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LIFTS

and

· NOTICES.

WAYGOOD-OTIS

THE HONGKONGSLEEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,

ELEVATORS

FOR ALL PURPOSES.

FOR QUOTATIONS APPLY TO THE

SOLE AGENTS :—

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

MACHINERY DEPARTMENT.

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment:-

Principal features: Sinal Premium, Liberal Surrender Value, No Medical Examination. Heturn of l'remia in the Event of Death, and Numerous Optiotis at the Age of 25.

WHITE FOR PAMPHLET AND F.LE PARTICULARS TO

MATTHOLD

DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.

Maltheid Reefing

BOLE · AGENTS.——

BRADLEY & CO., LTD. (MACHINERY DEPT.).

QUEEN'S BUILDING," CHATER 'ROAD, HONGKONG.

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING GO

ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF

PURE MANILA ROPE

& STRAND

be to 15"

CIRCUMFERENCE

CABLE LAID

4 STRAND

5" to 15" CIRCUMFERENCE

3 to 10 CIRCUMFERENCE,

Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length, Prices, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application.

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

BOORD'S

GIN.

OLD TOM & DRY.

SOLE AGENTS:

CALDBECK,

MACGREGOR

& Co.

No. 15 QUEEN'S ROAD.

TELEPHONE NO. 75,

NORTH BRITISH

AND

MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,

which are vented the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD. AND THE RAILWAY PASSEN- CERS ASSURANCE CO. The Undersigned AGEN 18 for the above Company are prepared

ACCEPT RISKS." against, [FIRE at Current Rates,

to

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

Agenta,

Yorkshire Insurance Co.,Ltd. ESTABLISHED 1884.

The Undersigned AGENTS fo}]]

the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISES against FIRE at Current Rates.

General Manger,

ASTHMA

NOTICES.

glaro

Gold Medal International Medical- Congress Exhibition. By Royal Appointment to the Court of Spain.

Builds Bonnie Babies

To be obtained at all Chemists & Stores.

ASK YOUR DOCTOR!

HOTELS AND CAFES.

V

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

AND

GRILL ROOM.

J. H. TAGGART,

Manager.

PEAK HOTEL.

1,400 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. FIFTEEN MINUTES FROM PRINCIPAL LANDING STAGE. FIRST-ULAM DISIDENTTAL and TUURIET HOTEL. Unrivalled for Comfort, Hanlık and Convales Telephones in every Bass prompt convection maintained by sha lians to Central, | Mofumée Tariff and Muculent Outside, Hosť birden and Rocial Ecoma, Buens man komma meets Boomers.

P. O. PEUSTER, Manager.

GRAND HOTEL.

A fast-alam and no-to-dace Hotal, wont central location, within the vicinity of all the principal Banike. Mond far the best Youd, Babakan now, Accommodation and Claslinam. Čelsins noder - Buropean Baparvision.

A_foot-day string Orabwana randers selections from 1.20 p.m. to 11,39 p.m

3pecial monthly terms for residents and for shipping people.

For further particulars apply:-

Telephone No. 197.

Tel. 373

MANAGER.

Telegraphic Address "COMFORT."

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION.

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR. HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.

Telegraphic Address: "VICTORIA

J. WITCHELL

ST. GEORGE'S HOUSE,

Manager

2 and 4, KENNEDY ROAD, Telephone 115, Private hotel, affording every f'omfort. Large and airy rooms. Splendid View of Harbour, Excellent Cuiene under Personal Supervision of the Proprietress,

For Terms apply --MRS. LOSSIUS, Proprietress,

STATION HOTEL,

KOWLOON.

First class and most up-to-date Boridential and Tourist Hotel Two minutes from the Ferry. Modernis tariff and most excellent caisins under entirely Eurospan

forms.

CAN BE CURED.ement Hoataly and Family rates can be arranged on most reasonable

THEN why be half suffocated, and sit up" all night coughing and gaping for breath when a SINGLE dose of

..

NOBBS' ASTHMA CURE

will give pun certain, prompt mlief ami ensure a good night's rest? This, the only genuine cure for Asthma, discoveređ by Mr. NOBBS. a qualified/Chrafi, ond |a) sufferer for many yews, will, if taken

when anormary, effect, a radical cure of; this erstwhile incurable malady.

Obtainable at Mevere, A. S. WATSON

|& Co. Ltd. ami all, Chemist and Patent

Medicine Vendurs

Price: $2.50 per bottle,

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks of 375 lbs. net.

In Bags of 250 lbs. net.

Apply -THE MANAGTRESS, Kowtoon. Telegraphic Address: “TERMOTEL” Code Used: A.BC. 5th Ed.

NEW MACAO

HOTEL,

PRAYA GRANDE, MACAO.

