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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER · 5, 1930.
·Phone. 20022
FOR
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
Twenty-re Words, three inser- tions prepaid 31. Every addi- tlamal word four cents for three insertions.
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All-repiles under this heading. must be called for.
WANTED.
WANTED.-Shroff for old-established Company. Security required. Apply Box No. 872; c/o "Ching Mail"
LOST.
LOST. Brown and white pointer Bog. Finder please communicate with Grist, Wilkinson & Grist. Re word.
TUITION GIVEN
AILEEN and DORIS WOODS re cently arrived from HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. Expert teachers and Demonstratore of the latest EALL ROOM DANCES. Perfect and rapid tuition guarantee 1. All enquiries to 23. Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon Phone 50051.
HOME TUITION.
WESTOVER-STEVENAGE Within 'In' healthy an hour from London. neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Bourdort received In the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
For
(Camb.. Higher Local), Camb. Teachers' Diploma).
MISS GERTRUDE TURNER,
(National Frodel Higher
Certificate),.
MISCELLANEOUS
BRIDGE SCORES Ready Made, or Each Refil Made to Order 50 Cents.
15 Centa.
Big Discount for Large Quantity, The R-B-C Company, 18. Ice House Str
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and
Ma}}"} promptly printed,-"China" Office, No. 3A, Wyndham St. Tele- phone 20022.
ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE
For the best Permanent Finger & Marcel Waven. Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladies & Gentlemen. Fedder Bldg. 1st floor: Room § Tel. 25169. Opposlte entrance H.K. Hótel.
PHOTO - SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras.
Filme, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and
*** Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
A. SEK & CO..
Tel. No, 23459. 26A, Des Voeux Road, C Hong Kon”.
Hotel Strathcona
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA Make this Hotel your headquar. tern wälle visiting Victoria, B.C. Ideally situated and within easy access to all the famous Beauty Spots in and around Canada' Jaland Resort.
The Hotel where paraonal service. makes your stay enjoyable.
BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME. Flowers beautify and make the Home attractiva' as 'nothing elsa can do.
FOR SALE FINE SELECTION OF GARDEN SEEDS
From SUTTON & BONS, Reading ARTHUR YATES & Co., Ltd, Sydney.
GRACA & CO., Dealers in Flower and Vegetable Seeds, Philatelle Goods, Toys, sto No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET.- 20. Box No. 620 HONG KONG.;
SPORT - NOTICES
THE CHINA MAIL.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE TENTH EXTRA RACE I MEETING will be held (weather permitting) at Happy Valley on SATURDAY, 8th Novem ber, 1980, commencing at 8 p.m." The first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE Members are notified that they RATES MODERATE. '
and their ladies must wear the }}}||||||||||¶¶¶¶¶adges prominently displayed.
No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members Enclo |sure,
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CLAREMONT
PRIVATE HOTEL. Austin Road, Kowloon... (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club. Four minutes from ferry
by bus.)
Sultes of rooms (single and double), hot and cold water system, all modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached. EXCLUSIVE TABLE entirely under European management.
Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the finest locations In Kowloon, away from noise, yet easily accessible.
Termis very moderate. Reser vations by letter or cable.
CLAREMONT
Tels.: 67989 & 57985 (Private), " Telegraphic Add.: "Fern" H.K. Our motto is "SERVICE."
XMAS SALE
at
KASHMIR
SILK STORE
Opposite Queen's Theatre.. 36A, Queen's Road, C.
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS. APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,
- Public Auctions
EMPIRE'S DEBT,
THE PIONEERS OF EARLY TIMES.
DAILY NECESSITIES.
of
that under "favourable, cultivation
the wild strawberry can be brought THE HONG KONG TRANSFER & LIGHTER CO.
to produce berries nearly as large as raspberries.*
Gerard, In his "Herbal" (1597), mentions several varieties of strawberries, differentiating them from the wild strawberry, and "The Garden of Health" by Wil- Ham Langham, pablished in the same year, makes it clear that at We are all conscious of our debt that time the strawberry was to the adventurers, mainly scien- already cultivated in England, tife, of our own tima. Applied though it is probable that this science goes from one triumph to strawberry was not derived from tele- the wild stock, but that the parent another aviation, wireless, vision, the wonders of yesterday stock reached this country from are the commonplaces of to-day, the east.
Vegetables. But what of the adventurers earlier centuries? How many of Our vegetables, too, have ind Badges admitting non-members us have any clear iden of what we many instances an exotic origin: to the Members' Enclosure and owe to the vision and courage of Artichokes, from Asta, made their Club Rooms at $5 for Gentlemen the pioneers, navigators and mer-first appearance in our vegetable out gardens about the middle of the and $2 for Ladies, are obtainable chant-adventurers who went through the Secretary upon intro from these islands intent on doing sixteenth century. The Jerusalem duction by a member, such something tangible to add to their artichoke came from Brazil. Kost member to be responsible for pay-own and their nation's knowledge of our root and green vegetables
and wealth?. To them mont of all chits, c.
we owe are found wild in Britain, but all of those in use Badges admitting to Members' first and foremost, in a very large the same many Enclosure will not be on sale at measure, our Empire. To them we in our kitchens are derived from the Race Course.
our shipping, our foreign stocks brought from the East. Tho Romans were great cultivators of a consequence A Mambera can obtala, upon ap-trade, and as plication to the Secretary, badges hundred and one articles of dally asparagus. (limited to two) for the free ad-use, most of which are no longer Calico was first imported by the mission to the Members' Enclosure regarded as luxuries, but are ac- East India Company, A.D. 1621. cepted as just necessities by us all. although its manufacture and use of wives, Indy relatives friends. Names must be stated That the urge of spices, not began in China, is one among but products which Europe generally, merely esteemed as luxuries, when applying.
