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AMMERT BROS.
LUCZOKIES, AFFRASERS
AND SUKYETDES
Public Anctions-
FOR SALE
MILNER'S SAFES
Apply to
LAMMERT BROS.,
Daddell Street.
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ANDREW'S CHURCH,
KOWLOON.
ORGAN RECITAL
AND
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HUESDAY, Dec. 23rd.
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SUCCESSOR TO
SENNET FRERES"
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WELLERS WATCHMAKERS
AND
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LARGE ASSORTMENT OF MAS PRESENTS
LATEST PARISIAN. DESIGNS-
Tz. No. 634. BONGIORE HOTEL BEDS,
HONGKONG.
MASSAGE.
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Trained male Masseur.
11 years' experience
brinedly of Tokyo Military Hospital.
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JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality daring Hot weather (2)
LAC TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD-HCGRATH FLUID INSEC- TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fless, Mosquitoes, Bags, Flies and al other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC 898 CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in
Houses
PRICES are Very Moderate. Los- pection and Enquiries are cordially invited.
SHIU FUNG TAI“& 00.,
Sale Agents for)Hongkong and Borth Chien," Nos. 17 à Cz. Connangba Bood Central, Bangkang.
„Tulephone Nɔ«, 159.
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Xmas Presents Stamps, Albums, Lucky Baskets,
and
Toys,
at cheap prices. Inspection invited.
GRAJA & 004.
DEALERS IN RELIGIOUS BOOKS, TOYS, FEILATELIC GOODS, SEEDS, &c, No. 10, Wyndham Street,
Hongkong." P. 9. Bex 620.
JAPANESE MAKERS,
Every kind of Footwear."
MADE
"TO-
ORDER
CHIRET & CO.,
PEUDER STREET, Oppos te Hongkong Hotel Talephone No. 49%
Fongkong, March 30, 1914.
MASSAGE HALL Graduate from Nagasaki Mawnge Schaal. Mas. HAN INOEUCHI
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26, SALÚRY
13: Flour,
THE REW FRENCH REMEDY.
THERAPION NO.1 THERAPIÓN NË 2 THERAPION N13
BEN DANKA. Ja. 3 fue Ckrugle Weakness
· PRIČE DI TEGLANDJE
IZE TRADE
ASAHI BEER
PILSENER BEEK
PRIZE
E CLEANING OF UMMER FROCKS
important matter and konske z...xpeciality of Inishing* Right Frocks stumes so that they lean longer than
ated by ordinary
SAH
REWERY
EER
THE CHINA MAIL.
How to Cure the Pains in Your Back.
What is needed to put a speedy end to the excruciating agonies of Kidney trouble.
There is only com way to do this, and that is hardly ding myself about for the stabbing, tear- to get a remedy that will go right so the root of ing pains in the back. I tried all souse of
seemed to do `ma the last good. On a friend's advice I tried De Witts Kidney and Bluddar Pilla, and the relief they gato 200 was almost immediata. I continued, and after taking two hocles I felt a different "Woman, Bace that I lave had no return of the pain. Į feel very gvatefił to you: foca enplete and wander- fal care.” Over five years laber, on December 19th...
the proble-the Kidneys and Bladder. Those piis, plasters and doctora prescriptions, beizen awirl pains in the back are caused by thousands of tiny jagged edged site's of are acid which lodge is the -lisses, tearing and lacerating them until they feel as hough it was the work of a knife. Tha Kómajs shouli fter these tiny crystals from the blood- instand of slowing them to t circulate round and rumd the body lodging and acce mulating in every conven iens crevice they can and notably the muscles and joints, Stengthen your Klimers and they will re-
move this deadly poison for
you. De WindMidney and
More" drone Muc-
1919, Mrs. ArmSITEDİR DAYS.
*I aix enly, too pleased to
tell you that i have not had the slightest, return of tha carpet to which I safered for more than seven“
Kalder Filly ze specially prepared to heal and ¡years, since De Wet's Piscared me," strengthen the weakened Kidneys and Bladder. To sure Kidney trouble of any kind you must Here is a typical letter from Mr. Armstrong of positively get rid of the cause--the peisecons 5. Redd Road, Kings Norten, which liric Acid, - Remember, to do this a gral remedy positivaly proves the magical eficiency of these must pass through the kidney and the badd r. little wonder workers. Writing on Sept. 2nd, cd not through the bowels, as most kidney pills. 1914. M. Armstrong Bye, "I suffered frean do. When you see the wine charge to a modey terrible hacksche pains and from scure infama-d'aigh celoce-a feature which, distinguishes De tion of the Bandez for over seven years. To Witt's Pills from all others—you know that they sampt to do any housework was an abechute (have pot, their healing tech on the right torture as I could barely stoop. At times I could'spot-the kidneys and the Nadder.
