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LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, AFPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS
INTIMATIONS
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.
Public Auctions) LACTOGEN the most digestive
THE Undərsigned have received fustest-
hart
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WEDNESDAY, August 21, 1833,
ing at 11 am.
Hole's Wharf Kowloon.
4 Quar:ity of Miscelixarens
Goods
Comprising:-
Stew plates, Tin plates, Round dat and square Iren bars, Iron hoops, tubes, In.. washers. Angles Iron, Rivets, Balts, Wee, Cable, Type- writer supplies, Paint. Earthenware, Quaker osts. Emulsion etc.
Terms: Cash on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.
THURSDAY, August 25, 1921, women mg AT 11 m.
at Quan Lee Workshop, Hunghom.
For Acers
of the Concerned
A Quantity of Miscellaneous
Goeds
Kot prievoz
Rubber toe. Ier pipe fittings, Steel wire Mastic wall boarding, Engine parts. Antifriction metal, Rivets, Bolts, Nuts, Washers, Files, Wood scra
A150
1 Set Domine Gear.
Theni - vn delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers.
ON
FRIDAY August 28, 1921. Commencing at 2:30 p.m.
st their balonu Dediell Street, A Very Fine and Superior Selection of Genuins Old Chinese Caries < Extreme Rarity. Junprising :-
and
orpairent.
Broox Terceliu rases, incense pretar¬,figure ginger jars, flower Tot. t is, wice cops, tea pois, josees, lions and arcament. Pekin Glass kauft bo tie and vases, Crystal, Agate and Jade figures, vases, licus, jxem
Necklace,
Pekin cloisonse van enamelled plates, bowls, Lacquered creed, parel, side table, chairs, Scoches Blackwood chairs inlaid with porcelain panels. Mandarin costa, zed Porcelain of Kanghi, Yuagching, Sabing and Teakwang Kienlo periods. Including Scrolls of Tang. Song. Ynee Ming and Teing Dynasties.
Agate
Also
Burner and rer. On view m Thursday the 25th August
Catalogues will be issued. Terms Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hongkia. A agust 19, 1921.
PALACE MOTOR Co., Ltd |
Phone Central
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Western Branch 3148 Kowloon Branch 6307
New Cars For Hire & For Sale
Private Cara garaged.
Bearing Cars a Speciality.
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received a large Consignment food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot weather (9) LAC- the 20SE (Mill Sugar) for sweetening foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD MCGRATE FLUID INSEC- TICIDE the Best Floid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Fieg and all ather Insect Pests in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean is Houses,
PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins pection and Enquities are cordially
invited.
SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.,
Sole Agents for Heartong and South Chi
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理
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Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1921,
NOTICES.
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansiona ·
Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,
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OBTAINABLE FROM ALL TOBACCONISTS.
-Indian Vagetable Seeds in Collections.--
As the utmost are and attention exercised by us in growing Tropical Vegetables to obtain pure, plaan al fene sosis of highest perfection and le roilert them in all sous thoroughly testing their germinating power before supplying from our large well equipped stores bare placed a foremost in rank send out seeds in large quantities throgzhout the Agricrural World, we ca bost ogretes to announce to on? pes customers only that they might kindly see how much the aforesaid wonds are true. The following special collections are all Überally flat ir, and packed ia bermetically sealed boxes for expert. sa
Collection "A for a Family Garden
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NEW FORCES IN CHINA.
MOVE AGAINST MISRULE.
paper:-
OWD.
BANKERS' ASSOCIATION,
NIGHTLESS NIGHTS,
THE CRIMSON GLOW IN SCOTLAND.
In the early Joly days the High.
On a cloudless night one can sit by the shores of the Moray Firth and read the newspaper at midnight, and golf, tennis, and bowls have all been played while England slept,
Cattle can be seen steadily grazing through the clear nights. The birds, too, appear to be a little puzzled by the unusually bright conditions. Their twittering never ceases, and occasionally one will break into song that another will answer.
