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THE HONGKONG~ TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1917,

Golofina

THE

HIGHEST

WEATHER REPORT.

December Std 1th. 65m.-No returns from Japanisestations. The anticyclone has regained intensity; prasaure has in. creased slightly to moderately at all cou- tinental station, and decreased slutly ores the Philippines.

Fresh to strong menoon will prúvail along the China Coast, and crer the N.; China Sea.

Hongkong, Rainfall for the 4 hours ending at 10 am to-day, 0.00 lack. Total since January 1st 8148 inches against an average of 8278 inches.

FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TOMOHSCT.

Distriöt

Foreca YNE

some

NOTICES.

1917

CHRISTMAS DINNER

*MID-DAY

MENU.

(No Chita or Ticketa) PRICE $1,00 (Cash Account only). Hors D'oeuvres Soup

1ream de Asparagus

2 Beef Tea

Fish

3 Boiled Schnapper & Egg

Sauce

4. Fried Sole and. Lemons

Entrees

5 Stewed Chicken with o: jon

a la Polonnaice

6 Game Pie

7 Sausage and Mashed Potatoe

winds,

GRADE

1. Hoegteng to Gap Rood — cloudy,

I probably

drizzling

Ганд

Joints

† 1 Formosa Cussos.

X, winds,

1.

Bost Saddle of Beef and

Yorkshire Pudding

3 douth coast of Citas, be-) The 1

twein und, and lamotka), na Sv. 1. -

9

Foiled York Ham

Poultry

4 South of China be-) The ame tween 15, and fatman. ■ No. 1.

10

SMOKE

of

CONNOISSEURS.

JAMAICA

LEAF.

TRY

PERFECTOS

"PERFECTO

Actual Size

China Coast Meteorological Registor.

止。

Blation

December 21, a.m.

Hour,

'3,50401${

TRY

BOUQUETS.

V'ostock 6 30 02 Semuro Sakodate Fokio a.ochi

Sagast Lima Dabima

Labi

i jima

SOLD EVERYWHERE.

Saba

Lemperature.

Humidity,

Winér

D❜tion

12

cze

Whatliar

F'orna,

Roast Turkey and Cranberry

Sauce

11 Rast Capon and Bread Sauce

1 Roast Gosse and Apple Sauce" Vegetables

13. Boiled potatoes

13 Roast potatoes

15 Petis Peis 1 Cauliflowers Entremets

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TO-NIGHT

TO-NIGHT

Special Xmas Week Attaction

OF

RICHARD AND GLADIE

PRESENTING LATEST

BALL ROOM DANCES

Manana Tango Ragtime.

MAXIXE, BRESILIENNE,

→ ETC. ETC.

Bert Wiles

THE 'RAGTIME XYLOPHONE KING and

IMPERSONATER

Bell Chaplin as Charlie Chaplin

Not on the Serren tut 20 minutes of comedy on the stage.

tör ether with Mise Gladie.

17 Plum Pudding 18 Mince Pie THE SPECTACULAR SENSATION OF THE ́AGE

19 Apple Pie 20 Fruit Au Cream

Fruits

21 Oranges. Apples, Muscalells,. Alm-nds, Walnuts, and Chestnuts &c.

Dessert

22 American Cheese

23 Dutch Cheese

24 Beetroots. 25 Mixed Salads

Bonia L

Whaiwa da 30.32 28

94 Dw

120

Harkow

(chang

Klukiang

Changsha

Shanghai

30.31.36 73 a

Gatzlaff

30.16 ** 85 ne

20

Sharp P.

31.03 - 54 84 a

10

18

Amoy

30.12 56 89.

10

Bxstow

Tamoro Sa 30.07 59 23 .

20

Talaba

30.4 59

во

Tainan

30.9% 59

Day 2 b

Koshun

ene 40

doris

пре Go

Canton

20.8 53 100 e

1 b 30.01 59 79 2

30 30.0%

еда 60 3.01 33 83 níe 20

THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS ISSUED BY

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD.

