LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORK,
-Public Auctions-
THE Underalgand have received fastrac- tions to sell by Public Anation,
on
TUESDAY, November 29, 1981. commencing at 3 p.m.
a: No. 103 (Top Floor), Empress Buildings, Mody Road, Kowloon,
A Quantity of
Valuable Household Furniture, (Full Particulars from Catalogue), On view on day of sale. Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, November 24, 1991.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
Lavel and Storage of water in reservolma on the 1st October, 1921 -
QITY, AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WOKES
LEVIL
.
1939,
aretiaw
1921.1
Tyto ft. The 4 t7 m. Below bretslow
Tyto livenant in in, Holow overflow
810, Belur overflow)
Intermediate
Larel with overilt. Min. Aboreoradion
Tylam Ink Level with Level with overflow
ornetow
Wong Nai Chung. ft., sb. Below overflow
Bin, Belus overdier)
Poff. in.
Sulon UTC
11. 4in. Below overflow
STOLARY IN MILLIONG AND DROIMAĽA OF DALLONS
Naka
1990.
275J0
SLA.PD
Brian Byowash_wareto
18. H
tato Intermediate ......
IN00
Tylan Tuk
1,410,00
1,419.10
Wour Nel Chung
01.44
24.45 63,08
Total...
$5,098.40
2,5 12
the City
Coneumption of wator
and Hill District in millions and dealmal
of gallons during the month of September.
1921 มช.
Extinted populativa 8,440
Dostiprion
Coraption per bead
per day
261.07 250.10 m. K
galione
있네 3.1.
Constant supply in all districts durtog Beptember of both 1920 and 1921.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVEL.
1976.
Cowloon Gravita | Devol
1921.
Level
with overlow
Son Reservutt... } with overdow
STORAGE 1 MILLIONS AND DEQIMÅLD OF VALLUNS,
Cowloon Gravitation
Reservoir
Chasumption
100,
374.00
1921,
974,00
ut water in Kowloon lo
lllions and decimals of gallons during the month of September,
Metimated poputatlun...
IS
Donaumption
As 3
A, K
106
Compton per head
17.4
171,680
11.0 Railor
per day........
The Government Analyst's reporta show shat the water is of excellent quality,
Public Works Department.
T. L. PRAKING.
Water Authority.
FARES FOR PUBLIC VEHICLES.
CHAIRS.
L-In Victoria, with two Bearers.
Quarter hour、.........
Half hour,
...... 10 cents
One hour, te atuant sta 25 Three hours, ................................. ...... 50
Six hours,.....
Day (6 a.m. to 6 p.m.),
70
$1.00
か
If the trip is extended beyond Victoria, half fare extra.
Between the hours of 8.30 p.m. and s.m. the above fores aball be increased by 50 per contum.
Hour,
Beyond Victorks, with four Bearers.
• 0.60 centa. ... $1,00
Three hours,
Six hoursı
1.50
Day (6 am. to 6 p.m.) 2.00
III-Is than Hill District.
With Bearers. With 4 Bearers.
Half bour, ...
One hour,
Quarter hour,.80.16
90,30
... 0.20
0.40
....... 0.30
0.60
0.60
0,80
Three hours...
0.70
1,00
Hix hours.
... 1.00
.1.50
$1,00
Two hours,
Day 10 am to 6p.m.)15)
RICK BAS.
-In the Island of Hongkong, if en jagedi
is Fictoria,
Five minutes. –
Ten minutes,
Quarter hour,
Half hour,.
One hour.
B cerita
*+
15
30
Every Subsequent hour....3)
Note. If the riekana be engaged within the City of Victoria, and be dia- charged outside the Western part of the City of Victoria after B p... or be dis enarged to the East of Pay View Police Btation on the Eastern side of the City of Victoria after 9 p.m.. an extra half fare shall be chargeable.
II.-In Kowloon
"
Quarter hour, anscrisian 5 cents. dalf boar,...................... 15. Hour,.................................. 20 Every subsequent hour, 10
III-Taipo Road.
