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NOTICES.

EXPANDED METAL

FOR PLASTER WORK AND RE-INFORCED CONCRETETM CONSTRUCTION

AS

USED IN

NUMEROUS

IMPORTANT

WORKS

IN

FOR

FLOOR.

ROOF.

FOUNDATION,

GREAT BRITAIN and AMÉRICA.

STOCK LIST, PAMPHLETS, AND

WALL.

ETC.

PRICES ON APPLICATION.

Rechalong for description of Mrabinery or Engineering Plant on application sa DODWELL & CO. LTD. Machinery Dept.

"APEXIOR

THE MOST RATIONAL REMEDY FOR BOILER TROUBLES.

AGENTS:---

SOLE THE EASTERN ASBESTOS GO.

Queen's Building. Chater Road, HONGKONG...

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment:—

Principal features: Small Premium, Liberal Surrender Value, No Medical Examination, Return of Premium in the Event of Death, and Numerous Options at the Age of 25. WRITE FOR PAMPHLET AND FULL PARTICULARS TO

DODWELL & CO., LTD. Agents.

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING AT

ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERA OP

+

ATD.

PURE MANILA ROPE

3

STRAND

1 to 15"

CABLE LAID

5 " to 15" CIRCUMFERENCE}* | OIRCUMFERENUE,

4 STRAND 3" to 10" CIRCUMFERENCE.

Oil Drilling Cales of any size up to 8,000 feet in length. Prices, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

LEMOS.

BROOKE'S

FINEST

Lemon Squash.

SOLE AGENTS:

CALDBECK MACGREGOR

& CO.

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

HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.

Kr. U. SUGA Mrs. A SUGA Mr. I. HONDA .. Mrs. S. HONDA 8 Queen's Road Central, Eingkong.

METALS

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

SINGON & CO.,

(Established &.-D. 1880.)

Phont 325 HING LUNG ST.

MEE CHEUNG ICE HOUSE STREET.

FOR

EXPERT PHOTOGRAPHY DEVELOPING, PRINTING. ENLARGING A SPECIALITY.

STORE OPPOSITE CITY HALL.

THE - WEWE ·FRENCH RIMEDY.

THERAPION NO. 1 THERAPIONN: 2 THERAPIONN03

P. & for padder Camerino. 2 fer 3266d. KRIS DESOLDRs, Mail for Cheunło WILELASSEN. WOLDWYLRADING EVENTSTK. 7

DE LECK==Moa Ca

ESK TRADE MARKED WORD "THERATION' 26 OR EL COVEZANI ÄPPLIED TO GENUINE TACENZO

application General Hausgeza.

NORTH BRITISH

AND

MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,

in which are vested the shares of

THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

AND

THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.

The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared, to ACCEPT RISKS against

-FIRE at Current Rates, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks of 375 lbs. nat.

In Bags of 250 lbs, net.

+

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers. Hongkong, 16th August, 1916.

MASSAGE HALL

23. FLOWER STREET. MR. T. TAKAYE, MRS. MORITA. CERTIFICATED WASSEURS. PATIENT TREATED IN THE Ows Hostes

IT DEAILED.

LONDON DIRECTORY.

(Published Annually) enables traders, throughout the World somunalcate direct with English

MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS in sab clamm of goods, Baddes being pozapleta commercísi guida vo Landosi so Juborbe, it contažna Bata uf

EXPORT MERCHANTS

with the goods they ship, and the Dole sis and Foreign Markste ther supply: also

PROVINCIAL TRADE NOTICES

if leading Manufacturers, Merchants, eto, in the principal Provincial Towns and In Lastcial Centres of the United Kingdom Ervinen Cutie of Hurumais, and Eličene

Eure zove he pointed under weak zonde to which they are interested at a cost of £ for each trade Beading. Larger advertino. ments from £3 to £12.

copy of the directory will be sent by pos va roeipt of postal order for £110 0.

THE LONDON DIRECTORY, DO, LYB 8. Abchurch Lane, Londen, E.C.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1918.

Ford

$1380

Complete with Electric Lights & Electric Horn.

ALEX. ROSS & CO..

4, Des Vœux Road Central.

'Phone 2487.

BEST AGE TO MARRY.

ADVANTAGES OF "EAKLY TWENTIES."

marry till he has reached the thirties is liable to many teup tations. The best age to marry -both for men and women-is in the early twenties." In leaving a fortaue of £750,

There is no reason," said a |000 Mr. W.M. Koch de Goorerni, London doctor, "why a woman wrote that he hoped his children should not marry before 27. would not marry before reaching, There is every reason why she the age of 27,

should. in my experience, too, Why ? MA C. Gotto the earliest marriages are the of the Eugenies Elucational happiest." Society, isenthusiastical in favour! That the modern tendency

is

GENERAL NEWS.

"WIRELES" WITH WIRES,

The new form of telegraphie communication, which is termed masenshiki ynsen denshin (tele- graph to be communicated by wire after the fashion of wireless), was inaugurated between Kobe

CALL

*AT

THE HONGKONG

anil Osaka on April 1st. Exper CIGAR STORE

ments have been going on for some time and proved successful. It is expected that between 500

CO., LTD. AND ASK FOR

and 000 messages will be transEL PALACIO

mitted daily by the new method.

THAR DIES IN CHURCH. Rev. Daniel Martin Evans, 44, visar of Foleshill, Warwickshire, warecently found dead in the nave of his church. He was seized with illness while conduct- ing a funeral, but recovered sufficiently to go through with the service. On his way home fram the cemetery ho called at the church, and it is supposed an attack of heart trouble coupled with the severe frost caused his collapse.

