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LAMMERT BROS.
TH
AUGHTONEERS, AFFRAISERS
AND SERVETURS.
Public Auctions-
JRK Undersigned bare roaïved it. stractices to sell by Public Anction,
02
TRID LY, February 4, 1921. commencing at 215 pm.
at No. 127, the Peak, Bic:ca
A Quantity of
· INTIMATIONS
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.
JUST received a large fonsignment"| of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keps good in quality during flot weather (9) LAC TOSE (Vilk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptice (3) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fless Mosquitoes, Bags, Flies and all ether Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOEN CAHILL'S GOLDEN
Valuable Household Furniture,FLEECE MAGIC and CINDERELLA
Cocoprising
Chesterfield sofa t chairs, blackwood tables, stools and jardinieres, mother of pearl inlaid curio cabinet, teak) ward table, easy chairs, pictures, oli Fronzes, carpets, rugs, brass "tender, electric fittings, etc., etc.
Teak extension dining table and chair, teak sideboard with bevelled
mirror, teak dinner wagxons, Ameri-
can refrigerator, "glassware, teak -screen, etc. CIC,
Single teak and iron bedsteads,
teak wardrobes, teak dressing table, -washstands, chest of drawers, enamell- Led baths, geyser, etc., etc-
Also
A Quantity of Feras în pots
ARA
1 Grand Piaro by Steinman and Sons (in fine condition).
On view from Thursday, the 3rd. February.
Catalogue will be imed.
Trax-Cab on delivery
LAMMERT TROS,
Austinseer.
Hongkong, Jazuary 28, 1921.
ONE
FOR SALE. "
NE HORNSBY-ACKROYD OIL ENGINE Hone Power, Feel Keroeeze. Complexith cooling appara- ius in good condition. May he viewed by appointment at Gun Club Hill Barracks, Kowloon. Appis to the nmlersigned.. LAMMERT BROS.
FOR SALE
MILNER'S SAFES
Apply 10
LAMMERT BROS.. Daddell Street.
MASSAGE.
Mr. HONDA and Mrs. HONDA.
Trained male Massen.
13 years' experience.
Formerly of Tokyo Military Bospital. WILL VISIT 'PATIENTS RESIDENCES IF PREFERRED No. 24, Wuhan Street, (Opposite to the China Mail)
TANG TUK, DATE,
Extract 10
The late TEN TING, 16. D'ASTILAR SZEREZ,
TERMS VERY MODERATI Contain free-
To arrive shortly, large
quantities of White
Glazed Tiles, also Cast
Iron Porcelain Lined
р
Baths and the last word
in bidets.
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
No. 3) 33 Des Vorz Bond Central.
#blished 1900
Telephone 270.
SOAPS e keeping everything clean in Horses
PRICES are Very Modemte. Ins pection and Esquiries are cordially iarited
SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,
Jale genitori Wongkong and Boasa China
Joe, ti dál, Connuagh; RoadCentral, Hongkang Telephone Nos, 1994.
理代燊整理
Just Received
LAWN GRASS
SEEDS.
Grass in Mother Nature's Carpet provided to cover the ground. If there is an abundance of soft green grass your home will rot only be more pleasing but it will also be more valuable.
GRADA & CO., Dealers in Flower and Vegeta- ble Saeda. Postage Stamps.
Toys, ctc No. 10. Wyndham Street, r. O. Box 620..
Hongkong.
JAPANESE
HAKERS.
Every kind of Footwear.
MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & CO.,
PEDDER STREET, Oppos te Hongkong Hote!
Telephone No. 49--
Bongtong, March 10, 1914.
MASSAGE HALL
Graduate trous Nagpathi Masage Serosl Mrs. HAN INOKUCHI
Phone No. 20€E.
Staley St
1st Floor.
THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY,
THERAPION NO THERAPION No.2 THERAPION N0.3
Ka. 1 fit Eindder Ceteras
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THE CLEANING OF SUMMER FROCKS is an important matter and we-make-a-speciality of. "refinishing" light Frocks and Costumes so that they keep clean longer than when treated by ordinary methods.
Our processes thorough and reliable. Dar, facilities and re- sources enable" to carry out wil work quickly and oir charges are really reasonable.