Gap Rock

Macan

Waskow farhol Hoihow

POST OFFICE.

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR BOLIDAYS.

The Port Office will be open on Mon "day 24th. Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 25th on Monday 31st and Tuesday the Sat January from 8 to 9 a.m.

There will be ose collection and one salivary of ordinary correspondence exch asy as on Sunday:

~~~~Thure will be a delivery of Registered ca respondence at 9-a m. on the 2411 and 16th December and lat January,

The Money Order Office will be entirely closed during the holidays.

The Parcel Post Bervices to British East Africa and Egypt (ezoent for members of the Expeditionary Forces), and to Abyminia, Bagdad, Edithras, French Smali Coast, Italian Somaliland. Porta- gese East Africa, Zanzibar and Russia bare been suspended.

"Correspondence addremed to enemy abjects in China, Biam, Siberia and Portugues Fast Africa, Perzia and Mur- ocos cannot be transmitted.

The Bervices to Germany, Austria, Bal- garis and the Ottoman Empire are suspended.

- Uninsured parcele for the United Kingdom ill in future be forwarded from Hongkong in bags and the Public are therefore advised to pack such parcels very carefully.

Letters franked at the 4 cents rate addressed to Yunanfu and Mengtze and other places in the Province of Yunnan

hould be superscribed with the words. For delivery by the Chiness Post Odios.

Parcels for Greeds cannot be accepted for transmission 'unless accompanied by a special permit issued by, the British Minister at Athens.

Arrangements have been made for the transmission of parcels to the United Kingdom vis Canada.

The rates of postage are ́as f Hlows:- Parcel not over Jibe... 90 cents.

71b. $1.80

Do.

....

Do, Lube... 2.70 :

No insurance can be effected on parcela set by this route,

IMPORT PROHIBITIONS.

a publis are informed that the un- dermentioned articles, are- prohibited from importation into the United King dóm, either by letter post or by parcal

portr

Gold manufactured or unmanufactured including gold cole and articles consisting partly of or containing gold; All manu- factures of Silver other than silver watches and lver watch casos: Jawel- lery of any description.

Letters and Parcels containing, such articles cannot therefore be accepted for transmission by the Post Ofon.

The Parcel Post service to Aden (ax- pack in respect of parcels for military and naval addressees) has been suspended. ·

FRENCH PARCEL REGULATIONS.

The Public are informed that the new the Fench regulations adopted by Customs insist that senders of parcela addressed to France, Cories and Algeria must fill in the columns of the regular Customs Declaration particularly and sxactly, omitting none of the headings comprised therein.

It la furthermore absolutely necessary to show in the aforesaid declaration (1) The full name and address of the addresse (3) Atatementss to whether the contents are intended for State supplies or not.

LOCAL AND REGULAR MAILS OUTWARD.

Tai 0.-Work days, 5 p.m.

Tai Po-Week days, 10 am; Bundays, 4:30 am

Cheung Chow.-Weeks days, 7.30 am. and 3 p.m.

·Shataukok, Shatin and Sheungahul.--- Weekdays, 4pm.

Aberdeen, Autati, Ping Bhan, Sai Kung, Santin and Stanley-Week days, 4.30 p.m. Canton. Samshui, and Washow.—Week days, 7.30 am, Registration 5 pang. Let-- tere 6 pm; Sundays, 5 p.m.

Macao.-Weekdaya, 7.15 a m., 1.30 pm; Sundays, 9 m

