WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1932.
THE
HONG HONG
PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL:
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS,
LIMITED
In association with the Grand Hotel den Wagons Lits, Feking.
MARBLE HALL
11, Nathan Ed, Kowloon.
Tel. 67043,
A Select Private Hotel furnished with an eye to the comfort of its Tenants Single and, double saltes of rooms with private bathrooms attached.
THE HARBOUR VIEW PRIVATE HOTEL
9-12, Chatham Bond, Kowloom.
Large Airy Rooma with Full Finest position on the Peninsula. Beneft of the Cool Bea Breezas. Unequalled Cuisine.
Phone Tel. 56784
Proprietress-Mr. Gardizer.
Cable Add. "Harview."
THE CHIN
Some Famous and Historic London Shops
Quaint Old Businesses Which
Existed For Generations
(By Joseph Martin.)
con-
The lover of London is well that the business was established aware of the existence In certain during the reign of George III; or thoroughfares of quaint old shops some other monarch whose name and businesses which have been in now seems far removed from any- existence for generations. There thing so real, ordinary, and are not an amazing number of them. crete as a London shop. In many It is said that in the whole country cases the proprietors do not indulge not more than 1,700 are more than even in a signboard. They have a century old. But the real Lon-romantic pasta, quaint exteriors and doner himself was seldom aware of blameless reputations. Surely, they the chequered histories and roman-seem to argue, these things, and the
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE.
June 16, Jane, June,
lb.
**
June 15, June, June,
· 1982, 1918, 1014”
Cle. Cts. Ota
81
28 80
28 80
Beef Birloin
Butcher Meat.
1932, 1918. 1014.
Cla. Cts. Cts.
Poultry.
b.
84 24 19
25
Prime Cit
80 28 11
Chicken Capons, Small
Corned
40
98
12
#
Capons, Large
Roast
34 24
23
Duck
M
#
Breat
82 ··20
18
H
Doyen
Soup
28 20
18
Bench
N
Egy, Hen (cooking).
Steak
24 24
22
Eggs, Han (fresh)
46
30
B6
+
Fowls, Canton.
38 28
14
10
19
Fowls, Hainan Gesso...
#
Steak Sirloin Snozagos
Bullock's Braina ............
F
#
Tongue, fresk
per set 17
esch 80 60 80 Pigeons, Canton
1,00 % 60—
Tongue, corned
羯
Hend
1.60
[
Heart
Hump, Salt
Feat
» Kidneys
Tall
Liver
#
Tripe
H
tic associations of some of the best fact that they have flourished under Calves' Head & Feet known of them; he has now been perhaps 8 dozen, monarcha, enlightened by the fascinating re- adequate advertisement even in the cords recently published in the rush of the modern world. columns of the London newspaper,
the Daily Telegraph.
*
*
幅
are Mutton Chop
19
Leg
Shoulder Saddle
Pig's Chitlings
H.
Brains
Feet
#
Fry
Head
~Heart-
2
Kidneys
Liver
U
In the very centre of the metro- It was difficult to procure full polls are some of the most interest- records of these old firms, Few of ing firms. At the top of the Hay- them make any outward show of market there is a tobacco and snuff their honourable connections. They shop with its tiny-paned, bow- are content with an old and often fronted window, which has
amazing enough half-obliterated sign an-some
changes since nouncing in a matter-of-fact way Napoleon and the Regency bucka
were counted among its earlier Pork Chop clienta. Not far away, now almost lost in the roar of Piccadilly, is a
seen
H
Leg
Loin
| bookseller's shop which survives in
*
Fat or Lard
much the same form BJ when
fashionable and aristocratic St.
19
་
James's Street, off Piccadilly, are a
71
number of fascinating places. If
牛羊羊羊站
$ $ 3
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牛羊仔仔
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公斑
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豬豬豬豬羊羊羊羊乳炸鮮牛牛
KATREENICE
ASK MY DALAGAANG HET BELLATER, BUT BARZ BAK, AIRE PRE BOURSEMEN
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-$1.30 18 16
H
Holbow
Turkeys, Cock Turkeys, Han
18
10
18
Snips ... Pheasant
12
Quail Partridges
24
each 18
Ib.
15
24
86
set $1.50 $1.00 $1,00
#
HI
lb.