SOCIAL REFORM IN KOBE,

Recently a Y. M. C. A. meeting was held in which the purifica- tion of Kebe was discussed. Among the speakers were an American professor, and Mrs. Hayashi Utako, of the Toshi Kyofu Kai, or the City Discipline Society, and several gentlemen interested were present. The chief subject of the speeches was the speedy removal of the Fakuwara licensed quarter as a contribution to the preservation of public health.

MURDER BY HAD OFFICER."

Lieut, Sidney Stewart Hume, who shot Pie. Robert Aldridge, an orderly, while a patient at Lat- chmere House Military Hospital,

was at Guildford Assizes recently

ordered to be detained during

AND

YOU will be

convinced that Hongkong is

now faroured with the best brand

of

NOTICES.

MANILA CIGARS.

KODAKS

& FILMS Developing & Printing

Undertaken.

This Majesty's pleasure. He was of the early marriage. From all against the early marriage is every point of view," she says clear from the census return. In adjudged unfit to plead to the the early marriage is desirable, 1871, for instance, 230 men aged insane, his counsel said, owing to change of murder, having becorne for eugenically it is sound, and 20-25 were married per 1,000 of his treatment by the Germans for social reasons it is strongly to the population. Now the number when a prisoner of war. In the A. TACK & CO., beadvised. Themodern tendency has dropped to 142. With early days of the war he gave up postpone marriage is to be de- men the decline is from 346 to a Incratise position in order to plured.

join the Army.

The man who does not 242.

PHILIPS WATT

LAMPS OBTINAABLE NOW IN UNITS 25 AND 32 C.P.

OF

ESTATE OF 50,000 ACRES SOLD. The Marquis of Aberdeen has

about 50,000 acres of the

Haddo House estates Herbert Boret, of Billiter-square,

London, who is acting as negotia-

26, Des Voeux Road Central.

THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

ર

(Ospital Paid up...$1,250,000.)

Loss on Martynge of Room Propecký, da, Goads rescired on Storage AÄTEACHS Made on Merekasdien. Losze made at the Prardant Brakes

RRUSTEM, EXECUTOR OF WHALB. ATTORNEY, äc. Coderates and Execited.. (Hate and Particulars on appilestial) To the Offes of

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managers.

THE ALEXandra CAFE.

tor for another person. The Marquis retains 13,000 acres, in- elading Haddo Hou-e and WHICH CONSUME ONLY grounds. Lord Hadilo and Lord ABOUT HALF THE AMOUNT Dadley Gordon event in a OF ELECTRIC CURRENT USED petition to be presented to the The BY METALLIC FILAMENT Court of Session for auction to break the entail. The part re- LAMPS OF EQUAL CANDLEtained includes the farm of POWER. FURTHER IN UNITS Collyuie, facanus for -horthorus. UP TO 3000 CF. ARE PROOF AGAINST SHOCKS AND

VIBRATION.

For wholesale apply to

HOLLAND-CHINA TRADING CO.

·HONGKONG-CANTON.

EDUCATING THE COOK.

To encourage domestic ser- vants to prove their culinary knowledge the L.C.C. is cffering half-time cookery scholarships. The examination for the scholar- ships will be conducted by Moss. Kriens, the French chef, who is head of the boy cooks' school at the Westminister Technical Institute. The scholarship con-

of

three ก

months' coarse in practical cookery and a grant of £5 to meet travelling

Prior

tu the war regular scholarship curses in cookery were given at the in-ti- tute, and many, servants, who at

SOLE AGENTS FÖR SOUTH CHIN || sists

PIANOS

FOR

HIRE

AT

$10

PER MONTH.

ROBINSON'S

expenses.

RENOWNED THROUGHOUT THE EAST"

Alexandra Cafe (next door to Hongkong: Hotel) for Tiffin and Dinner. Our famous filleted Haddock as a light Summer Snack is unsurpassed. Choice-Ginger Cake a speciality, try it.

FOOK LEE & CO.,

Established 1871.

IRON & STEEL PRODUCTS, HOUSE & SHIPBUILDING & ENGINEERING MATER ALS.

BRANCH OFFICE: Tork Bailding, Chater Road,

Phone 1930.

HEAD OFFICE: No 24k 4 Hillier Street, Phone 1174.

PRICES "SENT ON APPLICATION.

the start knew little or nothing YALE

Jabʊat cookery, were able at the conclusion, of the course to take positions in clubs and ic ladies' households, at more than double their previous salaries.

WHAT THE PUBLIC READ,

In the fifth annual report of Committee of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust the accounts for 1918 show that on January 1 there was a balance in land of £26,867, and the incune reached the high figare of £125,240,

=

CHAIN BLOCKS.

TRIPLEX, DUPLEX, & DIFFERENTIAL TROLLEYS & TROLLEY TRUCKS, CRANES &c.

BOLE AGENTS ---

BRADLEY & CO., LTD. MACHINERY DEPT. →QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG.

making a total of £132.107. Total M, Y. SAN & Co.,

grants amounted to £38,008, and included allocation of sums for mural and special libraries, physical welfare, church organs, biblings, and music. On the libraries question, it is remarked that, generally speaking, the rural population desires the game class of books as townsfolk. After Betion, works dealing with his- tory, geography, travel, and bic- graphy are the most popular, and jij that in some places à distinet interest is shown in sociology. The trust has eb-operated with the City Parochial Foundation in putting the affairs of the Boys! Victoria Hall the "old Vic." on a more satisfactory basis.

HONGKONG.

Ltd.

HICH CLASS CONFECTIONERS

AND

BISCUIT MANUFACTURERS,

Well known for best Materials, up-to-date "Máchinery" and Gjernest Work in the Orient.

-HEAD OFFICE:

Nos. 02-100 Queen's Road, Centrid,

FACTORY:

Nok. 141-145, Wanchai Road.

Branches at Manila, Singapore, Shanghai and Canton, Chine,