1918-08-09 — Page 2

NOTICES.

UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS.

THE

BEST

AND

DURABLE

IN

SUE MARKET

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THE

CHEAPEST

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1918.

HOTELS AND CAFES.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

AND

CRILL ROOM.

J. E TAGGART,

Manager.

NOTICES.

BECAUSE

IT

LASTS

THE

LONGEST

THE PEAK

HOTEL.

1.500 FEET ABOVE SEA

LEVEL.

INSPECTION INVITED.

DODWELL & CO. LTD,

MACHINERY DEPARTMENT.

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

New Scheme for Chlidren's Early Endowment—

-Principal features: Small Premium Liber Surrender Value, Ko Medical Examination, Return of Premis in the Erant of Death, and Numerous Options at the Age of 25. WHITE FOR PAMPHLET AND FULL PARTIQULAES TO

DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.

Maltheid Reefing

SOLE AGENTS.-

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

QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD,

HONGKONG.

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING

ESTABLISHED 1883.

MANUFACTUREES OF

LTD.

PURE MANILA ROPE

8 STRAND

CABLE LAID

4 STRAND

1 to 15.**

5" to 15"

UTACUMFERENCE. 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...

CANTRELL

& COCHRANE'S

BELFAST.

DRY IMPERIAL

GINGER ALE.

SOLE AGENTS:

CALDBECK MACGREGOR

& CO.

*

15. Queen's Road,

Central

Telephone No. 75.

HONGKONG JAPANESE

General Managers. ·

NOTICES.

NORTH BRITISH

AND

MERGANTILE INSURANCE CO.,

3

In which are vested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO. LTD,

AND

THE RAILWAY PASSEN- CERS ASSURANCE CO. The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared! to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.

Yorkshire

MASSACE ASSOCIATION. Insurance Co.,Ltd.

WE beg to notify the Public that

we, the undersigned, being proper and fully certificated Massuers, have this day formed the ahové Massage Association

Mr. U. SUDA Z

Mrs. A. SUGA

Mr. J. HONDA

Mrs. S. HONDA

54 Queen's Road Central,

METALS

of all kinds, especially for ship- building and engineering wor ks. Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony.

SINGON & CO.,

Dy (Established A. D. (1830) HING LUNG ST. Phone 515.

Photos off 1918}_ RACE MEETING,

Also

The DERBY DAY CATASTROPHE AT. HAPPY VALLEY. MEE CHEUNGTM

.* PHOTOGRAPHER AN

Tan Mouse Serset. 2.Telenhona 1014;

ESTABLISHED 1884.

axe

The Undersigned AGENTS for

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

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

AGENTS,

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED,

PORTLAND GEMEAT.

In Caaks of 375 lba, net.

In Bags of 250 Ibi. mok;

SHEWAN, -TOMES & CO.

Growal Managers. Hongking, 16th August, 1916.

15 MINUTES FROM LÅNDING STAGE: UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF.

MRS. BLAIR.

GRAND HOTEL.

A dracism and opcodes Hotel most central locaties within the vicinity of all the principal Banką, eted for the best Food, Befreshment, Accommodation and Cleani

Cuisine Dader European SuperTime.

A frst-class string Orchestra renders selections from 1.30 r., to 11:40 PM

Special monthly terms for residents and for Shipping People. For further particulars apply →→ W. BARKER,

Manager. Telephone No. 197, Telegraphic! Address"

"COMFORT."

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION,

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

·Yel, 375.

Telegraphio Address: "VICTORIA **

J: WTTCHELL,

Maongezi

THE CARLTON HO 1 EL.

THE ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE

COLONY..

ICE HOUSE STREET.

Under American Management.

Nice and quiet yet only a few minuta' walk from the Barks and Central District 43 Bedrock Excellent Cuisine, Scrupulously Clean. Hederate Teimr. Monthly and Family Rates on application to the Propriet-ea.

MRS F. E. CAMERON. Telephone 812,.

EUROPE HOTEL, SINGAPORE.

UNDER NEW BRITISH MANAGEMENT,

THE PREMIER HOTEL. FINEST SITUATION. EXCELLENT CUISINE.

FIN E

For the COMPLEXION.

Il beautifies and preserves

the complexion, and may

be freely used on, delicaté and sensitive sting which ordinary toilet soaps would irritate and coursen.

1877.

'ARTHUR E. ODELL,

Late Grand Hotel, Southcliffe, England and Royal Palace Hotel, London, W.)

NOTICES.

YARDLEY'S

OATMEAL SOAP

The purest and finest of Soaps, scientifically com- bined with an Oatmeal specially treated for the extraction of lis bland, soothing, superfatting

qualities.

For the NURSERY.

A perfect Mursery Soap,

It soothes as if cleanses, Its use enables Baby to start life with a healthy and beautiful skin and, to main». Lain. Its beauty through Youth to Age.

PRICES Cts, 60 a Box of 3 Cakes. COLONIAL DISPENSARY, 14 QUEEN'S ROAD

CENTRAL.

DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.

MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE & SALE. PROMPT SERVICE.

Sole Distributors for South China and Macao for the OVERLAND, HUDSON and CHANDLERK Motor Cars, and the HARLEY DAVIDSON Motor Cycles. NOWLOON (RANCH, 26. NATHAN ROAD. TEL, K. 228.

|PROPRIETOR: C. LAURITSEN.

FRENCH

Tel. 482.

