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LAMMERT BROS.
ÁVOTIONTELS, Áppraisers AND SURVEYOR. -Public Auctions-
← HB Undsenigood have ruesved insigno- tlana to all by Pabile Anstien,
On
FRIDAY, December 29, 19891, '-
commencing at 11 am. at No. 18 Gedown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Godown Co. Ltd.,
.. Kowloon
One Combination Wood Working Machino (Value 0. $400) -
One B. P. Kerosine Stationary Engine
37 case Beer
10 Cocktail
10
And
A Quantity of Round and Fint Iron
Bars
Terma :--Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, December 23, 1989,
ON
FOR SALE
NE HINGER Hemslech Sewing Machiro, storly new. Apply to LAMBERT BROS:
SHADOWS BEFORE.
COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED
IN THE "MAIL."
- ENTERTAINMENTS.
Cal
December 29,--Coronet Theatre; Bary Pickord in "Little Lord Faunt- leroy,"
World Theatre; Moty Miles Minter in "Sweat Lavender" Kowloon Thesise; “Thy Soul Sball _Bear_Witztés."-_Theatre Royal; to.
might "The Tempest.**
December 29, ---Jozuary 2,- Theati hujal; "The Tempest,
December 30-Kowloon Theatre; Fancy Carnival.
ROCIÁL EVENT.
· December 28.---Heleza Mey lo titate, Evening Dancy from 8.75 to 11.15 p.tu
ELOITING EVENTS,
January 27. --Theatre Royal; Box- Gog Tournament.
PUBLIO AECTION SALES,
JaLuny 4.---Hughes and Hough, teakwood and blackwood furniture, Sales Room, 2.30 pm.
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THE GREAT NORTHERN TELE- GRAPH COMPANY, LTD.
The folloning unclaimed Tolegrams are lying at the office of The Great Neither Telegraph Company (Limited)
Berau Railway Kokkoon, from Tien- saic.
Ingbe Hongkong Hotel, from Kobe, "Ore Mocsiksut, from Harbi-bo.
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fliures Nefsi, from Windineslock,
Paler, Ina Shangħai,
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Ticlear, on Yokohama.
Kurz Les Des Virok Read, from
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Kaengy ülkæg, from "Thingtau.
N. LUND,
Ac, superintendent.
Borgtorg, Peruder 21, 1922,
EASTERN FRANJON AUSTRAL- ABIA & QUINA TELEGRAPH CO.
List of prelaicus telegrams lying in
E.. Teraph for, Hongkong,
Tizang,fr'in Yanila.
Farator, ran Karachi.
Hadees Surrez King Edward Hotel, drona Banii,
Derstruck.
American Consul, from
M. E. F. AIREY,
Superintendent.
Longines Threnibe » .21, 1992,
HONGKONG HEIGHTS.
For the information of visitors bi Jollowing lot of ime of the bigbeen points on the futandi and Mainlano ir published
Biral Station
Mi Parker Mountain Lodge
Fock
1074 1734
1725
1725
1306
INTIMATIONS
FOR SALE.
Asiatic, Foreign and Colonial
POSTAGE STAMPS
and all kinds of
PHILATELIC GOODS,
GRAÑA & CO, No. 10, Wyndham Street,
Hongkong.
-P. O. Box $20.
SHOEMAKERS.
(Japanese Hand Mado)
Every kind of FootwORY, MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & 00.
6, D'AGUILAK STREET,
Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telophone Central No. 491
Hongkong, March 20, 1914,
Beautiful Thinge Make the Living Beautiful. Our Silk Kimonos combine art and Beauty never seen before in Beng- Long.-emember bilk is for kummer wear. hen downtown call at 10, Wyndham Street, and inspect our KIMONOS,
MASSAGE.
Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KIBAKI' and, R. SHIMIDZU, No. 3. Wyndex. Itznet. (opposite to a Chion Man")
MASSAGE EXPERT
HARRY FURUKAWA, K. SAKI,
19. Wyndham Street.
JAPANESE MASSAGE.
NIPPON
N. AKAJL Graduate of Tokio Manange School,
No. 23, Wyndham Street.
Tel. Central 4395.
LANG YUH, Dinero.
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the law SIEN TING, 14 D'Agullar Street,
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Leak Hotel
Taikoo Sanatorium
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1000
780
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THE CHINA MAIL.
**1 STOOD IN VENICE."
IMPRESSIONS OF A DREAM CITY.