Twenty conta shall be added. for each extra hour or part. of an hour if the hireres the journey to take longer than
To 4th milo-s
single 70 cents...1 hour. return $1.03 hours. Beyond 4th to 6th mile→→
single.1.20 ...... hours.
6th to 9th mile
> BIDRIO and 1,78...iscianised
return......% 00
Beyond 9th to 11th milo-
ingio $1.00 segísað, roturn......$2.00
7:
Fire for Journeya bayoni, tho 11th
wall to be a matter of previous strange, made in each case.
*The fares hove not out to apply to ous plokstam wikla karos adalies from Tult Clas
INTIMATIONN
ELECTRIC MOTORS
·
ELECTRIC VACUUM
CLEANERS
" NILFISK "
COMPLETE ELECTRIC
GENERATING PLANTS - with STORAGE Batteries delivery from Stock. Danish Chinese Commercial Company, Ltd.
1A, Chater Road.
WE BUY
used
POSTAGE STAMPS
Collection and Large Lots for Spot Cash
Tell us what you have for sale. Do not send without first writing
to us.
No Cheap Lots Wanted.
GRACA & CO.,
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Toje, Pictorial Feel Carde, Garden Seeds, &c.
No; 10, Wyndham Street,'-
P. O. Box 620...
Hongkong
MASSAGE.
Mrs. HONDA and Mrs. KISAKI.
14 years' experience.
No. 24, Wyndham Street
(opposite to the "China Mail'')
JAPANESE MAKERS,
Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & 00..
PEDDER STREET, Opposito Hongkong Hotel
Telephone No. 491.
Hongkong, March 30, 1914.
TANG YUK, Dentist,
Bacoor to
the late SIEN TING, - 14, D'Aguilar Street.
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COUGHS, COLDS,
ASTHMA, DRONCHITIS
The only Palivo in
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DONVINCING MEDICAL TESTIMONY WITH EACH COTTLA
Dr. Cells Dreane's Chlorodyne on the. Stam
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Sold by all Chemists,
Prices England.
· 1/1), 2/9, 4/6.
GB
BY APPOINTMENT
Solo Marufacturers: JT. DAVENPORT, Lid., Landon, C.E.
TABLE DELICACIES
CHILDREN'S CORNER.
RESULTS OF THE GUESSING COMPETITION.
My dear Children,
Last week's competition 'seemed to be a very popular one.. As nine of you sent in correct answers I decided that instead of giving two prizes to the first two correct ones that I opened I would give nine small prizes
NOTHING FINER-BOTTLED OF CANNED.
The first requisites with CROSSE & BLACKWELL Delicacies are Quality. Purity and freshness.
30 Varieties of SOUPS, 15 Variaties of POTTED MEATS, OXFORD SAUSAGES, OATMEAL, DILS, VINEGAR & TINNED FISH.-
CROSSE & BLACKWELLM)
Agents for Lana Pennins Worcestershire Sauce
a big lump of coal watching the fairies. You might have thought too that he would have been much too big to jump in at all but, as he sprang into the fireplace, he became quite small.
"What is your name ?" asked the fairy who had invited him to jump into the fire.
"Johnny," he answered "And what are you please?"
WORLD TRADE.
LORD INCHCAPE URGES RE- MOVAL OF ALL OBSTACLES.
shipping
Lord Inchcape, the magnate, speaking in Glasgow, said the control of British labour organisa-
"We are the Flame Fairies," she tions was passing increasingly into said. "And my name is Flicker. We the bands of men who were experts in are having such a lovely dance but-terrorism. Our true interests lay in alas-it never lasts very long."
"Why not?" asked Johnny, "Do
moving every obstacle that prevent-
instead. So I am sending pretty you soon got tired, jumping up and ed us from trading with the world,
handkerchiefs to the girls and some thing to C. James which 1 hope he will like too.
