GP LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER.
AND SURVEYOR
Public Auction-
Tons to sell by. Public aution. THE Undersigned has received In-
TUESDAY,
January 14, 1918, commencing at 2 45 p.m.
At No. 1 HUMPERKYS BUILDING,"
KOWLOON.
A QUANTITY OF
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE,
Comprising:→
Toak hatstand, Chesterfeld couch armchairs, blackwood desk, armchairs, tables, toepoys & flower stands, marble clock, Japanese silk embroidered screen, pictares, ornaments, cssement curtains. carpet, skin ruga, eta, ata.
Teak extension dining table and chair, teak sideboard' with bevelled mirror, din-er waggon, teak-bookcase, ice chest, electric fittings, dinner crock- ery, glassware, etc., otá
Teak twin bdstrada, sinalo & doulde wardrobes with bevelled glass doors, toilet table tiled top washstand, woollen blankets, toilet crockery, etc, etc.
And.
ד'
Quantity of Palms in Pats
Also
Cottage Piano by Moutrin, Shanghai
(in fine condition)
↑ Victrole with cabinet and records.
1. Perambulator...
INTIMATIONS
METEOR GARAGE
Bale, distributors of ..
MAXWELL CARS.
Automobiles för Hire
and for Sale at reasonable Prices.
'Phone 2500.
63 Des Voeux Road Central.
KODAKS
& FILMS
lates&
ers.
Developing & Printing Undertaken.
A. TACK & CO.,
On view from Monday, the 13th inst. 26, Des Voeux Road Central.
Catalogues will be issued,
Terms-Cash on delivery:
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, January 7, 1919.
INTIMATIONS
NOTICE.
MB, JOHN ROBERTSON has
M
this day been admitted a partner
in our firm.
́ ́W. A. HANNIBAL & CO.,
HONGKONG AND CANTON,
January
1919,
HONGKONG DEFENUE
MA
'CORPS.
AJOR H. A HOROAN and OFFICER invito all Members of the Hongkong Defence Corps to a Smoking Concert at the Theatre Royal
FRIDAY, the 10th January, 1919, 9 P.M., when pre prizes won at the recent Corps Hife Meeting will be prevented by. H. E. The Offer Ad. ministering the Government (The Hon. Mr. Claud Berén, U,M. (3.)—Undress aniforme
Hongkong, December 31, 1918.
• THE NEW FRENCH, REMEDY,
THERAPION No. 1 THERAPION NO.2" THERAPION NL3
#o. 1 for Eladder Ontari
MOLDETİELDING CHEMIBYA, PRICE IN Kmalayo Sa DECES2Med.Co. Havarniende Rd., MEL Kondan. MES TRADE MARKED WORD CANEAF IS DE WETA BOVE, ATUMP APPLIED TO DERVANE PACKETS
MARTIN'S
APIOL &STEEL
Pan Peknab Sandy towall heregula
Sanly dun may be sémalatured. Those who
MARTIN'S *** SAPIOL&STEEL EPILLS
FRENCH LESSONS
Q. MOUSSION.
15. Mörriaan Eli Rovd
NOTI OB
BICH CLASS PRINTING
AND
BOOK BINDING V
THE CHINA MAJU OFFICE;
BOOKS&PAMPHLETSASPECIALTY
gramm
Trade-Ciroálarr
eta,, ets
rtistically ATTR
Cerofally Printed.
#
DAIRY-FARM NEWS,
BUTCHERS ME ATS :
Beef, Mutton, Lainb Rabbits, Hares.
Sausages,
Furity.
Brawn,
Pressed Beef Excellence.
WE BUY used
POSTAGE STAMPS, Collection and Large Lots for
Spot. Cash.
Tell us what you have for sale.
Do not send without first. writing to us.
GRACA & 00.,
No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.
Hongkong
PATELL & CO.
ORIENTAL PRODUCE
EXPORTERS,
SILK MERCHANTS,
“COMMISSION ""AGENTS.
Agencies in NEW YORK, BAN FRANCISCO, USAI
Branches
CANTON, “YOKOHAMA.
BOMBAY..
· HEAD OFFICE:, PRINCE E BUILDIN HONGKONG.
APANESE MAKERS,
Every kind of Footwear
MADE ....
ORDER
CHERRY & OZE
SPEDDER STREET. Opp site Telophone NA
Hongkong,, March 20,
THE
THE CHINA MAIL.
GARRICK
LAMBERT & BUTLER'S
GARRICK
CIGARETTES
ARE MADE FROM THE
HIGHEST COST
AND MOST DELICATELY FLAVOURED
TOBACCO
GROWN IN VIRGINIA.
SOLD IN AIR-TIGHT TINS OF 50 CIGARETTES
AND OBTAINABLE AT ALL TOBACCONISTS.
BOTH POWERFUL.
This advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.
NEW MINISTRY OF PORTUGAL.
