and many money dealers who did not see their way to give this artificial rate of exchange were actually beaten. The danger to the country underlying this state of affairs does not call for dem- onstration-any real confidence in her financial stability is im possible antil she has got rid of this inoubus. This, China cannot [do by herself, and it is probable that the problem will have to wait until the conclusion of the Our renoy Loan' for its solution, the whole question of establishing Ohina's currency on the substän- tial basis being treated at once, when, it is to be hoped erneated, adequate measures will be taken to prevent s recurrence of that indisocimínale issue of notes by. Provinciál Governments that has led to the present difficulty,

China Mail,

Our Bottled Beer is acknowledged administer it as that it ha

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-}:0:{

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AND

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Obtainable:-All ¦¦ Dispen- saries, Respectable Stores.

Wholesale.

Chinese Paper Currency. Certainly, Peking cannot make bricks without straw; in other ⠀ words something more is broded than merely to issue a promise that the Imperial Government will be responsible for the notes. This has already been done to a smaller degree in the different provinces, and with indifferent result, for the Chinese business people are wise enough to remem ber that promises are not always! falfited, and when impossible promises are made they are certain to remain wafulfilled. This would' Beem like an impossible promise, Oas writer Fuggests that the Government should borrow this large sum, and then proceed to

religiously devoted to the purposa of redeeming the notes and not a cent devoted to any other purpose. This may or may not be feasible, It is, however, something to the

good that capable officials, who are profoundly convinced that something must be done, are set apart to study the question, and try to discover some? modus operandi' by which the present impossible condition of affairs may at least mended and, if possible, ended. Further light on this difficult and complicated subject will be eagerly looked. for by all parties, and not the lesat by the ordinary busines men and small shopkeeper, who now are at their wite end-to know what is the market value of a dollar note, being absolutely unable to say what that same dollar will be worth in a week's time. They are almost sure that it will not then be worth mROIS and most probably it valued at something less,

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ALEXANDRA CAFE

MELCHERS & Co, Wines & Liqueurs of the