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G. P. LAMMERT.
AUCTIONNEE, APPRAISER AND SURVEYOR.
-Public Auctions-
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG HOTEL,
CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR 1910.
DINNER DANCES will be held on
the following nights during
CHRISTMAS WEEK :—
CHRISTMAS EVE
Wednesday, 24th December.
CHRISTMAS NIGHT,
Thursday, 25th December.
BOXING NIGHT,
Friday, 26th December,
AND
NEW YEAR'S EVË,
Wednesday, 3 lat December.
The popular entertainers. The Missee ALLEEN and, DORIS WOODS, will above CHRISTMAS. appear in the DANCES.
Special Tables d'Hote Manus will be provided in the GRILL ROOM at $3.50 per bend, acd in the MAIN DINING ROOM at $2.50 per head.
Patrons are advised to book early as accommodation is limited. All tables Previously engaged and not cancelled liv mid-day on the day to which such reservation applies will be charged for, whether occupied or not...
Booking may be made at the EOTEL MAIN OFFICE.
IN
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager:
NOTICE.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL.
Order to enable the Contractors to complete the work in connection with the above Hotel at the earliest possible date without interruption, and
in order to avoid all possibility of dam-
age to the Flooring, Tiles, Paint Work,
있습다. The public are requested to
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Nickelplated & White. Ware BATHROOM FIXTURES New Stock Jait Uppecked.
CE WARREN & Co., Ltd.,
30 & 32, Das Vaux Row, a
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JUST RECEIVED
from AUSTRALIA a large shipment. of LACTOGEN, UNSWEETENED CONDENSED MILK, STERILIZED NATURAL MILE, MALTED MILK and SWEETENED COCOA-Jan- MILK, sold at very reasonable prices owing to the present high rate of Exchange, especially for Retailers.
ACTO
SHIU FUNG TAI & 00.,
Hola Agents for Hongkong and South China.
Nos. 17 &#Connaught Read Central, Bongkang Telephone Rom. 1.
kindly abstain from visiting the Hotel DAIRY FARM NEWS.
s on and from this date until its
completion and formal opening on
which dua Notice will be given by
advertisement in the local newspapers.
The Managemout of the Hotel feel are that they may rely upon the ready co-operation of the public in the fore- going regard.
Dated this Sixth day of November, 1918.
For the HONGKONG HOTEL Co., Ltd. PROPRIETORS OF THE
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager.
HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.
? NOVICES COMPETITION,
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TTIES are invited for a NOVICES COMPETITION (all Weights) to
be hell on or about the 10th day of January, 1920, to be conducted under The Competition Rules of the National Sporting Club, subject to such varia- tions therein no may be made by the Foxing Committee of the above Associa
Weights to be N. S. C. Standard Weighta.
Entries will not be accepted from 307 moa who has (6) won any Oped Novioen Competition, or (b) taken part in any Contest or in any Üpen Cpetition other than one for Novices.
Entries must be made at or beforal 12 Neon on FRID LY, December 24 and be addressed to the undersigned.
J. C. WILDIN,
Moosger.
Ofo Importa & Exports Office,
Hongkong
Hongkong, December 17; 1919.
NOTICE.
ALL WHOM it tray concern I
CHRISTMAS ORDER
for
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,"
ZAG-ZAW PUZZLES," STAMP, BAGS AND PACKETS, DOLLS DOLLS DOLLS!!!! PICTURE BOOKS, FISH POND, QUOIT GAMB, ERACTOR, LUDO,
&c,
GRAJA & 00., No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.
Hongkong,
JAPANESE MAKERS,
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
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ORDER
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present residing at the Hongkong Hotel, Pedder Street, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, hereby give Notice that I have expressly withdrawn all and every authority which my wife GLADYS ARELENE CLAYE may have at any tima, either expressly or by implication r otherwise, acquired to contract for me or in my name or as my agent or in any way to pledge my credit having pressly forbidden her so to do and she being sufficiently supplied with all necessaries and that I will not bo responsible for her debts whensoo ver or howsoever incurred.
„Dated this 17th day of Decembar, 1919.
8. J. CLAYE,
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A MEMOIR OF GEN.
---MESNY.
[By HIMSELF.]
the man why has done things. We. happened to ask the General the other day about a, ċertain date, and, he referred to a record which struck us as so interesting that we asked his permission to print it, as a story which reflects on him. the greatest honour.)
The following appeared in theIt was as follows:-" Central China Post of January 10, Jast:
Shortly
In 1899 published Vol III. In 1905 published Vol. IV.
In 1904 published Mesny's Chin- ese and English Almanac, and the same year returned to Hankow Sa November, where I still am in December. 1918. Reference with,
regard to me may be found in the GENERAL MESNY'S RECORD. archives of the British Consulates at When is a man old?
My name is William Mesny. Noms Shanghai, Chinkiang, Hankow and de plume Wenkão and Pioneer. I Canton, between the years of 1861, before the war broke out this ques- tion was a subject of discussion in am a vegetarian, and student of Chris-and 1886, and in the archives of the the home Press, and the majority tian Science and Health. 1 am now British Legation, Peking, between the opinion had it that a man, at 35 had (December 1918) in my 77th year years of 1862 and 1886. Also in the seen his best, and was too old at 40. and 58 years of my life have been ramens of the Viceroys and Gover- It was claimed that this was the day spent in China. I have visited every nors in the provinces where I was of the young man, and those ancients Provincial Capital in China proper recommended for employment, pro- who had reached 40 ought to be and have also travelled in Manchuria, motion and decoration for services Mongolia, Kashgaria, Tibet and rendered to the late Imperial Govern- gently taken in an ambulance to the Burma. I speak French and Chinese, ment, namely, in Szechuan, Kuei- knacker's yard and mercifully shot,!. as the world had no further use for, as fluently as English.