The correct answers wire (1) Horse. (2) Lion. (3) Giraffe, and the names of the prizewinners as follows:-Jean Ho Tung, Wan Tso Shing, Hilde Sousa, Elsa Batalha, Edna Batalha, Alzira Jorge, Dulce d' Aquino, C. James, Parrin Ruttonjee.
Your loving,
PETER PAN.
ANSWERS TO COR RESPONDENTS.
Gillian Pearse and Emily Sousa, You both made a mistake in guessing donkey instead of horse. Never mind, try again another time!
down to high? "
STU
"Oh no," Flicker told him, "We never tired only coal so soon burns out. Then someone comes and' puts on some more big pieces and we have to hide in cracks until the fire has barns up again and sometimes it seems such a long time."..
"Why don't you tell stories or sing when you can't dance?" suggested Johnny. "If Mother tells me to sit down quietly for a bit," he added, "I always tell tales to myself and then the time goes quickly."
"I don't think we know any stories," said Flicker thoughtfully, "But we can sing. Madam Crackling Wood taught most of my brothers and sisters when they were babies. Flame Fairies," sue cried in & shrill little voice, "Come and slow Johnny how you can sing." At once all the fairies joined hands and dancing round Johnny in a circle
C. Jumes. Thank you for the in-sang with the sweetest voices teresting card on which you sent your
answers.
Elsa Batalha. What a nice long letter again, Elsa, and you were quito right with your answers.
Wan Tso Shing. That was a very funny poem that you sent me but I am afraid that I cannot put it in this week's "Corner" as you ask me, ba- Cause we only publish original thinga. Thank you though for sending it for me to see.
"We are the fairies who live in the
flames, Wouldn't you like to know some of
our naines?
Crackle and Sparkle and Flicker
and Pop, How high we spring with a jump,
skip and hop. Faster and faster we leap up and
down, Sometimes wo spring o'er a big
fairy town.. Fireflies are born in those places
you know, When it is warm out of doors they
and our prosperity depended upon the utmost possible freedom of com- mercial intercourse.
The high cost of production wai holding back trade. It they were freed from wages boards and if trade union leaders realised that wages and work done must be placed on an. economic basis, there would soon be little occasion to start relief works at the expense of the taxpayer.
Dealing with the collapsed ex- changes and the fall in the German mark, he said there was no way in which the latter could be arrested and equilibrium re-established except by encouraging exchange of goods with Germany.
An old Spanish warship which had been rebuilt many times and was employed in the merchant service by the Yangco Steamship Company of Manila, foundered last week in heavy weather off Luzon point. The ship bore the name of "Maria Luisa,” and according to a statement of Cap- tain Enrique Besa, the boat left Manila at about 7 o'clock on the morning of November 15 when the weather was favourable and the sea navigable. However, big waves and a little rough sea were met when the bout reached in front of Luzon Point. Every precaution was taken by the officers to prevent the boat from foundering, but when two succes-
THE FLAME TAIRIES.
sive waves hit her she reeled on her side and never came up. Con fusion and panic prevented the crew Johnny had a bad cold and his
from getting immediately to the boats. mother had said that he must stay
and the life preservers in order to indoors and keep warm. So he fetched Here the song came to a sudden distribute and have them used by the a book from the cupboard and eat ending. The Flame Fairies at cach passengers. Only one raft was re- down in a comfortable chair by the line leapt higher and higher, then scd leased from the vessel, and it was a fire. The book was called "Me and denly the flames flickered down and passenger who cut the ropes and dis- Mike" and told about all sorts of when Johnny's mother came into the connected it from the ship. A number things which happened to a small boy room a few minutes afterwards she of people were able to cling to this and his dog during one day. Johnny found him sitting in his chair gazing raft and thus save their lives. was very fond of it but he knew it at a dull black fire which had nearly Eighty-four persons were saved, in- nearly by heart and after he had read
gone out. all through it be lay back in bis chair looking at the fire.