J
Write for Price List and Beg! The Diamond Dyeing and Drycleaning Co
Agan CASSUMA IMED.
General - 5 Papet.
*&M, Wellinstona street. Branch 28. Natben Road, Kowkon.
„Phone-1475
LAGER
SPECIALLY!
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THE CHINA MAIL.
"Recess
MONDAY, JANUARY SI,
NOTICES.
1921
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
- Hotel Mansions.
Agenda 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,
CARS FOR HIRE * PHONE 1036. EXILE GARAGE.
Recess
Westminste
This Advertisement is issued by Tritish American Tobacco Co. (China) Lid.
PIECE.GOODS.
SHANGHAI OUTLOOK"
LITTLE ROOM FOR OPTIMISM.
At say rate it is obvious that affairs 000 with an important American cannot go on as at present. The engineering firm.
NURSING" TRADE ORDERS. mistakes and miscalculations based
The natural tendency of our upon an erratic exchange must give way to a bealthier condition and all engineers and administrators who the more so as it is evident that the bave been trained in the United States, he said, is to go to the exchange is extremely unlikely ever again to be as it was ten months country which they know for equip- Bgo. It. was the extraordinary rent, railway material, bridges, With regard to buiness generally; foctuations of the sxchange mining machinery, and a vast num and the piece goods business and that only that caused the up-ber of other requirements. Thes particularly in Shanghai there is not. beaval Facts and figures are not American trade is estimulated, and we fear, much room at present for wanting to indicate that there has optimism, says the Shanghai Times been no over-trading, and we learn in a lender. There are not, however, that the stocks on hand at presen: in
that wanting indications
the Shanghai are very similar to what very depressing state of affairs of they were in 1913-the year before the past ten months "is gradually the outbreak of the Great War. With drawing to a close. Never perhaps the probability of the exchange in the history of the port has the returning to something very United States and only some 270 piece goods business been in such much the same as it was in in this country two causes are res-
bas
a desperate condition, never before pre-War days and very little likeli the relationship between hood of its fluctuating any more than foreign dealer and Chinese
it used to in those days, surely the buyer been so strained, so unsatis situation created, by wholly ab- factory from the points of view both normal conditions calls for a broad of dealer and buyer and, obviously, minded and a broad-based attempt never before was it so desirable that at solution of the present situation, a better state of feeling should such as does not yet appear to have Prevail The business is practically been considered.
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this is of immense importance where there is a population of 400,000,000 industrious and thrifty souls to be supplied with Western goods.
A British authority in the closest touch with China said that if there: are 4,500 Chinese students in the
ponsible. Firstly, the United States Government nearly 20 years ago remitted the indemnity paid it by China for the Boxer rebellion, on the understanding that the interest on the money was used in paying the expenses of Chinese students in the United States. There are some 500 Chinese students at present in receipt of grants from this fund
at a standstill and unless something Meantime, it is indeed pleasing to
Secondly, in the United States an altogether unprecedented learn that there are a few sanguine character takes place, which will souls who, without such an attempt universities there is nothing to pre- pave the way towards normal con being made, see hope approaching vent a poor student from working something approxi in the near future. We are sorry during the vacations and thus sup- mating them it is quite plain that we cannot share their porting himself. In this country the that the piece goods business optimism. These matters. that cost of maintenance for a poor man will go from bad to worse. It is
many Chinese from hoped that with the floating of the we have mentioned above may during the vacations is very serious
favourably and prevent and doubtless much-discussed $4,000,000 Loan that affect the situation, but hardly, we coming here. the exchange will be so affected that are inclined to believe, to such an CHINESE MINISTER'S VIEW.
will
YOUNG CHINA.
SHANGHAI STUDENTS.