chow, Yunnan. Shansi, Kansu, Sin- them... Doubtless, the writers were I was born in Trinity Parish, Jerkiang, Kuangtung and Fokien. The giving the result of their own experi-sey, C.I. on October 9, 1842 Lett confirmation of my rank as a Major- ence and observation for their genera- home as a sailor boy when 12 years General in the Chinese Army with tion was largely composed of shoddy old in 1854 and sailed to various ports the decoration of the Kualing Plume, goods. They were born old, and in England, France, Channel Island, the order of Pa-tü-lu and promotion weary and lazy..sloth and idleness Azores, West Indies, South Africa, to be Brevet Lieutenant-General, with were the rust and the moth which con- Central America, East Indies, Aus-ancestors ennobled for three genera sumed them and by the time they trafia, Singapore, Java and China in tions, was published in the Péking reached 40 they were finished. But sailing ships. Arrived at WoosungGazette, and the documents handed to me by the British Legation officials at Shang- the preceding generation, many of December 1880. Landed whom are sull alive, were pure wool hai from the barque " Ann" en Janu-Peking, and by the British Consul at
Canton. stuff, and warranted to wear as long ary 23, 1881, sailed to Hongkong in: as the fibres held together. FortuFebruary, and returned to Shanghai nately the war came in time to put a in the P. & O. str. "Aden," in Feb
ruary, 1882.
Ran the Taiping blockade between Shanghai and Hankow until captured
and publisher.
"So ends the record," says the Editor of the Central China Post. new face on it all.
Here we have a jad of 12 setting out The great Generals who were lead-
to face the world alone and, "with ers in the war were, on both sides,
never a helping hand streiched out, all old men.
The peace which is by the Taipings at Fushan, on Novem- becoming a great scholar (in Chinese) about to bless the world with cen ber 3, 1852, was released from cap
a great traveller, a soldier, an author turies of repose is to be made at Paris tivity at Nanking in April, 1863. ..
He endured many by old men. They are such men as Returned to Hankow and joined the shrewish blows of fortune, but always Clemenceau at 77. Ballour 71. Boner Customs Service In 1863, but reaign came up smiling, and now al 77 is Law 61, and Lloyd George 56. Hats ed alter 14 months, in 1884. men
quite happy earning his livelihood is. of to the old men. It has been said Established the Hupeh Iron and a Hankow office. There is not a that no man is ever older than he Brass Works in 1865, which I sold cheerier man in port than the old feels, and it is the experience of some out to the Imperial Government, and General or one more worthy to fill that, as the years incresse on the went to Kueichow in 1868. Was niche in the temple of heroes be they body without the spirit which animates engaged in military service of the ancient or modem.” within gets younger-which is per Kueichow Provincial Government and haps the best proof we have of the returned to Hankow from Kreichów immortality of the soul. Amongst via Szechuan in October, 1874. our friends in this port there is one Went to Peking overland from Chin, youth of 77. Most people know him, kiang in 1875, returned to Rueichow and he may be seen any day walking via Shanghai, Hankow and Hunan in briskly to or from his office. He is the same year, winter. 1875-76 of medium height and well set up, Went to Europe in 1877 from Kuei- his hair is white, but his eyes are clear chow via Szechuan, Tibet. Yunnan, and his complexion fair and tinted like Barma and India, returning by sea a winter apple. That is General the following year to Hongkong, Mesny, and so young is he that in the December, 1878. From 1870 to dicky days of the war, he had him- 1882 I travelled from Canton through self certified fi by the doctor and Kuangs, Kueichow, Szechuan, Shen- offered his services to His Majesty's si, and Kansu to Hami in Sinklang, Government. He received from Mr. thence to Peking via Tibet, Kane, Balfour a hearty letter of thanks with Shensi, Honan, Shansi and Chibli. the assurance they would call on him Returned to Shanel March, 1882, 2′′ before the Germans reached London In November, 1882, left Shansi for When is a man famous? There Canton, travelled via Shansi, Shens, are many answers. The man may Szechuan, Kueichow, Yunnan, Kuang- be so regarded who accumulates a Si, and Kuangtung. Arrived at Can- fortune in a few years and then goes ton, autumn, 1883. Travelling thence! home to drone out the balance of to Hongkong, Swatow, Amoy, Foo his life generally brief in doing chow and finally returned to Shanghai nothing Fro man who lowers the in 1884-
record for tretting a mile, or beats the In 1885 published my book on tennis champion may consider himself Tungking. In 1895 published worthy of immortal fame, but we con- Mesny's Chinese Miscellany, Vols. fees to holding such cheap give us | I, and II.
QUED NOT WOR WITH LEFT HAND
Came Out In Pimples. licking Worse At Night. Cuticura Ficals.
"My fingers are bat in a lot of pirupies that peeled and spread all over] ay hand and it looked like a piece of mcat The fuching was worse at night| 'ho phải I tenia notelaép. The eruption got dry and very painful, and I could not do any work with my left in gå.
"For Eve months my hand 2. Vane idle and then I tried Coiltura Soaps wond Ointment. Now my hand is perfectly | faded, and tho skin is just as clear an
before." (Signed) Mín. I. Fimib,, 7. Buckinghams Pl, Lake Rd. Porta- month, Eng.
"Clear the pores of impurities try daily Jase of Coilers Sogy and occas quai touclata of Cutistura Ointment antɔ2523) to soften,sotheanil heal. Theyareideal | föll every tolles and numery gut poso,
Soep to leaner, Dintment to heat” British
Depot 8. Newbery & Spony 101, 23, C Sorkunne Sigy London. Saldarerywhere."
TUESDAY. – DECEMBER 29, 1912.
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