,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1911.
We are
THE CHINA MAIL.
Hongkong Steel Foundry Company.
SPECIALISTS
in the Manufacture of
Best Cast =
Castings.
100
BY THE ORDER OF THE
-MORTGAGEES
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Every Description or castings for
Shipbuilders, Engineers, Railways,
R GEO.P, LAMMERT has received Minstructims to sell by Public Auction
011
MONDAY.
the 19th Febrany, 191
Sales Room, Duddoll Street,-
Victoria, Hongkong. The flexing: VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY Situate at Victorin, in the Colony of Hongkong, viz:-
All that piece er parcel of ground toate at Victoria, aforeid, known and registered Por- in the Land Ofice as the Reinheith tion of Itland Lot No. 122, together the Messunges thereon known as No. 31A, Calns Road and No. 58a, Peel Steet Are 3,346 Square Feet or thereabouts. Term 75 years. Annual Crown Rent 8121
For further particulars and conditions Messrs JOHNSON, STOKES AND
MASTER
Balo apply to
*
of
Prince's Buildings, Jes House Struct,
Hokgkong,
Solicitors for the Mortgages,
or to
MR GEO. P. LAMMERT,
The Auctioneer.
Hongkong, January 25, 1911. ~~
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AND
́ALE CLASSES OF
Machinery
High-Grade
Castings.
GORDON & Co. Central Managers,
CHINESE IMPERIAL RAILWAYS CHINESE 'LACQUER WARE.
~CANTON=KOWLOON-RAILWAY-
CRINESE SECTION.
A recent report from Mr B. O. Night, ingale, American Vice-Coeul at Fouchow, CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS, Į deals with the manufactura of the inequer
there will be no train servico.
Sien Trun at 4 ro. will ma
FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
HONGKONG...
OF
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ON MONDAY, the 30th January, 1911, are known to the Chinese as the "No. 1 Foochow Luoquer." It can lually be called From the 31st January, 1911, and until an art; it is rather a craft, the result of the 2nd February, 1911, both days includ-infinite labour and patience, since the lay ed,mily Umin timed to leave Canton (Tai Sha Tuu) at 2 r.. and train timed to le waing on of the coat or colour requires Ti mirë skill them the simplest torre The ordinary thin larrica MuleSof printing. The superbrity of the ed from the 3rd February, 1911. .
No. 1. Foochow lacquer over all other By Orler,
„TERAINMINISTRATION. Í fend is dry to its durability, xul Canton, January 24, 1911.
127 beauty; it takes more time to prepare (în going mises several years) and possesses finish and depth of colour unlike any other products of the saraa mture. The extreme nuntur of coats given, and the great care taken to refine the pure inequer, the
quantity of gold and silver leaf usually usad in the last enat are the cause of this, Concerning thủ gold 'anit silver leaf used, one imparts to the lacquer a dull gold adour, in whose depth a fine goli powder inny bo discerned, and the other gives a silver-green effect. ...Sometimes a little colouring patter in added, but the result in supposed to be better without it. The quantity of goid mixed with the Ine is about one-third the selling price for these artioles.
The earliest record of lacquer is from the Sufig dynasty, although it probably existed long before that date but in a more crude forma. It was introduced into Japan in the
CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS, JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all N FIRE INSURANCE OFFICES will the CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business on MONDAY and TUESDAY, the 30th and 31st instant respectively..
By Order,
A. R. LOWE,
Secretary. Bocgkong. January 27, 1911
MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
Hongkong,
always polished before receiving a new scat. After the ninth or tenth cont of this black Ine mixture, the article is thoroughly polished so as to receive the colour cost.
For the preparation of the final cost, a
small portion of Lacquer that has undergone the refining process four times is mixed by a pallat knife on a stone surface, with the gold and silvor loaf. When tho roughly mixed, it is placed in the contre of a thin sheet of autton paper The laser inside, the ends, being twisted in |-paper-is-then-rolled-Ingether with the opposite directions, until the Inoozes through "This is repeated thres times, There is great waste by this process which may also account for the price charged for | surse of thee articles. There is but one conting made of this incquer, Sometimes. or birds with ordinary paint, bat this is not fint surface is decorated by adding flowors
very popular, since the colour and quality of the lacquer itself are deemed sufficient decoration.
