AMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AD BORVBTORA
-Public Auctions-
191 Undersigned have received inetur
Mods to sell by Pobile anctine,
MONDAY, Sept. 10, 1923, commencing at ii .m.
at No. 0 Victoria View, Kowloren A Quantity of Vainablo, Bonaobold Furniture,
Comprising:
Drawing. Dining and Bod Room Suiter, Blackwood Wors, etc., etc.
And
One Fine Cottage Piano (in Excellent Condition) by John Broadroed & Pope.
Torma :-Cash on delivery.
Catalogues will be issued.
On View from Sawday the h September 1993.
LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, Gin September, 1923,
TUESDAY, September 11, 1923,
at 19.15 pm,
at the premise the Hongkong &
Whamp Pork Co. Ltd., (Hunghom? (fer account of the concerned)
4 Furr me. “ Nile "
Terms: As Customary
Inspretion oilers may be obtained from the Undersigned
LAMMERT BROS.
Auctionsere Hoogkong. th "eptember, 1923.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
Lovel sud Storage of water in reservoirs
on the 1st August 1993 -
BITT AND TILE DETRICT WATKA WOREE
0107 M
LETST.
11.
1
Tram 1911.75 Keten
staw Benesh teftia for ton. Below sterton
Sin. Below overfo
Sytacs Intermediate differed wikoverno
11 in, Below overfow
Tythm 1 14. 15.
balow overdo tp.n, læri? with overflow
Wong Nal Chase, 19)
in Halow Sidow) 18. Sío, Lernt with avazbaw
Faktalam, 1 ft. in. F
Below makes
Leul with ove
Am I WILLJONI AKU VINGINATE OF GALLINA.
Item Bresh
Islam Intermediat
Trim Tek.. MANA
Wasa Net Chung -
Faktalojam
Total
131.85
+053
ID: DO
16.02 IP. F
1,800 HT
Conecmption of water to the Dity and H Bletzlet in mukone and decimale
of gallons dering the month of July.
Co ve, kunta »
aled populalk
ure. 1975. 196.57
P.
$86 87 867
ha 17.2 Kallas
3822 Intermittent Supply in Weslera Rider Main Districts only from 1st to Eth
1022 Intermittent Fupply in all Rider Main 1 istries from th to 31st July,
Intermittent supply in all Hider Main Districts during July 19.3.
מצן
LOWLIGHT WORKS IVEL
IKB. Lete, całow K.kes Gratke 21 Fin.
* Enam...i kelow OWIEW
KUNDAKA IN MILUNER ATTESTKIVALS CY BALLOON.
14
123'14 Cepompties el water in Kowlero in lions and dectwals of gallons during tho weath of July.
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ANITARY ENGINEER
MONUMENTALISTE AC,
Other had tiedowns, atti, Wanchad Hood, Hongkong.
Tel. Central Na. 24
ALL KINDS OF DUILDERS REQUISITES
IN STOCK.
RAIN WATER TIPES-SOIL PIPES LOCKB-BOLTS-WINDOW
FASTENERS
THUMB LATCHES--WATER BEATERS BATHS BASINS-BIDETS--
COMMODES
STOVES GRATES RANGES.
SPECIALISTS IN MARBLE AND HONGKONG GRANITE WORK,
T0 OWN HESION ( ILO AELECTI
ARTIFICAL WREATHS.
FOR SALE
Postage Stamps HONGKONG-CHINA
10 cents blue INVERTED
Script Watermark
60 $3 rach.
GRACA & 00., Dealers in Paitatetic Gonds, View Post Cards, Garden *ceds, &c No. 10. Wyndham Street, P. Q. Box €20.
Hongkong.
SHOEMAKERS.
(Japanese and Mindo)
Every kind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & CO.,
8. D'AQUILAR STREET.
Opposite Kayamally & Co. Telephone Central No 491
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
YEE SING
GENTLEMEN'S
TAILOR
Tel. 1882 19, Wellington Street.
WING FAT CHEUNG
SPARROW CARDS (KA JONG) FOR RALY CARDS MADE OF IVORY AND PIAN BONK. No. 276, Queen's Road Central BRANCH No. 3, Man Fame "troot FanE.