LESSONS,

C. MOUSSION,

15. Morrison Hill Road,

The new

Royal

The Herald of Better Service IN the arena of "Big Business" has appeared a new steel-brained champion, the Master- Model of the Royal-the machine with the rapid- fire action; the typewriter that fires letters as an automatic gun spits bullets!

Unless you are "Royalized," you are paying the price of the Royal without knowing it—-besides that of your old- style machine-in the higher cost of your business letters.

Bailt for 'Big Business" and its "Great Army of Expert Operators This master-machine does the work of several type- writers in one--it writes, types cards and bills! The one machine does it all-without any "special" "attachments.

ROSS

ALEX.

& CO.

"Machinery Department

4. Des Vœux Road Central, Telephone 27.

THE

LONDON DIRECTORY.

(Published Annually)

NABLES traders throughout the ENABLES the

English..

MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS

G.

R

GENERAL NEWS.

A Largo Order.

The largest order for New Testaments aver placed by the

New York Bible Society wES given early in June, when 190,- 000sativa service" Testamenta were ordered. The Society has recently ordered 300,000 copies of the Gospels for general milit- ary and naval distribution.

Much Decorated -Youth. The Mone Star, Military Medal, Distinguished Conduct Medal, one red and thres blue chevrons, and icar gold wound stripes were worn by a youth named Myers, charged at Hackney recently with theft He was said to be a desertar from the Army and was - not entitled to any of the decora- tions, as he had not been outside the country. He was banded over to a military escort to await a court-martiel.

Chinese and Japanese Jokes.

The women writers of the Lyceum Club recently gave a dianer to the Allied Press, which went off gaite brilliantly under the chairmanship of Mrs. Willoughby Mra. Hodgson. Apart from Willoughby Hodgson herself, the speakers were all men, Lord Barobem aresking for the English Press, Mr. Edward Price Bell for the American, while the represent- latives of Servis, Italy, France, Belgium, South America, and China and Japan were all men, It was quite amusing to hear the polite jokes which China and Japan made at one another's, ex- pence. Mr. Labi remarked that` the only prouder people than the English were the Chinese, who lcoked on his own countrymen 28 barbarisse, and later on Mr. Chang suavely retorted that his compatriots would no doubt soda stop calling the Japanese "short devils," as he had heard they were now forbidding their children to sit on the floor in the hope of making them grow taller. Against Kobe.

Any European, Non-Asiatic or A former resident in Japsz Indian desiring to leave the who passed through Kobe recent- Colony should apply in personly was not impressed by the con- at the Central Police Station ditiona. "Up to date," he writes,

to

between the hours of 9 6.13.

"Japan bes not improved,— 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.: daily.

Applicants will be required to hotels, transportation, cleanliness produce Passports or identifica and manners especially. If any tion papere.

body had told me I should have All persons with certain excepto clean my boots on the doorstep who remain in the of a first-class Japanese hotel in Colony for more than 7 days are Kobe without the hotel-people required to Register themselves being in the lesst ashamed, under the REGISTRATION of I would not have believed it

in each class of goods. Besides being a complete commercial guide to London adtions Its suburbe: the Directory contains lists of

EXPORT MERCHANTS

with the goods they ship, and the Colonial PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916.1 have been railing at Shanghar Forms of Registration giving the filth, bat Kote is the limit. particulars required may be

and Fomigu Marketa they supply;

PROVINCIAL TRADE NOTICES

of leading Manufacturem, Merchants, eto, in the principal provincial towns and in- dustrial coutros of the United Kingdom..

A copy of the current edition will be for warded freight pall, on receipt of Postal Order for 258.

Dealers Booking Agencies can advertis their trade cards for £1, or larger advertise ments from £3. **

THE LONDON DIRECTORY, CO. LTD 5. Abchurch Lane, London, E.0

obtained at the G. P. O. and at Faroy being landed at 1 6.m. at all Police Stations.

the Hiogo O.B.K. pier and hav The Penalty for non-coming to sit on our Kori till 5.30 pliance is a fine not exceeding a.m. before being able to get any conveyerce." Our correspondent in parhaps not aware, says the Japan Chronicle, that Kobe is now one of the richest cities

-$50

CAST IRON

RAINWATER PIPES in Japan, with more millionaires

AND FITTINGS- FRANK SMITH & CO. ← DES VŒUX ROAD, CENTRAL TEL. 2090, HONGKONG.

STRINGS

Violin

Mandoline

Guitar Banjo

THE

ROBINSON PIANO

CO., LTD.

to the equare yard then Tokio or Osaka can boset of. The roll of beir motor-osra going down to Maiko in the quondam stilly night is such that the residents en route are deprived of their slumber by the proud thoughts as to their country's prosperity that rise in their minde.

Guild Factories.

A Leede Guild Socialist, E. E Wilkinson, who told the Appeal Tribansi that he was engaged in converting his two blouse factories ipto gaild factories, was granted exemption ag a conscisations objector, and referred to

the Pelham Committee, for national service, with a recommendation thet hie present business falfilled the conditions. To a Daily News representative Mr. Wilkinson said that he was offer. ing two fastories, one at Boston Spa and the other in Leeds, to the women workers, who would form their own guild, and elect their own management" com- mittees, forewoman, and manager, The girls are being asked to sign an agreement to work for "the benefit of the whole guild, and to put quality of workmanship before quantity. The goild's capital will be provided by the girls oon- tribating, for a period of five yener, half the profits they receive aver and shove their week's pay, which is in itself at to be lean than the standard tens of wages for the trade in the diatrist. At the end of the five years the. workers will retain the whole of the profits. This contribution to the ospital is's- loin without interest, and is repayable when the girl leaves her emelormant-

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