LAMMERT BROS.
ÁVOTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned have resolved instruc
tions to sell by Pablie Asobion,
003
THURSDAY, November 17, 1921, commencing at 11 am.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,
3 cases Black Call,
4 bales Brown Calf,
2 balca Sola Leather,
3 cases Cotton Thread 100s,
100 dozen Caps,
60 dozen Felt Hats,.
2 cases Needles,
1 casc Envelopes,
115 dozen Gothic Handles and Roses,
TO dozen Lifting Handles,"
50 dozen Escutcheons,
5 dozen Shovels.
Ten-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers,
Bongkong, Novembor 12, 1921."
MARTIN'S
APIOL & STEEL No100 PILLS
A French Kamady forall Keraqulagatan. Thousanti af Latios, always kaip a box of Martins til to the
» thai an tha
listy duso may be administered. Those mie esa nem recommend them, howet the man.
gey denendecay of the STA
All Cheribes and Scores well than throughout the World, or post tree, MANE TIM, Chout Houtkampina, Sig.
MARTIN'S APIOL & STEEL SUPILLS
PALACE MOTOR Co., Ltd.
Phone Central
644
Western Branch 3148
Kowloon Branch K307
Now Care For Hire & For Sale.
Private Cars garaged.
Repairing Cars a Speciality.
INTIMATIONS..
ELECTRIC MOTORS,
ELECTRIC VACUUM
CLEANERS "NILFISK
·COMPLETE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANTS
with STORAGE Batteries delivery from Stock.
Danish Chinese Commercial Company, Ltd.
la, Chater Road.
RARE STAMP
M
of
Cape of Good Hops Triangle WOODBLOCK
One penny. Vermilion, used, fine colour.
Catalogue Price £ 18. Our price 8100 not.
GRACA & 00, Dealers in Postage Stampe, Garden
Seeds, Toys, &c.
No. 10, Wyndham Strest,
P. Ü. Box 620.
Hongkong.
MASSAGE.
Mr. HONDA, Mrs. HONDA and,
Mrs. KIBAKI
14 years' experienes. No. 24, Wyndham Street. (Opposite to the China Mall }
JAPANESE MAKERS.
Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Jamaica Cigars
are of superior qualitt Mild and Satisfying
Manufactured in the
of the most famous Growing Belt in the world
"Golofina"
The Jamaica Cigar
is by far the most popular. cigar smoked in the Far-East to day▲▲
Packed in foil wrapped moisture proof boxes of 25 Cigars.
For Sale Every where
British-American Tobacco Co,(China) Ltd. Distributors
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
NOTICES.
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansión:
Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,
ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturo) 8, High Class English Jewellery,
BE DRESSY THIS WINTER. Order your suits from us. Iatest American and English styles. Best material-moderate prices. FELT HATS from such manufacturers as STETSON and BATTERSBY stocked by us. OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER.
SEE US NOW & SEE YOURSELF · AFTER.
THE CHEN
KWONG 60.
Universal Providera.
LTD.
237-241, Des Voeux Road, 120 Connaught Road, (Branch),
ROYAL SILK STORE.
Just Received New Consignment of Benares Real Gold and Silver BROCADE for Trimming Dresses, Shoes and Scarfe.
We are the Only Dealers for the above Articles & Invite Your Inspection. D. CHELLARAM, 36A, Queen's Road Central.
KOON TICK
DEALER IN
Chilli Sauce, Tomato Sauce, Chilli Powder, Pepper, Sour Frnit, Curry Powder, and any Powder, Bance, Etc. HEAD OFFICE IN
No, 180, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong.
Master TAM KIT SANG,
LONG HING & CO., PHOTO SUPPLIES, ‹
Kodak and Kodak Films, 80. 10. DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No. 17, QUIS'S BOAD CEFTRAL, HONORING.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.
CHAIRE.
1.-In Victoria, with two Beorers.
Quarter hour..........................
10 cents
Half hour.
声场
One hour, án
Three hours, *****
Six hours, spası ar
150 70
Day (6 am. to 6 p.m.),.....$1.00
If the trip is extended beyond Victoria, half fare extra.
Between the hours of 8,80 p.m. and am. the above fares shall be increased by 50 per centum.
LI-Beyond Victoria, with four Bearers. Hour,
0.80 cente. $1,00
n
Three hours,
Six hours...tion
1.50
Day (6 a.m. to pm).......................... 2.00
11.--In the Hill District.
With Bearers With & Bearers.
Quarter hour............ed 0.18 Half hour, *** 0.20
One hour,
**
80.20
0.40
0.30
0.60
Two hours,......... 0.50 Three hours, ...... 9.70 Bix hours.
0.80
1.00
1.00
1.50
Day (6a.m. to 6p.m.)1,50
2.00
RICKSHAR.
