ICP LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER APPRAISER.
AND SURVEYOR.
-Public Auctions-
INTIMATIONS.
BANK CHIDA YS.
accordance with Ordinanse No. 5
will be CLUSED for the Transaction of Public Buses OR-THURSDAY," FRI- DAY and SATURDAY, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Janusty, 1920.
Hongkong, December 9, 1919.
NOTICE.
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., OF
FRO
CANADA.
TAROM and after January 1, 1920, the Offices of the above. Company, will be located at
MARINE HOUSE"
15. Queen's Road Central, First Floor,
above Caldback Macgregor's).
F. M. WELLER
Manager. Hongkong, December 29, 1919.1
HONGKONG HOTEL
NEW YEAR 1919.
DINNER
INNER DANCES will be held on
the following Big-
NEW YEAR'S EVE,
Wednesday, 31st December.
The popular entertainers, The Misson AILEEN and DORIS WOODE,. will Appear in the above CHRISTMAS DANCES
Special Tables d'Hote Heuns will be provided in the GRILL ROOM at $3.50 per head, and in the MAIN DINING ROOM at $2.50 per head
Patrons are advised to book early a Accommodation is limited. All tables praricusly engaged and not cancelled by mid-day on the day to which auch reservation applice will be charged for,
betber occupied or not.
Bookings may be made at the HOTEL MAIN OFFICE.
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
ABALL will be held on the Even.
ing of the 1st of January, 1920, sommencing at 9.15 P....
Tickets including buffet supper eas be obtained at the Hongkong Hotel Main Office at 83.-per head..
Dinners will not be served at the Repulse Bay Hotel on the opening
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager. hongkong, December £3, It 19.
NOTICE.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
INTIMATIONS
Kiskalplated White Ware
BATHROOM FIXTURES Now Steak Tart Unpachikt.
CE WARREN & Co., Ltd.,
30 & 39, DVaux Road C
JUST RECEIVED
from AUSTRALIA, a largo shipment of LACTOGEN, UNSWEETKAJED CONDENSED MILE, STERILIZKU NATURAL MILE, MALTRO MILE and SWEETENED COCOA-land- MILE, sold at very reasonable prices pwing to the present high rate of Exchange, especially for Retailers-
ACTO
SHIU FUNG TAI & 00.,
Sols Agent for Hongkong and Bósta China. Kon, Connaught Road Central, Hunghon Telephone Koe, 1999 à'30.
DAIRY FARM NEWS. OUR BUTCHERY DEPARTMENT Can supply all your requirements in
Australian and Local Mente RABBITS, HARES, HAMS, BACON, SAUSAGES, CORNED BEEF & PORE, oto, etc. Our this week's speciality CAMBRIDGE SAUSAGES.
TRY THEM
THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE CO, LTD.
NEW YEAR GIFTS.
Stockings,
NEW YEAR BASKETS, Zag-ZAW PUZZLES, STAMP, BAGS AND PACKETS,
IN Order to enable the Contractors to DOLLS! DOLLS!! DOLLS !!!
complete the work in connection
with the shove Hotel at the parliest possible date without interruption, and In order to avoid all possibility of dam- age to the Flooring, Tiles, Paint Work, etc. The public are requested to findly abstain from visiting the Hotel se on and from this date until it completion and formal opening on which due Notice will be given by advertisement in the local newspapers.
The Management of the Hotel feel are that they may raly upon the ready 90-operation of the public in the fore- going regard
Duted this Sixth day of November, 1919.
For the HosexoNG HOTEL CO., LTD. PROPRIETORS OF THE
RAPULSE BAY "HOTEL"
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager.
WEST POINT. BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED,
【OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
PICTURE BOOKS, FISH POND, Quorr Gaxı, ERECTOR, LUDO,
dic
C
GRAÇA & Co., No. 10, Wyndham Street, F. O. Box 630.
Hongkong
JAPANESE MAKERS,
ZAUM
Every kind of Footwear AMADE
Af orɔd TO
CHINA MAIL.
GOLOFINA
*PERFECTO
Actual Siru.
THE
XMAS
PACKING
"PERFECTOS"
IN
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BOXES.
This Advertisement is imod by British-American Tacco Co. (China) IA.
CHINA'S AEROPLANES:
42
THE VICKERS VIMY BERVICE.
KUNG YIK DIVIDEND.
At a meeting of the Consulting Committee of the Kung Yik Cotton In view of the contract which has Spinning and Weaving Co., Ld., held been entered into between the on Dec. 23, it was decided that the Chinese Government and Messrs. shareholders should be recommended Vickers Ltd for the subply of ate apportion the balance at credit of large number of Vickers Vliny com- Proft and Loss account ou Novem mercial atroplanes and for the con- ber 30, 1919, of Tis.. 706,463.03, as struction of aendromes, supply and follows a repair depots, we are enabled to publish particulars of the Vickers- Vimy machine through the courtesy of "Messrs. Vicker'e aviation depart.
ment.
