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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, ÅFPRAISEKS
AND SURVEYORS, Public Auctions-
PUBLIC AUCTION of the
-VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY
Situated at
Hollywood Road, Hongkong, and registered in the Land Office" as Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 702 and the Building thereon-known as No. 233 Hollywood Road to be sold by order of the Mortgagee by Public Auction,
On
TUESDAY,
-the 9th November, 1920, at 3 p.m. by
MESSRS, LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers,
at their Auction Rooms in Duddell Street.
"The property consists of
All that equal unded half share -of and in all that piece or parcel of ground Legistered in the Land Office as the RP. of Inland Lot No. 702 together with the building thereon known as 233, Hollywood Road held for the term of 999 years from the 29th June, 1861 under a Crown Lease dated the 25th January, 1863 and made between Queen Victoria of the one part and Chan A Kum of the. other part.
Area02sq. feet or thereabouts. Crown Rent$15.50.
Particulars and conditions of sale
may be had from:
-De from
The Mortgagee's Solicitors,
MESSES. LO & LO,
Alexandra Buildings,
Des Voeux Road,
MESSES. LAMMERT BROS.,
The Auctioneers.
FOR SALE.
MILNER'S SAFES
JUST
Apply to
LAMMERT BROS., Daddell Street.
ARRIVED
A Choice Assortment of AMERICAN CHOCOLATES. THE BRITISH AMERICAN
CANDY STORE.
1, Pottinger Street
MUMEY A. Japanese Photographers. We have removed bar Premises to No 361, Queen's Road, C.
Sitting hours from 5.m. to 9 pm..
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HEATERS
For Gas and O1.
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FCE. WARREN & CO., LTD.
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32 Des Vanx Rond Cartral
Established 1900
THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS. is an important matter and we make a speciality of refinishing" light Frocks Sand Costumes so that they eep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.
Our processes are thorough and eliable Our facilities and re repurces enable us to carry out all work quickly and our charges are
cally reasonabla
for Price List and Sen!
Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co.
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CASSUM AHMED,
General Draper.
(23-& 34.--Wallington Birect..
*E 25, Nathan Road, Kowloon
INTIMATIONS
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.
JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive, food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot weather (9) LAAC- TOSE (Milk Sagar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (9) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID
TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and 44) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses.
PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins pection and Eaquiries are cordially invited.
SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,
Sale Agenta for Hongkong and fouth China, Xan 47° #45, Commanght Bond Pesteni, Hongkong, Telephone No. 2009,
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FOR
SALE
ONE & ALL FERTILISER.
for
General Garden Purposes, at 75 cents per Tia
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DEALERS IN Gardes Steps, ors POSTAGE STAMPs, Postranos, &c.
No. 10, Wyndham Street, - P. O. Box 620.
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Telephone No. 481,
Hongkong, March 3, 1914.
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HELIGOLAND.
Sale Manufacturers: 1. T. DAVENPORT, LIE.. Leader, S.E
TABLE DELICACIES
VANISHING FORTIFICATION.
DEMOLITION OF THE MIGHTY FORTRESS.
Heligoland is now, in the melting pot, and visitors on Sunday may see the vanishing fortifications.
NOTHING FINER-BOTTLED or CANNED. The first requisites with CROSSE & BLACKWELL Delicacies are Quality, Parity and Freshness. 15 Variation of POTTED MEATS,
30 Varieties of SOUPS,
OXFORD SAUSAGES, OATMEAL, OILS, VINEGAR & TINNED FISH,
CROSSE & BLACKWELL (Ca)
Agents for Laa w Permis. Ybrazstershire Sauce
THE WAGE QUESTION.
PAYMENT BY FAMILY.
A COLONIAL EXPERIMENT.
-
Most of those who have discussed
the wage question seem half conscious of the weak point in our system, but If Heligoland is not already quite thy accept it is inevitable because, as the Dockers' Report remarks, to useless as a fortress. at any tale is teeth have been drawn." says the Pay married men more than single opes would be impracticable, since Telegraph Hamburg correspondent.
the cheaper labour would have the "It is almost a pity that its fortifica- better chance of the job." But is it tions could not have been preserved really iropracicable, asks a correspon- as a curiosity of misapplied labour.dent writing to the Times. The late They were a model of that Grundlich Premier of New South Wales, Mr. keit with which the Germans did the Holman, is responsible for the first wrong thing. The constructors of the legislative attempt to find an answer, latter works seem to have taken and though his "Maintenance of battleship as their model. In fact, Children Bill" is rt yet law, having they transformed Heligoland into passed the Legislative Assembly, but something very like a stationary ship not the Legislative Council, it is well of war.
worth close study: The problem in "From one end to the other the New South Wales arose in this way. island, which is little more than a Under previous legislation the Board raile long and only about one-fifth of of Trade is obliged to declare annuil- a square mile in area, was-tunnelled ly the minimum wage, on the basis and honeycombed with subterranean for males, of the current cost of living chambers. In these there was ac in the five-member family. The commodation for everyone, and every-State Arbitration Court then fixes the ring needed to fight the fortressacral wages for each industry under Uving apartments for officers and meg, its jurisdiction on the basis of this hospitals, engine-rooms, and store declaration. The basic rate first fixed houses.
