THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1925.
LAMMERT BROS.
HIGH GLASS BOOTS AND SHOPS
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS.
-Public Auctions
BE Undersigned have received Tinstructions from The Hon. Captain Superintendent of Police to sell by Public Auction on
FRIDAY,
the 24th July, 1925, at 11 am. at Godown No. 18 Upper, The China Provident, Loan and Mort- gage Co., Ltd. Connaught Road West.
(For Account of the Concerned.) 800 SACKS FLOUR.: Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT EROS.,
Auctioneers, Hongkong, July 22, 1925.
THE
HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction
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FRIDAY,
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Made to order. ROYAL & CO.
THE
No. 1, P'Aguilar Street
INTIMATIONS.
HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
At the request of the Hongkong Stock Exchange and the Hong- kong Sharebrokers' Association, the closing of the Register of Shares of this Company has been postponed.
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of TWO DOLLARS per share for the six months ending 30th June;! will be payable on THURS-
the 24th July, 1923, at 11.30 a.m.DAY, August 13th, on which date
at their Sales Room, Duddel!
Street.
(For Account of the Concerned.)
One Case containing 10 Pieces
Voile.
Two Pieces Cashmere. Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers, Hongkong. July 22, 1925.
OUR ENDEAVOUR
IS TO PROVIDE
POSTAGE STAMPS
OF ANY COUNTRY FOR YOUR
COLLECTION...
GRACA & CO., Dealers in Philatoio Gords, View Fostcards, etc.
No. 10, Wyndham Street; F.O. Box 620.
NOTICE.
Hongkong
The undersigned begs to an- nounce to their customer that they are now able to handle repairs to boots and shoes.
CHERRY & CO.,
« D'AGUILAR STREET,
Opposite Kayamally à Ca
Telephone Central No. 491.
Hongkong, July 17, 1925.
TUNG SANG
TAILOR
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Dividend Warrants" MAY be obtained on application at the Company's Office, 11, Queen's Road Central.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be 'CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 30th JULY to WEDNESDAY, the 12th AUGUST, 1925 (both days inclu- sive), during which period no transfer of shares can be re- gistered..
By Order of the Board of Directors,
LS. GREENHILL.
Secretary.
Hongkong. 17th July, 1925.,
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
As practically all the Chinese employees have absented them- selves from work and the remainder of the Staff is required for the maintenance of the electric. supply, the Company asks con- sumers to call at the Head Office, P. & D. Building, (3rd floor) and pay their accounts which are now ready.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
LTD.,
Agents. Hongkong. 13th July, 1925.
NOTICE.
As and from Monday, 20th inst. and so long as STRIKE conditions prevail, accounts due to this Com- pany can be paid at MESSRS. LANE, CRAWFORD, (Hardware Dept.).
LTD.
Consumers will greatly oblige] if they will avail themselves of this opportunity.
HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD.
Hongkong, 17th July, 1025.
TO LET.
10 LET.-No. 2, Queen's Road
TLET. No. 8,
session from 15th August, 1925. Apply Gande, Price Co., Ltd.
NOTICE.
Subscribers of the China Mail not receiving their paper every evening owing to the uncertain delivery as the result of the strike are invited to notify this office if they would prefer to purchase their paper from the street news- boys direct and have the amount credited to their account,
Ye Olde Printerie, Ltd.
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Have the pleasure to announce
that they are able to undertake
erall job printing orders during the strike. Prompt service and
moderate charges. Phone C.3797.
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COMMON WORDS, WITH CURIOUS HISTORIES.
The glory of common things is nowhere more evident, and yet nowhere more unnoticed, than in langunge, says the North Queens- land Register. Seunge and legend, the four corners of the carth, the curliest history of man, have all contributed to the growth of our common speech.
So romantic are the stories of many of our winds that even the simplest septetice contains his tortes quite a- interesting ivels,
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We have seen" how in Yecent years our couumon tongue has been Lenriched with ssh words
'radio' "eumenfinge
FL}} Blighty. anal we know that over a thousand years ago the invaders of Bigland vnght now words with them. This growth of language, therefore, is no new thing: it has hed going on though all the cen turies.
When we say a thing is as "plam as 1 pikestaff we refer to the times when pilgrims curried staffs as symbol of their vocation, while no to care a huss farthing" is n allusion to the Rebased coinage issued by James 11.
When we partake of supper we ought, according to the origin of the word to take a "Sop of breat soaked in gravy, and because many years ago the status of a guest was Indiented at the table by his posi tim above or below the salt cellar, an worthe person placed nhove the mark of logo was said to be not worth his salt."
Whe dues not know the desultory person, the man who begins a task and halfway through leaves it e another? He is so called because in a Roman cirens the athlete whe sprung from one bore to another was a "kiesuitor."
A horse going at an easy gallop is said to citer," simply because he is proceeding at a ce similar to that of the pilgrims to Canter
deader in al kinds of goods from Milan.
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THE CONTRIBUTET OF BOOKS. Many words and xpressions in common use come from the Bible. 1 A few needing no explanation are Taridden fruit." Thmaelite," **Baber, Good Samaritan" and "widow's mite,"
Other Inks have contributed to | the common sterk. Sir Thomas More's visitary-lane" of "Utopia" las now given its name to any idealistic inte, and from Liliput," the Band of Hatle people visitedeby Chulliver, we have dar objective. Filliputian.
From a book called “Eupknes." which was written in a very high- fown artificial style, has come our word "euphuistic" which describes language affected or bombustic.
There are even some words spr einly coined to supply a deficiency, Charles Hands first used the word "sufingette". and. Darwin the phrase "survival of the fittest."
Other instances which spring to the mind
Alr. Winston Churchill's synonym for
terminological insuétitude"; and · Mr. Lloyd George's popular ex- pression."silver bullets.
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Selence has given as many pressions, one of the most interest- ing of which is common 11 garden," Common or garden is a botanical term applied to plants, and in a humorous way to other things.
But coined words and worfis drawn from books, from science, from distant countries, and from
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