The swallows were whistling high overhead long after midnight, while it is noticeable that the bats are chasing their prey right through the five or six hours of luminous twilight,
The sunsets behind the hills of Ross
provinces by financial, transactions. But in the year mentioned above the association made its first prblic more! by declaring a programme of nation- al reconstruction. The main points: of this programme are the following:: (1) The association demands a re duction of military expenditure;"(2) A correspondent writes to a Home also the recrganisation of the internal lands may truly be called a land loans by the formation of a con- where there is no night, for sunset solidated loan service, which is to be and sunrise are really one and the the same. Officially the sun disappears To the European it may appear placed under the control of that China at the present time is in an Inspector of Imperial Customs; (3) for about 6 hours, but the track of entirely disrupted state. The Central the currency must be stabilised by its passage from north-west to north- east is marked by a crimson glow Goverment in Peking has practically the creation of a central mint in ro authority. The military governors Shanghai, the indiscriminate coining doove the horizon which serves to <f the various provinces de pretty of copper money must cease, as well link the long summer days together well as they like, despotically ruling as the unlimited issue of paper: (4) is an unbroken chain. the population they plunder at will, the association to have control over fighting each other and the Central the issue of new loans. Government. The country's finances
A RAILWAY-LOAN. --- seem to be hopelessly insolvent, the
To this drastic programme the governors collecting the taxes and spending them on the upkeep of their association has stuck with character provincial armies, or accumulating istic Chinese tenacity and astuteness. considerable private fortunes of their The bankers have been, it is true, greatly helped by two circumstances: But according to intelligence (1) By the possibility of keeping their received from a very well informed funds and their own persons in source, all this is very much on the Shanghai and in Hongkong safely surface. Underneath one will find out of reach of the Tuchons, and (2) the great solid mass of the Chinese by the fact that their programme population steady, hard working, and coincides exactly with that of the producing well and cheaply. Even Associated British Chambers of Com now the forces of order are consolida-merce in China, and also with the ting themselves, and are patiently views of all influential Europeans. endeavouring to find ways and means Gradually the Central Government and the silver green and gold of the to place the State on a more solid and the Tuchuns were made to feel afterglow have been unforgettable. and sane foundation. In the face of the power of the association. Their every hardicap conceivable, Chinese first trial of strength was when the
This will inevitably bring trade has proved its vitality, and the Chinese railways needed a loan of tion." exchange value of the dollar exhibits $6,000,000 fer rolling stock. The about enhanced political influence, a persistent upward tendency. The association found the money, but which will certainly grow reform of the currency is taken in on stringent conditions of control In swiftly.
Towards the Tuchons the associa hand and promises good results, and fact, all the orders had to be placed military expenditure is being steadily through it, and its representatives lion has adopted the policy of refusing pressed down. All advanced Chinese have received permission to inspect loans for military expenditure. are agreed that the first and principal the railways themselves. Their next Tuchers cannot very well afford to step on the road to redemption is to step was connected with the financing break with the association, for the Central Government in major part of their private fortunes put the frances in order. The main of lines of a sensible programme here Peking. The latter's state of per is deposited in the safe keeping of the beek decided upon and have begun manent bankruptcy becomes espe Chinese banks in Shanghai and Hong- to be realised. The remarkable thing cially, acute for the Chinese New kong. The growing power of about these reforms is that they are Year in the month of February the association is illustrated by not being pressed by the impotent This year the sum" urgently needed the following example. One of or by the to tide the Government over the the sinaller Central Government
Tachups arranged
with a. loan
# private rapacious Tecbuns (military gev festival was about $3,500,000. The for ernors), but by private cuizens, the Treasury already owed about $4,800, syndicate, in which Chinese and for-- 000 for short-term advances. This eigners were interested. As security Chinese Bankers' Association,
This association, which was formed time, against all custom, the Bankers be gave his provincial mint. This, ta 1916, is a remarkable proof of the refused to supply even the smallest being against the policy of, the as- great latent organising forces of the sum until all the debt had been ade sociation was opposed by the latter, nation. Its gradually developing quately secured on the salt revenue. sad, notwithstanding strong backing, activities have acquired such an The bankers made a new zdrance to the syndicate was obliged to with extraordinary influence on the whole the Government only after the agree draw. The Tuchun raged, and situation in China that they are well ment had been accepted by the swore to execute the bankers. But worth considering. Originally formed British Associate Inspector-General of these, inte in the Shanghai conces to protect the interests of a few the Salt Administration. But on, only smiled, and mildly persisted
bas made it in their demand. Chinese barkers in Shangbai, the the association association, with characteristic Chin- quite
that further loans The activities of the Chinese ese caution and systematic expansion; will be refused unless the whole Bankers' Association prove how gradually included all the leading system of the public debt is a much can be done for the State by banks in the country. At present, equately guaranteed and honestly the auflipchdog public-spirited attitude with the exception perhaps of Canton, administered. The reform of the of private citizens., Lacidentally, the there is not a single banking instit currency is also proceding. Under usefulness of the Treaty porter in tion of any importance which has not pressure from the association, the China la demonstrated, for they are joined the association. Up in 1920 Peking Government has redeemed the the nucleus round which-a-baaltby, the united. Bankers refrained depreciated notes of its bank. A reforming activity is made possible. from appearing much in the public great central mint is in the process This seems to indicate that possibly. eye, but all the time they of erection at Shanghal, and it looks, the suggested free ports in Russia were strengthening their position as though the association has obtained may prove 30 be excisently success. with the various Governments in the a firm control of the financial sirus-} ful
the
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