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FEDNESDAY, JUNE 29- 1921
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO THE GOVERNMENT
AND - ADMIRALTY,
CORT Contractors
General Brokers.
WANT ADVERTISEMENTS
85 WORDS 3 INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID."
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WANTED.
WANTED:-From-
November
PUBLIC AUCTIONS-FURNISHED HOUSE, on the Peak. Apply Box No. 1996, c/s "CRISA THE THE Undersigned have received in- | Maz" :
structions to sell by Public Auction. (FOR JCCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED)]
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on
MONDAY,
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July 4, 1921, commencing 2 2,30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, De Vorax 'Road, Corner of
Ice House Streek, Chiness Porcelains, 'Curios, Lacquored Ware, As., 26. Including a variety of coloured and
FOR SALE.
THE CHINA MATL
FARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service Zo the China Me},
MINERS STRIKES
Lenox June 29th.
-It is afficially-announced that the coal striko has been settled.
DEMPSEY CARPENTIER · FIGHT,
Trestos (New Jersey),
June 28th. Laterviewed.
regard to
Mr. Howard's intention to sexh an injunction to stop the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, the
sonor, Mr. Edwards, sid that Mr. Howard would be wasting time as the Eight would be conducted strictly' accord- ing to the law.
IMPERIAL CABINET.
FOR SALE ONE OF TWO LOTS of
Loxoox, June 8th. LAND, in Jordan Road, Kowloon,
Yesterday's Premiers". Conference was about seven minutes by Richa from marked by a long and confidential exposi- Ferry. For plan & further particularstion by Mr. Lloyd George, followed by apply Bar 1288, có "Coisa Muz” . discussion in which most of the
Dominion representativer participated. LONDON, June 29th-
TO LET
3-coloured Cases Wall Plates Table TURNISHED Apartments with Screens Blue and White Tases and BOARD. LARGE ROOMS, Incense burners, Old Branzo and Brass VERANDAHS oder conveniences Figures and Tases. Kakemonos, Lac- queral Ware, Ivory, Jade, Agate and Sitoared Nathan Road, close to Farry, Crystal Ornament
Suit Bachelors or Married Couples, Apply Box 1297, c/o "CHINA MAIL"
The above stock recently arrived From the North and includes pieces from the Ming, Konghi, Kienlung and Tow
wang Periods
The bulk of which will be sold with- out reserve.
Also
One CARVED IVORY TUSK sad. STANDS, length 7 ft. weight 80 lbs.
Fall Farticolars from Catalogue). Os view from 2nd Jaly and morning
.of sale.
Tan-Caeb.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Audiomeerz
Hougtong, June 26 1921.
MARTIN'S
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Mana's 70% be the homes to that or the fe
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MARTIN'S
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CEDPIL
FANCY DYEING
IN
SHADES
TO MATCH YOUR
1.
COSTUME Stockings, Laces, Nets, Chiffons, Fringes, Braids, Tassels, etc.
Our established reputation as Expert Dyers insures per- fect matching of shades and proper treatment of delicate or rare expensive fabrics.
INTIMATIONS
NOTICE.
The discussion on foreign policy-was continued at the Premiers' Conference during yesterday's one hour sitting. Secrecy of proceedings is still observed. but the Manchester. Guardian's London correspondent states that two schools of thought have developed in the Confer shoes one holds that European, or at
feast. Middle Eastern affairs, should be kept in a separate compartment, for which Great Britain solely should be res ponsible. The Dominions should not seek information sad waive their rights to in- Huence decisions referring to them.
Elsewhere the Dominions should ba consulted and should be entitled to the fullest information as regards policy in ag area immediately adjacent to them. Thus, Canada should be recognised to be
TAKE NOTICE that MR. HENRY specially interested in the United States GEORGE THEYKEN, kar boenend South Africa as regards African appointed Manager of the South Chins matters Branch of Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company of Hotel Mansions, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, in the place of Mr. 3. J. RUDOLFE, who is no longer in the employ of the Com-same country hold different views.
pany.
Dated this 27th Jane, 1921.
(SA) B.G. THEYKEN,
*Manager.
SOUTH CHINA BRANCH OF
LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO..
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE
GENERAL HOLIDAŤ.
Tantor Dodies enly, the same to $5 oun DEPARTMENT'will be open for payment on FRIDAY the le 17, Ul. Lemuel Ware Į Įvazg+ will be entirely close? on that day.