To pay a dividend of Tis. 5 per share on 75,000 Shares
To place to Equalization of Dividend Fund... To place to Cotton
To write off Flant and
Machinery
The aeroplanes, which have been selected for the new services in
Fluctuation Fund... China, are of a similar type to the To place to Special machine which won the £10,000 Repairs and Renewils prize for the first non-stop, flight Fund across the Atlantic. The dimensions! are as follows: Overall lengths, 42 ft. 8 io. overall height, 15 ft 3 in.; span, 67 ft.; gap, 10-ft.; chord, 10 ft. 6 in. Two Rolls-Royce Eagle" Mark VIIL zagines are fitted, dere. leping a total of 150 hp. The
maximum speed is 5.05 miles per hour, the cruising speed 90 miles per hour, and the landing speed 45 miles per hour. In the event of one engine failing., the machine can fly on the other engine at a speed of 70 miles per hour.
ORDER central is utilised for the passenger
the THIRTY SECOND ORDIN CHERRY & UD-
KARY-MEELING of SHAREHOLDERS
this Company will be held at the *Oncer of Mestre Jardine Matheson
Bompany, Limited, on WEDNES. Telephone No. 431 CADAY: 14th January, 1930 at 11
Tolooka.m). for the purpose feaeiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts go for the year ending 31st December,
-- ALCOKB- STRAEL, appa Flougrong Hoaf,
Hongkong, March 2, 1834.
of
The REGISTER of SHABEN of he Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, 1st January to WED.
ESDAY, 14th January, 1920, (both) "Aga incluúve), during "which" period no Transfer of Shares can be Rogin:
pred.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
A BHELTON HOOPER, "
Secretary to the
Loughton Lundi Tavestment & Agency
Company, Limited,
Genord Agents for the est Paint Building Company,
Limited. Hongkong, December 2, 1919.
MUMEYA.
- Japanera Photographers, All kinds of Photographio Work done Tin latest styles also Passport Photos Developing and Printing for Amateurs & Spesiality,
No. B, Queen's Boad Central. Tel. 254.
THE NEW FRENCH ARMEDY.
THERAPION NO THERAPION NĚ.2 THERAPION No3
No. 1 fer madder Ostari. Mo. 3 for Flood "İkin Dinsanız.. Hn. Efor Chronio WalkSMINE SA
EGLO BEEBISING CHEMIETE, PRICE IN KRILAND, DE
„REE TRADE WAREZD WORD "THREAFIOMIS ON BEL, DOVÉ, ETANY AFFIERD ZO UNNTIRE PAGENTE
To write off: Boldings To write off Furniture To pay. Bonus to Staff
at Mills and retiring" allowance to the late To give to War Funds Mill Superintendent create Chinese Sup erannuation Fund
carry forward to New Account...............
To
To
Tis
Ms.
375,000.00
TRIUMPHS OF BRITISH
SHIPBUILDINGANA
It is known to everybody that the construction of new British naval, Vessels was carried through with feverish haste during the war, but.. the world is only new becoming acquainted with the remarkable resus which were achieved in spite of the stress of war conditions. In peace time it is the custom of the. British Admiralty. pot, to accept vessels except after exhaustive pre. liminary trials,. Naturally, also, it customary for the shipbuilders to take minute care of every detail of the engines and other equipment. War production, how- ever, reached so high a; stage of 40,000.00 efficiency that the Admiralty was able to dispense with these trials. High- 40,000.00 powered vessels went to sea after 2 20,000,00 basin trial and steamed at full speed 500.00 in a very short time. HMS: "Re
140,000.00
50,000 00
20.000.00
solution," for example, steamed straight out into the North Sea before daylight, reached.. ber full power within one hour, and ran without a 7,000.00 bitch to her station in the Firth of Forth. Many battleships and cruisers 10,000,00 went to sea fully commissioned, and ran the necessary trials on their way 3,963.03 to the appointed naval base. Oce particular destroyer raised her full 706,463.03 power within seven minutes of leav
ing. the piers on her first voyage.. Journal of Commerce.
A STEAMER MISSING.
One of the many noticeable features is the great depth of the fuselage, which, it will be seen, is of elliptical section and of excellent stream line form. The fuselige is divided into three distinct sections, of which the
The Singapore steamer "Castor," a cabin, providing accommodation for vessel of about 1,500 tons, belonging 10 persons-in separate armchairs, to the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd., is. Cupboards are built at the end of the reported missing. She left Singapore cabin to accommodate light luggage, on November 16 with a cargo-for and telephonic communication is in Haiphong, so is long overdue. No stalled between the passengers and news of any kind has been received, the pilats: Two of the latter are car but wreckage has been reported, and ried side by side, well forward, high it is feared that the vessel was lost up in the nose of the machine, thus in the typhoon.. giving a very wide range of vision, The passenger, cibin. is of a special form of "monocoque construction,
BOOTS AT A PENNY A PAIR.