The visitor goes to. Venice expect- ing experiences different from any that he has ever had before. Nor is he dia- appointed, according to an article by a special corespondent of the Morning Post.
SOCONY.
DIVIDENDS AND LABOUR
CONDITIONS. ›
Model
The following appeared in the Manchester Guardian last month. It was written by the paper's New York Torrespondent
it grow up with the industry. But certain it is that a large stare of the responsibility for its continuance must rest upon the shoulders of tho Standard Oil group, for the twenty- thres independent producers and, of course, the little fellows follw in the main the Standard practices."
MR. ROCKEFELLER'S DECLARATION.
Recent income tax statistica showed | Mr. Rockefeller in his reply refused, He who goes to Venice must inevitala-s-with annual incomes over fifty ment reports, to believe that Elk four men in the highest income despile the plain evidence of Govern- ably fall under a spell (says the million dollars. Two of writer.) Wordrone adventures are in were in New York State, two in the industry. Bot ha expressed regret them Bain conditions could be general in store for him as he enters the portals Michigan. More than that the that conditions at Elk Basin bad not of the magic city. After many weary anonymons statistics did not dis- yet been remedied, and said that he miles of travelling, after long hours close. But the public did ita guessing. welcomed the opportunity to make spent in heat and discomfort, It guessed Henry Ford and his son in clear
his position. the jostling, bustling train, Michigan and John D. Rockefeller statement
Such A from Mr. Rocke- bus ling of and John D. Rockefeller, janr., in feller is a social document of impor- infinity of tiresome formalities aud.
tance. He is a. sincerely religious boresome details, our travellex finda!
Attention has been focussed once, who has beca abeltered from cool water practically at the foot of more on the oil industry because of knowledge of the social basis on which
rents bat the station its lf. Dancing, shimmer. the enormous stock dividends which his position
who ing water, with exotic, fantastic it has been declaring. Within a
undoubtedly means what he says in no hypocritical fashion. If he intends,
in
after the strenuoNE
railway stations, with their New York,
buildings atanding out of its depths | | fortnight the Standard Oil Company as he says, to make his position clear
To the traveller the first impression of New Jersey has declared a is of an exchanted citadel rising out stock dividend if 100 per cent, of an unknown sea. There is a sense the Vacuum Oil and Ohio Oil. Com of strangeners in drifting down stream pany, both Standard subsidiaries, 300 in a gondola with bag, baggage, and per cent stock dividends, the Standard other paraphernalia, and travelling of New York a 200 per cent dividend, impedimenta piled up behind. The and the California and Kentucky jolting taxi that speeds at breakneck companies smaller stock dividenda, pace over uneven roads, down ill-Others are reported about to follow paved streete with lines of ugly suit, symmetrical houses, is a thing of the past.
'ร
THE VENICE OF THE TABT.
conditions were
throughout the industries in which he
is a stockholder he can have a con- sidorable effect. He says:—
"I believe that, generally speaking, the twelve hourday and the seven day week should no longer be tolerated in industry, either from the point of view of public policy or of industrial alf- ciency; I believe that both have been Proven to be unnecesary. unasonomic, and unjustifiable. An a matter of general policy, subject only to the demands of occasional emergency, modern industry is justified in accept
which all the parties interested should day week as a labour standard toward
steadily press."
Hence the unusual interest certain to attend the forthcoming publication by the Survey, a apoial workers' The Venetian city is a town of weekly, of a study of conditions in many aspecte. There is the romantic certain oilfields. together with Mr. Venice associated with George Sand John D. Rockefeller, jour's replying the eight hour day and the six- and Alfred de Musset; the Venice of Mr. Robert S. Lynd, after a study curio shops, of greedy connoisseurs of Government reporta upon and art collectors; the Venice of conditions in the oilfields of the West, tcorints and globe-trotters, or ruz epext three months as a worker in That might be a very moderate worshippers and pleasure seektis on the so-called Elk Basin Feld, near the statement from a English employer, the Bands of the Lido; the architer Montata-Wyoming State line. This coming from one of the four richest tural Venice of famous churches and field is 87.5-percent Standard- men in America-it is a sensational-- stately buildings, but, chief of all, the contrellid. It is a small though rich utterance. It may help conditions. Venice of one's own impressions!, field, with about 500 people in its But still more the revelation by the And how difficult to put those impres community. But scattered about Survey, brough 0 carefully sions into words! At first it it as it the decolate "bad lands" of the documented study, of three shocking some unseen hand bad arrested the West are many such feclated oil labour conditions in the industry swing of the pendulum. As camps. The water way bad, the which is yielding the largest profite in of old seemingly unchanged, uneanitary
bad, America must stir public opinion.. banging, the marble-fronted palacce, there were 10 facilities
for dream in the Venetian sunlight, ad recreation; but the fundamental miring their mirrored reflection, like evil was the long hours. The foolish Narcizens in love with his own men worked seven days & week, and image.