De Witt's
Kidney & Bladder Pills
The World's Greatist Romedy Fes
Rheumatism. Cystitis.
Lumbago. Stone,
Sciatics.
Gravel,
Weak Back Gout,
Backache... Tired feeling Most forms of Bladder Trouble.
Sold by chemiss and stressopers shreugaout the world. De Win's pills are packed in rad and gold boum printed in bice, and every gem'n bottle as a red wax seal of the cork They are sold by the leading dispensaries and storek epers in China, but if you are mate ro ebt in them locally send your money to the Shang si Dispensary, 24, Foschow Bond, Shanghai.
CLOTH, TAILORS, AND PROFITEERING.
Truth had this
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out of the 30%. paid him by the shops, RELICS OF THE AGES. and he undertakes none but the best
kind of bespoke" work. Working at high pressure, he and his family can just make two suits in a day, but 8 or 9 a week is the average. He should be able to support quite a large family if work be constant
UNIQUE-ROMAN REMAINS.
SECRET PASCINATING PLACE IN
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Few people are aware of the exist.
ence of a garden stocked with fruit and flowers in one of the busiest parts of the City of London. Itữa secret, fascinating place in which have been discovered Roman remains of unique interest.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23,
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OFERATING:-
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HOTEL MANSIONS,
j
THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
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MAZAKI.
THE PEAK HOTEL
The enormous advantage of pointing trade representatives to Investigate profiteering is shown by One firm, by way of controverting the fact that the Wool Tops and the assertions that a spit could be). Yarns Sub-Committee of the Central made for 45%, and that 30s. was the Profiteering Committee met last week, price paid by the shops, stated that they were compelled by the Tailoring the previous meeting having been Trade Board. Acts to pay their tallers held in March. This is progress 375. 6d. for a coat, 15s for a vest, indeed. The business was to con and 15s. 6d. for a pair of trousers sider the interim report of the chief My correspondent showed the state ment to the journeyman tailor who accountant upon five firms of top had made the whole lot for 45% Felter Lane a little door gives access In the poster covered hoardings in
makers. The Times seems to have The effect was that;—an
1,600 Feet above Sea Level. to the garden, which runs at the back had a glimpse of the report, sed
The alleged prices paid to working of Nevill's Court. The land is owned tailors caused him to laugh heartilly, gives some interesting particulars of He says that your informants forgot by the Goldsmith's Company, who the accountant's discoveries. One to say that the sums mentioned are rent it to Mr. H. S. Gordon, a mining profit per lb. on its tops than in pre-class ready-made" trade. He has writes a Daily Chronicle represents- Mr. Gordon showed me his gardien, firm made thirty-five times more payable per dozen in the medium-engineer, at a nominal sum. war years, and nearly twenty-six mentioned to me a large firm dealve. Virginia creepers and jasmine times after deducting excess profiting in ready-made suits, who pay 52%. are blossoming; tobacco has been duties. The least successful firm per dozen for the making-up of
15 Minutes from Landing Stage Under the Management of-
Mrg. BLAIR.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
- CENTRAL - LOCATION
ALL KLECTRIC TRAMS Pas Butesses Motels Lili Faze and Idghting
European Batha and Sexdiary Fittings, Hos and Cold Water Syst throughout. Best of Food and Serviss
Tarphone 373. Talagraphic Address jails Vrorogra..
J. WETCHELL, Masager.
succeeded in quadrupling its profits cheap suits (271,5d. coats, 115 6d Planted, there are cherry trees and after meeting taxation. With regard waistcoats, and 13s, trousers, per gooseberry bashes, ripe red currants to net profit on turnover, one firm dazen). When there was an inquiry and old fashioned flowers.
"When I came to live in the City.". showed a percentage of profit seven into 'sweating,” some years ago, it times greater than before the war, was proved that several large he said, "I thought it would he more only two-sevenths of the increase London Arms then paid no more interesting to have a garden than to being deducted for EP.D., and an- than 125, a dozen for making play golf, but I never dreamed that I other firm actually showed a net profit very cheap suits (s. 6d, cesta, 2 should make so many discoveries. Chance digging produced fragments on capital of over 100 per cent. With 68. waistcoats, and Ss. trousers, per which led me to suppose it might be disclosures like these inevitable, I can, dozen). It should be added that in
worth while to sink a shaft und· ex- understand that the wool trade is the ready-made trade, all rimmings plore. This I did and most of my not anxious for the report to make are supplied to the worker. These discoveries have been made at a depth its appearance before the Profiteering suits are made after being out to of 124 ft. below the London gravel Act lapses, though probably the top standard or stock size instead of toa and just above the London clay. makers need have no fear, since special, measure; there is no other Nearly all the digging has been done nothing bas happened to the worsted material difference.
