LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, ATPRAISERS
SAND SURVETORS.
Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned have received istese-
bons to sell by Public Auction,
TUESDAY, February 21, 1981, <commencing #845 pm. at No. 5, Aimsi Villas, Kimberly Road, Kowloon,
A Quantity of
Valuab's Household Farniture,
(Particulars from Catalogue). TURKS-Bah on delivery
LAMMERT RRÒS.
Anstioneers,
*Hongkong, February 14, 1921.
αν
WEDNESDAY, March 2-1921.
at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,
commencing at 4.30 p.
A Quantity of
Valuablo Household Furniture,
comprising
11
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 () LAC TOSE (Milk Sagar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid, for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Flice and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOEN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses
PRICES are Very Moderate. Tos- pection and Enquiries are cordially invited.
SHIU FUNG TAI & 00.,
Bol Agents for Hongkong and South China.
Nos, 67 & 68, Chohanght Bond Gastral, Hongkong. Tulajdona. Xes, 1956.
理代泰甍碟
The demand is for
GOOD
STAMPS
in good condition.
Blackwood chairs. fwer We have the supply.
ecls & table, Chesterfield couchi, may ehaire, tak overmantel, tek desks
bookcases, pictures, carpet, rugs, stani elc
Teak dining tables & chairs, teak ideboards, dinner wiggins, ice chest, atlery, electro-pätsi & gliswAIE, tc, etc.
Double brass & teak estels, trick wardrobes with bevelled mirni, teak dressing tables," washstands, chest of drawers, etc etc.
Also
1 Indian Motor Cycle with side car, → Grand PianCE,
da view from Tueshy, the ed instant.
Catalogues will be issued.
Termos :—Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
/ USTICRESTI,
Hongkong, February 16, 1921,
FOR SALE.
-
ONE HORNSBY ACKROYD OIL
ENGINE--3 Horse Power, Fazl Kerosene Complete withexding appara- bus in good condition. May be viewed by appointment at Gon Club Hill Barracks, Kowloon. Apply to the undersigned,
LAMMERT BROS.
FOR SALE
MILNER'S SAFES
Apply to
LAMMERT BROS.,
Duddell Street.
Glover's World Renowned
Dog Remedies
Send for free book on "Dog Licenses and How to Feed
H. Clay Glover Co., Inc.
118 West 31st Street New York, USA.
Agents MULLER & PEPPS
MASSAGE.
Mr. HONDA and Mrs. HONDA,
14 years' experience.
•No. 24, Wyndham Street (Opposite to the China Mail)
::
M.UMEY A.
Japanese Photographers. We have removed par Premises to No. 38A, Queen's Road, C.
Batting hours from 9 e.m. to 9 p.m.
-Passport photos "finished
in one hour.
THE CLEANING-OF SUMMER FROCKS
an important matter and we ma a speciality of "refinishing" light Frocks. Costumes so that they kage clean longer than when eated by ordinary methods.
Ont, prosenelities and, re are thorough and reliable. Our b
carry out wil charges are
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work quickly and aut
really, reasonable.
Write for rica/List and
The Diamond Dyeing Drycleaning Co“
Agent
General Draper.
Fee!
23 & 54; Wellington Stcool. Branch 25 than Hand, Eos Joon.
'Phone 1467.
Our Stock of all Countries is See the strong, and not to selection of our Stamps ia to miss a large pick of the Stamp Market.
GRACA & 00. Dealers in Postage Stamps, Philatelic Goods, Religious Books, .Garden Seeds, Toys, &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street,
Hongkong. 4. O. Box 620.
JAPANESE
KAKSES
Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & CO.,
PEDDER STREET, Oypes te Hongkong Hotel
Telephone No. 492.
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
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GREEN JADE
Cigarettes Imported from England
GREEN JADE
CIGARETTES
The same superlative quality as other well known brands manufactured by Westminster Tobacco Co.Ltd.
Also obtain- able in pack- ets of ten cigarettes..
