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HE HONGKONER

GENERAL NEWS

UNDERWOOD

TYPEWRITERS.

THE

BEST

DURABLE

IN

SOME MARKET

THE

CHEAPEST

THE HONGKONG HOTEL

GRILL ROOM.

J. EL TAGGART,

BECAUSE

LASTS

THE

LONGEST

THE

INSPECTION INVITED.

OODWELL & CO. LTD.

MACHINERY DEPARTMENT.

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment:—

Principal fastare: Small Premium, Liberal Surrender Vilns, No Medical Examination, Beturn of Premia in the Evant of Death, and Numarens Options at the Age of 25. WRITE FOR „PAMPHLKY AND FULL PARTICULARS 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. MANUFACTUERES 'OF

PURE MANILA ROPE

8 STRAND

14 to 15**

CABLE LAID 5" to 15"

GERUUMFERINOR, UIRCUMFERENCE.

4. STRAND 3" to 10". OLACUMFREENOR.

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

SHEWAN TOMES & Co. General Managers.

CANTRELL

& COCHRANE'S

#

BELFAST.

DRY "IMPERIAL

GINGER ALE.

SOLE AGENTS:

CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO.

15. Queen's Road, Central Telephone No. 75.

HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSACE ASSOCIATION.

WE beg to notify the Public that we, the undersigned, being proper and Tully certificated Massuars, have this day formed the above Massage Association.

Mr. U. SUGA S Mrs. A. SUGA

- Mr. I. HONDA ·

Mrs. S. HONDA-

54 Queen's Road Centra),

METALS

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

SINGON & CO.,

Establi hed-A. D--1880.) ---

| HING LUNG BT. Phone 515.

NEW FILMS

* JUST ARRIVED." PRICE MODERATE.

MEE CHEUNG

PHOTOGRAPHER

House Hitrost. Aelephone 10t

NOTICES.

NORTH BRITISH

AND

MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,”

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

AND

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

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.

Yorkshire

InsuranceCo.,Ltd.

ESTABLISHED 1884.

The Undersigned AGENTS for

shove Company

prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

| SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

AGENTS,

GREEN: ISLAND, CEMENT COMPANY: LIMITED.

PORTLANDÝSHERRY.

In Canks of 17

In Bags of $50-Ibe

SHEWAN

Manager.

PEAK HOTEL.

1,500 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL

İŞ MINUTES FROM LANDING STAGE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF "MRS. "BLAIR.”

GRAND HOTEL.

fast-class and up-to-date Hotel, moet centru location within the vicinity of all the principal Basi Noted for the base Food, Betreatments, Accouquotation and Cleanings

Cuisine under European Supervision,'

2 first-clam string Drüheras, remders seicetions from 130 m3, to 11:30 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. Zal, 373.

Telographio Address: “VICTORIA

› WITCHELL,

Manigans

THE CARLTON HOTEL.

THE, ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE COLOKY:;

ICE HOUSE, STREET. Under American Management.

Moderate

Nice and quiet yet only a few minute walk from the Banks and Central District. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine, Serupulously Clean. Terma. Monthly and Family Bates on application to the Proprietress.

Telephone 812,

MRS F. E. CAMERON.

EUROPE HOTEL, SINGAPORE.

UNDER NEW BRITISH MANAGEMENT, »

THE PREMIER HOTEL. FINEST SITUATION,

• EXCELLENT CUISINE.

ARTHUR E. ODELL

(Late Grand Hotel, Southclife, England and Boyal Palace Hotel, London, W.

NOTICES.

YARDLEY'S EOATMEAL

FINE

For the COMPLEXION.

It beambifies and preserves the, completos, and may

be freely used on” delicɛle"

and sensitive skins which

orilmey taltetsomes would

irvitude and coarsen.

防

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

qualities.

SOAP

For the NURSERY.

A perfect Marsery Souz

It soothes as it deanses, lis use enables Baby tam kinet lite with a healthy and besillal skin and to mažas tafa Kis beauty through Touth to Arc..

PRICES Cts. 60 á 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 CHANDLER Motor Cars, and the HARLEY DAVIDSON Motor Cycles.

KOWLOON BRANGN, 26.- NATHAN, ROAD, TEL. K. 226.

PROPRIETOR: · C. LAURITSEN. Tel. 482.

FRENCH

LESSONS.

MOUSSION. orrison Hill RALE

Scripps

27 HP. SCRIPPS' MARINE MOTOR MODEL H.B.

Four crllader 4-cycle motor

Two-unit elastic starter Schebler karossze carburettor High tension mata

Splash and lorem fent diliris

- Paragon reVRCH BIRT

*

Reverse grect, on estos ebḍ Osir 3"""wire exposed. Flywheel all-enclosed

Tá volt 50-ampers, battery Toamelled black and azer Completes of sight.

