MERT BROS.
HONOURA APPRAISERS
SURVEYORS
blic Auctions-
designed have received Instrue- all by Public Auction,
OD
RDẤY, April 24, 1920,
mencing at 11 1.3.
Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,
kere Sewing Machines
Treadle
and
Hood Sewing Machine
(ma e or less damaged)
2
-Cub ou delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers,
ong April 3, 1920..
on
RDAY. April 24, 1920,
mencing at 11 am.
Sales Rioms, & Buddell Street
e Quantity of Assorted
Brushes
pd
67 cases Assorte Jam
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
On
DIY April 20, 1080 mmencing a 2.15 pm...
Hacienda No. the Peak
A Quantity of ble Household Forniture, Particolars from Catalogue).
from Sunday, the 25th fret.
Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.," Auctioneers.
INTIMATIONS
HOW TO AVOID INFANTILE AILMENTS
When there are diseases prevalent in the season, it is the most dangerous to Infant and a Great. Care must be taken in feeding them with proper foods otherwise they would give their Mothers lot of trouble. Ta avuid the trouble is to feed them with LAC- TOGEN-hich reuembles human milk. It is easily digested and prociones healthy appetite. It keeps the Infante thriving wad free from all Infantile Ailments.
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ACTOGEN
仔案廠牛奶粉
BHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,
Naim Agsita_for Hongkong and Borta China Nai. Connaught Bowl Central, BangkORS Telephone NOR 1959 & 1200
WE HAVE
Just received
A New Supply of
WAR and ARMISTICE
STAMPS.
Many varieties and values of NEW EUROPE.
also
CATALOGUES and ALBUMS
for sale.
GRACA & 00,
No. 10, Wyndham Street,
P. O. Box 620.
Bongkong,
The
THE CHINA MAIL.
"Three Castles"
Virginia Cigarettes
MAGNUMS
MAGKUME
Castles Cigarettes
It's the same sweet "Three Castles Virginia Cigarette you have always smoked, made in a larger size.
"Ask for the
Magnum size
"The larger
Cigarette with a Pedigree"
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1920
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,
HEALTH against SIOKNES 8.
Br taking car "ROOSTER BRAND HACARONI, PARTH STARS, RIG-NOODLES, VERMICELLI, or other kinds of Soup Shu REQULARLY you will have no complaint of any kint of sickness as all our Products being manufactured from: Four of the Boat Quality and under the most Sanitary Method can be easily digested and give you GOOD HEALTH & STRENGTEL.
Large quantities bare been exported to various parts of the Warld. Your esteemed Orders will ya our prompt and careful attention. Tarms modeste, ispecially for Agencies.
TRADE MARE
THE HING WAH PASTE MFG, CO., LTD.
Hizan Orrier: Hongkong, Nos. 47 3 45. Connaught Boed Central Tel Na. 2598, BRANCH OFFICE: Shangbal, Nes. 430 @ 631, Nanking Boad FATORIES: Hongkong, Wing Hing Street, Causeway Bay and Shanghai, Ne.. 71, Kerth Boschow sand.
BUY YOUR STATIONERY FROM US. We Keep the Finest. Stocks Complete.
· PRICES MODERATE.
DER A. WING & CO.
Paper Morchanta
Stationers, Printers & Bookbinders,
80,-Des Vœux Road, CENTRAL.
ON
NESDAY, April 28, 1990,
mmencing at 2.3 13,211.
65 Wyndham Street.
A Quantity of
his Household surniture,
Comprising
atatand, plush covered couch chairs, lady's teak and black- sks, teak card table, easy arble top console table with mirrors, fancy electric lamps. ailing fans, tangy mantel clocks or porculita fxures, Japanese foidered screvos, engravings,
curtains, carpets, etc, etc. extension dining table and eak sideboard with bevelled kik dinner waggons, teok ice booke we occasional tubire, ders, dinner service. glass and Sted ware, tank overmantels lled mirrors, electric fittings
brass bedstenda, single and Pak wardrobes with bevelled TB, teak dressing tables, marble standa, double toilet sets. bcx c., etc,
1180
age Piano by John Brinsmend ad Sons Dalled bath.
LAMMERT BROS.,. Auctioneers.
Jadersigned have received 13- stions from Messes. ThonESEN
sell by Public Auction
од
17, the 18th May, 1920,
at Spm.
Sales Houmt, Duddell Street, Steamer "DAGMAR"
lies in the Menam River, with all her machinery, gear
and appurtenances, etc.