This Advertisement is inced by British-American Tobacco C. (China) Lad
AMERICAN SHIPS.
JAPANESE CRITICS,
THE NEW COMPETITION ON
THE PACIFIC.
the
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1921.
NOTICES.
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel MansionN,
Agtate 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,
PHOTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Rodan and Kodal Files, &c. 8o.
DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No. 174, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONOTONO
· HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
OPERATING :----
THE HONGKONG HOTEL,
HOTEL MANSIONS,
盅
THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
AND THE
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE,
F. TAGGART,
MAZARIN
THE PEAK HOTEL.
1,500 Feet above Sea Level.
15 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of-
(Two minutes from Star Ferry)
“Mrs. BLAIR.
PALACE HOTEL KOWLOON
Recently renovated and refinished, slectele light and fans throughous sad entirely ander new management. Cultine ander the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooma, Tarms moderata”. Special femur ka
Telephone K. Telegraphio Add: “Paraom”-
BREATHING CHARACTER. on spplication to
FRENCH INVESTIGATIONS.
JERKY MOVEMENTS A BAD SIGN.
Professor Maignot, a French phre- nologist, contends that by taking what resemble X-rays photographs of the movements of the diaphragm the membrane separating the lungs from the stomach and bowels] he can appraise a person's character.
According to him, ferky movements indicate temper, loose morals, and a criminal bent. Long pauses between breaths show a slow intellect.
a shortage discovered, but the means of settlement exist in the Japanese ports, and there is no further avoid- able delay. Where there is some- thing disputable about the claim, however, there may be some delay, as the arrangements of the Shipping Board do not allow of the off-hand settlement of claims on a policy According to the vernacular papers basis. The losses have to be well Japanese shipowners are not perturb- ed by the project of the United established for local and prompt States Shipping Board to place twelva settlement. But there have been
some serious delays neverthelesss large passenger steamers on
These delays have been due to the Pacific run from the middle of next awful condition of the Customs com- month under the companies which operate in connection with the Board, pounds. During the boom goods The first ship, as a matter of fact, were piled up, one shipment on top of another, and, after nine months will probably arrive about the mid of depression, consignees are coly dle of April] The American ships, now finding some of the materials it is pointed out, cost more to run, imported. The doubt whether goods owing to a higher wage bill, and are
were lost under these mountains of Lecturing to the Paris Medical capitalised at a much bigher Egure landed cargo made it impossible to Society Professor Maignot described It is further pointed out that the establish claims. We have heard of how he picked out a soldier prevision of facilities for travel will une typical case where the loss of a
a from crowd and persuaded The sub not immediately produce travellers barrel of dyestuffs which had been him to undergo a test. to take advantage of them. The stolen could not be established he sequent examination pointed to ex- Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamers are
cause there were always quantities ceptional courage and a marked mentioned as a criterion, and it is of barrels in the Customs sheds criminal streak When the pointed out that these ships, though which might include the missing one. soldier's papers were inspected always carrying seven or eight hund-
Most of the trouble, however, has it was found that he had been ser red passengers, cannot pay their way unless they are full of cargo as well, been in respect of steel, and in some tenced for various crimes more than The case might have been put more cases the delays in getting at steel 2 dozen times while he had also won strongly than this by mentioning shipments have been greater than in medals at the frönt.” that in spite of its subsidies the com- pany did not pay a dividend before the war. The Japanese Press asks how the American lines can pay at a time when only small cargoes are obtainable.
This dis-
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SINGAPORE'S -NEW- STATION.
WORK COMMENCED.
BLABORATE, HOTEL PLANNED.
