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LECTIONDER, AFFRAISER
VETOR..
Public Auction
INTIMATIONS
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE.
HIS. Department will be entirely OLESED on XMAS and NEW YEAR Days. It will be open for all purposes from 9 AM. till Noon on the 28th December and 2nd January.**
D. W. TRATMAN,
Superintendent, Imports and Exports, Hongkong, 18th December, 1918.
NOTICE.
THE Offices and Stations of the
CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS for Kowloon and District WILL BE CLOSED to Public Business da the 33rd lastant, being the Winter Solstice, on Christmas Day, and on the P1st, 2nd and 3rd January next, being
the New Year Holidays
T. D. MOOREHEAD, -Commissioner of Chinese Custom..
**York Bulding",
Hongkong, 18th December, 1918,
WANTED.
DYA RETURNED STUDENT from
an United States University, A
position as a Correspondent, Trans-
lator Clerk, Interpreter or
Private
INTIMATIONS
METEOR GARAGE IDEAL XMAS
Sole distributors of
MAXWELL CARS.
Automobiles for Hire
and for Sale at reasonable Prices.
'Phons 2500.
83 Des Voeur Road Central
XMAS GIFTS.
KODAKS
of every descriptios. A. TACK & CO.,
GIFTS:-
CIGARS:
GOLOFINA PERFECTOS
$5.00 per box of 25.
CIGARETTES:
COMMANDER VIRGINIA
$1.00 per tin of 50.
26, Des Voeux Road Central
TOBACCO:
Secretary, etc. Apply to... DAIRY FARM NEWS.
c/o China Mail."
HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,
LIMITED.
OWING to Alterations, and Repair
at the Power Station the SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY will be SHUT OFF on SUNDAY, the 22nd Decern. ber, from 7,15 AM to 1 P.M..
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
Agents.
Hongkong, December 19th, 1918.
APPEAL FOR INCREASED
WAGES.
HE CAULKER EMPLOYEES of Hongkong, owing to the Great Increnes in the cost of living, respect fully appeal to Owner of Shipbuilding Yards and Employers to kindly increase their ages by 10 cents per head per day, from January 1st, 1919.
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THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO, LTD,
NOTICE.
THE Begister of Shareholders will be TE
CLOSED from the 23rd day of Fecember, 1918, to the 31st day of December, 1918, both days INCLUS- VE
J
The rights to shares in the new com. pany will accrue to the Shareholders' who are on the Register on the 30th day of December, 1018.
All intending TRANSFERS should be sent on or before the 21st December, 1918.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers.
HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY: CO, LTD.
EN INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE ADOLLAR ($100) per share for A Recour 1918 will be payable on SAT- URDAY, the 80th December 1918. Sharebelders are requested to apply for Dindend Warrants at the Com pany's Office; St George's Buildings, Longtong.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MON. DAY. the 23rd December 1918, to SATURDAY, 28th December, 1918, both days inclusive.
GORDON & COY, General Managers.
g14th December, 1918.
TO LET
Naizan Boads Kowloon.
CHRISTMAS ORDERS
FOR
OWN FED TURKEYS should be booked with us early to avoid disappointment. Birds supplied alive or killed and dressed as required.
BUY YOUR
-"CHRISTMAS
AT
TOYS
GRACA & 00.
Lotto,
Erector,
Stockings, Tinizertoss, Xmas Baskets, Picture Books,
Zag: Zaw Puzzle,
Animal Kut-ups, Problem Builder, Grasshopper Tennis,
- Popular price Dalls, and many other suitable Gifts. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.
Hongkong,
PATELL & CO.
ORIENTAL PRODUCE
EXPORTERS.
SILK MERCHANTS, COMMISSION AGENTS.
Agencies In NEW YORK.
BAN FRANCISCO, UB.AL
Branches':
CANTON, BHANUKAL, YOKOKAMA BOMBAY
HEAD OFFICE BIG BUILDIN
HONGKONG.
JAPANESE
ind of Footwear
MADE
ORDER
GARRICK MIXTURE
$1.60 per lb. tin.
OBTAINABLE
AT ALL TOBACCONISTS.
BLESTIG.
This advertisement is inuet by British-American Tobacco Co, Lide
PRESERVING SPIDER-WEB-
HISTORY OF MAHOGANY.