A two-cylinder 14 h.p. SCRIPPS Marine Motor powered

a 35 ft. boat across the Atlantic in the summer of 1912.

ALEX, ROSS & CO.

NOTICE

THE

4. Des Voeux Road Central.“

Machinery Department.

Telephone 27.

LONDON DIRECTORY.

(Published Annually)

G.

NOTICES."

R.

smple of an industr itself so as to make the tion of solaños to its own

a fundamental part of its wOT) While the older generation of emoosssful business mén

he know took pride in the good: work they bild: dans for the industry in which they were engaged, the younger men seemed to him to be kas in earness. Their view apparatly "When you're made enough, get out of it. Go into Parliament play golf, play the fool in way you like, "

Kleff Disaster.

A vivid description of the great explosion at a mozitions depot st Svjarinets, near Kit, en Jans 6;-

is given by a special corre spondent of the Berlin Lokal Anssiger: There ware some twelva big explosions and innumerable smaller ones, laating from ten in the morning till late in the afternoon. Shortly before eleven occurred the biggest explosion of all. People standing on the ramparte of Patchers were hurled to the ground by the pressure. of air and by the trembling of the ground. Sejarinets Cathedral collapsed like s house of cards. Houses were blown over or tazned apside down. Streets were turned into an impassable, emouldering mass of debris. The correspondent allades briefly to the rumours that the explosion was dueto Bolshevik machinations against the Haiman General Skoropadski-Realer.

H

Indian Man-Power.

Any European, Non-Asiatic or Indiso desiring to leave the With a view to contributing Colony should apply in person strength to the Indian Army the at the Central Police Station European and Angio - Indian:

ENABLES maden heurter the weed the hours of 3 am to Recruitment Committee have just

World to communicate direct with 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 pm; daily. issued a latter to all commercial English

Applicants will be required to firms and trades in-Bombay produce Passports or identifica asking them to contribute their tion papers.

European employees of military

MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS

in each class of goods, Besides being a complete commercial guide to London and its suburbs, the Directory contains lite of

EXPORT MERCHANTS.

with the goods they ship, and the Colonial and Foreign Markets they supply;

PROVINCIALI TRADE... NOTICES

of leading Manufacturers Mechana, etc. in the principal provincial power and in- dustrial centres of the United Kingdom.

A copy of the current edition will be for! warded freight paid, on receipt of Portal. Order for 25$.

Dealen seeking Agencies of advertise

All persons with certain excep

$50.

who remain in the age for service as officers or tons Colony for more than 7 days are subordinates in either combat required to Register themselves or non-combatant branchen. The under the REGISTRATION of circular has the immediate PERSONS ORDINANCE 1916. object of ascertaining the number Forms of Registration giving the of Europeane over 18 and particulars required may be ander 41 years of age in civil obtained at the G. P. O. and at oconpations and dividing them all Police Stations.

The Penalty for non-com-immediately available; (2) men roughly into four classes (1) men pliance is a fine, not exceeding available but with considerable inconvenience; (3) men available in case of extreme urgency; and (4) men not available, Em- ployers are asked to sexist the taak of registration and classification, keeping in mind thst in the pre- sent crisis it is necessary to apply a rather more stringent teat than has hitherto been applied regarde ing the retention of men in their civil avocation.

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their trade cards for El, or larger ver RAINWATER PIPES confidentially in

ments from £3.

THE LONDON DIRECTORY, CO, LTD

5. Abchurch Lane, London, E.O

AND EITTINGS FRANK SMITH & CO.”

6 DES YŒUX ROAD, CENTRAL,

TEL.

2090, HONGKONG.

STRINGS

Violin

Mandoline

Guitar Banjo

THE

ROBINSON PIANO

CO. LTD.

Now Eyes for Old.

It is not generally known that St. Dunstan's Hostel is a conte for the skilled treatment of sold- iers damaged eyes as well as a centre for training those blinded in the war. Yet many operations which have the result of restor ing sight temporarily lost hays been performed there.Last year filmen man admitted practically blind recovered their night safficiently to enable them to work," said Dr. Arnold LawIOD the

Harley-street specialist, is also one of the Hostal surgeons, recently two of them left the Ho to continue the employment, having no need of our training; able case quoted by Was that of a man who

(who

and almost stone mieg'on... After one eye bie besrit returned, and sufficiently restored. to go about alone. treatment at: Bi