BILK LACQ′′ EU,
SLEEPING SICKNESS.
Its Torrible Effect in the Congo.
LONDON, January 6th. Senhor Andrade, Goromior-Gonemi: of Mozambiqua arrived in Londen to-day. Interviewed by Router's representativo, ho said that his mission was unofficial. His main object was to confer with the Foreign and Colonial Offices and also with the Chartered Company and other authorities regarding the proposed co-operation of the British and Portuguese Governments in joint inunsures to prevent the spread of slooping sickness,
Senior Andrado emphasised the grave danger of the scourge reaching Portuguese territory on the Zambed, or oven Doingon Bay, unless the passage of nutives across the Anglo-Portuguesa frontier wore immediate- ly prevented,
A CASE OF LIFE AND DEATH. Ho said It is a case of life and death for us," "He had Intely want an expert to the Tortugues boundary, who reported that he had not discovered a single case in Mozambique, but had heard of n number of chaos not confined to natives; iu British- territory near the border, particularly in Angoniland and near. Fort Johastan. He had immediately communicated with Land ladstone, and thus called the attention o the Imperiff Government to the gravity of
the situation.
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Now weß-k‡own throughoibha East for
THE ONLY WILLÉTIVE STLUS. He hoped to see in London the scientific
disease. He urged that the only effective STEAM RAISING, PURGING, STEEL MAKING, SHIP'S BUNKERS, work whichie-being carring en-to-lykt-ble-
stops would bo to abolish gamo reserves and to prevent the movements of natives from infected areas. The latter object could be achieved by posting Nativu Police along the frontier, and nicking the Chiots responsible for such movements.
extremely remote to the people of Europe, Sleeping sicknows might seem to be
but it was of vital inportance to the Africans. He und himself seen its appalling rayages in the Congo, which were werso than plague in the Middle Ages. The moueries of deserted kraain could never bo afficed. ..
The silk lacquer is generally applied to small articles eithor for practical use or for ornamental purposes, such as Fusor, card cases, and images. The art in so-fer nd- Count Reventlow, the unval publicist, vanced that images of almost every descrip denounces the fanterisation of the Aneri tion can tu mado under this system, with aus and English during the visit of the accuracy ned clearness. The process con United States squadron to British waters. mences by pasting a cost of native printis gCount Reventlow says that the act of the paper with rice glue mixed with chin-chu powder on a well modelled ciny image, care being taken to cut the paper int
warships not visiting Germany is a deliber- ately unfriendly act amounting to a political demonstration when viewed in connection with "the pourings of the American officers" on the occasion of their entertain- ment at the Guildhall in Loudon,
OF HONGKONG. '.
CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all Want' Advertisements MAIN INSURANCE. OFFICES will Lu CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business on MONDAY and TUES-hird century from Karen, at the time of proper sizes to suit the different parts PAY, the 30th and 31st instant.,
ths conquest of that country by the Em-where it is pasted; and to pasto it so press Jingo. The seventeenth century neatly that overy wrinkle of the face marked great progress in the industry in or fold of the material, sh.uld there with any other country in the mustter of London can more than hold its own Japan, and the gold lacquer became voy be any, will remain clear cut. After gigantic circulations. One popular Sunday popular, but from that timis its popularity the pasting the figure is thoroughly Journal claims a circulation of more than a decreased and, the found did not revive washed with this thin mixture and left that of King Edward's Funeral Number quarter of a million copies. Is is said. until the last few years.
PREFAID
3 insortions.
One wook.
$1 per inch..........
$2,
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NOTICE.
HE only Edition' of the RACE BOOK nad PROGRAMMES authorized by the Stowards of the Jockey Club are those printed by Mess Nocunha & Co.
T. E. HOUGH, Clerk of the Courza. Bongkong, January 25, 1911.
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NOTICE
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[ONEY LENT at a reasonable interest against security for short or long periods. Write to B. & JOSEPH, 1. Jubilee St., Hongkong: Strictly confid ential. Business hours 4 to t
Hongkong, January 3, 1911.