The students who went home, said Mr. Sze, might all be regarded as propagandists in Great Britain's cause. Naturally enough they acted as agents for Eritish manufacturers, recommending articles which they themselves knew by experience. They were, in fact, missionaries of
a change for the better will set in.extent as to justify the high hopes Mr. Sao-ke Sze, the Chinese Miris- It is also believed that with India which some merchants seem tobold. ter in London who is shortly to be becoming a buyer of silver on, a larger scale than has prevailed for Unprecedented incidents warrant transferred to Washington, told a some time past the basiness situa- unprecedented measures, and while Daily Mail representative of his high we are neglecting to adopt them the admiration of the English education tion generally throughout Chica state of affairs becouses worse instead al system from the Chinese student's will materially improve. At least, of better.
point of view. that is the hope that
entertained in being
certain quarters, and no doubt it is wise to feel as sanguine as the circumstances will permit.. One thing is certain, and it is that the present conditions cannot continue indefinitely. The wretched state of affairs of to-day and of the past few months must give way to something much healthier and happier. But when and how that's the ruth. We hear certain commercial men say that
The Daily Mail writes in a recent that British trader might
do issue worse than take a leaf out of
We learn that the China Associa. the book of their Japanese confreres tion, which represents those who in who recently extricated themselves this country are interested in Chinese from a similar commercial muddle affairs, education and trade, is enn- with credit to theinselves and with sidering measures for securing the satisfaction to their Chinese education of Chinese students in this
The situation is not country.
A Chinese diplomatist has pointed precisely analogous but we under stand that it is sufficiently so to out that the presence of a large num justify the matter being seriously con.ber of Chinese students in this coun-ching in their works.
customers.
SCHEME TO BETTER TRADE RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN,
trade.
.a wery
In the United States this was clearly understood and thorough organisation had been built up there to attract young China. Thus at Seattle were a number of Chinese students supported by terest in China. They were selected American manufacturers with in by the YMCA at Shanghai, main- tamed in Seattle, and trained at Washington University, and during the vacation the manufacturers gave them employment and practical tea-
Mr. Sze emphasised the importance si ered. In the case of the Japanese, try would have far-reaching influence of maintaining close contact between we believe that the 'initiative came on trade between Great Britain and from their Government, a precedent China. Ele mentioned, as an example, this country and China, stating that hardly likely to find favour with the of the results which have followed half the foreign trade of China is British who dislike any encroach from the education of so many Chin with us, and that our investments la ment upon their individuality. Stiffe in the United States, thara single China are fer in excess of those of perilous positions frequently demand Chinese engineer, who had received all other Fowers, He added that the drastic remedies, and in this case it his training in engineering at Chica British Foreign Office is thoroughly might be said that the end justifies go University, shortly after his return sympathetic and realises the import,
to China placed an order, for £300, ance of the question.
the means.
Agents' for Cadillac, Buick and Oakland Cars, Reading Standard Motor Cycles, Firestone-tyres.
Cars repaired & Garaged at reasonable rates. HONGKONG MOTOR CO. 141, PRATA EAST, WANCHAL
:
Operated by
UNITED MOTOR CO., LTD.
33 & 35, Dis VOLUX ROAD
FHOTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Rodak Films, &c. &c.
DEVELOFING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No. 174, QUI's BOLD CENTRAL. HONGYONG.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO.,
OPERATING
THE HONGKONG HOTEL, HOTEL MANSIONS,
THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
AND THE
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
LTD.
J. E TAGGART,
THE PEAK HOTEL.
-
1,500 Feet above Sea Level
15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of
Mrs. BLAIR.
Two minutes from Star Ferry).
PALACE HOTEL KOWLOON
Recently renovated sad rafürnished, slectric light and tree combone and entirely unter new management Culstas under the passo perica of the proprietor. Bar and Billard Booma. Teems moderate Space-term de familie on application to
Telephone K. J. Telegraphic Add.: "PALAOR"
HOTEL
7. H. OXBERRY, Propriet
“ASIA”
WEST BUND, CANTON.
Rooms en Saite & with private
Hairdressing Garden, Roof
Excellent Cuisine.
Baths
Saloon,
Moderate Rates.
etc.
to
Tourists.
Leading Hotel in South China.
attention Special
given
Under the Foreign Supervision of,
KING EDWARD HOTEL
CENTRAL LOCATION
IL ELECTRIC TELMA PAM Entrance, Elans Irie Lay Fans and Lighting : Kurapena Bathe pad Sandiary Fittings, Mot sad Gold Water Systes breumeteo of Food and Herce Telephone 7 Telegraphic Address* VICTORIA"
J. WITCHALL, Manager.
THOS. G. HUTCHINGS.
FRENCH LESSONS
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15, Morrise HELI ́Sand