The above Hotel was opened on August fat, 104, under new proprietorship and Management, The Fosil now ows, for Residents and Toufám, uscellent accommodation. Large dining rooms facing the ma Ju has been entirely renovated throughout and newly furnished, and is now up-to-date in every respect, Larga and airy 1900s, moellent sanitary anaigamenta, Hot and Cold Bathe, Mectric unghi and Fans. Privata and Fable Bar and Billards. Türen Moderate. For further information apply to

Telegraphic Addess “Phoola.

THE MANAGER.

ALEXANDRA CAFE.

Our Brand in maễn from the _Buat Quality Flour only and can be obtained and orders talent AB WEEK DAIRY, 16, Paling Road, ON LEE Compradore, Haiphong Road, HUNG CHEONG Compradors, Haiphong Road, KWONG TOOK, Compradors, Haiphong Road, KWONG TUEN NOW, Compradore, alphong Road.

Orders may be left with the show for may of our products. We put op absolutely den Best Tiffan and Dioses dew Ware for Each Ménal. Price one Dollar Eack, or go Kaula for Bosco good for way senal, or a la Carte up to TS CRIS

We Guarantor wawrything pacup and said by the Alexandra Cafe 'to be of Erst Class Quality. Ty our own make Fork Imags and Park Plas, Pure Jara Jotter Kosmed and Ground Daily and put up in [ Tb. – Timu ni so cante. We give yet a Spiadid Gap of Lipton's Ton. – Eliowals and soli, drinks of vrazy deseription.

Just give us a Trial and you will be more than natishaj.

R. J. HOWARD, Sole Proprietor.

SHEWAN, TOMES & co.|||Grand Hotel de l'Europe, Singapore.

General Managers.

|Hongkong, 16th August, 1916.

LESSONSIN CHINESE.

B. Li How Fax, a' Chiness gradṇala versed in Herators, bas been a teacher European officials and merchaiste

the Colony for ten year

He has good mantisod of training Europeana to frame Qul sume e mkatrinaliona, and la posisme) of and rate certificate as a Chinese teacher.

and-Takka..

Thow who intend learning the Chinese language are reqarard to write, care *Hong ng Telegraph” otse or direct to No. 13, Wellington Étreet, second floor.

PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON CHRISTMAS CARDS. IN ANY STYLE, AS DESIRED.

CHEAP SALE OF VIEWS' DE .HONGKONG AND CASTON;

MEE CHEONG, PHOTOGRAPHER,

House Blomst.

Telephone 1063.

LEE KEE

BUILDING DONTRASTOR. D-DEALER IN LAMITANY DOORS. ** MANUFACTURER OF MOSAIK TILES, FIRE BRICKS AED SANITARY-STGEE. WARE DRAIN PIPES IMPORTER AUR EXPORTEROF BUILDING MISTERIALS,

Telephone MN JAKS, ONES & Showroom

Head Onon

BEST SITUATED HOTEL IN TOWN.

EVERY ROOM HAS A BATH-ROOM: ́DRESSING ROOM

ATTACHED.

MOST-UP-DATE SANITARY ARRANGEMENT.

Under English Management,

ARTHUR F. ODELL, Late GRAND HOTEL,

NOTICE.

Southcliffe England.

NOTICES.

MOTOR REPAIRS.

We undertake repairs to Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Motorboats. All work done by Expert Mechanics under the supervision of an experienced European Motor Engineer.

Our Motor Repair Department is situated at

No. 49, Des Voeux Road, Central.

Motorcycles stored by the month, cleaned daily and kept in good running order. All cycles stored or under repair are covered by insurance against fire.

ALEX. ROSS & CO.,

GENERAL NEWS.

Gold in Tasmania.

A gold rush has takeɑ place at Long Plains, near the month of the Pioman River, on the wARË” coast of Tasmania, in consequanDO of the discovery of gold by la party of four aitisens from Ho bart who were prospecting in the” Corrins district. The syndicate has found sections on a total ares of 10 acres, and cisïm the find se | the rishest discovery of gold in the annals of Tasmania, The mine hsa splendid facilition for working, as there is s-supply of water from two oreks' aufficient to drive a battery and also’electric lighting parponon."

"Our Reply."

Most of us have heard of the "Hymn of Fate,” and of how the British and French troops quickly |learn it, and then astonished, the Germans by yelling it trium- phaitly back to them soross the waste land between. At a well- known sad popular seaside resort the other day, saya the Daily Chronicle, the band was naked118

AGENTS FOR THE KING EIGHT-CYLINDER CAR, fevour to play it to the audi

Machinery Office.

'PHONE 27.

THE

JUNGNER

ACCUMULATOR.

