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G. P. LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER,
AND SURFEROR
Public Auction
INTIMATIONS
THE
NOTICE.
R
HE PUBLIC are requeared to notify the Police Department when arranging entertainments which will entail the provision of, additional CHAIRS or RICKSHAS in particular localities. Unloss auch notice is given It is probable that the usual supply of Chairs or Vehicles at any particular point will be found inadequate.
ED. C. WOLFE Captain Superintendent of Police. 10th December, 1918.
BANK HOLIDAY.
Tadconlance with Orlinance No. 5
of 1919, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Trarisaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS on WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, the 1st and 2nd proximo.
Hoogkung, December 28, 1918,
NOTICE.
S there no other firms in the Col- Acny beating the same onma and style as that in which I am carrying
on business, I hereby bag to notify the public that, in order to prevent misus- derstanding and confusion, I have
decided to change the spelling of Kung đại và Ca to KOY CÁI CO. Med demanding a LEENG KOON TAI,
Proprietor.
24, Des Vex Road Central. Hongkong, 27th December, 1918.
DO YOU WANT A VOTE ?
REMEMBER
the
CONSTITUTIONAL
INTIMATIONS
METEOR GARAGE
Sole distributors of
MAXWELL CARS.
Automobiles for Hire
and for Sale
at reasonable Prices..
'Phone 2500..
65 Dek. Vex Road Central.
KODAKS
& FILMS
Plates & Papers. Developing & Printing Undertaken.
A. TACK & CO., 26, Des Voeux Road Central
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
CHRISTMAS ORDERS
FOR
J
OWN FED TURKEYS should be booked with us curly to avoid disappointment Birds supplied alive or 'killed and dressed as required.
REFORM MEETING. BARGAIN
CITY HALL.
THURSDAY,
9TH JANUARY, 1919.
AT 6 P.M.
TO LET
TO LET
-No. 10; The Peak.
EDGEHILL N
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND
RECLAMATION CO., LD.
TO LET
A
J
SHOP in Nathan Road, Kowloon.
Apply to HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
CO., LTD. Alexandra Buïdings.
403
Hongkong, July 17, 1918
Columbia
Dry Batteries
Strength and Reliability
are of persant (wperience la batterien Both of these features to be found in the Columbia
good series they are pulirely unequaled.
for wi
If you need dependablo, current to run your' mistor ver,
Cambia a tela! You will never sarretit, an Secure sure rog wild brentat a Catawbla enthumnat.
1 for eitherheavy or light work."
THEY STU in the current to sing bells; operate
12 you are lellphone and tamale; light, interne; fuently, traatacs
og'inelor boata, tuo Dalumbia Untzerian,
Loth for the Eagle Trade-Mark; it is a guaranten af say And Y99%tock sing
Bling, shown in th-ft-
p
mometer triloo, je k Collemble, fasture Tenancy that we bateries. With this In simnly a matter
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DEALER-data deliver Cube had, write fue Chia
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Anderson, Beyer & Co., Liẻ. 4Yuen Mina Yuan Road Shaughn
oralrottom
NationalCarbon Co. Inc.
Ermel in pariment tievels
CESO, USA.
40
SALE per cent
REDUCTION
ON
DOLLS.
GRACA & CO.,
No. 10, Wyndham Street,
P. O. Box 620.
Hongkong.
PATELL & CO.
ORIENTAL PRODUCE
EXPORTERS,
SILK MERCHANTS, COMMISSION AGENTS.
Agencies in
NEW YORK,
HAN FRANCISCO, U.S.A:
Branches —
CANTON,
YOKOHAMA.
BOMBAT.
HEAD OFFICE Prince's BoxDiren, HONGKONG.
JAPANESE MAKERS,
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
ΤΟ
ORDER
CHERRY &÷00%
PKDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel. Telephone No. 4912
Hongkong March 20, 1914.
THE CHINA MAIL.
WILL'S
"CAPSTAN NAVY
PURE
VIRGINIA
TOBACCO
Navy Cut
for the
Pipe.
CIGARETTES
(MEDIUM STRENGTH.)
N
STAN
CUT
TINS OF 50 CIGARETTES.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 301018.
NOTICES
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel MansionLS,
Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,
ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.
MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI,
AND ALL KINDS OF SOUP STUFFS.
LL our Pastes bear the "Robstar" Inbel and are made from Flour of the Best Quality containing a large percentage of Gluten. Starch and Gluten ars the principal components of Flour. Gluten is easier to digest and contains more nutriment that Starch Manufactured under the most sanitary conditions.
Large quantities have been exported to various important cities in the World.
Terms moderate, especially for Agencies. Orders execated promptly. THE HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. Head Office: No. 47 and 18, Connaught Road, Central Hongkong: Telephone 1339. Principal Factory: No. 71, North Soochow Road, Shanghai, China; Telephone 3385, Branch Factory: Wing Hing Street Caseway Bay, Hongrong Cable address: “HINGWAL.
