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CAFE RESTAURANT PARISIEN

Pedder Building, Hongkong.

Dine and Wine and Danco as you may feel inclined. Reasonable Faro and Free-

Enjoyment for all."

Me Is

Bxcellent, Satisfying, Plentiful and Iocxpensive Liquid Refreshment-

Best Wines, Spirits.

* Malt Liquors, etc.

At Reasonable prices,

Music -

Assured Satisfaction Fou'tlessly and Tastefully Rondered by Recently Arrived Exports as follows:

Tiffin 1 bn to 2.30 p.m.

Classical and Operatic

Dinner Bansant

from 8 .3. .

Dance Musics.

Tea Dances-

Will be revived in the monc future.

DINE and DANCE

From 8 pm. Nightly.

PIANOS

MORRISON

PLAYER PIANOS.-

AND

SO BEAUTIFUL AN INSTRU- MENT IS THE MORRISON PIANO THAT IT MAKES IN- STANT APPEAL TO LOVERS OF · MUSIC; SO FINELY. CON STRUCTED THAT IT REPRO- DUCES WITH MARVELLOUS PERFECTION ALL THE EX- QUISITE TONAL PHRASING » OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST

PIANISTS.

A First Payment of $100 puts this beautiful instrument in your home.

"LISTEN TO A MORRISON.",

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE WORLD'S BEST BISCUITS

HUNTLEY & PALMER,,

PELK FREAN, ARNOTT, JACOB. Fresh. Shipients Constantly Arriving.

MONTE

DEL

AND

S. & W Tinned Fruit.

The Best Groceries.

We supply everything for the table :-- Meat, Chickens, Hams, Groceries, Vegetables.

etc... etc.

Lowest Prices

Mosses and Clubs specially. ented for.

INDIA'S GOLD BASIS.

REPUEE TO be stabiliseD

AT EIGHTEEN PENCE. «

Delhi, Jan. 17.1 The Government of India, hrs: gazetted three Important Bills, em- bodying the Hilton Young eur- [rency commission's recommenda-

tions.

The firat Bill, aiming at Im- mediato stablisation of the rupac in relation to gold, proposes a rate.) of eighteen ponce. Legal tender quality of sovereign and half so- vereign coins will be demonetizal, - to enable the establishment of a real gold balllor standard. Dur

ng the transition period, until the Reserve Bank overtakes its nota Issue, the Government will not ex- ercise the option to sell gold, as it will be engaged in building up a gold reserve.

The object of the second Bill to establish a gold standard cur- rency and constitute a reserve Bank, which will have the sole right of the note issue for 25 years, subject to renewal, with a capital of five erores of rüpees, paid up.

Subscription Arrangement. Imperial Bank shareholders will be given the first of opportunity

KWONG LEE STORE of subscribing, but as it is not de-

Early Deliveries Anywhere

5. Queen Victoria Greet TELEPHONE C. 798,

sirable to give them a preponderat- ing volee in deciding the currency policy of the Reserve Bank, it is proposed to give the Imperial Bank as an institution, and not to in- dividual shareholders, the option of subscribing 30 per cent of the capital. The Gefgral Board of the Imperial Bank has expressed its willingness to recommend this pro-

MASSAGE HALL Shareholders. The head

MRS. S. UZUNOYE

Expert Masseuse

37, Queen's Road, Central.

2nd fleer.

TUESDAY, JANUARY

OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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And others, office of the Reserve Bank For example. will be at Bombay. The Pronoun. directors will be nominated 12 artly by the Government and81 60 elented partly by shareholder Exclamation meaning "Look,”. The Bill cropowers the Bank for n period of five years to advance 38 money against promissory notes of 41 the scheduled banks, thereby help-42 ing to finance industry and the An

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41 Men's outfitters,

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The betraying of allegiance.

DOWNL.

Ruet Government business as an agent of the Reserve Bank, where the latter has no branch, and o No. 313, Top Floor Wyndham St open branches outside India.

