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1. P. LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER APPRAISER
AND SURVEYOR
INTIMATIONS
Nickalplated & White Wars
Public Auctions BATHROOM FIXTURES
Saw Stock Jast
mer Presents. Xmas Presents.
NHE Undersigned has received' instruc»
Here to sell by Public Auction,
"
On
FHURSDAY, December 4, 1918, Commencing at 2.30 p.m. this Sales Rooms, Duddell Street
A Collection of Valuable
Jewellery.
Comprising
Solid gold rings, brooches, bangles.. rrings, necklaces, watches, tie pins.
ger claws, cigarette & sovereign ones.
i kaks, studs, etc., etc. (Plain & cet
ith precious stones).
Ou view from Wednesday, the 3rdi
Catalogne wille issued. Torma ----Chan delivery,
GEO. P. LAMMEST, Acctioneer.. Hongkong,December 22,1919.
MONDAY, December 8, 1919,
commencing at 11 am.
at hit Salca Rooms, Duddall Street, A Quantity of Lady's brown & black 1038, Corsets, moirette frill skirts, vilk oves, lady's silk mittens, silk trim. ings, ostrich feathers, Gent's silk ties,
etc.,
Also
etc.
Pairs Union Fleece Blankets, On view from Saturday, the 6th inat..
Termon: Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer..
Hongkong, December 1819.
INTIMATIONS.
ARINE · ENGINEERS" GUILD. HINA COAST OFFICERS' GUILD.
FEMBERS of the above GUILDS
are informed that a combined rating will be held at the GUILD FFICES 10 Des Voeux Road HURSDAY, December 4th at 3 P.M.
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011
Aa matters of urgency have to be cided, every member in river and outside" ships is requested to attend.
Hongkong, December 4, 1919.
HONGKONG HOTEL.
PECIAL ATTRACTIONS AT THE
TEA DANSANTS.
HE POPULAR ENTERTAINERS
AILEEN & DORIS WOODS WILL APPEAR
(after an absence of two years) AND PRESENT THE LATEST SONG HITS
TO-MORROW
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4TH.
DMISSION TO DANCE ROOM $2
IOTEL RESIDENTS
NOTICE.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL.
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Order to enable the Contractors to complete the work in connection ith the nhova Hotel at the earliest sible data without interruption, and
■ order to avoid all possibility of dam- ge to the Flooring, Tiles, Paint Work, te. The public are requested to indly abstain from visiting the Hotel don and from" this date until its ompletion and formal opening on hich dao Notice will be given by Avertisement in the local newspapers.
The Management of the Hotel feel
CE WARREN & Co., Ltd.,
30 & 32, DES VEUX ROAD, C.
* R * * * JUST RECEIVED from AUSTRALIA a largo shipment of LACTOGEN, UNSWEETENED CONDENSED MOLA, STERILIZED NATURAL MILK, MALTED MILK and SWEETENED DOCOA-land- MILE, sold a very ressonable prices owing to the present tigh rate of Exchange, especially for Retailers-
ACTOGEN
SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,
sible Agents for Hongkong and Ɛeath China, 2km. 47 & 18. Gennenght Road Central, Hongyang.
Talupaona_Now, 129 &
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
OWN HOUSE FED POULTRY.
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We are now able to apply our Customers with own fed poultry and to meet all demnud.
Oot present stock consists of specially selected Birds which are in prime condition and should give "every satisfaction.
CHEAP SALE
OF
DOLLS
AT
50 PER CENT."
REDUCTION
FOR
9 WEEKS ONLY.
ASSORTMENT OF 300 DOLLS.
GRACA & 00., No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. Q. Box 620,
Hongkong
JAPANESE MAKERS,;
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
TO
ORDER
ars that they may rely upon the readyOERRY & CO.
operation of the public in the forn- oing regard
Dated this Sixth day of November, $15.
For the HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
PROPRIETORS OF THE
REPTISE BAY,, HOTEL 'J. H. TAGGART,
Manager.
Isay
IKEATINGS LOZENGES
cure the Worst Cough
CALDER WIREST, Uppoal' a Hongkong Hotel, Telephone No. 481.
Hongkong, March 20, 1934,
MUMEYA
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behind it, they are sure of
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they demand a
when
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Sold in
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A
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"BOUQUETS."
Obtainable at all High-class TOBACCONISTS.
This. Advertisement is issued by British-American Tobacco Co., (China) Ltd.