N. L. SMITH, Superlatendant,
ports unt," Esports.
Bonging, vase, 27, 2877.
-BANK HOLIDAY.
This proposal is considerably support- ed, but is opposed by a more Conserva tive school, who regard the compart- mental idea as impracticable and unwise. It is understood that Ministers from the
ture.
WAR IN ASIA MINOR.
CONSTANTINGELE, June 5th.
It appears that the report of the Tur kish pture of Ismidt is at least prema
The Kemalists attacked the port, while the Greeks were withdrawing their troops preparatory to relieving them. The Greeks again landed some troops and restored the situation.
A
serere struggle Le proceeding in Angora between the Nationalists and
the the agents of
Committee of Union and Progress acting on the instigation of Enver Pasha, who is sup ported by Bolshevists The Nationalists are anxious to arrive at a satisfactory agreement with the Allies scoring the withdrawal of the Greeks from Smyrna,
IN accordance with Ordinance No. & in order to enable them to devote atten
of 1912, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS on FRIDAY, the lat July, 1921,
Hongkong June 27, 1921.
G.
SALE by tender of W.D. Vegsel "HERCULES"
TENDERS
Fare invited for the pur chase of the above named vessel with Engines and Ballers and various
pare stores
Tender forms will be issued on appli-
cation to the undersigned.
Tender forms to reach the Ordnance
Office, not later than 12 noon 12th
July, 1921.
The vessel is now lying at R.A 8.0 Pier and can be viewed on production of form of tender to the Officer in charge Transport, RASC
Particulars of the vessel are:-- Stasin vessel
Displacement tonnage 170.
Length...
Beam...
Depth...
ALFRED HARDY & 00. Bors Power
DYERS
and
DRY CLEANERS
Agents:
DIES BROS. TAILORS,
MASSAGE.
ME HONDA and Mrs-HONDA
14 years experience.
Ko. 24. W (Opposite to
PALACE MOTOR Co. Ltd.
entral do E Western Bensch"
Banch
Kaota
...85 feet.
...17 feet 2 inches ...10 feet 3 inches. ....350.
.... 10.
Working pressure per
square inch...150 b. Engines by Cox & 06, Falmouth.. Vesel built at Falmouth." Construction of vessel:
Wood up to water line, iron plated above. Approximate carrying capacity
25 Tops or 100 Fassengers, E. G. SPINES, CAPTAIN,
· Ordnance Officer." R. A. O. C. Depot,
Queen's Road East Hongkong, Jane 10, 1921,
AN APPEAL TO BRITONS IN CHINA.
100,000 DOLLARS
URGENTLY NEEDED FOR THE ARETHUSA” TRAINING SHIP
2,600": "OLD" BOYS HAVE: JOISED THE ROYAL NAVYK AND 6,500 THE MERIHANT SERVICE
Patron Their Majesties The King & Queen £21. The Prima of Wales,
C. E. Halden, Ej, xá
of Bhip Hora F. Devitt, Esq.
Folat Secretaries:
aller
H. G. Copeland,
bopli he made
HOMES INING ABHIP. Avenue, Landed: W.CZ,
tion to the menace of the Bolshevists. who are strongly concentrated roand Kars and are threatening Erzerum.
RUSSO-ASIATIC CONSOLIDATED.
Lospos, June 8th. The first annual report of the Russo Asiatic Consolidated shows * debit balance of 47Set2 sterling (7) carried forward, and mertions claims for 56 millions sterling against the Russian Soviet authorities filed with the Foreign
Office Negotiations are being continued
for the return of the company's proper ties, which the Soviet confiscated.
- A CHINESE AERIAD MAIL SERVICE.
PELING, June 28th. The Chinese Post Office bangunces the opening of an aerial mail service, begin ning on July 14. between Peking and | Tsinanfu. *
AN AMAZING - MEMORY.
LABOURER'S REMARKÁBLE BRAIN HOLDS 31,000.
* FACTS
I have discovered, telegraphed the Daily Chronicle Huddersfield confes spondent, a man with as, extraor dinary memory, who has developed it until he has a perfectly amazing store of information of a wide variety of subjects.
He John Holroyd, a. builder's Labourer, of Bircheneliffe, Hudders field. He is self-taught, and has a system of remembering things by association of ideas.