2. some growe Reg.
tens net Reg.
tons deadweight capacity on
sa draft. Speed 10 knots. Samer went ahore in the Jism, we solved, and towed to here she was dry docked bed up.
Lion orders oa application to
Asiatic Co., Ltd., Bangkok. ramer to be at purchaser's risk of hammer, when purchase to be paid.
particulars apply to
2 LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneer,
or
Magas. THORESEN & Co,
וי
Hoogkong!
IPLETE AERATED 'WATER
PLANT FOR SÅLE.
fachines are made by Mears. Hinchliff, Ltd., Manches
and guaranteed in perfect ng order. This complete plant arn out 2,400 duzen Aerated per day. ONG SANG HONG LTD., Box 370.
Bengkong,
BE CHEUNG
CLASS PHOTOGRAPIEL. use Street.
Tol, 1018.
fruit talten lumay
fityle desired.
Cographio Bapplies of
very desbription.
JAPANESE
MAKERS.
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
TO
ORDER
UEERRY & UD.
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BIBLE DOCTOR'S TEXT-BOOK.
HUSTLE ON LONDON'S UNDERGROUND.
SPEEDING UP THE SERVICE.
A team of hefty young men, mostly ex-soldiers specially chosen for their courtly manners and their efficiency in overcoming difficulties, took the platform at Victoria Underground Station in December last to hustle
the service.
The District Railway's latest experiment in speeding up the traffic in the rush hours is to
try to
get every
tram out of
PLAGUE MYSTERY SOLVED IN
BOOK OF SEMUEL:
THE TOTALISATOR
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
OPERATING :—
THE HONGKONG HOTEL,
HOTEL MANSIONS,
THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
One could drive a coach-and-four through an article culled from the Morning Post under the heading. "Bookmaker v.. Totalisator." in it are presented all the threadbare mis- Statements and arguments against metallicións which have been fired for Sir James Candie, the distinguish years, with boomerang results, by the ed surgeon and authority, on tropical axe-to-grind advocates of the gambl- medicine, speaking at St. Martin-ining machine-mostly, it must be con- the-Field Church, said medicine rest fessed, persons interested in pro- ed on the laws of Moses. We had prietary racing clubs. never yet upset one of Moses" layS in regard to hygiene, sanitation, ofparative table of odds, however, it will 1,500 Feet above Sea Level medical teaching.
If we just take the Post man's com-
suffice to explode his case in its en-
All that the scientists of to-day. tirety. Machine dividends are actual: the station within 30 seconds, with their microscopes and textbookmakers starting prices' are merely without taking a single passenger past his destination or leaving a passenger behind. It is the biggest thing in the way of hustling London has yet experienced. Any train that loiters at the platform for longer than 30 seconds "is warned by the Station Controller that it mua: get a move on by a deafening blast on the siren, an ear splitting invention that
books, did was to prove the ancient the odils on offer at barrier rise. To law giver was right. To-day we had obtain a ge estimate of the Ring started a Ministry of Health, and he prices v. Totalisator dividends it is hoped the Minister in charge would obvious to the merest ryro thar the see his way to take counsel with the average odds laid by the leather- Church and see that they worked handlunged gentry to the total amount in hand.
invested on the winner must be taken We had been trying, hitherto, into comparison. The 100 to 33 cure disease instead of preventing it, as Moses did. Nowadays it was con-
is a cross between a Klaxon hornsidered bad manners to speak of fleas and a factory buzzer.
it.
EVENING PERFORMANCE.
or other disease-carrying insects, but in ancient times every woman had the instinct to know the danger.
