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G. P. LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER
AND SURVEYOR.
INTIMATIONS
Nickelplated & White Ware
Public Auctions- BATHROOM FIXTURES
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG BOXING
ASSOCIATION.
NOVICES/COMPETITION.
ESTRIES are invited for a NOVICES COMPETITION (all Weights) o ha held on or about the 10th day of. "January, 1920, to be conducted under: the Competition Bules of the National Sporting Club, subject to such rarit tions therein as may be made by the Boxing Committee of the above Associa Nica.
Naw Steck Just Unpacked
Weights to be N. & C. Standard C. E. WARREN & Co., Ltd.,
Weights..
Entries will not be accepted from any man who baa (a) won any Open Navices Competition, or (b) taken part in any Contest or in ang Open Competition other than one for Novices.
Entries must be made at or before 12 Noon on FRIDAY, December 24 and be addressed to the undersigned.
J. C. WILDIN,
Alunoger. Go Imports & Exporta Office, Hongkong.
Hongkong, December 17, 1919.
HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
TR. P. M. HODGSON, having re- M
signed the Hon. Secretaryship of
this CLUB the Committee have appoint ad the Undersigned, to whom all fature Communication should be addressed.
:
L. S. GREENHILL,
Hon. Secretary.. Hongkong, December 18, 1919..
"NOTICE.
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TO ALL WHOM it may concern I SAMUEL JOHN CLAYE present residing at the Hongkong Hotel, Pod ler Street, Victorie în fhe Colony of, Hongkong, bereby give Notice that I hire expressly withdrawn all and every
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JUST RECEIVED from AUSTRALIA a large shipment of LACTOGEN, UNSWEETENED CONDENSED MILK, STERILIZED NATURAL MILE, MALTED MILK and SWEETENED 0000 A-land-
·MILK, sold at very reasonable prices owing to the present high rate of Exchange, especially for Retailers.
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SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,
Bole Axenta for Hongtong and South China.. ¡No. 4; # 18; Connaught Road Guitral, Hongkong, "Pelapkans Now, 1999 à 1290,.
CHRISTMAS ORDER
for
thority which my wife GLADYS DAIRY FARM NEWS. ARELENE CLATE may have a: any time, either expressly or by implication or otherwise, acquired to contract for me or in my name or as my agent or in Bry way to pledge my credit-I having expressly forbiddea, her so to do and sh being suficiently supplied with all Recessaries-and that I will not be responsible for her debts whenз30s ver or" tuxsoever iscurred.
Dated this 17th day of December, 1018.
S. J. CLAYE,
F/
HONGKONG HOTEL.
CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR 1919.
DINNER DANCES will be held on
the blowing nights during CHRISTMAS WEEK:--
CHRISTMAS EVE,
Wednesday, 24th December. CHRISTMAS NIGHT,
Thursday, 25th December..
BOXING NIGHT,..
Friday, 28th December,
AND
NEW YEAR'S EVE,
Wednesday. 31st December.
The popular entertainers, The Misses AILEEN and DORIS WOODS, will; appear to the above CHRISTMAS TANCES.
Special Tables d'Hate Ments will be provided in the GRILL ROOM at $3.50
HAMS, TURKEYS, GEESE,
+
DUCKS, POULTRY SAUSAGE MEAT,
&c. &c. &, &c." should be sent in as early as possible TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.'
CHRISTMAS GIFTS. Stockings,
XMAS BASKETS, ZAO-ZAW PUZZLES, STAMP, BAGS AND PACKETS, DOLLS! DOLLS!| DOLLS !!!
PICTURE BOOKS, Fisa POND, QUOIT GAME, ERECTOR, LUDO,
Acc
&c.
GRACA & 00,
No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 800.
Hongkong,
per head, and in the MAIN DINING JAPANESE MAKERS. BOOM at 92.50 per head.
Fations are advised to book early as accommodation is limited. All tables previously engaged and not cancelled by mid-day on the day to which such ervation applies will be charged for, hether occupied of not.
Bookinga may be made at the HOTEL MAIN OFFICE.
J. EL TAGGART,
Blazager.
NOTICE.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
TX Order to enable the Contractora to.
to the Cantonmention
with the shova. Hotel at the earliest posible data without interruption," and in order to avoid all possibility of dam- ags to the Flooring, Tiles, Paint Work, The public are requested to Kindly abstain from visiting the Hotel as on and from this date until its eqmpletion and
eta
formal opening on which due Notice will be given by advertisement in the local newspapers.
The Management of the Hotel feel sure that they may rely upon the ready | co-operation of the publia in the fore guing regard,
Dated this Sixth day of November, 1019.
For the Hosaxons Horiz Co., La. PROPRIETORS OF THE
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ROYAL ASIATIC. SOCIETY.
MR. GEORGE LANNING'S PAPER.
NAMES AND NICKNAMES OF
it might have obtained that name, pointed out that Sir Edmund Hornby, the first judge at HM. Supreme Court, in the middle sixties remark- ed that there was no better governed place the world over than Shanghai, A fact which, the speaker said, was amply borne out by the closest inspec tion of the records, from the earliest times. It had also been poetically termed the "Abode of Bliss" while the Duke of Somerset in the House Belore a meeting, of the members of Lords informed the House that he of the Royal Asiane Society, at Shang- had been assured by military and hai on Dec. 11, Mr. G. Lanning read naval officers that Shanghai was a an interesting paper on "Names and sink of iniquity." For a time after Nicknames of the Shanghai Senie-that the Settlement was known as
"model sink."
ment."