Over half a million pairs of dis- carded Army boots were offered for. sale by the Disposal Board, at the White City recently. The boots in. cluded Army boots of every stage of wear. Canadian, Australian, German, and Russian boots thigh" boots, and gun boots. Some small leta of men's, women's and children's boots were offered for sale on behalf of the as is the nose renten in front of the near each seat. There are two doors, Belgian Relief Committee. Army cabin. The call is built up of which are watertight when closed, so gymnasium shoes and hospital slip- elliptical rings of box section,, com- that the machine will foat if forced pers and leggings were also included. posed of ash flanges steamed to, corto descend into the sea. To provide The prices obtained were gener- rect shape with webs of spruce glued for this emergency a trap door ally low Five shillings a pair was and screwed to the flanges. The has been fitted on the top of quite a hig price, and was given- Louter cover of the cabin is composed the cabin to enable passengers to for a pair of Colonial boots. Grade "bf" Consuta"; patent plywood, aleve in this way if necessary. Ven- 5 boots the lowest-grade were material stronger than the ordinary 'tilation and heating can be regulated sold in lots of 100 at id per: pair plywood. Ash atifaners are placed to suit any atmospheric conditions: while grade 4 boots fetched 4d per intervals between the main box. For freight and mail carrying the pair for a lot of 20,000. German rings to give additional support to seats in the car can be removed in boots fetched 6d for grate 4 and 21- the outer casing. The cabin is at a few minutes. The maximum for zrade S. A shilling was given tached to the upper mais plane.byweight which can be carried in this for three pairs of German half two pairs of raking struts, whilst to way is 1 tons. The total weight wellington boots with wooden soles. secure the lower main plane to the of the machine loaded witholl Thers were some interesting speci cabin two ash, members run trans and petrol and with water in radia- mens prepared to show what could versely under the floor la line with tors and in reserve amounts to be done with old boots. If you the wing spars, and to the end of 11,312 lbs., or just over 5 tons. La take a pair of even grade 4 boots, these members steel fittings are at no part of the structure has strength apparently not worth kicking," said tached by means of throngh bolts. been sacrificed for lightness, the an experienced bootmaker, "and" To these fittings corresponding fit designed factor of safety being 5 wash them in warm water, then oil tings on the spars are bolted. The throughout. A height of 6,000 feet them, and last them, repair them, inside dimensions of the cabin are 6 is reached in 17 minutes, whilst and last them again, yɔn wit be sjr. ft/2-in-high,-16 (t long, and 4 ft 2 climb to 10,000 feet Takes 48 prised to hnd what a strong pair of
boots you can make”.
in, wide. Circular windows are fitted minutes.--Eastern Engineering.
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G. FALCONER & CO., LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS, TE
Hotel Mansions
Agests 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
Bay ROOSTER BRAND" Maront. Vermicelli Err-Noodia, Pasts Stars and other kinds of Soup. Stpffs from us." All sur Pasta Products made in a new, werentilated and moders' style Factory,, kre pure, wholesome and of axellent quality.“
Obtainable from all our Agents everywhers. +
Samples and Price List will be given free of charge an application to our Head Ofir.
TRAM HAVE.
THE HING WAH PASTE MFG.
60. ID.
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HALD OFFICE: T. Connaught Road Central, Hangtong.
Tal. No. 1930, BRAÑOR ÖFBOR: 430 431, Nanking Head, Shanghai, China.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL 00., LTD:
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OPERATING :--
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL, HOTEL MANSIONS,
THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL, (To be opened 1st January, 1920.)
J. H. TAGGART,
THE PEAK HOTEL.
1,500 Feet above Sea Level,
15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of.
Mrs. BLAIR.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
ni CENTRAL LOCATION - ÇÂ
LL ELECTRIC TRAMS Pas Entrance, Electria Lifts, Fans and Lighting A European Bathe and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout. Best of Food and Service.
Telephone 373.Talegraphio Address :—' VICTORIA'
J. WITOHELL, Manager,
PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON..
(Two minutes from Star Ferry).
Recently renovated and refurnished électrio light and fans throughout and entirely mylar new management. Canine ander the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Boom Terme moderato. Special terme to families on application to
Telephone K. 3. Telegraphie Add: "FALAGEM APA
J. H. OXHERRY, Proprietor.
CARLTON HOTEL.
(GA) FÖRST AMERICAN HOTEL, M2 THIN' OGLORY.) 101 HOUSE STREET.
Under American Hanagement. Nice and quiet yet only a few milesto walk from the Banks and Central District. 43 Bedrooras, Excallout Cuisine serapulously alean. Moderate Terms: Monthly and Family Hates on application to the Profgistren. Launches mook Fammenger Boats.
Telegraphia Address" " CARLTON."
Ha. F. E. CAMERON "
909
nie
ALEXANDRA CAFE
1255
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