The flames were dancing up and down, shooting in and out of the glowing coals. They twisted and turned and sometimes looked almost like little people dancing and skipping about, in fact once-
!
all go. Glow-worms are hatched in the
midst of the coals, The folks.---"
PETER PAN.
cluding 21 of the crew. Altogether there were 117 passengers on board though the vessel was authorised to carry not more than 103, but the How can you make five less by ad captain says he was not aware at the ding to it?
time that the passengers aboard ex- In this way IV.
ceeded the authorised number.
́CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH-
REMEDY. N
PRETTY
WOMEN
Johnny opened his eyes wide for Bure enough they were little people, dressed in bright blue and green, all WHEN you have a bad cold you
want a remedy that will not only who wish to retain their charm flnd having tremendous fun. And no ho give relief but effect a prompt and Pinkettes of special value for the pre looked and looked one of them turnid permanent duro a remedy that borvation of the complexion, and if the
pleasant to
Take
remedy that generel bent b. The use, when needed. and anw him and smilingly beckoned contains nothing inju lout Chimin of the o dainty little laxatives keeps the to him to join them.
burlain's Cough Remedy cots all skin freo from pimples and blemishes, Without a moment's thought those requirements. If note on Nature's otsures daily regularity, dispejd bilious
the lung hide expectorat attacks and sick bednobas, Jolany jumped into the fire, on, opens the secretions and restores Pinketide not as gently my nature and You would have thought that the system to a healthy condition. This create no habit. They are equally good would at once bave been and can be depended upon post from at.60 cents the via from Dr. romedy kiss world wide rale and use for men. Of chemiste everywhere, or frissled up but no, he only felt quite For reler by all Chemista and btore Whitems Medicine Co. De, Emochten warm and comfortable as ho stood on keepers 20
Road, Bhanghai
SATURDAY. „NOVEMBER
NOTICES
1921
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD,
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel MAISIOD
Agents for:—ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,
ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers,
·High Class English Jewellery,
BE DRESSY THIS WINTER
Order your suits from u8. 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 CO., LTD.
Universal Providers.
- 237–241, Des Voeux Road. --- 120 Connaught Road, (Branch).
THE
CHEUNG SHING.
No. 40, Nathan Bond, Kowlvon,
DEALERS & CONTRACTORS IN ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES, ALSO TEAKWOOD & BLACKWOOD FURNITURES FOR SALE. COME TO US! WÉ. SELL THE BEST FURNITURES Obtainable in Hongkong. INSPECTION INVITED. TEL. No. K221,
KOON YIOK
DEALER IN
Chilli Sauce, Tomato Sauce, Chilli Powder, Pepper, Sour Fruit, Ourry Powder, and any Powder, Sauce, Etc. HEAD OFFICE IN
No. 180, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong.
HUYỆN TAM KIT SANG.
PHOTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Kodaks and Kodak Filma, &c. 4o.
DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No. 17A, QUEEN'S ROAD CHITIAL, HONGKONG.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
HONGKONG HOTEL (Hongkong)
REPULSE BAY HOTEL (Repulse Bay)
PENINSULA HOTEL (Kowloon)
(projected)
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
י.
TOWN GARAGE & RUSSELL STREET GARAGE
SHOW ROOMS (Pedder Street)
REPULSE BAY GARAGE,
THE PEAK HOTEL.
1,500 Feet above Sea Level,
15 Minutes from Landing Stage, Under the Management of—
Mrs. BLAIR.
Two minutes from PALACE HOTEL
Star Forry),
KOWLOON
Recently renovated and refurnished, electrle light and fans throughous and entirely under new management. Calsins under the personal supervliton of the proprietor, Bar and Billard Rooms Terms moderate. Spesial terms `so familles on application to
Telephone K. 3. Telegraphio 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 Rates.
Tel. 2007:
Under the Management of the SUN 00., LTD., CANTON.
.*
Tel.
1807;
THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE. 24: Des Voeux Road, Central. BREAKFAST - - - from 7.30 a.m. TIFFINS and DINNERS (Ment and a la Carte) at all hours. TRY OUR PIES & PASTRIES:;:
Bakers and Confectionera.
Cakes made by Arrangement,
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