Ped population .....
4
masper bend
19t 31.4)
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1112
1,00 14-0 Jai
Tu.K
ASAH!
sve kay mamar a un de vost
Restriction in all districts from 8. to
1st July 1929
Restriction in all riets during July
1993.
1h Borerneut dualyat's reporta ber
ta: the quality of the water is satisfac
rs.
192 THE Tani Rainful to 31 July 350 in. 4759 İn.
H.T. JACKMAN.
Water Authority
Public Works Department.
HONGKONG HEIGHTS.
For the information of visitors 1 following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainten pablished
PILSENER BEE
GRAND PRIZES
ASAHI
ISLAMI
Fent
Signal Station
1774
Ho Parker
1734
Mountain Lodge
1720
The Eyria:
3725
Fesk Hotel
1905
Taikoo Sanatorium
1000
Mt. Davir
8771
Bowen Ed. (filterbelo
503
MAINLAND.
Tsimokan
8124
Kowloon Fesk
1971
Lion Book
1841
Shatin Fan
1000
Costom. Fas
780
Thril's Posk
124
LAGER
SPECIALLY
Chamberíala's Cough Remedy.
This remedy has no superior av a" de for colds, croup and whooping cough.
It has been a favourite wish posbers of young childrm for almost forty yours.
Chamber inn's Cough Remedy can Always be depended upon and is pleasant
to take.
It not only cores colds and grip, but provente their resulting in poumonia. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy con tains no opimus or other narcotic and:1 vɔay boy from as confidently to a child as au adult. For use by all Chem'sia and
Byrekooper
ASA
RWAR
MSENER
SAHI BEER
SOLE AGENTS: MITSUI BUSSÄN KAISHA
THE CHINA MAIL.
Three Castles
Guaranteed manufactured in England...
Made in-Regular Magnum and Super- Magnum Sizes... *
Virginia Cigarettes
Smoked 'round the World
Tree Castles
Cigarettes
WDEHO
Prisil & London
Registered Trade Marks..
This odvodiaument is issued by the British-Autorican Tobacco Co. (China), Ltd.
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
2
Ac-
There is a splendour in even Fower American Million ares.
irren sacrifice. The lover who Although America seenis just now dies for love is capable of spiritual to be on the flood-tide of prosperity ardours beyond nur ken, and as we the number of its super-millionaires "That's Why I Am In Politics.", wonder we are saddened by the jis reported to be decreasing.
waste of that central cording to a bulletin issued by the 1 Care--that's why I am in silen
Internal Revenue Burcsa the num- politics," said Lady Astor M.P.mystery and miracle of life, the ber of persons who paid taxes for This is a phrase worth thinking unfathomable innocence and the last fiscal year on an income of over." says the British Weekly. decipherable holiness of a boy's love
I wonder whether croakers like or a girl's."
Sir Henry Craik, who recentlyTwo Kinds of Criticism, issued RI antediluvian protest
Ja Thillion dollars (more then £200,000) or over was twenty-one, as against thirty-three in the pre- vious year.
In 1916 the number
against women M.P.s, have any There are two kinds of criticism, idea of the deep ethical reasons one in constructive and kind, the Was as high as 206, and since then it has been dropping year by year. which have driven wonen into the other is destructive and unjust one The Treasury officials offer no ex- political arena?"
bus its basis and motive in a sincere
They desire to be helpful, the other Planation of the decline. becomes merely a pelty, pecking. Bagging disposition to find fault; One gently shows you where you are wrong, and tries to put you right, the other snarls and snaps at your best efforts, but offers no remedy,
More Teachers Than Posts.
Parents who are thinking of send ing their children into the teaching procession are waned by Sir James Vusall, Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, that a large number of quidified teachers are now anenyplayed as a result of economies in the education service, and that as a consequence there may be little opportunity for their r children to be euploved unless con- ditions materially alter for the better.
Holiday Luggage.