HONGKONG CLUB.
NOTICE
TO LET, from the 1st February, 1011,
5
53
of the ANNEXE, suitable for Offices. For further particulars apply to the Under- signed.
JAMES CRAIK,
Sordury. Hongkong, January 18, 1911.
HONGKONG FOOTBALL CHAL· ·
LENGE SHIELD.
TANTRES for the above will CLOSE on WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1st and a COMMITTEE MEETING will be held the same evening at the Y.M.C.A., Fous when the drawing will take place. Team intending to compete are requested to send representatives. Entrance fees (85) should be sent to the Hon. Trew, Bir O.J. BARNES c/o the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
H. L. O. GARRETT, Acting us. See: Hongkong, January 24, 1911. 10
FOR SALE.
ONE FULL SIZE -
Burroughs and Watts
By Order,
A. R. LOWE,
Secretary. Hongkong, January 27, 1911.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
NOTIOE.
132
PREPARATION OF LAC,
The lac, as is well known, is not manufactured product, but the sap
CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. (N MONDAY, 30th and TUESDAY,
31st Tastant, THE AERATED WATER RS verniciler, or Chi shu of the FACTORY will bu CĻUSED.”
Chinese. The tres is tapped at night during the summer season and the lac sold
All other departments will be CLOSED
C MONDAY, 30th Instant; and on TUESDAY, 31st Instans, will be OPEN from 10 a.st. do 1. par, only,
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. Hongkong, January 27, 1911.
130
to dry for two or three days. On top of the Daily Mirror nearly two million
·A. SAVE- REMEDY
FOR ALL
SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES
Blood Mixture, he world and he does
with a plaster of black lac and pulverized of the paper is then pasted the silk copies were printed.
ching-chu, with still greater care as to the overlaps and folds than is required in the paper conting, Tea days later another coating of silk is added after the necessary polishing has been applied. For smil to the consumer as a dried enku or in articles only two coats of ara aufficient, semifitid state. It is first placed in a but in the onse of larger ones one or two ructangular pan, where it is continually moulding is dry and carefully finished sub- more poate may be added. When the silk stirred with a spatuls for about two days sequent coatings of black laa mixtate ale then pressed by twisting the lac through applied thereto at an interval of about CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS, IC nnds of fine grus cloth and lined with every ten days in the same manner as to a thick layer of cotton. The refined lac is the wood, only greater care is exor.
ciend and N.accordance with Government Noti-putinto the pan again for a day and the polishing. Before receiving the culour longer time spent in the Itention No. 1 pt 15th inst.. theme process is repeated. So prepared, cost the image is immerged in water for EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED the Lae will answer for the first cants given such a length of time that the clay inside for the transaction of Public Business on
will dissolve and can be taken out through MONDAY and TUESEAY, the 30th and the articles but for the final or colour cast
sholo left at the h ttem of the figure for 31st idei respectively,
the Inc used undergoes this process four that purpose. After the removal of the light
Hongkong, January 24, 1911.
4
100 times. The invention of the No. 1 lac-clay the opening is sealed and a furni ht
CANTON DISTRICT.
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS..
Ko, yo NEW LIGHT AT FIRST BAR ISLAND.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
light has been established on the Wastern shore of First Bar Island.
The light will be exhibited for the first time on the night of February Lt, 1911.
It is a Sixth Order Light, White, Group Occulting as follows:
10 seconds.. ...light
...eclipso .......light
...eclips
11
2
17
12
The mast, and light-keeper's hut, are painted white..
The light is elevated 40 feet above High water Level, and in clear weather should be visible 10 miles.
A NOID' HOTSON," Acting Harbour Master, Imperial Mari ime Customs, Harbour Master's Office, Approved:
J. F. OIESEN, Commissioner of Oudom Canton, January 24, 1911.
BILLIARD TABLE Rowland's
· WITH · ACCESSORIES
Apply to
GEO, P. LAMMEET;
Hongkong, Juzo 7, 1810.
BELF OURË NO FIOTION) @ NO ZUPKERER NEED NOW DESPAIR, THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY,
THERAPION No. 1
In a remarkably abort elmapolen..
