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G. P. LAMMERT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
INTIMATIONS
AUCTIONEER, AFFRAISER ·
METEOR GARAGE
A HIGH
AND SURVEYOR,
-Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned: has received in
THE
structions to sell by Publiq, Auction,
on
WEDNESDAY, February 19, 1019, Sole distributors of
Commencing a 2.30 p.m.,
ab No. 7 Humphreys Building. Kowloon.
A Quantity of Valuable. House-
hold Furniture
On view from Tuesday, 11th inst.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
GEO, P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, Feb. 8, 1919.
1.7.
THURSDAY, February 13, 1919.
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
this Sales Rocme, Duddell Street, A Large Quantity of Valuable
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Household Furniture,
Comprising:- . Teak hatstand, tapestry covered drawing room suite. Chesterfield couch armchairs, carved Cherrywood desk & chair, oak & teak bookcases, card Lable, easy chairs, occasional tables, tenk soreans, upholstered rattan chairs, carpets, rugs,
&c, &c. da
Hahogony & tesk extension diuing
MAXWELL CARS.
Automobiles for Hire
and for Sale
at reasonable Prices.
Laxwell
'Phone 2500. "
65 Des Vour Road Contrat
KODAKS
& FILMS
Plates & Papers. Developing & Printing Undertaken,
A. TACK & CO.,
tables, chairs, sideboards, dinner wag-26, Des Voeux Road Central
gons and silver cabinet, ico cheat, pic- CUECS, ornamenta, dinner services,. electre-plated ward, cut-glass, cutlery, ke, ke, ko.
Brass, teak and iron bedsteads, single and double teak wardrobes with beveil ed glass doors, teak toilet tables, wash- stands, eberts of drawers, toilet sets,
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de.. Also
&c.
Victrolas with cabinet and records, Autopiano
2 Enamelled Baths,
And
A Few Pieces of Carton Blackwood
Ware comprising Card Table,
Cabinet, Stools, Chairs,
&e," ""&c.,
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Curio
On view from Wednesday, 12th inst.
Catalogues will be issued..
Terins-Cash on delivery.
GEO. F. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, Feb. 1919.
FARES FOR PUBLIC
VEHICLES.
CHAIRS
In Fictoria with two BearwL.
Quarter hour,
Half hour,.......
One hour,
Thros hours,
Biz boura...........
... 10 cents.
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Day (6'am to 6 pm)$1.00
If the trip is extended beyond Victoria. ·| half fare extra
Between the hours of 8.30 p.zz. and 6 Am. the above ares shall be increased by 60 per centum.
II-Beyond Victoria, with four Beavers. Hour,... 0.60 cents. Three hours.............................. ..$1.00 Bix bours,........... 1,50)
Day (8 am to 6 pm.),
2.00
III-In the Hi District.
With Bearers With 4 Bearers.
Quarter hour,......80.15
Half bour, 0.20
$0.30 0,40
One hour,.0.30
Two hours.
0.60
Three hours, r 0.70
0.00
0,80
1.00
Air boars,
1.00
1.30
Day (5am.tc6 p.m.)1.30
2.00
RICKSHAS.
In the Island of Hongkong, if engage?"
in Victoria
Ten minutes. ****
6 cents
Quarter hour,
F
One hour,
20
20
11
Every Subsequent hour,
Note. If the ricksha be engaged within the City of Victoria, and be dis- charged outside the Western part of the City of Victoria after 9 p.m., or be dis- charged to the East of Eay View Police Btation on the Eastern side of the City of Victoria after 8 pm, an extra half fare shall be chargeable.
III. How com
Quarter hour,
Half hour,
Hour, raed
make
i.cento,
20 14
III-Taipo Road,"
Brery subsequent hear
Twenty cents shall be added
for each extra hour or part,
of an hour if the hirer causa
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
BUTCHERS -MEATS :
Beef, Mutton, Lamb. Rabbits, Kares.
Sausages,
I
Brawn,
'Pressed Beef. Purity. Excellence.
WE HAVE Great Varieties of used and unused POSTAGE STAMPS Single, Sets, Packets, Bags, and on
H
Approval Books
FOR COLLECTORS.
GRACA & 00.,
',,་། DEALERS IN POSTAGE STAMPS, POST CARDE, SEEDS, Toys, A., &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.
Hongkong
PATELL & CO.
ORIENTAL PRODUCE
EXPORTERS,
SILK MERCHANTS,
COMMISSION AGENTS,
Agencies in NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, U.S.A.
Branches:-
CANTON; YOKOHAMA
BOMBAY.
HEAD OFFICE: PRINCE'S BUILDINGE.
HONGKONG.
JAPANESE MAKERS.
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
- TO
ORDER
the journey to take longer CHERRY & 00.,
than:-
To 4th mile...
single ........ 75 centi... bour. return $1.008 hours Beyond 4th to 8th mile
T
single 81.202 hours. retuza ...............$1,60min), p
Feyond 9th to 9th mile
single $1.75.
ratura...$2.00
Eeyond 9th to 11th mid-
single82.00
return ......$2.50...............7..