SHANGHAI.
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FILMING THE WAR.
OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER'S NAR.
ROY ESCAPE ON SOMACE,
His many adventures as official cine- matographer in France are described. ry Lieut. Geofrey Malins in his book, How 1 Filmed the War," just pub- lished by Herbert Jenkins.
Somme from the front line
a very narrow escape.
For over two years he held a roving commission up and down the front. He was reported dead, his cap was Mr. Lanning in the course of a
EXPECTANT PEACE.
pierced by a bullet, he was summarily paper which dealt with many exam. Dealing with some of the names in arrested on the Swiss frontier, but ples of the names applied to Shang- and around Shanghai, the speaker always he turned up safe and sound, hai itself, and to the various places instanced Hongkew in the name of his stock of pictures increased. within and without the Settlement, which there was a reference, probably While filming the July I attack on commenced with a discussion of the poetical, to the rainbow; Tungkadoo the meaning of the word "Shanghai" was the ferry of the Tung family, the he had and pointed out that there were at bridge which existed
the Something attracted my attention least a dozen translations for the two Yangkingpang, known as "Taylor's on the left," he writes. What it syllables Sketching the outline of Bridge" from the American mission was I don't know. I ceased turning, the history of the foreign settlements, ary who had his residence nearby, but still holding the handle, I veered was known amongst the Chinese as round the front of my camera. The the speaker then showed how it was
"The wooden bridge of the Chang next moment, with a shriek and a known amongst the natives by the
family." name of I-chang, "the foreign bar-
Sinza and Louza meant the flash a shell fell and exploded before barian enclosure," The first time new and old water gates respectively; had time to take sheher. It was that the word Settlement was Soochow Creek was still known in only a few feet away. What happen- used in connection with Shanghai, the vernacular as the old river. re-ed after I hardly know. There was that he could find, was in a despatch-miniscent of the time when the Soo-the grinding crash of a bursting shell;
chow Creek was larger than in 1847 when the port had been open Huangpu. The Bund got its name thing, camera and all,
the something struck my tripod, the whole ed. Settlement was not then a word from the fact that the earliest settlers against me.
was fung 1clutched it and stag-
and others bad founded settlements in
MUD WALL BRIDGE..
of historic fame. Sir Walter Raleigh in Shanghai came from India and gered back, holding it in my arms. America which had come to griet brought the name with them. Shan- I dragged it into a shrapnei-proof while at that time there was also the big Road was known as the "Street shelter, sat down, and looked for the
of Expectant Peace." It was destined damage. Bertible adjective" penal commonly used before the noun.. It was called to be the Fleet Street of Shanghai and “A piece of shell had struck the the International. Settlement" first
there was no one more prone to seek tripod and cut the legs clean in half In 1854 and in this connection the peace and ensue it than the journalist, on one side, carrying about six inches speaker gave a number of interesting
of it away. The camera, thank Hea- facts about Shanghai, such as the dis the speaker gave was the fact that man we hastily found some pieces of A fast example of the many that ven, was untouched. Calling" my. pute over the flying of the American Hag in what was popularly known as who wanted to leave the car at the and within an hour had improvised tranicar conductors still told people wood, old telephone wire, and string the British Settlement, the gradual New World that they would get off legs rigid enough to continue making establishment of Hengkes as an at "Mud Wall Bridge," going back scenes. American settlement by sufferance, to the existence of the Defence Creek, and the digging of the mud dock by the earthworks on the East Bank of an American, which was the forerun it and the bridge that was thrown ner of the present. Old Dock. Hong Kew, he said, became known as the
Cinderella of the Settlements."
A CITY OP. REFLICE.
It was the insurrection of the men who by reasm of their furbans came to be known, as the Red: Heads " that Shanghai first became known 10 the Chinese as, "city of refuge a, name which justified itself, during the time of the Taipings, when its 140 acres, contained a full hal? mil- lion souls and Chinese, were prepared
across at that point. Nanking Road xers Company had been working con was still known as the Da Ms Loo,sistently on peace products, and now No. 1 Horse Road, while Kiukiang the transition from building of ships and Hankow Roads were the No. 21 of war to building of merchant ships and No. 3 Horse Roads respectively.
SHIPBUILDER ON BRITISH
PROGRESS.
had been accomplished. There were many who regarded the development of merchant shipbuilding in America and Japan as the death knell, of British shipping pre-eminence, but he had sufficient confidence, in the majority of his fellow-countrymen to, regard
Sir James McKechnie, speaking at that decision with optimisma, What
to pay fabulous aims to obtain that a banquet given by the Mayor of Bar- British hands and brains bufit op safety which the settlements offered row, said since November, 1911, many years ago could be built up Mr. Lanning Incidentally remarked Vickers, at their Barrow (works, had again, and the keen competition with that some foreigners would willingly paid £27,000,000 in wages. The America and Japan would, in his exchange the name of the seniement war was now over, but they had be. opinion; actually speed up instead of and for City of Refuge" call it for them a task of magnitude second retard. British progress. A new spirit Alsatia. We only to that involved by the world was now about and a sincere recogni The speaker remarked that he did war. There was now hocartificial tion that labour was entitled to and got know, when it was first termed stimulus 10 Industry, and the future was obtaining a fair share in the grow
Model Settlement," but after giving rested entirely upon the combined brotherhood of Industry. Journal of couple of happy examples of how exorts of brains and energy. · Vic-, Commerce."
MONDAY. –DECEMBER 22, 1919.
NOTICES.
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