ELECTRIC

Strong, solid and compact. Iron and Nickel Electrodes with caustic potash in strong iron box, Minimum use of materials. May be charged a thousand times without lowering its efficiency; may be charged and discharged In minimum time and to its full extent, without injury. May be kept unloaded for any length of time and is absolutely safe from self-discharging when left even a longer time loaded and out of use. Balt water has no injurious effect on the accumulator. An ideal accumulator for any kind of lighting or ignition device.

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF ACCUMULATORS AND CELLS

·AND A FRESH SUPPLY OF

THE "NIFE" LANTERN .

·AN KLECTRIC ACCUMULATOR HAND-LANTERN (SWEDISH MAKE.)

HAS JUST ARRIVED.

+

SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA:-

ence, who were curious to know | what it was like.. The Band did so, and at the end a notice was put up, bearing the wordi"Uurreply." Everyb:dy naturally enough, got [ready to stand up, expecting to hear the National Anthem, but were much estoninbed and smuss3 when the band began to play, softly and tendaily, “Two Lovely, Black Eye!"

Mr. Asquith and the Food Question. I—* London, Oct. 20.--Mr. Asquith, replying to a suggestion by Captain Charles Batbarst that he ehould consider the desirability (daring the winter of rationing the whole population says :—We are not, I think, in sight of any such general shortage of supplies hô "would render neosseary them OSU- |ures suggmelad. I hope and be- |lieve that the voluntary avoidanoS of superflarus consumption which has now, become the argent daty of all patriotio citisens, will make it possible to escape the graTO difficultise and disadvantages and “

the

|

immense ''administrative

labour and expenditure involved in any system of official rationing of food supplies."

."Opoulos."

That resounding · termination

to so many Greek statouman”# [names, “opoulos,” is merely one

A. B. THE SWEDISH TRADING CO., LTD. of the many Greek equivalents of

Telephone No. 171, YORK BUILDING (TOP FLOOR)

Tel. No.

· 1877.

THE

Tel. No.

1877.

COLONIAL DISPENSARY.

COLIN MAGRENZIE & 00,

CHEMISTS & DRUCCISTS

+4, QUEENS ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG..

AT LAST.

The momy Bens which manufacture Merre Strengthening Food are aflet to bewoand up under the "radingwiththe Boemy Act, Now ifj you want a zero slengthening food you must buy it from an

Boglish Arm

WE SELL SANAPHOS.

AN ENTIRELY BRITISH PRODUCT - presczībed by the, bigboot medical axthoritis. An ideal sommer Sonia for recourirusting thef

WIRD DATA KİNGna. Wa een recommend it. Price $1.50 per bottle.

THISTLE"

HAMS.

RENOWNED

EVERYWHERE

FOB 1HEIR

DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co.

MOTOR CARS FOR HİRE & SALE.

PROMPT SERVICE,

Sole Distributors for Soulk China and Macao for the OVERLAND and HUDSON Motor Cars, the TRUM- BULL Cycle -Car," NEW (COMET and the HARLEY DAVIDSON Motor Cycles.

KOWLOON BRANON. "26, NATHAN ROLS,

....

TEL. 442.

PROPRIETOR, C, LAUbitsen. Tel. 482.

FRENCH - LESSONS

UNIFORM

EXCELLENCE

BRAND

our

*

'son,” ramark's "the "Daily Chronicle. The frequency of the ending, varied by "ides,""akos," ar aken," points to 'an uiser- gency. Before the Turkish don- ination was destroyed the non aristocratic section of the Greeks had no surnames; and those': hai‍d · to be found quickly along the Lines of our Bobinsons and Han- darsons. Other ways of oresting, Greak erasmes

were tried?? Thus, "Metaxas" will have had ja father or grandfather who woVİN wilk ; while * Patalos” will foraish the surname of a man whoss father was a blacksmith, bat had no name other than plan Bocratón.../ | Higher in the social scale, famiv | line were known by their descent, as in the case of the Vaneseloi, who osme centuries ago from Venice (D. C.)

Rubbing it. Well la. Bays the Japan Ohromícke :--- We note that in the half-yourly

BACON port of the International in-

SPECIALLY

OURED

POR

TO BE FOUND ON THE BEST TABLES

stitate of China, the Rev. Gilbert Raid, the Director, sumennOW that he has placed on loan with the Congressional Library ját

Washington, 058

valume of

**Yang Ba T Tien." which he **resoned from the Haulin College when not on kes during the mage of the Lagations of 1000. But

if the book was rescued why WM

it not returned to its ownACE

Wa'nen nfraid that Dr. performed: sim

Ares in his

scón And himself in

the police of ten arbola

DES CLAS

the syn

Director of

seeks to