Paros for journeys Beyond, the 11th mile to be a matter of previous arrange ment in each casos la
The faxes here sot cut to apply to one rleksha with three coolies from Tsim Sha
FEDDER - STREET, Opposito Hongkong Hotel, Telephone No. 491.
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
BRIDGE SCORERS.
In Blocks of 60 SHEETS, 80 cents each Fag for One. Dollar.
Obtainable si
TO CHA MAIG LAP,
6. Wyndham Street
GRADE
VIRGINIA :-
THE
CARRICK
CIGARETTE
VIRGINIA BLEND
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1812.
NOTICER.
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansions,
Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
N
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 Paston bear the * Rooster” label and are made from Flour of the Bert
A Quality containing a large percentage of Gintas. Starch, and Gluten are the principal components of Four. Gluten is easier to digest and contains more Antriment than Starch Manufactured under the most sanitary conditions.
Large quantition have been exported to various important cities in the World.
Terma moderata, especially for Agencies. Orders axented promptly. THE HING WAH PASTE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. Head Office: No. 47 and 14, Connaught Road, Central, Hongkong ; Telephona 1239. Principal Factorys No.71, North Soochow Road, Shanghai, Chins, Talaphana. 39801. Branch Factory Wing Hing Street, Causeway Bay, Hongkong. Cable address: “HowAK.
BREEZY GARAGE.
TEL, No. 3499.
DISTINCTLY HIGH CLASS
MADE BY HAND
Lambert Butler
ENGLAND.
SOLD BY ALL TOBACCONISTS.
SIX HOURS WORK.
This advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacco Co, Ltd.
The editor of the Straits Times," discussing labour questions, in which be ses cause for anxiety, says about the miners' demand for a six-hour day: Practically, labour at present
TREMELBYE RUBBER.
LORD BUXTON AT PRETORIA.
The twelfth annual general meet- Lord Buxton, addressing an enthu ing of shareholders of the Tremelbye siastic. thanksgiving service at Pre- Rubber Company, Lunited, was held toria attended by 7,000 Indiar ut London, on December 3, Mr. Nor-natives and coloured people, paid a the coloured com- man W. Griere presiding. He moved high tribute
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HEVEA RUBBER TRUST..
CHEERS FOR THE BOLSHEYIKS,
10
that the report and accounts, as pre-munity's share in the war, particu is represented by those to whom the Hented, be approved and adopted, larly the Cape Corps and the native war trought greater security of om-and that i final dividend of 20 per non-combatants, and conveying an ployment, and higher pay than was cent., les income tax (making 93 expression of the King's warm, ap- ever known before, and, also, there per cent. for the year ended June 90,preciation of their loyalty, good con
duct, and cesistance. Contrasting had to be a very large toleration of 1918), be paid..
the British and German treatment unreasonableness, and readier con-
of natives, the Governor-General cessions to inbour demands the can
pointed out that in what was former- be expected in normal tince Labour
y South West Africa, the population has been to a certain extent spoiled.
of 130,000 natives in 100 had been There is an all-round demand for an eight-hour day and the miners buve The report of the Herea Rubber reduced to 39,000 by 1911; the Ger- mans having billed the rest, men; gone one better, in spite of coal Trust for the year endd June 30 list
women, and children. famine, and are akk'ng that their states that owing to shipping re- Jay be one of six hours only. When strictions having been more acute, men ask tht their work hours shall the companies in which the trust is be a mare quarter of the day" hey interested have been obliged to cur- are not demanding justice, they are buil the distribution of dividends in A demonstration to demand the simply condemning their class to a stead of increasing them. The re-release of John Maclean and all poh continuation of the misery and de- venue of the trust has thus suffered tical prisoners was held in Finsbury gradation of pre-war times: For and no distribution can be made out Park on Nov. 24. The speakers da cation which will not give a fair of the profit derived from investclared in favour of revolution and day's work for a fair day's pay is mente, Prost amounted to £1,011; cheers were given for the Bolshevika, 61,074 was brought forward, making In addition to a resolution demand- bound to go backwards. It cannot
£2,715. The directors propose to ing the release of the prisoners, a stand up against the competition of write off the whole of the preliminary further resolution was carried, with nations which are ready to work expenses remaining-namely, $2,000 ebeers declaring that, unless John honestly. Surely this wholly misses leaving £715 to be carried forward, Maclean were released in a reason- the point. Labour in a coal mine is Investments have undergone hardly able time, this meeting of workers not like labour in an editorial chair,y change during the year. The recommends a down tools policy." acreage owned by the trust as forra- The waving of a red flag and the ing part of the estates in which funds singing of the revolutionary song are embarked aggregates just over greeted the carrying of the resolu 1,050 acres of rubber, all of which will very shortly be producing. In- vestments: in rubber thus work out at about £12 per dere..
and perhaps six hours of it would be crough. The hours should, natur- ally, vary with the nature of the job. The more exhausting kinds of work should be less prolonged, in any fairly adjusted community.
