LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORK.
-Public Auctions-
Undersigned have received in- truetions to sell by Public Auction
ou
TUESDAY June 14, 1821.* commencing a) li" am at the Pacific Mail & S. Co's godown, Kennedy Town.
45 Balos Ganules.
fall more or less damaged by sea-water).
Torm-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.
Hongkong June 11, 1921.
THE
HE Undersigned bave received in
stractions from the Lagrima of |
the Casa Mixing & SvezTING CO LTD,
to sell by Public Aduction,
DX
THURSDAY, June 16, 1921.
commencing at 11.30 am
on the Premises of the
Lin Ka Bang Mine, Lin Ma Hang- (Near Shatankok).
The Whole of the Änchmary and
Fiant of the above mine.
Comprising :-
1 56 Stapp Ruters:
1 Orb Crusher,
1. Wiley Table,
1 Monarch Table.
2 Hydra Wic Caseifers,
1 Ropeway.
Shafts, Belting. Pipe Line, Tamp
Wheels, "etc, etc.
(To be sold in one l). Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Hongkong, May 30, 1921.
THE Undersigned have received fustrac tions to sell by Public Acction.
Ok
FRIDAY, Jaze 17, 1921, commencing at 5.30 p.m.
at Ab King's Slipway, Praya East,
The Auxilliary Sailing Boat,
" BONAMI,"
Length
INTIMATIONS
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.
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PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins pection and Enquiries are cordially invited
SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,
Sale Agata for Hongkongʻand South Chinn
*er, 17 2 15, Courarshi Bead Central, Bengkoky
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30th annivermy of Postal Systema,
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Dealers in Postage Stamps, Philatelie Goods, Post Cards, Toys, &c,
« No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 620.
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And
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(Together with all gear.ets, to be sold in one lot as she lies at the above) Sipway)
Terme :-Cub on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Hongkong, June 10, 1991.
MASSAGE.
Hг. HONDA and Mrs. HONDA.
14 years' experience. No. 24, Wyndhata Etreet. (Opposite to the Chim Mail.
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thele
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Bongkang, Much 3, 194
TANG YUK, Dist.
Farmer, to
the late SIEN TING,
· 14, D'águilar Street.
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CHITS AND CHEQUES.
THE TRUSTING EAST. *-
A REMARKABLĖ SYSTEM,
bis
ever hutt to house silver sycee, so Pockets foreign clothes were naturally the Western community transacting business. Precedent for tamned to less cumbersome ways of, the chit system was found in India; where army men hard-pressed for cash postponed settling until pay-day. The werd itself is derived from an Indian dialect.
means of checking up the statistics lines similar to a doughnut and on it, nor does he ever attempt to do silver "sycees" constructed on the so. Ee simply files away the memo model of a small coal scuttle. As it random and trusis to the writes joss (requires ten cash to make one cent that the signer of it will not fed a shopper attempting to buy a new urged to board ery of the zumerous collar would be forced to enter the trains or boats leaving the city before store followed by a wheel barrowful the first of the month.
of coin or decked in enough strings Elsie McCormick writes in the The same system applies to jofit to clothe an Oriental dancer. China Fress-Outside of a few palautomobiles. Agzin taking New thatched villeges on the rim of a lar Yerk as an example, can anyone away Pacific Isiard or a kreat in imagine cffering a Manhattan tax -Central Africa that has not yet cab driver a specimen of learred the commercial wiles of the autograph in return for a trip to fcreigrer, Shanghai is perhaps the One Hundred and Thiny Seventh mest trusting cty in the world. Street? The taxi man who probably Certainly to Biker town of its size belonged to the Gas Ecuse Gang be places the same childlike confidence fere his first term in the Reform in the tcresy of its inhabitants, School, would merely take a leaf this trait being particularly surprising from his old brassknuckle days and when one corsiders the feating make few radical changes in his pas Development of the system was eements of which its population is senger's physiognomy. In Shanghai, accelerated in the days when made. Sharghai boasts of being however, acfore can take a car employes of foreign trading firms ultra-sophisticated, yet its attitude sey distance and pay for it by a lived in walled "factories" and when toward Enancial matters is that of a fourish of the pen which may or may the dangers and difficulties of leaving! gentleman in lava-lava guilelessly rot inscrite bis right name. Octhe compound confined most of their offering, an island or two in return casionally one feads of people purchasing to drinks bought on the for a gas-range with no connection who leave town with kai bills as premises. Under the circumstances Take the matter of the chit. What long as a boa-constricter, but lecal i was natural enough to in his wildest Bights of fancy could garages répert that as a rule people permit buying on credit, and picture a stranger entering a restaur respond which surprising fidelity to the system gradually extended itself ant in New York and cffering for the amount of trust shown. his dinner, a name on a scrap of paper torn frem-a menu card? A gentleman saknown to the proprietor observable in the attitude toward who confessed that he had orly some keys and caposted letters in his pocket would make an informal exit in the city exhibits an astonist of service and therefore obliged on his ear if the restaurant were willingness to accept checks to contract for another term of below Fourteenth Street, of would from complete strangers and be constraired to hard over a piece allow them to walk away with their
The great disadvantage of the ehit of jewelry as a deposit, if the eating goods. Larger establishments can palace happened to be situated but the same compliance is shown avagance. Few seem to realise start legal machinery to trace thefts, system lies in its temptation to ex- more peace-loving neighbourEced. His only possibility, of buying a by small Chinese shops where the that when they sign a chit. they ac durer with a bit of paper would clerk is unable to read the strange tually spend money, and as a result, involve the previous acquisition of a foreign characters and which would chits shower on them at the first of month's mesi card, paid for in have no possible way of rediscover the month like a stage snow-storm, ing the errant purchaser. L New most of them representing highly
advance.