1. a few days only. Curos dlicherzunelzherwxpuneradlar lejections
THERAPION NO.2
"Catos blood polwen, badiran, nigge, sores, pašníci: wwetland jointa, ka „chen mercurial Lintment (NIEL,
THERAPION NË3-
Geschmale wrakuoka, Jock Tiguenot vital foras..
Either Member Thiespion JeaTSET directions onscitravel, otočírniris aepost from Kiệtrong The LaClem MediFileCay Haverstock Rd, Hans Z "stead, London, Bag. Try New Desgos (antalone)
·Form of Thers pieni, andy so mke made lasing ter Trade Marked' word THERAPIONE Con
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MOURES TO STAY QUREDI
Macassar Oil
FOR THE HAIR
Is the East Preparation you can ma ZAURAWHY? B
BECAUSE without le che Hair” becomes dry, thin, and Delizie, and thie in the nearest #pproach to the naterai oli in the Llair, the loss of which caʊRCE
BECAUSE YOU must kang the Kaly well kweg nourished and not dry, or you will soon
Ladlaw require is to keep the Hale mit bage and silky, nakon godina p
Men require
› la to prevent baldams Children require la to lay the fenndation *" of Luxuriant brawkhu: Bold In Ouklen Calder Joe Jais Hair. Of Store Chemists and Bowlande, 67, *Halton Garden Leiden, Aroki thesp
· apurtius 1:slations and colỹ tray the
article is ready to receive its
quer is said to belong to the Shen later the hollow and exececi
On silk ne well as dwork the caluar
also accredited the invention of silk lacquer.blacking and of cautious shades, by
'The
contain
If you suffer from any disexas das to an im. pure state of the Blood, FROM WHATRIER GAVER Axea, you should test the veine of Clarke's
and Restorer, This medicine has 40 years" ever, the reason of this being undoubtedly. reputation, and is today mors popular the
because this wonderful remedy. Rosa, what it' professed to dosta duze SEAT AND BLOOD DISKARES PARKANEMKLY,
Clarke's Blood
HOUSEHOLD PURTUSES.
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KAIPING COKÉ
Competes with the best quality English Uckes für FOUNDRY, SMELTING AND HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES."
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Cakes
WEISMANN'S
Bread.
Jedrkong, July 20, 1910.
Make no Mistake about it!
Mixture WATSON'S
# THE FINEST BLOOD PURIFIER EVER DISCOVERED.
· It le' warranted to cleanse the blood from all
Sino An family, in whose hands the manu- facture still is... To this saunu family is cost is applied but once. The lae, though can be made almost into every The term lacquer ware applies only to the
with other ingredients. thing which las undergone curtain prepam most costly colours are those which costale pericles, from whatever cause acidez. Fai tions before receiving several costs of lac.ours in most common use are branza
the greatest quantity of Ordinary woodwork covered with Ningpoor ochre green of varicua shader, and liver
ver. SOROYULA, varnish, or even with lac, is not included. purple or dark maroon gold. The term The proper lacquer ware may be chiefly
is easily misinterpreted to Icquer
~BOURVY, mean lacquer wore sprinkled with gold | ZUZEMA, divided into two kinds, the ordinary and dust air fragments of gold foil or inlaid with BLOOD POISON, BLACKHEADS,
guild thread, etc. In gold lacquer the gold. or silver bas
that t bern pulverizod a fine
ULOZES, appears no more as sprinkled dust, but
the silk.
The ordinary beter is applicable to
guld
BAD LEGS,
BLOTCHES, SPOTS,---
PIMPLES, and
ainoat every kind, of furniture and to richness is blended with the other its AKIH & BLOOD. SORES OP ALL
ormental articles, for houses, but is og matter and the refined lae giving a
i11.
DISEASES. KINDS.
It is the only real specifio for Gout" and Haematie Palus, for It removes the cause from: the Blood and Benes.
Justrous and lovely tiut ofa uniform shade, commonly applied to woodwork. Only The lac in the chig-cha na xture used for. It is a safe and Permanent Remedy. very old wood, usually cedar which the primary coating his passed the refining will noilber warp nor crack, is used process only twe instead of fear times, A.
