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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, ÄPPRAISERS AND SURVEYORE.
Public Auctions
FOR SALE
NE BORNSBY-ACKROYD OIL ENGINE-3 Horse Power, Fuel, Kerosene. Complete with cooling appara tus in good condition. May be viewed by appointment st Gun Club Hill Barracks, Kowloon. Apply to the undersigned.
1: LAMMERT BROS.
FOR SALE
MILNER'S SAFES
Apply to
LAMMERT BROS..
Daddell Street.
FARÈS FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.
CHAIRS.
11x Victoria, with two Bearers. Quarter hour.menerap - 10 conta * Bour.
Three hours,
20
50
Bir bourse - mai 20 Day (8 am to 5p.1.00
If the trip is extended beyond Victoria,
half fars extra.
Between the hours of 10 pm. and 6 am. the sbove fares shall be increased by 50 per centura.
11.-Beyond Fictoria, with four Beat vs.
Three boars, mann minnin
0.60 cents.
III-In the Hill District.
$0.30
$1.00
Six hours.
Tay (5 am to 6 pm.)----
1.50 200
With Bearers With 4 Bearers.
Quarter boss,$0.15
Bell hour,
090"
0.40
One botimes 0,30
0.00
Two hours, mm 0.50
1.80
Three hours, ... 0.70
1.00
Six
Day (6
20 toim.)1.30"
5.00
·RICKSHAN.
1.---In the Island of Hongkong, it engaged
in Fictoria
Ten minutes,
Quarter hour,
Bit hours
One hour,
Every Subsequent hour,
5 centa .10
Note-If the ricksha be engaged within the City of Victoria, and be dis- charged outside the Western part of the City of Victoria after 9 pm, or be dis- charged to the East of Bay View Police Station on the Eastern side of the City of Victoria after 9 pm, an extra half fare shall be chargesble.
II-In Konicon.
Quarter bour.
bour, s
Hauf, STAN Every subsequent bour, .................... 10
III-Tapo Road
3 centa
#
Twenty cents shall be added "for each extra horror part of an hour if the hirer cause the journey to take longe then-
To 4th mile-
single 75 cents....1 hour. reklamen $100
Beyond 4th to 8th mile-
single 1.90.
return 1:50.
lejand 6th to 9th mile
single$1.75..
Tony! 32.00
Beyond 9th to 11th mile-
single $2.00....................... return......$2.50 ..................................
bona
bourE.
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Fares for journeys beyond the 11th mils to be a matter of previous arrange- ment in each case.
The fares bare set out to apply to one rickshs with three coolies from Tsim Sha Thui
| TAIYO & 00.
GAPANESE
BOOTS AND SHOES
MADE TO ORDIS
No, 16, Wyndham 87,
MASSAGE.
Mr. HONDA and Mrs. HONDA
14 years' experience.
No. 24, Wyndham Street. (Opposite to the China Mazi.
INTIMATIONS
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO
BE WITHOUT THEM.
JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN (Le not digestive food for fufants which keeps good in quality during flot weather (9) LAC- TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC. TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Flena, Mosquitoes, Bags, Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses,
PRICES are Very "Moderata. Tos- pection and Enquiries are cordially invited
SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,
Bole. Egents for Kangkong and South' Vllas Jos 248, Cannaught Bond Central, Hongkong Telephone XoL, ISL
理代泰豐
Fine Assortment
of
G. R. I POSTAGE STAMPS
surcharged ou German Colonies,
now on view at
GRAÇA & 00.
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Philatelic Goode, Garden Seeds, do; &c. No. 10, Wyndham Street, r. O. Box 620.
A Hongkong
JAPANESE MAKERS.
Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & 00.,
FEDDER. STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel
Telephone No. 491.
Hongkong, March 30, 1914
TANG YUK, DESTIT. Soccemar to
the Late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE. CONSLATIOr Ferz
THE SEW FRENCH BEMEDY,
THERAPION N1 THERAPION NĚ.2 THERAPION N03
da. 1 for slander Outaria, Mo. 2 for Mood & Bisa Ditetas, Xo 20% Ckzzak WeBLINDAG VOGŪST LEADING CRENZITE TERCE IN PRELAND.NE DN ENGLENCA.as. Gaudaverstock KAN WALIOMA
WETE, BOTE, SVAKE LEVINEN LA CERCINE PARTS
10 E STORIES, CODA GELYK ROYAL NA
ASAHI BEER
PILSENER BEER
GRAND PRIZES
PACIFIC EXISTI
ASAHI
ASANT
It does not matter what you send to
DIAMOND'S
DYE WORKS
dainty lace or heavy clothes they always come back looking as good as new.
CASSUM AHMED.
Gestal Desper
#7 & 14, Wellington Strnet. - B-soch 28. Nathan Road, Kowloon.
Phone 1402.