1.In the Island of Hongkong, if engaged
in Victoria.
Five minutes..
Ten minutes.
Qarter hour,
Half hour, ...0209
One hour, loyanavy
5 centa
10
.15
*****«$
Every the ricksha
Bubsequent boar ........
within
the
bo engaged
City of Victoria, and be dis-
Western the
part of the of Victoria after 9 p.m., or be dis
the Faat of Fay View Police sitation on the Eastern side of the City of Victoria after 9 p., an extra half
charged
fare shall be chargeable.
II.-In Kowloon
Quarter hour. .................... 5 cents. half hour,
Hour, správcake......
Every subsequent hour,.....
III-Tapa Ro
Twenty cents shall be added for each extra hour or part of an hour if the lurer entises the journey to take longer thon :-
single........ 15 cents....1 hour. return....... $1.0) bours.
To 4th mile
Beyond 4th to 6th milo-
single 1.20...................? tours.
rotar......$1.50...
Byond 6th to 9th milo-***
single
1.75.
return ......$100 -
Beyond 9th to 11th millo—
angle2.00 ............................ return......2.50
7
Farms for journeys boyood the 11th mile to be a matter of previous BITango- mogat in voch omso.
Tite fares hore set out to apply to one. ☛ ́okahs with threń opolies from Talm Sha Tanu
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN,
may be impossible to prevent am decident, but is i. not imposible to parsil for it. Uhamberhil's Pain sulm ( not b yandanyone's peas, and iwith "bottle of this Joniment you ste prepared for most anything, " For sale pdi Chemlats; and Blorekeepend
CHERRY & 00,,
FEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel
Telephone No. 491.
Hongkong, Marcër 20, 1914.
TANG YUK, DENTIST,
Boopwor la
the late BIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Skroek.
TIBES VERY MODERATE.
Sonemarion Janu
THR NEW FRENOH ARMEDY,
THERAPION NG 1 THERAPION NO.2 THERAPION No3
Mo. for WindĒR OAPTA. Ma. £ for Blood t MESH Dljennes. Xa s for Chronic Wenknecone SOLD BY LEADING CHENUTKYRIE IN RYDLAND, PO.SINCE.Racho.CoHorwwwięckid...M WJKondo) CHEN TRADE MARERO WQAD TRESAFION OF CORSI DEPT. BERUF ANFIERS LOAFERS PACKERY
ABAHI BBER
PILSENER BEEN
GRAND PRIZES.
ASARI BE
ASH
LAGER
JENER BELL
This Advertisement le tund by British-American Tobacco Co. (China 140,)
RISE IN SILVER.
INDIA STILL THE CHIEF FACTOR.
HOME PAPER'S SIGNIFICANT
Weyngrselves thought when the HONGKONG OIL TANKER. price went to 4Cd, that the limit had been reached, and no one was more surprised than we when it went beyond it. We folt almost certain tl at India would not buy beyond that
Are we in for a fresh boom in price. But she did. silver?
This question is suggested by the rapid and substantial rise that took place in mail week in the price of the white metal. It was a rise that was unlooked for, and one, therefore, that` look bullion brokers and producers much by surprise.
A representative of The Financier Bought viewe respecting the move ment amongst bullion brokers, and they all have their doubts as to the possibility of the maintenance of the present price. They admit the diffi- culty of seeing far into the future, even of seeing a day ahead. There fore they do not care to commit them Belves to definite views or predictions. SIMULTANEOUS RISE IN THE RUPEE
EXCHANGE.
THE UNCERTAINTY OF CHINA.-
COMMENT.
The news that an 8,400-ton oil-tank steamer has just been launched in "China has been doing practically China will bring home to the people nothing. She has been neither selling of the United Kingdom that we are America and the Continent have world says the L. & C. Express. nor baying. The offering from no longer the shipbuilders of the been exceedingly small. And much Slowly but surely that great industry
HONGKONG HOTEL (Hongkong)
REPULSE BAY HOTEL (Repulse Bay)
PENINSULA HOTEL (Kowloon)
(projected)
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
TOWN GARAGE & RUSSELL STREET GARAGE
SHOW ROOMSTM
(Pedder Street)
REPULSE BAY GARAGE
THE PEAK HOTEL.
(Two minutes from
Star Ferry}," PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON
Recently renovated and refurnished, electric light and fans throughous and entirely under new management. Cafuine ander the personal supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booma Tarma moderata. Special terme, to also application to
depends upon what Ching will do in is being challenged here. During the the future, whether she will buy war tremendous strides were made by much, or will come in the market and America and Japan, who took full calculate what the Continent or Am- were the only nations capable of sell freely. Nor is it possible to advantage of the fact that they rica will do and hence the difficulty replenishing the great losses caused of forming conclusions about the im- by the German submarine campaign. mediate future...