40
60
#
60
"
60
80
"
Per set 4
18
7
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新鮮精蛋
per dox. $6 18
28 20
24 24
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KEEDEXKAJSR
Fruits.
Armonds
Appida (California) 金山洋菓
Bananas (bride's)- EDER
Carambola
Coconats
Bach 80
pair ·2.70
esch
113gsase88881 82 83 8
22-11
02 21
888788 1811 ||
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24 24
each 50
*
Ib.
Lemons (American) . ili each 18
24 4 lb. 1.20'
35
26 28
8 #
4
耀桃
19
-
12
each 24
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10 10
18 215 80
30
18
ib. 18
80
15
18
H
Lemons, China
19
20 20
each 18
10
10
1
14 10
Lichees, Dried
荔枝:干6 100
Ib.
50
24
Oranges (Canton)
新會器柱
40 隙
36
25
23
Oranges
#2
80
38
Paars (Canton)
42 60
70
梨
86
22
21
Peanuts
# 生
14
Per set 90 each 12
60
70
Parsimmons, Large
插
12
"
7
Plaintain
15
12
大藥
M
5 8
10
1
45 26 25
15.
26
84
18
Pumelo, Siam Walnuts Grapes
12 6
70
55
28
#
45
20
28
21
88
Artichokes
Beans, Spront
esch 86-
合糖16. 30 **+
Vegetables, Etc.
28 18
62 24
22 10
10
72 10 8
80 18
Brinjals, Green
Cabbage, Chinese ..........
Cane Shoots, bunch.
Cauliflower (Large), ★AE anch
"
Carrots
(Medium)
(Small) 細襬榮花
Celery, Chinese --
Chillles, Dried
Green
Curry Stuff, English Cucumbers.
Ginger, Young
Old
Horseradish, Shanghai
Indian Corn Lettuce
Water Chestnuts ....
A
.Mandarin 桂林馬路 14
Mushrooms, Fresh ... Okroes
Onions, Bombay
54 10
8
80 26 30
1.00
32
25.
24
40 80
Fr
80 22 19
Garlic
36
18 28
42
13 16
1
84 22 18
75 62 34
46
82 21
48
- 20
20
42 13
2
48 12 2
88 14 9
80
45
55.
60
45
80 15
16 ·Ð 86 29 98 30 86 45
Green
4.
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Shanghai
上海廳
1.00
10 14.
24
10
14
28 ja -18
26
22 10
415 84 80
20 A 10
20
10 10
83 80
48
Ba 30
Taros
"
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55 92 28 20 38 12 12 12 12
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It's here
HONG KONG
THE
1932
ISSUE
OF THE
DOLLAR
DIRECTORY
NOW ON SALE
AT THE OFFICES OF THE PUBLISHERS,
3A WYNDHAM STREET.
ALSO ON SALE
AT
WHITEAWAY, LADLAW & CO
BREWER & CO.
KELLY & WALSH, LTD. EXCELSIOR BOOK STORE,"
LEE YEE
KELLY SAYCE
DON'T
FORGET
TO PROCURE YOUR COPY EARLY.
PRICE
$1.00
George III was on the throne. In Sheep's Head & Feet
Heart ....
Kidneys Liver
Mutton
»
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Sausages
No.
71
Fish.
the members of the nobility of the Sucking Pigs, to order 5 eighteenth century returned to their, Suet, Beat old haunts they would find. Berry's wine-shop much the same as when Veal they frequented it of old. The great weighing scales now suspend- ed from its low ceiling are of seventeenth century construction, and the records show that Royalty, the elder Pitt, and their distinguish-Bream
Barbel
Fish
ed contemporaries all used them Canton Fresh Water when testing the effect of their Įslimming treatment.
Carp
Regent Street boasta a dozen Catfish shops over a hundred years old. Codfish Hedges and Butler began their Crabs careers 2.8 wine merchants in Cattle Fish | Regent Street "in 1667, and
the Dab business is still carried on by Dace members of the same, family. The Dog Fhh ground rent paid in their early Eels, Conger days was "812 12s. 6d. half year-
ly less tax of 78. 6d.” For the same
piece of land the ground rent now Froga
paid to the
Commissioners
Crown Lands is £2,000
Tradition has it that one
器
Fresh Water
Yellow
2
of Garoupa
year. Gudgeon
of the Harringa
original leases of this land in the Halibut heart of London's busiest Labrus thoroughfare contained A clause Loach prohibiting the shooting of snipe Lobsters on Sundays. Apparently the firm Mackerel has always believed in extending Monk Fish long credit to its trusted clients, Mullet for an old bill sent out in 1815, Dysters the year of the battle of Waterloo, Parrot Fish was paid in 1902. Which reminds one that an account contracted in pike. 1856 was met quite recently by the Plaice Court of Chancery, which was
Pomfret, White
Perch
administering the estate of the Pomfret, Black
client concerned,' old ledgers being produced to establish the laim.