A message from Lisbon states that the The E.. was very arste when a telepew Partuguese Ministry will consist of gram, wis banded to kiai hont one of his Premier, and Minister of faterior: Joas subulteros, running: Cannot return to. Tosiagnini Barbosa. France this week. Get innence."
Itis remarks on the mise of a little' asthority and the indiference of me. were worshy of the best traditions of the British Array, but a few days later his. wrath cooled down when he received a medical certificate showing that the in- diferent sub. had merely really zo infanta! 1
LORD NELSON'S DIPLOMACY.
Minister of Justice: Alfonso de Mello. Minister of Finades: Ventura Mulbeito
Reina.
Minister of War: General Cortes
Minister of Marine Sound E. Faro Minister of Foreign Affairs: Egas Moniz.
bues
Minister of Works: Forbes Besen. Minister of Agriculture: Fernandes Oliveira.
A SOLDIER'S SACRIFICE.
A strangé tragedy has been reported
fro Vingshang, a city near Yingshow,
in
the north-west of the province. There a festival in honour of Cheng Hamur (city god and, of course, there were ・crowds of people in the city, and the temple of the god was a busy place. As
usual et such affairs, there was a great
of burning incense. A soldier for ex-soldier) took his wife and a little boy Minister of Commerce Azevedo Neves: to the temple. The boy was about a year. Minister of Colonies: Baptista Coelhold. As they neared the burning incezte Anister of Education: Alfredo Magal Going right up to the biszing incense; heap, the soldier offered to carry the boy.
he thrust the little fellow into No child could live long in such a furnace 3 incense makes. There was an uproar, of course, and the man was arrested. At bis trial, he stated that his mother had been very ill, and he went to the city gad, and make a vow that if he (the godi would zure his mother, he would willingly sacrifice his only son, Evidently his mother got well, and so he was bound to
Minister of Maintenance: Cruz Azevedo,
KILLED BY AEROPLANE.
It might be well for our représenta tives at the peace emference to bear in inal Noise's idea of the right way to conduct negotiations with Napoleon. A distressing aeroplane tragedy occur Picking up a poker, he said to Adding: red as Letchworth on October 83, result-
ton, then Prind Minister. It matters ing in the death of a young girl and seri-slay his child. But, fer s filial piety. nes at all in what way I Ling poker the machine did not stop, but a piece of but as bis whole idee was one of filial mouninjurjës, to a bay. The occupants of he would" probably have been executed, en the floor out if Bonaparte stmul 3 canvas for one of the wings" was after devotion, he was paided, beaten and it must be placed in this direction," and wards picked up, and the police are seek imprisoned for a year.
here he laid the poker down? we must ing to establish the identity of the pilet Perhaps the details may not be quite immediately insist up its being laid in and observer. The machine was swoop.correct, but there seems to be no doubt some other cue,"
ing downwarda over a field on the gut about the main features of the case. Any such insistence on the part of Ger-irts I the Harts garden city, and it Test any griffin should read this and many should at any ate make our diplo happened that at the moment the two form wrong opinions, let us haster to matists cautious to the verge of suspicion, young people were in the field search are him that in all probability he will zor.dandelion roots. Both were struck by never hear of such a case again. I is NATIONAL ANTHEM'S NEW VERS3 the aeroplane, and the git, Margaret most unusual
Field, 14 years, was killed. The boy, Horace Field, a cousin of the girl. cxcape with injuries. There were several people in the Held at the time, and they had narrow escapes.
Four hundred competitors. seat in Verses, to the Royal Colonial Institute, which invited suggestions for an E pire verse to the National Anthemi The adjudicatoes, Sir Herbert Warren, My Edmund Gosse and Mrs Laurenes Binyon, decided in favour of the follow ing verse m
Wide o'er the linking seas, Polar and tropic breeze
Our song shall ring, Brothers of each domain (5 Bound but, by Freedom's chain, Shout, as your Sires, again-
** God save the King "
WILHELM THE "CÄCKLER.
The Volkzeitung," of Duesseldorf,
Shimonosekininder
Preas
made. EX-PRESIDENT TAET'S OPINION.
According to an official "dispatch" re- ceived in Tokyo Mr. W. II. Taft pub- shed the following views regarding the THE MOJI TUNNEL.
