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THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1920.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS 13 TALE GOVERNMENT
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General ànctioneers Share, Coal and General Produca Brokers and -Commission agente.
PROPRI TOKS.... *To-Swa-Wan" Goal Storage.
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Owl and Bentley's
A & A & 6th Editioba,"
A 1 Telegraphie Code,
Telegraphic Address
"KTYRION* HONGKONG.
--PUBLIC AUCTIONS-
tion,
Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auc
(For Account of the Concerted),
MONDAY,
July 20, 190, at 5.30 p.m...
ät All KING'S SLIPWAY, 14- ton Yacht Cutter Rig" with Dinghy and ail accessories. Terms: Cash
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Ametiomest
Eengkong, July 21, 1920.
INTIMATIONS
NOTICE.
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HERDERT
'HE interest and responsibility of WILLIAM LOOKER, in our Firm ceased oa the. 30th June 1920.
DEACON, LOOKER,
DEACON & HARSTON,
Hongkong, July 1, 1920.
WE
NOTICE.
E have THIS DAY removed cur Office to the top floor.cf Nos. 250 & 252, Des Voeux Road Central. (MESSRS. KWONG SANG HONG'S MAIN PREMISES).
MOW FUNG & Co., LTD. Hongkong, July 19, 1850.
No
NOTICE.
GOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that our Salesman KWOK TAI CHUN is no longer connected with our firm from today. Henceforth ali business dealings will be attended to by our Manager Mr. CHAN SHU KAI dated 17th day of July, 1920.
KIEM TJIANG HAN (行苔錦) Sugar and General Merchants 126, Wing Lok Street, West, Hongkong.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
WE
E bare temporarily REMOVED Our Oca to No. 33, Queen's Road Central, Lock Ring Bailding, Seacad Aoor; Room No. 19..
S. D. SETNA & Co.
Hongkong, July 21,-1920.
V. R. C.
NIGHT SWIMMING FÊTE.
TO-MORROW FRIDAY, July 23rd. commencing at 9 pm
"String Band in attendance. The following events will be open
to Ladies of the Colony.
50 yards Handicap
50 yards Girls.
R. H. B. MITCHELL,
Hon. Secretary.
8. S. "FAUSANG."
Tenders are invited for the purchase
of the wreck of the above steamer as
she lies on Hainan Head Reef,
GILMAN & Co., Lrn. Agents, The Salvage Association,
Lapdos.
Hongkong, July 21, 199).
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.
T
WE have installed an additional
TELEPHONE and "clients can now ring up No. 482 or 3552.
NESTLE'S
NUT-MILK
FCHOCOLATE"
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO. LTD.
Lai
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
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25 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1, PREPAID.
Each additional word 4 Cents für 3 insertions.
WANTED.
FOR SALE.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND OF ONE A DOLLAR per Share for the six months ending 30th June, 1920, will be PAYABLE on TUESDAY, August 10th, FUROPEAN ENGINEER bighly on which date Dividend Warrants may qualiñed (Diploma of Riga Pals FOR SALE-1 Stewart Terrace be obtained on application at the Cord-technicum), with practical experience of
$7, The Peak. Apply to Ham, pary's Office.
Machire Building, Railway Engineering, phreys Estate & Finance Co., Ltd, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Shipbuilding, and Electrical Engineer. Almadix Buildings, Company will be CLOSED From TUES Export Draughtsman, speaking DAY, August 3rd to TUESDAY, four languages, first class references, August 10th, both days inclusive, secks suitable position. Address offers during which period no Transfer of to "B. J. care of this Paper. Shares can be Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
JOHN ARNOLD,
Secretary. Hongkong, July 17, 1921
THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LIMITED.
N INTERI DIVIDENT) ct Four
Allen, per Share for the fur mintha ending 30th June, 1020, will be payable on WEDNESDAY, 28th Juls, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Com pany's office.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUES- DAY, the 20th to WEDNESDAY, the 28th July (both days inclusive) during which perixi no transfer of shares can be registered
י.
By Order of the Board of Directors, MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary to
The General Managers
Hongkong, July 15, 193).
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LTD.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Three Dollars and Fifty crats per Share for the six months ending 30th June, 1020, will be payable on WEDNES DAY, 28th Jels, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUES DAY, the 20th to WEDNESDAY, the 28th July (both daya inclusive) "doring which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors, MOWERAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary.