On no pretext will children be demanded as primary needs, when and Britain individually, ~ow to permitted in either Enclosure dur the absence of winter forage oblig- the culture of the Romans,
be said of gold, ed our ancestors to salt and aspice viously, it may Ing the Meeting.
their meat for winter consumption, that its quest and discovery have was the origin, at one remove, of done more than almost anything to The Price of admission to the our acquisition of India, is a ple- make the world go round. It was Public Enclosure 18 $1 for turesque fact often overlooked. Jargely the allure of alluvial gold, all persons including ladies. Sugar, now relatively one of our and no doubt of oysters and pearls, enticed the Romans to" and is payable at the Gate.
cheapest foodstuffs, was entirely which Soldiers and Sailors lu uniform unknown to us during the Middle Britain. At the time of the dis- dre admitted half price,
Ages. Previously honey was the covery of America, the gold supply Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, &c. only saccharine substance avall of the civilized world, previously will not be permitted to operate able. The potato, now the standby obtained mainly from Asia and a food-staple of millions within the precincts of the Hongas
of Africa; though a Httle was derived Kong Jockey Club during the Europeans, was unknown, until from Europe, was becoming decid- Race Meeting.
Hawkins brought it from the new edly inadequate for currency and Mexico and World; while we are also indebted other requirements.
THE Undersigned have received Tinstructions to sell by Public Auction
ON THURSDAY, November 6, 1980,
commencing at 6.15 p.
at thoir Sales Room,
var Duddell Street.
A Collection of 2,500 Stamps.
Comprising:
Scarce and high vahies British Colonials; Hong Kong, China, etc.
Terma-Cash on Delivery.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
+
By Order,
and
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 1st November, 1930.
GENERAL NOTICES.
NOTICE.
OWC
Ob-
LIEUT. COL ROBERTSON, western history, I bollere, was was in direct line of succession to
glad to receive any article which may be given to be auctioned on ARMISTICE DAY for the benefit of EARL HAIG'S FUND and earnestly hopes that a good res ponse to this appeal may be made.
to America for tobacco, the solace South America furnished immedi of the bulk of mankind, and to-day; ately large quantities of the metal, that of womankind too. To these, and later California, Australia and acores of boons resulting from the South Africa took up the running. voyages of Columbus and his fol And when we recall these things. lowers may be added. The phar we cannot doubt that Henry Wick- fiacopoeta has, for instance, been ham, who brought rubber seeds to enriched by countless herbs, some Great Britain from Brazil little of outstanding value, which have more than half a century ago, in of considerable circumstances, their habitat in South America.
Tea was first spoken of in peril, and thus set going the rub ROBERTSON, western history, I believe, in orber plantations of the Middle East.
also mentioned, but as a popular the earlier adventurers.
Obviously, this brief summary beverage it only began its trium- phal' career in Charles II's reign. does not pretend to be exhaustive We owe its introduction to the Our cattle, for instance, might be Dutch East India Company. Aincluded, and our horses; and it 19 Cretan, Nathaniel Conopius, who a fact that most of our common appears to have been of Balliol garden flowers were brought to College. Oxford, brought coffee to this country in the days of the England in the time of Charles I. Tudor monarcha. For the rest J Cocoa, a méh Tafer introduction, doubt not that many other con had an American provenance, frmations of the general, thesis Copra, one among other highly use advanced will leap to the mind of ful products of the coconut, coce the reader-James Stanley Little nut oil being the basis of soap, in United Empire. came in the first fastance from the Indian coast and its neighbouring islands. Christmas would not be Christmas without the turkey. The bird was not domiciled in England until 1825: North America was fia home. The piece de sistance of Mansion House ban quets turtle soup would have been, an 'unknown delight had not the West Indies been discovered: the green turtle was imported frem those islands.*
A pair that will win any hand-
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Sole Distributors :--
Fruits:
re
As för fruits, many of those now jegarded as natives of Britain ware of peregrine origin: the apple is the oldest of them The Berlous cultivation of the apple tree in England dates from 1540 when the first Kentish orchards were planted. The apple tree was however, brought into Italy from Syria and Africa some little time carlier than the Christianera.. Italy was, in many instances, the first European country to latro- duce and cultivate many of the Traits which ultimately found their way to England. The apple, as a crop, is mentioned in Saxon deeds; we may, therefore, assume the existence of Romano-British
On View from Tuesday, Novem- THE SUN CO., LTD. cultivation of the fruit. The
ber. 4; 1080.
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Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, November 1, 1980.
DONT RUN FOR A DOCTOR
COASTWISE
#ALGIE" BENNETT.
book
picting on the
An interes
China Coast
PRICE $1.00
cherry tree was brought from Pontus to Rome, by Lucullus, AD. 70. The apricot halls from Epirus, the peach from Ferala, the higher class plums from Damascus or Armenia, pears and figs from Greece and Egypt. Most of these took some centuries-in journeying to our shores from Bouthern Europe, where they had made themselves a home. The wild strawberry of England and the continent is not the parent of the various strawberries cultivated for many generations in this country. They came from North America, Chill, the Himalayas and else where.
erring to Shakes
105
St George's Building, 2nd Floor
WHAT you need..
Phone. 23639.
WHEN
you need it!
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STILCO
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for it acts as a Refreshing Tonic.
Sole Distributors :---
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Phone 20190,
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