Kengmoon.Week days. 6 p.m. Except Saturdays, Bundays, 5 pan.

Pamten and Sanmel-Week

3 pm; Sundays, 5 p.m.

days,

Shamchun-Wook days, 10a.m., 4 panj Sundays, 9 a.m.

FROM BHEUNGWAN WESTERN BRANCE P.O.

Macao Wook dayı, 7:30a.m. 1.30p.m. Bunday, 8.50.a.m.; Holidayu; 7,50 am, 130 pa

Canton-Week days, 7.30 km 9.30 pm; Bundaja, 950 p.m; Holidays, 7.30 am

9,30 prù,

Tel Pig Tang-Week days, 9.30 pan Sundays, 9.30 pm; Holidays, 9.50 p.m.

Shek KL-Week days, 5.30 pm; San days, 9.20 p.m.; Holidays, 9.30 p.m.

Kongmoon-Week days, 6 p.m.; Sun- days, pay Holidays. 6 p.m. JAN Kumabuck-sok days, 6 p.; San days, 6 pm; Holidays, 6 pm.

Kukon Wenk daya, 6 pm, Exorpt Saturdays, Sundays, 0 p.m.; HOdys

30J 70 30.06 63

Phulien

7 29.97 61 93 ene 4 of

Tourage

NOTICES.

29.91., 63 3.0 2 a 29.76

Aparri

29.8%

91. 6

Zo

Dagupan

WAI KEE.

Manila

Legaspi

29.31

Tacloban

29.7+

flotto

ww ib 29.19 191 A

Surigao

£20 29.94 75

Dian

6 19.58-83 16 2

Ob zb

FLAG & SAILMAKER

No. 139, Des Vœux Road Central Top: Floor HONGKONG. Telephone No. 1833.

ASAHI BEER.

Gram

C. W. JEFFRIES, -Chief Assistant.".

Hongkong Observatory, Dec 22, 1917.

26 Celery."

Tea or Coffee,

CHRISTMAS DINNER."

· EVENING

MENU

(No Chits or Tickets) PRICE $1.CO.

(Cash Account only.) Hors D'Œuvres Soup

1. Clam Chowder 2. Consomme au Vermicelli

Fish

3 Fried Schnapper 4 Cold Salmon and Mayonnaise Entrees-

5 Stewed Pigeon a la Polonnaise 6 Lamb Cutlet and Petis Pois 7. Chicken in Aspic Joints

1 Barometer, reduced to 32 degrees 8 Roast Saddle of Beef sod Fahrenheit on the level of the sea în in-

- ches, handle and hundradtha.

3 Temperature, in the shade, in degrmen Fabranhalt

$ Humidity, in perosutage of saturation

the Humidity of air saturated with mois ture being 100,

<Direction of Wind, to two połąħa.

5 Foros of Wind, according to Beaufort Beale.

Horse Radish Sauce

9 Boiled York Ham

Poultry

10 Roast Turkey. (Stuffed) and

Cranberry Sauce

DAMON AND

AND PYTHIAS

FIVE REELS OF LOVE & ROMANCE VICTORIA THEATRE MATINEE, TO-DAY.

day, 4.13 Session only.

Also Wednesday, Thursday,

NOTICES.

THE DAIRY FARM CO., LTD.

APPLICATION has been made

Directors of this Company to issue to ADELINA O. DE GUTTIEREZ of Hons- kong a duplicafe certificate of one share in this Company or

NOTICES.

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

NOTIFICATION.

other Certificate or Certificates IT IS HEREBY notified that

la lien thereof uson the state-

on the 8th January proximo,

ment that the original certificate at 3 P.M.. at the Public Works for one share No. 7217 dated 26th Department, and before a Com October 1896 bas been lost or mittee presided over by the destroyed. AND NOTICE IS Director of Public Works, tenders HEREBY GIVEN that if within will be received for the supply 30 days from the date hereof no and laying of pipes for canaliza claim or representation in respect tion of salt water (Extension). or such original certificate.is made to the Directers they will proceed to deal with such ap- plication for certificate,

M. MANUK,

Secretary. Datexi-lst day of December, 1917,

11 Roast Chicken & Chipped THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC

Potatoes

12 Roast Goosa and Apple Sauce

Vegetables

State of Westhat, b bine aky, o de- tached alond, d drisling rain, fog, a 13 Boiled Potatoes gloomy.b hai, 1 lightning, e orazeaus, y 14 Roast Potatoes passing showsch, a squally, z rain, now 15 Petia Pois ï thunder, v vizibilty, w saw KOL

