A one-page advertisement for the Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd., makers of pure Manila hemp rope, established 1883. It advertises ropes, cables and hawsers from 1/2 to 15 inches in circumference, with driving ropes for mills and bull ropes and drilling cables for oil wells as specialties. It notes supply to the British Navy on the China Station and to steamship lines, and shows the company's 'Phoenix Chop' trademark emblem.