disposal of the German colonies:
Althoug's the British people in Auf Like the Channel Tunzel, the Moji tralia, New Zealand, and Africa hav Shimonoseki: Tunnel has been machinik been insisting on panexation of the Ge ed of in the past with little prospect of its un volontes in order to even the saters materiabaing There now appears to be of the British Empire this would he reasonable hope of the connection being hardly consistent with the durations made between the cities of Moji aral of the British people that they have been the Shimonoseki waging the war for the sake of justice Straits. According to the Nagasaki and humanity and not for aggression:
aplan by Mr. Nakamura was The French claim on Alsace-Lorraine recently considered by the Government, and the Italian claim on Trentino and which, however, has now decided to Trieste "may be regarded as reasonable very hotbed of Prussianism, wrote in the execute the project itself. In this con- and necessary for the maintenance, of first week of November What surtection it is stated that the Imperial permanent peace at the annexation of of texture in this illustrious ruler, of ours Government Railways: hare drawn up the Germau colonies by Great Britain made of? Fice he really a mind of his plans and estimates for the work and that inble to give rise to sweption as own? This question occurs to us on com! the Diet will ho asked to rote the neces- Britain's territorial ambitions. As paring the address delivered by William Mary funds next sosion. The projected would not be advisable to return the at Kochigsberg on August 20, 1020, with tunnel, which is to provide for railway colonies to Garmony, however, the his proclamation of September 30, 1918, and oder vehicular trate and a road for should be placed under the contro On the former occasion Wilhelm defered fout passengers, will be about five miles representatives to be elected by the prac that his crown was joven him by God fengt Four or five years, will be required conferetice and administered by them that he was the instrument of the Al to complete.the wreck and the coal of son tatil such times that the natives bore mbty, out that be was determined suction spat at something over heen aufficiently educated as to grant pursue his way without any regard to 10 millions. There is little doubt that them avlosomous government Such an Alu Yews and opisins of others. On the undertaking could be completed in, arrangement would be eminently in kon the last be exprised his wish that by far shorter period, unless special difficul, ing with the object, of the war German people might take an active parties are encountered and cost is an im
in the work of government Thank portant consideration. From the point. hessen, we have now arrived at an epoch view of the merchant, as well as of the when the wishes cf Wilhem meer the general pubile, the removal, of the present People no more than the cackling of gequo congestion in the traita lil be a great
bcom N.G.D.NE Fral;
WINGARNIS
THE WERE OF
JANUARY
THURSDAY SEAR
NOTICES
G. FALCONER & CO. LTD
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansio
Agasts for ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufactu
High Class English Jewellery."
MACARONI, PASTE STARS, EGG NOODLES, VERMICELLI,
AND ALL KINDS OF SOUE STUFFS.
A Lone Paton bear the Booster label and are made from Flour of the Best 4. Quality containing a large percentage of Oluten....Starch and Gluten men, the [principal components of Flexr Glaten is easier to digess, and contains mors antriment than Starch Manufactured under the most sanitary conditions:
Large quantities have been exported to variona Important cities in the World.
Tarms moderate, especially for Agencies: Orders executed promptly. THE HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD Head Office: No. 47 and 48, Goznaught Road, Central, Hongkong; Telephone 1239, Principat Factory: No.71, North Soochaw Road, Shanghai, China; Telephone 3335 Branch Factory: Wing Hing Street. Causeway Bay, Hengkong. Cable addren: ·HINGWAN"
COLONIAL DISPENSARY.
"FANCY PERFUMES,
-EAU DE COLOGNE,
TOILET SOAPS,
·MANICURE BETS.
SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
COLONIAL DISPENSARY.
-14-Queen's Road, Central
Talegaone No. 000.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
AND
GRILL KOOM
J. EL TAGGART
MANAGER
THE PEAK HOTEL. 1,500 Feet above Sea Level.
ע.
15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of
Mrs. BLAIR.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
POENTRAL LOCATION
ALL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pas Entrance, Electric Lifts, Fats and Lighting A European Bathe and Sanitary Fittings Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Best of Food and Service
Telephone 373. Telegraphic Address:-- VICTORIA
J. WITCHELL, Manager,
PALACE HOTEL
CARL KOWLOON.
Two minutes from Star Ferry),
Recently/rancysted and refurnished, electric light and fans throughout, and entirely under now management. Cosine under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Be and Billiard Boons. Terms,moderata Special terms families on Application to
Telephone E. 3 aphic Add: "PALACE”
"J. E. OXBERRY, Proprietor
CARLTON HOTEL.
(TI DIGI ARMY HOTEL IN tại potor)
ICE HOUSE STRENTAL
Under American Management. Nice and quiet yet only a for walk from the Banks and Central District: 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisine, scrupulously clean. Moderate Terms Monthly and Family Rates application to the Proprietress. Launchda moot Passenger Hosts)
Telegraphic Adrew CARLTON
MESTE CAMERON.
BLUE BIRD
CONFECTIONERS & CATERERS ICE CREAM
PARLOUR.
the lata: d1EN TING.
TERMS VERY MODERATE
Consultation freement
"HOT"and "GOLD;
"DRINKS Mach
DEALERS IN "Gimbal's aud ́Orange Blossom
American. Chocolates.
› Assorted Fancy Cakes,
OLD PORT OFFICE BUILDING, Queen's, Road à Pedder Street...
1ACAFE
Vieux Road Central Telephone Nu R007 an
grade of tasteriali
their Manufatura i Vivek
3