Hongkong, July 13, 1999.
*
THE WEST POINT BUILDING
CO., LTD.
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of One Dollar and seventy five cents per share for the six months ending 30th June, 1920, will be payable on WED NESDAY, 28th July, on which date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from TUES DAY the 20th to WEDNESDAY, the 28th July (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares CAD be registered.
MOWBRAY S. NORTHCOTE,
Secretary to
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT
& AGENCY CO., LTD.
·General Agerts for
T WEST POINT BUILDING Ca, LTD. Hongkong, July 13, 192).
MITSUBISHI SHOJI KAISHA, LTD. (Mitsubishi Trading Co., Ltd.) COAL, GENERAL IMPORTS and EXPORTS
SOLE PROPRIETORS OF TARASHIMA OCHL MUZARE KISHIDARS, TORINOTANI HOJO, HAMAZUTA. BAYO, SHIN- NEW. KANADA. BIBAI KAMIYA- MADA and OYUBARI.
AGENTS FOR SAKITO COAL *
Head Office;-TOKYO.
Branches and
Representatives :— Nagasaki, Esraten. Wakamatan, Moji, Kure, Kobe. Omaks, Tecngs, Nagoya, Yokohama, Tokyo, Hakodato, Muroran, Otara, Vladivostock, Faking. Elentsin, Dairaz. Tsingtao, Tainashi, Hankow, Shanghai Hongkong, Canton, Mania, Bingapore, Boerabaya, London, Paris, New York and seattle.
Ocôle Address 5-1WASAKISAL
Oodles L.A. B. O, 5th Ed..
Western Union and Bentley. Agencies for: The Mitsubishi Marine & Fire Insurance Co. The Oaks Marins de
Fire Insurance Co.
For Partieniace, apply to-
8. KOMURA, Manager, No. 14, PEDDES STEIT, BOKEKONÓ,
TATYO & CO.
WJAPAN: BLI BOOTS AND SHOES
He. Sa, Wyndham St..
Educated and
WENGLISH WOMAN seeks pest Refined as companion to European children. Bax No. 1219, c/o “Coixi Man,'
TO LET OR FOR SALE.
LESSHEET No 141 The Fesk. near Barter Road Tram Stolico. Apply to Linstead and Davis, Alesandrs Buildings
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ALSO
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THE FUJI PAPER MFG. CO., LTD.,
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(The Largest Paper Mill in the Orient.)
Promptitude in Execution of Order
PAPER
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HONGKONG.
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G. K. CHESTERTON'S - CONCEPTION OF
PROGRESS.
"It seems that Professor J. B. Bury has written a history of the idea of progress, and discovered that it has no history," writes G. K. Chesterton i in the New Witness: "What we cal history, or we might more truly call humanity, has done entirely without
the idea of progress, through all the great periods when it has done any- thing. This at least is the impression produced on the mind by a very shrewd but sympathetic review by Mr. Havelock Els In the Nation. And as I must, be pardoned for think. ing Mr. Havelock Eilis a more inter- esting person than Professor Bory, I must also attach more immediate importance to the review than the book
다
Anyhow, either the reviewer or the author or both proceed to pass in review all the most historic parts of history, and they have the same fale to tell of each of them; that they had no notion of what we call pro-i gress, never thought of it, rever čreamed of it, and apparently never needed it and never missed it.
The Greek civilisation could only manage to stumble out of some primitive darkness into such secular light as never was on sea or land; it merely contrived to bring stiff archaic arts to a height of intellec tual infallibility from which they have since for ever fallen away; it could only do its best with shapeless stones and leave us the horsemen of "Phidias: but, alas! it never knew anything of the idea of progress. The Christian civilisation of the Middle Ages naturally knew even less. The medievals, groping under rude, round arches and squat, savage- ly carved pillars, could caly just con- trive to startle the world with one of the few really new things the world has ever seen: an architecture-that seat up like an aeroplane. It was all they could do to invest oct of i their own heads an entirely original school of imaginative engineering; Gothic arches that assailed the sky with the energy of catapults, and Gothic roofs that burst above men's heads with the triumphant blazonry of rockets.