METEOROLOGICAL.

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Previous

16 Boiled Labbage

Entremets

17 Plum Pudding

18 Mince Pie

19 Apple Pie

20 Blanc Mange and Apricols

Fruit

Day On date on date 21 Oranges, Apples, Muscatells. Almond, Walnuts. a d Chestouts &c.

ASAHI BEER

GRAND PRIZE

Barometer

29 97 30.06 30 08

*

Temperature Hamidity

B5

61 ..62

78 01

63

Wind Direction

Foro

E

E X.N.E.

4

2

需

Weather

Bain

Q.. .0

0

0,99 0,00

0.00

BINE

and de

ASAHI

BEES

SAHI

LAGER-BEER

SPECIALLY BREWED EXPORT

COMPANY

Ja

Highest open al Tamperuare on the Lowest

BLK, Observatory, 'Deo. 22, 1917.

T. F. CLAXTON, Director..

TIDE TABLE,

From 24th Dec. to 30th Dec.

High Water

Fanglong

Low Waing Hongkong

Mana

Desser

22 American Cheese

23 Dutch Cheeso

CO., LTD.

Before purchasing Electrical Appliances for use in connection with the Company's supply, Consumers are recommended to communicate with the Under- signed with a view to ascertain-- ing

1. If the Appliances, and

The conditions of the "tender- ing. the specifications and the plans of the canalization are open to the public at the Public Works Department and in the Por- tuguese Consulate in Hongkong. where they can be examined on all week days.

Macao, Public Works Depart ment 18th December, 1917,

RAUL M. DE FARIA E MALA

Engineer Director.

HONGKONG HOTEL

TEA-DANCES.

their use, are in accord-THE Management, beg to an

ncuace that in future ance with the Company's

the chare for tea including the Regulations.

privelege of dancing will "ba, 11,00 per head, 25% of which sum will be donated by the Hotel Company to War Chari- ties,

2. If the wiring of the pre

mises, where it is. intended. to instal such Appliances is suitable.

"It is important that the fore- be going information should obtained from the Company, as

24 Beetroot 25 Mixed Salad not only does the neglect to do

26 Celery

Tea or Coffee.

To facilitate Fervice and pre- veat Confusion please order by number only.

so endanger property by fire but in addition may lead to s ̈con. travention of the Ordinance."

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.

Agents.

J. H. TAGGART, Manager.

NOTICE.

SPECIAL DINNER and Dance

will be provided at the

We sell only the very best brands of Wines. Ales and Hongkong, 14th December, 1917. King Edward Rotel on the 24th Liqueurs.

WISHING YOU A MERRY

XMAS.

THE ALEXANDRA CAFE.

MRS. N. BABBAGE, Manageress.

Spanish Shipping Losses,

A telegram from Bayonne states that the Bilbao mercantile marine hes had 30 vessels.tor pedoed, of a tonnage of 65,407,

NOTICE.

TO ALL CONCERNED

instant, ・ Christmas - Frojdust 7.30 F.M. Dance at § P.14 $2.50 each. 20% to goto War Cistition,

JA WATCHELL,

Managers

F.N. TYSON, Master of the British Steamer Hermelin” hereby give notice that I will not be responsible for any debt or debts contracted by the membersHERAPIONE of my crew during the ship's stay in Hongkong.

F. N. TYSON, Master ss. Hermelin."

and five vessels miped, of a Hongkong, 20th Dec smber, 1917, tonnage of 12,503 Other accid- ents include 16 vessels of a ton. mage of 40,684, making a total of 51 vessels, of an aggregate tons nage of 113,594

Printed and Published for Cada Barretta 11. Los E

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