There is a
1,500 Feet above Sea Level, both alump in "India is the chief consideration for countries now, due to the world-wide
15 Minutes from Landing Stage. But, as you depression, but when the revival
Under the Management of- an indefinite time.. know, the present buying represents comes their extensive plants will still
Mrs. BLAIR. transactions against exchange. It is, be there, ready to take an increasing therefore, largely speculative and share of the work which formerly fell India may turn round to be a seller to Great Britain. China, having at any moment.get
passed what is admittedly a test of It will be perceived by those in- "The demand for trade here is shipbuilding in turning out an oil- terested in the silver market that the poor, and very poor for the season of tanker at Hongkong, following the riss has coincided with a sharp ad the year. I do not see much likeli erection of a river gunboat for the vance in the rupee exchange. There-hood of a big demand from the Mint Italian Navy, in addition to several fore, the future price of silver must for a long time to come. Silver, sized steamers at Shanghai, may also in large measure be dependent upon therefore, must depend upon the de-claim to be one of the shipbuilding manda from the East and principally countries of the world. And, with Opinions amongst bankers and from India..
her almost unfathomable resources other financiers, as well as amongst "Then one must be prepared for of material, and her abnormal cheap- bullion brokers, differ as to the heavier offerings from the Continent nass and plenitude of labour, China lasting quality of this improve- and from America tempted by the possesses the wherewithal to prove a ment in the rupes. Many distrust present high price. What will happen very formidable competitor. At any it because they believe it to be the no one can foresee. It is impossible rate, to use a favourite diplomatic. effect of speculation, while others as to see far ahead and one has to live, expression, owing to the geographical The Financier pointed out in a as it were, from day to day."
propinquity of the three countries previous article on the Indian ex- A member of another firm pointed mentioned to the Pacific, unless we change, consider the improvement to out that in addition to India buying make strenuous efforts to chenpen be justified by the betterment in the there has been a large amount of bear, production while maintaining our trade. position of India in the past selling The real strength of the reputation for the beat workmanship, month or two, the exports for the first market, however, has proceeded from our shipbuilding for the largest ocean time for many montha showing an persistent buying by the Indian is in jeopardy. excess over imports.
bazaars, both for early shipment and Only time will show which of these for forward. extreme views is justified. The er periences of the past eighteen months
the maintenance of that rise.
With respect to the future this firm
does not look for any serious reaction Crime is not very prevalent at or two years, during which the rupee in the price so long as China does not the Shanghai Races and the police has fallen rapidly and has in recent come in the market as a seller. If on duty usually have an easy time, weeks been under 18. 4d, justify a cau- China is not a big seller, then there says the C.D. News, Thus it was tions view. being taken of the future. a possibility of the price advancing that the officers were considerably India has been not only a big buyer further, but it would be somewhat agitated on Monday, last week when of silver in the past week but a large risky to speak dogmatically on this an excited gentleman rushed to an buyer of the gold offered in the mar point
Inspector and proclaimed: ket, and some consider this to be a The world's production of a married bean and I cannot afford promising symptom, t
silver" "from": "1910 to 1918, in- pay for them!” “For what, sir Asked his views, about the present clative, averaged upwards of 224 ❤ked the Inspector. I was tired position and the outlook, a member of million fine oza, per annum, but, and took a nap and when I woke
of the leading firms of bullion from 1914 to 1917 inclusive the I found someone had broken into my
annual average output fell to 173) mouth and stolen my teeth | " obably know as well as I million.ors. During 1918 and 1910 may seem surprising to those who do tad rise in largely the effect of the annual production recovered, on not know our police, but among
upplies that are now com- an average to upwards of 191 million the thousands on the Race Couro the ing on the market. The demand for ozs. This partial recovery appears to police tour the one who had 7the nujal has not been so strong as have been entirely due to increased: burglariously entered that month and
Home Jinople would?
ne, and bad outputa from Mexico, owing to the they recov the teetit. And
Navy will record that
the supplied bean, anything like cessation Bfvil war and the constatals of B Formal there would not grtainly quant Increased development of her uns more sailor has a distinct,seure ɛave been so sabatantisi a'zine
ortant filver mines.
of humour.
Telephone K. 3. Telegraphic Add. "PALACE,"
HOTEL
J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor.
"ASIA"
WEST BUND, CANTON.
Leading Hotel in South China.
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing Saloon.
Splendid], Views of City and Pearl River
Excellent Cuisine.
Moderate
of the CANTON,
Under the Manager SUN CO., LTD
THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE.
Des Voeux Fondy BREAKFAST -8 from 7.30 ami TIFFINS and DINNERS (Menu and
TRY-OUR, PIES & PA by arrangement.
Bakers
Rates
all hours
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