was £3. The following year it rose to £3 17s-, involving an estimated
**Shortage of special apparatus and
the recessity for caution in the use of additional cost of 12 to 14 millions high explosives are retarding factors in demolition:
per annum. This, it was calculated would involve an additional further Though something like 10,000 rise in the cost of living of 20 per tons of steel work has to be picked to cent. Finding themselves faced with pieces, this is a joke in comparison (an interminable " race between wages: with the breasing up of the concrere. and prices, and with a paralysis of Of this substance, which is reinforced industry besides, the Government set with iron rods as thick as your finger, its statisticians to work to devise a the tunnels and pits on the island plan of grading yeges according to. contain 146,000, zubic yards, while a family needs, withow, giving the em- further 400,000 cubic yards were used ployers an inducemem to prefer single for the construction of the war har-men. The solution adopted in the bour, quays, and other works on the BI is as follows:-The basic wage. beach level.
for males is henceforth 10 be based on
"The demolition has been put out the needs of husband and wile, this to contract with German firms, which to be paid to married and single alike. receive for it a 15 per tant, addition The needs of the children are other-
Health and Happiness.
There is no simpler or more naturaliemedy for the main tenance of good health and baayant cheerfulness than the daily glass of water with a dash of
ENO'S
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Sparkling, refreshing, cleansing every glass of ENO bubbles over with life,
health and happiness.
SOLD THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. -
Preparaty by J. C. EXO, Lid. * Frist Jait" #wis, London, Eng
· Over 30 years ago the late Lad Seacoasted bratisled to the penite be tucsired fra NIMROD'S CURE, and every post brings similar letters to-day-
IMROD'S
CURE for
FAMED FOR 40 TEÄES.
ASTHMA
Bell in the brai Chemists and Star throughout the Doctor
Beware of Imitašem *?
Security
STEEL
to their wages bill...In tine dissection wise provided for. Each year the OFFICE FURNITURE
of the guns and armour plates a new Board of Trade must determine the joxy hydrogen process is being em-micimum cost of maintaining a child, ployed. It is, I am told, a German and also the actual number of child- invention, and was first put into prac-ren (boys up to 14 and girls up to 15): ice only a few months ago. The of all employees. The total sur re- flame by which the cutting is done is quired having thus been ascertained, so hot that it bites its way through to every employer is required to pay his the centre of the breach of a 12-in share of it, calculated on the total gun in about a minute. Under the number of his men employees married influence of the high temperature the and single, into a State Fund;- called, frings_of_which the barrel is built up the Children's Fand-This-is-shared- become detached from one another out among the employees according to so that the space between then is the mumber of their children, but is clearly visible.
paid, not to the father, but to the mother of the children.
By this simple, bold expedient: (a) the maintenance of a decent standard of life is secured to all maje workers, and their families;
"By this process the armour plates of the turrets and cupolas are being cut up into practicable sections and the guns into lengths of three or four feet esch. With steel at its present price the débris "wiß realise a large sum, (b) the money required for the though the cost of transport to the maintenance of children is paid to the "mainland will be heavy. At the time person actually responsible for their
of my visit seven of the big bewitzers care
and the southern battery of twelve- (c) industry is relieved of the bur- inchers had been destroyed. Apart den of paying a family wage to single from the breech blocks, which had men, and a higher standard of family been removed, the big guns at the maintenance is thereby made possible. other end of the island were: intact,
but the greater part of the turrets had been taken to pieces
ment of metal work, the concrete bas To get rid of the concrete will be as yet hardly been fouched.
a much more delicate operation Une The tumults of the great world less the blasting is done with small seem far away beyond the green seas charges and great care, it may literally which encircle the rock, and there are destroy. Heligoland, for the works are tennis occasional cricket, bathing, like a net spread over the whole of boating, and fishing to while awx the island Except for the disengage-leisure hours,"
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Waste Paper Baskets
MUSTARD & COMPANY 17, Connaught Road Central;
Telephone No. 1188.
CHILDREN'S COLDS.. W BY let the cialdren rack their little manner when you can so call
bodies in such a distressi their cokls with a bottle "lala's Gough Bomedy
Chemists and Bbarekeepers.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER
NOTICES,
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1920
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 Manufactur
High Class Englah Jewellery,
BATH TUB S.
Sanitary Goods, Bathroom Fittings
AND ALL KINDS OF
Glass and Mirrors.
LYSON COMPANY,
334, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong-
Tel No. 2358.
FURNITURE.
CONTRACTS SOLICITED FOR HOUSES, OFFICES,
HOTELS * SHIPS.
BRASS AND IRON BEDSTEADS, UPHOLSTERY, ELECTRO-PLATED WARE GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, HIGH-CLASS TEAKWOOD & BLACK WOOD FURNITURE CHEONG LC3 & 00.
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HOTELS AND CAFES.
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OPERATING :-
THE HONGKONG HOTEL,
HOTEL MANSIONS,
THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
AND THE
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THE
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1,500 Feet above Sea Level
15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of
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CENTRAL " LOCATION
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Telephone 373. Telegraphia Addrome (---" VICTORIA,"
J. WETCHELL, Manager.
CARLTON HOTEL.
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Tel. No. 3038
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