favourite quoted by the Post was most likely backed from 6 or 8 to 1 dewa to 3's-and probably the 5 to 1 and the 7 to 1 shots, too, were cramped from higher prices as the market pro- gressed, whilst no legitimate book- maker would keep the last nine can- short as 20 to d ́in a field
A Daily News representative who was present at the evening perfor
Twenty-six years ago, when he was mance, witnessed the progress of the
didates a doctor at Hongkong, there was drama for an hour. The morning bubonic plague, and he and others of 17 runners.. Hundreds to two vere performance was in the nature of a
searched the Encyclopedia Britannica doubtless going begging about some grand rehearsal. It happened that the trafac between the bours ot 8 and 10 for information. Then a clergyman of them. was below the normal for a Monday came to him and asked that he would Friends of the totalisator can dis morning. But in the evening it was read the 4th, 5th and 6th chapters tort facts and juggle with figures as the real thing, and the public enjoyed of the Book of Samuel, where five much as they like, but I dare to say models of swellings and three golden they neyer will convince the English Ten heavily-laden Westward-bound images of rats were described as being Jockey Club, the V.R.C. (Australia's trains came into the station between offered to the God of Israel. That's leading Clab) and other non-believers 5.10 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. and only two the cause of your plague, these rats," in the machine that it is anything! of them managed to get away without said the clergyman, and on that basis better than "the greatest thieving the warning blast of the siren. And the medical authorities went to work device ever" invented to rob the in- that sort of thing went on for an Tropical medicine only came in vesting public." Most Clubs operat- hout. The man in the watch tower years ago, but if we had read, ing the totalisapor take 10 per cent... was a little surprised at the criticisms Bibles we should have known plus fractions and unclaimed divi- of the morning performance, which about it before
ends, without risking anything in stura. Bookmakers wager meir money against that of clients and often times every Belder on the course comes home a heavy leser. Any one of them would welcome a licence to retain a bare 2 per cent. of the money: passing through his hands, and gladly
had appeared in the evening papers. ¡ Our wrong use of milk was the The critics had called him "Bosa," cause of indigestion and bad teeth. "Hustler." "The New Terror," "The Moses laid down the salutary law that Man of the Moment"-everything milk should not be drunk until at least they could lay their pens to except two hours after eating fish. three after his real name, which is Station Con- chicken, and four after meat. But troller
we disregarded this, and tave milk at
One crowded hour of glorious life
is worth so age without a name.
He stood in his watch tower with
meals.
[The reference in Samuel is. In the
Sir James talks much non-
a watch in one hand and a pencil authorised version, to mice and not in the other, making a black mark rats. against the
sense..)
|
disburse the remainder amongst win- ning investors.
The 10 per cem. totalisator com- mission is infamous. And, it is ; all | "delinquents.""
nonsense to say, that the machine As each train came m the courté-
assists charities and is responsible for larger stake money. Clubs such as ous young men lined up on the
"those under the English Jockey Club platform like the forward line of a football team, and their part in the filled with a babel of human and and the Victorian Racing Club give a drama was to get the passengers in mechanical wounds. The cries of the great deal more to charitable institu and out of the train within 30 train "loaders," "Hurry on please, tions, and offer much bigher prize
"Hurry off," "Passengers off first, money, than any club in the world "Hold tight, andRight away blessed with the totalisator-well uttered in the free openair style, did not blend with the note of the sirenamed the Altar of Lack, and the result was discord and A roulette wheel ukes, approxi distraction. Passengers were be mately 3 per cent.and is outlawed. bold no brief for rouletto; but in all consistendy has the totalizator a batter claim on public tolerance? LLEWEL LYN JONES in the N.C. Daily News."
seconds.
PERSUASION AND FORCE.
Sometimes they did it by courteous persuasion, sometimes by sheer force, sometimes by the process of guillotin ing those unlucky persons who were wildered and dealened. Some were "half in and half out,
ammoyed and even rude But the The result of these bustling young hustlers, had their duty to methods was that the station was perform and did it well
J. H. TAGGART,
MANAGER,
THE PEAK HOTEL
15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-
Mrs. BLAIR.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
CENTRAL LOCATION
A LI ELECTRIC TRAMS Pans Entrance, Electric Lifts, Fane and Lighting A European Baths and Sanitary Fittings, Hot and Cold Water System throughout Best of Food and Service.
Telephone 373. Telegraphic Address:—' VICTORIA."
3. WİTCHELL, Hansow
PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON.
[Two minutes from Star Fury)
Eocently renovated and refurnished, electric ght and fans thronghoar and miraty mier new management. Cuisine zudor the paratual supervador of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booma. Terms moderata. Special formą no familles on application to
Telephone K. 3. Telegraphic Add.: "PALACE”
J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.
CARLTON HOTEL.
(IRE ONLY AMERICAF`BOTIL IN THE COLONT.) “ICE HOUSE STEMPT,
Undar American Management. Nice and quiei yat only a few minutes walk from the Hanka and Central District 4 Bedrooms, Bresilent Crfalse, scrupulously clean. Moderate Terms Monthly and Family Bates.co application to the Proprietres. Launchen meet Finger Boats.
Talegraphie Address “CARLTON”
“Ma. F. E. GAMERON,
BLUE BIRD
*ION CREAM PARLOUR
“ARD. CONTECLIONEKA"
TANG YUK, Danzine,
the late dIES TING, 14. D'AGUILAN ŠTRESË, TERME VERY MODERATH.
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