with my hand, so that I should not Under America Management. Bios and quiet yet only a few mħruba spinners, whose exorbitant profits: My informant, the tailor, does not miss the smallest article. It is very
walk from the Banks and Central Dietrics. 43 Bedrooms, Hessians Quilmes, were disclosed Tast January by the wish his name published in Truth, usual to find Roman remains cat-
sapalously clean. Moderate Terms Monthly and Family Baies an Worsted Yarns Sub-Committee, of because the shops might boycott kim side the City walls, but I have disapposation in the Proprietro. Laachen met men
Ku. Y. 2. GAMEBOM, which Mr. McCurdy, was chairman. for given the game away.
covered Roman glass and Upchurch pottery."
Mr. Gordon showed me the glass which is of string pattern, with
delicate Hints.
In view of these revelations it is easy I enclose an advertisement of a to understand how the prices of all firm supplying suits “to measure woollen articles have been forced up at 55s. If they pay 53 85 for mak- to a fantastic level, for everybody ing, besides supplying cloth and 30s, whe handles the material gives a worth of trimmings, they evidently Abbey tokens used by monks, clay push to the profiteering snowball subsist upon the loss! I do not
Under the circumstances, I am doubt that a 24-guines dress suit, pipes of all ages, bits of rosaries, rings, chains, several hundred years aransed to learn from the Manchester entrusted to specially skilled hands, old, have been found. A book clasp-of Grain that the Central Committee might cost more for making than the fifteenth century, buckles 800years on Standard Gothing hope to provide the 55. knock-about suit: but it
by experts as Flörentine, age among the treasures which this land has yielded.
A specially interesting discovery
ux all with standard reach-me-downs would be disingenuous to quote the old an Etabethan medicine pot, pieces of leather binding, a cobalt next. March at £4 19. 6d. or maybe cost of the first in such a vague way enamel seal of the sixteenth century. £4 15%, a suit. The standard suit that one might suppose it to apply titles, and doctor's measure identified was to be the joint production of to the making of all suits. manufacturers and the clothing From independent sources have trade under an elaborate system learnt that a roof waistcoat hand, of costing, which would eliminate assisted by a female finisher (for all possibility of profiteering. The buttons and buttonholes); can make Joint Committee seems to have fited eight waistcoats in a day. At 15% was the finding of roots of corn. the price too high, for who is going each he would be earning £36 a week. Old books tell us of an abbot's to give £4 15s. for a standard suit of 1-know several harristers and farm round Bayard's Castle, at Black- a stock size when Mr. Mallaby Deeley physicians who would be willing to friar Bridge," Mr. Gordon remarked. will cut him one to measure for £4 exchange incomes with the waistcoat-It extended over several acces, and 17. 61? By next March, too, one maker! Even if you divide his in it is probable that here the abbot hopes that the spinners will have come by 12, assuming the 151, grew his corn."
| Come to # EBore reasonable frame of payable per dosen, he would still be mind as to what constitutes a fair getting a "living wage." Possibly. profit, which would mean a still for-a Cabinet Minister might envy the
ther reduction in the price of cloth. cost-maker who gets 37s. 6d. for was talking about." It seems to me that my informant knows a good On the question of tailor' profita, į making one cost!
the incredulous tailors who declared Mr. Snig's trade organ thinks it a deal more about the matter than great pity that Truth should publish Men's Wear. The foregoing figures
that it would be impossible for one
of my correspondents to get a length each nonsense” as my informant's do not, of course, apply to the suit previous communication, since he which would be purchased in a West obviouly did not know what he End tailor's shop. But all the sults in
of cloth, made up into sult by a journeyman taller for £25. are wrong.. I have the bill. As a matter of fact, my correspondent understated rather than overstated the case, for the 45. included trimmings and everything but the cloth. My cor respondent further writes y
WHOOPING COUGH.
the country are not made in the West End, and I doubt if the labour on those that are costs" quite as much as the tailors wish us to believe. The cost of making depends entirely upon WHEN your child lochbopiar the amount of hand-world put into He tells me that trimmings costcong loom mod expe Lion-only by construction. Let anyone look a hit about Bands the trade, ↑ and 11 givine Chamberlain's, ig? Escandy sa his 12 or 14-guines suit, and he will cannot see that it would be to his my barsenite mittade pound, Halmy: noón" be able to see how much is interest to pestand that he paid Igar Houify the tough moENS BOG
than he really pálk – A diferents of
500 per cent,” seems to ́show”: the
advantage" of being in the trad»,” My talor has to find all trimmings
cough, be careful--to koop, the
Emachined and Bow much fuĒROTZ
und:
ther
have to pay for
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