HONGKONG.

The first reading of all three Bills is likely to be taken in the Assembly on January 25. Diver

MASSAGE HALL ratio question, regarding which

23; WYNDHAM STREET

Mrs. H. MORITA.

MRS. E. AKAJI. Telephone C. 4395.

T. NAKAO

Japanese, Shoe Expert. TORTOISE SHELL BOXES AND CASES A SPECIALITY

Astor House Hotel Building..

Queen's Road Central,

METALS

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO, of all kinds especially for ship-build-

Telephone C. 4648.

MRS. SEKAI MASSAGE

Tel. No. C. 4433, 2nd Floor 2, Duddell Street, Hongkong

NESTLE'S

ing and engineering work. Complete stock. Bont Turne, Immediate 'delivery.

SINGON & CO., BESTABLISHED A D: 1880 HING LUNG ST. Phone Central..

.515.

the majority of non-officials will vole for a sixteen pence ratio..- Router.

A COLD SPELL,

NEW YORK · EXPERIENCES

ICY BLASTE,

at six weather

New York. Jan. 17. With the thermometer below zero, the coldest for years was experienced "here and in other parts of the eastern states, when a blizzard which pre- viously had buried Chicago and other cities in the middle-west and north-west under huge snowdrift. swept over New York.

An icy gale blew at 40 miles du hour, seriously hampering shi ping in the harbour and railway and street trade.

Three deaths are attributed to The storm Renter's American Service.

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OBITUARY.

wwwwwww..com MANAGER OF A JOHORE ESTATE.

(Our Own Correspondent.}

Singapore, Jan. 17. The death is reported of Mr. Herbert James, manager of the Mount Cyril estate at Mersing, During a delirium' at the hospital) he jumped from a verandah.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

LET'S GO UPTOWN AN, LOOK IN ALL PA WINDOWS AN. SEE

UULAT WE CAN

SEE!

THATS FUNKY-

I WAS JUST GOING 70 SUGGEST TH SAME THING

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1 Place of sale,

2 Shoulder omament,

When buying Toilet requisites and articles for personal use, one wishes to be very sure that they are of the highest quality and of undoubted purity and freshness.

The Queen's Dispensary.

guarantees these qualities to all who make their purchases there, and in addition a courteous and obliging service.

22, DES VORUX ROAD (NEXT TO WHITEAWAY'S)

SE

HANDCRAFT

Stained Glass

ancient and modern

The beauty of stained glass is in itself a visualisation of the patient labour which directed the hands that fashioned it.

In the same manner, the appreciation given to State Express Cigarettes is an indication of the care with which they are "made by hand

one at a time.”

STATE EXPRESS

VIRGINIA

CIGARETTES

555

· Made by hand-One at a time! ARDATH TOBACCO CO., LTD,, LONDON

ELECTRO--PLATING.

OVER TWENTY YEARS EXPERIENCE in the Electro- deposition of Metals in Hongkong, places us in a position to offer reliable and efficient service for the plating of articles in Gold, Sivor, Nickel and Copper.

Artistic finishes in Bronze, Antique Copper, and Oxydized Silver.

"Polished and Lacquered Brassware. William C. Jack & Co., Ltd. Electrical Engineers,

Tel. Central 358.

TEL. CENTRAL 492.

RICKSHAW " BRAND

CEYLON TEA Cheapest and Best From all leading. Compradores.. PRICE $1.00 PER LB.

Bo Guided by the Quality Not the Price.

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LOOK LIKE ERASERS AN PENCIL BOXES AN RULERS-

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Booking mode on all Trans-Pacific Lines.

Through tickets to any destination in United States or Canada.

Through tickets issued via Juez Roote and Europe. All tickets Issued at tariff rates.

Overland trips through North China, Korea and Japan arranged.

Baggage and Accident Insurance.

Carry American Express Travellers Cheques.

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For complete information apply,

THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., Inc.

4A, Des Voeux Road, Central. Telephone C. 4625

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