RENOT
SOLD IN
PACKETS OF
· 10 · 20
AND I
y Cut Carettes
W.D. Bris
IN THE 6.3)
MEDI
O.WILE
Lond
CAPSTAN Navy Cut
MILDE
stol &
CAPSTA
Navy Cut D&HOW! Stol & Lor
APSTA Navy Cut
D&HOW! Stol & Lon
This advertisment is issued be British-Américan Tobacco Co., Lul
DEATH OF STANDARD OIL MANAGER.
||
Max Meyer, agent of the Standard Company at its station at Legazpi, Albay
province, die ou December 12 of tran
OPERA SINGER'S WAR-TIME ROLE.
Calling, at a house in the Yorkshire village of Bobath for a drink of water, soldier repaid his hosts by singing, in
fine, baritone voice, songs from the lend-
A PROTEST IN ST. PAUL'S.
SOLD IN
THREE STRENGTHS.
MILD
MEDIUM
& FULL
TO THE SEX.
(Doctors attribute the spread of ing fluenza among women to low dresses sad scanty clothing)
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Though. ne'ez fu-free before, You'd be so they profess, ly wearing rather more
And baring rather less.
FULL RATIONS.
cazo. The widow, formerly Miss Olsen,ng operas. Is turned out that he was who came out to the Islands as a teacher former member of the Carl Rosa Opera employed in the Bureau of Education | Company, and is new employed by the only a few months ago, survives, Mr. Atmy" at lifting potatoes. 5. potators. Meyer had been in the Philippine Islands spn years, serving first with the civil the a stenogmpheg in vennens us
A trench insect on his neck was annoy- exitive Bureau and later in 1914, While the congregation were having ing him considerably, Ko when he could joining the Standard Oil Company At its St. Paul's Cathedral a in caused some spure a moment from his rifle he learnt Manila eces. He was later in charge of the Lebu station and only recently excitement by placing teneath Holman forward, clapped a hand to the spot, and transferred to Legaspi, at his own request.Hunt" painting The Ight of the mude u capture. At the same instant a World" in"the nave a picture entitled bullet struck his helmet. But für having
•The Release." He called on the Gov- | dacked forward...........He held up the cap- erument to relieve the Sufferings of Bri. Live between thumb and finger, and shock tish prisoners in Turkey, and said that his head. Don't like to kill you. Saved iny Ha, Ise; what shall I do with of the future of serial transport. It wanless the men were soon repatriated. you ?** Then, with inspiration, "1| be posible, he thinks, to carry make and there would be none left to retum. At know upped it on his neck again. passenger at a rate to compare favour
**FLYING TO AMERICA IN A DAY.”
In fir article contributed to "Over-cus" Mr. Handley Page speaks optimistically
building
"LONG MAY WAR LAST."
AN AMERICAN PÉRIL.
ably with railway and steamship charges, the request of a verger the man removed Put you back on full ration: 1** Aviation starts with a letter chance than his picture. He afterwards made a speech Stephenson's engine. Danger will be no outside the building.. greater than by any other means of travel. Mr. Puge points it that it will be pos sible to deliver a letter in America as The n deferred telegram. quickly as aeroplane will make the journey to Amerien in one day.
It is all very well to pass Anti-Loafing Lawx, na sorte American States have been doing lately, but it is not always easy to distinguish between the veritable idler
COLONIAL DISPENSARY,
FANOY PERFUMES,
HAU DE COLOGNE,
TOILET-SOAPS,
MANICURE "SETS.
SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.-
COLONIAL DISPENSARY.
14. Queen's Road, Central.
Telepono No. 000.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
AND
GRILL KOOM
J. H. TAGGART ·
MANAGEK,
THE PEAK HOTEL.
1,500 Feet above Sea Level,
15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-
Mrs. BLAIR.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
:
CENTRAL LOCATION
ALL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pass Eatrance, Electric Lifts, Face and Lighting A European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout Beat of Food and Service.
Telephone 373. Telegraphio Address" VICTORIA,"
J. WITORELL, Mower.
PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON.
(Two minutes from Star Ferry)-
A Scots breeder of prize cattle was lead-
Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and am throughout ing out of the suction ring a yearling calf and the busy man who is temporarily and entirely under new management. Cuisine under the personal supervision for which he had received a pries. almost resting. In Now Yort the other day of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooms Terms moderate. Special terme de equalling the salary of a Cabinet Minis Boston Blackaraith, taking his first holi-familica on application to Eero gleefully shouted" Long may day for fourteen years, was actested as a Telephone K3. Telegraphia Add.: "PALACE"
J. H. OXBERKY, Proprietor. Dundes Advertiser publishes the war last." Turning to his clers, the loafer within two hours of his arrival in details of how the sabourines intention auctioneer quickly said. Concel that the city. He got off, of course, when he to blow up the Tay Bridge was frustrated, sale and boycott for over that creature's
THE TAY BRIDGE.