Holroyd has 31,000 facts stored away in his brain. He can give you the names of all "Soccer” and Northern Union cap-wearers, and the winners of all classic races since 1850.
...NEVER FORGETS A BATE":" Another of his specialities is cricket. scores and results, going far bäck,
He can tell you the birthdays of na
tional and local celebrities. - Oncé he hears a date he never forgets it, and he has more than once set parents right as to the birthdays of their children. ::
His knowledge of the calendar is astounding. Be can tell you when azy Easter or any Whitsun fell in any year since the year 1 A.D,
The other day Holroyd was asked to state how diany seconds had elapsed since the war began, and, after thinking a bif, gave the cotal as 212, 875,500 up to Tuesday evenings at 8.5. He added,That makes all allowance for leap years
Holroyd has had many offers to ga on the American music hall stage, but has declined them. He prefers to enterinin himself.
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BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN
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LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO-
A MUNIFICENT GIFT.
A TOKYO SURPRISE.
THREE MULLION YEN GIVEN.
"ANONYMOUSLY.
Tokyo, June 12-On Wednesday, a man a little more than 40 years old walked into the office of Mr. Seijiro Miyajima, Managing Director of the Nisshin Cotton Spinning Company, in Kakigara-cho, Nihonbashi-ku; and awkward manner "said:
in an
I wish to offer you. Y3,000,000 to be used in suitable social service more"
CIGARETTES 20 for 20 cents
OUR BLINDED SOLDIERS.
ST, DUNSTAN'S HOSTEL.
NEW. HEADQUARTERS.
The new headquarters of SŁ Dunstan's work (a honge on the Inner Circle of Regent's Park) is described by Sir Arthur Pearson in the Sixth Annual Report of St. Dunstan's, just published..
-were-
stryd
To equip the house for its purpose. and to erect the necessary workshops in the grounds has been a big under. taking. But the change has been The Managing Director of the tion to the work. For the men at Faccomplished. without any interrup- Spinning Company. thought the present in training it was no small stranger was joking. It was not a problem at first to find their way; joke, Mr. Miyajima soon found out about the new building and grounds. and he was overjoyed to know that Gose
the well-trodden a wealthy man had been moved by walks
familiar pathways the announcement, some time that which they know by heart; the Mr. Kaichiro Nezu, President the old landmarks bad vanished. Here Nissh Company. contributed was a fresh world to explore and to Y3,500,000 for public welfam work, memorise. From the entrance gate and had decided to join Mr. Nezu in on the Inner Circle a gravel drive, the charity wore Mr. Nerd's con- sweeping to the left, leads up to the house. A very fine fane hall, square tribution is to be used for establishing and lofty, acts as the catre for what Ja higher school. The stranger read is now a hive of industry, Around it the account of Mr. Nezu's enterprise are some of the principal offices; in the newspapers and decided to others are in what were once the follow suit. S
library; the ball-room and the drawing Mr. Miyajima did not disclose the room Magnificent rooms they are, name of the man who made the offer, their roofs as high as two storeys but told the "Yomiuri that the of the main building. Bere is ample accommodation for the staff of the man was from the northeast. His Secretary and the Treasurer of St father is a rich man and thought that Dunstan's and for the various Depart- he should not leave too much money ments dealing with the training, the to his children, but that if they had settlement and the after-care of the merely enough to live on it was banded soldiers. Here.too, are the efficient. The rich man did not care Editorial Offices of the St. Dunstan's to be thought of as advertising him- Review What was once a sort of self, so wants his name kept secret. conservatory; has been transformed It will be known in due time after the into the Poultry and Country Life disposition of the money offered shall Section: the new workshops have have been defnitely decided Mr ben erected in the grounds. These Miyajima estimates that he innst be buildings are heated and ventilated A man worth at least Y4,000,000 or by the most up-to-date systems. 15,000,000.
As to Mr Nezu's contribution of
Y3,500,000,- it has been definitely further offered 11,000,000 to be used decided to establish a school of for scientific research work or building which Dr. Torano Ikki Minister of librario The second plan is going Education in the Okuma Ministry, to be completed before the first plan, will become the president. - Mr. Nezu says the “ Yomnun.”
1814
in air tight packagan,” “Also obtainaħie
in round tins of 50, vacuum-sealed
ESTABLISHED 100. YEARS.
JOHN
1914
HADDON
AND CO.
Export and Import Agents
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AND
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