A COLD ORDEAL.
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LANGKON NORTH BORNEO RUBBER.
tion.
AUSTRALIAN PARS,
The accident in Hyde Park to Miss Marjorie Coghlan, daughter of} Sir Thomas Coghlan, former Agent- General for New South Wales, lina had fatal results, Miss Coghlan, W was 17 years of age, was riding with her sister in Rotten-row when the hote took fight and ran away. Sires was thrown and rendered un- conscious.
On January 19 "swimming in the
The output amounted to 251,080 cold" was performed in the Samon- lbs., against 210,904 lbs. The total dogawa, Amagasaki, under the ins-number of tres being tapped at the pices of the Amagasaki Martial Spirit end of March was about 74,000; Society, reports the Japan Chronie average, peldi per free 0.81 lbs.
average yield per acre, 848 lbs. dry cle. A dozen young men, some rubber. The quality is highly satis A Melbourne telegram says: students of Middle Schools, and factory and commands the full mar Sinenof, the untecognised Bolshe other teachers of Primary Schools Let price. Crop consisted of about vik representative in Australia; kos or employees of businese companies, 73.64 per cert No. 1 quality and been fined £60 on arch of two took part in the performance. They 20.36 per cent of caber grades. charges recently brought against him Average gross price was 18. 11fd under the War Precautions Act, wre first examined by a physician, per lh, and cost of production, in which prohibits aliens from addres- and all passing muster, they stopped cluding depreciation, 1s. id. per ing meetings. themselves of all clothing except the lb., all-in cost being le. 6d, per la Joincloth, and grensed their bodies Estimated crop for current year is
200,000 lbs., the actual output for The steamer Torrens Jeft They plunged into the river one by first six months being 181,000 lbs. Liverpool. on November 20, for Aus- one and swam for periods varying Profit and loss shows that £14,164 tralia with about 500 passengers. these being mainly women and soc. The weather was particularly was brought forward, and, after de children who had come over from
ducting dividend of 10 per cent, paid Australix some time ago, and who cold, the water of the river being December, 1917, £7,028, and amount had to wait for an opportunity to degrees. Centigrade. All the swim- mers carne out of the ordeal rone the repaid to British North Borneo Com get back again. worse. One of them saya that when pay or account of guarantood divi- dind advances, £3,185, there is left he jumped into the water he felt as it lie land best sung all over the 2,752; profit was £2,454, ranking boly, but after he got bu breath he £5,200, which
forward. swan all tight.
from 2 min. 49 see, to 7 min. 20
osed to carry
WINCARNIS
31 Den Vaux Road, Central.
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THE CHANDLER, HUDSON & OLELAND MITOR JARJ
ON HIRE and FOR SALE
AT REASONABLE PRICÉS,
Wo baro just received a Jargo Consignment of CHILDREN'S SKUDDERS & CARS Inspection Sclicited.
Price moderate.
Motor Car and Cycle Repairing' is our SPECIALITY.
AMERICAN MANUFACTURED
Westinghouse
LAMPS
For Sale by des
GERIN, DREVARD & "Co.
Tel. 114
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL
AND
GRILL ROOM
J. HL TAGGART:
MANAGER
THE PEAK HOTEL.
1,500 Feet above Sea Level
16 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of
MTS. BLAIR.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
CENTRAL LOCATION
LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pass Entrance, Electric Lifts, Hans and Lighting A Europesa Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout Best of Food and Service.
Telephone 373. Telegraphio Address: VICTORIA.
J. WITCHELL, Momajer,
PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON.
(Two minutes from Star Ferry). ¦
Lecently renovated and refurnished, slectric light and fax throughout
and entirely under new management. Cuisine under the personal supervisione of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooms Terms moderate. Epecial tora to families an application to A
Telephone K. 3. Telegraphic Add: "PALACE*
J. H. OXREREY, Proprietors
CARLTON HOTEL
(251N OWEN AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE COLONY.) ICE HOUSE STREET.
Undor American Management ice and qalet yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks and Central District. 43 Bedrooms, Excellent Cuisipa, scrapalously clean. Moderate Terms. Monthly and Family Bates en application to the Proprietress Launches mont Passenger Boate
MRS. Y. E. CAMERON. Talegraphic Aides "CARETON "
BLUE
BIRD
CONFECTIONERS
& CATERERS ICE CREAM PARLOUR
TANG YUK, DESTINE,
the late BIEN TING,
14 D'ULAR STREIT.
TERMS VERY MODERATE.
Consultation frook
KOT...and GOLD DRINKE
• ALSO. DEALERS IN Gimbals and Orange
Amerloan Chgoolston, Assorted Fadej Ozkos,
· DGS PAST OFFICE BUILDINA,
Podiar
FRENCH LESSONS
G. MOUSSION:
15, Morrison Hill Road,