"described 18 for this purpose... Articles and orna- the last cont
the foregoing for that of meats of the
A little water is added most delicate care to the Ine when it in being mixed with ig are treated in this fashion. To preparo
the pulverized ching-chu Ching-chu is the woodwork, such as furniture, for and after the impurities,
refined red clay.. It is dissolved in
water, Buch | sand, have qués leegustor drapestowout one or bour removed, the maddy water is Sltered
NOTE. This mixture is pleasant to the taste
AND WARRANTED FAKEYJOX ANYTHING LAFYRZUCH TO FUR MOST DELICATE SONSTITUTION" of either nex, from infancy to old ago, and the
Lost its valan.
to liels sufferers to give it a trial to
Thousands of wonderful cures have been affected by it.
TRIED MANY THINGS WITHOUT BENEFIT UNTIL I-TOOK. CLARKE'S BLOOD MIXTURE.
Mr F. Z. Lewis, 48, Bridge Streek Bow, Obertor, wiles :- Just a line in favour of "Clarke's Blood Mixture. I had sosema for
two inches wide along any crack or joint through certain layers of paper and porous or opening that may exist it is then filled time. The fine clay found on the top of up with lae and two or three costs of linen which furar it is sold at the market. This the paper is dried into tablets.or bricks, in 105 cloth, which will not only cover the depth alt
pulverized clay mized with the no will but also serve to keep the parts together form a crisp contig on the woodwork After fortnight or longer, when the las harden the silk in the silk Lacqoar, the linen is perfectly dry, the woodwork A gaunina No. 1 Fuochow kequar wil stand any climate and any amount if scorted with a thin out of black in wishing, even with boiling water. Intaven months, and tried many things tout mized with n lille ching-chu, a kind of clay common form of Incquer unrefined Inc in the preparation of which will later he dea used for the primary coating, and that fu dibed. Ten days latera process of general the colour coat has not been refined mint than Lirico Inabund of eling chu, w ich i polishing is applied to the article with flag com
comparatively expexive, the powd-z1. janicu stund of various shapes and sizes. braken bricks and tiles in fresly uncil. About every ten days a vow thin cost of ostriched with pulverized gold and silver The colour Inc is very soldout or nois the lad wixture is put ou! The article is Lines is satatitated for silk. Very litti
KEATING'S
OZENCE
THE WORST COUGH Cheer gives "valiai sʼda. Increasing
· Lasẻ về tháir ínirvslom valos,
is
done in each and every no polishing interval between the coatings, until bolor the last coat. Owing to cheapness, there
nuch greater demand for the imitations than the genuino. “Ordináry lacquer ware will récaire on an average bus-ivo Costa, wherona No...„L“ darse, inus "than nine and sometimes ke many ka twenty....
A FOLLOWER OF INFLUENZA...
Nattack of influenza is often followed Aby a persistent cough, which to many proven great annoyance, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been extensively used
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beneft unil I took your remedy. After tha sight botile I was quito well again. Please socept this letter ass token of grailtuds to your wonderful Clarke's Blood. Mizture.”—Jone 15, 1905,
''IMPURITIAM' IN TEZ BLOOD. We have HEGD hosts of letters from sorts and conditions of people, in which the writers acknowledge the bencat they have received from Clarke's "Blood Mature, which as a curative agent cannot be too highly estimated, sines it efenses and clears the blood from all Impurities, and reators: 30 to fla normal condition. This is a good kailmonial from the Family Doctor, the 'popular medical weekly, which goes on further to say's It is ourtainly the anest blood purifier that Finlanos and skill have brought to light, and we can with the nintout saddene recommend it to
naz subworibers and pubillo generally
Sold by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors throughout
men, the Worid.
And with good inccess for the rollef and Aake for one curs of this cough biany chaos have been"
cired after other well known rented fus find CLARKE'S BLOOD MIXTURE
talled. For alu by; all Chemists and
No10
of the best from
F
SCOTCH WHISKY
Dundee. Demand it.
Agents for Hongkong, F. BLACKHEAD & Co,
NATURAL
ENO'S
HEALTH-GIVING
FRUIT
REFRESHING
SALT
INVIGORATING
800
1603