Express no opinion as to whether it country is controlled by fewer men is because most of the money in the or whether it is because it is more equally divided. It night be jeither.
the
J
war. agricultural pressure, motor-buses, country town cinemas, wireless enthusiasts, and a surpris- ing influx of early edition of the daily papers bearing disturbing
The Village Of To Morrow, I got an earful of the second In the new rural England which brund of criticism coming on the This critic began by rinning the Administration up the back: next is paid profane condiments in the Klovated; after that he polished off old H.C.L., then condemned the news and cheap life assurance are Weather Clerk because he had pre- fast fashioning, there is to be un- 1 Observation at some of our prin-dicted nin, whereas a reach of a doubtedly a democratisation of the cipal stations indicates that folk day had dawned. I thought he was village (writes Mr. J. W. Robertson travel with less luggage now than out of ideas, but not so; looking Scott in the World's Work). There was deemed necessary even a few across the aisle et Another man's can be no democratisation without For organisation years ago, says the Morning Post. feet he whispered. "I have no nati organisation.
And the What travelling in the good old ence with a man who hasn't enough there must be a contre, days was like in this respect one-panect to keep his shoea new village must have a new centre. Some of the twentieth-century gathers from the memoirs of the shined"
opening Nineteenth Century, when A sidowise glance revealed that born any live to see the church that it was customary for holiday-makers this critic's enllar looked as if it new contro.
The Indian Salt Duty.
FRIDAY BEMEMBER 7, 1929
G. FALCONER & CO., LTD, WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.
Hotel Mansio
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,
THE INTERNATIONAL SHIRT CO.
Head Office: 79 Wyndham Strook 2nd Floor. (Opposite Central Police Station.) Tel, Central 4166.
Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Necktios and Pyjamas for Gentlemen
AL80
AND
Chemises, Skirts, Wrappers, Scarfs, Vells, and Night-gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER
MODERATE PRICE
PROMPT DELIVERY Manager: EMILIO LAO.
PHOTO SUPPLIES,
LONG HING & CO., Kudasand Kodak Films, a, .
DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.
No. 17, Queen's Road Cgitnah, HoNGROAD.
HONGKONG:
SHANGHAI:
PEKING:
Hongkong Hotel
HOTELS & CAFES.
LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS
Peak Hotel
Repulse Bay Hotel
Astor House Hotel
Palace Hotel
Grand Hotel Kalce Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
In conjunction with
The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
and
The Grand Hotel dos Wagons Lits, Kod.
Tel. Centl. 812. CARLTON HOTEL. Tel Add : " Carlton.
The Only American Hotel in the Colony, Nice and quiet yet only a few minutes' walk from the Banks, mad Central Districta 43 Bedrooms. Excellent Onisico. Sorapalously dem Under American Management A new Dining Room has been opened at No. 2, Queen's Road (let Boor), Entrance Ice Hours St. Tifins a speciality,
For terms apply to Mm. F. E. CAMERON, Proprietress.
(Two minutos from Star Ferry).
'PALACE HOTEL
KOWLOON
Recently renovated and refurnished, sizotric light and fans throughout and ensurely under new management. Calaine under the persons, supervision of the proprietor, Bar and Billiard Booms Terma moderate. Fposial terma de families on application to
Telephone Kowloon 3. Telegraphis Add.: "PALACE”
HOTEL
J. H. OXERKY, Prog ta
"ASIA”
WEST BUND, CANTON.
Leading Hotel in South China
First class Accommodation. Electric Lights, Fans 25 Elevators. Roof Garden. Hairdressing Salcob,
and of City
Pearl River.
Moderate Rates.
Splendid Views
Excellent Cuisine.
Under the Management of the BUN 00. LTD. CANTON.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
As things are now, to take with them not only clothes, hadn't seen a laundry in two weeks, the church school or parish room books, etc., but the family plato and
-G. N. · cun seldom be more than a depress- ing atopgap. School and parish a large consignment of furniture.
room are unally inconvenient and Beckford of Fonthill used to declare that it was impossible for him to go The salt duty has this against it poly, and memories of patronage on holiday without two or three (writes Sir Thomas Bennett, in the and dullness hang about them first-class pictures, especially a Asiatic Review) that it stands which do not gonnart with the favourite Raphael,
out against an uninviting historical notions now developing in village The "Buxom" Wife.