That lover of Scandinavia, Mr. Edmund In order to preserve spiders websIt is said that mahogany was first Gosse, begs us to use the old Danish naturalists employ an ingenius method. known to Europeans through the fact that spelling. Slesvig, not the Germana The webs are first sprayed from an Sir Walter Raleigh, when at Trinidad, Schleswig. Our maps teem with spet azomizer with a thin solution of artists in 15, used planks of it to repair one Hings which the Germans have that shellac, and then, should they be of the of his reseds. The samples thus car upon and readers may remember in this column young Pole's irrection of ordinary geometric form, they are ried to England were much sdmired, but what he called our profienman name: pressed carefully against a glass plate, for over 100 years the wood was put to place. But, we said to him, you the supporting strands at the same time no really practical use. pronounce the name of your home being severed. After the shelles solt Kletchkoffake, yet you, s Icie, spell it.
with a W-Eleczkowski How about tion has dried the plates carrying the that You must remember that we webs can be stored away in a cabinet. are a subject people," he replied with a
antle
AN AUTHOR'S: DEATH.
Prematurely aged and exfering from chropic asthma, bronchitis, and insomnia
MORE GOLD WANTED
A committee has been appointed to consider and report on the effect of the war on the gold production of the British
was the description gives of the condition Empire, with reference more particularly
THE LATE SIR HUBERT PARRY.
An interesting aspect of the late Sir Hubert Parry, buried in St. Paul's, was that he was an original member of the National Liberal Club, "and a sturdy Liber.te the end of his life: Sir Hubert built a ball on his estate, so that the vil lagers might have an opportunity of *** beazing both sides,” and he would pre-
Ms. Robert B. Ress, at a Westminster to the treatment of low grade ores sudside et Liberal meetings and he a silent. inquest.
Mr. Rosa was the well-known art critic how far i
be of importance to critic at Unionist gatherings in the bail.
Ponsonby, M.P..
and the literary executor of Oscar Wilde national interests to secure the coolinu. One of his Hous-in-law is 32. Arthur He was rejected for the Army is medicance of the treatment of such ores and ally unfit, and that seemed to worry him generally how to stimulate the production agrest deal. At the time of his death of gold. The committee will comprise he was planning to go to Australia, in Lord Lucheape (chairman), Sir Thomas connection with a new art gallery at Eliot, Sir Charles Addis, and Mr. W. H
Goschen. Melbourne,
Death from natural causes was the verdiet.
COLOURED LABOUR IN HAND
MINES
A report current in Capetown that the South African Government intends bc remove the enlous bar on the Hand mines The matter was discussed at a meeting
ARMY PROMOTION AND FAN
COMMISSIONS.
When fae regulation was introduced that no more direct commissions were to be given in the Army, but that all of cars, exeeps those gazetted through the recoguised pre-war changels, should be selected from among these serving in the
METAL. USED IN WAR
** Frometheus," the argan of the Ger- mán iron trade, will be interested in Mr.
chili's statement that during the recent Britan offcosives our gums have fred an average of 10,000 tons of shells, per day... This journal has from time to time published figures concerning the shells fired by the Germans in some of their big offensives and singled outs their unpreme effort the Crown Prince's titanie onslaught onsendum Around the Verdun battle ares of approximately 100
Prometheus,
of the Mapers Union when the feeling ranks, there was a general, chorus, square miles, szid
··
average of one mill on shells were fret
by the Germans each week, the average
euch shell being 0015
was expressed that such Loove world approval. And for ourselves we are on men general strike. The union de vinced that the introductions of the rule cided not to take any action in the mean was all to the advange of the Service, weight time, but to develop its organisation in It is, therefore, somewhat surprising to work out at rather, under 0,000 tons, per order to be ready to meet any attempt learn that direct commissions in the day, or little more than asis, the tonnage hurled daily to undermine the status of the white Royal Air Force, are que being offered 20 of steel and hig
me In connection with the
certain efvillons. It is understood how into the Hodenberg Eiza by the British moutiers serke the engineers have noeyer, that they are granted only to those guns. fen the Chamber of lines that they will who are steady in pos ssion of some refuse to handle
position is becoming sermus on some of fill appointments simil the mines
ngs. the special technical know!
by Equipment KOMONOS Royst. Fying
SHIPS 1,800 FEET LONGE
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