BRIGHTNESS OF THE U.S. STEEL FOR JAPAN. Į ELECTRIC-ARC CRATER
Seattle, Wash., U.S.A., Nov.-
THE CESSION OF TSINGTAU TO JAPAN..
to the
The port of Taingtan lies roughly Thirty thousand tons of steel material.. representing an expenditure of nearly 400 miles by rail from Tientsin, and $3.000.000. bave been ordered from about 300 miles by sea, and i the United States Steel Corporation situated at the entrance for shipment through Seattle to the enormous landlocked bay at Kiao- Orient for the Kawasaki Dockyard chau, the entrance to which is not" Company, of Kobe, according to more than 13 miles wide. The port Ichiro Yamada, Seattle representative was occupied by Germany in Novem of the company.
It is fairly well agreed that the brightest spots of the positive-electrode crater have the temperature of the boiling point of carbon, and that the brightness is independent of the inter- sity of the arc-current. There are, however, divergent observations, noi ably those of Waidner and Burgess and of Lummer, according to whom the brightness, may increase with the cur- This vist shipment of steel, prae- rent intensity. This suggestion is con- tically all of which will be handled firmed by experiments described by through Seattle, indicates that the E. Podszus in the Verhandlungen der Kawasaki Dockyard Company plans Deutscher Physikalischen Gesells to stimulate its post-war shipbuilding chaft of June last, and it is further programme. This programme, de- -suggested that the temperature of theclared Mr. Yamada, will include the crater must be higher than is usually construction of at least two vessels of assumed. The experiments were con 9.000 tonnage every month during the ducted in the Siemens works and with next year." These vessels will be
pure Siemens carbons.
ber, 1897, following on the murder of two German missionaries by a Chinese mob, and the occupation was Perpetuated shortly afterwards by a so-called lease for 99 years from China.
Germany did everything conceiv
and other facilities infinitely superior to those at the port of Tientsin.
able to develop the occupied terri tory, and also to exploit by every possible means the special rights acquired at the same time in the hinterland-the province of Shantung Podszus made built for the account of the steamship with the result that the port of his measurements by two methods department of the Kawasaki Dockyard Tsingtau became a first-class naval with a Kurlbaum-Holborn pyrometer, Company, and will undoubtedly be base and, further, a considerable provided with three reflecting prisms, leased to other companies operating commercial port, with cargo-handling and also with a Konig spectrophoto-steamship freight bines to Seattle and meter closed in front by a ground- other American ports. glass screen on which he observed the The Kawasaki. Dockyard Company The harbour of Tsingtau is pro- image of the crater, The arc was employs 20,000 workmen, and it is tected on the north-east and west by magnetically steadied, but it was not the only Japanese arm to grant the a breakwater, and is sufficiently always easy, to find the brightest part eight-hour day to its employes," de-large to accommodate the shipping of "the crater. The diameter of the clared Mr. Yamada. The eight-of the Far East. There is ample carbons varied between 9 mm. and hour day was allowed on October 1: depth of water, and the largest 25 mm., the are length between 4 somewhat after the working conditions vessels can come alongside at any rom. and 48 mm,, the volts. between and overtime wage allowances exist state of the tide all the year round. 14 and 100, and the amperes berweening in Seattle shipyards. The com- The harbour is never closed by ice. 14 to 210. The maximum tempera-pany has ordered 30,000 tons of steal The quayage totals 5,500 ft., of which tures deduced. ranged from 3,780 deg. materials, aggregating a cost of about 500 ft. is privately owned, and there C. to 4,090 deg. C. absolute. Cur-$2,700,000, which will be sent to our is thus accommodation for about 12 rents of 150 amperes gave the highest Kobe yards through Seattle. About vessels alongside. Cargo is dis- temperatures, but these maximum a thousand tons in this order have charged into and loaded from massive temperatures were at times obtained already been dispatched.
concrete warehouses built on the with lower current intensities. The The Kawasaki Dockyard Company wharves and directly connected with brilliancy of the crater was greatest had previously contracted with the the railways, and heavy articles can with the steadiest ares, though some United States Government to construct be loaded direct into trucks standing investigators claim high temperatures twelve steel freighters ol 9,000 tons on the quays. for hissing arcs, Some of the obser- capacity. Seven of these vessels have
Under the Germans the quay ware. vations el Podszus are peculiar, and already been turned out, while the re- houses, of which there are seven, it is manifest once more that the elec-maining five ships will be delivered to were let to the shipping firms, and. tric, are requires a good deal of fur- the United States Government before cargo could lie in them for 10 days ther study. When the crater was the end of the year, said Mr. Yamada. free of charge. There are ample very brilliant, the consumption of car- With Seatle's facilities for handling coaling facilities with coal supplied bon was very rapid; the positive carbon trans-Pacific Freight, shipping men from German mines, in the province seemed really to boil away at the rate declare this port will dispatch this of Shantung. At present the trade of of 10 mm. per minute, and a fine enormous steel order quickly and this port is rather more than one pointed projection developed in the efficiently.
