G. P. LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER APPRAISER
AND SURVEYOR.
-Public Auctions-
Truction to sell by Public anetics, Undersigned has received la
on
FATURDAY, January 25, 1918."
commencing at li a.m.
At the Hongkong & Ko-loon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd.
( do )
163 bdls Mild Steel Pars
(round)
499 lyths.
da
I" ( do)
JB Igths..
do
da
9" (square)
£16, Igths.
do
so bdls. Flat Tron Bars
9" ( de )
"4"
75 bala.
do
30 belle. Square Iron Bars "
On view Now,
Thems: Cash on delivery,
GEO, P, LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, January 91. 1919.
on
TUESDAY, January 98, 1919,
comitia cing at 9.30 p.m.
at No. 27 Belilio Terrace
A Quantity of Valuable House hold Furniture
(Full Particulare from Catalogue).
On view from Monday, the 27th inst. Terms: Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT, -- Auctioneer.
Hongkong, Jan. 20, 1919.
Undersigned has received in- truction from Mas. J. S. DOBIE to ell by Public Auction,
00
WEDNESDAY, January 28, 1919. ExCommencing at 230 p.m.,
at her residence, No. 32 The Peak, (Des Feux Villos)
The Whole of her Valuable Household Furniture
Comprising:
Leather upholstered easy chaira, Chesterfield, armchairs, Teak hall sent tea and card tabies, Tekk bookcase, bras mounted curio cabinet; Raw silk creens, Water colours, Cut-velvet pictures, Japanese plaques, bronze and brass ware, Lace and Madras curtains, Electric table far, Electric barners and Atticg, etc, etc.
Teak sideboard with bevelled mirror, Frtension dining table and diziag chairs, Dinner waggon, chiffonnier, ice chests, French hand painted coffee dups, Coa muaity plated ware (used), electric kettle, toaster, etc.
Double and Pingle Tror and Teak bedsteads, Wardrober, Drossing tables, ; Marble top washetaude, Consol table, with long mirror, chest of drawers, toilet crockery, etc,,
Pantry and Kitchen requisites
Also
etc.
A few pieces of Fian Japanese Oak Furniture by Arthur & Bonil, Yuko. hata, consisting of -
Sideboard, Lady's folding desk, octagonai.tuble, bookcase with electric fittings, writing table, wardrobe with bevelled mirror and dressing tabla.
Blackwood-wire (Joes "table, curio stand, tables, cake stand, ta poys and
tack)
And
One Coalport tea ext....
Co view from Sunday, 16th inst. Catalognes will be issued.. Terma Cash on delivery.
GEO, P: LAMMERT,
Auctioneer,
January 31, 1910,
R.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS DEPT.
CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.
THIS Department will be entirely CLOSED on SATURDAY, the lat February. It will is OPEN for Im- perts Experts Permita only ti Now UNDAY, the 2nd February And for p raits of all kinds till 1 P.. on; MONDAY, the 3rd February
D. W. TRATHAN,
Superintendent, Imports and Exports.
Hongkong, Jan. 21,-1019, .
THE NEW FRENCH 'REMEDY,
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CHINESE EDUCATION.
„A movement has been launched by the leading universities in Peking and Nan- king, the American Returned Students' Club in Shanghai and the Society for Constructive Endeavour for the remission
Sold in
fins of 50
25 Cigarettes
also
packets of 10's
DIPLOMATIC COMMISSION IN
CANTON,
The Chronicle" is wrong attribut ing the Does your mother know you're mus 29 election, story tę Lord Jolta Man- ners. The hero was Lord Carmarthen, who, agd twenty-five and looking less, Feuntested Brixton in 1887. No doubt his of the Boxor indamnity, by all the Powers European Peasa Conference and other
retort.
to be used for educational purposes. Su gestioan to utilise the furds for the con-
Yes, and on Tuesday she'll kaw I'm in!" hulped towards the 78tructions of museums, muncipal theatres,
The Canton Military Government has established & Diplomatie Commission. According to Article I of the Law of Organization the Commission is author- ized to investigate matters relating to the diplomatic problems și na to render vala. est in its handles of questions relating able assistance to the Military Govern
majority. What is not so well known ibraries, masie halls, educational instituto internutional affairs. This Commission
that the whole affair was a friendly little conspiracy; and that the wag" who put the question was a futiran of the family carefully coached for the purpose.
:
ROBBERS IN, YINGTAK.
The bandits in the villages around Yingbak City seem to have free trade Downdays. They have been able to lopt at their pleasure. According to word received from there, sincs December 2: | right serious-attacks have beeť made or the villages around, burning several build. isge in one village, shooting to death one inhabitant and wounding two. In the eight attacks, the bandits have captured for fansam 78 girls, woman and children, aad taken away about 120 water buffalos.
tions and scholarships were made in lengthy article circulated and signed by the organisations represented...
Some Inderesting facts were disclosed by the article. It says that while the annual national revenue of Chin is 8486.000.000 only one to one and a half per cent, is expended for educational pur poses and from nine to twelve per cout for the partment of indemnities. From 1915 to 1932, China will have to pay yearly on the account the"aum' of TIN.