many of them twelve hours a day. One fancies these peopled with This in the general condition in the strange beings, phantoms of anoiler oil camps which are the basis of the age, but ch closer inspection they ap-fat stock dividends just reported. And pear descried, uninhabited. There there is nothing in the industry re in a feeling of fortara emptiness about quiring aach continuons operation or them, a certain creepy eermess that long shifts. The literature of the. words cannot describe. Venica has Standard Oil Company, its impressive All the elusive qualities of a dream.
Then the present, the modern real ity, enforce teemselves upon the past. The pictare in disturbed by the ceass lee passing to and fro, the ruthiers movement of rough, unsiglity steamers plying their load of human ity up and down, down, and up, the Grand Canal
ON THE PIZZA.
descriptions of its industrial repre- | sentation plan (company controlled unions); declares for the principle of air-day week of eight hours each; indeed, before Mr Lynd wint to work in the Elk Bain field be was informed, on the authority of the president of the Standard Oil Com- pang of Indians, that "the only pace where it is not observed is where the workers themselves have petitioned
If the liquid streets be full of adatherwise." It is hardly necessary to wistfulness for byguna daye, for past say that Mr. Lyad was unable to dis- glory and splendour, hate on the cover where the workere bad petition- Piazza te different. Here throbs theed for seven-day working weeka. He pulse of the modern city; here is lived Bays—
Fart of the active prosent. Whoever |
It is difficult to fix the original
goes to Venice invariably comes to responsibility for the long shift in oil
the Piazza, to shop, to meet friends,
to discuss, or talk over a liqueur, a
cup of tea or coffee.
The colonnaded arches, the arcades with the small cafés and the sprinkling of little tables, are reminiscent of a miniature Parie, or some French provincial town. With its idlers, sipping their aperitifs at all huure of the day, the Parisiap picture is complete but for the Campanile, which imparts an Italian
mosphere to the scene, while Ban Marco and the Doge's Palace lead an Eastern touch to the picturesque setting.
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Worn out with
Agonising Pains
“Nothing gave me relieľ until I tried De Witt's Pills says Mrs. Peters.
Hera is a re "arkable lotler written by a lady they relieved my back after the first dose.. I who has word torture which are alto right ah te from Boots the Chemists in the incredible to those who do not know the aihelly tak, and before I had finished menning of Kidney trvables." But one who the felt he pa better The pains oro all goes There are enough different types to have experienced blir slow
know what thes sonining pains to those wholen? Goin diferent waren. I will always krep satiify the greediest student of "wea ing out peychology. Venetina girls, with their should read the following
letter, and even if you "kre picturesque black osabmere shawle; triei er rything" do not Fascisti with their black shirts and despair but do wha. Mr»; fervious cares; foreigners of all sorts he wi's. Hors are Mr. Prters did-ges bor of and descriptions.
Peters own words.
WONDERFUL LACE AND BHAWLS,
Mrs. Putera.
the pitts by me, i feel really Stefal bocaso y have curo.md of those terrible pain plasaod to recommend thr
Tide letter was written from 2 Ashley Terraco, Kati-Road,elly Oik, Biradugh. In eptember 1914. Over five years later, pa Dember Eznit., 1915), the propriers of Do Witt's Rhiny and Bladder 11. bord lat fremi Biza, Peter who said, "I loro Dever had a return of any signs of Kidney trouble- ace your Pills cured" ma Sve years ago,”
To care Kilos trouble of.