"The medievals could only invent a system of crafts which the most progressive artists are still trying to imitate; and a system of guilds which the most progressive econo- mists are now trying to restore. They could only destroy a slavery that is older than history, and estab- Esh a freedom that is now almost beyond hope; but they knew nothing about the idea of progress, poor devils!
"Professor Bury apparently agrees, and Mr. Havelock Elis cer- tainly agrees, that what is here true of the Middle Ages is every bit as trie of the Renaissance. It was indeed more unfavourable than even Christianity to any such idea, for it was based on a cew veneration for the ancients as the great founts of art and knowledge." Michelangelo could only create once more the bodies of the Greek gods and fill them once more with the souls of the Christian martyrs and prophets; Leonardo da Vinci could only prac tise twenty acts in perfection, any one of which was done by one man, only crudely, a little time before: Shakespeare could get no further than writing 'Romeo and Juliet' as a slight variation on Ralph Royster Doyster.* But Shakespeare knew nothing of the idea of progress; so there is an end of him.
"But there are a good many people in the world's history who seem to be thus disposed of; and as Mr. Havelock Ellis, with that detachment- and distinction of mind which is not unlike irony, makes these admissions one after another, a more general impression begins to clear and settle itself in the mind, It becomes increasingly plain that hardly any human beings ever did have any idea of progress, at any time when they were really progress- ing. All those generations of giants, who left us the mighty works of mankind, went to their graves in darkness or blindness about this par- ticular star of hope. They were cut off from all the joy, the knowledge, the virtue, the fruitfulness, the banquet of beatitude that we now enjoy by being in possession of the word progress. They had to satisfy their barbaric minds with the mere brute enjoyment of the thing without the word
Farmers, we are told, are not only the largest users of motor trucks, but they purchased nearly half of the automobiles manufactur- ed last year. Lovers of horse flesh will regard with sadness the fact that 3,600,000 borses were displaced by motor trucks during the year."
RAZOR AND THE DEAD MARCH.
A war widow who summoned her second husband for desertion at West Ham told the magistrates that he ence bolted the street door, sharpened a razor, and sat down at the piano and played the Dead March.
She was to frightened at the way he looked at her that she escaped into the street.
A maintenance order was granted.
Two new Launches and being bl
the
“WALLA-WALLA' " Phone No. 3518.
NOTICES.
PRIVATE CAR OWNERS!
WE CAN GARAGE YOUR CARS FOR
*
$20 PER MONTH.
EXPERT CHAUFFEURS SUPPLIED
AT SHORT NOTICE.
ALL KINDS OF
PAIRS UNDERTAKEN.
PETROL, OILS, GREASES, TYRES, ETC., ALWAYS IN STOCK
UP-TO-DATE SCHOOL OF MOTORING FOR TRAINING PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS.
FOR TERUS APPLY:
THE HONGKONG MOTOR CO.
141, PRATA EST.
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TELEPOSE 1036.
SWATOW DRAWN THREAD WORK,
CANTON EMBROIDERY.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
S. K, TSAN & CO,
·F. O. Box 56t.
54, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
CABLE ADDRESS TSANG.
Bicycle Riders
Now
CAN
you The Johnson Motor Wheel makes any bicycle into a two cylinder motor- cycle in 30 minutes. Strong enough for any man, light enough for womŁO and children. Speed 5 to 35 miles an hour, 150 miles cu a gallon of gasoline. Magnets and electric light generator. Built of the best materiala to give thousands of miles of reliable service.
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LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Kodak Films, ..
PHOTO SUPPLIES, DEVELOPING & FRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No. 17A, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Hongrong.
THE HOTEL ASIA
WEST BUND, CANTON.
The highest building in Canton affording & panoramic bird's eye view of the whole city and suburbs.
Larga and airy rooms, Elevators, Electric Lights and Fans installed.
Hot and cold water service fitted, Excellent Coisine, Bar and Billiart room, Roof Garden, Cinematograph Theatre and every modern convenience provided.
Special monthly and family rates can be arranged on application to
These Cigarettes
THE SUN CO., LTD.,
Proprietors.
made of selected Mid
leaf tobacco she harmless to those
who are accustomed to inhale.
NANYANG BROTHERS TOBACCO CO.
165, Des Voeux Boad,
Hongkong.