The
Au airman observed a large submarine herd. The farmers present loudly cheer lying at Sandy. Numerous nine sireep-ed the auctioneer's decision.
ers and destroyers were soon in the vicinity, where. ropes of sweepers struck the mark and a depth charge was Im mediately lowereit. Then 6 heavy patrol
AUBSTITUTE FOR 'TIN.
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prescated his case and his hands. But
the magistrate recommended him to re turh to Boston at once.
It is interesting. to populate what would bive happened to loafers, like Charles Darwin, Herbert, Spencer, Percy Shelley, and Hear: Fabre, to say nothing of Thoreau.
MEN'S DRESS.
"A cable momage to the High Commis- boat dropped a very heavy charge that sioner for Australia stated that the Com did i Dil and wreckage soon rose to mozealth Science and Advisory Com the surface, Subsequently divers found mitteo have found that a combination of 13 crew within the wreck badly mangled carbolic acid and formalin produces and dead while, pieces of bodies were resio soluble in methylated spirit and There is no doubt the war will teach washed up on both sides. Two guns and suitable for varnishing cardboard contain us to shed many conventions. The top- a good part of the wreckage salted steers for packing foodstuffs and leaving no hat is one of the few outward and visible now being exhibited at Dundee
CLASSIC BIGAMY.
RALEIGH'S TERCENTENARY.
taint. It is claimed that the new-con- signs that occasionally remind us that tainer will servo for most of the food-there was such a time as a world at peace. packing purposes for which tin is now le it ever likely to have a vogue in future? used, and is chouper than tin as wartime The stiff collar and starchod shirt, and the bowler bahare her articles of a Though the was soems to have led to prices.
gentleman's wardrobe that are waning la su increase of bigamy, it has, go far us
popularity, and when the fighting men revened, produced no case of the kind to
take off their patties will there be a res rival that of Jacques Nottier, a soldier of Napoleon's army, who, at the age of London is finding time among greater volt agains the hideousness of trousers? twenty five, was brought before the preoccupations to pelebrate the tercenten- And, the convention of gloves Shall we Criminal Tribunal of the Department of ary of Bir Walter Raleigh. Naturally the give up wearing them at all except in the Seice on a charge of having married aspect of his many sided greatness chosen severe weather? The affectation of wear- three different women within as many for chiot emphasis at this time is his ing ons glove and dandling the other months. Nottier boldly admitted, that it work as coloniser in America. Tas most seems, oven in peace times, a rather was, his custom to take a sow wife at interesting celebritions we those that senseless habit. In our Colenice acid ba each place where he was stationed, and are going on at the town at Haleigh in the United States men wear clover only. stated that, so far as he could remember, North Carolina where a statue is to be when the weather or their occupation he had married fourteen. French women, erected. Dr. Page until recently seriompels them to, and as for walking. one Italian, two Dutch women, enn Ambassador hero, and himself a clisulcks; they are never carried for ora Spaniard, and some other. A new zen of Notch Carolina, took a great in ment, but only for use. This way bar citizen and resulted from almost all thesoterat in the Loaden urrangements, and surely shown the folly of such superfint.. unions, he argued that his conduct called there are many Americans on the comics and conventional affectations en were for commendation rather than censure.
dear to the posce-time dowdlars.
CARLTON
HOTEL
(THE ONLY AMERIJÄN-HOTEL LE TREE OOLONT.) ICE HOUSE STREET,
Under American Management. Nice and quiet yot only a few minutes walk from the Esaks and Ueates District. 43 Bedrooms,. Excellent Cuisi a, scrapalously clean. Moderate Terms Monthly nad Family Bates on application to the Proprietress. Launches meet Passenger Boats,
MBS F. E. DAMERON. Telegrapalo 411.CARLTON
BLUE BIRD
CONFECTIONERS &CATERERS. IOE OREAM PARLOUR.
TANG YUE, DENTIST,
the lata BIEN TING, 14 TAGUILAR STREET,
TERMS VERY MODERATE. Consultation free.
· HOT and GOLD DRINKS: 20130 DEATERS IN
"Gimbal's and Orangs ***: Blossom" "" American Chocolates, Assorted Pancy Okkon S
ANA S OLD ZOIZ OFFICE BUTEDING," Queen's Road & Pedder Streak.
VICTORIA CAFE LTD.
24 Des Voeux Road Central Telephone No. 2667.
Wa guastee the quality of our
Broad and skenking
We use the highest grade of materials in their Manufcture