For over nine years I One of the great attractions of the from Kidnes trouble, and azdeird terrible agonica. Piazza is the ssembly of shops under pains in the back I Dover the arcades a veritable Rue de thought I should ever get over it. At night the pala Rivoli "and in the neighbouring was into an and sleep, was tracts. Elers one can purchase goods absolutely out of the au a- almost nú bandsome as in Paria or and depressed. The attacks tion. I always felt irrita la Viagra. The choice, however is which came on suddenly different. There are the "industries were as if knits were calling right into the ny kind you mast positively get rid of the du pays" and the two chief industries abeolately shonte, out with #goar. The poet to do this a real remely must pass through small of my back. Many and many a time I have case-the poisonous Uric Acul Ionember, of the locality-del cate ́isce and of these awful palus made my face all drawn the kidneys and the bladder, uni cnt through ir-gilo glass-figure prominently on the ad allow. The secretions were in ck and fall the bowels, as most eldung pills do. What of sediment, and burning palus cameron se ho urine change to a muddy bluish shop windows Next come the glorious frequently
col ur-a feature which diinguishes De Witts Venetian shawin of every tint, shade. and colour, with the long picturesque eilkan fringes, the peculiar fency leather goods, and tortoiseshell of every variety. One might be strolling through an Listern bazaar, and prabspe this is one of the most potent charms of Venica: that it is" an Eastern jewel framed in a Latin:
frid gave me a sample of Do Wit's Pilt fail them you know that they me to try them as they had dove he have put in ealing touch on the right spots good. I did so, and am really thankful I did, the kidneys and the bladder.
De Witt's
Kidney & Bladder Pills
The World's Gruakik Romedy for Rheumatism. - "Cystitis Backache,
Tired feeling. Most forms of Bladder Trouble,
umbago,
Weak Bick.
Stone Gravel Góut,
Another feature of the Piszza is the "number of quaint restaurants fucked. away in tid corners. To be truly Venetian is to lunch off spaghetti,
dess and stersknopere daroughout the world. De Witi's pille arm packed in red rinetta, and, better still, a dish et farligen prisend in blind, and wary goaula, bottle has a red wax seal on the soch fritter made of seme kind of fish or -- Twer sea mild by the leading dispensaries and patocol:apors in Chion, but if you shimaks te vegetabl
vọng Đôteẫn thờng loently wood your money to the Colonial Dispapanry, 14, Queen's, Hond Central,
peute for Bouth Oklaho
THURSDAY PRVEMBER,
NOTICES.
1923,
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansion
Agoste 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,
THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO. Head Office: 79 Wyndham Street. 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel. Central 4166,
..
Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Necktios and Prismas for Gentlemen AND ALSO
Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarfs, Veils, and Night-gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDSB MODERATE PRICE PROMPT DELIVERY
Manager: EMILIO LAO,
PHOTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Kodak and Kodak Films, sad.
DEVELOPING & FRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No. 174, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.
HOTELS AND CAFES.
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SHANGHAI:
PEKING;
Peak. Hotel
Repulse Bay Hotel
Palace Hotel
Astor House Hotel
Grand Hotel Kalee Grand Hotel des Wagon Lite
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
In conjunction with
The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
sad
The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Ltd.
Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel. Add i ''Carlton.”
The Only American Hotel in the Colony. Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, and Central Districts. 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Cuisine. Scrupulonely clean. Under American Management. A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Boad (fat floor). Entrance Loe Bones St. Fiffres a speciality.
For terms apply to Bis. F. E, CAMERON, Propristress.
Two-minutes-from-)
Star Ferry PALACE HOTEL KOWLOON
Recently renovated and refurbished, electrio, light and fans throughout and entirely rader usw management Culice under the persons supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Rooma Terme moderate Fpecial torn to families on application to
Telephone Howloon 3. Tulsgraphie Add.: "PALAON.**
HOTEL
J. H. OAKERRY, Prop, jstor.
·66
'ASIA"
WEST BUND, CANTON.
Leading Hotel in Bonth China
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans Elevators.
Roof Garden. Hairdressing SalcoL
Pearl River. Moderate Bates.
Splendid Views of City and Excellent Cuisine:
Under the Management of the BUN-- 00
LTD.,
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CENTRAL LOCATION
LL KLECTRIC TEAMS P20Entrance, Elad Lelo Lite, Fans and Lighting, KuropanaA. Batha and Sanitary Fitlugs, But ami Üsid Water System througliest Best of Food And
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THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS Tiffins and Dianers (Menu and∙A la Carte)
at all bours.. Bakera aud Confectiunérn, Çakes made for parties ste,
Tel. Central′2667. '` 24, Des Voeux Road'
Central.
NEW MACAO, HOTEIL
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Misstrio Light throngtiqnt. Public, and PrÍVAIS *Bars nud Zuklant Roome Virst LILERS BATOURNE “dation, 137, FARING BAG LOVITATA STORA
CANTON.
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Tel. Central No. 889, Hongkong. HWA LEE & CO. Shanghai and abantung Hand Made Lace, Hair Nata Embroideries, Ete,
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GENTLEMEN'S TAILOR
Tel: 1832 18 Wellington Str