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others, owing to certain firms having been specially privileged, however bad the 'general congestion, with ample space for sorting. crimination really indicates only a failure to understand the needs of So far, the criticism in quite fair, the port. In a port which receives though it is open to the retort that such large shipments of steel as lower expenses of running have Kobe there ought to be the accom never given the Japanese ships a modation for and system of sorting monopoly on any lire yet, and are it that exists in Hongkong. The hardly likely to do so now, when confusion resulting from the lack of the difference between the running this provision has caused great losses and capital costs of Japanese and and delays, foreign ships have been so greatly.re- While much of the criticism of
Preliminary excavation is duced. The Japanese critic, however, American ships appearing in the proceeding in connection with the goes on to make some quite unjustif- Japanese Press is malicious invention building of a new railway station able remarks. A greater disadvantage (we have referred on a previous and a station hotel for Singapore. he says, under which the Americas occasion to the statement that the The work is an extensive one, and vessels labour is that shippers are American ships could not get in the Straits Times understands that it unwilling to entrust them with their aured except at such rates as made is not expected to be completed be goods because, in the event of any competition with other ships im fore about three years, by which accident, the American companies possible), it remains true that there refuse to accept any responsibility, would be greater facilities if the time the Jobore Causeway will be and the Shipping Board, approach companies were entirely on an incompleted and trains from Kuala a Singapore terminus worthy of the ed dodges about on points of law dependent basis and not subject to Lumpur will run right through Into and wilfully prolonga the time before Shipping Board rules. The British city. The line will, it is understood. settlement. Therefore, the critic lines had experience during the war run beyond the present Tank Road concludes, though the American of Board control, and they were very passenger ships may compete for a glad to be free from it as soon as station around. Fort Canning Hill to a terminus much closer to the centre ime, they will find their difficulties the war was over or as soon as they of the towo. The station hotel is increas as the year advances, and could make the Government under being planned on an elaborate scale, will at last be forced to retire, as the stand that the war was over. There and will be one of the finest in the American line have done,
are reports of drastic reductions Bas
Now to take the last sentence first, being contemplated in the selling
it is true that the Shipping Board prices of the emergency fleet ships, bas.withdrawn some ships from one and a number of independent lines
7. E. OXBERRY, Propiston
HOTEL "ASIA
Rooms
WEST BUND, CANTON.
&
Suite en
with private Baths. Roof Garden, Hairdressing Saloon, etc.
Excellent Cuisine.
Moderate Bates.
Leading Hotel in South China.
Special attention giren · to Tourists.
Under the Foreign Supervision of,
KING EDWARD HOTEL
CENTRAL LOCATION ALL ELECTRIC TRANS Pass Entrance, Bloc- Fans and lighting. Eurapena
Water System throughout. Best of Food, and Bervica Telephone 373. Telegraphic Aŭskies :-" VICTORIA" -
J. WITCHKLI, Manager.
A Bath and Sentary Fittings, Hat and Cold
large
Just arrived,
quantities of White
Glazed Tiles, also Cast
Iron. Porcelain Lined
Baths and the last word
in bidets.
C.E. WARREN & CO., LT!).
No. 30 & 32 Des Veenx Road Central
Established 1900
Telephone '870.
DON'T COUGH.,
line, but the fact of putting on more with a small capitalisation" would properly written off as war expen and larger ships would appear to be able to do better work running diture, there would be a fair opporTu absurd to allow a cough to banz suggest that there was some other entirely independently than can tunity for all on an open competitive Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will eare: reason for the withdrawal than the highly capitalised concerns directed basis. Nothing more should be sought despair of doing business. That, from above and protected by Jones or granted but this. But if the Ship however, does not matter, greatly, Acts. Nobody can run on a comping Board tries to maintain fancy ct the difficulty mercial basic ships capitalised the prices on its ships by means of legiels of settling, claims are more serious amounts which they cost in the tion it will probably find that it has Inquiries have to be made regarding sharpest stress of war-time, but on only aggravated the deterioration in the facts of shipment, when there is moderate capitalisation, with the rest working value-Japan Chronicle.
on and tap your vitality when 30%. You don't know where a persis tent cough will fad you. You can't become disease when it is such afford to allow your throat and longs to simple thing to step into a chemist's shop and got a bottle of Chamberain's Cough Remedy. For sale by all yu.is kakátaritispers
THOS. G. HUTCHINGS.
FRENCH LESSONS
G. MOUSSION.
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