24,488,800 and from 1933 to 10-10 the tum of Th. 35,350,150.
is composed of a chairman, a vice-chair- man, and to members. Dr. Wu Ting- fang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the chairman, and Mr. Woo Yun-swan in the vice-chairman.
The following are the members: Wang Tsing wei, Ho Bun-min, Chao Shib-yik, Wang Pang-nyen, Cha Xyien tau. Tai, En-sui, Liang Pien-hsien Chang Chua, Frank W. Les and Moh Ya.tei.
BANGNON VALLEY, TIN, SIAM.
A net profit of £32.875 wis made by the Bangaon Valley Tin Dredging Co.. | Siam, for the year ended May 31, during.. which 820,700 cubic yards of material
were treated for 285 tons,tin oxide. „Costs totalled 4.10. per cubic yard, the not profs being 5.480. per cubic yard. Dur
A CURIOUS STORY. That is a curious story about the Ger- man who, according to the secretary of the Aliens Advisory Committee, cannot be repatriated because he possesses the secret of making artificial food chemcy the four months since May 31, the ally. It might stories the war to send plant treated $13,000 cubic yards for 745 tons tis. At the end of September the him buck to Germany to feed the Ger cash balance approximated £17,500. The mane: that is if cheraical food affects board anticipate no difficulty in paying A Washington telegram gives informa human beings in the Rame way as the next quarterly dividend in January tion nganling the discovery by the U.S. affects rats. There is no great mystery the total disbursed to date la £15,000 Naval Department of a new non-infazz about synthetic foods that-great-French-dition to provding 18,750 on account mable gas for balloons, A new element man M. Berthelot, solved the problem,
which will operato 400 acres at Taiping, called Argon will eliminate the hazard with the exception of the albansincids, working capital for the new company, many years ago, and rats have been e*This concern will have a nominal capital
ARGON.
of fire and explosion." Regarding a mes-perimented on with it. The result was sage like this, we can only say, with bot exactly satisfactory. Young rata fed $750,000, in dollar shares," of which 400,000 shares will be allotted to the Dominie Sampson; " Prodigious!'' A on natural food doubled their weight in
three weeks, whereas another similar Bangon Co. in exchange for its dredge; gon has been known to every schoolboy batch of young rata, fed on chemical food while a total working capital of '£17,300 | for the past twenty-five years. It is not-
never gained an ounce in weight, and all will be provided.. inflammable, truly-it will not combine died in less than twenty days.
with anything but it is a very heavy gas. Besides, all the argon that has ever been separated from the atmosphere would net All toy balloon. The telegrapliage
LABOUR AND CAPITAL,
1
HARRY LAUDER.
It is probablo that Harry Lauder may. There is no greater task before the pass through Hongkong in the near Government than that of undertaking ®, future, though whether he will appear in gies seem to be not much better at chemis-gigantio policy of economic education for a professional capacity we have no in-
try than they are at literary criticism.
MONSTER SPIDERS IN PAHANG.
the working classes. On the whole, these formation. He is on a tour of the world classes are sound at heart. Their felt which began in America in November and uro largely the consequence of gross extends for Canada, Australia, India and capitalist abuse. We had many years South Africa. Then, he told an inter- during which capital did very much as it viewer before he leit Liverpool, I retire ploosed and profiteered ruthlessly at the to Glen Branter, Strachor, Argyllabic
ORDER dock and thick hairy, Jeg four inches expanse of inbour. Before we can hopa (his Elghinnd estate): to breed beef,
CHERRY & 00
PEDDER STREET, Opposits Hongkong Hotel,
Telephone No. 491,
Hongkong, March 20, 2014.
A horrible spider with a round hairy body an inch in diameter a large head long, was caught by coms Malays as Ulu to eradicate the evil elects at the past mutton, wood and wool, Lander wat Linng a few days ago, shys, the Many there must be leau abuse of its power by the last man to board the "ausania! Mail. They tied a piece of raffe and enpital and fuller exprehension of the Liverpool. His luggage was already one of its legs and brought it alive to part of Capital in production by Labour on heard, but just before the engway Haub, where it his been pickled in whisky We should try to get men na teachers of was withdrawn he put in an appearance for transmission to Kuala Lumpur the people who thoroughly understand pating and portpiring To a porer rush- Musen. The Malay say that this is a thum, who fully sympathise, and who end-
ing up the gangway with his handbag very small specimen of the monster walen rot, possibly be mistaken for mere special Lander shouted, Hurry up man o've, abounds, in the jungle at Elo Liang and pleaders on behalf of a privileged claas, catches tall burde which its, bite illeIf we can moka, aur people réalise that's near missed it," instantaneously. It then sucks their the faturs of the country, pove all, their
blood. They also say that a man bitten, by them died within a low minutes. A full sized one is unid to have a body two inches in diatuses and is eight inches long.
own future prosperity, is in their own hands, and that the fair day's work is what every man owes to hincalf and to his neighbour, wo shall come out of our. present difficulties with 5089.
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