background. The tradition of the heads. There is a moral advantage Salt Line stretching across in a new building in which to The suggestion that the word | t "obey" should be omitted from the India as a barrier against free moze develon new ideas. Befter a war
protector of high hut with independence and self. A marriage service bus led Lord Sel-stment, and a borne to discover that before the prices, has left ita mark upon the government than a gorgeous hall reformation wives vowed to be popular view of the duty, and it with obligations. The village club buxoni,' but onfortunately will not soon pass from the people's fideal is a building to which all have But is any duty liked? contributed in money, labour, or "buxom" originally meant "obed-mory. ent. The word occurs is the vow The Government of India may material on a basis of equality, a of profession of the Westminster fairly contend that of all forms of building which is dedicated to the monks, in Piers Plowman," and taxation that were open to them, use of men and women equally.
That ideal is being realised in a in the "Faerie Queene." In the this bears least heavily upon the
few places. In a few years it will: contributor...
old Merringe Service the wife vower
to be obedient and buxom in bed In a recently published handbook (be realised in mare. and at board." An ingenious ex- on the domestic budgets of the planation of the modern use of the working classes of Bombay, by Mr. word is that "rather alout, comfort- Shirns, the Director of Labour, it IS YOUR BABY HEALTHY? able, easy-going women are more is shown that the mill labourer.
The more
won
Hore Tea Test”-
apt to be compliant than their thin-mends 66 per cent. of his earnings Happino's a sign of health in on food, and that his expenditure haie:If they are fretful and ratlong it ¡ner, more energètic sisterą."..
on salt represants only two-fifths of sum indication that noun thing in That Central Mystery.
i per cent. of this. "Tragedy is often wrought by general computation is that the crying, irritablity, stomach er Ueally the causes of a baby's sloop- extreme excess of noble qualitice,'
average cost of salt is a farthing a bevel to h or fee hing valta: Faby's writes James Douglas in the Sunday month for each person. Certainly Own Tablets quickly rostore rostful sleep | **Express. "A fine nature may be the forecast that by doubling the and the joylainess of health to babies too exalted to bear the annihilation duty on salt the Government had by dispelling stomach toubics, feverish- of its loftiest dreams. It can accept doubled the cost to the consumerness, constipation, colic, or diarrhos. They make teething cay, broak up no second best. It rushes on ita has not been realised. The average old and oxpol worms, fata rather than let the mercy of increase in the price of salt in all
Baby's. Uwn Tablets, the Onadian time wear its glory of grief away. India up to the middle of Max was children's remedy, are obtainable from It is not tempted by the lesser 34 per cent.; in same providoes, is dream, et prat fico at 60 mts the bribes of life. It will love or in the Central Provinces, it was com-bei William Medicine Co. Fit will die.
6 Klang o Bold, Shanghai, Let us not judge. only 20 per cont.
GENTRAL LOCATION
LL ELECTRIC TRANS Pan Entranos, Elas- tric fafia, Tana and Lighing, Kuropean Bathe and Sanitary Fittings, Klót and Dela
Water Bystems throughra. Best of Food wal
441וסד
TEL. Conti, 172. Tolographie AdÄrem :—" VICTORIA
3. WITOBKLG, Manager.
THE NEW VICTORIA CAFE THE HOUSE FOR GOOD EATS Tisins and· Dlaners (Men and ▲ la Carto) at all hours, Bakers and Confectioners. Çakan made for parties etv. Tel Central 2667. 24. Des Voeux, Road Central
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL Quest's Road. Central.
NEW DIVING ROOM opened for Moals a la Carto, Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tiarets for Tifins & Dinnora. For further particulars apply to
THE MANAGER, Hongkong, May 1, 1925,
JAPANESE MASSAGE N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tukio Massage School, Nos. 9-10, Praza East, Wanshed."
401. Contral 2630.
MASSAGE
K. SAKAI, T. KANAMORI
18, Prays East,
2nd Floor.
MASSAGE.
Mrs. HONDA, MYU. NINÁMI mad R. FHIMIDEU.
No. The Wyndham Street (opposite to the Unisa Mall”)
TANG YUK, Darrier.
Buccom
The Ladu_HIER WING, 16, D'Aguilar Bicate.
TEUMS VERY MODERATE Consoliation, STOE.