crater. It is well known that the con-
sumption of carbons changes with the
atmosphere; the carbons burn away
third that of Tientsin. Of the Taing- tau trade, 87 per cent. is in the hands of Japanese, who have been in occupa- tion since November, 1914. As usual, much faster in an open arc than in an if at all, because there are losses of Japan has donë” everything possible enclosed arc, although air is not ab-heat by conduction and radiation, and
to develop the place and to attract. sent from the enclosed are, and Pod- the temperature does not rise above an Japanese capital to the exclusion of szus observed also a very rapid con- the current supply on the one hand ex-German rights here and in the equilibrium condition depending upon all other for the development of the sumption of his carbons in an indiffer- ent atmosphere of nitrogen. His ac- and heat losses on the other. The hinterland. It will thus be seen that count is not sufficiently detailed, how-arc may, he thinks, be at a higher as far as port facilities go Tientsin is ever, and a previous paper of his, to temperature-than the crater. But it not, and never can be, in a position which he refers, on steady filiform is really high time that we had come to compete with Tsingtag, more metallic vapour arcs, is, for some reare in various gases and the supposed of the power which has closed the more definite information about the especially with Tsingtau in the hands son, not yet available in this countrys boiling of carbon. For which, there is "open door to trade in Manchuria although it was published in the Zelts- chrift für Elektrochemic two years hardly any direct evidence. The car Engineering. ngo; the paper is only known by abases of the atmosphere. The pra
bon may simply combine with the stracts, To return to our subjects blems are difficult, no doubt, for they Podszus considers that-in-the-ordinary, have certainly not been neglected- are the maximum possible: tempera-
Engineering ture is only reached at a few points
WATTA WALLA" Launches
Blake Pier, Night and day vios.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER · 1919.
NOTICES.
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
WATCHMAKERS &
JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansions.
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,
TO MAKE A DAINTY MEAL.
Buy ROOSTER BRAND" Macaroni Vermicelli, Egg Noodles, Paste Stars and other kinds of Soup Staffs from us. All our Paste. Products, made in a new, well-ventilated and modern style Factory, are pura, bolesome and of excellent quality,
Obtainable from all our Agents everywhere.
Samples and Price List will be given free of charge on application to cur Head Offcs.
TRADS MARK.
THE HING WAH PASTE MFC.
60., II.
HEAD UFFICE: 47 & 48, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong. Tal. No. 9290, BRANCH OFFICE; 450 & 431, Nanking Road, Shanghai, China.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
OPERATING :-
THE HONGKONG HOTEL,
HOTEL MANSIONS,
THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
(To be opened 1st January, 1920.)
J. H. TAGGART, MAXIGIK
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
LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pau Entrance, Electria Idits, Fans and Fighting AEuropeas Baths and Sanitary Fitingy, Hot and Cold Water System
throughout Beet of Food and Service.
Telephone 373. Telegraphia Address :——1 VICTORIA."
J. WITCHELL, Manager,
PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON.
Two minutes from Star Ferry)}.
Recently renovated and rafurnished, electric light and fans throughout and entirely under new management Cuisine, under the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooms. Herms moderate Special terms, to familiei an application to
Telephone K. S. Talegraphio Adid: "PALACK"
J. H OXBERRY, Proprietor
CARLTON HOTEL.
(TUUR ONLY AMERICAN HOTEL IN THE oxtowe.).
ICE HOUSE STREET."
Under American Management Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes walk from the Banks and Central District. 42 Bedrooms Excellent Cuisine. scrapulously clean. Moderata Turms Monthly and Family. Rates on application to the Proprietress. Launches moot. Passenger. Bosta.
Talegraphic Address "CARLTON!
Mr. F. E. CAMERON,
TEL ALEXANDRA CAFE
TEL 009
909
16, Des For Road Central. Next Hongkong Hotel.
Try our BREAD, made from the very best Flour and guaranteed to be the purest Bread in the Colony, DON'T FORGET and order early our own made XMAS PUDDINGS and MINUE PIES. Christening, Birthday & Wedding Cakes made to order.
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ICH ORHAM PARLOUR
AND CONFECTIONERS
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