AGER
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SOLE AGENTS MITSUI BUSSAN KEISHA,
COMP
THE CHINA MAIL
BRITAIN AND CHINA.
profits, and on the other hand the its merits. For some years to come, banks, on the Instructions of the however, Chinese trade will be forced Government, said, "We will put it into more healthy channels than in MANUFACTURING ENGINEERA out of your power to raise the money the past, for the simple reason that in to get you out of any of the difficulties the present state of the world's into which the Treasury has thrust finances there will be no scope for you.
anything beyond healthy and legiti
CONDITIONS AND PROSPECTS.
may be surtailed, they will essentially Thus, though the volume of orders be conducted on a reasonable bass, and within the scope of the mann facturer who is working on the merits of his goods.
Mr. Stafford Ransome, H. INST. Profits Duty is to be removed, not
And now thank Heaven; the Brossmate eredit teams. CE, writes in Eastern Engineering - because our politicians object to the Three years ago I wrote in this ruinstion of the country's trade, but paper a special article under precisely because they find that it is imposable to collect the tax. However, we need the same heading as this Its purpose pot quarrel with the motive as long as was to review briefly the conditions the imposition is withdraw. We may under which British engineering firms weep for the blow it has already dealt carried on their trade with China beto dar foreign trade, but, above all, fore the war, and to forecast what we
to remedy the evil and make up for now that we can go ahead let us try the last time" "
might reasonably expect to be the conditions under which our trade would be carried on-after the war. On that occasion I naturally had to deal largely in surmise.
Now that the war is said to be ores it is possible to be more explicit, al- though it will be some time yet before normal conditions can come about in China
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China, in spite of what may be said to the contrary, is in a good financial position to-day. By that I mean that
him to use his own money for this purpose.
A very great deal has been written Japanese have carried on their busi- against the manner in which the
Japanese and Chinese purchaser have ness. Comparisons between the
facturers must take the initiative, establish themselves in China either individually or in groups and attend to their own business. Chinese busi- ness to-day is well worth the having, especially when we compare China with some of our other markets which, before the war, we appreciated more than China.
nally been to the detriment of the former. The fact remains, however, that, whatever the relations between she Japanese and the local agents may a country which requires a great have been, from the moment the deal of plant, and is in a position to Japanese purchaser opened up direct Pay for it, China is, in comparison relations with British manufacturers with some of our other foreign markets through his own branch in London, I think it well here to quote a short and in relation with her own position our manufactures have found that paragraph from the previons article before the war, in a more satisfactory. their goods were paid for promptly, which deals with the all-important position than she has ever been. and the Japanese have found that financial question :-
Quite apart from the new consortium they had purchased at prices satis “Heaven knows what international which stabilises her credit and enables fastary to themselves.
her to pay
for her larger undertakings, finance will be like when the
The time is bound to come, and the war is over. and this night-
the Chinese themselves are possessed sooner it comes the better. when we mare of reckless expenditure is a of wealth, as, in fact, they have always shall have in London big Chinese thing of the past, but one thing we do been. Not only is the potential merchant firms similar to the know, whatever the outcome of the purchaser in China, generally speak-Japanese firms, Mitani, Okurs, war may be. That is that the re a good deal better off to-day than Takata and others, purchasing pairing of the colossal devastation he was before the war, but the war in this comotry with their caused by the war, not only to com has taught him that if he is to strike own efficient engineers who can deal tries but to every sort of material on a good bargain with the foreign with technicalities and inspection. land and sea, will for a time require manufacturer the time has come for But until that time arrives our manu- all the ready money that the world can lay hands on Consequently, for the rapid resumption of normal trade, every facility for giving credit to sound customers must be procured somehow, Our manufacturers and merchants, who have ever been re- luctant to face financial problems seriously, must pull themselves to- gether and co-operate for the solution of this all-important problem.”
The financial chaos foreshadowed in the above paragraph has been more think of paying for his plant. In this exchange does not restrict our en- than fully realised, and the world sort of transaction the Chinese pur-gineering firms from carrying on a knows no more to-day that it did chaser was entirely in the hands of satisfactory business. There are one- when that article was written what his German financier, and always or two groups of British engineering the final upshot will be of the policy paid exorbitant prices very often for firms, and perhaps half a dozen in- of those responsible for our finances quite unsuitable equipment.