*
The existing Red Lion Brewery, near Waterloo Station, was licensed during the reign of Henry II to ex- port 50 tons of ale. During the eighteenth century two Lord Mayora) of London were ownere of the brewery. To turn to another bever- age, tea, the firm which had the honour of supplying the tea which precipitated the American war of Independence still exists and car- ries on business "At the Three Sugar Loaves and Crown." The
Prawns Ray Rock Fish Bosch Salmon Bbark Skate
3hrimps Snapper Soles Terch Turbot
Turtles, small tz, water
淡水
將軍
Red
Ib.
55 16 24
H
Long
57
40
20
16
Beet Root
Bitter Squash-
38
J
40 18 18
35
16
27
38 12 .9
05
15
24
28 28
26
27
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89
40
Radish
静
(Shanghai)
Red
WIELIEKABWE KEE
Fazaley
Potato, Bweet
Japanese
American
· Puripkin
"Rhubarb (Fresh),
Shallots
Splasch...
Tomatoes
Turnips, Punti (Long)
Vegetable Marrow
金山藝仔
Water Lily Root
10
esch
lb. A
血
12
10
8 24
8 Б
6
58
10
18
25
24. 10 10
6
12
2
·
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8
each
12
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45 "
20
75
ARMLESS WOMAN'S been born with hands. The early
MAGIC TOES.
Performs Needlework
with Feet
HAPPILY MARRIED;
{practice caused her, she says," great torture, but by slow perseverance she at last succeeded in gaining the mastery over her toestr
family of Davidson has been asso- entries in its ledgers. One of its ciated with it from 1650 to the most expensive productions was present day. The connection with, Wellington's State: Coach, which the Boston Tea Party" is proudly cost $1,800 very considerable maintained; ledger entries note the sum in his day. Very different are sals of the tea to a Boston mer- the firm's products nowadays One chant and letter files record that of ith most recent masterpieces was the cargo was "thrown "overboard the "Barker" body for Sir Malcolm by the Indians on the 16th of Campbell's "Blue Bird" motor-car. December, 1718 Lambeth firm, now producing A rival tes firm, Mesars. Twin-artistic candies and exclusive-soaps Ings, of the Temple, has occupied and cosmetics, was responsible for the same site for over two the equipment of Drake's ships A woman of Valencia named clothes and the clothes of her centuries. It was established by with candles when they sale to Margarita Algarrobo who was born family, and an achievement er Thomas Twining in 1708, wheti bea meet the Spanish Armada: Alarm without arma has succeeded in which she is specially proud to the was sold for from 1ds, to 80s. in Whitechapel, which was founded training her toes to write a perfect sewing of primrose borders on tray- a pound. The account, books, and in 1870 and which is still in exist-copy-book "hand, to crochet and clothe
The woman, who was born In Madrid, has expressed a wish to return to the capital to spend her last years, is happily married and has a son of ten who is in full and healthy possession of all his limba and faculties. She makes her own
letter files of the firm contain orders ence, cast the cannon for Drake's do, needlework, to comb hair, make A Spaniard, in Bayone boasted of from crowned hands all over Europe, fleet. Bells cast by this arm paper toys, and even to pinch her Margarita Algarrobo's prowess with William Pitt sought the advice=gf| from the sixteenth century husband's cheeks when she feels her feet to a sceptical Franch Richard Twining In 1788 - before
are hunn the belfries Inclined to be affectionate Benor friend who thereupon bet the removing the Tea Tax which sub-
Cathedral Westmins- Alcala Zamora, President of the Spaniard F.1,000 that she could not quently precipitated, the trouble fer
on and Canterbury Republic, has given the woman per perform before him Prolandia
ondon mission to exhibit her work in all menta clai
marts of Spala,
Seven years, of ar
The