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checks.
Those interested in Anatrakan Zine are invited to get into communications with the Zinc Producers” Association Pty. Ltd., in Melboume or Landon,
Electrolytic Zinc (4-2) Brand | High-Grade Zinc Dust
Containing about 89,95 to Metalin Zac
(99.95 guaranteed)
Spelter GMAS Brand
Conngjning about Hits Metafie Zac
Containing about $5 Melaēc Zing
Zinc Concentrates
Tarices Grades
The Soir Seling Organisation for the above Australian ponènctionzia
Zinc Producers' Association Proprietary Ltd.
Callas House, 358 Colias Street, Melbourne, Australia
Ayesta Friars, London, EC. 2
Cable Addresses - Žiaciun, Melbourne
Prystretch, Ivode.
-Indian Vegetable Seeds in Collections.—
As the most care and attention exercised by us in growing Tropical Vegetables to obtain pure, plump and fertile seeds of highest perfection and to collect them in all atsang thoroughly testing their germinating power before dying from our large well equipped stores have placed to foremost in rank to send cet weeds in large quantities throughout the Agricehamal World, we om borst, ourselves to annousee to our new customers only that they might Loudly see how ach the aforeail work are true. The following specia! collections are all liberally fillesă în, and fucked in hermetically sealed boxes for export.
Collection “i” for a Family Garden
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ang Barden (rez dzrden Estates, etc) --- 10 We supply all serta af Fronasient. Initdrial and Commercial Sevās,
Apply to The Secretary, Telegraphie Allporn in a
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·No. 17a, Quxxx's BOAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.
"OPERATING :—
THE HONGKONG HOTEL, HOTEL MANSIONS.
THE REPULSE BAY HOTEL,
AND THE
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
J. E TAGGARZ, MAVIVAL
THE PEAK HOTEL,
when the compound walls were 1,500 Feet above Sea Level levelled: It is said in the early day's there were firms that deliberate. chits profusely, so that they world ly encouraged their employes to sign Practically every store be in debt at the end of their period
16 Minutes from Landing Stage. Under the Management of
Mrs. BLAIR.
-ALL CHECKS ARE GOOD.
símilar ingenporscess
years.
There are just a few places that York, the person who presents a neless expenditures. The worldly are attempting to show a timid and check even to a bank must stand by The shroffs, however, are as ardu- palpitating trust in the human specie while the cashier does everything ous callers as ladies trying to climb. Over in the banlieus cf Greenwich with it but taste it interspersing into society and the bills are, as a Village is a little French pastry shop his study with looks that give the rule, eventually met. where girls from New York Universi humble presenter, ten year for Though most of the residents ty, with glints of safery pins reveal. forgery. In the end he usually become so accustomed to the cut that ing the hasty marriage of waist-and returns it, instructing, the owner to signing it is second nature to them, skirt, meet youths with polka dot Ties come back with two Jegal witnesses, the general willingness to trust all and profese-complexes, and where a rent aceipt, and his vaccination sorts and conditions of men is one of į, lady artists in smocks or lady writers
the most singular features of a by no certificate. with inkstained fingers keep up the reputation of the place for Bobemianism, *****
A TRID TRUSTER.
In this little shop, no checks are Issued, patrons being trusted to go
Even the richa reflects the popular means prosaic city. Its faith in hu] trust As a role a bargaining is man nature is unparalleled except în concluded before the rif. The dreamed of but unrealised ütoplar richa - man delivers a commodity and a few religious communities which he cannot take back, in the which have tried to apply their creed event of being dissatisfied with the to economics Will Shanghai, des price, and be his practically no way cribed by misled writers at home as to the counter and whisper the exten: of redress, save verbal excoriation, the plague spot of the Far East of their indulgence to the fat pro which loses its effect as soon as the surprise the world by being the place prietress. But there are numerous erstwhile passenger closes the door for the dawn of the millenium? hovering waiters and one can't help The ricsha coolie is absolutely at the suspect that, Pierre out in the mercy of bis customer 4 sense of fair kitchen keeps a record of what he play significant contrast to the fasues and transfers it by somePay As You Eater box that un Marconi system of his own to Madame fischingly blocks the way of anyone behind the French-pastry.
rioles in the rista's counterpart at
In Shanghai however, one may home.. enter practicaly soy-Testaurant.
Cafe and merely inser
and
The
tition of the:
boy who receives the
HOW IT STARTED
BOWEL COMPLAINT IN
~CHILDREN JARAY should watch for any nostural TUBING the rummer months ninthers
Fizetnem Lol the "chi'd's bowels. When. given prompt attention at this sóriosta tenuḥle may be avoided. Cham vilja's Cole and Diarrhoes -Reine
on, by all Chernists and
The genesis of the chin spitem was written in the
foreign
eksepers.:
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Star Ferry) PALACE HOTEL KOWLOO
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HOTEL "ASIA”
WEST BUND, CANTON.
Leading Hotel in South
China
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators Roof Garden. Hairdressing Saloon
Splendid Views
City and
Excellent Cuisine.
Pearl
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