dividual large fizzus who have recog- today. Who could have imagined The Chinese purchaser, however, nised this fact and are employing that the British Treasury would retain has had plenty of time to realise that money and brains and taking a con the exorbitant Excess Profits Daty this procedure has proved, in the long aiderable amount of trouble to cater after the war, and thus not only make run, a very bad bargain. And it is for the market. In every instance it impossible for existing firms to the war which ia shutting the door on such firms have already been rewarded increase their output but also strangle Germany's financing capacity taught for their enterprise by orders. Their any effort to create new businesses him this. During that period the foresight has been greatly to their As if the Excess Profits Daty were Chinese who required goods had to credit, because they had to face the in itself insufficient to injure our in buy and pay for them, and they have fact that while the Excess Profits dustries suficiently, the raising of the found that by so doing they could Duty existed, an increase in their bank rate to 7 per cent. was put in strike a better bargain. Before the business from any source must be force, presumably, as it were, to give war some of our other foreign com- shorn of most of its profit. Now, the knock-out blow. Thus on the petitors had" begun to imitate Ger- however, that the tax is to be removed one hand the Government said, "We many's example with the result that they will reap their legitimate harvest. will put it out of your power to make very little plant was sold in China 'on (Continued on Page 3)
Before the war he was very reluctant to do this. He found that by mort- gaging his commercial independence to some German firm or group he could get what he was told he required without putting up the cash. The terms of credit were such as to make it seem to him that he would become, & wealthy man out of the proceeds of his investment long before he had to
China, of course, jast now is one of the few really large markets for en- gineering plant, where the state of the
Eaten up with Rheumatism But DeWitt's Cured him
Another splendid triumph for Famous "Proof Cure".
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your salum.
Do you suffer from rheumatic shoot of the bladder. You cannot have good vised to try De Witt's Kidney and ing pains in the Imba and stiff achingtealth and spirits while this poison is Badder Pilla Iwas surprised and Few people know the real case alane of the deadliest of modem com the Stas done. I continued with them, Bright's Disease is delighted at the relief I obtained star these troubles and how they lead up toplaints, and if you neglect any kindjizdot rapidly better, and could soon awful discsser that same thonsands oft kidney or bladder weakness, you get about without rutches. I have deaths every year
arx rusning a serious risk. It is das been able to walk and work in comiat Those who are inclined to kidney on to delay. It is no longer ne ever since that time, and I feel I own trouble about be on the look cat for cerary to affer, Here is the story complete and wonderful care to De symptoms which will prove to them fa man who was cured completely Di Wilts Kainer and Bladder. Filla *Whether their kidneys are weak or not, Didney troubia.
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and these symptoms should not be over my Bone
looked or disregarded, became seriou
and incurable forms of kidney and bladder disorder start-with very" alight symptoms, and gradually get worse. How are you to recogulie kidney and bladder troable! Jaiak yourself the question, “Hare I any of the following symptoms!" Have a nasty taste in the mouth first thing is the morning, poliness under the eyes, general feeling of weaknem and Irritability, aches 2nd paine in various parts of the body? EATE I consipation, foody stribe, or sharp stabbing or aching painaa pain though my back will break"! Theas are the gure and certain symptotis of kidney troshit, and those who suder from backache, the amaliem, aciatica, gravel, stone, cystitis (indian- mation of the bladder, ce pains in the muscles and joints, are all soileting the pains through wok or diseased kidneys, for theas are positively: tha (symptoms of kidney trouble.
"These signs of kidney; or bladder trouble are caused by the poisonous acid | in the blood which the kidneys should sumaro, but they do not, owing to their being in a weak data.
The kidneys are the filters of the body, and is through them that the impurities from the blood pan out?
3.THOMAS THOSE 85. (from Photo), appe
De Wit's Kidney and Bladder Fi Igo straight to the kidneys, instead of
merly regulating the bowen; as ment` so-called "Kidney Pila do. This is the secret of their marvellous efficacy. They are so finely compounded that they pass from the stomachstraight Into the kidneys, and into th. Bladder: This sitively proved to you'whin You see that bite-coloured urine. here cannot be any don5t--this very fact alone proven that De Witt's & ills - have been just were you require them to go, the kidneys and the judder, on see it tryoursel
If your kidneys are allby you make a Bir bid fa- general good health and spirits. Many people's lives are made & brdes 13 those tiring, weakening, backache palas, those rheumatic twinger in the limbs. those burning, bladder palus, and discomfort, and the irritability.and depression that is always a sure siga of “idney...”, nd, bladder weakness. These ymptoms are the for runners of rheumatism-goat, lumbago, a d- [bladder inflammation, that make His an incessant torture, or the terrible Bright's disease that cares so many {death" every year, & proper kidney remedy, property administered will remowe from the system the oisons which cause all this pain and dive se
of the system. If the kidneys are cat Mr. Thomas Thomas, of Park Side and prom t-formal good health
of order, these imparities, which taka Tredegar, says For four or five and outlock the form of Liny jagged mystals of years I was exles op with rheumatism Within 24 hours they are absolutely. uric acid, are held up in the body. My arms and, lazoswelled so badly güzranteed to relive the pair; and a causing those rheumatic swinges in the that 1 had to bobble out on crutcher blae linge in the urine proves to you, joists and muscles sod stabbing pais Sometime I had to crawl up and down for your own satisfaction, that the in the back,Other ways in which the stairs on hands and knees, the braling properties have paed" right" kidney trouble shows itself we head pain was so terrible. After I had through the kidneys and Bladder. acha arvous debility, wo feet, tried my doctors and advertised They hardly ever fail to effects par bad breath, constipation, and weaknesemedim, without success, I was sd-mazent care
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